4 3 ij-'ip11" i'ferf 4 a Yer, In Advance. FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." lZi Copy 5 Caft VOL, XVII. PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9, H)06. NO. 32 Dy The strains of a violin floated from the porch of a California ranch house standing; isolated near the baso of a mountain. The ranch was ill culti vated and. there was little "stock" upon the 'scant alfalfa pasture. The house, on the contrary, was large, well built, and was altogether a pretentious looking residence. John Engledew had bought the land and built the house when he first came out from England ten years previous wiih a pretty, delicate wife and a lit tle girl five years old. Being of a sanguine and unbusiness like dispo sition he was cheated in the land, and spent so much upon the house that, he had not the wherewithal to support the place during the first non-paying years; hence he became poor instead of -rjch; he was in debt .and the land was mortgaged "up to the hilt." Of late Engledew had fal len into had health, he had almost entirely ceased to work, and what little the ranch returned them when the interest on the mortgages was paid was due to the young violinist who was making music upon th? . porch. A believer in heredity would have bad jii3 theories thrown into confu sion by the little musician; it was neither from the delicate, querulous mother, nor from the lazy, good hu mored, lax principled father that -Gr ta Engledew- inherited the vigor orons will, courage and good sense that showed in the clear, blue gray- .-..fy.f-s.aud in every pose of the llihe, strong figure. At fifteen she was fnor of a w oman than most girls of twenty;' it was she who milked the :' -covcv', made the butter, cooked arid cleaned, rode to the town to sell poultry and eggs, insisted on lazy Mfkey-her ten-year-old brother, at tending the "district school," and K nVratly "kept things together'? on : xbi-':y:yfaf. Halloa" Ranch. - . Tii o. father was 'as wax in the hanfls ol' Greta, but the mother had a spice of that strange obstinacy common to t he r weak. She would occasionally take determined and usually dlsas- tious action in the family affairs; thus "kp''VrEtifly-'cbin43'atea 'fieVdaifgh't'er's. .persistent cultivation of her musical .t,aieots while she deplored , the fact i f that, her shapely TiaTnd3 were sun- -';bn'rht because she did . not wear cloves. . : Greta had a pronounced, and re markablo talent for music. Old Man- " uei-Xeres, who lived at the Mission ' Dolores, had discovered her gifts; .he had taught the little blue-eyed ""girl .11 he knew, and when he died, which he did when his pupil was fourteen, he left her his voilin a "Strad" of which neither she nor any one in her environment knew the alu Greta arose at dawn to work in order that she might have time to practice. She loved music, but she had also other aims in view. She' was playing "Che faro," giv ing the long-drawn, wailing notes softly, but .not so absorber in the -music as' to prevent her hearing the loor at the back of the house open jind close. ' She stopped playing and listened; there were steps in the kjtchen light, hesitating steps. ' "fs that you, father?" she cried. There wa3 no answer. "Mike, Is it you?" Still no answer came. As Greta weu-t into the house, violin in hand, she heard a- distant beat of hoofs. She walked through the front parlor, through the kitchen beyond and into the small wire-inclosed "summer" kitchen that lay behind it. In this apartment she saw the visitor whose steps she had heard a tall man, clad iu the ordinary working dress of a' rancher, a sunburnt, black beard ed man, who might have been any age from twen.ty-five to thirty-Lwo. He leaned on the table for support, his breath came in gasps, and on the left sleeve of his cotton "jumper" was an ominous dark-red stain. "Who are you?" asked Greta, bold ly. "What do you want?" The stranger raised his head, looked at her straight from a pair of handsome hazel eyes, and caught the sound of horse's hoofs; he sprang to ward her and clutched her arm. "Listen to me," he said rapidly. "'I am innocent I never touched the horse, but it's my oath against Jim Sweeney's. They're all on mjf.track like' fiends; ,f they catch mel'.thyfll bang 'me to yonder tree! "Will you liidv me? If you don't I'm a dead man, and I swear to you that I'm in nocent!" . "Innocent or guilty," said Greta, oollJ'thtjy've no .tfght.to kill you .&.' fv- - "? " '. .' . -The man loo"ked 'at' her and gave an odd, reckless laugh. ,t "No right to hang a horse thief ?" he said, "XXre lwt Californian." " "No," I'm English as you are. I knew you were English the moment you spoke.' The sound of hcofs echoed on the in-idge over the. .ditch; the girl drn-rsred her unbidden guest through the LUdica. into the parlor, pushed 3 v ( d . P. H. him into a deep rocker which stood with its back to the room, flung a handkerchief over his head to make it appear that he was indulging in a siesta, and drew her bow steadily across the violin strings. She had played three, bars of thc'iCho faro," when there came a knock at the door. "Come in!" The door was pushed open, to dis close a group of angry men. The girl stepped forward. "Good-day, gentlemen!" she said, ia a clear voice. "Is there anything I can do for you?" The spokesman doffed his hat. He was an American, and Americans are habitually polite to women. "Sorry to disturh ye Miss Engle dew, ain't it?" "Yes, I'm Greta Engledew. Say, shall I call papa?" "Thar ain't no need. Miss Engle dew. Ye ain't seen no one pass by yee, I s'pose? We're out after a skunk of a horse thief; that's what's the matter with us!" "Papa's working down near the Feople's ditch. You might ask him." "You ain't seen no one pass?" "No; I've been playing here"- di recting attention to her violin "and I've not been' out since noon. Say, Jack" boldly turning her head to ward the rocker, at which oue of the men was looking "you've not seen a horse thief, have you?" The ocupant of the chair remained silent. The girl laughed went up to him, and peeped under the handkerchief. The sleeve of thts jumper and the cushion of the chair were alike soaked with the red stream that is sued frojn the wound in the man's arm; the man himself was in a swoon. Greta dropped the handker chief and turned to the pursuers. "Sound as a church!" she said, merrily. "I guess you needn't trou ble him with questions"." "Sorry to hev troubled you, Miss j'ngledew!" Say, boys, lie must hev made tracks for Blue Point Falls." "Just go way down by the People's Ditch and ask papa," said the girl, sauntering easily after them: "No, I guess not, Miss Engledew; we'll go by Blue Point." The calvttcade clattered over the bridge, and the girl sprang back into the house. She ran to the kitchen to fetch . water ' and some stimulant, then rapidly returned to the side of the wounded and hunted man, who was still insensible; she ripped up the sleeve and revealed a sunburnt, mus cular arm, with a bullet wound a little below the shoulder. Greta was capable of a little rough-and-ready surgery; she stopped the flow, bathed and bandaged the wound, put;' the arm in a sling, and then man aged to force some stimulant between the wliite' lips; in ten minutes the man groaned, stirred, sat up, and gazed at her blankly. "They've :.gone past here to Blue Point. Falls. If you're fit to go, you'd best be off to the Mission." The man stood up. "I am very much obliged to you," he 'said, faintly. "You've no need to be. Would you like something to eat before you go?" "No, thanks. I should like some water." She brought him some, and he drank; then he suddenly turned and said, abruptly: "You declared that I ought not to be hanged, even if I were a horse thief." "That is the view I take of it. I don't think you ought to be." The man stooped and looked stead ily into her eyes. "But I do not wish you to think of me as a thief I want you to feel convinced that I am honest, and that I am simply the unluckicst man on earth." Greta gave no answer. "Do you believe that?" Greta looked at him the hazel eyes were very honest. . "Do you?" "Yes I do." "Thank you," said the man, draw ing a long breath. "I'll go noV only " He paused. V "Well?" rV:,.' "I haven't heard a.-'violin for' fen years. ; Would you ' mirid finishing 'Che faro?' " ' "Why, you must be 'mad!" "I assure you I am; not but, , it I am, win you numormc r ? "Yes." music nor the musician. Good-byJ ' "Stop!" said Greta., "Come wiih me ifs twelve miles to the Miss'pn, and you're too fcetfk. to walk thenv" She flitted before him to the bprn and through the barn to the pasttie; presently she returned with' a horse, bridled and saddled. ' "Here you can get away on.thi." "No-no," said the man, gently. L, .She played the asfy'.and at thfend tile wwtn -arose '-f, ; . , ' "Thank you i-I shan't; forget, "that "You'll get a scolding if you give away your father's horses. You shan't be scolded for me." He clasped the hand that held the bridle as he spoke. "This is my horse," said Greta, flushing, "and you're welcome. I want you to take him." Their eyes met; the man mounted silently and stooped. "Will you tell me your name?" "Greta Greta Engledew." The man stooped lower yet, sud denly flushed, and pulled himself up right in the saddle with a jerk. "Thanks avail little," he said, in a low voice, "but I shall not forget." He hesitated, then stretched forth the unwounded arm, and with his hand gently drew out the bunch of orange yellow wild flowers that glowed on the girl's bosom; he thrust, them into the breast of the stained cotton jumper, and turned the horse's head. Five minutes later he had vanished in a cloud of dust. Four years had pascsed. Greta Engledew sat iu a small, dingy apart ment in Plymouth. Time had trans formed her into a remarkably hand some girl. Her violin rested upon her knee, and she tapped her little foot rather impatiently upon the floor. "But, mother, dearest," she said, gently, "what else can I do? I do not think you understand, dear, tha.t we are positively penniless!" The only answer was a wail from the pallid woman, in her shabby widow's weeds, who was Greta's com panion. "We had much better have re mained in California after dear fath er died and the ranch was taken, but I yielded to you in that. See now, dear mother wre have no relations, no friends, no interest. I cannot get employment without references. Mike is too young to be of any help in that direction, but he can be of assistance in the path I have chosen; he can protect he, and he sings very nicely." "I still think it disgraceful and al most immodest." ' . The tears welled up in Greta'3 eyes. "Oh, mother, do you imagine that I take any pleasure in walking miles along dusty roads in order to play my violin on the pajades of summer watering places? But until I did this we were iu want you know we were!" "The whole thing has been a mud dle front "beginning to end," respond ed Mrs. Engledew. Greta was.,silent. "Of course, you will not listen to me," the lady continued; "you will start to-morrow as you propose?" "We cannot pay the rent and buy food if I do not," replied Greta. "However, I will not oppose you. Refer it to Mike, mother let him de cide." But Mike, mindful of days of semi starvation, supported Greta, and on the following day brother and sister started on their tour. It was a hard life, unfit for a re fined, and gently-bred girl, but it was a. free and healthy outdoor existence, and the weather was beautiful. For three weeks they tramped hap pily from place to place, but on the fourth week disaster befell the young musicians. There is an unwritten law which prevails iu California to the effect that wayfarers may halt and refresh themselves with the produce of orch ards. Mike, reared in California, in perfect innocence plucked and ate, only to find himself given into cus tody by an irate farmer, who met Greta's pleadings by roughly telling her that, "Her was ivery bit as bad as that young limb was. He'd be bound her'd taught the boy to steal; he'd go before his worship, Squire Arden! Ah, he'd be lucky if he got let off with tho birch and a fine!" Poor Greta found some difficulty in getting decent lodging for the night, and would have fared badly had not a rosy-faced young woman consented to receive her. "Don't you fret about the boy," said this good Samaritan. "What's a few apples! Lor bless ye, Squire Arden's a very pleasant gentleman! He's only had Combeley Dell a year since the old squire's death. The old squire was" dreadfully bitter against Mr. Miles, till the "death of Mr. Francis two years ago made Mr. Miles the heir. Then the old squire made friends with him." Greta listened with little Interest she was thinking of Mike. ;The next day she went with a beating heart to see her brother arraigned in court. The justice was a handsome man on the right side of forty a grave-looking man, closely shaven, and with very fine eyes. r '" Greta ' exirtarned-. tremulously , that her, brother, had meant no harm he had not understood English customs. i "You are from California?" said ther justice, "fixing ' his' gaze on her face,. - . . . ' "Yes." . . n - , ... ' ' ' '. "'I think,"- said- - the " -magistrate,. slowly, "I 'shall be justified lit dis missing; th,e.'cae.' "You' will be" pre pared t'p RkyVfot the apples?" . .-'.'Oh yes yis three. ....times' -over!1- "' . "'.'. "That," said jln Af&enV slowly, "will be unnecessary, Miss Engledew. The prisoner is discharged."" Greta thanked him fervently, and was turning away, eager to' join Mike.- "Miss Engledew, one moment." said the squire. "I am affxious to speak to you. Do you know my house?" "Yes." 4. "My carriage is outside. I will direct you and your brother to bo driven there." Greta, bewildered and exceedingly thankful to be restored to Mike, en tered the smart dogcart, and was driven to a beautiful old house oa the outskirts of the moor. They were shown into a room, where a servant brought them lunch eon. An hour later the door opened, and their host entered. He advanced and held out his hand. "You do not remember me, Miss Engledew?" "I have never met you before, I think, Mr. Arden." "I thought you did not remember; but a man does not readily forget the woman who has saved his life. Do you remember these?" And with loving care he drew from a big, bulky pocketbook a bunch of faded and withered flowers. Greta started. "Will you play me 'Che faro' to day?" said Arden, softly. "You see, I have the same flowers still, Miss Engledew, and the horse is very hap py in our Devon pastures." Greta turned white, and would have fallen had not Arden caught her. "Your sister and I are old friends, my boy," he said, as he turned a smiling face to Mike. "I owe her more than she guesses more than I knew until this moment." Greta Engledew was playing "Che faro" under a cedar tree on the lawn of a pretty cottage where her mother was installed in great comfort. Miles Arden sat beside her. "Greta," he said, as the long, wail ing notes died away, "three months ago I said that a man does not for get the woman who has "Saved his life. That was a half truth will you. hear the whole to-day? A man may forget the woman who has saved his life, but not the woman who fills it with a love that will last as long as his life lasts. Greta, I think I loved you even that day, for it was very hard to ride away without tak ing wrhat I take now." New York Weekly. TIfTJC 3c NPV5TBJ The temperatuue of the air de creases for each 1000 feet of height. Soap to which from one to five per cent, of naphtha acids has been added is recommended by a German chemis.t as a ready destroyer of virulent dis ease germs. The aluminum has not been tested for lightniug rods long enough to al low of answering definitely. Prob ably they are, but they would be ex pensive. Copper is much better as a conductor than iron. Two balloons used for the purpose of making atmospheric measurements were sent up from the geophysical laboratory at Pavia, Italy. They reached the record height of 442,000 feet. The thermometers recorded 144.8 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. The Teltow Canal, in Prussia, re cently opened, besides establishing an important link between the east ern and western canal systems of that country, provides for an electric sys tem of traction for canal propulsion. This canal cost about $10,000,000, and was constructed by the District Council of Teltow. In -Java the planting of indigo is steadily decreasing by reason of the great increase in production of the synthetic article; in fact, much of the land on which indigo has heretofore been cultivated has now been turned into sugar plantations. Exports in 190.1 were 1,297,274 pounds, and in 1905 540.4T.2 pounds. A novel burglar alarm made in Berlin consists of a small box con taining' a dry battery with an electric bell on top. The apparatus is fastened on the door above the key, and contacts-are so . arranged' that any at tempt, to turn the key or open the door rings -the belL if desired, the bell dan be'placed at a distance, as in the usual fororof alarnjV Uhft.ed ''States Con.tnl.vH. ' D. Van' Sant sends' from .-Kingston a; clipnina: ,fxom a. Canadian pap?uVdesjrtWng'a .... i . j i ? s ireaiL.crai.i., i u lpie-jutmeu prouue-tion,-' ab'lerto' turn a couple of circles within its-'dwn length."' The main hull is thirty feet long, and the out rigger twe.Bty-flve feet, joined to the main hull by steel ' braces.: Either hull can pitch independent of tho btlfer one. . -- , . r SOUTHERN TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER, The Cattle Industry in the South. A recent bulletin of the Mississippi Station, prepared by A. Smith and C. I. Brag, states that the "farmers of that State and throughout the cotton belt generally are slow to realize the benefits of stock raising and cattle feeding, and that It is more remun erative than continuous cotton grow ing." Cotton growing has therefore been the chief source of revenue for the farmer; cotton is pre-eminently the "money-crop" of the region, and other branches of farming have been neglected. The feeding experiments carried on at the station with twenty- five grade steers, two to four years old, which were classed as medium feeders, using cotton-seed hulls and meal, cornmeal, wheat bran and hay (Johnson grass and a mixture of al falfa and Johnson grass, 2.1) fur nish quite clear evidences that the feeding of beef catte in Mississippi is a safe and profitable investment and a much more economical way of maintaining the fertility of the soil than'by purchasing fertilizers. In the wheat and corn belts farm ers have long ago discovered that the continuous sale of their crops coald not be carried on indefinitely without impairing the fertility of the soil, and that they must have re course to live stock of some kind to return to the land some of the ele ments of plant food taken from it by the crops grown, thus preserving their farms in a state of productivity more easily resembling the original condition of the soil. In the cotton belt the beef breeds of cattle are only beginning. to take their rightful place among other farm live stock. This is largely owing to the prevailing idea among farmers that raising beef steers for market is not profitable. Dairy farming has many good points of superiority over beef rais ing, but to farmers who are not close to a good market and are handi capped by lack of available and steady labor, -the breeding and feed ing of cattle will offer many induce ments. That is is a profitable business in the South is shown by the low cost of raising cattle, economy in produc ing suitable feeds, and the inexpen sive buildings required. With a pure-bred beef sire, a herd of native cows, and plenty of pasture land, a farmer may in two or .three years' time develop a good grade beef herd, which will largely in crease his profits and maintain the fertility of the soil. The comparison between the stable versus open-yard system,, whilo show ing some .advantage, in favor of the stable method, rea-liy Indicates that a combination of the best .features of both systems is preferable. This could be done by allowing the cattle to run in large sheds with a solid tight floor, which should be well bedded, and the manure all saved. If desired, outside yards connected with these sheds, could be provided, so that the cattle should have some exercise and plenty of fresh air. One of the secrets of successful cattle feeding i3 in making them as com fortable a3 possible. Where cottonseed meal and hulls can be purchased at a reasonable price, they prove to be very cheap feeds for fattening steers. No bad effects result from feeding cotton seed meal for such short periods as this, and it remain" to be seen whether any ration can be com pounded exclusive of good silage, which can equal it as an inexpensive feed. Black Root or Cotton Wilt. Many complaints are already reaching us concerning the ravage of this disease, which is yearly prov ing disastrous in our sandy sections and which is destined to increase its ravage from year to year, unless in telligent methods are adopted to stay it. The cotton affected begins to wilt or die, without any apparent cause: but if you pull up a stalk and cut into the root or stem, you will see it has begun to grow black,-, and hence the name of black root. It . is caused by a fungus that; is -in the soil and which attacks the roots and checks or destroys the flow of sap to the top of the plant. There are two remedies. The first and most effective lies in rotation of crops. We have been planting cotton con tinuously, too long 'on. our lands.' Fields affected wjt.li this' disease should be planted next year in corn or oats ahd velvet teaus D07 riat i .plant feeds vive corn, wheat, oats or velvet beans the fuifgus will perish out more or. less completely for lack-bf food. -.It haa also been found beneficial to vliiriw cotton on such lands late, not earlier than the first of May: The secMd umlv is to ser-ura cottoned .of a in cow'-pe'a's", as-tliis' disease alsf rir tttf.auso Tear..aa,:ear, ana we unon the cowjjca ami wni.sur-i "." u-cai-ucui muut-j- TnthW entr lint i f ' iHl.mtsd !n1 to ilngls'ln" our"- rSt.tan when FARM flOTES. ft. .jr resisting variety, The Governm has been experimenting unon f disease for several years, and found that some varieties of cot resist the attack of this black r much more than others; so ,tl breed a resistive variety and State Entomologist will be in p tion to supply our farmers with so of these seed next season. We ; thankful that the high price of la the high price of our crop produ the high price of labor are tending to make our Southern far ers adapt better methods and leal to do better work. We stil! ha? much to learn and more to do. Southern Cultivator. - " Let the South Help Itself! Perhaps it is necessary to thrf peace of mind that the newspapej should all tike a fling at the Chicai packers. One derives a 6ense of vi tue from the act of hurling anathenf at the wicked. The Pharisees of o used to have a great . time at th; game, and their modern imitato are not thinning out with. time. It seems in order to sayi hbweve that at least Southern towns, citle and communities have no right complain. If at any time they ha suffered, either in their stomachs their pockets, because of the hig price or the unwholesome charactei of Chicago meat products, 'they havf only themselves to blame. There ha never been the smallest reason wh they should. not feed .ttiemselyes f roa their own herds, flocks, fields,, dairf ies, and barnyards.' he'lgbuth i rich in farming and grazing land and the inhabitants thereof :ean xais beef cattle, sheep, hogs, pouftWy anil vegetables Of tlifi very finest; aualit-J and in unlimited &ufyitjty .theJ choose. Why need they.go pa, Chlca go, tvansas uuy, umana, or anyotne distant market for food which? the; can . produce themselves? And 1 they Dersist in a Dolicv so.unneees sary and so improvident, they migb4 have the srrace 'to reatize tfiaC it fs their 'fault,' and refrain "Irbm conJ demnation of others. The vpSsturesl of the South can turn out a goodl beef and mutton as the stockyards of Chicago can. Southern farms arel capable of furnishing as high class! butter, milk, eggs, etc., as any farms in Iowa or Kansas. Why, then, do not the Southern people help them selves instead of calling upon Her cules to help them and filling the air with complaint and imprecation, when he fails to answer to their sat isfaction? , . We do not pretend to pronounce upon the truth, or lack of truth, In all these nauseous 'denunciations of the packing houses. We aje quite sure, however,, that the TSouthern people' would be in niuch. better busi ness to set about the -task or caring for themselves. It is not at aHl neces sary for" them to" be dependent on imported food of any kind. When they bewail the hardshipa-.infiicted on them by the Western trust, they remind us of nothing so much as of the Texas ranch owners, thirty years ago, denouncing the quality of the condensed milk they got from Minne sota. Washington Post. Spot Cash That has got to be the motto of the farmer if he ever salts down any very great amount of money as the result of his business. Too many of. us have been in the habit of trading off our butter, eggs and other farm produce to the man who "keeps store" at the. corner. .. The conse quence is that, he not only keeps the store, but he' keeps about all the profit there is In what we raise. He gets a good margin on the. stuff he buj's of us and makes a fair speck on the calico and the sugar and the tobacco we take home... - Now, I want this margin of profit myself, and so I say to the grocery-man:- "You pay. me a fair price for what I bring .you to se.U and I will do the same by you. ; If. you will not do that, I will hunt up some one who will. I . am no't obliged toi let you have my stuff. I cah.s.endV it a hun dred miles away to market if I can get a oetter price than" you will give me.'.and I will do" it. too' This talfe about patronizing the home market is not what it is cracked up to be al ways'. Let's get'tnis thing down to a cash- basis ."and. see licjV things will wc4 tbW; : tfA&4 t ; AI19.W Jyf, .if, will work. Thsc. wiljjje.morijd.itfer things we' are' going -onJwitlv-thfsSJbld trade System., Xn3 ""tha; store-keepers will bo better' -Vfi", 490-That's enother op J .thing. abou..if.'.r ejvjWil 1 have iUttteriiin,. of' goodai.jkseil more op them. 1 Let's try this and see. E. J ! l. vincfnt, in rrofressir.Farmer