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Year, la Advance. " FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy 5 Ceata VOL. XVII. PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY, NO VEM BE R 16, I90G. NO. 33 THE fWith words m sweet s violet . I wove a dainty .song for her; .v ORgcrs, stole actons ihe fret ' n sc l'ie 8ol'en chorda a stir. lly quivered with a passion true That told my neart was hers alone; But, oh, her love was like the dmv, A flash at morn, ere noonday lljvrn! Vet T will keen my lay, And bide another day; Tho bird that flies To other. ftki- : Returns 1o greet the May. MINE All John Carstair's money was made from mines, and was still corn ins out of mines in a golden stream. From "Old John's" point of view this was a very pleasant fart, indeed. Mrs. Caretalrs was enabled to shine in all tho brilliance of New York sea sons and Newport indolence. - Hut Frances, embellished with all tbut Parisian costumes and the skill of French maids, could possibly add 1u tho beauty of her graceful figure, and the witchery of her wavy brown hair md deep brown eyes, had grave doubts as to the unalloyed dcsirabtl i.v ui ims weaitn. t'or there was Dick to be considered. uicK was not rich; not exactly poor, but certainly not rich. And when one is wealthy and beautiful and twenty-one; and when one's mother thinks it its time to consider cue's marriage, and so many youths with all the necessary banknotes and bonds have expressed their adoration and been refused; and all this with tho result that one's mother is be coming impatient, while Dick is the only one that will suit but is not rich; naturally tho problem assumes seri ous proportions. Of course Dick was also a doubter. To keep himself at all cheerful he bad day dreams of becoming sudden ly wealthy and boldly demanding Frances band from "Old 1 'John." Frances, from a comfortable and be coming .position on Dick's shoulder, would , ,.agree that - shelr - an , event ''would be perfectly lovely."' "But howr are you going; to make It happen, Dick, dear?"' Now that was just. what. Dick didn't know himself. Then came a time when Mrs. Car si airs coming softly into Frances' room at night introduced another fac tor into an already perplexing prob lem. " Frances, dear, it la time you were thinking of marrying and having a house of your own." " suppose so, mother." "Now, of course. Frances. I can r;uito understand all this foolishness and sentiment about Dick' Leigh. It is all very well for a young girl just out of school, but when a girl comes in your age, Frances, she must look At things sensibly." Mrs.- Carstalrs continued: "I will admit Dick is a very fine young man and I have no doubt would raako a ntodel husband. But. ruy dear, he has no money and.is. never likely to havo. You must" forget all about this boy-and-girl affair. Several youiig men of admirable character aui ' ivith th necessary means to make you happy have spoken to our father, and we expect you to make a choice before long." "Yes, mother," almost inaudibly from the cushions. The new developments in the case liaving been tearfully reported to Dick, that young man was more per plexed than ever, but could offer no advice except to wait for a while. Vhe "waiting" lasted for nearl." three nont'ns, until Mrs. Carstalrs announced to Frances that her hand hod eca promised to Mr. VVyndhain, whose raoney was alfio obtained from inioes. "My dear, it is now March, and since Mr. Wyndham as well as your father and I would like you to be married quietly at our country house I have fixed the date for September." After a short pause she continued: "Now, Frances, I have given Dick Leigh to understand that you are en gaged to Mr. Wyndham and are to bo married in September, and he has, I heliave, left the city for the West this morning. I expect, Frances, to hear nothing more about this old love af f:vir. If I do, you will regret it." She swept out with the full con sciousness and pride of victory. But as she departed Frances' maid now came -vith a letter from Dick. Shorn of endearing epithets and caressing phrases, the letter said that he was off to the West, the land of the mines, and was determined that "a mine will soon ,bo mine, and then you shall be mine again. Always and forever thine. Dick." Frances spent an hour in reading those portions of the letter which wo have omitted, and then plunged into the delights of shopping with her rnoth-or, for Dick would find his mine und she might as well prepare for the wadding now, rru while her other slicprpd with Mr. Wyndham a WAIP. Mayhap some day her merrv elance Shall fail to 'meet the lig.it it throws soma.qa.v w happy heart, pertuance Mayi'oel tkc thorn beneath the rose; And if neglect should pain the breast, That nature only formed for glee. With aching; heart that long for rest, My little Love may fly ti me. Then will I ripe nnd nay: Let naught my sweet affray, Love' beacon buinw. My bosom -yearn; The old love lives for aye! Samuel Minturn Peck, in Transcript. EPISODE.: in mind, she could feel it was for Dick. Such implicit confidence in Dick was flattering, but it was doubtfu if such faith in abilities reposed in nis own mind. Equipped with pros pector's pack and guide, he arrived at the little hotel near Cavstairs Mine He decided to explore the country five miles to the ' norjth of "Old John's" mine, and so informed a miner who had struck up an easy W estern acquaintance with him. "Prospect them there hills to tho north. Why, by the six-shooter o Moses, yer crazy, pardner." "Why?" demanded the crestfallen Dick. "There .tin't no gold rocks there naw, not even good buildin stone A man's plumb leery-eyed foolish to prospect them hills. Better strike a job workin' in the mines for Old John Carstalrs. Yer a chunky look ing specimen, pard, and $3 a day's good pay. Come in," with a jerk of his dirty thumb over his shoulder "Come in, pardner, the driuk'll be on me." It was not long before Dick discov ered that he couldn't tell gold ore from a macadam roadway, and de cided to take the advice of his hos pitable friend with the thirst. Work ing in the mines, he would learn enough about ores to continue his prospecting trip. Therefore, it came abDut that Dick Leigh, sometime suit or ?it the hand-of Frances, -was wielding the pick in her father's mine. Dick spent all his idle time wan dering about the property adjacent to the Carstalrs mine, and discovered one day that it had been staked out as a claim. Bill, the friendly miner with the thirst, hastened to reassure him. "Don't you worry, pardner, you ain't lost nuthin". I knows all about that there claim, for I've broken more'n one hammer tinkerln' round them rocks, and by the bronco of 'Binieelech there's no gold on the top of that claim. Naw, nor for a long trail down into the ground neither. But, pardner, yer a good friend of mine. I likes yer ways, d'ye see, and I'll .tell yer what'll be. between yer- self and me. 'Old John's mine,' " lowering his voice cautiously, "is likely to have a vein run down un derneath that there new claim." Well, then," said Dick, "we arc too late." "Naw, nary a bit. 'Taint likely anything will happen for three or four months yet, and they'll get enough of that claim 'fore then." This conversation occurred In late April, when men were boring in the naw claim. There was excitement in the camp, however, when it was ru mored that some paying ore had been struck. It was later announced that Wyndham, the mine owner, was talk ing of buying the property as soon as an official essay of the ore had been raade. These were bitter days for poor Dick. Old Bill would reassure him la his hours of despondency. "That there ore won't assay worth a floor scrubber's cuss, yer'll see." Even Bill was nonblussed by the later news, that the ore had assayed remarkably rich and that there was a rush to buy. "I don't see how it happened. That there assayer must be gone luny. I saw some of that ore myself and it ain't worth a quid of chewed baccy." CHAPTER II. The great event of the mining sea son was the collapse of the Wynd ham Mining Company. The mine has not proved as rich as the assay had shown. In fact, as old Bill had said, ' it warn't worth much more'n good buildin' stone." The bankrupt cy of Wyndham provided good "copy" for the New York and Chicago "yel lows." which irregularly reached the camp. Dick read to Bill with great inward satisfaction, the news that the engagement of MiS3 Carstairs and Mr. Wyndham had been broken off by Mrs. Carstairs, on account of Wyndham's disastrous failure. There camo a day when Bill no longer went to the mine, but tossed about in the delirium of fc fever. The young doctor told Dick that "it was just drink. Constitution wrecked by liquor. He won't last very loLg." "Dick, old pardner, I'm off on the last trail. It's time for m to pull stakes, y' see. Y've been a good pal, Dick' alright and I'm sorry to leave yer. But 'fore I go, I'll tell yer to watch the northend pf the-mine." And in the old box, yer'll find a pack et 'dressed to the old mother in Wis consin." He paused for breath as Dick supported his head and Wet his lips with the medicine. "I'll surely send it ou to her," said Dick.. "Thajvks, pardner, ytre were al ways a good pal. So long pard watch the north end. The vein may run " The rest of the sentence was lost in a .mutter as old Bill crossed the great divide. Bill's mates in the mine all attend ed the simple funeral and erected a roush cross a"; the head of the grave. 'Axe days passed into weeks and Dick worked on in the Carstairs mine. The machinery on the Wyndham property still lay idle, a monument to hasty judgment. The whole story of the failure was now known. The original owners of the claim has fol lowed the assayer's clerk who was carrying samples of ore to the assay office. Finding him asleep, with the ore in a leathern bag under his pil low, they forced the sharpened point of a -syringe through the leather and sprayed the samples of ore with chlo ride of gold. Toward the end of August Dick wa3 working in the north of the Carstairs mine. lie was feeling par ticularly despondent, and was con sidering leaving the mine, drawing the few thousand he had left in the bank at Chicago and again going back to the humdrum of a Wall street clerkship. He was wielding his pick almost automatically, scarcely heed ing where he struck. A new deep vein of ore had been laid oare for some minutes before ho was aware of the fact. Then he dropped his pick, and groping on hands and knees, he carefully exam ined the vein. A few more strokes of his pick and he had grasped the situation.... Carefully covering up the rein again, ho worked hard for a few min utes breaking up worthless rock with his pick and carrying it over to the new vein. Piling rock paintakingly upon it,! he worked away-till the bell, rang for the end of the eight-hour shift. The cage seemed to Dick to be crawling up to- the top, and. when it had deposited its load on the sur face he hurried to hi3 tent. Dressing njmself in the raiment of former days, he hired a "buckboard," and drove off to the town. "Reckon young Dick must be go ing to see a gal over to Charville," remarked an astonished spectator. 'Naw, he don't go anything on gals," commented Si, the saloon keeper. "He's more rrxely goin' over after some books or magerzeens. He's a queer cuss, is Dick." Dick further astonished the min ing community by quitting work at the mine. 'Allers, thought yer'd quit," sen- tentiously remarked Si, "yer ain't the pick and shovel sort. But it's been good experience for yer. Bet ter come into the s'loon, I need a new hand and yer'd be husky enough to keep the boys straight." Dick reported that he needed a rest and change and was going away in a few days. - " f But it was many days before he left. For the next day the manage ment of the Carstaira mine discov ered that their latest and richest vein ran straight through into tho abandoned Wyndham property. "Old John" made haste to buy, but was informed that the deeds of the land were in the possession of one Richard Leigh, Esq., of New York, who had bought the abandoned machinery a few days previously for some thou sand dollars and had had the deeds of the property thrown in. "Old John" was wise and as yet scarcely any one had been allowed to hear of the new vein. His agents approached Dick and offered him an extra thousand ' for the machinery and land. Dick dismissed them with the information tnat he would speak to Old John himself. That elderly mine owner was much surprised to find that Dick hftd inside information as to the vein and that Dick was further prepared to begin mining op erations himself. It was about a month after the new mining firm of Carstairs, Leigh & Company has been incorporated that Frances, from her old position on Dick's shoulder, was talking over old times. And I said you would find the , mine, didn't I, Dick, dear?" "Of course you did, PYances," an swered the man of mines, "mine at last by a mine." A. J. Thomas, in Canadian Graphic. Balloons For Brides. The gallant of old,, like young Lochinvar, used to lift his bride to his saddle, aud ride away; the post chaise did duty later on; then we camo by degrees to the carriage and pair, the railway coupe, and the motor. Now the balloon is proposed. But the glorious uncertainty of the balloon will not commend Itself to brides. What woman, newly mar ried, would care to risk the possibili ty of descending fifty or more miles from her trunks? London World. 11 Tlte average -rigidity of all tho sun'- layers is more than 2000 times that of nickel steel. Cadiraium gives protective coat ings for iron much superior to zinc. The coat has the same aspect as zinc, hut Is much more adhesive, and harder. Palladium has about the same de gree of hardness as platinum. It may bo easily rolled into sheet, and Is usually found in commerce in the shape of thin sheet or foil. . In the recent war the advantage of the Japanese was inversely as the r'hes of their height and breadth. The average targets offered by each to the enemy are as the cubes of l.")85 and 1642, or as 106 to 118, an advantage in favor of the Japanese of about twelve per cent. Much concern has arisen among the ostrich farmers of South Africa from the. prevalence of a defect, an the growth of the feather. It is technically known as "barring," and takes tho form of a series of narrow, chovron-shaped bars or malforma tions across the whole feather. The farmers in some English dis tricts say that, owing to the dust raised by motor-cars settling upon grss, it now takes a man two days to cut an acre with a scythe, whereas it only took one before motor-cars same into existence. The dust dulls the edge of the scythe, and necessi tates frequent sharpening. . The entire stomach was first suc cessfully removed by Schlater, of Zu rich, iu 1897. B. Vassallo, a surgeon o? Argentina, reports having now performed seventeen pylorectomles, and considers the gravity of these operations more apparent than real. Four months after the last complete removal of thi3 organ the patient was in; excellent health, with no in convenience except the necessity of eating often and but .little at a time. A remarkable hair ball from the stomach of a young girl has been brought to notice by Professor voil Bramann, of Halie. She had a habit of swallowing ends bitten from her long hair, forming in a time a bulky accumulation, though felt only as a slight pressure, and when the mass was remcved by an operation it was found to have shaped itself to the cavity, like a cast iu a mould. Iron tonics had changed the light color to black. Seasickness is proven by Dr. Charles Davison to be a common ef fect of earthquakes. The feeling of nausea may be produced by shocks lasting not more than eight or ten seconds, and whose vibrations Lave a total range of only a small fraction of an inch, and in cne slight English earthquake too small to injure any buildings about one observer in fifty was affected. The feeling usual ly lasts a few minutes, though some times persisting an hour or more. Soothing the Celebrity. "I am requested, ladies and gen tlemen," suavely said Colonel Handy Polk, addressing the beauty and chiv alry of Torpidville, in the Grand Old Commonwealth of Kansas, assembled to enjoy the third in the Lyceum Course's series of entertainments, "to introduce to you, in a er h'm few well-chosen words, the distin guished gentleman who will ah! edify us upon this occasion; a man whom we all know so well by repu tation; whose name is a household word from-one bound of thh broad land to the other; whose delicate satire has amused and entertained the whole nation; whose wealth of humor is the laughing link betwixl tho North and the South, and er ah! well, I have now done so, and he will er er now do bo. Ladies and gentlemen, I tr.ak you for but ah h'm (turning to the celeb rity) by the way, what did you say your name wa3?" Puck. Happiness. Many o' us miss the joys which might be ours by keeping our eyes fixed on those of other people. No one can enjoy his own opportunities for happiness while ho is envious oi another's. We lose a great deal oi the joy o" living by not cheerfull accepting the small pleasures which come to us every day, instead oi lenging and wishing for what belongs to others, says a writer in Success, L'iJ has its full measure of happi ness for every one of us, if we would only make up ou: minds to make the very most of every opportunity thai comes our way, instead of longing for the things which come our neigh bor's way. The first woolen ctoth made k England was manufactured about 1330, though it was not dyed anc dressed by tho Er.eUfth ujU. 1SGT. K0PMar science r SOUTHERN d TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN ANO TRUCK GROWER. Raising Mules iu Georgia. It is certainly refreshing to meet up with a man in the South who is making a success in raising live stock. It is quite a common thing to find a farmer who is raising hogs and some cattle, but it is very rare to find one engaged in .raising mules. Last weo.lc we met Mr. J. MeWhorter, of Beardstown, in- Oglethorpe County, Georgia, who is a successful merchant and farmer. In conversation with him he informed us that he was rais ing mules on a small scale and was very much pleased with the result. He has six mares and raises six mules a year. This spring he sold one of his raisings for ?2 10.10. The mule did not cost him any greater outlay of money than he would have had to expend in raising two bales of cotton, and yet brought him just twice as much. The farmers are right in not having any but large, heavy mules. It takes power to pull the plow deep. Paying $200 and more for a mule has begun to open our farmers' eyes to the vast drain upon our cotton crop that is annually being made to keep up the enormous supply of mules. Now, let us go a step fur ther and beg6n to raise them. Per cheron mares make fine working ani mals and will breed large mules. Every man who has as much as 200 acres of land or a good pasture should also have at least two good mares to raise mule colts. A flue jack should be in every county site in our South land. The mule will always be large ly used by our cotton producers, then why not raise, them, since rye, wheat, oats, peas, velvet beans, sorghum, Bermuda, alfalfa. will grow here with us just as well as anj; where on earth if we only give -them a good chance.11 We feel a deep interest in Mr. J. L. McWhorter's' venture. We Lope he" will persevere, and we trust hundreds of our successful farmers will' join with .him in this important and long-neglected branch of farm ing.' We feel better since we kijow there is one man raising .mules in Georgia. In LaGrange they have a line jack, and many farmers are rais ing one or two mule colts, but we don't know of any man who has as many as six brood mares. So many are talking of the scarcity of labor, Build good Bermuda pastures and raise mule colts. They will gather most their food themselves and con vert it into a valuable and saleable shape. Here's to the Georgia mule, may Ins tribe increase. And so may the enterprising number who will join Mr. MeWhorter in his effort to diversify our farming and to render our South more sustaining. South ern Cultivator. Making Pork on Peanuts. The peanut does not yield in the Northern States as it does South. There they grow .large crops of them in light sandy soil that will produce little else. One of the large growers of peanuts in the South in a letter to the Southern Cultivator praises the crop as very profitable for hog rais ing and fattening. He says: The pea nut has many advantages over other crops. First, it ha3 no insect enemy; second, it will withstand more dry weather than any other crop, and third, poor sandy land that will not pay in any other crop will make a fine crop of peanuts. I had this year twenty acres in peanuts that easily made fifty bushels per acre on land that would not make over eight bush els of corn without fertilizer. The vines made the finest hay I ever fed when properly cured. If you pull them up in the evening and the sun shines the next day in the evening take them in dud you will have the sweetest hay you ever saw. My horses will leave alfalfa to eat pea nut hay cured in this way. The peanuts are the finest hog feed I ever fed. If you want to feed your hogs on peanuts have a block in your barn or crib and a nharp hatchet and you can chop off the bunch of pea nuts from a pint to nearly a quart on each root. You can chop off two bushels of peanuts while? you are shelling one bushel of corn. They will fatten hogs faster than anything else and keep them healthy. Some people say there is no money in peanuts, but there is, for I get money the year round for mine. I am now supplying two stores, bo sides using the nuts to fatten my hogs. Th vines or hay I feed to my norses and cows. Post roy "ns: the Blue Thistle. E. V. C, Vesuvius, writes: I have a field that had wheat on it that was out in June which Is nearly blue with the blue thistle. Several persons have told me to dig them up and burn them. I want to sow wheat on the land this fall. How would you advise me to get rid of the thistles? Answer 1? the thistles have not FARM : NOTES. gone to seed, I would plow them un der as deeply as possible. It they are about ready to seed, cut them and burn them, and then break the land and fallow it thoroughly. It is late to sow cowpeas to advantage, but In an ordinary season, you might hare used cowpeas to advantage aa they make an excellent smother crop and would help to hold the thistles in check. Persistent hard work is the only way by which you can hope to control the thistles, but it will pay you to attack the problem with all vigor you possaes for it is an unusu ally pernicious weed and one ex tremely difficult to eradicate, but if you do not battle with it persistently it will soon spread all over your farm and get to be an intolerable nuisance. By the blue thistle you probably mean tho Canadian thistle. Prof. Soule. " Wiili One Eye Opeiv Grease is cheaper than axles or horse-power. A little lime scattered about will help some. Those second-crop potatoes will be among the best things on the table next winter. Entomology makes great divisions in the family of mosquitoes; but they all seem to have about the same manners. Right along now is a good time to make out the program for next year. The ancients consisted of two classes: 1st, those who were willing to learn. 2d, the others.' A good sort of education s., that which enables one to do the right thing, at the right place, at the right time. - .. If the mosquito bills are too sLarp, pour a few drops of kerosene on any surface water about the premises. Plowing wet land is working -for " nothing and taking money out of the crop with which to pay for the privi lege. ; . v We ore all failures, now, aren't we? The difference is that jome give up while the others keep going. Postal, Pitt County, North Caro- -Una, In Progressive Farmer. . . -. I, How to Deal With the Ducklings. To raise young ducks successfully, the best way is to treat them almost like a pig, confine them in a small, grassy yard with a coop or a box for a roosting place. Feed them four or five times a day or more, from the 'left overs" from the dinner table ? cold vegetables, etc. Mix this with buttermilk and feed in a, trough as you would a pig, not forgetting to. provide them wtth one-third the bulk of their ration with sand, for they do not pick grit as does the chicken,', duc cat sanu or even mud with their ;)C ration. ,,'jf They need' no exercise, and. only, ,. enough water to drink none. t.6 swim in, or even get the down oo,) --f, them wet. They delight to fill their craws full, then sit quietly down., near the trough and cut their eyes . up to the sun, first one side then the other, until the spirit moves them again to hit the feed trough. A fat- .' tening hog is modest in its demand for food as compared with a flock of healthy Pekin duck3 a month old. but then it is not watch Charlotte, but the ducks grow. Uncle Jo, Mecklen burg County, North Carolina. Why Legumes Enrich. According to the scientific experts each acre of yourfarmhas 75,000,00 pounds of nitrogen suspended in the air over it. That nitrogen is worth fifteen cents a pound to you, and each acre has $11,250,000 in nitro gen value floating over it. Your land can not directly drav the valuable nitrogen from the at mosphere and utilize it in the grow ing of crops. You have no available mechanical or chemical means by which you can force the air to drop its nitrogen upon your soil. Never theless, nature makes it possible for you to draw to a certain extent upon the cast stores of nitrogen above your farm. One class of plants, the legumes, is endowed by nature with the power to draw nitrogen from the atmosphere and store it in the soil for a time. The familiar clovers, the cowpeas, the soy-beans and the won derful alfalfa belong to this valuable class of plants, and yoa can use them, to draw from the air in the nitrogen your soil r.eods and must have .In order to be r.ble to produce large and good crops. An acre of legumes will draw from the air about 2 00 pounds of nitrogen, and it will enrich j'our soil in the most effective way at the lowest possible cost. Albino lobsters are spmetimes found. There is one in the Univer sity museum at Osford which is two feet long. 3