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. ' z ' - . m - . . . i .. - 7 : iTllT ? ? UhU r It Nil I I ,. A Handy Bajf Holder. A great deal of time is lost in fill . rog rainhags, . unless some device is used by which the' bag can. be' kept open and the one filling it have, the use of both hands. $ The upright board , (l) is mader of inch v stuff, two feet long and eleven Inches wide. The arms (3) which support the -hopper are held J : by two - triangular boards (2), which are nailed to these arms,' arid to the upright board . (1), as shown in the illustration A The arms shown At k are each ten inches long,itwo inches wide and an inch: thick, and the ends are screwed to the side of the spout as shown. The spout is made nine inches square, and both this and the hopper? should be .made of boards eight inches wide. At 4 a row of wire nails is ; shown, by which the bag is held in place at the bottom of the hop per. By boring a numbeif of holes in the back board (1) at Intervals of an Inch apart, and hanging the device to a heavy wire nail or a heavy screw put in the wall, the bag holder may be raised or lowered to a convenient height. ' A Cliap Iiittle Greenboute. The greenhouse, pure, and simple is possible only in exceptionally fa vored localities, where the soil Is so well drained that water "does not -rise in excavations and the winters are- so mild that sun heat under pro tecting glass is all that tenderest plants demand. Whoever in such a location has a stretch of sunny outer wall, with a few feet of spare space along it, may have loads of flowers the winter through at a very slight expense either in money or trouble, and all the more if a drum with heat ed air from a furnace flue is set up just outside the wall. r Fr such a greenhouse dig down be sidjf the house wall to a depth of three feet and a breadth of six, all along the available stretch. Put down, a concrete floor, six Inches thick, and wall up to a foot above ground with cither stone, brick or concrete. Upon top of this wall, set a wooden frame two by four seantling are stout enough for It. Board up the frame within and without to a height of eight inches. Above that have glass running on to a glass roof. , The roof Is a lean to stayed against the house wall. Have a door in the end, with steps down to it. If possible also have a door from the bousethus In sharp weather one an go in and out without letting in the cold air. Fifty dollars should build and equip such a greenhouse. Seventy-five is a liberal estimate. Fit it inside, with slat walk ,ways, laid upon the con crete floor, a bench of earth all along the side, its top level with the glass, and racks rising like steps against the "house-wall v snace. v Also Wtro I Btronff hooka cwerhMd tn hoM vn. Inc baskets and twts. ' ... . w...B i Plant iu'each. outer corner a strong root of . some climbinff rose. Die through the concrete floor and make a rich bed for the rose roots. Let them stay there constantly. Have the roof movable ' so it can be raised in summer, or taken wholly away. Train the roses upon wires just un derneath the roof. Passion -flowers may well be set in a deep box of the richest earth against some part of the house wall and trained to cover it with purple bloom. If the greenhouse -stands , outside : a parlor, by making the walls a high enough to let .the roof reach the vtops of the windaws,;the glass of them may have traceriiea' r6'U riant seed and root cuttings - in the Ibench, pricking thesm out, .as nhey grow, into little pots, and shifting from the little to bie ons; Pinnt Julbs ialso ine'vl)enchrihinthl ana tulips ,fojr Christmas blossom about ;the first of August and later J VP .-.-: U 5; ones Jto ncce8ibn;Cyiaiit;lso eTristrf:'Tm: uuuer ;ine Denim;rpr Bix weeks, ,untU4 uui irone roois. tnen . t ;in the light And .water treel while they are growing. After: the bulbs VT f-v -ti. wui aoi nun InV mUg lh! ttous& tempera- - tWea; 4,14 ,brty- Crocuses win bloom in it, and many, - ; V xvimust anv CrW U bUd' to tact,, though for ' STSS Wossom a little more warmthN 8 neeaea. Washington Star. , v i .101...""- My hoe 707, W that was on thp . I.: the premises and not . : ilMMM I " . , .. . , . . , " I. . ' "..''...'' 1.' tf k W a .-. built for .the purpose. s Jiuz i una, it quite Convenient.- It. is a stone .builds ing twenty-six by V thlriy-f our feet, with good walls two feet thick, well laid in mortar, as - shown in the illus tration. To ; make it so X could hold fruit through the winter, I lined it in- 'fjf X CONVENIENT TUXJTt HOUSE. side with matched lumber, making an air 'space of about ten inches between the wall and llnlngllt; is a two-story: house. I protect from cold by putting straw on upper floor about four feet thick when settled. It kept the fruit well. I make a fire In it only three or four times through the winter, on account of extreme cold. ' - I could, with but little; expense, make it good for cold storage by put ting eight pr ten twelve-inch galvan ized Iron pipes through the upper, floor, letting them down three of four feet, and filling from above with crushed ice and cheap fertilizer salt. I have used it as it is, opening the doors nights to cool off and keeping it closed, during . the day, except when putting in more fruit. I pick and put in barrels in the orchard and store In rainy weather I can ck for market. I usually them open sort ana p sell to buyers, so they are off my hands and in market or cold storage, near marke , by November 45. I have seldom kept a crop over. H. H. Hill, in New England Homestead. A Shrinkage la Values. The eased noet wrapped It up care fully and set out for the city, where the leading magazine editors sat in judgment on such as his or, rather. on such as might not hope to be quite as his; and it was night when he came to the; cltyj At the hotel where he chose to lodge he passed It to the clerk, with instructions to place It In the safe, where valuables were kept for securityJ ! "What value?" the clerk inquired. The poetfs face flushed with pride. "It is, perhaps, scarcely possible to place a value upon It, but " "Say two hundred?" suggested the busy and practical clerk. "That Is, perhaps, something of the sort they will place upon It," replied the poet, with a deprecatory curl of his Hp. ?,Yes; say two hundred," and he sighed. . . , ... . The clerk checked It at two hundred and put It away in the safe. Next morning the poet arose, paid for his lodge,, received It safely into his hands again and tn ent forth. The afternoon was waning when the poet, looking wan and we iry, stood again at the ho tel desk, with it (no longer with a largo Din his hand. "Ah!" said the clerk. "Care for it again? Same value, I suppose?" "Well er-4ah not exactly,? said the poet, still eagerly, but of a different variety of iager. "I think er ah what I was going .to say, was er as a matter of f act er could you let me have half a dollar on it?" , The clerk baid he couldn't, hardlv do t Just tnen and the poet took it and went back to his humble vlllaee. where he opened a tin shop and did quite well New York Times. New Story of Xdncoln. Two men were looking over some steel engravings in ah up-town shop ine otner aay wnn a view to purchase, A il t i a. : A ma11 l? mcoin suggesiea 10 one iaem xsxf8 SW1T or tioncst ADe, wmcu ine flarraior says ne naa irom his father: Lincoln and his Cabinet were in ses- sion, but as he had anticipated no dis- cusslons jof importance, the President left word that he would-receive cards. As he supposed, the meeting was While they were gathered about the table a servant brought in two cards, and Lincoln commanded that the call ers be admitted. When they appeared he found one to be a tall, ; spare mah, the other one much undersized." After a moment's chat they retired. J "There is a remarkable instance of the , providence of the Creator." re- marKea com, impressively, as he turnea again to his Ministers. "There I T as l- n one man I extraordinarily long legs and the othei extraord snort legs, yet He has maueine legs oi eaen or those men so J iuai luey ?UK exacuy. reach e ' At CarUs e County I th hoarim thA m tatM the sale of k Picture alleged to be by T. Sidv nnr w : a Wfi nis ndredtlt year7 ; was read, show ing;thatth picture was , not painted by him- Mr- Cooper, stated that ' he had 287 p ctures submitted to him tor vermca :ion. , - Of these he had found thirty-one to be true, while 256 were forgeries, many bearing the forireil siffnsitnrA nf hn I could understand how his remitntinn W -ffereb. Plaintiff in the action VP warpv. xwenty-rour poundj j anages.-oodon TeleSrap, EONGRESSIONAL Ddtaited Doings of Our National Law . -. , , makers. ' ; ; HOUSE. .. Twenty-sixth Day The time of the House of Rxepresentatlves was -Occupied in general debate' lupbn an urgent deficiency appropriation' bill. An item in the bill carrying $300,000 for a mili tary post at-Manila precipitated a long iiscussibnr Vwhlch' tookj ,iwlde Irange, drawing into the debate some tf. the ablest debaters on both sides of the House.. A . semi-humorous;, speech, by Mr. Clark, of Missouri, elicited a reply from Mr. Cannon, of Illihbisf which ;ln turn drew the fire of Mr DeArinond; 01 Missouri. Others who participated were Mr. Richardson, of ' Tennessee; Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio; Mr.' Alexander, oi New York; Mr. Grow, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Williams, of Illinois, and Mr. Un derwood, of Alabama. Mr. Cannon .in charge of the deficiency, bill explained that it provided : for' the government service for the current ' fiscal? yeai where existing appropriations 'were not sufilcient. The bill carried $16, 704,230. Mr. Richardson, - the Demo cratic leader, pressed Mr. Cannon v to know under what law it was. proposed to appropriate $500,000 for 'a military post at Manila. The chairman of the appropriations committee ' replied that there was no specific law ; to establish such a military post, but whether under the general organization of the, army in the field such an appropriation was in order," it would remain for the chair man of the committee of the whole to determine when the appropriation was reached. s Twenty-seventh Day Some of the old partisan fire was injected into tha proceedings of the House when.' the item in the urgent deficiency bill ap proprlating $500,000 for a military post at Manila, which the Iemocrats have been using as a text for speeches in opposition to the Philippine policy of the administration for the last three days was reached. Mr. Cannon, in charge of the bill, confessed that; the appropriation was subject to a point of order and it went out. In - lieu thereof he offered an- amendment to appro priate the same sum for the - "shelter and protection of the officers and -en listed men of the army doing duty in the Philippines. This the chair held to be in order,' and it at once became the subject of a very spirited debate fn which Mr. Richardson, the minority leader Mr. Williams of Mississippi, and Mr. De Armond of Missouri, were pitted against thee hairman of the ap propriations committee. The. vote on the adoption of the , amendment stood, ayes 127. nayes 100. ; Before the general debate closed Mr. Watson paid a beautiful tribute to the late President McKinley. ' SENATE. ' Twenty-sixth Day During the great er part of the day's session, the meas ure providing for the establishment of a Department of Commerce was under consideration. An effort was made by Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, in charge of the bill, to secure a vote.on it, but the opposition to many of its provisions became so strong that the effort had to be abandoned. In an extended statement Mr. Nelson replied to the criticisms that had been made of the bill. The Departments principally affected by the measure were those of the Treasury and the Interior. The former had on Its rolls 4,419 employes in Washington, and the latter 4,881 each haying a greater number of employes than all the other Departments combined. Mr. Nelson said he believed there was a strong public sentiment in the country in? fa vor of the establishment of a Depart ment of Commerce. "We need It," said he, "to put ourselves on a parity with other nations of the world. We need it to put our commercial and industrial development under governmental con trol." :,)..:. ,::u- -y: Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, supported the meajsuro as a whole, but offered an amendment striking from the bill the proposition to transfer the Patent Of fice. ; It was accepted by Mr. Nelson and agreed to' by the Senate. Mr. Cockrell, of Missouri, offered an amendment which was adopted ; elimi? nating from the bill the proposition to transfer to the, new Department the Census Office. -. " . .. y " A House bill conferring' upon Mrs. Ida S. McKinley, widow of the J:: lato President McKinley, the mail franking privilege, was passed.; ' Twenty-seventh v Day Debate tn the Philippine tariff bill was not continued in the senate, no member of the body being prepared top -roceed with the dis cussion. The bill providing for the es tablishment of, a. denartment of com merce was under discussion -for nerly two hours, but little progress was made with it The debate upon it disclossed no objections to the main features of the bill, but merely a disposition on the part of the senate to give, it; careful consideration and so far as possible to perfect the details of the measure. J . The president pro tem, Mr. : Prye, laid before" the senate a letter from Samuel Gompers, president of : I th,e American -Federation of Labor, pro gestins ! against the incorporation of the department of labor in the proposed departmentof ; commerce. Mr oGmpera was xf opinion that 11 the department cf labbr a were Incorporated in the de-. partment' of commerce, It . would mini mize the interests of labor, and he pro tested against any such result. ' r. Chicago, Special. -Wm.. W. Wat tersbn; superintendent- of J the ' .Ship Owners Dry Dock Company, North Halstead street, was arrested . on k charge of importing labor into the State by false representation and faii tng to state at the time that a strike was in progress ;; It is charged that the company , brought laborers here from Kentucky, Missouri and Wiscon Bin,and failed to inform them that a strike was v in progress,- contrary ? to the statutes of the Stote of IUlnois. A PROGRESSIVE 7.10VE. Plan Forthe Establishment of Stato School of Mining. . ' The Association of City Superintend ents -In session; in Raleigh the past week endorsed the bill ; pending to Congress to appropriafe money to the State .for mining schools, '; and urged upon our "Senators and Representatives that , ttiey work for its success. if A bill Is now pending in Congress which is likely to increase the Income of the Agricultural and 4 Mechanical Colleges by. $10,000, possibly 20,000. It was introduced Into the Senate by Sen ator Tillman; into the House by Re presentative Grosvenor, and if iC can; be gotten before - the House before the great rush ; of .business ibegins, it is likely to pass by a big majority; It was up in the last Congress and passed the Senate unanimously, but' was held up in the ' House, along ; with I the Appalachian- Park Bill and other popular measures for fear of a shortage in the Treasury. ''f'Af- The A. and M. Colleges jhave always been" objects of special consideration by the' National Congress.! They , were originally established byj act of C?n gress, July 2, 1862, the father of the act of being Senator Morrill, of Ver mont, one of the most far-sighted and eminent statesmen our! country has ev er produced. , Senator Morrill worked on the idea for fifteen years before suc ceedin g. He is also the father of the magnificent Congressional building, and he labored earnestly to secure a companion building for the Supremo court, which will doubtless soon be erected. v' ' .' ,''-;;' j -: ' : i! . ' Senator Morrill's greatest work, his life work, , was the establishment of the various State Colleges of Agricul ture Mechanic Arts. He believed in the education of the plain working people, especially in their industrial education. Knowing that the States jhad already provided for general education and literary culture in their public schools, colleges and universities, he decided to supplement the State system by a system of industrial colleges. His bill established them; the . Supplemental Morrill Act increased thelri endowment, the Hatch Act still further ' increased it, and now it is proposed to complete this grand system of instruction by an other act providing , for Mining and Road Building. i The Association of City Superintend ents, In session last, week, unanimously endorsed the bill, as follows: "Resolved,, That the bill; now pend ing In Congress, proposing to use a portion of the proceeds J of the sales of the. public lan ds to provide for the Agricultural Cottees of the country with increased means of instruction Id mining, mentallurgy, geology, read making, forestry,' agricultural engineer ing, etc., is of incalulable ! importance to the 'mining, agricultural and othei industrial interests of North Carolina, and we most earnestly request oui Senators and Representatives in Con gress to give it their active and effec tive . support. ' - .'4.! . "Resolved, That, in the judgment oi this association, the prfceeeds of th! sales of the public lands (since these lands ere a common property of the whole people), should be applied to pur poses which, are equally J important to all sections of the country and not merely to those of particular localities. "Resolved, That tho secretary of the association be instructed to transmit a certified copy of these resolutions ta each of our Senators and Representa tives in Congress.' Tar Heel Tersltles. Rutherford ton, special. A remark able find was made last i week by a young man near Caroleen. ;Eor several generations it has been believed thai somewhere on the William. Morrow plantation was buried a pot of gold, and for years people who have lived in that locality have dug for) the hidden treasure. Mrs. Morrow, a widow, whe is a1 very aged lady,- dreamed l out the mystery and directed hen grandson, Tom Tomes, where to dig for, the long talked of pot of gold. The jyoung man went immediately and excavated an eld soap stone pot, which will! hold about one gallon, and found it; filled to the top with gold. There is onej large nug get in the pot: The balance seems to be old coins hammered out and without datefor device. There was also with the pot an Indian flint tomahawk. Young Tomes was in town today but refused to talk about the amount of jhis find ex capt to nis cousin, Virgil Tomes,-who ia clerk in the Levi store, from whom this Information was gathered. I V; c -'f - Not long ago" the state superintenaeni of public instruction had a tilt witli thej plic school! au Point; because they tried to keep from school a boy .who wore a shirt waist The boy won out;5 The superintendent how says he has made a similar ruling in another county and has-stood by the boyHe said he had decided against the local authorities and tho county, boari ' ' : - 'f- 1 . s , Cuban Postof f Ice Frauds Havana, By CableAt the , heartng Saturday of the charges growing out : of the Cuban postal frauds,- h C. ; M. Rich, C. W.: P. Neely's I former .as sistant in the department! of finance of ; the Cuban postal service, testified that Neely gave him 60,000 ten cent stamps the r night before he (Neely) left Havana, telling him to sell them and divide the proceeds.; He said he turned the stamps over? to Gov. Gen. Wood. Rich testified that he was one of -the v three partners V in Neely's bricl plant in Havana, Jbut that he did not put any ;money in the con cern. Neither, - he said, did Smith, the -other partner.. He Supposed that Neely put in the whole sum of $18 -000. Rathbone, Rich said, had no ii tterest In the plant- V Committed C a ii VhIte Woman Net U'.ro;Vv .Winston; , ! . -v;V$ns young negro pran,t whose name has not been learned .icpmmitted a nameless crim upon .lirs; Isaiah.; Lumley, . aged 5j year s About ; 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, a ;few, hundredards south east from thf Southern freight depot. Sheriff Alspaugh, several deputies and , poiicemen went in search of the negro as soon as the horrible crime was reported to them. They tracked him down the hill, going south, f0J some distance." Five or six negroes were arrested and carried before Mrs. Lumley, 'but v none proved to be tat guilcparty. Mrs. !f Lumley gave the following '.. story i regarding the a saiilt made upon A,h . Wednesday ijwrigi as I went out in the. woods there (pointing), to cut a. few sticks of wood. While I was chopping . on a small tree, a young ne gro man, fan; entire stranger , to me; stepped up and asked if I knew whers a colored man named Scales lived, I pointed out a ' house : occupied by & family of that name. The negro, who is of a ? dark ginger-cake color and had on a light brownish suit and hat, then asked - me to let him cut my wood. I told ' him I ; could cut it. He then ran up and grabbed me around the waist .1 endeavored to strike him with my axe, but he jerked it but of my hands and threw it to one side. I screamed once or twice and he told me if . I ' hollered again he would cut my d d throat. He choked me until Tj became helpless, when he accom plished his purpose. It seemed to me that the assault lasted nearly half an hour. I tore his shirt collar and'would have freely.; cut the negro's throat if I had had a; knife. I feel: confident I would know the negro if I could see him. He is of 'medium, size." Mrs Lumley stated that her husband had been in bad health for two years, adding, that he was now confined to his bed. The officers have continued their search all day for the negro but have failed to locate him. Aycock Makes Proclamation. The Governor, has issued the fol lowing proclamation: "Whereas, the people of North Carolina have pledged their best endeavors to the cause of , education, the up-building of our State, the development and the utili zation of her - natural resources, and Whereas, the farmers need better roads both for their children to travel over daily- qn the way to the school house, and for themselves and their families to use to reach their churches to worship Almighty God as well as for the prompt and early delivery of their mail by carriers of the United States Government, and transport tipn of their products and purchases, and citizens living in towns and citiea need good streets for the same pur poses, and whereas, in those counties of our State where the greatest pro gress ;' has been made in substantial good road-building there has been the greatest : industrial advancement, at well as the largest increase in th value of farm lands', due to ; being thereby placed nearer, to towns and cities, and whereas, the National Good Roads Associations, of America, will during .the Week of February 10 to 15 iff Raleigh give an exhibition of mod ern and approved road-building to which - all citizens who are interested in that commendable, work are in vited to come. - "Now, therefore, I, Charles B. Ay cock, Governor, do. hereby issue my proclamation calling a good roads con vention to be held in Raleigh, Wed nesday, February 12th,- and Thursday February 13th, to which; are appoint ed delegates from the various sec tions of the State, requesting them and all other good citizens whose con. venlence will permit, ; to : attend said convention." , 1 ' . Pardon, For Froneberger. The Governor has issued a pardon for Ed j Froneberger, of Iredell county, who was convicted of obtaining fiftj cents worth of goods upon a forged or der in August, 1900, and sentenced ta five-years in jail with privilege of com mlssloners to work him upon the coun ty roads. The examining physicians cer tlfied to the Governor that the prisonei was suffering from general tuberculosis, his condition being such that he would never recover if kept confined and evea if given his liberty he. would nevejr ful ly recover, Jand that without 'any doubt continued confinement In jail would re sult speedily in death, - The certificatf further recommended the pardon, not only ; for Froneberger8 sake, -but t oi the good; of the other prisoners, as ha was a; sourcQ of Infection, and danger, ous to the health of the inmates. Thi was the view of the Superintendent ot Health and also of another member of the hoard. V ' ' ' ; Vvhington, - Speclai-rrhe commit tee. on J arrangements -for r the; recep tionfof; Prince - Henry ' is. . studying figures . submitted by raibroad experts In the formvof suggested- itineraries and "alsporisiderlji the ima;appll cations receiVedT from various cities for the Prince's attendance. It is said tha it will ; be possible ; to give the Prince's visit, a wider range than was at first expected and it is now pretty well settled ' that he will go to Chi cago, St ; Louis, -Milwaukee, Cincin nati and Boston March 8 is the prob able date ; of his visit to v the latter city.- 1 t ! - (1 t I; ( I V
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