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NEW NEKIKN.NO. 1.160 GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1889. f JOHN U. HIM1I, Ull.rl PnailtlW. I TU» SI.Se Far Year, 1st Ad.! STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. up, by ruling out silver, so every-thing they bought with it would Governor DANIBI. (J. FOWLE, be cheap, but I have a notion (Kx-otficio) Chairman. 'they had some help from our own \. It. WilliuniH, Master ol the Slate!nabobs on this side the big pond. (,: inpi-I'atronaof HuRlmndry. K.VV.WI,niton. 1st Congressional Inst. \. (I llrooks. :!.! Congressional lust. (trout, »dCongressional Dirt. K. (iiven, itn CongreMHOnol Dint. J. S. Muri-ow, 5th Congressional »•"}■ S. II. Alexander,Oth CoDBK«nionalI>tet K. Leaxar, > t )> Oongreemimal DM. It. Illnaton, 8th Congressional DM. r n. Smith, 9th Congressional Dirt. lAin TIVB i OMSHTTBB: This is what made us sick, but what are we going to do about it? I confess this is a stumper. Another man down in Massa-chusetts who says he knew what farming there was sixty years ago, has a few words to sav on the situation. He says thcjpouble is 'business has grown away from v. Daniel <i. Fowle, IV. F.lireen, S. I!. I farming. In those times if a man Alexander. , teacher got $3.00 per week and a nxAMK COMMITTEE: |ady teacher $150 to $175 per .\. Uocar, W. It. William*, H. '•■ Brant, j wce\c am\ board themselves it was ! thought good pay; also for a man who went out to work to get 50 cents and his dinner per day; he ihiusou, 1 cmiiiiuMioner. ! . |v. KrulHT, S11 i'i.11). II. II. Dot lie, I'll. I>..Chemist and Direc-l,, r .if the Kx|M-rini<'iil Station. .1 T. I'ntrick. (iiiirral Agent Immigra-lnri. irr-' Sviwl.- Alliance. President—S. II. Alexander, Charlotte. i« President—T. Ivey, Ashpole. • . . I. I.. I'olk, Itideigli. irer—.1. I>. Allen, Pulls. !..-IUI-.I—Hr. I> Iteid I'arfcer, Trinity .ssMnnt I.'-■ -1 HI-.■!•—1>. 1>. Wclntyre, burg. ipluin—ltev. 1'nrr Moore, To^jwville. : K^-JH-:— IV. II. TonilinsAn, Fay-ille. \~i-t:mt DonrKce|ier—R.T.Ranh,Mt. ...1111 t-at-Arms—.I. S. Hull. Chalk 1.-..:. le Business Agent—W. A. Harden. l:\l.iTTIVl: IOMMITTKE. Klins I'nrr, Hid Sparta, chairman; T. tsh|M>b>, J. S. Johnston, Ruffln. A saoM i:.llltll. iCnrr, <Md Simrta. Farsnere I'regident—Klini Secretory—II. I'. Hester,Oxford. Vssistunl Secretaries—S. Otho Wilson, Vinevanl, W. K Itenbow, Onk Ridge. FARMERS' DEPARTMENT. also had 25 to 30 cents per cord for cutting wood, and a girl who did house-work to get from 50 cents to $1.00 per week. A car-penter had from five shillings to $1.00 per day. How is it to-day? Lady teachers get from $9 to $15 per week, girls in the shops and mills got $6 to $12 per week, a carpenter from" $2.50 to $3 per day, common laborers from $125 1 to $1 "5 Professional men who ! used t- get $200 to $300 per year now have from $1,000 to $1,500. Farming is better than it was six-ty years ago, but other business has gone so far ahead of it that it makes girls and boys dissatisfied to stay on the farm." Our Massachusetts man says nothing about the nabobs of Eu-rope and the gold dollar, although he goes quite a ways back, and his statement of the case seems quite reasonable all the way through. I suspect he has not quite as long a head as Dr. Baker. A Bucks county farmer writes ; that the cause of our trouble is the this question, "What is I fa^ 0f protection to farm pro- ', is V0t r 1 ducts; that potatoes, cabbages, for 'onions, eggs, wool, etc., are H bat 1-1 in Natter >' llta r»t illy Jnf.lt l:i«U' iu Kami J..unial.l I find thi the Matter easily settled a.s 1 thought, quite a number of the readers of brought from Kurope and other the Farm Journal have written to countries as ballast almost, grown say that my diagnosis of the case|Dy {he pauper labor of Kurope or is not a correct one. and therefore other countries, and landed with the remedy indicated will not ef- but very little duty to enter into feet a cure. I don't want to get 1 competition and to lower the into a dispute over the matter for | prjce of American farm produce, ■en nothing will be settled, but I w|,ich is grown by the same high-am willing to consult another doc-tor, or three or four others, if the patient is in a bad way, as he US to be. The patient is not g to die this time, unless in-deed he has too many physicians, which will kill anybody, I have before me an earnest letter from a Maryland man—I presume a farmer, but I am not of this—who says, all over the land the question: "What is the matter with us?" is asked, but the true answer is rarely given. Here it is: "About a dozen years ago the principal governments in Kurope adopted a gold Standard. Here is where the evil dates from. The ruling classes there saw the opportunity to enhance their se-curities. The growing scarcity of facilitated the movement. They saw in the future the appre-ciation of this metal sufficient to them control of the world, and how near it has been consum-mated can be seen by the bond market, and by the decline of everything that has to purchase tin: gold dollar. Gold apprecia-tion in England and Germany must be general, prices of all sta-ple products are laid there, and they are fully 30 per cent or more lower on account of this great crime. Aiiy wonder our lands arc falling into the pit set to catch the debtor classes? In Kurope it means revolution or a return to Lnn; in our own country the owner becomes a dependent int. Fverything that can be done to aid this deplorable condition, the contraction of the cy supply, the banks loading .:> by turning their bonds over to ; ivernment at a huge prcm-all other industries seeking >• in combination to avoid the decline, Talk of trusts ! This gold idol is the author of them all. Produce has fallen so low the farmer cannot meet his bare ncc-iries. He urges the soil to Id more bountifully only to aid further discomfiture, the ;.il business of the country Is to the depression as there ngcr any means to draw priced labor which is paid by the highly protected American manu-facturer. This, too, seems to be the trouble and I have no doubt my Bucks county friend is right. Another Bucks countian says that our farms are too large, that wc ought to farm fewer acres and farm them better, and that this will relieve us from our woes. 1 suppose .1 farm about 2x6 feet would be right, and until we get down to this we shall never get entirely well nor be absolutely happy. 1 wonder if we as a nation do not spend too much for beer, whiskey and tobacco? I wonder if the average com-mission man acts on the square every time towards us? I wonder if our women don't use too much jewclery and we carry too many gold watches? I wonder if we don't pay more than our share of the taxes? I wonder if the railroads are looking out for themselves or for us? I wonder if the man who owns a millio.i dollars is taxed enough? I wonder if the scrub bull is holding us back? I wonder if wc pull together as we ought? I wonder if wc don't send too many lawyers and too few farmers to congress and our legislatures? 1 wonder if we don't leave our farm machinery out in all sorts of weather to rot? I wonder if we don't burn too much straw and waste too much manure I wonder if we don't cat too much adulterated food? The fact is I don't know "what is the matter with us," but I do know that this is a great country and that it is going to come out all right in the end, and we farm-ers will be on top. Ileus l.'poa the Karat. IDixie Farioer.l In a small way, there is nothing more profitable upon the farm than hens, for the reason that a comparatively small amount o( capital is necessary in doing quite How the Peanut Cares Insomnia. [Wsshinaton Post.1 We have always entertained a tender regard for the peanut. Its comfortable homliness, its sweet, awkward simplicity, its unobtru-sive modesty, have won for it a way to our heart and awakened theie that delicate sen-timent of affection which lingers as a holy fragrance about the soul of the lover, ennobling him and beckoning him to deeds of great-ness. We are, of course, on terms of familiarity with the peanut—so intimate, indeed, that we have not for years addressed it by its pro-per name, Tubcrum Jiunium Bulbo-castamim, but 1iave applied to it, for variety's sake, such familiar and endearing names as goober, groundpea, carthnut and the like. This public protestation of our affection for the peanut is made in order that the reader may be con-vinced we arc not actuated in what we are going to relate by any disposition either to injure the tender sensibilities of the pea-nut or to rob it of its well-merited popularity. But truth, which is mighty and wiil prevail, impels us to this recital of the events of a night. We—that is to say, the particular "we" who sits in solid phalanx and writes \\iePostseripts column—we have long been ad-dicted to sleeplessness. Why, once when wc were in the midst of an epidemic of courting, we re-member, we lost so much sleep that her parents noticed it and spoke about it. But that is neith-er here nor there. What we wish to have understood now is that we don't always go to sleep when we make ready to do so. It was, therefore, with a feeling of deep gratitude to the Rev. Dr. Theo-dore B. Kyman, Kpiscopal Bishop of North Carolina, that we read his interesting letter recently pub-lished in the Raleigh Nc-ws-Obser- '.•er, recommending peanuts and milk, taken just before going to bed, as a sure cure for sleepless-ness. We have not the honor and pleasure of a personal acquaint-ance with Bishop Lyman, but, from certain tests we have recent-ly made, we have learned to re-gard him as a man of overwhelm-ing, not to say dangerous, verac-ity. The peanuts and milk did cure our sleeplessness. We had devoured only the first quart of peanuts and imbibed only one pitcher of milk when we found ourself, not in bed, where wc had j left ourself, but standing in the midst of a crowd on the under side of the moon, with our head walking around on another man's shoulders. This was very attrac-tive, but not precisely the situa-tion we should have nominated ourself to fill if we had been con-sulted. Then we had a variety of experiences. For instance, we walked off the edge of the world, and went dropping through space till we broke into pieces as a mud ball dropped from precipice docs, and each piece became a separate dream, and each dream a mass-meeting of horrors. This sort of thing went on from worse than anything to worse than that until morning. When we awoke we found ourself all tangled up in something about the color of Vir-ginia clay. On uncoiling it and following it up to its source wc found it to be our breath. As soon as we could reach the shears and cut it off wc said something about peanuts and milk, some-thing that our sense of propriety, if nothing else, would keep us from saying in the presence of Bishop Lyman. And now, since we have proved to ourself that the worthy Bishop really found a cure for insomnia, we arc devoting our-self tirelessly to insomnia as a possible preventive of peanuts and milk. We are afraid to go to sleep—lest some more peanuts and milk catch trs unawares. lane Couqurrn. What is the best way to con-jsual supply from the money j an extensive business. It maybe He alone revels who |sajd that their profit comes through s unlimited capital; his bonds < three distinct channels; from the d mortgages pay no tax and eggs, the manure and the dressed on the "high road" to absorb' poultry or broilers, of which the masses. Is this not a sad manure is the most insignificant, Any wonder the ques- although not to be despised. Hen a is abroad of "What is the manure is one of the most valu-tterwithus?" T. B. BAKER. able, in its condensed condition, Md. of any upon the farm, but a great I think very likely that Dr.' amount cannot be expected from right, but he must have j a single animal, although from a mger head than I have to trace j large flock, by a proper use of of the patient's misery deodorizers and absorbents, some I never had a very Ibarrels ma;-be accumulated. quer .' "I'll master it," said the axe ; and his blows fell heavily on the iron. But every blow made his edge more blunt, till it ceased to strike. "Leave it to mc," said the saw. And, with his relentless teeth, he worked backward and forward on its surface till they were all worn down and broken, and he fell aside. "Ha, ha !" said the hammer, "I knew you would not succeed; I'll show you the way." But at the first fierce stroke off flew his head, and the iron re-mained as before. "Shall I try ?" asked the soft, small flame. They all despised the flame, but he curled gently around the iron and embraced it, and never left it opinion of the nabobs of is excellent for all kinds of crops, The Practlral Farmer. (Practical Firmer. I A man on his own farm, well cultivated and kept, well stocked, with good modern dwellings and barns and outbuildings, master of both time and acres, tied to no hours by the calls of bells or whistles, free to come and go ac-cording to the necessities of none but himself, mostly in his own fields, performing his healthful labors within sight of the smoke of his own chimney, is surely as rich in the genuine sense of that word as any man can be. He has nothing to fear and nobody to envy. Of one thing he is sure all his days, and that is a sufficient living; and that is what other men are never sure of without a single pang of doubt or apprehension. There is his land; there is his home; there is all the animate and inanimate machinery of his establishment; and for the rest he looks in profound trust to the bounty of heaven. Instead of this unworthy and demoralizing anxiety to get rich, if the average farmer, once being solidly established, would resolve to enlarge and exalt his life as it is, to make more out of that, to enjoy as much as possible of what there is to be enjoyed, to adorn and beautify his home—that only paradise on earth—within and without, he would find all his daily tasks easier, even to the ex-tent of being delightful; he would feel rich where now, with more money, he feels all the time poor, and rid himself of a false tyrant in the form of increasing parsi-mony that holds his nose to the grindstone till he is flung into his grave. If farmers only knew it they would be the richest men on earth. A Farmer's Success. IllirtfunlCuuraal.) Speaking of "little things," I have in mind now a man who fif-teen years ago bought a farm here in Connecticut for $8000, paying down what cash he could, and giving a mortgage of $4500 for the balance. The general line of his farm operations has been the same as his neighbors', in addition to which he has been looking about the farm for brush to cut and stones to pick up, touching up the pastures with a little top dressing here and there, gathering leaves in fall and much in winter to add to his manure pile. With a good dairy, pigs and poultry, and a large fruit and vegetable garden, and with other "little things" that can be picked up about the farm from time to time, he is marketing something in the village two or three times a week, all through the year, and thus al-ways has cash to meet the daily expenses. A family of five have been well educated, the mortgage paid off, many improvements made on the place and he is sev-eral thousand dollars ahead in money safely invested. His neigh-bors who have only been able to just make a living, will tell you he has spent too much time "fuss-ing with little things," yet after all "has been mightly lucky." A Small Farm the llc.l. No farmer with small capital should over burden himself with a large amount of land. He can by his own labor bring a few acres to a high state of cultivation with little expenditure of money. This will pay better than half working more land and getting a smaller crop per acre, hiring help to cul-tivate and harvest it, besides pay-ing interest on this large area that has thus been cultivated at a loss. It is the great mistake of small farmers to suppose that their land is too small in area to cultivate with profit. Those who think thus often purchase neighboring farms with the notion that thus they can help themselves out. Nine times in ten these efforts re-sult in worse failure than would have followed concentration of effort on the original number of acres. There is an unfounded prejudice among all Anglo-Saxons against selling part of their farm. If it is more than can be worked with profit sell until it becomes adapted to the owner's capital and executive ability. A small farm paid for and well tilled makes a safe home. When its capabili-ties are thoroughly tested, the owner may be surprised to learn that it requires whatever execu-tive force he can command to manage it. Slieep Husbandry. [Salisbury Watchman.] The act of the Legislature which provides that a man whose sheep are killed by dogs may re-cover the value of his loss by warrant before a magistrate, is a feeble effort to encourage sheep AmeaamauU te Oar Public School Law. [N. C. Teacher.: The recent body of law-makers which spent two months at the Capitol in session could not be called an educational Legislature in the strict sense of the term, but certainly it was a conservative bod*. TV _• amendment, to the public school TSw of the State as sifj-gested by Hon. S. M. Finger, our energetic and faithful State Sup-erintendent, was before the as-sembly for a long while vibrating between the two Houses, as it would be changed and returned by each body, until towards the end of the session a bill of amend-ments was finally passed. The firincipal changes from the old aw are as follows: 1. The school year is to end on Nov. 30th instead of June 30th as heretofore. 2. No contracts for teachers' salaries shall be made during any fiscal year for a larger amount of money than is actually to the credit of the respective districts for that year. Nor shall any or-ders upon the Treasury be given to a teacher until he has the money in hand to pay such orders. (This means that school commit-tees shall not contract a debt for the schools.) 3. The text-books recommend-ed by the State Board of Educa-tion shall be used in the public schools. The State Board may, however, recommend more than one series upon the subjects to be taught. 4. The apportionment of school funds is to be made on the first Monday in January of each year. 5. All schools in a county shall be in session at the same time and but one continuous term in a year. (This prevents waste of the money in a short and useless term of two or three weeks at a time.) 6. All contracts with teachers shall be in writing. 7. CountySuperintendcnts with the conductors of County Insti-tutes may issue first grade certifi-cates to teachers who attend the Institutes, which shall be valid for three years. (This change is a long step towards the improve-ment of our school system.) 8. All teachers holding first grade certificates must, within one year after it is issued, stand a satisfactory examination on "Theory and Practice of Teach-ing," the book for this purpose being selected by the State Sup-erintendent. 9. One third of the voters of a town or city may, upon petition, procure an election for a special tax for the public schools of that community. 10. Any two or more school districts in the State may employ a practical teacher to superintend the public schools, and he shall discharge the duties of County Superintendent in those districts. 11. All the summer Normal Schools are abolished and the money which has heretofore sup-ported them is to be used in pro-viding County Institutes in their stead. [The State refused to ap-propriate the additional amount of $5,000 which was asked for to be used in the special training ol the white teachers; therefore the col-ored teachers now receive $8,000 from the State for their Normals, while the white teachers have only $4,000 for training the men and women who are to educate the white boys and girls of our State !] Waaamaker'a Sunday Beuesl. (Prat. H. B. McClsllan. la Christian Obaarrar.] I reached the Bethany Sabbath school twenty minutes before the appointed time for the opening, and found the large building so full that standing room only could be assigned to visitors. Indeed, the first impression one receives, is that the building is intended for the' workers—for the pupHs and teachers—who fill almost the en-tire structure. Small space is al-lotted to visitors, who are wel-come if they find roam, but who are not allowed to interfere with the work of the school. At one end of the room is a large platform, capable of seating nearly five hundred people, on which is the desk of the superin-tendent, and immediately behind it, the cabinet organ, choir and orchestra, the latter consisting of some twenty instruments, string and cornets. Behind these is seated a Bible class of nearly four hundred adults. In front of the stage, the main auditorium con-tains classes of boys and girls to the number of over a thousand. A wing on the right contains an infant class of boys, numbering several hundred. A similar wing, on the left, holds an infant class of girls of equal numbers, while in the rear of the auditorium six al-coves stretch back and accommo-date large classes of older pupils. Two large galleries extend around the entire room, and these also are filled with pupils. Prob-ably three thousand people—men, women and children—are gather-ed within this building, every Sab-bath afternoon, and among them a very large proportion of young men and young women. till it: melted under his irresistible I husbandry. Suppose the owner . I know they will ruin us1 but like all concentrated fertilizers, I influence. of the dog has noth,nK- *hen And what is that flame whose what? And much the larger part of the dogs are owned by people in this condition. Not All Coinc 10 Open Ranks. [Detroit S'rae Pnss.l I found a lot of colored people at Raleigh ready to go to Louisi-ana in charge of an agent, and, selecting an intelligent looking man, I called him aside and asked him to explain how and why the exodus started. "Well, sah," he readily replied, "it started in dis way: Julius Straker—dat fat man you see in the depot doah—cum up to our nayburhood an' axed us if we didn't want to be rich. He said if we'd go to Louisiana we'd git way up high in no time. Dat's why we ar' gwine." "But how'll you get rich?" "Work de cotton crap on sheers. We git half. De fust year we shall dun make $1,000. Artcr dat we shall git along faster. Izc figured out dat I shall have $10,000 in five years." "And what will you do then?" "Open a bank, sah." "Are all of you going to accu-mulate $10,000 and open a bank?" "No, sah. Dar's one pusson who is gwine to 'cumulate $7,000 an' den buy a steamboat, an' an-other who is gwine to 'cumulate $5,000 an' buy hisself a toll bridge an' sot down in a cheer all de rest of his life." Isolation In Millions. "Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Vander-bilt wear silks especially designed and woven for them. Where they buy their things is never divulged by dealers and the fashion of their gowns is profoundly guarded by their dressmakers from the knowl-edge of other women." So writes a New York correspondent. To be rich enough to live in the world in a state of luxurious semi-incarceration must have its ad-vantages. Poverty—that is, com-parative poverty—still has its compensations. When wealth passes the boundary of enough it becomes a burden. There is a certain deference due to enormous wealth that must be paid. How are people with forty or fifty millions going to live up to it? The effort to do it excludes them from the cvery-day life of the world and surrounds them with unreal con-ditions. Human sympathy is not born in palaces, or nursed through the contagions of infancy by private yachts, private palace cars and exclusive weavers, milliners and dressmakers. Sympathy and char-ity grow out of a common fellow-ship in the deprivations of life. Philosophy had its being from out of the working element of human-ity. To own millions is isolation, and isolation from the world, whether through crime or wealth, is not a good thing. Prisoners of the state live exclusive lives, and have private weavers. Of course, the poor man has no choice of residence or furnishings, and the rich man has. Buying seclusion and cxclusiveness, being shut up, living apart from the world, fenced off as it were by massive walls, is the feudal idea. It is after the fashion of the English aristocratic class. There is something in it, however, anti-republican—some-thing not quite in sympathy with our system of government, some-thing that should be un-Ameri-can. and it was just like must not be applied directly to] ' they owned the' gold ofIseeds, lest it be "too heating, and ["irresistible influence" cannot but "-• world, to put the price of it I destroy them. 'melt iron ? It is assuredly love. A Must Itemarkable Section. (Manufacturers' Hsconl.J The wealth of Western North Carolina in Bessemer ores is far greater than is known to the world in general. There is enough high-grade Bessemer ore in that section to run every Bessemer furnace in America. As strong as this statement is the Record knows whereof it is speaking. It also knows that English and Northern steel makers have been carefully investigating that region through their engineers, and that there are good prospects of de-velopments in the near future which will surprise the whole country. The belt of country running through VVestern Caro-lina, East Tennessee, North Geor-gia and part of North Alabama has mineral wealth yet undream-ed of. Western North Carolina is one of the most remarkable countries in the world, with ad-vantages of a balmy, bracing, health-giving climate; WllmlttgtlM'e Hew Orparturr. IProrrosiirsFamiw.l Wilmington obtained the en-actment of a law at the recent sitting of our Legislature to allow it to pay to any manufacturing enterprise established within its limits, a bonus equal to the amount of city taxes levied on such enterprise, and the Act was submitted to a vote of its people and was ratified almost unani-mously. Wilmington realizes that street railways, electric lights, water-works, opera houses and paved streets, important as these are, do not and cannot make active, thrif-ty and prosperous towns and cities. With its already splendid ship-ping facilities, by land and water, and which, in the near future, are to be enlarged by the addition of two new railroads, with its de-lightful climate and charming re-sorts at Wrightsville and Carolina Beach ; with its intelligent and public-spirited people, it needs only the quickening pulsations of active, industrial enterprise, which this new departure will surely bring to make it one of the fore-most and most attractive and most flourishing cities on the South Atlantic coast. It richly deserves it all and more. None have made more no-ble and unselfish sacrifices for the advancement and development of our State, than the patriotic and large hearted people of Wilming-ton and of the lower Cape Fear, and their every effort to win suc-cess will be attended by the best wishes of all our good people. »linl "Colqulll" Mcaua. [Binuiofham Nsws.] The term "Colquitt," so com-monly used in Georgia, is derived, as every school boy knows, from the Latin, "con loquor"—"collo-quor," to talk together. The word colloquy having the same orgin. The older Colquitts were ever-lasting talkers, and once a famous jurist of that name was the great wit of the bench and oar of Geor-gia. He it was, who, when re-proved by a godly preacher one Sunday because he was playing marbles with his sons, somewhat fuddled the devout man of God. "I will be compelled to testify against you in Heaven, brother Colquitt," insisted the earnest preacher. "Hadn't you better get down from your horse and let me take your deposition and file it ? You see you may not get there," re-sponded Colquitt, who surely played trumps in this "colloquy." The Senator of to-day is a son, without the wit, but with more than the shrewdness and tact of the plain old judge. How Boys lUeala Treat Clrla. (MaeaaW ia Youth's Cmp.ni..n. I Boys should always be polite to the girls, however vexing they may be. When anybody is giving anything away always let the girls have their turn first. They like it. * Girls are not so strong as boys, there hair is long and their faces are prettier, so you should be gentle with them. If a girl scratches your cheek or spits in your face don't punch her, and don't tell her mother. That would be mean. Just hold her tight behind the arms for a min-ute or two, till she feels you could give it to her if you had a mind to. Then say to her kindly, "Don't you do it again, for it is wrong," give her a shake or two and let her go. This is far better than being unkind to her, and she will thank you for your politeness if she's anything of a girl. Womeu at the Polla. INaw York Sim.: The women of Detroit behaved themselves finely at Monday's election for school inspectors, in which, for the first time, they en-joyed the right of voting. Some of them were enthusiastic in the work of electioneering, but the majority of those who voted were entirely tranquil. Husbands and wives went to the polls together, though they did not always vote the same ticket, and the voters of both sexes displayed mutual re-spect at the ballot boxes. It was through the labors of the women that one of the female candidates for the office of school inspector was elected. She is over sixty years old. THE TELECRAM. "Ia this the telegraph office?" Asked a childwh voice one day, Aa I noted the click of mj instrument With its rneswgn from (ar away. As it eeaaed, I turned; at in v elbow, Stood the merest scrap ol a boy, Whose childish face was all airlow With the light ol a hidden joy. The golden carls on his forehead, Shaded eyes of deepest blue, As if a bit of auminer sky Had lost in them its hue. They scanned my office rapidly, From ceiling down to floor, Then tamed on mine their eager gaze, As ho nsked the question o'er. 'Is this the telegraph office?" "It is, my little man," I suid, "pray tell me whntyou want And I'll help you if I can." Then the blue ejsa grew more eager. Aud the breath came thick anil fimt; And I sniv within the chulilcy 1 mn.ls. A folded pn|ior grouped. "Nurse told me," naid lie, "the lightning Came down on the wild some day; And mamma haU gone to lleuvcn. And I'm lonely hince she is nwny. For my pnpa is very liuny, And he hasn't much time lor me, So I thought I'd write her a letter, And I've brought it for you to BV. I've printed it big KO the nngels Condi rend out quickly the name, And carry it straight to my lnniiima. And tell her how it enme; And now, wou't you plasms to lake it. And throw it up good and strong, Against the wire* in a hinder shower, And the lightning will take It along." Ah! what could I lell tin- darling? For my eyes were tilling last; I turned away to hide the tears. Hut I cheerfully spoke at Insi ' "I'll do the liest 1 call my child," 'Twos nil thai I could say; "Thuuk you," said he, I hen mrumied the ■ky, "Doyou think it will fuuder to-day?" Dat the blue sky smihil in answer. And the sun shone dazzling bright, And his lace as lie slowly tiirneil away, Lost some of its gladsome light. Hut nurse." he said, "if I stay so long, Won't let me come any more; Ho good bve, I'll eoiiie and we vim again flight ufter a fuuder shower." n*UH KIKIII . I Hat) York Wsoklr.l Patient -Man—Suppose a woman makes it so hot for husband that he can't live with her. and he leaves her, what can she do ? Lawyer—Sue him for support. Patient Man—Suppose she has run him so heavily into debt that he can't support her, because his creditors grab every dollar as quick as he gets it, besides ruin-ing his business with their suits ? Lawyer—If, for any reason whatever, he fail to pay her the amount ordered he will be sent to jail for contempt of court. Patient Man—Suppose she drives him out of the house with a flat iron and he's afraid to go back ? Lawyer—She can arrest him for desertion. Patient Man—Well, I don't see anything for me to do but to go and hang myself. Lawyer—It's against the law to commit suicide, and if you get caught attempting it you'll be fined and imprisoned. Ten dol-lars, please. Good d.iy. Tiie Mages. "M. Quad," in a recent letter from North Carolina to the De-troit Free Press, writes : "When we of the North refer to the South the negro always comes into the question. His status and his fu-ture arc regarded by us as a great problem. We are much worried over it at times. It is a matter which should be and can be left with the South to take care of. The Southern negro is a theory with us. He is a solid substance to the Southerner. He knows more about him in a day than we do in a year. He has got more excuses for his failings than any Northern man dare urge. He treats him more kindly than we do the same race at the North." Old Hlate Currency. IDalton fflejCHlteaj.l Mr. W. P. Chester showed us another curiosity last week in the shape of a very ancient piece of currency. It was a $25 bill of North Carolina State currency one hundred years old. It was very crudely executed, and upon its face the following was printed in old style Roman type : "This bill entitles the bearer to receive 25 Spanish Milled Dollars, or the value in gold or silver, agreeably to an act of Assembly passed at Smithficld the 15th day of May, 1779. Signed by P. Hunt and John Taylor." A curiosity dealer would doubtless give a good round sum for this relic of a by-gone age. For weak back, chest plains, use nit j n sici.KA.NS wonderful healing Plaster (porous) Maryland wives in 1)1.1 I Ualtimors News.) Republican wives are in great distress. They never know when their husbands will be at home any more. The man goes down town promising faithfully to at-tend to business and return at a proper hour. But ten chances to one his place of business does not water fii I see him that day. He will meet abundance, pure as crystal itself; mineral and timber wealth almost beyond description, and it will in a few years be the scene of vast industrial developments. a friend or antagonist on the way and the next thing he is running the Administration at the top of his voice and then off for Wash-ington. Haiae Meat aud Bread. (Monroe Planter.] The planting session is ap-proaching, and with it comes the time for faimers to decide wheth-er he will continue to raise cotton, to the exclusion of other crops, or produce his own bread and meat, with cotton as a surplus crop. Doubtless many will continue the old suicidal policy of raising co*t-ton under a mortgage to the neg-lect of corn, clover, hogs and other articles for home consump-tion, and such will be very apt to find themselves deeper in debt next year than they are this. r\
Object Description
Title | The Greensboro patriot [April 18, 1889] |
Date | 1889-04-18 |
Editor(s) | Hussey, John B. |
Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.)--Newspapers |
Topics | Context |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The April 18, 1889, issue of The Greensboro Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C. by John B. Hussey. |
Type | Text |
Original format | Newspapers |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : John B. Hussey |
Language | eng |
Contributing institution | UNCG University Libraries |
Newspaper name | The Greensboro Patriot |
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Object ID | patriot-1889-04-18 |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 |
Digitized by | Creekside Media |
Sponsor | Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation |
OCLC number | 871564131 |
Page/Item Description
Title | Page 1 |
Full text |
NEW NEKIKN.NO. 1.160 GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1889. f JOHN U. HIM1I, Ull.rl PnailtlW.
I TU» SI.Se Far Year, 1st Ad.!
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. up, by ruling out silver, so every-thing
they bought with it would
Governor DANIBI. (J. FOWLE, be cheap, but I have a notion
(Kx-otficio) Chairman. 'they had some help from our own
\. It. WilliuniH, Master ol the Slate!nabobs on this side the big pond.
(,: inpi-I'atronaof HuRlmndry.
K.VV.WI,niton. 1st Congressional Inst.
\. (I llrooks. :!.! Congressional lust.
(trout, »dCongressional Dirt.
K. (iiven, itn CongreMHOnol Dint.
J. S. Muri-ow, 5th Congressional »•"}■
S. II. Alexander,Oth CoDBK«nionalI>tet
K. Leaxar, > t )> Oongreemimal DM.
It. Illnaton, 8th Congressional DM.
r n. Smith, 9th Congressional Dirt.
lAin TIVB i OMSHTTBB:
This is what made us sick, but
what are we going to do about it?
I confess this is a stumper.
Another man down in Massa-chusetts
who says he knew what
farming there was sixty years ago,
has a few words to sav on the
situation. He says thcjpouble is
'business has grown away from
v. Daniel |