The Greensboro patriot [April 18, 1889]

              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.
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