The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-01
EXCEPTIONAL EYE-oPENERs.
Rule holds GeoG Till it Butts
Against Exceptions.
BY EDWARD PANSON HALL.


Fo,. Tie Sentinel.
The commonest mistake in all
the world is TO 90 laundering
along, with the rocl, III one end and
the grist in the other. 1or no possible
reason but that daddy always toted
that way II | had time | could
write mostvaIuable Encyclopedia of
Exceptions to Arbitrary Notions-a
book as big as Webster's Unabridged,
yea, as many voIumed as the Incyclo-
pedia Brittanlca, for what [ know
something that would out-seIl the
Lives of the james Brothers, and that
might at least reach III time to one
thousandth part of the circulation of
Robinson Crusoe, Thaddeus Of War
saw or the Pilgrim Progress-a
handy volume OF q0ofni,ags 10 wake
up every one of the millions of sleepy
souls and to open their custom sealed
peapers.
Well, let me try my hand, at ran
dom, on a page of ii. The material
for it is SO vast, just don't know
where to begin to pick up one thing
at time-the trouble is ii comes in
such floods ana handiulis and armtulls.
But, as Horatio Coccles said when he
single handedly drew his sword upon
all the Gauls = Here goes =
CA literary mans hand writing
degenerates when he gets TO farming"
If he was a oyspeptic before, renewed
health Will steady his nerves, he viii
write better, despite your notion about
horny hands and stittened muscles.
Is oOttnp.So,.ay y,a,. rood
ment for Il farmer TO have, and will
soon pay for its cost-$10 and up
wards" Wedge piece Of old scythe
blade, twelve inches long, four inches
under your plow and eight inches out
side to the left, and go along and try
it. l positively would not give five
cents for a cotton scraper.
"Wheat comes as well sown broad
cast as drilled Try both, nay friend
just try it, that's all.
"a ditcher mnst have his line"
Set up two stakes in line, tace them,
put your mattock before you, walk
backwards with the line stakes and
draw line furrow-no line in your
way, no necessity for it.
"Buckwheat should be sowed in
June" Yes in the short seasons Of
Ashe and other cold mountain count
ies-here SOW it first early and again
later, and get two crops year.
Corn should be planted on beds or
ridges. Don't do it-plant between
beds and get all the moisture ia case
of drought
Corn should be hoed" Well, |
! s,pnoco ~ Il, I, I',,1.
land they wouldn't even let you spade
their grounlnew, with their improved
pulverizers for horsepower standing
idle DE shovel and de hoe" went
up with the late war.
'Fertilizers arc 80 badly adulter-
ated and cost So much they don't
pay" All depends on the kind of
brains the man has who buys and
uses them.
"The merchants rule the farmers
and live at ease" Forty merchants
break down in health ;.nd finances to
one farmer nard WorI is nature s
sovereign state of primal independ
ence.
GA boy ought to nave first-rate
book-education by all means" No,
sir, by your leave, God Almighty has
not made every boy with brains to re-
ceive it nor blaze any literary path for
him.
I've tried every sort Of medicine
All the poisons you mean--Row Try
, sunlight, fresh air, ara exercise
, 'I'll sue him and have Iay tights
, if it takes every cent / ii worth" Get