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A Curious Will.

A man who died in Berlin a few years
ago left 1000 marks to be divided equally
between nine relatives and a friend with
whom he had quarreled. The remainder
of his fortune, 1885, 900 marks, he left to
his native city in Bavaria. The Berlin
legatees, the nine relatives and the one
friend were enjoined by provision in the
will from attending the funeral. Should
any one disregard his viii in this respect
that person, by an express clause in the
will, forfeited his part of the 1000 marks.
The relatives. to a man, stayed at home,
but the good friend forfeited his tenth of
the money and followed the remains to
their last resting-place. His heroism was
rewarded. A codicil in the will read !:
" But should any of the ten herein named
forfeit the pittance and follow my body to
the grave. the money which must other
wise go TO my native city reyerts to him"
Thus true friendship was rewarded by 1885,
600 instead of miserable 200 marks.
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Taken Unawares.

unsupported causes for malaria exist
everywhere. A sunken lot partly filled with
water in the vicinity of your abode, new
location upon land filled in, but formerly
overhowed or marshy, and causes far more
occult than these produce the atmospheric
miasmata which constitute the germs that,
if inhaled, ripen into fever and ague and
congenital maladies. A person taken I'M
awares with a malarial complaint should
as soon as it declares itself, seek aid from
the SAFE non-disappointing cordial medi-
cine, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which
has for over third of a century, and in
every quarter of the globe, relieved the
malaria stricken, and neutralized miasma
in air and water. The Bitters impart activ-
lty to the stomach. bowels and liver, repels
incipient rheumatism, and remedies mac
ton of the kidneys and bladder. Appetite
and sleep are improved, and the infirmi-
ties of age mitigated by its use.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02

THE most popular liniment is the old re.
liable DR.. ]. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil
Iiniment
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HE WANTED RELIEF
And Appealed in Vain to the United
States Court for Redress.
From the Memphis Avalanche


From the Memphis Avalanche
Old Jasper Green, "Uncle Jasper" as he
is called, is an aged colored man, who lives
in South Memphis. He has son who
works on the railroad and spends his money
on the girls and craps and almost every
other way than in paying his debts, in
consequence of which one of his creditors
garnished bis wages.
The old man was greatly exercised over
what he thought to be an injustice, and he
wanted to get even somehow. Yesterday
he was encountered in the Custom House
building by reporter, and the following
colloquy was overheard between Uncle
Jasper and Government official:
"Boss, is dis yer de 'Nited States Cote ?"
ut is"
as you de Jedge%
''No. Is there anything l can do for
you"
"Well, yer see, it's this er way wants
to git relief"
"Relief from what ?"
swell, yer see, my son Ike he works for
de Kansas City railroad. He owed for
some groceries and de man got one of desc
Dimmycrat Jestices ter garbishee his
wages. faint no good me gwine to none
of desc yer Jestices, and l want yer to
make the railroad pay Ike fur his work"
"The United States Court has no juris-
diction in such cases, old man."
II dunno bout de 'diction, but hit don't
need no juries to make 'em pay Ike. CANT
de Jedge do it hisself?"
'No, it is not in the line of his duties"
"Dar amt no lynn bout it; it am de Cos
pei truff.."
'You misunderstood me; the Judge can
not try such cases as these"
"Whut fur CANT he Amt he got sense
enuff?"
"Yes, but you don't understand yet. The
United States Court only tries Government
cases or cases involving large amounts be-
tween citizens of this State and citizens of
other States"
"Well, amt dis yer 'er Guberment
case?"
"Of course not"
"Ain't dis yer Cote run by der Publ
cans"
sit is the United States Court and Is not
run by any party. The Judge is Re
publican, but that has nothing to do with
it,"
"Yas, it have, too. A Publican speaker
sed jess afore las election day as de pee
pie wus de Guberment, an Ter niger wus
wun OBJ de people. rs niger, an dat
makes dis yer a Gubenment case, an |
wants Ike ter git his money whut he wuked
| for.n
swell, old man, am busy now, but you
can't get your case tried in this Court, and
you may as well go home"
81 KANT git it tried yer?"
"No."
Gan a good Publican niger KANT git
iestis yer ?'
Not in case of this kind"
can der Cote's gwine to set yer an let
| 'er white Dimmycrat run over Publican
niger dis 'er way ?"
1--WE can't help you, old man, and you
must go away now and not bother me any
| more"
"Well, Pll go, bur femme tell yer, mis-
| ter, | amt Publican no mo-. | alters
heerd as yo 'Publicans only wants us mig
gers ter vote, an now 1 knows it. 'Taint
| a Guberment case, hah? An isn't some
of der Guberment, hah? Well, er good
day, mister an don't yer look fur my vote
in der baller box der next time, case rs
gwine ter put Ter in der Dimmycrat baller
box on der next lection. A niger amt
got no show no how" and the old man
hobbled down the steps, muttering as he
wont
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to Vera Cruz and there shipped for SPAIN,
while the Spanish Government gobbled all
the rest, to the entire exclusion of the In
dians. who were the rightful owners. They
compelled the latter to spend their lives
in the mine, taking out treasure for the
conquerors, unpaid, poorly fed, and worked
to the utmost limit of human endurance ;
but these
MONSTERS OF PIETY
Consoled their victims with the comforts
of religion, and built this sanctuary in the
darkness, wherein they might thank God
for their condition No richer field for
exploration and investigation can be found
anywhere in North America than the
country adjacent to the Casa Grande and
Santa Maria rivers. Prehistoric ruins
abound, many of them traceable to the
ancient Aztecs and tribes that preceded
them; many ante-dating authentic rec
ords, and everywhere are objects of deep
est interest to the archeologist and natur-
alist.
To return to Sonora: There are three
weekly newspapers issued in the State, be-
sides the official organ of the Government,
in which both State and Federal laws are
published. The chief agricultural products
are wheat, corn and beans. There is one
cotton mill in the State, of sixty looms,
which consumes the entire cotton crop in
the manufacture of manta, sort of coarse
sheeting. A coarse, dark kind of sugar is
made from Sonora cane, but not enough for
home consumption. About two thirds of
all the sugar used in the State comes from
the southern coast of Mexico, and little
from the United States. Cattle form an
important part of Sonora's exports. The
best lands are those in the Yaqui and
Mayo valleys, the area of which exceeds
100000 acres-well adapted to the growth
of cotton and sugar cane. The climate
and soil are also well adapted TO orange
culture, and many young groves are now to
be seen in southern Sonora.
The northern part of the State is tit for
little but cattle-raisiug, the country being
covered with nutritious grasses, though
| arid and mountainous American agri-
cultural implements are at last coming
into general use here, entirely changing
the character of farming, the forked stick,
the clumsy sickle, and the hour-mills of
water and mule-power giving way to the
modern pillow, the reaper, and wheels pro-
PEELED by steam-with most profitable re-
suits
The railroad now brings to Guaymas a
daily mail from below" as the southern
coast is called, end there is also irregular
communication of the same kind with all
towns of Importance in the State. Ocean
steamers bring monthly budgets down
from San Francisco, and semi-monthly
mails are brought up from the coast ports
by other vessels The Sonora railway,
running daily trains throughout the year,
gives quick and regular communication
with the United States, both east and west
This road and its connections have brought
Guaymas, in the northwestern corner of
the Republic, within four days travel Of
Mexico City, instead of thirty DAYS, as
formerly, by stage and horseback, and
within six days of New York.
FANNIE B. WARD.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02

FoR health and happiness, the boon of
all mankind, take Simmons Liver Regu-
lator.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02
THE UNION ARMY.
How Many Men Were in the Field During
the War.
New York Commercial Advertiser

New York Commercial Advertiser.
W.. j. Flagg, writing from Ridgefeld,
Conn.,, under date of August 10th, says:
''In your editorial of the 18th you put
the average of our forces in the field at
100000 Make it 100000. At all events,
George Harrington, our Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury during the war, has
told me that when Grant, in the last year
of the war; went to Washington to ask for
more men, he, Mr.. Harrington, informed
him there were then on the pay-rolls some
thing over 100000 men. am sure of
this, but, of course, the statement should
not go into print without being verified
from official documents. Prospective PEN
sioners will desert, you see, If not in fear
of being shot And Lincoln would not
shoot them"
Our correspondent represents the view
generally held-a view not without appar-
ent foundation. The fact that the number
of enlistments during the war was $685.
900 and that the number of bounties paid
was 1,772,000 does seem to indicate that
100000 would be better estimate of
our average forces than 100000. 1t is for
gotten how many of these enlistments
were for terms Of three months, six months
and year, how many were at the very
close of the war, and how many of the
soldiers who were enrolled earlier never
saw service.
The Commercial Advertiser's estimate of
our forces in the field was based upon the
reports published IN the American annual
cyclopedias during the war. The annual
for 1864 puts the military forces at the end
of that year at 100000 men, and remarks
that it was approximately the same at the
beginning of the year. At the very close
of the war the number was greater, aggre-
eating on May l, 1865, 1,0O0,516, "of whom
$4,000 were available for active duty"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02

Yor feel faint and weak in the stomach
mo appetite. Take Simmons Liver Reg
ulator.
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Indented writing upon iron has just
been successfully done by John Farrar, an
Eastern iron foundryman, by the following
process: The impression on the iron is
made by writing backwards on thin paper,
pinning the paper in a mould, and then
pouring in the iron. Tie writing thus
transferred to the plates, when the iron is
cooled, is wonderfully clear and distinct,
and is so deeply imprinted as to defy any
attempt at erasure.
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~ will bet you new hat" said gen.
tleman. that you will come down out of
that chair before / ask you twice.
"Done !" replied his friend.
aCome down. cried the other.
al will not" said his friend with much
obstinacy.
.sThen stop till l ask you a second
time" said the other.
Perceiving that he never would be asked
a second time, the gentleman in the chair
came down in double sense.-Sunday
Mercurg.
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like our present sale If cattle can be kept
up it should mean decided good to the
future of cattle-growing. 1t is doubtful,
though, whether we will have many such
years in exporting cattle as this one has
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RIVER RANCH FOR SALE.

FINE RIVER RANCH OF 400 ACRES ;
"A 200 acres of corn and alfalfa land, and 200
ments: plenty OF good water: half a mile from
postoffice and schoo1house. For s42 80 per acre,
on easy terms. or will exchange in part for city
property This offer good for thirty days only.
Il. q. FAR * L2Rs
d4ts 701 1 street, Sacramento. Cal
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Monthly Rented Collected Loan
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
Peculiar tiles of the Bent Twig.

AS t. the peculiariies Of bending,
after piecs, of wood is bent its charac-
ter is aln2 ost entirely changed. 1t is
wonderful how it is changed, and by
that change it is better fitted for any
use than it was before. Bending makes
the wood heavier; it is pressed to-
gether, and tho same bulk Of wood
weigh3 more after it is bent than be-
fore. Another popularity IS that when
it is thoroughly dry it is sitter than tho
saI ne-eized piece of wood that is alike
e'fery other way in regard to grain. 1t
will admit Of more strain and move less
out of its position than piece of wood
that is unbent. On this account it ID
better fitted for carriage-m making than
sawed pieces. A piece of timber that
has been steamed, whether it is bent or
not, has its stiffness increaHed- 1t IS
more brittle thanit was before, and, for
me uses, it will not do as we'll; and
yet there is a quality of timber that the
steaming process and the kiln-drylng
process afr ct very much the same; they
both cook the gum in the timber aud
make it britt le and stiff, There Is a
grade or elias OF hickory that IS bene-
fitted by being steamed or kiln-dried
for use as spok es or whifflotrees. There
is kind Of hickory that never becomes
stiff by natural process OF drying,
and one of t he desirable qualities of a
spoke, rim or whiff1etree is stiffness as
we'll as strengt h. You take that hick-
ory-and it is the very best we have
and steam it, aud it il better fitted for
these purposes than it was before. It
is difficult to tear apart q piece Of bent
wood; tho fl ers are interviewer one
with the othe r. We do not perceive
the change on the outside, but when
We come to s. olit the stick open we ind
that It's chara cter Is entirely change d.
[Chicago Til nes.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
Breeding SOws.

A good breeding sow IS the most
profitable animal that can be kept on the
farm. Sac should be bred twice
year. When the pigs are from four to
five weeks old, in the spring they may
be sold, or weaned, and in few days
the SOW will be in heat for another lit
ter. She may then be turned into pas
ture where she can get water, and she
will not require any other food until after
the next set of pigs is born. If the
pasture gets very short, and there is
not enough food, let her have few
green cornstalks, weeds, or any green
stuff which may be found. She wants
no grain at all, and there need be no
worry about the pigs, as they will be
all the better from the diet on green,
succulent foods. The breeding SOW will
always d % better when thinnish, or at
all events, free from fat. Pigs are al
waysin demand, especially if we'll bred.
Il New York Witness.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
Indian Corn AMI Live Stock.


The third annual report on hogs, cat
tic and corn has just been issu 4 by
prominent commission ti-m at tn; Stock
Yard, Chicago. 1t shows, whit We
have predicted, that there will be
scarcity Of hogs. Bu', while swine ara
diminished in numbers, the ANNALS will
be, or should b. owing to our vast corn
crops, superior il guilty AMI weight.
The same ru'o will work in all live
stock. An abundance Of corn will
make heavy cattle and sheep as wei as
hogs. We do not think there Is reason
to fear that the ouspu. OF meat will be
equal to the demand. The report allu-
ded to states that the indications are,
that the bulk OF the supply of the pack
ing hogs will be shipped to market at
least month or six weeks later than
usual, bringing them ia prin cipaIly in
December, January, and even later.
The number Of cattle to be fatte ned
shows an increase OF 10 per cant, and,
with the excellent corn crop, extra good
beef should be found at reas onably low
prices during the coming year. Dakota
alone reports full crop of hogs and
pigs. Michigan reports a full crop of
pigs, but that state cuts a comparatively
small figure, as fully 70 per cent. of its
hogs arc marketed young. leaving out
NJ 70 TioJ ho Eol Of
the list shows 4 total shortag, on old
hogs of 24 per cent. on shoats, II 10
per cent. Iowa and illinois, which
furnish the largest percentage of hogs,
together show a decrease OF % T. per
cent. on cid hogs and 13 2 per cent.
on shoats.
The decrease in the receipts of hogs
at the stock yards for Septemb Der, as
compared with the Same month last year,
was ITO, 600 hogs. The decrease so far
this month (only five days compared
with the same time last year is over
so, 900 hogs.
These percentages are all based on the
reports of year ago, calling last year
100 per cent. The crop of hogs last
year was 10 or Is per cent. short of
the preceding year, and the corn crop
was also short. In many places, notably
at Missouri river points, the corn croP
of one year ago was good, and these
points show decrease this year, while
at many other points in all the tates
the crop was nearly failure. These
points this year show a large increase.
i Prairie Farmer.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
Tree Training.

A lad of fourteen of my acquaintance
learned how to set buds and gratis and
how to secure their growth; and then
planted apple and pear plants il his
share of the garden. and surprised
everybody by his ingenuity and useful
industry in giving them curious forms,
as we'll as improving the house fruits.
Having pair of young trees standing a
foot or so apart he secured the stems
from being moved by stalking them firm
ly, and then by bending side branches
across from one stem to the other in
April, and cutting the ends off where
they met the other tree, shaving off one
side of the tip and slipping it under or
through the bark, securing it by large
pin and a covering of wax, he
made living ladder. Where no
side branch came right he cut lon~
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
Danger In the Farm House Cellar.

hanger
The average farm house cellar is as
dangerous to life as powder magazine
under the house. 1t is too often re-
ceptacle for potatoes, cabbages, turnips,
and other vegetables and fruits, and as
these are put in without care to avoid
heating and decay, they soon become a
source of danger, if not of disease. All
the evaporation from these stores rises
through the floors and mingles with the
air of the house, not often sufficiently
pure for healthtul vitality. This should
not be permitted. An outdoor root
house or a cellar under a barn should be
provided for these provisions, and this
is the more imperative as it Is usual IN
the same cellar to keep milk and butter
and the animal food and bread of the
household. Meat is particularly sus-
ceptible to these poisonous exhalations,
and so is milk, and they are thus IN tro-
duced to the stomach and into the
blood, where they become seeds of dis
ease and death. Those most fatal dis
eases of children, scarlet fever and
diphtheria, are mostly duo to the ua-
wholesome condition of tho cellar, by
which tho atmosphere of the rooms
above is poisoned. New YORK Times.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
Storing Apples For Long Keeping.

Storing Apples For Long Keeping.
There is a difference in the kee pin 9
qualities of apples in different years,
says the New York World, that nobody
has been fully able to account for. Oc-
casionally year occurs, to all outward
appearances not exceptionally different
from others, when windfalls will keep
as well as carefully picked apples in for
mer ones. Such difference cannot be
laid to the handling of the fruit, but
must be owing to atmospheric in
fuences.
Apples will endure without injury a
much lower temperature than will po-
tatoes, and the cooler they are kept
without freezing thu better. Dry, cool
cellars are generally preferred by farm
ers as store place for their barrelled
apples, but of late years some growers
claim that this fruit keeps better in
moist than in dry places, always pro-
viding seid place is cool.
When Kept in cellars, good ventila-
ton is necessary in all cases. When
barrelled in an orchard and not shipped
away at once, the apples are better to
be put up in tiers under the trees and
protected from the rain and sun by
boards than to be put in buildings.
Some persons leave the barrels all on
the ground in the shade and uncovered,
claiming that they keep cooler on the
ground than when piled up. Apples
raised on rich alluvial lands will pr owe
poor keepers. For the best keeping
the orchard should be on high or hilly
lands and not too rich.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
Green Food for the Fowls.

Fowls need green food as well as dry
grains, and when they have the run Of
the farm, as they generally do, can read
lily supply themselves as they want It.
When they are coafae1 in small runs,
in towns, they need it just as much, and
it ought to be supplied by giving them
clover and the like when 1t can be
done. 1 have found it quite a good
plan to sow little plot of rich ground
in the garden very thickly with turnip
seed. This, when grown UP, makes a
great many leaves that keep green for a
long time, aad my chickens like them
very much.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03

stout young shoot from another tres o.
the same kind and grated it II at both
ends. In another pair ho worked his
initial letter within a circle. n anothcr
he made lattice work; to another tree
he planted four young plants equi-dI'-
tant and six or ci-h: iacGcs from its
stem, and the next year grated ta3so
in to serve as four legs for tho tree, its
own collar or leg being finally cat out.
Other trees he bent iato variol3 forms,
fastening them firmly for year until
firmly set ia position, aad then rem'v-
ING his training rois and bt-o- Ia
these exploit, h. SC ur3i a growth just
where he wanted it, AL sAlpcI = he
wanted by pitching al other shots ol1
as soon as they bg1n to show tAsm-
selves, just as we do with tomato
vine when We train i. to single stem
and fasten It erect as it grow, By tyiag
its top Ioos2 Ely to the stake.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
Farm and Garden Notes.

anu NOCoS.
A potato may be as easily bruised as
an apple.
Stand by the sheep. A sheep comes
up every six months and pays its bill.
The soil should be deeply spaded,
plowed and made rich by compost man
urc.
Trees should not bo planted any
deeper than they were in tho nursery
rows.
Don't count on planting the trees in
that new apple orchard nearer than So
feet apart.
Dig large holes, sufficiently wide and
deep to receive the roots without
crowding.
On many farms, says the Ploug Gilman,
few acres of winter rye might be
grown to as good advantage as almost
any crop. 1t requires but little labor,
and not much manure, and in most To-
calities tho straw will pay the cost,
leaving the grain as clear profit Very
few crops draw so little from the
land, and very few have so few enemies,
or are so certain to produce good crops
every year. Growing as it does in the
autumn and spring, it is not affected by
summer droughts, and it is gathering in
substance from the surrounding atmos-
phere at season when other crops use
the least; for this reason crop of rye
takes but very little fertilizer fr ON the
soil
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
Fifteen Great American Inventions.

The fifteen great American Ia ventions
of worldwide adoption are: 1. Tho
cotton-gin; 2. The planting machine;
8. The grass-mower and reaper; 4. Tho
rotary printing-press; 5. Navigation
by steam; 6. HOt-air engine; Z. The
sewing machine; s. The india-rubber
industry; 8. The machine manufacture
ing of horsoshoes; 9. The sand blast
for carving; IL The gauge athe; -.
grain-elevator; 10. Artificial ice akina
on large scale; II. The electric mag
net and its practical application; Is,
the telephone