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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-05-22
OF New Goods for Spring
and Summer!
BARGAINS ALL THROUGH THE
House!


ses, Cashiners, Henriettas, Nuns
Yelling. Albatrose, Serge, Bril-
lianteens and Challits.
Sateens and Outing Cloths.
Ginghana at 6 cents and s
cents per yard.
Figured Lawns at 5 cents per
yard.
Full line Of D.ess Trimmings,
plain and fancy Surah Silk,
China Silks, Moire Silks. Vel
vets and Gimp i'll all shades to
match dress goods.
Special attention is called to
our White Goods.
Hamburg Enbroideries 25 per
cent lower than elsewhere.
These goods were bought at
Bargain and ace are giriag on, Gus
toners the benefit of it.
Entirely new line of Parasols
and Umbrellas, in Gold an Oxi-
died Silver handles, at $1.OO,
S1.25, $l.5O and $1.75.
Cashirners and Cottonades, for
men and boys.
You know we are headquart-
ers for New \ Ork Mills Cotton
AIDES.
The latest Styles in Mem Hats.
Boys. you should see our New
Shape Straw Hat. It is the very
latest out.
Our Gents Furnishing Goods
Department is more complete
than ever, and We can fit you
out fl ON head to foot.
Fancy Flannel Shirts will be
) worn more than ever this sea-
.on, aud we have a beautiful
liDe of them at prices to suit
everybody-45 cents, so cents,
IS cents, $1.OO, 81 80, 81 so, Sl75
: and $500.
r Boys don't miss seeing our %
; cent Scarfs. They are the
, handsOmest you ever saw.
SHOES! Shoes!
Ladies' Misses and Children's
Russell and Tan Oxford Ties at
IS cents, so cents, Sl.OO. These
are the Fashionable Slippers of the
season, and as every young lady
, will wear them we suggest that
! our store is the place to get
/ them.
The Bijou is still the rage
Our sales on tn. S shoe is sim ply
wonderful, and we believe that
: it is the best $500 Shoe ever
sold in Clinton.
!, Our stock Of other shoes is
a large and varied, and you can
| always find what you want here
CrOckery. Glassware. Stand
Lamps, Library and Wall Lamps.
e lIammocks, Fishing Tackle,
! Trunks. Valises, Grip Bags and
Straps.
o Carpets, oil Cloths, Straw Mat
F.. ting, Rings, &c.
: Window Curtains, Shades, Cor
nice poles and Window fixtures
of all kinds.
Large and complete stock of
Hardware, Sash Doors and
Blinds.
Paints, OILS, Varnishes. Brush
es, Glass and Putty.
GROCERIES.
Oar stock of Groceries is at
all times full aud complete
fresh goods and prices cs io,r as the
to,cest.
Try our Blended Tea for Ire
Tea. 1t is excellent goods and
we know yoiw.ll like It, Pack
ages / to ] pound and ] pound
Come in, get our prices and
save money!
An inspection of goods and
prices does not incnr anv obi
Cation tn buy.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-05-22

We don't wonder that some people
who try to waltz get discouraged.
They are constantly having reverses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
MANGEl TURZEL.

The farmer who has once grown crop
of maagels for feeding his stock will
never fail to repeat the pleasant and
profitable experience. This succulent
food is wholly nutritious. There is no
waste, every part of it is digestible, and
no other crop produces as much food per
acre as this, and there is no other food so
healthful. There may be some difficulty
at first in growing this crop, on account
of weeds, which in its early growth are
apt to overwhelm the young plants. But
a good farmer is not to be frightened by
weeds, and if the land is cultivated as it
should be or should have been, the weeds
will not stand in the way. An easy way
of growing roots is in cross lines, that is,
to drop the seeds in hills, making drills
twenty seven inches apart and mark out
cross drills ten inches apart. Or the
seeds may be dropped in the drills and a
hand cultivator (the hand drill changed
for this purpose) run across the rows
when the plants appear to cut out ten.
inch spaces. This leaves very little hand
wedding. One acre of mangels will easily
produce twenty tons of roots, which will
afford daily ration of forty pounds for
ten head of cattle for 100 days.-Neao
York Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
Blood.BrotherhoOd.

Writing about the Bangala cannibals
of the Upper Congo, Africa, Herbert
Ward says in the Ledger:
Among my first experiences after tax.
ing command of the station was that OF
submitting myself to the ceremony of
blood-brotherhood with Mata Bwiki; a
form of cementing friendship and a
guarantee of good faith, popular with all
Upper Congo tribes.
In the presence of hundreds of the saw
ages owning the sway of Mata Bwiki, we
were seated upon the low wooden stools
placed opposite each other. Silence be-
ing commanded by the beating OF the
big redwood drums, which gave forth a
hollow sound that can be heard for
miles, a charm-doctor appeared, arrayed
in all his mystic apparel. An incision
was made in both our right arms, in the
outer muscular swelling just below the
elbow, and as the blood flowed in tiny
stream, the charm-doctor sprinkled pow
dered chalk and potash on the wounds,
delivering the while, in rapid tones, an
appeal to us to maintain unbroken the
sanctity of the contract; and then our
arms being rubbed together, so that the
flowing blood intcrmingled, we were de-
clared to be brothers of one blood, whose
interests henceforth should be united as
our blood now was. The witnesses OF
this strange ceremony expressed their
agreement with the utterances OF the
charm-doctor, and gave way to bolster
Gus expressions of approval Of what had
been done already, ere setting to work to
drink the huge earthenware jars OF fer
mented juice Of the sugar-cane, known
as "masanga," which had previously
been prepared to celebrate the event.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
WHY POTATOES DEGENERATE.

The well-known fact is thoroughly cs-
tablished that new varieties of potatoes
deteriorate rapidly in yield, or, as farm
ers say, "run OUT" to an extent not
known forty or fifty years ago. 1t may
be that there was some of this deteriora-
ton even then, but it was not critically
noticed, as it has been of late years. Po-
tato growing on large scale is a COM
paratively modern industry. Not only
the increasing proportion of population
in cities, but the increasing use of pota-
toes by all classes, has contributed to this
result. When almost every household
grew for itself the few potatoes it re-
quired, a lessening of the yield was less
likely to be noted than when grown for
market.
There are, however, especial reasons
why the potato should deteriorate more
rapidly than it once did. 1t is within
the last forty-fve years that rot attacked
the tuber, and less than fifteen years
since the potato beetle began its work,
destroying the leaves on which the quality
of the tuber must depend. As the potato
is usually reproduced from cuttings, and
not from seed, whatever weakness or i'm
perfection is developed is carried along
into the new growth, which is only a fur
ther reproduction of the original plant.
The rot, weakening the vitality of the
potato, becomes cumulative. 1t is fact,
we believe, that the potato rot was first
successfully fought by developing new
varieties from seed which does not repro
duce the weakened vitality of the old.
But probably some of the characteristics
of the original stock we're reproduced in
the seed, and some even Of the new
varieties became liable to decay. There
is also weakened vitality, due to the
destruction of the potato leaves by the
Colorado beetle and its larva.
It IS not sufficient argument against
this theory that trees and plants of other
kinds usually propagated by cuttings do
not show the same tendency to degener-
ate as does the potato. So far as known,
this tendency in the potato has only been
developed within the past fifty years,
and is amply explained by diseases and
injuries to which the potato has within
that time been subjected. So long as
plant is entirely vigorous and healthy, a
cutting from it reproduces the same char
acteristics. But let its vigor be impaired
so as first not to be seriously noticed, and
it becomes greatly increased in the cut
tings made into new plants from it. This
is only another illustration of the fact
that evil influences are cumulative, and
if unchecked will work destruction. But
with potatoes, this evil need not 60 far,
as frequent return to new varieties
grown from seed balls set the plant with
renewed vigor, until increasing attacks
of its enemies disable it. Most practical
potato growers have learned that it is
good policy to experiment. with new va
rieties, as they are usually much more
productive the first few years after their
introduction. The reason above given
is undoubtedly the explanation OF the
admitted fact.-American Cuhioator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
The BOttle.Tree.

Among the singular and rare plants of
tie world is the Australian bott(e-tree,
an indigenous tree of limited portion
of tropical Queensland, and found no.
where else in Australia or on the globe.
This tree takes its name from the shape
of its trunk, which is wonderfully like
the outlines of giant bottle of the com.
mon order. The thick part of the trunk
from the ground upward is from fifty to
sixty feet high, from thirty to forty feet
in circumference, and quite straight up
to where the neck tapers to the spread
ing foliage above all. The bark of the
tree is about three feet thick, Of brown
color and of cork-like consistency. The
foliage, which is very graceful, spreads
from the top of the tree, and the branches
have their base in the top of the meek. "
The leaves are similar in size and shape
to those of cherry tree, but their color
and consistency are much lighter. The
spread of the branches and foliage form
regular-shaped dome Of about forty feet
in diameter and of moderate density,
giving ample shade from the rays OF the
sun.-Prdirie Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
Leng-SightednesS.

A St. Louis detective says in the Globe-
Democrat: Whitley, the former Chief Of
the United States Secret Service, had a
most invaluable gift. He was long
sighted, and could accurately read a
written letter at a distance of thirty
feet. I have recently heard of man
who has cultivated an equally valuable
accomplishment. He can sit in a room
at some distance from a person writing
at desk, and tell by the motion of the
hand and pen what the person is writ
ing. Most any hotel clerk of expert
,ence can read writing upside down. This
will explain the readiness of the greeting
you receive at the hands of the hotel
clerk, whom you have never seen be-
fore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
Safe Blowing Extraordinary,

Captain William A. Pinkerton, the
detective, having seen that two burglars
of his professional acquaintance were
advertised to blow open a safe on the
stage in five minutes, went to the theatre
one night in Chicago recently, and told
them that they could not do it in five.
They declared they could. Thereupon
he put $500 in the safe; they did the
same, and he locked it with his own
combination. eff you get the safe open
in five minutes" he said, "the money is
yours. If you don't, it's mine" He
then stationed himself at the wings,
watch in hand, and awaited for the
burglary scene. The cue given, they
Jumped through the window and set
vigorously to work. In two minutes the
diamond drill had bored through the
steel door. Then a powder-blower was
inserted, the bellows set to going, the
crevices around the door puttied land the
crank drill was cutting the hinges. The
fuse was inserted; wet blanket hung
over the door and the match struck. As
Pinkerton's watch showed the passage of
three minutes and forty-eight seconds
there was flash from the safe, cloudlet
of smoke, a heavy jar and the massive
door fell on the stage. The detective
remarked: ''I've been chasing safe
blowers around the country for thirty
years and I thought knew something
about the business. But this is the first
time I ever heard of safe being blown
open inside of four minutes. The lesson
is easily worth $500" Commercial 3D.
rprt;eer
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
SLEEPS HEAD SOUP.

Wash sleeps head thoroughly in
cold water, then rinse we'll in lukewarm
water and salt, then put it with the
tongue to boil, with water enough to
cover it; let it boil up once or twice and
skim it thoroughly; add a half table
spoonful of salt, two small or one large
onion, one carrot and one turnip cut in
pieces; cook slowly for about two hours,
then remove the meat, strain the soup and
rub the vegetables through colander;
add them to the liquor with pepper, a
little sage and heaping tablespoonful
of corn starch dissolved in little milk t;
let it boil up once after the thickening
is added, stirring to prevent scorchlng,
and it is ready to serve. Soup balls are
quite an addition to this soup, but they
should be very small.-BOston Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
A Thirty.MiIe Flume.

The San Diego (Cal.) fume is stu
pendous affair, measuring about thirty
miles in length. In the course of the
fumes there are 315 trestles, the
longest being 1900 feet in length, eighty
five feet high, and containing one quar-
ter of million feet of lumber. Another
trestle is on the same height and 1900
feet long, the main timbers used in both
of these being 1Ox1O and Sxs, being put
together on the ground and raised to
their position by horse power. The
number of tunnels in the course of the
fume is eight, the longest of which is IS
21OO feet, the tunnels being in size 6x6
feet, with convex shaped roofing. Each
mile of the fume required an average of
one.fourth of a million feet of lumber
for its construction, and the redwood
used entirely in the box is two inches in
thickness throughout.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
MASHED POTATO SALAD. =

Boil and mash one quart of potatoes.
Make a dressing of two ounces of fresh
butter, one teacup of milk, two table
spoonfuls each of mustard and sugar.
Season with salt and pepper. Rub the
yolks of two hard-boiled eggs to a
powder, and add vinegar to moisten.
Chop the whites Of the eggs very fine and
mix in. Put layer of the mashed
potatoes in the salad bowl with a spoon
full of dressing dropped over it in spots,
then another layer, then the dressing,
until the bowl is filled. Put the dressing
on top. Garnish with parsley and sliced
lemon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
An Arid Desert Flooded.

It is calculated to upset popular notions
of the African desert of Sahara to learn
that within the northern edge of the
desert zone, south of Algeria, big rain,
fall has turned the valleys into lakes and
the wadies into torrents, inundating the
oases of Wargia and Tuggurt, threaten
ing the town of Laghouat with overflow,
and melting many Of the clay SahaTan
houses into shapeless earth heaps. The
same thing has occurred before, and the
oldest inhabitants recall the great wet
ness of 1888. This is the region known
as the Algerian Sahara. 1t is not many
years since great scheme for turning
the Sahara into vast inland sea was dis
cussed for months. 1t was some time
before it was discovered that the great
obstacle in the way of this beautiful pro-
iect would be that the Sahara, as far as
we know, lies wholly above the sea level.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
CHICKEN SALAD.

Take one plump chicken; when done
stand it away until perfectly cold; then
remove all the skin and fat, remove the
meat from the bones in large pieces, cut
it into good-sized square pieces; add to
this the same quantity of celery cut in
pieces; remove the yolks from three hard
boiled eggs and add to them the yolks OF
two raw eggs and half cupful of cream !;
rub all to paste; then add three table
spoonfuls of olive oil, one teaspoonful of
melted butter, saltspoonful of salt, one
and half tablespooufuls Of vinegar and
a very little cayenne; mix little salt
with the chicken and celery, pour over
the dressing, garnish with thin slices Of
beet and it is ready to serve.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Keep your feeding troughs clean and
sweep them out each feeding time before
putting in the feed.
Not every new machine or tool is
necessarily an improvement, although
the agent may tell you SO.
1t is a good plan to have a reel and
line handy for aid in making all rows Of
fruits and vegetables straight.
If you want to seed land to clover
sown with oats, SOW the oats very thin
some say the thinner the better.
Feed what hens eat up clean and no
more. Experience will teach how much
grain to feed as breeds differ in this re-
spect.
Course sharp gravel supply the 'hens
teeth" In the absence of gravel, ,coursely
ground oyster shells will answer the same
purpose.
When hens refuse to eat either wheat
or corn readily it shows they have been
overfed. Overlooking is worse than not
feeding enough.
Hens do not eat their eggs unless they
learn the habit from having eggs broken
in the nest. Never use stale or frozen
eggs as nest eggs.
The quickest way to relieve a crop
bound fowl is to cut the crop open and
remove the contents. Carefully sew up
the opening and feed for few days on
milk to which few drops of whisky
have been added.
Onions and garlic ere excellent tonics
flor fowls, but care should be exercised in
feeding these to laying hens, as eggs will
'partake of the odor. A laying hen is
usually in healthy condition and seldom
requires tonics of any kind.
Feeding sulphur to fowls to increase
the fertility of their eggs is favoritc fad
with many writers. 1t is simply absurd
to follow such practice, as sulphur is a
dangerous irritant and should never be
used in poultry house except for fumi-
cation.
All>stone fruits are difficult to graft.
AS the cherry buds swell very early, the
>scions should be cut some time before. 1t
is a>slow process, forminga junction OF
the new scion with the old wood, and if
!, the bud is swollen almost into leaf before
the graft is'inserted, there will be too
much evaporation before saF can be sup
piled from the new stock.
IF your COWS are doing:>weal on the
feed they are getting do not change it
every time you zesd what some other
dairyMan has fed 10 his COWS. The Lat
ter possibly require a change of food.
but experience has shown that COWS, like
human beings, beco.4a accustomed to
certain foods and do yell on them. A
COW that becomes dainty about her food
has very likely been ovesfed.
In olden tines farmers sometimes fast.
ened board over the face Of an unruly
COW, which was often called pair of
spectacles, to help her see the fence. The
same object can now be accomplished by
stringing barbed wire over or beside, a
fence that breachy cattle have learned nH
to respect. This is a method of using
barbed wire much preferable to making 8
fence of it clone, which animals might
sasily run into apd be injuEed by before
they had learned to avoid ft;sTs
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
HOW TO SET A HEN.

It may seem to be an easy matter to
many to do this seemingly simple piece
of work, but it is indeed thing that
>qequires forethought, experience and
great care. To set:a hen so as to secure
the best results is indeed no child,s play.
In the first place, be sure your hen wants
to sit. Ther be sure.sh is in good
location; if not, move her to one. If
she can be set on the ground, you will
find it to be the very place; if not, cut a
sod, turn it over, scoop out dlsh-like
place, then put the sod in box, grass
side down. A nest made in this way
will hold moisture-one of the reasons
why;a hen sitting on the ground always
hstches better than when up in build
ing. Sprinkle little litter over the nsst
and put in your eggs. Always have the
nests arranged SO THAT the hen can walk
on and notify down iupon;the eggs. If
you breed the heavy varieties the beat
nest can be made by turning down q
barrel with only one head out and scoop
ing out "a place in THE ground so the
barrel may be sunk In the ground q
little. The hens can then walk on their
eggs WITHOUT the danger of ,breakage.
The ground will help to secure moisture
for the eggs and you eau close the open
and of the harrel every night, pIaEenting
rats and skukk5 from interfering. Take
the hen off every day or two to gsFc the
eggs an airing If the hen does not so off
s0l her own account.
Be sure and set your hens in such way
Others will not Interfere. Mark the eggs
80 that if others Lay with the hen you can
remove the fresh ones. After a week
test the eggs to see which are fertile and
which are not. 1t is not your policy to
have in the nest eggs that will not hatch.
After removing the unfruitful eggs you
>can replace them with fresh ones,
marked, and upon the first ones hatch
ing, the Others can be placed under
other hens. Always set two or more
hens at the same time when possible, that
the chicks may all be placed with one of
the.heus and the other set over. THU
sayes,in ths way of two pothers for
,tsw chickens, If your hess sre sitting
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-16
THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOILS.

Soils are often greatly benefited by an
admixturc of different varieties, and no
where is this more apparent than when
ever it is practicable to supply an ex-
tremely sandy soil with portion of clay
from another field; and so clay soil will
be equally improved by heavy dressing
with sand. The trouble in such cases,
however, is that the moving of soil in
quantities sufficiently large to produce an
appreciable effect is attended with too
much cost to render it at all common, so
that it can only come into use in isolated
cases and to limited extent. The con-
tinued cultivation of the soil can only be
rendered profitable by supplying it sea-
sonably with whatever it requires for
plant food in lieu of what is yearly alb
stracted by the crops; and not infre-
uuently change in its texture VIII, to
some extent, have much the same effect
as the application of fertilizer, with the
additional advantage that it will remain
permanent improvement.
In many cases by doing little yearly,
as time and opportunity permit, farmer
can permanently improve the character
of a moderate area in this manner and
without sensibly feeling it cost. Espe-
cially where garden plot needs it, will
such practise be found of great benefit
and can soon be made to result in we'll
balanced soil. On stiff soils the applica-
ton of coal-ashes, although practically
destitute of any fertllizing properties, is
often highly beneficial and furnishes a
good method of disposing of them
Neu York World.