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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-02-13
H. b. FEEBLEs. ". w. LONG.
PEBBLES & Long.
GENERAL
INSURANCE BROKERS,

The undersigned have formed partner
ship for conducting general insurance bus
iness, and solicit a share of the patronage
of the people of Winston Salem and sur
rounding country.
Our life company is the
Mutna Benedt. Of Newark, N. ].
The reliable and well known old-line COM
pany, organized in lS45.
Assets Over $4,000, 900.
Its policies are the most liberal contracts
offered. Returns to policy holders in pro-
portion to amount received from them, are
not exceeded, if equalled, by any other COM
pany.
Paid to its policy-holders,
SCHOLARSHIPS.
Its payments to its members, together
with the market value of Its assets now held
in trust for the fulfillment of existing con
tracts, amount to the sum of
$146,OO7,344 70,
which exceeds its total Premium Receipts
by the sum of
$24,755,627.5O
showing that the Company's investments
have yielded enough to pay all taxes and
expenses and still leave a net gain of near
ly $25 ,000, 900 To- the policy-hOlders.
1t has no Stockholders to absorb the pro-
fits of the business, which are annually dis
tributed in Dividends to its policy holders.
Dividends are applied either to the reduc-
ton of current premiums, to the purchase
If additional insurance, or ION the Accelera-
tive Endowment plan) to hasten the pay
ment of the Policy as an Endowment.
Full explanations will be furnished on
application.
Announcements of Fire and Accident
companies will be made later
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-02-13
CROFFUT'S LETTER.
LATEST GOSSIP FROM THE Nd
TIONAL CAPITAL
Speaker Reeds Radical Programme
Wild Scenes in the House-Action of the
Minority A Great Gun Factory "A
Modest GeolOgist.
Special Washington letter.

L En- MIN hLED
has crossed the Ru-
bicon. He has put
forth a heroic ef-
fort to make parlia-
m e n tary la w
square with what
he deems to be tor
the best interests of
Congress, or, at any
rate, of the present
majority. He has
decided that a quo
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02
COrn-Raising in Vermont.

To the Agricultural Editor Il think
that Mr.. Aiken is about right when he
says that the corn used in Vermont
ought to be raised within the limits of
the state, and yet there are two sides to
hequestion. Surprising | have farm
of a hundred acres, with about one-third
in moving and tillage, and have dairy
of fifteen cows, and | want to run
winter dairy. | am in the habit of
blowing up the grass land to raise corn
as the conditions of the grass crop seem
to require. This year | have six acres
in corn and potatoes and the grass crop
on the rest of the thirty acres would
produce so good crop of grass that it
would pay better to keep them in grass
another year. 1t seems pity to pillow
up good sward when we can be sure
of crop of from two to three tons per
acre, in two crops, and to 90 into a
greater expense and the uncertainty of
a corn crop. So you see am restricted
to the raising of about five acres of
corn, the product of which will not fur
nish all the corn | want to feed by a
good deal. Now what better can do
than to buy the western corn at fifty
cents per bushel, and the western
wheat bran to go with it, to make out a
proper ration to feed my cows? AS to
roots, l am of the opinion that not many
Vermont farmers will go very extern
sively into the business of raising them.
English farmers come over here full of
the notion that roots are the crop to
raise. Now the reason that English
farmers go in so heavy in the raising of
roots is because they can not raise
corn. In this country corn is the great
crop; roots are not needed, and they
are very laborious crop to raise. dc
not believe they are essential to the
health of mich cow in the winter.
They are heavy to handle, and as the
crop is nearly all water, feel as though
it would be cheaper to water my cattle
in winter at the watering tank than ia
carry it to them in bushel basket.
South Randolph, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02
Notes by the Way.

A CALF should be fed at least four
times day; then he does not gorge.
IT is easy to make fifteen-cent butter
from $500 COW, but it does not pay.
NEGLECTED fruit trees are poor
property, are in fact tax on the land.
THE wild cherry is probably the most
useful tree to grow first-class crop of
worms of any in this climate.
IT is a remarkable fact that the but
ter bill of the average family is three
times as large as the bread bill. And
so is the sugar bill. Man can live on
bread alone very cheaply.
THE largest sheep ranch in the
world is said to be in the counties OF
Webb and Dimmett, in Texas. 1t con.
tains as many as 100000 acres, and
generally pastures 100000 sheep.
A LARGE, bright-red comb shows g
layer. A healthy hen shows her con
dition by the color of her comb a
purplish-red comb indicates some thing
dsordered. One in this condition will
lay but little.
THE agricultural college professors
have figured it out that two little spar
rows in ten years will produce {
progeny of 275, 7l6, 1888, sos birds. Well
that isn't more than bird or two on
of the way at most.
GIVE can see good reasons for an in
crease of dairy products under the de
horning system. 1t promotes the quiet
peace and comfort of the herd, which
are very essential TO the best results il
milk secretion" But use humanity il
the operation.
IT is easy to tell when bees are stor
ing honey by watching them enter tn
hive. There will be constant streau
of fifteen, twenty or more bees alight
ing at once, some being so loaded as t
miss the alighting- board, when you Sc
them crawling up the grass or leader
board to the entrance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

And what does this mean but COMPETE
ton? We would like to see our sur
plus farms sold, but if done we must
expect the competition of their prod
ucts. DO we want our population kept
conveniently small" like the demo-
cratic party in Vermont? 1t is impos-
sible. Children will be born and grow
up--if not in our state, then in others
America is being rapidly peopled with
workers of all sorts-if not here, then
not far off. To evade competition is
no easier than to dam up the waters
of the Nile with bulrushes." We have
got to stand it, to realize it, to face it
and to overcome it with our superior
industry, intelligence and skill-or be
overcome by the superior industry, in
telligence and skill of others, of what
ever race or nation. 1t does not look
to us very manly for American citizens
to stand in such tremor at the inevita-
BILE, or to be so ready to go back on
their principles of liberty and equality.
Are we getting sick of our own remedy
for human ills? There are plenty of
alstocrats and conservatives ready to
twit us of it when we do-and we shall
deserve it.
A WRITER in the Southern Cultiudtor
declares that when chickens die sud-
denly and in large numbers it is proof
positive of decaying animal matter about
the premises, and of maggots infesting
it, And the maggots, which the fowls
devour greedily, are the destructive
creatures that are killing the fowls,
and giving us a genuine chicken
cholera" scare. Can any of our read
ers who are in the habit of leaving their
deaconed calves lying about unburied
throw light upon the facts of the case?
But perhaps we have none such; we
hope so!
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02
The Situation of Dairy PrOducts-.-An
OverstOcked Butter Market.
BY HON. II. X. sLAYroN.

To the agricultural Editor:-In your
issue of June II you refer to some re-
marks and questions of j. n. Perrin,
and say that perhaps | can answer them.
He says he has no objection to cream
cries, but wants the diaries TO have an
even chance, and complains that dairy
butter is not quoted as high as cream
cry, although he says it sold as high
last winter. There may have been
special diaries of fine quality, fresh
made, that sold last winter as high as
the gathered cream creameries that had
been held three or four months, until
the butter had lost some of its fresh
flavor. But this is not the point for
writer to consider who should take
broad view of the dairy situation of this
great country, stretching from the At
lantic to the Pacific ocean, and from
the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,
and as there is an immense overproduc-
ton. he should also consider the require
ments and the kind of butter wanted in
the markets of the world. And again,
the question for the dairymen of this
nation to consider is not by what method
one tub or one hundred tubs of butter
can be best made, but by what method or
system can the best results be obtained
for the entire make of the nation. Or
we may confne the question to the
State of Vermont, where they make as
fine dairy butter as is made in any
state of this Union. We must also con-
slider the ability of keeping the butter
in good order till sold, and also the
ability of selling in large lots of uni
form quality by the creameries, as com
pared with the thousands of diaries of
varying quality, and no means of keep
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

In the local diaries in the vicinity Of
Memphis, Tenn, cotton-seed bulls have
been fed as a substitute for hay for
twelve or fifteen years, and so thor
oughly has the practice become estab-
lished by reason of its success, con-
veneuce and cheapness, that the
dairymen would be at loss if deprived
of The hulls. In the New Orleans
diaries the use of bulls is universal.
Who ever thought to find in cotton one
of our greatest food plants?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

IT is hard to find more readable
paper than the Mirror and Farmer.
Its agricultural pages are edited in
frst-class shape, and on its editorial
page there is genuine Yankee wit
enough to set up several professional
humorists in business. And besides,
withal, there is world of horse sense
in the paper. In this remark we do
not refer to its equine department.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

PLANT-GROwERs are often censured
for retaining so many varieties on their
lists, to confuse the beginner. The
fact is, nurserymen would be pleased
to discard many varieties, but are I'M
able to do so because of the demands
of their customers. Very few varieties
do well everywhere, while almost
every one gains local celebrity some
where.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

FARMING in New England pays bet
ter than anywhere else in the country,
all things considered. Land is cheap,
wood and water abundant, seasons
more reliable than in the West, and
railroads numerous" says writer in
the Homestead. True enough, too, only
our railroads serve our western rivals
much better than they serve us.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

"THEsE sheep-the mutton breeds
that have had greatest favor in this
country-have no place in the ruder
systems of farming. They are the di-
rect products and factors of a better
agriculture than they have found in
this country" says the experienced
editor of the Montreal Journal of Agri-
culture.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

"WHY doesn't he take Hoods Sar-
saparilla?" is the general inquiry of
friends when person suffers from any
disease of the blood.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

THERE is not the least doubt that
well enforced and practically prohibitory
tariff will bring Canada rapping hard
for admission to our Union; and Ameri-
can farmers might as well make up their
minds that very few years will bring
the agricultural labor of the Dominion
into unshackled competition with our
own in this way. What then? Well,
we have been able to stand the i'm
mense increase of agricultural produc-
ton all over the continent, and have
really taken nearly all of Canada's sur
plus. About million of native Cana
dians are now living this side of the
line, the greater part in New England.
They make good, industrious citizens,
generally, and have come to stay, what
ever might have been their intention at
first. A Canadian working-ma after
living ten years in New England, can
not endure the suifocating and repres-
sive atmosphere of his native province
which becomes so apparent to him on
his return. To Americanize him is to
make him unwelcome as well as uncom
Portable in Canada. He may remain &
Catholic, but if so, only an American
Catholic-who, as a Canadian prizes
once said to us, is "no better than {
hereto"
WE want our New England States
to grow. We would be glad to see oul
population increase as rapidly as it die
in the first decades of the century
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
It's action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
10 all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FiG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, KY. VIEW YosS. NY
Telegram-herald., 1890-03-20

bat when Ein yoa know III
In = fss days s4id B@re-osae-
Dld be sppsscsste that tAe operation
had fAile69 PERHAPS Bat he never
xoald have Acknowledged II before ne
ssltaa a. NaLnzszi
Forty-eight hears later the t"o part
ners had t4ksa leave II NanesAis hot,
however. before hsSinE paid an eaor-
mos sun for the damage done % Tie
country. As tAis amount ot noney
went into the private purse CT the sui
an. sn3 as as subjects aid not receive
one cent Oft, he haa ID reason 10 CEN
plain 81 tie operation.
ghsn ths tso associates, followed oy
their ten helpers. reached LShziuar,
where tasy fsand a vessel 70 tAAe tAeln
80 Suez. From there under false names
the steamer Morris brought them 70
Mzrseilles; then they took ths train 10
Paris. where they arrived without hay-
ing had any collision or accident and
taking the railroad 10 Hayre they
arrived in time 70 60 10 America
by The Bourgogae, Of the TRANSATLANTIC
line. IN twenty-five days they made the
trip from Wamassi 20 New York, and On
the 18th day OF October the two Knocked
az the door OF the raansisn Of New Park
at three minutes past noon. An instant
afterwards they found themselves IN
the presence Of Mrs Eysngelina ScoE bitt
aud j. I. VI ston.
Telegram-herald., 1890-03-20
THE OLDEST ENGINEER.
An Aurora GIl., Man Who Has Run n
Engine for FIFTY One Years.

An Aurora Oily Man Who Has Run an
Engine for FIFTY One Years.
I road an article few weeks age
about Gust Preston, the first engineer
who ran out of Chicago, and who is still
on the Rockford special on the Galens
division, writes an Aurora 0ll.) CORE
spondent of the Chicago Tribune. ! car
tell you about the oldest engineer prob
ably in the United States. His name is
William Mobley, and he lives in my
town. He runs from Chicago to Geneva
Lake, Wis, on the Chicago & North
western. Mr. Mobley first took charg,
of locomotive nearly ffty-one years
ago, and has been an engineer ever
since. lie is said TO have run the first
engine ON the Baltimore & Ohio road
which was one of the first railroads built
in this ;ountry. In those days little
basket cars were used and walking bean
engines, and it took two hours to gc
twelve miles on the old-fashioned strap
track. If by any mlshap toe cars jumped
OF the track Dir. Mobley, who is still Z
stalw rt man, uld get of his engine
and lift them on again. He has since
run the ss-lo engine at the rate of thirty
miles IN hour
lie carried President William Henry
Harrison's message from Washington tc
Bal imore IL March, 154l. and often car
ried the I .esident himself During th,
late war he acted as engineer for tn
Federal Government. This veteran en-
giEeer IS near seventy years OF age, bui
his figure IS erect, he is hale AID hearty
and bis eyesight and hearing unim
paired.
It Is related OF him that recently some
OF the railway officials asked II be va,
not little too old for such service, ex
pressing fear that be would not bs able
TO get bis trains through on time. b
vsy OF reply the Old engineer invited
them - ride wish him. ard the way hr
rushed them oeer the road made thei.
hair stand on end and fully conviaceo
them Of his ability.
{. II Frisbie. OF Aurora. another old
engineer. rsn the drst engine ever tsker
INTO Chicago BY rail. he went out a.
the tins of the great B4riingt9n strike
and has been idle since.
Telegram-herald., 1890-03-20

n $50 snd the vet lsil and The city -
Hzvzns hnd water. resting place
Florida Aad Lover Csltornis are 70
break loose from tie maln Lad saa
carry their Load - huD.l frelgAt - TIE
bottom ~ Gae sea.
TIE twenty sta Is ~ be the last -
the Jaitrd States Presidents, .RS Ire
isn1 "a - be kingdom ssc Ea~land =
republic ID tae end u Gss oontsry
The United STATES 10 - be divided,
and San Francisco, Salt Lake CITY, New
Orleans, 81 Louis. Washington and bos-
ton are 10 ts made capitals There should
be some consolation - the MOraons IA
this, II not Tor the other parts Of our
great Union.
10 return 70 Europe. The end OF the
century viii not Ind either Italy or
France upon the maps, sno. Berlin sill
have been totally destroyed by az earth
quake.
Telegram-herald., 1890-03-20
a Southern Soldiers First Experience
with Repeating Rife.


An Atlanta veteran was talking the
other day 10 Constitution reporter
about his first experience with repeat
ing rife.
II was out on the picket line" he
tells IL, land a lot of Yankees kept
shooting a. US from the shelter of pine
thicket- Finally We made a break for
the thicket, and then We had it. Every
fellow would pick out his man, and then
load and shoot, taking advantage of the
shelter Of the trees.
MY Yankee got the first shot, and
missed me. AS | was only seyenty-hve
or one hundred yards away thought |
would reach him before he could load
again, SO / made dash for him. He
stepped out from his tree and aimed,
but | thought he was just trying TO
bluff, so didn't stop ill he pulled down
on me.
MY Lord I thought, that's the first
rife | ever saw with two barrels' |
just halt d, but thought surely mis- gun
must h empty now, so | started for
him again. Well, sir, he just stood
there, and bang! bang! bang! like
milking cow. l jumped for tree
mighty qui X, can tell you. heard
him just hollering behind the tree. 1t
tickled him nightly. l didn't know
what to make Of it. put my cap out
from behind the tree and he banged
banged. lown on it. 1t sca.ed me.
didn't know how long the thing would
hold out. resently, though, saw him
bonding ovlr. H-s head was protected,
but his back was showing. | took a
good aim T. Lall plunged through
the 1eshy par of the thigh, and as he
hollered | mae for him. He had
dropped his gun and started to run, but
he stog gped and went back with me.
"I carried that old gun of his back
and it was great ;uriosity to our boys.
They never did believe that it could
shoot sixteen times, and | couldn't
prove it because no had only one load
left and we couldn't get any ammunition
TO fit the gun. So we broke the gun TO
keep the Yankees from getting hold OF
il again"
Telegram-herald., 1890-03-20
TIE HeRmlTs PROPHECY.
some ToTtions Of It Hzre Alresdy Eeer
Fsuas ka .sfT Fa p I'D

u August 1857. the Bsrsrian Allgs
meme ZeitunE printed a remarkable
prophecy which hsd been n1a4e by a.
old hermit many years before.
II IL the rise 81 Napoleon III va
clearly outlined. as were aisoth Ausrro
Prussian and the Frauoo- Prussian var
and the Counans a. Paris Ha told
how ths dessA of Pope Pius would oceur
IN 1873 or 1877. AID bov IL would = FOL
lowed hy = TErko-Isu a. war. being
bot slightly wrong IL eitter prediction.
Hs SAID tsas Germany woad hsvs
thres E-nperoTs In one yssr before TIE
sud 2 TIE centary. rh5ca Has verified
= TIE lesser H n ssed it o.e. a. less-
iH tas 1amt ~ - 2 ite3 sestes Pres
ierss that were - de by assass instior
which sss snlarkatiy close - ssY the
Ies.sE
Ee safz fhat Tken - twentieth -e-f-
ury openea Ma- hstsaa Island ard tie
Whole ot Nsw Yerk City woald - SAB
rnerreE n TIE rzseTs - t1e Hs6sor.
East r1vsx ard tss ts7s cabs pil} brsak
Telegram-herald., 1890-03-20

hori-c7 fr-e from tae vscoTs of TIE
<ht AMI never did The great sgn-god
uresent more Beautiful aspect IN such
splendid condition before al astouishsd
rublic. And precisely as the place
marked 81 he ls~ = astronomy" said
Eric Bal3onak Yes. by our old a.
troucmT. ssij Boris Ksrkot ''and these
fools pretended - destroT it,
Wei. .hev eiu have their expenses
~ par ard ridicnls to endure besides. =
added Jacques Jansen. hy whose voies
Holland seemed - sresk a. alone
and he Arctic region viii ssernsllT
stay under the ice a. th-Y have iiscov-
ered. said Prcf Jan Hsrzld
"Hu-rah Fer the sun sad Naicr
rs,reI'an. Such as it i. Il hss been
and slwars viii - sufficient Tor our
aa-th
s.Hu-rsh. hurrshT' repestei II single
rr{ee tSe representatives sf cid Earope-
A. shIs nomeat Dean Tcodriax. 80
had nct sad snT tsinx 80 f>r, made this
Telegram-herald., 1890-03-20
WEAK STOMACH;
IMPAIRED DIGESTION;
SICK HEADACHE 4;
DIS0RDERED LIVER I;

they ACT LIKE MAGIC "a Jsse ssses ~in
work wonders upen the Vital Organs
Strengthening the muscular Sssiem restorlns
long lost compienen bringing bach tbs
Keen ecse Of appetite. and Arousing with
ths RoStEUD OF nEAlrh the s1i.sls Jphy-
ssoai s"~'ys Of the hunaAh frame. These
ell classes Of sOcieTy and one 81 the beet
guarantees 70 the Nervous snd Debilitated
10 that BEtckskS PILLS HAVE Ihf Ltk6-
EST SALE 0f AMI PATENT MEDICINE IN lht
WORLD Pun directions with ssch Boa.
At. HeIens, Lancashire, Engia
Sold bv Dvs4ggtsfs geseratiy.
e.F. ALLEN 4 Co. 500 3 3e7 Canal ST. he~
Yon bols Agents for the United ht@tes.
srhe az yossv druggist does not isep them
WILL NAIL EsrcHAyS PILLS es EErflFf "
PgICg Is CESS 4 Eei. kWii@ tta Paper.
Telegram-herald., 1890-03-20
Regi stratiOn N jtice.

OFFICE 90 THr Cry tLKRK.
City Of Grand Rapids, heni County. Mich
March Is, lsrV.
To the Electors OF the City oil Grand Rapids.
'TAkE NUlICK-The following locaiious g.
the rep psctlve wards and precincts fuertof
- the City 90 Grand kapids. are - ecfiFeiy
desf natrl and pointe - the plsc Tor tie
a.g ID L0ird O. y gisiration oi D
e. ~ of viaud Rapids. for the purp - OF TIE
saId CIV II Grani kspiGs for ihs sHnusi
charter eieCfie eE 10 b hrla "a t1t hftt Mon
dav In Ap %. A. D. - viz
1T srd. pr presinct-No l5 Grandvi.ie-
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vis sfreef. % said city.
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in sad cfy.
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