The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-05

wnen have felt 50 welcome as did then.
Doln OF rs felt welcome. He laid aside
his work in the vineyard for the day.
And do you have to tread the wine
press aione7' asked. looking up into his
Clear. honest eye-the other one had been
removed BY the government. And do
you have to tread the wine press alone %
! repeated.
On; blank the wine press" he said. as
ne took another dipperful of the sauteyne.
II never use one of those
This wine has bouquet also. II is very
potent indeed It is ike the bouquet of a
crushed tragedian. The reader has no
o9uoI Witnessed the acting of tragedian
whose work by the critics has been cIassed
as rotten. Well. you take a crushed
tragedian Of this class, and Won get bou-
quet not unlike the moonlight sauterne
works Of the mountains.
his wine Is good antidote for the bite
OF the deadly mocassin. 1t is used for that
purpose almost exclusively. The use of this
vine along the valley of the French Broad
has now almost wiped out the mocassin
and substituted bright green snake with
yermilion stomach
Inc soil OF the eastern part Of the state
Is what is called q transported sand
grave. or clay, of the tertiary period. s'the
assorted detritus of the abraded hills of
the metamorphic rocks in the midland
state the soils are what is termed clayey.
OF most violent and tenacious variety,
running from cream color to a deep, dead
red, and when is has ground itself into
the clothing nothing on earth will remove
the stain. Everything has been tried,
rom Denzlne down 70 special act of the
legislature, but II will not come out.
Some eat the clay of North Carolina, but
1t Is an acquired taste Yankee invalids
VIII never get so they will be willing to
board where this is the piece de resistance
de ferTe. 1t would de terre a good many
from coming, fear, as a waggish but
ieeoie-minded person said to me yesterday
at the asylum where spent the day
We raise about T0O01 600 pounds of rice
In this state, Mr.. Secretary. on q good
year. and 1t meets with a ready sale. Rice
peer Is now being made in Georgia. but il
Is most deadly IN its effects. While we
naii with Joy the opening of wider mar
ket Tor our rice, We are panied 10 notice
that the beer IN some cases creates desire
on the part OF the consumer to lay waste
some Of the best known citizens of the
state. Rice beer is said TO be most disas-
trous In its effects, and movement is on
foot TO introduce IL among the communists
OF New York and Chicago. 1t kills the
consumer in about two years am told
The only reason why 1t might not work on
the communist is that its fatal results de-
Tobacco does well here and grows 20 q
great size. Finecut tobacco, so largely
used in the Middle and Western states, is
planted about the LIST of June and is har-
vested in September. The product runs
as high as twenty-five to thirty-nye pals
70 the acre. Smoking tobacco is planted
little later and runs higher as to product,
being ninety 10 ITO papers to the acre on a
good year. Plug tobacco, unless il suffers
from heavy winds, which are apt to knock
on the haifgrown plugs, is very profit
able crop.
Seriously, however, let me say that those
who chew, especially plug tobacco. may
wean themselves successfully. Mr.. Secre-
tary, believe, if they will see it prepared
i am not opposed TO the moderate use of
tobacco. but after seeing the manufacture
OF plug tobacco, can get along for day
or two on sassafras bark.
We are all worms of the dust but we
are not tobacco worms, and do not like a
tobacco worm any better with licorice and
New Orleans molasses on him than | do
with vinegar and machine oil. But let us
pass on, Ir. Rusk, to other features that
are more pleasing.
The Catawba, Isabella and Scuppernong
grapes originated here, and according TO
Humboldt's thermal criteria, the whole
state lies within the most formidable vine
yard zone of the world.
North Carolina was last to enter the Fed
eral Union, but was last also 10 secede
She showed her courage by sending into
the army more soldiers than any other
Confederate state, and losing more than
any other. She was bankrupted by the
var. and for years felt like the prodigal
son after his little toot with the festive
throng, but now her prosperity is most re-
markable The time is coming, Mr.. Rusk,
when every hill in Buncombe county will
have hotel on II. and town lots may be
bought as far back as Sandy Mush.
What l especially desire is package or
two of the seedless watermelon seed, some
good hardy house plants, such as Martha
Washingtons, hydrangeas, four-o'clocks.
etc. Also some red-eyed poleless China
beans for winter use. How are you fixed
for potato salad plants?
Also pl,ase send trellis TO Mr.. R. P
Flower, OF New York, so that he can climb