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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
He Loved Gausaues.

A correspondent sends from MICHIGAN
true story of farmers dog who has
been found guilty of obtaining goods
under false pretences.
He is extremely fond of sausages. and
has been taught by his owner to 90 after
them for himself, carrying a written
order in his mouth.
Day after day he appeared at the
butchers shop, bringing his masters
order, and by and by the butcher became
careless about reading the document
Finally, when settlement day came. the
farmer complained that he was charged
with more sausages than he had ordered
The butcher was surprised, and the
next time Lion came in, with a slim of
paper between his teeth, he took the
trouble to look at it. The paper was
blank, and further Investigations showed
that whenever the dog felt a craving for
sausage he looked round for a piece of
paper, and trotted off to the butchers
The farmer is something out of pocket
but squares the account by Boosting of
his dogs intelligence.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
A Mongolian Beauty Confused.

The arrival of the China steame,
Gaelic recently brought handsome
Chinese girl, apparently not much over
~ years old. She had no papers and
was released on the usual writ of habeas
corpus, along with a score of others,
The writ was returned few DAYS ago.
and with it the fair Fo Sing. She
claimed to be married and said that her
husband lived in San Francisco. Be-
tween herself and an assistant attorney
for the prosecution the following CONVEX
sation ensued throu h an Interpreter:
How old may on be?" commenced
the attorney. ,"Nmeteen years, was
the prompt answer. Are YOU mar
ned!" Eyes. sir. g." Where were Won
married." In China, five years,
Have you ever seen your husband? ?"
No, sir. He has always been in San
Francisco. well, well! And is it a
custom in China to marry man without
seeing him?" Yes. SIR" you have
never seen your husband, them" "No.
sir. World it be too much to ask Won
to tell the court how many children you
have?" 1.-Two"
This answer fairly paralyzed the court,
and the almond ey, damsel was ordered
to return to her children.-TSt, Louis
Globe Democrat
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
COL. POLK AND THE THIRD PARTY

| Col. Polk WAS not at the Thir,
party cOnvc ion in Cincinnati, am
there were only very few Southern
represe present. The Souti
is not in it this time. But while
Col. Polk was not at Cincinnati, he
has done much to create the sent
ment that dominates this new party
What he will now say and do will be
interesting. 1t has been given out by
him in a number Of interviews that
the Southern Alliance proposed to
wait ON the action Of the s Congress
In FEBRUARY 1892, the adherents ofthe
Third party again meet. The COL
"nel will probably have come to 81
definite conclusion by that time. He
now begins to realize what has been
accomplished. If the Third party
succeeds he must go with it or else
give up his leadership. The Colonel
now appears to be standing between
the devil and the deep sea. The
Southern farmers are in no humor for
/ new party and division will smash
the Colonel into smithereens. HIS
glory is at an end unless he can bring
the Southern farmers to esteem the
new party and if that cannot he &C
complished this party will go off in
smoke
But the fact must not be overlook
ed that the colonel and his leuten.
= ats have brought about this state OIL
affairs. They have zeslously wrought
TO array the farmers against the Dem
ocratic party. They have dissemin-
Atei ideas and taught doctrines that
hey well knew the Dmocrats could
not assimllate. The new party has
Incorporated these ideas and YET
Colonel Polk and his lieutensnts in
he South hesitate. Why should he.
,esitate?-Charlotte Chronicle.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
IT Don't Eat E4ere.S

Two Englishmen who had been bosom
trends came to America. They met
with poor success, drifted apart, and
hnally one took position as waiter in
a cheap restaurant. He hadn't been
there long before h., friend appeared at
the dinner. The meeting was not over
joyful.
why, old man, you down to a waiter,
Ell! Gracious, how you have fallen.
And in a Bowery4 taurant, tool"
fes, replied the waiter, turning on
ms TREND sarcastically, "but don't eat
here, thank God!"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
THE LAST LOAF
AND THAT LAUGHABLE FARCE
HANS Won SMASH"
An Entertainment Given for the Benefit
efthe Odd Fellows Of Rdenton.

On Tuesday night, June 10Th, IN
der the auspices of the Odd Fellows
Lodge of Edenton and for their bene,
fit an amateur troup composed of
ladies and gentlemen of our town
presented at the Opera House the
drama entitled "The Last Loaf"
The drama was composed of two
acts between which the fight of
half decade was suppose to have
interviewed When the curtain
raised on the first scene, in a nicely
arranged sitting room could be seen
the happy family OF Mark Ashton.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
PR0DitfatfOm.

Ii an Arab woman who has lost her
husband decides to marry again she
visits the grave OF her husband the night
before her second marriage and prays
hlm not to be offended, says the Boston
Journal As, however, she feels that
he viii be offended, she takes with her
donkey laden with two goat skins filled
with water. The prayer ended, she pro
ceeds to pour the Water On the grave to
keep the first husband cool under the cir
cumstances about to take place, and.
having well saturated him, departs.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
HANS Won SMASH. -

was the employment OF the dutch
man by the owner of the place wht
left him in charge under instructions
20 run off any tramps who trespassed
on the premises. With fancied
obedience to his orders Mr.. Won
Smash elected by force, from the
parlsr. young gentlemen who called
to pay Visits TO the daughters OF
the proprietor. Without further at
tempt to describe the play we will!
close by saying the whole perfor-
nance was a decided success and
the players were complimented by
the presence ola large number of
our citizens.
Tonight, Friday, they will pre-
sent the above plays to the people of
Hartford. and We can assure the cit
liens Of our neighboring town rare
treat-an evening Of much pleasure
and laughter.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26

Very slight OS~rssght on fNe Fart 81
Daring Inventor.
You say you love my daughter"
@Madly!"
The two men who stood facing each
other at the moment when this brief
conversation occurred were excellent
specimens of American citizenship. The
wealthy banker, Peter E. Gotrox, port.y.
suave, and web groomed, and Jerolomon
Harkinson, ,-.e inventor, poor as yet in
this worlds goods, but bearing on his
thoughtful brow the promise of great
achievements.
~Harkinson, said the banker. II was
poor once myself. / IT 1pect a man none
the less on account of his lack of money,
but can not throw my only daughter
away on man OF no financial standing.
You are an inventor. If, within three
months, you shall ha invented a ma
chime, appliance, or what not that is
worth $50, 900 Gladys shall be yours.
would gladly give you more time, but
my wife is insisting every day upon my
buying Gladys prince.
For 80 weary days and an equal num-
Der of sleepless nights Jerolomon Hank
inson toiled until the product of his gen
Jus stood complete-a flying machine
that positively would fly. Then he in
Sited the banker to be his guest on the
initial journey of the aerial Queen"
Floating above the city at an elevation
Of LOCO feet the two men, the man of
money and the man of gents, clasped
hands. For moment not a word was
spoken. Then the capitalist broke the
silence:
My boy" said he, "fame is yourc.
And fortune"
"And Gladys?"
Yes. But it is growing late. Let US
descend.
The inventor gasoed and turned white.
lin dinged," he said in broken
tones, If didn't forget all about that
part Of It. There is no descending at
tachment to the d. 1 dasted machine!"-
Indianapolis Journal.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
MARK AsHToN's HAPPY HOME.

In striking accord with the silen,
suggestion Of this sceae was Or
undertoned rendition Of "Home
Sweet Home" to the muffled note oil
the organ ut which Mr.. Geo. w
Scott presided. On every hand in
this household could be seen over
hanging the brightest skies which
only peace. prosperity and content
ment can invite. But through spite
and malice Mr.. Caleb Hanson threat
ened to wreck the happiness of the
household by making drunkard OF
Mark Ashton because his wife re-
fused her consent to the marriage of
himself and her daughter. When
the curtain raised upon the second
scene it needed 10 words to tell the
change. Only evidences of poverty
and want, of wrecked happiness and
hlighted hopes me: the gaze Of the
observer. In a corner of the room
was stretched the drunken form of
Mark Ashton. Bending over him
was his faithful wife. Pitifut state
ments between mother AID daughter
attested the fact that starvation was
staring them in The face. FINALLY
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26

MARK ASHTON REALIZING HIS SITUATION
fram an almost bare table Mark
Ashton took the last loaf Of bread In
carry out to pawn fer whiskev. Up-
ON the scene appeared Mr.. Hanson.
who had slain the hopes OF the
family AID in savage exultation
boasted of the ruin which his malice
he'd wrought. Exssperated nv the
tnunts OF Kim who had sought his
destr uction the curtain lowered upsn
reunion of the family under vows
by Ashton to abandon his terrible
habits.
Mark Ashton was personated by
Mr.. Thee. Ralph and Mrs. J p
Coffie}d played in the roll Of h..
wife. Mr.. r. j. Mitchell REPRESENT
ed Mr.. Caleb Hanson. Miss Mar,
Gilbert appeared as Lille Asht,,
W. :. Summerell took the nar,
of Harry Hanson, Miss Carrie
Elliott represented Mr.. Ashtop,s
servant, R. N. Hines, the baker
while r. w. Boyce played well the
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
OUR GOVERNMENT

1 CITY:
Mayor. L. Rogersop,
Cierk-A. 7. Bush.
Treasurer-A. L. White.
hief Police-J. ". SrruilI
Councilmen-J. c. Bond. ". I1a,-r
: F: A. White. A H. Mitchell 10y
: White, Alfred King. 'F"J'
COUNTY GOVERNMENT,
Sheriff-Jos. II. Perry.
Superior Court Clerk-H. e.. Priv,,,
Register of Deeds-T NJ. SnIau.
Treasurer-K. r. Pendleton,
Sprulli,
Commissioners-W.H =. Shepard. :.
Ward, W. j. Webb, \. 2. Jones
". II. Bonner,
Board of Education-A. T. Bush. N
=. FELTON,. Miles ". Elliott.
Public School Superintendent
r. b. Drane.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26

F. 0. Hoffman editor Times Rock,
Mount, Va, writes: Il am pleased to
say that Botanic Blood Balm is the bes,
appetizer and tonic for delicate people
| ever saw. 1t acted like a charm in
my case"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
srand Sire Basbee Paralyz I'd.

Raleigh, n. . June 15.-Hon. Cbarr
Is n 6usbee, Grand Sire of the Odd
Feiiows of America, has been paralvz-
cd and lies very i'll at his home in this
city.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
BUCKLEN $ ARNICA SALVE

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
'ruIses, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheun.,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
ChilbIains Corns. and all Skin Eruu-
tIons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guarante, d TO give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by W. I. Leary. Druggist.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26

The FISHERMAN & FARMER wants
good, trustworthy and .reliable agent
in all the surrounding oca tiles. Lib.
eral commission will be given right
parties. Apply at once, by letter or
at the office.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26

part Of stammering Tom Chubbs.
In order to prevent doing irjus-
tice to any player we will remark that
each played well the part assigned.
We have heard nothing bat kindest
comments on the part OF our people.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
TIL z FARCE /:

After the drama the laughahle farce
Hans Won Smash" was presented to
the decided amusement of the GU
dience. The chief feature Of the play
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26

1T isn't such laundering hard job,
even for married rNinoceros of II years
standing, to court his wife if he only
knows how to go at it right. said Mr..
Diltz to himself as he went about the
house the same evening at a late hour
locking up things for the night.-[Chi.
cago Tribune.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
MACS HEAD HOTEL ,

This delightful, Summer Reso~,
will he opened for the aeeoaamodl
ton OF guests on he
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-13
South and West.

THE Cincinnati express struck and killed
Martha Moore and Sarah Moles, two colored
women at Lake station, Nd. John Dodson
was severely injured
CROWDS of people, including many war
veterans, assembled at the stations along the
line taken by the funeral train bearing the
body of General Sherman to st. Louis. At
many place bands played dirges, bells were
Golled and other tributes Of respect were
paid to the dead hero's memory.
RIVERSIDE, a suburb of Parkersburg, w.
Va was practically wiped out by the Ohio
River floods.
Ben JEFFERSON. a miner, was killed by
falling slate and his son-in-law, Bill Thomas
was fa tally hurt at Adgar Mines near Biz
mingham, Ala.
AL MCCUBBIN, an extensive stockman liv-
ing four miles north of Leigh, Neb shot and
killed his wife and hired man, Frank Yob.
and then took aconite.
DR. MARIUS DUVALL, Medical Director of
Che United States Navy, retired, died sud
denly at his home in Baltimore, Nd. He
was nearly seventy-three years of age.
THE receding waters Of the Ohio River re-
veal an appalling scene of destruction.
A. M. OSBORNE, of the Sunday World
was shot dead at Columbus Ohio, and Mr..
Hughes, late steward of the Imbecile Asylum,
was also Instantly killed in a street affray.
MUCH damage has been done by the floods
in Illinois and Ohio and on the Pacific
Slope.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-13
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
CUT AND GROUND FOOD.

The farmer who has never used a
fodder cutter and who feeds whole grain
would do we'll to make an experiment in
the use of cut and ground food. If he
does not find that one third of the fodder
and grain IS saved, and that the amin ais
do better when thus fed, it will be be-
cause he wastes food by giving more
than the animals can consume. Cut feed
and clean troughs, with just appetite
sufficient to take little more, is the best
for the stock and for the owner, and
where only ten or twelve head are fed,
the saving in the first year will pay for
The cutter and a mill to grind the grain.
-New York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-13

The ass thought himself as fine look
ing as his neighbor, the horse, until he,
one day, saw himself in the looking
glass, when he said 'What an ass am II"
Are there not scores of people who
cannot see themselves as others see
them2 They have bad blood, pim-
pies, blotches, eruptions, and other kim
dred disfigurements. All these annoy
ing things could be entirely eradicated,
and the skin restored to "lily white
ness" if that world-famed remedy, DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
were given a fair trial.
1t cures all humors, from the ordi-
nary blotch, pimple or eruption to the
worst scrofula, or the most inveterate
blood-taints, no matter what their ma
ture, or whether they be inherited or
acquired. The "Golden Medical Dis
covery" is the only blood purifier
guaranteed to do just what it is rec
commended to, or money refunded.
WORLDS D1sPENsARY MEDICAL AS
ISOLATION, Proprietors, No. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo. n. 7.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-13
A VALUABLE TREE WASH.

About two years ago, writes Missouri
subscriber, l cut receipt for a tree
wash from your valuable paper, and it
has kept my trees clean of bugs and
worms; in fact, could not do without
it, as the borers do not trouble the trees,
and think you ought to publish it again
for the benefit of those Of your readers
who have not tried it. I copy it YER
batim:
'sTake stone lime, slack and prepare
it as for an ordinary whitewash, in an
old barrel or box. Take enough ut
time to make bucket two-thirds full Of
the proper consistency for ordinary
whitewashing. Now add one pint of
gas tar, one pound of whale-oil soap dis
solved in hot wates. or one pound of
potash, or. strong lye from wood ashes,
then add clay or loan enough to make
the bucket full of the wash of proper
thickness to be applied with whitewash
brush. If the trees have had the earth
ridged up around them, take the earth
away from around the collar and apply
the wash to the root of the trees from the
limbs to the ground or down to the
roots.
"Its advantages are, first, it will de-
stroy the bark louise, and give the trees
bri ght, clear and healthy appearance.
Second, this wash will drive all borers
that may be in the trees and the moth
will not deposit eggs on or about the
trees the same season the wash is used.
All who grow apple, peach, dwarf
pear, ounce and ash trees, should use
this wash; don't fail to use it because not
patented and sold at high price. I
have known cases where peach trees have
been badly affected by the borer; they
have all left and the trees become healthy
and vigorous with one application of this
wash.
Again, mice and rabbits will not
girdle trees where this wash is used.
Apply in May for borers and general
benefit to the trees, and in late autumn
as preventive against mice and rabbits.
Use this wash annually. Gas tar applied
pure will kill trees. "-Farm, Field and
Tockm0n.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-13
SEEDING VARIETIES OF FRUIT.

The dependence on nurseries rather
than on homegrown fruits diminishes
the chance for finding new and valuable
Seeding varieties. Occasionally graft
Or bud fails, and the natural sprout TAX
ing its place is supposed to be the i'm
proved variety until it gets into bearing.
Unless these instances are wrongly re-
ported, larger proportion of Seeding
fruit has considerable more value than is
often thought. The proportion would
be still larger if seeds from only the best
of fruit grown in years favorable for its
highest excellence were used for raising
nursery stock. The plan Of many nur-
serymen is, however, to get apple seeds
from the refuse of cider pomace, in which
only small and inferior fruit is used for
grinding. In'this way they claim to get
more vigorous stocks, but it is at the ex-
pense of fruit. It is likely also that these
stocks when grated are longer in COM
ing into bearing than stocks raised from
cultivated fruit of the highest quality
would be.-BOston CultioatOr.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-13
DURABILITY OF FENCE POSTS.


Locust posts are generally considered
the most durable; they have been known
to be sound after sixty years of service.
Split chestnut posts, from which the sap
wood has been hewn off, have remained
sound in a post and rail fence for over
forty years. Sassafras timber is con,
sidered as the next durable to locust, and
red cedar about the same. All timber is
improved in durability by seasoning, and
is better still if saturated with hot slack
ing lime. Posts are lined in this man
uer: A pit three feet deep is dug and six
inches OF fresh lime is spread in the bot
tom; the posts are set on end close to-
gether and small lime is filled in between
them for onetfoot. Water is then poured
in to fill the pit. This slakes the lime,
which swells and fills the space between
the posts. The heat engendered drives
out the moisture from the timber, and as
the lime cools the posts absorb it. Thus
the albumen of the wood, which is the
part which causes decay, is hardened and
made much less perishable. After steep
ing two or three weeks they are ready
for use. The bark should be peeled be-
fore the posts are lined. If posts are
set with broken stone and the lime from
the pit and the filing is we'll rammed in
the hole, they are made still more dur
able, or the stone may quite as we'll be
left without any filling, but should be
we'll rammed.-Neao York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-13
RICH AND POOR MILK.

Anyone who has attended dairy con-
vention, or who carefully follows the
dairy literature of the day, must have
come to realize that milk testing is the
leading question before our dairymen.
The rank injustice of paying for milk or
dividing money between patrons On the
pounds delivered basis has been tolerated
only because it could not be avoided.
When the system of paying for milk
upon weight is new in community, it
works fairly we'll for a short time, but
soon patrons learn to take advantage,
and the result is that as time goes on
more and more milk is required to make
pound of butter or cheese. Of course,
there are always few who water or
skim; these are occasionally caught and
fined or expelled, but the difficulty does
not end here. for there are other ways of
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Be sure and keep your fnger-nails
short, always.
Scales save a good deal of friction in
neighborhoods.
> Bar hives are hives with bars across
the top to which the combs are at
tached.
Milk as rapidly as you can and as clean
as you can; if you do not your COW will
dry up.
Be gentle with your cows. Remember
you are man and they are brutes; be
thou not brute.
Have no conversation while milking,
nor stop at "what did you say!" from
your fellow mixer.
The better way to start in the bee
business is to begin in small way and
gradually grow unto it.
Give your cow a name and call her by
her name; she will learn to know il
sooner than you think.
In cold weather wash your hands in
warm water before your milk; a cows
teats are very sensitive.
Farmers who know how to produce at
a relatively low cost are always at the
the head of the procession.
If you have more than one COW always
milk them in the same order; boss COW
does not like to be sighted.
Clean your stable before you milk.
know of no substance that will take up
had odors sooner than milk.
Strain your milk from a strainer pal
into an independent strainer, and in this
have besides strainer cloth.
A good strong mixer Ought to mill
ten COWS in an hour, but he has not time
to carry the milk to the dairy.
Give your COWS tablespoonful of salt
once day in their mess Of mill-feed; il
will keep them in good health.
Clean your COW with brush or ciotl
before you milk; perfect cleanliness is
most essential to perfect dairying.
Farmers cannot afford to manage thei
business by guess work. The margin O
profit on their products is too small t.
admit of it.
He who starts good reading club il
country neighborhood and puts enough
of interest into it to keep. it going is
Ipubic benefactor.
+ In the experiments now in progress a
/ the Ohio Experiment Station, potash
seems to have no effect on wheat, whethe
used alone or in any combination.
Have all your milking apparatu
scrIpulously clean; milk being fatt.
substance you may need pure soap in tn
cleaning; use scalding hos water after
wards.