Telegram-herald., 1891-08-02

Ne - a pair Of merry, bright brown
eyes looked ap l~ashiagly into mine. |
presume that. according % the methods
Of studying AInerican society adopted.
by Mr.. kpling aad Mr.. Aide, should
pause here 20 eriticise the rather hlppant
and coarse custom among ladies OF Lon
d0n of sddress-ng gentlemsa on the
street, wac ara thinking Of something
else. But WAS not writing book on
England after eating breakfast. buying
an umbrella zai coming houle. as some
authors does.
Excuse ne" said. taking out new
card case that bought on tho Rue dc
Pinktum. Paris, France. and presenting
my card. Il DO not recall your face.
an plain American. passing through
your town ard pricing a lot here and
there. Would you mind exchanging
cardsr TIE voice did not have card
with it. but spoke OF the backward
spring. said, Yes. IL was rather cool
and wet for July." Yes" said she mu-
sicai voice; '.tnis with US Is very un-
usual yesr" then did very rude
thing. Very likely 1t hnrt me in Eng
land. Iangrily wrenched my umbrella
from the little white hand. and dasning
away down the alley At frigntiul pace
was soon lost 10 view.
Pcmology is that science which treats
OF the variety, growth, decay, disease
and culture Of fruit. Here the apple is
the most successful fruit, barring the
grape The Limbertwig is good apple
10 grow here for foreign consumption,
home consumption being unknown here.
| have done very well with small fruits
here. and my wife has put down enough
for two families for eight years 70 come.
All kinds OF berries are To be had at five
cents per big. honest quart. and with
sugar at twenty pounds or thereabouts
for dollar il seems almost sin not TO
pct up or down. whichever is correct.
fruit for the approaching unusual winter.
We have had garien here this sea-
son and IL has been so far a great sue
cess. | wished to give employment also
10 my children. thus teaching them TO
earn money for themselves, so that they
will not have dissipated my large fortune
OrlOlt BlAoS II hbtC VA IA ht"
made grave. grave, may add. that
will have been made unpleasantly sloppy
by a nations tears.
Go we had a colored man and brother,
with iron gray cotswold hair and a 2
year-cld roam heifer. plow up space Of
ground. after had warned him not 10
injure the stumps which grow here in
great profusion. paid him and then |
got my own valet 10 remove the stone
abutment on which the garden stood.
He took out several cords Of micacious
granite and had left soil enough TO just
comfortably start young orchard. Then
General West said that we would nee i
something in the way OF a gentle tonic TO
the soil, SO we got quite lot of bono
dust. We bought it at Asheville and it
was carried by US to Charleston. Our
station is a flag station only and we have
ice brought ont from Asheville too. It
sometimes goes by TO Savannah. but it is
brought back. for the road is the soul OF
honor. Ice that has been to Savannah
and back these days has that tired feel
ing we so often read Of in some Of our
most successful advertisements.
We got some bone dust and mixed 1t
with the soil at the rate OF eleven pounds
bone dust to eight pounds Of soil. We
were told nfterward that we should
have used more soil. but everybody l
knew was using his soil and so had to
take what could get. We planted po-
tatoes. cabbage. tomatoes. melons, let
tuce, radisbes, peas and beans.
got q good man to hoe them. Then
the children watched them grow. now
and then pulling mp hill OF potatoes to
see il they were large enough to sell to
their miss uided father. So far eighty
cents worth OF vegetables have been sold
to me at high price, the most Of which
sum has been used in the purchase Of
| frecrackers.
You ask IL I intend TO live here per-
manently. do not yet know. Land in
the country is $40 and so per acre. and,
as You may readily judge, 1t is not worth
that for agricultural purposes. Is it
worth that alone for building sites?
That depends on what may be your lot
in life. IL you can afford to support a
farm here, you will like agriculture in
Buncombe county, but the poor farmer
who has neglected to marry wealthy
wife till IL IL too late, will have great
I difficulty in dying Of gout.