Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
titles, is superior to many of the cultivated

titles, is superior to many of the cultivated
grapes of the North.
Some of the native wine here is very ex-
hilarating, but this is followed later on by a
most profound depression. visited vine
yard here last week. 1t was in retired
place in the mountains where there lived
kind of recluse who makes the native wines
in great profusion. did not see his vine
yard, but saw most everything else on the
following day. He makes sort of sauterne
which Is very heady it seems to me now,
looking back at 1t. / was a long time get
ting up to his cabin, but did not mind the
journey back
Welcomed by a Moonshiner.
As soon as he found out that was not
connected with the Government in any way
he made me welcome. do not know when
have felt SO welcome as did then. Both
of us felt welcome He laid aside his work
in the vineyard for the day.
And do you have to tread the wine press
alone?' L 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.
oh, blank the wine press" he said, as
he took another dipperful of the sauterne,
Il never use one Of those
This wine had bouquet flavor. 1t is very
potent indeed. 1t is like the bouquet of
crushed tragedian. The reader has no doubt
witnessed the acting of tragedian whose
work by the critics has been classed as rot
| ten. Well, you take q crushed tragedian OF
this class, and you get bouquet not unlike
the moonlight sauterne works of the noun
tains
This wine Is good antidote for the bite
OF the deadly moccasin. 1t is used for that
purpose almost exclusively. The use ofthis
wine along the valley of the French Broad
has now almost wiped out the moccasin and
substituted bright green snake with a ver-
million stomach.
Can't Improve the Soil.
The soil Of the eastern part of the State is
what Is called transported sand, gravel or
clay of the tertiary period, 'the assorted
detritus of the abraded hills of the metamor-
phic rocks in the midland country" In
the western part of the State the soils are
what is termed clayey, of a most violent and
tenacious variety, running from a cream
color to deep, dead red, and when it has
ground itself into the clothing nothing on
has been tried, from benzine down to special
act Of the Legislature, but it will not come
out.
Some eat the clay of North Carolina, but
it is an acquired taste. Yankee invalids
will never get so they will be willing to
board where this is the piece de resistance
de terre. 1t would de terre a good many
from coming, 1 fear, as a waggish but
feeble-minded person said to me yesterday
at the asylum where I spent the day. We
raise about 7,000,O00 pounds of rice in this
State, and it meets with ready sale. Rice
beer is now being made in Georgia, but it
is most deadly in its effects. While
we hail with joy the opening of a wider
market for our rice, we are panied to 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 disastrous in its
effects and movement is on foot to intro
duce it among the communists of New York
and Chicago. 1t kills the consumer in about
two years, 1 am told. The only reason why
it might not work on the communist is that
its fatal results depend entirely upon its
action ON the brain.
A Cure For tho Tobacco Habit.
Tobacco does we'll here and grows to
great size. Fine cut tobacco, so largely
used in the Middle and Western States, Is
planted about June 1, and is harvested in
September. The product runs as high as
25 to 35 pals to the acre. Smoking tobacco
is planted little later and runs higher as
to product, being 80 to ITO papers to the acre
on a good year. Plug tobacco, unless it suf-
fers from heavy winds, which are apt to
knock off the halt grown plugs, is very
profitable 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.
am not opposed to the moderate use of to-
bacco, but after seeing the manufacture of
plug tobacco, can get along day or two
with sassafras bark.
We are all worms of the dust but we are
not tobacco worms, and 1 do not like a to-
bacco worm any better with licorice and
New Orleans molasses on him than I do
with vinegar and machine oil. But let US
pass on, Mr.. Rusk, to other features that
are more pleasing.
What Nye Would Like to Have.
What especially desire is package or
two of the seedless watermelon seed, some
good, hard house plants, such as Martha
Washingtons, hydrangeas, four o'clocks.
etc. Also some red-eyed poleless China
for potato salad plants? Also please send
trellis to Mr. R. P. Flower, of New York,
so that he can climb up on it and get bet
ter view of the situation. Rye is now all
harvested and is being slid down in shutes
to the stack by those who live ON the more
perpendicular farms.
Mr. Clay Williams, colored man, met
up with frightful accident while summer
following on one of the hillside farms below
H ming township last week. The scaffold,
it seems, gave way and he fell the entire
distance to the foot of the farm, striking the
earth twice on his way down and completely
disemboweling it. BILL NYE.