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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
WELL SAID.
How Much Corn Will You Plant7
NOW is THE TIME

wv. J. Northern in Cultvstor.l
| 1t 10 doubtless true that the monit
uf March will determine the pros
poets of the farmer st the South fol
this year. March is the month shat
will determine the corn area. III q
large part of the fsrn is given 10
corn. we'll put into the soil, IT -ill be
a hopeful sign OF the times. II
farmers repeat the past and gave this
land to cotton, or put their corn crop
into badly prepared soil, We vail 20
through another year OF depression
and debt.
1t is no, only true that the area
given te coru il too limited but the
crop is frequently not properly put
10. The pressure to get TO preparing
land for cotton has generally been
60 great that the corn land has beer
neglected.
The best crop l ever made came
from thoroughly prepared soil. |
broke the ground thoroughly. broad
cast, with a two horse tura-plow. By
the time / was ready 10 plant the
corn q slight crust hsd formed or the
surface. opened the furrow for the
corn with q big broad scooter, and
ran a straight sui sell plow in the
bottom and covered the corn ny rum
niog an Acme harrow over the sur
face. This management left the
gronnd In fine tilth, and good shape
for the xermination Of the seed and
the growth of the plant. OF course,
manured the corn 10 the drill when l
planted. At the first plowing | ran
next to the corn with a small scoot-
er, and then put a broaded furrow
next to that. Into this last furrow
l deposited more manure iust oppo.
site the coin and covered with the
next furrow. | think ] foresee great
benefit from the manurin5 given at
the second blowing.
Another reason for failure 10 corn
crops is found in slow working. The
times between plowings are too far
separated. Afer the first plowing,
the surface should be lightly stirred
every ten days, indeed after every
rain il possible.
March is the time to begin the
revolution IN our farm work, and 1t
remains to be seen whether We will
have more corn and less cotton.
Farmers, count we'll before you let
the mouth pass with It's golden
opportunity.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
A Little Girls Experience In a
Lighthouse.

Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Trescott are
keepers of the Gov. Lighthouse at
Sand Beacn, Mich, and are blessed
with a daughter, four years old
Last April she was taken down with
Measles followed with dreadful
Cough aud turning Ito q Fever.
Doctors at home and st Detroit
treated her, but 10 vain, she grew
worse rapidly, until she was mere
"handful of bones" .-Thep she tried
DR.. Kings New Discovery and after
The use Of two and half bottles
was completely cured. They say
DR.. Kings New Discovery is worth
its weight in gold, yet you may ge'
a trial bottle free at E. T. White
head & Co.'S Drugstore.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
The Farm Record.
(American Homestead.)

(American Homestead.)
Every farm should have a record
book and properly keep a memoran
dun from day to day, and at the
close of the year run up the data
and notatlons for use in planting
the crops for next year. This prop
efly done is of as much value as a
well.filled pulse. in fact It would
tend to keep the purse well-f led .
In this record one gathers expert
ence as fast as the experience de-
velops itself. 1t keeps in black
and white ready at any time tor
reference. 1t is the guide board
tor the next year. 1t says III just
so many words: Plant corn hert, Lut
manure heavily first. Sow wheat
here, rye here, oats here, garden
here, and indicates the fitness OF
every field for some crop which
will pay on that special soil. The
man who has a poor memory (and
it is a common dlsease) has in this
book a chance to do as we'll as the
best man, if he only has a memory
which will lead him to make anU
use the book
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
Deatuess Cans be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infamed con>
dltion of the mucous lining OF the Eus.
tachian TUBE. When this tube gets
infamed you have a rumhling sonnd or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entire
ly closed, Deafness is the result and
unless the inflammation be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con.
dition, hearing will be destroyed frever
nine cases out Of ten are caued by Ca
tarrh. which is nothing but an infiamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case Of Deafness tcaused By ca
tarrh) that We cannot cure by taking
HALLS Catarrh cure. Send for circulars.
free.
F. j. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo. o.
Sold By Druggist at 15c'
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
The First Step.

Perhaps you are run down, can't
eat, can't sleep, can't think. can't
do anything to your satisfac tioa, and
you wonder what ails you. You
should heed the warning, you are
taking the first step into Nervous
Prostratlon. You need a Nerve
Tonic and in Electric Bitters yoa
will find the exac. remedy for re.
storing your nervous system to its
normal, healthy condition. Surpris-
ing results follow the use Of this
great Nerve Tonic and Alternative.
Your appetite returns, good dlges-
ton is restored, and the Lives and
Kidneys resume healthy action.
Try a bottle Price 500. at E.. I.
Whitehead & Co.'S Drug Store.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
CONSUMPTION CURED.

IN oiu physician, retired from prac'-
ice. having had placed in his hand he
an East Inda missionary the fornuly
of a similar vegetable remedy for tina
speedy and permam cure Of consumpt-
ion, Bronchitis. Catarrh, Asthma and
all throat and Lung Affections, also pos
tive and radical cure for Nervous De
bility and all Nervous Complaints,
after having tested its wonderful curative
mowers in thousands OF cases. has felt It
his duty to make II known TO his suf>
fering fellows. Acuated by this motive
and 3 desire to relieve human suffering
I will send free of charge, to ali who
desire it, this recipe, in German. French
or English, with full directions fol-
preparing and using. Sent by mail by
addressing with stamp, naming this
paper W. A. MOVES. $40 P0,oers' Block
Roch aster.N Y. Belly
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
New Development in Tramping
Special Cor. State Chroicle.)

Especial Cor. State Chroicle)
PANACEA SPRINGS, March 10
We have a new development in the
tramping business in this section.
There is a emily not far from Lit.
tleton on the road leading to Tar.
bore, stopping at an old unoccupied
shanty, W. j. Dixon, wife and
seven children and dog, who claim
that they are from White county,
Tenn. 80 miles west Of Chattanooga
Two months ago they had the house
10 which they lived burned up With
everything they had but what they
had on. They have tramped they
say, th:rty-three days making for
eight miles below Tarboro where
they have relatives. Two of the
children are so small that they have
to be carried. The youngest is three
years old. The part Of the family
that we saw, begging for something
to eat. is boy about fifteen years
old aud he doesn't look like he had
asd a good washing since the FIRE,
and he looks like he might have got.
ten pretty badly smoked at that
time; be claims that the people would
not do anything for them, 50 they
had to leave or s:arve. II what they
say is true they have made good
time. They claim to have come
over 600 miles which would give
them near twenty miles day
A. j. JONES.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24

We're not waiting for the bats and
moles but for men and women who
have eyes and use them, who have
brains and reason There's new
world fo them-suffering and sickly
as tbey area new world created
from thy brain Of skillful phvsician
"a discovery-the golden Medical
Discovery"
Years ago DR.. Pierce found out
that the secret of all scrofuls, bron-
chial, throat and lung trouble lay
in the beginning at least-in impure
blood and the tone Of the system;
that the way to cure these effects
was to remove the cause, that hu-
man nature being the same results
might be looked for in nearly all
cases. So confident was be that the
exceptions we're uncommon that he
took the risk Of giving tue me dicine
to those it didn't benefit for nothing,
and the results have proved that be
was right.
And Golden Medical Disc overy''
Is the remedy fo7 the million +! The
only guaranteed Liver. Blood and
Lung remedy. Your morey back
if it doesn't help you.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
THE UT0PIAN FARMER.

Come here, my dear, want ter say
word or two ter you
bout what thinks the proper thin,
Tor me N you ter do.
fe've gave me mighty good advice senc
We was wed that day
Way back in sixty-one, m now I'd lik,
to have ye say
Eff you don't think I've got a right tel
do as others does,
M sell the crops before they gr ows, les
like them Fasteners.
Why, Meg, a man out in Moo York he;
sold lot O. corn
Thet's several thousand bushels more
then what the country's borne
IN got his money too, I'm told, N
didn't have peck
of grain of any kind in hand to back his
little spec.
He cleared hundred thousand cash
IN Meg, that's more'n we
Have cleared at farmin' all our DAYS, OF
ever will, by gee!
M l can't say sees the use o. workin'
cay by day
M only sellin' what we raise for mighty
little pay,
When them as hasn't any grain can sell
up there in town
A million pecks Of wheat N corn. m
git their money down.
The modern plans dandy, Meg, n Of
we makes it go,
I'll get you that pianner, m the trottin
horse for Joe.
Wen raise the mortgage off the roof
n" paint the old barn red,
M send the gals to Paris, France, and
buy a rosewood bed.
Wen get new carpets for the floors, m
keep hired man.
Eff only can 20 to town m learn to
work the plan.
M mebbe, Meg, I'd make enough ter
run for Governor,
Or get sent dowr 10 Washin'ton a full
fiedged Senator.
tell yer, gal, this is an age thet beats
creation. Say,
What would yer father've said, dye
think if he wuz here today,
Ter see folks sellin' wheat and com, and
bull cars full O. rye,
M leven-twelfths of all they sold nos
where but In their eye?
How he would yell ter think of US a.
maxim of a pot
o. gold a. sellin' fellers things we haven't
really got!
What's that ye say? 1t isn't straight
to sell what ye don't own?
m if goes into the spec, goes it all
alone?
The music on the pianny ye think would
drive yer mad.
If it was bought from sellln' things ye
never rightly had?
Well, have yer way; I'll let it 90; didn't
mean no harm;
But what is straight in cities can't be
crooked on farm.
John K. Bangs, in Harper's Magazine.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
A Young Friend Of the Horse.
IN. Y. Witness.

IN. I. witness.
A little boy writes US thls On the
"Tl eatment of Horses: :" II never
saw a meaner thing since | was
born than l did the other day. A
man was driving his horse along
until he came to the road toward
home, and just because the horse
was going to go home, he whipped
the horse so that | could not look
at hun. Now, just let me tell you
that is not the way to treat a horse.
A horse feels harshness almost as
much as you do, and think if the
men who do this thing would just
think, it would be better for the
horses and themselves too" Our
Young friend has hit the nail light
on the head. The whole trouble in
some cases is that men do not
think. Some of them do not Know
enough to think.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
THE BOYS.
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH
THEM
A Sc SsIBLE VIEW.
(Southern Cultivator.)

| This is a most pertinent question,
80 pertinent in fact, we repeat 1t,
"what shall we do with our boys ?''
1t is quite as important TO the boy as
to the parent, and probably more go.
Yes what shall be done with them!
Parents often err In not letting the
son follow the bent OF his genius,
which, as a rule will lead to success,
il he has preference for any world.
ly employment. If he has no par>
ticular preference the parent should
see to it that he is put to some kind
of work early in life. A mechanical
trade is about the best accomplish>
ment the average American youth
can be equipped with to start out in
life, and thousands, who take it al
the food, are led on to fortune. Moth
ers often err in wishing their sons to
become professional men-to GO into
law, medicine or church. If the son
has such natural gifts that be may
seem particularly desigsed for pro-
fessional career, it is we'll to encour>
age him in such aspiration. None
but those in the profession know the
TRIALS and difficulties that surround
such life; the years of waiting that
make the heart sick, and the Innu>
merable failures in professional life.
While the physicians and lawyers
who acquire wealth and fame are
few, the number which hang on The
ragged edge of wants and failures are
as many. Many of the brightest
men in these two professions fail he
cause they are not adapted to them
aud, late in life, learn that some
thing besides mere brains are re-
quired to succeed in any calling. If
yong man enter the law, medicine.
or the church, with the expectation
Of leading life Of comparative ease,
the scales will fall from his eyes
before be has had 10 any years expe-
rience. we are sorry to see me
chanical trades discounted by the
present generation Of youth. For
this the young ladies are respon
sible to large degree; for many
nose goes into the air at the mention
of the fair owner accepting the at.
tentIons Of a young man learning
a mechanical trade. Wbatever else
parents may do with their boys, OBJ
serves the Doylestoaon (Ps.) Demo-
crat, they should be taught to work.
The records of the future will always
show that the greasy young mechan-
ic or laDorer of to-day will fill the
exalted places of the land to.mor.
row.
AS an answer to "What shall we
do with our boysT' the Democrat
replies that whatever else parents
may do with them, they should not
only be taught to work, but taught
to look upon all honest labor as hon.
orable. In doing this no mistake
Is made nor can better fou ndation
be laid for future success. A boy
brought up in idleneess, the parent
of all vicious habits, will never sues
ceed in life useless by the interven.
tion of miracle and miracles DO
! Longer wait on worldly matters.
Work is the slogan that leads to the
pinnacle oil wish to reach.
|
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
Rucklen's Arnica Salve.

Tho Best Salve in the world for
Cats Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains Corns, and all
Skin Eruptions. and positively cures
piles, or no pay required. 1t is guar
antee to give perfect satisfaction or
money ,efunded. Price Soc per box.
For Sale by E. T. Whitehead q Go
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24
Are You all Going to Take Your
Things With Your
(Christian Index.)

| AShiisa1a ihocA.l
The editor had just returned from
q visit to q neishbor, who lies 81 q q
point OF death. "A little aranddaoet.
ter. jest 6ve years old, sitting by,
heard him say to her grandmother
that the man was so sick he didn't
know snybody, nor even his wife or
children.
With q very earnest look and ser!.
ous tone OF voice she said; Grand.
pa, is he going to die 7"
Yes, think be will die very
soon; so may grandpa and grandma,
and papa and mama. AMI you,
too"
Turning to grandma, she asked /:
"Will he 60 to heaven 7"
"Yes, We hope and believe that he
will"
"Are we going to heaven, too ?"
"Are you going to take all your
things with you ?
"No; we will have to leave sll our
things behind. You will have to
leave your dolls and doll-clothcs. and
your little Christmas piano, and ev-
erything else"
Her grandmother bad just been
showing her some very pretty ptr>
fume bottles, sent by her youngest
son in Brunswick. She was struck
with the beauty Of ,he bottles and
the sweet perfume they contained.
Thinking OF these things, she said :
"Grandma, you amt going to leave
your pretty bottles. are your,
eyes, would have to leave the ID
too"
How forcibly this conversation with
the little child brought to mind our
destitution and helplessness at birth
and the still greater helplessness and
destitution at death
At birth there is beating heart,
a heaving breast, a lustrous eye, a
warm body aglow with life, while
standing around are smiling friends
filed with joyful anticipations.
The proud father and the loving
mother. forgetfui of anxious moments
and agonizlng pains, think only OF
the treasure just come into their pos
session.
At dest th there Is a pulseless heart,
motionless breast, q lusterless eye,
body frozen by the chill Of death.
Gathered around are saddle ned
friends, with fearful eyes, and father
and mother overwhelmed with grief.
Swaddling clothes and cradle at
birth; a winding sheet and a coffin
at death.
Yes, we leave everything behind
Alone, with empty hands, We are
borne TO the grave. In Whist utter
poverty the dead are buried
eve brought nothing into this
world, and it is certain We can carry
nothing out"
Reader, at death, you will leave
ell your earthly possessions behind,
no matter how besutiful or valuable
Have you laid up any treasure in
Heaven
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-24

FITS.-All Fits stopped free br DR.
Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits
after first days use. Marvellous cures
Treatise s2.O0 trial bottle free to Fl
cases. Send to DR.. Kline, 93l Arch 81
Philsdelphis, Pa.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-03-11
Three independent Leaders Meet.

That must have been an interesting con-
s~ultation between Colonel Parker, William
Gramberg and Mike Burns Saturday night in
the Harvey rotunda. They had their rock
ing chairs edged together, a Two foot hoop
would have encircled the three heads and
they talked in a whisper. They disappeared
about midnight, happy and satisfied no doubt,
if their faces were an index of their inward
feelings.
They probably discussed the peoples plat
form, commencing it strongly. They no
doubt, opposed fusion as next to impracticable
because of the attitude Of farmers towards
both of the old parties, but they may have
decided that the democrats could endorse the
independent ticket if they chose. That
would be rational. They must have deliber-
ated over republican chances this fall and it
would be just like Gramberg to say that the
g. O. p. would not be in it. Mike Burns may
have pointed out that either Zipp or L.ardner
would make good congressional timber.
Some one of the three whispered Judge Me
Gees name in connection with state senator.
They probably thought Buchanan 4 republic
an possibility for governor and Van Gadeli
the independer t. with James NJ. Woods scat
tering. They did not say that Judge Gard
ner had no desire to be judge, but they l~.iit,,i
strongly that he would make . determined
effort to squelch Jim Io~ ,er's rencwei an
bition for congress, in it, incipiency and
cllcctually kill off banker Lakes consuming
desire to get the nomination for state treasul-
e, by coming out as 4 candidate for congress
himself. Then it would read Mcilcttc and
Gardner for congress. They avoided mention
OF Van Cise, Star and Washabaugh as great
uncertainties, owing nc 1oubt, to the factional
fights up there. 1t would be like Colonel
Parker to culogisc the fidelity Of the indie
pcndents in the last legislature, to their prin-
ciplcs. Weaver, Donnelly and Van Wyck
are the Independent possibilities for the first
place on the presidential ticket, with Polk
second man. So they decided. Grambcrg
posted them on the possibilities for this county
but omitted to mention 4 word about the
nine puzzle" a fact the other two commented
upon after he left.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-03-11
K so.caIled Newapaner

- So-catled Newspaper.
The Deadwood Pioneer scorches the Rapid
City Journal, and with reason too. There is
no justification Tor attacking Deadwood in the
way the Journal did. 1T is productive Of no
good and is decidedly against the interests Of
the Black Hills generally, besides il displays
a spirit Of petty jealousy far from commend
able, The Pioneers article reads:
It is surprising that so poor an apology for
a newspaper as is the Journal should be toll
Grated by the progressive and enterprising
community of Rapid City. Rapids ambition
is the admiration of all beholders. Efforts
the city has put forth to secure railroads,
COLONIZATION plants, smelters and other inn
portant enterprises, might excite the emula-
ton of every settlement in the Hills, and.
would probably have been more successful
had the people commenced by killing off the
Journal. The petty spirit that possesses the
genins presiding IN its sanctum, the deliberate
Misrepresentation it practices, hoping to hurt
a neighbor, has done more to injure Rapid
and retard her growth than anything else
that can be called to mind. One would think
the Journal would learn better as it grew in
age, but the contrary is proved. The same
old methods are pursued, and an illustration
is found in its insane effort to construe the
action of the mayor of this city in warning
people against entering an unsafe building,
into evidence Of the decay Of Deadwood.
Cannot the idiot who directs the Journals
policy ever be taught that he cannot benefit
Rapid by fighting Deadwood, or any other
place in the Hills? Must he yet learn it is
never necessary to belittle one place in order
to magnify advantages of another? Does he
not know that his %envious utterances bear
ialsity on their face, and that even the
stranger in the country unfortunate enough
to pick up his newsless sheet, throws it Town
in disgust as much at the spleen it exhibits,
as at the lack of interesting matter in its col
umns?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-03-11
Indian Claims Ignored.

Indian Commissioner Morgan gives it as
his opinion that the niggardly manner in
which the democratic house has cut Town the
appropriations for the Indian schools will in
jure and set them back more than progress
has put forward and elevated them during the
past ten years. To his mind the true way of
civiliZing the Indians is to take their chill
dren from the reservations as fast as they are
old enough to leave their parents and put
them i'll schools, as about 5000 of them are
now being provided for, says the Washington
correspondent to the Omaha Bee. He thinks
this has the effect Of not only educating the
children, but will have a good and civilizing
influence upon their parents and older friends,
and restrain the bucks in keeping them from
going to war against or committing depre-
dations upon the whites. General Morgan
says the house has cut the appro-
priations for Indian schools now established,
which have undertaken 10 accept many more
pupils than they have ever had, and that no
provision whatever has been made for the
hall dozen or more new schools (which have
just been established in South Dakota,
Wyoming and other states covered by The
Bee.
A great deal of feeling is being shown by
western republicans here and humanitarian
generally over the manner III wiitl, the dem
ocrats in the house have chopped down al-
preparations for Indian schools, ami it is pos
sible that a public subscription viii BE- t.. ted
to make good the deficiencies winch MT i
arise in the system, and to relukc the public
acts Of a par: m miou; in4 ~,iemngogical dem
ocratic party.