The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-06

THE SNUFF DIPPER.
cause they are more apt to produce milk
Corn should be housed and blowing
done Here we have light, calcareous
soil, which is soothing to the bare feet of
tho peasant, and sometimes produces a
large green worm called the tobacco
worm.
Tic Is not SO plentiful in this state as
formerly, having gone farther SOUTH
where he can get his tobacco cheaper.
Here, too, he found n good deal Of COM
petition. The tobacco worm has no
other occupation on earth than to use
tobacco. Here he found that others had
already entered the field before him and
undertaken to subsist entirely upon
tobacco and rest. Therefore the tobacco
worm is less plentiful now in North
Carolina than formerly. Tobacco is also
% per cent. less in quantity here this
fall than formerly, but of good quality.
The brightest and most fragrant tobacco
for smoking is grown in this state. 1t
smells as sweet as clover and is not in
furious to health.
Snuff is not grown here, and so some
times when there is blockade or
washout on the railroad snuff cannot be
readily landed at our doors, and there
is great deal of suffering. Nobody nose
how much there is.
Snuff is not administered up the nose
here, however, among those who use
1T, but is kept in neat little bonbon-
Mere, or gourd, and a small wooden
stick made of birch, chewed into brush
at one end, is ever and anon dipped into
the snuff and then chewed thoroughly
or rubbed back and forth over the
gooms.
Only the hoi polloi use snuff here
the hoi polloi lady, 1 mean. If you
SEQ her coming down vista of brilliant
autumn coloring, a somber figure in the
gaudy perspective, you will notice that
she dexterously jerks something out of
her mouth and conceals it in her apron.
trying as you pass to look all wrapped
up in the contemplation of nature.
She has just removed her snuff stick.
or, as may say, half in jest, the handle
OF the dipper is removed. Here one
finds among the peasantry children
hardly done with their milk teeth using
snuff in this way. So we have the Lit.
tie Dipper and the Big Dipper
The snuff stick or brush is left dan
Cling i'll the corner of the lnoath as lit
tie young children in the absence of tho
mother hold corner of cloth that has
been wrapped around bit of sugar,
land the same with intent to deceive"
Arden is not large place, but it is a
good site for one. There are two gen
eral stores and blacksmith shop. Late
~ there is a shooting scrape on Satur-
days
Since have been digging my well
nave put good deal of money in circu-
lation. This has made flush times in
western North Carolina, and some law
| lessness. Human life at one time was
SO lightly valued while this stream Of
gold was flowing in that had to shut
| down work OH my well till times should
tighten up Il little.
Lately have been putting in wind
mill at the estate. This, too, has let :.
flood of wealth into the channels of
trade Legs went up to So cents, and
good eggs were worth q shilling.
l had been reading about windmills
and determined to buy one. At first
thought would buy one of those dear
old windmills of Southampton and En-
rope which the artists rave about. but
this one will be dear enough By the time
| get through with it.
The mill arrived last April and was
put on the ground early in that month.
A plumber from Asheville was en-
ployed to put it up. Eight men were
sent ont here by train to put the mill
mp. They did not know how to put up
windmill, and SO preparatory. school
lad to be opened here to give in
structions. paid the tuition. Special
trains carried my plumbers to and from
Asheville. 1t was a pleasant sight to
Zee those plumbers on their way, with
bright, expectant faces, toward the place
where they were learning how to plumb
ut my expense.
The scheme was spoken of around
here as "Nyes Fresh Air Fund" Every
little while l could hear some one say.
hThere goes the plumbers picnic"
live fourteen miles from Asheville,
and ran out of terrapin one day. This
caused much adverse comment among
the plumbers, and before it could be
smothered by kind words some nightin-
gales tongues, with an jus on them, were
scorched little by our chef, and could
see that the plumbers in well bred
way were irritated This grew till the
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