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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
How to Eertilize VINEYARDS.

In California fair yield of grapes
is five tons per acre, and yield of ten
tons is nothing uncommon. In many
of the best grape districts of the North
a fair yield is from three to four tons
per acre. In this State few vineyards
yield over two tons, and the average
is less than one and one-fourth tons
per acre. This is not as it should be.
To bring vineyard up to the most
profitable condition of fertility nitro
gen, phOsphOric acid, potash and hui
mus must be supplied. Kainit and
muriate of potash are the cheapest
sources of potash, and bone meal or
FLOATS" the cheapest source Of phos-
phOric acid. Humus and nitrogen can
be supplied together by plowing under
cOw-peaS, crimson clover or winter
VetcheS.
The best way to apply commercial
fertilizer to vineyard is to use it to
induce luXuriant growth of peas,
clover or yetcheS to be turned under.
The ranker the growth of these the
greater the amount of nitrogen they
abstract from the air and give to the
soil.
Where the soil is rather light and
dry crimson clover will thrive best;
where the soil is inclined to be heavy
vi iIIOloU WlHUcI NCuCIlcS Will uO USuucI
Either of these crops will grow all
winter and supply a heavy growth to
turn under in the spring.
OF crimson clover seed sow fifteen
pounds per acre and brush it in. OF
vetches sow thirty pounds per acre
and harrow in with slant tooth har-
row. Sow either seed any time after
August 1st and September 1st.-Ger-
aid Mccarthy, n. G. Experiment Sta
fiOn
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
PRICE B CENTS
WHY A WOMAN HIDES HER AGE.
Two Reasons Given by One Who Is
Supposed to Know.

III tell you why it is we women
hide our ages" said one of the sex the
other day. "Ninety-nine out of every
hundred women regard marriage as
their one end in life. Now, it's a Gu
rious fact, but true nevertheless. that
man as rule wants a young wife
Whatever his own age, his wife must
pc young and attractive and all that.
Besides, If woman is married when
she is getting on in life, it's only
thrown in her face. People say un-
kind things about her. She is charged
with desire to marry any one, or
some one may say that she set her cap
Tor the man she married because She
feared to be an old maid.
women, too, are at their best at,
thirty. Men don't think so, however.
and so they are obliged to keep their
ages down to the limit set by their
masters.
''These two reasons-a desire to
comply with the mems arbitrary STAN
dard and fear lest their own sex
| may say spiteful things if they marry
when no longer in their teens-haye
led women into the habit of falsifying
their ages.
Secondary reasons spring up from
these two. The younger girls of a
| family are often obliged to keep their
ages down in order that their older
sisters matrimonial chances may not
| be spoiled. Sometimes an ambitious
mother keeps all her children's ages
| down III order that she herself NAV
not appear too old.
But as rule, once married. a wo-
| mans age progresses as nature in
| tended it should and she has "a birth
| day every year"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
A Disconnected Speaker.

The Atlanta Journal relates a good
story on Hon. Thad. Pickett, one of
the Third party nominees for Congress
in the Ninth district of Georgia. Mr..
Pickett was speaking in Cherokee
county to a large audience. A good
many ladies were present. The noun
tain campaigner declared that it was
a cause of great joy to him to feel that
God was with the Third party. II am
glad, too, to see that the ladies are on
our side. A movement which has the
good women of the land with it is not
only right, but will succeed. Now j
want all who are in favor of the Third
party to stand up" Four men rose.
That dampened the speakers spirits
Then he added, sarcastically: ''All
who are in favor of the Democratic
party keeping thesiron heel of its ty-
rannical power on the necks of the
people of this country will now have
an opportunity to stand up" The
audience, men, women and children
got up and cheered. The speaker was
disconnected, and when he resumed
started on another track.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
STATE NEWS.
Facts and Figures In Regard to the
Old North State.

Rev. d. n. Mclaughlin, of the San
ford, n. c., Presbyterian church, has
been called to Chester, S. G.
The Salisbury Truth says: Mr.
Chas. A. Traylor and Miss Georgia B.
Poulson were married on the 10Th ul-
timo.
Rev. r. A. Webb, d. D., formerly
pastor of the Davidson College Pres
byterian church, but now of Charles
ton. S. c., has been elected Professor
of Theology and Homiletics at the
South Western Presbyterian Univer-
sity of Tennessee.
The Salisbury Herald says: ''Mr. j.
p. LentZ and wife returned last night
from Iredell county where they were
called Sunday to attend the burial of
Mr.. j. w. Cody, the father of Mrs.
LentZ. Mr.. Cody lived near Turner's
burg and was a highly respectable
citizen"
The Wilkesboro Chronicle says ::
Last week in Alexander county, a
13-year-Old daughter of Mr.. Marcus
Deal. while out gathering huckleber-
rieS, was bitten on the leg by d Rat
tleSnake. After having been bit she
attempted to kill the reptile, which
made a leap and thrust its poisonous
fangs into her arm. She died soon
after"
The Asheville shoe company has de
cided to remove its entire plant from
Asheville to Elizabethton, Tenn, run
ming there on the same extensive scale
as it has done in Asheville. The re-
moval will take place on September
/. The causes leading to the removal
are the cheaper labor and better
freight facilities to be obtained at
EliZabethton.
The Episcopalians of Concord are
| looking forward with glad anticipa-
| tion to the hour of service ON next
| Sunday. The church is being rapidly
| put in readiness for the first service
| which will be held by Rev. b. S. Nc
| KenZie on next Sunday. This church
is a beautiful building, quite commo-
| dious and an ornament to the town.
| The New Bern Journal says; w. ]
| Pope passed through yesterday morn
ing returning to KinstOn. He has
been down to Morehead looking after
the stock of the illicit distillers whom
he. with others assisting, arrested al
July while they. K. Rogers, assist
| ed by Frank Harvey-were in the act
of illicit distilling.
A Miss Vaughn recently died in
Greene county at the age of 20 years
She lived in three miles of a church
yet had never been inside of one: hat
never been three miles from home
never had seen railroad car; never
had sweetheart and never beer
courted. She owned farm to whicl
she gave her undivided attention, an(
seemed perfectly cOntented and happ.
in her possession and condition.
Statesville Landmark office last Fri
day two of the largest tomatoes eve
seen in that office up to that time
One of them weighed II pounds. an(
measured 154 inches in circumference
The other was not quite so large
4 They are tree tomatoes. Monda,
morning Mr.. j. A. Harbin presented
the Landmark with tomatoe of TIN
POndersSa variety which weighed 2
| nOIndS
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11

nary parts. He is of large frame,
neither fieshy nor thin, with massive
brow, a clean Shayen scholarly face.
erect and dignified in his hearing, and
one of the handsOmest men in the
House. The comparison of the ap-
pearance of statesmen to clergyman is
chestnut, but the resemblance is
too striking to be overlooked in this
instance. The garb is all that Mr..
Bryan lacks of being in appearance, a
typical, well-fed Catholic Bishop.
The career of this brilliant young
statesman is an illustration of what a
man of genuine ability can accomplish
when he takes the tide of fortune at
the flood. Bryan might have remain
ed unknown for many more years but
for his entrance into Congress and his
election was just about such an acci-
dent as that which put Hon. f. NJ.
Simmons in the Fifth Congress as the
representative of the black District
of North Carolina. The combined
vote of the Republican nominee. and
the independent candidate was in
round numbers 10000 to his 81. 600. of
which the Republican received 25,0O0.
Whether the accident will occur again
or not, has not yet developed but
Bryan is one of the most widely known
men in the House, and he has won a
high place in the councils of the Dem
Ocratic party that would not be des-
trOyed by defeat in district natur-
ally Republican.
Bryan is now at home engaged in a
hot contest for the retention of his
seat in Congress. The Republicans
realize that in him they have a most
powerful foe of high tariff and they
will try to move heaven and earth to
defeat him. McKinly and other leading
tariff debaters of the Republican par
ty will be sent to his district and
money will be plentiful. No Demo
crat doubts that Bryan will be match
for all comers, and the contest will be
watched with interest by the whole
county.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
HONEST STEVENSON.
Believes With Cleveland that Public
Office is a Public Trust.
From The New York World.1


From The New York World.1
When Mr.. Stevenson was First AS
sistant PostmaSter-General it BECAME
necessary to lease new premises for the
postoffice at Bloomington, Ill. Citi
zens wanted the office removed to Ste
vensOn Block, owned by the members
of Mr.. StevensOn's family. To them
he wrote this letter:
In reply to your inquiry whether the
removal of the Bloomington pOStOffice
at the expiration of the present lease
to Stevenson Block is contemplated by
the department. / answer it is not.
Inasmuch as number of gentlemen
for whom | maintain a high regard
have written me suggesting the re-
| moval, / should be glad to have them
know my views upon the subject. Ste
venson Block is owned by members of
| my own family, which fact, while
sustain my present position, wholly
| excludes it from consideration as To-
| cation for a pOStoffice. The exercise
| of official power to promote the pecu-
/ mary interest of ones self or friends
cannot, in my judgment, under any
| possible circumstances, be Justified.
/ 1t is fitting that the man who wrote
| this letter should be the running mate
of him who formulated the theory
| that "Public Office is Public Trust
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
CAPTURED In VIRGINIA.
Leonldas Mcknight, the Noted Mount
Airy RObbGr.
he NOW CONFESSES TO THE CRIME.
He Was Arrested Two Weeks Ago by
the Police of Lynchgurg, Va.-Ta-
ken to Surry County Jail Friday
Has Fears that he Will be Lynch
ed-He is Now Very Pernitent,

L.
Loynidas Mcknight, who robbed
and attempted to murder Mrs. S. III.
Taylor, an aged lady of Mt. Airy, on
February 10. 1891, has been captured
at last and is now in Surry county
jail at Dobson.
Mcknight was arrested two weeks
ago by the police of Lynchburg, Va.
He denied being the right man, but
the police held him until DR.. w. S.
Taylor, son of the lady who was rob-
bed, arrived in Lynchburg and identi-
fled him.
A requisitiOn was secured from
Governor Holt, and Friday Nc
Knight was brought from Virginia to
Surry county to await his trial. He
arrived in~Greensboro Friday morn
ing and was lodged in Jail while
awaiting the Mt. Airy train.
The Greensboro Record says that on
Meningitis arrest he StrenuouSly OBJ
jected to being jailed.
When Mcknight found that Mr..
Taylor was coming to Identify him,
he broke down and confessed that his
name was Leonidas Mcknight, and
when Mr.. Taylor arrived he made a
full confession. He has all the time
DceH uHueT Une impression, however,
that he had killed Mrs. Taylor, and
| never knew to the contrary until since
his arrest. When told that she had
| recovered, he seemed greatly relieved,
and exclaimed: THANK God, | am no
| murderer" He asked Mr.. Taylor if
he was to have a trial, and seemed to
think he would be taken back and
hanged at once without judge or jury.
Mcknight has a brother living be-
low Lynchburg, who employed a law
yer and tried to liberate him, but was
| not successful. When asked what he
did with his share of the money, he
| refused to say, but stated that it had
been curse to him. He is very peni-
tent now, of course, and read his Bible
| and prayed on the train all the way
from Lynchburg. He told Mr.. Tay-
lor his mother died in an insane aSy-
lum, and it is likely he will try to set
up insanity as defence.
1t is a clear case of burglary for
which the penalty in this State is
death.
Meningitis accOmplice in the rob-
berry was a young man named Taylor,
a grandson of Mrs. S. III. Taylor. As
viii be remembered he was arrested,
| tried and sent to the penitentiary for
| a term of ten years. He is now sery-
| ing out his sentence.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
LETTER FROM CLEVELAND.
1t Was Received Yesterday by DIR. w
@. Galloway.

A few days ago DIR. w. G. Galloway
of this city, wrote letter to Hon.
Grover Cleveland informing him of
the eighth anniversary of his son who
was named in honor of the DemOceat-
ic candidate for President. NJ. Cleve-
land writes reply, under date of Au-
gust lst, His letter reads as follows ::
Il have received your letter of July
25th, and desire to thank you for your
hearty expressions of friendlineSs and
devotion. / also desire to express my
appreciation of the compliment in
volved in giving your son my name.
| hope he may never fail to be a
source of comfort and joy to his pa
rents and that he may reach as high a
stage of usefulness and honor as they
can possibly desire.
Il trust may be permitted to ex-
press the hope in view of the appre-
tensions of some of our friends as to
the political status of North Carroll
ma, that all the true and steadfast
Democrats of your State will see to it
| that she remains in her proper place
| in the Democratic column.
Very truly yours,
''GROvER CLEVELAND"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
MIR. HUSKE TALKS POLITICS.
He Also Tells of Winston's Great To
baCcO Industry.

Z. W. Huske was in Roanoke, Va,
this week. While there he was inter-
viewed by a Times reporter. Here is
what he said about politics and other
matters:
81 will say that, while / take little
interest in politics and am not too
well posted on the subject, that | re-
gard North Carolina as safely Demo-
cratic. The eastern portions of the
State has always been Democratic
while the western has been more or
less Republican, but from present in
dications the Republicans will, since
the force bill has been injected into
the campaign as an issue, vote the
Democratic ticket.
Nothing could have so unified the
Democracy of the Sout1 as has the
fear of a force bill if the Republicans
should be victorious in the fall cleo
tions. This will probably cause the
Farmers Alliancemen, Third party
men, as well as a good sprinkling of
the respectable Republicans, to sup
port Cleveland. do not think that
there is any strife between the Farm
erS' Alliance and Democracy. The
nominee for Governor is an Alliance
man and is regarded as sound Dem
Ocrat."
From politics the discussion drifted
to other subjects, and Mr.. HuSke
said: 1.-The growth of WinstOn-Salem
is most remarkable. 1t is in the cen
ter of one of the finest tobacco grow
ing regions in the country, our town
ships sixteen million pounds of tobac-
co per annum and fifteen million more
are manufactured into cigars, cigar
cites and smoking tobacco. The far
merS who grow this tobacco realize
about stwo dollars and seventy-three
cents per hundred clear profit on it,
while those who manufacture it
receive for their work about foul
cents per pound.
THUS you may see that the money
realized on the tobacco business in an
immense thing and most of it is spent
in our city. Winston has many other
industries which from year to yeal
| are augmented and new ones started
| think it is safe to predict that in q
few years WinStOn-Salem will be the
largest city in the State"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
HER PATH ON THE CROSS TIES,
Miss Zoe Gayton on Her Long Tramp
Across the Continent.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 5.-Mifs Zoe Gay
ton, the renowned female pedestrian,
who left New York last Monday week
for a walking tour of this country, ar
rived in Baltimore Wednesday even
ing. She came via. the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and throughout her journey
will follow the railroad tracks.
The present walk is for a wager of
50. 900 and one-half the outside bets
that she can make distance of 1865
miles in l67 walking days.
The route of her walk will be to
Washington to Lynchburg to Danville
to New Orleans. thence through
Texas ahd Arizona, across the MOjaye
Desert to San Francisco
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
PROF. COLLIER COBB.
The Newly Elected Geology Professor
at the University.

This gentleman has been elected
assistant Professor of Geology and
Mineralogy in the University His
career is very interesting. AS boy
he manifested marked talent for geo.
graphical and geological work; and
while yet a lad he made school map
of North Carolina which was admi-
rarbly adapted to its purpose and is
largely used in the schools of the
State. He was then resident of
Chapel Hill and student in the
University. From there he went to
Harvard University, Boston, Mass,
where by his own labor he paid all the
expenses of a course of study, gradual
ing with honor Since his graduation
at Harvard he has been employed as
"a member of the Harvard faculty,
teaching geology and mineralOgy, and
has also been professor in the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology.
His course has been highly honorable.
He is a native of North Carolina, a
son of Rev. \. B. Cobb, and we are
glad to see his merit and his talent
recognized by his election to a chair
in the University.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
A Second Sampson.

A Virginia paper relates that gen.
tleman named j. O. Mason killed a
bull by main strength while protect
ing a woman from the infuriated ami
NAL. Mr. Mason says the bull weigh
ed 1,5OO pounds and was seven or eight
years old. He saw that the woman
was in imminent danger and ran to
her relief He seized the bull by the
horns and gave tremendous jerk and
twist. which he supposed pulled the
neck out of the socket, and the bull
tumbled over and was soon dead. The
woman was on the ground, and would
doubtless soon have been killed. Mr..
Mason is man of powerful physique
and of equal courage. He is probably
the only man in America who evel
killed an infuriated bull with his ma
ked hands.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
A DEAD BULL.
An Interesting Communication from
a Section Hand,

In the beginning of the summer
Mr.. Pierce Barnes, lawyer in New
York, says the Sun of that city, had
occasion, as counsel for a Western
railroad, to ask a section foreman for
information regarding the killing of a
bull on the line. He received the fol-
lowing vivid reply from Andy Slat-
terry, CoOn's Holf, Mimi:
Dear Sir: Your humble servant,
Andy Slattery section foreman at the
falls below, knows but very little with
regards to the killing of the bull. But
howsoever what right had he over here
when he lived two miles beyant the
right of way, but never the less he
came in company along with two of
his female sex and in the height of
their jollity they lept the fence and
they were cavorting the whole of the
afternoon up and down the right of
way, and presently along comes No. Z
and hits the little bull Il whelt in the
tail and knocks him to the pike below
and breaks his bones to atoms, and
the bull is dead. That is all L
know in regards to the killen of
the bull. Your hun BILE seryantat the
Falls below"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
1t PIeases Republicans,

NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-The failure of
the Third party to cut any considera-
BILE figure in the Alabama election has
put backbone in the Republican lead
ers, as they claim that the Alabama
result indicates that the Alliance
craze will prove an abortion in the
Republican States of the North and
West as in the Democratic States of
the South. A few weeks ago they
were terrified by the movement. Now
they are inclined to give a good deal
more time and attention to patching
up party peace in New York as the
chief point of the campaign.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
A TRIANGULAR COLLISION,
Three Trains Get ali Smashed Up To-
gGthGr.
ENGINEER And FIREMAN KILLED.
One Passenger Dangerously Wounded
and Several Others Badly Hurt.
The Wreck Occurred Because a
Freight Train Was Two Long in
Making a Siding at Harbor Creek.

ERIE, Pa, Aug. 6.-At Harbor
Creek, on the Lake Shore Road last
night freight train going west was
trying to get into the side track to al
low fast freight to pass. Before it
could get clear, the fast freight dashed
into the rear of the train on the sid
ing, throwing the wreckage on the
east bound track.
Before the fiagman could be sent
out, a Boston special crashed into the
wreck, killing both the engineer and
fireman of the passenger train and
seriously injuring one passenger.
Several others were badly but not
fatally hurt.
PITTsBURG, Aug. 6.-At one o'clock
this morning near Connellsville, on
the B. & O. road, two freights COLI
ded. Two trainmen were fatally and
several others seriously injured.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
A PERFECT FIGURE"
Winston Girls May Apply These Rules
and See How You are Built.

From the New York Times
The height of a person with per-
feet Figure" should be exactly equal
to the distance between the tips of
the middle fingers of either hand when
the arms are fully extended.
Ten times the length of the hand,
or seven and half times the length
of the foot, or five times the diameter
of the chest, from one armpit to the
other, should also give the height of
the whole body.
The distance from the junction of
the thighs to the ground should be
exactly the same as from the elbow to
the middle line of the breast.
From the top of the head to the lev
el of the chin should be the same az
from the level of thel chin to that of
the armpits, and from the heel to the
toe.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
Farmers, Institute.

A Farmers Institute will be held at
August 18th. Addresses will be made
by Drs. Parker and Bird; Hons. S. b.
Alexander, J. ]. White, d. M. Payne;
Pres. Winston, of the University;
Prof. Massey, of the A. and M. Col
lege; Prof McIver, of the State School
for women; Prof. Holmes, of Yadkin
College; Drs. Battle and Emory, of the
Experiment Stations; Hon. A. Leazer
and Others
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
The Significance of the Alabama EIec
ton.
From the Charlotte Obseryer1

The Gideonites received their death
blow, so far as the South is concerned,
in the Alabama election Monday.
The Democrats smote them, hip and
thigh. The'majority by which they
were overcome is something immense.
So it will be everywehere if the issue
is everywhere met as squarely as il
has been in Alabama. 1t is capital
mistake to suppose that the agricul-
tural class generally has been in
fected with the virus of Weaverism.
The hearts of the'people are still, as
ever, with the Democratic party.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-08-11
MEETING OF HORSE-BREEDEE
A Big Gathering of Horsemen and
Horses to be Held at Raleigh.

Prominent horse-breeders and own
ers of fine horses in North Carolina
will meet at Raleigh on August 18th
and 18th, 1892, for the purpose of in
augerating permanent race program
for spring, summer and autumn, and
to organize a Breeders Association
for the State; and to this meeting,
every citizen in the State interested
in owning, breeding or driving the
American trotter is invited.
The racing feature of this meeting
will be one of the most interesting
trials of speed ever known in the
State. Forty-seven horses have been
entered to date, and there will be as
many as eight starters in some of the
races.
The meeting for organizing the
Breeders Association will be held on
the night of August Eth. Railroad
rates for the occasion are unusually
low. f. II. Lee, of Raleigh, will give
any information.