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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13
WhaIebone.

Owing to a popular misconceptioa
this substance, whose more appropri-
ate name is "baleen,' has been called
"bone," while it really contains no bone
whatever in its composition. It Icsem-
bles rather a number Of hardened hairs,
cemented together by a sort of gum.
Chemically it consists Of basis Of al
bumcn hardened by phosphate OF lime,
the latter, no Ncvcr, in very small quin-
-tity. 1t takes the place Of tccta III Ger
tain species of whales, especially the
Greenland and Southern whale.
\ full grown Greenland whale yields
about a ton of the substance. Tie
whaling vessels usually bring it in pieces
of ten or twelve blades each, but some
times, if The voyage is long, the sailors
have time to strip OF each blade AMI
divest it of its hairs. In preparing them
for use the blades arceleanel ana so.t-
ened by boiling for about two hours;
while still hot they are ixei in large
wooden vices ana shaved iato the re-
quirel sizes.
i These slices or stripes are iriel smooth
/. by steel scrapers aad polished "!th
either emery or dry qnicklin-. Bassda'
is original usage in s.l.rcnlnI tie = .is:s
Of ladies' dresses whalebonc or o.'eel i
employed IN making walking stlcks,
.nu1 boxcs. covering telescopes All
whip handles, and eren making SOM
kinds Of artificial fiAwers. The fibre
detached in sicing the blades are used
instead OF bristles in cheap brushes and
sometimes instead Of hair n Stating
i mattresses.
i In its old use as ribs for umbrellas i;
has been superseded bY the lighter ans
more durable steal. Although the de
nand on the importers each year has bee
! growing steadily less is value has n
| erased. In 1873 there were 354
i hundred weight, Of q vaine 81 s3}3 - J
| while in ls77. though the quantity va
only 1869 hundred weight, the salu
/ was ;414 935 81 Louis P9s. p4tc'
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13


life than l was ths. night. We two
seemed to have come to each other at
just the roment that each was most
welcome, and we found our thoughts 50
alike and our tastes so congenial that we
sat and talked full hour before my
hungry stomach even had chance to
assert itself. You may be sure l was
well served with good supper, as hot
and steaming and dainty as an English
girl could make it. Then when we had
spent another hour In eating it and chat
ting over it, and had helped clear the
dishes away and wash them, aud nv
friend had decided to let the sweeping
60 until the morning, because 1 must
start early, the old father, bluff,
taciturn man, came in and< joined the
conversation with US, and quite forgot
my weariness until it was very late.
'sMv found friend, the CID
gentleman, was a person of some
authority in the place, and offered to
provide me with an escort Of twelve
mounted men to Buenos Ayres, which
was some nine hundred miles across open
plains, where two hostile tribes were at
war. Each tribe had a cockade as a
badge, one Of red the other Of white.
By having both of these sorts of cock
ades in our$ pockets and dexteriously
pulling out the right one when a com
pany of armed men approached us, we
hoped to pass all lines safely, and the
event proved happy, though we had
some narrow escapes.
"When 1 was ready to start. in the
morning, l suddenly, half jokingly,
asked the young woman to whom l had
become much attached in a single even
ing, to accompany me as far as her old
home in Cuba, and | promised her father
to take good care Of her. Somewhat to
the astonishment of us all, she took the
notion of begging her father to let her
accept my offer, and he finally con-
sented.
"We were just in the nick of time at
Buenos Ayres to head off the runaway
ship. The Captain had taken out his
papers already when we arrived, and was
/ planning to sail the next morning. But
he and ali his mates were quietly
arrested while still on shore, and l my
! self took command Of the vessel, shipped
new crew, and with my newly dis
covered treasure from the heart of the
! desert, sailed for the West Indies, where
I spent happy month at the young
| lady's home in Cuba.
ut is needless to say that she became
Mrs. Far!ow, and you are qu-e wen
enough acquainted with her to excuse
me from expatiating further upon hel
beauty and other attractive qualities. D
Boston Transcript.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13

together he told me how he found
his wife. + will let Mr. Farlow tell his
own story, for he can tell it /, cr than
l could:
"You know my marriage all came out
of a South American trip that | once
made, and that is the inte resting part Of
the little romance. l was only twenty
one, and in the employ of a shipping
company in San Francisco. I had been
with them about year and half, and I
think they trusted me a good deal, in
fact, they must have done SO to have
sent me on the expedition they d.. A
captain and his crew had run away with
a ship that belonged to the company and
they wanted me to catch him. He had
started with his booty toward Cape
Horn, and if he once fairly left the South
American waters he was pretty safe from
us. | boarded tie swiftest schooner
that sailed out of Frisco bay, and we
stretched every inch Of canvas for the
south. The ri" Yay had a good two
iays the start Of us, and was nearly as
good a sailcr as We Bat we resolved to
30 our best and hope for luck. In any
kind OF an enterprise a man may always
hope for luck, though he can't really
count on it. At any rate, it serves to
keep the courage up.
"In five days we sighted the islands
off Colombia and stopped to make IN
\ quiries. The esscl we were after had
been sighted two days and 4 half before,
and was going straight for the Cape.
The news was not encouraging, bat we
set of again, with two days and "a half
instead of two days to gain. But we
till hoped for luck or some happy
hought. 1t was not luck but happy
hought that finally decided me to leave
he ship al Valparaiso and strike across
country to Bucnos Ayres in the hope Of
leading off the robbers before they
.Lcared that port. Sailing round the
Tape l knew to be hard work and often
low, and With GOOD luck | could prob
IDLY catch the vessel, or at least have
gained in tie chase.
The trip across the Audcs ana the
,ast plains beyond was memorable ore
o nc. 1t took fortnight OF the hard
.st tramping and riding ever did in my
ife, but | saw some things have never
een since. and never will again. The
guides that we started with were crusty.
malicious fellows, and made me wonder
very night when l lay down to sleep
on the open ground whether l should
act wake up 10 find my throat cut. For
unately that never happened; bur the
'eason was that they had the better par.
If my money before We set out Other-
! wise think my life would have beer
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13

I;Issan Journai reports an interest
in@ ctse ot 4 pAilenthropic physician.
Visiting the patients Of his district. the
doctor lound that in many Instances
t@oir ~icAnc,s wa' cause by hun9cr. 70
tie most nee II he prescribed six pounds
% pure re haaT IN doses of two pounds
a Gay. Il" ordered his patiert to get
TIE medieinc It the drug store OF the
nearest village, where it would be issue
free oi c>arse every day. The good
doctor maleasraagencnts with the drug
gists T. uppIy ,hc tlonr at his expense.
IL this Nay his patients will he kept
from starvation the whole winter.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13
Hot Sf.Hoib HINTS.

ra.h - .,o t,n,, ..;.;o,
t;our ono ,;nt of aronnIo+el sr,ar -,
eggs, two cups OF butter hacked. two
Guns Of sugar four CUPS Of 1ou,
p;oco the copno, adhesive nv ,a,er
an tbe aoors of ,he ,oon ;,ies,ei VIII,
su,,, 1;eco of frosb ,,.,, j., ,h.-co,,er
&c soh s,.o. ,rho a. IN
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13
THE OLD FASHIONED ROCKER

She sat by the old fashioned rocker
And smiled as she sang to her boz.
No mother was ever 50 happy;
No mother SO noflest and coy
A. she Of the old fashioned rocker
The light Of her home and its ioy.
she .'!et each new conner with sunshine
Ill a house full Of boys and girls
Grew out Of the old fashioned rocker
She called them her darlings-her pearls
And sOothe1 them 10 rest on its bosoYn
And toyed with their gathering curls
She sang to them oft in the darkness,
song ike the Inurrnuring sea,
And with a prayer to the Father
That righteous they always might be
Noybreath from the sweet scented orchard
v rs ever 50 sweet unto me
She ,ang through the siege of the fever,
Sang while She rocked the low bel:
ANA all asked at once for her soothing,
Tier hand on each hot little head;
Til the roses gave place to the lilies
They toll her the baby was dead.
i1uSiIcd were tne song ana the rocker;
Heavy her haart all the day.
Tears for the loved and the lost one
She knelt by the rocker to pray
That angels Of Cod from high heaven
Would chase the dark shadows away.
Back TO the song and the rocker,
The song of the murmuring sea,
She went with her heart half hurstin~
To sing unto you an to me
AS when she had sung to her baby
Ere its spirit from earth was set free.
Beaten and worn is the rocker
That cherished our gathering curls.
Silent tonight and forgotten
BY eli save the mother of pearls
Who sang and rocked in the darkness
To her h0fse full of boys and girls.
r. II, Iosf, IN Columbia Herald
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13
TIE OLD TEAM REWARD.

An acquaintance, a successful well-to-
do farmer, saws the Ru,H -Neo TorIfr
has Just sold his oldest and most faithful
team of horses because they have reached
an age when they can no LONGER perform
the amount of labor Of which younper
team is capable. For years, since they
Were first broken to harness, they have
labored faithfully an1 uncomplainin5ly
through summers heat and winters
cold; have plowc1 canl narrowed the
fields and gathered in the harycsts; have
gone to market, many times through
heavy roads well-nigh impas sable, have
cheerfuIly taken their master hither and
thithcr on busircss or pleasure. NV,
when years Of toll have made them less
profitable 70 their owner thcg are heart
lessly sacrificed and arc no. permitted to
share during theiI o,l a5e the enjoyment
Of that competence II which they hays.
50 largely contributed. Isn't it un-rata-
FIJI, to say the least We can conceive
Of a condition Of hopeless icot All p,v-
crty that might force one to SUCH Al act.
but for u farmer with i compctchce. 10
sacrifice old and faithful servants u the
abuse usually bcs.o@ci H. tie class Of
people who deaf in old horse, j. simply
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13

Among the starving people OF En'sia,
the mos; ptao.e are the lcAoov2shes' q
FINNISH tioe, numbering ABOUT '9o,oo''
ma dIsp6rscd III forest districts OF the
ToVefnnen'S q hnz'n' o''noFiSN' oFen
ouFs "Ad Vo'' lney pear 'ie'F ''i'''o'-
tunes with p'rsec'-s'oiclsin' they 40 no,
c'a'hos Tor 100 Ga 'he roa''''''e' Is 'ue'F
S.aViSA nelshoorS 49, nor 90 lh's sur
round every new conner, begging Al re-
!at IS 'heF n'scF'e' \ spec'al CORE
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13
"GRACIOUSp

r. FARLOW was
a compact business
m a n, b ri g h t,
shrewd, and kindly.
He had seen a good
deal of life in his
Cay, and it was not
commonplace life,
either. One even
inc as we sat cozilv
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13

$50 she was Ea5lish.- II my delight
at the discovery forgot ii. abou. the
plate, but stepped quickly forward and
took her hand. now quite without en-
barrassnen., and explained, as briefly IS
I could, who l was and what wanted.
You may be sure she was as delighted to
see me as was to see her. For whole
year :he only kindred face she had seen
was her fathers, and that. she remarked,
was covered with shaggy beard Sae
confessed that when I came IN she was
shedding a few tears Of honesickness
herself ana wonderiasif 10 friend would
come 20 see her, or il her father could
not be persuaded to take her back to
Cuba, where her home had beea.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-02-13

inc as we sat coZilv
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23

Day after day we read the fine-spun
theories about good country roads in
Florida, how they can be made, etc., but
the insurmoun;able difficulties are not
even alluded to.
The wealth is in Tallahassee and other
large towns in the state; there they have
means and skill to make good highways
available and perfect, but they do not al
ways do so. even if they do have plenty
of money levied for this purpose.
They cut our country roads to pieces
with their narrow-tired vehicles and we
patch them up when we can get lot of
Afro-Americans out with lot of dull i'm
plements.
Ali the sick Yankees or anyone else
can expect under the circumstances and
present law is for US to patch up our
drive-ways in a slip-shod manner.
Make the burdens of country road
making equal and alike on the people of
the cities, towns and country. Treat the
rich and poor alike so far as the support
Of the country highways are concerned,
then good roads will be numerous.
So long as the merchant and the non
producing class in the towns and cities Of
Florida believe that they are in nowise
affected in getting the farmers produce
to their centres Of trade. so long will we
have these miserable things called roads
We can name states where the towns
people have seen the necessity years ago
of making the roads from the farms to
the cities and towns. and they have
caused themselves to be taxed il equal
proportion with the farmers to carry out
the desired end
Ask the average city man in this state
to do the like and he would laugh in your
face and pronounce you morally insane.
This is all we shall have to say on
country roads until legislature makes
different and better law.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23
Boys Going to the Exposition.

Many of the farmer boys of Florida are
thinking seriously of going to Chicago in
1898 to the greatest of great Colum bsn
expositions The "wherewith" 10 take
them there may be troubling some of their
minds.
Let US make suggestion TO you. It is
this: Next time you sit down 10 a meal
after you have read this article, say to your
father and mother, Give US so many
acres Of land designate the NUMBER, for
our own special and undivided use this
year and next so that we can earn money
to take Us to the Worlds Fair" Or if this
will not do, agree to work 80 many DAYS in
the week for the old folks, and then have
them rent you these acres and work them
on the share plan. No parent who has the
interest of his children a: heart will for a
moment hesitate when approached in a
proper manner.
Girls, many Of you will want to 60. Say
to mother "Give me the proceeds OF a
young heifer and so many hens and tur-
keys this year, and until starting time in
1898" And mother will say, "Of course /
will" Make butter, milk and egg con-
tract with one or more of the townsmen.
Tell them what you intend TO do with the
proceeds, and you will find plenty of peo-
pie who will encourage you in your laud .
able enterprise with hearty good will.
We insist tina, all who possibly can visit
the grandest of Worlds expositions should
do Sd. 1t will be a grand school where
one can learn more of this great world
than by years of study and reading. It il
an opportunity that never will sgain be
offered you.
NOW is the time for one and all Of our
farmer boys and girls to commence max.
ing the necessary arrangements
The cost is not going TO be great. The
railroads intend to make rates so that the
poorest person will go. If you stay there
two weeks. get a room and eat where Won
| please. and there will be such q vast com.
petition in the hotels. lodging-houses and
restaurants that il will not cost over xIO 70
stay there two weeks Round trip tickets
| will be as low as SIS In short, one car
see the exposition for $40 and be well paid
| hoa;dao
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23

We have stood ON .our tip-toes and
waited with breathless anxiety for the
Cambello Campbell TO reveal his hidden
braten biscuit secret We are almost
alkalied with the constant use of the alb
solutely (?) pure baking powders and
drug sodas, and want change. Here is
the change:
To one quart of flour add an iron bast-
ingsponful of lard or butter and NIX
with back of spoon thoroughly; add salt
to taste, moisten with water 10 make a
pliable dough, not sticky. Knead or
beat this till il blisters. Roll out and cut
out with biscuit cutter, or better. pinch
OF IN sizes to sui; the taste and flatten
with hands and stick with fork three
times Cutting soddens the e;ges.
Like Bro. Campbell we are patching. y
and tomorrow we go to the woods to
make the maui, then Look out for the
batting the Campbell biscuit will get.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23

The inquiry in regard to soil for tobacco
growing is in the mouth of all of the new
beginners and it is a very important
matter.
Last year we made three tests, one on
black hammock, another on brown Joan
and the third on very sandy plat with a
brown sub-soil. and we found the best
tobacco on the latter. On the former the
obacco grew much larger but the leaves
were coarse, wider and more on the order
of the Burley. The brown soil produced
a medium grade.
Cuba grows the finest tobacco in the
world On the land that the Vuelta de
Abajo and Nicaragua grow nothing
equals i; in any respect In fact il is the
finest district in the world. From these two
districts is where our seed comes from.
Cuba to large extent lies On an island
and the most OF islands are made up Of
sand; that is why we contend that sandy,
porous soil that will hold moisture to the
depth the tap-root reaches is the prefera-
bic kind
In the Shelter neighborhood in Gadsden
county, the boss tobacco section Of the
state, We have noticed that much of the
sand IS Of dark grey color with 10 lime
near the surface.
We advise ali to pick out as much grey
sandy land as they can for flavor, aroma
and fine texture
In many places in Middle Florida a spe-
cies of iron ore can be seen cropping from
the ground, these spots should be avoided
II the grey sand Can be found near lake
or river al the better Tobacco demands
humid atmosphere and should have it
by all means
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23

Florida has grown some bean,;s.,
per leaf and the area there win ="
ously extended. Now. therefos. 80
Connecticut and Housatonic vrans
day command the market. thew - &
able to do so in future only by ~,
in quality. This is TO be insnrsd -.
the utmost care from the selec,;<.o a =
seed until the crop is finally sold T,
tity is the main object. QUALITY !.
certain to be sacrificed. The e-s.
to be avoided is over production s
more Wrappers are grown than Il. y.
market will quickly desire. prices ~;s
In that case those who have rushss 3 -
this crop on large scale win -.
because the tariff doesn't keen mn -:
Ii American growers would prodnce -.
what less wrappers and seconds thar ~
erican manufacturers require, very -
factory prices will prevail for II. -.
crop, ii the present tariff is main,a;n.aa !.
exclude Samaritan leaf. The eYne-;...l.
Connecticut valley grower viii take -
ing by the speculation of Is and 0a -.
ago, and will grow tobacco not TO ths -
clusion of other crops but to limi,ed =
tent only as a money crop. KNOWN, n
we'll the folly ofputting all his eggs 4 5.
basket Many Of the most successfuI -
experienced growers are fire. to 49,
that they would have been better of -.
to have raised pound of the weed q =
aching is the labor, care, anxiety and =
ylnV0iVes--New England Homestead
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23

While travelling the country over we no
tjcc that the life of many bright, hopeful
young gobbler and sleek hen did not 10 an
unceremonious manner have their young
lie 'ssnuffed out" by the eating calls of the
christmas festivities. The bright old say.
inx. .swhom the gods love die young" will
not spply with any degree of force in the
portions OF Leon county, we have peram-
bnIated over. The grim reaper death, has
sfnIken hundreds from among US TO their
SnourDful resting place, decorated With Gran
berry sauce. With good season and a
boybehind each flock there will be "dead
ool5Ies,' OF them next fall.
Writing TO our State Horticultural So
city Worlds Fair official says: al
- have any copies of last years report
I'm on hand, we should like to have one"
10 doubt oft there's whole families down
Srith the same disease. Does he for q
uospent suppose that legislature thai
oglld refuse, in every shape and form, tG
sr;ptooriate nickel for Florida at the
Wolfe Fair, would print "a horticultural
ort Oil no, they amt built that way
E1hey have dirty politics on the brain no
iculture.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23
A Successful Farmer.

At friend Gibbs nursery recently we
took peep at the progeny of the insect
that saws off the limbs of the pecan tree.
The lens was Of great magnifying power
and showed him up in his true colors.
What to do, is the question Mr.. Gibbs is
bordering over. Once he suggested the
burning of all the limbs that drop to the
ground. By so doing, thousands of these
microbes that rest under the bark durino
the winter months will be exterminated
The growers of pecan orchards should
give the matter attention, and the sooner
done the better.
1t was lambing time at his farm. and
twenty-five of Mary's little pets were
frisking around lively. with several
"back townships to hear from
he also has plenty of welI-fed cattle,
because he dixie every good farmer
should,) puts up hay for them. He
raises turnips aud ruta bagas for his
sheep. His bur clover looks very fine
and the more we see of it the more we
are inclined to believe that every Middle
Florida farmer should have field. a,
least, Of the same
The camphor tree that we spoke of.
about one year ago, has made fine
growth the last season and promises well.
1t is an ornament to any yard
lie is buSily engaged in putting out
another pecan orchard, this time in the
thick woods, which in due time, as they
grow older and larger, he will clear out
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23

We have often heard buyers complsia 4
the difficulty they encounter when yisis;M
the cigar leaf growing districts in ind
out farmers who have crops to sell, q
they think it very strange that grovu
who will hang out sign saying that Ii
have COW, pigs, hay crop, or any tin
else to dispose of will not do the ~
when they have tobacco for sale. Ne
know where growers have lost money d
tous keeping dark their crops. for buy
have said they would have given more &
them than the purchasers did. Hang n
banners on the outer fences, gentiem
ana let them be signs of the time
Tobacco Leaf.
We have hung out our banner In yor
columns and told agents how many croz
We had for sale Let the buyers con
Take an early start and get back tril
late AID they can see all of the crops u
have mentioned.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23

Badly Notwithstanding else besides
natural means TO properly cure the Vuelta
Abajo Leaf. AS each SEASON rolls around in
this portion of Middle Florida We will he
more and more subject 10 climatic changes.
a method that will do the curing work up
quickly and well is surely needed among
the growers, II they were in possession OF
such a method, no more tobacco would be
sold green in the field, neither would crops
be hauled twenty miles and sold for less
IL an full value. Give us the method.