The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-24
LOCAL AMporhER MmWs

The darkey will soon sing
his last song to the watermelon
this season.
I. Fall will soon fall on us.
Now il the time to fall-in with
your advertisements
The first three months of
1892 show an expectation of all
most six million bushels of corn
to Germany in place of but a
little over one million in the
corresponding period of 1891.
All the schools will soon
opened. The teachers and pu-
pills have had a pretty hot dose
of summer vacation; and unless
it rains soon they will not be
brace up much for business in
the head work line.
This is the season of the
year when the girl who is too
broken down to assist her moth
er can walk up and down a
board walk at a sea shore resort
for nine hours at a stretch, with
nothing to lean against but 4
broken-down dude.
Whole bones contain much
valuable fertilizer, chiefly phos
phoric acid, but it is some
trouble to reduce them so as to
make this available for plant
food. Bury the bones about the
roots of vines and trees, and you
may utilize them freely with
out any labor.
-"Hit 'em agin;' the Mas
sachusetts Ploughman says,
were men governed by reason
and common sense, stock breed
ing would advance with won
derful strides. One Of the first
things to do would be to exter-
inmate about nine-tenths Of the
dogs Of the country and thus to-
promote sheep breeding. But
for the dog nuisance ten sheep
might be raised in New England
where now only one is found.
Strikes and lockouts all over
the country just as the admin
istration is DRAWN 10 a close
which made such great promis-
es for the working people be-
fore il came into power are not
a very encouraging sign for the
continuation OF that party in
Office. We regret the business
conditions as they are, but we
are glad that the work of educa-
ton is still going on. Our
schools were never better In
Durham.
An extract from Mr.. White
law Reds speech delivered at
Sprinield, H., last Thursday.
He said: "Neither am / here
TO utter one word against the
gentlemen whom the opposing
party presents for the popular
suffrage. / come from the State
Of one of them, aud am, at this
moment, guest in the State of
the other. IL gives pleasure 10
know that both Of them are
tried, able and sincere men,
too sincere and too honorable 70
take a nomination without in-
curing its full party obliga-
tons or 10 stand on a platform
without accepting and main.
tanning is doctrine.
No man who minds his own
business, obeys the laws and
keeps the peace need not be
afraid to call things by their
rightnames; but there is q young
Durhamite, who Is said 10 be
a good marksman, when in the.
presepce Of ladies, and they hap
pen 20 refer 20 his marksman.
ship, he tells them about his
good shots at the ox's eye--leay-
ing the bulls eye out OF the
question: How the mark that
people shoot at, called the bulls
eye ever got into an ox's head,
we don't understand. We would
90 miles 10 see him shoot at an
ox's eye. Such bluders as this
causes many who are thrown I'M
the company 81 the fair sex TO
become a positive burden.
-Witherspoon Erwin, in Sep.
TENDER Fetter's Southern Mag.
azine, contributes a most inter.
essing story, "The Fiddler Of
Linnville Cave" the scenes OF
which are laid in the mountains
Of Western North. Carolina,
showing in his most graphic
style how common occurrences
are weaved into legends BY the
simple folks of that country. In
point Of interest Il rivals the IA.
nous legend, 1.-THE Pied Piper
Of Hamelin," while the style Is
peculiar 10 the author. This
story Is beautifully illustrated
by +. w. Cawein, and Carolus
Bremen, and the worI painting
Of the beauties Of this beautiful
section Is the best which has
appeared Ia a long time. Living
among these mountains Mr..
Erwin seems 10 have caught