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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-10-11
Salt IN Agriculture.

The Salt Union, Cheshire, has issued
a circular drawing attention to the value
of salt in agriculture. The phamplet is
nodoubt intended as an advertisement but
it is valuable as indicating, under saper-
rate heads, the various ways in which salt
benefits the land and stock of the agrl-
culturist. Exception may, however,
possibly be taken to one or two points
raised in favor of salt:
|. Salt consists of two-thirds chloride
~-na onn-thira soda and the solvent
powers of chloride are twenty times
greater than those of rainwater, it is I'M
doubtedly the most powerful substance
known for breaking up the soil and set
ting it's constituents free and available to
nourish the roots of the plants If the
soil be stiff and dry, it is useless, and the
roots cannot spread. An ordinary guam
tity of rain is not sufficient on stiff or
sloping land. In all cases salt hastens
weathering.
2. Salt absOrhs moisture from the at
mOsphere, and retains it in the soil, thus
compromising for deficiency of rain.
3. Salt purifies and decomposes all
inert matter
4. Salt makes stubborn soil easier to
work.
s. Salt quickly destroys all kinds of
noxious vermin, wire worms, slugs. and
turnip fly.
g. Salt rcnovates old pasture lands,
making sour grasses sweet and palatable
for cattle and sheep. When ground rock
salt is freely used for this purpose the
animals are healthy. 1t also neutralizes
the Injurious effect of rank grasses on
new pastures. At the rate of one ton per
acre in spring, it has a wonderful effect
T. For strengthening the straw of &C.
reals, the use Of salt is most important,
owing to the fact that it seems to be the
only substance which has the chemical
power of setting free the requisite guam
tity of silica to nOurish the stems.
g. For root crops salt is valuable when
previously Incorporated Ill Gne SOIL, on
account of its powerful moistening quail
tiles as before mentioned, and there is
conclusive evidence that it prevents dis
ease in potatoes.
7. If salt be mixed with other ma
nures, il will make them far more effec-
tive by dissolving the various constitu-
ontS and kaeninp them moist
10. A plentiful application of salt to
the dung heap will not only fix the val
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-10-11
FOR TIRE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
The Cost of Canned Vegetables.


The investigation by the Agricultural
Department at Washington, into the ex
tent of the adulteration of foods in the
United States has revealed not only that
the people of this country are paying
aau4n hundred millions of dollars an
nuAlly for authorizations that are besides
being valueness for food in many
cases are actually poisonous and injurious
to the user, bat to the further fact that
probably not one in a thousand of the
consumers of canned vegetables has
any comprehension of the price they pay
for nutriment taken from the tin cans
that bestreW the yards and are such an
eyesore to all who behold them.
For illustration it is shown that the
food material in canned string beans
costs the consumer about SIS pound.
The object of the report of the chief
chemist is not to discourage the use OF
unadnlterated canned goous, but to en-
tighten the head of the family labor.
ing under Strengthened circumstances,
in more economic way of supplying
nutriment to those dependent upon him.
The report is summed up as follows:
San expenditure of ten or fifteen cents
in good article of -four or meal will
procure as much nutriment for family
as the investment of So or 81 in canned
goods"
Ii this fact could be fixed in the mem
DRY of every head of family, be it the
father or mother, or husband or wife,
who owns or rent, house and lot in Flo
rida, how many kitchen gardens would
take the place Of the scattered tin cans,
and the spare moments occupied in
planting and cultivating garden vegeta-
bles. "A penny saved is two pence
earned" is an old adage. but very much
in place in Florida. 1t will probably re-
quire a good many years ofline upon line
and precept upon precept to convince
the people of our State that our climate
and soil is capable of producing very
nearly all the food supply of man and
beast. A profound conviction is the
first necessity. and the how to-do-it, can
best be impaired by careful perusual
weekly of the agricultural papers of your
own State. Fifty cents will buy
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
THE TRIBUTE OF SILENCE.
BY JAMES BUCKAAM.

A post read his verses, ana of two
Who listened, one spake naught but
open praise;
The other held his peace, but all his face
Was frightened by the inner JOY he knew.
Two friends, long absent, met; and one
had borne 'satga.
The awful stroke and scath Of binding
loss.
Hand fell in hand; so knit they, ike a
cross.
With no word uttered, heart to heart was
sworn,
mother looked into her baby's eyes,
AS blue as heav'n and deep as neither sea.
By what dim prescience, spirit wise,
knew she
Such souls exchanges never more would
rise?
Oh, deep is silence deep as human
souls:
AYE, deep as life, beyond all lead and
line.
And words are but the broken shells that
shine,
Along the shore by which the ocean
rolls
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
Psychological Aspects of Educa-

Psychological Aspects of Educa-
tion,' in which he advocated the
Importance of allowing advanced
students to follow the bent of their
talents in educational matters be-
fore special courses and optional
studies had theplace they now hold
in our colleges and universities. In
1884, at the invitation of General
Eaton, United States Commissioner
of Education, he read paper be-
fore the international Congress of
Education on literary and scien
tifc habits Of though. The follow
ing year DR.. W. Harris invited him
to deliver at least two lectures bes
fore the Concord School of Philos,
ophy. 1t was the first time a Caths
lie was invited to address such sn
Assem- blage. Brother Azarias was
on the eve of going to Europe, and
could prepare only one paper on
Dante. For the same school, while
in London, be wrote a paper on
Aristotle aud the school men. In
1890 he lectured before the Ears
mington School of Philosophy on
the realtion of Church and State.
In 1891 he read a paper before the
State Teachers Association at
Saratoga, on religion in education,
in which he went to- show that a
Christian community, being given
the education of the children OF that
community, must needs be Chris
tian. Brother Azararias contributed
articles to the International Res
view, the American Catholic
Quarterly Review, the American
Ecclesiastical Review, the Interna
tional Review of Ethics, the Educa,
tional Review Of New York, the
Catholic World, the Ave Maria
the Catholic Reading Circle Re-
view and others. As an educator
Brother Azarias was universally
considered among the highest liv,
ing authority in regard to the
theory, practice and history OF
deyagogics. He lectured before the
School of Pedagogy in the Univer,
sity of New York. An article O.
| his in the Educational Review OIL
the Primary School in the Mid,
die Ages" was greatly admired in
this country.
As a literary critic Brother
Azarias is especially recognized. In
one of his works he distinguishes
between analytical or constructive
criticism. He may be said to have
creatad the department of synthetic
or constructive criticism. His name
has been eighteen years before the
plblic as an author. In 1874 was
issued the first edition of his "Phi-
losophy of Literature"
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
MY LOVE.
Bertha s. Farrow.


All, many ways I've fashioned to mys
self
My own, my future love-
She shall be slight, she shall be fair,
eyes
The hue of space above.
Of gold, her soft and silker hair; her
grace
My passion deeply move,
Perchance she shall have eyes Of
brown, to win,
Me with their sparkling spell;
Dark hair, which floats in pleasing
wave a hand
Whose fondest linoerings tell
Of love deep hiding in soul, Whose
depths
One can bnt know SO well,
Perchance she shall have eyes Of gray
whose glances.
Shy, will quickly fall;
A thoughtful mind; pleasing air;
heart
All mine! My soul must call,
Though eyes be blue, or brown, or gra
her heart
| All mine-Or not at all
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
AFEARFUL STORM.
The St. Thomas Hurricane Strikes New
York.

New YORK, Aug. PA heavy
gale,,with rain in torrents struck this
vicinity last night, giving none of
the usual warnings. Then slight
breeze sprung up and within ten
minutes full fedged cyclone was
blowing, bringing with it a deluge
of rain that made a new record.
There were nearly four inches
of rainfall on the record for Sep-
tenn Der 22nd and 23rd, 1882, but
last nights rainfall exceeded four
inches, Cellars and Easements on
West and South streets Che river
fronts) were flooded and much
damage to goods stored was caused.
Trees all over the city were up.
rooted or stripped of their branches.
Central Park suffered heavily in
this way. Brooklyn also suffered
greatly in Prospect Park and on
the shaded streets. Yachts, row
beats and small craft of all kinds
were driven ashore by the hundreds
in neighboring waters. There was
an extraordinarily high tide; and
as both shores Of Long Island sound
and the South shore OF Long Island
are dotted with harbors filled with
pleasure crafts, the loss is very
heavy.
The Boston mails were six hours
late in arriving in this city tosday.
The delay was occaeioued by a
washout on the New York & New
Haven Railroad at Mt, Vernon,
n. Y. The mails from other places
were from one to two hours late
on account of last nights rain.
There is a very small loss of life
reported, The greatest calamity
to life was at As5ury Park, n. j
where the fishing schooner Mary
E. Kelly, of New York, was blown
ashore and wrecked in front of the
town. The captain, mate, steward
and one sailor were drowned. The
steward was drowned in his galley
Seven members of the crew were
saved by three guests and the pro-
prietor of the Columbian hotel
who were out On the beach in the
storm. They were W. Harvey Jones
the proprietor, Walter and NAL
COIN Dickinson, of Philadelphia
and Mr.. Laird, of Albany. They
saw the wreck and securing ropes
threw them from the board wall
to the vessel. One man was res,
cued through the efforts of Hor
ace w. Boardman, aged Il years
OF Camden, who succeeded il
throwing rope to him. TIE los
at Asbury Park will reach $4,000
and as much more at Oceal
! Groye.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
ELECTRIC BITTERS.

This remedy is becoming so wei
known and SO popular as to need no spec
ial mention. All who have used Electric
Bitters sing the same song of praise.-A
purer medicine does not exist and it is
guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Elec-
trio Bitters will cure all diseases of the
Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples,
Boils, Salt Rheum and other affections
caused by impure blood.-will drive Nal
aria from the system and prevent as well
as cure all Malarial feyers.-Fol cure of
Headache, Constipation and Indigestion
try Electric Btters-Entire satisfaction
guaranteed or money refnnded.-Price so
cts.and $1.00 per bottle at J.H. H.Hill&Son's
Drugstore
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
CONDITION OF COUNTRY IN 1857.

Richmond Dispatch.
In the year 1857. in his annual
message to Congress. Mr.. Buchanan
gave a description of the then condi
ton of the country, which defines
clearly the linaments of the
panic which now paralyses business.
The great Pennsylvania statesman
declares it to be one of the highest
and most responsible duties of gov
ernment to ensure the people
currency. He was addressing Con-
gress and was speaking of the Feda
eral Government and the Federal
laws. It was, he said, the duty of
the government to "ensure the peo-
pie q sound currency" Yes, Sens
sure the people a sound currency"
What prevented? What was the
difficulty? "Unfortunately," con-
tinues one of the wisest Presidents
the country has ever had, ''unfort-
unately this important and delicate
duty has been transferred to more
than 1,400 State banks, acting in
dependently of each other and re-
gulating their paper issues almost
exclusively by a regard to the pres
ent interests of their stockholders" +"
There would now be about 5000
of these State banks. Think of
5000 different kinds of circulating
notes, and not one of them known
to be good five hundred miles from
| home.
Think of what motley currency
we should have. Think of returns
ing to the old system of issuing
100000 of circulating notes upon
| 100000 of specie. One dollar to
redeem three, and that one dollar
lent to somebody and notice put
upon the door that the bank has
suspended specie payments. There
would not be a hundred men in
Richmond who could detect coun~
terfeits upon these wild cat banks.
The difference between a national
currency and local currency is
that one is for the people and the
other is for the men who receive in
terest on three dollars of notes
based on one dollar of real money.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31

in the following resolutions adopted
by the Board of Trustees of the city
schools ON his resionatinn.

IL oAG AolloH1HS 4GSO4ubAOHo doOptSoj
by the Board of Trustees of the city
schools on his resignation:
Mr.. ]. Y. Joyner, late Superintendent
of the Graded Schools of Goldsboro, havs
ing been elected to a professorship in the
Faculty of the State Female Normal
School, and in consequence thereof, hays
ng refused to accept the Superinten-
dency of the Goldsboro Schools,to which
he had been reelected, committee COM
posed OF w. G. Munroe, J. II. Hill and H.
L. Grant was appointed by the Chairman
of the Board of Trustees to draft resolu-
tions expressive of the sentiment OF the
intendent. The Committee reported the
following resolutions, which were unans
ouimsly adopted.
RESOLVED l. That while this Board
congratulates the people of North Caro-
lima upon securing the services Of one SO
well fitted to discharge the responsible
and delicate duties of the position to
which Mr.. J. Y. Joyner has been elected,
yet it cannot abstain from expressing re-
gret at the loss the people of Goldsboro
has sustained in losing the superintend'
ing care over their children of one so ripe
in experience, so rich in endowments, and
so devoted in aim, as is Mr.. Joyner.
RESOLVED 2. That during the years
that Mr.. Joyner has been Superintendent
of the Goldsboro Schools his intercourse
with the Board of Trustees has been uni
formly pleasant, he has, by his kindnes:
and consideration endered himself to the
children and the teachers, he has by his
scholarship, good judgment and tact KEEP
the school upon the high plain upon which
it was pitched, aud added to its POPULAR
ty; and, has in all respects, worthily
worn the mantle of his distinguished pre-
decessors.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
DEATH OF MISS DUsENBURY.
The Postnistrs So at Concord Dies After
Brief Illness.

Miss Mary Dusenbury, postmis-
tress at Concord, died at ten minu-
tes after ten O'Clock Tuesday morn-
ing, August 22nd. She had been
sick Just week, Miss Dusenbniy
was about SO years OF age and was
a daughter of the late Admiral
Dnsenbury, who died just before
the outbreak of the late war,
The death of Mics DusenhnrJ
necessarily recalls incidents in her
career as an fficial. She was ap-
pointed postmistress at Concord on
December 26, 1873, by PresideDl
Grant. She was snccessively re-
appointed by Presidents Hayee
Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison.
One of Harrison's last official acts
in February, was to send her res
appointment to the Senate, bul
that body did not act upon it. Al,
though Senators Ransom and
Vance and Representatives Hen
derson and Alexander had united
in an effort to have her rem yed
President Cleveland had taken nc
action in the matter and there wa;
no indication that he intended K
do so in the near future. Mr.. Johr
B. Sheriff. has been Recommended
for her successor, and by her death
bis appointment can doubtless bt
considered certainty.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31

"Praise be to him, whose wonderous
skill
Has conquered every human ill
And now alone, as victor, stands
The golden compound of his hands,
So spake man, with tribute Gro wned,
Of DR.. Pierce, the "world-renowned,"
Whose aMedical Discovery"
Had vanished pain, and set him free.
One can but speak in praise of a rem-
edy so effectual and unfailing as DIR
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Acss
ing promptly and thoroughly, it produces
permanent cures. Consumption, in Its
early stages, scrofula. liver and kidney
disorders, and all blood diseases, are with.
in the field of its abounded success.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
THE COST OF PRODUCING SILL
YER,

What does it cost to produce an
ounce of pure silver? This is guess
ton which Mr.. Halstead has asked
a great many times.
It is question which many per-
sons would like to see anwered. Why
not answer it? It seems to us that
every Congressman would like to be
able to do so. We know that the
cost of the production of silver is
greater at one mine than at some
other mine. But approximate ac-
curracy may be attained.
Let all the papers and all the
Congressman continue to call for
the desired information until they
get it.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
HE SPEAKS FOR THE POOR.

The Heart of Grover Cleveland Beats in
Sympathy with.the Wage-Earners, and
His care is for their Relief and Progress.
1T may be we'll doubted" says
Macauley, "whether all the misery
that had been inflicted on the En-
glish Nation in quarter of ceh-
tury hy bad Kings, bad Minlste' S,
bad Parliaments and bad Judges,
was equal to the misery caused IN
single year by bad crowns aud bad
shillings.
While the honor and independence
Of the State were sold to foreign
power, while chartered rights were
disregarded, while fundamental laws
were violated, hundreds Of thousands
of quiet, honest and industrious
families labored and traded, ate their
meals and lay down to rest in COM
fort and security.
But when the great instrumt nj of
exchange becau thoroughly deN
ranged, all trades, all industry were
smitten as with a palsy. The evil
was felt daily and hourly in almos.
every place ard by almost every
class, in tie dairy and on the thresh-
ing floor, by the anvil and the loom
Nothing could be purchased with
out dispute. Over every counter
there was wrangling from morning
till night. The workman and his
employer had quarrel as regularly
as Saturday came round. X
The simple and the careless We're
pillaged without mercy"
Already we are beginning to see,
to feel, something of this among our
selves. And who are the sufferers !?
The millionaire? The capitalist !?
The corporate bodies? No, indeed;
but the workers, worn and dust
begrimed-yea, and the well-to-do,
but overtaxed, farmer, who has ev~
erything he has to sell priced under
the single golden standard in a Free
Trade market, from which, as a
buyer, he is shut out by the Pro-
tectiye Tariif-coneJituting the bone
and sinew of the land. For these
Mr.. Cleveland speaks, and when they
hear him they can not fail to be
moved and touched to see it demon
strated with so much simple elo-
uuence and truth that the wage-
Garner has to rely for employment
upon "the ventures of confident
aud contented capital" that in times
of disturbance the capitalist may
protect himself by boarding his
means for profitable use when op-
portunity offers, but that the wages
Garner '.can not hoard his labor"
without starving; that the capitalist
"may even find profit in the fuctua>
tIou of Values" but that the labor~
ing man, "the first to be injured by
a deprecated currency and the last
to receive the benefit Of its correcs
ton, is practically defenceless.
These are wise words. They are
true works. They are brave words
All honor to the President, who has
put them with SO much genuine elo~
quence and power.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31

These statistics show that the entire
white population has increased from l.
02O to 1903, the total annual enrolment
from 625 to 733, and the average daily at
tendance from 443 to 529. The increase
in the number of children enrolled in the
schools has been much greater propors
tionately than the increase in the school
population, and the increase in the num-
Der of school children in daily attendance
has been greater proportionately than the
increase in either.
There has been an increase in the num-
Der of school children, a greater increase
in the number of children and in the per-
centage of school population enrolled an
nually, and still greater increase in the
number of children and in the percentage
of school population in daily attendance.
The ARGUS shares the common
regret at the loss of Mr.. Joyner to
this community and Joins heartily
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
The Bathing-Dress Girl.

Various seekers after truth have
tried to learn the reason why many
Gaidens at the seashore during the
bathing hour dress themselves in
the robes appropriate to the oc~
casion and yet fail to enter the was
ter, contenting themselves with
such pleasure as may consist in
more or less enhancing the natural |
beauties of tie beach. But as
most of these investigators OF fact
started from the standpoint that
the custom had its origin in some
fashioneplate fancies of the sex,
the results have been neither ex-
teusive nor important.
As there is deeply founded natu-
raj reason, however, for woman :
ina ability to thow a Stone or shar-
pen a pencil, SO will there be found
unacceptable explanation of this
bathing popularity tht*, is inwoven
with some OF the sweetest senti-
ments of the female heart, Up to
a certain age all girls look upon
men as heroes, and are continually
placing themselves in the position
Of heroines. Hence in the lighter
literature of somewhat earlier days
the main circumstances OF the plot
generally eyentuated in the hero
stopping the heroine's runaway
horse, Or IN rescuing her from
lrdowning. Poetic justic reqired
that she should reward her rescuer
with her hand, and SO in due time
the story ended.
This feature of the novel
of the past grew out OF the
hsroic longing of her nature. 1t
was tie true reflex OF her heart
ife. Yet the soulless utinitarians
SIN of to-day has gone so far as to
try and give romance another
Knockout blow in supplanting the
seaside hero of that time by pros
fessional life guards. Consequently,
as none of the conditions which
her heart instinctiyely longs for, are
preeant at the beach and as the
amateur hero, between disinclina-
ton and ability, would stand no
show beside the professional, the
bathing dress girl sees little in
ducement to go into the breakers
undergo the chance of drowning
merely to be saved by a man, posr
slblg already married, who wears
a rsd shirt and whose highest aim
in life is to Ing her uncerernonis
onsly ashore and:r roll the limpee
outos her over nasty barrell.-
| I,hi0 Times.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
THE TROUBLE OVER.

A prominent man in town exclaimed
the other day; my wife has been
wearing out her life from the effects OF
Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint and Indi
gestion. Her case baff1ed the skill of
our best physicians. After using three
packages of Bacon's Celery Cure she is
almost entirely WE'LL" Keep your blooo
in healthy condition by the use of this
great vegetable compound, Call on
H. Hill & Son sole agent, and get tria
package free, Large size SOC,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31
A MOON FANCY,

The moon mounts high up tie stat
paved sky,
Her face is pale like death,
And she filings wan Eight from hel
garments white,
On the sleeping world beneath,
She spreads on her course, on hel
black sky horse,
(And swift are chargers fcet)
Peering through riffs in tue cloudy
drifts,
Or plunging mid the shadows deep,
Then over the clouds, and the mist.
shrouds,
Which the silent mountains wrap,
Like ghost that tleeth, whom no MAJ
seeth,
She is lost on her silvery track.