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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-03-05
LADIES' COLUMN.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Use carbolic acid as an antiseptic
but not for disinfectant.
Put silver spoon in glass jar be-
fore filling it with hot water. 1t will
keep the glass from cracking.
A little flour dredged over cake
before icing it will keep the icing from
spreading and running off.
Many fruit stains which would 9TH
erwise be ineradicable can be remov-
ed while the stain is still fresh by
pouring boiling water through the
spot until it disappears.
Better than benzine for cleansing
kid gloves is new milk and white soap.
Rub the gloves with a flannel cloth
dipped into the milk and then rubbed
against the piece of soap.
A small piece of alum dissolved in
the starch used to stiffen ginghams,
muslins, and other washable goods,
greatly improves the appearance Of
the goods and keeps it fresh longer
than it would otherwise remain.
In making tea, if you wish to get
the true flavor of it do not make il
strong Two minutes is sufficient to
draw tea and will bring out the full
flavor. To draw it any longer only
extracts the fannie acid, which not
only deadens the real taste of the tea,
but is unpleasant.
Black cotton hose should be dried
hn or fn
vent fading.
Calicoes should be washed in clean
water, dried in the shade and turned
on the wrong side to dry.
Black and white calicoes are bene
flied by having handful of salt add
ed to the rinsing water.
Red tablecloths keep their color if
little borax is added to the rinse wa
ter and they are dried in the shade.
1t is not needful to boil white clothes
(unless very dirty and have the
house filed with steam every week.
Letting clothes hang after they are
dry, or letting them hang through a
storm, or in windy weather to sla
about, is not conducive to long wear
ing or to help the good mans pocket
book.
A clothespin bag made Of bed tick
ing or something stout, in the form O
a pocket with slit on the front side,
is much easier to get at than com
mon bag. A basket exposes tn.
clothespins to dust, and the clothes
suffer accordingly.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1894-05-10
Let lJsIBe Iast.

When n man iii tfnad his
first ilnpnlseis to hit thasflrst
|hpa1 in sight. Times are
hnrd and the n.Ost conspicu-
0us object in view ID the Dem
ocratlc party. In power Ht
Washington. A great many
people, acting upon impulse
instead Of reason, fsre there.
tore disposed To hit it. These
people should remember that
we are still living under the
laws that the Republican par
ty gave us-the tariff lawaBd
the financial system, except
ing only that the silver par
rhas law has been repealed
after having been in force
three years. These people
|crlticise the Democratic ad-
lninistrati0n also for its re-
cent issue Of bonds, and vet
they should remember that
Mr.. Foster, President Harri-
sons Secretary Of the 1'reas-s
ury, advised, in his last re-
port to Congress-, that pro-
vision be made, for an issue
OF bonds. Why? Because the
Treasury which had been left
full BY cleveland when he
went out Of the prcsidenc, III
1889, WAS nearly empty hy
the close Of HarTisoh's term
and the golu reserve VAS de.
cIinlng 70 rapidly that air.
Foster and everybody else
sslw that unless some means
were taken to protect it it
would soon fall below the
hundred million limit. Peo- J
pie forget these things when
they shouldn't. :'O blame
the Democratic party for the
hard times, which began iii
the winter Of 1890 and have
been getting harder ever
since, and for the nationN
empty treasury now is no
more rational than to blame
i'm administrator because his
VAS a spendthrift
and he found the state insOl-
vent. Sta tesville Landmark.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1894-05-10

country roads fairly good
the larger part Of the year,
and that we should be eau
tious about over burdehing
ourselves to make expensive
roads that from presentind
cations seem likely to bs so
farsuperceded that they will
be of little nse for the r1aln
ohjectsfor whicha large part
OF the expense was incurred.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1894-05-10
A Valuable Brood II Chickens.

Mr. M. #. Zones, 4 ll,er,-
chant Of this place, inspite 81
the Spring dnllneAs, the other
day madea trade thatought
to O6 the foundation of IL
great fortune. He bought
nineteen hens from a fariner
and turned them loose Iii his
coop. An hour later IN pass
ing by the coop he notieed
that they had made Il hest;
and lain eight eggs. .EIated
over the celebrity with which
|hisinvpstment was De3 3ilining
Ito pay interest, he went back
|in d short time to see ll.,w
his prolific hens weregettinv
On. 10 hls astOnishment NJ
found thAtoDe of them had
gone tO setting and was
|tlucking as naturally as Ut
stored away In some hidden
nook il her nativebarnyHfyl.
|Of course he told ail his
nei8hb0rs and visitors u
bout whnt an ndustriOusset
FOf hens be had, and toWard
n - -
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1894-05-10

Through the country and tht
farming communities is vi
tor consideration. 4.
Road Congresses and RoaG
lConventioDs, and National
lState dnd District Leagues
for good roads, are iii order
and probably the U. s. Con,
grpss, aud every State Lcgis-
EiHtulae will be asked this win.
ter TO legisIate in tile inter.
est ofgood roads.
With all this new awaken.
ling on the subject we may
lexp'ct to see great improve.
mentsin our country roads.
But think there IL DANCE,
OF Understanding the work,
trying to do what we cannot
DO, and things that would
not pay il we could do and
thus wasting time and mon
Fey and really retarding the
work Of getting good coun-
try roads.
The general drift OF opin-
ion appears to be in iavor OF
the MacAdanl r1ad, that the
dependence for all goo d
roads must be n bed Of bro.
ken rock or gravel. There
are many localities SO situn-
ted that the MacAdam or
the gravel is a necessity and
should be used for the road
bed. Bnt to'attempt to use
the MucA6am for our coun-
try roads generally is now
entirely impracticabls. The
rOst Of MacAdam varies
iii different localities
owing to difference iii convpn.
ipncc II 0btaining materials
and other loc,il differences.
hut for the country at lnrge
the averave cost could not
be much If any shortcf SO,
600 per mile. We have no
means of obtaining the mil
age al the public roads in
the II. s. hnt on the 80, day
of June 1892 thereswere 243,. ].
722 miles of public roAd on
which the U. 81, mails were
In North Carolina
there were s1O,748 miles of|
publicroads covered 5y the
y y. mail service, whi:;h III
probably not over one half
Tie l,nhlic roads in the conn-
tfy But i we tnke only the
lnilage Of the innil service, We
would have, to make good
MlnsAlamroadIs all expense
fOl thAU. y. -or some e$2, $40,
600 900 and ftl' NORTH Carr s
lima the snug little sum oil
81 1O7 48O 900.
fconrse it is impracticn-
BIZ TO expend any such IL
mount III money even for|
mod fpsisis. But WI are]
tsSlta thatFwe shouid begin by
working ont the lending
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1894-05-10

! wealth. and where the people
(. ars most able to build roads
J themselves, and when these
! favored localities have got
!, their good roads and thepeC
pie begin to feel the burden
4 OF tnxation, the great tida1
wave for good roads will III
J certain to sut,side, md the
people will be enabled to see
CLEARLY that the realqnestion
! is az General Hancock said
LOT the tariff A local issue
! Government 70 a Il making
@ill then stop, bnt the cx
pense has been incurred and
the people must an help to
pay it, and all except tliosr
along the favored lines must
still make their own e 90 d
roads oi.sgO without.
Weale cited toother coun-
ftiips that have worked out
excellent systems of g God
roads at GovprnmentSpxpen
ses. But us | understand the
situation thecondition under
which thsy worked t h ir
Iroadswere very tiifferpntfrom
ours. Their good roads were
largely built before the rail
roads. Their countries are
s|c0mpamtively small and are
drnsply populated, aud what
under those circumstances
wnuld he practica bleandbest
Tor them and might be for
the denst,ly populated dis.
|tricts of the East, might with
our largeextent Of srarsely'
Settled country and general
system of railroads b. entire.
i = az ~ 4.
| lly irnpracticahle ane unwise
Tor vs. to undertake.
| | believe then that we must
depend ON ocaltaxatian and
local enterprise for goo d
roads. That the State should
lemplVy;l competent person
as State Supervisor OF public
roads. whose duty it should
be to learn the wants Of the
State and the different parts
Of the State, and advise the
legiSlsature MS to the cOndi-
tion Of the roads and the need
OF legislation for their i'm
prOveinent. and also to ad.
wise the local authorities ns|
to the hest means of ilnpro.
wing theIir roads. And it
would be well if every county
could have 4 competent per
|aonst to look after the countS)
roads interests, see thar the|
roads are properly located
as lar AS possible, and that
the money and laborexpend-
|ed on theIioads are fnitllful-
" and iudiciously used / D |.
their ulqintAinance and inn
pluvelnAflt.
so far As | have been able|
|tO5learn thp best results have
been obtained where tho ex-
T,4nse t,f making and main
t;linIng the rond has been
shared BY the lnbor and cap-l
~. X = * - = x 4 n. = ~ 7 \
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1894-05-10

0tsl III Saie.
N account Of failing health
and wife, / otIer ~ ellle
o INV IN The t0wno oj
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1894-05-10
GOOD ROADS.
BY 8. T. KELSEY.

roads, and slIe merits of tn,
various systems of road ma
king from the days Of Julins
C@sarto the presenttiIne art
being pretty thoroughly din
cussed, md no smallainonn,
81 abuse.is heing heaped sof
young JonnthHn be.ansp tht
highways md bywayso Of this
extensive "new ground farm
''lr notas well improved al
those Of John Bulls littleoId
turnip pa .ch, andothersmal1
AMI long occupied farms d
his neighborhCod. There is
no doubt but much Of this
criticism ia just and well de.
served, bit when the Tidal
wave Of Indignation has pass
ed we may spesthat the peo.
pie have done al,ont as well
as they could under the-cir-
cnmstances, and that most
of the expensive work that
has SO far been done is main
" on the right track.
We arecited to the great
rOaimakers and to Mead
nm and Tplfori, and sagply
told thut they had reduced
the science t,fsroad making
nrarabont to perfection, and
TINT we ARE tO follow their
live would havegoud
roads.
1t isnot doubted that th.,sp
men did the best they could.
under the circumstances and
With the c0n]itionsthmtthei
.xiStstl. But within the last
80 or so years the Whole
transportation business llas
been entirely changed hy the
use Of steam electricity and
other mechanical forces on
IrOll tiacks, and the cost Of
transportation has been So,
greatly REQ uced thu t there ii,
nO possible chance for compe
[ifion between the Old and
The tlewtransportation. Be-l
ore the advent of railroads
lhe q Is. Government, and 4
think SOME oftlre states, com
nenced building long lines oi
good r0nls" to connect iIns
SectiuuS uf tile com
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1894-05-10

Il lff- ~ - - ~ sssN ssJ ~ bsSu
Ibadly located. Such ronds
should be relocated, so AZ IL
run tn best advantage foi
grade and direction, good
1 drainage, firm ground etc.
land then be carefully worked
SO that the watershall be en-.
ltirely below the road bed,
and care taken to prevent
1 washing: II ronds are vel
located and properly worked
it is surprisingly cheap and
easy to make and keep up
dirt roads that will be in
good condition for travel
during the greater part oi
the year, And when ollce
the dirt roads are properly
located and worked ont NE
can improve them as we nre
able BY beginning with the
worst places and covering
wilhsrock gravel etc, andin
time we may be able to make
Thoroughly good .Mactdam
roads through the suburban
and even the rural districts
of the State.
But ii conclusion | must
say that | 40 not think the
MacAdam will be the road Of
the future, or that twill ever
be the main dependence for
transportation for the rural
districts, and the country
generally. The steel tract
can be laid at much less
cost thana good MacAdam.
road, and freight ana pas
sengers can be transported
over the steel rail at tnn,.lr
less expense than is possible
over the best earth On rock
road that can he made. 50
4 do l,elievennd am sorry
TO say it, that the steel
track whether or not, we
will il or wish it, the steel
track road with motors pro-
PEELED by steam, electricity or
some yet embarrassed force
Hof nature will be- the road 81
The country, for t he "short
hauls'' as well as the "long
hauls."
Ofcourse the wagon roads
must be kept up as a conven
ience and for light travel be.
tween neighbors and neigh
iborhoo'is. But tho work will
be on the steel raii, and the
wagon roads being thus re-
lieyed Of the heavy work can
with a good dirt bed be cas-
ity kept in good travelling
condition mosto the year.
thrust that ilOone willlnis-
understand my position, II
mn heartily in fAvor Of hav-]
ing the best country roads
tlat We ire able tO make,
mud for the liist 20 years ]
have been advocating the1
Improvement oi our country
roads mud devoting d large
share of nv time to rnakiGg
the best e0,hntry roads that
themeaiss III comliaand would
allow, sand I shall not be acs|
cused- d-by those who know ofl
my work-pf not being the]
earnest friend and advocate
of good ct,1ntry roads. /
have however feared, and iii
this ninnnication tried iu
NV poor Svay y III show that
n our M ior goud roads Ne
are IN oasQEer oi attempting
more than Ee are likely to |
acco piiah that aid iroui|
4 i. .s.4 4 '. 4 II .|| y. =. ! - !. g
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02

Chicago Is wonderful city; greater in
many respects than any other on this con-
tinent yet in some matters smaller than the
average American village. In its connec-
ton with the suit for $4,000 instituted
against the Worlds Columbian Exposition
by French exhibitors whose goods were
damaged by fire and water when the Manu-
features building was in q blaze, its ex-
hibit is Of the latter description A dis
patch from Chicago which records the re-
turn to that city Of Director-General Davis
says that Col. Davis. while in Washington
Tor some three weeks, found practical
unanimity Of sentiment among Congressman
to the effect that the claims of the ex-
hbitors should be settled at once and out
side of the courts. but he was unable to
secure any action that would end the
troubles" Which means that while men,
bers Of the national legislature were sorry
that the suffering Frenchmen should have
been compelled to go to law they could not
concur in the Chicago idea that the general
government should appropriate the money
needed to satisfy the claimants So far
there has been no open attempt to insist
upon congressional appropriation, but un-
less some at present invisible force touches
the hearts Of those who are really response
BILE, such an attempt may soon be looked
for. Chicago insisted upon absolute control
OF the fair and has properly received a
great deal of credit for the admirable man.
Ter in which the vast enterprise was car
ried to a successful conclusion. But those
who dance must pay the fiddler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02

given by the local companies daily In the
workings Of this loose system. The con-
ductor Is the best agent for this purpose
fer ticket goes to a passenger. but the
present application Of this system is not
wholly agreeable to the passenger. At i'm
portant functions the aisles and doors Of
cars are usually blocked by passengers ap-
plying for transfers. who not only delay the
car they are leaving, but often thus miss
the connecting car Of the other line In
the case Of open cars with many exits and
cable trains with several cars the Difficult
ties are very great and the confusion Is
deplorable. The solution Of the problem is
very simple. after all that has been said
Let the transfers be all given in the cars
with time limits, If the companies see
proper. Let them be handed to the pas
senger, upon request. as the fares are COL
lected. The passenger who, after receiving
such a transfer, leaves the car ahead of
the junction In order to transact business
in the interim, is accomplishing nothing
to the loss or disadvantage of the company
and Inconvenience himself as much as he
gains in advantage. The time-limit cor
reefs this evil to 2 large extent. There
would then be one fare certainly taken for
each transfer given. The transaction on
the car would take little or no more time
than the present collection of fares and
would prevent the crowdings and delays
now so common at functions. At all events
let there be some uniformity in the systems
in vogue in the District. so that strangers
may not be utterly confused.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02

The time has come for some sort of legis-
lation to regulate the street-car transfer
systems In vogue in Washington. 1t Is now
very apparent that. along with the benefits
TO the public Of the transfer there are
many inconyeniences. From the point Of
view OF the passenger, that system whereby
the conductor gives the ticket on the car
Is lar superior to the booth method of
transferring, for many obvious reasons;
ana IL Is not easy to see the ADVANTAGE to
tne company In the booth system Both
the company and the passenger deserve
consideration in such a matter The COM
pany grants privilege to the passenger
as part of the value of his fare and should
be protected as far as possible against loss
through the sale or misuse of transfer
tickets The passenger. however, should
not be made to suffer annoyance or incon-
venience or be subjected to danger in the
streets as a part of this protection. There
Is always a possibility that unscrupulous
passengers may give away or sell their
transfers and so. in a sense, defraud the
company; but this seems inevitable with
out some unwieldy and impracticabIe sys-
tenn of Identification. Inasmuch as the
company must run this risk, why should
the innocent passenger be compelled to
suffer Inconvenience IL no good can result +?
The time-limit transfer ticket is probably
the nearest practical approach to the pre-
vention of such frauds. The street booth
Is useless; It Is awkward; it Is dangerous
1t saves the company nothing, but. on the
contrary. It compels extra expenditure. It
gives the dead-head his best chance to beat
the company. for there is no likelihood of
the transfer agent at a crowded junction
Identifying a single applicant for a ticket
as a late passenger. Scores. If not hun
dreds, Of free transfers are unQuestionably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02

From all over the United States there
have come 10 this city loud protests against
certain utterances of Secretary of AgricuI-
ture Morton, who, by many of his fellow
farmers, is accused OF saying uncompli-
mentary things about agriculturists who
devote a large portion of their time to dis
cussing political affairs. Changers in their
representative capacity and grangers as
individuals have requested President Cleve-
land to remove Secretary Morton and place
some less frank tiller of productive dirt
between the Agricultural Department plow-
handles. But the President has not re-
sponded. nor does the Secretary appear to
be frightened As matter of fact, Mr.
Morton is more aggressive than ever, and
of his own motion renews the strife He
does it by contributing to the Forum for
June. clever dissertation on Farmers,
Fallacies and Burrows" in which he art
fully draws a parallel between the Ameri-
can farmer and the NEUROLOGICAL Antaeus
who was the son of the Earth. Antaeus,
II will be remembered. was invincible so
long as he preserved contact with the soil
nom whence he sprang. and in a combat
with Hercules arose with renewed and in
creased strength every time his famous
ar tasonist threw him to the ground. Her
cules discovered the secret Of Antaeus'
strength, and by preventing his touching
the earth overpowered him and ended his
existence THE American farmer" says
the Secretary. is Antaeus. Let him keep
forever in loving contact with the SOIL
which. like a mother. will care for him
end his so long he is obedient to the
laws of nature and loyal to intelligent in
dustry. The pretended friend of the farmer
who lectures him upon the abjectness of
lis political and social situation, who talks
- him of impossible financial theories,
teaches him economic heresies, and fills
him to overlooking with vagaries, is the
modern Hercules; and all the farmers
whom he has taken into the clouds and
mysteries of his sociology and gregarious-
ness, HIS money fallacies and his McKin-
leyism, have. like Antaeus of old, been de-
prived of vigor and virility, virtue and
vitality"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02
Popular Pride ns to Washington.
From the Cincinnati Tribune.


The people of this country have a JUS,
and growing pride in their national capital
In many ways Washington is the most
beautiful seat OF government in the world,
and no country's public buildings for the
use of the government are SO impressive
and handsome. There is a widespread i'm
preston, however, that Washington con-
sists of nothing but beautiful public build
ings and handsome residences occupied by
rich people of leisure. and that the popula-
ton consists of wealthy persons and govern
ment employees. There is belief current that
Washington has no business interests and
there is also very general wish among the
American people that it shall never become
coarse commercial center. The recent
census bulletin on manufactures, however
contains statistics which show that Wash
ington is in reality a place possessed of con-
siderable industrial activity. There are in
the District of Columbia 2,295 manufacture
ing establishments. working with an aggre-
gate capital of SIS, ,OSy. The cost of raw
material used up by these industries is
81, 194, $685. and the value of their product is
$50 ,43I. The total value of the plant is
N9,3lS,931, being sub1ivided as follows:
Land, IS, ASS, 1856; buildings. 1885, 1S; ma
chinery, tools and implements, $S,543, S9I
their live assets are S9.4S6, 15S. and their
miscellaneous expenses. ST. $50. $50 In these
establishments an average OF % 4O4 persons
find employment, whose total annual wages
are gwen at S14, 622, 264 A large portion of
the labor employed in Washington is color
ed labor Dut, according to the bulletin,
hich we have quoted. only 133 children
under 10 years of age are employed in the
industrial establishments of the District of
Columbia. Some miles above Washington
are the falls of the Potomac, and it is not
improbable that the efficient water power
developed there may be turned to some
practical Industrial use. In that case the
population of the District will be a good
deal augmented, but the beauty of the
capital will be nowise disturbed nor its
desira bility as place of residence impaired
for the laboring population will be a very
considerable distance from the city. While
Washington will continue to grow in an in
dustrial way. 1t will always remain the de-
lightful city Of the country, its most desir-
able and engaging winter resort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02

With a favorable breeze. the American
yacht Vigilant has departed for British
waters. In which she will doubtless have
opportunity to compete with the best pro-
ducts of the British yacht-buiider's art.
On our coast the latter craft have invari-
ably met with defeat, and although condi-
tons on the other side of the Atlantic will
differ materially from those with which our
yachtsmen are on such gratifying terms OF
Intimacy, there is no reason for imagining
that our sailor-sportsmen will be any less
successful abroad than they have been at
homa