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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16

These were necessarily brief, the doctors
having had recourse to sedatives to procure
sleep and allay pain.
On the day before his death the Gar was
still able to be taken to q window of the
palace, whence he gazed out upon the coun-
try he loved so vol as to earn for himself the
appellation of the peasant Gar"
The night passed with an agGravation of
all the symptoms and continuous Distress
ing cough. The doctors and the Czarina re-
manned in attendance upon him throughout
the night, only snatching brief intervals Of
sleep in the ante-rOoms.
The morning broke with rain and wind
and heavy clouds and the weather much
colder. AS the day advanced the weakness
increased so rapidly that the Gar himself,
still conscious, recognized that he could
only live few hours
He expressed Il desire to receive the sacra-
ment, which was administered to him by
Court Chaplain Yanisheff and Father Ivan
in the presence of the whole family.
The Gar then conversed long and earnest
ly with Father Ivan, concluding by asking
his family to again gather round him. He
spoke to each member separately and at the
greatest length with the Czarina. He blessed
all his children present.
The scene was one of deep pathos, all be-
ing in tears. All this time His Majesty was
sitting up in an armchair. After taking
leave OF his family he grew gradually weak
er. and his voice became soindistinct that ii
was scarcely audible.
About noon convulsive fit OF coughing
was followed by slight rally. Thence until
the end the Gear remained quiet, seemingly
free from pain.
At215 o'clock ne heaved deep sigh and
breathed his last in the arms of the Empress.
who then broke down with the weight of her
grief.
The Prince OF Wales, who, together with
the Princess of Wales, was enroute to Lii
vadin, telegraphed the intelligence from
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
Business Housekeeping,

OF the many large office buildings
| in New York City comparatively
few are up to date in every respect
and represent the highest develop
ment of modern architectural skill.
Yet the service required to keep them
in order would astonish the majority
of those who daily pass them by.
The highest of these buildings has
twenty-six floors on twenty-five stories.
1t contains enough brick to build $50
ordinary brick houses and sufficient
iron to construct twenty miles of
railroad. 1t has more than 40, 600
feet of floor space and 1000, 600 feet
of woodwork.
Another of these buildings, when
covers an area of nearly an acre, con
tains over 500 rooms and over 1000
windows, for which three miles of
sash chain are required. This is the
largest Office building = existence.
The head janitor here has fifteen
assistants tc help him Leep the struc-
ture in order. This is no small I'M
dertaking, for, in addition to the reg
ular routine work, a great number of
of odd jobs requiring attention is sure
to crop up every day in the year.
In addition to these men force of
thirty women is required to clean ont
the offices, sweep the corridors and
wash down the stairs daily. They
work from six until nine o'clock in
the evening. This cleaning, scrub
bling and furnishing runs in regularly
appointed grooves, or it would never
be ended.
Most large office buildings have
special corps of plumbers, steam fit
tiers, carpenters and painters among
their employees. In the building of
which l am speaking there are no less
than fifty men on the staff of the chief
engineer. These include assistant en-
gineers, electricians. oilers and coal
passers.
Their wages run from $25 a vice.,
the salary of an assistant engineer, to
$40 week, paid to the coal passers.
The electricians and oilers receive
from $12 to $18 week each. by II
new method the exhaust steam from
the engine is used in heating the
building-- York Telegram.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JouN WANAMAKER had saved only 500 AZ
the age of twenty-three.
THE last book read to DIR. Holmes was
''Alice in Wonderland"
The Empress of Germany rises at six and
makes her husbands coffee with her own
hands.
PRIME MINISTER RosEBERY declared for
the curtailment or abolition of hereditary
Legislative privileges in an address at Brad
ford, England.
IT is said President Cleveland did not
register in New York because ho was told
by his advisers that he had lost his right
to vote there.
BY removal of cataract GIadstone's RICH
eye is good tor the finest print, but upon his
left an immature cataract prevents his using
that eye in reading ordinary type
GENERAL ELI s. PARKER, a full blooded
Seneca is the only Indian who held Il COM
mission In the Union Army during the war.
He is a lineal descendant of the great Chief,
Red Jacket.
DURHAM WHITE STEVENS, the American
Secretary of the japanese legation at Wash
ington, was appointed Secretary of the
American legation at Tokyo when he was
twenty years old.
EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON is to be allowed
to choose the artist who shall paint his
portrait to be hung in the White House, and
a $4,000 appropriation, already provided,
will cover the cost.
OswoLD OTTENDoRFER formed with Franz
Sgel and Carl Schurz trio of distinguished
German-American whose activity in the
revolution of 1889 made it necessary to
leave Germany for America.
NOTWITHSTANDING his rough and unsocia-
BILE character-few persons have seen him
smile, much less laugh-Verdi. the great
composer, is very charitable. Numerous
philanthropical works, and in particular the
hospital at Russetto, owe their existence to
him.
MISUNDERSTANDING ALEXANDER MCCooK
will be retired next spring on account OF
age. With the exception of General Scho1ield
and General Howard, this last Of the fight
ing "McCooks' is the only officer in the
regular army who commanded an army
corps during the Civil War.
W. 81. SHEPPARD, twenty years ago poor
little boy In the streets of Waynesboro, Va,
is, at the age of thirty. perhaps the most
distinguished colored man in the Southern
Presbyterian Church and the only American
colored man that has ever been made a fell
low of the Royal Geographical Society.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

A drone lives a brief existence, and
dies when the workers decide that he
shall.
1t is we'll to remember that it is
muscle rather than fat that is needed
by breeding stock, as fat leads to loss
of energy, if not of health and vigor.
Fill your hot-beds with litter in the
fall so that the ground will not freeze.
Replace this with manure in the spring
and the planting can proceed without
delay.
In the North no tree is so valuab4e
for honey as the linden. 1t is also
called. bassW God, and makes a beauti-
full shade tree. Beekeepers should
encourage the planting of them.
When the comb gets black and old it
should be renewed, they say, and yet
one beekeer er announces that some OF
his are twenty-five years old, and that
his bees prefer them to new ones.
If not already done, it is now time to
cut out all the old stalks among the
raspberries and blackberries. Leave
but three or four of the strongest of the
new canes and treat the rest as weeds.
When the weather is warm combs
should be guarded from the wax moth.
A cool cellar is good place to keep
them, but on the hive where the bees
may care for them is the best place Of
all.
Cut off decayed and diseased
branches, and rub off superauous buds
when they appear. This is more al
vlsanIe than cutting away large, Jig
orous branches, which often causes
decay am destruction.
Has anyone tried japanese plums??
There is an imp ossiou that they arc
all tender, but the Burbank, Abund-
ance, Willard, Ogen, Satsuma, Ber-
ger and Chabot are quite hardy in the
plum region of New York State.
One reason why short course in Il
dairy school will never be sufficient
for the purpose is that it will not drill
the students with enough thorough
ness - the absolute necessity of clean
Illness. This is the first aud last thing
IN butter and cheese making.
The Concord grape is still leader
among the rarer varieties Moore's
Early is larger, but not SO productive.
1t Is two weeks earlier and of better
quality, and for table use is perhaps
the best early grown. The Worden is
much like the Concord, though
earlier.
Some years ago L. S. Wood, Nort:l
Pomfret, Vt, made 40Opounds OF but
Ter IN a season from four COWS, selling
the product in the fall for 800, and
felt that it was a grand success. This
was before Jersey cows and dairy in
st1tutes were much known. In more
recent years his dairy has produced
300 pounds per COW on the whole
he'd including heiferA and one yea.
reached 349} pounds.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16

nov, who had for his assistants NJ. de Grimm
and NJ. Pobiedonostzev, the present head OF
the Sacred Synod. Upon the death Of the
Tsesarevitch, In 1865, he was recognized
formally as the heir to the throne and was
presented to the Cossacks as their Ataman.
In the following year he was married to the
Princess Dagmar, daughter of the King OF
Denmark, who had been betrothed to his
brother. During the Franco-Prussian war
his sympathies were understood to be with
the French, although his father favored the
Germans. In the war between Russia and
Turkey in 1877 he nominally commanded
the Twelfth and Thirteenth Army Corps and
was present at the hard fighting around
Schumla and Rustchuk and the bloody
struggles in front of Plevna.
The murder of his father by the Nihilists
in March, 1881, threw the whole Russian
Nation into a panic, and the state of the
public mind was far from favorable to the
execution of the plans of liberal reform
which he was believed to have at heart. Up
on his accession to the throne, he issued
manifesto simply asserting his absolute
power, and then withdrew to CATCHING
where he remained in retirement for a long
period, until his public coronation. Among
his earliest acts were the substitution Of
Count Ignatieff for General Loris-MeliRof
as Minister of the Interior, and the elevation
of his old tutor, Pc t:edonostzev, to his pres
ent position. He also appointed NJ. de Giers
Minister of Foreign Affairs, upon the retire
ment of the veteran Gortchakoff. His next
step was to cement the friendly relations
existing between Russia and Austria and
Germany, but from the first he exhibited
tendency to keep himself free from the com
pications of European diplomacy and to
avoid entangling alliances.
His policy in Asia was more aggressive
and he entered into negotiations with China,
which resulted in his obtaining important
mercantile concessions and the extension OF
his frontiers to the boundaries ofAfghanistan
and Thibet. This excited anger and appre-
henston in Great Britain, but the threatened
danger Of a conflict was averted by the APP
pointment of special commissioners to set
tie all frontier questions.
AS regards the interior affairs Of his en-
pire his reign was marked by great activity
on the part of the Nihilists and the adoption
of vigorous policy of repression, not only
against open revolutionists, but students
and all young men exhibiting any trace OF
the modern progressive spirit. The natural
consequence of all this was a succession OF
plots against his life, resulting in a condt-
ton of nervous strain which finally proved
too much for even his gigantic strength and
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
NEWSY GLEANINGS

IHE potato crop IS snort.
CANADAs debt is $500, 90 1000.
LONDON has - 600 policemen.
NEW YORK tenements house !, 800, 000
RUMANIA has joined the Triple Alliance.
LAST year the Viennese ate Is, POT horses
New ZEALAND advances money to settlers
THERE are about sc, 900 Mormons in Idaho
SIXTEEN nations have treaties with Japan
New ORLEANS is suffering from a water
famine.
TU5sIA's wealth is estimated at S21,71
100000.
The German colony in London numbers
FARMERS organizations have 5000, 600
members.
OWING to wet weather the English honey
crop is a failure.
AMERICAN buggies are gaining popularity
in London and Paris.
GREAT distress is reported from Labrador
and outlying islands.
THE Louisiana orange crop was badly in,
jured by recent storms.
JAPAN figures that it will cost about $3.50.
900, 900 to conquer China.
WHOLESALE grocers of Chicago are leaders
in a revolt against the sugar trust
The number of life insurance agents in
the United States is stated to be 4O,673
The American League of Professional
Football Clubs has pro7ei a failure and dis
banded.
Thus far this season eighteen tourists who
set out to clitlio The Alps have lost their lives
in the venture.
BECAUSE OF numerous train robberies the
Pacific Express Company will handle no
more money in Indian Territory.
FRANCF's naval eSt .pa+aa for rovt ,-oo,
reach SAT, 400, 900, against the Triple ALI
ances joint estimates of $40, 200, 900.
AT Philadelphia new baseball associa-
lion was formed, which is expected to be
strong rival to the National League.
The new diphtheria cure is n very costly
article, the serum required for injections In
each case being worth from 81 to $40.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
Alaskan Inllnu Canoes.

In the Sltka district the canoes arc
each cut from single log Of wood.
The log is first dressed and followed
ont, and then steamed and spread
open. Many of the canoes ARE models
OF form. Great care is expended ON
them, and if the maker were paid good
wages their prices would be fabulous.
A good new canoe able to carry three
men and 100 pounds of baggage Is
worth $50. An older canoe of the
same size may be procured for $40.
Some cost $500 and up to 500. The
Indians have abandoned to IL great eN-
tent the old method of padding tho
canoe, and they are furnished with
oars and sail. This is made possible
by having a rigid body, unlike tho
bark or skin canoes of other places
lnterOcean.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16

Vienna 10 the Queen and TO the Duke and
Duchess of York. The Queen Immediately
dispatched telegram Of coincidence to the
Czarina.
Premier Dupuy, as Minister OF the Inter
Tor, requested the Perfects of all the De-
partments of France to half mast and drape
with crepe the flags on the National and de-
partmental bureaus
ST. Petersburg dispatch announces that
a conspiracy against the successor TO the
throne has been discovered there. For sew
eral days the police OF the city have been
actively arresting Sihilists, among them sew.
eral students. The police have obtained
discriminating documents.
II was also said that the life of the lovely
young Princess, Alix OF Hesse, the bethrothed
of the new Gar, who expected soon to be
Empress, was certainly to be taken by the
plotting murderers.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
Giant Horned Lizards.

Some years ago-several hundred
thousand, perhaps-a brackish or
fresh water lake existed which ex-
tended for 800 miles along the east
ern flank of the Rocky Mountains, and
many strange monsters wandered up
and down its shores.
Professor Marsh named one the Tri-
ceratops, which means that 1t wore
three horns on its face. It's skull was
enormous, measuring in an old indi-
vidual seven or eight feet in length,
was somewhat wedge-shaped, and the
back and sides of its neck were pro
tected by huge fanlike ruff or pro-
lection of bone, extending from the
skull and forming part of it.
The brain was smaller in proper
ton to the size of the skull than in
any known animal. The mouth was n
kind of beak, like that of the turtle,
and similarly sheathed in horn. It's
food was of the luxurious tropical veg
citation which fourished along the
borders OF the great lake.
The animal was about twenty-five
feet in length and eight or ten feet in
height, being considerably larger
than the largest existing elephant. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet.
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid.
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale by all drug,
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
GROWING FRUIT INSTEAD OF GRAIN.

Much more food can be grown on an
acre devoted to fruit than can be pro-
dnced with any kind of grain. Fruit
growing also provides greater
amount of work and requiresa larger
number of helpers. To the extent
that fruit growing is substituted for
grain growing there will naturally be
an increase of country and farming
population. This is what is most
needed to make land valuable. The
growing of grain makes the land
poorer, especially where the grain is
sold. Where fruit is grown the
chief loss to the soil is in the
mineral elements, and the sale Of
the fruit brings money to pur-
chase these. Selling grain never re-
turns enough to restore the fertility
expended in growing it.-Boston Gull
tIYatOr.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
THE WHITE Gar DEAD.
THE AUTOCRAT OF ALL RUS
SIA EXPIRES PEACEFULLY.

The Only Emperor of Russia Who
Has Died Natural Death Si1ce
Peter the Great-Sketch Of His
Career-The New Gar and His
Betrothed.
The long struggle is over, and Alexander
I'LL, Gar of Russia, lies dead in his palace
at Livadia.
The Gar died very peacefully at ais p.
m. surrounded blythe members of his fam
lily. He was fully conscious up to the time
of his death. The Czarina was at his bed
side to the end.
When all was over the Czarevitch, Grand
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16

Duchess Xenia and the other Imperial
relatives approached the bedside in turn to
take q last farewell.
The court officials and members of His
Majestys suite were afterwards admitted.
The flag over the palace was placed at half
mast and salute was fired by the vessels in
the port.
Shortly after O'Clock the members of the
Palace Guard were marshaled in the square
in front of the palace chapel for the cere-
mony of swearing allegiance to the new
Gar. They were the first to take the oath.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
FEEDING FOWLS.

1t may be thought to be q matter OF
very little Importance whether the
flock is fed at certain hour or not,
but it is really necessary for the good
health of the flock that they be fed at
regular hours as nearly as possible. If
they are fed at stated periods each day
they will soon learn to look for their
feed at that time, and the remainder
of the time they will forage. If fed
just when it happens to be most con-
venient, the most indOlent of the
focZ1 will linger around waiting to be
fed while the active ones will wander
away, very often SO far that by the
time they get back those who have
stayed at home will have eaten all the
feed that was intended for the whole
flock. Fowls should not be fed more
at one time than they will eat up clean
and look for more. One who pays any
attention to the matter will soon learn
about how much the flock will eat and
not be hungry. This may be told by
paying some attention to the cOndi-
ton OF the fowls as to flesh. They
should not feed fat when picked up,
but should be just nicely plump and
round, and if they begin to gain in
flesh or fall off. as the case may be,
the amount of feed given them should
be regulated accordingly. Feeding on
the free and easy plan is poor econ
omy, and will in the end ruin the lay
ing qualities of any flock, for it will
induce disease, and the very first
symptoms of disease in any flock is
the decrease in egg production; that
always comes with the lowering of the
health of laying hens. Feed plenty,
but not too much. This is matter
that is very largely neglected by farm
ers and all who do not pay particular
attention to their poultry. American
Farmer and Farm News.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16

The Grand Dukes were the next to swear
allegiance, and they were followed in the
order of precedence 10y the high court func-
tionaries, court officials, military officers
and civil officials.
When the doctors informed the Gar that
there was no longer room for hope, His
Majesty composedly waited for the end. at
tending to necessary State and family affairs
in the short intervals of consciousness and
freedom from pain.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-11-16
Tanning Elephant Skin.

IN Paris elephant skins are tanned
the process Is the ordinary one except
that very powerful extract of tanning
is used. When the giant skin is taken
from the vat it is nearly an inch and
three-quarters thick. The tanned
skin OF the elephant, like that of the
alligator, is used in the making of
various fancy articles, and brings a
high price, a small elephant-leather
valise costing $500 to $500, and cigar
cases and card cases not less than $50
to $80.-New York Advertiser