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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-22

oTRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR Al a. Tnsa1d-
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-22
Current Cost.

Other ages in proportion. State aps
at nearest birthday when writing for
particulars.
]. H. SOU THGAIE.
Ganl Ag't, Durham. N. G.
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AMERICAN UNION LIFE INSURANCE CO,

Honorable, energetic canvasser
wanted with whom the best commits.
sion contracts will be made. U769
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BERTHE COUNY.

Wayne Co. Alliance, No. 6e8,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
SWEET POTATOES.

How to Keep Them In Perfect Condition
Through the Winter.
The following method I have found
to keep sweet potatoes in perfect or
der until June. Procure good sup
ply of pine straw from the woods in
dry time and keep it under cover ready
for use. Dig the potatoes as soon as
frost cuts the vines. If not convenient
to dig at once cut the frosted vines off
at once, or they will harbor fungous
growth that will damage the potatoes.
Dig on warm, sunny day; lay the po-
tatoes along the row as dug; and do
not allow them to be bruised by throw
ing into piles. Handle at all times as
gently as eggs Allow them to lie in
the sun during the day. and in the
evening haul to a convenient place.
Place a good layer foot thick of pine
straw ON the ground, and on this pile
the potatoes in steep heaps, not over
twenty-five bushels in pile; cover the
piles thickly all over with the dry pine
straw; now build rough board shed
over the piles. and let them remain
until the weather grows colder, or un-
til they have gone through sweat
and dried off. Then cover the heaps
with earth six or eight inches thick
and beat smooth. The important
points are the sweating under the pre-
vious cover of the pine straw before
covering with earth. very carefully
handling, and the board cover over
head. Dry earth keeps out more cold
than wet earth. If for family use, put
in smaller piles and take up an entire
heap at once for use, keeping them in
dry, warm place while using.-W F.
Massey, North Carolina Experimental
Station.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
SILVER IN JAPAN.

That Far on Country Beginning to Com.
pete with the Southern Cotton Industry.
The Times-Democrat has boosted fire.
quently of the development of the cot.
ton industry in the south, but it must
frankly admit that the south has not
been able to make anything like the
the same progress as Japan. It has
not been able in ten years to increase
its cotton spinning capacity 1,032 per
cent, or to pay average dividends OF
16 per cent on its cotton mills-we
only wish it had. With such encour-
agement it is not to be wondered at
that the big California mills should de-
clare that they are unable to compete
with the Japanese mills, and should be
preparing to move their entire business
to Toxic.
Mr. Curtis declares that England and
Germany have so far suffered more
from this japanese competition than
the United States, but we have also
suffered, and are likely to suffer more
and more every day as long as the
present financial conditions continue.
And let it be remem bered that this is
the testimony given by "a sound mon
ey man." who is compelled, unwilling
ly. to admit these facts, but whose
duty it is to tell what he sees around
him, and who does SO honestly.-N. o.
Times-Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
NOBLE LIVES.
A Glimpse of the Work of Salvation Army

A Glimpse of the Work of Salvation Army
LAsses.
Let us go still farther down town
and enter one of the most wretched
tenements in the most wretched quar-
ter OF New York. Enter one of the
rooms, differing FROM the others only
in being cleaner and fresher. and here
meet Liz" and EN-" They are two
young soldiers of the Salvation Army
who have come down to live among
the people. They have thrown of
their uniform, and with faded cali
Goes, thin shawls and old hats they
can not be distinguished from their
neighbors around. except by the look
on their faces. Their work is constant,
and hardest between eleven and one at
night, when they go out and try to
bring in sin-sick girls and women.
Day after day, week after week, weary
month after month, these two young
women live their brave, true lives
among the people who need their In
Auence-one with them and yet apart.
Grace 81. Dodge, in Chautauquan.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

RUB the sprouts off the trees before
they become tough.
KEEP the soil well worked around
the peach trees to make them grow.
PEACH and plum trees are less liable
to disease when growing in a poultry
yard.
UNLEACHED hardwood ashes are un-
equaled as fertilizer for grass lands
and lawns
POTATOES are often seriously injured
by being allowed to remain in the sun
too long.
THERE is no work on the farm worth
SO much as that done in the garden
and orchard.
IF from any cause it is considered
best to remove large limb, cover the
wound with paint
ANYTHING in the nature of lye will
destroy the apple tree borers before
they penetrate the bark.
A SMALL, thrifty tree with vigorous
roots, when set out, will make a good
tree sooner than a large one with
mutilated roots.
A TIGHT sod around growing trees
does not give them proper chance to
develop. This is especially the case
with peach trees Keep the sod loose
close up around the trunk.-St Louis
Renn hlic
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03

The first harps were simply bow
shaped bodies, without pillar conn
plotting the third side. The resonance
body was probably a light framework
covered with stretched membrane. raw
hide, put on wet and shrunk dry.
There were no more than four or i've
strings, and this comprised all the
notes Of the instrument. The tones
were probably in the bass register, to
Judge from the length Of the strings.
The modern harp began to assume .
form something like that of the pres
emit time somewhere in the middle ages.
when it had become the instrument OF
q gentleman, par excellence.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
A Now Feed for Irorse..

A new horse feed is on the market.
It is composed of hay, oats and corn
ground very fine. The proportions are
two pounds of the hay to one each of
the oats and corn, and the feed resem-
bles bright hay in appearance. While
the diminished room required will rem
der this feed valuable under some cir
cumstances, it is doubtful whether it
gives sufficient bulk to distend the
stomach properly. Another serious
objection is that chewing being made
unnecessary, the flow of saliva which
mastication induces is checked. As
saliva is generally recognized as an inn
portant aid to digestion, the question
arises whether the continued use of
the new food may not seriously affect
the heath of the animal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
IMPACT OF THE BICYCLE.
Serious Damage May be Done by Collid
ing Wheela.

Serious Damage May be D0ne by COllid-
ing Wheels.
The ability of a bicycle rider in rapid
motion to do serious damage in a col
lision with another machine, or with .
pedestrian. is fully Apr eciated by few
wheelmen. A man weighing one hum
dred and fifty pounds and moving at
the rate of ten feet a second (which is
only about seven miles an hour, has q
momentum Of fifteen hundred pounds.
leaving out of the account the weight
of the wheel. This is sufficient to up
set any pedestrian with terrific force.
It has been suggested that the
pneumatic tire forms a sort of fender
which would prevent serious concus-
sion in case of collision. 1t would
undoubtedly have a slight modifying
effect, but it would be of little &C
count A collision between two wheels,
each with one-hundred-
pound rider spinning at the moderate
speed of seven miles an hour. would re-
suit in smashup with force of three
thousand pounds. In view of these
facts. it is no wonder that bicycle &C.
cidents are often very serious,
The tractive force required to propel
estimated at one-hundredth of the load;
calling the load one hundred and fifty
pounds, force of one and a half pounds
would be required to move the wheel
forward. and this calls for a pressure
Cd the pedals of SIX and three-quarters
pounds on a wheel geared in the usual
manner. When. however. the road is
rough or on an upgrade, the case is
different On a grade of one in ten, for
example, the rider, in addition to the
tractive force, actually lifts one-tenth
of his weight and that of the machine.
With a rigid or semi-rigid tire the rider
is obliged to exert sufficient fo,ce to
lift himself over every obstruction en-
countered by the wheel; the descent
from the obstruction gives back por-
tion of the power expended in sur
mounting it, but not all of it. In the
case Of the pneumatic tire, however,
the small distractions are not an op:
posing element of any consequence. as
the tire yields in lieu of the wheel
being raised. and the result is the wheel
travels as upon a smooth track. -Scien.
tific American.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
ELEcTRoTYPlNo By MlRE.


4 Remarkabie Achissemens In the Way "a
Electrical Invention.
Telegraphic reproduction Of electro
types for newspaper printing is the
latest achievement of electric inven-
tion. The innovation is very remark.
able, and consists in the transferring,
and reproducing of exactly similar,
newspapers in different cities by tele-
graph. A Berlin paper can. by the use
of this machine, appear In all the
larger cities in Germany at the same
hour in the morning without being
sent through the mails. The inven-
tors claim for their apparatus not only
increased rapidity, but they say also
that it will reduce the cost Of printing.
The inventors describe the working of
the apparatus as follows:
The copy is first of all run OF on .
typewriter, next to the typewritten
copy, which serves as corrector's
proof. A special attachment releases
a narrow strip ofsilvered paper, which
is covered by q number of short
storkes and dots, constituting an AL
phabet peculiar to the machine. These
strokes and dots are made by means
of a chemical fluid, which SO changes
the metallic face Of the paper that it
becomes non-conductive. Any cor
rections becoming necessary can be
made on the strip of silver paper. In
sertion or cutting out of copy Is also
easily performed After being edited
and corrected, the long slip of silver
paper is rolled up on a spool and In
serted into q telegraphic apparatus,
which, when set in motion. will pro-
duce the same strokes and dots on
similar silver paper at any distance
and in any number of apparatuses con-
nected at the same time. These strips
of silvered paper are placed into the
Electric Typograph." The strip
passes beneath six points of electric
contact, covering the entire width Of
the metallic surface. This typograph
operates in such a way that the steel
type representing each character is
impressed upon a prepared cardboard
in the proper order. An automatic
mechanism provides for the varying
width of the type, for the spacing and
alignment, and for the moving of the
cardboard at the end of the line. The
cardboard. fully covered with charac-
tiers, represents one solid column Of
copy, and is ready for the electrotyper.
AS compared with the typesetting
machines now in use, this apparatus
gives the advantage of correcting and
editing the entire copy from type
written proof-sheets. The inventors
claim for the typograph that it will do
the work of eight expert typesetters
and save two-thirds of the cost of set
ting up the copy by hand.-Boston
Transcript
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
A FINANCIAL PROBLEM.

The Kind OF Money Paid Out and Received
by the Treasury.
The Bulletin has been asked, if with
q revenue equal to or in excess of cur
rent expenditures the gold reserve
may not be maintained without re-
course to borrowing. Our correspond
ent argues that if the revenues were
equal to the needs of the treasury
enough gold would be paid into the
treasury to enable the treasury to
meet all demands without drawing
upon the reserve. The folly of this
reasoning lies in the fact that the rev.
enues of the government are not paid
in the kind of money that its expend.
itures are paid in. There is no reve-
nue. due the treasury that may not be
paid in silver, silver certificates, legal
tender or Sherman treasury notes.
When there is difference in CONNER
cial value between kinds of money
that are receivable for government
dues, the bulk of such dues
will be paid in the cheaper
kind. The government might, there
fore. receive in some kind of receiva-
BILE money a dollar for each dollar it
had to pay out. and yet not possess the
kind of money in which its debts must
be paid. If all government dues were
payable in gold, as all government ex-
penditures are held to be, a revenue
equal to expenditures would protect
the gold reserve. The remedy lies either
in making government dues payable in
gold or in paying debts with silver.
The former policy would in effect re-
peal the Bland Allison act of 1873, and
thus establish gold recommendation by
law, while the other would recognize
silver as money of ultimate redemp-
ton and thus practically establish BIZ
metallism.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03

while we are on . gold basis, and our
mints open to the free coinage of gold,
yet all the gold afloat does not go to
the mint" and that ssilver bullion
will be turned into dollars in obedience
to the same principles and influences
that gold is now, and only when the
owner of the bullion finds that to DO
the more profitable way of disposing
of his product Continuing, the editor
of the Financial Chronicle squirms il
this wise:
~Does any one imagine that with the
price of silver in gold one-eighth of a
cent or any smaller fraction higher, in
relation to commodities, than silver
dollars are the mints would get the
bullion for coinage? Or take the mon
etary conditions as they rule to-day.
Currency is a drug. If the country
was on a silver basis there would be
no demand for more silver dollars. In
that case prices of commodities would
rise in silver and silver bullion would
decline in gold just as fast as bullion
was carried to the mint to be turned
into dollars. Indeed, silver in large
amounts would never be pressed for
coinage unless a need for dollars ex-
listed, because when there was no need
silver would in the nature of things,
command a better price in bullion than
in dollars; and II. the coinage did not
stop whenever that need was oversup-
piled the values of commodities in the
United States would rise in silver and
the gold price of the bullion in London
would CORRESPONDENCE or to greater
degree decline"
We find in the foregoing that there
would be no ''deluge" of silver at the
minis. On the contrary, we find the
remarkable statement set forth that
unless a need for dollars existed, silver
in large amounts would never be
pressed for coinage. But most remark
able of all, we find it stated the price
OF silver bullion would rise above the
cline in London.
This remarkable essay, be it remem-
bered, comes from the most intelligent
organs of the gold-bugs. 1t is put forth
with apparent reluctance, but it is to
be supposed that the editor is prepared
to stand by it. Without intending it,
perhaps, the Financial Chronicle digs
the ground from under all the single
standard arguments. and evades where
he does not admit. the arguments of
the bimetallists Mr.. Raoul, having
pressed his questions, the Financial
Chronicle could do no less than answer
them, and the result is hodge-podge
of evasion and admission that will
cause thrill of horror to run up and
down the cultured backbone of Horace
White.
After this display we think the advo-
Gates of free coinage ought to press
their campaign in the north and east.
Atlanta Constitution
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
F,xlNo VALUES.
NAy Gold 10 Apparsntiy More valuahss
Than Silver.

WY Gold 10 AppAreneIy More vnluahso
fhaa silver.
So far as any intrinsic value is CON-
eerned, silver Is more valuable than
gold. It Is q harder and more durable
metal, and can be used in many WAYS
for which gold is not adapted. The
reason gold is more valuable than
silver 10 because those who have con-
troll of the money market have decided
that it shall be 50 considered. If a
few men like the Rothschilds were to
decide tomorrow that silver should be
1.-THE money of redemption as they
are pleased to call it, gold would be
worth no more, if as much. as silver is
to-day. The value OF gold is purely
artificial, and the creation of money
brokers. who have selected it as the
standard of value; first, because they
are largely English and the British
empire produces gold but practically
no silver; secondly, because the supply
of gold is smaller and therefore more
easily controlled by few men, who
own most of the gold mines of the
world.
When the discovery of gold in this
state threatened to give an overproduc-
zion of gold, the same men who now
clamor that all debts should be paid in
gold, then wanted silver, the scarcer
metal at that time, as the money of re-
demption and payment The creditor
naturally wants all he can get from his
debtor. If he can loan him one dollar
and get back two, he considers himself,
and is considered by the world, an able
financier.
While the British government, to
please the bankers which control it,
has fixed a standard price for gold, and
pretends that silver is mere COM
modify. yet it buys this silver, coins it
in the ratio of Is to 1 and forces it
on the Asiatics for that value, showing
again the power of the government,
and that the value of the metals as
money is arbitrary and artificial. 1t is
dishonest, according to our English
creditors and their tools in this coun-
try, for the United States to pay its
debts in silver, because silver is worth
only one-thirty-second as much as
gold, but it is perfectly legitimate and
honest for the English trader to use
silver dollars coined on the basis of Is
to in the transaction of his business
with the Chinese, japanese and other
Estates.
The English people never were con-
sistent in anything, but they are prob
ably more inconsistent in this money
matter than in anything else they do,
and the only extraordinary thing is
that Americans should be fools enough
to play into their hands as complete
as they do.-Los Angeles Express
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03

OF others SO unlike it "
will fix the highway in the wrong
place for several generations, and may
be forever.
So, too, in one of the most beautiful
and prosperous counties in New Jersey
q large sum raised from the sale of
bonds for road improvement is being
wasted at this moment. Without q
man in the county board with any
knowledge of road building, it is not
wonderful that an engineer was Sc
lected without any experience Taking
good advice to begin with. this ig-
norant local board and ignorant local
engineer have abandoned every wise
counsel and now propose to pave over
hills SO steep that a horse can only
climb them laboriously in a walk, and
to use in the construction a native
bastard stone so coarse in grain that it
disintegrates when in contact with the
weather. This money will be thrown
away, and in that section of New Jer-
sey the movement for good roads will
be seriously injured.
State road laws should be framed so
that. while home rule will not be in.
terfered with, the ignorance of the
local pumpkins will have small chance
to wreak itself on the public highways.
Good roads should be universal in every
American state. and therefore their
construction from funds raised in part
by general taxation should not be
hardship to any. 1t is bad plan. as a
general thing, to help those who won't
help themselves. and for this reason
not every kind Of local interest and re-
sponsibility should be abrogated in any
state road law. But a state law grant
ing to each county state aid to the ex-
tent Of one-third of the cost of road inn
provement, provided that the plans
should be made and the work itself
supervised by the state engineers,
would secure the desired results with
ont relieving the county of good pro-
portion of an expense made in large
part for the benefit of the residents of
the county.
The road parliament which is to con-
vene in Atlanta cannot do q better
thing than initiate movement look
ing to the adoption of the policy and
the accomplishment of the results here
suggested. II eslie's Weekly.
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creasing largely, and this will be ono
of the avenues of consumption; in the
second place, our people will be led to
consume much larger quantities as
prices get within their reach; in the
third place, we will adopt methods of
canning and preserving not now known
or not now practiced, by which our
fruits can be consumed in every coun-
try in the world. At present the
United States is supplied with dried
fruits, such as raisins, figs, currants,
prunes, largely from other countries.
We are also importing largely lemons,
oranges, pineapples, bananas and other
tropical fruits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
Intrinsic Value.

The word intrinsic" has made q
great deal of trouble. Many people
embrace the doctrine of gold mono
metallism because they have been
taught to believe that gold is a metal
of intrinsic value, and that every dol
lar coined and of redemption quality
must have a dollars worth OF material
in it. They are invested with the no
ton that it is the gold in the dollar
whict makes the dollar. Exactly the
opposite proposition is the true one. II
is the authority conferred on congress
bv the constitution and the Legislative
declaration that gives money value to
the gold. It may be worth more OF
less than the coinage rate for the pur-
pose of the arts, but the law fixes the
dollar and determines what metal 1t
shall be made of, and how much metal
may be uscd.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
Not Tempted.

There is a quaint story told of =
couple of Scotch ministers who were
taking dinner together one summer
day in little parsonage in the High
lands 1t was the Sabbath day, the
weather was beautiful, and the bub-
bling streams were full of trout and
the woods full of summer birds One
turned to the other and said: Mon,
dom We often feel tempted on these
beautiful Sundays to 60 out fshing?'s
INA. ma" said the other. SCI never feel
tempted, l just gsng."-Householi
WordA
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
The Chinese have for ages practic,

The Chinese have for ages practiced
an art of dwarfing trees, SO that per
feet pines, oaks, apple and cherry trees
from six inches to two feet in height
are grown and sold as curiosities. The
secret of the process lies in a cunning
system of root pruning while the tree
is practically starved, being grown in
soil which furnishes little nutriment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03

"A man is as old as his arteries II
they are soft and compressible. the
deteriorating effects of old age have
not yet appeared. Distilled water Is
recommended as solvent to act upon
the earth salts in the blood and expel
them from the body. Apples, grapes
and bananas are rich in nutritious ele-
ments, and do not contain anything
which causes the ossifying blockades
In the system.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03

by the Turks is SO called because it
was first made at Fezzan in the Saba
ra. The fez is a wooden or felt cap.
red and without visor.