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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16
SOME GORGEOUS egg SHELLS.
The Ostrich Contributes More Than His
Plumes 60 Fashion.

Plumes to Fashion.
Ordinary egg shells are commonplace
everyday frail objects enough, but os.
trich egg shells can be made into really
splendid and decorative objects. The
material is hard and strong. The
natural color is delicious deep creamy
white, and so we have the best of
foundations with which TO start.
Treated with even simple gold orna.
ment they are charming, and fitted
with silken bags they make most fas.
cinating bonbonnieres. But II Is when
painted after Persian models that the
shells become really gorgeous. Then
they are pierced at both ends. They
are treated in the truest Oriental style
with stripes Of deep, warm red, rich
blue and gold, aud are suspended by
chains Of brass run through the
hollow she'll Some seen recently
add a final and most successful
touch 20 a Persian corner arranged In
a clever woman's home. The corner
itself Is curtained of with hangings Of
real Persian make. and there Is a divan
covered and cushioned with u rug and
stuffs all Of the same sort. But the
egg shells which hang here and there
excite more comment than all else.
They seem like oval balls Of splendor,
n balls can be oval, and their deep,
rich tones decorate the corner even
more successfully than would more
costly things They are peculiar, too,
and out Of the common things always
appeal 20 true woman's heart, so that
for every reason their owner Is 10 be
congratulated upon having put egg
shells TO so unique and so telling n use.
IN. Y. Advertiser.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16
The Force Of Habit.

Ildplpj ildpipi ldDiO, iloW ~
binds a man with chains of ironw
exclaimed the Temperance Lee
turer out of a Job, dramatically.
"And that's right, too," COM
mented the Son of Toll.
,"Ah, my friend, you seem to
have had some experience with
habits" said the Lecturer.
"You bet I have" replied the
other. "That's what causes all
the misery of my life."
The Lecturer glowed with
pleasure. Here right before him
was a horrible example and he
proceeded to draw the man out.
"You have telt the Irresistible
craving which drags you DOWN.
while all your better natuae is
crying out against it,"
"That's what"
"You have realized that your
habit was hurrying you to the
grave at breakneck speed and yet
you have felt that you could not
resist it?"
"Yes, sir"
at has robbed you of sleep and
robbed you of food, made you
bleary-eyed, nervous and physic-
ALLY exhausted ?"
"Many and many a night, sir,
I've gone without sleep just from
thinking of it, and it has got to
be common prrctice to go for
long spells without eating when
the pressure comes"
"You have starved your fam
lily and let your children go in
rags because of it,"
"Well, hardly that. My be-
setting habit has taken care of my
family in pretty good shap."
"You don'r mean that you are
a dealer?"
The Son of Toll looked puzzled,
but he answered, "No."
"Ah, / see, you have not yet
reached the lowest stage of de-
graduation, and you think to es-
cape it. But let me warn you,
my friend, you will not, unless
you overcome your habit. Re
solve to conquer it. You can if
you try"
"Well, ] don't know. | some
times think it would be pretty
dull if should break it off"
mo, no, no! You would be a
free man. You would feel such
joy as you never before had felt in
your life. Your wife would fall
on your neck with tears of thank
fulness. Come, my friend, the
demon has not an unbreakablc
clutch upon you. Sign the pledge
never TO drink"
"Drink! Why, | never drank
drop in my lite. What are you
giving us ?"
but ! thought you know the
power ofhabit; that you had felt
the craving which you could not
resist; that you Eal spent nights
without sleep and days without
food; that you were being dragged
down to an early grave"
II have, but faint the drink
habit. What's done all that to
me, pe,chcr, is the consarned
habit I've had ever since / was a
boy of working Ex-
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16
Rockingham Rocket: Farmer

Rockingham Rocket: Farmers
are going to work with energy and
determination this year. They
are going to change the old saying
"hard times" to better times and
of course they can do il simply by
raising more hog and hominey,
do on less, stay out of debt and il
they do that by next January we
will see more money in circula.
ton, and hear less grumbling
That is the best plan for redemp.
ton and not politics.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

Patrick, coming into . streetcar,
found only one scat vacant, and
promptly took II.
"lts loOky come when did," said
he.
"Thats so. Pat" answered some one.
''lIekase," !" he went on, ''ifI was com
In sicond later, I'd be aither havin'
crowdhed mesilf out Of mo sstel'--
Youths Companion.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

The Rutherford Democrat says
there is more interest in mining in
its section and more demands for
mining properties than for 80
years.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

David Holmes, the English Ia
Dor advocate, is plain, modest and
unpretentious man, who has all
the facts and figures of the textile
trade at his finger ends and has
seen all that is worth seeing in
our industrial centres, has gone
back to England.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16
The Power Of Price.

Mrs Feathers tsurveying bonnet
criticallyl-Five nincty.eight for this?
No, don't think IL will suit
Miilincr-I beg your pardon, the
mark is faint. ! meant fifteen ninety.
eight.
Mrs Fcathers-well, u you say It's
really the style, I'll take it!-N. \. Ad.
vertiser.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

made haste to explain that the
Princess Salm-Salm had laid i
wager with one of the officers thai
she could kiss the President. He
Gudacious sally won her a box of
Century.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

Down at Anderson, Ind, a
young woman has slept for twen-
ty-four days, while a farmer ofthe
same place has not slept 70" Ill
days, says the dispatches. No
one can doubt that the correspon-
dents have pleasant dreams.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16
asas4ssi'7 3sa7asiasa
IIia afann.T ~ syorLt...

"Yes. Two been working like dog
Iately," grumblcd swigglcs, leaning
pack in his chair az the club house.
Like setter dog7" asked the other
Fellows. ~ S'''gf
without shifting his position swIg-
Fies laEily pushed the button Of the
|slectric bell and ordered four large
ssrs.--csisago Tribune.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

Papa-why SO thoughtful, John.
ME?
Johnnie-well, people are having
such q hard time hunting for the north
pole think It's too bad Il ever was
lost.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

Jerry Simpson says life in Wash
ington broke him. He couldn't
keep up style on $4,000 a year,
and had to mortgage his Kansas
ranch to pull through.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16
n srniirrrd n.

Scattered -IIriggs-well, did that
dose ! told you TO take scatter your
cUld7
Braggs-1t did, beautifully. when |
saw you the cold was only In my
throat, and now IL IA scattered all over
me. .--Indianapolis Journal.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

The Scout says the snow fall in
the mountains near Murphy was
reported to be IS inches deep on
level last week.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

A proverb singer says: THE
man that never makes a mistake
never amounts to much" Perhaps
he makes a holy show of him
sell.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

Three horse thieves were hung
at one hanging in Oklahoma last
week. Express car robbing and
bank looting are the only safe in-
dustrics in that territory.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

In Atlanta a root doctor told
Mrs. Bailey johnson she was filled
with lizards. She died from fright
soon after.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

The goat eats up the posters,
the waste basket gets the circu-
lars, the ragman lugs off the
handbills, but newspapers with
their advertisements are saved
and read by the people.-Green-
vile Reflector.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

The Vance mills made $4,000
pounds of yarn last week, the
News says.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

Ali grades Of paper, from the finest
note 10 the eoarsest variety Of wrap.
ping paper, have been made from ths
stalks and leaves Of corn. J
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

Mrs De styic-why did you cut Mrs
Highupp7
Mrs De Fashion-IIer horse didn't
take a prize at the horse show.-N. y.
Weekly.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

NE Mads tfis Majesty Pay Dsariy for
Little Joke at IIis ExPeBse-IIut
~ Made PoOF Peasant
Happy.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

How General A. Cot Even vita
Emperor Nicholas Of Russia.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-16

GcTJegSA RswEpiss are odd lkfoushous the wosd.
pfics, CrTIcURA, scc.s soar, sse.s RksoLyBNr, St.
POfTNN Date avn CHHM. Coss.s Sole Props, Boston.
"An about the Bleed, Skins Seap, and Haif,] free.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05

of the latter. With the low price of wheat
and corn the farmers have looked about
for some more profitable crop and i~nvesti-
cation shows that the United States has
never produced enough potatoes for home
consumption. Thousands of bushels are
bought in foreign markets every year and
if there is a profit for powers abroad, with
small areas to devote to the crop and the
additional expense of ocean freight rates,
there ought to be money in the business
for the farmers in this country, who have
larger tracts of land and cheaper freight
rates. The imports for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1894, were 3,O22,57a
bushels, of the value of nearly $3.50.
900.
Last year 2,737,973 acres were devoted
to this crop, and that was an increase over
the year before of $1,000 acres. The pro-
duct of 1894, on account of an unfavOr-
able season. was 2.246,O0O bushels short
of the year before, Notwithstanding the in
creased acreage. But in measuring the
popularity of the potato as an article Of
farm product. the product is scarcely
worthy of consideration, for the increase
in the area of land devoted to the crop is
plainly the index of its popularity. All
the evidence available indicates that there
are now 100000 acres of potatoes grow
ing in the United States. The fact that
there has been a steadily decreasing acre
age of wheat, rye. barley. oats and corn,
which continues this year. is considered
by the Secretary of Agriculture to indicate
an increased acreage of potatoes and other
substantial small products.
New York has steadily led all the other
States az a potato producer. Last year
3IS. 12S acres of land were devoted to the
crop in New York, and the product, aggre-
eating over 29.000.O00 bushels, was sold
for half as many million dollars. Nichi-
gan was second, with 215.27O acres and Il
product of over 100000 bushels, which
brought the growers nearly S6.OOO,OG0.
PENNSYLVANIA was third, with 2O6,S13
acres. which produced almost the exact
number of bushels produced by Michigan,
though the acreage was vastly less than
M~ichigan's. The acreage in Ohio was in
round numbers the same as that in Penn
sylvania. and the aggregate of the crop
was the same within a few thousand BUSH
els, showing that both Pennsylvania and
Ohio raised Il larger crop than Michigan
with less acreage The other big potato
growing States are Iowa. Illinois. Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas. in
the order named. Iowa had 1865 acres
last year; Kansas. 10S.213. The aggre-
gate of acreage gradually decreases from
Iowa TO Kansas. excepting that Illinois
and Wisconsin had almost the same acre,
age-that is. about 1866 800 While Mis-
souri,. Maine, Massachusetts, New Jer-
sey, Virginia. Kentucky, South Dakota,
Colorado, and a ~half-dozen other States
are good potato growers and have a large
acreage, none of them approached 100000
acres last year, and in nearly all of them
less thar $4,000 acres of land was devoted
to potatoes.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05
OlD VETS INVITED.
Secretary of War Asks that They At,
tend the Services at Chickamaupa,

dS
Secretary Lamont has issued an order
outlining the official program for the ded-
icatory services of the Chickamauga and
Chattanooga National Military Park. 1t
is as follows:
Pursuant to the act of Congress ap-
proved Dec. 10. 1894. the national dedica-
ton OF the Chickamauga and Chnttanoo-
ga National Military Park will take place
on the 10Th and Goth of September prox-
imo. The veterans. those who have been
invited. and the public will assemble at
Snodgrass Hill on the battlefield of Chick
amauga. AT noon. Sept. 10, orations will
be delivered by Gen. John NJ. Palmer, Of
illinois, and Gen. John Il. Gordon, of
Georgia.
THE exercises on the Goth will begin
at noon in the city of Chattanooga. Ora
tons will be delivered by Gen. William
Il. Bate. of Tennessee. and Charles II.
Grosvenor. of Ohio. The evenings of
both days will be devoted to meetings of
the veterans of the armies participating
in the two battles. The complete pro-
gram in detail will be hereafter an
nounced. A waterproof tent covering
seats for 10000 people will be erected in
Chattanooga for the meeting of the Doth,
and both night meetings.
"The participation in these dedicatory
exercises has been requested of the presi-
dent, of Congress. OF the Supreme Court
and OF the heads of executive depart
monts. and invitations to be present have
been sent to the Governors of the States
and their STATS. Like invitations are
hereby extended TO the survivors of the
several armies that were engaged in the
battles of Chickamauka and Chattanoo-
ga. 1t is obviously impracticable for the
Secretary of War to issue individual in
vitations.
1.-The act does not make provisions for
transportation. quarters. or entertain
ment. In view of the large attendance
which now seems assured. it is suggested
that all who expect to be present make
immediate engagements for quarters.
These can be secured through the Chat.
tanocga Citizens Executive Committee.
Gen. ]. S. Fullerton. chairman of the
C~hickamauga and Chattanooga Military
Park Commission. is designated as grand
marshal Of the ceremonies, and will ap-
point such marshals and assistants az
may be required.
THE band and one battalion of the
Sixth Infantry. the band and one battal-
ion of the Seventeenth Infantry, the band
and one battalion Of the Third Artillery
all under the command Of the lieutenant
colonel of the Third Artillcry-will Oh.
camp on the field of Chickamauga about
Sept. !. proyimo. and remain until after
the ceremonies. The troops will be used
in preserving order in the park and the
protection OF public property.
"DANlEL $. LAMONT.
''Secrctary of War"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05

idly. and will take up and deliver tba
DOCKS the two buildings. Tele-
phone wires are to be laid in this con-
duit' and a member of Congress will be
able to communicate his wants directly
10 the librarian from the cloak-rooms of
either the Senate or the House. The tun-
mel Is intended to be dry and light. so that
a man can walk through it if anything
goes wrong. AS this book railway is only
TO be used to furnish members of Con
gress with books it is expected that two
carriers will be sufficient. The smaller
the number the greater the speed which
can be used for the cable.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05

Masonic brotherhood which has been in
woven with the most important features
of our national history is experiencing a
healthy and continuous growth. The fact
that there are now in this country upward
of 1OO, 1000 members of the order of
knights Templar alone is full of encour-
aging significance.
1t is maintained that the Masonic fra
ternity. not to speak of others scarcely
less influential, has done an incalcuable
amount of good in conserving respect for
the basic principles of true religion
among a class of men most likely to be
prolific in s~coffers. And not less i'm
portant is the part played by this order in
the %perpctuation of patriotic sentiment
throughout the Union. From the laying
of the cornerstone of the national capital
at Washington. a century ago. to the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the Masonic
Temple in Chicago, this society has played
an important part in the public and semi
public events that have made mp our his
tory as a nation.
1t is forty-fiye years since Boston has
been the scene of Knights Templar grand
cOnclave, and the members of the order
in the city exerted themselves to the ut
most to Guido all that have taken place
since. Boston boasts of the largest com
mandery in the United States, and this
one body appropriated $4,000 to be
spent in making the guests appreciate
their welcome. Even with such an eX-
ample the visiting Communicates were de-
termined not to be eXcelled, and though
none of them expended any such sum of
money, all planned to more than do their
part in the festivities. Special trains were
chartered from all parts of the country to
carry the members of the visiting com
manderies to the East, and in many in
stances the trips were arranged and add
ed to so that the route included not only
Boston but many other Eastern cities and
points of national interest.
The Grand Parade.
The cOnclave was opened with a parade,
which was the greatest of its kind ever
held. More than 10000 Knights Templar
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05
g: @
TIE <NeMSG

The suggestive reInarkS about boomers
have gone far enough. Cut them short.
A Washington man committed suicide
because he couldn't please his wife. Won
der if he succeeded at last.
We believe Mr.. Holmes ought to be
willing to pay regular rates for reading
notices from this time forward.
Before the troops are Withdrawn from
Jackson's Hole we hope they will drive
the correspondents back to their reserva.
ton.
A cablegram says that Nat Goodwin
is having a glorious time touring England
on a wheel. We are glad Nat left his
skates at home.
AT Greenwich, Conn. Miss Anna Mer.
cy and Joseph Justice were married. 1t
isn't often that the law tempers mercy
with justice like that.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says that
Holmes is looking thin and detected.
Well, it's enough to wear out any man
to keep track of the detectives clews in
that case.
A Florida dispatch says that a picnick-
ing party down there was pursued the
other day by a snake which in diameter
resembled a beer barrel" Perhaps that's
what it was.
A valued New York contemporary
which says that Mrs. Corbett has found
marriage a failure should guess again.
A hundred dollars a week for life doesn't
look much like a failure.
Mr.. Davis. of New York, has been fined
IS and costs for selling a collar button on
Sunday. If he had sold a suit of clothes
probably he would have been sentenced
to the p~enitentiary for life.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05
POTATO NOW Is KING.
Farmers Beginning to Renlizc that
There Ia Money In Tubcrs.

The potato has at last taken rank rs
king among the tillers Of the soil. For
years Secretary OF Agriculture Morton
has been appealing to the farmers of the
| nited Stntes to grow potatoes, as he be-
lirvcd TINT they would be their salvation.
They have finally taken his advice, and
now they are beginning to realize that
they will profit by planting more ground
10 the tubers instead of wheat and corn.
There is at all times Il steady demand for
them, and they are quite as staple as
wheat and not subject to the fluctuations
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05
KNIGHTS IN BOSTON.
, WENTY-S!NTH GREAT TRlEN-
NAL CONOLAVE.
Ehirty-TfousanG Tcm pIars ard Their
Fricnds from All Parts of tho
Country The Great Paradc-A Week
OF Much Gaycty.
Owned the Town..

Boston has had rather more than its
share of great gatherings this summer.
Scarcely had the Christian Endeavor
cohorts departed with their banners than
the Knights Templar veterans We're seen
rallying to the city of brains and beans to
the number of 10000. with half as many
more ladies in their illustrious train.
This twenty-siXth triennial conclave of
the knights Of the Temple was remark
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05
Wheat Crop of the World.

Details of the Government estimate Of
the wheat crops Of the various countries,
the total for which was stated in q recent
dispatch, shows the following in bushels:
Great Britain, 1851, 900; France, 3O1,-
$4,000; Germany, TO-, $4,000; Austria,
40, 1892, 900; Italy, 114,S98 900; Belgium.
q, 277, 900; Spain, S6,52S.00O; Russia,
AS. O53. 900: Hungary, 15O,361 900; In
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05

to be exchanged. In this way vast collec-
tons of badges were procured as souven-
irs of the triennial meeting, and a com
plete collection Of those worn during the
week will be worth fully 81 900.
A series of receptions and social festiv-
tiles were held during the convention and
visiting knights were taken to view all
interesting points about Boston. Many
public, as well as private. buildings were
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05

dia, 237, 456,OOO; United States, 4OO,O17,-
900; Canada, 81 ,066,0OO: Roumania, g.
414,OO0; Bulgaria, 52,4S2,O 600; Turkey,
42,555,O0O; Argentine, $685., 900; Aus
tralia, 80, 746,OOO. The Netherlands,
Switzerland, Denmark, Scandinavia, Por-
tugal and Greece, together, %, 502, 900;
Servia, S,511,0OO; Chill. 1S,44O 900; At
RIGA. 47,094, 900; all Asia except India.
1O,95O,OOO; total. 2.4O2, 871. OOO.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-09-05
BAR ASSOCIATION MEET.
Three Hundred Leading Jurists of the
United S,tateS Gather ut Detroit.

Three Hundred Leading Jurists of the
United States Gather at Detroit.
An intellectual looking assembly of 300
leading .jurists and members of the bar
was present in Y. NJ. {. A. Hall. Detroit.
when President James &. Carter. of New
York, called to order the eighteenth an
nual convention of the American Bar As.
ISOLATION. After thanking the Detroit
representatives of the profession for the
cordial receptions rendered the visitors.
the President read a short list of the most
noted ~jurists present, who were invited
to seats upon the platform. President
Carter then proceeded with the reading
of his address.