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breeders OF I

ever serious these effects may have
been. These planters know that they
live in section peculiarly adapted to
the successful culture and shipment
of early vegetables, they have had
many profitable seasons IN past years
to encourage them, and while they
could not withstand without some loss
and Encouragement an early summer
drought of such duration, yet this is
a providential visitation that may
come to any section.
Craven is probably the leading truck
growing county in the State, and the
cultivation by Craven farmers of these
early vegetables has in seasons past
brought much profit to the planters
and much wealth to the county. New
bern is the great distributing point
from which the shipments are made
and from which all supplies are OBJ
tanned and because of this the Elm
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ton as to the extent OF truck growing
ia this section and find the following
figures are but fair estimates, Craven
county cultivates in potatoes, 1000
acres; in beans, 500 acres; in peas,
800: in cabbage, 500; in canteloupes,
800 acres; in other truck, 1000 acres.
In ordinary years when seasons are
favorable this acreage will produce AZ
follows: Potatoes, 100000 bushels;
peas. 10000 bushels; cabbage, 10000
bushels; beans, $4,000 bushels; cante~
Loupes, $4,000 barrels; cucumbers, TO-
600 bushels; asparagus and other
truck, 1000 packages, making nearly
four hundred thousand packages, nor
are these estimates exaggerated. The
potatoes are only estimated on an
average OF fifty barrels per acre. In
many instances the yield runs up to
100 barrels per acre and the yield of
cucumbers has run up as high as 1000
boxes per acre.
In ordinary seasons this truck
ought to average $1.00 or more per
package, which would mean for Cra-
ven county four hundred thousand
dollars from it's trucking industry.
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lately been discovered. North Caro-
lima has been called strip of land ly-
ing between Virginia and South Caro-
lima and why? mainly because North
Carolina has no great commercial sea,
port town. 1t is commerce which DIS
covers and civilizes and spreads abroad
the name and fame of any country IN
which it is interested. North Carolina
has no such city, so Brunswick county
has had no town of sufficient size TO
make a market for it's citizens and give
it importance. There have been move
ments towards the building up OF a
commercial city in North Carolina, but
the result has been failure. The wise
men who projected, and invested
largely in the Wilmington & Weldon
Railroad had for their object the build
fnp of a railroad northwesterly to-
wards Cincinnati and the West, IN
which case we should have had ter
minal city at the mouth of the Cape
Fear which no one can doubt would
have redeemed North Carolina from
the opprobrium of being strip OF
land. More lately the projectors OF the
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MORT as a resort, both summer and
winter, for health and pleasure seek
ars. 1t affords all the advantages OF
GENIAL and healthy climate. 1T is easy
of access by water, and will be, by
means Of the Carolina, Tennessee q
Ohio Railroad, in direct connection
with the whole country North ana
South. 1T claims TO be place 10 I'VE
in. and not solely a resort for day or
an hours pleasure There are scnoois
and teachers, and there will be hotels.
There is great variety in the attrac~
tions of Southport. 1t fronts upon the
Cane Fear river and the Atlantic is IN
full view. Ships of all kinds are pas
sing and repassing, bearing the flags
of all nations. With the development
of Southport, there will be the entire
| commerce of two cities passing III
/ front of Southport. In the distance
may be seen ships out on the ocean,ap-
uroaching the bar. At night, light
houses throwaout their friendly greet
ing to the mariner, and two lfe-savlng
stations speak to the on-lookers OF the
blessings which civilization has
brought to the world. When the tide
comes in there is the beautiful expanse
| of green waters. When the tide goes
out, YOU find a new scene, and might
reasonably think you were in quite a
new locality The wind being from the
east you have the waves in one aspect
and color-from the southwest, in
quite another. In one comprehensive
sentence it may be said that age can
not wither or custom stale the infinite
variety of the waters of the bay. Per
haps enough has been said 1t is
hoped that this issue of the News and
Observer will fall into the hands OF
people who find it either too hot OF
too cold where they are, and want TIC
go somewhere where it is never too ho'
or too cold-or perohance into locall'
ties where cyclones never destroy IN al
, hour the work of a lifetime or parch
, ing droughts wither the crops, OF
! where the water is bad or the take
. too high. To such as these, this is al
, dressed.
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the Riverside you may be- perfectly
sure that you get just what you order.
Their Games, Wyandottes, Langshans
Plymouth Rocks, Cochins, and other
varieties are full blooded, carefully
bred, thoroughly acclimated, plump.
strong, healthy and hearty.
Mr.. Dunn, the proprietor, is an au-
thority on poultry breeding and poul-
try raising, and he finds pleasure only
in furnishing to his patrons the very
best specimens. Riverside rs delight
full spot. 1t is an interesting and in
structive place to visit, and the visitor
to Newbern has failed to see the great
est attraction there or whereabouts I'M
ill he has visited the Riverside Poultry
Farm.
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CABBAGE FIELD, BLACKBURN

adapted to the culture of peas, beans,
potatoes, asparagus, melons and other
vegetables than the county of Craven,
and when the seasons are at all favor
able and prices are even fairly re-
nlunerative there is NO section that can
grow and ship these products to great
er advantage. They mature very
early and grow TO unusual perfection.
The truck farmers of Craven have dur
ing the past few years succeeded in
putting their farms in a high state OF
cultivation, and in ordinary years the
WELD is abundant. The past season
however, was an exception, and long
and continuous drought just about
the time the potatoes, beans ind cab
bage were beginning to mature cut the
crop short nearly one-half retarded it's
maturity and seriously affected not
only the quantity but the quality of
this seasons crop The result, while
not disastrous, was exceedingly DIS
couraging to the truck growers OF
Craven. But the Craven county plant
ers are not to be depressed by the Of
fects of drought during season, how
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s.. A. 81 n. W. railroad had the same
end in view. but the scheme was too
tyip for the pockets of the projectors.
Flo the fact remains that we are only
way station between the North ana
The South. where are the great cltes
and the great markets.
AS / said before, Brunswick county
and it's capital town, Southport, have
been but lately discovered. The man
ner of the discovery was somewhat
curious. The Cape Fear river below
Wilmington was full of shoals. There
were two inlets, apd over their bars
about twelve feet of water was the
best which could be relied upon for
CARRYING ships to sea. Successful eff
forts were therefore made to secure
the cooperation of the general govern
rnent in the Improvement or the river
and harbor. After many experiments
and failures, it was decided BY the Y.
s. engineers to fill up the new inlet,
thus throwing all the great and RAPID
currents of the Cape Fear into one
channel. when it was believed the
shoals and sand bars would be swept
away, and an abundant depth OF water
secured.
The result was entirely successful
and it may be considered as triumph
OF modern engineering skill, What
had been accomplished at this point
of the work, was simply a deep water
harbOr for North Carolina, possessing
safe anchorage for any number of the
largest ships, with easy entrance and
plenty of water on the bar. OF course
the object of this great work was not
TO make a harbor or build a city al
Southport, but nevertheless the harbol
was produced. 1T will remain for al
times an inviting harbor for the pur
poses of commerce. 1t is a finished
work requiring no further appropria
ton of the public money. It's broat
waters, land-locl<ed and affording sc
curity aginst tempests, invites th
commercial world to inspect. Tt want
a new city and a new commerce. ]
does not seek to direct anything from
old and established channels. 1t want
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YOU AND YOUR GRANDFATHER

YOU AND YOUR GRANDFATHER.
Are removed from each other by a
span of many years. He travelled in
slow-going stage coach, while you take
the lightning express or the electric
car. When he was sick he was treated
by old-fashiorfed methods and given
oid-fashioned medicines, but you de-
mand modern ideas in medicine as well
as in everything else. Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla is the medicine of to-day. 1t is
prepared by modern methods, and to
its preparation are brought the skill
and knowledge of modern science.
Hoods Sarsaparilla acts promptly
upon the blood, and by making pure,
rich blood, it cures disease and estsb-
fishes good health.
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hundred or more little chicken castles
that dot the little city of fowls. They
have as neighbor-s and associates the
Black Minorcas, the Partridge Cochins,
the barred Plymouth Rocks, the Light
Brahmas, the White Leghorns, the
Single Comb Brown Leghorns, the
brave little Red Game Bantams, the
Buff Cochin Bantams and the noisy
little White Bantams, male and fe-
male, but each have their own dung
hill, over which they strut and crow at
their pleasure, and each family OF
fowls has it's own home in which they
lay and set and raise their young, with
out communication with the others.
OF course one brood of little chickens
can play in the back yard Of the others,
but as they grow up to roosterhood
and henhood they have little houses
with grassy lawns shaded with fruit
trees furnished them, each enclosed in
high wire fences that prevents outsid-
ers from coming in and disturbing
their family relations.
In this little town OF fowls are also
Imperial Pekin Ducks, who quack,
and swim about their premises and IN
their own pools. All these fowls are
somewhat Democratic in their ideas
and notions, but Riverside has some
Aristocrats among its inhabitants. The
White Bantam is, to some extent, an
aristocrat, and the Indian Game is
right much so, but both of these are
more or less sociable The silver, gold
IN and Mongolian Pheasants are real
genuine aristocrats. Their everyday
costumes out glitter any worn by the
| proudest roosters in the hennery. They
are exceedingly exclusive in all their
characteristics. They seem to know
| full well that fine feathers make fine
| birdie, and it is their peculiar beauty
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whatever pertains to the agricultural
advancement of his section and has
State. lie believes in going forward
himself. and he believes in doing what
ever he can ITO push forward the inter
ests of the State he loves. He is stead
fast in his belief that the State and the
different counties should go forward
| in material Improvement. He is
strong supporter and a friend TO those
Institutions established by the State
having for their purpose the advance
ment Of its agricultural interests. He
| believes in mechanical and practical
training of the young. He is one of
the strongest supporters and advocates
of permanent public road improve
mment. and his matured views ON this
great problem are sought and appre-
ciated by the advocates of this public
reform.
Mr.. Kennedy is a most genial and
clever host, and at his magnificent
home he entertains his friends with
that open-hearted hospitality that is
scarcely found outside of ."Tar
Heel" home.
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g. WILLETT, Newbern, n. c.

Among the leading truck gardeners
of Newbern and vicinity are such en-
terprising men as f. H. & j. A. Mead
ows, VIM Dunn, blackburn & Willett,
Geo. N. Ives & Son, c. T. Watson, j..
Wordsworth, Graham Richardson,
Thomas Daniels, w. Carmen, w. II.
Crockett, w. H. Bray, j. II. Stevenson
and A. j. German. These men, with a
hundred or more others, have shown
the truck growing possibilities of their
section, and laid the foundation for
still greater developments in the flu
ture
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BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS,
Riverside Poultry Farm, Newbern, NC.
that makes all the world their adj
mirers and friends. The pheasants
are the royal family of fowls, and it is
worth a trip to the Riverside to see
these members of the royal family.
There are three varieties bred
at the Riverside Poultry Farm,
the Silver, the Golden and
the Monaghan, and Mr.. Dunn, the
Proprietor, has during the past season
given special attention to Matching and
raising a goodly number of them for
the fall trade, and is taking orders now
for birds to be delivered in October.
The Pheasant is pet fowl, and
there is no bird that decorates barn
yard or a poultry farm so much as he
The Riverside Farm sustains the rep
utation all over the country of breed
ing and shipping nothing but the very
best in all it's variety of fowls. Every
attention is paid to breeding,t feeding
and raising. and when you buy from
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The Famous Riverside Poultry
Farm at Newbern.
THE COCKS OF THE WALK
Of the Best Varieties Grow and
Grow Here.
THE BEAUTIFUL PHEASANTS
The Royal Family of Fowls Reign al
Riverside The Unique and In
teresting Enterprise of
Mr.. William Dunn.

This is one of the most thoroughly
equipped and well stocked poultry
farms in the South. 1t as the prop
erty of Mr.. VIM. Dunn, and is located
In the southern suburbs of Newbern.
Riverside is a little town of the feathery
tribe where the Buff Cochin. Silver
Wyandottes, Black Langshan, Ply
mouth Rock and Indian Games are the
cocks of the walk. These and their
companions and progeny are the
peaceful and happy dwellers in the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-23
STATE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL.

Departments well equipped. ~ teach
ers. 444 regular students, besides
practice school of 81 pupils. $50 ma
triculates since its opening in 1899. %
of the 96 counties represented. Com
petitive examination at county seat
August 1st to fill free tuition vaean-
cies in dormitories. Application
should be made before July goth TO en-
ter the examination. No free tuition
except to applicants signing a pledge
to become teachers. Annual expenses
of free tuition, students boarding I'm
dormitories, 500; tuition-paying stu
dents, $3.50. Address,
President CHARLES d. M'IVER,
Greensboro, N. e.
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Continued from page 12).
lily of docile milk producers, and
heifer from his herd may always be
relied on to possess those natural char
acteristics necessary to make her one
OF the best of her kind. The love for
fine horses is another characteristic OF
the owner of Cedar Dell farm, and in
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BLACK BREASTED
RED GAME BAN
TAMS.

The Black Breasted Red
Game Bantam stands pre-
tmtTIent among the many
other varieties of Ban
tams. They are exact
c0unterpaIts Of the Black
Breas ed Bed Game.
Mo- hing IS so larg- that
they IRE afr i'd of it On
lawn they Fr' perfectly
beau ifut In a small yard
they are contented and { o
We IL.
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THE ELM CITY.
And the Trucking Industry in Craven
County.
a VERlTABLE GARDEN.
In Which the Earliest and Best Vegeta-
bes Grow.
SHIP LOADS OF TRUCK
90 Hence from Craven Into the Cour-
trv's 1 eedin0 Markets.
a vERITABLE GARDEN.
SHIP LOADS OF TRUCK

Few sections in THE South have made
such rapid strides in truck gardening
as the Craven county section, of which
the city of New'bern is the centre.
There is probably no county in the
South whose soil and climate is more
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PLEAS ANTS.

Nothing In the featbered race can
compare in beauty 10 a Rh asant. and
TO describe separately, or to do justice
to the three varieties bred by the Riv.
erside Poultry Farm would consume
this entire page. At the recent n. G.
State Fair they created quite q sense
ton, and many inquiries were made for
eggs. The Silver. Golden and hongo-
Liam re the haai Varieties
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Queen Olives.

A special lot of the Mammoth variety, she
finest ever brought to the city.
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We have three Items we Wish to tell you
about. Something choice and extra nice,
aud we will occupy,a minute with each;
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CEDAR DELL FARM.

Continued from page 12).
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Hams.

1900 lbs OF the finest Virginia Hams that
can be bought have just been received, and
are being offered to-day.
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terrain company and pursue the ordi-
nary avocations of life, with the excep-
ton that no word ever passes the lips of
one which is addressed to the other. The
cause of the rupture has been known to
The neighbors of the Schrieber family
and the sedate residents of German
Town for many years. The old couple
are now both seventy years of age.
Ihey have two sons, John, who lived
with his wife and child in the same
house with his silent parents, and
CHARLES, who is also happily married,
and who also resides in Germantown.
Then there is widowed daughter liv-
ing under the same roof that shelters
her father and mother, and another
married daughter, who lives about q.
mile from the Schrieber house These
four have grown TO manhood and wom-
anhood under tho shadow of the cloud
which began to form when they were
children. They are all past their youth
now, and their own children are grow
ing up about them.
John Schrieber, who is now gray
bearded and gray-haired, is still a big,
powerful looking man, though he is
over 20. He was very handsome
young man so years ago when he took
his pretty young wife home to the fam
lily residence. She was an Unruh a
buxom, 'pink-cheeked, bright-eyed girl,
with goodly marriage portion, and
she had many suitors for her hand
But the big flashing John Schrieber
won her heart and led her home in
triumph as his bride. The Unruhs and
the Schriebers were of good old Dutch
| stock, and all were Baptists. The
young couple were we'll provided for as
matters were considered in those days,
and Schrieber has since amassed con-
siderable wealth in his business, which
is now almost entirely in his sons
hands. For 20 years they lived togeth-
er with as much happiness as comes to
| ordinary mortals. Their children were
born and grew to youth and maiden
hood, and no special sorrow or suffer-
| ing seemed to fall upon the family
1t semed as though some special Provi-
dence guarded the household. Perhaps
it was this freedom from care and mis-
fortune which fastened the breach.
Sorrow often knits family affection in
10 cable so strong that the force of a
world could not break it, and wealth
and happiness often weaken the ties.
The cloud formed in the blue sky
over the stricken home At first it was
almost imperceptible, then it grew dali
ly and hourly, strengthened by pride
on both sides, by recrimination and
accusation, by tears and angry words.
Then it settled into a great pail of ST.
lence between husband wife, father and
mother. The two roads Joined at the
altar for better or for worse separated,
the two lives that had been made one
were broken asunder, and under one
roof these two people took UP their
lives more terribly apart than if they
were divided by leagues of land and
sea.
Life at the Schrieber house goes on
now in a regular routine day after day.
To the outside world it would seem as
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though they were very happy family,
observing matters from appearances
only. But visitors who join in the plen-
tiful dinner that is served each day are
perfectly aware of the state of affairs
which exists in the household and deli
cately endeavor to appear unconscious
Of it.
The early breakfast sees the entire
family gathered about the table Mr..
Schrieber occupies the chair at the head
and his wife her place at the foot. The
son and his wife and boy and the wild
owed daughter are present. Each head
is bent while the master of the house
says few words of grace The wife
serves the coffee, the husband caryes
the meat, and the breakfast proceeds.
There is conversation: laughter even.
The children relate their experience:
the women discuss their sewing; the
men talk business; but never by any
chance does word, smile or even
look pass between the two who preside
over the table. After that meal the
men depart for business, as a rule, al
though Mr.. Schrieber himself frequent
ly remains at home now. Mrs SchReb-
er proceeds with various house wifely
duties, for she is good mother and a
good housekeeper. Her husbands
clothing as it comes from the laundry
is mended by her hands with the rest
of the household linen. The food he
eats is cooked under her supervision,
much of it by her own hands He pays
the family bills, but not his wife's per-
sonal expenses. This is not through
any lack of generosity on his part, but
because his wife has her own income and
prefers her independence. But she will
not leave her home or children While
she is obstinate in her silence, she is
good woman, and she has never been
heard to complain or to speak of the
matter which has occasioned the quar-
rel Of 80 years ago.
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Three what? Three charmingly exc
cuted posters in colors, drawn by w.
w. Denslow, Ethel Reed and Ray
Brown, will be sent free of postage to
any address on receipt of One Dollar.
All who are afflicted with the poster
craze" will Immediately embrace this
rare opportunity, as but Il limited num-
Der of the posters will be issued. The
scarcity of good thing enhances its
valde. Address Geo. II. lIcaffOrd,
General Passenger Agent of the Chi
caoo. Milwaukee e st. Paul Railway,
Old COLONY Building, Chicago, III.
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Thrives on good food and sunshine. with
plenty of exercise in the open air. Her
form CLOVIS with health and her face blooms
with its beauty. If her system reeds the
cleansing action OF laxative remedy, she
uses the gentle and pleasant syrup of Figs.
Made by the CaliforniaFig Syrup Company.
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A New Jersey farmer who raises veg
etables for the New York market has
spent So, 600 in electric culture and
facilities, and is said to have increased
his production from 40 to 60 per cent.
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Fifty bicycles were impounded On
ore day in Paris recently because they
had no plates bearing the owners
name and residence soldered to them
as the new law requires.
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IT, you are thinking of studying music
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