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THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
stockholders Of the PALMETTO RAIL
WAY COMPANY will be held az the OF.
flee of the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad
Company In Raleigh. n. c.. on THURS
DAY, November If. 1897. AT 9 O'Clock A.
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Spain is still. it Is evident. - hsught,
as she is naughty.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
ONE WEEK. COMMENCING
MONDAY, NOVEMBER Sth.
SATURDAY MATINEE.
THE LEES.
GREAT COMPANY OF
HYPNOTIsTs.
Entire Change OF Programme Nightly.
Prices: 80. 30. %, and ljc.
no 5-F Su. tn. ". Th. F&Sllt
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CALCULATE FOE TILE pnnr1rs

AS this paragraph is being written,
load after load OF wheat seconds" are
being drawn past by the dairymen for
winter feeding Mt SO a ton. With
corn the cheapest in years and that
means oil other grain as well-ope
would think that these men would buy
the corn, but the fact is this These
men have corn by the 100 bushels and
oats galore, and yet they find by ex.
perleDce that they cnn sell oats and
corn, even at present prices, and buy
dne bran at $40, and get the differ
ence IN weight as II gift for the draw
ing, and not only is more milk pro-
duced, tut the manurial supply is
augmented end gain is made IL two
or three ways. The writer sold his
oats Mt twenty-five cents-last years
carried over for the rise-and OK
changed them for bran seconds at $40
per ton, making 1900 pounds of sec
onds clear on each ton of oats, and NJ
the seconds will make as much milk.
poun. or pound, as the oats, tho ra.
ton has been consequently cheapened
MS well ms increased by something over
one half.
THEN cornmade manure is not so
valuable az that from wheaton shorts.
and the animal is better nourished rs
result Of the feeding more nitrogen.
ous matter. Here Is n great field for ex-
pertinent and practice, and one in
which much con he done TO cheaper
the cost of producing thing. -Four
cents saved n day in the feeding of n
COW Is The sane rs the rise of like
amount IN the price OF butter, and if
The stars OF fortune should again shine
and we see twenty five cent butter, the
man who has chcapened the ration
ionr cents q day 10 the COW and gets
the rise on butter as well, will soon be
a millionaire, and his daughters we'd
foreign counts, j. O., fellows TO help
Elm count his clsb. Practical Farmer.
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MELDA's MARVELLOUS GOWN.

The gown which Nine. Melba wears
in the third act of LIN Traviata'
ballroom scene-cost nearly fifteen
thousand dollars. The embroidery is
of seed pearls and of small diamonds
applied by some wonderful French
process, and its construction occupied
over year. The ivory brocaded
satin of which it is composed was
specially woven for it, and is of such
body that it resembles n heavy cloth
in weight, requiring no lining in
either skirt or bodice. 1t is Of an ex-
traordinary lustre, producing an
opalescent effect in certain lights, and,
combined with the fortune of gems
which Nine. Melba will wear with it,
will give her the appearance of stand
ing III robe OF glimmering light.
The trained skirt is mass of jeweled
embroidery. The pattern is outlined
10 a spiral plume, the stem composed
Of small diamonds. The body OF the
plume is of spungles in virgin silver
beaded with seed pearls. Tho en-
broidery outlines the seams of this
skirt, Interpreted with an applied
etching representing the camellia, the
stems and leaves being in different
sha.les of green. The bodice is made
of satin in folds that seem to drape
the form. II is without sleeves, being
upheld over the shoulders by chains
'of diamonds-three strands to each
side. On the left shoulder IS bunch
of real camellias fastened with O mag
nificent diamond clasp. The slippers
are made of the same satin, aud arc
embroidered to match with seed pearls
and diamonds, the lnstep being liter
ally studded with gems. Nine. Melba
wears nearly one hundred thousand
dollars worth of jewels in this act, aud
will be veritable blaze os light from
head to foot. Upon her head will rest
a tiara of diamonds and pearls-the
latter being the rare pear shaped
pearls, beautifully matched and per-
feet in color. In her hair, which will
be rolled in Grecian knot, camellia
will be fastened by dagger of pearls
and diamonds. Close to her throat
will be worn seven.stranded col
larette of pearls, fastened by three
diamond clasps. Below this will be a
pendant of pear-shaped pearls and
diamonds matching the tiara, said TO
have cost fourteen thousand dollars
Tnero are two long necklaces reaching
below the waist-a string of diamonds
and q rope of pearls, There are five
hundred pearls in the string, each one
as big as pea and perfect in shape.
The r color is family tinged with rose,
and the lustre IS superb. This with
diar lond necklace, represents over fifty
thousand dollars. To the diamond
necklace is attached curiously beau.
tiful little charm, which Nine. Melba
calls her talisman. 1t was presented
to the diva by the Baron de Roths.
child. It is little goat, made from
one largo pearl, tho horns and feet
being tipped with diamonds. AR.
gOnant.
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hot mash, give oats which have been
soaked first for an hour or more by
having boiling water poured over
them IN pail; also give them the
refuse matter cold, in their troughs.
Theorists say not to feed corn for
eggs, but in cold climates corn is an
absolute necessity. A diet of wheat
and oats never brought eggs for me.
II is too light-noither rich nor heat.
ing enough for cold weather. AS warm
weather approaches, Lessen the guam
tity of corn, substituting wheat or
oats Six pounds of cut green bone,
In place of the noon grain, should be
fed twice week in winter. 1t tends
greatly to keep poultry in fine condi-
ton. \ pan OF coarsely ground oyster
shells must also be supplied unless
you would awake some fine morning
to find your fowls eating their own
eggs. Have sharp gravel handy for
necessary grit. American Agricul-
turist.
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THE IMPROVED NAVY BEAN.

This truly successful beau is Il cross
between the California Navy and the
Washington. 1t is q little larger in
size than the Navy and in appearance
like the white pea bean of the Middle
States, white and CLASSY cooks sooner
than the Navy; has good flavor and.
is in many ways superior to the or
isina!. The bean az plant grows
very vigorous, ard yields large crops
on sandy loan, rs large rs two tons
per aero. On common wheat lands
twenty bushels per acre is an average
crop. This bean will mature in ninety
days from time of planting in this high
latitude (forty-siX and one half degrees
north, where corn is failure four
times out of five. If planting is done
the first week in June the bean will be
IN the sack the first week in September
in spite of cool nights. The greatest
| advantage OF the bean is that 1T will
ripen evenly. When it commences to
ripen it gets all ripe, causing no delay
and least loss in harvesting.
| found the best way to cultivate in
rows two aud one half feet apart aud
plant within the rows at distance OF
one foot to eighteen inches, and from
three TO five beans in hill. This sys-
lem makes cultivation ana cleaning of
weeds very easy. If pulling is done
by hand, the fact OF having them
planted in punches eIpedites work |
use IL Mi2higan bean harvester, sue
cessIuily pulling, with two horses aud
one man, fully ten acres per day, with
little or no Smelling. a man follows up
with pitch 'ork and places the beans
in little shocks to cure up for few
days, when they are hauled to a thresh-
ing floor and four horses are used to
stamp them out. 1t only took two men
for ten days, and the horses, to pull,
shock, haul, thresh and sack. three hun
dred bushels of beans, raised on fifteen
acres. By thus process they are kept
clean and bright, not cracked, but
glossy, an | common grain tanning
mill will clean them as thoroughly as
a hGndpicked bean. / sack them in
hualap sacks weighing between one
hundred and forty to one hundred and
fifty pounds each, and they are ready
for the market.
If any bean raiser desires to try
these beans, he will ind them to be
preferable and more salts actory than
any other. They outsell the others.
have introduced them to few growers
here latter propogating them) and
they have given the best of satisfac-
ton. This bean should be success
in cool Northern climates like Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the
Dakotas, and 1 presume also in the
commercial bean growing sections of
New York and New England
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WHAT TO DO.

There Is comfort in the knowlelg so often
expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's SwRmp-Goot,
the great kidney remedy. fulills every wish
in relieving pain in the back, kidneys, liver.
bladder and every part OF the urinary pas
sages. 1t corrects inability 10 hold urine
and scalding pain in passing It, or bad effects
following use OF liquor wine or beer, and
overcomes that unpleasant necessity OF being
compelled TO got up many times during the
night to urinate The mild and the extraor-
binary effect ofSwamp-Roct is soon realized.
1t stands the highest for its wonderful cures
OF the most distressing cases. Sold by drug
gists, price nifty cents and one dollar. For
sample bottle and pamphlet, both sent free
10y natl, mention this paper and send your
full postofice address to DR.. Kilmer 4 Co.,
BinghamtOn. n. Y. The proprietors OF this
paper guarantee the genuinonoss OF this offer.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-02
SUGGEST uL DOG RAISING.

AS dog fanciers, owners of good
Kennels and prIze-winning exhibitors
1t bench shows, O number OF omen
nave proved most successful. Mrs.
Francis Smith, OF Ger mantown, Penn.
and proprietor of the Swiss Mountain
Kennels, is one of this number.
She began, with one st. Bernard
puppy in her back yard, to formally
establish her kennels, and to-day she
wins prizes almost wherever she goes.
At one times she was q noted breeder
)t ST. Bernards aud is yet considered
leading authority on their points aud
successful rearing. Though from a
great kennel, numbering nearly forty
logs of this particular class. she has
sold of all but few, she still owns
Two famous prize-winners of extended
fame in the great champion Scottish
Leader and Leeds Barry. That the
St. Bernards are rather too big dogs
'or one slender woman to care for and
hat their price has fallen In the last
'ew years, are her excuses for turning
her energies to cocker spaniels.
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STOCK WITH GOOD lungs.

In selecting breeding stock of any
kind. deep chest and broad nostrils
are prime requisites for animals that
are sure 80 give satisfaction. These
are the indications Of naturally
good breathing apparatus. If this has
not been impaired by disease or mis-
use the animal, other things being
equal, is reas onably certain to be
profitable. Horsemen understand this.
Any injury to the lungs of horse de-
tracts SO much from it's value that. if
the animal would otherwise be yalua
bler it becomes almost worthless OF
course, the lungs OF horse are espec.
tally tried in hard driving. But with
out good lungs there can be no good
digestion, nor can life be vigorous in
any OF its functions We do not race
cows, Tut IL the COW have a small, thin
chest, showing weakness OF lungs, she
will be delicate feeder and can
neither Gatten nor excel in the produc.
ton OF milk or butter. 1t is the same
nth all other domestic animals. The
nostrils and chest, indicating character
OF the breathing apparatus, are always
the most important points TO be con.
sldered. American Cuitivator.
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FEEDING TIE FAMILY COW

Feeding the family COW lie something
| have learned to do right only after
Years OF experience. But now my
thoroughbred Shorthorn, nine years
old. is giving thirty eight pounds of
milk per day, and last month made
sixty pounds, eleven ounces of butter.
besides furnishing two quarts daily
for the table. l mix sixty pounds
wheat bran, seventy pounds cobmeal,
seventy pounds buckwheat bran and
one hundred pounds shorts or mid.
diings, two such patches lasting n
month. At night n water pail is filed
with cut wheat, straw and chat, hot
or cold water poured in and it stands
till morning. Then, after draining Off
the water, it is dumped into good.
sized box, four quarts of the above
mixture is added and pint OF lInseed
meal, the whole mixed together and
given as the morning feed She gets
the same at night; Mt noon give only
three quarts mixed grain AMI one pint
linsoed meal. Give hay in quantities
TO suit her appetite, allowing her to
waste nothing. New England Home.
stead.
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WHITE HOUSE ETIQUETTE.

When the President and his wife
| drive out the President sits on the
right hand seat and his wife on the
| left.
If there are others In the carriage.
whether ladies or gentlemen. thew
must sit with their backs to the horses.
When Mrs. Cleveland was first mar.
ried sho tried the experiment of plac-
ing her mother opposite the President
and herself in the Presidential landau,
but the people laughed at it so i'm
moderately and professsd to think
Mrs. Folsom las she was them. to be
the maid, thatI was speedily dropped.
| When the Presidents wife drives
alone she sits in the right hand cor.
ner-the place of honor.
The lady of'the White House cannot
set foot within those splendid houses
10 Washington whose Aagstaffs mark
| the foreign embassy or legation. She
could not so without the President,
and as an embassy or legation is tech.
nically part of the country it repre-.
sents, the President could not $3.50
that she never sees the inside of q
diplomatic house as long as she pre-
sides at the Executive Mansion. The
President dimes only at Cabinet
houses and his wife cannot dine any.
where without him. President Arthur
dined with Judges of the Su-
preme Court and with Senators but
as he had no wife the whole system
was very much simplifed for him.
The Presidents wife may, If she
chooses, go to luncheons where there
are no gentlemen, or to teas, both be-
ing regarded as strictly informal but
the danger of giving ofTense by &C.
copting one invitation aud declining
another is so grest that it is seldom or
never risked. illustrated American.
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rOuLTEY WHrN.l

When fowls are rightly fed, made to
take exercise and their quarters kept
clean and free from Ice, there is
scarcely any trouble with disease.
When the beginner in the poultry
business makes this his motto he has
made good step towards success.
When the combs and wattles of the
fowls are OF bright red color it indi-
Gates a good healthy condition.
When the hers are busy scratching,
laying and singing and the cocks
almost continually growing, you may
feel sure your fowls are not unhealthy.
When you enter the hen house after
the fowls have gone TO roost and hear
no smiling or wheeling, roup has not
n hold on the flock.
When the dTOppiugs are rather hard
and partly white it proves that they
are not bothered with Indigestion.
When you go into the poultry house
at night and feel draughts blowing
through make sure roup and colds are
near at hand
When tho fowls stand on one leg
with their heads drawn in or tucked
under their wing, you can depend
upon 1t that something is going wrong
aud should be righted at once.
When the edges OF the comb and
wattles are OF purplisI red and tue
movements sluggish, something has
gone wrong.
When they lie around Indifferent to
their surroundings, then they arc too
int, and death from apoplexy, indiges-
tion and liver complaint will be sure
to result unless the trouble is quickly
prevented.
When fowls are restless and keep
constantly picking among their feeth
crs, look for lice at once.
When the little chicks keep crying
and standing around refusing 10 cat,
lice are troubling or they have been
shiice
When chicks get bowel disease IL Is
usually caused by being chilled.
When you get too lazy 90 care for
yoIr fowls sell out TO your vito and
quit the business
When you think that hens will iay
we'll 90 diet OF corn and water you'll
change your mind sooner or later.
When you sac the value CI green
bone and cut clover you will bo sure
10 use them as " food
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where Do old Piano, Go,

What becomes OF the old pianos !?
They see. TO disappear from the world
almost as mysteriously as pins. Per
haps, considering their size. the fact
that the streets are not blocked with
cast-off pianos Is more curious than
that the face of the earth fails 10 be
overlaid with pins. An experienced
1ealer says lie has known OF but three
that wero cut up for f1rewood Yet
they often sell for little more than so
much pine would bring. II is the Gus.
tom OF most houses TO take old instru.
mentp and allow something for them.
The deduction Is counted as almost
dead loss, but II brings trade. The
old instruments are refitted and pol
ished up, however, and sold again-in
many instances becoming the property
OF boa riding house keepers Boarding
houses are the chief refuge of second
hand pianos. Then they are sold by
small deale, to country people all over
the land. Men TINT go into that branch
OF the trade can get pianos pretty
cheap, for the first-class houses some.
times get so overlo" 1ed wlth-the', that
they are almost wing to pay 60 have
them carried Rway.-Boston Traveller
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rEEn1Nn pn1.Lrrn

On winter mornings, TO one hun
dred hens give four dozen cars OF corn
which have been heated in the kitchen
oven for ten minutes or more. If
somewhat charrcd tho better. The
necessity to work for their breakfast.
gives them She desired impetus TO
exercise, while the hot. drv corn.
gradually worked of. furnishes
warmth without heaviness. Never
feed shelled corn to laying hens it is
too iatteuiDa. But ON the cur they
viii not trouble to pick off more than
Us actually required To- saUsfy hunger.
st noon scatter four quarts o. wheat
through the straw. Keen poultry
Working and scratching busily and
buDarily all day
so night give az they will eat, which
Jn winter should be hot migb For
ihls keep 20 Large ke,fic il which nut
tue parugs, fol"ss leaves and scrap.
m2e, with the water 200 which veQeta-
blcs are boiled. Season moderately
with salt, literally with pepper. red
being best. Boil for au hour in tho
morning. then thickou with bran or
0st-, but when oats ere used they
should be boiled with She whole mess.
Boiled oats are excellent egg food.
Dry and uncooked their sharp pricklv
points are more or less dangerous to
the crops OF fowls but boiling obviatos
THE, besides maSng the oats moro
djgestible. In summer, Instead OF the
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rRE FARNLER,s pAraHrER.l

The daughter of the farmer sits be.
fore the looking glass, with its tarn.
ished gilt and painted 1owcrs. Her
bodice is unlocked. Her hair kisses
curves and hooks. She hardly notices
the smell Of the kerosene lamp, SO
closely, so proudly and so sorrowfully
does she look at herself in the glass.
No play actress or model shown in the
cheap picture magazines is her equal.
The farmers daughter does not suspect
this; she knows it. No summer city
boarder, in spite OF skillfully con.
trived costume, could rival or ap.
proach her in enchantment of figure.
And the girl sits before the looking
glass With its furnished gilt and painted
flowers
She thinks OF the artist who stopped
on the farm last summer. She remem.
bers his carless manners, his ease with
himself and the world, his trinkets,
his velyeteen jacket, the smell of his
pipe, his paiamas thrown upon the
floor. lie never woood her IN direct
speech, but she rccollects the compli-
meuts Of his eyes
The landscape chilled her all the
day The wood pile smelled Of NOR
tality. Mullen stalks sbiverod under
the loaden sky. The hills watched
her ironically. There was for her the
trcadmill routine OF housewotk. At
supper she noticed the shrivoled skin
oil her mother, the untidiness Of her
mothers hair along tho napo of the
mock. Her mother is not 80 very old
Her father blew on his tea in a SANGER.
uo complained Of his daughter
indifference to the storokeepeT's sou
aud then he pulled OF his boots anC
dried his feet in the oven Of the
kitchen stove. And now she eits with
unlocked bodice before the looking
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glass with its furnished gilt and
painted flowers.
II il not 8 o'clock, and yet what is
there for her to do but go to bed =?
And what change or pleasure does she
see approaching her for weeks to
come? A whistle calls 90 her far
down the valley. She starts up and
goes to the window. She peers into
the night, hoping to see the lights of
the express train as it hurries toward
the city. A mist enwraps the house.
The daughter of the farmer undresses
herself slowly and puts out the light.
Ofwhat avail is her sumptuous beauty 2
Only the looking glass, with its tarn-
ished gilt and painted flowers, under.
stands her and appreciates her. =
Boston Journal.
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OUR DOMESTIC MACHINERY.

One Of the things that surprise
'oreign housekeepers, notably French
women, when they come over here is
our cumbrous domestic machinery.
Particularly are they amazed that it
IhOuld be such au almo. { universal
custom to have the family washing
done at home. 1t is bad enough in the
dwellings that shelter only one family
beneath their roofs, but laundry work
going on in the little sets of rooms in
the apartment houses fairly atartles
the Partisan chatelaine. That this
custom must be changed sooner or
later seems inevitable. SO much OF
co cooperative Housekeeping could be
adopted with profit to him or them
who would undertake it and with
enormous addition to the comfort and
convenience of living. The nearest
approach to this millennium at the
moment is the scheme of some of the
laundries to take the family washing
by the pound. Five cents per pound
on all bundles of five pounds or over
is charged, price which includes the
ironing of certain flat pieces like
towels and bed-linen. The starched
pieces are returned, starched and
dried, and ready to dampen and iron,
and the other pieces rough dried. II
such system will pay in isolated
establishments with necessarily limited
patronage il deserves a trial on a
Wholesale plan. New York Post.