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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-23

There was difference of opinion when
ahe tobacco growers met as - The best
plan to restore ilIr prices; when 1rceI-
dent Grimes declared the m"et.h" ;td-
journed, it was 4 united body. all stand
ing together in support Of the plan that
commended Itself to the majority. i he
tobacco farmers OF the State are face 70
face with this proposition: We must
stand together or al work Tor nothing
for the tobacco trust. If they pull apart
the trust will continue - ouy tobacco
for a song. In the Sal. upon which they
have entered, the tobacco farmers r,&i-
iZc that it is not to be Won in 4 day or
Il year aud that partial success can he
Won only by making sa.:.iices. If they
are not willing for q time to suffer II
order to bring the trust to terms, ;n"N
must suffer Indefinitely by selling Their
| tobacco 1T the price Of production. il is
Il question OF hanging togeth"" OF hang-
ing separately.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-23

COONTOWN'S 400: Thirty humorous
drawings by E. W. kemble. Buft
cloth binding, with special cover design
in brown and red. PIP. u, . Y IL
NewIork: Life Publishing Company.
$500.
Mr.. Kemblc thoroughly appreciates
the fun of darkey life and IS able to
transfer his appreciation to paper, and
by his clever drawings convey 1t to the
minds of others. In ~"CoontOWn's 400"
a handsomely printed book containing
thirty Of these drawings, with the appro-
pirate text. his ability is seen at its best.
As the title indicates. they show darkeys,
male and female, in their aspirations
for the higher social life, with its forms
and ceremonies. The book is dedicated
to The Lambs of New York. The
Rohemians" Of San Francisco, and The
Savages'' Of London, the three leading
social organizations of artists, writers
and actors with which Mr.. kelnble Is
affiliated. ''COontown's 400 outside Of
lis artistic merit, is well calculated 40
make one forget ones troubles for j
while.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-23
THE LITERARY WORLD

MYTHOLOGY FOR MODEENS: by
James :. Metcalfe. illustrations pE
Charles Dana Gibson, Charles TOWARD
Johnson. Chip +. G.. atwood, OiIytr
HEREFORD. \. Brennan. Pages Is.
New York: Life Publishing Company.
slice.
Mythology for Modcrns. WhIch Inc
author. Mr.. Metcalfe Of Life. calls An
Tp-to-Date Text Book for tpto-Dafe
Students provides more amusement
than instruction. He seems to appreciate
the humorous side Of the religious myths
of the Greeks and the Romans ana
jumbles them up with modern appilc'-
tons and illusions III u way calculated
to provoke laughter rather imam CON
vey very deep learning III mythology. AT
the same time the tales adhere closely
TO the original versions. and their 1un
and satire make them agreeable reau-
ing.
The Illustrations. by a notable list OF
artists including Charles Dana Gibson
and Oliver Uerford. are drawn III close
sympathy with the text, and are Dotn
clever and funny. Mr.. Atwood pseudo
classical panels-two of which decorate
the ~binding-are most appropriate.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-23

SuiA!I u SUtULea WoLJ uI0tl Hlu'A
old u7ul ottos 10 sn!u7S InJIspuoM OIL
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-23

james Whitcomb Riley'S books, it IS
said. have sold at the rate of 10000
copies Il year. There are few critics who
have not been forced into admiration of
his best work-much Of which is i'll
dialect: and Yet there is a paragrapher
who recently had the lrardihood to say
that Riley in his dialect pieces is an
| imitator of Lowell in the BiSelow Pa
| pers." You can fool the people-but YOU
cannot fool that paragrapher. Riley is
as far ahead of Lowell in this line as
Thomas Gray was ahead Of any one
| who before him wrote in the stanZa
! selected for his "Elegy." There is about
us greet a dearth Of critics as Of poets.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-23

Out OF such exhibitions OF 81
tive" criticiSm.-WM L. iiaii ~
yillc American.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
Americans IN ElngInnA.

Whatever may be the points of con
trast between us, there is no doubt that
Americans in ever increasing numbers
are settling in England 1t is remark
able how many have made permanent
homes in London. They like to live
there.
When an American has made for
tune, he finds it almost impossible to
live quietly in his own country. There
is something in the very atmosphere of
the United States that makes people
wish to burn the candle at both ends.
Over here they may subdue the incan-
descence to the veriest glimmer. But
chief among the attractions that this
country has for Americans is that they
can escape the newspapers. Here
wealthy persons can spend their money
as freely as they wish, and they still
remain private persons.
These are some of the reasons why
the American colony in the British me-
tropolis grows every year. But there
is a more subtle reason. Americans
love to come here. The writer has
talked to very many Americans. and
almost all of them admit that in com
ing to England they are coming to a
place for which they have a great re-
spect and love, where they expect to
and everything finished and orderly
and quiet.-London Telegraph.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
DO COWS cRY9
The Grief of an Animal Whose Calf
Had Been Killed.

A correspondent writing to Dumb
Animals says: Dumb animals are said
to have sign" language of their own
by which they make known the emo
tions of pleasure or pain and limited
catalogue of wants and sorrows. Re-
Gently | had occasion to dispose of a
5-months-old calf which was taken
away about noon and butchered a
short distance from my residence.
When the cow came home at night
she missed her calf, and although an
orphan calf was permitted to suck she
continued to call it by affectionate
mooing and looking. The cow, how
ever, only gave about one quart of milk
instead of a gallon or more, as former
ly During the night she lowed fire.
quently for her calf, and the next
morning when it did not appear she ex-
hibited unmistakable signs of grief.
The orphan calf was no solace to her.
She was driven to the woods with her
mate, but came back and continued
lowing until noon. She came inside
the inclosure, but would not eat grass.
Just after dinner a great commotion
was heard in the direction of where the
calf was butchered, made by number
of cattle lowing, having scented the
fresh blood. The grief stricken mother
COW ran to the closed gate and looked
beseechingly toward me. as much as to
say, Please open the gate" which
being done she started on rHn to
where the other cattle were low liz.
In a short time she came slowly
walking back to the house and was
again permitted to come inside the in
closure. when she deliberately took up
a position at the kitchen door, wistful
ly looking in mute despair at each
member of the family as they happen.
ed to pass her The tears flowed coni
ously from her eyes. ana there she
stood the balance of the afternoon
weeping necessarily. with the same a1-
parent grief that mother would for
her dead child 1t really caused me to
shed tears of sympathy for the poor
animal
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
Old Parker'6 GhoSt
BY M. Quad.
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY c. b. LEWIS.

That I really and truly saw a ghost
on a certain occasion is a matter of le-
gal record, and believe it is the only
ghost ever legally known to a commu-
nifty.
was boy of II when the family
emigrated from Ohio to Michigan and
settled in town of 1900 people. There
had just died citizen named John
Parker, who was always referred to as
old Parker. He was one of the pio-
neers of the town. and his eccentrici-
ties had greatly retarded its growth.
No one ever learned where he came
from or anything about his private
life. He came alone, lived alone and
died alone. He was a queer looking
little old man, stoop shouldered, of
shambling gait, and there were days
when he refused to speak to any one
He bought 200 town lots and then re-
fused to sell or lease. He built a saw
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
nature Is kind IN California.

The New England farmer must forti-
fy himself in his stronghold against the
seasons. He must he ready to adapt
himself to year that permits him to
prosper only upon decidedly hard
terms. says The International Monthly.
But the Californian in the country has
during the drought more leisure unless.
indeed. his ambition for wealth too
much engrosses him. His horses are
plenty and cheap. His fruit crops thrive
easily. He is able to supply his table
with fewer purchases with less com
mercial independence.
His position is therefore less that of
the knight in his castle and more that
of the free dwellcr in tile summer cot
tage, who is, indeed, not mt leisure. but
can easily determine how lie shall he
busy. 1t is of little importance TO him
who his next neihhbor is At pleasure
he can ride or dive to find his friends.
can choose like the southern planter of
former days, his own range Of hospital
ity; can devote himself. if man of
cultivation, to reading during a good
many hours at his own choice or, if
man of sport, can find during great
part of the year easy opportunities for
hunting or for camping both by him
self and for the young people Of his
family.
In the dry season he knows before
hand what engagements can be made
without regard to the state OF the
Weatler since the state If tire weather
is predetermined.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22

and rubbed his skinny hands together
and looked at the ground at his feet,
and I took in every detail as clearly
as you see this print before you.
Was frightened? Strangely enough,
was not. Perhaps this was because
l had never seen the old man when
living. He looked SO real before me
that | never thought of spooks or
ghosts. | simply believed that his
dying had been q mistake-that he had
gone away instead of dying. l was no
more in fear of him than of the trees
about me. 1 wondered u bit how he
could have approached me so closely
without my having heard him, for the
snow had frosty crust to it, but there
he was, and it was not long before
said to him:
did you come out here to see my
father?"
Old John did not look about, though
he continued to rub his hands. | re-
peated the question in a louder voice,
but the result was the same. | looked
to see if he had an AK or gun. but
nothing was in sight. So far as ! could
tell, he had not vet seen me. and, feel
ing bit embarrassed over the situa-
ton, | rose up and moved over to make
my presence known. | had started to
repeat my question, and my eyes were
full on him, when he dissolved He
faded out of my eyes as wet finger
mark fades from a school slate, and |
found myself looking at a snow cover
ed log. l looked for his tracks, but
there was none. | looked for the spot
where he had sat, but the snow had not
been disturbed III the slightest. | did
not have fit of the shivers and run
away. 1t was a sunshiny day, and |
thought the glare on the snow had in
some way played me a trick. | had
the tree down and the road cleared
when father returned, and when told
him of my strange visitor l expected
to be laughed at. Indeed, laughed as
l told it, but father didn't He began
to question me very closely, and by
the time he had loaded the sled | could
see that he took the matter seriously
When we We're ready to go, he asked
me to point out the exact spot where
old John had sat. This was easy
enough to know, as my own tracks
We're there in the snow The snow on
the log was piled up and frozen hard.
but father soon cleared it off with the
ak. Then he pounded on the log, found
it hollow and cut into it. He had hard
ly struck 90 blows when there came
sound to show that the ak had struck
something besides wood. and five min
utes later we had old Parker's missing
gold out of the hollow log. 1t was in
two tin boxes, and there were many
papers with it to clear up the mystery
of his life and assist the heirs in set
ting up the estate. They were gener-
GUS to me in settlement, and it was
part of the legal records of the county
that | saw u ghost Mt 2 o'clock in the
afternoon of a bright day and recover
ed the treasure because of it.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
STORM IN THE SUMNER.

Storm in the summers a mighty funny thing,
Like woman's temper when it takes fling:
Comes Of sudden, and you don't know why;
You start in guessing, and it's all gone by;
Swish and sweep, and it's in full blast;
You catch your breath, and it's flown clear past:
Thunder and lightning and sulphur in the air,
And the very next minute the sun shines fair!
And it's just this way that the truth is shown
Why sweet Dame Nature is woman known,
She can nurse her wrath through mighty lons
truce,
But it breaks for keeps when it does break loose
And she storms like tyrant and makes things
hum
Till its easy to believe that it's kingdom come,
And all Of a sudden there's mercy in her eve,
And She laughs and dimples, and the storms gone
byl
Ripley D. Saunders in St. Louis Republic.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
Pitch ana Toss.

The professor happened in at the
doctors the other morning and found
him polishing the belongings on the
sideboard
improving the shining hours, are
you" he said.
mo, sir replied the doctor. I'm
improving the shining ewers."
'H'mN calculated the professor
'Whose are they?"
They're onrs."
well. isn't that what | saidY-Chi-
cag0 Tribune
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
rired of Beins In print.

MIR. Smthers," said his 1vife, IF /
remember rightly. You havh often said
that you dislil1ed to see woman con
stantly getting herself into print?'
Il do" said Smithers positively.
you considered it unwomanly and
indelicate, believer"
Very"
"And You don't see how any man
could allow his wife to do anything or
the kind:'
Yes; think so now"
well, Mr.. Smithers, in view Of all
the facts IN the case | feel justified in
asking you for a new silk dress"
"a new silk dressY
Yes; for the last eight years have
had nothing better than four penny cal
leo, and | want something better. I'm
tired of getting into print" London
Tit Bits.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22

mill. and the first lumber turned out
was wanted for the erection of a
church. Because the old man was ask
ed to make discount in price in favor
of the Lord, as it were. he shut down
the mill, boarded up doors and win
dows, and the saws never turned again.
He bought two stores and five or six
houses and shut them up, and he
bought every improvement for the ben
eft of the town. On the other hand,
he lent men money at low rate of in
terest to make improvements. eneour-
aged people to settle there and built
the first schoolhouse entirely at his
own expense.
While owning FIVE or six comforta
BILE houses, which were empty old
Parker lived alone in a miserable shan
ty and cooked and washed and mend
ed for himself. No one was ever per-
mitted to enter his house. and he never
entered the home of any one else
There were few men with whom he
would converse but he did not give
them his confidence. There was no
mourning in Red Oak when it became
known one morning that old Parker
had been found dead in his shanty
The feeling was rather one of relief
and congratulation. 1t was soon ascer-
tanned that his affairs were in a mud
die. He had left no will, and the pa
pers in the hands of his lawyers did
not represent the half CT his posses
sions. 1t was hardly fortnight be-
fore a brother and sister turned up
each claiming the estate. ana through
them it was learned that the old man
must have been possessed of at least
$4,000 in gold when he died or this
sum only about 5000 could be found
The town was turned upside down
over the affair. and it had got into
court when we moved into the village
That vas in midwinter. AS a boy, |
could not understand or interest my
self in the legal complications of the
case, but the fact that old Parker had
hidden a big lot of gold somewhere
appealed to me very strongly. The
sawmill and all his houses were search
ed, but no trace could be found
1t was generally believed that he had
IL DuI ulltll lile SllOW ulelleu no
effort could be made to find the cache
On the 14th day of March. with six
inches of snow still on the ground.
went with my father into the woods
after a load of wood. We had a yoke
of oxen and a sled. and when the first
load was heaped up my father drove
off with it and left me behind to cut
down dead ash and clear a road
around bit of a swamp.
After he was out of sight / sat down
on a log to watch a rabbit hopping
about. l may have spent five min
utes watching the animal when a
slight noise at my right startled me,
and l looked around to find old John
Parker sitting within ten feet of me.
He had been described so often that
there could be no mistake. 1t was the
little old man with the stoop shoul-
ders. the long hair the seedy gar
ments. the catskin cap he wore every
day in the year. He had dry backing
cough; he had bushy gray eyebrows;
he had missing teeth. He sat there
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22

THE SEABOAlaD AIR LINE RAIL
WAY, FLORIDA AND WEST
GNDlA SHORT LINlE,' is POSI-
TIvELY TILE SHORTEST ROUTE
no HAVANNAII, JACKSONVILLE,
TAMPA AND ALL FLORIDA
POINTS.
Double daily service and through
Pullman drawing room and buffec
sleeping cars from New York, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Washington and
Richmond. Round "trip winter tourist
excursion tickets are now on sale at
all principal points to Jacksonville,
Tampa and all Florida points. Trains
arrive and depart ait Pennsylvania
Railroad stations. For further infor-
mation call ON or address w. G. Shoe
maker, General Eastern Passenger
Agent, 1906 Broadway, New York;
G. L. Longsdorf, New England Passen-
ger Agent, BOG Washington street,
Boston, Mass; w. M. Mcconnell, Gen
eral Agent, 1494 New York avenue,
Washington, d. c., or the General
Passenger Agent at Portsmouth, Va.
H. S. ALLEN, Gen. Pass. Agt
Il. ST. JOHN, V.-P. G G. M.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
TOLD BY THE GROCER.
His Conversation With a Deaf Wom-
an Lost Him n Customer.

His Conversation With Deaf WOm-
an Lost Him 81 Customer.
I'll tell you how | lost a good Gus
toner the other day" said the grocery
man. 81 have one customer who is ex-
tremely deaf, and to make her hear |
have to just yell at her. 1t takes about
half an hour to get her order, and by
that time my voice is pitched so high
that ! can't get it down to earth again.
THE other day it happened that aft
er she left in came Mr.. Oldboy, who is
a perfect crank. Was in the army once
and a great stickler for bowing and
scraping and all that sort of thing.
Wants a fellow he trades with to sa-
lutte and present arms and do all kinds
of things. He came in and said, Good
morning. | wish you had heard me
yell at him. My voice made the win
dows rattle. He looked surprised, but
went on talking to me, and l kept up
answering him in voice that could be
heard a block away. He got madder
and madder, but | never knew what
was up until finally he got red in the
face and said. Mr.. Black, sir, am not
deaf, sir, and | resent your yelling at
me as if couldn't hear cannon fired
in my ear With that ont he went.
"You sec, had been talking to the
deaf lady ana couldn't get my voice
down again You try it some time and
see if You don't yell at every one you
meet. Funny. too, but always veil at
blind people and foreigners, ana al
ways whisper when so in where any
ones sick. indianapolis Sentinel.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
MEW YORK WORLD.
Thrice-a-Week Edition.
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a YEAR for ONE DOLLAR.
AS good as a daily at the
price Of a weekly.

During the Spanish American war "The
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1t prints the news of all the world, having
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lustrations, stories by great authors, capital
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for the household and women's work and
other special departments of unusual interest
We offer this unequalled newspaper and
THE DELAWAREAN, together one year fol
$1.50; six months for so cts, and three month
for 40 cents. The regular subscription or.
of the two papers is $500.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
THE SUNSET LIMITED.

Commencing November 6, and ever.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
thereafter, The Washington and South
western Limited, operated daily be.
tween New York, Philadelphia and
New Orleans via the Pennsy ylvania
Railroad and Southern Railway, leav-
ing Philadelphia, Broad Street Sta
tion 655 p. M, composed of Dining
Pullman drawing-room Sleeping, OBJ
seTvation and Library cars, in addi
tion will carry Special Sunset Linn
ited Annex, Pullman drawing-room
Compartment Sleeping car to connec
with the Sunset Limited operated be
tween New Orleans and San Francisco
The celebrated trans-continenta
service afforded by these luxuriou
trains makes trip to the Pacific
Coast not only very quick, but mos
delightful.
Charles L. Hopkins, District Pas
senger Agent, Southern Railway, S2S
chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa,
will be pleased to furnish all infor
nation.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
Too Refined.

NO" said Farmer Meddergrass,
"that Boston feller that comes here to
run the paper doesn't seem to get along
very well. Our folks amt much for
style, an when he referred to skin
game as AN epidermal pastime' they
thought he was becomin a little too
highfalutin. Baltimore American.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
Not a Freak.

Larry-The doctor siz Oi made glass
IS. How much are they?
Optician-Do you wish nose glasses?
Larry-No; Oi want oye glasses. OF
can't see troo me nose, kin Oi?-New
York World
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
A Dreadful nlnnder.

Mr.. links You look all broke up,
Mrs. Jinks-l am. 1t Just makes ME
sick to think what a fool I've been.
You know that commonplace little
dowdy next door that Eve been snub-
bing so:"
Yes
We'll. I've just found out that her
husband gets S. more 4 month than
you do."-New York Weekly.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
Ira n,iry Factions.

Caller Wasn't that Miss Robinson
who just left:
Ethe-That was my Aunt Carrie
Robinson
Caller-ch. your aunt. en- On your
mothers sdef
Ethel Not much. She sticks up for
papa all the time. Philadelphia Press.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
10 an Extren,e.

Il believe in being kind to the birds
and all that" said Miss Hankypank
but do think Clara Deager carries it
too far
What has she been doing now?'
asked the other girl.
"She refused Harry Singleshel be-
cause somebody told her that when he
went out rowing he always feathered
his oars."-Chicago Tribune.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22

and cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. Ifthe child urin-
ateS too often IL the
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
WINTER RESORTS OF THE CARO-
LINAS.

Winter excursion tickets are now on
sale TO Southern Pines and Pinenurst,
and similar tickets To Camden may be
purchased at principal points south OF
and Including Washington, ID. G.
Double daily service and through Pull
man drawing room and buffet sleeping
cars from New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington and Richmond.
Trains arrive and depart at Pennsyl-
yania Railroad stations; also direct
connections via Steamer Lines are
made ait Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va.
For further information call ON or
Address w. Q. Shoemaker, General
Eastern Passenger Agent, 1906 Broad
way, New York; c. L. Longdorf, New
England Passenger Agent, 306 Wash
ington street, Boston, Mass; w. M.
Mcconnell, General Agent, 1434 New
York avenue, Washington, D. G., or
the General Passenger Agent at Ports
mouth, Va.
f. ST. JOHN, V.-P. & G. M.
L. S. ALLEN, Gen. Pass. Agt.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22

The art of manicure is many centu-
rles old. having had it's birth in the dim
old converts of France. where the pa
tient nuns practiced it on the hands of
the noble ladies brought up within
their walls.
The Delawarean., 1900-12-22
Bridal Presents ~ Revenrep

zone Of my rivals played me an aw-
full mean trick"
"What was itY
"He gave us lamp which burns a
half gallon of coal oil every night
Exchange