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The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1900-11-23
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.

NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.
The public will please take aotice that
can he found at DR. SWEET new building on
East Railroad street, where am ready to
receive taxes now due for 1909 After Jan
LIST 10 per cent is to be added if not PAID
Please bear this in mind.
-N'0D GEO. E. BEARD,
COLLECTOR.
Nov. %, 1900.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
EXIT THE RED BARN.
Variety In Made Possible to Farmers
Nowadays by Cheap Ready,
,. Mixed Paints.

"There was time" said paint man
ufacturer. when every farmer painted
his s'barnr red. The paint use d wascalled
Venetian red and was made of oxide
of iron instead of white lead and zinc.
1t cost about half as much as lead paint
and stood the weather WE'LL The farm
er bought this paint dry and mixed it
with oil himself, and put it on him
self. Now I suppose about one-third
Of the country's barns are painted red
and about two-thirds in other colors,
with the proportion of red barns de-
creasing. This change is due some
what to fashion and more to the wide
Introduction of mixed paints ready for
use.
Nowadays prepared paints are put
upin simply scores of colors and shades,
and many of them are manufactured
and sold as cheaply as the old Venetian
red Was. In the old days if the farmer
wanted to paint any color but red he
had to mix his own colors. He couldn't
get painter to come from town to
mix the colors, unless he could have also
the job of doing the painting. Now
the farmer can buy paint in any color
or shade that he wants from sample
cards and when he knows the area of
surface to be painted he can ascertain
just the quantity required.
"There are district fashions in barn
painting. 1t might be, for instance,
that in one place the squire painted his
barns red and thus set fashion that
his neighbors would follow. 1t might
be that some city man who had bought
an. abandoned farm would paint the
old barns in modern style. Then the
neighbors would say: I don't know
how much Mr.. Cityman knows about
farming, but he certainly knows how
to paint barn. And the people there
abouts would be likely to paint their
barns more or less like his. Thus YOU
might find districts where the barns
would run much alike.
''ln modern barn painting the body
is of one color and the trim of another.
The present prevailing style is colonial,
in which the body is of light yellow
and the trim white. But barns are
painted also in grays and in other COL
ors and in various shades of color and
with various KINDS of trim; and take
everything together the old red barn
is being more and more crowded by
those painted in modern fashion.''-N.
Y. Sun.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
; Creeping Gait in, Horses.

q. A, slow walk sdoes not come nat
urally to horse, for. a creeping gait,
whether it be in a hunter, harness
or cart horse, is the most provocative
of fatigue, just as it is in man.: Show
me slow walker in healthy horse
and will promise to show you an
idle groom or driver. If the horse
is in good health, then it may be
taken as atcertainty that the slow gait
is the fault of. the human: attendant.
and both would be all the better for, an
awakening, Many slow horses and
slow drivers would get through twice
the work in. day: that they accom-
plish now, and, both would be fresher
at the end Of the day, The creeping
gait is simply suicidal to both man
and beast IL : " : T..
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28

- 1YEAR-AROUND FOUNTAIN.
Dotted Lines Show Arrangement for Heat
ing in Winter
water. A shade of some kind should be
furnished.
During the winter the fountain
should be furnished with base, as in
dicated by dotted lines. Use brooder
stove in freezing we ather. 1t will be un-
necessary to burn the stove during the
night, for very little heat will thaw
it out in the morning. It will be bette er
to set the fountain between two pens,
for the birds can drink from both sides,
as may be seen in the picture.
In constructing one of these foun-
tains, loose pin butt hinges are used to
fasten the bottom to the top. The rod
or axle on which it rests goes complete
~ through the fountain and is of gall
vanized iron, being soldered around it
to makeit tight. When filling the foun-
tain is turned bottom up and made fast
by the little hooks, as seen in the cut,
The rod should be exactly in the CEN
ter of the tank: The principle is the
same as all fountains that turn in the
hand, only the frame in which it rests
makes it possible to increase the size.-
American Agriculturist.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
Points About, Belgian Nnres-

The color is the red, golden brown,
or tan of the thorough bred Belgian.
There should be but very little gray
about them.- It is not an unusual |
thing for the headquarters to shade
off into slight grayish tinge, but
when the animals are scored they SUI
fer cut in consequence. The thor
oughbred Belgian in exhibition flesh
should, when fairly grown, weigh
about eight pounds. Corn-fed or fatted,
they will weigh more and Lose some
what in symmetry or form. For this
reason fanciers feed mostly oats for
their grain ration. He should be long
in limb and body, with straight front
feet, fine in bone. Add to these the
: characteristic color. or shades of color,
of the Belgian and We know we have
good blood, od,-Nationa. Rural.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28

eter. Lath 2 feet long are nailed to
each spoke and to both ends of the
frames as shown at 3, letting them ex-
tend outside about 3 inches and nail
ing them all on the same side. To oper-
ate, remove the wire from posts fasten n
one end to stake, stretch wire in
straight line, commence at the other
end from the stake, roll Oh the big end
of the reel, have an assistant to hold
the wire up in front of reel to take out
the slack. When the roll is completed.
bind it with wire in three or four places,
set the reel up OF the small end, jar a
little and the coil will fall off. Label
the coil with the number of rods there
in and it is ready to move To unreel,
place the bale back OH the reel; it will
go down about half way Put spokes
On the reel and unroll along the new
line of fence The space between the
spokes being open makes it handy to
bind the bale together.-A.S S. Forsman,
in Ohio Farmer.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
PerDetuRl ThunkSEiyiUw

Nor would we condne its observ-
ance to single day. If it is good and
desirable thing to manifest the spirit
of love and kindness on one stated day
of the year, how much better-ines-
timably better-if the spirit shall. grace
all the other days of the year and of
all years! The sumptuous material
feast need not be spread, nor the for
malities of a set holiday observed.
They are merely the setting in which
is enshrined the spirit giving life to
the occasion-they are not the spirit
itself. The true Thanksgiving spirit is
one of reorganization, of gratitude. In
the family life it may ever be present,
noting the duties performed; the as
sistance rendered, the encouragement
extended. The opportunities utilized,
and makingIrecognition, from member
to member and from heart to heart, in
love, Kindness. TENDERNESS, and consid-
Grafton. So will the year be perpet-
ual, Thanksgiving.-Good Housekeep-
inr :. r. ; !.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
"A Home Day

Thanksgiving is a day for home
coming, home thoughts, and home en-
joyments. In: this respect of build
ing and intensifying the home light
and home .ove it stands unique among
our holidays. 1t has, therefore, spe-
cial place in the hearts of all who
would see the home influence broad
ened and strengthened and, sw eetened.
There ca n be- no more touching ebsery-
ance than this annual gathering of
the absent and d1wandering members of
a family about the parental board. the
living over Of bygone days@a and scenes,
the knitting more closely of the dearest
earthly ties. Who shall: attempt to es-
innate: the. influence of the hundreds of
thousands OF such gatherings. annually
occurring? And as we believe tho
home life to be the best strength of d
nation. we mustsgive to Thanksgiving 2
day place Of honor high among the
silent forces which have made our ma
tion So great t:W0iGood Housekeeping,
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
q. q ~sy.Fg 40
bolfc to the men who knew her-the
|aadventurers who passed along the
cruel road to Tin Cup, - s&,ss. 4.

bolfc to the men who knew her--the
[aadventurers who passed along the
cruel road to Tin Cup. - -. !, h
Anderson, taking the unnecessary
trouble to pick the way for his horse
who was anaold mountain climber
talked Sicheerfully to=the mail carrier.
Il. It's an experience that city man
like myself is sure to remember to
the last day S'of his life, you know.
I never felt such liberty in all my
life. Faith, I've seen no paper that
was not week old before I got it,
and I'm as ignorant Of my business as
you are. a.. But I'm glad OF, it, I'm
rested clean through to the bones.
And then the people at the ranch!
Why, Jim Yoe's. a man ina thousand!
I've seen smart men, but he's got
more practical sense ! and coura &c
crammed in his head than any man
I ever: had the pleasure or meeting.
AS for Miss Claribel, she's an eidel-
weiss here in the snow
Bucling Titus gave fierce lurch
at the saddle bags, though : they
seemed to Anderson to be adjusted
quite correctly. ~'" r =
"How a girl can grow up in such
surroundings as hers and yet have
that soft voice and charming accent
and all those adorable little ways of
hers is, more than I,-know. And she
manages the affairs of the house per-
fectly. It doesn't matter how many
drop in to dinner, she always seems
to be prepared for them ana to. make
them welcome. The servants are at
her feet. 1 thought I'd seen some
mighty fine ladies in my day, but I
confess l had to come to the Gunnison
country to see the finest of them all"
Bucking Titus spoke. He was a
hero in his way and had known great
dangers ami had had combats with the
elements and with wild beasts and
wilder men but he spoke like a sulky
schoolboy.
.''If you think so mighty much Of
her." said he, "why don't you take
her out of the Gunnison country?'
Bernard Anderson threw back his
handsome head and laughed.
"Good-by!" cried he. IL like the
idea! I'll have to go home and think
the matter over. If it seems likely
that she will fit into the life there
who knows?"
A cotton tail' scudded out of the
drifting snow before the men, and
Anderson SHE'D. Fortunately his
horse stood steady. AS for Bucking
Titus, he sped bullet quick as
thought, and the little creature gave
one last leap and lay inert. The
mail messenger dlsmounted and
picked up the pretty beastie:
ut will do for Aunt Dolly's stew
pot at the boarding house." said he.
"But this is for you and he cut
foot off with"his k life and handed
it to Anderson.
''Thanks!" cried the young city
man, delighted. "As like as not it
will bring me the eidelweiss of the
Gunnison SHOWS. Eh, Titus?'
''As like as not" responded Titus
through his beard, anu he put spurs
to his horse.
Two days before Thanksgiving
Bucking Titus starteo on his itinerary
with the full intention of timing him
self so that Re would be invited to
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
At,Is OF lnestimab1e Value to Any
Farmer Who Will Save and
Utilize 1t Nationally.

One OF the best and most available
manures is that which our poultry
supplies. First Of all, it costs no
ready money and is an article of value
to any farm er who will utilize it,
How to save, mix and use this manure
has been a study with scores Of farm
ers during the past few years. In
nearly every farmers yard are to be
seen from 100 to 200 fowls, and often
they have no proper shelter. and the
droppings are lost Often 10 thought
is given to gathering the manure for
fertilizing purposes, and in the spring
the owner will pay from $50 to SIS
per ton for guano, while the poultry
manure that goes to waste OF his
own. farm is almost equally rich in
plant food and even better than some
brands of so-called ''perre'' guano-
Poultry manure has the most value
when kept in the dry; it's value is
largely dependent upon the Kind of
food which the fowls deposit. AS
a rule the poultry is given richer food
than any other farm stock. Wheat,
- - NOAAAs e@A0o oCi opo AIoIA1 tAc ldDlc
add to their fare: hence their drop
pings must possess considerable fer
tilizing value. We keep the poultry
together in the hennery as much as
possible. The floor is kept dry, be-
ing covered weekly with ashes OBJ
tanned at a planning mill at cost of
IS cents per bushel~ Regular every
week it is removed and stored in a
dry place, shoveled over and enough
absorbent added to keep from heat
ing. 1t is astonishing how much ae-
cumulates. If we wish to drill the
manure it Is sifted; otherwise it is ap-
Piled from the wagon directly. If
farmers who keep poultry and let the
manure 60 to waste would try this
plan they would save enough the first
year in fertilizer, bills to build poui-
try house and fence a. yard for their
private fertilizer factory.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
walk to the door-but that, no doubt,
was because: Of the cold. Yoe brought

walk to the door-but that, no doubt.
was because Of the cold: Yoe brought
him a hot glass Of goodly drink. ~
"You'ye hit it in the nick o. time, -
cried he. ''The- turkey is just coming
out of the oven, and it's been sizzling
mad these last two hours becausesyou
| wasn't here to help eat tsit.''
Savory scents and" hot-oven sounds
emanated propitiously from the kitch-
en-. Bucking Titus tried to be gay, and
made good dea. of noise as he got out
! of his bear coat and unbuttoned his
leggins. But his heart was trembling
like an aspen in a storm and he felt
sick-like man who hears the ham,
mer that makes his gihbet.. Hedelayed
pusillanimously for about five minutes
before he pulled out the letters. There
were two for Yoe and the fatal one for
Claribe....
lie tried not to look at the girl while
she read hers, but finally he had to
steal an upward glance. Her face was
flushed a little and she. was smiling.
An invisible hand of iron came from
somewhere and griped the mail car
rier's throat. He leaned his head upon
his hand. -
After a minute the girl came over
and sat near him, her letter in her
hand.
"You seem really ill.," she said. softly,
looking at him with glance of friend
Illness that almost broke his heart.
"Was it so very cold?"
"Not so very cold. - You'd better
write the answer to that letter before
go so I can take it on with me. Or
you can fix up a message and III wire
If you like"
You are uncommonIy good. Mr..
Titus. but there is no haste" The &C.
cent was dry.
,"Eh?" gasped Titus, stupidly.
The girl broke into radiant smile.
"Are you SO anxious to get rid Of
me?" she whispered.
:"Good God. NO! Are-are-you-"
IAN 1 going of MY own free Will?
No; SO there!"
The mail carrier leaned back in his
chair with sigh of indesciba BILE relief.
The Chinaman brought the turkey in.
It was a .ordly bird, and the hungry
mountaineers arose at its entrance
one rises when king enters!
Anything else you want to know ?"
whispered the girl, .archly. Her eyes
were dancing, her lips parted. her
cheeks crimson. She was tempting
past resistance.
"You know there is something else
[ want to know" came back the whis-
per. He caught her hand with cruel
clasp. "Do-do you-Claribel, do you
ever think of me?'
"sometimes. Thursdays" (Thurs-
day was mail day.
He dropped her. hand. and with q
white face walked toward the table.
She caught at his coat, unseen by the
others. He sto opped and faced her, his
eyes piteous.
Il think of you some other days, too,
Mr.. Titus-most other days."
"Claribe.!" There was beseeching
inquiry in the tone.
"All other days. Mr.. Titus"
'Claribel!" This time it was Joy
that shook his voice.
"Come, come, comet" called Yoe to
them above all the racket of laughter
and talking and shutting. of feet. "The
dogs are bowling for their share, and
parson has to say grace yet. Get to
your places, you two back there!"
They went to their Places. which
happened to be side by side.-Chicago
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
eat turkey at Yoe'snranch. This wa

eat turkey at Yoe's, ranch. This was
before he had reached Bixby's, where
he looked over his mail while he ate
his breakfast. The process of look
ing over the mail was always inter-
esting to Titus. Folk did not have
so many letters in those snowbound
solitudes but that all took an, interest
in their going and coming; and Titus
was honestly anxious to learn what
Ouray to her mother; and he waited
till old man Sessions had opened
Franks letter from New York that
he might find out how the boy was
getting on and how he liked his job.
So when he saw letter addressed in
"a masculine hand to Miss :Claribel Yoe
and bearing a Cincinnati postmark. he
knew just as we'll as if he had read it
that the handsome young Anderson
had magnifcently concluded that she
would "tit in" to his comfortable life
and surroundings, and had written to
tell her so. Titus cursed him for a
puppy. He hated q man, who made
condolences, and, any man so loose
Of soul as. Anderson, who. blabbed his
affairs to any chance companion,
seemed to him something less than: a
natural" &s * .zs:S7tss3 ; ~. u<. l. -.
:. But she's bound to like the pretty
boy" he thought. Hes the, Kind
that takes" a woman. Somehow, the
nicer woman is the bigger fool she
~ o,1sri &c - ~
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28

which would make him giddy, the
path he would not venture, the storm
he would not face he had yet to en-
counter. His critics might have
claimed for him more bravado than
wise courage-but Titus did not care
about critics. Talking was one of the
superhuous arts at best, according to
Bucking Titus.
That was one of the two reasons
why he=objected to Bernard Ander-
son, his companion. Anderson would
talk. He exclaimed about the glory
of the mountains; he thought it
worth his while to make comments
upon the splendor of the autumnal
foliage, and he even went so far as
to say what he thought about the
mists that entwined themselves
around the cruel front of the Old
Mans mountain-that grim wall of
granite whose canyons knew the
blacklist tragedies of all the noun
tains in the country round about.
Anderson was stupid enough to relate
some of these. tales-though they were
ancient history to Titus. ,,5,n@t
But the second reason for dislike
which Titus. entertained for Ander-
son was Of more serious nature.
Anderson had been four weeks >,un-
der the same roof with ,Claribel. Yoe.
As for Titus. though for two years
past he had ridden over the pass like
the wild huntsman. thinking only of
the face that he should see in the val
ley beyond, he had never so much as
known what it was to press her hand
or to sit opposite to her4at table. To
be sure, she had brought him out hot
coffee now and then or hidden him to
sit beside the fire, and on holidays
had given him a true stirrup cup, yet
he said to himself with endless itera-
tion that she cared nothing for him
that she had never noticed him any
more than she had 90 other men. S
All men were chivalrous to- her.
How could. they be otherwise 2? She
scoaxed sociability out Of the solitude
and made home in the wilderness
and tenderness III the country st
granite rocks, and there were warmth
and light and cheer in her dwelling
among those bitter SHOWS. Perhaps
#claribel Yoe had ceased TO be mere
/ WOMAN and becoms sonnet hing iym-
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28

ASN">~
.kinder@threat'nin' and there's Jest
hint OF snow,
And NOvember's writ his name most
everywhere "'. a -
But the bright red fires a-roarin' up the
big brick, chimbly nue.. &
And the old house kinder wears happy
grim = -. =, > So t~,}~7~~9.
What's the odds about this weather when
the loved ones git together, -
And it's jolly old Thanksgivin' come agin!
There's turkey full of stuffin that's \
pictur' fer the eye,
There's a puddin' that won't hold an
other plum; ) =. "..l,
There's cel'ry and there's cranb'ry sass.
there's mince and punkin pie.
All settin' there a-holrrin'> ter yer:
"Come!''
And here's mother, who's been countin'
up the days fer weeks and weeks, .
And me a-feelin' young as twenty-four.
And there's welcome runnin' over jest like
dew drips OFF the clover. =
For it's Jolly old Thanksgivin' come once
more!
Oh.' it's good ter be child ag'in. If only
once a year!
It's good ter have the children round the
place,
II brings yer back the old sweet days in
mem'ry alters dear.
And kinder smoothes the wrinkles from
yer face.
Our boys and gals are back at home with
children of their own.
So let the fun and frolics now begin;
We old ones hearts are CHEEKY, though our
eyes, maybe, are teary,
For It's blessed old Thanksgivin' come
ag'in!
--Joe Lincoln, in Philadelphia Saturday
Evening Post.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
Makes Poultry Farming Paw.

"A man that runs a 60-acre farm in
Croton, N. -, claims he is selling So, 500
worth Of poultry and eggs from the
farm every year and $500 worth i OF
other kinds of products. He says that
! in two years he has cleared s., 800 on
poultry alone. There is no reason why
there should not be many such records.
The man that has q poultry establish
ment Of that size is sure to have large
supply Of 4 first-classs manure for use
on the land and 50 can grc::; vegetables
to advantage. The poultry business
and small gardening work together
tifully and should. be q success
wherever int diligently managed.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
- - =. -,
Americas Goat Populatf

The goat population Of the United
States, it is said, numbers about 5oo,-
600, and one-half of these are in
Texas. About half the total num-
ber are of the Angora heece:bearing
stock. The cost of Keeping goats is
less than for any other animal. They
Craze upon coarse herbs that are not
eaten BY any other stock, 81 such as
ironweed, dock, mullen, briars. buds
and broken sprouts. The wool of
the Angora. variety possesses the
highest felting qualities. The aver
age leeces from mature Americanized
Angora bucks weigh II ON six to seven
pounds, and those from the ewes from
three to four pounds. The flesh Of the
crosses is accounted superior to most
Emutton.-St. Louis Republic. s.. s.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
BARBED WIRE FENCE.
Moving It 10 Hard Job, But the De.
vice Here Described Makes
1t 4 Little Easier

Moving barbed wire fence is very
disagreeable job at the best. We have
just completed the rolling of. one-halt
ton viii lch we wanted moved, an o;d
fence where we have erected a new
woven wire fence instead.
In Fig. is 9x4 oak block or scant-
ling inches long for frame; is 1x2.
inch lath Fl inches long nailed to block
l. The figure represents one END of the
Frame The other end is made the same
except it is one inch smaller in diam
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
Comforting Poor Pam.

A well-known business man whose head
10 bare, yet who wears a luxuriant growth
Of whiskers, was being. rallied recently for
being bald by some of his intimate friends
in the presence of his small daughter. Lit
tie Mabel didn't understand that it was all
pu9 aqms sboqf Rn Rs nee pnd turpe
defantly toward his tormentors: 'My papa
w'ud ruvver hav' his top hair on his chin,
w'udn't you, papa"- Chicago Chronicle.
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28

country with an unwelcome compan-
ion. The companion had joined him
at Yoe's ranch, where he had been
staying for month, bracing up a
degenerate lung. Titus hated a
"lunger," as he opprobriously termed
the invalids who made Colorado mel
ancholy; and, anyway, Titus was a
man of prejudices. He covered more
ground than any other mail carrier in
the whole state, and the snowbound
pass that would daunt him, the height
Willmar tribune., 1900-11-28
FOUNTAIN FOR POULTRY.
Where Large Flocks Are Kept the
! Device Here Described Will
Prove of Great Value.

The one the drawing was made from
holds about 10 gallons, but could be
made to contain twice that quantity if
desired. It is capital idea for both
summer and winter. l have used this
one for four years and it has given per-
feet satisfaction. Anyone can make
the frame for the fountain and any tin
smith can make a galvanized tank aft er
this pattern. The cost of the frame,
including end rods and braces, will not
be over so cents, while the tank will cost
about IS cents per pound, all made. In
summer it should be kept out of doors,
either on grass or on wood platform,
so the ducks and geese cannot foul the