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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-06-06
There Are Farmers

in parts of the world who still pillow with pointed
piece of wood and there nearer home, who
think that of seeds will to grow profitable
crops; is no of-date than the other good
crops be grown without good cultlVaton and
pure seeds will produce thing better than them
selves Ias Thoroughbred Seeds grown to farmers
and gardeners who know that in seedS-nore than
thingsthe best only worth having and 1t IS no
wonder that Nley depended upon to-day by men
whose grandtahers learned to value oCr name upon a
package Of seeds. Better than any else under
stand the needs of Southern gardeners and other
has facilities for supplying them tor those az
distance from Norfolk we have a catalogue which will
tell them Just what they would be told at the clouse
We think it unique in that it describes each kind OF
vegetable really SEED catalogues have way,
know, of declaring everything 1.-The finest cultivation,
will find faults mentioned as freely good
qualities, and the book ought to be help to you.
have it the asking.
GORGE TAFT & SONS, Is Commercial Place
ed Growers and Merchants. Norfolk Va.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-06-06

In effect June Ist, 1901
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-06-06

GEORGE TAFT & SONS,
Seed Growers and Merchants.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

ford to dine with him that evening.
She handed the note to Mr.. de la Fame
and remarked, callously:
What nerve the man has. Surely,
he knows there is nothing for him to
do but shoot himself. He's
ruined silly creature"
Mr.. de la Fame laughed harshly.
so that evening cheerful party as
sembled in the private dining room
Mrs. Molyneux and Mrs. de la Fame
were the only ladies present, but some
halI-dozen men made up the party.
With the dessert, John Beresford looked
around at his guests, and placed
leather case on the table.
I've had the queerest adventure
since I've been in the hotel" he said
laughing It's too rich to keep to my
self; it might amuse you."
Fire away" said some one.
Mrs. de la Fame turned very white.
but Muriel, watching her every move
ment, felt no pity.
You know, of course" Beresford
continued, that l was sent down on
special service to deliver some dis
patches to Gen. G., who arrives
here this evening. Like an ass, made
no secret of my errand. l shall be
wiser another time. Well, two days
ago the case with the dispatches dis
appeared. You can imagine what
felt like. After wild searchings for "a
hours there was only one thing to be
DONE"
He then described his meeting with
Muriel in the summer house, and her
adventure with J. x. de WIS messen-
ger.
II wrote a note" he continued, "and
inclosed it with the original letter,
addressing 1t to certain lady, whose
name does not matter, asking her TO
meet ]. X. de WIS messenger last
night. In disguise l myself represented
the messenger and received my dis
patch back into my own hands,"
The men laughed loud and long.
''The sequel, too, may be interest
ing" said John Beresford coolly. "a
couple of detectives are at this minute
colaring J. X. de WIS man."
What about the lady?" he was
asked.
well, l fancy you'll hear that she
and her husband have been presented
with tickets to Europe by the next
boat"
A little choking cry came from Mrs.
de Fane's lips. She had fainted.-The
Onlooker.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12
Scentinc Danger.

According to Nature. the French
minister of war has asked the Paris
Academy of Sciences to give an opin-
ion as to the possibility of danger
arising from the establishment of wire
less telegraphy stations in the neigh
borhood of magazines containing pow
der or other explosives. 1t is suggest
ed that the nature of the cases con-
tanning the explosive may be an inn
portant matter for consideration in
connection with the subject.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

Effects of Beer Drinking-It Kills Ouicke,
Than Any Other Liquor-How the SUI
perb Constitutions of German Young
Men Succunb to 1t.
DR.. S. III. Burgen, practitioner of thir.
ty-five years, twenty-eight in Toledo. saws:
" think beer kills quicker than any other
liquor. My attention was first called to
its insidious effects when | began exam
lining for life insurance. | passed as unu-
sually good risks five Germans-young
business men-who seemed in the best
health, and to have superb constitutions.
In a few years l was amazed to see the
whole five drop off, one after another,
with what ought to have been mild and
easily durable diseases. On comparing my
experience with that, Of other physicians
I found they We're all having similar luck
with confirmed beer drinkers, and my
practice since has heaped confirmation
upon confirmation.
'"The first organ to be attacked is the
kidneys; the liver soon sympathizes, and
then comes, most frequently, dropsy or
Bright's disease, both certain to end fa-
tally. Any physician who cares to take
the time win tell you that among the
dreadful results of beer drinking are lock.
jaw and erysipelas, and that the beer
drinker seems incapable of recovering
from mild disorders and injuries not usu.
ally regarded of grave character. Pneu.
monia, pleurisy, fevers, ETC., seem to have
a first mortgage on him, which they fore.
close remorselessly at an early opportu.
nifty.
THE beer drinker is much worse off
than the whisky drinker, who seems to
have more elasticity and reserve power,
He will even have delirium tremens, but
after the fit is gone you will sometimes
find good material to work upon. Good
management may bring him around all
right. But when a beer drinker gets into
trouble it seems almost as if you have to
recreate the man before you can do any
thing for him.
Beer drinkers are peculiarly liable to
die of pneumonia Their vital power,
their power of resistance, their Wis medi-
catriz naturae,' is so lowered that they are
liable to drop off from any form of acute
disease, such as fevers, pneumonia, etc.
As rule, when beer drinker takes pneu-
monia he dies.
Beer drinking produces rheumatism by
producing chronic congestion and ulti-
mately degeneration of the liver, thus in
terfering with its function by which the
food is elaborated and fitted for the sus-
tenance of the body and the refuse mate
rials oxidized and made soluble for elm
ination by the kidneys, thus forcing the
retention in the body of the excrementi-
tious and dead matter I have spoken of.
The presence of uric acid and other insol-
uble effete matters in the blood and tissues
is one main cause of rheumatism
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12
The Words of a Judge.

Recently at Newry, Ireland, the judge
in sentencing two men who had been
drinking together, and who were charged
with having stolen money, said: ''It was a
terrible thing, at recurring sessions, to see
magistrates voting for the increase of
these plague spots, as if these places did
no harm. He only wished that the magis-
trates would accompany him all through;
and civil side of the court. and they would
understand, as he now did that nearly all
of the country, was caused by the public
house. He thought that every man who
voted for a public house under ordinary
circumstances was a criminal himself
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

There is an international interest
to the reported increase in the Ameri-
can demand for sauerkraut. A Penn
sylvania maker has just filled con-
tract for 15-ton supply of the great
German delicacy. Germans have long
maintained that lack of appreciation
or such food varieties as theirs was re.
sponsible for American dyspepsia. Is
the sauerkraut market to furnish the
open door to our better education?
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

In exploring the Waipio river, in
Hawaii, a party from the Bishop mu-
scum of Honolulu recently discovered
cataract that has one sheer fall of 600
feet and in this exceptionally dry sea-
son runs 100000 gallons a day. The
party reached the cataract only be-
cause of the low water which permit
ted the explorers to ascend the bed OF
the stream.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

Joseph L. Thompson of Franklin, N.
H., who is now in the S5th year of his
age, has taught school in that town
and vicinity for 65 years, He says, as
one thing learned in hie long practice
of his calling, that one-third of a
teachers time is taken up in maintain.
ing order. On the wall of his study"
hangs a card with the word why"
ir. large letters. This, he says, has
been his motto all through his life
and studies.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12
Swedes TalIest in the World.

According to statistics just published the
Swedes are the tallest people in the world.
The Norwegians were a little taller un-
til some ten wears ago, but the Swedes
have outgrown them by the fraction of
centimetre.
The Swedish conscrpts, aged twenty
one, average a height of l70l centime-
tres, showing a steady increase since 1871,
when their average stature was l6t.
This is quite an unparalleled develop
ment of the race, and is thought due in no
small measure to the diminution OF drunk
enuess in Sweden.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

An amusing story is told of Lord
Kelvin, who on one occasion paid i
visit with a friend to some we'll known
electrical works. They were escorted
over the workshops by the senior fore
man, a man of much intelligence and
an enthusiastic electrician. Slowly they
passed from department to department
Lord Kelvin never once tagging in his
attention to the foremans homilies.
At last, when the tour of inspection
was complete Lord Kelvin quietly
turned to him and asked: What,
then, is electricity?" This was a poser
for the man, who, somewhat shame
faced, confessed that he could not say.
We'll, WELL" said Lord Kelvin gently,
that is the only thing about electrici-
ty which you and don't know"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

The supreme court of Iowa has
fixed the cash value of mans leg at
$4,000. In a case tried the other day
the jury gave a verdict for $14,500 for
an amputated leg, but the court de,
clared that sum excessive, and fol
lowed precedent established a few
years ago, when a verdict of $4,000
was cut down to $4,000. This is now
regarded as the standard value of an
Iowa leg.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

The American match and the Ameri
can watch are becoming more and
more popular in the remotest corners
of the globe. With American Matches
and American oil, and American lib.
erty the irrepressible Yankee is doing
a great deal of lighting and enlighten.
ing, and with his watches he is also
marking time for the progress of civil
ization.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12
Drunkenness in England.

The Rev. j. Q. A. Henry, Superintend-
cnt of the New York Anti-Saloon League,
has begun his crusade in England, at the
invitation of the Free Churches, holding
the first of his, seventv-ive meetings in
London. The Rev. Mr.. Henry thinks
there is more drunkenness in England
than in the United States, especially
among women. He points out that one
third of the arrests for drunkenness IN
that country during the year 1900 were of
women.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

The agricultural building at the Lou
tsiana Purchase exposition in st. Louis
will be 700 by 1000 feet and will cover
over two acres more of ground than
did the big manufacture and liberal
arts building at the Columbian expo
sition in Chicago. In this thought the
st. Louisans take great delight.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

New Orleans, city Of nearly 100000
600 gallons of water daily. The total
cost of the New Orleans water works
was 100000. st. Louis has spent
$2O,0OO,0O0 for the same purpose and
has a daily consumption of 60,000,000
gallons.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

One of our scientists has made the
greater in summer tnan in winter. This
inclination may be easily explained.
People don't come around in winter
asking, "Is it hot enough for your
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

Out OF 100000 American families
the income of 4,OOO,O 900 of these fami-
lies is less than $4OO each per year,
and the incomes of nearly so percent
of the entire number are less than
$1,000 each per year.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

Reporters are often more active and
more gifted with an instinct for de-
tail than the officers, says Charles E
Grinnell in the Atlantic. Together
they make a formidable combination.
But they are often divided in opinion.
and yet oftener in their sympathies.
Reporters, like the average citizen. are
more apt to pity the prisoner, if for
nothing else for the very reason that
the police are down upon him. 1t is
an ambition of reporters to unearth
more facts than the police Newspa-
pers print news from prisoners
friends as readily as news from his
prosecutors. Nevertheless, they spread
abroad the charge against suspected
person more than he or his friends
wish. Since the newspapers begin
long before trial to work up popu-
lar interest in all the persons con-
cerned, the results cannot be other
than an exaggeration of the impor-
tance to the public of what stimulates
and gratifies curiosity, whether or not
it affects the question OF the prisoners
guilt.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

The old saying that His note is as
good as gold," has been modified in
Kansas to His note is better than
gold" A Reno county farmer has
just brought suit to compel mort
gage company to accept money for a
note which it holds against him.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

The possibility is broached of taking
passengers under the English channel
in submarine boats instead of over ii
in rolling tubs This is the most de
cisive attack on seasickness in bulk
which has been contemplated.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

According to the Buffalo News there
are 257 farms in New York state that
make the culture of trees their prin-
cipal business. The valuation is $3,
607,107. Vermont has four similar
farms valued at $2S,500.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

Love makes memory eternal" has
been selected as the motto of the So
ciety of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, in session in Staunton,
Va, and laurel as the emblematic
flower for Virginia.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

The average woman feels that her
life is wasted If she doesn't belong to
a society for the suppression of some
thing.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

Texas is going into the sugar-pro-
ducing industry on an extensive scale.
In addition to her present sugar-cane
growing interests, which are operated
under the state penitentiary system,
arrangements are being made to place
about 5000 additional acres in eultiva-
tion. About two years ago a farm
embracing 5000 acres was purchased
by the state on which penitentiary
conVicts were to be worked. This
farm is situated in Brazoria county in
the richest sugar cane belt of Texas.
Owing to the lack of sugar mill, but
little of the new farm was placed un-
der cultivation. But within a year it
is hoped to have a sugar mill in op-
Grafton, and to pay it's SITS, 900 cost
out of the proceeds of the farms crops
in the following two years.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

A great many California oranges are
shipped east in what are known as
tramp cars. There is no fruit the
price of which fluctuates as much as
does that of oranges, and thousands
of carloads of oranges are, therefore,
started east with some uncertain des-
tination. The car may be consigned
to Kansas City, but in the meantime
there are agents watching in the east
for the best markets and on telegraph
ie information the car may be ordered
on to Chicago or New York City.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12
The Drunkard Not the Worst Man.

A gentleman stepped into saloon and
saw filthy drunkard. once a respectable
man, waiting for his liquor
He thus accosted him: C, why do
you make yourself the viest of men!"
Il amt the vilest of men!' said the
drunkard.
Yes, YOU are!" said the gentleman.
''See how you look! Drink that glass and
you will in very short time be in the
gutter"
Il deny your poz-zi-tion," stammered
the drunkard "Who is the vilest, the
tempter or the tempted? Who-who was
the worst, Satan or Eve"
"Why, Satan" said he.
'Well-well. behold the tempter!" said
the drunkard, pointing to the bar.
The argument was irresistible. The
barkeeper flew into passion, and turned
the poor fellow out of his house without
his dram-Christian Endeavor World
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

The other day James Pelter, who
lives near Winchester, Va, killed a
bald eagle, whose spread of wings was
seven feet. Mr.. Pelter had lost several
lambs and thought it remarkable that
tne thief left no tracks nor other sign
of his visits to the farm, but when
the eagle tried to carry off a dog
which followed him, he concluded that
the bird was the robber.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

Instances of unbounded faith in the
efficacy of queer treatment of dis
eases do not seem to fall off in num-
Der or in oddity. One western man
says he was martyr to the most
agonizing form of chronic dyspepsia
until he began the practice of taking
small quantity of fine, dry sand into
his stomach every day. He insists
that he is now completely cured of his
malady. But many persons will be
inclined to regard the swallowing of
sand daily as almost as severe an af-
Fiction as dyspepsia. In Colorado a
former citizen of New York City as
serts that by going almost constantly
bareheaded he has relieved himself
of chronic catarrh of the worst type,
while a clergyman in West Virginia
declares that by eating no solid food
for 40 days he has conquered entirely
the besetting rheumatism which had
tormented him for dozen years.
These are interesting cases. How would
1t do for some adventurous experiment.
er to try all three systems of treat
ment on himself at once-to go bare
headed all the time, to swallow sand
every "a hours, and to fast from other
food for 40 days? What would tho
autopsy reveal? A constitutional disa-
bility to tell the truth? queries the
New York Tribune.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

A costly marble monument stands in
fashionable cemetery at Seattle.
Wash, sacred to the memory of a
faithful horse. The animals owner
was himself buried beside the horse
recently.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

There are some men who will put
up their hands when they are told to
do so by man with gun, and others
that will not. When the man is found
who will not do it, the chances are that
one is also found whose courage is
weightier than the others gunpowder.
An express messenger, who, with
hole blown through his car by dyna-
mite, with bombs exploding around
him and with pistols leveled at him
by holdups, can pick up a lighted
bomb and hurl it out of his car, at the
same time defying all the bandits who
are threatening him, certainly deserves
to be called a brave man. This was
what Express Messenger Charles did
in Oregon the other day. and in doing
it he foiled, single handed the attempt
to rob his car. There are few finer
instances on record of the triumph of
one mans courage and determination
over brute force.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12
Disaster Caused by Alcohol.

Alcoholism said the professor, SIS
the most potent factor in propagatlng tu-
berculosis The strongest man, who has
once taken to drink, is powerless against
it. Time is too short for me now to draw
comparisons between the laws in force in
different countries. those which are pro-
posed, private efforts, associated efforts
and temperance societies. But ! can say
that universal cry of despair rises from
the whole universe at the sight OF the dis
asters caused by alcoholism. | will quote
but two sets of statistics, but they speak
for themselves. Tathams show that the
mean mortality being represented by 100,
that caused by tuberculosis is in:
Brewers -. ...l4S Sweeps ..... ....l4l
HAIR dresserS .l49 Publlcans ..l40
Stroll music's ..l74 Butchers :. ..... l05
Dock laborers ..l76 Coamen E. ......ll6
Pedlars =. .Zo9 Coachmen ....lZ4
Barmen .l0i
ANY measures, State or individual,
tending to limit the ravages OF alcoholism
will be our most precious auXlllarles in
the crusade against tuberculosis, but the
question is too large one to deal with
here. Still, | should like to draw attention
to a mistake made too easily in the differ
ent countries by ministers who have the
charge OF the financial department OF the
State. They like to calculate the sum the
State gets from the duty on alcohol, but
they should deduct from it the cost to the
community of the family of the ruined
drunkard, his degenerate, intirm, scrofu-
lous and epileptic children, who must have
shelter
This invasion of alcoholism ought to be
regarded by every one as public danger,
and this principle, the truth of which is
incontestable should be inculcated into
the masses. that the future of the world
will be in the hands of the temperate
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

iron ore Is being shipped to the
United States from Spain and ves-
sci which carried cargo of iron ore
returned with a cargo of steel rails.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

During the recent session of the Brit
ish parliament no fewer than 644S
questions were asked in the house of
commons. This number has only once
been exceeded in recent years-namely.
in the session of 1884, when the num-
Der of questions asked was 1884. But
the house sat on 226 days during that
session, while there were only 11S sit
tings during the late session.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

A Hamburg schoolteacher recently
undertook to find out what his pupils
knew about common things. Out Of
100 children between 10 and 16 years
of age, 5S had never seen a flock of
sheep, 10 had never seen a violet
growing, 80 had never heard a night
ingale, SO had never seen the sun rise,
and 33 had not seen it set, 49 had never
seen a man plow. He asserts that
while city children may know about
theatres and concert exhibitions, muse
ums and stores hundreds of the SIM
plest things in life are mere words to
them that convey no coherent idea
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

A curious case came up the other day
before the court in Caroline county,
Md, when an ancient resident was
charged with the larceny of nine eggs.
Extra jurors had to be summoned, and
it cost the county $3.50 to try the case.
The accused was 73 years old. His
counsel said he had known the de-
fendant for 40 years, and it was in
credible that he would steal eggs. He
argued that anyhow the state had not
shown that the eggs were sound and
nine rotten eggs would have no value
at all. The jury staid out Is minutes
and returned verdict of not guilty.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-12

There dre three nut cracking plants
in st. Louis, Mo-, giving employment
to considerable numbers of people.
The nut crackers are driven by electri-
city, each nut being fed individually
into the crusher. After the shells are
cracked the nuts are winnowed by an
air blast, and the meat is picked from
the crushed shells by hand, women
and girls being employed for this part
of the work.