The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-11-05

OF course bought large tracts OF lan0
there and already the bills far around
have been denuded of their woods and
the work has but cleyerly begun.
Some idea of the immensely OF the
NJ achinery may be had from the fact
that 1t took th,rty-e!ght mules and ten
horses, forty-elght In one team, t. move
the engines and boilers from Virginia
eight miles and it took two weeks to
move 1t. The truck or wagon on which
1t was hauled had to he put on sklds a
foot square to keep from sinking into
the earth. The trucks could only be
moved few feet at a time when the
skids had to be taken up and arranged
| for another move It was done some
thing like houses are moved from one
site to another The output OF the
plant is about ton of copper ccncen-
trates per day. There are two pro-
cesses, by one the concentrates rate
about SO per cent. copper and by the
other they rate 80 per cent. Doubtless
before long the entire process will be
changed to that which yields 30 per
cent copper.
These clever Virginia people know
| how to treat "Tar Heel" 80 he msy
81 the very best out of his time. II
nothing prevents I shall have the op
portunlty of attending Virginia
election tomorrow. There is net much
excitement here over politics, this be-
ing sort OF off year, but still the peo-
p!e Will tnrn ont and exercise their
; sovereign right in the use OF the ballot.
"GRaNDMA BLANKS" AGAIN.
| Whenever / have an opportunity OF
talking with this remarkable old lady
she tells me something Interesting.
She still has keen sense OF the hui
morous, Notwithstanding she Is a most
devout saint of God and Is nearing
her ninety fourth birthday. She has
t,!d me about the so-called witches Il
the long ago She tells of one reputed
witch OF whom many people were
afraid. They said in those days that
Notwithstanding this witch had nc
COWS she could sell butter when she
wished. She would throw a rope
around stump, or some other object
and milk 1t until she would get tie
milk from her nelghbors' COWS. O.
course we all know that such a thing
can be set down as the impossible, bu1
50 went the story of the witch.
! They tell me OF the man who pulled
up his snapbeans aud stack them tecl
into the ground because he said they
had come up wrong end f,remos. II
was a school teacher in this communl
ty long time ago, and bad no sense out
side IF the text books he taught, which
we're speller, an arithmetic and per
haps dictionary. This same schoo
teacher was anxious to help bis wife il
her work, so he voluntarily placed th
eggs under a sitting hen. He Wen. il
and told his wife that doubtless tn,
, eggs would hatch we'll, as he had al
ready dipped" them all.
"Grandma Blanks" sings the song
she heard In her youth, and her voic
is still clear and sweet. though she ca
hold out to sing only few stanzas q
once. Her faith in God Is strong an
after having served him for we'll mig
three-quarters Of a century, she wal,
patiently the time when from the dir
!, light of advanced age here there sha
. break upon her the vision of that "pe1
, feet day. and her reward will be con
: plete Gin the presence of the King"
MR.. JENKINS FINE FARM.
1t was my pleasure to ride with M
). S. jenkins over his magnificer
. farm on the Dan river. His high land
= are we'll adapted to wheat and the To-
! lands produce corn in quantity hk
"Carter had oats" He Is indeed fort,
nate in the possession of such a fin
farm situated in most desirable con
munity as it is.
8 E. E. H.