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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16

country, however, lies in broader val
legs or along the coast, where there are
many wide plains which were once he
meath the water. If n looks down
on these from 9 slight elevation they
appear like some deliberately designed
mathematical figure or as though a
cloth had been spread over the earth
with mosaic patterns in gold and green.
Each little field is as nearly rectangu-
lar as circumstances will allow. Many
of them, therefore, are perfect rectan-
giles, for where the plain is broad it Is
easy to fit into it small fields of twen-
ty or thirty feet in length. Many of
the plats are even less than this. Some
barley fields are only six feet by a
dozen or so.
The pattern of this mosaic is wildly
marked out by the coloring of the yart-
Gus crops. Today the barley is lap
and stands golden in the sunshine. The
ricefields, however, are out bare ex-
panses of mud or water, for the rice is
not yet planted out, but is growing in
small, oblong fields by itself, which
show a vivid emerald green growth of
little plants only three or four inches
high. At the end of May some of the
farmers are beginning to reap their
ripe barley and wheat. and when this
is finished they will be free to plant
out what is to them the much more
important crop. the rice. Reaping and
planting of grain together one may
see in the same acre.
There is no broadcast sowing of
grain here. Each seed grain has an
Individuality and is separately tended.
The barley is planted in rows, perhaps
three feet or six feet long, and each
row is 4 foot or eighteen inches from
the next, so that a worker can pass
between the rows to END and weed
n finally to reap each individual
plant. In many cases each row grows
on a little semicircular ridge four or
five feet horizontally and about a foot
high, so that the barley is we'll drain
ed, though the next little field may lie
under several inches of water. In the
whole district of Okuna there was
only one of the ripe fields "laid' by
the wind. and that was one Of the lar
~ger-nearly thirty feet across. 1t is not
to be inferred from this that the .Japa-
nese farmers do not have to contend
with heavy winds and pitiless, beating
rains. Japan is q particularly windy
country, and this year has been a very
bad season, for even in April there
was heavy snow-snow so thick that
it entirely d~isorganized the Geographic
and railway communication for a few
days. The wheat and barley are all
sown in the autumn. so that they get
the benefit of the winter sunshine,
which is clear and brilliant and very
hot. This. of course. is the chief cause
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16

York experiment station, says: "At the
station in our variety tests of potatoes
in 1895 Magnum Bonum, the seed of
which was imported from England,
was tested. The variety is still grown
by the firm from whom we purchased
our seed, and in its 1907 catalogue l
find the following: Magnum Bonum,
introduced by US in 1876, proved to be
the premier of all disease resisting va
%rieties. There is scarcely a parish in
the United Kingdom where Magnum
Bonum is not known as an enormous
cropper of good quality, almost free
from disease The yield at the New
York station of the Magnum Bonum
was from $50 to 100 bushels per acre,
while with some other varieties we Sc
cured a yield of between 300 and 400
bushels. No English varieties yielded
well in comparison with our best Amer
lean varieties"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16

met with goods that are put up in as
honest and attractive style as those
that are shipped from that section.
The remedy lies in the hands ofIthe
growers. If they desire to have their
fruit recognized as equal to California
fruit they must make 1t so attractive
in style and honest and uniform in
quality hat the buyer or the consumer
will not make invidious comparisons
when he sees it by the side of the Cal
ifornia product. Quality and flavor
will have weight in determining which
fruit to use, but if our home grown
fruits are put up In an honest manner
and undesirable varieties are kept off
from the market we can meet the COM
petition and hold our home markets.
This problem of handling and market
ing fruit is not one that can be solved
by Individual effort alone. It requires
cooperation OF the part of the various
fruit growers. One man may succeed
in establishing a reputation for high
grade fruit, but at the best his reputa-
ton would only be local, whereas if a
large number of the leading fruit grow
ers would combine and organize and
have their fruit put up in uniform
style and in large quantities by expe-
rienced packers, 81 that their brand
would establish a first class reputation,
the de nand for their fruit would equal
if not exceed that for the California
fruit. What we need to do is to organ
lie and do u grading, packing and
marketing in as businesslike manner
as the Californians.
Our growers must learn to utilize
their inferior grades at home and mar
ket nothing but the very best and in
uniform packages. By SO doing they
will obtain more money than by plac-
ing the whole lot on the market. Ev-
cry grower should grow the best yari-
cites, put them up in nice, clean, uni
form packages and place them in the
hands Of dealers who understand their
business. Let every package contain
full weight. The most important mat
ter after the growing of the fruit is
the selection of the package In which
to send it to market. No fruit should
be sent in any but a neat and attrac-
tive new package of the form and size
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
Preacher Wants Damages.

e. l.. Tedder, a prominent resi-
de, t of Pensacola, Fla, who, with
his wife and daughter, has
b ii, sp4ndirg the summer III
W. stern North Carolina, was ar
rested here yesterday on a war
rant sent out by Rev. j. G. Cog
gins, president of the Holman
Christian Institute of Black
Mountain, charging SANDER, and
asking damages to the amount or
500, 1000.
Mr.. Tedder was taken In Gus
tody, and later released on $4,000
bond. The case is set for hearing
September 10Th.
The suit is brought by the Rev.
Mr.. Coggins as'the result of a less
of two railway tickets belonging
to Mr.. Teder, who, at that time
was stopping at Black Mountain
with his family. Later these
tickets were mailed to Mr.. Tedder
at Asheville, and it is stated that
the initials on the ticktes were
changed, and that a profane mes
sage accompanied them -Ashe-
vile, N. c., dispatch.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
on The 18th day of October next,

the following property: Beginning at a
stake, G. w. Winecoff's and J. F. Parks
corner, thence with G. w. Winecoff's
and J. F. Parks line N BIZ deg E 6 chs
to a stake, G. w. Winecoff's corner in
j. F. Parks line; thence with G. W.
Winecof's and j. w. Parks line S. II
deg E $40 chs to a stake; Margaret
Ridenhour's corner thence with G. w.
Winecoff's and Margaret Ridenhour's
line, S 31h deg w 5.75 chs to a stake,
G. w. Winecoff's and Margaret Riden-
hours corner; thence with @. w.
Winecof's and Margaret Ridenhour's
line N II deg W $40 chs to the begin
ming, 70 miles N. Of Salisbury known
as the.hou Sc j lot, containing three acres,
Also real estate bounded as follows to-
wit: Beginning at a stake on the bank
of third creek and thence S 76deg e 1926
chs to a stake, Walton's corner; thence
S2deg W "a. 80 chs to a pine; thence S
81 deg f chs to a stake; thence a
new line N 2 deg E %. so chs to a stake !;
thence N 49, deg E 1890 chs to stake
on the bank of said creek thence with
said creek to the beginning, containing
% acres, or less. Conveyed by
the SAID William Austin and Hattie
Austin to satisfy the debt provided for
in said mortgage.
w. F. WHITAKER.
John J. Stewart, Atty.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
She Was Not a Whitmanite.

Back when Lord Alfred Tenny-
son was poet laureate Of England
there was a prominent American
girl, the daughter of our ambassa-
dor, in fact, who was very anxious
to meet the greatest literary light
of his time. One evening the long
coveted chance came at a soiree.
The conversation that ensued is
chronicled in the Conservator as
follows:
Tennyson-You are American?
Girl-Yes.
Tennyson-You know Walt Whit
man?
Chino.
Tennyson-Then you don't know
the only man worth knowing in
America.
Whereupon the laureate turned
away and the interview was over.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
Weak Women

To weak and ailing women. there is at least one
way to help. But with that way. W treatments.
tional. but both are important. both essential.
Dr.. Shops Night Cure is the Local.
DR.. Shops Restorative. the constitutional.
The former-Dr. Shops Night Cure-isat topical
mucous membrane suppository remedy. while DR..
Shoop's Restorative is wholly an internal treat
ment. The Restorative reaches throughout the
entire system, seeking the repair of all nerve.
ali tissue, and all blood ailments.
The Night Cure. as its name implies. does its
work while you sleep. 1t soothes sore and inf1am-
ed mucous surfaces, heals local weaknesses and
discharges, while the Restorative, eases nervous
excitement, gives renewed vigor and ambition,
builds up wasted tissues. bringing ABOUT renewed
Observation-Disclosures or Liquid-asa general tonic
to the system. For positive local help. use as well
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
BOY INVENTORS.
Humphrey Potter's Crude Addition to
the Steam Engine.

Some of the most important in
ventions have been the work of
boys. The invention of the valve
motion to the steam engine was
made by a mere boy. Newcome's
engine was in very incomplete con-
dition from the fact that there was
no way to open or close the valve
except by means of levers operated
by the hand.
Newcome set up a large engine at
one of the mines, and a boy,
Humphrey Potter, was hired to
work these valve levers. Although
his work was not hard work, yet it
required his constant attention.
As he was working the levers he
saw that parts Of the engine moved
in the right direction and at the
same time that he had to open or
close the valves
He procured a strong cord and
made one end fast to the proper
part of the engine and the other
end to the valve lever, and then he
had the satisfaction of seeing the
engine move with perfect regularity
of motion.
A short time after the foreman
came around and saw the boy play
ing marbles at the door. Looking
at the engine, he saw the ingenuity
of the boy and also the advantage
Of SO great an invention.
The idea suggested by the boys
inventive genius was put in a prac-
teal form and made the steam en-
CINE an automatic working ma
chine.
The power loom is the invention
of a farmers boy who had never
seen or heard Of such a thing. He
whitfield one out with his jackknife,
and after he had got it all done he,
with great enthusiasm, showed it
to his father, who at once kicked it
to pieces, saying that he would have
no boy about him who would spend
his time on such foolish things.
The boy was sent to a black
smith to learn a trade, and his mas
ter took a lively interest in him.
He made a loom of what was left
of the one his father had broken up
and showed it to his master.
The blacksmith saw he had no
common lad as an apprentice and
that the invention was a valuable
one. He had a loom constructed
under the supervision of the boy.
1t worked to their perfect salts
faction, and the blacksmith fur
nished the means to manufacture
the looms, and the boy received
half the profits. In about a year
the blacksmith wrote to the boys
father that he should bring with
him a wealthy gentleman, who was
the inventor Of the celebrated
power LOOM.
You may be able to judge of the
establishment at the old home when
his son was presented to him as the
inventor, who told him that the
loom was the same as the model
that he had kicked to pieces but a
year before.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
PRESERVATION OF FORESTS.
The Old Bay State Is Now Taking the
Initiative,

Initiative.
problem second to lone in present i'm
portance and in its outlook toward the
future. Without trees our country
would be a desert, and the rapid den
udation of our New England hills is
already beginning to have it's effect
upon our streams and rivers and upon
u water supply. The invention Of
wood pulp paper and the rapid extern
sion of the industry throughout the
country, together with the increase of
newspaper circulation, have stimulated
the destruction of the forests to such
a degree that steps are already being
taken to preserve them before it is too
late.
Congress has attempted to take a
hand in the matter, but so far. with
little avail, and it now remains for the
individual states affected to see what
they can do. The first step would seem
to be the development of paper making
from some rapidly growing and an
nually reappearing substance, such as
%cornstalk fiber, instead of from the
slowly rising tree which cannot be re-
placed except after years of renewal
and growth.
AS was to be expected. Massachu-
sets Is taking the initiative. To the
governors of the other five New Eng
land states Governor Guild has sent
out a request for a conference, and 1t
will be held at the Algonquin club
in Boston on the 18th of September.
The six governors will then confer and
deliberate over the best means to be
taken for the preservation of our for
ests, and it is probable that arrange
ments will be made for the calling of
a New England business conference at
some time Immediately following the
presidential election. If it should be
held, says Governor Guild in his letter
1t should come at that time Sin order
that It's work might not be confused
with the politics of the presidential.
campaign" One of the especial OBJ
tects Of this meeting of the governor
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16

most popular where the fruit is ship
ped. The human eye is the great buy
er of fruit.
Apples that are sold for first class
fruit should be handled in a careful
name while being picked and then
carefully laid in piles or the ground
where the sun cannot reach them or
removed to the barn for a few days
and left in piles, 81 as to permit some
of the moisture to evaporate and the
skin to become toughened, in which
condition the fruit will stand up bet
ter while being shipped and keep long
er when packed than it will when put
into the barrel as fast as 1t is picked
from the tree.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16

of the early ripening of the grain, for
from the time it is sown till the time
it is reaped it never has a spell of dull
weather hat lasts more than a few
days.
Japanese men and women cut their
rows of grain by holding each plants
ting them off with a sharp. bent knife
at the cad of a straight handle a foot
or more in length. The handful is laid
tidily On the ridge where it has grown.
and its neighbor is placed beside it
till the small field is covered by the
straws. To thrash, the heads are cut
off the stalks and her pounded With
a heavy wooden mallet.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
Popular Excursion to Richmond, Va,
Sent. 18th. Iq08

Southern Railway will operate
its popular excursion to Rich
mond, Va, September 18th, tram
to consist of first class day c ,aches
and Pullman cars, giving two
days and one night in Richmond.
Following round trip from Sails
N. c., $3.50. For detailed
information Q large, flyers or
call on your depot agent.
R. L. VERNON,
tt Trav. Pass. Agent.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
The Olympic Games.

The famous Olympic games are
said to have been instituted in honor
of Jupiter, about 1900 years B. c.,
and to have been revived by Iphitus,
S84 B. G. They we're held at inter-
walls Of four years on the banks of the
Alpheus, neal Olympia, in Ellis, to
exercise the youth in the five kinds
OF combat. The prize contended
for was a crown made of wild olive
or laurel. The games were abol-
'shed by order Of Theodosius, about
4. D. 1874.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16

cargo of one OF Sir Richard GrenvlIle's
ships and landed at Plymouth, and the
ship had gone direct from Virginia and
called nowhere on the way. On the
voyage home, however, it had encoun-
tered and captured a Spanish ship from
Santo Domingo. The potatoes were a
part of the cargo Of the latter vessel.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
As 1t Should Be-.

John A. Oates, Chairman of III
Executive Committee of the State
Anti-Saloon League, told an OBJ
server reporter today that all OBJ
legations, incurred by the recent
Prohibition election, had been
met, including the debts, which
he assumed personal responsible
ty for, during the campaign
Fayetteville, N. c., Observer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
Mortgage Sale,

Pursuant to the provisions contained
in a Mortgage Trust Deed Registered
in Book No. 1S, page 382, made by
William Austin and Hattie Austin for
the protection and benefit of the under
signed, on the 7th day of Feby, 1901,
default having been made in the pay
ment Of this debt, which said Mortgage
was given to secure, the undersigned
will sell at public sale for cash, at the
court house door in Salisbury
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
Executors Notice,

Having qualii I'd as executor of the
estate of z. Clementine Brady, dis
eased, late of Rowan County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate of
said diseased to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Gold Hill, N. G., on or
before the Goth day of August, 1909, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please made immediate payment.
Dated this August 26th, 1908.
WILLIAM Fl. EARNHARDr.
WALTE H. WooDsoN, executor,
6t-pd attorney.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
announcement.

l hereby announce myself
a candidate for the office of Coun-
ty Commissioner, subject to the
Will of the people at the polls at
the November election. 1t elected
I will serve the public to my best
ability. J. CALVIN LINGLE
8-5-11t Faith, N. G.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
L arm emo
Garden
HANDLING APPLES.

Fruit Must Be Put Up For Market In
Attractive Style.
Radical changes must come about in
the methods of grading, packing and
marketing our home grown fruits if we
succeed in maintaining OUR present
trade in the home markets. California
fruit is having a greater influence on
the prices of fruit in the eastern mar
kets every year, and this competition
is sure to drive many eastern fruit
growers out of the business unless 1t is
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
The Useful Sunflower.

Sunfower seeds are said to give an
extra fine flavor to eggs and are much
used by the French people for that pur-
pose. Remember this when you plant
your garden and drop in some seeds
around the edges and in the odd cor
ners. A few planted near the sink
drain will help to keep away miasma
and give you heads Of seed that will
be mammoth in size
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
THE SCHOOL FOR THE PEOPLE.
The Thirteenth Year of This Well Known
Institution Will 0Ien Sept |, 1908.

Institution Will Open Sept |, 1908.
There will be a prominent new
feature-in that those boys and
girls who will not, under ordi-
nary circumstances, study will
be under the direction of one of
the teachers to direct their studies
at night.
There are the following schools
maintained: Music, Art, EIocu-
ton, Penmanship, Commercial,
Normal, and Literary. Thorough
in everyone of them. We have
all international reputation. No
liquor, no tobacco, no cursing, no
cards. Prices very reasonable.
Catalog for the asking.
REV. J. NJ l.. LYERLY, Phi. D.,
Crescent, N. G.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
Z arm ano
Garden
JAPANESE INTENSIVE FARMING

The Way the Little Brown Folks Till
Their Small Estates.
With very few exceptions the whole
Of the land under grain of any kind Is
absolutely fiat. If it is not so by ma
ture the japanese farmer levels and
banks it up till it is horizontal. In the
narrow valleys there are elaborate
series of terraces running up the slope
of the hills till the fields become so
small as to accommodate but a double
row of plants. The more typical grain
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
Notice TO Creditors.

All persons having claims against
Ellen G. Lentz, late deceased, are
hereby notified to present them to the
undersigned eXecuttrix of the last will
and testament of the said Ellen G..
Lentz, on or before the 4th day of Sep
TENDER, 1909, or, else, be barred from
participating in the distribution of the
assets of her estate.
This LIST day of September, 1903.
ROME ALICE VEST.
eXecutriX.
burton Cralge, attorney. SO Ct
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
New EnqIish Potato.

The Magnum Bonum potatoes shown
herewith were exhibited at a recent fair
at the American institute in New York.
Dr.. W. II. Jordan, director of the New
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
DR.. l.. S. FOX,
DENTIST,

1921 N. Main St. Phone 3O5.
Now is the time to have your teeth
looked after, this fall may be too late.
All work guaranteed. Best materials.
Latest methods.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16
DR..
Night Cure
CORNELISON & COOK.
FOR SALE.

Flour: Perfection and straight;
Bran, Feed, Meal; Chop, Corn,
Wheat. and Oats ground together.
Shipping Bros, Rock.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-16

with his associates will be to devise
means whereby a greater uniformity
of action may be secured in the leg
tslation among the several states in
the Union. But the greatest result
should be in the stimulus it will give
to public opinion and in it's awakening
OF us to the fact hat the forests must
and shall be preserved.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-20
POOR MILLIONAIRES
New York Victims of Panic Offer Ex
pensve Toys-3osts Worth
100000 For Sale.

New York, March 19.-As result
Of the money stringency the strange
feature never before encountered is
presented here of bargain counter
sale of yachts by New Yorks million
aires More than $i000.ooo OF the
largest pleasure vessels of the city's
wcalthiest inhabitants are now on
the market at greatly reduced prices.
That the tremendous expenditures in
cident 10 the maintenance and opera
ton Of steam yacht will keep ashore
many New Workers who formerly took
IN the sea i'm their own craft each
year cannot be doubted II present
conditions continue it is likely that
Il sacrifice OF automobiles will come
next At present mere than fifty of
tn, largest yachts owned here are in
the market. an indication OF the desire
If the citys rich to- retrench. They
run in size from SEQ foot ocean
going Yacht to the seventy foot
racing sloop. and in price from $500
000 for the former to $1,000 for the
later-a mere fraction in each case
Of the original cost and present value
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-20
HOUSE FELL INTO
THE SIPE WATER
COTTAGE ON WALNUT STREET
OCCUPIED BY NEGROES LOST
ITS PROPS - OCCUPANTS RE.
CEIVE A SHOCK.

Tho props under a house on Walnut
street near Twelfth street, gave way
yesterday afternoon aud let the hous
dow uiuto the sipe water. The water
was standing in the lot TO the depth Of
several feet aud doubtless looscued tn
earth around the props.
The chimneys on the house fell
down and the shcck to the occupant
was severe one. The house was oc-
cupicd by negroes who were com
PEELED to wade out and to make ar
arrangements TO move to more com
Portable habitation.
There are many old shacks about
Cairo similarly constructed 10 this
one which are not only an eye-sorc TO
the community and forbid all posi-
bilitv of Cairo making respectable
appearance in some ncishborho1ds
but are a real menace to the lives @,
those who occupy them.
The city councils in other municipal
titles have taken forceful means to rif
their cities of these dangerous and
ugly Building and the city council oi
Cairo will have laurels heaped upon
its brow if the aldermen take simila.
faction