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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23
BOARD OF CITY
ALDERMEN.
Last Nights Special Session: I'm
provements Authorized and
Funds for Same Pro-
vided For.

The Board met in special called ses-
sion, Mayor Orinond in the chair, and
the following aldermen answered as
being in attendance: Messrs. Borden,
Holmes, We'll, Kornegay, Gardner.
Wrenn, Gibson, and these forming a
quorum the Board was declared ready
to officially ~ransact business.
Alderman Borden, for the Finance
Committee, stated that the object of
the called meeting was to consider the
proposition to borrow from the Sink
ing Fund Commissioner, upon duly
executed city notes, the sum Of 800,
900 to be expended in permanent i'm
provements.
Alderman Kornegay submitted the
following motion: That the Finance
committee of the Board of Aldermen
of the City of Goldsboro be and they
are hereby authorized by b said
Board of Aldermen to borrow from the
Sinking Fund Commissioner of the
City of Goldsboro, the sum OF 800, 900
100000 Of which sum to be expended
towards the authorized enlargement of
the city's electric light plant through
the Board of Public Works, and &c.,
DOC to be expended, or so much there
of as shall be necessary, in paving that
portion of Walnut street extending
from James street West to the corpo-
rate limits. By the unanimous vote OF
the Board said motion was adopted.
Upon motion the street committee
was authorized to advertise for bids
tor the paving of Walnut street from
the intersection OF James street west
to the corporate limits and were in
-structed to make report thereon to the
Board of Aldermen as early as pos
4sible.
On motion the extension of the cleo
tric light line for residences from East
Centre along Vine street to Daisy
street was authorized by the Board the
estimated cost of said extension, as
submitted by the Board of Public
Works, being S23O.OO. On motion the
matter OF a spur track leading to the
plant of the Public Works was left
with the Board OF Public Works to ad.
just as they may deem most 'ad visable
On motion the Mayor was delegated
to see that the streets be regularly
rsprinkled when necessary as follows
Walnut from William to James, Johr
and Centre, from Ash to Chestnut, and
that to facilitate this work the street
committee is empowered to at once
purchase the necessary valves.
On motion the Board adjourned.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23
TOBACCO TAGS BRINGS FINE
PRESENTS.
Tobacco Company Redeeming Tags
From Many Brands.

According to reports from the local
dealers in tobacco more people are
saving tobacco tags than yer before
the history of the giving OF presents
in exchange for tobacco tags. This
tremendous increase in tag saving is
due to the action of the American To-
bacco Company in offering a remark
able list of valuable presents in return
for tags from various popular tobaccos.
Such brands as Old Peach, Old States
man, Pick, Tinsley's 1907, Old Hon
esty, Byzantine, Sailors Pride, Ten
penny, Natural Leafand about a dozen
others, bear tags which can be ex-
change for presents, An idea OF what
can be accomplished by SO far-reach-
ing a cooperative system is gathered
from such sample offers as the giving
of an English Steel Razor for only SO
tags.
Reports in the tobacco trade indicate
that dealers throughout the country
are laying in stocks of presents in order
to be able to meet the rising boom in
tobacco tags saving. the American
Tobacco Company is redeeming by
by mail-tag-savers selecting the pre-
sents they wish from a free catalog.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23

the Quality Of the product Lands that
yield of poor, papery tobacco lackI-g in
gunnrny or oily matters and untitled tor
shipping purposes, may be made to pro-
duce a very high y Of tobacco by the
liberal application OF a well-cOmpOuilueu
fertilizer with suitable ingredients. 1t is
now a rare thing to plant tobacco with
improves the quality and increases the
weight Of the cured tobacco, but it gives
grows large enough to Withstand the
ravages OF grasshoppers and other in
sects.
After the hills are made, the quicker
the first half Of May there is usually
enough humidity in the soil to make the
TRANSPORTING safe without rain. 1t is
after a rain, provided the fall OF rain is
not so heavy as to thoroughly soak the
Until the excessive water is drained away.
A peg an inch or an incn and a half
in diameter and six or eight inches long
to a blunt point, is used for setting out
the plants. A hole is made with it in
the hill into which the roots of the plants
are thrust. The dirt is then pressed to
the plant by the thumb on one side and
the peg on the other. One person usually
drops for two setting out. A hand plant.
that Is an extra plant to begin with,
facilitates greatly the planting, as 1t may
be adjusted in the hand in passing from
one Mill TO announcer. Inc plant rOppeO
on one hill is the one set out in the next
CULTIVATION OF THE CROP.
In about eight to ten days after the
plants are set out in the open field.
they will be so well established that
cultivation should begin by running a.
furrow on each side of the row with =
single horse turning pillow. the bar OF the
pillow being run as closely as possible to
the plants without disturbing the roots
and so ~endangerins their vitality. This
leaves a narrow ridge with the plants
standing on it Hoes are then brought
into requisition to scrap away any grass
or weeds that may nave made their ap-
pearance. 1t is a good practice to draw
a little dirt up around the plants after
breaking the crust which generally
crowns the top Of the ridge. This initial
working is probably the most important
Fol subsequent working cultivators may
be run at intervals of a week or ten days
both ways through the tobacco. This Is
is now the practice Of the best tobacco
growers to use level cultivation. 1t was
once thought necessary to put a up
porting hill around each plant at the
first cultivation. This practice has been
area of range for the roots of the plants
and also lessons the amount Of humidity
within reach Of the roots and this hui
nudity grows more important as the
leaves expand. The land should never
be worked when it is wet. When the
plants have attained a size that makes
it impossible to use a plow or culf1vator
without damage from the breakage OF
cut out with hoes or to pull up with the
hands any grass, weeds or bushes that
may srrirg up. Every alien growth will
damage the quality of the tobacco.-From
Virginia Carolina Fertilizer Almanac.
We have not space enough to reprint tho
balance OF this article.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23
RALEIGH NOT
FOR PROGRESS.
indications at This Hour are
That Neither Better
Schools nor Better
Roads are Want.
ed at the
Capital.
- ISL
Why Net Change the Capital, Anyway.
We Believe the People of the
State Would Vote it Else
where.
(By Special Wire to the ARGUS.)

(By Special Wire to the ARaUS.)
Raleigh, April 21-At 1870 this after
noon indications point to the defeat of
the proposition to tax Raleigh town
ship fifteen cents for schools and also
the defeat of the issue of $50, 900 in
bonds for improvement of roads. A
very light vote is being polled and as
every registered vote which is not
polled counts against these measures
it is about conceded that both are lost.
In some wards the majority is four
to one against, while in others the vot-
ing is even.
Great efforts to induce voters to go
out are being made and it is yet posi-
BILE that, with challenged votes thrown
out, the propositions may carry.
Only one fourth OF the registered
vote, however, is polled up to this
hour.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23
TOBACCO: Row TO CULTIVATE,
sCURE AND PREPARE FOR
MARKET.
BY J.. B. Ki1lebrew, A. M, Phi D., late
Expert on Tobacco for Tenth
Census.
MAKING PLANT BEDS.


producing a crop of tobacco is to have
an abundance of good, strong, stocky
plants: The land selected for a plant bed
should. be of virgin soil with a slightly
southern exposure, If possible, In order
that the young plants may get the benefit
e6ri tnss TbIm is ra impo OF int to sun BRING M fae1n
should be a rich, fertile, black loan.
more heat from the rays of the sun than
does any otner color, and brings forward
the plants several days sooner, which IS
After, the wild growth has been cut
off and the leaves and trash removed,
brush and wood should be piled on the
top earth to a reddish tinge or soft
brick color. After the e has cooled,
and without removing the ashes, it should
hoes, frequently raked and chopped over
with wedding hoes, until the surface Is
thoroughly pulverized. All roots should
turned clay. When nicely prepared mark
of beds four feet wide, for convenience
Of sowing.
One pheapins tablespoonful Of seed Is
enough to sow ten yards square, or one
hundred square yards. The seed should
ashes @1Ae or Wan Iand PEAS plaster to faciIitats
its even distribution over the bed, To
more surely insure this even distribu.
one way and then eross-sown. After
b sowing. tramp or lightly rake the bed
with a fine garden rake and then cover
with canvas The edges Of the canvas
should be ack to a frame made OF
scantlings or poles that should form 9
frame around the bed. A few bent
arches made Of wire or switches should be
stuck over the bed to hold the canvas
off the surface. A trench dug on the up
per side of the bed Is necessary to pro-
tect it from the washings of the surface
water, that Is apt to collect the seed In
groups in the low places of the beds.
Beds should be burned as early as pos
sible, when the land is sufficiently dry
after , the Christmas holidays. Those
burned and sowed in February. and
March, when suitably prepared, always
do best. Be careful not to use too many
seed. When this is done the plants are
SO crowded that they grow up with deli
cate, fragile stalks and are unable to
resist the shock of transplanting as well
as stockier plants.
PREPARATION OF SOILS FOR
HEAVY SHIPPING TOBACCO.
A rich, loose. w~el1-drained, clayey soil
is best adapted to the. growth of heavy
shipping tobacco. Old land that has
grown a crop Of clover OF owpeas the
preceding year, broken up in the fall,
well manured. either before breaking or
after. with a liberal application of stable
manure Is found most favorable to the
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23
FOR EDUCATION
IN The SOUTH.
This Will Be the Eleventh Annual
Meeting OF the Conference.
Especial to the ARGUs.)

Memphis, Tenn, April 21.-Noted
visitors are pouring into the city in
large number to take part in the an
nual meeting of the Conference for Ed
ucation in the South. The conference
is to open tomorrow and continue three
days. President Robert G. Ogden, OF
New York, is bringing a large party of
distinguished men from New York and
New England at his own expense.
This will be the eleventh annual
meeting of the conference. The pre-
vious sessions have been held at Win
-ston-Salem, N. c.; Athens, Ga; Rich
mond, Va; Birmingham, Ala; Column
bia, S. c.; Lexington, KY, and other
Southern points.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23

production Of the heaviest types of to-
bacco. New ground tobacco is generally
in color and smaller in yield
Fall breaking with three horses on deep
soils is important, because it destroys to
a large extent the cut worms that prey
transplanted. In March the land should
be rebroken With a two-horse plow and
frequent working with a heavy tooth or
disc harrow is necessary to put the land
in a fine condition. of filth.
FERTILIzING. KILLING AND
PLANTING.
All the accommodations of ashes, tobacco
stalks and scraps should be scattered
over the land before narrowing. These
will be found a most valuable addition
to the stable manure that should always
be applied in the fall, when it is put on
the land in the spring, it has a tendency
grows with so much rapidity that, though
the leaves may have ample size, they will
be lacking in body and in finish when
When the plants in the seed bed show
leaves as large as a quarter of a dollar,
it is time to begin to lay off the land
the making Of hills. Usually burrows are
run both ways across the land three
and a half feet apart with q si=ngle.h44rse
of the rows fertilizers are dropped rang
ing in quantity from a tablespoonful to
a small handful From $50 to 500 pounds
are used to the acre, the quantity being
regulated to some extent by the strength
of the soil and by the amount of stable
or other manures previously applied:
In the yellow tobacco regions of North
Carolina and in the seedleaf districts Of
Pennsylvania as much as zoo to 200
satisfactory results. The best artificial
fertilizer for tobacco contains the follow
ing:
R%maB9gi acid -: 3 per per cent eent:
Potash. ......... 10 per cent.
This IL varied by q reduction Of the
amount Of potash to 3 per cent, which,
while 1t lessons the cost, reduces Its val
economical policy to reduce the percent
age of potash, as this is by Tar the most
valuable ingredient that enters into a
fertilizer for tobacco.
on freshly cleared land, except in the
yellow tobacco growing regions on yell
lowish or whitish soils where they are
found to be Of the greater benefit in
giving vitality and finish to the tobacco.
Nessler, Schloesing and other chemists
have demonstrated that the cOmbustibilt-
ty or burning qualities OF tobacco are
greatly impaired by the use of any fer
such as common salt, muriate of potash,
kainit and many other fertilizers con-
tanning any form of chlorine should not
be employed in growing tobacco. Nitrate
fertilizer for tobacco, as are also cotton
seed meal, tankage, dried blood, sulphate
of ammonia and nitrate Of soda.
the crossing OF the rows and the ~fertili-
ger should be we'll intermixed with the
dirt hat goes to form the hills. Each
hill should be cut off and patted with
the hoe.
= The use of fertilizers for the growing
Of tobacco hastens orwar the crop at
least two weeks or more. It also adds
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23
BRAZILIAN WARSHlP
LAUNCHED.
The kiRaS GeracS Is One OF the
Largest Battleshlps Ever Con-
StruCted fora South Amer.
fcan Country.
(By Special Wire to the ARaUs.)

Newcastle-on-Tyne, April 21.-The
Minas Geracs, one of the three big bat
tleships now under construction here
for the Brazilian navy, was success
fully launched today in the presence of
a large crowd of spectators. DIR. Regis
De Olivera, the Brazilian minister to
Great Britain, christened the vessel,
acting as proxy for Nine. Penna, wife
of the President of Brazil.
The Minas Geracs is one of the
largest battleships ever constructed for
q South American country and will
COST approximately &c. 00, 900.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-04-23
And POLITICIANS.
80
Ambitions and Prospects of Men
Strutting and Fretting Their
Hour on the Stage.
Especial to THE ARGUs.)
Washington, D. c., April 81.

Washington, D. c.. April 81.
Whitelaw Reid, Ambassador to Great
to close his career as Secretary of
State.
Friends of James G.. Mcguire, who
was an unsuccessful candidate for gov
ernor Of California in 1898, are en-
deavoring to persuade him to become
a candidate for Congress in the Fourth
California district, in opposition 10
Julius Kahn.
In the recent city elections in Texas
three women were elected to import
ant Offices. One OF them was elected
estine, and the two others were elected
members of the Board of Education Of
Dallas.
The campaign is already under way
in Vermont for the election Of a United
States Senator by the Legislature next
October. The two most prominent
candidates are Congressman David j.
Foster and Ex-Governor Carroll S.
Page.
The University of Michigan has the
first student Taft Republican club III
the country. It has been in existence
since April, 1907, and now boasts of a
membership OF 500 men, representing
every State in the Union.
Friends of John w. Kern, who was
Endorsed by the recent State conven-
ton in Indiana for the nomination as
| Vice-President, are sending letters to
Democrats throughout the country
urging them to get instructions for
Kern at their State conventions. He
is represented as a close friend of Bryan
and certain to make a favorable i'm
pression.
Judge E. K. Cheadle has announced
his candidacy for the Republican nom.
~ination tor governor OF Montana. H
is a Spanish war veteran and wei
known as a jurist. Not having beer
entangled in any way in the copper
war, liz Is IOSdTocdd DIS d
strong candidate. His home is il
Lewistown
) J. E. Swearingen, a blind professo
at the South Carolina Institution TO,
, the Deaf. Dumb and Blind,a has an
:, nouneed his candidacy forStatelSuper
intendent of Education of South Caro-
lima. Professor S~wearingen is
nephew of Senator B. r. Tillman ant
is said to bear a striking resemblance
| to his uncle.
Several score of we'll known Demo
Gratis of Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Delaware and Maryland have formed
the George Gray League to work TO
the nomination of Judge Gray, of Del
aware, for President. The promoter
States they represent, with the addi
ton of West Virginia, will vote on tn
first ballot at the Denver convention
for Judge Gray.
Seaborn Wright, who, it is said, viii
he nominated for President by tn
Prohibitionists at their national con
I vention in Columbus next July, is on
of the leading advocates of prohibitio.
in the South, though a Democrat. Flo
twenty years a member Of the Georgi
Legislature, he drafted the State pro
hibition law and led the fight that re
suited in the laws adoption. In 189
Mr.. Wright was the Populist candi
: date for governor of Georgia.
g TOBACCO TAGS BRINGS FINE
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-17
THE GNoMEs.

When light has died along the distant clopa.
When day has fed behind the purple
domes PiE
All silent and all breathless and expee4a.,t
Nature awaits the gnomes.
Out creeping from their hiding places stf,lx
Awaking in the cleaning ana the night
The fateful forms, d storted grim an
cherries. az
Renew their reign Of fright.
A thousand dreams that rose in maiden
a thousand thousand deaths are now with horror
Dead .,lp, promises and signs and dread de
In the dark night-waves drowned
Hope changed to cankered bitterness ana
moaning;
Love ge.e sm nsdn,G Tith treading where ioye
myriad twisted things that once wor
Walk catl.ke to and fro.
And God. Who sleepeth In the higher
heaven,
Hath sent no angel with flaming swks.5.
The mockery of all the worlds enchf4sg
Roameth far abroad
SO, through the ftful nights and days airer.
nate,
Love and despair shall each the otlsel
know:
And day shall wake it's hymn to heavens
unfolding,
And night shall bear it's woe.
Archer NJ. Huntington in Everybody
Magazine
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-17

dren first. Go back to your squad, jsir.
or I'll shoot you!"
The vessel began rapidly to settle.
Masts and tunnels went by the board.
The effect on the millionaire was cleo
trical
.Stand aside! viii get into boat.
TO he'll with your order and discipline, y
He made bull like rush forward. The
captains pistol cracked and the man of
wealth fell fainting to the deck with a
groan. His right arm was shattered.
What was that 2" called the ship's
surgeon, rushing forward from the spot
where he had been attending a couple of
seamen wounded by the falling spars.
That" quoth the captain, was the
directors report, | guess. Let this
wounded man be dumped in the next
boat with the first mems batch. He's a
coward, and doesn't deserve to be saved
but | reckon we can't leave him. Hurry
up, my lads; were cutting it fine, but we
shall just do the trick! Harry Beswick
in the London Claim.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-17
LAKE THAT CHANGES COLOR.
At Different Times of the Year 1t Is
Yellow, Green, Red and Gray.

A small lake at Seaside, Monterey
county, Cal, changes its color four times
every year. To all appearances this lake
is just like any other small lake. and
there seems to be no reason why ii
should be such a remarkable sheet of
water 1t is prettily situated, full OF
fish and water fowl and when in its
normal condition the water is clear and
sweet. 1t has one pecularity besides its
variable color. however. The water is
never stagnant, despite the fact that
there is no apparent outlet to the lake.
The color changes are very pro
nounced and are in four distinct shades
yellow, green, red and dark gray that
has the appearance of black ut times.
After each change the water regains its
normal clear appearance. The color is
in the water and is not the result of
reflection from the sky. This has been
proved beyond doubt by the fact that
the color remains the same for days
at time, regardless of the condition of
the clouds. The four colors mentioned
are the ones always seen, and they al
ways occur in the order named, the dis
turbance. if such it may be called, cover
ing period of from six weeks to two
months in July and August of each year.
Old residents or Seaside assert that the
phenomenon is a regular annual event
and that it is always followed by the
death of a large number of fish in the
lake.
No explanation of the peculiar condi-
tion has ever been attempted by scien-
fists. although several scientific men of
note have studied the lake very careful
~. The prevailing opinion among the
inhabitants of the section surrounding
the lake is that the lake is of volcanic
origin and that the changes are due to
subterranean disturbances which pro-
duce chemical changes in the water OF
the lake This idea is supposed to have
grown out of the belief that the lake is
bottomless. Twenty years ago, when
the Southern Pacific railroad was beinc
built across one end of the lake, the
roadbed sank almost as fast as it was
laid and thousands of tons of gravel and
stone were dumped into the lake
before stable foundation could be OBJ
tanned. This led to the belief that the
lake is bottomless. The lake is not
more than quarters of a mile long
by less than half mile widest. Louis
I.lnhp- / Democrat