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greatly to the yiald of the crop and to
the quality OF the product. Lands that
under ordinary conditions would make a
yield of poor, papery tobacco lacking in
gummy or oily matters and united for
shipping purposes, may be made to pro-
duce a very high type of tobacco by the
liberal application Of a welI-compounued
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
an early start to the plant, which soon
ravages Of grasshoppers and other in
sects.
After the hills are made, the quicker
the plants are set out the better. During
enough humidity in the soil to make the
Transforming safe without rain: It is
after a rain, provided the fall of rain is
not SO heavy as to thoroughly soak the
ground. In this case it is better to wait
until the excessive water is drained away.
A peg an inch or an inca 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 or 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 hill TO anOCnor. Inc plant OTOpped
on one hill is the one set out in the next
CULTIVATION OF THE CROP.
In about eight to ten lays 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 a
single horse turning pillow, the bar of the
pillow being run closely as possible to
the plants without disturbing the roots
and so endangering 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 then, APP
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
For subsequent working cultivators may
be run at intervals of a week or ten days
both ways through the tobacco. This IS
especially important after every rain. II
is now. the practice of the best tobacco
growers to use level cultivation. 1t was
once thought necessary to put a sup
porting hill around each plant at the
first cultivation. This practice has been
bandone because it diminishes the
area of range for the roots of the plants
and also lessons the amount of humidity
within reach Of the roots and this hu-
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 pillow or cultivator
without damage from the breakage OF
leaves, it will be found advantageous to
hands any grass, weeds or bushes that
may spring up. Every alien growth VIII
Neutrality-suspicious. Fertilizer Almanac.
We have not space enough to reprint the
balance of this article.
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DANDRUFF.
Can Be Easily Cured.

In fact j. III. Hill & Son the druggists
have a French Hair Restorer called
Partisan Sage which costs only SO cents
q bottle that is guaranteed to cure
Dandruf in two weeks or money back.
Partisan Sage is the discovery of
Prof. Giroux, an eminent French Scien-
fist and Hair Specialist and is made in
this country only by the Giroux Mfg.
Co., OF Buffalo, N. Y, who have the
sole right to use the name Partisan
Sage.
Partisan Sage is a most pleasant,
daintily perfumed hair dressing and
besides curing Dandruf your druggist
will return your money if it fails to
stop falling hair or itching of the scalp.
1t " i'll make hair grow, and women
who desire soft, beautiful and luxuri-
amt hair can have it in 10 days by using
atis famous French preparation. j. ii.
hla q Son sell it under a guarantee;
yon Lake no risk.
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Alliance Appointments.


Hon. H. M. Gates will address the
farmers at the following appointed
places, beginning Tuesday night, jan
uary 18th.
Fork township, Rosewood, January
18th, at 7 p. m.
Brogden township, Brogden School
House, January 10th, 7 p. m.
New Hope, Daniels Chapel, January
18th, 7 p. m.
Goldsboro, Goldsboro, January 18th,
IL a. m.
New Hope, Casey's Chapel, January
Goth, 7 p. m.
Stoney Creek, Novelty Hill, January
21st, 7 p. m.
Pinkney, Thursday, January 23rd, Z
p. N.
The public are cordially invited. I
trust we will have full meetings at all
these places. Mr.. Gates will make in
teresting speeches and as we are en-
our county, this is an opportunity we
ought to improve.
Other appointments in the county
will be made later.
J.. M. MITCHELL,
County President.
January 10th, 1908.
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LIST OF
Remaining in PostOfices Cole
b0ro, Wayne County, N. c..
Jan. IS, 1897.
and dust.
M EN'S LIST.

MEMS LIST.
B-J w c Brittingham, Jas B Bow
ers, Ed Bryant, j J Benton.
C-J f Cox, S Cox.
D-Chas Denser.
GA E Gordon.
HIN S Howell, David Howell.
Jim Jones, w G Johnson, Philip
Jones.
Mt Moore.
Sc e Suggs, David Strickland.
T-George Thorne.
P-Ned Polk.
w M Weisel, Hyatt Waters, Henry
A Wigs, B Willis.
LADIES LIST.
A-Charlotte Adams.
C-Mary S Cogdell, Mary Cole.
E-Annie Edwars, Mrs ELIZA Ed
wards.
F-Amelia Faircloth.
G-Willie Grant.
H-Jennie Hinnant, Ella Hines.
ELLA Johnson.
K-Abra Kornegay.
M-Hannah McKoy.
P-Bettie Peterson.
R-Annie B Reid.
S-Eliza Simmons, Mittie Strickland.
T-Nona Tellman,G eorgiana Thorne.
W-Bessie Wilson, Lens Wroton,
Della White, Priscilla Ward.
Persons calling for above letter.
will pleaSe say advertised. Rule
and regulations require that one cen
beaspaid Oh advertised letters.
J. F. DOBSON,
Postmaster.
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BENEFITS.
Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte Observer.
A careful examination Of affairs in
this State will discover the fact that
we are in comparatively hopeful con-
dition. The railroad rate controversy
and resulting industrial and political
unmixed evil. Very definite benefits
are appearing out of all the unhappy
and unresttul condition.
There is, first of all things, a decided
tendency toward the uniting of factions
that have seemingly been i~rreconcii-
able in the last few months. There
seems to be genuine agreement as to
the thing that should be done. There
is also agreement on the proposition
that it is high time that we put an end
railroads by q settlement fair to both.
There is clearer knowledge than we
have possessed before, OF the fact that
it is only in s! mpathetic cooperation
that the hlgl est development Of all
our interests San be achieN ed. The
significance of this to the industrial
life of the State cannot be over-esti-
III ated. With this union of effort, an
era of great development is before US.
There is evident also an awakening
to the danger of the methods of the
demagogue. We are learning that to
follow him is to come upon evil days.
II there were no other result from the
ex p~eTience through which we have
passed, one might almost believe that
the lesson was worth the price.
With disturbing questions settled
for the time at least, with a spiritto of
cooperation growing among US, with
a new idea OF sane leadership given US,
he way seems to be opened for a per-
iod OF development that is positive and
constructive. Let the wild haranguer,
the revolutionary ~agitator, leave the
stage for awhile, and give place to
wise, constructive builders. Let US
listen for awhile to men who are con-
structing a saner and more thorough
educational life among US. Let US
give ear to those who know how to
produce a healthier industry. more
skilled Workmen, better roads, more
efficient Schools. a higher morality, a
deeper sense of the meaning of citizen
and dust
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Norfolk, Va, January 13.-Shipping
a a hard time with the easterly gale
and heavy rain and dense fog on the
Virginia and North Carolina coast that
set in Saturday night and continuing
Sunday. The Norwegian ship For
tuna, from Norfolk to Havana, coal
laden, limped back after reaching Cape
Henry, badly damaged. The Did Bay
liner Virginia had rough experisnce
from Baltimore, as did the Washington
steamers. Some wires are still down,
and there are no reports from the most
dangerous coast between the capes and
this point.
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POLITICS DOMINATES IT.

The dominant idea in the currency
bill presented by Senator Aldrich is
political. Instead of devising a bill tina
would render an October panic impos-
sible he and his associates have tormu-
lated a bill that is expected to make no
enemies and to take from the Republi-
can party no votes. But its vaIueless
nature will make angry all those who
desire to see a real reform bill become
law. 1t will not lift from the shoulders
of the Republican party one ounce of
the responsibility connected with the
panic of 1907.
The bill provides for a maximum is
sue by National Banks of $3.50, 900, 600
of emery ency currency based on State
or municipal bonds up to rs per. cent.
of their value. The entire business is
to take place in the discretion of the
comptroller of the currency.
If the Aldrich bill had been law on
kicked up high jinks in some New
York banks would it have operated to
prevent the withdrawal of confidence
and a resultant panic? 1t is not easy
to answer this question in the afirma-
tive. 1t is not easy to see how it could
have been applied quick enough to
prevent a panic at that time. 1t is not
easy to see in it much if any good in a
sharp and sudden crisis. 1t is a make
shift measure intended to bamboozle
the minimizing. 1t has been drawn to
appease the popular demand for = cur-
rency reform bill. It is political, not
financial. 1t is theoretical, not praeti-
cal. In the stress and strain of a panic
like that of October it would slowly
dole out currency to be boarded, with
out any resultant gain in the ~restora-
ton of public confidence. The Repub-
lican party is preparing to offer the
people a la w that would not in a crisis
be automatic and sudden enough to do
much good.
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Evidence OF PROSPERITY.

A summary of the business transac-
tio1,s Of the country and the volume of
agricultural and industrial products
not only present incontroVertibIe facts
and figure as to he prosperity OF our
people and the h~opefulness of the flu
ture. but they bring us face to face
with fig Tres so vast that it IS almost
impossible to comprehend them.
One OF the most forcible surveys of
tI e year is that by Ebert IT. Gary,
chairman of the United States Steel
cor osat.o on. According TO his sum
mary, the results of the past year have
been highly gratifying, and the out
look for the future is bright. He points
ont Thai The wealth ofthis coLntry may
now be estimated at one hundred and
ten billions of dollars, or between thir-
teen hundred and fourteen hundred
dollar per capita for every inhabitant
of the United States.
Our exports last year were worth one
billion nine hundltd thousand dollars,
eAciudiI g thai from our n~on-contigu-
Gus territory, which is an increase OF
clever hundred millions over 1897.
Our imports amounted to more than
a billion and a half, exclusive OF what
we imported from our own non-con-
tiguous territory, which is practically
double IN amount of ten years ago.
The balance of trade in our favor is,
therefore, between foul hundred and
G.o L,,oJ.-I ~
The products of the farms and mines
amounted to more THAI ten billions of
dollars, which included a production
of gold at the rate of eight millions a
month. The gross earnings of American
raiiW y was two billion five hundred
sand eighty-six million dollars, and the
net income from operation and from
security holdings amounted to pra.ti-
cally one billion dollars.
Part of these statistics are gathered
from Mr. Gary's able article in The
New York Herald, and part from other
sources, but it is gratifying to be able
to quote so high an authority as Mr..
Gary himself TOR the statement that all
of us should be willing to admit that
lax methods existed in the manage
ment of some of our banks, ~anufac
uring companies, railroad companies,
insurance companies, public institu-
tlons, municipal and even State organ
iza;ions. He says it is not wisdom to
complain of the public official or The
public press that may have opposed or
exposed these improprieties. ION the
contrary everyone should consider all
that is written and said with the Single
purpose of deriving benefit. Indeed
such is the conclusion OF the large ma
jority."
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MAKING PLANT BEDS.

The first and most important step in,
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
spring. This is important to bring them
forward as early as possible. The soil
should be a rich. fertile. BLACK loam;
more heat from the rays Of the sun thar
does any otner color, and brings rival
much to be desired by the tobacco grower.
After the wild growth has been cut
off and the leaves and trash removed,
surface in sufficient quantity to burn the
top earth to a reddish tinge or soft
prick color. After the bed has cooled;
be cou1tered or dug up with grubbing
hoes, frequently raked and chopped over
nth wgGdin gui heeIs dntl All tn roo aarI sheul ID
be removed, as well as Jumps of up
turned clay. When nicely prepared mark
off beds four feet wide, for convenience
Of sowing.
One heaping tablespoonful Of seed is
enough to SOW ten yards square, or one
hundred square yards. The seed should
be mixed with a peck or more of meal,
ashes or land plaster to facdl1ta ne
ms more eVe sureiy insure this even distribuo
ton, the bed should be sown first
one way and then cross-sown. After
the sowing, tramp or lightly rake the PED
with a fine garden rake and then cover
with canvas. The edges of the canvas
should be tackled to a frame made OF
scantlings or poles that should form e
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
50 crowded that they grow up with deli
cate. fragile stalks and are unable to
resist the shock of +transplanting as well
as stockier plants.
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GUlLFORDLOLLEGE GONE
Destroyed By Fire To-Day.
Loss $lG0,0O0, Including the Finest
College Library in the South.

Guilford College, January 13.-Guil-
ford College suffered a loss of one hum
dred thousand dollars to-day by fire,
which completely consumed the man
socit ty halls and museum.
The library was conceded to be one
of the finest in the South.
The loss is estimated at one hundred
thousand dollars, with sixty thousand
dollars insurance.
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Coming BACK HOME.
A SaddeF But a Wiser Woman: Let
GthSES Take Warning.
(By special wire to The AReUs.)

Paris, Jan. 13.-Madame Anna
GouId-she who married Count Boni-
would dispose of all her real estate,
buildings ard other property in France
and return TO the United States TO re-
side.
The rumor that Jay Gould's rich
daughter means to remarr Count
Boni DeCastelIaine is ridiculed on both
side al the Atlantic.
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Columbia, s. c., January 13.-By the
derailment at seven this morning Of
LEGAL train 81, of the Southern Railway,
which struck an open switch IN the
yards at Chester, three white and five.
negro passengers were injured. The
whites injured are G. w. Cranston and
James Leonard, both of Neill's Shoals.
and w. f. Gordon, of Smith. The ne
groes are Nelson Tea and two child
rem, Rock Hill J.. I'll. Coleman and
Allison Davis.
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PREPARATION OF SOILS FOR
HEAVY SHIPPING TOBACCO.

A rich, loose, we11-drained, clayey soil
is best adapted to the growth of heavy
shipping tobacco. Old land that has
grown a crop of clover or cowpeas the
preceding year broken up in the fall.
well MANFRED, either before breaking or
after. with a. liberal application of stable
manure is found most favorable to the
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brighter 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
upon the young plants after they are
transplanted. In March the land should
be rebroken with a wo-horse pillow and
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 hat should always
be applied in the fall, when it is put on
to make the tobacco plant spot, and it
grows with so much rapidity that, though
the caves may have ample size, they will
be lacking in body and in finish when
the tobacco is cured.
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
preparatory to fertilizing the same and
the making Of hills. Usually burrows are
run both ways across h land three
and a half feet apart with a single-horse
pillow, and at the points of intersection
of the rows fertilizers are dropped rang
a small handf1 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 700 to 300
pounds per acre are applied with most
satisfactory results. The best artificial
fertilizer for tobacco contains the follow
ing:
Phosphoric acid, $3.50. 8 per cent.
Ammonia, g. per CENT.
Potash, ......... 10 per cent.
This is varied by a reduction Of the
amount of potash to 8 per cent, which,
while it lessons the cost, reduces it's val
ne as a fertilizer. It is not. a wise or
economical policy to reduce the percent
age Of potash, as this is by far the most
valuable ingredient that enters into a
fertilizer for tobacco. :
Manura1 applications are rarely made
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.
have demonstrated that the combustib1li-
ty or burning qualities of tobacco are
greatly impaired by the use of any fer
tilizer containing chlorine. Chlorides,
such as common salt, muriate of potash,
kainit and many other fertilizers con.
be employed in growing tobacco. Nitrate
of potash, though costly, is an excellent
fertilizer for tobacco, as are also cotton
seed meal, tankage, dried blood, sulphate
of ammonia and nitrate of soda.
Low, wide, fiat hills should be made at
the crossing Of the rows and. the fertii-
ger should be well with the
dirt that 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 add
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Healthful Pastime.
Postmaster.

There is no better pastime for the
man who is confined in a close office
the invigorating exercise of skat-
ing, and then, how about taking your
best girl tor a trip around the rink? Ask
the boys.
There is nothing more pleasant. The
attractions at the Goldsboro Skating
Rink are becoming more exciting and
interesting every day, Mr.. Edwin
Holloway, the proprietor, has reduced
the prices so low that any one can
skate now at a very reasonable price.
Prices are as follows:
Parties using their~own -skates,N10
cents; skates to rent, Is cents. Admis-
sion free. Everybody come.
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These huriors ind their wa into the
blood through a disordered or deranged COZ
dltion Of the system. There IS a certain
amount of waste or refuse matter collected
n the body every day. This is useless in
nourishing or keeping the system in health,
and nature intends that it shall find an out
let through the channels Of Bodily waste.
AS long as these members perform their
duties properly the blood remains pure and
sree from infection; but when from, ATTY
cause they become dull and sluggish, this
refuse matter is left to sour and be taken
into the blood III the form Of hu1nors 2nd
~2oisons. The skin is a perfect index TO the
ease, or pimples, rashes, eruptions, blotcEes,
deep in che blood a hnnlor has taken root, and
to the fine, delicate tissues of the skin, it is 20
The skin IS not only affected by the hur
from without, such as Poison Oak and Ivy, \
acids, etc, enter through the open pores aud
the blood that they are ever present, or retu:
The treatment Of skin diseases wish salv
True such treatment relieves some of the ito
skin clean, but It does not reach the real cal
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TOBACCO: HOW TO CULTIVATE.
eCURE AND PREPARE FOR
MARKET.

By J. B. Kil1ebrew, A. M, Phi. D., late
Expert on Tobacco for Tenth
Census.
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JUNIORS IN THE BLOOD
.Con1ingof Warm Weather Forces Them Out,
Causing Itching, Burning Skin Eruptione.

The blood and skin are 50 closely Connected that whatever affects the one has a CORES
ponding fleet o n the oher When the bod is pure and healthy the skin viii be soft
smooth, and free from all eruphons; but whent e bhod becomes infected with some
urrg ad annoying Skin disease.
The skin is provided with countless pores and glands which act as a drainage
system to rio the body OF Impurities through the perspraton that is constantly passing
through these little tubes There are other glands that pour out on the skin an oily
substance to kApt soft and pHabe otherwise it would beOmeh hard and dry from constant
exposure to wind ard SIN, When the blood becomes filed with hunors and acds these are
thrown of through he pores and glands, burning and irrtahngt the skin and drying Up the
natural oils SO that we have not only Acne, Ecuma Salt Rheun, etc. but such dry salv
skin eupions as letter Psoriasis ad kindred troubles
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S. s, ST. Drove Ts4E HUMoR OUT.

Gentlemen: Some tive years ago I suffered a great deal
caused on account Of a hEracr in the blood; small rash o.
pi1nples broke out over my body and kept getting wozs,
Gay 5y day for over q year. Seeing S. 8. S. advertised IL
the paper end having also heard it had cured several PEG
PIE IN this city. concluded to try 1t. After using the med
lena | was entlrely cured. and am very glad to recomment
1t. 1870 Clay St. Paducah. KY. EDW. w. LONG.
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Fcuwc a CURE FOR POISON oAao.

GentlaAaen: After having tried f
cure for Poison OAK. from which I Y
vas told b. . friend to try S. S. S.
and gave NE excellent health. The:
Dad condition OF 1he blood ike S. S
8. s. : 3 positive euro fer Poison @
Danvt41e. XIV.
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natural Oils SO that we nave not only Acne, Ecze1
w on skin e~ruptions as letter, Psoriasis and kindred II