Highland recorder., June 12, 1903, Image 4

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TESTED BY TIME.
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Mrs. Robert ?.
Broderick, who "~|
resides at 1915
Virginia St.. tu
San Antonio.
Texas, tells an
experience that
will interest
every reader; it
shows as well
that Doan's
cures are last?
ing cures. She
says: "Up to
the early part of the year 190J
I had been a sufferer from kiduej
troubles for many years. The pain in
my back became worse and worse until
lt was a dally burden that interfered
with every duty. I was much af?
flicted with headaches and dizzy spells
nnd was nuable to rest well nights. In
May. 1902, after using Doan's Kidney
Tills I made a statement for publica?
tion declaring that they had entirely
relieved me of the pain in my back. I
bare siuce then had a year's time in
whlrh to study the effects of the medi?
cine, and while I have had slight
touches of the trouble since, the use of
the pilb has always driven away all
signs of the disorder, and I have be?
come convinced of the fact that the
first treatment was practically perma?
nent in its effects, and I know that a
box of Doan's Kidney Tills kept on
hand ls I sufficient guarantee against
any suffering from the kidneys or back.
I should advise every sufferer to take
Doan's Kidney Tills, and I know that
they will bc surprised and pleased with
the result."
A Fnnc Trial of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. Broderick
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Address
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. Fo"
sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per
bo
Id Not Think of the President.
A pretty little incident occurred in
Governor La Toilette's office, in Madi?
son, Wis., while President Roosevelt
was holding a reccption'there. Two lit?
tle girls edged their way into the crowd
in thc office. Their dress indicated that
their home was not furnished with all
of the good things which children like
to have. Governor La Follctte, see?
ing thc children, asked them if they
wanted to sec thc President. The small?
er of the two shook her head, abashed
by the big crowd. Thc Governor press?
ed them to see the President, when
the larger one spoke up and said:?
"We don't want that, but we would
like something else."
"What would you like?" asked the
Governor.
"We'd like that'flower," replied the
little tot. "Papa is sick at home and
could not come, and we'd like to give
him that flower."
She was told she could have the
flower, and she was so happy that she
cried with joy as she seized thc large
American beauty rose. Willing hands
stripped several of thc vases in thc Gov?
ernor's office and thc children had all
of thc flowers they could earn- to cheer
up the sick father, whose happiness
they thought of amid all of the excite?
ment of the presidential reception.
A Little King.
/An amusing incident is told of King
Victor of Italy, one of whose chief
amusements is motoring. One day
when out with the Queen they were
passing through a small village when
a breakdown occurred. Amongst the
crowd attracted to the spot were two
English motorists, who, unaware of the
identity of thc occupants, carried on
thc following conversation:?
"Pretty motor-car."
"Yes, and thc lady is pretty, too."
"More than can be said of the man.
Did you ever see such a little man in
such a big car?"
*? "I am out of brandy. I wonder if he
can supply me. Shall I ask? Perhaps
bc speaks French."
"I shall bc most happy to oblige
you," said the King, in perfect Eng?
lish, turning and holding out his flask.
Then, as he prepared lo leave, he add
cd,
"Can I bc of any further usc to you?
My kingdom is at your disposal, and
it is not so small as its monarch."
Same Old (jame.
A granger one day cashed a cheque,
On a city bank that was a wrcquc;
This new-fangled gold biiquc
Made him so hopelessly siquc
That he hanged himself by the ncquc.
Black Hair
?I have used your Hair Vigo
' five years and am greatly
ased with it. It certainly re*
rcs the original color to gray
r.. It keeps my hair soft. "?Mrs.
'^en Kilkenny, New Portland, Me.
.yer's Hair Vigor has
f m restoring color to
gray hair for fifty years,
and it never fails to do
this work, either.
You can rely upon it
for stopping your hair
from falling, for keeping
your scalp clean, and for
making your hair grow.
11.00 a bottle. All driiHlsd.
r ' i ?? inn j.i?i.".iiij?iiii^iW?I
If Tour druggist enr.not supply you,
?onA us ono dellar nnd wo will express
you a bottle. Pe sure emt givo tho name
of your nearest express oilice. Address,
J. C. AY Eil CO., Lowell, Mass.
H
mvm
RIPMS Tatala
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind.
The C<ent packet is enough fol
an ordinary occasion. Tin
family bottle (price CO ccutjj
contains a supply fur a year.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
International Lesson Comments For
June 14.
Subject: Pani at Rome, Acts xxviil., 16 24
30, 31-GoIden Text, Rom. L, 16?Mern
mory Verses, 23, 24-Study Verses,
16-31 -Commentary 00 tbe
Day's Lesson.
Paul enters Rome (v. 16). 16. "Came to
Rome." Rome is reached at last and the
long journey is at an end. At this time the
city of Rome was at the height of its
glory". It held swav over nearly the entire
known world. Within a circuit ot little
more than twelve miles more than 2,000,000
ef inhabitants were crowded, of whom
about 1,000,000 were slaves. "But Paul."
Nero, the emperor to whom Paul had ap?
pealed, was too much engaged in his de?
baucheries and pleasures to care much for
such a man as Paul or such accusations as
were made against him by the Jews. "Ry
himself." This lenity was probably due to
the commendation oi the centurion Julius.
"With ft soldier." The custom was to
chain the prisoner by one hand to the
guard. To this chain the apostle frequent?
ly makes allusion in the epjatles to the
Kphesians, Philippians and Colosiiians and
in his friendly note to Philemon, all of
which were written' during this imprison?
ment. See Kph. 3:1; 4: 1; Phil. 1: 13, 16;
Col. 4: 18; Philem. 1: 9, 10.
The first interview with the Jews (rs.
17-22). 17. "After three days." Three
llays after Paul's arrival at Rome he in?
vited those who presided over the Jewish
community to visit him. His first steps on
passing beyond the narrow circle of those
already converts were directed, in accord?
ance with his established principia, toward
Israel. And a* his circumstances did not
allow him to seek the Jews, as he had done
in other places, he requested the represen?
tatives of the Jewish congregation to come
to his lodging. "Men and brethren." This
address to thc assembled Jews is of a per?
sonal nature, and is intended to counteract
?ertain prejudices which the Roman .lews
m||ht entertain. "Delivered prisoner." In
as mild terms as possible he recounts "his
uncalled for accusation bv thz Jews in Je?
rusalem, wJw 'h'.Ocred him into the hands
of ?.he J lomans.
18, 19. "Let mc go." He narrates briefly
the events given in chapters 21 to 26. The
Roman officials repeatedly failed to lind
cause of offense in him. "To appeal?'
Paul declared that his appeal to the em?
peror had become indispensably necessary,
beejuse the Jews opposed his acquittal to
which the Roman authorities judged him
to be entitled. He states that it had not
been his ictention to bring any accusation
against his people before the emperor.
20. "Hope of Israel." The hope of
Israel is the general expectation of the
Messiah. In Jesus Paul believed that the
expected Saviour had appeared, and for
preaching t li ie he had been attacked and
made a. prisoner. He held the same faith
as all the Jews, only going in thia matter
further than they, in that he believed .the
ancient promise was now fulfilled. Weean
see from the reply of the Jews that he un?
derstood their position exactly. "Tin*
chain." Roman chains, like our handcuffs,
usually indicated crime, but Paul's eh-iin?
stand for patriotism and the loftiest relig?
ious conception.
21. "Neither received letters." Why
the Jews in Judea had not forwarded the
accusation against Paul to their brethren
in Rome, that they might continue the
prosecution before the emperor, is not
known, lt is probable that they regarded
their cause ns hopeless, and chose to aban?
don the prosecution. Paul had been ^ac*
quitted successively by Lysias, Felix, Fes
tus and Agrippa.
22. "Desire to hear of thee." They im?
plied that they had heard of him by their
request to know what he thought of this
new sect. That they spoke soirautiously,
and subsequently made no demonstration
of hostility against Pa nj is readily account?
ed for. The apostle was held in special
favor by the chief olficer of Nero's house?
hold, and the Jews of the synagogue were
themselves subject to persecution so that
they were powerless to persecute the disci?
ples of Christ".
The second interview with the Jews (va.
23-29). 23. "Cam/1 many."" They came in
great numbers. Many accompanied the
chief Jews. "Expounded." etc. Paul
takes as his theme that doctrine of the
kingdom of Cod which was the central
truth of the Old Testament and the New,
that great disclosure of the prophets which
was still, as it had been for centuries, the
Bupreme thought and hope of the who'e
Jewish people. Again Paul follows the
very line of his risen Lord's exposition to
the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
"Moses?prophets." Beginning nt Mose?
and all tne prophets he showed that the
predicted kingdom is not limited io one
nation, but co-extensive with the world.
He showed them that in Jesus of Nazareth
all the conditions of the expected Meatian
were fulfilled. "Morning until evening."
This shows the effort Paul put forth' to
save the Jews.
24. "Some believed." A few were won
to faith in the Christ, but the many disbe?
lieved the teachings of their own Scrip*
turc.i, and rejected the suffering Messiah,
so plainly disclosed. The seed of the word
fell here, in some cases, by the wayside; in
Others upon stony places, or among thorns;
nevertheless, some fell into good ground.
2.5-29. "Spoken one word." With these
solemn words of the Holy Ghost, spoken
by Isaiah, Christ had opened Hi-3 teachings
by parables (Matt. 13: 14, 10), and had
finally closed His minstry among the Jews
(John 12: 40). And now Paul, as if himself
commissioned by the^Ioly'Chost as a pro?
phet of the New Testament, sadly redeliv?
ers the same message, enforced by the aw?
ful emphasis of the Master's doub'e utter?
ance. Thus the apostle, under divine di?
rection, formally and finally seals up the
gospel offer to God's disobedient and re?
jecting people. In this fearful process
there are three distinguishable agencies ex?
pressly described: The ministerial agencv
of the prophet; tlie judicial agency of God,
and the suicidal agency of the people them?
selves. "Unto the Gentiles." Paul was
never discouraged. If the gospel was re?
jected by one class of people he was ready
to offer it to another.
Raul's residence and ministry in Rome
(vs. 30, 31). 30. "Two whole years."
Why he was not prosecuted before the em?
peror during this time is not known. As
there was no prosecution Paul was suffered
to live in quietness and safety. Nothing
certainly is known on the subject. It is
Urident. from 2 Tim. 4: 16, that he was at
sorJb time arraigned before the emperor,
bait when, or what was the decidion, or
Ar he was at last set at liberty, are all in?
volved in impenetrable obscurity.
31-. "Preaching ? and teaching." Paul
did a great work during these two years
in Romp: 1. He preached the gospel to a'l
who came to him. 2. He wrote several
epistles which were by far the most impor?
tant part of his prison activity.
Cloud of Loeusts.
A Dutch traveler, Kurt Dinter, who
has just returned from eouthorn Afrl
ca, says that one day, while In camr,
rn Hottentot land, he heard a rushing
sound as if rain were falling In tor
rents. Not far away it seemed to hirr
as if a cloud had actually begun tc
fall upon the earth. The cloud turned
out to be locusts. The planters anc*
cattle raisers soon appeared with their
men and gathered them in bags. The)
smoked thc insects to kill them, antf
then .dried them in the sun, after
which they were fed to the dogs,
chickens, pigs, goats and cattle. Thi
traveler found that oxen and horses
are especially fond of locusts, and gel
fat and strong during tho locust sea
son, as do the natives, who also gorgs
themselves.
The Legs of the Tenor.
Alfred Ord writes a Cleveland paper
Inquiring "Why tenor singers are fat,
knock-kneed and have legs like a pi
ano?" The man in our town who used
to sing a high mosquito tenor way up
in H used to have legs that would
have made a broomstick appear corpu
lent. He was also thinner than fath?
er's excuse cn lodge night?Milwau?
kee Journal.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
General Trade Conditions.
Bradstreet's says: "Wholesale trade
awaits crop, labor and price develop?
ments. Too much rain is reported foi
Western crops, but particularly foi
corn, the planting of which is still de?
layed.
"Business failures io, thc United
Slates for thf week number 181, against
155 last week."_
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour?Soring clear, $3.35(0)3.50; best
Patent, $4.80; choice Family, $4.05.
Wheat?New York No. 2, 8^c;
Philadelphia No. 2, 8o@8o^c; Balti?
more No. 2, 82c.
Corn?New York No. 2, 56c; Phila?
delphia No. 2, SolA@Soy2z; Baltimore
Ko. 2, 55(fl5fc
Oats?New York No. 2, 41^: Phila?
delphia No. 2, 4iI^@42c; Baltimore
No. 2, 4i@42c. *
Hay.?No. 1 timothy, large bales
$2o.5o(?/>i.oo; do. small bales $20.50(0}
?i.oo; No. 2 timothy, $19.00(^20.00; Nd.
J timothy, $16.00(018.00; No. 1 clover
mixed. $17.50(0 18.50; No. 2 clover mix
?d, $14.50(016.50; No. I clover, $13.50
Sg 14.00: No. 2 clover, $10.00(0)12.00; no
grade hay. $7.00(0)11.00.
Green Fruits and Vegetables.?We
quote as follows: Apples?Western
Maryland and Pennsylvania, packed,
per bri $1.50(02.25; do, New York, per
bri, assorted, $1.75(32.50; do, No. I
baldwins $2.oo(o'2.50; do, Russets, per
bri. $2.25(0.2.50; do, good to choice
Eastern, per br-i $1.75^2.50; do, No. 2,
ill varieties, per bri $1.50@I.75. Aspar
igus?Norfolk, per dozen $1.00(02.25;
do, Maryland and Virginia, per dozen,
ultivated, $1.25(52.00; do, per dozen,
Aild, $1.00(01.25. Beets?Charleston,
per bunch, 2@3c; do, Norfolk, per
junch, 2(o\jc. Cabbage?Norfolk, per
5rl $\.\'J" \ 25; do, York river, per
-?rate, $1.15(0 f.25;' do~>to&-Xaroiirji .
ocr crate, $1.10(0.1.15; do Eastern Shore
Virginia, per bri, $1.10(01.15. Cherries
?Maryland and Virginia, per lb 5(o;6c;
io. do, do, per bri ?(rf $5.00; do, do, flo,
is to size, per box $i.5o^o'3.oo. Cucum?
bers?Florida, per crate, $1.50^1.75; do,
Savannah, per crate $1.50(02.00. Egg
:fants?Florida, per orange box $2.50(0)
I.oo. Green peas?Potomac, per lufi
)rl ?(o$2.5o; do, per half-barrel bas?
ed (l.IOfSt.15; do, Rappahannock. per
)rl $1.65^/2.00; do, per hali'-barrel bas-'
.cet So^iooc; do, per bri, off stock, $1.00
01.25; do, York river, per bri $165?
?.oo: do. per half-barrel basket 80(0 00c:
lo. Patuxcnt, per bri ?(o$2.5o; do Nor?
olle, per bri ?(o$2.50; do, per half-bar
el basket $i.fxx?/$i.<o. Gooseberries,
:>cr lb ?(05c Lctlucc?Native, per
bushel, box 40(0 65c. * Onions?New
bermuda, per crate $1.00^02.00; do,
Egyptian, per sack $3.40^3.50. Or
mges?California navel, per box $2.50
0325; do, seedlings, per box $2.oo(?
1.50. Pineapples?Florida, per crate, at
.0 size. $2.oo<Vi 2.50. Radishes?Eastern
Shore Virginia, per bri, long. 75C(9
51.00; do, native, red, per 100 60(0,5c;
lo, native, white, per 100 75c(|u.co.
Spring onions, per ion bunches 50(0}
ioc.
Butter?Separator, 23<n 24c; Gathered
:rcam, 22(0.23^; Prints, l-lb, 24(o'25c;
Rolls, 2-lb, 24^0250; Dairy pts. Md.,
Pa., Va., 24(0 25c.
Eggs.?Western Maryland and Penn?
sylvania, loss off, per dozen ?(oj^J'Sc;
Eastern Shore, Maryland and Virginia,
oss off, per dozen ?(0-15^2; Virginia,
oss off, per dozen ?(015^; West Vir?
ginia, loss off, per dozen ?(015; Wcst
?rn, loss off, per dozen ?@i5/2;
Southern, loss off, per dozen ?(r^t^x/2;
?uinca, per dozen 7(aj8.
Live Poultry.?Hens, heavy to me?
dium, IJ@I3HrC; do, old roosters, each
*5@30c; do, spring \x/2 to 2 lbs; 27^
}8c; do, iJ4 to iV? lbs, 25(027; do, I
b and under, 20^122; do, winter, 2l/j
bs and under, 18(020. Ducks?Spring
[Mi.20c; do, fancy, large, old, ?@uc:
io, small, ?^?9c; do, muscovy ano
nongrels, io(Snc. Geese?Western,
radi 30@4oc. Guinea fowl, each ?@
*5c. Pigeons?Old, strong flyeri, per
pair ?(025c; do, young, do, ?@25c.
Hides?Heavy steers, association and
salters, late kill. 60 lbs and up, close
elections. g\i(aio\ic; cows and light
steers, 8Co8'4.
Provisions and Hog Products.?Mar?
te*^ firm. Our quotations arc as fol?
lows: Bulk clear rib sides, io^c; bulk
:lcar sides, io)4; bulk shoulders, 9>j|
oulk fat backs, 18 lbs and under, gyi;
bulk bellies, nj^; bulk ham butts, o}/2)
bacon, clear rib sides, ii: clear sides,
11)4; bacon shoulders. 10^2; sugar-cur
id breasts, small, 12^; sugar-cured
shoulders, blade cuts, io; sugar-cured
shoulders, narrow, io; sugar-cured
shoulders, extra broad, il; sugar-cured
California hams. 9)4; canvased arid un
:anvascd hams, 12 lbs and aver, 14;
!iams, canvased and inicanvased, 15 lbj
and over, 13M', skinned, I4J4; refined
lard, second-hand tubs, 10)4; refined
lard, half-barrels and new tubs, I0J4;
?ierces, lard, 10.
Live Stock.
Chicago?Cattle.?Good to primo
steers $4.90(05.30; poor to medium
?[e-mail]; stockers and feeders $3.00
04.65; cows $1.50(0)4.60; heifers $2.oo(g}
j. 50; canners $1.50(^2.75; bulls $2.2?(g)
(.25; calves $2.50(06.65; Texas led
Ueers $4.oo(qN4.6o. Hogs?Receipts to?
day 27,000 head: tomorrow 15,000; left
iver 10,000; market 10 to 15 cenfs
lower; mixed and butchers' $6.10(0)6.35;
ijood to choice, heavy, $6.45(0)6.62 !/$;
rough, heavy, $6.15(06.40; light $5.90^
S.20; bulk of sales $6.20^6.40. Sheep
?Receipts 10,000 head. Sheep steady;
ambs steady to ioc lower; good to
:hoice wethers $475^5-50; fair to
:hoice mixed $375@475; native lambs
{4.50(07.00.
East Liberty.?Cattle steady; ohoice
55.30675.40; prime $5.00(0)5.50; good
>475(o.4.85. Hogs lower; prime, heavy
>6.45(0^6.50; mediums $6.05^06.10; heavy
borkers $6.05; light Yorkers and pigi
?6.00(06.05; roughs $450^5.70. Sheep
;low; best wethers $4.50^ 1.65; cull?
ind common $i.50@2.50; choi c Iambi
16.00(06.25; veal calves $5.7?<??&2jl.
5TRAWS FROM THE WORLD'S CURRENTS
Nearly 800 patents have been grant?
ed to Edson.
American pork is no longer prohibit?
ed in Turkey.
The process of rapid tanning by elec?
trolysis has failed.
Tire number of opium smokers in thc
United States is estimated at 1.000,000
Thc number of persons in thc nenin n
tiaries of Iowa to 1000 population ha?
doubled in fourteen years.
In Cuba sixteen tons of cane yield
one ton of sugar. In Peru it requires
only twelve and a half.
One in every eight of the patent?
granted by the Uniicd States last year
was to a foreigner.
Every action of human free will is 1
miracle to physical and chemical and
mathematical science, says Lord Kel?
vin, in the London Times.
The largest living thing on earth i?
thc new-found red-wood tree in Califor
nia. which is about 350 feet high and
156 feet in circumference.
The importations of opium tint i?
prepared for smoking is double that
used bv physicians and morphine habit
ues. Thc amount is more than 500,000
pounds and the value $3,500,000.
THE OtD DOMINION
Latest News Gleaned Trorrj All Over
the State.
These pensions were granted ^""?
trillians:?John M. Davis, Tavlorstown
l6;Flect Burrell, Hampton, $46; Chas.
H. Dav, Agncwvillc. $46; Levi W. Huff?
man, Alexandria, $55; Clara Jackson,
Lynchburg, $12.
Bristol has scored an important vic
'.i?ry in thc determination of thc Vir?
ginia Iron. Coal and Coke Company
ind the Virginia and Southwestern
Railway Company to return to Bristol
arith their general offices on July 1 or
about that date. These two companies
ire capitalized at about $12,000,000 and
arc doing an extensive iron, coal and
:okc business. A few months ago
Judge A. A. Phlcgar, who was then
thc general manager, moved thc offices
0 Radford. Citizens of Bristol re?
cently urged thc companies to return
with their general offices. This invi
:ation has been accepted and arrange?
ments arc now being made to accom?
modate the offices on their return.
Thc upper story of thc new Burrin
Building has been leased for this pur?
pose. Thc comoanies own consider?
able land in Bristol and probably will
erect handsome office buildings.
Mr. J. P. Worrell, of Gladesboro,
well-to-do and best-known citizen of
Carroll county, committed suicide by
swallowing laudanum. He leaves a
wife and several children. Mr. Wor?
rell was iu thc best of circumstances
financi?!ly. and stood high in thc com?
munity. He was a ~'ominent Mason
and Odd Fellow, and no cause can be
assi-ned by his family for his self
destruction.
T. T. Mitchell, lawyer, former mem?
ber of North Carolina Legislature and
thc head of a family of talented singers,
was found dead on thc bank of Shockoc
creek, Richmond. Thc body presented
a ghastly spectacle: Dunn? tne cur!>
hours of morning, before life was
hardly extinct, rats had attacked the
face and hands and had mutilated the
body terribly. The left car was en?
tirely eaten away, so clearly that a knife
might have severed it from the head.
He was 54 years of age.
The reward for thc capture of escaped
murderer Grat M. Walk, of Bristol,
who killed Policeman Childress on
February 7, 1903, has been fixed at
$700, and thc money has been secured.
William Currier, aged 45 years, a res?
ident of Albemarle, while working at
at sawmill, near North Garden, was
struck in thc throat by a shingle which
slipped from his hand and almost in?
stantly killed. He leaves a widow.
Samuel Purks, of I'*rcdcricksburg,
employed by thc Western Union Tele?
graph Company, was killed by a train
on Hazel run bridge, just outside th?
city. He had been digging post holes
and crossed thc bridge for something.
On returning thc train came rapidly
around a curve and caught him. He
was thrown 30 feet and fell under the
bridge. Both legs and both arms were
broken and he was badly crushed.
Death was instantaneous.
Eli Winslow, who was charged with
having feloniously assaulted 14-year
old Mamie Brooks, deaf and dumb, be?
came a raving maniac while on trial
in the Corporation Court at Norfolk.
He was ordered sent to thc Eastern
State Hospital at Petersburg for life.
He had been showing signs of insanity
for some time. It took four men to
hold him down in the courtroom.
The Locustdale Military Academy,
in Madison county, closed a very suc?
cessful session with a dance.
Mrs. Jennie Jett, wife of Mr. John
L. Jett, proprietor of Jctt's Hotel, at
Floyd, dropped dead at her home. She
was a sister of thc late Judge H. T,
Dobyns.
Mrs. Porter, 86 years old, widow of
Confederate Naval Constructor Porter,
who designed and built the Virginia,
sometimes called the Merrimac, the first
ironclad known to thc world, is at
thc point of death in Portsmouth.
Thc City School Board of Alexandria
has decided to substitute two fine
schoolrooms for Peabody Hall. Alex?
andria has now about 40 public schools
and five school buildings, one of which
was built in General Washington's tim?
and accommodated a free school en?
dowed by him.
While fishing off Brown Shoals, in
the James river, about four miles above
Newport News, Thomas M. Scott, a
negro fisherman, discovered thc body
of a middle-aged negro floating in the
water. The body, which had been mu?
tilated beyond recognition, was car?
ried to Newport News.
C. E. Stanley and his son, while go?
ing to Church in Roanoke, were at?
tacked by three employes of the Blue
Ridge Mines, who cut Stanley in the face
and then knocked him down with a
rock. Tazcwell Creaky mu arrested on
a moving train, and with his two
brothers, is charged with the crime.
The effects of Adolph Michclsohn.
thc Norfolk money lender and lawyer
who went into bankruptcy recently,
were sold at auction. Law books cost?
ing originally $5 and $10 sold for as
many cents. Thc whole sale did not
net enough to pay Michelsohn's cred?
itors 2 per cent, on his $7' ooo liabili?
ties.
G. H. Kent & Co., of Kent's Store,
made a general deed of assignment for
the benefit of their creditors, naming
S. M. Sheppard as trustee. Thc assets
arc placed at about $140,000 and thc lia?
bilities at about $55,000.
Jacob Schcriff, a fashionable ladies'
tailor, who has thc richest women of
Richmond as his customers, was ar?
rested for bigamy. The warrant was
sworn out by Mrs. G. Zurow, who
claims to be his first and leal wife.
Exports from Norfolk last month
amounted to $1,208,923, as against
$362,191 the same month last year.
Capt. Venable S. Hardwick, of Rich?
mond, is dead. He was in his thirty
first year and was born in Bedford
county.
Thc election held in Orange county
on thc question of issuing bonds for
goori roads was overwhelming .de?
feated.
Messrs. C. II. Kendrick, D. B. Dct
wilcr. Benjamin Middleton, E. T. Dct
wilcr. Brook Middleton and other
prominent business men of Hcrndon,
have organized a national bank at that
place, with thc approval of thc Comp?
troller of U-3 Currency, under the name
of thc Citizens' National of Hcrndon
Thc capital stock is $25,000.
The Carpenters' Union in Petersburg
numbers 140 members. *
Daniel Brooks, colored, who shot and
killed Engineer Charles N. Sweetman
io days ago at Newport News, was cap?
tured between Hampton and Newport
News by a policeman from Phoebus
mid a brakem-an of thc Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway.
Judge G. H. Fudge, of thc County
Court of Smythe county, has issued an
order for an election to bc held on June
23 upon a proposition to issue bonds for
$75,coo for road improvement.
A cloudburst occurred north ol
Winchester, covering thc tracks ot the
Cumberland Vallcv Railroad with wata
to a depth of 14 inches. Hundreds ol
railroad ties were, washed away.
Tho Apple Orchard.
There is nothing more common than
to hear farmers lu all the eastern sec?
tion of thc country Mj "Wc cannot
grow apples nny more as we once did."
Sow, the climate ls not to blame for
this, and If apples once grew well Witt
you is it not worth white to study tbe
cause of their failure uow?
Men realize that for the growing of
their anuunl crops they must cultivate
well aud keep up the fertility of the
soil. They do not try to grow coin
iud wheat at the same time on the
snme field, for they know that lt can?
not be done successfully, but when it
comes to the orchard they assume that
a tree can not only take care of itself
Uko the trees in the forest, but that
Ihey can crop the land for other things
at the same time and still get crops of
apples. Hereiu lies the greatest of all
the troubles in apple growing. So long
as the soil was a virgin soil and
abounding lu plant food the trees
throve in spite of neglect, but as the)
gradually robbed the soil assisted by
tbe crops planted among them there
was soon a failure, for trees as well as
other crops need plenty of availablo
plant food in the soil.
Another thing that apple trees espe?
cially need Is an abundance of soil
moisture. It is useless to apply fertili?
zers to any plant if there is not moist?
ure enough in the soil to dissolve them.
Hence the importance for providing a
soil abounding in vegetable decay to
retain the moisture needed for the so
hit ion of tho plant food applied. Few
growers fully realize the amount of
the various forms of plant food that an
apple orchard takes from the soil. At
the recent American Apple Growers'
Congress in St. Louis Professor Clo?
thier gave some very striking figures
In th's regard which were taken from
Mu? fxn?rirpo??t? vmts itt the Agricul?
tural Experiment Station of Cornell
University. Ile showed that with an
average yield (aud Ibis is a small one
in a good orchard) of 200 bushels per
acre, that this 200 bushels of fruit
would remove from the soil thirteen
pounds of nitrogen, only oue pound of
phosphoric acid and nineteen pounds
of potash, and the apples alone would
remove from each acre $2.45 worth of
plant food. Then the growth of thc
wood and the leaves of the tree must
bo taken into account, and it takes a
very cousiderabl ? amount of food to
ktep up the activity of a large tree.
Altogether there was in the orchard a
demand for plant food to a total value
ot $9.01 per acre.
He compared this with a crop of corn
making fifty bushels per acre, aud
showed that the corn removed little
more than the fruit trees, find yet every
farmer knows that ho cannot expect
fifty bushels of corn per acre unless be
keeps Dp thc fertility of the soil, ami
yet aw see the same men trying to got
tpples from a soil that has been drained
by tbe trees in this way for a genera?
tion, and not only drained by tbe trees,
but called upon to grow a hay crop cr
to pasture stock. Is it any wonder that
we cannot grow apples as well as we
once did?
The statement we hare given shows
that the demand for phosphoric acid ls
very small as compared With that for
nitrogen and potash, and the trees will
demand more potash thau a crop of
corn of fifty bushels per acre, nnd de?
mand lt every year, for there can bo
no rotation of crops here. In their
young state, winn growth is what we
want, applications of stable manure
will be of great hell), not only In fur?
nishing nitrogen but lu giving some hu?
mus making matter to the soil. If Kal
nit has been used in the preservation of
this manure it will not only mnke tho
manure better in preventing the loss
of nitrogen, but it will add potash thut
ls needed. When the trees have
reached maturity we advise the seed?
ing down to grass. But not in grass to
be cut for hay, but grass to be cut only
as a mulch for the trees and left on the
ground, cutting it several times duriug
the season. Then give the grass a lop
dressing annually of a fertilizer com?
posed ol' 800 pounds of acid phosphate,
SOO pounds of cottonseed meal nnd 400
pounds of muriate of potash to make a
ton. Usc tilla liberally and get a good
growth of gras? and every time you
cut the grass spread it to decay nu?
der tho trees ns far ns the llmb,s ex?
tend and a little further. Theil if rou
attend to tho spraying yon eau gro'7
apples just like you did in your boy?
hood aud probably belter.?W. F. Mas?
sey. ? ~
Paid for His Boast.
A man moved to thc country and
bought a farm. He was just getting
settled when a man with a book under
his arm, leaned over the fence and
said:?
'?Just bought this land?"
"Yes."
"Very fine farm."
'"Yes, sir; very fine."
"Must bc worth two thousand dol?
lars."
?"More than that I paid three thou?
sand for it. Then there are indications
of coal on it, which arc alone worth
five thousand dollars.
"You don't mean ii?"
"Yes. sir. There's coal on it. ? Then
thc new railway is going across one
corner. I consider my farm worth fif?
teen thousand dollars oi any man's
money.
"Fifteen thousand, ch?"
"Yes, sir, fifteen thousand at least. I
wouldn't take fifteen cents less. What
arc you putting down in your book?"
"Oh, nothing much. You sae, I am
thc tax assessor. Other farms round
herc arc not worth morc'n fifteen hun?
dred or two thousand dollars, but I've
just put yours down at tho figure men?
tioned because you insist. Good-morn
in', sir; glad you've moved into thc
neighborhood, and hope you'll stay
some time."
Not What He Wanted.
A man walked into a hosier's shop
and politely addressed the salesman.
"I should like to look- at sonic black
gloves .stitched with white." he said.
"Black gloves stiched with white arc
not fashionable now," thc salesman re?
plied.
'I 1 eg your pardon." said thc polite
customer. "Vou evidently misunder?
stood mc. I said I should like to look
at some black gloves stitched with
white."
"They are no longer fashionable,"
reiterated thc salesman, with impatient
superiority.
"\ find I must apologize again," said
thc other. "I came in herc thinking it
was o hosiery establishment; I find it is
a bureau ol information. Perhaps I can
buy a pair of gloves at the place across
thc street"?and out bc went.
SI's Plunge.
Si Barker, who lived in a hill town
in Vermont, became fired with an am?
bition to emulate thc men w,ho make
money in Wall Street. He read thc
financial news of his paper with care
and regularity, but it was sonic weeks
before he made up his mind what his
first move should be, says the New
York Tribune.
One morning he came in from milk?
ing and sat down at the breakfast ta?
ble with a manner as mysterious as that
of an Oriental diplomatist.
"For thc land's sake, Si," said his
wife, after looking at his complacent
expression for a while in silence, "what
bc you a-grinning at?"
"Maria, if I told ye," began Si.
coolly, "you'd know as much 'bout it
as I do. But," he added. "I'll let ye
in on the ground floor when thc right
time comes."
After breakfast Si "hitched up" aud
drove to a neighbor's, three miles away,
and dickered for a rooster, which he
finally bought. Then he carried thc
rooster four miles to thc next town, and
sold it within an hour. As he drove
home another farmer met him and pull?
ed up.
"Hello, Si!" he called. "Where you
been?"
"Oh, spec'Iating a little," Si answered.
? "What vou been.- a-spce'lating of,
Si?"
"Wal," returned Si, with thc careless
case of a financier, "I bought me a
rooster of Ben Jones for forty-eight
cents, and took it to Rochester and sold
it for fifty-eight cents. Just a little
flier, that's all."
"Frazingthe Baste."
An Irishman, being annoyed by a
bowline dog in the night, jumncd out
of bed to dislodge the offender. It was
in thc month of January, when thc
snow was two feet deep. As he did not
return his wife went out tc see what
was the matter, and found him in his
nightshirt in the middle of thc road,
with his teeth chattering and the whole
of his body almost paralyzed with cold,
holding thc* struggling dog by the tail.
"Good gracious, Pat!" said she,
"what would ye bc afthcr?"
"Hush!" said he, don't ye sec I'm
trying to fraze thc baste?"
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