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the carolina watchman yol xv third series salisbuby n c may 8,1384 no 30 think just a moment it may be greatly to your profit t buy your kaix1t acid phosphate d guanos „„ von i &<■.—] have n w ready and am selling i on ne i sirl my cusi nine s royster's illill hie hill nisn1te , i id fold : i lie stale beyond doubt also the ashepoo acid phosphate i i ni son ii i urn ' la lhal they pay 1 )>• " ton more for ; , : .■. ■di ili ci nicei i ices of other brands '. a i i ii lvc : "• i iest german kainit on sale x the cou.71 i1y . i ... iie vi i l that iv i be got anywhere there j d gaskill t ( ) b a cc o ! ii ever you had a showing for fine prices it is in the crop of tobacco to be planted this year ■• ■; v v •• ■■v : ■; v " '.; * y v i • ami strive o have in that store everything a farmer would like aud his lair.i . we want onr customer to be a cheerful man ' hi ch(aj\tl \ but he can't be it when lie conies llliisc ! - i in i \- ■!• i . - i < , i ' ■■:. everybody knows that on tiie fertilizer ..-,. i o be ul ;• ivo alj e depi tids the resnlt of his crop and he has no ri ill to risk that wop on any hing that has not been j ii show wir.t iius been tiiod and proved in the i and 31 jor i'm land of halifax county va the great i rj-ower of ii lohacco seed is the urah who-tells about it . . . icco i s h e ce it a i u 1 y d oes : ds of fertilizer manufactured specially for tobacco differing ; ■t and al'ti repeated experiments with most it not all ives ii as his decided opinion that for fine bright silky tohactsc the anchor brand lizer prepared by the southern fertilizing company richmond nil nisi i upoi seventeen years trial and often in competition with the brands on the market i is a triol and proved fertilizer which the plant i thout the i i>k of getting something unsuitcd to his crop and therefore i ■n ith confide,i ce 1 i ■iamson of reidsville x ('.. wrote the following t the ; state that they have seen nothing since to change their judgment mi personal experience and it covers n long time in watching the re brands of commercial fertilizers handled in this section i gmenl that i he anchor bsanb stands at the head of all i baeco the plant seems to receive more lifting went from the use of this article than from any other and we are of opinion made it their stand-bv we would hear less of light cfiaffy tobacco bul no bo ly and that the farmer would realize the result he crjght or for low grade tobacco will /<<>/ bring big money ■ii ive l l>ig money for your cirp because we not only desire is with us but pay for them when they are made hence we han 1 anchor brand and will supply you in quantities to uit direct from the we don't want people to abuse us about their fertilizer wo therefore sell ■'.;! to be the best so make no arrangements iu this line until ■ith us vou certainly can't affford to take any risk this year j d gaskill this season in larger quantity i;m ever before tije old relia sea fowl guano 1 lln - 1 is a pleasure to sell this brand because it pleases and one fact ' ■.- increased in sales the last two years which no other market also 1 will have hymans & dancy ? s premium guaino lch is one of the favorites of oabarrns farmers higher with them and we all know that they are good and lisc fine large crops of cotton ntl i ustomcrs i will keep on hand a full stock of tton seed meal bran ship stuff bacon molasses salt ■■■ish or barter ven low also will sell on time ol rin i clover ssed j d gaskill '' ■i .. ii ../ i i war ■in town i.i .,■uolmes tan yarj a wonderful woman a wisely anonymous man i knrnr a woman wondrons fair — a model woman she — who never runs her neighbors down wben she goes out to tea she never gossips after cliurcli of dresses or of huts ; she never niuets the sewing school and joins them in their spats she never boats a salesman down nor asks for pretty placques she never asks the thousand things which do his patience tax these statements ma j seem very strange at least they may to some — but just remember this my friends the woman's deaf and dumb danish barque rialto on voyage from wilmington n c towards trieste austria jan 19th 1884 at midnight we ran into the channel between the is lands of santa maria and san mig uel two of the azores group at daylight the former island was thirty miles to the southward and the latter ten miles north santa maria in the hazy distance seems merely a lump of an ill-defin ed shape and equivocal hue neither lofty enongh to suggest grandeur and sublimity like the cloud-piercing teneiifie nor so low-lying and fer tile in appearance as to be associated in ones mind with the verdant palm groves and spicy zephyrs of the lux uriant coral islands of the pacifiic san miguel anglice st michael the larger of the two contains a moun tain 5,040 feet high — pico do passo at present this mountain is almost entirely concealed from view by a fleecy canopy of clouds and only pre sents a long blue line chequered with enclosed fields and dotted with tiny white houses it suggests noth ing more poetical than a giant in a checked suit with his head in a flour sack these islands were discover ed and settled by portuguese in or about the year 14-1'j it is probable that they derive their name from the immense number of hawks port acor which abound in the group they have always remained under the dominion of portugal in 14g6 they were presented by the king of portugal to his sister the duchess of burgundy hut they would not slay presented and with characteristic ob stinacy continued to own allegiance to their former sovereign they are of volcanic origin the islands not the inhabitants and have had some lively commotions within the last two centuries in 1638 after a saturna lia of elemental demoralization and marine hysteric a callow young is land shoved its head inquiringly to the surface in the vicinity of st mich aels,.and a number of the patriotic portuguese boarded it bag and bag gage ' one line morning atlantis junior having satisfied his curiosity iu regard to super-marine affairs de parted to the submarine region whence he had emerged thoughtless ly omitting to inform the p p's of his intentions beforehand this was rather discouraging to the st mich : ael board of emigration consequently in 1720 when the usual preliminaries of sulphuric pyrrotecnic displays overgrown tidal waves and a gener al upsetting of the terrestial wasgone 1 through with and this incorrigible thero saeaskot up a*gain and invited colonization a large part of the san miguelans became disgusted with the unseemly mundane vivacity and died history says they were frightened to death but 1 am obliged to take that cum grano sal is as i never enjoy ed the acquianfhece of a portuguese who had energy enough to get frigh tened to death san miguel is fa 1 mous for its orarges and if it was inhabited by any other race than portuguese we would have been sur rounded by a fleet of bum boats long ere this the idea of one of these garlic eaters rowing out eight miles is too wildly improbable to be enter tained for a moment the very thought of it would throw him into a ; profuse perspiration therefore in i order to preserve our peace of mind 1 we will endeavor to consider the 1 fruitfulness of this island as highly i improbable and console ourselves with reflections a la fox and grapes at the present moment the giant has so far divested himself of the ' flour sack as to reveal some specks of ! white painl on his checked suit i which by telescopic transformation ' we convert into the towns of ponta i delagorda and villa do agao do : pan 1 shall always remember with de 1 light that i was once the means ot ! making an azorean perspire one ' beautiful bright sunday morning in i august we were lying becalmed be tween the islands of corvo and j flor.es the most northwesterly ot the group we were on a long wear isome voyage and the sight of these j beautiful green islands sleeping on the bright blue waters was indeed ' refreshing to the eyes when men have been revelling on salt horse and wrought iron biscuit for ninety days or so they yearn for something more substantial than a feast of the optics the knowledge that these ocean gems abounded in tropical fruits without being able to do anything more than | lie off eight miles in the broiling sun | and look at them was rather too much after the tantalus style to be endured accordingly in the hope of attracting a bum-boat i set our ! colors forgetful of the international maritime regulation which prohibits vessels showing their colors when off a port unless desiring official assis tance shortly after hoisting our flag we discovered through our glasses a tiny boat pull off from flores and head towards us we rejoiced in our hearts and got away with a quan tity of fruit in our imagination af ter two or three hours had elapsed i ! was summoned on deck by the an | nouncement that the boat was along side i went steeling my heart for an exciting argument with the ; supposed pomological pedlers over the ', value of heir merchandise which i knew would be exorbitant on account i of the exertion which they had been i obliged to make to reach us 2o be continued advice to a yoiiny man no son you can't make up lost time you can only do the work of one life-time in a life-time yes you i may write six columns to-day because you neglected to write your three yesterday but you've discounted one day somewhere about thirty five or forty years farther on in the account you have about seventy years placed to your credit every day you use or misuse is charged to you and you can't credit for two days to-morrow if you waste to-day an engine three hours behind time may reach the terminal station on time by running fifty miles an hour instead per sched ule time but when she gets in she ; requires nearly all or quite ail or many hours more than three hours she made up in being doctored for the strain on nerves and sinews of of steel by reason of the extra effort and speed there's something sprung here a bolt started there a journal burned out somewhere and she limps away to the round house overheated rattling in half a dozen places cover ed with dirt and dust and grime with an engineer growling in his cab and a master machinist grumbling as he walks around her that's the way you make up time my boy believe me you'll last longer if you run on schedule time day by day you won't make people yell and hur rah and you won't make such a grand thunderbolt kind of a show as if you would go booming through the way stations swinging along like a"byclone but you'll go waltzing into the round house in supremely better stylo with your steel bright and your brass shin ing not a speck on your jacket and ready to throw another hundred miles over your shoulder the minute the g'ing strikes just make your regular time day by day my boy the superintendent knows what you can do and what he wants you to do and you can't treat yourself better nor please him more than to do ex actly so much without a mile wasted or a minute to spare — burdette in hawheye nova scotia gold fields the mount uniacke lake catcha oxford and salmon river mines are producing gold in large quantities and at a fair profit — the yield per man varying from 3 to 7 per day the result of the past year's development has been of such an encouraging nature that the va rious companies engaged in activetop erations are erecting modern machi nery of the most suitable design for crushing the quartz and abstracting the gold therefrom in days gone by gold mining hi this province was carried on on very primitive princi ples and in a great many instances valuable properties were abandoned alter much money had been unprofit ably expended through mismauage i tnent extravagance and absolute waste of experience and knowledge on part of the owners many of these prop erties are now falling into the hands of practical men and in almost every case where mining operations have been resume the work has returned a large percentage of profit within ; the past year some new and important discoveries have been made in different ! localities in the province notably the | miilepsegate gold field in lu '! nenburg county which deriyts the name from a lake in the vicinity on the borders of which gold bearing 1 quartz has been discovered by micmac indians the existence of gold in ' the quartz veins distributed through luuenburg county was made known some twenty years ago but before any ! practical development of the lodes had ; been accomplished mining operations ceased owing to the causes already hinted at in this recently discovered miilepsegate district mining opera tions were begun i few months a<jo by some gentlcnion of bridgewater n s and have been continued up to the present time with encouraging results a shaft is being sunk at the owen mine cutting three distinct ! veins of quartz measuring 5 9 and 15 inches in width respectively and through which coarse free gold is plen tifully disseminated no machinery lias as yet been erected on this prop i city but we are informed by a gentle man recently from a mine that about 6 tons of selected quartz taken from the shaft had been crushed and pro duced no less than within a fraction of 100 ounces of gold if the quartz was all rich as specimens from the mine forwarded to this office and said to be fair average samples such a re sult might not unreasonably be expec ted on the opposite side of the lake about three-quarters of a u\\\,e from the owen mine on a property known as the birch brook several openings of about 8 feet in depth have been made at intervals on a lead extending over a distance of 800 feet the vein shows from 2 to 3 feet in width and free geld is to be seen in all of the pits work on this property was suspended last autumn pending the erection of crushers and other machinery in the spring when it is expected that mining operations will be vigorously resumed and it is ' predicted that as greater depth is ; reached at birch brook and the | owen mines they will develop into very valuable properties capable of yielding gold in large quantities at small cost it is not improbable that the miilepsegate gold field will rank high among the gold producing districts of the province of nova scotia — canadian mining review — — — am . those north carolinians who have dallied with coalition and liberalism ; under the impression that they would ; not drift into the republican party should heed the fate of the honest readj uster over in virginia in the i beginning very many worthy men followed mahone and they called 1 themselves readjuster democrats i then they dropped the word demo crat and called themselves readjus i ters in progress of time they reach j cd the stage where they were content | to be known as readjuster repub licans and now mahone and tho*e who still follow his lead proclaim themselves the republican party in i virginia by this course in the i short space of four yours good demo crats have by a process of evolution ! been converted into republicans ' this history of affairs over the border i should warn our friends who are in clined to co-operate with the republi can's under the specious name of liberalism what their political end , will be they will drift into the camp which was once honored by the presence of the scalawag and of the ] carpet-bagger one of the leaders of the scalawag party in virginia to clay is w c elam — the editor of the richmond whig and this is how he wrote of that fraternity a few years ago the article is to be found in the southern magazine editor elam then wrote : scalawags are verminous shabby scabby scrubby scurvy cattle therefore there is a manifest fitness in calling the native southerner of white complexion who adopts the politics of the radical partv a scalawag it is not so much because he is for negro equality and all that stuff that he is and should be called a scalawag but because he renounces all his previous professions and practices slinks from his own color and kindred and foregathers with dirty freedmen to gain whose favor and votes he maligns all res pectable citizens and incites colored rabble to all sorts of absurd pretentious or worse to deeds of vio lence and blood 1 propose to give here a brief biographical sketch of tha scalawag an 1 i shall take for my purpose b no means the worst sort of the drove it is to be understood that the scalawag is chiefly detestable be cause he renounces all his previous professions and practices slinks from his own color and kindred and fore gathers with dirty freedmen to gain whose favor and votes he maligns all respectable citizens etc this is what mr elam says and we suppose he knows all about it his notice reads like an autobiography to use a colliquial expression he lias been there himself and knows how deep it is whether mr elam is accurate or not the north carolina liberal is very apt to find out by his own experience — news observer americjiu travel to europe promises to be larger this year than ever before al ready the leading steamship lines an nounce that all their principal staterooms are engaged for the months of may jun and july it is estimated that american travellers in europe spt'iul in the aggre gate 30,000,000 or m.oreauuuall,v char observer never got over it i iliink my conversational powers have improved any ?' be asked sim pering like a chimpanzee i don't know i'm sure she said wearily well you know when i was a child i talked like a child and — ' you never got over it !" veiled his father who occupied the seat be hind them the youth did himself behind his col j lar and shut up like a patent coupler , — dr let's magazine off on another cruise lieutenant george m stoney a char lotte boy who has risen to distinction in i i the united states njiyt has gone on an | exploring expedition through the alaskan \ territory the government fitted up a vessel and manned it with a crew of twelve sailors furnished it with provis ions and everything el.*e requisite to an arctic trip and placed it at hin command lie sailed from san francisco about two i weeks ago lieut stoney was with the ; : ill-fated rogers when she was burned in i | the arctic regions and was one of the i few of the crow who made their way in safety southward over the ice fields coming at length upon a tribe of indians i i who fed and cared tor them until they i ! were rescued iu appreciation of the ! | services of these indians the goreru j ment supplied lieut stoney with large i stores of presents to take back to their | settlement and distribute among them — | char observer j khodks browne pwcs v c t oart ssc total assets 710,745.12 a home < ompanv seeking home patronage strong prompt reliable txrttbat tcnn policies written on dwellings premiums payable one halfc;ish and bal ance in twelre months j allen brown agt 23:6in salisbury x c igsrs indian vegetable pills liver and all bilious complaints nr 10 t.iko ix-in ur-ly vt-^n i'ile ti t^nj • ■i'n.-.-r i>i all dnaadats — *- — ' _ . . . . _ mm this space reserved for sheppard swink & monroe proprietors klcttz's warehouse for the sale of leaf tobacco salisbury v c and will completely change tlio blood in tho entire system in three mouths any person who will take 1 fill each night from 1 to t2 weeks mav be restored to sound health if such a thing be possible for female complaints these fills have no equal physicians use them for tlic rare of liver and kidney diseases sold everywhere or sent by mail for 25c la stamps circulars free i 8 johnson & 00 boston lun p h b q b sbtifr e rljji fc&v p5 rrour astliinn bronciittlo nral johnson anodyne lfhimemt j^l .£' ssb^^sas i.i3eks"!!..yu spine s'.'ld n-n-wl 1 n 1 u tr ,. 1 s j...in.vi.s a c . l^l..n mmi der !>)!«•. oin 1 icaspnonfnl to mici p'nt of «_««_•_ fooil itwill also positive prevent an-1 enre h<\~cholrr«,*c soldpterrwhfit.oripnthvmii!rof»e.m chicken cholera circulars l 8 jouidwif * co bo»u hut , dec s0.-1883 lfcly i rsfc rr rrv r^ri r v x i~ti hti i liilijjldlkjd j 43 limim offer special bargains cheap nvxsii mmonkites 1 elias howe leather machine - - - 15.00 2 18-inch arm for heavy leather good as new 40.00 < original cost 125.00 4 new family singer machines - - 10 to 15 3 american no 1 ----- 10 to 15 2 wheeler & wilson ... - 12 and 15 2 home shuttles 5.00 1 weed - 12-w the above have been used some but warranted to do good work we also sell the i stew davis a.inerican and oyal st john's at bottom prices warranted for 5 years and guarranteedto give satisfaction
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1884-05-08 |
Month | 05 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1884 |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 30 |
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Publisher | [T. K. Bruner and J. J. Bruner] |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Description | The May 8, 1884 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Date | 1884-05-08 |
Month | 05 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1884 |
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Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Description | An archive of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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the carolina watchman yol xv third series salisbuby n c may 8,1384 no 30 think just a moment it may be greatly to your profit t buy your kaix1t acid phosphate d guanos „„ von i &<■.—] have n w ready and am selling i on ne i sirl my cusi nine s royster's illill hie hill nisn1te , i id fold : i lie stale beyond doubt also the ashepoo acid phosphate i i ni son ii i urn ' la lhal they pay 1 )>• " ton more for ; , : .■. ■di ili ci nicei i ices of other brands '. a i i ii lvc : "• i iest german kainit on sale x the cou.71 i1y . i ... iie vi i l that iv i be got anywhere there j d gaskill t ( ) b a cc o ! ii ever you had a showing for fine prices it is in the crop of tobacco to be planted this year ■• ■; v v •• ■■v : ■; v " '.; * y v i • ami strive o have in that store everything a farmer would like aud his lair.i . we want onr customer to be a cheerful man ' hi ch(aj\tl \ but he can't be it when lie conies llliisc ! - i in i \- ■!• i . - i < , i ' ■■:. everybody knows that on tiie fertilizer ..-,. i o be ul ;• ivo alj e depi tids the resnlt of his crop and he has no ri ill to risk that wop on any hing that has not been j ii show wir.t iius been tiiod and proved in the i and 31 jor i'm land of halifax county va the great i rj-ower of ii lohacco seed is the urah who-tells about it . . . icco i s h e ce it a i u 1 y d oes : ds of fertilizer manufactured specially for tobacco differing ; ■t and al'ti repeated experiments with most it not all ives ii as his decided opinion that for fine bright silky tohactsc the anchor brand lizer prepared by the southern fertilizing company richmond nil nisi i upoi seventeen years trial and often in competition with the brands on the market i is a triol and proved fertilizer which the plant i thout the i i>k of getting something unsuitcd to his crop and therefore i ■n ith confide,i ce 1 i ■iamson of reidsville x ('.. wrote the following t the ; state that they have seen nothing since to change their judgment mi personal experience and it covers n long time in watching the re brands of commercial fertilizers handled in this section i gmenl that i he anchor bsanb stands at the head of all i baeco the plant seems to receive more lifting went from the use of this article than from any other and we are of opinion made it their stand-bv we would hear less of light cfiaffy tobacco bul no bo ly and that the farmer would realize the result he crjght or for low grade tobacco will /<<>/ bring big money ■ii ive l l>ig money for your cirp because we not only desire is with us but pay for them when they are made hence we han 1 anchor brand and will supply you in quantities to uit direct from the we don't want people to abuse us about their fertilizer wo therefore sell ■'.;! to be the best so make no arrangements iu this line until ■ith us vou certainly can't affford to take any risk this year j d gaskill this season in larger quantity i;m ever before tije old relia sea fowl guano 1 lln - 1 is a pleasure to sell this brand because it pleases and one fact ' ■.- increased in sales the last two years which no other market also 1 will have hymans & dancy ? s premium guaino lch is one of the favorites of oabarrns farmers higher with them and we all know that they are good and lisc fine large crops of cotton ntl i ustomcrs i will keep on hand a full stock of tton seed meal bran ship stuff bacon molasses salt ■■■ish or barter ven low also will sell on time ol rin i clover ssed j d gaskill '' ■i .. ii ../ i i war ■in town i.i .,■uolmes tan yarj a wonderful woman a wisely anonymous man i knrnr a woman wondrons fair — a model woman she — who never runs her neighbors down wben she goes out to tea she never gossips after cliurcli of dresses or of huts ; she never niuets the sewing school and joins them in their spats she never boats a salesman down nor asks for pretty placques she never asks the thousand things which do his patience tax these statements ma j seem very strange at least they may to some — but just remember this my friends the woman's deaf and dumb danish barque rialto on voyage from wilmington n c towards trieste austria jan 19th 1884 at midnight we ran into the channel between the is lands of santa maria and san mig uel two of the azores group at daylight the former island was thirty miles to the southward and the latter ten miles north santa maria in the hazy distance seems merely a lump of an ill-defin ed shape and equivocal hue neither lofty enongh to suggest grandeur and sublimity like the cloud-piercing teneiifie nor so low-lying and fer tile in appearance as to be associated in ones mind with the verdant palm groves and spicy zephyrs of the lux uriant coral islands of the pacifiic san miguel anglice st michael the larger of the two contains a moun tain 5,040 feet high — pico do passo at present this mountain is almost entirely concealed from view by a fleecy canopy of clouds and only pre sents a long blue line chequered with enclosed fields and dotted with tiny white houses it suggests noth ing more poetical than a giant in a checked suit with his head in a flour sack these islands were discover ed and settled by portuguese in or about the year 14-1'j it is probable that they derive their name from the immense number of hawks port acor which abound in the group they have always remained under the dominion of portugal in 14g6 they were presented by the king of portugal to his sister the duchess of burgundy hut they would not slay presented and with characteristic ob stinacy continued to own allegiance to their former sovereign they are of volcanic origin the islands not the inhabitants and have had some lively commotions within the last two centuries in 1638 after a saturna lia of elemental demoralization and marine hysteric a callow young is land shoved its head inquiringly to the surface in the vicinity of st mich aels,.and a number of the patriotic portuguese boarded it bag and bag gage ' one line morning atlantis junior having satisfied his curiosity iu regard to super-marine affairs de parted to the submarine region whence he had emerged thoughtless ly omitting to inform the p p's of his intentions beforehand this was rather discouraging to the st mich : ael board of emigration consequently in 1720 when the usual preliminaries of sulphuric pyrrotecnic displays overgrown tidal waves and a gener al upsetting of the terrestial wasgone 1 through with and this incorrigible thero saeaskot up a*gain and invited colonization a large part of the san miguelans became disgusted with the unseemly mundane vivacity and died history says they were frightened to death but 1 am obliged to take that cum grano sal is as i never enjoy ed the acquianfhece of a portuguese who had energy enough to get frigh tened to death san miguel is fa 1 mous for its orarges and if it was inhabited by any other race than portuguese we would have been sur rounded by a fleet of bum boats long ere this the idea of one of these garlic eaters rowing out eight miles is too wildly improbable to be enter tained for a moment the very thought of it would throw him into a ; profuse perspiration therefore in i order to preserve our peace of mind 1 we will endeavor to consider the 1 fruitfulness of this island as highly i improbable and console ourselves with reflections a la fox and grapes at the present moment the giant has so far divested himself of the ' flour sack as to reveal some specks of ! white painl on his checked suit i which by telescopic transformation ' we convert into the towns of ponta i delagorda and villa do agao do : pan 1 shall always remember with de 1 light that i was once the means ot ! making an azorean perspire one ' beautiful bright sunday morning in i august we were lying becalmed be tween the islands of corvo and j flor.es the most northwesterly ot the group we were on a long wear isome voyage and the sight of these j beautiful green islands sleeping on the bright blue waters was indeed ' refreshing to the eyes when men have been revelling on salt horse and wrought iron biscuit for ninety days or so they yearn for something more substantial than a feast of the optics the knowledge that these ocean gems abounded in tropical fruits without being able to do anything more than | lie off eight miles in the broiling sun | and look at them was rather too much after the tantalus style to be endured accordingly in the hope of attracting a bum-boat i set our ! colors forgetful of the international maritime regulation which prohibits vessels showing their colors when off a port unless desiring official assis tance shortly after hoisting our flag we discovered through our glasses a tiny boat pull off from flores and head towards us we rejoiced in our hearts and got away with a quan tity of fruit in our imagination af ter two or three hours had elapsed i ! was summoned on deck by the an | nouncement that the boat was along side i went steeling my heart for an exciting argument with the ; supposed pomological pedlers over the ', value of heir merchandise which i knew would be exorbitant on account i of the exertion which they had been i obliged to make to reach us 2o be continued advice to a yoiiny man no son you can't make up lost time you can only do the work of one life-time in a life-time yes you i may write six columns to-day because you neglected to write your three yesterday but you've discounted one day somewhere about thirty five or forty years farther on in the account you have about seventy years placed to your credit every day you use or misuse is charged to you and you can't credit for two days to-morrow if you waste to-day an engine three hours behind time may reach the terminal station on time by running fifty miles an hour instead per sched ule time but when she gets in she ; requires nearly all or quite ail or many hours more than three hours she made up in being doctored for the strain on nerves and sinews of of steel by reason of the extra effort and speed there's something sprung here a bolt started there a journal burned out somewhere and she limps away to the round house overheated rattling in half a dozen places cover ed with dirt and dust and grime with an engineer growling in his cab and a master machinist grumbling as he walks around her that's the way you make up time my boy believe me you'll last longer if you run on schedule time day by day you won't make people yell and hur rah and you won't make such a grand thunderbolt kind of a show as if you would go booming through the way stations swinging along like a"byclone but you'll go waltzing into the round house in supremely better stylo with your steel bright and your brass shin ing not a speck on your jacket and ready to throw another hundred miles over your shoulder the minute the g'ing strikes just make your regular time day by day my boy the superintendent knows what you can do and what he wants you to do and you can't treat yourself better nor please him more than to do ex actly so much without a mile wasted or a minute to spare — burdette in hawheye nova scotia gold fields the mount uniacke lake catcha oxford and salmon river mines are producing gold in large quantities and at a fair profit — the yield per man varying from 3 to 7 per day the result of the past year's development has been of such an encouraging nature that the va rious companies engaged in activetop erations are erecting modern machi nery of the most suitable design for crushing the quartz and abstracting the gold therefrom in days gone by gold mining hi this province was carried on on very primitive princi ples and in a great many instances valuable properties were abandoned alter much money had been unprofit ably expended through mismauage i tnent extravagance and absolute waste of experience and knowledge on part of the owners many of these prop erties are now falling into the hands of practical men and in almost every case where mining operations have been resume the work has returned a large percentage of profit within ; the past year some new and important discoveries have been made in different ! localities in the province notably the | miilepsegate gold field in lu '! nenburg county which deriyts the name from a lake in the vicinity on the borders of which gold bearing 1 quartz has been discovered by micmac indians the existence of gold in ' the quartz veins distributed through luuenburg county was made known some twenty years ago but before any ! practical development of the lodes had ; been accomplished mining operations ceased owing to the causes already hinted at in this recently discovered miilepsegate district mining opera tions were begun i few months a |