Subscription 25 cents per Month.5 Tamtored =a second-class mail matter.| _BVERY AFTERNOON (EXCEPT SUNDAY)._ _&# invalid Richmond lady who* eannot attend church has had atelephone connected between ber' oom aud the pulpit throughbich she listeas *o the sermonsbeJudge W. N. Mebane, who_ held Court here last fall died,-. at his home in Madisonon last- Monday. Hehad been in feeble health for six or eightmonths /SeIt is said that TreasurerWorth declines to pay JudgeJones his salary anctil the mac~ter is settled Letween him andoJudge� Ewart. Vur Treas~turer had better dismiss theSupreme Court and take mat-,ters of contention in his ownbands.""" SeSome one entered and robbedthe bank in Roxboro betweenSatarday night and Monday_ @Worning. There were eighty_ pounds of silver in the vauls- ~The robbers must have been experts. They entered through awindow, opened ths safe, tock)the money and then closed itagain. There isnu clue what-ever to the perpetrators of therobbery.TOBACCO GROWING,Guarding Agea'nstDestroy Them"Topping.No crop in the South bas soInsects"How to.be guarded against -yigileotly.|and kill them, which is aslow and Tobacco is a plant whoseiThe first ig the flea bug which|tedious job)does its work in the plant-bed.| Thehorn worm isthe crop de-|Then comes the cat warm, the/stroyer and the insect of eilpest which attacks the plant firstiothers which does the greatestbegins later apd destroys thejs carefal study of the horn worm,growth of the plant. The last Ofjand not of his majesty alone, butall is the horn worm andthe mostiof methods calculated to bestdeadly in its ravage on the plant destroy the pest, and eives the"the one insect of all others to/foilowing valuable advice :be most caretully watched. We| oTne hawk-moth or tobacco flygave below the most approved! ysually makes his appearance inmeas for destroyigg each : Virginia in the month of May.The flea bug is the first to at-| The eggs deposited by the firsttack tobacco and begins its de-|moths hatch outin from five topredations in the plant bed soon| seven days larvw or worms. Theafter the plants are up. Lhe) worm sheds its outer skin twicemost satisfactory way of destrac-|before it gets its growth. The}tion is to apply to the - young|Stowing stage of the worm lastsplants plaster in which rags sat-|from twent~-five to thirty days,arated with kerosene*oil have|*2d after it has attained itslain for a short-while. Ef the in growth it gorges itself a few dayssects are very troublesome cover longer, and thea crawls or bur-the plants with the plaster and|fOWs8 into the ground, where itrepeat after each rainT if neces-|20°02 Passes into the papa state:aary- Keep a close watch on the and after some twentv-three or~plant bed. Planters who do not|*¥eaty-five days from the time ofcanvas their plant beds find that its crawling into the ground thegreen cedar brush scattered over|P"P* seuds furth a moth to laythe surface is often effective in|@°ore eggs and hatch out moredriving away thefluabug. These| ¥or�"�s Each moth is capable coflittle pests are worse some sea laying on an average two bun-sons than others, and nothing bat dred eggs. So that for everythe closest watchfuiness will in-|@°th it May we may reasonablysure the eafety of the young|°*Pect at feast oue hundredplants whenever they make their| ¥°F�"�S-°! the first brood; sud ifappearance. none of these are destroyed, LatIn April or May or oven te all allowed to change to moths,i aud tne latter to raise a horde ofmei June, when the plants have worms, what wouder that the sec-n set in the fielas,the cut worm ond b somauees ap ve inbegias its wotk.: Tids te nothing!) f°" poeresuch couutiless numbeis as to de-more than the ordinary cat worm fy all effurts to destroy them be-"ep nee daring the night aad fore they nave ruiued the crop ?pree a se nae creas aggerd Every moth ought to be destroyway to deairoy the insect except 0. ADAGE, sed ly mR7hand, be done to a great extent byb *= ahpes acann palry be. as Fi ejecting a few drops of s weetenad~tained for them. Stubble lands cotvtalt (which 18 a pvison) into thegrowth mast be checked in earlysummer, or it will put on toomuch leaf. This is wnat is knownas topping. When a bad . ap-"pears in the top of the plant thatindicates that the plant 1s gettingready to sesd. aad at this stagethe plant should be topped. Thisis usually done by going throughthe field and piuching off the toyof the plant. Lhe number ofleaves which should be allowed tomature on each stalk dependsvery much on the quality of theiand and the amount of fertilizerused. If the land is quitestrong or the fervilizing heavy,the plant may ve topped at fromfourteen to sixteen or even eigh-teen leaves. Ifthe land is pourand the fertilizing light. let thetopping range from ten tw four-teen leaves. The haud who doesthe topaing has to judge of eachplant how many leaves should beallowed torcemain on the stalkand ripen. A little pra3tice, how-ever, soon makes this aa easypart of the work.The sockers that appear soonafter the tobacco is toppedshould not be allowed to get lon-ger than a manTs thumb, for byletting them remain on the stalkthe leaves of the tobacco do notbroaden vr become fully «devel-cped, as the suckers take up thesabtance of the stalk and conse-quently tha tobaces is therebydamaged and will miks nothing ~bat light, chaffy and unsalable "tobavsco. Tubacco requires aboutthree courses of suckers to betaken off, and then it 18 nvaringmaturity.SEE HERE!You can buy aiy enemies to contend with as|and such as have been allowed to flowers of the Petuna, Houey-_tobacoo. These begin to harass|gtow Off ia weeds orc clover thethe existence of the plant as soon year before are prolific yieldersBICYCLE OF COLUMBIA MAKEat almost any price.suckies, or Jamestown (Jimson)weed, which will give them theiras it lifts its head above the eurface of the plant-bed. The hors___ worm plies his ayocation in Janee and Jaly and-tries to destroy the4 erop. After the leaves are gath-- evedend manufactured then thehis_ famfi-tobacco crank begins- work, and really for the bewitchimg weed there is no rest until itssubstance is Jost in smoke throughthe gentle pipe of peace.There are different kinds of ing@ects which attack the plaat dar-gea@ its growth, and which mustfinal qnietus. But this huot for; the moth is not general, and if itOf all the insects which infest|,.7. some would escape: But iftobacco plants the bad worm 18/,, lanter woald w @. warperhaps the least troublesome, of extormiuation on wer firstaod yet it willdo great damage |} 50d of worms"unfortanately ato a crop unless watched. Its thing rarely done -they wouldhome is in the tender bud of the! never appear in such unconquer-"tobacco stalk where it feeds 0D|,4). hordes later in. the season.�the mapre por agen Aus tht! Tt has ~been found advisable towhen fr win al plant Jimson weeds about. thep oe ~ ony tobacco fields in order to haveog soins epics | except trash.| ic dowers as & means throuzhaa Ss ko a pins 5 ages which to administer the cobalt.(of this troublesome pest.~The Superb Columbia in 4 stylesat $100 each.The Ne. 1 & 2 Hartfordat $80 eachweight 44 pounds,The No. 3&4 Hurtford at $60 eachweight 27 pounds.The No 6 & 6 Hartford at $50 eachweight 24 pounds.All these are fully backed� bythe Columbia guarantee. Thereare none other, for the price, asgood. You can get cataloguesfreefrom saeColumbia Agency, Greenville,N.C.