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tumorous ilrpartranit. Th? Same, Only Different.?"The English language." said Thomas Bailey Millard, oriental authority, author and globe trotter, according to The Philadelphia Times, "is one of the world's wonders. There are more kinds of it than of any other language on earth. "Out in China I once had a native valet who talked very fair pidgin English. He could talk to all sorts of English-speaking people, with very indifferent results in some cases. The variety of accents never was so impressed on me as in observing his trouble w'th some of them. "One clay he said to me, 'Master talk velly good English for a Melican man.' " 'Why,' I said, 'English is the lan? - ? ?? ? * A nn fKo ooma no thp KUUgV Ul Aiiiriun, iiiv na.nv English a9e.' "The boy was astounded and evidently doubted me. Finally he ejaculated: " 'But, master, if they have same talkee, why don't they usee same talkee?'" Rectifying an Error.?Uncle Joe Cannon, at a dinner in Washington, said of speakers' errors: "All speakers make queer errors now and then. Usually, though, they correct them with address. "Once, in the Illinois legislature, there were two men, Montague Harrison and Harrison Montague. The first was very short, the second very tall; but the speaker, during a debate, once addressed the former as the latter. "He recovered himself, however, quickly. He said, with a chuckle: " 'It is strange that I should take Harrison Montague for Montague Harrison?that I should make such a mistake as that?for there is as great difference between you two gentlemen as there is betwen a horse chesnut and a chesnut horse.' "?Detroit Free Press. A Strategist.?A gentleman entered the postofflce in a small Highland town and handed a packet for registered post across the counter. "We can't take that?it's not sealed." said the young lady in charge, snap plshly. "But I haven't any sealing wax," explained the gentleman. "Couldn't you seal It?" "Certainly not!" replied the girl. "It's not our business to seal packets for the general public." "Ah, well," said the gentleman. "I'll Just wire my friend that the packet won't reach him." So he wrote his telegram and handed it to the girl. The message ran: "Beautiful and charming girl in postoffice here will not take packet because not sealed." The young lady promptly said she would seal the packet.?Tit-Bits. Preventing a Disturbance.?Colonel Scotchem was weary. He had had a very arduous day retreating from the enemy, and he wished to recoup his strength in order that he might retreat still farther on the morrow. "MacPherson." he said to his new servant, "I'm going to snatch forty winks' sleep. Stay by my tent, and see that I'm not disturbed." Mac saluted. Not five minutes later the snores of Col. Scotchem were cut short by the loud report of a gun. "Great Scott!" cried the colonel. "Are the enemy upon us?" "Xa, dlnna fret." replied Mac. in serting his head reassuringly through the tentflap. "It was only a wee mousie. But as I thought he might wake you up 1 shot him."?Answers. A Narrow Escape.?"I nearly had a scrap this morning," confided a slender young lawyer whom you wouldn't suspect of being belligerent. "Who with?" we asked, with no rogard for grammar. "Jimmie Squiggs. I guess I spoke hastily to him. Anyhow, he got the idea that I wanted to lick him." "Well, what did he do?" "He took it on the run. Honest, he did three blocks in about twelve seconds before I could say a word." "That's going some for a big man like Squiggs." "Ain't it? And it didn't do him a bit of good. I was a half block ahead of him every step of the way!"?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Where Were the Rest??The 8year-old son of a Baltimore physician, together with a friend, was playing in his father's office during the absence of the doctor, when suddenly the first lad threw open a closet door and disclosed to the terrified gaze of his little friend an articulated skeleton. When the visitor had sufficiently recovered from his shock to stand the announcement the doctor's son explained that his father was extremely proud of that skeleton. "Is he?" asked the other. "Why?" "I don't know," was the answer; "maybe it was his first patient."? Har|>er's magazine. Champ Had to Bo Shown.?Once upon a time, says Judge, a book agent got Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri, in to a corner and though his victim was helpless, the agent was not cruel. "I beg your pardon," he said solicitously. "I have a volume here which I don't want to trouble you with, but I hope you will permit me to show?" "Don't apologize! Don't apologize!" Mr. Clarke broke in impulsively. "I know you've got to do it. I'm from Missouri." Ignoring a Precedent.?"No," said the lady on the stairway, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and she spoke with extreme distinctness, "your excuses will not be received and filed." "But haven't you any s-sympathy in your cold heart, Maria?" exclaimed the limp and drooping arrival. Th?* clock struck 2. "This is not the United States Senate James Pilligrew," replied the lady with extreme sarcasm. "You'll get just wnat s coming to you witnout a single tea!" And she ascended the stairway. Seeing Only Was Believing.?A trio of professional story tellers were off in "a eosey corner of the dub. spinning yarns. Brown had just told a most unbelievable story, and the other two glanced at each other questlonlngly. "Well, I assure you, gentlemen," said Brown, "if I hadn't seen it myself I shouldn't have believed it." "Ha?h'nv? well," said one of the two doubtful ones, "you must rememl?er. old man. that we didn't see it."? Lipplncott's. 4?arm and fireside. Hundred Bushels Corn Crops. A farmer who says that his land has been worked In cotton for many years, ^ and on which he has once made 800 j, pounds of lint an acre with 500 c pounds of fertilizer an acre, wants to 0 put that land in corn this year, and a wants to know what fertilizer he shall r use to make 100 bushels of corn an r acre. g Perhaps, if the season is very favor- s able and he piled the fertilizer on t with a lavish hand, he may possibly $ get the corn. * But he will find that every bushel in excess of what he j would have had without the fertilizer r will cost him about as much as it t would sell for in a fair market in the ^ south where corn is usually higher s than elsewhere. t The mere getting of a big crop of t corn regardless of expense Is not good s farming. There Is an old Latin * proverb: "Nemo repente turpissima t fult." Which means that no man r ever became suddenly vile. The down- e hill road is always by degrees. The a same is true of the soil. No soil that f was formerly fertile and productive t ever became suddenly poor. It has 1 taken a long series of soil robberies to get it poor. The vile man may, r by the grace of God. repent and t change his life suddenly, but the land > must get back by the same road that ? reduced it to poverty, but the road musf be reversed, and we must adopt t measures to restore, through good d farming, the matters that formerly | made it a virgin soil. The long cul- f tivation in a clean-hoed crop has b burnt out all the organic matter. The nitrifying organisms have been starv- jed out and the soil is acid. It runs f together and crusts hard, is colder b than it was when new, and it dries ? out rapidly In summer and crops suf- a fer from lack of moisture. b I was on a farm last year where the former owner made twenty-five b bushels of corn an acre in a very v favorable season, and that farm had a on it a crop of corn of 97 1-2 bushels ? an acre all over the thirty-acre field, t and had nothing applied to it but a b crimson clover sod and some lime harrowed in after turning the clover, t What has made the change in that s soil? Simply getting back the or- n ganic decay of which it had been b robbed. It has had manure on it for r other crops. I have been on a farm a in Alabama where the owner claims c that he makes corn at a cost of 8 1-2 c cents a bushel, and he does not do it ^ with fertilizers, but with clover and v "Cowana." C To try' to get 100 bushels of corn an t acre on land that has been cottoned t for many years will be merely a gam- f ble with fertilizers. The way to 100 t bushels of corn per acre is through a good rotative farming, the growing of e legumes and feeding the forage and b making manure. This sort of farm- C ing enabled Mr. C. K. McQuarrie to 1 make 100 bushels of corn an acre in b west Florida, and it will enable any t one in the south to make 100 bushels r of corn over his whole field and make ti it at a cost that will leave him profit on the crop, while there would be r none left from trying to get 100 bush- I els merely through a lavish use of c fertilizers. It is no credit to a far- I mer to make 100 bushels of corn an <3 acre at a cost of $100, but when he 1 makes it at a cost of $8.50 for the 100 8 bushels it shows that he is farming a and not gambling with fertilizers.? t W. F. Massey in Progressive Farmer, a Kill the Flies. One fly killed now will amount to ' more than a hundred in June, and work done now to destroy their breeding places will be twenty times as effective as that done later on. Getting rid of flies Is, as all know, a very difficult matter, and here, if anywhere, ( the ounce of prevention is worth more than the pound of cure. It should not be necessary to say anything more about the fly as an "undesirable citizen." Every reader of ours should know by this time how he is bred in filth and refuse; how he carries this filth with him wherever he goes?to the table, to the child's face, to the food on which he alights? and how he is not only unclean but dangerous. That he carries the germs of various diseases is no longer doubted. We have before us as we write a letter from Dr. George S. Brown, of Birmingham, Ala., in which he blames the fly for most of the typhoid cases in that city and tells how a fly may follow a man or a horse for miles perhaps and carry this dread disease with him. In fact, from regarding the fly as only a nuisance, perhaps a necessary one, investigators have come to realize that he is by far the most dangerous animal in the country, far more to be dreaded than all our poisonous snakes and wild beasts. Rechristened the "Typhoid Fly," he is hatched and feared as never before, because his powers of evil are more fully realized. If he can not be exterminated, he must at least be kept out of the home. There are two things to do: The first is to screen the house and keep the flies out, killing the stragglers that get in; the second is to destroy their breeding places, in the country usually the stables and outhouses. Begin this warfare right now; see that the house is screened as soon as pos siDie, ana get ria 01 an piaces in ?> which the flies are likely to breed, be- * fore the warm weather comes. a You do not want to sit down to eat with a horde of these filth-reeking t visitors, and you do not want to risk a their bringing a case of typhoid into t the home. Oet ready now to protect z yourself.?Progressive Farmer. v e s Why Should the Soil Be Made Fine? f ii A writer in an exchange said that e the soil should be made fine as dust $ for the reason that fine, hairlike roots ^ are unable to force their way into the s hard lumps of the soil. o This, however, is not the main rea- ^ son why the earth sho- i be made s fine. The ability of the roots of plants j and trees to penetrate the soil when it a is moist, even though it may be hard, f is not to be doubted. Roots are fur- t( nished with means of forcing their p way through the soil with great per- t sistency. It is marvelous how roots ^ will at times force through a hard t] soil. 0 A number of authorities have the idea that the principal object in mak- ? ing the soil fine as a seed bed or pre- ^ paratory for transplanting is that the seed will not germinate so readily in l! a lump soil and that plants, vines and , trees when transplanted in lump soil are apt to perish, owing to lack of moisture, and owing to the fact that the air penetrates lumpy soil, remov- ^ ing the moisture and rendering it im- p possible to compress the particles of / earth firmly about the seed or roots . in the way that nature intended. L There are few farmers who doubt f the desirability of making soil tine, but there are many who do not fully appreeiate the importance of such work. ? If the soil is so lumpy that each ^ particle of it is as large as a walnut. P and in it we plant seed, or set a strawberry plant, grape vine or an ap- ? pie tree, we know that it will perish 1 even with a slight drought. If the " lumps of earth are reduced to the size " of kernels of corn, there will still exist a difficulty in germinating the seed 'c or in making the plants or trees bear d transplanting on such soil. So it is plain that every effort we make in fin- d ing the soil increases the prospect of d germination of seed. etc.. in such soil, tl In plowing a field, the greater part of K which Is loamy and friable, but certain small parts of which are clayey V and lumpy, the grain sown in this lot readily germinates in every part of it the field, except the lumpy part, and p here the grain will not germinate tin- w less excessive moisture is applied. ei In conclusion, making the soil fine w holds moisture, and this frees the fer- u tilit.v in the soil. The finer the soil is ti pulverized the better for whatever is J planted in it. b; WORLD LOVES A MYSTERY. *ublic Never Gives Up Trying to Solve Unexplainable Disappearances and Happenings. There Is not a community inhabited iy man on the face of the earth that ? without its local mystery. Every ountry village has its haunted house >r its semilegenary murder puzzle, md where there is no genuine enlgna time and man's imagination will nake one. Every epoch has had its rreat problem for grandmothers to peculate and enlarge upon, doubters 0 discredit and story tellers to preerve. The little town of Perleberg, in Prussia, has nursed its murder story ellgiously for a century, and every ime a skeleton is unearthed in the rlcinity the whole mystery is given 1 new impetus and octogenarians lave an opportunity to tell just what fnl/l thorn nf tho flis. urn puicm.i iuiu ii*vn? ...v - ? ippearance of "the English Lord" vho was lost from a hostelry In the own In Napoleon's time and was lever found. Within a few weeks mother skeleton has been found and ill the old traditions are being told rom one end of the civilized world o the other. How the world does ove a conundrum! Benjamin Bathurst never was a nan of great Importance; all that renains of the body found were a few irittle bones and a huge rusted key, 'et it is sufficient to stir the imaginition and arouse the hunger for the nexplicable the world over. Bathurst was returning to England >y way of Hamburg with papers of liplomatic import when he disapteared In the year 1809. He was 111, o he might have wandered into the orest and died; he was depressed, so le might have committed suicide; he i-as carrying papers which would lave interested Napoleon, so he may lave been murdered or spirited to a ortress by the emperor's gendarmes; le was well equipped with rich lothes and valuables, so there is a losslbility that the desperate charcters in the neighborhood killed and mried him for his money. These are the possibilities, and in he last hundred years they have een rehearsed backward and for rara, aweu upon uy eveiy pcaaam. nd burgher for miles around, disussed in gatherings of diplomats, ierman, French and English, and reold every time a rag, a buckle or a ione Is found in or near Perleberg. Bathurst was a young man who had rained himself for the diplomatic ervice, and immediately before his nisslon to Vienna and Budapest had een stationed in Copenhagen. He eturned to England to recover from , slight illness, and the foreign office, asting about for a discreet person to arry out a diplomatic mission to the lustrian court, settled upon him. He tas then 25, but his knowledge of Jerman and international policies on he continent was in his favor. At hat time there was considerable difIculty in obtaining passports through he countries under Napoleon's rule, nd in the fall of 1809, when he startd back from Vienna, Bathurst found t necessary to disguise himself as a ierman and to employ a German folowlng to avert suspicion. He had lad little encouragement in his work rom the home office, and the sense of esponsibility and danger weighed toon his mind. One night,_while traveling the high oad rrom Berlin to namDurg in a irlvate diligence under the pseulonym of Koch he came to the inn at 'erleberg, and by an unlucky chance letermined to put up for the night. The various servants and hostlers rossipped about his excellent clothes ind Jewelry, so much so, indeed, that hey attracted suspicion to themselves fter his disappearance. After eating, Coch, or Bathurst, went out to see if lis horse would be ready, and found he landlord smoking before the door, fhe evening was so pleasant that he trolled out into the dusk?and was lever seen again. His coat was afterward found in the lostler's possession. His pantaloons, leatly folded, were discovered some lays later in the adjacent forest, but 10 trace of the man himself or of his >apers, jewelry or other belongings vas ever found. His wife came on rom England and prosecuted the search. The hostler was convicted >f theft, but as Bathurst was not rearing the coat at the time of his lisappearance he was exonerated of ill complicity in the possible murler. It was rumored at the time that Napoleon's agent had the young enroy in confinement. His wife's the>ry was that he had been suffering rom a fever and strolled into the forist where he was taken by a sudden ittack and could not summon aid. The authorities at the time were negligent in prosecuting the search and as i result the fate of the ambassador las always been an enigma. During the last century skeletons vere discovered several times, but in tach case there was evidence to prove hat they had nothing to do with the Snglishman. A few weeks ago a armer leveling off a hillock found a usty key, said to be of English nake, and the complete skeleton of a all, powerful man. He collected the tones on a bowlder and went back o the village. In his absence the chool children found the relics and >ounded them up with stones, thus lestroying all chance of identification. But the mystery was revived and all 5russia was once more thrilled with he tale. The world loves to be mystified; it s stimulating to the imagination and nen must have food for the lmaginaion. A town that has not conjured ip the town ghost is indeed a barren ouled place, and the age that has not landed down its puzzle was certainly n unfruitful period. Beginning in a period shrouded in he mists of tradition and rather ur>uthoritative history, accumulating hrough every aecacie, me nsi 01 puzles has grown and the man who rants to revel in problems and to exrcise his speculative faculties might ;uess and wonder for all time on a ew standard mysteries without comng any nearer than a thousand othrs. For instance, where are Alaric, ittila. King Arthur and John Wilkes looth buried? What was the family ecret behind the stories of Alexander f Russia's double, Frederick the Sreat's double, the return of Ivan's on, Dmitri, and the disappearance of <ouis XVII.? Who were the remarkble people who appeared in Europe rom the twelfth century to the fifeenth, all remarkably alike in apearance, who claimed to be one and he same?no other than the "Wanerlng Jew" who had witnessed the rial of Jesus and had spoken to Him n His way to the cross? Who are the gypsies, where did they et their language and whence did hey come? Where did Count Allesandro di Cagliostro, the impostor, get he gold he scattered from his winows and claimed to have made by lchemy? Just what kind of people ere Prince Hal and Mary Queen of cots? Was there land, now beeath the sea. west of the Pillars of [ercules which the Greeks knew as tlantis? Was there a real "man in ho iron mask." and was there a real touin rioou, once cairi ui uritcsici . >id St. Ursula have one virgin or 11,00 with her when she was murdered t Cologne by the Huns? What did laeon have to do with Shakespeare's laywriting? And finally, what beame of Charlie Ross, Mrs. Belle (uinness, John Orth, Abdul Hamid I. and the candlesticks of Soloton's temple which Titus brought to Lome? This is by 110 means a complete eatatgue. Every one who reads it will oubtless think of a dozen more, but ike these, read everything you can nd about them; you will find a hunred specialists in each case giving leir individual opinions or individual uesses, but who can answer them? Take, for example, the lost graves. I'e know that Alaric's men buried int in the River Busento in Calabria 1 410 A. D. with about a ton of jewIry and then slew all the captives ho had been employed in the funral service. We know that Attila as buried in a mountain cave with ntold wealth, under similar condions, but who can locate these graves? ohn Wilkes Booth slew himself in a urn in West Virginia 011 the 26th of April, 1865, or was shot by Boston Corbet, but no one has ever been given any intimation of how the body was T. disposed of. If we are to trust to tradition King Arthur never died, he was spirited away under supernatural care to recover from his wounds to rel return when his country needed him. . There is no trace of a tradition that attempts to point out his burial place, if The problems of royal succession, ly the disappearance of heirs and the like A,, have occasioned bitter dispute and controversy In every European court. ?? It was said at one time that Ivan IV. toi had killed his only son Dmitri. Six ru years after Ivan's death Dmitri came back. His mother, who should have known, recognized him as her child tr( and he was crowned, but there were an those in Moscow who were equally go certain that the boy was only Grig- Tf orly Otrepieff, a boy of the town who ' had run away from home. This may or have been a scheme on the part of hli the young ruler's enemies to depose j , him, but it only aroused suspicion at the time and Dmitri maintained his no sent for n time Then he nntncnnlvori elf a certain element in the court by thi showing favor to certain Poles, and f the Russians were willing enough to believe him an imposter. He was de- Pa posed and the question of his iden- of. tity was never settled. an The man In the iron mask, whom f Dumas immortalized, was, according to tradition, the elder brother of Louis scl XIV., whom the king imprisoned and 1 masked so that he might reign in his ??, stead. When Louis XIV. and Marie Antoinette were beheaded there was ar a general impression that the Dau- ho phin, Louis XVII., had been murdered vo by his jailer, but when it became once thl more possible for a Bourbon to claim recognition from the French public a" half a dozen youths appeared, each Im claiming to be the heir to the throne. an One was shown to be Jean Marie . Hervagault, a tailor's son; another Mathurin Brumeau, the son of a wood- hit en-shoe maker; another Francois tic Henri Herbert, and another Karl Wilhelm Naundorf. The false Louises were mostly exposed, but just what ev' became of the real Louis will never be wc known. At For centuries the traditions of Ursula and her 11,000 virgins was accepted by the church and when a <t' huge graveyard of women's bones was jPj uncovered at Cologne some years ago the massacre of the fair pilgrims by wa the Huns was thought to be substan- ?t? tiated. But the only record of Ursula dii was a Latin manuscript that was so op worded that it might have read Ursula and 11,000 virgins, or "Ursula and Unadecima, virgins." This point ap was brought up some years ago and we gave birth to a great scholastic and clerical controversy. Who can settle it? The story of the Wandering Jew is almost as old as Christianity and is slmilai to stories of pagan peoples Sp much older than Christianity. But po the puzzle is. who were the people, or wj, the long-lived person who was able to demonstrate to the clericals of the ? middle ages that had seen Jesus go to _ Cavalry under the guard of the Ro- CZ man soldiery and had spoken with \| Him. 1 1228 A. D. an Armenian bishop I visiting in the west told of a man in 1 his land who had seen the passion of I Christ and was doomed to live until 'J the Nazarine should appear again / among men. The ecclesiastic's story was doubted at the time, but travelers in Armenia and other Armenian sojourners in the west swore they had seen the man in Armenia and Syria, that he spoke many languages, had traveled in every quarter of the earth and never aged. He had seen all the great personages of history since the beginning of the Christian era and was able to tell tales of them that were v* not then known, but were afterward v found in old and forgotten manu- [2 scripts. He was known in the east ll as Cartaphllus. Again a man was found and Interviewed in Hamburg In 1547 who called himself Ahasuerus, and claimed to be the Wandering Jew of tradition. He was a tall, gaunt, bearded man, with a wonderful knowledge of all the languages and peoples of the earth. A priest first saw him standing In a church listening to the sermon. He \ | was struck by his appearance and ap- 1 | proached him out of curiosity. The \ 1 story he told created an enormous stir \ in the church at that time. But this 1 was only the beginning of a series of I appearances which' recurred in al- J\ most every European city for a cen- /( tury after. The man always answered ^ the same description. Whence he came, ? whether It was always the same man, ?|| and whither he finally disappeared are V unsolved historic mysteries. |1 Those who know Plato will remem- " ber his reference to the great island of Atlantis, lying off Africa and Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean. It was a land H of the highest culture, according to m Greek tradition, visited by Greek and Phoenician merchants of a remote historic period and finally It sank below the sea. Plato calls It Tlmaeu? ' and Kritlas. The Celts had a similar story about m< the isle of the dead, which, in their 1 fables, came to be a land of the blessed, usually called Avalori. Some have Wf thought the references were to America. others have claimed that the character of the Atlantic bottom Is of such a conformation that the story of a great continent immediately below the surface is more than plausible. At anv rate, the whole aerlea of shadowy tales has never been entirely discredited nor substantiated fol and Atlantis remains a fascinating enigma.?Chicago Tribune. cu A DRIVE IN TIBET. Surprise of Natives at Sight of Vehi- i" cle Drawn by Horse. ne Before the departure of our guests ^ei I offer to take one of them for a we short drive. The vehicle is a low- Htr seated trap just imported from India, bei but unfortunately no harness has ar- Pjj rived as yet; however, I have improvised some with rawhide and we start off down the stony road and ] across the bridge. cei My guest and all the onlookers are vastly amused, the tears roll down ] their faces the laughable idea of sit- tal ting in a chair and making a pony __ pull it along. There are no wheeled ~ vehicles in Tibet, and these people had only seen the rough ekkas, which were used for transport during the expedition in 1904. Their surprise at the motor car imported by my predecessor had subsided, though they were always glad to surround and stare at it. For sheer entertainment, however, let them gaze on the white man's new invention going down the road. After a spin of half a mile we return, but as we are crossing the narrow bridge, innocent of parapets, it occurs to me that the pony is further off than ho should be. I am puzzling over this phenomenon when suddenly the shafts slip clear of the harness, the trap tilts back and we are lying on it with our heads hanging over the rushing water and our feet pointing to the skies. Meanwhile the pony, who "never in this wise had been treated before," tears the reins out of my hands and p-nllnn? hnmp The Tibetan srroom with great presence of mind closes the hood of the trap so that we cannot see the awful doom that awaits us if we stir, though the danger is no further off on that account. With some difficulty we are rescued, my Tibetan friend in a terrified condition. and I have never been able to persuade him to come for a drive again, even behind the best Cawnpore harness.?F. M. Bailey in Blackwood's Magazine. Love of Display.?The doorbell of the Vanity's house rang at about 8 o'clock one night, and Mrs. Vanity said excitedly to her husband. "There, Charles, I know that's the furniture van coming with the new bedroom suite we bought today, and if it is I Just won't receive it, that's all." "Why not?" asked Mr. Vanity. "Why not?" replied Mrs. Vanity. "Do you think I'm going to pay $100 for a suite and then have it sent out here after dark so that none of the neighbors ca.i see it when it's brought in? Not if t know it."?I?ndon Telegraph. A FLAME OF PAIN. e Shock That Cornea With the Bite of the Electric Ant. j When you happen to sit down to it or take notes near a colony of ctric ants some wandering hunter sure to find you and come cautiousforward to discover the nature of e intruder and what ought to be ne. If you are not too near the ant tvn and keep perfectly still he may n across your feet a few times, over ur legs and hands and face, up your lusers, as if taking your measure d getting comprehensive views, then in peace without raising an alarm. However, a tempting spot is onerea some suspicious movement excites m a bite follows. And such a bite! fancy that a bear or a wolf bite is t to be compared with it. A ^uick 'ctrlo flame of pain flashes along e outraged nerves, and you discover r the first time how great is the cacity for sensation you are possessed A shriek, a grab for the animal d a bewildered stare follow this bite bites as one comes back to conlousness from sudden eclipse. This wonderful electric ant is about ree-fourths of an inch long. Bears e fond of it and tear and gnaw its me logs to pieces and roughly deur the eggs, larvae, parent ants and e rotten or sound wood of the cells, in one spicy acid hash. The Digger rlians also are found of the larvae d even of the perfect ants, so I have en told by old mountaineers. They ;e off and reject the head and eat the Kiy acia ooay wmi ki'^h rciiau. ius are the poor biters bitten, like I pry other biter, big or little, in the I trld's great family.?John Mnir in I lantic. | e Bishop X. had officiated In the col- re chapel; and, though his discourse is most excellent in itself, it had no vlous connection with the text. At iner Professor Y. was asked his inlon of the bishop's sermon. "Dear I man!" he exclaimed. "It was truly ostolic. He took a text, and then nt everywhere preaching the gosI."?Ex. ' iT'A consumer of coffee in Valencia. J ain, pays from 31 to 54 cents a a und, of which the Brazilian planter A 10 raised it gets only 3J cents. S I WOOD'S HIGH-GRADE if j Farm Seeds. \ j We are headquarters for a 1 . 11 C ]_ I ^ trie oe8t in an rarm nccuo. Grass and Qover Seeds m Seed Cora, Cotton Seed, J Cow Peas, Soja Beans, J \ Sorghums, Kaffir Cora, (J) < ) Millet Seed, Peanuts, etc. q * "Wood's Crop i 8 8 u e d . Special" monthly a gives timely information as to seeds to plant each month in . the year, also prices of Season- a able Seeds. Write for copy, " mailed free on request. , ^ T. W. WOODS SONS, // Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. / TRAIN 11 GREAT jndreds of Yorkville Readers Find Daily Toil a Burden. The hustle and worry of business in, The hard work and stooping: of >rkmen, The woman's household cares. Are too great a strain on the kidys. Backache, headache, sideache. Kidney troubles, urinary troubles How. Road the following, and learn the re. ' U B. Lee of Chester, S. C., says: "I l glad to acknowledge the benefit lerived from the use of Doan's Kicty Pills. My back gave me a great al of trouble and at times I was so ak that I could scarcely attend to r business. Doan's Kidney Pills engthened my back and I have since en entirely free from pain. I am >ased to give this remedy my enrsement." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 its. Foster-Mllburn Co., BulTalo, iw York, sole agents for the United ites. Remember the name?DOAN'S?and ce no other. J That | Analysis i | obtained [ They are \ actual fie ft | requires, I formulati | Ever | selected f I work to d | plant fert I regular fi | Ask | see that | When yoi you are 1ROYSTE F. S. R NORrc bau j>^z YOU CANNOT successfully life without money. Have you only had $1,000 NOW." Make OUR Bank T HAM AlVm Q A' niiiy vjn Safety Boxes for Rent?1 NEW PERFECTION I Wick Blue name Oil Cook-Stove Ideal for Rammer coo Icing. Cut* fuel expense In two. Savee labor. Give* clean, quick relulu. Three *1rf* Fnlly warranted STANDARD OIL. CO. (Iweoraerated) NEW BATH ROOM EVERYBODY Invited to enjoy a luxury?a first-class bath-room? ust try it once and you'll come again nd tell your friends. Price 25 cent*. l first-class, up-to-date City Barber Ihop. Li. G. BABER, Prop. tA*A*A*AHA*AieAaU.?lAftA*A i TEST We want the York County f I for His Money, to Buy Our F< I cause we know that with our fa est Grade Fertilizers and with ! are in position to make Fertili of the most exacting York cou our Fertilizers contain the ver; 1 are properly mixed and if giver I biggest returns in increased pro York County Fanners Will D I That They Get Our Fertilizers. 1 Congaree Fertil PAUL R. BRATTON, ] For Sale By YORK SUI Ik PA ?A *A *4 *A *A *Jl The HUDSON In offering prospective Auton line of cars, we do so in the ful best proposition that can be were designed by Mr. H. E. automobile circles as being on successful Automobile Design* says that the 1911 HUDSON automobile building. In the I ers a line of cars that represent Minimum price?in other won money in a Hudson car than other car at anywhere near th good as the Hudson must sell ing at a lower price than the Buy a HUDSON and you will Buy. See us or drop us a card The RIDDLE AUTO CO., THAOe MMIr HSR* RC6ISTCRCO1 : there is more to a Fertilize! is proven conclusively by the every year from Royster Ferti made from experience obtain Id experiments of what the and not from ready refe ngy ingredient in Royster Go< or its plant food value, and 1 lo at the proper time, therefoi ilized with ROYSTER goods *om sprouting time until han your dealer for Royster good the trade-mark is on every u see this a? ftp-> you know getting the genuine and or R Fish Fertilizer. :OYSTER GUANO COMPA1 FACTORIES AND SALES OFFICES: ILK, VA TARBORO. N. C COLUMBIA. 9. C. 'IMORE. MO. MACON. OA 6RARTAN0URG, 6. C. LUMBUS, OA. MONTOOMERY. ALA, cT^juL vVtjh, . I OU AEE A 1 F REE : MAN St ; WHEN YOU HAVE "4 I MONEY la IN THL ank j fight the business battles of ! ever said to yourself: "If I 1 1 i i : YOUR Bank. i VINGS BANK. $2.00 and $3.00 Per Year. , PLUMBING 1 T RFSPFrTFTTLLY bee leave to of L fer my services to the people of ; Yorkville in connection with all kinds 1 of water and sewerage plumbing:, and to say that I will be prompt and will endeavor to grive entire satisfaction and prices that are fair. 1 W. L. BABER. ' 97 t 3m. < PURE BRED WHITE Legrhorn Cockerels and Pullets at $2 per pair, and eggs from any pen of White Leghorns at 31.00 a setting of fifteen. Address Sharon, S. C. C. L. KENNEDY. 11 t.f 3m. ' CLAIMS. I armer Who Wants the Most ? ;rtilizers. We want this be cilities for making the High our years of experience we ? zers that will stand the test nty farmers. We know that ^ y best ingredients, that they ? i a fair chance will show the ? duction where they are used. ^ ] o Well to Demand and See ? , Give Them a Trial. ? ; izer Company, 5 Manager, Columbia, S. C. ^ >PLY COMPANY. ^ The Perfect Car At a Reachable Price iobile buyers the HUDSON 1 belief that we have the very found. The HUDSON cars Coffin, who is recognized in e of the most competent and crs in the world. Mr. Coffin line represents his ideals in 1UDSON line we offer buy:s the Maximum of value at a is you will get more for your you can possibly get in any ie price. Other cars built as for a higher price. Cars sellHudson will give you less, buy the Best the Price Will for prices, etc. F. C. Riddle, Proprietor. r than jl results JS ilizers. M ed by A plant III irencc fa ods is jh J iias its Hi j re the m J is fed | fest. '[I J Is and /jj bag. 'Jn S that J| ? iginal J| J w, I j J. C. WILBORN rhazj estate jIST your property with me f you want to sell? ? FOR SALE ? 75 Acre*?Of the John M. Thomaslon homestead; a nice location; gooa, strong land. Price |50 an acre. 951-2 Acres?The home of J. P. V"? Barnes, Delphos; 1 nice 4-room dwelling and 2 good tenant houses; close to school and church; a good neighborhood. Joins J. B. Scott and J. F. Larson. 50 Acres One mile of the growing town of Sharon; property of J. H. Jenkins; Joining J. A. Byers and others rhis is a nice piece of land; good and itrong; easily rents for 1,500 lbs. of lint cotton. 240 Acrss?Property of F. N. Lynn; loining Robt. Moore, J. J. Sherrer; It Is rolling, but Is good, strong land; ias a 5-horse farm open on It; 1 dwelling house, 8-rooms; big barn, cribs, etc. Price $13 per acre. 460 Acre*?Of the C. C. Hughes place, situated about 6 miles from Yorkvllle, 3 from Tlrzah and 8 from the city of Hock Hill. This Is perhaps one of the finest farms In York county. Has a school house In a J of a mile. The dwellings are all In tip-top shape, all Ihiproved machinery can be used on It, aa it is level. I am prepared to sell this place to different parties to suit their taste, so if you want a small or a large farm on this place, see me at once. This place could be cut into 6 or 6 beautiful farms, but must be sold all at one time. The beautiful residence and cottage, home of Sam'l McCall In Clover, on King's Mountain street; 5-rooms. house Is nicely painted, nice hedge and shade; barn and stable; everything complete; good well water. Pries (1,400. 91 Acrss?Parks Parish place, property of J. F. Smith, a nice new cottage, a splendid location for country store. Nice land at New Zion cross road. 128 Acrss?At New Zion. Property of J. F. Smith; new house, good bam, out buildings, etc. Cheap. Write for prices. 100 Acrss?One mile from Filbert, 3 miles Clover on York and Clover road, joining lands of J. M. Stroup and others. Property of J. A. Tate. Pries |22 psr acrs. Rents for 2,200 lbs. cotton; 3-horse farm open. 61 Acrss?1J miles Tlrzah, on Rock Hill road; land lies level; 60 acres In cultivation; joins J. L. Moss, Bob Ward and Southern R. R.. Pries $40 psr acrs. T r% TXT a 11 AS* A J. v. nau?,c. 310 Acres?Near state line, land lies rolling, about 40 acres in cultivation, balance,in wood; a nice 6-room cottage; newly painted and rodded; a fine bargain; $15 par acre. John Wells place. Mrs Metts's beautiful residence in Yorkville; everything is in first-class condition, with twelve good rooms; sewerage and water in the dwelling. Lot 198 feet front, 343 feet deep, with a lane entering the premises from Madison street 40 Aeres?At Outhrlesvllle depot, facing C. & N.-W. R. R. Price $50 an acre. 208 Acres?Two and one-half miles Lockhart mills; 1 3-room house; 20 acres in cultivation, 175 acres in wood ?most pine. Jno. Ned Thomson place. 201 Acres?In Ebenezer township; 1 dwelling 1| story high, 5 rooms; also tenant house 5 rooms 1$ story high. Price $11 per acre. Property of M. B. Massey. One 4-room house and 30 acres of land at Filbert facing King's Mountain highway and joining King's Mountain Chapel. 290 Acres?More or less, Joins Fred Black, J. L. Williamson, J. B. Johnson, Mrs. Kendrick, Sam Roach, J. H. Campbell, W. B. Byers and others; 1 dwelling house, two-stories, six-rooms and good barn; 175 acres under cultivation; one of the finest farms in the Blackjack section. Property of John R T /ica n 81 Aersa?In one tract, 122 acres In the other; Joins W. R. Carroll and others on Turkey creek; 2 houses on each; 1 has 3 rooms, other 2 rooms; barn and stable on each; a line meadow on the 122 acres. Pries Twenty-six Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars. Will sell the 61 acres separately. 514 Aeres?Fine farm of W. M. Whltesldes, 1| miles Hickory Grove; a. nice 2-story, 8-room residence; about 260 acres In original forest timber; about 260 acres in cultivation; 60 acres of good bottom land. This place last year produced 40 bales of cotton, over 600 bushels of oats, and a very large corn crop. Prioe per acre? 116.00. 28 Aeres?Two nice dwellings, including a fine roller flour mill, one corn mill, 2 metal turbine wheels, 25tiorse power each, a saw mill; everything in tip top order. Pries $3,000,. 69 Aeres?Bounded by the lands of D. M. Parrott, J. J. McCarter, J. B. Wood and J. C. Lilly; the property cf J. C. Wood. . Will put a six-room tenant house on the place. Will sell for ($37) thirty-seven dollars an acre. The beautiful home of Jno. O. Pratt, 1 mile of Newport and Tirzah; 79 acres; absolutely level land; 66 acres In cultivation; 20 acres in fine tlmher; i 6-room tenant house, painted; a good barn; all necessary outhouses; also 1 tenant house with 4-rooms also barn; 16 acres of new ground that will make a bale to the acre. I do not know of is valuable a little place in the county; I miles from Rock Hill. Pries $60 an ere. The residence and store room combined in the town of Yorkville of Geo. Bherer. It is three lots from the court bouse. It has a large store room, easily rents for $20, another room rents for id. About two acres or iana; ? nice rooms in the residence. Pries |4.000. 150 Acres?Near Clay Hill; 1 dwelling; all necessary outbuildings?part the A. A. Barron place?$10.00 an icre. 136 Aeraa?Including the Baird & Kudeon place near Concord church;. 3 rood houses; 60 acres in cultivation? 115.00 an aors. Property of M. B. Hassey. 115 Acres?1 dwelling, and two tenmt houses; 90 acres under cultivation, !0 acres in timber; 2i miles of Smyrla. Price, $15.00 per acre. T. B. Nichols. 62 Acres?Property of M. C. Lathan, iear King's Creek station and Piednont Springs, on public road. Pries (15 per acre. 95 Acres?Mrs. J. Frank Wallace >lace, 2 dwellings on it; 8 miles of forkville on public highway, near New Hon church. Pries $1,425. 171 Acres?J. J. Scogglns mill and tome, 1 dwelling, 8-rooms, 2 stories; 0 acres very fine bottom land?proluce corn every year; 30 acres barbed trlre; also 30 acres hog wire pasture; 0 acres under cultivation; 25 acres n forest timber. A new barn, 40x60; louble crib. One-third Cash. 285 Acres?Joins Wm. Blggers, Meek rfeulkner, Jlss McGill; 6-horse farm; house, 6-rooms, 75 acres under cuN ivatlon; 185 acres in timber. Seme aw timber; near to Enon church; 2$ ailes Smyrna; 4 tenant houses, 35 icres of bottom land. Price $15.00 per icre. A. J. Boheler property. Mlaa TVillv Miller rea(/?enr>e?a hap. lain. 160 Aoraa?76 acrea in cultivation; 6 acrea in timber; 3 milea Sharon. 'try cheap. 50 Acrea?Joina A. J. Boheler, Westmoreland and Ed Whlteaidea cornera t London aiding; 1 house, 1 story, 3ooma, 20 acrea under cultivation, lenty of firewood; orchard, good prlng, | mile of Canaan church, 1 mile f Smyrna station, good barn. Pries 16.00 per acre. #7 Acres?And a new 6-room house, tenant houses; new barn 30x40; two ailes Clover. Owner wishes to buy irger farm. This Is a great bargain. roperty of T. J. Bradford. 188 Acrea?In King's Mountain town* hip; one 3-room dwelling; about 600,00 feet timber. Price $10 per acre. 3951-2 Acres?Known as the OatesLllison place; produces 8 bales of cot3n; one 2-story, 7-room building; 4 jnant houses, 3 rooms each, 100 acres 1 cultivation, 160 acres in timber; balnce in second growth and pasture; miles of Hickory Grove. Will cut in> small tracts. Priee $12.00 per acre. 112 3-4 Acres?Joins John P. Smith; ) acres in cultivation; 62 in timber; dwelling, 2 tenant houses; good new am. Price 2,000. R D. Wallace. J. C. WILBORN. MONET TO LOAN. )N first Mortgage on Real Estate. Terms easy. THOS. F. McDOW, .ttorney. A 99 t.f tf J