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AFTER SUFFERING Tif^VTADC IJWI iivAiii: Cured by Lydia E. Pink ham's VegetableCompounc Mari/ton, N.J.?I feel that LydiaE I^kham^V^r^ble Compound ^ha ^ree rs^ th ^ rio^ or died, when 1 read about Lydia E Pjnkham's Vegetable Compound; so . began to take it, and am well again ant relieved of all my suffering. ?Mrs Grohge Jordy, Box 40. Marlton, If J Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, made from nativo roots ant ncrus, contains no narcotics or narm ful drugs, and to-day holds the recon for the largest number of actual curei of female diseases we know of, an< thousandsof voluntary testimonialsar< on file in the Pinkham laboratory a Lynn, Mass., from women who havi been cured from almost every form o female complaints, inflammation, ul ceration, displacements, fibroid tumors irregularities, periodic pains, backache indigestion and nervous prostration Every suffering woman owes it to her elf to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound a trial. If you would like special advici about your case write aconflden< tial letter to Mrs. Pinkliam, a Lynn, Mass. Her tulvice is free and always helpful. The hearts of the people are tb onlv legitimate foundation of empiri ' |8e:m ENT^ SALESMEN WAXTEO WANTED?Active, eneriretie men torepn se'tus. I'roftttbie positions. Hustlei make blir money. Cash weekly advances. Coir plete outfit free. Write Immediately lor on liberal offer, vt. T. Hood & Co. OI.D DOMINION NURSERIES. Mention this Paper. Ricnxosp. V; ^ ^ l-ADY AOKKTII WANTED. ?? a a i r.it-Lady agents In all parts of th vv United States to advertise and se "Black Crow Stockena" to wearers. Good coir mission. Address. Black Cbow Stockkn Co.. Newton. N ( rm ihiit Mcaic. ANYONE sending us names of Ave persor that play 011 the 1'lano. we will sen them Host 1'ald Free, copy of latest Song c Two-Step. SOUTHERN MUSIC CO., l'o. Office Box 30. Richmond. Va A collar button was found in a Oklahoma man's appendix, sbowinj the futility of searching under th bureau instead of calling a surgeon ?St. Louis Post-Dispatch POUND THE CAUSE. After Six Years of Misery and Wrong Treatment. John A. Enders, of RoDertson Avenue, Pen Argyl, Pa., suffered for six years with stinging pain in the back, viog?. w - ? V lent headaches and ^ Q H177V anolln 00 F assured by a speclal1st that his kidneys were all right, though '-/ thesecretlons showed a reddish, brick-dust -?edlL.-iit. Not satisfied, Mr. Euders started using Doan's Kidney Pills. "The kidneys began to act more regularly," he says, "and In a short time I pass'd a few gravel stoues. I felt better right away, and since then -have had no kidney trouble." Sold by all dealers. f>0 cents a box. Foster-Alilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. We venture the assertion that thi Glorious Girls of Gotham look les< atrocious in the new spring hats thai -hen asterisk-eyed blondes of Rich xnond or the grand old widows o dimpled Houston.?New York Even ing Mail. A Severe Case of Eczema. Garland, N. C , Mr. J. T. 3huptrine. Savannah, Ga. Dear Sir:?Ba?t winter my mother haf eczema all o^er her. Could not rest ?taj or night for the stinging. burning, Itching She tried various Kinds of salvei and ointments but they did her no goo<l at all. She happened to sec Tettertnc advertised. We o.'dercd one box and trier it cn her arm. It did hvr u,, mm-ii ?/??> we showed it to oar doctor. He ltr.:.ie' diately ordered one-half dozen. She user It aa directed twice a day. It did he o much good wo ordered one doyer more. After using it several %vcek? shl was completely cured. i can certain!} recommend Tctterlne as it 13 a sure cun for eczema. I really believe it saved mj mother's life. Yours truly, Mies Minnie Cromartle. w " iu.c? m /.Biiia, i en cr, mn| Worm. Ground Itch. Itching Piles, In (ant's Sore Head, Pimple* Molls. Rougl S< uly Putchei on the Face, Old Itclilm Sores. Dandruff, ..ankcred Scalp, rtjn' Ions, Corns, Chilblains and every form < Skin plne.ise. Tett*rlne 50c; Tetterlrx Sout> Z&c. Your druggist, or by mall Iron the manufacturer, The Shuptr.Ine Co. Savannah, Ga. Man's ehiof wisdom consits i knowing liis follies. in the purchase of paint materials. JSmMOT^J '* an E guarantee jf purity and quality, / ' i \ For your own MWoXB^s protection, see /(S ^ ' miaM iim CMTMT NO NEED TO TAKE CHANCES. There Ik a Snre Way of Knowing (iood Paint Material. ( There Is really no need whatever for any property owner to take chances In the selection of his paint materials. It doesn't cost a cent to 3 learn how to be on the safe ride. CerF talnly every property owoor has k enough at stake to And this out. " A complete painting guide, known ( as Houseowners" Painting OntAt No. 4 9 can be had free by writing Na tlonal Lend Company, 1902 Trinity RlllMIno Mo.. Vo.u T iurn. 111 ib company is the largest oiaker of pure white L lead In the wotld. Its Dutch Boy 8 Painter trademark Is famous as a j ' guarantee of purity and quality. The ^ outOt Includes a book of color schemes, for either Interior or oxter1T lor painting, a book of specifications, j and a simple little Instrument, with 3 directions for testing tho purity of i. paint materials. e 1 Dcn't leglect to boost. It makes ? trade better and adds to the jovs of { life. J | TOTAL LOSS OF HAIi? ^ deemed Imminent?Senlp Was Very Sculy and Hair Came Out l>y Haudfuls?Scalp Cleared and New J Hair Grown by Cutlcura. "About two years ago I whs troubled j with lay head being scaly. Shortly after i ".hat 1 had nn attack of typhoid fever and ? I was out of the hospital possibly two r nonths when I first noticed the loss of . lair, mv scalp being still scaly. 1 started j~ o use dandruff cares to no effect whatever, a I had actually loet hope of saving any hair ?t all. I could brush it off my coat by the il iand.'ul. 1 wns afraid to comb it. But o ifter using two cakes of Cuticurn Soap and tl ' learly a box of Cuticurn Ointment, the q change was surprising. My scalp is now * lear and healthy as could Ik? and my hair thicker than ever, whereas I had tny mind ei nude up to be bald. W. F. Stecse, 5812 b llroad St.. Pittsburg, Penn., May 7 and tl " !l, '08." Potter Drug & ('hem. Corp., Sole 5ropa. of Cuticurn Remedies. Boston, Mass. a . T - The fellow who trusts to luck in p e petting there usually has to walk a e home. C A l| flcre'i Relief. n ^ If we must be afflicted with weak, u sore and inflamed eyes, it is consoling n Z to know there is such a ready relief , rs within our reach as Doctor Mitchell's Eye Salve. One bottle usually effects " complete cure. Have you ever tried C this wonderful remedy? All stores, h !b Price 25 cents. p - h '* Be not busy in detecting other e' men's faults. c' For OUliDB and OKIP. 11 - Rick's CArcniNS Is the best remedy? f> relieves the aching and feverl*hness?cures | R is the Cold and restores normal coudttlous. It's . d liquid ?effects Immediately. lie.. ttc. and ir Me., at drug stores. r< it " ; A, A man that is young in years may : be old in hours if he has lost no time. ^ n w ,, Ladles Can Wesr Shoes li ~ One size smaller after using Allen's Foot- tl Ease, a powder. It makes tight cr new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, uweutuig, aching teet. ingrowing nulls, corns and tinuions. At &1 Druggists and Shoo stores, 25c. Don't ao- ol cent any substitute. Trial package Free by ., mail. AddressAllenS.Olmsted,LeUoy.N.Y. Ol I Misfortune is the touchstone of a friendship. pi w Iteh curd in Si minutes by Woolford"S , , 8anitary lotion Never fads At druggist*. hi Proverbs and Phrases hi Man is a dupeable animal. m The just man hateth lying. The law arises from the fact. 01 Any man who plots another's un- 1c doing is arranging his own. se The dishonesty of one man is a tax re upon the whole community. j th The hand of the diligent maketh ; P3 rich. So. lG-'09. j I th fliw'h This? ; ct We offer O.ip Hundred Dollars Reward i as (or any cas? of Catarrh that cannot be | wcured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CiiK.vtv & Co.. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, hove known F. J. te Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in nil business ? transactions and financially able to carry } out any obligations made by bis firm. 5 Waldixo, Kinxax & Marvik, Whole- ? j sale Druggists, Toledo, O. fr nail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,act* ingdirectly upon the blood and ir.ucuoussurf faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. D _ Price, 75c. tier bottle. Sold by all Druggists, fli Take Hall's Family 1'ills for constipation. "0, Dr. Eilot's Southern Tour. ai . Baltimore American. _ . I I "I will venture tn ns-sort flint In# -- [ tour of the South made by the learn- i 11 [ ed and philosophical president of j | Harvard, I)r. F31iot, has been a revela- j | tion to him," said Prof. A. W. Lane,' a i formerly of Tulane University, New a ^ Orleans, at the Hotel Stafford. | ii ? "Dr. Eliot, of course, knew that; bi , the South had made pood headway in ! 8' ' education since reconstruction times,' 61 but he was probably unprepared to c' [ find so much interest in intellectual. u ? development and so many institutions ( K \ of high prade. The time is coming 84 f when the South is going to be the j ? home of great men of letters as well, , as of practical deeds. Here in Balti-J more, which will always be the fore-1 T n moat cuy or the JSouth, Johns llop-1 * kins is a centre of learning and men- j s tal achievement that has given it: world-wide fame. There is not a n State south of Mason and Dixon's line where the masses are not arous- f cd to the necessity of good schools, , , and Dr. Eliot truly says that in this e respect the progress of the South in c the past few years has been greater j than that of any other portion of the j Union." ( j Wise Sayings. 1 Men's life on earth is a temptation. Do not go to a doctor unless yon < are willing to take his medieine. 1 Where beauty is only skin deep, 1 one is foolish to look deeper. >. ^iSifjjat nito* *r ? ' " " 1 ' <; " "5*-I ^ ** >.. '* ? ? ' * THE PRINCESS IN THE CITY. an I lie awake and think of quiet hills And many winui tni waters, all asleep. u? All dreaming ? the silver of tn? n? night; h 3f silent empty woods, of waters deep 110 And grassy meadows fail ot testing hll sheep, ln And over them tlio moon with steadfust light. Wh kly father has a castle lit the North And from the battlements 1 saw the trc hills, ha Bare and trec-eovered. white with . fallen snows, 10 Jreen with the waking sptlng and brown Ca and gold When with her melancholy Autumn Alls Men's hearts, and touches everything inf that grows. jer listen .to the never-ceasing feet llg And hear men's voices raised ln rage < or fear All through the night. May It not the chance again al0 shall go North nnd from my towerroom an< Look out and see the hills and only hear try The pnssing of the winds, the voice of rain? WR see loved the city. Once her many lights Were Jewels shining on the hidden on" throat Wri Of some divined enchantress. Now, ,, alas,? ?et me go North, far North agnln. and to 1 find . My father's castle. cro3s the guarded moat. not And front Its safety watch the last fti0 years pass. B ?Westminster Review. "Ql nu dcr a ou; Happy Friendship ;;; J ha Pretty Story of How "Alice in ^ Wonderland" Csma to Be Written. wei In Helen Marshall Pratt in St. Nicholas. an, ????^?J a ti Can you Imagine a time when "Alice tlie 1 Wonderland" had not been heard me f? When no one know the story of stu So White Rabbit and the Cheshire frit at, of the March Hare and the Mad a j ea party? When "You are old, Path- wh r William," and "How doth the little wh usy bee" read only one way, and when say acre was no Mock Turtle's story, no the obstcr Quadrille, and the Red Q??" nd the Duchess and Tweedledum and 1 'weodledeo had not yet been made to sin ve for the pleasure of children, largo Ue\ nd small? ven I fancy that every one who loves the nar ilce books must pity those unfortu- the ate children who lived before they ter 'ere written, and who thus missed so dra uich that makes the reading hours of can hlldhood bright today. dre In the great quadrangle or court of con hrist Church college, in Oxford, Eng- stoi uid, many a stirring event has taken the lace, and many a distinguished man tini as lived and died. Of all these, no the vent is of great interest to Ameri- gra in children than the writing of "Alice and I Wonderland," and no person of tret reater interest than its author, the .ev. Charles Dodgson, whom we know etter under his pen-name, "Lewis Car311." In the same quadrangle, which By very one in Oxford calls the "Tom uad" from the bell named Great Tom hich hands in the Gateway tower, ved the real Alice, a sweet, merry lit- "thi e Oxford girl, one of Lewis Carroll's an> irliest and best child friends. the Nothing in the dignified appearance tak t the quadrangle suggests the gro- Pro (sque creations and the merry fancies but these wonderful nonsense books, the II flftortt'OVfl Anon ? .. u iuw auaico ui giavv -ofessore and students. In the north- wh( est angle the author of Alice found the is home In 1862, a few years after he crai id graduated from Christ Church, and him id come to be a lecturer on matbe- the! atics in the college. mo< He seems to have been a very quiet, bac derly, reserved young man, fond of the ng walks off in the country by him- evei If; fond of books and study; shy and will tiring with grown people, except plct lose that he knew very well; but hap- wot r and free and merry with all chil- less en, whom he tenderly loved. He wa.j pos le oldest in a big family of eleven the! lildren of whom he was very nd "1 i they were of hint. I'o made friends wot ith children as long as he lived, and whi as never too tired or too busy to en- a b rtain them. be A little Oxford girl?but she is now plct lady, and you can see the roof of to j ?r ucauuiui Dome in tno quadrangle who was one of Lewis Carroll's best mai lends, and whom he called "Dear pict ee," says: "If you went to see Mr. mal odgson in the morning you would ate id him, pen in hand, hard at work or i neat packets carefully arranged In ound him on the table; but the pen cf I ould be Instantly laid aside, and the waj ost cheerful of smiles would wel- ing >me you in for a chat as long as you evi< ked to stay." and I suppose that no children ever hart g'ra more delightful playfellow than did ma; lese little friends. A story is told of famous general who went to call at sav house in the Quad and was ushered mo ito a room where no one seemed to had e present, but a great commotion was a c oing on under the table. The gen- hui ral, who loved a romp with his own U8, tilldren, got on all fours and rushed to nder the table, where he found to his iDO reat surprise the Rev. Charles Dodg an surrounded by the children of the 0th imily. dot dui. ui an inw nuiie inenas wnom tog owls Carroll loved, none were dearer far ban the daughters of Dean Llddell; ton <ortna, Alice and Bdith. They lived be. n the same side of the quadrangle der rlth him, but at the opposite corner; j hat is, they lived at the east end of orth walk and he lived at the west nd, so that they could run along the < lags and visit him and have a cozy ' lme, even on a rainy day. Their fath>r was dean of the cathedral, and one >f the authors of the great Greek die- *, ionary which your older brother .. mows very well, no doubt. The deantry le a beautiful old home with iv> ' ind trees and a fine garden at the ' jack, and this was the home of Alice. She waa not the oldest, but the second daughter, and In the verses at the cl4 Mglnnlng of the Wonderland book she mi Is called "Secunda" (Second); Lorlna, by the eideat. Is called "Prima" (Flrat), d little Edith, the youngwt, U a 'ertia" (Third). For theee t er children, Lewis Carroll hi ver-euding fund of storiee w told them at all sorts of timet i study, In the garden, while wal the country or rowing on the i tlch runs at the foot of the col 3undc. And one of the grei ats that the sisters could posi ve was to go boating up the t Nuneham or Oodstow with L rroll, have tea on the banks ne home leisurely in the early e f, to Christ Church, their host teJning them all the way with btfu! fairy stories. 'Alice in Wonderland." was on '?e stories, begun as they rc ng the river on a Fourth of 1 In the year 1862, when our c was In the midst of the great i r. Lewis Carroll himself did m to think the story a wondi ?. In his diary for that day ote: I made an expedition up the r Oodstow with ihe three Llddell* 1 tea on the banks there and : reach Christ church till half hf Later on. he added to t a which occasion 1 told them ry tale of "Alice's Adventures ground." which 1 undertook to ? for Alice." Ten can Imagine how eagerly ldren listened while the ad' es of the White Rabbit, the s the Mouse and the Lory. The * race and all the rest of the ro I ?% a 1 - ' - ~ ' - - .v >V1U a u LUC ?CI1IIC. ((Uit'l lilSI which Mr. LXnigson always sp 1 rather slowly, perhaps, becaus endency to stammering. So met 1 i party was increased to a 1 mber, a gentleman who was ihei dent at Trinity College, and a g >nd of Mr. Dodgson. but who is ;rave canon of Westminster Ab ere you may have heard him pit en you have been in London, s that the "Alice" stories, somi m at least, were told over ulders. *he entire story was not told o gle occasion, as you may well re, but on many occasions the itures were resumed, and d cha Tatod, now on the river, now study, now in the garden, now tea in the meadows or in the < wing room facing the street, i imagine how impatient the c n would be for the "next time' le and how unwilling to have ry teller's voice stop, even tho breath grew too weak "to stir iest feathor." And how eag< y would welcome a sight of ve ycung man in his college 1 gown who represented to thei isure house of delight. THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S TEST Which He Discovers That in S< Ways the Whole World is Kin You note," said the photograpl at in nintlirao ? ? - |/*v?.uiwo kaaivkzu aii/nucic, ' part of the globe, the humans 1 camera as If they wanted to en. It may be curiosity t mpts them or it may be van they all seem to like to get i picture. Take a group picture made s ire, say among our own tribe. N people in the rear with ne ned to g?et their heads out from d blanketing people in front, so t Ir faces will show. Shyness lesty may keep some who are in kground from doing this, but un photographer has personally pc ry member of the grcup so that I show you will always And in s ures some figures of persons \ ild otherwise have been more ; obscured but who have so ed themselves as to make sure t lr faces show. So of any set group, and the ss ild be true of any sort picturt cli litany pet sons were taken a: anquet or a wedding, and it wc true of some ot the onlookers i ure taken of a funeral. Peonle ;et Into the picture. Just how true (his is appears ny ways in all sorts of pictures urcs In which people are not In but only incidental or subon features, as of accidents, or ru scenes of a great variety of sc such pictures whore the press the camera was knovn you will fs find some persons facing or ti toward the photographer, with lent desire to get into the plct I it is easy to imagine that tification of seeing themselves tl y give them pleasure. I>ook at pictures taken of se age or semi-civilized people in test countries, where perhaps t I never seon a mirror or heart amera, but you may be sure 1 nan vanity exists as it does v and you may see somebody trj get into the picture or smiling k well in it. Seriously, this pleases me as er one minor thing that I knov ss. It brings the whole world cl< ether, for it shows that howe apart in land and tongue find i as the races of the wide world i yet in some at least of man's lying human traits we are all k few York Sun. The Distinction. 3nK/v/\1 i? ? ? ? ?*?1 ji.iiuui icavnci?juiiiiiiy, wnai trlot? lohnny?A man that tries to bei i country. 3chool Teacher?And what la a lan? Johnny?A man that tries to 1 i country benefit him.?Judge. An Englishman has Invented a I i for the blind. In reality. It alticycle, carrying twelve riders ? a seeing person, who does serine. iim iMwif" j 5" Southern Agri< id a hich 111 II king Modern Method* 1 ',lver Farmer. Fruit Gro liege iteet ? ^bly Onr Poor Methods of Marketing. lver ewls The manner In which Southern and poultry and eggs are marketed la ven- largely responsible for our failure to en. make them profitable. We market de- raost of our poultry alive, but how seldom we see a coop of uniform size, e 0f color and quality. But for our craze lWed f?r crossing and the scarcely less inJuly aane idea that scrubs are more valuouu able than pure-breds, because they civil will stand more hardships, whereas not H ia a fact that when any animal is >rful withstanding hardships it Is a losing he business for the owner, we might have poultry of uniform color. Any one Iv^r knows that of twp coops, the one ; made up of birds of tho same size and did color, and the other of the usual past Jacob's coat variety, the former will his: bring a good advance In price, even tho though they be of no better quality. Un- There are thousands of town and rrlie e'ty mpn and women who appreciate a really fresh egg. and many of them th* have both the money and the lncllnnvcn tlon to Pa>' for it. Why not cater to lory that demand and furnish these peo?au Pi* what they want and are willing tale to P*y for. really fresh, clean. Rood litot: eggs? Such eggs command a higher oke. Price anywhere, and you can deliver e of them to some man in town for the nies ton ?' the market. Find that man. fifth To command top prices, however, n a they must be clean, of uniform color not an<* 8,le an(* really fresh. In the uow large egg markets Southern eggs sell pCyi for from three to four cents below jaoh the lowest from other sections. Why He la this? Rest assured it Is because 9 of they are worth less, for the men who make a business of buying eggs know eggs. m a But why are they worth less? bo. (1) Because of our mongrel flocks, ad_ the result of our mania for crossing. pter They lay eggs of all sizes and colors, - in and we don't sort them. af_ (2) We send eggs to market as osy they come from the nests, dirty and One unsorted. They should be graded as bii- to colors and size and those that are > t0 dirty should never be sent to market tbe or should be wiped clean. It is safe ugb to state that a lot of eggs with the tbe dirty and very small ones taken out srly 8eH f?r more money than all of the them would. cap (3) We allow the male birds to n ? run with the hens at all times. The result is that the eggs, being fertile, soon begin to germinate from the summer heat and then when cooled the germ dies and the egg rapidly spoils, or at least loses its freshness. >me These facts are well known, but still we go on in the same old way. Why her, the males are allowed to run with the In hens, except when we need eggs for 'ace hatching, no one can tell, but still be we continue to do It, and furnish the hat markets with most of the so-called ity, "heated" eggs that sell for three or nto four cents a dozen less than they would If the males had been sepin?r_ nrotoH frnm V* V* ' IU/- ? *?WU4 VUO UCUO. A Ugl COOl V U rote Farmer. cks ? Pool try Trouble*. or When I first began to raise chicktlie ens I had the common mixed breed, leHP and I had pretty good success with >sed t'lcm' for they were both good seth<1 ters and good mothers. But I exuch changed them for White Wyandottes vjin and then I began to have trouble In r setting them. The heus were willing enough to set, at first, but after a j t ; few days they grew tired of setting | and would desert their nests and let in:e ' their eggs grow cold, or else they , M1 ; would set until within a week of the . t ; times the eggs were expected to )Uj(j , hatch, and then would leave. Someu j times there were others wanting to p | set. If there were, I would take the '' | hen which had been setting and put ln i her out and then put the other on the . nest, but if there were no hens want'tjie ing to set, I would place a box over jjn_ the hen, so that she could not get np ing very weH. and keep it on for some >rts" tlme' only faking it off for her to eat >nce Rn(* dr'n^? ihen covering her up j_ again. Sometimes this plan would I work, but more often it would not. RU The hen would manage to get the u^e box up, and then leave or break the egga and ruin them. 1 have lost a lere goo(* many in this way. If 1 do not lose all at a setting, I often nil lose half of them or more. For instance, I set a hen with n t twelve eggs. She sat for about ten days, then left the nest, and let the ^ eggs grow cold. I put a box over her, ' but It did no good, for as soon as I vitn i took It off she left the nest, and Ing would not go back until I made her. v? Fortunately, however, there was another hen wanting to set, so I put no her on instead, and she sat fairly v well for the remaining time, but I did aser not get more than si:: chickens out of ver> all the eggs that were set. CUR" Now, I do not mean to say that nmy common chickens set well all of the unJ j time, for, on the contrary, I set two J common hens. They set for a few days, and then deliberately deserted their nests, and I don't believe they left thieo tsgs out of the whole lot. is a Business Maxim*. neflt He will always be a slave who does not know how to live on little. P?M- It take* a wise man to tell whether the world is laughing with him or at ***? him. A good today makes a bright yesterday to think of and a bright tohley morrow to which to look forward. ' Nearly every successful merchant ' ?k ?we* ^ *000*08 to the fast thai he ^ has made a little money da a great dsal si work . f . - 1ma :uitural Topics, t rhat Are Helpful to xl wer and Stockman. t But on the average, the common & mixed breed sets better than the 4 White Wyandottea. Although the latter are good layers and fairly good ? mothers, I cannot recommend them as good setters.?A Reader, In Flor? Ida Agriculturist. When to Feed. No animal Is fit for real hard or fast work after eating a large meal, but wo frequently practice feeding as large an amodnt In the morning and at noon as at night. When we force work from the muscles a larger quan- fl tity of blood goes to them and conse* quently there Is a smaller quantity that can go to the digestive organs. < The result is digestion is checked and i colic follows. f Tt> prevent this all horses doing I real hard work should receive all the \ hay they are to receive In the twenty- I four hours at night. And right here It may be well to state that horses are usually fed very much more hay than is best for them. If the horse can be allowed to eat hay for at least one nour before being fed his grain at night, then at least, half the grain he is to receive in the twenty-four hours should also be given at night. j The other half should be divided into , 1 two equal parts, one being given In the morning and the other at noon.? ( Professor Massey. \ Sweet Potato Investigations. Extensive investigations dealing with the sweet potato crop are being \ undertaken by the United States Department of Agriculture. Experiments are in progress at several centres, and include a study of the kinds most suitable for the several potato growing districts. Research is being made in regard to methods of growing and their comparative coat, and methods of harvesting, storing, packing and shipping the crop. Tho question of storage, it is stated, is receiving special attention, in order to determine the best means of curing, the most suitable temperatures to be maintained in the storage house, and the amount of shrinkage that takes place under those conditions. Attention is also being given to the uses and possibilities of sweet potatoes as food for stock, as well as the desslcation and canning of the product for human consumption. A Handy Barn. ( Here are plans for a handy barn. It will hold seven head of horses and about ten head of cows. A crib opposite the feedway will hold about 600 bushels of corn and an oats bin adjoining this will hold from 1000 to 1200 bushels of that grain. This 1 ? ? * - 1 1 * icB>e? a b|jbc<) uneeo oy eignteen ior implements, bay or anything that the farmer may wish to put in it. The r. nre, . my, tm r v ' cow osn>i haouh*' j[ \ j cma em ' ' soom f 5; 1 1 ) - *' 1 ' -ftp K ; |r rHORflC ^ 3TRLL*) / , \ ' I I HJI-T I Ml ' ? J 1 A Haudy Barn. doors on the cow shed ure wide enough so you can drive through them with a wagon or manure spreader. The horse stable has double stalls ten feet wide and fifteen feet from inside of manger to the wall. This, together with the fact that the doors are eisht feet wide. enable you to get out with your team very easily. The size of the structure is thirty-five by thirty-eight feet* with a hay mow over the lower fioor. The eaves are six feet, affording more than usual protection to the outside of the building. The accompanying , pian, says the Journal of Agriculture, will give the reader a better understanding of the interior arrange* ment. Poultry Notes. Mites are one of the greatest scourges of the poultryman, and from them, directly or Indirectly, spring the greatest portion of poultry diseases. And often birds that, otherwise, are very fine, have white or black feathers to grow where they do not belong, because the fowl's vitality Is sapped by the mites. They multiply at an astonishing rate, and It requires the very hardest and most nersistent work to rid the premises of them. i The most lasting preventive is boil-S ing whitewash, to which has been * ' added to each bucketful a teaspoonful of crude carbolic acid and a half gallon of kerosene. This must be put on boiling hot, and special care must be given the roosts to see that it geU into every crack.?Southern Fruit Grower. Here and Thera. If anyone does not understand your advertisements, it is an indication that he knows more than you do. vA man who continually questions other people's motives without proof is a man you are justified in distrust* ing . Uprightness in ail our dealings with one another is not a matter of hamsuBjHMiveaienoe hut of divine re