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TOMATO CITLTVRK. Valuable Information (iiven by <?o eminent Experts. To get an early crop it is nece sary to start the plants during tl winter. The best method is to so the seed in a hot bed in rows tv j or three inches apart, and when tl plants have developed their fir true leaves transplant them to star about two inches apart each wa This transplanting should he doi in boxes tilled with good rich soil ( direct to another part of the be For the general crop, grown for ca x ning purposes, this transplanting all that is necessary until ready plant in the held. For extra ear tomatoes it is advisable to aga transplant the plants when tin reach the height of four or fr inches. This time plant in three i four inch Power pots, strawber boxes or tin cans which have had tl tops and bottoms melted off. Win grown in this way the plants can 1 ^ ?*? ka/1 aai/1 frnmo iiti1 HTll ill lllC ucvi V.VIU ?*?? %, ...... the blossoms begin to open. Making a Hot lied. The hot bed may be made as ft lows: Select a well drained loc tion. where the bed will be shelte ed perfectly on the south side of K building or fence. Make an excav tion eighteen inches deep the si your bed is to be. Throw in t're: horse manure and pack by tram ing. The manure heap should 1 about even with the surface of tl ground or eighteen inches deep. Tl manure furnishes the heat to sta I the plants. Put on top the manu four or five inches of good gard< loam, which has not grown and di eased plants, and cover the bed wi v glass hot bed sash. If glass cann be secured canvass may be substitti ed for the glass. The temperatu will run high for a few days, but 1 seeds should be planted until tl temperature falls to about Su d grees F. which will require three four days. A bed made about five feet nil inches wide and about six feet loi will be plenty large enough to grc ^ plants for a tenth acre garden. Tl' size bed will take two hot bed sash which measure three feet by six fe< The frame to support the sash shou be about fifteen to eighteen inch high at the lack ana six incnes in er in front in order to set the bi warm before slope should be t wards the south. During bright days the bed w heat very quickly and it will 1 necessary io ventilate by raising sa: 1 on the opposite side from the win Toward evening close the sash in ? der to get the bed warm before nig! Water the bed in the" morning < bright days as watering in the eve ing or on cloudy days will have tendeucy to injure the plants ai increase the danger of freezing ai damping off. Ventilate the be 1 aft watering in order to dry off ti . plants. * Before the Plants are set out th should be hardened off and this ci be dona by transferring to a co frame or by removing the hot hi sash during the days in mild weat er. As the plants become Jiardem the sash can he left off at nigh when thpre is no danger of fro: This hardening off process must done gradually to prevent any serio ? check to growth. If it is impossible to make a h bed the plants can be started in sh; low boxes in the house. Get shallc boxes from a store and till with go' rich soil and sow the seed as d scribed for the hot bed. Bore two three holes in the bottom of the b for drainage. Keep the box as ne a window as possible and at livij room temperature. Close attentii should be given to watering as t air of a living room is usually d and will soon dry out of the soil. T plants trust be developed in the lig or they will be weak and spindliri They should be transplanted to otb boxes or to a cold frame, which made in the same way as the hot b t except that the manure is left o and canvass may bp substituted f the glass sash. In the far South will not be necessary to have a "h be-d: the cold frame will lie sufficiei Popular Poverty. Katie, aged seven, was the on child of .Mr. and Mrs. .lones. O ^ day, when the new minister calle Katie upon- her own invitation, we into the parlor to entertain hiin un her mother catne down stairs. cUt. amirnaflmd thp rmrlor door. Ml * ~ f I- - r Jones heard the minister ask Kal how many children her mother ha and was very much surprised to he her little daughter reply "six." Her mother wisely made no coi ment upon tlie startling reply of t child, but sent her out to play: ai when the minister's visit was oxshe asked Katie why she had to him that her mother had six ch .dren. and was more dumbfound than ever when Katie said: "I: cause. I did not want the stran gentleman to know that you were poor that you didn't have but o child."?National Monthly. i I JACKSON'S WIIMUV I)KA1>. I ! ? v- ; .Mrs. Mary Anna Jackson J asses Away ' at Her Home in Charlotte. >s- Charlotte, X. C., March 24.?Mrs. ie | Mary Anna Jackson, widow of ! w Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jack- ' ,o son, the famous Confederate general. ' ic died at her home here early today. 1 st She had been ill for many months. ' id An attack of pneumonia three days ' v. ago hastened her death. Her grand- ' ie daughter, Mrs. Randolph Preston, or and other relatives were at Mrs. ' d. Jackson's bedside when she died. ' n- Public buildings, schools and busi- ( is ness houses will be closed tomorrow. ' to the day of the funeral. The body lv will be buried at Lexington. Ya., bein side that of "Stonewall" Jackson. ?y Mrs. Jackson was born near tiiis re city July 27. 1821. the daughter of . or the Rev. Robert Hall Morrison, a ' ry Presbyterian minister and founder ie of Davidson college. She attended ' in Salem. X. C.. academy and college, tie finishing in 184ft. til Her marriage took place in July. ISoT. Jackson then was a major, 1 serving as instructor in the Virginia 1 il- Military institute, at Lexington. She ' a- became a close student of military ' r- tactics and always took an aggres- : a sive interest in the fortunes of the ! a- Confederate armies. After her hus- ! ze band died of wounds in 1SC>3 she ' sh j wrote a volume of memoirs of his ' p-j career. ' be j Gen. and .Mrs. Jackson had two 1 be! children, both daughters. One died lie in infancy and the other married rt! William E. Christian. At her death 1 re I in 1SS9 she left a daughter, who be- 1 jn | came the wife of E. R. Preston, a ' is-j Charlotte attorney, and a son. 1 th j Thomas Jackson Christian, now a ! ot j lieutenant in the I'nited States cavit airy, stationed in the Phillippines. re ! Mrs. Jackson's last days were spent 10! at the old Jackson homestead in ( be this city. She had been ill for many j ( e-[ months and suffered a relapse yes-i, or| terday. rie I 1 Weapons of the Nations. ig | The possession of America and iw [ the carriage of immense wealth lis | along the sea-ways compelled Spain I es! to maintain a navy. The presence of: ?t. the galleons with their cargoes of Id i gems and gold and silver tempted' es | English statesmen and sailors asi a,*-1 well as buccaneers and a navy be- j I I pd i came recognized as a weapon of at-! o-! tack as it had not been since Pom- j pey cleared the sea in Roman times , ill! and Carausius defended "his island bej with his ships. The, loss of her ships j ?h : forced Spain to build the VVrmadaj d. for.the conquest of England Hut both! ,r- J governments expected the decisive ! J it.; battles to be fought on land: Howard i .ni and Drake and Hawkins must dis-j 11-1 obey instructions before they could j , a force the lighting on the sea. It wasj ' * j id no: before Cromwell that England . id i accepted the doctrine that the sea' er' was the foundation of her strength, lie I Confined to the land Russia has! : always coveted harbors and seashores ey!?since Peter the Great s!ie has in! marched toward the warm waters' Id because these only could supply the; ed necessities of her national life. Eng-J li- j land saw in her an enemy because of j , ed | this desire and it was only because j, its j England persisted in denying this ; st.; wish that she joined lurself to France bej with whom she had nothing in eomus I mon except antagonist! to Germany j I and the interchange of financial i? ot I needs. Now Russia will attack Eng-1 il-j land's Astatic possessions unless Eng>w land will divide the commerce' and ad' the waters. < le- The Garmany of today is not only or different from that of the Hapsburgs , ox but cherishes antagonistic ideals: ar Frederick the Great and Maria Theag resa were natural enemies?to her on lie was the pagan and the sensualist: he j to him she was that most foolish j ry j of all c reatures the sovereign with j he | a heart and a conscience. He wrote lit down the principles that have since ig. I controlled the policies of the Hohenerjzollerns and one of these rules is teaches. "Maintain vigorously the!ed | maxim that stripping your neighbors! ut. is to take from them the power of or j doing you a mischief." it i Of late years France has lost thej ot ambitions that animated her under it. the Bourbons as under Napoleon ana j of necessity has been content to economize that she might live on the in-1 terest of the money loaned kor neigh-1 ' v ! bors: she is tlie capitalist nation. | Iie Leave her alone and she will be con-j '" tent to count her money and enjoy nt herself?the pity is that she is surrounded by neighbors who will not j be still and can never be content. rs- These peoples have become domi *e i nated by the ideal each has cherish- 1 ed for so many generations; for what j ar is Russia fighting in Poland but to I open her road to Constantinople or| 1 to the Persian gnlf? England can! 'l0 give these?if she will not. then why ; should Siberian peasants entertain er i the soldiers of Germany and Aus,1(1 j tria? England knows that her em.I pire is lost should she allow another1 e<^ to exercise even equal power in her !e" channel waters?to keep these she I broke the strength of Holland and j sent money to oppose Alva as she ; ne now defends Belgium. Frederick, the founder of the Ho\ TKOl'ISLK AHKAI). Tin's Country Slowly and Surely I frit inj; Toward War. In these Cnited States there is r such a thins: as neutrality. Official md privately we assure ourselvi :hat we must remain neutral, but o ficially and privately we have vei )ne-sided opinions, and hesitate n< it all to express them in words < ictions. There are thousands of (Jermai \merioans who pray that the Fathe and may come off victorious. In tl :ase of these the motive is raoi; jride and loyalty, and therefore ol >ious. There are other thousands. < Irish. Scotch. French or other blooi vho. while having: 110 great love ft Germany, are pulling for the Tei :ons merely because they want 1 tee 17 kinds of tar knocked out < England. Kilt opposed 10 tnese are iminui Alio are for England from sunrise 1 ireakfast. The reasons for this pa izanship are many and varied. T1 lewspapers caused most of it. pe liaps, but at bottom these millioi :ake their stand because of a whol some respect for England's grei lavv and a vague dread of Germany ?iant army. They smirk before En; land because they are afraid of En land's fleet and they pray that En; iand may whip Germany now ar thus prevent a future German ii rasion of America. The result of this none too coi: mendable feeling has been, both o Rcially and privately a "neutrality that gains the contempt of Englar and the bitter resentment of .Ge many.?Fountain Inn Tribune. A Little Mixed. The pathfinder relates that tl chairman of the committee was a dressing a meeting at a teachers' i stitute: "My friends, the school work the bill house of civilization, 1 tue< ?ah?" Tlie chairman had stage fright. "The buliionse is the sclioo! woi nf civ?" A smile began to be felt. "The workhouse is tlie bulseho of?" Ho was evidently twisted. "The schoolhouse is the lions vc ork?" An audible snicker spread over tl audience. "The bulschool?" He was getting wild. So were h hearers. Ho mopped perspiratio atritted his teetii and made a frei effort. . . "The schoolhouse. my friends A sigh of relief went up. He In his feet under him again. lie gazed suavely around. Tl light of triumphant self-confidem was enthroned upon his brow. "?is the wooihark?" He gasped an sat down. +Hisked lleputation. .Mistress indignantly >?.ian whatever did you mean by wearii my low-necked evening dress at tl bus drivers' ball last night? Real] you ought to have been ashamed iipurself!" Jane, (meekly)'? ! was mum. Yc never heered such remarks as tin made. henzollern power, took provinc from Austria and Poland: his vict ries brought on him a combinatu of his neighbors and he defend< himself against the combined arnii of France and Russia. In ptirsuan of his policies Bihmarck first be Austria and then France: in goii further f.ermany h.as annexed B( gium and seek a line of seacoa from France to Holland that she m: be free of the English hand at h throat. All that has been done f the past two years was to have be< expected and the arguments a mere words which all despise sa' as they may conceal the plans wov< into the hearts and brains of the pe pies. A dominant English navy tax Germany: a dominant German arn arouses the fear of her neighborsRussia desires to march forwar Germany trembles to expand as nat rally as a bud in spring, but Fran would remain quiet and England h enough. What will peace bring? The vi tor will expect to reap the fruits at be inclined to take them: the va quished will collect his strength i" another war.. Pending another tri of the armaments, the strength maintain these mu?t be found trade and all these lands tli have been finished long ago denial raw materials and a'market for the goods. These two desires brit America into play- tlie raw matei als "must come from the Unit* States and the market must he foui in South America. W'liat liave 01 statesmen to say and to do win confronted l?v tiiese two facts of tl supply of law materials and tl market? Is it not merely a retui to barbarism if we must fight solve the problems? They are o but why not find new solutions?Florida Times-Union. 1 ":v* '> ?s : our 1 Dt )r ! . ' *ii line of 1 ie al b- 'j&g nmBranmHHEi nnnBHnB^n 4- i i r* ? * * * r? o ; DlDLHO I | ip m ! 9 HAS .s """ :m 11 ARRIVED. I- WE I HAVE :fm "j THEM ' -fl RANGING 11 TXT UN - price :'m from ; .31 : 6(teT0 ":m I $4.00. COME IN ' i| AND SEE THEM Herald Book Store , . If fill e- |- BAMBERG, S. C. | '""'SIS ) waa?mfirm?Ym<,i m naw V ' a ; Boxed "\ IP a rtnirc iH it ' * r ' '' at i,|f? BHHnBBDHBBBHBHBII J>1?| ,y ' . -'^0 Z Another shipment just received. If . M - you have ever bought any of these I j v e it is not necessary for us to tell ' f T, you about them. 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