Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE OTHER FCLLOW3 JOfc There's a nut among mm bmtUIb that b cruel hard to name, Vhmwt'cr you find a human jmm viQ find the eaae the cam*; . You max *e*k among tbe worst of mem or awk among the beat, And you'll find that every person is pre - cise'.y like the rest. F.ach bslieret that his real calling is along aome other line Than the one at which he'a working? take, for instance, yonr* and mine; From the meanest "rae-too" creature to the leader of the mob, There's a universal craving for "the other fellow's job." There arc millions of positions in the busy world to-day, Tlach a drudge to nim who holds it, hot to him who doeen't play; Kvcry farmer's broken-hearted that in youth be missed his call. While that tame unliu ;?*>>? farmer is the envy of us all. Any task you care to mention seems a vastly better lot Than the one especial something which you happen to have got. There s but one sure way to smother envy's henrtackcand her sob; Keep too lw?y at yonr own to want "tho other fellow's job." ? Su?ccss. THE GHOST OF THE FIFTH FLOOR. By C T HE fifth floor was in a big building, tenanted by poor artist s, bachelor girls and mice. The flights of stairs were long and narrow, and ihe corridors dark and grewsome. There were queer stories about the house, which might or might not be explained, according to the credulity of tho listeners. It had the reputation of being haunted. The joung woman who told me this was one of tli3 bachelor class referred to. Her room was at the extreme end of the long corridor which traversed ihe fifth floor. Passage up the stairs and through the corridors in the day time was disagreeable; In the night It was a Journey fraught with peculiar horror, for she was a young person of - many fears. She was afraid of acci dents, of sickness; she was afraid she would fall In lore and afraid she would not have the chance; afraid' of strange (logs and of the cars, afraid of the dark and of the future. But all these paled into insignificance in comparison with fear of tho fifth floor after twl l^lit. One night curiosity and loneliness led her to accept an invitation to a party. As 12 o'clock struck the lamps In tiie room were turned out and a diRh of burning salt was placed in the centre of the apartment; about its weird, bine flames ghost stories from legend or experience were narrated In sepulchral tones. Cold chills ran down the spine of the resident of the fifth lloor. and as panic succeeded panic the liorror of the dreadful trip up the four flights of stairs and through tho lonely corridors seemed to grip her heart with Icy touch. She was escorted to her door by a Tollicking crowd. And then she was alone In the dark hall. She felt for the candle and matches she had left near the door; some conscienceless lodger hart taken the whole box, and there was nothing to do but crouch in the corner until dawn or begin her perilous trip. If she crouched some thing might get her, and at least if she could reach her own room there would be light, for she had wisely left her light burning. She crept to the stairs and listened ?silence profound; then with footsteps which sounded weirdly in the old place, *he ran lightly up the first flight, not Flopping to breathe until the landing was re tched, when the beating of her heart forced licr to wait. Something was in the dark with her; she felt it first, then she heard it, a stealthy, indescribable sound, a soft thud, a pause, and then the thud njrnln. It was unlike any sound she had ever heard before; It was on the stairs back of her. coming toward her. Slu> sped along the corridor of the aecond floor. The qnlet was so in tense that the Approach of the Un known Awe was magnified to her ner vousness into thunder claps ef sound. Mho looked apprehensively over her atio?i1der;/4here was nothing to he seen; only the thud, thud, of the Something. I*p the third flight she ran, her limbs already giving premonitions of coming revolt. As her own advance was less rapid, she was conscious that the Ter ror's grew. Over her shoulder again her eyes moved; there was a dim light from somewhere, n window or a crack in the wuli, and as the Thing sped by It, she could see that It was luminous, white, like a phosphorescent ball flying through space. Up another flight, slower this time, for the relaxation of dread had takeji jtbKsetsion of her. There was nothing human in the sound back of her. and apt the Maker of it passed again by a lers gloomy corner, its phosphorescent-# ??aught and retained for p second what light there was, then rushed madly ii long, the fact that lis course was f;ig-".ag. the only saving grace. Her | feet weighed tons, her throat was dry. tried In vain to fcreani. There was another flight and the lnst corridor, at the end of which her door Ktourt invitingly open. She feared rob bery less than an unweleonicd return. She did not look over her shoulder ngaiu, for It was almost upon her. Kut :u? she clutched the door to close J': behind her her eyes involuntarily fell on the Pursuer? the ghastly lumin ous atrocity leaving in Its wake n Htrrnm of white as far as her eye could follow, she had ntver thought before ?>f the possibility of a giiost having blood, but the Idea shuddered In her mind that if they had velnr. In tlieni would run Just such a thick, opaque i ?nnss as marked the path of the ap parently wounded Speeter. Sho barricaded the door, and na shr> did so something was hurled against 1t? there wos an awful crash, the door f.hook and the pieces of bric-a-brac Ircntbled 111 tholr places, a picture loosely nnlied fell to the ground? then ?ai>?e silence, profound. Impenetrable. She threw herself on the bed. trem bling. having lighted all the letups In the room and a stray candle. It was not till dawn reddened the sky that she fell n?lcrp, her hands entwined spas- ' which ah* had fastened the door 1Mb to a chair. o&^kLla turn, she had Pr^r^g? morals* ? ?he arose andWMM. She betrd^ie sound o f a broom la the corridor |nd Its domeeticjjte lupM her with cour age to open^U Oajer.Tlfre. O'Flq^a pa, the Ml ?y. ftartwwpiin sdg oreuely. ? flttto W ?om her Bill sat, hla head done up in plaster strips. BUI was the fire-toed cat of the ijpt h '"What do rer s'rfse that draflfcd rat docar* so Ml Mi. O'Flanagan.&s she rested on tlairotpi handle jptd faced the Resident of the Fifth Fldlr. The Resident looked interrogatlrh. "Got *s head fnto the Mg pitcher an' must her ran dp stairs tftht way and fell un ftaftlnst jour d<Mr; such a mess, he Wrt trail of milk *11 the way. 1 Iiom he didn't wake ye^" "No, Ike did# tr wake me," said ttc Resident of the Fifth Floor, as the lifted ber gown from a pool, ami gated reproachfully at. tba plastered cat New York News. '? V Thirst far Wisdom. "Say, pop." * '' "Yes r - 4 "Bald beads Is funny things, a tot they, pop?" "Um-I guess so."* I ' t "Say, pop." "I'm busy reading, Tommy. Go away." "But, pop? what makes bald head^f?" "Hard thinking, my son." "That what made you bald headed!" "Yes." t ? "Why ain't mamma bald headed, then?" f / (No answer.) \ i . ' \ "Popr "Eh?" I I ' i ? ( * i "Why ain't mamma bald headed? Can't she think anyff . , ; t j (Uneasiness on part of pop.) "Tommy, if you don't stop bothering me, I'll eead yon to bed!" (Long silence. Pop thinks he has for gotten It) , , \iJ "Fop!" (No answer.) | ,? > "Say, pop." ? "Well?" "Bet sour new baby is a groat thinker.** jt * * 7 7 (No answer.)' "He doesn't show It", though.** * (Another silence.) - s " 'Ceptiu' by hie l?a|d bead." (No answer.) "Pop!" , , ? f "Tommy, If you don't "But, pop? arc yon abre a bald bead Is a sign of bard thinkin'?" "Yes, why?" "Because I heard Squire Wiggs eel: Judge Snibbcrly what made your head so bakl, and he aald It was due to a , bad ease of mattermony " (And out In the woq^ahed Tguimy lifted up his voice in anguish aiWt Bit terly repented him that once more he had brought down sorrow qpop his*; head through his insaue craving after . wisdom.) ? San Flattens BuMetto* ?vr| V- . -T? | Intelu|?nc?. A Boston gentleman connected with ' the National Tube Works, sends us the following, (or the ttvth of which he vouches: :w My friend was n shipbuilder; his shipyard was some miles from his house, which distance he had to cover on horseback, lie had a white horse that had served him long and faith fully !n this capacity. One day his horse fell for some cause that I do not remember, ami he was thrown to the ground and severely cut on the head. lie was unconscious for some time, ' and when he "came to," found the ( horse standing by him. After a while he gathered himself J up and attempted to mount the horse, I but every time he tried fell back. Finally the horse walked to the side of a large rock which stood near. The gentleman crawled along to it and after hard work got on the horse, and then the horse walked slowly nnd carefully home with him, the rider being in a semi-conscious condition. The family removed litm from the horse on his arrival home and put him to bed. lie was a long while recover* Ing from this accident, and one day when convuleacing, the borne, being brought to the window where tho gentleman sat. showed untuistakable signs of pleasure at seeing his master once more. The gentleman Is "Still living and can corroborate this tr?o horse story. Watchman'* Complicated Talk. A watchman who hsd been engaged by the directors of an Australian bank had brought with him good recommen* datlons. The chairman of the l>oard sent for him, aiAl proceeded to "post hlin up" as to his duties. "Well, James," he began, "this Is your first Job of this kind, Isn't It?" "Yes, sir." "Your duty must be to exercise vigi lance." "Yes, sir." "No stranger must be allowed to en ter the bank at night under any pro text whatever." "No, sir." "And our mnnager? ho Is a good man, honest and trustworthy; but it will be your duty to keep your eye on hltu." "But It will bo hard to watch two men and the bank st th# Same tiftife." "Two men? How?" "Why, sir. It was only yesterday that the manager called me In for a talk, and he sold you were one of the best men In tho city, but It .Would bo just I as well to keep both eyes on you, an<5 . let the directors know If you hunji about after hours."? London Answers. | Rnak?> Cnltara In Auolralia. Snakes, according to tho prevailing popular notion, should be kilted at sight ns utterly useless nnd positively dangerous creatures, but fn Australia they are now being systematically renred for the Sake of their skins, which have a considerable commer cial value In London, Paris And New York. Hnake skin Is the most fashion able material for slippers, belts, b:igs, i purses, card cases, Jewel boxes, dr< ss- | Ing tablo accessories, etc. Kabbit ( trappers supplement their niennx con* J sldernbly by catching youug snakes and extracting the polsonon* fangs. The blacks are also expert snake catch ers. To them the snake Is nn agree able artlcli of diet.? Kansas City Jour nal. - - ?r r?Mr A NOTABLE address by 11. ?. Hays, of the Southern Hallway, at, the Good] Roads convention at New' s&M jjssnsl common road of 1 0-4*7, make* life in country districts aad'tifcaften placas mors expensive in every way; It de stroys social movement, it Interfere* wltn church and school, it robs the people of msny comforts snd attrac tions, and makes life narrow. In this way it drives from the village and firm to the cities the young men and women, with their productive possi bilities. Its whole tendency is to con gest population in the cities, aud more than anything else has forced a one sided developmeiliifn Aur KltlMul lite. These are soific of 'the evils nnd the burdens snd the effccts of poor roads. What of the influence and effect of good roails? Fortunately we de not have to go to foreign land*, nor even to other sections of our own country for proof as to their desirability and for their value. They have reduced the cost of farm production wherever built, they have increased the value of farm lands from twenty-flve to 100 per cent., they have msde available for cultivation wider areas of territory, they have attracted Immigration, they have given to old farms thought value lass a good value, by enabling owners or tenants to make them profitable; (bey have made the village merchant more prosperous, they have built fac tories, they have aided In the growth of cities; Incidentally they have added to the traffic of railroads. Of other benefits of even greater importance they have made a better class of citi zens; they have brought about better methods of agriculture; they have Im proved the schools by increasing pub lic revenues and enabling teachers and schools to serve* a larger ares; they have added In every way to the com forts of the people. They have in a measure turned back the tide toward tjbe city by bringing people from the city into the country districts for Jiomes. They may be somewhat startling. What is there io support them? The development of this country has al ways followed the lines of easiest communication, of the best transporta tion facilities. Iu early days the popu I Intlon kept clone to the waterways. I The bulldlug of the Erie Canal changed the current of industrial ac tivity. Along the old roads built down througU the Southern States nearly a hundred years ago were lo l.cated the most prosperous plantation?, 1 Vfie homes of the South's most enter I prising and substantial fanners, and I along these roads were found Mats of social life under the old regime. The building of railroad Hues to the great West sent to that region for lnrest ment the capital of the East, the most ambitious of the sons of the East and South, and attracted there the millions of immigrants from other lands, who have done so much to develop that section, to develop it while the South lay quiet. Much is hcai'd of the r.cw South. If the term be appropriate the new South began when your rail road systems began to give you mod ern trains aud efficient service. So far as railroad facilities go, the Unl j ted States has had a remarkable de I velopment. No other nation has to I day so great, so efficient and so cheap a system of railroad transportation. The road4 serve, perhaps, take it all In all, tho people who live near tlicir lir.es as well as it is now possible. -But railroads, like everything el?e, have had their limitations, as they have ?heir characteristic influences upon the development of the region. They have naturally hastened the development of the rogiou lying directly along their lines, while that of districts removed from them has as naturally had their development retarded. No one desires to go to a place removed from good transportation facilities if he can lo cato whoro thoy are to be had. Tho tendency isHilwnys, and naturally, to give the best advantages, the largest returns to the people, the town or in terest where there is the least burden to bear, the least tax upon industry, the smallest cost 011 the production or traffic charges. So much cheaper Is transportation by water or rail than over common highways that produc tion has been lessoned where distance from rail or water Is considered, meas ured either In miles or conditions of highways. There is a point distant from every line of railroad beyond Which, under present condition of the Ordinary common roads, its influence In aiding production, acting as a dis tributing agent, Is of little effect. The rtilroftd development of the country OAs reached a point where Its future ill comparatively limited. It will not IM practical, from a business stand point, to reach a much wider area of territory. It is necessary, therefore, order to give all sections the advan tage of cheap distribution of products to market to enable the outlying dis tricts to reach the railroad station or the wharf at a cost which production cannot only bear, but under which it | will thrive, and at all seasons of the year. The ordinary road of the South ?yes, of the whole country? puts a tar iff ui>ou all traffic of twenty-flve cents or luoro a toil per mile, as against 7.2 mills on the railroad. It is a burden which effectually stifles production, ex cept when all other circumstances and conditions are most favorable. At certain seasons of the year It Is abso lutely Impossible to do much handling over many country roads. It is easy to see how production over great areas of our country is kept down by these conditions. Another point in this con nection. The bad highway forces the movement of all traffic wtli tho farms i at seasons of the year when the farm 1 er's ten ms could be more advantage ously employed at other work; it causes a great congestion of traffic at certain seasons, not only lessening the selling price of the farmer's product, causing greater expense and annoy ance to merchant and manufacturer, ui of mac, and therefore a M|bcr rate for r?ll **"**?- - DESCENDANTS OF CHARTER OAK TnuMfUatlBg tW A? ?? Fmi A Ifrlg 'C .?> ?m dM Oilfl??l Tin. growing la ? burg* tab at the resi de# of fames >wowMw?, 1?8 Roland Uvenn^ fere three tbrlrin* "descend ants'* of the famous Charter Oak. These sturdy little oaks of such re nowned "Unease** will be transplanted In separate tubs In the autumn, and df theg fonttnua to flourish Mr. Knowl dea wife pMdt'tffo of them to the city, one to be planted in Druid Hill and tfcfc etHsfr to Patterson Park. When in Hartford, Conn., two years sgo. Mr. Knowlden secured eight acorns from the tree grown from a sprig of the Charter Osk, which stsnds on the spot where that most famous tree in American history spread its branches for hundreds of years, lie planted ail, but five failed to germin ate. lie watched with tender care the Uirce oaks that cafme up, bestowing as mnch attention apon them as if tboy wore del teste flowers. They are now about a foot high and give promise of becoming strong trees. When the Charter Oak blew down, the citizens of -Jartford immediately planted a sprig from it on the spot where \t had stood. The new tree thrived from tho first, and now its branches shade a considerable area. On every Fourth of July the Hartford people, augmented by many patriotic citiseus of uenrby towns, gather at the tree and decorate It with flags and bunting, after which the Declaration of Independence is read beneath its ever spreading boughs. The Charter Oak Itself was sawed tip into lumber. From this a frame for the Colonial Charter was made. The frame, with its historic document, now hangs in the Supreme Court chamber In the Capitol at Hartford. A chair was also made from the lum ber. and this is occupied by the Lfec tenant-lioverr.or of Counccticut iu the Senate chambor.? Baltimore Sun WORDS OF WISOOM. It's no use blaming nature if you re fuge nurture. Love is the light that shines farther thau all others. Success is not looking around for the man who sighs. When you kill a goo<l resolution you revive an old enemy. Your mother's apron strings art away ahead of evil's towline. "Goodness and Mercy" do not follow the man who is fleeing from God. ; Content depends not oh what we have, but on what we would have. It is a greater thing to make another strong than it is to carry his load. The strength of a man's faith is in iuvcrse proportion to its singularity. The Universal Language Fad* "Dovom fam." j "Gaholt gal)." "Tern dovis kel.** It was an antiquary who pronounecd these three absurd sentence* in a scorn ful voice. Then he went on: "Samples? samples of another uni versal language. These samples inean severally 'half past three,' 'sis times six' und 'twenty-live minutes past three.' They are from the Bolak iougue, and there is a Bolak grammar of .rXM> pages. "Bolak is about three years old. There is a still newer universal lan guage whose name I forget. But no matter. Universal languages eome and go. They have appeared at the rate of seven a century for the last 400 years. "There Is no fanatic like the univer sal language fanatic. The man who invents u universal language invari ably spends twenty or thirty of the best years of his life in perfecting it and writing a grammar and dictionary of it, and invariably spends all his for tune in trying to spread it over the world. "Have fads if yon will. Even have expensive fads, like the collection of paintings or of jewels. But avoid a universal language fad, or your life will be ruined."? New York Press. What He Was Up To. "Do you know of the only Irishman who ever committed suicide?" asked W. B. Pollard, of Jersey City, who was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night. "You know It is said that Irishmen never commit suicide, and when the ar gument was advanced In a crowd of that nationality he was so unstrung that he decided to show his opponents that Irishmen do sometimes commit a rash nef. He accordingly disappeared, and the man who employ ed him started a search. When he got to the barn he looked up toward the rafters and saw his man hanging with a rope around his waist. - "'What sro you up to, Pat?' he asked. " 'Ol'm hanging meself, begobs,' the Irishman replied. " 'Why don't you put it around your neck T '"Fulfil, OI did. but Ol couldn't braythr,' was the unsmiling reply of the man from the Emerald Isle."? Louisville Courier-Journal. Candy. "More money Is spent for candy each year than for hat* and shoes and gioves combined," said Harvey Towle, of Pittsburg, at the Plankington House. ; Mr. Towle travels for one of the largest j candy manufacturing concerns in the | world. "Wo sell about $1,250,000 worth j of candy a year ourselves," lie contln- 1 ucd, "and at an average of seven cents a pound you can figure out for yourself how big a pile of candy that ma!;es. There is over a billion a year spent A>r , sweets in this country. People havo no idea of the magnitude of the busi ness."? Milwaukee Wisconsin. A ywerr Creatnr*. The Konth American ninphisbena Is j a queer creature, and to atllx its spe- j eies has been a stumbling block to many naturalists. To look at It any one would take the creature for a largo earthworm. It has no ears, as other lizards have. No eyes are apparent, and It progresses with equal ease for ward or backward in its subterranean burrows. Km? Up A??? n?m . Slut farina are eallmatcd below their true value because of slovenly ippearance. Weeds higher than the fences, trees blown down and left to rot la the same place, fences out of repair, sates and barn doors off the hinges or swinging on one hinge, un sightly Utter In door yard and at the barn? these and many such evidences of carelessness depreciate the Taluc of any farm. The soli msy be excel lent, the water facilities all that could be asked for and all natural advan tages requisite to make a good, high priced farm may exist, and yet that farm acarcely makes its owner a liv ing. The Cost of Pro<inrllon. The cost for food in producing one pound of poultry meat docs not ex ceed live cents. This has beeu dem onstrated by actual experiments made, and the profits depend upon the prices obtained. But there are expenses oth er than for food, such as the eggs used for hatching, the losses of checks, the use of the hens during sitting and brooding, and the care and labor be stowed. If the chicks go into the market before the first of June they may bring a price anywhere from twenty to forty cents per pound, ac cording to quality, the profits depend ing not so much on the saving of food, but in avoiding tosses of chicks after they are hatched. Cm raddtr. Corn is the greatest of all fattening feeds for live stock, but. as 1s well known. It will make a badly balanced ration, being deficient In protein, and consequently not suited as a sole ra tion for growing animals. It has long been known that differ ent samples of corn vary very much In chemical composition, the softer and more starchy having a lower pro tein content than the flinty varieties, as it is the germ and horny appearing portions and bran that contain the protein. Scientific plant breeders have been busy for several years with at tempts to develop breeds of corn that will come nearer yielding a well bal anced feed. As It Is we must balance the corn ration with some food hav ing a much higher protein content, and containing less of carbohydrates and fat. These efforts have measurably succeeded, but not perfectly. The ex periment stations are working on this problem with every prospect of ulti mate success.? Massachusetts Plough man. wHiiiia %>nopi? The best single grain for fattening tlieep is corn. Wlion the corn is ripe the sheep should he yarded and given clover hay, and a light feeding of corn at first. One-half pound per head can be fed for a start and increased gradually until four to five pounds of grain are consumed a day. Poor sheep may be able to cat onlj one pound each day. The fat ones should be selected for market, and the remaining ones fed until they arc in proper condition for the butcher. Any unprofitable members of . the flock should be fed and fitted and be sent to market with the lambs. If there are ticks on the flock the sheep should be dipped before going in the fattening pens or yards. Let the floek glean the cornfields. Begin feeding early so the flock do not run down on poor pasture. If thp pasture is poor the sheep can be kept In good flesh by feeding a lit tle grain. Wheat or oats fed in a trough, one to two bushels for one hundred head, should keep the flock in good shape. An acre of rape will feed llftcen lambs about two months. Corn, oats and oil meal Is a good mixture feed with such foods as rape, roots, ensilage and turnips. Never leuve the sheep out in the cold fail rains. It Is much safer to yard them every night.? Farm Journal. Orderly. Every farm ought to have a place for keeping the scraps of wood and Iron that accumulate. Somewhere there should be a big box into which the stray bolts, burrs, broken bits of machinery and other iron may be kept. Nobody knows how many times a year such a box is visited unless he has tried it. Then wo ought to put away every Pice piece of pine, or oak, or other hard wood we come across, especially If It be straight grained and likely to come in play some day for a handle, or whlflletree, or some such thing. If there Is no such place, we are likely to do a groat deal of running about before we find what we need when the pinch comes. Have a lumber pile where all the bits of hoard*, plank and timbers may be stored. IIow much better this Is than i to have this lumber scattered all around the buildings. Hang up the harnesses used on the farm when not on the horses. Some men throw them down wherever they happen to be when they take them off. Ilnng up the other things that ought to be hung up about the barn. The barn Is the farmer's kitchen, sitting room and parlor. You can tell by the way It looks how good a housekeep er he Is. I)o not let the bottles of medicine for the horses and cows stand around on the girts and boxes In the barn. Have a little cupboard for them, and keep them there. Kvcry interest dc mauds this. Almost all such incili clnes contain poisons, end we can not be too careful how wo handle them. Von Will It* Olnd. If yon study your business just n* a i school boy works away at his books. About all the mistakes we make come from not really knowing our business as we shouhl. If you do not try to do to-morrow's work to-day. Few backs are made strong enough to bear such a double burden very long. If you are faithful in the small things about your farm work. A match will ?et a house afire. Many a good axle I tat been ground out by grit iu the ' bearings. So. too, little things of th? right kind help to bring about suc CCS*. If you try to find out what your farm Is best adapted to and then stick right to that crop. If yon can figuro It out what you are most suited to do on the farm. One msn Is a dgood dairyman; En other wins vrith sheep; another with grain; still another with fruit. Blessed Is that man who can do some of nil these things and do them well. Ho can not help being a happy mnn. If you keep your bills paid. The evil one was the inventor of running nccounts at the store aud elsewhere. He knows Just when every bill 1a due and says "Put It off till to-morrow." Don't let him fool j-ou. Pay when the note 1s due. If you consult your wife often about the farm work and other business. The point where many men begin to go down is right where the.v get the notion Into their heads that they can go it alone. They can not and keep It up very long. Set that down as a fact.? Farmer Vincent, In Farm Jour nal. Crop* For tho Orchard. *' When the orchard Is young and th? soil is rich it will generally pay to grow either corn or vegetable.* for the years during which the trees nre reaching the stage of fruit bearing. Corn 1$ one of the best crops to grow, for the reason that much of its sub stance is made up of starch, which is taken from the air. Then It requires cultivation and is generally manured, especially when It Is groWn In a small way. It does not form a mat to keep the moisture from the roofo of the trees. It has the additional good quality of being largely grown, and. no matter how larg? the orchard, the corn crop can always be used to ad vantage. Then the stalks of the corn plant are serviceable for binding around the trees for protection against rodents and sunscahl. In the case of growing corn the rows should not be run too close to the trees, as It is undesirable to draw the fertility from Immediately around the trees, and It is also undesirable to culti vate close. In this day of low head ing or fruit trees it will be ditli<-ult to drive very close to the trees with out injuring the low drooping branches. Potatoes and tomatoes are two classes of vegetables that may bo grown in the orchard to advantage, as both require to be cleau cultl j vateJ. and usually receive good appli cations of manure in some form. Frequently the growing of these crops pays all the expenses of keeping up the orchard, and when the latter comes into bearing it start* in without being a debtor to the man that owns It. Nothing, however, should be done or grown that will in any way Injure the future usefulness of the orchard.? National Fruit Grow er. Farming by Inoculation. A portion of Inoculating material as it is mailed to the farmer by the Gov ernment consist of three different package*. Package No. 1! contains the cotton with its millions of dried perms. Packages 1 and :J are the media or food by means of which' the farmer can multiply the j?erms. The depart ment incloses explicit Instructions how to use the bacteria, as follows: (Method patented in order to guar antee the privilege of use by the pub lie. Letters Patent No. 7o5,oll) grant* ed March i."J, 11KM.) Put one gallon of clean water (pre ferably rain water) in a clean tub or bucket and add No. 1 of the inclosed package of traits ; ?ontaining granu lated sugar potassium phosphate and magnesium sulphate). Stir occasion ally until all is dissolved. Carefully open packago No. 2 (con taining bacteria) and drop the inclosed cotton into the solution. Cover ilu- tub with a paper protect from dust, and set aside in the warm place for twen ty-four hours. l)o not heat the solu tion or you will kill the bacteria? it should never be wurmer than blood heat. After twenty-four hours add the con tents of package No. tf (containing am monium phosphate). Within twenty hours more the solution will have a cloudy appearance, and it is ready for use. To inoculate seed: Take Just enough of the solution to thoroughly moisten the seed. Stir thor oughly so that all the seeds are touched by the solution. Spread out the seeds in a shady place until they are perfectly dry, and plant at the usual time Just as you would untreated seed. The dry cultures sent from the laboratory will keep for several months. Do not prepare the liquid culture more than two or three days previous to the time when the seeds are to be treoted, as the solution once made up must usually be used at the end of forty-eight hours. To inoculate soil: Take enough dry ear'h so that 1 1;e solution will merely moisten It. Mix thoroughly, so that all the particles rf soil are moistened. Thoroughly mix this earth with four or live times ns much, say half a wagon load. Spread this inoculated soil thinly and evenly over the Held exactly ns If spreading fertilizer. This should be done Just before plowing, or else the luoculatcl soil should be harrowed in immediate ly. lClther of the above methods may be used, as may be most convenient. Kuough germs are sent in each little, package to inoculate seeds for front one to four ncres. The package can be carried in your pocket, and yet doe* more work than several cart loads of fertilizer. It costs the Government lesi than four cents a cak?\ or less than a cpnt an acre, and waves the farmet thirty or forty dollars, which he would have to spend for an equal amount of fertilizer. Different cultures arc sent for different crops. The result! have been surprising.? From (Jlib^rt | II. (Jrosvenor's "Inoculating the [ Ground," in the Century. Tho Berlin pollco have arrested r?? j taurant keepers for fraud for having dummy musician* in tholr orchestra*. POPULAR SCIENCE A caterpillar In a mouth will devour 6000 times its own weight. It will take an average man three months before he ean eat a quantity of food equal to his own weight. An explorer who lias often by com pulsion eaten the flesh of animals not generally used as human rood, says that grilled lion steaks are delicious nnd much superior to those of the tiger; that the flesh of tlx* rhinoceros, properly prepared, lias all the good qualities of pork; that the trunk and fet of young elephants resemble veal, and that stewed boa constrictor is a good substitute for rabbit. A new alloy devised by James Chandler, a chemist of Philadelphia. l?a.. is being exploited nnd promises to be found valuable for many pur poses. It has the ap|?earnnce of sli ver. the strength of steel, lightness of aluuiiuuiu. is inexpensive to make and has the rcsonnncc of hell metal. It If said to be nvuilahle for tubing, wheel hubs, boilers, armor plate, cooking utensils and musical instruments. For only the third time in the history of medical surgery has the operation of removing the stomach heen per formed successfully. The case is that of John Kolle, a l^rman carpenter, who has been treated In the sanitarium at Lebanon, Pa. ? Kolle suffered from a growth iu his stomach which pre vented digestion and assimilation. An interesting feature of Ills recovery i? the fact thai he Is now able to eat solid food. The oldest clock in America has gon* out of business. It is the town clock of Tlalpam, Mexico. For 25? yean* peons aud presidents. Indians and em lttrors have been noting the hour from Its ancient face. For 1.10 years it rail iu the cathedral towers in the City of Mexico, and for the past 120 years has been at Tlalpam. Some months ago it began to show signs of old ag< by becoming irregular, and nlthougl> repairs were frequently made, it linally struck and refused to run. It will probably be sent to one of the museums in the City of Mexico as the oldest cl??ck with the long:::! continuous rec ord in America. JAPANESE RAILWAYS. IIott the Little I'.rown Men C'nudiict Ttieuipelrc* YV'tiru Traveling. The railway traveler in Japan buys a first. s?cond or third class ticket; or. it he wishes to go cheaper still, he ear get n ticket entitling him simply tc stand on the platform ! Many of the cars can be entered either from the side or the end. The principal differ ence between the first aud second class coaches is the colo- of the upholstery. None of the ears ar ? very clean. Many of the third-class coaches could serve, without mueh alteration, as ordlnnry pigsties. This is all more remarkable when the incomparable cleanliness of the Japanese home life, even of tlic humblest, is taken into consideration. All explanation of this may be thnt tiu? Japanese have little regard for the cleanliness of any place where they keep their shoos or clogs on. The Ku ropean room, for example, which has lieen established in a few Japanese homes, is the only ::nai*tincut in the whole house that is not kept M-rupu lously swept, duslefl. oIIimI and bur nished. So, too, v.' it it the Japanese inns. Those that av ? maintained in native style are sued and elean; those that have become Kuropcau'uced are usually littered wiin ei;;arette slumps, fruit peelings and cu;v:: and other de bris. An American Pullman. wilh its crowded and unavoidable i;:i iin.-.cles. is a decent and polit-* hermitage ctu i pared with a pr.cUctl coach in .Japan. All sort.* of uiiexpc';*;t d tilings happen. Daring ablutions :????? performed and complete change < f raiment Is fre quently effected, t ie constantly recur ring trnnels scrvin*.: to screen t lie as t mishing character m' these programs. The floor of thlrd-cla*.< coaches is an vr.swept riot of the Mot sain and jetsam that lsually follows in the wake of er?r tr.in kinds of human craft the world ever. A IJowery picnic crowd, aban doned t.? peanuts. popcorn and bana nas, never marked a inure conspicuous trail than a lot of Japanese peasants en route. Only, with the Japanese, it. is all a very solemn affnir. Travel reens t ? afford fitting opportunity to discard all kinds of personal wreckage. A ! I form* of abandoned odds and ends of things begin to identify the itinerary from the very start. Of course, the for eign traveler who wades through this car-strewn waste does r.o to gain expe rience. It Is not a pursuit cf happi ::c. s . ? Hook lover s' M? g.i 7.1 ne. Identifying; tlm (hm, "I don't recall seeing you at college. T guess you must !;:? v i* before my time." "Possibly; possibly. Who was at tin* head of the faculty when you were there?" "I'm? let rr.e see. I t'on't ;iusl recall his name, but I was there She yeas* Krnce played hnlfbn<-i; and kicked g??al twice from the HcH in tin* last half of " "Oil, sure! Of cons* *e! That was the year our centre rr..?ii carried most of the opposing ten hi on his back for a gain of thirty yards. Yes. indeed. I wonder who was president then. 1 don't seem to remember minor details of college life inys:,!f." ? New York Press. Slmltiirllv. I'ncle Jerry's nicinory had begun lo play queer pranks with hint, but he refused to admit the fact, and stoutly Insisted that, lie could remember tilings as well as ever. On one occasion, while calling at the house of a friend, he was introduced to a stranger whojy name was Kdd,v. In th" course of the conversation that followed lie addressed the stran ger as "Air. Whirlpool." "I beg yor.r niirdon," said the other, "but my name i? :'??i exactly Whirl pool. It Is Kdtly." ?'I beg your pardon for the .'."'Make." replied I'liele Jerry, courteously. "I was misled by the? or? similarity o. sound."