Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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tie V U0,,, 9 0t Le .TWO FARMERS. nr erro r. 2Ra'as. i.. Stretching away on every side A fair domain you see; A part belongs to Pat McBride, A part belongs to me. I own the golden light of morn, With all its tints that play U pon the springing grass and corn ,at owns the corn and hay. I own the catbird, thrush and jay, The larks that sing and soar Pat owns the barnyar4 fowls that stay About his stable door. But where the shadows on yon stream Are changing every hour, ] own the.right to float and dreani Pat owns the water power. Mine is the murmur of the rill Whose sweet tones never cease, But all the air with music fill Pat owns the flock of geese. I own yon creamy summer clou.1, That o'er the meadow .floats Like some pure angel in a shroud Pat owns those Berkshire shoats. Mine are .these drops of dew that shine And fll.mv wild rose full: These tiny violets are mine Pat owns that mighty bull: Where such things can be gvc for pcf, Pat buys the finest breeds. I hold communion with myself Pat holes the title deeds. Pat rises when the morn is new. And so. sometimes, do I; I see he has enough to do As I am passing by. Hir muscles seem to be of steel. t mine sometimes relax: 4h4 lie so stirdy seems to feel, I let him pay the tax. My golden profits ne'er escape; I hide them in my breast; Pat"takes his gold in different shape And sticks it in his vest. I count my treasures o'er and o'er As higher still they mount; Pat's go with those that went before To swell his bank account. Pat owns that clover field in fact, And so I sadly fear That love of gain will make him act Just as he did last year. The crimson bloom I prized so high He cut without remorse " And L!d the seed off by and by, And bought a Norman horse. No man has wealth enough to buy My nart in this domain; I would not sell my clouds and sk,, My shadows on the olain. I would not sell this golden light, These tales the breezes tell; Gold has no power to buy my right For money Pat would sell. I gaze at ease on every hand, ' At our nossessions fair; Pat plows and sows and reaps the land And keeps it in repair. So Pat does me a world of good, While I do Pat no harm, And on these terms, well understood, We both enjoy the farm. -National Stoclman and Farmer. ~ The End of og ax the Chase. \ T was one of those dull. Igray days of later autumn, Iwhich so often brings sud denly to its close a season of summer 'warmth and Ibrightness. The woods resounded sol emnly at every wind, the fields were a dull and expressionless greeni. There .was that unmistakable look of change 'in everything which affects the sensi - ..tire nature as the subtle miarks of age -might do, noticed for the tirst time oin esome famniliar and be!aed race. G ohn Houston emerged from the i,ods and stood absently leaning up on his gun as he contemplated the long stretch of meadowland before him. He dreaded the trom~p; undeniably he wa growing old. His mirror had affirmed the fact beyond contradiction that very .morning-the little square looking glass bgefore which.he had shaved him ~self inl his own room in the one inn of .Mapleton. Why had he come to this' plc?he enestioned. Ostensibly for hunting, but did he care for hunting? Theb boys would have laughed to see his clumsy' attempts at fte game. He had been wise enough not to bring any .o! them along. .- He was tired of his fri-ends, wearied 'to the dleath of the club, worn to the -erge of satiety with travel, and unre concilable to his bachelor apartments -their hollowness was worse than the liollowness of the woods. He had not even brought his valet, the man bored him so with his automatic attentions. He wanted to go back to his youthful da.ys again, when wealth had been only a d.ream, but there had been something -indnitely better in his life. His phyva 'sieian had said that he was on the verge of a nerve collapse, and that lhe most have rest. He knew it was not rest he needed, but stir-the stir of life. Often in these days he was tempted to adopt a chid. When Sammy Hous ton's wife died he had made a high bid for the little boy-there was something in the child's eyes thmt made him think of what he had'lost out of life bulit S immy wouldn't let the baby go. "1 linow I'm poor." the young man said. "but. I can take care of amy boy. He's al! I've got to rei.mmber her by." IHe had not urged the matter, although hie had feit his life would he more emp ty than Sam's without the child-Samli had the memory of his love. He knew the men about town. the yo'ug men~x all envied himt-longed to attaOin: his postion, h is wealth andl so cial standing. He hoped they would .keelp on doing so. and never know how small the whole thing seenmed to him as he stood at the edge of the Mapietou woods this dark autumn afternoon. It had been misting ait intervals all day, and the thickly strewn leaves that itn the morning had drifted ou aromat it' blasts, tirst this w:iy. then that, were -quiet now. and sodden. The wimnd was .a:lxg again, the miet heeoming keenly p)alpablle. .lohn IIouiston k;ewv it wvas 'se-tting in for a night of long menaced dowvnpou:-. The rih uma tiechils wvere L-t'epin.ith ic (y cluitches up an down~'I his back. Hie felt he must be moving, for a sic<:e or gout ini a place .like Mapa':on woulil be unfbearable)i. As he started forwaid, something--a gray. feathery thing-started up fromt a lit tie pond just belowv in the meadow, lie put up his eye-.;ass: it was a goose. "But a goese is be:er than nothing." thouight im. "I can't go back to that landlord with nothing in may bag.' However. while he was collecting his scatteredi senses thet goose flew awvay, imatking good lin'e. as geese fly, over the meadlow. .John IiOuiston started in pursuit. "All my life I hav'e been on a ,m -e- ceh." he thought. "I won't give up now." Over hillock, ove bogs, now down in the oozy slush, no confronted by barbed wire fences, 1 kept up, his .chase after the gray goos No. one seeing this man now woul have wondered at the concentratio of purpose which, had accumulatc. . immense fortune. Not one of thez would have guessed that his purpos had,failed in the one thing he deeme of moment in the world. Suddenly he found himself up again a high board fence with a swingin picket gate in it-the goose had di appeared. It was raining torrents nov He opened: the gate and steeped insidE There we.s a woman there-a tal slender woman'dressed In black, wit a big flapping hat. She was feedin the geese. As John Houston ,ooked a her he thought she might be thirty, o even forty, for the hair was a dea gray under the black hat. But sh carried the grace and sprightliness o her prime in her lithe movements an vibrant voice as ae called 4the gees about her. "I beg your pardon. ma'am." sai John Houston; "I-" "Oh!" she said, turning sharply, "ar you the man who frightened my gees so?" "I'm afraid I am." said John. "But you are wet." she said. quickl. noting the disheveled condition of th man. "It's- a perfect- downpour. Won' you come -in and dry your clothes ; bit'%" John Houston did not hesitate. With out realizing it, be,.-Was thinking o rheumatism and of the desolate- roon at the inn. He passed through th neat kitchen into the living room. An( such a room! He had never though to see its like in Mapleton. Long, low with a blazing fire at one end, it wa filled with surprises of easy lounging places. divans and cushions. "Make yourself at home." said. the woman, motioning toward the blazing fire, "and I will have Sarah brew yo1 a warm drink. You are chilled to th bone." When she came back with a steam ing cup on a little tray he was stand ing before the fire. He had throwi aside his cap and heavy hunting jack et, and was holding in his hand a pie ture he had picked up from the table The darkness of night had set in, ari with it the storm was increasing. ThE blaze leaped up from the open wood fire and shone on her as she entered A woman never shows to better advan tage than in the.firelight. The gray 'hair was an illumination as it fell ir girlish locks on each side of the face The face was flushed with a delicate pink; her hospitality had been good foi her-she looked almost young. For a moment John Houston did no speak. There was a look in hi; face the men in Wail street would have been surprised to see. His lips w r little drawn and white, but when she advanced to set the tray on the table Lefore him he managed to bring a kind f smile. He took a step forward 'Agnes'" he cried, impetuously; "Ag es, don't you know me?" The tra3 umbled and the steaming liqui( oured over the wh-ite band, but sh tlid not mind. "John!" She was breathless. "John here did yo'u come from?" "From chasing your old gray goose,~ e said. "All my life since you lefi e I have been on a wild goose chase.' [hey seated themselves. Explanations vere in order. The hot drink was for ;otten. "Why did you run away from me, gnes'" John Houston asked. "Why? You must have known ohn. Robert, my brother-he default d. We were so proud of him, mothe' md I. We paid every cent of that aw ult1 indebtedness-then Robert died We came here to bury our :grief an mr shame. I was afraid of you-ever f you, John-afraid of the disgrace." John Houston rose and stood befort he tire again. How handsome h< ooked-a man is not really old at fifty "I have been all -my life on a wilk oose chase," he cried, impetuously. She rose, too, the old humorous ten erness on her face and in heor eyes. "But you have found your old graa oose at last," she said.-Grace Adell Pierce, in Los Angeles Times. The Case of Mary. A member of the faculty of the UJni versity of Chicago tells of the sa' 'ase of a young woman from Indianm who was desirous of attaining socia p'oience in Chicago. Soon afte her arrival there she made the ac quaintance of a student at the univer sity to whom she took a great fancy Eviently it was at this time that sh, 'eal.zed for the first time her earl: edcation had been neglected, for sh said to a friend: "I suppose that, as he is a colleg ma, I'll have to be awful carefu1 wht I say. What 'll I talk about t him':" Tae friend suggested history as saf" topic. To her friend's astonisli met, she took the advice seriously and shortly commenced in earnest t "-bne up" in English history.' When the young man called the gil listened for some time with il-cor eled impatience to his talk of fool bl1!. out-door meets, dances. etc., bil jilly she decided to take the matte i her own hands. She had not don all that reading for nothing: so. pa ase in the conversation affordin the, desired opportunity, she suddeni ex'laimedl, with considerable vivacit3 "Wasn't it awful about 31ary, Que of Scots?" "Why, what's the matter?" stan meed the student, confused. "My gracious:" almost yelled the gil from Indiana, "didn't you know Why. the poor thing had her head ct off:-Harper's Weekly. The Things Necessary. MIotorist-"Are all the tools in tii tool-hest'" Valt--"Yes. sir." Motorist--Ar'e all the cushions an ip robe's in the tonneau?" Valet--Yes, sir." 31otorist-"Is the tank full of gasi line:" \alet-"Yes. sir." MIotorist--Have you brought dow al our goggles?" Valet-"Yes, sir." 310torist-" Well. run up to my rool and bring the roll of bills out of th top bureau drawver so -that we wi have enough money to pay our fine Then we shall be ready to start." -nwn Topics WITand HUMOR df THE D A Y a Conserving the Type. e "Ah. yes. We blondes are getting scarce," The flower of the beauty flock sighed; - And further -scarceness to prevent. She went and blew in her last cent t For one more bottle of peroxide Doing and Telling to Order. "Henpeck tells his wife everything that he does." -Yes, and he does everything that she tells him."-Illustrated Bits. Two Questions. t Shre-''Are you sure you love me for rmyself alone?" He-"Did y.athink I.loved you for your mother?P- omerville Journal. Gathers None. Tortoise-"There is no moss on my back!" The Hare-"That's because you're a species of rolling stone."-Detroit Free e Press. Where He Got Them. "His nose is like his father's, but where did he get those black eyes?" "He called me a name yesterday and t I gave them to h!m."=-Cleveland Plain t Dealer. Didn't Use One. "The trustee of the company has flown with the cash." "Did he use a flying machine?" "I said he had flown, didn't I '"--Fort Worth Record. Nutritions. 0 "What would you think of a man, who would feed breakfast food to his chick ens?". "I should think the chickens would be laying for him."-Houston Post. ' The End. Upson-"Is love a disease?" Downs*- "The worst in the worid, - Pickleson nearly died with it." Upson-"What cured him?" Downs--Marriage." -- Detroit V:er Press. Flying Leap. l poedto m whl.w ero n h Ida-"Whrdd you fiste hmee onh jump, eh?"-Chicago News.^ No ScandaInoncer. City Niece--P'm told that Miss Back Bay is a philatelist." Aunt Mirandy-"Well, now, I don't believe no sech story. an' if I wuz you I wouldn't repeat it. There's too much scandal goin' about nowadays, any how.". Just Their Size. F.nsign (of the Baltic fleet) - "Your Excelency.'I am informed that there are dangerous rumors afloat." Admiral (excitedly) - "Where are thyv? I'll tackle 'em, no matter how danerous they are. TIl blow 'em out of the water, I will!" Careless Man. Mr. Nooritch--'Our friend Jiggins has made a lot of money offen a shoe string start, but he still talks like a roustabout." Mr. Sturckile--"Yes, I notice so. Now that he's made his pile, why don't he hire a tooter and learn to talk proper, Slike I done?" Too Much Work to Do. Village Postmaster - "We ought to -have another clerk here." Insector--More than she can do, Village Postmaste-"Yes; why, some times she don't get through reading all the p)ost cards before 10 o'clock at A Definition. "Teacher." as~ked little Johnny, "what's a Amazoa?" A woman who fights," replied the teacher kindly. "Gee! I guess maw must be a Ama Szon, then," softly murmured Johnny, wlth ivhid recollections of certain com 1bats under the parental roof. Excitihe Garne. t"Tag" exclaimed the big policeman on Washington Boulevard. 'Is this a game of tag?" asked the chauffeur of the unnumbered racing Yes, and you are 'it.' And then the policemian walked the richauffeur off to the station.-Chicago V1~ ery Lifelike. "I see you have a photograph of my~ I vife-Mrs. Pyle Onstyle-in your show case. It's very like her," said the eld terly caller. "Yes." replied the photographer, owwhat bitterly, "and she hasni't paid mec for it yet." -A! that's still more like her."-Phil adelphia Precss. (The Qetion of the Bour. "John." said his wife, in a firm tone. "What is it, dear'?" responded the husband. 'You've been supporting Mr. Sniff kins for Congress for the past two months, haven't you?" "Yes, my love." "And he was elected, wasn't he?" S"He wvas, myder.v C"Well." said the wife, with a steely hittr in her eye, "don't you think you - n whirl in now' amnd help support this f fmil'?"-oustonl Chronicle. WOMEN CROWDING MEN. The Much Mooted Question of Women Ia school and College. Evidently Dr. Edmund James does not believe it to be a case of the sur ,al of the fittest when he says the disappearance of men students from the coeducational institutions in the Mississippi valley may be only a mat ter of time. In his report to the trustees of North- s western University, which appeared b recently, Dr. James shows the per centage of women in the Evanston c school has increased during the past h four years from 46.7 to 56.6. He ex plains the fact in the case of this par- o ticular university by saying it is u distinctly a literary college and that sJ emphasis is placed on the study of the classics, ancient and modern history, a mathematics and pure science-sub- b jects which appeal to the women of the country as they become more edu- e cated. n What is to be done about it? What encouragement can be given to young m men to attend the higher institutions is of learning in such numbers that they sl shall not be overshadowed by the f. women? Or is the check to be ap- d plied and the number of women to be limited, as was done at Leland Stanford? How would a broadening of the curriculum affect the result? F Cornell, which is ii 'no -danger of a surplus of women students, has made ., ample provision for men ny numerous d courses in engineering, agriculture 01 and applied science. The- Massachu setts Institute of Technology, open to e both sexes, has but few women stu- S dents, although the number is gradu- d ally increasing. a It is hardly fair or chivalrous to de- it bar women from studying whatever w they wish to study simply becauSe m men do not like to attend "a female seminary." Ther, ought to be scope d, enough in the college, as there is in life, for both men and women. That ai women are crowding into places is hitherto occupied by men does not c mean that some law or artificial forces h, should be used to keep them out. If tl they do well in these places they will a7 stay; if not, in the very nature of things. they will drop out or be ai dropped. ti It certainly is desirable that men _ shall have the opportunities for higher e: education; that they shall not be a -rowded out. If the courses offered bi are what they should be, how are the young men hindered in any respect by ec the number of women? Is it timidity, w bashfulness or a sense of inferiority al that makes men students averse to a t: preponderance of women students?- pl hicago Chronicle. A Harbor Tragedy. ft As one of the Atlantic liners was be ing brought alongside the wharf at 01 Boston the hawser f/uled the propeller and caused a slight commotioi, says . A. P. Soon after the ship was e berthed a newspaper reporter came aboard and interviewed the chief offi cer ce "What sort of royage did you have, bi captain?" -Very good." "Any bad weatler?" w 'No; fine all the-way.'' 52 "See any icebergs or oerdE'~ or g anything like thst?"'' a "No." di "What was the crowd looking at just cc before I came along?" s 'Hawser got foul of the propeller." to 'What happened?" i "Cut to pieces" th 'Thank you, cap'n," and lhe hurried in ashore-.c The next issue of a Boston paper m contained the following, with scare H headlines: 'of --When the steamer Bushman was p being berthed in East Boston this af- al ternoon an exciting incident occurred. ti: A valuable horse that had been stand ing on the wvharf bolted and fell into ie the water. and before anything could r be done to save it the poor creature b got foul of the mighty screw, and was cut to pieces before the eyes of the b horrified spectators." - New York t News. Too Much' For the Cook. He was a new waiter in a downtown restaurant, and after he had waited on a man who was seamed at one of the tables the other noon. he went be hind thle eid linch counter to eat his own dinner. Presently *he dropped down from his stool and whistled up the tube to the cook on the second et floor. "Where's that pie I ordered' y' he asked. '"Hurry it up." The cook's hi reply coulil not be beard; he was evi- e detly a suispicious cook and he pro-a yoked the new waiter. The volley the * latter fired into the tin funnel sounided tE like a busch of fireerackers going oft PE in a barrel. "-Heavens!" lhe spluttered. " "Iid you think I wanted it for myself? ,~ I haven't been here long. but I've seenS your pies. I haven't been disappointed in love, and I haven't any domestic 1~ troubles. When I'm desperate I'll take 1 something easier to swallow than one t( of your pies. There's a customer itere c~ waiting f6r it. IHes no friend of mine, c~ or Id switch him off onto crackers tI and cheese. You'll know me better if o: I don't get discharged." The pie came g down with a rattle, and the new wait- c~ er resumed his meal.-Providenice Jour- b nal. Phonograph Takes 'rPhone Calls. [ A man uptown, whose b)usiness p takes him much from home, but whose t business communications conie to the d house, has made an odd combination a of the telephone and phonograph. His y, wife speaks little or 1no English, but a can manage to answer the 'phone calls tl in his absence. As s:oon as she has v. learned the name of the speaker at the tl ther end of the wire she starts a phon- ti ograph, and, requesting the caller to ti leave a message. thrusts the receiver fi lose into the bell of the phonograph p horn. The record is faint but intelli gible. and obviates the necessity o having a small boy who speaks Eng Ush in attendance at the house' That same phonograph probably reg- r :ters more odd tongues than any sinu ir instrument in New York. The .ner has a polyglot acquaintanCe and t e fad of having his friends talk intot t::e machine. In a sitngle e:eninlg it5 has registered French, Germant, reek Hungarian, Russian, Spanish. Japanese and Italian speeches and songs, and lhe has a collection of more than fifty tongues and pe'tois. New York Press. HOUSEUHEHDLD USES OF LEMONS. A teaspoonful of lemor. juice in a mall cup of black coffee will relieve illous headache. Two or three slices of lemon in a up of strong tea will cure a nervous eadache. Lemon juice is better than any drug complexion powder for giving per ianent beauty and clearness to the :in. Lemon juice (outward application) ill allay the irritation caused by the ites of insects. A dash of lemon in plain water is an celent tooth wash. It not only re oves tartar but sweetens the breath. The juice of a lemon taken in hot ,ater on awakening in the morning an excellent liver corrective, and for out women is better than any anti t medicine ever invented.-The In ana Farmer. SALADS AND HEALTH. It used to be considered very renchy and foreign to have salad Ilth dlwier pr luncheon. ' Americans a whole wanted regularly their just 2serts, and a green leaf or two more less counted for very little. In theTie Belt pastry was the nee isary garnish for every meal. Down )uth there were always famous pud ngs for the complete epicure, and if salad was served at all a decade ago, was a ponderous meat affair of bich an entire indigestible meal was ade. But to-day we are a wiser and sad ?r nation. Pies and puddings have rought out their own punishment. id everywhnr' the dyspeptic microbe lurking in our midst, seeing what mfort and joy he may devoui' We ive paid heavily because we scorned e green leaf to lighten our meals id sweeten our digestion. And why not? Once you awaken i American woman's interest in any ing-clothes, outdoor sports or foods and straightway she sets about to :cel. She makes the smartest clothes id is the fluest sportswoman and the !st cook in the world. This craze for greens has partly me about through traveling abroad here salads are such an important ticle of diet, and partly through eir widespread recommendation by iysicians. But you mttst bear in mind that by lads are meant fresh green things om the garden or hothouse, lettuce, dive, escarol, cabbage, celery, chives, iions, fruits.. and not meat soaked in I or hard egg sauce. Some of the most delicious Ameri n salads are fruits and vegetables ied. and served with cream dress . And oranges are delicious with lery and mixed nuts. but this would a shade richer than a dyspeptic uld require. One reason, possibly, tha'. Americans ere slow to acquire a real relish of lads may have been because of the ar of devouring insects and microbes >g with green leaves. It seems so fcult to get anything that is un oked thoroughly, hygienically whole me. But the London~ doctors seem have solved the difficulty by order all greens, eaten in hospitals or by eir patients anywhere, to be washed a weak solution of borax water. Of urse, the purest borax must be used id the solution must be always fresh, alf a teaspoonful of borax to a basin fresh water is about the right pro irtion. Each leaf should be separ ely dipped up and down several ies to insure perfect cleanliness, id rinsed in clear water If conven t. Though, if the greens were not ised, no harm wvould be done, as the -ax solution is absolutely without uious properties, would, in fact. a wholesome wash for mouth and Cream of Tomato Soup-Cook a half n of tomatoes until soft. thenx strain. anwile have ready a quart of milk ated in a double boiler and thick ed. when at the boiling point, with tablespoonful of corn starch cooked ith two tablespoonfuls of butter. Boll a minutes, season with salt and pep ~. Add the strained tomatoes and if ry acid add half a saltspoonful of da before turning in with the milk. rve at once with croutons. Plain Pumpkin Pie-Pare and stew mpin that has been,pared and cut small pieces. Cook it long enough be quite dry, then press through a lander or a puree strainecr. To one ip of pumpkin add one beaten egg, re tablesponns of molasses. p:neh sale, a rounding tablespoon of su ir, a level~teaspoon of ginger and two is cC milk. Line a plate with paste, .ild rp a rio1 and flI! with the pump a mixture. Bake slow!y. otata Soup--Wash, pare end cut r ediura sized potatoes into smal! arcs, cover wvith cold water, add a ,asponful of salt and cook until mne. Have ready a pint of milkt alded in a double boiler, together iti a teaspoonful of chopped onion id a little celery or celery seed. Take ec potatoes from~the fire, turn off the ater, mash, pour the hot milk on iem and mix well. Season to taste, iicken with a tablespoonful of but -melted with a tablespoonful of our, add a tablespoonful of minced rsley and serve with c.rackers. Nonconductors. Conductor on the Brooklyn Rlap. rans. tangled with a liv-e wire. re ived 1500 v-olts, only 200 less than are quired by law for an execution, and 1il lives. This may be pretty goad Brooklyn. but the lads over here on je Broadway Line can styand twice 3at. and the volts are frequently en escaping by the side street, bow gg their heads in shame and pur ned by the coarse laughter of the ikel grabbers.-New York Telegram. The French provincial railroads eman.in the noorest in the world. Ashes as an Aid. Ashes and hen manure, if mixed to gether before being applied to the soil. result in a loss of.ammonia from the droppings that greatly lessens the valu'. Put the ashes on after the ma nure has been mixed with the soil; the ammonia will be absorbed by it and re main. for the use of the crop. Wood ashes make a valuable application to soils deficient in potash, and hasten the i decomposition of coarse manures. Grow Into a Specialty. Some one has said "it Is better to grow into a specialty than to go into it." There is a deal of wisdom in the saying as applied to the farm. Almost any line of work is all right if well conducted, but. all wrong if it is not. First learn how, then it will do to go in. A good way to learn a specialty is to try it on a small scale and gradually increase. There are those who can comprehend the requirements of a tine of effort without the experience, but they are not numerous. Don't Bury the Animal. It Is a loss of valuable material to bury a dead animal. Cut the carcass up into as small pieces as possible, placing them in a large box or cement ed pit, using, both flesh and bones, as well as the entrails. Dry dirt may be used to fill the spaces between the pieces. Use one part sulphuric acid and two parts water, pouring the mix ture over' the mass until it is thorough ly saturated. In a few days the whole will be fit for use, but little odor being noticeale.-Philadelphia Record. To Brace End Post. cdet tLe two end posts three feet deep. Put an anc'or in end of each. Between posts at the top put a two by four stick. Near the top of second post at tach a heavy double wire, let it extend back near the foot of end post to an an- I chor, either a heavy stone or a stic four feet long with wire attached in middie. When everything is in place twist wire the last tbing.-S. P. Delano, in The Epitoinist. - Care of Comb Honey. C As soon as comb honey is sealed re- C .move it from the hive, scrape all see- 1 tions clean of prepolis, then put it di rectly into 'shipping cases and close tight. Keep it in a warm room till time to sell, never allowing it to freeze, as freezing it cracks the comb, says The Farmer, and when warmed again it begins to leak out, making a n-asty,1 dauby mess. Be sure your shipping case is tight, so that ants, millers or fies cannot get in. Do not put honey in a cellar, as the dampness bursts the cappings, the honey grows thin, loses its flavor and leaks out, while if stored in a dry 1 room it will improve and thicken. Never pack two colors of honey to-1 gether or mix it in the shipping cases. Keep the whIte honey by Itself 'for a better price. Be very careful not to pack any see ton of honey having a single cell of pollen in It, for It surely will have an egg from a moth miller in it, whIch 'will hatch out a big ugly worm to spoil the honey. If you haven't shipping cases ready to pack the honey In as soon as taken off the hives, then store it in the supiers1 in a dry, warm room, tiering them up as high as you c-an reach. After two weeks frimigate with sulphur to kill any moth worms that may be batching. Also repeat the fumigation once in two weeks till cold weather.1 ShIp all comb honey to market before freezing wveather if possible. Stock For Breeding.t A word about selecting breeding I stok. It is dpubtful if there is any branch of the poultry industry that re quired so much good judgment as the selcting of the breeding stock, as theyr are the f'oundation of the industry. I Pure-bred poultry practically has twor values. A bird that hras nice feather i markings, although deficient in real C business qualities, has a vaiue with the 4 fancier for exhibition, But the bird that is not so nicely marked, if plump and a good layer, is likely tQ make the best breeder, and is the birdt that has t the real business value. For where 't there is one bird sold for exhibition < purposes there are 10.000 sold for what t they will produce in the way of poultry< and eggs. I admire birds with nice feather markings. But with my twen ty-fie years' experience in raising I poultry and eggs for market I have found that the highest scoring birds do not always make the most profitable breeders. -- A bird to be a good, profitable breed-1 er should have a medium-sized and in-1 telligent looking head, short beak, large comb and wattles (as they show healthI and vigor): short neck, broad back,1 broad, plump, full breast, mEdium enortI legs, wide apart, body medium lengthI and not too deep, and with yellow skin. Birds of this type as a ru.e are good breeders and good layers, and as ressed poultry they command the highest market price.-J. Alonzo Jocoy, n the \!assachulsetts Ploughman. .. Seedless Fruits. The common belief is that the seed less orange was originally a freak fruit that appeared in Southern California. The real truth is, however, that the world is indebted for it to the United States Department of Agriculture. It s said that United States Consul Will iam F. .Judson, at Bahia, Brazil, heard of seedlss orange trees that grew some distance away from Bahia. Hie ob tained cuttings from the trees and sent them to the Agricultural Department at Washington. The department nur tured the sprouts carefully, and in time was able to send buds from them to several orange growers. Some of the growers grafted the buds upon seedling stock. A California fruit grower was the first to produce the seedless orange. From him other grafts were obtained. -..,m a lnth the old seedling orange roves were either cut down or re ;raf ted with the seedless kind. Fruit growers who study their bust ness scientifically - know- that seed is produced In a fruit through fructinca ion by the yellow pollen or flower dust that appears so abundantly upon the tamens of flowers. If the pollen could e kept away from the stigma of a ruit flower, might it not be that the rrult would still grow while the forma :lon of needs would- be prevented? On hat theory . scientific apple, Cherry. ,rape and plum growers have been vorking patiently and quietly. In In tlana a woman farmer. Mrs. Mary E. srosh, of Noblesville. has been endeav ring-to develop a seedless tomato, and ias at length succeeded. The fruit is incommonly ine from. tltese. seedle" omato slips. In general, It appears hat where the strength of the plant ias not to go to the growing of seed the .rilt is of superior quality. In.Colo:'ado, similarly, John F. Spen .er, shortly after the seedless orange iad come to stay, began working over he problem of bringing out a seedless" tpple. He now announces that he has. ittained his object."r.e seeles $p )le has at the end opposite the stem a tlight bsrd formation somewhat like hat in a navel orange. but.s"a seeds. )ddly -'enough, or- perhaps AIt'might iave been expectned, the seedless apple ee does not have petalled blossoms the apples grow out from little buds Ike the calyx of a flower. Butit would e a pity If apple blossoms should be tone away with! A California fruit grower,' Luther Burbank. has for some years been try ng to get seedless plums. He has"sue eeded to a great degree, but not en irely. It is odd that the plum seed is ,till retained, though its stony coating is been bearly abolished. Mr. Bur ank believes that he will be able, af er awhile, to get plums that are all ulp. Progress has been achig.ed also ~ n the direction of stoneless grape rowing, notably in Ohio. As fast as . he growers develop anything new thegj-" eport it to the pomological department tt Washington. Mr. Spencer has sent number of his seedless apples there, The best news of all, however. wi >robably be that a seedless Georgis vatermelon has been brought out as he result of long and patient effort. A ;outhern watermelon without seeds. rould be the perfection of fruits. As ar as they have progressed the melon xperimenters= have obtained a fruit ontaining only a few seeds. It'seemsp nly a question of time when we shall uy in the markets all these fruits in eedless state--?hristian at Work. There is a vast cifference netween a nan who peddles poultry and one who ~reeds it. To be sure we have both. t I truly believe that for the good of . e poultry industry we should, by>l$ me means or other. drive every pou.l 7 peddler from the ~ousiness. I am not speaking now of the huck.'' ter. whose business It is to sell and uy poultry for market, but I reter~~ e persons who buy'ifrds'Troin Other ' :eeders and then peddle them from miace to place under the name of the Ireder of such and such a variety. I an not see what glory a man derives ron such a business. There may be iue consolation In the fact that be beats" the other fellow at the shows, mut what good does that do the great , oultry fraternity? -. Here is a man who has spent years. bringing a breed of fowls to a'hbigh lace In the poultry world, and when. ; hat man wins he has a heartfelt satis-9 action. that he deserved all he got an the peddler say so much? I realize that I am on debatable ~round, but I belIeve It Is a cause that T"' ieeds wise handling. Suppose I sgnz a nrominent breeder and,buy a En ock, take him to New York, and hee ins. Who, then. is die real whiery iyself or the man from whom I boughit he birds? And Is it right to show a' mird that you did-not'raise, or that does of have the blood of your own strain 1 it as being your own? Here Is a man who sells eggs to a an who in turn hatches and raises a t of fine birds, and when fall coines ound the man who sold the eggs buys he birds and exhibits them; In this a the birds are rightly his own; theTre ame from his yards directly; ther mave his blood in them. I can see motng wrong in such work. I must say that It Is little wonder hat much of the wind is. taken out of he sails of the beginners when we ome to see that It does~ not mean much o buy birds that will win. It then be. !om2es 'not so much a matter of whoe sa the best skill in rearing potiltry d mot so much in the business for the )leasure one derives from being able to aise fine birds as It is to make mone7 buying and selling them. It has been my observation that hese "peddlers" soon grow tired of ;heir own game. Just so soon as the noney erid of the business begins to .ag that soon they seek some other msiness. But not so with the true rancier. He is in the work for what leasure there is in It. and the money m art becomes a secondary matter. -2 A man who is now a prominent fan ier onee stood on the floor of a big. show just after the ribbons had been. placed, and not seeing first come to his cop said: "I am going home to worle hrder than ever, and the fellows 'will' fid out that I can win yet." How did' he do It? By buying the best bird in the land? No. By going into his breed ing yards and mating with care the' best birds he had and following It up' till the result was birds that. would - win. That man to-day finds muel pleasure in what he has accomplished. and more than that, he finds a great deal of money In his wallet. The world will reward a true man. Let him who will peddle, but as for me. want to have it said that what I sho~ is mine and not Tom Jones' bird. Go It, then, my dear beginners. There is much room at the top. If you waunt to be a huckster, be one, but If a tru fancier, be one, and I surely believe that every lover of fine birds will give you the wvelcome hand when once jus put your foot on the top rounad of thre ldder.-Wm. Harris Guyer, in the In l,aand n lt n ornal ---t----"