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SONG OF THE RETREAI We'r marchin on to freed1m. in The) sh u ar u 11n: rm nd ua e'vcre mrarchbn: cm >iroo . : A ' erbso ta d i :: th e Ouog :md t::Ie e. m Three hnrdton ee :: aore r'':heva:ea i::: ;nh Our baiyon a!: : trcaupk Above the dis-tantmona-tp A cal d 's n th-- east. ar 0. arave. where is thy victory? 0 We die that Russih may ba fre' There's blood upon the -o: I " in Our triumph is in our deicat. ot We'rz marching on to freedom thi The cannon roar behind us. and I You can see our patient races, in I We've suffered through the wear For we're beaten-beaten-beaten' We've lost the tyrant's battle no Wronged. robbed. oppressed, torm A hundred million Russian Slavs -Bertran LIZA WEBB'S By MARJORIE I SIE queer little red cottage in which Miss Eliza Webb O lived was built in the old T -New England fashion, with a lean-to and a porch. 1e & it grew a row of cherry trees,. and ne side ran a picturesque hedge of bushes; but on the right, streh g the entire length of her tiny farm, as'a high board fence. MN~s Eliza Webb frowned at the ene and at the great house and stable hicii loomed up behind it. The~e big buildings cut off a large ortion of the river view from the red ottage'. but Miss Webb could still have een part of the valley from her win ows had that obuoxious fence been emoved. "Insultin':" murmured Miss Webb. Right down insultin': And just be use I toM him plain out what I ou;lt of hlim. She fixed her eyes on the fence and enz on watering the gay nasturtium d. till little muddy rivulets ran away om it and settled about her slippered et. IFiffy years before all those broad eres stretching fron the lilac hedge eross the hills to the little river wind through the valley beneath had lored to Miss Webb's father. He d often stood on the porch of the red tage. with. his wife and daoithter 'building air-castles on the ry spot now occupied by the great sg. But years brought losses to meon Webb. and the site of his air stlejiad to be sold. MiWebb had never greatly felt the ss, however, until this summer. when er limits were defined by the hideous nce. and the hill beyond was cut into r the foundations of the Traffords' ouse and stable.-. Old MIr. Trafford was anxious to buy he land clear through to .the lilac edge. He tried to persuade Miss1 v ebp.. into whose hands the property id descended. to sell her small farm. nd have the red cottage moved to an ther spot in the village. But she refused to consider the propo sition. and her refusal was given in such an indignant way that the oldi man's wrath was roused. and he built the fence out of spite: On Mr. Traf-1 [ord's side a trellis of grapevines ran the entire length of it. b'ut on hers no1 tiling vines or flowers covered the] rough, unpainted boards. "MIercy me!" cried Mi1ss Webb. sud aly conscious of the cold stream -ekling into her cloth slippers. She beld her alpaca skirts high in one hand. ad stepped gingcriy on to a bit of round. 'Merry me! I don't :now but what 'm losin' my senses ov'er that pesky] Ce: anti those topiofty Traffords. cy needn't have :>een so scared. I uldn't hove gone near 'em. fence or fa nce. They ain't what I want to . It's the river and the valley, that e been uses to lookin' out on ever ce I was born." She picked up the tering-pot and walked angrily into e houise. That afternoon her theory of the top ftiness of the Trafford's was shaken. exactly 4 o'clock. which waa "visit time" in Daneville. her front gate eked. Peeping out from behind the1 wn window shade. MIiss Webb saw: ng MIrs. Trafford cc ming slowly up walk. Iy aind! If there ain't the Widow1 fford, the old man's daughter-in -! Well, she can knock antd knock, all she'll get in here." Irs. Trafford was aware of the angry es fixed on her from behind the buff 'ndbow shade, but she repeated her ocks several times. At last. despamir of effecting an entrance by the al mnethod, she took a step back m the little porch, looked up sud ly att the window. and nodded pleas 1l'. Then she nodded again. iss Webb left the window and stood the mtiddle of her best room. nbtl)inIt with indignalton. "Of alil the sass and impundence~ e gasped. "I'il have to openm the duor w. an' she knows it.' 'it'a reciuctant hands she turned the sty key. "Hoar do you do?" satid her visitor. iling brightly into the grim face bove her. "We are such near neigh ors that I think it is about time we knew each other. I should have wvaited or you to call first. but as you did not, feared you might be ill, or too us "Always well. andi I ti't over par "O[returned Mirs. Traffohrd. 'Oht cll,. anm very'~ u'od to hear thtat: Gootd stealth is a grea thI;essin forth stuggestiveliy. wvithoutt tswver nag. \lrs. 'Traffortd held o'ut a basket of deliciouts loocing strawb':rracs. "Won': tA ouccei't thtis? she said, persuasively. "It is early for straw berries. I know. but our gar::euer is yery' fond of these. for thley are un usally sweet."' oeo 'a"si *"I wouldn't touch.oeo em"si Miss WXebb. :le'rce ly. -nao more than I 3Vould a stonte r'ih ot of the str'eet!"' :;eally ?" Mt's. Tr'affon'i tlushed. then sid sweetly. "I know they do disa redwith somae people. You are very 'so in refusing them., then. for indi esino so npnnea . Good-by' I "'ING RUSSIAN ARMIES. the tiri: , Kore the dawni!:: d1 - u we .,aI be 'r . fia-nked and nd l routed, :nen are _s'i. :n like the sea. p;ain is n-r d earth like nels of. ;opinz corn. be lhis sl.wlv growlng; soon it wii be morn. death. where i: . stine:Ing? we lose that :he may -ain. ke. bu: still we take it singing. ir giory n ou pamn. ugh the hi:old-red light of mor:.mb; he dead are ;ailinz :ast. he criimson of the dawning: y night, but day has come at last. Let the joyous news be shouted; w, and soon we shall he free. ented, imprisoned, exiled, knouted, are rizing like the sea. d Shadwel!, in the Boston Transcript. MISFORTUNE RICHARDSON. hope now we shall meet often." Then she beat an honorabre retreat down the gravel path. leaving the enemy angry and p7zzled. "1 believecafter :il, she didn't get hold of my nieanin' about them straw berries. and put it all down to dys pepsy:" ruminated Miss Webb, wrath fully. Young Mrs. Trafford waited until the protecting fence shut out the red cot tage before she ga'-e way to her laugh ter. "Poor woman:" she said, at last. "I don't wonder she hates us. It must be hard enough to have Mr. Trafford's house and stable planted in her very dooryard, without having that hideous fence added. It shuts off hr entire view, but I suppose that is just what he wanted. He is such t vindictive old man if any one crosse. him. I wonder if in some way I could get some vines planted on her side of the fence as they arc on ours. That would ga far to hide its ugliness if Mr. Traf ford insists on keeping it up.'' On Saturday afternoon, when Miss Webb returned from the weekly sewing circle, she found a line of trelliswork running the entire length on her side of the fenre. and saw the Traffords' gardener working busily at one end of it. "Mrs. Trafford's orders. miss." he said. .touching his hat, as she strode across the grass toward him. "She hopes you'll like it. miss, and I'm to anish it up on Monday." Miss Webb folded her long arms and urveyed his work in contemptuous silence. "I'm to finish Monday, miss," repeat d the man, uneasily. and then he shuite'ed out of the yard. It took him an hour to ci'ar away the [eap of broken trelliswork and vines which, he found the next morning, had been flung ruthlessly over the fence nto Mr. Trafford's yard. Mrs. Trafford grew a lile discour iged at the failure of her friendly at :empts, but she would not give it up. "Why. Mr. Trafford," she said, a few venings later. It the end of one of :heir discussions on the subject, "no ionder the poior oid woman feels bit er toward us. I heard through the :ninister's wife yesternay that she thinks you put up that fence to keep ier out of your grounds. She has ilways been in the habit o. going to the illage by the path through the eadow; now she has to go by the 0; 1, a quarter of a mile farther. I vish you would allow Benson to make tgateway at that end, if nothing nore." "Well, well. IHave it your own way, ruey"' grumbled Mr'. Trafiford. "Cut Je gateway, but don't let me hear any nore about it." So Mrs. Trafford sent a note to Miss Webb, telling her that she wouldI be lad to have her make use of the gate vhich Benson was making at the arther end of the fence. She received no answer, but the day ifter the opening was completed she saw Miss Webb come out of her sitchen door with a box of nails and , hammer in her hand. She listened to the sharp, vindictive lows of the'hammer, and reluctantly icknowledged to herself that her last afort, hite her first, was a failure. That afternoon, as young Mrs. Traf ord walked in the garden with her Eatherinlaw, he stopped in front of a 2ewly completed trellis, behind which the rejected gate was hidden, and smiled derisively. "Your friend. Miss Webb. keeps Ben soni quite busy," he commented. But Irs. TratTord pretende'd .not to hear. Three months passed without further ntercourse between the great house nd the red cottage, and old Mr. Traf rord had nearly forgotten his neigh Nor's existence. Not so with Miss Wbh. As the days grewv colder. and le light frosts of autumn turned the Lves of tihe oaks and maples to briil at reds and yellows. she' felnt moret envy than ever the loss cf her' once extensive v-iew. -Tve read somewhere in some book hat country people don't care for the beautiful scenery. because they're so sed to it.!" she muttered. "Some city folks wrote that. I'll be bound. 'Tain't so. The trees in the valley all flamin' nd yellow used to make me feel so rhipper! It's lonesome and smotherin', bein'~ boxed in like this." She locked the b'ack door of the cot tagce, and set out for a half-day's visit to her sister in South Danevilie. As she waliked downm the fro.zen road andl( pssed the end of the fenc'. sie gav. a suaddenm start.:' ad snr:ed hlrd an t the ast post. At its foot a little pile of 'nyves and slnvings~ was smouldering. An (xnressoion camne into her face of ing~led trimphnll and iesitatin. Thea her features settled into a hard smile. "Traffords' folks is all away to-day. and it's none of my con-ern. It won't 1&zt7e up. anyhow. I guess." she said. half-aloud, and se:ting her lips firmly toether. she mnoved away. Mrs. Daws notieced that her sister was strange~r absentminded that af tenon. Susy i)4ws made a cross sig nificamtyir wih hlerl two forelingers andi shook her h-ad warnling ly at her small brothers when they ventured too neat Miss Wehh's rocking chair. But Miiss Wobb !:' dly noticd thiem, and eve:1 foot to make ier usual comment on 1 land's sin wai of bringin'up childon." Sh filCto 11 vo sl u1; in:i7i it wn rm ;n I akek t heC Whensh' s:cnpped ;ut of the :ar ait tha' I )an-'vilie stattin, she u; ired with~ surprise that a little group of her igh bars was standi.a on the uually de srro ;d patforim. Dac':on Farrar caie o.raird to inmet her. ".Miss Webb." he said. in a sepul ehiral voice, "somethin' terrible's hap "Let mn tell hlr" cried the deaon's wife. elbowing her way to the front. "A man don't know how to break thiimzs to a body. 'Lizy, the Traffords' fence is all burnt down. They think one of the men workin' on the road must have left his pipe on it. and it got set that way. Anyhow. it's gone. And the wind came up to blow, and the house caught, and it's burnt to the ground." "Land o' Goshen." cried little Miss Foss, the village dressmaker. "she's goin: to faint clean away. I do believe!" Miss Webb's face had turned white, and she was swaying back and forth with tensely clasped hands. "Oh," she moaned. "I never thought ,f such a thing-! How could a fence so far off from everything hav.e set tire to the house? And me a member of the Orthodox Church!" "There, there!" said the deacon, soothingly. "Of course it's a dispensa tion, .Miss Webb. but do try to tear up. It had to be one house or the other. If the wind'hadn't changed. the Traf fords' house would have gone 'stead of yours." "The Traffords' house!'' gasped 'Miss Webb. "Do you mean to tll me that it's my house that's burned down an' not theirs?" "'Tis so," sa-id Miss Foss. "Didn't we tell you?" A light cane into Miss Webb's eyes and she burst into tears. "Thank Heaven!" she sobbed. "She went clean out of her mind." said the deacon's wife, afterward. "I never before in my life saw 'Lizy shed a tear." A few days later young Mrs. Trafford drove ovcr fo 3\rs. Daws' in South Daneville, and asked to see her sister. Miss Webb came down at once to the best room, where her visitor was wait ing, and as she entered she held out her hand. Mrs. Trafford took it cordially. al though with some surprise. and they sat down side by side on the haireloth sofa. "I have come." said Mrs. Traffo;'d, gravely. "with a proposition ''om my father-in-law. which I hope you will accept. I need not tell you how sorry we both are for your misfortune, and especially that it should have been caused by our fence. But since that is the caso. .Mr. Trafford is very anxious to rebuild your cottage on the same site. And I can assure you that the I fence has gone forever." she added, with a smile. Miss Webb had been fumbling in her pocket all the time Mrs. Trafford had been speaking, and she now held out an envelope, stamped and addressed to Mrr. Trafford. "I can't take it," she said, huskily. "'Taint due me. I had a good insur ance on my bouse, enough to get along on with what I've got in the bank. That fire was all my own fault. I saw the pile lyin' there, and I saw the post all charred and burnin'. I knew the fence would go. I hoped it would: but. Mis' Trafford, I never thought of it's settin' fire to anything else. It's mne that's got to pay you for the fence: and here's the money. Please give it to Mr. Traffori and tell him it was all my own fault." But Mrs. Triifford could be as stub born as Miss Webb. "The fence wasn't worth paying for," she said.-Youth's Companio'n. Professor Molisch, of Prague, says that photographs can be taken by the light emitted by raw potatoes and hard boiled eggs, in which the phosphores cent germs have been artificially cul tivated. The degree of humidity of the at mosphere, says M. .Taubert, a Paris meteorologist, is shown by the state of the pavements. When these re main covered with mud there will be no immediate change in the weather. At the Eutaw entrance to Druid Hill Park. Baltimore. stands one of the most remarkable sun dials in the world. The time in many parts of the world is shown whenever the sun is shining. It is easily possible almost at first glance to read the time within two or three minutes, while closer acquaint ance with the dial enables the correct imae to he read to the minute. The base is of carved bronze. The instru ment was prcsented to the park by Peter' Ilamiilton. wh~1o designed and maeicntir'ely of stone. Majbor Shizuose's smokeless powder is a Jananese invention, and is ac knowledged to be far mot'e powerful than the English lyddite or the French meinite. Indeed, this powder is by actual test iive times as strong as the European powder. When a shell tilled with lyddite or melinite is fired it breaks into ten or fifteen piees, where ts the same shell filled with Shimnose's smokeless powvder when exploded bursts into 20001 to 3000) pieces. It is the most power'ul smokeless powvder ever invented, and its inventor is a njor in the Japaineso arm'ny. Sea ur('hi::s or ":wi ZZs" Itive a queer metho~d of locmion!. 'They are' protected by sharp'I spines, but these 0pne do no cover all the surface. This is divided up into segments. like a rough rinded melon. '1lTh narr.ow seznments are piercedl wih' he'.es Through these smuli.i les the "ea eggs" protrude little tubes which act as feet in the followving cur'ious way The animal inflates the tubes inth water from' little suckers n't the baick, and in this way it pushes itself for war. The tubular feet are fittedl to every side of the creature. which is th ealed to move in any direction IN NORTH C-A' OIN AI C Occurrence. of lnterest i Vari Parts of the State. Charlotte Cotton rarkct. w These figures represent prices paid to ti vagons: p: Good middling .......... ...... .00 ra Strict middling ...................00 .o Middling ...... .............S.87% A Tinges .... .... ........ ..... to 7%; d Stains .. ...................6% to 7% Geneal Cotton Market. F: Middling. g( Galveston. firm ...... ...... ......9 New Orleans, steady ........ .....-9% i Mobile, steady ........ ........8 13-16 n( Savannah, quiet ...... ............8, ai Charleston, firm ........ .......S tb Wilmington, firm ........ .........8% w Norfolk, firm ......................8% si Baltimore, normal .......... ......9 ai New York. quiet ..................9.15 n( Bostoil, quint ...... ..............9.15 tu Philadelphia. steady ...... ........9.40 P( Houston, steady ........ ......8 15-16 al Augusta, steady ..................9 az emphis, firm ...... ..............9% hi St. Louis, firm .... .............9 g( Louisville, firm .... .......... ....9% fa w. Fight May be Fatal. la Asheville, Special.-Dr. W. P. Whit- ei tu tington has returned from Banards- W ville, in the Big Ivy section of Bun- di combe, and twenty miles from this es city, where he was called to attend a w man named Tom Rice, who was struck he in the head by a rock thrown by Jim n( Adams. Dr. Whittington said that the c0 man was badly hurt, but that he was j m IM still alive and might recover. The rock crushed the sk-ull and a difficult w operation was necessary. The cause of the trouble between Rice and An- ay drews resulting in the assault was over PC some trivial matter. It is said that ti Andrews made his escape. mi Serious Fight at Newbern. he Newbern, Special.-Charles Bryan hs and George Cutler, colored men, be- cc came engaged in a fight on the docks, in and Bryan assaulted Cutler - with a tb boat oar in such a manner as to burst the eye ball. The wounded man also nc received a serious injury to the head. in An operation was necessary to re- th lieve the eye. Bryan is in jail pend ing the result of the other's injuries. be re Gattis Loses Suit. th The famous Gattis-Kilgo case, on co trial- at Raleigh last week, resulted in PC a verdect in favor of defandant Kilgo. rv ry Two jurors were charged with can- in tempt of court at the close of the case. m, An appeal was taken to the Supreme bu Court In0 W North State News. is There was a serious wreck on the in Southern Railway near Kings Moun- st tain Thursday. resultir in the death IV f Engineer Cauble and his fireman. is one of the passengers were seriously fr< urt. dii The State charters the Johnason City NE Southern Railway, A. B. Andrews, Hen- to: ry W. Miller, F. H. Miller, of Raleigh; Gm Alfred P. Thomas, Fairfax 'Harrison, t f Washington, D. C., and H. C. Ans-V. ey, of Alexandria, Va., incorporators and directors; capital stock $355,000. I'be road will extend 71 miles from ~arion, up the north fork of the Ca- hi awba river and down the valley of bu he Toe river to the Tennessee line, Sa here to connect -with a railway to a ohnson City. th be Monitor Puritan Aground. TI Washing.3n, Special.-The monitor 1el uritan is reported hard aground be no ff Point Lookout, in the Potomac. th: She has on board the naval reserves of ern the District of Columbia and wa-s to he ave participated in the manouvres of th Wednesday night against Forts Wash- w ngton and Hunt. All efforts for two ar ays to float the ship have proven so an Lar unsuccessful. te Telegraphic Briefs. A submarine torpedo boat that can e carried on the deck of a battleship was successfully tested in England. p Oyama is reported to be ready to . ssume tthe offenssive and 'strike a Li rushing' blow before an armistice . F an be arranged. It is intimated that Germany's sup-. posed intention to fortify Kiaochou Jth Bay may decide Great Britain to hold th m to Wei Hai Wei. de King Oscar's letter was lai.d' before he Storthing and referred to a special ommittee without comment, but it is mderstood Norway will stand by her of iecision. Members of two lodges of the Royal t ranum in Petersburg are preparing P o adopt resolutions of protest agaimst he action of the, Supreme Lodge in l raising assessments.m James WV. Cocke. charged with the 0o larceny of $95 from . an iron safe in th the dr-ug s-ore of W. E. Brown. in s Petersburg, in May last, was before Ti the Mayor yesterday, and was sent on d o the grand jury. Cocke is tighly th onnected and married, Hie was in the th rug business in Petersburg. 00 Linevitch Reports Advance. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-Gen. Lin evitch, in a despatch to Emperor Nich olas. dated June 15, reports that a tr Russian turning movement forced the in Japanese to retire from Iulantizi, June St 1. after burning their supplies. An- cC ther Russian force June 12. advanced s1 from the valley of the Tsin river to a: he vi!!aZe of Vanloungow. p)ushig rc >ack the Jaoanese advance positior.s. t re same dlar the Russian cavalry 31 cupyng Nanshantehienzi retirecl ri lghtly northward.a To Award Contracts. Washington. Special.-The Navy De partment has del ided to nwaird con tracts for guns and mounts for thej battleship New Hampshire and~ the armored cruisers North Carolina and Motana ibids for -which were recently N Olpened as follows: Bethlehem Steel er Company. 4 2'3-inch guns, at 3i51.64 Iin each, and eight coinch motms, at $13.- st 99 each: Midvale Steel Company, thirty-two 6-inlch guns. at $14.355 each' h eight S-inch gunis at $17.142 each. and h ORTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN ar.ditions For Past Week as Given Out by the Department. During the week ending Monday,: ime 10th, 1905, the weather on the hole was very favorable for agricul ral interests, except that the latter Lrt of the week was too cool for the pid growth of crops. Although some cal storms occurred on Wednesday, h, with hail and hi-h winds, which Lmaged crons in a few counties, e tmely Nash. Alamance, Vance, t *anklin and Warren, there was a mneral absence of precipitation dur g the week over most of the State, ving farmers an excellent and much eded opportunity to cultivate crops d kill grass and weeds. In most of C e northeastern and western counties, t ere the rainfall has not been exces- t ve, the soil has become rather dry, a Ld upland crops are beginning to p ed light rains. The mean tempera- 1. re for the week averaged about 74 r cent., or nearly 2 degrees daily r ove the normal. On the 5th, 6th, d 7th the temperature was quite ! gh, maxima above 90 degrees being nerally recorded; this was the most vorable period of the week, during n ich crops made rapid growth; the t tter portion was, however, cool I .ough to check growth, the tempera- s re at night falling quite low. There c is abundant sunshine everywhere ring the week. The weather was pecially favorable for farm work, iich was pushed vigorously; farmers .ve generally succeeded in subduing ass and weeds, and most crops are 1 iw clean, well cultivated and in good S ndition. Harvesting operations and e aking hay progressed favorably, t aterial improvement in crops took P ace during the early portion cf the ek. Though some fields are still grassy d not chopped to stands, the larger rtion of the cotton crop has been aced in a state of excellent cultiva n, but the crop is only doing fairly q 1l as regards growth; the plants are I astly late, small, and much not very p althy in color; continuous warmth a needed for best development; lice p ve appeared on cotton in many 0 unties. Corn is in good condition the west, where it is being worked e third time; in many central and stern counties, where thE stands re injured by worms, the crop has t grown very rapidly, though it is proving; in the southern portion of C a State laying by corn has com- I meed, with some of it in silk and a sel. Planting corn on lowlands is c ing rapidly advanced. Tobacco is ported to .be in good condition, Dugh growing slowly. Cutting wheat tinued through the week, and re rts generally indicate a smaller ld than was expected; winter cats. a and spring oats are more promis . Field peas are being planted in t st counties. Peanuts look well, t t poor stands are reported in some rteastern counties, where the 0 ather has been very dry and rain n needed. Gardens continue to do T 1l. Irish potatoes seem to be yield well In many counties, and good Lnds of sweet potatoes have general been secured. Melons are poor. airly large crop of peaches is prom d, but apples have largely fallen m the trees and a poor crop is in ated.3 Rains reported: Goldsboro, trace;I wern 0.28, Weldon 0.06, Wilming 1 0.10, Hatteras 0.20, Nashville 0.86, eensboro 0.22, Raleigh 0.36, Marion, ce; Settle 0.09. Charlotte, Ashe le and many other points reported I precipitation.i Trolley Project. t is learned that F. H. Fries andj associates, will rapidly push the ilding of the railway from Winston lem southward to Wadesboro. There pears to be a very good prospect the building of a trolley line on turnpike now under construction I ween Wilkesboro and Jefferson. .ere is ample water power conven Ltly located. It is said the road canI built for $300,000. The turnpike is t macadamized. It is so well graded it it has cost $22,000 a mile on an av tge so far, for construction, and the aviest grading has been completed. ( seems to be a sort of Impression i it the Southern, the Norfolk & stern, and the Seaboard Air Line Smaking a race to get into Southport < d it is very certain that more at tion has been directed recently to Slatter place than ever before. North State News. Major 3. H. MfcIver has resigned his c sition as superintendent of the con- I t force at work on the Enterprise c imber Company's road, and left last t iday to join his family In Greens- I ro. He is succeeded here by Mr. addell, who arrived last week. Ma- 1 r Mciver has been in the service of I e State for twenty-five years. He ade many friends here who regret his parture. C Change in Call on Banks. Washington, Special.-The Secretary ~ the Treasury announced that the yment of the second intallment of a public deposits called from de sitary banks will not be required on ly 1, the date named in the call, but iy be made by the bankts at any time r or before July 15. The purpose of a is change in the date of payment is to y parate the tr-ansfer of funds of the f 'easury from the heavy paymernts of I a ridends and interest falling due on e first of July. The unpaid portion of e second installment to be paid by ~ banks to the Treasury is about $12,- 1 Work on Test Farm. Work has begun on the test farm for ick and berries, at Willard. this hay- e been the farm recently given to the ate, and about which some complaint ies from Wilmington. that place de-2 ing to be the location of the farm, ad wishing tile board of agriculture to consider what it has done. mispose oft e farm at Willard and select one at ilmingtcn. It is learned that the Ag ultural Depar'tmelnt has not the wer to sell :he Willard farm without S special act of the Iegislature. Orders for Trial Given. Washington. Speelal.-Orders have 'en given at the Navy Department for e offiial tri of the protected cruis Charleston. built by the Newport e ship-building Company. off the ast of New Engier~d. on the 2SthK stant. After the v-eszel's crews are andarized she wili be given a four mrs' run in open sea to dletermineC r speed. The Charleston has a dis - acement of 9.700' tons and an indi - .ted horse-power of 21,000, and car as 14 gunns in her main battery. 8OUTHERN -: ' <l-- -D TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTE Rotation of Crops. There are various methods oi* in reasing the yield of crops besides lage and the use of fertilizers; and ne of the most important of these iethods is crop rotation. or the grow ig of different kinds of plants on the ame land from year to year instead f taking the same kind of crop con 'nuously from the same land, and bat some crops will not grow well fter others, and that some kinds of ants actuahy grow better immediate after the land has been occupied by rtain other kinds. For example. d clover ceases to thrive after wheat; !so wheat seldom does well when >wn after barley. All plants remove from the land iore or less of the fertilizing mat rs when carried off from the land. ut all plants do not carry off the ime kind of fertilizers, nor do they irry of the same amounts. All plants o not draw equally upon the fertiliz ig ingredients of the soil. For in tance, one crop may consume a large mount of nitrogen, another may ex aust the soil in phosphoric acid, while till another may require potash. How ver, all plants require some of these Liree ingredients, but in different pro ortions. "Root crops." for example nch as potatoes, beets, turnips, etc. eed a liberal amount of potash and hosphoric acid. Forage plants-corn, r instance-needs nitrogen to produce be leaves and stems, while cotton re uires a small amount of nitrogen and otash, but a liberal supply of phos horic acid, which goes to form seed nd lint. Hence it is obvious that some Ian of rotation should be adopted in rder to prevent the land becoming de cient in some one or more of these es ential elements. The following rules for rotation may e of advantage: Such plants as tend particularly to 7haust the soil. like grain crops, hould only be sown on fertile land, nd they should not exceed one an ther. but may best be followed by lants that are less exhausting. On heavily manured fields, such rops should be planted as can bear he most fresh manure, while less xhaustive plants may follow. It is generally advantageous to al rnate crops that have top roots with bose that have spreading roots. No two crops favorable to the growth f insects and fungi should be per aitted to succeed 'each other. It is cry essential in many cases to change he crops frequently. to hinder the in rease of these pests. There are 'vari us insect injurious to grain which ould increase to an alarming extent ' the land were devoted exclusively o grain crops year after year. But rhen a crop of beans or turnips fol aw a grain crop, the whole tribe of 'rain insects may perish or disappear rom the field. The clump-foot. or as a sometimes commonly known, the big root" in cabbage and collards, in ke manner prevent their continual ultivation on the safne land. Farmers nd market gardeners in vicinities ear cities would be glad to grow cabr age year after year upon the same and, but they cannot because of this tisease. One form of rotation of crops com aoniy practiced in this State, and in aost .of the Southern States, is the rowing with reference to their aanurial value. Red clover or cow eas sown in spring, or rye sown in all and plowed under when it has aade a fair growth, are the most comn aon methods of green manuiring. The ffets are often very noticeable. By his method we largely increase the -egetable matter in the soil, and this au improves the physical condition f the soil.-L. M. Oden, A. and M1. sollege, West Raleigh, N. C. Titilizing Sorghum For Siange. Sorghum will make a very fine quai ty of silage if properly managed. One f the best varieties to grow Is the Red ead, because of the stout, stiff nature f the stalk. It stands up much better han the Amber and some other simi rly stalked varieties, and yet is not o coarse but that it is readily eaten y livestock. Plant the sorghum in ows ab~out three feet apart, using bout twelve pounds of seed per acre. ultivate as an ordinary corn-crop and ut when ready for the silo with the orn harvester. Do not cut for silage,1 owever, until the beads are matured nd the seed is virtually ripe. Most ersons who attempt to use sorghum1 or silage cut it too green and make a1 erious mistake by so doing. Sorghum olds its juices with remarkable tenac :y, and owing to the considerable. mount of saccharine matter contained-1 mkes an unusually fine quality of sil ge. You may plant sorghum any here from the first of May to -the .rst of .Tune. Fairly early planting is1 disable, as it gives the plant longeri o mature. It is claimed by many, as: ou doubtless krow, that sorghum is ard on the land, but in proportion to ke yield obtained it is not harder than Pointed Paragraphs. A successful man keeps his eyes and! ars open and his mouth closed. There is something cannibalistic out vanity; it feeds mostly upon :sef. A married man says the easiest way a manage a wife is to let her have; er own way, No sensible girl considers herself an ngel just because some young m'aa appens to tell ner ai. If some wives would hand their hus adls a few mere smiles at home they ouldnt purchase so many at aloons. When you see a girl picking lint oE young man's coat in pulic it s a safe et that her engagement rimg is quite It~y is mighty hard for a man not to ike the rich father of a girl as m.uch! .s he lilkes her. A man thinks he is mighty charita le when he gets somebody else to ive $10 to his favorite charity. The hand that -fills the coal bin robs 4RM #NOTES. R, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER, other crops. Sorghum has some mani fest advantages over corn, as it will grow better on thinner land, as it is hardier and more vigorous and there fore withstands drought better, and as a rule it will outyield corn. In other words, where ten tons of corn are put in the silo per acre, you can count on from thirteen to fifteen tons of sor zhum. Sorghum can be handled as eas ily as corn, and will keep just as long f not put up too green. If placed in a rotation so as to come on the land nce in five years it will not injure the round. It would be a mistake to at tempt to grow sorghum year after year on the same land, unless it were pos sible to plow under some crop like !rimson clover. and apply heavy tmounts of phosphates and potash each ear. By utilizing sorghum for silage >n many Southern farms and growing ome peas for hay, the crop can be red as grain and the shredded stover ind pea hay used as dry roughness and i much larger number of animals main tained than is the general practice at the present time.--Professor Soule. The Cabbage-Louse. The cabbage louse, having safely passed through an unusually hard win ter, is now satisfying his ravenous ap petite at the expense of cabbages, tur nips, mustard, etc. This insect must not te confused with the harlequin bug or with the 3ommon cabbage worms. The cabbage louse is a very small, gray, soft-bodied louse that gathers in great numbers )n the leaves and stems of the cabbage and does damage by sucking the sap from the plant. On account of the fact that it sucks the sap, instead of eating the leaves, it cannot be fought satisfactorily by; using Paris green or other similar poisons. Last year we had experience -with this insect, and found a very simple nd effectual remedy. Ordinary laun ry soap, dissolved in water at the rate of one and one-half pounds to four allons of water and applied thorough ly with a spray pump, will certainly, kill them. If the soap be cut Into thin pieces and boiled. in two gallons of water it will quickly dissolve, when cold water may be added to make the four gallons. It should then be ap plied while still warm. It may not be altogether easy to make a thorough application. When the plants are badly infested the leaves become very much curled, so that it is difficult to reach the lice. Here we see the advantage of mak ing the application early, before the leaves get curled. But even If they are aured- It Is quite practicable to have S! boy, barefoot and with sleeves rolled up, to accompany the sprayer and rap idly turn the leaves from side to side while the application is being made. If taken in time, one application will usually be sufficient. Otherw's, it may be necessary to give a second treatment. a week or ten days later. By following these directions many thousands of plants were saved last year.-Franklin Sherman, Jr., Ento mologist, Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. Cheapest Way to Get Flowers. We want shrubs on every home place in America because they furnish more fowers for less money and care and for longer period of years than any other plants. True, some trees have big fowers and lots of them, but they are ligher up in the air, while it bush is just where you can see it and smell it. Shrubs are more permanent than "perennials." and they are nothing ike the bother annuals are. You plant trees for posterity, but shrubs for your sed-eso. You get flowers the second year, if you pay a decent price, and if you go away for a summer,.the place loes not look like an abandoned home.' The plain truth is that a home without shrubbery is all wrong. Shrubbery is lust as necessary to a place as clothing to a man. Nine times out of ten the straight line where a building meets he ground should be hidden by shrubs. -Garden Magazine. . . Feeding Value of Corn and Cob Mesl.l There is no reason why corn and cob' neal should not be fed to cattle, sheep! Lnd hogs. It can be fed to these classes )f stock without regrinding, thoughi etter results will as a rule follow re Irinding, as the particles are finer and ore quickly acted upon by the diges :ive juices. In a finely ground condie :ion the sharp particles of the cob are ot so likely to injure the digestive or ;ans. 'One of the great advantages of. rrinding the grain and cob together is :hat it lightens the grain which is rich and heavy and not always thoroughly ligested and assimilated. Corn and rob meal will, of course, give better results as a rule when fed in combina :ion with other grains, and if used for oung and growing stock a liberal mount of some concentrate rich in rotein should be incorporated in the :ation.-A. M. Soule. Odds and Ends. WXhen a girl has pretty teeth it is a sign that -she will let everybody see them. Some men who water their milk every day cannot understand why the prayer-meetings seem so thin.. What a beautiful world this would be if natural flowers would caly grow to rseble their pictures in the seed cat ,oues. Foriearence with the wrong is not :ae same as its forziveness. The models of fashion here cannot evn he certain of passing mauster as Geor-mats in Heavecn. Men who couldin't organize a peanut stand know just ho the pastor should run th.e church. It takes as much grace to make a saint out of a Pharisee as it does to make one out of a publican. The modern idolitor falls down before the work ot his own imagination in stead ci that of his hands. Many people see their children grow up while they are planning on begin ning to train them.