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LONG When all the dreams of our life have van ished, When love is banished And hope is fled. We turn away from bleak to-morrow, To walk with Sorrow Among the dead; We look once more on the 1oving faces And sunny places We used to know; And lose for a time our hurt and sadness Within the gladness Of long ago. The days are long, and the days are dreary; Our hearts are weary And in distress, As through the blur of our tear-wet lashes We see the ashes Of happiness. From 'broodi-- over our lives left lonely, We seek the only Escape we know, By ing back to the sweet affecticas And recollections Of long ago. "HARTSI By MARION og HERE was the constant passing of footsteps and the sound of merry laugh ter in the halls of Mrs. Q.VP McCallum's rambling old fastiuoned house; a snatch of colleg,.e Song. sung by fresh young voices, tioat ed up from the moon-flecked road; from the distant gymnasium came the throb of languorous music, but the ten young vomen in one of the upper roomns of the college boarding house were ob livious to outside sounds. The little feast was over, the candles were burning low beneath the dainty ,)ink shades, the scent of fading -oses was heavy on the air, but still :dey sat absorbed in t] , recital of what use each had made of the ten years that intervened between their gradua tion and this night. Delight Everett sat with flushed cheeks and shining eyes, and as one and another spoke. sympathy. admira tion and affectionate pride were mir irored in her changeful face. How nobly the girls had lived, how well they had fulfil!ed the promise of their college days' And through it all she felt the familiar influence of the dear room that once she had shared with Lettlee Clayton. who now presided at this feast of remembrance. It was kind of Mrs. McCallum to ar range matters so that the reassembling shon!d he in the place thnt had wit -nessed the last gathering of their col lege days: it was thoughtful of the presenr tenans to relinquish the room to these returning girls of '04. And 1 theni. at that instant, she was conscious of the gala soundIs that proclaimed the high tide of the college commencement. and for an instant she forgot the years that separated her from that night so1 long ago. Nine slghs of reliev-ed tension greet ed the conclusion of Judith Gr-aves' ex citing story~ of the winning of her first case. ::ad a babel of questions and con-i gratulant ions rose about the table.1 Surely Judith's triumphi shed a reflect ed :;ery upon those intimate friendsi wvho had always appreciated the-bril lianr intellect, even in the old college t days. Did not the waiting toast to the most successfnl belong to her? Do light wondered.. But then there was Hlenrietta Soule, I a ready taking 'an imtportantt place among the faculty of her aluma mater: .tudt -\ary Lowell. a successful phys!-i clan. spentding every moment that she could spare from her large practice in . workaong the suffering poor. The 3..::-e wavered here. 'And what of Lettice Clayton, spend ing her time and strength in a college settlement: and Dorothy Tait. whose delightful kindergarten made a spot of< brightness in bart-en lttle lives: Eleanor Day. just returned from~ Paris. fresh from the triumph lher spirited< Dictures had won: Laura Dennison< and Rtose Abbott, happy in their mar-] ried life and the love and care of little children: and Cecilia Merton, whose lovely voice not long since had thrilled them with its richness and its power? Delight sighed again from excess of joy. The day had been full of the happiness of revisiting beloved scenes .and renewing old friendships, for the< <iaugniers of '04 had returned in large numbers. and class feeling had proved itself strong to withstand the ygars. But this evening was the crown of aill, and in a few moments they weaLld carry oat the old resoin to toast the one of their number who had made the best use of her time and talents since last zihey haid partedl. But oh. how dif ficult it would be to choose! Delight suddenly awoke from her ab sorn:Inn to tind laughing eyes turned " -I irg youar pardo: she stammered, wit argt tius. "-Did you speak ton " --rewtingt' to heal- .OUr story. we pu''t the <luestion to) voe" th, n:U-t t-t fy AndI what could sh \b. what*~ a pitiuh ameager etoeof these fuller-. - r Nne of the hoaes ri thm wh . heand cr-o.sed the threshold cf t' ife had beena fuhtilled: she namdeno name~ for l erself, had toe10geat work for humanity: had en::i t ino talient until it had becomue a m::ite to the sumn of heanty-. imrs.as had the others, hut stood siety wisting her fin-rers in the old w::y that the w'omen :iout her r-e memired ~ tendeliy. Thewn she looeked appn.::-.y about and laughed-a lrmisittle laugh. "Dear girls," she said. a bit unstend -r " have no stor. to tell, for I have jumt h- i alonag in Durham. andth reord of life in Durham would not interest you.' Before any protest could be raised. they were- surprised by a tap at the dIoor. tand Delight. being upon her feet. moved to answer it, glad of the inter "O0 Mrs. McCa!!um:" they heard her say, with sweet cordiality in 1her tone. Th~en she stepped into the hail and drew the door shut. Nc one spoke or stirred until the door swung opea AGO). )ur dreams of orwe and our golden vtsions* The fond ambitiois Of other yea's. 3y stern decrees of T he Real, broken, Have left their tcken Of unshed tears. Tithout remorse are the fates that sever. Those hopes we never Again may know; 3ut although lo-t, they renew their glory Within the story Of long ago. i7hen love proves false and we s.eem for saken, Our soirits shaken With sorrow sore, l'here is one solace Time can't deny us, Which lingers by us For evermore. ,Ve dream on our lips a soft mouth presses The sweet caresses We used to know; )ur hearts yet revel amid the pleasures And cherished treasures Of long ago. -J. A. Edgerton,inthe-New York Times. 3ELIGHT DICKINSON. "If y.u will not mind, I must leave you for a few minut,' she said. "Grandma McCallum wishes to speak to me before she goes to sleep. Don't wait for me, girls. If I stayed, I couldn't decide which one has done the most nobly. for I wonder at you all." She glanced about at the garlands of roses which Eleanor had hung upon the walls, at the twinkling candles, at the faces turned affectionately toward her. What a wonderful evening it had been, and each had contributed to its perfec tion. Through the open windows she could see the glimmer of lights upon the campus. and the sound of music and gay voices mingled with the sigh f the night wind in the trees. She treasured it all in this moment, that its remembrance might bring gladness in the coming years, for when she re turned the spell would be broken, and all that remained would be to say good aight and good-by. When the door closed behind the slim, white figure, Lettice Clayton rose ibruptly at the head of the table. The girls looked at her in surprise ind inquiry. Would she propose the toast at once? Not one but would have aited indefinitely for Delight's re turn. Nothing was complete without Delight. Lettice looked from one to another vith a curious expression. "Perhaps Delight Everett is the last )ersol competentto tell her own story." ,he said. with a thrill in her voice. 'If you are willing, I should like to :ell you something of this quiet life 1 n Durham." "Do tell us. Lettice:" urged Dorothy. nd the r-est nodded. "-Perhaps you remember that it was he desire of Delight's life to go into ettement work with me," Lettice be-i an, "-an(. I know of no one who wculd; e better fitted for the work. Besides. ;he was an orphan, and seemed unus ally free to follow her wishes. B3utj he summer after graduation the aunt ho had made a home for Delight dur ng vacamtions fell sick, and Delight vould not leave her. It proved to be; lingering illness filled with intense: uffering. and through it all the poori voman clung to Delight as to her only 1 ope and comfort. For three years )elight devoted herself to this mission. loing thue housework as well, for the loctor's bills were heavy and the fain-] ly purse was shallow." She stopped a moment. and her eyes; :rew tcnder, while the others waited in lence. "I s:'w Delight once in that time." he said, softly. "She was the same I lear Delight-no word of complaint, o sigh for her deferred hopes, no: :Onsiusness of sacrifice, just 'sun- t hine in a shady place.' It was only vhen she waas listening to the stories >f my~ work she begged for, that I ~aught a glimpse of her hone denied. 3ut if you could have heard -what the >OOr~ sufferer said one morning in her1 ibserce! Girls"-she threw out her ands dramatically-"what would I not ;ive to have such things said of me:" 1 Letice stood turning a rose in her ingers while she waited to recover her oise, her eyes looking beyond the Irooping petals of the flower. "I went to Durham again," she con inud, "-when I heard that the poor voman was at rest. This time I ex pected to carry Delight avay wvith me. rhe work needed her-I needed her. But I found somebody else had estab ished a prior claim. 'I cannot leave poor uncle,' she said to me. with her bri;;ht, brave smile. 'He is so deso lat'e and so helpless"' "When I urged that there were cthi crs who might shoulder that burden. she shook her head. "-Uncle is pecul in.' she answered. and if one did not irow him well, one might not under stand. and. might be impatient.'" The narrator laughed out suddienly. "Peculiar:" she criled. "He was a vzized little ci-eature, but ossessed of a cantankerous spirit quite giantic. Isleed. if Delight had not sayed at thie telni. I doubt if anybody could have been found who would take charge of that terrible old man. .\nd there our dear Delight has stayed. car ing for him as tenderly as if he had been her father. and findina~ inme, too. o spend her love and sympath~y aWon *ey needy creature in that little town. And now, at last. Delight is free. for her uncle died this sprinir. leaving her the poor lIttle farm as a token thiat-somewhere' in his anar!ed and twisted soul-he neknowledged her loving seri~Vce. And this is why De iaht has no story to tell of the patst tn years. Judith Grav-es looked across at the narrator with eyes that were sus piciously bright. "' She hath c-hosen the better part.'" she murmured. "I have so often wondered that De light did not marry." sighed Rose Ab bott. "'She would make a wonderful wife and mother." Letice opened her lips impulsively, lien closed them again. Not even -o tier had Delight confided the ful' ex actions of her duty. But she remem bered the day when her cousin, Dr. Philip Clayton. had come to tell her that lie must go alone to complete the .p,..ain in Vienna which should make him more skilful in his beloved 3rofession. -And she used to sing so charmingly, iot a brilliant voice. but wonderfrlly ouching." mused Cecilia Merton. -Oh. Delight still sings." said Lettice, vhimsically. "She leads and trains he illage choir, and every week she goes o sing to the forlorn souls at the poor arm-not a trained voice, but they mjoy it." "And now what will Delight do?" isked Eleanor Day. Lettice thoughit of the letter with a oreign postmark. which had reached er that day. "She goes to Russell ouse with me until somebody else uts in a claim," she answered, with iaward wonder whether Delight would Acognize her right to listen to the -1l to happiness. -Mary Lowell looked thoughtfully up itl her. "It seems to me that we shall 3adve no difficulty in deciding who is '" rthy of our toast." she said. gravely. "I ore is but one of our number who ia put aside her own hopes for the go d of others. No matter what the ces of us have accomplished, it was all tin the line of our personal plans, aml itions, pleasures. Girls" - she looled about at the assenting circle "I ropose that we wait a little longer befcre drinking the toast. U':doubt dly Grandma McCallum has sent for Delht to quiet her with a hymn, as she sed to do in the old days. Sup Pose we frustrate this little sacrifice for ii: is a real one-by delaying until aer return." A c orus of acclaim greeted the pro posal, and in the midst of the clamor the dor opened, and Delight paused in surpris e on the threshold. "You dear! girls," Ishe cried, "did you really wait i for me." "We Tcally did." and Henrietta' Soule beckon d her to her place. As she eached it, the girls rose; Lcttice lifted tier ga. s of lemonade. "To the one who 'se keth riot her own,'" she said, 2early- 'our Heart's Delight:" Across the brimming glasses affee tionate eCes were turned upon the girl, ;o self-fcrgetful, so generous, so swift in loving! service, so slow to claim re ward. so I well-beloved. "Why. tirls,'' gasped Deligh':. grow ng very pale. "Why, girls:"-Youth's Companio Recent tr velers in Tibet have no ioed tiat w' ile effects of the rarefied ir are severely felt at altitudes of be ween 14.000 and 1(,000 feet, on going 1 ,et higher a I disagreeable sensations >ass off. A Carlsruh engineer is said to have nvented '1 ecntrivance by means of vhich. in the event of fire, the audi orium of a th atre can be detached by ydraulic pow r from the stage and mushd, audie4 ce and all, into the tree. A gigantic lila', ti e phormnium tenax, s a valuable lant peculiar to New ealand. Its i &aves are nine or ten eet long, and dire so tough that, by plittng one im narrow ribbons and oining the end.., the New Zealander ins a xirst-class r pe ready to hand. For the purpos of glass melting and class blowing. w. ter is used to great aivantage in B~oh a'mia and Stockholm, 'esultiing in a cons-dlerable reduction in he cost of fuel. At un incandescent amp factory maki g from 3000 to 7000 amps a day, whei e coal gas was pre iousy used, the 'nt::oductionl of the )ellwik gas redlue d the cost of fuel thout eighty per ce it. in soldering the :ass bulbs and in iheating tihe lamp luring the vacuum .mmpmg. A great improvemn at is said to have een recently madc. in woodworking nachinery by a reshi lnt of Marinette, niich.. who by a simple attachment to e xistinig miachuiely makes it possi >l to manufacture imaure spindles for ;tair balustrades and Istore shelving as -apidly if not faster thani the round mes can be made on a 'ood-turning ma :hinery. Thie improv ment is also ap >licable to other kin ~sof woodwork. Lhe knives made by Mr. .Tewett are apable of cutting acr ss the grain of he wood without teari g and splitting, in achievement which 'ias been aimed it for some time. In a recent number f the Bulletin >the Italian Aeronauti -al Society Dr. .Palazzo, director of t ie Italian Me eorological Service. giv es a very in :eresting account of the, scientific ex ecriments being condua-ted in Italy vith unmanned balloon.. . The~ place hosen for the aeronauti .al station is P~aira. principally owing o its geograt >hical suitability and its < istance from nountains and sea. The talloons used re made of a preparati n of India ~bbr. The y are sent ut in tandem Cashion. and are spherical and closed, and have the faculty of e -panding to uibout seventy times their riginal vol amme. rising rapidly to an altitude of 2.oI' metres and upwvar; where a :mperatre' of sixty dehgrcs s C. below tero amy be rccordied. "Metalhizca" -Laces - Acrordingr to the Paris osmos, a French company has been 'ormted to "metaliize" (.mbroideries. an wonder mul effects have been produced . Experi mencts have long been under ray with a number of articles. such~ m fowers' leaves and branches, hut pra stical re suuts with laces were only ret ently se The laces are made conduct rs of an elctric current and placed i a gal vanic ath. There they becom coated with an exceedingly delicnte urface, th colors of which can be r gulated The conting is s' fine that tot thC slghtst irregularity can be oticed, and the laces remain perfectly s ft and flexible. It makes no di erence whether gold. silver, copper, bro ze or other metals are employed. The assertion is made that the etal lid points. in spite of the thinn -ss of the metal coating, can be united as if soldered together, so that all so: ts of combinations are possible. hese metallic goods are used for table rna ments. decorating furniture cove ings, winscoting in parlors, and fo 1P5 'erustation of fine woods, and the m etar id laces can even be polished.-. ew ork World. Colonel Pope's Views. W 173/lERSONALLY I believe in an extensive development of both State and Federal roads, writes Colonel Al bert A. rope, in Harper's Weekly. For many years we have expended liberal sums of money for'the betterment of rivers and arbors, and the results accomplished i are commendable, but we must not lose sight of the fact that a great major'ty of the people live away from the coasts and waterways, in regions where the ecessity for good highways is im perative. In many cases these people need the appropriations and National aid a great deal more than those dwelling nearer the seaboalrd or on streams that teem with industry. The highways are the natural feeders to railways, and im provements oil them materially in crease both. interstate and international Cemmerce. If our Government has seen fi. to bc liberal in river and har bor work, !it is reasonable to expect that the building and maintenance of publie highways must demand the aie attention. There is an interde pendency here whIh cannot be over looked by those who analyze this ques tion aright. It has lonix been a moo-.ed question as to what is the best method of raisinhg funds for 'the construction of public ighvways. tut I know of no better way than for StiteandFederal Government to issue special bonlds for the purpose. Three per cent. fifty year bonds of this kind would.find an immediate market, and they could be paid by a sinking fund of tio per cent. per anraii which woulq mean that there would be charged a ainst this indebtedness tive per ce.t. per annum to be pro vided for by taxa'tion. Such bonds could be issued from time to time as the work P rogressed, so that funds would always be avaiiable up to the limit of the bonded indebtedness agreed There is a trait in American charae ter which makes us ultra conservative O SoIe issies, especially where long established f-ustom causes ns to travel in ruts so deep that it is diticiult to leave them. For years the inhabitants of the rural districts of Gur country deceived them selves in believiig that the best, and by that is meiant the clapest, way to pay a road tax was to work it out by a definite quota of day's labor on the highways. It took a far reaching and aggxressive eCducatioral campalmfll to persuade theim that the old method of road buildin:J; and repair was unneces riy costly: and thoroughly ineffee tual. Nor was this reformation well started until some communities ha d made a praclical demonstrationl of the actual value of good highways to those ho depend um the soil for a living. In workin4 out his road tax the farn:: elung to the idea that a dihir saved wats ni good as a dollar eairned and at the sinme time he lost sight of the truism thaiit it is good business policy to invest a do~.lar which w ill jag back two. Once the farmer wais shown by objict lessons that good high ways. passabae the year round. were essential to 4 profitable handling Of farm producte, he freely expresseda tonishment a~ having been fooled by the methods inherited from his an estors. This educa tiional work. which in its inception callb~d for great energy and the liberal e.kpenditure of time and money. was later on helped by both State and F deral Government. An apprpration'was maide by Congress for the purposeof collecting and dis seminating information on road build ing and r'ep) ir. road materials and other kindred topies. As a1 result the farmers learnied that to build roads properly. thou ht apparently expensive, ws in reali t-an economic measure. They were led to see that the highways we'e natural reede~rs of railways, and that it was a sj much of a detriment to have produce -inowbound or mudbound on the farm a~ to have freight congest ed on the railr oad. They comprehend ed the differenice in cost between haul ing a ton a mnil e on good and bad roads, and they reali ed, too, that with pass able roads th yvear round the hauling to station an4 other shipping points could be done to advantage out of sea son when draft animals were not need ed for plowin~ or harvesting. These few raragraplis will indicate In outline thel manner in which the great reform V-as started by agitation sand fostered my education until the question is no , Salwe have go roads?' but "Ifrow ean we b)est secure and maintain them?' Take 'a Rest at Noon. Glet into the l-ract ive of taking a rest at oon. Lie down if only for ten miui ute, or five n inutes. If you cannot lie own leani i teck in a chair and close yo:r eyes. Just forget everything. IRest; relax. Even if you do not sleep, This practic( will m~ake you live loner. It wi 1 make you healthier wllle you do live. It will prob~ably riake people wlant you to live longer. It will taike t e tangle out of your nerves, the ir~ itability out of your temper. the wrinkles out of your face. It will make ybur eyes brighter, your face fuller. TrY it.--Medical Talk. When Kura patkin Was Young. When Generd.l Kuropatkin was a young man he ).vas asked to undertake tile editing of la mnilitary newspaper. H~e declined wi h the words. "Fighting battles is miuh less dainaerous." Fight ing battles may not really be less dan gerous. but it ~s certainly less vexa iouis than con ucting a newspaper in the Czar's domi:niions. The editor must lay i' ~sel f out~ to please. firstly, the mpe. court' lsecondly, a dozen min isters state, individ.ually and col lectivi :thirdl~j, half a dozen censors, and fb. :thly, the public. lice That;Works at Night. A bee that Works only at night is found in theC judtgles of India. It is an unusually large ansect, the combs being often six feet lo mg, four feet wide and Lfrom four inCee to six inches thicke ahore Tribu~ned SOUTHERN : f i TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PL ANTE The Family Garden. Thereo is no0 ad(junclt to a1 home1 that affords as much pleasure and prolit as a vell plaimed. a well p1lanted and a well cultivated garden, and I use the word in its broadest sense. The family garden should he eonve niently located to the residence; it hld4i conisst of about one acre of land, and enclosed with a well con structed and substantial poultry fence. The plot should he liberally fertilized with cow or horse manure. and it should be broken early and deep, and harrowed several times to make the soil line and to thoroughly incorporate the mianure lbefore the early plantinig begins. The garden slioud be divided into four plots by making walks both ways through the midile of the gar den. erossing in the centre. These walks should be laid off with a line. about three feet wide. with little gut ters or drains on each side next to the beds or squares. and should be oval shaped so that even in wet weather there would be a high and dryer place to walk. The selection of seed. the varieties and when and how to plant are very important. It is also iipr3otant to lay all row.s with a line and equi-distant. Nothing adds more to appearances if not to results than order and system in the garden, and where this is practiced you may make sure there will be re suIts. The garden should have a four-year system of rotation, just as the fields should have, in order to obtain best re sults from your plants. The plots should be numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 and should rotate around once in four years. For instance. I would take plot No. 1 and plant spring turnips, radishes. let tuce. onioMs or any other early matur ng Crop you may fancy, and as these came off I would plant a late corn and bean patch by planting every other row. On plbt No. 2 I would have two planting of Irish potatoes. and just before these mature I would plant corn nd beans in every other row, or it might be devoted to a late cabbage patch or some other late crop, and whatever crop was selected to follow the potatoes could be worked as the pntocs were removed. On plot No. *3 I would have two plantings of corn for roasting ears, anl when the corn was waist hig-h put in white crowder peas. As the cars were pulledl from the stalks I would cut out for the corn and give the peas more room. On plot No. 4 I would plant all the later varieties of vegetables, such as tontattoes, beets. cucumbers, squashes. or other varieties the fancy dictated, that conie on in the summer. I would rotate these crops so that. to illustrate, the potatoes would not be platnted on the same spot but once in four years. I would plant along the borders of te walks a few sage bushes, thyme. asargus and other such useful gar den phmnts, but I would have no fruit trees, currants. strawvberries. raspber ris or grape vines in the garden, but would have all these and other fruit in an orchard set apart for the pur - nse. Such things in a garllen not 'only interferes with the proper r-ota ti:n system. but they shade and draw fra: .the vegetables and prevent their fui developmeint. Such a garden as I have planned. pltnted and worked would be a thing of beaumty and a joy forever, and when o come in on a hot summer's day marl sit down to the mid-day meal, con templating with a ravished eye and an aching void in the region of the oneh the many tempting dishes that the god wife (not a slothful ser vat)m has pr'eparied, you wijl feel like "prisng God front whom all bless ins tiow."--S. H. Christopher. Buena Vista. G3a., Southern Cultivator. Proper Placec to select Seed. With cotton, as with corn, the place to select seed for the next year's plant in is in the field, selecting with ref er ence to total yield of seed cotton, per entage of lint, date of maturity, vigor, hardness, form and size of bolls,leaves. stalks, limbs and resistance to disease and insect ravages. By selecting from stalks that bear a large number of boils per stalk, the tendency will be in the progeny to give an increased yield over the averag~ of the patch, which is the seed obtained when one waits to se cire his seed at random fronm the gin. Another obojec-tion to securing seed from tihe gin in the usual way is that it is usually deferr'ed until late in the fall and thereby, generally, seed from h last picking are obtained which re not the best seed. The best seed. ms a rule, are from the middle pick in seiectintg a variety one must not e guided entirely by total yield of ed cotton. for often between two va rieie proeducing about the same guanm tty per 'tere, the one with the smanller velo should be chosenl hee'ause of its podtuction of a larger amount of lint News of the Day. W holsale arrests are being made in -usan Poland, all the prisons being Ner Lodz Cossacks surprised a meeting of socialists in a forest and a uber ot persons were killed or oudied. Chna wishes to be represented at te meeting of the Russo-Japanlese nace plenipotentiaries. The boycott against American goods in C"ina is said to be spreading stead Joseph L. Herwig, four times presi dent of the New Orleans stock ex change and director in a number of banks and other institutions, died Wednesday. aged 61. He was tern im Port au Prince while his father, then et Battimor'e, was United States conl tul there. John W. Hill. ex-chief engineer of the Philadelphia filtration bureau was held under bail, charged with facifying papers, and the $700.000 cntract for filtration-plant work, el by D. J,. McNichOl & Co., was r 4RM 0 fOTES) R, STOCKMAN ANB RUC GR8W R. ind higher selling price of total pro duets (lint and seed). Remember that 1 lint sells for from eight to fifteen tines as iuch per pound as seed. Other things being equal. preference should be given to the larger bolled v:i rieties. as they are much easier picked and hence are popular with pickers. A few hours spent in the fall in se leeting and gathering separately the seed cotton from stalks that have a t large number of bolls per stalk antd ther desirable characters, will pay as well,. or better. than any other form of farm work. The seed cotton thus gathered should be ginned separately and the, seed earefully saved in soni sevnre place for next year's planting. Everyone who has been through a cot- t ton ileld in the fall has surely noticed c the great differences in the same fieldi in the form. shape and number of bolls on different stalks. as well as in the ebaracteristics of the stalks them selves. Now. remembering that the law of heredity is strong and constant in plants as in animals. will emphasize the importance of selecting seed of the short staple cotton only from those stalks that bear the largest amount of lint cotton per stalk. Of course this latter statement does not apply to long staple cotton in comparison with the I short staple ones. for a long staple cot- i ton may produce less lint per acre than a short staple one, yet this smaller number of pounds may sell for more on the market. on account of its higher selling price per pound. - By C. B. Williams and B. W. Kilgore. of the North Carolina Department of Agricul ture. Cotton Seed Meal For Dairy Cows. E. R. C., Carterton. Va.. writes: I would like to try cotton seed meal with my cows, as wheat bran is too high to buy now. and would like some information on the subject. You will find cotton seed meal an excellent food for dairy cows, but you should not feed more than three to 4 five pounds per day. and the former t amount is better than the latter, be cause cotton seed meal is a very con centrated foodstuff. Pound for pound otton seed meal contains about three and a quarter times as much protein as wheat bran. Therefore, when you feed three pounds of cotton seed meal you are practically feeding an equiva lent of ten pounds of wheat bran. It 3 is the failure to realize the very con centrated nature of cotton seed meal that has led many persons to suppose it was not satisfactory food for cows and other classes of farm live stock. While wheat bran is an excellent food! for the cow and by reason of its ex cellent physiological effect and its fav orable action on the coat and diges-1 tive organs, generally speaking it isi too high to feed at $25 per ton when one can purchase cotton seed meal at: about the same price. Of course. a little wheat bran, corn meal or ship stuff should be fed with the cotton seed meal to obtain the best results. If you have good clover hay and plen ty of corn fodder. however, cotton seed meal by itself will prove satisfactory. -Knoxville Tribune. Water on the Farm. Some of the older readers of the Pro-' ressive Farmer may remember a time when water for domestic purposes had to be brought from the spring: which was generally 200 to 300 yards from the house. Stock had to be car ried to the nearest branch or creek to be watered. Both people and stock sufered for water at times. A well in the yard saves much labor and insures an abundant supply of water. If a farmer has several head of stock to water it will pay him in one year to dig a well in his horse lot and get an old-fashioned trough that will hold( lifty to seventy-five gallons. That will save much time. If the farmer has two or three hundred acres, it may be incon venient to carry plowv animals some dis tance for water during the long hot days. A well dug in a convenient place will save much time and give water to stock when needed. But better than wells, is a hydraulic ram, if a farmer has a spring or clear branch near his house with fall enough to use one. The ram. piping and tank will cost only two or three bales of cotton, and water will be furnished to house, kitchen and horse lot. Any farmer who runs four or five plows could afford that. and af ter using this water system awhile, he would never gi- .e it up. The well could be kept in go, 4 order for drinking water.-Charles Petty, Spartanbulrg County. S. C. Hint Abont Transplanting. In transplanting a tree or plant the point aimed at is to get the roots in he earth as nearly as possible in the same condition as that in wvhichi they were\ before removal. In order to do his the soil should be made ver tine and( well worked in with the hands among all tihe roots, which should be pread out in their natura; positions. Jets and Flashes. Upon the Question whether the hus band or the wife died first diepends the outcone of the contest over the will of Wallace Andrews, which gives $2,.50000 to found an institute for girls in New York. The Canadian Supreme Court granted a motion to quash the appeal of Greene and G aynor against extradition. Some of us never know our own fam iies until we have to lcok up to Heaven t count them all in. Germany has refused to agree upon the subject matter to be discussed at the proposed Moroccan conference un tl France accepts the conference itself. Mrs. Shepherd K. Smith was put .on tial in Manchester, Va., charged with causg the death of her 7-year-old son. Fire destroyed the Blaitimore and Ohio shops at Yeyser, together with 38 Cntbe Mann, of Appomattox, who wentta Lnhugto arrest a negro, was himself arrested on a charge of being drunk. The ''wets"' carried Woodstock in the ioi-tin contest. HE GLORIOUS 4111 iovernor Genn, of North Caio~.:a. Delivers Leading Oration IMEECH RECEIVED AMUCd APPLAUSE rells New Yorkers of the Political Perils Which This Country Faces and Urges That the Trusts be Curb ed. New York, Special.-Chief of the ndependence Day celebrations was. hat held at Tammany Hall. Long >efore the hour for the exercise to >egin the old wigwam was filled with nemhers of that organization, and af er the usual patriotic songs and the eading of the Declaration of Inde )endence by Alfred J. Talley and let ers of reply from the various Demo rats of prominence invited to attend he celebration were read by Thomas !'. Smith, Governor R. B. Glenn, of orth Carolina, delivered the first of he "long talks," always a feature of he event. Governor Glenn first told f the political perils which the coun ry now faces. He declared that the onflict between capital and labor hculd be solved by arbitration, that he corporate interests of the nation ;hould be protected, and asserted that )oth as a nation and as individuals Pe are living too fast a life. He spoke n part as folllows: GOVERNOR GLENN'S ADDRESS. "I egeem it both an honor and. a >easure to meet and greet you and : appreciate more than mere words :an express the invitation to your igwam to address the warriors of our tribe, as you are perhaps the )ldest political organization in our ountry, and your name and fame re co-extensive with that of our great lation. That you have made mistakes tone will deny; that you have elevated :o office and put in positions of trust ;ome who have been untrue to their aths, unworthy of your order and L menace to society and good govern nent you yourselves will admit; bat vhile this is true, under the leaderikip >f such sache-3 as Daniel Tampkins, he great Job Kelly, Richard Croker, treehan, Muryhy and others, with a :ew interruptions, you have controlled, irected and governed lesser and reater New York, until today it- has n wonders, wealth and power out tripped every city under the sun, and ands first of all. The subject. you iave assigned me, "Our Country," is ;o vast that it can scarcely be touched n my short space of forty-fiv9 minutes. Political clouds now no larger than me's hand, are arising on the political orizon. What are thes dangers? First, the conflict between capital and .abor, for there is this conflict, and t should be settled by the law in ourts of arbitration. Second, the con ~entration of wealth in the hands of a ew, the few controlling the many; the establishment of combiness and :rusts, putting all power in their iands, thus crippling the weak and :he small; the policy that wants one -aiway instead of many; one concern nstead of a hundred to produce our ron and steel, cur oil and gas and to furnish beef and bread for hungry lllions. Is this for cur nation'nl O buildig? Was Russell Sage tc.2-g Ihe truth when he said that id a worth fifty million dcllars were I-. ng capitalized at two hundred;. Lons and that one concern bid Ibia :apitaiized for a billion dul'.:C, a: about half the entire volume of money In America, that such things will arouse the -people, and that when aroused they aro more powerful than combines, and will tear and destroy them? Or are J. 3. Hill and others right when they say these combines and trusts are for the benefit of hu manity, the upbuilding of society and the glory of God? Are they making the people poorer or are they giving richer? Do they feed hungry mouths or bring more sorrow and want? Are they doing good? [f so, we should have combines and trusts everywhere, but if they are doing evil they must be controlled. Has the time come when the old doctrine that competition is the life of trade is to be set at naught and our people taught that monopoly is the only thing which brings hope and success to our country? Let us call a halt and right-about-face, for honesty is the best policy, and we can live within our means and still be happy. Fourth, the danger of the great cities, which were long ago declared to be the greatest perils to our republic. In the country Sunday is the day of rest. God is there, the people ahe happy and contented, while in cities there is uret, anxiety, a never-ending and ceaseless strain on body, mind and soul, with no time for Sunday and rest, God not in the heavens, but in business, in money, in a nervous anxiety to grow famous and rich; saloons at every cor ner destroying the body, blighting the mind, blackening the soul; vice stalk ing abroad in the day and shame with out fear walking at night. For all these evils there is a great and mighty reme dy, simple, but divine, and this is the message of Christ the King, 'As you would that men should do unto you, so do ye also unto them.' A ~PICTURE OF THE SOUTH. "There is one sectio9 of this fair land, much talked about, little understood and often misrepresented, treated by wily politicians as though the inhabi tants were alien-born and to be despis ed and hated. In that section the sun seems to shine brighter, the water seems purer and the flowers bloom beautifully and give forth the most fra rance. That section is 'Dixieland,' our own Sunny South-your South as well as mine.' The Governor then drew a picture of the South before the war and of the war itself, and said: "Oh. God! blot it out and let us remember it no more in its show! The recon struction period that followed the sur ender was worse than the war, for in the war we fought brave men, but now the vampires of the creation, the scum o the earth. deserters, the ncro en franchised and given a responsibilty for which he was not prepared, thus mak ing him the tool of the vicious the scalawag and carpet-bagger-these were our rulers-the men who govern ed us. We begged them for bread and tey gave us a stone. We asked them for fish, they gave us a serpent. Desola tion and poverty were over our sectionl. Our State capitols turned into saloons. crime at a premium, law and order trampled under foot-this is a faint pic ture of reconstruction days in the The Governor discussed many other problems that confront the South. and t te clo received a tremendous ova