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7N A PARABLE OF PROnRESS. Said the placid pool to the rippling rill. As it rollicked along on its way down the hi:: *Oh, stay with me here' It is foolish and wrongt For you to forever be rushing along. top~ here on the heights; fur, as sure as vou.fiow, Tou w'ill only sink further aml further be I ow., You are noisy and boisterotts: be quiet and hear The choir of the song-birds carolling near. ;e cotenteI, my brother, and patiently To r in where the God of the clouds m1aie you lie. lt is w.s-:r and easier far to lie still." :aid the placid pool to the rippling rill. aid the rippling rill to the placid pool. As :t a in the shadows so quiet and cool: -1 know it is easy and pleasant to stay In o-e'% flower-eircled bed on the hillside day: Tha:. ch leap leaves me lower; and that,. 1 flow. Some desert of death may await me below. spiit inpels, in suci magical That 1 fl! it is better to simp:y obey; And. -mehow, as onward i leap in the n'ht, Toward the strange, distant valley, I know is riuht. And t:it safetv is sure if I keep nature's rippling rill to the placid pool. So the -;7ieid poo lay selfishly still. e ng the stars and the sunsine. until ts j.rty paid tie high price of its peace: Ics water grew stagnant; its very life-lease Was cancelled in scorn by the sun over head. And tie placid pool died in its fiower circled bed. .t the rippling ril. as it sped on its way. Grew arger and stronger and deeper each day. The smhrine strewed gems on its breast To do useful ;ervice for nature and man. It gre: to a river. and, when duty-free, It found permanent peace in the inflnite sea. -Ch~"s Wesley Casson, in the Christian ter. An Unwitting Crime. By Oscar Tr'chet. HERE was despai: written on Jack Marston's face. The walls of the room in wich hle was pacing rest lessly seemed to close in upon hiandl the day to grow blacker and :ini~e s thle silence grew and the mnutes passed on. At l>st he sank helplessly on a lounge in a n She came in then-the only woian in the world for him, but he did no: notice her until she touched his arm. Jak: ie voice shook queerly. "Is she worse?" "Dead!" he stammered. as his eyes wvandetred nervously from the girl to thle ground. "'Edith is dead. and-oh. have n:-you are accused of murder 3ig he:. There is a warrant out for your arrest. and the police are coming bere to arrest vou-to-night." Then followed a silence broken only by the quick beating of hearts. "Dead. Jack:" The girl spoke like one who had been struck a severe blow. "'Oh, Jack-Jack:" She broke off suddenly and fell bacek in a chair. Jack stared at her wildly as he saw the ashy pallor of her face. but when be spike again there was sympathy and~ svreetness in his voice. "Dlora-my love:" .ie.you believe-" "Mvy heart-mv own heart. against all the juieis anid judges in the world. You c'Ouid not have killed my sister-you. wvho loved hien so. Dora-my darling!" He gathered her in his arms and told her everything then. Dr. Slac1anus. the physician ia at terdance in MIrs. Edith Mtarston. Jack's sister, who had been stricken down w-ith fevr r, had left his patient a pow erful medicine to be given in twelve drop doses every two hours, and had caut~ci.ed Dora Sauber. who had of fered to anoend to the wants of the sick woman during the temporary absence of -heo professionial nurse, about ex creding the dose, and warned her that a larger do-se might prove fatal. He had been summoned hastily in the aftarn:cei folowiing MIiss Sauber's de pertntr- from the bedside. and had found his ratient in convulsions. the eff'ect of a very strong dose of the minciine. His skill was of no avail. and she dlied in his arms. Dora alone had attend~ed the poor woman during the molning. and administered her medcies and food, and the doctor felt tha: it sv.as his dluty to inform the po liee o'f the fact and how his patient meot her den th. Jack and Dora were to be married within a fortnight; but the death of .Taek's sister had blotted out ( verythintg now. S* * * * Th' dlays passed heavily, then camne the one when Dora was to be tried for her life. The court was packed. In the n:o-inmg the prosecuting attorney h'ad g'iven inl all hi~s testimoniy, and. aft r 11incon. coun~sel rose for the de II-e H looked from the judge to the jur and smiled faintly. Very biy 1:.l made his speech. "Th pr:soner is innoc-ent." he said. "S~ "-s :n egd to the deceased lady's bral I r 31.TJack Marston, andI she ler~dto lore his sister' as if she were ior own. She could no: have comm ted the crime that has been br-orui: against her: She could not:' Is t:a changerd. "I have only one witr's. and I fear she is too young to nu2erstand the nature of an oath." [Toe prisoner grewv deathly white. 'The :n ars camne and gave her some re lief imt she shuddered when a chait was.t into thewitness box and a tiny ir. wi' wavy golden hair and big bueys. red now with crying. was lif~ genatly upon it. --u honor." said counsel. "thi' wit 'a svry young. but I trust her evi (0-wI b admitted." 'Th" ju a nodded assent. then cotnn set turt to the little girl and spok< to her very softly. -- want you." he said. "to tell ii .at you told uncle and me the otheo about nursing mamma whion il you see there." he pointed to the ner. "was asleep." ixience that followed was brokem sobs from the auditors in the ~ewomen were w'eepin~g lik. dren. Then a little shril ut: 's sleepy inl the chal sked for her medicine.' my say.' 'id. 'Dear give m my medicine, I ought to have -ad It long ago' bt Dora was sleepy-So sleepy and-and couldn't give it to her." "And what (lid you io little oney' Counsel's voiceJ trembieu. "I-I got the bottle. and poured out the stuff il a las-" She hesitated. looking frhtfned. A kindly court attendant patted the fair curls, and she continued: "And Dora was so s!eopy and I was sc, glad 'cause I could ply doctor. It t( Was such fun. I climbed on the bed A and srid so fiercely. Open your mouth.' e: and manny openea her mouth and I tl made her drink all the stuff." e "And what did mamm)y doe' "'Nufflin: Sh went sleepy agaln." . The unconscious little nuirderess lost I her grip of things and cried as if her b heart would break: p "Mamma-I want my mamma-my mamma!" 1 Tender hands carried the poor child away. Dora fainted when the jury. without g leaving- the box. brought in a verdiet e of "Not guilty." and Jack took her g home in a cal. r In the quiet of the house sho reeov- t ered. and went to her room and locked S hers'lf in. Now that the trial was S over. the sense that she was a free woman again swept over hor and al- a most crushed her. Jack paced silently a up and down the passage outside her ? roorn for the remainder of that day and all through the long night. When e dawn broke he tapped gently. and the 0 door was opened from within. Without a word he lifted the girl in C his arms and kissed her tear-stained face. And then suddenly he gav' a t low cry, for the beautiful reddish- t golden hair, whose soft waves he had t so ften caressed, lay in streaks across r a wrinkled brow, and in the plaeA of the goid was the sheen of many silver threads.-New York Weekly. Faithful Failures. Such was the quaint description ap plied by Robert Louis Stevenson to all human beings who had done their best to do well in life. He felt that how- i ever much we tried. we should hardly he able to realize the highest ideals: we should he failures, judged by that lofty standard. but we should a' least be faithful because we had done our I utmost. i To get on in life. speakiiv of mate- 'l rial things only. is the desi: of every : one. yet it is only the min'ority who t do their best. There is a laintable r lack of determination, a deficien'y of S "grit" and "go" in so many of us. We r see the object. we sigh for its attain- a ment, we make spasmodic attempts 1 to reach it, but we shrink from taking I too much trouble about it. and we r cannot strive steadily and unswerv- r ingly for it. I Those are not the faithful failurez. * We cannot imr'2ss too strongly upon t our children and upon those older ones t who are just commencing life. tihatif they would succeed in climbing the s ladder to any appreciable extent. they 13 must cultivate the quality of "sticking f at it"-to use a popular phrase-and h1 that they must aim high. If we so 1l seldom reach the rung of the ladder t which we have in view, and experience teaches us that this is more frequent than we like to believe, then it is bet ter to fight for a still higher position. The probability is that we shall fall ~ short of that position, but attair- one higher -.a: would have been the ease C had a' e r t been aspiring. Stev .-n, doubtless, had the~ moral r side of things in view when writing those words, but they apply equally well to the material facts of life. An A utomatic Ship's Register.t A remarkable mariner's compass has r been invented by a Frenchman, M. Heit. It rezisters- automatically the route taken by the boat and the speed minute by minute. t It is fixed on a steel pivot which t rests on a stationary agate. This is 1 immersed in a basin containing a small ft quantity of mercury which serves for I conducting the electric current that r registers all the movements of the compass. A small silver pointer is kept in electric communication with. the pivot by means of a flexible wire. The index is not usually in contact with the basin. but the electric eur rent quickly opens and closes the circuit. so that the angle of the boat with the meridian is correctly regis tered. The basin is divided into a ce'tain number of sections isolated from each other, and each correspond ing with a special circuit. The registration is operated by means of an electric spark. Certain sections t of the basin correspond with signal bells warning the captain of everyI time that the boat deviates from its normal direction. In case of an acci- 3 dent causing a stopp~age. ihe time of the delay is faithfully noted.-London 1 World's Work. $:;o,0o,0OO Yearly'For- Golf, W\ould you imagine that something like 530.000,000 could be spent yearly on the game of golf? 'I'o begin with,I there are STO golf clubs in England. 760 in the United States, 6:32 in canny Scotland, 134 in Ireland, forty-three in Wales and sixty-three in different parts of the continient. There are, all told, probally not less than 3000 >rganiz.a tions devoted to golf playing. These clubs, counting their grounds, buildings and preliminary expenses. represent a permanent investmnlt of $40.000,000) to 830.000,000O; and compar, atively few of themi can be run at a yearly expense of less than $.Z000. The average membership is about 200 and the average yearly subscriptions of these r;00.000 golf players amounts to nearly 52(000000. Each of the play e's is equip~ped with an outfit that cos:s on an average about $20: and the year ly purchase of golf clubs, all over the wold, amounts. therefor-e, to several miliions of doilars.--Springfield Union. how to wiater Jants. It is nmuch wiser to give plenty of water onice every few days thanu a lile each daty. The latter method keeps the surface moist. and the roots naturally rise for the moistire, so that they are near the surface and will be injured by the heat of the following day. Give enough water to go deep. or else just enough to wash the leaves. The amateur should by preference wa Iter at night, for then the moisture has a chance to do its good work before evaporation starts under the heat of the sun's rays. as it does almost at once when watering is done ia the , j mrn-..-ardenl Ma azine, A Model Good :oad. An experiment in good road build that will prove of practical benefit the State is the model dirt road hich was built by the Government nperts. Messrs. Harrison and Sheets, Iough the Louisiana State University m Ipus. This is an object lesson in roadlbuild that is receiving some attention om the parish officials. This road is Lit of no material except dirt mnd at actically no cost, but it is solid and in. and the hard rains and the heavy uling to which it has been subjected is not injured it in the least. When the model good road was be an through the University campus. ntructed of crushed brick and ound gravel. it was held that this ad as an object lesson was valueless the parish, for it would be impos ble for the parish or the city to pend the sum of money that was eing inlvested in this piece of road. id as the cost has figured up to bout $2000 this criticism has been well unded. The dirt road )uildifng by the Gov rnment experts is the first practical Isject lesson doine in this section. and shows what can be done at little .st with the native soil of the parish. The road was built principally with ie scraper and roller. Tie secret in ie whole business seenis to be in get ng the right curve on the road and ling it firm. The water does not and on the road and heavy traffic ven after a hard rain has made no ipression on the surface. This dirt ad was completed last week. and ce that date the rain has fallen in rrents and the traflic over the road as been heavy. but the road has not een effected by either and stands :is m and as solid as the day it was cmii leted.-Baton Rouge (La.) Thimes. School of Roaa Unilldinz. It is announced that the Iowa State fighway Commission will conduct the rst gQod roads school in America at ii extra session of the State College. t Ames. The Good Roads' Assoela lo has wisely decided to hold its an tial meetilg simultaneously with this ssiso that the attelldinig mlemnbe's 1ay have tIle benefits of the system i. practical instruction which will 0 given ill the fundameintal and essen il features of road building and i:tenainc@. All extensive exhibit of iodem 10:1d building applianees will o shown. in operation by expvrts in Lie different lines of work. short see Ios of road being constructed during C demlolstrations5. The all important rineiles of road drainage for both arfa e and soil water wvill receive roper attention. anld full detail plans r culverts and drairage systemls will available. Road surveying atnd pro le map work are- also included wvithinl 2e scope of the lectures. Water the Greatest Fae. All practice and experience have karly proven thlat the greatest foe good roads is water. Tihe drain g of improved roads is. therefore, ne of tile first principles of road con retion,. and its importance should t e lost sighlt of. Water will make d of any soil however hlard, and tiless it can beC led away, mild must l~low as the inevitable result. The ct has been stated so many times nt it almost seems out of place to ?fer to it here. Increases Land Values. Withl first-class roads, over whic~h VO loses can draw two tons ill a co-borse wagoni 835 days in th" year, 'respective of weather conditions. ic land fifteen miles from town would vorthl as much as it is now .two ies away. Iteachies Our Islands. Tle good roadls movement is reach g Cuba, Hawaii end Porto Rico. Sonree of Pride and Profit. A reditable public highlway, owned nd controlled by the people, could arm no one and would be a source fpride and profit to every class. Away Frorn the Itush. If you want to see real country life >m l.withl me1 and I'll show it to you, ud w itin il ifteen minutes' journey, Do." remarked a friend of mine. We crossed the river en the little erryboat for Upper Rensselaer. The -eey is very fine at this timle, and1 c enjoyed a long walk immee~ly vithout feeling tile heat that was uiterig Albany. On our way back ec stepped into tile tayernl. We ha~d owait quite a while before we got rved. The reason? The proprietor rs having his portrait painlted. Thlis av a sound1( extravagaint, lbut he was aving his picture painted, not "takenl." tle middle of the barroom. sur mided by hlis paraphiernlalia for work rg. stood a typical traveling artist. eated against the wall was the pro rietor. and the likeiels whlich tile iit was5 paintinig in oil on the cann as was a really good one. -Tihe last' time I witnessed such a gt." remarked my friend. "was years o:ad away up in the heart of the atskills-Aba.ny .Tournal. Hard to Play On-. The experiences of George B. Cor lo. chairmanli of the Republican a~ioal Comittee. during the recent unpaini'I were mlanly and varied. ittl keen relish lie tells of one thit ae under his notice. A coutry (c1 lub)aout to give a par ((C w debating as to the number of rns5pancBies to be had iln line. It .aabiiot settled that twelve would be li proper nlumlber. whlen an old fellow iitl i trousers tucked in his boots ro0e and said: --guess two will be about right. E'ain't at all likely more-n two will - w how 'to play on 'em."-Success Unkind. nBoston. thle other day. a young awer who spends most of his time -tle to seem busy and prosperouS vent out for a while. leav-ing On huis ooa acard neatly marked: --Will be mack in anI hour."' On his return he ?od that sonme envious rival had3 in .,.a ja U: c,l atlh - "What for 2" With the Funny ! TFellotes The Young Man's rlaint. The hope of hoarding noncy Is but an idle dream; I used to go for oysters And now it goes for cream. An Unpleasant Memory. 'I see they claim that next season will be a bad one for oysters." "Well, I hope they'll never duplicate tht bad one I found in the church society soup."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Breakfast Table Repartee. "Will soiebody please chase the cow down this way?" said the funny boarder who wanted somi milk for his coffee. "*Here. Jane,"-said the land lady ironically, ,take the cow down where the calf is bawliin1g."-Kansas City Journal......- - The Place For Him. "Notwithstanding what you say about Kraftie." said Goodart. "he seems to be a loyal fellow. Ie appears to keep hi with his friends." "He should be kept in with them." replied Crabbe. "Most of his friends are in jail."-Philadelphia Ledger. Generous. Jack-"Uncle John, do you believe in dreams?" Uncle John-"Why?" "I dreamed last night that you lent me a hundred." "Keep it. my boy. keep ."--Trans lated for Tales From Meggeidorfer Blaetter. . - A Morning Draam. Mrs. Skynflynt-"What are you chuckling about. Jonas?" Mr. Skynflynt-"I dreamed I was going to give a Pullman porter a quar ter." Mrs. Skynflynt--Shouldn't think that would make you grin." Mr. Skyntiynt-"Well, I woke up just s he was reaching for it.''-Louisville Courier-Journal. The, Good Old Days! A - The MIaid-"Unhanld me, sirrah! If you attempt to kiss me, I shall scream for help." The 31an-"Trouble not. sweet one I need no help."-Ally Sloper. Mlanipulated the Scales. "What did Van Osler say the fish weihed?" "Thirty-two pounds and four ounces. He says he weighed it himself." "Let's see-what's Van Osler's busi ness?" "He's a retail coal dealer.". "Huh"-Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Quick Choice. "Why should we give so much at tention to military science and .naval equipment' said the benevolent man. "War is, at best, a terrible thing." "Yes" answered the practical citi zen, "but when it conies to a question of conquering or being conquered, it doesn't take me a minute to make my choice of two evils."-Washingtonl Star. The Psychological Moment. "Yes" said the married maln, medita tively. "when you see a woman hang ing out a line of cloth'es, and the line slips and lets the blessed lot down in the mud, that, my boy, is the psychological moment in whichi to leave that woman aloue."-Cicago Journal. Snappy Talk. Miss Anteek (in open trolley car) "Are you going to stop) smoking? You must see how it annoys me." Mr. Weed-"But, madam, these seats are reserved for smokers." Miss Anteek (scornfully)-"You're a gentleman, I must say"' Mr. Weed-"Anid you, madam, are not, I regret to say."-Philadelphia Cruel Man. Husband-"What! Do you meini to say you haven't decided yet .what to d o in that matter?" Wife-"Just leave me alone for a few minutes. I want to make up my mnd." Husband-"Hum: I'm afraid you'll have to use a microscope"-Philadel phia Ledger. Botcher is Humiorous. "Look he:e, butcher, this meat is half bone." I"You are mistaken, sir. That is good "Botheration: Do you sup~pose I don't know bone wlhen I see it? I say this is bone!" ~Yes, certainly that's bone. The bone I bone but the meat isn't. You said te meat was half bone."-Chicago Journal. - .'ippreheniV. 'The Cz was approached by the Yankee us *ity concern. f we e "r sell you a loving cup. said the agent, "let us sell you a rattle for the baby?" But the Czar frowned, 'Don't talk to me about rattles:" he stormed. "I'm rat:ued enough without te baby being rattled."-Detroit Tri A .tba of Conral unnor lea, with a trunk twenty-nine feet through was thought by Humboldt to be not less than 5150 years old. The Murray system of printing by telegraphy has been used by the Brit ish postotlice with great advantage. The German postotice has been givi g it a prolonged trial. and the Russian postotlice has just given an order for the apparatus. Mexie-an botanists believe they have now disovered a lif. span even great, er than this. and from the annual rings a cyprcss of Chepultepee. whose trunk is 118 feet in circumference, is assigned an age of about sixty-two hundred years. A Boston scientist says that hypno tism can develop only nitural instin and the best hypnotist in the worlid -annot make a really nioral person di wrong. From experiments he hal made he lcelieves that seventy-five pei cent. of the human rae,. if unre strained by family pride :nd other likc considerations, would steal. A Viennese naturalist declares ihai nearly all reptiLes that die from natural causes close their lives between midi night and morning and fewer still ii day light. Most reptilos seem awari of their approaching death. seekii out particular places and there await ing the end, while those whose live are spent underground come to th, surface before death. . , It w s recently demonstrated beor I the Society of Biology at Paris that th' ancient custom of burning such su;b stances as sugar. resin and certain aro iatic plants foi fumitation and Qisin fection was of considerable value. a! these materiaIs gave off vapor: witl antiseptic properties which made then most useful gerinicides. This is (In to a large amount fornic aldehlyd- ! the vapors, and it was found that whei two grams (thirty-one grains) of suga: were burned in a bell glass of twelvi litres (12.C quarts) eapacity. objects in feeted with the baeillus coli. bacillu: typhosus. the vibrio of cholera, th, bacillus tuberculosis, and other path eno-enic germs were destroyed withi; half an hour. Other more resistan bacteria required a somewhat longe exposure. but eventually _uccunbed. 3iarper's Weekly. In a recent aldress Profrssor H. F Oshorn gave some additional fact about ancient American horses. It ap pears that in North America ther wert always from four to six entirel: different varieties of the horse family living contemporaneously. Some wer, slow moving and relatively broad footed horses, living in' the forests others were very swift, having narroT feet more resembling those of the deei and lived on the plains. Moreovei there were American horses large than the huge Percherons of to-day and others smaller than the most di ininutive Shetlands. Strangely enougli the greatest beauty and variety in th development of the horse family wer exhibited here just before the toti extinction of horses on the America: continent, a catastrophc- which sti: offers an unsolved problem for invest. gation. AGAINST FREAK NEWSPAPERS. Mjnincance of Recent Decision of Post office Department. In thecir struggle for business som' newsapers have found it necessary t1 boster up indifferent publications b: the addition of calendars, sheet music patterns, block-s of postal cards, cut out animal pictures, animal masks cut-out dolls, soldiers and naval ves sels, circulars, hand-biils and card board spectacles. The purpose is t< make the customer believe he is get ting a bargain, and this forced circula Ition. which is not won on the merit 0 the paper itself, is offered as proof ta the advertiser of actual worth. It is deception to both the reader and ad vertiser, and has been made all th< easier of accomplishment because th' publisher has been permitted to cireu late his cheap John assortment througl the mails at second-class rates. The Postoflice Department. castin; about to decrease its enormous expen ditures, has discovered that tihesi newspaper owners have been inmposin: upon it, and has issued notice that thi practice must cease. The point is made that this matter is purely extraneous and cannot come within the provisiol - the law of 1879. which permitted th< mailing of newspaper supplements a Ithe second-class rate of a cent pe: n)ond. It is estimated that this actiot vill work a material reduction in the amount of mail handled, and will, t< that extent, relieve the present congel It should also have the effect to in crease the standard of the newspaper: that have engaged in the business. Thi publishers will be forced to furnish higher cluality of news in order tha thi ulications may compare wid tmose newspapers which have bee: hewing strictly to legitimate lines. IToedo Blade. To Build Church With Tobacco Tags. J. P. Withrow, a well-known nmex chant of H~ollis and Ellenboro. prc p)ss to build a church at Hollis wit: tobacco tags. Every tobacco chewe can contribute is part to this causi Instead of throwing away the tage jus drop them into your pocket ani forward theu to J. P. D. Withron Ilullis. N. C. Mr. Withrow bought and sold $100 worth of tobacco tags last year. wvhic: Ifact will give a very clear idea of hos easy it will be to collect enough tag to build a church.-Shelby correspond nce Raleigh News and Observer. Hard on Some. Clerymen who part their hair thc middle wvill read with staring eye the resolution offered by the Rev. -~ S. Danby. at a meeting of the Pitta ~urg Presb)ytery, in Donora. Pa. I icads thus: "Whereas. sissitied asse are no4 longer to be tolerated in th mtinistry: resolved, that their admuissia be discouraged. and that ministers u instructed to refrainm from partin thei hair in the middle.'' ,ARM 1: fITES. D -r4-"!-' D ER, STOCKMAN AND TRUCd GR&WER as is described in the following from the Family: An object lesson in daily manage ment was furnished me recently. which helps to prove a common error among a certain class of farmers. This farm er sold to the butcher two very young calves that had been with their dams getting all the milk for seven months. They weighed a little over 1000 pounds and sold for $31. The farmer was pleased with the transaetion, and re marked that he was making some money. Upon investigation I learned some facts which will illustrate what I have in mind. The cows were good grade Shorthorns, above the average as milkers. They were fed on fine blue :rrass pas ture, and I estimated that while these calves were following them they gave at least fifteen pounds of milk each per day for the seven months' period. Thus the two calves consumed at least 6300 pounds of milk. which at a very moderate estimate would have been worth $30 to $34 if sold at the shipping station in the form of cream. It is not surprising that the calves were rerv fat, fed on such expensive feed. At a moderate estimate and with good care the farmer should have sold at least . N 5rth of mil'k and cream from each cow and raised a calf worth $10 on the skim milk, or as~much profit from one cow as he received from the two. This is but a concrete example of what is taking. place on hundreds of farms where the old idea is still held that it pays to raise calves by giving them the entire milk of the cow. One of the greatest profits to be made from the combined dairying and veal raising is because of the fact that skim milk will produce calves of almost as high quality as will whole milk and at a greatly reduced cost. Preparing Land For Corn* L. G. B.. Catawba. writes: Where I turn under rye and crimson clover Ifor a corn crop and then use forty to fifty bushels of rock lime to the acre would 300 pounds of sixteen per cent. acid phosphate do. Expect to work the sa'me land in corn again next year. Answer: You are certainly preparing your land well for corn by plowing un der rye and crimson clover. Crimson clover is to be preferred because it is a leguminous crop and will thus add largely to the available supply of nitro gen in the soil. By rock lime you possibly mean the ground rock before i: has been burned. Caustic lime is much more effective and is to be preferred on that account. and I .do not presume there is very much difference in the cost of the two. Fifty bushels of rock lime is not a heavy application, however. as it be comes very slowly available in this form. Twenty-five bushels of burned lime will be a good application and it should not be made more than once in three to iive years. Three hundred pounds of sixteen per cent. acid phos phate is a liberal amount to use of one of the very necessary elements needed in a corn cron, for you recognize that phosphorous has largely to do with the formtion. cf grain, and as a rule there is not --ery abundant supply of it avail abc in: our soils. You might add lifty pounds of muriate potash to your mix ture with advantage for corn. Whie land treated as you propose will grow good crops of corn for sev eral years it is not advisable to bring corn on your land year after year un less it is absolutely necessary. Put it down in clover and grass for a year or two and then grow some other cer ea. such as wheat, oats or barley, and ive it a rest from corn, and the land syil1 continue to improve and gow hrger crops from year to year. Knoxville Journal. .. / Feedina Grain to Horses. 3any horses have a bad habit when Ifed oats, shelled corn, or dry ground feed, of filling the mouth with the food and then turning the head away so that much of it drops out upon the .ground and is wasted. On a large .farm where all the grain is home grown. and there are chickens running at will through the stable, the real -waste is not great. But in the case of 1those who have to buy all their feed and whose chickens can not pick up ;the dropped grain, the loss is a scrious matter. SWe know a case where the loss has Sbeen prevented by putting the feed into a nose-bag and slipping the cord over the head back of the ears. The lag used in this case is a regular feed Sbag such as is used b~y draymen and teamsters in cities to feed without n hitching. They are made of heavy can vas with a wooden bottom, there are holes in front for ventilationl while the horse is eating. They can be bought at any harness store for about seventy ive cents. It is a little more trouble o feed in a bag than just putting the - grain into a box, but the saving is am ple pay for all the trouble.-Florida A griculturist. Odds and Ends. It often happens that a good talker is a poor thinker. SAbout the only thing sold in sell iig race is the public. A spendthrift gets tight occasion ally, but a miser is always tight. .Logic proves or disproves all things - but it accomplishes none. - It's better to smile and be a villian than never to have smiled at all. iSometimes the race is to tke swift, : but more often it is to the bookmaker. Summer girls are again vowing eternal fidelity-until this end of the It is easier to get a wise man to -gve advice than it is to get a fool t take it. A man in Kansas recently eloped with his mother-in-law, and Kansas is a prohibition State, too. Our idea of a tne heroine is a married woman who doesn't say that she wishes she had remained single. SOUTHERN + TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLAN7 Nitrogen Fertilizer. Maryland station experiments with nitrogenous fertilizers are published in a bulletin that discusses the early use of nitrogenous fertilizers. the im portance of nitrogen as a plaint food. loss of nitrogen from the soil. general conditions indicating the need of nitro gen, quantity of nitrogen annually re moved from Maryland farms, the ori gin and supply of nitrogen in soils, ni trification. sources of nitrogen, the use of the free nitrogen of the atmosphere by plants, and artificial inoculation. The object was to compare different times of applying nitrate of soda. just before planting with or without lime, at period of most active growth. and one-half before plantin.g and one-half at a time of most active growth, to test the comparative effects of nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia and of lime applied with mineral sources of nitrogen, to compare nitrate of soda combined with sulphate of potash with nitrate of potash. to compare different sources of organic nitrogen, including dried blood, raw and dissolved hair waste, bone tankage. dried fish, cotton seed meal and stable manure, and to test the effect of treating hair and leather waste with acid. The materials were applied in amounts supplying th!rty-two pounds of nitrogen per aere. The crops for which data are given are corn, wheat and hay. - The results in general favor the ap piceaiion of nitrate of soda efore planting rather than after the crop is partially grown. and indicate that a topdressing of this substance pays well as a rule on wheat which for any cause, either poor land or from late seeding. is backward in the spring, al though its use is of doubtful benedt on land which is well supplied with plant food. Nitrate of soda gave uniformly and decidedly better results than sulphate of ammonia, both with and without lime. Nitrate of potash gave better results than nitrate of soda combined with a potash salt (sulphate), but the advan tage was not great enough to warrant the difference in cost which usually prevails. The organic sources of nitrogen were not as active as nitrate of soda. Of the three principal forms tested blood stood first as regards effectiveness, leather second and hair last. About Autumn chickens. Raising fall chickens. to some extent, -is a pretty general custom, and a goo one. too, we think. But, our observa tion is, that as a rule they are started too late in the season-the setting ol ,'hens, we mean. For, like spring batches, the earlier ones are the best. Most people wait until September to :set fall eggs, when the best time is six weeks earlier. In fact, the chicks thai come out betweeni the twenty-fifth of SJuly and the first of September make the best progress. the most rapid and Sthe largest growth. Last year we set Ieggs from the first of July until the first of October with a view of raising late chickens: and the truth is, that, while the July and early Angus1 hiatch~d chiekens size up in weight, etc. .timiost with the spring hatched, -and are still developing, those that were hatched in September and Octo ber are noticeably smaller-the egg: from the pullets being decidely under sized. Plumage plays an importan1 part in the matter of growth, with the -late-hatched chicken, and the chicle that comes out early enough to get -fairly good coating of feathers whuili -the weather is still mild. wili continul an uninterrupted growth during thi -winter; while those that are hatchei so late as to be still unfeathered wxe the chilly blasts begin to blow wIll stil be undeveloped when the spring shal ave come again, for it is certaini: up-hill business for an illy-feathere( chicken to make rapid growth in cobc weather. -In view of these facts. we advocatt early auturnn and fall batching, for ont early August .brood is really worti two hatched as late as October. An -ther thought, the person who aspire: to raise chickens for market now should hatch them off as soon ats pos ible. It is possible to begin now an< aise a number of late chickens up t< the frying size, and market them Ion. before the season is entirely gone Iahed by the middle of Auguist o irst of September, they would hay< ight to ten weeks in which to gro~ 1hile it should be mild and pleasant Id'e, as we view it. based upon pas experience, now is an auspicious timi in which to hatch and develop earl, autumn chickens, either for mnarket or for utility at home.-H{. B. Geer, il Southern Cultivator. Whole Milk Calves Pronitless. tOf course whlen there is no sale fo rea~l or bxetter it is no expenlse t raise calves on a whole milk diet. Bu -onthe other hand. there are man; others doing very much the same thin Pointed Paragraphs. Stolen fruit may be sweet, bu thhre i sorrow in its assimilation. r What a happy world this would b ifa woman could convince hersel: tha t her married life is as happy a: se tries to make others believe it is Some spinsters spend a lot of timi Doing for husbands-and so do som< 1mr aried women, according to all re - It is surprising how a widow ca: make love to a man in a way tha mkes him think he is the first ma: eve really loved. : The reason ma::y go to sleep 11 3 cchurch may onten be found, not in th, .ssermo, but in tile Saturday night. - There is no salvation without six: TTe denial of self is the secret o Te Teisms make the schismns. Morals determine manners. Greatness depends on grace.