Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JHE LAND OF REGRETJ There is a city whose gates are wide, Its pavements pure and clean, Where shadow forms flit -side by side On -the road called "Might Have Been." Rut, folks waik there with their heads bowed low. And heavy eyelids wet. kor ev'ry corner is haunted sa In this, "The Land of Regret." They meet the ghosts of those other years In dreams of memory sweet. And wet with passionate. irenzied teai* The graves which lie at their feet: But never. long as their lives shall last, athe again forget .Who once have walked with ghosts of the In this. -"The Land of Iegret." 'ey feel the touch of hand grown still, It, fingers sort.y press. Te tender passion of kitse! Ithr T 'ir own in a fond caress. h :ne-hat pity the foik, vho .tray Wnere long the sun hath set. Awi wa!k with the ghosts who're laid away l : i "Th Land of Rezret. -Pa!! "M14:1 tmzr .Q ' TilE CREW TAT % S FFERED FROM TllIRST: .,;0 ' !s sixty years sInce I was serving as a midshipman P0j o on board IH. 'M. S. Xeno phon in the South Seas. , he was one of the finest frigates then adoat. From Callao, twelve, degrees south latitude. we were ordered to proceed to San Bias. a port on the coast of Mexico. in twenty-three and one-half degrees north latitude. The distance being about 2400 miles. the passage through both trade winds as a rule occupied three weeks, and for this the Xenophon carried more than a full supply of water, so thaL it occurred to mo one to suppose we should run short of the first becessa'ry of life. We left Callao on February 16. and on the eleventh day out the Galapagos group was sighted. and we came to an anenor in Post Office Bay, Charles Island. Here we hoped to replenish our water tanks, but no water could be obtained, and we sailed without any further supply. It was from this time that our ill luck began. For sixteen days we remained be calned within sight of land, drifting to and fro. crossng and recrossing the equator with wearying irritation. On the seventeeth day we got a slant of wind. and, losing sight of the islands, hoped we were fairly off at last. But it .vas not to be. In two days the wind dropped again.-and we lay once more becalmed. Thirty-six days out. and barely one-third of the distance done! On March 20'the order was given to stop all water for washing purposes. It was a. necessity, and as such it was nccepted. but when it vas seen that Capta'in Lordling had no intention of setting an example, and that his own ablutions continued daily, it is not sur prising that he became unpopular. An other week passed, and still we !ay at the mercy of the wearisome calm, its monotony broken only by an occasional turtle hunt. It was now the seventh week out from Callao, but still our nebing eyes looked in vain for signs of a coming breeze. The sails were furled, for they were only beating themselves threadbare with the heave of the ship in the oily sea as they flapped against the masts and rigging. Coming on deck and glancing at the sailless yards made it seem a mockery of being at anchor in a safe port. The sun stared vertically at us from a steel blue sky. and under the double awnings the pitch ran liquid from the seams. .clogging our feet as we walked the decck. And in the midst of these surround ings the order was given to reduce the nhowance of drinking water to one pint a day for each officer and man. This allowance was served out in one issue at noon. during the mna's dinner hour. The meal consisted of salt .iunk so long in brine and so hard that it tould take a handsome polish in skil ful hands. or of pork that shriveled in the boiling to little :nore than hard rind. The result of such a diet. of course. avas that when their (.inners wer over tot a drop of water remained to the poor fellows for the nie:t twventy-four' hours of burning hear. The few who tried to save some found it implossible, for they bad no place in wvhich to se cure it froin their improvident ship mates. In this strait the men fell back <m vinegar, of which each mess had a lilerarl allowance, but in their raging thirst they were not satisded merely to mnoisttn their mouths with the strong :ieid: they mixed ii with salt water and wirank it in large (juantities. andi the terrile( efecLt. ma beC imagined as. knocked over by this horrible mixture, they rolled in agonies in the forecastle. With the o!!icers, of course, it was different, although idC allowance of water was the same. Trheir food was nmot so thirst provoking; they could save th" pre~cious pinlt, and even eke it out wihalittle wine or b~eer'. Mine I Ir.: Red in myl sea ch.est. ond had it been tihe Kon-:i-noor I could11 searcely have '*ained it rnor'e highly. Isnt Captain Lordlinig for himself -res\rv1 not onily an unlimite'd supply ft drna:g water. but also an ample someirn(-y for washing purposes. E.very morningr the steward used to carry tho dirty. soapy water down the ladder on the way to his sanctum, and ever'y doy from the marines' berth at the foot of the ladder half a dozen or moere stalwart Joey.s were on the look clut fe-' his atppearamnc\. T1he instant hie dzsc'nded t he vessel was dragged fromp hinm and its contents eagerly di v'ide.d among the thirsty crowd. The steward comtp~ined: to the Captain, 'out moitha:g camec of it. It was deeldebd to make for Testapa,. on the eca~st of Central Ameriea. an anchora some 200 miles disit',t and we arrived in:-'re wvhen sixty days out f:rom C'allao. W can describe our trophni ost. with its c-oral hech.im: and taeypaltas. backed by volcantic (1O'.'h'tdownward luntage of stremcmt 'itrret to the sea: We thought & ~eeaid seeC io bre~ak in the ndri :'i of snrtf whlich the ~''.P*'is sen (can:lting on the eI.. t, ,ba sh~ 5~hitn a cargo of indigo, that the Indans had filled their water casks and doubtless would do the same for ours. The boats were sent to seek a watering place, but after a careful survey the officer reported that landing was absolutely impracti eable except for the light Indian canoes :111d ctamnarans. The Indians were appeakdt(l to, and iiimflediately offered to raft off a full supply of water for the sun of $1200. When this news spread (and spread it (lid like wildfirei never a doubt had we but that our thirsty souls would drink and live. But well as we knew our Captain, there was a little yet to be learned about him. "Why." he said at once, "the Admiralty might make ue pay the money. it's too much! I won't give it:" Still we did not entirely relinquish hope: a smaller offer was made to the natives, and this they tbsolutely de lied. Tihings having reached this point. the senior ofticers. with the doe tor. took the extrenme course of urging the Captain to reconsider his decision, poi;nting out how much the menl had suffered and the gravily of the re sp)n- sibility which he incurred. But all was of no avail: our chief was ob durate. and the sole result of their intervention was an order to gEt under way. The muen. therefore, who would gladly have risked their lives to ob tain water from the beach. had now, without an extra drop to moisten their parched throats, to heave up the anchor and turn their backs on the land of promise as we made for the open ocean. Sore and suilen were 1ll cur hearts, and serious consequences might have ensued among the men had it not been that a breeze sprang up and their hopes with it. The great moun tains faded in the blue distance and night fell on the sails sweetly asleep as the stately frigate swept through the sea. Alas, next day the sun rose on a breathless calm! We had not out sailed our ill luck and it was with us again. One day the clouds began to gather, until a huge dark mass hung pendant in the heavens. Under this the sea be gan to boil and foam, then a long black arm descended: a rapidly moving spiral column of smoking water leaped to meet it, and thus a waterspout was formed: soon that cloud was full to bursting. Oh! what a joy as it climbed over our mastheads! We knew it must burst on us! Then out of the gloom and darkness came the blessed rain. as if the waterspout itself had fallen. Awnings were spread and looped up. Hoses were laid From them to the tanks. The scupper holes were plugged, every receptacle was lilled. The decks became a surging lake. in which -ill hands rolled and drank. Past privations were forgotten, and al though the allowance of water was still kept at a pin': a day. yet every bucket and mess can was fuil, and Jack once more cut a shuffle on the forecastle and sang of the lass that loves a sailor. The seventy-seventh day from Callao found us still some 600 miles from our destination, with only a few tons of water left. The sun, which had a declination south of Callao -when we left had overtaken us and was sending slanting rays from the north, hut still the heat was intense, baking our black hull as if it were an oven. The allowance of water was reduced to half a pint a day, and our sufferings were greater than ever. Not Captain Lordling's, though! He strode up and down the quarterdeck. healthfully jier spiring at every pore, while on the fore castle grim death claimed its victims from the poor creatures who had sought relief from their thirst in salt water and vinegar. Every precaution had been adopted to prevent the me-n drinking this ap palling mixture, but it could no': be en tirely stopped. Case a-fter case was brought into the sick hay and treated )y the doctors with every care, but in vam . Al through this trying time th'e Cap tan's live stock, sheep and poultry, were supplied with no inconsiderable amount of water, while British seamen were thus dying for want of it. Tor mented as the men wvere by thirst, it is not surprising that many attempts were made to steal water from the deck water tank. One man would de coy the sentry away, while another rushed in and turned the tap. The sentries were doubled,. and some of the men. caught in the attempt. were flogged. receiving after the cruel cus tom of the time three dozen lashes of the cat. At last, on May 20, we sighted thme anchorage of San Bia's, and the order was immediately given to serve out a gallon of water to each man. Disci pline was forgotten in the wildest, most joyful confusion as it was issued. And so, ninety-three days after leaving Cal lao, our privations camne to an end. For the last seventy-seven days of our voae we had averaged a speed of just one mile an hour, a reczord for slowness which I scarcely think the annals of sea life could beat.-M'aemil lans Magazine. The Chinamnan in London. When the Londonc? wishes to study Iohnm Chinamuan at his leisure there is no need to go albroad for the purpose. He has only to take a catb to the causeway at Limehouse to find himself in little Chinatown. There he will see slant-eyed sons of the Orient, some with English names and some without -sote even wvith English or, more likely. Irish wives-and all looking as calmly picturesque as it is possible for a hathen Chinee" to look, Hie wvill find several Chinese shops with Chi nese names cn the doors and smug Ce lestials within waiting to cverreach either a countryman or a Br tisher in a i'argamin. They have been there near iy twenty years now, and they seem quite as clean and respectable as their neighbors. Strange to say nobody in that district has a word to say against John as a citizen.-Londonl MaiL. ~ A Clever Shoplifter. The Philadelphia police say that tney have dis-veredl J. shoplifter, a we mnu who brushes the vaiaable ar tiles, such as silk waists, off counters !m stoes. andl theni picks themi up with her foot anid tucks them safely under lie: dress. They claim to havce caught the cuprit and proved her guilt. The Boer colony established in the sia o Chihutahua. Mexico, two years --, is diw wellt SArFFAIRS SATIN FINISHED MAHOGANY. Many people prefer sat!n-finished ma bogany furniture to the dull style, but It only looks better while it is new. Every finger mark and scratch shows. To keep it in the right condition, it should be rubbed every day. DO NOT SHAKE A RUG. Never shake a rug to get out the Ilust. for it ruins the binding and fringe, and after a few shakings the ?ges tear from the warp at the cor ners and not only spoils the appear 'mce of the rug. but shortens the period of its usefulness. TO REMOVE PUTTY. T,, remove old putty and paint. make .i paste with soft soap and a solution f e:iustic soda. or with slaked lime and pearlash. Lay it on with a piece of rag or a brush, and leave it for several hours. when it will be found that the paint or putty may be easily removed. MENDING ENIFE HANDLES. When the handles of steel knives and forks come off they can he easily mended with resin. Pour a little pow dered resin into the cavity in the han dIe. Heat the part of the knife that fits into the handle until it is red hot. and thrust into the handle. It will become firmly fixed by the resin when it becomes cool. Protect the blade from the heat. CLEANING THE CARPETS. To remove- oIl spots from carpets drst wash out the dust from the grease spot with warm water. mixed with household ammonia. Next cover the spot with a paste of fuller's earth and water-quite stiff. Cover with paper and leave thus for two days. Then lay blotting paper over all and set a warm iron upon the dry paste. Final ly. brush out the earth and sponge with clean water. SILVER MOTHS. As a last resort to get rid of silver moths. take the drawers from the dressers. Wash them thoroughly with hot alum-water. Fill a bowl with for mldehyde and keep the room closed, tightly for forty-eight- hours. After the fumigation throw open the win dows and permit the air to' enter. Fill the drawers with cedar shavings, pow dered. This gives a fresh odor, and Is a protection against destructive in vaders. Formaldehyde is a liquid that ust not touch the skin. While evap -rating it sets free a suffocating gas that enters the cracks, killing all in sects; no living thing can exist in it. Corn Soufae-Drainl the water from a can of co':n and stir in three table spoonfuls of melted butter. Beat four eggs until very light and turn with a pint of rich milk into the corn. Sea son well, beat for several minutes and pour into a. buttered pudding dsish. Cover and bake thirty minutes. Re move the ct-ver, brown the souffle and serve directly. A Peach Dessert-Large sweet peaches make a delicious dessert when prepared in this manner: Peel and halve the peaches, removing the stones. Pack in ice and salt for three hours. Remove anud place in individual gurss dishes. putting into cach half a table spoonful of peach icc-cream and sur rounding the whole with sweetenetd whipped cream. Creamed Ham With Mushrooms Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter and stir into it 1 1-2 tablespoonfuls of flour; Ithen, slowly stirring all the while, pour n one cup of hot milk. When smooth and thick season with pepper and salt and stir in one cupful of minced ham and a quarter of a can of chopped mushrooms; pour over rounds of nice ly browned toast and garnish with slices of hard-boiled eggs and parsley. Grape Catchup-Wash two quarts of grapes, pick over and remove stems. Put in granite ware saucepan, pour over one quart of vinegar, bring to boiling poInt, and cook until grapes are soft; then rub through a sieve. Re turn to saucepan. add 1 1-2 pounds of brown sugar, one tabl'espoonful each of cinnamon, clove and pimento, one half tablespoonful of salt and one fourth of a teaspoonful of cayenne. Cook until of the consistency of tomato catchup. Bottle, cool and seal. Cream Chocolate Pudding-One pint of milk, ore-half cupful of sugar, four eggs, four tablespoonfuls of corn starch, two ounces of chocolate and one teaspconful of vanilla. Put the chocolate in a saucepan to melt. stir ring until perfectly smooth. Put the milk on t> boil in a farirna boiler; moisten tt'e cornstarch with a fourth f a cup of water and add to the boil ing milk; cook and stir until thick and smooth. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add the sugar to the milk, then the whites, and beat nii to gether over the fire. Take from the fire and add the vanilla. Now take one-third of the mixture and add to it the chocolate, mixing well. D ip a plain pudding mould in cold water. put in the bottom of it half the white mixture, then all of the dark, and next the remainder of the white. Stand on the ice to harden, and serve with a vanilla sauce poured around it. A Wooden wedding. Several friends called on a New York clergyman one evening, says the New York Sun. and were kept waiting for him for some time. I"I'm sorry to have kept you wait ing." the minister remarked, as he en tered his library. "but I have just had to perform a wooden wedding in the church." "What:" said one of the visitors. "1 never heard ot' such a thing. What kind of a ceremony was it': "Oh." answvered the clergyman. with a twinkle in his eye. "it was the mar riage of a couple of Poles." Canals and IRoads. 9 EiRE and there one hears H the question asked. Why th iiscontribute H o t uildlin of roads for k the country districts? and is instantl inswered by asking. Vhy should the country districts con ribute to the payment of the cost of he c-anal sy sTem. when it only benetitS it es? In wEithe'r case has the person sking the 'iiestion comprehinded the (act that ti,' developmenr of the ca ials and the development of roads are )oth questi-ns of developing transpor ation. and that the State that is able o have the cheapest transportation. is he St:te t:mt controls the commercial upremacy of the Union. ald that both anal and r-ad development go hand n hand in cuabling New York State ,o maintair its commercial supremacy. Roughly speaking. of the $100.000, 0 to be expended upon the Erie Ca mal, S5,00).000 is paid by the cities nd $15.000.(K10 1)y the rural districts. loughly speaking, of the $50,000.000 o be expei.ded for the development of he highw:ys. fifty per cent,. or $25. 0,000, is to be paid by the State at rge. $17.0,000 is to be paid by the :ounties according to the mileage im )roved in each county, and $7,500,000 s to be paid by the towns according :0 the mileage Improved in each town. sow, of t-e $25,000,000 to be paid by he State a': large, eighty-five per cent., r $22,250 000, will be paid by the !ities and the remainder will be paid )y the rural districts, so that one sees eaily tha t the rural districts contrib ite $15,000,000 for the canals for the ities, whi:e the cities contribute $22, !50.000 for the roads for the country: bat is, the cities are contributing 7,250,000 more for the roads than the ountry d:stricts are contributing to he cities [or the canals. This is not n unfair proportion. considering the ,reatness of the two propositions. here has never been any intention on he part of the highway conventions, omposed of the Supervisors and the 1lighway -.ommissioners of the State, o formulr-te a plan for road develop ent wbich would be in any way bur lensome to the cities by increasing heir taxation. The cities inadvert ntly will benefit largely from road mprovement. because the price of arm produce will be reduced to the onst.mer, because the farmer can wring double the load in half the time :o the present shipping centres on Im )roved roads over what be can at the )resent time. The indirect benefits to he cities in the purchase of cheaper 'arm produce are fully equal to the ndirect benefits to the farm by having heap transportation on the waterways f the State for the benefit of cities. ~rbune Farmer. Wide or Narrow Tires ? On smooth, hard roads the difference s not so great, but on sandy or muddy *oads or in plowed fields wide tires re so much better than narrow ones hat we wonder that farmers do not sist on having them. The Metropoli :an and Rural Homes publishes the ~olowing: The Missouri experiment station has nade a series of tests extending from anuary to September of last year in ~rder to ascertain the value of wide :ires as compared with narrow ones. ~onclusions follow. In conducting the experiments two :rdinary farm wagons were used, one rith six-inch tires, the other with ttadard one and one-half-inch tires. 'oth wagons of the same weight, and ah loaded with 2000 pounds. It was round that the power necded to draw hc narrow- tired wagon, with 2000 )ound load, on a gravel road, would ae pulled a load of 2472 pounds on he wide-tired wagzon. The same pow r reqtuired to draw narrow tires vcr dirt and gratvel roads, when thes vere dry and hard, was found sutli -jent to draw ai 2:it-pound load on the ivie-tired wagon under the same con litions. tt was shown that w;here Ehese roads were deep with mud. but atialy dried at the surface with a rew hours' sun, the same power re ~uired to draw the 2000-pound load ver them on the narrow tires would ull a load of :3200 pounds on the wide ires. The director of the station states Iha: the conditions under -which the aarow tires offer an advantage ov-er h wide ones are "-unusual and of hort duration," and further. that tarough a major-ity of days in the s-ear, and at times when the dirt roads re most used, and when their use is most imperative, the broad - tired1 vagon will pull materially lighter than the narrow-tired wagon." Also that "a large number of tests on meadows, astures, stubble land, corn gr-ound, nd plowed gr-ound in every condition. from dry, hard and firm to veryV wet nd soft, shows without a single ex -eption a large difference in draft in favor of the broad tires. The differ mce ranged fronm sev-enteen to 120 per As a result of all experiments con ucted he says: "-It appears that six inches is the best width of tire for ombination farm and road wagon, and that both axles should be the same length, so that the front and hind whels will run in the same track." Too Well. U~ncle Absalom Millsap went to the office of the village newspaper with a grievance. "-I want to tell you." he said. "-that there's a good deal of hum bug in advertising." "I am sorry to hear that." respond ed the editor-. "In what way?" -Do you remember that you had three advertisements of 'line milch ow for' sale' last week, in thr'ee differ ent parts of the country' "Yes, and I've heara1 " nm all three of those ads., too., . resulted in selling the cows. I te'll y-ou, it pays to advertise in the Banner.' "t dlidn'r paiy me:- snapped I'ncle Absalomn. "I wanted a fine milch cow, and I wvent to all three of those- piaces, one after antheriI~. but somebody had SOUTHERN ':- f TOPICS OF INTEPEST TO THE PLANTI Feeding Roasting Ear Corn. Corn is often fed to cattle when go ing out of the roasting ear stage with fairly good results. In investigations made several years ago when compar ing corn on a water free basis, that which was not well matured gave :bout as good results per pound of dry matter as that fully matured. In some sections of the South it is not an un common practice to feed corn when passing out of the roasting ear stage to cattle and other classes of stock with results that are in some instances quite surprising. Where grass is abundant it is not necessary that grass be fed in any considerable quantities until later. Sugar Beets For Hons. TI. C. M.. Rome, Ga.-I am raising a larger amount of hogs than formerly. In connection with other feed for them I have raised one-half ton of white mugar beets. Please tel' me the most economical and profitable way to feed them. whether cooked or uncooked, nd. if cooked. what other ingredients to mix with them? Answer-Mix the sliced, or boiled and mashed, sugar beets with corn meal at the rate of six to eight pounds of beets to one pound of corn meal. If you have a root slicer use it and feed the beets raw with the meal, if the hogs will eat them. Cooking does not add to their value. One pound of corn meal is equal in feeding value to about six pounds of first-rate sugar beets. Coal Ashes in the Garden. We frequently see the advice given to use ashes as fertilizer, but the writ ers of such items do not always specify whether wood ashes or coal ashes is meant. As is generally known wood ashes have a considerable value as fer tilizer, largely because of the amount of potash contained in them. Large quantities of unleached wood ashes are yearly brought from Canada and used on our farms: in some sections they are extensively used on grass land. The late Robert Bonner, the noted horseman, applied wood ashes for sev eral years in succession to his meadows and for something like twelve years after the last application of wood ashes these meadows have had no fertilizer except a moderately heavy top dressing of stable manure each fall; the crop yearly has been a most satisfactory one. Coal ashes can be utilized to ad vantage around orchard trees where the, soil is heavy or clayey in charac ter; they may also be used as a mulch around shrubbery and small trees to onserve the moisture in the soil. These shes are less objectionable for such purposes than the coarse stable man ire generally used. Large Black Peas Praised. Wjth us, writes W.B.J., in Home and Farm, twe large black pea has given the most satisfactory results. It Is a stroig and vigorous grower, makes a great mass of haulm, matures and ies early, so that dry poas can be gathered in September: and In yield f seed exceeds, we believe, all other arieties. It is as good as any 'for stock or for hay, and the green peas in summer or the dry peas in winter are in every way as sweet and savory ad nutritious for man as any variety f twelve or thirteen that we have ver grown. For an all-round pea. for any pur ose required 'by the farmer, we be liee there is nothing better than the arge-seeded, all-black variety. There s m small-seeded kind, but not so good. Let the farmer try to work this sort ut from his seed. And for planting purposes, or for use on the table in winter, a portion f the crop should be planted rather late in .July. in order to have seed. not infested with that great pest of this rop, the little pea bug. At the South. the early sowing.s are invariably in esed wvith this insect. Farmers who ould make a specialty of the black e for seed would doubtless find it ~rotable. At .$1.50 to .$2.50 per bush l of seventy pounds the crop pays well. Use Potaah and Lime. Nearly all of the soils of the South will be benefited by the use of lime. md especially tnose on which potash is liberally used, as it seems evident from the analysis of many Southern soils that there is not enough of that lement present to enable potash to give its most satisfactory results. The principal crops grown in the South md the kind and amount of fertil izer best adapted to their use follows: Corn sorghum and the coarse fodder nd grain growing cereals: Cotton seed meal 300 pounds. nitrate of soda 1.5 pounds, acid phosphate 3.50 pounds nd muriate of potash ten pounds. Use at the rate of C00 to 500 pounds to the acre. For wheat and other small grain bearing cereals use the same mixture but at the mte of 150 to 350 pouds. Reilections of a Bachelor. - Prosperity has mucth the same effect n a man as gas has on a balloon: too much of it will result in an ex plosion. When a man reatches his aecond childhood heC has no hair and no teeth -snd if~ smi>, has no more sense than to wvant a wlife. It is easier to talk about ruling mankind with love than it is to do it. A stunning-looking girl isn't neces sarily shocking. Many a woman 's heir is not as gol den as it s plaited. Every man thinks his w-ife has the best husband in the world. A New York millionaire who began his career a clerk in a cigar store abut forty years ago boasts of hatv ing risen from the ranks. There are teo many divisions of the Christian anny where all those who are not commanding offncers are re tired colonels on- half-pay. ARM : 10TES R, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWEB, % Cotton: Cotton seed meal 250 pounds, high grade acid phosphate 400 pounds and muriate of potash 150 pounds. Use at the rate of 300 to 500 pounds per acre. Potatoes: High grade acid phosphate 350 ponnds. muriate of potash 150 pounds. Use at the rate of 400 to 600 pounds per acre. Liberal. applications of a complete fertilizer should be made on all gar den and truck crops and on orchards. Use a fertilizer at the rate of 400 to 600 pounds composed of a mixture of SO0 pounds of cotton seed meal. 300 pounds of acid phosphate and 400 pounds of muriate of potash.-Profes sor Soule. Black Rust of Cotton. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture has since September 1 received numerous samples of diseased cotton bolls, showing blackened sur face and in many cases having the im mature lint exposed and rotten. These diseased bolls show the pres ence of the spores or reproductive parts of a parasitic~ fungus-Colleto trichium gossipyium. The fungus seems to be spreading in North Caro lina and already does very serious damage. The estimated damage now caused is about one-half the normal yield on the infected areas. The spores or so-called seeds of the fungus live over winter in the dis eased bolls and stalks of the preceed ing crop usually left in the field. The spores undoubtedly live upon the seed stored in barns and cotton gins. When this seed is planted or when infected seed is planted upon infected soil the fungus starts growth along with the seed and grows up'through the young plants, eventually coming to the sur face of the stalks and forming black patches on stalk and boll. Great dam age Is done to the growing crop by the threads of this fungus choking toe sap vessels of the leaf-stalks, thereby causing the leaves to fall off. When young bolls are seriously Infect ed they stop growth, open and expose the immature lint which soon rots. The only practical remedy for this disease is to rotate crops so that cot ton will not come upon the same land oftener than once in three years. Seed cotton should never be taken from the piles at gin houses. The- seed should always be carefully selected from healthy and prolific plants in the field. Such selection, together with a proper rotation, will prevent the loss now caused by the disease and will at the same time improve the strain and increase the yield of the crop. The use of fungicidal sprays upon cotton is not recommended.-Gerald McCarthy, Biologist N. C. Dept. Agri culture. - *Sowlag Bye. Rye is a crop that grows on poor land and it does good work in the way of holding plant food that might leach away during the winter months, and it is also effective in keeping the soil from washing away when the heavy winter rains come on.' Rye is not only a' good crop in the way of looking after the physical condition of the soil, but it is one of the best grazing crops that we have for winter and spring months. We are putting our rye in as convenient at this season of the year. Our practice is to use the disk harrow so as to break up the top of the soil, thereby making a good seed bed, and then seed this land to rye about the rate of one bushel per .acre. As a rule we have the rye tc follow corn. After the corn is either shocked or put into the silo, we ge; the land in condition and seed the rye. We have a few lots, however, that go to rye for the grazing of our hogs in winter. About an acre lot was seeded the first of August. and then three or four lots will follow so as to have an abundance of green grazing for the large and small pigs. Rye can be pastured. or it can be left standing until it gets to be a foot, or even two feet. above the ground, when it can be mowed and every day a small quantity given to the work stock or cattle or hogs. This method of handling rye crops is known as soil ing, and it has many friends who pre fer to cut the rye and haul it to the barn, where it is fed rather than have it grazed from the field. Still it makes no difference as to the method of using the crop. Every farmer should ha've his rye field for furnishing green food duripe the winter months and spring, when no other kind is available. I find for our work rye an Invaluable aid, and we could not think of farming without having fifteen or twenty acres each year for this purpose. Whoever tries this system becomes a friend to it, and finds it helpful and a good means of carrying on the work and providing an abundance of food fo'r al classes of farm animals, and we should also bear in mind that live stock farming is profitable only. with an abundance of good food.-C. W. Brkett, in the Progressive Farmer. Pointed Paragraphs. An obligation of any sort is a mcort gage upon your time. Most peopic manufacture their own luck-be it good or bad. He who waits for somethingz to turn up is likely to turn up in the ahns house. Whoever gets blue over mere trifles is opt to paint things red to get ovez A girl isn't an old maid until she begins to wo.rry for fear sh 'll never get married. A ma'. isn't an old batchelor until he begins to fear some woman will marry him. The more bnsiness ability a man possesses the harder it is for him to whistle a popular air correctlyv Possibly Solomon's wisdom may have been acquired by association with his numerous mothers-in-law. Once there was a poor man who at tended strictly to his own business a today he is rich and happy. CHEISINO EAlD IlE NOVEMBER NINETEENTH. Medical Missions (at Home and Abroad).-Mark 1:2934. First the synagogue (v.29), and them the healing. Evangelfstic and medical missions n-.st go hand In hand. The!" is no need to tell ,uzrist of any sia person in any part of the 9 world: He is always the first by the sickbed (v. 30). Christ's is no distant commad, but He takes ien and women "by the hand" (v. 31). One of His out stretched hands Is -. medical mis sionary. While the medical missionary is healing the body, he is also driving the devils out of the soul (v. 32). Medical Missions. It was said of Dr. John G. Kerr China that two of the difficult operas, tions he was constantly performin' would, if performed and paid for a home, have more than paid his year' salary as a missionary. Dr. Chamberlain of India, when two New York Physicians told him itwas impossible that he could have had in his critical operations so large a per centage of recovery, answered that on the mission field unbelief does not hinder the workings of God's power as it does in the United States. It Is said that the great medical missionary Dr. Asahel Grant of. Per sia, had twenty times more inter course with the Mohammedans- than the missionary who was sent out ex pressly to labor among them but was not a physician. The medical missionary must be-far more skillful than the average phy sician or surgeon at home, becaus he has to work usually without com petent nurses or assistants, and per form all operations alone. In. the Johns Hopkins Hospital the cost of each patient is $2.33 a day; Sn the hospital of Urumia, Persia, it Is less than seven cents a day. There are more physicians . and medical workers in Chicago than in all of India and China together. In -the United States we have one physician to every six or seven hun dred persons. We send out one medical missionary to every two mil lion of the heathen. Christian work cannot -be carried on In the best way without some money, and though our society work need cost but little, and though En deavorers everywhere give .most of their money to the church, yet some money is needed to pay for topic cards, hymn-books, a little social en tertainment now and then, and Uter ature useful In carrying on the work. This money is best raised by the system of annual pledges, and a ce tain part of what Is pledged should be definitely set aside for the socie ty, the rest to be used for the church expenses and for missions. NH [GI LSSE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19. My Covenant With the People of God. Psa. 51. 6; Mal. 2. 5, G; 2 Cor. 8.21. Our lesson has special reference to our covenant as a member of the League to God and to our fellow mem bers. The vows of church member ship are sacred. The pledge of- the League does not add to those'so muchx as It defines and emphasizes certain features of that covenant. The pledge Is easily and naturally divided Into three separate general divisions. A Covenant of Personal Holiness. We Methodists believe In a very high standard of personal experienice. We believe the "highest standards of ex perience and life" to be nothing less than entire consecration and perfect love. This personal holiness we should seek "earnestly," and not only so but help others to attain to this experience. We are under. special obligation in view of the pledge to do this. A Covenant of Personal Abstinence. There are some prevalent indulgences which we as members of the Epworth League have promised to abstain. fromn. Certain forms of worldly amusements the church has put under an as dangerous to the spiritual life. How can we be consistent members and ignore this? In certain com munities this Is -a hard part of the covenant to keep. But how, can we raise up a stalwart and spiritual race of Christians without the recognition that we are to come out from the world and be clean in life and influ ence? God has covenanted to do cer tain things for us under certain con ditions. We have pledged him that we would not do certain questionable things. God will keep his pledge; will we keep ours? A Covenant of Personal Co-opera tion. The church needs our service. The League will fail unless we help We need universal participation. We ought to be ashamed of being a sponge taking in all the time and not giving out. We are to be laborers together with God. We are to contribute to the interest of both League and church ser'lces. We have made a solemn pledge of loyalty , to God and his church. Let us recognize its secred ness and keep it. Lawyer Pays for Bad Advice. Consul-General Gueuther says in a report that German lawyers are liable in damages to their clients for evil results consequent upon misleading advice. The Supreme Court or Ger many has recently rendered a decis ion that an attorney is liable to his client to the full extent for carelessly giving Incorrect advice. The court held that the attorney who for pay gives his client in legal matters advice as to certain conduct and procedure is liable for the legal consequences suffered by the client In acting thereon, provided that such ad vice is not only faulty, but has been proved to have been given carelessly. An attorney tacitly assumes the po sition of debtor of the client, which obliges him to be careful In giving advice, and he is therefore liable for Its consequences if he has failed through carelessness.-New York World. Publicist holds that the human race is enfeebled by success. That's bad. Personally, though, we are robust en Sough to take a chance on a little suc cess.