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i LIEUTENANT BOWMAN. 4- d ftcedHadad o, 44 2 1HI I LiINN C 11 iL J i. :;.d feted Ha~d and -irfw Attack Was teverf "has. W. lKI , 1st Lei. r!-m. Md.. as fo::ows: Though somew hat ive!s . :' medicines. and stili more -v'2.tv rse --: v , a professional atidarit Mn1. tuItiz :: a plai:n duty in the prest-ni m.rn.ee add my experiece to the :wiAmnm -f1 n-tly written co:eerning the -tr; po "Is of Peruna. -Ihavzebee-n uaeticular~yit'etiHed y us u.Icrr c-.Ids int the IemIl sapI throaI. 1 have been Wbleto/ni!atire tyseil of a nxost se ert- aLtt-- inr forty-elght hoat.rs by; its us~eac ord ing to direczLons. I use it ais , pre wreivre whenever threatcod r ilt U2L a t tack. -ber s of m a!v r-- mr iike ailments. \\ e are rt(tnzni.; IL -I has. i x - 0f Interest to the E A called " The nProzres (i - fe" touches upotn thet * . uteisils. Deliciousre - no and cakes- andde -, e mdnted by ai in.tv'eret:s . ruczive art icle. on 'M es," anld the pag"es.. - n a0kery are ext ireuei' ~rdening and house fxie~ sh oertopies or~ part ien! increae Ybr - Vields e One Of The~ Results of. liberally using o'z: . ers, is to pay uff a rntarxge~ on the old farm. Read ithe fi owing from- Messrs. W bhry &Son, o-wners of the Msgcua ruit Farm. Durant. Mis. $W d 900 froma aue to trwrries, on wixih yoxur fertilizers were used. Si:th' years ago we bought thzu (9him at 320 per acre. It: w'ts ithen considered to havt, been a ma out twcnty years ,Corce L3 by liberally usir. SVrginia-Carolina Fertiliyzers under peas and velvet bex~nn. ecanow grow almost -iny 4 thing, and have been offere 250 per acre for the place. No experimonted with a re . many brands of ferihzer". but tind the highest per-cent cheaper." Now don't you think: Virgmnia-Carolina Fertiliorm -would enable you to off nt mortgage If you had oudn Well, don't use any other. VrniCaroliachemkai-o Richmond. Va. Norfolk, Va. -Durham. N.C. Charleston, 8.0. .Baltimore, Md. -Atlanta, Ga. 4Moptgomery, Ala. Memphis. Tenn. Farr Very Per can nio:b out a libers{ ar in the fertitizer een per ce - t I form of Suliphai highest qtuaity. "Plant Food" and1 :-Truc books which tell of the succes other garden truck nt fi-ee Nesw York.-93 Nassau Strecc, er A Mood. Is goo to striy against Winld an, .-am .fn the? keen'. sweet weath-r thaft auttumn brings. vild bor-', shakos r.ct th' drops fromv his mno. T wild ir , iks not the wet from nher wn.s ::d i th n intoss fr'o T - ii 1 o.:d of my ir;t r2a tm the- wird& on the1r el \'d 1 the !-mes i frms with me. .no in reach Tr to woumi: or ehoo: ,e d f.:-ing aInd S',%n rAt SOuL N. ith: nay trouble me: i ean hear. 1t the wins- !oud !au:. and the rsof rain ~i Spl3 O tar,. ear days. y- ari her.' agai I w!l1 wo yo. as maidefns are wooed of . h Iat-s forgot n ;r.d broil-:n creeds: v. shsll not lael for the sun's fiVr-ee shin V: the 'rki o. mL hair will I make - y'er I awn. rid f-rest- g: no re :, I:- my 12ps: xi!! Yr. Ftill b- Sd. *mfort ye. enmfort yoe1. diys f io' i. I ': of sh.dow. 4of wrath. of blas'i I .'ho v e an cOMe :.I ls. to weiolco m a l Fo: wild am I as thy winds and ra Fi e'-to vo;r- :ind to go as they: ..- moon swaysnt the tides of my s no voice thit can h):d me stay. t a:-? away on tlhe drpncherl. brown m to tihe great, glad hCar: .f the N..thing to grieve for. notiine.: to foer; . .wless. n ma --Reooth s::in.:y .I-:-ald. Charms of Alaska. "When I tell my friends that In ilaska during the months of June, July and August. we have almost con taual sunlight, and that it rever gets 1ark in the summer months. they in cariably ask when we sleep." said a merchant from Council Alaska, re :ently. "Well. we sleep whenever we have he opportunity. Very few of us have -t regular time of going to bed and rising except the miners, who work Z in shifts and have to be more method- t "fn the winter there is practically athing doing, and the few people who tay there can sleep all they desire. "But. when spring opens up, busi- t ness flourishes. Everyone has to I work all he possibly can, because the .mmer is very short, and a great te:l has to be accomplished to make p for the stagnation during the win r-r months. We have wonderful summers at ouncil. as it never gets very warm ir cold. Several times though. I have seen the thermometer register 90 de- k rVees. The verdure and the brush a row with a rapidity that is astonish ng in the warm months. Plants grow o rapidly that we can raise berries t mnd the hardier vegetables before the rost sets in."-Portland Oregonian. t OATr or Oro. CTTY oF ToLEDO, .CexS CoUNTY. .. CusvsY maks u ath, t iat be i i CaUor partur of the Rrn 9f F. J C(IENET m. doin. business in th- City of Toledo. (uuiv and State aforesaid,. and I hat said rr wvill ray the sum of OSE tH UNDiEI)ii. .AS tor ~ea'ch andi every .ase oM (ATA itn a at' e-ot he enred by the um~ of HIAT. 5 C:A.'un cURE. Fr'Asr *. CtENET. '*or., to before me and suh-ribed in my n -presem-rs, tni- 61h day of Drern a hg. er. A.D., 18S6. A.W.GTLE4so"' b* hail-3 Catarrb Cur e is taken internally.and d ir: tlynon the blood and muflfOui -ur- e - of the. systemi. Sendt for te in:0omnIC, '."J. CHgENEY' & Co-.Tid,. s. iii 1v all Druggists. 75. Tale -ali Family Piils for coa2i i"ii Getting into debt is an easy way .1 'I 'ing to the dlevil. So. 5-'01. n Good Teeth a. Good Temper Are characteristic of the Atkins Saws always. That is because they are made of the best steel in the I world - Silver Steel - by ~ men that know how... Atkins Saws, Corn Knives, Perfection Floor I scrapens, etc.. art sold by all good hardware ii eealers. Catalogue on request. E. C. ATIIINS (m. CO. Inc.i Largest Saw Manunscturers in the World Factory and Executive Offices, Indianapolia si BRANICHES-New York, Chicago, Minneapolis Portland (Oregon), Seattle. San Francisco Mcnaphis, A tlanta and Toronto (Canada) I1 Acceptnes.ubstiute-insistenw.the Atkins Brand~ it rers Say est Remedy on Earth. pavin Curb or Splint ietrating. Kills Pain. N,615 AL.BANY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. maly"~ potatoes produced with ut of POTAsH -not less than1 must be in the e of POTAsH of k Farming" are two practical ful growing of potatoes and the to those who write us for them. AN KAt wORKs. Atl.... n.-224 So. Broad Street. MOTHERLESS. Be w so nall, So very ,nnll. That siiie .he cael tO r) . 'Twas eas. just to pa.,s 'n; by, Forgettir he wa, ther<: But thou . tl uht i i p h se-emed' Of i to eC Onle hel.la:- a love. ill, it :I iore' As ;1,~0l~ lIe wa; -, por, so vry : That no-w. -inee .,he had d-d lIe ad a ta\ tre l I .. W ith11 nothing'm*Tuch i-lie: Vi. ai i tr1-aur heIIC i 1:d And asked of we rnwi: A~ 11glty. :D'*wn-Ill' *: ' -i.1orenct" . l 'aes l lG e Bazar. PURSUED BY WOLVES By WM. A. STIMSON. 0no 11EN faltl!er mu'Oel to Ska: w .IV in the ear'ly .even 0 ties. that portiol of WViz con01 1n waZs 4 wvifldeness-. O 'We lived at the northern %1d of B Lake. .1 pre'tty sheet of ter. eiglit miles long. while Rock :nd w:s :it the southern extremity. etweeni tio two places the forest tretched unbroken. and thiere was not t single house on either bank. The winters were eold. and from Ieember to April of every ye:.r the ake was a sheet of smooth ice. We >ys became experts in the ume of kates. and most of our leisure ime vas spent on the ice. The greatest ivalry existed )etween the two lake owns. and skating -matches were fre tuently held. Although the country ras sparsely settled. nearly all the vild animals had disappeared before -ur coming. but there were bears in he forest and wolves-big, fierce fel )ws that iinger sometimes made dan VriOUS4. One cold afternoon toward the end f Jainuary I buckled on my skates or a tiI to Rockland to make final rraingements for a skating match be Weii teais from thi iwo towis that ras set for the next day. I was late :i startin-r. and the buy! at Itockland ept me so long that it was after sun et before I left for home. But it was ulI moon. and the big yellow orb was tt peeping over the woods at my ight as I struck out. I was in no hurry aml skated along .sily, saving my strength for the mor w. I hb:d gone a:bout a quarter of .e distance when. from somewhere way otf in the forest. there came to 1y ears the howl of : wolf. All was Ilent again for a few minutes. then C sornd was repeated. It -as not >far off this time, and there wa~s no0 uswr1ing notoe from the opposite shore. That these beasts would attack a ian never occurr-ed to me. but: being lione cn tihe lake and far awvay from aie, the close proximity of the olves made me- Iueasy, and I quick ied my strokes :a )ittle'. By this time rthe moon had risen g:li eo)ughl to maike everythirg light i day, only along the eastern shore ie shadows were still dense. Sud :ny fromn the woods on my right an her series of howvls broke out on tihe ght air., andt as ~1 inced around I tw lalf a dozeni long. gaunt, gray -eatm-ets leave the underbrush antd )!me racing towatrds inc 4Lver the~ fee. I. reatlize'd tihein tine the wolves wecre asinig me andW grew thiorouighly -iirhteed. MIy fear~s weret intcreasedl heni~ I 5:yW sever'al morel~ ileve thetit er of lhe wvesterni hanik. end( entting agnzaly across, join rhe ttrst pack. buttoned ray shotrt coat ai'd strue-k i a:. my beSt pace'. thinlkilig thti iiei thley s1 ftm leaving thenm they ould give upi tihe putrsuit. Tat Was a~ mlistake~L. its I soon1 saw. hey, too. ;ncr-eased their spced,. and tite bounding along after mie,. their )idies almnost touching the ice.. Every ow and thcn one of themt would give oice to a shrill bark. One big fellowv i the p)aei by several yprus- The ae was telling on me and my pur ilers vere. gainling every second. A lance backward showed thern not a undrd yards in the rear. Hone was stilt four miles away and. Llcre was no help near. I had noth ig in the shape of a weapon except vy .iack-knife. and as I sped along I r-w this from tmy pocket and opened be big blade. The paick wa~s at mty hack when it curred to me that I mtight yet escatpe ie by putting in practice some tae hs famtiliar to every one who has dayed the gatme of' -tatg." These aties were nio'.hing mlore than dodg tg tile wolves when they came close tough. antd I knewv that oni the smooth ce I. had. theml at a disadvantage. Slaekening my speed. I waited for the (ender' of tile paxck to approach a little i-rer. Oin he came. Until I couli e the lire tiach from his eyes antd ~e froth drop from his half-open ws. When he gaithere~d himselif to :p:'ing. I tii'rned shairpdy to the right 1 in dtedl off at futll speed. The iua~inoeuvre' worked perfectly. l'he wolf leaped .just ats I spuni about. iid iinstead of alightinig upon mttY 0l:niders. lit VIem.) 5 lippit.g and slid ina over the~ ice for a distanc(e of seve arl yards. The -:est of the pack, in theirn attempt to turn'i quiickly, lost their feet and fe-Il over each other1 givitng me seveltal prec(iouls seconds. whiel' used to advantage,. By may tri(-k I had giained some dis tance(, but the wolves w'erc ('losing in onl lmle :gain. I waited utntil the eader wvas alnmost upon me the second time then swung about to the left. The ~east was anticipating some sucht mtovmer.t onl my part, for he (lid not spring. sud I found that I had not gained the start that I did the first time. H-owever. it helped, for as heard the quick breathing of the paeli at my .'ieels once more. I saw the lights of the village around a bend ii the bank. But the mur-derous heasts were to< Intent oni their prey to be frightenef of even by the prioxiraity of the set tlement. My -strength was near3 gone and I was afraid, that I cotuk not excute the dodge this time wvitl the suecess that had followed my othe: efforts. Nerving myself for a su ~reme effort I alter-ed my course again ..,d fot 11m thud time the woives wen sprawlin, bdt in turning I gave my rirlit ankia twist. and wifh a sill (rY Of pain,1 fell full lengthl u1ponl thet !1 ga t !yself up1 fl'o lost :1n11 wai1 - lin- :Grtwk w ith ly kieready. Whe hey .:n\ m1e- at bay tie wolv. it'ted. hI:t 4nly for : imoient. OnIe 'A. !'kelow in:nd- a1 leap for Iny thlro:n. wit-n th.- -:imc a Shot frolmi t 'iore. followetd by a gunshot tiat 1d1'.4 ilm wol)ilo1. Itis death was the si' nll fr the flihit of the others. anl :nway Thley went.% pursued by svrl ria h-a lls ttv . .l Whe linmy father and two brothers reaichedt ini I was so, weak from frighit i m pain thatt they had to cairry 1:10 liome. On thr- way they to!d ine how ine of til le nihbors. heing out on the ice, hai heard wolves howling. This ahiirmned my father as i, knew I was away aloi. and when I did not rentrn at sunseith and imy brothers started out; to mleet me. Well for me was it tl:it they did so. The Inmatch came off the next dlay :i( the Skagway team woini. but vitl out any help from me. My sprained anki' l revented my taking any active part in the race.-resbyterian Ban ier. WINDS AND DRAUCHTS Scientist Shown That the Former Are Beneficial and 1he Latter Dangerous. Prof-ssor Max Herz. an Austriai scientist. has just published an essay upon the difference between wind and draught. which is likely to convince the public that the old-fashioned preiudice against draughts is not altogether un justified. By a draught is meant the currents of air in an enclosed space. Our fore fathers attributed nearly all the evils that beset them to draughts. and they would not have slept in uncurtained beds for anything. Of course. their windows and doors were shaky and houses stood far apart, so draughts were nerly inevitable. But. the mod ern scientific world tries to deny draughts altogether, and :alls them winds, which are harmless and even healthy to a certain degree. 1)r. Herz says that any one who cares to. lind out the difference between a wind and a draught can do so in any apartment which has windows on dif ferent sides of* the house. Let him open a window on a windy day on the side of the house toward which the wind blows. The air which comes in is quite harmless if the perison exposed to it be dresseld in warm clothes. and little children may take the air in a room thus vent.ilated. But let him open a window past which the wind blows. :nd it will be found that the air in tie room is novedl by a number of cur rents. all of whi;-h strive to reT-h the opening. It is the passing wind which sucks up the air in the room and draws it out. and this causes the room to have what is called a draught. The effect upon sensitive persons is imediately felt, like the for-erumnner ofi painf to comec. A draught will al wa'ys be felt as colder than the wind. Very dangerous draughts ar-e those that are produced in railway ears by te rapid motion of the train. It is nt wind that gets into the carriages. but the air of the car which is sucked ot. A Iighted. match held to the chirk of the window will prove this--as thei iame will be drawn toward the win dow, not. blowva from it.- - At Last, the lesson. "A few years ago." remarked a man who shaves. -the barbeing fraternity. :1 most people remember, was for a tender period between: two legislative sessions under the direction and con trol of a State commnis-sion of exami ig barbers, and before a barber could shave a bewtc:isker-ed emtzeni wtih 1u! legal effect he had .o- obtainl a licensec for a license was subjected to a riid examiation,. and at the time The troubtes olf 1he Barber Comn~iissioni were being exploited in public- I chanced to notice a list of the ques tiois asked in: the comisiS~on's ex~iam inatious~. One of the questions gas: 'Why is the upper lip- ahvays shuved lasts I have never been able to- find an answer to that question in all of thse succeeding year-s. I have- asked every barbet that has shaved me in that time, aind only one out of the whole number-he is a barber down ini Sydney, New South Wales--could give an intelligent answer to the ques tion. When he had -tnished shaving me I asked: 'Why is the upper lip al ways shaved last2' "'My wordr he said, with much astonishment at my native dullness: 'That's the last part of the face I reach.'"-San Francisco Chronicle.. Irvings Stagecrait. It chanced to me onice, and only once, in a life of some far-ing by hand and sea, to- ride up a K~urdish gorge at early dawn, the sky still starry, as the charcoal-burners had begun their work, and to~ see over all, as the smoke rose, a gray-blue light as of the depths. sonc touch of deep-chilled enveloping air on gorge and mountain-side. as though a sapphire had aged, and growni gray and wan. Once only I saw this. and never again. When, in Faust, the curtain rose on the Brockenl. I saw before me the same miracle of gray blue. "Ho-w did you." I asked once at supper. "who ride abroad so little and are so rarely on the moutin-side. ilt on tis, the rarest of lights?" "Once" and lie took up a small plate, "I saw ini a gaillery." and he niamed it, but I have forgotten. "a landscape by Durer the size of. this p)late. a nountainside in the early morn ill this same gray-blue light. It gave mte I the light I wanted for the Brocken." Talcott Williams, in the Atlantic. od~ dorigin of "Oranae." Oranges came originally from India, having been carried westward by the Arabs. The first crossed from Africa to Spain with Mohammedanlism. while, probably, the crusaders were to be thanked for bringing it to Italy and western Europe among their trophies of the East. The name is Arabic naranj"-and of Eastern origin, though a legend that it comes from Ktwo - words meaning "elephant" and -be ill." because elephants ate oranges to make themselves ill, is absurd. Probably in French the initial "n" is Idropped off from naranj with the final n" of the indefinite article, just as'"an apron" represenrts "a napron" and the spelling with an '.o" points to falsE associton with "or" (gold)-New KYork World, SOUTH ERN TOPICS Of INTEREST TO THE PLAN' The sclence (of 1farmiuz. "Th W scin eo f f .r ning s in i in fancy." so d:! -es Caj~taiU T. .1 Jn:res. of E Caue! (ounty. Ca.. One 01 oiU lzi ' :i e~tsl ces farm. era. repor.ts the Souithern, Cultivator. Captain .Tam1s .say: i have built and ani now devoting myself to fa:rnin'. While I have nmad a success in all three callings. it takes more brains t farm thiian to pursue any other calling; to do it in ihe inoszt sicces f4u manner. New things and m-v methods come up continually for solution, and there are miaiy probleis to be solved yet un thought of. As an example of how things change, the first fertilizer I evei used I bought from John Merryman & Co.. of Maryland: then - they com menced to manufacture it At Savannah, and I bought it thiem. Nor. I manufac ture it upon my owIn farm.". Captain James makes 800 bales of cotton a1 year. and says: "I have put it into Harvie Jordan's hands for fif teen cents." He also raises pleni-y of corn and feed for his plantation. We delight in meetin~ with farmers of Captain James' ealibre. and we alse like to see them making a suc-ess of farming npon a largre scale: then we like equaily as well to meet and he! the experience of some farmer. who. though upon a small scale, is making a success and is stamping his individ uality indelibly upon his farm and is making an impression for good upon his community. The other day we got actuiinted with such a man in the person of Mr. P. E. Duffey, of Clayton County. Ga. Mr. Dnffey's converas tion ran about as follows: "When I came of age. I did like so many of our young men in the country. I came to Atlanta to hunt for a job. but they treated me with so much indifference and insolence that I went home ana swore an oath that I wou!d never ask another man for work. I took a mnle and wagon and hauled some wood for my first money: the next year I farmed on halves. In two years I saved f40o. and took this money and went to school to get a better eduation. Then I went back to farming. I have 250 acres of land all paid for. and I am making :i good. living. I rent out a seven-horse farm and tend about twenty aeres for my own crop. I have my terraces set in fruit trees and from them sell about $400 worth of fruit a year. I used to wonder how it was that the people up Northwest could raise corn at thirty fie cents per bushel and make money. while we could not raise it ait seventy fve cents. I found when I went up thre it was all in 1h~e way they plowed and culi-vated it. By using gang plows ad cultivators one man was enabled to do more work than three down with us. So I got meC better tools. As an example. I had a~ boy helping ime last year who eost met: ;iirty cents a day and hoard. In onie day wec put five ares in wheat. a.nd in another day we sowed the same nye acres in peas and sorghum after thme wheat: so> at an expense of sixty cents for labor I made two good {iropS on fir.e acres of land." This sounds very mue':l li-e business to urs. Nc-w. such as lh:s. should give our farmers f-vd for thro:rbt. Thoughi (004 years old, our~ farming is in its in fanc-y w.hen it comes .1 the use of bet ter melthods andi~ ret:[ seeutifi( and most su3c~Ssful oper:ations. And whether we take it upon a largi' scale. as in the catse of C:rptain .Thmnes. or get down elose to Mother Earth. doing with our own hands as with Mir. Duffey. the fact ,4ill confronts us, that there is nmuch to learn. more to do. an still m.-tny things untried and yet undiscovered- So let ns start in this year for more light .md better efforts. Good Eules For Scuthern Farnrs. 1. Intensivte farming. so as to make the greatest possible yield per acre. 2. Diversific-ation, to maintain the fertility of the soil and to make the farm more self-stupporting. 3. Organization, so as to maa~ztain profitable prices. 4. Deep plowing, to improve the soil. to prevent washing and to increase the yield. 5. Rotation of crops, to prevent dis ease and as a soil improver. G. Rapid and level cultivation, to conserve the moisture and preserve the plant roots. 7. Terracing anrd buil-ding dams to keep our hiiis tron w-ashing away. . The raising of more cattle, for the profit in them and for their manure. 9. The using (of all improved labor saving machinery. 10. A better system and more sys tem in rentin:g our lands and hiring our loabor. 11. More peas. elever and ail legmncs to store up nitroCgenf in our soils. 12. Tne making and saving of ll home-made maur: possibi o. 13. The shredding of~ ccre. to save all stock food. 14. Tile dra~nin~ of all wet places and bottoms. Pointed Paragraphs. Whiskey blossoms are often on the It's rough on a girl if her beau nmeg lects to shave. It's a poor artist who is unable tc draw an obese salary. A waiter is a chap that has learnec to labor wvhilc he waits. It's lawful to fish for complimnen ts in any und all seasons. Nothing equals the arrogance of some men 's so-called humble opinions. Only a very lazy man is afraid te earn mnoney because it may be tainted. There is consolation in the Bible foi all-except the woman who isn 't in -ited when her neighbors give a party The best way to defy sin is to den) A hard reputation comes from an easy life. 'The side 'door of a saloon is th4 r _.. oorn of hell. ARM ':- /UOTES. rER, STOCKMMA AN! TRUCfi G.W!O&'r -5. The iiguing of :l thI land: WO can. it;. The usini: of daas. winlls and gasole engines to soeure water works. 17. The paiming of o1ur homes al the whitewashing of all outbuilding. 18. The seiling of coitou through the twelve m11onths of the ye:ar. 19. Better agricultural education fo our farmer boys. 20. The feeding of cattle. so as tc have more manure for the farms. 21. Keeping out of debt. so we car be more independent and thrifty. 22. The mixing of fertilizers at home. as a saving in pri-e, and getting proportions to suit. 23. The careful. scientific selectior of our planting seeds. 24. The setting of our a ornout hilli in Be:muda grass for pernanent pas tures. 25. The planting of trees and taking jridicious care of our forests. Timbei is becoming very valuable. 26. Learning to cultivate without sc much hoeing. The using of weeder and harrows. 27. The Inproving of your soil and t:e improving of your mind. 28. That thorough preparation is more than half the battle. 29. Raising of all home supplies. as the only means for the most success ful farming and independent life. 30. To patronize home industries, and to develop not one, but all out resources. 31. To stand for that which is best, and to keep gieur cf all fakes nnd shams.-Southern Cultivator. Preparatlon For Cotton. The progressive, earnest farmer I now planning for the next crop. He has marked out the boundaries for eaci tenant and special crop. As soot as the last boll of cotton is picked the work of preparation should begin for ne:t year. Here is one plan: A farm er said last week that he was going to lay off his cotton land with a middle buster drawn by two mules. There were pine needles close to the field. He proposed to haul them in and dis tribute liberally in this furrow. By throwing a light covering of dirt on these needles they would be' ready to supply plant food in the eariy summer. To this he would add 300 to 400 pounds of fertilizer. es:pecting to make ab1 of cotton to the acre on this land. If one is going to plant cotton land in eotton again. run out the middle with a long. uarrow shovel. breaking the hr&dpan. if a second furrow is re quired to do the worl: well. Then take the middle buster and run under the stalks. The freezes of winter wvill puverize the ridges between the fur rows. The clay brokent up by the plow:< will be incorporated with the soil red increase its de'.ti! and platnt food. Every suitable daiy fromi this Cte on to the 1st of March should be used for: sub-soiling and thorough pren artion of land for the ne'. crop. FortnuTa. Sim~ply .'s guIdes we suggest for or. (hinary soil in fair conditioni a'cout the followingar Cotonsed meal. ..... ... 300 lbs. Acid phosphate.. ........'A00!bs. Kainit....... .. ........ 303 lbs. Use~ from 200 up to 500 pounds Per For' corn: Cottonseed menl...--...-.200 lbs. Acid nhosphate.... .... .. p.600 lbs. 'Kainit.... .... ........ 2001lbs. U~se 20{) up to 1000 pouinds per aere. For oiatoes. melons. etc.: Cottonsced meal..... .... 600 lbs. Acid phosphate...-..---.1.000 lbs. Kainit.... ... .........400 lbs. Use 600 to 2000 pounds per acre. For small grains and grasses: Cottonseed meal.... .... 800 lbs. Acid phosphate........1,000 lbs. Kninit...... ....... ...200lbs. Use 200 to 000 pounds per acre. - One Way to Skin a Horse. . iEdes are high now.. and even a horse hide is worth taking off if done in this manner. Rtip the b.elly and legs and skini the legs down to the body, and the belly back gix or twelve inches. then loop a c'aain or strong rope around this tail rump skin, run ig it forward- past the head of the dead brute. Fasten the dead horse's body by rope on bind legs, then bitch two good live horses to rope on hide, and if they pull true and steady they will sktin the horse "while you wait.' Now, this in no theory, nor is it any thig new, but it may be new to some and applies to any large animal whose met has no value. In skinning anS animal that has been dead long, it is a odplan to wear gloves or mittens that have been wet in a weak solution of carolic acid, to guard as much as possible against blood poison. And if tere is any pcssibility that a horse has died of glanders. don't sin him at l; but bury him at itast eight feet I Bits of Brightness.. Is Touchem one of your promninen sitizens?'' asked the stranger withi; he gates. "Well I can't say as t is prominence,'" replied the native "but he is undoubtedly the bes k owa man in the village."' "Wha do you ina by that t'' quired th stranger. "Y mean,"' answered th ative. "that li. has to go out of towl 'vrv time he has occasion to borro' money."' "Why'' said the ticket seller, "i this circus like a bad cigar?"' "BC cause,'' replied the lion king, "the band is its chief attraction.'' ". know'' interjected the elown, "b cause it doesn't draw well.'' "And, offered the bareback rider. "it take soch a lot of puffs to keep it going. "No, '"remarked the ticket seller, pre paring to ran, "because all who bu; sit in tiers after being roped in.'' To forget God in the least may t Ito forfeit our greatest good. ~ [POHH[ElgD LESSONS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11. The Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society and its Work. Matt. 25. 31-4G. Lincoln Day. February 12 is the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. What more fitting remembrance of it could be suggested than the consideration of this noblest of all charities in the South. which is so effecri-:ely cont.inuing Lincoln's work? The Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society is the Methodist Episcopal Church at work among two classes of people in the South-the white people who would otherwise have no opportunity for education, andl the black people, of whom the same thing is true, but whose need is, if anything, more urgent. All the Southern states, with a popa lation of some thirty million people, of whom nine million are colored, are Included in the scope of the Society's operations. There are forty-four academies, colleges, and universities -twenty-one among the white people, and twenty-three among the blacks. These schools had last year an en rollment of over eleven thousand students. In these states forty-seven per cent. of the colored population is 11 literate, and eleven pO cent. of the white population. In some sections these percentages run much higher. When we remember that -this is among a population which is Ameri can-born, with from five to tOn generations of American ancestry be hind it, the figures have a menacing eloquence. For ilifttracy among na tive Americans in the North has prac tically disappeared. That a whole section of the country should be ig norant to such a degree is an evil portent, for Ignorance is accompanied by other problems which are a direct threat against the nation's peace, But there is hope, and much hope. prosperity and happiness. Through such work as that done by, the Frvedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society illiteracy Is on the decrease, and with the advance of education, hand In hand with religion. the evils whIch follow in the train of ignorance are also growing less. The work of the Society is three fold, training the hand. the head, and the heart. It was at work forty years ago, and thirty years ago be gan its splendid record of industrial work, long before industrial educa tion had become a Dopular thing In other schools. FEBRUARY FOURTH. New Work We May Do "for Christ and, the Church."-Luke 12:43 (last half); Gen. 12.1-3; Gal. 3:9. The sire, the influence, the oppor trnities, the fame, of Christian En deavor are all talents for which the Society must give a good account to God. God never blesses any man except with the purpose, that he shall be -a, It is already true cf Christian En deavor that in the roziety all familibs of the earth are blessed. Our pledge is repeated In all lands. Every faithful Endeavorer that has ever lived may help to makents more faithful: and we may increase the faithfulness cf all that come aftEr. Suggestions. If we do not now and then hunt up new work to do, we shall soon ceasa to keep up the old work. A true Endeavorer so enjoys Chris tian work that whatever he undertakes for Christ, however menotonous to others, has for him the zest of novelt y. New plans, though no better than , the old plans in other respects, are often better just because ie new. The true Endeavorer never asks, "Why need I db this?" but alway?., "What more can I do?" A merchant knows that if he woral~d attract trade he must constantly get new goods and adverise in new wiays. It is so with "our Fatner's business." Sometimes a hensewlfe merely re arranges the furniture, and makes the house look new. So in religious work you freshen up old tasks by do Ing them in new ways. Quotations. Let me be content with no sacond 4 bem. 'et me refuse to go to Bethel when the road to Jerusalem lies open. -Smellie. There are those who do not do all their duty; there are those who only profess to do their duty; and there is a third class, far better than the other two, that do their drty and a little more.--Andrew Carneie. Doing is the great thing: for if, res olutely, people do what is right, in time tney come to like aoing it.-John Ruslkin., Gen. Wheelel Has Pneumnonia. New York. Special.-That General Joseph Wheeler has a mild attack of pneumonia w'as announced at the home of his sister, Mrs. Sterling Smith. in Brooklyn, where General Wheeler is Cadet Sitman Alive. Natchez. Miss.. Speccial.-Cadet Jo tseph Sitman. of Green~sburg. La.. who was said to have died from injuries received at the hands of hazers at Jef ferson Military College. is not dead. Frominent Cotton Man Dead. eNew Orleans, Special-James De ibuys, for 32 years a member of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, and prominent in the social and business world, of this city, died suddenly Tuesday._________ GCollege Flourishing. Greensboro, SpeciaL-The semi-an nual meeting of the board of trustees -of Greensboro Female College was held at the college Tuesday. The re ports show the college to be in a flour ishing condition. ~IVast quantities of capper disappsent constantly in China from one cause m. ~ another