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A WOMA] When pa csme horme the other nigh Anfl si:l to ma that we would so Becaue a man had been around th; just a. a favor. on a thing that eou *H&i let me have the stot.k." says I [:! subscribe to-niorrow, ior ther "He'll et u; in at fifty cents for ei S-av. pa. whie ma she didn't seem t< "Andi in six weeks from now. if we We'll get ten dollars for each shar I've seen his papers and they're scra Say; what's the trouble with you. mi "If it's as good as that," says ma. " What makes him want to let it go. To get the roney, but I'd feel as tl To voi him. as we would if we si '(onfound a woman. anyway," says To want to wake a person wben he LA ME CHARL By Franklin I CA R ou: rauch on Black Rock Creek !!ves Lame Charlie. who is a .w)ifer." That is. he finds employment in assisting stock men of North Wyoming to rid this re gion of destructive and increasing pests. He was for fifty years a "free trapper.2 and is now a little wizened man of seventy. More than twenty years ago a veigeful Ute lodged an ar row point ird-er one of his knee caps, and hence the' old man goes with a lane leg. He very relintantly narrates his own adventu-es, although he has passed through dangers without number. Only a few accounts of his narrow escapes bave been drawn from him. One narrative is of a "tole wolf." which led him into ditliculties amnong. bostile Assiniboins. A "tole" in Lame Charlie's catego-y of mysteries is sin ply some natural bird or beast played upon oy superhuman powers or by the magic of met'icine men. One winter back in the fifties he 3ved near Black Kettle's village of Cut Head Sioux on the north shore of 3in ui Wakan Lake. He was roused one evening by the fierce howling of a wolf within a few rods of his cabin door. He went outside with his gun, and imi -mediately saw a wolf, as he believed :a big blark one-sitting upon a snow -drift. Lame Charlie fired. and the -creature yelped and ran. T'e trapper -was filled with excitement. The black wolf 's not often killed or even seen. Only the year before Mc Kenzie, at Fort Union. had paid Au .gust Lariviere $100 for a single skin, .4nd had offered $150 for a tbate to it. 4One hundred and ifty dollars: Lame -Ch-1ie swiftly donned his cowskin ,coat, his Cut Head overshoes and rack ets and gave chase. There was more than a foot of new snow, covered with a crust, upon which had fallen the rime and frost of -several still, cold days. Lame Charlie 'had once rr-n down a silver gray fox -upon just that kind of snow. He be Aieved that he had hit the wolf and sould soon overtake it. The tracks -were Easily followed; the animal was :ennaming at a shuffling lopc. .Although he could find no blood spots upon the snow the trapper was: laz nowise discouraged. He had more than once shot a gray wolf or a deer] through ham "r flank, and had had to dunt diligently for his bullet hole when the game was finally sec'ured. '.The pight was very c'ld, but the airj *ws s-t11 infibracing,' and Lame Char Se enjoyed his c:ease. Af ter an hour af stiE running he was rewarded with a sight of the beast loping a hundred jards or so in front of him. Hie now) felt sure of tre black wolf's pelt. 1 He fl-ed a random shot, and the crea - $EoThinrease its lead percepti . a y. On they sped, hunter and hunted. n.other hour passed, and still the fiit so bobbing black speek kept its dis 'anne Close t, the edge of indefinite -gs. The trapper "took up a hole" * ~ r, his 'aelt. On they fled, man and beast, over hilly strips of land, across broad stretches of prairie, the hunter as tire less as his quarry. Three times the trapper tightened his belt, each time sure that another determined spurt would bring him within shooting zange. If the animal were not hurt, he reasoned. it would long since have a 2o far tehind. - t last the beast led him down into a deep, bushy creek known as Bad Loulee. Then Lame Charlie knew that hi chase had stretched across twenty .miles of crust. Still the hunter was * not discouraged. He shufied on over the rough ground, now and then jerk ing his rifle to his face, only to see the twolf disappeat over the creek bank or t~ehind a cilump) of wilo"s- Several deer were startied from their beds. and ciattered away upon the snow Thbe aimalu he was chasing tookt to -re high land. ran atcross a promontory and pluuged again down a steep grade into .the coulee. After it went the Lrapper. Squatting upon his rackets. with a whoop of victory. lie shot down the long. steep slope as swiftly as the duck fies. Hie would quickly have overtakmn his gua~rry, toco. bu: the eun ninit brute suddenly shied and fled at ~right ~angies n!a'ng the steep. Turning to fire a shot as he passent L~uue Chatrlie twit;wd. his gun xld ed in mid air, and lie tumbled, rolled 2ad slid to ti:e foot of the bluff'. He iantied in a thick cluster of wil * lows upon the creek bank, and when be had exti--s ted his rackets and tum bied out of tue thicket it was to find haim~wef facmng a row of Indlian teepees upa a sheltered flat. Dogs began b-arkinlg. and ':umedia-tely iumates or .tte lodges. rous'd hy hii: rifle shot. ;tegau to appear upon the creel: bank ~poosite. 'Th.e mioo, had r;*en, aend statiding upon the iceC wjthin a few rods of Cihen Ciiu-::e :r- a t -a !t-nce thi:: these Iidians wem' tuita:uIus. Must ,;Mie. Hei was a a adopted 2mmber ,of B3iaet Kettle's hand of Cut Heads. .*invreterate foes of a:1 Ar~sn~boirs. If these Indians were n:ade aware of that fatt Black Kettle's camp wou!d speed AS' Jose a raiuable' ally. T~e was too tLeed. however, to risk taking to his heels, and so. when an 0:diani hailed him he awwered. "How: i13w7" and went boldly forward. A, group of blauketed fignrei quickly otihered roua2. him. Mt Irdian spoke . ...~ ...n lnhb-ski';- wherce h? VS WAY. he had a happy smile. > be livin' in great style, Lt day to let him in, fdn't ail to win. pa. "at fifty cents a share !s little left to spare. 'ery share we buy," hardly bat a.- eye; t ve a mind to let it -o, i !-that's estimated low- t ight; there ain't a chance to lose ? You don't seem to enthuse." [ can't quite understand Of course it would be arand tough it wasn't fair tould take a single share." pa. "she always seems s having pleasant dreams.' -Chicago Record-Herald. t IE'S "TOLE." Velles Calkins. had come. The trapper iup ed that he had chased a wolf. which had led him far from his camp and immediately re lated the incident of his tumbling down the bluff. In order to divert the sav age's mind from further inquiry' Lame t Charlie gave his adventure a humor ous turn, describing minutely and with ( many gestures, 'he somersaults he had t taken. Those who were able to understand laughed with him and in turn repeated his story to their fellows. At the end 1 a tall, muffled figure turned from the i g-oup and bade the hunter follow. A mcment later Lame Charlie entered a tezpee and seated himsclf before a heap o: live embers. The tall Indian, 1 still mufflsM in -,:s blanket. threw fresh sticks upon the firennd blew the coals to a blaze. Then he -"novered his black pall ard squatted upon the ground, confionting his -uest. To his dismay *_me Charlie foun' himself face to face with Gaucher, the most villaincus and widely known rascal of all the Assininoin tril-es. t Traders, trappers, voyageurs and va rious iribas of aavages knew him nu der many titles-Left Yand, Knuife Holder, BigN Medicine. Poisoner, the Kid, Bear Leader and "The Napoleon of the Prairie." None knew any good of him. '.ihc man was' f nmeuter of difliculties, a secret and treacherous foe, a poisoner and deviser of inhuman cruelty to hapless captives. By the t members cf his own band he was held e in superstitious dread. Lame Charlie gave himself up for c lost, for the cruel chief knew him per- D sonally. One glance into the evil. shift ing eyes of Gaucher convinced the L n helpless trapper that his hours were to numbered. Ha'd his gun been loaded he would have discharged it at the chief instantly. But the weapon was t< useless, and outside he heard the muffled crunching of moccasined feet. r The teepee was surrounded. There was "medicine" in all .this. so i the trapper believed. The black wolf bad been a tole of Gaucher. Truly, the man was powerful in his medicine yhus reasoned Lame Charlie, and with the stoicism of an Indian captive he ;ank upon an elbow and awaited his rate. Gaucher very deliberately filled and ighted a long stemmed pipe, and smoked in silence for a time, appar- tl mtly devising some cruelty which hould sustain his evil reputation. At ast. moved, as it appeared, by angrya utterings outside his teepee, the chief snocked the ashes from his pipe bowln nd spoke.e "You come from Black Ke'ttle's vil-a age." said he. "I will send you back 0 him. But first give me your rifle o that I may know you will not fire >ack at us."' At this instant several of his bucks :rowded in at the entrance of the tee ee. Seeing there was no alternative ? [4ame Charlie surrendered his useless un. Then, at a word of command, several Indians laid hands upon the 0 r trapper and stripped him of his cow kin coat and two blue woolen shirts. Why the savages left him his leg gings, moccasins and his old skin cap Lame Charlie does not know, but doubtless it was from refinement of cruelty. Gaucher, secure in the belief that his victim must perish in the bit ter cold, wished to prolong his misery, tc- the last extremity. c The trapper was thrust half naked - into the night and bidden to make his b way homeward. As they shoved hiim if out of the teepee, the Indians laughed c immoderately at Gaucher's new freak of cruelty. Keenly the trapper regretted that he f had not clubbed his gun and striven to f sell his life at some cost to these mis- I creants. As it was there seemed noth-d ing to do but to run tintil he should flI, freezing and exhausted. Notwithi- t standing his recent long run he fled f from the hooting, taunting Assiniboinsi at the top of his speed. The bitter< night air cut him to the boae, and life lay in vigorous action. He k-new well that he could not in any event have tinished a run back to his cabin-'much less could he do so in his present plight. He determined to run as long as he could witho-it frecz ing. then to remove his outer leggings, wrap his body as best he might and crawl lnto a drift, there to la until he should either recover strength or die. In this one desperate expedient lay. his only chance of life. That he might icrease that slender chan-e he kept. to the bottom of the coulee. where no air was stirring and where the drifts were deep. For many miles the coulee led toward Miuni Wakan Lak, To check the action of frost he used his rough skin cap, chafing his body as he rau. At first it seemed that he must freeze th -ough and through at once. But as he exerted himself reaction came, and he felt a stran!'e, tingling cr~hilrtion. an airy lightness of body which ena'oled him to speed over the snow crust, going in long, lithe jumps like a jack rat bit. As he bounded forward at the dis tance of a mile or more from the As siniboin village, he saw over his shoul der a creature running at his heels. The black wolf again! He believed the animal was about to leap upon him and. drew his one weapon which the Assiniboins ha d overlooked - a razor edged pocket dirk. As he turned to fight, however, the trapper found himmelf facing a brini 'died oro ordinary sine and certainly neek appearance. Tr.e animal fell pon the snow at a few yards' distance nd whined pitifully. wriggling toward im as a bashful puppy does toward a isitor. Greatly rejoiced the trapper called he dog to him and took it in his arms. L'he creature was scrawny enough, but here was warmth in its body and in ts thick, shaggy coat. It would cer ainly help him to save life in a drift. le actually carried the animal as he 'an. deriving grateful warmth from ts body. This he did until several deer umped from their beds among corn talk grass the dog leaped suddenly way to give chase. Bad Coulee, with its shelter of bush tnd tall grass, was the night resort of umerous bards of deer and elk. Lame Charlie stopped to call back he dog, but finding himself freezing o the marrow presently sped on. Af er a time the dog overtook him, and gain loped at his heels, but the man vas now too much exhausted to carry L burden. Again a band of deer jumped in front d him, this time out of a thicket of ow willows. There were a dozen or nore, and they scampered in all direc ions. A buck and a large. fat doe. in Attempting to leap the creek channel. )roke through the crust of a deep drift. Lnd before the doe could extricate her elf the dog was upon her, with its eeth in her throat. With a stroke from his knife Lame 4harlie killed her. Then with chat ering teeth, crackling skin and freez ng fingers lie Lell to work. He peeled the deer's skin from its houlders, skinned the hind legs whole, urned the pelt inside out, drew on his mpirovised coat and belted it tightly bout the waist. Then be sat down to augh at recent peril and to make a neal of leaf suet, while the dog also telped itself. Lame Charlie did not laugh long. kowever, for the pain of frost bites set ing in nearly drove him to distraction, itil he had rubbed his hurts thorough y with deer's tallow. With his dog companion he reached is cabin late in the morning. His trongs were quickly told in Black Ket le's village, and that chief, delighted a know the arch enemy was so near, mediately set out to surprise the amp. But the wily Assiniboins were n the march, and being only a hunt ag party, without squaws or children, asily made their escape. To this day Lame Charlie is not -holly convinced that the black wolf nd dark, brindled dog were one and be same creature. He admits, how ver, that this might have been the ase; that a dog might have been sto m from one of the Red River posts, ight have been driven out of the In jan village by their freakish curs, and ight have been hunting a new mas r. Such a dog would have run from im and toward the Indian village so mg as he carried a gun and continued shoot at it. And the fact that Lame Charlie ad its this ::s a possible :olution of his erilous adventure is really pr~oof that is so.-Youth's Ccmpanin. Germany's shipments of ceme.t to us country are dwindling noticeably. his country has cement of its own to 31 nowadays. Last year it shuipped broad 1,067,000 barrels of cement, alued at $1,484,000. "Up to 1S897,." re arks Consul Harris (Mannheim),.'-the port trade in American cemen't nounted to practically nothing."' The director of the B&eslau Hygieni' astitute has announced the resui.t of is mosquito war experiments. The rst object was to destroy egg-bea-ring males,. which were found in large umbers in Breslau cellars. Fumiga on was used, and the number falling the papers placed on the floors, often an u to over 2000. mosquitoes-. For estroying the larvae in pools of water fty grains of "larvicide" was peut into cubie metre of water and poured into be pool. This kills all the lanrvae ithin half an hour, but does. no~t harm rogs and fish. Malt is practically but another ferm f glucose. In the form of diabetes ue to disease of the pancreas, the ighest authorities advise the admin tration of glucose for amelioration f disease. Glucose may be justly alled pre-digested starch, since in it s starch in the exact condition that we Lnd prepared by the digestive organs or assimilation. Further, glucose is ire-eminently a fat-formning, heat-pro ucing food. Under a diet of glucose nan can perform more muscular work han under any other single article of ood. Lastly, glucose not only is not jurious, but it is an essential article f food, without which, in some form, nan cannot enjoy li'fe. The motor car of a Paris firm is de ;igned to light the country residence of ts owner or do other work in its hours f rest from travel. The car is i novably braked on two fixed rails >laced in the auto house, the detach ble crank provided is removed from he two-ylinder gasoline motor, and y means of a shaft with two universal joints the motor is connected with the lynamo or other machine to be driven. While this arrangement promises to be especially useful for furnishing elec tric light away from the usual power stations, ~it may prove a great con enience for driving pumps, wood saws or other domestic apparatus./ According to an official of the Bo tanic Gardens at Washington there are in New Zealand no less than 500 species of plants that have been intro duced and acclimated since the colo nization of the islands. T1he presence I these plants there is described, di rectly or indirectly, to the presence of civilized men. They have followed him, and, 'curiously enough, have driven before them some of the plants indigenous to the soil. Most of the invaders are small species, yet they have prevailed over large and vigorous native species. Man is a conqueror, and plants and animals which are able to thrive in his presence, and under the conditions that he creates, are oerrunning the world in the wake Qf amp, Asphalt For Country Highways. EPORTS from various county engineers regarding the cost of maintenance of improved high ways have drawn considerable .ttention to that highly important phase of the road question and are bringing to the front many hitherto unconsidered or not carefully consid ered features. According to these re ports, New York's $50.000,000. if used directly for building roads according to present methods, will involve an enor mous annual expense for repairs, and not only road builders but the people who pay the bills are beginning to ask if. after all, the macadam system is the best, when first cost, expense of annual maintenance and durability are con sidered. Simple arithmetic shows that a sub titute for macadam which might cost more in the first instance and show a reat saving in co.st of maintenance would in a period of ten years prove a profitable investnent. County En gincer McClintork. or Monroe. is au thority for the statement that the es timated cost of a mile for the main tenance of New York State roads for the current year is ':310, and that the 8S.77 miles of macadii road in his ounty have cost '71;. 10.90, or $S114 a mile. In 1905 they cost S175 a mile Cor repairs, and an inspection last April showed that $60.000 vould be needed to put them in first class condition, or nearly $700 a mile. New York has followed the lead of assachitsetts. Connecticut and New Jesey in the matter of road building, and it might be wisdom to follow the last named State in its experiments %th asphalt as a cheap and lasting surface for country highways. Of ourse. it would be necessary to give the subject careful study in order to avoid the errors which have made many of our city streets anything but a joy to ride upon. but the fact that a high grade natural asphalt. which does not comtaia the soluble salts so detri mental to the waterproof qualities es sential to a good pavement, can be mixed with trap rock particles of the size now used in ordinary macadam and laid at a rate sufficiently low to warranc consideration is regarded by many as calling for an open minded discussion of its possibilities. Professor A. W. Dow, Government aspector of asphalts and cements at Washington, is quoted as saying that no pavement laid in the District of. Colum*bia with natural asphalt has ever rotted. John C. Trautwine. for meriy engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department, says that the same material used eight years ago, for res rvoir liaing has shown no signs of t~eteriration, and in Rochester it has ost 1.es than two cents a aqrmm yard to mantain an asphalt pavement for seventen years after the expiration of the guarantee term. As water is the chief enemy- -if the ountry roads and the cry of the- road builders- is~ -drainage. drainage-,. and then more- d.rainage," to insure- keep ing them: in good condition, it w-ould seem that even if the first cost fs- the same the' lessened expense of. main tenance met be a susiicienlt. reason for considerig the claims of: some other materiMl than the present eostly and shortlived maendiam for~ building the State's highways.-New Yok..Trih Proposed Fine Drivewa. The movement looking to the con truction of a through turnpike from A~ugusta, Ga..,. to Savannah,. is mee-t ng the same' enthusiastic recepltiou' i Augusta tim't it received at the otffer end of the line. ~Dr. W. C.. Lyle, Pres-i dent of the- Augusta Automobile C~nub, says the- local organization is and. has. been for- some time past heartii.g in favor of the construction of su.ch- a. thoroughfare. and at present staniis ready to~ aid the project ia every possa le way. Dr. Lyle s.tates that the novente.t. as he understamnds ist,. wmi.1 povi.le that the roadway building and repairing in each respective countF alon the line is to be dlone by the iop-le of that county. He states. that the roads in Richmond County are no in such a state that little or no change ilt have to be made: thait they are -ll to the good" just as thmey stand Dr. Lyle expresses the hope that members of the Savanmnah club, will ieyle shortly to mak.e an inspection tour straight throuigh to Aug~ustat. anid eextends to th'm 0:1 hehalf of the Augusta AutoImobiin Cluei the promise o a right royal welcome aud the best Atnx Armes. FirSt Po:-ition: Nobody wishes Scond Position: Certain politi cians, in order to provide the occa sion for diplomatic negotiation. since they are nothing if nt. in the~ public eye, cast a quantiiy of dust in the e.ir, join with th~e politicians of some other r.ation who are in a ilke fix, and arrange a conf:;rncel of all the - hird Fosidenf: The conferece waps itself in mystery and throws ou dark hints about national honor; the newspapers emit hot .air; the un feathered geeso who abound in all wlks of lif2 get to cackling; who ever ventures to ask what it is all about get-s Uimsel[ denounced as a copperhead: an:d a war sentimenL is engendered.* Fourth Position: The world is on fir, until ther:: is glory enough for ifth Position: Taxes: more taxes; peace with honor, and still taxs.-Life A Que.ion. f a plaid-clad caddy kaddie's daddy had a fad for adding. would the plid-clad caddy laddie's daddy be an adder? And if the plaid-clad caddy laddie addled daddy in his adding, vwold the plaid-clad caddy laddie's dddy make the plaid-clad caddy, lddie sadder?--Harper's Magazine. Since the Suez: canal was opened its an':al revenue has increasedJ f..-e no On.Y tm $20.'00.000. CZAR TAKS HIS STAND Troops Are Being Massed at Great Centers-Revolutionists Are Also Prepared For Emergency. St. Petershrg. By Cable.-An imperial ukase has been promulgat ed dissolving parliament and fixing the time for the convocation of the newly elet1ed assembly as March 5, 1907. A seconl iikase plaes St. Peters burg in a tate or extraordinary se curitv by the declaration of a minor forn of martia! law. A large part of the province of Kiev. where armed uprisings are an ticipated in consequence of the disso ition of pa rliament. has been plac 2d under mania!I law. The conditions for the new elections will be publish ed later. -li eiperor. diseouraged by his failure I-, tofrm a coalition Ministry and the distinetly revolutionary -paths which parliament has chosen, has ap parentl lieen persuaded to risk a Snal appeal frem parliament to the people. or in other words, to dissolve palimnent aId order new elections I he basis qf universal suftrage. Thursday the imperial ukase cans ing the dissolution of parliamic was signed. and was enforced Fridav at a final. momentous conference on the subject held at Peterhof. Exactly who was present cannot be learned, but it is understood that the grand dukes. (en. Trepoff and other officials and one or two ministers were at the pal cc. Ei idently the government is not bl.nd to the fact that the dissolution of parliament will be accompanied by tremendous excitement, riots and bloodshed, if nothing worse. Troops are being massed at St, Petersburg. Moscow and other certres, prepared to apply physical force and in addi tion to the guard regirents. which were hityrriedly mareh'.1 iinto the capi tal Thursday night. the entire Twer ty-third division of infantry arrived here Satnrday from Pskov. This imposing mifitury array is: expected to overawe the masses. The Social ists and the Group of Toil in parlia ment havc prepa-md for an emergen ey. They drafted an address for is ,uaiice to she ceuntry the moment the i1ssolution- wa3 elared. Bl~c~dshedi on a- fare seafe- with a ritaoship- in- the- baekzround is: con sier-ld to- be the inevitable seqttel of tdisgrmion of parrliament, but the supporters "4 a dissotution cla-im that the emperor must tmrke the risk. ar znimrr that atew elections may give difece'nt reaf'rts. and, in may e'ient. th-it it is ben!er to fight than- to- ab jectly - urr'erder to tl1' rev'oiutionlary pr!h mcent.. Mer.. Ye'ru.fet*. forr:er minister of aarT:uI nre an.1 leire'r of the Conl sc r'virive C'enii{its in :de lower house. who several' weeks ago vainlv triedl o form a coaflition mi'nistry, in con verstioni wirithehi corre'spontdet of the Associated Press de'laredf tha-t the sit urtion was exterme-fy- critiea. lie was without hope that mt conIflict could be:roid-ed he said'. "'a it impost)i'~l) for ai . nan- te, nri'eit tie c'ourtse of in C vens it 1 f'eet sate in- pred(ie ing two' th~rngs: ti'r.t tlrt Russia will come to a conlsit iutiomd basis-: -ecod. tha9t t.here will be no( gret Memphis Cotton Firm Suspends. Memphis. S pecimaL-Thte an noun'e ment is madec that Armstrong & Coyn pany commnissiont brokers, has strs pended oper'atious. It is said the. ear respnrdents of the tirm demanded margins of ec4ton futures which otrdd not be covered. A member of le tirni said the sus~pensibon is only Georgia Bar Asociation Elects Presi dent. Warm Sprinns, (Gn.. Speial.-The Georgia Bar Association riosed its annual g'athe'ring~ by electing .Judge A. L. \liller'. 'f 31aeon. presidenit. The v'ice prea.dints chtseni were: T 3. Cunin itham. Savannah:l S. P. Gif het. ( olumbi's: E.> P.. 8. Denmark. Yeldosta: W. A. WVimbiish. A\tlanta. PI of 0 Ma(eOn. w:~':s doqt ed seeiret!ary and Z. 1D. H~arri-'n, ci Atlinta. tras Wheaat Crop Elstimate. Chicago. Special.-The daily t r'ade bullet in issued t he annual est ima t t of thle wheat crop makingr a total y'ield of 720.000.000. Including the~ suppl ies carried 'oi-erl ' thle total sup ply for the year' is 2] .000.000 bush eis. 'JThe esitmated con'2sumpti'ton is 45.000.000. hushe!s. The i-zregat of t he world's eropj i< 80.000.00Jt bushels less thaan last year. Knoxville. Special.-31r. Gcorgt )!a:'ning wias pzainfu'l!y' hurt on Gba. steet. near the ('!icn of Commci'c avenue wh'len he attempted to boar' ni electrie ru. M1r. MIanning cvi dent ly thought the ear wou1ld stot for hi m at. lie c"orner but this it di( not d1o and wxhile' it w'as going at: lively tate he attemcipted to board'i it As a resitlt lie waS throw 'n and dr:ag ed some dmita nce. (On:e (of his shiou! derts wvas dislocated and he vwas other |8UTHERN : f 70PICS OF 1N TI.REST TO THE PL ANT1 What an Acre of Ground Does. A correzpondent of the Progres ive Farmer gives an interesting ac ount of what one man has done with ne acre of land. We certainly agr~e with the writer that the man had more to do with the remarkable uccess recorded than did either eed, fertilizer, or soil. Visitors to the Charleston Expo ition interested in agriculture were ttracted by a large picture on exhi ition in the North Caroline section. his picture represented an old Con ederate soldier with his wife and wo daughters in their garden gather ng peas. The picture was made rom a photograph of Mr. Lewis arady's "Unique Truck Garden" in inst'n, N. C. A certain seed house has been widely advertising this garden as a specimen of what can be done when .heir seed are used. A fertilizer :ompany h-: been announcing that .hc results attained by Mr. Grady were due to their fertilizers. The Department of Agriculture of North Carolina assures all visitors to the State Museum that the remarkable yield of vegetables from Mr. Grady's garden is clearly due to the soil of Eastern North Carolina. Some of us who have watched the old man's methods of cultivation have gotten hold of the idea that the man has more to do with it than either of the above. Mr. Grady's garden occupies just an acre within the corporate limits of Kinston. From the windows of the train on the A. and N. C. Rail road his garden may be seen about a hundred yards to the north of the railway track, perhaps four yards east of the depot. There is nothing unusual about the soil. The fertiliz er used is a brand commonly used by the truck growers in this section. After preparing the land In early spring, about the only tool used by Mr. Grady are an ordinary hoe and a smaller hoe of his own manufac ture made from a buggy spring bent at a right angle and bolted to a hick ory hoe helve. Mr. Grady toId me recently that he had something in his garden to sell every day in the year. He believes in intensive cultivation. He rents the acre of ground, paying g20 per year rent, and nearly every year raises radishes enough in odd cor ners. to pay the rent. One year he sold $2A20' worth of radishes, be sides having enough for his family and sending quite a number of bunch s to his friends. He has a great di ersity of crops.. This year he plant d his peas ,Tanuary 2d, and will eon tinue to plant something up' to. next January.. Throughout the season as e' removes one vegetable irom the garden he immediately plants anoth er in its place.. He grows ir his gar 'e radishes,. turnips, mustard, gar den- peas, beans, corn, okra,. lima beans, kale and collards. 1Te keeps hi- ground highly fertlitized and works it thorou-ghly. D'uring the past three years his ncome from this one acre has been a~s. follows: $147.70',. $183.50,. 51st.05. This strikes me as being fairly c,d showing- for an old crippled Confederate soldier working for a few hours inr the morning on one acre of land.. He has produced anough vegetable to supply a family f- five and the'n sell in three years $412.25 worth. Corn, Alfalfa and Live Stock. On a recent visit south we noted some important agricultural changes taking place in Mississippi, Louisiana and other southern States. The long adherence to the one staple crop,. eot ton, is giving way to live stock and corn growing. Corn does not. yield o many bushels per acre south as in our central and northern States,. but this is made up. In the luxuriant growth of alfalfa,. so rich in nftrogen and essential in live stock growing and the dairy industry, making a bal anced ration -with corn both for beet cows and dairy cows. .With . four good crops of alfalfa, which seems to flourish south, even with. -less corn per' acrc, will about equal the live stock productions of tihe centrali States. Actual tests of this in Mvissis' sippi and other southerD States have demonstrated this fact,. as here and there cattle-growing is made pro~t able. On a well balanced ration of corn and alfalfa in Mrississippi heel cattle, grade Herefords and Short horns, on actual feeding tests have been made to gain in periods o1 eighty and 120 day's feeding, 2.80 to 2.98 pounds per day on an average and in the case of some finely bred H-erefeds in ninety days' feeding three pounds gain per day was maade wit1 these foods. This chrange which is siewly taking ple from the exclusive eetton grow News N~otes. Prsident Peabody, of the Mutual Life PIsurance Company, issued a let t~r to the policy holders defending th presenlt manIagemeut and asking for -:.;es. the letter being~ a reply to the xternational policy holders' c uittec statement. The Catholie Education AssociatioI bean its third annual session at Clevad, Ohio. B. J1. Ewiu'~ testifid in the Hargis ?allahanu murder case that ex-Judg Hargis had asked him to murder At torney J. B. Mareum. Complete fusion was affected it Pennsvania between the Loncob Republicans and the Democrats. United States Senator Crane wa: married in Manchester. Mass., to Mis Joshepine Porter Broadman. The North Carolina Republical Con'ention elected ex-Judge Spene B. Adams chairman of the State com A RM : 0 TES. R, STOCKMAN AND TRUC'( GOM*ER ing to live stock, both in beef and dairying, means a great deal to the cotton growing States in moreqays than one. 1. By such diversified husbandry corn can be produced in the cotton growing States at a saving of fifty cents a bushel for corn when shipped from the North, means so much less cost per pound in growing cotton, which, of course, must always be a leading crop, there, and will enable that section to grow cotton at six or seven cents a pound more profitably than it does now at ten and twelve cents. 2. Cattle and swine growing will afford ample consumption of the sur plus corn and alfalfa, which shown to be so valuable in the li stock industry. Southern - planters and farmer have these very plain propositio before them, not in theories, but actual tests nlere and there in t States, and they cannot too s:>, make them generally available i their own sure and certain prosperi ty. They mean a great deal no only for agriculture but business generally for the New South. The State experiment station, in LGuisi ana, Tennessee and other of .these States are doing a splendid work along these lines, and intelligent pratcical planters and farmers are supplementing their work in feedi.ng live stock as stated.-Indiana FaW er. Fertilizers Factors For Conversion. To convert: Ammonia into nitrogen, multi ply by........ ........ 0.824 Ammonia into protein, by. ... 5.15 Nitrogen Into ammonia, mul tiply by .............. 214 Nitrate of soda Into nitrogen, multiply by.. .... .... ..16.47 Nitrogen into protein by..... 6.25 Bone phosphate. into phosphor ic acid, multiplied by...... 0.459 Phosphoric acid into bone pot ash, multiply by.... - 2.1 urate of potash into actual potash, multiply by . .--. 0.6 Actual potash into murate pot ash, multiply by..... .... 1.583 Sulphate, of potash into actual % potash, multiply by.... ... .541 Actual potash into sulphate of potash, multiply bY. - - - -S I For instance,. you buy ninety-five; per cent. of nitrate of soda and want to know how much nitrogen in it, multiply .ninety-five per cent. by 16A7 and you will get 15.65. per cent. nitrogen;- you. want to knoV how much ammonia this. nitrogen is equiv alent to, then multiply 15-.65 per cent. by 1..214 and you get- 18.99 per cent., the equivalent 'in ammonia. Florida Experiment Station Bnf1etin. THEI CEfNQUAP[N~ The chinqulaPin, or dwarf chestnut, is not ias widely distributed. as the chestnu t~~' ee~~ ih in habit.. Usually it branches o1" near the ground, and on average, the trunk does, not grow larger thani eight. or ten inches. I have seen ene or two trees considerably larger. The leaf is, in shape nearly like the chest nut, but very much smaller. In Its wild state- the chinquapin prefers rather poor, sandy land, but it wilt grow on a variety of soils. The bur~s are small and contain only one nut each. The ripening season is about one month earlier than the native chesnut.. The nuts fail to the ground in the fall, and If not disturbed, they send a root into the ground befoe winter.. -They .1ie this way until th next spring, and sprout uP e. next season and make considerabl growth. The trees begin to bear early. I have seen bushes not more than three feet high full of- matured nuts.. The trees thrive In open ground. They are often left along the roadside or on rough, rocky ground, and are a delight to children-A. 3. Legg, Albion, W. Va. BIRDS TO ENCOURAGE. The birds: that are known to eat the boll weerfl deserve to be encoUr aged withim the cotton belt. To be 1 rightly encouraged they ought to be' well known. The subjlect is a nese one, and the list of sceh birds can be enlarged as the information im reases. Already known as answern to this view are the Carolina warens the titrk, the tomtit. western mead' w lark. Florida meadow lark, coza' mcn phoebe, red wiag blackbird. white throated sparrow,. western Savannah sparrow, brown thrasher, Texas bob white, brewer blackbird, cowgbrd, iakdaw, mocking bird, butcherbird. kldeer. All these have bad thel ssomachs examined and found to friends. They deserve to be prote e d and helped. Items of Interest. Complaints were filed in carging former officers of the M company with extravagance and management in the suits to re It is a good deal better to ho ccild than to have to hold mee to save wandering mcen. Ex-hroes can't understan he the world has such a poor m Insanity is said to be akin to love -but a man in love noesn't care of he is crazy. A man can make a good dcal money in stocks by being careful n to have anything to do with them. If a woman is in love with a ma shhealways gelieves what he sa wwen she says she doesn't. The world will not be saved by at uguents about God in heaven, with ouutthe evidence of a God in th hert