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A PC T. If all who sneer would praise us And prospects all were fair. The sad tricks Fortune plays us Would not be hard to bear; If those who knock would aid us And all our hopes came true, And all our debtors paid us And all our clothes were new, How few of us would borrow Brown cares or brook diimav Or wish it were to-morrow ~ Or noontime yesterday. - IT. If every girl were pretty And women ne'er grew old; And if, for love or pity, e ones we long to fold Witizin our arms came, laying Their cheeks against our own And stroked our features, saying They smiled on us alone. How few of us would -rumble, How few of us would fret Or feel that we were humble And sinking lower yet. TAKENI FOR By FRANLIn A laiby, slouching yellow cayuse was led to the docr of my tent near old Fort Fetterman. The own!r,. Mr. Sam Keeler, of Klickitat Courty, Washington, offered the animal for sale. 've cleaned out my bunch to yoar men," he said, "but I've saved my saddle-hor.e for ' eir boss." This was flattering, but I looked the animal ovel- and shook my head doubtfully. "See here," said Keeler, "this cay use was bred in my own herd on the Klickitat cow range, and I broke him +r ride, an' he's carried me four y-eazrs. You can take him at thirty dollars, or I'll ship him home." I took the pony. "His name is Coots," said Keeler, while I was "-'riting his check, "and when you ride him you don't want to carr. quit or spurs. When you want to get anywhere, no matter how far, just kick his ribs once in four miles, and he'll do the rest." Thereafter I rode Coots on my rounds of the line of railway grade which was being constructed under my supervision. Apparently there was nothing remarliable about Coots except his rather uncommon willing ness to go rt an easy, ambling gallop. He was exceedingl docile, could be left standing for any reasonable length of time if his saddle were not removed, and could be approached at any time if one called out his name. I did not really discover Coots, boweve:', until an acciden: and, as it turned out, very perilous encounter brought his. quality to light. We had finished our contract at Fettermau, and most of my outfit had moved to new work on Deer Creek, some thirty miles up the Platte. I- had lingered over unfin ished business at the old camp, and I fmnally followed my men 'in horseback .and alone. It was a lowering mornling' about the middle of October when I set out with Coots. I had made some miles, too far to turn back, when a wind arose, and soft snow began pelting in my face; and in a few minutes a fall blizzard was in progress. Against this Coots ambled without reluctance for a couple of hours. We had crossed a piece of newly finished grade and were following the old Oregon trail between that and the river whe: the eayuse sur prised me by a sudden halt. He turned his head half about, with ears -pricked up inquiringly. He was evi dently asking what I proposed to do about something in the wind. I peered ahead, but the snow was . so thick that I could see but a few .yards. Yet I had a feeling that there 'was something to be avoided; and thien a muffled rumble came to my ears, and before I could make out in which direction a stamnpede was coming, Coots a-id I were :n the thick of a big buncLa >f cattle g:>ing befo-a the wind. Luckily the herd was swinging along at a trot instead of at a run, or we should have been trampled un .derfoot. As it was, Coots was near Iy borne o' his feet, and before he could recover we were packed too tightly for immediate escape. Then Ccoots laid his teeth angrily to the rump of a big spotted steer, and fol Iowed the tactics of a "cut." For several minutes we dodged among the hustling cattle. We must have beeD carried forward a half mile, working toward the front and to one side, when we parted from the herd. Instantly Coots put himself be tween the herd andl his 'cut," and raced the big steer back toward the trail we had left. I hai given the cayuse his head altogether, and now, unthinkingly, I enjoyed his trained performance. But the chase came tc an end in a.startling fashion. In a whirl of snow we came fairly against a couple of horsemen, evie dently in charge of the running stock. The muzzles of two revolvers wert quickly thrust in my face. "Hands up!" was the order, anc -of course I quickly obeyed. I sal' on the one hand a big, lank fellos with long, straw-colored mustachE and pale-blue eyes, and on the othe! a slight boyish individual, as darla and grim as an Indian. These men relieved me of my re volver, 'and cutting the .pack-strings from my saddle, tied my wrists be hind my back in a twinkling. "Gettin' pretty foxy, ain't ye, cut tin' out steers in a blizs:ard?" The big man spoke, and his blue eye: tv~kle iru a dang:o;ly humo:x;U "Get'emnI a:sure :ou began. Coots' lariat wrapp). d about his sad die pom-nel, wheeled and galloped o3 after the crttle. The smaller cowbo: olowed - -my pony's heels. During r' brief r'ush through th storm I had timte 'o reflect that mn: thoughtlessnessS had brought me 'nti a bad scrape. 1 had been capture< red-handed "rustiiug' a steer! I wa dressed in the rough corduroy, slouch hat and leather leggings of the rang'i A' IPS. ITT. If c- ery dog were toothless And millionaires would cease In lawless ways and ruthless To make their stores increase; If gasolene were fragrant And smoke an-i dust were sweet, And every tattered vagrant .arned all he got to eat, And all our poor relations Would cease to sponge, at last, How scarce the provocations Would be to feel downcast. IV. -- If prowess, fame and pleasure To each whose aims are high Were granted in full measure, The fools alone would sigh; If stocks would always hurry To rise when we invest How few of us would worry Or be by want oppressed; If "buts" and "ifs" would never Creep in to plague mankind. We'd have. no griefs whatever To spoil our peace of mind. -S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. WELLES CALKNS and I rode a cow-pony of the line and carried a,lariat at the pommel of one of the ...st of Cheyenne stock saddles. Moreover, I was a stranger. How was I to identify myself 'or convince these men of my innocence? I thought of the papers I usually car ried in my pocketbook, but remem bered that I had nothing but cur.ren cy with me. All my personal papers and recent correspondence had been packed in achest, which would be on its way to Deer Creek as soon as the weather should clear. If I could not prevail upon my captors to listen to me 'my case .as hopeless. When we came up witlh the tu- l of the herd, the tall man hnlLod and tossed my rope to the younger. "Take care of him, Bill," he said; "the rest of us'll herd the steers." The one addressed as Bill now drove Cootq in front of him. We rode forward at a shuffling trot until we reached the banks of the Platte, where there was a halt to look for a ford. While my guard and I were sitting our horses I attempted to speak to him, but he stopped me with an angry gesture. "Don't open youi chin to me," he said, "or I'll shoot your teeth out!" As we sat on the outskirts of the uneasy herd two cow-men, whom I had not seen before, rode by. Each gave me a lowering glance. Presently we began moving behind the cattle again. - A ford had been found, and we crosssd the river at a shallow rapid, and thence passed up a narrow creek valley and into the rough bad lands which, above old Fort Fetterman, lie .along the river for many mi!cs. Each minute now was bearing me hopelessly beyond the range of the railroad camps. In these bad lands I could hope for no chance encounter of an acquaintance. Whether these men would even give me the brief formality of trial by lynch-law was an open question. For an hour or more, going slowly now, we thrbaded a deep valley, where the wind whistled high above and the snew dropped upon us as If shaken from a sieve. Here one- could see at tiraes the length of the- herd, and I noted that there were fi've men on the "drive." One, whom- I had not seen before,. led a pack-poniy. In' the forenoon a halt was ordered in a flat, sheltered basin, where the stock could End good grass under the I snow.. At the upper end of this basin and an the dry creek channel the man with the pack-pony had found a pile of drift stuff'. He had halted, un packed his pony kit, and lighted a brisk fire v'hen my guard and I came up. This man was short, fat and good-natured. He greeted us hilari ously. "So," he said, "that's our cheeky riustler! I admire that kind of a man. He's got nerve." My suirly guard's face relaxed in a brief grin, but he growled, "Dry up, Jake! This ain't no funny business!" I was ordered to get off my horse, and the animals were bridled and turned loose, with their saddles on and ' lariats dragging. Having only to look after me, Bill now seated himself on a l lanket roll and watched the cook preparing to fry bacon. I sat in the snow against a hum mock, where I could cool my aching wrists and, incidentally, wet the leather strings which tied them. I Inade no attempt to speak to either of the men before me. But as the minlites pasce. I prepared myself mentally for the effort of gaining a hearing before the men when they s5LJ.. all assemble at dinner. They s uld listen to me or they should do their worst at once, and I had not much doubt as to what they would do. While I was bracing myself for this ordeal the cook looked up from hnis work and noted that his unsad dled pack-pony was making off. "Hang it, Bill, that pinto of mine's takin' the back trail!" he said. "You go after him." "Go after him yourself!" was the reply. "I'li hold your fryin'-pan." Acordingly the cook ran and Bill took his place at the fire. I watched the man running for his pony until -his figure showed dimly in the sifting snow. Then I looked at Bill. He -was stooping toward the fire to put some coffee into the boiling pot. He -had his back to me, and was appar ently oblivious of my existence. An uncontrollable impulse seized -:7.n m.I leapied to my feet and jump~ed at the stooping Lian, planting my heels in his back. He pitched headlon. among the firebrands. tThen I sped toward Coots. The - cayuse, with two others, was digging Ifor grass cn the flat a little way out toward the herd. I called him by name as I ran, fearing he might take to his hesis at my swift approach. But Coots lifted his head and stood as usual, and I thrust a foot into one istirrup and threw myself in a side i swing into his saddle. -With a yel' I set him going, and with a -.rsmure of one knee, to which he answered as to a rein, I turned his head to the back trail. As we wheeled about I saw my late guarc dancing like a Sioux, holding his lef1 hand to a face burned by bacor grease or scalded by boiling coffee while with his right he fumbled fo1 his pistol. He was hors de combat and I gave a whooiof joy. Coots struck the running gait like a rabbit, and responded to ray urg ing with a speed which added to my success the delight of a discovery. In dowboy phrase, we simply "cut the wind," and I knew that my legs wer< hugging the flanks of a racei. I had loosenel my wrists a trifle, and : gripped the tree of my saddle behind and leaned as far forward as I could I turned anxious eyes toward thE cattle herd, and 1vas overjoyed to see its outlines -ade and -:anish in a whirl of ftiling snow. I had forgotLen the cook in my ex citement. Coots had sped a quarter of a mile or more when we came up with him, just mousting his pinto which he had coturp ~ 'n a depres sion of th3 valley. We were upon him almost before thi man could make a motion, and before he could bring his revolver to bear we were flying fifty yards away and going faster than any wind whici blew that day. I looked back, t) see him gallop up a rise, banging at me His bullets went w. 'e of their mark ane the lart I saw of him he had halted in the dim distance, and was waving his hat in farewell. I do not know whether any o those men chased me farther, but ] do know that they had not a horse in their outfit which could have over taken Coots. When we came to the Platte I fell safe enough to get off my steaming cayuse and soak my wrists in cold water until I got my bonds losened and later on I reached a railway camp in safety. Some weeks later, long after the snow had melted, I was riding down my grade-line -ne morning when I saw a familiar figure approaching. It was the tall man of the tawny mustache, who had taken me for a rustler. He halted his pony in much con fusion. "Say. stranger," he said, "I've rode forty miles.to-" "Never mind," I interrupted him. "I've never mentioned that little aft fair. Fine morning, isn't it?" . The man was visibly embarassed. He sat staring at me with his face red and working for a moment. Then he spoke. "Say," he said, "I'll give you a hundred dollars for that cayuse you're ridin'." "Not for sale," I replied. "Good morning!" and I rode on.-Youth's Companion. To'render rou~gh woodwork almost on-inflammable; two heavy coats of rdinary- whitew-ash is recommnend d by a painters'' journal. A recent discovery in surgery, hch may in time do away with the mputation of injured limbs is: that ony tissues will grow into and. form hemselvs in paraffine. M. Mollard, of Paris, not satisfied with the usual grafting adopted' by floriculturits, hast started to trans form vegetables. 3it is said that~ he has succeeded in turning a r.adish nto a potato. A medTcal expert poinits out that eat jui-ce and meat extracts have a value quifte separatc from their act ual nutritive constituents, inasmuch s they have a direct stimiutating action en the gastric juice. An efficient tool-room is a- requi site of a good shop. The machines n this depar-.ment should be high class, otherwise their imperfections will be reproduced in the tools. In the larger shops it is the duty of the too-room not only to see that cer tain tools are on hand for doing the work, but to see that jigs or other fixtures could be made to cheapen production, and to consider in gener' l the best way to handle any speciaJ The Parisian idea of introducing electricity into billiards is ingenious a~t least. In the centre of the tablE is placed a plate of some easily elec trifed substance and the balls arE compressed pitch, the cue beini tipped with chemically preparec ork. The balls being influenced b3 the electrified plate, caroms are dif' ficult. The player finds exercise fo: greater skill than ever, It is claimed and the new difficulties add zest t< the game. The electric radiator of E. G. Rir ers has a layer of finely powvdered re tort carbon held between enamelet iron plates, and kept in position b: asbestos cardbcord. A copper stri] is led in at the centre. with anothe: at each end, and a continuous cur rent is passed from the centre stril to the outer two. A current of eigh ampere at two hundred volts keep a heating surface of 'twenty-fi v square feet at an average tempera ture of 190 degree3 F. Non-actinic white light, first mad known by a French photographe some years ago, is produced by fil tering sunlight through a colorles solution of three parts of nickE chlorde and one part of cobalt chlor ide, ultra-violet rays being absorbe by coating the containing vessel wit collodian mixed with sulphate of qu~ nine slightly acidulated with sulphur ic acid. Sensitive paper has been es nosed to this filtered white light for .wek without change. Expensive. The military budget of the Frene Republic foots up a total of 29,00 officers, whose pay alone a aounts t nearly ?4,000,000. Italy, under tb same head, has 14,000 offcers, dra~ ing ?1,450,000 annually. Spain par~ on account of 23,000 offiers, the 2ui f 2.750.000. Tar Iniroves Licadani. Experiments in tar and oil for road improvement at Jackson, Tenn., are lescribed in a bulletin issued by the United States Department of Agri eulture. During the spring and summer of 1905. says the Bulletin, the Office of Public Roads co-operated with Sam C. Lancaster, city engineer of Jack son, Tenn., and chief engineer of the Madison County Good Roads Com mission, in making a series of care ful experiments to determine the val ie of coal tar for the improvemetn of macadam streets and roads. Tests were also made of the utility of crude Texas oil and several grades of its residue when applied to earth and macadam roads. The macadam streets in the busi ness centre of Jackson were built ariginally ot the hard siliceous rock known as novaculite. About May 1, 1905, after fifteen years of wear, re pair of these streets became neces sary. The old surface*was first swept clean with a hoise sweeper, so as to expose the solid pavement beneath. This was done because tar will not penetrate a rock surface which is cove-ed with dust and loose material. Nent. the surface was loosened by means of spikes pLced in the wheels of a ten-ton steam roller, the street reshaped, and new material added where needed. The road was then sprinkled, rolled. bond ed and finished to form a hard. com pact. even surface. and allowed to dry thoroughly before either tar or oil was applied, for these substances can not penetrate a moist road sur face. The best results -are obtained when the work is done in hot, dry weather, ani accordingly the tar was first applied in August. It may be well to add that the novaculite used in the construction of thearoads is an almost non-absorbent rock. The tar used was a by-product from the manufacture of coke and was practically free from moisture. It was brought to a temperature which generally reached 210 degrees Fahrenheit, but when placed on the road is- was reduced to a tempera ture of from 160 degrees to 190 de grees Fahrenheit. The hottest tar produced the best results. It was spread with hose. Laborers with street cleaners' brooms of, bamboo fibre, followed the tank and swept the surplus tar ahead. They spread it as evenly and as quickly as possible,, and in a Ia"'er only thick enough to cover the sur face. One side of Lhe street was fin ished at a time,. and barricades placed to keep off the traf~c until the tar had had time to soak into the suir face. The time allowed for this pro cess was variet? from a' few hours to several days. From the results ob tained it can be' stated' that. under hot sun,. with the road surface thor ughly compact,. elearr and dry, and with the' tar heatetT almost to the boiling point and' appfied as de scribed above, the road will absori' practicanly all of' it in eight or ten hours. A light coat of clean sand,. screenings' or- the clean particles-~ swept from- the' surface ,of the road :ay then- be spread as evenly as pos sible anmT rolled in with a steam roller. After' more. than sevenr months. ir eluding the' winter season of 1 905-6,. the tarred' streets and roads are stDT~ in excellent condition.. They are' hard,' smooth and resemb'le asphamt,. xcept that they show a' more gritty' surface. The tar forms a part -of the surface- proper. anmt is in perfect bond' with the macadam. Sections ut' from the streets show that the tar has penetrated fro-m one to two inches, aner the fine rMack lines seen ir the interstices between the inidi vidual rtones show that the mechani cal bond' has been reinforced 'by the penetration of the tar. The tar is a matrix into which the stones of the surface are set, forming a conglom erate or concrete. A second coating applied a year after the first would require much more tar than the first,. as the interstices of the rock would then be filled with tar. A tarred street is dustless in the same sense that an asphalt street is dustless. though~ a fine sandy powder wears off, as in the case of asphait. t can be swept or washed clean. These streets have since been swept egularly and the city government is in favor of treating all of the streets with tar. The cleaning that would soon ruin an ordinary macadam road oes not injure the tarred surface, as the stones are not torn up or dis turbed. The tar itself has antisep tic prprds lene'e its use would be beneicial both as .a germiicide and a a mieans of se.curing cleanliness. G;ood iot-as Many thir:g., workt together for good roads. The hicyeie cr'aC, Uhile i. lasted. encou.1raged highway ime povemenEt, the auto-robile is doing the same and the general increase or crrigC travel for idasnre has its art. But, after all, the improve m ient depends onl the farmer, who is ot moved by outomoobile influence. He is affected by more practical in ttrests, and w'hen he is convinced t tat his business pr.osperity der ends onnlhaing better. roadJs he p~roceeds to build them. as the peopleC of Craw - : County arc doing in. order to af c - easer access to theI ir new cream Good roads and Progo i o spok maby oe pearsosta no . Oall~ teo -' '1 (l - '- :'ow'empir tale German. :7i'0h langoye I f. icludingA the inha'itanni. of the tr.-Ao~rin contie s. and 10, Late Netvs In Brief A { MINOR MATTERS Of INTEREST Aeordinzr to an official statement :192 persons have been killed and many wounded in one week as a result (if tie rpign of terrorism in Russia. The annual Trades Union Conress of organized labor in (reat Britaii will meet at Liverpool September 3. Brazil will reduce her coffee export duty. The son otf the Crown Prince of Germany was chritened at Potsdam. Many of the rear-admirals on the active list of the' navy will be rtired within a year. and there *will be im portait efianges in the personnel. The new tariff agreement between Spain and the United States will go into effect on September 1. Leaders of the Republican organiza tion in Ohio say that the national administration has had i hand in the quarrel between Republican factions in that State. The express companies pere given a he..ring by the laterst-ate Commerce Commission. They asked for an ex tension of time in which to file scied ules of rates. Admiral Dewe y's famous flagship Olympia is to be mo(1ernized at the Norfolk Navy Yard.. and is not to be placed iii ordinary. Mr. J. B. Slater. a Lancaster coun ty merchant. committed suicide. The freshet in the Appomattox iv er a't Petersburg is the greatest of a decade. The survivors of MeNeill's Rangers held a reunion at Moorefield, W. Va. Sam Bagby. a negro. was sentenced At Saluda. Va.. to be hanged on Sep terber 2S for assault. William J. Bryan -reached quar antine in New York on thre Princess Irene. and amid great cheering and blowing of whistles was thenee taken to Lewis Nixon's place or Staten Is land. where he at tended a conference f leading Demnermls at rright. The vanguard of 1.arvhnd lemo erats. atmng them prominem rity and State leaders. arrived in New York for the Bryan: reception. Governor Warfielf. who denies that Ire is in iry sense 2 candidate for ie Vice-Presiden-v. conferred -with a number ot' Democrats of ntiJrmi rmninence.. Reeeiver Earfe took ehargre of the affairs of the embarra.sed Real Es ate Trust Comnpanyw and announced after a conference with- the direerors tlher. the companyt. erlud probaly resumie soon. Chairman Herbert Parsons of the ew- York Couaty Republican Com ittee- has beenr invited; tcs lunch- wit!e the President. President George R. P-eek address eal the annual corrrention of the Amer can Association in St. Paul aind Mr.. eorge- Whitelock. of Baltimore.. was lected' to the national corrneil. Wi~liam Travers Jerome, answer Ene W. R. Hearst. characterized the Demoeratie managers in; New York a "men nobody e-en trueI.." Twel\ve inches of rain-fall in 30' mimntes was reported ar durena.. Va.. Dafrahan I. Clark.. 90- years old. (liedf in Lynchbnrg. The farm. on which G'e. Stone waH Jakson died was sold. The Shenandoah TVafley Baptist As sociation at Winchester- adjournied. The direeto-rs of the Real Estate Trust Company, it was stated. had not e'd a meeting for rnea-riy three- years. William Jennings Bryan wen't to Nwv Haven, Conn.. where he was en tertained at luneeon and made a speech. then rettured to Bridzeport, where' lhe passed the night. Edward Rosewater. editor 'f the Omaha Bee, was found dead on a bench in the District Court room in te Bee Buildine. The T'nited States transport Sher idani went ashore on Barber's Point and is in a position. of great danger. Judge Alton B. Parker was elected president of the American Bar Asso iation and John. Hinckley of Balti more secretary. T.be cruiser Charleston. with Seere tary Root and party on board, arriv ed at Lota. Chile, two days overdue on account of fog. President Palma, of Caba. it is de lared, will make no political compro mise in the interest of peace. Secretary Wilson has notified the packers that he will not postpone the operation of the new label law. The rebels in Cuba are still fight in:2, hut grave dissentions are said to have occurred among them. Trexas cattle dealers seek to revive he old1 rate cases in whiieh the Inter State C'ommerce Commission was overruled by the Supreme Court. It is estimated that 91.250 car loads ot (ceent will be used in the costructionl of locks on the Panama ennal. MIiss MIary Filbert, of Washington, an at torney, nlow has a case in Nor' fol dk. beiung- the first womni lawyer to nractice ther'e. At lie internii onalI Wirieles~ ".-leraphi Confere'nce in Berlin the. American delegation will advocate omptlsory 'ommurnic lationl hel weer steamships fitted with wireks s ap par atus. * Secretary of A~rrieuiture W.ilsor told a deputation of meat packer: that the label on canne'.d product: must he explicit. 3IJiceeJ D. 'Yusty, a hotelineeper was shot ar~d illedT by a negro'( H Bedford City because he refuse-d th: black a drink. Tbr: mturderer escat edp SOUTHERN * TOPICS Of- ;NTEREST 70 T11 PL ANT1 Darid Dickson's Farm Maxims. Up to date farmers are advocating deep plowing, shallow cultivation and heavy fertilization. It is usually sup posed to be a new idea. This is a mistake as is shown by the Southern Cultivator' in -an article under the above title. The maxims of a man who made such a success of farm ing as is ascribed to David Dickson, may well be studied with care: While down in Hancock County, through the courtesy of Mr. Jlohn D. Walker, of Sparta, its present owner, we made a pilgrimage to the old homestead of David Dickson, the most successful and noted advocate of progressive methods in Southern agriculture. He practiced deep pre paration, , shallow cultivation and high fertilization fifty years ago, and reaped such a reward, that he left an estate of five hundred thousand dollars when he died. He owned over 30,000 acres of land, and had in his vaults in his own house over $200,100 in bonds. He made two tales of cotton per acre over large areas .1d from fifty to seventy-five bushels corn. He practicer the three-year rotation of wheat, corn and cotton, and said that it paid to sow grain as a means of preserving and improving the land to raise the more profitable crops of corn and cot ton. This is a very strong point and one very difficult to get impressed upon the minds of our farmers. Ro tations are essential to the raising of cotton profitably. We give thirty two of Dickson's maxims- below, and all would do well to preserve them, to be read over and over again:s 1.. The three great essentials'are: first, the theory (true plan) of farm ing; second, the art of dontrolling la bor, and executing all work .to the best advantage with least labor; third, (last and best) success de pends on quick perception, wise judg ment, that seldom or never errs. How is this to be acquired except by the use of books in conjunction with practice. . All vegetable matter placed on you- fields, wiIl, in due time, turn to cotton and corn .Land must be well broken be fore planting. Commence in time to do it; but the later done-in this latitude-the better for the land. 4. There is only so much corn and cotton' in any manure, and the sooner you get* it the better. 5. Plow deep,. cultivate shallow,. and you- will have no trouble in grow ing crops. 6.- Subsoil one-fourt' yo'ur land ev ery year.. 7. That land pays best with guano, that pays best without .it. And this is on soil that has plenty of vegetable matter 1n- it. 8. Drain- wet lands.. Terrace hiT! sides; then deepen your soil to- the full extent- of your ability. 9. I consider preparation' haTf,. and the besi. half of making e. crop.. 10. The- planter' should follow the laws that govern the universe,, and' only when he does can he reach the highest efficiency.. 11. The' planter should mirx his own manures,. and save the profit of mnipulatinrg. you have ons your land the more nif. rogen you ean- command. 13. The more nitrogen your store away in your land,. the more you: can obtain from the- atmosphere.. 14.. To. be successful i* agricul ture,. you must know where alT the elements of plants are, and hemw to controt them. 15.. One inch of clay each year over- a good soil will do no. harm in any land. 1 6:. It requires. till the 1st of May to- break your land right,. and this is time enough to finish. iT. Fill your' soil with biumus, to stick the sand together and to darken it This wilt prevent its reflecting the heat, and will cause it to receive it gradually and to part with it the same way. 1 38. With elay lands, do the same thing, to make it plowable at all, times. 19. It is. better to plant late than not at all,. or in half-p-repared land.. 20. In 186S, I planted a tw.en.y acre lot,. finishing the fifth day of May; used S00 pounds of my comn pound per acre. It made thirty-two bales. The lint paid a dividend on $1000 per acre, after paying all ex penses;- and the land was in muchr better' condition tfor another crop. Including the sale for seed, irt paid a dividend on $4000 per acre.. 21. vegetable mould should be kept up to the same standard as ap-' pears in virgin soil. 22. Rust is nothing but poverty caused by land being depleted of veg etable matte:'. 23. Make lust the amount of cot ton wanted at paying priees: keep out of debt:: be tha creaditors; make Pointed Paragraphs. The boekamker lov'es a cheerful Icsr. Often love at first sight is due to an oversight. A litle widow with a dimple is a dagerous thing. Poets are born-end so arc poor writers, for that mrtter. Licn to the ndvice of others nu tihen follow y'our ov:.n. No man is re&.lly und truly in love Wealdthi anid reliz.ionl have practic'ally :ntin:: in coimmoni. Comp.iling family trees is an in dutysbjec't to more or less gralt. It'seas to ge satjifacti!on by go in to )La :-if you are a lw r It' sfer to crues~s than it is to 'reiet-~o:and it is equally uner:ain. Andl the green grocer is in a posi tin to acqi'nre a lot of ripe esperi 4RM 0 OTESJ R, SrOCKMAN AN! yRUCk( MAER you supplies at home; then and onlY then, will you have power. 24. Large ears of oorn are more easily gathered than small ones; the same is true of perfect bolls of cot ton. 25. Compost manure should be spread on the ground, and applied immediately, so that the decomposi tion shall take place e-<actly when it is wanted. 26. From every source, let as much atmosphere into the land as possible. 27. There is no such thing as fail ure. when man does his duty in the cultivation. 28 Save a portion of your income every year, and buy everything for 29. Make all supplies at home, hat can be made. 30. Teach your laborers how to work; how to do it with ease and eificiency; and to do better and bet ter work every day. 31. An over estimate of the impor- - tance of deep and thorough breaking of the lands for cultivated crops can ot be made. 32. The four great cardinal points in Dicks1's system of farming are: Deep preparation, thorough manur ing, surface culture and rotation of 2rops. Feeding Pigs on Grazing Crops. J. C. S., Tazewell, Va., writes: I ave a little cottonseed meal I wish :o feed to my cows and calves, and as t is my first experience, I wish your advice. How much ought I to feed per day to a cow and a calf? Does it take the place of bran, or should6 they be fed together? Is it good for horses? I wish to feed it mixed with .rushed corn. Cottonseed meal should be fed long with some other concentrate in order to get the best rnults. Its peculiar value to our stockmerx lies in the fact that it is so rich in digest ible protein and therefore helps to balance up the supply of corn found n nearly all our farms. .Corn, as you know, only contains about eight: Dr nine per cent. of digestible pro ein, whereas, cottonseed meal con :ains over therty-seven per cent. You. vill thus see that it is four times as . ch in this element as corn. Dairy :ows, as you probably know, need a rood containing a considerable - =nount of. protein in order that they nay make m..k with the least effort, d of course we all realize that milk ,s argely the result of stimulating :he cow through a series of genera tions. Therefore,. we should feed mch foods as will be most stimulat ng in their effect. A well balanced -aticin is thus a matter of importance - or dairy cows. From three to five pounds of cottonseed meal may be ed with safety to cows that are ac :ustomed to- it. Three 'pounds 'is probably the right amount to use, nd if a cow it giving two or more allons of milk per day,.she could be led a liberal ration. It winl l'e desir able, therefore,. to mix cottonseed meal with an equal amount of corn and cob meal or wheat bran. lIf corn s cheaper than bran, use it. Yonu might of course use middlings, or ehopped oats or wheat along with the otton seed meal to advantage. A. ow- giving a good flow of milk, say two or more gallons per ..-ay, a~nd weighing' 1800 pounds, wilt con-. sume eight to ten pounds of grain profitable. If giving more :than this she may eat twelre. or even as high as fifteen pounds per day. You must judge of the individuality of your attle for yourself and determine the right amount of grain to feed them with profit. You can do this -jit. comparative. ease if you wil'use a Babcock test- and- weigh the milk night and 'morning. , Some :Gairymen think it is not profitable to study the* production of the cow, but there -:re few who have had experience who do. not realize that many cows eat their heads off, and only comparatively few of the large number we keep .are really profittble animals.. Calves should not be fed cotton seed meaI as it Is too concentrated a food for them. A little blood meal, say a tablespoonful per day, will be more satisfactory, or a little ground flaxseed over *rhich boiling water has been poured will suit them much bet ter. After they are four or six months old, a small amount of cot tonseed meal with bran, oats or corn. can be fed to advantage.; You wilk find cottonseed meal an admirable foodstuff wben you become acquaint ed with it. it will take you a little' time to learn its peculiarities and ter your animals to become accustomed to its use if they are not alre'.dy La miliar with it, but it 's a remarkahbly heap concentarte and one that our farmers can utilize in large quanti ties to the best advantage.-Prof. Soule. Refleetions of a Bachelor. A girl is about as afraid of dirt ing as a haby is of playing with its ( fingers. A man can't help having affection for a woman that knows how to make zood apple pie. A men thinkis he is awful smart to have guessed the stock market was ecia~r up when he didn't put any moev mu. I: almost mak:s a min of most bos not io ser.d the:n t ale' Our idea of a hopeless lar is .a prson. who says he never makes any mist ekes. Wait ing maids are not anxious to wait until they- break into the spin tr elass. Alarm clocks ancd step-ladders have hepedi many a man to get up in the A man. may be poor and proud, but 4 who ever heard of a man's being rich and humble.