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o -ROM HlLL The sun had cross'd from hill to hill, [ts path we call'd a day: We saw each other race to "ace, Then each one went his way. Descending darkness supervered. We term'd its substance night. 'And in its folds, save but in thougbt, Each vision pass'd frou sight. -I. THE BOND BE She was forty. She looked at herself with Cr eyes in the large mirror before It was a daring thing, perhaps, wear white chiffon velvet. But the color in her face was still as pure as the color in a pale pink rose, and the yellow hair was still a crowni of gold to the small, shapely head. And -after some moments of close scrutiny she was quite satisfied that she looke'l her best. For twenty years she had ranked among the notably beautiful wemen in London. Her face had hardened a trifle in that time, the exquisite profile nad lost the softness of girl- I hood and had become a little raore finely chiseled. Yet her youth seemed eternal. She gav- a last glance at herself, and was about to turn away from the mirror when a sudden thought struck her. She took from a small, well-worn jewel case a glittering star o. diamonds and emeralds, of no great value, perhaps, yet pretty and distinctive in its design. With a little laugh that was half a sigh, she placed it in the meshes of the lace which lay like a cobweb in its fine ness upon her breast. She drew in a tremulous breath; a new spark!^ came into her eyes: dim pIes showed in the rounded cheeks. It was twenty years since she had last seen him, and the.- were to meet again that night. Would he be changed? She wondered. She had heard men say that he was altered and hard. He had become rich, had left .poverty far behind, and held a foremost nlace among modern finan ciers. Yes, such a career would mean a hardening process. A few moments later she was greeting her hostess, who stood, an imperial figure, at the top of the staircase. She saw- h'm at once, and kiew that her face had crimsoned and that her words had become mere sound, chatter without sense. ' He had altered. Yes; the dark hair was gray, and the face was aged by more than twenty years. He had been little more than a lad in iose past days, as passionate and as dar ing as Romeo, a boy who had loved * ~ with the strength of a man. Merely1 to see him, to know that it was he, this one man she had ever loved, ' mcved her like an unexpected strain i of perfect music. Presently her hand was in Edward ~ Vernon's, and they were greeting C each other in conventional voices that r disguised whatever memories were disturbed by this meeting again with the gulf of twenty years yawning between them.s "How little time has changed t you!" he said to her gently. "I has changed von a great deal!" 0 -she answered, with a smile that con- h cealed a pang. His voice was deeper, but it was cold as well. His eyes C were steely, the mouth was locked in firm lines. "Will you lunch with me?" shes asked. I1 shall be charmed!" he replied.1 ~ May I expect von the day after to-morrow, then, at 2?" ,a LI shall be 'very pleased!' His eyes rested on the ornament she wore at her breast. "You recognize it?" she asked. "It-it was the wedding present you sent me!" '"Of course: I wrote to you at thes time, offering you my congratula tions. T hope you received the let ter?'' - - ,"Oh, yes. And I had also one other s letter from you-the only two you y ever wrote-a :etter of condolence 1: upon my husband's deatn." 'You have got over it, I trust?" 5 She looked up quickly, suspecting f satire. But his face was quite Im- i passive, his tone quite casual. 1 -Yes, ' she replied. "My-my hus- a band and I were- -excellent friends. r We shared a number of tastes in com- c mocn. that is all:" c T1hey were once more interrupted, I and a streamn of people pairted them. .Lady Arningtonl turned '-way with an c .a~urd feeling of disappointment. H-owever alive in her thie old :ender t eeiing might be, in him it was dead. 3 :She would have taken up) the melody t at the point where it was broken off. But to him it was stale-like the song of yesterday A drift of conversation reaachedi her from two old dowagers. -I suppose he will marry her-?"t one of them remarked. But the cther; - answered th~t she did not think Ed ward Vernon a marrying man. "Besides," she added, "wt o was the girl? From where did she come? Why- was she living at a hotel, with out society, in solitude? Briliantly handsome she might be; but it3 seemed doubtful that so wise and sober a man as Vernon would marry a girl so young, wno suggested a, beautiful rebei, a child of nature." Lady Ar-nington turned toward them. "Is Mr. Vernon engaged'?" she in qui red, lightly. --I can't say. Lady Arnington," re plied gossip~ No. 2. "Bu there is a he Sa';:y v:hom to' id ;.i with him a great .ial None of us know anything about her. She isn't in society- But I seem to iecvll't some on:: ielling m3 that: she is Ver non's ward I daresay he wi marry her in the end." -'Then he'll have to loo!: sharp about it!" responded her companion. "I saw the girl with Wyndham Man ners in the park yesteirday. Andi it means something serious, 1 should judge, when a man as blase as Man ners sits by a girl's side in the teeth TO "ILL. And yet along the sun's bright trail We read another's need: And answer'd it throu-h brotherhood, In loving wori and 2eed. And when the evening hills of life With gold and crimson burn. That day in memory proves the best Wh'-h holds some kindly turn. Mench Chambers, in the R'am's Horn. IIVEEN THEM. of a biting east win-I and looks as if he liked it!" "But what righ* has Wyndham Manners to mako love to any girl?" interposed Lady Arnington, coldly. "A man whose life is.one infamous record of disreputable episodes! Be sides, he is not yet free; the decree between himself and his *ife has not yeZ baen made absolute." The next days seemed long to Lady Arnington. She wondered if he would be punctual. But as 1 o'clock struck a telegram was brought .o her. "Pray accept apologies. Unable to lunch to-day.-Vernon." She read the penciled lines with an unutterably desolate feeling. But it passed in a moment, and she smiled. "He is a man of affairs." she said. "I must remember that." She lunched alone, and soon after ward went for a drive in Hyde Park, where the first person she met was Edward Vernon. He, too, was driv ing, and by his side was a brilliantly beautiful girl, whose expression was a mixture of delight and discontent. She met him that same night at a musicale. He came up to her at once and apologized for his absence that day. "It was my ward who kept me away," he said, as though he had of fered the most natural explanation in the world, and one that she would instantly understand. "She is a most exigent young woman, and holds me is a perfect slave. She insisted upon my taking her ot; and, as the poor girl has so little pleasure, I am bliged to indulge her. It is not my ish for her to go into society. I like ier to retain her own individuality." Lady Arnington tightened her lips itIh indignation. How coolly he of ered his reason for failing her! She ooked quickly round. They were in t deserted part of the room. She >aced her hand on his arm and ooked into his eyes. "Do you love this girl?" she asked, luickly. She saw his face change, he hard lines melt. He seeme4d. al ost a boy again-more like the old Ternon. "Yes," he answered, simply, with a ronderful note of tenderness in his 'oice. "She is the only being I have a the world to love!" Lady Arnington felt her heart ighten as if a steel band were clos ag round it. "And so would you," e added, "if you knew her. She is a willful and yet so lovable, impetu us and yet bewitching in her sudden epentances. I should so much like ou to be her friend." Lady Arnington's lips trembled. "You will e.xcuse me," she said. Lowly, "but I fear that I am not in trested in girlr." The man gazed at her with an dd, regre'aul expression. "How you ave changed!" he said, simply. "When it comes to speak of aange," she said, ""ook at home rst!" Two days later, in a Bond street op, she saw this girl with 'Wynd am Manners. Her face wore a sub ted look of quiet raptu:re whicb ady Arnington could read as a book. ;was plain that she loved this man, .she probably regarded Edward ernon more in the light of a father. Lady Arnington s heart rejoiced. That if her love should go unsatis ed? His -vovld also. Presently he dould suffcer -yhat she w-as suffering ow. When next Lady Arnington. oke to Vernon she mentioned hay Sseen his wara, and in whose comn rany. "she is beyond my control"' he aid. "I have tried to do my best for er; but it is a mother's love she Lks, a woman's care she wants. "I forbade her to know this man 'hen I first discovered that he had iced his acquaintance .spon her at a otel. I am going down to the Mid inds-to Birmingham-on business hich I cannoZ put off. But when I e'.urn in a few days, I shall take her ut of London. She has a chaperon ompanion, but her influence evident E counts for ncthing." Again the bitter feeling of jealousy ame back to Lady Arnington. Two mornings later she was at Vic oria station. She had decided that he would leave London, and go on ie continent before Edward Vernon eturned. Filled with dreary thoughts, she 'aguely observed a man's form be ore her at the booking office. It was not until she heard him ask for wo tickets to Paris that she recog iized Wynidham Manners. .s she turned away from the sta ion she wondered who would be Vyndham Manners' companion. He tad apparently given up- his pursuit if Vernon's ward, or She caught her breath sharply. -er intuition told her that she had tt upon the truth. Edward Vernon ms away, and Wyndham Manners mas inducing the girl to ebope with She tried toi dismiss the idea. Then feeling of momentar'y triumph came .0 her. That girl awar, Edward ould be free-perhaps to turn to ier! She would postporLe indefinite y her visit to the continent. And then a suddent wave of revul sion at her own selfish calculations swept over her. She had heard NVyudham Manners inquire about the tight train. There vwas yet time to save this girl from utter ruin-if she ook action at once. She wondered at which Birming tam hotel Vernon was staying, and lecided to wire to the six principal nes, warning. Edward that she eared his ward was in peril. An our later she got a reply: "Am starting for London at once." would be here at S. That would be time enough. She stayed quietly at homc that night. Somehow she knew that he would come to her. And about 9.".0 o'clock he called. The areworn face looked sad and dispiritcl. yet there was relief upon it. Cecile Arnington went forward to greet him. "Were you in time?" she asked. "Were r.v suspicions right?" He nodded. "I don't know how you guessed it!" he said. "But I found the girl almost at the point of departure. Thank heaven, I was able to prevent that. I stripped the villain who had stolen her fancy of his heroic guise. and made her shudder at the devil she had wrongly worshiped as a god. And now," he added. looking at her with the old tenderness in his eyes, "I want you in the future to help me guard this difficult charge!" She glanced up at him wit'. puzzled eyes. "1!' she exclaimed. "What can I do?-except"-her voice faltered a little-"except urge you to be patient with her still as until now you have been. She will come back to you in heart and soul,if you but give her time: the straying fancy will come home to rest, content in your love r-t last. In days to come, when she is safely your wife, she will look with horror upon the past folly from which you have saved her!" He looked at Cecile with amaze ment. "My wifd! I never dreamed that you Imagined I cared for her in that way," he answered, sl-wly. "To me she is no more than a child, the daughter of a man who was my best friend. - I love his daughter as I loved him, but not in any other .ay, not in the one way that a man loves a woman!" The color had stolen warmly into Cecil Arnington's face. There was silence between them, which was broken by the man. "Cecile," he said. "don't you know that a man can be faithful to a woman through nmny long years? To-night a great understanding seems to have come to 'me. When I first returned I thoug'it you merely a worldling, with a heart dead to all old feeling. And instead of that a sudden insight has revealed to me that the old ideal still exists in you -my own ideal. But you have worn your mask well, you have smiled bravely, there have been jesting words upon your lips, and you hid from me the love that was in your heart. But now I know, I know!" He held her to him, and looked deep into her eyes. She answered his look with a radiant smile. In that moment it seemed to them both that time must have slipped back and placed them once more in their self created Eden, abloom with fadeless flowers. It was the woman who broke the spell. "Take me to her to-morrow," she hispered. "For the future we will hare the responsibility of this child; nd she shall be no longer a barrier arting our lives, but a bond between s."-Modern Soziety. Professor Fiel'd, of Harvard,. cooked dinner of squid, snails and sand lose that converted sixty biologists to support of those sea products as elicacies Oxford street, from the Marble rch to Tottenham Court Road,. Lon don, is to be lighted by means of eighty-one "flame" arc lamps, at an estimated cost of Z2500. An acting model of the human eart, with every detail, has been ade by a French physician. The blood can be seen coursing to and from it through artificial arter'ies-. It has long been known that smok ers are not lHable to certain diseases. t is now held that this is due to, the presence in the tobacco of formalde hyde, one of the strongest of disin fctants. A report from Antwerp states that never before has the demand been so great from the United States, at any one time,, for cement as at the pres ent time. One vessel recently took 6100 tons of cement from Antwerp o San Francisco. Poisoning fronm gas inhalation is now added to the recognized dangers of ballooning. The hydrogen-itself non poisonous-is often contamina ted with arsenic, selenium and anti ony, and fourteen cases of ill ef fects have been reported to the French Academy of Medicine. In one of the two forms of poisoning death results in two or three days. In re-enforced concrete the cement s simply an envelope for a skeleton f metal in the formt of girders, :,ds r meshwork. This constrnection has ee mainly conf'en to engineering works. especially bridges, where the architectural problems are of the simplest. However, the material is said to be capable of artistic treat ment, while affording superior pro tection to structural metal against 'idation and against distortion by A London physician has taken his ife in his hand and declared in fav or of what he calls the "silence cure" for nervous women. The doctor is specialist of renown with a high eutation among society dames. He insists that all that is needed by an exhausted leader of the social swim is to pass an hour or so every day in absolute silence. This will not only soothe nerves, but will cause the lines of worry to leave the face nd will impart an expression of peacefulness and beauty. "If nervous| women," he says, "can be persuaded to hold their tongues and permit the brain to rest we shall have fewer breakdowns and neuralgia and nerv ous prostration." New Jersey has decided to substi tute aieen~ctionl for hanging. ANSEL TlE WINNE Dispensary People Beaten South Carolina LYON FOR ATTORNEY GENER) In South Carolina's Second Dem cratic Primary, Dispensary Forc Lose Each of Thrae Contest f Stat, O)ffices and Two Out of Fo Senatorial Contest-Ansel Defez Manning for Governor; Lyon Il feats Ragsdale for Attorney Ge eral and Sullivan Defeats Whartc for Eairoad Commissioner. Columbia. S. C., Special.-Eigh per cent of the second primary vol at midnight, shows the dispensa forees to have lost each of the thr contests for State offices and two o of the 'four senatorial sontests. T majorities of the anti-dispensa candidateS for Governor and Atto ney (eneral have been steadily i creasing all night. as has the majo ity of Sullivan over Wharton f railroad commissioner contest. ] Wharton vi*s aligned with the di pensary people. though his defeat more in the nature of ai auti-ra road feeling. conviction beni that Mr. Whorton has bcen too so with the railroads since he has be< on the board. The final tabulation with all cou ties heard from. morst of them mo than half completed. sl.ow these ge eral results: For Governor. M. Ansel of Greenvilie. local option. .3 178; Richard . Manning, of Sumte State dispensary. 27,904; for Ato ney General. J. Frasier Lyon. of A beville. and anti-dispensary and ant graft. 39,40.3; James W. Ragsdale, c Florence, State dispensary. 26,31: for railroad commissioner. J. I Wharton, of Laurens. 2S,605; J. - Sulivan, of Anderson, 35,3S25. Report of Crop to August 25th. Washington. Special.-The erap ro porting board of the Department < Agriculture finds the average cond tion of cotton August 25th was 77. compared with 32.9 July 25th; -72 August 25th, 1905; S4.1 August 25t 1904; and the ten-year average < 73.2 By States the report is as fo lows: Virginia, 71; North Carolin: 71; South Carolina. 71; Georgia, 72 Florida, 70; Alabama, 76; Mississif pi, 82; Louisiana, 76; Texas, 78; Arl ansas, 84; Tennessee, SS; Missoui 94; Oklahoma, SS; Indian Territor; 80. 403,209 Bales Ginned.. The Bulletin issued by the Ce'nst Bureau places the cotton ginned September 1 at 4(13,209 bales, co'un ing round bales as half bales, con pared with 476,635 bales last year. Report by States. By States, Alabama. 2.505: Ari ansas,. 443; Florida, 1898: Georgi: 24,556- Indian Teritory. 9: Louisian: 3,902;~ Mississippi. 9,547: North Can lina. 41: Oklahoma. 3.060; Sout Carolina.. 3.144: Tennessee.. 3: Tem~ 324.458. Six thousand four. hundre and ninety-two gine'erie:. are in o; ration agairnst S.629 last~ year. Gen.. Burton to Retire. eorge H.. Paton. inspeemZ~ gen~ert will be place-d on the retired list: is own request on Sept. 3G.' lHe wi. e succeeded by Col. Ernes A. Gia: ington.. the senior colonel o.f t he ir pector corps and who is. ? memnoe f the general staff of the amry. Co nel Garlington, who is to iv inspeell r genera-l, is a: native of South t'arc ina and was apointed to ta militar aademy from Georgie. Rietinig in San Francisco. San Francisco. SpeciaL-As a aftermath to the reen strike on tH Unitedl Railroads, a riot broke or when the street car company starw. o march about 20(0 strike-brpal.:" rom the ear barns at Tu.rk and Fil more streets to the Ferry buildim~ any shots were fired by the arme guards escorting the men aind ha'lf ozen persons are reportcA wounder The strike-breakers are &nredi the Ferry building by the police. an 12 men have beeni arrested. A lara mob is in front of the Ferry built ig waiting for thc police to b.r.n u t rhe prisoners. Prominent Georgian Shot. Maeon. Ga.. Speciai-Lee E\ Eiks. until recentiy a poie stock. man in this city. was shot :in killed at or near Brcioksville. Fimidl: le was a conductor n a train the runs be tween Brooksvil e and Nun son. F'!a. Later pa.rticularl .or th: tragedy~i at Bro(oksville. snate th ~ee Iliiks n:ucd .T. M1. Hi.zinsbofbe stIitem:- of Brookei.;'.r:r. Con*gh: a car as the~ train W:'s lingi il st.aton'. Boith: mnen were kiled. Not a Bona Fide Cencern. W\1aihington. Speia!. - Sec.retr Boaparte directed that n awar .1 ade to the lowes idderl(I for :'n: ih'ing steami boiiers fo the a poe hons alS No1 ik (. (harlston. S. (C.. on th' arona I4 suTicCint uarantee tha it wa a hona~i fide cont;'rnt. Te comrI will go tote nxt lowerCO t hhh. New Building Falls. New Tork. Special.-One man wi killed and five seriously injured h the collapse of a new bilding at Mit eola.. L. L. Another man is reporte buried in the ruins and is probab] dead. The buildings was to be garage and was being built for Rol ert Graves. The men buried ini CHFRISTIM ENEAlO NUIES in SEPTEMBER TWENTY-THIRD A Strong Will: How to Get It, and Use It for Temperance. 1 Pet. L 4: 1-11. There is only one sound armor against temptation, and that is the o- mind of Christ. No one can "live to the will of es God" without knowing that will, Dr meditating on it, applying it to every corner of his life. We must work the will either of ts God .or of "the Gentiles,"-the world; e- which shall we choose 1-We are forming our will now for all eternity,-and an entrance upon the uternal ages is close "at band." Suggestions. Our "won'ts" are as important an as our "wills" in forming our char acters. . A book has been written on "The I Wills' of Christ." It is matter worth looking into. e isagreeable duties are best worth it doing just because they are disagree able, and so have will-strengthening power. ' If you would cultivate a strong will, r- begin every day by something hard for you to do, such as early rising, a r cold bath, vigorous, exercise, sub-. stanti'al Bible-reading. Illustrations. r. When a man "makes his wili." he . does it with a view to death; but the s will of his character he forms for - eternal life. A will in the wrong way is like a t train on the wrong track,-the more n force. the more danger. The hopeless trees are not the gnarly. crooked ones, but the weak lings: the hopeless men are not the vigorous bad ones, but those with weak wills-good or bad. The test of a locomotive is not the y whistle but the load and the speed; r,. the test of a will is not the blustet r- but the deed. EMPOHTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Interpreting God's Word to the World -2 Cor. 3. 3. f Showing the likeness of God. Lev. .- 19. 2: Matt. 5. 48. 3 Finding our. pattern in Christ. 1 1Pet. 2. 21; 1 John 2. 6. With convincing consistency. 1 Pet. 2. 11, 12. Love the touchstone of discipleship. 1 John 3. 10-17. Submission to lawful autbority a virtue. 1,Pet. 2. 13-15. - Having his character we also share his triumph. Rev. 3. 11. Synthesis. "Ye are our epistle,"' said Paul to the Corinthians; the ."epistle of Christ written on your hearts by the Spirit of the Iving Gcd." What clearer evidence of the divine commission do I need than this These Corinztfians, instigated by enemies of the great apostle, had begun to speak slightingly of him, and to Question his apostolic commis sion. "Christ foirmed within," so that his presence may be seen and .under stood as you read and understand this wiriting-that is the way to inter pret the Word of God to men. Lack ing this, men will get to arguing, cavilling, hairsplitting. The measurts of the transformation contemplated~ -was given away back in the early stages of rev-elation, for God said through Moses to the TI'aelites, "Ye shall be holy." which jesus quoted iE- his Sermorn on the Mount, saying, "Be ye perfect. cven as your Father in h-eaven is pyerfect." Wesieys caught up the straiir of holy exhortation and said, at the same time guarding the precious doctr'ine b~y a warning: " I want you to be all love. This -is. the perfection I believe and teach. And this nerfection is consistent with a thousand ne-rvous disorders, which that high-strained perfection is not. Indeed, my judlgment is that (in this - case particularty) to overdo is to ir - do: and that to set perfection too high (so high- as no marr we ever heard or read of attained) is the most effectual (beca-use unsuspected) way of- driving it ont of the wodld."' 'Find your example in Christ. says Peter. "who did no. sin, neithe was guile found in his mouth." "Yes." adds .John. "he thlat saith lhe abidieth fra him ought also to walk even as he walke.". "Even so." rejoins Sinm, - -ou niust behave yourselves and alb .stin from evil, being honest, and clen. so that w~hereas they speak evil against you as evildoers. they' may. by your good works. whichr they hall beholcd. glor'ify God."' Ard again John- speaks up-. being now thie diect moittiipiece' of the Lord, and encourages us with the hope of gliory wh Christ. saying. "To him that overconeth wiill I grant to sit with me in ray throcne." Worth the Money. One of" the credit men from the t Suti herec aaiending the convention .1being hell at t~he Be~vedere. tells of . an inv"i'y i. expriecel than a broth er merc'hant had while en ircute to - Itis city. says the Baltimoure Sunday Htersid. The cr'y, without real ~ames and told. from an imprsonal anpit is as fto-ws: They were Inot acquainte'd hut becamn" so in the amoking-room. a.; is cursta>mariy. ..,.- name is Smith.' saiH one. "and i amt in the noat:an hu.-aSm "My unmefl is .lenes."' said the eth er, "and I :au in the clothing bust' Then itey smc!-:ed in si~cnce. Mr. Smi -cut:-'-ing Mr. .Joines pretty Finan-- M.r. JTones aske t whether his ni w ,equinftance was trying to tyii No . sa Mr. Smith. "but I knCW ,vha t you arce thiking aabout." "Are yon a minrd readc'?"' asked ..Nu .eplied th'et lCth:-. "bhut I bet $ I kniow what you arec thinking." The~ bet was madie and Mr. Smith --ou are going to~ Baltimore to 'buy a g stock of clothing, have it ship' pod to your' piacec of business, get a good insurance and then have a big -y3r. JTones tocok out his purse and ahanded Mr. Smith S2, 'saying: "Nothing of the kinid was in my mind, but a suggestion of that kind is wrth $2." ARM -: OTES 'R, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK G% FER. 2. Let them be cultivated fast un til the vines get to be too numerous across the rows. Have the land well plowed and harrowed before bedding up. Plant in ridges, not too high and put in sets eleven inches apart. Do not wait for a seascn lo-g, but take the plant in the hand and dig a hole in the ridge, deep enough to take in the set up to the leaves and pull the dirt onto it and with the fist pack the earth on the root, making a cup to hold a pint of water. This mode is much better than to plant in wet, soft ground. If it is quite wet, when set is put in, it will bake and you will have to wait for rain to culti vate. They should be worked lightly with a hoe, and 1111 up the water boxes before the water boxes. get dry. When the plants have been set, pour in a pint of water, and as soon as the water disappears fill the boxes with earth. Never scrape the ridges or hills with the hoe. Always hill up. Any land that will produce a fair crop of wheat will grow a fair crop of sweet potatoes. The grabbled potatoes eat very nied. But do not take potatoes from. the square that is to be put up to keep until spring. Sort the roots out in the field and place on a hand barrow with the hands only. Undertake to k one that are cut or bruised. Handle carefully and lay them ere they are to pass the winter easy. And always keep the temperature at sixty two degrees Fahrenheit as nearly as possible.-C. L. Harris, Wake Coun ty, N. C. What One Woman Did. Writing to the Asheville Gazette News, Miss Helen Morris Lewis cites a remarkable instance of successful truck farming by an Asheville lady. She says: "I wibh to relate some points about the accomplishments of a woman en gaged in the same industry (truck farming) for the past year. "In this case less than a half acre of land was the area planted, and on a portion of this area the following fruit bearing products: Cherries, plums, raspberries, strawberries, grapes and gooseberries. From all f these considerable fruit was har vested, except the plums that were killed by frost. The land was plowed and smoothed by a man in,the early spring; the rest of the *orfwas done entirely by one woman, except the digging of potatoes. She 'devoted perhaps not more -.han an eighth of a day to this work, as she had a large and flourishing fiower garden to at end besides a greenhouse, numerous ouse plants and many household and autside duties. "Now on -thiis land: the following regetables were produced in abun ance: Spinach, English peas, let uce, radishes, potatoes, onions, eaets, carrots, artichokes, crook-neck quash, patty pan squash, wax beans, tring beans, lima beans, okra, t'ama oes, cauliflower, cabbage, corn,: pep ers, cantaloupe, pumpkin and celery, yesides every variety of herbs. These regetables have provided amply for he year's use of a family,. and fur :ished five varieties each day for two onths to supply a boarding house :able. Sufficient has .een Iaid by for. seed for the coming year, and a :ouple of bushels of corn and a peck f sunfower seeds and several stacks >f fodder are still for sale." Eating the Cake and Having It. A great many farmers use cotton-4 seed meal as a fertilizer, applying it - o the soil in its raw state. We used :o hear a proverb that "You .cannot at your cake and have it too." F'arm and Ranch takes up the old >roverb and proves that it is possible .0 eat the cake and still have it, and n better shape for use. The editor iuotes from reports of various experi nent gtations which show that cotton seed meal may be fed to stock and if :he fertilizer is carefully saved and .ised on the soil, the crops will be Eully equal to those on soil which had :he same quantity of raw cottonseed neat applied in the usual way. Of ourse, the stock has had some ben ift from the meal, therefore you have iten your cake and still had the use >f t. This is important if true, and :he matter should be thoroughly test d in this State. Two-Horse Plowing Better. In sowing peas on stubble land last reason we tried to plow a piece of and with a two-horse plow, but after powing a strip across the field, con :Iuded to wait until it rained. When the rain did come we got into a hurry and plowed in all the field with one tiorse plows, and the result was the deep-plowed strip had a richer color all the season and the pea grew about I one foot taller than the one-horse pio'. in.-J. C. Stribling. Reflections of a Batchelor. A man couldn't make much money olleting the rewards of virtue. The devil wasi awful smart to pick >ut a business where he couldn 't fail. A college education costs enough :o support a boy if he didn't have it. A man can exercise some centrol >ver children if they are somebody A eirl gets much more offended if 'on call hugging squeezing. No matter how much a wodlow once ~nw, she is willing to learn it all ov rr agai. A kiss in time may prevernt umne. The phonograph isni't to blame if t has a bad record. Much of the queerness affected by uanity is cultivated. With some men life is buit a big pr th leading to the cemetery. Sarasm is a weapon that should be drawn only in self-defense. Hard facts do not always make an imression on a soft-headed man. SOUTHERN : f TOPICS OF INT EREST TO THE PL ANT 4 The Old Way or the New. We write and speak a great deal about ihe old and the new way of farming. But very often we do not have very clear ideas about the differ-, ence. We wish now to talk to our reader: awhile about this difference. The line is in 'many things very plain, but in many it is still 'ather mixed. What do we mean by the old way of farming? We mean the way our fathers have farmed and taught us to farm. Some of the chief characteris-, tics of this old way may be giyen. First of all we mention shallow plowing. We used (,ne-horse plows tio breaK the land and usually plowed about an average of three inches, often less. Again we plowed straight up and down the hills. These two things helped to ' reate washes and gullies and barren hillsides. Again we plowed when the soil was wet. And by doing this tor years we cre ated- a compact layer of clay from three to eight inches thick which we call brd-pan. This hard-pan; pre vents the %aler from sinking into the earth, and thus causes washing as well as other damage. It prevents the roots of the plants from going down into the soil and getting water and food. It locks up the plant food. That is, it makes it insoluble. It cuts off the water supply from below in hot, dry --eather, and thus greatly damages the crops. Besides creating this hard-pan thiq plowing when wet destroys the fertil- I ity of the three inches which were plowed. It makes it into mortar, which, when dried, becomes sun-dried brickbats. Countless millions of these are all over the fields to-day. Another old way was to burn up all the rotting vegetable matter on the farm. This was and is a fearful mistake. This vegetable matter would create humus and greatly in crease the productive power of the soil. - Another old way was to plant too much cotton and buy supplies. This is working backwards. Another was to turn our farms over to renters, tenants or "helpers" and give no at tention to caring for the soil. Another was to wait for the stumps to rot out, and continue to cultivate stones for all our lives. Anothei was and is to depend too much upon commercial fertilizers. The result of this old way has been to destroy the fertility of the soil, make gullies and bald hillsides and work bard and living p6or. What we call the new way.begins in breaking the ground from twelve to fifteen inches, thus making the soil very deep, for when we have broken through the hard-pan we strike the porous st-'ata. -When this is done all the earth needed is at the command of the root crops. They can and do go down from four to seven feet seek ng and finding food and water. Again we do all the plowing when the earth is dry. This prevents the packing and prevents the formation of sun-dried brickbats. This pulver izes the soil and thus makes the plant food soluble and available. Reaction follows the plow and the soil is as deep as we plow. This greatly~ increases the productive power of the farm. We terrace the fields anid plow on a. level. There are many benefits hat followed from this. This, to ether with the deep breaking,. holds practically all the rain water in win ter and yields it up in summer to the growing plants in hot and dry times. -We remove il. stumps and stones, thus making it possible to use all kinds of improved farm machinery.. We- plint first of all an abundant spply of all that we consume upon he farm. We find it cheaper to raise orn and wheat and beef and pork han to ''uy them.I We raise the cattle, save the ma ure and make the farm rich, s(' thati * e are not dependent upon bought i: We give much time and space to1 rowing and saving grass instead oft ll of our time and labor to killing1 rass-. WVe live at home, diversify our ro ps,. beautify our farms,. pay as we go, make cotton largely or entiraly as a surplus crop. We make farm life profitable, pleasant, enjoyable, and our ehildren grow up delighted with the country ome and stay there. Thus, briefly stated. are some of the striking features of the new way. Which will you follow ?-Southern Cultivator. Cultivating Sweet Potat(oes. There are many things to be con and keeping of sweet potatoes. 1. The slips should he ready to set as early as the~ trost is out of' the grounds: say by thet 1.5th or 20th o April. The swee. 7DoZsto requires~ abomU six :non:.hs to :''ke- and ma ture so i:. will kee; v: -. Pointed Paragraphs. I There might be less sin in the world f sonme preachers were as anxious; o kill Satan as they arc to preach his funeral sermon. Habit is stronger than either judg-! inent or passion. Fools brag where wise men only ad Probably mcore intellectual women vould marry if they were asked. Occasionally we encounter a wise an~ 'who causes us to admiire a fool. Everv time a man v:ets it in the ek he realizes howv little he amounts Don't make yourself common. The vorld only sits up anh takes notice f the uncommon. About all the pleasure the pessi mst dets out of life he steals-and :hen hie aets as if he was afraid of being eaaght at it.-Chicago Daily News. Faith flounshes in solitude-Beau