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TII F With words as sweet as viodets I wove a daint-. song for her: My fingers stole aero the f::e-s And set the golden ebords. a-4tir They quivered Ntith a pas-ion true That told my oeart was hers :dnc; But, oh. her love was like t he dew. &-flash at morn. ere no'day ;oen Yet I wilI keep my ia:, And bide another day; The bird that iies To other skies Returns to greet the May. {A MINE All John Carstair's money was made from mines, and was still com i::g out of mines in a golden stream. From "Old John's" point of view this was a very pleasant fact. indeed. Mrs. Carstairs was enabled to shine in all the brilliance of New York sea sons and Newport indolence. But Frances, embellished with all that Parisian costunmes and the skill of French maids could possibly add to the beauty of her graceful figure, and the witchery of her wavy brown hair tnd deep brown eyes. had grave .dotlbts- as to the unalloyed desirabil t: of this wealth. For there was Dick to be considered. Dick was not rich; not. exactly poor, but certainly not rich. And when one is wealthy and beautiful and twenty-one; and when one's mother thinks it is time to consider one's marriage, and so many youths with all the necessary banknotes and londs have expressed their adoration and been refused; and all this with the result that one's mother is be ceming impatient. while Dick is the (-aly one that will suit but is .ot rich; naturally the problem assurnes seri cus proportions. Of course Dick was also a doubter. To keep himself at all che.rful he had day dreams of becoming sudden ly wealthy and boldly demanding Frances' hand from "Old John." Frances, from a comfortable and be coming position on Dick's shoulder, would agree that such aa event would be perfectly lovely." "But how are you going :o make it happen, Dick, dear?" Now that was just what Dick didn't know himself. .Then came a time when Mrs. Car stairs' - coming softly into Frances' room at night introduced another fac tor... an already perplexing prob em. "Frances, dear, it is time you were thinking of marr-'ing and having a house of your .own." "I suppose so, mother." "Now, of course, Frances, I can quite understand all this foolishness and sentiment about Dick Leigh. It is all very well for a young girl just out of school, but wnen a girl comes to your age, Frances, she must look at things sensibly." Mrs. Carstalirs contnneQ: "I will admit Dick is a very fine young man and I have no dou.>t would mnaka a model husbaud. But, my dear, he has no money and is never likely to have. You must forget all about this boy-and-girl.. affair. Several yonaug men of admirable character - and with th ' necessary me ans to make you happy have spoken to .-our father, and we expect you to make a choice before long." "Yes, mother," almost in tudibly from the cushions. The new developments in t se --.ase having been tearfully reported to Dick, that young man was more .per plexed than -ever, but could offer no advice except to wait for a while. 'Ahe "waiting" lasted for nearl. three uaonths, until Mrs. Carstairs announced to Frances that her hand had een promised to Mr. Wyndham, whose :noney -.;as also obtained from minco. "My dear', it is now March, and since Mr. Wyndham as well as your father and I would like you to be married quietly at cur country house I have fixed tlhe date for September-" After a short pause she continued: - "Now, Frances, I hrve given Dick Leigh. to understand that you are en gaged to Mr. Wyndh'm and are to be married in September, and he has, I believe, left the city for the West this morning. T expect, Frances, to hear nobhing more about this old love af f.'r. If I do. you will regret it.'' She swert out with the full con sciousness and pride of victory. But as she departed Frances' maid now came -vith a letter from Dick. Shorn of endearing epithets and caressing phrases, the letter said that he was off to tae West, Jhe land of the mines, and was determined that "a mine v. ill soon be mine, and then you shall be mine again. Always and forever thine. Dick." Frances spent an hou" in reading those portions of the letter which we have omitted. and then plungnd .into the delights of shopping with br: mothar, for Dick would find his mine and she might as well prepare for the wedding now. t,:-u while hte mother shoppr'd with Mr. Wyndhanm in mind, she could feel it vwas for Dick. Such implicit confidence in Dicli was flattering, but it was doubtful if such faith in abilities r'eposcd is his own mind. Equipped with pros' pector's pack and guide, he arrived ati the littlh hotel near Ca'stairs Mine. He decided to explore the country five miles to the north of "Old John's' mine, and so informe<' miner who had struck up s.n cas) - Western acquaintance with him. "Prospect them there hills to th< north. Why, by The six-shoote:r oJ m:oses, yer crazy, ,ardner." "'hy.'" d manded the c:-e::tiaic: Dic'. "There .infl'r o gold rocks there nlaw, not even good buildin' stone A man's plumb leery-eyed foolish t< prospect them hills. Better strike job workin' ia the mines for Oic John Carstairs. Y'er a chunky look ing specimen. pard, and S'S a day'. good pay. Come in," with a jerk o his dirty thumb over his shoulder "Come in. pardner', the drink'll be oz me.' it was not long before Dick discov ered that he couldn't tell go)ld or' WAW. Ifayhap come day icr merry glance h A ail to inet the lir .t it throws; $Oie day hcr happv heart. perehance May fee1 the thorn benea.th the rose; Anl it nee .'hould pain the breast, T nature only foruied for glee. Wit acing heart that longs for rctt, M V IttlC Love may t t ue Then wil I I rise and say: Lt uaught mny sweet affray, L>ve's beacon burn". My bosoi yearus: The old love lives, for ave: -Samuel Minturn Peck, iii Transcript. EPISODE.3 from a macadam roadway, and de cded to take the advice of his hos pitav.e friend with the thirst. wo rk ing in the mines, be would learn enough about ores to continue his prospecting trip. Therefore, it came ao yut that Dick Leigh, sometime suit or - r the hand of Frances, was wielding the pick in her father's m:ne. Dick spent all his idle time wan dering about the property adjacent to the Carstairs mine, and discovered one day that it had been staked o'it as a claim. Bill, the friendly miner with the thirst, hastened to reassure him. "Don't you worry, pardner, you ain't lost nuthin'. I knows all about that there claim, for I've broken more'n one hammer tinkerin' round them rocks, and by the bronco of 'Bimeelech there's no gold on the top cf that claim. Naw, nor for a long i rail down into the ground neither. 1 But, pardner. yer a good friend of iaine. I likes yer ways, d'ye see, and I'll tell yer what'll be between yer self and me. 'Old John's' mine,'" lowering his voice cautiously, "is 4 likely to have a vein run down un derneath that there new claim." "Well, then," said Dick, "we are - too late." "Naw, nary a bit. 'Taint likely ( anything will happen for three or < four montls yet, and they'll get enough of that claim 'fore then." This conversation occurred in late April, .-hen men were boring in the n-'w claim. 'There was excitement In I the camp, however, when it was ru mored that some paying ore had been rtruck. It was later announced that Wyndham, the mine owner, -was talk ing of buying the property as soon as an official essay of the ore nad been riade. These were bitter days for poor Dick. Old Bill would reassure him in his-hours of despondency. "That there ori Won't assay worth a floor scrubber's cess, yer'll see." Even Bill kas nonblussed by the later news, that the ore had assayed remarkably rich and that there wasc a rush to buy. *S don't see how Itc happened. That there assayer must be gone luny. I saw some of that ore myself and it ain't wvorth a quid of I chewed baccy." CHAPTER II. The great event of the -mining sea 'son was the collapse of the Wynd- - ham Mining Company. The .mine has not proved as rich as the assay had shown. In fact, as old Bill had said, "It warn't worth much more'n good buildin' stone." The bankrupt cy of Wyndham provided good "copy''-" for the New York and Chicago "yel lows," which irregularly reached the camp. Dick read to Bill with great inward satisfaction, the news that the engagement of Miss Carstairs and Mr. Wyndhayn had been broken off by Mrs. Carstairs, on account of Wyndham's disastrous failure. There came a day when Bill no longer went to the mine, but tossed about in the delirium of a fever. The young doctor told Dick that "it was just drink. Constitution wrecked by liqluor. He won't last very long." "Dick, old pardner, I'm off on the last trail. It's time for me to pull 'stakes, y' see. Y've been a good pal, Dick airight and I'm sorry to leave yer. But 'fore I go, I'll tell yer to watch the north end of the mine. And in the old box, yer'll fmnd a pack et 'dressed to the old mother in Wis consin." He paused for breath as Dick supported his bead and wet hisI lips with the medicine. "I'll surely send it on to her," said Dick.. "Thar ks, pardner, ye re were al ways a good pal So long-pard Iwatch the north end. The vein may run The rest of the sentence was lost in a mutter as old Dill crossed the great divide. Bill's mates in the mine all attend ed the simple funeral and erected a rough cross a. the head of the grave. The days passed into weeks and Dick worked on in the Carstairs mine. The machinery on the Wyndham property still lay idle, a monument to hasty judgment. The whole story of the f'ailure was now known. The original owners of the claim has fol lowed the assayer's clerk who was carrying samples of ore to the assay office. Finding him asleep, with the ore in a leathern bag under his pil low, they forced the sharpened point of a syringe through the leather and sprayed the samples of ore with chlo ride of gold. Toward the end of August Dick was working in the north of the Carstairs mine. He was feeling par ticularly despondent, and was con sidering leaving the mine, drawing the few thousand he had left in the bank at Chicago and again going back to the humdrum of a Wall street clerkship. He was wielding his pick -almost automatically, scarcely heed n1g where be struck. A new deep vein of ore had been ~id ..are for some minutes before he was aware of the fact. Then he dropped his pick, and groping on Ihands and knees, he carefully exam indth ein. A few -more strokes of his pick and he had grasped the situation. Carefully covering up the vein again, he worked hard for a few min utes breaki-ng up worthless rock with his pick and carrying it over to the new veini. Piling rock paintakingly upon01 it. he worked away till the bell -rang for the end of the eight-hour shit. The ca seemed to Dick to be crawling up to Ie top, and when t had deposited its load on the sur :ace he hurried to his tent. Dressing 'imself in the rainent of former lays. he hired a "buckboard," and Irove off to the town. "Reckon young Dick must be go ng to see a gal over to Charville." -emarked an astonished spectator. Naw. he don't go anything on ;als," commented Si. the saloon teeper. "He's more hxely goin' over Liter some books or magerzeens. le's a queer cuss. is Dick." Dick further astonished the min ng communh'y by quitting work at he mine. "Allers thought yer'd quit," sen entiously remarked Si, "yer ain't he pick and shovel sort. But it's >een good experience for yer. Bet 'er come into the s'loon, I need a iew hand and yer'd be husky erough :o keep the boys straight." Dick reported that he needed a 'est and change and was going away n a few days. But it was many days before he eft. For the next day the manage nent of the Carstairs mine discov red that their latest and richest rein ran straight through into the tbandoned Wyndham property. "Old rohn" made haste to buy, but was nformed that the deeds of the land were in the posse::sion of one Richard eigh, Esq., of New York, who had )ought the abandoned machinery a ew days previously for some thou and dollars and had had the deeds f the property thrown in. "Old John" was wise and as yet carcely any one had been allowed to iear of the new vein. His agents pproached Dick and offered him an xtra thousand for the machinery Lnd land. Dich dismissed them with .he information teat he would speak ,o Old John himself. 'That elderly nine owner was much surprised to ind that Dick had inside information LS to the vein and that Dick was urther prepared to begin mining op rations himself. It was about a inonth after the ew mining firm of Carstairs, Leigh Company has been incorporated hat Frances, from her old position >n Dick's shoulder, was talking over >ld times. "And I said you would find the nine, didn't I. Dick, dear?" "Of course you did, Frances." an wered the man of mines, "mine at ast by a mine."-A. J. Thomas, in ,anadian Graphic. It is interesting to learn from a istinguished expert in nervous de angements - in other words, an 'alienist"-that the tendency to sui ide in hot weather 1s due to a sort if exaggerated laziness. Silver-on-glass mirrors have been ong familiar. In a new process an inglish electrician deposits copper rom the black oxide by ele-trolytie seans, and produces veryb'ffiiliant mirrors of a lbinfilm' of copper on lass... A diamond burning in the electric rc- was lately exhibited on a screen y Sir William Crooaes. The stone ould be seen to sprout and swell and lacken under the intense heat until othing remained but a swollen lump f graphite. Carefully suspended thermometers tave shown a German chemist very sateral differences in the tempera ure of an ordinary air oven -whether eated by gas or electricity, with me allic or porcelain walls, with air entilator open or shut. The tem serature in two of the corners is usu .Ily much higher-often as much as .7 C.-than it is in the other two orners or the centre. Dr. See proves that the rigidity of he earth's crust is about equal to hat of granite, which is one-sixth hat of steel, and that toward the entre the rigidity rapidly increases. Lt the earth's centre the imprisoned natter is at an enormously high tem erature, yet under the tremendous >ressure there at work, kept three imes more rigid than the nickel teel used in the armor of a ,battle hip. According to the best authorities, ess than one thousandth-millionth >art of the sun's rays reaches the ~arth. It is fortunate that this is so. t any considerable concentration of he rays upon our plant would peedily destroy it. According to the ame account, if all of the ice at the orth Pole were so piled that the eat of the sun could be focused on t it would dissolve at the rate of ~00,000,000- of miles of solid ice per ~econd. It may surprise many readers to earn that ores of lead and other met ls may contain sufficient water to ncease very materially their weight. 'his fact is the basis of a decision. ecently rendered by the United tates general appraisers, that eus :oms ofiicials have no right to compel mporters to pay duty on moisture in res. In the case on which the deci sion was based, one car of lead ore, coming from British Columbia, weighed 62,050 pounds gross, but with the moisture removed, only 60, 373 pounds. The figures for another ear were respectively 63,104e pounds and 63,052 pounds. The local ap paisers applied to the moist ore the percentage of lead found in a dried sample, and this the general apprais ers decided was wrong. Balloons For brides. The gallant of old, like young Locninvar, used to lift his bride to lis saddle, and ride away; the post chaise did duty later on; then we came by degrees to the carriage and pair, the railway coupe, and the motor. Now the balloon is proposed. But the glorious uncertainty of the balloon will not commend itself to brides. What woman, newly mar ried, would care to i'isk the possibili ty of descending fifty or more miles from her t+ns?-o.Tndon World., Uncle Sam's Road Work. Probably no field of work is of greater interest to the public at large than the improvement of the high ways. The Office of Public Roads, as now constituted, writes a correspond ent from Washington, D. C., repre sents a distinct stage in the develop ment of the work undertaken by the Federal Government in 1893 by the establishment of the Office of Road Inquiry. At the time of the estab lishment of the office, the lack of a knowledge of existing conditions was a serious hindrance to an intelligent application of any plan for road imi provement. The name originally chosen for the office was suggestive of the purpose of Congress, which was to inquire into system of road management throughout the United States, and into methods of road making, and to disseminate informa tion as to the results of such inquir i2Cs. In a recent report on the subject the Secretary of Agriculture said the most important result which has been attained up to this time, wheth er produced by influence in or out side of the Office of Public Road In quiries, is that the people in all parts of the country are now interested in the subject of road improvement. and are seeking such information as will enable them to carry on the work along intelligent lines. It was found, therefore, that the collection of information must of necessity be come only one feature of the work of the office, and that facilities must be provided for answering as well as awakening inquiries. At the same time the necessity for demonstrating scientific and economical methods of road construction instead of mere agitation has been clearly estab lished. While it is known in a general way that some parts of the country have progressed much further than others in the matter of road improvement. there is little available Information regarding what has been accomplished in the various States and counties. If comprehensive statistics were available it would be shown that. large sums .of money are anAually wasted in some sections,- while in others surprisingly satisfactory re sults are obtained at a moderate cost. The office is now bollecting in formation from every county In the United States in regard to the mile age of improved and unimproved roads. the amount of cash tax, bonds issued, and other information of a similar nature. No more telling ar gument for reform in wasteful meth ods can be adduced than to bring home to every county just what re sults they are obtaining as compared with the results obtained by other counties at a similar cost.-The Au ~tmobile. The Split Log Road Drag. Ten years ago a Missouri farmer who had grown tired of wading through a "slough of despond" every spring when the roads were soft and who had seen his neighbors lose time. money and patience wnen their wag ons were hub deep in the mire or their horses tugging and straining in their harness to get a half load to market, decided that there must be scme remedy for this condition. One day, in thinking it over, he made the astonishing .discovery that what made the roads muddy was mud, and if the road was worked into such a shape that the water would drain off instead of soaking into the ground after every rain the roads would cease to be muddy. By means of three Inches of fence board he rigged up a home made contrivance out of an old wooden pump stock that the frost had spoiled and an oak post. He nailed these together so that they were held parallel to each other. Then he made a rough plank platform on which to stand, and by means of wire hitched his team to this clumsy affair at such a point that it would drag along over the road with 'a slant of about forty five degrees. He began with the road that ran in front of his own farm. When it was at Its worst he drove up and down, from his own front gate to that of his nearest neighbor. Like a huge mason's trowel smoothing off mortar it scraped along, cutting down the inequalities and rough places and filling tip the wagon ruts. He kept at it, and after a number of draggings, in place of the flat basin that had served as a water course for every storm to settle in he had built up a r'oad with a crown and surface that was smooth enough to shed water "like a duck's back." In short, he simply demonstrated the sound ness of his major premise. "if I can get rid of the mud the roads will cease to be muddy." The device he made he called a "split log road drag."-Claud H-. Miller, in Farming. A Princely Signalman. While Prince Arthur of Connaught and his suite were recently traveling by steamer along a Canadian river a man standing on the bank began w'aving a pocket handkerchief on a stick. and the Prince, taking his own handlkerchief from his lpocket, waved back again. Then, turning round to the bystanders Princ:3 Arthur said: "The man signaled the words 'Wel come to Canada,' and I have replied, 'Thank you.' "~ - New Haven Palla dium. Sweet Attraction. "Labor like the ant." advised thc wise mother. The lazy boy sulked. Presently he rushed back in great gle. "Oh, mamma!" he exclaimed, ex citedly. "Can I labor like the ant rIght now?" "You certainly can, my son," re plied the de'i;;hted mother. "jut what prompted you so suddenly?" "Why, I jusit found an army of ants laboring around :'our jam-jars." ...Chicago Daily Nns aeoeoese.oeeooe@SeeSee : 110usEhald attEr's. ..esOegOS.S*SOOOOOseOO00 Currant Sandwiches. A very pleasant and healthy vari ation of the meat, jam, egg or water cress sandwich can be made with the assi tance of the nutritious currant. Take a teacupful of currants and rub them in a cloth, then butter rather thick some thin slices of bread. Cover the buttered bread all over with currants. sift L very little sugar over them, and make into sand wiches. This satisfying little novelty is wonderfully appreciated, and will not fail to delight the children. The Foundation For Duiaplings. No. 3. Mix thoroughly with one quart of flour three teaspoonfuls of baking poirder and one small tea spoonful of salt. Rub in a piece of butter or lard the size of an egg. and then add one medium-sized potato, grating it with the flour. After the butter is well mixed stir in sufficient milk to knead to the consistency of biscuit. dough. Break off pieces of the dough. fill with strawberries, raspberries or blackberries, and steam in an earthen dish until the dough is cooked through. Serve with sauce. No. .2. Grease six cups and line with a dough made as described above. Wet the edges, fill with fruit and sugar and cover with the paste. Put in shallow stewpan with boiling water reaching half way up the side of the cups. Stew thus forty-five minutes. Turn out on a heated dish. sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with a spice sauce. Bureau Drawers That Stick. "Patrons come to me every day and say that the drawers of dressers and other furniture stick fast, and cannot be opened or shut without great difficulty," said the ~complaint man" in a down-town furniture store. "This is a trouble with much furniture, especially that which is new, and is especially common in the spring. "What do we do in such cases? We simply tell the customers to wet the surface of a bar of common laun dry soap and rub it firmly over the parts of the wood that stick. This makes the surface smooth and slip pery, and in nearly all* cases the drawer will slide easily, especially after it has been opened and shut a few times. "This also is valual le with doors which, in new flats. are likely to set tle or are apt to scrape at the top as the building settles. Just use soap on them and save the trouble of calling in a carpenter, who will plane the varnish off. "China cabinet doors, with curved glass, cause us a lot of trouble, but most of the tightness can be reme ied by the use of soap and a few pplications of sandpaper." jIINTS FOR, THE' MOii USEKEEPEFL~ To Give Gloss to Linen-If a gloss n linen is desired, add a teaspoon ful of salt to the starch when making. Stains on Marble-A paste of crude potash and whiting brushed over a grease spot on marble will remove the stain. For Brass Fixtures-TO clean brass fixtures, apply lemon juice with' a :loth, then wash with warm water and rub dry with a chamois skin or a. soft cloth. To Clean Wall Paper-Wall paper that has been soiled In spots m'ay be cleaned and freshened by rubbing down with bread or applying corn meal with a cloth. To Counteract Salt-If too much salt has been added to soup, slice a raw potato and boil it in tne soup for a few minutes. The potato will ab sorb much 'of the salt. Inspecting Jellies-Jellies shotuld be inspected during long spells of damp weather, a very little dampness in the place where the jellies are kept will often spoil them.-E. R. B. Tossing the Baby-It is dangerous to toss the baby. Many a child has been attacked with convulsions be cause of being tossed. Move the baby gently up and down. It w1ll aid in a igestion. Saucepan Cleaning-To cleanse a burnt saucepan, fill it with cold water and add a tablespoonful of soda, also a teacupful of wood ashes5 'if obtainable. Place over a fire and allow to come to a boil. To Remove Grease Spots-Cover a grease spot on matting with French chalk and sprinkle benzine on it. Allow the benzine to evaporate and brush off the chalk, when the grease spot will have disappeared. House Plants-Improper drainage is responsible for many failures with house plants. Have some porous substance at the bottom of the pot which will retain moisture and vet permit the water to run through. Scouring Tin-Ker'osene oil is ex cellent for scouring any bright p01 Iished me:al, especially tin. Diip the scouring cloth in and with very lit tle rubbilag the tinware or article may he kept bright as when new. Pure Air For Sick Room-It is sometimes not permissible to open the window of a sick room and yet he heavy atmospher'e needs chang ing. This can be done by setting afire a #ew spoonfuls of cologne is a Cleaning Windows Without Soap -If you wish your window panes to be bright and clear, use no soap on hem, but sprinkle ammonia in the water with .'hich they are washed. If newspaper is used for drying, a fine polish will be obtained. Keeping~'Mums over Winter--Put the chrysanthemum 1lants that you are keeping over winter in the cel lar and keep them moderately dry. The winter is their resting time, therefore do not water them too much nor keep them dust dry. Slips can be freely taken from them in the spring, when they take cn new life SOUTHERN : TOPICS OF IMTEREST TO THE PLANT Raising Mules in Georgia. It is certainly refreshing to meet up with a man in the South who is making a success in raising live stock. it is quite a common thing to Eud a farmer who is raising ho;s and some cattle. but it is very rare to find one engaged in raising mules. Last week we met Mr. J. MeWhorier, of Beardstown. in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. who is a successful merchant and farmer. In conversation with him he informed 6s that he was rais ing mules on a small scale and was very much pleased with the result. He has six mares and raises six mules a year. This spring he sold one of his raisings for $210.10. The mule did not cost him any greater outlay of money than he would have had to expend in raising two bales of cotton, and yet brought him just twice as much. The farmers are right in not having any but large, heavy mules. It takr.s power to pull the plow deep. Paying 1200 and more for a mule has began to open our farmers' eyes to the vast drain upon our cotton crop that is annually being made to keel) up the enormous supply of mules. Now, let us go a step fur ther and begin to raise them. Per cheron mares make fine working ani mals and will breed large mules. Every man who has as much as 200 acres of land or a good pasture should also have at least two good mares to raise mule colts. A fine jack should be in every county site in our South land. The mule will always be large ly used by our cotton producers, then why not raise them, since rye, wheat, oats, peas, velvet beans, sorghum, Bermuda, alfalfa will grow here with us just as well as any where on earth if we only give them a good chance. We feel a deep interest in Mr. J. L. McWhorter's venture. We hope he will persevere, and we trust hundreds of our successful farmers will join with him in this Important and long neglected branch- of farm ing. We feel better since we know there is one man raising mules in Georgia. In LaGrange they have a fine jack, and many farmers are rais ing one or two mule colts, but we don't know of any man who has as many as six brood m-ares. So many are talking of the scarcity of labor. Build good Bermuda pastures and raise mule colts. They will gather most their food themselves and con vert it into a valuable and saleable shape. Here's to the Georgia mule, may his tribe increase. And so may the enterprising number who will join Mr. McWhorter in his effort to diversify our farming and to render our South more sustaining.--South ern Cultivator. Making Pork on Peanuts. Trhe peanut does not yield zin~ the Northern States as it does South. There they grow large crops of them in light sandy soil that will produce little else. O-1e of the large growers of peanuts in the South in a letter to the Southern Cultivator praises the crop as very profitable for hog rais ing and fattening. He says: The pea nut has many advantages over other crops. First, it has no Insect enemy; second, it will withstand more dry weather than any other crop, and third, poor sandy land 'that will not pay in any other crop will make a fine crop of peanuts. I had this year twenty acres In peantits that easily made fifty bushels per acre -on land that would not make over eight bush els of corn without fertilizer. The vines made, the finest hay I ever fed when properly cured. If you pull them up in the evening and the sun shines the next day in the evening take them in and you will have the sweetest hay you ever saw. My horses will leave alfalfa to eat pea nut hay cured in this way. The peanuts are the finest hog feed I ever fed. If you want to feed your hogs on peanuts have a block in your barn or crib and a sharp hatchet and you can chop ofif the bunch of pea nuts from a pint to nearly a quart on each root. You can chop off two bushels of peanuts while you are shelling one bushel of corn. They will fatten hogs faster than anything else and keep them healthy. Some people say there is no money In peanuts, but there is, for I get money the year round for mine. I am now supplying. two stores, be sides using the nuts to fatten my hogs. The vines or hay I feed to my horscs and cows. Destroying the Blue Thxisle. E. V. C., Vesuvius. writes: I have a field that had wheat on it that was out in June which is nearly blue with the blue thistle. Several persons have told me to dig them up and burn them. I want to sow wheat on the land this fall. H-ow would you advise me to ge. rid of the thistles?~ Answer-it the thistles hare not Items of Interest. Mexico is believed to be seeking to ain control of- the Mexico Central Railway as a meaus of stopping rate discrimination. Bryan made an address at Colum bia, S. C.. and then started for Geor A tumor on the brain has driven George Painter of Stephens City, in sane. Thomas W. Alexander who disap pea red from Augusta. G;a.. after hav ing defaulted for $20.000 was arrest ci in Pittsburg, Pa. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California. in an address at the commenlcemfent of Le laud Stanford University. argue against the spelling ref~ormn advocat ed by President Roosevelt. The American warships arived al Giraltair in time to take part im tne e..r.al of Admiral Chicester. ARM : f0TES. ERt, SyOCKMANANIO TRUCK G.6WER. gone to seed. I would plow them un der as deeply as possible. If they are about ready to seed, cut them and burn them, and then break the land and fallow it thoroughly. It Is late to sow cowpeas to advantage, but in an ordinary season, you might have used cowpeas to advantage as they make an excellent smother crop and/ would help to hold the thistles in check. Persistent hard work is the only way by which you can hope to control the thistles, but it will pay you to attack the problem with all vigor you possess for it is an unusu ally pernicious weed and one ex tremely difficult to eradicate, but if -ou do not battle with it persistently it will soon spread all over your farm and get to be an intolerable nuisance. By the blue thistle you probably mean the Canadian thistle.-Prof. Soule. With One Eye Open. Grease is cheaper than axles or horse-power. A little lime scattered about will help some. Those second-crop potatoes will be among the best things on the table next winter. Entomology makes great divisions in the family of mosquitoes; but they all seem to have about the same manners. Right along now is a good time to make out the program for next year. The ancients consisted of two classes: 1st, those who were willing to learn. 2-1, the others. A good sort of education is that which enables one to do the right thing, at the right place, at the right time. If the mosquito bills are too sL.arp, pour a few drops of kerosene on any surface water about the premises. .Plowing. wet land is....oring- for nothing and taking money out of the crop with which to pay for the privi lege. We are all failures, now, aren't we? The difference is that some give up while the others keep going. -Postal, Pitt County, North Caro lina, in Progressive Farmer. How to Deal With the Ducklings. To raise young ducks successfully, the best way is to treat them almost like a pig, confine them in a small, grassy yard with a coop or a box for a roosting place. Feed them four or five tjmes a day or more, from the 'left overs" from'the dinner table cold vegetables, etc. Mix this with buttermilk and feed In a. trough as you would a pig, not forgetting to provide them wtth one-third the bilk of their ration with sand, for they do not pick grit as does the chicken, but eat sand or even mud with their They need no exercise, and only enough water to drink-none to swim in, or even get the down on them wet. They delight to fill their craws full, then sit quietly down near the trough and cut their eyes up to the sun, first one side then the other, until the spirit moves them again to hit the feed trough. A fat tening hog is modest in its demand for food as compared with a flock of healthy Pekin ducks. a month old, but then it Is not watch Charlotte, but the ducks grow.--Uncle Jo0, Mecklen burg County, North Carolina. Why Legumes Enrich. According to the scientific experts each acre of yourfarmhas 75,000,000 pounds of nitrogen suspended in the air over It. That nitrogen is worth fifteen cents a pound to you, and each acre has $11,250,000 in nitro gen value fioating over it. Your land can not directly drawy the valuable nitrogen from the at mosphere and utilize It In the grow ing of crops. You have no available mechanical or chemical means by which you can force the air to drop its nitrogen upon your soil. Never theless, nature. makes it possible for. you to draw to a certain extent upon the cast stores of nitrogen above y~ur far~m. One class of plants, the legumes, is endowed by nature with the power to draw nitrogen from the atmosphere and store it In the soil for a time. The familiar clovers, th cowpeas, the soy-beans and the wo derful alfalfa belong to t'tis valuabi class of plants, and you can use the to draw from the air in the nitrogen) our soil needs and must have in order to be able to produce large and good crops. An acre of legumes will draw from the air about 200 pounds of nitrogen, and it will enrich y soil in the most effective way at' the lowest possible cost. Albino lobsters are sometimes found. There is one in the Univer sity museum at Oxford which is two feet'long. Current Events. The Pacitie Mail Company's stbam er Manchuria, which grounded on a reef near Honolulu August 20, has been floated. The steamer Mongolia, a sister ship of the Manchuria, ran aground on Midway reef. Tucker county, West Virginia, Democrats nominated a county ticket and endorsed William J. Brayn. issouri lRepublicans arc urging Roouvelt to run for President agaia. A monument to George Washingtonl was unveiled at Budapest, Hungary. TePal ma Government has hasten ed oso the Cuban revolution, and efforts are being made to co'mplomise with the insurgents. At present the United States Ma rine Corps has over 7.000 men in ac tive service, tha legal limit of the corps bing 9..000.