The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, October 17, 1906, Image 6

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]o you :eel weak, tired, despondent, have frequent headaches. coated tongue, bitter or bad taste in morning, "heart burn." belching of gas,. acid risings in chroat after eating. stomach gnaw or urn,j fou! brelth, dizzy spells, poor or variable appetite, na':sea at times and kindred symptoms? If yo-+ve any considerable number of Qh above a toms you are suffering from iliousn ~. pid liver with indi efficient liver invigorator. stgmnach tonic, Vowel regulator and nerve strengthener. The "Golden Medical Discovery " is not v patent medicine or secret nostrum, a full li4 of its ingredients being printed n its bottle-wrapper and attested under 'lath. A glance at its formula will show that it contains no alcohol, or harmful ':iablt-forming drugs. It is a fluid extract made with pure, triple-refined glycerine, of proper strength, from the roots of the .ollowing native American forest plants, viz., Golden Seal root. Stone root, Black Cherrybark, Queen's root, Bloodroot. and Mandrake root. 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Dougi -nes and Insist up.. having them. Fa'ut Color Eyefrts used : they wilt not trec.. Jy. Write for litustrated catalog nf Fa'l St'Jes. Wr L nOU G LAS. Dept. 15. Brockton. Mass. Nerve Pillow. A "nerve" pillow is something which physicians are said to recom mend and which can ea3ily be made at home. One needs only to gather or buy a quantity cf dried soporific herbs, such as hops and catnin lea-es, bav:berry and sweet fern, adding to them sweet grass. balsam pine and as many sweet smelling. sleepy things as one can think cf. Dry. and powder, and mix all to cher. Then fill your "nerve" pillow with the Summerwood sachet powder thus formed. Stuff the pillow with down or cotton batting or feathers, and either scatter the powder thick through the filling, or, what is bet ter, make sachet bags and fasten :hem securely to the inner sides of the pillow.-Philaiel-)hia Ledger. Something Lacking. One of the richest gold finds in Aurtralia was made by a boy who picked up a stone to throw at a crow, and noticed that there was goid in the stone. When he reprted the fact to ihe local gcvernmen-lt officer the wardcn endeavored to notify the Governor by telegraph. He was, however, too excited to be rational. "A boy picked u) a stone to throw at a crow;' he wired. and the amazed official, unable to guess what there was of significance In the event, re plied: "Yes: and what happened to tho e:*c-w'"--Romance of Mining. SURE OF THAT. Mother-How often have I told you not to allow that young man to kiss you?9 Mabel-I don't know, ma, but cer tainly not as often as he has kissed mie.-Philadelphia Ledger. ides t Home on the Farm eluxlnxel\t dicine chest 10641-0o orses.Caltie. Hoes & Pbultry. oDn, Boston, Mass. Cotton Facts. Cotton sig-ht receipts during the crop year eniding August 31 aggre gated 11,321,835 bales, 2.319.636 less than for like mouths ini 1904-5, but 1.266,878 greater than for 1903-4. The net oveland movements during the same period were 1.008,463 bales in 1905-6. 1,128,138 in 1904-5 and 939.943 in 1903-4, while the exports ofa like charac-ter totaled 6,732,203 bales during the current season, .876,898 dur-ing the preceding one, and 6,118,001 in 1903-4. Of the do mnestie spinners' takings for the months ending August 31,1906, 2, 34S.478 bales were shipped to North ern mills and 2,374.225 to Southern mills a total of 4,723,703 bales, against 4.445.650 for corresponding months in 1904-3 and 3.946.219 in 19034. Receipts of dlomestic cotton at United States ports for the crop vear- totaled S.029.544 bales. over two million below like arrivals in 1904-5, but almost a million greater than those for 1903-4. Of the total 4.974, 1S2 bales were received at Gulf and 3055.362 at Atlantic 'ports. If it mxakes you miserable to see other 1-appy; you bad better take your heart to the Lord andl get it fixed. NO DAWDLING A Man of 70 After Finding Coffee Hart Him. Stopped Short. - When a man has lived to be 70 years old with a 40-year-old habit grown to him like a knot on a tree, cances are he'll stick to the habit till he dies. ~ut occasionally the spirit of youth and determination remains in some p'en to the last day of their lives. When such men do find any habit of life has been doing them harm, they surprise the Oslerites'by a degree of will power' that is supposed to belon:g to men under 40, only. "I had been a user of coffee until three years ago- a period of 40 years -and am now 70," writes a N. Dak. man. "I was extremely nervous and debilitated, and saw plainly that I must make a change. . "I am thankful to say I had the nerve to quit coffee at once and take on Postum without any dawdling, and experienced no ill etfects. On the contrary, I commenced to gain, losing may nervousness within two months, also gaining strength and health' otherwist-. --For a man of my age, I am very well :: hearty. I sometimes meet persons who have not made their Postum right and don't like it. But. I tell them to boil it long enough, and call their attention to my looks now, and before I used it. that seems convincing. "-Now, when I have writing to do, or long columns of figures to cast up, I fool equal to it and can get through my work without the fagged out feel ing of old." Name given by the Pos tum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Read the to~s ""Y> Real to Wellville," LAUS V (A Picture by Bu1rne-Jones). Pallid with to< IziUch lonqing. Wh-.te with P- -n and prayer, Goddess of --e ar.d beauty, She sits in the ric'ure there Sits with her dark eves seeking still Than tly: u dePi'-tns oi loving Her mcasurcle-- .ays o 'J. She ias loved -b' een lovea so often in her lonZ, imirmortal years, That khe tires of the worn-out rapturc. Siekens of hows and ears Ir I-Well Planr "That settles it," said Dick North cote, watching ihe red billiard ball hesitate and finally plunge into a side pocket. "low s the time, marker?" "Near ten, sir," tae marker an swered, professionally impassive. 'By jove. I must move!" He looked ioward his defeated opponent, also struggling into his coat. "Are you ging. Catmur?" lie asked, in some astonishment. The man addressed as Catmur smile:!. Not a particularly pleasant smile IE one were o)servant, but ap parently sincer2 enough for Dick Northcote. "No one else is likely to come in. Desides. I am tired of billiards. A walk will freshen me.' "I'm going straiglit home," the young clerk iep;lied. "But that's A walk. The sea with this wind will be worth watching. lou live on the front, don't you?" "Yes: the terrace facing the green." The two men passed out of the bil liard rooin of the Merton Arms llotel, and into a passage. From a room near them came the sound of a strident piano and the painful ef fort of a laan persuadel to sing. The door op ened and an elderly man came out. "Be that young Mr. Northcote?" he asked. "\Vhat. do you want. Rodgers?" the bank clerk demanded, rather nettled. "You'n sleepin' up to bank 'ouse to-night see- ingly. We'm care takers while "Mr. Bird be way: ur's tookt the maids with him on 'oliday. Well, it's the annual of the Hoddfel lows to-night. I'm a Hoddfellow, so I'm 'ere. A-: the missus don't Lnow ".e. BPt jus' tel" 'er you'm come, and it'll be til right." "Very well," the bank clerk an swered vexedly. He looked quickly at his companion. Ca;mur stood waiting. It was not evident whether he had heard. Northcote was afraid he had not, but in iny case it- did not rtter. If a stranger-he had only met Catniur in the hotel a v.-eek previously-the man was evidently a gentleman of means. His conver sation, cynical and well informed, established that. The two men walked together down the main street to the long, narrow strip ot green that lay be tween terraces of houses and ,.he promenade.. Beyond, the sand lay hidden by thc night. .The wind, blowing coldly. tumbled the waves in ragged lines of creamy white. Conversation had drifted uncon sciously to Northete's hobby--the collecting of moths. "My dear fellow," Catmur said, "I gr'an'. you butterflies-they have the char-n of color. A\n artist r.ight find delight in them. They are gor geous, eastern sultans of flower har ems, full of suggestion. It was no idle U:n y that rendered them the Greek symbols of the soul. But moths-.. ociate them with the inmpertinent odors last year's furs shake out in the early autumn." "You are something of an artist, Catmu:. I could show you beauty in a moth comparable to that in a butterfly. Do you -know a spotted Burnet? No, of course you don't. There's color in moths and beauty of marking. Now.T could show-" He pulled up) suddenly. The hour was later than it ought to have been, and the bank house was still without a tenant. Bird, the manager, was away; the cashier lived with his people in a v'illa in the town, 'n had b~e'ged off the discomfort of in habiting -omebody Clst's house, and Nor'thcote had volunteered. He ,ought to put his night-clothes to gether and be off. But here he was outside his rooms, and it would look inhospittble not to ask Catmur in for a peg. Northcote looked upl: at the house. The lights we're Out i. all the rooms but his. "Come in for a pe;:. I shall turn you out almost at once. because I have to sleep at the bank to-night. You heard Rodgers speak a bout it "A little indiscreet," Catmur said, with a smile. "I confess a peg sounds inviting-this southeaster is nipping-but not if I'm inconven iencing you." "Not at all," Northcote answered. lHe let himself in wa a latchkey, ani turned up the lamp in the sitting room. "I won't show you my ca'bi net to--'iiht," hc continued, "but here's a setc~ng-boa~rd with a few, enloughl to con vince you.'' He lugged out the board fr'om a cupboard. "It you'. excuse me, I'll rush a few~ things irnto my bag. There's a sy l'hon, a bottle, and g.asses on ti" sideboard' mix a couple of pegs." lHe dived Out of the room as he spoke, after a scared look at the clock: on the mantle-piece. II. Catnmur, left to hirrself, took no nloticOecf the setting-boara, bui. ci ossed th< roon. and closed the dloor softi:y. T'he- ne poured o~ut two yegs c'f whisky in. two tumblers. W\ith~ a quick dive into a waistcoat soeket hie rrodIuceu a small vial. un coi-ke" it, anul counted a fewv drcaps into one of the tumblers. The other wc fibc I up with soda 'water. Then he turned to tl~e setting-board. "You are right, Northcote," he said, when the bank clerk burst into thc room carrying a small nandbag. "I am convinced. There is a soft ress of color effects I had not no ticedI. Oh, there's your peg. Shall 1 help you to soda? t did not know how von 1ik, it nib'd." The sv' ENERIS. No joys or sorrows r=cvt her, Done with her nncient pride; For her head she found too heavy The :own she has east aside. Gothed in her crarlet splendor. Brizht with her glory of hair. Sad that she is not mortal Etcrniai!v -ad arid fair. Longing for j.ws she knows not. Athirst with a vain desire, Tivre sie sits in the -picture. Daughter of foam and fire. -Louise Chandler Moulton. ted, But-! phon hissed, and Northcote accepted the tumblkr and drank. "Rather a queer taste, eh? Corked perhaps. I hope yours is all right!" "Mine -s quite all right, thanks," Catmur assured him. "Then tne lingering flavor of a Mertoa Arms cigar has upset my palate. I don't want to be r'tde, but I shall have to turn you out. I-by Jove, this room is hot: I suppose coming in-the cold. Do you mind " Northcote sat down hastily upon the broken spring sofa and gasped. His eyes stared at the lamp, his face gre r white, he put out a-i ir resolute hand, and pressed his fore head. The windo--, Catmur, open it," he managed to say. "All right, old man," Catmur an swered. He stood looking at the bank clerk without moving. To Northcote he appeared growing fur ther and further away like a man in a dissolving picture. He tried to struggle to his feet, but only suc ceeded in knocking over the hand bag. Then his head sank into his breast. Catmur lifted him up on the sofa. "Look here, Catmur," Northcote said drowsily, "I must be going. I must-the bank-" He trailed off into unconsciousness. Catmur turned out the lamp and let himself out of the front door, closing it very quietly. He walked briskly to the hotel, and presently emerged from the side door carrying a big bag that weighed him down perceptibly on one side. The chorus of "Widdecombe Fair," from the lusty throats of the Hoddfellows, fol lowed him into the dark night. He rang the bell at the bank house private door, and presently, there was a sound of chains and bolts. At that monent a policeman passed and looked at him and he gave him a civil "good night." "Who'm you?" demanded Mrs. Rodgers, an ample woman, with a perceptible head cold and a certain querulousness of tone. "You are expecting me, I think," Catmur said, shifting the bag from one hand to another. "Oh, you'm young Mr. Northcote, be you? You'm late. Come in. Your room be ready." Catmur stepped in, and waited while the door was fastened up again. "That bag be 'eavy?" Mrs. Rodgers commented. preceding Am .lumbering up the staircase. ",I never seed a young fellow with one so heav::. "This 'ere be your room, you'm in Mr. and Mrs. Bird's." She .jumped as he put down his handbag, it sounded so heavy. "Gd lord, sir," she cried, "what a weight!" . "Yes," he s.aid. "I've brought some dumb-bells with me." "That's a mercy," she answered. "There is a mortal lot as ain't dumb up there." She pointed to a few electric bells above the bed. "They'm connected with the strong room, so I'm told." 'Yes, yes," Catmur said, a little tostily. "I 'i- tired, Mrs. Rodgers." With that, she made her laborious way downstairs a~a in. The sound of closed doors reas sured him, and he smiled. The .job promised to be an absurdly easy one. He had the bank to himself, and withi no chance of interference. At 5 o'clock a London mnil train stopped at Preston-Super-Mare station. Noth ing would be discovered until nine, at the earliest. Pessibly the cashier would nlot comec in until 'later than that. Catmur opened his bag. It con -.ecd stLeei tools. He selected a wire cutter. In five minutes the eec tric bells were as (dunm) as those he pr'ofessed to be carrying. There was a pair of felt slippers in the bag. Catmur put these on. There was also a dark lantern; he tr'immed it and lit it. Then, taking ujp his bag, he smiled again. The diamonds were lodged here a fortnight ago." he thought trium phantly, -when the WVashcs wvent away . J know they atre good, be 'ond the average value of those of a meccassful brewecr. They were Lady W~ashe's passport to society." Very cautiously h" went, down stairs. The bauk lookedl curiously thostly with its empty stools. He 'eit his way carefully. "Ah: This is the entrance to the strong room." le p)ut diown his bag of tools. Pres ently there wtas a curious sound of zrating~ like the gunar:ing of a big Abocut two o'clock Mr. Rodgers u i d utside t:am ban ni~fotuse rmng ing the be:U. A. constable coming -tround the corner, advanced at the arte tim:- as airs. lodgers set to work to leisurely unubar the door. "H-allo. Mr. Rodgers. -you're late to-night:" said the constable. 'Sense me." Rodgers replied, ;'ith elaborate politeness, " 'scuse ne-you 'av-'vantage-" The door opiened and Mrs. Rodg :'s, swathed in shawls and red flan :, and holding aloft :1 candlestick, eered out. "A.\h my dear'!" se(d Rodgers. ''ri-,u' of muin'." lie waved to wards the constable. ' As young Mr.. Norn hcote comei in.' "He camne in a long time ago," \lrs. Rodgers said. "It wur about 'i eve~ nearly that. I reckou." "Mr'. Northicote:" exclaimed the eous' .ble, "I sawv you let in a tall, lark ma'n. carrying a aa;. That was r >t Mr. Northcote.' 1 know him. 1 on't know the cashier-I though. it ntight be him. I didn't see the man early, hb he wvas tall er and thinner han Mr'. Northcote, and'' Mr North .orn i: very fair:' "Youie not long here?" ask.4 Mrs. Rodgers. "Only moved he-e as week. But Mr. Ncr'acote was up to Bovey fish ir - I the summer. I ha ~ better .ood into this." ' onstable moved into the as sage an'! waited while Mrs. Rodgers closed the door. Rodgers sat down on the mat. "Lock him into a room and slip out to the police station!'' whispered the constable. "Like this.'' Mrs. Rodgers said in digrantly. "I couldn't!" 61i, dress as (uikly as you can." He watched her guide Rodgers in to a room, and then turned toward the door communicating with the ban' "i didn't get a good look at the chap," he whispered to himself. "but he was very like Oh, it can't be' It's so . iany ears ago, and he -I'm a fool to be thinking cf hirl!" At the door he paused. A curious grating noise like the gnawing of a big :at, whicl came from the bank premises. paused also. - He opened the door cautiously and edged in. There was a mat on the other side of the door, and he stood on that, mo tionless. He thought he heard a movement, a secretive, furtive move ment, somewhere in the room. There was no sound for two min utes. The constable's big fingers g oped silently over the wall. Sud denl:y his fingers felt the cold touch of metal. With a bold sweep, he switched on all the lights. 'Move," came a low voice in a vin dictive hiss, "and you are a dead man! switch off those lights:" The constable turned around quick ly. Catmur stood beside the entranco to the strong room with a revolver in his hand. The door *as open. As each caught sight-if the other, both started. "Bob!' said Catniur. "Jack!" gasped the constable. "Thank God. 'tis you!" Catmur said. "ifou can say I was gone. Two minutes to get the sparklers-I'm through with the door-and I can slip -ut. You can report you found the strong door open. Switch off the lights!" "I can't," said the constable. '"Don't Bob!" cried Catmur. "F'm armed. I-you're my brother, but I'm going to get out of this--by Heaven, I am!" He leveled his revolver. "I have my duty to do," said the constable. "D'you hear? Switch off those lights." Catmur leaned forward, the re volver nand raised. "I won't!" The constable spoke firmly and strode forward. There was a loud crack. When the smoke cleared away the constable was kneel ing over the dead body of Catmur. Ten minutes later he was still kneeling there, when the sergeant touched him on the shoulder. "What's this?'' asked the sergeant. "Dead?" 'He shot himself. It was a ques tion between shooting me or-or that, ~.:e shot himself." He spoke in a dazed way, still staring at the prone body. "My poor mother!'' he, added.--London Answers. A man breathes about twenty times a minute or 1200 times an hour. Every square mile o the ocean is believed to have a population of 120, 000,000 fish. M. Deletrai , of Geneva, has com bined certain materials. put togethe:' in the. form of a -.nall solid cone. which, when dissolved in petrol ot' bezine, destroy the od-rs of burned gases, and leave an rgreeable per fume bebind. As ar illustration of the widening of the realm of electrLical sciece ap plied to the practical needs of civiii ration, it is noted that the gia'nt tur line steamship Mauritania. which the Cunard company is building, will have' two electric passenger eleva tors, two for baggage and six smaller electric elevators for mails and other light work. The hygienist has kindly discov ered there are millions of microbes in a handshake. What patience and ex actitude he must possess: TEnt let us he brave and go on exchanging them. If it pleases scienc2e to count microbes the lay world can do no less than give sciecec permission to proceed with the stunt. However, recollect there are good microbes as well! as bad ones. Many geologists have held itat liquid currents exist in tho ear'th; and astronomers have been accus tomned to assume that flnid cur. cnts in the sun aescer'd almost to its cen-I tre. P'rofessor See denies the possi-I bility of curremts in the earth. an declares that currents in the sun and great planets must all be quite shal low and cannot des 'end to any gre'at depth, because the pressure and rigidity arc too etreat. Majior C. E. Dutton, in the Popu lar Science MIonthly. a-lvocates the theory that volcanic eruptions are caused oy radio-activity occurring 2 a depth of one to three miles below the surface of the earth. Observa tions show, he says, that the seat of volcanic activity is never so deep a' four miles. lie supposes that : about the depth mentioned. bencat volcanic regions, radium is in proces of formation fr'om uranium. or what-' ever the element may be whose slo" decay forms radium. The latter im mediately begins to disintegrate a a relatively rapid r'ate, and the het thus produce.1 eventually melts quantity of rock. The water con tained in the rock theleupon becom" explosive, and an eruption ensue The lava having been discharged. th volcano re' t:5 until the accumulatio of heat from radio-action again iDeltt the rocin SOUTHERN : TOPICS Of iNT EREST TO t PL AN7 Value of a Cow. Tn undertaking to place an esti mate on the value of a cow the exact amount of milk and butter fat pro-, duced should be determined. Most people when estimating the value of a cow will be largely in fluenced by the statements made by the owner of thie number of gallons of milk she will produce. This in formation is usually very misleading, as most persons do not take into con sideration the foam in milk, and again, the party wishing to sell a cow will sometimes exaggerate as to her production as well. The milk from a cow, as usually measured, should not be given any consideration, but to know the eract amount of milk a cow gives it should be weighed with an accurate scale; foam adds nothing to the weight of milk. When the milk from a cow is weighed morning -and evening, then her daily pr(ductiofn can be esti mated, but it is better to know the weight of milk produced for a num ber of consecutive milkings and to take an average of these for deter mining her daily production. After determining the amount of milk produced per day in pounds and ornces. then one should know the av erage butter fat contained therein. This can be determined by taking a sample from each milking. and from about five consecutive milkings, put ting these samples together and de termining the per cent. of butter fat in this composite sample. This will be an average per cent. of fat for the time during which the samples were taken. From. the average daily pro duction of milk and the average per cent. of fat the average amount of fat produced daily can be ascertained. As six pounds of butter fat thus de termined will make about seven pounds of butter, the value of the milk for butter-making purposes can be detcrminOd. As brtter fat is the foundation of cream, the value of the zilk put Into cream can be estimated. While this method. does not give any idea of the amount of milk and but ter fat a cow will produce during her milking period, jt does show how much she is producing in butter or cream for the time being. No dairyman should be without this record of each one of his cows at any time. It will enable him to know when a cow is not produhing an amount which justifies her keep, and she can then be replaced with a bet ter cow. Where records are kept as has been suggested at the end of the milking period the amount of milk and the amount of butter fat from each cow can be estimated and her value for that period pretty closely determned.-Wm. D. Saunders, Dairyman Virginia Agricultural Ex periment Station, Bl!acksburg. Thbe Berry Crop. If you live near a city, nothing is so profitable as a berry crop. If you live away from a market, nothing is nicer for your own table. We cannot understand how our farmers can do wihout strawberries and raspberries. The blackberry also deserves consid eration everywhere, except where wild ones are plentIful and near at hand. It is time to begin to prepare for your patch of a row or two, or an acre of two, according to your mieans. You ladies who want some pin money of your own, and have little children to help, gather them. If you cannot do this have a little berr~y patch. We always think strawberries the best fruit that grows, until raspberries come in, and then we think they are te best. Both are worthy a place in every garden in our South. They al ways help out a supper and round out a dinner; and we never object to them for breakfast. No one has ever been able to reach the maximum yield of our berry crop of either va riety. Wonderful yields he.ve been made. We saw a blackberry bush at our neai neighbor's that yielded ten quarts and brought him in tlke hand some return of $1.00. Putting the plants at four by six feet, this would give us 1185 plants per acre, and a revenue of $1185.00 per acre. No one can say this is an impossibility, since one bush has made the propor tionate yield. This amount of straw berries has been made. As to rasp berries w*e are not so well informed, but as they sell at double the price of either of the other berries, we cannot see wvhy a like return can not be ob tained. There is a good livinig for the small farmer who will take wife anct children2 into co-partnership and get down to business and learn how to grow the many things our market now demands. Don't let's talk cotton until we know of nothing eise; but lt :3give our garden crops due con sider.ticu, and don't forget the berry. News Items. The campaign on the liquor ques ion at Suitork closed, and the election viil be held. The annual convention of the Unit d Jrishi League of America opened in hiladepihia. Judge Alton B. Parker issued a tatement declaring several charges nade against him by William R. Iearst as absolutely false. The West Virginia Conference of e Methodist Episcopal church is in ession at Sistersville. Mrs. Thomas C. Platt, the young :e of the Senator, denies that di ore preceedings are pending or even ntemolated. The original of "Tom Sawyer'' in ark Twain's stofies died in Cali rma. Fifty thousand dolars in gold was ound hidden in a house at Hudson, 'ARM : IOTES. ER., S1OCKMANANO TRUCK SS&WE& with a greenish louse and the trees are dying. We are bothered with these insects every year and I want, to know what they are and how to destroy them. J. E. J., Hartselle, Ala. Answer.-During the spring and early summer, one often finds the leaves and tender twigs of apple cov ered with small green lice or aphides. Tnese are tie Apple Aphis. They in jure the trees by sucking the sap through their tiny beaks. So far as we know it, the life history of- these insects :- : follows: The lice hatch from eggs in spring as soon as the leaf buds begin to expand, and in crease with marvelous rapidity, so that almost as fast as the leaves de velop there are colonies of the plant lice to occupy them. They continue breeding on apple unlil July, when they largely leave the trees, and mi grate-we know not where, but prob ably to some annual plant that is suc culent in mid-summer. Here, appar ently, they continue breeding until autumn, when they return to apple, and the winged females may be found establisaing colonies of the wingless egg-laying form upon the leaves. The males are apparently developed on the same plant that the winged fe males are. The small, oval eggs are now laid on the twigs and buds, and te cyclh for the year is complete. Remedies.-These lice have varl ous natural enemies that destroy them-especially the lady-bird bee ties-but it is often necessary to spray infested trees with kerosene emulsion, or a strong tobacco decoc ti'n to get rid of them. The latter may be made by soaking refuse to bacco stems in hot water, and then draining thie liquid off.-The South ern Fruit Grower. About Nitrate of Soda. As you are probably aware, nitrate of soda supplies only one constituent of plant-food to the soil and that one is. nitrogen or ammonia. If it is per sirtently used on the same land it will, by stimulating increased growth, cause the supply of phosphoric acid and potash in the soil to'.be more heavily drawn upon, than if only 11 small or moderate yields were pro duced; hence It might be found such circumstances that the. yields on a soil thus treated would materially de cline. It might be found, too, that under such treatment, unless the store of vegetable matter of the soil were kept up, that the mechanical condition of the soil would probably become worse, especially if the soil were fine grained, and would be no ticed by the soil running together and tending to work hard after each rain. It is not believed, however, i that nitrate of soda used properly, and in reasonable quantities per acre would injiure land. Neither do we think It would be at all necessary to materially increase the application per year, unless the yield be much in creased. To secure the best results - from the use of nitrate of soda, It will usually be necessary to use with fertilizing materials containing phios phoric acid and potash and in some eases lime. The amount and propor tion of these constituents will de pend upon the crop to be grown and the soil in which it is to be planted. The normal plant-food supply of a soil is being kept up when as much is added to it in the fertilizer or fer tilizing material as is removed by the growing crop and by leaching. C. B. Williams, North Carolina De partme-nt of Agriculture, Ralelgh. Mixed and Unmixed Fertilizers. L'armers should now be planning -j for their small grain crop. Will it j be better to buy mixed or unmixed fertilize:.a The syndicate controlling I commercial fertilizers and the prices will not sell by the car-Ioad to farm ers. All has to be bought through agents. If the farmers should com bne in an effort to secure goods at first hands, they could do it. The one who wants a few sacks has to buy at retail. Let the farmer buy fourteen per cent. acid phosphate and muriate r :potash of kainit, and do his own mixing. On a good 'floor, or a hard place in the lot, a hand with a shovel can mix a ton thoroughly in two M urs. 2000 pounds of acid phosphate; 200 pounds of muriate of potash. That will give 3 2.75--4.50. Tha is a high grade. If ammonia is desired, make this way: 2000 pounds acid phosate; 200 pounds of muriate of potash; 1000 pounds cottenseed meal. That would give a fertilizer an alyzing 9-3-2%Y. That is first class for wheat or oats, and will not cos more thin $20 a ton. . -The gents would charge about $24. The Greenland whale often lives Pointed Paragraphs. f You cannot elect Heaven while you reject honiness. Every girl makes at least one mis take on her wedding day-and that is when she thinks her girl acquaint anees envy her. Love enables a man to reach the limit of either happiness or misery. Trying to induce some people to ~be thankful is a thankless task. A woman's face may be her for- - tune, but a man's cheek often enables. him to acquire a fortune. The Ancient Man (after a suitable season of cogitation)-Yer hens is dead, Mr. Cittily.-Puck. When all who are sent will go, then all who are called will come. Most men think it is all up with them when they are down. A pretty girl looks more so when the right man tells her so. The longer a man aims, the more lkely he is to miss the target.