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UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA PRAISES PE-RU-NA. Ex-Senator M. C. Butler. Dysp'ep.tia Is Ofte'n Caised By Catarrl of the Stonach-Peruna Relieves Ca t'xrrh of the Stomarh and Is Therefore Remedy For Dyspep.wia. Hon. M. C. Butler, Ex-U. S. Sena tor from South (Carolina for two terms, in a letter from, Washington, D. C., writes to the Peruna Medicine (o., as follows: "I can.recom :mend Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble. I have been using yjour medicine for a short period and I feel very much relieved. It is indeed a wonderful medicine. besids a good tonic." C ATARRH of the stomach is the cor j rect name for most cases of dyspepsia In order to cure catarrh of the stom ach the catarrh must be eradicated. Only an internal catarrh remedy, sucl as Peruna, is available. Peruna exactly meets the indications. Peruna is sold by your local drug gists. Buy a bottle today. HICKS' CAPUDINE IMMEDIATELY CURES HEADACHES Breaks up COLDS IN 6 TO t2 HOU"s Tri ank ftd 1c At Drojagg Our faith point" the way. Mrs. Winslow'sSoothing Syrup for Childrei teethin.,sofftens thegumnis,reducesiflamma tion, anlavs pain,cures winid colic. 25c abottle ,Different. "Let me have thirty dollars," said a pmspector one day to a lawyer friend. "I must have powder and grubia TH'l pay you back within a 'week. I'e' struck it rich. Tm within three feet of a million dollars." Twc weeks later the lawyer. who had ate 'ommodated his friend, met him on ~the street. The prospector seemed a-1xious to avoid his creditor. "The last time 1 saw you, you were within three feet of a million dollars," re marked the lawyer. 'What's the news uow?" "Oh, thunderation." said the prospector. "l'm not within a milliori feet of three dollar's."-Fr'om "The St->ry of Montana," by C. P. Connoll) in McClure's. .In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.-Prov erbs.' So. 43-'06. OPER ATIO@ Two (Orateful Letters fr Serious Operations.' from Like Conditloil When a physician tells a woman, si fering from female trouble. -that opers ion is necessary it, of ooUrs frightens her. Th~e very thought of the operstii tae and the knife strikes terror her heart. As one woman express it. when told by her physic'tan that a must undergo an operation, she f< that her death knell had sounded. Our hospitals are full of womn who are there for just such operatiou It is quite true that these troubi may reach a stage where an operati is the only resource, but such oasesa much rarer than is generally suppos4 because a great many women ha been eured -by Lydia E. Pinkhar Vegetable Compound after the doct< ha adan operation must be p formed. In fact, up to the point wh4 the knife must be used to secure insta relief, this medicine is certain to he The strongest :md most grate statements possible to make come fr< women who, by taking Lydia E. Piz ham's Ve table Compound, ha escape se ous operations. Margrite Ryan, Treasurer of Andrew's Society. Iudianapolis, In 'writes of her cure as follows: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: " I cannoet find wordsj express uytha: forothe Lydia E. Paukham';Va t Com d 'd me.h doctor said co not get well unless I had an o',erition the trouble from which I suffered. I kne eould not sad thestrainof anoperation made upm mind I would be an invalid life H ' howLydia E. Pinkha Aia Mr. DIkham' Advkt--A i In the Wrong Flat. "What I want is a bright short -play." said Toole to the amateur. whc had brought him a six-act drama "How do you mean-a short, bright drama?" asked the author. "Can you give mue an idea?" "Oh, yes." said Toole. "here's one. It's direct and P-aves nmeuh 4o the imagination. It it iL one act. When the curtain goes ur two persons are discovered on a sofa. one a pretty young woman, the othei a nice looking young fellow. They em brace: neither 3f them says a word. Then a loor opens at the back an' a coimnmercial traveller enters. H( wears an overcoat and carries an unm brella. You can tell at once by his manner that he is the husband of th* young woman. At least that would be the inferences of every intelligen playgcer. The huband takes off his coat, draws from his pocket a heavy Colt's revolver and in the midst o: the silent embrace of hero and hero ine fires. The young woman falli dead. He fires again and the young man is similarly -lisposed of. Ther the murderer comes forward. )uts or a pair of eyeglasses and proceei to contemplate his sanguinary work 'Great heavens' he exclaims: 'i an on the wrong floor.' "-Reynolds NewsDaper. Sentence Sermons. Let a man keep the law-any law -and his way will be strewn with sat isfact ion.--Emersou. We know Him not, Him shall we never know Till we behold Him in the least of these Who sutffer or who sin. -Luev Larcom. It is easy to make allowance for our own faults, but dangerous; hard Ito nwake allowance for other's fauilts, but wise.-Malthie D. Babcock. The wealth of a man is the number of things he loves and blesses and which he is loved and blessed by. Carlvle. Nothing is more intolerable that is necessary.-Jeremy Taylor. A medical journal declares that people who drink cows' milk are more and more inclined to consump cion than those who use the milk of the reindeer, the buffalo, the ass or the goat. How'4 This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward tor any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by ball's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cnzr & Co,, Toledo. 0. We, the rndersigned, :av,- known F. . Cheney for the iast 15 years, and believe him perfectly nonorable in all business transac. tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. Wzs- & TaUAx, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. WADNOG, KIrxxi & MArIN, Wholesale Dru sts, Toledo, 0. Hall's rra Cureis takeninternally, act :ngdirectlyiponthe blood and mauousiar 1aes~ of the system. Testimonials sent free. Prce, 75e. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Ball's Family Pills for constipation. Something Lacking. One of the richest gold finds in Australia was made by a boy who picked up a stone to throw at a crecw. and noticed that there was gold in the stone. When he reported the fact to the local government officer the warden endeavored to notify the Gcwernor by telegraph. He was, however. -too excited to be rational. "A boy picked up a stone to throw at a crow," he wired, and the amazed official, unable to guess 'what there was of significance in the event. rec plied:I "Yes: and what happened to the crw?"-Romance of Mining. -He aecs the third cr'me that defends the first.-Ben Jonson. S AV IDED~ m Women Who Avoided1 -Many Women Suffering Will Be Interested. .- Vegetable Compound had saved other women from serious operations I decided to try' it, Iand In lees than four months I was entirely 'Icured; and *ords fail to express my thank fulness." gMiss Margret Merkley, of 275 3d Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: D ear Mrs. Pinkham: b"oss of strength, extreme nervousnbs, ut severe shooting pains through the pelvic Si o n p etoseek , medieal adviee. The doctor, after making e an examination, said that I had a seriotus sfemale trouble and ulceration, and advised an obecte...and ddde as a atreortt Lyi E. i~a' Vegtbl Com und a ' the bad symptornsdisappeared, andl amonee amore strong, vigorous and well; and I can not express my thanks for what it has done ~for me." Serious feminine troubles are steadi lyo ie erss among women-and befoe sbmitin toan operation every woman should try Lydia E. Pnham's Vegetable Compound, and wri te Mrs. Pfnkham at Lynn, Mass. - Vegetable Compound has been curag] -the worst forms of female comMaxa all fanetional troubles, inflammation, uleeraton, falling and displacement, cus weknes, irregularities, indigestion e ad aervous prostration. Any *oman a who onld read the many grateful Sletters on fue in Mrs. Pinkham's ee Iwould be convinced of the er' ..uy of I her advic and Lydia E. . Pakham's ' Vegetable Compound. n. 1st Visrstands a Wmua's lls. Do You Open Your Mouth Like a young bird and gulp down what ever food or medicine may be offered you? Or. do you want to know something of the omposition and character of that which you take into your stomach whether as food or medicine? Most intelligent and sensible people now-a-days insi';t on knowing what they emplov whether as food or ai,: medicine. Dr. Pierce believes they have a perfect right to insist upon such knowledge. Sohe publishes. dcast and on each bottle wr r, wha ,. cines are made of ?n v 'fies I This be feels he can w ' ordtodo -ecausetfhegmore e_ ingrredients of which his medicines remade are studied and understood -te more will their superior curative virtues the re of woman's peculiar weak nesses, irregularities and derangements, giving rise to frequent headaches. back ache. dragging-down pain or distress in lower abdominal or pelvic region. accom panied, ofttimes. with a debilitating. pelvic. catarrhal drain and kindred symp toms of weakness. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a most efficient remedy. t is eoually effective in curing painful periods, in giving strength to nursing mothers and i-n preparing the system of te expectant mother for baby's coming. hus rendering childbirth saft and com paratively painless. The "Favorite Pre eripT ion -is a most potent. strengthening otonie to the general system and to the )rgans distinctly feminine in particular. [t is also a soothing and invigorating irvine and cures nervous exhaustion. iervous prostration. neuralgia. hysteria. pams. chorea or St. Vitus s dance, and ther distressing nervous symptoms at endant upon functional and organic dis 'ases of the distinctly feminine organs. A host of medical authorities of all the oeveral school.; of practice, recommend ach of the several ingredients of which -Favrite Prescription - is made for the tureof the diseases for which it is claimed o be a cure. You may read what they av for yourc7f by sending a posta; card -equest for a frec booklet of extracts *rom the leading authorities, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical In titute. Buffalo, N. Y., and it will come to on by return post. Owe no man anuvthing. A WOMAN'S KIDNEYS Women have so much to do, so many pains to suffer. so many critical periods to go through. that it is im portant to keep the kidneys well and avoid the backache, bearing down pain, headaches, dizziness, languor and other common signs of weak kidneys. Mrs. Charles F. Smith, of' 22 Boyden St.,Woon socket* R. I., says: /L"My.'kidneys were weak from child iood. and for eight or ten years past y sufferings were terrible. My back was very painful and I had any annoying symptoms besides. When 1 began taking Doan's Kidney Pills I weighed only 120. To-day I weigh 165, and am in better health han for years. Doan's Kidney Pills lave been my only kidney medicine uring four ycar's past. They bring ne out. of every attack." Sold by all dealers. 50~ cents a OX. Foster-Milbuirn Co., Buffalo, Nerve Pillow. A "nerve" -pillow is something hich physicians are said to recomn nend and which can easily be made it home. One needs only to gather >r buy a quantity cf dried soporific terbs, such as hops and catnip leaves, >ayberr-y and sweet fern, adding to hem sweet grass. balsatm pine and s many sweet smelling, sleepy hings as one can think Cf. Dry, and powder, anid mix all to ~ether. Then fill your "nerve" pillow vith the Summerwood sachet powder' .hus formed. Stuff the pillow with own or cotton hatting or feathers. md either scatter ihe powder thick hrough the filling, cr. what is bet ter, make sachet bags and fasten hem securely to the inner' sides of he pillow.-Philade'phia Ledger. Proverbs and Phrases. To be commended by those wvh-> ight blanie without f'ear' giv'es great leasure.-Agesilaus He who does wvhat he likes, does tot what he ought.-Fromn the Sapn The cities of Glasgow and Notting ham supply gas to the consumers. and t is s'old at fift y cents a thousand cubic feet - about. one-half what it costs in American cities. Last year Nottingham made a profit of $120. 000O on its gas plant. A FOOD CONVERT Good Food the True Road to Health. The pernicious habit some persons still have or relying on nau'seous drugs to relieve dyspepsia, keeps up the patent medicine business and helps keep up the army of dyspep Indigestio-dyspepsia-is caused by what is put into the stomach in the way of improper food, the kind that so taxes the strength of the di gestive organs they are actually crippled. When this state is reached, to re sort to 'stimulants is like whipping a tired horse with a big load. Every additional effort he makes under the lash increases his loss of power to move the load. Try helping the stomach by leaving off heavy, greasy. indigestible food and take on Grape Nuts--light, easily diested, full of strength for nerves and brain, In every grain of it. There's no waste of time nor energy when Grape-Nuts is the food. "I am an enthusiastic user of Grape-NUts and consider It an Ideal food," writes a Maine man: "I had nervous dyspepsia and was all run down and my food seemed to do me but little good. From read ing an adv. I tried Grape-Nuts food, and. after a few weeks' stecady use of it, felt greatly improved. "Am much stronger, not nervous now, and can do more work without feeling so tired, and am- better every "I relish Grape-Nuts best 'Witi cream and use four heaping teaspoon fuls at a meal. I am sure there ari thousands of persons with stomaci trouble 'who would be bsnefited b3 using Grape-Nuts. Name given b Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich Read the little bobk, "The Road t< Welmie, In nkgs. "There's a rea Pious Slave Traders Slavery has been almost rooted ou of Africa, hut. the Arabs remain slav traders at heart. and there is nior buyina and selling even in this yea of grace than mosr people imagine. Many of Morocco's crumbling citie owe their walls and battlements t the un:-emiting labor of Christial slaves. There are men still livin and v:orking who can remember thi days when slaves were openly bough and so.i inl al1l MrUocco's ('caSt to 1wns Thanks chiefly to the inter. essioi of Queen Victoria. this traffic wa! stoppted in ihe latTer part of the las cent iry, and i o-day I the slave market; of .u*0oricco :are held -ither in th< greai 'nlpital cities or at some of tho big country fairs. In Marrakesh, th< Sultan's southern capital, you cat count slaves by the hundred; an< during the two hours of the dail, sale the transactions include score: of human beings. 1 may also mention a fact that : perhaps quite unknown itn this coun I try, and seems to be a jealousl: guarded secret in Morocco. It is tha there are white women slaves in sev era! parts of the country-not Cir cassians, but seemingly women fron western Europei When the market is about to begi a dozen men file through the en trance. They are the auctioneers, th dilals, %ho have beei occupied witl the representative of the government giving him a list and description o all who are to be offered for sale. Auetion and Prayer. The preliminary work done, the: are now coming to the serious busi ness of the afternoon. They mov, in a line to a point where there 1 some shade, and then they turn to ward the east, the sloping sun be hind them. The chief auctionee now offers up an opening prayer. He praises Allah, who made th world and gave the true faith, H curses Satan, who has sought vainly but without ceasing, to destroy man kind. He praises the patron saint o the city of Marrakesh, and calls upol him to intercede with Allah in orde that all who buy and sell in the slav market may have health, prosperity and length of days. Such are his appeals, delivere< slowly, tolemnly and with a certail measure of dignified gesture; and t one and all of them the dilals, oi either hand, and the buyers. sittin at their case along the central arcad or by the walls. respond with a piou "Amen." They hold it is no mor than a seemly thing that busines should commence with prayer, ani the fact that the business happens t be buying and selling slaves doe nothing to obviate (te necessity. Prayers over, the dilals break i and proceed each to his pnn or pens to summon the occuplants to rang themselves in line. For a few mc ments the contfusion is indescribable The dilals rush hither~ atnd thither, ar ranging 'their human chattels i groups. Thetn, having pllaced themr selves at the head of their respectiv groups, they promeurade slowl: around the market. We cannot watch them all, so w select an average one, conttaimlr4; boy and a girl. brothr~r and sistel who have been brought in by a car avan. and are facing a slave mnarke for the first time in teir lives. Be side themt are two vigorous mten, tw able women, two young chilldren an a very old1 and very black man. Thtere is ito sign ot great excite ment or unrest among the slave Only the boy and giri, who are al ready grown upI, seem to feel thei position acutely. The children are, obviously uncot cerned, and if they .take any interet at all in the proceedings it is assc eated with their own bright gal mets, which, by the way, have bee lent to them by the auctioneersi charge, in order that thtey may pre sent a more attractive figutre. Whe they have beetn purel-ased their ne owners must pay for these gaud rags or return them. As he goes for the first and secon time in a wide circle aroutnd the ceI tral arcade our auctioneer prochaim the r.erits of his wares in generi terms, and then a purchlaser demand te price of thte two middlle-ageJ. met who sc ,to have years of consit eable activity before them. Th dilal pauses and presents the tw slaves, who reply to various questior that the intending purchaser puts t them. Bargaining. The dilai himself talks very volt bly, and the result must be satisfal tory, for his patron tnmes a prici and the dilal, with a pious "Praise 1: to Allah, who made the world," gatl ers his company around him on( again, moves off. proclaimling th the price of the two men is so mar rioars, and urging the assemble buyers to do better stillt Apparen ly they ai'e not inclined to take at vantage of their chanc'es. for aft< the circle has been completed twi< more the dilal pause:: again am hands the t wo slaves over to the new master. By this ilme he has a bidi for' ti grown boy and girl, and. summonir one of his companions to comple the negotiations and sign the pape relating to the purchase .iust co luded, he hurries off again, extollir the merits of the pair he hopes to se next. In this case there is son short. sharp competition. The price rises by five and ect ten dollars at a time, and then ominous sign-there is separate bi ding for the boy and the girl. biddit that hints at separation. Howeve in the end, a great country kaid, wl has traveled from Tarudant, secur the pair, and they pass out of tl promenading circle into the care one of his stewards-himself a slas I watched carefully for some expre sion of emotion on the faces of the two young people who had bei stolen and sold as though they we chatte.- but it was perfectly impost ble to note anything more than b wildement. Pr.esently there was a sudden terruption in the market place fre a little group in front of me. He we sa-v the one dramatic incident the afternoon. Since the mark opned a woman, who was annror. ing middle-age, had been trampin: round and round without interesting the buyers. Now at last there had been some smal bid for her. It had been accompanied by the usual queries that all buyers make. There bad been -no hesitation about reply, but at the very last moment. when the sale was completed. the woman raised her voice and cried aloud that she was of the tru- faith and had been stolen. Instantly there was an outcry, and Ith concern of the auctioneer was very genuine. indeed. If The woman's IrLote. was correct. and she would ih'ardly have made it otherwise. here was a scandal of some dimncl.-iions, fo- it ;s no small matter, even in MIo rco, to sell a free Moslem womn into slavery. After her story had been heard the sale )f the woman was held to be i ,alI. -Notice was sent to her owner, and by the time this little matter was settled the muezzin was calling from the nearest minaret ilat the hour of evening prayer had come. --Wide World Magazine. CHINESE PIRATES. The Incorrigible Disciples of Captain Kidd on West River. Lieutenant W. R. Henderson. of the United States Navy, who arrived here last evening on the army trans port Thomas, has been chasing pi rates in Asiatic waters. ie was in command of the gunboat Callao, sta tioned in the West River. and brings with him from the Orlent a whole some respect for the Chinese pirate. On July 13 Chinese pirates at tacked the British steamer Sainam on the West River, about 150 miles from Hongkong. Among those killed was Dr. McDonald, a British medical missionary. Lieutenant Henderson chased those pirates with the Callao. He was on board the Sainam soon after the attack and says that the meth ods in that case are typical of the up to date pigtailed pirate. The pirates boarded tie Sainani at one of her ports as call passen gers. It developed later that each was armed. with a modern revolver and well supplied with ammunition. The pirates distributed themselves about the vessel and when the dine came made short work of the Sai nam's crew. Captain Joscelyn. mas ter of the vessel. was wounded and escaped further harm by dropping to the deck and pretending to be dead. The mates were killed and some members of the Chinese crew who I offered resistance were niurdered. The chief engineer escaped by rvawl ing under the boilei', where h1- was so badly burned that he was in Ihe hospital at -ongkong for many days afterward. Dr. McDonald, who was a passenger, remonstrated with the pirates and was shot through ie head, dying instantliy. WVheni everyodty belong~inlg to ihe steamer had been muriidered or ren -dered hors dui combat the Chinese hoisted a signal, in resp~onse to which Ia large junk came ahongside. into this junk the pirates loaded every Sthing on the Sainanm phat wvas loose or could be detached. The stripped the callin.even to the carpet. and r" mioved every bit of coal from ihe steamer's bunkers. All the brass work that could be unserewcd or 'broken off was taken. and( e!ven tiie dead and wored were robbed of whatever the p~irat2s dleemed worth while. "We found that junk a few days later,"' said Lieutenant Henderson. "There were three old Chinamen on board. They knew nothing. The junk had been moored there. thi:. saidl, for months and months. it was -always there. We searched the erarIt, biut found nothing and did not . pect to. . "It is hard to believe it in these i day.s, but there. on the West River. i piracy is flourishing as it never did .on tile Spanish Main. These Chinese i pirates are wonders. They will steal - anything, but manage to get away -with a vast amount of valuable priop erty every month. " 'We patrol tihe river in the Callao -constantly and the British have a gunboat on the same service. but the ipirates are the only ones nyhose ~watchfulness is rewarded. ",'Once in a whlile the Chinese Gov ernent, after an unusually daring eattack. will proclaim ithe arrest .and execution of a pirate.. As a matter of course, however, these cecasional sacrifices to the demands of the Pow ers for assistance in suppressing pi racy are ancient Chinese who would soon die anyhow, or natives whs absence from the earth is desirable to the viceroy.''-San Francisco Call Lazy People Feel Neat. is not the logical season, for taking vacations. As shown by tile action of certain animals in hibernat ing. w ~inter is thie natural time for resting and recuperating fronm one's labors. "The summer hea1 is m1os enervat who hlave not~hing to keep their mid ir anld bodies busy.. As prooi. of this. do we not feel the heat more acutely on Sunday than on any other day? A seventy-five degree temperature on eSunday causes more suffering than -Ione of eighty-five degrees on Monday. gThe man or woman who keeps busy on a hot day would never notice the heat, nine times out of ten, were it e not for the remarks- of others who have nothing to do but think and talk about the weather"-Pittsburg Tirmes. gnowing the Tides. I Droves of porkers feed along the s Bay of Fundy beaches where the e water rises to a height of thirty-five of or forty feet with a swiftness that is e. overwhelming. You v'ili see a whole s- regiment rooting busily for clams, se and every once in a while a veteran n will place his ear close to the ground re in the attitude of lisltening. If every i- thing is samfactory te will give a e- grunt and resume his rooting. By and by one cunning olc. fellow, after n- listenir a moment, will give a snort, the well-known hog--.ote of alarm, re and th, -.-bcl regiment will scampaa f as if possessed of a million devils fa: et out of the reach of the tide.---'e - York Pr :es. SOUTHERN :f TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THEPLANTE) Making High-Priced Pork. Several years ago, when a so journer in New York, I discovered I think 0he cured meat bringing the I higihest rice wa's eured ham. When i I came o North Carolina T looked into the ham business and found that such hems were made from hogs that hustled for their living on roots. grass and mas: They were finally fed somi! ain and killed at eighteen momhs old. when a Western feeder would call them about half fat. The ncat of these hogs, when pr.operly cured. makes prime break fast bacon. hams, shoulders and sau sage. Such hogs and meat are un profitable to rAise on corn at twenty five cents per pound cured, if they had to be fed so long on grain. To produce meat as nearly like that as possible with pure-blood pigs six to nine months old. fed on grain and 1 grass. was the problem that revolved i itself in my mind. The pig three months and under will make the best pig meat, and the hog nine months old makes the best ham. shoulder and bacon, because. if grown right, the meat is solid and yet tender. The Durocs at these ages will average one pound net for every day old, and do it with continuous exercise and hustling, which pro motes health and the formation of a large proportion of lean to. fat. The breeding stock and pigs should have all they will eat of protein food. such as clover, pea or bean vines. rape and fodder corn. with green ears on. All of these cut green and nice ly cured, then cut up very short and steamed or cooked, are greedily eaten and are almost as good feed as pas ture. The grain feed to make the best meat is wheat bran with the middlings, oats, peas, beans. rye or buckwheat, any or all of these ground for one-half, and corn-meal as other half, of the ration. When fattening in the fall. these mixed with the cut feed and all cooked to gether, make an all-round ideal ra tion to prodiue the solid meat we want. What these hogs under one year old with plenty of exercise will con suie of this kind of food, and what they will produce from it. would sur prise some of our exclusive corn feeders and lard'manufacturers. The South can raise an enormous quanti ty of this kind of feed and produce pork at a cost fifty per <;ent. less than they now pay for Northern pork. and get better meats.-Samuel Archcr, Iredell Co.. N. C. Controlling Plaiintain in Meadows. J. R. S.. Heiskell, Tenn.. writes: We have been troubled for sonme time with plantain in our meadow. and it seems to be getting worse. It comes thickest where wVe top-dress with ma nure. We have a piece of land that we manured tbhree years ago for corn. Last snring we sowed it gn oats and grass. We failed to get a stanId ot grass, but have a fine stand of plan tan. Please explain how to get irid of it? Answer-You do not say which one of the plantains you are trou bled with. There are several that are very common and noisome weeds. two of the nmost common being the broad leafed, which is rather light green in color, and the narrow and dark leafed plantain, which is quite inconspicuous. The plantains 1:ro duce an immense amount of seed. often as many as 3000O to the ilant, and so it is easy to understand thai where they are allowed to go to seed that they infest the ground complete ly and to the exclusion of more valu able crops. for though they are hardy Iand grow vigorously, and will often occupy the land before the smaller and more delicate grats seeds become established. As a result, they crowd out useful plants. Plantain can be controlled. however, by putting the land in hoed crops. such as the cow pea and velvet bean.' A rotation of crops is also highly beneficial to clean the land,' and in the meadows re peated hoeing through the season so as to prevent the formation of seed will have a most beneficial effect. It may be necessary to hoe a meadow four or five times during the season. depending somewhat on the rainfall. This is not as difficult a weed to get rid of as many others that have the proverbial nine lives of a cat on ac couiit of the vigorous root stalks .her produce.' Patience, continuous effort along the lines indicated will enable one to control plantain. In fact, it is too bad that more care has not been given to the matter of ccontrolling weeds on farms in years gone by. We are now suffering from the indif ference of our fori:ears. ,or many of the worsr. weeds we have to deal with to-day were init rod uced and spread~ tronah carriessness. Radical laws ould b? c etced requirinlg the cut ting of weeds iim farms, aethMr. News Items. The Virginia State Fair was open ed at Richmond by Governor Swan The idle negroes of Lynchiburg are being rounded up and sent to jail or the chain gang.. The prosecution outlined its case in the trial of Dr. Frank Brouwer, of Toms River. N. J., accused of poisoning his wife. Mayor (Charles Smith. of Brook ln. $a.. is dead. and his widow is dying, she having shot him and her self as a result of a practical joke he played upon her. Delegates from West Virginia boards of trade are in session at Charleston. Mrs. Annie Whitlock, of Berkley Springs. .W. Va., was ecquitted of attempting to murder her husband. The case of the Standard Oil Comn pan. which is charged with viola ting the Ohio Anti-Trust Law, came um at 1i6ndlav. Qhio. IRM o*: fIO TES. ,iO D , STOCKMAN AND TRUCW GROWE& Fertilizer For Wheat and Gras J. M. C. writes: I would Ik .now the best fertilizers to rheat and grass. The ]an n corn wiLh cowpeas sow vorking. I was thinking eruvian guano at 4he rate ounds to the acre. With the wanted to sow red top and ti iso. Answer-Heavy applicatio ertilizers for wheat on soil airly rich have not proven >rofitable in our experience. >est results with fertilizers hay >btained on land where co ave been disked in or plowed un n other words, on land that is upplied with vegetable mat :op dressing of barnya'rd $i ine for wheat land. It - ' udgment to disk in the peas han plow them under. This Irm seed bed lower down inth or the wheat roots to stri nd become well established old weather sets in. On land w as you indicate, an applicati 150 pounds of high grade acid. [hate, and fifty pounds of pO hould prove profitable for ivl [f the wheat does not grow vigorb y in the spring and is yellow tunted in appearance, a top dr ing of seventy-five pounds of nit f soda will be beneficial. The' rate of soda should be applied W1 the blades are dry and scatt broadcast over the ground. Gen Peruvian guano at the rate of 1 250 pounds makes a very geod plication for wheat. There is no jection to sowing red top and til thy with wheat; in fact, it seems1 from our experience to sowA tl grasses in the fall. You mightft ittle clover with the mixture, an you .fail to get a stand tis fall, again in the spring.-Knoxville ' ine. Prekserving Silage Under G S. B. M., News Ferry, writ you kindly advise me if TLea silage in an underground silb. an ice house near my barn and like to change it into a silo. practicable. Answer-A silo can be" ground if necessary. The built, in fact, were pits in the but the labor of taking out of them makes it ad build them above ground, as, modern machinery they can be with comparative ease and it 1s pe matter to get the food out'. do not say what the charc your ice house may be. If it brick, stone or cement walls could use it for a silo if you de advisable'to do so. An airtightit ture is essential for the proper ervation of silage. If I kngw about the situation of your ice1 and its construction I could a yo more fully.' A round silo. of 'tongue and grooved staves-P ment blocks is now regarded most satisfactory and the. best of structure to erect. A silo m built into the ground seven t feet or more, and this can bed special advantage if you hav~2a side barn. About two feet abei ground line wood or cement4 should be used.-Professdr Seo Good For Turk4ys. It should never be forgotte in the wild state their food bugs, worms, seeds, etc., could find for themselves,-and were hunted for and scrambl' continually. There was thena. feeding upon, ridh unnatu that impaired health and pie bowel troubles or otheral that naturally follow unwhe food. They subsisted by the! efforts in the wild state, whi, they are quite too often forced, unnatural foods that are f hope of forcing them to an u growth. Wet or sloppy foods are mended for young turke Food should be given keys) quite early in the at frequent intervals d Never overfeed them, tion in providing pe necessities. Givet eat willingly and no use of rich foods, gr millett seed, which them while they are of this seed, however, they grow older.T boiled egg is bad for reasonable amount~o'f Coarse sand is excel! and if sufficient of this is at other grit will be needed, bu of grit of some kind is a n for without it the poults1 grind their focd.-Experin 1 News Notes. Eight indictments for giig taking rebates were found New York grand jury in the.da the Sugar Trust. Snow is 'repported from Duluth and the Michigan and a fierce gale on the Lak ig several wrecks.y Speaker Cannon was the ig honor at a dinner in Chicag1 The coroner's juryf "Al' Adm, the New~ king, died by suicide. IThe Americon Board~ ioners for Foreign Mis its annual meeting at No Handwriting experts ng the signatures to t will, leaving millions to Schooley. The alleged Bridge 4rnst d from Ohio, five cma d ering their charters.