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VOL. XLTII. WiXXSBORO, S., C., W EDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1887. . NO. 33. I ?????MKMB?????? I "THE SINS OF THE SENATE." [ernorTb<: ^ preferred , - gGodaguin SKNATOK YOl MANS -; itTO ^iC VCAi'T.VIN TII.OI AN. COiliU, iOr 1 :<.H(i niabte . . another iii*j k A Keview oi' the ('liitrtics of >lala?i?ii?iws- ^ j-,1. fef* t?ttioti in Our S::itc Goverfiaseat-Xie r ? K- . , . . ... ness lor oil m lio;ir<J of .vgnculturc, Ktc.. ht<-. i:na ^ (From the News ua^l fourier.) ^ the respOlli L In my article cx the8th nit. ipictured in state, and S|| their own point several of the fault-finders terruptecUy ^ "witli tlie conservative course of the Sen- ^rder, or t P^' ate during its last session, who, when held up to their own and the observation p_ Duncan of the public, were so shocked to see conclusive themselves as other people saw them that capacity fo: they sought shelter by attempting to convince the public that their shore- farmers am comings were nothing but my abuse, the Agricui Strange mode of abuse this, merely to the Stat* cull from one's own words and expies- llD,^ Sucee"s ceiiorunue sions. Save tnrouga the generous ex- member ai ercise of the advantage of a few gallant chant, is th and impartial head-lines, Capt. Tillman j the board, fhns far bffn the onlv one to replv. J ,, * , ,, . " ,, . ~ ", tns ouite is He says that "taere is an oid sa% leg that ?or basin" it is the dog who is hit that howls,'' and paid by the "only the truth hurts." If Capt. Till- rock insteac man is correct, then must not this be the , , , 'Jo3.40iort r?? reason why 'mus tusate to trespass any ereaso jn ^ more on the patience of your readers is operations < overcome by the necessity of replying to were made ; the letter of Col. L. W. Youmans?" He economic c; evidences the vitality o? his movement December, l by calling attention to the "communica- ,copic in it: * tions which have from time to time ap- be dubbed ' peared in your columns." This citation investigatio only proves, perhaps, that Tillman die- sentative ?c tation and the sweet assurances of get- the econom: ting in on the home stretch may be more for the info: - potent in certain quarteis than, it is be- that a curia: lievc-d by one of your correspondents, another "re will be his letters to prominent followers und the errc in Chester, urging them to criticise and will quote a . condemn Senator Patterson for not given by tb ? voting to turn out the present board of ber 3, 18S5: agriculture merely to allow Capt. Till-j "Mr. Po man and his cxew a chance to get into j statistical j the public cheese and become tax-eaters, i bureau of a; Capt. Tillman raised the cry of catch j any interfer thief against the present board, and then j time would nominated himself for one of their sue- A long disci cessors; but the postponement by the i endorsed th Sonoma rif 1 liI] t/-i rervrwvm7A til*-- 1 .r VT- *1 KA<uai,v VJ. ?^ i <w*.^v(.^/v> ^/jr w; ^ board, to use his cv.n expression, will j man, to the compel him to caterwaul on the outside ; culture was for at least one year more before he be-} lawyers' fee comes a tax-eater, however severe and j general witl fc distasteful it may be to a poor farmer j such matter who has to stint. He will not like the i rens, intro; startling cry, "'I cmi'c get oat! I can't i April Conve I get out!" But, like the disappointed j Courier co: l*. office-seeker, "I can't get in! I can't get | Convention in!" Capt. Tillman became so frantic on j pointing a c the war-path that, in his desire to take j gate the cha ^ my scalp, he first said I hud poured j Messrs. S. forth a regular bioauside oi misstate- j appointed o rments, and afterwaids defended himseii1 che desired hv arlmittisisf nearlv all oi' them. Ac! .?? ?. hv- tov least he only positively denied tlie truth i L. A. "Hansc j* of one, and afterwards admitted in sub- matter fully [ stance the correctness o: that statement,! close of Col "that he was self-confessedly a miserable ! the Coluur failure in the management of his own ; \>.\vs and C farm." He intimates thai 1 hud a gre.i: deal of brass, and that my head was I that ther-:-i.;< .j hy the commissioner s goiu ; ;>y received hi--. Cuai'^trs :his C.;n.Vcn ai^ainst the commissioner and board of i urnend by r* . j ^ agriculture ' 'reckless and fallacious. | Convention L' And supposing that he was as large 1:1 i explicit E the eyes of every one else as he is in Ins I >ee that the L own,*he intimates that in speaking ot > retain in its the disciples of Henry George 1 could ; orncer. Ad r not possibly have reference to any one ; yjew Qf ; else but himself. One who is so modest j ma-ladminist as to assume -the championship of the j Government rights and interests of three-fourths of | Tillman, Mi our citizens, and to caution our United , Produced in States Senators that they must study in j iution provi the "Tillman Catechism" if they desire 1t0 examine 1 ^to hold their seats, should not be so ; several Statt Rtgnorant. ?Ead Capt. iiiunan been at j ^jon was ref< WL posted on the current topics of the | resolutions, Hky, he would have known that he \vas ; folio win At the man who said he agreed with : ixdttee: "It Inry (ieorge as lar as lie couia in ms < resolutions 1 bnce of the masses against the classes. , j^ve careful po raj statement (which he positively | submitted b Ees) "that he is self-confessedly a | appoint; Bfeble failure in the management of vesti^ate* a: BkJarm,"I shall draw the record ! State* office m , , _ , i officers ior t Mlman s letter, February 2, i istration, au there is nothing but cheek, j report or re unblushing, in his further j warranted,; flEi&t I am self-confessedly a j dead that failure in the management of j pointed. " T Krm. I have never made any j was adopted ession, and have only said I i the resolnti* Bel competent to teach others, I endorsed a] W after seventeen years' hard ; refuted ami* i?uL 1.^ I moos voice Hainan's speech, April 29, 188G: j Capt. Til 9 MFfarmers cry in pitiful chorus p0jut 0"r^ ja f't Set out! we can't get out!' I benefitted t m ST m Bastile myself. I have aiij <j0 n( -, Sffigg waters rising higher and higher, ^ave spo^t j Sj HkI looked forward without hope as anv'adeouai HPailnre after failure in the cotton crop j ?ave . H UF left nothing with which to even pay in- ]aDgUag terest. I had to sell some land. I claim now r<r Hg w no inspiration but common sense, and n-Qo,^ jnJ that has been burnt into me by getting resolutions H in debt, renting to negroes, and making Convention. BP"?1 cotton on bought food for horses and resolutions m&r hands. I still do not know how to farm." license tax' "Oh, what a tangled web we weave mase the ta -"-1 ^ , j ? ;> tv-lxve. as it I>Yiion nrsi we practice iu ueueivv;. tax on guan Will tlie Captain still deny Lis confes- b.gly pay sion of failure'? If so, then who or what fraud."' I was it that did fail? Was it the Govern- giving that ment, the board of agriculture or the to-day, at t' Senate? Or was it the extravagant, im- would requi be^ile a:_a incompetent cotton crop that I thisk, to"1 clouded itself in cuttle iish dye and on this lang would not gTO v, regardless of the fact that the bo; that the poor fanner had to stint and the farmers could not even pay interest? I appeal man says tl to the reason of the public it a man services of 1 whose cotton crop failed year after y^ar confined to so that he could not even pay interest the bencJifcs I and does not yet know how to farm common as should be placed on the State board of expenditure agriculture? enumerated Is such a man a proper personage to purchase, commission to travel in other States Agricultnra without limit as to the expenditure ci is situated, public funds to investigate the practical ing its cii-n operations of agricultural colleges? The at .$->5,00 Bible tells us that he who was faithful manner Wr over a few things was made ruler over the Coo iv many; but neither Holy Writ nor even have pre V reason or common sense ieiis us that a e -vccing o: man who has failed in the management crease or" t! of his own planting and does not know L'he csti: ;.;: how to farm should be placed over the rived as agricultural interest of the State. Con-1 the pan - i ^ j fessing the beam in his own eye, he at- numbers tacks the mote in the eye of the Govern- auguraiL i ment, and 2>laying "leap frog"' over his which hs;- : own admissions of extravagance and in- oir: Coin scompetence repeatedly prefers the same heart of the charges against the board of agriculture, at 850,000. ULet us investigate the operations of this ment again: bo;ird and ascertain whether my brass pany for pa and the commissioner's good liquor have fourth. Ill disnTjalifif*! nip. or Ms sismal sue- ent board cess as a farmer lias best qualified him during the to sit in judgment on'the merits o; the has been i: board. (Just here, as an act of simple aggregate ? justice to CoL Butler, let me say that I previous to neither drank any of his liquor nor did partment o I take a drink with him during my stay increase of in Columbia.) ent board, The board of agriculture comprises a pense what membership of live. One of these posi- Fifth. I wi' tions was tilled for two years by Gov- of the pubi HL-- - grnor Hagood and four years by Gov-lries; to its MRSr^rjl grrati? w i n i i . I i tA1?? . jj-ijx. rj'.'., JzuA^v^^ -fiv^TL/ i^LssLAT-'sma ;:>>hOii. Charges of the nature gration; to tiie magnificent handbook I XIMELV TOPI >y Capt. Tillman will not hold which it has compiled, printed and dis-1 st this fifth of the board in tribnted, setting forth the advantages, ? the public. Col. J. N. Lips- resources, A*c., of the State; to its ser- how to do j-a 'our y^urs secretary- of State vices at the different expositions; to its s r of the State Grange, is experiments, its correspondence, publisher of the board. Who are cation and distribution of seed. The <. . . r , 3ges of Col. Lipscomb's tit- work of this department has been fsilly ice, the people of South Caro- commensurate with what might liave iave twice endorsed him for been expected from the distinguished (w. L.Jones :ii iible position of secretary of men who have conducted it. Capt. Till- After the win the farm- rs, who have unin- man and his allies have proposed death, the resurr chosen him for chief of their Governor Hagood and Col. Duncan for r ] ,';n 'p-u,. hose who are miserable fail- members of th^ new board, and Chan- 7 i* /-.TT-rw 'J A +V?iWl .Tnliric*/Iii iroc cfelsv.fn/l iw flinm na J-H^liCT 1U tllC 111 'i) p lias been filled by Col. D. a member of the traveling committee, to bis rays more dij . I can point to no more investigate agricultural colleges in other warming its surf;: evidence of bis fitness and States. Thus we see them endorsing . rh.-iv \WrVr the position than the fact three of the members of this very board ^ . been repeatedly chosen by which they charge with extravagance taau mamma progressive and intelligent and incompetence. They denounce feels the quicken: i mechanics for president of Prof. MeBryde's experimental farm in patient to put see tural and Mechanical Society Columbia as a farce, and, with their par?- recj W. D. Johnson, a large usual consistency, some of them are ? i'ul planter, who was a chan- urging him for director oi' those provid- veraure- -"^ppy r the old regime, is a fourth ed for by the Legislature at its last ses- themselves in co id Mr. A. S. J. Ferry, a mer- sion. Capt. Tillman thinks the Legis- nature, who neve e fifth and last member of lature should have been governed on ah in unequal conte; agricultural questions by his Conven- laws. One of th( 'erry'.s energy and enterprise tions. During his November Conven- J Cultivator is to < indebted to a largo extent) tion there were several thousand farmers J this harmony bet the estimate of the royalty in Columbia, notwithstanding which material worm m Coosaw Company on crude fact, the attendance on his Convention hie them to see L I of dried roek, a measure was very slim. Capt. Tillman acknovl- and sunshine, ear ted in the recovery of S-i,- edging himself to be the only represen- ly understood, id; Le State and an annual in- tative from liis Congressional district, man's welfare; 1 ts revenue of $5,000. The who represented the fanners?the few the forces of m ' >- the board of agriculture who -were in his Convention, or the labors and increa; in object of scrutiny by the several thousand who were present and whilst antagonist iucus of the Legislature in took no notice of it? increases his labc 1883, which was so micro- As to the sins of the Senate, that body unproductive and > ideas or retrenchment as to passed the experimental station bill, the Now tiie tkret 'three for a quarter/'. This bill to tax cotton seed meal and the bill nature which con a was conducted by Bepre- to repeal the lien law, three measures month are a low >pe, the recognized leader of recommended by Capt. Tillman's Con- ing rains and hig] ic wing of the House, and vention and merely postponed action on plants or prepares rmation of the public, and the bill to reorganize the department of a constant eye t in party may be struck with agriculture until the next session. Thus First, as to cold, alization of his own errors we seethe Senate really rejected none of make them germi >rs of those around liiru," I their proposed measures, while the had the most of i synopsis of the report as House passed two of their bills?the ex- at greater depth' J Xews and Courier Decern- peridental station bill and the bill to placed before a tir reorganize the department of agricul- sooner, its outer s >pe presented an elaborate ture. It rejected three of their meas- Has not the heat report, fully endorsing the ures outright?the joint resolution call- surface before it c griculture, and stating that ing a Constitutional Convention, the bill Is it not perfectly ence with the bureau at this to tax cotton seed meal, and the bill to surface is the fir: be unwise and injudicious, repeal the lien law. Under these cir- Now at the end oi ission followed. Everybody cumstances the question might be asked be regarded as a c e bureau." Stimulated, no with propriety which of these two bodies I the nights exceed Lie criticisms of Capt. Till- conformed most to the requirements of j the earth was losii eaect tiiat tue Doaru oi agri-> uapi. xiiunan ana his iouowers, me = ICtCIVCUj Xll uiuu spending lots of money in "Farmer House" or the "Sinful Senate." I As tlie sun come $, when we had an attorney- I can only account for the silence with I days become long i a big salary to attend to which they have treated the slaughter of throws more heat s, Mr. G. W. Shell, ot Lau- their pet measures in the House, and projects the heat iluced a resolution in the the "hue and cry" they have raised over upon its surface, J :ntioi>, which the News and the mere postponement of one of their j giances oil", or is r osidered "Opt. Tillman's measures by the Senate, upon the j face, and more of ail the way through," ap- ground that the measure postponed was I to warm it. The ommittee of three to invest!- the only one which opened up an avenue ; in its relation to t .rges._ ^ to the position of "tax-eater." j body held before : hell. Dargan and Davis were 3Ir. Tillman asks if I have forgotten j becomes warmed : a the committee to obtain that some years ago both the Agricul-! penetrates deeper rni " L 1 ^ x? 1 /" ?- ! Kr* AKVI'/mio 111 FtiVC I!lIOi~7Ii<aXIUH. -LilC CO'-Iilllit" i.UJi*1 OUUItfl/V ULIU iliC OUUC VXJRiilgC j vw?ivuo ^iv*v of a report, introduced CoL passed resolutions urging the Legisla- j this? That in ( >22, who would explain the .turo to abolish the lien law, which, ac-! should not be bur to the Convention. At the cording to Capt. Tillman, is my "pet! On the contrary, . Hansom's statement, which aversion" and his "damnable lion law," i placed just us nea: bia correspondent of the aud explained the nonconformity of the ' quisite moisture c ouru r said was very clear Legislature to this requirement of the j Again, as it is d . Senator Talbsrt moved two organizations in the following Inn-1 up promptly wh< ?rt of theagricultural bureau i guagie: "Had either or both of these or- i pactiug rains and as entirely satisfactory to gani^itions repre^nied any considerable I earik ever theses iivn. lur. i/'argan moved to contingent of our agricultural popula-' one should always ;tiiruing the thanks of the tion; had there been fewer politicians i peratures at whic to Mr. Hansom for his plain among them and more real honest farm- j germinate. A tab! statement. Re was glad to ers, ihere would have been more heed ' temperatures at w bureau had the judgment to paid to their wishes." Between the ! nion cultivated p service so level-headed an caprice of fortune, the "Farmer House" ] presented. Tlies opted amidst applause." and the "Sinful Senate," the recom-1 learned from actu charges of extravagance and mendations of Capt. Tillman's Conven- j to be regretted -th: i: ? ? - ? 1 .'a4.7 ^ 1 /YAi*miT?oriAT> rvf nf ration against tne State u'mi> muwu ve*y muu yumier. ? fc specifically made by Capt. Perhaps by striking out the words crop plants, like c \ Prince of Anderson, In- 4'organizations" and inserting in lieu not be given: the same Convention a reso- thereof the word "Convention" the lowest avekage t ding for a committee of ten Captain can find a solution of his trouble > . the books and offices of the very nearly in his own language. wi t 2 .departments. This resolu- The Scriptures tell us that when tne Barl<T ''' " " ' " " erred to the committee on blind lead the blind both fall in tne ^r(j,.n pea and was reported back with ditch. How, then, can a man who does j ~ Com s comment bv the said com- uot know how to farm lead the farmers Vf B " ie committee on rules and the State? Should some of Capt. ?uuasj1 beg leave to report that they Tillman's propositions be adopted, the 1 Iv considered the resolution farmers would soon pray to be delivered From the above v Air. Prince in reference to from their friends. I allude to the lowing conclusion aient'of a committee to in- doubling of the royalty on river rock locality the avera^ QU. report in reierence to ' aiiu LUU license ut.v?niecisures which iuoiiui ui .uuuijll x; rs and reflections on said would ultimately result in the increase corn may be safel; 4riYii<ranep and maladmin- of the tax exclusively paid by farmers month; if it is lov id we are satisfied that sa^d from $25,000 to $150,000, which, as an would be unwise t ports are unfounded and un- indirect tax, Capt. Tillman says, the .ground. Now, if md we respectfully recom- farmers would have to pay. So far as it mcmeter (as eve kid committee be not ap- alludes to the license tax, though, they records the liighes he report of the committee would not feel it, as they would a direct tures of tbe air e without dissent thus tabling Quite a compliment that, to the o'clock and at sui >n." We thus see mv brass fraternity, which compares us to foolish average of all, he ad* Capt. Tillman's charges children, who would not feel the wounds closely the averag 1 applause and by the unani- unless they saw the blood. In conclu- upper layer of the of his own Convention. sion, the farmers have but two grounds localities the av< lman says I have failed to 01 compiami against tne juegisiarare: uie cunercuv mum what way the farmers are application of the license tax exclu- observations aire iv the board of agriculture, sively paid by farmers to general State officers and other show where the $170,000 they purposes, and that on cotton and pro- rience has pretty aas gone and cannot show visions in the hands of farmers. These right time in each ;e results'of its expenditure, two grievances, I have no doubt, the ticular crop shoul replied to Caot. Tillman in Legislature will correct at its next ses- sons vary a good ( e of his own Convention. I sion. L. W. Youmans. temperature of th oh- to him in his own lan- Sanders, S. C., March 1, 1887. of March may vu section "8" of a series of vcriciltir vl j-epoft grees. An mvam introduced into the April agkiclltlbal import. cannot be fixed, a , and known as the Tillman Tlie ouality of the Corn Crop Comparahe stvles the doubling of the tivelv High?The Wieat Crop Good. P^a-1 COJU, on fertilizers, ^ch would WisHI,.0T0N, ^Kh March ? :: fiuy cents insteau of ? e rep0rt of the Department of Agriculture promptly. Farm '18 ,a ' ?n of the distribution of wheat and corn m0iaeters plant os, winch farmers will will- ^ ^ m Der cent. o! thc c o? ^'do^odbk to be guaranteed against ^ fc ^ ia-the fermers, a .lie ccard 01 agriculture Li sma[]er proportion than in March, ISSo " These are 1 very guaranty to the farmers OQJ- uiii 1M, ' ^ aiC treaty-five cents per ton.' It xo?u' uut , Ltlc not use ttte tnerm ire a very advanced logician, ^tomated remainder is 003,0^0,000 bush- termme the matte put-any other construction f e estimates proportion held for Gardeners and fio ;uage of Capt. Tillman than h ? perature of their ird is rendering a service to ' 5Tni<? ~88,CK)0,000 bushels for trans- niometers: why s3 for half the price Capt, Till- portation-beyond county lines. The pro- the same instra lev are willing to pay. The PorJxon ot merchantable corn is 86 per whenever it is pra :he board, however, are not C8nt,,.makiDg the quality of the crop be able to heat th this particular, but among comparatively high, bO being the average limited extent, b\ : which the farmers share in PerCenT;l,f'f 01 merchantable m a series of ^ut ctLQ ^ citizens, resuitinc from the ?^ars* amoun-o. wheat on hand^is heated it sufficien J of this ?170,000, may be ^^eiiLv VA U1B ui auuut x--,- corn is a matter o . tlie following: First. The (XX>,U?0 b.xsh^ ag-^t 10, 000,000 last repianting is very on behalf of the State, of ?car', and 160,000,000 in ?Iarch ISSo, preCautions therej I Hall, the lot upon which it e largest surPlu.s ?* krgest crop t|on temperatu audits equipments, includ- &NCr Srown._ -lt 18 ^000,000 oushels have the crop co aical laboratory, Ac., valued uniform]}'. Second. The change mthe buslieis moie than m L. b- after It was said abo' issrssing the royalty paid by shortest crop of recent ye ars. I he warm Up bis land Company, resulting, as I i consumption is thing in the same uf=lv menf-iouctl, in the re- f ' 00,0 JO bushels, and the proportion early corn on soi and an annual in- ^ALSM,!^e , ^S-p, counT7^*:sls warm up sooner >e public income of ?.">,000. ^63,000,000 bushels. The qualityof the because the sun's of L:io amount to date de- C*?P 1S uau.sua ^ ??od m the principal pendicuiarly npo: 1i.. .1.:. wheat-growing sections, the average farmer v>..mjS a~w ui VJ-L . , -. . i.0 _ . i-ii the board "would be in round v'ei? 01 nS pounds per bushel. mature very earb out ?20,000.- Third. The in- southern slope, w] and conduct of litigation The lkuislatuke of New York is con- but dark-colored resulted in the recovery in sidering :i bill which has for its object called for that of 5,000 acres of land in the the exemption from taxation of every freely; a close, w ; phosphate territory, valued building erccted for the use of a college, the spring, and a and the recovery oi a judg- incorporated academy, or other seminary because a dark so st the Pacific Guano Com- of learning, every building for public than a light-coloi ist due royalty of $53,570.48. worship, every public schoolhouse, every Next to cold, ider the auspices of the pres- free hospital, court house and jail and drying winds are the royalty paid the State th^ several lots whereon such buildings How'? First by seven years of its supervision are situated. New York yearly con- tilled with humus icreased from $340,746, the tributes 83,305,000 to the support of compact a new-gi )aid for the seven years just charitable institutions whose property is bringing up too i the establisliment of the de- exempt from taxation. This property is face. If a thin s f agriculture, to $980,569, an worth $30,000,000. If taxed at the city must be deepenei $639,823 in favor of the pres- rate, it would bring into the city treas- should be done \ and collected "without any ex- ury ?b?/,uw, tnus masing me kjuu cust uiuu6l ever to the public treasury, of these institutions to the city $4,092,- is better if this b< 11 merely allude to its conduct 000. The church and charitable prop- of a small grain, ic interest in tisli and fishe- erty exempt from taxation in New York -has to be plowed attempts to encourage immi- amounts in value to 875,000,000. poor soils the sen egaes?camhe?<mbbb?a??a? ? ?*? ? m .i ?? OS FOR FARMERS. I ci^edly preferable to the turn-plow. The manner of covering the seed . ? affects also the crusting of the soil above j 1 ,u """r' viNt; wokk at this &cm; 1? the land is rolied, or if the ka^on. see<^ 1S covered with a board?which to a Oebi<.'h< certain degree compresses the soil like ?. Sixteen y .... roller?and is thus left tlat, cmsting isJ men, the; front at' autitori- > , , ., ... ., 0 , ? . o much. more apt to .ensue, than it the seed Ann and. '' is covered with a plow and the land left took Mar; :!u ?a:acu.tiv^.tor.) lightly ridged. Corn planted in a very according ter's sleep, typical of shallow drill and covered with a double the Latte ection of spring is about foot plow, making a very small list or many chi] . ~ -. l'c.-M-.rr -r,,i ridge over it, is in better condition to wasplacei J"' . ? J.? 14 come up well than under ar,y other mode Mormon, tvens, as ponnng down Gf planting we know. Mary Lee ' ctly upon the earth, Opinion is divided as to the policy of Her moth ;ce. and waking plants Panting com in water furrow, The | sV-o Tin W greatest objection is the filling of the and unha] t 'W1 * u' " farrow with water after heavy rains and with them .0 uojecus around him, the consequent baking and hardening of aQd they : ing impulse and is im- the soil when it dries off after water has Just as he ds in the ground and do stood upon it. In a wet spring, it is second wi othing the earth with d,ifficuit to secure a good stand under of the con ' , these circumstances, and the corn, when Killed in a are they v,-.io can place qUj+e ^ oung, is liable to be drowned out. after that mplete harmony with But tLc-^e disadvantages, which are -ad- broken he r waste their strength mittecH* great, are, we think, more in the woi ?t with her inexorable counter- jalanced by the great ease of thing of a i leading objects of the cultivating the crop. The successive He was ca sstablish and preserve ploughings cover up and kill grass with wife was ween its readers and the ease and certainty, and at the same time Jane, to w which they live, to en- throw curt to the corn about as fist as it tende riTV or"i rnin n/WIc if Tt rpr./Wc -nnccililp ?.kn flip filled with tli and air, when riglit- exclusive use of the sweep or scrape in the divi iv ail be conducive to the cultivation of the crop, and this terminatic low co-operation with carries with it, almost of necessity, shal- child whic iture may lighten his low culture, which is a matter of the first her dead] 5e their productiveness, importance. Planting com in the water grew to wi n with them not only furrow also facilitates the application of a degree n ?rs, but renders them manure around the com, without the but in sph fruitless. necessity of siding and possibly cutting reticent. ) leading features of its roots. Another decided advantage is taught by front the farmer this that the com is laid by, with the surface almost a f temperature, compact- flat and level, instead "of being ridded, ligion her: T-- T ,1? ? f tW. wn.<! ir H W1UU?>? wiiiiiMJVcr litJ .lzi uur iiui* ima itisu vci v ? ?~ ? 5 to plant, lie must have desirable." "When the soil is thin, the inspiratioi ;o these three things, water furrow must be correspondingly A year c Seeds need heat to shallow; it would not be well to plant acquainted nate. Where will they corn deep in the raw subsoil. Circum- mining cai t, near the surface or stances alter cases, and sound judgment tile, of coi ? If a cold body is must be exercised about every operation gold and s e, which becomes warm of the farm. )y by nam. surface or its interior? The question is often asked, what to pay the to travel through its manures are best adapted to corn? As length it 1j :an reach its interior? compared with cotton, corn needs about ^er accep j clear then that the the same substances with a somewhat away to th at to become heated? increased quantity of nitrogen. Cotton evenings 1 : winter, the earth is to seed, for instance, which has always been mountain -old body. As long as successfully used as a manure for corn, the town, L>d the days in length, is by itself unsuited as a fertilizer for particular! og more heat than it cotton, and nitrogen is the predominant away from nlamor.t nf flnffnn cMfl Rut OTnon'onoo Of WalkhlC s northward and the lias shown that cotton seed is improved position t er, the sun not only as a manure for corn by the addition of -Brother B; upon the earth, but phosphate, showing that com does not the matter, more perpendicularly need quite so large a proportion of to interfer o that less of the heat nitrogen to phosphoric acid and ootash as won o' eflected from its sur- cotton seed contains. A strictly cotton though at: it is absorbed or goes manure is also improved, when intended iao- -Bern earth, then, in spring, for corn, by the addition of more potash. ar'd the < he sun, is like a cold In Furman's formula, for instance, never meet a Hre. Its surface first which is adapted to cotton on medium after this, xnd afterwards the heat lands, the cotton seed and kainit might obedience, and deeper. What is be doubled for corn on the same quality persistence nee to be drawn from of land. Cow manure and ashes have also summer di i-ariy plantings, seeds proved an excellent fertilizer for corn, ^he would ied deep in the soil. But experiment has not succeeded as yet her, and h that they should be in fixing as definitely the proportion" of of his alloc r the surface as the re- ingredients in a com manure as it has in to become an be secured. thus for cotton. Experiments made at ceivedsom esirable t-Jiat seed come the North throw comparatively little time on th "xi planted, less com- light upon corn-growing at the South, to Brother baking winds crust the became ?jjpm the predominance of grass In Septe i bear in mind the tern- of theNorth. ure much richer in organic when he n h different seeds "will nitrogen than those of the South. back with e of the lowest average I The winter killing of oats for several C ratty, w hick some of our com- j jears past has thrown a damper on that thought hi iants will germinate is j crop and directed attention rather more another wi e figures have been \ to corn. But it is urged upon the reader higly broa al experiments. It is to remember that unless arrangements second da\ it the temperature of are made to work the corn crop with the repelled hi hers of our ordinary plow alone, it may prove a very expen- his suit, ar otton, peas, etc., can sive crop. If upland corn is planted in -Bates to hi the wator turrow, and this furrow is filled opposed t. empekatubeofgehmi- ^.gradually (not all at once) by succes- sincere ^ ^T10N- tive plcwings, and n bottom lands are her foster planted in checks, it is possible, indeed &ith lor a degrees. j? js easy to cultivate a crop with the placated E ff _ .! plow withoui the aid of the hoe. Start- harp on th ('( ing the plow early and repeating the to to bring (f plo wings at short intervals is" the whole ways are fs e( secret. Such cultivation, with judicious intercourse ^ manuring, will insure cheap corn. But inhabit th - - ? - ?? ? ? o n'oift : we may draw the fol- masmuufl as xue com crop is more or ???/ : That in any given less liable to be cut off by drought, it is vision. TJ je temperature for the desirable, in making arrangements for through J 3 50 degrees or above, an ample supply of provisions, to include Then the ? j planted during that one's programme more or less of the foe Sunda rer than -15 degrees it larger grained sorghums like kft.fi ir corn, local elder; ;o put the seed in the These will make fair yields under cir- By a singu a farmer has a ther- cumstances where corn would utterly bad seen tl ;ry one should) and fail, and our experience induces the be- God's cho it and lowest tempera- iief that for feeding purposes their grain Still the gi ,acli day (say at two is nearly or quite as good as corn. tears, like irise), and strikes an This is the proper month for top- sixteen yea can approximate quite dressing grass and grain. A little nitrate visitor, ;e temperature of the of soda?say 50 pounds per acre?in kindly but : surface soil. In many combination with phosphates, will of:en murred, t rage temperatures of produce a marked change in their weaker io ] ;hs can be learned from growth. A yellowish cast of the leaves The vis ady made by signal is a pretty sure indication of the need of effect, Eidt observers. True, expe- nitrogen, and it is this substance which went up in well settled about the nitrate of soda supplies. For clover, last monti locality when a par- plaster is the usual top-dressing; 100 days and n d be planted, but sea- pounds per acre will suffice. Sometimes Lord, and leak and the average it produces wonderful effects?occasion- were rewar e first or second half ally no apparent results follow its appli- and hearin: ry three or four de- cation?but no one can predict in *id- that Elder ible date for planting vance whether it will do good or not. to be his v nd instead of the hap- Grass, cbver and lucerne may still be would he h - ?* j-i -j. ?:ii -1- Hnf if ic Troll fin fln'c in flio ffrsf to the JjOi** issmg mat it wjjj. uu i ~ ? ? v~.~ ? . f -ivonld be better to iiau" of the month, that the young plants tne xuruier ,.1 I^unlelv that'the may become well establ4ed before append? longh to bring it up ^"arm d*7 weather sets in. Be sure to that if ;uar ers use trees as ther- finish off with the roller that the seeds would 1 ce co^n, they say, when be veil firmed in the soil and may fier liusbai issoms," ~or when the come up and grow off promptly. temple, th< 5 large as a squirrel's r ? J? . useful signs, but why He Accepted the Challenge. the face of omster itself and de- ?cc ;r still more definitely. The ycung, fair-haired wife of a memrists regulate the tem- bcr of the New York stock exchange left t green-houses by tier- town the other day for a short visit. She i fVnril# Liould not a farmer use returned unexpectedly and found a let- , i cpW< mcnt, in his calling, ter addressed to her husband awaiting ' "i i cticableV He may not his retun from the street late in the t , e soil, except to a very aftemooc. It was signed "Frank > feme-ting manures, Smith," tnd said: "Now that the old f*rjj_ * ut "when the sun Has vroman i> gone, let's go to tlie theatre tly. A good stand of and peprer the town later/' Mr. Smith }ie* f the first importance; is a frequenter of the Hotel Brunswick rcli.?io> objectionable. Every and was a, dium of the lady's husband in mor* vu?er! Core, (including atten- his bachelor days. The wife sent this tjlat ^ re) should be taken to note to 3L. Smith: "The old woman manj \y >me up promptly and ^ returned. Although I have never geD{. t'iiere . met you, I have frequently heard my lev onj a i*e a farmer could not husband spak of you. I shall be happy t0%',0\i, ,no , but he can do some- to accept tie inyitation to the theatre | direction by planting for him anc myself." _ Mr. Smith, not at wafr0Ils ithern slopes. These all disconceted, got tickets for the Fifth \yhen th than northern slopes, avenue, anc now says that his only re- rai;.-,r. heat fails more per- gret is that he referred to the bright L(je i their surfaces. If a young wife of his friend as ''the old irt of his corn crop to woman."?lew York Commercial Ad- ^ , he can select ior it a vertiser. , ithrather light-textured J , , , i V.rxrr. ?r>il is - SUt. -U.U u-s water may sink in it t:^ laiieu Tor MariWds Tomi?. Judge ci <; et soil is always cold in , would not dark sou is'desirable , the semptor, i?s timsW ofhereho! , , , . , the tiuii andlast model oi the nanels which vnltfil sm \ ol absorbs neat better aro t0 !>e ^ aliJ placed Jn Garfield* 'e(lonc-.. . . tomb. This last panel represents Garfield compacting rams and lying in stat: and the peop!<- massing by hi- ^ to be guarded against. bo<iy. Thee are 51 figures, and all are keeping the soil well ]ife j,jze> ^ either end of the bier stands >. Heavy rains cannot a soldier and t Knight Templar. A young , :ound. Second, by not girl stands intlie foreground with a wreath *v'c uc.1 nuch clay to the sur- in iier hand. The first of the panels rep- ^onsumpuo oil, with clay subsoil, resents Garfeld as a school teacher, the .'y\rer;1 -^y*' 1 with a turn plow, it second as r. soldier at Ckicamaugu. the 1 l-cfnc'0' ery gradualiv, only a third as an or;tor, and the fourth taking the ' it uo at one time: and it oath as Presdent. The panels have not J??6' . e done just in advance vet been sentto the site of the monument, "J instead of a crop which but are at tie terra cotta works at Perth * and hoed. For thin, Amboy whe- the las model will be sent th?ec,iost o >oter Ctwo-horse) is de- aad ca3t- }"rk ^orld- and lungs} , MAJJY'S SAO 1ATK. THE STALWART CANDIDATE ussiiis *l??ry ol* a Little t;irl in :i Sherman tlie Choice for President?Si Mormon Family. eance of His Southern Trip. ) Valley, Viab, March !>.? Washington, March 8.?Senator 1 cars ago Samuel Bates, a Mor- man proposes starting on his Som i the possessor of two wives, trip this afternoon. It is u: Jane, the latter being childless, stood among his close Iriends that r Lee, an orphan, to bring up Sherman contemplates combining to the rites of the Church of ness with pleasure on this trip, r Day Saints. As Ann had initial conference held here dining dren to comfort her the babe winter by prominent Republicans o .1 in charge of Jane, a devout stalwart i'aith, with reference to Eg herself bora in the faith, lican prospects in the next Preside 's parents were from England, election, have resulted in a substa er was a delicate little woman, concurrence in the opinion that ed bv manv here as a tearful She.man is by far the best avai " " - - T-. -1 1 1 A* 1 r - JA. . T> 1.' ?PJ person. Times were hard iresiaenuai umoer ior ice jciepuu l when they first appeared here, party. Pennsylvania has always 5Tew harder for some reason. looked upon as a Blaine stronghold, r husband was about to take a it is said that the Cameron influence Fe, evidently against the wishes from now be exerted to secure a ? ipanion of his youth, he was man delegation to the next Repub . snow slide, and three months National Convention. Kew York is his widow died, soiy.e said of a counted upon for Sherman, and in art, leaving little Mary alone Northwest ex-Postmaster-General Hs :ld. Samuel Bates was some- the clique with which he trains l man among the Mormons. to look out for Sherman delegates, lied Brother Bates. His first course Mr. Sherman can have no difi a liard, coarse woman, but ty in securing the Ohio dclegal 'hom the little orphan went, VvhenMr. Sherman was a candidate :r, rather good looking, and the Presidential nomination of 1880, a stem and unbending faith used his power as Secretary of nity of her religion, and a de- Treasury to "work" the South, and n to "live" it to the end. The remembered, he obtained qu h thus fell to her partook of respectable following in that section, mother's disposition. As she n? scruples in appealing to Souti amanliood slie became fair to I collectors of customs and of inte ot often seen in tliese part?, revenue to help him out. It is arc it she was gloomy, sad and the traditions of the Treasury Dej Surrounded by Mormons and that upon one occasion he hi the pious Jane, she became to Mr. John L. Thomas, the collect* ati flip of rp- customs at Baltimore, that a Sher. self, and readily accepted all delegation from Maryland to the Be] lstilled into her mind as the liCan convention would be very acce 1 of the Lord. ble, but that Mr. Thomas was too xr >r two ago Mary Lee becamc tinctured with Blaineism to take kh L with a young man living in a ^he suggestion. Now it is said a: p not far from here, a Gen- Sherman and his friends are of irse, as no Mormon delves for belief tiiat the seed sown for him in ilver. The youth, Seth Bent- bouth m 1880 fell upon good grot e, rarely lost an opportunitv that this is the time to follow up girl little attentions, ana at syvu. ? ic^yxt^u., tuciw ecame the rumor that he was kiiat 011 his Southern trip Mr. Sher: ted lover. She would stroll the occasion to lay his w e foot hills to meet him, of ^9* Southern delegates to the con they would be seen by the ^ion of next year. So far as Yirgini brook which winds through concerned, it is said that Gen. Mai and on Sunday afternoons, ^ thoroughly in sympathy with y when Brother Bates was Sherman movement, and will use his home, they would be riding tluence for a Sherman dolegation. < ; together. Jane made no op- Casaday, the serjeant-at-arms of o the intimacy, but when Senate, and who has long been ont ites's attention was called to tiie most prominent managers and w , he felt that it was his duty ers in the Republican party of X< e. Little by little Jane's mind Carolina, has long been devoted to ver to his way of thinking, political fortunes of Mr. Sherman, _ first she had been unsuspect- ^_ie relied upon to secure the X< tly was forbidden the house, Carolina dolegation. These all tl jirl was told that she must tiiat Sherman will strengthen ; him again. But they met chances by going South and mixing not as a result of Mary's dis- the people, so that other Kept but by reason of Bently's C;lu aspirants for the nomination i. He found her one div last watch Mr. Sherman s Southern 1 "* ^ ' "? ** * aiw>1\1A >wn 07 tlie OI'OOK, aua wnen wueiuwauiciiiwicai, j-l uuuoim Lave run from him he caught m m olding her closely he told her Notes of southern Progress. tion for her and entreated her his wife, and in return re- W. E. Gilliam is developing a ? .e encouragement. From that mine at Sheppard's, Ya. ey met occasionally, unknown A sash, door and blind factory is b< Bates or Jane. erected at Corsicana, Texas. mbcr Brother Bates went to A gin factory is being built at Cc ;o, on au exhortation four, and cana, Texas. jturned in October he brought It is reported that S. S. Marsha] hiui a Mormon elder named Bro., of Allegheny City, "^a., will es' ho. seeing Mary Lee, be- iish glass works at Chattanooga, Tern m that he would like to take A pottery is being erected near 1 i'e, his lii'th, and iie. accord- son, Tenn., by Stewart & Alexander, ched the subject to her on the It is reported that a file factory is r after his arrival. The girl be established at Chattanooga. Tenn. m with horror, but he pressed It- is rumored that a stave and b Ld at length brought Brother wood factor}' will be started at Jell is assistance. At first Jane Tenn. be proposition. She was a A company is being formed to bui rmon, but her affection for street railroad at Dalton, Ga. child got the better of her 1\. 1L Couch will erect a lath ; time, and until she could be shingle mill near Keyser, X. C. 1 "I 2 , 1 1 J 1 I * T TV n T.XT.'l _ '11 V *1 1 I icier oraity naa to nang ms dames u. *uci.\eil will duilo. a cot e willow. The means resorted yarn factory, 40 by 60 feet, at Faye ; Jane to see the error of her ville, X. C. i mi liar to all who have had A chair factory will be started r ; with the strange people who Gibsonville, N. 0., by Clapp Co. .esc valleys. .Brother Bates A trunk factory has been started n. Then "Elder Cratty had a Birmingham, Ala"., by I. C. Bandma tien a bishop who was passing Co. ericho Yailey had a vision. J. & D. Noble, of Anniston, Ala., h Sunday school superintendent, ordered new machinery to double y school teachers, and the capacity of their boiler works. 5 and missionaries had visions. A $250,000 stock company is be lar concensus of opinion all organized at Sheffield, Ala., to estab le same thing. Mar}- Lee was a rolling mill. ice for Elder Cratty's wife. C. B. Hargrove, of Bome, Ga., c rl, now most of the_ time in template starting a rope factory, her unhappy mother, dead A company has been formed at C rs, shrank from the proffer of man, Ala., to build water works, v and her foster mother, the J: H. Karter as secretary and Will superstitious Jane, still de- Bower treasurer. houyh ?rrowhj<r weaker and The MississiDoi Land. Immiorati ler opposi don. Mining and Manufacturing Company ions failing of the desired been organised at Durrant, Miss. r. :r Crattv and Brother Bates authorized capital stock is said to to the mountains some time 81,000,000. i, and, fasting for fourteen The Trowbridge Furniture Compa ights, they wrestled with the capital stock ?20,000, has been charte at the end of their vigil they at Atlanta, Ga., by John Trowbricl ded by seeing a great light, Henry T. Trowbridge, Leonard T. Iv g a voice from heaven saying dail and George W. Towers. Cratty should take Mary Lee The Southern Bridge Company, rife, and that further delay Birmingham, Ala., are putting in" i oth unseemly and displeasing machinery and- will add boiler -wc 1. With this revelation and and the manufacturing of bolts, n assurance that a spirit had rivets, etc. .nto Cratty in a vision saying J. C. Greeley, of Jacksonville, F y Lee would marry him she A. M. Ives, S. C. Thompson, Mr. D: lve the requisite affection for and others have bought 6,00Q acres id by praying for it in the mineral lands, which they will devel t two wended their way home- m . m" _ ommunicated to Jane the re- The Free Delivery Affected, r prayers and fastings. In such undoubted evidence of The failure of the Deficiency Apj approval that good woman priation biil affects the postal service 10 more, and tailing the girl this extent. There are 179 places she advised her to give up which the free delivery service was 2 lover and cling to the hus- have been established immediately, ;ed for her by God, who had now nothing in this direction can ds servants that if she did not done until the beginning of the r iow the spirit would confer fiscal year, when the regular approp iurpassiug affection upon her tion will be available, In another il hio 1 o if \t*qo "n"tv\rkOC/?/3 f/\ Qnr?rAr\wofn CrT HA e"s own faith was strong, and to enable the Postmaster-General to tion to follow the teachings of stitute a tliorough examination of a was great; but it took many accounts of all fourth class post mast views to bring her to admit which would have necessitated the ,d decided to obey the com- pointment of several additional postoi hen she at last gave her con- inspectors. This investigation was i was much joy in Jericho Yal- dered necessary because numerous +ra great company was made up have been discovered in the accounts ; with the wedding party to postmasters whose compensation is e. They were to start by termissd by ihe number of stamps fc a Monday morning. cancel. e sun came v.p cvei themoun- ^ _ that morning it saw Mary a i'raye* sent yp for reporters, by the brook, revolver in ' ? u dead. She had risen during In th^ Senate this morning Chap! ana navmg sought a secluded j Ainscn scarued the august body srto and Beutly often met, closing his prayer with a word for ,:en her appeal at once to the newspapermen. He sajd:; ''And 11 ill the earth. Her religion dear Lord, bless the reporters, wL perndt-her to marry the man nimbi? p^ns catch our even* word :;ln ce and her womanhood re- before it is uttered. Like thyself, t n?t the alliance which, accord- are omnipresent ai\d almost omnipot* Luy interpretation, the unseen If we take the wings of the morning arranged for her. ?y to the utmost parts of the earth t a are there. They meet us in the jum Stranger thnu FivUou of Africa; tiioy waylay us in the sohi canons of Colorado, a id when at lei ecords of seme of the cures of v^e find the latitude of 4iie magnetic ] n effected by that most ponder- behold they are there, ilay their I -Dr. Pierces "Golden Medical and goodness bo equal to their poi Thousands of grateful men and \7hen the general assembly of hea a, who have been snatched al- convenes let no reporter be exclu< the very jaws of deatn. can tes- ^jnen!"?St. Paul Letter in Chic jnsumption, in its early stages, Time* incurable. The discovery has a pectoral nnd alterative, and bstinate affections of the throat There's more bones to the square inc rield to its power. All druggists, shad than in anything we know of. BRIC-A-BRAC. gnifi- A safety match?marrying an heiress. A Rushing business?A run on the bank. Sher- a well-paid barber?The man who shaves thern notes. Qc^r" Song of the medical student?"Some, bodies coming." rS?1 A sweeping argument should always have a handle to it. f the early fisherman beats the early bird in getting the worm. intial A- lady wants to know if a lovei can be ntial called a'suitor if he doesn't suit her. Mr. Beware of dried apples. They love not [able wisely, but do swell. lican Yer kain't judge a man by de spread been he makes. De size o'aewatermilyun ain't but governed by de length o' de vine. jwill Cincinnati has a lady dentist, but as she iher- isn't young or handsome the boys are not iican having any sound teeth yanked. also The hour hand of a clock is probably rethe yarded by the minute hand as the "left itton hand." are Life is short?only four letters in it. Of Three-quarters of it is a "lie," and half of icul- it is an "if." sion. One old "Vet" to another?"What were ' for you, a minor officer?" Other old "Vet"? , lie "X0r I was a major." The "volume of money" about which > 35 so much is said must make a book of a itea great deal of interest. e -Miss Liberty can hold 36 men in her jerr| head, which brings her about up to the ;rnai average girl of the period. iong js ;jicre aDy g00(j reas011 wliy a mon who )^rV never pays his Ijootmaker should not be ate<* styled a free-booter? ^ ? In the Presidential circus spotted horses , and trick liorses are not wanted. A dark ^ horse frequently gives the best satisfaction. Luch "That is a good sign," said young Dood, idlv w^en tiie ol<* gentleman put his name to a that ctieck 10 y?UDS D-'s order. . */. A contented mind is better than riches; ?ke and yet you can't buy a brick block nor pay a board bill with it. the Give your enemy's boy cigarettes enough ore to smoke. He will soon become weak and man imbecile. ires A scientific journal states that mosquitoes ren. become, in many cases, a medium of infeca is ^on- ^ Lone "What is it thai you like about that the girl?" asked one young man of another. i in- "-My arm," was the brief reply. * Col. The discontented man will generally be it.- * ?:? J t,Ut; 1V/UUU Upuu JLli vc^u^auuu LU UC 1^/li.vCUl/dL > of with everybody's lot but his own. ork- There is one place where riches do not Drth count so much as notaJale deeds and lofty the genius. That is in * wiversal biography. and A Southern editor asserts that angels are jrth all blondes, but all blondes are not angels. link It is painfully apparent that his wife is not his a brunette. ' in A burglar who was caught letting himLbli self -down from a window exclaimed, apolowiii getically, that he had "taken a drop too xdut much." ety. Barbers always have mirrors in front of the chairs in their shops in order to enable their vistims to see how a man looks being talked to death. ' jold Whenever a man says he thanks the Lord that he hasn't a wife, every woman in ;ing the land should respond with a hearty amen. >rsi- This very sage advice was given by an aged Catholic priest: "Always treat an in^ - .. [1 ic suit like mud from a passing vehicle. tab- Xcver brush it off until it is dry." i. "How long is a man a bridegroom?" Not ?iu- very long, in a majority of cases he becomes "short" before the wedding tour 5 to ends. Some one writes that between oleomarent garine and butterine one scarcely knows on ico, which side his bread is buttered, or whether it is buttered at all. Ld a Such is the advancement of science that vegetables and fruits can now be grown and without the light of the sun, honey made without bees and butter without cows. ;ton A fashion item says that ladies are givtte ing up the "bang," but we notice that a great many of them still hang- on to the Lear "powder." V ' . Young man, when you talk say but lit. at lie; you can't learn much by hearing yourn self talk, but you may learn something by listening to me ouier ieuow. >- " Ave Galvanized iron pails for drinking water the should not be used. The zinc coating is readily acted upon by water, forming a. ;ing poisonous oxide of zinc. lish It is fortunate, now that our forests are rapidly becoming extinct, that we are no on- longer'dependent upon the maple tree for our maple sugar. nil- The wife of Senator Vance is said to tell atli a humorous tale with even greater effect iam than her husband, but it must be noted in her defense that their ideas of humor are on_ not the same. Las Baby said to his mother, who had false rhe teeth: "ilamma, you are very lucky." be "Why, my dear?" "Because if your teeth ache you can pull them out without hurtin<r vou." JJL J j O J red "Why did you pat that nickel with a [ge, hole in it in the contribution-box?" asked en- one man of another. "Because I couldn't put the hole in without the nickel, and I 0f had to put in something." lew "Why don't you take your seat at the barf asked a lawyer of a client, the other Jr day. "My father always advised me to b' keep out of bad company," replied the ,, other. There never is a time in the history of cevL the cat when she is more pious than when ?* she lias just caught and demolished a young ?P- chicken, and lies down in front of the fire to dream of more chickens. A sir "U boy who stood gazing wistfully at a large candy man in a confectioner's vrn- ?_-_j r-.-.u ^ 1-* > wjnuuw suuuecuy exciaimea: " xcouiqiick : that fellow with both hands tied behind my 1 at back." to "I don't object to house-cleaning," said but a married man, "but I must draw the line ke at silting on a wash-tub in the kitchen and text eating my meals from the top of a soapria box." A poet sent to an editor a contribution entitled, "Why do I live?" And the editor in- answered, "Because you sent your contrithe butions by mail instead of bringing them , ers, in person."' *P" A Chicago dude blushed and ran into a hce stairway when he saw a party of ladies :en- coming down the street. He had forgotten uds his cane, and.could not meet them in such ? of a nude state. An exchange, reporting a recent social, iioy says: "The opening piece was rendered by a "mule quartet.'" The reporter wrote it "male quartet," but tho compositor knew better. "Oh, give us a rest," said a young man, ^ain inviaiiently, to a little boy who was busy bv plying him with questions. The little felthe low looked at him a moment, and then, ow, with the utmost innocence, said: ""Well, loso you rest, and I'll talk." iost As a part of the marriage ceremony in hey Scrviu 'he bride has to hold a piece of suant. <rar between her lips as a sisrn that she will and speak i .tile and sweetly during her married hey life. But how docs the thing work when gles she becomes a mother-in-law? ;arv igtn "V'hat we learn with pleasure we never x>le forgot.''?Alfred Merrier. The following ight is a c:ise in point. "I paid out hundreds. if^r, of dollars without receiving any benefit," iven ' *a}"s ^rs- Kmily Khoads, of McBrides, Mich. "I had female complaints, especially ago bragging-down,' for over six years. Dr. R. v." Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription' did me more good than any medicine I ever took. I advise every sick lady to take it li of And so do we. It never disappoints its. -< patron*. Druggists sell it, I