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. 6~ - mt - & a~~~~~~~~ .r .pe .a1o ..m . on ....rm n ,i Eutered April 28, 10 at Pickeni, 0., M 8Pon GIm matter. under act of 0ongram of March 8, 1879. VOL., ZEZYil MSdUP,~U WISE MAN "There goes one of the best-posted mun yot ever seen," remarked the suburbah, torekeeper to the hosiery drummer, as a shabbily dressed cti '1 Zen passe the window. "If I knew all he does about business I'd be rich." "He doesn't look to me as if he knew much," said the hosiery sales man. "What's his line?" - - ~osieor" replied the storekeeper. ekgert gn socks an' stock cal, look 'em over an' tell r t ay whether they'll ravel or I' tat's more, he could tell me J ought to order from you ro' .,i' how big an order I ought - ou. He can tell just what s gon' to call for, too. There ain't notnin' about a sock or stockin' ,-merino, lisle, wool, mixed or sllk or mercerized-that he couldn't give points wuth rememberin' on; open work, fancy or plain, heavy or re enforced-don't matter what." "Why didn't you call him in, then?" asked the drummer. "I'd like to have him see these hose. If he knows any thing about it he'll tell you that they're the best ever put on the mar ket and lie wouldn't advise you to buy less than a couple o' dozen boxes to try. Shall I go outside and holler at him?" "Not on your life," replied the storet keeper. "I'd sooner take your word for it." e learn about the hos asked the drummer. answered the store e did he learn about its an' Redditch nee es him experience In - i'? How did he find arrange stock an' ad-. vertise it? Who taught him what he 'knows about the principle of bargain Fridays an' the kind o' notions ".pays to keep In stock? I'll never tell you." "Maybe he's been in the same line V' business you're in." "Not him," said the storekeeper. "No more'n he's been in the drug bus Iness or the hardware or the fi'ni ture or the butcher business. I never' heard tell of his. practicin' law or drivin' a team or runnin' a newsparof or servin' in congress,. but he can tOll you about any o' them." "Kind of an all-around man, isn't he?" commented the drummer. "He's all around all right," said the storekeeper. "That's the only- thing that saves my life. Sometimes he's around to the butcher shop tellin' Gurby how to cut meat an' then he'll mosey o.yer to Root's drug store an' tell nim how he might make his ever lastin' fortune puttin' up snakeroot bitters after a. recipe his grandmother had wrote down from another recipe a Kiowa squaw had given her when she was a young gal an' which she'd Improved on by 60 years' experiment In'. - "He's an all-around man sure. He's around Williams' real estate office the best part o' the mornin's readin' Wil liams' pa)ers an' makin' plans for puttin' the Standard Oil company out 0' business. Williama lets him stay. around because he gets lonesome in the office waitin' for the boom that'u comin' when they extend the electri( line out here. Yes, sir, I'm glad he'b an all-around man, because when he's around them other places he ain't around here." nZiat's bie business?" asked the drummer. "Or has he got smy?" "Ain't 1 tellin' you?" said -the store keeper. "His business is my business, an' anybody's business'. It's givin' valuable points. Mind you, ho 'don't pretend that he knows all about dry goods or groceries or law or posthole diggin' or knittin' tidies. What he claims is that there's fundamental principles at the bottom of all of 'em and that them principles is principles* 0' common sense. He's got an idee that most of us around here is spread in' termatter catsup on roofin' ma terial, I guess, an' that's what keeps him busy correctin' us.' "There's lots like him," said the drummer. "Well, how many boxes are you going to take? Say three ddsen, just to start with." "Well, there it is," said the store 1 -on I was overstocked 'i it didn't seem good I * I o me to order any SmelIn.pdto order as more. Wlat an I couple inore clerks' this fall. I've don it by actin''on my own judgment. Bu here's this feller I've been speakim of tellin' me that I don't use enougl -common eense, an' you're insistim that I'm away off when I think I don' want your darned hosiery an-" "You don't need to darn thes< hose," said the drummer, closing hi sample case. "I'll call on you som, other Ume. Keep me in mind, that' all." Prince of Wales a Sailor. The prince of Wales, who is to com mand the battleship Dreadnought, j in eVery sense of the word a Oractica sailor. At the age of 12 he became 1 naval cadet, and later served as mid shipman and made a three years' voy age arouad the world. The princ4 never shirked his work, taking hii turn at all duties in all weathers. He worked his way up, becoming in turi a sub-lieutenant, lieutenant and cap fain, his whole sea-going life lastinj aver 20 y tars. His preannt rauk h that of vh l,-I1 A FINE INVESTMENT FOR A SMALL AMOUNT. The Dallas News, after speaking ol the things that have been (one 13 some towns to draw trade and shov appreciation of the farmers' patron age, adds! There is one thing, however, thal seems to have been overlooked to i great extent by the enterprising citt zns of the places which have beer looking after such matters, and th< only reason The News 6an assign foi the oversight is the apparent insignifi cance of the thing, and the fact thal the cost of maintaining it would'be so small. This Is the provision foi the care of the farmer's vehicles an stock during his stay in town. Whil this item may appear upon firs thought to be of secondary import ance, it-is nevertheless a very impor tant one to the man who drives hil team to town, and particularly to th, one who has to remain over all day as is sometimes the case. It is founi that in many places there are* no even enough hitch racks where horsei may be tied, not taking into accoun the fact that they should be protecte< from the weather also. It is a regret able fact that too many men, some times owners of the stock, do not takt the care of their animals they should not only as to looking after the bnone3 involved in the purchase of the stock but as a matter of kindness and merc3 to the dumb beasts. Facilities tor the proper' care of th< former's horses and mules would ap peal to him andbe Would appreciate 1l in a substantial way. -These facilitie should consist of good shelter, goo water and plenty of shado and hitel racks. In many places horses may b( seen in winter during the worst weath or standing all day in the cold an rain, tied to a fence p9st, with -abso lutely no protection, and In summe they are found in the iiane way, ex cept that at that time Sey ae forcee to stand in the blisterlig SriM, withoul any shade and probably wthout any thing to eat or water' to drink. I costs very little to prepare such facil ities as here suggested and it Is quit( certain that the money invested or them by any city or town will, h found to be a splendid inveetment 0r the part of the men making it. 'About Reading the Paper. The editor of this department ha for many years advocated the widei reading of the agricultural papers b3 the farmers, and also the contribu tion to these papers more of thel personal experiences. The followinj letter from E. C. Miller, Flora, Miss. taken from the Southern Farm Ga zette, Starkville, Miss., Is an exampc of what farm papers may do for a mar who' has some sense to start with: Messrs. Editors: While I have beer a tfarmer now about seventeen yearu I was raised in a city and did noi know What a furrow was. I do no1 want to flatter myself; but I knov more about farming than some peopla who have been at it all their lives andl I got it all by taking farm paper: and magazines. I raised a bale o cotton on a half acre of red clay hil land that used to be a sweet potat< patch, and it would net make an3 potatoes. I have raised two bales oj cotton to the acre, and hope to run-l up to three next time. I have raise( over 200 bushels of Irish potatoes t< the acre. People's cattle were dying here with the scours tron) eating fros en cotton. Mine were' sick. I asked al around what~ was good fot'the trouble Nobody knew, I saw in adterm.papel tt seroaeof iron Ma a gmo a lfrs thpn af my iwners come t6. t I never see, any commercial ferti 1 irer. I. use' barnyard and henhouse 3 manure and muck from the swamp; take my scraper and dig all the mud I from the ditches in the pasture and haul It on the land. The ditches win y hold water- better and cattle like it better than pond water. I also plant plenty ~of peas. I do not care what anybody Says-nothing beats peas. It should be taken into considera tion when discussing the immigra tion question that there are good and there are undesirable immigrants. Throughout the South and West there is plenty of good land that ought to be in the hands of good husbandmen; there are mines and forests, and there are the thousand and one thkigs that people must have ffom the mills and factories. So long as this condition continues, -we want all sorts of good Immigrants, and we should seek them In the beat parts of Europe and in England, Ireland and Scotland. The South and the Southwest will plant more corn this year than for many ydars past. Corn is a crop that toes not depend upon the cotton gam bler, nor the whinis of the English spinner. You have many ways to mar ket it, and many forms into which it may be converted. Corn is a fine crop any and every way you look at it. Plant good seed and give it full cul ture, so that you will make enough to make it profitable to cultivate it, and justify devoting the land to its use. Now is the season in which the whitewash brush pays such enormous dividends in the way of health anti cleanliness around the place. Get you a barrel of lime and a brush or two, and tell the boys to "lay it on thick and a plenty." Plenty of lime will have a good deal to do with keeping the hen house clear of mites, and many a fruit crop owes its arrival at maturity to the coat of whitewash that the tree got. As a decodorizor and dis infectant, lime standa- way up in tha t list. _________ YOUNG GIRL COWBOYS HOIDING UP TRAVELERS RIDE BRONCHOS, ROB MEN AND RANCHES WITH SKILL OF MALE PROTOTYPES. Meeteetse, Wyo.-Ethel Manning, Kate Barlow and Greta Carter, threo Wyoming girls, ranging in age from 19 to 24 years, have of late been doing stunts as cowboys and bapdits in western Wyoming. It has just transpired that last spring they disguised themselves as young men, and, going into Fremont county, went to work on the range as cowboys. They were all accomplished and daring horse-women, being able to ride bucking bronchos as skillfully as the oldest broncho busters in the west, and they uoon learned to do. They followed the life of cowboys for uIs.p a t n tI terjb, go-hi eastgte Thawap-eeralg weecksaopan sieea mthstl whoungdihelgrngith gseeo their saexo been peretraing susic-up, and therowsing tiedomfn wth rangei and adring that moreexdt dog cxrience than tosy weered".'kbad guises t e hey have etrtin If places out~ onf'tKe pliinsaind taken their money and other valuables; they have gone to ranch houses and robbed their occupants in broad daylight, and they have gone to roadhouses, and, at the point of stishooters, have held up the men they found gathered there. The discovery that they were wom en was made after they had perpetrat ed a holdup and robbery near here a few days ago, and they eame near be Ing captured, but they oontrived by a bold . effort to make their escape, and they are now believed to be oper ating in eastern Idaho. GHOST PROPOSES TO HER. New Jersey Woman Asserts Spirit Promises Are Annoying. Newark, N. J.-Although accustothed to dealing with every kind of mortal, the police of the Fourth precinct found themselves up a tree when they were requested by Miss Mary Meehan, whose age is a secret and who says she lives on Fifteenth street, to ap prehend an apparition which she said had been annoying her with matri. monial proposals for the past five years. MIE3 Meehan told ler supernatural tale in awed tones to .udge Merr. She avowed that there %vas a "doctor of hypnotism" whose first name was Harry and who lived on Bleocker street, who had been in the habit of visiting her in the spirit every night. The police, who say that she hari been a visitor before, for drunken ness, put some spirit writing on a piece of paper, with Court Officer Benkert as the medium, and the Judge did a little spirit rapping with the gavel and the case was dismissed with the promise that the phantom doctor would be apprehended. Now the police are in a quandary, as there is not a man on the force who has a record for spook catching and that's what they feel their quest will be, for the voman said, aftei leaving court, that in all these fivc 7ears she had never seen the "doc tor," except in spirit. "He promised he'd marry me and load my fingers with diamonda," Miss Meehan explained, "but that's as far as it ever went." Child's Thrilling Ride. New Albany, Ind.-Having business to transact in a nearby store, William Reynolds, of this place, alighted from his buggy, leaving his six-year-old son holding the lines. The animals, a spirited pair of blacks, became friglatened- and ran furiously down the street. They col lided with a vehicle driven by Henry Gueltig, in which were his three chil dren, doing small damage. The team then ran down Seventh street with the boy clinging to the lines with one hand and holding to the dashboard with the other. The horses rNi against a tele graph pole at Seventh and Market Btreets, pulling the rear wheel off, and were stopped a block further by Ar thur Curl and Charles Miller. In the race of over a half mile the plucky little fellow nad clung to the lines, and, although badly frightened, was unhurt. The horses escaped with a few scratches. Angry Adjectives. It was not a young woman novelist, but Charles Bumner, of whom the late E. I. Godkin, the New York editor said: "He works his adjectives se bard that if they ever catch him alone they will murder him."-Youth's Comn panion. Defamation, I never yet heard man or womati much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them and te transfer any suspicion or dislike tc the person who .appeared to take de light in pointing out the defects ol a fellow creature, says a writer. Takes Some Smartness to Do That, Whenever we hear a woman boasi that her husband winds the clock, wipes the dishes and puts the chil. dren to bed we wonder if ho is smari enough to know how to do anything else.-Chicago Record-Herald, Some Bird Shooting. Farmer Jones (to amateur hunter) There wasn't a better water dawi livin' until you shootin' gents took t< borrowing 'em. Now 'is 'ide's thai full of shots, he'd sink to the bottoni like a brick 1-The Bystander. FeAr and Courage, Nothing is more infectious that~ fear and courage; but the parent'i tear is doubled-int the child, f~r'wnri the giant trembles .the - d!'rf musi sa'lyfll e ih Pigeons In I ifsN In the Italian army all nents 'are supplied W,*ith eons, which are usqd for slon of infornpation 4urtn Military maneuvers .in cavalry officers go thro of instruction on the trai ot eons for military purpo at Pigneral college. Withdraw intq Thy Dost. thou too shrink WA draw into thyself, Into th " 21, and there, deep down, 4aV e., depths of the soul turnedAi 0ard1 itself, thy old life, to whic tu O hast the key, will be bri agaiht; thee, In all the fragrance,. 0 the frh 4 green, and the grace and po*6r of its spring!-Ivan Turgenev. When Husbands Tire of Kissing. When a wife discovers that her hus band Is tired of having hei kiss him she never after that neglects it. ihe thinks it a sign that, sheis a lo ely character because she often kisses her husband when he doesn't Ike It. Men are such cowards .that they never confess that they are tired ,of kissing their own wives.-Atchison 1lobe.. A Tennessee Utopia. Hurrah for Big Sandyl; No blind tigers, no slums; no kinky headed ne groes! Good churches, good schools, good people! Merchants are busy,.15. borers whistling as they go to work, children laughing as they go to school or play, wives singing ag. they patch their husbands' "pants."-Beuton County (Tenn.) Star. Time for Memory's -Help. And now, when the blouds gather and the rain impends over our forest and our house, permit us not to be cast down; let us not lose the savor of past mercies and past pleasures;' but like the voice of a bird singing In the rain, let grateful memory survive in the hours of darkness.-Robert Louis Stevenson. Value of Work. Work Is the true friend And con. soler of man, -raises him: aove all his weakness, purifies and ennobles him, saves him from temptation and helps him to bear his burden through days of sadness, and before which even the deepest griefs give- way for a time. To Find Unlucky Days. To find out which days bode evil take the date of the full moon. Count the days before instead of after this date and multiply the number by the number of days in the inonth, and from the result the unlucky days of the months are found. Daily Thought. Never suffer the invaluable o. ments of thy ife to steal by M, proved and leave thee in idlenes and vacancy; but be always either reading, or writing', or praying, or meditating, or employed In some useful labor fot the common good.--A'Kempis.. The Deep* Are Dumb. The greatest golfers seldom tali about their golf any more than the greatest cricketers talk about thels cricket. It is the enthusiastic dagtem who enjoys conversing about ''his game."-London Truth. Busily Engaged. "Did you know," said the nervous man, "that Saturn has loet one of Its rings?" "My friend," answered Mr. Sirius Blarker, "I can find enough to worry about right here on this earth, Idon't have to get a telescope." Where Currency is Not Used. In Rhodesia the housewife needs no money for food, if one has calico or. salt. Native hucksters demand either one or the other, and pocket books and purses are useless. Deadiy Kamchatkan Liquor, In Kamchatka there grows. a mnsh' room called the false orange, from which Is made a liquor that pr~pduces delirium and convulsions. 4'everthe less it is a favorite beverage, Sensitive Parts of the iody, The tip of the tongue ils the most sensitive part of the human body; the tips of the fingers come next, and third the -lps Poor Peflow "Dey give him tezty eaf's fer i$' a 'possum," did tli coloie ;#."an'. de worst of: t ht5