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'ijf"~ BELL ARP'S LETTER, Arp Still In Florida Where There are Pl?ntj of Vl??tor? mod Good FUhlng. Atlanta Comtitution. I saw two fishermen unloading a cargo of salted fish from their boat at Tampa. The barrels were all marked for Charleston. I interviewed these fishermen and they told me they caught as many as 70,000 in a week down at Sarasota bay. Now I am done with fish stories. I left my folks fishing at Clearwater, but they are not so wild about it now and will soon get tired. I saw a girl hang an enormous trout and she held him and played him around until he got tired and a boat was sent out to secure him. I guessed . he weighed fifteen pounds and others guessed twelve and ten, but when he was pat od the scales ne came uowu w nine. An old fisherman remarked that it was a sin to weigh a fish, for they always fall short. Tampa is lively. The hotels are filling up, trade is good and money circulating jut like it used to before the panic. Most of this money comes from abroad and is quickly scattered around. Every other house is either a hotel or a boarding house. The strangers come from everywhere up North and many from Georgia and Tennessee. I came down with a man and his wife, who were from north Michigan, and had never been South. It entertained me to see their amazement, for he said he had just put up 180 tons of ice before he left home. They are delighted with the country and with the people. He said everybody was so kind and naborly and that he had no idea of finding such good people down South. I think that his wife was almost afraid to come, bat she is in bad health and she had just as well risk the rebels in Florida as UOftlill Sb UUUlO) auu DV duv MMhas improved much within a week. The Tampa Bay hotel, where the millionaires congregate, has not yet filled up, but will be by the middle of the month. It is a magnificent house and so bewilders me that I feel solemn in its beautiful apartments and don't dare to talk in my usual tone of voice. Everybody else seems to feel so too, for it is not like a hotel. While you are walking on velvet carpets that cost $5 a yard, or sitting on chairs that cost $50 apiece, and see paintings on the walls that cost from $100 to $5,000, and the whole building in a blaze of heavenly lights and delicious music cuaruiiug Hit cat auu uvii6uv.? perfuming (he air and the servants all in livery, a common man feels like the old woman at the circus for the first time in her life. When the grand procession of beautiful horses, with their riders in spangled garments, came marching in, she said : "John, John, it's more like the kingdom of Heaven than anything I ever expected to see in this world." Now, with all that, I was invited to lecture in the music hall of this grand structure, and I did it. It was just large enough for mv andience. and I am pleased to say that I was able to conceal nay embar. rassment. Not that I was afraid of the people who sat before me, but somehow I never feel at ease in a house that is so much finer than mine own. It is art, not nature, that n>akes me timid. Mr. Plant must be a wonderful man to plan such a grand system of railways and hotels and parks and steamship lines and yet he makes no great noise in the word. For years and years he has been perfecting this system, and every branch of it moves along like clockwork. Thousands of men are employed by him and his enterprises have already added many millions to the value of property in Florida. This beautiful city of Tampa is a monument to his genius. More than half a century ago Richard Henry Wilde wrote a little pqcrn, beginning "My life is like the summer " ?nH t.liA last; verse was? "My life is like the prints that feet Have left on Tempa'a desert strand, 8000 as the rising tide sbail beat, All traow vanish from the sand, Yet as If grieving to efface All vestige of the human race, On that lone shore lond moans the sea, Bnt none, alas I shall mourn for me." Mr. Wilde was an Irishman, who -came over here after Emmet's untimely death, and settled in Augusta, and I suppose he had some reason for penning such sad, sweet verses. I wish that he could see Tampa now. I wish that ^ev. Frank Goulding was alive to see it, for it was here that he located that terrible devil fish that carried the boat and his children ("The Young Marooners") far out to sea. There is no desert strand now; no lone shore; no devil fish. Lakeland is a little gem of a town and I have not found a bettef^iotel in Florida than the Tremont. It is just fine enough and good enough for anybody. It overlooks one of the prettiest lakes I have yet seen, and the town is surrounded by many others. This is quite a railroad center and might have been a city if Tampa was farther off. It will be a city yet, for such beautiful locations and surroundings are not common, even in Florida. As old Father Dobbins used to say, "The Creator has quit making land, but He keeps on making people," and Lakeland will be found out before long. I have been to Bartow, the center of the phosphate region. Thirty compass-.'' " ' . * .. / . v..* nies have organized within the county and millions of dollars invested in y i i ? i 1! rri janu aau macuiuery. lucicio vapmai here from Boston, New York, Baltimore, Richmond, Pittsburg, Charleston, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta. ? But all is not gold that glitters. Of * these thirty companies only sixteen ^ are in actual operation. Of these six- c teen only seven have made any money. 0 There is phosphate enough, but everything depends upon management and 8 location. I visited one plant six 11 miles in the country that is being operated by a jeceiver. What a busi- * ness this has got to be ! The receiv? t. er! There ought to be a book upon it f( just like the books for lawyers and v doctors and other professions. It d should be made a textbook in the h schools. I think I would name it S 1 'The Lawyers' Harvest, the Creditors' n Grave and the Stockholders' Funeral.'' r? But this phosphate business is yet in b its infancy and improved methods of mining and washing will soon oe in- " vented. The Peruvian Islands are n exhausted, and now nature unlocks I another storehouse in Florida that 0 seems sufficient for centuries to come. "What is it ?" I asked. "Is it ani- C( mal, vegetable or mineral?" It is a " mixture of all, they say, but ohiefly ^ mineral. I found some sharks' teeth. ^ They abound in all of it?sharks' teeth a1 from one-fourth of an inch to four c< inches in length. Some of those an- *?' tidiluvian moniters must have been as D large as young whales, but how in the<ei world did they all congregate on this peninsular when the -great convulsion a' came that upheaved it ? Verily the 8J world is full of mysteries, and we know lt nothing hardly. Fortunes have been b; made here by the few who are shrewd and bold and who had good judgment 81 and foresight. George W. Scott has ^ sold part of his holdings for fabulous 1* sums. He owned miles of phosphate w lands on Peau River. Mr. Codlington, the genial, energetic Yankee w Mayor, of Boston, bought largely at 01 from $5 to $10 an acre and sold for ten P< times that amount. I was his guest, bi "I fit again you," said he, "but have come down from Michigan to live with 111 you and I found a cordial welcome, & If the railroads would reduce trans- Q1 portation to 1 cent a mile thousands of good, hardy people from the North T would come down, first to see, and tc then to stay, and the result in a few ct years would be perfect harmony be- 01 tween the sections." * ? What every town in the South needs ? is a leader?a man of nerve and enter- 81 prise. Our people will follow, but " th?y fear to lead. Mr. Codlington is a re power in Bartow and will soon have ^ waterworks and an electric plant and UI street cars and another railroad. He has been a great traveler and lived w some years in Peru while Henry ui Meiggs was building railroads there for the Government. He designed at and built a gas plant near the apex of J' ** - ?--? i-i?e~~ ?1 re ine Aiiuea muuuiaicio iw mc ouic pui- -pose of lighting the tunnel thgt ^ Meiggs bored for his wonderful rail- h< road?a road that cost $25,000,000. ^ That gas plant is 16,000 feet above the d( sea level. Everything for the railroad ?* and the gas plant was carried up cliff di roads on the backs of mules?300 pounds to the mule. Just think of U1 it! Yankee genius, yankee pluck was w behind it all. They are a wonderful bi people. Vl "When a Yankee is good he is very good, indeed, but when he is bad he is horrid." And that is what they tc think of us, I reckon. *>< I saw a skunk yesterday as it crossed the road a few miles out of town. Y It was .a beauty. Our dog tackled it w forthwith, and then?but you must bi ask the dog for futher particulars. Bill Aep. w g< Bitten by a Kattlar. si tc Chattanooga, Tenn., January 12. w ?H. C. Clark, who has been seen in a< the role of Bnake charmer, in all the V large museums of the country under b< the show name of "Harry DeLong," pi was bitten this morning by a huge s< rattlesnake. He came here recently w and blasted two rattlers out of the w rocks on Lookout Mountain. While s< in a room in the midst of highland moccasins, China snakes, spreading ^ vipers and rattlers, he attempted to p wash one of the mountain rattlers and t,( | plunged it into a basin of hot water. w Then it buried its fangs in his hand, jyj One of the deadly prongs he sucked ^ out and then swallowed a quart of e whiskey. a Three hours afterwards he fell to the floor as if dead. Medical aid was 0 summoned and the poison extracted, s His arm was swollen to twice its or- ti dinary size, and at one time the heart fi ceased beating. The charmer's wife, t] Cora, died from a moccosin's sting while exhibiting in Fond du Luo, 0 Wis., five months ago. a Clark showed a season with Cole & y Migdleton's five museums the largest 0 of which is stationed at Chicago. He T will recover. t ? A 22-year-old man of Bangor, n Me., learned for the first time, a few t days ago, that he has a twin Bister, ^ alive and well, in Providence, R. I., where she is married and has a family. 11 Their mother died when the twins a were five months old. Two Bangor r families adopted them, and the one a taking the girl moved out of the State shortly thereafter. The boy's father a and fife brothers and sisters kept a track of the boy but never told him of v his twin sister, and it was only by ^ accident he learned of her existence, i ii i i ' i i THE HEBO OF HOKBIS ISLAND. Vhy the Uagidoe of Battery Wagner n not Blown Up. Five miles from Charleston li lorris Island, facing the broad Atla ic to the east, and divided from Jam sland by a wide marsh and a windii hannel. It is a bare, desolate tra f barren land, scarcely rising abo he level of the water. The wii weeps over it, whirling the sea sai nto ever shifting hillocks and h( jws, like the deserts of Arabia, b rithout the attractions ascribed hose wildernesses by the poet Moor ar down those slgpes spring no "s: ery-footed antelopes" and nowhe oes "the Acacia wave her yellc air." Only a few stunted shru' row on the western side of the islan ear the creek, affording a scai efuge to the little sea birds whi< uild their nests among the win )ssed branches. The only inhat mts are an oyster gatherer and a fe len who attend to the light hous f hunrn vision could reach so f ne might stand on the bcach and lo( 3ros8 the intervening space to tl Dntinent of Europe, but as this npossible, and we can only gazej le waste of waters, there is nothir ) awaken fancy or enlist anyone ttention, and a stranger would mere insider this low-lying island to be opelessly desolate and utterly insij ificant part of the Burface of tl irth. Yet the waves that break heavi] long the shores seem to murmur tt id refrain of the prophet of old, "] nothing to you, all ye that pai y ?" while the wind replies mouri illy, "Nothing," for, strange as tl ;atemeat may appear to be, duric le months of July and August i 363 that parched and sterile islan as the most important spot of grouc i the State of South Carolina, an as the point of interest to which a lr hearts turned. This was the oui }&t of Charleston, and under tl urning rays of the summer sun 01 ist and bravest soldiers were figh ig in defence of this old city. Whe iends met in those days the firi lestion asked was: "What is tl test news from Morris Island ? he shells could be plainly heard i >wn, of course, as for weeks the >ntinually swept like a hail stor rer that island, while on our sic le artillerists at Battery Wagner an attery Gregg replied loudly, and tl ins of Sumter and Moultrie joined i le awful concert, keeping up and ui imitting fire, day and night, upc le enemy's camps, assaulting co nns, working parties and the fleet. The fighting for Charleston, whic as to continue without cessatic atil the evacuation of the cit: most at the close of the war, bega ; the southern point of Morris Islan uly 10. Then Battery Wagner wj peatedly assaulted by infantry unt le enemy was obliged to abandon tl jpe of ever capturing this work I irce of arms, and their engineers ui irtook the task of obtaining possessio ' the much coveted fort. This the d by steadily advancing their liia ' earthworks closer and closer to ow otil they effected by their ski hat the infantry and artillery con ned had not been able to do b ?lor. The canon of the enemy were < nch heavier calibrc than ours, an ?re down our parapets, which coul jt even be repaired by night towarc le end of the struggle, because tl ankees mounted a caloium ligl hich threw an illumination almost i right as day upon our defences. On the 8th of September an attac as made upon Battery Gregg by*ba 58 from Vincent's Creek, but 01 gnal officers dad oeen ciever enoug ) read the enemy's signals, and v ere therefore prepared to meet the ivance, our entire force at Battel Iagner, exccpt the artillerists, havir sen temporarily transferred to tl oint' where the assault was expected ) when the barges approached the ere surprised, instead of our mei ho received them so warmly that the )on withdrew in confusion. Col. Keith, the Confederate coc lander on Morris Island, having r orted Battery Wagner to be no long' ;nable, a council of general office as held, and it was docided th; [orris Island must be evacuate lattery Wagner had held out fift, ight days, but the end had now cam nd this fort was, at last, to be aba: oned. The evacuation began at 'clock on the evening of the 7th eptembcr, the wounded being tak< o Comming's Point, and embarki rst. After their departure the infa ry was taken across to Fort Johnso n James Island, next followed tl rtillerists, then the rear guard, whi< ?as composed of a small detachme f regulars from Battery Gregg ai lattery Wagner, and, last of a hree officers and a sergeant, who i lained to deceive the enemy up he moment when Major Huguenin he "fuse which was expected to bit ip the powder magazine. They mov bout from angle to angle firing < ifies as fast as they could load thci o that the Yankees might not .ware that our troops had departe md that all they had to do was now valk in and take possession. Tl vas a very trying ordeal to the thi emaiuing Confederates, for at a ?Tv" ' ~ i i moment an attack on our shattei r>fc lines might have been made and tl minute garrison have been captured lrillo/1 Ono n'f>lr?r>lr hurl nnw r>ni es and the moon had risen. n* The doors of the powder magazi es WCre opened and the fuse ignite ?g then they hastened down to the bea ?k to take their places in our last bos ve "Hurry I" shouted the sailors w manned this barge, for the enemy h ad discovered that something unusual w >1- taking place and had sent their barg ut forward either to make another attu to on Battery Gregg or to discover o e> movements. They had intercept il- two of our boats and captured fort re nine men. In obedience to the war >w ing summons the little squad of oi bs cerB hastened on, but Major Huguen d. hod Vippn t.winp af.rnr>lr t.Tiftf. (law 1 J WVVM v"*ww w ??-'V J < at fragments of shells, which had explc :h ed near him, and was so lame that d- could not advance rapidly. "Go on >i- he said to his comrades, "and I w iw overtake you." But when he reach e. the beach he found, to his disma ar that in the darkness and confusl >k they had gone off and left him, su ie posing him to be on board. His poi is tion was now truly a melancholy ai at precarious one, for the guns of t ig enemy's batteries and those of t' 's fleet swept the open beach, as the ti ly was out, and if he returned to Batte a Wagner he would find no refuge thei g- as he hoped every instant to hear t! 10 explosion of the magazine, and Moi trie and all of our batteries had be ly instructed to concentrate their fi le upon that work as soon as ttie sign ts of our haying evacuated Morris Islai 3S was given. To surrender himself a- prisoner was also dreadful. Just ie these fearful alternatives present* ig themselves to his mind a boat, whit in was apparently going out to sea, swe id by. He hailed it and was informed id his joy that it was a ten-oared Confe id erate barge which had ^urned back 11 escape capture, and was going roui t- by Sullivan's Island. The officer le charge, in jeply to Huguenin's earne ir appeal, "For God's sake, take me wi t- you," replied, "The Yankees are t n near to stop, but wade out and we w it take you in." ie So the last Confederate soldier wl " left Morris Island waded out brea n high in the water, and was haul< iy aboard as the boat shot by. m They reached Fort Johnson at abo le 3 o'clock in the morning, and foui id that Col. Yates and a detachment te the 1st South Carolina regular artille n were about to set off for Morris Islai l- to make an attempt to rescue him, b n the effort would probably have be* 1- vain. A report that Major Huguenin hi h been killed preceded him to the cit in and when he reported himself at abo f, 8 o'clock at Gen. Ripley's headqus in ters the greeting given him by tl id General was very characteristic, is his bluff military manner he sai< i icT_ xl .i O IT71 T it Li 11 "?B max you i n uy, jl buuuguii yi ie were dead. I am glad to see you y It appears, therefore, that in Soui i- Carolina, as well as in Sootlan m "short greeting serves in times ty war." >8 Gen. Beauregard was much disa ra pointed at Batteries Gregg and Wa 11 ner not having been blown up. W1 l- the zealous and reliable officers w] y were deputed to do this failed to a complish their design was because t] )f fuses they were ordered to use we d defective. d As soon as Major Huguenin w Is told that the duty of blowing up B* le tery Wagner waa assigned to him 1 it out off several pieces of the fuse ai is touched them off to ascertain if tl important factor was in good ord< :k but he soon found that it. was wor r- nothing. In some parts the fire di lr out after being kindled and in othe ;h the powder flared up so quickly that re was anything but a slow match. H ir therefore, went to Col. Keitt, and sai 1 _ J - xl y *11118 iuse win never expioae i ig magazine. It was brought hpre in le open rowboat, and probably got w< I; for it is useless; but, if you will all< >y me to use my discretion, I will guara 3, tee such an explosion that where Br sy tery Wagner now stands there w soon be a creek. We have two barr< tt. of resin here. I will put them in e_ the hospital, which adjoins the po er der magazine, set them on fire, a rg open the doors of the magazine, (hat the flames may soon ignite t (j powder, and if the Yankees take p( y. session of the fort one minute aftei e leave it, no man will be found be tj. enough to venture to go in to try g extinguish the fire." 0f Col. Keitt called a council of officc ;n to consider the question, but th 3Cj decided that, as the commanding ge n_ eral had said "a fuse," nothing el n could be used. So the letter of t ^ order was obeyed, while the importa jh object in view was lost sight of. nt The fuse was accordingly light 1(j the night of the evacuation, and afl U burning awhile the fire died oi >e_ Neither Battery Wagner nor Batte to Gregg consequently were blown v |jt and the enemy quietly took possessi )W of them next morning, and inounti e(j their guns upon our parapets, proce( cd to batter down Fort Sumter at th leisure Claudine Riiett i(j ? An eastern doctor says too ma people die from sleeping with th jjg mouths open. There may be a gc ee many, but it would be hard to pre uy that there are too many. ed Some Bits of the History of Cottoa Cnl !nS tare la Sooth Carolina* or Cotton was early sold in Charleston 016 The packages in which it was put u varied in weight from one to thirt; h n pounds. In 1787 the fleecy staple wa taken to the City by the Sea froi Orangeburg, Newberry, and, perhaps ' from Union, and sold at two pence ^ pound to the merchants, who resold it tvio i til it f/\ ilia ladi'an fn mate aB work bed quilts.1'*" About the yea named two or three bags, each weigh ing near a hundred pounds of see< ur , cotton, were packed in the store o 8 Wadsworth & Turpin by Samuel Mav 'J erick and Jeffrey, a half-blood Indian (This Maverick, by the way, claimei . * to be the first person that made suga *n in South Carolina. About the yea J 1800 he planted some ribbon cane ^ purchased in the Havanna, in his lo ,, to the east of the present orphai !jj house. It yielded 300 pounds. Th ^ cane was pounded in a mortar an^ th' juice boiled in iron pots.) These bags were sent to England a 0n a sample and an experiment. Th . parties to whom they were sent wrot that the article was not worth produc , ing, as it could not be separated fron 0 the seed. _e In 1794 Dr. James Otis Prentis do planted cotton for market near Orange burg Court House. Either in tha ^ year or the next Col. William Thomas j the Revolutionary soldier, plantei cotton to sell at Bellrille, in St. Mat 9n thew's parish. In 1796 cultivators o ^ this crop appeared in several parts o the State. Among them was Sam uel Felder, of Orangeburg. John May rant and Asbury Sylvester first grei ^ cotton in the high hills of Santee ii ^ the year 1798. A year later Gen Wade Ham on introduced the plan ^ into Richland district, gathering ove 600 bags from 600 aores. Gen. Hampton was the first man ii South Carolina to use water as th< propelling power of Whitney's cottoi gin. Fifty years ago Col. Wadi ^ Hampton wrote Whitcmarsh B. Sea brook: "When Whitney's gin wa .jj exhibited in Georgia none but womei were permitted to enter tne room An ingenious young mecbanio a length introduced himself into th< ^ apartment in woman's apparel, and by a minute examination of the ma . chine, satisfied himself that he couli ut ..... ^ not only imitate but improve on it: ^ construction by making it more effi cient. This discovery was communi ^ cated to my father by Gen. Gun, wh( spoke so confidently of the capacity of this individual that my father wai 311 induced to visit him at his residence j in Georgia. This visit resulted in t contract for three gins, applicable t< ^ a large scale of operations and the: ^ were unquestionably the first eve driven by water power." HQ It has b^i written that Gen j, Hampton's gffi were furnished by ai ^ ingenious artisan of Georgia, assiste* ,, by William Munson, of Richland ^ These gins were roughly constructed ^ still they were models for others madi ^ in 1801 by William Munson and Jamei Boatwright, of Columbia. These wer the first of the new machines of hom' ^ manufacture. Gen. Hampton wa ^ not, however, the first to use th i y Whitney gin in South Carolina. Capt Jamos Kinkaid, of Fairfield, put u] one near Monticello in 1795. re How to disposo of the cotton see< was a perplexing problem to some o the early spinners. It was considere< worthless and carelessly thrown oi ke the ground like sawdust. The hog ^ ate the seed and died. Then it wa ni'ff jig 1)?V upm piuo ..avDu???, fO got the seed out through the crack ^ and soon went the way of their elders e(j As a last resort and hoping to get ri< irg of the "nuisance," the seed wa dumped into the oreeks, but in tim of low water an odor was generate* which was so offensive as to create strong feeling of prejudice against th an further oulture of the crop. The fear of "overproduction" is m ^ new thing. Ninety years ago an opin n_ ion prevailed that the supply of cottoi , would soon exceed the demand. 1 planter of St. John's, Colleton, look }js ing at his fir&i z jp, the produce of fcQ few acres, after it had been housed exclaimed : "Well, woll, I am don n(j with the cultivation of cotton ! Her flo is enough to make stockings for a] the people in America." These items, Mr. Editor and kin . j reader, are taken from an essay on th ^ cotton plant, written two score an tQ ten years ago, by an Edisto Islan planter, Whitmarsh B. Seabrook ;rg afterwards Governor of our State whose very words and sentences hav ey n been freely used. W. S. M. I Clemson College, S. C. 1S G he "" ? One of the wealthiest men in th Argentine Republic is Senor Jos ^ Guazzone, the "wheat king." H owns 63,000 acres of land, accordin Dcr to South American papers. He wer to Buenos Ayres in 1875, when 2 years old, with only a few dollars i his pocket. In the following year li 00 saved $8,000. He invested the monc per ' , in land and in 1879 his estate ws valued at $18,000. With the monc ci r which he had saved he rented moi lands, sowed-them in wheat and bo rowed machines to reap his crop n/ Guazzone is said to be of Hcbre eir . . >od ongin >ve ? In Prussia 1,200 people die < delirium tremens every year. * ' - ' * C.v % t . [ Profitable Pork Making. Pig-growing formed the subject c i. some recent questions and answers be p tween a Tennessee man and Wald y Brown, in the New York Tribunt s Said the former: "I have a farm o n two hundred acres, keep from forty t I, sixty acres in grass, and a fine broo! a runs through it. There is always i, ready sale for hogs on foot, and the; - are about the only thing we can pro r duce for which we do not have to lool for a market. We wish to improv d our stock. What shall we buy, Berk f shire or Poland China ? We think o buying a sow in pig, and a boar no . akin, registered stock, for a start i What would I have to pay for a pure r bred stock, and on what terms is i r sold?" , The answer oame thus : For severa t years past I have been impressed wit! 1 the fact that to the man who wouli 8 manage intelligently a money-makinj e business could be established in th Droduction of niir nork. The bes b success would be att&ined by keepin; e a dairy and selling butter or creau e and feeding the milk to the pigs, bu - I have proved by repeated experin.jn i chat fine, thrifty pigs can be put oi the market at six months old withTu s milk by feeding on slop made of brai * and oatmeal. I sold pigs in 1892 a t 4J months old, averaging 110 pounds , that had been raised on this food 1 The brbok running through the pas - ture is an advantage, providing it doe f not become a source of contagion ; bu f if cholera prevails in the locality th< - virus is likely to be carried by th< - water to farms below. r As to breeds, I have been familia i with most of the leading kinds ant have lived for forty-five years in th t Miami Valley, where the famous Po r land China hogs originated and proba bly no other station in Ohio has ship i ped bo many breeding hogs as Oxford e I believe that as now perfected ther i is no better breed of hogs than this ii e Ohio or in the United States, and if - was starting in the business of pi; s pork production I should certainly us * thoroughbred Poland China sows, bu would use a Berkshire sire. Thesi t crossbred pigs must not, however, b e used as breeders, as their offsprinj , will not be uniform in character; bu - brood sows can be kept for five year 1 or more, and thus a new lot procured 9 For early maturity use old sows am - young sires. Teach the pigs to eat b; - the time they are four weeks old, am ) wean at eight weeks, by which tim 7 they will be eating so that they wil 9 nnt. miss t,h<> mother's milk. Breei ' the bows for two litters a year, am v feed them well so as to keep them ii a good flesh, but never winter brooi f sows on corn. Feed roots largely i r you can grow them. Beets are best but turnips will answer, and I believ . sweet potatoes could be profltabl i grown in Tennessee for this purpose 1 feeding the culls and selling the bette . ones, but if roots cannot be had fee , bran mostly. If a sow is bred for he s first litter to be dropped at one yea 3 old, do not breed her soon again, bu e let her have that year for growth an e drop her second litter at two years old s After that breed regularly for tw r\ Ad 1A?? na alin /Iaa c ilbbCiO CttWll ao luug ua ouv uvv >. well. You must have good fences t p control these old sows, for there is n animal more likely to break through 1 fence than an old sow in heat, f I hardly know what the cost woul i be of registered pigs, but think goo 3 ones could be bought at from $20 t s $25 each?this for pigs six month 8 old. There would t j a saving in ea 8.'press, as well as fir^t cost, to shi s pigs soon after weaning?say at te . weeks old. i - - 8 Farming for a Living. e Secretary Morton reminds the croak ^ ers that only about three per cent, c a all the merchants escape failure e whereas, hardly three per cent, of th farmers fail. The statistics reall D show that agriculture is safer tha " banking, manufacturing or railroad 1 ing, taking all things into account ^ There is no farmer of good sense an * good health anywhere in the West a Mr. Morton declares, who cannot mak > a good living for himself and family 0 and that is as well a.- the majority o e men are doing in a; v other pursuit The man who owns a farm and stick to it is certain to profit by it in th ^ future. There is practically no mor e land to be added to the area of culti ^ vation. The supply of agriculturn ^ products has reached its limit in th United States, and must now rcmai !> stationary, while the demand will g e on increasing every year. This in: plies a gradual improvement in price and a steady appreciation of the valu of farming lands.?Sclcctcd. e ?~ e ? "Is it true that a woman alway e has the last word in a quarrel ?" "M g wife always has it; but then, there i nothing mean about her. She i 0 always willing to give it to me." n ? Timothy: Say, Ma, did our bab ,e come from heaven ? Ma: Av coon y he did. Timothy: Well, he was 13 durn fool to leave heaven for a plac y like this, and then run the risk < e never gitten back again. r* ? "Paw, is there any different ^ between a cold and a influenzy ?" " the doctor calls it a cold the bill about $4 ; if he calls it influenza, it )f about $18, The difference is $14. u son. ' ' Why Mankind Has to Learn How 1o ^ Swim. ' A writer named Robinson, in Nine0 teenth Century, brings forward a quite '' plausible explanation of the fact that, while most of the animal creation ap0 pear to swim by intuition, man is al^ most alone in requiring previous a training to enable him to keep his y head above water. He says it is merely a matter of heredity, and due * to our descent from races who were e cave and rock dwellers and rock and cm tree climbers. This theory does not ^ necessarily imply Darwinism, or go so, far as to demand-the belief that man ' is but a highly revised addition of some BR anthropoid ape. He suggests that all 9 mammiferous animals, when conscious of danger, uses instinctively the ^ means given them for flight and escape, which involve precisely the mo^ tions best calculated to keep them g afloat in water. The hereditary ine stinct of the man, however, is unfor1 tunatcly, he says, to climb out of the ^ danger. Hence, unless he has a nataQ tory education, he throws his arms at once above his head, thus increasing the weight upon the latter, which, of a course, goes then under water. I Thus the struggles of the untaught II human being tend to*his own destruc-. ^ tion, as is well known to be the case. ' It may be added that, admitting " this view, we bar ourselves from any imputation of a batrachian element in 8 our ancestry. Had there fortunately ^ ViAon Biioh wp nntrhf t.n hfivn fnund e ourselves swimming instinctively, e when plunged into deep waters. Nevertheless, in any case, the frog has J clearly been our preceptor or rather our examplar in this useful art, for e man swims greatly like a frog, and by tfo means "like a duck," or "like a fish," as so often tritely phrased. Deep-Sea Diving. e Q The steamer Alfonso XII, having I onboard 10 boxes of gold coin, each g box worth ?10,000, struck on a rock e and sank at Grand Canary while on a t voyage from Cadiz to Havana in 1886. e It was ascertained that the specie was e at a depth of 26 2-3 fathoms, 160 feet, g and grave doubts were entertained of t the possibility of any diver being able g to withstand the tremendous pressure incidental to such a depth, viz., some . i 67 pounds to every superficial square y inch of his body. d Experiments at this depth were e made off Dartmouth, and two men, * l Lambert and Tessier, were found i "'qual to the perilous task. Also, . '5' i dresses were at length made which Q would remain watertight at so great a d depth. . f An expedition was sent out by the tj Marine Insurance Company, the divers e to receive a reward of 5 per cent, or y ?500, on each box recovered. LamS) bert got up seven boxes and Tessier r two. So terrible was the pressure that d neither man could stay below for more T than a few minutes, and Lambert, for ,r some time after his return, suffered t from chronic paralysis of the bowels, d by which he was in a certain respect [, reduced to the helpless condition of a o babe in the cradle. Probably a tightly s sealed kettle, sent down empty to the o same depth, would have been crushed o flat. a As it was, the divers only succeeded in finding nine boxes out of ten, d ?10,000 thus remaining below. A d subsequent expedition went in search o of this box, and the diver, after being s down for 20 minutes, was hauled up only to die. Nothing discouraged, a p fresh expedition went out with two n divers from Germany. The first of these was promptly hauled up half dead, only to be sent ashore to the hospital raving mad; the other went down but returned ,f declaring that no box was there. . Whether he really got so far as the e lazarette from which the nine boxes y were taken is open to doubt. The Q pressure at such depths must be posi[. tively cru?hing. In the accounts of one of the deep sea dredging expedirJ tions it is mentioned that when the ' ; trawl was raised from a great depth e the pressure proved to have been such r as to crush togethe'r the wood of the f trawl beam so that the knots started out of it. s ? Trees are felled by electricity in c the great forests of Galiciu. For cute ting comparatively soft wood the tool [. is in the fcrm of an auger, which is il mounted on a carriage and is moved c to an fro and revolved at the same n time by a small electric motor. As o the cut deepens wedges are inserted t- to prevent the rift from closing, and s when the tree is nearly cut through e an ax or hand saw is used to finish the work. In this way trees are felled very rapidly and with very little las bor. mt m ^ } ? In the four years ending 1891 s there were 15,947 murders in the Uuis led States. But only 1,050of the murderers were ever called to account for y their crimes, and of these 410 were iC hanged and 640 lynched. a ? A family named Walker, living !e in Mitchell County, North Carolina, ^ consists of seven brothers and five * sisters, all of whom are over 6 feet in jc height. One of the brothers is said If to be 7 feet 9 inches tall. 18 ?All our city fathers say: Use 8 Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on y earth for pain, for rheumatism and neuralgia. 25 cts, I -- . A