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? in iii H mi i un.I in i n J THE NATIONAL BMOF AUGUSTA I L. C. HAYNS, Prfcs't P. 0. FORD, Cashier. Capita!, $250,000. Undivided Profila } $110,000. Facilities of oar magnificent Nev Yanlt containing 410 t-afoty-Locx Bosos. Differ ent Sises am offered to our patrons and tho public at $3.00 to 910.00 per Annntn, THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. IBB PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Hjt Intewtt oa Deposits, Aocounts Solicited, L. O. HATITB, President. W. O. WABDLAW, Cashier. VOL. LXV. NO. 15. ND EVIL. For felt the evil-born the right ! Dense the darkness-keen the sight ! Grieved the weakness-gained thestrength! Strained the distance-home at length ! God Is in us-this the strife ! Victory through us-this is life! The will to do-is virtue done ! The grief to lose-is goodness won t rk Buldwlu, In New York Independent ;K OF TIME. MORROW. 5 "It's five minutes of seven!" be ex claimed. I couldn't say exactly what I wanted to say, so I contented myself by giving tba cravat a vicious twist. Tbree minutes later I dashed down tbe bali, threw a good-by at Aunt Margaret and hurried into the yard. The coachman was driving away. "Hi,there!" shouted Uncle William from the front steps. "Hold on there? driver! Wilson, stop that, hack!" Wilson was evidently Uncle Wil liam's next-door neighbor. He was leisurely proceeding from bia front gate to his own domicile. He turned around slowly and looked at the car riage and thou at Undo William. "What for?" ho asked. . "What's the matter with it?". "Hi, there, driver!" shouted Uncle William again, ns I tore down tbe jaih. The coachman drew in his horses with an air of impatient expectancy. "What in the world do you mean?" cried Uncle William, puffing in anger, behind me. "Yes,what do you mean," I echoed, "driving off without me?" "Why, sir," said the evidently greatly puzzled couchman, with a nod of his head toward Mr. Wilson, "he said for-" , "Well, well, well!" cried Mr. Wil son, joir.ing us on the sidewalk. "What does all this mean, anyway? What are you holding this carriage here for?" Uncle William began saying some thing under bis breath, but was checked by a feminine voice from the carriage. "Driver,," it askod, "what's the matter?" "Oh!" exclaime I Uncle William, a light breaking in upon him, "you've made a mistake here, Wilson. This is a carriage I ordered to take my nephew to the wedding." "Oh,I guess not," said Mr. Wilson, bristling np moro than ever. "This is a . carriage J ordered to take my nieo to the commencement." The two men glare I at each other like wild animals, and I turned from one to tbe othe in boneless perplex ity. "Drive on!" cried Mr. WilBon,.and the driver drew up the reins. "Hold on!" cried Uncle William, and tbe driver loosened the reins. He evidently enjoyed the situation. The two men moved toward each other, and then Aunt Margaret came down the pt.th, hastening to the un tangling bf Uncle William's mistakes, as she had been doing throughout their married life. "This is a muddle," she said to Mr. Wilson in her sweetest tones. "Tbe stablemou have probably got the two orders confused." "I don't know about that," said Mr. Wilson, "but I've got the car riage.", "i?ut see herc," put in Uncle Wil liam, "Dick's best man, and be mustn't be late at the wedding." "I can't help that," retorted Mr. Wilson. "My niece mustn't be late at the commencement, either." "I'll tell you," cried Aunt Margaret, with sudden inspiration, "why can't they go together? The seminary is only a little ways beyond Christ church. I know your niece won't object if I explain." Aunt Margaret dashed out into the street toward the carriage, and I fol lowed, wiping my moist brow, bewail ing my wilting linen and consumed with impatience. In the next few seconds I beard Aunt Margaret making a hurried ex planation which concluded with "Aw fully good of you, I'm sure, but I knew you'd consent under the' cir cumstances;" then the door was flung open, Uncle William gave me a push from behind, while Aunt Margaret murmured introductions, and I found myself stepping into a carriage which seemed filled with flowers and finny white stuff, from the midst of which peered tho face of-Dorothy Melton! "Why-Dick -Mr.-" she cried, half rising from her seat. I started back with a confused at tempt at an apology, but Uncle Wil liam hastily slammed the door, and with a commanding "Drive lively now!" motioned the driver to start.' The hors : s were oft' with a jump, and I sank in to the seat opposite tbe young woman whom six months ago I had sworn never to sec again. It was the early dusk of what had been a perfect June day. The street lamps were not yet lighted, but the bright moon shone in at the carriage windows, and I knew Dorothy could see my hot, flushed face and my ner vousness aud embarrassment. "MisB Melton," I began, feeling that I must say something, "I'm ex tremely sorry to intrude upon you in this manner. I bad no idea-" "Oh, pray do not mention it," said Dorothy. "I am, of course, extreme ly glad tc be of any service whatever to Mrs. Clarkson, and it would be too bad for you to be late at the wed ding." Dorothy was quite mistress of her self. She held a large bunch of roses in her arms, having gathered them up to make room for me; the color, which I think leit her face for an instant when she saw it was I who climbed into her carriage, returned; ber eyes sparkled, and never had she looked so lovely. What a fool, I thought, bit terly, what a fool I had been to quar rel with her. "It's to be quite a large wedding, I believe?" she said, turning ber face fnll upon me. The driver was evidently intent upon reach: ug the church in time. He turned a corner so sharply that just as I was about to stammer out a commonplace about the wedding we both were near ly thrown from our seats. Dorothy threw up ber band, her roses fell in confusion, and as I bent forward her dainty fingers lightly brushed my f CCQ "Ob, Dorothy! Dorothy!" I cried; and then I'm sure that I couldn't tell what I said. I only know that the words I had been holding back, the love that I had been trying to stifle for six mouths, burst from me, and before we reached the next corner Dorothy lifted ber shining eyes, and through tears, said: "Ob,Dick! Dick!" and I knew every thing was right, and wished that Christ church was 20 miles away. The carriage pulled up at the church door in th? nick of tims, and dashed away again to leave Dorothy at the young ladies' seminary where she had been teaching for a few months. I found Tom in the vestry, so su premely happy that he had not even noticed my tardiness-but, for that matter, I walked in the clouds all evening, and noticed nothing what ever that happened at his wedding, so we are quits on that score. Dorothy and I will be married in September, and Uncle William, who insists that his "good management" brought it all about, has promised to set us up with a carriage of our own on the day of the wedding.-Woman's Home Companion. SABLE ISLAND PONIES. resemble Thole Kound on the Sculptures of Nineveh. A writer in Ainslee's Magazine says: "The story of animal life on Sable Islaud, Nova Scotia, is strange. Roaming the sandy wasteB are herds of w; * ponies guarded by patriarchal stallions. These ponies resemble the horses of the sculptures of Nineveh, and approach the beholder seemingly out of the framework of antiquity. They are stocky aud remarkable for their long manes, which in instances have been known to grow to the length of three yards. , The ponies are the remnant of a stock thought to have been left by some Portuguese fishermen-Tortingalls* the old rec ords quaintly call them-who touched at the island on their fishing expedi tions at even an earlier date than the Marquis de la Boche. At ene time there were from 400 to 500 wild ponies on the island, but their number has been decreased by exportation, tho severity of the winters, and, some people think, by the importation of improved, domesticated stallions, which have made the stock loss hardy, and consequently more susceptible to death from exposure. There are now between 80 aud 10.) wild ponies and about 30 for domestic use. Mounted .on pcnies, tho life-savers gallop ovor the dunes and among the hillocks on their long patrols, and the lifeboats are drawn to the scenes of shipwreck by teams of five ponies, three at the. shaft and two leaders. Some of the wild ponies are sent to Halifax every year or two, aud are sold at auction at an average price of from $15 to $18. "The Portingaiis also stocked the island with cattle, which increased so rapidly that people from the mainland made expeditions to the island and re turned with enough live stock to make their trips most profitable. At one time the island was quite overrun with rabbits. Then two rat-infested Nor wegian vessels were wrecked there aud the rats, swimming ashore, began to exterminate the rabbits and to at tack the government storep. Cats were then imported from Halifax to kill the rats, and after a while the cats increased so in number that dogs were imported to kill the cats. Latterly tho island was again overrun with rats from wrecked vessels, and another cargo of cats was imported from Hali fax. Once there were pigs on the island; bnt they have been exter minated because they had become ghouls feasting on the remains of castaways. Death in its most horrid forms is .alwuys the burden of Sable Island's story." QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The whistling tres which is found in the West Indies, in Nubia and the Soudan, has a peculiarly shaped leaf and pods with a split edge. The wind, passing through these produces the sound which gives the tree its name. Thirteen old horseshoes wera hang ing last spriug on the back of u garden wall close to au old boiler which work men were removing and leplacing by a new one-a very noisy piece of work -when, iu no wise deterred by this, a pair of wrens built their nest in the midst of the cluster of horseshoes and then brought up their young. The mother bird, having been found one day drowned in a pail of water, Btand iug near, her mate feuded and cared for their young until they were fledged and flown. The horseshoes containing the nest still hang on the wall at Ever thorpe Hall, Brough East Yorkshire, England. In the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, is one of the most extraordinary isl ands in the.world. It is called White Island, and consists mainly of sulphur mixed with gypsum and a few other minerals. Over the island, which is about three miles in circumference, and which rises betweon 800 feet and 900 feet above the sea, floats continu ally an immense cloud of vapor, at taining an elevation of 10,000 feet In the centre is a boiling lake of acid charged water, covering 50 acres, and surrounded with blowholes from whioh steam and sulphurous fumes are emit ted with great force and noise. With care, a boat can be navigated on the lake. The surphur from White Island is very pure, but little effort has yet been made to procure it systemati cally. One of the most remarkable of all the sound produoing fishes is found in China seas, and an account of its ac tions has been given by Lieutenant White of the British navy. He was engaged in some special work at the entrance of a river, and came to an chor one night in shallow water. Pres ently strange sounds began to be heard coming np from the bottom. They were described as resembling the clang ing of bells and the beating of drums. The men were demoralized aud attrib uted the noises to spirits, it being said that a crew of pirates had gone down there, but the officers were convinced that the noise was caused by some sea animals, and investigation showed that it came from a school of fish that made the sounds by clapping their teeth together. One of the most peculiar accidents c\ or heard of happened to a colored man near N.ew Store, Va., a few days ago. Ed Jones took his gun and set out for a day of sport. He was not looking for large game, but he had not been in the woods long before he saw an immense deer coming at a tremendous rate of speed immediately toward him. He at once fell upon his knees, pre paratory io a shot, and when the deer wat within 20 feet of him fired and missed his aim. The deer bad ac quired ' such tremendous momentum that it conld not check itself, and with the next leap landed upon the hunter. It knocked him down and bruised him badly upon the breast with one hind foot, the other going into the negro's mouth, knocking ont a number of his teeth, tearing a part of his gums away, and passing down his throat. The whole thing was over in an instant, but when he came to the deer was gone. It Depends. "Don't you love, an old-fashioned snowstorm, Pauline ?" "Yes, if the man who takes me ont has a new-fashioned . leigh." DINGA AN" S DAY. Origin of (he Tbsnksglrlag Which tbe Doers Obserrc os Dec. 16. Cable despatches from South Africa have stated that the Boers held relig ious services on "Dlngaan's Day," In commemoration of their victory over the Zulus. Chief Chaka of the Zulus was assassinated in 1828 by his broth er Dlngaan. The latter was very un friendly toward the English and or dered two other chiefs known as "Fynn" and "Cone" to come to his Kraal. These chiefs, who understood the bloodthirsty nature of Dlngaan, de clined, and the new chief Bent out a force to fetch them in. Fighting en sued and afterward Chief Fynn was recognized as the "Great Chief of the Natal Kaffirs." About this time, perhaps In 1831, the Boers appeared on the scene. They were trekking to the northward ?rom Cape Colony, and their leader, Retlef, Applied to Dlngnan for a grant of ter rltory, which was promised on condi tion that the Boers should recover for Dlngaan some cattle that had been stolen from hi?, people. This was done and Retlef with about a hundred men reutrned to Dlngaan's Kraal. The Boer commander and lils men were received with great ceremony and there was a feast In their honor. At the conclusion of thc feast, when thc Boers were filled with food and wine, thc Zulus fell on them and killed every man In the party. At the same time the Zulus sent par ties out. In Natal with Instructions to slay every white man, woman and child that could be found. The Boers were surprised in small parties and It Is estimated that OOO of them, were killed. One result of this raid was the naming of the village of Weenen (near Ladysmith) which In Dutch moans "weeping." Afterward the Boers sent out a puni tive expedition from Durban, but the party was ambushed by the Zulus and_ cut to pieces. Finally, In the winter of 1838, about 500 Boers under Andreas Pretorlus, afterward President of the South African Republic, bold'y ad vanced on Dingaan's country and on Sunday, December 10, encountered a Zulu army of 12,000 men. The Zulus were utterly routed and left 3,000 dead on the field. The power of Dlngaan was broken and ever since the Boers celebrate December 16 as a day of thanksgiving. Had (he Dead Wood on Her. "I wiU," she exclaimed. "I will not live with you another day!" "You'll leave me, will you?" he calm ly asked. "Yes; I will." "When?" "Now-right off-this minute." "You'll go away?" , "Yes, slr." "I wouldn't If ? were you." "But I will, and I defy you to pre vent me. I have suffered at your hands as long as I can put up with lt" "Oh, I shan't try to stop you," he quietly replied. "I'll simply report to the police that my wife has mysterious-; ly disappeared. They'll want your de scription, and I will give lt. You wear No. 7 shoes; you have an extra* large mouth; you walk stiff In your' knees; your nose turns up at the end; , eyes rather on the squint; voice like a a "Wretch, you wouldn't dare do that"'* she screamed. "I certainly will, and the description will go in all the papers." They glared at each other a moment In silence. vThen lt was plain to be seen he had the dead wood on her. Ohio State Journal. New Use for Wireless Telecraphy. Wlrolesa telegraphy hua had a now demon stration of usefulness by the captnin or a lightship, who used lt atirr ordinary signala had failed, to notify the shore authorises of . danger. In a Uko manner Hoateiter'a stom ach Bitters, the famous dyspepsia cure, acts when all other medicines fall. Its superiority ls quickly felt in tbe renewal of strength. It regulates tho bowels, improves the appetite, and eurea ludlgestlon. Try lt: Yes, At Last Accounts. , Percy-Wh^re were you on your vacation last dum m rr? . Harold-Ob, I went to Nlaprara Falls. Percy-What! Ja that place running yet? -Chicago Journal. AU goods are alike to PUTNAM FADELESS DYMJOS they color all fibers at one boiling. Sold by all druggists. How He Was Paid. "You're a nice lad." remarked the minister to a boy who was chopping wood. "Does your mother givo you anything for chopplug flro ' wood?" "No," replied the boy. witha meaning look; "but I cet something if I don't do it." How's Thia ? We offer Ono Hundred Dollars Reward for any COM ot Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & .co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for tho lust 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorablo In all business trutsactlons and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. WEST & 1 ROIX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio- ' WAI.D1RO. KIN VAN & MAKVIN, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, Ohio. Dall's Catarrh Cure ls taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood ?nd mucous sur faces of the system. Testimonials sent freo. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. I cannot speak toohigblyof Plso's Core for Consumption.-M rs. FnA MC M OBBS, 215 Wi 23d St., New York, Oct. 29, 1804. Nra. Wlnalow'a Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces lnflamma Uon, allaya pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. His Dream Came Trae. Hogan-Do you belave in dreams. Mike? Du ?an-Faith an* I do. Lash night Idremt I was awake, an' in the mornln' me dream kern throe.-Princeton Tiger. The Beat Prescription for Chills and Fever ls a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILI. TONIC. It ls simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No euro-no pay. Price 50a. Fatted Calf For One. Bride (who has eloped): "Hore ls a telsr era m from papa." Bridegroom (anxiously): "What does ho Bride: "All is forgiven, providing you don't come baok."-Collier's Weekly. Spring Humors of ?he Blood Ooma to a certain percentage of all the people. Probably 75 per cert, of these people are cured every year by Hood's Sarsaparilla, and we hope by this advertisement to get the other 25 per cent, to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. It has made more people well, effected more wonderful cures than any-other medicino in the world. Its strength as a blood purifier is demonstrated by its marvelous cures of Scrofula 8alt Rheum Scald Head Bolls, Pimples All kinds of Humor Psoriasis Blood Poisoning Rheumatism Catarrh: Malaria, Etc. All of which are prevalent at thia sea son. You need Hood's Sarsaparilla now. It will do you wonderful good. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America's _Groutost Blood Modle In?. . --.. -r . ^ A A AA>v. ^ A A A .FOR FARM AND GARDEN.] Hauling Green Wood. Don't bani green wood. Don't. Half at leaBt of the weight of green wood ia water, and ii one will only split and pen the winter fuel two weeks before it is needed he will not have to haul the water. It will dry ont. Save time in banting, and the patience of cooks by drying the fael Lefore hauling it If you haul it when green the cook must burn it green, and green wood injures the . stove, and impairs the cooking and wastes the fooJ. Seasoned wood is a great time and patience saver about the-kitchen. Soft woods are better for the stove than hard; do not mako BO fierce a heat to boru the food be fore, it gets thoroughly cooked. Bent Soil Tor Tomato Plants. Here is n hint worth remembering for tomato plants: One of the experi ment stations has said, that a mixture of peat and coal ashes is the best soil to set the tomato plant into in the greenhouse. If so, when plants aro set in the field why not mix a quantity of coal ashes iutu the hill before sot ting the plant or put a mulch of it around them afterward? We think the best results would bo attained by . mixing it iu thc hill, as it makes the ground light and porous, aud naturally would cauBO larger growth of tho feeding roots. Gardeners often desire to set their tomatoes on moist, strong soil, almost peat in its nature,and the ?inking pf coal ashes with it might prevent the vines growing too rank aiid force more development of fruit -American Agriculturist. Model Crenmory lintier Maker. The butter maker is an important person. A good butter maker is rare. He is hard tu get and bar J to keep. He must be skilled in all tho practical details and also in all the Bcience of butter making. He must be ablo to mako butter if it is necessary and un derstand all the scientific processes involved in the manufacture. In ad . dition ho must have tact, that if, the art of rubbing people the right way. .Few positions call for more patience and politeness. He must be able to ignore complaiuts which are constant ly coming to his ears. He must be able '.c politely bub forcibly point out to the careless patron that be must use more care in producing bip milk. Above all, he must be hon?'.c and progressive. Conservatism will not answer in the modera dairy. The conservative is the mau who bides in the bushes until the fighting is over and then comes out and does the shouting after the victory is won. Primarily, he must insist upon clean liness in every particular, not only in the creamery but at the bornes of the patrons. He must be an upright mau Who is a valuable addition to any com munity, for he will be more or less in timately associated with tho people of the neighborhood.-J. Vau Wagener .in an address before the recent New York state dairy mooting. Coop for Yoong Chirk*. '. A model coop for the hen and young chicks may be constructed at practi cally no cost by taking an ordiuary . soap or canned goods box, and sawing ont an opening in end large enough to admit the hen. In front of this con struct a slat coop about three or four feet square, so that the hen may come from the box and have the freedom of the coop as desired. The chicks will pass in and out of the coop aud will forage around for quite a distance, but will promptly mu to shelter at the first approach of danger. The drinking water cup and the feed box should be placed on outside of the slat coop, as otherwise the hen will scratch them over. Laths, if con venient, make splendid material for the coop, two-inch scantling being used for the corner posts, and one inch strips for two top sides, on which to nail the top laths. Of course, if we do not objeot to cost, nice little houses, with sloping roofs, may be made, but for all practical purposes, the common square box will fill the bill, aud we can raise just as many and just as healthy chicks in this way as with the more elaborate outfits. Don't fancy that the chicks will grow faster if allowed to roam all over a ten acre lot with the hen. They will not, and the danger of having bhem caught in a rainstorm or drenched in the early morning clews is over come when the ben is thus confined. Six or eight weeks of this confine ment will not injure the ben, by which time she will have begun to lay and the chicks will be large enough to hustle-for themselves.-Home and Form. . Rapid Development of Lambs. A change of pasture in the fall is good, so they will como into the sheds in fair condition. Have plenty of l'oom in the shed. A room 20x20 feet makes a ni-e one for 12 or 15 ewes. Have the doors open toward the south 30 the sun can shine in. Keep them closed at night and in rainy weather. Give them plenty of nice, fresh water every day, with good clean timothy and clover bay, or rowen, and as the lambing time approaches along in January and February, feed them a fair amount of grain, shelled corn, etc., un ground. Always keep their salt boxes filled with salt and sulphur flour enough to color it. It is a first rate thing to have a new-milch- cow just at this time, and a bottle with a rubber nipple handy, so if a lamb needs a little milk it can bo easily given. There are always some that need nursing. The shepherd can tell by his notebook which ewes are due first, so they can be separated from the rest until the lamb is strong enough to follow the mother and she will own it A little pen in one cor ner, where the ewe can see the others and they cannot get to her, is all right As soon as the ewes begin to lamb,,feed them more milk-producing feeds. Oats, buckwheat, wheat bran, all they will eat up clean, and plenty of fresh water with the chill taken off. Give the hay feed at the same hour each morning about daylight, then at nine or ten o'clock give some oom and oats mixed, or buckwheat or apples, turnips, etc. ; at noon, more hay if they have deaned the racks; at three, some grain or bran, then nt dark more bay. Give all they need regularly, but don't overfeed. They will ueed exercise and turning into the yards if the weather is fair. After the lambs are all dropped and are strong, they will want a shallow trough to eat it by themselves. Fix a creep-hole in the feu ce or rack, and after tbe older ones have, been enticed through a time or two the others will soon leam the way. They wili need a little ground stuff, corn and oats, or rye, wheat bran, middlings or linseed meal, etc. Be careful to give just what they can digest easily, and not overfeed. But if they are healthy they will consume a good deal and get into the manger and pick off the clover bends, timothy, etc., aud eat with their mothers, and thus gain pretty rapidly. They must be in the san all they possibly can, and as the warm weather approaches,turned into green pastures, or rye, so they will be ready for market when four or five months old. Begin to sell as poon as they will weigh 60 pounds apiece. The main point is to get them started quickly. They will need persons! and careful attention, so watch the ewes as they drop the lambs, help them if necessary, get the lamb to stand up and nurse, see that the ewe ha? plenty of milk, aud start it for the lamb. Generally the lamb . is all right as soou as it is drynud warmed np and han its stomach full, but some times there are twins or triplets. Then the milk bottle comes into ?May Rnd some huve to be raised on the bottle. The bowels will require watch ing; see that they are in the right con dition, neither bound up nor too loose. A little castor oil for the one, or lamb's cordial for the other, will cor rect them. -Charles M. Beresford, in American Agriculturist. Ill-ltalnnced Fertilizer*. An ill-balanced or incomplete fer tilizer is one which does not supply all threo of the elements of plant food, phosphoric icid, nitrogen and potash. Sometimes a material may furnish one, or even two of the essential in gredients, but if all three are not present the mixture may be regarded as incomplete, and what the plaut fails to find in the iertilizor it must look for in the soil, with the result that if the soil does not contain it, tho crop has to suffer accordingly. On the other hand, if the ingredient which is miss ing in the fertilizer is present in the soil, it will gradually become ex hausted through continued cropping, and the yield naturally falls oh in proportion. It is au established fact iu fertiliz ing, that one element of plant food ca..not replace another. Eachjias its speci.tl function to perform. To il lu-trf.to: If there is enough phosphoric rteid and nitrogen iu the soil to pro ttuce a 200 bushel crop of Irish pota toes, and only enough potash to make a 100 bushel crop, the yield would not go ubove the latter figure. The element preseut in the smallest pro portion is what regulates the extent of the yield. In other words, we meet, in feeding the plants, the old maxim: "A chain is not stronger than its weakest link." From what hus been said, it can be seen at once that it is both wise and economical to feed crops like animals. No ono would think of giving a horse or cow a one-sided food and expect to got a full day's work from it. Every hard-working animal must have proper food aud plenty of it. As said before, the three iugredients to make up a complete food for plants are phosphoric acid, nitrogen and potash. Manufacturers embody all three in their mixtures, and the pro portions vary to suit the crops, some requiring more of one than anothor. The principal point to bear in mind is that one sided fertilization seldom, if ever, pays iu the long run. It is much easier to keep up the fertility of soils by using whatis needed annually to meet the demands of the growing crop than to build up land which has become run down or exhausted. Farm, Field and Fireside. . Chunks of Wisdom, A cow must be a hearty eater to be a good producer. Driving cows in a hurry is a money losing operation. A scrub farmer keeps scrub cows. Scrub cows will make a scrub farmer. Cows do not eat alike nor act alike, and the wise dairyman will make due allowance for all'peculiarities. The best darry cow is the one that produces the most butter fat every twelve months on the least feed. Every farmer should have a tool house and every implement about the farm should be housed when not in use. Keep a cow waiting for her feed or to be milked and she worries, and a worrying cow is uot profitable. Be on time with milking and feeding. Farmers who think the dairy methods of their fathers good enough for thom had better not attempt dairy ing in these days, Up-to-date dairy ing only is profitable. In many cases a man may have good cows and not know it, because he has always fed them just euough to get a poor yield. Eefore condemning a cow, thoroughly test her by increas ing the quantity and enhancing the quality of her feed. Many young men make a mistake in cultivating an antipathy for rural pur suits. Certainly there is no more in dependent life known amoug men,and if the farmer who is out of debt and owns a home is not happy, then we would not know where to turn in search of happiness. French ns the Is Spoke in America. An Indianapolis man thinks he can tell where people hail from by the way they pronounce "table d'hote." He lives in a hotel where a table d'hote dinner is served at a certain hour daily, this fact being duly advertised by means of a card in the elevator. When people get into the elevator they usually ask the attendant where the meal is to be partaken of, and the philosopher referred to makes it his business to ride np and down, listen ing and taking notes of the varions pronunciations of the terms. Here is the table he has produced: Chicago, "tabbie day hote." Louisville, "tabul dote." Des Moines, "tay-bnl de holey." ! Omaha, "table dough." Indianapolis, "table de hote." Grand Rapids, "tabbie dotty." Sioux City, "tabbie de hot." This is interesting, but it would be more so if it showed how the people of New York and-St.Louis get around the trouble. It may serve, also, to bring about a settlement that Sioux City is "the most literary town west of Chicago," thus ending a conten tion that has heretofore threatened to be interminable. In connection with the Indianapolis man's luminous little scheme it may not be out of place to set forth the observations of a ?;'iicago merchant who says he eau tell whore people live or have lived by their pronunciation of "bric-a-brac," The Philadelphia^ he says,calls it "bree-a-braw,"the St. Louis man asks for "bricky-bro, "New York people refer to it as "braw-a braw," the Milwaukee lady wants "brick-brack," and the customer from Indiana says, "I'd like to look at one of them things yon put in the corner to set brick-a-braw on."-Chicago Times-Herald. A Clear Field. "What is a historian?" Uncle Phineas. "A historian is a man who lives long enough io write things up with out getting contradi ?ted."-Indian* ap?liB Jourua'. ' Tales fron the Sont! African Frost The son of Mr. E, Lunn, of Klrkgate, Wakefield, writes as follows: "I was In company with a sergeant In charge of some wounded Boer prison ers. One of these was lying on a stretcher and was being carried In when he whipped out a revolver and aimed at an officer near. The sergeant was carrying his gua on his shoulder with the barrel In front of him. He quickly dashed the revolver out of the Boer's hand, clubbod his own rifle as he would a striking haumer, and dashed the prisoner's brains out where lay. He wrns not satisfied with one blow, but had three, and beat the man's bead to a pulp. The captain did not see -what the prisoner had done, so ordered the sergeant's arrest. A com rade slipped out of the marching line, and asking to be excused, saying he thought the sergeant's circumstances needed some explanation, and told the captain how things stood. The cap tain gave the order for the sergeant's release, congratulating bim, and thank ing him for saving his life." The same writer continues: "I saw a Lancer who pitied an old Boer because of his gray hair and whiskers. The Lancer said that when he pushed him out of the way, he could not give him the thrust because at the moment he thought of his old father. Well, the Lancer got five yards or so past Wm, when the old boy aimed and flred nt his preserver, but the bullet missed. A comrade, wko saw the act, rod -ck, and thrust the Boer through the :..?art with his lance, giving him a second thrust to make sure."-West minster (England) Garette. 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