Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE SOLDIER'S DIRGE. .Vmd in the battle-dead on the field: .lore than hts life can a soldier yield? Dead lor his country. Mufl?a the drums; -lowly the ead procession comes. The heart may ache, but the heart must swell Vith pride for the soldier who fought so well. 'Iis blood has burnished bis sabre bright; i'o hts memory, honor: to him, good night. -Elizabeth Harman, in Lippinoott's Mag 'usine. ) THE CARNELIAN ) ..OF.. GHOST VALLEY. ) By Jons H. RAFTEBX. Whee Colonel Dickinson had told 'lis story of Coppinger's fight with In lians at the battle of the Caverns, Pro Jessor Beekman, whom we knew as an experienced ethnologist and traveler, chowed no astonishment at all over .he manner in which the savages had humed their children at that famous imbuscade. "I believe all our aborigines were S 'riven to the same or similar practices, .hough manifested in different ways," ;aid he. "It is not yet thirty years ..Ince I found as many as seven skele ons of Navajo children in the branches >f two trees in the Ghost Valley, one >? the lost gorges southwest of the Vlancos. Major Tuttle, who was liv ng at Hermosillo when I last saw ~ lim, told me that the squaws of an )ld Navajo chief who was slain by che Unccmpahgres away back in the 50s had killed all their young as a sort of holocaust to the deity. It's a very odd story, and, come to think of it, I my self finally turned up as the uncon scious agent of the Indian Manitou. "It,was at Durango, after myself and a party of scientists had explored the cliff-dwellings of Mancos, that Major Tuttle, who was agent at Red Moun tain in those days, told us a lot of - queer stories about Ghost Valley. It seems that the Uncompahgres, re-en forced by nearly 200 Piutes, had once surrounded and surprised a Navajo vil lage which then hestled in its basin, and that the Navajos had not only lost most of their warriors, but that an idol of great i-ge and 'experience' had been captured and either carried off or destroyed by the victors. Major Tuttle told us that the sacrifice of children had followed, and that to the present day the only surviving son of :j? the beaten and slaughtered chief lived, an outcast and an object of supersti tious horror, near the Navajo reserva tion. This pariah of a once nob!e fam ily had, according to Major Tuttle, gouged out one of his own eyes in the hope that this self-punishment might induce the gods to favor his search for the l?st idol of the tribe, which had, it seems, but one eye. "You may be sure that after hearing Major Tuttle's story I was very anx ious to penetrate Ghost Valley, and when we came to Hermosillo, which is at *he edge of the Navajo's reserva tion, I set about finding a guide among the tribesmen who would lead our " party into the historic basin. Major ??' Tuttle, however, ha ' gone tc Denver, and I had to depend wholly upon my own efforts. The settlers told me that neither Indians nor whites ever went into Ghost Valley. Th?t it was known. - to be haunted, that its waters were . poisonous and whosoever ventured with m its bowl-like depths returned no more. I tried to induce some of the Indians to lead me into the valley, but they shrugged their shoulders at my offers of money, till at last a fine look ing young buck who spoke pretty good English told me: " 'You get Jim Look Once. Him go In Ghost Valley. Might.never come __Jiack, too. All right' By which I un derstood that Jim Look Once waa the V outcast son of the dead chief. And so it proved. I had no trouble in finding . him nor in securing his services. He - was an ill-favored, one-eyed Indian about 40 years old, stoop-shouldered, skulking and evidently bowed with the " misfortunes of his forbears. A miner named Schoolcraft, whom we had pick . sd up at Silver City, and Dr. Hickman, the geologist, made up our party, and at daybreak one June morning, with Jim Look Once leading the pack mule, we started for Ghost Valley. On the evening of the second day, just as the sun was sinking * hind the western mountains, we stood upon a high shelf of granite which looked sheer 'nto the round bowl of the haunted valley. The - - deprepsion, more than 2,000 feet ia depth and perhaps seven miles in cir cumference, was so beautiful in its mo tionless silence that I could hardly re sist the desire to plunge onward into -its mysteries. The yellow radiance of the evening sun seemed to sift even to its depths; no sound of bird or breeze or waterfall broke the perfect silence; there was no motion in the tall trees or sprawling shrubs, nor in the weeds and vines which covered its precipitous walls with luminous ver dure, "But we camped where we were for the night, and often during the dark hours I woke and saw Jim Look Once sitting at the verge of the rock gazing .silently into the shadowy abyss. No howl of coyote or scream of night bird broke the stillness, and even when the sun reddened the east, nature seemed to sleep on, voiceless and unmoved. The Indian led us down an almost per pendicular trail that seemed to vanish as the parted shrubbery closed behind us. When we reached the depths the air seemed suddenly cooled, and al ' though we found no living water, we passed a pool covered with lily pads and yellow ooze that almost sickened ? us with its suffocating perfume. Al most In .the centre of the oval bottom land we came upon traces of the burned Navajo village of long ago. Jim, our guide, here abandoned us to our own resources and went ranging about in the thicket like a bird dog working the stublile. i "We found the burial ground in the afternoon, and I think it was Dr. Hick man who came upon the seven baby skeletons. We tried to get our guide to go into some of the higher trees to fetch us down some of the older skele tons, ^some of which, their weather stained cerements yet clinging to them. i were in a good state of preservation, but Jim Look Once showed a mortal I terror of his ancestral dead and would not come near. Being the best climb er in our party, I then essayed a tour among the skeletons and had unfas tened a fine articulate one and was coming carefully down, when the In dian saw me and set up an ear-split ting shriek. Then he darted away into - the dense underbrush and we saw him no more that day. But a singular discovery distracted our thoughts from th? scared guide. When I got the skel s eton down and examined its condition and counted the extraordinary fine . teeth which ornamented both jaws, I saw a'beautiful polished sphere of chalcedony, of a red darker than most carnelian, and about as large as an fixed between the clinched teeth of the skull. We all wondered very I miicb nt the strangely beautiful speci men, but when I pried the jaws apart and examined the sphere I found that a segment of it had been cut away, showing an interior like that of the i common geod with glittering prismatic stalagmites, miscroscopically small but j very brilliant And, strangest of all, like a blue-green pupil of this tony orb, a smaller sphere of polished tur quoise was set firmly, but without any evident metal, into the open aperture of the waxy carnelian. "Of course that was the chief reward of our descent into the Ghost?Valley. Our guide didn't come back that night or the next day. On the second night, while we were cheerirg ourselves with another inspection of the mysterious jewel, I thought I heard a faint rust ling in the thicket, and I'm sure I saw the green glare of some strange glow worm, which, as events transpired, might have been Jim Look Once's evil eye. However, we were famished for water and down to our last uscuit, when at last I stumb1 icross the lost trail and led my two ^ed-out com rades out of the dam. ."ge. At Her mossillo I packed 1 measure away in my old leather field trunk. But our runaway Indian had not returned, and as we heard that Major Tutela was down at Durango nursing rt sprained ankle, we all set off for that camp full of our adventures in the haunted valley. We got there later than 10 o'clock at night, and it was nearly ll the next morning when I arrived at his bedside and began to tell him the story of our ad ventures. When I got to the part about the big carnelian eye he sat up in his bed, with a very wild look in his face, and whispered: 'Before you say another word, where's that carnelian?' I told him it was packed away in my trunk at the hotel, and that I meant to bring it .up and show it to him that very afternoon. 'But you won't, professor,' he said con fidently, 'for it isn't in your trunk. It's on its way back to the Navajos at this minute. From my window early this morning I saw Jim Look Once gallop ing up the Hermosa trail, and the look" on his face was that of a transfigured brave.' "I refused to believe that my car nelian was gone, but I almost ran back to my hotel. I spent most of that day searching for it, and, though my trunk was locked and its contents seemingly undisturbed, there was no trace of the treasure. Major Tuttlo told me that night that I had found what the Navajos had prized most ol all their lost riches, the eye of that old idol that had been destroyed with th? chief who once guarded it. Jim Look Once had probably watched mc show ing it to my comrades and had followed us in the night to Durango. I suppose he picked my pockets of the keys and opened the trunk while we slept. But we never found out anything more of the mystery except that, when I vis ited the Navajos five years a 70 old Jim Look Once was a 'heap big chief,' with many blankets and hundreds of ponies, and from a beaded girdle about his neck there swung a bulbous bag of buckskin, which. I doubt not, contained .the sacred emblem of his nobility, the carnelian of Ghost Valley."-Chicago Record-Herald. PEARLS OF THO JGHT. There ls a fool at every feast Dutch proverb. A gold key opens every door. Italian proverb. A good conscience is a soft pillow. German pro\erb. Indufcny is the parent of fortune. Germ?n proverb.' There is a remedy for everything but death.-Spanish proverb. it is not ?nough to -un, one must start in time.-French provcrC. He ^ho does not when lie can can not when he will.-Italian proverb. Feeling alone can conquer feeling. A noble passion must be aroused, that an ignoble one may be mastered. Henry W. Crosskey. This ought to be our endeavor, to conquer ourselves, and daily wax stronger, and to make a further growth in holiness.-Thomas A. Kempis. The heights of spiritual attainmen. can only be safely reached by those who begin low down and mount up ward by patient continuance in well doing, by daily faithfulness in that which is least-C. W. Wellbeloved. We have a friend who knows us better than we know ourselves, loves us better than we love ourselves, helps us when we cannot help ourselves, for gives us when we cannot forgive our selves, and in the midst of our deepest despair breathes into our heart the breath of a new and divine hope. James Freeman Clarke. The Hist?rica! Novel. Concerning the historical novel a writer in the London Saturday Review makes a few bold assartions, which will probably call forth several discordant notes. Among other things he says: "lt is a curious fact that there is not such a thing as a great historic novel. In drama history has been used for great, tremendous purposes. No one can deny greatness to Shakes peare's "Henry IV." But no sooner does an historic novel get on the way to being great than it becomes dull. It must be amusing or it is nothing. The fact is if we want to take, history seri ously, to be interested in it, to get the true thrill and tragedy of it, we must go to those who have seriously studied it, who understand it, who can make us understand and feel it. The sheer story-maker also must have seriously studied it, must have beex interested in it; but his ultimate object is quite different from the historian's. He does not want to tell the truth; he wants, as we have said, to tell a story. He wants adventure, action, romance, the color and glory of active life lived in the bright sunlight. So far as the vast reading public is concerned Hugo is known only as a story-writer, and no one would dream of thinking about Du mas as anything else." Neglected Baptism. A rather good story has been cir culated respecting Canada's premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, says the London News. While on a speechmaking tour through Ontario and the province of Quebec during the recent by-elections .Sir Wilfrid received from a Quebec i politician the following telegram: "Re port in circulation in this country that your children have not been baptized. Telegraph denial." To which dispatch the premier wired this reply: "Sorry to say the report is correct I have no children." ; - j As Time Passes. 1 "Before we were married." sala the nournful looking little woman," my husband was a perfect cavalier." .Te3," answered'Mrs. Iron jaw 'and now h*?'s a perfect caviller."-Wash ington Star, Cheap Foreign Newspapers. It remains to be seen whether Parla will appreciate its newspaper-La Journ?e-which ls published at a farthing. A great difficulty ls that nu French coin exists of the value of a farthing, hence the subscribers have to pay a sou, and cut off a markeu corner, numbers of which catt be cashed at the newspaper offices. In this country farthing newspapers failed to take with the public. Great hopes wtNre entertained when The Penny a Week Country Daily News paper was published, in July, 1873. The page was twelve Inches by eight, consisted of three columns, and a week's supply of papers was said to contain matter equal to thirty col umns of The Times. As Its title Im plies, a penny covered the week's subscription, but a farthing was charged for a single copy. In the fol lowing September its name was al tered to The Sun, but it just lingered for a time, and was never a pro eounced success.-London Chronicle. A DRUMMER. Bacon-What's his business? Egbert-Why ho'? a drummer for automobiles. Bacon-Oh, the * have drummers for those things, do they? Well, it's a good idea. I think lt would be much safer if they had a drummer and a fifer go in front of each of the machines.-Yonkers Statesman. HE SLEEPS. . . "Has your husband a good ear for music?" asked Mrs. Oldgirl of Mrs. Newed. "I'm afraid not," replied Mrs. Newed. "He seems to think every thing he hears played in church is a lullaby."-Cincinnati Commercial Tri bune. THE "FRISCO <TEM" PRAISED. A Few Lines From One o? Its Patrons. T KENTON, GA , July 8, 1902. MR. W. T. SACNDEKS, G. A. V. ?J.. Kr seo System. 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I also had numerous pim ples on my face, which d sappoared. At druggists. The Five-Cent packot ls enough for an ordinary oocasiou. The famtly bottlo, CO cents, contaius a supply for a yoar. 10? BS?. 50*. ^^ea""''"*!*^ DrooHiU Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold in balk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something jost as good." Oaanntnd $5 fi .OOO DEPOSIT, n. It. Karo Paid. ,000 FREE SeholaMitps offor. d. All graduates a', work ; many oarn SI,ono to 95,000 per year. Writ? Otiick ! GA.-AL.A. BUS. COLIJKGE, Macon, Ga. QR. J?M?ON-S VTHCHOMCRCMCDVCC "AFTER-DINNER PILI." v V.? W.n. 35 !>?.- I. r . . FREE SAM F LE. ' CO.,AlibTEU.llI.tXl , ATLANTA, (JA. g HEADACHE " Bl 1 llCured 8Also Feverishness. Sick headache Nervous Headache etc. 15,25 and 50c. At Drng Mores. chocolate Fronting. A delicious frosting, and one that is sure to turn out right, may bo made by melting one-half pound of the best chocolate creams over a kettle of stearn. When they are melted spread' them over tho cake. Buttered wi hi Mushroom*. Hinse carefully half a pound of mea? fi. v mushrooms; cut the bottom of th? SKI Iks off; place upside down In a bak ing tin; put a pea of butter in each ons; sprinkle with a half-teaspoonful rt? salt and the same amount OE white pepper and bake in ? quick Oven for twenty minutes, bastiujr with melted butter. Tho Luncheon Sllitld. Try, for a change, some hot day this summer, serving the luncheon salad in a mould o? rice. Put a teacupful of rice that has H<3 well w?.?.hert into a kettle of boil. . fcaUtil ttaterj and cook fifteen or tv. ehty minutes, or un til the rico. I* perfectly tender. Then .i.^ke from the fire, drain, and toss through it lightly with a silver fork a teaspoonful of salt and a h?lf-tea-, spoonful of paprica. Mould in a ring mould which has been oiled with a few drops of olive oil, and use as a border, when thoroughly cold, for a salad of vegetables or fish and celery that has been prepared with a French dressing and kept chilled on the Ice. Hoper's Bazar. Toutou li row II ISrcnd. No hot bread is more tempting or more wholesome than the Boston brown bread at its best To make it as it is made at home it is necessary to obtain rye meal in place of the flour which is ordinarily used, but the re sult amply repays the trouble, which need not be excessive, as the meal can usually be found at feed stores of the larger and better sort Mix together one and one-half pints of the rye meal and of southern corn meal. Stir into them one teaspoonful of salt and one cup of raalasses. Mix all together with one and one-quarter pints of hot milk, and then add one heaping teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved in a little boiling water. Pour into a well-buC tered mold, cover tightly and steam for four hours. Serve hot with butter or cream. Home Mmlc I*ro.??r ve?. Fruit for preserving should be sound and fresh; it should be gathered in dry weather and the jam should be made as soon as possible after pick ing or buying the fruit. Cut loaf sug ar is best and most economical to use, as it throws up less scum and makes a clearer syrup. In making jam bs careful to stir it all the time and to skim it carefully. Stir it with a long wooder spoon. To test if the jam is mac pour a little off the spoon on a plate; if it sets it is done. Use plenty of sugar; if too little is used it will not keep; if too much it I will candy. Allow three-quarters of a pound to each pound of fruit; to stone fruit allow a pound. Put the preserv ing kettle with the fruit in it on the back or the side of the fire. Sprinkle a little sugar over the fruit, and as the fruit becomes more liquid add the remainder of the sugar. When the sugar has all dissolved put the kettle over the hot part of the fire and bring it to a boil; Let it'boil twenty min utes, keeping it constantly stirred and skimmed; then try a little on a plate and see if it will set; if lt does not, continue to cook for a little while longer. It is impossible to lay down a rule as to the exact time it takes to cook the fruit. This depends on the method employed, the kind of fruit, and whether it is quickly or slowly boiled. When the jam is cooked put it into glass jars when it is sufficiently cool and cover it to exclude the air. This may be done with the specially pre pared covers, or paper may be brushed over with the white of an egg and put on while damp. Jams must be kept in a cool, dry place. Damp will make them get moldy and heat will make them ferment. Stir strawberries very carefully so as not to break the fruit Pour the jam, when cool enough, into jars and place a piece of oiled paper over the jam and over this a paper dipped in the white of an egg. For strawberry jam the juice of three or four pints of white or red currants prepared as for currant jelly will greatly improve the flavor. To make red currant jelly stalk the currants and put them into a double boiler until the juice is drawn out Strain the juice and allow a pound bf loaf sugar to every pint Put into the preserving kettle and bring to a boil, stirring the jelly constantly until it will set and removing the scum as it rises.-American Queen. Note? for the Housewife. Hot water and soda will remove most grease stains. Coarse brown paper, such as is used by butchers, is best for draining fried things upon. . Make tough meat tender by wash ing it in vinegar, rinsing this off be fore cooking the meat Linen may be made beautifully white by the use of a little refined borax in the water, instead of using a washing fluid. Never leave a lemon or any acid jelly in a tin mold over night because it spoils tho taste. Agate or earthen ware molds are best. If In baking cakes or gems in ge~i pans there is not enough batter to fill | all the little pans, put water into the ; empty ones to prevent their burning. To put wide wicks in lamps or oil stoves thoroughly starch, dry and iron ; the wick, and it will slip in easily j without interference with its duty aa ? conductor of oil. Scarfs in sheer linen in natural color make excellent bureau covers if em broidered in bright colors and placed over slips of pink or blue or cardinal scarlet which shows through the linen meshes. A self basting roasting pan is now ; included among the conveniences at the command of the housewife and meats and poultry may be left to take care of themselves during the allotted time required for their cooking. The pods of peas which we extrava gantly throw away are never wasted by-the thrifty Frenchwoman. Covered with water, they are allowed tovsim mer, then pressed through a colander. This makes an excellent stock in whichs to boil lettuce. With the addition of a single slice of bacon, a pinch of thyme and a clove of garlic it makes an unusually good soup. Poultry and tho JnseU'.n. No ono who has not made observa ti cn can form any estimate of the large number of insects destroyed by firm .poultry ta a season, The guinla ls constantly at work, and carefully fctarcb.es every square foot frf land-.in an orchard a flock of active hens, ?uch ?s Leghorns, will do excellent serVice> UB? they will need but little, if any, assistance, as they secure more food than, may be supposed, The fcaRe AB A Wr?rt IXMttoy'?r. One of the best modes of reducing the labor required in the destruction bf wfeeds is to destroy them when they ?rfe -just appearing above the ground; For a large field thc weedejr is :he best inclement, but for a garde? there ia ii? tool superior tb the old-time rake. ? we Surface of the soli is given ? good raking after each raid lhere will be no weeds, as the rake keeps the top E.oil loose, A r?ke allows of perform ing considerable work between rows compared with using a hoe. and when the weeds are high enough to demand hoeing the work is more difficult and tedious. The principal injury clone by weeds is that they rob the growing crop of moisture and plant foods. Weeds are gross feeders, and they sono take possession of the soil. T^e rake will keep them down with the least la bor and expense. I.rnn nnd Short?. When we speak of shorts for stock or poultry feeding we mean that which is entitled to the name. We do not mean bran that has been reground to make lt finer, and especially would we avoid lt if we thought that the cause Of the regrinding was that the bran Lad been wet, soured and caked up. A few years ago a neighbor complained to us that his cows .were 'not giving their usual amount of milk, and were growing lean, and some of them were growing lean, and some of them were scouring badly. The ration he was feeding seemed to be in the right pro portions, and his ensilage was good. After examining all else, we asked to see the shorts, which he fed quite lib erally. We saw it, we smelled it, and then we tasted of it. Although it look ed and smelled all right, the taste was enough to reveal that it was as sour as any pickle. All the good qualities had been destroyed by overheating when damp, and while the regrinding had reduced the caked lumps and taken away the sour smell, it had not restor ed the fecuing value. And of that lt probably never had any mor- than coarse bran and the sweepings of the mill that might have been added to it. -The Cultivator. ?he Cow lo Keep. Statistics tell us that the average cow produces only 130 pounds of but ter in a year, and that to yield a profit to her owner she must produce not less than 190 pounds. By this we m'-st be lieve that the average cow not only fails to pay her board, but is kept at a considerable loss to her owner. Why is this so? The atjwer is plain; with too many dairy farmers a cow is a 'cow. Scrub stock with no partcular breeding is responsible for this state of iffairs. The crossing of one breed with another and the progeny passing from one owner to another and being bred to anything and everything until their idCTttty is lost is a prime cause. It is this kind of stock that is kept on more than 75 percent of the farms of Maine. Do not make the mistake of crossing one breed with another with the expec tation of getting something that will bring profitable returns in both meat and butter. Select the branch of the business for which your location is best adapted, and breed only thorough breds of the highest typo for your par ticular purpose. Much of your stock may then be sold for breeding pur poses at about double the price of grades. If you keep grades, always make it a point to breed to a thorough bred sire of good ancestry, that a high er standard may be reached-0. M. Richardson, in Farm and Home. Sick .Soil. On highiy cultivated farms there is often a good deal of trouble experienc ed in what might be called sick soil. Take for instance the acid soil. It is nothing more nor less than a condition which requires a little medicinal treat ment in the shape of treatment with lime. An acid soil will yield very poor crops, and sometimes produce nothing except sorrel and weeds. Sorrel in abundance if often an indication of acidity in the soil, but not always. Sometimes these weeds get such a start on a field that they crowd everything eise out, and the farmer concludes that it is the acidity which causes the harm, while in reality it is the sorrel. One sure way to find out whether the soil ia too acid is to purchase a piece of litmus paper at the drug store, and bury it in the 3oil over night. It is better to put several pieces in different parts of the field. Then if in the morning the blue litmus paper is pink in color, the soil is acid and needs lime treatment. The lime should be applied in light top-dressings, and if repeated every years nntil the soil los es its intense acidity, the crops will soon fluorish thereon. It is difficult to,say what causes the acidity, but sometimes it is due to nat ural compositions of the soil, and again to the heavy feeding of the soil. Sick soil is more often found in mar ket gardens where very heavy manur ing is resorted to in order to produce two or three crops a year. Subsoils are frequently over-fed, and they get congested with more food than they can assimilate. One of the best rem edies at such times is to cease manur ing for a season, and simply dress with lime and cultivate thoroughly and many times. By stirring up thc soil we give the elements a chance to con vert the food in the earth into some available form. Frequently sick soils are nothing else than soils too rich with food, and cultivation is what they require. The old idea was that soils got tired and needed to rest for a time, and farmers would let the fields lie fallow for a season. That is not nec essary at all. The same can be ac complished by cultivating and not fer tilizing.-Dr. A. T. Morse, In Ameri can Cultivation. Deep Plowing: va. Shallow Plowing. At our last institute I was much in terested in this subject. I have for years doubted the wisdom of such deep plowing, specially where the soil is heavy and non-porous. An institute vote was taken on the question, and a good majority favored shalow plow plowing. If as large a crop can be grown with the ground broken shal low, it is a clear waste of physical ?orce to do otherwise. But if under this reatment the soil deteriorates from year to year, then it oecomes a neces sity to break deeper, at leant occasion ally. I have not followed shallow break ing long enough to speak with absolut? authority, but all of my experience bears me out in the etatement I anj about to make, namely, that shallow breaking does not cause deterioration of soil. In all cases where a deteriora tion followed shallow breaking, lt waa because of the careless methods and ! slip-Shod pr?cticas of the B?-c?lled faf- I mers-, th other w?fds, they plowed shaN j low becaus? it W?s m'Or? easily done, I and did evefy thing else by thc same ' fule; and where anything c?uld be lett ! undone, it was not done at alh Thia j style Of work bf cburse Precludes th? possibility Of ni?king, saving and ap< plyihg any great aniouht ?? manur?. This tiiasS bf "sbil rbWbers" Inappro priately called farinera-, fed very little live ?t?ck because it was too much ? troubl?, but h?uled every pound of I wheat-, bats, rye, c'orfl, hay and pota<- ? toes that they could spare, tb market And m?ny of them 'did not stop there, but went from the mili to the.saloon and fined" up on bari .Whiskey and worse j beer,.lighted a dirty pipe, took a chew of tobacco, and sitting down on a dry I goods box procedeed to defile both the air and the pavement. The thrifty, energetic, self-respocting farmer saw these object lessons, and reasoned that as these men with their ? run-down land were a failure, to sue- : ceed he must work In the opposite tlU j rection, and in the main he wa's right; ! However, in my studies along this lifi?; . I have arrived at this c?hcliisiori, ?rid I am BUre you will fi?d it sound, that no soil should be plowed deeper th?h you have humui sufficient tb make it ? thoroughly porous ?nd friabi?. A lively j rich sOil must be filled with vegetable ! matter. Now it naturally follows that the deeper you break the soil, the more vegetable matter it takes to fill it; and ea the vegetable sources are somewhat i limited, it also follows that we can j break deeper than we can supply with humus. When this occurs, we have a ; solid, lifeless, inert mass of soil that , responds very slowly to all our at- ! tentions with plow and harrow.-A. N. j Springer, In The Epitomist ?.arj?er Yield* ot Crnpti The farmer who desides to make his farm pay should not use too much land, but rather endeavor to secure larger cor.ps odar htrahtrahes rase larger crops. It has been feared by j some that the world's supply of wheat j would be at some time less than the | demand, and the fact i? that but ?or thc introduction of the harvesting ma- | chines the area in wheat would be : much less. b"t it is known that the ' yield of wheat In this country is very low, considering the area cultivated, j being less than 14 b ushels per acre as the average. As th*1 yie'ds in Europe j are four times as much per acre, and even more in some countries, it is evi- , dent that our farmers are devoting their time and labor to four or five j acres that'should be given only on one acre, and that in cultivating a larger ? area of land in order to secure the . yield that could be obtained- from a smaler field they are increasing thc cost of production and corresponding* ly reducing the profits there ob, as too much land is sometimes expensive in labor and manure. There is much yet for farmers to learn in the management of their farms. In Europe the intensive sys tem is the rule, but in this country it is difficult to even attract the attention of farmers in that direction, though, as the population increases and the public land is taken up, "farmers will be compelled to increase their average yield of crops, not only in order to re ouce the cost of production, but also that they may compete with those who are more enterprising. The strongest competitor of a farmer is not the grain grower of some other country, but his neighbor. If the neighbor can make his land average 10 bushels more per acre than he, then the neighbor can, if he preferred, sell at a lowe i price, and thus reduce the value of the arti cle in his community. The evidence is conclusive that where the intensive system is practiced thc profits are larger, as gardeners near the large cit ies make small farms pay profits that are really surprising to those who are content to adhere to the systems that have been in vogue for years. There are yet splendid opportunities on farms for those who are willing to de vote time and labor to increasing the yields of crops rather than in cultivat ing large areas and securing but little more than the cost of production. The American farmers are better supplied with all the improved imple ments for reducing the cost of produc tion than those of any other country, and American implements are largely exported. Fertilizers, especially the phosphates, are also cheaper here than elsewhere, but the Europan farmer, who depends mostly upon hand labor, uses more manure and fertilizer, and secures the larger yields, because he is compelled to derive the most that is possible from a limited area. While thc American farmer will not compel j women and children to work in the fields, as in Europe, yet he has better implements, and canperform the re- I quired service at as low cost as in Europe. Where the mistake is made ? is in spreading the manure over too ? large a surface, and in bestowing labor over too much land. Instances are ? known wher farmers have secured as | much as 1G0 bushels of cora per acre | in this country, but such was obtained only by good cultivation, good soil and a plentiful supply of manure. The fact that a large yield can be secured, or is possible, should encour- j age every farmer to grow larger crops on each acre. If as much can be se cured from 50 acres as was formerly derived from 100, there is 50 acres less to come under the work of the farmer, and the smaller'area will also become more valuable every year, for the rea son that it receives more fertilizer and is made more capable of producing larger crops each succeeding season. The fact that some grower of straw berries produced 10,000 quarts per acre in one acre, as is often recorded, should make the grower of only 000 quarts per acre dissatisfied, because the larger crop can be sold at only one . cent per quart over expenses and give J a profit of 100 per acre. Every bushel ! of grain or pound of hay produced over the average ls so much gain, for the reason that the "first cost" must be i met by the farmer, whether the yield ! is large or small. It takes just as much time to plow, harrow, plant andi cultivate an acre that produces but. 1(J bushels of corn as it does for an acre that yields 100 bushels. 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