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BEE HUNTING A PASTIME. Thora ls a Fascinating Charm About lt i Some bright young women "who spent last summer in a western Mass achusetts town, tired of hunting birds Which never sat still; turned bee hunt? era. Discovering a veteran bee hunt er and overcoming a feminine dis trust of the little insect who so sharp ly resents interference with her af fairs, they were initiated in the art of lining bees, and thereafter every tramp afield was with an object in. view. Bee hunting possesses a charm pe culiarly Its own and it can be prac ticed wherever .flowers grow, even within the limits of a town. The nec essary outfit consists of a box three : Inches square and as many deep. Thia is divided into an upper and lower story by means of a slide. The cover Is fitted with a glass window. In the lower compartment is placed a piece of comb filled with a syrup'of sugar and water. The slide is pushed In place and the nearest flower bed or clover patch Is sought. With the box in one hand and the cover in the other, it is an easy matter to trap a honey bee busy robbing/a flower of . Its sweets. Watching her through the glass window, the moment she Quiets down the slide is gently drawn. It does not take the bee long to discover tho syrup, and she at once begins to load "up with this treasure. The box is now placed on a post and a sharp watch maintained. Pres ently the bee is sated, and, circling for. her bearings, starts straight for the hive or tree. When she comes back, for she will surely return, she . will bring another bee with her, and In turn this one will bring a third, and so on until a line is established. Then, while one or more fill with the syrup, the cover ls replaced and the box carried forward along the line of flight. From the stopping point a new line will be established as before. Thus in time will the bees lead straight to their home. PITS permanently cured. Nd fits or nervous ness after first days uso of Dr. Kline's Great '. . NerveRestorer,$2trialbottleand treatise free ? Dr. B. H. Kmnc.Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. Pittsburg has already expended $25,000,* OOO in the skyscraper boom. Piflo'a Cure for Consumption is aa infallible medicine for coughs and colds.-?. W. Saxon., Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1000. Telegraph poles along a railway are ar ranged thirty to the mile. Horses Swam River With Load. I While trying to get a two-horse rig loaded with hay on board of the ferry boat at Suncook, N,. H., both horses and dray were precipitated into the Merrimac river. In falling the pole In some way became caught on the -boat and the whole was safely landed on the other side. The river ls 1,000 feet wide at this point and the horses by swimming kept vp with the boat over the whole distance. A QUICK RECOVERY. . A Pxomluent Officer of the Rebeccas Writes to Thank Doan's Kidney PlUs For lt. & . Mrs. C. E. Bumgardner, a local officer of the Rebeccas, of Topeka, Sans., Room 10, 812 Kansap ave nue, writes: "I used Doan's Sidney Pills, durlngv the past year, I for kidney trouble and kindred ailments. I was suffering from pains in the back and "headaches, but found after the use o? one box of the remedy . that the troubles gradually disappeared, so that before I had finished a F?cond package I was well.. I, therefore, heartily ; endorse your remedy." ' (Signed) MRS. 0. E. BUMGARDNER. A FREE TRIAL-Address Foster Mllburu Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 60 cents. The Quest. I saw the towering clouds take fire From the low sun, and thought them blest; ; . They neared the land of my desire, The splendid West Spring laughed in breaking bud, clean air, i In skies that took the tone of rest; I saw, yet found them not so fair As in my West Night grew, "a breathing silence fell, And peace, pure peace, was manifest; Yet loved I not quiet peace so weU As in my West. What balm, then, for this ancient pain, This torture of the baffled quest? Only -to take the same dear road again That reaches West -London Outlook. R So. 39. OANOKE COLLEGE A > FOR YOUNG WOMEN, DANVILLE. VIRGINIA. A Srled -tod Limited College \ : lb? Higher Education of H ornett. 24 Tetccn and Offi cer?-ALL SPECIALISTS. Last year the moat coccessful ia history of Institution. Ideal hort surroundings. Rsl-dow for id vs nt .?es offered. Send for Catalogue. ? * J? R. E. HATTON. A. M" PH. D., President. A Conducted Tour TO SAINT LOUIS VIA Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., Under the personal supervision of REV. S. F. CON KA Di Special Coaches and Sleep ing Gars will be operated from Charlotte, Raleigh and Wilmington, consolidating at Mon i-oe, running through to St. Louis, Mo., leaving the above points Tuesday, October 4tb. 1904. . ROUTE S. A. L. to Atlanta, KC. & St L. to Martin, ills. Cent to St. Louis. A Passenger Representative will go through to dsnUnation with the party, thereby assur ing those eoiog OD same everyT tteutioo eu ropio. Pullman fare (6.00 from all points. Exceedingly low rates of fare will be in effect from all Stations. Por complete information .Qi reservations address. M. L. HERMAN, C. P. &T. A. Charlotte, N. C. CHARLES H. GATTIS, T. P. A. Raleigh, N. 0. CHAELES B. BYAN, G. P. A. Portsmouth, Ta HERE IT IS! Want to learn all abouti, a Horse? How to Pick, trot 1\ Good One? Know* Impel fectlons and so' Guard against Fraud? Detect Disease and EM feet a Lura when same, ia possible? Tell the Age by the Teeth? What to call the Dif ferent Parts of the Animal? How to Shoe a Horse Properly r AU this and 'other. Valuable Information can be ob tained by reading our 100-PAGE ILLUS TRATED HORSE BOOK, which we will : forward, postpaid, on receipt of. only 25 panta in stamps. BOOK PUB. HOUS?, v';- - 134 leonard st,, % Y, City. VESSELMUST LEAVE Uncle Sam Will Demand a Strict Ob* ser vance of Neutrality Laws DECISION IN CASE OF THE LEN* The Russian Auxiliary Cruiser Wilt . Have to Depart From San Fra* cisco in a Short time br Remains Until the Termination of the Ru? sian-Japarrse War. Oyster Bay, Special.-The Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena, which put into the port of San Francisco Sunday, presumably from Vladivostok, either will have to leave that port within a brief time prescribed by this govern ment or will have to dismantle. That ir. brief, it can be stated authorita tively, is the decision of the Ameri can government. If in the judgment of the experts who aro making an examination the vessel can bo made seaworthy in 24 hours, orders will be issued to her -commauder to leave port at the ex piration of that period. Indeed, lt may be within the discretion of the government to give her commander a little more time if that be advisable. On the contrary, if the report should show that the ship is in aerial need of extensive repairs, and .? over hauling and' the making '.he re pairs would occupy any . ?iderable time, the captain would be directed to dismantle the vessel and she will remain in that condition till the termination of the Russian Japanese war. It is not anticipated that serious difficulties or embarrass ments to this government will grow out of .the pending incident. The State Department, through which matters pertaining to the ar rival and examination of the Lena are being handled, has notified Mr. Takhira, the minister of Japan ic Washington, of the action of this government and of which it expects to do in the future. He has express ed his satisfaction at the present status of the affair. The Case of the Lena. Washington, Special.-The develop ment of the day, so far as it related to the Russian cruiser Lena in San Francisco, was the clearing of the of ficial muddle into which the case has gotten, owing to the doubt of which of the five departments of the gov ernment should deal with it. It was finally decided by the Prseident that the State and Navy Departments should treat the case, acting jointly, a decision calculated to greatly sim plify its handling. Over night came a telegram from Admiral Goodrich, at San Francisco, showing that on his own initiative he had caused one of his expert offi cers to make a preliminary examina tion of the Lena and he was able to report results, namely, that temporary repairs would occupy six weeks' time, and new boilers would involve eight months' delay. The President ap proved of this action by the admiral and decided that hen should continue to handle the case in San Francisco, under instructions from the State and Navy Departments. This in volved a further expert opinion of the shin. The admiral adopted the precaution of guarding the Lena with Iiis own Vissels, a course also approved by tne Department. Agreeable to the President's instructions, Acting Secre tary Adee, for tne State Department, and Captain Pillsbury, for the Navy Department, had two conferences dur ing the day and the result was the preparations of instructions to Admir al Goodrich. There is good ground to believe that they contemplate the allowance of sufficient time lo the Lena to make sufficient repairs. How ever, there is growing belief here that the vessel will be obliged to in tern in the end, for it is scarcely doubted that by the time she could be made ready to go to sea and would be obliged to leave if she desired to preserve her character as an active warship, one or more Japanese would be off the Golden Gate ready lo sink or capture her. Foreseeing such an event as a request for the right to Intern, the officials have already been giving some attention to the solution of the question as to what shall be done with the crew-whether they may be allowed to return to Russia on parole or must be interned on their ship in San Frar cisco harbor. On this point no decision has been reached. A Derelict Picked Up. New York, * Special-The steamer. Pathfinder arrived from Norfolk with the derelict British schooner Theta lr?, tow. Pathfinder picked the derelict up at sea last Sunday near the Five-fathom bank light ship, while bound from Norfolk for Boston with a cargo of coal. When Ehe sighted- the derelict her sails were all set She evidently had been hastily abandoned after being in colli sion with an unknown vessel. The fate of her crew is unknown. Her starboard side was stove in, but other wise the hull was in good condition. She was leaking badly, but was kept afloat by the cargo of hard pine tim ber in her hold. The Theta is a three masted schooner of 420 tons register. Major Ryals Dead. Savannah, Ga., Special-Major M. Garland M. Ryals died here Tuesday afternoon after having had his right leg amputated on Sunday because of diabetic gangrene. He was 65 years of age. Major Ryals was one of the most prominent planters in Georgia. He was a pioneer in the truck-growing in dustry, having extensive lands near this city under cultivation and peach farm In Worth County, this State. Seven Die in a Fire. New York, Special.-Seven persons, were burned to death and six others were injured seriously in a fire which partially destroyed a tenement building at Nos. 68-70 First streeet early Tues day. More thau 20 families were asleep in the building and thrilling acts of bravery completed their rescue by the firemen and police. It was short ly after 2 o'clock when the alarm was given. Within the few moments that had elapsed the flames were found to have gained great headway from the first floor and the neighborhood was in a panic of terror. A Train Held Up. Des Moines, Iowa, Special.--Five ban dits perpetrated a successful hold-up of a passenger train on the Chicago, -Rock Island & Pacific, near Letts, Iowa, early Tuesday morning. The statements of expressmen are that the robbers se cured no money, though the safe was blown open and the contents taken. The officers assert that the safe con tained merchandise of some value, company papers In transit, etc., but no money, '"Iflnd Thedford's ?ack-Draught *good medicine Tor li' er disease. It. cn red my ron after he had spent ?100 with/doctors.. It is all tbftmed Icine I take.'?-MRS. CAROLINE! MARTIN, Parkersburg, W. Va. If your liver does hot act reg ularly go to your druggist and secure a package of Thedforel's Black-Drauffht and take a dose tonight. This great family medicine frees the constipated bowels, 6tirs up the torpid liver arid causes a healthy secretion of bile. Thedford's Black - Draught will cleanse the bowels of im purities and strengthen the kid neys. A torpid liver invites colds, biliousness, chills and fever and all manner of sick ness and contagion: Weak kid neys result in Bright's disease which claims as many victims as consumption. A 25-cent ?ackage of Thedford's Black 'raught should always be kept in the house. . * "I need 'Thedford's Black Draught for liver and kidney com plaints aud found nothing to excel lt."-WILLIAM COFFMAN. Mar blehoad, 111. NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Paragraphs of Minor Importance Gathered From Many Sources. Through the South. It is expected that the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company will build another coal pier at Lambert's Point. Returns from the fifth Louisiana Congressional primary show the over whelming nomination of Congressman J. E. Randell, over 0. " Dawkins. The Governor of Geoi a has ordered a court-martial to try the military offi cers impilcated in the Statesboro lynch ing affair. It is said in Charlottesville that pub lic sentiment on the MrCue murder has not changed, but the people are satis fied with what has been done for the present Col. W. H. Patterson, formerly of Philadelphia, died at his home et Rus sellville, Tenn., aged 70. He was a son of General Robert Patterson, a dis tinguished soldier and patriot. All of the 200 negro excursionists who were on the steamer River Queen when she sank a lumber scow were saved. More complete returns from the sec ond Democratic primary show the nom ination of J. O. Patterson, of Barnwell county, over S. G. Mayfield, as Con gressman from the second district of South Carolina to succeed T. G. Croft Mrs. H. C. Corbin and a party rode from Manassas to Washington in auto mobiles in 3 hours and 5 minutes. Captain John A. Webb, of Jackson, Miss., secretary of the Southern Rail road Commissioners' Association Tues day issued his official call for the meet ing of the association to take place in St. Louis, October 25. All the rail road commissioners from the Southern States are expected to be in attend ance. Washington Happenings. President Roosevelt's letter accepting the Republican nomination for the Presidency was made public at Oyster Bay. Mr. Roosevelt heard a sermon on "The Peace of the Worid" preached at Christ Episcopal Church, Oyster Bay. Five hundred members of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment met Judge Parker at Esopus and all clamored for a handshake. The commerce of the United States, with its non-contiguous territory, the last fiscal year was valued at $103,586, 308. Democrats in Washington believe the declination of Senator -Kearns to stand again for election will help that party materially in Utah. Receipts of crop money at the Treas ury Department this year aggregate $7,145,000. In the North. The election in Maine resulted in a Republican majority of $27,000. John Isaacs, Q negro, shot and severe ly wounded Maddie McGill, slightly wounded Claude Gardinen, who was in an adjoining room, and then committed sicide, in New York. Foreign Affairs. The condition of Prince Bismarck is reported as extremely critical. The Russian Baltic fleet sailed for the Far East. New and bloody anti-Jewish riots took place In Russia. / Emperor William was welcomed to Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the home of the Crown Prince's betrothed. Natives of New Guianet who murder ed German missionaries wefe raptured and put to death. Mme. Melba's automobile accidentally ran over and killed an aged man in Paris. King Edward congratulated the offi cers of the British Antarctic expedition which has returned to England on the 6hip Discovery. The Emperor of Russia has reeccived a dispatch from General Kuropatkin announcing that a considerable force of Japanese has been seen southward cf the village of Biniupuza, 36 kilo meters southeastward of Mukden. No further engagegents are reported. Former Secretary of State Richard Olney spent six hours with Judge Par ker at Rosemount. Ten thousand Knights Templars par aded through the streets of San Fran cisco. The mutilated body of Richard Vaughan was found on the railroad trucks near Ashland. A cyclone destroyed several build- I ings in Princess Anne county. The heart that li full of joy always baa room for another's sorrows, WINTER AT HARBIN -? ?a Russian Armies HaVe Been Working Toward Winter Quarters ALLEGED PLANS ARE MADE PUBLIC There Yet Remains, However, Two Months Before Extreme Cold Weather Sets in and These May Be Changed. Inactivity of the opposing armies of Russia and Japan continues and no fighting of a general character is re ported. Information coming from an authoritative source in St. Peters burg is that the Russians will winter at Harbin, but the fact that there will probably be two months of good weather for military operations before extreme cold weather sets lh, leaves room for a revision of this purpose in the light of ?vefits ^at m?y trans pire. ?U? J?pan?s? are reported to be collecting taxes abd otherwise ad ministering affairs iii Manchuriia, as though that country were conquered territory. The publication of General Kuropatkin's report of the fighting of August 26, until the retreat upon Muk den, has created" a better feeling in St. Petersburg. The report distinctly places upon General Orloff the respon sibility for the failure to hold the heights in the vicinity of Sykawantun and so check the Japanese advance. General Stoessel re d repulses of the Japanese at Pon Arthur. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-The Em peror has received the following dis patch - from . General Stoessel (com mander of the Russian military forces, at Port Arthur) dated August 28 : ' "I am happy to report to your maj esty that at three o'clock in the morn ing nf August 27, during a violent rain and thunder storm, the Japanese again attempted to capture our left flank positions, near Fort No. 1, and Udan Mountain. Their attack was. everywhere repulsed. Our losses were small-three men killed and two officers and 98 men wounded. The wounded were brought in and are being carefully attended. A num ber of Japanese corpses would have been plckod up by us, but the ene my prevented us from so doing by opening fire on the hospital attend ants who had been sent out under the R6d Cross flag." Another dispatch from General Stoessel io the Emperor, dated Sep tember 2, says: "On the night of September 2, the. enemy attacked Visokaya and Dlin naya Mountains and the neighboring fortifications, opening simultaneously : an artillery fire on the forts and,' mountains. . The leading files of the enemy with the Japanese columns fol lowing were found in good time and, our batteries opened on them .The leading files fortunately encountered: some automatic mines and many of. the enemy were blown in the air. The attack was repulsed in an hour. Our losses were inconsiderable-one offi cer and seven men wounded. No More Fighting. There bas been no renewal of-fl&M-. lng on a large scale between the Rus sian and Japanese armies in the Far East. At St. Petersb "g, the people are harassed by rumors of impending dis aster to General Kuropatkin which find ready credence because of the lack of official information and for- the mo ment the popularity of the head of the Russian armies in the field is in eclipsa. In that capital, too, there is much un easiness felt lest the Japanese advance in Manchuria should r.fford occasion for the growth of an anti-Russian spirit in China and the ultimate projection of that power into the conflict. Norfolk Storm-Swept. Norfolk, Special.-This entire section was cwept by a wind storm Wednesday the velocity of the blow reaching 52 miles an hour in Norfolk. The govern ment wires along the coast went down and information from that section is meagre. No marine disasters have been reported. The blow caused many steam erp to leave after schedule time and Hampton Roads shelters many -storm bound craft. Telephone and telegraph service is being badly crippled and the river has flooded many low streets, in terfering with the trolley system. A great amount of minor damage is re ported, but no fatalities have occurred so far as can be learned. Damage at Newport News. Newport News, Va., Special-During a terrific wind and rain storm, which raged here Wednesday night, the Ches apeake & Ohio steamer Louise, broke from her mooring at the ship-yard and was blown several miles out into James river. Two tugs recovered the vessel. Wires were prostrated, fences leveled, telegraph and electric light poles up rooted or felled in several parts of the city. No serious damage to shipping in the harbor is reported. . Bankers Choose Officers. - New York, Special-The trust com pany section of the American Bank ers' Association sleeted E. A. Potter, of Chicago, chairman. Among the vice presidents are T. R. President^ of Chattanooga; J. T. Main, of Radcliffe;' Va. and W. E. Allen, of Greensboro, N. 0. F. H. Fries, of Winston-Salem, N. C., was elected a member of the ex ecutive committee. Think Quagga ls Extinct. An interesting correspondence on the disappearance of the quagga from South Africa has been proceeding for some time in the Cape Times. Mr. Sclater, director of the South African museum, confirms the statement that this interesting species is now ex tinct. Though frequently confused with it by hunters and sportsmen, it can be recognized at a glance from Burchell's or the mountain zebra, by the fact that only the front half of the barrel and the head are marked with the characteristic zebra stripes. The legs and the hind half of the bar rel are a very light brown or almost white. This animal formerly ranged over the plains of the Orang? River Colony and the northern and central parts of Cape Colony; apparently it never extended north of the Vaal or east of the Kel. It was very numer ous In the days of Harris and Gordon Cummings and apparently soon after that became scarce in the colony, where lt probably was .finally exter minated about I860. It survived a good many years later in the Orange River Colony, probably until 1878 at ( least. EM TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANT Vanni ??j; as a Uuhiness. One should no more thiuk of farming sail, empty of plant food, than hu would thiuk of starting a store with an empty building. Convenient loca> tion to railroads 01 markets doubles the value of farm land as it would the value of a store site. Hauling is among the heaviest items ou a farm. Clearing timber and brush land usu ally costs ns much as clear land can bi- bought for. Start farming as you would'any eth er business. Provide \he raw mate rial for the soil. Spreading commer cial fertilizer with lavish hands is not always successful, as it is apt to wash away; The safest and surest road is the one that the Southern Planter has pointed out for these many years: Growing leguminous crops; such as cow peas, clover and alfalfa, but to depend upon these agen cies alone wo'Md take to? long. You would be wasting years without re muneration from your farm. Buy no more land than you can afford to stock with plant food, and do noi buy stock until the farm ' produces tht where with, to feed it, else the cattle, hogs, horses and sheep will eat the bottom out of your purse. As a business pro position no man can afford to waste Jiis time improving only a few acres. If you haven't the means to handle fifty to 100 acres, try trucking. A smaller farm will not be a paying pre position. Next to feeding the soil, or perhaps even moro important is proper culti vation. If you have settled on your place disk ns many acres as you k w you will be able to handle. Disk in half-lap. Then plow deeply. If you can, let the subsoiler follow the turn ing plow. Always barrow immediate ly after plowing, unless too wet, to prevent the land from drying out. Then disk again until it is warm enough to plant. Unless you aro lo cated in the limestone region, spread twenty to fifty bushels of lime to the acre. Lime costs from $2 per ton to six and seven cents per bushel. Spread also 500 to 100C pounds of ground rock phosphate. It costs $7 to $S per ton. Also not less than 200 pounds of potassium chloride (muriate of pot ash). It costs about $41 per ton. Har row to a fine tilth and sow or drill thickly to cow peas. Begin plowing the peas under in 'August, as tlie peas will be then more nearly matured. Turning a crop of peas under when full of sap and growth is apt to sour land in this warm climate, and disk the land every week in half lap until time for fail sowing. If you have used only twenty bushels of lime in the spring, sow now twenty bushels more. Also sow again 500 pounds rock phosphate and some po tassium chloride (muriate of potash). The land is now ready for alfalfa or German llover. Devote as much as you can to alfalfa On the land net needed for alfalfa sow German clover or hairy veich fer a winter cover crop. The land or the seed should be infected with bacteria if German elovei has never been grown in the field (bacteria can be had from Washington). As land is rated .by the number of barrels of corn it - T??jli produeo, it .shiiuld_ now_jiedd_ten_ barrels or fifty bushels if properly cul tivated. The time oas come, then, to get some good graded stock and to ex tend the work of improving to the rest of ihe farm. Don't imagine, however, that you can now afford to let your stock of fertility run down. Of course, your alfalfa field will get richer every year and you will have more stable manure, but even then it is advisable to keep on growing peas and clover. Land in tho South should never be bare of vegetation. When a crop is removed, sow peas or clover immediately, ac cording to season, peas for summer, German clover for winter. Always vse lime, phosphorus and potassium for these crops. You have plowed under four crops at a cost of 05 for s:ed, with seventy bushels of lime, costing $4 (in car load lots), 2500 pounds of rock phos phate at ?10, and SOO pounds potas sium chloride at $10. Your work of plowing, seeding, disking, etc.. should bs worth $10 per acre. If the land is near market ot statio" your im provements aro more valuable than cn land less conveniently located. Lifo will bc easier now since the alf:;ira field has reduced thc acreage under j plew. The decaying crops have sup plied thc soil with humes and tho lani will produce now as well ns land sohl for $100 or more in Illinois, and your products will bring from fifty to 100 per cent, moro than they .would in most Western sections. Street Potatoes atid Cassava. rA bulletin giving the results of feed ing horses and mules on home-grown feed stuffs has jus' been issued by Prof. Chas. M. Conner, Agriculturalist of the Florida Experiment Station. In this ?speriment, home-gi'own feed RAM'S HORN BLASTS, HE Lord still cares ' j for the lowly No true sermon 1B ?STA"T) Jx??jSan end in ltself x $$3$^ God but tests ^' where the devil tempts. No man can put all his character in to bis collar. A man's mark in the world depends on his aim. It is hard warm ing the soul at a fireworks' display. The time to break off a bad habit is before you begin. Winds of passion never yet brought a vessel into port. Many preachers expect to unlock hearts with steel smiles. That for which anything is good enough is good for nothing. There can be no such a thing aa an education without ethics. It is always the other man's track that looks smoother than our own. It is hard to comprehend God's ways while you are walking in them. Life is the only school for character. There are no losses in loans of love. You cannot use virtue for a varnish. What ever soils the soul must be sin. Relic of Solomon. Hugues le Roux, the well known French journalist, has discovered in Abyssinia the original manuscript re lating the story of Solomon and the I Queen of Sheba, which has never hitherto been authenticated, :?t?M * J/OTES, 00 " -6 ER, STOCKMAN ANO TRUCK GROWER, mm ?m?- nnwi ---t m stuffs were substituted for corn; the crops used were sweet potatoes, cas sava and low-grade syrup. Owing to the bulkiness of sweet potatoes and the smallness of the stomach of the horse, this substitution, did not take place to the extent that all the corn was displaced by sweet potatoes or cassava. In. the case of sweet pota toes, three pounds were substituted for one pouud of corn. From ten to fifteen pounds were fed per day. de pending upon the size of the animal. Four mules and four horses were used in the test; All were doing hard .work; except the team of ponies, which did nd regular work: the teams were divided into two lots; oui? of each team being in Let 1 and the other in j Lot 2; Lot 1 was fed on a one-half ra ; tion of corn and one-half ration of ! sweet potatoes, with all the beggar ! weed hay they could eat. At the end j of six weeks, the rations were changed and Lot 2 was fed on sweet potatoes, and Lot 1 on an all corn ration, thus making the experiment extend over twelve weeks. All animals, but two, made a slight gain while being fed ou sweet potatoes, which proves that the ration was satisfactory. On the whale, thc sweet potato ration was consid ered more satisfactory than any other fed. At the end of the sweet p?tate ex periment, cassava was substituted for sweet potatoes, but this ration was not found to be as satisfactory as the for mer one, on account of the fact that the animals did not seem to like the cassava so well. This was also trot when one mule was fed on ten pounds of sweet potatoes and ten pound . of cassava hay per day. with no corn, but all the hay it would consume. The potatoes were all consumed wnile more or less of the cassava was left. One team was put on a ration of six pounds of corn and five pounds of syrup, which proved very satisfactory. Since it ls shown that three peunds of sweet potatoes may replace one pound of corn, provided this substi tution does not exceed oue-half the ra tion, it follows that one acre yielding 150 bushels of sweet potatoes, is equal to a yield of fifty bushels of cern, whereas the average yield of corn, on isuch land as would yield 150 bushels of sweet potatoes without fertili. ?r, is about twenty-five bushels. It ?;eems that the sweet potatoes are be coming more and more important. Patting in Wheat. Taking it for granted that all South ern farmers, who are progressing some what, will prepare their laud thorough ly for wheat, the next consideration is the method of sowing it. The drill is the best machine fer putting in wlieat and fertilizer at the same time. For the farmer who sows only three to eight acres that is expensive. The cenamunity ownership of a drill does not work well. The hiring of one is not always satisfactory. But if a farmer has laud suited to the use of machinery and he sows forty to eighty acres in small grain, he can afford to buy a drill. Always get a disc drill, for the hoe drills are not satisfactory, except in land free from weeds and cotton and corn, stalks. The six-disc -dt'ilt-io bottoL-? ?i?ui. a larger an&^Jsx. it: is lighter and more easily turned in corners around terraces. With it one may put in eighty acres daily. But the small farmer cannot afford to in vest $60 to $75 in a drill to put in a few acres of wheat. Sowing by hand and covering with small shovels ou a double foot plow stock, or with a cut away harrow will secure a good stand. By that method a small por tion of seed is lost, being left on the surface or covered too deep. But a good hand will ge* a regular stand, and it often seems to do better sown that way than with a drill. Thc ex tra labor comes in when scattering the fertilizer by hand. But that is no great burden, as one can sow the fer tilizer on an acre in an hour. The drill plants the seed so regularly Oiat nene of it is lost. That is one advan tage. The other is the regular distri bution of the fertilizer. The Striped encumber Beetle. Because of the striped beetle, few cucumbers are raised in some locali ties. Its name is diabrotica vittata; it is yellow, with black stripe on the wing covers. It feuds on all kinds of vines, damaging the plants by eating into the stems of the young shoots, and hides in the middle of the day be low the surface ?f the soil. The larvae or worms live in the roots of the plants underground. They are very troublesome, but we believe that if the readers of the Southern Agricul turist will purchase a pound of Lon don purple, which ls a poison, and mix it with a bushel of dry wood ashes, and dust the mixture around the cu cumber plants, it will drive off the beetles or kill them out. This, in many instances, has saved the canta loupe plants. ?ANCTUARY IN A CHIMNEY. From inaccessible Position Culprit Defied English Law. For the past ten days the town of Newry, In Ireland, bas been con vulsed over the curious strategy by which a small contractor, named Jas. Gill, has defied the efforts of the po lice to enforce the penalty of a 40s. fine or a month's Imprisonment, to which he had been sentenced for drunkenness. The man had recently undertaken the demolition of a factory chimney, round which the scaffolding necessary for the work had been erected, and he sought security from the clutches of the authorities at the top of this structure, climbing by means of a short ladder, which he drew up after him as he reached each successive platform of the staging. Food and drink are furnished to him by his son, and raised to the summit of the chim ney by an ingenious mechanical de vice. The other evening. Gill man aged to descend to the ground and reach his home unobserved, but he returned to his lofty perch early on Monday morning. Large crowds of people have flocked from all the country round to Sugar Island, where his hiding place is sit uated, and the police have now re signed themselves to waiting till the work of pulling down the chimney is completed before attempting to arrest him.-Reynold's Newspaper. Grape Vine Has Grown Large. There is a grape vine on the Eras tus Peck farm in New Haven, Vt., said to be 50 years old, that la 150 feet long and 22 Inches in circumfer ence at tbs base, A prominent club woman, Mrs. Dan forth, of St. Joseph, Mich., tells how she was cured of falling of the womb and, its accompanying pains and misery by Lydia EL Pinkham's Vegetable Compound "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-T.ife looks dark indeed when a woman feels that her strength is fading away and she has no hopes of ever being restored. Such was my feeling a few months ago when I was advised, that my poor health was caused by prolapsus or falling of the womb. The words sounded like a knell to me, I felt that my sun had set; but Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound came to me as an elixir of life ; it restored the lost forces and built me up until my good health returned to me. For four months I took thc medicine * daily and each dose added health and strength. I am so thankful for the help I obtained through its use."-2LLRS. FLORENCE DANFORTH, 3007 Miles Ave., St. Joseph, Mich. A medicine that has restored so many women to health and can produce proof of the fact must be regarded with respect. This is the record of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which cannot be equalled by any other medicine the world has ever pro duced. Here is another case: "DEAR MRS. PINB3IA3I :-For years I 'was troubled with falling of the womb, irregular and painful menstruation, leucorrLcea, bearing down pains, backache, headache, dizzy and fainting spells, and stomach trouble. "I doctored for about five years but did not seem to improve." I began the use of your medicine, and nave taken seven bottles o? Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, three of Blood Purifier, and also used the Sanative Wash and Liver.Pills,.and am now enjoying good health, and have gained in flesh. I thank you very much for what you have done for me, and heartily recom r mend your medicine to all suffering . women."-Miss EMMA SNYDER, 218 East Center St., Marion, Ohio. "FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN;" Women would save time and much sickness if they~would write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice as soon as any distressing symp toms appear. It is free, and has put thousands of women on the : right road to recovery. Mrs. Pinkham never violates the confidence thus entrusted to her, and although she publishes thousands of testimonials from women who have been benefited by her advice and medicine, never in all her experience has she published such a letter without the full consent, and often by special request of the writer. PO P. F E 2 T ii we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signature? ci ?koVO testimonials, which will prove their absolute penuineness. 1 Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, ?lass. Little white lily, afloat on ffce-tfiream, Open your tender heart, wake from youl dream; Lift up your face to the kiss of tho sun. Wake and rejoice that the winter ls done!, Though you are tiny and humble and; frail. Live and be happy, and fear not the gale: Little white lily, though soon you must fade, He loveth all things Who all of us made!' 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