Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PSACTIGA?, ADV? DIVERS mrrm uti ?' ? ; mi r i un ? ti* ? I! ?ai BOW TO MAKE A BALANCED ! RATION FOR THE HOGS j In a preceding article the vriter tried to show that pork cannot be made profitably in the South when nothing but corn is used. Corn alone was seen to be a very poor feed for the animal; lt makes very slow gains and very high priced ones. When corn alone is fed it is seldom that more than one-half a pound daily gaiu can be secured. ' When some other feed is used along with the corn it is no trouble to secure ona pound daily gain and more. Well, if corn cannot be used at a profit when used alone, what is the farmer to do? Must" he stop trying to make pork and buy it at from ? fourteen to twenty-five cents . a pound? No, he will not have to stop making it. The only thing he will have to do will be. to use* something along with the corn. Corn alone is about as poor a feed as can be found for a hog; but corn used in combina tion with other feeds is about the best feed that exists. One thing the farmer can do is to use other concen trated feeds; the~South has an abundance of them. Tue only thing against them, from the farmer's standpoint of vfew when ko comes to feeding hogs, is that they are all , high-priced. Notwithstanding the fact that they are all high-priced, almost any of them can be used along with corn and cheapen the ration very materially. A few years ago cowpeas were cheap and many farmers began to use them liberally as a feed for hogs. But recently they have advanced in price and, if they are to be used at all now, they must be used as all high- > I priced feeds are used-with care and Intelligence. When they are valued at $1.50 a bushel they cannot make up one-half of*the total ration. Some of the stations have, had ex perience in feeding soy bean meal to hogs. It has proven to be more val uable than the cowpeas, not so much probably because of being actually a better feed than the cowpeas, as 'to the fact that the soy bean meal has been used in smaller amounts than the cowpeas. The soy beans are a "richer feed than the cowpeas, the feeders have not tried to use them in large amounts. In a test at Kan sas, where corn alone was compared to a ration made up of two-thirds corn plus one-third soy bean meal, the soy beans proved to be worth $1.44 a bushel. In Indiana, where the same kind of a test was made, the soy beans returned a value of $2!? 4 a bushel, or, it cost $6.96 to make one hundred pounds of pork when corn alone was used, and but $5.18 to make the same pork when one-third of the ration was composed of soy hean meal. In some sections of the South rice by-products can .be used either to take the place of corn or ta go along with it. Where rice polish has been compared directly with corn it has proven to be superior to the corn," pound for pound. It is cheaper than/ corn, pound torxpound, too. Tn-Ala/ bama, where the two were compared, 474 pounds cf corn were required io make a hundred pounds of meat, .while bat 373 pounds of the rice polish' were required -to make the same gains. In South Carolina the rice polish and corn were compared when akim milk was fed along with each One. The. rice meal proved to -be superior to the corn^ as but 248 pounds of the rice meal and 991 poundB skim milk were required to make one hundred pounds gain, while 257 pounds of corn and 1028 pounds of akim milk were'used to make the same number of pounds of. pork. At ^Massachusetts the corn and the rice -flieal proved to be practically equal r?a feeding value. Alabama Station has tried rice ""bran, but it-is not a good feed for ' hogs. It is too bulky and not pal ratabie. fc-?hs packing house by-products have not generally been introduced to the South. But there is at least one of the products that should be used here, and that is tankage. As ja, result or its use along with corn, pork will be made cheaper and the value of the corn will be increased. It can be laid down in the South al most anywhere for not more than $40 a ton. It is a very rich feed and should be used in very small amounts. It should not make up more than one .tenth of the whole day's feed. But when that small amount is used the gains are made very much cheaper than when corn is used alone. In some experiments at the Alabama station $2 were saved on every 100 pounds of pork made by the introduc tion of a little tankage in the feed. The tankage balances up the corn, and renders the feed exceedingly pal atable. The writer has used this feed for several years, and the longer he uses it the more he thinks of it. From the tests that have been pre sented lt ls seen that money ls almost VIRGINIA REAPING BEN 3 When\the good roads movement started in- the South a few years ago, it looked as if Virginia would be one of the last sates to do any amount of road building.v But the. people of Virginia, after studying and agitating the matter, passed a splendid good roads law, and started a movement which reaches to every section, and now no state in the Union is moving FIHE m . GO TC HARLTNG Before insuring else when Old Line Companies. ' H AR Ll fl G AA* The Farmers \ ?CE ABOUT SIFIED FARMING sure to Se lost when corn is used alone. It ls also seen that almost any concentrated feed, no matter how high in price, when used Elong with corn, cheapens the feed. But it is further seen that when nothing but concentrated feeds are used lt is diffi cult to come out even though some other feed is used along with the corn. In some cases good money was made; in some other cases some money was lost, even when' a mixture of feeds were used, but not as much ' money was lost where a mixture was used as where corn alone was fed provided, of course, that the supple ment was not used in too large amounts. As a matter of fact, con centrated feeds are so high in price now that the farmer cannot afford to depend upon them alone for making pork. And the farmer does not have .to depend upon them alone, either. He will, of course, want to use con centrated feeds always, but he must use them along with pastures. When they are used intelligently with pas tures, pork can be made cheaper ia Hhe South than It can possibly be made in the North. - Progressive Farmer. Poultry Talk. Many breeders claim a better re sult from using geese of pure Enin den stock and ganders, of pure Tou louse; the young from'such a mating are said to be muclTsuperior to either of the parents, especially in weight. The young from thus mating will weigh, for holjday trade, from seven teen to .twenty-six- pounds each, de pending upon the sex.: . Of course they must be well treated and fed to secure such results. As the frame must necessarily be large to support such weight, there would certainly be a great amount of feath ers also. ' The flavor of the flesh is said to be very mild. However, don't make the mistake of using these young for breeders, else the next flock will be very inferior. The same increase fa weigh: will be noticed, in ducks, from the first cross between Pekins and Rouens, or be tween Bronze and. Narragansetts in turkeys. Where one is able to secure new re liable breeders each year; the first cross in poultry always resu..ts well in weight gain, usually in hardiness, and almost always increase in the egg yield, if the crossing has been from well selected stock, and from good varieties; i. e., for weight two of the larger breeds, such as Brahmas and Cochins, or Langshans, or even the larger specimens of Rocks, with one of the above. But the. next cross is inferior, and succeeding crosses, un less one ls an expert, will soot, result in a flock of . mongrels. Many chicks die for lack of fresh air. If lt were sold In packages and bottles, there .would bel an increase in Its use by some. . When .th? chicken part of the flock is kept as clean as turkeys have to be kept, there /would be much les3 loss ?amo:2g the cbi?kens. ? . Damp 'weather Is very hard on all dry land poultry. 1 j What about' these .many "systems" for growing.poultry? . They read and sound fine on paper, but I fear if all tried them, poultry and egg3 would get too cheap to be profitable. Per haps they, are the answer to the higher cost of living. ' It seems that the fresh air poultry houses are becoming quite a fad. Bet ter read and study up on them through the summer, then if they ap peal to you, try ono part or all the poultry in them next winter. Don't practice, mistaken economy by feeding musty, moldy or soured food to the poultry, and especially to the chicks. It will be dear in the end. Bury or burn all that is not wholesome. One reason of non-fertility pf egg3 is lack of meat ration. This explains why the very first sitters hatch so poorly, while later, when insects are plentiful, the hatches are good. Sow Will Not Breed. Question: I have a fine Poland China sow, three years old. She was farrowed twice in succession, ana was booked to farrow la^t January,/but? failed. Please give me a remedy, as I am anxious to have her farrow. Answer-Sterility, or barrenness, occurs more commonly in the well bred animal, especially in those that are forced by over stimulating food. There arev several other distinct causes, such as diseased ovaries, ob structions: to the fallopian tubes, etc., but it is difficult to determine by ex amination. A breeding sow should be kept in good condition, bu.: not fat. Givo her two ounces of Epsom salts in one-half pint of cold water at one dose. Follow this by giving ten grains of Iodide of potassium twice da'ily in her food for two weeks. Let her run in pasture where she ca:i get plenty of exercise.-Colonel R. J. Redding. In Constitution. _ BTITS THOM GOOD ROADS. fasrer towards'? thorough system of the best possible roads obtainable. There are 100 counties in the utate, arid of these ninety-one durin? the past year asked for aid under m the state* law, and are at work to improve their roads. The improvement of the highways of Virginia is adding im mensely 'to I the attractiveness of state's cheap lands as location for homeseekers._' .USANCE ) SEE I & BYRD . We^rcpresent the Bes* & B YRDK Bank of Edgefield r Children . THE "CUDDLE-DE-WEES." Our hen has a flock of "cuddle-de-wccs"' That follow-her round all day: Sombre yellow, and one is black. And two are a pretty gray; And' at evening time, when the sunset light Ts shining between the trees. Our hen picks out a shady spot And calls to her "cuddle-de-wees." And there in the shadow, beneath tlic trees, They run to her gladly, the "cuddle-de . wees." -St. Nicholas. PROM OUR OWN DICTIONARY. Sigh-An air of sadness. . Gent-Vulgar fraction of a gentle nan. Vanity-Other people's love of dis play. Kleptomaniac-One subject to fits of abstraction. Justice-Confirmation of our owa decisions. Ignorance-Condition qf mind of persons who don't know the things we know. Philanthropist-One who is willing io .share the discomforts of his wealtb with others.-Boston Transcript. -FAVORITE FIRE HORSE. Up in Yonk?rs ene of the fire com panies in the-outskirts has a horse which is a, great favorite not only with the firemen but with the neigh bors. He roams at will in-the vacant lots for blocks from the house, but he is on the job at the first tap of the bell, and never seems to be behind the less privileged animals which have to stay in the house. This steed gets his regular meals at home, but he is a welcome guest at all the near-by houses where there are children, and receives a good many dainties to eke but tab bill of fare provfded by the municipality.-New York Tribune. DANIEL, BOONE. When George Washington was about three years old there was born in-a rude cabin in the outskirts of a Pennsylvania.forest a little, boy who was- called Daniel. His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Eoone, were very sensible people, so far as their child grew up he was not fed on sweets, but given plain food to make ^strong' muscle. When he was old enough Daniel was sent to the small, poorly kept schoolhouse to learn reading and writing from a cross old schoolmaster. Somehow learning came very hard to the boy, for his thoughts were ever wandering to the forests; the g?nie and the Indians From babyhood his only plaything had been his father's old flintlock musket and his chief companions his father's hunting dogs. Very young he learned to shoot, for good marks manship seemed to be born in him. When his short school life was ended Daniel spent his time roaming through the woods. On bright days the sun guided him, b\it on. dark days he found his way by,the moss, which he knew always grew on the north side, of the trees. He knew inany Indians and liked their wild life so well that he often visited .among, them. . He learned their customs, tricks and char a?teristic3. When Daniel Boone grew to manhood he disliked farming al? most as much as he had disliked school, so hunting took most of his time." This strong man could endure many hardships. His broad, deep chest gave his lungs so much room that he could run for a long time without getting out of breath. No Indian was more nimble nor could run faster than . he. With the Indian he was forced to use cunning, but in his dis position he was true, kind, accommo dating, very courageous and very brave. When Boone realized that his little family in Pennsylvania had not the wealth which those around him had, his' pride gave him a desire to go to a newer land where all should be on the same level. .In 1TC9 he and five other tried hunters bade their families good-bye and journeyed west of the mountains. Although they knew they were going to a country where there were no stores or hotels they took no provisions with them As they tramped away, clothed in their deerskin hunting suits and moc casins, and armed with rifles, bullets, powder and tomahawks, they must have been a wonder to their neigh bors. The country through which they journeyed was wild, for Indians were liable to attack them at any time. After a month's hard traveling they reached the crest of the hills which overlooked the plains of cen tral Kentucky. The buffalo.es and deer grazing there insured them plen ty of food. Several times Daniel Boone was captured by the Indians, but as he had learned their ways when a boy he always managed to escape. Not long after the small party had reached the strang^ la'nd three of the hunter? returned home, leaving one man with Boone. He died, but Boone's broth er, Squire, was then with the bold pioneer^ Later when Squire returned East for more powder and bullets, Daniel was left the only white man in a strange land, without even a dog or a horse to keep him company. The Indians were very unfriendly, sc "Boone was always on the lookout for them. Never did he hear the call ol a wild turkey but what he thought it might be the noise of an Indian imi tator! To elude the redmeu at night Boone would make'his campfire and then journey about two miles away to sleep in a hollow tree. Every night he slept in a different place so that he might not be found. For two years Daniel Eoone led this wild life and then returned to'his wife and family in Pennsylvania. In another ye?r many friends with their families joined the Eoone family in making a settlement in Kentucky. Great hard ships were again endured, but the free life made the settlers happy, ex cept when they were attacked by the Indians.-Washington Star. The happiest man in the world, says the Blakely Reporter, is said to reside in North Georgia. He has six fiddles, ten children, thirteen hound?, a. deaf and dumb wife and a "moon shine" still that has never been dis turbed. , EORROWING PAD. This may be a great help to house keepers with poor memories. Take a arge piece of clean cardboard, on vhich place two small pads of paper )eslde each other, one on which you nay write your borrows and one on yhich your neighbor's borrows are written. When articles are returned :heir card is torn off.-Miss Sarah smith, In the Boston Glabe. TO CLEAN THE .TEETH. Tartar, one of the greatest enemies )f the teeth, may be kept away by the laily brushing of thes teeth and the ise of a few drops of myrrh in a. half jlassful of waterr .Use a moderately ?tiff toothbrush. The- teeth should )e brushed after each meal, but vbere;this is not convenient, cleanse ;hem thoroughly every morning. joretta.Collins, in the Boston Globe. MY LINEN CLOSET. My linen chest, says a housewife h Good Housekeeping, is of solid ~ood thirty-five inches high and for :y-six inches wide, It is divided icrbsa .the centre into two compart ments, each with a drop door thirty line inches wide and twelve inches leep. These doors are supported by I mains, and form a good resting placo' or the linen, while being selected. Sach compartment is again divided >y a sliding shelf, which has a deep groove on the under side, five inches rom either end. These are made vide enough for the insertion of four ingers, making it easy to draw the ?helf out and thus show exactly what t holds. The upper door has a spring atch and the lower one a lock and :ey. In the latter the liner articles ire put away with no fear of their >eing handled. This chest can be nade perfectly plain or as ornament tl as one may wish. In this case the >revailing style of woodwork in the lining room was followed. The fiat op makes a good serving table. PENCIL CASE. Select from the scrapbag of thc ewing room a piece of cloth or col >red woolen goods which you can cut he shape of the lower half of this l?ge, but about an inch smaller on ach side. After cutting the material he proper size and shape turn the joods^q that the short side is toward ou. Fold the lower edge over until t is within about five inches from he top. Whip together the edges vhere,the material is lapped. Up he centre of the double goods bake . vertical line of hand stitching. On loth sides of this line make several nore lines of stitching until there are eparate places formed for pencils, lens and ruler. Of course, make some lines of ?tchlng closer together than others, io .that there may be room for arti les of different sizes. In the centre ifitfte outside of-.the case sew a tape, o'tnat it runs across the pencil case. Vken the pencils and pens are rolled ip in this case the tape should be tied o as to make the roll secure. With craps of cloth left make a penwiper. -Washington Star. -fn.Zh? Kitc/ien) Chicken Sandwiches-Add to one upful cold boiled or baked chicken neat, chopped fine, the yolk of one :ard boiled egg and four tablespoon uls mayonnaise. Mix well, adding alt, pepper and celery sait to season; hen spread. . Cream of Potato Soup-Pare and ut into cubes four medium-sized po-* atoes, one onion and a little celery, 'ook until tender in salted water, lash with a little butter and flour. i.dd slowly, while stirring, one quart if hot milk. Serve with crackers. 1 Rice Muffins-To the beaten yolk if one egg add a cupful each of cold oiled rice and sweat milk. Mix thor oughly; then beat in one and one-half upfuls of sifted flour. Add two tea poonfuls of baking powder and beat :gaiu. Lastly, fold In the stiffly chipped white of one egg and bake at mee. Cheese Sandwiches-Take equal ?arts cottage cheese and ground wal ?uts, add salt, cayenne and a little elery. minced fine, and a touch of >arsley, also finely minced. Then noisten with mayonnaise and a little ?ream and spread. For another :heese sandwich mix together the ?oik of one hard boiled egg, one-half lupful grated cheese, salt, pepper and iry mustard to season, and two large ablespoonfuls mayonnaise or cooked iressing. Rub the yolk of egg smooth jefore adding seasonings. Chicken Chop Suey-Scrape the neat from the.bone of half a chicken md cut into strips. Slice a large )nion?thin, soak a handful of dried nushrooms for ten minutes In water. Drain and remove the stems. Cut i stalk of .celery into inch lengths, wash and slice six potatoes. Put into "rying pan a little fat and cook the micken untW done, but not. hard. \dd the onions and cook a little, add :he onions and enough Chinese sauce :o make the mixture brown; pour in \ little water and cook for ten min ites, add celery and potatoes: after i few minutes a little floured water, Boil up and serve with rice. Valuable Old Bond. A few days ago Baron Neupauer went to thc Gratz Discount Bank in order to sell an IS64 State lottery bond. On glancing at the number Df the bond, the bank officiai recog nized it as one that three years ago had won thc first prize of G 00,00 fl kronen.-Neue Freie Presse. ( A Hint For All. Of course, you know just what you would do in another man's place, but why don't you do the right tiling la your own place?-Chicago News. "WEDDING GIFT THANKS. A friendly, informal note should be written for each wedding gift re ceiv?d, says a writer on etiquette, it need not be long, but mention by name the especial gift for which :nu \ are writing thanks. Erpress your pleasure and appre ciation and include your fiance's name in the thanks. Write the note as soon as possible after the gift has been received.-Indianapolis News. DISLIKE TEACHING WHITTLING. Teachers in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades in the schools of Minn eapolis, Minn., want wood whittling thrown out of the school curriculum. They cay it is ridiculous to ask-wo men to teach boys how to whittle. "As weU have men teach rcirls how to sew," they declare. "It is absurd the boys could teach us." It is probably that special instruc tors in the "art" will be obtained as a result of the school ma'ams' dis satisfaction. WHAT SHE EATS. " ' London's "typists," at a rece??: meeting, had a sharp debate on "the office woman's meals," in the course of which one of them recommended the following dietary: Porridge, eggs and bacon, plenty of toast and marmalade and jam, and either coffee or tea for breakfast; pint of milk and a piece of bread and butter at two o'clock; a cup of tea at four; and "a rattling good meal at night." Many a typewriter in Boston has lound that it doesn't pay to get along on a pickle and a cream puff for luncheon.-Dos ton Globe. NAMING CHILDREN IN FRANCE. An amusing story is told of the s*e lection of a name for a baby girl in Troyes, France. Under the French ra ea CS Cocoanut Ice.-Eoil o: of water together for five nut milk to tho syrup, let freeze. This will serve f with the requisite amou having a nut with the eye they dry, shrinking in the A reasonably fresh speci than a half pint of milk i is to drive a nail throuc through these holes into a and ready for other uses. law parents are required to name their children after saints in the cal endar or figures in history. The law is one of the curiosities on the'French statute books, but although in Paris and other large cities it has become a dead letter, it still 13 enforced in other communities"! Troyes among them. The parents wished to call their baby Marianne.' Tho white haired registrar adjusted his specta cles, scratched his head, looked over the list of saints,' reviewed all the his tory In hi3 scant knowledge, said he could not discover a Marianne in the roll of honor, and that another name must be chosen. He suggested Mari? amne, but the parents were indig nant v/hen he informed them Mari amne was Herod's wife. "Why, it's got Biblical prestige," defended the registrar. "Yes," responded the' fa ther, "and there are some women in the Bible of doubtful prestige." The registrar thought once moro and offered Marie Anne for a second sug gestion. "It's not as romantic as Marianne," he said, "but it's a good, honest name." The parents liked the ring of Marie Anne and accepted it as a substitute conforming with the quaint old law.-New York Press. THE OLD SPACIOUS CLOSET. "Rarely indeed dees Mrs. Billtops indulge in mournful reminiscences." said Mr. Biltops. "Cheerfulness is her keynote and her courage never fails; but this morning when she was looking for something in a trunk which for lack of closet space she keeps in her room, she said to me, 'Ezra, do you remember the closet I had in my room when we lived in So and So?' And I said I did. " 'If I should put this trunk in the closet here,' said Mrs. Billtops, I couldn't shut the door.' "To that proposition I assented. " 'But you could put this trunk in that closet,' Mrs. Billtops continued, 'and still have plenty of room to walk around it there to get at the things hanging on the walls.' "I remembered, and Billtops al most groaned. "We would not go back to the old oaken bucket, we'd rather have the water laid on; we "wouldn't want again those old time freezing rooms, we like our rooms botter warmed; but ah, those old time closets! Those grand old closets, as big as a present day room!"-New York Sun. FARM SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. Mrs. Sidney Lanier, Jr., aas estab lished a farm school for girls near j Eliot, Me., and twenty pupils next month will complete a summer course. It is Mrs. Lanier's hope to attract city girls especially, and to reverse the tendency o! the average young woman who must earn her living to turn to Clerking and type writing. "My school is a success," says Mrs. Lanier. "I have taught my giris to mLke hay, to grow vegetables, and, above ail, to make good butter. The best opening for them is in the dairy, and I am sure that dairy work is more congenial to the average young woman than pounding a type writer or standing behind a counter all day. Certainly it gives better health and rosier cheeks. I have sev eral typewriters with me, and they say they will :iot return to the old, wearing routine. We now are con centrating our work on the dairy school, and we are turning out ex perts in butter making. Poultry iais ing is ancther occupation fitted for J women, and I have several pupils busy at that. A?1 the girls'are con tented and happy, and it will surprise 'ne if one of them returns to the hard life of the city."-New York Press. NEW FAD OF PARIS WOMEN. The conference craze has strongly developed within the last six months in Paris. It was Mme. Rejane who unconsciously started this fashion among women. This clever'actress had a fancy to give a lecture in the theatre that bears her name. The hall was filled with what is termed an all Paris audience, and the lecture was sup posed to be on some old Russian author; but nobody, least of all Mme. Rejane, troubled at all about the Rus sian and still less about the lecture. According to the Gentlewoman, Mme. Rejane had come to be seen, not to be heard, and tho audience had every reason to be pleased with what they saw. The staging, indeed, had been done in a masterly manner. Several screens of a delicate pink hue had been so arranged as to place the lec turer in full .view of the audience^ as in a kind of boudoir. The lecturer was seated behind a beautiful table on which stood a vase filled with pink flowers, while a pile of books, also bound in pink and supposed to be works by the before mentioned Russian, were tastefully scattered about the table. These books were' never opened by thc lecturer, nor was there any use for the chiseled inkstand, for the huge new art penholder, tue artistic paper cutter and other utensils pertaining to the world of letters, but they im parted a serious tone to the ensemble. It is almost needless to say that Mme. Rejane's gown and hat wera pictures in themselves--Washington Herald. le-half pound of sugar and one pint minutes, add one-half pint of cocoa come to a boil once, then cool and ive persons. To obtain a cocoanut nt of milk, one must insist upon is on tho surface. As the nuts age, process, and the eyes grow deeper, men should furnish a trifle more md the easiest way of extracting it *h the eyes, letting the milk drip , bowl. The meat is thus left intact Tiny black ratln buttons arc used on linen and pongee frocks. Bright, iridescent materials will be used persistently, but always veiled. Afternoon frocks escape the ground. "Bleu de roi" and "nain bruie" (burnt bread) are favorite colors. Flowers in garden colorings of vel vet are enjoying a season of popular it}*. Daisies of black and white vel vet, tulips and leaves trim hats. Long silk coats are worn over mousseline gowns. Many cl these are of supple material, and are gathered into deep, straight bands at the lower edge. Patent leather ties with suede ramps in lighter shades-are worn on thc street. With tl:e:-e the stockings are worn that mate! tho walking cos tume exactly. In "Le Bois Sacr? ' the exploitation of fringe is quite apparent. On wraps, the lower edge ot skirts, hats and parasols this form of trimmiug is claiming decided attention. Vests of street suits are of bright cerise or blue, and ara trimmed with black or gilt buttons. And the but tons! Of .'?a snakes and colored in many instances to match the gown. .Not only is the chantecler coloring seen in everything, in hats coats and suits, but the form of the bird is also appearing. The latost dr vice is1 the form woven very black, with a fine mesh face veil. Chiffon embroidered with chenille for a gauzy evening wrap is quite effective. Men may laugh the idea to. scorn, but the Parisian kuows the effect of a cloudy mass of chiffon over an evening dress. Little girls are wearing hats "that have departed from the simplicity that has been so popular. A mass of lace and frills crowns little ones' heads, no matter how plain thc coat and dress may be. Where Was John? A San Francisco woman whose hus band had been dead some years weut to a medium, who produced the spirit of her dead husband. "My dear John," said the widow to the spirit, "are you happy now?" "I nm very happy," John replied. "Happier than you were on earth with me?" she asked. .'Yes," was the answer, "I am far happier than I was on earth with you." ..Tell me, John, what is it like in heaven?" "Heaven:" said John, "i'm not in heaven! "-Lippiucott's. Princess Mary and Prince Henry of Wales, two children of King George V., are just as fond of loys as youngsters who have no royal blood. They get as much fan out of Noah's ark and its myriad of animals as the average youngster in a workman's home. The London Economist figures that a four pound loaf in London costs little more than half what a similar loaf costs in New York. He Got a Lift. The hobo arrested for stealing chickens was pleading for pity. "It's dis way, yer honoi[," &e whined. "I don't get no chance. Everybody's agin' me-dey're "all cohspirin' to kep me down." The judge beamed benevolently. "Well, nobody shall say that I joined in that conspiracy," he said. "Trying'to keep you down, are tkeyf Well, they shan't do it, I'll send you up." A Package Mailed Free on Request of HUNYOrS FAW-PAWP?LL&. Thc best Stomach and Liver Pills known and a positive and greedy cure for Constipation, Indigestion; Jaundice', Biliousness, Sour Stom ach, Headache, and all ailments arising from a disordered stomach or sluggish liver: They, vi?,- contain In concent ?S&a trated form all th?; virtues and values of Munyon'r Paw Paw tonic and are made from (' e Juice of the Paw-Paw fruit. I un hesitatingly recommend these pills as being the best laxative and cathartic ever compounded. Send us postal or letter, requesting a free package of Munyon's Celebrated Paw-Paw Laxa tive Pills, and we wil.l mail same free of charge. MUNYON'S HOMOEO PATHIC HOME REMEDY CO.. 53d and Jefferson Sts.. Philadelphia. Pa. AGRICULTURAL TRAINS. > Great Interest Displayed by Farmers in the Agricultural Trains as Con ducted by Southern. Railroad. ' Atlanta, Ga., Special.-That farm ers of the Southeastern States are anxious to take advantage of every opportunity offering them informa tion tending to bring about better methods of farming and more prefitfv able agriculture, such as the agricul tural trains which it has become the policy of the Southern Railway to, run over its lines iu the various States which it penetrates through its Land and Industrial Department con nection with State departments of agriculture or agricultural colleges, is shown by the interest displayed by farmers in Piedmont, Virginia, over: 2.000 of whom attended the meetings along the route of the train which re^ cently spent a week in that section. The train was in charge of Hon. G. ', W. Koiner, Commissioner of Agricul ture for Virginia, and bore a corps of experts ivho gave instructive lectures % on subjects of particular interest to ? farmers of the various communities visited. The train Avas out six days and sixteen meetings vwere held be tween Alexandria and' Danville. I At nearly every stop the two pas senger coaches, Which were used as lecture rooms, were filled and at some places it was necessa: . to hold out- ' side meetings to accommodate the crowds. Farmers' wives turned out in large numbers and showed as ranch interest as the men. At the close of" the meetings at almost every stqjp farmers remained to ask questions about topics which interested them especially. At every stop apprecia tion of the work done by the Virgin ia Department of Agriculture and th?? Southern Railway company was ex pressed, at a number of points votes of thank? being given. Immediately after the tour of the train letters hczan coming- to Com- - missioner Koiner and the L*md and Industrial Department of the South ern Railway company, from farmers requesiin? that information be fient them. At all places where meetings were held the names and addresses of farmers in attendance were taken and to these the Virginia Department o^ Agriculture and the Southern's Land and Industrial Department will in the? future send special information re ferring to crop ^rowing or to other subjects on which these farmers especially desire instruction. In this way the influence of the train will be made permanent. Soil improvement, crop diversifica tion, more attention to live stock, and improved methods of culture have all resulted from attending farmer meet ings under the auspices of the South er's Land and Industrial Depart--, ment. So.-29-10. * Two Hunters. Two Irishmen were out hunting, with one gun between them. The man with the gun saw a wild turkey, and took careful aim at it. "For the love of beaven, Mike!" shontpd fie oMipr hinter, "don't shoe' ! Thc sun ain't loaded." "Ive irrt to." veiled Mike, "The MW) vrnft ivniM" A Bream of Eess ^TT^ . - o NO COOKING ? 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