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?FEED FOR FATTENING SWINE! UVIost Grains Are Deficient in Protein j -Tankage ls Admirably Adapted to Hogs. kBy PROF. G. R SAMPSON. Oreson Ex periment Station.) That protein element in rations for ?attening pigs will increase the di gestibility of the other food nutrients | lis a fact shown by repeated experi iments. It has also been noted that iwhen protein is added to a ration de triment in this element, the animal will .jgat a larger amount of food. Since most of our farm grains are ?deficient in protein farmers should ?make a careful investigation of the teources from which it can best be sup plied. Alfalfa and alfalfa hay are .excellent for breeding and growing .?stock, but are too bulky for fattening .purposes. If the pigs eat enough of j them to secure the required amount of ?orotein there is not enough feed capac tity available for the other necessary mutrients. Bran has the same faults ".as a fattening feed. Middlings and j ?shorts may be used if the price is not j ?too much above that, of the grains fed ? rand Lhe distance of hauling is not too ! ; great. Soy bean meal is being imported ! ?icm Manchuria and may become <ci:ij.p enough for supplementary use. Coti.cn seed meal is richer in protein .(han either of these, but because of j jts poisonous effects when fed for long j ?p^riods should never be used as pig j feed for more thar, forty-two days. Tank;;?j. a by-product of the meat] industry, is admirably adapted to hog ; feeding :.i:d is likely to long remain j the chea; 'st and most satisfactory ! source ci supplemental protein for I swine. FECUNDITY CF POLAND-CHINA i Figures Cor:.;;:led From Records Show Number :f Pigs in Litters in Various Years. Rommel has compiled from records of the Poland-(" :ina and Duroc-Jersey associations a fund of figures showing the*fecundity o' such a great number of sows of these breeds as to make their summing up thoroughly repre sentative. Observations of 14,703 Po lan^B^na litters in the five years, ISST^? ?iaciusive. disclosed an aver age of 7.?4 p?gs-^er litter. Observa Pofand-Chfna Sow. tions of 39.S12 litters of the same breed in the years 1S0S-1902. showed an average of 7.52 pigs. This was an Increase in the latter five years of .-IS, ?r nearly one-half pig per litter, a per centage of 6.Si. From 1S9.: to 1897, in lusive, 3.702 Duroc-.Iersey sows aver ed 9.22 pigs each. Frcm 189S to ^J2T inclusive, 17,890 I; J roc-Jersey sows averaged 9.27 pigs each, or an im^-ease of .054 per cent Of the more than 76,000 sows of beth breeds re ported as under observation one Po land-China farrowed 20 pigs and two Duroc-Jers^ys a like number.-From .Coburn's "Swine in America." [CONFORMATION OF GOOD RAM In General Appearance Look fer Ani mal With Bright Eye. Edd Action and Graceful Carriage. In conformation and general appoar Ince the ram sliould have a ??hort, -.ide face with a large muzzle, rrood "idth across tba shoulders and deep rell developed chest, which indi' tte trong constitution and energy. D-op id wide shoulders indicate good patton form. The hind quarters Kiuld be well developed and pro DrTionately as large a; tie- forequur ?rs, says a writer in an exchange, [he legs should be nell set, one a' ich cornr-r, well banco, covered with Jood muscular development A ram lhat has sdion legs and a mediui compact form is always preferable to rangy one. A leggy ram will work fciavoc in any flock, lu general ap pearance look for a ram thai has a 'bright, oyo, bold and courageous ac tions and graceful carriage In dis position 'ne should be active, fearless end bold. While it is unpleasant to handle vicious rams yet I much pre fer one of this disposition to one that is quiet and lifeless. As a general rule tho ram that feel.? that bc is mas ter of his flock is more robust and possesses great prepotency. Care cf Erood Sows. [Hogs require attention, regardless ldition, age or sex. but the man ient of the brood sow is the surest the breeder's skill. If sows relessly fed during pregnancy, |f some kind is sure to ensue '.lng. BEST PLACF TC VIEW OPERA TIONS OF RAILROAD. I - j Writer Recri's Impressions, From Sea? in Cbsor/s?i&r. Car-?\otec Im portant Duties Devolving cn "Rssr E-rskeman." When I car. I liku to sit in the rear seat c: a train and look back on the i line as the c.-.rs rush ovnard. It gives a different view of the landscape from that one obtains from the side win dows. You see mo!Y ot' the operations of the road. It wo.:id be stiil better and vastly more thrilling if only I could ride on the locomotive. 1 havt always wanted above all else to ride with the engineer of a fast limited train; but as that is a celestial priv ilege accorded to few the next best thing is to get back to the observation car and look back at the tracks, says a writer in the Lowell Courier-Citizen. Usually nothing happens. You sit there In connort, and if the car also happens to be a smoker, in super comfort The parallel lines of steel stretch away into the remote distance. Bridges crash past and dwindle to a speck. Nonchalant flagmen at the level crossings flutter their diminutive ban ners for a moment and betake them selves to their shanties and their pipes. Semaphore arms bring them selves to tba horizontal with a jerk. A pall of dust and smoke settles murkily down over it all. Now and again an other train rattles by on the other line, a medley cf green and brass, with a silent figure in the rear door, who gives a wave of the hand to the rear brakeman at your elbow. Then comes a curve, and you pass out of that land scape into another. The rear brakeman is to me an ob ject ol' awe and veneration, next to the engineer whoa I almost never see at ait. He has nothing to do with thc brakes in these days, but his name per sists. He figures chiefly as the rear guard ir. event of an unexpected halt. His is the task, no matter what the weather, of running back along the rails to flag even the unlikely pursu ing train, regardless of a multitude ol bloch sie.r.als that are supposed to take can of all such without his interven tion. The rules are just as insistent on this form of protection as if block sig nsis had never been invented. It ls the same old rule that was in force from the beginning. If the train steps in mid-career this man is supposed to jump off and mn back with red flag, a lantern, a bundle of "fusees" and tor pedoes. On some roads he does this without being told. On others, he goes out on hearing the admonition of certain whistles from the engine. In any case he stays cut until he is noti fied by the whistles to return, and mighty glad he is to get the summons. The train will not start until he comes panting up the steps and waves his hand. TRACK SANDER The invention of Mr. J. H. Walters of Augusta, Ca., has for Its purpose i he providing of a track sander, sim ple in construction, the sander having an air jet which ?L disposed to dis charge the air against an inclined bot tom member serving to direct the air together with the sand to an outlet disposed below the inclined bottom i aber. As there is practically no blasting against the sander casting proper there is little, if any, cutting ion.-Scientific American. Sxer.:r!-Scrubbed Railway Lines. Attempts to overcome the slipping dim ulty experienced with locomotives in damp weather have been recently mace m France by directing water or sti i on to the rails. Sand, it has beet shown, generally shortens thei life ci rails. sing water or steam Jets the ri ii .. cleaned. A mere wetting nf Hie :. s ?s shown to be useless. P.'. ho ... '. water is applied under pres-j i ?:<., : cl 'lio rails thoroughly cleaned, 'acreas? adhesion is secured. Special e suggested for the purpose of unit: (lier live or exhaust steam for fer A the water. The Attings I ?houid L- carried by the nxle of the j wheels, ; ! not by the framing cf the engine. . I P : Duty !3tfore Life. Fatally aided in a railroad wreck. C. C. Eyst. . fifty-five years old, a Hal timore & ;;?o railroad conductor of Connellsvii; . Pa., ran back and flagged*ano! her train, preventing a second wreck. Eyster died of his In juries scon a;*erward. so ho will never wear a Carnegie medal; but his name deserves a place among those of tho world's real heroes. i h miMB ROMANCE a Ey JEAN SHEAR. B rs o .:> a o -. o G G c ?> s> ?? c c e s "What dade you ask me to marry you?" inquired the bride, as one asks what the weather is likely to be. "Why," the bride's husband paused. *'I eucss ii was because you were ?oohing around and picked me out." "No." replied the bride, meditative ly, "it could not have been just that, because I\I?ss Mary McGee's been pick ing out. husbands for 20 years, and she'd just quit that, unprofitable oc cultation and had begun to be happy, when she lound bim!" "Who's this Miss Mary McGee?" "She's just Miss Mary McGee!" the bride laughed. "I don't know how I can explain more, if that doesn't tell you! She's the woman down the block who lives with the children and they all call her Miss Mary McGee. So every one else does! She's been with the chidlren until she's just like one-but she didn't begin until she'd given up the hope of getting married, you know." "How interesting," commented the man. "Yes, but she's had a genuine ro mance! You see it got out, natu rally," said the bride, taking a deep breath to mark the beginning of the story, "through the children that Miss McGee wasn't invited to Jane Benton's wedding, because she was needed by some one or other to take care ol' the children. And no one thought she'd think anything of it! But the children talked it over before her, "Mr. Manning Was Interesting." and her feelings were hurt. She im agined that she had become nothing but a nursemaid in the eyes of the world, and gave up her play with the children! "So she shut herself up In the house and wouldn't have anything to do with auyone! "Miss McGee's tall and angular, and sort cf eccentric looking, but she's got an awfully sweet nature, and every one was sorry that her feelings were hurt. However, she wouldn't let any one console her, or explain. "Then one day old Lawyer Manning passed the house and, hearing music, he went up. She was so surprised at iiis visit that she let him in, and what do you suppose 6he was doing? She had saved a lot of newspaper articles on how to dance the tango, and she was learning it from them, playing until she had a tune in mind and then singing for the dancing!" "And so Manning is the happy indi vidual?" anticipated the husband. "Now, you just wait till I finish!" finished the bride. "Mr. Manning was interested in the tango and -Miss Mary McGee promised to teach him all about it. So he went almost every after noon. "And then the minister, who every one says was fond of Miss Mary Mc Gee years ago, called. Of course, his visit occurred win n Mr. Manning was there, and it sort of woke him up. 1 guess he'd been thinking Miss Mary McGee would always be there, and there was no hurry about asking ber. Anyway, he began to call frequently, and -Miss Mary McGee always iel them cerne in. and tiley remained bears and hours, each trying to outstay the ether, and thu.- get the opportunity to propose, I guess! But they always had to go away together, for neith er won ld sive in! "And actually .Miss Mary McGee got so pretty with the activity and ex citement-" "But which ono get her?" interrupt ed the man. ""Why. that's the romance of it!" triumphed the bride. "They'd been calling tor about a month, steadily, al most every afternoon, and then one day tiie minister brought along his brother, who was visiting lr ni. be cause he couldn't leave his visitor ut home, and lia wouldn't let Mr. Manning get tho advantage of a call "And the minister's brother had the wit to invite her out. And he pro postd right away, and now they're married!"-chicago Daily News. Knowe Setter Now. Wifey-Do you recollect that once when we had a quarrel 1 said you were just as mean as you could be? Hubby-Yes, my dear. Wifey-Oh. Tom, how litt?e did I know you then.-Boston Evening Transcript H WONDERFUL CLUB. Yes, I have heard that the saloon is the,poor man's ciub. lt is a club with' peculiar advantages. It saves th( poor ;;ian from ?,ay?ng laxes by keeping him everlastingly broke, it .shields him ?rom the responsibility of owning his home. Jt gives him that peace of mind known to the fel low who don't know where he is go ing to live next Monday, lt enables .'<0 per cent of the poor men who are killed in factories to be' killed, it is a wonderful club.| It prepares the poor man's body for typhoid and pneumonia so completely that he is sure to die and thus he is kept from gambling on his chances. It is a merciful club, for it takes a man to the card table where he can be robbed without being knocked down. It cashes a poor man's check on Sat urday night, and this is not all, for it relieves the poor man's thirst, and if he has no thirst this great-hearted club gives him one. It gives him free lunch, and after that he will have thirst enough for everybody in town. All the advantages of this club are not for the man. They go to the poor man's family too. There is little Johnnie who wanted to go through school and become an engineer. There ls the little girl who wanted to become a music teacher. But the club knocks all that nonsense out of their heads. It sends Johnnie to the coal breakers and poor little Mary out into the world where men prey on their kind, and she falls by the way side. Oh, it is a great club.-Ex-Con gressman Fred Landis of Indiana. INTERFERING WITH LIBERTY. "I do hereby order all places within said district where intoxicating liquors are seid or kept for sale, to be closed; and I do further hereby order all per sons to be excluded from such places, and I do hereby prohibit the purchase or receiving, or the selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of. or permit ting of others to obtain possession of any intoxicating liquors ol" any kind or in any quantity, in the district so above described." Thus did Governor Animons of Colo rado, in a proclamation issued June 5, curtail the personal liberty of the peo ple living and doing business in the northern Colorado strike district some 520 square miles. The ruling ap plies not only to every coal camp, but also to the railroad lines running through the district. Not only is- the liberty to sell taken away, but also the liberty to give away or to obtain pos session of in any way any alcoholic liquoricOny kind in any quantity. This proclamation waa issued at the request of Major Symmonds, in com mand of the federal troops occupying the district, and is to be in effect for six months unless rescinded by the governor. \ ' -v< -. .....V4 LIQUID POISON. Beer, sometimes referred to aa "li quid bread," is rathe]*, according to the verdict of physicians and scien tists liquid poison. Dr. Hugo Hoppe, the famous nerve specialist of K?nigs berg, Germany, says: "Because the symptoms of chronic alcoholism ap pear more slowly and are less readily observable in the heavy beer drinker than In the whisky drinker, the former is more frequently met than the lat ter. But thousands and tens of thou sands of men who take their daily pint are rendered stupid, silly and dis solute by beer. Beer alcoholism in general lowers the resistance of the body to all diseases by injuring most of the organs, and herein lies the chief danger in the general wide spread use of beer. The death from liver diseases among brewers in Eng land is more than double that in all other occupations." SELLING. NOT DRINKING. In Washington, D. C.. while the Na tional Liquor Dealers' Association was holding its meeting, a reporter said to a bartender of that city, "I sup pose you are not complaining of busi ness with ibe Liquor Dealers' conven tion in town." "Say. Ho." responded the bartender with a stare of amaze ment, "I guess you don't know what convention this is. Them fellows don't drink it. they sells it." CONSUMES MOST LIQUOR. Wisconsin, largely a foreign-born state, has the largest consumption of licuor of any state in th?' Union, namely, 64.51 gallons per capita. Next to it ls New York with 45.3] gallons per capita, then Now Jersey, with :'.'.>.S7 and Illinois with 39.13. The 15 local option states have only an average of gallons per capita and the prohi bition states only 1.35 pall?os per cap ita. MODERN TOWNS. h is ?n uncommon Hiing in Kansas to find a town of 1.000 Inhabitants without electric lights and wan rworks and its business streets unpaved. The money that vears ago went the human canal route now goes Into happy homes, public schools and civic im provements.-Gov. Hodges. A PROPERTY RIGHT. A man's sobriety is a property right. Tlie saloon is responsible if it destroys that right. Even though the man him self 1B to blame, as he certainly is, the saloon ls responsible.-Tho Advanco (Cong'l), Chicago. Hot'Weather Garments Let us help you to keep coo! during this sweltering weather We have the garments that i will enable you to keep "as cool as a eucumber." Conic in and let us show you our athletic under wear-our light weight suits in Palm Beaches, Mo hair, serges, sicilians, cassiniers. etc. Full assortment of Eclipes negligee shirts. Nothing better on the market for the money. Shoes and Panamas to tit everybody. [f we haven't what you want in order to keep eool we will order it tor you. Come in and let's talk it over. Dorn & Mims. All of the New Things. Our Spring stock is now complete in every de partment. lt matters not what the ladies want we have it. Come in to see all the new Spring fabrics that we are showing in the beautiful colors of the season. Goods for dresses, goods for skirts, goods for waists-for misses and ladies. We also have a very larg? stock of trimmings, lace embroidery, etc. We can please the most exacting buyer in these, goods. We are showing a beautiful assortment of un derwear for ladies, misses, men and boys. Come in before you buy your supply of light underwear. .Our Shoe Department is well supplied with the most stylish oxfords and slippers. We have them in the popular lasts and in patents, gun metal, tans and vi ci kid. . We invite the men and boys to see our stock of clot bini? and hats. Our prices are reasonable. J. W. PEAK Medical College of the Slate of South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina Deparlmems cf Medicine and Phaimacy, Owned and Controlled by the State, seth Session Oper.s-Octcber ist. 1S14. Closes Jure 3rd. 1915 Fire New Building resdy for occupancy October 1st. 3014. Advan tageously located opposite Roper Hospital, one ot" the largest Hospitals in the South, where abundant clinical material is offered, con ? tains 21S beds. Practical work for Senior Students in Medicine and Pharmacy a J Special Feature. Large and well-equipped Laboratories in both Schools. I Department of Physiology and Embtyology in L fri li?t ion with the Charleston Museum. J Nine full time teachers in Laboratory Franches L Six graduated f>\ pointments each year in medicine. For catalog address: USC AK W. SCH LEETE R, Registrar, Charleston, S. C. a t ^:sa?rjE:ra;;^ffiunisiiittfr?i WM mesa Don't Read If not interested. But you are obliged to be interested where mon ey is tc be saved in the purchase of necessities of life both tor your self and livestock. We ore now in OMI warehouse, corner of Fenwick and Cumming streets, two blocks trom thc Union Fassenger Station where we have the most modern warehouse in Augusta with tloor space ol 24,800 squa.e feet and it is literally packed with Groceries and feeds hom cellar to roof. Our stock must be seen to be appre ciated. Our expenses are at least ?45C.00 a month less since discon tinuing our store at 863 Broad street, and as' goods are unloaded from cars to wareheuse, we are in a nosition to name very close prices. If you really want the worth of your money see or write us ARRINGTON BUGS. & CO. Augusta, Ga.