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MEANING OF 'DOUBLE MATING' Subject of Interest to Fanciers of Some Breeds, Particularly Barred Plymouth Rocks. Real poultry fanciers often go into details that have little interest for the practical man and little real bear ing on egg production. One subject the fanciers of some breeds, particu larly Barred Plymouth Rocks, have to deal with is "double mating," or "pul let mating," and "cockerel mating," which needs explanation for those not familiar with the topic. This is a result of the breed stand ard calling for one color or shade for the cock and another for the hen. Plymouth Rock standards, for exam : Barred Plymouth Rock Cockerel. pler call for darker males than would normally be produced by mating properly colored males with properly colored females, and they also call for lighter colored females than would he secured by the same mating. To overeo nie this and to get results up to breed qualifications it is customary to mate rather comparatively dark males and comparatively dark females -when exhibition cockerels are desired, and lighter than normal birds for ex liibition pullets. The first is a "cock erel mating," the second a "pullet mating." The breed specifications thus tend to make extra work for the .breeder, who should be permitted to breed only for color, form and egg production. PREVENT SQFT-SHELLED EGGS One Suggestion ls That Hens Are Not Getting Enough Lime-Over-Feed ing ls Another Cause. Soft-shelled eggs may possibly be ; a suggestion that tho hens are not getting enough lime. Far more like ly It Is, when your hens start laying soft-shelled eggs, that you have been 'over-feeding, and in consequence the :fowls are too fat. Therefore a re duction in quantity, as well as a change of diet is necessary. I An excellent plan is to find out :Wbich particular hen is at fault, and confine her to a less fattening ration, with only a small amount of water. .At the end of a week restore her to the flock, and generally increase amount of lime given in food. A pe riod of this dieting, followed by an abundance of oyster shells ls almost certain to speedily correct the trouble. When the egg has a normal shell, ?trat one which is very thin, It Is a very good indication that the hen is all right, but that lime ls too scant In this case supplying oyster shells, or lime in another form, is quite sure to make the egg shells thicker and stronger very quickly. ; DAMPNESS DOES MUCH HARM <Veung Duck or Gosling Cannot Stand j Heavy Wetting-Cause of Rheu matism and Colds. I Getting the body wet in spring or early summer will generally kill a j young duck or gosling, i Dampness will give them rheuma tism and cold, and cold will bring on ?ore eyes. A young duck caught in the rain trill often raise its head, open its month, and stand stone still until it drowns, when but a few feet farther along ft could have found shelter. Feed Meat In Some Form. There must be meat in some form fa the daily bill of fare of laying and growing stock. But that amount should not exceed over 25 per cent of the total amount of feed fed. Too much meat and bone produces laxity of the bowels, impairs the digestive organs, and often results in soft shelled, thin-shelled and Infertile eggs. Value of Nest Eggs. "While nest eggs have nothing to do ?with increased egg production, they tutve a good mission in teaching the hens to Icy in certain places, instead of dropping their eggs any and every where. ONE BA? OF REST True Christian Meaning of the Sabbath Has Not Been Fully Understood Is lt not time for us to get over the notion that Sabbath lawe are Puritan blue laws, or that the purpose of men who stand for the observance of the Sabbath is to thrust it down the throats of unwilling believers? Is lt not time for Christian believers to end their hesitation in,making the demand for a wise and firm control of Sabbath excesses? Sunday baseball and mov ing pictures, and other forms of sport are not so necessary to any life, noi so helpful, that it is impertinent to demand their cessation. There it not much difference of opin ion among thoughtful people about the need of rest Ours is not the first time when men have hurried too much, and there are more people than most of us suppose who are beginning to slow down, to take things more easily. Here ls the head of a large business, who began in it as an office boy, at $3 a week, and' became a part ner while most of the men originally in the firm were still living. He tells that he noticed that the men who actually did the most were not the ones who were always nervously at it, who never could get away, who never had time for anything else, and who had ao outside Interests. Christian's Sabbath Spending. He noticed instead that, the men who died prematurely and' euddacfry were those who felt they were so very Important that they could not be spared; so they drove themselves long hours and as many days as possible. Then they died, and the business went right on. This young man de cided that as a Christian he would be steady and persistent, but never a nervous worker. The Sabbath is sacred to him, ar d he sees the common sende of a real observance of it It gives him a chance to let off his strain; He points out that in his business the men who spend the Sabbath loosely come back on Monday in no condition for work, while the men who epend it in a Chrietian way are ready for their tasks. Now, of course, the chief reason for urging Sabbath observance is that there is a great divine law that runs under the whole race, which requires not chiefly that there shall be a time for rest, but that there shall be a time for worship. The value of the Sabbath from our Christian point of view ls that it gives people a chance to wor ship Almighty God, wnich they cannot do if they work, and which they will i not do if they play on Sunday. The objection to seven-d?y work*"is that If a man wants to worship he cannot di it But after that there ls the large value of the Sabbath as a time for the building up of men. Our merchant friend says that in theory he had al ways held that pleasure resorts ought to be open on Sunday for the sake of the people who could not go to them on week days, but the more he saw of the result the less he believed in lt. These are pleasures that use a man up, instead of building him up. Sensible View of the Matter. One of the large business houses of Chicago has a rule in its manual that employes are to seek the right kind of associations and the right kind of pleasures outside of business hours. That is for the sake of the business. It is a safe rule that no man ought to do on Sunday what wears him out for the following week. The Sabbath was made for man, Jesus said, and God In tended it to be used for the highest part of our manhood. Excesses on the Sabbath, in any form, are a violation not of God's law written in the Scrip ture alone but of God's law written in human nature. As Christian men we are eager to upbuild the church. So we insist upon the Sabbath. But equal ly, as Christian men, we are eager to develop and aid our race and civiliza tion. So we insist again on the Sab bath. We are not narrow-minded In it; we are not petty and bigoted; we are simply sensible. We are insisting upon the thing which history and com mon sense declare the race needs. Editorial in The Continent "Get the Ganj, Habit" We were watching a gang of rail road laborers loading rails on a fiat car. It took about a dozen men to carry the rail to the side of the car. Then, at a word from the boss, all the men lifted the iron together, and with one synchronized snapping of their muscles tossed lt aloft and dropped it on the platform of the car. It was. a striking illustration of the advan tages of team work. So sailors, haul ing on a rope, get the cutter aboard, because they all heave and strain at the same instant. If we are to pre vail in educational, religious or social fields of work, we must develop* the team system. Get the gang habit not the habit of the Bowery gang, or of the hoodlum "bunch," but the habit of ganging to church, to Sunday school, to conventions, to any and all scenes of useful labor. We can do it al! if we all do lt.-Zion's Herald. All Thread? of Gold. Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, lit tle nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite tempta tions-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly In the pattern of life that God approves. - Canon Parrar. When self is enthroned, Passion is made prime minister, and Principle becones court fool.-8. John Duncan Clark. / God Appointed Labor for the Training of the Individual in Morals. Let ns consider the moral uses of work. It acquaints man with nature, and gives him a liberal education. Man's knowledge of himself and the world in which he lives, comes from his work. Working with the soil for food, man discovered the beginning of agriculture. Working with a forked stick, he invented his plow. Carrying his burden across the rivers, he thought out his boat Stooping un der his load, he mastered the horse, and made him bear his burden. Work ing with wild roots, man found the grape and apple. ' Working in stones, be wrought out his house. All the fine arts, all the knowledge, came from the dally task. It is work that in structs man and disciplines him in the great university of daily life. There is a culture to he found in the school of toll. % Work Means Training. God has appointed work for the training of the individual in morals. Men speak of business as a sphere of temptation and testing; but lt is also a drill room in which youth may he taught all the fundamental moral qualities. Our Lord himself was trained for his mission as a great re ligious teacher in a handicraft. He became the world's greatest reformer, and his preparatory school was a car penter shop. He developed all the root moral qualities that blossomed into the higher spiritualities in the years of his toil, until the age of thirty. In his association with men he developed sympathy with them, and an exquisite gentleness and ten derness toward poor and weak. The beginning of power over men is In sensitiveness and sympathy. . Influ ence is possibly only from personal experience of the fallings, privileges, ambitions, disappointments, and suc cesses of our fellow-men. No self centered man can develop sympathy with his fellow. To break down the walls of prejudice and develop a knowedge of one's self and one's com panions, is to develop the primary moral qualities essential to the high est character. God enters every child in the school of work, that he may become a Christian. Tasks Are as We Make Them. Nothing is more certain than that we make our task beautiful or menial by the spirit we put into lt. There are two ways in which a house may be approached. The contractor'3 view is one, and the owner's. another. "The builder " tolls ^jfcs money. He has no particular en thusiasm for the structure, ever thinking of the gold named as his wage. How different the owner's at titude! To him the walls and ceilings are as the walls of heaven. They are covered with pure ideals, holy affec tions, and the solemn love and prayer that happiness and beauty will fill that home. There ie no decorator like the heart. The soul can breathe the spirit of beauty into any task. Re member how Fra Angelico painted upon his knees, and borrowed a di vine luster for his canvas. Remem ber how Milton, lifting his sightless eyes towards the sky, saw the heav ens open, and Christ standing at the riKht hand of God: and from his vision brought a splendor to his sol emn poem. The time has come when we must practice the art of carrying our work up to the higher spiritual level. Once, when the cathedral was dedicated, the priests fell upon their knees in solemn worship. In the fu ture we shall learn to enter a shop or store or factory In the spirit bf the reverence of our great Master, who said, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." We shall then know what it 1B to be diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. Rev. A. H. Lucas, D.D. Afflictions Appointed. "He performeth the thing that ls ap pointed for me."-Job 28:14. The trails of time were appointed In eternity. He that chose us into eternal life, ordained the path by which we were to reach it Nothing ever happens to us by chance. Our little trials, our great troubles, our heavy crosses, and our painful losses, are all a part of God's plan. Nor were they appointed for us merely In the exercise of divine sovereignty, but because our God saw them to be nec essary, and intended to make them real blessings to us. Every cross is a mercy, every loss a gain, every trou ble a covenant blessing, every trial a 6eed of joy. We shall be better in fu ture for what we suffer now. If we sow in tears, we shall reap in joy. A wet spring will introduce a glorious harvest. Many of our present tears will crystalize into pearls, and will be an ornament to us in glory. And not only so, but the same love that or dained our trials, ordained our strength to bear them.-Rev. Jos. Smith. Good Deed Will Flourish. We can furnish nothing in this life, but we may make a beginning and bequeath a noble example. Thus character is the true antiseptic of so ciety-the good deed leaves an in delible stamp; it lives on and on, and while the frame moulders and disappears, the great worker lives for ever in the memory of his. "Death," says the philosopher, "is a co-ming ling of Eternity with Time. In the death cf a good man, Eternity is seen looking through Time."-Samuel Smiles. Southern Railway Schedule. Premier Carrier of the South Reduced Fares From Edgefield S. C., $13.40 Charlottesville, Va., and re turn. Account Summer School, TJ. of Va. Tickets on sale June 20 to 28 inclusive. Return limit 16 days with privilege of exten sion to Sept. 30, 1915, by depos iting and payment of fee $1.00. $6.05 Rock Hill, S. C. and Return Account Winthrop College Sum mer School. Tickets on sale June 14, 15, 18 and 30, July 1 and 2. Return limit July 31, 1015. $10.50 Knoxville, Tenn, and re turn. Account Summer School, U. of Tenn. Tickets on sale June 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, July 2, 3, 10 and 17. Return limit 15 days with privilege extension to Sept. 30, 1915, by depositing and payment fee $1.00. $7.10 Black Mountain, N. C., and Return. On dale special dates in June, July and August 1915, ac count various meetings. Inquire of agents for details. Also Summer Tourist Fares to many resort points. For additional information communicate with J. A. TOWNSEND, Ag'L Edgefield, S. C., or Magruder Dent, Dist-, Pass. Agent, Augus ta, Georgia. business Wan Trohes Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy Successful Merchant After Investigation Found a Remedy That Re stored His Health. "This ls Thanksgiving day 1n the state of Pennsylvania, and I want to devot? a pirt of lt in writing a letter to you. On the 2Gth day of November,'10, I was stricken with heart trouble. My family physician called it Angina Pectoris. I had from one to five attacks in 24 hours, in the latter part of December, 1910. I wrote to th? Miles Medical Co., for information con cerning my case, end in reply 1 received a very kind and instructive letter, which sl^tandsd^^Jp^^ and he tolavme to ?se' yo?f" ft?m?meii^ In connection with the medicine ha gave me. so I did. I used five bottles of Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy'and seven bottles of Dr. Miles' Nervine. I was confined to the house for about four months. The action of my heart is now, and has been normal for the last six month?. I can truly recommend Dr. Miles' Nervine and Heart Remedy to do what they are intended for, if used according to directions. I thank you kindly for ynur advice in answer to my monthly reports. I am now sixty seven years of age, have been In the mercantile business for thirty-five years and lived retired for the Inst thirteen years." JL B. HOLUNGSR, Lincoln, Penn*. Dr. Mllen' Heart Remedy is sold and guaranteed by all dru cc ?ste. is MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. Colds should be "nipped in the bud", for if allowed to run unchecked, serious results may follow. Numerous cases of consumption, pneu monia, and other fetal dis eases, can be traced back to a cold. At the first sign of a cold, protect yourself by thoroughly cleansing you system with a few doses of BORD'S BLACK DRAUGHT the old reliable, vegetable liver powder. Mr. Chas. A. Ragfand, o Madison Heights. Va., says: "1 have been using Thed ford's Black-Draught for stomach troubles, indiges tion, and colds, and find it to be the very best medicine I ever used, lt makes an old man feel like a young one." Insist on Thedford's, thc original and genuine. E-67 To Prevent Blood Poisoning apply at once the wonderful old reliable Dk PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL. a sur fical dressing that relieves pain and heals a he same time. Not P liniment. 25c. f*K%Ot To Ct re a Cold In One Day Take LAXA'f rVE BROMO Quinine. It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c FARM LOANS! Long-Term Loans to Farmers a Specialty. Your farm land accepted as security WITHOUT ENDORSER or other COLLATERAL. Unlimited funds immediately available in de nominations of Three Hundred and up. Established 1892. JAS. FRANK & SON, Augusta, Ga. 1785 1915 College of Charleston South Carolina's Oldest College 131st Year Begins October Entrance examinations at all the county seats on Friday, July 2, at 9:00 A. M. Full four-year courses lead to the B. A. and B. S. degrees. A two-year pre-medical course is given. A free tuition scholarship is assigned to each county of the State. Spacious buildings and athletic grounds. Well equipped laboratories. Unexcelled library facilities. Expenses moderate. For terms and catalogue address HARRISON RANDOLPH, President. DRINK diera-Cola ?Bjpaas^ Sc Call for it In a bottle through a straw. Every bottle uniformpure, wholesome and. refreshing. Notice to Farmers For the benefit of our friends we wish to advise that you can bring all of your live stock intended for sale to our-^ North Augusta Abattoir Just East of North Augusta Bridge and sell them to our customers without charges. t Express shipments of Live Calves, Hogs and Lambs should be made to office in Augusta, Ga. No charge made for handling. L. Scharff & Co, , Augusta, Georgia