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CATERPILLARS OF THE FALL .Worms Feed Gregariously on Foliage of Apple, Pear and Quince Destroy by Burning. i The caterpillars of the fall web worm construct tents and feed gregari ously. The tent is large and loosely Woven, and the caterpillars feed only on the leaves that are enclosed in the web. When the supply of leaves with in is exhausted, the web 5s enlarged to take in more, and. in this way, the entire top of a young tree may be webbed over and defoliated. The fall Nest of Fall Web Work on Young Pear Tree. ibrood of this caterpillar Is usually ?much more numerous and destructive ?than the spring brood. The cater pillars attack a great variety of trees 'and shrubs, but are especially fond of ?the leaves of apple, pear and quince. '"The web wormo may be destroyed by jhurninc or tearing out their tents, or ?by the use of sprays. ATTENTION TO GRAPEVINES .Pruning Should Be Done in Late Fall or Early Winter Months, and Never in Spring. Grapevines should always be pruned :in the late fall or early winter months and never in sprin?. If the pruning is done in spring, die vines are sure to lose so much sap from "bleeding" thut much of the vigor of the vine is lost and consequently the fruit crop suffers in just that proportion. The grape is always grown upon canes of the pres ent year and not upon the canes of last season, hence it is necessary to prune away or cut off the major part of last season's canes, leaving a few buds only at the base or near the older wood to produce the canes that ure to be come fruit bearers. Four or five buds, or even two or three, therefore, will be sufficient for this purpose. It will be .cound also that the best fruit will be tearest the main stalk or stem of the r.!ant. For this reason also leave a very few buds only for fruit bearing, a few good young canes being worth ?much more than a quantity ol" poor, weak ones. MULCHING OF MUCH BENEFIT Where Barnyard Manure ls Not Avail able Coarse Straw Will Answer Purpose Satisfactorily. Mulch the orchard, do not allow lt .to go through the winter without a cover. A mulch helps in 10,000 ways, the benefits are so evident there is no use to enumerate them. Mulch with barnyard manure if you have it, if not, coarse straw will an swer, but far better still is to grow I the mulch on the orchard, let that be j either clover, peas, beans, vetch, rye, :oats, wheat, or if all these fail, mulch 'with weeds. Don't neglect this important work. Soil should not be left bare through the winter, much less the orchard. PROTECT YOUNG APPLE TREES Grass, Weeds and Litter Should Be Removed to Prevent Mice From Having Nesting Place. As mice and rabbits are likely to .girdle young apple trees during the winter months, the hort icu ll uri.sts of ? the Nebraska College of Agriculture say that all grass, weeds and litter ;should be removed from the base of the trees to preven, the mice from ; having a nesting place. Three or .'four cornstalks tied securely around the young trees will prevent rabbits from growing the bark of the trunks. ?The stalks should be removed ia the ?spring. 3 I jj KING'S REST ? . By ELEANOR RAMSAY. Half wuy to Rodney's Tumble stood, a ramshackle, lopsided cia staker's shack, half leaning agai the mountainside. Old King had Iii in it for over 35 years. Jean drew rein In front of it. i was dead tired with the long ride from Castle Crag. The captain had erally fallen in his tracks as soon they had reached their own cabin, a Jean had started out to forage. Fn water was the greatest need, w night coming on. King came out at her hail a stared at her. "I'm Jean Hartley," she said c diaily. "Captain Hartley's daught We're your new neighbors down t guien, and we just got home. Fathe all tired out. but I'm hunting a sprii Do you know where there ls one Did he? He carried the water for ti clear down to the cabin, and they fou the captain, genial and optimistic, rea to talk his head off over prospects Lost Horse Gulch. King nodded t head. "The gold's here, and the day's g to dawn when some of us find IL Thai all." I Jean used to recall those words di ' lng the months that followed. SI knew the mining game. Hadn't si been born up in a mining camp : years before, high in the Neva< mountains? Then the captain ht struck luck, and they bad goi east to live, the baby and the sli young mother, back to the clvllizatlc where they belonged. And after yeai of comfort and surety the two blov had fallen almost together, the pas lng of Jean's mother and the crash < the captain's fortune In rash speci latlon. "But don't you mind, honey girl, he had said cheerily. "We'll go bac to where lt grows In the mountains, Once In a while she wondered wb Stanley had never answered her le ter, breaking their engagement 1 was right she felt after the financh crash, not to hold him, but she ba thought he might have answered. One morning old King stopped wit news. His face was aglow with eagei ness. "Davy's back home," be announced "He's my boy, not by any blood ties but I took him when he was a li ttl shaver after his paw died and brough him up. He's been away to school, min ing school, or school of mines, and be'l be home tomorrow. You folks'U Uki him." But even that did not prepare Jeai for Davy as he was. She rode early th? next morning over to where the cap tain was at work, aud half way derri the trail she met him-talL*2Hrown-eyed bare-headed, his shirt open at tb< throat with a tame gray squirrel or one shoulder and a dog at his heels He had walked down to the main road he said, to get the mail sack when tb( stage went by. Aud he handed her c letter from Stanley. She opened anc read it after the big, brown-eyed boj had gone up toward King's Rest. "When 1 began to miss you and real ized how lonely you must be 1 fell like a dog uot to have answered your letter, but it staggered nie at the time, of course, and 1 admired you for your stand. Now I've wakened up, Jean, and by the time you get this I'll be on my way West, to you, dear, patient, brave little girl." Jean stood and smiled thoughtfully. Dave was the only person who could make Matatao smile. Her brown, wrinkled face would crinkle up every time she saw him, and her slow black eyes followed his figure lovingly. Once she came opon them both, standing on the trail high above the timberline at sundown on Lookout rock. Dave leaned toward the girl longingly, his face aglow with love, his Hps framing quick, broken words of pleading, and Matatao stood like a statue watching until she saw him take Jean In his arms, when she slipped out of sight back Into the underbrush. It was night when Stanley came up to the cabin. He was spent with the long ride and out of humor. "How are you, captain, and you. Jean? I rode down some old Indian woman on the trail. It was dark and the horse was stumbling. She's down there now-" He got no further. Jean was out of the door and flying down the trail. She knew every step of the way even in the dark. Matatao had dragged her self out of the path into the bushes like a wounded animal. "Me go fust," she whispered. "Tell Davey gold-under-King's Rest-" As old King said afterward, lt was just like an Indian to get humor out of seeing you grub stake for 35 years after gold, and not know you had built your shack square over the vein. Dave and he burled Ma tatao on Lookout Point, -and the day Stanley heard from Jean that his trip was too late. Dave struck the vein ol' rich quartz under King's Rest "And captain," he said when ho brought the news to Un; cai'in. "It flows right down into your claim too, so we're going to win out." But the captain was too busy with old King to talk, and Dave stepped into (he cabin. Stanley had left ni sundown. "1 wanted to leave you alone aftei 1 beard he'd come," Dave said, slowly "I didn't know-" "Didn't you. Dave, honestly?" sh* asked, laughing up at him. "Weren' you sure yoi ?" ? Copyright, \SK. ny thc MrCturc NV.-.. ; . per Syndicale.j SEVERE HEADACHE. "I once had terrible headaches arti feared La Grippe. I could not at tend to ray work. I took some of Dr. Miles' Anti Pain Pills and tho pain was quickly gone. Then I started using Dr. Miles' Nervine and the trouble vanished completely and I felt well and active once more." HENRY FARNHAM, Spring Valley, Minn. Anyone who ls prepared for defeat would be half defeated before he com menced.-Admiral Farragut. Can anything be BO elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them oneself.-Emerson. FOR THE EPICURE. One tires of vanilla and lemon for flavoring, and anything new or a vari ety is always welcomed. For those who do not en joy almond flavoring alone the combination of one teaspoonful of al mond extract to six of lemon is a good combi nation. When using the mixture, shake well and use the teaspoonful, or a few drops, depending upon the dish. Maplene is a flavor well liked, so is caramel and coffee flavor. The mocha caramel flavoring is a combination of tW two. . It is prepared as follows : Put a cupful or granulated or light brown sugar into an iron frying pan, stir until lt begi.no to melt, then lower the heat and continue cooking until it is a rich brown in color, but be care ful not to burn it ; then add a half cup ful of hot, very strong coffee, stir for u moment until dissolved; when cool, put it in a bottle. It will keep for weeks. This may be used for any number of dishes. For frosting for cake mix pow dered sufrar with cream until quite stiff, then add enough of the mocha caramel to color well, and a pinch of salt. Mocha-Caramel Butter.-Wash the salt from half a cupful of butter, cream lt and add one and a quarter cupfuls of confectioner's sugar, then cream again. Beat in one beaten egg, two tablespoonfuls of moeha-caramel and one or two tablespoonfuls of strong coffee. To make this, use cold coffee instead of water. Put this butter in a glass jar and set on Ice. Small sponge cakes may be hollowed out and filled with this butter, pnr nishing the top of each with a candied cherry; put on the lld and frost, If so desired, or serve with fresh fruit, plain. Hot waffles with mocha butter is a delicious combination. There will be any number of ways of using this good flavor. Any white cooky mixture may be made most tasty by adding a little cooked fruit of dates, prunes or figs on the center of a cooky; place another on top and bake. These are especially well liked by the young folk. SLOAN'S LINIMENT EASES PAIiV Sloan's Liniment is first thought of mothers for bumps, bruises and sps niathat are continually happen ing to children. It quickly pene trates and soothes without rubbing. Cleaner and more effective than ni'i -v planters or ointments. For rhei "iitio aches, neuralgia pain and that gripriV soreness after colds, ?Moan'* Liniment gives prompt rc li . Have a bottle bandy for h . s, strains, sprains and all ex nil pain. P?r the thousands LIN work calls them outdoors, p:iins and aches following ex . ? are relieved bj Sloan's Lini At iii Dnijrirists, 25c. 1 ro DrJvo Out Ma?arla And Build Up Tho System ike the Old Standard GROVE'S . -TKLEF:: chi!! TONIC; Von !:n?-.rv what you ?<..- taking, cs fae formula :;: printed cn every I bsY, ^bowing it is Quinine av?. Su:si. l'?le 0_uimi e ciiia < ' . ..!r.;a. 1' .rou builds i* . .,: .::.:. 50 cou?* ca 90 Pain and 111 Health rob you of all your || efficiency. DR. MILES' ickly relieve Pain, but the same time, when er-work or nervousness the cause, Dr. Miles' ?stora?ive Nervine ould be used to relieve ? cause. ' FIRST BOX, OR BOTTLE, FAILS BENEFIT YOU, YOUR MONEY .L BE REFUNDED. Southern Railway System Effective Dec. 10th 1916! Between Edgefield and?? Aiken. Trains 109, 129, 107, 108, 130 and 106-No change. Train 131 leave Edgefield 11:45 a. m., same as at present, time at j Pine Ridp-e Camp 1:05 p. m., ar rive Trenton 1:10 p. m., same as at present. Train No. Ill leave Trenton ll: 15 a. m., Baynham 11:30 a. m., Eu. reka 11:40 a. m., Milledgeville ll: 50 a. m., Lakeview 11:55 a. m., Croft 12:20 p. m.. Pine Ridjre Camp 12:35 p. m., arrive Aiken 12:45 p. ra. Train No. 132 leave Aiken 1:25 p. m., same as at present. Arrive Trenton 2:15 p. m.-No other chan ges. Train No. 110 leave Aiken 1:35 p. m., Pine Ridge Camp 1:39 p. m., Croft 1:50 p. m., Lakeview 1:57 p. m., Milledgeville 2:10 p. m., Eure ka 2:18 p. m., Baynham 2:26 p. m., Trenton 2:10*$. ra.,;Park Hill 2:50 p. m. Arrive Edgefield 3:00 p. m. Schedule figures are shown as in-j formation and are not guaranteed. Fred R, McMillin, District Passenger Agent, 228 Eighth Street, Augusta, Ga. mm v; "Thedford's Black-Draught is the best all-round medicine lever used," writes J. A. Steehnan, of Pattonville, Texas. "I suffered terribly with liver troubles, and could get no relief. The doctors said I had con sumption. 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