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wKriA 1 iiAJ DRY GOODS, I CLO'J HATS A CLOAKS TRUNKS A SAWDIjES Ji At prices ranging from 50c to 75 ou ^. to oe sotu ar tUo ubovc pricesI cfnitgjjpbvfTo'iraVe the Inrpoat,- 4m cheapest, stock of goods ever ofibre 1 i I cordially incite inspection, bclievii well pleased, at the Batnc time the price The following prices will bring joy have long weighed down with, inelancht yru Invc not yet de ne year trading : Calicoes, Per ' Calico worth f>t Sold now at 4c. Calico (Ji " " 4J( Calico ?? 7 ?? ? 5. Extra Standard fine Calico worth I Parcalcs nearly yard wide worth 1 Fine I'rinted Satincs worth 10c so Solid colors. All shades, equal 1< WIDE The Slaughter of low Prices calls I counters wake responsive to the echo ai first class Store call synonymously, TUtf MAT aiiu 11 XI l Our figures ring defia 10,000 yds dresr goods at 6$ wort 15 l'icccs fine Worsted dress good; 12 " " Worsted Sliudahs ] Fine English Serge dress material 50 Pieces Fancy broaches 12$, 14 1( 35c per yd. elsewhere. Our dress depa novelties to be found in any house in tl Tricot's Camels Hair billiard cloths En; lllack French cashimor 35 worth ? Elk French Cashmero Lupous 45 Elk " * " 59 41 44 ii 44 QJ 44 C( 44 4 4 7 21 Elk Henrietta Lupous Dye 72$ t >i ?? tt 50J I invite the ladies that send North ft quality and prices and they will find tl buying their good- at homo wo have nl inntcli those dress goods including sill nud tassels and every trimming that is Elnck Silk the cheapo Elaek Silk good quality 52$ cent: it " it i? ?i gq it { " " extra 75 " Eonncts Elaek Silk from 80 to 85 Ladies Cloaks at 100, 125, 150, 250, 300, 350, 45fe600, 75 Ladies walking Jacket*^om 300 are sold at. Those.gooods are the lut Laces, Embroideries Puffiiuir. ltnti oq the*dollar. Laces nt lo, If, 2, 21, 3, 5, 8, 10, Trimmings iu great Variety at 2c The following prices are a puzzle to < at such prices. Iu prices like those we 144 good Buttons for 5c. Punts Buttons per box 10c. Dress Buttons 2 dozen for 5c. Buttons of all styles at less thun h Spool thread lc a spool. Pius 2c a paper. Load Pencils as good as Fubers lc Combs 5c worth 15. Combs 10 worth 25. Ribbons selling very cheap. Corsest 45c worth 85. Corsest 50 worth 90. ^ Corsets 65_yorth 125. Aj3*^5ur8b1f^rif worth. 150. V Those goods are guaranteed Qlovo Gti ^ Womens Shoes at 50, GO, 75, 90 at Ladies fiue Shoes 100, 125, 150, ! Ladies Coarser Kid buttoned Side than the smuo goods can bo b Men's Boots, Shoes nud brogans prices from 25c. up, those goo Chocked homespun Gi, 8, 10, thos Shirting by tho boalt at factory pr Pants Jeans. In those goods the pri< 10, 121, 15, 18, 20, 221 25, 30, 3 15, 18, 221 25, 30, 35, 40, 41 I have an immense stock of those gor In Clothing and hats I am tho King, iu tho County aud at prices never heard Full Suits commencing at tho redh goods would bo cheap for 50 oaaA^fwool suits at 850, 10, 12,50, w l<ino imported Worsted doagonal 814,815,817,50,820, worth Any oian wanting a suit can now be ?o easy. There is no use in a man corni buy next week or next month as the g > - MEN'S CHILDKE the latest and nobicst styles at very low Any person wanting to bhy ?00 We have won golden opinions from So, if yon want to be bappy, call at c now on the counters, at D. P. S. Some beautiful Ov Oct 20 nk.ku.pt sale, OF 500TS AND SHOES, CHI N G. N D CAPS, AND JCAKETS, lND YALICES, ^TVIJ> HARNESS. i the dollar. 815,000 worth of the ubovo goods * Mlmtfod.ujBtt'nHMe frshiouublc, as well as tJvc n the upper part of the^Sfttte. ng that the taste of the most, fastidious can bo s will be found to suit the most economical. 1 I ! ... uuu unppiness 10 maDy a uomo that high prices >)y; Read t'uoso bankrupt prices aud rejoice that cales and Satines. 5. 8e sold now at Gc. 0 and 12J sold G1 aud 8c. Id at GJc. 3 W AND F A 11 Lhe people to our couutcrs Union and adjoining id when in search of anything usually kept in a VIE OF FLYNN. nee to the markets of America, h 15c. s 10c worth 18c. L5c " 25c. 14c cheap at 22J. 5?, 18 and 20, those goods are worth from 20c to rtment is now filled with the tarcst and choicest ie State together with a complete Hue of Jersey ghish flannel Suiting etc. >0. ccuts, cheap at 65e. " 11 " 80c. " ' " 05c. " ?' ? 125c. " " " 75c. " " ? 85c. >r samples to bring them in and compare Shades lat they will save at least 20c on the dollar by Iso a fine Hue of trimmings of the latest stile to is Broehe, Velvets, Braids Bullet buttons Cord f ishionable. st et'cr seen in South Carolina, s worth 75c. " 85c. _ " 120c. i worth 130 and 150. %ortfr from 75 to 150. to 250 worth fifty per cent uroro. 2Ik), 250, 300, 400, aud 500, worth 150, 200, 5. to 750 "^firth 50c on the dollar more than they est ana most fashiooablo stiles. ding Lice ties collcrets Fshue.s Iuserting at 50c 15, worth at least double. per yd worth 5o. % wery porson to think how FLYNN can soil goods defy competition. all prico. each 12 for 10c. tiug. Keep yo ir eves open and see about shoes. id 100, worth 85, 05. 110, 125, 150. 175, worth 50c on the dollar more. lacc and Cougross Shoes at from 100 to 150 less ought elsewhere. a r* % . ? oacriuceu to make room Children* shoes at all ?da I am selling very cheap. 10 goods are a surprise, ices. ces are fearfully low, the prices arc as follows. 15, 40, 45, worth auywhero iit America at retail >, 50, GO. 75, ids but at those prices they cannot last long. I can fit any ago from 8 years to tho largest man of before. 3uleouslv low prices of 250, 350, 500, 700, thoso 0, 700, 900, 1400. rorth 700 a suit more. matlaso Granite and Scotch Ca.siiner Suits, at nearly double tho money, fitted but further on in the season it will not bo ng to cxainiuo a suit this week that will want to ;oods will be sure to be gone. 1, BO Y'S, AND 3n's hats, prices not more thun G5o on the dollar, ds for Cash this is a grand opportunity, all sorts of people. . nice and suit yourself out of tho baukrupt stock C. FLYNN'S, Leader of Low Prices. erconta very cheap. Gm ? wwr; JKitrUi. WORK ON A SCRUB FARM. Growing From Fight Hales of Cotton on Sixty Five Acres to One Hundred Hales, and How the Increase was Made.?Formula for Feeding the Farlh ? Startling Figures. Atlanta, Ga., September 30?I suppose the arc lew readers of th a Con* stitution who do not remember Parish Furs man. lie wasu bright and brainy senator in 1870, and?led the capital campaign against Atlanta?was mentioned for Congress ?and I always esteemed him as one of the best equipped and most capable of our young politicians. A few yoars ago he quit politics and went to farming. 1 heard that ho had settled ou a thin piece of land with poor prospects, aud, in common with many of his fricuds, thought ho had dropped out of affairs. At the last agricultural convention he electrified the older farmers of the State with the details of the most astoundiug five years' fJviwf imuc ia State, and is to day uioll, talked about iu the State than if ho had served in congress twenty years. 1 have heard the record of his wonderful work several times withiu the pa:t few months, and the comment with which it is usually greeted is, "I don't believe it." I simply say that I have the authority of at least three excellent gentlemen for the truth of t ie following tuain points : Furuian started work with sixty live acres of the very poorest land iu middh Georgia five years ngo. The fi-st year he made eight bales of cotton on the sixty five acres, or less than one bale to eight acres. This shows that it was the poorest of scrub land. The second year ho put 500 pounds of compost to the acre, ard made twelve bales of cotton where lie made eight bctoro. The third year he used 1,000 pounds of compost to the acre, increased the yield ou the 05 acres to 23 bales. The fourth year lie used 2.000 pouuds of compost to the acre and increased his crop to 47 bales on 05 acres The fifth year he used 4,000 pounds of compost to the acre, and has crop is certaiuly above 80 to tbc 05 acres, and may reach 100 bales. lie has done all his work with two plows and eighteen days extra plowing. His official and detailed statement shows that the total expeuscs were 82.300, and his net profit ?2,725, a lino recorcd on a two horse farm. In addition, the land that was worth ?5 an acre five years ago is now worth 8100 an acre. So with two mules this year be has raised at least eighty bales of cotton, l,00(Jlbushels of oats and 400 bushels of corn. Isn't that a better record than he could have made in congress '! Hasn't he done the State more good by this demonstration than he could have doue by teu years of political speeches ? WHAT MR. KUllMAN SAYS ARJUT IT I bad a talk with Furuiati to day. 11c is the very picture of health, prosperity and intelligent enthusiasm, with a pcrlectly independent iucQUic, and the secret of a better one in his hand, lie is truly a happy man. lie said to me : "When I determined to go to farming, five years ago, I saw that it would not do to farm in the old way . 1 saw farmers around uic getting poorer every day, though they worked like slaves. 1 saw them starring I hnir lat/i on ?K.?? " ?'?'? ~J- - ?uvt* muu av viiau UUUil JfCilT tUUIT y ICIU WilS j scantier, and their faruis less valuable. I saw that it was still (he plow following the axe, and that as fast as a farmer starved one piece of land he cleared out a new piece. With 800,000 immigrants pouring iuto ibis country annually, and the public domain virtually preempted I realized that this wasteful system must stop somewhere and soon. Worse than all, L saw that uiy own laud routed to small farmers WAS 25 PERCENT POORER AND LESS VALUABLE than it was a few years ago, aud that it would soon cease to pay me rcut. I knew that Georgia was blessed with the best conditions of scusou and soil and that, if properly treated, it.would yield large results. I therefore selected 05 acres of the poorest laud I had aud went to work. The first thing, of course, was to enrich the soil. To do this there was but one way to feed it, and to givo it more food than the crops took from it?and above all to give it tho proper food. I kuew that certain phosphatie manures stimulate! the soil so that it produced heavy crops for awhile and then fell off. I wa ited noue of this. I did not believe in soil analysis. That was not exact enough. TESTING TIIE APPETITE OK THE EARTH "What I wanted was to know exactly what a perfect cotton plant took frotu the soil. That ascertained, then to restore to tho soil exactly those eleme its in larger quantity than the crop had abstracted them. This is the basis of intp.nsivp f?rinw..? - ? ",,u it will always make laud richer year after yoar. I hsd a cotton plant analyzed, aud found that I needed eight elements in my manure, of which commercial fertilizers furnish only three and the soil only one, [ theretoro determined to buy chemicals and mix thorn with humus, uiuck, decayed loaves, stable manure and cotton seed, till 1 had secured exactly what was needed. I did so, and at last produoed a perfect compost for cotton. I then ascertained that my crop of oight bales hud taken out of each acre of my laud as much of the constituents of cotton as was held iu 250 pounds of my compost. 1 therefore put 500 pounds of compost on each acre, restoring double what the crop of the yoar before had taken out. Tho result was that I made four bales extra. 1 then restored double what the twelvo bales had taken out and made twenty three bales. 1 doubled tho restoration tho next year aud got forty-seven bales. I doubled again, and J this yoar have nt least eighty bales." ' "Hut does the extra manuring pay?" "Immensely. Ilero are my figures? 2.000 pounds of uiy coin post costs 87.25, or 82,00 a thousand pounds. Tho first year I put 500 pounds to the acre?cost 81,80 an acre, or 8111 for G5 acres, ltut my crop rose from 8 to 12 bales, the extra -1 bales giving n?c S200 surplus, or 882 not v? my manure. The next year my manure ( 1,000 pounds to aero ) cost 8224; but my crop increased to 22 bales from 8 on uninanured land. These extra bales give mo 8750 or net profit on manuro of S51G. The nextycar I used 2,000 pounds per acre at cost of 87 25 au aero or 8471 for total. Hut my orop went from 8 to 47Viles, giving increased income of 81,950, or net over cost of manure of about 81,500. This year I used 4,000 pounds to acre, costing 814, 50, or 8942 for total manure. Hut my crop is at least 80 bales with this mauure, where it was 8 wihout. This increase of 72 bales is worth 83.GOO. Deduct cost of manaren 8950, and w<^ have $2,650 as the profit o us<^ of manure. ACRE. 4 "Whore will you stop iu this progression ?" ' "I dou't kuow. I shall double iuv manuring next year, putting 8,000 pounds to the acre. I believe 1 will get 150 bales Iroin the G5 acres. I hope to push it up to three bales-an acre. L have a lew acres on which I put 10,000 pounds of compost as an cxpjrimt, ;\ud every acre of it will givo me throe bales this year." "Mr. Warthen raised five bales ;to the acre "Yes, but left his land poorer. lie pushed i's, stimulated it,]and took the very heart out of it. After taking off my enormous crop, I leave my laud richer than before. 1 cultivate my sixty-live acres with two plows, uud 1 will make 150 bales with those two plows on sixty-five acres. That , will bo glory euough for me, and will be a rvclation to the world. I believe I will get ninety bales this year wi'h two plows. 1 ( have already picked thirty bales and the best ( judges say hardly one-third is yet picked. This is an nstouudiug result, and simply ' shows what intensive farming will do." TI1E FORMULA FOR TI1E COMPOST. ( "llow do you make this compost?" , Here is my formula : Take thitty bushels well rotted stable manure or well rotted organic matter, a-> leaves, muck, etc , aud scattor it about three iuches thick upon a piece of ground so sit- , uated that water will not stand on it. but , shed off in. every direction. The thirty bushels will weigh about niuo huudred l pounds; take two huudred pounds of good , acid phosphate, which cost mo 822 51) per \ ton, delivered, uiakiug the 200 pjuuds cost | 82 25, aud 100 pounds kainit, which cost , mo by the ton 811, delivered, or 70 cents for 100 pounds, aud uiix the acid phosphate and kainit thoroughly, tUtf.u scatter evenly on tlrff manure. Tike next, thirty -bushels green cuUouseed ami distribute evenlv over will Bj^jdml pounds, take again pounds acid phosphate aud pounds kninit, mix, and spread fftflfjllHpMd, begin again on the rnanuro sriijft^fon iu this way, building up your heap Layer by layar until you got it as high.as couveuicnt, the cover vftth six Inches of rich earth from fence corners, aud . leave at least six weeks; wheu ready to haul to the field cut witha spado or piulcax square down aud mix as thoroughly us possible. Mow, wo havo thirty bushels of manure , weighing nine hpudred pounds, aud three hundred pounds chemicals iu the first layer, and thirty bushels cotton seed, weighing nine hundred pounds and three huudred ( pounds of chemicals in vthc second layer, { and these two layers <%ombiucd form the perfect compost. Yoi perceivo that the weight is 2,400 pounds. YuIqc at cost is: 30 bushsls cotton soqd, 12J cts. 3 75 400 pounds acid phosphate. 4 50 200 pounds k^iuit^ 1 40 Stable mOTTUrcllOminaL Total. $0, G5 Or for 2,400 pounds a total value of 80 05. This uiixturo makes practically a perfect manure for cotton and a splendid application for corn. "This restores to the soil everything tho cotton took from it ?" "Except siiiea, which is in tho soil iu inexhaustible quantity. So that when you put in a larger quantity of these than the cotton took out, your soil is evidoutly richer." You do uot believe iu commercial fertilizers ?" j "In a certain respect. Tlicro arc many fertilizers that arc made with a view to j showy results that really parch and impoverish tho laud, besides taking all the farmer's cash. 1 do not believe in them. Hut the chemicals that arc prepared for composting arc very reliable, nud wo could uot do with- i out them. Tbo secret of success is buying l these chemicals judiciously and composting I with leaves, humus, cotton seed, etc. No I farmer can succeed peruiaucutly without I composting. The greatest waoto in the < south is with stable manure. Many farmers i never think of saving it In Ohio t he coin- i post raised ou one 55 acre farm, from teu i head of horses and thirty head of cattle in i one year, was estimated by the State chcm- i ist at 82,650, and scattered 40,000 pounds ] to the acre, made a net profit of 8500 an < acre. i "Another thing is, that our farmers do l not appreciate cotton seed. That comes i nearer to being apcrfoct fertilizer than any one thiug iu the world And yet over 100000 bushels was sold at my depot but for a | trifl - and hauled away." You do not believe in cotton seed mills 1 then ?" "Yes I do I think the seed is just as i i good a fertilizer after tlic oil is extracted as before. The trouble is, when it is sent ?o the oil mill it never comes back Once made into cotton uieal it is sen' to England for stoek fool, and the Georgia farm is rob bed of it. "You see the English or northern farmer can afford to pay more for it than we can, because he feeds it to his stock, and then saves the droppings of the stock. In this way be fattens bis cattle with it and still uses it as a manure after it has permraied this funetiou. NVo do not reach the economy because we havu't the stoek to feed it to and because we do not save the manure of the stock we do feed. The ideal system would be to take tho seed to an oil mill, sell the right to the oil. have tho pressed cake returned, feed it to stock and then return it to tho soil tn the shape of droppings from the animals. This will come in time. It is one of the results of the inteusivc system of farming. Tho more manure wc need for compost, the more sheep and cattle we'll millions .rC .tii ~ t* n - vi uvnars annually irom tno tailurc to pen our stock at night. There is nocxcu-o for any Gcorgiau stayiug poor or starving his land. 'With his cotton seed and stable manure saved aud composted with decayed leaves, pine straw, etc., any farmer can become rich if he wants to and double the value of his laud in three years." "ilow much compost should be used to the acre ? ' It is hard to use too much. In France the average is 20,000 pounds to the aero. A Georgia farmer will hardly average 100 pounds to the aero. I will average 10,000 pounds next year. Nothing pays so well." How do you scatter so mueh to the acre ?" "Simplest thing in the world. 1 star tt two-diorso wagon through the Gold. 1 put eight negroes with half bushel baskets without handles under their amies in the track of each wagon. They sift the compost out of the baskets as they walk along, aud have their baskets filled from the wagon." I have changed the position of uiy cotton-rows four inches to the right every year, so that the compost would be thrown in new strips every year. In this way I have fertilized my whole field, instead of enriehiug the same rows year alter year. 1 shall hereafter broadcast it." "Your whole secret then is cheap and intelligent manure, aud plenty of it? "Yes. I've shown you the money profit in manure. I've shown you the added value it gives to land. There are many other advantages. You make your crop quicker and will loss danger. 1 made last year?mark this?17 bales on 05 acres in three months and Gve days. It was planted June 5th aud the caterpillar finished it on September 10th. I showed the agricultural society a stalk five feet high with 120 bolls by actual count ou it. The seed from which this plant grew was planted iust til'tv nine days before. Cotton grown this way can be pioked with halt' the cost and time of ordinary coltqu. On uiy cotton land this year I raised one liuudred bushels of oats to tho acre, and after cleaning off the stubble I plauted the cotton, one stalk of which I showed the couventiou." Of course in your five year6 of study you have discovered other improvements in cotton planting V "Certainly. Ouo is not to drop the cotton seed in a continuous row, but simply to put a few seed iu the hill whero you want anlaot. By strewing the seed in a spriu kfed row there is a great waste. A cotton seed is like an egg. Whcu the chick is born there is nothing but tho shell left. When the seed has sprouted there's nothing but the shell left. The fertilising power of this seed is lost. Worse than this. It draws from the soil tor the elements that mako it grow. It is left to deplete the soil iu this way lor two weeks at least, aud is then chopped down, leaving only one out of twenty plants to grow to fruitage. My plan is to plant four or five seed iu a hill, tho hills to stand in four feet squares. Of these I would let two plants to tho hill grow to perfeotion. It takes from two to lour bushels of seed to plant an aero iu tho old way. By my pluu a peek to tbo acre is enough, and the soil is uot drawn on to support a multitude of surplus plants for two orthrec weeks." ' Is planting in four foot squares better than tlio oM way ?" Yes, cotton is a sun plant and needs room for its roots. When cramped to 12 or 15 inches it cannot attain its perfect growth. My ?aim is to put the plants two together in four foot squares, and average 75 to 150 bolls to the plant. This will g<vc uie a pound of seed cotton to the plaut, or three bales to the acre." 1IK NEVER HOES IIIS COTTON. ''What about hoeing your cotton ?" ' I never touch it with a hoe. The growth of cotton comes from the spreading filaments that reach out from the root aud feed it. If these are destroyed the growth stops till they arc restored. I aui satisfied three hoeings lost mo eighteen days of growth, or six days each. 1 run a shallow plow along the cotton rows, aud never go deep enough to cut the roots. ' 15ut there are aiore details in which meu may differ. The main thing is the intensive system of manuring aud the husbanding all the drop pings and wastage of the farm compost. I Ban tale any 100 acres of land in Georgia, and at a nominal cost can bring its production from a sixth of a bale to three bales an acre in five years. Any man can do it." "Is your system getting many followers." "My tenants are adopting the intensive plan, aud arc very much encouraged. Some low neighbors are using my formula. 1 have sent out, I suppose, 500 formulas for composting. The speech I made before the ngricultur il a social ion created more excite '* uicnt (Iiuii anything iu years. The members lid net relish my statements, 1 saw plainly. They sent Mr. K 0. Grier. the secretary, to Millediriv.lie losic toy crops and verity my statements lie is to d ty the most enthusiastic man in Georgia over the system L am working on." "You understand," added Mr. Fururin in conclusion, "that I have no possible interest iu this matter out side of u.y crops. 1 have no receipt to sol . no phosphate--, no laney seed, no luid \\ hat I have done h is been with couiun-n sued on p..or laud, with cheap manure, and any uian, without price or purchase, can do what I have d me I am satisfied to make my ninny out of the ground, and I want uone Ironi my fellow firincrs." "Are you enlarging your work ?" Yes, but slowly. The difficulty with us all is that we try to farm too much laud. I'm good for $3,000 with two uiu!cs and sixty five acres. Next year I'll beat this. In the meantime, I :?.ni ' briugiug up" twcii corn and oats I need.'* "Tarn anxious," ho added, "to see uiy plan adopted. If it is done we shall have t._ u o. . ? tuc.ucsi oi.iiiu iu me wotiu. WUy, look at France! Her recuperative power is the wonder of the world. And w hat is it based on ? Simply that she can raise two crops ? one of these a lentil crop?in one season. Hut iu middle Georgia I can raise throe crops per season on a piece of land and leave it richer than when i started, viz : oats, cotton or corn, and poas. There is nothing like it. Give me 10U acres of land like the 6.) I owu now, and I don't want an orange grove, or a factory, or a truck farm, or anything else. I can live on my 100 acres of Georgia scrub land like a king, and lay up money every year. Auy Georgiau can liavu this in Gvc years, if lie wants it. The rule I have fallowed will bring it, just as surely as the sun brings heat and light." And yet the best class of tbe State University graduated 23 lawyers, 0 j lurnalists, and uot a single farmer. 11. \\\ G. Auoutan Eaklikii Comet.?In view of the reigning uncertainty as to the cornel of 1881, it may be timely to reproduce from the Urbaaa fill ) Constitution of May, 18f)7, the following interesting but irreverent speculations touching the comet which was expected to strike the earth ou June 13th of that year : ''Zimmerman, after observ ing the 'critter* carefully with the instruments oflhcUrbina trass band, comes to the conclusion : " 'That the comet will not strike the earth ; but. ' 'That if it does strike it it will never do it a -ccoud time. " 'In any case, however, to auy geulleuian who holds opiuious different from the above and is willing to back his views to ? lit.of. ed extent, in order to arrive at the truth iu this momentous matter, we hereby make the fullowing propositions: " '1- We will wager $20,000, more or less, than if the comet offers to strike, we will dodge it before it docs; in other words that it can't be brought to the scratch. " '2. A like sum that, if it docs strike, it will be knocked higher nor a kito. " '3 Twenty-five times the above amounts iu case the comet strikes it wun't budge tl.e earth six iuchts by actual measurement. " "4 A like amount that after the Comet strikes its tail drops. " l5. An optional sum that the earth cau knock the couiet furthei than the comet cau kuoek the earth, uine times out of eleven. u lG. That after the comot is through striking the earth it will never want to striko anybody else. " 'These propositions are intended to cever the case of uny gentlemen ou this globe or ou the comet or elsewhere. ' 'Money to be deposited in the banks of Newfoundland. " 'Time of striking and other arrangements to be fixed by the parties. " 'Applicants for bets have a right to select any cornet they choose.' " Cotton Sekl> Oil.?It is only a few years since both master and servant indie uantly dcuicd that cotton seed in any s iape was ever used as human food; now the refined oil is as generally used in the cuisine of tho rich as in the simple diet of the poor A year's expert nee in using it as a substitute for various other fats has given convincing proof that it may tako the place of any of them. For frying purposes it is superior as it doos not scorch as quickly as anything else and gives a richer flavor to sontc things, like ludian meal pancakes. It is excellent for fry ing fish and doughnuts ; the latter do not fat soak as readily as in lard, and tho oil left over is even better to use again.? Mrs. W. S. Thomas, in Rural New Yvrk Never let go a good thing you raally havo for a better thingabout which there is somo doubt. The du<r ill the fable who itrenrwwl D ? rr? a piece of meat to snap at a shadow went hungry the rest of the day. A Williamsburg debating society is 110 ving itself up to wrestle with the qucttion, ''When a woman and a mouse meet, which i- the tno.-l frightened i % -j - ; 1: