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SEND FOR THEM FARMERS' BULLETINS THAT WILL BE SENT FREE.. These Papers Are Gotten Up by Government Exi>erts for the Bene fit of the People. We publish below a list of Farm ers' Bulletins that are sent out by the Government free to all who ask for them. Write to the Agricultural Department, Washington, D. C., for such of them as you think will be of interest to you in your particular line of farming or housekeeping. Always Order by the numbers. Pre serve this list for future reference. There is hardly a problem of farm, soil, stock, garden and housekeeping managsment that has not been stud ied by experts of the United States Department of Agriculture; the re sults carefully compiled, and em bodied in one or more bulletins. These bulletins are usually written in simple language and style, often il lustrated by drawings and pictures that aid in explaining the test, so that any one who can read may take in the meaning. 22. The feeding of Farm Animals. 24. Hog Cholera and Swine Plague. 28. Weeds: How to Kill Them. 32. Silos and Silage. 33. Peach Growing for Market. 35. Potato Culture. 36. Cottonseed and.its Products. 42. Facts About Milk. 4 4. Commercial Fertilizers. 4 7. Insects Affecting the Cotton Plant. 4S. The Manuring of Cotton. 49. Sheep Feeding. 51. Standard Varieties of Chick ens. 54. Some Common Birds. 55. The Daily Herd. 5S. The Soy Bean as a Forage ! Crop. 59. Bee Keeping. 60. Methods of Curing Tobacco. 61. Asparagus Culture. 62. Marketing Farm Products. 66. Meadows and Pastures. 71. Essentials in Beef Production. 77. The Limiug of Soils. 50. The Peach Twig-Borer. 51. Corn Culture in the South. 52. The Culture of Tobacco. 53. Tobacco Soils. 86. Thirty Poisonous Plants. 91. Potato Diseases and Treat ment. 9G. Raising Sheep for Mutton. 9 5. Suggestions to Southern Farmers. 99. Insect Enemies of Shade Trees. 100. Hog Raising in the South. 101. Millets. 102 Southern Forage Plants. 104 Notes on Frost. 106. Breeds of Dairy Cattle. 110. Rice Culture in the United States._ 113. The Apple and How to Grow IIS. Grape Growing in the South. 120. Insects Affecting Tobacco. 126. Practical Suggestions for Farm Buildings. 127. Importaut Insecticides. 132. Insect Enemies of Growing Wheat. 135. Sorgum Syrup Manufacture. 137. The Angora Goat. 138. Irrigation of Field and Gar den. 145. Carbon Bisulphide as an In secticide. 147. Winter Forage Crops for the South. 150. Clearing New Land. 152. Scabies in Cattle. 154. The Home Fruit Garden; Preparation and Care. 155. How Insects Affect Health in Rural Districts. 150. The Home Vineyard. 157. The Propagation of Plants. 159. Scab in Sheep. 161. Practical Suggestions for Fruit GroA-e-s. 164. Rape as a Forage Crop. 170. Principles of Morse Feeding. 17:'. Primer of Forestry. 17 1. Broom Corn. J 77. Squab Raising. 179. Horseshoeiug. 151. Pruning. 153. Meat on the Farm; Butch ering, Curing and Keeping. 1S7. Drainaga of Farm Lands. 192. Barnyard Manure. 194. Alfalfa Seed. 19C. Usefulness of the American Toad. 195. Strawberries. 199. Coin Growing. 205. Pig Management. 206. Milk Fever and Its Treat ment. 213. Raspberries. 217. Esential Steps in Securing an Early Crop of Cotton. 220. Tomatoes. 229. The Production of Good Seed Corn. 2:; 1. Spraying for Cucumber and Melon Diseases. 235. Preparation of Cement Con crete. 2 4 2. An Example of Model Farm ing. 243. Fungicides and Their Use in Preventing Diseases of Fruits. 245. Renovation of Worn-out Soils. 246. Saccharine Sorghums for Forage. 250. The Prevention of Wheat Smut and Loose Smut of Oats. 253. The Germination of Seed Corn. 2",7. Soil Fertility. 25S. Texas or Tick Fever and Its Prevention. 261. The Cattle Tick. 264. The Brown-Tail Moth and How to Control it. 266. Management of Soils to Con serve Moisture. 268. Industrial Alcohol; Sources and Manufacture. 269. Industrial Alcohol; Uses and Statistics. 272. X. Successful Hog and Se-id Co;n "aim. 277. The Use of Alcohol and Gas *-The-* Scrap Book In a Bad Way. A doctor came up to a patient in an i-'.sane asylum, slapped him on the V ck and said: "Well, old man. you're all right. You can run along and v.-rite your folks that you'll be back home in two weeks as good as new." The patient went off gayly to write bis letter. He bad it finished and sealed, but when he was licking the stamp it slipped through his fingers to the floor, lighted on the back of a cockroach that was passing and stuck. The patient hadn't seen the cock roach. What he did see was his es caped postage stamp zigzagging aim lessly across the floor to the base board, wavering up over the baseboard and following a crooked track up the wall and across the ceiling. In de- j pressed silence he tore up the letter that he had just written and dropped the pieces on the floor. "Two weeks: Hell!" he said. "1 won't be out of here in three years." LA UGHTERLA N'D. All aboard for Laughterland! 'Tis a pleasant place, Where Hie sua of happiness Shines in every face. Where the cares of this old world Quickly are forgot And there's .never any cloud, Any pain or blot. All aboard for Laughterland, Region of delight! Can be reached by any who Set about It right. First you shake your troubles off, Then begin to smile And you'll go to Laughterland In a little while. Children dwell In Laucrhterland 'Cause they do not know What makes grownup people bear Burdens as they go. Light hearts sock for Laughterland. Optimists go there? Oh. It is the gladdest place Known of anywnere! What About the Other Eye? A sum II boy was playing with the scissors, and his kindly old graudmoth er cbided him. "You mustn't play with the scissors, dear. I Know a little boy like you who was playing with a pair of scissors just like that pair, and he put them In his eye and put bis eye out. and he could never see anything after that." The child listened patiently aud said when she got through the narrative: "What was the uiatter with his other eye?" Mark Twain's Game of Billiards. Oue day Mark Twain was iu a bil liard saloon, when a particularly un prepossessing looking man approached him and asked him to play a game. The humorist consented, aud they be gan in earnest. "I'll be perfectly fair with you." said the stranger. "I'll play you left hand ed." "1 felt hurt." said Mark Twain w'h\m he told the story, "for he was cross eyed, freckled and had red hair, so 1 determined to teach him a lesson for his audacity. But he won first shot ajuL_riln_i'leuil outl_aaldjQ^Jiiv__haI? dollar. aud all I got was the oppor tunity to chalk my cue." The wonderful play of his opponent so astonished Mark that he exclaimed. "Great Scott, if you can play like that with your left hand I'd like to see you play with your right!" "I can't." replied the stranger as he sidled out of the room. "You see, I'm left handed." Her Own Doctor. A Washiugtou woman recently hired a negress. Going to the kitchen one day she was amazed to find the negress sitting on the floor, with her hair staudiug out from the bead like a black nimbus. The girl was pulling one curly lock and theu another in such a way as to suggest that she had sud denly lost her reason. "What ou earth are you doing. Mary?" gasped the lady of the house. "Xawthin", ma'am, only 1 has got a sore throat an' was jest tryin' to find de lock dat would pull mah palate up an' relieve de tickle." Optimist and Pessimist. Sidney Rosenfeld ouce wrote a com edy eutitled "The Optimist." which achieved success after its production, but was a long time reaching the stage. Manager after manager refused the manuscript, and one day Mr. Ro senfeld, whose patience was exhaust- J ed. blurted out to his sole auditor: "Of course you don't appreciate the play! You dou't even know the mean ing of its name!" "Yes. 1 do." protested the Impresario. "Well." insisted Iloseufeld. "what's the diflereuee betweeu au optimist and a pessimist'.'" The manager barely hesitated. "An optimist is an eye doctor." he said: "a pessimist is a foot doctor." Be Yourself Always. Whatever you are by nature, keep to it. Never desert your owu Hue of tal ent Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. Be any thing else and you will be ten thou sand times worse than uothiug.?Syd ney Smith. And Dear at That! lu the story <>f his life Hall Caine tells the following anecdote of Rossetti: "Going one day with some of his artist friends to a tavern in So bo, Ros setti came upon an oil painting of the crudest color and most hideous de sign, so huge as to cover the whole side of a room and so grotesque In subject that they all hurst into roars of laughter at the sight of it. Such unseemly merriment nettled the tav ern keeper, who began to remonstrate. oline in Farm Engines. 27S. Leguminous Crops for Green Manuring. 279. A Method of Eradicating Johnson Grass. 2S0. A Profitable Tenant Dairy Fa rm. 282. Celery. 284. Insect and Fungous Ene mies of the Grape East of the Rocky Mountains. 255. The Advantage of Planting Heavy Cottonseed. 256. Comparative Value of Whole " 'Well, well.' said Rossetti. with a | wink at all round, -bow much will you j take for it?' ?"More money than you've got inj the world, youug tuau.' replied the tav ern keeper. And then Rossetti, now ' nettled in his turu. said: "'Really! We'll see. Say the word ?how ujucb?' '"Five hundred pounds.' "Then the young painters burst into screams of laughter. Rossetti's laugh ter being loudest of all. The tavern keeper stood sileut until they were finished and then said to Rossetti: " 'Well, bow much will you give for it?' "'Five shillings.' said Rossetti. '" 'Done!' said the tavern keeper. 'Take it away at once!' " insisted on a Miracle. Dr. Walter C. Smith, the popular Scotch poet-preacher, on oue occasion tried to explain to au old lady the meaning of the Scriptural expression, "Take up thy bed aud walk." by say ing that the bed was simply ? mat or rug easily taken up and carried away. "No. no!" replied the lady. "1 canna believe that. The bed was a regular four poster. There would be no mir acle iu walking away wi' a bit o' mat or rug on your back." Making It Plain. In the course of his sermon the preacher in a rural district used tue word phenomenon. This word caused one ot the members some trouble, for he was unable to attach any meaning to it. Finally he determined to seek an explanation from the minister and at the close of the service approached him on the subject. "What did you mean by that there long word yer used iu yer sermon?" be began. "Oh. 1 see you do net know what a phenomenon is." replied the minister. "Well, have you ever sceu a cow grnz tag in a field iu which thistles were growing?" "Yes; many a time." "That is uot a phenomenon. And no doubt you have ofteu listened to a lark singing merrily away up in the clouds?" "Yes." "That, agaiu. is not a phenomenon. But if you saw that cow sitting on a thistle singing like a lurk that would be a phenomenon." The Editor's Comment. An erratic Memphis editor was a great admirer of John Sharp Williams, though he had never seen him. This editor iu blind faith printed column after column in praise of the "gentle man from Yazoo." There was not an edition that didn't have something ex alting Williams, aud one day John Sharp, ou his way home from Wash ington, dropped off at Memphis to get something to eat iu the railroad res taurant. It was early in the morning, and the editor was eating at the same place after a night of work. The pro prietor called the congressman's atten tion to the editor. "John," said the restaurant manager, "that fellow over there has been saying some pretty nice things about you." "I'd like to meet him," said Williams. So the ed itor w?as bromrJir_m:er/_jm lie rubbed his baud across his face wearily several times and said: "Wil liams? Williams? What? The con gressman?" "Yes." modestly assented that gentleman, "the same." "You're not John Sharp Williams?" "There's no question about my identity." broke in the somewhat exasperated Williams, rather testily. "Well, all I cau say is." muttered the editor as he shook hands with the statesman, "you're a ? sight brighter than you look." Bearing Others' Burdens. This is the paradox of experience that the way to bear one's burdens is to add to them the bearing of some oue else's. The way out of your own trial is by entering inio the trials ot others. The introspective aud self ab sorbed sorrow grows heavier the lon ger you watch it, and the sell forget ting service of another lightens the burdeu which you yourself have to bear. The more you shirk the more you have to bear. The more you add of others' responsibilities the more you substraet from your own.?Pro fessor F. G. Pea body, Harvard Uni versity. Posting the Duke. When Grand Duke Alexis of Russia was in Kansas in 1872 be was enter tained at a great banquet in Topeka This was served at the old Fifth Ave nue hotel, then the town's swellcsl hostelry, and it was gorgeously dee orated. A noted politician ">f those days was sin?wing the distinguished guest around. Alexis saw a big sign in the banquet room, on which was emblazoned the motto of Kansas. "Ad Astra Per Aspera!" The duke was looking at it closely when I he politi cian, swelling with importance and waving his fat hand toward the in scription, blurted out. "Them's Latin, your highness?them words is Latin!" He Knew Where John Was Going. "I canna' leave ye thus. Nancy." a good old Scotchman wailed. "Ye're too auld to work, an' ye eouldn' live in the almshouse. Gin I die. ye maun marry anither man. wha'll keep ye in comfort in yer auld age." "Nay. nay, Andy." answered the good spouse. "I could na wed anither man. for what wad I do wi" twa hus bands in heaven?" Andy pondered long over this, but suddenly his face ; brightened. I "I hae it. Nancy!" he cried. "Ye ken ' auld John Clemmens? He's a kind man. but he is na a member o' the kirk. He likes ye. Nancy, an' gin ye'II marry him 'twill be nil the same in heaven. John's na Christian." ? Suc cess Magazine. Cottonseed and Cottonseed Meal in Fertilizing Cotton. J 2SS. Non-Saccharine Sorghums. 290. The Cotton Boll Worm. I 292. Cost of Filling Soils. 297. Methods of Destroying Rats. I 299. Diversified Farming Under the Plantation System. 300. Some Important Grasses and Forage Plants for the Gulf Coast Region. 302. Sea Island Cotton; Its Cul ture, Improvement and Diseases. 303. Corn Harvesting Machinery. I Cumd9^ I 'Pipes * 4* J By MARION DEXTER. t 4 _ 4? Copyrighted. 1909, by Associated if! 41 Literary Press. ??? Ih.,*..;..:..1..j. - ? * 4. h'4'h > '??k .j..j..;.,t?^ Jan Vanderstreet was without doubt und by unanimous consent, especially his own. the leading citizen of the lit tle painted village of Dyk held. Therefore when be imparted to his fellow citizens the information 4bat he bad bought a large tract of land in America, where fortunes were to be made in an Incredible hurry, half a hundred very substantial and phleg matic Hollanders marshaled their fam ilies after grave deliberation and em barked with him, after selling their queer little painted houses and tulip gardens and cows with true Dutch tiirift. Jan Vanderstreet took with him bis wonderful collection of pipes, famed throughout all Gelderland and even beyond that beautiful district. He also took with him what be valued al most as much as his pipes?his very buxom and still blooming wife, bis blooming daughter. Ankle, and his blooming orphaned niece. Johanna de Koop. The only member of the party of Holland ndveuturers who was not tru ly substantial, according to sound Dutch standards, was Dirk Van Pelt. Mynheer Vanderstreet had frowned on his admission as a member of the solemn exodus. But Dirk had cunning ly used such un-HolIandllke baste in putting his entire patrimony of $1.000 into the speculation that he had an In terest in it before the more deliberate mynheer knew it. Jan Vanderstreet did not like this at all. The trouble was that Dirk was altogether too fond of Ankle. If the broftd shouldered, sturdy, handsome youth had only exhibited enough sense to be fond of some one not in the Van derstreet family the mynheer might have felt quite glad to have him in the party, for Dirk was not at all dis agreeable to anybody, with his kind j smile and bis readiness to help every j one who needed it. Mynheer Vanderstreet determined to keep close watch during the voyage, j But what could one do on shipboard? Could a worthy Dutchman of live and sixty be expected to go on guard over hi.-, daughter when all the men folks were stinking their pipes on deck, telling talcs of the past and speculat ing about the future? Truly not. The chnperonnge of Ankle was there fore left to her mother. But even on shipboard that industrious Dutch housewife could not be idle, and when one has a huge stocking and a ball of yarn, also a set of knitting needles, in band it is not always convenient to follow a wlll-o'-tbe-wisp of a girl. Besides. Johanna was always with her cousin, and lovemaking when a third person is present is not so easy to carry on. At least so argued Mis Treas^nrhTIeTSTTTOtr mrgiHtliig?nrar there Is a language of the eye which expresses as (dearly as speech what is in one's heart and that a pressure of the band may convey an assurance of love just as plainly as if one said aloud. "I love you." Although Dirk had little opportunity of telling Ankle of his love by word of mouth, that he was her devoted slave and wished for no greater happiness than to call her Iiis wife. Ankle knew what was in his heart, because she re turned his love. By the end of the voyage Dirk knew that her heart was In his keeping, and he determined to wrest from the soil of the prairie a living that would enti tle him to old Vanderstreet's respect. Busy days followed the arrival of the Hollanders in the little Iowa set tlement. Ground was broken, teams pun based, grain sowed and houses erected. The Vanderstreet residence was tiie must pretentious in the place, but the cottage built by Dirk Van Pelt was ns pretty a little Dutch homo as any ro mantic girl would wish. I Vines were planted and soon grew about the porch, a bed of tulips flaunt ed gayly coli.red blossoms in the front yard, and a kitchen garden flourished in tiie rear. Things soon prospered with Dirk, ami after six months df anxious wait ing he ventured to cnll,on Jan Vander strcet to ask for the hand of bis daughter. The mynhenr, with unusual promptness. Immediately gave Dirk t<> understand thai be wished t<> bear no m?re of the matter at;d very politely intimated thai the doors of the Van derstreet residence would bo closed thenceforth In him. Disappointed, but n>t discouraged, Dirk went slowly home, vowing to himself with genuine Holland deter mination that be would never give up the girl be loved. His resolution was strengthened by the sight of Ankle standing at the win dow holding out a letter, which she dropped and he picked up. The letter told him that she would be his. with or without her father's blessing, and bade him have patience. Dirk continued to vork his little place industriously, hoping to hoar from Ankle. But three weeks elapsed before he had an opportunity of talk ing with Inr. He left her presence, feeling much encouraged, and fell asleep that night more hopeful. He was awakened from sweet dreams of his love by the cry of lire. Throwing on his clothes, lie rushed from the house. The town was al ready aroused, and down the streets the people came running in all stages of dress, the clatter of their wooden 310. A Successful Alabama Diver sification Farm. 311. Sandy-Clay and Burnt-Clay Roads. 312. A Successful Hay Farm. 313. Harvesting and Storing Corn. 315. Progress in Legume Inocula tion. :: 1 8. Cowpeas. 319. Demonstration Work in Co operation With Southern Farmers. 321. . The Use of the Split-log Drag on Earth Roads. shoes making as much noise as thi modern lire engine. "It is Jan Vanderstreet's!" some one screamed. "The place is doomed!" On hearing these words Dirk ran faster than before and outstripped the crowd. When he readied the house he found the family coming out, laden with plunder, and heard Mistress Vanderstreet exclaim: "No more must we go back! It is not safe, and It Is better to lose one's goods than oue's life!" "Cut my pipes! My precious pipes!" cried old Jan, all his phlegmatic rest fulness gone. "I must get them!" Uis wife seized him firmly by the arm. "That you shall not do. Everything Is afire. I will not let you risk your life for a set of worthless pipes." "Worthless pipes!" thundered Jan. "Flow dare you speak so? They are a part of my life. I have been collect ing them all my life long, until now more than a hundred hang in rar rack. And must 1 .lose them all because of your hard headedness? Let me go, 1 say; let me go!" lie struggled wildly in her grasp, but it was in vain. Mistress Vauder street was a very strong and a nobly determined woman and hold him iu so firm a grip he could do naught but writhe and groan. Dirk Van Pelt had a great emotion and reached a great determination with an almost American swiftness. Ho knew that the rafters of the blaz ing house would fall in soon?might tumble In crimson ruin at any mo ment. But not in vain did he have in j his veins the blood of the wonderful race that cut the dikes and drowned their beloved land rather than yield it to the invaders. He went to a tank of wafer and wet his coat. Throwing it over his head. I he plunged into the burning house, not heeding the shrill cry of disirc:;s which Issued from the Hps of the trembling Ankie. j Five minutes of dreadful suspense followed, during which the rafters fell in and sent the sparks flying upward in a mad shower. Surely no one could live in such a place. Ankle, moaning plteously, sank to the ground, heed less of the crowd of spectators, and burst out into wild weeping. Suddenly a shout of joy arrested her attention, and, sitting up. she saw j through a mist of tears the form of [ Dirk issuing from the burning Iinuse^ He staggered like a drunken man un-' der the weight of a huge rack which i held the precious pipes, not one of ' which was missing. I Straight to the man who had refused ! him his daughter's hand stumbled I Dirk Van Pelt. Then as old .lan took i the burden from him the young man ! fell senseless at his feet. When he opened his eyes. .Tnn Vnn ? derstrect was standing by him, tears streaming down his cheeks. lie took Dirk's hand, raying brokenly: "A house one can soon acquire, but such a treasure of pipes?ah, that takes a very lifetime to acquire. Such a deed ns yours. Dirk, is worthy of any re I ward. What can I do to repay you?" Raising himself on his elbow. Dirk summoned Ankie, who was hovering near. Then, with a determined glance, he signified to her father what reward -Tie wraueu.1 . -? "So," said Jan slowly, "you still want Ankie? I have already told you she was not for you, but?take her, Dirk Van Pelt. She is yours. Ah, what a collection of pipes! What coloring! What noble bowls and what grand stems!" "Ankle is worth all the pipes that ever were made or ever will be made," protested the happy lover, holding her hand tightly In his own and gazing adoringly into her tender blue eyes. I "Perhaps so, perhaps so," muttered Jan absently, "but such pipes as mine"? He turned and summoned a man ,to help him carry the rack of matchless pipes to a place of safety and left the lovers still looking happily into each other's eyes. Arbitrated. Conversation among travelers is fre quently absurdly trivial. After several days together, as on shipboard, every one is Idle and talks about the most unimportant matters with the deepest interest. R. H. Milligan in a book en tilled "The Jungle Folk of Africa" re counts with what complacency the conclusion was reached that the thir teen colonies should never have re belled and that the blame was all on the side of England. One man, moreover, disclosed the fact that he always wore safety pins Instead of garters and descanted upon his preference with such enthusiasm that he made at least one convert. one night we put in practice the principle of arbitration, of which we were all adherents. An argument had arisen among us as to which was the more simple of the two currency sys tems, dollars and cents or pounds, shil lings and pence. At last, the captain arriving, we deelded to refer the mat ter to him and to surrender our judg ment to his arbitration. The captain, an Englishman of the very stolid sort, after a period of re flection replied very slowly and with all the gravity of a judge: "Pounds, shillings and pence is the simpler system, for don't you know that when you are told the price of a thing In dollars and cents you always have lo convert It into pounds, sail ings and pence." There was a little objection to this theory, but In general it was perfectly satisfactory so lung as the voyage lasted. In Practice. "What kind of an auto are yon going to buy?" "A secondhand one." "Good as new. I suppose." "It ought to be. It has killed thn>e men." 324. Sweet Potatoes. 320. Building Up a Run-down Cotton Plantation. 327. The Conservation of Natural Resources. 333. Cotton Wilt. 338. Mtc-r'ani Roads. 339. A'falfa. 334. The Boll Weevil Problem. A simple worm went out to play I'pon an April morning; An early robin chanced that way Without a chirp of warning; And that is the end of the story. 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Handsome, sim ple, satisfactory and guaranteed. In order to se cure the lamp you must suve your cash slip that you get with your pur chase, and as soon as they amount to $20 you are entitled to the lamp. Some customers are asking for the lamp before trading out the $20 and in tbis event 1 will let them have the lump, but they must deposit tho $20 with me, when I will open an account with them and they can trade out the amount as they like. The prices on g?/?itls will not be changed to offset the price of the lamp, and there Is no fake whatever. Come in and Inspect. B. J. MIXSON.