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"CASOKRETS" FOR LIVER, BOILS Wo sick headache, biliousness, bad taste or constipation by morning. Get a 10-cent box. Aro you koPninp- vnnr lini.nlo ?nd stomach clean, pure and fresh with Cascarcts. or merely forcing a passageway every few days with Salts, Cathartic Pills, Casto- Oil or Purgative Waters? Stop having a bowel wash-day. Lei Cascarets thoroughly cleause and regulato the stomach, remove tot sour and fermenting food and foul geses, take the excess bile from the ltv^r and carry out - of the system all the constipated waste matter and poison-' in tho bowels. A Cascaret to night will make you feel great by morning. They work while you sleep?never gripe, sicken or cause any inconvenience, and cost only 10 conts a box from your store. Millions Of men and women take a Cascaret now and then and never have Headache, Hiliounness, Coated Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomach or Constipation. Adv. Penalty of Having Too Much Rope. 1 note that Mexico is again peeved a; the United States." commented Halsin Garrett. "This reminds me of iho familiar yarn of the negro who was about to be hanged for the murder of another ucgro, and after a lengthy and rambling farewell to the world addressed the widow, who. fat. black and pessimistic, sat in front of tho scaffold: "l>e 1/iwd in his inhrrfte wisdom has done fuhgiven rauh -ins and innickerties, and now I axes yo', Slstah Wadklns, to fuhgive me. and?' 'Ow, git hung, nigger!' impa uenuy interrupted the bereaved lady , < J it hung'' Mexico having boon given ;ui abundance of rope, 1 am grimly awaiting the inevitable outcome. I am of the Mime attitude of mind. too. toward the person or persons, as the case may be, who has or have, been so long messing with and muddling up the gas situation."?Kansas City Star. OTHERS SLEPT SHE WORKED While Others Were Fast Asleep, Mrs. Sanders Would Often Get Out of Bed and Do Sewing. Cadiz, Ky.?"I was in a terrible condition, caused from nervousness," says Mrs. Hoon Sanders, of this place. "At times, last spring and summer, 1 did not get any rest at night; could not sleep at all. Very often I would get out of my bed and do some of my sewing, while the rest of the family were fast asleep.. One of my lady friends advised me to take Cardui, the woman's tonic. Just as soon as I commenced taking it. 1 begun resting better. After taking four bottles, 1 now feel better, and get perfect rest and plenty of sleep. 1 am doing every bit of my housework now, :t Tkfl nil hnnirK I n ??-? f 1 * * * in aiiiuiii i ict'i very strong in every way. You may publish this letter if you wish, and I hope all women, who suffer us I did, will try Cardui and get relief." If you are nervous, run-down, discouraged. fagged out, don't give up?try Cardui, tlio woman's tonic. This great medicine has been us?d for more than half a century by thousands and thousands of women, and has beeu found ?o be a specitic, building medicine for nearly all the ills from which women enffer. Cardui, being composed of harmless vegetable ingredients, cannot possibly harm you, and is almost certain to h'lp you. Try it. All druggists sell Cardui. N. B.? ICWit to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., I-adies' Advisory Dept., Chattanoogi Tcnn.. tor Stfci.itIn.tnutionx on yourcase and t^-page lx *>k, 'Home Treatment lor Women," sent in plain wrapper. Adv. A Natural Inference. "Johnny, did the whale swallow Jonah ?" ,/Yes, ma'am." "What makes you think so, Johnny?-' i "That's the only way the whale 1 could have carried him, ma'am." Chance for Grouch. Mrs. Hrown?"Here's an account of a new cooking utensil that will boil and Bteain and poach eggs ail at the same time." Brown (a grouch)?"And why doesn t it scramble and eggnogg 'em, too?" Previous Engagement. Erb?"(lot a job for you at last, Bill. Must see the boss at nine tomorrow morning, sharp!" Hill?"Can't go. I've promised to carry the Hag in the un employed procession!"?John Bull. The Safe Ones to "Kid." "That joke you printed about your wife?did it make her angry?" "Bless you, no. I spent a half hour trying to explain tho point of It to her and finally got angry myself." Coughs vanish in a night. Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops soothe the throat. Effecting a speedy cure?5c at all Druggists. Blghty percent, of cotton cloth In t tho United States Is made in six \ states in Ne*v England and tho south. \ Worms expellrd promptly from the human \ system wltli Or. Peery'a Vermifuge "Dead Shot." Adv. A new gem called hclidor has been found In German South Africa. % i iT DIVERSIFICATION! OH! SOUTHERN FARMS Cotton Belt to Raise Live Stock Must Have Pastures. DftPTIinro rnn r?nn ~ i ho i unco run rMnm ANIMALS Very Few FarmeM Have Compared Benefit to Be Derived From Acre of Cotton and Acre of Bermuda Grass, Lespcdeza and Clover. (By G. H. AI.FOKIO If the cotton belt is to raise hops,, mules, horses, cattle, sheep and so on j successfully under present land aud |? labor conditions, it must roBort t<>; pastures and cheap hays. If it is to4 produce the necessary quantity and quality of all kinds of live stock it . must devote more anil better land to! pastures and meadows. Many formers in the south prize wheat, corn. oats, cotton, rice and ' cane us crops because their growth -has become a habit. Very few farmers have compared the protlt derived from I an acre of cotton and an acre of Her\ tnuda grass, lespedeza and some win' ter clover. On many farms the growing of cotton represents a loss instead of a profit. On many farms in the south the growing of leguminous crops ! lor two or thret> years until the worn- j out cotton lands will grow good grass j and the soiling of the land in Bermuda j grass grazing of pure bred hogs, sheep, ! cattle and goats, horses and mules will result in big profits instead of the loss sustained liV till- prmi ini' r.r ? it. """i' i on the same land year after year, i Senator Ingalls said: "Next in itni portanco to the divine prolusion of wa| ler. light and air?those three physical J facts which render existar.ee possible I ?may be recorded the universal bej neflcenco of grass." Ingalls told the whole truth, but. few farmers in the south believe what he said. Not one farmer In a thousand l'ully appreciates the full value of a good, p? rmanent pasture. The most properous counties in England owe their prosperous agriculture to the magnificent pastures. The blue grass regions of Kentucky has done much to cause our farmers to i appreciate grass to some extent. There are sections of Tennessee and Virginia where the successful growing of line kstock has helped Kentucky to gain friends for grass. Wo firmly believe that we are tel' ng i the truth when we say that the main causo of the lack of prosperity on southern farms is the absence of good, permanent pastures. We have turned out a worn, gullied cotton field, stretched two or three barbed wires around it and called it our pasture. Not a furrow was turned, not a seed was sown. No wonder that our pastures are often referred to a "a placo w lioro grass does not grow." A good pasture is made by thoroughly preparing very fertile soil and seeding it to the right kind of mixed grasses, so that every square foot of it is well covered with nutritious grasses instead of broomsedgo briars and 1 weeds. The large majority of us have never had a good, permanent pasture and therefore base our conclusions on tho value of a permanent pasture on our experience with a pasture where grass does not grow. We have never yet valued a thoroughly goor, permanent pasture high enough. 1 Thero are, of course, pastures with- ! out grass, such as pastures of cow peas, soy beans, peanuts, velvet beans, oats, and so forth, but there are temporary pastures and last for only a short time. Of course, we must have 1 such temporary pastures in order to succeed in the live stoek business, but 1 the subject before us just at present is | n good, permanent pasture full of nu- ' tritious grasses and clover. We are " bilking about taking land and thor- ! oughly preparing It and fertilizing it with acid phosphate and planting it in TO GROW CHEAP BEEF. A?Increase Yield of Pasture. 1?Do Not Pasture Too Closely. 2?Drill in Clover and Grass Seed. \ 3?Manure Every Few Years. ] B?Make Use of Waste Feed. , I 1?Save the Cornfodder. j A?Silo. ' 2?Save the Straw. j C?Grow Clover and Alfalfa. ( D?Provide Good Shelter. ' E?Save the Manure. j t cow peas, soy beans, lespedeza, pea nuts or somo other good leguminous ( crop for one or two years and then sod- , ding it in llerinuda grass, crimson clover, burr clover and whito clover ana lespeaeza lor pure bred hogs, cat- j tie, horses, mules, sheep and other livo ( stock to graze. ( The best pasture grass for tho south ( Is Rermuda. We are growing corn and < cotton on poor soli to feed a few scrub t stock to obtain the necessary cash to j pay tho expenses. We are not able to i say just what is tho average coBt of f production of an acre of corn or cot- < tou, but the cost of production of an < acre of Bermuda grass on fertile soil is a fence and a gate to turn the stock In. The stock will harvest the grass and usually bring a largo per cent, of t clear profit. t Rermuda eraes Is tho rro.t c grafts of the subtropical and warmer ! u I \ \ tern p. . - ~y... world. 1! is ..oUni rut the ro-loiiii'i! mi; the pine in those states that iveiuuel.y bhw i grass hold:: In the north It ii; a warm ' w 'other grass. It will not grow In ! cold weather and usually winter kills when the temperature fall much below the zero point. It is primarily a pasture grass and ! is relished by all kinds of stock. It . will stand close grazing and much tramping, if also makes bay of excellent quality, but it will not grow tall enough to mow except on very fertile soil. On fertile soil under favorable conditions, it often furnishes two or throo riitt ittoo vu.MJo" ? ? ...... J ivmuif, ill II M'asun from two to lour tons of hay per acre. Sinco it furnishes no lute fall or early spring pasture, summer ami winter clovers and vetches must ho added to the sod or other grasses, or animal pasture crops must be grown, in order to supply continuous grazing We Must Grow More Grass WHY? To Maintain Farm Fertility. To Cheapen Animal Production. HOW? Drain Wet Places. Keep Weeds Out. Sow Alsikc in Low Places. Reseed Thin Areas With Olntmt' viuvci Rotate if Possible. Use the Manure Spreader. for stock. We can mix lespedcza, white, crimson, burr clovers and the vetches with llermuda and they will grow well together. We can also mix orchard grass, tall oat grass and the red top with Hcrmuda. Hut putting lespedcza on the Itermuda sod to asist in furnishing summer pasture and winter clovers, or a vetch on it to furnish some winter and early spring grazing, wo can supply continuous grazing for our stock and at the same enrich our land. Sow lespedcza seed on itermuda sod in February or early March: sow the winter clovers or vetch seed in September and October. When tho seer are sown on a heavy sod. it is usually necessary to disk it in order to insure germination of the seed at an early date. llermuda may be propogatcd both from seed and root cuttings. The seed method is not recommended except where it is very diflicult to secure pieces of sod. Plow the land deep and disk and harrow until it is line. I.av ofT rows about two feet apart and four inches deep with shovel plows. Drop small pieces of the sod every two feet in tho furrows and cover with a liar row. A drag or light roller will put tho finishing touches on the job. The Bonding or the land may be done at any time (hiring the year. When wo have made our hill land fertile by tlecp plowing, the addition of commercial fertilizers and the growing of leguminous crops, and have thoroughly sodded them in Bermuda grass and summer and winter clovers, wo can cut out some of our unprofitable labors, substituting good hogs, j brood mares, cattle and furnish the the hands, labor-saving implements and strong team:' to till the more lev ! acres 011 tho farm. Tho pasture lands should not only bo fertile, thoroughly prepared and preporly fertilized before sodding it in grass. But the briars, brush and weeds must be kept down and the grasses fertilized and cultivated every two or three years. Where lespedu/.a | or some winter clover, or both, grow on Bermuda sod it -v.-i 11 not be necessary to apply nitrogen except to the i poorer spots. It will usually pay to apply a light i dressing of phosphate once every two years where the soil responds to acid phosphates. On some sandy soils it. will pay to apply potash every two years. Tho use of a disk harrow on ] the Bermuda sod every two years ( will cause it to take on new life. 1 We must not permit stock to graze < the pastures too close. If we keep tho leaves of any plant constantly cut it . will finally die. It is a most excellent < plan to have two pastures and never srazo one more than a week at a ( lime. Lot us urge the farmers of the cotton belt, especially thoso to the east if tho boll weevil line, to put a large I per" cent, of the cotton land in grass. ' IVe have a great variety of grasses to ;hoose from, such as Bermuda, bnn 1 grass, meadow foxtail, orchard grass. -eu top, meauow rescu, alsiko clover, 1 ail oat grass. 1 Mouoy invested in thoroughly good ' permanent pastures is like money in- < .rested in government boudR. < Keeping Sheep in Condition. Doctoring uhecp is expensive and < >ften unsatisfactory, unless the symp- t oms of the disease are clearly unde % stood. If the sheep are not exposed < 0 bad weather in the late fall and i ire given proper care and feed there t s not much show for disease, unless t jrought in from other flocks. With t t'neep an ounce of prevention is worth i jonsidorably more than a pound o.' | jure. v Cow Ewsentials. Plenty of cold water, free access to t ialt at all times and protection from ( he flies aro ncceHHary for the cow. She cannot do without these and make , 1 full flow of milk. i M|g President Seeks His Re WfASIflNCJTOX. President Wilson ff linds his greatest relaxation and rest from \york in going to the theater. Like I'resident Tall. Mr. Wilson enjoys an evening at the theater as the most complete diversion from of- i ticial cares. It seems to make little , difference to I'resident Wilson wlu ther the play is pood or not. he is easily amused and entertained, maintain- 1 lap u certain good-natured responsiveness to whatever happens to he on I th hoards, until every player who ; comes to Washington cherishes the i ambition to "play to the president," because lie never fails to appreciate the effort from the classie production to the noisiest slap-slick. The theater-going habit of President Wilson recalls the various modes of former presidents in (hiding recreation or diversion from the hard day's work in his olllce. President Picturesque Costumes No 1NTKKKST in the personnel til' the (liplotiuilic corps is revived as the autumn advances and diplomats re- i turn from their summer outings. The lamentalile tiling lor sightseers is that the legations are becoming so thoroughly Americanized that there is no novelty now in their appearance on Washington avenues, in former days the Turks, Persians, Siamese and even the Japanese kept to their native oostume and made a most notable attraction in social affairs; now, however, they appear like everyone else in evening lints and frock coats, while their ladies wear exquisite Paris "creations." As one western visitor remarked, about all that is left of the national costumes is (lie Turkish am bassndor's fez which is nothing extraordinary now that the ^Vmerican Shriller is often seen wearing it when remaining over after a convocation. ! Formal social invitations from the lady of the White House will soon he forthcoming. Tliey are embossed in (lothic type and delivered by messenger and tradition has it that they are "commands" and that previous en- ( gagements do not count hut this is t How "Uncle Jere" Rushed (why "do h't ! ItZSk\YOu H I CONI'.ltliSSMAN .IICUKMIAH HON'O- j van ot Xorwalk. Conn., tti< rep- j rosontative from the Fourth district, and affectionately known by some as J "Uncle .lore," as his predecessor was i affectionately known by some :is I "Uncle Klib," is a genius in the line of j making his presence felt wherever rate locates him. It was so when he was a member of the state senate. N'o one'ever knew when the serenity if that body would lie stirred and bounced out of the window t?> the candid .lore. Kvon Stiles .ludson, who j was so often the instrument used by j lore to pry the lid off the box of hid- i ien explosives, didn't know. The Uncle Jere of the Connecticut state senate is the same Uncle lore who har? attracted tins attention Prominet Men Lay Succ V- lCK-l'KKSIDBNT MARSH.ALU at a ! discussion on corporal punishment claimed the leadership of the hickDry switch league with a percentage well over .500. Admiral C.eorge l>ewpy. hero of Manila bav. oeouiiies tin cellar fox it 1011 with a percentage of 00004 r.. The vice-president atfvil>utes much ">f his success {ti the world to early ipanklngs. "1 cannot recall," he said, "any spe *iilc case just now, hut 1 got in round lumbers about 500 lickings. I never ?ot spanked in the graded school, j hough. Mine were all of the home I ulent variety, personally conducted >y my mothc. a good old-fashioned i'resbvterlan who believed in a liberal | ise of the rod." Secretary Daniels got his worst j 'llcfcing" for celebrating too highly he birth of his country. Hack in 1K7t'., >n the Fourth of July, he was assigned to hoe in the garden of the old lomcstead down in North Carolina That was too much tor his patriotic; f GDSSIP ~ ?r | |"'|l|f*w-M*-?H ' -- taxation at the Theater Van Huron walked and rode and play- , ed checkers for recreation. Andrew | Jackson loved to smoke his old corn- , cob pipe and was a patron of the cock- ; pit and owned lots of birds. John Adams, who catnc into thw J White House before it was qulto tin- | islied or ready for occupancy, was serious to tnoroseness, and was all but a recluse. President William Henry Harrison had the habit of going to the market for the vegetables and meats of the White House table, and upon one of these occasions, on *i rainy morning when the market was chill and dump, he took the cold which resulted in his death. President Hayes rode little, walked less, and rend the greater part of his leisure time. Jefferson's costly Krench and Italian wines and Madeiras were one of the features of his administration, and President Madison thought that champagne was the most delightful of all wines when | taken in moderation, but that more i than a few glasses produced a headache the next morning. Consequently President Madison served chant- j pagtie only at his dinners given Sat- , unlay night, when the margin of an idle Sunday ijiiglit allow for the headache the in xt morning. Longer Worn in Capital only iruilitiou. At the Turkish eui- ' bassy the "command" cnnuot bo obey oil. for religion forbids tlu? Turkish women to appear in publV. The ex eeption comes when a member of the legation, as for instance. All Kuli Khan, the secretary of the Turkish embassy, chances to have as his wife an American woman. It is interesting to witness the in- ! formality of ambassadors as they . i hanee to meet. After the summer a | little group of diplomats were overheard discussing the delights and pleasures as well as the discomforts ! of the various American summer re- i sorts. The coming season promises to ! he a lively one in Washington, and the diplomatic corps will take part in j the merriment. -National Magazine. I Into Fray; Is Not Sorry; of the nation by his occasional nt- I ta< ks en fellow members in congress, j . ? ?ii? mi aciioii m the house of representatives a few days ago. H? in out, as the saying is, for the Pro greisive members of that body. Mr. Munloek. who was discussing amiably ii|ioii Hie subject of government by caucus. I'ncle Jere took issue with tin* gentleman and denied that the caucus system was the fault of the legislative system at Washington, that Hie real fault was absenteeism, and as Mr. Murdoch is a Chautauqua favorite. the blow landed in a vulnerable place. In a second there was an uproar. After sparring for a while with indignant congressmen, charging a Kentucky member wHi being rarely seen in his seat. Uncle Jere slung this out and the storm abated: | ' Well, they ought to resign and go home if they don't want to stay here | on the job." Uncle Jere is the sure P.ernard ' Shaw of American politics. It is suspected that Uncle. Jere plunges in where angels fear to tread, just to : satisfy himself that the angels lack pip. I tut he is never sorry. ess on Hickory Switch spirit and lie rigged up his cannon. With Which he Intondmt ?> F>"'? "J ?-"* i ' day. ami shot the garden into frag- | i meats. The whipping was a result. I "If there Is any good in rno, I lay it first, to baptism and second to t.ho strap." the itt. Key. W. T. ituskel said. < "1 don't care to make a confession to ' the public, but 1 was virtually hammered into shaoe." < Admiral Cleorge Dewey declares ho i was never "licked" by the enemy elth- 1 er at homo or abroad. "I have been mildly chastised, liko ' all other boys;" the admiral said, "but ' 1 cannot recall any specific tliuo that 1 ! was spanked." s \ EHEF 'M A MARINE MONSTER Second Officer of the Steamship ' H Corinthian Describes FiftyFoot Sea Serpent. IT CRIED LIKE BABY Declares He Located Creature Off tWte Grand Banks, Near Where Titanic Sank?Had Bonny Blue Eyes and . , Neck Twenty Feet Long. Loudon.? Surelv It would have been a mistake for the "silly" season to pass without Its sea serpent. Down at the Surrey Docks Is a man who has . % not only seen a fearful and wonderful marine monster. but has even sketched it from life. Ft is not exactly the sea serpent of hoary tradition, but a srtrt of sea giraffe?an extraordinary looking amphibious animal which is puzzling the zoologists who have heard of it and , seen the drawing. Some idea of this weird freak may he gathered from this first hand description of it: "Has bonny blue eyes: cries like a baby; neck twenty feet long; body fifty feet; big head with long ears and snout: three horned tins adorn its bony head; two big flapping fins: skin like a seal; brownish yellow In color, with pretty dark spots." A plain, cotnmonsense seamnn, who tells his story bluntly, without any r.-iii.. <-i i - ? ~ .....v ui ii iiiiuiiiiKM, 01 mnu umcer u. Haehelor of the .steamship Corinthian, describing lils strange adventure with the ?en giraffe, said: "We were hound from Ixjudon to | Montreal, and it was my turn on i watch on the bridge in the early morning of August 30. It was cold and the gray dawn was just break- 4 ing, when, as I was keeping my eye straight ahead on our course, T picked up a queer-looking object about a mile ahead. It disappeared, and as quickly it shot up again no more than 200 feet away from the ship. ' "I distinctly-saw it rise out of the water. First, there was a big head. with long cars and long snout, and bulging blue eyes that were mild and liquid. Then there was a neck?no end of a neck and it swayed with . tiie wash of the waves. What it was I couldn't guess, for in twenty years of sea-going, including trips in tropical waters. I've never seen anything like this ana giraffe that was staring right at the Corinthian. "As the thing seemed to eye me it lashed the water with its big front f 1 tins. Then it suddenly dived and disappeared, at the same time giving an odd little wall like n baby's cry. You wouldn't think such a huge animal could have had such a small voice. "As soon as I went off duty I went below and made a sketch of the monster in India ink. When the Corin thiun reached Montreal my sketch was shown to Prof. F. K. Lloyd of Mcill university, an expert in zoology. ? Tho professor said that whatever it was, it wasn't a serpent, but a sea I ' ' ' I "Seemed to Eye Me." mammal, it was certainly built on high speed lines, and its Unlike prouberance was well adopted for running tilings up. !':? "I located tins sea girafTe in latifude 17 degrees 51 minutes north und longiture 4K degrees 32 minutes west. >ff tlie Grand Hanks, and not many miles distant from the spot where the Titanic went down. I nm inclined to think myself that the wreck of the Titanic has had something to do With fhe presence of this strange creature >n water where nothing of the kind lias ever been noticed before. Is it making food of the dead bodies be!ow?" Mr. Bachelor made the gruesome . j uiggestion In all seriousness. He v/as evidently impressed with the absolute accuracy of his observations. .Mr. Bachelor, it may be added, is a;anny Scot, and his view is that tberemay still be more survivors of an almost extinct race of sea beasts. Anyway. zoologists are not unacquainted, ivith an "amphibious or aquatic rop:lle" called the sauraptergia, which ;uriously resembles the description >f what Mr. Bachelor saw. - m