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NOTES ?/?W_ MFADUWdkUUK Sh? t'P <l? serve good cure. Asparagua 1? a hardy plunt. OoioiiH atund conalderable cold. A kerosene bath for roosts la urged. The dairy cow ahould essentially be 8 largo and rich milker. There la moro or less rlak In reeding ordinary ullage to lamba or sheep. It is a well-known fact that alfalfa does not do well upon an impervious subsoil. la feeding dairy cows give them all they will clean up at each feed but 10 more. Range bred lamba are far superior to native-bred lambs for breeding purposes, Goslings must bo kept out of damp ness and fed only grass, water and coarse sand, Don't fall to divide the buttermilk between biddy and the plga. She rel iihes It as much as they. The grape root worm haa commit ted extensive depredatlona among th? rlneyards of Pennsylvania. A toothbrush and a little naphtha will clean your velvet coat collars and make them look now again. Select one dairy breed and atlck to It Don't mix up the breeds or you will spoil the sale of your stock. All fow 1b, chicks, ducks and duck ; .lings that are kept In yards should have plenty of green feed every day. If the frost kills the vines of the sweet poatoes cut them off as soon %s possible or the potatoes may turn black The spring colt should be pretty well broken by this time; If not, this It a good month to get acquainted with him Clean the stock tank, and keep It free from moss. Then fill It with fresh cool water. The stdck will ap preciate It. -- The manager of the dairy farm must supply the brain. The success of the undertaking will depend large ly upon him Early Six Weeks is a good potato for a short time, but it soon 1ob?s quality. A few rows In the garden ' tome .in handy Let the. cows sleep out in the pastures until tho very chilly nights eome on Better for them than to lie In a stufTy barn. If pastures are failing feed a little fodder each day to the stock. It Bakes them more contented and less Inclined to try the fences. Farmers and feeders will this year Welcome full corn cribs. It Is risky business at best making meat on 76 cent com and we will all welcome cheaper grain. Farm orchards seem smaller and *orse neglected than they were tan years ago. Perhaps the reason lies In the fact that small lots of fruit Wdly ever sell profitably. If the sheeD ar? cnmnoHn^ ?? ... , ?hub in. Kansas nas >urly if not quite double in 1? ? Kicy ior tt?e enemy. On the tontrary a chicken Is always on the scampering off to some hiding W?ce the moment it hears some .?binge noise. Neter (????? * ? IV I VACATION FOR MOTHER Her Idea of Relaxation and CompUU Change Wat Entirely Within Her Own Mind. Mrs. Kmbernon did all the cooking, washing, mending and other house work for her fuinlly of Ave. Anionic her other riutttig was the making u?d baking of five loaves of bread three times a week, for Mr. Kmberson und the growing children had hearty ap petites. At last Mrs, Kmberson decided ah* must have a vacation. "I feel," she told her husband, "that if 1 had to stand up to that bread* board and make one more batch of bread 1 should drop dead I've got to have a chants. " Mr. Kmberson was more than will ing. He hud often urged her to tuke a rest. It was decided that shfc should pack up that very day and go to visit her younger sister in Kansas. "Now, I^aura," said M,rs, lOmberson, as soon as she had got into a loose house dress and dropped into an easy chair, ."I've como to rest and visit. 1 don't want you ever to ask mo what I want to eat, or expect me to turn my hand to help with a thing. I'm sick and tired of housework, and I don't want even to hear it mentioned." "AH right," said lAura, laughing, "you can depend on me. I've always wanted you to rest and let somebody elso take the work and worry for a little while." At dinner the second day Mrs. Em hereon said to her brother-in-law, "John, do you like baker's bread?" "No," confessed John, "we don't any of us like it, but Laura has so much to do that I insist on buying the bread." "You bring home some yeast this evening," said Mrs. Kmberson, ?and I'll make you some home-made bread." Two weeks later, when Mrs. Em hereon returned home, her' husband was delighted to see how fresh and rusted ehe looked. Nevertheless, he tried to speak severely: "Now see here, Martha, I thought you went for a rest and change. Laura wrote that you had been baking bread for them ever since you got there. I'd like to know what change there was in that.". '"O," and Mrs. Emberson laughed happily, "It was a change of bread boards!" ? Youth's Companion. Forgotten Part of the Bible. There Is one merit which it Is gen erally admitted that the Apocryphal books possess. For sacred books they are unusually interesting. I know that by some they have been con demned as sanguinary, fantastic, worldly, and too similar to profane literature. It may be that it is these very qualities that have made them so attractive to dramatists, musicians and artists such as Raphael and All r,ton. Not improbably it was these very traits that led so many painters to employ their skill in portraying Susanna at the Hath, Judith slaying Holoferues, Jeremiah prophesying in the presence of Baruch; and that in cited Handel to select the career of Judea's greatest warrior, Judas Mac cabeus, as the theme of" one. of his most glorious oratories. There are no parts of the Apocrypha more point edly Bccular than are certain parts of the canonical Old Testament, such as the books of Esther, Canticles, and the older portions of Ecclesiastics. ? Rev. James T: Blxby, in Harper's Magazine. Gribbling. They have coined a new word in England, and that word is "gribbling." The word has taken its rise- from the writings of Francis Gribble, an Eng lish author, who spends most of his time in writing up the love affairs of distinguished persons, and especially of those love affairs that were more or less sordid, or ended unhappily. Mr. Gribble is, Indeed, an expert at this sort of thing.. He does it much better than anybody else; much bet ter, by far, than Richard Le Galllenne even did it. For one thing, Mr. Grib ble has a passion, or what appears to be a passion, for the truth In these matters, and if we must have love episodes written up, it is far better that they should be written up truth fully than that they should be writ ten up falsely. But we cannot avoid feeling that gribbling is a mistake when it becomes the main passion of a man's life, as it Is in the case of Francis Gribble. Remarkable Gift. "A sense of humor Is a fine pos session. With some men, however, it goes to extremes ? to ghastly ex tremes." The scene was the Economic club's dinner in New York. The speaker. Mayor Hunt of Cincinnati, continued: "I used to know In Horace Annes ley a man with this excessive sense of humor. Horace said to me one morning, with a ghoulish laugh: " Tve got the greatest joke to tell you!' " 'Well, what is it?' said I. " 'You know,' said Horace, that I was examined and passed for life in surance last week? Well ? ha, ha, ha! ? I'm been to consult a specialist this moiTCng and he tells me I've got an incurable disease. He gives me Just one year. Ha, ha, ha!'" To Be Rigidly Exact. Rcgstaff ? I hear you are doing some writing for ono of the popular maga zines. Percollum ? That's slightly exag gerated; I haven't been able to get my stuff into any but the ? er ? unpopular ones yet. NEED WEDDING DOWRY , EUROPEAN YOUTH8 NOT SEEK ING PORTIONLESS GIRLS. j - S ? / ' * Necessity for Certain "Dot" Is an Ac companiment of Marriage Cere mony, and Its Absence Means a Life of Celibacy, A well known woman artist in Co ; ponhagcn uvolved a shrewd idea for | tho foundation of an insurance com I pany for tho exclusive benefit of wom en, writes M. Winifred Jones In tho London leprosy, A reasonable pre I ruin in was to bo paid to insure against ' tho possibility of finding no htiaband. Ladles who inarry beforo forty lose | all tho money thoy have paid, which goes to the benefit of thoae who reach the ago limit unmarried and who re ceive an Income for tho rest of their | lives. In France, to which wo look aa tho i home of tho dowry, we havo It on tho authority of M. Hrloux, "La Fomme : Heulo," that "there are about 2,000, ; 000 singlo women in Franco today," and that many of these do not marry, -?because thoy have 110 '^dot." The daughter of workingmen who are too well educated to marry a workman I and the workman does not want to ' marry them, because the girls are too ; poor." - At the same time the system of the "dot" obtalhs in Franco where the "parents put by a certain sura every week" for a glrl'a dowry when she. grows up. Tho fate of tho doworless girl in France la much worse, from tho matrimonial point of vlow, than that of her Bimiliarly undowered sister In Kngland, whore marriages would In deed be few and far between In any claBB were a dowry an Indispensable adjunct to "tying the knot." In Germany there is tho Stift (chari table institution), described by Mrs. Alfred Sidwick. "There are Stifte from which a woraaa may absent her-s self for . the greater part of the year, and yet draw an Income from its funds and have a room or rooms ap pointed to her use; there are others where residence is compulsory. Some aro open only to descendants of the founders; some will sell vacancies. "A woman may havo.to wait year after year for a chance of getting in or she may belong to one that will admit her at a certain age. . . . Some are Just sets of rooms with cer tain privileges of light and firing at tached. . . . But you cannot be much among the Germans without seeing women who "have been edu cated, endowed, helped in distress or supported in old age by one of these organizations. "In Greece it is considered wrong for brothers to marry until their sis ters have been wed. Again girls must marry in order of seniority. It would not bo right for a girl to be married while she had an elder sister who re mained single. The men of a family , are thus naturally anxibus to see their sisters settled, and as a dowry is indis pensable, itB provision is often a matter of serious anxiety and the fruit of great self-denial on the part of the brothers if the parents are 4ead. "There are cases in which brothers have remained unmarried and devoted all their hard earned savings to the dowries of their sisters. Among- the poorer classes emigration is resorted to, not infrequently solely with this object, and many a dowry comes to a Greek maiden from across the At lantic. "The average young woman living in luxury in her father's house," says a famous novelist, "is between the devil and the deep sea," on account of the English system of ? in the case ? piling the money on the eldest son. There is a. happy medium, and though it takes a good deal to re move hidebound prejudice and cus tom, once the Englishman is con vinced of the Jastice of a plea, he is rarely deaf to It, and "money is a greater necessity to the woman than to the man, because any man who Is a real man can work, but many a woman brought up In sheltered Idle ness can't work; that is; can't work to gain an income and independence, and so, sooner or later, without money or without courage, she sinks sub merged." Cause of Malaria. The discovery that malaila is not due to miasma or to poisonous air of iny sort, but Is transmitted from one person to another by . a mosquito of the Anopheles variety, was made by Maj. Ronald Ross, a surgeon of the British army, formerly In the India service and now connected with the Liverpool 8chool of Tropical Medi cine. Hp had been a careful student 1 of the problem for several years when In a series of experiments In 1898 he succeeded in infecting birds with ma laria from the bite^ of mosquitoes. Later in the same year and In 1899 three Italian physicians, A. Blgnami, G. Bastianelli and B. Grassi, applying the methods of Ross, succeeded in ln | fecting human beings. Major Ross and the same physicians had proved, in pfevious experiments, that men could not be Infected with malaria i with air or water brought from ma larious localities. ? Joseph Buckin Bishop In Scrlbner's Magazine. What Kills Them. Mr. Bacon ? It is said that American railroads kill an average of 32 per . sons dally. Mrs. Bacon ? Well, when wo consid i er the foul air in those smoking cars, ; I should think the averago would be ? bighT than that even. Special Automobile Notice Any dealer or prospective purchaser that is interested in a good proposition on COLE AUTOMOBILES should write us for further information. CAROLINA MACHINERY & M'FG. COMPANY SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLIN k 'Phone 1 65 FOR Camden Ice Downtown deliveries will begin Wednesday Apr. 23d Every wagon will carry scale* and all customers should insist on receiv ing full weight. Residence Deliveries WILL BE BY CARD. Cards Furnished Free on Request Patrons are requested to display their cards promptly if ice is desired. This is necessary in order to secure prompt and. economical deliveries. Buy Coupon Books and Save Money Residence deliveries will begin Thursday May 1st Please assist us to give good service by report ing any complaint prom ptly to the ice plat form ? Phone 165. CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY L. S. BAXTER, Manager H. S. CAMPBELL, Ice Dept. : Hi gli ( j rade Pri 11 1 i n g BILL HEADS s ^ ? LETTER HEADS ' NOTE HEADS t ENVELOPES Camden Chronicle