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. r 1 •h'- V« ■V, The Barnwell • People. u V ' y a- 3; 1 Largest Circulation in the Count? AN OSTRICH FARM. Bill Arp Tells of tbs Riff Birds sod How They are Bred In Georgia. This ostrich farm was planted here on last rfaanksglvlng day. It is a branch of the one at Galveston. A few years ago these enterprising men gathered and brought fifty-two young birds In Africa. They chartered a vessel and landed thirty-nine of them safely In Galveston. The others died. Last fall Mr. Pearson, who Is a Misslssipplan, brought over here a number of adult birds and also a pair of those that came from Africa. He has here now about thirty which are grown and married and has a number of chicks from two days to four months old. There is a large inolosure, where the males and females of marriageable age are turned In and kept until the male makes his ohoioe. Tho female acquiesces with out any coquetry. This pair are then transferred to a smaller inolosure, where the male at onpejwglns the pro cess of subjugi most shamefully-—strikes her, -bites her, pursues her and gives the poor thing no rest. I saw him at it, and wanted to take a big ttick and maul him. Complete subjugation Is his aql- mus and after he gets that and she humbles herself to tbe\ ground and pleads for mercy his wholb manner Is changed. He lakes her to wife and treats her with the greatest considera tion and kindness the rest of their mar ried life. ' Very many of these birds have mated, and every pair has a separate enclos ure, say about 60x100 feet, where they raise their young/ The hen lays from twelve to twenty eggs—lays them on the ground In a saucer like place, where the sand has been scooped out. The eggs are In full view and have no protection. When the litter is all laid the male bird begins the Incubation and sets upon them every day from 4 p. m. The fe male then promptly takes her place and sets from 0 a. m. until 4 p. m., but DIDN'T KNOW IT WAN NEWS. The Experience of a Young Reporter , on a Country Newspaper. ^ Atlanta Constitution. / " The man who has never worked on A country newspaper doesn’t know a tenth part of the trials and tribulations of the business,” remarked a young reporter. 7 •' •) r> At one time In my career I was 1 city editor ’ Of a small afternoon paper in a small and sleepy old. Southern city, and during the few short months that ! held the deslTl got more hard earned experience than I ever dreamed of getting. I came to the town with certain preconceived notiors of what constituted news—notions that I had acquired after somevears’ experience in larger places. The flrkt thing I found- necessary was to readjust these notions to my altered environment. The readjustment process was where the rub came In. . -‘‘ For Instance I discovered that the chance meeting and incidental scrap of Captain Jones and Judge Smith's respective dogs was worth a column and a kalf, and that If I didn’t give it that much the public was disappointed. But If Captain Jones and Judge Brown happened to be present during the fight and were drawn Into the encoun ter and one of them pumped a few slugs In the other, I was Instructed to feature the dog fight and add at the tail end of tbe-story a paragraph set ting forth the fact that the captain and the judgewnld not agree over the merit of the contest and ‘ had an ani mated ergutnent.’ It took just two visits from angry citizens who threatened me with dire destruction if I mentioned them In con nection with such stories to convince me that It was best to abandon my cherished hope of Introducing metro politan newspaper methods In the town. “What did I do for news? Why you could take out a search warrant and hunt all day and never find* an Item worth three lines. The result was that I developed Into one of the most prolific fakirs that ever shocked the sensibilities of a sober-mlnd com munity. The gigantic pumpkins, the five-legged calves,, the two-headed dogs, the midnight visits of safe blow-. HOW MUCH IT TAKEN. A Comparison ol Oar War In lbs Philippines With ths Conquests of Other Nations. In the Review of Reviews, which favors the expansion policy, the follow ing Interesting figures are given : It Is only after some processes of re flection and comparison ihaV we oaa fully appreciate the magnitude that our expedition to Asiatic waters has assumed. Gen. Kitchener performed wondrous feats last year in his march ing against the “Fuzzy wuxzy ” of the desert, but there were only 7,000 or 8,000 white soldiers under his com mand, the remainder of his expedition (12,000 men approximately) being made uo of the Egyptian troops of the Khe dive's anmy. We are now, therefore, using five times as many white-skinned English-speaking men In our campaign for the pacification of the Philippines as Gen. Kltchner will havF used in establishing peace and order through out the Soudan. In their recent cam paign against the fierce warriors of the mountain tribes of northwestern India on the Afghanistan frontier, the BrltUh made use of more than 32,000 troops, but of these bhly 10,000 were-'whlte soldiers from the British Islands; the others were native Indian regimentt. The French, having annexed the great island of Madagascar to tneir empire, found It necessary In 1895 to wage a considerable war In order to make gooa their possession; but the number of French troops sent to Madagascar always takes a few minutes off about ers and how they mysteriously blew noon to partake of her dinner, which out of tbe city without doing any dam- the Yeeper provides, and consists of chopped cabbage and clover hav and small stones and oyster shells. I for got to mention that the hen lays an egg every other day and the time of in cubation is forty days. My son, who was with me, remarked to the old En glishman that our common hens laid an egg every day and on Sunday they laid two. "Is that so,” said he. “I was not aware of that. It Is indeed very wonderful, and bow does the hen knw when Sunday comes ?” “Oh,” said my son," they bear the church bells ring.” ‘‘Wonderful, wonderful,” said the old man with the simplest credulty. So devoted Is the male bird to his first love, his fiancee, that be cannot by force or persuasion be Induced to take another. We saw a poor, miser able, lacerated hen In hospital quar ters. She had all the skin torn from her breast and Mrr.Pearson said the keeper made a mistake when he trans ferred a pair and placed the wrnng fe male In the Inclosure and the male tried to kill her Immediately and liked to have succeeded. She was not his bride and he knew It. As soon as the chicks break the eggs and come forth they eat nothing for two or three days. The mother takes them up gently with her bill and warms them under her wings or hovers over them in the sand. I suppose that is where the expression came f>*om— " under the shadow of thy wings ’’ I saw but one new born chick. It was only two days old. There were quite a number of half-grown birds and they are ungraceful, unseemly and almost hideous. Indeed, the adult birds are not much better after their plumes have been pulled out. Every nine months they have to submit to this de gradation, for the plumes bring In the revenue Each male bird gives but twelve black plumes at a picking and these are worth from 14 to 17 each. These are exquisitelv beautiful and if I had been rich I would have purchased a pair for my bride. The females are a light color of brown and white and furnish from sixty to one hundred E lumes in a season, but they do not ring half so much. Mr. Pearson says that ostriches well kept live to be seventy-five years old and It does not cost much to kg&pjjiem. —not half as much as It does to xeep a horse or a oow. . _ , -Old Grover Cleveland 4s the largest, and finest bird on the farm. He stands, when erect, about eleven feet in his stockings and his mate, Frances, Is the finest female bird. They have raised one brood and have begun on another. age, and the multltudlous other yarns that I conjured up to k*ll space caused the town to be divided In Its-estimate of me. “ The charitably disposed half was of the opinion that I had missed my calling and ought to have gone In for fiction, .while the other half was un compromising In'the statement that 1 was the biggest liar that ever hit that neck o’ tbe woods. “ One day while court wks in session the county fair was on and my time was divided between the two. One of tbe cases that came up for trial was a particularly Interesting one. and I was aniiomrto get all the details. Just before the conclusion of tbe closing speech I had to rush to the office to look after the make-up. When 1 re turned the trial was 4ver and the crowd had dispersed. So I hunted up the aged clerk and asked him for the verdict and the incidents that had transpired while I was absent. He told me that the jury had decided In favor of Colonel Blank, but when pressed for particulars, he said that nothing of Importance had happened— that the trial had been devoid of spe cial interest. “ Cotes ain’t what they uster be, said he. ' Why I remember back In ’49 we uster have some excitement en durin’ cote day—’ “ But I didn’t have time t} listen to ancient history and rushed back to the office aud wrote the story- Fifteen minutes after the last paper was struck off one of my subscribers sauntered in and remarked, after a prefactory dls- couse On the weather : “ 'By the way, did you bear ’bout Lawyer Hamilton floorin’ Lawyer Simpson with a chair at the courthouse this afternoon i" ” • "I hadn’t heard about this bit of E leasantry, but I feigned a complete nowledgeof the whole affair, and we mutally agreed that Hamilton had been a trifle hasty. No sooner had my In formant left than I chased back to tbe courthouse and asked the clerk why in the name of the nino gods he hadn’t told me about the fight. “‘Ef that’s what yer call news, young man, you’d better go back where yer come from, News! Why there wuz no guns drawed, no blood shed, and in fifteen minutes after It happened I’d plum fergot about It!' “I took his advice and returned where I came from. roops was only 16,000. The most severe of England’s Zu.u waisin South Africa was fought with less than 7,000 British soldiers. In ohmparing our own position In the Philippines with that of the Spaniards, t Is worth while to note the fact that when the Filipino Insurrection of 1890 broke out there were only 2,000 or 3,000 regular Spanish troops on the island. There were, of course, volunteer com panies, consisting of young Spaniards resident in t^e Philippines for busi ness purposes or as officials in the civil service ; and there were^reglmeote of native troops under Spanish officers But the largest number of Spanish troops ever sent to the Philippines was present at the time when Gen. Prime de Rivera subdued the rebellion and subsidized Aguinaldo and the other leaders to leave the island. It would seem at that time, and also probably at the time when Admiral Dc wey sailed Into Manila bay, that there were ap proximately 20,000 Spanish soldiers throughoat the Philippine archipelago. Without vouching for tbe precise ac curacy of these statistics of Spanish troops, It Is probably .fair to say that we have now a great many more sol diers In the Philippines than Spain ever had there, If we omit from the reckoning the natives whom the Span lards had enlisted. Not only have we assembled a large army In tbe Philip pines, but we have gathered there far more formidable fleet than the Spaniards ever took into the waters of the Pacific—in fact, a fleet three times as effective as any that the Spaniards had employed. TREES FOR CAMP CHASE. AnMuimxfeuBE Baking Powder Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ■ {; • j ' f sorw. SMOWS wxwss oo.. mw VOSS. THB LOWRY ROUND BALE- Lafayettb Dollar.—Charles E. Barber, engraver In the Philadelphlh mint Is drawing the design for tbe ^ a tiii dollar to be minted by the United The Prince of Wales and his wife, Lilly | states In commemoration of LaFayette. Langtry, are_the next best. Then The director, of the mint has received comes Mark Hanna and wife and Mc Kinley and no wife, for, alas, he klljed her In a fit of passion and has not yet chosen another. Then there are Teddy Roosevelt and his wife, Cuba, and their little new born child, Florida. Next are Admiral Schley ana wife and next Mr. Pearson pointed out General Wheeler and wife. “ Why,” said I, General Wheeler hasn’t any wife.” . • " No, but he wants one all the same,’, said he; and next came Bob Fiizsim mons and wife—the meanest bird In the lot, said he, for he Is an exception to the rule and fights his wife and everything else in sight. Well, of course there was a very fine pair which were called Dewey and wife and another .pair called Sagasta ’ V _ This Is enough to give the young people an idea about ostriches and it would have pleased them to see one of these noble birds hitched to the beauti ful little buggy and driven around by Mr. Pearson. Altogether, It was a re velation to me, and I enjoyed my visit. It seems to me to be a very simple business and one that does not require any more genius than raising mules or cows or sheep. Jacksonville Is a beauti ful town. It has grown Into beauty within the last few years. Its cleanli ness is a most attractive feature. Its beautiful wide streets pared with vltH- fled brick, its handsome public build ings and private residences, Its general air of comfort and hospitality, and its polite and well-mannered people, and its evergreen* that have defied the hard winter, all make Ita lovely place for the sick or the well. The soldiers have gone but the tourists are yet heft. I left home In a blizzard and hurried down here, but the chilly blast beat me and has just passed over gone. Bill A —Sir Arthur Colton is one of Eng land’s oldest soldiers, being. In his 96th year. On four dlffei ent occasions his medical advisers told him he had not a week to live, and sixty-four yean ago, when serving In Persia, his grave was dog in readiness for his oocupa- a letter from Robert J. Thompson, secretary of the LaFayette monument commission, suggesting that on one side of the coin the faces of Washing ton/LaFayette, Lincoln, McKinley and Grant appear, and that If practicable the signatures of LaFayette and Lin coln be given in fac simile. On tbe other side Mr. Thompson suggests .-the use of the prayer of LaFayette for the. United States, which consists of about forty words. It has not been found practical to use the signatures of Lincoln and La Fayette, and Pressident McKinley has given positive orders that nothing per taining to him appear on the coin. The prayer of LaFayette will probably be tised. The proposition to have the outline of the Lafayette monumeat on the coin has been abandoned. The monument Is to be ereoted in Paris by the LaFay ette monument commission with con tributions of patriotic Americans and will be unveiled on July 4, 1900. Con gress authorized tbe secretary of tbe treasury to buy silver bullion and mint 85,000, to be given the commission and disposed of as souvenirs. Tbe bullion for these coins will be the first bought bv the United ^States since tne , repeal of tbe Sherman act. —John C. Sheehan, the Tammany chieftain, was In St. Louis recently, and in the course of an interview 1 he said: " In my opinion Bryanlsm is stronger than ever in the West and South, and those portions of the coun try practically dominate the Demo cratic party. Indications point to a Democratic victory, for despite the successful conduct of the war the pres ent policy of imperialism Is each day making new enemies for the Republi cs party?’, —Three Presidents of the United States were born in April: Thomas Jefferson April 13,1743 ; James Buch- April 23, 1791 ; Ulysces S. Grant April 27, 1822. —Gen. Wheeler has recently had set as cuff buttons two buttons which were shot from his uniform daring Jhe civil Honoring the Men Who Now Sleep ' In Nameless Graves st Columbus, Ohio. ''The following extract Is from the Columbus (O.) Press-Post in regard to the planting of trees In tbe Confeder ate cemetery at Camp Chase on the 8th of April: Tbe planting of trees indigenous to the States which once formed the “Confederate States of America” in Camp Chase Confederate cemetery Saturday morning was an event of un usual and unique importance in tbe succession of events which fill the measure of a day and a lifetime, and one which the future historian will ad vert to as an epoch making one. The trees were planted by members of tbe local camp of Confederate veterans, assisted by Colonel W. H. Knauss, & Union veteran, wno is responsible for Confederate Decoration Day, (com memorated here every June at Camp Chase cemetery in which are buried over 2,000 Confederate dead in name less graves,) as well as fhe planting of tbe trees.yesterday -uorning. . Tbe trees were all sent'here by mem bers of camps of United Confederate Veterans in response to a circular let ter sent each camp in Southern States by tbe commander of tbe organ Ration, General George Moorman* of New Or- leans, La., who has been one.of Colonel Knauss’ warmest admirers and meet xsalous co-operators in keeping green the 2,200 Confederate graves fit Camp Chase, a few miles west of b&e. General Moofman’s circular wa»~io».. boilers, spired by Colonel, Knauss’ suggestions that Southern trees should be planted and would no doubt thrive well in notherh soil made sacred and conse crated to men who fought bravely and valiantly for the lost cause, and in re sponse to the commander’s appeal have come to Colonel Knauss here not only saplings yearning for the earth and soil in which to stand and grow as a monument to the reunion of States lately enunciated by the Hiepano- American war, but letters containing sentiments inspired by sad and tender memories, by hope for the future and by confidence in the present. These sentiments at times are gems of prose-poetry, and merit a place, if not in tbe world of books, at any .rate in the literature of the day and the hour. INTERESTING TO FARMERS. Advantages of the Nfcw System of Baling Explained—'Cotton Com pressed at tbs Gin it* th*. Country. The Lowry round bale appears to be the Inauguration of a revolution which 111 prove important in results. Mr. . J. Mcran, of tne Atlanta Constitu tion, reports the outcome of an exhibi tion in Augusta recently as follows: Tbe round bale as against the square- bale. which has so long been popular, and th£ reality of which seemed to be visionary, has proven to be a fact It las been demonstrated that through its important invention not millions only, but tens of millions and In time hundreds of millions of dollars will be saved through the cotton planters of the South. Nay more, the existence of the South as the home of the cotton planting industry will be saved by this ;reat agricultural revolution, which is bound to oe so widespread In its effect and far-reaching in its consequences, if the claims made are verified. During the last few months I have written much upon the question u of agriculture. When New Year’s Day of 1899 dawned upon the cotton States pitiable condition indeed was at band. It was truly said that upon that day tbe farmers of the South stood stripped of every resource. The crop wliich bad been their staple was un profitable. What should be done to remedy the condition? It was urged, and it still must be urged, tbkt tbe farmers of the South, as a first and a necessary condition, must raise their entire borne demand. No agricultural country can afford to Import a single agricultural product which can be raised within its own limit. If there Is profit in selling beef in Georgia, it exists in greater proportion for tbe Georgian than it does for tbe Nebras kan, because he saves freight and otber expenses. Still, after all baa been said that was necessary upon that subject, tbe fact remains that cot ton is our staple crOi>, that it has been profitable under crude management and unskillful methods, and if profit able under such conditions, to which must be added the extortion and lm« posit-ions of the commercial system which grew up under it, it must still be profitable if we would call into play Inventive genius, and give to cotton that aid of Industrial invention which has made tbe other crops profitable to people where tfiey were raised. Hence it was that when I beard of th$ exhibition of the work of the round cotton bale, which was given in this ci.y, I decided to attend it in a critical spirit, because the farmers of our country are entitled to the very best information which can be given to them, since upon their success de pends tbe prosperity of every interest, financial and commercial, which goes t;ke.pupour community. ThepriS ence of tbe members of tbe Georgia Travelers’ Protective Astociation was made tbe occasion of a barbecue given upon tbe ypot which added much to tbe enjoyment of the occasion, and to tbe elucidation of tbe facts connected with tbe new invention as well as of a comparison of its results with that o( tbe old system. The first statement made, that by the use of tbe round cotton bale, the annual saving under existing condi tions would be not less than 837,000,000, was one calculated to challenge credu lity, because if it were possible to take 137,000,000 which goes Into the pur efiase of cotton at Liverpool, and to place It in the pockets of our farmers, cotton would then become a remunera tive instead of a losing crop. Tbe Augusta plant consists of one of tbe old style Morse compresses, com prising an immense amount of machi nery', and reducing tbe cotton to a density of 221 poundf* per cubic There is also in operation a converter plant, which means tbe transforma tion of tne square standard bale, or tue old style compress bale, Into tne Lowry bale. This plant consists of one 35U horse power tandem compound con densing engine, supplied by steam by a battery of three 100-horse power which furnishes tbe motive power for ten Lowry presses, ten Bramweil and Clark cotton feeders and openers, as well as ten conden sers add -flues, which transfer this cot ton through a series of flues to the tedious to try to mention them. In the first, place, the marketing of his crop Is brought within his own supervision, the immense army of middlemen will be swept .away, and tbe merr whoBd' labor has made thjs crop "will receive the profit for ks' production. As an illustratldn of the manner In which the farmer! of the country have lost hereto fore, it is only necessary to repeat a statement recently made by Mr. Hester, of New Orleans, that out of an annual cotton receipt of one million three hun dred thousand bales in that city over thirty-seven thousand bales were made up outjp! the samples which had been ruthiesllessly ‘plucked from the bales by the men who handled them, which should have gone into the parishes of Loulsana. In addition to the great loss from sampling the old method of handling cotton subjected it to damage ■i various kinds, which is called “coun try damage ” in commercial circles, but which Is really commercial careless-, ness in handling the farmer’s cotton after they receive it. By this method whole bales are rolled around in tbe mud, muddy bales laid up against others, paint oozes through and marks, and by every concatenation of circum stances tbe farmer becomes tbe general victim who must stand losses of care lessness and a great deal of design In addition to those which nature bad visited upon him. The revelation which is made by the Lowry baling process, therefore, be comes apparent. It is not obly a great labor saver in the d:rect womof baling and compressing tbe cotton, but It leads to a whole series of Improve ments, which necessarily , follow, and all of which will contribute to a more skllfull handling of the crop, to lessen the expenses in bringing it to market and consequently should lead to a greater return to the pocket of the armer. Such a movement as this de serves the name of revolution, because It will inspire new hope Into the hearts of our farmers, and It will securq-the continuance of onr supremacy of the cotton market. Among those who were Interested spectators of the day's developments was State Commissioner of Agriculture O. B. Stevens. Mr. Boykin Wright, in his speech welcoming the commer cial visitors, expatiated upon the pos sibilities which lay ahead of this new development. * In addressing tbe regular convention later on, Hon. Clark Howell referred to the occasion which bad brought them together, and complimented the enterprise shown by the company and what new methods t ould be instituted in the baling of cotton by the adopting of the round bale machinery. He said the round bale marked as great a re volution in cotton packing as tbe type setting machine bad done in printing, and that in -a few years it would be just as complete in its recognition and adoption. , P. J. Moran. GREEN MANURING. r Correspondence of The^Cotton Plant: Green manuring .ipeans thtr supply ing of the soil with nitrogen through (he medium of certain leguminous crops of the clover and cow pea class, which possess tho peculuu//aculty of absorbing nitrogen, from the air, the nitrogen passing into the soil when the crops are plowed under. The practice of manuring is becoming more popular each year, nor is this to be wondered at, seeing that it is one of the most economical plans that can be adopted on the farm. > Green manuring really serves a ihree-fold purpose. In the first place it furnishes the most expensive of the three fertilizer ingledibnfs,' nitrogen, to the soil at practically no cost to the :armer. Secondly, by turning under the leguminous crop, which has been cultivated, the supply of organic mat ter is thus largely increased, and every armer of experience realizes the im. wrtanco of having sufficient organic matter in his soil, especially during the dry seasons. Thirdly, in the sections where the legume is sown as a winler crop jt serves as a cover t > the sod throughout t>he rainy season, thus pre venting the leeching out of much val uable plant food, which would other- wise be^ washed away by the IrMvy winter *rains. This is especially the cate in the Southern States where rain fall has had more to do with depleting i;he soil of its natural fertility because of. the exposed condition of the land, than all the crops whichanay have been grown on the land. In'lhe Northern States clover is usu- ally selected as the legume for the ro tation,, while in the South tho cow. pea serves the same purpose. Both clover and cow peas are vigorous feeders and can get plant food out of the soil which other crops are unable to .obtain, h must he remembered that while these legumes have the faculty of absoibrng their nitrogen from the; "atmosphere they must depend upon the soil lor the other elements of plant food, namely, phosphoric acid and potash. It is a much more economical ptaitifl7he tong run to supply a sufficient amount of these two ingredients each year, and thus insure a large LABOR AND CAPITAL A Vicious Elephant.-Rajah, the famous mao-killing elephant, has killed his ninth man. Frank Fisher, his keeper/ had had trouble with his sweetheart and was on a big drunk to relieve his feelings. He went into the winter quarters of Lemon Brothers’ circus at Argentine, Kan., scarcely able to walk, and in a spirit of bravado went to Rajah and commenced to tease him. He tried to make him open his mouth, and when Rajah refused to obey his orders he etruck him on the trunk with his first. At this the pon derous beast knelt on him, crushing his life out instantly. Fisher had been Rajah’s keeper nearly ever since he had been in "Capti vity, which Is about seven years:- -Dur^ ing that time he has seen his charge kill eight other men, most of them em ployees of the circus, who had grown careless and too venturesome in Rajah’s vicinity, and had had several narrow escapes himself. Rajah is an unusually large ele phant, and has always been troublesome, aside from his propensity for killing men. Last fall ne broke loose and ter rorised the people of Argentine for two days before he was recaptured. In the mean time he made all kinds of trouble for the railroads, which have yards at Argentine, by tearing up their switches and disarranging their signals. He* blockaded the Santa Fe track for several hoars bv throwing a box oar off the irack. His was recap tured only after being shot repeatedly with a rile. Lowry pefigses, thus showing the dlf- ferei.ee In simplicity, and difference of cqmmqrclal value, between tbe old style compress square bale and the present type of Lowry bale. In fur- An Emblem of Peace and Reconcilia* tlon in tbe free Library at Home stead. Mr: Andrew Carnegie has done so mucb good that be must have enjoyea many happy hours, but we doubt if any experience of his whole life has given him more gratification than tbe cordial ant ever enthusiastic reception which was accorded to him by the work ngmen of Homestead on the occasion of the dedication of the free libra*y in that city which be endowed. Mr. Carnegie then and there made an address which Indicates bow deeply pleased he was by tbe manner in which he was re ceived. He said in the course -of his remarks I-' ‘‘For the first time, my friends,! stand before a Homestead audience with peculiar feelings. Mrs. Carnsige foot" W 6 It t hat she must be with me at Home- stead. Why this occasion Impresses us both as notbiag else could, wilt be readily understood. The one great pain of bur united-Uvea, arising’ business, and which has haunted us for years, came from the deplorable event here, which startled us when Lr away and which even yet has not lost its power at intervals to sadden our lives The memories which Homestead has called up to this time have sometimes saddened us, and we hoped that this occasion might fill our minds with such a beautiiul picture as to enable us to banish the cruel memories of the past forever. Imagine our happiness when now this happy meeting, the cordial and joyous welcome accorded to us, and '/A a i i <4 aaAna) Vzorzrztv therance of the system there is also id operation a complete cotton ginning system of three 70-saw gins, elevating and cleaning system with single flue condenser and Lowry press, operated by two electric motors, of &0-borse power cap<*city. This plant shows tbe system ol handling cotton in tbe seed from the wagon to tbe Lowiy bale, all of which have a uniform density and size as previously stkted. The operation of the machine so simple and yet so effective was a sub ject ol universal wonder to the travel ing meu. Tbe seed cotton, taken from the wagon by a flue and drawn Into the hopper which feeds the compress was pressed into its spiral formation until it reached a length of 36x18 inches in diameter, with an empty core which furnished the means of inserting the wrought Iron wires with which the bale was held together. Thus, within twelve minutes, one bale of ootton was -fed into tbe gla, passed through that press and came out fully compressed, ready for delivery In Liverpool, and doing away completely with any ne cessity for a visit to the old cotton com press. Here It will bsTaeen that the entire system of cotton compresses which haviri been in existence cost ing millions ^>T dollars and requiring millions of dollars for tbelr support may be entirely done away with, and the result is th«$ the money hitherto expended In malntaing these expensive plants will now find its way back to the farm which has t) stand the levy hith erto made upon them. To leave aside teohnioal language, every neighbor hood can have its gin just as it stands at present without any addition of capital, of skill, of employees. To this gin they can add the Lowry : baler, wh.ch will dp Its work as well as the work of the ootton compress,, right on the spot, and which must force the buying «f-lb.e ootton at the gin in future instead ' Of at the compress as heretofore. The advantages which this system will bring to tbe farmer so numerous that It would be the ^thousands of childrens’ happy, 8miling.{aoes, stamp a new picture of Homestead^upon our minds which wil’ gladden our hearts as It flashes before us wherever jte may roam. By this meeting, by your welcome, by these smiling faces, all tbe regretfu thoughts, all the unpleasant memories are henceforth and forever ‘in the deep bosom of the ocean burled.' Hence forth we aje to think of Homestead as we see it today. This building which I now dedicate, may It, Indeed, be be tween capital and labor an emblem of peace, reconciliation, mutual con fidence, harmony and union.” Mr. Carnegie stated some facts which Indicate that tbe labor at Homestead la perhaps tbe best paid in tne world. During tbe 311 worxlng days of the year preceding hts address the aver age pay, iqan and boy, inc’udlng com mon labor, at Homestead, vas 82 91 t day ; 8906 a year. Pullman has often been held up as a model, bat the high est average ever paid there was 8535 a year. Mr. Carnegie claimed that bis firm had paidv and is paying at Homestead “the highest wages ever received by labor.” This fact and tbe dedication of the beautiful Carnegie library at that place, warp a sufficient expiana tlon of tbe cheers which greeted anc followed Mr. Carnegie during his visit to Homestead. —At Hamilton, Mb., a negro woman of that city who has been an invalid fbr twenty-five years, was recent.y op erated upon for tumor of tbe stomach. Instead of a tumor tbe physicians found a livp snake. Names are given and the story Is not a fake. —" Papa,’’asked a 4 year-old young ster, “ are all little boys made of dastr” “ Yes, my son, ’ was the reply. “Well then,” continued the little fellow, wish you would make nurse stop uslnf; tbe whlskbroom on me. I’m afraid she’ll brush me all away.” —Last year in twenty-four cities of the United States, 884A' divorces were asked for, and 6603 were granted gipwth of the le- juried. SOMETHING ABOUT FLIES. Once while calliug-bt the house cyg a friend; one of the noisy, big fli'es’’ was heard -humping reckl about nt the window pane. The lad rose and with a cloth soon put a quie tus upon the pseudo busy hum of the adventurer. The. honsewife went at the maLei; as though it was important - and plied the cloth about with consid erable vigor and, of eburse, grace of movement. I didn’t as? for an expla nation of the performance, but under stood the whole thing and was con vinced that she understood just what she was about, or had inherited a very thrifty trail of character from some knowing ancestor. Whatever the in centive, this prompt ware fare oh the tirst flies of the season I thought a very sensible thiug. Of the immense swarms of flies only a few p iss the winter. Thqse which live over ihe winter to perpetuate the swarms the following year hibernate in our houses or oul-ouildings, in the cellar or in the attic and about the chimneys, hilling in any sheltered place or crack. They then come forth in the early spring. These are mostly females, ready to reproduce. A single female produces about 150 eggs. The eggs hatch in a d^y or so and in from seven to ten days the larva- or “mag gots" attain their.growth', and in a few more days become full grown flies, and we have a yew brood. These soon be gin egg laying an.I the process is re peated, many times during the season. If aU^eggs hatch aud half of the first brood are. females the progeny..of a single eai ly fiy at the second'genera tion would be 11,250 and at the third 843,750. Considering this rapid rate of increase it is not a bad idea :o lake some pains, to destroy the first fly of the season. Flies lay their eggs in decaying ani mal and vegetable matter.- A pile of Irorse T iUHfHire~i t s a favorite breeding place. They multiply in other un cleanly places about tbe premises. They are iiot to he exlraonlinaril abundant.iu : the. neighborhood slaughtering jor butchering establ menl unless the most rigid cleapliu be observed and all waste promptly ISUO. arilv-,- ~ <0 gumespwhich means plenty of nitro gen and organic matter. On the other hand, if clover or peas are sown and no phosphoric acid or potash applied, they will soon draw these two ingredi ents from the lower depths of the sob and store them up for the subsequent, crop, but of Course, such treatment will speedily exhaust the soil of its natural supply of the'ingredients men tioned and iu time it would he difficult, if not impossible, to get a “caich” of legume itself. Where green crops - are turned under, especially in the sections of this country^ it is advisable to make an oc casional application of lime at tho rate of' about 30 or 4<» bushels per acre of slacked matonal. This promotes a rapid decomposition of the organic matter and will at th'e'same time pre- venigsouruess or acidity, which oth erwise apt to occur. The Ifmt may be applied broadcast immediately after the crop is turned undei, when it wi'l soon, of Its own accord,, work its way into the soil and hasten the action of decay. The value of greQji manure cannot be over-estimated, and it is manifestly to the interest of every farmer to in clude either clover or cow peas in Ins farm rotation. As nitrogen coils aboul- threc times as much as phosphoric acid or potash, it is evident thatdiy resort* tug to green manuring a grt.u -living may be juade iu the expen-e of ferti lizing.-JA small dose annually of phos phoric acid (say about 3m* lbs. per acre) and 150 pounds muriate of pot ash will keep up the soil’s .supply of these ingredients aud it at the same time .good cultivation is practised,'the productive capacity of the laud will be greatly augmented. The selection of the legume should of course be regulated by local condi tions, but it matters hot whether clover or peas be tukeff, as the principle is the same in both cases. Green manuring is especially effective-in orchaid cul ture, and in sections where large quan- lilies of fruit are grown this practice is followed by the majority of themost intelligent growers. George Wilson. Giva-tbe young chicks plenty of tine grit. They must have it. r r/ ""Ter- The woman who truly loVes her husband will keep a watchful eye on his health. She will i. remember that if his health t is neglected, any telephone call from the office may be a message that he has been •stricken by death*: The average man does not feel that he has time to fool awav about trifling indispositions. He is too busy making money. He says he leaves sickness to the.. Woman folks. That is the way men commit suicide— tall* of thousands of them A woman can stand between this danger and her husband if she will. A little watchfulness—a sug gestion now and then and a little of a good general remedy always at hand piay s^vc her husband’s life.' Dr. PiercCV Golden Medical Discovery is a remarkable remedy * for hard working men and women. In a Certain sense, it is a cure-alt, for the reason that It goes down to bed-rock and cures the disorders that are responsible for the ma- ipnty of serious illnesses. It strengthens the atemach, and makes the appetite keen hearty. It invigorates the liver. It elfia the natural processes of secretion and excfltion. It makes the assimilation of the food perfect. It purifies the blood apd fills it with the life-giving elements that build new and healthy flesh tissue.. It tones the nerves. It is the gnat btood- raaker and flesh builder. It cures 98 per Cent of all cases of laryngial, bronchial, throat slid kindred affections, which, if neglected, lead up to consumption. It is also an tinflitling remedy for all nervous disorders. An honest dealer will not urge a substitute. “ Last winter I took sick with what the doctors tailed la grippe,” writes Mrs. Sarah Parley, pf Fairfax, Atcniaon Co., Mp< " Was aick for a trout lour iu arfhs and 110‘bitig that t took see md to lo me 1 nj good. My frit mis thought I hrd con sumption. J coughed up blond fora long while, and nesrlygave up uM hope of ever getting well. TKeardoinr Pi-rce's Golden Medical Discovery aud thought I would try It. I*had not-finished the first bottle when t t>egan to get better. I have taken two bottles of the'' Golden Medical Diacovery ’ and one of the ’ Favorite Prescrip tion * axd feel better than ever before hi my life." While attending to the first tlies it is al^o important to observe' cleanliness about the premises subsequently if we would reduce the annoyance from these insects. Flies may egrry .the germs of disease or dontagioM from place to (daer on . their bodies. If a consumptive is care less of liitliy and expectorates upon )he Boer a By aiights. are! feeding on the sputum, may alight next on the nose of a healthy person and place there'' the geniis of the disease. 'Aside from this and the fact of t-heif being bo filthy and annoying, tlies are not to be classed as injurious insects. They do much useful scavenger work,-aud one writer says on the whole they arc perhaps - as useful Us annoying, if we would ob serve'cleanliness about the premises, however, tins scavenger "work w ould not fie TTccessaryv and agree]qg on this we may -at-lt. I believe, follow the example “f the' ImiiM wife ami kill llie first fiy of tho season if we can. Don't think, however, that a “bottle fly” is the parent of the cotqqiou housefly of that the housefly can "ever grow into a “blue fioMle.” A little ify- never be comes a big fly. An iuseet with wings is*alwav-s full grown, whatever its size or whatever kind of insect it i-. E. W. - t'lemson College, 6'.;C. The I’iltslutrg Disp itck says ; Ffhm + tellable source it is ascertained that I’htlip I*. Armour, the Chicago packer, is trying to consolidate the glue, con cerns of the country. 4t is estimated that it will take*’ about ?2(),<*00,000 to buy up all the ^lue factories, .In western Pennsylvania millions ol dol lars a fe invested in the industry, aud g.ves>m(iJoyme!;t idRtmisands of men Philip 1). Armour already mamUai lures about oBP-eighfli'bf all the glu used in the United rbates. The Amer ican ’Vilue Company, a combination tomb'd th r ce years ago, controls about one-third of all the output, its factories being located iu half a dozen States. Mr. Armour has made an offer in spot cash-for the company’s entire business. The compAny is considering the offer, and, so the report goes, will probably accept. The deal consummated, it is said, Mr. .Armour w ill he in a position to undersell all competitors. From that point of vantage,.he will nutke cash clfers for the remaining glue -iae- tories of the country. o A syndicate of Babimore and Rich- mono capitalists, hcaflpd by John Skel ton Williams, the new president of the Seaboard Air Line, has closed a deal for the purchase of 1,800 acres of valuable mineraUinid manufacturing site lands near Gate City, six miles from Birming ham. While th<5 purchasers have not publicly announced their plans, it is said that two iron furnaces of 200 tons capacity each are to be erected, aud that large glass works are also in con templation, ;—-——-—— Ex-Congressman Tom L. Johnson, the well known street-rail road magnate of Cleveland, O., is quoted as saying that the time is coming when the people will ride free upon the st eel cars, run’ and operated by the municipality, just as 1 hey now get their letters delivered free by the postal system. Sent bv prepaid express on receipt of price. ALLIGATOR LjNlMENT CO., y iCLarlwjUm. B. O. 08 BO PINK'S -