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VOL. XXIV. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. ,qoi. NCR 5b THE' INSTITUTE i AT CEBMSON. Two Hundred Fanners Attend the Summer School and Receive Valuable Instruction. The Slate I’armere’ Institute which begau at Ciemsou College on the 12th i&U. has been largely attended by farmers from every section of the State, and the proceedings have been un usually interesting to the “ students,” who manifest an earnest desire to learn. The presence of so many farm ers this year ind-cates that the Institute idea has taken fast hold upon them, and next season the accommodations will have to be greatly enlarged for their entertainment. The following summary of the In stitute work is condensed from the re ports made by the correspondent of The State: Dr. Hartzog, in his usual attractive manner, made an introductory speech and then introduced Col. M. L. Don aldson, of the board of trustees, who made the address of welcome. Col. Donaldson was in a happy mood and spoke well. He was especially elated because he bad been so long an advo cate of the summer school for the farmers, and he could feel now that bis efforts had not been in vain. Col. It. It. Watson, the pioneer fruit grower from Kidge Springs, made one of the responses in which be spoke at length of the possibilities of SiuUi Car olina and the opportunities the farmers have here of pre|i*hug themselves to develop these possibilities. Capt. William t*iio o * Sunnis, of flarnwell, res|K>aded also in »«|ieech a tyno,* tied b% too beautiful lo k ai«. It was full of hiSioricaL, iu>i and Ularary ailuMon* just »uj speech as one would expect fruM scendaul of Sooth Carolina's grt novelist. ftr. flartxog then in 4 .r>«1 h. Newman as the NeaUH feasors of agnculturv in lL< Col. Newman spoke fc boor show mg that this la a pr age, and that farmers aa well mast study in order to keep the procession. We live in favored land under the »un. i Stanley Newman, a 7 year-old grandson of Col. Newman, on chicken raising. It is wonderful how much knowledge the little fellow has picked up. No sjieech has been listened to so atten tively or cheered more heartily. He’ll be au agriculturalist some day sure. Dr. R. N. Brackett discussed ferti lizers histoneally, scientifically and practically. He gave all the various elements that compose the fertilizers and stated their relative values, em phasizing the importance of making a&d taking care of home, made ma. nures. Dr. Brackett explained the symbols of chemistry and told the farmers how they might judge of the contents from seeing the analysis. Cot ton seed meal as a fertilizer and as a food was discussed. Bulle.ins con taining a full analysis of commercial fertilizers were distributed. Mr. C. C. Newman, took up the sub ject of horticulture, dealing especially with the improvement of the varieties of fruits indigenous to this State. Top budding was discussed at length. The root stem should be a little larger than the scion. The stem, he said, should be about the size of a lead pencil. At every leaf one to three bads. When there is one it is a fruit bud. The bud most distant from the tree ia a wood bud. The fruit bud is round white the wood bud ia pointed. The best time is fiom the middle of June tothemidd'j of July aa soon after a rain as possible. The bud should be inserted i ear the ground and tie or wrap with a slfing allowing it to stay wrapped for ten days. When the bud l>egius to grow, lie the sprout up lo the mam body, and a little lato^cut off the old stem letting the bud become the nuuu sleni. ... The bud is cut out with a little wood near the bud, then cut a slit ao inch long down lii|: aide jJ the vtem and eis caught the joke on themselves and laughed heartily. Mr. William Gilmore Simra* was the next speaker. He said hr- must be modest when he referred to his own experience as a farmer, for 1m had not made a success of it himsivf, though his wife had. He told how she raised seven bales on six acres where niit grass had grown for years. Forty-two million dollars of fine cot ton goods were imported into thi‘ country. This is the trade the South ern people must strive for. He told how his father, the novelist, had prophesied that when the Isthmus ca nal should be made that the world would use' a twenty million bale crop of cotton at a higher price than that at which it now consumes a Jive mil lion bale crop. Mr. Simms is a man of decided lite rary tastes and accomplishments, and always commands the closest attention. HE HAS A JEALOUS STREAK. :»t It is the same with the boys, and When they get to be tuMeblll experts with a also’a sill crawls* aT the lop ol UnsicdFff* ulUclimsot they talk of thei t! C*»l. J of aIhmiI ao in A WR nel\ cottuu and th other of fru have ao * three Ilf# and then ore not ceeefnl? It s learn -they j enei ii. pie c, I u igmr cent overlap i nearly wny v. wer may l>e grown. II, laxunam wget of animals, and uo hanpint-M u*|m i><l car farmer* dk> ( < i because they refi rUi not ttudy n Wr still Mk enm* ety W# a man d«* on In he a fa point lo ignore! think, for proof of the the truth of the a tali* r is n cioae sindent of tcic knowing iL lie hail been th. l-rijitndituiar slit, mseil bud and bind U|>. • drafting wax ia uard when graft ing is done atiove ground. Heal to graft on the not. Cut slanting through the root.. The scion cut same wav I* bouud to sale of root both lairicsj ih the send. - Mr. Nawmao then showed how all this ia to be duue, stating the beet lima wa» in January. He showed how the fruit of this sartiou could be greatly nproved. The great interest in this «luie shows that many intelligent irtu* r» afa ukir»K !iilArt*Ri in IbIa r*tu b uf horticttlinrv. Dr. t*. K. Neeom spoke at length of I lha a»tvauremrnt made III the last few j veart in veterinary science. Vateri- uary srieoca ia a nairao of study mad# up of the experience uf thoae who have given much aiteuuoo. T1*e main ef-1 forts of the veterinarian have been along lha|iine of vtunbalUiig and pro ve ui lag these common diseases m ant- Old Times and Customs of Past Days Are Praised Only by Those Advanced in Tears. Atlanta Constitution. How naturally mankind adapt them selves to those of their kind, their age, sex and mental condition. Birds of the same feather will flock together, sod so thene little grandchildren will run away from me to frolic with other I ^ honor, little tots, and it makes me jealous. Just so the next set from 10 to 10 ' years clan together. Then comes r—~t~k.— r ~~— JIl old sound goes goodie-goodie-goodie Tom says he is going to take the bung- hole and the goodie to the Atlanta ex position gnd exhibit them os the only relics of Christopher Columbus But about old friends. Eve! veteran has them and it gives pleasure to see them honored. The very pro#-* pect of seeing Henry 6. Turner in the governor’s chair gives me pleasure, for 1 know him well and love him. Maybe I would love Colonel Estill or i’ope Brown just as well if I knew them as well. I have great respect for them and am proud of their rec ords. I believe that either would dig nify the gubernatorial chair, but as Judge Underwood said to me in the long ago, “ Major, let me tell yon why I would like to be governor of Georgia. You will admit that knowledge is a little better than faith. There are many pood men whom I believe would make a good governor, but I don’t know it. Now 1 do know that I would; and there ia a difference between faith and knowledge. Don’t you perceive?” Just so Dbelievo that Colonel Estill or Pope Brown would make a good ernor, but I kuo jv that Henry ner would and knowledge is better thau faith. “ Don’t you perceive?” If he is not an incorruptible, unselfish, i brainy statesman, we have none. Let {his name be presented and I believe the verdict will be as the king said of Mordecai: “ Thus shall it he done unto the mau whom the people delight >od gov- G. Tur. equally foretells the visit of a woman and the lady of the house Immediately darts to her bondior to “ primp op.” All people do not know that the dropping of a comb while combing the relry. hair indicates that the person drop- rare pin® it will soon hear of death. An in- irot- stance of this occurred last week. Friday a friend of the family, writing from Ohio, incidentally mentioned the death of the mother of the grocer the family used to buy from. The comb was thus corroborated despite the fact that the deceased was otherwise en tirely unknown. For a friend to meet or pass yon and not recognize you means that you will be mamed within a year. The fact that yon are already married does not matter, presumably. Yon must get s divorce and make the prediction good. Fortunately this axiom is more honored in the breach than in the ob servance. Opening an umbrella in the bouse is unlucky. Any person who has hoisted his or her umbrella in the house and in so doing has knocked off a lamp globe or shade, never doubted the wis dom of the proverb maker. Dropping an umbrella presages a diappointment. He who has tried to brush the mud off, has many of them before he gets it cleaned again. There is, however, no ill-lack'attached to dropping the subject. 1 the Bill Arp. blushing school girls from 12 to 15, j TO CHA8E AWAY ONE 8 LUCK who have lengthened out their dresses ■ -ii ■ and censed to pull up their garters j, every few minutes «u they walk alxrat. man, a •erlioo, i the ma race with •servant of wnen h< ir in That The ad plants and ia sc ieacc or know more in the man than in the land." (tcoiogj is the (uuadatioo of agrirol- tare, treating of the formation of eotis, while chemistry is her handmaiden. Both animal aad human life ara de pendent on plants, ami yet we have •pent more time in star gaipig than in studying the plants around us. Not many mime one ia a thousand of the plants they see every 'lay. Happy tnai*, cent. "Op* •mmon di so that now, instead of 1 if the diseased stock dying cent, recover, south Carolina HOJWU a year by death of cattle exploits ia a language that Is heathen Chinee to everybody except tbemeelves end claim to he the elect. And so it goes on and oo until we have passed our maluniy, and then we veterans take our comfort in commnniou with veterans aad pay our tiibnte to the good old times that will never return. We are.the elect. I believe it le true that nobody%nt the aid men ami women give praise to the old limes snd the customs of their fathere, and so if every generattoa of old people twlieve that the age of their youth was the best, then the limes must have degenerated awfully since the «Uye ef the prophets. Have they or have they not gotten better instead of worse? The answer is. they are better in some res|>eete aad worse in I utbeia. 1‘ublic in-»rols ware very loose j e hundred years ego. Andrew Jackson was a gambler, horse racer and dusliat seventy-!ve years ago. Much a man could not be elected president now. 1**^ I Foreign missions and Mabbath schools wets almost nakaown. The slave trade with Africa wee in fall blast in New slwul from that i has li (aiae notions and dBfcbhglltrttng Ur re alise that we must know something of nature's laws in outer to be moat suc cessful on the farm. For years and years people in the tolmcco diktncla had to pkk off the worms with their fingers, but the entomologist and the chemist working together found e wsy of spraying or putting on a little Pans green thus destroying the worms by the thousands. And yet there are some who speak of an entomologist derisively as a “ bug” map. For yean and yean the “ horse doc tor'’ has been abroad in the land, bleedimr and drenching the poor dumb brutes without knowing anything about what the trouble was. But now veterinary science is being ^recognized so that our horses receive ’intelligent treatment and are guarded against disease. One strange thing is that if you go to a doctor to know what you need he sends in a bill; go to the lawyer, be sends a bill, go to-the mechanic, he. sends a bill; but we all expect the agri culturist to tell all he knows and tell it or nothing, anil then we will not take his advice. Col. Newtnsn was greatly encouraged though to see so large a number of the very best farmers in South Carolina here and in earnest en deavor to learn more of their business, The next speaker was Mr; Weston, of the Biltmore farm, who has been put in charge of the division of animal husbandry at the Charleston Exposi tion. He spoke at length on the im portance of good stock, showing how beef cattle and dairy cattle required different treatment. He gave an inter esting account of what will be done along these lines at the Charleston Expoeition and created considerable intelligent interest in that big show. It is encouraging to note so many here this year who were hereiaet yean. One drawback heretofore has been that •o many come only for a few days. This year the most of the farmers will stay the entire week. It is thought _ - j —i KuabBil. nud Xtw England mi Irxas fever. Nerty everything U, money. Imprisonment « Texas li ver ^ VM ^ law generally, and so was (logging in the navy. - '. aiaky I was unknown, but brandy r a rum were kept in almost every rv -table bousehoid. Illiteracy prevaih aliuuet all ovar the Mouth except among the aristocracy. There were but few Imoka to read and fewar newspaper*. There were no railroads or telegraphs or sew ing machine*. But the people ware generally honest and religious. Tbe.s were no trusts, ao strikes, no m ' n know today of Texas u-ver n learned In the last ten years. The afternoon session was devoted to discussing the need of organised effort to control farming intereeis. At the night session Prof. Weed, of Georgia, lectured on entomology. Oqe of the chief ways of killing msec is is by spraying. The pKpcipel spra material is Bonleaair mixture important to know whether an insect feeds on leaves or sucks tbs juices. In- AN It is The Marine of Brp rience- peretition Thrives Rest Women. If e ; man walks under a ladder and I the careless painter abpve upeeta the I pginl pot at>oii him the victim promfft- ly foigete both bis reiiguma teachings and his malenaliatii^ reasoning and all the preachers ia the world and all the I age noils In ferty-flva Mates com- II lined could not convince btm that H waa not unlucky to do as*be hnl done. MuperatUioo is the noe thing that Christina and uabaliaver unite la ale tacking, yet, despite the onslaught of pulpit, pram aad platform, it Airvives not, perhaps, ao openly, but none the leas strongly, even if shense fecedly feared, my* the llUeburg Dispatch. The Witch of Kador assy be bat a rla****! 1 remembrnaee aad civ ill «a turn may have convinced the Melon*ties of the fuU’ity of the bread aad the fagot aa ao exorcistag medium, but few uf qs have ant some buodoo or some be lief, however alight, la fata aad for mas. Hypnotism ead the faith care are its modern development. The literature of aaperatitioo. aa ax- pressed la Ute piovetbs of every lead, U not usually given the eUeaUoe it deserves. These maxiaM repreeeouug the tested and sccamuiated axperteaca, of maukiod have had Ihetr effective ness destroyed by familiarity. The axiom that ia no too there is strength is only being folly appreciated by the corporations aad the labor unions after I centuries of repetition. This was one of the proverbs not based upon super stition, which probably accounts for its lack of recognition sooner. *Bot taka lbs majority of the aphorisms and It i* not difficult to trace them beck to a Yt ,ier*tilious origin or forward to a 1 (cratitous moral? A YOUNG MAN BURIED ALIVE waa just aa bright and healthy when he wee dog up ee he waa whan ha wi buried. - , The profeeeor said the action of Johnaon’a heart wee reduced a third when he put him under the spell, and that it will gradually increase its pul sation until he le taken out and brought back to life. Job neon, he also added, will be neither hungry nor thinly, for moet of his bodily funotiona have been suspended foa^tjie remainder of the week ; and while he may tarn hie bead X pert way over once he will not be llke- to move his bodv at all until Satur- ij night, when the nave is to be opened and Johnson brought out of his trance, or whatever it may be called that Baf-clay pat him into. The professor didn’t say What John son would do if the building over him should burn down while he is buried, but that wasn’t accessary. Johnson would stay buried if that should hap pen. MONEY VALUE OF A WIFE Hypnotised and Buried ia a Grave for Five Days. The Boston 0lob4 of thejfith met. says there waa a grim aad even a gre w- icene tn the Howdoin Square Mu st 10 o'clock last night, when a young man wee hypnotised and than buried alive in a real grave, there to remain, according to tha promise of the hypnotist, nntil Metnrday night, whan ha will be disinterred and re stored to his noinaal condition. Tha nama of tha young man who buried to Parker A. Johnson, an intelligent, clean-cut West ladiea, aad be was pet lato the hypnotic elate by Prof. Wilmot Barclay. Trot Barclay tried to get a permit from Mayor Hart to bury J dsaeon in the Common for three days and nights, but the mayor wouldn’t to it, aa the professor aad the i of the museum deeadad to dig a grave la the museum premise* ead bury Johnson la their ova grave, ea am prise with which the police did not terfare. Down ia the Imeemeot ef the e a part of the iaoriag waa token up aad there e grave about five feet deep i dag. The outer eovurtag or rouga 1 box of a casket was assured, 1y pert ef last eveuiag An Unusual Law Bait to be Tried Shortly tn Indiana One of the moet unusual law ettito on record ia toon to be tried in the State of Indiana. It will settle the money value of e prospective wife. Charles Arnold, e citizen of 84100car County, waa engaged to be married to e young lady at Melotte station on the Clover l>-*f Railroad. It is not etated whether this road w of the three or four leaf variety of clover, bat it hm e law salt 00 hand. The prospective bride waa not killed by the railroad, nor was bodily injury Inflicted upon Charts* Arnold. Tm* railroad is asked to respond in the sum of $20,0(10 for duos to the feeling* of e Arnold qq M account of this circnaa- to 0* their where the I tanlad '* OQad I was than. Pea the com, hot an tingle-banded. .In bleoeea Itave to knees fo work at the pumpkin blos soms, bat around El Reno they use •top-ladders. ~ ~ a># „ I*™* 0 • throehlng machine of 1 J*®.* •t"» b « ,, Uto handle the 1 ^ *>• rowed in the _Th* kernels an too large foe ordinary thrasher. Tliat^ foat keeps foe country beck as a diatnet. The fadten M a plants just * little. A kernel in water over night and baked the next • loaf not unlike oar Vienna bread. This method eaves lota of bard work in hoi Weather ** the housewife does net have to kasAi »oy dough.” INDUSTRIAL AMD GENERAL- China export* 11,000,000 font •Uj- A One dent to Up •hipped 6,000 pounds of ootloa to Ma- Uoa equipped with a MeloUe. When the The young man boarded Use Clover Leaf Railroad Co. car at his boms *u ticket which read road actor around Arnold told him that ha very tired ead sleepy, wsorted by prep for the that U was bis daairs to toka a Tha cowduetpt prom Wad faith- to arouee the peeeeager ia proper aad to AraolJ aaadoaeed himself I vm fiaojooojooo. la the south ef aide ef tha by Use while crowds of arowod ead geeUve eight. It waa jwst 10 Barclay had formeoce, when ha anooaaoed ha ready to bery Joheeoa, aad that grave. -t *1 . TL shivered el the o clock, after Prof. There the train end toat- | toad to, aad the | not ao iadeiib'y improved spue mind aa the yoeth Im^inad aad ’ j it did not occur to him that he had a lot Melotte elatkm. The the awofte he waa 1 hours after tha appareled time. Hie I affianced had waitoTa by tha which I tha profs to do. * . lie said ha would hypnotically sag-’ goat to Johnson that ha was going to sleep for five day* aad nights, during that linse ha would 1 by many that after this yey the term ; jj e made a differehee of Ibl 1-2 bushels per acre. # The Botleaux mixture ia composed of copper sulphate 4 pounds, lima 4 pounds and 50 gallons of water. 1 he copper sulphate does the work. The copper suli>faale or blue stone should be suspended in a bag near the top of the water. Certainly tue fresh lime. Dissolve blue stone in 25 gallons of water and dissolve the lime in 25 gal* lone of water, then pour together. This is the very brat way. ‘ Make up a stock solution of lime just as you muike a good whitewash. Bor* dcaux mixture is applied to kill fungi, thus preventing disease, while pans green is applied to cure disease. \Y hether an insect has beak or jaws determines how we are to fight it. Kerosene is an important insecticide by application to the insect. It is com monly known as ke.'oeene emulsion made by mixing soapsuds with kero sene and then with water or mixing sour milk with kerosene and then with water. This was found hard to make. The discovery of a mechanical mixture by means of a spray pump simplifies matters very much. Quite a number of questions were asked Mr. Weed at thfe close of his lectuie and he answered them readily and clearly. The fruit growers of Georgia use Bordeaux mixture, first just before the blooms appear, second just after the bloom drops, and third about four weeks later. Col. Newman introduced Col. B. F. Crayton, of Anderson, as a man who had been working for agriculture for nearly 80 years. -Col- Crayton - received an ovation. He is a perfect type of the gentleman of-the-btd“ school, and proved himself the moet graceful speaker that lias been on the platform. His speech was j fall of anecdote and reminiscential in cident, as well as good sound advice. | Col. Crayton has a right to speak for he is a man who has nuule a success o:' will be lengthened to two or to even three weeks. That much and lasting good is being done by these institutes no man with coinmoa sense will deny. SXCOJTD DAY’S rtiOCEKDIMOS. One of the pleasing incidents of tn day’s meeting was e speech by Master This is Col. Crayton’s distinction be tween an agriculturist and a farmer An agriculturist is a man who lives in town and boys his supplies frofn the country, while in this day. a farmer.» a men who tires in the country and buys his supplies ia town. The farm- a murder was a rare eveal and done in belief that it is unlucky to turn back the heat of passion No donbt but from e journey. The individual who that there ere a hundred of these has been half way to his work with a crimes committed now to one then ac- few minutes to spare qnd has had to cording to population. Well, then, turn beck for some essential he had why arraign the old people for Uupent- forgotten, leaned the ill luck when mg that the good old times have gone? Not long ago 1 heard a gifted and cul- I ured minister of the olden time preach n most charming and impressive ser mon from the (ext in Jeremish which reads, “ Stand in the way and ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest Tor your souls.” One of. the best tests of the strength of a sermon is your remembrance of the text. When ,a gifted and scholarly minister is dor 3 with it and with holy hands says, ‘‘L * us pray,” what a solemnity fills l e dace, and the text lingers with you or years to come. It does not seem ike the same scripture. “ The old laths,” “ walk ye in the old paths ” las been ringing in my ears ever since. 1 know that I^ord Bacon was grow ing old when he wro^e, “ Old wood to )urn, old wine to drink, old friends lo trust, and old authors to read.” And Goldsmith said, “I love everything that is old.” King James used to call for his old shoes when he was tired. There is something almost sacred about the old songs, such as ( ‘Auld Lang Syne.” “ The Old Oaken Bucket,” “ The Old Arm Chair,” and even Old Grimes is dead, that good old man.” My friend Tom Sawyer, of Florida, writes that he still clings to his old clothes; that he has worn his pants for years and years and had them half-soled in the seat and reinforced at the knees and rehemmed at the bot tom; that he bought a bome-madepair t)f socks twenty-seven y«rs ago wearing them still, though lie has had new feet knit to them three times and new tops twice. He says that Gover nor Bloxham dearly loves the old things—eld heir-looms,etc., and boasts that he has an old barrel that has been in the family ever since Columbus dis covered America—for he brought over with him full of brandy, aud has had good liquor cf some sort in it ever since; that his great great grand father pat new stave* id it, and his great grandfather pot new heads and (atiiw put. new^ huopa-on it, but bang-hole still remains and when the fluid is drawn the k he was “docked” for being late. The man who hurries to catch a train or to see a sli^w snd leaves his money or his ticket in his other clothes also adorns the illnstration. Spilling a box of matches is a sure sign of a row in many households. If t is the man of the house who does the spilling the row doesn’t tarry on the way while he picturesque ly -blames his better half for leaving them upside down or placing them in an awkward corner. Spilling the salt was long re* garded as so unlucky that unspillable salt shakers were inveated to dodge it. The uncanny cat lias long been the symbolic superstitious animal. The black cat which crosses the path of tl e pedestrian brings him ill luck. ThN is especially true if the tinea tenia victim tries to ward it off by shooting the cat back to its lair. With one’s eyes on the cat one may easily trip upon obstructions and break a leg or a neck. But the cat is not always an omen of evil. If he or she squats at your door and mews lustily at night it means good luck to all within the house. To chase such a cat away is to chase away one’s luck. It is terrible to think of the amount of luck that has been chased away. When one door shuts another opens says the proverb. Quaint and homely was its tvisdom. But the one that opens may be the door of the police station pr the poor farm nowadays/ Still, it is a door, aud that lets the pro verb out. Some have striven to en large the axioms by having two open when one shuts, but one must have been a screen door, and that doesn : t count. One might never get farther than the vestibule. Superstition, like religion, thrives best among women. Their more im aginative minds grasp the ideals foat elude foe masculine materialist. The dropping of a knife in manr houses is regai 1 led as so certain an indication of the arrival of s 44 man at the house, (hat preparations are at once made to evade foe ins ffidltTlftt ead foe foe meat man, or to be out when the tax collector calls. The dropping of a fork Then the professor, the reporters, who had been specially invited to witness the interment, made some pees— over Johnson, and patting his left baud behind the subject’s head he smoothly stroked him down the right side fd his face with his right hand, whilehe softly said in his ear in e tone which was both smooth end soothing : “Now you ere beginning to feel si ©Spy ; you are growing drowsier and presently you will be eonnd asleep, and then you will sleep, and sleep well for five days and nights, when you will fresh wake up feeling fresh end strong. Now, sleep, slnmber, sleep,” and John son’s eyes closed and he seemed to be sleeping soandly, although he was standing.up. The profeeeor made some more peases over his face and down the length of his body, and Johnson’s body became absolutely rigid. * While this was being done a mat tress had beeu placed in the box, and at one end of it two pillows were ar ranged. When Johnson became rigid some employees of the house picked lim up and placed him in hie rude cof fin. Prof. Barclay pat Johnson’s head on the pillows, his face turned slightly to the left, and then he covered him up with a big thick comforter, and told the men who were to put the box and man into the grave that all was ready. They took foe box down from the stage and lowered it into the grave, placing, over an opening left in foe foot of the cover of the coffin a pipe abont five inches in diameter, and over the head of it a box, which had no cov er over its lower end, so that people could look down into the grave after it was filled up and see the face of the man in the coffin. By the right side of Johnson’s head there was placed an electric light, and then, with foe pipe and the peek box in place, foe earth was shovelled into the grave again, and Johnson was buried in regular style, except that there was the pipe to give him air, ami foe peek box to present an opportunity of seeing him in his coffin. . . ' The grave was rounded over, end then Prof. Barclay told the reporters he had no doubt Johnson would be all right when be is disinterred Saturday night, for he sal! ha buried Mm ia Kingetoo, Jamaica, ones, aa under ground for e week, aad J< and then foe joy ed lo anger end hero none ef him AU efforts to Ule. Th* broken, and Mr foe court of enpid to Use dill tribunal for seliafaoUon. The answer which the railroad company interposed in fighting the suit for ilsmsges and epou which foe defendant co porouoo relies In seeking relief from rrvpenssbiUty is as follows : Fttot—They are not a sleeping ear nor subject to its raise. 1 -Plaintiff was guilty of cnl^ent Usees will ar under the net ooveriag be se ttle fall value of original wives. Fourth—Wives are cheep ia Indiana anyway, and the plaintiff can get an other just as good for $20. Fifth—Plain tiff in equity owes foe railroad company $20,000 for saving him from an Indiana marriage. ▲ WONDERFUL COUETRY. Marvelous Stories Told of the Land Jnot Opened to Settlers. Wonderous rich ere the new lands opened to settlement in Oklahoma— according to foe veracious tales of rail road boomers, real estate agents and others interested in making things ham oat there. A man engaged ra real estate operations in foe new coun try is quoted as follows by the Chicago Inter Ocean: “ Sdy, its the finest land a man ever dug his toes into. An Indian and his family are living on one of my farms now. Their hat is a half section of a watermelon shell. ' A door is ent in the side. The house wee a little damp at first, but this warm weather has dried it out. “The Indian had a hard time cutting the melon in two. He finally did, though, and the family ate their way into their home. The other half of the melon he usee as a barn. I would fetch one of the melons from my place to the Chicago marked but I can’t get a flatcar big enou transport it. As it is, foe v • been 'used for irrigation duriiv, ^ls dry spell The Indian has gone around and bored holes into e few and the water has saved foe corn forest. “Corn? Say, Kiowa cam is wonder. You can hear it groan any night from growing pains. The aount of these groans at midnight, mingled with the coyote howls, makes a stran chorus foat frightens the tenderfoot first. It did me. “The Dtdiaa on my piece promising eon last year. The bock was so n ladder that against n stalk about 25 feet from ground. He was lowering n siz< d e»r of o -ru with here, there are in which isle- more E. of caverns, ground has reports of the form of depth He has about 1,027 I has not been Athough has in. countries phones than here. In Stockholm, Sweden, one person in every fourteen has e tel ephone, there being more than 20^000 telephones In a population of 271,000. Every tobneeooist’s store is n public call office and the rates are very low. bOCND SUCXriNO SUOOMTIONS.— Two in a bed is the usual custom of sleeping, in the United States at least, and also in Canada and England. Bat ia Germany and France, says Good Housekeeping, single beds are the rule. The latter plan is mote healthful and comfortable. It is gradually coming into use in this coantry. Single beds involve more linen, more work tit mak ing beds and more washing, bat I nev er knew n family to retnrn to the old plan after ones giving single beds a fair trial. Especially in rammer is the single bed to be preferred, or even sleeping on the floor, to two in a bed. declare they never hnai during foe hoi ram hey adopted foe sin- 1 might add a word of pro- allowing babies or