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gp-W-.?.|FOR FARM AND GARDEN. I Soil Textnre Important. The most important business of the farm is to control the soil texture. If i this is looked*after carefully the supply of water can be regulated. This texture is modified by the addition of lime, apply iug barnyard manure, growing clover aud the like. Of course every farmer must work according to a system adapted to his particular soil Lima Liberates Potash. It is quite probable that in the experiment spoken of above, no small part of the good effects of the lime was due to its liberating the porasn which was locked up in an insoluble form. This seems evident in part from the fact that the form of phosphoric acid, the basic slag, which was used when lime showed the poorest results, was that which itself contained the most lime. Lime produced better results when used with dissolved phosphate rock than it did with any form of bone, raw or dissolved. The rock after treatment has less lime than the bone. Beef Cattle. The wide range of prices at every market on what are called good to choice beef cattle, which often show j the choice to range from $1 to $2 a , hundredweight above those that are simply classed as good, indicates that there are many farmers yet who feed i poor grades of cattle, or fail to prop- j IS erly fit them for market before they ! send them out. We do not refer to ! the low grades of bulls or old cows,or j to the stockers aud feeders, but to those supposed to be beef cattle. There is no sufficient reason for this as there are enough of pure bred to cive an admixture of beef blood to all the stock in the West,or so it would seem to read of the numbers imported or bred there, and there is no lack of corn to feed them on. The Mating of Queens. Probably the most uncertain feature abont queen rearing is to get them mated and safely back to their respective hives, says a writer in the New England Homestead. I generally expect 25 per cent., of the young queens yill get lost When a queen is from ' 'six to ten days old she goes on her wedding flight, and after meetiug a drone, returns to her hive. If she is successful in finding it there is rejoicing among the bees, but should gr. she enter another hive she is immediately killed. It is, therefore, well for * the apiarist to. help in some way so the V qneen may mark her location. Where the hires are far apart or where there 5-. . are trees or other objects in the apiary pc. there is not so much risk, but where the hive3 are all the same kind and in straight rows and an equal distance apart, it is more puzzling for the young queens to find their respective hives. The apiarist can help by putting boards or au old ooat on some of V V the hives, or by painting them different colors. I have just had some ||X forty queens mated with a loss of only four. My hives are painted various gC V colors, and are placed alternately in ' the rows. Protection From Lightning. k ? ? ' ?* i ? r tJBarus are irequenuy sxrncs oy lightning soon after the new crop has been pnt in, and large barns, in which a large quantity of new hay has been stored within a short time,' are most liable be struck, especially when there is a ventilator npon the top of the barn. It is said that the - heating of the nay canses a column of warm air to arise, which acts as a conductor ^ for the electric current as naturally as | would a column of water, if one could ^ be forced up to the same height. It j p. is, then, a good idea to ventilate such Jt: barns by windows in the gables, so k. that the heated air will be spread I? abroad by the wind instead of goiug directly upward. The ventilators on the top of the barn should be so arranged that they can be closed, and they should be kept closed during the IE-time when the new hay is throwing off this heat. It throws off much more since farmers have begun to cut their >, grass early, and to put it in a little green in the heat of the day, than it did ^nrhen it was usual for much of it to get over-ripe, over cured, and it was not hauled in until after dark. ? The machinery of the present day alK ' lows much more to go in in a day than did in the days of the hand scythe jfrp-yhand hand rakes. Wood A?hes for Hog*. < We often hear complaint of sows eating pigs, and as often as the comV plaint is made some one has a cure. - Some of these so-called remedies have ? some basis upon which to found their claims and some have not. Many of these exist only in the mind of the one suggesting them. It is generally ! believed that constipation is the cause; if so a preventive is better,also ; ^ cheaper than a cure. Sows properly ?j|>~ kept, fed on mixed feeds, with plenty pi .of exercise, are not liable to be con?8tiputed. We have practiced feeding silted wood ashes in siop once a day for a week or so before and after farT?n 1 Avr?A A/\rvlr er\a/ .t> fn 1 l>v' iu111 ?? jl dcu a lai^c tuua o^vwui ui ?.' to eacb matured liog. We also feed a spoonful in each bucketful of slop for young glowing hogs. It tends to sweeten the stomach, and is a very copling physic. It rids the stomach and intestines of all worms. We think plenty of salt and ashes good for all stock. Horses having free access to it are not so liable to colic, and we will almost guarantee a cow against milk fever if we can get her physicked lightly before and after ^ calving with sifted wood ashes. We feed, a single handful iu a bran mash or in a mixed ground feed dampened. We think it a safer remedy in the average farmer's hands than to use drugs. We always sift them in a meal sieve to make sure of taking out all | glass or pins that may happen in,then T throw the charcoal out for the hogs to V eat.?L. H. Martin in National StockK man. Keeping: Cabbages and Tnrnlps. Burying cabbages and turnips in the ground for winter keeping seems to be the simplest plan yet devised, and if the work is done properly a very small percentage will be lost. There is always the question of uncertain winters to consider, and this makes the work sometimes more difficult. In fact, if we could gauge be forehand the kind of winter we were to have there would be no trouble in deciding what to do. A cold, dry winter would be welcomed by farmers who make a specialty of these crops, for the turnips and cabbages would keep all right piled up and covered with a little dirt. It is the alternate freezing and thawing, the rain and the snow, that provoke trouble. Cabbages not buried deep in the ground would soon rot in a warm, wet seap eon. If.;/,' The best way is the surest way, and as is generally the case the most laborious. Select some high and dry ground where the drainage is good, either naturally or through artificial cultivation, and dig a deep and broad trench. The size of this trench must depend upon the quantity of vegetables so be stored in it. Lay the cabbages in thift trench, side by side, and packing snugly in two layers, one on top of the other. Shovel the dirt over them carefully, letting it filter in the spaces between the heads and stalks. Pack the dirt firmly uutil all varts of the cabbages a1 e concealed from view. Then on top of this put four or live inches of dirt which will place the vegetables almost below the front line, certainly below the line where the thaw extefcds. A good hard freeze will do the vegetables packed away good, and if they do not thaw out until dug up for use, they will keep weil all winter. During the exj ceedingly cold weather, stalks or litter shouid bo placed on top of the trench and removed when warm weather comes again. By using a top mulch in this way, one can regulate t the temperature of the vegetables very well. When dug up in the spring, the cabbages will be in excellent condition, and they will sell for good prices. When spring opens the ground should be shaded over the 1 ^ 1_U ....A I trencn, ana a iup muau pit vu tv^ ??. ; keep the frost in the ground. In this ! way the vegetables can be kopt very late. But as soon as the ground begins to thaw the cabbages should bo dug up and sent to market. Decay will set in very soon af er they have thawed out, and it is useless to attempt to keep them much longer then. In digging up the cabbages in the middle of winter care should be exercised to disturb the others as little as possible.?AY. E. Parmer in American Cultivator. Full Weight Wheat. Shriveled wheat will not "weigh up" and is useless as seed, and also of slow hale even at cut rate prices. Such wheat is immature, and tells a story of bad farming methods. Immature wheat is rarely due to any form of disease, unless starvation may be called a disease, for it is caused by plain, simple starvation. Farmers mnst not expect to grow good wheat on impoverished soil. It is certainly true that over-lining will cause shriveled wheat, but it does so because the effect of lime is to quickly make available the fertilizer ingredients existing naturally in the 3oil, particularly potash. Now, it liappeus that potash is a most important factor in making plump full-weight-grain. It must be clearly understood, though, that potash alone will not make good wheat; it must always be accompanied bv the proper amounts of nitrogen and phosphoric acid. Over-liming with the use of clover aud bone products is a common practice with even good farmers, but it results in making a poor crain soil. The clover and bone products supply nitrogen and phosphoric acid onlj and the lime draws heavily on the soil fur potash. In a few years, of course, there weuld no longer be anv available soil potash to draw from,and J the crops would suffer in two ways; the nitrogen would make a rank growth of straw, while the phosphori ic acid in the absence of potash, will cause early maturity. The heads are light and the grain cells loosely packed and few in number. In well fertilized wheat the grain cells are packed closely together, and the grains block out both ends squarely. The use of fertilizers not well balanced, in a measure, cause the same result. Most fertilizers are usuallj rich in phosjjhoric acid, and nitrogen, | but low in potash. Now, taking intc : consideration the fact that the whole J wheat plant, grain, straw and chaff, contains more potash than phosphoric arid, the results of feeding year after j year more phosphoric acid than potash becomes evident. The soil be! comes comparatively rich in phosphor; ic acid, which forces an early maturity | and consequently more or less shrivi eled grain. The action is precisely the same a; i with over liming. At first with au excess of nitrogen and phosphoric acid present, such supplies of potash as may exist in the soil naturally are j quickly taken up. Sooner or latei this source of potash is exhausted,and j a starved crop is the result. The remedy is very simple; a grain fertil: izer should have as much potash as ; phosphoric acid,and if such is liot the I case, make up the shortage by supi plemeuting the complete fertiiizei with some potash salt; Any farmer who m*y not be posted as to the use ?f fertilizers should write to his experiment station; that is, the experiment station of his state. I These stations are maintained for the ! purpose of giving farmers just such ! information.?Farm, Field and Fireside. Poultry Notes. If liens are overfal do not attempt to carry them over. Study poultry from a practical standpoint, just as other stock upon the farm is studied. There is no fear of losing anything ! by sending clean eggs and nice look , ing poultry to market. Moulting is a strain on the system and the bird should have good feed and protection from cold winds. The farmer's family should consume | more poultry and eggs and less vpork. j They are among the most valuable ! fnnds. The fact that so mnch poultry U 8old is prima facie evidence that poultry raising is profitable. Poultry, too, brings quick returns. There is nothing in its relation tc j the henhouse that is more important j than whitewash and a whitewash I brush, if they are used. Feeding corn night and morning ii j the sum total of poultry manageuaen ! on thousands of farms; and there ii | no money in that sort of manage inent. Britlnh Nnval Gnnnerr. Not an officer or man in the flee can doubt that the admiralty are thor onghly in earnest in their determine tion that the gunnery of the navj shall be as good as it cau be made They have already taken measures t< j bring about an improvement, and si | that the marking at the prize firing i on which their official returns ari | based, may be above suspicion, the; ; have just directed that when a ship i thus engaged, at least two officer j from other ships shall attend and nc | as umpires. The explanation of thi I action is that it has been stated tha ! in some cases the marking hRS beei j performed carelessly ? some critic I have used a stronger verb. The pus j picion that the annual returns did no i form an authentic record in all casei ; has robbed these jealously guardei statistics of some of their value.j London Telegraph. In Jetmore, Kan., every house i occupied by its owner. [film* mill ummmmmm My Mother Had Consumption I"My mother was troubled with consumption for many years. At last she was given up to die. A neighbor told her | !not to give up but try Ayer s Cherry Pectoral. She did so and was speedily cured, and is m now in the enjoyment of good 1 health." D. P. Jolly, Feb. 2,1899. Avoca, N. Y. Mamammammamsnaasxammmmmmmm I Cures Hard Coughs 5 No matter how hard your 0 I cough is or how long you have | | had it, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral I | is the best thing you could 1 a possibly take. But it's too I | risky to wait until you have 1 I consumption, for sometimes it's I jj impossible to cure this disease. I | If you are coughing today, 1 I don't wait until tomorrow, but j get a bottle of Cherry Pecj toral at once and be relieved. | It strengthens weak lungs. B Throo slzei: 25c., enough for an ordinary B 1 cold; 50c? just right for asthma, bronchitis, U 0 hoaraene*!, whooping-cough, hard cold*; ? N $1.00, m??t economical for chronic case* I gj and to keep on hand. 5 CHOICE Vegetables will always find a ready market?but only that farmer can raise them who has studied ; the ere at secret how to obtain both quality and quantity k ** ?? | by the judicious use ot wellbalanced fertilizers. No fertilizer for Vegetables can produce a large yield unless it contains : at least 8% Potash. Send for [ our books, which furnish full : information. We send them j free of charge. I GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. "First Volksraad of the Tnnsvaa!."The first parliament house of the Boers was under the banyan tree, un' der which the rulers of the Transvaal gathered in the early days of the republic to discuss questions affecting ' the country, and the tree has thus bei come known as the "first Volksraad of the Transvaal." The Boers call the ' spot "Wonderbloom." It is a few miles outside of Pretoria, ot the entrance to a cleft in the mountain. I'utnax Fadeless Dies are fast to sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by all druggists. > The Curse of War. } Mrs. Henpeck?If it hadn't been for the j 6oudan campaign you wouldn't have been my husband. 5 Mr. Henpeck (savagely)?What a curse war t is! ) anrea Two traveling salesmen In each Southern State. I *5!) and expenses. Experience not absolutely L necessary. For particulars address Pocahontas > Tobacco Works Co., Bedford llty, Ya. Comparisons. "i>ur wedding trip is all too short, ' She said, with muffled sigh. "Well, maybe so." he groaned, "but it's Not half so short as I." There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, i and until the last few years was supposed to be 1 Incurable. For a great many years doctors ; pronounced It a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced It in) curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires L constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney <fc Co. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It Is taken Internally In doees from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials, Address F. J. Cheney <fc Co., Toledo,O. Sold hy Drucglsts. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. L Vitality low, debilitated orexhansted cured by Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Free 81 f trial bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. Dr. Kline, vLd., 031 Arch St., Philadelpha. Founded 1871. Attention is called to the very useful articles contained in the premium list of the 1 Continental Tobacco Co.'s advertisement of their Star Plug Tobacco in another column of this paper. It will pay to save the "Star" tin tags and so take advantage of > the best list ever issued by the StarTobaoco. Piso's Cure for Consumption has saved me 5 many h doctor's bill.?s. F. Hardy, Hopkins Place, Baltimore. Md., Dec. 2.1894. I Jn Training. "Do yon understand the nature of an oath?" asked the Judge. ' "1 should tbmk I ought to," said the nervous 1 ttle man. "I've been putting up stovepipes for my wife all morning." ) ? b /7TX- /? /ff) /. / /t% cm<6?m A40 ' By writing at once ' t for the remarkable offer of the Soath's greatj eat Institution of Practical Business Training, - The Ga.-AIa. Business College, Don't Delay! MACON, GA. ; l1 * a Send your name and address on a? B g postal, and we will send you our 156- ? a ? page illustrated catalogue free. i s i WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. f t ? 176 Winchester Avenue, Ntw Haven, Cenn.? CARTER S INK k Can't be beat. M?S WHERE ALL SETAIIS. " JST M Best Cough 8yrup. Tastes Good. Uee R / SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Lieutenant Maury has calculated that if an inch of rain fell over a fifth part of the surface of the Atlantic, it would meau an addition to its volume of 360 million tons of water, and that if the same amount of water evaporated from the ocean, it would leave 16 million tons of sea-salt. According to the state geologist of Indiana, the natural gas supply of that state is decreasing in pressure, and its quantity is limited. In five yea' s all the pipe lines have been extended 1- ii. - i i. -f (I... *,.1/1 lOWfirilS IUB uwult u1 kul' UCI>I, anu iuc centre is now reduced to an area of less than 150 square miles. In tliis ceutrc the pressure has diminished from 264 pounds in 1805 to 181 pounds in 1808, and the average rock pressure of the entire held lias been reduced from 191 pounds in Nor ember, lr-97, to 173 pounds in November, 1898. The average pressure at which salt water overcomes gas is stated at between 130 and 150 pounds to the square inch, and this necessitates the al audonment of the well. A strange complaint whirh has lately been prostrating large numbers if Parisians has been attributed ! y medical men to a rather peculiar cause. This is the preseuce in their patients' morning rolls of salts of lead, deposited on the floors and walls of the ovens in which they have been baked. According to the raed cal theory, the extensive use of old timber in place of other fuel that ho largely obtains in France is directly responsible for this condition of affuii s. As a result, the Paris council of hygiene has ison?/i on forbiddinc the emnlov ment by bakers of wood from old houses, disused railway sleepers or wooden paving blocks for their furnaces. Such timber is usually impregnated with sulphate of copper or creosote, and poisonous volatile salts are liable to rise from it when heated. . Last spring a plnn was proposed at the Harvard college observatory for the construction of a telescope of unusual length for photographing the stars and planets. Anonymous donors have now furnished the means by which this experiment may be made, and it is expected that a telescope having an aperture of twelve inches and a length of a hundred feet or m,ore will soon be ready for trial at Cambridge. The exhibit of the Harvard observatory at the Paris exposition will represent the work of the United States in astronomy. Among the collection of photographs of heavenly bodies will be the stellar charts and photographs of stellar speqtra produced with the aid of the great photographic telesoope now iu South America. There also will be an exhibit of glass photography illumined by electricity. . ? 1 ?a? i An oilier iue.uaui.Hi piuuigjr una been added bj the Boston Elevated Railroad company to its magnificent equipment. This is a new steel shaft ?reported to be the largest ever cast ?to form part of a new vertical crosscomponnd engine, which is being put in place in the company's central power station, an engine of four thousand horse power, at ordinary speed. The shaft is twenty-eight feet in length, over all, thirty-eight inches diameter in the centre and weighs in its finished state about seventy-five thousand pounds; as a rough casting it was much lieavier, of course, a hole fifteen inches in diameter having to be bored in the centre. In the journals, which are each fifty inches in length, leaving a length of some twenty feet between the centres, the diameter is thirty inches. The vast proportions characterizing all the other features of this undertaking will be further understood when it is stated that the fly wheel casting weighs seventy-five tons. Minimum and Maximum of Sleep for Man "The old rule of eight hours' sleep is sheer nonseuse," said a New Orleans physiciati, chatting after office hours. "Natural sleep is something that can't be regulated by any formula. The body takes what it needs, be it much or little, and the necessary amount varies with the individual. In a general way I would say that four hours is the minimum and ten hours the maximum for people in fair health. Either more or less is a pretty sure oiorn tlint. *nmptkin?r in out of (rear? "? o ? c usually somethiug in the brain. I have two patients who sleep only four hours and keep in tolerably good eondition. Both are middle-aged men, and neither of them works Yery hard. They are simply so constituted that nature can repair its losses in four hours of unconsciousness. In many other peeple nearly three times as long is required; the nerve cells work more slowly?why, nobody knows. The queerest case that ever came under my personal observation was that of a bookkeeper of this city, who nsed to sleep two or three hours a night through the week and on Sunday would catch up in a twenty-four hour nap. That is no exaggeration, but an actual fact well known to all his intimates. He seemed to be able to store away nervous energy as a camel stores water. His general health during the twelve or fifteen years I knew him was excellent, but be finally died of an attack of pneumonia.?New Orleans Times-Democrat The Habit of Wearing Spectacles. "It is a singular and grotesque fact," said au eye specialist of this city, "that a great many uneducated people get into the spectacle habit without any need whatever for wearing glasses. Take, for instance, a man whose eyes become a little inflamed from exposure to the sun or some other cause. His sight is all right, and what he really needs is a soothing lotion of some sort to allay the irritation of the membrane. Very *11 i_ , :n : -^ irequenuy, uowever, ue win lLuagmo that he requires a pair of spectacles and will buy them at the cheapest place he can find, without the slightest regard to the suitability of the lenses. In nine cases out of ten it is almost impossible for him to see through the thiugs, but he will wear them as much as he can, believing that his eyes are being benefited. Another Keitnon for Hie Dislike. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw of Washington, D. C., is a very eloquent speaker as well as an able theologian. On one occasion she occupied a pulpit i temporarily, and had in the congregation a clergyman who was strongly opposed to women divines. At the end of the service, which he had seemed to enjoy, he was asked if he had changed his opinions. He replied slowly: "Not to a great extent. Before I heard her I thought women were incapable of filling a pulpit ac eptably; now, however, I believe that they are too capable altogether for the good of us incumbents."?Philadelphia SatI urdav Evening Post, STRANOELY ILLUMINATED. > The Weird Effeet of Phosphorescence on Ship in Berinf Sen. "I have often heard of the wonderful phosphorescence of Southern seas," remarked a traveler from the North, "and I have seen some pretty fair samples in the Atlantic between New York, and English ports, but I did not know it prevailed to any extent In Northern waters until during the past summer. "In August last I was on board the ? r /-I..11 V. In + Vl O Rfl. revenue cutler aiceunwu, iu ? ring sea, about 03 degrees north latitude, bound north, when one night about 30 o'clock I happened to go on deck, and I was almost frightened by the sight of the sea. The wind was blowing sharp enough to raise the white caps, and the whole sea looked as if it were lighted from its depths by a million arc lights, throwing their white rays upward and under the flying foam. The hollows of the waves were dark, were dark, but every crest that broke showered and sparkled as if it were filled with light. From the sides of the ship great rolls of broken white light fell away, and she left a broad pathway of silvery foam as far back as the eye could reach. "But about this hour was the most striking display. Here it was as if the ship were ploughing through the sea of white light, and as the water was - ? ? ? J* #?11 In thrown DacK irom uer jnu** i?. i?.? ? glittering piles of light upon the dark surface boyond, and was driven far down below, lighting the depths as if all the electricity of the ocean were shooting its sparkles through the waves and turning itself into innumerable incandescents that flashed a second then shut out fcrever. I stood on the forecastle deck looking down into the brilliant white turmoil of the waters until I began to feel as if we were . afloat upon some silver sea, and a really uncanny feeling took possession of rne. The white ship was lighted by the phosphorescence of the waters, so that as high up as the deck there was a pale, weird white, that made one feel as if the 'Flying Dutchmen' were abroad upon the sea and had passed by us. The masts towered In ashy gray above the decks, and every rope and line stood out distinctly In the light, but cast no shadows. It was all as ghostly as if we had gone up against the real thing, and it was a positive relief to get back Into the ward room, where there was something more human. I don't know how long it lasted, but when I went to bed at 11 o'clock I could still see the silver shining through the air port in my stateroom." An Expensive Meal for a Horse. Jacob W. Whitehead, a storekeeper of New Paris, Ind., is short $65 in currency and his horse has risen in value. Mr. Whitehead went home late and climbed the stairs of the barn to throw . flown hav to the family nag. In his pocket be had a pocketbook eontainlng five ten dollar bills, one five and ten ones. This dropped from his pocket as he bent over to pick up the hay. Mr. Whitehead did not miss the money till the morning after. He then searched the barn, and found a few fragments of the pocketbook, together with tiny bits of the bills. The faithful animal had devoured the hay and valorously tackled the pocketbook and contents, leaving nothing with which Mr. Whitehead could make proof of his loss at the treasury.?Chicago InterOcean. New Tasa in Rocky Mountains. After numerous hairbreadth escapes and many thrilling adventures, a party of explorers In the Rocky Mouutalns stumbled onto a | pass where they had believed It po^lble for . none to exist. In a like manner, people who * have believed dyspepsia Incurable are aston- i lshed to And that there is a way to health. Ilostetter's Momach Bitters used faithfully makes the digestion strong, the bowels regular, i the liver active Trv It. . ( 1 Lambs and Oysters no Trees. The Dominican, Du Tertre, asserts in his book that he saw at Guadeloupe oysters growing on the branches of trees, by their weight bending down the branches into the sea, "and they are refreshed twice a day by the flux and reflux of it." Bishop Fleetwood tells of a tree in Cimbalon whose leaves turn into birds and animals as soon as they fall to the earth. Pigfetta says he kept one of these leaves ! eight days in a jar, and that It took to 1 walking as soon as he touched it, and i It lived only on the air. ' The wonderful Tartarian shrub or rnnntiad fr\r hv TTlOre than 1ULUU 11CC U tuuvuwu. --- _v one. It is about three feet in height and on the top grows the lamb. It it covered with the thin nest bark, which the natives use for head covering. The inner pulp is like lobster flesh, and blood flows when it is wounded. As long as the lamb is surrounded by plentiful pasturage it thrives, but as soon as the grass becomes dry it withers away. Another plant that bore lambs in a pod Is recorded, but these differed from the others in having horns. A traveler says that he ate of the flesh and drank of the blood of them. ?ir John Maundeville also tells of trees of the sun and the moon which grew In one of the Indian islands, and that spake to King Alexander and warned him of his death. He reported that "the folk that kepen the trees and eten of the frute and of the bawme that groweth there, lyven wel 400 yero or 500 yere, be vertue of the frute and the bawme.?Chicago Times-Herald. | Joobertto the British General. Those who met Gen. Joubert when he was in this city a few years ago as the guest of Henry George recall him as a plain-faced old man with a mass of black hair streaked with gray and a full, grizzled beard. He speaks English, but his wife, a woman premature- 1 ly aged with domestic toil, spoke nothing save Dutch, and sat patient, though unmistakably bored at the affairs to J which she and her husband were invited. With the father and the mother was a strapping son of sixteen or thereabouts, who strongly resembled Joubert. 1 The old General told with modesty of 1 his negotiations with the British at < Maiuba Hill, and his eyes sparkled as ' he recited his reply to the British com- i mander-in-chief. 1 "It does not comport with these," ] said the British General, pointing to the decorations on his breast, "to accede to your terms." To which said Joubert, pointing to 8 his riflemen, "And it does not comport 8 with these to offer any others." I Joubert's best story, as illustrating v the perils of South African life, was * concerning the loss of a somewhat say- 8 age but valued cook, who was bodily f carried off from the kitchen by a lion.? 8 New York Sun. ? "La Creole" i /*% *** ,nU5. KIDNEYS, LIVEBJKfiif *M AND|OW^^^^J JIABITUAi- permanent ^ m Facial BVy-THEGENVINE-MAN'FD- BY I @I?KNIA JTG 5YRVP (g 0uiSViL(.6 s^FRANC/$Co tJtWVQ^ m ^ K v. ' CALt. * ' NJ.W ? ,% . 0 flaimn/inii I OADAICf^lC QUflEQ iuuwvv m mvumivir ?_ _ w m ? u The Emperor of China has some IIYIillSUY 6L UUillUdliy.i uhmiluil uiiulu itrange duties. One of them is the or- . # r / 7 \i/sil W/^o- I lering of the seasons. In China it is 89 Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. W 111 W car LlKc wl6Cl? jummer when the Emperor says it Is Engines and BoilCTS SO,ooo pairs sold the past season* rammer. All domestic arrangements Sl?m0w.t? st..m P0n,p..nJ Not a aingle complaint, ire made to suit the season, as pro- Penberthy injectors. w ? a pa T) 9 <M TC claimed by the Emperor, although they , JUgfl ? XZ.SIHHjOy S Jpl.ide nay not suit the individual at all. ^5^5^ Ja . It's Economy to Demand Themw Dr.Bnlfs j-K-o???P?EeoCOUCH SYRUP .. ,_n I Cures Croup and Whooping-cough Manufacturers and Dealers in A V |a V (| J [ D I 1 ti A I fr-(D > Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives iS A W iyf TT- T. jg jlJu I vUI\ quicl^ sure results Refuse substitute Corn Mill., Feed Mill., Cotton Gin Machln- -FOB- - & Dr. Bul?i Pills cure Biliousneu. Trial, 2o/or5c. ery and Grain Separators. ^ ^ $1 ft ft fn r I ft InTMt 81010 8100 ?d t S?LID and INSERTED Saws, Saw Teeth and I UU TO" 3) I U pet flow for Sluo sure; Locks, Knight's Patent Dogs,,Blrdsal! Saw If) safe ass bank. WM. BEED, 137 8.5th St -Phils, Pa. Mill and Engine Repairs, Gorernors, Grate Mr l1. alfrfrY Bars and a full line of Mill Supplies. Price ^ fjf' liffiSvV UCMTinM TUIO Dn DCD in writing to adrer- and quality of goods guaranteed. Catalogue Vif Rita Mill JOJ bllll 1juw i nlu i hi LlXtlsers. aku 99-50 free by mentioning this paper. , W W}^\^f\^E tor Anno MINUTES.M SECONDS! f ^HE reason we can sell the beat at only a dollar or so YOU GET THE VALUE IN THE GOODS* Itr j|& Tie Best Chew on tie Market to-day. TEE-* _ \1f/JE ev"? 41 ? ? * * ?* " sseonds. $UX)perjob profit WANTED:Twor.n.bi.Tr?,.M?s..m,?1i.?rf, at that rate counts. Why pay big profits when the M?t " State; Salary and Exi>?n**?; Permanent Position; Sm our Agent or write direct. rock hillrock his^cjj dropsy j2ct5s^j^2:?a *???| Rook of testimonials and 10 d&ys'jtreatmaat . Free. Dr. X. K. GKEZN'8 SOW. Bex B, Atlanta. On. . tLiur* 'P f ,rT *|SAVE CT ADn ^ All hand-painted. No . W II ftt faEST A handsomer lamp made. ^Lr __ Ba M-S- HPIA 'w gss^wrtsra * YOUR w I #%rt TAOS J Makes a most accepta- . , , .- W ble present. ? 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