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r.v . * - HM9S?r!y& ' U; ;' '" '" % |Mw ..'" Is LIFE IN OLD MOROCCO Mr. Hill Talks Interestingly of That Distant Domain, CIVILIZATION IS UTTERLY UNKNOWN El2?i? i All Work I* Done By Aged Women, Camels and Donkeys?A GodForsaken Country. Attorney William P. Hill, of Atlanta, who has just returned from a flying trip to far-off Morocco, which country he visited as the special representative of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad company, for the purpose of securing possession of Thomas J. Hunter, the defaulting ex-auditor of the company, and bringing him back to be tried on the charge of embezzlement, gives some interesting information with reference to the country that he visited and the manner in which the i people of Morocco live. He was accompanied on the trip by John W. Rodgers, one of Pinkerton's best detectives, and they agree upon one point, that Morocco is the wildest and mott uncivilized country upon the face of the earth. In answer to volleys of questions fired at him by a group of friends, Mr. Hill said: "Morocco looks as well as any other country on the map, but the map is as dumb as a soap statue wheu it , comes to telling anything of this distant land where the people know nothing whatever of liberty or what the word implies. Morocco is neither an empire or a republic. It is simply a great big uncivilized country owned by the sultan, who though only sevenIteen years of age, has two wives and according to the laws and customs of the laud can have as many more as he desires. He lives at Fez, the capital, but he was at Morocco when I was there, where he spends a good deal of hia time." Some member of the group of listeners at this point remarked: "Well, you did not see him?" "Oh, no,"rrsnmedMr. Hill. "Why, it would have taken me six weeks to have gone tb where he" was, as there is no way of traveling in Morocco except on the back of a donkey or a camel. I don't believe that there is a single vehicle in the whole of Morocco, not even a wheelbarrow." "How big is the v country?" was asked. . "Well, from what I could leain, about the extent of its territory, I would say that Morocco is about as big as four or five of our states, but when you get to going over it, it is bigger than the United States, or at least you will think so if you had to rely on the speed of a donkey or a camel to take you over it. And the country. You should see it to appreciate what I say. There are no roads, only paths running in every direction cutout by donkeys, camels and people traveling on foot Outside of the cities the coantry is one dense forest or jungle, and no one except a native could find his way through it The land is marvelously rich and grows everything in abundance without working the soil at all. This generosity upon the port of the soil has made the people indolent and lazy, and none of them will work unless oompelled to do something for themselves that nature will not do. 'tTho Ion/1 io alert rlnK m'tVi minPTftlp I iof every character, and coal abounds ; in large quantities. With all this, j ; however, Morocco gets her coal and . mioerals from the outside world; not \ that it is better than the home supply, j but because it is considered sacrilegious and even criminal to disturb the deposits of the earth. The heaviest punishment, which is imprisonment, is imposed upon any one who will venture to disturb the wealth that is hidden in the soil. The people regard anything like this as a crime of the $or8t character, and if hanging was a punishment in Morocco for crime any man who would dig coal in that country would be hung without the formalities of a trial." "What about the ccurts?" "They have none. Here and there you will find a lawyer, but he amounts to nothing. Lawyers are not needed there, as they can do nothing for a man in trouble. The sultan of Morocco is boss and his will is law. If he decides that a man is guilty he is sent to prison, and the only way that he can get out is for his friends to get np a good pursemnd buy his pardon with it. The country is divided up into sections or states, and each of these is presided over by a pasha. He is king of his domain and holds his office subject to removal by the sultan. He purchases his office from the sultan with money and holds it by making handsome presents to the sultan every year. If he fails or refuses to send Br; the sultan a present then he is fired jr5 out of his office and into a prison, where he is held until his friends come forward and pay him out, and if his g friends fail to respond then the deposed pasha is kept in prison until he dies. "Until a few years ago when a man was placed in prison he was starved to - death, unless his friends fed him, as the government did not feed any one in prison. Recently, however, bordering countries have taken hold of this matter and demanded that provision be made for feeding prisoners, and now each prisoner gets a loaf of bread a day and water. Tbis scant ration is barely enough to keep a man alive. There are no beds, cots or other comforts in the Moorish prisons. The poor creatures sleep on the floor, and as long as they live or are confined there mire up in filth and breathe the sickening atmosphere of their dungeons, that are located for the most part under the ground. All the time Mr. Bodgers and myself remained in Morocco we were in Tangiers, and of course most of our observations were confined to that town. We were told, however, that the same state of affairs existed all over the country." "How did you manage to get what you wanted?" "Oh, we had an interpreter who spoke a half dozen languages, among them .English, and we got along very nicely with his assistance. He went about with us and did the talking for ? ?? us. "How big is Tangiers?" 4 "The population is about 50,000. U- The town is cramped to death, as it covers only a small area. A high wall surrounds it. The streets are from four to five feet wide, and all the 'f houses are built alike. At night Ihe streets are lighted with candles, or some other light about as useless for such purposes. We lived at the Continental hotel and got all we wanted to eat. This, no doubt, was due to the efforts of our interpreter. He has pPlI^ . m:, | i lived iu Tangiers for twenty years,and by reason of his long residence there proved to be a valuable man." 1 "What do the women look like?" "Well, all that I saw were old hags, working about the town, carrying 1 loads on their heads or backs. These old women divide the honors of being beasts of burden with the donkeys and 1 camels. They do nearly all of the work aud the men stand around and boss the job. Unlike the young y v out ni, they wear nothing on their i frees but a mass of wrinkles, caused c by old age and hard work. The young 1 women, when they go out on the j streets wear masks on their faces so i that you can only see their eyes. They 4 only go on the streets when obliged to, and at other times are kept in the r * i i _ nouse ana noi auowea to see auy uue or be Been by any one. "A native of the country can have as many wives as he can get. The j pasha of Tangier has twenty-two wives , and can get twenty score if he wants 1 them. If one of his subjects has ' what is thought to be a handsome J daughter, he takes her to the pasha i and offers her to him for a wife. If the pasha likes her he keeps her, and if he does not like her he returns the f girl to her father as soon as he be- t comes satisfied that he does not want ^ her. It is considered a mark of distinction in society there for a woman, although rejected, to have been an inmate of the pasha's household. The object of the father in tendering his daughter to a pasha as a wife is for the purpose of winning favor with him so as to be rewarded in some way later on." "Are there any police or soldiers to do patrol duty?" "Only a few of them that I saw. Here and there you would come across one. They looked to me more like brigands than keepers of the peace. "One of the funniest sights that I saw there was the Morocco barber shop. This outfit consists of a man and his razor, the shop 'being anywhere in the street that the barber * happens to meet a customer. In Mo- c rocco they shave a man's head and not c his face. The barber stands up wnile i the customer stoops over and holds r his head in position while the artist t mows the hair off with a razor that i looks more like a cheese knife than 1 anything else. The barber uses his t arm for a ra?or strop, and it is amus- i ing to see him suspend operations for a a moment or two to whet the edge of c his razor on his arm. a "As these people never shave their j, faces,I suppose they chop off a section v of their beard when it gets too long to c suit them. n "Another interesting thing that I saw was a family of apes, living about ? five miles out of Tangiers. Our inter- * preter and myself rode out on horse- ' back to see them. There was the old man ape and the old woman ape and a dozen or so young apes. The old man q was walking about his abode, which Q was made of logs, with an immense ^ club in one hand and a rock in the * other. They were real apes. There v was no mistake about that. As neither t of us happened to be proficient in the ^ ape language, our investigations were (coufined to observations only. I was P told that this mammoth specie of the 0 monkey tribe was harmless if left t alone, but would fight to a finish if * molested, and this being so, we left J the old man and his family undisturbed in their county home. "There is one thing I saw there that I wanted to bring home with me, j and that was the little donkey that brought our luggage down to the wharf. While he was the regulation size, he was not much larger than a pointer dog, but he was all donkey, i and don't you forget it. Hunter had a trunk, 1 had two valises, and Rodgers had two also. Now, the owner of that#donkey in some way placed all of this luggage on the back of that spunky little creature and under this immense load he walked from the hotel j to the boat. I fell in love with the little fellow, and would have bought him and brought him to Atlauta, Had j I felt satisfied that the freight on him j would not bankrupt me. I knew I could stand the freight on his body and legs, but when I sized up his ears j I trembled when I thought of the . amount of excess baggage that would ' have to be paid on them. The ears were really immense. When I think | of that donkey, I feel as if I left a friend behind me in that distant conn- . try to hustle for a bare living during ' the remainder of his life."?Steve 1 PosTELL in Macon Telegraph. j t St Peter Coa!dn"t Keep Him Out. I "The brightest reporter I ever knew," g said a newspaper man, "was Billy ^ Gay lor, who died at Hot Springs in * 1895. He was a most persistent fellow after an item, and that reminds me * of a little story about the last inci- / dent of his career. He had been as- ( signed by a certain Chicago daily to interview an eminent bishop about a schism in the cliurch. The bishop { didn't want to talk and wouldn't see J him, but Gaylor bribed a servant to let him into the hall, and he waylaid ] the dignitary as he was comiDg through. He was ordered out for his pains, but next day he penetrated the house again on some pretext or other, and was again fired. "He repeated the exploit three or four* times with similar results, and at last the bishop, coming home late at night, * found Bily c:tting in his study reading ^ the Bible. Nobody could explain how 1] he got in, but the prelate wilted and told him what he wanted to know, on ? ? j condition that he would go away ana j j stay away. . g "Shortly afterward poor Gaylor got I galloping consumption and died, and, ! * happening to meet the bishop at a church conference, I told him that th"? young man who had once so molested him would never do it again. " 'Let us hope that he is in heaven,' q said a clergyman standing by. , "The bishop's eyes twinkled. He s: loved a joke. " 44 'No doubt he is,' he replied, gently. " 'I don't think they could keep him out.' "?Denver (Col.) Post. ' < Why the Cook Gave Noticd. 2 "I see you printed something the other day about the disadvantages of myopia?near-sightedness, you know," said the man with glasses. "Now, I'm I afflicted that way myself. A few nights ago when I went home it was ^ raining hard. My umbrella was wet and I carried it immediately to the kitchen to drain. Casting about for * something to stand it in my eye caught J some sort of receptacle on the floor near the stove, which I took to be the coalhod. so I stood the umbrella in it and went to bed. The next morning the cook gave notice. She had found my umbrella standing in her shoe." Syracuse Post-Standard. [ Thirty years ago there were only 1 about twenty-fiveexplosivecompounds known. Now there are more than ' 1.1G0. j An Urgent Case. Poor Patient?I sent for you, doc:or, because I know you are a noted physician, but I feel it my duty to inrorm you that I haven't over $25 to my aame. Dr. Biggfee?Very well, then, we nust try to cure you up as quickly as possible. The Mystery ofPustatSca. It Is a puzzling fact that the decks of sailing ressels show dust at night, even If they be vashecl In the morning, and no work is done luring the day. This is like Indigestion, vhleh creeps on one unawares. However it omes, the only way to cure It Is by the use of :iostetter's Stomach Bitters, a remedy which lever Jails to cure dyspepsia in all its forms. n? n?i o? jUHCHW luaia.in^ iu?v4 aau ubuv. The Illinois state Board of Health recomnemls that a sanitarium for consumptives be >rected. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Ciei.n Mood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Catharlic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all impurities from the body. Begin to-day to vanish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, itnd that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets.?beauty for ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50cFools Not. All Extinct. In spite of the prevalence of newspapers and oroner's Inquests people are still turning on he gas and trying to blow out electric lights. "A Thread Every Day Makes a Skein in a Year.9' One small disease germ carried by the blood through the system will convert a healthy human body to a condition of invalidism. Do not <wait until you are bedridden. Keep your blood pure and life-giving all the time. Hood's Sarsapardla accomplishes tins as nothing else can. Bouncers in New York Hotels. Man}* people have not understood vby all the great hotels in New York ity employ special detectives who are distantly in the main corridor. Some lave had an idea that these detectives ire employed as "bouncers." No such hing. According to one of the most utelligent of these detectives the other light, the work of a detective In a hoel is arduous. "You have no idea."' le said, "how many spies and sneaks md 'rubbernecks' infest the corridors ?f the New Y'ork hotels. These spies :re employed to watch public men and C possible to listen to their utterances vhen talking to their friends In the orridors. These spies and sneaks are lso employed to report on all sorts of hatters. It is a remarkable fact that o many men acquainted with public ffairs are so guileless as not to be ware of the presence of these 'rubbertecks.' The detectives in the hotels uickly spot these fellows, but so long s they conduct themselves decently here is no ground for ejecting them. Nevertheless, it is my opinion that rell-knowii men who desire to discuss he secret things of politics and of nance and of religion, and who also esire to have business matters kept rivate, should be very careful to asertain who Is sitting beside them in he corridors of our hotels, or they hould discuss their matters elsewhere."?New York Sun. 4 Million Women bave been relieved of *emale troubles by Mrs* 9lnkham's advice and nedhlne* The letters of a few are trlnted regularly la this taperw If any one doubts the ifflelonoy and sacredly confidential character of Mrs. Plnkh&m's methods, write for a book she has recently published which fontains letters from the nayor of Lynn, the postnaster, and others of her :lty who have made oarerul Investigation, and who rerlfy all of Mrs Pinktarn's statements and dalmsm The PMkham claims are sweeping. In vestlga te heme THIRTY YEARS OF CURES FliPLES "My wife bad pimples on her face, bat tie has been t^kinsr CASCARETS and they are all disappeared. I had been troubled ith constipation for some time, but after tak-' lp the first Cascaret I have had no trouble ith this ailment. We cannot speak too highof Cascarets." Fred Wap.tman, 5708 Oermantown Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. W CATHARTIC ^ TRADE MARK R10I8TIRCD Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do ood. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 25c. 50c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Irrllng Rrmrdy Company, Chlesgo, Keatrri), Xtw Tort. 314 Irt TO RAO Sold and guaranteed by all drugIU* I U DA If gists to CX'KK Tobacco Habit. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 &3.SO SHOES jftioH GEAN orth S4 to $6 compared fS\ with other makes. # k* j/j f) \lndorsed by over JggFy..^. fair ^m| S 1,000,000 wearers. tS&'j&Q^ ? J tyff genuine have W. L. * I'm Douglas' name and price Kjfcts Pj J N |3 stamped on bottom, lake jr b ll'Jfc no substitute claimed to be V" ^'y 7 | \sE 35 good. Your dealer /k \ ? should keen them ? if n?t, we will send a wT l on receipt of price and 250/^*^Bw/ ? vL e}tr3. for carriage. State kind of leather, NSwsize, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat. free. Strom # L DOWLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. CARTERS INK Has the largest sale of any ink in the world. THEMiLUON DOLLAR ? J Host talked of potato on earth : Onr^yj^H Catalog tells?ho al?o about Sal- | r.e: 'e Ear!.est Six Weeks' Potato. largest farm and vegetable seed V^Ss; I growers in u.^. roiaw^a. zrrsxye n up a bbl. Send this notice and 6c. Ikfl&ttgffiF y Ump for Big Ciulog. I IffliN A SAL7ERSEP) C?-l& CMM CAaVAAAAA/v.IAAA .{FARM AND GARDEN.] WW'WWWVW^WV Feeding Hack for Sheep. A simple and efficient rack for feeding hay or fodder to slieep is a plain box rack two and one-half feet wide and any length desired. The lower board should be fourteen to eighteeu inches high,acrordiug to size of sheep; the feeding space eight to ten inches wide, and the upper hoard six to eight inches. Preparing the Seed Bed. Disk harrows are especially valuable for the deeper work of preparing tlie seed bed. They cut down through the plowed ground and pulverize the soil more readily than an ordinary harrow, and also work better in trashy fields. They can be used for covering oats sown on mellow ground without plowing. "Where a field has been plowed and allowed to lie for some time, thus permitting the weeds to start, disks are more effective in preparing this land for seeding than the ordinary harrow. The ground will be worked up deeper and the weeds more effectually destroyed. 'ihe disk is often run over meadows which have become sod-bound, and also over meadows and pasture fields with wet places where hummocks have become a nuisance. By following with an ordinary harrow, these inequalities are removed and the pasture made more valuable. These are a few of the uses to which the disk harrow is particularly adapted. The Farm How. "We do not like the very large horse for the farm, where he must be used for all purposes, to drive to mill, to meeting and to market, as well as to pull the plow, the farm machinery and the loads that are to be moved about the farm. The horse of 1500 pounds eats about twice as much as the one of 1000 pounds, and while the large rlrnnorht hnrsft mflv be oheaner for the " ""D * 4 trackman, it will be better to have the light horse or two light horses on the farm, even if it is necessary to load a little lighter at times. There are a few draught horses of 1500 pounds or heavier whose legs are strong enough to last when they are put to heavy work, but many of them will not endure, and they give out about a3 quickly on the farm as on the pavements. One trouble with the large farm horse is that he eats tpo much hay, and the farmer is often only too willing to give it to him. More horses are injured by overfeeding with hay than with grain.?American Cultivator. How to Raifie Goo 1 Rennii. "Most people imagine that any kind of worn out soil is good enough for beans. This is a mistake. My first experience with beans was in an old garden that from much manuring and plowing had become heavy and soggy. I plowed it early, tilled it and kept it clean till July then planted the beans. I got a big crop,and later experience has proved to me that early tillage and late planting insure a good crop and freedom from bugs. "But the main secret of good beans is in the curing. As usually onred, pods and vines piled up together for indefinite length oL time, the Tines heat and give a rank flavor to tli9 b6ans. Pick ,all ripe pods from day to day, dry and shell them at once. My first crop in that garden was handled in this way. When I took some to market some Italians cautiously bought a quart or two for a test The next time I came they lugged off my beans by the two bushel bagful, paying me $4 a bushel. They evidently knew a good thing when they?tasted it. Later experience convinces me that this is the proper way to raise and cure beans." The above is the answer of a keen farmer and kotolkeeper to my question, "Where in the world did yon get these beans? They are fit for a president." The beans would fairly melt in-the mouth, with very pleasant taste.?Anton Leister, in New York Tribune. Slaking the Mont of the Garden. "We sold sweet corn last summer at a cent an ear, enough to more than pay for growing the corn, and as fast as the good ears were picked the stalks and small ears went to the cows instead of sowed corn, writes R. S. Hinman in New England Homestead. If you market for yourself to consumers you wili find than an occasional basket cf fresh picked string beans or peas will do no harm, especially if you are getting top prices for what you sell. If you sell these things, byproducts to you, worth little or nothing if left at home, never undersell people who make a living by growing such things. It is fair neither to the truck grower nor your customer. Give away anything you please, but when you sell, sell at market rate. If you do not do your own marketing, whoever does it for you will find it to his as well as to your adymtage to add to the variety of his stock. The man who goes to market with butter only will often lose customers to one who sells fresh eggs,cream and seasonable vegetables. No customer, especially if it be a woman, likes to buy, every ten minutes of a morning, a dozen eggs of one, a few pounds of Unltai. nf nnnlliav on/1 cnmo v/xrcif o 111 oa of a third, while if she wants a pint of vinegar that "her farmer" could as well have brought to her as not, she must go or send to a grocery and get some sort of acid,.but rarely vinegar. We have a neighbor that so well understands this that if a customer of his wants a few turnips, apples or a load of pumpkins that he does not have, he comes to us aud pays us what he gets, refusing a commission because he says it is an accommodation to him and to his customers. Careful attention to these details brings satisfactory results. Cheap Feeds. One authority truly says we feed too much of the carbohydrates, or fatforming feeds, and not enough of the albuminoids, or li^h-forming feeds. While this is true, we would like to know what the brother is going to do about it. Oats at 25 cents a bushel are about equal in feed value to corn at 75 cents. A bushel of oats weighing 32 pounds has about 16 pounds of feed in it, the remainder being the woody husk of the kernels. A bushel of coin weighing 56 pounds has about 50 pounds of feed in it, yet today there is not a very wide difference in the price of the two grains. Experiment has shown that for feeding hogs wheat is not greatly superior in producing weight to corn and wheat is worth about three times as much as corn. Corn is a carbonaceous feed, while wheat and oats are both albuminous. The farmer who breeds hogs for market cannot afford to feed albuminous feeds to the hogs he sells for the price will not justify him in doing so. A balanced ration is good when it does not cost more than one that is not balanced. It may be cheaper to feed the wide ration and waste a portion of the carbohydrates than to feed the < more extensive ration and have all the feed elements iu it used. The farmers of the corn growing sections feed their hogs and cattle a very wide ration when they give timothy hay and corn to their steers, but they cannot afford to do otherwise. The corn belt produces some pretty fair stock, and hogs and steers from that section have been selling at the top of the market recently at the Chicago stock yards. These are cornfed animals aud have been fed on the cheapest ration,albeit a portion of that ration was absolutely thrown away. The part lost to the market, however, was not lost to the farm, for it has gone back to the land in the shape of' manure. The man who has good stock to sell always takes care of his manure pile. Did you ever notice that?? Farm, Field and Fireside. Give Your Stock Access to "Water. It is of the utmost importance, both from a practical and from a humanitarian point of view, that stock be I provided with an abundant supply of j drinking water, and it also should be of good quality. The loss from inadequate water supply, though possibly not very evident, is certain, and in the j aggregate amounts to a considerable I sum. When the stock are in the pas: ture, it is probable they do not suffer much. But now is the time to coni sider the matter of providing for an j abundant supply next winter. If yon already have the supply, see that your help properly attend to the matter. A test recently conducted in Europe ' in watering cows shows that dairy cattle always in their stable, gave much better results when allowed constant access to water than when allowed a drink only twice a day. It was found that the milk yield increased, and no decrease of fat content occurred. The daily increase of milk was small, but, as estimated, it would improve the yield forty gallons per cow per year. A noticeable feature of the experiment ! is that the cows drank a little less when permitted to driuk at will than when furnished water twice a day. By drinking often there was less chilling of the stomach than when furnished water twice a day, and each time in large quantities. The digestion was improved, as with each small draught of water some gastric juice was secreted, which was not the case to the same extent where large draughts of ! cold water had to be taken. J. a. Conover tells Wallace's Far! mer that in order to determine how | much water a herd of 13 calves I ii - T- : ix l 1 I at me ivaiisus agricultural uuncgo i would drink, the water given them for a week was weighed, and put in a barrel for letting it gut as fast as needed. In seven days the 13 calves drank 868 pounds of water, or ' an average of eight pounds a day. The weather during this time was warm for the first three days and cooler the last four days. In addition, J the calves got an average of 14 pounds of skimmilk, besides grain. The calves drank several times a day, not much at a time, but often. , I noticed several times that they took only two or three swallows. At other times they would take a few monthfuls of grain, go and get two or three , sups of water, then back to their grain ] again. Even after their ration of# ( milk they would take a few swallows f of water. This experiment shows that calves need water in addition to their milk ration; it also shows that they like it often and not so much at a time. Al? ways see that it is fresh and clean. < Cranberry Cnltnre. There is a vast acreage of waste 1 land on our farms, much of which might be utilized for profitable purposes. A gentleinah came into possession of a tract of land about 12 miles from Terre Haate, Ind. A portion of it was low, wet and soggy. He dug a big ditch through it and drained 1 it. A chemist was employed to J aualyze the soil. It was found to be l particularly suitable for onion culture, and produces enormous crops of that < vegetable. It is good land, however, j for almost any crop. How long this land had been wasted, we are not in- . foi.wiA/3 lmt +1iav? in nn rpoann In ann. 1u1u10u) mut vuv4v *w -v - vwvw m .v j pose that it was not always so. There ] is now no land superior to it in the 1 state of Indiana,report says; and there is waste land in almost every section ' that could be redeemed by this or some other method. Cranberry culture, under suitable conditions, is 1 profitable, and the natural conditions exist in a great deal of waste land to be found here and there, conditions that are just as perfect as they are in the cranberry growing sections, j Farmers have sometimes regretfully shown us low, wet meadows, resting 3 upon a peat bed, which they regarded , as pretty nearly worthless. No bet- ' ter location for a cranberry bed could ] be had. It is ideal, if there are means i for flooding from December to May, (( which is almost a necessity. On the J farm on which the writer was born, j however, there vere a couple of acres j of wild cranberries, which bore fairly j profitable annual crops without flood- < ing and without attention of any kind. 1 But this was in a warmer climate than is that of our extreme northern states, and the cranberry did not seem to i suffer from insect depredation as it does now. Where such a piece of land as we have described is found, , take off the soil down to the peat and 1 cover with about four inches of sand, which can best be hauled on in winter. The planting is done in the spring when the weather becomes warm. There are advocates of setting the roots, who say that the practice of { cutting up the vines and planting the pieces will result in failure. We presume that this decision is the result of, t experience or observation in special < instances, but that cranberries can be propagated from cut vines is an undeniable fact. Six inches apart each r ; way is the proper distance for setting. <! j The bed should be kept clear of weeds , o and grass. This is not always done, j but it will pay to do it.?John G. Miller, in Agricultural Epitomist. , j A Small Boy** Wide-Awake Confidence \ * ?? il. "Une day," says a writer in me Boston Trauscript, "the mother of a ! ten-year-old boy gave him two slices of buttered bread, telling him to give \ one of them to his little sister. He j carried out the order. "That night, when he went to bed, , 1 he was evidently disturbed in his 1 i mind and remorseful about something, | and his mother questioned him in a < J way to bring out the truth. 'I?I i | wasn't nice to Peggy about that bread c and butter,' he owned. 'Why?' asked his mother. 'Did you take the bigger piece?' < " 'No,' he answered; 'hers was a f Ittle bigger than my piece was, but J mine was a good deal butterer !' " An Uncaltnrcd Critic. "Ann, you have broken the nose of this beautiful Venus." "Yessum?but you needn't think I'm goiu't' pay fer her; her arms wuz chipped off when I come."?Detroit Free Press, i I Had I a Bad Cough ? ? I 1 1 4 t - _ "1 had a Dad cough lor six weeks and could not ?nd any I relief whatever. I read wtat a I wonderful remedy Ayer's Cherry g Pectoral was for coughs and I I bought a bottle. Before I had I taken a quarter of it my cough had entirely left me."?L. Hawn, Newington, Ont., May 3,1899. Quickly Cures Colds MMBRNffiESU SSZBSOSmMMHSHBBHBBn Neglected colds always lead to something serious. They run into chronic bronchitis which pulls down your general health and deprives you of sleep: or they end in genuine consumption with all its uncertain results. Don't wait, but take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral just as soon as you begin to^ cough." A few doses will cure you then. But it cures old colds, too, only it takes a little more time. "We t - ?-t. j:?... rcicr iu suka iukm? u muuclixtis, asthma, whooping-cough, consumption, and bard winter coughs. If you've just taken cold a 215 cent bottle is all you'll need. For harder cases a 60 cent Dottlo is better. For chronic troubles, and to keep on hand, the f 1.00 bottle is most economical. The Ruling Passion. Wife (who has been out shopping all 3aj)?"Oh, dear, how tired and hungry I am." Husband?"Didn't you have any lunch in town?" Wife?"A plate of soup only; I didn't feel that I could afford to have more." Husband?"Did you find that hat you wanted?" Wife?"Oh, yes; it is a perfect dream, John; and it only cost $28."? Collier's Weekly. B. B. B. CURES BLOOD POISON. * Bottle Free to Sufferers. Blood Poison, producing Falling Hair. Itching Skin, Swollen Glands, Eating Sores, Ulcers, Eruptions, Pimples, Sore Throat and Mouth, Bono Pains, cured to stay cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), made especially for all terrible Blood Troubles. 3old at drug stores $1 per large bottle. Trial bottle sent free to sufferers- Write for it to Blood Balm Co., 6 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. Advanced One Number. , "Does your wife let you sit in the easy chair she gave you Christmas?" "No; she sits in that; but now I get ? 1 41 bo sit in the one she gave me last years'?Chicago Record. Kdncate Tour Bowels With Cascaret*. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever, ICc. 25c. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money. Marshall Centenary. February 4th, next, will be celebrated by lawyers and Judges In various parts of the jountry as the centenarv of John Marshall's ippolntment to the chief Justiceship of the [Jnited states. Bead This. The Peerless Tobacco Works Z"o., of Bedford City. Va.. wants traveling salesTien in each state. Write them for particulars. Experience not absolutely necessary. Whales' Teeth as Money. Whales1 teeth form the coinage of the FIJI islands. They are painted white and red, the red teeth being worth about twenty times as nuch as the white. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gn.ns, reduces Inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. The United States supreme court decides bat tapioca flour Is admissible free of duty. How Are Toar Kidneys f Dr. Hobbe" Sparagus Pills cure all kiduey His. San* pie free. Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N. Y". Dreyfus1 counsel, M. Labori, will lecture for hlrteen weeks In the United States next au;uran. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, is mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system srhen entering It through the mucous surfaces, such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the lamage they will do Is ten fold to the good you ?n poesibly derive from them. Hairs Catarrh Sure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine. It Is taken Internally, and Is made In Toledo, Dhlo. by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. g^Sold by Druggists; price, 75c. per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. I have found Pi so1* Cure for Consumption m unfailing medicine. ? F. R. Lotz, 1305 Scott 5t., Covington, Ky., Oct. 1,1894. Pays Over Half the Taxes. New Orleans represents more than the total raluatlon of Louisiana, and consequently?pays more than half the taxes. To Cnre Constipation Forever. ? ~ ^ ^ - 1A Take Cascarets?. anay tauuiniv. ivt ui wt. If C. C. C. fall to cure, drugglstsrrfund money. % The uKids* Repeat It. Father?History repeats Itself. Son?It don't in our school. They make us elds do It ? Judge. Punt am Fadeless Dtts do not stain he hands or spot the kettlei Sold by all lrugglsts, Slate Pencil Industry. Pencils from slate dust molded by hydraulic jressure are now made in large quanttfes. They are much more popular than the solid :nt pencils. One factory last year made 25,00,000 molded pencils. Tort't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Awiy. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be magnetic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-ToEac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men trong. .All druggists,50c or 81. Cure guaranteed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. French manufacturers demanded the rejecion of the reciprocity treaty with the United States. Vitality low, debilitated orexhansted cured ->v Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Free 41 rial bottle for 2 weeks' treatment. Dr. Kline, Ld., 931 Arch St., Phlladeipha. Founded 1871. II. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta. Ga . are the mly successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. Jee their liberal offer in advertisement in an. unor coiuiun vi lll.io An Old Grant, Mrs. Edgar A. Storer, wife of a Columbus 0.) banker, has found among old papers a rrant signed by one of Washington's generals or eighty thousand acres of land located In Kansas. JilrMIIIMAHIeling gHg Cures a Cough or Cold at once, [nj Conquers Croup without fall. |*jl hw Is the best for Bronchitis, Grippe, K3 U Hoarseness. Whooping-Cough,-ana for the cure of Consumption. E?J rjjl Mothers praise it. Doctors prescribe it 1771 Ui Small doses; quick, sure results. ??????????????? JBBI >?, \?JN Tlir DECT FIVE-cent I Ht BfcS I SMOKING 11 IPI) > Tobacco on Earth is NOT in MRUST 1 3F% TOP jfglMNfi TOBACCO/J, -l V-'J I'tfwl ,S THE BRAND. Union Made! ; ^HRPr WJgBSWV! : I BBOWN BROS. CO.. WINSTON, H? C. ** IT TT it Save lour flairwitn Shampoos oi And light dressings of CthlC^ emollient skin cures. This treatment at once || stops falling hair, removes crusts, scales, and % dandruff, soothes irritated, itching surfaces, stimulates the hair follicles, supplies the roots , || with energy and nourishment, and makes the : hair grow upon a sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp when all else fails. 4^99 Millions of Women Jli Use Cuticura Soap exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying ' . ^ : the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and healing, red, rough, and > sore hands, in the form of baths for annoying irritations and chaflngs, or% too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes for ulcerative weak- v j nesses, and for many antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves . . , to women, and especially mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, -- ". bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can induce those who have once used it to use any other, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, ' ,^11 scalp, and hair of infants and children. Cuticura Soap combines delicate . ' x emollient properties derived from Cuticura, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients, and the most refreshing of flower odors. No i other medicated soap erer compounded is to be compared with it for pre- ' " i serving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No " ' other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines, in One Soap at One Price, viz., Twenty-five Cents, the best .j* skin and complexion soap, the best toilet and best baby soap in the world. AH that has been said of Cuticura Soap may be said with even greater emphasis ... of Cuticura Ointment, the most delicate, and yet most effective of emollients, and greatest of skin cores. Its use in connection with Cuticura Soap (as per directions ' around each package), in the 44 Oxe Night Curb fob Sorb Haxds," in the * 41 Ixstaxt Relief Treatment for Disfiguring Itchixgs and Irritatioxb." anu in many uses too numerous to mention, is sufficient to prove its superiority Vxj over all other preparations for the skin. /nii<nn?a Complete Eitemal and Internal Treataeat lor rsrj Hoanr, ^ * oai. to cImom the akin of cruiis and f V/V4*w? scale* and soften the thickened cuticle, Ccttcciu Uutukt (60c.), ? Tl Cftf ffil qc to instaDtJy allay itching, inflammation, and Irritation, and soothe tad , . '5jwJ III? ??lj heal, and Ccticcra Resolvent (60c.), to cool and cleanse the blood. A SntdLS Set la often suflJclent to cure tho moat torturing, disfiguring, and humiliating skin, " >'i acaip, and blood humors, with loss of hair, when all else falls. Pom* Daoo air? CHEK. <Oobp.k Sole Props., Boston. " All about the Skin, Scalp, and Hair," free. ' POTASH gives color, i'W' ^^CEKTsl n , /- wish to ralathU rear ML0C#< ^ flavor and firmness to ! [ - -M HBl Pkg.Earl'st EmeraldCucumberlte , all fruits. No good fruit IWD\ Z can be raised without jflWt:I- j ^ 1 1 Kf H Above 10 Pkgs. worth JL00, we will W n?i. V. I I Ml mail you free, together with cur ft Potash- ! if I i -M I | tm npoa receipt of this notice * lit. A ~ Fertilizers containing' at least J [ *M4fi^henwao?w : riHBB9i?rcd" rou **11 a ever d? wtthoat. W v:-,;' - f? 8 to io% of Potash will give, j j best results on all fruits. Write OoN^STOP TOBACCO SOBDEW c ^ r? i i It injures nervous system to do so. BACA* ??& for our pamphlets, which ought { cuko is the only cuw th*f really cures 1 I and notlfieM'ou J*he n to stop.^ ??old with a ctshhhw<mawiwnain ivuivuavm*# ??? ? . .YJlway to be in every farmer's library. BACO-CURO ^ cureyorTAFan drturgist* or by mail P**T*f2; ... SB ^ c $1 a box; 3 boxes $2J50 Booklet free. Write lhey are sent free. ecrb&a chemical co.. Lacr?e. jvu ,:+^m HOnDfiY NeVDISCOVERT; girm GERMAN KALI WORKS, cmm. Book of testhsooMU^ loTdeys'ttMtewS 93 NassauSt., New York. * ' Free. Dr. H. H. ??Qg?. Box ?.^ BRYANT & STRATTON (Bookkeeping ^Mfl Wilted %'NJg BBsiD8SsCollep^,,efe?? i Coet no more than id cl?M schooL CaBlogfrw fi y|i UN EEDASr^lS^i.^; :J| Address Rector Street Book Store, N. Y. City ^lb'- -%55? Mention this PaperIn rw in tfaoe. 8otd by sore eyee, uae* i Thompson'* Ejo W?t*r teiiriSSI9B9|l mi?i mil IIIiIIhI ilia?a?I