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LIFE IN OLD MOROCCO
Mr. Hill Talks Interestingly of
That Distant Domain,
CIVILIZATION IS UTTERLY UNKNOWN
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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^ .
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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
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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. '
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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.
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largest farm and vegetable seed V^Ss; I
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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.
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Neglected colds always lead
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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.
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Itching Skin, Swollen Glands, Eating Sores,
Ulcers, Eruptions, Pimples, Sore Throat
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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.
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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.
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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
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anu in many uses too numerous to mention, is sufficient to prove its superiority Vxj
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