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"He said he lived at Cynwvd, in a is cottage near the railroad, and each morning, a.?* he passed his borne, he told his wife what time he would return that night. Usually he returned at 6?hence the six short toots. If it ? was 5, there were five toots, and so on. fi-V _ "He said tnere were lots 01 engineers and firemen who could talk with the whistle by means of signal codes of their own devising. He said there were even some men who, using the telegraphic code of shorts and longs, a toot for a tick, could say any* thing the pen or tongue could say."? Philadelphia Bulletin. Proof or Originality. "Yes," remarked Mrs. Upstartia, " that picture is an original Raphael. Husband had heard so much about counterfeit Raphaels that he not only Ordered this from an artist upon ' whom he could depend, but he went so far as to go to the studio every day while it was being painted; so you can take my word for it that this is a real original Raphael."?Boston Transcript. -. * - . IN COLONEL'S TOWN sT; Things Happen. From the home of the famous "Keyhnel Keeyartah, of Cartersville," away down South, comes an enthusiastic letter about Postum. "I was in very delicate health, suffering from indigestion and a nervous trouble so severe that I could hardly sleep. The doctor ordered me to discontinue the use of the old kind of cof# ' fee, which was like poison to me, producing such extreme disturbance that I could not control myself. But such was my love for it that I could Dot get my own consent to give it up for some time, and continued to suffer till my father one day brought home a package of Postum Food Coffee. "I had the new food drink carefully prepared according to directions, and gave it a fair trial. It proved to have a rich flavor and made a healthy, {wholesome and delightful drink. To my taste the addition of cream greatly Improves it. "My health began to improve as soon as the drug efTect of the old coffee was removed and the Postum Coffee had time to make its influence felt. My nervous troubles were speedily relieved and the sleep which the old coffee drove from my pillow always came to oothe and strengthen me after I had drunk Postum?in a very short time I / began to sleep better than I had for . years before. I have now used Postum Coffee for several years and like it better and find it more beneficial than t .when I first began. It is an unspeakable Joy to be relieved of the old distress and sickness." Name given by Postum Company. Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Bead the little book. "The Road to JWellviUe," in each pkg. IS STRICT_CONFIDEKCE. Women Obtain Mrs. Pinkham's Advice and Help. She Hu Guided Thousands to Healths How L>;dia I. Pinkham's Vegetable Com* pound Cored Mrs. Fred Seydel. ik ^tlst^rs. and above all, a woman who has had more experience in treating female ills than any living person. Over one hundred thousand cases of female diseases come before Mrs. Pinkham every year, some personally, others by mail, and this has been going on for twenty years, day after day. Surely women are wise in seeking advice from a woman of such experience, especially when it is absolutely free. Mrs. Pinkham never violates the confidence of women, and every testimonial letter published is done so with the written consent or request of the writer, in order that other sick women may be benefited as they have been. Mrs. Fred Seydel; of 412 North 54th Street, West Philadelphia, Pa., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:? " Over a year ago I wrote you a letter asking advice, as I had female ills and could not carry a child to maturity. I received your kind letter of instructions and followed your advice. I am not only a well woman in consequence, but have a beautiful baby girl. I wish every suffering woman in the l&na would write you for advice, as you have done so much for me." Just as surely as Mrs. Seydel was cured, will Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cure every woman suffering from any form of female ills. No other medicine in all the world has such a record of cures of female troubles as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Therefore no prudent woman will accept any substitute which a druggist may offer. If you are sick, write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for special advice. It is free and always helpful. Bjjr^aio! To better advertise the South's Leading Business College, four scholarships are of- ' fered young persons of this county at less than eost. WRITE TODAY. , GA-ALA. BUSINESS COLLEGE, Macon, Qa. I Mozley's 11 I Lemon Elixir I I The I H Ideal Summer Medicine g Cures Constipation, Indigestion, Bfl H Sour Stomach, Headache, Colic, BB Disordered I^iver and Kidneys, and kee]? the svstem in perfect condition by regulating the bowels. hB H Tones Up the System H gB and enables you to enjoy the Q BB Summer. Pleasant to take; gentle BR in action, but thorough In results. D 50c. and p.oo at'drug stores. |B H "ONB DOSE CONVINCES." At the Athenaeum Club. Englishmen almost invariably go from a dining-room to a smokingroom for cofTee and a cigar. They do not sr :>ke where others are still dining, as we do. And, to note another radical difference between English and American clubs, they pay their reckoning as they would at a restaurant, for they have no check system, with its monthly bills. At the Athenaeum the cost of the average meal is less than 50 cents, the members dining more cheaply as well as more comfortably here than at restaurants or hotels. There was a time when the feeling of one member that "no gentleman smoked" was in practice true of the club in the use of the club-house. There was at first no smoking-room; later, partly at Thackeray's instigation, a small apartment was put aside at the top of the house. There are now three smoking-rooms in the ' house. In the crypt, or billiard-room, Sir Francis Palgrave used to come with various doubtful verses for his Golden Treasury and discuss them at length- wtih his friends, and here Abraham Hayward and Anthony nn/4 ntKora rvlavorJ whist 1 iUliuyc auu viuviu vU .. On the right of the hallway are the morning-room, where Browning read the weeklies of a Saturday afternoon, and the writing-room, from which Dickens wrote his last letter to one of his sons, who was not to receive it | until after his father was dead.? i Bookman. Catching Carp With Pitchfork. German carp have become plentiful around these parts. A young negro by the name of Walls, who was on the banks of Neuse River the other day, saw a great commotion down beside the bank and found it was carp playing. The young fellow went to a ! house near by, secured a pitchfork, waded into the stream as near them as he could get and let drive into the school. He impaled three, the smallest one weighing seventeen and oneI half pounds.?Goldsboro correspond j ence to the Raleigh News and Ob* i server. RAILROAD LEGISLATION. I Made Subject of Strong Resolutions By Railway Conductors. Whereas, the Congress of the UnitI ed Spates will have before it at the i coming session the question of addij tional legislation affecting the Amer| ican railways, employing 1,300,000 peol pie,, therefore be it, by tte Order of ; Railway Conductors, in b" mnial conj vention assembled, Resolved, That we hereby endorse ! the attitude of President Roosevelt in ! condemning secret rebates and other illegalities, and commend the attitude of the heads of the American jailways, who, with practical unanimity, have joined with the president on this question, and be it further Resolved, That we respectfully represent to congress the inadvisability of legislation vesting in the hands of a commission power over railway rates, now lower by far in the United States than in any other country; that this low cost of transportation is the result of the efficiency of American railway management and operation, which- have built up the country through constant improvement in service and development of territory, while at the same time recognition has been given to the value of intelligence among employes, in contrast to foreign methods where high freight rates and lowest wages for employes obtain; that the freight rates of this country average only two per cent of the cost of articles to the consumer, thus making the freight rate an insignificant factor in the selling price, numerous standard articles being sold at the same price in all parts of the country; and be it further Resolved, That regulation of rates by a government body would, in the opinion of this convention, result in I litigation and confusion, and inevitably 1 j.? j +? reduction of rates ICJLl 11 IV <XI I VA44.V* WVi ? irrespective of the question of the ability of the railroads to stand the reduction, especially ifa view of the increased cost of their supplies and materials, and be it further, Resolved, That the proposed legislation is not in harmony with our idea I of the spirit of American juri'sprudence, inasmuch as it contemplates that a single body shall have the right to investigate, indict, try and condemn and then enforce its decisions, at the cost of the carriers, pending appeal, which is manifestly inequitable; and that if there is to be legislation on this subject it should he such as would secure and insure justice and equity, and preserve equal rights for all parties concerned, but in view of the facts legislation affecting rates is not called for at this time, and would be inadvisable, and be it further, Resolved, That this convention finds itself in accord with President Roosevelt, who, in a massage to congress, has said: "It must not be forgotten that our railways are the arteries through which the commercial lifeblood of this nation flows. Nothing could be more foolish than the enactment of legislation, which would interfere with the development and operation of these commercial agencies." ^ The above resolutions were adopted by the thirtieth session of the grand division of the Order of Railway Conductors of America in convention assembled at Portland, Oregon, on May 12th, 1905, and it was ordered that a copy be sent to each member of the United States senate and of the house of representatives, as weii as to the interstate commerce commission. Attest: (Signed) E. E. CLARK, Grand Chief Conductor O. of R. C. (Signed) A. J. MAXWTELL. Grand Secretary aud Treasurer, 0. of R. C. BELATED MISSIVE OF LOVE. fender Message Waited Twenty Years for Delivery. Although belated more than twentyyears, a love letter appointing a tryst has been discovered and forwarded to the person addressed, Alonzo Birdsall, a motorman, who lives in Darby. Eirdsall was born and raised near Bay City, Mich., and there he met, wooed and won his wife, who was J Miss Parkinson. Her parents and his people ocoupied adjoining farms, but, owing to a . temporary feud, the young people's love did not run smoothly. They courted on the sly, and, to facilitate meetings, used to leave letters for each other in the hollow of an old elm tree. One day death visited the Birdsall family, and the feud was suddenly terrainated. In the excitement Miss Parkinson totally forgot a letter she had just left in the tree. lne Darners removea, cue iuvcia married, and about ten years ago moved to Philadelphia. Last week Birdsall received a letter from his brother, which explained that in chopping down the old elm he had found a not4, which he enclosed. Although weaiherbeaten and discolored, the writing was legible. It ran: "John, Dear?Meet me at the willows^ tonight. Ellen."?Philadelphia Record. Raising Minks for Their Fur. Charles Elliot of East Barnet, Vt., has a '-scheme to raise mink for the fur. He believes in his idea and has placed an old hen house on the banks of the river as a start in the business. Woven wire will keep the animals J where he can find them ana a pare of j the stream thus fenced off will give I them the water required, i Src<l Potalop*. If 1 lie seed potatoes are scabby, they should be treated with a mixture of one pint of formalin to thirty gallons of water. Sacks of the seed potatoes are suspended in this solution for an hour and a half, allowed to drain and spread on the barn floor to drv. Transplanting Plants. When transplanting plants, "whether grown from seeds or cuttings, to the open ground, care should be taken to press the earth firmly down upon the roots and to give a thorough watering afterwards. If the days are warm, a partial shading will be found beneficial fcr the fruit two or three days. Objects to the Bank Barn. f do not like a bank barn: ray father had one 45x70, costing $1000, and I would as soon have one of the same size without the* bank. The barn should front south; it cost considerable to make the wall for a bank barn. There should be tile under the wall, or some way to prevent water from coming under in the wet time. I never saw a bank bam that water did not seep under. We have had to carry water out in buckets and the ground is rolling. I know of six or seven costly bank barns, and the owners do not like them. One of my neighbors is talking of moving his barn off from the wall. ana set u on me grounu. iuu inuy have a team out of a bank barn in real cold weather and stop them, and you will tkiuk they have a chill. All grain may be put in. the basement by chutes like flouring mills run their grain. Have a small bin in the basement under the chute, with a small hopper ou the upper end; have this in crib or granary. You can load wheat in wagon by same plan; bin over chute to barn; stand wagon under; hang sack on; when full is in the wagon. Bank barns are not the place for sheep. They are too damp. You can keep them for a short time, say while lambing.?W. W., in Indiana Farmer. Handy Stock Cart. There is hardly a farm where any amount of stock is kept on which a stock cart built similar to our illustration would not prove itself indispensable in course of time. Two discarded buggy axles worked over at a blacksmith forge form a drop axle for this cart, says the Ohio Farmer. In the cut, A shows the axle, which should be left standard track width, pieces one foot in length being Inserted near the STOCK CABT FOR THE FARM. stubs at each end which forms the drop in axle to lower the bed nearer the ground. A bed is made as shown in illustration, just the width to fit into the axle and about five feet in length, and bolted to the axle near the middle of the bed. A cart haifdle is bolted upon the front, and the rear is fitted with two doors and a good, strong latch. This cart can be readily backed up. when mounted upon wheels, to any pen, the rear end dropped to the ground, doors closed behind, the cart attached to the rear of any other ve hicle, and. the animal transporrea as many miles as desired, with ease. By making the front end gate and cart handle detachable, this "rigging" can be wheeled up to the rear of a wagon and used for a chute in loading hogs or sheep. These carts are very popular here and are very appropriately dubbed "stock chariots" by their owners. ? ; ** " Poultry Try feeding little chicks a dry ration of cracked grain, seeds, etc. It is better than Johnny cake, corn dough or mashes. Place a self-feeding box of grain in the coop so that the chicks can eat what they want. There is little danger of overfeeding growing stock on free range. If hens on free range are given a small feed of fresh-cut bone once a day, or a box of beef scraps and granulated bone is placed In the henhouse, they will produce more eggs. Keep the brooders and colony houses clean and lo?k out for red mites and lice on the chicks. Incubator chicks are hatched free from lice, but it does not take long to contract them. Set turkey hens, and if you have^ plenty of eggs, fill the incubator. Arrange so the hens and incubator will hatch at the same time, then you can give all the polts to the turkey hen. Keep the chicks growing. Too orten after chicks have left the brooder or have been weaned by the lien they get insufficient food to make the most rapid growth. Especially is this true of chicks on free range. Plant sunflowers outside the wire of the poultry yard, and in and by waste places. They will afford shade during the summer and the hens will relish the seed. If planted inside the yard they must be protected until out of each of the hens. Parsnips For Cows. It is said that parsnips are by far the richest of the root crops for feed-1 ing. They are fed largely to cows in ; the Channel Islands, we are told, though in this country parsnips are reserved for table use. In a reference to this matter of porsnios for cows Mr. A. H. Franklin in referring to his own experience in the American Dairyman says: "While the yield of parsnips is not so great as tV* yield of turnips, mangles or carrins, their extra value as well as appetizing qualities should make them especially valuable as feed for milch cows. Another feature in their favor is the pleasant flavor. "In feeding parsnips my experience is confined to-the surplus from the garden at digging time in the spring. We never fail to grow a row or two of parsnips for house use as soon as the irost goes out in trie spring, in our anxiety to have enough we usually have a few bushels to spare. These go to the neighbors and to the cows, and I often think the cows appreciate them the most. At any rate, they give an additional milk flow, and we never have been able, to detect any objectionable odor in the milk. It is>our intention hereafter to put in about five times as many parsnips as usual and give the cows a liberal treat next spring. "One reason why parsnips are not grown for stock or for home use as generally as they should be is that they really are not developed until the frost draws out of the ground in the spring. Then the feeding time is so short between snow and growing time that the feeding or eating stage is passed before any considerables-quantity can be used. The practice of digging parsnips in the fall and wintering them in cellars is obtainable, for the reasoD that in the fall parsnips are very poor vege* tables." Staking and Tlelng Tomatoes* For the family garden I favor staking and tieing tomato plants, for the following reasons: I have never grown tomatoes on a large scale, so can't say whether ic will pay to stake them or not where growing them in great quantities. Most every family wants a few vines in their kitchen garden, and not one garden in twenty is absolutely chicken proof, and about the time your tomatoes are becoming ready for the table, you go in your garden and find the finest ones ruined by the chickens, when tiiey are grown in the sprawling way, hut not so when you have them trained to shapes. Mr. Chicken may get a. few next to the ground, but after that he is done for the season, and you can let chickens run among your vines and catch insects and they won't bother your tomatoes. This is a great advantage in garden culture, I think. Then you can keep them in a much smaller space, and keep them free from weeds and your garden looking neater by training to stakes. When the vines grow at will they can be kept clean till about the time they begin to get full of fruit, then down they go, and who hasn't seen them in the most of garden soil, in a very short time overrun with all manner of weeds, apd perhaps fine tomatoes lying around on the ground axd sunburned so they were ruined, but with them tied to stakes you can keep an earth mulch in dry weather and keep them thrifty and bearing right along. Or, if you prefer, when they become full of fruit just cover all the ground between the vines with 1 -I. straw*. leaves or someming ior a iijuicu and tbey yrill be all 0. K. the rest of the seasoD. I believe pruning to a single vine and tieing to a stake much the better way for garden eulture.? C. S. Looney, in Southern Fruit Grower. ) The Home Garden. The suckers of gooseberries, currants and red raspberries should be rigidly pulled. Most flower seeds can be sofvn during May, and greenhouse and window plants may be put into the open ground. In making the home garden do not overlook garlic, chives, shallots, herbs, etc., as they are exceedingly desirable for flavoring purposes. This season's growth of raspberry canes should be pinched off and they will throw out fruit laterals. This is important, for on it depends next season's crop of berries. Early varieties of dwarf peas can be grown between the rows of tomato plants. By the time the tomatoes are large enough to occupy the ground the peas will be out of the way. The pea vines> may be removed or left as a mulch for the tomatoes. The seeds of sweet corn and all the wrinkled varieties of peas should be sown and a litile later cucumbers, melons, squashes, pumpkins and gourds may be put in the open ground. A fork full of well-rotted manure in the hill is the proper food for these plants. The plants from pansy seed sown in window boxes or under glass in February and March may be set out and made ready for blossoming later. Seed sown now in rich soil will make plants that will come into bloom in mid: summer and keep it, up, if given plenty of water. For the main crop of tomatoes small, stocky, quickly grown plants are best for transplanting in a garden or field, hut for extra early, potted plants that are almost ready to bud may be used. These should be transplanted without removing much of the earth from the 1 roots. By this method it is possible to have ripe tomatoes by July 1. Successional plantings of corn and j peas should be made at intervals of ten days or two weeks. Some plant early and late kinds on the same day and thus secure a succession, but it is the more common practice to make a series of plantings of the same variety. A motor driver was fined $115 in the town of East Wolseley, England, the other day, for passing a cart on U20 wrong side , J f. Marketing Potato Crope. | Xh line with the classic case of the ! oyster shippers, cited by President j Hadley of Yale University in his book j on Railroad Transportation, is the case of the Aroostook potato growers brought by President Tattle of the Boston & Maine Rai'road before the | Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce. Nothing could better show how i a railroad works for the interest of j the localities which it serves, j A main dependence of the farmers of ! the Aroostook region is the potato : orr>n i<ro-vf>oroth'r* rmnnallv plffht to j ton million bushels which" find a rnar: ket largely in Boston and the adjacent j thickly settled regions of Nor.* Engj land. The competition of cheap wa}&r j transportation from Maine to alt points j along the New England coast keeps j railroad freight rates on these potatoes always at a very low level. Potatoes arc also a considerable oat- , put of the truck farms of Michigan, their normal market being obtained in and through ^Detroit and Chicago and other communities of that region. Xot many years ago favoring sun and rains brought a tremendous yield of potatoes from the Michigan-fields. At normal rates and prices there would have been a glut of the customary markets and the potatoes would have rot- , ted on the farms. To help the potato growers the railroads from Michigan made unprecedentcdly low rates on potatoes to every reachable market, even carrying them in large quantities to a place so remote as Boston. .The Aroostook growers had to reduce the price on their potatoes and even then could not dispose of them unless the Boston & Maine Hal!road reduced its already low rate, which it did. By \ means of these low rates, making possible low prices, the potato crops of both Michigan and Maine were finally marketed. Everybody cats potatoes, and that year everybody had all the potatoes he wanted. While the Michigan railroads made rates that would have been ruinous to the railroads, had they been applied to the movement of all potatoes at all .times, to all places, the^ helped their patrons to find markets for them. The v ,t. Afainfl Unilrond suffered a de JJVOLVn W iiAUAUv _ crease in its. revenue from potatoes, but it enabled the Aroostook farmers to market their crop and tliereby. to obtain money which tbey spent for the varied supplies which the railroads brought to them. If the making of rates were subject to Governmental adjustment such radical and prompt action could never have been taken, because it is well established that if a rate be once reduced by a railroad company it cannot be restored throughthe red tape of Governmental procedure. If the Michigan railroads nnd the Boston & Maine Railroad had been > subjected to Governmental limitation they would have felt obliged to keep up their rates as do the railroads of I France and England and Germany under Governmental limitation and let the potatoes rot?Exchange. STRANGE TRIBES IN BURMAH. Traditions Accord with the Bible~Expected Foreign Teaching, Letters have been received at Pittsbirrg from Rev. W. M. Young, Baptist missionary at Kentung, Burmah, telling of a new tribe of hill people there, ? \ with almost Christian traditions. 1 They are pure monotheists, and are embracing Christianity rapidly, as It is in line with their prophecy or tradition. Rev. Mr. Young went to Kentung in 1901. In the district are 16,000 people called Muhsos. The Kaws are another hX tribe, numbering 20,000 or 30,000. The traditions of these people tell of the creation, the fall of man and * / the flood, closely following the biblical account Their teaching against evil-doing corresponds closely with the Ten Commandments of the Mosaic law. The most remarkable tradition among these people is that & foreigner would come to them to teach the religion of the true God. They readily accept the teachings of Rev. Mr. Young, and since the first converts were baptized last October hundreds have accepted Christianity. Unjil the Christian missionaries first appeared the men wore cotton cords about their waists and necks. The cords about their necks were that they would not forsake their belief in one God. Those about their wrists expressed a longing for the coming of the foreigner who was to teach them. When they accept Christianity these people invariably ask the missionary to cut the cords about their wrists.?Ne w York World. r Reached the Bull's-Eye Often. It is a proud moment in the life of a British soldier or sailor to be pronounced by the king a credit to the country. Such a compliment was paid to Able Seaman Hollinghurst. The honor of royal recognition was due to the remarkable skill of the British sailor in gun practice. With a large square canvas target six feet by eight, in the center of which was a comparatively small bull's-eye. scarcely larger than a man's hat, placed at a distance of 1,500 yards, Hollinghurst hit it seven times out of ten with six-inch shells, making a record that will go down in target practice history. \ 7