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TllttK to ?IU DOC SCENERY. triemnt Mm Atfvl >m Waiting Until J After BrwkfMt curious, you know, it really Is." a returned summer boarder, effect a good square meal trill on the Imagination. re arrived at the end of a long Iroad Journey, on our way to bre we were to spend tfie summer, * o'clock In the morning. Then we i a stage and rode miles further "over a hilly road. In the chilly morn ing air to one end of a lake, where we took a steamboat and rode some more miles to our final destination, ar> f riving there at 7 a. m. ' Seen under such circumstances, ^ after being routed out of bed at 4 a. m.. and before breakfast, the soenery was disappointing. The lake eeemed not much bigger than a good-sixed mill pond, the trees were all stunted and the mountains were not much bigger than hills, and we were tacltn* ed to take a gloomy fist of things, and In that frame' we remained until, at 7:30, the tocsin sounded and we went In for breakfast. "That was a good breakfast, with everything well cooked and admirably served, and with particularly excel lent coffee, and we had the appetltea of hungry mule3 and lingered long. ^ "When we had again come out the sun was shlnirg and the lake had been enlarged by four acres at least; each individual tree of all the Innumerable thousands that eveiywhere fringed the lake's shores and rose upward on Its mountainous sides had grown forty fqet, and tho mountains themselves now climbed to the sky. ''It was all coble and restful and beautiful; and eo it remained, grow ing on us all the time as long as we * were there. "Hereafter I shall never pass Judc* ment on scenery till after breakfast." -.-New York Sun OIL ON TROUBLED WATER8. Wind Unable to /Obtain a Grip on ths / Qressy Surface. A few gallons oT oil cast upon stormy seas moderates their violence, and prevents the waves from break tig with force. That thia la the case has long been known. Theophylactes. the Byzantine historian of the sixth century, propounded the question. "Why does oil calm the sea?" and answered It to the effect that, as the wind is a subtle and delicate thing, and oil is adhesive and unctuoua, the wind glides over the surface of the water on which oil haa been spread and cannot raise waves. The wiud. in ' fact, slips over the water without be in u able to obtain a grip. In the Gulf of Mexico there is a re markable stretch of water about two miles long by three-quarters of a mile bread, to which the name of "oil-spot ' has been given, because in the worst of storms tho mariner finds still water here. Its character as a safe harbor o' refuge Is said to be due to an oily property of the mud stirred up by the ttorm. I Grateful Chang*. Clara ? Did you have pleaaant weath er at the aprlnga this summer? Dora ? No. It was hot, dreadfully to. "Really uncomfortable, was It?" "Awfully. Why. the weather was so warm than when a man with a cool million proposed to me I accepted him at once."? New York Weekly. Xudm From Kmsm. Here is n bnueb of nuuira picked at random, from one issue of the Law rence Gazette: Dolph Blampied, W. W. Calpltts. Jessie Moltundro. Marsaeles Bledseaux, Mr*. Dent Theseldlne. Van der Vrics and John Hunt.? Topcka Capital. How's Till*? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for. any oase of Catarro that cannot be cured by Mall's Catarrh Care. P. J. Cmxnbt A Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F.J. Cheney for the lost 16 yesr*. and believe hloi perfectly honorable in all business transac tions and financially able to carry out any obligations mado by their tlrna. Wbst A Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, To. ledo, O, Waldimo, Kinnan A Mabvin, Wholesale. Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, aat lag directly upon tho blood and mucoussur faees of lt?c sjztom. Testimonials sent free. Price. 75c. per bottle. Hold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family IMUs for constipation. l'ltjr For A^lnali. A Freucli lawyer, I.eon Clery, left In hla will the sum of 80,000 francs, the Interest on which Is to be given every year to whatever schoolteacher may be adjudged to have done the most In Inculcating pity for animals among the pupils. ? J ,a.-. A Kplendhl News HervltVi The Halelgh Morning Post Is giving Its renders a most excellent news ser vice. W.lth special correspondents at Washington The Post's columns will be peculiarly Interesting during the present session of Congress. The other features of The PHM ure a" kept up to the well-known standard nnd the edi torials nre particularly bright and able. The Post has already won Its way to the front among Southern dall ies. Mlas Jane Addams. of Hull House, will deliver the convocation address to . the winter graduating class of the Unl * verslty of Chicago. December 20. She la the first woman ever Invited by the university authorities to act as con vocation orator. So. 53. | PITSosrmaasnti vcurtJ. No fltsorntrrons* " ness after firs: day's two of Dr. Kline's Oree^ NsrvsBsatorer, fit rial Sot tleand treatise free Dr. R. M. Kt.tss.Ltd., Wl Arch at. Phlla., Pa. King Alfonso is the utst of the royal rid ers of Europe. To Care a t'eM la Oae Der Take Laxstive Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to curt. K. W. Grove's signsturt is oi^box. 29c. The Russisa population represents 110 nstionslitie*. JamsurtVlso'eCur* forContumptlonstv* t my Uft three rsaV* ago.? Mas. Tbomas Rob bins, Maple 8t.. NorwIob.N.f.. Feb. 17, 190 > Denmsrk exports 2,800,000 pounds of honey a yesr. A Qaaraateed Cnre For Files. Itching, Blind, Weeding or Protruding [ Piles. Druggists will refund money if Paso Ointment finis to curt in 0 to 14 dsys. 30c. Crest Britsin owns hslf the ships that sre afloat. _ Itch cured in 30 minuttt by Woolford's 8anitary Lotion. Ntver fails, fold by sll druggists, #1. Mail orders promptly filled If Dr. I. Detchon, Oawfordsville, Ind. There sre 300,000 Fisas ia the United fiattt. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED. "THE WORLD'S INTEREST IN CHRIST. Tift* Mn. Orb HiIhI *eA?so *??*? What to (MlMl far Jmi -?WOvm flfcu^w TTI'fc Iff ftr'ttil |JP??I|J I* O? ?ll<llj OMfiaKill. Bbookltk. ? Dr. ' Cli|and Boyd McAfee, SitoNket of the Libretto Avenue Pjt? tcrian Chnrcb, preached there Sunday. ? subject vu **The World's lntereot in the Success of Christ." The test wee from John xii:9: "Much people of the Jew*, therefore, knew that He was tbere: and they cum not for Jesus' sake only, hut that, they might see Lasarus also, whom He had raised Iron the dead." l>r. McAfee This is at least candid. There was no magic magnetism about Jesus. He drew men to Him in no subtle, indefinable way. He drew them by what they saw Him do, by what they saw Him to be. Here was a crowd drawn to Jesus by the effset?Hs had had ou a man. That is .the sermon of the morning in -a sentence. The best argu ment for, Jesus is the effect He hu on men. ~I call it best, not as most rhHo sophical or profound, and not as bearing logical taste better than others. It is best been rise we can all see it and feel the force of it. ? * I asked a wise man once what he count ed the best argument in behalf of Christ. He replied. "Christian." And what is the best srgument against Christ? Instantly he replied again, "Christian." Broaden it. What is the best argument for Christ and His gospel? The Christendom of to-day. Set Christendom over against heathenism and see what Christ can do with men. Set it over against the Christendom that should be and see what Christ has still to do. Now all that is very simple, and it is at such siitiplc points in our lives that Christ comes into closest contact witn us. The only claim He makes to Kingship is ba&t-d on the f*ct that He is one who can. He can bring things to pass. _He can ac complish. He can achievc. You renJem ber how constant His fame ran ahead ot Him in His journeying. He healed some and they told it. He taught others and thev announced it. He fed a multitude and they clung to Him. I am not suppos ing that the crowd really believed in Jesus for what He claimed to be, but the crowd was drawn to Him by the effect He had had on men, and thus wiw brought under His spell. And no man will ever believe in Jesus on the mere evidence of lives about Him. He must accept Him for Him self. But the effect He has on lives will have its part tb-day as then in turning men to Him. The unchanged life docs not draw. The thoroughly changed life is His best argument. You remember I have already said that there are better arguments for Christ than the lives of His followers ? better philo sophically and logically. He is Himself His best argument. Just a careful, candid atudy of His own character with its pe culiar balance of traits, with its striking symmetry ? that would be very" convinc ing. For my#part I enjoy the so-called metaphysical arguments, even some which are not popular in the philosophical facul ties nowadays. There are very profound books written which men might read with profit. But we are just common men, and we do very little profound thirtking. almost no abstract thinking, and we are reached sooner and most effectively by the argu ment of results. There are men, of course, not so bright as ourselves, who would be hard pressed just to read the books which present these obstruse arguments. In my reading, the other day, 1 ran across a sen tence from one of these profound writers which will interest you. just by way of illustration. It is a definition of religion and runs this way: "Religion is the ulti mate and vital apprehension by the indi vidual of what is conceived to '~e reality in ita fullest sense, the inner truth of things; whether such reality be regarded as co extensive with, as included in, or as dis tinct from the world of natural phenom ena, it always, however, being regarded as in seme wsy related to the individual him* ?elf; any such apprehension embracing be lief, emotional response and the determine ation of conduct, in so far as conduct is supposed to have a bearing on the con nection of tho individual with such real ity." Now that is not a very bad way of stating certain facts about religion, and yet I doubt if sdme of us would care to go far in books worded that way. ? Some of you have been uader the influence of re ligion a good many years, but have never worded it just that way. f There arc easier ways of wording the profound truth of Christianity. I wish it seemed possible, for example, to get a wide reading for the two-year-old book by Principal Fairbsim of Oxford, Mansfield College. He hs9 called it "The Philosophy of the Christian Religion." The book grew out of Principal Fairbairn*s appoint ment as Haskell lecturer in India. He ha>l the sacred books of Hinduism and felt thnt be knew how to meet its positions with sympathetic understanding. When he reached India, however, he found Hindu ism a very different thing in practicc. That turned him back upon a candid studv of his own faith, to see vUether and wherein it might differ in present pvtctice from its original form. Such a study was certain to result profoundly, and it is a profound book. I wish all of us Christians might follow an argument which results in s.ich sentences. as these: "The Son of God holds in His pierced hands the keys of all re ligions, explains nil the factors of thei.* being and all the persons through whom they have beon realized." "The Incarna tion is the very truth which turns nature and man, history and religion intn th> luminous dwelling place of God." I think I shall not forget that phrase that the In carnation turned the world into the lum inous dwelling-place of God, that Jean*, once bern into manhood, lias never died OUt ,of manhood, and shall instead draw tj.??.j?nd into His own fellowship and Blntflc, . Wo snail be able to feel the T>(-b,oiirt"l meajii&g of all this when wo stop to name over some of the traits w..ich mark the Changed life. It is a life of faith ? of quiet confidence in Clod. There is no icftencts nor lazy trusting that things will come put right by some mysterious method. Tt is the life of belief that we are in a Fa ther's world, making our way to a Fa ther's house. That /Mith . l lands over against the,deubt and fear and naxiely of the unchanged life. And bccausc it is faith in Qod it accomplishes faithfulness to men and our duties. And this is whet the world sees. It cannot see faith in God. It can aec only the faithfulness i i the lifo we live. From gross dishonesty on up to unreliability, at whatever ctage'it appears, unfaithfulness prevents an argaineiit for Christ. J",*'!? argument cf ihc chanced life. And I cannot mistake tliat it is such argument which Christ Himself Lioti prises and which tie world most needs needs not h these larger ways and placet alone, there to mucli as ii the men with whom it mu?t denl moat closclv. My brcthern, it it the argument of ur own changed, Chmtiauired lives that it most needed. The bookt arc atrong? and i n read. The uncommon, marked cases are many? and unobserved, 'hir lives are re our fellows, closely read, con served. These are "the world's . And what is nought is not somt impossible perfection. Manv of our fallows are not unreasonable. No, but there is wanted on alignment between our professions and our actiona that shall indi cate that something higher and better hss actually taken hold of ut. We claim to be eervanto of the b?>t Matter; wo are not faultiest servants; we do not claim to \ . * we do not claim to be better than othar people. We claim only this, tt Christiana, that we are teeking te do aa Christ ap proves, that we -re seeking to live the kind of life He Isys out for us. The practi cal James in his New Testsment epistle puts it in a succinct way: You say yon are honest; very well; show me your hon esty without paying your debts and 1 will pay my debta to snow my honesty. It is the practical outworking which convinces other ricn. Men are saved by their fsith in Christ. But other men know that they sre saved by the way they act. Argument resulting eo is worthy of study. * But it would be so wild at to be silly to expect men who look on the re ligion of Christ for the ootoide to labor #rer fM pagee ? i profoyad wrtk, YT? ut dally bcfoi gently ol; arguments has h Htm tiwmd. It ?u pjdlbjt to ?tady Jiwm ia Hit ova . character. The o?wd cam* that day to mo Him and to aea Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. Indeed, Lazarus, changed into new life, waa ao strong an argument that hie enemies would hare killed him to ^ilenco bir*. '? *. . | Aud it is still the commonest method to explain away or to deny the effects of Je sus in the world. If He has laid hold on a people, we must find out how climate and ancestry and customs hare been the real Uplifting agencies. If He -nakes a charac ter attractive and winsome, we tain about disposition and training. That is, we want Lauras explained away unless ? ? mean to acknowledge the power of Christ. The chanced life is the argument which the world firfds most forceful. The world A interested, not in Christ's theory, but in His success. That anument can be madC In a large way. His influence can bo traced through the long stretch of years. Our own race and nation could be made an illustration. Or the minds of then could be pointed to peoples only yesterday in James Chalmers, the missionary in the* South Sear. *!Tu?t after he heCamc ac quainted with the people 01***1 his wife's friends, as a mark of respect and affection, brought her a piece of humsn flesh, nicely cooked, as a dainty for her own table. They were often invited to cannibal feasts. On a new island, only four years ago, Chalmers waa killed and his body eaten. And the gospel of Christ, with the arts of civilization, has taken hold npoh such peo ple and make them fraternal and aafe and helpful. There is no Christian ialand in the South Seas where a voyager is* not EJfc; there is no non-Christian island where lie is safe. It is a life of hope. It has not yet re ceived its best things. The best times are not psst nor present, however glad they may hp. There are better things to come out of the Father's love as we go on in the Father's world. And (hie hope works into the sight of men in the form of cheer, of brightness, of encouragement. Some one nsked the other day what I thought of laughing Christians. It was a new phrase to me. We do not think much of silly Christians, I suppose, of shillow Chris tians, whose joy compares with real joy as ? giggle compares with a laugh. But what can one Think of a Christian life whose hope never comcs out into the cheer and brightness of a joyous life? I heard a child say a little piece once, in which was explained that one day in heaven God be came weary of the dinging of the harps aud the singing of the angels, ro He si lenccd them all nnd sang a strain of music Himself, and ere it had died away He caught it. threw 'about it a beautiful plu mage and cast it into the air, and t?o the songbirds c?me to earth. They are Ood'e music acnt into life. And are we other? Who so well as we may catch the glad strain of joy nnd make our lives a gladden ing influence in the world? And if instead wc droop and pine, and will not bear the Borrows as though they were charged with g'ad meaning from our FathCr. and will not cast a radiance of ioy into other lives, where is the chcngcd life? The Kings of ths Ho'y Roman Empire were crowned with a triple croivn, i;i one of which was a nail of the true cross. And in the triple crowning which marks the changed life, one bears the nail of the cross. For supremely the changcd life is the life of love, and love means cacrifiee, love means ccrvicc, lovj means he'pful nets. No man can see another's love save as it shows itself in the service cf helpful ness it renders. When men seek the su reme example of love they look upon a gure which glorified the cross, which had the pierced hands and feet and aide ? a figure of One wha came as a . eisenger of glad tiding of peace ? His feet beautiful upon the # mountains, but bloodstained. And love ia the hid fact of that best life, coming into eight of others as helpfulness and service. This is tl^t supreme mark of the Christian life ? such u love as makes ua helpful among men for Christ's sake. )t Is no mere pity of other men's needs; it is no shallow sentiment which cannot bear to seo sufferinr. It is a far deeper thing than that. It is the commanding motive in all life ? to serve. It means laying out our lives for that wherever they aire lived. Sometimes it demands large things. Some times it comcs out in th? daily, common life. We may not do for men what they Want, but we learn to do for them in one measure what they need. And so life be comes a constant help to other*. These arc the plain rtarl:3 cf the changed life, whi?i stands a* r.r^uiuent for Christ. Faith, within which cones out in view as faithfulness evervwhfre. Hope, comips cut into view as cheerful neu. encouragement, brightness. Love, breaking out into service. Is your li.'e so trip'.*/ narked, not by fortirvite birth, not in shallow ways, but deeoly nnd because <you have known Iliti? If it is, then you in your commonplace life arc I-Tis daily rrgumcnt. the I*a7arus of the present day, crav/in^ ncn to IZici. The Highest n?rd(m, There is yet a harder and higher f.cro fsm? to live well v.i the ruict routine of life; to fill a little space because God will* it; to (3 on cheerfully with a petty round of little duties, little occasion*; to accent nn.numuringly a low position; to ami> for the joy* of others when the heart is aching; to baniah r.H ambition, all pride and Ml rctll?ssne*n i.i r. cint'e regard to our Saviour's work. Moreover. tr? <!<> this f c- a lifetime in a Ktill greater cffjrt, aud be who <1oca tint i9 a greater hero than ho who for one horr storm* a breach, or for one day ru*!ie3 on yard untfavatcd in the flaming front of ahot and a jell. Hit work* v.'i.l follow him. lie nay not be a hero to the world. hut lie is one of God'* heroes; and though the builders of Ninevab ?nd Baby. )o:i be fornotten and u iknown, bis memory a'.ia'.l live and be bleared.? Dean Favrar, | H??? VCc LlUUirallhf Ars r;s to b.iv.i ca little faith ii men that we Must assume that great wealth will Lc to them a curse rather thsn a blece ir.g? Or doe:; not there now come to us. at a people, the call to to adjust our political method* by the highest statesmanship, our financial syatcri by the greatest wisdom, and our charflctcrs by the cloaect training, a* to malts this wealth not -a source, of danger and destruction, but of beneficent power?? Bishop William I?awrcncc, Bo? ton. What It Life? Our butincss is, net to build quickly, but to build upon a right foundation ana in a right spirit. Life it more than a mere competition an between man and man; it it not who can bo done firat, but who can work beat; not who. can rite highest, but who it working moat patient Iv nnd lovinr'.y in accordance with the de? signs of God.? Joeepb 1'ark/r. PAYS 42-YEAR DEBT. Soldier Finds Widow of Man Who Lent Him $16. I Mrs. E. R. Bootey of Jamestown, N. Y., wa? at home the other day when a stranger came to the door and asked her bame. Finding she war Mrs. Bootey, he said he was lying In a southern hos pital forty-two years ago, and wanted to get home, but had nb money. A companion gave him $15, with which he made the journey. His companion was E. R. Bootey, a lad from Chautau qua county, and he never caw him again. Mr. Bootey has been dead several years, and the Btranger paid to his, widow the $15, adding another $10 for Interest. Mrs. Bootey had never heard her husband speak of the Incident, bqt ac cepted the payment and thanked the man who Was willing to pay a claim that every one else had forgotten after forty-tw# fears.? New York Herald. SOUTHERN FARM ffOTES. tun c? or wvtanr to me hum. stocmma* awo Tvtc* mwa k ?nT. Kiwwn mm Alhlh. 1 The frequency of, inquiries for Infor mation lu regard to tbe cnltiratlon of the valuable forage plant, alfalfa (med ico go sstivs). baa suggested tbe prep aration of tbe following articles on tbe subject: Tbia plant wss not only known and grown bj tbe Romans, but they knew tbe fact tbat- It waa a sqll Improver. It Is an Important oaseniber of the large family or planta known to bota niata as legumes, .wfc Icfe liouc possess the power, through the SgfUcy of bac teria, which colonise in'* nodules on their roots, of extrp^tlng and storing pltrogen from the' air in tbe soil. Al though four-fifths, by volume, of tbe air, a great ocean of which batli?s tbe surface of our globe, is nitrogen, leg umes alone have tbe power of extract ing for economical purposes this nec essary element of plant food. >\ crop of alfalfa or cow peas will collect ard store from 123 to 1W pounds of nitrogen per acre, which Is equivalent to the qunutity supplied by twelve to fifteen tons of ordinary stable manure, or a ton of cottonseed meal of average quality. If this quantity of nitrogen Is purchased on the market at the valuation quoted by the chemical de partment. an outlay of from $1S to $20 will be necessary. It Is not practicable for the Southern farmer to accumulate fr^xu the lim ited number of stock kept a sufficient quantity of manure to fertilize large areas. A mule or horse fed regularly In the stall deposits, with moderate use of litter, an.average of one and one { half tons of manure, while h.v planting legumes the area fertilized Is limited only by the ability to plant and culti vate them. The result of the experi ment given below demonstrates the fact that legumes render the applica tion of nitrogen to the succeeding crops Of nitrogen consumers unnecessary : Fertilizer experiment with "wheat following legumes and other forage crops. Plots contain one-sixteenth of an acre. Fertiliser Bushels Kr acre. per acre, i. C. S. meal. 400 Iba. acid phos. After two years in tcasinite 13.3 300 Iba. kainit. Plot No. 2?400 Iba. acid phoa. After two yeura in cowpcaa 22.7 200 lbs. kainit. Plot No. 3?200 Iba. C. S. meal. 400 Iba. acid phoa. After two years in sorghum 15.3 200' lbs. kainit. Plot No. 4 ? 400 lbs. acid phos. After two years in velvet beans 18.7 200 Iba. kainit. Plot No. 5-200 lbs. C. S. meal 400- Iba. acid phos. After two years in corn 18.3 200 lbs. kainit. .Plot No. 6-?00 Iba. C. S. meal. 400 lbs. scid phoa. After two years ia cowpeaa 21.5 200 lbs. kainit. Alfalfa has tbe advantage of other legumes In being perennial. Major Wbitner. of Anderson, 8. C., has a small field of alfalfa sixty-nine years old without renewal. ? Colonel Richard Peters, tbe noted stock breeder of Georgia, showed the writer a field of alfalfa, sown In drills, that was twen ty-flve years old and still yielding two and one-half to three tons of hay per acre. Near this was a field sown broadcast, which was choked out by grass and weeds after a few years' growth. Tbe writer aad alfalfa .suc cessfully grown for fourteen years previous to 1875. These facts *r? men tioned to show that alfalfa wait grown successfully and profitably long before bacteria were recognized as active agents in supplying nitrogen. Inoculation with soil tsken from fields in which the alfalfa bacterium has been developed will increase tbe growth of alfalfa, If freshly sown Where no medlck bad been previously grown, but this is not necessary If ni trogen Is supplied by the decay of or ganic matter In the soil, or Is artific ially supplied. An spplieation of stable manure to the land when the seed is sown will usually facilitate tbe multN plication of tbe bacteria of s number of species of legumes. Alfalfa will grow successfully on al most all classes of soil If properly pre pared and fertilised, and either natur ally or artificially drained. The water table of permanent saturation should not be nearer than four feet of the surface. If, however, the surface Is excessively fertile the lateral roots will be abnormally developed and the plants may thrive lu three feet of such soil, though the tap roots rot as soon they reach stagnant water. This has been demonstrated In experiments con ducted hi Hampton Park, Charleston, 8. C. The average yield of tbe first three cuttings, made April 19, May 24 and June 27. was reported In dry bay, seven tons 007 pounds. Tbls waa on land which had been brougbt to a very high state of fertility as s truck fsrm. Alfalfa should be sown In drills fifteen to eighteen Inches apart In tbe early fall. Fall Is preferable to spring sowing, because alfalfa Is not Injured by light frost, while the annua! grasses Currant ffvsnte. Henry H. Roger*, who narked for #1.18 a day\ Is the most powerful single Individual la the world of finance aad commerce. He Is a little fellow, not much larger than Jay Oould, haa a cow-lick on each aide of the part In the middle of hie hair, weare an Iron gray mustache with cow-feorn curls, aad takes off his hat whenever he en ters a broker's office, Just as an ordi nary aervant should do. Superintendent Maxwell will ask Ike New York board of education at Its next meeting to adopt a plan for giv ing tenement district school children a midday meat. If the plan should be adapted and the luncheon set ehould coet alx cents each, It would cost the city $6,804,000 a year. Slgnor Oarcla Meron, the Argentine minister at Washington, has published a book under the title "Economical and Induetrlal Notes About the United Btatee." It la a atudy about the eco nomical and commercial eltnatlon of the United Statea and Ita commercial relatione with Argentina. and weeds are destroyed by then. Again, its growth la renewed la early aprlng before the graaa and weed aeed germinate. It thus enables tho gtbwer to cultivate the young plauta with the horse hde. If the seed are sown In spring .they vegetate a^ the same time with the grasa and weeds, nud require careful hand hoeing to protect the plants from foreign growth. If sown broadcast, cultivation is not practica ble, nud grass nnd weeds already grow ing among the plants get the mastery when the alfalfa Is sown. If sown lu drills, cultivation after each inowiug destroys all growth between the rows and thus protects the alfalfa. No mntter how fertile the soil on which alfalfa Is grown, so much sub stance is removed in the fn-quent mow in;:* thnt annual applications of min eral plant footl should be made. Tlii application should be tunde after tl?? first crop is harvestod in the sprin; nnd ir.cv*Morr*?'.l v.i'h the k?Il b?tr.*c?" tlio ror.s. Soil Inton.l'.\l for alf*i sliouhl be sown iu wheat or oat*, :r followed by pc*as sown at the rate ? two bushels per acre broadcast. Ti will not only prevent t lie gro*.vtli ? prrnss and weeds, but will lonve the s , iu Idcnl com', i. ion for the nlf.ifa nf the crop of peas lias been hnrves? for hay. After fertilizing libera', broadonst wl^h a complete fertilize and preparing the soil deeply an|} P' verizing it thoroughly the.seed may I sown in very shallow drilla aud tl land rolled, or they may be ran evenly distributed by a machine f sowing small seed. Fifteen to twen pounds of seed will abundantly so\ nn ncre. Alfalfa tuny be cut from dr to day and fed green to stock, cor mencing In February, may be pasture or cut and cured for hay. If pasture enough stock should be used to d?> pasture it promptly, nud then remove until the plnnttfhavc time to make ne\ growth. If pastured closely and eon tlnuonsly, the plants will be injure: by being prevented, for long intervals from making sufficient growth o leaves to support root growth. If needed for hay". It should *l?e harvest* soon after flowering commences. I< too long delayed the stalks become woody. Especial care Is needed in curing the hay to prevent loss of the leaves by exposure to the sun. If the curcd hnj Is exposed to the light, it bleaches and la thus Injured as food for stock. Average analysis of alfalfa hay pea vine hay aud wheat bran show but slight variation In the im porta fit food constituents. The percentage of pro teln, quotiug from Jordou*s Feeding of Animals, are as follows: Alfalfa hay, 14.3 per cent, of pcolein. Cow pea hay, MJ.O per cent, of pro tein. Ited clover hay, 13.2 per cent, of pro tenl. Sojn bean hay, 1S.4 per cent, of pro tein. Wheat bran, 15.4 per cent, of pro tein. Itice polish. 11.7 per cent, of protein. ?J. S. Newman, of Cleinson College, In News and Courier. tftMdard Fruit PiclugN. J. Jj. H., Miss.:* While there Is no uuiform package rule enforced, thla list of packages has been approved by the various unions: Tomatoes, four-basket crate. Cucumbers, one-third-bushel box and oue-bnshel box. , Beans, one-third bushel box or one* half-bushel basket. Okra, one-third-bushel box. Peas, one-thlrd-bushel box or one* half-bushel basket. Radishes? Sugar barrel with piece of ice in centre, or oue-linlf-busbel basket. Green onions, one-linlf-bushel basket. Dry onions, one-bushel boxes. Beets with tops, one-bushel boxes or barrels. Spihach, barrels with piece of ice In centre. Cantaloupes, standard crate, 12x24, Loldlng forty-five melons, or basket holding oue dozen. Cabbage, crates, standard, 22x32. Pears, one-bushel boxes. Strawberries, quarts. v ?? IUm Up tit* Orchard. As soon as frost has induced the leaves to fall from the fruit trees, es pedal care should be given the trees. All the old apples thnt are"- hanging on the limbs should be pulled off and burned. One of these dried up, dis eased apples contains enough disease spores to ruin an acre ot healthy apples. They are full of seed, and If permitted to hang on the trees until next spring the- hard skin will burst and scatter acab and rot to the de* structlon of the crop. Prune off old limbs and burn all of them with the trash that may have accumulated In the orchard. This is the only way to expect to have healthy fruit for next season.? Southern Agriculturist Odd* and End*. The Rer. Dr. Augustus 1* Brasbner, professor of church history and dot matlcs in the Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Samlnary, at St. Ix>uls, who bat Just died In that city, cava Instruc tion? that aftar hts death a post-mor tem should he held If the Interest of science, as ha believed his disease waa cot understood by the apeclallsts who attended htm, The Ratcllff-Rotherhlthe tunnel now being built under the Thamea will take Ave years to conatruct. (ta length will be 6,883 feet, with an external diameter of sixteen feet and two footways four feet eight and one-half inches wide. When it Is finished there will be three tunnels under the Thames at Londoa.. Belgium, where public libraries are almost unknpwn, enjoys 190,000 public houses. That means one public house for thirty-fix inhabitant*, or ona pub lic house for twelve men above 17 years of age. During the last flfty yeara the population has increased 60 par cant; the number of publle houses 2t$ par cast Miss Rose Peterson, Secretary Farkdale Tennis Club, Chicago, from ex perience advises all young girls who have Eains and sickness peculiar to their sex, to use ,ydia IL Pinkham's -Vegetable Compound* How many l>cautiful young girls develop into worn, listless and hopeless women, simply because suflicieut attention has not l>cen paid to their physical development. No woman is exempt from physical weakness ami periodic pain, and young girls just budding into woman hood should bo carefully guided physically as well as morally. If you know of any young lady who isjsick, and needs motherly advice, ask her to write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., who will give her advice free, from a source of knowledge nvhlch Is un equalled in tho country. Do not hesitate about stating details which one may not like to talk about, and which aro essential for a full understanding of the case. Miss Hannah E. Mershon, Colllngs wood, N. J., says : "I thought I would write and tell you that, by following your kind advice, I feel like a new person. I was always thin and delicate, and so weak that I could hardly do anything. Menstruation was irregular. 44 1 tried a bottle of your Vegetable Com pound and began to feel better right away. I con tinued its use, and am now well and strong, and menstruate regularly. 1 cannot say enough for what your mediciue did for mo." How Hrs. Pinkham Helped . Fannie Kumpe. / 44 Dear Mrs. Finkham: ? I feel it lb my duty to write and tell you of the benefit 1 have derived from your advice and. the use of Lydia ?. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. The pains in my back and womb have all left me, and my menstrual trouble is corrected. I am very thankful for the good advice you gave me, and I shall recommend your medicine to all who suffer from female weakness.* ? Miss Fankib Kumpk, 1922 Chester St., Little Rock, Ark. (Dec. 10, 1900.^ Lydia E. Plnkliam*s Vegetable Compound will cure any woman in the land who suffers from womb troubles, inflamma tion of the ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous excitability, nervous prostration, and all forms of woman's special ills. AfAAA FORFEIT If ??? cannot forthwith produce the original Itttari ud ?l|utarM?l Xlfellllll ?(*>*? testimonials, which will prove their absolute gemilnaneae. VvUUw Lydia K. Pinkham U?4. Co.. L;na, Haak Interred at Niflht by Light of Torch. A funeral attended by unusual cir cumstances took place at Mount Heb ron cemetery, Winchester, Va., at 9 o'clock one night recently, when the body of David A. Fries, whose death resulted from exposure in a storm, was laid to rest. Mr. Krfes was one of the foremost men of the county. He left directions that no minister should officiate at' his funeral, nor should any religious rites be held. Hundreds of bis friends waited at the house several hours and then accompanied the body to this city. At the cemetery gate they were informed that the burial would not take place until late at night. The body was placed in the mortuary chapel, and at the appointed hour the pallbearers, carrying the corpse, wend ed their way through the cemetery and silently interred the body by the light of a torch.' The more of the Babe of Bethlehem we see In our children, the more likely we are to see them with Him. Always Able and Conservative. A standard for Southern Journalism In every feature what The Charles ton News and Courier has long been recognized io be. It has breasted the stor.ns of years and grown steadily better, all the time. Intensely South ern In Its sentiments. The News and Courier gives all the news with perfect fairness, and has succeeded because of Its genuine worth. CORN FIELDS ARB OOLD FIELDS to the farmer who under stands how to feed his crops. 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