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A GOOD POKER STORY THE NEW MAN IN THE NEW HAR MONY SELECT CIRCLE. H« Was In tlio Grocery I!uslne*s nrd Hadn't Time to Play —However, He Join ed the Party For Two Evcnlcca and Sold Out HU Grocery Store. “I saw a story in u paper recently,” taid an old Bport at Willard’s the other day, “which told how two slick stran gers from tlie Windy City milked a poker game in an Indiana town and got r.way with nil the money in it. That reminds me of another story of the samo order. “In the town of New Harmony are located a number of gentlemen of great taste and considerable means. For years the mainstay of this crowd was playing euchre and whist, but this was finally changed by the arrival of two characters who organized and taught a class in poker. The first ef these was the sen of a Frenchman, who lived on an island down the river. His father was worth in the neighborhood of ^!200,- 000 or $300, COO, r.nd ho k( pt ins hoy well supplied with money. “Well, this progressive youth organ ised a poker game in the peaceful vil lage of New Harmony. There were about six in the party, and it was their custom once a week or more to meet at the hotel and indulge in a friendly, quiet game, but one where the only limit was the beautiful blue sky. The Frenchman played a game of bluff from ■tart to finish. Ho would pike along in the pots until some one thought ho had a fair hand and would open for a few hundred dollars, when the Frenchman would shove from $3,000 to $r>, 000 dol lars into tho pot before t he draw, and nine times out of ten the other man would have to go to the pack. “There was another player in the game, the hotel keeper, who was also after the spuds. He was tho only one who could beat the Frenchman. Time after time tho latter would push in his roll and rend tho hotel keeper to tho pack. But once in awhile the latter would catch his antagonist napping and would come back at him with another raise, getting back in one pot all ho had lost during tho remainder of tho evening. “One spring day a well dressed, quiet looking man drift i d into town and put up at tho hotel. In the course of time ho was introduced to all the crowd about the hotel, and they found him a most congenial companion. He was only a moderate drinker, hut liked to gather a crowd around him and smoke and tell stories. After a week of this he told tiio boys that he intended to locate there ami open a fancy grocery store. Ho went away for a few days, and when ho returned he opened up near the hotel. Such a store as lie opened had never been seen ia the place prior to this time. He kept imported pickles, canned shrimps, line cheeses and everything on that order, supplemented with a stock of thochoice-t wines, liquors and cigar's Owing to his congenial habits his store goon became tho loafing place of tho poker playing crowd, and they often gathered there of an evening to listen to liis stories and to drink and smoko. Many invitations were o.:tomled to the quiet man of business to take a hand in the game, but ho invariably replied that he knew nothing about playing joker. Ho had, ho admitted, jdayed tho game and liked it pretty well, but ho would say: ‘You boys have nothing to do to morrow and can afford to stay up all night if you want to. I hav. my busi ness to attend to and must get around early cp' ,i uj). ’ “One night, however, when the crowd had been drinking more than usual and were feeding particularly good, tiny re fused to take any excuse and insisted that he must go in with them. He had been drinking himself, and he finally consented to go to the hotel and take a hand for awhile. In the game tho Frenchman played his samo old tricks. Every time tho storckecpi k would jioko his head out of his hole tlio Fnnehman was waiting for him with a club and hit him hard Tho game broke up about fi o’clock in tho morning, and it was found that tho storekeeper was out about $1,000. Was ho tore? Well, I should say ho was. Ho hail told them, ho said, that ho didn’t want to play; that ho couldn’t play, and that ho could not afford to lose tho money. Finally he said: ‘I have been thinking for tome time of putting a clerk in charge of my store, and I am going down to Louis ville tomorrow to get one. Then I will have more time to play with you ljoys. ’ True to his word, he went to Louisville, and several days later a man came up and went to work in tho store. ‘Now,’ aaid he, ‘I um ready for a game tonight, and I warn you I am going to bring a pile of mossy with me. I am deter mined to win back what I lost or lose all that I have left, which is consider able!. 1 Well, the gang felt sorry for him. He was a good follow, they admitted, but he had no business playing poker. However, his money ,vus as good as any one elso’s, and if it was in tlio game they must go out after it. “The game commenced early that night and lasted until (i in the morning. Again tho Fr< nchinau tried his old tac tics. ln:t somehow they did not work. Every time he came at the storekeeper tho latter was loadi 1. Finally, about 0, the game broke up, and the fancy gro- cerynian walked down stairs, washed his hands and face and went to the de pot, where he took the first train out of town. He had soaked the Frenchman for $2.’i,U0( and had picked up $'*,000 more from tho small fry. Investigation showed tint the supposed clerk hud really bought, the store, and the last tho crowd heard of their $30,000 the smooth ■jtoken storokeepiT was spending it abroad. lie took a crimp in that jmker game that was never ironed out. Washington Post. Onco tho Most MaKiilflcont Ileshtenoc In IlnRlnnd, hut Now a Iluln. A little to the north of tho river Avon lies the town of Kenilworth, one of the most famous sjiots of all Warwickshire. It is only a straggling village, whose rows of ancient cottages, red gabled and built of timbers blackened by age, look quaint and curious enough to our mod- , ern eyes. But the interest of Kenilworth is not in the village itself. It is in the I ruined castle from which the village takes its name. It was more than 700 years ago that th • first massive walls of Kenilworth who raised. Evidently it was meant that tho castle should bo a stronghold, capable of withstanding any sort of at tack, for a part of these ancient walls, j in the shape of a square tower, still bids defiance to wind and weather. The his tory of Kenilworth castle has been full of change and excitement. At times it was in tho possession of powerful nobles, whose followers were tho scourge and | terror of tho whole country round about 1 because of tho ferocity and recklcssm ss with which their foraging parties plun dered and destroyed. Then, again, it was the jiroperty of the kings of Eng land, and splendid tournaments were 1 hold iu its great tiltyard. Almost every owner added to the castle, till at lust it camo to be a magnificent residence, tho finest in all England, as well nsa strong fortress. It was during tho reign of good (.^ueen Bes:, when tho castle be longed to one of her courtiers, the Earl of Leicester, that Kenilworth was at the | height of its glory and splendor. Th- n, as the old surveyors tell us, it inobrl ol i within its walls a circuit of 1!) or *'J miles, “in a pleasant eountrey, the like both for strength, state and pleasure i not being within tho realm of Eng land.” In 1.»7.j Queen Elizabeth visited Ken ilworth, where she was entertained magnificently for more than two weeks. There is a quaint account of her visit in an ancient letter written by one who j wau at tho castle at the time. As she ' drew near the outer walls, tho trumpet- i ers, who stood upon tho Walls, “being- six in number, each 8 feet high, with their silvery trumpets, of a 5 foot long, sounded up a tune of welcome. ’’ Then, as the queen and her retinue, having passed through the outer gateway, ap- i preached tho inner walls, a Hunting i •• land appeared in the moat or bike that surrounded three sides of tho castle and i a beautiful girl, representing tlio “Lady of the Lake” bade tho queen welcome j to Kenilworth. When Cromwell became tho head of the state, no gave K nilwi rth to his generals, who reduced the beautiful castle to ruins in a very short space of ; time. They stripped it of everything 1 hat could bo turned into money and then j left it to go to pieces, so that today it is only an imposing pile of ruins. As in tho days of its glory Kenil worth was tho noblest mansion in Eng land, so now in its decline its ruins arc more impressive and beautiful than any i oihers iu the country. Crumbling walls are ail that is lift of the grand and , stately halls where the sovereigns of England have been entertained, while only broken arches remain to tell of tho I great gateways through which brilliant trains of knights and ladies have passed. Over tower and doorway, ruined wall | | and crumbling window arch, all of a j uniform palo red tint, tho ivy throws its drapery of living green, rounding | and softening tho sharp edges of tjn- j masonry and adding its fresh beauty to j the mellow tints of tho aneieut ( tone- I work.—San Francisco Bulletin. matt ft? TIjo Child’s Knowledge of Dee.tli. Among other things, Lr. ,Stanley Hall’s child study at Worcester talu s j into consideration the question how ear ly i;i life a child gets an impression eon- ; corning death and its meaning. This is a very interesting question. Tho writt r has always himself been a student of child life, and ho is ef opinion that, while children very quickly and easily acquire through their own observation a general notion what death is, they connect human beings with it only when the death of people has been talked of in their hearing. A chance word drop ped now and then is enough to implant in the intelligence of a very young cbiid tho knowledge that death may end tho life of jK-oplo they know. The sadness of death tiny seem instinctively tomil- izo. R , a boy 3 years and -1 months old, not precocious, has never personal ly known any bereavement, but he hits heard death mentioned. Tho other day his parents were visited by a gent!- man ami his wife, who have no childn u During the visit R asked his father if Mr. and Mrs. "had any little boy.” “No,” answered his father. “Have yev got any little gir!?’’ “No.” The little boy dropped his voice to a low tone and asked, with a tone of gi u- uino solemnity: “Are yey dead?” Tho low voice of tho child seemed to express all tho sorrow and pathos i f the idea of death. Yet it is quite certain that no one had ever in any set t- inis communicated this idea to him. Nevei- theless, lie has seen dead bird* dead flowers, dead trees. It is impossible to shut out from the mind of any observ ant child who lives in tho c ountry a knowledge of the primal facts of life and death.—Boston Transcript. TU" C**-a of Chllftren's Teeth. Tlio care of the teeth cannot be begun too early. If a child loses those of the first wt prematurely, the jaw contracts, there being nothing to prevent it from so doing. The secoml teeth have not space to stand properly and are crowded. 1’nrtieles of food lodging U-twccn tho teeth cause them to decay early. It is a wise precaution to touch a child to pass a thread of silk or dental floss hetwien tho teeth after eating, as well as to brush them lognlarly. b'alt ai.d water is u good antiseptic, and answers for u dentifrice as well as many more i-lais)- rate and more expensive preparations.— Ladies' Homo Journal. AduptitMoBii of Genius. “Well, Jahez, what You seem absorbed.” “Lemmo alone. I’m inventin. ” “Doing what?” “Inventin, I tell you. Got the artist’s wheel down fine. His palette is in front, his easel’s behind, and all his paints on tho cranks—they keep better mixed that- way—and he just wraps his canvas un and the njipcr bar of tho frame. .See? And I haven’t forgotten his umbrella. ” “Is that nil?” “No. 1 had to give a power of thought to a wheel for a double lev's—kind of unwiehlly thing. Got over it by making tin double bass man straddle his instru ment. Trombones, ophicleides and ket tledrums just pack away like boxes iu at nest, ami Sousa’s only got to say a word and my fortune’s made in musical wheels.” “Anything else?” “There’s tho literary wheel—got tho points from a Brooklyn librarian. Tho book or the magazine is held in place just this side of the ram’s horn, and • hero is an automatic concern that turns over the leaves at the exact time. With that arrangement the publishers will have no further reason to complain that books are now a drug on the market. Then there is the sportsman’s wheel. He slings his double barrel ri.-'ht under him, and there’s a rest if he’s a pot hunter, and a place for 50 rounds of anmiunitiou, and a crib for a pointer or t etter, as the case may be, and a game bag and a basket for holding dog biscuit for a week. A little variation in the sportsman’s Viko and you have the angler’s rig, down to his green painted hamper with the bait in it. The drummer’s wheel took a lot of Babe. I don’t care what kind of samples the man carries—tea pots or pig iron—it’s all aranged for. Don’t ask mo any more questions, for I’m on the milkmaid’s wheel now. You couldn’t catch on, I am afraid, not be ing of an ingenious turn of mind. Well, it’s about this, and don’t you give me away: Hho just scorches around her cows, and 1 he milking stool is adjust able. A patent attachment to a cy cloidal sprocket works the exhaust and strips the last drop from tho cow’s ud der. Then, when tho tin bucket that the chain carries along is filled, all she has to do is to zip around to ‘another cow, and that works the churner, and so l«y the time she is through with tho very hot Sakie there is your butter, and tho cyclometer tells you how much butter you have to a pound. I’m working out a refrigerating jirineiple now as a j)art of t hat wliei 1 so as to keep the butter cool and fresh. That wheel is going to break the co-operative dairy (business. Don’t ask me no more Billy questions. L'i o?”—New York Times, It I* Danfferon* IJrc-iu-io of the FokIUou of the I’liokerlen. The inaccessibility of the rookeries fre quently involves seal hunters in danger, Bays a writer in the New York Press. Tho seals are shot from a promontory. Then tho hunter is lowered on a rope by his comrades 100 or 200 feet to the slippery wave washed rocks below, where tho dead seal lies. Ho quickly skins the an imal. A small boat from the ship rides outside the surf line ready to carry the hides away. A small line is floated ashore to the hunter, who tics tho hides to it one by one, and the boat is loaded, the hunter is drawn to tho top of the cliff, and another rookery is sought for more game. The surf about these deep sea islands is very high and is one of tho obstacles of the seal hunter. The long stiff hairs from tho seal’s muzzle arc highly prized by Chinamen, and large quantities are exported to China. The Chinese mount these hairs with gold for use as toothpicks and ear- spoons. Other parts of the animals are dried and shipped to China for use by the native doctors, who claim that they effect marvi lous cures with the medicine made from these parts. Tho sea lions are rather cute in their way. They enjoy a geat deal of sea fowl occasionally. When the gulls are Hying overhead, a lion will dive and swim some distance under water from tho point where he disappeared. Ho ap proaches the surface carefully, allowing merely the tip cf his black nose to show above the surface. By giving his body a rotary motion this nose tip makes cir cles on the ocean, and, to tho eye of tho flying gull, resembles a waterbug at play. With a swish, tho deceived gull rushes down from its station above like a ball from a gun. The lion sinks a few inches, and as the gull hits the water with tremendous impetus tho jaws clave mercilessly on the sea fowl, and it is hauled below the Kurface and devoured. PEOPLE WHO BUY ANCESTORS. Former Slav® Market, Constunttuoplo, Oil benches so placed us to command a good view were the buyers, coarse looking Turks, whose calm, Fearohing gaze si eined to take in ( very detail. The merchant conducting the sale stood be11 re them, talking and gesticulating with great vehemence. He turned to one (d tin- pens, which was filled with young Circ assian women, most of whom wc i • very handsome. They were seated ck'.'C together on the ground in an atfi- tud i f list less despondency, their white garments flowing around them, and, as tin y gazed up at me with their sad, dark eyes, I felt painfully how they r.ust envy the free and happy stranger who came to look oa them iu their in famy and misery. 'i he slave trader eamo forward, fol lowed by a jihlegmatic looking Turk, Uiid, : - izing one of the women by tho grin, forced her to stand up before this nan, who, it appeared, wished to buy her. He proceeded to inspect her, very much in the same manner us he might have examined a horse ora dog, and his deeision was unfavorable. He turned away with a contemptuous movement of th;' head, and the slave merchant, iu i; rage, thrust back tho unfortunate girl, who sank down trembling among her companions in captivity. This scono was as much as we could stand, and wo left the place hurriedly at once. It is | w 11 indeed that such sigbtsean be wit- j ness-d no more, at least in Europe.— : Blackwood's Magazine. mncliburn and iilalr. They tell a good story in Washington ; on Joe Blackburn. He had an exciting argument iu a senatorial cloakroom at Washington several years ago us to the relative value of brandy and whisky as nmu’s greatest boon. In the midst of the argument tho stoical prohibition Senator Blair of New Hampshire (n- ti red the room. Forgetting the well known total abstinence tendencies of the New Englander, Senator Blackburn appealed to him to settle tho dispute. “I do not know the difference between whisky and brandy, ” replied Senator Jiluir, w ith n face as passive us u Jap anese doll. After Blair had departed Blackburn’s eyes actually moistened with sympathy us he shook his head sadly and said: “Poor old man! His rtomni h must be in awful shape. ”— Ni w York Tribune. In Great Dci-ianri by Thonu Who Have Not Invented Them. “There is a regular trade done in old portraits of men in armor and women in modisevnl costumes,” said a large picture dealer to tho writer. “They are brought by persons who have made their fortunes and want to persuade their friends that they come of an ancient and aristocratic lineage. “I am frequently railed upon to sup ply these fictitious ancestors, and I find that the portrait of a gentleman in ar? uior—and armor is especially favored, such as was worn about the time of Ed ward V—will fetch almost any price, no matter how crude it may be, bo long us it has the old time tone. “Only the other week a man whoso manner spe.led ‘fortune from jiork sau sages’ appl. d to me for a series of an- ecstors. I had three old portraits on hand at the inio and offered them to him, but he-.id not care about them be cause tin re was no armor. Could I not supply this deficiency? I said, ‘Y--s,’ and doubl' d I he price cf the pictures, and he drew me a check for £250 with avidity. Now he wants four more to fill four vacant panels in the picture gallery of his ancestral home. “Many upshot Americans who come over here buy up the ancestors to take home and palm off upon their friends. Indeed the demand for them has be come ro great that there are four or five portrait painters making comfortable incomes turning out forefathers. “Of course you know that large quan tities of ancient armor are made every year in Sheffield and bought by the same class of people, with the enme ob ject a; the pictures. It is a fact, amj i have known £<i00 to he paid for a suit of armor which probably cost less than £10 to make.”—London Tit-Bits. Ducki; untl A man who wrote to Forest and Stream i awhile ago said that 80 jur cent of the <t.i"ks he had killed were drakes— lour drakes to one female—anil ho i wanti <1 to know tho reason why. Others promptly said they had observed similar pn p.'-jul. ranee of drakes, and also want- d to know why. One man told how hu had K"< n one female duck chased by four i-r five niah s. lie had killed 45 iu a ''jiring day’s shooting, and of them only D were females. Tims far no explanation has been ; given of tho matter. IfiagncMili. “Uncle Dick, what’s a delusion?” "W-11, Bob! y, it is thinking your ex- | pens- next mouth will not 1m- as heavy as th y are this mouth. ”—Detroit Froo i Press. Alcohol In Colil Wentber. A scientist thus explains why it Is bij dangerous to use alcohol in tho polar regions: A modi rate use of alcohol causes a deposit of fat. Alcohol iu not turned into fuel inthe muscle and nerve cells, hut serves as a jmre fuel inthe organism and replaces the- combustion cf fat. Alcohol is, therefore, dangerous in the extreme eold because it assists tho throwing off of heat in u'great de» groe. Tho effect is as if a stove in a room should be heated redhot and then all the doors and windows thrown open. Heat produced by muscular work in the body is licsfc obtained from curbohy- (Lutes in the food, but, besides this, the indisponsible production of heat is best obtained by fats. This explains the in stinctive choice of tho food of men. In tin- tropics they eat little fat and much fruit, while the polar dweller requires immense quantifies of fat to keep up the bodily combustion.—New York Ledger. Golden Noio. Tycho Brnltc, tho famous Danish mathematician, was known as tho “Wizard of the Golden Nose. ” While at the university he lost his nose in a duel and rojdaccd it with a nasal organ of gold, held in place by cement and a pair of Bjxitacles. This addition to his coantcnunco gave him a very peculiar appearance mhI caused him to he much feared by th-- common people, who at tributed to him imply supernatural powi rs, largely on account of his re markable nose. pps Hr llrct Ive. “1 wish I could have lived in tho days when men were brave enough to fight duels for the smiles of women,” said the girl with the dreamy eyes. “But tiny couldn’t set uj> tho icij cream soda in those days, for therg wasn't liny, ” said the girl with the tilted nose, and the dreamy girl concluded that pi rhnps the modern times were best.—(‘iuriniiuti Enquirer, iiove is merely a uiuilness, imd I tell you di :; rw s as well a dark bouse and a whip as madmen do, and the reason ! why they an not m punished ami cured J is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whipp- rs wo in love too.—Shakes peare. RACK AND MANGER. A CambliiMtlon Contrlvnnoo That Prevents a Waste of Hay. Farmers who are troubled by horses throwing hay out of their mangers will find a remedy in the contrivance figured here. It is thus described by a Virginia correspondent of Country Gentleman, who furnished tho original sketch. He writes: I take two poles as long as the width of the stalls and hang one on brackets at any convenient height. My brackets are pieces of plank nailed to the studding. Tho lower pole rests on tho outside of It I)ispo*<-M of Fruits itn-l Vc-jti-lHl-lcn Ac- (orilltii- to 81ce. The dcsirahlity of putting on tho mark -t fruit ( ami vegctabl i f uniform size is ii') longrr questioned, and pro gressive farmi ’ . now son i!;- products into various si/. . No small <"• medium apples, potato's, oranges, ilc., areal- 337,;- — % mr if 4 - / / \ „ 0& A B g . tOMRlXKn RACK ANK MANOKU. the manger. I nail strips 5] or 4 inches wide to the poles, leaving spaces be tween them large enough to admit freer Jy a la :■.'<•’« head, It is well to have the lower pole just long enough to tit be tween the stall partitions. If short, tho horse will push tho rack sidewise and perhaps wreck it. My stalls are 7 feet wide; manger the same length, with a feedbox at one end, and horses not tied. When it is de sirable to clean out the manger, the lower polo can ho raised and kept up by a crotchcd stick. The whole rack swings upward on the brackets. In the cut A is feedroom or passage; B, manger; C, stall; D, jioles; E, brack ets; F, strip; G, feed opening. KnKllnce Fatter*. A large number of ensilage and feed cutters are now on tho market. The smaller ones can he run by tread powi r or a small horse power. Large sizes can be more advantageously operated by means of steam engines. Many farmers own stationary engines, while others have thrasher engines. These machines are as good for cutting hay, straw or dry fodder as for ensilage and can thus he used the greater part of the year. The email ones are provided with a fly wheel and a crank, by means of which limit' d quantities of forage can be cut by hand. In this connection American Agri culturist tells that the prices of tin so machines range from $0 for the small baud machines to $31)0 and over, do- p< nding upon the capacity of the < utter and the 1 ngth of the carrier. , Sweep hi r e] own s co-t $30 to $00, tread powers $100 to $175 and farm engines $250 to $100 or more. The carrier can be extended t-> almost any height, 32 to 40 feet being the usual limit. Tho addi tional length costs about $2 a foot. Tho longer the carrier the more power re quired to run it and the more care in placing and operating it. Shady Flure For Rce*. “Can there be too shady a place for bees?” This query is answered as fol lows by Dr. C. 0. Miller in The Ameri can Bee Journal: A place can be made so shady at? to be dark', as in a cellar, but I can hardly think any growth of trees or vines can be so dense as to make it too dark for the bi os. But there may bo such a dense growth on all sides that there is too lit tle circulation of air about the hives. I once had combs melt down in hives up on which the light of the sun never di- rrctly shone. There was such a dense growth on all sides that there was very little stir of air, so the combs melted down with the heat, There is no dan ger under ordinary circumstances. For several years I kept an out apiary in an evergreen grove, and the dense shade allowed no grass or weeds to grow, hut there was no trouble from mold or any thing else. But there was full chance for tho air to move under the trees. It is barely jiosRiblo that some peculiar spot might be so close and damp as to favor the growth of mold. IlamlUng Fodder Corn. At the Texas station results gained from four methods of handling fodder corn have been compared. First, leaving it stand until the grain was thoroughly mature and dry; second, cutting just above the ear, while the blades were still grei n and stripping off the blades below the ear; third, cutting off above the ear only; fourth, strijiping all the blades and leaving tho whole stalk stand. The blades below the car were of little value, and the cost of stripping the whole stalk was $7. <17 per ton of blades gathered, while the cost of toje ping Just above the car was only $2.13 jmt ton of dry fodder secured; hence the topping method is recommended as j most profitable. Orange* Dropping From Trees. .Some orange growers have developed a theory that the dropping of oranges from the trees, which lias occasioned a great loss in the amount of the present crop in California, may Is- prevented by the use of more fertilizers, and some ef the examples cited seem to Lear out the theory. Anu-ricmi Gardening tells that orchards which were fertilized with smaller quantities of guano have lost much won- heavily than those which were fertilized more liberally. '*%•' 'fA •• - --’A . 4 .Mi&v A SORTING COXTR1VAM K. lowed to occupy tho crate marked first, class, but have baskets oreratos of their own. With a view to giving assistance in tho easy disposition of fruits and veg etables according to size, is hero ap pended the illustration of a rortirg ma chine described in American Gaidfning as follows: The first cut shows the constrnation of a fruit and vegetable f-ortiT, which h.,s, as shown, a slat bottom. ,”(•<' ? > rend cut. This slat bottom is made with the openings narrow at tho uj y.< r end mid growing constantly wider until the other end is reached. The rla's should be well wound with strips cf burlap or other soft cloth, to jiuvnit the fruit from bruising. The material to be sorted i- poured carefully into the hopper, and ar. it moves slowly down the l- nglh of ilie sorter tho fruit or vegetables fall through the slats, the nnalkst first, then tlio next size, and so on. Tho arrangement of tho cloth spouts underneath is such as to catch each size iif.d of sorting m.wtiim:. by itself and convey them into separate baskets. The hopper ia not a iu eessary adjunct un'ess the sorter’ i: made very narrow at thenppirend. It will permit faster work, however, iu any ease. Dl.itanre Experiment. It has been made to *nppi ar at iho Georgia ( xj): riment station farm that on land capable of producing lb, bah 3 cotton ]:< r acre tho yield v ill be greatir when the plants stand 3 by 2 than when the plants stands <> by 1 and pno poitionally greater than at 5 feet by 1-1.4 inches and 4 feet by lb, Let. Thisc-uidu- sion, however, is not final In general the product will be greater in j-ropor- ! tion ns the sjiace appropriated to each plant appr-iachi s a ja-ii'i ct square. It does net follow as a practical ap plication that it, would be expedient to reduce the width of the row* and in crease the distance between plants with? ] out consult ring fho i ;q acitv of th ) soil. , There i.i a limit in narrowing tho rows ! b< low which the mcrea>. d co. t ( ? eul- ‘ tivation, !,it!i plowing und hoeing and ! seeding, would be greater than the val- ' uc of tho possible increased yield. On the ! station farm four foot rows is the rule, ■ and this is probably ab; at the light dis tance for land that will produc e from one to two bales per acre. On land of less capacity than one bale per aero it would probably bo well to reduce tho width of rows to 3 1 . 2 or even 3 fi t. It may be safely urged that land Uni will not produce the maximum crop of which it is capable with rows net less than 3 f- i t wide cannot be profitably cultivat ed in cotton. Crcalin und tho Artry Worm. Crealin, or krealin, said to be death | to the army worm, is a jreduct i volved iu the distillation i f coal tar und con tains soda, fatty* acids and < lilminc. It | can he saponified, dor a not di-sclvo in water, but shaken with water y ields a milky emulsion. It is nonpeisonous and a germicide. It is used by physicians as an antiseptic. A teasjioonful to a pint of water is the dose given tho army worms. We shall have to hear from some of tho experiment station workers as to the use of this mat- rial as an in secticide. From the source of it, it would not seem to m i d to be expensive. Fly PrctoctoM. Hero is what Hoard's Dairyman says on tho subject: The only fly remedy we have given personal trial was compound! •! from the formula given last year by Mr. H. S. Mattcrsou, as follows: Train oil, 3 quarts; crude petroleum, 1 quart; car bolic acid, 1 ounce. Apply with sponge, and one application suffices for from live to seven days. We Lilirvc that common axle grease, thinned with a lit tle kerosene and tinctured with carbolic acid, us above, would prove cffictiro. Hero and There. At the Georgia station no better Va riety of oats has been found than the Ap- jiler oat, a strain of the Texas Rust- jinxif, but the latter is nearly as good. The only objection to the Appier, us well as the Texas, is the fact that it is not distinctively a winter oat; it is liable to be killed by very severe freezes. The w inter turf is more haidy in this rer.pect, but not so proof against rust. A correspondent of Southern Cultiva-' - tor says that ho believes such aline has every property claimed for it und w ill plant more this autumn. It has been demonstrated that tho tots! yield of a crop of cotton will be materially increased by applying the whole before planting und “bidding on it. ” At the Texas station it has boon found that bur clover is a good winter ! gl ass. Johnson grass also nmki s a Ireq yield of rich, nutritious hay if cut before blooming.