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-. 'er, who is a cat which went away weeks ago and returned with LL JOINED TOGETHER. of ittens which were all unit oint of junction is at the hind nteresting family was united ut not in mind. They gen ted to follow their heads, could not make much head ling against each other, it fell out tn,at le strongest lugging the other three Finally one cat died, and re chloroformed. The alcohol. -S CnERVATORY. Equipped with Its Telescope. ervatory at Lake Ge -nich a view is given ompletion, and it is great telescope will on in a few months. he dome is already o feet high and 90 d weighs. about 200 iiy on 26 sets - TORT. will be ma though the that hand It. Be foor, hun; and cap- I wered 25! n the tele nstruct d. s soon as hauledt1~ ca as Borax.I b;t one r:ial rer flo3'in; ctorica, which so' Core for cre. E'S _GiuAT and treat Phua.,Fa. ochildret .a bottle. *Fenner's N. Y. *T. Thomp ::a bto. cures the , dyspap ufferer try Ia .Iood Purifi*r. r ils: easy to to operate. 25c. nters more dollars an an enorrnous eprevented.I rents at Ala: t Station shoxw t the use of - init at dreaded plani e resuhts of its use by actual ex fans in th~e United States-is hich we publisb ard wilI gladly r in Amterica who wii writo for 1 N~ KALI WORKS. 93 N%assau St., New York, F- atism when you can fnd , sure cure lai T M A C ID En, Sftonni remedv for this x ten fat.al malnd- .( youir it send for it to the man -obbitr Druog Co., Ral n otees :or S:a. Cases of veb en cured '-i h less - 0s. "ere will be many days this winter when the fowls will have to be con. fined to the house and shed, so be aure to provide amusement for them in some shape, writes D. Holmes. Idleness is the father and mother both of feather pulling and .egg eating, besides allowing the fowls to get too fat, and that means loss of eggs alto gether, or soft eggs or apoplexy. A handful of grain among the litter, a cabbage hung up, or some sugar beets or turnips on the floor, will keep them busy. As satisfactory a plan as I ever tried was to rake the litter in a heap, scattering a handful or two of grain through it and let the fowls spread it again. This they would do several times in the course of a day. The same plan worked well in the brood ing house with the chicks, when chaff was used for litter; it was fun for me as well as them. -New England Home stead. NOT A GOOD VABIETY. Mr. Root, a well known authority on bees, says: "I have carefully tested Syrian bees, and I regard them as the poorest of all bees ever brought to this country. It would look as if nearly every one who had tested them is of the same opinion, for of late we see no advertising of these bees and scarcely a word said about them in any way. The two great faults which make them of little value are, first, not breeding when they should breed, and then breeding beyond measure when they ought to breed but little, which results in few laborers in the field during the honey harvest and count less numbers of consumers after the harvest is past, to eat up all the few gathered, consequently giving little or nopr.1 a hive short of stores for winter. o colonies I had during the five years I was '; ing them, not one of them had stores enough for winter when October ar rived. "-American Farmer. CVT PEED FOB EOBSES. All farmers use cut fed for horses when at hard work, b o.ise there is a great saving in the labor needed to digest cut feed. If mixed with some grain meal, and wet so that the meal can only be got by eating the out feed mixed with it, the whole will be chewed suffiociently to moisten it with saliva, which is necessary to nicken digestion. But this economy in feeding cut feed is also important ' s not working. If the stalks, it should al he cut ends of the ay cause injury. This .ebest also if hay or straw is cut. particularly wheat or rye straw, which being harder than cut hay and less nutritious, is not 8o likely to be thor aughly chewed. The stoma.ch of the borse needs a slight irritation, says the american Caltivator. This is the ad vantage which oats have over other grains. Its hull helps the grain to ligest better, and this makes the horse feel frisky and able to do his best. It is an old saying of farmers that when an old horse begins to act unusually oltish he has probably "got an oat standing cornerwise against his stom ich, and he jumps around so as to get it out." It is a homely illustration, but may have much truth in it, ., a OF THE COW. In the search for novelties the Bu ral New Yorker reports an experiment which it considers successful in feed ing dried blood to milch cows. We will not say that this is an impossible feat, but it is certainly a misuse of the cow which is not. at all carniverous in nature, and whose capacious stomach is not adapted to very con eentrated or highly nitrogenous food. In extrem.e cases, where there was scarcity of vegetable food, farmers on the coasts of Norway and Iceland have fed dried fish to their co-s to keep them from starving. The salt ness of the fish doubtless made it easier to teach the -cows to like this strange food. Dried blood would be much more nitrogenous than dried fish, and it would not be salty in taste unless salted especially for that pur pose. Nobody will ever find it profit. able to feed blood to milch cows. Hogs and fowls are the only domestic animals that can be made to like dried blood,a.nd we have a prejudice against either pork or poultry fed in this way. Nether does it pay to feed ground bone to cows. If th.ey are properly spplied with. wheat bran and wheat middlings to furnish phosphate, the supply can much better come from these vegetable products adapted to cow's digestion than from any animal substance. SEAsoNABLE POUnTR'Z DIRECTIoNs. Close the openings in the henhousE and see that no crevice allows.the cold wind to blow across the fowls on the roost. ,Glean and disinfect with ]ime and carbolic acid. Pat in a load o. fresh dirt, making the floor highei than the .ittside, to prevent againsi dampness Clean up the nests. Ii the nesting places are in the same house as the roosts, move them out, leaving only enough for laying pur p.ss. The winter windsI and snov ooring there, before the nests are again needed for hatching purposes. Bring the fowls in from their snm. mer roosting places and coops, and confine them a few days in the hen. house. If the scratching shed, that should be attached to every henhouse, is lathed up on the south side, the chickens can be confined until they are used to their new roosts. Remove the old ones. Do not put old hens and immature chicks in the same house. The chicks will be crowded, are liable to get roup-and may infect the flock. Fatten and sell every sur plus cockerel and every cull. If any are late molting, fatten them, as they will not lay and are liable to become diseased. Mix coal oil and lard and grease any scabby legs, as the trouble is causel by mites of some kird,which will be destroyed by the application. If the roof is high and cold, nail poles or scantiling about 6 1-2 feet from the floor. Lay boards or poles, anything that will hold up straw, across these supports and pack straw in above. Tar paper is the best lining for a hen house, as it is healthful, cheap, and mites never go near it. Keep the roost greased if you still fear mites. American Agriculturist. REMOVING UNPIUITFu TBEES. While it is true that all fruit trees, however carefully treated, will some times fail of.a crop, there are others in which non-bearing is the rule rather than the exception. Accidents of untimely frosts or a bad season, making it impossible to form fruit buds the previous year, will account for the occasional failures. If the tree for years together fails to make a crop, dose it with mineral fertilizers, but no nitrogen, and try it ancther year. If it then fails, the tree has probably gone too far to be reclaimed. Quite often these unfruitful trees are in the middle of a bearing . orchard. -so, that is another reason for their peedymovaL All our earlier or chards we lanted too closely. As they grow u trees crowd each other. In a recent visit. with fruit growers of Concord e noted the fact that some of the 1aaest, finest fruit was borne on isola 1 trees where the 'large rocks prevente close planting. These trees had plent of room, get. ting more sinlight al- thus securing larger au better-coldred fruit. The trees plar.ced in mass5 had as many apples, but the fruit gas smaller and not so well colored. Give the trees more room and we shall have better apples, thus lessening jhe chances of glutting the market. - There is far too a largely comes fromt planting the trees too closely. Twenty-five apple trees :o an acre will in a long series of years produce fruit that will sell for more money than forty or fifty apple trees per acre, as we have often seen. The larger number of trees will pro duce most fruit while young, but the crowded trees wvill run out early, while those given sufficient room will be at their b,est.-Boston Cnltivator. naLM Arn GADERs sorEs. The necessity of milaing out clean is shown among 9tier things by the first and last milk. The average of the former-is 89.42 per cent of wa ter, wTie that of the strippings is ofy~ 80.6 per cent. To show the comparattve~- feeding value of sour and sweet skim milk for pigs, the Vermont Experiment Sta tion has done some work in this line. So far as experiment goes. the sour milk gave the best result . Butter can be made at once out of separated cream, but it is deficient in flavor. To give it its proper ilavor it should be let stand till lightly scar. This souring is brought about by the action of an organism in the milk, the bacterium lactus. - .... An experienced live stock farmer not long since said: "~Yoi. can make money with any kind of farm animals if you are fully up to the tim'es, but you cannot do so when they are all left standing in the cold. It will freeze out the profits." While it takes much more care and close attention to save the lambs at an early lamibing time, yet when spring work comes on you have the little fel lows old enough to take care of them. selves and there is no care or time spent among the ewes. The growth of young stock~ is often checked by exposure to cold blasts, rain and snov. Put the barns, stablee and sheds in good condition while the weather is favorabile, so -that all do. mestic animals may be comfortably houses when winter sets in. In condensed milk there is still re maining more than 25 per cent, of wa ter,and there is generally 36 per cents of ordinary sugar added.. In ricih cream there is 55 per cent, of water, in ordinary separated cream 66 per cent., in skim milk 90 per cent., anc in separated milk 90.8 per cent About 11 qaarts of gnilk shouli yield one qnart of cream. One quar of cream will yield from 12 to 14 onees of batter. Cream churns bes when yielding three pounds per gal lou, an:1 should, it necessary, b3 di luted down to this. Cleanliness is o, conrse of the first necessity for mak BTL ARP S LETTER. WILLIAM HELS TO FIND LONG. LOST IIELA IVES. & Heavy M314 Attests the Philoso pher's Popularity. Now if there is any old soldier liv ing who was in the Indian war in Ore gon during the years 1859 and 1860, under command of General Joe Lane, and knew Captain George W. Rey. nolds, in that service, let him please write to his widow, at Mars Hill, Mad -ison County, North Carolina. The poor woman is entitled to a pension for her hu band's service, if she can prove it. It is a long shoot and a nar row chance, but-naybe some comrade will see this. It would rejoice my heart to see a little of that pension fand coming down this way. I am not a bureau of information, but receive zmany letters of inquiry about antebellum days and families and events, and am always pleased to .nswer them and give the information if I can. Many of them are from old -Georgia soldiers who removed west soon after the war, and they or their widows have heard that Georgia is paying all her invalid soldiers or their widows a pension. Please let me say to all concerned that there is no pro vision for non-residents in our state pension laws. This seems hard upon those who felt constrained to emigrate, but it is the law, and that settles it. Then there are many letters from aged men who look back to cld Geor gia with longing hearts and wish to trace up their kindred. It is a sure sign of gray hairs when a man or wo man begins to hunt up their. distant kindred or the companions of their youth. Here is a Mr. John A. Harris, of Pass Christian, Miss., who wants to know about his father's rela tives-the Harris family, of Appling and Macon---and also about his moth er's kindred-the Bledsoes, of Athens and Augusta. And here is Mr. Red wine, of Redwin&, La., who wants to know of his kin of that name in Geor gia. Alas, my old venerable friends, Judge Clark is dead and so is C. 0. Jones, the only two men whr knew all the old families of Georgia. It would perplex even them to identify any branch of the Harris family, for their name is legion, but the Biedsoes and Redwines could no doubt be traced by some of the octogenarians still living. These are very unusual names and their kinship is not so remote. I was ruminating about the origin of names, Anglo-Saxon names, and find it to be a curious and interestine study. For instance, is it possible that the original Bledsoe was- wounded in a Rght or by accident and bled so much that it gave him a name? Is it probable the Redwine ancestor had a vineyard and made wine of that color, or maybe did not have a vineyard, but was much given to looking upon the wine when it was red? It seems that the common people didn't need but one name us ~ong after the Chris gan a system~to konor and distinguish distinguished pegple. They adopted a pre-nomen-a 1nomen and a cogno men-as Pubiin:s Cornelius Scipio Publius was his Christian name, as we call it, and no doubt the boys called him Pub. Cornelius, his family name, and Scipio was his most notab>le char acteristic, for he wras good to his blind old father and led him abont with a staff, and.- Scipios means a staff. I have great raspeel for Scipio. Horace was called Horatius Flaccus because he had very large ears, and Floceus means flop-earea. It was not till the eleventh century that family names were handea down to succeeding gen erations, and this custom was adopted because of a law regiring births and marriages and deaths to be registered in the ~parish boc!ks. As late as the eighteenth century many families in England had no surnames, and the children were glien nicknames, as Nosy, Soaker, Sucker, Snaggletooth, Cockeye, Jr.mper, Bowlegs, Redtop, etc. As people miltipi!ied, new meih->ds had to 'be devised to distingnish them. Prefixes and afllxes were resorted to. The word son was allded to distinguish the father from thephildren, as John, Johnson, Will, Wilson, Tom, Tomson. The word Fitz was a prefix~ to Norman names and came from fi:s or film, a son. Fitch in the Russian language has the same meaning, and so has von or van in German, and Mac in-Scoteh and Irish, as MacDonald, the son of Donald. 0 is an Irish prefix and means grandson,as O'Connor, O'B.irr, O'Halleran, etc. De or Due is the French prefix for son and Ap men the same in Webbh. These affixes ar.d )refixes will classify a great number of .tames, for from John came Jonson, Tohnson, Johnston and John.stone. ?he Smith family name had a peculiar >rigin. The old Anglo-Saxons were sver on the lookout for invasionls of the island, and hence they kept a large force of men on the hills near the coast to look out for the invaders and to smite them when they came. These men had but a single namA, 'es John or Tack or Will, but they were known as inhah the Smiter or Jack thc Smiter,or Will the Soiter, which was V aon ibridged to John Smiter and %tau to T ohn Smiither, and finally to John Smith. A smith is a smiter-a gold smith smites gold, a blacksmith smites iron. And so all these soldier on the highlands became Smiths by name, and were good patriotic fighting stock. Hurrah for~ the Smiths-including John. The Jones family are of Welch extraction, and no doubot had a simiir :>rigin for the original name was Jane, and the S wap added for a plural. But names were still scarcer than ioople, and so they had to resort to acenpations to distinguish them; hence cdme the honest uames of Farmer, Derpenter, Mason, Baker, Gardner, l'anner, Weaver, Taylor, Draper, Gooper, Miller, Porter, Joiner, Sadler, IBrewer, Barber, Turner, Dymber, Thrasher, Carter. Currier, Granger, Cook, Bridgman, Bowmen, etc. Scores of others could be added that indicate trades ana occupations. Not long after. as the people multi plied, they were named for the places where they lived or son e natural ob ject near by, as 'Hili, ale, Forest, Wood, Grove, Foun~Tain Lake, Pool, Ri vers, Brooks, Branch, :b, Grubb,. Xrea.Ramui Banks, S ore, ..each. iircb, Waters, Wall, Cliff Peak, Seay, Lain, Rainwa'Pr, Timberlake, Rice, Wh at, Corn, Allcorn, etc. They even appropriated the names If animals, birds, etc., as Lion, Lamb, [tog, Colt, Fowl, Bull, Bullock, Beaver, Bear, Buck, Deer, Swan, Eawks, Dove, Crane, Bird, Herring, Bass, Trout, salmon. And next the fruits- and flowers, as Apple, Orange, Lemon, Plum, Cherry, Berry, Haws, Cofee, Turnip and Tar nipseed. Colonel Tarnipseed was col :nel of the Ninth Georgia regiment. Of flowers and trees, there. is Rose, Violet, Primrcse, Chestnut and Holly. Then they had to encroach on the nobility and clergy, and so we have tCing, Queen, I'rince, Esrl, Lord, Duke, Knight, Page, Stewart, Cham berlain, Pope, B:sh->p, Priest, Abbot, Prior, Deacon and Bailey. And on the heavenly bodies and heavenly things and preci us stones, as Sun, Moon, Star, Cloud, Wind, Gale, Sky, Angel, Diamond, Pearl, Gold, Glass, Jewell, etc. And on parts of the body, as Head, Heart, Beard, Hair, Arms, Legg, Foot, Shinn, Back, Hipp, Hand, etc. And on colors, as White, Black, Brown, Green, Redd, Blue, Gray, Eoar and Violet. Some were named on account of per sonal peculiarities-as Long, Long ellow, Stringfellow, Short, Small, Strong, Meek, Lightfoot, Good, Best, Bliss, Wise, Witt, Wisdam, Fite and Fitten. But there are enough for the young folks to build onto and make a very good catalogne of nnme4. Charles Lamb says that the original name of Bacoa was Ho-flesh, who was a very wealthy and clever gentleman, but hia girl wouldn't marry him because she couldn't brar to be called Mrs. Hog flesh. It would be awful. And so be applied to parliament and had his ,iame changed to Bacon. He cou!dn't give up the whole hog, but took is cured. Many names were abridged or changed from circumstaeces. John at the Moor was changed to Atmore, and t the Wood to Atwood and Peter at the Seven Oaks to Peter Snooks. Will, the taylor, had a sign of a. peacock over his shop, and got to be called Will Peacock. Anslem, the pawnbroker, had a sign of a red shield, which in the Jewish language was Rothschild, and so he and his brothers were called Bothschilds, and became the richest men in the world. The old story of 1he firm of I. Ketchum and U. Cheatham may have never e. isted, but before the war there was a 6rm in Rome of Wise & Goodman. and close by was a Wit and a Wisdom. There is a Fcute, and a Fite in Car tersville, and some years ago there was . Fitten. The poet asks vhat's in a FR E Bastness coarse to one pereon nevery countv. Pleas- rni ri ess College, .Macon. Ga. SUFFERINO IN SIL.ENCE. Women are the real heroes of the: world. Thousands on thousands of them endure the dragging torture of the ills peculiar to womankind in the silence of home. They suffer on and on -weeks, inonths, years. The story of weakness and torture is written mn the drawn features, in the sallow skin, in the list less eyes, in the lines of care and worry on teface.' Inborn modesty seals theirlips. They prefer pain to humiliation. Custom has made them believe the only hope of relief lies in the exposure of' exan tion and "local treatment." Take ten cases of "female weakness" and in nine of them "local treatment" is unncessary, There is no reason why modest, sensitive women should sub mit to-it. MIcELBEE'S WINE OF CARDUI is avegetable wine. It exerts a wonder fully healing, strengthening and sooth ing influence over the orgas of woman kind. It invigorates and stimulates the whole system. 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One appli cant frankly admitted that he did not understand the Constitution, and the judge refused to admit him to citizen ship. The safety of the republic de mands that naturalization tests should be made more rigid. rather than easier. The time is past when the subject can be dismissed with the careless assertion that our body politic is proof against poisonous material - the form of citi zenshtp indiscriminately conferred on ignorant irnmi::rants. - Sweetness Put a pill in. the Pu r; : preaching for the phys 'J p:il in the pillory if it < preaches. There's a Sugar Coated Pills; a "4 and light." People use as they did their reli The more bitter the do 'We've got over that. U 'g- gospel or physic-now' please and to purge ai may be power in a ple gospel of 5 Ayer's Cat More pill particulars in Sc=t free. J. C. Ay mLy 20; Celeb -rnz Co - ionallv \t have 'e IAN MAC.AREN, out c7 IL COMAiot'S NO-co Co%T'IWToND 7OO '0. See pbctal Ofer Zelow. ~ U3Y.AnD 1riNG. STEPKE CR W HALt. CA. 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