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r S N / / - 4*~ 7 ~ i)g I) ml WEEKLY EDITION WJNNSBORO, S.C., JANUARY 21, 1899, ESTABLISHED 1844. Els you l year had withered in- the h e d his were bred. 'To wa ur'ci, and, thoU;Zh lis were ITe-r:s wined that he were ded. &n I so wished he; for in his wearied soul Ther was but one desire to sli) away, to reach a strange, vague ao:: e tine would cease to tire. Lut on a dazy some one with grave, sweet pl temler, skilliul hands, ,rme to his side, and bore him from the pl::ce. it seemed, to far-oZ lands. OC ST E E SIL El\ -: By W. L. Comfort, ROOPER LAN der, in private ranks, never told just why he was i-icked by his lieutenant, Mat Crim. Lander never told any thing. That ac counts for his being left to him self more than is common or judicious for one of Uncle Sa-'s hersemen in field or post. A troop is a family of big boys. Somne oL them are big bad boys, and an odd thing about it is that these are not always the unpopular ones. Troopers do not fall on the neck of a new man. They treat him with pin nacteJ dignity, like old cavalry horses treat additions to the picket line. If the new man, in a reasonable period. develops no objectionable traits, he will find haimself a member of the family, which are other words for a gcod fellow. Bat he can't be a silent man nor a sneak; neither can he manipulate a voluminous correspondence. These things arc fatal. Lander was a silent man. He was also my "bunkie," which means that I could put out a hand al most any time in the night and touch him. Naturally, under such condi tions,my very proper prejudice against him on account of his infernal reserve -would either grow into an uncomfort able suspicion, ifnot worse; or else I would learn to look beyond this seri ons mental derangement of his. As it was, I began to feel for him that * strong, wholesome respect which one always has for physical capability, -when it is not accompanied by mental Einggishness. When I liked Lander'a face. He s a handsome fellow-handsome Ustride his horse, and at mess and at grooming-handsome when silent. Yet I have seen his eyelids droop over a wicked pair of shining eyes, and seen an ugly, bloodless look about his lower lip. I saw this on the hot day when QLientenanb Mat Crim 1kicked him in 'A the back, because-I w-.shI knew my self. I will tell you what I saw. A couple of troops of the regiment were out on a target range. We were campjed in a bunch of unaspiring foot. hills which, late in the afternoon, rested in the huge conical shadow of Old Baldy. The tip of Old Baldy's icy cone punctures the sky at one of the highest points in Arizona. We were in that saud-stricken land where wayfarers have to climb for water and dig for fuel-wood. We were in that heat-ridden laud where the lean, long coyote scents death and trots cau tiously thither-where the vulture cranes his bare crimson neck from be bind a cloud, and peers earthward for dlylug things.. Lieutenant Mat Crim was a little wasp-waisted chap, who had a dirty trick of getting mad. His West Point days were too fresh in his mind for him to be a good officer. He never allowel himself to lose sight of the fact that he was a commissioned ofileer and that a mighty stretch of superiority lay between him and a common, enlisted man. Crim had just been -transferred to our troop. Lander had come from another regi meut two months before. The two men met that hot afternoon-just be fore grooming time. Lander saluted. Crim stopped short, caught at his breath several times and began to relieve himself of a lot oZ livid English, all of which struck me as mysterious. Lander stood "at attention," said something in a low voice and walked away. Lieutenant Crim was ungovernable. He sprang after Lander, kicked him ithe back and said: 'Tl make life miserable for you, Charlie Howard!" which I judge must have been Lander's civilian name. Lander laughed low and melodi ously. I was thinking how wicked Lander looked when he laughed that way. Then the bugle sounded "stables." Every man in the troop detested the lieutenant, and all admired Lauder for keeping his nerve. One of the most unprofitable things a soldier can do is to strike a superior officer. The same kind of a finish awaits him as if he had bean iena sleeping at his post. I watched Lander. and Lander watchcd Lieutenant Crim during -the several following wveeks. And theyv were otmpretty eyes, those stran-; eves of adrs as theyv triled cte movemnents of his~ superior- citiur To a!!. he creerved his .el-bne intensit . (:ad. in diee d. wou! i~ 1 ha. be-en to com:e verv elose to' thei~ of this elle~nt man. hecanse 1 ean to have eep- :eelings for him. H-e pcsscessed the colid nerve which makes heroes, and the great warm heart which mnake-s friends-I was sure of AP?Y! Yet, after all, 'twas bS -wliritng hour Oat of the sme na toa'n To wher tao shy shone withi unblemished Omr f :ir, broad down. And he. the crirple, whose sad Springs were noro Ihau one wao watched him knew. Ha I ' r seen so much green grass be Nor skies so big an: blue. Hie was so softly ala1, o full of peace, He laid hin ba:nd sihedj. And w:ttehed the deep sky and its flvating Dreaina that ho had di1. -J. J. Ilell, in Chamwbers's Journal. 21-3 B 00 -5 UI T TROOFEE. 4 Fifth U. S. Cavalry. to cover his troubles, so he did not confide in men. Heroes can hate well. Why my eyes wandered to the op oosite side of one of Lander's letters ;while he was holding it up, and there lingered for a single disgraceful - ond, is something more than I can ex plain. I can only regret it. At any rate, I saw these words: "Oh, Charlie, do let me come to you!" A laly-killer is my silent friend, thought I; but didn't mean to read part of his letter-really, I didn't. After five weeks the troops were ordered to the barracks. No cne was sorry, for life on target range in Ari zona is tedious, putting it with studied mildness. And then they have mos qaito nettingin the barracks. A tragedy was enacted on those moonlit foothills at Old Baldy's base the last night on range. I am not a* handy man at tragedies. It was this way: "Say, old chap," said Lander in a light manner the morning before, "do a little favor for me, will you? I want you to meet a lady for me. I believe I will have another engagement to night!" I "A lady in this country!" I whis pered excitedly. Nothing but greaser aaidens and squaws had I seen for -months-it seemed. Reluctantly he handed me a note, part of which is below: "I could not help coming. I was frantic when I learned that he was transferred to your troop. You must meet me to-uight. D;id you think I could forget you. Oh, Charlie, I may be acting unwomauly, but I am desperate. No one knows me here in the village. I will be near the last adobe, but on te north. Oh. why did you go away? I thought * * Come to-night. 1 "- LSI." "It's a common yarn," said Lander nervouIly. "She k-new ie up North as a civilian. Crn and I were sta tioned there, but be did not know me. I was only a private. She was lovely to us both. The cueer thing sabout it is that I won out.. Then it 0occurred to me that I was only a common sol dier, who had flunked at everything else he tried, and hardly fit to marry, so I applied for a transfer and chased out. She woul la't have Crinm any how. "Now Crim turns up again in the attitude of my superior o~icer, which is very dramatic, and the little wom an is here, which is also very dramat ic; and as I can't see them~ both, I want you to go to her. I must keep the other engagement. Tell har I'm a deserter or dead or any old thing--" For the second time I heard Lan den laugh low and melodiously. I can h ean it yet. "There'll be a show down to-night," he said. IAfter retreat, the lieutenant called for his hor se and loped slowly townward. The san was red and low, a~nd the silken flag over headquarters was cased for the night. A little later Lander entered the tent, threw his cartridge-belt about him and saun tered carelessly out. "Don't keep the little woman wait. ing long," he whispered to me. I wtched his form grow dim in the shadows toward the village. Then I stepped into my cartridge belt, looked at my six-shooter and became one of the mysterious townward procession. Something is going to drop on the vil lage road this night, I thought. Lander was sitting by the road-side a mile from camp. He smiled, but did not speak to me. While I waited, I iwondered why Ihadnotremembered to shake hands with Lander that night. It seemed a long time before the lieutenant's horse was heard down the road. I hoped that Lander would not pick off his man from ambush. I hated to think be would do it. "Dismount, lieutenant!I" sang out the man who had been kicked, and he did not salute his superior ofzicer. What Crim said as he obeyed is rather important but not necessary to this narrative. But Crim knew then that he was only a comimon human man, like the being before him, whom he had kicked. He saw in the faded twilight a private in the regular army who in the presence of other men was h is slave: but. wvho alone, in the foot hills of Arizon'a, was a coo], deter mined, smiling foe. He saw before him the handsome Charlie Howard, who was loved by a vwoman he loved. He saw the reckless light in Howard's ees which boded no good. And in site of all these things, Lieutenant Mat Crim was game. The moon was looking over old Ba~ldy's icy crown now and the great .!ome~ above and the sand below were :iledi with its whitenessa. ltl -You actedl the cowa-d once, ltl ',nieer-try to be at manU io.uight," I card Landier say. "ft was imprac ile to procure - ofuds, so von will nave to rely upou tbe honor of a comn zon soldier. Perhaps von never as neiated such 1eniments with an en :ix-shooter. I was too wft-hearted to >ruise you with my hands." Crim looked at his man keenly. He hen looked over his six-shooter care ully. He had been a clever shot at West Point. "Who gives the signal?" he added, :Iearing bi3 throat. "Count three in the position of raise pistol,'" said Lander politely, 'after which you are at liberty to fire .s soon as you please." Crim's tall gelding browsed uneasily md whinnied. He wanted to get back :o the hay on the picket line, but he was a trained cavalry horse and did 2ot think of trotting ofT alone. I ,atched, not knowing what else to do. Both men took position, and came :o the regulation "raise pistol." "Ready?" asked the lieutenant, :learing his throat again. "All ready," answered the silent nan cheerifully. The moonbeams whitened his forehead. "One;" said the lieutenant. Both nen were motionless. "Two!" he screamed. His arm Iropped. There was a noise aud an mpty shell in his six-shooter. The ieutenant had forgotten to say Three." Lander was dying in the moonlight, mnd there was no empty shell in his ix-shooter! Mat Crim, his super or officer, ran to his horse like a thing flrighted, and galloped away. "Go and tell her, old chap," Lan ler whispered, "that Charlie Howard vas afraid to meet her to-night. Tell ier that his memory is a far worthier hrine for her worship than-a com non cavalryman. Tell her that I was t deserter, because old man, I think a ot of the little witch. You needn't elI her that Crim is a coward-just my he is a good ihot." And when there were no more words [ hurried away to the village to keep Lander's engagement. She was there -a little thing-prettyand trembling. rhere was a lace handkerchief in her land and a soft perfume about her. I told her what Lander had said. 3he did not cry, but clutched my arm with fierce strength. "Take me to him," she demanded. I led the way back over the rolling oad, and when we neared the spot where I had left my silent friend in he moonlight, I heard a long, low, nournful howl, the answer mingled with the echo. "Let us hurry-faster!" I said. There was no change. Lieutenant Uat Crim hadnotreturned. The wom in picked up the pistol wbch had fallen by the silent man's side, and threw open the cylinder with the ease >f a veteran. Six loaded cartridges 'ell into her hand. "You saw it all?" she questioned lowly. "And he was your friend?" v I bowe7. "Then vou will kill thie crord fori rour frietd's sake!" She spoke the words altogether too loudly. "He is my superior officer,madame," [ whispered. "Leave me now," she ccmmanded. "But, madame," I objected, "I nust walk with you back to the vill vge." "No, no! Leave me. I have this." he was replacing the cartridges into hie cylinder. As I stood watching her, a bugler in hie camp a mile away played the last ~all a soldier hears at night-the ournful, melancholy taps. And I ooked down upon my friend, t'.se si .ent man-they would sound tay.s over aim to-morrow-and I forgot that I vas only a private in the regular army. "Leave me now," she repeated. And when I had gone a few paces I :urned. She was bending low. The moon was high above old Bald-y aow, and his whiteness was upon the apturned face of the silent man. Lieutenant Mat Crim called for his sorse the next morning, when a guard old him that the bodies of Private ander and a white wvoman had been found out in the chaparral-Detroit 'ree Press. The Last Days of Carlyie. He generally spends his mornings ill about half past two o'clock b2 tween lying on the sofa, reading in is easy chair and smoking an >ccasional pipe, writes Garlyle's iece, Mary, to his sister, Mrs. Han ning, in the Atlantic. At half past two be goes out to drive for two or two ind a half hours, sleeps on the sofa t~ll! dinner time (half past six), then after dinner sleeps again, at nine has tea, reads, or smokes, or talks, o'r lies ou the sofa till bedtime, which is usually ibout midnight, and so ends the day. H looks very well in the face, has a Ene, fresh, ruddy complexion, and an immense quantity of wvhite hair, his oice is clear and strong, he sees and hears quite well; but for the rest, as [ have said, he is not good at moving ibout. In general he is wonderfully good-humored and contented; and on the whole carries his eighty-four rears well. He desires me to send you his kind love, and his good vishs; as you know, he writes to sobody at all. I do not think he has written a letter, even dictated one, or over a year. A Straw Hat and a Contented Shark. A Chinaman named Ah Hoi, con victed at the Kohala Court of having >pium in his possession, and under sentence, jumped from the Kinau and was probably eaten by a shark. At my rate nothing was seen of the pris ner after he disappeared over the side, and the policeman who had him in (castody has 'been discharged for arelessness. The officer did not notify the steamer men of the jump of the Chinaman till the Kinau was a ile or more away from the locality of Lhe dive. The Kinau was put about, ut all that could be seen was the traw hat of the Chinaman and a large shark swimming leisurely a'-out. The~ steamer was sevetal miles at sea whent :he prisoner made his break.--Pacifiu, (* A Terrib!e Messmate. As I sit down to pen this little in cident of my liFe, writes a South African woman in the Wide World Magazine, this is the picture that rises before me: It is early morning in my beautiful African home (beautiful with a strange fascination that is all its own). rising hastily, I throw on a wrapper and, opening the glass doors, step out on the stoop. The morning is fresh and clear after the dust-storm of the previoas evening, and palling up the grass hiinds I look out on tie promise of tae coming day. : Calling my husband, I begin to pour oat the coffee, when the Kafir nurse appears with our baby boy. He is the picture of health and is clamor ing for his porridge. I gave him a plateful, with a generous allowance of milk, and as one makes the most oi the cool of the day in Africa, I tell him he may take it outside and eat it, thinking he wonld stay on the stoop. Instead of this, however, the little fellow marched off to the rookery, which of late seemed to have become his favorite place-a beautiful spot it was, with its tall red and white cactus trees and brilliant scarlet creepers. Hurriedly finishing his breakfaqt, my husL.nd remarked that he and the "ooys"-as all Kairs are called, old or young-would be late in starling with the transport wagon to the town, so he kissed me, and laughingly promised to bring the child and ine something from the town., Then he went ont and disappearcd into the compound, waving his hand as he turned the corner. Picking up my hat, I went out to find my baby boy. He was not on the stoop, so I walked on and turned the corner towards the rockerF. Suddenly I caught a glimpse of the fair carls on his dear baby head, and I softly called his name. The very nett moment I beheld a sight which seemed to freeze my blood and root me to the spot, speechless with horror. My child was seated on a stone, eating his porridge, and close by his side was a huge snake, one of the most venomous of its species. Alter nately that amazing pair took a spoon ful of the porridge! All at once Isaw the ghastly reptile raise its head, as i to strike, but instead, gracefally carv ing its head downwards, it took some milk out of the plate. ]a anger the infant strabk it with the a' con, saying at-th ' e 'time, "No, no! Boma Sion urn now." Ty and re alize my onishment whew the reptile only cowered down in the leaves, watching the child out of its tiny bright eyes. My precious little one finished his porridge, and placing the plate down, watched whilst the snake drank up the milk he had evidently left for it; there seemed to be a most friendly understanding between them. I watched them for some time as in a dream, and then, calling my son softly by name, I moved lorward a step in fear and trembling. The snake, at the sound of my voice, raised itself and, seeing me, disap peared from view. Rushing for ward, I clasped my child in my arms, as thongh he were some lost treasure suddenly fannd again. I smothered him with kisses, and not once again during the day did I ev-en lose sight of him. Anxiously I watched for my hus band's home-coming to tell him my tale of horror. When he had heard my morning's experience, he viewed the extraordinary incident with the sane feelings of hiorror that I did. He agreed that something must be done o.1he following day. Very light was my sleep that night, and many times did I get up and look at my s'eeping baby, thanking Gol he was safe, as I beheld his darling face. Next morning, when the usual breakfasthonr arrived, I coaxed the claild to have his meal with me on the stoop, whilst my husband took a plate of steaming hot milk down to the rockery, trusting that the well-known love of snakes for warm milk would bring "Bomn Siong" out of its nest. Nor was he deceived. Almost im mediately the snake came gliding aong, but seemed puzzled and some what suspicious at not finding the child there as usual. The smell of the milk, however, soon proved stronger than its suspicions, and the dangerous reptile began to drink. My husbaud at one raised his gun and fired, killing the snake at one hot. Then he carefully buried it out of sight, telling me not to say any-1 thing to the child. Next day my boy went to the rockery as usual, and great was his grief that his strange companion did no'; appear. For weeks he fretted, and watched every morning for his fearful pet. A Whale's 1tevenge. A widely known and feared devil fish has its headquarters in the North ern Pacitie, mostly along the America coast, especially acrecting the Gulf o California. This huge creatare isa mammal, one of the great whale family, really a rorqual of medium size and moderate yield of oil. Only the elite of the Yankee whalemen, dexterous~ in. daring as are all the tribe, cn none to get "to wir dwardt" of the dia helicaly cunning giants. It is a poe liar characteristic of this arnimal tha it seems ever on the dIert. searely':: posing for one moment its broad:iel above the sea-surface when rising to spot, and generally traveling, nuike il its congeners, not upon, ba fei feet below the water. For this reasou. and in this fishery alone, the whalers rm themselves with iron-shafted har poons, in order to strike with grea'er force and certauityol' direction a whale sone distence beneati the sar-ace. A stauidiag or-er, too, among them is never by any chauce to injre a calf w',ile the mnother lives, since such an act exposes all andi sunawry neir tic spot to imminent and violent death. Neglect of this mostnecessaryprccau tion, or more probably accident, once brought about a calamity that befell a fleet of thirteen A'nerican whaleships which had been eugaged in the "bow head" fishery aaoug the ice-does of the Arctic Pacific. In order to waste no time, they came south when winter set in, and by common consent ren eezvoused in :Mlargharita Bay, Lower California, for a month or two's "devil fishing." The whales were exceedingly abun dant that season, an d all the ships were soon busy with as much blubber as they conlId manage. The ease with which the whales were being obtained, however, led to considerable careless ness and for-eiTalness of the fact that the whale never changes its habits. One bright moruing. about three weeks after the opening of the season, the whole flotilla of fifty-two boats, four from each ship, had been lowered and were making their way as rapidly as possible to the outlying parts of the great bay. keeping a bright lookout for "fish." Spreading out fn-wise, they were getting more and more scat tered, when about near the centre of the fleet some one suddenly "struck" and got fast to a fish. Bat hardly had the intimation been given when some thing very like panic seized upon the crowd. In a moment or two the rea son vas apparent. From some cause, never de*iuitely known, a harpooner had in striking a large cow whale trans fixed her calf at her side with his har poon, killing it immediately. The mother, having quietly satisfied her self that her offmpring was really dead, turned upon her aggressors like a ver itable demon of destruction, and, while carefully avoiding exposure of her bodyto attack, simply spread devas tation among the flotilla. Whenever she rose to the surface, it was but for a second, to emit an expiration like the hiss of a lifting safety-valve, and almost always to destroy a boat or complete the destruction of one already hopelessly damaged. Every blow was dealt with an a curacy and appearance of premedita tion that filled the superstitious Por tugnese, who formed a good half of the crews, with dismay-the more so that many of them could only guess at the original cause of what was really going on. The speed of the monster was so great that her almost simultaneous ap pearances at points widely separated made her seem ubiquitous; and as she gave no chance whatever for a blow, it qertaitnly loolcid as i, all, the bpats would be destioyed seriatim. Not content with de.Aing one tremendout blow at a boat and reducing it at once to a bundle of loose boards, she re newed her attentions again and again to the wreckage, as if determined that the destruction should be complete. Utter demoralization had seized even the veterans, and escape was the only thought governing all action. But the distance to shore was great, and the persistence and vigor of the inrious leviathan, so far from diminishing, seemed to increase as the terrible work went on. At last two boats did suc eed in reaching the beach at a point where it sloped very gradually. . The rews had hardly leaped over-board, to run their craft up high and dry, when close behind them in the shallows foamed and roiled their relentless enemy, just too late to reach them. Out of the large uber of well euipped boats tuaat left the ships that morning, only these two escaped un damaged, and the loss of the season's work was irremediable. Over fifty men were badly injured, and six, one f whom was the uubappy origin of the whole trouble, were killed out right. The triumphant avenger os her slain od-sprimg disappeared as silently as she had carried on hei deadly ~warfare, as far as could bt known unhurt, and with an accumu lated hoard of experience that would, if possible, render her more of a "devil" to any unsuspecting whalemen who should hereafter have the misfor tune to meet with and attack her than she had proved herself tc be alreatiy. Dejected and crippled, the fleet lost no time in getting away fromn the spot and fleeing north to San Francisco, there to retit for ota- and more r itabib fishing grounds.--Cornhill Iaazine. A imnff That Worked. "ere's a true stor-y of cold cheek," said a loeal real estate dealer. "Eight years ago a New Or-leans man lost a good job here and went to a certain Southern city with just S2 in his pocket. He was well dressed and had a plausible tongue, and hearing that the contract foi- building a cour t-house was about to be let by a reform Board of Commissioniers he walked in and actually secured the job. They gave him two days to fill a bond, and he went str-aigat to a banker, showed him where there there was money in the scheme, and in thirty minutes per saded him to become his surety. Now, mark you, he knew no muore about erecting a public hailding than a soft-shell crai knows about Greek verbs, but he teeraphted immediate lv t a big c,>utr-acting firm in St. Louis, and in forty-eight hours was in consultation with their expert. As a result he sublet the work at a figare that lef t him about $15,000 clear protit, a -e giving the banker a slice. All th tmeL ion s doing this he had only and shne.' ul ing ofi everything e:. but h-- hal thie deal closed in sde of the three weeks and the spoils ate way T'hen. of course. hie was in coer He made some lucky spec aa~tior~ .f t:-aratin phosphat e lan ds, nd in worth to-day at least $50.00. -- Orns imes-Democrat AGRICULTURAL TOPICS Variety of Feed For Stock. In feeding stock of any kind it is important that it be furnished a vari ety of food. This is not merely a matter of flavoi, for different kiuas of food furnish usually diiferent nutri tion. A great deal of the success of auinials pastnted lies in the fact that they are able to select their own ra tios., and the care they will take to do this indicates that this is a matter of greater importance than it is usually considered. Private 31ark:t Eor Butter. A farmer who has all the facilities and who knows how to make the best butter ought always to sell it to pri vate customers, who will also take his fresh eggs and other farm products at prices somewhat higher than be cau get in the open market. But if he does this he must obligate himself to supply what is needed throughout theyear, and that it shall never bebe low the standard. It is this last condiion that prevents farmers from making such bargains. To make the best butter in winter requires care in feeding, and also in handling milk and cream, which too many are unwilling to undertake. Fal-IallngWintet Orain. While the roller is a good imp'ement for .ining and smoothing tLe surfalce soil, it can very rarely be'used effec tively after winter grain is soen. Al most all farmers agree that if soil is heavy, it will produce better crops of winter grain if the soil is left rough after it is seeded. All the Inm~s are dissolved by winter freezing, and they furnish the fine rich dust that is needed to fall upon the roots as they have been lifted out by frost. The only conditions when rolling is help f al to winter grain are when the soil is light, and liable to blow away in win ter. In such case the rolling should be done as soon as the grain is sown. It will pack the light soil around the roots, and thus cause the wheat to make enough gi owth so as to partially protect itself from winter killing, and will lessen the eleets of winds in blow ing away the surrace soil. Threshing Field Pea%. Field peas were successfully threshed he-e this fall in a small grain thresher. The threshermen change the pulleys so the cylinder will run slowly and the rest of the separator ran fast to carry off the straw and halls. With this arrangement the peas are not cracked and the crop can be run through the same as any grain crop. The yield of cleaned peas has been ten to fifteen bushel; per acre. The straw is invariably blown into the barn and makes excellent stock feed. When not injured by rain it it eqnl to tie best clover hay, with aslrge a yield and is grown in one season. And farther, on land that will not grow clover a fair crop of peas can be se cured and the soil improved. As is well known, any legaminous plant has a beneficial effect on the soil, and when rightly used the cowpea will prove a boon to farmers with run down soil.-Hallock Shearer, Illinois, in Orange Judd Farmer. Heaves .Not curable. That troublesome disease of horses known as heaves cannet be curel -when once it become.s well established, hut in its earlier stages the difficulty is simply a bad cold combined with in digestion and freqnently gives way to proper feeding. In any stage of the difficulty only the best quality of food should be given, mainly sound oats, coarse wheat bran and sweet cut hay, once a week adding a pint of flax seed meal to the grains mentioned and mak ing a mas'h of the whole including the hay. Water should be given a full half hour before meal time and never directly after eating. What hay is given should be chopped fine and fed with the bran and oats the whole be-* ing slightly moistened. This care in feeding and watering will often cure what is considered a bad case of heaves, showing that it is only neces sary to give the horses proper atten tion as soon as any indication of the trouble is noticed in order to ward off what may prove to be a disease thatI will make the horse almost valueless. As colds are often at the bottom of the trouble, especially with young horses, ood care should be taken to blanket the animals when warm and have stables free from draughts.--Atlanta Journal. Sorting and Storing Potatoes. Where potatoes are grown upon a large scale some ,of the one horse di; gers with metal point and rod1s for moldboard can be profitably employed. The large diggers drawn by four horses work well and should be con sidered by commercial growers. The tbers are brought to the surface where they can be easily picked up. An attachment for rnuning the pota toes diretly into the sack or wag n is not practicable, for the reason that they must dry for a little while beforeo puting together in bulk. Without question the best plan is to1 Isor t before storing. Remove all the small or unsalable potatoes and store Iby themselves. If seale or rot is pres ent throrz ont all atrected specimens. Some recommend dusting the pot:atoes with air slacked lime to prevent rot ting in storage, but this plan has not been Thoroughly tested anid s.houldi not be tried except on a smai! eale. A home made sorterecan be easily con structed by taking the bottomn out of a long narrow box and substitute siats an inch wide sunaiciently far apart to allow the small potated h> PEas through. Cylindrical sorse ent ha urchased and are satiin-corv. .-N England HOmEsteadl. The oil wells of Sumatra are assum: ing commercial importance in the East. Last year a simgle co:npauy put 600,000 litres of petrolefnm on the maket HOUSEHOLD MATTERS The Safisox. As ordinarily arranged, sofa boxes are not very successful. If the top is padded sufficiently to make a com fortable seat, then the lid becomes so heavy as to require the brawn of a giantess to raise and lower it. The box part can rarely be visited, and is, therefore, of little practical use. An English woman overcame the diffi. culty by making her lid solidly fast, so that it could not be lifted, and mak ing the front face of the box into cup board doors, concealed by the usual frill of cretonne. Behind these low doors the box itself was divided into compartments, each filled with shelves on which lived the boots, hats, old magazines, and the other hard-to-be kept-tidy articles of the room. The top of this box was padded most lux ariously, and on many occasions furn ished one of a crowd with a comforta ble bed. To Remove Stains From White Goods. - In the case of acids tie up a bit of washing soda in the stained part, make a lather of soap and cold soft water, and boil until the spot disap ears. For anilines, wet with acetic ,cid, apply dilated chloride of lime, lad wash out carefully. Paraffin takes out apple and pear stains. Blood, if Iresh, is removed by soaking for welve hours in cold water. then wash ing in tepid water; this failing, the ark is covered with a paste of cold water and starch, and exposed to the sun for a day or two. Old stains suc zumb to iodide of potass'im dilated with four times its weight of water. For coffee and chocolate, pour soft boiling water through the stains and while wet hold over fumes of burning ulphur. Fruit stains can be treated in the same way. Grass stains yield to alcohol. Ink is removed with milk, Lhe spot should be soakedandrubbed; in old stain maf require soaking for welve hours. Iron mould is to be teld over a basin of boiling water and rubbed with braised sorrel leaves, ifterwards washed with warm suds; >r cover the spots with a paste of emon juice, salt, powdered starchand -oft soap and then expose to sunlight. Vildew is treated in the same way, or y covering with powdered chalk and Aleaching on the grass. Paints are lisposed of with turpentine, tar with etroleum. Tea yields to boiling vater poured from a height, or to ;lycerine. Wine stains, if old, the ame treatment as for old fruit stains. )ther stains will frequently yield to >oiling milk.-Dyer and California Print. A Comfortable Trunk. The newest combination piece of raveling furniture is a desk, b md wardrobe trunk for the Comm ial traveler. - When open a - 4 tunk Atands one e top drawer pulls ut an s 7rms a rest for the desk lid. t is -.artitioned off into compartments stationery. The lid of the desk ens down and forms the writing le. The upper part of the desk is vided into the usual lot of pigeon les for letterheads, envelopes, let :e 's, contracts, billheads, blotters and :h like, similar to an ordinary office es -on a small scale. Al the desk part is finished in oak, Lfd t e drawers faced with dark red eathe and fitted with brass handles Ld hi des, so put together that the lefecy snally found in a combination runk are done away with. The see ndl drawer is divided up nto compat ments for underwear, eckwear, coll 's and cuffs, and a hat box lined with q ilted satin. The third irawer is for suir , and the lower one ~or wearing apparel In the lid of this markable trunk ir a clothes rack and .raps arranged ike a lower tray in an or ~ary trunk, bt long enough to carry tro rs and oats without folding. There is sometimes an interchang ible arrangement made to fit a place\ >f the two iower drawers, and this is a single section in drawer form fitted vith cleats to carry a typewriter. Strange as it may seem, there is no tolding bed tucked eway in any cor er, nor a cooking stove, otherwise :he traveler would not need a hotel. hicago Chronicle. fleeipes. Spiced Damsons-Seven pounds of Erit arter it is prepared, three pounds vhite sugar, one and one-half pints strong vinegar, one tablespoon each of loves, mace, allspice and cinnamon. Boil slowly until done. The damsons ~hould keep their form and the juice be thick and of fine flavor. Good Fritter Batter-Four ounces of flour, one gill of water, one table ;poonful of salad oil. Make this all to a nice batte:-, let it stanifor an hour 3r two, then, just as you want it for ase, stir in lightly and quickly the yhites of two eggs beaten to the stiff st possible froth. This makes a de icious hatter, but of course its light aess must decpend greatly on the fat in hich it is fried. Baked Spanish Onions - These cnions are more delicate flavored than he common sort, and well repay the care in cooking. First put enough for &ch to have one uskinned in a kettle of boiling salted water, boiling one hour, then r'rain and wipe dry, lay in greased paper, twisting the ends, to keep in the steam, and bake frcen one to two hours. Then remove the papers, peel, serve with butter, pepper and salt, or hot seasoned cream. Pulled Cream Candy--In a good-- . sized saucepan put two pouads of granulated sugai-, one tablespoonful of butter, one-half of a cupful of ereami and one and one-half cupfuls of water. Boil slowly but steadily until spoonful, dropped into cold water. au be rolled into a firm ball. Add me-quarter of a teaspoonful of soda, ake from the fire; sad one teaspoon al of vanilla and pour on a greased platter. Pull as soon as cool enough.