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WIMP, TMZ WEEKLY EDITION WINNSBORO. S.C., OCTOJA L!'R 9,) 1900.4SABIHD%84 WITil YOU AND THE DREAMS. (A Song). The darkness is with me-my love, m own; The stars have lost their beams: But I feel a touch, and I hear a tone: I'm with you and the dreams! And iairer z.nd dearer this sad life seem With you aid.zhe beautiful dreamsl II. Here, in this desolate, ghostiy room. 1T are nemories. tokens and :;leamq Of days that are dead, and of swee words said: Vm with you and the dreams! Bow sing the birds and the sea swep streams. With you and the beautiful drearnsi III. Is life all dreaming? I know not, dear! But whatever it is or seems. Thankful. the bitterest cross I near If I'm only with you and the dreams! If I'm only with you, in the dark or th gleams With you and the beautiful dreams! -Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Con stitution. :3000000000000000000 Nora's Trust. By Ann Devan. ~ooooooooooooooo TELL you, Kate, wil never believ such a thing o Walter, unless I se \ / it with my owl eyes." Nora Everett'i blue eyes had a: un usua I sparkli that morning, for I did try her tempe: to hear her 'cousin Kate Marshall, cal Walter Fielding. of all men, fickle. As Nora stood by the table, In hei pretty pink morning dress, her browi hair rolled back from her face, and rosebuds in the braids, almost any one would have called her beautiful. But Kate Marshall was more thal beautiful. She was a slender. grace ful girl, with an exquisitely fair face, dark, lustrous hair, and dark blue eyes, that mirrored every clianging i otion. ora had grown up half to love her In her sunny moods, half to fear her when she expressed distrust of dear eAt friends. This morning Nora fell 38 if she almost disliked Kate for -'spaking so of Walter Fielding. She a ,Ost dreaded to leave home, though to herself, again and again, - trust ould write to him ery other day. "As tor ide," he said, laughlingly, "I shall not limit myself. I might send you a letter In the morning, and be so forgstful as to send another at night." Nora- blushed. and thought it would be a mistake she could easily forgive. Just -then Kate passed the door. Nora called her in, saying: "Here is Cousin Kate, too, lamenting that she must rtay alone. I had not thought before that I was of so much consequence. Now I shall put her un der your especial care, Walter, and .&.ou must not let her get lonesome." ~)Walter promised. and Kate thanked him with a merry smile that glowed into beauty on her bright face. When he went away Nora followed him out on the porch. where he lin gered to bid her a tender good-bye. Kate stood by the open wIndow un til they parted. and she heard Nora coming back through the hall. She threw herself on a lounge as Nors entered the room. and, half sup pressing a yawn, she said: "Well, if it takes all lovers so long to say good-tye, heaven save me from a lover!" Nora hastened to explain. "It will be two months before we see each other again, dear Kate, and I had so much to say to him. I didn't think you would be waIting for me." "Oh, that doesn't matter! You know I always wait for you, and I had a good comfortable place here on the lounge. But look. Nora, y'our dress is damp from the night air. You must come up stairs right away." And Nora followed her cousin up to the pleasant little room which they oc cupied together-. Kate was soon nestled down among the snowy pillows. but Nora lingered longer than usual before the little dressing table, taking down her hait before the mirror. "Isn't it strange that he can think my face really beautiful?" she said partly to herself and partly to Kate. '-Men always think the women they love the~ most beautiful on erh saId Kate, with a little accent of bit terness. "The only question in my mind is how long a man will love on4 woman ?" "Now you ni-e thinking of what] said this morning," said Nora. 'I an tempted to be angry with you." "Well, we will let time show. mn: dear Nora. I am sure I hope Waltel Fielding will prove himself above sus pieion, but it doesn't answer to trus everybody too much out of sight." "I couldn't love any one I could no trust to the end of the earth," crie< Nora. lIf Walter cannot be ti-ue ti me in absence. I should not cry ove his defection." '-Don't get excited. Nora." Kate r" plied, softly, "-for I may be mistakei of course." And ..ora kissed her cousin in toke: of amity. For thie first few days ot her- absene Nora had each day a letter: then. oni one for two or three days: then. onei a week:. and, finally, they ensed altu gather-. Ent's gosinv letter referred v'er pleasantly to Wailter. and to the pains he took to come and see her daily. "You see he is an obedient lover, so y we may take it for granted he will make a submissive husband.' But for two weeks Kate had not ,neutioned his name, and Nora began i to grow hcmesick. Just at dusk, one evening, when she had been absent a month, and was sit ting alone in her room, the servant came to her door to say that a gentle man wished to see her in the parlor. Going hastily down, she found her t self taken and held close in her lover's arms. "For I could no longer wait to see you, darling: and, besides. I am tired of entertaining your cousin. Aren't you almost ready to come home?" Her Aunt Everett was so much bet ter that she concluded to go, and, in three days more they were at home. Her mother met them at the door, and held Nora in a tearfu! embrace. "We feared everything. Nora, be cause we got no letters. but I am quite content to have you safe home again. Kate showed us the letter you wrote her." continued Mrs. Everett, "in which you said you had been mis taken in thinking you loved Walter, 3 and should probably be married, be fore your return. to a rich widower. who visited you daily." "And she offered me a chance to re venge myself for your faithlessness by making her my wife," said Walter with a queer smile. "but I preferred to see first whether you had married the widower." "I never wrote such a letter:" cried Nora. with a very white face. "I al ways thought she meant mischief be tween us: Where Is she, dear moth er?" But, when search was made. N-tate was not to be found. She had returned to her own home. and could not make it convenient. six months later. to come to Nora's wedding.-Saturday Night. CIRL LIFE IN PAO-TING-FU. Description of the Daily Programme in a Chinese School. Among the missionaries of the Amer lean Board at Pao-Ting-Fu, China, for whose safety great fears are felt is Miss Mary S. Morrill, a teacher in the girls' school there. In a recent letter she gives the following Interesting ac count of a day in a Chinese girl's school life. The first bell rings at 6.15 o'clock, and at once the work of the morning toilet begins. The girls dress alike, each costume consisting of a pair of , baggy trousers, which are ankle by a strong rib _s nearly t'c but g shou an e arm. "One of the girls always sees that the water In the bathroom is warmed for the morning face washing, because a Chinese would shiver in astonish ment were she expected, even in sum mer, to make her toilet with cold water. J.reakfast frequently consists of cornmeal cakes, cabbage stew and the remainder of the previous night's porridge. White flour, being a sp~ecial treat, is used only twice a week. This ~s usually accompanied by a little meat, which is-chopped fine with cab bage and onions. Sweet potatoes and turnips, fresh and salted, make a va riety in the week's bill of fare. Sup pers consist of porridges made of corn meal, millet or rice. Beans are often mixed with the millet and rice. "The girls do their own laundering. Instead of being ironed, the clothes are folded smoothly while damp, and laid upon a stone slab and pounded vigorously with wooden pestles. "Studying aloud, which often makes a bedlam of Oriental classrooms, is a thing o.' the past in our school, but the expression on the pupils' faces while they are silently pursuing their lessons often reminds me of the looks that the hack drivers wore after they were for bidden to hawk 'Cab! cab! cab!' The 'holler' Is still there,' as a small friend once remarked as she looked at a row of the silenced horsemen. "For recreation there are swings, jumping ropes and jackstones, and the girls all enjoy weaving articles o't of cornstalks. The retiring bell rings at 830 o'clock. The crusade against foot binding has been waged with success in Pao-Ting-Fu.--New York Tribune. Protection of Dynamite Magazines. Trials have been made in France relative to the best method of building dynamite magazines. One was con structed to hold 1100 pounds of dyna mite. A gallery of communication fty-five inches in height and widlth was bent twice like a hand brace and at thle outlet enided in the safety auto matic plugging device. This con sited, says The Engineering and Min ing Journal, of a pi'olongation of tile gallery thr'otugh a mass of temeCnt pouredl into an excav'ation mnade around it. In~ front of this c'hanniel the plug. which is of cylindrical sha~pe, forty-eight inches in height and width, is placed. Two thirds of its length is made of cardboard. or. rather, leather board, and the remlainder of wood. The contents were fired by electricity; ta dull report was heard, and after a few minu~es smoke was obser'ved to te issuing from the oritice, and the ex periment was decclaredi to be suceds Fashion Macle Easy. The garmelnts of thle OrientaIl wot!!''Il are not sihje('t to eh;li:;et of' fitiGU -the shape always the sa iue from gen eration to gen~eraItionu. and for this rea son their wardrobe. are ver'y exten sive. [rAni sonstroke Ccl',r..s. ii - To prevecnt sunstrones lats sol he lined withI red 0or oi~ran-eOlared ma r ttrbil TALES OF PLUCK AND ADVENTUREI. Jim Watts's Ride to Taku. Jim Watts, of Tien-Tsin, Icserves tc live in history with Paul itever,. it was a harder ride and ,I lomger onte. that Watts made, and inr (angetrg beset him. Instead of fr-ndly colon. ists along the road to reeeive the warning of an approwhir f enemy. Jim Watts rode thiro-i. borde of hos tile Chinese. Hie .allope'l the sixty miles from Tien-Tsin to Taku, arriving with one arm hanghing ielless by Iis side. but otherwise none thel worse for ;1s race to the oast. When the Boxers, after Two days' shelling, had almost esiintise.'-d and overcome the foreigners in Tien-Tsin nine men of the legations stirted down the river in the hope of reaching Taku and procuring assistan'ce from Itear Admiral Keinpff for the besieped for eigners at. Tien-Tsin. One of the men was R1. H. MacLay. interpreteor 01 the American Consulate. Late r In Ii. day word came back that the boat hod gone ashore. and that the nine men had been killed by the Boxers. This report proved to be untrue. although the party had been forced to leave the boat to escape from the Chinese. When the first report reached Tiei Tsin. however. .lim Watts volunteered to rid- to Taku and deliver the mes sage to Rear-Admiral Kempff. Watts is a son of Captain Watts. a Taku pi lot. and was born in China twenty-two years ago. -Although lie knew the dan ger, ietts -,Nas in the saddle and ready to start alone when his friends prevailed upon him to accept an escort of three Cossacas. Shells were scream ing over Gordon Hall when Watts left, and the bullets were falling in the streets. Entering a village at breakneck speed Watts aud the Cossacks would dash through tl narrow streets or lanes. Watts had occasion now and then to use the lash on some China men. who by their manner appeared to be making an tffort to catch his horse by the bridle. and the Cossacks plied their whips with great effect. At daylight Taku and the warships beyond were sighted. - Watts hast ened to the landing. and, securing a boatman, he was soon on board of Rear-Ad'niral Kempff's flagship. The message was the first Intimation that Rear-Admiral Kempff had received that the Americans and others at sin were in jany great. langer, in lrpT ress. Every one knows the rest of the story, how the allied troops pushed their way up , , Tien-Tsin. but the dispatches did not say that the for eigners were perhaps saved by the he roism of Jim Watts. Refugees from ien-Tsin brought out the news. saved From a Cannibal Feast. Ten years ago a prisoner in a French enal colony. captured by can nibalIs and threatened witit slaughter from hich he narrowly escaped. George Lascelles Latrouse. a slender, wiry ittle Frenchman. walked a-shore at ommunipaw, N. J.. from the British ark Balmore, which brought him ither a few days ago. For three (lays he had been a pris ner on board. held by the imigra tion authorities as a former convict. t was because it was discovered that Latrouse had committed only the rime of desertion from the French avy that lhe was r-eleased. The hair of this man is snow white, nd he is but about thirty-five years ld. But his eyes are bright as ever, and they sparkled with joy and he walked with a springy step when he eft the ship. "I am in free America at last," he said, "and I will never leave it." There was ample reason for the whte locks of Latrouse. lie had passed through dangers that might well turn the hair of the bravest. He was conscripted into the French navy a little more than ten years ago, but escaped and was recaptured. He over powered his guards and again es caped, only to be retaken. This time he did not get away, but was sent to Tchio, the French penal colony at New Caledonia, where he served five years. and was then told that he must p~ut in five years more as a "ticket-of-leave" man. By good behavior two years were taken off. As "ticket-of-leave" man he had the right to choose his residence within certain limits, and he wandered forth into the bus i, heedless of where he went. His wanderings brought him to the village of a cannibal tribe, andi he became acquainted with the chief, who received him very kindly and gave him a hut to live in.. Soon af ter the wily chief sought a quarrel with the white inan and had him bound for slaughter. The day of execution was set, and it was to mark a great feast, of which poor Latrous was to form the central dish. But before the fatal day ar rived the chief's favorite son fell and broke his arm. Htrouse, with some knowledge of surgery, set the injured member, and the delighted chief gave him his freedom. Not only this, but the chief. La trouse says. presentedl him with a magic belt which would prevent him from being made a sacritice by any ednibals with whom he might fall in. This belt was made of the skirn of frogs and bound about with the hait of a young woman who had been of fered as a sacrifice at a cannibal festi val. From it depended a number 01 barbaric coins This he preserved and soon1 aftem aretunarl to Tr-hio settls~ment. His term expired and he took pasage the Balmore for America, Boy's Fight With a Heron. Oliver Taylor, Jr., the seventee year-old son of a wealthy farmer. Balls Pond, Coun., killed a monst, blue 1 ron recently After a strugg in which the bird came near batir its captor. He was walking about fish pond on his father's premis when the bird swooped down fro above and caught a fish which wi iinning Itself near the surface of tl water. Young Taylor, unalble to resist tl temiptation, picked up a stone anl threw it at the bird, striking it on tl breast. The heron dropped the fis and wheeling with lightning-like ral i(lity. attacked the youth. The oi slaught was so sudden that youn Taylor had no opportunity to secure club or other weapon with which 1 defend himself, and he had only hi hands with which to fight off the tierc rush of the bird. With claws. beak and wings th bird rained a shower cf blows on th boy. His clothes were torn ly t: long trIons. his head was cut in man places by the horny beak, and his fac and body were bruised by the wingi which the heron used with telling e! feet. Striking and grasping wildl at the bird, young Taylor at last sui eeeded in catching it by its srend( neck. When it felt the pressure thi bird fought more fiercely, but th plucky boy.sqxteezed with the strengt of desperation, and gradually th blows of wings and claws becai weaker till the heron fell limp on th ground. Young Taylor did not releas his hold until he was sure the bir waIs dead. Then hie fell (own on the -groun b"side the body of his plucky opp< nent, .o weakened by the conflict tha e could stand no longer. When h recov--ced his strength he carried th bird to his home, a short diestanc away. where it was found to ieasur six feet aeross 1he wings and oVe fonr feet in height. Escaped From a Cougar. MAiss Lois Drake, the ninefeen-yeai old telephone girl who was killed I: the street - wreca at Tacomt Wash.. on July 4; had a narrow e cape from death eleven years ago a South Prairie. She was felled by . cougar's paw and afterward dragge into the woods by the ferocious beasl Her escape at that time was marvel ous. W. P. Sargeant, of Buckley,whil visiting Tacoma. told the story. "It was eleven years ago when th Drakes lived at .-South Prairie. Cmi gars were thlcd about Buckley- ani South Prairie ,at that time. The; then they have -riven mek, an are now practica rmiated. "Lois Drare w t berrying on day, about thir -of a mi from town. The toopin over picking fri uga sprang -uon !.-,I singla blow of his powerful paw, irl sank to the ropud.- scions. he beast took the girl up n his eeth a.id starte<V of! towari the oods. iie dragged her a shoit dis ance ansd placed the body beneith a tree. "'Jte cougar carefully coverel the ucoscious girl' with the fallen haves ad tie-1 hurnted off, evidently t> call his mr te. Wfhether it was the 'xpe rience of being d'-agged or the con tact with the cool earth that hal its effect is an open question. but gndu lly consciousnless returned to the hild. She sat up, dazed and woxler ug. Suddenly a realization of allthat ad befallen her came over the girl odn~ she scrambled to her feet. 'hen she took to >er heels and ran to twn. She was badly lacerated, but no se riously injured by her experience. Under Water. Strange acquaintances are to be made under water. H. Phelps it arsh, who. f r a time adoptedthe alling of pearl-fisher in Austraan aters, tells this story of meetinga submarine monster: It was a muddy day, and everythm in atnsequence looked blurred and : aggerated. In the yellow distanced saw an immense dark object movig slowly toward me. As It came netmr made out a central body with sevet$ great arms or feelers waving rhythmi cally. My heart was in my mouth. I felt sure it was an octopus. Tier whn I was about to stir up the n at my feet to avoid being seen I di: covered that the enemy was nothin 'more 'than a fellow-diver. The feelet I had imagined were his arms. leg and lines. A shadowy giant about twelve fet high, with huge hands andl a head lik a small barrel, was approaching. Hl walked slowly, his heavy boots raisin the mud behind him like a cloud dust. and his great centras eyegleame darkly. Although I knew him to be man it was with dIfficulty that I ri franed from taking to my heels. j! sight of me, he. too, was startled. bi quickly recovered, and we shoc hands. Then we nodded. grinne< showed each other tihe state of oi bags and parted. An Ideal Companion. Among the various qualifications a successful touring companion. obliging disposition must be placi first. for without it no two persons ci expect to cycle together in an agre able way. One who is continual wanting to do this, and objecting do that, is by no means an ideal coi ~anion. A pleasant fellow, who w accommodate himself to a reasonal) extent to the inclinations of his col panion will make a ride enjoyable. mare who will get off and assist mend a tire and not ride on and wi for you a mile up the road is the sty of companion the quiet rider wants. r Weeds In the Strawberry Beds. le Strawberry plants may be worked ig until the rows are full of runners, and a should any weeds or grass appear in is the rows pull them out by hand, as [n every weed that goes to seed in a Ls strawberry row means a hundred or C more next spring. The beds will last two or three years if kept clean th'e le year. d Ce Shade For the Hog. h With shade in which the hog en be . in 'omnfort during hot weat.er m.eans . not only better health for bi. but an actual gain of a pound or mote per a day with the same ration, that the o ho. without. such arrangement actu s ally loses a pound or more per day. e One of the most perfect hrrangements for this purpose is made by placing e posts in the ground reaching about four feet above the ground upon e which a platform is built of poles or y cheap lumber, and such platform ar e rangement covered over with a thick covering of straw. '. Scatt-r lime and salt on the ground y plentifully under this shed. The salt b. draws damp and prevents dust from r accumulating under the shed, and the e lime is one of the best disinfectants c that can be used about hog lots, and h also destroys all unpleasant odors. e The absence of side walls allows e perfect ventilation. One upon trying e this plan will be surprised to find how a comfortable and pleasant i. is for the 1 hog beneath the shed during the hot test of the weather, and how much he L receives frmn the extra growth for the small outlay of labor in constructing t such shade. Plenty of pure water for drinking e purposes should be kept at all times e within ensy access of the bog. espe V cially during hot weather.-Farm, r Field and Fireside. Growing 'arsnips in Winter. The common parsnip is a root that always brings a good price in market. 2 It can be grown as -cheaply as any other whe . the proper conditions are observed, and these are not nearly so t difficult as many are apt to suppose. I Yet the price remains high, and there I are times' nearly every winter when the demand cannot be supplied except at rates which if the grower could get e them would make this the most profit able crop grown. In such cases it is 0 the fact that parsnips are held back by the difficulty of getting them to i market that makes them scarce, rather r than any real deficency In the supply m sumer. The parsnip is so hardy that 1 It is often left in the ground all winter, and thought it must be frozen it thaws e out in contact with the soil and its a flavor is not injured. There is a diffi rulty with. those parsnips that are - wintered where they grow. The plant atarts to grow so soon as the ground 's, and after the first green sprout appea. Ie ?at. For this reason most growers put the parsnips in underground pits. rovering them well with earth and thr~on ing some water on this to pre rent taem from drying out. From these pits they must be removed earlyt In spring an tplaced in close proxim ity to ice so that they will always be t kept at near the freezing temperature. e Drying Fruit in the House. Fruit ean be dried in the house with a such a home-made device as is shown ~ in the cut. The 1 1x has a-bottom of sheet iron, with a wooden bottom twot a Under side * * * e d h tl t] -~ - b - a b A FRUIT DRYER.a inches above this perforated with holes. Air is admitted to the two inch space through holes in the sides ~of the box. A small one-burner oil stove beneath causes a constant cur-d root of warm air to pass up throught tihe box (in which the fruit can be dplaced on Tiers of slatted shelves.amd a~ut at the top through the small open .ngs in the sides. The whole of the. .r ottom of the box is covered by the t heet iron.-New York Tribune. k Early Breeding of Sheep. Good treatment has of course much ido with the earlier breeding of all ki peep. If they are poor and thin b ey will not show much desire for ~ ting, and sometimes it is impossible is nbring them around with any kind oi success. Ewes intended for early .eding should not be made to live m a in the hot sun without any shelter th iv2n it i-i the middle of the day ex t such as they can tind ontheshady ft of a fence. Provide them with I cient shade, good pastuire and eIlty of clean water through the smer, and then before you want to b4 Abd thle.n feed them liberally on Ci to o This will often help to bring tht around and give the desired re- th e ' s Always have a thoroughbred in Sbteat the head of the flock, but the es flock itself should consist of grades. As they have better constitutions they will rustle oetter and prove more prof. itable. It is the early flocks of lambs L that pay the best, and early breeding is quite neeessary- for success. The ewes must be fei ilberally and Intelli gently until the 'nbs are -born and ready for market. We cannot afford to be niggardly Jr. this respect. The little lambs relish roots in the fall and winter, and i'. pays to have a stock of tbese o-, haad. On the whole the rcots reem to ,a them good, and they require less of more expensive food. The roots also help to keep the ewes in good condition, but otherwise can not say they are of any particular value. Forcing the Egg Sopply. Forcing the hens to lay eggs is sim ply assisting nature to perform its work in the highest degrie. We sup ply them with the needed elements to make eggs. All the so-called tonics and stimulants do little or no good un- r less food of the right kind Is supplied. The tonics may increase the appetite. and the stimulants may force the ays tem to more active work, but the gain is only temporary, and In the end a a reaction is more than likely to follow. f If the right foods are given the tonics and stimulants may. on occasions, do good, but as a rule a healthy hen needs neither. It is only when she is run down an nit in good condition that she requires either a tonic or stimu- t lant. All this being taken for granted, the work of forcing the egg yield resolves itself into careful methods in feeding a the hens. They must be given food that will not al. go to fat, and if in spite of the selection of the food the birds show a tendency to fatten up too rapidly they must be forced to take more exercise. Keep the laying hens busy in scratching a good part of the a day, and they will eat more and lay more. Feed them plenty of ground, P green bone, puiverized shells, grit and b green tuings. All of these, including scraps of meat, contain the elements needed by the laying hens. Be more t careful in feeding corn, which is sure v to produce more fat than eggs, and the bread, meal and similar fattening ar- c ticles. After one has fed the birds lib erally, forced them to take plenty of exercise, and attended to their gen eral- nealth, there is little more that can be done. That is about all the E forcing that will pay. There are other artificial methods, but their util Ity is rather doubt!2jz-nne C. Webs ter, in American Cultivator. Reasons For UnproducUve Orehards. Observations and studiea lead the Illipojs eperiment stiton_ to. ofai taellring as sdine of the many'easo-fs why orchards are often unproductive: First-Too many growers areexpect Ing a crop to be given them without putting forth any efforts themselves after the trees have been set. The ap ple require the same careful attention as do other farm crops. . Second-Lack of moistu ~com- ' i mon caujip allure to the apple 'ni'n Illinois. This is because trass and other crops are allowed to I) ompete with the trees for the mois- uti uire supplied by rains. Water is just < s essential to the apple tree on a hot has ummer's day as It is to the laborer in - be harvest field. Third-Injuries resulting from at acks of insects or of fungous dis ases are a very common cause of tilure. These depredators will prob- as bly always consider that they have s much right t:o the products of the rot irm as does th~e farmer himself. For i uis reason he must get his artillery nd ammunitiot. and fight the enemy. Fourth-Lack of fertility is a very net ommon cause of failure in southern, 'estern and soraie sections of northern wi] linois. The t.pple orchard cannot roduce a profitable crop unless pro- cal idedI with an ample supply of nitro- tin en, potash and phosphoric acid. De Fifth - Some orchards in the State 'hich have conie to the notice of this tation are unprofitable because of nproper pruning or lack of pruning. ,ight and air are essential for thevi evelopment and! ripening of the apple. Sixth-Many varieties of apple treesco ave been p:anted without any aought given to their adaptability to D ie particular soil or climate. Loss iapple growing is often wholly a atter of varieties. Seventh-Trees propagated from un- Wa roductive stock have been responsi le for many failures. Scions should Nf e selected from bearing trees or 0 iose which have demonstrated their re bility for productiveness. fht Eighth -Sterility as a result of lanting an orchard of only one varn y is a common cause of failure, in * trt at least. Cross fertilization isgi ~sirable with all fruits. ln Ninth - Excessive climatic condi- lotl ons, as the February freeze of 1899, the killing or the blossoms by t .ost, are ofter times respionsible for car aproductiveness. cor Poultry Notes. Boiling the m 1k that is fed to fowls ssens the risk of disease. Fo1 Warm washed boiled potatoes, with tehen scraps, make a very good coin nation. co, Ordinarily her s and fowls should be ttened at the expiration of the sec- an< ud year. . Poultry is the cheapest, best and ost cor 7enient meat grown upon the e farm. To raise poultry successfully you ust have suitable buildings and give tur fowls good attention. his Fowls often learn to eat eggs by a lug fed the shells nearly whole. ei -ush them before feeding. Sitting hens can be trained to leave pmZ e nest of their own accord by hay- of g the door open at a regular time ch day. era )JUR BUDGET OF HUMORe .AUCHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Kther Chances-One or the Other -Old Friends Are Best . Bargain Figures. Doing Penance - A Type - Me LIkng For Danger-Much Needed, Etc., Etc, 'Tis heard in, t In accents w, The old sad wr4s, "I told you so!" But pluck will answer,' E'en 'mid pain, "You wait awhile And guess again." One or the Other. "What is an international episode, "Well. it is either a wedding or a var."-Indianapolis Journal. Old Friends Are Best. Snarley-"Old friends are the best." Yow-"They are if they don't get ch before you do."-Syracuse Herald, Bargain Figures. "Please send me a check," she wrote; I want.to-get a few bargains." And he, away up in the north woods, ent her a check for $199.-Chicago 'ews. Doing Penance. "What are you reading, Max?" "Papa's poems." "What! Have you been doing any hing naughty again?"-FlIegende laetter. A Type. "Ethel is the kind of a girl who ever awakens envy in any other wom n." "I see. Brilliant, but homely." farper's Bazar. No Liking For Danger. "Sammy, gran'ma *ants you to be preacher when you grow up." "Well, gran'ma, mebbe I'll be a reacher, but I tell you now I won't e a mish'nary."-Chicago Record. Novellst Pat to sNWe. "They say.that your friend bids faIr > become a writer. Has he ever rritten any fiction?" "Well, yes; he's in China as a war arrespondent."-Indlanapolis Sun. Xnc Needed. First Glrl-"I thought that young an was going to be here two wek" Second Gil-"Oh. he's coming back. Ee's only gone t town over Sund16 P get a little rest."-rarper'smBsr Unaessataho e Omtuien "What are you look g gl t, The 0 raised youV last W1. "Yes, but not one Edith-"As the clock e sad, he proposed." Ethel-"And I so . 50 0 M t "No; she aidbe e oo s pping."-JyUdge. Walters; luest-"When will I get y steak? have been waiting here fifteen ada-. )ld Walter-"That ie nothing, air. I e been waiting hed fifteen years." hicago News. Hew He Got Out. justodian-"So you changed' your' nd about taking that flat as soon you were Inside." >ortly-"Change nothing. Wm't m nthre even to change my mn4; ust backed out."-Denver N(ews. 'The Automoebne Outranked. irst Horse-"Well, thank. good econd Horse-"Thanik goodness for irtHose"When we ge iek wa 1iin adoctor we don't have to be kered with a monkey wrench."r troit Free Press. Pals Keet. Hands up!" commanded the high yman.. But I'm a plumber," protested the tim. 'Ah, pardon me for a seeming dis irtesy to the profession," apologiasul highwayman, as he backed off. ner TImes. Etabilshlng a Neptaemnm.* I suppose you told her that she s the only girl you ever loved." Well, I should say not. What kind a fool do you take me for, anyway? you suppose I wanted to ruin my, >utation for truth and veracity at very outset?'-Chicago Evening Another Chinese Outbasak. Yes" the witness declared, "I could e further evidence against the pris yr; but, as Kipling says, 'That's an Never mind what Kipling say.," in rupted the Magistrate, "the Chinee itestify fur himself when his turan es."-New Jersey Law yournal. Totnmny's Ley Ignoranee. Tommy," asked the teacher, "dea iever read the newspaper?" Yessum." Can you tell me the name of the >e where such surprising gold die eries have been made of late?" 'ommy racked his memory in vain i gave it up. No'me," he said. That's right," approvingly rejoined teacher. No Change. Glad to see you, Mr.-Mr.-let mE ," said the affable host, extending hand. "Your name Is-I have such i-etched memory for names-Smith ,is t not?" ~ow this had happened three or four' es, and the guest had grown tired Yes, sir," he replied. "Still Smith. "-hic-mm 't'ribune.