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IN LOYE WITH HIS WIFE. Governor Atkinson, of West Virginia, will Pardon his Wife if She be Declared Guilty of Forgery, and Then Resign his Office. (From the Kichmond Times,) Those who intimately know the character of Governor Wesley Atkinson are most interested in the trial of his wife, Mrs Myra Atkinson. Will he pardon her if the twelve men on the jury believe her guilty? Every intelligent man and woman is asking that. The common belief is that Governor Atkinson, the most chivalrous of men, will pardon his wife ii sue do ioniid guilty. .Neverthe- j less lie and she confidently expect an acquittal, hope for it. prav fori >* The Governor keeps his pur pose to himself. Those who know ! him best predict that rather than suffer his wife to go to prison he j will pardon her, and with the! same penful of ink write his res-! ignation. He is a Kepuliean: he; is ambitious; lie has risen: he is a man of culture : lie is a l'h 1). and 1). I),; but he is in love with his own wile. lie is his wife's third husband,! and it a woman's third husband can be plunged in love with her. | accused of forger v. she must he * a very attractive woman, lie has: been an editor, an author, a l ui ted States marshal, a Congress-| man. Mo is 55 years old. and he loves his wile with the ardor of 1<> years, lie is more than six feet tall, very spare ol figure, with long, blrck hair and a drooping tnustache. He is n;t elder in the Methodist Church, and has taught Sunday-school. If a man dared tptell-hini Mrs. Atkinson is guilty he would prohahly put a bullet in him. All's. Atkinson was indicted be tore the (inventor married her last dune. The indict men! was found, and on the saute dav (iovernor \ I 1.-i <> > ? _ . . . 7..U - ' i?? ! Mrs. Myra II ('auiden w:i- an liounced. A sensible man. il lie be in love, dors no! (akr a wile from whom he must look up 11i~ check book. A IJepubliran politician nil Sunday-school toucher nullities the law when a man's honor and his wile's honor are are concerned. ! iovernor Atkinson promptly re milted I lie trivial sentence tin posed on W. S. Kimes, who shot Hen I [all three times for "alien I tine il,,. ailedions' ol Mrs. Kimes; pardoned Klines. I hose who best know the Governor pro diet he will say to himself and to the people, should Mrs. Atkinson he found guilty ; "I know my wife. I love her It is because I know her and love ' her that I know she is incapable! ol forgery?of an\ crime \\ hat is a verdict ol guilty bet ween a man and hi-wile ? | pjtrdon lior < It you people <>l the Statedo not approve ol 1111jr??t another (tov ernor." Kimes, who shot Hen Hall, re ceived the nominal sentence ol twenty lour hours in jail and if 10() tine. .Necessarily murder, manslaughter, is a crime much graver than lor eery. "My only regret," wrote (*ov ernor Atkinson when he remitted Karnes's sentence; my only regret in that Kirnes did not kill Hall. He ought to have done so. "Every man who has a soul in his body will agree with tne that he ought to have killed him." Justice Field Will Retire. Washington, Oct, 13-?It is be- 1 lieved by the friends of .Justice ' Field that he will announce his 1 retirement from the Supreme 1 Court Rench during the present 1 term, though he will say nothing { about the matter lor publication J to-day. Attorney General Me- ' Kenna is regarded almost certain ' to be his successor. < To a reporter Judge Field sent 1 word he was not feeling well. 1 Mrs. Field will neither confirm ' nor deny the report, but gave the > impression (hat the step is under serious advisement. At the Su- 1 preme Court nothing is known, I but the members believe Judge * I Field will deride to make way in ' the near future for a younger and ' more active man. as shown by C the laet that they have postponed]' the hearing until thelirst oftheji vear ol several very important . ' cases, bv which time it is likely j ' Field's successor will be in ollice. ' i iATKK. j 1 Washington. October I I.? It.1 was announced in the Supreme Couit to day that .Justice Stephen I. Field, of California, had noti-l tied President MeKinlev ol his jn tention to retire a< a member ol t lie ('ourt, and had informed his; colleagues of this fact. It is ox peeled that Ins successor will be nominated by 'lie President immediately after the convening ol Congress in December, and that Attorney (ieueral McKciina, also j ol California, will lie named for the ollice. .Justice Field, it is c...i <i... i .i ? it. in in ii<m nini iiit* i i fMUnii l;isl April o| his intention to re lire, hut tin' I'rosidenl^di I not acknowledge it until October lb :i ... . v heepiinr (miions. It onions arc ripe when liar | vested, allowed to dry lie tore u placing in a pile and are kept at a a temperature below wlurh growth ' takes place, they will keep for ' (' months wit bout trouble. They rrow it a low temperature and when exposed at a temperature ' much above to decrees will sprout in spite of an vl hi in; t hat . In < 11 lie dole*. It is useless to null . ' onions ureen or when in a irrow i i?_r < *< > r i 1 it i < > 11 ; 111 < 1 e\pect them to cease urowlli il |ho anttiinii is warm, whether llioy :?rt* on the: lloor or on ilio ground. Maturity of onion- is indicated ?v eessa lion ol growth .111 i :i withering ol Ilio lojis al the neck. causing them lo 1< |* down.?Hhio Farmer. ' ; \ Management of laite tuhhaun. ' "There i> nothing hetlor than Iroi|in*nt cultivation of cahha^e i<? make ihcin irroA. Kvory time ( the soil is stirred, especially in warm, wet weather, there i- a ; liberalion ol plant lood." Amer- ' ic.an ('ultivator also reminds ' readers "that it is in such seasons that rare must he taken to upset late cabhage and loosed some of 1 some of the roots so as to cheek ' growth. Without this large rah 1 hage will split open." , , I No matter how early the harg&incounter rlerk comes he can't i avoid the rush. i HOW LEAD PENCILS ARE MADE. No Lead Used, Though the Name Still Clings to Them Once pieces of lead were used for marking, and we continue to use the word, though lead is no longer a part of our pencils. History has failed to record the lamo of the great genuis who rave to the world that most use- ( ul little instrument. We have ( leard all about the discovery of < uirnt snull' and the sewing midline and the typewriter and all hat, but the inventor ot the lead 1 )oncil has, evidently, gone down nto the shadow of oblivion "un- 1 vept, unhonored and unsung." ikI have to laugh at the queer , deas some people have ahout | KMieils," said a manufaeturer. 1 'You will scarcely believe it, but ' he opinions ot people who know ? milling about it seem to bo di- 1 rided between tlie melting of the I ead and pouring it into the hole ' 11 tho wood and cutting out the ead to tit the hole. The part hat goes into our pencils other than the lead is cedar and comes rem the swamps of Florida. It | s obtained from the fallen trees;, hat lie there. There are men ( here who make a business of I upplyinsr to pencil manufacturers i his cedar in blocks which are ' awed to the length of the pencil,!' onto thick, to receive the lead,!1" mil other; thin, for the piece j hat is glued over the other con aining the lead. The blocks are ' awed for four peni ils each. The ' :roove is made by a saw, and in his the lead lies. J 1 know," continued the tnanuacturer, vthat -nrtt*otTP out of ten ' 1 liousuml norsons h:is I Iim I - I??:4 ol what this lead is. See, en jjy a line black powder; that \ s graphite ainl costs somewhere | e boat 'J.') cents a pound. This fl . bile substance is (lertnan clay, j 1 t conies across the ocean as j alias! in vessels and all it costs J is i- lor freight. We mix clay f nd powder together and grind hem in a mil!, moistening the ( nass carelully during the pro , ess, until the two are t horoughly issimilated and reduced to a | aste that is about the consist nee o| puttv. 11 r? all the dies' or tlic leads arc kept in hot nine mil are p'aeed in tlie grooves as lie bloeks are made ready. A' hen t he lead i- put in t here: .11111 y and lorever tlie thin Idoek | s glued to the tliiek one and left o dry t horoughly." j, A Kerord Breaker. Now that department has had ime to east up it-* aeeounts. it! levelops that the tree seed dis i rihiition of ls'.?7, surpassed in1 xtent anything before done, I {mounting to more than twenty! nillion packages. (>ver a million I il tll<? llf wOlit I o iwl linorl ?f 1 Ion,(MX) lit I<I s1, ami the l?il nice being a great variety of vc<; 'taMes. In the entire distribu ion nearly every variety of veg table known to the agriculturist was distributed. The entire amount of seeds distributed was uillicient to plant an area of :br?r> epiare miles, or about six times the size of the District of Columbia. When you investigate a grew ionifl tale you will usually tind that it grewsome since it started. Government Report. Washington, Oct. 11.?The cotton returns to the department of agriculture indicate an average condition on Oct. 1, 70.0 as compared with 78.3 on Sept. 1, a decrease of 8.3 points. The average condition Octoder 1, 1806, was 60. 7' and the average condition on Oct. 1, for the last 10 years is 74.5. There has been a further decline, more or less marked, in every cotton producing State, the rtecline in North Carolina being 17 points, in Tennessee 12, in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Arkansas 10; in the Indian territory 8. in Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri 7. in Louisiana and Texas 6, and in Oklahoma 6 points. Florida is the only State in which the decline is not attributed wholly or in large part to the long-continued drought. The complaints of "no top crop" or of an exceptionally small one are almost universal, and the reports of small holla and short staple are very numerous. The only favorable reports are those which j relate to the condition of picking,' which are in (he mai n every till ng that could he desired. The averages bv States are as follows: Virginia, 70: North Carolina. 7*; South Carolina, 74; ieorgia, 7<>; Florida, 70; Ala tama. 7-'l; Mississippi, 74; Lou-| siana. 72; Texas, (51; Arkansas, >7; Tennessee, 05; Missouri, 74 ; )klalionia, '40; Indian territory,! <5. GRAIN CHOI'S. The October report of the staistician of the department allows he average condition of g|<rn.on >ct* 1, to have been 77.1 as compared with 711 0 on Sept. 1, with >0.5 on October 1, 1800, and 82.5 be average for the last 10 years. Phere was a general decline in he southern States. The preliminary estimate of the jeld per acre of oats 1*28.1 hush Is, an increase of bushels per icre over the t lotoher estimate of | ast year. The preliminary estimate of the , Meld per acre of rye is 10.1 bush-' ds, or 2 0 ho-hels per acre great-1 tf tin* I h?hil\ur nut i fnta t 1m * '? vn.l?iv*7 w. I rop of IS'.Hi. The average for {iinlitv is 92 7 as compared with <9 9 hi < )ftohor last year. I*ii11iitir Corn ?The (icoriria IMaii. Corn should not remain in the liehls to heroine infected by wet* ! \il or depredated upon hy birds! and animals. When it is too wet to pick cotton i- a ??uod time to pull and crib corn, l'uttiim corn j up wet will kill weevils, at the cost iii a few ears that may rot. I here i> a serious loss in corn l.-li -tandini: until November or December, as i- ol't??n done, and then the land may be needed for jzrain, and the corn should be removed early so the land can be conditioned to receive the seed, (tats lollovv corn well and should be followed by cotton and then corn apiin. The oat stubble plowed in is just a hat the cotton needs,the cotton land in just right lor corn, and so on through the triangular rotation. The Georgia plan of following cotton with oats is an excellent one, as it does not leave the soil exposed to the nitrifying condi tions of winter weather, hut it does not work so well in Texas, where the cotton crop cannot he gathered in time for full oats, except occasionally as the result of a short crop. Oats may he sue cessfully grown by sowing in and plowing in among the stand! ing cotton whenever in the fall tho time is ripe and the condition of the soil favorable. When cotton is planted in four foot rows, two rows of oats may be drilled in each middle and will generally yield better than from broadcast sowing and can be better protected against tramping by cotton pickers.?Southern Cultivator. Did you Ever Think? That a kind word put out at interest brings back an enormous percentage 01 love ana appreciation ? That, though a loving thought may not seem to be appreciated, it has yet made you better and braver because of it? That the little acts of kindness and thoughtfulness, day by day, are really greater than one immense act of goodness once a year ? That to be always polite to the people at home is not only more lady like, but more refined, than having "company manners?" That to judge anvbodv bv his personal appearance stamps you as not only ignorant, but vulgar? That to talk and talk and talk about yourself and your belongings is very tiresome for the people who listen??Our Sunday Afternoon. Hits ol Truth and Wisdom. Aim for nothing less than tha best. 1'rayer leads to everything that is good, and away from every thine pv.il. r* The essence of selfishness consists in the determination to have your own way. Much time is badly spent in envying others happiness of which they are not possessed. Don't express a positive opinion unless you perfectly understand what you are talking about. We often waste more energy in iheell'ort to avoid our duties than it would take to discharge them. It is more from carelessness about the truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in tin* world. Three things come not back, says an Arab proverb : the spoken vonl, the discharged arrow and tlie lost opportunity. l'leasant smiles, cheery greetings, tempers sweet under a headache or a business care or the children's noise, the ready bubbling over of thought!illness of * one another, and habits of smiling, greeting, forbearing, thinking, in I these ways?it is these, above all else, which makes one's home a li u i.rtii r J aoo ,,wrKJ Vou may write vonr name on tablets more lasting than marble, on the grateful memory of human hearts, which shall bless you through etermlv for the consolation you brought them, when, in their despair, they were ready to curse (iod and die,for the timely help which saved them not only from suffering, bnt from sin. It is better to remain ignorant than to acquire knowledge of things you shouldn't Rnow. The man at the little end of the horn always manages to mak? himself heard.