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Tin: INST'TT Tl. AT ( I, KM SON. Two Hundred Farmers Attend the Sti turner School find Receive Vnlunble 1 tiBtruel Ion. 'I l.i- Matt; I'at nans' Institute which begannt Oleinaon Collion th< liiU.i inst. has been Unholy attended by farniorfi from ever) section of ihc Siato, ntid '.he pi.Iiuj^H hav< been tin* usually liiion Ming lo the ?? dudei t-.'* Who innnilV Ml UlUllCftt desire i?? Ioai'u, Tho presence of so many farm era (his year Indicnlcu that Ibo Institute Idea bus taki n fusl hold upon '.li in. and uoxl season the ?cooiumodntions will have lo l?u gi catty enlargod for Iheh onlorlainnw 1 The following ts-tunmury <>i ifn? In stitute work isenndcnsed from the re ports made by the correspoudciil of Tho Slate: Dr. Ilai't'/.og, in Ins usual UlUucllVi manner, made in introductory >p> ?? ch and tin ii introduced Col. M. I. 1 >?>n aldson, ol the board of trustees, who made the add < h of wcjcomo. Col. Donaldson wa< in n htipp.v mood and spoke well, lie was? especially einlud because ho had been bo Ion.: an advo cate of Uh: summer school fpv the fanner-, and Ii?' could fuel n iw that his efforts had not been in va;n. ?oli Ii. 15. Watson, the pione< r fruil grower from Itidgu Springs, made < ne of tbc responses in which ho spoke :>i longth of the possibilities of South < at', olitin and ill ? opportunities the farmers have here of preparing ill involves to develop these i''- ? tt...i us. Capl. Wlloam (Silirore Sinints, ol liaruwcll, responded also in a speech loo beautiful to b<i spoiltd by synop sis, It was full nl historical, mytldcal and literary alluMons -jiisl such u speech as oiu! would expeel fi 'in a de scendant of South Carolina's greatest uovolisl. Im. flart/.og then introduced <'oi. i. S. Newman as tlie NT08tot' "t the pro fosaors of agriculture, in the Soulh. (Jol. Newman -puke for lll)OUl sin Hour Bhowing that this i- a progressive age, am1 that la I'm er? .1? well as o'hers must study in order t" p up with the procession. We live In the most favored land under the sun, where the eotton and the sugar cane overlap each other, and wheie nearly every variety of fruit and llowor may he '.Town. We have rich soil, luxuriant vegetation ?mil 11 variety <>i animals, and on tin ? three lifo find happiness depeud. Why then are not our farmers more mc" ecssftti? It is because they refuse b learn they Will not Sllldy nature around thorn. Wo still hear some po - ;>lo say that a man does not need any education to bo a tanner, and the) mint to some ignorant 111:111, a- th< \ 'hink, for proof of the assertion, when 'he truth of the. matter is the man was i close student of s< ionec withouj {liowing lie bad boon obscn aid ol .oil and plants and their needs. Thai s science or kpowIcUge. " There i-< note in (ho man than m the land." Geology is the loundai inn of agt icul '.uro, treating of the formation < 1 so Is, vhile chemistry i> her handmaiden. Doth animal and human lifo ar< di tondenl on plants, ami yet we hast ?pent nmre. time 11; dar ga/.iUg I hall in itudying the plants around im. No' nanv can name one in a thousand of he. plants Lhoy ?co evi cy day. Ilapp) i"or us we are >_'??! t im.; away frolU ihesi alse notions and are beginning to re di/.e thai We IllllSl know something o! laluro's laws in order to he mosl sue* essful on the farm. For and /ears people in the lohacco districts aid to piek oll' I ho worms with their ingers, hut the onlomoh>gisl ami the ibemist working together found -i way ?f spraying or putting on a little l.'ans ;reon thus destroying Iho worm- \>\ he thousands. And yet there are some /ho speak of an entomologist dorisiv? ? s a ik bug" man. For yoars and ye irs the '? hoi 0 doc '.or" has beeil abroad in the land, ilccding and drenching the poor dumb rules without knowing anything bout what thi' trouble was. Ii".t m w olorinary scionco is being recognized 0 that our horses receive intelligent continent and are gliurdod against lisoase. One strange thing is that it you ^o 0 a doctor Lo know what you need ho onds in a hill; .ro to the Inwyor, h<' ends a bill, go to iho mechanic, he onds a bill; but VVC all expect the agl'i UllUrisl lo tell ail be knows and ti ll il or nothing, and Iben ?ve *.i'l not liiko us ndvico. Col. Ntwint n was greatly meournged though lo sec so large ? lumbor oi* the very best farmers in loutli Carolina 1 ore tnd in earnest i n Icavor to learn more of their business, The uoxl speak* r was Mr, Wcslon. >f the liillmorc farm, who has been ,>Ut in charge of Iho division of animal uisbandry at the Charleston lixposi ion. He spoke at longlh on the im iorlar.ee of good stock, showing how icef caltlo and dairy cattle required lifter out treatment. 11 ? gavo an inter* isting account ? >! what will i?- done iiong these lines at the Charleston (exposition and created considerable intelligent Intorosl lu thai show. It is oncouraging t note so many "lere this year who wore hero l ist year, jno drawback heretofore has been thai many come only |, ; ;t fow days. L'his yoar Iho mosl of lh< tanner* will ^lay Iho entire week It ia thought by many that alter this year the inn, will bo lengthened lo iwo orlo ovon three weeks. Thai much ami lasting {?od is being dono by Ihoso Institutes no man with common souse will deny, j SECOND \)A\ '8 t'UOCKKDINl ?. One of Iho pleasing incidonts of to .ay's meiting was n spooch by Master Stanley Newman,a 7 y< ar-old grandson of Col. Newman, on chickon raising, It i? wonderful how much knowledge the llttlo fellow has picked up, No speech has been listened lo SO atlon* lively OrChCOfcd more heartily. Ho*. I be an agriculturalist s?.!:i i .1 iy Mire. .Dr. It. N. Urackott discussed ferti lizers hislo"lcally, sciontillcally and practically, lie gave all ths various elements that compose the fertilizer* and staled their relative values, em phasizing the importance of making ami taking care of home. made, ma nures. J)r. Hracketl explained the symbols of chemistry and lold Urn i lammt* how Ihoy might judgo of the contents from Booing tin: analysis, (Jol ton seed meul as a fertilizer and asm food was discussed. D?llo ion con tainiuv; u full analysis of commercial fertilize is wore distrihuli il, Mr. C. ? Newman took U|> tho sub ject <>f loriicullurc, dealing especially with tin improvement of itm varieties oi fruit indigenous to this Slate. Top* buddim.' was discussed at length. The root sti in should '><? a liule larger linn the -' ton. Phe stem, ho -ai<l, should in- nboUl Iho -1 ? * * of i lead p*;noi'. At every leaf one to lb roe buds. NN lion there t ouo it is i fruit bud. The bud m ok I distant, from the tree U a wood bud. 'I he fruit bud I * round while the wood bud is poiulcd. The best turn' is fiom iho middle, of Jtitle lo the middle of July as soon nflera rain as possible. The hud should bo inserted i?ar iho ground and tie or wrap with a string allowing il lo stay wrapped for ten d.i\s. When the hud .ms to grow, lie the sprout up to Iho main body, ami a little later cut oil* the ild stem lolling the bud become Iho main stem. The hud is cut oul With It little wood neat" tit bud, thou cul a slit an inch long down the side of Ilic s.lcm tod also a sill crosswise at the top of this perpendicular slit, insart bu*l and bind ttp. Grafting wax is used when graft* lug is done nbovo ground. Host io graft on the root. Cut slanting through the root. The scion on; in smut way is hound to Mdc of root and both buried in tin* sand. Mr. Newman then showed bow all this i> io he done, stating the host time was :m January, lie showed how llio fr?h ol tids section could bo greatly improved. The groat interest in this lecturt shows that many intolhgeal farmers uro taking interest in this bram h of horticulture. |)r, ?.. IS, Nesom spoke at length of tin advancement inade in the l?-i fow years in veterinary seionce. Voter!* ury seiet ce is a ci urse i?f study niado up <?! the < xperieiico of those who have ?iveii much attention. 'The main of lorls ol the veterinarian have been along Ihcilino of combatting and pro v * ming these common diseases m ani mal , so I Hal row, instead of'.10 poi' i t'ii! ol the diseased sloukdying, about ?H) por cent, recovor. South Carolina loses lo.t.a yoar by death of catlio froin Texas l'< vor, Nearly o very thing that men know today of Texas lover has In en learned in tin- last ten years. The al t;it no- n SCSSiOII was doVOtOll t<> discussing the need of organized OlTorl to control farming interests, At Hie night session L'rof. Weed, of Georgia, lectured on entomology. One of the t hief ways of killing insects is spraying. The principal spraying material i- liordeatix mixture. It is important to know whether an insect feeds on leaves Ol'SUCka the juices. In sei t- ami lun.i destroy J.*> per coilt. of nil plant-. Spraying Irish polaloos j mailw a dilTercnco of IUI 1 "J bushels per acre. The Bordeaux mixture is com|iosod copper sulphate I pounds, I into -1 i ounds ami 5(1 gallons of water. 'I he eoppi r Hilphate does the work. The coppor sulphate or blue stone should be Suspended in a bftg near the tup of the witter. Certainly use fresh lime, Dissolve l ine -tont! in 'J? gallons of walci aitd dissolve the lime in l'-'i gn|> ?, of water,thiui pour logothor. This >s the vc\ best way. Make up a stock solution of limojusl a- you imikc a good whitewash. IJor ? leaux mixture is applied io kill fungi, i hu - preventing diseaSO, wdiile ,iaiis gl'ei it i^ applied to curt disease. \\ hether an insect has beak or jaws determines how we are to light it. KeroM if is an import.mi insecticide by application to the insect. His com monly known a-- ke.'OSOUC emulsion i ndc i>\ mixing Boapstlds w itI? kero sene ami then with water or mixing '?mil iniii. with kerosene and then with! ?? iter. This was round hard to make. I t he discovery of n mechanical mixture i by mean- ot a spray pump simplifies matters very much, t.Mile a number of question.-; were j asked Mr. Weed at lllfl close of bis leetuio and In; answered them readily I atal cleai l\ . The fruit growers of Georgia use llordeaux mixture, lirsl ju*t before the blooms appear, sccoud just alter the bloom drops, and third about four wooks later. Col. Newman introduced Col. l>. K. C tylon, of Anderson, as a man who hail i> tu working for agriculture for nearly SO yoars. Col. Craylon received an ovation, il.' is a perfect type of iho goiillotnau ,.: tin- old school, and proved himself the most graceful speakor thai has l)oon on Iho platform. His speech was of anecdote ami rominisconlial in cident, as well as good sound advice, ('oi. Craylon bus a right lo spoak for in- is .1 man \\ii<> has made a succor of life. This is Coli Crayton'a distinction be tween im ngricullurlsl and a farmer ? An ngricullurlsl is a man who lives in town mul buys bis supplies from Iho country, whilo in this day a fa. mer is .1 man who llvos ill tlic country and buys Ins supplies in town. The farm 01 - caught iho joko on Ihomsolvoa and laughed heartily. Sir. William Gil more Rimniswas the next speaker, lit: said he must bo .dual win n he roforrcd lo Iii? own oxperienco as a farmor, for In; had not made a success ol it hinisulf, though his will- had. Hi: told how ?ho raised sovon haloa on six acres where nut '! Rsi had grown for years. Forty-lwo million dollars of lino cot ton goods wore imported into this country. This is Iho trade Iho South prn pcoplo must strive for. !Ic told ilOW his fattier j the novelist, had prophesied that when the Isthmus ca nal should bo made that the world would use a twenty million hale crop ol cotton at a higher price Hum thai at which il now consumer a five mil lion hale crop. Mr. Simins is a man Of decided lite rary ladles and accomplishments, and alway. commands the closest attention. "IIIUD DAY'S I'ltOCr.KOINOS. Tho question box was opened tins afternoon, and many important ques tion* woro answond by Col. Newman. To tin: question, '-Will tho application of brown sugar to molons white grow ing make them sweeter?" Col. Wow man replied by Ulling of tho li'.tle boy who wanted lo pour molasses around Ilm cherry lice t<> make Iho cherries s? i clor. Mr. ('. <:. Newman ihon talked of fall gardening, Drat answering a ques tion as lo trnh pot aloes. Irish pota toes planted 'lino inches deep made iwiee aw mm I as those ph.tiled nix inches deep, mid those planted six inches made inoru lian lliose planted either three inches or twelve inches. This proves thai nine inches in lit ? boal depth Tor planting Irish point tv This experiment has hoen tried at Ulomson for several years. For spring plauting cui potatoes, hut do m>i cut idi second eiop. Mr. Newman Wtlll into detail as to best methods of planting and cultivat ing all /cgotables that may he grown i :il the garden for fall use. This prov ed one of the mosi interesting topics of the session. I'.verv farmer is inter ested in a good garden, because Ihoy like good eat ing. It was surpiising lo lind how many things call be gi >wn in f\ garden for fall use. In fact, it was shown that a man could almost make a living all the year by proper attention to hi* imrduii. Mi. i >. M. Watson, who Jin-* l.ii raising chickens ever since lie could crawl, was tlu- next Bpoakor. Nobody questions Mr. Watson's right to talk on tin- subject of poultry. The value of poultry in lSttO was two hundred and eighty million dol lars, and the, value has increased much since then, China ships eggs here by the thousands ,.r dozens. ICggS are worth 18 1-J ?cuts a dozen lor home consumption. The demand Tor cg^s ami chickens is always greater (hall the supply. Chickens must have grit during the winter. The oyster shell is the best food lot'winter. Let raising chickens alone unless you an* going to attend to details. Chicken raising is a continual round of little attentions. In winter they need houses, hut not unless the houses i re well eared for. Have two largo doors towards tlu- sun. In selecting stock seek egg producers and si/.e of fowl. I'ick OUl the hens that lay most in winter ami set these year after year. This gives you good layers. Don't save Oggs from a ben that during moulting gets poor and loses so many feathers. Increase the, production and vitality. For eggs, Mino.ens; for meat, Lnngshangs and I Cochins. Cr088 breeds make better fowls iban thoroughbreds. In selection of color follow your own taste. The best crosses arc White Hramahs und White. Leghorns, or In dian ('nine and IMyiUOUtll Kock, or l|i lian Gamo and Wynndolto. It takes a short time only to gel good stock. Use Game male, one year. Plymouth Kock next, and so on. Kill I directions were, given for mak ing nists. .The fact was brought out that when a hen wants to sit ?llu's go ing 'o sit. Charcoal should be put under the straw to keep oh" impurities. Make the nest llat, ami separate from the houses. To drive nway mites, keep nests clean, hens well fed. A poor hen can't tight miles. Don'l have more than ad -xcii sitting in same yard and have nests live feel apart. Carbolic acid is the cheapest article to keep miles away. L'ut on with a little mop on the Inside of the nusl box. Don't put on straw, eggs or hen. This will keep them absolutely away. It costs cent's a gallon and a gallon will do a year lor an ordinary fanner. To gel rid of Texas llea use on the. bead korocono ami lard in proportion of half and hall. 1l doesn't pay lo ireat a sick chick en. The thing lo do is not to have any disease. If a sick chicken die-, bury ii deep. Kverylhing thoroughly clean. Give them Irish water all day long. Keep stagnant water away. Mr. Hamilton asked how to gel riil of stag nant water. The answer was: "Take a shovel and throw it away if you can't do it otherwise." The ladies m at tendance, were espec ially pleased with Mr. Watson's plain, practical lecture. At. the meeting tonight President Hnrl/Og read a very touching not?' from Col. lt. W. Simnson. chairman of iln; board of tiuste.es, explaining why ho could not be present and express ing his great regret thereat. (HI. Simpson has tgono to llaltimoro to un dergo a surgical operation. Tho sym pathies of all go out to him in his af fliction, and tin* prayer of eVOl'VOUC is Hint he may bo speedily restored to health. Col. Simpson tloes all in his [lOWOr to make these institutes a suc cess, and his presence is grcally miss ed. Tho farmers arc always eager to hear Uol. Newman talk, ami notwith standing a downpour of rain tonight ho had a large crowd to lislen to Ins lecture on grasses and forage crops. He says Bermuda is Iiis hobby; ami Ins straightforward statement of facts to night made tinny converts. Monky in Bkoom Cohn.?Mr. ii. ('. Hardy, who lives near llichland, (la., who has boon successful in raising broom corn, is quoted as follows about the crop : "Tho raising oi broom coin is a new industry in ibo South. The avorago product per acre is 500 pounds of brush. vVhcil tin; soil is iin? ns much as i ,000 pounds can bo laisc.d. As there is no substitute for broom corn hiush, it is always in demand. It, is a crop that can be. easily cultivated, and grows best whore native corn grows b "I, re rjU ring tho same fertilizing. It does bCU in bottom lands. In planting it the rows should be three to four fe?;l apart. It can bo planted 1U lulls two' to three feet apart, with live or six in the hill. If drilled, the stalks should he four or live inches apart, or what is bettor, chop out with a No. :l hoe, leav ing three or four in a bunch. Cultivate the same as corn, but be. careful not to cover the small plants. The time of harvest in this section (southwest door gift) is in duly. Market prices range from f> cents to 8 cenlp per pound. The seed is line feed for chickens. Mixed with natu it is lim? feed for stock. Oftt tle and hogn will thrive on it." ?D A. IS T O H. X W . Bun th? _r-^ Kind You Haw Always Bougfil ?lgnaturo Of r A Pale Face Is ft prominent symptom of vitiated blood. Ifcov< rita with i>l in pics, tho ?vldenco Is, complete. It's nature's troy Of Wtfrnlng you of your condition. Johnston's 'Sarsaparilla never falls to v.-etlfy 111 disorders pf tho blood, slight or sovore. of IoDk RtAnalng or reci nt origin, its thirty years record guirrnnte'cs Its eRtoaoy. Sold everywhere. Price 8L00 per full quart tjoltle. 1 ropnrod ouly Py MIOUIUAN IIHl ll COMPANY, HrlK.lt, Mich. i?. .. mmmm ?.? I '."- .in i by the Niurcna Drug Com puny, Laiin ns, s. C. HF, HAS A JE Algous STREAK Old Times and Customs of Past Days Arc Praised Only by Those Advanced in Years. Atlanta Constitution. I low naturally mankind adapt them selves to those of then kind, their ago, sex and mental condition, Minis <>i tin sanu- feather will 'lock together, and so these little, grandchildren will tun away from me to frolic with other little tot-, and it makes me. jealous, .lu-t so the. next set I'oin It) to 12 years clan logt tie r. Then comes the blushing school '.'iris rrom 12 to l?. Who have lengthened out their (ft'CSSOB ami ceased I" pull up their garters every lew minutes as they walk about. It is tin same, with the hoys, and when they get to he baseball experts with a college attacbm ml they talk of their exploit- in a language that is heathen Chinee to everybody excopl themselves and claim to In: tin elect. And so it goes on ami on un'il we havo passed our maturity, and then we veterans t;:ke our comfort in communion with veterans ami pay our tribute to the good old limes that wili never return. We ate 1 hi i led. I belie ?'c it is true that nobody but tlto oKl men ami women give praise to the oi<t times and the customs of Illen tal hers, ami so if every gem-ration of old people believe Hint the are of their youth was the best, then the limes must have dogonci.itcd awfully since Ibo days of the. prophets, [lave they or have they not golteu better instead Of worse? The answer is, they are hi tter in soon- respects ami worse ill others. 1'uhlic morals were very loose a bundled years ago. Andrew Jackson W is a gl rub' ', bor.iC racer ami duelist seveiity-livi yearn ago. Such a man could not be elected president now. hWeign missions and Sabbath schools wen- almost unknown. The slave Undo with Africa was in lull blast in New Knglaud, and New ICngland ruin was the purchase money. Imprisonment for ilobl Was the law generally, and so was llogging in the navy. Whisky was unknown, lud brandy and rum were kept in almost every respectable household. Illiteracy prevailed almost all over tin- South except among tin: aristocracy, Then wen- |>ul lew hooks to read and fewer newspapers. There w< re no i.tilroads or telegraphs or sew ing machines. Hut the people were generalis holtest |i id religious. There WOI'O no trust!.-, no sliikes, no mil lionaires, no suicides or robberies, and a murder was a rare event and done in the heal of passion. No doubt but that IbcrO are. a hundred of these crimes committed now loom- I hen ac cording to population. Well, then, why arraign the old people, lor lament ing that the good old times have gone'/ Not long ago I heard i gifted and CUl lured minister of ibooldon time preach a most charming and impressive ser mon trom the text in Jcrcmhih which rends, " Stand in the way and ask for the old paths, which ifl the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall lino rost ror your souls." One of the best, lusts of ihe strength of a sermon is your remcmbranco of lite text. When a gl fled am! scholarly minister is done with it and with holy bands says, '?Lot us pray," what a solemnity fills the plan-, and the text lingers with you lor years tt? come. It thus not seem like the same scripture. ,< The old paths,*' '? walk ye in the oltl paths " lias bout) ringing in my ears ever since. I know that Lord Bacon was grow ing old when he wrote, Oltl wood 10 burn, ol<l wine tt> think, oltl friends to trust, ami oltl authors to read." <Vnd Goldsmith said, 11 l love everything that Ifi old." King .lames used to call for his old shoes when be was tired. There is something almost sacred about the oltl songs, sucji as " Aultl Lang Sync." " Tho Old Oaken Ducket," ?? The Old Ann Chair," and OVOn il Old Grimes is dead, that good nid man." My friond Tom Sawyer, of LTorida, wiitts that ho still clings to his old el.lilies; that he has worn his pants for years and yenrs and had them half'SOlcd in the seal and rotnforccd at the kneos and rohOIUtned al dm bot tom; that he bought a homo-made pair ot soeks twenty-seven years ago ami is Wearing thom still, though he has had now foot knit to them three limes ami new tops twice, lie i-ays that Gover nor Uloxham dearly loves the old Illings old heir looms,etc., mid boasts thai hr has an old barrel that has boOQ in Hit! family ever BltlCO Ctdumbus dis covorod Araorlca?for bo brought it over with him full of brandy, ami il has had good liquor of some sort in it ever suit e; that bis great great grand-1 father put now staves in it, and bis great grandfather put new heads ami his father nut new hoops on it. bu tho .aim old bung-holt; Htill remains und when tho fluid Is drawn tho same old BOIind goes goot I It;-goodie-goodie. Tom sayn ho is going to lake tho bung hole and the. goodie to the Atlanta ox position and exhibit them as tho only relics of Christopher Columbus, But about old friends. Every veteran lias iheua and it given pleasure to sec tin-in honoted. JL'ho very pros pect <ii nueimr Henry (i. Tornor in the governor's chair gives me pleasure, l?>r I know Iiiiii wi ll ami love hill). Maybe I would love Colonel Kstill 01 I'ope IJrown just as w<ll if I knew theil) as well. I have irreal respect for them ami am proud of their rec ords. I believe that cither would dig nity the gubernatorial chair, hut as Judge Underwood said to me in the long ago, " Major, lei me tell you why I would like lobogovcruoi of Georgia. You will admit that knowledge is a little belter than faith. There ale many good men whom I believe would make a good governor, hut 1 don't know it. Now I do know that I would; ami lucre is a difference between faith nml knowledge. Don't you porcolvc?" ?hist so 1 b diove llial Colonel ISstill or I "ope Drown would make a good gOV omor, but l kno.v thai Henry C Tur ner would and knowledge is bettor lb.au faith. ?** Don't you perceive?" II ho is not an Incorruptible, uuselUsh, brainy 8talesman, we have none. Let his name In; presented and 1 believe the verdict will be as the king said of Mordceai: u Thus shall it be done unto tho man whom the people delight to honor." ID t.l. Altr. TO ClIASK AWAY ON 1$ S LUCK. The Maxims of Experience -Su perstition Thrives Best Among I Women. H a man walks under a ladder ami the careless painter above upsets the paint pot upon him the victim prompt ly forirots both his religious teachings and his materialistic reasoning and all tin: preachers in the world and all the Ingorsolls in forty-live states com bined could not convince him that it was not unlucky to do as he had done. Superstition is tlie one thing that Christian and unbeliever unite in at tacking, y el, despite the onslaught of pulpit, press and platform, it survives not, perhaps, as openly, hut none the less strongly, even if Bhamc-facedly feared, says lite I'lllshurg Dispatch. The Witch of Kndor may he hut a classical remembrance and civilization may have convinced the SnlcmtluH of the futility of the brand and tho fagot as an exorcising medium, but few of us have not some hoodoo or somo be lief, however slight, in fate and for tune. Hypnotism and Hie. faith eure are its modern development. The literature of s-upoistil ion, as ex pressed in the piovcihs of ovory land, is not usually given the attention it d. serves. These maxims roprc?oltllllg the toslcd and accumulated experience of mankind have had their effective ness dosiroyod by familiarity. Tlio axiom that in union there is strength is only being fully appreciated by the corporations and the labor unions after centuries of repetition. This was one of tho proverbs not based upon super stition, which probably accounts for its lack ol recognition sooner. Mut take the majority of the aphorisms and it is not dillicult'to trace them back to a superstitions origin or forward to a Btiporslilous moral. uTho morojhasto, the less speed" lir.ds expression in tho belief tiiat it is unlucky u> turn back from a journey. The individual who has been half way to his work with a lev/ minutes to spare ami has had to turn hack for some essential he had forgotten, realized the ill luck when he was "docked" for being late. The ma l who hurries to catch a tram or to sec a show and leav es his money or bis ticket in his Other clothes also adorns the illustration. Spilling it box of matches is a sure sign of a row III many households. If it is the man of the house who does the spilling the row doesn't tarry oil tho way while he piclurostptely blames bis bettor half for leaving them upside down or placing them in an awkward corner. Spilling the salt, was long re garded as so unlucky that unspillahlc t all shakers were illVOalcd to dodge it. The uncanny cat has long been the symbolic superstitious animal. The black cat which ( losses the path of the pedestrian brings him ill luck. This is especially true it tho threatened victim trios to ward it off by shooting the eat hack to its lair. With one's eyes on the cat one may easily trip upon obstructions and break a leg or a llCCk. Hut the cat is not alwavs an omen (if evil. If he or she squats nt your door R'jd mews lustily at night it means good luck to all within the house. To chnsosucu a cat away is to chase away one's luck. It is terrible to think Of the amount of luck that has been chased away. When one door shuts another opens! vays the proverb. Quaint and homely was its wisdom. hut the one that I opens may be the door of the police station or the poor farm nowadays. Still, it is a door, and that lets the pro verb out. Some have striven to en large the axioms by having two open when one shuts, but one must have been a screen do r, and that doesn't count. One might never get farther I than the. vestibule. ? Superstition, like religion, thrivoa boJl among women. Thoir more im aglliatlVO minds grasp the ideals thai Oludo the masculine materialist. The dropping of a knife in many bouses is regatded as so COrtaill an indication of ibo arrival of a " man at tbo bouso," I bat preparations arc, at once made to evade the ice colleclOl' and Ilm in ilall menl man, or lo be out when the tax collector calls. The dropping of a fork equally foretells tbo visit of a woman and tbo lady of the house, immediately darts to her boudior lo li primp up." All people do not know ?bat the dropping of a comb while combing the hair indicates that the person drop ping il will soon hear of death. An in stance of this occurred la.t week. Friday a friend of the family, writing from Ohio, incidentally mcniioned the death of the mother of the grocer the family used to buy from. The comb was thus corroborated dospltO the fact that the deceased was otherwise cn i tirely unknown. For a friend to meet or pans you ami not recognize you moans that you will ho mamed within a yonr. The fact that you ai'0 already mnrnod does not matter, presumably. You must ?et a dlvorco and nmko tbo prediction good. Fortunatoly this axiom Is uioro honored in the broach Ihan in Ibe ob' Borvauoo, Opening an umbri 11a in I bo bouse iri unlucky. Any poisou who ban hoisted bis or hor umbrella iu llio bouso and in BO doing lias knocked off a lamp globe or shade, never doubled Iho wis dom of Ibe proverb maker. Dropping an umbrella prcsagoa a diappoinlmcni. He who bar tried to hrush the mud oil, has many of them before be gets it cleaned again. There is, however,! im ill-luck attached to dropping the subject. J MOWHY VALUE OF A WIFE An Unusual Law Suit to be Tried Sbortly in Indiana. One of the uiost unusual lawsuits on record is soon to bo tried in the State of Indiana. It will settle lIn: money value, of a prospective wile. CliarloS Arnold, a citizen of Spencer County, was on^uged to lie married to I a young Uuly at MololtO Blalion on Iho Clover Leal ItailrouU. 11 is not staled whether this road is of the three or four leaf variety of clover, hut it has a law suit on hand. The prospective brido was not killed by tho railroad, nor was bodily injury indicted upon Charles Arnold. The railroad is asked to respond in the sum of $20,000 for damages done to the. feelings of young Arnold on account of this circum stance : The young man boarded Ibe (Jlovor Loaf Railroad (Jo. car at his home Bin lion equipped with a ticket which read Mololto. When the conductor camo around Arnold told him that he was vtry tirod and Bleep) , wearied by prep arations lor the approaching event, and thai it was his desire, to take a nap. The conductor promised faith fully to arouse the passenger in proper time, and so Arnold ensconced himself in the coach and sluuiberod. There were other passengers on the train ami the conductor had other duties to at tend to, and the coming marriage was not so Imlolib'.y impressed upon his mind as the. youth imagined ami hence it did not occur to him that he had a passenger for Melolte station. The train sped on and when the prospec tive bridegroom awoke he was miles from the appointed station and it was hours after the appointed lime. His atliauccd had waited a reasonable time ! and thou the joyous anticipations turn ed to anger and she, swore, she would have none of him. All c(Tor19 to mend mutters wore fu nk-. The engagement was eternally broken, and Mr. Arnold turned from the court of cupid to Hie civil tribunal for satisfaction. Tho answer which tho railroad company interposed ill lighting the suit for damages ami upon which the defendant corporation relies in seeking relief from responsibility is as follows : First They are not a sleeping cai company, nor subject to i'.s rules. Second Plaintiff was guilty of cub palde negligence. Third?The. woman he was to mai n is a widow, and under the net covering second-hand goods, should not he as sessed at the full value of original wives. Fourth?Wives are cheap in Indiana anyway, and the plaintiff can get ail Other just as good lor S'JO. Fifth -Plaintiff in equity owes the railroad company 820,000 far saving him from an Indiana marriage BrFOUK MAKKIAMK AND Al i l.lt. ? Dr. Temple, the Archbishop of Can terbury, is a notable personage about whom many good stories are related. Some \ears ago a young curate seeking to be licensed, was bidden by Dr. Tem ple to read a few verses of the liable, in order that his lilness for conducting public worship might ho judged. "Not loud enough," was the criti cism of the bishop when the young man had finished "Oh, I'm sorry to hear lb it, my lord," replied the curate ; a lady in the church yesterday told me 1 could be beard most plainly all over." "Ah! are you engaged ?" suddenly asked I >r. Temple. "Yen. niV lord." Tho bishop smiled grimly and said : "Now lislcn to me young man. While you are. engaged don't bcliovo every thing the lady tells jam, hut," he add ed with a deep chuckle, "alter you are married, boliovo every word she Biiys." ? />o/M/<m Truth. Professor Marshall, Hie noted Km?? liHh economist, rAtiinalea that $?()(), (um nun Is spent annually l>y Um Brit ish working classes for things that do nothing to make their lives nobler or truly happier. At the last meeting of the British association, thi president, in an address to the economic section, expressed his belief that the simple item of food wasted alone would justi fy the above mentioned estimate. One potent cause of waste to-day is that very many of the women, having been practically brought up in factories, do not know how lo buy economically, and are. neither passable cooks nor good housekeepers. It has oboncati-j united that, in the I'nitod Stales, the I waste from bad cooking alone is over <> thousand million dollars a year ! A Sunday school teacher in Car thage, III , has a <lass of little girls, and it h her custom to tell them each Sunday of some little incident that has happened in tho week, and request the children to quote a verse of Scripture to illustrate the story. In this way she hopes to impress the usefulness of Bib lical knowlfidao upon the little ones. Last Sunday she told her class of a cruel boy who would catch eels and cut their tails off. "Now, can any lit Llo girl tell nio of im appropriate verse?*' she asked. There was a pause, for a few moments, when one little girl arose mid in a solemn voice said : "Whatsoever Ood has joined together, let not man put asunder." A new bicycle-propelling mechanism has two grooved wheels in place of the sprocket wheels, over which an endless belt runs, small guide wheels being at tached to the frame close to the main wheels to cause the belt to grip the Surface of the grooves. OASTOI1IA. J^?%$JL Powder ~ Absolutely Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome _ROVAt (?KIH.T l"Y*QtH CO.. M * >OHH. IN A HUMOROUS Mi IN. Mr I! iv Slaunurd linker, who is pleasantly rein? nihere<l in Atlanta, has a notable urtietu In the eurronl Mo ( 'line's entitled 11 Tin Search for the Missing Link." Many Darwinian illustrations are givi n als?., a chart, explanatory of the same. Sbo n Ibcsc, lb other Dickey's observation wa?: "Well, sub, el l docs come fum dej ginoralion cr do monkey, all I hopes is ? late I'll be able ler climb rz high in ' In aveii use do monkey do <>n earth "' Atlanta < ^institution. A. dapperyoung negro applied :u tho Treasury Doparlmoiu iura position, " What < an you iloY" asked one of (ho soci etal i<,: 11 Anything, snh, anything." L113 (Irow himscll up proudly. I m I rom tho first fiilato in tho Union, sub." ,l Now Vot k ?" i uNo, sah; Aiuhaiiin, "ah.*" ?? Hut Alabama .-n't the iit>t state in tho I luion." ! "Alphabetically speaking, sab; al phahclieu lv spc.uking." -Washington Mar. Wouldn't it bo will to olcol several I policemen members to ihr Kuglish 1 House of Commons ami thus aave Ibo , trouble ol having to go out ami rail thrm in ho frequently ?? -Hosten Herald. Mrs. Ncxdoro I guess you've noticed the new way my daughter has of playing Ibe piano. Where do you suppose she 'ji t Hie idea from? Mrs. I'epprey From perversity, I suppose. I'hiladelphia I'rcss. Kdilh 14 Ob, Sophy, what an age since we met! At'- \Oil still living at the same placi ?" Sophy (loftily)? *? No, indeed! I'm married, and h ive taken a tl it." Kdilh?44 Vou don't say s i! What's his name?" Tbl Hits. Profcssoi 4 ? The question socms to pux./.le you'.'" Student " Not at all. sir the an swer does'"? Fun. '? Fa, what i - a phlloSOpllOl ?" "A philosopher, .limmie, is a man who thinks he ha? goi through being a fool." Octroii l'n e Press. I ,j I've lo8l ii 1'iell relation." i* I'm sorry ; i hear lliai, Who was It?" *? My fill's rather, ."-lie - juM in formed mo bIic couldn't think of ?vor marrying me." 1'hiladclphia Times. '? Bridge! I old Mrs. Next door thai I was a henpecked Tool; shall I discharge her ?" u AI once! Iiiidgct hasjno right to toll our latnily scen t ??> the m Ighhors." ?()hio State .1 nur mil. Under the spreading clicslnul tu e A sad-eyed llgure stands; A comic editor is he, And he shakes it with hi- hau is. I'iek-Mo-Up. i ?? I'll admit thill I opposed your mar riage, my children," said Silas Fodder, I " hul now that you're hitched up, I'll i forgive you." Tho groom straightened up und put ? No li hoot down hard on the lloor. 111 don't sec win re you come in in this forgivm1 hi/.noHB," ho answered. "As you say. you done your level host to keep us rrom geltill' -pined, an' it BOOins that I oil to he the one to do the forgivin', winch I ain't a-goin' to do. I Me an" M Uldy's goill1 to ne ve over in I Jasper township, an i! I ever kcleh \ you aroun1 the place I'll IUI you full o' buckshot I" And Inking Mandy's lily white hand in his own largo brown one, In- strode I across the threshold. -Haltiiuoio I World. Ii was Charley's Ural gumo*ol golf. His patient friend had lukon him sadly around tin eighteen holes ami watched him hack lim ha I ml > small hits and cut up the green as though it hau* boon plowed by shrapnel. A her the game Uhni'ley und his patient friend were talking Ion fow of tbo goiters en the eluhdioiise \ cranda. "'Thai wa< a heaut it'll I 8 hot you illitdc this afternoon, (Jharley," said the patient fi iond. Chnrloy btighteoed up and Hushed bappilj, while the young w omen looked At him admiringly. Wltiolt one," be asked cage i j. " Why,'' Stud lite patient friend, " the time yon hit lite ball." -Chicago Tribune. By angry Heads hcsicgod on ovory hand, lie died iiim>ii llio Hold. Tho rebol band Soil's uolo him, and ho Bank. 1'oor umpire! All ihc roolors iu tho bland Tliougbl bis decision rank. 1 'hiladelphi i lloci rd. " Did 1 understand you losay Ihm you havo no poor relatives?" " Mono thai I know of." " Tin n you have rieb relations, of cow so?" '* N'ono lliiil know mo." Aii Irisb Judge, Billing in Four ('mills, Dublin, iu summing tip n ease in which ibe plaintiffs wore a lady and hor daughter, began: 11 Clcnilcmi n ol the jury, everything in this CIUU eein plain except Mr*. U'Toolo lltid her charming daughlev." " What do ji.ii ilo," askeil Hie mir CASTOR IA The Kind You Have Always Bought For Infants and Children. Boars tho Signature ff wlnt Ihm! hoc? married only a few .months, "when your husband coinoa home Int( night ?" ? i protend n<>t to notice that he i isn't on lime, and pu tty soon ho asks in" if l wouldn't like t<> go to tho roof garden <?. somewhere tomorrow nftoi noon " Styles Capitalists say that tlioy find it dillicull to invest their monoy at pa\ing latus. liyios -Then 1 am in luck for once. st^Us a,.a your monoy in Rome thing thai pays you a good interest ? I Ivies I haven't any monoy I'.oston Transci ipl. ?? I'm ready," shouted the speaker, ? t-> me< t calmly any emergency that in ty arise." At that moment the plat fonn collapsed, and the speaker ox bibited great perturbation. " Uow about that Olio?" they asked him later. '1 hnl one did not arise,'* he replied, mournfully -Tit-Hits. Somehow," she said, I never can sue you wilhoul thinking of Irulh." 11 I - thai so?" hi- asked, being a fol? low whn was always doing somelbing original. " Yes. Truth crushed to earth will tisr. again, you kllOW." '? lint what has thai go! to do with I me?" Well, you've In en thrown down by nearly every girl in this town, hul I see that yOU COIllilUfO to COIUO Up s oiling." bol'NI) Sl.KKl't N<i Sl'mlliS'l'ION'S.? Two in a Im <l i- Iho usual custom of nl( i pillg, in llic United Mali s al least, ami also in Canada and England, lint lit (ioitUHliy ami I'lalli i . s;iys ItOOll llottsi keeping, sing e hen-- arc the rule. The Jailor plan is moio lioallhful ami comfortable. It is gradually coining inlo use in this country, single hods involve nn re linen, more work in mak ing bedfi and more washing, hut 1 nev er knCW a lannly to return to the old plan aller 0I1CC giving single beds a lair trial. Especially in summer is the single h 'I to be preferred, or even sleeping on the lloor, to two in a bed. Manj (amilics declare they never knew vvhal comforl was during the hot sum mer nights, until tbov edonted the sin glc beds. I might add a word of pro t< si :>!_'.ii11-1 ttllowiog babies or young children i" sleep wiih old people. Tho latter certainly draw upon the vitality '>! tin; loimer. This is probably true us between any bedfellows, one of Whom i sickly or less strung than I ho other. Consumption and other dis eases h ivo often been communicated from one bedfellow to another, The Independent is delighted over a plohlhitivo rule Tor the l'hilippinC8, At last we are having a hil ol prohibi tion in the Philippines, lion. Kohho lias issued an . "d< r absolutely forbid ding the rota 1 sale of all liquors, whether rennen ted or distilled, in tho department ol Mindanao ami dolo. Kvcry saloon must he closed. Iloor ami wine can he sold In the original packages ol mil leSs than a do/.cn bot i ties for eonsiunption by the purohuser, I and stronger liquor- only in wholesale quantities, on the written ordi r of the i senior commanding . Ulcer, bul not for I n sale, and under no condition to M<> \ ros or people living in Morn communi ties. 'J in chiof disgrace of our gov i rumen! in the Philippines has conn from saloons, v Inch ought to have had much mor - restraint, and wean glad lo Bee IhiH rule, especially in Mo hammediin ? . mmunilies, w here Chris liaiis should sot n good example. The l'hiliictclpliia Itccord says ; ??Mi n wli>? have hcuoiuo accustomed Id I n c ami in restrained franchise grab* lung all over ihc Union art: aiua/.'-d lo Ibid that the executive council of I'or (u llico insists in ever)'ease upon ro? cciviug a royally for (ho public treas ury win n public proporly is to be taken lor private usejind prollt. The coun cil doCs Uol propi SC to sin against the. light. Projectors of transportation, iiilciconimuiiicaiion, wharf construe* lion, wntor-power developtuonl ami public laud utilization schemes must pay the Stale lor the exclusive privi* legi ? llu-y eiij >v. Tins is the mod' in 'In ory of administrative relation to cor poration-, as opposed to tins long-stand* I ing practice of grab?nud-givo?uolhing J in vogue in the United Mates.'" Tho wife of a Methodist miuinlor in \\?*~i Virgium has been married three limes. Hi r tnniden name win I'ari. ridge ; lior lit.-t husband was named Itohili ; her secoml Sparrow and thw presom one's name Is Quayto. Tlioro aro now two young ItobiiiH, one Spur row aim three lilllo (.'navies. OllO grnndfaihci Is a Swann ami another was a Jay, bid he's doad and now is a hu i ol paradise. Tlioy live on Hawk avenue, ICiglcviUo, Canary Islands, lind tin' fellow who wrote the above is a lyre bird, an interested relative, of the family. Alhough i 10 use i?f the telephone li IS in?!l'( USCil lllpillly here, thoi'O M'O countries in Europo in which lolc* nhOHOS are in fill' IUOI'0 gOllorfll use than hero. In Stockholm, Sweden, oik* person in ovory fourteen lias a iol? ephouo, there boing more i; n 20,000 lolcphones in a population of 271,000? livory tobacconist's store is a public call olllco it'id tin rales are very low. The Columbia lllvor in Canada is 1,400 milos in length' '.In-, stream of the same name in Oregon is ?'?(III. It is a wise man who knows his own business, ami it is a wiser man who thoroughly attends to it. OABTOllIA. Boo-?o\, /) Km Kind You jjaw Always Bought