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The pecan is a hickory, carga olivoi formis, so named from the olive-shape of the nut. As tim ber, it is nearly as valuable as the shell bark hickory for all mechanical uses. It is adapted to a great diversity of cli mate and soil. Near Tampa, Fla., there are trees bearing bushels of nuts, grow ing on the white sandy scrub lands, under an average temperature of 7 degrees. Within the recolection of men, not yet very aged, the pecan was one of the nuts not classed as commer cial, nor placed on the table. Now it has not only nearly displaced the the hazel nut, but is deservedly taking rank next to the almond. In Santa Rosa county, IF lorida, lives a man who has supported his family upon the pro duce of a few pecan trees. Less than fifty years ago, a man living near the banks of the Blackwater, was walking in his field, having in his pocket some ~]arge, thin-shelled pecans which he had received from Louisiana. The thought -occurred to him that they might grow; so he made holes a couple of inches deep in the soil with his cane, and dropped in each a nut, and covered them up with hiis foot. The nuts came up and have made large trees, and the present owner of the land yearly re -ceives. mnore~ money for the barrels of' nuts they produce than does the owner of an equal number of orange trees. The best nuts bring as high as seventy five cents a pound for the purpose of planting. The pecan tree can be grown on any land on which the oak or hick ory may be grown, and the fruit will be fairly true to its parentage, so that when the best nuts have been used for seed, good marketable ones will be pro-, * duced. The cultivation of the tree need not greatly exceed that for a hill of corn, during the first three years of its life, after which, if it be six feet high, it may be left to itself. The pecan r.oots will generally form below the action of the plough, and if the tree be defended by strong stakes to prevent wounding the stem of the tree, the field may be ploughed and planted to crops, leaving the tree to be tended by the hoe. The stem of tree should not rise to exceed six or seven feet before forming its top, and if there be plenty of room and light, it puts on a fine spreading top. A proper distance for planting is thirty-three feet, or forty to the acre. After the trees come into bearing, which will be in the tenth year from the seed, ploughing the ground should cease. Just before the nuts commence to fall the surface should be raked clean to enable the nuts to be seen and gath ered. The pecan tree is one of great healthfulness, its enemies being con fined to the long moss and a variety of caterpillar, which must be removed by hand. The nuts fall as soon as they are ripe, and slight jar or shake given with the foot or hand will dlow-n all that are fit to gather.. Cattle and horses must not be allowed to trample and pack the soil under the trees. In all parts of the South the pecan can be grown for profit. There can never be too great a sup)ply of nuts, as the demaud is incrasing largely each year. Wrote a Letter on the I?ack of a P'osta;;e Lux!Nr;h. C'onnI.. March 1s. Wheni the Postmra-ster at the little country oillee in~ this village openedi his mail bag one day last week at single cancelled p otage stampJ fell out. lie looked among the letters to see if the starnp had. come from anyv of thlemi, but they were all right. Theni he examined the back of the stamnp to see if the gumr was still on it. Het found that Mrs. .J. F. Irviss of Shiake:r .station?, in this State, had exerei: d her ingenuity and strained her eye.-ghit by writing a letter oin the bar-k of the -tamp;. ( n 'one edge was a *'miallmri of whrite paper, such as is always foundl on the ui! sheet of 4Zampis. and on this. was wi tten the address, 311ss Lia:.i L. Kibb. For wveak back, chest 9):(l0!. U,- >r J. H1. 31eLean's Wonrderful Hin Plaster (p)ous. For rhceumatic and neura.'ie pins bring Dr. J. H. McLean's \ lcn Oil Liniment, and take Dr. J. H. Me Lean's Sarsan arila. You will not suITer long, will be gained witht a speedy and effective cure. Frequently accidents occuir in the house-hold which cause buirns, cuts sprains and bruises: for use in such cases Dr. J. H. 3IcLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment has for many years been the constant favorite family remedy. TiE MAN WHO 1)11) IT. A Victory of Leadership ard Not of I:ht oric. New York Sun.] One of the most potent political doe unients that can be circulated before or during the Presidential canvass of 18'92 has recently been issued from the press of George R. Gray, printer, at Wash ington. This pvnphlet consists of extracts from the journal of th( Senate, covering the history of the mernorable fight against the Force bill. The record be gins.with Mr. Hoar's motion on De cember 3, 101, to proceed to the con sidera_ ion of the remodelled Lodge bill, and it ends with the vote of January 2';, 1891, when the Senate, by a majori ty of one, laid the defeated measure aside and proceeded to consider appor tionment. None of the long speeches against the Force bill are reported in the pamphlet of which we are now speak ing. It simply presents in chronologi cal order the strategic and tactical as pects of an extraordinary struggle. The preliminary manceuvres for position, the parliamentary skirmishes, the pro tests against the limitation of debate, the energetic resistance of the effort to stifle amendments, the appeals for a fair and impartial hearing, the great battle over the gag rule, the masterly handling of the Democratic minority, which at last achieved a victory against almost hopeless odds, are here exhibited in a compilation from the official record which makes a narrative with movement as rapid and interest as in tense .msavel On every page is the na of Sena tor Gorman of Maryland; and yet fro the beginning to the end of the debate, as far as we remember, he made no speech upon the merits of the measure which he was opposing with all the power of intellect and all the resources of experience and all the courage of honest Democratic convictions. It was a victory of leadership, not of rhetoric. The leader was Arthur P. Gorman. This is the story of one of the greatest services which patriotism ever rendered to this country in time of peace. The Date of The Crucifixion. That the time of Christ's crucifixion may be approximately demonstrated by astronomical calculation, after pay ing due regard to the historical data in our possession, is asserted by Judge Joseph P. Bradley of the Supreme Court of the United States. The cardi nal conditions required are: First that the time must be brought within the procuratorship of Pontius Pilate; sec ondly, it must be after the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tibe rius and after the thirtieth year of Christ's age; thirdly, it must occur on the 15th of the Jewish month Nisan (or Abb), and on the sixth day of the week, or Friday. After a great deal of laborious research- Mr. Bradley deduced the following conclusions: "There was only three years from A. D. 27 to A. D. 35, inclusive, in which the 1st of Nisan, and consequently the 15th of Nisan happened on Friday. These were A. D. 27, 30 and 3:3, the last being very doubt ful. But the crucification could not have happened before A- D. 28, and probably not later than A. D. 31. Therefore the year 30 is the only one which satisefis all the conditions of the problem. It sat isti~s them, because it gives opportunity for Jesus to teach publicly for about three years and to attend three pass overs during his ministry, or four, ac cording as it commenced on or before April 3, A. D. 27. Now, since in A. D. 30 the 1st of Nisan fell on Friday, the 24 of March, the 15th fell on Friday, the 7th of April which was the day of the crucification." "Beautiful WVords to a Bride." [Montgomery Argus.] The following beautiful letter was written several years ago by a gentle man to a bride, on receiving her wed ding cards. It is exquisitely fresh and original and full of poetry: "I am holding some pastebaard in my hands. Three stately pluckings from the bush of ceremony. I am gaz ing upon a card and a name-a name with which your throbbing heart was lost. "I am gazing, too, upon a card where the nearer parent tells the world she will be 'at home' one day, and that is nothing new. But there is another card whose mingling there puts a fiery tongue into this speechless pasteboard, enamelling fate on commonplace. It tells us that feeling is maturing into destiny, and that these cards are but the pale heralds of a coming crisis, when a hand that has pressed friends' hands and plucked Ilowers shall close (own on him to whom she shall be friend and flower forever. "And now can you, who have queen ed it over so many bended forms, can you come dowvn at last to the frugal diet of a single heart? "Hitherto you have been a clock, giving your time to all the world. Now you a-e a watch, buried in one particui lar bosom, watching only his breast, marking only his houirs, and ticking only to the best of his heart-where time and feeling shall be in unison, un til thbese lower ties are lost in that high er w edloek, where all hearts are united around that great (central heart of all. "'Hoping that enhia sunishine miay h allow your clasped hanids, i sink silently into a signature.'" Curious, Expe'rim'enkt ini skiin Giraftin; . of =kinI which1 Dr. John Ege of this city irected between and white persons haenow hetald perfetly. and his first :Iprei:. tha~lt the black skin grafted ;2n to a white lersoni turns white while whiit'k ini -.traftedl on to a black persons renan whi, have been confi rmed. The~ wite ekin remnains as white as ever, while the black skini ha come as wvhite as that which! su:rrouas it To allay pains, subdue inflanimation, heal foul sorer and ulcers the most prompt and satisfactory eut r b ained by using that -ld resltaberemeb dy, Dr. J. H-. MecLean's Volcanic Oil T.inimet GILUN. It is Owined by the Ilaugiiter of the Man who Manufactured It. CHATTANOOGA, March 9.-The first gun made for the Confederate Govern ment is owned by Mrs. H. I. Miller of this city. The owners of Libby prison, now in Chicago, are in correspondence with Mrs. Miller for the purchase of the historical relic. The gun was made by Mrs. Miller's father, W. S. McEt waine, at Holly Springs, Miss., in the summer of IS61. It was carried through part of the war by a young man of Holly Springs, a friend of Mr. 1cEl. waine. Originally it had a rifled barrel. About the middle of the war the barrel was injured by a ball, and the gun was returned to Mr. Mellwaine, who cut it oft at the injured point and bored it for a shotgun. Mr. McElwaine was a native of Pitts field, Mass., where he learned the trade of a machinist. Afterward he worked in a gun factory in New York, and then moved to Sandusky, Ohio, where he engaged in the foundry and Ita chine business. In 1851) he went to Mississippi on a prospecting trip He settled at Holly Springs, and in a crude way began the foundry business with two partners. When the war began the company had a well-equipped es tablishment, which Jefferson Davis in duced the owners to convert into an ar mory. Small arms were badly needed, and Mr. McElwaine planned and made the necessary machinery for nianufac turing them. With his own hands he made the first gun, which his daugh ter now preserves. ---- ' When the ba .-Iih was fought in Iene plant was turning out twen ty-five stands of arms a day and em ploying 500 hands. The armory was afterward sold to the Confederate Gov ernment for $150,000, in addition to the $60,000 paid for converting it into an armory. The plant was shortly after ward removed to Macon, Ga. After the evacuation of Corinth by the Con federates a raid was made on Holly Springs and the buildings were burned. After an eventful career the maker of the first gun of the Confederacy died in Chattanooga in 1872. HER ACCOMPLISHMENT. Nobody Could Guess It, and It Proved a Strange Revelation. The women of New York society are in many cases accomplished in very odd ways, and a party of men the other night passed an interesting quarter of an hour in recalling some of the un common talents of their feminine ac quaintances. One handsome young woman was an adept in blowing the coaching horn; another was a very suc cessful carver of onyx; one of the most sedate young ladies in town danced a clog to the perfection; a dutiful and beautiful wife made all her husband's trout flies, and her husand was re nowned as a fisherman ; a rather slIm and wiry girl, famous for her waltzing, was a scientific boxer, and could give her clever brother a breezy four-round battle; a lady who rode in the Park each day occasionally showed to her friends in the country how she could stand on the back of a cantering horse; a fair mermaid of Newport could smoke a cigarette under water: these, and half a hundred other wondrous perform ances were told of women by the men that knew them, amid great applause. Finally, a young fellow who had been listening lazily to the conversation spoke up in drawling tones, and the attention of~ the company became riv eted upon him. "I knew a far more extraordinary girl than any you have mentioned, once upon a time," said he. "She was the sister of a classmate of mine at college. Rich, I think. Very swell. Blonde girl, tall and straight and jolly, for I used to go rowing with her when I vis ited 'em up the river. Pull a powerful oar, too, and as clever other ways. One of her talents, though, was certainly remakable. I never found it out until I'd known her three weeks. Never paraded it. Seemed to take it as a matter of course. When I did hear of it at last I spoke to her father about it, and he agreed with me that it was a very rare accomplishment in a girl. Not that it was especially needed in women, but there were emergencies when it might come into play. I was rather struck with 'the charm of the thing. In fact it ralher clinched the good opinion I had already formed of the girl, and I asked her to marry me. The wedding will be in two months." There was a pause. The speaker ap parently went into a reverie that he had no intention of disturbance. Fi nlly a howl went up. "Well, what is the accomfplishmlent of this girl, Billy?" Billy roused himself; and looked aout at the faces of his friends. "Oh, didn'lt I tell you?" said he. "why; she can cook." Iml)rove the nutritive functions of the scalp by using Hall's Vegetable Hair Recnewver, and keel) the hair fromz falling and becoming gray. P'. P. P'. Saves Lif. SAYS wILL. LIVE FOREVER. A promiinent Savannahian, formerly suerintendlent of a railroad, says: "I was cripoled inl my feet and arms so that I co'uld not walk without crutches, nor eat without having a servant to feed me. 1 tried physicians everywhere, but to no putrpose, and finally wvent to New York, where my doctors, at one timel, decided to amputate my arm, but found that course impracticable, on aeonit of a wound I1 had received luring the wvar. I returned to Savan ah a.complete wreck, and my case