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1 THE END OF HIS Tfp 9 ? ?t The President Sent From tlosjial on a Stretch:r. nncniTSAV C/ffl iDCTCvC I nr. UfLKAIivM I VA VJ llu? The Western Tour bought to sn t Unexp cted and4.brupt Close at Indianapolis?Dctors Feared Blood Poisorinj. I Indiana is. hi., Special.?President Roc*, v *rrn trip came to an untimely end 1 this city Wednesday. He was f?xl to be suffering from a swellinwfn the left log, between the kncclsd the ankle, which required surgical attention. .""-id instead f being taken to the train to conrine Ms journey to Fort Wajr..- and Milaukce, he was conveve ) to St. Virent s Hospital, where he was operatecc:1. The operation occioek and lasted only a short 'title. Turn he was taken to a private roim in .{*.?* hospital to rest. After taking a light luncheon at 7:30 p. m.. he was conveyed on a stretcher to his train, which had been backed up. 011 a "V" near the hospital, and at ? 50 o'clock the trrin left for Washm> Jn.coa. The first L :imation that anyI thiny was wrong <: ne in the form of rumors to the great crowd, which was patently waiting i. ar the Columbia Club and the soldiers' and sailors' mcr.umcnt for the President to appear. It was about 2:30 o'clock, half an hour after the : ime set for the \ President to leave ,_ie city, that a few favored ones in the crowd received intimations that the President was sick and the rest of the trip would be ate.udcned. These statements were as promptly denied, as fast as they # gained currency, but soon the rumors J beaan to take on a more serious char Lp .acter. ^ "The President has burst a blood vessel." was a whisper that went .around among the police officers and soldiers. "This cannot be true," and others, "for the President is in the corridor conversing with Senator Fairbanks." Then it was said that the President was sick, that he had fainted, and finally a rumor was started that he had been shot These rumors, however. did not appear to reach the crowd. A half hour or more passed, and finally it was noticed that a movement of some kind was on. The President's carriage stood in front of the entrance of the club with Colonel Wilson, the Governor's private secretary. inside, holding the large bunch of American Beauty roses that had been given the President in the hall. The soldiers of the National Guard were drawn up along the street just In the rear The Secret Service men and the lccal police and detectives crowded the sidewalks in front of the ' club, keeping back the people. The command was given to "make room" and a path was cleared from the club entrance to the carriage, and. as if in answer to the rumors cf his illness, the President accompanied by Senator Fairbanks with a quick and sturdy gai:.. cami down the steps of the club and hastily entered the carriage Colonel Wilson got out and Senator Fairbanks. Secretary Cortelyou and Governor Durbin took seats in the carriage with the President The carriage started immediately for St. Vincent Hospital. Though the carriage was closed, the crowds on the streets cheered. At the hospital the President alighted, and walked with Senator Fairbanks and Governor Durbin up Py the steps of the hospital. A squad of it police formed a cordon about the Y ^ building. After the President entered the operating room he sat down and waited for instruction from the physicians and surgeons, watching their preparations with keen interest. I "I am flu'fnllr enrrv T oannnf pnn tinuc my Western trip." said he "Can't you lot me go ahead with it after this thing is over?" Several o! the surgeons turned to him and one said: "It is my opinion that you would be very indiscreet to continue cn your feet, as would be necessary in your spcechmaking trip, mfter your operation. This is by no L means a serious thing and there is absolutely no danger of serious consequences from it. if you are careful and stay off your feet until the trouble is over. But you should by all means, Mr. President discontinue your trip." "Very well. then, it will have to be that way," said the President, resignedly. n The operation was begun without delay. The pain caused the President to mutter several times in a low voice, but he said nothing that was distinct except, to ask for a glass of water before the needle had been removed. After the operation was over, he made several laughing remarks. After being taken to an upper room from the operating table the President was served wiin a uftui luauueuu ana cnauea pleasantly to those in the room. He made several kind remarks to the attending nurses about the trouble he was causing, and shifted his position I several times nervously. I At 7:40 p. m., a white blanket was 1 thrown around him and he was placed R on the hospital stretcher and escorted R by a company of infantry, was carried B / to the car, a block away, by four negro mm pcrrters from the train. The swelling of the President's leg. which made an ^R operation necessary, was occasioned by |B a bruise he received at the time of the BB trolley car^went at Pittsfield. Mass. Besides^^^Bnjured in the face and ^R across President at that time UDon the inner H^R part between the ankle and ^^^^^^^karacteristically he ^^^R pa' ignoring it as BB not weeks he began to his fl^^HNBHH^HRjH^HBBBtestern trip, he HB^B^HHHRHH^B^R^Bjexamine IB r ' ? was decided that In order to avoid the possibility of blood poisoning, it would be best to have an operation performed. The President was very much averse to anything of the kind, but nevertheless. when Logansport had been reached. he had been prevailed on to deliver the tariff speech, which had been prepared for delivery at Milwaukee, and which was regarded as one of the most important of his proposed speeches for the West. At Logansport, Senator Bcv eridge boarded the train and alter a consultation with him it was decided that he should summon several of the best physicians of Indianapolis to mc-et the President. When the train pulled into the station, the doctors wore there r.r.d they were taken by the Senator immediately into the President's car. Whfn the President arose to greet the padty. and also when he- arose to make address, it was noticed by those near him that he stood with ail his weight on his right leg. and the posture seemed so awkward and so much like a pose that it caused comment. When the President was taken to the Columbia Club for luncheon, he was made the subject of a serious consultation by tho physicians. His leg was bared and the swelling examined. After a considerable time the doctors reached h verdict. Said Dr. Oliver: "In order to avoid possible blood poisoning setting in, it will be necessary ror tne President to submit to a slight operation," and to this view all the oth'. r concurred. The President wished to postpone it until he reached Washington, but the physicians again proved obdurate. They gave it as their opinion that the bruise could not be trilled with, in its present condition and that no one could afford, under al! the circumstances, to take any chances in postponing the needed surgical attention. At the conclusion of the operation the physicians authorized tho following statement: "As a result of the thraumal'r-m (bru'se) received in the trolley accident "at Plttafteld, Mass., there was found to be a circumscribed collection of perfectly pure serum in the middle third of the left anterior tibial region, the sac containing about two ounces, I which was removed." NEWSY CLEANINGS. Russia is to issue a $21,200,000 gold loan at five per cent. A freight tunnel is to be bored through Bunker Hill. A company in California is building j an electric line to transmit power 250 . miles. A grand canal is being planned for Taris by Sidney Watkins, an American engineer. The British exhibit at the St. I.ouis Fair will be confined to education and | the line arts. The London Lancet wants the British authorities at establish a Bureau of Public Health. Americans arc to start a factory at Glasgow to supply American golf balls to British players. , Fifty thousand tons of steel rails just oruereu in L.auan?.:>i:iic are supposed to be for America. The Swiss postal system is to be taken as a mode] in the reorganization of the Japanese postoliice. There is a small active volcano in ! Santa Barbara County, California, ! from which issue smoke uud steam. United States Counsel Daniel S. KidI dor reports that there is a good held j for tlie automobile trade in Algiers.. The Paris Municipal Council has passed a resolution urging the French Government to abolish capital punishment. Mississippi had twenty-two legal( i hangings this year. During the same period there were four lyuehings in the State. The budget of the New York Board of Education for IbOii calls for the expenditure of $21,&)1,135.08 for schools, an iucrease of more than $2,000,000 nvor l-i?t vi'.ir'a osHniflfps i '--- - The Animal Rescue League of Bos! ton has taken charge of over 5UU0 homeless dogs and cats during the last year, and either found homes for them or chloroformed them. LABOR WORLD. _ The Barbers' Union iu Memphis was Drst organized iu 1857. Telegraphers at San Francisco, Cal., have organized a uuiou. C.'as men have been granted their request for increased pay at Oakland, Cal. A satisfactory settlement of the machinists' strike at Dcnison, Texas, has been reached. The strike at Florence. Italy, has completely ended. The metal workers have resumed work. Butchers, bakers and coachmen in Havana, Cuba, won their demauds for nine hours at per day. A voluntary increase of ten per cent. lias been made in the wages or the 'longshoremen generally at Tacoiun. Wash. Metal polishers and brass workers ( have decided to inaugurate a general campaign for a uiur hour day all over the country. , Among 000.000 laborers in Belgium i there are 8-V'OO men. 23,000 women and 13,000 children under sixteen who work more than eleven hours a day. i Sixteen thousand sheep-shearers in ' West South Wales are on a strike, and ] the (.government refuses to exercise its ' power toward compulsory arbitration. At the recent session of the Trades , Congress at London, England, British ( I trades unions by a vote of 901,000 to 303,000 decided against a proposition ] for compulsory arbitration. i Lancashire, England, miners have agreed to levy themselves Is. Id. a 1 year toward the support of the local 1 hospitals. The amount is to be deduct- ' ed from wages, by mutual agreement. State Factory Inspector Duke, of | Wisconsin, recently made a thorough , inspection in Milwaukee, and as a re- j suit over 200 children under age were ( removed faom the various factories | where they were employed. flC < If you- want to force your heirs into i bankruptcy and clear old acoreSirnak^ I ypur wM open to contest.?Baltinore < News. ^ * Ihi / ) < * Rllf ADP'S IFTTFD uiul/ AIM kj uu i i Lfi\? tie Gets Communication From a Far Away Admirer WHO ENJOYS KIS PHILOSOPHY Bill Then Proceeds to Moralize on a Number of Things That Strike Ills Fancy. "Keokuk, Iowa. Special.?Major Charles H. Smith, Cartersville, Ga.? Dear Sir: For several years past I have been reading your letters. I like very much your writings about the home life, the everyday events and the many little incidents of your experience, looking backward over a long and busy career. "Although a stranger, of opposite politics and with many different views of life, still your words have interested me and have so many times touched my heart that I want to write to you my appreciation. I wish you could visit Iowa?go over it from the Mississippi to the Missouri river and meet the people of a republican state. V ? -- J nn Vvf OAft AVI I UU WUU1U, 11U uuuu'l, ouikvu j win writings about the 'northerners.' You would find as warmhearted and generous a people as you have in Georgia. "You would find a people that average in intelligence with any people on earth. If you could interview the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters or wives of those who had fallen in the war of the rebellion, you would not find bitter resentment; you would not find that these men. who had given their lives, had done so with any hatred toward their southern brethren, but you would find that the great reason for their sacrifice was in the cause of the union of all parts of this great country and liberty for all humanity. This is northern sentiment, and God, who rules wisely, ordered that the result should be as it is. "It is certainly a great curse to have so many illiterate, low-lived negroes in your state; but how true it says 'the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations.' To my mind, the forefathers' of Georgia sinned in purchasing and owning slaves, and now their children's children suiter the consequences. "I trust you will receive these words as they are meant, with the greatest kindness and good will, and I wish you many more years of happiness with your good wife, children and grandchildren, and further hope that 'Bill Arp'6 Letter' will continue to visit us for very many years to come." That is a good letter. A good man wrote it. I could neighbor with h:m and his folks and never say a word to give them offense. But I would teach them something they do not knowteach them gently line upon line, Korn Q IJUl'Cpi U|JJU V i* 11?>V and there a little. Now, here is a gentleman of more than ordinary intelligence and education who does not know that the sin of slavery began in New England among his forefathers? not ours?and from there was gradually crowded southward until It got to Georgia, and that Georgia was the first state to prohibit their importation. See Appleton's Cyclopedia (Slavery and the Slave Trade). He does not know that long after New England and New York had abolished slavery their merchantmen continued to trade with Africa and sold their cargoes secretly along the coast and never did but one reach Georgia and that one, "The Wanderer." was seized and confiscated and its officers arrested. "The Wanderer" was built at Eastport, in Maine, was equipped as a slaver in New York and officered there and a crew employed. He does not know that Judge Story chief justice of the United States su 1 1 f ~ Tlrvr, preme court, wnen piesiiuus m u?joton in 1834, charged the grand jury that although Massachusetts had freed their slaves, yet the slave trade with Africa was still going on and Boston merchants and Boston Christians were steeped to their eyebrows in its infamy. He does not know that wh*n our national existence began the feeling against slavery was stronger in the southern states than in the northern. Georgia was the first to prohibit it, but later on the prohibition was repealed. New England carried on the traffic until 1845?and is doing it yet if they can find a market, and can get the rum to pay for them. The last record of a slaver caught in the act was in 1861 off the coast of Madagascar, and it was an Eastport vessel. The slave trade with Africa was for more than a century a favorite and popular venture with our English ancestors. King James II and King Charles II and Queen Elizabeth all had stock in it and though Wilberforce and others had laws passed to suppress it, they could not do it. New England and old England secretly carried it on (see Appleton) long after slavery was abolished in the colonies. They could afTord to lose half their vessels and still make money. No. no. ray friend. If slavery was a sin at all. which I deny, it was not our sin. nor that of our fathers, nor were we cursed with so many illiterate, low-lived negroes as you suppose. Our slaves were not educated in books as they were in manners and morals and inrtiiRtrv and mark vou. there was not i heinous crime committed by them from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. We did not have a chaingang nor a ?onvict in all of the land and now there are 4.400 in the state of Georgia. Who is responsible for that? General Henry R. Jackson said in the great address he delivered in Atlanta in ISS1: "During the four years of war. when our men were far away from home and their wives snd daughters had no protectors but their slaves, there was not an outrage committed in all the southland. Where does history present a like development of loyalty? Does it not speak volumes for the humanity of the master and the devotion of the slave? If I had power to indulge my emotional nature I would erect somewhere in tjie center )f this southland a shaft whigi should rise above all monuments and strike the sfctfs withes sublime head and ?n it J Weld ijferibe, 'Teftbe loyalty testates V * during the years "62, '63 and '64.'" But this will do tor the first lesson to ray friend. It may lake some time? weeks or months?for us to harmonize, and we will not until we get tnc iacis siraigni, du^ i Know inai ne is a gentleman and I think more of Iowa and her people since I received his letter. But my friend is lamentably ignorant about the condition of our negroes before the war and their condition now. I must resent any slanders upon our slaves. They were not lowlived. They were affectionate and loyal. I believe that our family servants would have died for mv wife or for me or our children. They were born hers and expected to die hers. Tip was my trusted servant during the war and was twice :aptured and twice escaped, the last time swimming the Coosa river in the night. But I have done for this time, for I am not well and the doctor says I must not strain my mind.?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. The Davie Poplar. Chapel Hill. Special.?The Davie poplar, which, during the summer, was reported as being blown down in a storm, is still standing. It is, however, badly mutilated; the top part was blown completely ofT. leaving a large hollow showing one-third of the j way down the trunk. Only three i boughs now remain on it. but it still I stands proudly erect. The Davie pop' lnr is always one of the first things ! pointed out on the campus and there ! .are many who will regret its unj fortunate mishnn. THE NATIONAL CAME. The Chicago League Club has released Fiteber Rhoades. McGraw talks of giving Fitcher Bob 1 Blewltt another try-out. Pitcliers Evans and Donovan have re-signed with Brooklyn for next seasou. The New York players have presented a gold watch to Groundkeeper Murphy. Isbell. of Chicago, has played twenty-eight games this season without an eiTor. MeGrnw looks at the Idea of an American League team in New York as a joke. The wonderful "Oy" Y'oung has turned down a ?5000 offer from the Boston League Club. Utility man Thoney returned to Cleveland after a three-day engagement with Baltimore. Harry Dolan has been hitting in great shape for Brooklyn. In thirty games he made forty-six hits. Manager .loo Kelley confirms the report that Pitcher Harper has signed with Cincinnati for next vear. Carey, the Washington first baseman, has made only eight errors this season, which is a wonderful performance. Those close to American League affairs say all the clubs will make money this season except Baltimore and Detroit. Brooklyn has signed Pitcher Garvin for balance of season, and if his work , is acceptable he will be offered a con- ; tract fov next season. Pitcher Jade Taylor has been playing j Ihird base for Chicago in r manner to i indicate that he may be another Wal- j lace. who. at one jump, quit pitching j and became a star inflelder. Cleveland's challenge to the Cincin- ! natl Beds for a scrips lor the Ohio | championship will not be accepted, | ays Manager Joe Kelley. His reason i I is that his men do not care to play such I i series. SPORTING BREVITIES. Alfred Shrubb ran four miles at London in 10m. 2(5 4-os., establishing n new amateur world's record. Hoatliorblooin made a new jumping record of seven feet live inches at the Rryn Mawr (Pa.) Horse Show. Marcus Hurley and E. F. Root ran a dead lieat from*scratch in the mile 'cycle handicap at Vails burg, X. J. r'cLewcc & Co.. who have been par1 iieiiiarly fortunate this year ou the ' turf, announce their retirement from racing. C. K. G. Billings has offered a $.">OoO gold cup for a series of trotting races to wagon, the horses to be driven by amateur reiusmen. I'he Kentucky Court of Appeals has sustained the injun tion preventing the fight between McGoveru and "Young Corbett" at Louisville. E. E. Smathers issued a sweeping cliallenge to trot his horse, Lord Derby, against any horse iu training, John A. McKerron preferred, but Creseus not barred, for a blue ribbon or any sum of money up to *25,000 a side. re.inb I ?!?. X lilliiv X U1IU1 O J_/l? IkV.'P/.M' t?UlJ lUi' Speculation Stakes at Gravesend, New York City, and L. V. Bell Is credited with being ?00,000 richer by the victory of his horse, G. Whittier. winner of the opening event of the day. Scbouckuak, an Eskimo, is the latest addition to the Carlisle Indian footliall squad. He comes front the Aleutian Islands, and is said to he one of the toughest ineu on the Carlisle gridiron. Coach Glenn Warner will ultimately use him as centre man. Alexander Winton, of Cleveland, Ohio, broke all former records of seifmoving vehicles by covering with his famous American made tlyer, the Bullet, one mile in 1 minute and 2V4 seconds and ten miles in 10 minutes and 50 seconds. The laurels of France, hitherto the queen of automobile making countries, are ours. Senator Hoar's New House. Senator Hoar has bought a house on Connecticut avenue, Washington, a three-story brick structure of a dozen rooms. He borrowed the $18,000 which it cost, but hopes to make a profit by selling before long. He and Mrs. Hoar , have boarded for thirty-three years in Washington hotels. Much disappointment is felt in the capital because Senator Clark does not intend to build a residency on the site of the old Stewart castlo which he purchi*ed some time ago. Finishing touches are being put to his splendid heme in New* York, and it is said the senator will foot build again outside Montana. - t SOUTHERN * <3?1 t>? TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PL ANTE, \ Method* of Removing Stmn|>?. | I Trees vary greatly as to the form of j? their roots. Some, like the hickory, j < black gum and white oak. have tap- j i roots. In some cases the trunks hold j their full sir.e to a distance of several i feet under the ground. The tap-roots i 1 8TCMP WITH TAP F.OOT. I penetrate the soil deeply, even though they subdivide under the ground. ' Stumps of this character permit of ( free cultivation around them. In plow- 1 ing new ground the plowman is surprised to find with what case he may pass some stumps, while it is necessary for him to bear his plow out of the ground or light his way through a maze of roots as be approaches stumps of another species. The difference in roots is what makes the difference in trees' ability to stand storms. The maw ho full nt im-rnntpd trees. but the hickory, black gum and white oak stand erect, resisting the force .of the wind and ravages of time, until age has caused them to decay and crumble back to earth. Such stumps, though easy to cultivate, are "hard to < remove, whether by means of the axe, I machinery or explosives. Therefore, in ' clearing land covered with such i tumps, It is not unusual to turn the < land Into a pasture and permit the ' atumps to rot out. There are trees with a semi-tap-root I system, such as we show in our second ? Illustration. The roots strike downward at a considerable angle, but . 8TUMP WITH SEMI-TAP BOOT. 1 branch In ?very direction. Among the 1 trees that have this form of root we 1 mention pines, poplars and chestnuts. * It is said that in the Eastern States : trees havine this kind of roots largely 1 predominate. A Government report ' says: "Xot only does this class ineiude f the largest number of trees, but also 1 the greatest number of species/' 1 Stumps of this character are not so s difficult to remove as are those with * single tap-roots. On the other hand, it 1 is much more difficult to plow or culti- 1 vate among them. Removing them Is, however, a difficult task. Trees with lateral root systems are . much less numerous than are the otb- , crs mentioned. We illustrate a stump ? STDMI- WITH LATERAL BOdf. with lateral roots. In this class be- j long the elm, soft maple, locust, clog- j wood and alder. Plowing among this t class of stumps is exceedingly diflcult, as most of the roots lie just under the } surface and in the way of the plow, j On the other hand, stumps of this char- ? acter Ae comparatively easy to rc- t move. They are accessible to the axe, $ and can also be removed by machinery t or explosives. s r Catil*i on a Cotton Farm. I The Texas Farm and Ranch we'', raid < recently (remarking, by the way, that | when that paper says "cattle'' n also j means sheep and all other domestic! \ animals): j t The question whether leof cattle can ! t be profitably grown on a cotton farm I 0 admits of but one answer, and tha.: is I * they car, by planting pasture and tor-' i; age crops instead of cotton, and the; beeves will pay far better than the cot- j ton. There is no reason why cotton ; farms may not profitably be converted j t into stock farms, except that many | v fanners know of no other money crop j ^ except cotton, and have never tried to! 1 know. In the shackles of heredity bent \ t( and lifelcag habit, they do not try to f Miscellaneous natter. I Emile Zola was asked the other day j ty a French journalist, to give his tc deas regarding education. He replied: a I was educated at the Municipal Col* it ege at Aix and the Lycee St. Louis in h Paris. I lost my father when I was o: luite young and as my mother was 1 rery weak la' her attitude toward me c [ was able to develop in my own way. c i did not learn to read until I was 8 V rears old. I may say that I educated * nyself and think that is the heat way. P [ 4o not bejjgve in school education." K . URM fiOTES. ?p. R, STOCKS)AH AMD TRUCK GROWER. J ?senpe :iuu have never learned to srw jiV i lit- fetters ur undermine Iho walls af habit they have bpllt a round thornselves. Cattle and cotton cannot bo irown In the same soil the same seasou, but those who have enough laud nay fence of? pastures, plant Bermuda 4 . ?rass and winter vetch, rescue, Texas ,^-j bluegrass, and, with winter oats and ? I'.'irley, have pasture the year around; then plant porgbum and cow peas and Yy have a corn shredder and silos, and an ' tbundance of feed can be saved, and \ the total cost of growing a befcf will be uo more than that required ob an nerd *? of cotton, and the beef will sell Cot ibout twice as nioch as the cottott ' . would from the same acres. Those* ; who have tried this plan have gradually reduced their acreage of cotton and *>, substituted feed crops. Onion Setting Toot. Trepare the ground thoroughly, lay ;>ff rows with marker and use the,toot Si illustrated. This consists of conediaped pins of hardwood inserted*fbnr uehes apart In piece l^x^.Inches in ;ize and three or four feet long, which the handle is attached, the Jpna [ rojccting about two inches. Set the > . j tool on marked row and press lightly with the foot. In each row thus made loposit an onion set; run the rake at- > :; inched to wheel hoe down the row and he work Is finished; or yon can set'1n Yw y OXION" SETTING MADB EAST. ; ?ach hole a young onion or other plant, * filling the ho%" and pressing the soil i little. In ease plants require more oi loom, mark as for onions atpd plant la ?very other or every thlnl hole.- This_ insures rapid and effe^iveVwoTfrr tbling one to do twice afe mpeh In a ;iven time a^ by the old method.-<Joh& , /I laekson, in Epitomist. Cottonaeed F>w S^tn. '"1 Experiments in cottonseed feeding . to steers have given i4se to the follow-^ ng conclusions: These experiment* ' seem to indicate cottonseed* fi to be used in faAtefflBffr^steers amount fed should he limited"tt"Tour V to six pounds per day and prefersbiyrcgH mixed with other grains. If ft is to bei*i" fl xclusive grain iiktbe ration, the rough-** tge fed with it rpus^ be highly palate ; i)le and nutritious. Even then it la more suitable for cattle that are rough-* j ^ ug through than for those with whleh :apid gains are desired. As an exdu* ihvA (n*nln If H'rl lmf cr>nnr thn ^ottla /iF \ ? nake theqp sick in any way, but it wja? jd lot palatable enough to induce o eat the desired amount As a rule, steers fed exclusively on cottonseed t neal are not followed by bogs, but JH ^vhen c nly part of the ration is cotton- , "^1 eed meal, many feeders run togs after ] :hem with but little loss from death. . J [f is probably safer and more econoin- jm cal to feed the pigs a little extra grain. notation a Teaching of ITatare. Let us "list to nature's teachings" N B md we will find that her method of re- M storing soils is by rotating her cropst^Mfl that old aeld that we have from boyhood was covered iind hickory uilfi short Jeaf pine *<ij >ur fathers found it To-day the old . J ield pines upon it are becoming vain- * | ible for lumber, and to-morrow, if left mm to itself, some other plant will take possession. It is the same with grasses. V. clover to-day is followed by a sedge.*, / ind it in turn by a deep rooted plant . 1 faking a leaf from nature's book, the t ? \ortn .Louisiana experiment atafion ax ts foundation twelve years ago started *<? ? i systematic rotation consisting of coton, corn and peas; oats, followed hf *| ;olid peas?a four-course rotation in hree years?and the results have'tieen VR uch that we unhesitatingly reeomneud it to the farmers of North Louis- . ana, says Professor W. D. Barrqjr " < it win p?r. Stock raising will pay in the SouU) ^ vhen highly improved breeds are inroduced, and theie are pushedfrom / >irth to block with all they will eat if a properly compounded ration,* ;rown upon improved lands and.m urge quantities. H - sjl * Pfrpstn*l l'astote. Bermuda will furnish you grazing hrough the summer and early fgt|<tT]d etch through winter and early iprlagsj. '01 will thus have a perpetual patfture. he vetch will rcseed itself if * $ 3 o make seed before dylnfc.?SouuRrn j J 'utlivator. Notes of Intyest.-* ?: / slaH Mr.A.C.White, musician-in-0T$n4$r ? i King Edward, whose death is rfn- j Dunced at the age of 72, was the lted-1 ig performer 'on the double-tfesK, J olding that position slnd* the death f his old master, James Howell, in S79. ?or closp upon a quarter cf a j entury he wasnrganist at St Philip's 1 lurch, WaterOBo-place, London. Mr." I /hite, whq camo'to America in 1S33 1th Juliien.was, It is said, tho com- ' ^ oser of ?? once-popular ditty. "Putfe M re In MyTjttle Bed." # Jj&A JB All