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A QUICK RECOVERY. A Promii ent Officer of tli? Ktbecoai Writer to Thauk Uoin'i Kidney PUIs For M. m Mrs. C. E. Buuigarduer. a local officer of tbe Rebeccas, of ?? Topeka, Hans., RoomJ^^^S^" 10, 812 Kansas ave-1 jfltt nue, writes: "I used ? Doau's Kidney Rills 1 daring tbe past year, I for kidney trouble and j /fjuKS kindred ailments. itxSflKf was suffering from I ,|i. pains in tbe back and 1 headaches but found l Jp* jSjlfl after tbe use o* one ji\i |fc\ I .in box of tbe remedy lijJSL ' that tbe troubles yJfMmj ggwi\ gradually disappeared. so that before 1 bad j 1 finished a recoud . | package 1 was well.IJ^EjKKJBv I, therefore, heartily endorse your remedy." (Signed! MRS. 0. E. BUMGARDNER. A FREE TRIAL*? Address FosterMllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sal# by all dealers. Price, 50 eertts. The Quest. I saw the towering clouds take fire From the low sun. and thought thern blest: Thay neared the land of my desire. The splendid West. Spring laughed In breaking bud. clean air, Ip skies that took the tone of rest; I ?aw, yet found them not so fair As in my West. Night grew, a breathing silence fell. And peace, pure peace, was manifest; Tat loved I not quiet peace so well As in my West. What balm. then, for this ancient pain. This torture of the baffled quest? Only to take the same dear road again That reaches West. ?ixjnaon uuiiook. FITS permanently cared. No fits or nervoueness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerfeBeeto;?r,$2trlalbottleond treatise free Dr. R.H. Ki. rax,Ltd., 981 Arch St.. Phila., Pa. Pittsburg has already expended $26,000,000 in the skyscraper boom. Ptso'eCfcrofor Consumption is an infallible medielae for coughs and colds.?N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17,1900. Telegraph poles along a railway are arranged thirty to the mile. nH f'ffRi a WHY GET SOAKED)! - 1 /y// / / / when ms ( 'y/iku///*&****'& I M&Skf15* i OILED //kvlwf clothing ? 1/ v/l/ i slack o?rtuow wikuwwwar > ' intmc HABDMT look for above toads maw 6mabc ?iwtatkxi catalogues fuce shooting ruu. line or garments ano hats. I A. J. TOV. ER CO., OOSTON I |TpU-ltC*?AOlM\ CQ . ITP.. TORONTO. C*N?DA. f coisTiPli "Bee over ntm yean I t offered wl?h chronic eonfMPstjoa sod daring this lime 1 bad to take so Magtipn of warm water one* every M boors before . leeud hare at action on my bowels. Happily I I tried Oascaseis, and today I am a well nu. Paring the aire years before I used Csscarets I offered untold misery wttb internal piles. Thanks bayou 1 am free from all that this morning. You Cesruso tais la behalf of sobering humanity." B. r. Mahar, Roanoke, 111. Pleasant. Palatable, Potest. Taste Good. Do Good, AevorBlckon, Weaken or Gr.pe, lie. Be.SOc.Ueeer few Tn bulk. The ccnolae t*fc!e? tUmptd C C C. ?MrMlocd to c*r? or your money back. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 603 MHO At SALE, TEIM1LU0M BOXES So. 39, MO DAY TO AGENTS filing Sath LOCKS. Dl(? I A T Sample 70c, S. A. Brown, Buffalo,N, Y, Themp?en'? Eye Waver v HERE IT IS! Want to learn all about. J? a Horse? How to Pick yl^V Out a Good One? Imperfections and so*^ X X Guard agalrst Fraud? A 1 Detect Disease and Ef- V * "1 J \ feet a Cure when same J \ I \ Is possible? Teil the w V ' Age by the Teeth? What to caa the ?>?Tferent Parts of the Animal? How to Shoe a Horse Properly? All this and Other Valuable Information can be obtained by reading our 100-PAGE ILLUSTRATED HORSE BOOK, which we wi-j forward, postpaid, on receipt of only 'jt cents in stamps. BOOK PUB. HOUSE. lit Leonard St.. N. Y. CitJ. SOUTHERN / d- I3BEED-G 70/>/CS OF INTEREST TO THEPLANTi \ Vanning as a liuaineaa. One should no more think of farming soil, empty of plant food, than he would think of starting a store with an empty building. Convenient location to railroads 01 markets doubles the value of farm land as it would the value of a store site. Hauling is among the heaviest items on a farm. Clearing timber and brush land usually costs as much as clear land can be bought for. Start farming as you would any other business. Provide the raw material for the soil. Spreading commeri n.uK %?/vf n#i iniiuu'i nuu i*\jau n?una ia uui always successful as it is apt to wash away. The safest and surest road is the one that the Southern Planter has pointed out fer these many years: Growing leguminous crops, such as cow peas, clever and alfalfa, but to depend upon these agencies alone would.'take too long. You would be wasting years without remuneration from your farm. Buy no more land than you can afford to stock with plant food, and do nol buy stock until the farm produces thi wherewith to feed it, else the cattle, hogs, horses and sheep will eat the bottom out of your purse. As a business proposition no man can afford to waste his time improving only a few acres. If you haven't the means to handle fifty to 100 acres, try trucking. A smaller farm will not be a paying preposition. Next to feeding the soil, or perhaps even more important is proper cultivation. If you have settled on your place disk as many acres as you know you will be able to handle. Disk in half-lap. Then plow deeply. If you can, let the subsoiler follow the turning plow. Always harrow immediately after plowing, unless too wet, to prevent the land from drying ont. Then disk again until it is warm enough to plant. Unless you are located in the limestone region, spread twenty to fifty bushels of lime to the acre. Lime costs from $2 per ton to six and seven cents per bushel. Spread also f>00 to 100C pounds of ground rock phosphate. It costs $7 to $S per ton. Also not less than 200 pounds of potassium chloride (muriate of potash). It costs about $41 per ton. Harrow to a fine tilth and sow or drill thickly to cow peas. Begin plowing the peas undei in August, as the peas will'be then more nearly matured. Turning a crop of peas under when full of sap and growth is apt to sour land in this warm climate, and disk the land every week in half lap until time for fail sowing. If you have used only twenty bushels of lime in the spring, sow now twenty bushels more. Also sow again 500 pounds rock phosphate and some potassium chloride (muriate of potash). The land is now ready for alfalfa or German ?lover. Devote as much as you can to alfalfa. * On the land net needed for alfalfa sow German clover or hairy veich fer a winter cover crop. The land or the seed should be infected with bacteria if German elovei. has never been grown in the field'(bacteria can be had from Washington). As land is rated by the number of barrels of corn It will produce, it should now yield ten barrels or fifty bushels if properly cultivated. The time has come, then, to get some good graded stock and to extend the work of improving to the rest of the farm. Don't imagine, however, that you can now afford to let your stock of fertility run down. Of course, your alfalfa field will get richer every year and you will have more stable manure, but even then it is advisable to keep on growing peas and clover. Land in the South should never be bare of vegetation. When a crop is removed, sow peas or clover immediately, according to season, peas for summer, (ierman clover for winter. Always rse lime, phosphorus and potassium for these crops. You have plowed under four crops at n cost of ?5 for seed, with seventy tushels of lime, costing (in carload lots), 2300 pounds of rock phosphate at CIO, and 8X> pounds potassium chloride at $1X Your work of plowing, needing, disking, etc., should be worth $1G per acre. If the land is near market 01 station your improvements are more valuable than cn land less conveniently located. Life iwill be easier now since the alfalfa fi"ld has reduced the acreage under plow. The decaying crops have suppiled the soil with hunrs and the land will produce cow as well as land sold for $100 or more in Illinois, and your products will bring from fifty to 100 per cent, more ihan tbey would in most Western sections. Swart Potatoes and Castava. W bulletin giving the results of feeding horses and mules on home-grown feed stuffs has just been Issued by rrof. ("has. M. Conner, Agriculturalist of the Florida Experiment Station. In (his experiment, home-grown feed News of the Day. John Wanamaker has in contemplation the erection and endowment of a college for men near Ellenville, Ulster County, N. Y. The location selected j for the college is on Mount Menagba, 1 one of the Shawanguk range. Mr. I Wanamaker and J. S. Huyler are in- | terested in a prospective publishing house to be erected at Ellenville, wherein S00 men will be employed and a genera! magazine and book publishing business conducted "t ARM fOTES. En, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER. f yT stuffs were substituted for corn; the crops used were sweet potatoes, cassava and low-grade syrup. Owing to the bulkiness of sweet potatoes and the smallness of the stomach of the horse, this substitution did not take place to the extent that all the corn was displaced by sweet potatoes or cassava. In the case of sweet potatoes, three pounds were substituted for one pound of corn. From ten to fifteen pounds were fed per day, depending upon the size of the animal. Four mules and four horses were ? #_ *?- - A 11 .1 A t n M useu in lae ItfSU All were uviuk iinis work, except the team of ponies, which did no regular work. The teams were divided Into two lots, one of each team being in L?t 1 and the other in Lot 2. Lot 1 was fed on a one-half ration of corn and one-half ration of sweet potatoes, with all the beggar weed hay they could eat. At the 'end of six weeks, the rations were changed and Lot 2 was fed on sweet potatoes, and Lot 1 on an all corn ratian, thus making the experiment extend over twelve weeks. All animals, but two, made a slight gain while oeing fed on sweet potatoes, which proves that the ration was satisfactory. On the whole, the sweet potato ration was considered more satisfactory than any other fed. At the end of the sweet potato experiment, cassava was substituted for sweet potatoes, but this ration was not found to be as satisfactory as the former one, on account of the fact that the animals did not seem to like the cassava so well. This was also true when one mule was fed on ten pounds of sweet potatoes and ten pounds of cassava hay per day, with no corn, but all the hay it would consume. The potatoes were all consumed wnile more or less of the cassava was left. One team was put on a ration of six pounds of corn and five pounds of syrup, which proved very satisfactory. Since it is shown that three paunds of sweet potatoes may replace one pound of corn, provided this substitution does not exceed one-half the ra tion, it follows that one acre yielding 150 bushels of sweet potatoes, is equal to a yield of fifty bushels of earn, whereas the average yield of corn, on such land as would yield 150 bushels of sweet potatoes without fertilizer, is about twenty-five bushels. It ? rtAiotAAC orn ho* BPC1I1S IU?C LUC a ? CCL |<UU> lW\.o wv coming more and more important. Patting in Whett. Taking it for granted that all Southern farmers, who are progressing somewhat, will prepare their land thoroughly for wheat, the next consideration is the method of sowing it. The drill is the best machine for putting in wheat and fertilizer at the same time. For the farmer who sows only three to eight acres that is expensive. The community ownership of a drill does not work well. The hiring of one is not always satisfactory. But if a farmer has land suited to the use of machinery and he sows forty to eighty acres in small grain, he can afford to buy a drill. Always get a disc drill, for the hoe drills are not satisfactory, except in land free from weeds and cotton and corn stalks. The six-disc drill is better than a larger one, for it is lighter and more casilj turned in corners around terraces. With it one nay put in eighty acres daily. But the small farmer cannot afford to in- : vest $60 to $75 in a drill to put in a few acres of wheat. Sowing by hand and covering with small shovels on a double foot plow stock, or with a cutaway harrow will secure a good stand. By that method a small portion of seed is lost, being left on the surface or covered too deep. But a good hand will get a regular stand, and it often seems to do better sown that way than with a drill, flu extra labsr comes In when scattering the fertilizer by hand. But that is no r/v?. great burileu, as one can sow mo mtilizcr on an acre in an hour. The drill plants tlie seed so regularly that none of it is lost. That is one advantage. The ?ther is the regular distribution of the fertilizer. The Striped Cucumber Beetle. Because of the striped beetle, few cucumbers are raised in some localities. Its name is diabrotica vittata: it is yellow, with black stripe on the wing covers. It feeds on all kinds of vines, damaging the plants by eating into the stems of the young sheots, and hides in the middle of the day below the surface ef the soil. The larvae or worm9 live in the roots of the plant3 underground. They are very troublesome, but we believe that if the readers of the Southern Agriculturist will purchase a pound of London purple, which is a peisou, and mix it with a bushel of dry wood ashes, and dust the mixture around the cucumber plants, it will drive off the beetles or kill them out. This, in many instances, has 6aved the cailta iuupc yiauvoi j Odds and Ends. Love is the only voice that can preach loud cnuogh to reach the heart. Better to be an everyday sunbeam than the most extraordinary cloud. You cannot get fat feeding on fog. Religion is more than a disinfectant. Dogmatism is usually only puppyism. | The Master says, "You row, and I will steer." i Oiillf' All Era of Hoad Building'. j That the first quarter of the twon- j tieth century will be a great era of I road building in this eotontry now I seems probable. All persons who have given serious thought to the question are agreed on the following propositions: That road building in the United States has been greatly neglected: that we are far behind other civilized nations in this respect: that the general improvement of the highways j throughout the country would do more j to promote the welfare and happiness of the people than any other work j which could be undertaken, and that | the present is an auspicious time fori inaugurating a national good roads I campaign. The last of these propositions is in some respects the most Important because on it rests the hope that something is actually going to be done. The last quarter of the nineteenth century was the great era of railroad building, but that has now passed into history. Of course, we are still building railroads, and will continue to build them for ages, but never again on the enormous scale of the past thirty years. The necessity and the opportunity no longer exist. The energy, the enthusiasm. and the capital heretofore directed to the building of railroads is now seeking other channels, one of which is the building of improved highways. Another reason for believing that the time is ripe for a great popular uprising for good roads arises from the extension of the rural free mall delivery. This is rightly looked upon as one of the most beneficent develop-, ments of modern civilization. In fact, the people have scarcely begun to realize the extent of its benefits. Proper Construction of Road*. Broken stone roads may ire convenlentlv divided into two classes?mac adam and telford. The principal difference between these two constructions is as to the propriety or necessity of a paved foundation beneath the coating of broken stone. Macadam denied the advantage of this, while Telford supported and . racticod it. This point will not !>e argued here, but it is suggested that good judgment should be used in the selection of one or the other of these systems. The macadam system is the best under some conditions, while the telford Is more advantageous under others. The latter system seems to have the advantage in swampy, wet places, or where the soil is in strata varying In hardness. or where the foundation is liable to get soft in spots. Under most other circumstances experienced road builders prefer the macadam construction. The earth foundation for either system is identical. It should have the same slopes from centre to sides as the finished road, with sufficient shouldering to hold the stone in place at the sides. The War* and Mean*. Thoughtful, progressive people are earnestly discussing the \vays and means by which the highways of the country may he improved. The great est obstacle to progress along tbis line appears to bo that, under existing laws and conditions, no general movement is possible. Everything depends on local effort and local initiative. What is needed is National legislation which will stimulate action in all sections, and co-ordinate local effort. At present those who have given the matter most thought are in favor of a National aid law similar to the State aid laws now in force in several States. Just what will he the solution of the problem cannot now he foreseen, but this much appears certain that the era of road building on a large scale Is dawning. and something of importance Is going to he done in the immediate future. The Weakest Link. As a chain js no stronger than its weakest link, just so the greatest load which can be hauled over a road is the load which can he hauled up the steepest hill on that road. The cost of haulage is. therefore, necessarily increased iu proportion to the grade, as it costs one and one-half times as much to haul over a road having a five per cent, grade, and three times as much over one having a ten per cent, grade us on a level road. As a perfectly level road can seldom be had. it is well to know the steepest allowable grade. If the hill be one of great length, it is best to have the lowest part steepest, upon which the horse is capable of exerting his full strength, and to make the slope more gentle nn-nrri tin* vinnniit to eorresDond with the continually decreasing strength of the fatigued animal. Bread Eaters. Even the poor in the United States and England eat white bread. In most of the continental countries of Europe rye bread is the staple. The Russians use buckwheat. The Laplanders have a bread made cf oaten meal mixed with pine bark, and the Icelanders make their flour from lichens. Banana tiour Is used in the .South Sea Islands. A Bright Negro. A remarkable i\egro youth acts as door keeper at the Apostolic Legation in Washington. His name is James J. Mattingly, he is twenty-one years of J age, be fluently speaks five languages, | and is studying three more. ' # * / ^ f'' A prominent club \ forth, of St. Joseph, was cured of falling its accompanying pa Lydia E* Pinkham's 1 "Dear Mrs. Pinkham:?Life 1 feels that her strength is fading av being restored. Sucn was my ieelii advised, that my poor health was cau womb. The words sounded like a If set; but Lvdia E. Pink ham's Vege an elixir of life; it restored the lost good health returned to me. For f daily and each dose added health an the help I obtained through its Uf 3007 Milei Ave., St. Joseph, Mich. A medicine that has restored can produce proof of the fact must is the record of Lydia E. Pinkhan cannot be equalled by any other x duced. Hero is another case: ? 7 visjuLvei ' Center St, M "FREE MEDICAL AD Women would save time and write to Sirs. Pinkham for advice toms appear. It is free, and has p right road to recovery. Mrs. Pinkham never violates t her, and although she publishes 1 women who have been benefited never in all her experience has she the full consent, and often by spec Apaaa FORFEITifwecaanotforthwith UuUUU tastfmouUds, wliioh win proT< opEHSOJHALLy * Conducted Tour; TO SAINT LOUIS VIA Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., I Under the personal supervision of REV. S. F.CONRAD. Special Coaches and Sleeping Can will be operated from Charlotte, Raleigh ami Wilmington, consolidating at Monroe, running through to St. Louis,! , Mo., leaving the above points Tuesday, : i.k iunl VVI>VUC( -VIM, AVV-S. ROUTE ; S. A. L. to Atlanta, N. C & St. L. to Martin, i ] Ills. Cent to St Louis. I i A Passenger Representative will go through . to destination with the party, thereby aeeur- ' I log thoee going on name every attention en- . route. Pullman fare $6.00 from all points. Exceedingly low ratee of fare will be in effect from all Stations For com plete information and retervations ad ireas, M. L. HERMAN, C. P. k T. A. Charlotte, N. C. CHARLES H. GATTIS, T. P. A. Raleigh, N. C. < CHARLES B. RYAN, G. P. A. Portsmouth. Ya. ! i j Roanoke college a > for. young women, DANVILLE, VIRGINIA. > A Select and Limited College far tbi Higher j Education of * omen. 24 Teacher* end Off!- 1 eers ALI. SPECIALISTS Lut jrcuthi nut | uccesefut in history of Institution. Ideal Lat srroundinge ILst e lew for sdveeUgee offered. I 5rre.fMAV-foW'a. M./pH. D.Veeidcjf 'awnwil^^ e Best Coach Syrup. Testes Jood. tie N ( ebsbbbhbieaql $ f^HICKEJWS ^ you cannot spend years and dolit buy the knowledge required by < cents. You want them to pay th them as a diversion. In order to handle F tning about them. To meet this want we i of a practical poultry raiser for (Only 25c a man who put all his mind, and time, an en raising?not as a pastime, but as a busii ty-five years' work, you can save many Ch earn dollars for you. The point Is. that y Poultry Yard as soon as It appears, and kn teach you. It tells how to detect and cure fattening: which Fowls to save for breed you should know on this subject to make i flvo cents In stamps. BOOK PL'B* *SHING 8 w?5?H ' '**" /r /" f J; voman, Mrs. Dan-^ > Mich., tells how she. of the womb and tins and misery by i ri Vegetable Compounds ( ; ooks dark indeed when a woman t ray and she has no hopes of ever \ ig a few months ago when I was j sed by prolapsus or falling of tha t me 11 to me, I felt that my sun had. stable Compound came to me as forces and built me up until mf ' our months I took the medicins d strength. I am so thankful for ; ' ! ;e."?Jllrs. Florbxck Danfort*, so many women to health and , t be regarded with reeneot. This u'g Vegetable Compound, whiofc aedicine the world has ever pro* j Mrs. Pdocham :? For rears I wa? r. th falling of the womb, irregular menstruatiom leucorrhoea, bearingi, backache, headache, dizzy and ells, and stomach trouble, fcored for about five years but did ' ) improve. I began the use of youIf' nd nave taken seven bottles of inkham's Vegetable Compound, lood Purifier, and also used tha ash and Liver Pills, and am now / od health, and have gained in flesh, lk you very much for what yo* lone for me, and heartily recom- ' your medicine to all suffering ' cl"? Miss Emma Snyder, 218 Earn * arion, Ohio. VICE TO WOMEN." i much sickness if they would as soon as any distressing symp* ut thousands of women on tho he confidence thus entrusted to thousands of testimonials fromi by her advice and medtcinSL published such a letter without ial request of the writer. produce tbe original letten and rignaturw ?f i their absolute gennineneea. L. Pink hum Mediclno Co., Lju, MtO mm 1 >'or Ak. la (tamps we Mod a M If . PAUE HOPE gtriag ti? emiiiiaa I I VI practical Poultry I'alur mm / J / \ to amateur. Mil a man worruA / \/ T ior dollars and oesta?during S f ~ Vjrrara. it NaafcM how to DHom V laud car* Disease* VotX I or Haft . tt ' also lor Kauenlng; wbioh XowSl# 11' have lor Breeding; every t Plug re? 1 I quiaiiefor pronubie Poultry rainLI log. HOOK PCKLIntilKO CO, 134 l.aaearJ -Mred. .Sew Yarn. prcciuj: CUR*-/? \R f ^*EP6uwwTttti*fWMU*ii?<e > ' 2 ^Jlaaw?iaitn?iiinwus'MOMn.r ^ 9 50^ ABOJC. TRIAL 26r-v j ' I v./jU*WlL,SON?C0**??ftw} ft . * X CHARLESTON. 8. C. / ( & ^a/QSEv fWI Sail AT ALL PWJfc SKWBr fTCT ? C% Droosvli t wbw T *u swelling in 8 to ay P" ' " / day*; effect* a permanent car* iu 30 to 60 day*. Trial treatment given free. Hot hi ngcan be faire* jKMBil Write Or. H. H. C%en'? Sena, ,*mxr s^uiii.tg. g?x m Atlanta, tft ??5K55 CURES MALARIA. ELMR CHILLS and FEVER. BABEK "BAhEK" U the old tat. tenet vW1 m end beat remedy lo America for nW edle* of malarial nature, lit a pod HlfWt tire cure fur MALARIA. CHILtt OR*A*** and FETKR. < a ly 90c. bottle ILOCZEWSKI ? CO.. WashinJIea. D. C gartVrltefor teatlmontala. So. 39, A "Snccees".Training School. Goldey College It e Business and Shorthand ichooi that makes a specialty of training Ita turicnra for "BUSINESSSUCCESS." 120gTadiatea with two Aran. Stunents from Georiu to Nevr Ynrx. Write for cataLcqv*. Addree*: loldey College. Box IMJU, Wilmington. Del. LR N MONFY If y?u *ive them h',fk lIV" You cannot do tblp nless you understand them and know ow to cater to their requirements, and trs learning by experience, so you must jthers. We offer this to you for only & elr own way even if you merely keep 'owls Judiciously, you must know Bomeire selling a book giving the experience ,) twenty-flve years. It was written by d money to making a success of Chickless?and if you will profit by his lwei?icks annually, and make your Fowla ou must be sure to detect trouble in thj ow how to remedy it. This book will disease: to feed for eggs and also for lng purposes; and everything. Indeed, t profitable. Sent postpaid for twenfyHOUSE, 134 Leonard St., New York City