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EXPERIENCE. * | Wie first time' when at. night T went afcout JLoeking the doors and windows everywhere, After she died, T seemed to lock her out la the starred silence and the homeless Sr. And leave her waiting in her gentle way Afi through the night, till the disconsolate day, Upon the threshold, while ~c slept, awake: fiaieh thinrs the heart can bear and yet not break. 1 ?W, D. Ilowells, in Harper's Magazine. I Circumstantial Evidence. BY ESTHER MAYNES. Ik t lQBERT MALCOLM Lad ** I never been called "Bob" by auy one until nis recently jx acquired wife. with a co" quettish pretense of shyaeo.v, uau so addressed him. He had known her but a short time prben tie won her. And now, at the *ad of blissful months, he was ' sitting in bis -splendid library, perplexed and miserable, and gloomily eyeing the embers of a grate Are and to persuade himself that the fhftdow which threatened to wreck his Mure could be explained away if paly he bacl the courage to ask her. On coming home that afternoon he fed gone to the sitting-room and had found 't empty. Turning to leave, he ?iw s piece of note paper lying on the oor, as though it had been brushed off fcsr desk a3 she rose in a hurry. In Stooping to replace It, bis eye caught the two words, "Dear Tom." Dear Tom' PniiM If ha (tin! fhwra ivnc n *car Tom In lior life of whom be knew otWng? The letter read: . "Pear Tom?If I were to he asked jmby I am writing to you 1 should iMv* to admit that I am yielding to an Impulse. My whole life-has been made ?j? of Impulses, and I never battled /with them bnt once?alas, the very time I should have yielded. You know urell what I mean, that night you renounced me. renounced m? while your Woo 1 was on tire with love for me, .nrhi^h I knew and felt and revelled in. iirheu your eyes dumbly begged m? to refuse to be renounced and your lips old me it .ould he better to part. Ah. ^ If I bud only yielded then to the impulse to tell you I loved you well . teneugh to share your poverty and the lacl' nf fr\~ vnnv hrlti'Aca "lather! How well I remember that 4e?r. delightful. cruel summer in Dorking. "You Ci*m\ door, and von stooped l?To my feart with that first smle on jour brave sunny face. Then, aft rjrard. Aunt Sarah, when I told her of tmr betro ha3, said in her icy. sneering lanes: 'I congratulate you upon your tllscretlon. it 5s a fitMmr thing that .Jon sboul t marry Tom Spencer and J?t jour early poverty b? raerjr-d Into Hlddle-ngod nr.d elderly poverty. As Som Spencer's wife you will have the irtsfaction of knowing that you have before yon such a life as yo 'r mother las led, only intensified. Fine* your fe will b? encumbered by his helpless. Mmlrtlc eld father.' - "Tom, dear. do not utterly docp'se at when I tell yon that Iit wo-ds had tfcrtr weight. I did not f^nr the pov> s arty, for I knew you were !>oun.1 to auceeed. if only, dear one, yon were set hamprred in your career l\v your fither. I kn^w you -ere fond of h:m. and that while he lived you would ke^p klm Willi you?that evn 1 couid not Influence you to send him awry, fo, trben you toM me we had letter part, I offered ro protestation, I knew your O keart was aeliirg and that you needd omforMnjr words from nm. f kn-w 1 kad only to speak one word to break town the br-rier and have you tn'ce % 1^. ..... I.A..1 1 .lt l ...l 4pc iu r if"%in mrrvrr. i mil nui peak that word. Though ray heart F *rled out to you. I could not tell you that I loved.you well enough to sli-re jonr burden. L did not spe?k that irorfl. I am married now. My husloves me, and I am rich beyond mj fondest expectations. I lnve nil Awe things which my luxurious and pensive tastes craved?yet I am not ftappy. This is Indeed my fnrewe'l. ? dear one. You know now?every wo -d fli this letter has told yon?what yon re to me. You will not raisundT?jKsti<l?you will not come to me. It is . "x"-x wer, Tom, and?" Here the welting ended abruntly. Robert Malcolm was a loyal man. nd though the evidence was against *er. he refused to believe h s wife guilty of all that the letter Implied. He told hlra?elf that If he dared to cfc her for an explanation she would give it, and It would be saMsfacto-y. To ask her to corfess a dishonoral le ct was al?o to confess a lack of con: gdence in her. ! While he was sitting there the door pened noiselessly. , A slight girlish gure stole across the thick carnpt and - ehind his chair. T\>o soft small hands were clasps! bofot? his eyes and a *oiee whispered: puess who it Is!" I His heart gave a great bound and fee took the hands down and kissed ttem. Finally, as if satisfied with What he saw, he asked: Have you been shopping?" tBhe seemed surprised at the trivial question following so closely upon the wutiny she had undergone, and said: "Is that all, Mr. Bluebeaid? Gracious. how you scared me. I expected to fcear you say la sepulchral tones. 4\Voasaa, there Is guilt in your faceWhere have you hidden the body?' instead, after tha; soul-searching Wbk, you ask the commonplace qu cafe* . F" L t ' | tlon lu common flfane tencs, 'Have yon ' been shopping?'" ' J With a sigh of content and love and I relief lie threw bis arms round lier and drew hen to him for a moment. Then she seated -herself opposite him in a low chair, where the firelight fell on her face, bringing out all its charm. In the magnetism of her presence her husband became almost happy once more?until the memory of that letter came back to sting biin. Suddenly he asked lier: "Adele. were you ever in Dorkinu?" She opened wide her eyes and answered: "No. dear: why do yoit ask:" "Just curiosity." Then, after a pause, he added: "Did you ever know a man named Tom Spencer?" She laughed softly, and, folding her dainty hands, replied: "Now I am in " ed on the rack. Why torture my inocout soul with the curiosity to know the reason for placing me in the witness box?" At her irrelevant answer his doubts' rose again .and he rather sternly repeated his question, with a request for u direct reply. "Tom Spencer?Tom Spencer?where [ have I seen or beard that name?" she | queried softly, as If to herself. "I certainly don't know any Tom Spen-, cer, but I believe I have heard that name somewhere." "And now, yoH dear, cross ogre, are there any more - con uudrtuus Jor ;me?.. Because, if you hare finished, I will go and dress'for dinner." , _ . ,?.,J He laughed and watched her disap-] pear throgb the door. A month passed, and daring this time1 Robert Malcolm tried to detect a flnvr In his wife's devotion to justify hira iu the doubt which would creep in whenever he thought of the letter. But it was in vain that he sought an explanation in her manner. There was nothing about her to suggest that wealth had palled upon her, or that without poverty and Tom Spencer her life was a blank. She was as ever airily affectionate, daintily tyrannical, flippant and serious in one breaih. with that "infinite variety" which was her greatest ' harm. One night wh n they had returned from a dance, he /1/vawTa/I <a nml-A ? full nanfnccinn fa Uf\mru vv iiianw ci iuu vv*<t* w^iv.. ?w hor and to ask her for an explanation. She bad thrown herself into an easy chair and looked even fairer than usual. Making a final effort, lie h-^gnn. a"d rapidly he told her all?ail about the letter, his doubts and desmir and the unhappiness he f -It whenever he thought of the matter. While he was talkirg she was looking ("own and twistiug the rings on her Siguier lingers. When he finished she looked i n at him with a slow, amused smile creeping over her faee. "Now I understand those questions you asked m? about Tom Spencer. Yes, tlint was the name?and I know why the name seemed familiar to me.*' "Well, what of Tom Spencer? Wiio Is be?" "He is a creature of my own imagination, a >d one? having created Thomas, I straightway forgot him. When you asked me that day I wondered where I had heard the I uauir. "What do yon moan?" "je demanded.' "Only 111.'8, Bob?but fir;t you must promise not to laug'j at me." She stopped, looked at -;m anxiously, lie' nodded impatiently, and slie w?nt 0:1. "Some time ago I conceived of b u."S literary. 1 thought out a story and d>J cided that 1 would depart from the usual routine and have it toll In a series of letters. You got hold of the beginning of the story. I was co'd-nl awry that day, and never thought again of my literary venture." ? He drew b"r up to bini and then, with his arms around her, he asked iU a husky whisper: "Adrle, will you forgive me?" For answer she put her arms round his neck and then replied sof l.v: "If you'll promise never to doubt me again." The promise and the rorgiveness1 were consummated In one long: ki?s. A week later. In a local paper Robert Malcolm happened on the following:: "Dorking:. Anril 23.?Mr. W1 liam Spencer, an oid and respected citizen of this city, died yesterday afternoon. The deceased had long been a sufferer froui paralysis, but his death was unexpected. He leaves one son. Mr. Thomas Spencer, with whom he lived, to mourn bis loss." Problem ot Medical Etl??ette. It is an ancient custom In Hungary that when a medical candidate has passed his examination with distinction, and the doctor's degree Is conferred sub auspiciis regis, be should receive from the Emperor of Austria ' (King of Hungary) a ring bearing the J initials "F. J." set in brilliants. After , a certain time be is admitted to pre- < sent his thanks in person to the Sov- 1 ereigu. In connection with this ctis- , torn a curious problem recently exer- j cised the mind of a young doctor who was serving his time in the army as a "one year volunteer." Being invited to j present himself before the Emperor, he i was greatly puzzled how to do so, for on the one hand, .as a private soldier. ; he ought to wear his shako, while 011 | the other, as doctor of medicine, he 1 should carry his hat under his arm. ' In his perplexity he sought counsel of , his colonel, who after careful consid- , eratioD, delivered himself of the fob < lowing opinion: J "If the Emperor speaks to yon Id j German, which is the regulation language of the army, you must regard i yourself as a plain one j-ear volunteer, J and you will therefore keep your , shako on you bead. But should his I Imperial Majesty address you In Hungarian. this means that he sees in you , a doctor of medicine rather than a soldier, and you must therefore uncover your head."?London Globe. '' A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED. "THE VALUE OF OBEDIENCE." frnrhcil by tli? Rpt. Joseph Dunn Bnrr?lt, ol Hrook yn, X. Y.?The M'ny lo Power Shown by Convincing ArguliirnU?Christ Our Orpnt I'altcru. Brooki.y.y, N. "V.?In the Classon Avenue Presbyterian ('hurch the pastor, the Rev. Joseph Dunn Barrel), preached Sunday morning on "The Value of Obedience." The text was front Philippians, ii:8, 9: "He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath high y exalted Him and given Him a name which is al>ove every name." Mr. Burrell said: naooion U'O IflnPH fltmildh obedience, our Lord Jesus Christ attained His surpassing g.ory. He won His exaltation not by exploiting His own will, but by submitting to the.will of God. On this j>oint He is representative of humanity. J or ail men everywhere to obey is the way to rule. "Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant." Oledience thus becomes a moe; essentia! part of education, whether in the home or the school. There is something disreputable about the household where the chi.dren do not mind, or the lecture hall, where the instructor has no control. It is a healthy discipline for us to have to submit our tvi.i to another's. Such is the Biblical conception of home training. ~ Such was the method of Christ's bringing up. Professor Huxley had great influence upon current ideas of education and, perhaps, the most eloquent words he ever wrote were those in which he set forth tHBridea, that the gist of education is to to obey. "That man,"'110 says, "has had a liberal education, who has oeen so trained in youth that his body is the raady~?sosra?t of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of, whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of eoual strength, and in ' smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers, as well as forge the anchor* of tne mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature and of the laws of her operations; one who. no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but ?vho;c passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love ail beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness. and to respect others as himself. Such an one and no other. 1 conceive, has had a libera! education, for he is, as completely as a Ti>an can be. in harmony with nature. He will make the best of her, and she of him They will get on together rare v; she as his ever-beneficent mother: In- as her inouihniece, her conscious self, her minis u*r anu inu.Tfirci.i-r But it is not enough to 'earn, obedience theoretically in one period of r<lu ation; wo must perpetuate it as a habit a'l through our years, tor it is the oniv way to success in life. Obedience is not for its own sake, but in order that through it we tray come to he our best se'ves. We accept law as tlie nredeterminod rendition of life. surrender ourselves to it. and by yielding win true liberty. Agesi au? of Sparta knew how to govern because he had lirst learned how to obey, according to the old saying. The present Emperor of Germany and King of Italy, bril.iant examu'es of successful monarchs, were trained with a severity that some of our boys would think cruel. There was o"ce a hard worked emn'oye of the New York street car system; lie is now its head. There was once a private so'dier who hail to submit to all the narrow restrictions of the mo t subordinate rank in the army; lie is no\v our commander in the Philippines. We take away harmful things from our ehi dren that later on they may know enough todrprive themselves of them. They are made to take care of their bodies that they may keep the laws of health when they need it for life's work. They are given good books to read that thev may prefer such when they are free to read what thev wdl. Thiv arc shielded from bed associations and thrown into the company of e'ean, true, honorable boys and girls so that when they arc out in the wor d l''hti-"j their own natt'es they may choose t^e friendship of the good and shun that of the base. come parents are afraid to have their chi'dren arrive at the age of self control. Yet what is the 'rood o: educat:on. "Th? aim of your di?cip'ine." said Herbert Spencer, "sbon'd he to produce a self-governing being; not to produce a being to be governed by others." It is a.joy to have ob"d:cnt chi'drcn, hut it ought to be a f:rcater joy when thev arc become traeteartcd men and women, end are out in the world carrying on the business of life. Thnn the object of cdu<nt>'o:i is secured and tb" condition of success is sat.is;ied. On the other hand, moral failure is due to not having learned how to obey, and ?o not knowing how to rule. When a p.irl fay* to herself. "When I have a home of ?ry own you will see how d;ff5rently I sha<! do thing*." When a boy th:~l-*s, ".lust wat until I am twenty one and T wi'l see life far mys"'f;" you may know that the seed of the Dead Sea fruit is e'ready sown. A woman wh-se family were in want was given $2-"? bv a friend. Instead of purchasing necessities with th's providential present ?he used it in having the photographs of the entire household taken. There was an examp'e of one who did not deserve to be grown up. She d'd not know how to control her own life. She had nevci learned that the only way to live worthily is to ob"y the great princio'es of duty. She mer-'y fol'owed her whims. I heard this summer of a young man who R year a"0 was flying around Long Island in his automobile, dazzling the native* with his recV'ess expenditure of a newly acnu'red fortune. To-dav he is said to be rlc-kin? in a store. He did not know how to bp rich: he had not learned self-control. Quite rightly he hag been set back again ia bis prop"** place. Oscar Wilde was a young scholar of extraordinary brilliance. His essay on "The Dr^ny of Lying." for example, was marve'ious'v suggestive. But he never learned to obey, to control him?elf, to love the right; on the contrary, by fo"owing hi# own will and seeking pleasure without rega-d to dntv hn made of h'mself a social oufc?.st and died a boyear's death in Paris. It makes no difference what ability, position or opportunity one has. if he dees net k-o-.v how toobev he is on the road to ruin. Moreover, this condition of obedience i# the permanent law of life. Neither in this nor any other world is it abo'ished. The mother warns her baby not to touch the stove. The little one disobeys and is burned. lie "rows to ho a man. He fir.erges from his mother's control. No one advises him now to keen away from I T-ln A'l n r\ri f 1>w- tini fli? An if it ha I wi'l. But if he does be will be burned igain. So it is in the moral life. As children tve were restricted by others from wrongdoing, and if we persisted in seeking to accomplish it we sntFered. Now we are grown end no one hinders us. We can sin if wo 1 choose. Bit if we do we rhall have to bear I :ne consequences now as then. The choice given us is not whether we shall be under God's law o. not. but only I whether we shall obey th-rn or not. in ' cither ease receiving the results of our decision. For "whatsoever a man soweth, ;hat shall he also reap.*' The man who abandons Irlncscb to the indulgence of appetite, violating the laws of aature, shortens his life. Tlis indulgence j lefeats itself. Whi'e h-? 'beys God's laws inds them his servants, ministers of health, prosperity and usefulness. Nor if this state of things different in heaven. There it i* said "His servants shall serve Him." There the law of (lod is perfectly fulfilled. There the heavenly host sing forever, according to Dante's dream. "In His will is our delight." So forever and forever obedience remains the law of life. William Tynda'.e, who translated the Bible into Kngiish. wrote a bo ik entitled "Tiir. Ohpilimi-e of .a Christian Han." The zi?t of it is this: That the'Bible reveals the way of salvation through Jesus Christ, and the way in which a saved man ought to live. Few hooks have had a wider influence. One martyr at least is known to have zone to the stake carrying a copy tf it iu his hand. For it apoealcd to the conscience of man. it showed Christian be'evcrs that the salvation of Christ, instead of releasing from moral obligations, is on the contrary, precisely an enduement of power to perform it. Instead oi abolishing the law Christ fulfills it, and if there is any one in the world who ought to be the shining cxamn'ar of obedience to the will of God. it is the Christian man. Christ Ilimse'f is our great pattern in this regard. Ho was an obedient Son. It was His meat and drink. He said, to do His Father's will. But He is more than our ^ pattern. He is our Saviour, ml as Hiicii inau.es us 10 reimniuu; i.K i-o., He presents an ideal and also the dynamic for its realization. This is wliv there is a place for Him in every heart. This is why we all need Him. If we live in fellowslfip with Christ, trusting Him in utter faith, the iaw of God instead of being something hostile to our spirit is our very life, and we come to be ab'e to say with Him, "I delight to do Thy will, 0, my God." The Religion Th*t Un'tes One Faithful. * The. railway superintendent came down to his office on Monday morning, sat down at his desk and began to open his mail. The first letter was fwvn the wife ot a discharged conductor, which said: "I take this opportunity to write Wuile my husband is at church. He has been going regularly the last three Sundays. He bas been to sgc the minister, and the minister gave him good advice anil drew up a pledge, and he signed it. and every morning and night he asks God to help him keep it. I am sure lie will neecr drink again. We have only seven do'lnrs in the house. I am doing my own work, thoujrli I am not strong enough to do it. The baby is sick, and I dc not know how we are to Jive when the litt'c money we now have is gone. For God's sake, pity us and give my husband his train again, and I ara sure iie will never drink another i droii!-' The superintendent read the letter and I I handed it across the desk to a friend who 1 1 ..n_ 1 ,1... V Had eiuereu. i-scan um, sum uv, aim tc'I nn- what to do." "What has been his record?" ashed the friend. "This is tlie third time he has been found drunk 0:1 duty. Kai-h time J warned him, and the second time I suspended him. This time I discharged him for good. I can't pace human lives in the tare of a man who can't he (trusted. If I take liitn back it won't he three weeks before lie is drinking a little on the sly, and within three years lie will wreck a train, as suitas tlie sun riser, to-morrow." "Have yon another place where you cou'd use him, sonic piace involving less responsibility?" "Mo, he is physically nnah'e to do hard work, and there is no otiier kind at which 1 can put a man oi that sort, i don't dare set him even w telling a crossing. In fact, there is no position on a railroad for a man who can't be trusted to do his duly." Later in the day the conductor himself came in. The superintendent received him kindly, but with no cucouragement in his manner. "1 knew yon would come," he said, "and I must be frank and say that i should have thought more of you had you stayed at hoirie and helped your wife with the housework, instead of going to-enurcb so that she could write me about it." "But." said the conductor, "she wanted me to go. and 1 did not know about the letter until sne io.a me auerwr.ru, n .u really, I am sure I shall never fall again. I have asked Cod to belli me Trust me once more and have pity fbr ray fanii'y." The superintendent shook his head sadly. "You want me to pity your fatni'y," he said, "but you didn't liily Jhem voirself, and you never thought about asking God to heip you, except to help you out of a scrape. You have got your religion too late so far as this office is concerned, ft will help you to forgiveness to voir sins, and 1 hone will make a better man of you, but it is too late for a job of running a train. That kind of religion that j we have to insist on in this office isn't the kinds that'he'ps a man to get a job back; it is the kind that makes him keep it. I believe in re'iglon, and wish every man in the company's employ was a religious man; but the kind of religion this company needs is the kind that makes men faithful to their work." The discharged man Tent out and the superintendent's stern face relaxed. "I ' arn sorry for that wife and the sick baby." lie said, "but I can't trust human live? to a man who gets Irs religion so late." The true faith is the faith which makpg | faithful. Ifc is never too lute to look to , Cod for forgiveness, but penitence sometimes comes too late to restore a lost oy por (.unity .?Youth's Companion. God Sp wklnc to ilie Soul. It has been remarked that "the subject of the first chapter of genesis is not the creation, but the Creator; what it gives us is. not a world, but a Cod." Let those who will search the Scriptures for the light they shed on past concep- . tions of science and upon the history of a j unique rare in the annals of the world. Let them study their literary development, j and seek thus a keener appreciation of the men who wrote them. They cannot fail to be enlightened and interested But the sincere Christian approaches the Scriptures with a different interest and purpose. ' He passes over the historical, the literary and the scientific features of the Bib'e with small attention to his passionate search for that which the Scriptures are designed to reveal?namely, the person, will and work of God, and the nature a-d ! relationships of man. From Genesis to ??1.;n l.m' in nsalm | At'veiunuu?in iiioivi.f >m ? ... --- , .and prophecy, in parable and epistle aid Apocalypse, on every page, God sne?k-> to the human soul.?Rev. George K. Bates. God's Best lilft. We have but a narrow and nnworthy conception of prayer if our only thought of it is making requests of God. In human friendship it would be very strange if there were never fellowship save when there were favors to ask the one of the other. Love's sweetest hours arc those in which two hearts commune on themes dear to both, hut in which neither has any request to make. The trupst, loftiest prayer is one of communion when we speak to God and He speaks to us. The deepest answer we can have to onr praying is not God's gbts. however precious these may be. but God Himself. His love, His grace. The prayer that rises highest and is divinest is that in which we lose ourself in God. when God Himself is all about us, filling us, inspiring our dull life with His own infinite blessedness.?J. R. Miller. The Saving of the Soul. Every provision in the divine plan of salvation is to protect and increase the highest life in man, and that life is the spiritual life. This is what is meant by the priority of life. This is what is meant by the saving of the soul. p? SOUTHERN > f d? I TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANT? \ Jlnvy Bf*n Culture. These are the eomtuou white beans o? the stores, sometimes ca'.led, too, iu Florida "Soldier Deans," the material from which "Boston baked beans" are trade. Mr. C. K. McQuarrie writes about iheiri to the Southern Ruralist as follows: It scorns as if a newly awalconed interest is being taken In oean culture among soin? Southern farmers, judging from inquiries being received bearing on this crop. Beaus are probably a more suitable crop to plant In peach orchards than the cow pea propagating the root knot wherever it is grown. Many peach orchards are to-day entirely worthless from the ravages of the root knot, all originating with cow pea culture in the orchard. This objection cannot be urged upon the navy bean because it is free of that tendency and moreover is fully as profitable a crop ' as the cow pea. There is always a demand for a good grade of navy beans. They sell higher per bushel than cow peas, and the yield per acre In bu?bels Is not less, nnd they will grow and give a good account of themselves-on .the sandiest of our pine lands and apart altogether from their use In the grove or orchard as c farm crop, they are hard hoot?fnp n nrnfitnhie and satisf.ie tory return for time, labor and fertilizer used. This crop can be made a catch-crop, coming In between seasons as it were; it is very suitable for following an early spring crop sm-h as wheat, oats or Irish potatoes, all of , which come off in May, and the brans i can follow them and give a good crop in from ninety to 100 days' time. After the brans have been secured a good cutting of hay can general'y b ? depended on from the same land. If this crop is made to follow oats or any of the small grain crops, then the stub-1 hie must be carefully plowed under : and the land made free and loose, so as to give n good seed bed for the bean j crop. If it follows Irish potatoes the same rule holds gcoJ, only that the po-, tato crop will leave the soil in a more ' mellow condition than a grain crop, consequently the same attention to the plowing is not so necessary. I have I found this croo to do very well sue-j ceeuing a winter turnip crop, but let ' the previous crop be what it may, pro-' per attention to the sred bed and the ! fertilizer used are the prime essentials j as a preliminary to a good and profitable yiel^l at harvesting. The fertilizing of the crop is really a very important matter, because on the grade nsed depends the quality aud nuantily of t the returns made. A perfect plant food for the bran crop should analyze, ' say. six per cent, phosphoric acid, ten ! per cent, potash and one or two prr cent, nitrogen. This analysis cannot be found, as far as I kr.ow of, in any of the grades on the market to-day. therefore the successful bean grower must either compound his own fertilizer or buy the nearest he can find and add the accessary potash to bring up the grades to the necessary point. This is not very difficult to do for it is not really necessary to mix.the addi- j tional ingredient. Applying it broad-! cast in the proper ratio is nil that is necessary, but care must be taken that all the fertilizer is properly mixed with the soil a few days or a week before planting time. This crop docs best with considerable attention by cultivation in its early stages, but it must not be cultivated when the leaves are either wet with dew or rain. The rows should be about three fret apart and the seed well scattered in the furrow at planting. A peck of seed should plant one ] acre. At harvesting the crops can be ! cut the same as grain crops and tied in bundles and shocked in the field until i propcriy cured, when it can be threshed whenever convenient. The leaves an l stems of the bean plant made a good forage for cattle and horses. In fact, cattle arc o.uite partial to it and its ICPCllIlg value UI^U. 1U rctuviiO where the crop Is made a specialty, a yield of forty to fifty bushels per acre Is not uncommon, but in the South If we get half of that amount we are doing well, but by using about 800 pounds per acre of a suitable fertilizer, as already indicated, one can reasonably expect thirty-five bushels per acre, and at $1.50 per bushel, which Is a low figure, there are few farm crops that will pay any better than a navy bean crop. llttpe. This crop has long been grown In Europe, but it is comparatively new In the United States. Rape (Brassiea Xapus) belongs to the same family as turnips and cabbage. It Is used for a variety of purposes, sometimes as a salad, but more largely as a food. <rv%. ftnnl- Tlio conoe ni'A f AninrA?SPll i iUL Ol '.K n. lug v vw ?r and the oil used iu commerce, ami the cake as a food for cattle and also as a fertilizer. Ca good land forty to fifty bushels of seed is not unusual for an acre.: The seed sell for ten to twenty-five, rents per pound. Thus we see that an News of the Day. An elevated road Is to be built at Almeria, Spain, to connect the railcad station with the harbor of that ity. Dr. A. R. Sofford, assistant librarian f rho Library of Congress, iias reamed from a three months' stay in :urope. While abroad he made arangements for the purchase of books .rom time to time, and to receive a large number of catalogues of books. I ARM * /VOTES j .?====_> /?, STOCKIHAM AMD TRUCK GROWER. * 3 acre will produce anywhere from $40 to $150 worth of seed. But the stalk* and leaves are also valuable as a food or for use as manure. Rape is most generally grown ror a pasture or forage crop. It grows very rapidly and yields enormously. All stock are fond of it. It stands pasturage well. Sheep are especially fond of rape. If well fertilized th?? growth is very persistent. Potash Is the chief element in any fertHlatr mixture for rape. It gives health and vigor to the plants, Increasing the quantity of food when ..pastured.-, or used as a forage. When grown for seed the potash greatly increases the quantity and quality of the seed. The land for rape should be well prepared. It can he grown in rows and cultivated or sown broadcast. Rape is of two varieties, annual and bi-ennist. The bi-enninl should" be sown in the summer or fall and the annual In the spring. There la also a large and a dwarf variety. Sown In September-or October it gives excellent winter pasture. Horses, cows and hogs can all. be turned on it at the same time. If not eaten too closely before they are taisen orr, it will xnake a second growth. In some countries it is grown to be turned under as a green manure. . v.. The growth is so abundant that it t is thought to exhaust the land if per? . mitted to mature seed. Ilence some have written prohibition clauses in their rent contracts specifying that rape shall not be grown upon the land. We do not sympathize with this idea. There is no danger of injuring the soil by growing crops if the farming is done on the right plan. We think this valuable crop deserves much more attention thnu we have been giving it. This is especially time of all that part of the country where winter pastures and forage are wanted. We advise our farmers to try it. Prepare a piece of ground well and fertilize it liberally with kanit or muriate of potash and cover the seed lightly and you will be apt to get a good stand. When drill*!!, about four to six pounds of seed will be enough for an aero. If broadcast you will need more; some use as much as a peak. The seedsmen generally keep the seed on hand. The Dwarf Essex is said to be an excellent variety for the South. A crop having so wide a range of usefuiness should receive much more attention than we have been giving to rape. This will be emphatically trim as we develop the possibilities of cattle growing as one of the. profitable features of American agriculture. Any plant that has snch a high feeding value and can be easily grown, will be helpful to the inexperienced cattle feeder. Wo need not be disturbed by the English idea that it exhausts the soil to prow a seed crop of rape. We need "? not grow seed. Or, if we do, we can easily replace the potash removed in the seed by using liberally muriate of potash or kainlt. Modern farming with this great help at hand eaa do many things that were not thought best in former timesi?Southern Cultivator. g TVi 1 Arid r!in?jili i(e I .fnro Clnr-r? T . C. W. W. writes: "Yvhnt would he the effect of sowing acid phosphate P'j clover Instead of la*J plaster? Would there be anything i:i the acid t phosphate to injure the clover when sown after it Is up aud growing? Peo pie here claim the benefit from plaster Is due to what stlc!;s to the leaves. Is this so? With acid phosphate at $14 and land plaster at $S, which would be the most profitable to apply*;" There Is every reason to commend the use of acid phosphate as an aoplication for clover in preference to land plaster, for acid phosphate contains about fifty per cent of land plaster or gypsum. There is absolutely nothing in acid phosphate to injure the clover and It would likely prove beneficial to It, as our soils are frequently deficient in acid phosphate, an element which has to do particularly wltb the formation of the fruit and seed. It was formerly thought that the benefit from plaster was due to its sticking to the loaves and so closinsr un the pores of the plant, as it were, and helping It to retain sufficient moisture ' to till" over drought periods. This is now known not to be the case. Gypsum, or land plaster, prcbablj acts on the potash of the roil and helps to set supplies of it free and also tends to attract moisture to some extent. Acid phosphate at $1! a ton, if it shows from fourteen to sixteen per cent, available phosphoric cell?, is much cheaper than land piaster at $S. Land piaster would not be particularly effective when sown on clover for the ?^ flia rlolrl nP tlm UL II. 11.1CIU, luc J Kiu Wt l*?v second crop. Acid phcsphnte would be much more likely to be of service to you. Make an application of at least ?00 pounds of acid phosphate per acre. Odds and Ends. William, Mary, John, Elizabeth. ~ v Thomas, George, Sarah, James. Charles, Henry, Alice, Ann, Joseph, Jane, Ellen, Emily, Annie, Frederick. Margaret, Emma, Robert. Arthur, Alfred, Edward, these, In the order gt?en, are the most popular Christian names, says an exchange. A steam railway line 4s projected which is to connect the Lagoon Guamoveto with the Aguan river, in Honduras.