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w? _ W LONG . Wiiei, all the dreams of our life bave van- (. ished, When love is banished And hope is fled, I We turn away from bleak to-morrow, To walk with Sorrow Among the dead; ^ We look once more on the loving faces ___ And suuny places We used to know; I And lose for a time our hurt and sadness Within the gladness Of long ago. The days are long, and the days are dreary; Our hearts are weary And in distress. As through the blur of our tear-wet lashes 1 We see the ashes Of happiness. From brooding over our lives left lonely, ^ We seek the only Escape we know, By going back to the sweet affections ( And recollections Of long ago. f "HE ART'S I | = % By MARION HERE was the constant | J L nnooixo ^ f orwl I . pM J? F%40C,lilfc iwiaiqw nu\* j O O the sound of merry laugh- 4 M y ter in the halls of Mrs. 1 McCallum's rambling old- i fashioned house; a snatch of college < song, sung by fresh young voices, float- : ed up from the moon-flecked road; from the distant gymnasium came the throb r of languorous music, but the ten young \ women iu one of the upper rooms of f the college boarding house were ob- 1 ~-^Jlvlj>.us to outside sounds. a The little feast was over, the candles t were burning low beneath the dainty c pink shades, the scent of fading roses t was heavy on the air. but still they a sat absorbed in the recital of what c use each had made of the ten years t that intervened between their gradua- i tion and this night. i: Delight Everett sat with flushed t cheeks and shining eyes, and as one a and another spoke, sympathy, admira- r tion and affectionate pride were mirrored in her changeful face. How s nobly the giris had lived, how well a they had fulfilled the promise of their college days! And through it all she a felt the familiar influence of the dear t< room that once she had shared with v Lettiee Clayton, wlio now presided at t this feast of remembrance, I It was kir.d of Mrs. MeCallum to arrange matters so that the reassembling v should be in the place that had witnessed the last gathering of their col- p lege days: it was thoughtful of the s present tenants to relinquish *he room " to these returning girls of ".U. And t< then. at that instant, she was conscious ii of the gala sounds that proclaimed the high tide of the college commencement, a and for an instant she forgot the years that separated her from that night so tl long ago. st Nine sighs of relieved tension greet- g ed the conclusion of Judith Graves' ex- b citiug story of the winning of her first si case, and a babel of questions and con- u gratulations rose about the table, tl Surely Judith's triumph shed a reflect- ^ ed glory upon those intimate friends it who had always appreciated the bril- "u liant intellect, even in the old college a days. Did not the waiting toast to the si most successful belong to her? De- ** light wondered. b But then there was Henrietta Sonle, D already taking an important place d* among the faculty of her aln.a mater; d< 41 ml Mary Lowell, a successful physi- il, dan. spending every moment that she could spare from her large practice in pi work among: the suffering poor. The si fcaJanoe wavered here. ^ 'And what of Lettice Claytt n, spend- si ing her time and strength in a college d< settlement; and Dorothy Tait, whose n delightful kindergarten made a spot of c< brightness in barren little lives; si Eleanor Day, just returned from Paris. ? fresh from the triumph her spirited o: pictures had won; Laura Denuison c: and Itose Abbott, happy in their mar- B ried life and the love and care of little P children; and Cecilia Merton, whose a lovely voice not long since had thrilled h them with its richness and its power? g Delight sighed again from excess of joy. The day had been full of the S happiness of revisiting beloved scenes p and renewing old friendships, for the d daughters of 'f>4 had returned in large numbers, and class feeling had proved ti Itself strong to withstand the years, v But this evening was the crown of p all, and in a few moments they would 1 carry out the old resolve to toast the E one or their number who naci mace me n best use of her time and talents since p last they had parted. But oh. how dif- b ficult it would be to choose! h Delight suddenly awoke from her absorption to find laughing eyes turned e ' upon her. si "I beg your pardon!" she stammered, ii with a bright flush. "Did you speak k to me?" s "We are waiting to hear your story. Delight." I.ottiee said, gently. "Then " we Will put the question to vote." u "My story!" Delight had forgotten o that she most testify. And what could I she s.ty? Ah. what a pitiful, meager tl ree id beside those of these fuller, h richer lives! None of the hopes with c which sue had crossed the threshold tl of college life had been fultiiled; she ii bad made 110 name for herself, had b done no great work for humanity; had t< cultivated 110 talent until it hud become o a minister to the sum of beauty. t SLe rose, as had the others, but stood f silently, twisting her fingers in the h old way that the women about her re- a meuibered tenderly. Then she looked a appeaiingly about and laughed?a I ti-f>niii!o:is little Inn'rli "I>oar girls," she said, a lut unsteadily, "I have no story to tell, for I have just lived along in Durham, and the record of life in Durham would not interest you." Before any protest could be raised, they wAe surprised by a tap at the door, anw Delight, being upon her feet, moved to answer it, glad of the interruption. "O Mrs. McCallum!" they heard her say. with sweet cordiality in her toue. Then she stepped into the hall and drew the door shut. No one spoke or stirre^ until the door swung open again and Delight stood holding the knob. , ? ? \ AGO. )ur breams ot love and our golden visiona, The fond ambitions Of other years, >y stern decrees "of the Real, broken, Have left their token Of unshed tears. Yithout remorse are the fates that sever. Those hopes we never Again may know; Jut although lost, they renew their glory Within the story Of long ago. Yhen love proves false and we seem forsaken. Our spirits shaken With sorrow sore, [here is one solace Time can't deny us, Which lingers by us For evermore. Ye dream on our lips a soft mouth presses The sweet caresses IX-- 1 1 t" UfeCU KI1U>\ , )ur hearts jet revel amid the pleasures And cherished treasures Of long ago. -J. A. Edgerton, intheNew York Times. DELIGHT" I DICKINSON. | ??????$????**? "If you will not mind, I must leave rou for a few minutes," she said. 'Grandma McCallum wishes to speak ;o me before she goes to sleep. Don^ vait for me, girls. If I stayed, wouldn't decide which one has done the uost nobly, for I wonder at you all." She glanced about at the garlands of oses which Eleanor had hung upon the vails, at the twinkling candles, at the aces turned affectionately toward her. iVhat a wonderful evening it had been, ind each had contributed to its perfeeion. Through the open windows she ould see the glimmer of lights upon he campus, and the sound of music tnd gay voices mingled with the sigh if the night wind in the trees. She reasured it all in this moment, that ts remembrance might bring gladness n the coming years, for when she retimed the spell would be broken, and II that remained would be to say good light and good-by. When the door closed behind the lira, white figure, Lettice Clayton rose bruptly at the head of the table. The girls looked at her in surprise nd inquiry. Would she propose the aast at once? Not one but would have raited indefinitely for Delight's reurn. Nothing was complete without )elight. Lettice looked from one to another rith a curious expression. "Perhaps Delight Everett is the last erson competent to tell her own story," he said, with a thrill in her voice. If you are willing, I should like to ?11 you something of this quiet life 1 Durham." "Do tell us, Lettice!" urged Dorothy, nd the rest nodded. "Perhaps you remember that it was be desire of Delight's life to go into ettlement work with me," Lettice be an, "and I know of no one who would o better fitted for the work. Besides. he was an orphan, and seemed unusally free to follow her wishes. But ic summer after graduation the aunt ho had made a home for Delight durig vacations fell sick, and Delight onld not leave her. It proved to be lingering illness filled with intense ilTering, and through it all the poor oman clung to Delight as to her only ope and comfort. For three years 'elight devoted herself to this mission, oing the housework as well, for the octor's bills were heavy and the fainy purse was shallow." Sh? stopped a moment, and her eyes ew tender, while the others waited in lenee. "I saw Delight once in that time," ie said, softly. "She was the same ear Delight?no word of complaint, o sigh for her deferred hopes, no mseiousness of sacrifice, just sunline in a shady place.' It was only hen she was listening to the stories f my work she begged for, that I lught a glimpse of her hope denied, ut if you could have heard what the oor sufferer said one morning in her bsence! Girls"?she threw out her ands dramatically?"what would I not ive to have such things said of me!" Lettice stood turning a rose in her ngers while she waited to recover her oise, her eyes looking beyond the rooping petals of the flower. "I went to Durham again," she eoniuued, "when I heard that the poor roman was at rest. This tiule I exected to carry Delight away with me. "be work needed her?I needed her. tut I found somebody else had cstabshed a prior claim. 'I cannot leave oor uncle,' she said to me, with her right, brave smile. "He is so dcsotte and so helpless!' "When I urged that there were othrs who might shoulder tba^ burden, he shook her head. "Uncle is peculir,' she answered, 'and if one did not now him well, one might not r.ndertand, and might be impatient.'" The narrator laughed out suddenly. Peculiar!" she cried. "He was a rlzened little creature, but possessed f a cantankerous spirit quite gigantic, ndeed. if Delight had not stayed at lie helm, I doubt if anybody could nve been found who would take barge of that terribie old man. And here our dear Delight has stayed, car:ig for him as tenderly as if he had een her father, and finding time, too, o spend her love and sympathy uvon very needy creature in that little own. And now, at last, Delight is rce. for her uncle died this spring, cavimr her the Door little farm as token that?somewhere in his gnarled il l twisted soul?he acknowledged her oving service. And this is why Deiglit has no story to tell of the past en years." Judith Craves looked across at the inrrator with eyes that were sus(iciously bright. " 'She hath chosen he better part,'" she murmured. "I have so often wondered that Deight did not marry," sighed.Rose Ab>ott. "She would make a wonderful vlfe and mother." Lettice opened her lips impulsively, hen closed them again. Not even to ler had Delight couflded the full evictions of her duty. But she remem>ered the day when her cousin, Dr. Philip Clayton, had come to tell her hat he must go alone to complete the reparation in Vienna which should ' make him more skilful In bis beloved ' profession. "And she used to sing so charmingly, j not a brilliant voice, but -wonderfully j touching," mused Cecilia Morton. "Oh, Delight still sings," said Lettice, I whimsically. "She leads and trains ^Jie j village choir, and every week she goes to sing to the forlorn souls at the poor- j farm?not a trained voice, but they ( enjoy it." \ "And now what will Delight do?" j asked Eleanor Day. , lattice thought of the letter with n ' foreign postmark, which had reached j > her that day. "She goes to Russell j \ House with me until somebody else ! puts in a claim." she answered, with j ^ inward wonder whether Delight would 11 recognize her right to listen to the i call to happiness. I a: Mary Lowell looked thoughtfully up ! at her. "It seems to me that we shall | 0 have no difficulty in deciding who Is | a worthy of our toast." she said, gravely. , 11 "There is but one of our number who P has put aside her own hopes for the ' good of others. No matter what the I n rest of us have accomplished, it was (1 all in the line of our personal plans, i ^ ambitions, pleasures. Girls" ? she looked about at the assenting circle? 11 "I propose that we wait a little longer P before drinking the toast. Undoubt- 01 edly Grandma McCallum has sent for Defight to quiet her with a hymn, as s' she used to do in the old days. Sup- j pose we frustrate this little sacrifice? 1 for it is a real one?by delaying until her return." A chorus of acclaim greeted the pro- P posal, and in the midst of the clamor ; ktbe door opened, and Delight paused in | 11 V . - x%- xl A-1-1 UVA.. murprise on me tnrcMJuiu. iuu i girls," she cried, "did you really wait 1 for me?" .' "Wo really did," and Henrietta Sonle 1 beckoned her to her place. As she reached it, the girls rose; Lettice lifted ( her glass of lemonade. "To the one . who 'secketh not her own,'" she said, clearly?"our Heart's Delight!" Across the brimming glasses affectionate eyes were turned upon the girl, so self-forgetful, so generous, so swift in loving service, so slow to claim reward. so well-beloved. "Why. girls," gasped Delight, grow- ^ ing very pale. "Why, girls!"?Youth's Companion. j. Recent travelers in Tibet have noticed that while effects of the rarefied ^ air are severely felt at altitudes of be- S) tween 14,000 and 10,000 feet, on going ^ yet higher all disagreeable sensations p pass off. a h A Carlsruhe engineer is sfid to have n, invented a contrivance by means of p which, in the event of lire, the audi- r( tei-inm nf n thentre Mn he detached lw hydraulic power from the stage and t, pushed, audience and all, into the Pj street. n a< A gigantic lily, the phormium tenax, w is a valuable plant peculiar to New Zealand. Its leaves are nine or ten feet long, and arc so tough that, by s. splitting one into narrow ribbons and ?, joining the ends, the New Zealander has a tirst-class rope ready to baud. p, For the purpose of glass melting anil ^ glass blowing, water is used to great Av advantage in Bohemia and Stockholm, resulting in a considerable reduction in f. the cost of fuel. At an incandescent lamp factory making from 3000 to 7000 tj lamps a day, whore coal gas was pre- C) vionsly used, the introduction of the Dollwik gas reduced the cost of fuel jr about eighty per cent, in soldering the glass bulbs and in heating the lamp n during the vacuum pumping. g a] A great improvement is said to have f( been recently made in woodworking P( machinery by a resident of Marinette, j, Mich., who by a simple attachment to c, the existing machinery makes it possi Die to luflliuiaciure square sj?iuu?es iur p; stair balustrades and store shelving as rapidly if not faster than the round t ones can be made on wood-turning machinery. The improvement is also ap- ti plicable to other kinds of woodwork, p, The knives made by Mr. Jewett are 0] capable of cutting across the grain of ^ the wood without tearing and splitting, P( an achievement which has been aimed jr at for some time. a: al In a recent number of the Bulletin t( of the Italian Aeronautical Society Dr. Ci C. Palazzo, director of the Italian Meteorological Service, gives a very in- e( teresting account of the scientific experiments being conducted in Italy ir with unmanned balloons. The place g: chosen for the aeronautical station is n: Paira, principally owing to its geogra- o. pliical suitability and its d^tance from ri mountains and sea. The balloons used ai are made of a preparation of India rubber. They are sent up in tandem fashion, and are spherical and closed, and have the faculty of expanding to a about seventy times their original vol- n tunc, rising rapidly to an altitude of p 20.000 metres and upward, where a y temperature of sixty degrees <h below r zero may be recorded. s' r< "Metntlizotl" Laces. . According to the Paris Cosmos, a r French company has been formed to ^ "metallize" embroideries, and wonder- " ful effects hare been produced. Experi- 1 ments have long been under way with " a number of articles, such as flowers, leaves and branches, but practical results with laces were only recently secured. Tho laces are made conductors of an electric current and placed in a galvanic bath. There they become coated ,v, f] with an exceedingly delicate surface, the colors of which can be regulated at will. > The coating is so fine that not the 11 slightest irregularity can be noticed, p. and the laces remain perfectly soft and flexible. It makes no difference : whether gold, sttver, copper, bronze or ? other metals ar#employed. The assertion^ made that the metallized points, m spite of the thinness of ( the metal eolting, can be united as if a soldered togetl^t so that all sorts of combinations are possible, l These metallic goods are used for table ornaments, decorating furniture coverings, f( wainscoting in parlors, and for in- u crustation of fine woods, and the metal- 0 lized laces can even be polished.?New fl York World. I Colonel Pope'* View*. PERSONALLY I believe la ^ ^ an extensive development |3 of both State and Federal ^ roads, -writes Colonel Albert r?P?? in Harper's Weekly. For many years e have expended liberal sums of loney for the betterment of rivers and arbors, and the results accomplished re commendable, but we must not lose Ijrlit of the fact that a groat majority f the people live away from the coasts nd waterways, in regions where the eeessity for good highways is imerative. In many cases these people need the ppropriations and National aid a great eal more than those dwelling nearer ie 8eal>oard or on streams that teem ith industry. The highways are the aturni to railways. and im roveinents on theui materially inrensc both interstate and international Dmmerce. If our Government has eon fit to be liberal in river and haror work, "it is reasonable to expect iat the building and maintenance of ublic highways must demand the ame attention. There is an interdeendency here which cannot be ovcr>oked by those who analyze this ques.011 ar^ht. It havlong been a mooted question as > wpit is the best method of raising 1111^ for the construction of public ighways. but I know of 110 better way mn for State and Federal Government ) issue special bonds for the purpose, hree per cent, fifty year bonds of this ind would find an immediate market, nd they could be paid by a sinking nnd of two per cent, per annum, hich would mean that there would be harged against this indebtedness vc per cent, per annum to be proided for by taxation. Such bonds ould be issued from time to time as le work progressed, so that funds ould always be available up to the mit of the bonded indebtedness agreed pon. There is a trait in American charac?r which makes us ultra conservative 11 some issues, especially where long stublished custom causes us to travel 1 ruts so deep that it is difficult to ave them. For years the inhabitants of the rural istricts of our country deceived them?lves in believing that the best, and y that is meant the cheapest, way to ay a rrdul tax was to work it out by definite quota of day's labor ou the iglnvays. It took a far reaching and ggressive educational campaign to ersuade them that the old method of >ad building and repair was unneces idly costly and thoroughly ineffeci:J. Xor was this reformation well tarted mit*l some communities had ia<lo a practical demonstration of the ctual value of good highways to those ho depend on the soil for a living. In working out his road tax the inner clung to the idea that a dollar ived was as good as a dollar earned, nd at the same time be lost sight of le truism that it is good business oliey to invest a do'.lar which will ring back two. Once the farmer was mwn by object lessons that good highays, passable the year round, were isential to a profitable handling of irm products, he freely expressed asmislnnent at having been fooled by le methods inherited from his an?stors. This educational work, which in its iception called for great energy and le liberal expenditure of time and ioneyf was later 011 helped by both fate and Federal Government. An [ipropriation was made by Congress ir the purpose of collecting and disMiiinating information 011 road buildig and repair, road materials and tber kindred topics. As a result the irmers learned that to build roads roperly, though apparently expensive, as in reality an economic measure, hey were led to see that the highways ere natural feeders of railways, and lat it was as much of a detriment to ave produce snowbound or mudbound a the farm as to have freight congest1 on the railroad. They eomprehend.1 the difference in cost between haulig a ton a mile on good and bad roads, nd they realized, too, that with pass *1- ?Ann/l V./v VionHnrr uiu run us uit* juai ivuuu iuc > station and other shipping points mid be done to advantage out of seaMi when draft animals were not need1 for plowing or harvesting. These few paragraphs will indicate i outline the manner in which the reat reform was started by agitation nd fostered by education until the uestion is not. "Shall we have good >ads?" but "How can we best secure tid maintain them?" ^Take a Rest at Noon. Get into the practice of taking a rest t noon. Lie down If only for ten'mintes, oi five minutes. If you cannot e down lean back in a chair and close our eyes. Just forget everything, est; relax. Even if you do not sleep, ?st. This practice will make you live >nger. It "will make you healthier bile you do live. It will probably lake people want you to live longer. l ??ii a-i-~ onf r\f vmir [ Will IU tit? Hit" liiu^itr uui v.k . orves, the irritability out of your Mnper, the wrinkles out of your face, t will make your eyes brighter, your ice fuller. Try it.?Medical Talk. When Kuropatklii Was Young. When General Kuropatkin was a oung man h*. was asked to undertake tie editing of a military newspaper, [o declined with the words, "Fighting attics is much less dangerous." Fightig battles may not really be less danerous, but it is certainly less vexaous than conducting a newspaper in ie Czar's dominions. The editor must ly hhr elf out to please, firstly, the nperi; -ourt; secondly, a dozen minders < state, individually and col?ctivel. thirdly, half a dozen censors, nd four ;ily, the public. Bee That Workg at Night. A bee that works only at night is )und in the jungles of India. It is an nusually large insect, the combs being ften six feet long, four feet wide and rom four incnes to six inches thick,? >ahore Tribune. \y ! SOUTHERN f -C -D-d I TOPICS OP IS TEREST TO THE PLANTl !k The Family Garden. There is no adjunct to a home that affords as much pleasure and profit as i a well planned, a well planted anil a | well cultivated garden, and I use the word in its broadest sense. The family garden should be conveniently located to the residence; it should consist of about one acre of land, and enclosed with a well constructed and substantial poultry fence. The plot should be liberally fertilized with cow or horse manure, and it should be broken early and deep, and ' harrowed several times to make the j soil tine and to thoroughly incorporate | the manure herorc tne oariy punning I begins. The garden should be divided | into four plots by making walks both ways through the middle of the garI den. crossing in the centre. These j walks should be laid off with a line, i about *hree feet wide, with little gutters or drains on each side next to the beds or squares, and should be ovalshaped so that even in wet weather , there would be a high and dryer place j to walk. The selection of seed, the varieties j and when and how to plant are very 1 important. It is also important to lay I all rows with a line and equi-distant. i Nothing adds more to appearances if j not to results than order and system in | the garden, and where this is practiced ! you may make sure there will be reI suits. ! The garden should have a four-year ! system of rotation, just as the fields I should have, in order to obtain best rei suits from your plants. The plots | should be numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 and should rotate around once in four years. For instance. I would take plot No. 1 . and plant soring turnips, radishes, lettuce. onions or any other early matur! iug crop you may fancy, and as these came off I would plant a late corn and bean patch by planting every other row. On plot ixo. 'i i wouiu nave two I planting of Irish potatoes, and just : before these mature I would plant corn ! and beans in every other row, or it | might be devoted to a late cabbage i patch or some other late crop, and I whatever crop was selected to follow the potatoes could be worked as the : potatoes were removed. I On plot No. 3 I would have two plantings of corn for roasting ears, j and when the corn was waist high I put in white crowder peas. As the | ears were pulled from the stalks I | would cut out for the corn and give ; the peas more room. On plot No. 4 I would plant all the ! later varieties of vegetables, such as I tomatoes, beets, cuciltnbers, squashes. ; or other varieties the fancy dictated, j that come on in the summer, i L would rotate these crops so that. to illustrate, the potatoes would not j be planted on the same spot but once | in four years. I WOUIU plant atOUg me ooriitrrs ui | the walks a few sage bushes, thyme, j asparagus and other such useful gar: den plants, but I would have no fruit trees, currants, strawberries, raspberries or grape vines in the garden, but would have all these and other fruit in an orchard set apart for the purpose. Such things in a garden not only interferes ,with the proper rotation system, but they shade and draw fro:;: the vegetables and prevent their full development. Such a 1 garden as" I have planned, planted and worked would be a thing ! of beauty and a joy forever, and when you come in 011 a hot summer's day 1 nr-1 sit down to the mid-day meal, contemplating with a ravished eye and an aching void in the region of the stomach the many tempting dishes i that the good wife (not a slothful servant) lias prepared, you will feel like ! ''praising God from whom all bless! ings flow."?S. H. Christopher, Bueua ! Vista. Ga., Southern Cultivator. Troper Place to Select Seed. With cotton, as with corn, the place i to select seed for the next year's plantIn? is in the field, selecting with referI euce to total yield of seed cotton, per! rentage of lint, date "of maturity, vigor, ; hardness, form and size of bolls,leaves, i stalks, limbs and resistance to disease j and insect ravages. By selecting from ' stalks that bear a large number of bolls I per stalk, the tendency will be iu the ! progeny to give an increased yield over ' the average of the patch, which is the seed obtained when one waits to secure his seed at random from the gin. Another objection to securing seed from the gin in the usual way is that I it is ustfally deferred until late in the fall and thereby, generally, seed from : th last picking are obtained which are not the best seed. The .best seed, I as a rule, are from the middle picki in?! In selecting a variety one must not I be guided entirely by total yield of ; seed cotton, for often between two vaI rieties producing about the same quani titv per acre, the one with the smaller I yield should be chosen because of its I production of a larger amount of lint News of the Day. Wholesale arrests are being made in I Russian Poland, all the prisons being crowaeu. Near Lodz Cossacks surprised a j meeting of socialists In a forest and a number of persons were killed or wounded. i China wishes to be represented at the meeting of the Russo-Japanese peace plenipotentiaries. The boycott against American goods in China is said to be spreading steadily. , Joseph L. Herwig, four times president of the New Orleans stock exchange and director in a number of banks and other institutions, died Wednesday, aged 61. He was bora in Port au Prince while his father, then of Baltimore, was United States consul there. John W. Hill, ex-chief engineer of the Philadelphia filtration bureau was held under bail, charged with falclfying papers, and the $700,000 contract for filtration-plant work,, held by D. J. McNichol & Co., was reroked. 4 M. rlT ARM j L D'C -fr j | "/?, STOCKMAH AND TRUCK GROWER. I J ' Sf and higher selling price of total pro- I ducts (lint and seed). J'.emeinber that , Te lint sells for from eight to fifteen times : | as much per pound a? seed. Other things being equal, preference 4 should be given to the larger boiled va- < rioties, as they are much easier picked j and hence are popular with pickers. j A few hours spent In the fall in se- < looting and gathering separately tins ! IE< seed cotton from stalks that have a j thj large number of bolls per stalk and j be: other desirable characters, will pay as jjej well, or better, than any other form of me farm work. The seed cotton thus gathered should be ginned separately and the seed carefully saved in som* t rej secure piace for nertt year's planting. Pei Everyone who has been through a cot- ' tei ton field In the fall has surely noticed cn the great differences in the same field ' in the form, shape and number of bolls p on different stalks, as well as in the i * characteristics of the stalks them-* A c selves. Now. rememberiug that the ! ? law of heredity is strong and constant in plants as in animals, will emphasize the importance of selecting seed of the ; trj short staple cotton only from those I ^ stalks that bear the largest amount of lint cotton per stalk. Of course this g^, latter statement does not apply to long >j0, staple cotton in comparison with the short staple ones, for a long staple cot- , in ton may produce less lint per acre than 1 ^ a short staple one, yet this smaller j , r^.9 r?Aimr1o r?ior caI 1 for mAro All II U 111 UC1 Ul JIUUIIUO UiUJ CVI4 v. v.. , the market, on ?iccount of its higher j selling price per pound. ? By C. B. Cfl] Williams and B. W. Ivilgore. of the | T.j, North Carolina Department of Agricul- , yo ture. ; olc coi Cotton Seed Meal For Dairy Cow*. W< E. R. C., Carterton, Va., writes: I | woiild like to try cotton seed meal , tQ with my cows, as wheat bran is too g0] high to buy now. and would like some oa, information on the subject. a ] You will find cotton seed meal an m( excellent food for dairy cows, but you wh should not feed more than three to of five pounds per day. and the former tb< amount is better than the latter, be- Sb cause cotton seed meal is a very concentrated foocfstuflf. Pound for pound cotton seed meal contains about three jn and a quarter times as much protein j gtr as wheat bran. Therefore, when you fi*a feed three pounds of cotton seed meal ha you are practically feeding an equiva- 1 so lent of ten pounds of wheat bran. It in is the failure to realize the very con- Po centrated nature of cotton seed meal on' that has led many persons to suppose it was not satisfactory food for cows J ^ 1 and other classes of farm live stock, j ^ While wheat bran is an. excellent food COI for the cow and by reason of its ex- ce] cedent physiological effect and its fav- , fe^ orable action on the coat and diges- th< tive organs, generally speaking it is tw too high to feed at S25 per ton when ' ha: "one can purchase cotton seed meal at th< about the same price. Of course, a rai little wheat bran, corn meal or ship jas stuff should be fed with the cotton , *ro seed meal to obtain the best results, i j If you hare good clover hay and plen- bu ty of corn fodder, however, cotton seed ^h( in an l h-r itcnlf will nrnvo satisfactory. ! wn ?Knoiville Tribune. lnj lio Water on the Farm* CS] ' Some of the older readers of the Frogressive Farmer may remember a, ln time when water for domestic purposes had to be brought from the spring: which was generally 200 to 300 yards th( from the house. Stock had to be car- rjg ried to the nearest branch or creek to an be watered. Both people and stock ma suffered for water at times. A well in th< the yard saves much labor and insures th< an abundant supply of water. If a farmer has several head of stock to ric water it will pay him in one year to j or dig a well In his horse lot and get an old-fashioned trough that will hold fifty tnJ to seventy-five gallons. That will save eTj much time. If the farmer has two or ^in three hundred acres, it may be incon-1 c0] venient to carry plow animals somedis-, set tance for water (luring the long hot j mc days. A well dug in a convenient place ' *>ri will save much time and give water J to stock when needed. But better than wells, is a hydraulic ram, if a fanner j ha has a spring or clear branch near his j house with fall enough to use one. The be ram, piping and tank will cost only j In two or three bales of cotton, and water res Will be furnished to house, kitchen and ani horse lot. Any farmer who runs four un or five plows could afford that, and after using this water system awhile, he nQ! would never give it up. The well could mc be kept in pood order for drinking fai water.?Charles Petty, Spartanburg nei County, S. C. mi in* Hint Abont Transplanting. ou, 1 evi In transplanting a tree or plant the ! point aimed at is to get the roots in ! me ... i tno P<1 Fill 115 nearly as jji/j-oilmc iu i ??v. same condition as that in which they \ so were before removal. In order to do ' this the soil should be made very line ! and well worked in with the hands mi anions all the roots, which should be : spread out in their natural positions. j tai ~ I ed Jets and Flashes. ; se< Upon the question whether the hus- j band or the wife died ?rst depends ; ? ' the outcome of the contest over the i ? ' will of Wallace Andrews, which gives i $2,300,000 to found an institute for ; . girls in New York. The Canadian Supreme Court granted Gc a motion to quash the appeal of Greene it and Gaynor against extradition. sti rei Some of us never know our own fam- t^, ilics until we have to look up to Heaven th< to count them all in. 0; Germany has refused to agree upon frt the subject matter to be discussed at wl the proposed Moroccan ccmference un- inj til France accepts the conference itself, sci v W Mrs. Shepherd K. Smith was put on j trial in Manchester, Va.. charged with th( causing the death of her 7-year-old son. fQ] Fire destroyed the Baltimore and tic Ohio shops at Yeyser, together with 38 Or cars. ?j?j Constable Mann, of Appomattox, who trt went to Lynchburg to arrest a negro, tu was himself arrested on a charge of So ring drunk. 1 The "wets" carried Woodstock In th? I local-option contest. . !., , lllw I ivernor Glenn, Delivers Leadin^Oralio^^H^^^H IEECH RECEIVED MUCtf APPLjQHj lis New Yorkers cf the Political j^H Perils Which This Country Faces md Urges That the Trusts be Curb* New York, Special.?Chief of the lependence Day celebrations -was~wB it held at Tammany Hall. Long * fore the hour for the exercise to gin the old wigwam was filled witfL imhers of that organization, and af the usual patriotic songs and the iding of the Declaration of Indendence by Alfred J. Talley and let's of reply from the various Demoits of prominence invited to attend i celebration were read by Thomas Smith, Governor R. B. Glenn, of irth Carolina, delivered the first of i "long talks," always a feature of j event. Governor Glenn first told the political perils which the eoun r now faces. He declared that the aflict between capital and labor Duld be solved by arbitration, that 5 corporate interests- of the nation suld be protected, and asserted that th as a nation and as individual# i are living too fast a life. He spoke part as folllows: GOVERNOR GLENN'S ADDRESS. 'I esteem it both an honor and a iasure to meet and greet you and. appreciate more than mere words a express the invitation to your gwam to address the warriors of ur tribe, as you are perhaps the lest political organization in our . antry, and your name and fame 3 co-extensive with that of our great is tion. That you have made mistakes no will deny; that you have elevated office and put in positions of trust me who have been untrue to their ths, unworthy of your order and menace to society and gopd governsnt you yourselves will admit; but tile this is true, under the leadership ' such sache""> as Daniel Tompkins, 3 great Jofc Kelly, Richard Croker, ;* eehan, Mur^y and others, with a yj v interruptions, you have controlled, J ected and governed lesser and eater New York, until today It has wonders, wealth and power outipped every city under the sun, and inds first of all. The subject you ve assigned me, "Our Country," Is vast that it can scarcely be touched my short space of forty-five minutes, litical clouds now no larger than > b's hand, are arising on the political rizon. What are these dangers? rst, the conflict between capital and tor, for there is this conflict, and < should be settled by the law in irts of arbitration. Second, the conization of wealth in the hands of a v, the few controlling the many; a establishment of combines and ists, putting all power in their ads, thus crippling the weak and i small; the policy that wants one lway instead of many; one concern itead of a hundred to produce our n and steel, our oil and gas and furnish beef and bread for hungry v llicns. Is this for cur nation'c up- * ilding? Was Russell Sage telling .. ) truth when be said that industries >rth fifty million dollars were bc; capitalized at two hundred tr.:.ns. and that one concern had pitaiized for a billion dollars, cr out half the entire volume of money America, that such things will Duse the people, and that when Jused they are more powerful than mbines, and will tear and destroy ;m? Or are J. J. Hill and others. ;ht when they say these combines . d trusts are for the benefit of hu.tnity, the upbuilding of society and' i glory of God? Are they making 5 people poorer or are they giving ?m more work and making them her? Do they feed hungry mouths bring more sorrow and > at? Are they doing good? so, we should have combines and ists everywhere, but if they are doing 11 m.ict ha pnntrnlled. Has the 11 LUC/ UiUOb WV VVM?. ie come when the old doctrine that npetitlon is the life of trade is to be at naught and our people taught that * >nopoly is the only thing which -? ngs hope and success to our country? j t us call a halt and right-about-face, '" honesty Is the best policy, and we 1 live within our means and still be ppy. Fourth, the danger of the great ies, which were long ago declared to the greatest perils to our republic, the country Sunday is the day of it. God is there, the people ahe happy d contented, while in cities there is rest, anxiety, a never-ending and iseless strain on body, mind and soul, th no time for Sunday and rest, God t in the heavens, but in business, in mey, In a nervous anxiety to grow nous and rich; saloons at every corr destroying the body, blighting the nd. blackening the soul; vice stalk; abroad in the day and shame witht fear walking at night For all these ils there is a great and mighty reme, simple, but divine, and this is the issage of Christ the King, 'As you *iiQf men chonid do unto you. do ye also unto them.' A PICTURE OF THE SOUTH. 'There is one section of this fair land,. ich talked about, little understood d often misrepresented, treated by ly politicians as though the inhabllts were alien-born and to bo despisand hated. In that section the sun :ms to shine brighter, the water ;ms purer and the flowers bloom autifully and give forth the most trainee. That section is 'Dixieland,' our n Sunny South?your South as well mine.' The Governor then drew a :ture of the South before the war d of the war itself, and said: "Oh, d! blot it out and let us remember no more in its show! The recon- ^ uction period that followed the surider was worse than the war, for In 3 war we fought brave men, but now 3 vampires of the creation, the scum the earth, deserters, tho negro enmchised and given a responslbllty for tich he was not prepared, thus mak- \ 5 him the tool of the vicious, the N ilawag and carpet-bagger?these re our rulers?the men who governus. We begged them for bread and ey gave us a stone. We asked them r fish, they gave us a serpent. Desola>n and poverty were over our section, ir State capitols turned into saloons, [me at a premium, law and order impled under foot?this is a faint picre of reconstruction days in the nth. The Governor discussed many other oblems that confront the South, and the close received a tremendous ora>n. ,