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% ?HE LANDOF REGRET* There is a city whose gates are wide, . Its pavements pure and clean, .Where shadow forms Hit side by side i. On?the road called "Might Have Been." But folks walk there with their heads bowed low, j|L; - And heavy eyelids wet, y' . ' For ev'ry corner is haunted so % In this, "The Land of Regret." They meet the ghosts of those other years In dreams of memory sweet, !And wet with passionate, frenzied tears The graves which lie at their feet; But never, long as their lives shall last, Can they again forget Who once have walked with ghosts of the past In tn is, "The Land of Regret." ' Tliey feel the touch of hand grown still, * Its fingers softly press. The tender passion of kisses thriil Their own in a fond caress. | Ah. me? bnt pity the folks who stray \\ here long the sun hath set. And walk with the ghosts whore laid away In this, "The Land of Regret." -Pall Mail Gazette. ;V.V.\\V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.\V; I ji THE CREW THAT 5 :: I - ^SUFFERED FROM THIRST;! VAV.NV.VAVAV.V.W.W.V. Br' Jtotc r is sixty years since I was _ Jj serving as a midshipman ? T O on board H. M. S. Xeno*1 R phou in the South Seas. , She was one of the tluest frigates then atloat. From Callao, twelve degrees south laiitude. Ave were ordered to proceed to San Bias, a port on the coast of Mexico, in twenty-three and one-half degrees north latitude. The distance , being about 2400 miles, the passage through both trade Avinds as a rule R* r occupied three weeks, and for this the Xenophon carried more than a full i*. suj^ly of Avater, so thai it occurred to 410 one to suppose we should run short of the first necessary of life. We left Callao 011 February 10. and on the eleventh day out the Galapagos group was sighted, and Ave came to an alienor in Post Office Bay, Charles Island. Here Ave hoped to replenish our water tauks, but 110 water could be obtaiued. and we sailed Avithout any further , supply,. It was from this lime that our IU luck began, T 'For sixteen days we remained be|T\ oalnied Avitbin sight of land, drifting to and fro. crossing and recrossing the equator with Avcaryiug irritation. On vi tjieseventeeth day wp got a slant of m iiul. and. losing sight of the islands, hoped wo were fairly off at last. lint it "was uot to be. In two days the wind dropped again, and we lay once more becalmed. Thirty ;six days out. and barely one-tbird of the distance done! . Ou March 20 the order was given to slop all water for washing purposes. bit was a necessity, and as such it was accepted, but when it was seen that Captain I-ordiing had no intention of ?ettiug an example, and that his own a ablutions continued daily, it is not surprising that he became unpopular. Another week passed, and still we lay at the mercy of the wearisome calm, its monotony broken only by an occasional turtle hunt. It was now the seventh week out front Callao, but still our acbiug eyes looked in vain for 6igns of a coining breeze. The sails were Curled, for tbry were only beating themseh ^s threadbare with the heave of the ship in the oily sea as they flapped against the masts and rigging. Coming on deck and glancing at the aallleftK rards made it seem a mockery of being at anchor in a safe port. The sun stared vertically ut us from a steel blue sky. and under the double awnings th? pitch rau liquid from the seams, dogging our feet as we walked the tv .deck. I "And in the midst of these surroundings the order was given to reduce the allowance of drinking water to one pint a day for each officer and man. This allowance was served out iu one ; Issue at noon, during the men's dinner hour. The meal consisted of salt junk so long in brine and so hard that it . could take a handsome polish in skilful hands, or of pork that shriveled In the boiling to little more than hard rind. The result of such a diet, of course, 'was that when their (-inners were over , not a drop of water remained to the poor fellows for the next tweuiy-four hours Of burning heat. Tin* few who tried to save some found it impossible, for they had no place in which to secure it from their improvident shipmates. In this strait the men fell back < on vinegar, of which each mess had a liberal allowance, but in their raging thirst tfccy were not satisfied merely to moisten their mouths with the strong ?cld; they mixed it with salt water and drank it in large quantities, and the terrible, effect may be imagiued as, knocked over by this horrible mixture, they rolled iu agonies in the forecastle. With the officers, of course, it was different, although tne allowance of water was the same. Their food was not so thirsi provoking: they could save the precious pint, aud even eke'it out with a little wine or beer. Mine I locked in ray sea chest, and had it been the Koh-i-noor l com a scarcely nave valued it more highly. Rut Captain Lordling for himself reserved not only an unlimited supply ??f thinking water, but also an ample sufficiency for washing purposes. Every morning the steward used to carry the dirty, soapy water down the ladder on the way to his sanctum, and every day from the marines' berth at 'the foot of the ladder half a dozen or more stalwart Joeys were on the lookout for his appearance. The instant lie descended the vessel was dragged from him and its contents eagerly divided among the thirsty crowd. The steward cm plained to the Captain, but axothii.^- :e of it. It Mas' cided to make for Yestapa. o the ^>ttst of Central America, an anrrrorage some 200 miles distant, and we arrived there when sixty days out from Cnllao. Who can describe our relief when wc reached that marvellous tropical const, with its coral beach and stately palms, backed by volcanic mountains, aud saw between deep ravines the downward plunge of stream and torrent to the sea? We thought our privations were ended, for, although we could see no break In the thundering roll of surf which the mighty Pacific sent combing on the beach. Ave learned from an English brig < which lay* tlt?e shipping a cargo of indigo, that the Indians had filled their water casks and doubtless would do the same for ours. boats were sent to seek a waterllg place, but after a careful survey the officer reported that lauding was absolutely impracticable except for the light Indian canoes and catamarans. The Indians were appealed to, and immediately offered to raft off a full supply of water for the sum of $1200. Whnn >?!? nnn-t cnro-iil Oinfl afirpflri "" ? - v ^ ! it (lid like wildfire) never a doubt bad we but tl?t our tbirsty souls would drink and live. But well as we knew our Captain, ibere was a little yet to be learned about liim. "Why." he said at once, "the Admiralty might make me pay the money. It's too much! I won't give it!" Still we did not entirely relinquish hope: a smaller offer was made to the natives, and this they absolutely declined. Things having reached this point, the senior officers, with the doctor. took the extreme course of urging the Captain to reconsider his decision, pointing out how much the men had suffered and the gravity of the responsibility which he incurred. But all was of no avail: our chief was obdurate. and the sole result of their intervention was an order to get under way. The men. therefore, who would gladly have risked their lives to obtain water from the beach, had now, without an extra drop to moisten their parched throats, to brave up tlm auchor and turn their backs on tlfl^ land of promise as we made for the open ocean. Sore and suilen were all our hearts, and serious consequences might have eusued among the men had it not been that a breeze sprang up and their hopes with it. The great mountains faded in the blue distance and night fell on the sails sweetly nslcrp as the stately frigate swept through the sea. Alas, next day the sun rose on a breathless cnlm! We had not outsailed our ill luck and it wasiwith us again. One day the clouds began to gather, until a huge dark mass hung pendant in the heavens. Under this the sea began to boil and foam, then a long blackarm descended: a rapidly moving spiral column of smoking water leaped to meet it. and thus a waterspout was formed; soon that cloud was full to bursting. Oh! what a joy as it climbed over our mastheads! We knew it must burst on us! Then out of the glooif? and darkness came the blessed rain, as if the waterspout itself had fallen. Awnings were spread and looped up. Hoses were laid froiu tlieui to the tanks. The seupper holes were plugged, every receptacle was filled. The decks became a surging lake, in 1 which all hands rolled and drank. Fast privations were forgotten, and although the allowance of water was still kept at a pint a day. yet every bucket and mess can was full, and Jack once more cut a -lHiffle on the forecastle *and sang of the lass that loves a sailer. The seventy-seventh day from Callno found us still some (500 miles from our destination, with only a few tons* of water left. The sun. which had a declination south of Callno when we left, had overtaken us and was sending slanting rays from the north, but still the heat was Intense, baking our black hull as if it were an oven. The allowance of water was reduced to half a pint a day. and our sufferings were greater than ever. Not Captain Lot-dUng's. though! He strode up and down the quarterdeck, healthfully perspiring at every pore, while on the forecastle grim death claimed its victims from the poor creatures who had sought relief from their thirst in salt water and vinegar. Every precaution had been adopted to prevent the men driukiug this appalling mixture, but it could not be entirely stopped. Case after case was brought into the sick bay and treated by the doctors with every care, but iu vain. All through this trying time the Captain's live stock, sheep and poultry, were supplied with no Inconsiderable amount of water, while British seamen were thus dying for want of it. Tormented as the men were by thirst, it is not surprising that many attempts were made to steal water from the deck water tank. One man would decoy the sentry away, while another rushed in and- turned the tap. The sentries were doubled, and some of the men, caught in the attempt, were flogged, receiving after the cruel custom of the time three dozen lashes of the cat. At last, on May 20, we sighted the anchorage of San Bias, and the order was immediately given to serve out a gallon of water to each man. Discipline was forgotten in the wildest, most joyful confusion as it was issued. And so, ninety-three days alter leaving Callao, our privations came to an end. For the last seventy-seven days of our voyage we had averaged a speed of just one mile an hour, a record for slowness which I scarcely think the annals ef sen life could beat.?Mhcrnillan's Magazine. ^ The Chinaman in London. When the Londoner wishes to study John Chinaman at his leisure there is no need to go abroad for the purpose. He has only to take a eab to the causeway at Llmehouse to find himself in little Chinatown. There he will see slant-eyed sons of the Orient, some with English names and some without ?some even with English or, more ntoiv Irish wives?and all looking as calmly picturesque as it is possible for a "liathen Chinee'' to look. He will And several Chinese shops with Chinese names cn the doors and smug Celestials within waiting to overreach either a countryman or a Britisher in a bargain. They have been there nearly twenty years now, and they seem quite as clean and respectable as their neighbors. Strange to soy nobody In that district has a word to say against John as a citizen.?London MaiL A Clever Shoplifter. The Philadelphia police say that tney have discovered a shoplifter, a woman, who brushes the valuable articles, such as silk waists, off counters in stores, ana men picas xuein up vim lier foot and tucks them safely under hei dress. They claim to have caught the culprit aud proved her guilt. The Boer colony established in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, two years ag?, is doing well. ' ^HOUSEHOLD JgEj-jSV SATIN FINISHED MAHOGANY. Many people prefer satln-tinished mahogany furniture to the dull style, but It only looks better while it is new. Every finger mark and scratch shows, j Tn t?nn if in tlie rieht condition, it should be rubbed every day. DO NOT SHAKE A RUG. Never shake a rug to get out the i!ust. for it ruins the binding and fringe, and after a few shakings the ?dges tear from the warp at the cor- , uers and not only spoils the appear- , mice of the rug. but shortens the period of its usefulness. 1 TO REMOVE PUTTY. To remove old putty and paint, make 1 paste with soft soap and a solution . of canst in soda, or with slaked liuie ' and pearlash. I.ay it on with a piece 1 of rag or a brush, and leave it for several hours, when it will be found ' that the paint or putty may be easily removed. 1 MENDING KNIFE HANDLES j When the handles of steei knives and forks come off they can be easily mended with resin. Ponr a little pow dered resin into the cavity in the handle. Heat the part of the knife that tits into the handle until it is red hot. ' and thrust into the handle. It trill become firmly fixed by the resin when it becomes cool, protect the blade from the heat. J CLEANING THE CARPETS. To remove oil spots from carpets 1 first wash out the dust from the grease i spot with warm water, mixed with i household ammonia. Next cover the ? spot with a paste of fuller's earth and water?qnite stiff. Cover with paper i aud leave thus for two days. Then j lay blotting paper over all and set a < warm iron upon the dry paste. Final- i ly. brush out the earth and sponge j with clean water. ? SILVER MOTHS. * 1 As a last resort to get rid of silver < moths, take the drawers from the 1 dressers. Wash them thoroughly with hot alum-water. Fill a bowl with formaldehyde and keep the room closed < tightly for forty-eight hours. After the fumigation throw open the windows and permit the aiPto enter. Fill the drawers with cedar shavings, powdered. This gives a fresh odor, and is a protection against destructive invaders. Formaldehyde is a liquid that must not touch the skin. While evaporating it sets free a suffocating gas that enters the cracks, killing all insects; no living thing can exist in it. gt RECIPES :.vf * Corn Souffle?Drain the water from 1 a can of corn and stir in three table- 1 spoonfuls of melted butter. Beat four ' eggs until very light and turn with a ' pint of rich milk into the corn, season well, beat for several minutes and pour into a buttered pudding dish. Cover and bake thirty minutes. Remove the cover, brown the souffle and serve directly. A Peach Dessert?Large sweet peaches make a delicious dessert when prepared in this manner: Peel and halve the peaches, removing the stones. Pack in ice and salt for three hours. Remove and place in individual glass dishes, putting into each half a tablespoonful of peach ice-cream and surrounding the whoie with sweetened whipped cream. Creamed Ham With MushroomsMelt two tablespoonfuls of butter and stir into it 11-2 tablespoonfuls of flour; then, slowly stirring all the while, pour in one cup of hot milk. When smooth and thick season with pepper and salt and stir in one cupful of minced ham and a quarter of a can of chopped mushrooms; pour over rounds of nicely browned toast and garnish with slices of hard-boiled eggs and parsley. Grape Catchup?Wash two quarts of grapes, pick over and remove stems. Put in granite ware saucepan, pour over one quart of vinegar, bring to boiling point, and cook until grapes are soft; then rub through a sieve. Return to saucepan, add 11-2 pounds of brown sugar, one tabl^spoonful each of cinnamon, clove and pimento, onehalf tablespoonful of Ml and onefourth of a teaspoon' nne. Cook until of the cons '.to catchup. Bottle, cool Cream Chocolate Pr of milk, one-half cup' eggs, four tables' 4 starch, two ounce: I one teaspoonful of > Ptir-? 'i chocolate in a saucepit?-</melt, stir- 1 ring until perfectly smooth. Put the f milk on to boil in a farir.a boiler; < moisten the cornstarch with a i of a cup of water and add to < ing milk; cook and stir until t -aJ < smooth. Beat the -whites of k e;**s to a stiff froth, add the sugar to the < milk, then the whites, and beat all to- i gether over the tire. Take from the < fire and add the vanilla. Now take * one-third of the mixture and add to It ] the chocolate, mixing well. Dip a y plain pudding mould in cold water, put in the bottom of it half the white mixture, then all of the dark, and next the remainder of the white. Stand on the ice to harden, and serve with a ( vanilla sauce poured around it. 1 A Wooden Wedding. I Sev/ral friends called on a New York clergyman one evening, says the New ( York Sun, and were kept waiting for him ror some time. 1 "I'm sorry to have kept you wait- ( ing," the minister remarked, as he en- ( tered his library, "but I have just had to perform a wooden wedding in the ( church." 1 "What!" said one of the visitors. "1 5 never heard of such a thing. What kind of a ceremony was it?" "Oh." answered the clergyman, with ' a twinkle in his eye, "it was the mar- ( riage of a couple of FoJea." 1 . i , . A>. .. . . /' < Canals and Road*. j?*afQKX**EItE nnd there one bears E* the question asked. Why j| 1?1 * ?hould the cities contribute 8^ j|f^ to the building of roads for tno country uisiric auu ir is instantly answered by asking. Why should the country districts contribute to the payment of the cost of the canal system, when it only benefits cities? In neither case has the person asking the question comprehended the fact that the development of the canals and the development of roads arc both questions of developing transportation. and that the State that Is able to have the cheapest transportation is the State that controls the commercial supremacy of the Union, and that both canal and road development go haml in hand in enabling New York State to maintain its commercial supremacy. Roughly speaking, of the $100,000.DOO to be expended upon the Erie Canal. ?85.000,000 is paid by the cities und $15,000,000 by the rural districts. Roughly speaking, of the $50,000,000 to be expended for tie development of the highways, fifty per cent., or $23.CKj^.OOO, is to be paid by the State at large. $17,500,000 is to be paid by the counties according to the mileage improved in each county, and $7,500,000 is to be paid by the towns according to the mileage improved in each town. Now. of the $23,000,000 to be paid by the State at large, eighty-five per cent.. Dr J22.250.000. will be paid by the cities anil the remainder will be paid t>y the rural districts, so that one sees readily that the rural districts contribute J15.000.000 for the canals for the cities, while the cities contribute $22,250.000 for the roads for the country: that is. the cities are contributing ^7.250,000 mere for the roads than the country districts are contributing to the cities for the canals. This is not m unfair proportion, considering the greatness of the two propositions. There has never been any intention on the part of the highway conventions, composed of the Supervisors and the Highway Commissioners of the State, to formulate a plan for road development which would be in any way burJensome to the cities by increasing their taxation. The cities inadvertently will benefit largely from road improvement, because the price of farm produce will be reduced to the consumer, because the farmer can jring double the load in half the time to the present shipping centres on improved roads over what he can at the present time. The indirect benefits to the cities in the purchase of cheaper farm produce are fully equal to the ndirect benefits to the farm by having 'heap transportation on the waterways >f the State for the benefit of cities.? Tribune Fanner. i " Wide or Narrow Tires ! On smooth, hard roads the difference s not so great, but on ^?andy or muddy roads or in plowed fields wide tires ire so much better than narrow ones that we wonder that farmers do not nslst on having them. The Metropolitan and Rural Homes publishes the folio wing: The Missouri experiment station has nade a series of tests extending from lanuary to September of last year in jrder to ascertain the value of wide tires as compared with narrow ones. Conclusions follow. In conducting the experiments two >rdi?ary farm wagons were used, one vith six-inch tires, the other with standard one and one-half-inch tires. >oth wagons of the same weight, and ?ach loaded with 2000 pounds. It was found that the power needed to draw * ?tit. oruvt ne narrow-urea wagon, wnu -'?w)ound load. 011 a gravel road, would lave pullod a load of 2472 pounds on he wide-fired wagon. The same power required to draw narrow tires >ver dirt and gravel roads, when these [vere dry and hard, was found sufficient to draw a 2330-pound load on the vide-tired wagon under the same conlitions. It was shown that where hese roads were deep with mud. hut martially dried at the surface witii a 'ew hours' sun. the same power reluired to draw the 2000-pound load >ver them on the narrow tires would mil a load of 3200 pounds on the wide Jres. The director of the station states hat the conditions under which the larrow tires offer an advantage over ;he wide ones are "unusual and of short duration," and further, that through a majority of days in the rear, and at times when the dirt roads ire most used, and when their use is nost imperative, the hroad - tired Vagon will pull materially lighter than 4ie narrow-tired wagon." Also that 'a large number of tests on meadows. 1 jnstures, stubble land, corn ground, ind plowed ground in every condition, 'roin dry, bard and iirra to very wet j ind soft, shows without a single exception a large difference in draft in 'avor of the broad tires. The difference ranged from seventeen to 120 per cent. 1 As a result of all experiments conlucted he says: "It appears that six ncbes is the best width of tire for combination farm and road wagon, ind that both axles should be the same ength. so that the front and hind vheels will run in the same track." Too W?ll. Uncle Absalom Millsap went to the iffice of the village newspaper with a jrievanee. "I want to tell you," ue i said, "that there's a good deal of hum3ug in advertising." "I am sorry to hear that," respondMl the editor. "In what way?" "Do you remember that you had three advertisements of 'fine milch ( x>w for sale' lust week, in three different parts of the country?" j "Yes, and I've heard from all three )f those ads., too. They resulted in selling the cows. I tell you, it pays to ldvertlse in the Banner." "It didn't pay me!" snapped Uncle Vbsalom. "I wanted a fine milch cow, md I went to all three of those placea; >ne after another, but somebody had jot there aheadjof me every time.'" V I i i ^c } SOUTHERN *f d >d ? TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANT! -K : Feeding ltoutins Ear Cora. Pnrn Scf rtf fAi? fiwl a a? t tin it'll am r?A I win 4.-5 vi ira iuu iv unmc nucu fjvIng out of the roasting ear stage with fairly good results. In investigations made several years ago when comparing corn 011 a water free basis, that which was not well matured gave about as good results per pound of dry matter as that fully matured. In some sections of the South it is not an uncommon practice to feed corn when passing out of the roasting ear stage to cattle and other classes of stock with results that are in some instances quite surprising. Where grass is abundant it is not necessary that grass be fed in any considerable quantities until later. Sugar Beets For Hog*. II. C. M., Rome. Ga.?I am raising a larger amount of hogs than formerly. In connection with other feed for them I have raised one-half ton of white sugar beets. Please tell me the most economical and profitable way to feed them, whether cooked or uncooked, and. If cooked, what other ingredients to mix with them? Answer?.Mix the sliced, or boiled and mashed, sugar beets with corn meal at the rate of six to eight pounds of beets to one pound of corn meal. If you have a root slicer use It and feed the beets raw with the meal. If the hogs will eat therii. Cooking does not add to their value. One pound of corn meal is equal in feeding value to about six pounds of first-rate sugar beets. Coal Aihn In tbe Garden. We frequently see the advice given to use ashes as fertilizer, but the writ ers of such items do not always speciry whether wood ashes or coal ashes is meant. As is generally known wood ashes have a considerable value as fertilizer. largely because of the amount of potash contained in them. Large quantities of unleached wood ashes are yearly brought from Canada aird used on our farms; in some sections they are extensively used on grass land. The late Robert Bonner, the noted horseman, applied wood ashes for several years in succession to his meadows and for something like twelve y"ears after the last application of wood ashes these meadows have had no fertilizer except a moderately he^vy top dressing of stable manure each fall; the crop yearly has been a most satisfactory one. Coal ashes can be utilized to advantage around orchard trees where the soil is heavy or clayey in character: they may also be used as a mulch around shrubbery and small trees to conserve the moisture in the soil. These ashes are less objectionable for such purposes than the coarse stable manure generally used. Large Black Pmu Praised. With us, writes W.B.J., in Home and Farm, tue large black pea has given the most satisfactory results. It is a strong and vigorous grower, makes a great mass of haulm, matures and anes eariy, bo iuhi ury puus uu ur gathered in September: and In"yleld of seed exceeds, we believe, all other varieties. It is as good as any for stock or for hay, and the green peas in summer or the dry peas In winter are in every way as sweet and savory and nutritious for man as any variety of twelve or tkirteeu that we have ever grown. For an all-round pea. for any purpose required by the farmer, we believe there is nothing better than the large-seeded, all-black variety. There is a small-seeded kind, but not so good, l^et the farmer try to work this sort out from his seed. And for planting purposes, or for use on the table in winter, a portion of the crop should be planted rather late in July, in order to have seed not infested with that great pest of this ' crop, the little pea bug. At the South, the early sowings are invariably infested with this insect. Farmers who would make a specialty of the black pea for seed would doubtless find it . profitable. At $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel of seventy pounds the crop pays well. , '**?. C?e Potaih and Lima. Nearly all of the soils of the South will be benefited by the use of lime, and especially tnose on which potash is liberally used, as it seems evident from the analysis of many Southern soils that tberfe is not enough of that 1 element present to enable potash to i give its most satisfactory results. The principal crops grown in the South and the kind and amount of fertil- i !??? oSantnd to tlioip USO follOWS! IMTl ULOt UU.ipivu IV - Corn sorghum nnd the coarse fodder i and grain growing cereals: Cotton seed meal 300 pounds, nitrate of soda J 130 pounds, acid phosphate 350 pounds and muriate of potash ten pounds. Use | at the rate of 300 to 500 pounds to i the acre. i For wheat nnd other small grain- i bearing cereals use the same mixture i but at the rate of 150 to 350 pounds. ] Reflections of a Bachelor. Prosperity has much the same effect on a man as gas has on a balloon; too much of it will result in an explosion. "" 1? ? 1 w lien a man reacue? ju> .<vvuuu childhood he has no hair and no teeth ?and if single, has 110 more sense than to want a wife. It is easier to talk about ruling mankind with love than it is to do it. A stunning-looking girl isn't necessarily shocking. Many a woman's hair is not as golden as it s plaited. Every man thinks his wife has the best husband in the world. A New York millionaire who began his career a clerk in a cigar store about forty years ago boasts of having risen from the ranks. ^ There are too many divisions of the Christian army where all those who are not commanding offie^t-s are retired coloneli on half-pay, ; . - y J ? ARM /VOTES. D-d > R, STOCK MAR AND TRUCK GROWER* I I I h rsfih Cotton: Cotton seed meal 250 pounds, high grade acid phosphate 400 pounds and muriate of potash 130 pounds. Use at the rate of 300 to 500 oounds nor acre. Potatoes: High grade acid phosphate 350 pounds, muriate of potash 150 pounds. Use at the rate of 400 to GOO pounds per acre. Liberal applications of a complete fertilizer should be made on all garden and truck crops and on orchards. Use a fertilizer a.t the rate of 400 to 000 pounds composed of a mixture of 800 pounds of cotton seed meal, 300 pounds of add phosphate and 400 pounds of muriate of potash.?Professor Soule. Black Knit of Cotton. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture has since September 1 received numerous samples of diseased cotton bolls, showing blackened surface and in many cases having the immature lint exposed and rotten. These diseased bolls show the presence of the1 spores or reproductive parts of a parasitic fungus?Colletotrichium. gosslpylum. The fungus seems to be spreading in North Carolina and already does very serious damage. The estimated damage now caused Is about one-half the normal yield on the infected areas. The spores*or so-called seeds of the fungus live over winter in the diseased bolls and stalks of the preceeding crop usually left in the field. The spores undoubtedly live upon .the seed stored in barns and cotton gins. When this seed is planted or when Infected seed is planted upon infected soil the fungus starts growth along with the seed and grows up through the young plants, eventually coming to the surface of the stalks and forming black patches on stalk and boll. Great damage is done to the growing crop by the threads of this fungus choking tne sap vesSels of the leaf-stalks, thereby causing the leaves to fall off. \v nen young nous are seriousiy jmecied they stop growth, open'and expose the immature lint whieh soon rots. The orily. practical remedy for this disease is to rotate crops so that cotton will not come upon the same land oftener than once in three years. Seed cotton should never be taken from the piles at gin houses. The seed should always be carefully selected from healthy and prolific plants in the field. Such selection, together with a proper rotation, will prevent the loss now caused by the disease and will at the same time Improve the strain and increase the yield of the crop. The use of fungicidal sprays upon cotton is not recommended.?Gerald McCarthy, Biologist N. C. Dept. Agriculture. xf: its Sowing Rye. Rye is a crop that grows on poor land and it does good work in the way of holding plant food that might ieach away during the winter months, and It is also effective in keeping the soil from washing away when the heavy winter rains come on. Rye Is not only a good crop in the way of looking after the physical condition of the soil, but it is one of the best grazing crops that we have for winter and f J.W. Allt* spriug luuiiius. h e mc t>iiiuu^ vui rye in as convenient at this' season of the year. Our practice is to use the disk harrow so as lo break up the top of the soli, thereby making a good seed bed, and then seed this land to rye about the rate of one bushel per acre. As a rule we have the rye to follow corn. After the corn is either shocked or put into the silo, we get the land in condition and seed the rye. Wc have a few lots, however, that go to rye for the grazing of our hogs in winter. About an acre lot was seeded the first of August, and then three or four lots will follow so as to have an abundance of green grazing for the large and small pigs. Rye can be pastured, or it can be left standing until it gets to be a foot, or even two feet, abote the ground, when it can be mowed and every day a small quantity given to the work stock or cattle or hogs. This method of handling rye crops is known as soil* ing, and it has many friends who prefer to cut the rye and haul It to the barn, where it is fed rather than have It grazed from the field. Still it makes no difference as to the method oT using the crop. Every fanner should have his rye field for furnishing green food during the winter months and spring, when no other kind is available. I find for our work rye an invaluable aid. and we could not think of farming without having fifteen or twenty acres each year for this purpose. Whoever tries this system becomes a friend to It, and finds It helpful and a good means of carrying on the .work and providing an abundance of food for all classes of farm animals, and we should also bear in mind that livestock farming is profitable only with an abundance of good food.?C. W. Burkett, in the Progressive Farmer. Pointed Paragraphs. An obligation of any sort is a mortgage upon your time. Most pcopie manufacture their own: luck?be it good or bad. JIc who waits for something to turn up is likely to turn up in the almshouse. Whoever gets blue over mere trifles is apt to paint things red to get ovci it. A girl isn't an old maid until she begins to worry for fear sh '11 never get married. A man isn't an old batchelor until he begins to fear some woman will marry him. The more business ability a man possesses the harder it is for him to whistle a popular air correctly Possibly Solomon's wisdbm may have been acquired by association with his numerous mothers-in-law. Once there was a poor man who attended strictly to his own business? and today he is rich and happy. . j -r " L<. SnUEHMfflft 1 NOVEMBER NINETEENTH. ~ Medical Missions (at Homo and Abroad).?Mark 1:29-34. First the synagogue (v.29), and thW t the healing. Evangelistic and medical" ; missions must go hand in hand. Thero is no need to tell curlst of any sit*.: person In any part of the s world; He is always the flrat by the sickbed (v. 30). Christ's is no distant command^ ? but He takes men and women "by ths hand" (v. 31). One pf His outstretched hands is tic* medical missionary. While the medical missionary la healing the body, he is also driving the devils out of the soul (v. 32). Medical Missions. s J. It was said of Dr. John G. Kerr ot China that two of the difficult opera* * tions he was constantly performing would, if performed and paid for at home, have more than paid his year's t;alary as a missionary. * Dr. Chamberlain of India, when two New York Physicians told him it was impossible that he could have had in his critical operations so large a percentage of* recovery, answered that on the mission field unbelief does not hinder the workings of God's power as it docs In the United States. It is said that the great medical missionary Dr. Asahel Grant of Per sia, bad twenty times more Intercourse with the Mohammedans than the missionary who was sent out ex- m pressly to labor among them but Was not a physician. The medical missionary must be ffcr more skillful than the average ptay- . sician or surgeon at home, because he has to work usually without competent nurses or assistants, and per- ^ form all operations alone. ^ In the Johns Hopkins Hospital tile cost of each patient is $2.33 a day; la 3 the hospital of Urumla, Persia, It is is 1p?q than oown Aanfo a rfiv 1 There are more physicians and $jj medical workers In Chicago than in all of India and China together. s i In the United States we have one physician to every six or seven hundred persons. We send out one medical missionary to every two mil- ^ lion of the heathen. Christian work cannot be carried on in the best way without some money, and though our society work , need cost but little, ana though En- deavorers everywhere give ^e*s4' their money to the church, J QV^e money is needed, to pay jtpiccards, hymn-books, a-Utile sL ..^gntertaiument now and then, and HteNNv' ature useful in carrying on the This money is best raised by the ^ system of anuual pledges, and a certain part of what is pledged should be definitely set aside /or the socle* ty, the rest to be used for the church * 'J expenses and for missions. EPM LEM liSSBNS ' 8UNDAY, NOVEMBER 18. tJ My Covenant With the People of Qo<L/*^. Psa. 51. 6; Mai. 2. 5. 6; 2 CorTC.lL ; Our lesson has special reference to our covenant as a member of the League to God and to our fellow mem* bers. The vows of church membership are sacred. The pledge of the League does not add to those so much as it defines and emphasizes certain a features of that covenant. The pledge is easily and naturally divided into three separate general divisions. \* ; A Covenant of Personal Holiness. We Methodists believe in a very high ' standard of personal experience. We believe the "highest standards of ex- * perience and life" to be nothing lesp than entire consecration and perfect love. This personal holiness 'sS should seek "earnestly," and not only so but help others to attain to this experience. We are under special; . /. obligation In view of the pledge to do this. A Covenant of Personal Abstinence. There are some prevalent Indulgences which we as members of the Epworth League have promised to abstain from. Certain forms of worldly amusements the church has put under ban as dangerous to the spiritual life. How can we be consistent members ana ignore mis; ju coiutiu w?r munities this is a hard part of the covenant to keep. But how can we i raise up a stalwart and spiritual race of Christians without the recognition, that we are to come out from the A world and be clean in life and influ- ' J ence? God has covenanted to do cer- * tain things for us under certain conditions. We have pledged him that we would not do certain questionable things. God will keep bis pledge; ) will we keep ours? A Covenant of Personal Co-operation. The church needs our servloe. The League will fall unless we help f , We need universal participation. We ought to be ashamed of being a sponge taking in all the time and not giving ?? out. We are to be laborers together p with God. We are to contribute to the interest of both League and church ?sw services. We have made a solemn pledge of loyalty to God and hit ? church. Let us recognize its sacred- E ness and keep it. Lawyer Pays for Bad Advice. m Consul-General Gueunther says in a V report that German lawyers are liable in damages to their clients for evil ? results consequent upon misleading advice. The Supreme Court or Ger- ? many has recently rendered a decis- * ion that an attorney is liable to his client to the full extent for carelessly giving incorrect advice. The court held that the attorney who for pay gives his client in legal matters advice as to certain conduct , and procedure is liable for the legal consequences suffered by the client in acting thereon, provided that such advice is not only faulty, but has been proved to ha^e been given carelessly. An attorney tacitly assumes the position of debtor of the client, which obliges him to be careful in gif.hg advice, and he is there rore naoje ror its consequences if he has failed throegh carelessness.?New York It.; World. Publicist holds that the human race * is enfeebled by success. That's bad. Personally, though, we are robust enough to take a chance on a little