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OLD FRIEmDS ARB BEST.
I Mk* to grasp the kindly hand
Of <m who* friendship tried aud long
Has made life seem a fairy land,
And with the yean has grown more strong.
Tie better far than wealth or fame,
To know that wheresoe'er I roam.
There lingers loving hearts at home,
Who through all time will he the same. •
If these were not then life would be
A dreary waste with care o'erprest
Of all God's kindly gifts to me
I reckon my old friends the best
—Detroit Free Press,
Mrs. Warner’s Purchase.
Mary Warner was the richest woman
in California, if not, indeed, the richest
woman in th© world. Her hu-band had
accumulated his fortune in raitroad ven
tures, and had died before he had time
to lose it again. Possessed of sound
sense, and blessed with judicious ad
visers, Mrs. Warner divid.d her invest
ments between improved real estate and
Government securities, and devoted her
self tothc improvement of her leisure. Two
years after her husband's death she cele
brated her fiftieth birthday. Her house
on California street was one of the most
magnificent in San Francisco, but during
the protracted interval of her mourning
it had not been the scene of any such
festivities as its generous size and costly
garniture befitted. or rne m
Mrs. Warner ac.'cded to her friendi
wishes and left her quiet home at Menlo.
Park to entertain all San Francisco, at
the “Warner Palace” without greati re>
luclar.ee, but certainly without enthusi
asm. The music, the flowers and supper
were the best that could be had. lime.
Luque, s woman who had subsided from
the brief prosperity of the Ranch Lu ue
Mines into s position of decent inde
pendence upon Mrs. Warner's bounty,
made all the arrangements and relieved
her friend of even the task cf entertain
ing her guests.
Mis. Warner ensconced herself in a
cosy corner of the conse.vatory, ac
companied by Mr. Richard Ileadiy, the
managing editor of the San Francisco
Journal. Mr. Heal ley was only thiity
nine years old—a young man to control
the most important daily in San Fian
eisco—but his discretion and ability had
more th in justified his advancement.
“Well, Dick,” said Mrs. Warner,
“and why haven’t you been down to
Menlo lately? You are not going to for
get your old friends now that you are
becoming a great man, surely?”
“No, indeed, dear Mrs. Warner,” said
Headley, “but tho responsibilities of my
position, as what you call ‘a great man’
keep me pretty b sy. You tee, every
man on the staff, from the city editor to
the sporting repor.er, thinks tlint he
would have filled poor Duncan’s berth
infinitely better than I do, and I have to
work with both hands to keep out of
trouble.”
“I always knew you had it in you, and
I’m as proud and happy as can be. But
what is this I hear about the Journal
changing hands?”
“I'm afraid its true. Cushman wants
to go abroad and loaf the rest of his life,
and I don't b'amc him. He’s made more
than enough money, and he may as well
enjoy it. I tbink it will be bought by a
syndicate, headed by the Flynns.”'
. "And hoiv will that affect you?”
“Throw me out in short order. The
Flynns have never forgiven me for at
tacking them when I was on the Herald,
and they would give my chair to old Par
sons, anyway. There's no use pretending
I don't feel bad about it, because I do. I
shall have to start fresh somewhere else,
and shall hardly have such luck again.”
Mrs. Warner looked at him kindly,
and put her hand on his arm. It was no:
a pretty hand; as a girl's hand it had
been almost too round aud dimpled, and
it had lost all its shapliness since then.
“Dick, how much does tho journal
make i”
“Fifty thousand a year in round num
bers. (sometimes there are big subsidies
that run it over that, but fifty thousand
is a fair estimate.
“And how much does Mr. Coshman
expect to get from this syndicate for the
paperJ"
“They talk about capitalizing it at
10,000 shares at $l6O each, but! think
about $700,000 will come to Cashman.
The paper is worth that fairly enough.”
‘‘Ana what are your plans, Dick ? You
talk about making a fresh start, but where
will you make it (”
“I think I shall go East. Reece, the
man who writes the column of causene
every Sunday, you know, wants to go
back to England, and ho is anxious to
have me go with hm. But I don't fancy
making such a change. I have writ en
so much Ameriranese that I don’t think
I could get into the swing of the formal
Engish style; and then it seems like
running away, too.”
“Dick, I’m going to be a great society
woman now. Mmc. Luque wants me to
go abroad and live at Nice—but I’m liko
y o i, fond.of my own country,and I mean
to live here and make the house pleasant
for young people. That is what a rich
old woman ought to do, isn’t it ?”
“Old woman, indeed! You're as young
as any of us now, Mrs. Warner 1”
“Indeed, I’m not. I’m developing a
taste for buttered toast—and that settles
the matter, Mr. Dutfon says. But I’m
going to entertain a great deal, all the
same- and I’m dreadfully afraid of the
society columns in the Journal. Sup
pose they should say that the flowers at
this reception only cost SOOO instead of
S7OO. It’s an awful power, that society
column, and I should like to propitiate
it. Why shouldn’t I buy the Journal,
Dick?"
“I would if I were you—five cents a
copy or fifteen cents a week. I thought
yoo did, already.”
“No. I'm not joking at all. If it is
$700,000, I have that much in shape that
I could use, and you could be my sole
editor. Will you?”
“No, Mrs. Warner, I won’t. It would
not be a wise investment. It pays well,
and all that but a newspaper is such a
ticklidi property—so easily destroyed— !
that It oudit not to be owned by any
one who doesn't run it. One month’s
blundering would take fifty per cent, off
the talue of the Journa’."
“But you are not a blunderer. Listen
to me. Dick. I am not doing this for you;
I would really like to own a newspaper.
There is something grand about it. I
would not buy it if you were not here to
run it for me. But I know that it w ill
pey me better than any investment I have
now ; and If 1 didn’t make as much out
of it na Mr. Onahinan Is making, I know,
Dick, that you would keep it dean,
wouldn't you! Will you help me try the
osp< rimantf We will see if a daily news
paper cannot pay without publishing
wicked advertisements. I have heard
you talk, Di<’k, and I know wlutt you
would do. There should be no bl< It
mail, u<‘ illiteracy, nothing that I would
0(4 tie proud of. Help m , Dirk."
“Mr* Warner, i would give tan year*
iny Ufa fo such a rhanoa. f would
rk for < Ia day to do it and liva on it.
1 wasn't getting Mtnob worn wtteu I find
knew y ■'. Iwl l can t do It, l aw
GEOBGIA HOVIK JOURNAL: GKEENESBORO. FRIDAY. OCTOBERS. 1886.—EIGHT PAGES.
nothing to you that you should do so
much for me.”
“No one would know, Dick. Mr
Tardm would buy it, and no one would
know whom he was acting for. And
surely, no one would be jealonsof an old
woman like me doing you a good turn.
Is there any one who might be jealous,
Dicki” *
_ “No, indeed. ■ But I shouldn't feel
right about it. I don't sec how I could
do it. L'nlefs—do you like me very
much, Mrs. Warner? You have been so
kind to me, but then your heart is so
big. Do you like me personally'"
“Of course I do. You know that.”
“Then will you be my wife?”
Mrs. Warner blushid as she had not
blushed for ten years.
“Oh, Dick!”
“Will you?” and Headley took her
! hand—not in a lover-like fashion, but
I very affectionately.
“How could I, Dick? I’m old enough
to be your mother. People would call
1 me the Baroness Burdett-Coutts; and I
wouldn’t mind that; but they’d call you
Ashmcad Burdett-Coutts. Bartlett Bur
{ dett-C'outts, or whatever it is.”
“You are only seven years older
than I.”
“But lam a widow. You wouldn’t
feel comfortable, Dick—your friends
would chaff you.
‘‘l don't think they would; men don’t
chaff me very much. I don’t pretend to
be in any Borneo condition, but I am
very, very fond of you. I don’t ssy that
if you had no money I would ask you to
marry me; for I am not in a position to
reqcry any woman; I may be looking for
wqrk a v ck from now. Fut if my posi
ti i \ on , .10 Journal were an assured one,
I" {nit ft know any woman in the world
w.jrnt I’d rather make my wife. You
i*d i feel a good deal older than I am,
andwtrbasi’t hear the society girls, the
bread and butter kind bore me to death,
and the others I remember my mother
too well to marry.”
“Oh, Dicki Dick! I don’t know what
to say. I love you as well as I love any
thing in the world. But it must be only
mother love after all. I’m such an old
woman, Dick, such a very old woman.
I’ll marry you on three conditions—that
you take the editorship of the Journal;
that we are to be engaged for a year; and
that no one is to know anything about it
till a month before we are married. I
know we shall be laughed at. Dirk; but
I shall be proud of you. as pro ad as can be,
and perhaps we shall be happy. No,
don't kiss mo, Dick; there must be none
of that nonsense between us, dear Dick.”
“I will make you happy if it is in me
to do it, and I know I can make the
Journal such a paper as you would like
to own.”
Ten months later the Warner palace
was again the scene of unlimited festiv
ity, and Bichard Headley aud Mrs.
Warner again sat on a tete-a-tete sofa
under the great red camellia.
“Well, Dick,” said Mrs. Warner, “and
how is everything down town to
day?”
“Very much as usual. I have fiually
committed myself to the irrigation
scheme. It is such big money for us that
I was a little afraid of being prejudiced.
But on the who e I think it is right.
But there’s another scheme which we
must talk about before the end
of the month, and that is our mar
riage.”
“It isn’t the end of the month for a
long while yet, Dick, and you must go
and dance with Nellie now; isn't she a
dear girl, Dick? She grows more and
more like my poor little sister every day.
You must be very nice to her Dick. It
has been dull work for her at the Sacre
Coeur; I want her to brighteu up now
that we have got her.”
Dick obeyed like a dutiful fiance, and
more than one of the guests remarked
how tine a couple he aud the tall and
slender Nellie Keane made. During the
next night he tried to talk several times
with Mrs. Warner about the announce
ment of their coming marriage; but she
put him off with the merry declaration
that she was too young and pretty a
woman to tie herself down any before the
necessary time.
“I think at any rate,” said Dick one
night, ‘ ‘that you ought to know a little
sooner than anybody else. Don’t you
think so ?”
“I don’t know, Dick: Tell me, what
do you think nbout Nellie? I do so want
her to have a happy life, and she is such
a dear, sensitive child that I can’t help
worrying about her sometimes. She’s
been a little distrait and odd for the last
few days, and I hoped she had outgrown
all that here with us. She will make
some nice fellow a dear, good wife, won’t
she, Dicki"
“Oh, yis. By the way, are you going
to the benefit to-morrow night?”
“I bought a box, but I don’t care
much for ‘Fedora.’ It’s too heartbreak
ing, somehow, Dick; and wc old women
don’t like to be harrowed. Miss Dacrc
will play it very nicely, though. Isn’t
she pretty, Dick?—her eyes just like Nel
lie’s—or are they not so dark?"
“About the same, I fancy. Well, if
you are not going I will ruu up here for
about half an hour, at 9 o'clock.
“You work too hard, Dick; why don’t
you have a managing editor? You used
to do all the worn for Mr. Cashman.
“Oh, work does me good. It’s about
the best thing in life, after all, isn’t it?”
“That doe n’t sound like a happy man,
Dick. Are you quite sure that you arc
happy? You know you coerced me into
thi9 engagem nt anyway, Dick, and I
really think you might let me off now.
You see I got you to take care of the
Journal lor me. And now that you have
made such a lot of money for me, I want
to back out of my b rgain.”
“You are the most atrocious jilt in the
world, muda n; but I'm not at all the
sort of a man to be jilted. Suppose wc
go down to the supper room now."
“No, Dick. I don’t wan’t any sup
rjr. I have been headachy all day, and
am going to slip off quietly and go to
bed There is Mmc. Luque -now; ask
her to come up-stairs tome for a moment.
Good night, Dick, dear—let we kiss you.
I have never kissed you, and to in Trow
will be your birthday. There, good
night, dear Dick.’’ And Mrs. Warner
went up the broad steps to her bedroom,
when Mine. Luque came bustling up to
her, with expressions of alarm and oilers
of care. Mrs. Warner laughed at her.
“It’s uoth'ug but fatigU", Marie, and
yet I dou’t feel as if 1 could sleep. Let
me have your chloral, will you? Fend
it to me, aud you must go, detr, and do
the honuis. I know tho dose, and a
night’s sleep is just what I need "
Mute. Luque went downstairs; the
ma and came with the bottle of chloral and
Mrs. Warner ant down by the fire while
her hair was brushed.
“Please, ina am, will you have Ed
monds telephone tor the doctor t You're
not well, ma'am.”
“tpiitc well, Jane. I'm a little tired,
•hit's all— n little thed, aud 1 want
sleep "
“And the chloral lo do lit Isn’t It
wonderful, m .'unit A eup out of n bot
tle, nd you go to sleep itu tors ere
wonderful ma’am.”
“fee - (hey do a great deal for us,
need I- I.ht, Jane; f oo need ant wek*
me in the morning, but let the doctor
come to my room when he calls.”
“Ves, ma'am;” and Mrs. Warner knelt
by her bedside: *'<Jur Father, who art
in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Lead
| us not into temptation, but deliver us
from all evil. Forgive us our trespasses
—forgive us our trespasses"—the prayer
was not finished, and Mrs. Warner ;lsy
down on the sofa by the fire dressed in
her wrapper. Dick's picture stood on a
little table beside her. She looked at it
thoughtfully. Then she took a picture
of Nellie from the mantelpiece and placed
It by Dick's. They were a handsome
couple—as people raid. Dear Dick.
What a splendid fellow he was; true
as steel! She kissed his picture. They
were waltzing down stairs. She could
hear the cadence of the Minola. Then a
fire bell sounded from the next street.
Joy and sorrow—feasts and disaster. She
went to the window and raised the cur
tain.
The sky was red with flame—a fire
down near the mission. Poor men's
houses destroyed, perhaps. Ah! Dick
was always good to the poor. Joy and
sorrow, feast and di-aster - light and
darkness in every life—new wine in old
bottles and old wine in new.
Bhe poured some chloral into the glass.
Sleep was the best of life—after all.
When Mrs. Warner was found dead io
her bed from an overdose of chloral
everyone who knew her mourned. “Bicb
people like her arc rare,” said the poor
—and her friends remembered how
pleasant her house had been.
A year later Dick Headley married
Nellie. They are happy enough, but
they have no children. The Journal,
bequeathed to him, flourishes and pros
pers, but Dick worked at it as hard as
ever. And every Sunday morning, early
and alone, he walks out to a tomb at
Lone Mountain, opens the door, and lays
on the stone within a red rose and a copy
of the Sunday Morning Journ /L It is a
great edition now—the Sunday Journal.
But there is room in the tomb for many
more of the closely-folded papers. No
one can see them through the door, and
they lie there—unopened—bought by the
dead.
Nationalities in Congress.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Stiats-Zeitung writes thus
concerning the nationality of the mem
bers of the House of Representatives:
There are eighteen members who were
born abroad, seven of them being natives
of Ireland, namely: Davis ana Collins
of Ma sachusetts, O’Neill of Missouri,
Woodburn of Nevada, NcAdoo of New
Jersey. T. J. Campbell and Dowdney of
New York. Two were born in Scotland,
Henderson of lowa and Farqulmr of New
York; two in England, West and Spriggs
of New York; two in Canada, Gallinger
of New Hampshire and Adams of New
York; threeiu Germany, Lehbach of New
Jersey, Gunther of Wisconsin, and Ro
meisofOhio; one in Luxembourg, Muller
of New York; and one in Norway, Nelson
o' Minnesota. To this number may be
added Caine, the delegate of Utah Terri
tory, who is an Englishman by birth.
Aside from the Pennsylvania Germans,
Ermentrout, Sowden, Negley, Brumm,
Everhnit, Storm, etc., all of whom
speak German more or less correctly
and fluently, there are to be men
tioned among Representatives of Ger
man descent who have not neglected
that language only Belmont of New
York and Kleiner of Indiana. Her
mann of Oregon, the son of a German
physician, has almost completely forgot
ten his German. On the other hand,
there are quite a number of non-German
Representatives who know Gciman very
well. Henderson, of lowa, speaks and
writes to his German constituents only
in that language; Adams, of Illinois,
having conquered the High German, is
now [busy with Uncle Brasig’s Platt
deutsch; Pettibone, of Tennessee, is a
great Schiller enthusiast, aud recites
with great gusto ‘ ‘The Distribution of
the Earth,” he being a poor poet himself.
Reed and Milliken, of Maine, are not
embarrassed if addresed in German;and
Crain, of Texas, La Folette, of Wiscon
sin. O’Neill, of Missouri, Loutitt, of
California, Ilitt, of Illinois, Le Fcvre, of
Ohio, are far beyond the average vo
cabulary of “Wie geht’s?" and “Zwei
Bier!” Moreover, it one considers that
among the Congressional employes there
are a number of Germans, and that
among the correspondents of the English
papers there are several who speak and
write German, one may well say that
even if the Germans are not numerously
represented in Congress, the German
language decidedly is.
Don’t Worry.
Don’t worry, my son, don’t worry.
Don’t worry about something that you
think may happeu to-morrow, because
you may die to-night, and to-morrow
will find you beyond the reach of worry.
Don’t worry over a thing that happened
yesterday, because yesterday is a hun
dred years away. If you don’t believe it,
just try to reach after it and bring it
back. Don’t worry about anything that
is happening to-day, because to-day will
only last fifteen or twenty minutes. If
you don’t believe it, tell your creditors
you'll be ready to settle in full with them
at s inset. Don't worry about things you
can’t help, because worry only makes
them worse. Don’t worry about things
you can help, because then there’s no
need to worry. Don’t worry at all. If
you want to be penitent now and then,
it won’t hurt you a bit to go into the
sackcloth and ashes business a little. It
will do you good. If you want to cry a
little once in a long while, that isn’t a
bad thing. If you fed like going out
and clubbing yourself occassionally, I
think you need it and will lend you a
h lping hand at it, and put a plaster on
you afterward. All these things will do
you good. But worry, worry, worry,
fret, fret, fret—why there's neither sor
row, penitence, strength, penance, re
formation. hope nor resolution in it. It’s
just worry.— Burdette.
Worn-n as Farmers
Numbers of women in Mississippi have
adopted farming as u profession. Miss
Eli/a Ewing is on i of the most success
ful women fa mors in the State. Her
farm is four miles above Carrollton, in
Carroll County. Miss Ewing lives in
the grand ohi family mansion of note
helium days and gives her p rsonnl at
tention to all farm mutters. Her success
proves conclusively what women may ac
complish in the rich and grow iug ugri
cultural sections of Mi sissippi.
Mrs. Kaltio E. Echols, of Jackson,
M si., owns aud personally manages l
stock farm that is the iirltlc of her county
aud the ouvy f every firmer in tbo State.
The farm is near the city limits and com
uiauds the nri ttiest am! most extendve
view arouuu the capital. The pastures
and grs* lota are securely fenced aud
kept IB beautiful order. Mrs. Echoli'
Jersey hefd keatuideml s tine assay
la the booth. All tin* com forts and cob
veu ■in as of farm lifs me found on the
Li hols hum united to tin* pleasures uf
one of the most refined and social > tu
m io ties in tb> **ut. • AW brksM Pie*
AGRICULTURAL
IOPI9HOF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Exterminate the Weeds.
The wee li at the sides of cultivated
fields, if there are any, and those along
the hedge-rows, should be cut this month,
or at any other time when they arc large
enough. Cut them down on a damp day,
or when wet with rain, and gather them
into heaps where they can be burned
when dry enough. This process will
destroy the greater part of the seeds in
them and save much labor in killing
weeds in future years. It is poor econ
omy to use weeds for bedding, or to put
them in the yards. Certainly they are
worth something when converted into
manure, but the weeds which will spring
up where such manure is used will take
more value from the manure than they
will give it. The farmer’s motto should
be: ‘‘.Let no weed ripen its seed;” but
while it would not be easy to follow out
that principle literally, it is comparative
ly e&'>y to greatly reduce the number,
and a half dozen years of careful culti
vation will get a field to a tolerably
clean condition where no weed seeds are
carried out in the manure. And it is
equally true that one year of neglect
will make another half-dozen years of
hard hoeing.— Cultieator.
How to Build a Stack,
A few simple rules are given to aid the
beginner:
1. A bottom for a rick to hold 200
dozen should be ten by twenty feet.
2. Make the bottom' of rails! selecting
six of the largest straight ones, to be laid
on the ground four feet apart, so that
they will be eight feet wide by twenty
feet long; then lay rails across these
ground rails, ten inches apart, until they
are covered; now take four small rails
and lay them on the ends of the last ones
laid down and the bottom is ready.
3. Begin at one end, carefully placing
the sheaves across the rails, letting the
butt ends reach six or eight inches be
yond the platform for the first row of
sheaves, and then reverse the sheaves
and allow them to lap one half on the
first row and so on until the bottom is
covered.
4. Begin laying the first outside course
at one corner, placing the sheaves so the
butt ends may reach over six or eight
inches with the long side of the sheaf
up,and thus lay the outside course. Taen
for the next or first inside course, turn
the short side of the sheaves up, and let
cover about oue-third of the
length of the sheaves in the outside
course. Thus lay the inside courses until
the sheaves meet in the middle, so as to
form a good elevation.
5. For all the rest of the outside
courses the stacker mu-t get on his knees
and carefully place each sheaf, catching
hold with both hands, long side up, let
ting the under side of the sheaf catch in
the lower course, the inside courses to be
laid as before stated, short side up, cov
ering one-third of the outside courses.
Continue this process until about two
thirds of the wheat has been put iu; then
turn the sheaves for the outside course,
short side up, and draw in a little until
the rick is complete. Do not turn the
sheaves on the end of the rick, nor draw
in either.
(Note 1.) The long or short of the
sheaf is made in the shock by leaning
together.
2. The stacker may bo on his feet on
the inside courses.
3. Keep the middle full, and pack the
sheaves close together.
4. The heads of the shenves must
alwas be kept in the centre.
5. Near the top the operator will need
to turn a few sheaves lengthwise in the
middle of the rick, so as to keep the
middle elevated. I have stacked on this
plan for thirty years, and never had a
stack or rick damaged by water running
into it .—lndiana Farmer.
Importance of Good Breeds.
It may be safely claimed that a good
animal requires no more room in the
stable than will one that is inferior, and
therefore a saving of labor is effected in
lessening the cost of care and attention,
it being ns easy to manage the superior an
imal as it is to give the labor to the other.
But the saving in the shelter, room, and
labor is not the only item. As only the
most approved machinery is used by man
ufacturers in order to enable them to pro-
at the lowest cost and compete
in markets with each other, so should the
farmer take advantage of his opportuni
ties with pure-bred stock, and lessen the
cost by increasing the amount of pro
duct.
As the manufacturer can adopt the kind
of machines most suitable, so may the
farmer select the kind of stock for his
special purpose. While on many farms
no regard is given the breeding or char
acteristics of the auimals used, yet the
farmer has it in his power to use cattle
that excel in butter, beef or milk, and as
some breeds combine several good qual
ities, his advantages are not limited.
There is no necessity for devoting a stall
to a cow that yields only ten quarts of
milk per day when, by judicious breed
ing, the product may be doubled. We
can point to special cows that have
yielded over forty quarts of milk per
day, and cows are numerous that pro
duce over twenty pounds of butter per
week. Steers have been known to gain
three pounds weight daily, rams have
sheared over thirty pounds of wool, and
mutton sheep have attained 400 pounds
live weight in two years, while the hog
seems to have an easy time gaining a
pound daily for twelve mouths.
It is no; supposed that every farmer
will be so fortunate as to possess animals
of extraordinary merit, but as long as
such excellence exists the farmer should
be encouraged to strive always for some
thing better. There is no middle ground
in keeping stock. There must oither be
an improvement or a retrog ession. The
farmer who does not have some ob ect
in view will soon or late be compelled
to and ispose of his stock as unprofitable,
as the difference in profit ana loss is in
the animals and their management.
The rost of improvement is, fortu
nately, hut a small sum compared with
the benefits derived, ns nuture bus en
do ved the mules with the capacity of
begetting u (urge progeny. And as ex
periments have demonstrated that the
characteristics of a breed may bo trans
mitted through the male line it heroines
but a matter of a few seasons when an
entire herd or (lock may be chaug and If
one wII hut ratculate tho additional
value imparted to the stock by only a
•ingle cross it will readily he |ierceived
that tin-services |M>rfoißied by the male
more than I slaut-tsa hi* cost the first sea
son, and as he may he useful lor several
years it Is not only costless and econom
ical to iiupiovx, hut '*ry profitable, as
■stock that formerly did not repay their
eot uuy, by • . hang* to grades, add o
largely la milk. or butter as to make
ll A I libjfM'l I t Atilt luillii f injKOVI. # |*|A I
Arltut (itu Ima *1 * nt*. 11*1 I‘yify iMfflttf
Aim t#| m J, I i* *U<
•rot jroint others hare reached. — Okieags
Farm and Garden Notea. .
An application of lye will restore to
rough trunks and branches of orchard
tree* their original smoothness.
Carefully conducted experiments have
shown that subsoil is often injurious to
the land, especially so in wet seasons.
Coarse, porous soils are never benefited
by subsoiling.
It is the same with an animal as with
a steam-boiler —the more complete the
combustion of the food or fuel it gets the
more satis'actory will be the result, be
cause there is less waste.
Overladen fruit trees mature their fruit
while it is yet small. Pick off one-half
before much growth is made, and the re
maining half may grow to as many
bushels as all would if left.
Honey of different grades should be
kept separate. An inferior grade put iu
with the best will set s lower price on the
whole. At the close of each season of
bloom grade the whole product.
Resources of the soil do not end ab
ruptly at four o: five inches in depth, yet
there are hundreds of farms where all
beneath is terra incognita because no ef
fort has ever been made to explore.
Although flat turnip; are mostly water,
there is nutriment enough to make them
an important addition to fool for cattle
; and sheep, and it is therefore desirable
j that in a season of scarcity they be raised
to the full extent of opportunity.
The Gardener’s Monthly says: The
practice of pegging down ever-blooming
roses, so that they will cover completely
the surface of the bed, is well known to
produce very pleasmg results. It is said
that pegging down dahlias proves quite
as satisfactory.
Do not have too many plants in the
hills. If the late corn is backward and
growth apparently slow thin out the
plants so as to allow of more room and
plant-food. It is better to have one or
two good thrifty stalks than three or
four weakly ones.
A good animal should be a heavy
feeder. It has often been considered an
advantage that an animal eat but little,
but just the opposite should be desired.
It takes a liberal supply of food and a
| good appetite to derive the greatest
| amount of product.
For growing cucumbers, squashes or
| similar plants put old sawdust or rotten
wood about them. Those who have never
i tried cucumbers on strong, bushy stakes
; like pea sticks, will be surprised to note
| how they enjoy it. Tomatoes do better
' trained to stout stakes than any other
| way.
If you have thin, flat stones at com
mand, say as thick as roofing slate or
somewhat thicker, try mulching a few
strawberry plants with them. Tin an
swers the same purpose. Shingles are
good, but inclined to warp. A patented
clay tile is sold in some places, but stones
arc cheaper and better.
Lack of water is one reason why cows
shrink in their yield of milk at this sea
son of the year. Partially dried herbage
is more like hay than grass, and even
plenty of water to drink will not oblite
rate the difference. If the yield of milk
Is once allowed to fall off no amount of
good feeding will ever quite restore it to
what it should have been. Worst of all,
the cow poorly watered loses flesh and
will not be so good another season.
Prof. L. B. Arnold says there are sev
eral things that produce ropy milk and
cream. The most common cause is the
use* of some medicinal weeds, especially
bitter weeds—as ragweed, tansy, worm
wood and some species of yellow daisy.
Poisonous weeds, such as cicuta and
lobelia, which cows sometimes seem dis-
Eosed to take, have the same effect. I
ave, iu several instances, known it to
occur from an excessive use of good food.
A too free use of cornmeal and of sugar
beets has every now and then been the
occasion of ropy milk, but oftener in hot
weather than in cold. It is also often
the result of weakness from any cause,
but especially from scouring.
A correspondent of the Southern, Culti
vator thinks ho has a remedy that will
cure what he calls cholera. It is his
opinion that hog cholera is mostly worms,
and when these are expelled the hogs
get well. He uses this mixture: Five
pounds of copperas, twelve pounds of
sulphur, four pounds of bicarbonate of
soda, two pounds of blood root, cne
pound of mandrake root; powder *nd
mix these well and then add two bushels
of lime and twenty-five to thirty bushels
of slack coal. This should be dumped
down in a dry place where the hogs can
get at it, but not scattered around. The
smaller the drove of hogs the smaller the
qrtntity of ingredients used in making
this mixture.
A Chinese Care for Piracy.
Particulars of the attempt of pirates
to capture the steamer “Mee-foo,” and
the suppression of the plot, briefiy
noticed in the summary of news by the
last steamer, show that about two "hun
dred freebooters, pretending to be dis
charged soldiers, boarded the vessel at
Foochow. The presence of several hun
dred Chinese troops on beard baulked
the attempt to capture the steamer, but
stealing was resorted to instead. On
ascertaining the character of the gang
the officer commanding the troops di
rected the wholesale slaughter of the
pirates. Red ribbons were plaited in
the cues of the soldiers to distinguish
them from the pirates, and the latter
were decapitated as they came up from
below by guards stationed at the hatch
ways for the purpose. Some took the
alarm, remained b low, and on reaching
port were permitted to escape, the com
mander being sated with bloodshed. The
deck of the ship looked like a shambles
running with blood, and littered with
headiest and limbless trunks.— San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Spontaneous Combustion.
Spontaneous combustion is sai l to be
au impossibility, but a phenomenon that
at ono time would be ascribed to that
cause has lately been observed in the
suburbs of Paris. In 18*1, a tire oc
curred in a villa. The reparation was
carried out under the direction of an arch
itect. and the house ha; since been occu
pied by the same owner. One day ho
observed that the ceiling of the dining
room appeared as if some of the plaster
was about to give way, and, as the bulg
ing increased, he called iu an architect,
lie coucludod that somehow a Imam muit
bare given away, and workmen were
employed to make a close examination.
It was then discovered that the wood
was utmost consumed. Home spa' k may
have remain' and, and during fifteen years
the destruction must havu gone on by
iit'ithea, for no other hypothesis was
brought forward than one of very (low
combustion. The cimiiustuuceis so re
markable aa to appear almost incredible,
although firemen 'au relate etories of %
similar kind.
Half • iiiillnHl wild din ks are annually
killed in Houtliirir I o itsdeue and Met to
tiui fitly Oii.Aii# tturkti*
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE BOSS OF CRUSHERS
THE FARMERS’ KEY TO SUCCESS!
Farmer* say it is just what they hare been looking for ever since the war.
- By W |,j c |, f armer> can make their own fertU
irers, grind steamed hone, phosphate and land
'”o|Un plaster, rock, marl, cotton seed, dry stable ma
uure, corn and cob for stock food, or
Anything That is Urln liable.
''■< It will make good corn meal when you can’t
do any better. By its use the farmer will grow
cricher, instead of poorer all the time.
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ATLANTA, GA.
Engines & Mill Machinery,
Boilers, Piping and all kinds of Fittings.
KORTING DOUBLE TUBE INJECTOR, the leading boiler
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through hot suction Pipe. Guaranteed to work under all
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and Florida. Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Boxes, etc., in
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(Successor to R. H. MAY & CO.)
At the Old Stand, Opposite Georgia ailroad Bank, 704 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA
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Steam Marble and Granite Works.
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MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES,
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