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MelUotua and Stock Raising.
, wading your valuable paper, I have
° i ch struck with some articles in
* ca ®'ricultural columns on clovers for
per s r - ou recommend Melilotus.
Jan. 11 I see that in an
inquiry from a correspondent as
* er ,lre he could get the seed of this plant,
“ that several persons advertise the
’ oa , and that you will send him
ft'iz “ several parties by mail. I
6s hiSiobliged if you would kindly send
,SA address also of one or two parties
“hfhsTO the eed of this plant for sale. I
"“ rising Stock and I find it very hard to
feculent food at all times for them. If
MBBhnuld be a success, it would be a great
JJftous in this section of Florida. If you
rill kindly accede to my request I will try
D acre or so.
Tallahassee, tut. _
In sowing Melilotus have the soil thor
migbly prepared by plow and barrow. Get
,hesoil in fine tilth with the latter imple
ment Sow the seeds evenly—one bushel
racre. If the seeds are tirst-class a half
[?, sh ,l will usually give a perfect stand, but
ire believe in sowing plenty of seed. After
sowing the seeds firm the soil with a roller.
By all meaus use a roller if possible. It
will neutralize the bad influence of dry
weather and insure a stand and hasten
growth. Do not pasture till the crop is well
grown, and do not let stock run on it when
the soil is wet. It will be more economical
to cut the crop and feed it than to let it be
pastured, pasturing of such plants, as you
know, is very wasteful. We are much
gratified at the cultivation now being be
llowed by so many on Improved pastures
iud meadows. Such will undoubtedly
hasten the day of prosperity among south
un farmers. We hope our intelligent
farmers will set the rest a good example.
Will you kindly inform me what farm
journal would be the most suitable one for
me to have to aid in cultivating my planta
tion here, and very much oblige.
Montgomery, 1 u. J. N. J.
The Southern Farm. Atlanta, Ga., under
the editorship of Dr. W. L. Jones, is per
haps the ablest and most practical journal
of the kind in the south. The Southern
Cultivator is also a good paper. These and
the Savannah News will doubtless keep
you thoroughly i osted and reminded of the
progress of events agriculturally.
j EARLY FORAGE—CORN OR MILLET?
What is the best thing to plant for mak
ing a early crop of hay or to bo fed in a
gr .>a slate? is German millet ns good as
stinting, or is oat-tail miilet better?
W. B.
While the above-mentioned millets aro
usej and recommended fir the purpose you
state, we do not b liove either are equal to
our common corn for furnishing au early
upply °f green food especially. If a small
sta.k variety of corn, is used, like the Adams
Early or Mount, an 1 it is planted early it
car be m .do into dry fodder about as early
-■f sot earlier—than either of tbo millets,
ice Cera should be drilled thickly in three
fet r ws m shallow drills cn the level or on
the beds, and us soon as it starts iLto growth
lush it by prompt cultivation with harrow
or sweep. Sow about two and a half or
three bushels of seed per acre.
Between oafs and millets we should pre
fer oats, too, every time. It is a waste of
taie to sow either broadcast on poor land.
Try the corn anyhow, and see if it does not
itswer your purpose.
Green Oorn.
1= there any more delightful veg-'table
-st given corn? AY e doubt if there is one
Person ,n a thousand who does not eujov
* o,e everything else a well-prepared dish
o it at the noontide meal. It suits the taste
everybody. When culled at the proper
it is a most enjoyable dish, even when
•e.ved in the simplest manner possible, to
**' died cn the cob and served with pep
per and butter ar.d salt. Those who care
lit .the for beans or potatoes cannot resist
- ler.-uasive mllueuce of a savory dish of
corn.
* oaroa number of other crops that
. e . ma ' e to m uch larger profits per
, ’, emg mcr ® costly to establish, how
tirns'f U ? er6 . ara 1101:6 that pay as fair a
w ( .n Wl * S ° trouble and expense as a
u *' ro * [i cro P °f corn, especially where
fa. fT r lS 80 s *ti-uted as to derive the
heg 8 t^e cr °D, ha is the case where
hecanf-l/tk 0 '' 8 an< * other st ick to which
earn i, a, lbe Steen stalks as fast ai the
'■a aca > ! ° f ‘ If uot fe<l Kreon the
fir ®t-c;asß dodder.” ead U y coaverto ' l lato
11 for^n^nti 8 800<1 a,ltl . the preparation of
good vanetwn? wl!ac jt should be, and a
tf Planting. cor , a use< J. end tne manner
tively 1, 8 -. ust , ri Sht, it requires com para
the work is to Iua ‘ i0 a crop of corn if
'to Proper time U ?E OUi P tl y and repeated at
Blent is given . . sua ‘ ! y very rough treat
tint it i/iiinH i' and the yield is rarely
#auce.. U1(1 1,0 under ■ such circum
lsliosir! > ,'| 9 , 8 ’ row 9 or markot, of course
Ndbls-.h o . lnat u r 6 the crop bb earlv as
Wl th corn . tbefi: 81 Planting.
•tables ii„ T ', aß wltti fruits*and some veg
htscrln ® a Vo ry early crop a very
cr r ' btintr t lllost Profitable, a medium
te Vi*? ' 16 , 1e ,Bt .Profitable of all. With
Wees ini a hurry 56111^011 brings down tbo
IS M S e u oe ? rKia ,he rtrßt Pouting
g ‘ ru,r y, wiien . ( ? ur n *{ ‘he latter days of
. *- r the nn- tbo woat,:6 r proves suita
upon , P h U ' pose : me little risk at
not cam f® r i y , P lft utin, and those
f*uticg Un ,.i ■? ,0 take any risk defer tnis
•ttusuiere „ or thereabouts. It
* =C6 in ilav > ! no perceptible differ-
W, n IWMOn C irn Planted Feb. J 5
r the -irtior ,'u aud th ® °uly justification
?' :t; rR that rn .P„u ,ltln K 1® toir the sake of
Jetting °l l wor k done so as to go at
C: *ißis to nia'n, 1 " y ° U! h Georgia it is per
i-^.tenthereinV*? 6ttrlier than this.
be mule s'* ’ hinting for a succession
. e l*nJs ? pen ds on circumstances.
.Amug tnrua y °? tllß Wf, *ther whether
Lo‘' p !j n ting wi i, or foui ' weeks after the
This fnm! provo a "succession” or
6l " 6 tt, t! slaiuiri, come Into condition for
tuultaneousiy with the first.
i.I b . . P an . Wfc hare f °und most satisfactory
U not to re.v so much on succession plant
ings to keep up a continuous supply during
but to plants t e samf
date iu February or Masch tareo varieties
of corn thit vary (a t.-.eir peri and of ripen
“& a n kind, a medium and a late.
>V ita mis object in view we were lei after
trying a great ina-.y vari-ties to s dect the
fr.llowing trio—the Adams Early, the
UiOuut Prolific and our common flint corn of
the south. An acre of each of these
planted at the same date in early March
ripen successively in Juae-Julv, keeping
green corn in season in the same field six to
seven weeks. For the late planting the
B 1 unt Proliflo is planted early in June, only
making two plantings during the season.
Another good variety of corn for roasting
ears is the Tuscarorn, which has a very large
white gram. It ripens about the same time
with the Blount. By ripening me mean in
Ocndition for table use.
If the land for such a crop has not al
ready beea listed and manured if necessary
no time should lie lost in getting it in pre
liminary conditio i. Usually land for eariy
corn should be ridged up iu December or
January, so as to let it get the benefit of all
the heavy frosts a id hard freez -s that oc
cur in that peri and. The benefits derived
from this freezing of ridged or fluted laud
is not generally appreciated, but it is nearly
always equivalent to a fair application of
fertilizers. The thorough pulverization of
tho soil efTected by alternate freezi g and
thawing extends through tho year if not
plowed afterwar,l when the soil is wet, and
it renders the soil easier of prompt cultiva
tionand seeding. Especially is this true of
soil tu auy ways heavy, and which runs to
gether after hard rams. In regard to ma
nuring the soil for corn it is usually better
to apply the manure broadcast over the
land while it is ridged. Iu preparing it for
p anting the manure will become thoroughly
incorporated with the w'll,and not cause the
plants Vo fire in dry weather. High m.inur
ing and thick plauting of a good early va
riety of corn is tho seerot of success with
this crop. For the Adams Early or Blount
the rows need not be wider than three feet,
and a stalk may be allowed to stand every
15 or 16 inches in the row. If the culti
vation is prompt it will not take but two or
three sweepings or harrowings to make the
crop. For early corn plant on the bed not
too deep, pressing the seed into the loose soil
with the foot as fast as the seed is dropped.
8. A. C.
Down with the Tyrant!
The Agricultural Department of the
Savannah News Is committed to the
special encouragement of a live-at-home
system of farming, pleading in practical
language, and in a practical way, we be
lieve, for that diversity of crops that will
enable the farmer and his family to have as
many as possible of the things that aro
needful for them, even though he may
clear but little hard cash. We all recognize
the fact that the time is past when money
can be made rapidly at farming as it was in
slavery times, twenty, thirty or forty yenrs
ago. In those days the lands were fresh,
labor more effective and the environments
of tho farmer of such a character as to in
fuse energy and create hopefulness. He
plowed and sowed and reaped iu a spirit of
cheerfulness and hopefulness that robbed
his labor of any feeling of drudgery.
Every one around him was prosperous in a
degree, alike cheerful and hopeful, produi
lng a moral atmosphere, condusive to
steady, earnest work with a lively expecta
tion of legilimate reward. Tho laborer
went to and came back from his daily task
with song that “made tho welkin ring.” The
heart of the mau was glad, the face of the
earth was wreathed in smiles. There wore
“ups and downs,” to be sure, but disheart
enment was not of loug duration. Honest
labor met soon or late with its compensa
tion.
What a change in thirty years!
The fertile lands of ’6l, that needed only
to ‘‘tickled with the hoe” to laugh with a
bountiful harvest, now worn and leached
and gulled, no longer respond unaided to
plow and hoe. No longer are the interests
ot employe and employer identical. The
hills echo back no longer the gladsome song
of the returning plowmaD. As far as the
eye can reach no "smokiug houses” gladden
the sight with promise of a full larder. No
well-filled cribs. No pastures of corn and
peas animate with kiue and horse and
swine. There is no musio in the air—noth
ing but the caw of the crow with his song
doleful through fear of finding nothing to
eat. No corn shuckings now. No cauo
miWs grinding at lot. No smoke curling up
wffd from hugh piles of log brush. No
hog-killings worth making a note of. No
back bones, no spare-ribs, no sausages, no
“home-made” bains, no—enumerate no
further what we have not. Tell us, O
wizzard of the desolate cavern, what we do
have in lieu of what we have not.
Bon Ami! Look upon your desolate fields
of dead cotton stalks. For the first of these
stalks you know better than I what you re
ceived'’for it. Was it 8 oeuts, or 7 cents, or
0 cents or 5 cents? You know bettor, too,
than I how much of the proceeds went to
paying for oorn and bacon and hay, etc.,
consumed before your cotton was gathered.
You know “King Cotton” has "left you in
the lurch.”
We propose to fight it out on this line
corn, oatr, sugar cane, rice, potatoes, tobac
co, peas, good pastures, good meadows for
hay, horses, mules, cows, beef, cattle, hogs,
poultry, sheep (when we can), peaches,
grapes, nut trees, vegetables in abundance
for home U6B, some perhaps for sale, honey,
butter, eggs. This is the aligbtment—all
these vs. the "tyrant” cotton.
What say our readers?
New Conditions of Farmtng.
After the long depression in agricultural
interests it is becoming evident that their re
vival must be on a very different basis from
that of farming in the olden time, says the
American Cultivator. Industry and close
attention to details will doubtless continue
to be as necessary to successful farming as
they ever were. But they will not be the
only nor yet the chief factors of success.
Time was when the best farming was the
result of increasing toil with comparatively
little thought. The necessity for work has
not ceased. In the nature of things it
never can wholly cease. But the need for
study and thought has enormously in
creased, and in farming as In other forms of
labor it has made shorter hours of labor
necessary. With the greater amount of
thought that modern farming requires, the
long hours for work, frem daylight until
dark, through the summer are not possible.
Men break down under them, because
where both brain and muscles are worked
there is a double tax on the vital cowers.
The new conditions of farming, if prop
erly observed, however, are no loss favora
ble, and we are indeed more favorable to
loug life than were the old. Tho farmers
work is largely done iu tho open air. * s o
also is his thinking. He is uot cooped in an
office while planning his campaigns. Ho
must to a great extent plan them in the
field as the exigencies of seasons and cir
cumstances make changes nocessary if
the modem farmer works with moderation
and during rea-onable hours there is no
reason why be wifi not boas long lived as
farmers In all ages and countries have
nr .verbially been. He wifi still have most
of his work out <-f doors,and get the benefit of
pure air, as farmers more than any other
class of workers have done.
But can the farmer under these new con
ditions make money! This ia perhaps tne
most important questiou that can be asked,
”„d the one most often raised. Farmer,
have now by increased transportation facili
t,e t j compete with cheaper labor all over
the world, is it possible by BU . perlo J "‘ i ‘" (
gence to offset cheaper laborof other lands*
ft is done iu all manufacturing lnJo,trieß ‘
else India and China, where labor 's
cheaper than it is in nay other part of the
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1892.
worl 1, would control the world’s market in
manufactured articles. They do in a very
few—those which demand most labor and
least intelligence. But for tne greater part
of manufactured articles, England and
Germany, v. here labor is fairly paid, do not
fear competition of the cheaper labor else,
where.
That this is equally true in farming the
failure of Indian ryots to compete with
more intelligent American wheat growers
fully shows. We can sell wheat cheaper iu
Liverpool than can the men who sell their
labor at 8 cents audio cer-ts per day. As
proof of this, tne great deficiency of wheat
product in Europe is this year, and will
doubtless be in future, supplied by the
United States.
There will probably be 1 call ties in which
wheat growing must be superseded by other
forms of agricultural labor. This is a
truth equally applicable to all other
brauches of farming. Under the now con
ditions the hardest work of the farmer will
be thinking, and bis hardest problem will be
for each season as to what crop and kind of
farming bis soil and Xne conditions of the
market are best adapted.
There will be more or less loss as these
questions are answered mistakenly. But
through all these changes the fact mat re
mains sure is that good farming will pay.
Can Hogs be Raised Cheaply on the
Cotton Farm?
Why not? What has been done can be
done again. To raise hogs cheaply will re
quire more attention than is usually given
to the subject where cotton culture on a
large scale absorbs all other interests, says
the Southern Live Stock Journal. As
there is to be a departure; as the hog is to
have a chance once more, a few thoughts
along this line may not be out of place.
It is now fairly understood that to be suc
cessful on pig culture the start must bo made
right, and the business pushed from start to
finish. All the details of tho business will
require attention, beginning with the sow—
of some hardy quick-growing sort—in far
row, which should drop her pigs in a con
venient time to be brought to the knife, In
eight or nice months, before Christmas or
by that time. Preparatory to the business
there should be a grass plat. In this imme
diate section where red clover has not been
introduced a substitute, for instance, rye or
cats, sowed early in the fall will furnish
green food whicn, with grain rations, sweet
potatoes and turnips, cooked with cotton
seed, will keep tho sows in flue growing
order and give the pigs a fine start. The
latter should have free access to the
oats until exhausted, by which time there
may be an early pea patch to be followed
by early corn—some dent variety that will
mature early. Then comes ground peas,
ebufas and sweet potatoes in the greatest
abundance, provided they have not been
left t ut of tne routine.
Here we my remark that corn—a costly
hog food —is not abs lutely necessary, espe
cially when its place may be supplied by
sorghum cane that can be grown on our
poorest lands, and can be relied ou to as-Ist
in cariymg the pigs from eariy summer un
til they ore ready for the block.
With auy thing like a wue provision, a
few pigs to gather and appropriate oats,
peas, potatoes, etc., will save labor and pave
the way to an independence on the cotton
farm that Is greatly needed. The subject is
one of no secondary importance ana de
serves more earnest attention. Possibly it
deserves the first consideration. We only
know enough of .the subject to point the
way and shall be more than glad for suc
cessful pom raisers to come to our assist
ance and help, if possible, to arouse less In
terest in cotton and more interest in “hog
and hominy.”
Let’s havo such an interchange of views
oil the subject of breeding and raising hogs
that will lead eventually to a hog kill
ing that will surprise our hoggish friends in
the west that have so long nad charge of
that part of our business. We must raise
our corn aud meat, after which we cau well
afford to raise cottou to swap off for west
ern flour.
Eariy Beeta and Radishes.
To grow these crops to the best advan
tage the laud must be heavily manured and
thrown up ia ridges, with a clean furrow
between to lead qff the surplus water, says
Thomas D. Baird in Southern Live Stock
Journal. To have these crops to grow the
fastest the manure should be well rotted
and assimilated through tho soil. By put
ting the manure on the ground in the fall
and turning it under, it makes the soil
light and mellow, aud so mixes with the
soil that it seems to be simply one, and the
roots of the beets and radishes find abund
ance of rich, available food, grow rapidly,
tender and crisp. To throw the soil up in
high ridges it can be worked several days
earlier, and a few days earlier makes a
great difference in the value of these crops.
These crops will stand considerable cold
weather. The great trouble is get
ting the soil dry aud in order for working,
to sow them in good order. But when well
ridged it dries out very rapidly after a
tha vor raiu into good working order. In
the spring these ridges are leveled and laid
off in lines as desired, either 18 inches
between linos and sown in alternate lines.
The radishes will be.out of the way of the
beets by tne time they need much ork. Iu
fact, if the soil is manured heavily enough
these crops will need but very little work.
Or, whore one is scarce of land and manure,
siw the beets and radishes in tbo same line.
The radishes can be drawn out so as to give
more room when small, and used, for, if
early, most markets will take them quite
small; and bv the time the beets need the
room the radishes will be all taken away.
After these crops are up a sprinkling of
ashes will make them grow and give better
quality. If early, there is no crop more
valuable than these, and will well pay the
trouble of this care.
Turnips for Farm Stock.
Some kind of turnips should be grown
every year by all farmers who keep any
kind of stock. The white or etrap-ieaved
varieties can be grown with no labor except
sowing and harvesting on any well-cared
for corn or potato field. They do more than
furnish valuable food at nominal cost. They
save soma of the fertil.ty that develops in a
well-tilled soil too late for summer crops to
use it, and most of which would bo wasted
if the turnip crop were not on the ground
to take the benefit of it,
Illinois Peaches.
Some German farmers iu Illinois, it is
said, succeeded in growing fine crops of
poaches year after year, while all their
neighbors failed. Lately the neighbors
learned that the Germans had made the
practice of covering the ground about tho
in-es thickly with sawdust late in the fall or
eariy lu the winter. This prevented the
trees from blooming too early. At a projier
time in the spring this mulch was removed.
Keepln? Lime ‘n Cellars.
If a cellar is naturally damp a little
quicklime will dry it better than anything
elße. It is not a substitute for good drain
age, but most cellars under houses are too
damp even after the drain has carried
off surplus water. The lime also absorbs
odors of decaying vegetables, and
thereby adds to the healthfulness of the
family rooms above ground.
For scrofula in every form Hood’s Sarsa
parilla is a radical reliable remedy. It has
an unequaled record of cures.— Act.
BROWN'S IRON BITTERS
Cures Dyspepsia, In
digestion & Debility.
Rheumatism and Syphilis yield readily to P.
P. P., (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium).
Ad.
DRILLS ON A MAN-O’-WAR
HARD WORK AND STRICT DISCI
PLINE MAK£ GOOD t AILOnS.
A Vigorous Routine Varied With
Spec.al Exercises How the Men
Fight Fire, Abandon Ship, and Clear
the Deck for Action.
From the Few York Timet.
Many persons unfamiliar with life aboard
naval vessels have endeavored to imagine
what a modern naval combat would be
like. But, however much outsiders may be
at loss, the drills and exercises in vogue on
b ard our meu-of-war leave little to the
imagination cf the boys in blue. Barring
blood and wounds there is net much in the
way of realism that the mimic battles do
not supply. Tho-e who wear the uavvblue
are wont to complain of the tedious repeti
tion of exercises winch they have gone
through with time and again, but the strict
observance of the drills prescribed by the
regulations governing the service has given
to the small navy of the United States a
body of highlydisciplined seamen.
On the date set for placing the vessel In
commission the men are marched on board
in a body. Each has previously been pro
vided with a "station niliet.” Tins is a piece
of paper which tells him bis sta.ionat every
exercise and drill.
it gives the number of his m ss, the boat
to which he belongs, and the gun at which
he serves. At getting under way the paper
tells him w hat certain duty he has to per
form, aud if he is curious to know what is
expected of him iu case of fire, a glance at
bis "station billet” will tefi him.
In the officu of the flist lieutenant is a
book from which ti e stations were given.
As early us practicable after the vessel has
bean comnnssi, ned to “sink, burn aud de
stroy” the crew is exercised at the various
evolutions, and if any man has keen sta
tioned in the wrong place the error is dis
covered and rectified.
“Fire quarters" is usually one of the first
drills at which the crew is exercised. The
ringing of the nig bell, which hangs for
ward, is the sigual of fire, and at the first
sound the meu are taught to move quickly
to their allotted stations. Those dotailed
for the pumps spring to their places, and
while they are shipping the handles others
unreel the hose and carry the nozzles co the
part of tho ship w here the tire is sui posed
to be. A dozen or so seize bamincoks mid
follow the executive officer. They are
known as “smi/tnerers," and, if be so orders,
they unlash the hammocks and take out
blankets. These, when wet and thrown ou
a fire, serve excellently well to smother the
blaze.
Down below tho gunner and his assistants
stand at the magazine and shell r jom flood
cocks, ready to Hood tho explosives should
the fire approach too near. Hatches are
battened dowu to exclude any draught, and
if the ship is at sea the officer iu charge of
the deck immediately ultors her course, to
bring Iho wind oil a quarter least favorable
to a spread of the tire. The topmeu scurry
aloft and, taking tho leather fire buckets
whioo are suspended under the tops, pre
pare to extinguish any sparks which may
endanger tho top hamper or sails. “*~
A half dozen men from the crew of each
boat are mean while busy gettiug up pro
visions and water for their respective boats.
TlieV place their burdens on the dock along
side tl.e cutters, but do not atiemot to get
into them. At each boat davit stands a
marine with a fixed bayonet who sternly
warns away any one who attempts
to climb into the boat. Various
stratagems are resorted to by
the captain aud first lieutenant
to ascertain if the marines know thtlr duty
at this drill. One of them is to order u
sailor into a boat to see if the gear for low
ering it is in shape or for any other pur
pose that toads to put the sentry off his
guard. If ihe latter is well trained the sea
mau will find a leveled rifle oufifrouting
him when he attempis to get into the boat,
even though the marine has heard the cap
tain’s order. If the unwary sentry allows
the mau to pass, negligence is reported
to the marine officer and several days extra
duty serve to impress upon tho soa soldier
the necessity of a strict compliance with tho
order that prohibits any one from going
into a bout uutil the call to abandon ship is
sounded.
This exercise naturally follows that of fire
quarters. At every drill the fire is suppos' and
to gain such headway as to make it neces
sary to abandon the ship. After the execu
tive officer has made a complete round of
the snip and seen that every oue Is at his
proper station, he conies on deck and makes
a report to the captain. Then is heard a
lively air played by tho bugler, and accom
panied by tho noise of scampering feet can
lie distinguished the notes of "The Girl I
Left Behind Me,” which is the signal to
abandon ship. The boats are rapidly low
ered, and as soon as they touch the water
boxes of canned meats and casks of water
are passed from haud to hand aud placed
between thoYhwarts. After the meu are
in their places the boat officer springs into
the stern sheets and the order to “shove
off” is given. Almost in less time than it
takes to tell it the skip is abandoned.
Both of these exercises have no other ob
ject than the preservation of the ship and
the 8-ifety of her crew. Some of the other
drills have a far different purpose. That of
general quai ters is to make the meu efficient
in fighting. Once a week it is gone through
with, and the exercise is very lively while it
lasts.
At the call "Clear ship for notion!” every
thing iu the way of au iucumbranoe about
the deck is bundled below into the hold. A9
elaborate preparations are made for the
mimic fray as though au aotual encounter
was impending. Light yards are sent down
from aloft and the headbooms rigged iu so
as to give the ram a chance to do its work.
A big hawser is got up from the hold and
coiled uoou the poop, to be used as a spring
in case the rudder screw is
disabled and it becomes necessary
to spring the ship broadside to tho enemy.
Grapnels are got over the stern in readiness
to clear the propeller in event of its becom
ing fouled by floating debris. Extra lash
ings are put on the yards, and preventer
br.tces are put in place in case the others aro
shot away. If at, anchor, the boats are low
ered and dropped astern; at sea, e tils are
passed under ihem to prevent splinters from
flying should they be siruck by an enemy’s
shot. Band is sprinkled upon the gun deck
to preveut it BeUing slippery with blood,
and down in the sick bay the surgeon
malms equally unpleasant preparations.
W hen all the preparations are completed
the drums beat to quarters. The executive
officer has charge of the drill and grves bis
orders from the bridge. The operation of
firing at an enemy ahead is gone through
with, aud then one at tho extreme quartet
engages attention. As the action liocolmus
warm, foes bob op at all points of ttio com
pass. The orders, "Man t e starboard bat
tery!” “Alan the port battery!” "Han all
the guns!” are given in quick succession.
The rapid-fire and machine guns keep up a
spiteful rattle, aud in real action would be
hurling a storm of missiles at the foe.
“No. 4 at No. 2 gun is wounded!” culls the
officer from tho bridge.
Tho words are hardly uttered before a
sailor is seen to fall to the deck. The officer
of bis division looks quickly around, but be
fore he has time to utter a command two
seamen have their wounded comrude in
their arms and support him uutil a third
unrolls a stretcher. “Boot through tho
arm!” says the officer as the men look in
quiringly at him, and in another moment
the injured member is tightly bound with a
tourniquet and the wounded defender of his
country’s honor is hurried below. Ris per
missible for him to struggle if he is only
slightly hurt, but if his wound is in a vital
spot be is expected to keep quiet.
in the heat of a mimic battle the first
lieutenant on one occasion odied out the
number of one of a gun’s crew who had
beeu hit, aud located the wouod in the
man’a neck. The "aids to tho wounded”
promptly seized the man and when one of
them asked his division officer if he should
apply a tourniquet the latter, whose atten
tion had been diverted, said, "Of course.”
' FURNITURE and carpets.
BEST FOLDING BED MADE,
ALL OTHERS ARE NOT IN IT.
CALL AND INSPECT.
LIIDSAY & MORGAN, Southern Agents
For this week, a $7 00 Rocker for $4 00.
The man did not mind an imaginary
wound, but strongly objected to having a
tourniquet squeezed ate tut his neck, but
obedienoe to orders is a blue jacket’s eharao
teristie, and as the order had beeu given to
put a tourniquet on the man’s neck it was
done. When the trio reached the sick bay
it took the surgeon nearly two houis to
resuscitate the half-straugied victim to the
zeal of his comrades.
“Collision drill” is an exercise that is fre
quently practiced on board the vesse sof
the new navy. A blast from the shrieking
whistle is the signal for the exercbe. At
the sound the do irs to the water-tight com
partments aro closed aud tho men stand
clear of the bow.
UNDE it THE GALLOWS TREE.
How Did These Beys Know That
$4,000 Was There?
From the iVein York World.
Ixdianapolis, Ind., Jan. 18.—Consid
erable excitement has been occasioned near
Bedford, this state, by the finding of SI,OOO
in greenbacks at the roots of a tree on
which Stephen Clark was hanged by a mob
several years ag >. It was supposed that
Clark had bidden large sums of money,
and the boys in the neighborhood have,
from time t< > time, gone searching for it.
Last night Clark’s widow was awakened
by tho light of a lantern under a tree in her
yard, and discovered some boys at work
with a pick. They dug about two feet into
the ground and secured broken pieoes of a
wooden box. They at last dug out an old
coat, and after unrolling it found a re
volver, some counterfeiting molds aud $4,000
in greenbacks. .
Clark was hanged on the same tree for
murder, and after his death the remains of
five men and one woman were found iu n
cavo near his home. They wore believed to
have been murdered by him.
In the Nidi of Time.
The nick of time to stop the course of bladdor
and kidney complaints is when the organs con
cerned exhibit a tendency to grow inactive.
The healthful impulse tona'd activity that
they receive from Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters
rescues them from impending danger, and
averts such dangerous maladies as Bright's dis
ease aud diabetes. Sluggishness of the kidneys
increases a liability to chronic rheumatism,
gout and dropsy, and since tho blood Is filtered
hy these organs ill its passage through them,
the operation of the Bitters serves a doubly
happy purpose. The medicine acts without ex
citing, like the fiery stimulants of commerce.
Malaria, dyspeptic, constipated and nervous
Invalids are thoroughly relieved by it. Since
the advent of that shocking malady, la grippe,
it has been widely demonstrating its usefulness
as a curative and preventive of it.—Ad,
For Over Fifty Years.
Mrs. Winslow’s Boothino Syrup has
been used for children teething. It soothes
the child, softens the gums, allays all pain,
cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for
diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. — Ad.
The Telephone.
Prom the Jacksonville Times-Union.
You are a housekeeper with a multitude
of cares—the name implies that yon havo
little children about you whom you love
audoberißb. You can afford but one ser
vant when you ought to have three, and
here is where the telephone comes to your
aid. In the morning you must provide for
the entire day, so that the husband may
find breakfast, dinner and supper to his
taste, and nothing to ruffle bis not always
angelic temper.
You want vegetables, meats and groce
ries. You haven’t time to go to the market
yourself to inspect and purchase, and if
you send a servant it will be an hour or
two before she returns, and ten chances to
one she will bring back what you didn’t or
der and don’t want. You go to the tele
phone and ring up a vegetable dealer. In
flvo minutes y u havo virtually seen his en
tire stock, and in twenty minutep tho basket
is at your door. No bother, no annoyance, i
no trouble. Just see what the little tele-1
phone has saved you l—Ad.
Gymnasium goods, athletio goods and
outing goods, at LaFar’s. — Ad.
Men’s handkerchiefs, linen or silk, and
silk mufflers at LaFar’s.— Ad.
Bloches. Old Sore3. Ulcers and all skin erup
tion! cure I hy P. P. P., the greatest blood puri
fier of the age.—Ad.
Military good* ordered iu any quantity
by LaFar.— Ad.
Undressed kid and driving gloves, ail
sizes, at LaFar’s. — Ad.
Catarrh originates In scrofulas taint. P. P.
P. purifies the olood, and thus permanently
cures Catarrh. —Ad.
Windsor ties, lawn bows and Pequln
goods at LaFar’s.— Ad.
Suspenders, nice grades and colors, silk
or cotton web, at LsFor’s.— Ad.
A fact worth knowing is that blood diseases
which all other medicines failed to cure yield
slowly but surely to the blood cleansing proper
ties or P. P. P. (l’riokly Ash, Poke Root aud
Potassium) — Ad.
Chamois underwear and chest protectors
at LaFar’s. — Ad.
Harderfold underwear, equal to Jaeger’s
at LaFar. — Ad.
lien’s underwear, closing out. AU win
ter goods reduced at LaFar’s.— Ad.
Neckwear. Fisk, Clark & Flagg’s fine
goods, at La Far’s. —Ad.
Abbott's East Indian Corn Paint cures ail
, corns, warts and bunions.—Ad.
MEDICAL.
HHHH Tail's ASITI!tI AI.I:N I! contains no opinm or other anodyne, but
tFi n>4 Desirois the Specific Aslbuia I'oi.nn in tile Rlood.
E ! a V ! ***•• •* Nißbt’a Sweet Sleep and ClltUSt*. TLI . ..
11 M andl u M IS
■ J _ ÜBO that yon need not neglect rniir hmin.L.l ORUCGIBTB.
Jgn war sit up nil nigtitgaspingfor hreatb for fear of snlioca.
PfbwWMWttkton. of TAFT BROS. MEDICIHE CO., 142 State St . ROCHESTER. N. Y.
Mi LI .IX Kit X GOODS.
1892 PROSPECTUS FOR SPRING 1892
InsM's fail lilliiefi House
• r
Ia closing a very succassful Fall and Winter season,
and is now making unusual preparations for tho grandest
display of Spring Millinery ever seen south. In order to
surpass our previous displays we are unsparing in our ex
pense to procure from Kuropean and homo markets the
rarest novelties in Ihe Millinery art. We will show pat
terns iu Round Hats aud Bonnets from the most cele
brated artists in Paris and London, and everything beautiful
in the Millinery line will be displayed at our (fraud Millinery
Fair, tho opening of which will be announced at an early
date. Meanwhile our entire stock of Winter Millinery is
offered at our usual closing out price. Our Ribbon "sale
continued as heretofore.
MOTS limy BOISE.
WHISKY.
SOLOMON’S -:- ANSWER
To the many inquiries of numerous friends and patrons out of tha
city. We are iu full blast again with everything fresh aud new.
We are receiving large quantities of GEORGIA BELLE and
MOTHER BHIFI’ON FLOURS. One hundred varieties of the
celebrated JK CRACKERS, those are the best that are made; wo
aro receiving othei makes which wo sell at very low price*. Wo
have also CANDIES lu all styles and qualities.
Coffees, Teas, Cigars and Soaps,
also
Old-Fashionotl liye and Knickerbocker Rye Whiskies In Cases.
Wo have from the reserved stocks of the best distillers of whom
we have drawn supplies of liquors for many years. WHISKIES,
GINS, RUMB and BRANDIES in bulk; of these we have a very
large and complete assortment ut lowest prices.
BEND YOUR ORDERS ALONG, OUR GOODS ARE AL
WAYS RELIABLE AND AT BOTTOM FIGURES.
HENRY SOLOMON & SON,
162. 166, 170, 188, 190, 192 Bay St„ Savannah. Ga.
hotels]
PULA Slv I H OiTse7
SAVANNAH, GfA.,
NEW MOMENT j] aSi
PROPRIETOR,
(FORMERLY OK THE BROWN HOUSE, MACON, OA.)
This Hotel ha*been renovated and put in first-class order in every particular. All the latest
conveniences aud modern improvements, .Special accommodations for tourists.
CTO'' O /„ ONE °F THE MOST ELEQANTL AP
K ■s. 5/7- POINTED hotels in the world aj
kj (ds W IV? - COMMODATIONS FOR 500 QUESTS.
** . bpeo &1 rates for families and parties remain*
y lne week or longer.
***••# cS\l AMHAh l\ CX Tour.ata will find Savannah one of the most
> P A VAfct tintereating and beautiful cities in the ontire
.. „ X* South. No place more healthy or desirable as a
WAT/'bN roWCR/’*" winter resort. Send for
DESCRIPTIVE ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET.
i BUNKS AM) SACHEL9.
Traitor {[Ml Sactt
Sign ol the Golden Saddle, Coatmi S
PLUMBER.
KINK LINE OK
GAS FIXTURES AND GLOBES
AT
L. A. MCCARTHY’S,
AG DRAYTON PIT.
OLD NEWSPAPERS—2Ou for * cents—at
Business Office Morning News.
JfURSERX.
RIESLING’S NURSERY;
WHITE BLUFF ROAD.
PLANTS, Bouquets, Designs, Cut Flower*
furnished to order. Leave orders at DAVIS
BBoß.\ oor. Bull and York ste. Tho Belt Sal
way passes through the nurserv. Teelphoned
ci-HKRK is everything to interest you in the
1 Sunday Mousing Nswb. For tale at
YONUE b DRUG STORE, Whitaker and Duffy
streets.
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