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Newspaper Page TextWe solicit articles for this department. e e cine it the writer should accompany ,e>':er ir article.not necessarily for pub atioa. bat as an evidence of good faith. Q-estrrss and oommunications relative to cricuitural and horticultural subjects if ad rnssel tc Agri. Editor, Drawer N, Mill i .nviil", Oxs., w ill receive immediate atten on. Articles hearing upon practical agricult ural! horticulture are cordially solicited ■oni the intelligent farmers and gardeners bo feel so interest in this department of x K us. Write us of any new discovery ; , t you have made this season relative to srieties, manures, mode of culture, etc. jr : ■ r.o. 're, send us any questions relating subjects, and whenever possible they ill receive an early answer. Letters of a personal character to the gr.euitural editor cannot be replied to un e-s stamps are inclosed. We receive fre pent letters ashing for information of in vest only to the writers and not suitable or publication. Wo are always willing to of, rm our readers where varions seeds can ie procured, but as this information can ,y be imparted by mail a stamp is neces ary for s reply. W are glad to get good suggestions and nquiriea from our interested readers in any hspe, even on a postal card, but we would refer to receive such written on paper and inly on one side wherever possible, as it sill then obviato the necessity of copying lame. Do not hesitate to sign name to all contributions. Wo will not print It if a ire is run through it indicating a desire to isve It left out. But we are a strong advo cate for the practice of signing name to comributions. “It carries more weight" [enerally. We invite from our resderß who have lamed tobacco any thoughts or comments bey may choose to make on the subject. At tbesame time we would bo glad to have ome words of cheer ami encouragement rotn our grass and stook men. Our “Southern Agriculture” is undoubtedly on he threshold of a revolution. There is no rsy around it, is there! Bo an active member of the "News arm Club,” and send us words of cheer nd advice. THE QUESTION BOX. Prickly Com fray. "Is prickly comfrey the valuable plant for iairyuien’s use that gome have claimed it to be!” E. V. C. It is oot a desirable plant conmared with many otberß. It is true an acre of rich land well set In comfrey yields a large quantity of tbe watery leaves, but it makes svery inferior food and stock do not take to It naturally aud some will refuse it alto tether. By denying stock all other food and feeding them comfrey leaves that have boon saltod they will gradually come to eat it. On the shoaji farm, however.it might bo fjund valuable. Its culture will improve •oil, as the roots will supply a large quantity ot vegetable matter. There are other plants much superior to it. Tbe burr clover, the sapling clover, tbe Melilotus are really much to be preferred in the dairy farm. On good land soma of the perennial plants like Lucern, orchard grass and meadow oat are also muoh to be preferred. Oqca well established they will pr oduce the maximum of food very nearly the yeai'round. TURNIPS AND CLOVER Sown Together In the Fall. The turnip is not appreciated in this coun try as it is in England and other old coun tries, but there is no question as to its value On the stock or dairy farm. Several years we made au experiment of •owing turnips aud clover together early In September, and the result was gratifying. Twelve pounds of sapling clover and four pounds of mixed turnips more carefully mixed together and sown on laud that had been well plowed and harrowed. The seeds were evenly sowed and a roller run over the l&od. The stand of both wos perfect. Be tween Oct. 10 and Jau. 10 the turnips were ell nulled out and used in feeding to the mireb cows. The clover theu took fuil pos •ion of the land and was ready for the nm cutting in May. The second growth of clover was almost equal to the first, and efter being pastured to some extent in the lau was turuei under to improve the soil, ®o<ch did greatly. The corn that was t r Jn on the land the following season was t ? finest I ever saw. Our dairymen should base a trial of this plan. They are more apt to be pleased with it. A New Money Crop for the South. - have just finished our fifth annual through the coast section of the south, Curing which season we have had the heasure of interviews with nearly all the truck growers there and many of ,E ffl personal friends of the writer who ''Presents that establishment. Th ' may honestly claim an interest in the 'Cultural uocbss of this territory a spe -141 one, because we have had the confidence “-'patronage of the majority of planters ‘Dughout its broad extent, and a general ■*' ,y °ne of the multitude of northerners 0 lo >k to your fields for those early b 'net, wijjgh we cannot grow at a season ‘'' a We are ioe-locked and snow-boand, w Mch have revolution lied the early bet garden operations of the northern ■tales. ‘ #ch season we have made note of the * v ''t l Titles and undeveloped resources, so dis'e tts t 0 cause our wonder why more ticei Lal ion of crops had not beeu prac ci ■ ’ wll,Te what had been done was /. with so eminent success. c “ ,tle .principle that you all know your Letts your own climate and soil ~r " r th * n a transient visitor, be he ever so *o u *“ a k r| culturist in bis own section, watctlu mw, ’ , y kept our eyes open and ke a* a te ' r i,u lated experiments which **l luggssted to a tew growers, but which have lately been so thoroughly sue ceessful as to embolden us to call tue atten tion of truckers generally to the subject. Moreover the time seems so fitting. Just now uneasy lies the head wnicta wears cotton kinglv crown. He is not half o regal at 6 cents per pound as erstwhile, and the agricultural depression has evolved much discussion as to what shall be planted, a .and what diversity shall redeye the situation, and in the interior south where husbandry is leas mixed than on the coast the condition is so serious that one planter in Oglethorpe county, Georgia, wails in this strain—njperring to the reduc tion of cottou planting, fir which reform ers are so loudly clamoring: “If It la not dono then it will be good-by Joo a to the southerttcountry. "Tne time has cons# when a change must be made from utter iscesaity. “It the farmers wfKaeaouth don't change tactics and live atTSome with cotton as a surplus crop, this is true, that within the next three years our average lapds will not bring more $1 per acre and utter starvation will hover over the toparos of many a south ern farmer like the vultures over the body of Prometheus." 3 t This is too lugubrious, for with cheaper methods of growing, by the use of mors fertilizers on less land, the use of the cotton picking machine of the future and the other economies which the necessities of tne eaae will develop, cotton will still reign and al ways will be a natural staple of the south. But it is time to make your business self insuring by growing more of what you now buy from other sections. Corn, oats and hay, now so little grown, with their direct value as well as the bsnefit which they afford in a system of rotation are the first crops which occur to mind, as being practically raised and even producing largely in this section. But addressing now more directly the truck growers or any who can o.ntrol the peculiar soil described in the following, we will call attention to the celery crop. Here is a vegetable generally and largely used throughout the whole country and in the liveliest demand iu every market, yield ing such large profits per acre, that near tne large cities of the north growers pay ren tals of #SO to #IOO per acre for the use of land whereon to produce it. Kalamazoo, Mich, has attained a world-wide reput ition as a great center for this industry, and ships daily six tons of this vegetable in the hlght of the season to all parts of the country. You find it in your southern markets, ar riving from that or other points, partially stale by reason of long transit, and its original cost enhanced by heavy transpor tation obarges, all this to bring it to you who can produoe a better article at home. It will have a singular value as a shipping orop if grown in the south entirely unlike other green crops which sell higher when first put upon the market, and at a less price as the later and general orop comes forward to the point of a glut, for at the time when celery should mature in the south aud will be shipped the northern sup ply Ison the wane, pncee begin to advance and tne season for production is over there, competition with the southern grower lias oeased, cool, favorable weather for shipping has arrived aud everything at that time fa vors successful handling of the product. Without exaggeration, on soils suitable for its production and proper methods and oulture and marketing employed, a clear profit of from S3OO to SSOO per acre cau be derived from raising it; there are numerous instance of SBOO to SI,OOO worth being grown on one acre where very favorable conditions have obtained, but that it is highly profitable tbs fact of its culture on high-priced lands near the large northern dues and the profits of growers, who pay SIOO per acre for ground rent aud high prices for labor all go to show. Its one peculiar requirement is a low moist soil, if mixed with loam, muck or clay, it is immaterial which. Water must not lie on tho land as in your rice fields, but drainage must be provided, so that standing water comes no nearer tbe surface than from eighteen to twenty-four inches. Such a soli has tbe requisite moisture and coolness essential to this growth, and with proper fertilizers employed there is nothing in the climate to prevent its maturity us well as at the north. It should be planted south, say in the coast territory betweeu Savaunah and Wilmington,N. C..from Sept. 15toOct.I— our season Is July to August—but it would fail with you at t hat season. That this is uot speculation, we will cite that several growers on this coast strip have tried this crop experimentally at the writer's suggestion, and all with success; aud recently we saw in Charleston much finer celery, which was grown on the farm of W. Audel near there, than was then being shipped from Kalamazoo. Our letter has lengthened beyond our in tention, and the other points of oulture, preparation of She ground, fertilizers, plant growing, growing two crops at tbe sams time, varieties, transplanting, double-crop* pir.g, hilling and banking, digging, bunch ing aud packing, winter storage a id bleach ing and shipping, with other hints lo south ern growers cannot hare be given, but to any one interested the writer will cheerfully give any information which can be com municated in the space of a letter if stamp is inclosed aud inquiry addressed to Wash ington. D. C. Burt Eddy. Growing Irish Potatoes in Hills. Where the land lies level, and no reason why it should not be plowed both ways, a crop of potatoes can oftentimes be grown to considerable advantage by cultivating them in hills. Tbe crop can be made altogether without the use of the hoe, and where labor is high and a large area planted this con stitutes quite an item. Hill culture is only to be advised on level land, and it is not • very grower who bos a number of acres together of this character. The largest crop we ever grew was on four acres thus planted, prepare 1 aud ouitivste i ia the fol lowing manner: In Deo imher the land was deeply furrowed at two aud a half feet apart, and during tbe menth stable manure was hauled out arid applied to the furrows, a heaping shovelful to every threo feet of row. A mixture of 2UO pounds kainit and 300 pouuds superphosphate was sprinkled over tbe stable manure. After the manuring was completed it was covered and tbe land bedded out. Nothing more was done to the land. On Feb. 14 the laud was cross furrowed at a distance of two feet, and a good-size cutting with from two to three eyes was dropped at the intersection of this furrow with the center of the bed. A sub voiler was run iu this furrow before the sets were dropped, aud the sets were pressed firmly into the fresh soil by pressiug with the foot, the potatoes were covered with a diamond scooter And tbe middles thor oughly broken. , Three weeks afterwarJ, just as a few of the potatoes were begiuuing to make an appearauce, a harrow was run along the bed, which completely exter-, mir.ated all the young weeds which had germinated during the warm days of Feb ruary. Further .cultivation was done with a round shovel with scraper attachment run - through after every hard rain—one furrow to the middle, first one way then the other. The last, two workings are done with a sweep—one furrow both ways. The potatoes were dug at intervals during the month of June and up to J uly 10. The land was by no meaus first-class land or specially adapted to potatoes. Under tbe usual sys tem’of cultivation without manure it wouid not have yielded more than twenty or twenty-five bushels of corn. The aggregate product of potatoes for the four acres was 1,240 bushels. The crop was a little more tedious to put in, but all hoeing was dispensed with. Con sidering the nature of the soil this was a very satisfactory crop, though we kuow twice this yield has been made time and again in other sections of the country, and even as much as 860 or 1,000 bushels have dow and then been grown on oue acre. The crop of o >rn that followed the pota toes was tne finest late crop that we ever saw. The Blount Proliflo was planted and the corn used in the roasting ear during September and October. Boswbu* THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. FEBRUARY29,IB92. Tobacco Culture. The southern farmers, like the farmers of every other teetioa of this country, are very deeply concerned at this time as to the best division of their crops, and it is un questionably a question of great moment to them. With the markets of the world overstocked with cotton and the prices of the same at a point that offers no encourage ment to grow the usual quantity of it, the southern farmer naturally debates the ques tion if there are not other crops that will serve him better the coming year than cot ton. In some sections of the south tobacco culture has proved more profitable than cotton growing to a number of larmers who essayed its culture last year. What effect upon prices would be the re sult of a general plauting of tobacoo iu lieu of cotton in the south, of course, cannot be foretold, and it certainly would not be wise to advise farmers to make a general change from the crop they have always cultivated to one that they know little or nothing about. Tne common laborer of the south under stands to a certain extent at least the meth ods of ootton culture, w here he Knows noth ing of growing tobacco. The system of culture is altogetner different. Of all the farm crops there is not one that is more easily planted and cultivated than any other crop. Tobacco, on the other hand, requires the most assiduous attention. The plants must be grown in seed beds and afterward trans planted. Unless the soil is very wet the ordinary negro laborer makes a poor job of "making the plants live.” He must be watched very closely In the work of trans planting or he will do it so poorly that barley naif of the plants will be set out in the proper manner. Then the insect ene mies to tobacco are very destructive. Above all the work of curing and prepar ing for market requires the exnihitiun of intelligence fur beyond what the harvesting of cotton demands. We advise our readers who are contem plating the planting of tobacco this year to send to Rev. James R. DePass, director of the Florida experimental station at Lake City for bulletin No. 15, which treats at some length of tobacco culture. The Orange Judd Company, New York, issues a valuable pamphlet (price 25 cents) the joint work of fourteen practical tobacco cultiva tors that will also be very useful to the be ginner. Experience, of course, will be necessary to best results. Profit from Poultry. Along with the poultry raising every one should run a garden, for two reasons, re marks Annie C. Webster in the American Cultivator. First, nearly half ot the feed tor tbe chiokens in summer comes from tbe garden, aud second, the poultry manure ought to be sufficient fertilizer for such a ga den on ordinary soil. These are two items generally overlooked in poultry rais ing. it is cheaper to raise the food in your own garden tbau to buy it, and over and above ail of this you will have nearly enough to supply your own table with fresh vegetables all through the whole summer. Tbe poultry need green leaves, green food, roots, berries aud seeds, and a great amount of all of these can be gathered for them in the garden. Where poultry is not kept there is a great deal of waste in the garden, for tbe green tops of vegetables, half-grown roots and pods are always useless for the table. The time spent in cultivating the garden might legitimately be put down as conscientious work for tbs poultry. At tho end of tbe year there would he so much sav ing in the cost of food. i hen the outlay for tfce garden would simply bo for seeds, tools, labor and inter est on tbe land. The poultry manure we are going to moke supply all the fertilizing material for the soil. The poultry drop pings should be gathered at least weekly from the hen roost or tbeyard aud sprinkled over with tine dust. Tbe best plan is to take every barrel of this mixture and dump it into a quantity of muck gathered from some pond near by. Mix the two up thor oughly, and a good fertilizer is prepared both for speading over the ground and for dropping iu the hills and rows. Tbe poultry manure furnishes plenty of mineral and beating elements, while the muck is rich in nitrogenous material, decayed roots aud plants. The danger in using poultry manure In the drills aod hills is that too much will be cut in, so that the seeds will lie burned up, but when itis thoroughly mixed with muck this danger is partly removed. After the garden crops have all been gathered In tbe autumn the chicke is should be turned into it for a range. They will dig down in the soft, mellow ground and root out all tho worms aud gruos that may be preparing for a winter’s hibernation. They will also snatch up tbe seeds of weeds and foreign bodies and prepare the ground for use the next spring. These items are seldom token into consideration by those writing about poultry, but in the long run they furnish no very small profit. How About Tobacco. Tbe Southern Cultivator indulges in the following wise remark on tha question of tobacco growing: “Many farmers will turn their attention to tobacco as u substitute —to some extent— for cotton, as a money crop. We reluctantly admit that there is some hope in this as k temporary resost, but we are afraid that by the time we ‘get our hands in’ so as to make it a successful crop the cry of overproduc tion and low prices will bo sounded. We advise farmers to go slow on tobacco tbe first year. It is a crop that requires much more skill iu planting, cultivating, hand ling and curing than does cotton. It is a cash product, and easy of sale; but it varies greatly more in quality and corresponding prices. Moreover it is a far more exhaust ing crop, requires heavier manuring. It is said that Virginia tobacco farmers have often wished that tbeir climate was adapted to cotton.” Tbe very remark that we wanted to make ourselves. We second the advice given to go slow. It seems that the Vir ginians want to substitute ootton for tobac co, and our Georgians to reverse the opera tion. Some of tbe highly colored descrip tions of big profits made in Southern Georgia may be discounted a iitf.ie taken, as it were, cum grano satis. With proper management it will be made profitable, we have no doubt, to many. The problem is not to be solved with tobacco, however. The solution will be found chiefly to exist in stock and grass as the cornsr-stone. Some tobacco—and ootton,too—to the superstruct ure. Killing Moles. Editor Weekly News: Your last writer on moles gives a funny way to get rid of them. He says stick a spade in front and behind them, and then one in the middle and then pat him, but tbe trouble is when will you ever catch him in tbe middle, as you would certainly have a sweet time in sit ting andwatching for him to burrow in order to locate him! I will give you a sure way to get rid of moles without the trouble or pleasure of watching for them. It is as sure as “Rough on Rats” Is. I have seen it tried. Taxe grains of core and an awl and run the point under tho bead of tbe grain until you get say half a pint or a pint of the corn thus punctured. Then put it in a bot tle or other open vessel and put in water enough to cover, then add a sufficient quan tity of strychnine and let it soak, say twen ty-four hours or more, then open tbe mols holes oaiefully and put in two to four grains in each place. Then place a onip or piece of bark over the hole to keep the earth from falling on it, and you will find you will get rid of the moles as completely as you would of rats by poisoning. If you should plow tbe ground in a few days after patting in the poisoned corn as suggested you will plow them up where they nave died before they could reach tbeir retreat. * CHANGE IN WARFARE. EARTHQUAKE AND CYCLONE TEE COMINO AGENTS. No Costly Armament Required—War Will Be Quick, SaDgulnary Terrlfid and Decisive—Sltro-glyce'tne and Its A tiles. From the Pittthurg Dtepatch . Although the present is an age remark able for it-, innovations. It still takes time to introduce and establish new ideas. So wedded are we to the old that obanges gen erally come some considerable time after the utility of the new order is recognized and its practicability is conceded. Gun powder so revolutionized all military arts, aud was such a decided advance on all pre vious methods that the nations throughout the world still oling to it with the utmost tenacity. It was undoubtedly the great factor that shaped the political man of mod ern Europe, if not of the entire hemisphere. It rolled back the tide of Asiatic invasi u at the opportune time,and taught the nordes of the east that supremacy no longer lav iu mere numbers. It took centuries of valu able time to develop ordnance to yield the best results from its explosive power, and wbat now seems singular is that the aim has always been to apply the expansive force to the hurling of a projectile and thus depend for the execution on the secondary and not the primary effect. The philosophy of this tendoney finds its basis in the fact that the crude, barbaric an cestor was first mechanical rather than chemical; he must hurl his spear or hit ar row, so when chemistry dawned on him he would still cause it to hurl a missile instead of directly striking the enemy with the pri mary force of propulsion. NO SYSTEMATIC BLOWING UP. Of course, there have been attempts made at direct “blowing up,” but not iu a syste matical and general way. All this, how ever, has been logical enough, when we con sider the extreme slowness, the large bulk and clumsiness involved in the explosive discovery of Schwartz, and us we now glance at the military and naval establish ments of the world, we see that not a few of the nations have actually bankrupted them selves in the endeavor to provide argument and equipment for this costly and round about way of bringing explosive action to bear on the enemy. In general terms, the plan has been and still is, to generate gases in a strong cham ber with sufficient energy to expel a metal lic missile with great velocity aud to as great a distanoe ns possible. Great strength with its usual accompaniment of tremend ous weight, are the necessary concomitants of the devices thus rendered Indispensable, until the weight of some piece reaches into the many tens of tons with expensive para phernalia, and the irou-shaatbed vessels mount up to an appalling avoirdupois. All this reaches to the grotes [ue ar.d the comical when we consider that it Is only the refinement of crude and ignorant barbarism bolding on to the coat-tails of modern progress. Clearly there is still the truce of the old cave dweller, only under much changed methods. But late chemistry has produced what will not only surprise the ancient explosive, but what will relegate to the rear, os both useless aud ridiculous, the present expensive and clumsy iron-clad in whatever guise it may present itself. It reeds only an oc casion to call the application of this force into practical effect and iron armament will vauish, at least from all naval calculations. But why and how? In nitre-glycerine and its allied produots there is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone and tbe lightning, ail condensed and packed into small space. So sudden aud instantaneous and so terrific is the dis placement df the atmosphere when im pelled by the electric swiftness of the ex pansion of this simple compound, and over s<> wide an area are its effecis disastrous that no particular spot need be indicated as an objective point of o sault, but it is only necessary that the orplosiou be produced within some miles of the object aimed at to insure its utter annihilation. Tho vaunted iron leviathans of the modern navy would only need to be hit with an atmospheric wave whose initial impulse might be gener ated miles away. THE POWf.H OF NITROGLYCERINE. Let anyone that is conversant with this explosive undertake to calculate the dinster that would occur to a fleet of vessels, large or small, should even one ton of nitro glycerine be released in its proximity. Two waves of destructive foroe, atmospheric and aqueous, would beset in motion, and the recoil of tbe pressure of the former would literally crush into the depths of the ocean any vessel in the vicinity, as if a mountain had been hurled on to it. But ns nitric acid anil refined grease are both p’.entitn! and Inexpensive, wtiat is to hindor tho letting loose of dozens of tons of this concentrated and portable lightning, should occasion call for it? Tho Ingredient* when separate are harmless; compounding them is a matter of no expense, and herein, were thore no other advantage, ltos an im mense superiority ovor gunpowder, as this compound can be made of the crude in gredients anywhere and just as fast as needed. There need be no magazine ex plosions. But let us illustrate some of its practical applications, especially in defensive war fare. Let it be assumed that a hostile fleet is on its way to pay its respects to some of our seaboard cities. The Dondolo, Druilio, Dreadnaught or some other huge, un wieldly iron plaything—and, however costly, this is about all that such vessels have been to date—finally heaves into sight and takes position to bombard, let us suppose. New Yorx city. But now, quietly and simultaneously from different points, from as much of the radius of a circle as possible, small and simply-equipped vessels depart, having the enemy as a common converging center. Either of these craft has a stout engine and ample boiler, whose fuel is crude petroleum, boiler and fire gauged to insure the neces sary run, flying at the rate of thirty miles per hour, which may lie maintained for tbs required distance. Each of these diminutive boats is tanked with au equipment of de struction iu quantity sufficient for the pur pose in view, and wi'h dock apparatus to go off in any given time. Here comes craft from different direc tions, from front and rear, come automatic ally, with not a soul on board, fearless; come laden with an element of more thau internal destruction, dire, swift, sure—what is to be done? What cau such an unwieldy monster do In tbe brief but fateful limit of half an hour? Fly? No! There is uo tims to get started even, and there is no defense against these inanimate messengers .charged with tbe capacity of such terrible and in evitable consequences. POSSIBILITIES UNDREAMED OF. But there comes a crash, then another many times intensified. Earth and ocean shake and the very molecules of tbe atmos phere seem shattered. Columns of water seetn to reach to the clouds, aud for an in stant there are yawning caverns iu the deep! Then there is nothing but an ex panse of troubled, rolling, lashing, seething waters! On the ocean floor lies a heap of juuk, ghostly corpses, still warm as in life, shrouded in the night of death! Here are possibilities that are undreamed of yet —pos sibilities that will make war so terrible that invasion, aggressive warfare, will he cnly a thing buried in history. But is it not strange, if all tbit be true, that it is not already done? Not at all. There is al ways muoh money In war—blood money, to be sure—and costly methods will always have stanch pro moters and defenders. Then, mod men really invite the hammerlug of now ideas into their heads w ith a club. Why, the writer saw m March, 1865, Pittsburg coal selling for engiDe use on tbe “landing” at Rouseville, Pa., at $125 per shrunk*! bushel, while within gunshot wete shrieking, writhing, deafening gas wells, hurling tens of millions of feet ot finest fuel into the overburdened air dally. Was this not also strange! Sixteen years; ye*, twenty years, later there were hundreds of millions of feet of gas wasted. Was this not stranger still! Then into the gray matter of some brain the idea penetrated that such fuel night have a commercial use ar.d a commercial value. Ah vee! Our sires and grandsires used Schwartz’s preparation of charooaland saltpeter for throwing metal of Instead Binging spears and speeding arrows, why should not we? But change is written on the faoe of everything aud war can claim no exemp tion. BE HAD TO BE BRAVE. The Storjr of a Cavalryman Whose Horse Ran Away tn Battle. Cap!. John if. Brewer in Elberton (GaA Star. What I relate are facts which actually befell me. The greatest cavalry battle ever fought on the American continent took place at Brandy Station on June 9, 1863. At early dawn the federal advanoe guard crossed the Rappahannock and charged our outposts with such vigor tl at they entered our camp at their heels. Most of my regiment (brave fellows) bad turned tbeir horses out the evening before, and not more than fifty of us were prepared to mount. The fifty men were quickly mounted, formed and ordered to charge. Not a moment was to be lo.t, as some of the enemy’s ad vance were In our artillery camp. I was the unfortunate possessor of an un tamed Bucephalus that no rider on earth could control. 1 had experienced this on three former occasions. But what could I do, charge or not! That was the question. Although I knew full well that my wild charger would lead the van, of course, I must charge. In our front was a heavily wooden forest of pine shrub aud black jack, through which ran a narrow country road. No time was to be lost; therefore, there was little ceremony. The usual commands— trot, march, gallop, charge—were omitted aud the gallant Shumate, who mustered the fifty, simply yelled "charge!" and away we flew down Che winding road through the dark forest, all yelling like Indians. Mv horse bowed his neck, and placing his mouth against bis breast i was helpless, and away he fairly llew, What could I do! Pull off tho road I could not; stop I could not. Away he went. I looked around, but there was no ono in eight. We had left tho others far behind. I knew that in a few seconds one solitary cavalryman would be rushing iuto the midst of the foe. One mo ment more and I saw drawn up across my path a double line of federal cavalry. It may be, I thought, they will see my predic ament and let me through; it may be they will not fire, but how could they koow my horse was running away ? Thoy must have thought the devil was coming, for up sent at least 100 carbines, a crash, a cloud of smoke, and with one ter rible plunge and groan my steed fell in the woods, pierced by several balls. How i escaped God only knows. In a few moments I heard our boys coming down the road. A volley from the federal line, but onward they went; and I, mounting a borse be longing to a lieutenant of Company IT, who was killed, joined in. We broke his regiment—the Eighth New York Lieut. Owen Ailing kill ing ita brave commander, Col. Davie. Then came the Eighth Illinois, and quicker than some of us came we went. That night, after the battle was over— for it lasted all day—the boys overwhelmed me with oompliments. Never saw such dash! such courage! Charles O’Malley! Murat! andsoon. But what was the laughter when I innocently remarked: “Confound it, boys, my horse ran away with mo." LOCKS. Mr. Yale Invented the famous “Yale" Lock. A thousand other men have tried to equal it, and—failed. Others imitate it, but all they have produced is a similar key, and the key has fooled many a man. The only genuine ‘‘Yale” Locks, are made by Tiie Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, and have the word Yale” in some form on lock arid key. You can’t afford anything but a genuine “ Yale ” wlien you want n lock. Sold wherever locks sell. SHOES*. WHY IS THE W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE CEN^LEMEN THE BEST SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR THE MONET.' It Is a seamless shoe, with no tacks or wax thread to hurt the feet; made of the best flue calf, stylish aod easy, and because toe make more shoes of this tr ade than any other manufacturer. It equals baud* sowed shoes costing from $4.00 to $5.fX). Oi)fenulup Hand-sewed* the finest calf 6hoe ever offered for #3.00; equals French Imported shoes which cost from #8.0" to $12.00. C! A 00 llancl-Sewpil Welt Shoe, fine calf stylish, comfortable and durable. The best shoe ever offered at this price ; same grade as cu** tom-made shoes costing from #6.00 to $9.00. CO 50 Police Shoe) Farmers. Railroad Men and Letter Carriers all wear them; flue calf, seamless, smooth inside, heavy three soles, exten sion edge. One pair will wear a year. 4J* W% 50 fine calf i no better shoe ever offered at 9dEia this price; one trial will convince those who want a shoo for comfort and service. (DO *23 and *2.00 Workingman's shoes are very strong and durable. Those who have given them a trial will wear no other make. Daiiq) Si.OO nnd 81*75 school shnea are Mvj O worn by the boys everywhere; they sell on their merits, as the Increasing sales show. I arlSae 83.00 Hnnd-*ewrd shoe, best bad vs Iv 9 Dongola, very stylish; equals French Imported shoes costing from $4.00 to #6.(10. Ladle*’ *2.50, 8*2.00 and 81.75 shoe for tflsposarothe best flue Dongola. Stylish and durable, (nation.—Lee that W. L. Douglas* name and price are stamped ert the bottom of each shoe. TAKE NO Sl Insist on local advertised dealers supplying yon W. L. DOrOLAH, Brockton, Mass. Sold by BYCK BROS., 17. q Whitaker ntaeet. E.B. BYCK & CO., 169 Broughton street. FISH AND UIsTEcU. ESTABLISHED 1858. M. M. Sullivan & Son, Wholesale Fish and Oyster Dealers, 130 Bryan st. anti 152 Bay lane, Savannah. Ga Fish orders for Punta Gorda received here have prompt attention. LEATHER GOODS. NEIDLINGER &4tABUN~ DKALERB IS ROBBER AND LEATHER BELTING, Sea Lion Wrapping. Saddles. Harness. leather SAv.ss.a, Ga. DON'T fail to get a copy ot bandar's issue of the 51ok.ii.ho Haws For sale at BISHOP'S DRUG S TURK.corner Rail and prion streets. INSURANT* STATEMENT. semi-annual ~~ ~~~ For the 6 months ending Dec. 31st, 1891, of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, OF HARTFORD, CONN. SCHEDULE OP ASSETS. ■fib.- Market value of Rexl Estate owned by CuHpaay 7,185,284 70 I.cans on Bonds and Mortgages (first Ileal 88,417,872 87 Loans on Bonds and Stocks marketable collaterals 89,783 80 Premium Notes on Policies in force Ywie 1,889,878 80 Bonds and Stocks owned absolutely, par value #11,271,100 00, cost #11.828,983 61 Market value carried out 12,254,871 84— 12,254,471 84 Cash deposited in Banks to credit of Company 1,158.551 80 Interest due and accrued 944,190 20 Bills receivable 1,645 00 Balanoe due from Agents secured ... 8.299 02 Kents accrued and due ... 7,110 65 Net deferred Premiums 153,896 16 LIABILITIES. 59.738,47 ©a Net present value of Outstanding Policies $55 763,811 00 Total Policy Claims 111.510 35 Dividends declared die and remaining unpaid 533,(74 90 Heath Claims presented In 1992 account of deaths occurring In 1891 less reserve 138,777 00 Amount of all Claims Reasrvs on account of lapse Policies 290,019 00 Premiums paid in advance and surrender values applied in Payment of Premiums 40,280 99- #51,879,324 14 Surplus over Liabilities $6,060,166 81 INCOME DURING 2nd 0 MONTHS OF YEAR 1891. Amount of Cash Premiums received # 2,804,815 96 Interest received 1,445,415 65 Amount of Income received from all other sources, rents 222,036 63 Total Income $4,272,268 44 DISBURSEMENTS DURING 2nd 0 MONTHS OF YEAR 1891. Ixmscs Paid $ 1,629.451 12 Matured Endowments Paid 181,8.30 00 Total riTßto,7ei la Total amount actually paid for Losses and matured Endowments g 1,810,781 12 Surrendered Policies .398,840 35 Dividends (aid to Policy holders 632,941 61 Expenses paid including Commissions to Agents and Officers’ salaries 428.297 44 Taxes paid 88,481 81 All other payments and Expenditures 18,963 86 Total $3,377,796,19 Policies In force Deo. 81, 1891, Insuring $165,043,066 OO Greatest amount insured in any one risk 60,000 OO WTATE OF GEORGIA, County or Fulton. Personally appeared before tbejunderslgned JOHN - B. COOK, (Of Cook A. Brownell) wno, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is (the General Agent of THE CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, and that tho foregoing statement Is correct anl true. JNO. B. COOK. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this TWENTY-SIXTH dsy of FEBRUARY, 1892. W. J. BPEAIRB, Notary Public, Fulton County, Georgia. MAX L. BYCK,- Agent, UNDER PULASKI HOUSE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. MlLl-INERV WOODS. KROUSKOFF’S MILLINERY ESTABLISHMENT. The pride of Savannah, the reputation of which having ceased to be local only, but is national, and its well earned fame is due to unceasing labor and experience of over thirty years in the Millinery business. The coining Spring Opening will be inaugurated on the most magnificent scale, as no money nor effort on the part of our European agents have been spared to make the coining onening “THE OPENING’’ To be remembered. Certainly not any store in the entire south will show anything to compare, and many novelties ntroduced here will not be found in New York even. The most exquisite novelties from Parisian and London’s most celebrated artists in Flowers, Ribbons and Pattern Hats, and many things that delight Ladies of taste and refinement. We are busy opening goods daily, manyf direct from Custom House, New York. We have also made arrange ments with distinguished artists to receive weekly such models in Pattern Hats as are most attractive, in a few days we shall announce Our Opening Day for the Spring Fair in Millinery 1892. S. KROUSKOFF. WHISKY. SOLOMON’S ANSWER To tbe many inquiries of numerous friends and patrons out of tbe city. We are in full blast again with everything fresh and new. We are receiving large quantities of GEORGIA BELLE aud MOTHER HHIPTON FLOURS. One hundred varieties of the celebrated JE CRACKERS, them are the best that are made; we are receiving other makes wtiioh we sell at very low prices. We have also CANDIES in all styles and qualities Coffees, Teas, Cigars and Soaps, ALSO Old-Fashioned Bye and Knickerbocker Rye Whiskies in Cases. Wo have from the reserved stocks of the best distillers of whom wo have drawn supplies of liquors for many years. WHISKIES, GINS, RUMS and BRANDIES in bulk; of the-e wo have a very large and complete assortment at lowest prices. ’ SEND YOUR ORDERS ALONG, OUR GOODS ARE AL WAYS RELIABLE AND AT BOTTOM FIGURES. HENRY SOLOMON & SON, TRUNKS ANI) RACHELS. Sign af'lbt Gulin Mil Cwgmi $ CTP VTV O a ONE or THE MOST ELEOANTL AP TI .1 1/7 . /*r/\ POINTED HOTELS IN THE WORLD AC -11 \Vj> \J\£y G/wlLj* commodations for soo quests. v ■ . ' Special rates tor families and parties remaia , C% | s* Inn week or longer ••••# at/ft HMa It (to Tourists will find Savannah one of the most a # vtIsIIIIHIIA , \As| slnteresting and beautiful oities in the entire ’ , Cy v *' % * / V. South. No plaoe more healthy or desirable as a A FoWCR/S" winter resort. Send for DESCRIPTIVE ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET. 5