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If you know Malaria, you certainly don’t
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* THE EIP.NED1
CHECK <*- I
Lillian Action La 1 the most vague
idea abo#T eheek.% It seemed to
her that if a book was tilled with
unused cheeks one’s bank account
therefore was tunimiled.
Now, there are two things for a
man to do when he finds himself in
such a situation as Tom Axton
found himself. One of the things
is wise and one of the things is
foolish. If he is a foolish man, he
will endeavor to teacli his wife how
to keep accounts. If he is a wise
man, he will simply make up his
mind to earn more money and let
the accounts go. So Tom Axton,
being wise, bothered his wife very
little about accounts, hut settled the
bills when they came in as well as
he was able and bent his energies
toward the accumulating of a good
and reliable balance at the bank.
'And so tilings went on very com¬
fortably and pleasantly until win¬
ter set in.
One night when Tom came home
Mrs. Axton, who was a most trans¬
parent kind of woman, began a
conversation on the subject of seal¬
skin jackets. She said that they
were the most economical gar¬
ments; that a woman with a seal¬
skin coat was always well dressed;
that the apparent costliness of the
garment was a delusion; that a wo¬
man who had bestowed upon her a
sealskin sack at the beginning of a
hard winter had little else to ask
for until the spring.
Tom listened gravely and finally
said:
“There is nothing personal in all
this talk, is there ?”
Lillian averred that there was not
and indignantly repudiated the in¬
sinuation that she was thinking
about herself at all. She was mere¬
ly interested in the subject in a gen¬
eral way. And Tom said quietly:
“Lillian, my dear, what is the
rice of the particular garment you
ave been looking at?”
At this point in the conversation
she came over and sat upon his
knee, and at last Tom received the
information that a perfectly lovely
sealskin coat could be had for $200
which was worth at the very lowest
figure $300.
“In that case,” said Tom, “it is
rather a pity not to buy it,” and
she admitted with some reluctance
that it was a shame to let such a
chance go by.
Tom did some figuring and found
that a check for $200 would be hon¬
ored at his bank and leave still a
little credit remaining.
Ilis overcoat was on next morn¬
ing, and he was just about to de¬
part for his office when he opened
the drawer of the table in his room,
took out his checkbook and wrote a
check to the^ order of his wife for
$200.
Mrs. Lillian was overjoyed, but
Tom wn<* away before she could
thank him. She looked at the check
with the ink still wet upon it, waved
it for a moment in the air to dry it
and then held it lightly with its
face toward the open fire that was
blazing on the hearth. How it hap¬
pened she never knew, but the check
gave a little curl at the corner and
bur-t into a flame in her hand. She
dropped it, tried to snatch it again,
but the charred remnants escaped
up the chimney.
Mrs. Lillian’s faes became as
white as the ashes on the hearth,
and she sank into the armchair be¬
side the fire, covering her face with
her hands.
Tom Axton was a somewhat stol¬
id, quiet, industrious, unsuspicious
man. He frequently thought his
wife a trifle frivolous; but, on the
whole, he rather liked it.
When he came home that night,
the door was opened to him by the
servant girl instead of bv his wife,
which was unusual. There was
panic in her face.
“Oh, sir,” she 6aid, “have you
seen the missis V 9
“The missis?” said Tom. “No.
Isn’t she here?”
“No, sir,” said the girl, looking
as if she were going to cry. “After
you left this morning, sir, she took
on awful, and then she went away.
I thought perhaps she had gone to
you, sir.”
Tom stood in the hallway with¬
out removing his coat, thunder¬
struck. Through his unsuspicious
mind flashed the circumstances of
the case—the check for $200, the
“taking on” and the departure.
Toni threw himself down, with
his overcoat still on, in the arm¬
chair by the fire and tried to think
over the situation. The absolute
uselessness of starting out in the
night and trying to find her was the
first thing that impressed itself
upon him. He shrank from giving
notice to the police. The ticket
seller at the railroad station knew
his wife and would perhaps remem¬
ber if rhe bought a ticket for any
place. The first thing evidently to
do was to find out if she left the
suburb and, if possible, where she
had gone to.
Once more he called up the serv¬
ant girl.
“Did—did Mrs. Axton leave the
house alone ?” lie asked, with some
hesitation.
“I think so,” said the girl, “but I
don’t know. I heard the front door
close, and awhile after I found that
she was gone, and when she did not
come back to lunch I did not know
what to do.”
“Oh, it is all right,” said Tom,
with a confidence he himself was
far from feeling. “I think I know
where she has gone. A friend of
hers is ill. She has very likely been
detained. I will go and bring her
home.”
And so, putting on his hat, he
resolved to go down and see the
man at the railroad station. When
he closed the front door behind
him and went down the steps to¬
ward the gate, he saw in the dark¬
ness the figure of a woman who
seemed to have been loitering there
and who now hurried away.
As he came out into the street
something of her evident desire not
to be seen convinced him that the
retreating wife. figure was that of his
He followed quickly, and as
soon as she noticed this she broke
into a run.
Now, Tom realized that it was a
risky thing to run after and over¬
take a flying woman, especially if
she turned out not to be the person
of whom he was in search. But
Tom was desperate, and he took the
risk.
Seeing that she could not get
away, she stopped at a lamppost,
leaning against it, and as he came
up to her he heard the shuddering
cry:
“Oh, Tom!”
“Lillian,” he said hoarsely, grasp*
ing her wrist, “what is the mean¬
ing of this ? Have you gone crazy?”
She leaned against the lamppost
and wept.
“Come,” he said briefly, and with¬
out resistance she accompanied him
in silence, broken only by her sobs,
l^ack to the house.
The girl let them in and at once
surmised by the grief of her mis¬
tress that the friend who was ill
had died.
Tom led his wife into their sit¬
ting room, and there she sank into
a chair, covering her face with her
hands. She saw by his stern de¬
meanor that ha suspected her guilt.
He closed the door, then, stand¬
ing before her, said sternly:
“Lillian, I want an explanation.”
“Oh, Tom, Tom,” she said pit¬
eously, “don’t look at me like that
or I shall never be able to tell you
the truth.”
“You must tell me the truth, no
matter how I look.”
“That check—that check,” she
moaned.
“Well, what about it? What has
the check to do with your going
away ?”
“The check,” 6he murmured, “is
gone.”
“Who has it? Did you cash it,
and have you lost the money?”
“I have lost the money,” she said,
“but 1 did not cash the check. It
was burned.”
“Burned! Who burned it?”
“Oh, I did it by accident. I was
drying the ink before the fire, and
somehow it causrht, and I had not
presence of mind enough to save
it.”
“But what has all that to do
with your running away ?”
She looked up at him in sur¬
prise. __
“It has everything to do with it,”
she said. “I could not face you aft-
er losing $200.”
“Good gracious, Lillian,” he cried,
a light breaking in upon him, “you
surelv don’t imagine you have lost
anything by the burning of the
check ?”
“Was it not for $200 ?” she asked
in surprise.
Tom’s overstrained feelings gave
way. lie sat down on the chair and
laughed.
“Lillian,” he said at last, “is that
all ?”
“All!” she cried, astonished at
his behavior. “Is that not enough
when we have so little money?”
“\Tv rlpar ‘ frirl ” he cai<l ririncr
and kissing . .^ Her, tne c p seek is out +
a piece 01 puper. It i> not like a
banknote. 1 he burning of a check
is nothing. It only puts me to tlie
trouble of writing another. Igno-
ranee may be bliss, but it has given
me a very bad half an hour.”
“Dear me,” said the little woman,
looking at him with wide eyes,
“what in the world did you sus¬
pect ?”
“Nothing,” said Tom.
A Clever Reply.
Here’s a late story anent Chris¬
tian Science: A Boston mother said
to her little daughter, “If you had
my faith, darling, you would have
no toothache.”
The child replied, “Well, mother,
if you had my toothache, you would
not have anr faith.”—Boston Her¬
ald.
8EVENTH LETTER ON AGRICUL¬
TURAL CHEMISTRY.
Continuing the Lettsrs of State Chem¬
ist to Georgia Farmers on Agricul-
tureal Chemistry—Description of
Fertilizer Materials
Continued.
Cotton seed meal, blood, tankage,
etc., which I have destribed to you
In the last letter, are known as “or¬
ganic” sources ol ammonia, or rather
of nitrogen. Habit is so strong, you
see, it is hard to get rid of the use
of that word ammonia. Nitrogen is
much the better term for our use. Be¬
sides the organic sources of nitrogen
we also have what are known as the
“inorganic sources. I have explained
in a previous letter fully the meaning
of these two terms, but lest you may
have forgotten, I will stop a moment
to say that an organic substance may
be either vegetable or animal, thus a
leaf, a seed, piece of meat or of skin
are organic substances. An inorganic
substance is the opposite of those,-
and is mineral in its nature, a piece
of rock or of Iron is inorganic. The
diief inorganic source of nitrogen,
then, is nitrate of soda, also commonly
called “Chili Saltpetre;” saltpetre be¬
cause it has many of the properties of
real saltpetre, which is nitrate of pot¬
ash and Chili because it is imported
from Chili in South America.
Nitrate of potash or true. saltpetre
ie a very valuable fertilizing compound,
yielding both nitrogen and potash to
tfie plant, but it is much too expensive
to buy in this form; it is, therefore,
better, or, rather, cheaper to buy ni¬
trate of soda and muriate of potash
separately, and then mix them to¬
gether, when we will accomplish prac¬
tically the same results from a fertil¬
izing standpoint, and for a smaller out¬
lay of money, than if we bought the
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same elements in form of nitrate c>
potash. Nitrate of soda is such an
important salt for fertilizer purposes
that I will go into some littled etail
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iiuiii f AAthA me w7Ae!TcoaL w cufioi ofcwii ox L,nill. TT* it ex*
tends in a narrow strip of land run¬
ning north and south for about 2f>0
miles, at an average distance of about.
14 miles from the ocean. The country
where it is found is a desert, it. never
rains there and the whole region Is
bare of vegetation and destitute of
water. The nitrate rock is call “ca¬
liche” (pronounced Ca-lee-chay) and
best quality has the following cora-
i>0 ^ !t ' on -
Sodium nitrate. 50 per cent, sodium
chlori de 26 per cent., sodium sulphate
6 per cent magnes i um achate 3 per
cent, insoluble matter 14 per cent, so-
dium iodate, sodium nitrite, magnesi-
uni chloride, magnesium nitrate, potas*
slum chloride 1 per cent making the
whole,
The average quality of “caliche” con-
tains from 3u to 40 percent of sodium
nitrate, and the poorest quality worked
ranges from IT to 30 per cent sodium
nitrate. The “caliche” occurs from 6
to 10 feet below the surface of the
ground, and the vein or stratum va¬
ries from a foot and a half to twelve
feet in thickness.
The process of extracting and sepa¬
rating the valuable nitrate of soda
from the rest ow the “caliche” is done
by moans of water in which the ni¬
trate of soda disolves. and from which
it is crystallized, A description of
the process would be tedious, Saf¬
fice it to say that a costly plant is re¬
quired for the purpose, and that the
work is so well done that the product
when finished contains about 95 per
cent nitrate of soda, which is equiva¬
lent to 15.U5 per cent of nitrogen, or
19 per cent of an......_____ .Ail enor-
rnous an ? annually increasing amount
is shipped every year. The amount
expoj ted every year to Europe and
America is about one million tons.
Method of Use.
The material lias a great number
of uses besides its use as a fertilizer.
It is in the manufacture of nitrate of
potash, which is needed to make gun¬
powder and fireworks; it is also used
to make nitric acid, is an essential in
the manufacture of sulphuric acid, up¬
on which tae whole superphosphate or
avcid phosphate industry depends, be¬
sides a great many other manufactur¬
ing processes. Its great importance
as a fertilizer depends upon its high
percentage of nitrogen and its com¬
plete solubility in water, thus being
immediately available as plant fool,
the nitrogent in it being already iu
the form of a nitrate, the form in
which plants prefer to take most of
their nitrogen. The nitrate of soda
being readily and freely soluble in
water, is ready for appropriation as
plant food as soon as it is
put into the soil. Hence It
is evident that the best way to use
It Is by application as a top dressing
immediately before or after a rain,
usually in the spring, when the plant
is up and needs a good send-off to de¬
velop growth of stalk and foliage.
Used in this way, the results are very
sure and very striking.
Sulphate of Ammonia.
One other important inorganic
source of nitrogen is the salt known
as sulphate of ammonia. It is pr3-
duced chiefly as a by-product in the
manufacture of Illuminating gas from
coal; the gas coals all contain a small
percentage of nitrogen; when subject,
ed to dry distillation In retorts, the ni¬
trogen is driven off in the form of am¬
monia gas, and is finally absorbed in
sulphuric acid, from which it is crys¬
tallized as sulphate of ammonia. This
product usually contains about 2<5 1 /fe
per cent of nitrogen, when purified,
but if sold unpurified as brown sul¬
phate of ammonia, it may not contain
more than 18 per cent of nitrogen. Sul¬
phate of ammonia is freely soluble in
water, and has this advantage over
nitrate of soda, that it does not leach
out of the soil so readily as nitrate of
soda does, and may therefore be ap¬
plied with other fertilizers in the fall
to fall crops without fear of serious
loss through leaching during the fall
and winter. I have not mentioned all
of the various kinds of nitrogenous
fertilizer materials, but have sketched
nearly all of the commercial fertilizer*
materials the commercial fertilizer*
sold in the State of Georgia are made.
The next great class of fertilizer ma¬
terial we discuss will be the “phos¬
phates.” John M. McCandless.
The Department Agriculture haa
for many months been in correspon-
dence with Mr. Magid on this impor-
taut question and not only haa given
him all possible encouragement, but
will continue to do so. Through the
agency of this department Mr. Magid
was present at the meeting in Naah-
ville of the Agricultural Commission of
the Southern States, and made before
them an earnest plea for seri-culture
in the South J.'
Hon. R. Redding, director of the
Experlment Station, in a recent letter
to Mr. Stevens, says:
“It strikes me that it may be well
for us to take up at thia station
Uae *j)0c la .Silk
lure, and if you. as Commissioner oi
Agriculture, will handle the commer¬
cial end of the proposition, that is:
looking to the supply of mulberry
trees and silk worm eggs, i will attend
to the experimental part. What do
you think of it? * * * I can apply for
100 trees on the terms mentioned in
Mr. McCarthy’s circular, and havi
them ready for operations when they
become large enough.”
Tlle circular of Mr. McCarthy re-
ferre<1 to by Mr. Redding is as fol¬
lows:
Fre e Mulberry Tree# for Silk Growers!
The fiist season’s experience in silk
growing in North Carolina has proved
a most gratifying success, It has
demonstrated that the women and chfl*
dren of the Mate ^ may. by light . and in.
teresting work during six weeks of
early summer, earn, without interfe^
ing seriously with their ordinary du-
ties, at lest $30. Those who can do*
vote more time to the work may earn
much more,
To place silk growing upon a perma¬
nent basis we must increase the out*
put of silk cocoons to a volume which
will attract to the State silk reelera
and weavers, thus creating a home
market for the product of the ailk
worm.
The first and most necessary step
is to increase the available supply of
silk worm food. We must plant mill-
berry trees until each farm suited fof
this kind of work has at least 100
trees. Every farm having dry soil.
lying betwen Goldsboro and States¬
ville or Asheville, can successfully
grow silk.
in order to encourage the planting
of the mulberry, the State Department
of Agriculture will distribute among
the farmers of North Carolina in lot*
of 50 and 100 rooted seedling trees of
the varieties best suited for feeding
the silk worm. Not more than 100
will be sent to one person. Those
who want more will be supplied at cost
prices. We do not recommend the
planting of more than 100 trees by any
farmer. Recipients of trees will ba
required to pay postage or expressags
at the rate of 1 cent per tree. This
must be enclosed with application.
Trees will be delivered during No¬
vember, which is the best month for
planting in this State. Full direc¬
tions for planting and caring for the
trees will be sent to each applicant.
Silk growing will prove a valuable
nature study, and a remunerative art
in schools, and is well worth the at¬
tention of all who have supervision
over educational institutions. It is
also well adapted for charitable instfc
tutions. Public institutions which
wish to experiment with silk grow¬
ing, will be supplied with trees at a
nominal price.
Applications will be filled in the or¬
der of reception. Address. General
McCarthy, Biologist, N. C. Department
of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C.
In “Georgia Historical and Industri¬
al,” published by this department in
the fall of 1901, is found the following
paragraph (page 347):
“Silk Factories—An industry which
in the last few years has grown rap¬
idly in the United States 1* the manu¬
facture of silk. In 1890 there were
718,360 spindles and 20,822 looms. In
1900 there were 1,426,245 spindles and
48,246 looms. It Is mostly confined to
the Northern States; but Virginia and
North Carolina have entered this field,
each with 30,000 spindles. North
Carolina has also 1,455 looms, and Vir¬
ginia 350.
“Although Georgia was originally In¬
tended to be a silk-producing country,
at this time the State is taking no part
in tnis business. Yet the founder®
of the colony of Georgia thought that
Its chief industry would be the pro¬
duction of raw silk. General Ogle¬
thorpe in speaking of the possibllltie*
of the colony said: ‘It must be a
weak hand indeed, that cannot earn
bread where silk worms and white mul¬
berry trees are so plentiful.’ Perhaps
at some future day Georgia will real¬
ize in this industry the expectations
of us founders.”
The Department of Agriculture of
Georgia heartily indorses every effort
to introduce a new industry into our
State. •
GA. DEPT, of AGRICULTURE.
rectitude or otherwise. These
actions all imply a certain amount
of deliberation. But we fall in love
without the least control over our
direction. If we deliberated, we
wouldn’t fall and wouldn’t be In
love, so we must fall in order to get
We deliberate afterward, when
j s too late.”
Moral.—After the fall comes the
w j n ter of discontent.—New York
A Hard Task.
A Scotch sergeant was drilling a
number of raw militiamen at camp,
but his efforts seemed to meet with
small success. Finally their at-
tempts to dress up in a straight line
so exasperated hint that he address-
ed them in the follow ing strain,
line, “Canna ye eediots? ye stan up ^ ir in^ a’ a oot straicht an’ in
like a bait__ na. Come
