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THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE, CLAYTON, GEORGIA. A TVT Jl G&Tc* HANTOMS of the deep— Btrange shapes that come In the darkness on mis sions of terror and death —these are among the visions that haunt the bruin of every old sailor man. It Is when the few remaining sailing vessels come Into port from their long voyages that these 'tales are usually forthcoming. The bark Annie M. Reid of New York is 'the last vessel to bring in a tale of mystery. "We were standing by the mizzeu topsail halliards when the ^hackle broke and the yardB crashed down," said tho sailor who told the story. “Wo came up Into the wind and hove to, and It was at that moment that we saw the strango trader—at least we thought it was a trader, prob ably to the Western islands, off which we were. We signaled for help, for we did not know how we were coming out of the squall. The strange steam ship—a tramp wo took her to bn— was not more thun an eighth of a mile away, but she made no reply whatever and kept right on her course. If there had been anybody alive on the tramp he certninly would have seen us, as there was no fog to interfere. There are only two things to think of, either every soul on board was dead or we had seen one of those phantom ships they tell about. It couldn't have been a warning of | ,!atl run down a ship In a fog Farmers’ Educational and Co-Operative Union of America J Matters Especial Moment tc the Progressive Agriculturist SAVE MUCH BY CO-OPERATION First Great Result Among Europeans Is Ownership of Farms by the Farmers Who Till Them. ' rtiffRj; wju> jto oia/f opok thj? PKKKTarr obip The death, however, for we came out of it all right.” A ship that sails by in tho moon light and dooB not answer when spok en, nor show any light or sign of life on board, is an even stranger appari tion of the deep than those many phantom vessels which have loomed upon the<s!ght of sailor men from out the fog or darlcnesB. The crew of the Henglst, out of Liverpool, Captain Thearston of Liverpool in command, once saw such a specter. Capt. .1. C. Norton, who was first officer of the bark Henglst. when the phantom ship passed her by, tells the story of the weird vision: “It was In the Indian ocean that we saw her—the strange ship that I have never forgotten,” said Captain Norton. "We were out of Calcutta, bound for New York, and although there was a haze the moon shone and- the haze was so light that we could see perfectly well across the water. The haze was lust enough to make a nice, pretty silvery voll that made everything look sort of mysterious and interesting without closing us In at all. "There were no lights on the vessel and we couldn’t see a soul on board. We spoke to her, but she didn’t an swer. She passed right under our stern about a biscuit’s toss away, and we thought she was going to foul us. She was so near that we could feel tho wind of her sails as she passed, but not. a sign did she make to all our signaling—Just sailed away into the hazy moonlight. Next day we had a terrible gale, one of tho worst that I remember while I was at sea, and everybody thought the phantom ship had come to glvo warning. Way we should have been favored I don’t ship had gone down with all on board beforo anything could be done to save them, and this man had seen the last of her crew leaning over the side and cursing at him horribly, just befora he was Bucked into the water. “ ’He promised to find me out and to do for me wherever I should go.’ said the shuddering wretch, ‘and he’ll do It, too. 1 look for him every night and I know he’ll get me before long.’ "I warned him to keep quiet about his fears and not mention his story to Captain Stebbins nor to any of the crew, for as luck would have it, with such a captain, we had on board about as superstitious a lot as I have ever seen. Italians most of them, and so bound to tell their stories of appari tions that the captain had already caught one of them at it and had him flogged as an example to the others. “My man didn’t look any more con tented as tho days passed and l caught him more than once whisper ing with some of the Italians. I asked him what they wore talking about and at first he mumbled that It was noth ing, but at last he admitted that the sailors had several of them seen strange sights during the night watch. They all decided that again and again they, had seen a figoro with wildly waving arms appear from tho dark noES. The man was always cursing horribly, but he was gone in a second and they could not tell exactly what ho said. "I tried to comfort Gould with tho idea that since the man hud not ap peared to him there was no reason that he should regard the apparition as that of the man he had run down, but he would not let this ease his mind In the slightest. It was just the night after our conversation when know; but, of course, there is always , he was on watch that tho climax of a reason why those ships are seen by | the thing came. one vessel and not by others. „Somo- j “i heard a terrific scream from the times they mean harm for everybody j bridge, and so did everybody else on on board, and sometimes they come j board. I was the first up there, but simply to give a friendly warning. | the poor fellow, who was whiter than Thero was one man on board who 1 an y human being I have ever seen, believed that our phantom ship came | could not tell me what had happened to warn us of the gale because her before Captain Stebbins had run up captain had been a friend of our own | on jbe bridge and was shaking him, captain, and when his ship went down ! declaring that he had a relapse of the with all on board he continued to ! f eV er, which we all knew he had suf- haunt the sea. Naturally, as he felt j fered after homing off the voyage friendly, he would show himself or | W hen he had run down a vessel. his ship before a storm. I can’t say I believed all that myself. All that I know was that the phantom ship did come Just as I’ve described It” One of the most thrilling tales of the fateful appearance of phantom ships Is told by a retired first mate, who In his youth sailed under Capt. John Stebbins on the steel tramp Ma rietta, bound from Madeira to Brazil. “Captain Stebbins was a bluff, di rect, matter-of-fact person," said the mate, “and he had little tolerance for what he declared was merely super stition, so the crew were not apt to speak over loud of their supernatural experiences. That they had them, however, was sure enough, and as I was a bit more approachable than most men In my position, they wero very wont to tell their stories to me. "There was one fellow among them named Gould, whom I could not help watching because of the strained and almost hunted look on his face. I made friends with him on purpose to get at the reason for his queer look and one day when I caught him white and shuddering on the forward deck I got It out of him. “It seemed that a couple of years before he had been on the'bridge bf a passenger vessel running between Kingston and New York when they “The fellow had been too much startled, however, this timo to be managed even by Captain Stebbins. " ’I did see him,’ he declared, ’and ho was cursing and waving his arms at me just as he did when he went down. The ship came up just like It did before out of the fog. There it was all of a sudden a great gray thing, and there was ho waving his arms and screaming curses at me. And then we kept right on, running straight through the ship.’ “That was all of It, and so far ns I know he never saw the apparition again and he had no more hard’times than fall to the lot of most sailors. Hut here was the remarkable part of the thing. If he had been the only one to know that anything strange had happened, then you might think It Just the figment of a brain over wrought with fever. But It wasn’t only his scream that brought captain and crew running to his side. Just at the time when he saw the phantom ship and as our own vessel went through it, every man on board felt a peculiar sensation. It was some thing like an earthquake and some thing like the shock that might come from running a vessel down.” It was on board the Marlenne Not- tebohni, a freighter sailing between New York and Liverpool, that a spec ter appeared with such persistency that for a long time, until the vision vanished forever, no member of the crew ever consented to make a speond voyage. The Nottebohm was one of the old Liverpool packet ships, which carried steerage passengers as well as freight. During one of her pre vious voyages the captain and several of her crew had had a terrific strug gle, in the course of which the cap tain had been so injured that ho had died as a result of his wounds. No matter what the skeptical might say, crew after crew which shipped on the Marianne Nottebohm after this trag edy left the vessel at the end of the voyage swearing that every night a spectral figure appeared from the pilot house and wandered over the vessel, seeking everywhere apparent ly for something or somebody. There was a terrific storm one night and the apparition was for once In a way pretty well forgotten In the more pressing perils of tho moment. The night was very black and no one felt any too secure as they slipped on through the darkness. Suddenly they felt the ship come about so Bwiflly that they knew something strange must have happened. "Unusual as It . was,” said Capt. F. C. Norton, who tells the story, "we could not'stop to find out about it that night, for every man was too hot on his own part of the work to pay much attention to any other's. "After everything was all over and we could take time to talk about it the next day the helmsman told us that a spectral figure he had at first thought to be the captain had stood beside him, showing him how to lay his course. It was not until the helmsman had handled a charm his daughter had given him that he dis covered his visitor was a spirit. Tho power of the wraith waB broken at that and the helmsman put about just in time to avoid an uncharted reef tho spectre had evidently been guid ing him onto. "But tho Swede and Ills Italian mate must have seen something of the vision that night, also, for in the morning they looked like dying men and they could not be persuaded to ship again for the next voyage. Aft erward we heard that they had been members of the crew which attacked the former captain of the Marianne. No doubt the murdered captain came back looking for some of hla old as sailants and when he found them sought to drive the vessel on the reef.” A can of paint will, like charity, cover up a multitude of defects. Driving a horse with a sore shoulder is a mighty poor advertisement. Except, as a topic of neighborhood gossip the lazy man is of mighty little use. Every rural family ought to have a lively interest in the state and county fairs. The exercise Involved in keeping up a corn cob fire would cut a lot of wood. If your work creates callouses on your heart instead of on your hands, you had better get another job. A'hair-lip man trying to hold a tele phone conversation with one who Is hard of hearing is likely to prove a waste of time. Organize a reading or study circle. Take up some interesting subject for study. This will bo pleasant way to spend winter evenings. Don’t bring your dogs to town. It Is mighty embarrassing to have them sticking around in front of the saloon where you may happen to be. Of course the world owes you a liv ing. But you must not try to have some one else collect it for you on commission. That’s your business. As the season’s work wanes and the evenings grow long the farmer has time to think of markets, plans for selling produce and the advantages of co-operation. If you cannot have every worker on the farm on your pay roll and in addi tion receive a reasonable return on the money you have invested, your farm ing is not successful. The wife seated on a chair in the back of the wagon while the husband in company with the hired man, occu pies the spring seat in front, is one of the reasons why woman suffrage had to come. CHECKING UP ON MIDDLEMAN Idaho Potato Farmer Puts Into Oper ation Unique Scheme and Meets With Astounding Results. Cecil Rhodes’s Eggs. Cecil Rhodes used to take a coop of hens on board to provide fresh eggs on his numerous voyages between England and South Africa. But those were three weeks’ Journeys, and not a mere five-day crossing of the Atlan tic. Hence another prominent South African personage was asked why he did not follow Rhodes’s example and provide himself with the luxury of newlatd eggs at sea. “Oh, I don’t bother to take a coop of fowls on board.” he replied, "but I tip the hos’un who lookk after Rhodes’s hens, and I get Rhodes’s eggs.” In order to determine just how bad ly he was being robbed and at the same time show the consumer how ho was being held up, L. L. Young, a rancher residing near Nampa, Idaho, put into operation a unique scheme iizj-', brought astounding results from tlie potatoes he raised and sold. Young Is an extensive potato rais er. After he had harvested his Mur phy crop last fall and while sacking the potatoes he placed a note in the bottom of each sack asking the con sumer to be kind enough to write him what price he paid for the spuds. The potatoes were later sold by Mr. Young, who received for them 65 cents a sack, a net profit of 38 cents a sack. Some time later letters began to pour into Mr. Young from all parts of tho United States. The consumers had lound the notes. The several (By B. H. HIBBARD, University of Wis consin.) In Germany there are 26,000 farm ers’ societies of one kind and another, in France more and in other coun tries proportionately many These societies are so numerous that the great majority of farmers are within reach of their influence, and wher ever co-operation lias gone prosperity follows, not perhaps conspicuous prosperity and the creation of a wealthy class of farmers, but a mod est, persistent prosperity. The pur chase of feeds and fertilizers is in bulk for all the farmers nf a group, and there Is little or j^o charge by the member acting as agent except for necessary expenses. This means that 5, 10 or 25 per cent, is saved, and with the French or German farmer this margin means the difference between profit and loss. Farming in Europe is not a remunerative busineas, for it is done on a narrow margin, and were 30, 10 and 50 per cent, of the prices paid on the market for farmers produce taken up in commissions and profits of merchants, as is usually done in America, European farmers would become bankrupt. Co-operation has made possible the selling of waste land, drainage of swamps, purchase of machinery, pressing of grapes, dis tilling of potatoes and selling of grain and butter. In short co-opera tion has become the agency through which the great share of business transactions of farms is conducted. The first great result of the savin? through co-operation is the ownership of the farms by the farmers who till them. In Denmark the outlook for farm ownership by the cultivators of the soil was dubious until the advent of the co-operative bacon factory, creamery and egg selling company. Now 90 per cent, of the farms are farmed by their owners. In Germany there was every evidence that farms were on the point of passing into the hands of a landlord class when co operation saved tho day, and seven out of every eight farms are operated by the men who own them. It is the same in other countries whore co-op- eratlon has developed. Not only have the farmers been able to hold the possession of their farms, but by banding themselves to gether they have developed a com munity spirit which enables them to see that what helps one helpk the rest and that what hurts one hurts them all. Competition with the cheap lands of America, and especially with the soil robber methods of America, has made It hard for the European farmer to live, but co-operation has made up for a large part, of the disad vantage. Tape’s Diapepsin” settles sour, gassy stomachs in five minutes—Time It! You don’t want a slow remedy when your stomach is bad—or an uncertain one—or a harmful one—your stomach Is too valuable; you mustn't injure it Pape's Diapepsin i3 noted for its speed In giving relief; Its harmleua- nesB; its certain unfailing action In v regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs. Its millions of cures in Indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis und other stomach trouble has made It famous the world over. Keep this perfect stomach doctor In your home—keep It handy—get a large flfty-cent case from any dealer and then if anyone should eat something which doesn't agree with them; If what they eat lays like lead, ferments and sours and forma gas; causes head ache, dizziness and nausea; eructa tions of acid and undigested food— remember as soon as Pape's Diapepsin comes In contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. Its prompt ness, certainty and ease in overcoming tho worst stomach disorders Is a reve lation to those who try It.—Adv. SPELLING STUCK THE J'JRY Point of Information They Wanted In volved No Great Legal Knowl edge, If Judge Had It. Here Is one that was told at a tea given by Miss Geraldine Farrnr, the singer, when one of the party re ferred to tho Judiciary and the pe culiar cases that frequently come be fore the courts;. “Some time ago there was a homi cide case in a western court in which there was considerable doubt aB to the guilt of the accused. Tho trial judge seemed to share the popular be lief. ‘“Gentlemen of tho Jury,' said he. in concluding his charge, ‘if tho evi dence, in your minds, shows that pneumonia was the causo of the man’s death, you cannot convict the prison er.’ “Whereat tho jury retired and in about ten minutes the constable re turned and presented himself beforo the judge. '“Your honor,' he remarked, ’the gentlemen of the jury want some In formation.’ 'On what point of evidence?’ asked the judge. “ ‘None, judge,’ was the rejoinder of the constable. ‘They want to know how to spell "pneumonia. —Phil adelphia Telegraph. GERMAN CO-OPERATIVE BANI& Teaches Farmers of United States to Get Together, Bury Jealousies and Develop Confidence. Why lias the number of co-operative banks in Germany increased tenfold in 20 years, with corresponding growth in other forms of co-operation? Why is their growth greater from year to year? Because it pays the farmers and others who thus co-oper- ate—pays la saving money and In making profits, pays by encouraging thrift, and pays yet more by bringing hundred replies received stated that j tJje farnu , rs together and holding the consumers had paid prices rang- j them togot ) ier Ray8 Herbert Myrlck, ing from $1.50 to $2.50 a sack for the , e( j|t or 0 f the Farm and Home. The apuds. j fl rs t lesson from it all to our farmers Mr. Young said he expected the mid j , n th0 Unlted states is this: Get to- dleman to make a reasonable profit. j gether! Get better acquainted, know but that he, as grower, was receiving j and understand each other better, such a smnll fruction of the ultimate j l)Ury SUS pj c lous and jealousies, devol- selling price demanded of the buyer , Qp mutua i confidence, cultivate char- as astounded him. j ty Q f views and unity of action, be The revelation has spread among J W f]jj n g to trust rapablo men to man- Idaho growers, many of whom are j agft your co-operative undertakings confident now thnt sales direct to the , ftn(1 i,>y a lly back them up. Jhls is consumers would be more profitable j on j y go u d basis upon which to all around. I build co-operation. It is easier to form PARIS MARKET SYSTEM BEST | ^erica. becaus^o^r'there thcTfarm" era mostly live in houses huddled Into Ten Buildings, Covering Twenty-Two j dorf8i or little villages, and know each Acres, All Under One Roof—Po lice Exercise Supervision Had Right to Select Place. "Bobby, my son,” exclaimed the dis mayed mother as she saw all her boy’s belongings stacked in a corner of the closet, "haven’t I tried over and over to teach you that you should have a place for everything?" "Yes, mother,” said the boy cheerfully, “and this Is the place." GLOW WORMS ANESTHETICS Before he begins to feast the glow [ long, dry stalks by the roadside, re- worm administers an anesthetic nmtnlng there motionless. In profound writes Henri Fabre in the Century, meditation, throughout the scorching He chloroforms his victim, rivaling summer days. It is In some such rest- in the process the wonders of modern ! ing place as this that I have often surgery, which render the patient in- been privileged to light upon the sensible before the surgeon operates , lampyris banqueting on the prey on him. The usual game Is a small j which he had Just paralyzed on Its serves. He frequents the edges of the Irrigating ditches, with their cool soil, their varied vegetation, a favorite haunt of the mollusk. Here he treats the game on the ground and, under these conditions. It is easy for me to rear him at home and to follow the operator’s performance down to the smallest detail. _ ... . Or You May Go Hungry. snail, hardly the size of a cherry, shaky support by his surgical artl-: Don't trust the fellow who wants to which In hot weather collects In flees. | borrow money for breakfust with the clusters on the -stiff stubble and other j But he Is familiar with other pre-1 promise of taking you out to dinner. “Paris has one of the best market systems in the world,” said Henry T. French of St. Louis, Mo., to a Balti more American reporter the other day. "It is also one of the most ex tensive in the world. There is a great central market in Paris, which consists of ten buildings, covering 22 acres, all under one roof. There is other more intimately than here, where each farmer lives on his own homestead as lord of his domain. Kept His Secret Well. One of tho most successful disap pearances on record was that of Wil liam Howe. Howe was a successful tralesman In Jcrwyn street, London, and one morning in 1706 he left Ills wife, telling her that he had business in the city. He never came hack, and all efforts to trace him failed. After some years his death was presumed, and an act of parliament was spe cially passed to enable Mrs. Howe to administer her husband's estate. Then, o/io evening in 1723, tho "widow" re ceived a letter from an anonymous correspondent, requesting an inter view tho following day In Birdcage walk. Mtb. Howe duly kept tho ap pointment—and discovered her huH- band. He had been living In dlsguiso In the same neighborhood all the time, he explained, and keeping a cloBe eyo upon the movements of his wife. It Is said that the reunited couple lived happily ever afterward. Take a close look at the people you meet every day and rejoice that you were not born a cannibal. High minded people do not have to become airship chauffeurs in order to prove it. SKIN CLEARED. By Simple Change in Food. Keep the Udder Clean. A calf objects In a hurry to taking its dinner from a soiled udder. Is it reasonable to suppose that the condi tions are better from supplying the proper food for man? If tho cattle are on pasture, little grooming save . . , . | this finishing touch will be needed, a wholesale and retail market, and be- j ^ >n abundance of bed sides. a number of retail markets , not only a lu xury both to the scattered throughout the citj. The] s . .... ..... _.m „„ , . . nniipp I stock and their owner, but It will re- uiarkets are to charge of the police , the conB ervation of fertility. department. The stalls are in charge j _ of what are called mandatieres agents, appointed by the police. They have no Interest in uny agricultural production. The commissions run from 1V6 per cent, to 10 per cent. The mandatieres, or agents, must pay the railroad transportation and the trans portation to the market and certain market, charges. These are deducted from the total amount received on the sale of each producer’s shipment, and at the end of the day a record of the transaction of each agent is sent to tho deputy commissioner of police. The amount due the shipper, after de ducting the above charges, must be sent to him each day unless the agent has a private arrangement, which is permitted, for sending money forward weekly or monthly.” Bedding Helps. Plenty of bedding helps the quantity of manure and certainly makes the horse look better. Calf Disorders. Bowel trouble In calves is some- tildes caused by milk that is excess ively rich. Milk that is moderate or low In butter fat is usually better for young calves. Indigestion in older calves is usual ly due to unclean milk or feed, un clean vessels, close confinement In dark, insanitary stalls and irregular or excessive feeding. In some cases It appears to be due mainly to sheer weakness and Inability to digest. Cure for Heaves. A level teaspoonful of pulverized borax put In the feed of the horse once or twice a week will, according to Mr. A. L. Tamblln, enre the heaves. It will stop tho cough right away, and in six months you couldn’t tell the horse ever had the heaves. Bur dock leaves are also good for horsea and they like them. It has been said by a physician that most diseases are the result of indi gestion. \ There’s undoubtedly much truth In tho statement, even to the cause of many unsightly eruptions, which many suppose can be removed by applying some remedy on the outside. By changing her food a Kan. girl was relieved of an eczema which wa» a great annoyance to her. She writes: “For five months I was suffering with an eruption on my face and hands which our doctor called eczema and which caused me a great deal of Inconvenience. The suffering was al most unbearable. "The medicine I took only gave me temporary relief. One day I happened to read somewhere that eczema was caused by indigestion. Then I read that many persons had been relieved of indigestion by eating Grape-Nuts. “I decided to try 1L I liked tho taste of the food and was particularly f pleased to notice that my digestion was improving und that the eruption was disappearing as if by magic. 1 had at last found, in this great food, something that reached my trouble. "When I find a victim of this afflic tion I remember my own former suf* ferlng and advise,a trial of Grape-Nut food instead of medicines.” Name given by Postum Co., Ba*ltle Creek, Mich. Read "Tho Road toWell- vlUe,” In pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read (be above letterf A Be one appear* from time to time. Th« are iceuulne, true, and full of tau Intercut.