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A Buggy BodylA barege perfectly 3tod evenly, rides easier and looks XL neater, 'when htrtrg with the Thomas Coil Springs. S*psest, most'compact, durable and economical springs ever invented. Have . iw |1 m The THOMAS 111 K COIL SPRINGS ' or "Surrey, and you’ll dowble the "comfort of driving. // WflMEfferiwk? \ Any carriage (milder will furrtteh them, or you can ■/ \ order from us direct. Write for'descriptive circulars. The Buffalo Spring Bfc Gear (?*♦, Buffalo. New York. OF INTEREST TO LADIES, With the greatest pleasure we give'below an article which appeared in the South IlhfSXrated and whiefe to® I doubt will prove of interest to the ladies: ‘tProminentifflor'ong those who cast their fortunes wish the prog r ess awdl development of Atlanta; and wfh© have gained faaae and fortune wish are Dr. W. A. and Me*s. Rosa F. Mormfcfe, M. D. Br. W. A. Mcnnish was born in southern Germany, and comes froKc a family of eminent surgeons and phy sicians. His gaaridfather was a awsted surgeon and physician: an uncle was court physician no the Grand Ofike of Mecklenburg. His father a pram inent government official. Dr. Monnish .graduated at Atlanta Mediaal College after which he aat teiuled the Royal Saxon Hospital for women at Dtesden, Germany, af terwards taking another full c®a?se at’the New York postgraduate Gol lege and Hospital. After returning ifroiEi Germany he associated haraa&Sh with? the Private “Sanitarium for Worn en, established fey Mrs. R. F. Mai> nist, M. D. Has success has boen ■consistent with t s*2 growth of Atlanta, niiEabering.amoag his patients some ■of its best citizens. Mrs. Rosa F. Monnish enjoys the distinction of beirg the first fernafe physician ever graduated and pra&- ’ticing in the south. She graduated ’in ibGSi, afterwards attending a spec ial course in Berlin, Germany, the® taking,a post-grad icate course in New York. She enjoys the reputation <af being; the most skillful female phy sician in the treatment of the diseas es of women, in tike south. She es tablkhed the first private sanitarium for women in Atlanta, in 1884. Her patronage is the best and most *reftned womemin the south. This-sanitarium is-situated in one of tiie .most popular *ad healthy sec* tions of Atlanta, is as- elegant three story etone structure (as shown by cut) fcttediup with all modern conven ience* end is the only institute in the south where ladies exclusively are treated and under the charge of a competent, graduated Germam (Female Physician. This has overcome a great as the moot modest young lladies will not feel the feast hesitancy rto consult with and be treated by one of their Mwn sex, which meets witk the ap proval of suli refined and modest wom en who naturally object to .come in contact' with all classes and sexes ■commonly met with in so-called private infirmaries. Patients remaining in the sanita rium receive separate rooms aadl have the strictest pritiacy combined with pleasant refined surrounding* and) all the comforts of a quiet home. A branch office for the treatment ot diseases of womett, diseases of the skin and nervous system, in charge ot Dr. W. A. Monnish, is located in tfce Chamberlin— Johnson Building cor ner Whitehall and Hunter Sts. Ladies requiring the services oe the above physicians can address or consult them at No. 3 Church St. from 9am, to 6 pm, all their cor respondence and consultation is treated strictly confidental. POQTTIAUG SECURED. Mar deposit moner I VOl I lull u for tultlou In bank Oil position la *v aecured, or will accept notes. Lhe p board. Car fare paid. No racattoo. *™*er anr time. Open for botb sexes. OMUGHOWfi S? jffA Tenn. A Savannah, Oa. u lwi*a, Tax. Texarkana, Tax. Jfc? 1 *>r merchants and bankers. Tbeee monuu bookkeeping with ns equals six. elsewhere. commercial branches taught For circulars explain £• " Home Study Course." address " He pet tine nt A,“ or college catalogue, address “ Drjnrtment a 4 &aad Whiskey Habita cured at home rith- ZXS-JZttK. B.K.WOOLkEY, M.D. 'Me* m K. Mot 8k Test For Farm Hands. An old Illinois farmer whose ex tensive domain lies not far from Chi cago employs, a novel method in selecting men to help him work his farm, says the Chicago Daily News. He sends each applicant out in the field on a 'blazing hot day with the ■order to find a four-leaf clover. The majority'hunt about in a careless vray for five or ten minutes and then >walk back to the barn and say they "toould ut find ;eny.” Then'the shrewd old intimate of Mother Nature remarks, drj%, “I guess ysu needn't hang around here any longer. I don" want anjfoody to ■work tfor me who hasn’t patience ■enough to hunt up a four leaifclover.” Bicyclists, base ball and foot ball ■teams will find Dr. Tichenors Anti -septic the very thing they ‘'need ’ir. their’business” when the raoe is end ed and the game is finished. For Sore muscles, Bruises, Sprains, etc, it is'.©. K., and ‘"don’t you forget it.” Clear, and pleasant as perifume and •costs’Only 50c. When You Write Letters. gentlemanly. Receded 'bad manners are likely to rise iqp -some •tiay<to rebuke you. Think seriously. Hastily written ■words are dangerous, eve® it© the writer himselt. Remember letter files. ‘‘(Burn ’this letter” is an injunction often <iisre garded; and letter files are positively •conscienceless tale bearers. Do not forget that your handwriting ’is a '"eery trustworthy witness against you. If, therefore, you are angr£, bettei inot write at all; tor ane day 1 you vwSl wish you had beers binder, and The exclamation will be a sad •one, ‘'What I have written S ihave written.” Do mot proclaim ysur cowardice, for tooinaany men write in letters in-! •suits they would be afraid to 'Utter in •face to rfia.ee interviews. Insists are cowardly, .but when designedly -given in 'letters-or newspaper articles, they ame pitiably craven.— Ex. HGVVTO LOOK GOOD. Good lodks are really more lihan •skim .deep, .depending entirely on a heaiitifa.y .condition of all the vitaS or gan*. Jif the liver be inactive, you have a bilious,look; if your stomach be disordered, you have a dysjieptic look; if your kidneys be affected, you have a pinched 1 look. Secure good health, and you will surely have good looks. -“iEleotric Bitters” is a good Alterative :and Tonic. Acts directly on the stomach, liver and kidneys. Purifies tbe iblot’d, cures pimples, blotches amd boils, and gives a good complexion. Every -bottle guaranteed Sold at W. A. Wright’s Drug Store. 50c per bottle. No man ever -turns a deaf ear to advice that coincides with his views- Some girl* can sweep into a room with style and grandeur, .but when it comes to sweeping .out a 000m —well, that’s another story. Beauty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, b> stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, Mid that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug gets, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c. .We. The first in true knowledge is to know that we do not know. Adversity is the grindstone on which we lose enough to put an edge of usefulness on our lives. It isn't so much whether a man is guilty as how much he can aftord to pay his lawyers. Better have a good medicine and j not need it than to need it and not have it. See? Then just before you get hurt, buy a bottle of Dr. Tiche nor's Antiseptic. It is a record break er for Wounds, Burns, Bruises, Scalds, etc, lor man and bcust, SOC5 OC- a bottle at all drug stores. FARMERS URGED TO GROW MORE WHEAT COMMISSIONKK M'KVKX* KKCOM- MtCNDj FLAM ING LARGELY OK llll> GRAIN. AS TD SOIL AND PREPARATION Tlmik Has <:’<• Kor Grarglu Soil Til lers lo Maks a Radical Slitff In riirir Operations If They Would I’rospee, Welldirocted diligence and industry lire generally crowned with a suitable return. To carve owe a perfect form, to frame a pure thought, to paint a beau tiful picture is worthy of the highest ambition. To do something, to camse two blades of grass to grow where >one grew before, to act well cur part, to know that we are not drones in the'busy hive is an indescribable satisfaction. The'fboy who lands a single fish t'trap6 his first catch-of birds, after a Icing and wewry day of anxious toil, experiences a keener delight iu the possession than he could possibly feel had the same work been accomplished by other hands. The some is true'of the man who turns the Hallow lands and cultivates the respon sive soil that he may enjqff'hu daily ‘Bread. Believing, there fora, 1 that wheat ■culture in.its broad sense would be an industry of vital interest tc our farmers •at this time, we shall devoso most of the space of our August talk to wheat. The exact origin of wheat may not be known, still we tinay reasonably conclude that wheat was among the fruits of the first garden. When Hiram, king of Tyre, was building the temple Solomon sent him wheat; hence we conrclude that this most esculent grain wws'very early iu our history regarded asvitiost excellent food. The first public le’.tenlssued from the Department of Agriculture, after the present Commissioner .'had been in stalled. was an appeal Ur the farmers of Georgia to sow largely •of wheat and oats. However, it is but.) justice to state that the Macon Telegraph nearly a year ago* took up the wheat and grain ques tion, and offered prixes for the best es says on wheat- growing. These papers •were read at a convention held at Ma con, and called by that griper last Octo ber. The attendance "was small, but • the pa tiers were good. Unusual as it may seem, this daily paper kept up the agitation in favor of'wheat growing, making it u feature of almost every is sue, and a great many farmers were in duced to plant who haiiirnot planted be fore. A special point made, and in sisted on, hud great vnoight, and that was that the negro farmer, who had a wife or daughter in a white •.man’s kitchen, oouid make cotton at 3 cents per pound; while the white farmer could not make it, lor less than 18 cents. Therefore, there was a disas trous competition between the white ■aud black cotton planter, and the for mer was going to the wall on -low iprices, while the latter was improving ihis condition, and continuing to swell ■the receipts at all the port&aud all the markets. The white man must make ;a shift in his farming operations. Iu ■order to make this point come home at iouoe, aud to give a zest to the start, the Maoon Telegraph offered gold prizes for the best yield in wheat, and these prixes were awarded at a second wheat ■growers’ convention, which was held in Macon on July 12 of this year. The lauteff.convention was largely .attended and the report from the wheat fields ■was most gratifying. The honors went to Sfciaulding and Washington .counties in Che.distribution of the prizes. One of the most encouraging signs of the times is the great interest in wheat and grain growing "Which has developed in the state within the last few months. It may be -said, therefore, that thiia work has bees fairly started; but much is yet to be done, and this department will continue to contribute all it can to this splendid movement. A PERFECT VARIETY OF WHEAT. Since the growing wheat plant and ripening grain have ao many enemies to encounter and climatic conditions af fecting the yield of wheat, it is all im portant to select a variety that can beat withstand the many drawbacks inci dent to thia grain. Hence, I will men tion some of the characteristics incident to a good variety of wheat. Get as early a variety as possible, as a few days, (some years.) means much with this crop. Some wheat will fall before it ripens, while the stems of another kind will maintain an erect position until the grain is perfectly ripe. Select a variety with a strong and stiff stem; select the wheat also that will best withstand the extreme cold weather. Other things being equal, get the wheat that haa a thin skin or bran. With these few suggestions, select yonr seed wheat and have it ready to plant in Oc tober. SOIL AND PREPARATION FOE WHEAT. A farmer may sow the beet wheat, and the best varieties, and Ml in hia wheat crop, if he has failed in thorough preparation and continued good man agement of his soil from year to year. One of the chief objects is to keep the vegetable matter and minesai portions lis near eras much on the surface as possible, so that the roots of the plants may sinks ant horsuntehy it stead of striking oat in a more vsrrioai direction. When they spread out horizontally, they form a kind of mat in the soil a few inches deep, which rises aud set tles down bodily when the ground freezes and thaws. Hence the soil may freeze a number of times during the winter and still your grain may not be killed, as the roots are matted together horizontally and the plants are not thrown out of the soil. Ou the other baud, if the vegetable matter aud fer tilizers be mixed with a good depth of soil, tbe roots strike deep, looking for the fertile elements of the soil, and they will be raised and broken by the freezes. Now, if we cau break or turn ■over a few hushes of the top soil, and | then pulverize the soil below this stra tum, keeping the vegetable matter aud fertilizers near the surface, we will see •a remarkable yield in the wheat cr,.p. We can rennewber before the war most •of our wheat was raised on newly cleajed laud. We could not plow it deep, but simply harrow orscratch over the rough new grouud aud put our grain in. Then we had but- littie com plaint of winter killed wheat. Then nature did for us what we must do now. We must, as far as possible, restore the conditions of nature. Then we had for the seed bed of our wheat the rich ashes ■of the burnt logs aud brush harrowed -into the thin stratnm of leaf mould. The wheat might have beau better in •tlfeose days had the hard subsoil under lying the leaf mould been broken up a subsoil plow, without having been turned above the rich mould. ”hen to repeat, keep the soil that is est, or a thin mellow stratum of rich soil, at or near the surface. Subsoil as the conditions may demand. SOIL FOR WHEAT. The question is often *skod, why a certain plot of ground, that yields a good crop of aliuqst everything else, will not produce wheat. And why? Simply because the'rootsof the plants cannot tiud iu that soil the proper ele ments of plant food to produce the wheat graius. In one Roil the little roots find all they need for -the perfect developmentof the kernels of the wheat, while in another soil the roots send ont their numerous little months in search of the nourishment they so much need but never find. It is not in the soil, and it must be supplied or yon will reap in vain. The soil adapted to wheat is a Boil in which the pratLomiaatuig charac teristics are loam and clay, and this is much improved by a large proportion of lime, furnished either by nature or man. Yonr soil must be dry, underdraiaed if necessary, as it is impossible to make a large crop of wheat if there is au excess of water iu the land. Another feature in a good wheat soil is, that it must have an abundant snpgly of nitrogenous matter with sufficient phosphoric acid, potash aud lime. If the soil is lacking in these elements, use plenty of barn yard manure. Do not be afraid to use plenty of it, and concentrate it: It is better to put ten tons on -one acre than to spread it on two; yon will make more wheat per acre aud save more labor. Also apply plenty of wood ashes; this is very important, as these ashes contain phosphoric acid, potash, lime and solu ble silica, all essential elements in the constitution of the wheat plant. Dr. Lee of New York says, “I regard it as a fact of great practical importance, that wood ashes, even leacued ashes, found on nearly every farm, contain all the earthy elements of this invaluable bread bearing plant. ” The organic elements of the wheat form about 1)6 per cent of its snbstance. Mr. Todd tells ns, that water and its constituents, oxygen and hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen, are the four elementary ingredients of all culti vated plants, besides their minerals. These are indispensable, and fortunately nature has provided an amonut of car bon and nitrogen in the air, if not in the soil, more than equal to the wants of vegetation. Mnch of onr lands have been run down by unwise cnltivation and are well nigh exhansted. These lands need nitrogen and available phos phoric acid and potash and particularly .lime. To restore these elements to onr wasted lands, sow cow peas after grain, And tarn them nnuer in the fall, first .‘having broadcasted barnyard manure, .ashes and lime; continue this plan for a , few years, and yonr lands will grow xiicher and richer, and yonr harvest will be larger and larger, and the farmer more independent as he grows older. It is a well established fact, that without nitrogon in some form it is impossible to grow one kernel of good wheat. It has been said by high authority, that a quart of urine from a horse that has been fed on grain contains nitrogen enough to supply a bnshel of wheat. Do we appreciate the money valne Of this animal product? Fill yonr barns, stables and lots with some good absorb ant— such as straw, cornstalks, leaves of the forest, pulverized charcoal, swamp mack, and at the proper time compost them, all the product of the farm, and yon have a most saleable fertilizer for yonr wheat. PROPER DEPTH TO COVER WHEAT. Mr. Tood of New York has experi mented with wheat as follows: Four teen grains of wheat planted 1 inch deep in row No. 1. in row No. 2 14 grains were planted 2 inches deep, the same number of grains were planted 8 inobes deep in the third row, in the fourth row 14 grains were covered 4 inches deep, and so on ntil eight rows were planted, increasing the depth 1 inch in tech row, nntil the eighth row was planted. Sight days after, it was foand that in row No. 1, 12 of the 14 grains bsd come up. In row No. 2 there were seven. In No. 3 there were eight. In No. 4 there were five. Iu No. 5 there were three. In No. 6 there were only two. Those grains planted 7 and 8 inches deep re spectively did not come up at all, aud upon examination it* was fouud that only four sickly sprouts were attempt ! ing to reach the surface. What became of the other grains seem to have been a mystery. From this experiment, we conclude that seed wheat must not be planted too deep; suggesting the fallacy of “plowing in,” as much of the seed will be buried so deep that the stems can never reach the surface of the ground. We. therefore, suggest that it is better to harrow your wheat aud fer tilizers iu from 1 to 8 inches deep, ac cording to the character of the soil, re ' membering that a thinner covering is required iu close, heavy land than in one light or sandy. A still better plan, when practicable, is to use the wheat drill after the land has been thoroughly plowed, fertilized, harrowed, raked, pulverized and thon rolled. This will leave your land in excellent condition for the propagation and growth of the wheat plant, as well as a smooth sur face, so important for the future harvest. FORMULAS FOR WHEAT. The following ideas are made up with the idea that the dominant element of wheat is nitrogen, with phosphoric acid aud potash holding a secondary place, and also with the idea of furnishing practically those quantities of the three elements which a crop of 30 bnshels of wheat per acre would remove from the •oil. The formulas are given of differ ent materials to suit the convenience of different people living iu different local ities; but all are so calculated as to con tain practically the same amounts of phosphoric acid, potash and nitrogen. The quantities given iu each formula •re the amounts to be applied per acre. Where the wheat is planted iu the fall, and nitrate of soda is given in the form ula, the nitrate should not be mixed with the other ingredients, but reserved and applied us a top dressing in the spring, when its effect will be immedi ate aud very marked, imparting a rich green color and increasing the yield. In those formulas where nitrate of soda is not an ingredient-, the result will be much better if you cau afford to apply 76 to 100 pounds of nitrate of sodaiu the spring as a top dressing, in addition to the other formula applied iu tho fall: Muriate of Potash 80 pounds Acid Phosphate 107 “ Nitrute of Sodu 125 “ Muriate of Potash 20 pounds Acid Phosphate., 140 “ Cottonseed Meal 230 “ Cotton Hull Ashes (20 per cent K 20) 45 pounds Acid Phosphate 180 “ Cottonseed Meal 286 “ Unleached Wood Ashes.. 164 pounds Acid Phosphate 180 "* CoUousced.Me.il 286 •* Kainit 61 pounds Acid Phosphate 137 “ Cottonseed Meal 143 “ Cottonseed.. 13 \ bushels Acid Phosphate.. 133 pounds Nitrate of Soda 13 Stable Manure 2 tons Muriate of Potash 80 pounds Acid Phosphate 167 “ Dried Blood 167 “ Muriate of Potash 15 pounds Acid Phosphate (with 2 [>er cent Potash) 120 “ Cottonseed Meal 286 “ Kainit 68 pounds Acid Phosphate 160 “ Nitrate of Soda 70 •• Stable Manure 1 ton Muriate 0/ Potash 20 pounds Acid Phosphate 150 •• Nitrute of Soda 04 “ Cottonseed 13 % bushels Kainit 45 pounds Acid Phosphate 132 *• Cottonseed 26% bushels Commercial fertilizer to analyze as fol lows: Available Phosphoric Acid 4% to 5 p. ct. Ammonia 4.86 per cent. Potaah 8 per cent. (Apply 600 pounds per acre of this last.) Each of the above formulas will be ex cellent for cotton, if the amount of aoid phosphate in each is doubled. WHEN TO ROW WHEAT. Winter wheat may be sown too early in the fall or too late, so we mnst select the time between these periods to pat in the seed. As we have stated before, this plant encounters many enemies which flourish only at oertain periods— say in the fall soon after the wheat conies up—then other enemies come on in the spring before harvest. Drouth, wet weather, freezing and thawing, all have to be considered by the man who would grow wheat successfully. Now, then, looking to the dreary winter, we find the strongest wheat plants, those that are most firmly rooted with a system of lnxnriant leaves suffi cient to cover the surface of the ground, will endure the rigors of our oold bliz zard in winter, so common of late years, with less injury. But on the other hand, if we plant too early, so that the plants attain a large size in a few weeks, hordes of insects, in the form of the wheet fly, will almost destroy the planta This fly flourishes between the early and late sowing. So we are forced to choose the late seed time; and in order to be prepared to resist the adverse infloenoes of win ter, we mast plow and harrow and pel- Verize uud manure the soil and to en rich the seed bed, that the young plant will spring up from the seed deposited iu the soil, after (he dreaded foes have run their course, aud still have suffi cient time to become well rooted before tbe cold winter sets in. To be more definite, let the seed be put in as late iu the season as it can be, and still have sufficient time to throw ont a system of roots and leaves large enough to cover the entire surface of ground before the cold blizzards come upon it. Our best wheat growers in Georgia plant from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1. Every intelligent farmer will study his environments, his soil aud climatic con ditions, and then use his best judgment. In tho preparation of this article I am much indented to The Ypnng Farm ers’ Manual aud the American Wheat Culturis;. O. B Stevens, Commissioner. BORERS ON PEACH TREES. Rest. Tim- and Method Kor Getting Rid of This Pest. • Question— -When ia the best time to take borers from peach trees? Can you suggest a wash that will prevent them? Answer —The borer is a well known enemy to the peach tree, and it has long since been given up that the best remedy is to get down on your knees and dig it out with a knife or wire. This work should be done in the fall of the year as soon as the tree is ripened up for the winter, and repeated in the spring by the time vegetation sets in. Sufficient earth should be removed from the base of the tree to allow one to get well down aud reach all of the borers. An ordinary heavy pocketkuife is a good instrument for this work. The base o' the tree down to the roots should be well scooped with a trowel, that every tunnel of tho borers may be discovered. These tuunels should be followed until the larvae are fouud and killed. The spring going-over is to get the borers that may have escaped the fall treatment. Ou warm days during spring aud winter, these worms are ao tive, and as a result, gum is exuded from the tree, which serves to detect their presence. After the work has been finished in the spring, it is a good practice to hank the earth up around the trunk of the tree to the height of about 10 or 12 inches, to be left until fall. Very few if any washes applied to the tree have given very satisfactory results. Various solutions and mixtures have been tried, in spite of all of which the borers find their way into the trees to a considerable extent. Conclusive results have been obtained, however, showing that some preparations will prevent a large per cent of these insects, from gaining entrance to the trees. Below is given the formula for about the best preparation for this purpose. P. J. Bercktnaus’ company of Augusta have used it with gratifying results. WASH TO PREVENT BORERS. r, \ Potash (caustic) 2 pounds Crude carbolic acid..." 1 gallon Whale oil soap (dissolved in hot water) 8 pounds Lime '/ bushel Water added to make 50 gallons of mixture. To give the mixture tho proper con sistency, and to color it, two pounds of finely ground tobacco dust should be addetl aud well stirred In. The tobaooo, however, is not absolutely necessary. Remove a little of the earth from the base of the tree and apply the mixture to the trunk from the limbs down well around the collar with a paint brush or cloth mop. The first application should be made April 1, and if it does not stick well, a second application should be made the middle of June. This mix ture is not only protection against borers bnt is a remedy for scale insects. —State Entomologist. COTTON HURT BY DROUTH. Necessary to Ha Careful In Gathering the Crop. On aocount of the severe drouth the greater portion of this state has been subjected to during the pest five or six weeks, the cotton orop hes been very badly damaged. The bolls have been forced open prematurely, aud the lint and seed in the bottom bolls have not been perfected. It is neoessary, there j fore, that the farmers of the state be very oareful in gathering their crop, not only on account of preserving the whiteness of their cotton, in oase there ( should be rain, bat also this bottom crop should be picked as fast as possible,, so i as to procure these prematurely devel ! oped seed in the first picking and nee : them for feed or manorial purposes. It is nocessary to preserve the best seed of the crop for planting purposes for another season, and, therefore, the seed from the second picking should be saved for planting eked. Gnat oare should be taken to separate the seed that are to be used for manures or feeding purposes from the seed yon in tend to use for planting purposes, as the crop for another season depends upon the care taken in selecting the seed which you iutend to plant. The seed from the seoond picking will be more mature and have better germinating power than the seed from the first picking. A great many farm ers complain of bad stands in the early spring, and this is greatly oaneed by the look of oare in seine ting the plant ing seed —State Agricultural Depart ment.