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"AXUTIIEIi SECOND AXD THE DUINKS
WOULD HATE II£EN' OX EE."
S iot. There was a general gasp, lor
unn atood immediately under
neath.
The cx-iheriff was the only man
in the crowd who kept cool. He
had seen the basket start and he
catight it neatly in midair. Then,
turning to the others, the basket
still held over his head, he observed
calmly;
“Boys, another second and the
drinks would have been on me.”—
Hew York Letter.
A DRUNKEN MAN WENT TO BED ON THE GRASS.
cat looks! We will sit oo the step* too ranch for you. P# put tnc Ice bag
and enjoy the cool breexe while I *t your feet and a wet rag around your
smoke." head If you hare a feeling of gone
Mr. Rmreer had taken n seat on the nesa”
front stetie after dinner on sercral oc- Mr. Bowoer could not be arouoed.
carious, end the rerun curb time had He eat and smoked and Joked and
bum a ri.w with -tree; fakir* nnd pass* laughed, and eren when a drunken
Inc loafer*. Mr*. Bowser watched him man came along and opened the gate
with her heart In Her i.aiulh. and the! sod went to bed on the grass he was
even n, rim.-e as she csrefnlly moved to the sidewalk and a
nickel placed In bis rest pocket to
t>m- a moraine nip with. Peace, har
mony and good nature prevailed at S
o’clock and at 0 and 10. and Mr.' Bow
ser was smiling and the cat purring at
liedtlrae. -,
“What doea It mean?’, queried Mrs.
Bowser of tierself for the hundredth
time, but she could not answer. All
she could do at Mr. Bowser slept was
to ait up and gate Into his peaceful
countenance and stlaetlj pray to Ptov-
Mancs that be would out awake st
Never build s manure foliar under
the stable; for It will effect the air
breathed by the animals, or fill the
cow sublet with microbes that will
surely effect the flavor of the milk
and' the butter made from lb The
manure should ba stored la a shed
outside. It may cost more, but It will
pay every time -
OA. DEPT. OP AGRICULTURE.
BPlehed Cotton Cloth.
In thekyusllty at cotton cloth bleach,
ed Georgia ranks fourth In the union.
Massachusetts coming first with 7S.-
000.000 square yards; New Jersey sec
ond, with M.OOd.OOO square yards:
Rhode' lolaad third. . with IS.000.000
•quart yards, and Oeorgls fourth, with
14.000,000 squara yards
tbouchf m* in., no cutamity
orriwreit A nm-Itl-*'—r-i- itian with four
Wiles left met stupped oi the gate and
*J.ihii.sI jimf zbrvsvd - >1 rcUed, but
Ineteod of 'tours the eteps and
tnkrn-r him try t:i“ tbmett Mr Rowser
ntmply M.md: it;- tr'i,d „nu went on
watrbica tie k.uut at the uigbthawks
The lamika man mil only stopped at.
the gate and whooped. hut he entered
It nud Stood ut the 'te.t the. -o'lts ;i;ij
bnug oo for ton minute* lied It been 1
the evening tie fore he would not have i
wboope ' wire before the dummy band !
of dssth would have been at Jils throat. !
Be was going away dlacwiracad whoa
“Xonscniel” exclaimed Hie sena
tor. “Just think what the word
meant. ‘Yin’ is Latin for men, and
‘tnumph-vin’ means the men who
ere going to win. That's what you
want, i t’t it? Just don’t you worry
about those ‘triumph men.’ ’-Hi*
York World.
M. QUAD.
THE FBUITSOF 6L0BGIA
Monthly Letter, of Commis
sioner Stevens.
Census Report of Miscellaneous Vege-
tablet Raised In Oaorgia—Valu# of
Horticultural °roducta—Wlnta of
Gtorgla Are of Fina Flavor.
Not only tbe staple crop* demanJ
the fostering care of the ^Dspartmcnt
of Agriculture, but the rapidly growing
fruit Induatry deserves also our oc
casional notice. Nohe of the great en-
terprlses, which command the atten
tion of our people. furnish more grati
fying evidence of growth than do our
. orchard treed and fruits of all kinds.
Our apple trees number about twice
aa mauy aa In 1890; our peach trees
nearly ttree times as many; cherry
and plum trees, tnoro than five times
aa many; pear treea, more than three
times and apricots twice as many.
Hon. L. Q. Powers, Chief Statisti
cian for Agriculture, In bis report to
• Hon. Wm. R. Merrlam, Director of tbs
Census, says: “Comparisons of the
yields of orchard fruits, when mado by
decennial years, art given little
•Ignlflcanca, aa the yield of any given
year is largely determined by the
nature of the season". For Instance
during the year for which the census
report was made, 3899. all* fruits it
ovary description In Oeorgla ware cut
Short by tbs unfavorable season, be
ing almost a total failure. But good
fruit years sine# than hava shown that
the yield has kept pace with the in
crease of the number of trees.
According to tHe census of 1900
Which, let It bo remembered, was made
Up from tha reports rendered in 1899,
the total area given to small fruits
was 1,634 acres, distributed among 2,-
•04 farms, and the value of the fruits
was $90,785, an average of $32.38 to
the farm/ Of this total area 87.1 per
cent, or 1,423 acres were devoted to
strawberries, of which the total pro
duction wa# 1,385,728 quarts. These
were grown chiefly In the northwest
ern counties of Georgia. Other berries
show up aa follows: blackberries anil
dewberries, 143 acres and 144,060
quarts; raspberries and Logan berries
43 acres and 41,750 quarts; all other
berries 25 acres and 26,390 quarts.
The census of 1890 re|iorted the pro*
ductlon of grapes In Georgia to be 3,-
876,000 pounds, while that or 1900
•!}ows a production of 8,330,600 pounds.
Most of these are sold as table grapes
and bring high prices In the northern
and western market*.
In the vineyards of Oeorgls wlnea
•f the finest quality are made. The
grapes and wines of Georgia bring In
to our State more than $170,000 an
nually.
Georgia baa lost none of her repu
tation for watermelons, and la be-
glnlng to take a high rank also In the
production of cantalopea. The exact
figures for these are," however, not, yet
available.
PBCAN AND OTHBR NUT TREES.
The culture of pecan Is bcgtnlng now
to attract considerable attention. The
census of 1900 reports 30,455 pecan
trdes yUldlnc 27,440 pounds of nuts.
There were also 2,€8t Persian and
English Walnut' trees, yielding 2.970
r*"*-ds of nut* ami 6,438 unclassified
nut hearlag trees, yielding 3.026 pounds.
The total value or nuts was $3,997.
Here is an opening' for a new in
dustry Which will, doubtless, some day
add many thousands to the value of
•ur horticultural products
VEGETABLES.
which we made In our Fertilizer Bulle
tin for the season of 1j00-1, “that the
agricultural and horticultural pro
duct* of Georgia are worth $100,000.
QOj.”
Of course unfavorable seasons will
I yeut thei.j figures down, as was the
case with our orchard products for
1899. reported in the census of 1900,
i^ut In view of the rapid agricultural
advancement of Georgia, we may con
fidently look for a large Increase In
value over the best year that we have
yet known, whenever we have favora
ble seasons.
Therefort, farmers of Georgia* ba
not discouraged; but with the same
Indomitable spirit that you have ever
shown, persevere In the good work of
making Georgia the foremoat agrlcul-
t rial State In the Union. Aim high
and. If you do not reach the highest
plane, you can at least stand In the
front rank.
O. B. 8TEVENS. Commissioner.
By the census report of 1900 thd
miscellaneous vegetables raised in
Georgia were valued at $3,009.306; the
awcrt potatoes at $2,354,390; the
Irish potatoes at»$326,853; onions at
$44,593; dry peas at $953,141; dry
beans at $17,982. The total of all
these Items amounts to $6,706,364.
TOTAL VALUE OF ALL AGRICUL
TURAL AND HORTICULTURAL
PRODUCTS.
The total value of all the agricul
tural and horticultural products of
Georgia ta 1399 was reported at $86,-
845.343. This department, however,
has later figures than these. The Agri
cultural year book of 1900. issued »»
J801 by the U. S. Department of Agri
culture, gives ua the production and
value of our crops In 1900, Cotton U
that year brought In round numbers
$8,000,000 more than In the previous
or centtfa year. At the same time the
following Increase in the value of other
crop* was shown: of corn 83*898.000;
of wheat, 11*800.000; of oats, $8*000,000;
of orchard fruits, a little over $8,000.-
*00.
Thus we have for the value of the
principal farm crops <».' Oeoriria. for the
jeer Immediately following the cen
sus year an aggregate of nearly $103-
000,000. Thm bear* out by an official
Before the civil war rice was one
of the staple crops of Georgia, ani
was a great source of profit to those
who cultivated It. But changed labor
conditions, lack of necessary capital
and other causes have prevented the
complete reaction ^of this industry
which, in Georgia, was wrecked by the
war.
Yat with faroraole conditions tha
cultivation of rice must be very pro
fitable, because there la an Increasing
demand for It and the present annual
production in the United States is
only about half aa great aa the annual
consumption.
Rica la chiefly grown on lands that
are low, level and easily Irrigated,
yet there are varieties that can be
grown on fertile lands without Irriga
tion. Some of these upland varieties
have boen successfully cultivated la
the northern countlea of Georgia. But
they are not equal In quality to tha
lowland rice produced- by Irrigation.
Upland rice may be grown on any
soil adapted to wheat or cotton, pro
vided the climate conditions are favor
able.
The beet soil for rice la a medium
loma, containing about 50 per cent, of
clay. A large proportion of .the rice
grown In Georgia 1b produced on tldat
deltas. A body of land along some
river and at a distance from the *ea
sufficiently great to be free from salt
water is selected with reference to the
possibility of flooding It from the river
at high tide and of draining it at low
tide. In Georgia are also found ex
cellent marshes upon what may be re.
latlvely termed high land. Uusally
tbes.* run be easily drained and in
many case* can be irrigated from some
convenient stream. On these tracts,
however, the water supply Is unre
liable. being Insufficient in time of
drouth, and too cold in case of fresh
ets. Although resorrolrs to obviate
these objections are expensive, yet un
der favorable conditions these Inland
marshes are Improved at less expense
than the delta lands and the results
renumerate well the time and labor
expended upon them.
The time for plowing differs with
different lands and circumstances, bn*
In wet culture the plowing Is generally
uone in the spring shortly before plant
ing time. In Georgia it Is the custom
with many to plough or dig over with
a hoe early In the winter.
Rome planters advocate shallow
plowing; but. If the soil Is well drain
ed deep plowing is considered by many
to be more profitable. If deep plowing
Just before planting brings too much
alkali to the surface, a good remedy is
to plow a little ’deeper than the pre
vious plowing Just after the harvest.
The alkali will then be washed out ho
for*' the spring. Shortly after tho plow
| the disk harrow should he used and
! then followed by the smoothing har
row. next, in order to secure the best
results, the harrow should be followed
with a heavy roller, which will crush
the lumps making the toll more com
pact and conserving the moisture for
germinating the grain. Then It will
be unnecessary to flood for sprouting.
Thorough drainage and deep plow
ing have been found to be the only
effective way to dispose of the alkali
that Is brought to the surface by irri
gation. As the water Is drained away,
the excess of soluble salts Is carried
off.
OA. DBPT. OF AGRICULTURE.
FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
Hs Curried ' ■ tut Afterward Won
. Fortune.
'Once tl.'.re was a boy of the name
of Hag!. McGowan tfho went to
Kanina City in search of work. He
found this at the stable* of the
street car company, and the work
consisted largely in currying mules.
The currying of mules is not an at
tractive vocation, but Hugh never
grumbled, and he aent them out to
work looking more fit than they
ever had in all the history of rapid
transit in Kansas City. He curried
those mujes so faithfully that now
he does not have to curry mules any
more. McGowan is now a rich man
with millions of dollars under his
control. He had reached the age of
forty before he had earned so much
as .$100 a month.
No man can rise to fame by the
mere process of currying mules, but
if this duty fall to his lot he can do
it so well os to show what is in him.
Thus did McGowan ;he attracted the
attention of his superiors and was
promoted to the driving of a car.
Then he got on the police force;
all stations humble enough. After
awhile the agent of a big concern
visited Kansas City and while there
sought to find a suitable man to
represent his concern. McGowan
was chosen not merely because he
had curried mule* well, hut that
he had gone into every field in
spired alwsyi bv the motive to do
the belt he could. He ia now forty-
three years of age, a solid citizen
with a long; bank account and a rep
utation that ia of far greater value
than any great >um of money.
A Young Newsboy.
On the corner of Tenth and Arch
•treeta, in the heart of the city of
Philadelphia, is seen “Little Joe,”
CONDENSED STORIES. I MB.BOWSERIiEFORMS
English Actors Saen Through the
Eyes of s Pair of Cockneys.
Edgar Norton of Viola J^llen's
company tells the following story:
He happened to be in a bar or
saloon in London when he over
heard two cockneys discussing the
merits of popular English actors.
Said one: “No, we ain’t got no
really good hactors now.”
“Git hout,” said the other.
“That’s stright! 'Oo ’ave we
bloomin’ well got ?”
IT LASTS THE ENTIRE EVENING, CA'Jj
ING MRS. BOWSER MUCH ALARM.
Mr. Bowser actually bought half a
dozen bananas and divided them
RUionq the boys playing about Mra-
Eo’.vs.T trembled from bead to heel aa
sbe witnessed tbe Incident and ber
voice sounded strangely ip ber own
! ears as sbe hesitatingly said:
Th, Old Fellow it.*mein. In Gentl, 1 „ Mr Bowser, don’t you think wo
Mood and »l«. on 'be Front S»«r*. ou(;bt t0 f or the doctor?”
Showiaa no Intern' In Unions- doctor? tVhy, What On earth
. nin Who Appeal to Him. I flo wc wau t of tbe dootor?" ho laugb-
[Copyright, HOI. by C. B. Lewis] I lngly repUed as he slyly pinched ber
F ROM the front steps of the Bow j ear
ser mansion Mr. Bowser can “The hot weather may may have
be seen as he drops off the affected you. you knew.’
car, and Mr* Bowser waa
waiting tbe other evening and wonder
uunun wen go. i lng what his mood would be. His so
“Well, there’s Beerbum Tree”— tlcm caused her surprise. Instead or
"ttTTLk JOE” ANI' iriH STORE.
as he is called, tending a newsstand.
On an opposite corner is seen his
mother, who has charge oi the main
stand. Joe is six years of age, quick
and active and always ready with
his customers’ favorito newspapers.
He is up blight and early to tend to
business, lie consented to pose for
our picture only when it would not ' old was knocked down by the im<
interfere with his business. How
ever, Joe believes that all work and
no plnv makes a dull hoy, nnd at
certain hours lie can he seen riding
his tricycle or romping around with
his comp, lions in the neighbor-
“’E ain’t nuflink to speak oil”
“’Ow do yer like George Halex-
ander?”
“ ’E ain’t much.”
“Charley ’Awtrey?”
“Sumtimcs 'es orright.”
“Well, wot nbout ’Arry Irving”
(convincingly) ?
“Well, wot about him ?”
“ ’0w about ’is Macbeth ?”
“Rotten.”
“’Is Looey the Eleventh?”
“It ain’t grite.”
“’Is ’AmTet?”
“Oh, passable, passable I”
“Well (triumphantly), ’ow about
’is Shylock? Ain’t that tricky?”
“Yus (musingly), yus; it’s werry
tfiekv, I grant yer, but—but it’s
werrv wulgar to my way o' think-
in’.”'
Curtain.—Philadelphia Press.
Not Good on the N. P.
Talking of railroad mistakes, this
it one of the latest stories told by
J. J. Hill, president of the Northern
Pacific: A station agent on that
road had been granted leave of ab
sence for tho purpose of getting
married. The usual passes for the
happy , couple had been issued fr.om
the main office. On the trip the
agent met a new conductor, who de
manded his ticket.
“I have a pass,” replied the agent,
handing out an envelope. ,
The conductor read it very sol
emnly and, handing it back, said
with a shake of the head:
“Gee, man, that pass is good for a
very long and it may be a very fine
journey, but not on the N. P.”
It turned out that the agent had
put his pass and-his marriage cer
tificate in the same cnvelopfi and
the conductor had taken out the
former.
A Narrow Escape.
A friend of Tom Dunn tells tho
following anecdote illustrative of
tbe ex-sheriff’s pluck end ready wit:
Dunn and a party of friends had
been spending a half hour in an
uptown cafe and paused at the door
for a moment on tho way out.
As they did so a man entered,
flamming the door so hard that a
basket of champagne which stood on
the edge of a Blielf over the thresh-
hood.—Philadelphia Press.
. Applied 8clenc*.
One evening at supper little Les
ter said to his grandmother:
“Grandma, do your glasses make
things look bigger?”
“Yes, dearie,” said grandma.
“Why?”
Oil!” said Lester, “I only
thought if they did maybe you’d
tnke ’em nl? when you’re cutting the
cake.”—Helen II. Prctl in Little
Chronicle.
A Puzzling Addrcit.
There is a mail in Representative
Knox's district who wrote a'letter j
addressed to Ifimself as follows:
WOOD.
JOHN
MASS
It took some time for the postal
clerks to decipher the address, but
tho letter was finally delivered to
“John Underwood, Andover, Mass.”
. My Baby Girl and Little Boy Blue,
My table u spread tor luncheon:
Whom think you wUl lunch with »•?
Why. my little Boy Blue, whose work t*
Whose sheep Ue asleep on the nursery
Wboss herd throuah the newly tsaaeled
corn
He homeward led by his tlutellke horn.
Then he fell asleep in my tasy chair
And dreamed ‘two* a haystack tall and
fair.
But now hfa awake and wants hla tea;
My little Boy Blue shall lunch with me
And another, hla sister. Did you not
know.
That he had a sister some time ayoT
With roay cheeks and floeslike curia.
To us the dearest, best of girls.
A dainty lass to love and kiss.
To fill our hearts and home with bits*7
Many caresses to her befall.
But little Boy Blue fives most of alL
Ever bonny and winsome, fresh and
sweat.
From, her shlnln* head to her dimpled
She site by my aide In her tall hlfh chair.
Like a graceful toy, pure and fair:
Yea; Baby Erma of summers three
And Uttle Boy Blue shall lunch with rut
Ah. the years may pass as the years be
fore
And many a guest'pass through ay dour
And pause at my board tor lunch and taa
But none will be ever no dear to me
Or All my life with such >cy aa you.
My baby gtrl and Uttle Boy Bias
—Mra Mary Felton to Good Pirn tow*
coning along down tbe r walk in bfa
aggressive way und blasting tbe eyes
of tbe umbrella mender and the fruit
peddlers who accosted him. hla gnlt
wns slow and gentle, and be bowed to
an old clo’man and stopped to ask
the bokey pokey Ice cream seller bow
business was. He did not open tbe
gate with a kick, but with all due con
sideration, and be smiled at Mrs. Bow
ser and tbe cat dud remarked tbat It
bad been a hot day.
“Have you got a sore throat or a
headache?” queried Mrs. Bowser as be
chucked ber under the cbln In passing
Into the bouse
“Not at all. dear,” he smilingly re
plied. “It's been rather warm, but 1
don’t know when I’ve fell better. Have
you got one of your usual good din
ners this evening?”
It wasn’t n good dinner. Mrs. Bow
ser bud been ont shopping, and the
cook bad taken things easy nnd for
gotten two or three orders. Mr. Bow
ser's smile did not fade, however, lie
not only ate whatever was placed be
fore him. but enjoyed it and bad a
word of praise now nnd then. Nin6
times out of ten on coming home to
such a dinner he would have pounded
on the table and demanded to know
If he were looked upon as a hog to eat
such stuff a* that, and the cook and
the cat and Mrs. Bowser would have
had chi!!* for a week. On this occa
sion not a complaint, not a criticism,
was made. He laughed and Joked and
kept his good nature, and as the meal
was tinlsUed he (tatted Mra. Bowser
on the shoulder and said:
“I thank you. little woman, for al
ways consulting niy tastes as you da
Any place you’d Uke to go this even
ing
**I—I guess not,” she replied. “You
ore sure you are well?”
“Perfectly sure. Don’t I look It? Did
you have money enough for your shop
ping? I meant to have left you $10
this morning, but It slipped my mind.
How handsome and Intelligent tbe old
La, la! It’s been a hot day, but I
feel as if I could run a foot race. Hel
lo! Here comes our old friend Cyrua.”
Cyrus was the name be bad given to
an old vagabond who bad come whin
ing for alms every evening in tbe week
until thrown over tbe fence for a
fraud. On this occasion Cyrus bad
•truck the street by accident and as
be looked up and saw tbe man who
bad toyed with him be started to run.
“Here, man!” shouted Bowser.
“Come back here and get a dime I”
“Do you mean that?” asked the vag
as he turned about
“Of course I do. You’ll want beer,
If not a bed.”
“And you won’t pick me up and try
to throw me over the treetops?”
“Certainly not I guess 1 used you a
Uttle rough tbe other night, but I was
only Joking, you know.”
Tbe man got bis 10 cents and backed
off with doubt and surprise written on
every line of ^ls face, and be had not
yet turned tbe corner when an old clo*
man came along. He was an old clo f
man wbo had come along one evening
the week before and given Mr. Bowser
“aass” and bad to flee for bis life. Re
alizing the peril, be was sUdlng past
tbe gate on this occasion without a
word when be was startled to h$ar a
voice caUlng:
“Say. old do', come In a minute. I
gave yon a run tbe other night, but I
bad a headache and was excusable.
If you’ll come tomorrow, my wife will
look up two or three suits for you. I
Uke your voice. Please yell out a few,
times.”
Tbe man took to bis beds and made
off, looking over bis shoulder as ba-
ran. and Mrs. Bowser furtively wiped
a tear from ber eyes and said:
“Mr. Bowser, tbe doctor Is sure to
be at home at this hour, and I’d Uke
you to* telephone him to come over.
It won’t do you any barm to have him
examine your bead.”
“The doctor again! Why. what do
you Imagine can all my bead?”
“You may have met with a fall or
something. Don’t you remember tho
case of tbe man who was wandering
around and had forgotten his own
name? A hot day sometimes affects
the brain without n person realizing
It”
“Don’t be a goose.” replied Sir. Bow
ser. “I haven’t forgotten that ray
name Is Bowser, and I don’t think my
brains have turned to cod liver oil.”
“Did I tell you the coal was out?”
she asked, determined to arouse him.
“No, but l expected it would be.”
“And the gas bill Is a dollar more
this month.”
“Is It? Well, we can stand that”
“And the cook wants 82 more pet
month.’',
“Then give It to her." ,
“You—you don’t feel strange or duty
or anything of that Mud?” queried
Mr*. Bowser a* they went upstairs.
“Not a bit,” he replied. “I don’t un-
dentand your solicitude about me. It
It so strange that I’m feeling tiptop
and could eat two raw lobsters If I
had ’em?”
“Then you haven't bad nosebleed or
a buzzing In your oars?"
“Nonsense! Say, now. but I begin
to think that the hot weather has been