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^gei aid Leader. TB r 'GERALD, GEORGIA. — PUBLISHED BT— _jacKTApr* «*> soivr. on- Of In England there is one foreigner every 170 natives and in France one every thirty-four natives. Of the $569,000,000 worth of exported from the United States year, $504,000,000 worth were agricul¬ tural produce. Official statistics show that the United States has more telephone sta¬ tions than all the European countries put together. It may be inferred from this that the Americans are particular¬ ly strong on long-distance conversa- tions. Here is an extract from an Iowa girl’s commencement oration: “I am a human being, placed in the midst of a great world. Far and wide it extends on every side. Majestic in its vast- ness, bewildering in its ever-changing forms, it overwhelms by its immensity. Over it bend the eternal heavens, and far away in the infinite realms of space gleam the lights of other worlds. And I, what am I? A drop in the sea of life. An atom in the universe of na¬ ture. ” How many people in the United States are aware that there is one United States penitentiary in all of the United States? Federal prisoners have almost invariably been taken to this or that State penitentiary. At Fort Leavenworth is the only prison which is a United States penitentiary, and it is a made-over affair from a military prison, which was originally a lot of quartermaster’s warehouses, with a wall built around them. They will accommodate about five hundred and twenty-five prisoners. “No action of the Legislature,” says the Chicago Tribune, “will make such a name as Greater New York tolerable. It is a monstrosity of three words and four syllables to apply to a city. Various suggestions embodying har¬ monious combinations, such as Yorklyn, Brookyork, Yorlfbgpok, York- land, etc., have been scorned, som appellation ething must be devised to simplify the of the new city.” If the Tribune would take the trouble to read the charter of the consolidated city, it would discover that its , name is . “the City of New York.” When you are convinced that a paper is dishonest and deceitful, stop it, says the Springfield Republican, When convinced that it is unclean, stop it. When it lacks enterprise and fails to give you the news, stop it. But don’t stop a paper that you believe to be honest, courageous, enterprising and clean simply because its editor has written his own sincere views instead of yours or somebody else’s; for if you do, you are putting a premium on insincere journalism and serving notice on an editor that the way to succeed is to write what he thinks will best please his readers instead of what he honestly believes to be the truth. A large number of prominent Methodist laymen of Indiana have issued a call for a mass-meeting in Indianapolis on September 15 to advo¬ cate larger representation for the laity in the General Conference. “Two and a half million laymen,” they say, “have but one-third of the representatives in the General Conference, while fifteen thou sand preachers have two-thirds. The laymen furnish the millions of money to carry on the work of the Church in all her various departments. The impolicy, to say nothing of the in¬ justice, in denying them an equal voice in its disbursement and in the general management of the Church is painfully apparent.” Mulhall, the eminent English statis¬ tician, in his recent article in the North American, groups the figures representing the progress in manufac¬ turing of Great Britain and New Eng¬ land respectively, between the years 1850 and 1850 and 1890. He finds that during that period New Eng¬ land’s output increased about five times and the wages paid about five and a half times, while in the last year named her manufactures amounted to $320*for each inhabitant. During the same year Great Britain’s manufac- tures amounted to only $115 for each inhabitant, AVhile New England’s manufactures are increasing, those of Great Britain are almost stationary. New England has twice as many sav¬ ings banks depositors as Great Britain, and the average of such deposits in New England is almost ten times as great as in Great Britain, being $150 in the first and $18 in the second country. PIONEERING. Hongs for the tameless tamers, The tamers of tho seas; Songs for the stout old sailors Who harnessed every breeze, Who through the sens of darkness Trend By unknown winds were whirled; Brake anil old Magellan, The girdlers of the world. And songs for Henry Hudson, Wherever he may be. Whose bones havo bleached throo dred liis years Beneath northern sea. Songs for the grim old sailors, Men of heroic pith. Yea, songs for brave JohnjCabot, And songs for stout John Smith. Bongs for I.a Salle, the dauntless, And songs for strong Champlain; For good Marquette and .Toilet, For CrCokett, Boone, and Kane. Songs for the pioneer vanguard, Who ploughed uncharted floods, And laid the sites of cities Within the roadless woods. Songs for all pioneering, And all are pioneers: All sailors from an anchorage That fronts the tide of years. And each man sails an ocean No other sailed before, And each man flndoth for himself An undiscovered shore. Sail on across the morning. Sail forth beyond the night, Sail forth and trust the eternal winds To blow your bark aright; And every day shall greet you. New phase of wave or breeze, Tho moonlight on new headlands, The sunlight on new seas. Still sail the tameless tamers, The tamers of the seas; Still sail the stout old sailors Who harness every breeze; Still through the seas of darkness By unknown winds are whirled Proud Drakes and old Magellans, The girdlers of the world. —Sam Walter Foss, in New York Sun. ^5fe^eie(eiefeKseieiefef^eiefefeK^$teietei©i^ | THE MOUNTAIN DAISY, $ T was in a corner of the VJ conservatory behind the 1 0 ’ palms during of the c one ^ ° most fashionable func¬ e'e tions of the season. This seems a favorite situa¬ tion with fate while weaving the web of hu¬ man destiny. Fred Trevor, tall, dark, self-contained, with power apparent in every look, movement and feature, stood with hands crossed behind him before the magnificent woman he has just seated. “You know, Miss Alden,” as he leaned toward her, “that my knowl¬ edge of the social tenets is not pro¬ found.” “You have only to follow your in¬ stincts, Mr. Trevor.” “And you are the gentle mentor who warned me against the sin of flat¬ tery. ” “If I have paid an undeserved com- nliment, it is to society in assuming thjr i fj ba3 attained to your standard.” “You’re incorrigible, b»t I’ll accept the bh<2 lAftdS ^ - save to.’with- , ... draw her eyes from his and gather in the folds of her dress to make room for him to sit clown. “I want to tell you something of nay- life and then ask your advice. I am not assuming that the story has any special interest for you, but I have a selfish desire for your opinion after I have told it.” “But don’t you know it as a general truth that, with the average woman, the man who is rich, famous and honored, glorifies his antecedents, no matter what they may be?” “If you were the average woman I would never have sought this oppor¬ tunity. When I first faced the world alone I was a little, ill-fed, sallow, ragged and half-dressecl boy in the Cumberland mountains. I did not know that there was such a thing as a railroad, a steamboat, a book, a here¬ after, music, culture or anything dif¬ ferent from the detestable surround- ings from which I longed to escape. My father had been killed in defend¬ ing an illicit still, and mother just seemed to go with the mountain flow¬ ers which I had gathered for her till they ceased to bloom that fall. Dur¬ ing the winter I was kept alive despite kicks and bruises, by a family that had me as their sole reliance in ‘toting’ water and gathering wood. “In the spring I went away, Made up a little bundle and stole off in the night. Till the evening of the next day I hurried over the red clay roads and paths, terror of being caught and taken Iwiek crowding out every other thought and feeling. But hunger and exhaustion are not to be denied and at last I went stealthily to a little cabin where a girl of my own age was ‘keep- in’ house in a hollow stump, just out¬ side. She put her frowsled head over the wall of her primitive abode to con¬ duct an examination. ‘Who is youuns, boy?’ ‘Where’s you’ par?’ ‘Whar’s you’ mar?’ ‘Whar mout you be a goin’?’ were questions that I answered as well as I could. Then she said wisely: ‘I ’lows thet you is runned away. ’ “This would have put me to flight, but she sprang out, told me to take her place, and while I sat in the cramped quarters she brought me all that I could eat and a paper of food to carry away with me. After assuring me that she would have her ‘par’ shoot any one who might be trying to recap¬ ture me, she pointed the nearest way to a town, walked a way with me, and said as we parted: ‘I reckon youuns ’ill hev ter kim back some time an’ marry me fur all them wittles an’ fur fellin’ folks weuns heven’t sawen you when they comes sarchin’. ’ I promised her, of course.” “But you never told ns that yon were engaged,” laughed his brilliant listener, “Where can we find your mountain daisy?” tell The “I wish I could you. in¬ cident was one- of the events of my life. For the first time I knew the sweetness of sympathy. people I have grown which to almost detest the from I sprang, because of their ignorance and lack of ambition, but tho little girl of the hollow stump has always had a warm place in my memory. You know most of my experience in the far West. Before I had been there six months I found the old man known as Hermit Ben lying unconscious and ap¬ parently dying in one of the mountain gorges, and brought the aid that, car¬ ried him to his shanty, procured a doc¬ tor and was his nurse till he recovered. He felt toward me as I did toward the ignorant little girl back in Tennessee. I had been good to him without any selfish motive, and he no sooner was" well tlinu lie announced that I was his boy Jim. This was my protection, despite the fact that he was a recluse, Ben was known as a bad man when in¬ terfered with and commanded a re¬ spect that was heightened by the mys¬ tery with which lie surrounded him¬ self. Something had made him at enmity with the world. For years he told me nothing, though from the first he showed me the affection of a mother and care of a father. “Ft was soon a matter of common report that Ben’s new boy was to be a gentleman. The hermit himself took charge of my primary education. He was delighted with my lack of knowl¬ edge and my endless list of simple questions, for it showed him he was working on virgin soil. He molded me in accordance with his own conception of manhood, forever impressing upon me that ingratitude was the cardinal sin. When I could comprehend he told me that I would bo rich, that I must spend money generously, and that some time he would let me into a secret which would plaSe at my com¬ mand all that immeasurable power of “When it came time for me to go East to college I suggested that I should go back to the old place in the mountains and see if I could do any¬ thing for the girl who had been kind to me. No act of mine ever pleased him more, and when I left him it was with unlimited credit authorized by one of the greatest banking institu¬ tions of the West. I did not find the girl, but learned that she had first been employed and then adopted by a’widow whose husband had fallen in the war. I left money with a lawyer, telling him to find the girl and have her educated. A year later this money was returned to me with notice that he could do nothing for me. I wrote for further information, but could get no reply. “Before my benefactor died he told me of the rich gold find he had worked without sharing his secret with any one. You know how it proved a ver- itable mine of wealth, built up a thriving city and won me the title of a bonanza king. He also told me how a heartless woman had wrecked his life and asked me to never abandon the search for the little mountain girl until I knew what had become of her and whether it was y-tyhin mv nower to help her. You no idea how man and boy t thrown together as we were, eolU^ build a romance upon a foundation so slender.” “I think I understand. And you have found no trace?” “None that I could follow. After that fight when the strikers tried to destroy the machinery at the mine, my wounds threw me into a feyer, and through ail the delirium I talked in one dialect of my boyhood with the lit- tie maid I had never seen but once. That shows you the hold she had upon me, and even yet I have an idea that must either be shattered or confirmed before I can be content. Now for your advice. Should I marry before I have seen this girl?” “Not with my approval, Mr. Trevor. Go ta the end of your foolish dream, or it might haunt you and some woman might suffer.” “I had hoped for a different answer from you.” And his eyes told the old, old story. “But I’m your friend and can give no other. This is our waltz. ” Within a month Trevor received a letter in a yellow, blotted envelope. The scrawl only said; “I reckon youuns heve furgetted me. I’m back here agin an’ I heve hearn youuns was rich.” Trevor shuddered. His romance had died a cruel death. Reluctantly he went. When at length he rode to the front of the old cabin thdre was a woman in a linsey dress that could not conceal the beauty of her form, her back to him, while she threw food to the noisy chickens. Just as he reached her side she turned with: “Well, youuns did kim back, hey?” “Miss TAlden,” gasped Trevor, as he crushed the “Mountain Daisy” against his breast. And the promise of the babyhood was made good.—De- roit Free Press. A Fortune Made Out of Sharks. Old Mme. Oliveros, who has just died in Paris, used to dress like a beg¬ gar, and at the same time drive in a very sumptuous carriage. Her hus¬ band had for many years almost the monopoly of the shark trade, and used to be fond of expatiating, at his famous dinner-parties, on the usefulness of this fish. The liver of the shark con¬ tains an oil possessing medicinal quali¬ ties equal to those of the cod. The skin, after being dried, takes thepolish and hardness of mother-of-pearl, and, being marbled and resembling fossil coral, is largely used by jewelers for the manufacture of fancy objects, by binders for making shagreen, and by cabinet-makers for polishing woods. The glue from the fins is used by brew¬ ers, English silk manufacturers, etc. Mme. Oliveros left two millions of dol¬ lars—all made out of shark.—Argon¬ aut. New Central African Railway. A project is on foot for constructing a railway in British Central Africa, from Chivomo, near the Rue River, to Blantye, the Church of Scotland Sta¬ tion, on Lake Nyassa. The estimated cost is $925,000, and the line would take about three years to construct. CURIOUS FACTS. A million dollars *n silver weigh* 56,931 pounds. The annual value of tho human hair exported from China is said to be about $500,000. Sponges, slates and slate pencils are no longer allowed in the publio schools of Cambridge, mass. One sixty-four-year-old resident of Pettis, Mo., says that he has never worn a pair of overshoes, a watch, or a paper collar. In the Russian village of Vjalova there is a peasant named Satov who claims to be 133 years old and that his father lived 150 years. ”1>” hearing hi, .m A r tan. °*v « t which was preached just a few days before he died, aged 118 years. In some parts of Africa a vegetablo butter is made from the fruit of the shea tree. It is said to be richer in fiavor than the butter made from cream. A remarkable tree grows in Brazil. It is about six feet high and is so luminous that it can be seen on the darkest night for a distance of a mile or more. , A cherry tree in Dayton, Oregon, wliich was recently blown down by a , storm, bore a ton of fruit in one sea- son. It was set out over forty-five years ago. Public protest being . made the is in province of Quebec, Canada, against the mode of punishment m the schools, where refractory pupils are made to kiss the floor. Emeralds seem to be coming into favor again in Europe. Good speci- mens are rising in value; a single stone of seven carats having recently sold in LoAdon for $40,000. Among the many new devices to assist the blind, one of the best is a typewriter in which the keys have raised letters or the dots contained in one of the blind alphabets. During the bullfighting season from April 5 to October 20, 1896, there were 478 fights in Spain and 1218 bulls, valued at $300,000, and 5730 horses, valued at $200,000, were killed. The fastest daily run in Great Britain is from Perth to Forfar, on the Cale- donian Railway, the distance—thirty- two and a half miles-being performed rn about thirty-two sixty-one mrnues, miles or hour. at the rate of an It is proposed to hold during the year 1898 a Russian conference upon balueology and climatology. It will be 100 years next year since the min¬ eral springs of the Caucasus, still the best known and most frequented of Russian spas, were discovered, or, to speak more accurately, sineg they came to be used therapeutically. TO PROMOTE sucar-beet culture. Work of tlie Agricultural Department De- scribed by Secretary Wilson. The Agricultural Department is sending out to farmers and to experi- ment stations a large amount of sugar- beet seed, with a view to determining the feasibility of growing the seed in certain sections of the country. Iji an interview with regard* to the gr ow- ing of the seed Secretary Wilson said: “We have just about finished send- ing out sugar-beet seed to most of the States of the Union. They ave ex- perimenting South as far as Texas. Every effort has been made to procure first-class seed. Most of the work is being done through the experiment stations, that get seed from the De- partment and send it out with instruc- tions regarding the cultivation of the plants and provision for the return of samples to the stations in the fall for analysis. The Department is also taking in hand the growing of high hereditary sugar-beet seed. The seed being sent, out by the Depart- ment is the result of careful improve- ment, extending over many years—in some cases forty years of time—where every mother beetis tested by the polariscope to ascertain its percentage of sugar. “This high hereditary , , seed is worth perhaps its weight m gold. It is the result of the best work done along these lines during ^ these years. Such seed is exceedingly rare and difficult to get. The Agn- cultural Department is believed to compass the ownership of only about five pounds of it. This is being dis- tnbuted to our most careful experi- “enters at different stations in dif- ferent localities, notably at G eneva, A. I ■; Wisconsin on a, c c. u e ins are being issued from the Department, prepared by experts, giving the people information regarding the sugar beet in all its relations. Such bulletins i. ill be prepat ed bom time to time, and the results will be copied .from the several stations, and full infer- mation given to the people regarding this important matter. “Capitalists are turning their atten¬ tion toward investments along this line. There will be no difficulty about getting money enough to erect fac- tories, which cost from $300,000 to 8500,000. The business men of the cities have learned thoroughly that they cannot thrive unless the farmers thrive; and, besides, the success of the Oxnards assures capitalists that where all the conditions of success are carefully secured to begin with there is no question of the ultimate re- >> Where They Differ. The eminent electricians, Edison and Tesla, are not agreed as to sleep. Ed¬ ison said recently that “sleep is a bad habit, anyway,” in connection with his statement that some nights he did not sleep a wink. Tesla says that sleep is a vitalizer, and that if a man could sleep eighteen hours a day, he might live to be 200 years old. 1 Xi, *1 «'• ■ P ml 0 1 •T fr <T‘ ?'j£ aStfJSS Tlie Best Watermelon*. 1 The best watermelons are grown when the undevdmuage , , is . good. , , «»e hills now and fill in with manure, ftrst smaU pits, using , he d in „ J Sulplnir Smoke for Lambs. 1 Where lambs show signs of disease at weaning time it is the practice of many to give them strong doses of sul- phur smoke. To do this it is necessary to corffine the lambs in a tight place wjiere they can be made to inhale the fumes. “We lastyear,” says John G. Ickis, in Country Gentleman, “used a garner which had a door at the open- ing, and as it held twenty-five lambs it did ” ot lo!1 » to fumi 6 ate the en ' lambs were driven int . 0 the . ed - . , bu ket , , S“™ er ° He ma “ carr ‘ lu a ? with a few small coals, on which a small handful of sulphur had been thrown. The door was closed, and as ^ b e a ; r became blue the lambs would begin to cough, showing that they were finia g their lungg with the smo ke. The 0 p era t 0r should stay in the room, so that he may know when the lambs have enough. For a few minutes you may experience no inconvenience, but soon the tears will begin to start and a lump come in your tbroat that impedes breathing— then you may know the lambs have about all they can stand, However, the smoke will generally be strongest at five or six feet from the floor than at the level of the lamb’s nos- trils,’ and the lambs may be left in one or two minutes after the man has been obliged to come out. It appears to me this is the common- sense way of getting at the worms on the lungs rather than to put drugs in * be stomach to vaporize through the luu S 3 and tracbea - A Very Attractivo variety, The Sultan bre ed was introduced in- to Europe byway of Constantinople some forty year8 ag0 . Ia nlftlly re . spe cts the Sultans resemble the White Polish, but they have shorter legs and ,s p* tj ^<2 ty/-' 'Mif, ,/i w/ V rj PRIZE HEX. more abundant plumage. The latter is very white and flowing; on the head they have a compact Polish tuft; the comb is only two little points, and the wattles are very small. They have five toes on each foot. The fowls are nou- sitters, small caters and layers of large, white eggs. They are said to be hardy when mature, but are difficult to raise, They are very small and are kept chiefly as pets, being generally re- garded as the most beautiful of all do- mestie fowls. They are, however, good layers, Remedies for Cutworms. H E Weed of tlle Mississippi Ex- iment station> w , ites . Every year cutworms (lo more 01 . legs damage to nearly all crops, especially to tomatoes, cab bages and com. Whenever sod or grassy i au d is left until spring before bei plowed; any cr0 which may be planted on such land will be consider- ably damaged by f cutworms, The reason ig that th( worms are nearl fuU n in the before ; t theynee d one d meal turning into ^ a ahort time after „ h ich tbe y {orth ftg m „ ht . fl ^ i moths . The Hfe hist / of cutworms is aW aK followg xhe moths lay their e ^ g gs b i grass b throughout b the summer nths aud a{tei . after a few day3 J ^ ° hatch into Bmall worn ls which feed upon the grass, The worms cast off their skin from time to t; nle p, accommodate their increase in size , aud during the cooler weather of ^ter go deeper in the ground, being dormant for a time if the weather is very cold. Upon the approach of spring the worms come forth for a fin¬ ishing touch of growth and soon form . the ground . just . , below , , the ., Pup* in sur- face ' Some Line after this the moths are P’’ odaoed . aad > a «<* “ atln e> tbe females lay the eggs for .another brood. Wltb moat 8 P ecie8 there 18 but thls one brood a year. Most farmers are beginning tc^eal- . ‘ ba advan of fall plow- lze many ages nig, and whcre Hod land especuuty is P lowed “ the falld wlU PJeatly lessen tne number ot ( cutworms unci otnei in- sects on such land the following spring. A good remedy for killing out the cutworms in the garden is to make up a mixture consisting of a quantity of bran or corn meal, to which is added a little paris green and a little molasses or sugar to give a sweetish taste. It is the paris green that kills the worms, and this should be very thoroughly mixed with the bran so as to have a uniform mixture. A spoonful of this mixture should be placed near the plants just before night on the day the plants are set out. The cut worms work at night and will be killed by eating of the poisoned mix¬ ture. It is much better, however, to place the mixture about in various parts a field a few days before plant¬ ing, as it will then kill off the worms before any damage is done. A Raddev an<l Wheel for Picking Apples. The cut given here is intended to represent a ladder mounted on two wheels for the purpose of being easily moved about the tree, or from one tree to another in the orchard, in gathering apples or other fruit. It can be made quite light, and will be found a useful means of gathering fruit; any ingenious fruit grower can make this step-ladder. There are always old buggy wheels around the farm, or if not there, around mm §r n /'/ jtj// .HOME-MADE FRUIT GATHERER. blacksmith shops, which are good enough for this purpose, and if there is any old cast off axle-tree use it, but if not one of fvoodcan be Baade to serve the purpose. The base of the ladder resting upon the earth holds the ladder in position when weighted down by the man who is picking. It will bo noticed there are handles with which to raise the base of the ladder, and push the ladder along like a wheel-barrow from one place to another. Different Characteristics in Dees. Ordinarily one would think that bees are bees the year over, and that their characteristics and qualifies, good and bad, were about one and the same thing. While there is very dis¬ tinct difference in the different races of bees, there is yet a greater differ¬ ence in the colonies of the same race. There are almost as many different characteristics, as there are colonies in the apiary. This very nearly amounts to saying, that no two colonies are alike. The whole make-np of the colony in whatever particular in altogether in the queen, and whatever point is the specialty in that colony, the whole colony inherits the same thing. So, well acquainted with the different characteristics of the bees, the apiarist selects his breeding stock, and breeds for any points he deems most profit¬ able or wishes to attain. Some colonies far exceed others in gathering honey, some breed up more rapidly, and some colonies are more inclined to swarm than others, some are good comb builders, while others are better at filling the extractor. Some colonies consume less honey dur¬ ing the winter than others and come out in better condition in the spring; some breed up so rapidly in early spring as to far exceed their superior in strength. Some colonies are in¬ clined to rob and give more trouble than they are worth Some strains have greater endurance of wing, will carry larger loads and go further for it; some are inclined to build drone combs exclusively for surplus, while others build worker comb. Some will enter the surplus boxes at once and store hundreds of pounds of honey, while others positively refuse and per¬ sist in swarming. Some strains have longer tongues than others and can reach clear down into the tubes of the red clover blossonffand make a success of gathering honey, while others would starve right beside it. Some colonies have such in irascible temper that it is almost impossible to handle them, while others are perfectly gentle and can be handled with ns much satisfac¬ tion as little downy chickens. Some breeders, not content with the beautiful color of the three-banded Italian bee, went to work to breed for color, and have perfected their object by producing full colonies of Italian bees showing five distinct bands of yellow. scarcely I have There is a point that mentioned above that cannot be im¬ proved upon and brought out to some extent by careful breeding; and this is being done by every careful breeder. It is but little trouble to note the best colonies in an apiary, and to breed both drones and queens from them; enough queens can be raised from one queen, or one colony, to re-queen the largest apiary in one season. It is true that the breeding of bees must be done to some extent on the “hit” and “miss” plan, as it is impos¬ sible to control the matings of some queens to any degree of certainty, but rapid progress can be made by select¬ ing stocks to produce the requisite number of drones and queens, and barring out all others in the breeding line.—A. H. Duff, in Farm, Field and Fireside. Maine is about as large as Ireland and nearly three times as large as Bel- gium, yet, instead of having from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 inhabitants, ii had, in 1890, only 661,000, marvels tlie Boston Herald.