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23 g z e - / 3 R A P 48 Ca ), L HE 4 " - " wread FOR. THEe. .. . 2 Vg o ;A 08l PR A 1 N { | ras G e Jo L A, % s“sw s , ' G A T AND e RN A T oW A s yz2 Z 5 _*. R I Y\ AN s X P Y — earn R (e D g '/‘;’l"a s z o o z-;: ) g oo o S Soils Not Suitable For Alfalfa, Any field likely to be under water or the soil saturated with water at any time for more than thirty-six hours at a time is quite ynsuitable for alfalfa. Any field with a hard pan subsoil within two feet of the surface will prove-unsatisfactory for alfalfa.—Weekly Witness. f— s | : Warts on Horses, ‘ To cure warts on horses rub the wart well with soft soap, and fn a few days a scab will appear. Pick the scab off when it gets loose and rub again with soft soap, repeating the operation until the wart is gone, It will not leave a scar and will not return.—Weekly Witness. Raise Corn For Silage, All dairymen recognize the valuei of corn ensilage as a cheap food for milk production. It is but seldom! on looking over the roughage of any large dairy barn, that corn stover ls’ seen. The silo has taken the place| of the corn stalk loft. . | An experiment conducted recently at the Pennsylvania experiment sta-l tion showed that in meat production steers fed corn silage as part of thelrl ration made better gains than those fed corn stover. The stover fed steers ate more grain than those fed silage, but the cost of the feed, how ever, was less, to the credit of a sto ver ration, But whether corn is in a silo or on the loft it is a mighty good food, when rightly used, and none too much is raised by New Eng land farmers.—F. P. H,, in the American Cultivator. I Setting and Hatching, When the turkey hen gets broody, bring her to the house and confine her in a pen or house where noth ing can bother her, dusting her with insect powder when get and again when taken off with the little tur keys. I make my insect powder from ashes, sulphur, snuff and cam phor balls, j ; . When the hen hatches do not dis turb her, ‘except: to!mke the empty shells from the nestiso they will not get stuck on the eggs that have not hatched. Whén she is through hatch ing, let the little ones stay in the place she hatched them wuntil they are several days old. They will be &in to "“"‘“’.fim“‘ to eat as soon as they net mmi . Then take them 'Tl'? T the house where the‘chickens cannot run' over them, and put them down and feed a little.—Progressive Farmer, Handling Hard Land, : There might be several classes of land which we could find in this sec tion. The first would be land which is adaptable to hoed crops; which is free enough from stones or sur plus moisture o that it can be used in a regular rotation of three or four years, land suitable for growing po tatoes or corn, Then there is a lot of New England land that is too damp and has too many stones just below the surface to allow it to he plowed conveniently. That land we must handie in a somewhat different way. Probably as good a method of handling this land as any is one that I have seen followed in New York, topdressing with a light coat of barnyard manure, about eight or ten spreader loads per acre, every Year, and at the same time using a small quantity of clover seed and working it in with a light harrow ing of sowae kind, efther with a spec fal brush harrow or the ordinary smoothing harrow. I have seen this done in several instances with marked success. There is another kind of land which is too rough to bLe handled in either of these ways, or perhaps too steep, but land which is admirably suited to the growing of apples.—W. B. Dodge, U. 8. De partment of Agriculture, Farm Highway Fences, In the early settlement of the American colonies the gettlers nead ed every foot of their cleared land to raise corn, potatoes and pump kins, and could not possibly spare any of their small clearings for pas turage. Consequently everybody's cattle and horses (and frequently hogs) were pastured in the woonds and along the roadside, and of courss good, high, strong fences bécame an absolute necessity gfor the protection of the crops (which nobody disputed and the law imperatively required), of no damages could be collected for injury to crops by a neighbor's cattle. The woods and roadsides were con sidered as public commons upon which everybody's farm stock had a right to run. In the colony of Mas sachusetts there was one exception— ungelded horses ‘‘unless of comely proportions and of good size, not less than fourteen hands higl,” were not | alowed to run in the commons or woods. | The necessity which once existed, for pasturing the woods and road sides has long since passed in the ~old, settled States, but the fence laws enacted under 30 old eohe;mofil‘ “have been allowed to remain -on the statute books of most of them to this ‘day because so many voters without farms wanted to keep their cows ia thie streets and not hire pasturage, and the lawmakers dared not touch the old laws for fear of loging votes. With" only the scanty pickings of the street cattle soon get desperate with hunger and become breachy. Not many years ago seven cows were pastured in our street; sometimes the whole seven could be seen together. A farm gate could not be left open when drawing in hay and grain, or five or sic of the neighbors’ cows would rush in. A neighbor’s breachy cow broke into our garden in the daytime. Another man’s*cow got in to the dooryard in the night, the gate being accidentally - left open, At length our lawmakers at Harrisburg ventured to let the people of the State vote on the question of fence or no fence, and a large majority was for no fence. As the law stands now, everybody must take care of his own stock. They are not required to fence other people’s cattle out, but only find it necessary to fence their pasture fields to keep their own cattle in, and no stock is allowed in the public highways, except when being driven to market or from place to place. It appears to be a just and beneficial law, producing excellent results, and it should have been enacted long ago. The wages of lahor are so high that men without land can afford to buy miik or hire pasturage for a cow. I know several laborers who have bought houses and lots and paid for them from their earnings. The saving in expense to the peo ple of the State in having fewer fences to build and keep in repair is immense, and the saving in annoy ance and vexation has been still greater.—J, W. Ingham, Sugar Run, Pa. Experiments With Stable Manure, Ateathe Maryland agricultural sta tion two sets of experiments with stable manure—one covering three years and the other seven years— have been conducted, The results as a rule favored the use of fresh manure applied directly from the stable as against rotted ma nure. The best results were ob tained by applying the manure ag long in advance of the time the crop was to use it as possible. As between applying fresh and rotted manure before and after plowing, the results favored applying fresh manure as a top-dressing after plow ing. In a comparison of plowing under manure in the fall and spring, the differences were slight but uni formly in favor of allowing the ma nure to remain on the land during the winter and plowing it down in the spring. Subsoiling in addition to deep plowing did not show suffi cient advantage to warrant the ex. tra expense involved. *‘The use of kainit with the manure seemed to exert a beneficial influence every year, and it was more marked in dry than wet seasons.” The growth of crimson clover was better on soils receiving fresh manure than on those treated with rotted manure. ! Farm Cullings. Too heavy loads make balky horses. With all stock discomfort always costs in extra feed. Milking should always be done in a clean, airy place, free from all bad odors. Plowing for wheat should begin just as soon as possible after the harvest work is finished up. Dairy stock can not be improved it a promiscuous trying of all breeds is permitted to go on. Cream should have a uniform con sistency as well as being of uniform ripeness before churning. The cow, to do her best and con tinue it for the longest period, must have at least one-fifth her food of some kind of nitrogen, tl takes longer and costs more to make up a pound of loss than it doed to add five pounds of gain under fa vorable conditions. ~ln feeding fattening hogs, the food should always be given in a clean, whelesome condjtion and never al lowed to become sour. The walk is the foundation of all the other gaits, and without begins ning at the foundation all future de velopments will be' unsatisfactory. As soon as the tops of the onions 'are dead they should be pulled, thrown in rows, allowed to cure a few days and then be stored away. Good hickory ashes are said to be excellent for expelling worms from the bowels of young horses. Give a couple of tablespoonfuls twice a week in their feed. The great secret in making under draining a permanent improvment is in securing uniform form in laying the tile, and maintaining a good out let. As a rule, the safest plan is to look the ground over carefully and then plan out the ditches tq the best advantage. M Of the 480,000 schoolboys to whom Lord Roberts' letter on the harmtul eftects of smoking have been read by the Rey. J. M. Dryerre during his anti-stcoking lectures, 450,000 have pledged themselves not to smoke unti} they are twenty-one years of nge. ROME IS JOYFUL; . . ONCE MORE A PORT, = Sees Vision of Restored Suprem ‘ @cy as Chief Maritime Centre ; of the Globe, r Rome is mad with joy. Romans embrace one another in the street with congratulations and applause. For the Romans see at no distant date the Eternal City reinstated in her place as chief port of the world, and receiving the riches and mer chandise of all climes, The Granatiere (the Grenadier) has' successfully navigated the wind ing Tiber and has been welcomed as the forerunner of a new epoch, Thousands and thousands of I;g --mans thronged the banks of the Ti ber and the surface of the river was alive with boats to watch the arrival of Their Majesties the King and Queen, who were to present the Granatiere with a banner of honor. Princess Letitia and the Princes:of the Blood Royal were present, the cannon thundered and the flag flut tered mast high on the torpedo boat. And indeed the captain of the bpat deserved high praise, for the wind ings and shallows of the river are anything but easy to navigate, A dozen times bow and stern almost touched the banks as some sharp tern was taken. Now the boat lies at Ripa Grande, the ancient Roman wharf, waiting for the rain to fall and give the Tiber sufficient water to enable it to return to the sea. i A daily service of boats has now been started from Rome to Sardnia direct, and the introduction of ecattle from Sardinia, with the other pro ducts of the island, will be greatly facilitated, ! But the great scheme of the Ro mans is once more to make Ostia, a dozen miles southwest, the port for first-rate seagoing vessels, so that the great ocean steamships coming from America, England or the Anti podes will no longer be obliged to en ter the ports of Genoa, Livonia or Naples, but will unship their cargoes and disembark their pauengetqu"at Ostia, the ancient port, from which a Journey of twenty minutes by n’i’! or automobile will carry them to Rome. A rallway line will be finished by 1911, and the milllons of visitors from foreign shores who come to Rome in that year of festivities will, instead of having to undergo a tedious journey of six, seven or elght hours, find themselves at Rome in twenty minutes. e It is not impossible—nay, it is more than probable—that in three years Rome will outdistance all her sister cities of Italy and take ;%rstf’ rank among the ports of the world. The Romans are arousing from their long lethargy. Building is to be carried on with increased vigor, and f‘ivhen!&mmffifbt":R&!gw' sgghor in three years’ time they w H fin provisions cheaper and an enormous quantity of new houses ~andgmls ready to receive them. Rome looks forward to a great tuture.—-agpme (Italy) Correspondence to the New York World. Reconcile Religion Too Late, “The late Bishop Fowler,” said a Buffalo Methodist, ‘“‘was a broad minded man, Bigotry he abhorred. Creed, he claimed, should never hedge one good Christian from an other. Sincere creeds, no matter how diverse, should, on the contrary, bind Christians together. ‘“‘Bishop Fowler used to tell about a young Detroit couple, John Smith and Hannah Jones. e “John Smith was a Presbyterian. Hannah Jones was a Baptist. 'They hesitated about marrying, because they feared that in later life, when the little ones came, religious dis putes might arise. Thus the years passed. Neither would renounece his church. John Smith grew bald and Hannah Jones developed lines about her mouth and eyes. It was & com plete deadlock, the world said. “Then John was sent abroad for a year by his firm to buy fancy goods. He and Hannah correspond ed regularly. Toward the year's end, by a remarkable coincidence, each re ceived from the other a letter, the two letters crossing in the mails. They said: ol " ‘Friend John—The obstacles that stood in the way of our marriage have at last been removed. This day I was received in full member ship in the Presbyterian Church. Hannah.’ " ‘Dearest Hannah—We have no longer any ground for dell{‘rF‘ our union. I united myself this day with the Baptist Church. John.'" — New England Grocer. e ————————————————— Dr. Wiley's Chicken Pie. It is told that Dr. Wiley, the Gov ernment’s pure food expert, recently entered a Washington restaurant and gave a bowing waiter this order: “Bring me a chicken pie—one of those little individual pies.” A few minutes later it was set be fore him, brown and hot, and with a smile of anticipation he ?&. the crust to find, just beneath, a three inch feather, ot “Take this away!” he demanded. “What does it mean, anyway? Tell me that!” The waiter was evidently a man of resource, for he immediately leaned over and said in a confidential voice: “Why, Ah'll tell yo', sah. It's dis way. Yo' know dat Dr. Wiley been raisin’ such er howl ‘'bout food not bein’ what hit was claimed to be, de cook des puts one chicken fedder in each one of them pies h‘*@”‘t« folks dat dey's recebin' de genwiae article, sah.” i with the Fonny fellow ey 7 N - If‘“-‘ . BN (,cfwéé' S\ [ L ww Sy "’iul-." s AFTER GETTING THE BALLOT. Tn 1908 e Women declare Affairs of state ; Owe them a share. Their campaign cry in full we quote: *“Women should be allowed to wote.” ' In 2008 We will, T wis, Hear men berate The dears like this: “Of. state affairs they take no note. Women should be compelled to vote.” --Louisville gourier-Joumal. The Milky Way, ‘““How'd you get here, old man?” “In my airship.” b “Road good?”’ " A “Clpudy."——Life. T i e s Fisher's Luck. 2 Stella—*"Did she fish for compli ments?”’ Bella—''Yes, but the big ones got away.”—Harper’s Weekly. - Gritty. “Fifty miles an hour,” yelled the chauffeur; “are you brave?” ‘“Yes; I'm full of grit,” replied the girl, as she swallowed another pint of dust. The Doubting Copper, Magistrate (sternly) — “Didn’t 1 tell you the last time you were here I never wanted you to come before me again?”’ Prisoner—‘‘Yes, sir, but I couldn’t make the policeman believe it.”’— Tit-Bits. More Art. ~ Auctioneer—‘‘Going! Going! Gone! Here, sir, it’s yours. Great bargain, sir. The frame alone is worth the price.”’ Connoisseur (ripping out the pic ture)—'‘The frame is what I want ed.”—Pick-Me-Up. Making a Hit. “You have been staying with James lately, haven’t you, John?” llYes‘v! “They say his new wife has an aw ful temper. How did she strike you?” ‘*With anything that came handy.” ~—Baltimore American. Revenge! or, the Cast Shoe. : < e \ ,\.... ‘s‘”,%, ‘%, i ’ ™y s\J, v "‘""- Gz : —t) (e Y L B o kw ‘\h ’t } < LT ..\ APN j s EEAS oW) - TN TR WD : fi&\""fi"“".,_., o . Gratitude. : —From Punch. i Good Ears, First Farmer—*“That new hired man of yours must have been a book keeper before he came to you.” ' Second Farmer—*“Wny s 0?" First Farmer—'lnotice that every time he stops work for a few minutes he puts the pitchfork behind his ear.” —Woman's Home Companion. Well Preserved,. “I told Miss Knox to-day,” said he, “that the only word that properly described you was ‘peach.’” ‘‘lndeed?”’ replied Miss Bute. 1 suppose she said sometbing ‘real nice,” as usual.” **Well, she said: ‘I suppose that is the proper word. At any rate she looks well preserved.’ ”” — Philadel phia Press. One of Them. “Confound it!" cried the angry husband, “any old thing appeals to you if it’s only cheap!” His bargain hunting wife grimly smiled. “Don’t forget,” she sarcastically remarked, “that you yourself are one of my characteristic investments."—— Vleveland Plain Dealer. Just As He Said, Investor (angrily) — *‘See here! you told me I'd surely clear between five and six hundred dollars on that deal.” Broker—‘"“Well?"” Investor — *“‘Well, I cleared just $8.75 on it.” Broker—'‘Then you've got no kick. That's bLetween §5 and S6OO, isn’t it?"—Philadelphia Press. Not That Brand,. “‘Are you studying Esperanto, Mr. Idiot?” asked the linguist, “I am not,"” said the idiot. *“I can talk too much in English if I want 0. "It is a very fine language,” said the linguist—'‘condensed, concise and easily acquired, “No doubt,” said the idiot. ‘‘But I don’t care for potted tongue,"'— Catholic Mirror. Unobtainable. The Doctor's Wife-—'""Well, Jane, 80 your poor husband's gone at last. Didn't you give him his medicine properiy?” Jane—"Ah, poor dear, how could 1? Doctor said as how it was to be took in a recumbent position, an’ I ‘adn’'t got one. I asked Mrs. Green to lend me one. She said she ’‘ad one, but it was broke! So it were no good."—The Sketch. The Other Way About. Befcre trying to match the sample of silk the clerk asked: “Is this a piece of something you want or dcn’t want?” “Something I want, of ccurse,” re plied the customer. “You don’t sup pose, do you, that I would go to all this trouble for a thing I can’t use?” “Some folks do,” said the clerk. “I have met a number of them. The first woman I ever saw with that kind of a bee in her bonnet had a square inch of blue silk that she wanted me to match. Tke scrap of silk was so small that it was hard to make com parisons, but after hauling down half the blue bolts on the shelves and running to the door several times to test the color in broad daylight I found the exact shade. “‘How many yards do you want, madam?’ I asked. “‘Oh,” gald the woman, ‘I don’t want any. Almost any other shade will do. That particular shade is very unbecoming. I just wanted to make sure that I don’t get it, that’s all.’” The customer laughed. “What did you say?” she asked. “I'd rather not tell,” said the clerk. —Philadelphia Ledger. OPEN DEALING IN PAINT. Buying paint used to be like the proverbial buying of a *pig in a poke.” Mixtures in which chalk, ground rock, etc., predominated were | marked and sold as “Pure White Lead,” the deception not being ap parent until the paint and the paint ing were paid for. This deception is still practiced, but we have learned to expose it easily. National Lead Company, the larg est makers of genuine Pure White Lead, realizing the injustice that was being done to both property owners and honest paint manufacturers set about to make paint buying sate. They first adopted a trade mark, the now famous ‘‘Dutch-Boy Painter,” and put this trade mark. as a guar anty of purity, on every package of | their White Lead. They then set | about familiarizing the public with the glow-pipe test by which the puris ty and genuineness of White Lead may be determined, and furnished a blow-pipe free to every one who would write them for it. This ac tion was in itself a guaranty of the purity of National Lead Company’s White Lead. As the result of this open dealing the paint buyer to-day has only him self to blame if he is defrauded. For test outfit and valuable bookiet on painting address National Lead Com pany, Woodbridge Bldg., New York. Free electricity travels at the same rate as light—lß6,ooo miles a second, Through wire, only 16,000 miles a seo ond. REMOVES CORNS WITHOUT PAIY. ABBOTT’S EAST INDIAN CORN PAlNTremoves corns, root andall, without cutting or burn ing and leaves no soreness, It cures soft corns between the toes, bunions orsore, callous spots. It ouresall quick and per manent. Get it at your druggist or send 25c. to TaE ABBoTT Co., Savannah, Ga. 4 — The tramp who is kicked out of a house can honestly claim sympathy as the victim of a rear-end collision. To Drive Out Malaria and Build Up the System Take the Old Standard GrROVE'S TasTE LEss CriLL Toxtc. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly grinted on every bottle, showing it is simply Qui nineang Iron in a tasteless form, and the most effectual form. For grown people and children. 50c. What is said to be the largest wag on in the world is doing service at Nome. It is 26 feet long, and 7 feet high from the axle and has wheels 10 feet in diameter, DEATH TO RING WORM, ‘“Everywhere I go I speak for TETTERINE, because it cured me of ringworm in its worst form, My whole chest from neck to waist was raw as beef; but YETTERWE cured me. It also cured a bad case of piles.”” So says Mrs. M. F. Jones of 28 TannehiM St., Pittsburg, Pa. TerTRRINE, the great skin remedy, is sold by druggists or sent by mail for 50c. Wtite J. T. SHUPTRINE, Dept, A, Savannah, Ga,. : Oldest of Diseases. Bubonic plague i{s one of the oldest diseases known to man. Xntire na tlons have been uwept from the face of the earth by this dread enamy, und whole stretches of fertile coun ity have been abandoned Lecause of a pestilence therein with which the inhabitants did not know how to cope. There bave been times in the world’s history when this disease ravaged the entire civilized. globe, as when, in 1334 A. D, it swept from China to Norway, leaving in its wake more than twenty-five million victims. Read ers of Daniel Defce will recall his vivid description of the awful scenes in London when England was ravaged by the Black Death. Creighton in his history tells of the deaths of 70.- 000 people in London in the summer of 1665. Benvenuto Cellini suffered from the plague, and his accurate de scription of his experience withe the disease from its earliest symptoms un til his .complete recovery is not the least interesting of the writings of that remarkable man, Even in our own times the plague has claimed its toll of myriads of lives. Since 1895 bubonic plague has carried off four hundred thousand peo ple annually in India alone. It is a curious fact that the connection be tween the plague and the rat has been known from the dawn of history. In some of the most ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics we find the rat display ed as the symbo: of the plague, It was not, however, until within re cent years that science identifled the plague germ, a short cocco bacillus of oval rod shape. The bacillus was discovered by Kitasato and Yersin during the Hong-kong outbreak of 18%4.—Harper's Weekly. i Syru p¥ Fies O“tElixlir Qf; Sennu acts gently vel prompt lv onthe bgvye[s. Eleonges {{\e system efita-c’tuauy. assis‘gs/one wn overcoming habitual consfi‘)cfiion evmanently. To petits %eneficial eflects b\y the denuine. &r\fjflc‘tured@/{he IFORNIA Fic Sxrup Co. FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE MEN with teams are selling our products to FARMERS in thirty-four different States. Seventy useful articles that country people need. We furnish the goods and give agents time to turn them into money. Address, J. R. WATKINS CO.,Winona, Minn. —————————————— e Hot weather suggestion—Get your best girl miffed, then there will be a coolness between you, 25¢c. WILL CURE YOUR CORNS If you invest it in a bottle of ABBoTT’S EAST INDIAN CORN PAINT., Itremoveshardorsott corns, bunions or sore, callous spots on the foet, warts or indurations of the skin. No pain, no cutting, no ‘“‘eating’’ of the flesh, no after soremess; quick, safe, sure. At druggist or by mail from Tre AsorT Co\, Savannah, Ga. $ One idle man can keep several per sons from doing the work they want to do, John R. Dickey’s 61d reliable eye water cures sore eyes or granulated lids. Don’t hurt, feels good; get the genuine in red box. Even the naked truth appears in better light if clothed in polite lan guage, : Hicks' Capudine Cures Women's Monthly Pains, Backache, Nervousness, and Headache. It’s Liquid. Effects imme diately. Prescribed by physicians with best results. 10c., 25¢c., mi 50c., at drug stores. Oid Schoolmates of Theirs. ~ A conductor sent a new brakeman to put some tramps off the train; they were riding in a box car. The brake man dropped into the car and said, “Where are you fellows going?” “To Atchison.” “Well, you can’'t go to Atchison on this train; so get off.” “You get,” same the reply, and as the new brakeman was looking into. the business end of a gun he tock the ad vice given him and “got.”” He went back to the caboose, and the conductor asked him if he had put the fellows off. “No,” he answered, “I did not have the heart to put them off. They want to go to Atchison, and, besides, they are old schoolmates of mine.” The conductor used some very strong language, and then sfid he would put them off himself.. He went over to the car and met with the same ex perience as the brakeman. When he got back to the eaboose the brakeman sald, “Well, did you put them off?” “Naw, they're schoolmates of mine, itoo.”—Washington (Kan.) News. SHE KNEW, OF COURSE. “Professor,” said Mrs. Gaswell to the distinguished musician who had been engaged at a high price to en tertain’ her guests, “what was that lovely selection you played just now?”’ “I'hat, madam,” he answered, glar ing at her, “wag an improvisation.” “Ah, yes; I remember now. I knew it wag an old favorite, but I couldn’t think of the name of it to save me.” FRIENDLY TIP Restored Hope and Confidence. After several years of indigestion and its attendant evil influence on the mind, it is not very surprising that one finally loses faith in things gen erally. . A N. Y. woman writes an interest ing letter. She says: “Three years ago I suffered from an attack of peritonitis which left me in a most miserable condition. For over two years I suffered from ner vousness, weak heart, shortness of breath, could not sleep, etec. “My appetite was ravenous but 1 felt starved all the time. I had plenty of food but it did not nourisa me because of intestinal indigestion. Medical treatment did not seem to help, I got discouraged, stopped medi cine and did not care much whether I lived or died. “One day a friend asked me why I didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking coffee and use Postum. I[l had lost faith in everything, but to please my friends I began to use both and soon became very fond of them. “It wasn’t long before I got some strength, felt a decided change in my gsystem, hope sprang up in my heart and slowly but surely 1 got better. I could sleep very well, the constant craving for food ceased and I have better health now than before the at tack of peritonitis. “My husband and I are still using Grape-Nuts and Postum.” “There's & Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, “The Road %o Wellville,” in pkgs. " Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, aud full of human interest.