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THU ■■WKBKLir •JJJNarmfWDN. ATLANTA, gA., TUESDAY DECEMBER 8 1885.
PICTURES OF StRANGE LANDS.
The Constitution*# School of Travel and Ad-
Tcntnro and Slglit-8«elng.
null fax com*fpondcncc of the New York Sun.
I met a diver here a day ago who ws* work
ing on a wreck off the roost. “I* it true,” I
asked, “that divers sec inch wonders when *
they go below?" He told roc a story of thrill
ing interest in reply. A large ship laden
with silks and valuable stuffs had been
canght by vagrant tides and borne through
the fog towards the Newfoundland coast till
the faro of a tall rliff loomed against the
bowsprit. Then a awell rolled in, lilted the
vessel and laid her across a sunken rock that
barred the month of Chance Core. Not many
minutes afterward alio lay at the bottom of the
gulf inside, with all-bcr* costly bole*, her crew
and passengers. The undertow aoon began to
cast precious boxes upon the land, and the un
derwriters dispatched divers and boats and
wen to recover the sunken cargo. *'
the autumn of the year,and when the sea grew
smooth
THE DIVERS REGAN THEIR WORK
Three boats were employed, in each of which
were four men, one to go down and fasten
hooks into the bales and three others to raise
the package and put it npon the boat. Each
divtr had a proper suit, and from his head
arose a large rubber tube through which ho
could breathe with tolerable ease, os the water
was not very deep. Upon his feet were
ksd-laden shoes to keep him from rising
to the surface, and he carried a heavy crow
bar.
One afternoon when, dinner was ended and
tho sea had grown smooth enough to permit
operations, tho boat, served by n diver of the
name of Harley, rowed out from tho rocks
ahead cf the others. As usual tho diver let
himself drop from the skiff's side, holding his
crowbar in his hands. When he reached tho
ship
A HOST or STRANGE FISHES
swam away in every direction. A number of
squids had entered tho vessel through » breach
in the side. When they perceived the figure
of a man among them they became frightened
and began to squirt Jets of black Juico till tho
water grew murky ami appeared liko n room
will. .Htnlrn till* tillin'
filled with dark-green smoke. Then the filthy
creatures swam away, though once or twice a
clammy horn brushed post tho mask of tho
diver. In a little while, however, the water
became clear again.
All about him was a shining amber green,
and he could distinguish objects for a distance
of twenty fathoms around. Hometimea a fish
with bright gills and Hashing scales would
swim toward the open hold, but, on seeing the
diver, would turn with a fltrtof Hnaml tail and
disappear. The detestable yellow sctilpin with
Its black maiming spikes, would coiue and
swim round and round bis feet; then it would
gradually rise, surveying him all tho way till
it reached his head. Pausing hero (t would
peer in at his oyes. While ho was engaged fas
tening the esnthooks Into a largo bale of In
dia shawls he imsgineo that ho saw some largo
object moving In the deep gulch under the
cliff. lie eccurcd tho hooks, gave the signal to
hoist, and tho package was raised. Ilo now
walked clear of the vessel, and stood upon the
level reck at the aea bottom. He saw slowly
approaching
A HUGE II,f.-SHApgn CREATURE.
It did not swim, ImiI seemed to crawl along
tho bottom of the sea. Hurley would have
gone to the surface, but the hooka were now
above, and the men were engaged taking the
bale on hoard. In a few seconds tho monster
was near enough for the diver to ascertain
that its body resembled that of a turtle, that
it walked upon a number of crookod legs, and
had, near its head, upon either side, an enor
mous arm, The arm terminated In what
seemed a pair of enormous jaws, and in each
of these gleamed a row of strong, sharp teeth..
At flrat ho thought that the creature might
not have observed him, and was only raaklug
its way toward the ship; but ho quickly saw
that Its two gleaming eyes were Hxed upon
him with a steady stare, and that the hideous
thing was coming directly for himself. If the
hocks would only descend, or another diver
rune down! Ho looked up, hut couhl perceive
nothiug save the figure of the host above him
resting like a shadow upon the water. Thou
he took two or three paces along the shin’s
side, but the fish immediately ehanged Its
course, and crawled in such a direction as to
CUTOFF RETREAT.
The fish was now only a few feet distant,
aud the sun, bursting through a cloud, shown
shimmering down through the green water,
fully revesting the mature. Its armor was«
dun niftCt, li pair of niigcuure. long mid sup
ple, each like a feschman’s whin, protruding
ram liis head. Then the truth came upon
Harley. This wav the inexorable monster,
the giant lotate r of the deep sea. Only a Ilttlo
while before ho had seen tho huge arm of a
lobster taut upon a beach after a gale, and heard
that, rtawling shout the sea, hundreds of
miles from land, was to lie seen a monster of
the lohftrr kind, Just ns among the squids wai
found s glgkutic devilfish. He had not be
lifted l but story, but hero before him now mu
the terrible crustacean, morn hideous aud more
litter than even repute had mado him. The
hedy was ftilly ten fret long aud about three
feet thuk, while the length of each arm was
nbt lew than seven feet. He now began to
retreat, thinking to
vern ilia pursuer
among the floating tales in the hold, but the
water hero was so gloomy that ho could not
see at bis anus' length. So lie turned and
walked toward the opening again, holding his
crowbar in hls hands. Tho lobster bad put
cnc claw upon the vessel's timber, and was in
the-actof iwtsiag the other when Harley reap
peared. To pass out was impossible. 8o ho
stood with hls tack braced against a partition
in the hold, waiting the attack. The fish
cstuc directly towaid him, its two black,
gleaming ryes glaring steadfastly. Harley
made no move until ho felt the coils of tho
•qui lining atrnuse fold themselves lithely
around Ids neck. Then raising hls crowbar he
lunged it with all hls strength at the lobster’s
head. The aim was accurate enough, but tho
pdlnt glanced ftrorn the thick, smooth shell aud
was buried in the overlapping rings about tho
monster's ueck. For a moment the lobster
SKRMRt) stunned.
aud Harley made a step outward, for he saw
the hooks Sdangllng In the water a few paces
away. Hut the efltat of tho blow passed away
almost simultaneously, aud before the diver
could swerve aside tlte enormous Jaws of cue
claw had dosed upon hls left arm. The thick
but sharply-pointed troth penetrated the flesh
to the very bone aud held him In a firm and
sgoi iiing grip. The pain was so terrible
that the unfortunate man almost swooned; and
in another moment his right leg was held fast
in the fangs of the remaiulng daw.
Then the kraken began to move rear
ward dragging his victim toward
the eliff. where, in the dark, still waters of the
gulch, ke might devour him without Interrup
tion. The wretched man thrust hls heels
antostthe ship’s timbers to resist the drag
ging of the fish; but the agony caused by the
teeth tearing through his flesh was more than
he could bear; and after a short struggle he
permitted himarlf to be homo as his captor
would. But he resolved to make another ef
fort for hls liberty. Drawing his knife from
ltsfbcatb.be plunged it into the tUh’s eye,
turning tke blade round and round. A stream
of .cloudy ooce came out and left only a hothw
locket.
MADDKXKD WITH PAIN
the brute began to crawl tackwanl and for
ward. now lying upon his aide and alternately
atselehmg out and contracting hb claws, but
all the while bolding the man in a vice-like
grip- Aft»*r a little while he resumed hls re-
faatiuft marvh. dragging hb victim along the
slippery reek. As for Harley he could offer
no ttstaence. A cloud of red lurked arennd
his ana and about his W, and he felt bU
strrnjrtb ebbing crsiluatly away. In a
lUtle while, indeed, the agony from the
remerreleas grin had vanished; a humming
noUerame Into his ears and the sea about,
turned yellow and began to rock. A human
figure bolding in hls hand a long, shining
Wade, drew near, bat he heeded not. Then
the light went out of the water, and he knew
no more. When he next opened bis eyes he
was in a lint upon the sca-sbore and learned
how another diver had descended and relc wed
him by severing first one and then the other of
the lobster’s claws.
Dock Farmers in China.
From the Belgsria Magazine.
One afternoon we went a most interesting
expedition up the river and then turned aside
into one of the many creeks, to the village of
Fsa-tcc, aud thence onward in search or one
of the great duck-hatching establishments,
where multitudinous eggs are artificially
hatched. The first we came to was closed, but
the boatmen told us ef another further on, so
we landed and walked along narrow ridges
between large flooded fields in which lotas
and water chestnuts are grown for the
sake of thofr edible roots. Both are nice
when cooked, but the collecting of these in
this deep mud must be truly detestable for the
poor women engaged In it. Passing by amazing
heaps of old egg shells (for which even the
Chinese seem to have as yet found no use) we
reached tho hatching house, in which many
thousands of eggs are being gradually warmed
in great baskets filled up with heated chaff,
and placid on shelves of very open basket
work, which are arranged in tiers all round tho
walls, while on the ground arc placed earthen
ware stoves full of burning charcoal. Here the
eggs arc kept for a whole day and night.the posi
tion of the baskets with reference to the stoves
being continually changed by attendants who
reserve their apparel for use in a cooler atmos
phere. A (tor this preliminary heating the eggs
are removed to other baskets in an other heat
ed rconi, to which they are dexterously carried
in cloths, each containing about fifty eggs. No
one but a neat handed Cninaman could carry
such a burden without a breakage! Here tho
eggs remain for about a fortnight, each egg
being frequently moved from placo
to place to equali/o their share of
heating. After this they arc taken to a third
room, where they are spread over wido shelves
and covered with sheets of thick, warm cotton;
and at the end of another fortnight hundred*
of little duckling* simultaneously break their
shells, and by evening perhaps a couple of
thousand fluffy Httlo beauties arc lauuehcd
into life and are forthwith fed with rice water.
Duck farmers (who know precisely when each
great hatching indue) are in attendance to buy
so many hundreds of these pretty infants,
whom they at once carry off to tlieir respec
tive fauns, where there arc already an im
mense number of ducks and geese of different
ages, all ill separate lot*. The geese, by tho
way. aro not hatched artificially, owing to the
i of their shells, consequently they
ducks. Still, nock*
not so very numerous as
numlx i liigGOO orHOO arc reared, and aro pro
vided with wuttic shelve* on which to roost, a*
damp ground i* considered injurious to the
youug birdn. A very large goose market if
held every morning in Canton, which is sup-
t iled by geese boat*, each of whl.;h
rings 200 or BOO birds. As to tho baby
ducks, they are fed on boiled rice, and after a
while are promoted to bran, maggots, and other
delicacies, till tho day comes when tho owners
of tho duck boats come to purchase tho half-
grown birds and commenco tho process of lot
ting them fatten themselves, as aforesaid.
This continue* till the* aro ready for the mar
ket and are either sold for immediate con
sumption,-or bought wholesalo by tho provis
ion dealers, who split, salt sad than dry them
in the sun. The heart, gizzard, and entrails
are ulso dried and sold separately, and tho
bills, tongues, and feet aro pickled in brine.
DECEMBER WEATHER.
Chicago, December 6.—Weather here this
morning, and throughout the northwest gener
ally, is clear and cold. The mercury here In
dicates 23 degrees stave zero. Tho storm last
night rnged in a fearful manner on the lake,
and it is feared that a great deal of damage was
do«e to shipping. Four or five vessels were dis
covered off tho mouth of the river this morn
ing, having been unable to mako port on ac
count of a heavy sea and because rigging
rould not be handled by reason of
tho heavy coating of Ico which com
pletely encased it Tho storm last
night beat up a tremendous sea along tho lake
shore. The Waves ran excessively high and
falling on heavy Plants of tho break water
broke them up like tinder. A man namod
Daniel Mills, aged about 00, was picked up
on the sidewalk of Twentieth avenue about
midnight, Insensiblo and halt covered with
snow. He died soon after being removed to a
place ofsheltcr.
Omaha, Neb-, December 5.—A tcrrlblo wind
storm prevailed here yesterday and lost night.
Tho velocity of tho wind for several hours was
cut I muted at sixty miles an hour. Considerable
damage has been done to buildings in Onuba
sml vicinity, although not of a very serious na
ture. Trains couid not run across tho Union
Pacific bridge for several hours on account of
tho wind.
Ql'KnKiK, December ft.—Ono ol
fiercest snow stul wiud storms
pcricnccd hero for years has been iu progress
since curly this morning. About two foot of
snow has (alien on a level and tho country roads
are keromlng blocked up with drifts or seven
and eight feet deep. Up to noon tho various
trains on tlio different rends were on time.
A LOVER'S DESPERATION.
Metropolis, III., December 3.—On Sunday
night Mary tlrron, a beautiful woman, twenty-
six years old, shot herself and is now dying.
8he had lived happily with her mother and
brothers until she met Kotart Graham. a
yuurg carpenter, who won her heart. Ho
lived in Kentucky, and occasionally visited
her, and they wore engaged to bo married at
an early day.
About two weeks ago Miss (Ireon learned
that Graham had married another. She left
this letter, which tells her storv:
J>*4nr*r Mot lira, Hi*tkk, Attn BkorngKc Grieve
not for me, for I am free ftom all my (roubles. Yon
do not know how great my troubles have been, but
1 have written two letters that will tltii-li toy lovo
story. If Itatart Gralum had never told ine he
loriil me I never would have known what tnwble
was. lie rsUI he loved me better than anything
ebe in this world, and I believed him to be true;
aud our heavenly Father knows my lovo for him
was tree, tat every man who practice* such bru
tal deception remember both Robert Graham's and
Mary Green’s love story. I loved him tatter than my
nan life, and 1 die broaiiMO ho is tho only one I
have ever loved, and he has forsakim me, and now
I have nothing to live for. llad ho never told mo
he loved me, then I would not havo had so great s
trouble, sud would not have broken my poor (fid
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u and 1 rould love but one. My love for hint
«-«uM*t me to doan act that 1 never thought I « ' *
do. Hob Graham will be my lost word* and
d) Ins thought*. If any one M»***k« evil of me,
Bob Graham apeak. and ho van do mo justice. My
mother, *Utvr aud brothers shall not suffer for my
crazy aft Mary.
Tho girl’s death L expected at any moment.
She said she had no wian to live aud no fear of
death.
Nee rotary RayareT# Romantic Non.
New York, December ft,—A Washington
special announce* the engagement of J*ine« Bay
ard, eldvM mo of aecretary of state, to Mt** Dca-
kln», of Fort lVndletoii. Wert Virginia. It says
that after young tBayard 1 * am*t with Butler Ms-
hone and one or two other senators' tons in Wath-
Wert Virginia and taught *cl
'ere be met MU*
Ik-akin* and became engaged to her. Senator
their influence to get the young iu*n,appointed sec
retary of Arizona.
e publication of the engagement at this time is
_ Med a* an indication that yoang Bayard will
not go wert unless be can take Mis* IVoktn* with
him os hi* wife. It odd* that it U understood the
atottary rtlU refuses to recognize hfasoo.
Consumption Cared.
An old physician, retired from practice, hav
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missionary the formula of a simple vegetable
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consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and
all thront and lung affections, also a positive
and radical cure for nervous debility amt ati
nervous complaints, after having tested its
wondarftil curative powers in thousand* of
cases, has felt it his duty to nuke it known to
his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will
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directions for preparing and ruing. Sent by
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kper, W. A. Noyes, 149 Power's Block, Roches-
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THE FIELD AND FARM.
The Hsward Agricultural Club of Hurke
County.
Wc give spare to the following articloon
live topics, which will ta read with interest
by our farmers:
Mr. C. T Belt had tho ploauiro of welcoming to
his home, last Thursday, a Bill attendance of mem
bers, and the following subject elicited an interest
ing discussion: '‘Success lu farming; what const!
lutes nieces* on the furm f' "Is tho making of
money always a proof of success?" Dr. G. 11. Powell
was called to the chair. Dr. W. B. Jones opened
tlic discussion with these remarks: "Within tho
lust twenty years there has been much to discour
age, rather than encourage successful fanning in
our county. Our agriculture, bulU in a great degreo
on atic speciality, as a money or speculative crop,
and for the purcha-o of a living,
is not now, . if it over ha*
been a success It is difficult for thoso long engaged
in one system of agriculture, as in other Industries.
to make sudden radical changes where capital and
labor have so long run in ono groove. It was my
experience during tlic slave era that those who
denuded and exhausted their roil in the rtaplo arti
cle of cotton became i*»rer, whilst tho c who pur-
»uetl a diversified system of planting an l raised
provisions for both man ami beast on the farm,
were money lenders, Increased their capital, and
kept up iu a great degree tho fortuity of
tlieir soil. 1 remember in an inaugural
address of a distinguished governor of
Georgia, in discussing tho varied interest of tho
stale, with railroads then oskiug for state aid, re
marked. "Chat tho best share ho could encourage
hls people to own was the plow share.’’ Hat ho
lived to our period he would have seen with us the
plow share very much abused and broken. There
can be no success in fanning even with tho exhibi
tion of money, when the same is accompanied
w ith the constant rapid deterioration of tho soil
from which crop* are gathered. This is witnessed
not only in our own county end
state, but in the . grain fields of
the north and west. A farmer’s capital
is his lands, house and work—stock. lie esn not
be said to be succcasAtl If he lessen* the value of
this capital. lie may invest hi* proceed t In oilier
enterprise* and lecminely make money, but his
taiiu and tenements wilt go to waste and decay
ai.d hi* means of farther paying interest from thev
w ill rapidly decrease. Ills neglect of home and
1 ome attractions will discourage hi* children and
drive them to other occupations, or other virgin
rolls to probably pursue the same system of ex
hsurtkm. 1 guarantee that no man can be a sue-
eewftil fanner, who does not feed slock upon
hi* place, and seek by every moans
n hi* power, with the droppings of
•nlma's. aud other sources of manures to keep up
the fenllity of his soil. 1 know of but one crop that
can be grown os a specialty consecutively for a
number of years profitably on the same land. The
rice lauds ou the deltas of our rivers, receiving an
nually sedimentary deposits by Irrigation, are kept
in actual fertility, but the rice crop i* exceedingly
ex|>cnslve aud a precarious one. If a farmer in this
section raise* Ita greater portion of hi* supplies,
maintains his family and educate* hls chil
dren, keep* lu repair hi* buildings
aud fixture*, and add* to his work stock and form
animals annually, farming with him is a success.
A ca>h account of the family expense* iu a living,
the supplies of butter, poultry, meats, etc., will stir-
prise oue what a fanu can pay. He may not exhibit
much ca*h money, but he uced* much lew than
where all these supplies have to be bought, and in
this light fanning Is successful. Our negroes, a*
tenants, ore not, and can never be, farmer*. They
are rot husbandmen, and lack that provideueo
which I* the bast* of successful farm
ing. It i* the duty of the white
rr.an with brains to raise sunplict In cxchang,» for
the product* of negro tenant*. CUcod cotton made
as a speciality for a living make* a dependant slave
of the w bite man and the negro, who deserve equal-
* “ nrlavvd for such suicidal f«rmi:i?.
f. Belt wo* of opiuiou farm 'd should keep
as accurate account* of their txrlnm a* merchants
do. and it would odd much to tbeir success.
Mr. K. II. Burton, who was next iu order, vrid
weevss In burning for the last tew yean had been
poor; he had always tried to rata his family s ipoly
of meat at home, sjhI found hoes more proltahle
than rattle: the thieves generally kept bn raiof
rattle reduced to about the number heistarredwtth.
ARPER & BROT
butter aud thought it poor policy . _«,
to town to buy butter. A* to keening tho accounts
of hi* faun, be tried keeping the debts and credits
of a one borne cron, accurately, and it always
brought him out in debt, so lie laid his books aside.
Dr. Jones: Mr. Burton, if you were pitching a
crop of three hundred acre*, how much would you
put in cotton, and how divide tho other crops?
Mr. Burton: I would put about seventy-flve acres
iu cotlou, and think a man should always
about onc-thlrd of Ids land in small grain, tho
to le planted In a variety, corn, peas, sugar-cane,
cliufiu* nml other good crops.
, F. H. Jones’ remarks were: The mak
ing of money is always a sign of suc
cess in fnrmhiR where a man has that In view,
and most of us here are farming for that purpose.
It makes no difference whether ho luvests that
money lu bankingstock, railroad stock or tho im-
economy on tlic farm, and said a man starting with
a certain amount inverter! in land and *
plies, and clearing on that Investment
sum annually, if at the end of a series of years ho
could not show any increase in land, stockjor capi
tal, he bad made no money. Rfl
thought land the safest investment a man
could make, and gave an illudraltou showing how
much more valuable a farm worth a certain
amount would bo than the same inverted in stocks
and land*. To make money ho said it was neces
sary for a man to clear more than the interest al
lowed as legal by the state.
The chairman, Dr. l’ovvcll, said: I am oorry to
hear so many of you say you havo not thought over
the subject. 1 think it Is your duty to i **■*
iubject* so a* to gain all posdblo
hear
*. ... — . . evening,
and shall take a stand, that will doubtless surprise
- • * - • -• — * * who has
feci,
keep
many. I do not think there U one present, wh
not made a success of fanning, and docs not
that if clear of debt, he could go ahead and
up. The great trouble with us is we have never ap
preciated now poor wc ore, and aro trying to keep
up as wc did formerly when we bad plenty. The
Burner, who starts out to raise corn enough to do
him, and provisions for his family, and docs It he
has succeeded. There are nono hero
who do uot do that. But if you start out to make a
big cotton crop, and make money on it, and do not
do it, you have failed,ami if you do not watch close
the cottou will absorb the proflu of other things,
During slavery all the money made on my farm was
ITOm the increase of negroes. After the feeding and
clothing of them there was little left for profit. You
have this to do now as much as ever, if you keep
them around, sml it Is well to try to raise providons
tocxchnngc for their labor. I harvested hay this year,
which has paid me much tatter than cottou. In
the course oi Ms remarks the doctor touched ntvm
the nuisance of the present stock law in compelling
far men to keep up fences at great expense.
FIELD AND FARM.
For the first time in twenty years a drove of
hog*, on foot, w as seen In Americas last Thursday.
Mr. W. J. Dinkins, of Pchlcy, drove in fifteen or
twenty head and sold them to Cobb A Parker, the
Cotton Avenue butchers. One killed on Friday
weighed 960 pounds.
Captain T. B. Cox, of Burke county, made thli
Wkou one hundred and ten gallons of fine syrup
on a little ie.-s than one acre of land. It oould he
sold for sixty ccnU a gallon as fart as it oould be
measured.
Mr. Allen Falreloth, of Mitchell county, has
made, with one old gray horse, seven tales of cot
ton, -75 bushels of corn. 900 bushels of potatoes,
five barrels of syrup, and, to use Allen’s own wools,
*peos world w Uhout end and meat in waste.’’
The farmer* of Mitchell county met one day last
week, and resolved that forming on a credit is a
very poor business, and the surest way to financial
n;in; that w lrile ‘ hurt-head whisky*’ is a foe to the
farmers, bust - pocket • and-bust-everything-else,
king pc r writ Is alto our foe; that going to town Is
not fanning; that idling away Saturday is a sin
agatnrt nature, reason and the law of God; that we
quit all that sort of foolishness; that we recom
mend as by for the tart fertilizer known to us the
brand called "Uome-Ralred Compost’’: that we
inform our brother formers that its ingredients lie
scattered about every tarm, and can be gut together
with a wheelbarrow.
A writer In the Canal Free Press gives hi* experi
ence on ooe acre of land thus: It made M bushels
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HERS, Franklin Sq uare, New York.
Conquered at Last.
Disease claims every season for its own, and
each season has its own disease. There Is not
a more prevalent one, or one moro fatal than
malarial fever. In many communities it as-
ng plow* early lu tho spring, then
again in April, run off rows VA foot, subsoiled in
planting ftirrotr, distributed eight one-horae loads
of lot mauure in the drill, run round the corn when
il^“fce‘^5 l ffliUb7V r Sii2hSl*thr”mm I » very malignant form and raemblM la
the car and allowed 70 pounds to the bushol. And its leading characteristic, that of yellow fever,
now for mv sorghum cane : Tho land was woll It has been demonstrated by actual experience
Ire, then run offtho rows 30 inches apart •
broken twice, then run offtho
The stalks were left ftom four to six inches In the
drill, used 75 pounds of Furman buffalo bouo
guano on the 6S rods in cone, and it mode 135 gal-
ons of good syrup on the 58 rods. The cultlva-
ion : I run round with a drop wing sweep, hoed
to a stand as soon as large enough, then run round
again, two Airrows to the row, and laid it by.
Mr. A. J. Hasty lias the champion collard
I notch
in hundreds of cases, thst Swift’s Specific is a
preventive as well as an antidote to malaria
and ita consequences.
Colonel E. B. Cry ere, of Trenton, La., and
superintendent of tho Onachita line of steam
ers, says:
I have been using Swift’s Specific In my fam
ily for tho past two years as an antidote for ma-
, . laria and*alsoas a blood purifier, with tho
taSMWWjsftTsfrasft ““i“^ r3r r ult '.- th , e ,
land 100 f«ct Hjn.iv, Mr. w. 8, M.nh.11 hw rated | of the Ouachita river, in what is called tho
swamp country. Mysdf and family enjoy nr
good or even better health then the avengs
people who live In tho hill conntry. I am con-
.ami * dent that 8.8.8. baa banlabod tho malarial-
fib huatiel. of potatoea. 60 btuhela of Hold peiu and I poison from onr systems consequently
* «•*»•*
ford nos gathered 107 bushclrof potatoes from one- I during li
— x-Mtal
fourth or on acre of land. Judge J. W. Bears now
erme* to the fount with 138 bushel* from one-fourth
of an acre. Judge Bears has excelled not only lu
— *— From seven acre* of land he has
s of cotton weighing 500 pounds
- -ghth of an acre of cane no ha*
made 100 gallons of syrup, and from seven acres of
com he has gathered 190 bushels. No comport or
guano were used on any of these patches.
Give the Fig a Chance.
The pig beats any other form stock in economi
cally turning food Into meat. As a mortgage-lifter
he surpasses the sheep or the steer by many points,
and he w ill consume a good deat of food, moro or
less offal in character, that neither a sheep nor a | home to arrest tho general, Irvin was tho
stc-cr will utilize. He grows fort and give* quick I man who went to the general’s honse single-
-tturn*. A March nig, fed and managed * ‘ ~~ ~
* he may ta is good for
X) pounds of tbc best pork at 0 months old.
orth ftom 913 to.930, according os the market
rs.
esldrs supplying hls own wants with lard, po ‘
sage etc., even* former ought to rear a few p
ell. Many think there is no profit In keep!
s, hut if well managed there u a profit Ge
likewbc. its merits. Black ta*- u»r. ,»»»,
and the leading breeds of thiscolor arc the E*sex,
Poland, Chino, and the old reliable Berkshire. A
good hoar of either of these will greatly Improve
any breed of common hogs. Every farmer should
btmi of hls own pigs, or get them from neighbors
in his immediate neighborhood, so as tobesurethoy
are healthy and well bred, flwlne disease* are be
coming so fbrmidabfe in the enterior that it will 1
payformere to give more attention to the production
of pork on the Atlantic slope- Hour dairymen
will give the pig a chance, and feed him the skim-
milk instead of wasting it in making white
oak chrcse that wiU not sell, he will vindicate him
self. Give the pig a chance. A. M. D.
“Charles Egbert Craddock**
(Miss Murfrec) has written a short serial story call- I
ed “Away Down in Poor Valley,’* for the Youth**
Coktanion, which also announces serial stories by
J. T. Trowbridge, George Manville Fenn, C. A.
Stephens and others.
during the spring and aummer, when the ays-
torn indicates being charged with poison, and
it invariably drive* it out.
Treatise on blood and skin diseases mailed
free.
The swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
New Yord, 157 W. 23d St. aun&wk.
The Men Who Rescued Toombs.
From the Tocos, Go., News.
CHARLES X. IRVIN
is a man with a history. When the Yankee
soldier* (twenty in number) went to Toombs*
home to a met the general. Irvin was tho
man who went to the general’s house single-
handed and alone. Dnring the night he carried
a hone to General Toombs, and on this hone
Tocmhs escaped into Elbert connty. Hr. Irvin
traveled with Toombs through Georgia and Ala
bama and on to New Orleans, frrom which city
Toombs embarked for Cuba and thenco to
France. Mr. Inin guarded the con federate
bullion white it was in Washington, and afteiv
warii, under order* from General Lawton,
shipped it to Angusta. “Charley Irvin,” as ho
is familiarly called in Washington, is a little,
nervous man of shout forty years; apparently,
quick spoken, and square to the point every
time. He colls a spade a spade and a thief a
thief. He weighs about 13S pounds, and about
250 pounds of that is concentrated southern
manhood.
Christine Nilsson,
the famous prim* donna, has written an article on
“The Right and Wrong Methods of Teaching Sing
tag,** for the Youth’s Companion. This is her fix*
appearance os an author, but her article is said to
be of remarkable value and interest
F. B. Culver, of Westfield, Chautaoqna |
county, K. Y., was afflicted with scrofulous I
eruptions over the tack aud thigh, accompanied |
with nausea and neuralgic pains iu the head,
severe thst on one occasion he fell uncon- I
scions in the street. Physicians foiling to do
him good, he commenced tuing Brandreth’s
Pills—five every night for a week, then rested |
three days, and took five every night for an
other week, then two every night for thirty |
days. To his delight at the end of that time,
the eruptions had disappeared and ail pain had |
He continues to take ona Pill e
Ilyas a precaution.
QA3UP3 '
Magnolia Balm
Is a secret aid to beauty.
Many a lady owes her fresh
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