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'8 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 THE BEST P NOW HARPER’S MAGAZINE. 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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 ing had placid in his baud* by ou East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy fur the speedy aud permanent cure of 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 •end ftee of charge to all who desire it, this re ceipt iu German. French and English, with fall directions for preparing and ruing. Sent by ail by add rearing with sltap, naming this kper, W. A. Noyes, 149 Power's Block, Roches- r, X. Y. eow 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. 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ROUND VOLUMES. Volume VI, with about 700 Illustrations, pp. Viii. 632. 4to, Ornamental Cloth, $3.50. A row copies of Volumes II, III, IV and V still on hand. Price $3150 each. Volume I. for 1830, out of print. will ta begun with the Current Number, on receipt of Ten Cents. 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 ness to it, who would rather not tell, aml^o* unit teU.