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VOL VIII QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Commmissioncr Nesbitt’s In quiry Box For the Month. UUOn INFORMATION FURNISHED. I'inman.l Otlw-r Ingr.'iUcnt* In Hnrdiroorl mul Wlmt Tlmy a r « Worth How to Hnrn n Kiln of I.inn- t., I!f r-«,l on the I Hrin ns i\ FertllUnr-IL. Iwonil Saw «luit lor \onti}( Fruit Trre», Itc. Qitrhtion I.—[ have abundance of corn ami moat to mulct! a cheap cotton crop. Would you advi> ■mo to i:i'-r-a: o rtiy acreage of cotton ? Yeti or no, and Hive your reasons. As'swku I. —My candid opinion of nny man that wants to increase his acreage of cotton at thistimo is, that he is vory deficient in business judgment. Too much cotton was planted in the Houth last year, and had the sea; »ns be 'ii suitable, tlio crop would have reached 8,500,000 or 0,000,000 tales, and d cents would have be-n the ruling price for it. There is a disposition among individual farmers to increase thoir acreage in cotton on the ground -—♦hue there will boa reduced acreage planted and they will benefit by it. My friend, this theory carried out by all the farmers—and very many of them entertain if, would result in the hugest onip and the 1 >wcst price in the past 80 years. Contrast the condition of the state at this time with its condition a year ago. Note how much better con tented and happier the farmers are, and remember that the change was brought about by reducing the cotton acreage, and increasing the acreage of all food crops, resulting in a fair price for cot ton, mid bountiful provision crops of all kinds. If we are to continue on this road to prosperity, abundance and hap piness, we must still reduce the cotton acreage, and increase that of the provi sion crops. If you want to return to 5 cent cotton, scarce corn, debt, dan ger and destruction financially, the surest anil quickest way is to increase the cotton acreage, and 1:1 months or less will suffice to put you there. There has nevor been a time in tho history of eottou culture, when a small r -rouge was so essential to tlio prosper ity of the south as tho present. Tho cotton states need large provision crops of all kinds and 10 cent cotton, mid both can be hud by reducing, not the acreage in cotton. an, our condition next fall with a KIOOO.OOO bule crop nqido, corn mul meat scarce, and a war with England on our hands! Your entire cotton crop would not probably, in such a case, pay your guano bills. On the other hnud, imagine our couutiy over flowing with provisions of all kinds, with a 7,000,000 bale crop of cotton made; then war or no war, we could get along first, rate, and in the event that the world was at. ponce, our cotton would certainly bring 10 cents a pound. No farmer need flutter himself that ho can steal a march on his neighbors by planting a big crop of cotton, while everyone else reduces thoir acreage. If it is in your mind to do this, you can rest assured that it is in the minds of thousands of others to do the same thing. Consequently, to attain the de sired result, each man must do what ho knows to be right in the premises, and tho outcome will then be assured pros perity for himself and the state. (Question 3.—Would you advise one who is just beginning, to farm on tho in tensive plan or in the manner usually practiced ? Which would be the most profitable and satisfactory? Answer 2.— This subject has been so fully discussed in the agricultural pa pers that every farmer should be famil iar with it. As yet. however, very few work their land on the intensive sys tem, though obliged to admit that theory and practice are both in its favor. By intensive-farming is simply meant bet ter preparation of the soil, heavier fer tilizing and faster working of the crop when up. There is no question what ever, and absolutely no doubt, that if you will subsoil ton acres of land, put upon it tho manure that you would or dinarily put upon 20 acres, and culti vate the crop twice as often as you would the 20 acres, then the ten acres so treated will produce as much as the 20 acres, as usually prepared and culti vated. The above statement is an ax iom that does not admit of dispute, and ron and every other farmer in the state can demonstrate the fact for yourselves. If you are afraid to test it on a large scale, try it on two or three acres in any crop you please and I venture you will thou be convinced. If then you admit that my statement is correct, the ad vantages of the intensive system will at once present themselves to yon. Yon can leave out half the land you have been cultivating, letting it rest, or you c;ui put it in oats to be followotl by peas, thus getting it in good shape for an other year. You will bo rid of half the labor of hoeing, and you will be im proving your land year by year, instead of wearing it a*'* These would be tho advantages gained Jp Jthe intensive sys tem of farming, and it seems to me they are sufficient to induce every farmer to try tho plan. The profit and satisfaction of 6uch farming would naturally follow from the advantages ga ; 'nd over the ordinary system pur sued. As you are a beginuer, take my ad- THE CHATTOOGA NEWB. ▼Do, avoid the old ruts, and common?* your farm life aright, keeping abreesfc with all the improvements, that mod ern thought and science and experi ments hay developed, and my word for it, you will find the occupation of farm ing not only healthful and attractive but profitable as well. Tho old order of things ha; passed away. It is.no longer p , ssi Ido to take a few crops from a farm of virgin soil, and thou leaving it scarred and eroded and almost ruined, move further west to repeat the same process on ot her soil. It is our interest, therefore, to improve and not wear out our farms, and this can lies', bo done by adopting improvements in preparing our land and cultivating our crops, in other words, by intensive farming. There are millions of acres in the old countries of Europe, that after hun dreds of years of cultivation, are better today than when the original forest growth was first cut cut from them, while in this now country it would he difficult to find many acres of farmland as good as when first cleared, while mil lions of acres have been rendered almost worthless by careless cultivation. Let us not forgot that our descendants must look for a support to the same lands that we are now cultivating, and that therefore it is our duty, and should be our pleasure, to preservo and improve them. This cannot be done by the old plan of shallow plowing over a large area, putting the soil in the best possible condition to be washed away by every htpvy rain, but it can bo done and with profit to ourselves by the intensive plan of farming. THE POSSIBILITIES OP OOP. SOIL. But few of our farmers are aware of the immense productiveness of the soil when thoroughly prepared, highly fer tilized and well worked. To encourage and stimulate intensive farming, tlio Weekly Atlanta Constitution last spring offered a premium of SIOO an acre for the best results from an acre each of corn, cotton, sweet potatoes, water melons and tdbacco. The following farmers took the premiums offered: For tlio best acre of cotton: Mr. W. G. Cross of Bibb county, Ga., for 7,089 pounds of seed cotton, raised and gath ered at an expense of $52.20. For tho best acre of corn: Mr. G. B. Crenshaw of Newborn, Ga., for 1761 N bushels, raised at an expense of $9.70. For,’tho best aero of watermelons: Mr. V. Green of Wolf City, Tex., raised 1,198 large melons at a cost of $50.90. For the host aero of tobacco: Mr. J. S. DeJ'arnotte of South Fork, Ark., for 1,052 pounds of fine tobacco, raised at an expense of $13.25. For tho host aero of sweet potatoes: Mr. W. S. Dill of Sandy Flat, S. C., 529 b, bushels, raised at an expense of $24.80. There were some 80 or 40 contestants, all of whom made excellent crops, but those above mentioned were the best. Now, in view of such results as these, why will farmers persist in cultivating 12 to 15 acres to make live bales of cot ton, when tlio same amount can be made on two, or certainly three acres of land, with much less labor, too, in the hot summer weather. If Mr. Dill of Sandy Flat, S. C., can make 529L J / bushels of potatoes, then I am sure any good farmer in Georgia can make some where in that neighborhood. Let us aim to diminish the number of acres that we cultivate, but at the same time increase our crops. This can only he done by thorough preparation of the land and judicious manuring, combined with good cultiva tion after the crops are up. Let ns not strive to pnt in a large acreage to tho plow, but confine our efforts to a smaller acreage, better prepared, better fertilized and better cultivated. By this course, while our crops will be increased, the cost of making them will be diminished, and we will have more land to devote to pasturage and the raising of stock. It should be the aim of every farmer to so manage his lend, that year by year its fertility would ho increased and not diminished as is usually iho case. Question 3. —Will the cotton acreage bo increased, and why do you oppose it? Answer 3.—As Commissioner of Ag riculture I am in a position to know hot ter than any other man in the state, your prospective plans, and as your di rect representative in the state govern ment, I deem it my duty to warn you against increasing the acreage in cotton. The signs all point to this intention. The sale of mules throughout this and adjoining states, is much larger than for some years past, and tho soles of fer tilizer tags from this office, are almost double what they wore, at this time last year. These facts and others that have come to my knowledge, indicate with certainty y. nr intention to increase the acreage in cotton, and I want to warn you while it is not too late, of the dan ger of such action. I have been a farmer all my life, am one still, and ex poor t o continue in the same occupation while 1 live; therefore I can write to yon with a full understanding of your needs and desires, and in entire sympa thy with you in every respect. You all know that in 1594 with a 10,000.000 bale crop, our cotton was sold at from 4 to 5 cents a pound. You know also that with a crop of about 7,000,000 bales in 1895 we sold our cotton at from 7 to 9 cents a pound, and it would have sold for a still better price, but for the large surplus left on hand by the enormous crop of the previous year. Now like causes will always produce like re sults, and therefore, as surely a3 the sun rises and sets, jnst so surely will a 10,000,000 bale crop of cotton for 1690 result in the ruinous price of 4 to 5 cents a pound, whi>; on the other hand, a crop of 7,000,000 bales, following the present crop of about the same size, will ■ just as surely result in a price of 8 to 10 j cents, or perhaps more, per pound. If you are working a 1-horse farm, would you prefer to have at the end of the year a scant supply of corn, potatoes, syrup, meat, etc., with ten bales of cot ton worth $250, or would you prefer to have plenty of all kinds of provisions, a bountiful supply of meat and seven bales of cotton, worth from S3OO t 05350? It should not take you long to make a choice between these two propositions. The first stands for increased cotton j acreage, the last for restricted cotton | acreage. Again, look at the quotations now i:i i tho New York market and you will find October and November cotton fu tures at least half a cent a pound below prices for February or March. There is no reason on earth for this, except that the speculators have already made up their minds that yon are bent on planting a large cotton crop, and they are forcing down the price in anticipa tion of a big yield. On the other hand, could it be posi tively known that the next crop would not exceed 7,000,000 bales, cotton would today be bringing from 1 to 2 cents a pound more tiiau at present, and the quotations for next fall and winter months would be still higher. If one year of bountiful provision crops, with a moderate cotton crop, brought com parative prosperity to the farmers of our state, which you will all admit is a fact, what would be the result of ten years’ farming on the same plan? Why, my friends, we would be the most prosper ous and therefore the best contented farming community in the world, and our lands would sell for twice or three times as much as they do now. While then so near prosperity, let me urge upon you, not to hinder our ad vance by any acts of your own. Let us not throw away the substance by grasp ing at the shadow, (as did the dog in tho fable, who, when crossing the brook on a log, with a hone in his mouth, dropped the bone to grasp at the shadow on the water) lest Jike the dog we lose the bone and fail to catch the shadow. Let us press on in the way we marked out last year. Let ns plant corn, oats, potatoes, peas, sorghum and sugarcane in sufficient quantities to insure us an abundant supply, even though we should have poor seasons. Let us raise oven more hogs, cattle and horses than wo did in 1895. This way and this way only leads to prosperity and independ ence. Question 4. —Please tell me how to improve my land so that it will become more and more productive. Answer 4. The suggestions from this department upon this subject are intended, of course, for the averago farmer of the state who has no money to throw away or to risk upon costly ex periments, but who wants information obtained from the experience of others which can be put into practice cheaply and effectively. There are practically but two ways of improving the soil. 1. Mechanically.—Draining, subsoil ing, etc. 2. Chemically.—Adding plant food to the soil in any manner whatever. 3. Every intelligent man knows some of the advantages of drain age; it makes the soil Warmer; it keeps the plant food from becom ing too diluted and leaves it in a proper form for absorption by the plant; it permits free access of air to the roots i of plants; it hirings about a decomposi tion of organic matter and prevents the formation of hurtful acids. Therefore, as one step towards improving the land, drain all your wet lands where they ad j mit of it. This can be done cheaply by covered ditches properly located with ten or 12 inches of rocks at the bottom, , or if rocks are not convenient, pine poles from four to six inches in diameter and with the bark off will answer almost as well. With the low places drained, then comes deep plowing and subsoiling for the higher land, which will enable it to hold the surplus water of heavy rains without washing and permit the roots of plants to run down deeper in search of food. Your low lands being drained and your uplands subsoiled, you have done about all that you can do for the mechanical improvement of your land. Os course all lands with any inclination to wash must be terraced, for no depth ot subsoiliug will alone pi-event washing of the soil during very heavy rains. To chemically improve the land, there must be returned to the soil more plant food than is taken away by the annual crops. To do this the farmer must bend all his energies to the making of manure in his stables and lots; he must haul muck from the swamps and leaves front the woods, with which to bed his stock of every kind, removing and renewing the bedding as often as necessary; he must keep his cottonseed or exchange them for cottonseed meal, which, with acid phosphate and stable manure, he must use in making a compost. This compost should be applied liberally, either broadcast or in the drill, and if not enough to manure all _ the crops, should be supplemented with sufficient commercial fertilizers for that purpose. In addition to this all small gram crops as soon as taken off the land must be followed by peas sowed broadcast, and all land in corn must be sowed in peas at the last plowing. By these simple and inexpensive means, with a common sense rotation of crops, the fertility of the average Geor gia farm, can not only be maintained i but increased. ' 4 SUMMERVILLE. CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, Fi.B.»URAI' o, 1896 A OURAB r E DISEASE. Chronic Catarrh is Pronouced Curable b;y Dr. Hartman. There aro an almost countless : number ol remedies said to cure chronic catarrh. The most of these are of no use whatever, and many worse than useless, being actually harmful. A few are successful in a small number of cases—those which are very slight and easily .urahie—cases which might al most might get well by simply ta king care not to catch cold again. But of all of this vast multitude of medicines it cannot be said that there are more than two or three which aro actually specifics, and without doubt the most reliable is Pe-ru-na. It always cures when it is faitfully and conscientiously used. It nut only cures catarrh of the head and throat, but cat arrh of the stomach, liver, bowels* lungs, bronchial tubes, kidneys, and in fact any of the organs of tho human body. It is indeed a dreadful case of ctitarrh, wherever located, that Pe-ru-na can not cure ur at least greatly help. It may be procured at all the drug stores, and it should be given a faithful trial by those who have tried in vain elsewhere to get relief. A book on catarrh and catar rhal diseases of 64 instructively il lustrated pages will be sent free to any address by The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company of Col umbus, Ohio. Threw Away His Canes. Mr. D. Wiley, ex-postmaster, Black Creek, N. Y., was so badly afflicted with rheumatism that he was only able to hobble around w,ith canes, and even then it caused him great, pain. After using Cham berlain's Pain Balm lie was so much improved that he threw away his canes. He says this liniment did him more good than all other med icines and treatment put together. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by all druggists. Editor Mclntosh, of the Albany Herald, puts it this way to South west Georgia farmers: “i’he way to boom cotton prices is to cut cotton acreage. Paradox ical as it may appear, the less cot ton the Southern farmers make the more money they will get for it.” Simon S. Hartman, of Tunnel ton, West Ya., has been subject to attacks of colic about once a year, and would have to call a doctor and then suffer for about twelve hours as much as some do when they die. He was taken recently jnst the same as at other times, and concluded to try Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says: “I took one dose of it and it gave mo relief in | five minutes. That is more than anything else has ever Done f or me.” For sale by all druggists. The commissioners of Etowah county have purchased a farm near Gadsden for the purpose of keep | ing the paupers upon the same and : they will also build a stockade and keep the county convicts m and i work them upon the public roads The little daughter of Mr. Fred Webber, Holland, Mass , had a very bad cold and cough which he had not been- able to cure with any thing. I gave him a2scent bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, says W. F. Holden, merchant and postmaster at West Brimfield, and 1 t'le next time I saw him he said it worked like a charm. This remedy is intended especially for acute throat and lung diseases such as colds, croup and whooping cough, and it is famous for its cures- There is no danger in giving it to children for it contain? nothing injurious. For sale by all drug gists. Sheriff Latham, of Bibb county, and posse of four deputies 6hot and fatally wounded Elisha Thrasher, the 20-year old brother of Outlaw’ Bart Thrasher, near Big Spriugs. in Bibb county, Tuesday. The Cherokee county farmers alliance will hold a two days ses sion in Centre, on the 7th and Bth |of February. Common School Teachers Exami nation Dec. 6th 1895. (The conductor will dictate the following twenty words to all ap plicants, and require this part of the examination completed in the time stated above.) 1, hygiene, 2, diagonal, 3, occur rence, 4, ambiguous, 5, gratuity, 6, classical, 7, deleble, 8, indelible, 9, emphasis, 10, maintenance, 11, supersede, 12, stomach, 13, tympa num, 14, potatoes, 15, tobacco®, 16, sacrilege, 17, abstinence, 18, aieli fluous, 19, annually, 20, canvasser. . READING. W1 lat are the ultimate purposes of school work in reading? What are the three elements employed in reading? What training should be given the voice? Distinguish between punctuation and articulation? Name four points that need spec ial attention in teaching reading? State two conditions for good oral reading. Have you evor tried the combi nation of word, sentence and pho nic methods? Put the proper marks of inflec tion and emphasis of the follow ing quotations: “If I were an A merican, as lam au Englishman, while a foreign troop was in my country, I never would lay down my arms, never! never! never ! “It isn’t the secret I care about, Mr. Caudle. It’s the slight.” Indicate your reading of the fol lowing passage and place the pro per diacritical marks: “Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, as the corse to the rampart we hurried, not a soldier discharged his farewell shot o’er the grave where our hero we buried.” Do you use any supplementary reading? Have you seen the Young People’s Reading Circle Course? WRITING. When tho conditions are favora ble, what advantages has the front, position over the side position in. Yvriting? Os what benefits aro movement drills without the pen, or with u dry pen? Explain how you would give pu pils a correct idea of the vibratory action of the muscles of tho fore arm. Describe any exercise, which, if followed, will materially aid in strengthening and enlarging the forearm muscles. In starting a class in penman ship, what would you teach during the first two weeks? What advantages has the arm movement over the finger move ment? Write a set of capitals, grouping them according to similarity in form What place does shading occupy in penmanship. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Our birth is “but” a sleep and a forgetting. “E’en” from the tombs the voice of nature cries. Parse the quoted words, and tell what kind of sentence. “Though your duty may be hard, Look not on -it as an ill; If it be an honest task, Do it with an hon est will?” The above is what kind of a sen tence? Define. In the above question 2, tell which are the independent clauses and the kind and use of each de pendent clause. “(Happy) must be the State (Whose) ruler heedeth more The (murmurs) of the poor (Than flat teries) of the great.” Analyze the above. In question 4 parse the words in parenthesis. “Dr. Watts’s (statement that) birds in their Pttle nests agree, (like) too many (othirs intended) to form the infant (mind,) is very far from (being true).” Parse the words in parenthesis. In question 6 tell the kind and use of dependent clause. Use “as” as five parts of speech,: explaining each. Compare the following adverbs: well, ill, much, nigh, far. Write the following verbs in the perfect indicative, third person, singular: bet. burst, do, eat. flee. fly, flow, lie (to recline), set, sit. GEOGRAPHY. Give diameters and circumfer ence of the earth. Name the con tinents, oceans, and live seas. Name the two large rivers in each of the five continents, and give the direction of each. Explain the cause and direction of the trade winds and tides. Give the width of each zone. Why are the tropics and polar cir cles so located? Why does the sun’s heat vary with latitude? Wliat causes the change of the seasons? Draw a map of Georgia; write in proper places names of the boundary States and locate on the niE.p the five large cities. How many States and Territor ies in the United States? Name tbe Territories. Name live of the important Eu ropean States, and give the capital of each. Locate and tell what it is: Am azon. Rome, Calcutta, Nile, Carac as, Cairo, Vesuvius, Ganges, Mis souri, Oconee, Chattahoochee, Seine, Mississippi, Thames. HISTORY. What nations made discoveries wiihin the present limits of the United States? What part of the United States did each nation claim? Name the thirteen original colo nies in the order of their settle ment. What two great evils made Geor gia a wealthy colony? What is meant by the Blue Laws of Connecticut? What causes brought on the Re volutionary War? What is meant by “Alien and Sedition Laws”? “Monroe Doc trine”? “Gadsaen Purchase”? Name some of the causes that led to the Civil war. Why was the War of Secession not closed by a treaty? What is meant by an accidental President, and how many has the United States had? ARITHMETIC. Reduce 67,581,713 squaro inches to acres, etc. At 24 cents a square yard find cost or plastering wallsand ceiling of a room 20 ft. Jong, 16 ft. wide, and 12 ft. high, allowing for two doors, each 3x7 feet, and three windows each 2f x 5 feet. On the outside the brick work of a store is 50 ft. long, 80 ft- wide and 20 ft. high. Find exact num ber of perches of masonry in the wall, allowing for two doors, each 6xß ft and 6 windows, each 4xß ft. walls 14 ft. thick. A vat is 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide 6 in. wide, 3 ft. 6 in. deep. How many gallons of water will it hold? How many square yards of tin would line it? A bought 75 bbls. of flour, and B increased his stock of flour 28 per cent by buying 16 per cent less than A. How many barrels did B have after his purchase? hat is the gain or loss per cent when |of the cost equals 4-5 of the selling price? What must be a jobber’s list price of axes, costing him $7.50 per dozen, that a discount of 20 per cent, 10 per cent, and 5 per cent, will net a proiit to the jobber of 10 per cent. On March Ist a planter gave a commission merchant his note for $240.00, payable November 16th, after date, with interest at 1 per c nt per month. How much mon ey did he receive? B invested $1,796.00 in 6 per cent stock, quoted at broker age i per cent. What annual in come did he receive therefrom? What rate per cent on his invest- ! ment. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING. \\ hat is the true teacher’s spirit? State four responsibilities resting upon the teacher in small or large part. State definitely two ways of meeting each responsibility. State two reasons whv how to i stud\ is more important than what to study. State five indispensable persona l habit 3 for the teacher. "Why so 9 1 “A teacher who has ceased to b* 1 Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Rpy&> AB&&WTEE.Y RE an active student has lost the secret of his power.” Why? Why is special trail ing necessary for the teacher? Two reasons State four ways of self-training m professional ways. State a just view of education. What is meant by the pouring in process? What is meant by the waking-up mind? Compare the two. Durant, Miss. Office of J. S. Rosamond. Messrs Lippman Bros ~ Savannah. Gentlemen —While in San An tonio, Texas last spring, I saw your advertisement of P. P. P. (Prickly \sh, Poke Root and Potassium) in the paper for the cure of rheuma tism, and thought I would try a bottle, finding such groat relief from it, on my return home I had my druggist, Mr. John McClellan to order mo a supply. Aftov tak ing, I think ten bottles, 1 have not had a pain or ache since, previous to that I suffered for twenty-live years, and could not get the least benefit until I tried P. P. P., and therefore, take pleasure in recom mending it to all. Yours truly, J. S. Rosamond . He Spanked the Mayor. Creston, 10., Jan. 28.—Mayor Renshaw of Afton made a caustic remark to Councilman Swain in the Council meeting today. Swain laid on the Mayor and suc ceeded in getting his head between his knees. He then proceeded to administer punishment. The conn • oil immediately adjourned. Catarrh is a constitutional dis ease and cannot be cured by local applications. Hood’s Sarsaparilla it a constitutional remedy; it cures catarrh because it purities the blood. Hood’s Pills are purely vegetable and do not purge, pain or gripe. Sold by all druggists. Lookout Inn. near Chattanooga, has been sold under a decree to satisfy creditors for SIOO,OOO. Buckien’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter Chapped Hands, Chilbins, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi tively cures Piles or no pay re quired It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money re funded. Price 2ocents per box. for sale by 11. H. Arrington. The Oxley Stave Mill at Valley Read was destroyed by 7 fire on Wednesday night the 15th. The man who eats because he is hungry is, thus far, on a level with the brutes. The man who stops eating the moment his hunger is appeased is the wise man. Nature needs no more food than she calls for. Continued excess brings about indigestion or dyspepsia, with loss of flesh, strength, sleep, ambition and mental power; and an accu mulation of aches, pains and many dangerous local maladies. The stomach now can do noth- 1 ing alone. We must appeal to some artificially digested food which can also digest other fojds. That is to soy, we must use the Shaker Digestive Cordial. The ef fect is prompt and cheering. The chronic pain and distress ceases. Appetite presently revives. Flesh and vigor gradually come back, and the sufferer recovers . But he must be careful in future. A trial bottle for 10 cents. Laxol is the best medicine for children. Doctors recommend it in place of Castor Oil. Ninety per cent of the farmers around Lincoln have meat, corn t and syrup enough to make the * next crop on and are out of debt. Helen Keller's Benefactor, j Among the notable benefactions of John T. Spaulding, who died in Boston recently, was the education of Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and blind gild, whose fame has be come international. Some years ago he gave $30,000 to seven young men employed at the United States Hotel. The story of this was pub lished all over the world, and brought him begging letters from even the Russian steppes. (\i hol idays he was in the habit of filling his trousers pockets with $5 gold pieces until they bagged at the knees, and then going around dis tributing them among the porters who had done him tittle kindness es. He wired a! ruined merchant before the flames of the big Ghica* ga tire had been extinguished : JDraw on us for $100,000.” It is said that the then ruined man is today one of the wealthiest men in Chicago. 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Fiej from Ammonia, Aium or any other adulterant 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. No 49