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Preserving; Sweet Potatoes.
Qiu.sriox. —My sweet potatoes aro
now sprouting in the banks. I have
heard that they can be kept until an ther
crop is made. W’ill you tell mo how? j
Axs’ver.—-In southwest Georgia I
have kept them for months in t'ao fol
lowing manner: Spread on any dry :
board floor a layer of cottonseed 4 or 5
1 inches thick, then up ci this p.aco a .
Liver of p. tatc.es, not letting them touch
and ii-st . 'abbing off the sprouts it' any
have app xu’ed. Then another layer of
cottonseed, mid an •thorof potatoes, etc. j
Os course the cottonseed must be dry |
ami must bo kept s>. Tho potatoes will
shrivel somewhat, but will retain their
flavor and sweetness for months.
I have no doubt that cottonseed hulls,
or chaff from any grain, and perhaps '
hay, would answer just as well as tho
whole cottonseed. I think, perhaps,
that absolutely dry sand would also an
swer the same purpose.—State Agricul
tural Department.
To Find the Kive Weight of Animals.
Question. —Can you give me any re
liable method of finding the live weight
of animals? I have no means of prop
erly weighing them at home.
Answer.—The following we find
given by the “Northwest Farmer
We have never teste 1 it, but it is doubt
less approximately correct. Multiply
the girth in inches just back of the
shoulders, by the length in inches from
I*ie square of the buttock to the point
of the shoulder blade, divide this /ro
■ duct by 144, which will give the num
ber of square feet on the surface. If
the girth measures from 3 to 5 feet,
multiply the number of square surface
feet by 16—this will give the weight of
the animal. If the girth measure is
from 5 to 7 feet, multiply by 23, if from
7tn 9 feet, multiply by 31. If less than
3 feet multiply by 11. Os course the
weight will vary a little according to
quality and time of the feed just previ
ous to taking tjie measurements.—State
Agricultural Department.
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To Propagate Reriuuda Grass
Question. —Will you give me a
cheaper and quicker plan of propagating
Bermuda grass, than that of buying the
high priced seed, sowing and waiting
for a pasture ?
Answer. —Procure the sod or roots,
wash out the dirt, which is done most
effectually and in the shortest time by
placing in a <tivam of running water —
then run through an. ordinary cutting
machine with the knives so adjusted as
to chop up nne. Sow this broadcast as
for wheat, and plow in shallow. Os
I course the land must be prepared be
forehand, the more thoroughly, the bet
ter. This is y;e plan recommended by
I Howard, the sage of grass culture in
Georgia.—State Agricultural Depart
ment.
Suit Against Chief Justice Snodgrass,
' Chattanooga, April I.—Colonel John
R. Beasley has entered suit in the cir
cuit court of this county against Chief
Justice Snodgrass for $I0.0('0 damages
alleged to have been sustained by rea
son of the pistol shot inflicted on the
the person of the former by the latter in
a personal difficulty growing out of an
offensive publication, in which Beasley
had charged the chief justice with im
proper conduct on the bench.
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C6Pv«>CMT, i 894, gr j a ciPPiucoir compamv.
“I don’t know what yon will Say,
Barbara,” she began appealingly when
she slowly returned to tho carrriago i
from her errand, ‘‘but do you not have
' impulses sometimes which yon can
hardly explain impelling you toward
doing something tvhich to another
might seem simply irrational?”
‘‘Frequently, my child. It is all that
saves mo from madness, as vaccination
keeps one from smallpox. But what
: crazy move aro you meditating now? .
Is it to go back and retract that tele
gram?”
‘‘Not quite so bad as that, but—look I
at those. ’ ’
Barbara Ilallet was silent for a mo- :
meat, amazedly turning over in her ■
hand the two bits of pasteboard which 1
■ the girl had given her, a cloud of some*
thing like displeasure creeping in a
warm flush across her fair face. “A s
ticket for Cheyenne and a sleeping car
I section. Well, I must say, Edith, that |
' this appears a little too irrational for ;
my comprehension, but perhaps you
will be good enough to explain. ”
‘‘lt is only—oh, don’t be vexed, Bar
bara. It breaks my heart to think that
you mav bo displeased with the whim,
for, of course, it is merely a whim.
But I Avant to go back to Wyoming for
a few days. Indeed I feel that I must
go. ’ ’
‘‘But it is perfectly preposterous, run
ning off like this,” knitting her brows
fretfully ever the tickets. “Wire Nel
sine to come down if you want, to con
sult with her, though for that matter I
thought you had already settled it to
suit yourself. I thought you knew your
own mind. ” •
Edith had occasionally been put to
confusion by her friend's feminine habit
of jumping at a conclusion upon the
smallest shred of evidence, but now
there were thanks to heaven in her
heart for this hint so opportunely offer
-1 ed. “But Nelsine cannot leave the chil
) dren,” she breathlessly protested. ‘‘lt
: would be so much easier for me to go
jto her. And it is such a little journey,
■ now that I know the way.”
‘‘But to fly off at a tangent like this!
, You are planning to take the night train,
I take it. To got into Cheyenne at 110-
l body knows what uncanny hour—that
! rough, cowboy town. ’ ’
‘‘Oh, tho place is beautifully civi
’ lized. ” Slip tried iiard to bo calm,
i though her lips rebelliously trembled.
| ‘‘And one is not obliged to face even
: the electric lights of the place unless
; one chooses, so the ticket man told me.
i The sleeper is sidetracked there until
morning, for which reason you must see
j that it is tho very train to take to get
| to the ranch comfortably, as one has
j the advantage of the early start for the
long drive across tho country. I would
much rather spend the night in tho
sleeper than be obliged to step over at
Cameron’s, as I did before.”
‘‘l have a good mind to go with you, ”
announced her companion, her face
brightening with the idea. ‘‘l really feel
that I ought to if you will insist upon
going. If it were not for Paul”—
‘‘But you cannot leave the child; you
must not,” cried the girl quickly.
, ‘‘Why should you think of it? There is
I not the slightest reason.”
‘‘There is not the slightest reason for
your going yourself, so far as I can see, ”
; Mrs. Ilallet declared, with a palpable
air cf pique, ‘‘unless you have found
your stay with me so disagreeable”—
1 ‘‘Ah, you don’t know, you can’t un-
j derstand, and I can’t explain.” Her
lips were now pitifully aquiver and
such pain in her appealing eyes as re
i minded Barbara Hallet of some animal i
hurt to death. ‘‘Don’t ask me to tell
■ you until I come back, dear. I must go,
and you must not try to stop me. That
is all I can tell you now. Only trust
me, Barbara. ’ ’
CHAPTER XIV.
His face turned impatiently toward
that quarter whence presently the head
light of a locomotive would rise as a
star against the soft darkness of the
summer night, Paul Brown loitered at
the remote eastern end of that long
1 platform extending out from the rail
i way station at Cheyenne. The great
■ stone building looked grim and repel
lent as a prison in the white flood of
the electric light. Few were there to
welcome the coming at this hour of
half past 1 in the morning, while none
were called to speed the parting'guest, I
since tiie expected train was the local
from Denver, which here would be at
the end of irs route. An empty baggage
truck rumbled noisily across the wood
en flooring to a position beside the out-
f er track, the fellow supplying-the pro
pelling force as though wholly’worn out
with the effort, properly adjusting him
self to a seat on its gridiron surface,
his legs drawn up to an angle of which
tho apex fairly met his chin, his hands I
clasped sustainingly around the knees.
A couple of hotel porters leaned lazily
against a corner of the building ‘‘swap
ping lies,” as they would have express
ed it in the slang which served them
for wit. A man perhaps ngt overhappy
in anticipation of the arrival which had
robbed him of good sleep, perhaps, like
Paul Brown, too much absorbed in his j
own thoughts to encourage sociability, :
walked by himself in the shadows at
the far end of the platform, while by
the door of the women's room an ex
press agent, his canvas covered book
clasped tightly under one arm, discuss
ed a question of local politics with a
burly officer of the law, whose silver
star of office shone inconspicuous warn
ing to all evil doers.
‘‘Expectin comp'ny, Brown?” the :
crouching fellow on the baggage truck
called out. with sleepy interest, after a
little. But the one addressed never heard
him.
‘‘She is coining! She is coming!” he
was saying over and over in passionate
recitative to the accompaniment of his
pulsing heart, keeping his joy alive.
Even with his ’hand fast closed upon .
her telegram in his pocket he could yet
scarce believe that he was so soon to see ;
her face again. He felt that he could
almost murmur blessings now on that
newspaper thunderbolt, erstwhile so ac- ;
cursed, which had won for him a prom- I
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iso he could never have dared to aar
for. J j
And so when Edith Ellery stepped
from the sleeper that night it was Paul
Brown s face which looked at her over
tho porter’s shoulder; it was his hands
which wero reached out to clasp hers
in voiceless welcome.
“It is yOu, really you?” tho gasped,
incredulously touching his sleevo with
her finger tips. ‘‘Then it was not true?
You are not”—
“Decidedly not,” he laughed, taking
I the bag from her nerveless hands with
an air of proprietorship. ‘ ‘Will you take
: my arm? It is scarce more than a dozen
1 steps to the hotel, but I am obliged to
' take it rather slowly on account of my
ankle, which is not yet altogether re
covered from its wrench the other day.
I Impo you don’t mind?”
‘‘But I don’t understand, ” sho fal
tered bewilderedly. “I thought”—•
‘‘You thought that you might per
: haps find me hanging from a lamp
post.” He laughed in boyish delight,
j “I am sorry that you had such a fright,
but you must not expect me to be alto
gether sorry, since it has brought you
here ”
‘‘Then it was not truo what the pa
per said?”
‘‘lt was, and it wasn’t. Artalissa
did give me away to the best of her
ability. She evidently did see me from
the window that night, and she embroid
ered the tale with envy, hatred, malice
and all uncharitableness. She was load
ed down with circumstantial evidence.
She had heard the jingling of my spurs
as I passed tho house, the subdued
trampling of horses and tho opening of
tho corral gate a moment later. I was
even twisting my quirt in my hands
when I returned, fully three hours later
—time enough, you will see, to have
run the stock off to a confederate, as
she cleverly suggested. There was al
most nothing to do but to arrest me aft
er that, though to Tregent it was all a
joke, while your brother understood it
perfectly. I encouraged the fun, partly
to see how far the girl would go with
her scheme of vengeance, partly be
cause I was going back to town and
planned to ride down with Tregent
anyway, and somewhat with tho idea
that were anybody on the place in com
munication with the thief—one never
knows what systems of underground
telegraphy they have, these fellows—
it might put him somewhat off his
guard. It was all a great bluff so far
as -wo were concerned, nothing more.
But the fellow who drove us in from
the ranch improved the opportunity by
getting himself boiling drunk that
night, when he went telling'the story
around the saloons, with all sorts of
boozy embellishments, while that little
carrion crow of a reporter got hold of
him, and—well, the joke had rather
lost its point when the papers camo in
from Denver this afternoon. But I have
seen the reporter since, ” laughing grim- |
ly, “and he will have the fullest possi
ble retraction in tomorrow’s paper. But
you—were you very much frightened?”
daringly pressing the small hand more
closely to his side.
“It was unspeakably horrible, ” she
said, with a shudder. “To think that
you would not prove your innocence by
telling that I was with you that night!”
“As if I could possibly have done
such a thing! I would have died first,”
he protested warmly.
“I knew you would,” sighing weari
ly, “and so I came. ”
“And you would have stood up and
given such testimony for me; haveov.m-
I ed before judge and jury, reporters and j
tho whole gossiping world that you hud 1
met your brother’s hired man alone at |
dead of night; that you remained with
him of your own accord for half an
hour or more? Indeed Artalissa swore
tho time was fully three hours, but that
was one of her amiable exaggerations,
lam sure. It could not have been so
long. ’ ’
‘ ‘ Whatever might have been the time,
I should have sworn that I was with
you every minute,” she returned sim
ply. “What else could I have done?”
“Oh, you heroine!” he exclaimed,
such passionate tenderness in his voice
that tho girl half withdrew her hand,
trembling with shy apprehension. ‘ ‘And
to think what such an admission might
have cost you!”
They had reached tho hotel, and ho
led the way up stairs to the dimly
lighted parlor, while the sleepy porter
followed obsequiously. .“The lady will
go to her room presently. We will ring
when we want you, ” he said to tho fel
low, standing in the door until the in
truder 'was safely committed to tho
stairs. “I ought to have let you go at
once,” he added then, turning to look
at the girl’s pale face with compunc
tious tenderness, “but I wanted to
thank you, and for that other time —for
that ride to Cameron’s—brave little
woman! You must let me speak of that.
It meant so much to me. ”
“Ah, it was so little to do. You had |
saved my life. ”
“And if I had, though that is putting
it rather strongly perhaps, you took a
thousand times as much pains to save |
mine. And now again”—
“Again I am confronted with a record '
of wasted effort. You did not need me !
now any more than you did the doctor
\vhom I brought you that other time,’
. she declared, with a certain bitterness.
“The question now is, At what time
does the next train leave for Denver?” I
“You do not mean the very next
train?” he faltered appealingly.
“Most certainly I do—the very next.
Why not? You must see that the sooner
I am away now the better.”
“There is a train that leaves at
3:50,” he reluctantly admitted. “But
you are so tired. ”
“But I shall go by that train just the
same,’’with a decisiveness whidh left
nothing to be said. “That will be in 1
about two hours.”
“A little less than two hours. ” His
face clouded over with frank disap- '
' pointment as he looked at his watch.
1 now for the first time, her
: eyes shyly approving, that he was
j dressed in light summer clothes sash- I
I ioned after the style of other men’s j
business wear. He had been a fine looU-
I ing fellow in the old corduroys which
I had grown so familiar, but now he look
ed every inch the gentleman her heart
had held him to be. “If you are going
to soon, ” he added wistfully, “I must
not detain you longer. You will want
tn gn to T.var room and rest. And I or
dered a little lunch eeiit v.p for you,
thinking you might need it.’’
“It was kind of you, but I am not
hungry. I supped full of horrors,”
smiling up at him with something of
her old brightness, from an easy chair
into which sbo had dropped restfully.
“And lam so comfortable here. It is
hardly worth while to lie down—if
you do not mind stopping a little lon
“Well, no. I do not mind certain
ly, ” smiling broadly at the idea. Was
she not conscious of the exquisite ab
surdity of such words to him?
“'There are so many things I want
to have explained to me. About Ar
talissa, for instance. I cannot under
stand how she came to turn against you
so. ”
“Oh, that, ” smiling embarrassedly.
“As Kipling says, ‘That is another
story. ’ We had a few words. I was in
a bad temper the morning you went
away, giving me no opportunity for a
word of thanks or farewell. It was
rather unkind of you, don't you think?”
“Oh, if you say so, perhaps.” Her
eyes dropped upon the handkerchief
which she was industriously drawing
through one gloved hand after the other.
“But I am -waiting now to discuss Ar
talissa’s conduct, not mine.”
“Well, I was in an ugly frame of
mind, as I said, and it became fairly
maddening, the sense of obligation to
ward the girl, with the obvious misun
derstanding on her part, the expectation
that—oh, a man feels like a fool telling
such things!” breaking off miserably, a
deep Hush staining his sunburned face.
“Don’t ask me to go into details. It is
enough to say that I felt I ought to ex
plain myself somewhat; that I made a
I bungling job of it, and she hates like
an Indian. ”
“But she has wiped off the score of
all obligation by this,” her eyes flash
ing indignantly, her cheeks aflame.
“Surely you owo her nothing now?”
“I don’t know. It grinds a little
yet,” his glance moodily following the
pattern of the carpet.
“And the horses—have you any clow
to them?”
“Jim Kittery was arrested with my
Black Prince at Laramie this morning.
Ho had ventured into the town for
whisky, like the fool he is. He had sold
the filly at a place over in my country,
and I have already sent a man to fetch
her back, so in all probability she will
be yours yet. ” His smile seemed rather
strained. “You know perhaps that your
brother planned to give her to you, a
wedding present?”
“He spoke of it, ” her eyes falling
embarrassedly. “But new”—
“Well?” as she paused.
“Oh, nothing, only my engagement,
so far as it was an engagement, is
broken. ’ ’
“Broken!” fire in his eyes as he sprang
impulsively toward her, but after a step
he seemed to bethink himself and moved
on to the window, parting the lace cur
tain to stare down into the street.
I “What ought one to say on such an oc
i casion?” ho asked presently in an odd,
j muffled voice. “Congratulations seem
I hardly in order. ’ ’
“I don’t know that there is call for
' any remark at all, ” she replied rather
tartly, and after a moment, as though
she -would change the subject, she ask
ed, “And -when do you go back to K 6?”
“Never. I am going to leave the
country.” He came moodily back from
the window and resumed the place near
her chair. “I am sick of cattle, sick
of the life, sick of the whole business,
it is like dropping buckets into empty
wells and growing old with drawing
nothing up. And I want a change. I
| must have it. I have been offered the
I management of an outfit in New Mex
ico, and I am going there as soon as I
| can get away. ’ ’
“To Nev,’ Mexico!” Edith gasped. It
j -was as if he had said he would go to
I the other end of the world. “Ah, why
1 will you? Why -will you not go back to
i your father if you are tired of this life?
I have thought of it so much, so wish
ed you would go,” flashing an appeal
ing glance full in his eyes.
“Have you, dear little girl?” his
heart speaking in the glance ho gave
back to her.
“My friend, Mrs. Hallet, with whom
I have been staying in Denver, ’’she
went on hurrieclly, her color rising,
“was talking the other day about her
brother who died. Ho was killed, but I
it • seems that his poor old father will
never admit that he is dead; that he '
will not some day come back to them. ;
He has his room always ready for him. j
Every day he prays for him. I could
not but think of you as I heard it, and
with tears in my heart for the poor old :
father who somewhere must be mourn- |
ing in just that way for you. Ah, can
you not see that your hard, unyielding !
obstinacy is cruel to him; that you have [
punished more than be deserved in
all these years? Qau you not guess how I
his heart must be eaten out with sorrow, ;
waiting for the opportunity to atone—
waiting, like that poor father of the Paul
i who died, for the son who will not re- i
' turn to him?”
He had buried his face in his hands ,
’ as she went on, and when he looked up j
his eyes were flashing with unshed
1 tears. “You do not know, oh, you can- j
, not guess what you have been telling
I me!” he cried brokenly. “It is my fa- I
; ther you are telling me about—my fa-
I ther! I could not have believed it; that I
;ho cared for me like that! But it is
| true. Barbara says so. Dear little '
Bab!” the last in eager questioning, as
' though he could not even now believe
I what he had heard.
“You are her brother—you!” her face >
( paling. “You—Paul Brown?”
“My name is Paul Brown Hunting- j
ton, at your service, ” he explained, with I
boyish delight in her amazement.
i “And you have been living under a
- false name all these years?”
: “Not exactly. Brown was my mid
dle name. It was my mother’s, and I
thought I had a right to it. I simply |
dropped the other after the railroad
accident when I was supposed to have ■
been killed on my way west. I had in
tended to take that train, and my berth I
1 was engaged, which was how they came ■
• to have my name in the lict of pnssen ;
gejs in the sleeper. But I happened to ’
miss it by a hair on account of running ;
against one of my fraternity men and \
stopping too long talking with him, and
the next day when the accident was re- .
’ ported I don’t know whether I was glad I
t or sorry that some one had blundered so I
far as I was concerned. At all events, it
appeared that to all intents and pur
poses I was dead, and I decided to re
main so. ”
“And yon have lived near your sister
nil these years and never let her know?
How could you be so hard?”
“1 was fiend. Why should I risk cm
fcorrassing ihr friends by rising from
the gravely hen t had notthesmallest rea
son to suppose that 1 was wanted? I kept
run of my sister in away through tlid
society items in the Denver papers,
from which it appeared that she had
not the smallest need of me. She was in
the swim, floating on the top wave,
while I had all I could do barely to
keep my head above water. Had she
been in want cf any help which I could
have given, had there even boon any
limo in all the long years when I could
have gone to her without my attitude
: lie had buried his face in his hands as
she went on.
seeming a tacit appeal for help, it might
have been diirereut, but in my shabby
' old corduroys and cowboy hat, with the
| record of failure written upon mo so
that he who ran might read, was I the
guest to appear properly at the door of
that grand house on Capitol hill?”
“But you -will go to her now?”
“If you tell mo to.”
“And you will go back -with me to
night?”
“May I? You know what it would be
to mo to go with you if you permitted
it, even if nothing were beyond. Yet
; when I think cf seeing Barbara so soon
—dear - little Bab! She always had such
hopes for me, poor little girl! Sho be
lieved that I would do great things.
My record will be a sorry surprise for
her. ’ ’
“How can you say such things? How
can you think of anything but the glad
surprise it will bo to her to see you
again? Can you not guess how sho loves
you, her only brother, for whom her
only boy is named? And do you think
love will stop to weigh and measure
what you have done or left undone? She
j will bo proud of you that you have done
so well and only love you the better for
the failures. ”
“Will she?” he whispered huskily.
Sho had taken off her gloves, and one
bare hand lay tempting him on the vel
vet covered arm of her chair. He
reached over hesitatingly, covering its
rose leaf daintiness with a tremulous
pressure. “Ah, how you always com
fort me, charm me, make me glad in
rpite of myself! You make me forget
• verything but the joy I have in you.
Yon make mo forget what I am and
tvhat you are. Did you guess that
night when we were sitting by the
burnt out bonfire? It was at just about
this time, by the way. Did you dream
how hard it was for mo to hold myself
back from snatching you to my heart
and, telling you that I could never let
you go? You looked so sweet, so lovely,
with the moonlight shining on your
face. I wonder now that I had strength
to be silent. It was only the knowledge of
the uselessness of it, the pain it might
bo to you, that sealed my lips. Even if
I had not known that you belonged to
another I think I could not have spoken.
I had sworn I would never speak. But
j now if I go home to my father I shall
i at least have the name of a good old
j family to offer the woman I love. I may
■ not have much more, for, as I told you
that night, I cannot go back begging. ’.’
A touch of the old stubborn pride was
in tho slight upward movement of his
handsome head. “But you spoke of tak
ing up a desert claim, you know. ” He
tried to turn it off with a joking laugh,
but halted, with something like a sob,
as he bent his head to cover the small
hand with passionate kisses. “Oh, dar
ling, darling, what would you do if I
, were to offer you one?”
“I think, ” she said, pausing judi
cially, a mischievous smile curving her
lips, although tho brightness of glad
tears shone in her tender eyes, “all
things considered, I think I should ac
cept it, dear. ”
THE END.
A Mathematical Machine*
A lightning calculator, the invention
of an expert mathematician, is one of
the newest labor and time saving de
vices out, and many people will bo in
terested to learn a machine has been
produced which, entirely eliminates mul
tiplication from percentage computa
tions. The machine is quite similar in
appearance to the cover of a typewriter.
The printed figures are fastened to a
slide board that fits into a cylinder
i which turns back and forth by means of
I a knob handle. These slides are lapped -
behind an index board having nine di- ;
I visions or sections, on each of which
| stand the numerals. The range of pos
| sible results is from zero to infinity. It
j is operated with the thumb and finger
of the left hand, thus leaving the right
hand free to write down additions and
[ answers.
The combinations have the same po
sition in front of the eyes as the keys of
a typewriter. The inventor declared
his invention dispensed with multipli
cation and that the true percentage
\ could be found at any rate, from one
i tenth of 1 per cent to 99 per cent, or
from any sum from the thousandth part
of a cent to any sum capable of being
written. It substitutes mechanical cor
rectness for mental uncertainty, saves
valuable time and prevents physical ex
: haustion.—Exchange.
The Extreme In Economy.
A curious advertisement appeared in
some of the morning papers the other
day to the effect that a one legged man
would hear something to his advantage ‘
by applying at a certain address.
Though not one legged myself, I called,
there and found the advertiser to be a
Grand Army man who had lost a leg at
Antietam. Questioned as to why he had
inserted, the advertisement which at
tracted my attention, he gave the fol
lowing explanation:
“My idea, ” he said, “is to find a man
who has lost his left leg. You notice
; that my right is gone. Now, I pay $8 a
pair for my shoes, and I wear about five
pairs a year. That makes S4O. And be
i sides that I wear a great many socks, j
which also count up considerably.
‘ * v '”’ can readily see that if I find a I
man who has lost the other log, wears
she same size shoe as I do, we can whack
up, and by buying our shoes and stock
ings together wo Cduld make considera
ble. ’'
I apologized to tho old gentleman for
my curiosity in tho matter and went
away thinking to myself what a wonder
ful thing economy is.—New York Her
ald.
Respect For tho Mother.
■ ital K the young man who is coarse
and disrespectful tc? his mother. No ro
seate pathway can bes h-trs who shall
j sustain to him the relation of Wife, Not
the happiest will be the lot of those who
I shall come to be his children. Not to
■ be envied is the neighborhood even in
! which ho must be reckoned as a citizen.
It does not matter what tho mental stat
us cf that mother is, how old, how bent,
bow decrepit, the man to whom she is
mother owes to her gentleness, kindness,
tenderne's and consideration. Did sho
fall back, and did the children with su
perior advantages pass her in the race?
But think of her toil and trial, her de
votion ami denial, her mind and her
years that she gave that the children
might derive the benefit. Think of her
sacrifice—no wonder if she fell behind,
with her heart in her Lome, in the buds
that were hers, There is no rank, no
station, no condition that may exempt
a manly man from a kind regard for a
mother. Much might we learn from pa
gan China and Japan in lilial tender
ness and respect. —Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Mosquito’s Surgißitl Instruments.
The mosquito’s lull, minutely delicate
as that organ is, is .'■imply a toolbox in
which are kept six separate surgical in
struments —miniature blood letting ap
paratus of tho most perfect pattern.
Two of these instruments are said to no
exact counterparts of a surgeon’s lauvu,
One is a spear with a double barbed
head. The third a needle of exquisite
fineness. A saw and a pump go to make
up this wonderful complement of tools.
The spear is the largest of the six and
is used in making tho initial puncture.
Next the lances are brought into play,
their work causing tho blood to flow
more freely. In case this last operation
fails of having the desired effect, the
saw and the needle are carefully in
serted in a lateral direction in the vic
tim’s flesh. The pump, the most delicate
instrument of the entire set, is used in
transferring the blood to the insect.—
St. Leeds liepublic.
Question. —-Wh:tt is your opinion as
to tho best time to plant cotton, early or
late, and if tho manure has already been
put in the bed, should any more be ap
plied at planting time?
Answer.—Very much depends on the
quality of the land, and its situation, as
well as on tho climate. It should bo
our aim as far as possible to promote a
vigorous, healthy and well balanced
growth of the plants, and these are ar
guments both for and against early
planting. Each farmer must study and
decide on tho one which, -with his im
mediate surroundings, will to the great
est extent contribute to this healthy de
velopment. If the ■weather is settled
and warm, wo all know that the plants
are apt to grow off vigorously, forming
“weed” very rapidly. Therefore, if we
have noticed that any of our fields are
disposed to produce too rank a growth
of stalk at tho expense of fruit, wo
should select those for our early plant
ings, because if there is any check of
growth, on account of cool and unfavor
able weather, these will bo loss injured
than if the plants are loss hardy, and
the temporary backset will often tend
to a greater root development, which
will in a measure correct the undesira
ble growth of big stalks with little fruit.
Again we all know that cotton on light,
gray hinds is mwh m >re apt to bo killed
by late frosts than that on heavier red
lands, therefore reserve tho gray lands
as far as possible for the late plantings.
It is a good plan not to plant the entire
crop at one time. If the seasons prove
unfavorable the whole crop will not be
injured in the same degree, and when
the different fields of cotton come up in
convenient succession, the best plan of
thorough and careful cultivation is more
easily solved. As a rule tho early plant
ings are more favorable to the develop
ment of fruit than weed. The late
plantings, on the other hand, being en
couraged by tho warm spring sunshine,
grow off rapidly and are more easily
worked by both hoe and plow. Another
advantage of late planting is that the
first crop of gra-s which already Logins
to show is killed, and thus one plowing
less is necessary in the cultivation of
tho crop, an important item when time
presses.
It is advisable to put a little fertilizer
In at the time of planting. This will
give the plants a good start. There is
; already stored up in the seed nitrogen,
‘ phosphoric acid and potash for the use
us the tiny plants in their first stages of
development, but when the roots begin
to search for food, it is well to have that
which is immediately available in easy
reach. For this purpose, from 25 to 50
pounds to the acre of some concentrated
fertilizer will be found of great benefit.
Mix. with a little rich earth or thor
oughly decomposed manure, as it should
not come in direct contact with tho
seeds. Cottonseed meal is not desirable
for this purpose, being injurious if it
comes in contact with the seed.—State
Agricultural Department.
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