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Value of Alfalfa Bay.
<" One hundred pounds of alfalfa hay
fcontains 11,3 pounds more digestible
matter than the same amount of red
plover hay and one and one-half times
as much protein. It contains only 3.3
pounds less of total digestible nutri
«nts than the same amount of millet
hay, and almost two and one-half times
as much digestible protein as oat hay;
three times as much as prairie hay;
imore than four times as much as sor¬
ghum hay; five times as much as corn
ifodder; six and one-half times as much
as oat straw, aud thirteen times as
anucb as wheat straw.
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Justice to the Hog,
" Hardly a day passes that we do not
hear tbe remark, “as dirty as a pig."
This I consider a vilification of the ani¬
mal which Franklin’s colored servant
said was “the only gentleman in Eng¬
land,” from the fact that he was the
only animal that did not work iu that
country. In that respect he much re¬
sembles the members iu our legisla¬
tures. He calls to order and adjourns
to eat aud sleep. I believe that the
hog is the most cleanly of our domes¬
tic animals if raised as it should he
and given a chance to roam about, and
not be confined to very close quarters.
It lias been said that “the American
hog is a machine that oils itself, puts
ten bushels of grain into less space
than a bushel measure, and in so do¬
ing doubles its value, then carries it
to the market on its back.” Corn
loaned to a well bred hog is money at
big interest. It is like a mine, while
the American staple, corn, is the bul¬
lion, which, put into the hog, is trans¬
muted into coin. It is an honest mint
and gives sixteen ounces of avoirdu¬
pois of edible material. Properly bred,
fed and intelligently handled, this au¬
tocratic porker will pay off debts, place
a piano iii the home, a surrey at the
door for'yourself and family, to ride
to town in, educate-your-boys at tlic
agricultural college and leave a bal¬
ance in the bank for a rainy day.—Mr.
Lovejoy, in Blooded Stock. '
i-iu- . Will Get Over Fear of Stints.
' Any one with steady nerves and a
goodly portion of patience and courage
can learn to handle .bees successfully,
providing of course he has a taste for
the pursuit. There are, however, some
whose systems are very susceptible to
bee poison. These of course must
.o.t JL- SftYLiTJ
years ago when I fiegau ray bee career
I was stung on the .-wrist; three .succes¬
sive days. The arm swelled from al
fcov to finger tips, and I thought I
would have to abandon my favorite
business. I have since been stung fifty
times in a single day, and beyond the
momentary pain no bad results were
felt.
The system after a while becomes
Inoculated and a beekeeper never
thinks of applying anything for an an¬
tidote or remedy for a few bee stings.
Besides, the fear of stings passes en¬
tirely from his mind and he is perfect¬
ly happy and contented among his p.ets.
Some people will involuntarily dodge
or strike at the flying bees. This habit
must be cured, for the bees are almost
sure to sting. Bees prefer not to be
disturbed, hence one should be very
gentle in handling them. No matter
how timid a person may be at the out¬
set, after awhile he gains confidence
and becomes accustomed to the work,
and the care of the bees will become a
source of pleasure.—F. G, Herman, in
New England Homestead.
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‘••S'' “ Planting: Cull Potatoes.
<:■ When seed potatoes are high the’
temptation is to use culls for planting.
In a very rich soil a weak plant can be
nursed along and made to yield well—
no doubt of it—but I am sure that it is
poor economy to use poor seed. In po¬
tato growing, a stand of strong plants
Is half the battle. It is best to put up
the money necessary to get choice seed
for a crop that requires the labor and
expense that must be put upon the
care of a potato field.
As the potato thrives best in a eokl
latitude, my preference is for Northern
seed, or else for the Southern second
crop that makes its growth in the late
fall. An early matured crop in a
warm latitude does not make good seed
for another year. The heat has re¬
duced the vitality, and the material in
the cells feeding the sprout is ready to
make growth, and the potato cannot be
kept from sprouting too early in the
season. Seed from the North or a very
late crop further South is surest of giv¬
ing good returns, and if it will pay to
plant potatoes at all next spring it will
pay to get the Best seed. The chances
are that a big acreage of early varieties
will be planted.if the.seed can be got.
For such varieties a richer soil is re¬
quired than for later varieties.
It is/poor policy to plant the early va¬
rieties in a soil that is not very fertile.
Such varieties, as a rule, are more sub¬
ject to the early blight than some of
the medium or late varieties, and
growth should be forced. Then, too,,
an early crop should be very early to
get the best market, and fertility aids.
It is also true that the plant food be
comes moi ’3 xapidly available iu hot.
weather, and an early crop pets the
least advantage from this source.—Da¬
vid, in Farm and Fireside.
Making a Strawberry Bed.
The strawberry requires a deep, rich
soil. Prepare the ground thoroughly
before planting, as this is important
for best results. After planting do not
let your cultivating bo with the object
of keeping the weeds out, but cultivate
to keep tbe ground loose and mellow
and the weeds will have no chance to
gain a foothold. In setting the plants
do not spread the roots near the sur¬
face nor twist them into a wad, but
spread them out aud allow them to
reach straight down into the soil and
press the fresh earth solid against the
roots. It is a good plan to clip the
lower ends of the roots before setting,
as they start new growth more read¬
ily. Clipping early runners is not neces¬
sary and should not be done by inex¬
perienced growers.
In northern latitude? plant early in
Hay, if possible, and cultivate well
with a view of getting a good growth
of new plants before the hot, dry
weather of late summer stops growth
and prevents late runners from taking
root. Early rooting runners make the
best plants for next year’s fruiting. If
plants arc prevented from rooting in
early summer they are more liable to
injury from the white grub, insects or
accidents and each plant destroyed
leaves a skip in the row, while if the
runners are allowed to root early, less
harm is done if the original plant is in¬
jured. Cover the heel in fall when
freezing weather comes or if that is
long delayed, any time in November
is all right and a light covering is
safest. — Elmer Reeves, iu American
Agriculturist.
CRAY QUEUES RARE.
Immunity Said to Bo J)u« to a System
of Massaging.
“I saw a Chinaman in Mott street
whose queue was getting gray,” said
the man of experience. “I consider
those silver threads among the black
quite a phenomenon, and in my sur¬
prise at their appearance I stopped
the old fellow and asked him how
in the world lie ever happened to get
them. He could understand but very
little English, however, and speak less,
and as I was equally deficient in a
knowledge of the Chinese tongue, we
didn’t make much progress in the mat¬
ter of explanation. Finally I went
into a barber’s shop nearby and sought
to satisfy my curiosity there. Some¬
how. I fancied the man must be an
octogenaidSaLtiLthe very least, but I
learned "that he was stilLinllis prime
and had, unlike the majority of his
countrymen, turned prematurely gray.
This phase of the matter confounded
me all the more. In all my travels ho
was the first gray-lieaded Chinaman I
had ever seen, and I had met many
of his race here and in the far west.
“It is really a curious thing, when
you come to think of it, how rarely a
Chinaman shows his age, at least so
his hair is concerned. ' I have
far as
seen many of them who had turned
slightly gray around the temples, but
I bad to wait until yesterday to find
a pigtail streaked with white. The
Mott street barber assured mo that
this immunity from gray hair is, in a
great measure, due to the excellent
care bestowed upon celestial heads by
native shampooers. Seldom is it that
an American patronizes a Chinese
barber to test the beneficent proper¬
ties of his touch, but those who have
so experienced agree with the Chinese
patrons that he has a way about him
that puts new life and vigor into a
man’s scalp. This efficacious massing
ing, together with a certain oriental
tonic with which the water is per¬
fumed, constitutes the secrets of his
trade and preserves the locks of Chi¬
nese customs in their pristine duski
ness. ’■
“After I had parted from the gray
headed Chinaman I poked around the
streets of the colony for an hour or
more on the lookout.for another of his
kind, but my search was vain. How¬
ever, there may be more gray heads
on Mongolian shoulders hidden away
in remote corners of the city. It so
I wish their owners would stand up to
be counted.”—New York Press.
Beggars in Koine.
Everybody wlio comes to Rome must
expect to be swindled and disappointed.
There are many illusions, and you will
be greatly disappointed when you ai>
proaeh them and they fade away. You
will be swindled by shopkeepers, hack
men, peddlers and everybody that you
have anything to do with, and the beg¬
gars will annoy you with their per¬
sistence like the fakirs and flower girls
that fellow you upon the street, but
all this is a part of the experience of
everybody who comes here; only such
annoyances are greater in Rome than
in most other places. Begging is a pro¬
fession, as in every other Italian city,
and the profits are much larger, be¬
cause there are more strangers to ap¬
peal to. None but inexperienced beg¬
gars ever approach a native Roman,
because they know.it is useless, but
they save all their energy and pathos
for strangers, particularly Americans
and English, whom they follow with
the greatest persistence.—William B,
Curtis, in the Chit go-Iiecord-Herald.
Household
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PASSING OF THE PARLOR.
The Apartment of state OlvluE Way to
tli« Living Room.
And is it true? Is the parlor
doomed ? Must it give way to the
living room ? That apartment can
not make good the loss of the other.
Who does not remember the darkened
glories of the old-fashioned parlor,
which was seen at its best in the
middle-sized town, village and coun
try? Shut up the week through,
sometimes nearly the year through,
with blinds closed tight and lace cur¬
tains tied primly back; with its hair
elotli-seated chairs set in a iiue against
the wall; -a “rocker” ready to gallop
in one corner, and a what-not in the
other, ornamented with rice baskets,
praying Samuels and family daguer¬
reotypes and photographs; a centre
table, set exactly in the middle of the
room, with a few handsome books and
tlie large family Bible, the mantel¬
piece with vases filled with crystal¬
lized grasses at either end, and odds
of strange things fitting up the rest
of the space; who among the elder gen¬
eration does not know it well? It was
a room to be venerated.
And now—one sadly recognizes it
to be, indeed, a tiling of the past. In¬
stead, there is the living room, that
actually is a living room, where the
baby’s perambulator stands near the
piano, where the work basket is on a
convenient table (no one ever saw a
work basket in a parlor); where there
are plants, a writing desk; where the
sun pours in as much as it may. It
is indeed a living room. If one has
space there is a reception room, to be
sure; but every one understands that
amounts to little—the caller and the
friend are shown into the living room.
To a person used to a parlor, no mat¬
ter how long ago, a call in 6 living
room hardly seems like the solemn
function it used to be.—Springfield
Republican.
All Sorts of Sofa Pillows.
The sofa pillow has a wider lati¬
tude, perhaps, in the household Ilian
almost any other furnishing. It con¬
tributes to the general comfort, fills
up all sorts of hollows in chairs, sofas
and seats, gives just the right touches
of color to corners M*#ii?^-« otherwise sombre,
and briiigsnnto s 0 rMke sur¬
roundings. The revival of ribbon
work is making possible especially ex¬
quisite effects on satins. A pillow
just finished is made cf white satin,
embroidered with ribbon in a Dres¬
den design. It is finished with a broad
white satin ruffle, on which the deli¬
cate colors of the floral pattern are re¬
peated in frilled rows of the tiny rib¬
bon. Only on drawing-room pillows
now are ruffles often seen. Olliers
are left plain on the edges, have their
corners drawn in, are finished with
cord or have pompoms at the corners.
Pompons are also used in more orna¬
mental kinds.
There are fabrics of every sort and
to fit every kind of a need and purse
in pillow coverings. Cottons aud lin¬
ens always find favor for bedrooms
and other places where it is desirable
to wash them occasionally, and for
these nothing can be better suited
than tlie printed chintz, with its dainty
and quaint patterns.—New York
Tribune.
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i i recipes
Breast of Veal —Select a four or
five pound piece (sufficient: for two
days) and have the market man neat¬
ly bone it, and fill with a rich bread
stuffing. Roll and tie the meat before
roasting, and cook for an hour and
three-quarters. Veal should always
be well cooked. Serve with very tart
apples sliced and steamed until tender.
Core, but do not pare, using four me¬
dium-sized apples.
Dutch Apple Pudding—Beat two
eggs; add to them one cup of
milk and two cupfuls of sifted flour;
add one teaspoonful of baking pow¬
der; turn the mixture into a shallow
baking pan; have ready two apples
pared "and quartered; lay them in the
batter round side up; oust the top
thickly with granulated sugar and
sprinkle over a little cinnamon, and
put in a moderately quick oven twen¬
ty minutes; serve hot with cream.
Lafayette Rolls — One pint of
milk, one cup homemade yeast, flour
enough to make a stiff batter; let rise
over night; in the morning add one
egg, one tablespoonful of butte: and
flour enough to make it stiff to roll.
Mix it well and let it rise, then knead
again (to make it fine and white), roll
it out, butter it, cut w L a round cut¬
ter and fold ovetqj^ ifllttH k Bk a buttered
pan and cover an a warm
place until thJ ht; bake
quickly aud a delicious
tolls.
[. L HOLLAND CO.
Successors to Holland Bros., Washington, Ga.,
Say to tbe people of Lincoln and build adjoining and counties tlmt they are fitted <»f
to repair
ENGINES. BOILEES, GINS. PRESSES, GRIST AND SAW MILD MACHINES*.
We guarantee first-class work and reasonable prices. E. L. Holland
is manager and no one can look more time closely the business after customers’ has interests. running fo
Our success for tbe short been
proof that we give satisfaction. Give ns a trial and you will come again.
For Ginning and Saw m2U cetffita can’t be beat.
Jenkins Valve!—a full line oa bond—the best in the market. Aleg
Pipes and pipe fittings, Injectors, Rubber and Leather Belting one
Packin g, Manhole Gaskets, Cylinder and Machine Oil.
Second-hand machinery for sale very attention. cheap.
Orders by mail will have prompt
E. L. HOLLAND & CO„
Near Depot WASHINGTON GA.
Wagon That Is a Wagon
If any of my old friends in Lincoln want a Wagon that is “A
Wagon,” come and try a.........................................
“BIRDSELL.”
It can’t be beat for Durability, Finish and Lighf Running. I am.
Sole Agent for the............................................
Babcock, Bock Hill, Hackney
Buggies and Carriages.
These are my “little Darlings.” Now, for cheaper grades of work
I cannot be touched in piice. No monkeying about this. All true
Gospel. But what is the use of going on with a long “Rigarow”
about what I have got. Everybody in old Lincoln knows me, and
knows what I say is true. In buying your wagon don’t let a little
fancy paint deceive you. Paint covers a monstrous sight of defects.
The largest stock of Harness, Buggy and Wagon Material, and the
best kept in the city. Don’t forget to call and see the old man when
you oome to Washington........................................
J. S. BARNWELL, Manager.
# WASHINGTON. GEORGIA.
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Kearsey Is! Plumb,
- Dealer In -
iJj Wines, Tobacco and Cigars^
DISTILLERS OF
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REG. DISTILLERY 612.
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1260 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA„
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.... PAINLESS DENTISTRY....
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PRICE REASONABLE NO WAITING.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
Drs, POORE & WOODBURY,
824 Broad Street Bell ’Phone 520.
Patents In France.
In order that a patent may be ob¬
tained in France, the three following
conditions ate necessary: That the
invention be absolutely new; that it
possess an industrial character; that
It be not contrary to public order or
security; good morals, or the laws of
the country. An invention is not con¬
sidered new when, previous to the
date of filing of the application, it has
received sufficient publicity in France
or abroad to render it easy of imita¬
tion.
"Where ignorance Is- bliss ’tis folly
to be wise” was said by Gray in hi!
“Ode to Eton College,”
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PROF. P. M. WHITMAN,
6JVES FREE EYE TESTS far all defects 4
sight, RANTS grinds tlie proper glasses and WAE»
them. while
Lenses cut into your frame yon was&.
FREE OF CHARGE tells if you rsetaft
9 medlcim cr glasao®'
209, 7th Street, Augusta, Ga*