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HIS TIME TO GUFFAW. "Well, bld Si Perkins, the feller Who wunst bought a gold brick, has been the laughin’-stock of this coun try fer twenty years, but his turn has come at last." ‘‘How’s that?” “He’s about the only man in the township that hain’t got a life-insu rance policy.”—Louisville Courier Journal. ITS REDEEMING QUALITY. Mrs. Simkins —How do you like your new boarding house? Mr. Jobkins. —Oh, the rooms are fair, the table is only tolerable —but the gossip is excellent. —Hotel Life. AN EVERY-DAY STRUGGLE, n ard Women of Every Occupation Snf« fer Miiertis From Kidney Complaint. J. C. Lightner, 703 So. Cedar St., : Abilene, Kansas, is cine of the thou sands who suffer from kidney troubles WOP 7 brought a strain on the back. I had j frequent attacks of gravel and the : Srine was passed too often and with rin. Wh'en I used Doan’s Kidney ; Hs, however, all traces of the trouble I disappeared and have not returned. 1 ftm certainly grateful.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. I Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. Lots of people imagine that they are not talked about simply because they don’t hear it. How’s This 7 offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Mail’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. j. Cheney for the last 16 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. Wist <t Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Wamuno, Kinnan & M abyin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O, Hall’s CatarriiCureistakeniaternally.aot- Ingdireotlyupon the Wood and inucuoussur laees of the system. Testimonials sent free. ?rioe, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, j Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. I „ Probably no famous bird has a smaller Sabit'at than the bird of paradise. RUNNING SORES ON LIMBS. Zdtue SKa’a .tfc Cnee cf Fct—na- Mother S*y«; ’“Cntleura Hemedie. a Xotißehold Standby.” / "Last year, after having my little girl treated by a very prominent physician for aa obstinate case of eczema, I resorted to the Cuticura Remedies, and was so well B leased with the almost, instantaneous re ef afforded that we discarded the physi cian’s prescription and relied entirely on the Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Pills. When we commenced with the Cuticura Remedies her feet and limbs were covered with punning sores. In about six weeks we had her completely •well, and there haa been no recurrence of the ’trouble. We find that the Cuticura Remedies are a valuable household stand by, living as we do twelve miles from a doctor, and where ft costa from twenty io twenty-five dollars to come up on the fountain. Mrs. Lizzie Vincent Thomas, Fairmount, Walden’s Ridge, Tenn., Oct. U, 1905." A naturalist has been making observa tions on the toilets of certain ants. A Strands Story. Mra. Isaac W. Austill of Chestnut Ridge, N. C.. tells a strange story of great suffering. “I was in bad condi tion for months,” she writes, “under treatment of doctors, but got no relief. My periods had stopped, all but the pain. After taking part of a bottle of Wine of Cardui, nature worked properly and without pain. I advise all suffering women to use Oardui.” A pure speci fic remedy for women’s ills, SI,OO, at druggists. The boy who wants to marry his school teacher lives only in Sunday school library novels. IKLEOfoIsCOKSTMTEO An inclination to ba constipated is a common symptom of the American people. There is no question but that this is due in a great measure to indigestion, and that indigestion comes from indiscretion of diet. Let foods be daily eaten like DR. PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD and there would be no constipation—no sour stomach—no formation of gas— as it 11 made from the whole wheat-berry— baked at a high temperature—all indigestible . I matter removed. PalatableHWfous—Ess¥ d Oigssta and Ready to Eal Dr. Price, the creator ot Dr. Price's Cream Bakins Powder and Delicious Fiavorlns Eztraots ; IO CENTS A PACKAGE *3 mosh nourishment as three leaves of bread brought on by daily work. “I first noticed it eight or ten years ago,” said Mr. Light ner. “The dull pain in the back fairly made me sick. It was hard to get up or down, hard to straighten, hard to ! do any work that Bull Fighting Statistics. “I am off to Spain,” said a photog rapher. “The bull fighting season op ens in April, and I must be there for the first performance. ’ “The season,” he said, “lasts seven months, from April to November. Eash season there are on an averag© 500 fights and in each fight three bulls are killed, ten horses and a twenty fifth of a man. The aggregate sea son’s slaughter in the ring, that is to say, is 1,500 bulls, 5,000 horses and 20 men. “The chief matadors number twen ty-five. They each earn about $9,000 a season. The ordinary helpers earn in a season only $500.” The White Paint of the White Hoiiip, The White House at Washington, which has been the “King's Palace” of the American People since it was first occupied by President Madison in 1809, has recently undergone a thor ough course of remodelling, renovation and repair. Every American citizen is owner of an undivided eighty or eighty-five milli-outh part of the White House, as well as’ of the other Public Buildings and Monuments in the Cap itol City. An item in the renovation of the remodeled White House was repainting. Every visitor in Washing ton knows why the White House is so called—because :: is literally a “white house.” The exterior paint must there fore be white. Now while the pure wjjite surfaces and simple lines of the White House, set in the midst of green lawns and beautiful trees, produce a very satisfying effect of dignified simplicity, white paint from a practical point of view, is about the most un satisfactory hind of paint that could have been selected by the original de signers. First, because any white paint is easily discolored by smoke and dust, and, second, because ordinary white paint itself gradually turns gray or brownish yellow from exposure. But white the White House is, and white it must remain or it would no longer be the “White House.” So the renovators, making the best of a dis couraging situation, sought for the best kind of white paint procurable. The average citizen if asked to guess what kind of paint they finally decided on would probably answer—“white lead and oil,” but he would guess wrongly. The paint selected ns the best obtain able, was ; ready-mixed paint, such as can be bought in any well-furnished village store, such as is used by more than haif of the eighty or eighty-five million owners of the White House oa their own homes. That one brand of mixed paint was used instead of an other is a mere accidental detail— there are fifty or a hundred brands on the market uiat might have oeen se lected in other circumstances, and, in fact, a different brand was >sed in painting the Capitol. Every property owner, therefore, who paints his house with a high grade ready-mixed paint is following the example set by the Government Authorities at Washington, ‘who used ready-mixed paint, because they could find nothing else as good. DEFINED. Teacher—What is the difference be tween lightning and electricity? Bright Pupil—Lightning is free and electricity costs money.—Translated from Tales from Monos. Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh-Medicine Sent Free. Send no money—simply write and try Botanic Blood Balm at our expense. Bo tanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) kills or de stroys the poison in the blood which causes the awful aches in back and shoulder blades, shifting pains, difficulty in moving fingers, toes or legs, bone pains, swollen muscles and joints of rheumatism, or the foul breath, hawking, spitting, droppings in throat, bad hearing, specks flying be fore the eyes, all played out feeling of ca tarrh. Botanic Blood Balm has cured hun dreds of oases of 30 or 40 years’ standing after doctors, hot springs and patent medi cines had all failed. Most of these cured patients had taken Blood Halm as a last re sort. It Is especially advised for chronlo, deep-seated cases. Impossible for any one to suffer the agonies or symptoms of rheu matism or catarrh while or after taking Blood Balm. It makes the blood pure and rich, thereby giving a healthy blood supply. Cures are permanent and not a patching up. Drug stores, •$! per large bottle. Sample of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid, also spec ial medical advice by describing your trou ble and writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. The most wicked looking of all creatures is a painted and blondined mother. SOUTHERN •> fiOTES. •d - - -t> © -d- - TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN ANO TRUCK GROWER, k Secret of Good Plowing. A great many farmers are more par ticular about the looks of a piece of land after it is plowed than they are as to its physical condition. A plow ■ that seems to be of light draft will be ' a favorite regardless of the real eon | dition of the soil after it is plowed. | The Southern Farm Magazine sets : forth these facts and expresses an i opinion very vigorously as follows: It is not always the beet looking ! plow fallow that is the best broken I land. Ap ow constructed like a gouge, that slides under the turf and inverts it without breaking it. looks well, but for the production of a crop it pre pares the land badly. Many of the plows now' on the market are con structed so as to bring the least draught upon the team, and this by many is considered the perfection of the plow—the least draught for a given | depth. But may we not be laboring I under a mistake in this? The object j jn plowing is to invert and pulverize ' the soil and prepare it for a crop, j Plowing may be so performed as to in i vert the soil without breaking it, except ■ in the line of the furrow slice. It is ? evident that if a crop be planted upon I land so turned, the roots of the plant j will have to contend with the large, un broken blocks of soil, so hard, indeed, in many instances that the roots can not penetrate them. A case was | brought to the attention of the writer which occurred on a farm in Southern | Kentucky. The land plowed was de- I signed for corn. One plow made of I chilled iron'with a gouge-shaped mold ' board was started on one side of the I field and a steel plow with an abrupt mold-board was started on the other. The first turned over the land beauti ; fully, but. did not pulverize the soil. I The' draught was light and two horses i carried it with ease. The second pulled ■ much harder, owing to the abruptness ' of the mold-board, and the perpendic ! ular resistance which it made to the ■ furrow slice- But it pulverized the soil : thoroughly. Com was planted at the i same time on the land broken by both ; plows. When that planted on the land I broken with the chilled plow was eigh teen inches high, that upon the land broken by the steel plow with an ab rupt mold-board was thirty inches high. The first was yellow and stunted: the second- was a picture of luxuriant and abundant vitality. It is estimated that the portion of the field broken with the steel’ plow would make at least a third more corn than that broken with the chilled plow, though the crop on the latter had two more plowings. Tlie introduction of the disc ' plow has been of great advantage in the pulverization of the soils. It not only turns over the soil completely, but it thoroughly hides all the weeds and bushes and trash on the surface. Os all the plows yet introduced for the breaking of land the disc plow is by | far the most efficient, but it cannot be ; used well upon rocky hillsides. The question presented in the mat- ■ ter of breaking land needs to be thor i oughly investigated by our Southern ; farmers. Plowing without pulveriza- I tion does not put the land in good con dition for the growth of any crop. It I may be that In seeking to decrease the draught the farmers may increase the | work necessary to grow a good crop. Sowing Grain. If any Southern farmer fails to sow a large crop of wheat and oats, he simply neglects his opportunities and fails to do his duty; he fails to read “God’s handwriting upon the fields,” for the early and short crop of cotton will give us plenty of time both to sow a larger area than usual, and to give it better preparation. And the short cotton crop, being interpreted rightly, certainly means to make up your loss as best you can by intelligent efforts in other crops that can be grown be fore another cotton crop comes in. Ac cording to past experience next year will be a good grain year, since this was a poor one. We generally have one poor and then a good year. By leaving the yield of grain out of consid eration, it will pay us well, if we will only prepare our land right, in this work upon our soil and having some thing growing upon it in the winter time to prevent washing and leaching and to add vegetable matter or humus to our soil, in which it is so deficient. However, we can raise grain in the South, if we only go at it right. We know men who are making money raising both wheat and oats every year. Os course their yield is not al ways so large, but when you take good ' land to start with and plow it deep, ! harrow it well, and manure it well, then you can always count on a re munerative crop. With oats we have not failed to make a good crop in ten years. ,We make it a rule to sow half our crop in the fall, and half as , early after Christmas as we can get them in the gound, generally in Feb i ruary, but have sown as late as the ! 4th of April and made fair oats. If you will sow them in the “open furrow,” you will never have them killed out. Let us ail unite and sow so much grain that the lulls of our Southland will be covered with a coat of green next winter and early spring such as they have never had before. It need not cut your cotton or corn area one acre; you can make good corn, or cot ton either, after this grain, if you will only manure highly; and this is what we want you to do. Spread on the manure and enrich your land. Make two crops “where one grew be fore,” and let us fulfill our boast, “that we have soil and climate in which we can grow almost any crop.”—Southern Cultivator. Stick to Strawberries. The editor of the Tampa (Fla.) Times takes a text from an item in an ex change and preaches from it an ex cellent sermon. It begins about straw berries, but applies equally well to any form of market gardening or truck farming. The Plant City Courier tells of a man in that vicinity who has already this season shipped $2300 worth of strawberries from two and a half acres of land, and has yet enough left to carry the receipts up to a round thou sand dollars an acre. Instances like these come every now and then to remind us that men in this section ought to stick to a thing even when it occasionally goes into eclipse. Strawberries are splendidly paying crops three seasons out of four;, and yet there are men so blind that when they have met a loss in their cultivation, or failed of the great re ward they expected. quit their cultiva tion in disgust. This has been a very favorable season, and if a man has lost three previous crops—which, by the way, he has never done, he would have made handsome money in the long run. Lack of systematically sticking to an intelligent policy in farming is the bane of operations in South Florida. Following a remarkably good season like this, many men will go into ber ries. Next season may be only an average, and a large portion of the men. in the business will be possibly disap pointed in their returns. They will quit in disgust, whether the reason be the season or their own fault, and will proclaim berry raising to be a fraud. It is tolerably certain hat in any busi ness life a man must follow it, steadily and study it all the time, and be per petually increasing his knowledge and improving his methods.. But somehow there seems to be an impression abroad that anybody can raise strawberries, that it requires neither knowledge nor experience—nothing but plants placed in the ground. No wonder -any peo ple fail. The experienced berry grower will tell you that there is no business which requires more knowledge, work, attention and skill than his pursuit. The man who applies these things will win big money, and the man who tries any other method, or fails in the appli cation of all these, will make a miser able failure. Country Homes. What is said in this article and oth ers which may follow on the same subject is prompted by the kindest in tentions. Expressions in the nature of criticism of apparent neglect of coun try homes we hope may not be taken as fault finding or meddling with af fairs not our own. In calling attention to apparent derelictions in the matter of making country homes what they should be we are actuated only by the desire to be of service to the rural population, which of all classes have our greatest admiration and respect. It is evident to all who travel much in the country that too little attention is given to making homes comfortable and attractive by farmers and others who live in the country. Undoubtedly much of the discontent felt especially by young people in the country arises from this condition. Their homes com pare unfavorably in appearance with homes they see in town. In town they see painted houses, painted yard fences, grass lawns, with ornamental and shade trees, shrubs and vines and flowers. These evidences of self-es teem may just as well be enjoyed by farmers’ wives and children as by town folks. They cost but little money and cost less in the country than in town.’ If systematically done the work of beautifying the home does not take much time. It is mainly a mat ter of getting started at it. Once fairly started the work becomes fascinating. This season is a good time to start.— Southern Fruit Grower. Dairying’s Advantages. Dairying teaches habits of punctual ity, industry, cleanliness and thrift and gives constant and regular employment of a light character to every member of a farmer’s family. Better Than Any Speech. Among the anecdotes told in J. H. Settle’s book concerning election humors Is the following about Lord Rosebery: His lordship was in the east end of London at an election time, and while inspecting a great establishment several of the employes, whose knowl edge of the distinguished guest chiefly centered in him as the owner of a good horse, communicated to one of the company their wish that Lord Rosebery would do them a favor. “What is it you want —a speech.” asked the gentleman. “A spe’ :>h! No! Speech be hang ed!” was the reply. “We want a tip for the Liverpool cup!” A DOUBTING THOMAS. She —Did you let father know you owned a lot of house property? He —I hinted at it. She—What did he say? He—He said, "Deeds speak lous er than words.” —Tit-Bits. New Uss for Electricity. A simple electrical means of puri fying water for home use has been devised by a French engineer. The apparatus takes up very little space. It consists of a small closed box, which contains an ozone developer, an interrupter, and a tin tube. Con nection is made with an ordinary lighting circuit iby fitting a plug in to an Incandescent socket, and when current is turned on ozone is generat ed. This passes through the tube in to a cotton stopper, to free it from the dust and germs contained in the air, and is then conducted into the water and mixed with it. The “mix er” is a most important feature of the apparatus. Sixty gallons of wa ter can thus be purified in an hour, at the cost of ordinary lighting. t. * M.t r,. St M.t T,„ St M.» Buy L. & M. Paint and get a full gallon. Wears 10 to 15 years, because L. &. M. Zine hardens L. & M. White Lead and makes 1.. & M. Paint wear like iron. 4 gallons of L. & M. mixed with 3 gallons oil will paint a moderate sized house. C. 3. Andrews, Ex-Mayor, Danbury, Conn., writes: “Painted my house 19 rears ago with L. &M. Looks well to-day." PAINT YOL'R HOUSE. 15 per cent, commission allowed to any resident where we have no agent, on sale of L. & M. to property-owners, at our re tail price. Apply to LONGMAN & MARTINEZ. Paint Makers, New York. A Coin's Strange Story. "Some strange things happen in this world,” said Richard Murphy, as he leaned over Parker’s- cigar coun ter. “For instance, ■j .. _• :q; wh’-TT'l -r- W boy in a machine shop Georgia, I cut my initials and uhR date on a nickle and not long ago that coin was shoved across the counter to me in payment for a ci gar. For twenty years that nickle traveled and perhaps paid a hundred thousand dollars of obligations— more or less —and then fell back in to my hands. But it has traveled for the last time, and in future will he kept and cherished for the good it has done.” Another strange feature of the matter is that marked coins have been under the ban of the law for years and this nickle would not have been accepted 'by a street car conduc tor or any one else in a like service and would have been thrown out at the bank. And yet it went its way and did its work unmolested for twenty years.”—-Birmingham, Ala.-, Herald. ANSWERED. 'Mistress (severely)—How did it happen that I saw a policeman with you in the kitchen last night? Maid —I suppose, madam, you must have looked through the keyhole.— Translated for Tales from Strekoza. REPAIRING BRAIN. A Certain War By Food. Every minister, lawyer, journalist, physician, author or business man is forced under pressure of modern con ditions to the active and sometimes over-active use of the brain. Analysis of the excreta thrown out by the pores shows that brain work breaks down the phosphate of potash, separating it from its heavier compan ion, albumen, and plain common sense teaches that this elemental principle must be introduced into the body anew each day, if we would replace the loss and rebuild the brain tissue. We know that the phosphate of pot ash, as presented in certain field grains, has an affinity for albumen and that is the only way gray matter in the brain can be built. It will not an swer to take the crude phosphate of potash of the drug shop, for nature re jects it. The elemental mineral must be presented through food directly from Nature’s laboratory. These facts have been made use of in the manufacture of Grape-Nuts, and any brain worker can prove the value of the proper selection of food by mak ing free use of Grape-Nuts for ten days or two weeks. Sold by grocers everywhere (and in immense quanti ties). Manufactured by the BosliinJ Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.