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OLD gSssm- THE ALBATROSS. FROM "THE ANCIENT MAIUNEK. BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE llAt length did cross an albatross . Through the fog it came; tlAfl if it had been a Christian soul, 'We hailed it in God's name. j It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew i The ice did split with a thunder-fit; i The helmsman steered us through! IAnd a good south "wind sprang up behind; . The albatross did follow, !And every day, for food or play, N Came to the mariner's hollo! In mist "or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine rVVhiles all the night, through fog-smoke , white, Glimmered the white moon-shine. The sun now rose upon the right Out of the sea came he, ' Still hid in mist, and oh the left . Went down into the sea. 'And the good south wind still blew behind; But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day for food or play . Came to the mariners hollo. And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe; Por all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze to 'blow!, , lAh. wretch! said they, the bird to slay, That made the breeze to blow! , About, about, in reel and rout,. The death-fires danced at night! The water, like a witch's oilp, Burnt green, and blue, and white. Last Rim of the Green Pea Desperado. Y friend Buggies had gone so far as to put a name to his automobile, not the name of the make, en slaved on its various inwards, nor yet the name of Buggies himself , dangling on a patent leather tag just above the steam. So you can see that he was pretty far gone, as automobilists go. I think he called it the Pea Green Des perado. The reason I happened tov mention Buggies and his machine at all was that he came round, the other day and asked me to take a spin in it with him. It seemed to me as though the I account of what followed might be interesting. I can't hope, or course, I to stir any one up by a plain black and white story of the "spin" as I was stirred up, but if I can impart to this tale a-hundredth part of what I felt I shrill be well repaid. Understand, in the first oplace, that I'm not an automobile man and not used to the machines any way, and that my heart is weak and I have a prejudice foolish perhaps against get ting arrested. ' i But Buggies came around and asked me to come, along With him, and, as you may have found yourself, thefe's a good deal in the idea of clattering about the drives in one of the things, whether you own it or not with every one marking you down for having money. If you're careful not' to make up too much like a professional chauf- feur, you know, they're bound to think . you're worth something an automobile . is vulgarly supposed to be a sign of lucre. They all cost pretty high, too. .1 know how much Buggles's cost, for one he must have told me a " dozen 'times. ', Well, he came around - and caught me. just as I was feeling particularly; perky and; daring, any wa He had 1 AUf u x. ! ' " . . , u suiuy auiouiooiie cap anu an isinglass eyeshade and fine large" oily ..gloves, and he looked just like the pictures or chauffeurs in the comic -.papers, drawn as standing at the pris- oners clock in court, by preference. "Come along with me, old hoss," said Buggies, "I'll take you rattling up the Drive in the Pea Green Desperado and , nve'll scare all the old ladles out of -tneir wits from here to the Monu ment, The, long and the short of it was that I climbed into his machine, standing outside my house with a crowd around it,' watching it gurgle and tremble, and jail: the neighbors hiding behind their lace curtains and wondering who my vjLijeusive inena was. l aiun t see them the neighbors but I knew they were there. Because I've done it my self. ;;V:.. V;.''V it was a pretty instrument Bug gies s automobile. As you mijrht have I 5 guessed from its 'sobriquet, it was a tiiue ungnc green, except tne waist ofj hi as you might say where you sit and work if That was red and; oilyJ . inere were, a number of shiny 'lan terns and things stuck over the front Slope of it, and down on the prow "was ja shutter that steam- came through. I You can see that it was the bona fide J article. VYe.got into it aud Euggles srasned orae levers firmly and J curled up my muMaeiie ana glanced un at .Miss 3uinnes's window in No. '27 -.nnd wouueu ir sue was home. There Was a terrific Steamy clatter that near: ly onoou my shoes off, a cloud of smoke asftcd into my eyes, and by the'time Nor dim nor red; like W own hfid, The Ktoriou van JMWWi.s ! i Then il averred 'I killed the bad That brought the fo and imvti j - Twia right, aid they, Mich MrU tp ly, That brins tho fog und mitt, j The fair breexe blew, the white foajn flew, Th fnrrmv followed free: i We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Down dropt the brec0, the-sail J dropt down , I Twas sad as sad could !be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea. I ... ... . . 7 . , V;.. All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun, at noon. Right up above the 'mast! did stand, No bigger than the moon. .Dfiv after day, day af terj day, We stuck nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship1 Upon a painted ocean. , Water, water everywhere. - And all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink J The very deen did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the siimy sea! I had assured myself that my head had not been snapped off we werf in a strange street. The rate of speed that Buggies was am willing to swear that when our big fat wheels hit a manhole the I whole engine jumped a foot. tq went around corners on one wheel, with women fall ing limply into ' policemen's 'armsion the curb, and the policemen shouting at us until their yells sank to a drone in the distance. We rail over a yellow dog and threw the animal into the air behind fts in the most talented fash- ion. It landed on the top of a brougham a rather stylish position for a irellow ilog. Inotlccd theso hings then, but thfcj- didn't appeal to me as i Etere st- ing. The most interesting thins just then was the preservation of nly life. It was in Butrffles's hand I felt that and Buggies was about as careless of it! as though it was the life of aj Bock- away oyster. t We dashed into theVark on af curve that shot a fan of gravel off of the near wheel and all over a beiatejil May part y,: w h ich im m ed ia tely looked to me lilrt 'n r-nfof! nf' 1 n fi tl cl I1! v!tlniji itaitirr dug out. A mounted policeman put his " horse' at ' us, but ' he' Lv in the trail of our gasolene gas, from the exhaust thing in the! back, and his Iked. An old lady; trying to cross the drive ahead, Just escaped be in rolled out by such a close liiargin i . J w : that her silk boa ud tllsted ab4t tl,e near tore wneei anu tw spokes while she could! have saidi knife. Try it on an electric fan with a! hand kerchief, from behind; and you get the same effect. Later on. Bucsrles said. he would get the boa out and ptft it up in his den with a lot of 'otkeii relies that he was in the habit of prying out of the- shutter on the automobile's prow after trips. Bits of littlelihings he'd hit, you know. lie admitted that he ,was a sentimental cuss, dill Bug gles. MVe went .up the West Drive like an express making up bine and with about as much noise. Arouad the corner I saw the Van Doutzers coming IiV a victoria. They are one fof the 'families that I really, like to liow to, and soBabolishing as much of my fear it J -r I ''j. t . . ' . ' lor my me as i couiui l got reauy.-io take off my hat. honlnsr. I must con- fess! that they'd take me for the! owner of the Desperado, instead of Huggles., To carry out the idea 7. Just 1 rested my hand On the wheel thing that you steer by. I bowed, but --li discovered, to my , horror, that I was bowing to a park policeman the Van Dputzers must have been whisked b.vr about three blocks back by the time I got my hat off. at once there was a fiightful rush o' profanity from Buggies and. I noticed that we were riehotting on a wonderful angle up an incline covered j witli tulip beds. I- peered wildly be hind; me the road was just disappear ing in the distance between trees and the tracks of the automobile lamoug the flowers looked like the first dig gings for a canal. Suddenly w dived into a shady: grove on, the summit. There was a tremendous, shivering jar, and. I shot head first into d Prickly sort of bush. The Pea Green Desper ado was trembling and gurgling, head on, against a tree trunk. As for Bug- slcs. he had traveled some feetifurther thnn T bn1 .irwl InnilPrl in n snrf lnf Vnc iic summer house through the window. jon the laps of two persons already, there. They were very angry, ueii 01 them, and vanished down ; tW hill threatening to have the law on uu. I told Buggies that I didn't blame them, olther-that I had been .young joy self. He got mad at that and said Itwan all. because ru put ray uauy hand onthe steering gear and switched the machine off the rpad, and that hoV "like to have been killed" In con sequence. Ho -.wanted-. to' know why the: deuco;.r should switch, him up on this hlll-dld I like, the scenery so much, and would I pay tne fine ? . What's the use of arguing with a fel low like Buggies when he's mad, any way ? I just kept quiet and got Into the machine and -sat still while, he climbed in and backed ; her up and turned her around and tried' to -start her. But she wouldn't start. He pulled all of the levers and things in sight but she just stootl still and shook. Then he got out and , crawled In underneath among the works, to see what. was the matter. I sat hi the waist effect, that was all red and oily. Presently I heard him say from -the bowels of the machine, as Jt were: "Are you touchin' anything?" I said, "No." Buggies said: "There's a, chunk of wood - In the pull It out." chain I'm a-goin' to "Pull away" said I, and I heard him ive.a grunt. Gee whiz! The Desper- ado leaped like bow; I heard a the arrow from the wail of horror from Buggies, and the next thing I knew, he and the hill were gone, and I was ripping across .the 'sheepfold like the front ofs.a cavalry charge. " :':: y:' ' I . don't remember righjtly 'thc rest of the trip I made through the Park in-the Desperad a; It's more of a bad dream than anything else. Thee were crowds that dashed up on walls,- yell ing; and mounted police hat galloped after, yelling, and horses that sat down on carriage shafts; or tried to climb up with the coacjhman on the box the coachmeu yelling, jtoo. X pulled all the movable bits of brass-ware that-1 saw, but there was no toppingj her. Then I grabbed thej wheel and flotdled about trying to get the hajhg of how to steer thd blooming thing plunging for ward all the while, mind tou, -like a runaway engine. Finally, after a couple of wild runs onto walks and one complete circle, I got thati straight, and h ;a splintered park over; the prow, but started -on, iwi bench hancrinc: IiappyV-for at least I could put it to right and left. By this "time rit was dusk. i . ;;: As the Desperado ( thundered around another curve, tl e lake unfolded away down below, on my left. Suddenly I got an Idea. I twisted the wheels, put the machine's rose- down the dusty slope and e rambled from my seat. Figuratively,' I had washed my hands of all works. I slid over the back of my waistcoat, and too macnine on dropped. My labels caught on a hook. I v.-as jerked in bird for twenty tne air, sailed nice a feet, broke loose sud denly, and struck the ground hard, but happily. Down below, in the growing twilight, I saw he, Pea Green Desper ado swaying toward, the water at light ning speed. -A splaali, a muffled con- 'u iuf, a!J; : oaeuee xen. !, After dinner I got on my hand painted smoking ooat that Miss Guinnes gave mc last Christinas I always put it "on when I'm In a chastened mood f01' Bugs1,?-' iWcT vould come It The first thing tie: said when he ar rived was: - " ;'-;'." 1;'-. V-'s "Where's, the Green Desperado?" He said it quite fearlessly; too, although I couldn' t so much as bear that p.ame without shuddering r H 1 told him, tho igh. '', the Jakel" he .ejaculated, . bound ing out of his chair. "hv V ' "And a .good tiling, too," I said, sol emnly. "I looked: forward to seeing you dead' to-night, Buggies dead flattened! That devilish machine made my whole past come up in my mind, and, by. gorry, It was up to the Desperado to finish." , "But my nioney !"t cried Buggies pa thetically: I .always thought tie was a paper sport. I should have imagined he had a pretty goodurbn for his money that afternoon. , ' I said nothing,) however. Inwardly, I confess, I was1 a llttie pleased. Buggies had lost his automobile, and ,1 couldn't see-how ho was any better than I was now.U-New Sun.' " York Evening Generous Britain. A correspondent whov signs himself 4 The Parson," writes: "Some months ago a laboring man in a small parish near Reading stopped, at some risk fo himself,. a .runaway two-horse post van.- The horses had gone, without a driver, at a great pace, half a mile -or more on a much-frequented high road. The man was riot thanked at the time, but. the matter was- brought to the notice of the ' G; P. O.; inquiry was made, an A he received sixpence ! London Times. " ' ' What DouRhnut In. . "A doughnut, children," said the practical teacher, of digestive econom ies, "is a round hole in thecentrc of a tcomnound mixture of clyspepsia,' Baltimore News. . SOUTHERN TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER STOCKMAN AND TRurr How Onm 3Ian:Xinprova a Poor Farm. . A correspondent of the Progresisive Farmer gives this interesting narra tive:' ' . v -.. About twelve -years ago an old East ern North Carolina Vsaudhlll" farm, worn out In I the truest , sense of the word,: found itself without a tenant. This farm contained about 120 acres, thirty of which were woodland; v Of the cleared laid there were about thir ty acres of what is known as poeosou, most of which had been' turned out and allowed to grow up in broomsedge, bushes arid funning briars till two strong mules! ; could scarcely pull.1 a one-horse Dixie plow in it. The rest of the pocbson land had been planted: in rice: for' several years and had gotten so it Would not grow anything else. So only sixty acres were left upon whicli anything Could be made to grow, arid some -of this was very light, sandy soil, covered with sassafras bushes, the other being of a sandyloam. ' To improve such- a farm, would seem a task almost impossible of accoriiplish ment. - Nevertheless, within these twelve years it tias been made "to pay for itself" byj its present owner, and has been improved till it produces six or eight times as much as when he took it in harid.' .r.;" "'' ' '-;'""" The method followed was careful preparation of the soil for planting, careful cultivation of crops, with sys tematic rotation of the same when possible, na one crop-being planted on -the same field more than two years in succession. . , r ; This farm is in the trucking; section, and considerable truck has been plant ed, but of. late years only strawberries and asparagus have been grown. The cow pea has been planted after all small grain and always in the corn, either on top of; the" rows, between the hills of corn, or in the middle of the rows, when made wide enough, or both when seed are plentiful. this season's production of the farm will be between; $2000 and ?2."00. The following isj a summary .. of ; crops grown, number; of acres planted and value of produce (prices estimated at what they will probably be at time when produce Is ready for market): Twelve acres in wheat and oats fol lowed half by peas broadcast for. hay, half by peas arid peanuts in drill for seed and hogs, total value estimated at $350: three arid one-half acres in straw berries, $750 ; one acre in sweet pota toes, $G0; .two and one-half acres in asparagus, $S5; one acre in water melons, $55; j twenty acres cotton (lint and seed), $700; thirty-five acres in corn (grain ami fodder), $400. Total, $2400. , .w A Convenient Farm Ilarn; V My barn, the ground plan -of which Is shown herewith, I find to be very convenient for 'John Jacksori. all purposes, writes The alleys in front of the horse and cpw stables make it very easy to feed the different .kinds of stock, and also to clean the mangers of any kind of refuse that may be left. The lofts above! the stables arc reached T 3! 11X20 Z G ROUND PLAN OF B AHN. by short ladders from the alleys. On one end of the cow stable is a box stall, which I find to be almost Indispensable when the cows begin ; to. drop f their calves. So, also, is the stable used for ewes when they begin to drop their lambs. The :'?. stables and alleys are J well llghtedby windows.; In the alley in front of the' horses, andjnext to the side of the barn is a grain box lafge enough to hold several, bushels, which is mouse proof. The barn floor is roomy, and. affords a convenient place for storing wagons, as well as some farm tools. A track for a horse : fork is fastened to the rafters In the peak of the barn and runs the whole length, so that hay can be unloaded from the floor arid depos ited in the bays or in the lofts. over the stables at either end of ' the barn, by horse power, i The sheep" stable has an earth floor, which is thickly covered with dry ; straw.. .This P-stable is not cleaned out until spring. - The contents of the horse stable are thrown out through windows, "while those of the cow stable" are takenout on a wheel barrow and deposited with thevhorse manure, : thus mixfrig the two To Sow Wheat In Miultslppl. We notice that the farmers in Clay County, Miss., around Grlnith, have or ganized and . will .work together to en courage sowing wheat in that section. The movement is undoubtedly; a good oneV and if persevered in, will brhi" the most beneficial results. That wheat will do well there we, know from what it has done and is doing at a few scattering places in ' the State. No v FARM -.1 doubt these men kn . .They are actins wicol ;U1S fct, w a to-operative effort. .w"WI few isolated individnm. ZT ile Jri raising good crops witl2;a8l tion as with it, thWS Co it grain, or mills to . Cl I0r th unless there :n- ' then nv. o lv aiore f fai engagea in it, and a .,., "'. age in the crop, ther m : . r " - "c inei'e will hp both in getting the ww lffic arid In getting n threshed. iu succs uuu pront in almost any I J ness in which snnfioi y b flVnnv.nn r,rA ll . 1 equirea. ways depend on ' there bei'T irrain crown to'.iirin on2 eral eonrtitin fi,o. " C1) that.-are favorable u the business. The. article states that interested nip,ifffle- i,: . . ,.. 1 iarii wheat in varying auantitw !w lo?n 'nn vi n rr t-r.-i.-.-r. l li "c.ciai groins as TOPlI . freight on several vaiima,i 1,5 their flour. .... . . "u uaHiS on xl ijicv "xmv t Ii ti m wheat and can get it milled acarht they will be layin; me iounuat ton 1. - J! . the most prosperous farming. m. iiutuiai i-uuuuons are suitable, no rtort litttr no r.tinnnl l . uu, y.Lia.ltiy i:e can ra sp tin imugs mux are neeueu ror home coj. sumption. j.ucie was u nine wnen the oldc fetates of the South raised everythiuf uu me luruis mat was consumed by people. There were no railroads and iiv isunipjii niis uune anywuere except along water line?. All the bread an meat, was made at home, and the farmers supplied the town people with flour, corn meal, molasses, butter, bacon and other table supplies, and no one thought of getting them at a distance. We believe the country more prosperous under that sys-a than the present and sincerely 1 that the -Mississippi farmers will per severe in their 'intention to raise their own. .wheat, and then add to it bacon, and all the other things for which there is a local demand. -.r s SaTins: loa. Ilay. There are many ways of 'saTing pea hay, and it is a hard thing to say which is; the best": way. I have tried several ways, "and air did v,ery well with or.fr exceptionr y A:; good deal depends upon the weather. . They can be vntsodoct in small heaps thea.left to remain ft way for several days,8 then tliey wi be hauled and packed a war -in t'a barn. It will not do to let them ty on the ground until cured, as they si ter so badly when hauled, losing nca all, t he lea ves, which make the .best fool Thei way I jlikcbest Js to get pronji poles, say nine feet long, put theuiii the VgrouRd ' about eighteen in:'i making Brilan rstacts over . ilie field. This' is verv ' iiiiick work, as can carry the vines on forks quicker than thev can bf hauled, hecacse radius of twelve yards will mai: stack where the peas are good, tehoiiw. there not be poles convenient haviD? prongs, take a straight pole and tack slats on same some four feet Ion? .and stack ori' these: ' as the vines begin to cure, of course they settle and & prongs or slats cause the air to .pa through the stacks, making the visf? Cure nice and brisht. Vines put up . this wav should not be left in the 1 more than to weeks, as tbey are 1 ble to.tlamage .if they are not put w very well, though I have hauled nn ibn lpo-inriinp-'nf winter and W were not damasred at all, the w eating them in preference to auyiii else. Southern Farmer. , Chftjin ireel For Wire. The1 snindlfi should be hard nn old hot linndle or porucii ui - toil frinw ni. flrn font 1fin,r Jl J)i:v 1 L l.l.f..rn lin-rfil Oi SH'1- Put a crank on the hort sny ' ?rmilsfnTi nrsinlc rail He l- 0ft ranging the end oi the W can be easily removed. A nan 1 . .. end of the crosspieee driven bie into the reel when placed spindle" will hold the red m 1 To operate requires a man at the man on the cfank side turnip one"; hand; Wire should ground arid the tension vriu ficient to wind it very nicely. the best thing I have tried. son. - Tliey Add Nitrosen- nr. 1,., r -nan Olirl SOV 1)00 add nitrogen tp the soil if l)l0 tft. Or returned to it in the form o ttf but their lower roots lu'u dl, subsoils to a great" depth an & nnTis?ftvnhlo amounts 01 P, .1 tT ill some phosphorus, which tut j a. constituent ot tne tuy " ts, , able for surface feeding P1 .... w
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