Reflections of a Bachelor. It 's like finding money not-to spec ulate. Women call it a sowing, party be eaue that is .What .they don't do. One nice thing about marrying an OiU wiie is generally meie xo v 'mother-in-law problem. You could hardly get anybody to e bad if that was the way to be a .good citizen. , HERITAGE OP CIVIL WAR. SOUTHERN f ARM VI flOTES El'3: Thousands of Soldiers Contracted Chronic Kidney Trouble. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely, -of Co. E, 17th" Ohio, now living at 500 East Second street, Newton, Kansas, will interest the thou sands of veterans who came back from the Civil War sufferingtor tureswith kidney com plaint. Capt. Ely says: "I contracted 'kidney t rouble during the Civil War, and th e occasional attacks finally devel oped into a chronic case. At one time I had to use a crutch and cane to g2i about. My l)ack was lame and wak, and be sides the aching, there was a dis tressing retention of the kidney se cretions. I was in a bad way when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills in 1901, but the remedy cured me, and 1 have been well ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 centsabox. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. j i TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN UNO TRUCK GROWER Winter Feeding vs. Finishing on Grass Bl E. J., Carlisle, writes: I have a bunh of twenty-nine calves averag ing jforty pounds. I have plenty of cowpea hay and 1000 bushels of Corn for the wintering and will have plen ty of blue grass and clover pasture for summer. Would it be more prof itable to put these calves on full feed,' or keep them over and grass them? What is the best feed to fat ten Ahswer It is quite impossible to advise what is the best policy to pur sue jwith regard to feeding a bunch of calves or holding them over dur ing the winter and finishing on grass. There are so many cattle going on the market in the fall off grass that it seems sometimes that the better policy would be to feed them during the winter so as to keep them grow ing and in good condition and put them on grass for two or three months and' finish them in June or July, while the pastures are still good and the cattle can be fattened witlf a minimum amount of grain. This saves the pastures during . the hot,- dry weather of summer, which is a matter worth considering. Of course, cattle can generally be finished cheaper on grass than in the stalj. The season has a material in fluehee and the price of land is also an important factor. In sections of At the industries commission re cently held at Vryheid, Natal, it was .BUturu oua,, tuuuaima ui -uumuu u. country wnere hay is high priced IUU3 "L aL 114 ?ua"LJ . I meadows can often be ussd for hay v.wovw. . - , production t0 advantage. One ac radius of thirty miles of the town. H. H. Gheex's Soxs.of Atianta,Ga.,are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertise ment in another column of this paper. A Rainy-Day Welcome. The rain waspouring in torrents when Mrs,.., Haddon flew to the door and admitted her friend, Miss Ran som. "There, you are what I caU a real friend" she cried. "I never ex pect people to keep an engagement to come here in a storm, for they never do. I told Mr. Haddon this morning that I knew you wouldn't, but here .you are! ' I won't keep ycu standing in the vestibule' a minute longer. I just 'thought perhaps you'd like to let it drip off you a little, as I've had the nail all cleaned to-day. I always have it done when I'm sure of eight or nine hours before it needs to be walked on. "But Oh, no; it doesn't matter a bit. Perhaps you'd like' to take off .your rubbers? Rubber soles? Oh, no;. I never wear them, for they make such work on carpets. I mean,' of course, one cxpclcts to have one's own carpets ruined, because so few peo ple consider it at all, and I know rub ber soles are popular. I only meant the rule was for myself. "There, now, let me fmu yoii a com fortable chair; perhaps, as your skirt is damp, you'd rather not sit in one -of the covered chairs. Here'-s a wick . -er one that I've never had a cushion made for, just for such occasions: and that brings your feet on the rug, loo. ' Now if you'll excuse me for one moment, while I speak to Bridget, I'll lh rpariv fnr a nice lone talk. It was -so good of ' you to come, and so unexpected!" quainted with local conditions can figure out these matters and deter .mine the best policy to pursue. Blue grass and clover make an Ideal pasture. If the land is rich one should make as much as 300 to 400 pounds of gain on good, growthy heifers during the grazing season. To do this you need to reserve one to three acres of land for each ani mal. When you figure up the rent or taxes on this land and its value if allowed to produce hay it will not be hard to tell whether, it is better to finish the heifers with the feed you have or carry them over the summer. If you feed them this winter you should be able to make them grow right along with plenty of cowpea hay and corn and cob meal mixed with cottonseed meal, gluten meal or linseed meal. Mix the feeds in equal parts. If you have some shredded stover or other dry roughness, feed as much of it as they will consume along with ten to fifteen pounds of cowpea hay. Cattle fed on dry foods should take to grass kindly, and it will not be necessary to feed them much if any grain when the early sap gets out of the grass. Cattle fed as suggested should put on a gdbd deal of flesh and not so much fat, and should be in ideal condition to take on "sap," as the saying is, when turned on grass and finish off rapid ly. Knoiville Tribune. along the outside will enable you to know just what you are feeding in i the way of meal. Foodstuffs vary greatly in weight. For instance, a quart of wheat bran weighs about one-half pound, and a duart of cot tonseed meal one and a half pounds. Thus if you were to feed one-half gallon of cottonseed meal you would be giving three pounds; on the other hand you would be only giving one pound of bran. To feed intelligently, therefore, one must get down to the weisrhts and measures. I am aware J that many people think that uslngJ weights is a hobby of scientific men. but if they will stop and think a lit tle they will see that it is the only basis by which you can gauge what you are doing. Make a mixture by; weight of one-third cottonseed meal and two-third wheat bran, or, better still, if you can get some corn and cob meal make a mixture of equal parts. This ration may be. fed to .your cows at the rate of one to one and a half pdunds per 100 pounds of live weight, depending on the milk flow and period of lactation. Cows weighing 800 to 1000 pounds will consume from six to ten pounds of grain per head per day with profit. The amount fed must be gauged by the feeder, and this in turn will be determined by the flow of milk ob tained. As much as three pounds of cottonseed meal can 'be fed with per fect safety, and it will not produce abortion if fed with proper discre tion. It should nbt be fed imme diately before or just after parturi tion. Wheat bran will be the. most desirable concentrate you can use at this time. A standard bred colt should be fed liberally on protein or muscle malt ing foods. You can not obtain any thing much better than whole vpr crushed oats, and you can feed them liberally without danger of injuring the animal... Bright, clean, clover hay will also be a desirable addition to the ration, but if it is at all dusty it should not be fed. In that case timothv hav should be fed. An ani mal should not be allowed to con sume too much timothy, however, as it is likely to cause an undue deyel opment of the stomach and interfere with the symmetry of the animal Give the colt all the salt it needs plenty of exercise and good fresh water and keenlt on pasture as much as possible. A spoonful of blood meal added to the ration each day wil prove stimulating to the appetite and help the animal in good condl tion. A mixture of bran and oats will also make a satisfactory ration. Very little if any corn should be fed to a colt you are trying to develop as rapidly as possible and in which you desire to secure the highest type of stamina and the best, muscular devel opment. Andrew M. Soule. Earth. Roads. A road should not . be wider than twenty-five feet. An ordinary rain will never hurt a road, but the storm waters and snow thawing in spring will cut and wash out the roads; therefore the roads should not be made over twenty-five feet wide, so that the centre of the road is ctewt gnough to the ditches to give the fall ing waters a chance to reach them. The centre of a road should not be more than two feet higher than the bottom of the ditches; if the centre is higher a loaded wagon will slide. into the ditch if the road is frozen in winter. I also find that in a long slope, I gjight inconvenience, say one-half mile -long, or longer, ana where the road is higher on one side than on the other, a culvert pipe should be put in every forty rods to ead the water into the' lower ditch, as the higher side of the road gathers more water. For culverts notmng Dut sewer tile should be used. When put ting in a culvert a man should always take into consideration the amount of water it has to carry, and whether the ground to be drained is more level or sloping. If the ground is more on the level a small tile, by giving it the proper fall, wtfl take care of an immense amount of water; but on sloping ground it will take a much larger culvert, as the water comes rushing down the hills, and if the culvert is too small and has not the proper fall, the water will run over the road. The culverts, should not be laid too deep, to keep them from clogging, but the dirt on the top of the culvert should be higher than the adjacent srround. so that in case the water should break it will not disturb the culvert. i A road bed twenty-five feet wide is wide enough even on a hillside. It is true, a deep ditch will wash out on both sides, but as the road wears down it will also wash in the centre. Then iiyepairiug the road the dirt should ot be dragged into' the centre of the road, but should be carried to the sides and dumped into the ditches. I have done this several times and find it satisfactory. This will lower the road, but will leave it high and hard in the ceutre if the roads are laid out in the centre where they belong, and are made straight and given the righ,t width, and culverts are put in wher ever they are necessary, and put in right and of the right kind of material, and the roads are kept in repair Then. if the State will pass a law to aid the counties and townships in making macadamized roads, the roadbed will be in such a shape that the gravel or rock may be applied at once, and will insure a great saving to the community as a lasting improvement. The above embodies the result?: ob tained by a very successful, roadbuildei in the State of Kansas constructing earth roads. Ail Old Painter's Ideas. The Autumn season la coming more and more to' be recognized as a most suitable time for house-painting. There is no frost deep in the wood to make trouble for even the best job of painting and the general season ing of the Summer has put the wood irto good condition in every way. The weather, moreover, is more like ly to be settled for the necessary length of t1me to allow all the coats to thoroughly dry a very important precaution. An old and successful painter laid to the writer the other day: "House owners would get more tor their money if they would allow t their painters to take more time, es pecially between coats. Instead of allowing barely time for the surface to get dry enough not to be 'tacky,' several days ( weks would not -be too much) should be allowed jsa that the coat might set through and through. It is inconvenient, of course, but, if one would suffer this It would add two or three years to the life of the paint. "All this is assuming, of course, that the paint used is the very best to be had the purest of white lead and the purest of linseed oil, un mixed with any cheapener. If the cheap mixtures, often known as 'White Lead' and oil which has been doctored with jish oil, benzine, corn oil, or other of the adulterants known to the trade, are used, all the precautions of the skilled painter are useless to prevent the cracking and peeling which make houses unsightly in a year or so and, therefore, make painting bills too frequent and costly. "The house owner should have his painter bring, the ingredients to the premises separately white lead of some well-known, reliable brand and linseed oil of equal quality and mix the paint just before applying it." Painting need not be expensive and unsatisfactory if the old painter's suggestions are iouowea. I the oldest mad first bait ccBege in V. 1 n ft Ha Vila, cniwu. i mm jm mxin 1W Bookkeeping, Shorttna. renmsmrap. inwwnaog, CaphTi&c Three fir taughl by m3 b- iMiiinrf htutaass college sooth n tun rtVef'l G? M. sKuTHDEAL. PifcichinoiKlrVfc. m MitiiitvA in tn nonntsliML AVHINi: I II N nt!lr, pur. nuiiinui vn j COLLEGE...! CHARTERED 1795 KSSKaTiSBi rd,thwuirh trainttig.TuMon (literary Z""-; cata. uddrtu, Tke Dm, Washington Coltege.TeM. water. Ms tor lo beautiful urroawl- Mff.8 earn hat.el trie lights. cvv--d-a tlonal. Normal TtUBRAfHT, SHORTHAND AND BOOUtEPIiti ookkeepi.PenmaDhip.8aorthal,Typwriti lrapay. Kauroad Ma Lin WtmoonHtM Cwted; Write for irw catalog.The Ajnariean Tarafl C Commercial Oolloie. MUlertseviUa. Ga.. Box 6W. II IMS Tm A Tf T flV TTV TTnnTPi Truth is a Stranger to Fiction. . The novelist's small but valuable son had just been brought.to judg ment for telling a fib. His sobs hay ing died awav, he sat for a time in eilent thought. "Pa," said he, "how long will it be "before I stop gittin' licked for tellin' lies, an begin to get; paid for 'em, lik? you do?" Lippincctt's. Concentrates For Cows. T. D. H., Glade Spring,, Va., writes: I have two Jersey cows, two years old, and have been feeding them clo ver hay and top fodder for rough ness. At night I have been cutting up a portion of this feed and mixing with it one-half gallon of chop (with shorts left in) per head. As a morn- ' past eighteen years, and have had ing, feed I wish to use wheat bran I no trouble in preserving it. I am and cottonseed meaf, and would like i now using two underground silos, with a combined capacity of 165 tons. I have tried several different crops for filling, such as cow peas, Making Silage. If any of you have had doubts about the use of ensilage in Florida, you can have them put to rest by reading the report of a Florida far mer as published in the Rural New Yorker: I have been feeding silage for the to know the best proportions and the quantity to "use. These cows will calye in May, and are now giving about one and a half gallons of milk j velvet beans, and kaffir-corn. They Not bv their signs, but by their erviee, shall ye know them. DOCTOR CURED, OF ECZEMA. Mary laud Physician Cores Himself Dr. Fisher Says: "Cutlcura Remedies Possess True Merit." "My face -was afflicted with eczema in the year 1897. 1 used the Cuticura Reme dies and whs entirely cured. 1 am a prac ticing . phyaiciau, and very often prescribe Cuticura Kesolvent and Cuticura Soap in cases cf eczema, and they have cured where other formulas have failed. 1 am not in the habit of endorsing patent medi cines, but when 1 find remedies possessing true merit, such the Cuticura Remedies do, 1 am broad-minded enough to pro claim their virtues to the world, i have been practicing medicine for sixteen years, and must say I find your Remedies A .No. 1. You p.u at liberty to publish this let ter. G. M. Fisher, M. D., Big Pool. Md., Mav 24. 1905." mmm For Baby's Skin & Scalp Even busy men occasionally idle remarks. make Salvation cannot be spread without sacrifice. So. 3o- Ob. A WINNING START. A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Makes Nerve Force For the Day, Everything goes wrong if the breakfast lies in your stomach like a mud pie. What you eat does harm If you can't digest it it turns to poi son. A bright lady teacher found this to be true, even of an ordinary light breakfast of ezzs and toast. She says,: "Two rears aso I contracted a very anndying form of indigestion. My stomach was in such condition that a simplebreakfast of fruit, toast and egg gave me great distress "I was slow to believe that trouble could come fr,oin such a simple diet, but finally had to give it up, and iound a great change upon a cup of hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with cream, for my morning meal. For more than a year I have held to this course, and have not suffered except when injudiciously varying my diet. 'I have been a teacher for several years and find that my easily digest ed breakfast means a saving of ner vous force for the entire! day. My gain of ten pounds in weight also causes me to want to testify to the value of Crape-Nuts. j "Grape-Nuts . holds first rank at our table." j Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." R?ad the lit tle book"The Road to Wellville," in : pkgS. per head per day. Is there any dan ger of producing abortion by over feeding above? Would also like to know! the best food to give a six-months'-old standard bred colt to se cure best development, regardless of cost. I ' ! Answer Good clover hay and top fodder will furnish suitable forms of. rough" ness for dairy cows. Give them all triey will eat of this mixture, and you can thereby save a little on the concentrates, particularly as clover hay contains quite a high per cent, of digestible protein, and supplies the Icow with one of the necessary elements of nutrition, in a cheaper formj than you can purchase it through concentrates. You speak of the meal you are now giving as one-half gallon of chop with ;the shorts left in. I am at a loss to know what you mean by this. Chop! may be made up of a great va riety i of things. If you mean bran and middlings, for instance, you are only giving the cow a little over one and a half pounds of grain at a feed. This is a very little ration for cows giving the amount of milk men tioned. It is much better to feed animr.Is by weight, or .at least to have: a measure with marks along the sides so you can tell at a glance when; jrou are giving a pound of a given foodstuff. A measure of this kind! can tbe purchased for a few cents, and some streaks ot red paint all kept well and made a fair quality of silage, but I think that , in point of economy and quality of feed, there is nothing to compare with fodder corn. The corn should be cut when the grain begins to glaze, or as our Southern farmers will un derstand best, when the fodder Is ready to pull, which should be about the last of July or the first of Au gust. However, it is seldom that we can wait quite this late, as the corn begins to fire, and unless there is sufficient rain to keep the lower leaves green there will be more loss than gain by waiting. Sometimes in a very dry season we have to cut before the corn quite reaches the roasting ear stage. . There is but one special precaution necessary to keep silage in this or any other climate, and that is to pack thoroughly, and if your silo be square, special care must be taken in packing the side3, ends and corners. f I. have never fed sijage later than July 15, though I seejao reason v.'hy it should not keep allsummer. How ever, we do not need silage here after June 1, as there are so many green crops that can be fed direct from the field. I do not consider that there is any room for compari son between silage and 'dry fodder for this locality, as owing to our un certain climate it is impractical to shock our'corn. R. F. McBradford, Leon County, Flyorida. Dnstlcss Road in View. Prospects of a dustless roadbed v ithout the use of oil or cut stone ia pleasing officers of the rllinois Cen tral road. Though gravel is con ceded to make the easiest riding roadbed, its dust feature has made ii a nuisance. General Manager Rawn of the Illinois Central, and his as sistant, Mr. Fritch, have made a find in thp wav of dustless gravel. Re cently the company began taking gravel out of the Mississippi River at the Memphis bars. The gravel, being washed for centuries, is free from soil, the only thing or it is sand and all but twenty-five per cent, of this is washed off after it is taken from the river. The first of this new bal last is being used on the Yazoo & Valley line. It is clear and clean as a crystal, and, must ever- be dust less. The Illinois Central will ex tend the new-found ballast over all lines of the system, giving it an easy riding, and at the same time a dust less roadbed. Buffalo Courier. FITS, St. VitusDance:Nervous Diseases per manently cured by Dr. Kline's 3reat Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. The young- lawyer's first, plea is a trial performance. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething,sottensthegun,reducesinflamma- A poor excuse is worse excuse. than no Because of its Delicate Medicinal, Emollient,! Sanative, and Antiseptic Properties combined with the purest of Cleansing: Ingredients and most re freshing of Flower Odors. Sold thronrhont the world. Cnticnrm Sop, 25c, Oint ment, fiOc., Rerolvent, 60c. (in torm of Chocolate Cotted PtlU, '25c. per vial of 60). A tingle let often cure. hepoti: london, 27 Churterhouie So.; Pari, 5 Rue de la Pali : Boiton, 127 Columbui Ave. 1' Corp.. Sole Prop oarSend for "How to PreaerVe, Purify, and Bemutify th Skin, 8caJp,Il8ii, and Handi of Infant- and Children." - You Cannot CAPUDIR1E B IMfiA It act! immediately I I ftp 9m you feel its ffecu in 10 W mimites. You don't INDIGESTION and APiniTV wwk to V now it ?ood. It cures AUIUIIl II KAf) ACHES ALSO by remortng the came. 10 cents. 60 Bushel Winter Wheat Per Acre That's the yield of Saizer's Red Cross Hybrid Winter Wheat. Send 2c in stamps for free sample of same, a also catalogue ofWlnterWheata, Bye.Barley .Clover. Timothy, Grasses, Bulbs.Trees, etc., for fall plant!) g HA 1.EII SsKED CO., Box A. C. lCrosse,Wis. Public Tloads in Alabama. In 1904 there were 50.0S9 miles of public road in the State of Alabama. Of this mileage, 1201.5 miles were surfaced with gravel. 302.5 miles with stone, fifty miles with shells, twelve miles with sandelay mixtures, and four miles with chert and slag, making in all 1720 miles of . improved road. It will be seen from these figures that 3.4 per cent, of the roads has been im proved. By comparing the total road mileage with the area of the State, it annears that there was 0.97 of a mile of public road per square mile of area. A comparison of mileage with popula-, tion shows that there was one mile or road to every thirty-six inhabitants, hut orily one mile of improved road to every 1QG3 inhabitants Home and Farm. Anrtrwu of f W nfllHOTlSOf imft Jndian blood who are not 11t- in with any tribe. (2) 01 men (he Federal army, cr (8) the i. ... nn kiilniATN nr ' ailon. now id T. BICIKOKP. Washington, D.C. WANTED I II If who fterved in i So. 33-' 06. ASH For Tour Kne, Froi. Tl ratter CASH listy daorSsitoMi. Iryou wantqntckmoitey our property wnn roe uo-oprauon aos uic have desirable Homn and t imber Lands foi sale. Address SP.SEAWELL.Real Estate. Bisc-oe.N.C all inflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal con ditions of the mucous mefnbrane such as nasal catarrh , uteri ne catarrh caused by feminine ills, sore throat, sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. But you surely can cure these stubborn affections by local treatment with Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic which destroys the disease germs,checks ' discharges, stops pain, and heals the inflammation and soreness. Paxtine represents the most successful local treatment for feminine ills ever produced. Thousands of women testify to this fact. 50 cents at druggists. Send for Free Trial Box - THE R. PAXTON CO- Boston. Mm CURED-Qivts-Qnlcfe Relief. Restores aril welling in 8 toast days ; effects a tiuimflinMt cr in 30 lo 60 days. TrimIteM& giTen tree. Kotmarcan w Write Dr. H. H. Green's Sens. Sesdstlsts. Box b Atlanta, bu DroDSv m . m , . 1 1 i " rj Items of Interest. President Shea's faction held con trol in the teamsters' convention. Virginia Robinson 5 years old, was burned to death at Cameron, W. Va. The Henrico road supervisors re fused to authorize an election for a bondj issue to improve the ounty roads'. The women sufferagists convened in Copenhagen. Pointsd Paragraphs. As a rule a voungr widow begins to get better looking about ten days after the late lamented moves to the cemetery. i ' Men haven't much love for men, women haven't much love for women; and most men yud women have less love for ceh'-cther than they have for themselves. Oil in Making Roads. The use of oil in road makinj; was tried with some success in experiments at Jackson, Tenn. The best results were obtained with heavy, natural oils, which were applied while hot, being beated on the cart by steam, using about one-third gallon per square yard. The road material and the oil formed a mixture something like concrete, which produced little dust, and proved quite desirable, also reducing the noise of traffic. The coating is about one eighth thick. The experiments, being very recent, are not yet regards as complete with regard to the lasting effects of the oil. Smokeless Powder Sliells LEADER" and REPEATER The superiority of Winchester Smokeless Powder Shells is undisputed. - Among intelligent shooters they stand first in pop ularity, records and shooting qualities. Always use them For Field or Trafr Shooting. " -'..- Ask Your Dealer For Them. r unless you uncle If you jlve ttiem belBw You cannot do tnlA- understand them and know f I how to cater to their requirements, anai vv you cannot spend years and dollars learning by experience, so you "ausj., buy the knowledge required by others. We offer this to you for only! : cent3. You want them to pay their own way even if you ery H thm as a diversion. In order to handle Fowls judiciously, you must know JmiS Ibou them To meet this want we are seUIngr a book giving the PrtW ofa practical poultry raiser for (Only 25c.) twenty-five years. It was ttentm a man wno pur. an ms nmw, iw ;v ZZT, 7 to hiM tww -r, iirn;not as a nastime. but as a business-and if you will profit by hl twett i ty-five years' work, you can save many Chicks annually, ana maice JLwKSFj earn dollars-for you. The point is. that you must be ffS,! Poultry Yard as soon as It appears, and know how to remedy it. nj 5 ; teach you: It tells how to detect and cure disease; to feed .f or eggs and alsa fo , fattening; which Fowls to save for breeding purposes; and everything. you should know on this subject to matte .it profitable. Sent POrtCu&v vf cent la rmpa. BQQ PUBLISHING SOUft U4 IgQSte St., NtjrI?riSOir

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