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0 TILE NEWS AND OBSERVER, SUNDAY, AUGUST S3; 908 V f -- Til 'Mi . 113 I RICIISIOND, VA. Cotton .Labels, Gingham Banks' and , - . ' Jlill Lithography. Labels and Commercial Work, E. V.EBER HOEH Write for Samblo.; ', DKSlUAIlUi: Atfl VALlttMjE HEAt IKTATH I'Olt KAIiK IX .TI1K rilCKSRI-SSIVK TOWN-" Or SPRING llpPE, N. C On account of making a change In our.JnInesa January 1st, 1909, we will on that date disHoTVe co-p"artner-ehip, and as a larms pprtion of our as-sest-consist of a lot, of very valua ble reareAaUv'nd in order to, peroct or dlsnoluUo.iv, have decided to offer privately our entire possessions In the town, of Spring Hope for, sale, con sisting of the following: " One two-room two-story lsrick building, 50x110 ft., where we are now located; our sales stables and barn; three vacant building lots, above lo cated in .business centre of town on railroad street; also a large tobacco sales warehouse, storage hpuse on railroad; six desirable tenant houses and a well equipped brick-yard, clay of jt ' good tnye for, the manufacture of a No. 1 brick. : Our; Mr. R. E." Copeland offers his individual property, for sale as fol lows:" - V: "-.: A block of handsome brick ' build ings, consisting of five store rooms, a. larber shop, an office and a bank loca tion, best in town, on corner of Pine and Railroad streets; also four dwell ing, four and five rooms each, very desirably located. All above property built within the last twelve months. Wil sell entire block of . brick build ings or one or more store rooms as purchaser may desire. Any one wishing to locate or mak ing a paying Investment will do well to investigate,, aa there .Is not a town in the State that has made as rapid progress as Spring Hope. Will make prices reasonable and terms to suit purchaser. Address all communications, , WOODARD AND COPELAND, Spring Hope, N. C , CHESAPEAKE OHIO - RAILWAY Scenic Route to tha West TWO PAST VESTIBULE TRAIN wrru dining cau seuvjcxs . - Through Pullmaa Sleepers to Louis ville, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. tir.' Richmond. 2:00 p. m. 11:00 p. m Lv. Char'svWe . 6:20 p. m. 2:62 a- to. Ly. Lynchburg . 4:00 p.m. i Ar. Cincinnati . . . 8 : 2 S a, m. A r. Louisville. 11:30 a. m. Ar. Chicago.. . 5:20p.m. Ar. St. Louis... 6:30' p. m. Direct connections for 5:00 p. m, S:00 p. in. 7:10 a. m. 7:17 a.m. All Point West and Northwest. QUICKEST AND BEST ROUTE. The Ldue to Um Celebrated Resorts - of Virginia, ; ; - ' For- descriptive matter, schedules and Pullman Reservations, address , w. o. wAimio. D. P. JL, Richmond, Va. JNO. D .POTTS. Gen'l Pas. Agent ' VISITIHG CARDS Tou may have handsomely en graved onea almost as cheap as printed ones if you will write us for samples and prices. Also wedding invitations. BELL BOOK & STATIONERY CO. Richmond. Va. R' Cup Of ff(5 Is sastisfying when tha? . coffee Is good. Think of ' what people say about poor coffee. Everybody praises our coffees. TRY TUEM. ' J. R. FERRALL AtlD COMPANY . Telephone orders filled promptly. . HARNESSING THE ZAMBESI By Frank. G, Carpenter IIOW VICTORIA FALLS WILL WORK THE. GOD).-' JUNES OP THE RAND. ELEGpiC LIGHT J to not a luxury, With up-to-date people it is a necessity. . "Use Modern r.lcthodo" CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY i... ROTH 'PHONES. . .' 4 t MEHAHDWOKSEIt: l t U i A J dl4riic.lBBroutirDi, ,1 oveiMi Vj ? rrHationi or ulceration rrt fMtadM.' P&)AtM. knd nut aatria TKAKSCnfWirMC8. $ f at or iUonoo. ij5iatan.9i T Anry Drozcitt. 1 irt I- SI 4. .rS botts ta.7S. LOOK TO a YOUR INTEREST Having purt based 800,000 feet Ions leaf yellow pino lumber, dry and .mostly heart, which we will sell at a . bargain.. . : - -1 Get our prices before purchasing elsewhere. Wo carry a nieo line of cabinet mantels, erates and tiles; also all kinds of building material, fuch as frames. -sash, doors, blinds, shingles, latlis and all kinds of moulding at prices vcior competition. NORTH CAROLINA BUILDING & SUPPL.1T CO. . Capital City Thouo SCO. . ' i . . Hicir Torco U Five TiJiics 'Tliat of Niagara aud Equal to all Oar Coal arincs Vltat ThlrtyFIyo BIIIIIqii ' Horspjiowrp McaiiElcctridtjr to no carried cuu jmics over Alum inum Cables on Bteel Tbwvrn llow TheFowcr'AYIU. lie Cscd IIusIucmm on tlio Zanjbesl Electricity : In Nyasaland. L - " (Copyright, 1908, by fYank G, Car. penter.) Victoria Falls. The financial arrangements for har nessing the Niagara of the Zambesi have been completed. Within the past rew months a Juondon syndicate has been formed, with a paid-up capital of 115,000,000 and the surveys an; now making for the installation of one of the greatest" electrical plants of the world. The various power com panies of the Rand have been pur chased, and the new syndicate ra2 tically controls the power possibilities of South Africa. Th? works which it has in operation about Johannesburg and in the gold mines will pay some thing like $400,000 a year above their operating expenses, and it is planned to transmit thej enormous ' force of Victoria Falls by wire, not only to the Transvaal, but everywhere within a radius of 600 miles from this point. ' live Times as Great as Niagara. I have already! written of the beauty and grandeur of Victoria Falls. They surpass Niagara In their scenic effects, and the engineers claim that they sur pass it also In the mighty foree with which these millions of . tons of water drop down upon! the rocks. They fali with a thunder jlike that of artillery. The noise can be heard ten miles away, and the spray on a bright day goes up to a, height of 1,200 feet in clouds or pillars of mist which are visible for- fifty miles around. As to the exact force of Jhe falls, this is a matter of scientific calcula tion. The engineers claim that thev have a possibility of thirty-five mil lion horsepower, j The possibilities at Niagara are put at seven , millions; and if these figures are --correct .the Victoria, Falls as a working force are five times as great as our own. Not only the falls themselves, but the descent of the j river through forty miles of gorges may possibly be util ized. At any rate, there Is no doubt that they have here a force greater than all the demands that can be created for many years to come, and that It may be used for the building up of an industrial empire which will affect the whole of this part of the continent k Tliirt--Flve Million Horsepower. . 'Have you any conception as to what 35,000,000 horsepower means? If the total fall of Niagara could be used it would equal the latent power of 200,000 tons of coal every day. This power here, of the same rate, would daily equal the force of 1.000,000 tons of coal, so that, figuratively speaking, a million tons of black diamonds -art- dropping down into this gorge every twenty-four hours. In other words, the Victoria falls every two weeke supply an energy equal to that of the , yearly coal output f the 8tate of Alabama; and in one year, id their volume were the same from season to season,' they would almost equal the force contained in all the eoal mined in the United , States in that year. Our total product of coal is now 375,000.000 tons per annum. Whether these enormous -figures are correct or not is of little matter. The possibilities are beyond any de mand. The horsepower now In use In the Transvaal is less than 300,000. and all that we have developed - at Niagara is not quite twf-thirds at lajge. This present syndicate -plan? to start out with 50,000 horsepower, and it will have a quarter of a million horsepower within not many years. JIow the Falls AVIH lie Used. During my stay here I have gone with the officials of the British South Africa Company to the proposed p,w er station, and to the northern . bank of the river above the falls, where the canal will be dug which will Cake the water and drop ltv Into, the turbines. At some distance above the falls ' the Zambesi is two miles wide. It narrow tOia mile before it reaches the great gorge .into which it goes in one mighty drop f 400 feet. The falls are as wide as from the Treasury to the Capitol In Washington, and the water jumps straight down for a distance of 400 feet. By means of the canal now projected the drop will be only 350 feet; and the water will pour Into ten great turbines, each of wmeh win generate five thousand .horsepower. making fifty thousand horsepower at the first Installation. The machinery used is to be just the same as is now employed at Niagara, and one of the chief engineers. connected with the construction is "a man who has put up works at Niagara. This is Mr. Ralph P. Mershon, of New York, a welj known authority on the transmission of electricity at htffh tension. Mr. Mershon has said that there Is ho doubt that this power can be carried for a distance of 600 miles, and lie speaks of the scheme as -practical and profitable. Among the other European autnori- ties who have Investigated It are Prof. Blondel, of Paris, Dr. Tissot. of Basle and Prof. Klingenberg nt Berlin. I am told that Lord Kelvin made s careful investigation of it and thai the chief German electrical works are Interested, and that they . will supply some of the machinery. Carry Elcrtrlrltr 00 Uiles. The scheme involves the carrying 'of the juice, or electrical current, for a distance of 600 miles, and It is pro posed to construct a-line that long from here to the gold mines of the Transvaal for the first . installation. This is much farther than power has yet been carried in our or any other country. We are working plants more than half that far In California. There wre tramways in Oakland - which get their electricity from water powers 140 miles away, and there are certain stations served by th California Gas and Electric Company at a distance of S50 miles.: if this Plant succeeds It will result in the nower of Niagara iaiis Dcing carrieo vt irr oeyonri Chieaero. and to Its utilization in New York, Boston, Washington, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and throughout the mighty Industrial beehive which is In- closed within - a six-hundrea-mlle ra dius of Buffalo. Aluminum and Steel Towers - As is now planned, the power will bo carried through aluminum cables .. . i ....ut .i an if l H uruunu us ml iiittit a vv 1 1 i, n.iu these will be supported by great steel towers sixty feet high. Each, tower will welKh in. the neighborhood of 3, 000 pounds. It will be bedded In a cement foundation and will be made about six times as strong as the weight of the cables - and insulators seems to demand. An experimental tower was recently made In Seotland and tested." . This tower Is much like some which are now used In th United States. It looks like those used for windmills, and is sixty feet high. Each tower will probably carry sever ai cables. The insulators will be of porcelain arid will .weigh from fifty to seventy-five pounds each. The cables will be made of aluminum wir. with a large number of strands -'to each cable. The towers will be erected a thousand feet apart, and 'It will take in the neighborhood of 3.000 of them to reach . fronx here to the trausvaal. It Is probable that there will be a much less loss of 'power on account of the wires being so high In the air, and the scientists claim that the per centage of waste during transmission will be exceedingly small. They say that they can probably send the elec tricity at a pressure of 150,000 volts, which is much greater, as I under stand it. than has yet been; attained ty any working plant In the United States. -Tyie'-cnrrent or some 01 tne Niagara tom'panies is sent at a volt age of 60,000, and this ts two and one- half times that. ' -1 In the Zambcsf Gorge. " One of the remarkable features of the falls here is the mighty gorge Into which the floods pour. This gorge is over forty miles long, and the water within It falls so rapidly that an enormous power can be developed outside the falls themselves. Within fifteen miles there is a fail of 700 feet; and a thousand-foot fall could be made within about twenty miles. Indeed, it Is said that a canal, which would cost comparatively little to con struct, could be so made that It would develop one million horsepower. This is almost four times as much as the total horsepower now used In the Transvaal. As to the utilization of the power t j be developed by Victoria Falls, ll will comprise the greater part oi South-central Africa. Victoria Falls Is just about 00 miles from Belra on the Indian ocean. It is a little more than six hundred miles from Johan nesburg and a like distance away from the great copper . mountains of the Kongo Free State. Within that radius would come more " than a thousand miles of the Cape to Cairo railroad, all of the two thousand miles of the railroads of Rhodesia and a large portion of the mines of the Transvaal. It would comprise hundreds of small gold mines in Rhodesia and the great deposits of Iron which lie. between the Zambesi and the Kongo Fre State. If the experiments for smelting ty electricity which are now under way in this country and Europe are successful, the ore from these mines may be turned Into pig iron by the power from the falls. They will also be especially valuable to the great copper syndicate which has been re cently organized to develop the. vast deposits just over the boundary of. the Kongo Free State. As it is now, the Transvaal is said to be paying something like $16,000, 000 annually for pfrwer. and a large revenue should come to the company from "the gold mines alone. The in itial plant, which Is to produce 50,000 horsepower, will be all used by the Rand, and other plants will speedily follow. The success of the whole un dertaking will dVpcnd on whether the iwwef can be successfully and pro fitably carried to a ; distance of 600 miles, or about as far as from . New York to Cleveland.' Reserve Stations. One Very serious matter in connec tion with the project is the possible breakage-of the wires, but this will I be avoided by a reserve turbine steam station of 20,000 horsepower capaci ty. This will furnish power to supply a temporary breaking down of the main plant, and there are other pro jects under way which will furnish additional power in such cases. As to the aggregate possibilities of the falls, I quote the figures that are given here. There is no doubt but that the force Is greater than South! Africa can use for a century to come. As for myself, I doubt the statement that it so far surpasses Niagara, for the reason that there are time of the year when the Zambesi is low, ! and a waterfall of this kind can only! be gauged by Its minimum flow. The Zambesi can certainly furnish several million horsepower year in and year out . Will It Injure Tin? Falls? One of the great questions in con nection with Niagara Is whether the taking away of the water for electri city will eventually destroy the fails. It is claimed that the volume of water flowing over the American falls is already much less and that the total diversion, when all the - works' now operating or under construction are carried out, will be eaual to about 40 per cent of the minimum discharge of the Niagara river. At present the plants are said to have a capacity of about fifty thousand cubic feet of water per second, whereas the normal discharge of Lake Erie over . tho falls is only a little more than two hundred thousand cubic feet per sec ond. At this rate It will not be many years before the beauty of our fails as a great natural wonder will pass away.--"' The same fear has been expressed as to the Zambesi Fails, but the Brit ish South African Company has been careful in granting concessions which will prevent anything of this kind, The difference in the fall of the Zam besi Is very great at different times of the year, and the views when thu river is high canpot be impaired. The canals to bo constructed are to bo so arranged that neither the electrical works nor their course will be visible from tha falls themselves, and every effort will be made to preserve this as one of the wonders of the world. No factories will be allowed nearby, and the enormous parks which have been laid out as a perpetuity will be kept Intact . - Power for the Znmbosi. These Talis will supply power for the navigation of the Zambesi and Its tributaries. rt The;' Zambesi itself has about roW thousand miles of naviga ble waterways. It is one of the great rivers of the world ana it ranks fourth on this continent. The big rivers of the world, and It ranks gest of the African rivers is the Kon go, after whlclj come tho Nile and the Niger. The Zambesi rises In Por tuguese West Africa in a great pla teau which Is about a mile abovo the sea. Its springs are not far from those of the Kassal, which flows Into the Kongo. The upper course of tho river is over a grassy plain, which It annually Inundates. As tha stream reaches the boundary f Rho desia the valley narrows and the course is "broken here and there by falls and rapldst The river has dropped 2,000 feet before It arrives at this point, and it then falls about a thousand feet within twenty miles. It is slow and sluggish Just above here, and it looks somewhat like a great pond several miles west of where it makes its great Jump of 400 feet Into this mighty i cavern, waited with precipitous rocks. It falls rap Idly In the gorge, but after, forty or fifty miles or so the water again be comes cuiet and it runs onward com paratively smooth, with the exception of a few places, for a distance of ioo miles to tne ivebrabasa rapids In por iuj?uese fc.ai Ainca ana tnence on 40 miles further into the sea, The last 400 mues are always open to navigation, but the delta Is low. and sandy and some of the channels are frequently clogged." lltislncse on tlio Zambesi. " I stopped at one of the chief mouths of the Zambesi on my way down the coast. The river -divides as It-nears the ocean and until re cently the chief entrance to It was at Quilimane, a town on the Kwa kwa river fourteen miles from the sea. This Is now separated from the Indian ocean by. a bar and ; vthe fasirst approach li by the Chlnde mouth. There is a bar there also, but small steamers go over It and bring thi tgoods from the ocean vessels which anchor outside. 4 During our stay the water was so rough that pas sengers had to be taken on and . oft From Chlnde one can go4 up the Zambesi and its tributaries by boat. There are three transportation cam panics, and the vessels sart inland shortly after the arrival of every ocean steamer. Some of them go into the Shire river and on into Nyasa land. Chlnde is. In fact, the gate to that British colony, and all goods and passengers for It are landed there. The trip inland is slow and affected somewhat by the ' condition of the river, and there Is now talk of building a railroad which shall go to Blaniyre, the capital of Nyasa land. Blantyre an enterprising town with two banks, a chamber of commerce and social and athletic clubs. It Is only one of several prom ising stations in the colony, ; Zomba, for Instance, which is 'much farther Inland, has electric lights, It gets its power from the Zomba mountain down which a river flows with a fall of 1,800 fect. Turbines are used and the 'dynamos .'are started at sunset to light- the town, the power, being used during the day for sawing lumber and other work. The development of these falls may furnish the power for the railroads of the coast. ' Indeed, a railway 100 miles long connecting Blantyre with the Shire was complet ed last April, and this is soon to be extended to Zolnba, where this elec tric power Is. k IMJF MM . (BifflM. Dy A. B. Stronach "Whoever can make 'two cars of corn or two blades of grass to grow w here one- grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essen tial service to his country than the whole race of politicians put to gether." DEAN JONATHAN SWIFT. If the Dean had added weeds J. be lieve that the farmers pf Wake coun ty, ufter, viewing my crop and vari eties would have sent me, to the Leg islature despite the "powers that be." Lo. the winter Is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on earth, the time of the singing of birds has tome and the voice of the dove Is heard in the land, the rig tree putteth forth gricn figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. "In the spring-time the fancy of the young men and maidens turn to love, the fancy of- the . house-keeper with a small piece of ground : turns to chickens V or gardening. Chickens, children, - pup pies and gardens as to vanity and vex ation of spirit it's a toss up. 1 have tried them ail, singly, doubly, and a combination of all, and its, "Yer pays yer money an takes yer choice." Don't try but one at the time, unless you are endowed with more than the average amount of patience. "Suffici ent unto the day is the evil thereof." A Springtime View. After 60 years and rising as I see It today for health for pleasure, for the worth of your money, try garden ing. One pleasure of gardening Is that to a great"" extent you can place the blame of your troubles on Provi dence, In an article written for this paper some time last winter, "Garden ing for Nerves", I told of the clearing of a weed and , . grass-grown garden during the fall and winter. Of my onion crop planted from October 18th to July 1st. while Italian and potato onions I grew in a space about 50x100 ft. ten or more bushels. Part of the ground on . which the onions grew is now down in my tenth planting of corn, cabbage and col lards. Snaps from March 1st planting and at two weeks' Intervals since, we have been using since the first of April, Cabbage plants, Jersey Wake field, set out In January, were headed by the first of , May. I have eight plantings of corn on hand, two weeks intervals, from two inches to head high, four plantings of black peas, 125 feet of butter beans on four foot wire trellis, and if I continue to gar den shall plant only on trellis here after. Tomatoes, green peas, climb ing cucumber,' all do much better 'on trellis. Tomatoes grow thrpugh the interstices of the wire , spread out and bear much better, besides,, mine, at least, have not suffered with blight as have the staked tomatoes. A walk through part of my garden I border ed with Bell and Red Chili Pepper. The evergreen leaves, white -flowers. red and green pods make them both Interesting amK beautiful. Squash planted in February are still bear ing (U. 8. Government seed at that). I have commencing to head 300-head of cabbage from seed planted May 15th. three hundred head of long- legged coilards, beets from two week's interval plantings. Turnips. coilards, short stem and snaps that I planted Saturday, August 8th, are up today, Tuesday, August 11th. Spinach and salsify planted at same time still linKer. Two hundred astor plants, cardinal, pink, white and lavender. double sunflowers, hollyhocks, giant nasturtiums. Dolichas Bean vines. (thev bear Ionic stems white and blue flowers), vegetables, -wash rag vines and forty rose l bushes, not to men tion a 35x60 ft. strawberry plat, oc cupy a "small part of my time." ; Last January I put out ng busnes on the northwest s and north side of my garden, southern exposure. Tne nlantinsrs were some of them roots and some limbs as large as one's thumb, and larger. - They have all lived and the limbs are bearing. If one has an old barn or stable by which they can plant fig bushes with, a southern ex posure nothing will give a better re turn than a fig bush. And matured, dried, preserved, branded, they are delicious, besides being good medicine. better than calomel or blue mass. Raspberry canes planted the middle of March bore .fruit this season. To en courage m In my labors I suppose three apple trees that I planted years ago that had never borne frult-r-bore one six, one eighteen and one ten ap- tles. If they hadn't done something his season it was my Intention to hew them down and cast 'em into the fire. Those apples ' are due to my friend Dr. Hutt who sprayed my trees My Ideal Half Acre Garden. Level if possible, otherwise with south or southerly slope, also If pos sible I would have my garden square A hedge of Privet. CAmoor River) is a great protection on the north side of a garden.' On the north and north west side facing southerly by hedge, fence or barn, plant figs. One-fourth of garden space plant Red Autwing raspberries, blacklerries and dew berries. Strawberries are good to have but very troublesome. b Dwarf apple, peach, apricot and nectarine trees can be planted; also "en es-. palier." along north side (facing south) to advantage Instead of figs. a r asses, If desired, can be planted ong fence on trellis on west side of garden. If gardening for profit. I would have no walks, plant In rows, the length or width of garden with width for horse power cultivation. If gardening for pleasure, divide the space for vegetables In about six squares sr beds, with broader space and- corners for flowers and herbs, and if there Is outhousq In garden, by all means, . plant vegetable wash rag vines. .You raise your own wash rags. It bears a handsome yellow flower and the leaves are like those of a begonia. Dolichos bean vines grow rapidly and bear sprays of white and blue flowers. A gourd vine grown on a trellis fence or tree will save- some money in crockery.' Can't waste space on extra early corn plant Stawell's Evergreen' or . Country Gentleman from start to finish, two to four ears to stalk, and sugar sweet. Don't plant field corn in a garden for table buse. Trellis butter bean, tomatoes, green peas and ' cu cumbers it will save space and dou ble the product. Plant one- row of red currants, gooseberries and rhubarb "Calllne, can't yer dance de gourd vine." "A poor man for children and a nigger for gourds." I have the poor man's allotment of children, but have never been able to raise gourds until this season, and Its a "Calline. can't you dance vine."- It dances or runs over ; about two 4 hundred ' feet of ground. Ah After (August) View. Hang up do Middle an' de bow Lay down de shovel an' de hoe. My friend, Sam Mordecai, , so says my friend, Mr; F. II.. Busbee, said that tho only way he would care to farm would be " to have unlimited money for the purpose, plant his crop in due season and then when the devil was to " pay generally, July 15th to August 15th. take and plow the whole blessed crop under. Me, too. , . .'. ,,. 2 I never had much or any. sympathy for Cain until I undertook "practical gardening," carping my living by the sweat of my brow, and this for a pointer. After 60 years and rising, 44 years of sweating my brain and one year of sweating my brow the brain sweating when you are used to it seems anyway s today easier work. Cain laboring under God's curse brings of the first fruits-of the ground and is not recognized. Abel a sheep'f and goat nerd, a lazy life, and no dought while Abel was lying, asleep in the grass or playing on. his flute his sheep and goats strayed - into. ; Cain's crops, brings an offering from his flock and is approved of by the Lord. After, two raids by my cow and semi daily raids by my neighbor's chickens on ray garden and much sweating of brain, brow and body. Well, Cain has my . belated sympathy. ; i Advlsus Est: As usual, never theless, It's "good - advice dear ly bought and . dearly , paid for. If you are, more especially, .of a nervous temperament, don't wait until you break down to take a rest; anyhow have a counter irritant, take to gardening, raise chickens, raise hades, take your holiday, if of nervous temperament. If possible In August; it's the trying month on nerves. Don't wait until your nerves give out. Tou can't replace 'em. U : "The mill never grinds with the water that is past." And don't quit work that you are used to to take up new work In middle or past age. An old cog will not fit or work well either, in new machinery; ; "A shore sign ob do summer's en- -Am de slngln ob de wren." , ' Bird and nature signs 'call for an early fall. Make your preparations, therefor. :'"';:, '''-.-'- - Postscrlptum: When I was In the rag (dry goods) business tfte beauties, the fewer temptations and the peace fulness of a farmer's life greatly ap pealed to me. In reading over the re port of the . Superintendent of the State Hospital, Dr. Jas. JIcKee, for two years I was both surprised - and shocked to find that of 180 admis sions, 75 were farmers, 18 laborers and only eight merchants an occupation in which 90 per cent fall. Quid est. My Confederate friend and brother cropper, CapL W. II. Rand, says crab grass is a spontaneous growth. Web ster's International Dictionary ; gives, as one definition of spontaneity "the tendency to undergo change charac teristics of animal and vegetable or ganisms and not restrained or check ed by environment." Crab grass don't mind environment or pulling up by the robts; "It's today it is and tomor row It Is too," also next week and the week after. , ' James VI said that an ell of Strath Clyde Valley of the , Clyde - River in Scotland was worth as much as a shire (county) in any other Ipart of Scotland. In my enthusiasm when I was gardening last ' winter be foro chick weed, hog weed, poison . weed,' crab grass, fox falls and cut worms began to grow with "spontaneity," I announced to some of my friends my "intention" to have a Scotch parden and that in one season my attention was called to my . enthusiastic '.'Inten tion" a few days ago by my friend. Mr. Wm. Turner, of St, Mary's. As I see it today.I must ask for an ex tension of time, say 2 months, and If I live as to gardening anyway by hand power it's "Lochabar no more." Sydney Smith, the famous Eng lish wit, said on one occasion that he- would like to "take off his flesh, and sit down in his bones"; the next best is to come down to your undershirt, a pair of linen trousers, no hat and, no shoes, ploughing "bar. footed"; cures sclataca, "Thettmatlem,- neuralgia and dyspepsia a la patent medicine al manac. -' " ' - -' Aug. 15. This reform business try ing to look after other people's Inter ests when they will not take enough Interest tq caro for themselves, re minded me this rooming, as I viewed my crop pf weeds and grass at parly dawn, of the story of the farmer with a neighbor by the name of Provi dence. It was a rainy, bad veason, and the crop was "high in the weeds and low in the grass," the farmer sit ting on the fence by the roadside, yith rueful countenance, questioned by a passer-by as tq his (roubles, was told by the by-passer to ."put his trust' in Providence." The farmer thinking ho referred to hJs nelghbpr Providence, who was somewhat shiftless, replied: "Providence, Hell! ; Providence can't taKe keer pf his own crap, let alone taking keer pf mine," and again, me too. " - .' - v x An also some of these "reformers remind me qf wepds that SQ assimilate themselves In appearance to the vege tables and flowers amongst which they sprung up tnat It has to put on one's eyeglasses to tell the true from the raise. "-,, . Quid sake. It's a wide gap between reform and "reform."" And again, reform movements re mind me of my "calline gourd vine" which danced over several hundred " ' - " ' " C i "'"' '" ' ' " " - " ' ' ; ' ' '- 111 ' "" - 11 1 . f- . " j, f" . i I (a" ! ) 1 1 r u : - li . : - , , , , , t ,r r r, : vv : -v- rr: 'cMorr nose 26i 111: i "GET OCTO PRICES BEFpRE PLACING ORDER. " . 8," ' . f m i . ypC- ' 1!! - Jt X M ' Ac3G cutting down your profits with ar weak system? ' For only few cents a. day you can have the best system possible. . . . DO YOU KNOW - you can get a , hlh grada Total addipg RcgUter (4nillar to vat for onij $75.00 registers 1c to SS.03. Send Ru; Illustrated circular. 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Iay "Phones: e.n!i.i -n -tin ".'tJ Itolcigh 150. , I Night- Tlione -Kale!-h 220. X v. ii -a f ,1 I - Oar Blotto: Promptness. Telephone Z1 Phon a . 10 ur Bazsage. Orders -Light JIarncss Horses an!. Tonics a 1 "Cpecln!f.'-C?t ? C-n Dari42Cl iBr'i Contracts for I llcavyf ; Hauling, Safes, etc. feet of ground,, much j ,?ipe. rnany leaves and "died in thcornin " of putting forth four gour?5 land those worthless? too much vin-san'd not enough root. ' Reform . ana i reformers "to succeed. 'must have UjJ respect, of the people, foundation roonust have organization.- ' , ?s - rl, "Jf le do what Ie mayn earnest T need not " mourn i Je spt no great work on the earl VV-GeMacdonald. Can you? .1 can 'nthtse tod ay. i August- 17th. from my .sravf- eelery. corn, snays. okra, butter '"sions, tomatoea-egg plant, eubl ' iards, 1. . . . 1 ..11 . -,.1 . . it . 1 . .' t ' UtX'Ult MBtl UU V; Viilil .'CJI' pers, jplnlrr white and lavender asters, nasturtiums dolichos, sprays, boutit sunflowers, ... roses, besides all of. th known and-unknown 1 varieties . of weeds and grasrps, and still we are not happy,,. , Children refoj-m aad gourd vines are , of ten "Quod hoc ,eebl VlilL" . If the . spirit be -willing, next Sun day L write on the Passing of tho Confederate Soldier, and maybe not. '. V ":' There Is noth!noetter or scarcer tf.sn satisfactory .'..elshbors. . " 1 is men wj .ae tool'iache always-; loc:i foolish.' ' "'