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CHATHAM CITIZEN. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT KTTSBOBO, x. a H. M. UMEBERRY, Editor 4 Prtprinif. ' " 1 . Queen Vivtoria is the owner of sixty pianos. It ia urged ia extenuation, however, that she doesn't play 'any of them.- J' Of the thirty-six cities of the United States of 100,000 population- and up ward, twenty-seven- own their -crater plants and nine do not. . own The revival .of trade in America, eays the Indian Daily News, ia already making its influence felt in Calcutta, several of the leading firms there hav inr received inquiries and large orderi for jute, both raw and manufactured. Eight leading nations of Europe have done so ranch to develope their beet sugar industry that the decrease of 1,000,000 tons in Cuba's output ol sugar during the past year waa more, than made good by increased suppliei of beet sugar. . : f SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR ! APRIL 11. 1 'Lesson Text: "Conversion of Corne lias," Acts x., 30-44 Golden Text: Acts x., 43-Com- j . - " - , mentarjv j ' 83. -Peter and nix men from Joppa(chaptet xL, 12) have arrived at the house of Come lius, the Boman centurion In CaBsarea. Cor. inellua was a Just and God fearing man, much ;given to prayer aud goo. I deeds and beloved by ail the Jews ot the city (verses 1. 2. 2V), jyet not a saved man (chapter xL, 14). JJut God saw his earnest desire, and in the waj .here re-orded brought Simon Peter to him as He had before brought - Philip to tb jeunuch. Cornel us, with his. kinsmen and .friends, welcomed Simon Peter- aud the brethren, .and Peter, hiving explained whj ,he, a Jew, bai come to uucircumcf&ed Igentllea, ssks for wbat Intent they hal sent lor him, and Corneous here begins his story. ; SL "A man In bright clothing' is his .description or th angel who came to see him. The appearanot of the angel at the toepulcher was like lightning, and hi rai ,ment whitens now (Hath, xxvili., 3). Some day, we too, shall shine as the sun (Math, .xlif., 13). The angel's message Was, "Thy "prayer is heard and thine alms are had in fremembr nce in the eight of God." . jk 32. Heaven ia Interested in Simon Petez jalso and knows just where to find h m and !how to make him willing to take thia jour ;ney and do this wot k. Consider the "a I things working together" in this record the Ihungry man, the delayed dinner; the traaee, - ithe vision, the visitors, and everything just kt the right tune. Be not afraid to believe that heaven Is Interested in yon, and have faith in God. S3. Immediately the centurion sent to joppa. Peter did wIl to come, and now they are ready to hear the message from the Cod of heaven. They were assembled before Pod to hear tne message from God through Peter. Thy wanted none of Peter's thoughts lor wisdom or eloquence, but only what God had commanded him to ppik. Th- Lord Usua Himself only epoke wont the Father commanded Hiai (John xli., 49), and every messenger of the Lord may take all possible comfort from Ex. iv., 12; Jer. L, 6-9, etc. ! Si. "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons." Thus Peter began his message. God took great pains to teach hi no thia (verses 1116), an t he never forgot it, but long afterward referred to It In I Pet. i, 17. See also Paul's refernc to the same. in Rom. 11, 1L, If necessary, God will give a Vision or send an angel to Instruct us, bat blessei are the simple and teachable who, like Mary, sit at Jesus' feet and hear His word (Luke x. 39). I 33. "But In every nation he that feareth I JJim anl worketh righteousness is accepted fwith Him." ThU doee not conflict with chapter iv. 12, and the great truth that there is none other Saviour besides Jesus Chrst, but wherever any one, Jew or gentile, earn estly seeks aiter God, He will regard them Wnd so reveal Himself to them that they may be saved. To conclude from this verse that If we do the best we know how wn are safe would be a perversion of Scripture, for by jthe deeds of the law (and the law is holy) jno flesh oon be justified (Rom. lii. 20-24). I 86. "Preaching peace by Jesus Christ. plade nigh by the blood of Christ, for H is our peace, having made peaoa through the blood of His cross. The work of righteous ness shall be peace, and the effect . of right eousness, quietness and assurance forever. Therefore, being justified by faith, we have ipeace with God through our" Lord Jesus . -Christ (Eph. il. IS. 14; Col. 1, 20; I?a. xxxii. ;17; Rom. v, IX That which every soul needs is peace, peace with God, and it cannot be pound apart from Jesus Christ. - 37. "lhat word, I say, ye know whtchTwas jpuolJshed thtoughout all Judas u" They had heard of Jesus, they knew something of the jway, tut they needed clearer light. They evidently knew something of the deeds of he law, of prayer, of almsgiving, of the one jtvlng and true God and the righteousness which He required, but they knew not the, way to get it.. They were ignorant ofGod'a -r righteousness (Born, x, 3). j 83. Jesus of Nazareth was righteous and (did righteousness. He w as God manifest la ithe flesh and set forth before mon perfectly the righteousness which God required, of man. He never , pleased Himself nor lived unto Himself; but, being filled with the iSplrit, went about shewing men by word fend deed the love and goodness of God. He revealed God to men; He glorified God. 89. Peter was with Him during all His publio life and saw His acts and heard His words and as an eyewitness could testify that He was what' He professed to be, the Bon of God, the Messiah ot Israel, the Saviour of sinners. He saw H-m cleanse - Ithe leper, heal the sick, raise the dead and - send tne penitent sinner away with tin as jsuranceoffcllslns forgiven. " He also. saw Him crucified on Calvary. j 40. "Him God raised up the third Jay and shewed Him openly." All 8cripture con jcernlsg His life and death and resurrection had been fulfilled, and that to the very Setter, and, as Ha in His lifetime had re Jpeatedly foretold, He rose from the dead on the third day, taking out of the tomb the -. jvery same body that waa put in the tomb, ' pavkig the unmistakable evidences of the nails through His hands and feet and the jspear thrust into His side ' i 4L "Not to all the people, but unto wit nesses chosen before of God. Unbelievers - have not seen Jesus since He was crucified, but as many an 5 X) of the disciples saw Him at once after Hl resurrection (I Cor. xv.. S), and He appeared not less than ten different times,' and He actaaiy ale with them, as Peter says (Luke xriv 41). r . 42. It is He which was ordained ot God I to be the judge oi quick and dead." He will judge His redeemed at His own judgment seat (Bom. xlv., 10: II Cor. v., 10). - He snd g is redeemed will Judge the nations when e shall com in glory, bringing His saints with Him (Math, xxv., 81, 82; I Cor. vl., 2; CoL ill , 4), and then at the end ot the thou sand years, at the great white throae, H will judge the nngo.lly who took no part in the nret resurrection. " . 43. "lo Him give all tbe prophets witness that through His name whoever telleveth tn. - Him shall receive reaiission-of sin.! See Is, i.,18; xliiL, 25; xlv.. 22;" Jer. lib, 14; xxxt,84;Mie. vri.; 19; Ps. xxxli., 1, 2; ciil , 12, as tome ot the plawa where the prot het testify that through Him Is Ihe forgiveness of sins as a free gift without any works or - merit on our part. . 44. "While Peter yet spake these words . the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard v tbe word." . And thus on uncircumcised gen tiles God wrought as He had done at Pente cost on circumcised Jew?, and they were there and then baptized (verses 45. 43.)-, t': . T TT.l " ' HOPE'S MESSENGER. A poet sang a song Into the night. For but one reason, that he needs must And through the darkness, like a ray oT liKht, Bis simple song went slowly wandering It passed the mansions of the rich and great. And none within it plaintive mn&to heard; It pause! where might y monarch sat In state, . Bat not a soul was by Its music stirred. At last it found a woman, bent in tears Above a bier, whereon her dead child lay; Its mosle softly crept Into her ears, , And to her stricken heart it seemed to say: "Arise, fond mother, do those tearful eyes, And look no longer .downward La despair, But upward lift thy f-aze nnto the skies; For,lo!tny darling's angel dwelleth there. -Lucius Perry Hills, in Leslie's Weekly. ON THE PD11PKIN VINE. ANK1TT and Davisville are connected by the N. & D. Short line, a spur of the Great Central system, the main track oi which runs through Davis ville. Among its patrons the N. and D. is commonly known as the "Pumpkin vine' be cause some one had once said that the train went about as fast as a pumpkin vine grows in wet weather. Th6 rolling stock consists of an en gine, a passenger coach, a mail and express car and four freight cars. Early each morning the train leaves Davisville, saunters 'across the fields to Nankitt, then back in time for din ner ; in the afternoon the same pro gram is gone through with, the Pump kin Tine getting back to Davisville like a schoolboy airaid of the dark. It is some nineteen miles between the towns and by strict attention to business the four trips are generally made in twelve hours. The conductor, Abe Bogers, act's as a brakeman; it increases his pay aad gives him exer cise. The N, & D. is paralleled almost its entire length by the old State road, and boastful yodng men are wont to match their colts against the battered pony engine as it puffs along on the other side of the fence. Truth to say, any plug can distance the locomotive as it bumps . over its grass-gron track. There is a story told of a hun ter who once got aboard the Fampkm Vine with his gun and his dog. When he saw a quail or a prairie chicken he aimed from the window; if he brought down his bird the dog would leap off, find it and jump on the rear platform. People who are fond of flowers step off, gather a bouquet of Flora's paint brush and crairie pointers, take a short spurt after the crawling train and clamber on again- On May day the Pumpkin Vine stood at the Nankitt station, a build ing of about the size and architectural preteneions of a cigar box. It was warm for the time of the year, the perfume of crab blossoms drifted in through the open windows of the coach and the passengers sprawled about in the lassitude brought on by the first heat. A group of Swedes jabbered together in a corner, wag ging their yellow beards over the misdoings of one Peter Oleeon of their people. Several Nankitt lawyers were on their way to Circuit Court and Tom Harcrove jeat on the arm of aeeat, swinging his feet and talking to old Squire Phinney, a local J. P. A traveling man came in, tugging at two valises. He sunk into a seat and wiped bis forehead. 'Awful weatb er," he sighed. The conductor helped lift a cultiva tor into the baggage-car, then he went to the door of the waiting room and shouted Allabud" to the cannon utove. "Allebud," he said again on the plat form, waved his arm to the engineer and hopped on -to the rear platform. The whistle blew and the trees and barns began to slide Slowly backward. A to unir man and woman ran around the corner .of the station. Stop that train 1" the man yelled to the conductor. They ran down the track and before the conductor had done anything the girl had swung her self up on the rear platform and the man had followed. They stood look ing at each other with palpable relief. "It s dangerous getting on a car in motion," the conductor said, sternly. "You don't get no damages if you're killed." "I know, but, we had to make it, the man said when he had the breath to spare. "We thought you wasn't going to stop it." He had an hon est, sunburned face, his clothes were of broadcloth, his new boots creaked and his paper collar was somewhat the worse for the heat. me girl nad tne Deauty or seven teen color, without feature or souL She had adorned herself in a multitude of bows and banglea and saw the world from under the eaves of a huge white hat They entered the car with the con eciousne&s b'orn of being in love.' -Ujooks like a uride and groom doesu t itr' Tom said carelessly to the squire. 'Hullo, that's Hink Bar low." ; "Thought he went to I-oway," the squire answered. "All the Barlow boys sold out here." "x guess tie a oacjc visiting; i ll go and speak to him." Tom walked back to where Hink aud the girl had found a Beat. '"Howdy do? Won't you in troduee me to your wifer" tt;i i . junta lace turned a .deeper red than ever the sun had painted it, "She ain't my wife exactly yet," he stam xnerecL ': s -' ; , ' 1 The train was running alongside the State road. Hink suddenly started up and looked out of the window. "It's him," he exclaimed excitedly. - "'.tie must "a caw ns eet on." Tom looked toward the road and saw a man standing up in a buckboard like a Boman charioteer, shaking his fis and apparently hurling opprobrious 1 L a a epunets as me tram. - "We can't stop this here train now they could hear the conductor shout, "for we've got to be in Davisville by i.ou. it was tnen 1U.30. - . "I'll beat your old cow, then." the (umyeUeq bsck fa.. derlrion. f Tel 'cm 111 meet 'em at the Davisville dept, ' Confound it," said Hink, "I wisht he hadn't Been us get on." The girl began to err. ., "What's the row? Who is that fel low?" Tom asked. : f Z.' Why, you see, Mr. Hargrove," Hank replied, "he's Mary's brother and he's took a full notion that she sha'n't -marry me says our Bill cheated him swapping watches. Mary ain't eighteen till July and I've got to get back to Ioway to cultivate my corn and so her mother said for ns jest to slip away and get married with oat letting Durfey know.- Wa coma to Nankitt this morning, J go my license and we waa going to ,the Bap tist preacher's when we seen Durfey coming. .We waa near the depot and so we iest skited and trot on this train and he must a saw us. "And now he's going to Davisville to stop you ?" Tom queried. "Tes and he'll beat ns, for that bay he's driving can outtrot any horse around here." :"Well, he can't prevent her from marrying you, can he?" - T emaum Vim VtnldTl a'a TTIV ffll.F- Aoart ' r-iT-- said, lifiinr- hap fac- al- readr swollen with tears. "rhen- - .... . . -via I anyway, if he meets us and says i must go off with him I just know I'll do it. I won't want to leave Hink but V .liraTi An whal Tlorfflv lalla me." ot. j v " - - j Tom wondered that any man 6nouid want to marry a girl with so little "backbone" -so he termed. her timid- ty but he -kept this reflection to himself, knowing the ways of bride- . t M grooms and tneir unreasoning xonu ness. 'Pahan tva pan rrAt tha con. doctor to harry up the train," he su(rrested.t That personage was collecting lares in hisBhirt sleeves bnt wearing his cap a aire an official atr. "Uan we go a ittle faster, Abe?" Tom said, as He gave ud his ticket; "this gentleman would like to beat that buckboard man to Davisville. Bunaways," ho whispered in conclusion. The conductor frowned, punched he ticket, then stuck it in Tom's hat band. "We can't go moron nine miles an hour." he answered. "We've got strict orders not to kill no steers nor horses and they re iest everlast- inclv on this here track. But we'll try to keep that emarty on the State road in sight," he ended, vindictively, for the insult of miscalling his train a cow rankled in his bosom. "When we stop at Sage 111 get off and tell the engineer." Sage was a station where a gram elevator reared itself about the but rounding cornenbs : and where a weather beaten platform served as depot. By the time the train reached there everybody in the car knew the story of the runaways. .'At Ssge the Swedes clattered out and the conduc tor ran to the locomotive and told the engineer to "go a mite, faster." The passenger could Bee the man in the bnckboard clipping along the road about a auarter of a mile ahead. "He's bound to beat you," Tom said, drawing m his head after a survey of their rival. "Hadn't -you better get off at tbe next stop and-try to get a farmer to drive you baok to Nankitt? You say you have your license? "Yes," Hink answered, despond- ently. "here it is." He drew it from his pocket and handed it to Tom. "If we did get off we mightn't find anybody willing to take ns back.' "That's so," Tom responded. He ran his eyes over the license -a new idea came to him. "Would you let Squire Phinney marry you?" he asked. "He a there on the front seat. It will bo legal if it's done before we reach the city line. "lou can bet 1 m willing : to marry if Mary is, Hink answered, joyfully. "I never thought I d be married bv a squire," she said, bnt I guess it's all right, for then I won t have to go back with Durfey. She wiped her eyes, patted her back hair and smiled at her lover. The squire consented to perform the ceremony, although be said he "disre membered all the quirks in the service, not having his book.? "But I'll make a stagger at it," he remarked, and it will hold in law " "All right,? said Tom. He led the bride and groom into the -aisle, both looking veiy warm and timid. "Don't be bashful," he counseled ; ."we're all friends here." Ths passengers crowded around the wedding party and the conductor put on his coat in honor of the occasion. While the squire wiped his brow in preparation, Tom looked out of the 1 window. , Mary's brother was bowling along a a cloud of dust. "We've fixed him," he whispered, gleefullyi to the traveling man. Squire Phinney mumbled through the marriage ceremony, making noises in his throat when he forgot the words. W T m a,-r- -.i.-i ' hint said "les" so loud that ne was covered in a wave of confusion, but Mary peeped out her assent in the voice of a canary. "I pronounce you man and' wife, the f quire said as the train slacked up I L 1 1. 1 .1.1! In.. 11 I at the second station. After the con gratulations were over tho bride and groom had a drink of ' ioe water from the cooler and then sat down on the back seat where they could hold hands unobserved. The car settled down to quiet Tom and the traveling man smoked on the platform and the old squire, richer $3 1 man wnen ne started, put his pandam A 1 -I i . -1 M over nis lace and slept. - I As the train neared DavisvilleT'ex-1 pectation woke on- every 'face; -Tom I felt a pleasant thrill at the prospect of trouble when they- reached the station. . As they swung around a curve they could see a bay horse and a buckboard tied to a post behind the depot. "He's there r -Huxk cried -Tet me go out ahead of you, Hink," xom saia as ina tram stopped with a final jar. ' ' ; : The other passengers filed out and grouped themselves where they could see what happenel. Mary'a brother came up closo to the "car teps his lorehead was drawn into deep creases and he held his whip in his fist. .Tom came out, closely followed 'by Hink and his wife. ' . ; - , The brother took a better hold of his whip. "You young hound I" he cried. 1 . - . & Tom smiled as if he thought 'this was for him. He waved his' hand toward the young couple, Mr. D jirfey Macey," he said, suavelv, "I have the pleasure of presenting" Mr; raad Mrs. Barlow and" t n n no Ann I'll hA.BAtvntn - the man shouted, brandishing LI . . . hiM whig,. 2STo7l don't" Tom retorted. 1he-r were-married on this train. Ask any. of these people." Ha indicated tne passengers. , ; Squire rhinney steppea lorwaxa. tl married 'em." ho Baid, with s chuckle, "while you waa jogging along the State road ejont half a mile aheaL" . :Durfey stepped back. "WeVfc .1 wash, my hands of the business, ho said, suddenly, "alary, are you go ing back to sea your mother Ixfore you go West?" les, me'n JUnk are going oao on this train," she answered. Ddrfev turned away -with a grunt. Squire - Phinney ,.lelt that he hhd played a strong part and thought) to round out the whole oy a jo-e oi nia own manufacture, : fGood horse of yours," he called, "you ougnt-a train him for the race track;" " ' "He got here before the Potato Vine, anyway," the man gtwled. for getting the name ox tne rauroria oz love." young man, there a more n of winning race," the squire retorted; ia a' triumphant look of repartee. The passengers laugned at nis sauy. and then dispersed. Hink and Mary wens oacs mio iue a 1 T a X 1- .. A ..HVTfa M AM save for tbe conductor, counting his change on the front seat. They went to Iowa the next wee w . a and the romance of their wedding - - mm . gave piace o wb ptuo - ---. Squire Phinrtey. however, never tired ot telling of tne time ne and xom nar grove made a wedding on the Pump kin Yin a and whafc he, afterward said to the enraged brother, Buffalo (N. Y.) Times. ' SCIENTIFIC AXJ ISDUSTBIAX. Roentgen ray photographs were ad mitted as evidence ia a Denver (OoL) court recently. . Colored photographs taken at a single operation are shown by Dr. Joly, of Dublin, Ireland. A great international congress of a j Vl4! a W W V, science will do neia as -Lovex, Eng land, and across the channel at Bou logne, France. Professor Amos E.,Dolbear, of Tufts College, an eminent electrician, pre dicts that it will be possible ere long to flash signals to liars by means of great eearchlights. A new source of true gaita percha, capable of adding . 100. tons a year to the world s supply, is reported to have been found in a creeping plant grow ing in French Soudan. j A new device for ringing street car m I gongs nas two projections placed on opposite sides of the car axle, the boll lever being thrown into contact by means of a foot lever on the car plat form. When the car is at a standstill the bell is rung by the pressure ol the same lever. According to the Botanioal Gazette, a notable cactus garden has been estab lished at the University of Arizona. It is the intention to bring together eventually all the Cactaceaa which are. indigenous to the, United States, and already more than one hundred species are represented. ' It is said that the Chinese wash fine eus in very pnre water, and, as ordinary well water is unsuitable, it is purified by putting a quantity of mollusss (e. g. Faludinoe, fresh-water snails) in it for a day. These prey on the organio matter it contains, and thereby act as filters. . A recently patented maohine for dyeing ootton or other fabrics consists of a color trough in whioh a transfer roller covered with a spongy sub stance is turned by the cloth pressing over it, pressure being brought to bear upon at by means of two heavy rollers, one on either side of the trans fer roller. i To facilitate the measuring of a per son's head for a hat a new devioe has a strap running around the crown which can be drawn through a buckle to make the hat larger or smaller as de sired, until it fits the person s head, when the size hat wanted is indloated by the number on the strap next to the buckle. . The speculative astronomers hate given us some queer calculations and odd comparisons. "One of the most curious of these is one in which the relative size of the sun and some of the planets is shown, i They tell us that if the sun could be represented by a globe two feet in diameter, the earth would be represented proportion- ally by a pea, Mars by a pin head and Mercury by a mustard seed. It Mgnl0e3 Odor. Among the latest inventions, says the St. Louis Republic, is a maohbie which will take a liquid that has here- fore been regarded as odorless and distil the most . delicate perfume. A drop of perfumery or essence placed on the - receiver will, on applying the nostril to the nosepiece or opening, produce an overpowering stench that would in a very short a very snort time, n con- tinned, cause symptoms of suffocation.' mi a - a . a -. 1 xua lUBirument can do uunzea in nearly ley ex j walk of life. To. the grocer it will prove invaluable in de tecting adulterations ot goods. The chemist, druggist and physician, of, course, can - find readr use for it in their buriness, while it has been sug gested that bank1 paper can bo , tino- tuxed with a special odor, impercepti ble to the ordinary sense of spaell, but m m . .a am . - which could readily be detected by the scentograph, thus greatly lessening.the liability of banks to fraudulent opera- tors. v It is also claimed fOr the machine that it will become popular in the homes of the wealthy.!; for by the aid of its mechanism' the atmos phere of a large mansion can be kept constantly permeated with a most del icate and choice perfume at a nominal expense. . For hospital and sick- rooms its service will prove inestimable. The machine itself is a small auairabout twelve inohes square and eight;inches high. It is made of wood, and the opening where the nostrils are" applied I is nickel plated. ' "Vigorous Teterans. . A Bath (Me.) man, aged sixty years and weighing 250 pounds, fell three stories on to a pile of iron one day re cently, bnt he immediately got up and climbed back to the loft from which he had fallen. Daniel Clay, of Strafford, N. EL. carried a bag .of meal weighing m 100 pounds a distance of three miles" re cently on a wager without putting it down. He is seventy-six years old. 1 and the f eat was a lest of endvaqce, I T TT I - -.,.'.''. ' rEaatoa Herald. Ik? ! EUDIClTINa BCiB XX tlUULP. Hot baths made by putting sulphur in water are a epecifio for scab in sheep. It is very infectious, and any sheep having it should be kept by it self. Tha bath will need to be re peated at intervals of one or two days, for at least three times, in order to destroy germs that were not advanced enough for the first application to kill. The Australian sheep growers, have succeeded in eradicating scab Irom that country. Now every sheep brought to Australia baa to- submit to the bath onoe to destroy possible germs that have not become visible. SMJLLLEB r AIQ13. It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good," is an'old saying that will apply to the period of depression we are just passing.' I have long con tended, and still believe, that seven out of cvtrv ten farmers 'are farming or 1 should say trying to farm too much land. The average yield of an. acre of our leading cereals is ridicu lously small, considering the fertility of our soil and the ease with which it can be tilled. It is very evident that there is something wrong when one man obtains a yield ; of thirty five bushels of wheat to the acre while his neighbor, just over the fence, gets only twelve. Why should one man get eighty bushels of No. 1 corn an aore while his nearest neighbor gets only twenty-five bushels of No. 3 corn an acre? Evidently one knows how to cultivate his land to as to make it yield a full crop, and ; the other doesn't. Farm, Field and Fireside. fitfAXaXi FABMS BEST. At a farmers' institute lately, -says the San Franoisoo Chrpniole, a quiet man remarked to tho writer that the trouble with our farmers was they tried to farm too much land. He said his own farm consisted ot one-third of an acre, from which he got rather more than a living aud had leisure to read and study. When asked how he did it, he said he keptj about seventy five fowls and grew vegetables, which he sold in his local market. He added that there was room for more like him in the place, as a great part of the vegetables used in tho vioinity were brought from San Francisco. Upon inquiry, it was found that this man was unmarried, and did his own cook ing. When asked what he would do if he had a wife and ten children to sap port, he said he should probably need fire acres. He thought it more profit able to put labor and fertilizers on a small patch of land than to buy or run in debt for a large acreage. The only farmers he knew of in his vicinity who were making any money, or even making ends meet, were those who were cultivating small farms, on which they could do all the work without hiring. CO EN rXSTlLIZAriON. A study in corn fertilization has been conducted by tbe Connecticut Experiment Station for nearly ten years. For six successive years the average yield per acre was seventy three bushels on land dressed with cow manure, on hog manure seventy four bushels, on chemicals sixty-three buehels, and without any manure thirty-seven bushels. The sixth crop was largest on tho bog) manure plot, but the average yielJ per acre for six crops showed no great difference be tween the three lota that were liber aflj fed. And these yielded fifty per oni. ivon than where no manure was nsede 'The amount of dry matter up on which the deeding valne of the dif ferent crops depends did not vary much, indicating that the feeding value or composition of corn fodder waa not greatly influenced by the manure, but depends more upon the care taken in harvesting and caring. The corn grown on -heg manure got tweuty-iive per cent. . more nitrogen and four times as much phosphoric acid, bnt less than half as much potash as the plot dressed with cow manure, bat only yielded two per. cent, more dry matter. And the land fertilized with chemicals yielded within fifteen per cent, as much as upon mannre, al though it received on half as much nitrogen, one-third as much potash and about the same quantity of phos pnorio acid. WHEX TO OrEt THE SILO. A year ago I begin to feed ensilage November SO, and the year previous nearly three weeks earlier. Homo of "my neighbors begin feeding the very aay inai iney unitn niiing.the pit, and I cannot see but they have as fine en silage as those who cover the ensilage and let it sweat from three to six weeks. Some ensilage will remain hot all winter, and some will take on hard ly heat enough to make the mass set tle aa solidly as it should, j The truth is, I have never seen ensilage so 'yonng" or so "old" but it could be fed with perfect safety and satisfac tion. " - The most perfect cover next to none at all I have ever had on my silos is this year. After the corn was all in the pits, the little about the ma chine waa ran up the surface and scat tered evenly over the surface, well trodden down, and this repeated for three or four days, or until it had be come quite moldy. Then we loosened it up, tread.it down, working in a half bushel of oat screenings, distributed a barrel of water evenly over the ensil age and gave it one more treading. The result is that the surface is cov ered with this decayed ensilage, and over it is a ' fine growth of oats, , the roots of which have bound the cover into a regular fibre blanket If covers are needed which I still doubt this one is far in the lead of j any I have ever had in my ten years lof silo ex perience. John Gould, in Kural New- i or Jeer. . KtTTEB mX. Bitter milk has three causes some thing eaten by the cow, advanced period of gestation and pure cussed ness. It is not a pleasant tbingo contemplate, but there is a great deal of horse manure eaten by cowa, : The best way after regulating too rauou u to fence off a partjof the yard and put the horse manure in it, or else lenoo off tha cows. I have heard tnat rag weed will cause bitter milk, but as my cows would never eat it I cannot aay anything from my own experience on that6core. v For tha second causa there is no cure that I am aware of, and. the third is almost as hard to prevent Briefly stated, in iU natural state milk after a certain time gets sour because of the action of a certain kind of bacteria whose business it is to make milk sour. But it these same bacteria are. pre vented from getting in their work owing to cold weather (they work only in warm weather or in a warm temper ature), then nature, whioh abhors even a vacuum of bacteria, immedi ately sets another gang of bacteria to. work, whose job is to make milk bitter. And if politicians attended to their jobs as well as. bitter bacteria do to theirs we would be much better off, for it takes much effort to persuade' them to quit work. Thje remedy is first to wash with boiling water every vessel with which the milk or cream comes in contact, or, better still, put the vessels in boiling water on the stove for ten or fifteen minutes. This kills off all the bitter baoteri a. Then, to get the sour bacteria to work for a few days, keep all the milk at a tem perature of . seventy degrees, and put a little sour buttermilk in the cream. This will give the sour baoteria a chance to get firmly established. Then do not let the milk get too cold or it all will have to be done over again. As two seta of baoteria cannot get along at the same time, the bitter baoteria give up the job. P. B. O., in National Stockman. ALT ALFA OS CLAY SOIL. Unless the clay subsoil is hardpan, I see no reason why alfalfa should not succeed on the ' ground described, writes C. li. Stoddard.of Illinois. The difficulty on such is in obtaining a stand, the alfalfa making but a slender growth the first summer and on shallow soils being especially liable to destruction by extremes of wet or drouth. In the spring of 1891 1 sowed one bushel of alfalfa seed, putting it on at the rate of eight quarts per acre as follows: One-halt acre sowed on dry upland upon which winter wheat was growing,! ha latter part of "March, about the time clover is usually sown. The field was not . harrowed or the seed covered.in any way. Thia plot was a complete failure, only a few plants appearing. One and one-half acres of ground recently drilled to oats was seeded and the seed covered lightly with a brush. The soil was a thin gravelly loam with Jt clay subsoil., It had formerly been a olover meadow containing bunches of timothy. The clover having died out, the field had become quite foul with ragweeds and foxtail grass. This plot was also a failure. A sparse stand on the dryer portions of the grounds was choked by tho weeds and grass or killed by hot dry weather in August One and one-half acres were 60wi on rich sandy bottom land with clay subsoiL This was sown with oats in the same manner as the preoediug plot aud was partially successful. This plot was a narrow strip adjoining a timothy meadow, one end being lower than the other. On the lower end, the oats lodged badly and a very poor stand of alfalfa resulted. On the re maining three-fourths a good stand was secured, the alfalfa making a fair growth after the oats were cut In connection with the. timothy meadow, it was pastured to some extent late in the fall, but not closely. It made a rank growth the next summer, being cut once only for hay and then pas tured until the folio wing spring, when, owing to the poor stand on the end mentioned,' it was plowed up. Any one who has ever held tho plow han dles when breaking an alfalfa sod will have no doubt of the ability of the al falfa roots to penetrate hard aoils. It reminds one of breaking hazerground. A half acre was sown with oats,. as before described, on upland with red clay subsoil, the surface soil, a sandy loam,' being fertile, having been manured for several years. An excel lent stand resulted." The ground is occupied.by a young pear orchard and consequently has nevor been pastured. It baa been cut three or four times every summer. , Thia year I began cuttina: the second crop and feeding it green to my calves iust uHvuAnm. ing into bloom a month ago, July 1. I V. ll M 'aat. 1 11 . a a. . ' . -i-io cutting iue pios mis week, the first of Aueust Tha littla .tfaat remains of the second crop is covered :n. I. mi . ... . m-itu pou- auea wisn matured seed but the stalks and leaves are still fresh and green.! We have had frequent showers since I began cutting and the third'erop where I first cot is ten to twelre inohes high. I shall begin cutting it as soon as I am through with the second. My experience leads me to believe that alfalfa will oatch best sown on clean ground without other gram, but would add a sprinkle of ordinary red clover one or two quarts of clover to six of alfalfa for an acre of ground. A narrow strip on ona side of the plot last described was given a sprinkle ot clover on account of the alfalfa seed running short The two grew together in a friendly way far a year or two but now tha alfalfa has the field. I intend to try sowing some next spring on winter rye, harrowing the ground thoroughly before and lightly alter sowing. American Agriculturist Flngerology. The palmist says that long finger are a sign of refinement A short stubby hand argues a lack of sensi bility; a thin thnmb, rather smalL denotes weakness. Strength of character ia shown by the thumb as serting itself over the other fingers. If the thumb curves backwards its owner is obstinate. Tho thin palm shows a refined, cultured nature. The thick one a coarse but strong iadivid-ualitj, WHICH I'll II f i Auditor Ayer is Still Puzzled 0y, tne macnine Act. OTHER NORTH STATE NOTES, Taking Out Licenses The je " Editors Damage Suit Coinp mlsed Rolling Exposition. The Raleigh Tribune tays: fAU(ii, Ayer continues in a dilemma. anxious to, issue the tax lists so ttJ they may be in the hands of the e! jus s &oon aa possiDie. in fact, it necessary that this should 1 j , soon, because the people are expecy to begin listing their tales iQ j What is causing the Auditor trouble j,' the $1. 23 per capita tax. It will be -' , membered that the Legislature, ia machinery act, made the property 16 cents on the hundred and the -tax SI. 29. The Constitution : of x2! Carolina provides that the per cD;. taxBhallbe equal to the tax on'&t worth ,of property. Well, this wJ make the poll tax 81.89, whereas th Legislature made it $1. 2.0, the saaj amount which was collected for the roil tax under the revenue act of ista. V Auditor is puzzled. He has no riht u change this poll tax to the cungtitation al requirement, and yet if he sends out his lists to the sherifi's with thepropertr tax 45 cents and the poll tax S1.2J the property taxpayers may refuse to rT their tax on the ground that the poll tax is not up to constitutional require ' rnent, and the poll tax may not be to! Iectable by reason of the unconstita. tionality of the section. "There appears to be only two sola, tions of the. matter. The Supreme Comt must decide the question or else it vill be necessary to fall back on the pre vious revenue act' How to get the act bo fere the Court is the question. It will be too late if the Auditor vaiti until the question arises upon the re fusal of some taxpayer to list under tin act. i 4 'A lawyer expressed the opinion tint if the matter was carried before the Su preme Court they would declare the per capita tax 81. 8. He thought thai according to the Constitution the prop erty tax comes first and the poll ii based on this, being three times tbe tax on a hundred dollars worth of prop erty." j , Secretary of State Cyrus Thompsoi and his assistants are in the midst of . the arduous iask of issuing license to the numerous insurance companies rht do business in North Carolina. The licenses run from April to April of each year and are the source of a rfcht neat sum of money for the State treasury. . The proceeds from license is about 000. Ihe last Legislature increased ths license tax of the fire and accident com-. panies from 8100 to 8200,. and on life companies from 8200 to $2Z0. Dorii.-, the year ending April 1st, thirty-seven' life insurance companies did business in the State. There were also seventy; one accident fire guarantee and marine companies doing Dusiness during the same period of time. Of the life com: panies about six were exempted from taxation by act of the last Legislature; but ull the other companies, 'life, fire, accident, guarantee and marine must take out license if they continue busi ness in the IS t ate. A large number of these companies have already sent in their, checks and appropriations, and there is every indication that there will at least be no decrease in the number of -companies who will do business, in the btate during 1837. . The Washington Post savs: "rep resentative 1'earson, of North Carolina,1 after much imiortuning of the indi vidual members of tho ways and means committee, has succeeded in getting specific duties placed on mica, a work 'which will give him the unalloyed thanks of at least 100,000 people in tbe mica-produJcing districts of North Caro lina. Mica is a peculiar article of com merce, in that its value increases in size. For example, mica iu sheets about two inches square would be worth 19 cents a pound, while in (sheets Sxi inches square would bo woith 81.50 s pound. With the duty on mica tn the advaloreum plan, it was all vamei at the low price. The change 'which Mr. Pearson succeeded in obtaining Trill keep out foreign mica or make it pay aa adequate duty, and this will bring prosierity to the North Carolina mica producers." ' ! A party of New Jersey r Jersey editors ,and Bering thirty-nine, ar i last week on a fleas- - - A W a. meix wnyes, numoerinj rived in this State last tirA trim vii 41. a ai.Kmii1 t i. Tin and spent seme time in Charlotte, Eal eigh and Southern Pines.. At Cbar- lotte they were welcomed by the mayor and others, were driven over the good roads radiating from the city, shown the various manufacturing interests and were entertained by the Manufac turers Club. At Raleigh and Southern Pines they were given a royal welcom also, and each and every one expressed themselves highly gratified with what they saw in the Old North State, ' At Lumberton Friday fire destroyed seventeen buildings. The loss is esti-' mated at 875,000, and insurance about 835,000. There were other losses that, cannot be estimated at this time. The origin of the fire is not known. This is the second fire Lumberton.has had this year. Four brick stores and the Robe eoniau office were burned in January list The town is a picture of desols-. tion. Main street being piled with heaps cf brick.. - - - - . The North Carolina rolling exposi tion car is to be finished by Augrust 1st and will be named for the city that bids hihesC for that honor. Raleigh. Wil mington, Asbeville and Charlotte will send in sealed bids. - A Baleigh special says: 'The South ern railway baa compromised the suit instituted by A. O. Bauer, -who, while driving across the track was run into by a passenger train and severely in jured. Bauer gets 83, 500. Reports from alTo'ver the State gi , information that truck 'farmers in the east and south have suffered severely from frost. "W.itr tbo Aoocnt on the Eje. When Milton Lackaye first appeared In San Francisco he was Introduced to his audience; by T. Daniel Frawley. After a few eulogistic remarks Fraw- . ley said: - N" . Many "people mispronounce Mr." Lackaye'a name. It Is Lack-eye, not Lackey." -AH right, Mr. Prowl-eye," shouted rallery tod. - TJncle BImon, what Is a phenom non?" ''A. phenomenon Is a man who I mo ncn mat he won't accept a p