BILL AIIF3 LETTER.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
My wife said she had a premoni
tion that we would have an early fall
and I had better prepare for it right
away. She reminded me of some
jrojcen glass on the roof of the flow
erit and the sash needed repointing
and shelves renewed and I might
white-wash the brick wall and so
forth and so fifth, and so on. Well
I have done all that and was hum
bly waiting for the next order when
she told me that Sam, the darky,
wasn't coming to run the lawn mow
er over the grass in the front yard
and maybe I could do it and save 75
cents. Well, I have done that, but
nobody paid me the 75 cents and
next thing I knew she sent one of
the grand-children to me for 75
cents to pay her debt to the aid so
ciety. These women have got near
ly as many clubs and societies as the
men, but they stay at home of nights
aud that ,is better than the men do.
There are the Masons and Odd Fel
lows and .Knights of Pythias and
Knights of Damon and the lloyal
Arcanum and the Elks and the
Knights of Jericho aud the Knights
Labor and they are all nights, or
midnights, and the women have to
stay at home and nurse the child
ren. If I was a marrying woman I
would strike out the word obey and
put in a promise for the man that
he wouldn't join anything that took
him away from home at night. It's
bad enough for young folks to be
around at night hunting for the
moon. They are crazy about the
moou and that's why crazy folks are
Called lunatics for luna means the
moon aud the ticks are not far off
on a moou light walk in the woods.
Last Tuesday night there were six
-V couples of our lunatics who arent Up
the river road in search of the moon.
They wauted to see it rise from out
of the water and they had to get out
to the big, flat rock in the river to
fiee ir, and they had to slidtf down
the bank to reach the rock, and the
young mjen cooued it down first to
clear the way and the yaller jackets
- were waiting for them and by the
time the girls were on the slide the
little devils began the attack and
they took 'em ou the slide aud in the
flank and in the rear, in the face and
. shirt waUt and arms add legs and
took the young men, too, and such
screaming and scrambling was never
- heard or 'seen in that part of the
Country. The young men did not
desert their partners, but shoved
them up the slide again with great
alacrity. The whole party were
V bunged up amazing. Eyes aud ears
and ndses and hands and legs began
to swell, and they never got to see
the moon at all. The girls cried
with anguish and the boys moaned
tkiX groaned ami there was no am
tnonia, no soda, no doctor house
within a mile. They could just see
enough to Hud the horses and bv the
time tltey got back home some were
blind in one eye and some in both,
and you couldn't tell a hand from a
foot, uor a nose from a turnip beet,
tior sn ankle from a calf calf of the
leg, I mean. Well, they got home
about mid-night and that 5-mile
ride was the longest aud most miser
able of their lives. -The young men
have not yet reported for duty nor
have the girls dared to look into a
mirror, for fear of breaking it. It
is a wonder that those with such
thin apparel were not stung to death,
I suppose that the stuffing and pud
ding about the breastworks saved
them.
We old school boys know some
thing about yellow jackets. It is
bad enough to tackle a Heat in the
daytime in open ground whero you
Can run and fight, but to slide down
into one near the water on a dark
night must be awful in the extreme.
The last time I came iii conflict
with the spiteful things I located
the nest and went to the house aud
got the wire fly catcher and set it
over the hole. It worked beautifully
and was fast filling up when an out
sider took mej "ker-bim," on the
back of the neck, and I departed
those coasts with alacrity. By and
by the boys came and built a little
fire not far away and set the fly
catcher over the smoke and killed
the whole, concern. But you must
look out for the outsiders the scouts
and sharp shooters. Bees can't
sting but one time, but a jacket can
keep up as long as the poison lasts.
The sting of a bee is bad, that of a
jacket is badder and a wasp is the !
baddest of all, except a hornet or,
perhaps, the devil's back saddle on
a fodder blade. They do say in Tex
as that a tarantula is worse than all
the rest put together aud frequently
proves fatal. They say, too, that
auy sting is a cure for the rheuma
tism, but I never found a man that
had tried it. Some poisous effect
one person more than another. A
good citizen of this county died in
'Zi hours from a bee sting, but my
faithful servant, Tip. can take them
up in his hands and let them "lite"
on his neck and face aud sting him
furiously, and he brushes them off !
and laughs aud says they tickle him.
I have picked the stings off his flesh
by the dozen, and he has never had
rheumatism. A colony of honey
bees number 5,000, yellow jackets
500 and hornets 300.
But this is enough about such pes
ky thinnsj though the sting of a
mosquito seems to be attracting
much attention from the men of !
science.
But I was ruminating about things
that have to be done before long.
My wife says it is about time to make
a lettuce bed for the winters supply
and about time to transplant two or
three rows of strawberry plants from
our own runners, for it is a good
plan to have new ones coming on
every year. I receive so many letters
from good women asking how to
grow them and so forth, that I will
say briefly :
Prepare the ground about like you
would for any garden herb or vege
table, fork deep and manure liber
ally, open a furrow and scatter ashes
in it any kind of ashes, wood, coal
or mixed. If you can't sift the allies,
be sure and throw out the cinders
and lumps. Place the plants about
a foot apart, spread out the roots,
draw the earth around lightly. If
ground is dry, use water to each
plant, then pull some dry dirt over
the wet. That's all. Ilave the rows
two feet apart. If you have no
plants of your own, then o der some,
and get Brandywiue, Lady Thomp
son, Gaudy and excelsior. There
are several other good kinds, but I
know what these are. If ashes are
scarce
plant,
plant
fruit.
use a good handful to each i
Stable manure
grow and ashes
makes the :
makes the
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Let me make another sug- j
to these good women. If
gestion
you have no asparagus bed, make j
one this fall. It is the cheapest j
thing grown, and about the best.
We had it in abundance all the
spring and are now having a second
crop. Buy one or two hundred
crowns at 75 cants a hundred, plant
about like you would strawberries.
Dou't dig auy ditch as they used to
do. Give a good coat of manure
every fall or winter aud the same bid
will last you 20 years. Fork up the
ground once or twice a year, but do
not fork too close to the crowns.
One other thing and I am done.
Plant the small butter bean. It is
sometimes called the see-wee bean.
It is 8 n re and prolific aud keeps on
bearing until frost. It will take an
arbor or very stout poles to hold up
the vines. BILL AltP.
Have you neglected to provide protection
for yonr family and your business, in case
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. Something to IIemembeu.
When a cough or cold is long ueglected
cousuraption almost invariably follows.
Remember Mexican Syrup only costs 25
cerjts a bottle, and yet has proven in many
thousand cases an absolute safe cure for
coughs, colds and consumption. Taken iu
time it cures quickly. Children like it be
cause it tastes so good. Insist on your drug,
gist keeping it for sale. Kead the seemingly
miraculous cures it has effected, printed on
the wrapper around the bottle. lm
A Pitiable Sight.
What is more pitiable than to see a puny,
delicate littta child absolutely dying from
neglect. There are many little ones, whose
cheeks would grow rosy, whose eyes would
grow bright, whose flesh would be plump
and pretty if only the worms that are
knawing at their vitals were removed,
which is easily effected with Mother's Worm
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The secret of beauty aud good health is
cleanliness. Uncleanliness breeds disease.
Internal cleanliness is even of greater impor
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and your bowels thoroughly clean by taking
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When your joints and bones ache and
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Healthy Blood Makes Healthy Flesh.
To haye good flesh and good feeling, to
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Pile-ine Cuues Piles.
Mouev refunded if it ever fails.
Anti-ague cures Chills and Fever .
A WonJerful Offer to Women.
"Wo have !cceiml vonl of a nioit romarlr.
ftblo offer which is to bo mutia to women by
Tfo Delineator, of New York.
Taking the fact ihut noxt year begins a
new century, The Delineator offers to distri
bute $17,500 among 1001 women. Tho plan
!s so cleverly arranged that a woman living in
a small town or village, has just as good a
chauco to win one of theso 1001 prizes na a
woman living in a city becauso the prizes
ire given for tho number of subscriptions
secured in a town in proportion to tho popu
lation of that town, instead of being give
simply to those who send tho largest list
subscribers which, of course, are most e
obtained iu big citio. Another clover fef
of the plan is, that all tho cities nnd towi
the United State nnd Canada have been
ranged in Heven classes. Tho cities of th'
gre.ite.st population arc- grouped in Class I
and a;i theso cities are nit very many, th
prizes offered aro twenty-eight; tho high
est prizo being $500, and tho lowest $5.00.
The total amount of prizes given away in this
class is $1,000. Tho remaining smaller towns
and villages fall into six other classes, and as
the number of towns in a class increases, be
causo, of course, tlicro aro moro small town
than large ones, tho amount of prizes given
away to a class increase.", so that in Class 7.
thero will bo $4,000 distributed among 60
winners.
Furthermore, to everyono who fails to wio
one of tho 1001 prizes there will bo paid an
extra commission on subscriptions, provided
they equal one out of every two hundred in
habitants of tho town from which tho con
testant sends them.
This is altogether a very liberal offer, and
one which tho famous old Delineator is well
able to make good. From our point cf view,
we do not sco why such an offer needs to bo
Bade by tho Publishers of The Ddineator, for
wo believe it already has nearly half a million
lubscribcrs. Its strong hold upon tho affec
tions of American women has como in the
past generation, from its practical ad vies
about dress details and homo matters.
Glorious News
Comes from Dr. D. B. Careile. of Was
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This shows what thousands have proved
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