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VOLUME XVIII.
FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1903.
NUMBER Wo.
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R014.
MJorporal Green!" the orderly cried, '"
"Here!" iu the answer, loud and elejrr.
From tb bps o( the soldier who Mood
near
Lai "Here!" ni tb word th But replied.
'Ovrw Drewr-iha a sllsaea cll-
This Mine no urer followed the ealli.
Ouly his roar-roan ha I seen blm fall,
Killed or wouaded, he oould oot tell. .
Then they stood la tka (ailing light)
These men of battle, with gran,
dark
K , WOKS, - - ' , mi"
As plain to be read as opea bookit
While slowly gathered th shades of light
rh lern on th hillsides was splashed with i
a.! i.ihi .a h. h. lumnU.
J -PP
wiIrf.i..K..i.-tai.
War. redder slalo tbaa th poppta knew;
, ; And wlmsoa-drod was the river s flood.
For the ( bad ercsed from th other aids
That day, la the taoe of a antrdereua Bra
la' wpt theradowa la Hs terrible lr
" And their Ule-blood went to color the tide.
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An Undercurrent. 5
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Bar riorella Est.
There was a man's voice, and a
woman's, and through them both the
lnsisvcnt voice of the s?
?The woman'! voice, clear, tralnante.
began In A sutwrflcial, well-bred so
Tdety tones 'How strange, Mr. Dwlght,
Ihat we should meet her after dear
I met I dare not think how many yean
So unexpected, but del'chtfu),. I amJyouthlnk I did not know of your let-
. sure." -
v 1 The man's toIo, deep, musical, for
ami, replied: "I do not think it very
I ' strange, Mm. Van Ness. The place one
knew in ono'a youth always have a
stnQcg attraction, and draw one back
- to aom soon or lute. But perhaps it is
- ao'ywuat singular that we both should
ehOiSi this summer for our .visit to
" o!d Nanpachcmet after so long an
alwence Pardon me, I think you said
this is your flret visit since" . '
s The woman's voioe. quickly, Tea,"j
Doubtfully, "I don't know that it was
really very prudent for ua to come
down to the rocks together." - i
- . The man'B voice, hastily: "Why, not,!
Mrs. Van Ness? What harm can come
: ri -Tit?"
r i'i'.M.ij,iieMltat)ngly:
k.jitt urviu natrni, - ox c
-you fknow people might say uukind
thlwe because",! - ' . ;::"
,The man's voice, coldly : "Becauee we
4n married, and your husband and my
wife are at their hotels, you were go-
" ins to say?" : :.,"' ". ' !
f"- The woman's rolcei :wlstf ully: ?Yes.
People do not know that we are old
friends--such very old friends and
and it pleasant to talk over - old
"times down here by the sea, with no
one llslening. Don't yoh think so?"..
1 The' tcim'a voice, dryly: "Oh, yes,
'"""very ple4s,int; but one dbetrfTt'lufOW
Just where to begin when"
. IV 'After a 'pause Uie itonian'a voice,
" , A Impatiaitlyt . 'When whatr .. . ,
' The jnan's voice, slowly: "When
we can't talk about"
' fjllenoe a moment, then the man a
s voice, lightly! "Well, Mrs. Van Neas,
- you certainly have had no teaaon to
' complain of your lot during the test
. ten year. . Ten yearsl It doesn't seem
1 possible. . You are not changed in the
least. I could fancy you Just the same
little Dot I was going to say you have
hT t J . I . 1 . i.
imu a very vriiiiani carairf u.uaw may
Lthi society columns of our news
paper. TStave reaa very onea, aooui
. the beautlf ulV ar? R isver gnj as and
I her Jewels, her presentation at . the
J Courts of Europe, her dinners and re
., ceptlons in New, York, her charities,
t and everything elfe that goes to make
up the life of A rich and fashionable
.woman." ' ; tkii--'V'- ,
The woman's voice, quiet and avea:
HLy.ed? Surely you have beeh hap
py, tot you have accomplished the
things yon planned to do. If the pa
pers have kept you informed of my
frivoloua life, they have at the. same
time tolfoue of your achleremehU in
.. the world of science.
. The man's voice, indifferently:, "Hap
py?' Ah, well! I have had my work.!
Earnestly: "Tee, thank God', 1 hav
i had my work; It has been everything
to me." 81owly and thoughtfully:
. "And yet I have not accomplished what
t once hoped to do what I ought to
"have dtme In ten years. Somehow, I
lost a great deal of my early ambition.
' Things have not seemed worth while."
. A pause, then the man's voice, al-
' most timidly: "Tou have been hap,
py?1; (n(i),..,.;.'.'
The woman' voice, cynically: "We
modern society women have little time
' to think whether we are happy or not.
f "We do not probe our deeper fettlngs
to know If they still live." A bitter lit
tle laugh, "Society has no use tor
deep feelings, and we cannot afford to
' cultivate anything which society does
i not demand." -. .. ...'-!,'.',
. The man's voice, softly: "Ton have
children, perhaps?" . ,',1, ,
The woman' low and tremulous: T
had one. She was but a little thing
when if only she bad lived!" ;
The man's voice, tenderly; "forgive
me, I did not know. I hav had no
children." ;
a - ,
Sllonce a momentL The man's voice,
' quiotly: "Ah, well! I suppose no man's
life 1s Just what he planned it to be.
He must do his duty as he a?es It, und
let happlneHS take care of Itself. I have
tried to do that all these yean. But I
have always longed to know that you
were happy with the lot you had chos
en. I have tried hard not to blame you,
or to harbor unkind thoughts of yon,
thought It was a cruel blow, Dolly, a
"f """l-iter-"
" 1 'e wilnan'g voice, tot and bitter:
"You talkY' unkind thoughts! You
talk of a cruH w! I think you have
foi-Kotten who ' that blow."
The man's voice, 1.. : '11 not
I, surely." f
The woman's volte, as . "51
OMtuinly was not I."
The man's voire, ewll"i.y:
do J'ou mean, Dolly? I d-iut I' r
slnnd. In Cod's name, (I n't j 1
a cntfl df-tl f'r you to t r
n ' . r i' -an the flay 1 I 1
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CALL.
"JTerbert Kline!" At tha sail thera flam
Two stalwart soldier Into the Una,
In nrlnir between tbfin this Herbert Kline,
Wounded and bletding, to answer his same.
"Kara. Kerr!" and a toIo answered,
"Merel" : '
, "Hiram Kerr!" hot ao man replied,
They were brolhsn, these two tba sad
Winds sighed,
Aid a ehoddec crept through th .cornfield
Bear. . .j
"Ephratra Dae!" the aioldler epo:
"itoane carried oar raglmenCl colors," he
' ' aaidi
- "Where oar ensign wu shot I left htm
dead.
Brt nmr wmTOro4 mi
Cto to tha roadside Mebodj lles(
: 1 P"1 10,,,e,,l fw W drfnk:
He murmured his mother's same, I think,
VtMtk Mmf wlll ,t olute(J h,( ,1
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'Tws a vlotorn Ve. but It oo t us dear
. for that aonipany'a roll, when called at
Bight.
Of a hundred nea who went latotbe fight
' Fumbertd bill twenty that aaawarod ''Herel"
. " ': ' ' Xatbanlel Graham Shepherd.
wi'V?
years, buoyed up by my faith In you,
and the thought that you were to be
my reward my wife? Don't yon call
that a cruel blow. Don't? My Ood! 1
was nearly craned!"
" The woman's voice, frantic, with
pain: "Stop, sob shall not talk so. to
tie. It was you who were faithless. Do
tew audgifts to Kate Oakes? Every
one In our set knew, tor she boasted of
your devotion to her. Oh, my heart
was broken, and my pride hurt beyond
endurance! And when Mr. Van Ness
asked me to marry him, I was glad
glad although I did mot love him for
as his wife no one would ever know
how you had hurt ma. Aad six moqtha
later you married Kate."
Silence, broken only by a quivering
SOb.
The man's votco. Blow and dazed:
"My tetters to Katel My gifts to Kate! -There
wu a mistake somewhere. Why,
Dolly, surely Kate gave you all the let
ters and gifts I sent her? You remem
ber your father waa displeased because
I would not ""ty inwuid when I
wnr to tlc-rvf
any 10 compie
siuirrua, he made us promise that W
would not write to each other durin
my absencehoping our love would
die of silence and separation. .' I kept
the letter of my promise, but not the
spirit; I could not write to you, but
I did write to Kate for you. She was
such friend to us both, and she knew
pur situation. I believed I could trust
? A pause, then alowly: ."Dolly, Kate
la my wife."
; A long silence, then the woman's
voice, sweet, tender, almost Joyous:
Pg"1rf)v4a!attJclt. I love this bit
of rocky coast better TKaTfy-OtiSt
spot on earth! Nowhere else In all tka
world Are the sunsets so beautiful. Just
look at the skr now! That perfect
took at the sky now! That perfect "r" von orf "-
glory Qf-efttot-WSHld. ihfirfi?r' 'rMUZniSUi2-4-(ti mual".Htued I
titfc ZaT ff8H "nT)raTeVs. To enter Into It. fully,
with despair.
- "Do you remember the first summer
you cam down here with Tom? You
were a big, handsome college boy, and
I waa a spoiled child, who would go
everywhere with you and Tom. You
were so good to me always, and so pa
tient Do you remember bow we used
to ash from that level rock down close
to the sea? You used to carry me In
your arms over all th rough places. '
s t'You came her every summer after
that" The voice became low and sad:
And when Tom died 1 was sixteen
then you came down here to comfort
me; for 1 had no one in all the world
but Tom. : Pa waa so cold and stern
that I could not love him. Do you re
member how 4 begged you to be my
brother In Tom's placer
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Silence.; The woman's voice, clear
and happy: "And two years after
came th best summer of all, when
you know what happened, and we plan
ned your future. as4 talked of , the
name and fame you would wln.,1 was
so proud of you, and we were very hap
py, and"
The man's vole, hoarsely : "Don't
Dolly 1 For God's sake, don't! I cant
bear It If only I had known!"
, The woman's voice. Ineffably tender:
"It doesn't matter ao much, now that
w know, Jack, You did love me, and
you Jrere true to me? Bay It again,
Jack. It cant be wrong for yon to tell
me that you loved me before!'' ' - .
. Tha, maat voice, brokenly: "Loved
you, ttoliy, little sweetheart! Did I
love you? Oh, Dolly. 1 have always" i
Th woman'a rolce, quickly: "No i
no, Jack! W have no right no. But
It won't be ao hard to bear, now we
know, and life I not so very long, and
perhaps, sometime somewhere" A
little catching sob.
Th man's voice, deep; tender, trem
ulous:" "Ood bless you, little sweet
heart! Ood help us both!" - . -1
The gorgeous crimson and yellow ot
the sunset had faded to dull purple,
and twilight had fallen on sea and
land. The fretful voice of the sea had
grown soft and slumbrous with th
ebbing time, and peace brooded every
where, save In tha hearts ot the chil
dren of men.
A man and a woman arose from th
rock, and, as they passed the niche
where I, unseen, had witnessed ' the
pageant ot departing day. and had
heard rehearsed th supreme tragedy
of life, the man raised the woman'
hand to his lips, and gazed silently on
her uplifted face, glorified with the
love which through all time "endures,
and la patient." Tha Household-I-ed-ger.
How H Knew.
.One day mother called Tommy and
Mabel to go down th garden with
her.
She took them to the greptihouso,
whre a quantity of soot had been scat
tered all over the flixir of the ffreen
hoiitto, and the path in front of It.
'hfr a 'Stf'd fech child If he or she
' i' It.
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. I p;tf you do It ottt tit
PEIVACY 0FTHE SEA
LANDSMEN HAVE AN : ADEQUATE
IDEA OF IT8 VA8TNE38. I
A Voyage of Three Month and Its
: Impressions Upon th Traveler-jr
Th By-Gon Whaler Wld Indeed
I Old Mother Ocean' Bosom.
Whether expressed or Implied, thet
Is certainly a deep-rooted Idea In the
minds of shore dwellers that the vast
fenceless fields of ocean are In these
latter days well, not to say thickly,
populated by .ships; that, sail or steam
whither you will, you cannot get away
from- the whit glint ot a sailing ship
or the black smear along, the cleaa
bky of a steamship' smoke. . There is
every, excuse for such an attitude of
mind on th part of landward folk.
Having no standard of r 'comparison
against which to range the vast lonely
breadth of water which make up the
universal highway, and being mightily
Impressed ty the statistics of shipping
owned by maritime nations, they can
hardly be blamed for supposing that
the privacy ot the sea Is a thing of tha
past; On voyage In a sailing ship to
the Australasian colonies or to India?,
If the opportunities it afforded wer
rightly used, would do far more to con
vlnce them of the utterly wrong notloa
possessing them than any quantity of
writing upon the subject would da Bui
unhappily, few people today. hav the
leisure or the inclination to spend
voluntarily three months upon a se
passage that can be performed la little
more. than one,! Ivea those who f
leaaob of poverty r tor their health
pake do take such passage,' almost
Invariably show signs of utter wearK
ness and boredom. . As day after day
passes, and. the beautiful fabric . la
which they lire glides gently and
leisurely forward, their impatience,
grows until In -some It almost Amounts
to A disease . This conditio of mind
Is not favorable, to say the least, to '
calm study 0 th characteristic feat
ures of ocean itself. Few, Indeed
in punBengers ana ewer siiiiwr-nv
sailors who will tor the dc
Ht of tb
thing spend hour at
hour perched
upon, some comma
ng point la. wide-
eyed ight sir;
gthenlng gtl out upon
the face of.
IS SASL . ?i
tesCl " ...
11 m MUD. Ul 1U. U1WI. tuuiyivt-v
tvacy, a solemn aloofness belonging
o th seas. The ' infrequent 1 Vessel,
gentle though her progress may be
through the calm, waters of the tropics,
still strikes them as an Intruder upon
Kthls realm of silence) and loneliness.
Th voices of the crew grate harshly
upon the ear as with a sense of desecra
tlinauch as one feels upon heajlng
loud (conversation In the sacred' peace
of sonlerifttge cathedral. And when a
vessel heavies in sight, a tiny mark
against the skyline, she but, punctu
ate the loneliness, as it were ftords
a point from which the eye can faintly
calculate) the Immensity of . her sur
roundlng. . , r - i
. Thi
Induced "by
contemplation of the ocen.
ceedlngly marked even oir"" D lrB
however. It Is necessary to toll 'either
In a sable ship, a whaler, or an old
slow-going merchant sailor that gets
drifting out of the track ot vessel.
Even in the English channel one can
not but feel how much room there Is.
In spit of our knowledge Cat the'
number of ships that pass and repass
Without ceasing along what may truth
fully be termed the most frequented
highway in th watery world, there 1
an undoubtedly reasonable sense In
duced by Its contemplation that how
aver much the dry. land may become
overcrowded the sea wlll always be
equal to whatever demand may be
made upon It for space. There are
many harbors In the world, it any rate
landlocked! bays tLat may rightly be
called harbors, wherein the fleets, of all
the nations might Una In comfort
And their disappearance from th open
sea would leave no senso ot loss. So
a ids la old. ocean's bosom. Perhaps
this Is even now more strongly marked
than It was fifty years ago! Tb won
derful exactitude with which the (team
fleet of th world keep to certain we!
defined tracks leave tha Intermediate
breadths unvlslted from year to year.
They are arivate places whither he who
should des'.re to hide himself from th
eyes of mun might hid and be certain
that but tor th host of heaves, the
viewless wind, and the allent myriads
beneath, he would Indeed be alone.
They are ot the secret places ot the
Almighty. ': '" '
Occasionally the great steamships
th" 1"r ,or tn connecting; nerves
01 civilisation penetrate mese arcana.
for their path must be made on the
shortest Una between two continents
heedless of surface tracks. And the
wise men who handle these wonderful
handmaids ot science know bow pri
vate are the realm through which
they steadily steam, leaving behind
them the thin black line along which
shall presently flash at lightning 'speed
the thought-essence of mankind. The
whaler, alas! Is gone; the old leisurely
South Seaman to whom time was a
thing of no moment. Her ruler, knew
that his best prospect of finding the
prey he sought waa where no keel dis
turbed the sensitive natural violations
of thfl wave. So these vessels jaw
mor of lea solitude than any others.
Saw those weird spaces unvlslted even
by wind, great areas of silky surface
Into whose peaceful glades hardly
rolled a gently undulating swell bear
ing silent evidence of storms raging
half a world away. So, too, upon oc
casion, did, and Joes, a belated sailing
ship, such as1 one we met In the south
ern seas bound from the milted king
dom to Auckland that had Ix'en
then nine months on her passage, in
to what dread sea solitudes she had
intruded. How' many, many days had
elaiised during which the was f'kit
solitary point rising from the phlnttig
plain Into the tirpf-r air. licr crew
had a wlfftil look tinon their f m s si
of 1 1 11
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fiwt c t
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All the tracks along which ships
travel are but threads traversing these
private waters, Just lltle spaces like
a trail across an Illimitable desert And
even there the simile fails, because the
track across the ocean plain Is imagin
ary. It is traced by the passing beet
and Immediately it Is gone. And the
tiny portion of the sea surface thus
furrowed is but the minutest fraction
of the immeasurable spaces wherein Is
enthroned the privacy ot the soa.
London Spectator.
CITY'S PIER DWELLERS.
Queer
Abodes for a Part
of Ncv.
. York's Population.
When an alarm of fire was soundid
'last Monday from the foot ot East Sixty-second
street the firemen hustled
out of their quarters with all the speed
they were capable of, as the alarm had
been sent In from 'the neighborhood of
Flower hospital; Which la at Sixty
third street and avenue A. Ji
The firemen were greatly relieved to
find that the fire was not in the .hos
pital, but thry were surprised to find
that It was tm the pier. ; As the en
gine and trucks, the fire patrol wag
ons and the battalion chief raced down
Blxty-second street from First avenue
they saw a mass of black smoke rising
apparently from the East river, and
they at Bret thought that come Ves
sel was on Are', out they soon got hear
enough to understand the situation.
"Another' dock on fire and the last
one waa only a week ago," one fireman
said to another. ' . " ' ' '
Burning piers are of recent occur
rence, and., In th opinion of .firemen,
unless something I done to change the
conditions' which are ravorable to the
origin of such fires there will W W
disastrous blare on .the .wate front.
There 1 a 8treet Cleaning IJartment
dumo at the foot of East glvV
Aoeond.
street and it was und
ump.tl
the fir, starte
(JonalderaDlt damage
was drm
to the? pier, the dump and
tbej
ow which Was tied up there bo
re the blaze was extinguished, Luck
lly, the flames did not extend to any oft!
the shipping In the neighborhood, , j
- The firemen made an Investigation
as towhait start t u WaetanaVsa
did tha Inspectors of the street clean
ing department and thy decided that
I was accidentally started try the Ital
ians who have their home under th
pier or dump. It I a queer place for'
human beings to have tholr borne, hut
such as it la men, women and children
live there.: The men are engaged tq
the work of "trimming" the bcows
which carry the city's refuse to Its fin
al; destl nation. The trimming consist
in sorting the paper,, rags and other
material which may be turned Into
commercial value. The men only are
supposed to do the work, but In real
ity the women and children work as
hard as the men. The scow Is tied up
underneath the overhanging ot ' the
dump, and th street cleaning carta
come along and empty their loads Into
the scow.
" Then the men, women and children
scramble about with iron hooks, turn
ing over the refuse. In warm weather
the children have but little clothing on,
. MtMt hnHtereaiiid.
"'" "1 11 1 '"' 1
thlSkly with dirt. The women," too. are
scantily clad, for they live In semi
darkness under the dump when not at
work oh the scow, and when so en
gaged they are not on public view ex
cept from passing boats,, ,
They live under the dump winter and
summer. " They 'cook, oat and sleep
there, and not even th close proxim
ity of so much water can keep them
clean. There are a number of such
dumps along the North and East rivers,
where Italian families are domiciled,
and whose lives are passed amid the
surroundings ' o( the city's . refuse.
Truant officers don't think ot going
there for children ot a school age."
It was found that th fir last Mon
day waa caused by the family cooking
stove falling to piece while the worn.
an was at work on the cow. Th fam- 1
lly midday meal was on the stove, but
the arrival ot several loaded street
cleaning carts Induced the woman Ot
to out to help her husband,: tie chil
dren and the boarders In trimming the
cow. tl' :::;-:r ;";'':'',:';':-v''';;'''Vf;''
A similar fir occurred in one of the
dumps further up th East river a
short time-ago. The firemen say the
matter is serious., from the fact that
such fires are a menace to shipping.--New
York Sun. "
Th Fore f Imagination, . -
Max O'Rell died as he had lived,
passing humorous messages about
among his friends; ' During his tour
through Australia some years ago
death was once close upon him, as It
seemed to blm at the time. Lylog In
bed one night in a Bush hostelry, wor
ried by mosquitoes and thinking of the
snakes against which he had been
Warned, he became aware ot the pres
ence alongside him of colJ, treacher
ous snake, probably a death adder, as
It was only about three feet long.
Death from the bite of this playful ad
der Is rapid and painless,' and the
Frenchman' recorded afterwards his
reflection that t was better perhaps to
die that way than of gout or rheuma
tism. After aa hour of agony, how
ever; he slipped out of bed, struck a
light, and went about the room search
ing for the favorite walking stick he
had carried specially for defence
against reptiles. After a weary and
nervous hunt be found It at last among
the disordered bedclothes! London
Chronicle.
.Sugared Timber.
Among new uses'' to which sttRsr
has recently been put is in the pres
ervation of timber. Much Interest has
boon aroused by the announcement, as
the result of a prolonged series of ex
periments, of a method of so treating
timber R3 to scrure, oven from soft
wood, a largely InoienNetl toughness
and hardness. Tho treatment to which
tho tinitmr Is eulijtursc i in. roimhly
r. that of sahin 'ion at I;;iil:ik
:h a Miititltm ot mirar. the wa
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wlmenalon of a Creamery.
ft la rather, difficult to give the di
mension ot a creamery to suit all con
ditions. Howover, there is this fact
to be borne In mind: The working
rooms of a creamery should be built
small, compact, and convenient, to- or
der to save labor In keeping the cream
ery clean. As an approximate esti
mate t should say that a creamery
handling milk from 400 to 600 cows
should Contain from 800 to 1200 square
feet of ficor space, not including coal
space and store room. Oscar Erf, of
tha University of Illinois. 4 ;
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Spreading Manure. '
. When the manure Is not decomposed
In the heap It must be decomposed in
the soil before the plans Can utilize
It as a food, and the sooner the manure
is spread the better It will be for the
crop, As It Is difficult to spread ma
nure on plowed ground, owing to the
labor of hauling over the rough, soft
ground, the method practiced by. those
Who plow twice Is to spread the ma
nure on the unplowed, ground, plow It
under and leave the ground in the
rough, (not harrowing), and when the
land Is cross-plowed later on the ma
nure I more intimately mixed with the
oil. t. t
Guinea. ;
The value of guinea fowls Is under
estimated by the average fanner,
doubtless duo to tho fact that so tow
really know of tholr genuine i&crlta.
Guinea fowls are truly the watch dog
tl at the first approach
of danger their I I1 Hi 1 11
Instantly sounded. No hawk or cfiTw,
mink or weasel can epcroach on; their
preserves, and at night woo io the
prowler who disturbs their restJThey
are good layers ot small, though do
Uciqusly, flavored eggs, and thoii.flesb,
though dark, possesses a gamey .flavor
not found in any other domesticated
fowl. They1 -are hardy an -seldom
subject to any of the many diseases
that 'afflict the barnyard fowls. They
are useful and need to be better kuown
to be appreciated, and their ability to
hustlo for their fcod makes them On
economical fowl for every farmer.
Home and Farm.
" Producing Good Bacon.
Speaking at the annual meeting of
the Experimental : union -at Ouelph
Professor J. H..Grlsdole,, Ottawa, men
tioned a few facts in connection with
hog-ralaing and the production of good
bacon, which apply with considerable
force to conditions In the Wostorn
country, i He said: . "Properly cared
for pigs, means pigs fed under condi
tions conducive to health and thrift
Airy, roomy, light quarters, are the
right sort. If space is an expensive
consideration, as It usually Is,, espe
cially In winter, then let the small
space be well ventilated, wel lighted
and kept clean, targe runs are not
jaar-saary where the other conditions
"JsasfIBaBjWiittv of the feed
are pruviuuu.- tuu MuBjsasaaBfa
supplied ia unuouuteuiy an inipt
consideration, Barley, is unsurpassed
as a feed for the production of firm
bacon. Oats ' also ' are" excellent
Where skimmilk or whey can be se
cured" It Is an Infallible guarantee of a
gocd quality of bacon." 1
. Feeding for Eggs.
. Cooked feed, for the morning meal
Is excellent If composed ot the proper
Ingredients and fed regularly. A good
mixture may be made of equal parts
of cornmeaL fine middlings, and bran,
ground oats hud ground meat Tbltt
should be stirred in & pot of cooked
Vegetables, while boiling hoi, until the
mass Is very stiff. The mixture should
be seasoned with salt and cayenne
pepper. Potatoes, beets, carrots and
.turnips, clean and free from decay,
wlll be acceptable. Th above contains
variety of food elements, mnd such
as compose th egg and the bone and
muscle of, the hen: Tb fat forming
Clements not being prominent. For
the noon meal, wheat Is the best sin
gle grain. It "may be scattered In
chaff or leaves on the feeding floor.
The night feed should be whole corn.
Plenty of grit should be accessible at
all times. Unless the morning feast
can be given early, we would advise
putting; a little dry meal in a vessel
for them to pick at until their break
fast is ready. Mrs. C, Carpenter, In
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' Feeding Working Horse.
1 The average farm house ha but lit
tle road work to do during the winter,
and, as .a, rule, is not well fed.
As a result he Is in poor shape
to take up- the - work of - the (arm
in the spring.- While Is Is unnec
essary to feed ' horses who are
doing little anywhere near a full work
ration the (ood must be of a character
to keep up the strength of the animal
and enable It to respond fully to the In
creased ration when it Is given In the
spring. In other words when the In
creased ration is given, the, horse
should not be in such poor shape that
It will require this ration to subdue
the state of semi-starvation In which
it baa been during the winter. One
of the best authorities on horses in
tlie country makes it a practice to feed
a bran mash throughout the year, the
mash constating of four quarts of brau
moistened with ucaldlng water and fed
quite hot. This Is given at least twice
a week. The mash keeps the bowels in
good condition and keeps -the horse,
which has been on short rations dur
ing the winter, from running dowi
badly. Attention should also be paid"
to the working horses in tho matter
of care, especially during the spring.
They will peraplre enHily, and If not
properly cared for, catch cold. A
gn, la f,i -lonn Hta finhnuj pu
goi'U RH It Is hroiutnt In from the work
i the (1 iv. and hmnkrt It v Mie -i t .:.
I y the tone It In p-- uy t-i t ' e 1:0
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too much,, and lay few eggs. But it
I let them loose they dig In my Sorter
beds, eat up my early peas and take
my strawberries. What shall .1 do
about It?"" ...
Plant your strawberries where you
can mot t conveniently surround the
plot with, wire netting two or three
feet high. Surround your vegetable
plot In the same way. This netting
is not expensive bought by the roll,
and It properly cared for, will last for
twenty years. It should be rolled up
when out of use,- and stored In your.
barn. Ton .will And that hens will
not Jump over a two-foot barrier oi
this sort If they do, kill them off and
raise a stock of Plymouth Rocks. My
white Leghorns are turned very readi
ly. Once In wbilo a Jumper Is found,
and the best place for her Is In the
pot ' .-,
' Hens aro particularly fond ot goose
berry, eating them as soon as they are
In blossom. I am obliged to surround
my gooseberry plants with ' netting
very early in the spring. Hens are in
valuable on tho country place, and
with a little care they can be allowed
to run loose. ' Feed them carefully and
thoroughly three times a day, and near
the barn, and you will not find them
very troublesome. I presume that
those who have but a few bushes of
raspberries will be ODllged to sur
round them also with netting. -In my
case I allow them . to roam , freely
through my berry gardens and vine
yards. ' They rarely touch a currant
and they an eddle only with those
grape that are near the barn and are
allowed to hong low. E. P. Powoll, ID
New York Tribune Farmer. .
,). Turnip a Bummer Crop,
The root crops are greatly overlooked
In this country, bU In Qurope no farm
er wcnld expect ruecesa without the
aid ot turnips, beep, carrots, parsnips
toe, is well known that
unuerawrT Iuvorulie conauions r
bushels may tm growlPps ajuft
though such yields are ' exceptional
and the averages are much less. In
England much of the literature devot
ed to agriculture la ot stock raising
hand root or bulbous crops. When It
Is considered that the English farmer
pays an annual sum for rent equal to
the Cost of a farm In th United States,
and that he make sheep and turnips
pay all the expense. It should encour
age our farmers to give more atten
tion to the mutton breeds of sheep
and tp the advantages of the root crops
as food 'for stock. Farmers should
carefully select seed from the best
varieties, and also from the ; best
plants, as well as make comparative
tests, In order to determine the most
suitable varieties, for each particular
farm, as-welt as the quality and also
the yields. By so doing th varieties
can be greatly Improved. In tact, by
selection the farmer can double hla
yields, and also secure varieties es
pecially adapted to his farm. There
are farmers living who can remember
when the tomato Was small and wa
tery, and they have noticed wonderful
changes In corn, wheat, oats and" oth
er plants that have been made by se
lection. The root crops have also been
Improvod for every year hew and bet
ter varieties are offered, : but more
work Is before those farmers who are
tiling to improve in that direction. ..
SnSWi n rui'omiin t nt pmn.
; Th.TT,. iiimjT uf'-j be
mangels, turnips, fie. snoui
done with regard to diminishing th
amount of water contained therein and
increasing the proportion ot sugar,
starch and protein. Experiments made
in England show that all roots have a
tendency to contain an excess of wa
ter, which In itself la valueless, and
some varieties are claimed to contain
water to a harmful degree. In the root
crops s. small deviation In the percent
age of water materially - affects the
feedlug. value, as ton ot one kind
may contain twice as much solid mat
ter as a ton. of another variety. It is
an advantage, a well aa a necessity,
therefore, that the farmer ascertain
the weight of the solids In a crop. This
he can do by bending samples to the
state experiment station. The specific
gravity of th root la a guide to Its
keeping quality, and the specific grav
ity of the, Juice Is a guide to Its feed
ing quality, hence, when It density is
highest In both the Juice and the whole
root, the value of the crop for feeding
Is the greatest The farmer can easily
ascertain these facts without the aid
cf the experiment station, but the sta
tion can .assist him In arriving at A
knowledge of the proportions ot sugar,
protein and mineral matter contained.
The proportion ct sugar In roots Is
Important as the more sugar the great
er the value of the roots aa assistants
in- fattening th anfmala. Th farmer
who knowg something of the value of
roots may secure a more valuable crop
With lees yield than front a larger
crop that contains a low "percentage
of solids and an excess of water, and
be should, therefore, , endeavor to be
come thoroughly Informed In that di
rection. '. '...'
Roots add value to all other foods,
because of the fact that during the
winter, when dry food Is the rule, the
use ot turnips, beets or carrots gives a
change from the dry ration to a more
Bucculent kind. - Digestion is, there
fore, promoted, and all kinds ot food
become more thoroughly digested and
assimilated. Cooking roots for stock
Is not now practiced, compared with
formerly, si Inventors have introduced
sllcers and pulpera, which prepare
such foods for stock with but little la
bor snd with rapidity, thus placing
before the farmer of today advantages
which he should not overlook. It is
somewhat late for putting In crops ot
beets and carrots, but July is the
month for growing turnips. Since
much Injury has Jieen done crops in
some sections this year by drought
and floods, the farmers who may give
their attention to turnips will largely
recover their los of feeding material.
The turnip crop Is no one of the
elteiipeat proline J on the farm, con
nltlfiioe: the yt.-tds that are
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AN EL.OQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED
"THE JOY OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE."
Tka Rev. Dr. Geary p. Adams Tell a
tha Spiritual Vpllrtlns Which Abides
With TImm Who Walk Coastawtly With
V 0U-Plauar 1st Chriitlaa Salaries. ,
New York Citt. Wbea ReV.Dr. Geo. D.
Adams, the new pastor of the First Bap
tist Church, Ije avenue and Keap street,
preached hi first sermon as pastor of th
church, he selected. for his text: Hebrews
xii: 1 and t: "Therefore, let us also, seeing
we are compassed about with so great a
(loud of witneasee, lay aside every weight
and the sin which i admired by many and
let n run with patience the race that is
et before us, loolting onto Jesus, tb au
thor and perfecter of eur faith; who, for
the joy that waa before Him, endured the
eross, despised the shame and bath sat
down at the right band of th throne of
Bod" (N. V.). and auid;
A very casual observer could easily tell
that many Christians hav lost the Joy ol
the Christian service which they once had.
It takes no scholar, aor, indeed, a critic, of
Christian life or human living to sea that
many, who one day rejoiced with "un
sponsible Joy" in tha service of Jeans
Christ, are to-day indiffeient. Indeed, we
ourselves find some times, when tp come to
the botise of tiod ia a burden, ana we drag
a weary body or reluctant soul into tb
presence of the Almighty snd try to wor
shin Him ia the "beauty ol holiness." We
find ;ain aad again, if we should follow
th inclination of our hearts and minds
that we should stay at bom. But those
arc new experiences comparatively. One
We could give up any pleasure for ar. houi
With God, and when to hav '.een in Hii
C resent and feel that He was bearing us;
I enjoy the touch of kindred spirits; to
hav enjoyed tb song and the prayer and
the service, out of God's heart, would bar
been better to us than riches and store
precimn than fin gold. But that ia gone.
We find ourselves sometimes coming be
e use we think 'we ought;, doing this or
that service became it is customary;' enter
ing Into this form or that because it is a
habit
it to do ao. and in th saner moment
01 our conscience we com sometimes to
say: "Why is this so?" Has Ood ehsa.ed'
r CUniV UsWblsllCBI W
use the jxmrnp Mtiajwef io aue
visbsnutnan life of its brudene'and suifer-
vgs goner ia tnere leas oi power anu eur
acv In the savins grace of Jesus Christ
now thaa once! After all, is God's service
really and truly at bottom nothing but 4
dnidgery? Or, ha something taken place
with tuf Have we left behind something
we once had and have we passed beyond
that moment of exultant spirit when in th
presence of Jesua our heart bounded with
the joy of a new faith and th experience
of salvation? Well, we sre perfectly sure
Gol has not changed. We ar perfectly
sure Jesus ia "the aama, yesterday, to-dsy
and forever." We hav not a "doubt that
tha old gospel will save men today, and
when we come to think of it after all is
not th matter of being saved a subject of
just aa much joy in the twentieth century
as in the first century? Haa there been
any chant in th attitude ol th gospel?
We are bound to eonfess there has been
none, and if that ia true, then th trouble
is with ns. Somewhere we have lost some
thing. and I am looking into faces this
morning that know better than I do, in
their experience, that that something is
the priceless treasure of Christian hope.
How, to get that back. When I was a
bo I wept when firs I saw the wrinkles
coming on my mother's face. I wanted
her to remain always young, and there are
thousands of Christian hearts, some repre
sented here, doubtless, that hav wept at
the loss of their Christian experience it is
dead, joy is gone. Oh, what would we give
to get ft back! I am persuaded that w
would give a great deal t get it back, but
I am mora thoroughly persuaded that the
way to get it back i to get into the atti
tude of life that makes it constant The
best thing ia not to get back th Christian
experience of years ago, but to get into the
attitude of lif that makes that experience
perennial,
I am going, therefore, to discuss the
source of Joy. Th thing that most lies
behind that experience and th first thing
that contronte tne unnauan in iw m
ter is duty. We do not lilt tba w
duty. W associate with th word V
sacrifice; and are surprised When
that it is in itself a. terra of f
hen J say to you, I want yf
your duty'yoiiraj'i ,that wo
about duty; I don t in-e-ajf
ia larnlv because the worn
to mean a matter of bondage,
ality it ought to mean a matter of f reeuos.
Why it was duty '-hind th text: "Let us.
therefor, seeing w ar compassed about
with ao great a cloud of witnesses lay aside
very weight and the sin which is admired
bv many (or so delight in rom special sin
of th age, I suppose) and let us run with
patience the race that la set before us,
looking onto Jesua, tb author and perfect
er of our faith, who, for the joy that was
set before Him, endured tlie eross, de
spised the shame, and hath sat down at the
right hand ef the throne of Ood." That
is duty. .In th light with which Jesua de
spised th eroas wc ougM not to stop and
reason about duty. I want yoa to notice
that duty ia an ethical term, not legal.
There b a kind of doctrine abroad to-day
which is called the ethical religious idea, I
do not mean that at all. Duty is ethical,
not legal. Duty reside in th rtceaacs ol
a man's character, not in the external leg
islatioa concerning him. I am a moral
Ing, therefore I Might. A dog or a
rse can never b called upon because ol
oughtness they ar not moral beings. The)
Br within the restrictions of a master an
that ia legal. There ia something in man
that is an oughtness. "I ought therefor
I must. Because I am a moral being I
ought, therefore duty i; ethical. Many t
man fulfills the law and breaks every poa-
Jible moral duty, Th aaloonkeeper is
eeping th letter of the law, but he is
doing an immoral thing. It ia not a matter
of legality or politics, out of moral ought
ness. Until that moral oughtness is obeyed
I am in bondage, but when I obey the
moral oughtness I am free. I paased
through a great sowing machine work ia
Behridere, 111., and saw the machine called
the automatio screw. Th ordinary ma
chine know more than a lot of men. Men
can't do a thing aa you tell them to. You
set a man on a job of work and he will
hang tb way of doing it juat aa eur as
he lives tha ia, if a is an American. II
he is a Chinaman or a Russian he won't.
That is why corporations hire that kind of
mart, because h will do no mora nor lea
than he is told. But you tell an American
to do a thing precisely in a certain way;
he won't do il; you can't hire him to do it
But a machine will. You Bay that is re
stricted. Mo, it ia not. It will take thl
pig iron and turn it out perfect screws as
small aa a piece in your watch, and do il
all day long. That ia liberty. Th iron
waa restricted in th pig iron, it is at lib
erty in the screw shape because it is doin)
its intended work, and man ia at lit arty
only when he ia doing his God-intended
service. Morally speaking, duty is ethical,
then. I do my dutv before God. not be
cause I must, but .because 1 ought. I am
less a man and less ires when I refuse to
do thing I waa made to do. The chiel
vnd of man, "ays the catechism, ia to wor
ship God and enjoy him, Kxactly. So
tiatt duty ia a part of joy in service.
rielfiahneaa ia incompatible with service.
Th servant ia not the servant when think
ins mor of tit wage than the biues.
u cannot serve and be selfish.. 'ihe sis
of this --ra is scllihneas, my friends. -1
am tiiank.nl that 1 live in the age of elec
tricity, wireless telegraphy ana automo
biles, but let me tell you, the sin of tin
s-.'e is pure, unadulterated sehiwhness. Ten
thouannd people to-day in tins great cilv
are seeking aif.olutely their own schib
plemiiire, ami when st if deinrnnea God and
nthrouea itwif the am of all sia in tins
ipe is enr"mfC'l. Don, give me mn.w
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it; it if m
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1 am going to k 'p u
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'Why b M,i. H Ood .hausedTf T'J
sunlight. Then we entered fog, "'Im-
w could not see more than five of six (' :
away. Where was the beauty gone?
attention became riveted upon our erfurti
to climb out of thr fog. ' Presently we
merged from it and were on th mountain
top. My, what a scene! There iny the
valley at our feet, like an extensive wnrj'i ;
towns, rivers and railways tha great Val
ley of the Mohawk. True, it was nearly
ISO mile away, but we were looking at it.
That waa like th Christian experience.
When yoa cams to the seat that day you
were en the foothill. You forgot all be
cause Jesus wsa everything and you saw
the little landscape. You. thought, "The
Christian life is beautiful. I am full of
Joy." And a few weeks passed and you
eaid, "But to live as s Csbirtisn is not so
easy; I do not ace the Joy. The little val
ley, where is it? 1 What a tremendous
thing it is to be climbing up to Ood." And
th cloud settles and you get to be selfish.
But if you persevered and. climbed up
ward yoa have eoa to th mountain peak.
Experience, and you feel that all your
power and love ought to be settled on
on effort ta climb still further and fur
ther in th vision of the Eternal. I won
der if ome of us are not still in the cloud,
because w hav lost the joy f service. .
(Suffering is only incident to service. I
am perfectly aware, when I ask you to en
ter with greater seal in the service of God
that I am asking you to Buffer. , You will
not be killed, or asked to move out of the
United State or persecuted because you
are s Chriatian, but you will have to suf
fer, and when you aimer yoa-errtl begin to
enjoy. No man laughs so hearVlyas llic "
man who weeps most bitterly. No laugh
ter ring so in heaves as that which comes
through th tears down here. By suffering
I mean yoa will b asked to endure the
cress. Jeau endured tb cross, , Now,
right her let me say that suffering is not
service.' Some one y: "See here, do you
mean to say that when. I suffer for Jesus
Christ that is not servicer1 ' That is exact
ly what I BMaa to Say. ' Uotl has Be pleas
ure in your pain, but if your service for
Him demand it, and yu bear it heroic
ally, He baa pleasure in, the attitude of
your life. Jesus Christ endured' the cross.
Why? Because it was iacidsnt to.ths work -of
saving this race. Somebody will call '
m heretic, but I am not; I befreve, and
yoa believe, that Jsu.Chriatie tfrWiia
I a 1- - ia. . . .. . il I
worm isavp.w7jJ mt- 'ive auu jruu-
hall aver be that Jens ts the diviae Bon
of Ood. If He is not divine let us stop our
preaching, sell our property and b infi
dels. If Jesos at a mere mas let as-all quit
business. I may .be an old fogy, but as
long aa this tongue' preaches iheugospel
Jesus Christ will he, the divine Christ in
my message. Do I mean that Jesus came
to His cross by-Maiden t! (No, elk He
saw tb eroas standing at the end. of His
mission; and for the-joy that was set be
fore Him endured end came, to; sav this
race, and that meant the bearing of a cross
and Ha bote it But the real missies waa
th saving of the race, not the bearing of
the cross. Hi mission Was to : save men.
"Ood so loved tb world that He gov Hia
only begotten Son that whosover believeth
is Him might not perish bat have ever
lasting hfe. When the cross stood in the
way of the perfection of salvation' Jesus
sndund it divinely, heroically and unflinch
ingly died. upon it to save us. Suffering ia
incident to service, and when I sail you to
serve Ood you will have your eross. Th
man yon work with will say yon are too
much of a crank and a fanatic. It will hurt
and pain and go deep, 'aud.yo will flinch.
Sometimes you will, try to apologue for
bet of enuik and famtic, and you will
thank Gd tbar ia something yoa can en
dure. It is part et astri(nd behind the
suffering comes a joy, deep and profotmdy
When you are true, r Yes, you will have
ham to bear, too. Two or three young
ladies where I have been holdinr meetings
lately and baptising some hav said. "I no
not like to think of gettiag tip before all
those people and being baptised. I won
der if w ar going into th joy of fulfilling
God's command. If we are we have got to
endure aome of that sham He endured.
Let m tell you if yoa bad administered
baptiam and you saw as a minister ares in
the fae of th believer buried out of sight
snd raised to resurrection of newness of
life if von saw) what he sees just onee you
would drop yoif qaibblini now. Shame on
cannot Dear in tne iwcntietn cen-
'.Phnatjian troth all that fol--KiJjif
us. A writer in
. articl entitled
says Bailing
"r'Vns op-
opposition .
you are beati...s
world will' oppoMTv.
kill, then, to take tue-tij .-.
suffering and sin and use them to advance
nr life in th kingdom of heaven. When
egin to sacrifice I begin to enjoy. Be
loved, if yo wosld bare th joy of Chris
tian service you must hav the heart of
Christian sacrifice, ' ,y .
n, us s&Mtki Yv
When that last Sabbath eomee--the Sab
bath of all- creation the heart, wearied
with its tumultuous beatings, shall have
rest: the soul, fevered -.vile ita anxieties,
shall enjoy peace. The sun of the Sabbath
will Barer set or bide it splendors in a
cloud. Tho flowers that grow in its light
will nevar fade, Our earthly Sabbaths are
but dim reflections of the heavenly Sab
bath, east down upon th Mirth, cammed
by th transit of their rays from so gnvi
a heigh. saai i8tliiPt'arJd:-Tlie fair
eat landscape, or eorabiaatiuaTuf sin
upon earth, ar but th outskirts -of tha
paradise ot Ood, forc-eerseats and intima
tions of that which lies beyond them, and
th happiest Pabbath-heart, Whoa very
pulse is a Sabbath bell, hears but very in
adequate echo of th chimes and harmo
nies of that Sabbath, that Met, Where we
"rest not day and night," in which the
song is never nw, and) ys. evg lung.
Whs W CaaOlve, ,
On ol tb bravest things in the world it
to give to others out of one's deepest pov
erty, whatever that may becheer out of
sorrow, hope"jit of disappointment, helu
out of weariaws, courage out of defeat, the.
precious mite out of the slender store. I r,
is a brave thing to do this, aad yet not of
ten an unrewarded thing. We do not
know that th recording angel keeps a.
special account df such heroic benevoienn .
but surely they do not escape the iovu ,
cognisance of Oo'd. Wellspring. ,
Th world and -the church need to ri
men of true courage, men Who dare to h i
tha courage of their conviction ; men v.
are not afraid to do what ia rigM; v
who will stand up for the right. We I
too many cowards in the church, anil :
ar reproach to Christianity. The v,
despises cowardly Christian and rf .
no use for such. Th Kev. Dr. lloiu. i
Atlanta, G. ' ' s "
TOMATO CUSTARD.
Tomato custard may be mails i
canned tomatoes, but th fresh
etable Is preferred. To ewch c
of chopped raw tomatoos alhxv
egg. 8lmmer the tomatoes wi i
onion, a bay loaf, and i, sprig t '
ley for fifteen minutes. Prcm I
a sieve. Add water If th- - !
enough liquid to flli two or
the eifgs separately, and f a
Ingredients. together, s ' "
pepper. Pour Into cii" i
!ake in s pan con' '
Just BS oilier rir--!ar :
shortt-r t'.ui li r
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