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grapes seldom fail to bear in this country
because the fruit is not killed in the
bloom by frost. Strawberries will yield
two hundred bushels per acre, and three
or four square rods will produce as much
as one family will need; they begin to
ripen the last Of April in this country,
and continue through May. Raspberries
come in about the time strawberries dis.
appear, and few vines will supply a
family. Five or six grape vines will
bear greater quantity than one family
will need for eating, and these will be in
season from the first of August until frost
if different varieties are planted. No
family will be without fruit if they will
give little care to a small plat of
ground set apart for these three kinds of
vines. Where land is an object grape
vine may be trained to grow over the
kitchen window or door, against the wall
of stable or barn, as it may find sup
port on a shade tree, in any Of which
places it will be ornamental as we'll as
useful. Raspberries will grow in the
corners of the fence or beside the garden
wall, and strawberries will grow and bear
spontaneously if started in al old field,
but all these do best when properly cul-
tivated. Give little attention to these
and you will never fail to have an abund-
ance of fruit for your children.
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Two Stalwart Lies.

Whenever a Mississippi man tells a lie
it is generally robust and healthy and can
walk; but the moment Georgian hears
it, so great is the rivalry between the Two
States, he girds up his loins and unloads
"whopper" that is so strong it has ribs
and backbone and breathes. Not long
ago man living near Ellsville, Miss,
said that the cold wave in January swept
over that State 50 quickly that the ponds
in the swamps were frozen stiff before the
snakes living in them could duck their
heads under the water. He further
remarked that he amused himself for
whole day by walking on the ponds and
kicking off the heads of the snakes which
stuck up out of the ice. This story
travelled from one place to another until
it reached Georgia, where for time it
to use the language of the prize ring
knocked out everything it met; but
finally a noble Georgian invented a
muscular lie that climbed on the collar
of the Mississippi prodigy and literally
pulverized and mashed it into the earth.
The Georgian said that while chasing
fox across an abandoned cotton field
his horse and himself fell into an old we'll
about seventy feet deep. The fall killed
the horse instantly, but he escaped with
out injury, and at once commenced look
ing around for way to reach the surface
of the ground. To his dismay he dis
covered that it was impossible for him to
get out by climbing the steep walls of
earth that shut him in, and he commenc'
ed bowling for help at the top ofhis voice,
but none came. On the morning of the
second day the stencil from the carcass
of his horse was sitting, and he made up
his mind to suffer horrible death, when
he noticed number of buzzards lowering
about the top of the we'll. Finally the
birds alighted in the we'll, and bright
idea flashed through his brain, and he
determined to make the buzzards bear
him up to the ground above. AS they
settled on the carcass of the horse ne
seized them by the legs until he had
three of the buzzards firmly grasped in
each hand, when he gave them violent
"shcw," and they flew up, carrying him
with them but they did not stop when
they got out of the well, but continued to
soar upward until LIE was Mortified to End
that he was fifty yards above the surface
of the earth. Suddenly, however, it
occurred to him to release one buzzard
from each hand. This he did, and to his
great JOY his weight dragged the remain
ing buzzards slowly down until he was
safely landed on terra frma, when he at
once dropped on his knees and returned
thanks in prayer.
When the story of the Georgia fox
hunter reached the ears of the Mississippi
man who launched the cold weather lie,
it made him feel so utterly mean and
worthless that he sold out and went TO
Texas.
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4 Plea for the Renters.

The system of renting the farms of
our country is radically wrong and ere.
ates dissatisfaction on one hand and ex-
haustion of the lands on the other.
Many of our citizens find it necessary to
rent from year to year, and indeed many
owners of farms prefer to let out their
lands. This being the case some plan
should be adopted that would work to
the mutual benefit of both lesser and
lessee. As matters now stand the renter
enters into contract for one year and
at the end of it pulls up and seeks
another home, not home but rather shell
ter. This is most disastrous both pecuni-
arily and morally to the renters and in
furious to the lands cultivated under this
system. The rent under the one year
plan is too high, ,nsequently the effort of
the tenant is directed more towards get.
ting out of the land a full crop, than to
the preservation of the soil. He feels
no interest in improving the soil, but is
necessarily forced to extract its power to
produce rather than add to its quality.
He exhausts aud does not build up. But
with all this effort, he finds that he barely
comes out even and becomes dissatisfied
and thinks change may promote his
interest. The renter then goes from one
place to another year after year, and his
condition is not improved. His stock is
poor his farm tools worn out, his house.
hold comforts most meagrc, and general
dilapidation exists. Worse perhaps than
all, his family form no attachment for
home and soon become divided. They
cannot attend school regularly aud have
no stated place to go TO church, and
surely there is nothing that tends to con.
serve and preserve the morals of our
country as the regular and systematic
attendance on divine worship. These
are some of the effects upon the renter.
The owner of the land is also injured
in his property, especially by the one
year system. His tenant has no incen-
tive to build up his land, nor to improve
the houses or places under his care.
bitches are not properly opened and the
land overAowipg becomes in many cases
almost useless. And year by year he
finds bis property growing less in value
and his rents proportionally reduced.
The system is wrong and there should
be general change. Let the lease sys-
tenn of three or FIVE years be adopted and
the rents made lower because of the i'm.
provement that will follow and of the
certainty attending their collection. 1t
is better to get lower rent and know that
it will certainly be paid year after year
than have the promise of high rent
with a probability Of losing it. Of
course the right to remain for the whole
term would depend upon the payment of
each years rent. Who can doubt the
effect of such plan? Lesser and lessee
would be benefited. There would be an
incentive on the part of the one to pay
promptly because he had at least tenn
porary abiding place, and also to improve
the land worked by him. On the other
hand the owner of the land seeing that
he had tenantry, could afford to reduce
his rents and find thai he was more than
repaid in the increased value of his lands.
Let this plan be tried.-Abbevile Mess-
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Prohibition.

The whiskey men seem to be agitated
in all parts of the country. They are
stropg and earnest in protestations of
their love for temperance. But, we infer
from the newspapers, that they are
alarmed for fear the saloons may be shut
up. They sometimes even 60 to great
lengths and assume that they are the
people--the Democratic party-and
speak of the temperance people as if
they we're public enemies, alleging that
the furlherance of their purpose will
break up the Democratic party.
The license or no.license question
furnishes the widest scope for argument.
No actual facts are needed. All that the
whiskey side need to do, is 10 appeal to
fertile imagination, and all the facts
are at hand-great piles OF jugs at the
depot, drunken men on every corner of
the town, and empty treasures. The
temperance people have about as definite
facts on which to base their arguments.
But they have reason and common sense
on their side. If the closing of the bar
rooms gave the dram.drinker more whis-
key, why does he object to the closing of
the place in which he delights SO much,
and which he defends so vigorously? If
the bar-rooms are not an evil, why is it
that majority of the church people,
and nearly all the women are opposed to
them? The temperance people certainly
cannot be charged with a desire to in
crease the sale Of whiskey by closing the
bar.rooms.
All the talk about the alleged increase
in the sale of whiskey under the no.li-
ccnse system will go for naught if the
proper means are adopted to enforce the
law. Will any body say that the revc.
nue. laws of the United States has in
creased the stilling business in this State ?
We think not. If whiskey making may
be suppressed, then its sale may also be
suppressed. It can and will be suppress
ed, in a large measure, if the Legislature
will create an Office, to be filled by an
officer whose duty it shall be 10 see that
the law is enforced But without such
nm officer it would be little less than
criminal to pass prohbitory law for the
whole State. Our people will not turn
informers.-AJJeyiNc Press and Banner.
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A Wife Speaks Out.

A married lady writes: "[t seems to
be q common failing of the gentlemen,
after they have been married little
while, to discard all the little courtesies
which they had been wont to show their
wives before marriage. The "please"
and "thauk you'' are forgotten. When
1 go to place of amusement and see a
lady and gentleman together, can tell
in almost every instance whether they
arc man and wife. If the lady drops her
programme or handkerchief and has to
stoop to pick it up herself, say she is
that mans wife. On the contrary, if the
gentleman is kind and polite to herr
careful about draughts, ETC., say they
are not married. We hear great deal
of talk about the trials and cares oil
man in business. They have to battle
with the world, it is true, and labor for
our support; but women are the house
keepers, and the little trials aud cares
which come up every hour in housekeep-
ing are just as hard for them to bear as
mans office or shop duties are to him.
To keep house we'll is no play business.
would like to see woman wrestle with
the servant girl question and preserve
her "ideality." This will cause the
roses to fade in her check quicker than
anything I know of.
"Now, l believe in marriage. | be-
lieye that there arc great many good
and noble men in the world, and that
there will be men angels in Heaven.
There are men who rise at night to ad-
minister soothing syrup to the baby and
who struggle with the kitchen fire in the
morning. On the other haud, there are
idle, silly, selfish, exacting, extrayagant
wives, women who whine when their
husbands bring them an orange instead
of an apple, and vice versa, and yet it
does seem TO me as if these kind Of
women receive more adulation from the
men than the kind, CHEEKY, helpful wives
we so often see. ! claim that women are
not any more to blame and not as much
to blame, for the "disenchantmcnt' of
married life than their husbands are.
Women arc by nature more unseli:h,
more sensitive, truer and kinder than
men are. Their duties are more varied
and more wearing. They endure greater
suffering, have more strain upon their
nervous system and bear up under adj
yersities which man often shoots him.
self in the head 10 get rid of. They
need more sympathy and tenderer care
thau man does, and am sorry to say
they don't always receive it,"
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Arc Wild Cherry Leaves Poisonous Il
Cattle.

In reply to B. S. w. Clinton, Mass,
who asks if wild cherry leaves, or peach
tree leaves, are poisonous to cattle, we
would say that wild cherry leaves, if
eaten when wiltcd, are a deadly poison
to cattle if taken in any considerable
quantity DR.. Cressy ynce stated in our
hearing, that if the leaves are eaten fresh
from the trees, or from the hay mows in
winter when thoroughly dry they rarely
if ever injure cattle. Whether this is
true may be questioned, since there are
recorded cases Of poisoning from eating
of the fresh leaves. The leaves of the
cultivated cherry trees have also been
known to kill calves and injure older
cattle. Peach leaves are probably un-
safe to eat in large quantities when in
wited state, as peach trees and cherry
trees are quite nearly related. The
poisonous principle in the leaves is un-
derstood to be prussic acid, as this acid is
found, though sparingfy, in the seeds or
pits of this class of trees. Cattle that
eat freely of wilted cherry leaves are
usually soon past all cure, and are not
unfrequently found dead in the pasture
The treatment recommended is to give
solution of saleratus, (bi-carbonate of
potash ~ or of carbonate of ammonia, and
then administer weak solution of cop.
peras, (sulphate of iron. Cold water
dashed upon the head, or over the whole
body is also recommended for this dis.
ease, as is also the forcing of the animal
to take full bath in river or poud. a
lady writes that mixture of vinegar
and chalk in the proportion of one bali
pint of vinegar to two tablespoonfuls of
chalk, had proven efectual in several
cases of cherry poisoning. We are
always very careful when cutting Wild
cherry trees or sprouts, to keep them
away from cattle while the leaves are in
a wilted condition. Our own cattle have
never been injured by eating them fresh
from the trees, but might have been
under circumstances favorable to taking
larg quantities.-Ncm England Farmer.
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George Blacks Announcement.

The publication by George Black, Of
the Mansion House bar, in the Mccs of
his readiness to refuse liquor to all whose
friends give written notice of ohjeciing
to their drinking, has become an issue.
The Temperance Worker, of Sumter,
prints the following:
1.-THE action of the barkeeper in
Greenyille, who advertises that he will
not sell liquor to drunkards and minors
when request to that effect is made by
relatives of the persons affected, is
worthy of commentator. If all the
liquor sellers of the State would do like
wise and keep their bar-rooms cl osed on
Sunday, there would be a decided falling
off in the interest now felt in prohibition
in this State.-Charleston Ne,vs and Co~,
rier.
"For impertinence and consummats
ignorance the above extract caps the
climax.
"Every bar keeper in South Carolina,
before he can obtain license to sell liquors
is compelled by law to enter into bond
of one thousand dollars, with three good
sureties, that he will not sell to minors,
to inebra!es, or on the Sabbath, or be-
hind screens. The bor-keeper in Green
vile has given the bond or he is an
illegal whiskey seller. Now if he has
broken, and without special notification
to the contrary as above indicated, be
still proposes to violate that bonded con-
tract, what confidence can any relative OF
a drunken sot put in his promise that he
will not sell if such relatives request 1t?
Can he be believed?
"And to think that the great metro
politan paper of South Carolina should
commend his course TO other whiskey
dealers. This Greenville bar.keepcr has
advertised himself. and the newspapers
are heralding to the world that he has
violated and intends to continue viola
ting a bonded contract, unless he is noti.
fed not to do it. If the fear of the for
feiture of 81 900 will not deter him, no
request of poor, heart broken woman
can possibly affect him."
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Salt and Charcoal.

Farmers know the value of salt for
stock, and yet we doubt if there are
many of them who furnish it as freely as
they should. Salt should be given once
a week at least, and in most instances we
doubt if it would not be better to keep it
lying By the stock, or at their feeding
places, all the time. Salt is hcalthful,
acts healthfully on the blood, coun.
teracts to a great extent the effects of
bad water aud bad food, and protects
from epidemic or contagious diseases.
Plenty of salt to hogs and young stock
tends to prevent worms. Salt, as is we'll
known, tends to produce thirst, and abb
serbs the gases by which the worms are
sustained. Of course it tends to improve
the stock and keep them in better condi-
ton. To make stock pay it is necessary
to take care of it, but until all is provided
in ample quantity you have not quite
fulfilled your duty toward them.
But there is another article that is very
beneficial to domestic animals, and per.
haps as necessary for them as salt. And
that is charcoal. All highly fed animals
should have charcoal given them plenti-
fully: and there is no stock that an occa-
sional dose of it will not benefit. Char.
coal heals and strengthens the stomach
and alimentary canals, allays inhamma'
tion, absorbs putresceut gases and pre-
vents collie, and imparts tone and in
creased power to the digestive organs.
1t is particularly useful in the summer
season, as then stock partake of greater
variety and more succulent food calcula-
ted to produce disorders of the system.
The farmer aud stock owner should
provide himself with quantity of pull
verized charcoal, and should give it to
his animals about once week and as
much oftener as he finds any Of them
ailing. The dose may be from one teas
poonful for young animal to one or
more table spoonfuls to a grown COW or
horse. 1t may be given with certainty
that it will be eaten, by mixing it with
salt as the latter is fed. Or it may be
put with meal and hominy and fed dry.
For poultry mix it with the dough. 1t
is yery good for young chickens and
other young fowls, keeps them healthy
and strengthens them against the papes,
but will not prevent it. There would be
much less heard of chicken cholera, too,
if farmers would make free use of char.
coal.
Every farmer can make his own sup
ply of it. Indeed, there are so many
uses for it in the summer that it is really
surprising that it is so little used on the
farm. The free use of salt and charcoal
would do much to prevent disease and
isure healthy meat, milk and butter.
They arc natures remedies, both simple
and abundaut.-RWat Ncssengcr.
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full must avoid the cutting Of the roots

full must avoid the cutting Of the roots
just before and during the time the ear
is making. In this plan I have only
given the main points, leaving minor
details to be applied as occasion may re-
quire. If it can be improved let it be
done, for am sure many readers of the
CuHivator would appreciate an, sugges'
tions that would enable them to increase
the production of corn and make it a
more certain crop.-K. McKINNoN an
Southern Cuhiuator.
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How Every Farmer can Have Fruit
all Summer.

Every family who owns small spot of
land can have fruit all summer with very
little labor, yet there are hundreds of
families without fruit. A spot of ground
forty or fifty feet square, or about tho
size of square in an ordinary garden,
will produce all the fruit that any family
will need. Strawberries, raspberries aud
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Button parties" are becoming pop
ular in the West. We don't know
whence they derive the name, unless it
is because they arc always sure to come
of.
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= The most dangerous of all fattcry
is The very common kind that we bestow
upon ourselves.
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