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Value of Stock Peas.

The feet row corn is a very com.
mon thing in south Alabama. The
soils in that part of the state are
largely composed of sand, and by
planting their corn in foot rows and
a row of peas in the center, the yield
of corn is almost equal to full crop,
besides fair crop of peas on the same
land. The pea is blessing to this
southland. 1t will grow on almost
any soil or no soil; it obtains most OF
it's nutriment from the atmos-
phere, and even takes carbonic acid
from the atmosphere and forms bulbs
of nitrogen upon the roots, to enrich
the land. The pea is good for many
things. IT will make good soup and
eating for human beings; it will fat.
ten hogs and put upon them the sweet
est. hams ever tasted; it will make the
cows give gallons Of creamery milk
and pounds of golden butter; it will
put flesh on the horse, and it will en-
rich the land where it produces an
abundant crop. though the vines be
cut as hay, and only the roots left in
the soil. The pea is one of the best
blessings from God.
As to the question whether sow and
pigs should be turned on peas? we
should answer yes; but it may be pru-
dent not to let them eat too long at
first until they accustom their stom-
achs to the rich food. There is % per
eentum of flesh forming or albumin
ODDS in peas, and 50 per cent. carbo-
'hydrates or heat formers. This rich
ness is what causes hogs, cows and
sheep to put on flesh SO rapidly
Southern Agriculturist.
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WEATHER IN HIGH ATTITUDES
Signal Stations in the Mountains of Eu-
rope and America.

In paper recently read before the
Boston Scientific society Mr.. Rotch, of
the Blue Hill observatory. makes some
statements about high-altitude sta
tions for meteorological observation.
The first summit station IL, the world
was that established in 1870 upon
Mount Washington, at an elevation of
$3.50 feet. Some remarkable observa-
tions have been made there, such, for
instance, as a temperature of fifty de-
grees below zero during the progress
of a gale blowing at 1874 miles an hour.
The station at Pixies Peak, IA, l34 feet
high, has been closed, and there are
now but two summit stations in the
United States where observations are
made regularly, viz, at the Lick OBJ
servatory and at Blue hill, near Bos-
ton. The highest meteorological sta
ton in the world is that maintained
by Harvard college observatory in
Peru, at the summit of Ell Misti, $500
feet. 1t is visited several times a
month by one of the staff of the Har-
ward observatory below, at Arequipa,
who attends to its self-registering in
struments. checks the readings, etc.
A splendid chain of high-altitude sta
tions exists in France, including those
on Mount Ventoux, 6. $50 feet, and the
Pic du Midi, 9, 440 feet. The highest OF
the stations established by NJ. Valiot
on or near Mount Blanc is at the
Rockers des Bosses, IA, 800 feet, which
is provided with self-recording instru-
ments capable of running two weeks
without attention. and is in use during
the summer The Mont Blanc obser-
vatory of NJ. Jansen is not yet in OPP
Grafton; it has an altitude of Is, $50 feet.
The highest permanent observatory
now in use in Europe is the Sonnblick
station, 1O,17a feet, in the Austrian
Alps, which las given valuable results
Switzerland and Italy have well To-
Gated and equipped mountain stations,
and the one on Ben Nevis, in England,
though not SO high, has given ten
years unbroken series of hourly OBJ
servations. Of course it is possible to
send self-recording instruments up in
balloons to much greater height
than person could reach and be able
to breathe. An altitude of ten miles
and over has been reached by this
means in France, and last July in
Germany, with very. valuable results.
Kites also have carried thermometers
to considerable heights with good re-
suits. DIR. Berson last year reached an
altitude of $4,000 feet, or nearly six
miles, making from his balloon some
very significant observations upon
temperature and humidity, winds and
clouds, in seldom visited region.
He is said to have suffered little from
the diminishing pressure of the atmos-
phere at this great height. probably
because of his inhalation OF oxygen
from time to time st Louis Globe
Democrat
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FARMER AND PLANTER.
FLOWING.
One OF the Essentials of Good and Pro-
ductive Farming

One OF the Essentials of Good and Pro.
ductive Farming.
Thorough blowing or loosening of
the soil is one of the essentials in good
farming; All kinds of grain, grass,
vegetables, and nearly all kinds OF
fruit, require a mellow soil or seed
bed in order to secure, the best re-
suits. The mellowing up of the soil is
necessary SO that the plants can ex-
tend their net work of roots easily and
rapidly in every direction, and in this
way receive the supply of plant food
necessary for their growth. While the
soil may be full of fertility, il 1t is
hard and compact SO that the roots of
the plants can not push or make their
way through it readily, they will not
be able to obtain the nourishinent
they require, and the plants will never
be as thrifty or grow as well.
Land in u state of nature has its best
soil on its surface, but in all soils there
is more or less latent fertility, that
only needs the action of the elements,
the air, light, sunshine, rain and frost.
Flowing is the means principally used
not only to stir the soil, but to bring
this subsoil to the surface where 1T
can be subjected to these various ele-
mcnts. Flowing also aids very mate
rally to pulverize the soil and make it
loose and mellow. 1t is not advisa BILE
at any time to plow too deep at once.
In nearly or quite all cases tie
best plan Of deepening the soil
is to do it gradually. blowing
q little deeper each time If
the blowing is done in the fall, and the
planting is not to be done until spring,
more subsoil can be brought to the
surface at one time than when the
planting is to be done reasonably, soon
after the blowing is done. To some
extent the depth of blowing must be
regulated by the character Of the soil.
A thin soil is rarely benefited by very
deep blowing, and If MANFRED up there
is no special advantage in turning the
manure down deep into the soil A
soil of this character might be benefited
by deep stirring of the soil where deep
blowing that turned the richer top soil
down into the ground, and brought
up the poorer subsoil to the surface.
But the blowing should always be
thorough. Cutting and covering will
not put the soil in the best condition
for the reception of the seed, and good
thorough blowing is worth two skim
mings. The better the blowing is
done the easier the work of pr eparing
in prime filth, and with all crops
the better the condition of the soil,
when the seed is sour, the better the
termination, and the more vigorous
yield.
1t pays to use good plows, to keep
them sharp SO that thorough work can
be done, as thorough preparation of
the soil is one of the essentials neces-
sary to the growing Of good crop
N. ]. Shepherd, in Farmers Magazine.
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male moth can produce in single

male moth can produce in a single
year about 16.000,000 of caterpillars:
that in France. in two years, one for
list lost about 100000 rose trees from
the iarve of the cockchafer; that in
the Hartz mountains about 100000
trees were killed in few years by the
bark-boring beetle; that in our
own country, in spite of all our num-
Der of birds, something like 5,00O,-
600 to TO, 900, 900 bushels of wheat alone
are annually destroyed by insects; that
Prof. Treadwell, of Cambridge, proved
by actual experiment that robin con-
sumes about 14o per cent. of its own
weight every day; that a young bird
in his possession consumed 6s earth
worms in twelve hours; that Alexan-
der Wilson, the great ornithologist,
estimated that the red-winged black=
bird alone destroys about 10000, 900 of
insects every year; that about twenty
years ago such clouds of grasshoppers
descended upon the western states and
territories that in Utah the food sup
ply was threatened with entire de-
struction, but at the moment of great
est peril large fiocks of beautiful
snow-white gulls appeared. coming
from no one knew where, and de-
voured the grasshoppers almost with
ont ceasing, so that, thescrops were
saved and the Salt Lake prophets
solemnly declared that the Lord had
sent these beautiful winged messen-
gers to save his chosen people. All
these facts, which have been printed
over and over again, are worthy of re-
publication and should be borne in
mind by thoughtful people in every
community, and steps taken to check
a. much as possible the total extinc-
ton of these valuable allies of man.
At best, birds-song birds especially
afford very little food, and their wan.
ton destruction for sport" alone is q
crime against nature, which nature re-
pays by the infliction of countless
myriads of insect foes, rendering in
vain the painful labor of the agricul-
turist.-Humane World
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a1akIne the Broods Comrortable.

Late matched broods of chickens
often suffer and appear weak, not be-
cause they are late-hatched, but be-
cause they come at period when the
heat is greatest, and because in many
cases there is little or no protection
from it. A coop is placed in glare of
sunshine, and both the mother hen
and the chicks suffer greatly. and the
latter do not thrive. Put the coops
under the shade of trees if possible,
but if these are absent, simply nail two
long stripes to the sides of the coop,
and stitch a piece of cotton cloth from
one to the other. A little thing like
this is'capable of adding vastly to the
comfort of the brood and its chance
of rapid growth. Farm.
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A PARALYTIC CURED.
HIS Grandfather, Revolutionary Soldier.
and His Father Both Died of Paraiy-
SIS, Yet the Third Generation
y. C,,-od rha xFc<p,nd.


6is, Yet the Third Generation
Is Curcd-The Method. -
From the Herald. Boston. KasS.
Like thunderbolt from clear sky,
stroke of paralysis came to Mr.. Frank I.
Ware, the well-known Boston auctioneer
and appraiser, at 235 Washington street.
He went to bed one night about six years
ago, seemingly in robust health. When be
awol1e his left side was stiffened by the
deadening Of the nerves.
The interviewer sought out Mr.. Ware to
get the facts. He gave the interesting par.
ticulars in his own way:
1.-THE first shock came very suddenly
while was asleep, but it was not lasting in
its effects, and In. a few weeks / was able to
bausted by work and drenched with rain, /
went home in very nervous state. The
result was second and more severe shock,
after which my left arm and leg were prac-
tically helpless.
0My grandfather, who was a soldier "a
the Revolutionary War, and lost an arm IN
the struggle for American Independence,
died finally of paralysis. My father also
died of paralysis, although it was comph.
Gated with other troubles, and so had some
knowledge Of the fatal character Of the dis
ease which Is hereditary in our family.
After the second shock took warning, for,
in all probability, third would carry me
of.
"Almost everything under the sun was
recommended to me, and l tried all the
remedies that seemed likely to do any good,
electricity, massage and specialists, but to
wThe only thing found that helped me
was DR.. Williams Pink Pills, and verify
believe that IL 1t hadn't been for those pills
Y ~ l.. 1xno~ sla,x1 orrn
Eyes, still have slight reminder OF the
last attack six years ago. My left arm IS
not as strong as the other and my left foot
drags little, as the paralysis had the efect
Of deadening the nerves. But l can still
walk good distance, talk as easily as ever,
and my general health is splendid. 1 am
really over seventy years old, although l
am generally taken to be twenty years
younger than that.
ssThe Pink Pills keep my blood in good
condition, and believe that Is why i am so
well, although cheerfulness may help.
II have thought of it great many times
and honestly believe that the FINK rms
have saved my tfe."
Mr.. Ware has every appearance OF per-
fectly healthy man, and arrives at his once
promptly at eight O'Clock every morning,
although he has reached an age when many
men retire from active life. his experience
is well known to great many people In
Boston. where his constant cheerfulness
has won him hosts of friends. He says that
In his opinion both his father and GRANDPA
Their could have been saved il Pink Pills
had been obtainable at that time.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
contain all the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to tire blood and re-
store shattered nerves. They may be had
of all druggist1 or direct by mail from the
DR.. Williams Medicine CO.., Schenectady, N.
Y, at soc. Cer box, or six boxes for $50
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Highest Of al 1eavenine Powe.-Latest o. Govt Report
R Rs.assz
.os ss ABSOLUTELY PURE

English lawyers do not often die
millionaires, according to the figures
complied by the Daily Telegraph. The
estates Of 81 judges who have died
during the last five or six years aver
aged $ol5,00o. those of 90 barristers
SASS. 900. and those OF A solicitors $685.
900 each. the average for 1o1 lawyers
estates being S4a5, 900 This does not
mean the accumulation Of professional
incomes alone, for many of the men in
the list had private fortunes and a
number of the solicitors succeeded to
business that had been in their fam
lilies for generations. Eight only
among them are left as much rs a
millions
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fiREslDE FRAGMENTS.

Fried Apples.-Select only mod
efately tart apples, cut in slices across
50 that they will be circular; let the
slices be half an inch thick. Brown in
hot fat in a frying pan and sprinkle
with powdered sugar.-Prairie Farmer.
Ginger Cream.-Take four ounces
of preserved ginger, cut in small slices,
two spoonfuls of the ginger strip; four
yolks of eggs and quart of cream.
Place over the fire till it thickens, but
do not boil. Sweeten with half pound
of sugar; whisk until cold, and freeze.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Tomato Catsup.-For each gallon
of ripe tomatoes use four tablespoon
fuls of black pepper, three tablespoon
fuls of ground mustard, one teaspoon
full of allspice, one teaspoonful OF
cloves and wee pinch of cayenne.
Simmer slowly for three or four hours,
then strain through q sieve. bottle and
cork securely. One feels safer If the
corlxs and the tops of the bottles are
dipped into hot wax.-Farm and Home.
Pineapple Sherbet Peel and chop
one large or two small pineapples, and
put the fruit in saucepan with one
quart of water and cook slowly half an
hour Take generous pint each OF
sugar and water, place in a pan over
the fire and let it come to boil. Rub
the cooked pineapple through sieve,
and add the boiling syrup and cook for
five minutes longer. Cool and freeze.
Ices are best served in glasses. Boston
Budget
Miss Daniell's Custard.-One quart
of milk, yolks of six eggs, one cup of
sugar. one pint of cream, one teaspoon
full of favoring. Make a boiled Gus
tard with milk, sugar and eggs; strain.
and when cool, add cream and more
sugar, if desired, together with the
favoring. Beat the whites of the eggs,
and add just before freezing. If the
cream is to be nodded, add one table
spoonful of gelatine that has been
soaked one hour in one-half cup of cold
cream that has been reserved from rule.
'-Housekeeper.
Egg I1mbaIe. six eggs well,
mix with them teacupful of chicken
broth or stock, add teaspoonful OF
salt, dash of pepper, teaspoonful Of
chopped parsley and fifteen drops OF
onion juice. obtained by cutting a
slice from large onion and pressing
the remainder against crater. Pour
this mixture into buttered dish after
all the ingredients are well incorpo-
rated. Set the dish into another con-
tanning hot water and bake. Serve
with tomato or cream sauce.-Ohio
| Farmer.
Coffee as Deodorizer.-A sprink-
ling of fresh-ground coffee will keep
game sweet for several days. Soon
after the game is shot, wipe off the
blood, cover the wounded parts with
absorbent paper. wrap up the heads,
and then sprinkle ground coffee over
and amongst the feathers or fur, as
the case may be; pack up carefully,
and the game will be preserved sweet
and fresh in the most unfavorable
weather. Game sent open and loose
cannot, of course, be treated in this
manner. but all game packed in boxes
or hampers may. A teaspoonful OF
coffee is enough for brace of birds
and in this proportion for more OF
larger birds. Liverpool (Eng) Mer
curry
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oIVING AoVlCE.


farmers Should Learn to Sfft the Good
From the Bad.
Many active, energetic men make a;
speciality of giving bad advice to farm
ers, and there are not lacking papers
ready to assist in this species of hum
buggery, nor farmers ready to receive
these false teachings as the essence of
wisdom. This has especial reference
to those political Jeremiahs who seem
to consider calamities as blessings and
prosperity as inimical to their plans
and purposes. These are they who
teach. among . multitude of falla-
cies that our farmers should not
diversity their crops, but urge
their farms for such special crops
as they are best adapted to, and
buy other products from other Sec
tions. Boiled down, this means raise
all the cotton possible. and buy feed
and food from others or do without.
The policy of making the farm self
sustaining has even been denounced as
infamous; presumably because its ten
dency b to unhorse and disarm these
knights of rueful countenances and
leave them absolutely without an oc-
cupation. All this would amount to
nothing and be unworthy Of notice.
but for the fact that no sophis-
try is SO shallow that it finds
no adherent, and no nonsense so
transparent as not to fool some body.
There is streak of credulity foot
wide in the mental makeup of many
good people. One of the most learned
men we ever knew, and one of the most
conscientious, believed everything he
heard or read. This is weakness,
perhaps, but not crime, but it affords
designing men the very opportunity
they want, and they do not fail to make
the most of it. OF course they know
that the most prosperous farmers we
have are those who judiciously diversity
their products. with view toselling as
much and buying as little as possible,
and that the impecuniosity of the one
idea farmer is proverbial. They also
know that when all farmers become
self-sustainiug and contented, some
body's occupation will be gone. and it
will not be that of the farmer. 1t is
also fact well known to the agitator
and prophet of evil that the system of
farming they recommend has never in
any country or any age been perma-
nently successful. In our own country
the wheat farming of the west and the
cotton farming of the south are familiar
examples; and on the other hand the
stock farmers and truck and fruit farm
ers OF the whole country are examples
equally familiar. If it were not for the
unfounded faith that some people re-
pose in their partisan friends it would
be unnecessary to notice these false
teachings, and even under the circum-
stances itseems like waste Of time
and space; but as this much has been
written we will let it go.-Texas Farm
and Ranch.
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Fraud loves a shining mark. Occasion
ally spurious limitations spring up of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, the great Ameri-
can family remedy for chills and fever, dys-
pepsia, constipation, biliousness, nervous
ness, neuralgia, rheumatism and kidney dis
order. These limitations are usually fiery
local bitters full Of high wines. Look out
for the firm signature on the genuine label
and vignette Of St. George and the Dragon.
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Easy to Know.

Reporter examining register in for.
eign hotel)-I wonder what part OF
America these new arrivals come from.
Hotel Clerk-How are they reg
istered?
Reporter-Just United States, that's
all.
Hotel Clerk-Put them all down from
Chicago.-N. Y. World.
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when One. wife Is Away.

Mrs. Dorcas-When you returned
from the country suppose you found
the place all upset. It's always that
way when a man is left to keep house.
Mrs. Cobwigger-Yes, my dear; the
litter was terrible. The only place
that was cleaned up was the. wine
cellar.-Judge.
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A Good Deal Buffctcd.

Old Gentleman tas the train gets
terrific bump at a station)-Phewi
What's that?
Old Lady, guess they must be
coupling on that buffet car we've heard
tell about.-N. Y. Weekly.
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Always Catching.

Rivers Gin the newspaper line)--I
don't know why it is, but always yawn
when I'm writing.
Banks Tin the same line)-That's
caused by involuntary sympathy with
your readers.-Chicago Tribune.
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A statistician of the German gov
eminent determined to make an in
vestigation OF the superstition regard
ing Friday as an unlucky day. He has
given the world book of queer tables
and figures, which prove that it is
Monday, and not Friday. that is the
most fatal and unfortunate day of the
week. .ssss.s Ia ae ~ e
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One Thing Lacking.

II wish we were rich, John, and
could do something for the world" Mrs.
B. remarked half devoutly, half inn
patiently.
.sBut, my dear" he replied, tive can
do good in quiet way now"
"Yes, but no one will ever hear of it. '
Chicago Times-Herald.
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Tobacco,s Triumph.

: Every day we meet men who have APP
parentiy lost al interest in life, but they
chew and smoke all the time. and wonder
why the sunshine is not bright, and the
sweet birds, song sound discordant. To-
bacco takes away the pleasures Of HE and
leaves irritated nerve centers in return.
No-To-Bac is the easy way out Guaran-
teed to cure and make you well and strong,
by Druggists everywhere.
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EruELBERrA lin a runaway carriage)-
"Oh, Tom, let US jump-quick." Tom tleis-
urcly)-" 'Twould only be The trouble for
nothing. We shall be thrown out in min
ute."-Tit-Bits.
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Best Of All

To cleanse the system in gentle and truly
beneficial manner, when the springtimo
comes, use the true and perfect reme1y,
Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for
ali the family and costs only 50 cents; he
large size 81. Try it and be pleased. Man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only,
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why XIII Birds?

The so-called open season for
''sportsmen" is close at hand, and a
timely warning against the danger of
the determination of birds is in order.
This is rgiven in very clever essay
lately published by F. Leroy Homer,
of Meadville. Pa From him we learn
that single PAIR of plant lice can
produce, in about two months, about
1000. oQo,o 900 Of their kind. that one t.
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The best foreign fur for hat-mal-
ing is produced in northern, climates.
Russia, Sweden, Norway and the Do
minion of Canada, together with
Siberia. are said to produce the best
telling furs. ,sr gff 81
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EASTERN Stranger-"what are they lynch
ing him forf Quick Drop Dan-"At-
tempted suicide" Eastern Stranger-''They
might just as well have let him kill himself"
Quick Drop Dan-''No, stree. The boys
out here don't believe in q Teller being 50
selfish. "-Life.