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HERE AND THERE.

Raise the best heifer calves to n.
plenish the dairy and never allow them
to suck the COW.
On the management more than anys
thing else. depends the proftableness
and success Of the farm.
The profit in farming depends upon
three factors; the value of the prod.
net. the cost of production and the
time consumed in producing
by burning up all old rubbisb
about the garden and orchard the
harbors for insect pests may be largely
destroyed.
Vegetable matter in the soil il
creases its power of retaining both
moisture and plant food. This is oIss
Of the benefits Of green manuring..
GOOD food given to good stock will
return . good profit. but under present
conditions good feed fed out to poos
stock will rarely return any profit.
Many diseases with horses are
caused BY filth. To secure the best
health, the stables should b. kept
clean and dry with good light and ven
tilatiou.
-One Of the important secrets in
profitable sheep keeping is to keer
good sheep in small hocks and to kee.
them we'll To fail in either respect il
70 fail In making success
-Pure-brod sires are the only hops
of profitable stock breeding with the
competition We have in market: there
= yet . good demand for the best,
while tie lower gEadesar are often drag.
An ostrich farm Is likely to be ons
of the attractions 1t the cotton STATS
and international exposition 1t Attain
t. Applieatioa has been Eade for the
-coaesssioa, AID The matter is under
e0nsideratjon.
An 1allsa ffuit contains insects o.
poxasites q so0e kind. and shOuld NOT
- allowed - roaaain unda- the trees.
II IL hogs and sAeep do mo- eataS the
Wind1alls eolloos the rsmainaea And
odd tAen - ~ 1Anaze hean
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he WHIPPED Or. HOLMES.


A RemOrsef0l Seh0olmaateP WhO ApOlo.
giaed TO the AatocFae.
Any record of DR.. Holmes life would
be imperfect which contained NO mem
tion of the pride and pleasure he felt
in the Saturday club. Throughout the
forty years of its prime he was not only
the most brilliant talker of that dlstin-
guished company, but he was also the
most faithful attendant He was sell
dom absent from the monthly dinners,
either in summer or in winter, and he
lived to find himself 1t the head of the
table where Agassiz, Longfellow. EN-
erson and Lowell had in turn preceded
him. Could . shorthand writer have
been secretly present At those dinners,
what a delightful book of wise talk
and witty sayings would now lie open
before us! Fragments of the good
things were sometimes brought away.
rs loving parents bring sugarplums
from q feast to the children at home;
but they are only fragments. and bear
out but inefficiently the report which
has run before them The following
pathetic incident, related on one of
those occasions by DR.. Holmes, need
not, however, be omitted:
''Just forty years ago." he said one
day. Il was whipped at school for .
slight o6ense-whipped with . ferule
right across my hands, 10 that went
home with blue mark where the
blood had settled. and for . fortnight
my hands were stiff and swollen from
the blows. The other day an old man
called ut my house and inquired for
me. He WAS bent, and could Just
creep along. When he came in he said:
How do you do. sir; do you recolleet
your old teacher. Mr.. - Ibid. per.
fectly! He sat and talked awhile about
Indifferent subjects. but I saw some
thing rising in his throat, and knew
it was that whipping. After awhile
he said: 4 came to ask your forgive
ness for whipping you once when l was
in anger; perhaps you have forgotten
it. but have not Il had weighed
upon his mind al theee years! He must
b r,d Of It before lying down 70 sleep
peacefully."-1r& Annie Fields, II
Century.
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A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM.
How Plaatsss May Dsss Deereass tie Get
tn Acreage.

How P1oatofo Nay Deee Decrease TIE CSe-
tn Acreage.
Radical or drastic measures won't
work. We live in free country Ii:
has always appeared to Ms that the
glorious sunny south was the freest
portion not only Of Uncle Sans do
main. but of the whole united world;
we have successfully tried .all-four
quarters Of IL, therefore speak advis-
edly and know whereof We afiirm). We
believe and feel like we ought to be
allowed to enjoy the blessed privilege
Of raising cotton ut loss II we want
to. feel like It, and can stand mp under
it. We want NO coercion" in our'n.
We don't even want ''less cotton" but
We do want to raise what We do raise
on . smaller number of acres, a we'll
- 1t . less cost per acre and per bale.
We don't want to lessen production,
but we do want to cheaper production.
It is not 50 much less cotton that the
south needs as il il more of something
else. More grass. hay and forage; more,
better and fatter horses, cattle. hogs
and sheep; more and better butter;
more Of the necessaries of life; more
self-relianee and independence, and
less reliance and dependence on the
north and west, and lesser degree Of
subservience to the will and wishes
Of the merchant, moro pay-ss-you-
60 and less ''credit;" more pay
O2-what-you owe, and less Of . ering-
ing subservience 70 those to whom you
are indebted; . greater confidence in
mother earth, and ones own exerti0ns,
than in favorable legislation" and the
thrifty merchant. Our plan ID plan
that will work. II il 10 made 70 work.
and IL in the very nature of things
bound 70 rebound to the good Of the
entire south in general. and TO south
ern soil-tillers in particular. The plan
u this: To plant every alternate row
throughout every cotton-6eld in the
entire cotton-belt In . bunch eow-pea.
This would cut down the area
devoted to the Aeery staple Just
o0e-half; would not injure . sim
gle soul in the entire southland but
could not fail 10 benefit southern soils,
southern soil tillers. southern mer-
chants, southern horses, cattle, hogs
Doth two and four-leggedh In sAogt
every single Aead Of live stoek Of any
and al kaads and descriptions, max
inR them 1As. slesk and sauey; and,
ouT word In & it would - but .
very shost ill., untn their owners.
and even ~ oWneW pocketJb.Aux,
woald b IN Asntieally the sane Ax.
IL p - eos1aln - that two a1d two
9akss 1oas: - that the saa rieos 81 tie
east esd sses n the ~esA
4 this plan were io1lewea yeas 8
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want more than down before had .
pull, and then it was nip and tuck.
You see the eels stick their heads out
Of hole and bite. and when they get
hooked they just hold on with their
tails. But after awhile got the fel.
low started. and up he came, and with
q jerk I landed him in the boat.
1.-The first thing this young chap
from the city knew q mulee about six
feet long was walking after him. with
\ mouth like = sharks and full Of
pointed teeth-the ugliest fish that
swims- First l thought he'd go over
board, but he jumped over the snake
and hit him with the oar. and. OF
course. being slippery, it lodged and
turned on him again.
Il laughed so't / was sick. Look
here. said the young chap. I thought
we'd come out ceiling" so we did,
says l. But say. he, that's . rsgu.
lar sea sarpint don't want any
more Of them In fact" said the old
man. "he was completely outished
afore he began. You see they amt
regular cells, but murrays-a fierce,
snakelike kind Of eel that will tackle
anything. I've caught one nearly
twelve feet long and weighing about
fifty pounds. An uglier cuss l never
see. He came up wound in bowkUot,
and the minute got him in he
opened up n mouth that locked rs
il it would take in childa head,
showing lot of needle-like teeth, and
with his yellow eyes a-gleaming he
came 1t me. l was fresh at the bus;-
ness, and didn't know what to do, but
made q strike at him with the tiller
and missed. Then the critter was on
me. jumped over him just as he was
reaching for me, and in about ten sec.
onds was climbing the mast, and the
murray was in charge. He looked at
me q minute, wandered around to see
il there was anybody else. and then
Tipped over the rail. Then got down
and cut the line and let him 60. After
that got hold of the trick-never to
take one into the boat until he was
dead. for if you do they're bound to
chase you out.
THE rocks all round the island are
full of them, and they're fine eating
but that ugly you can't yet anyone to
touch them, SO they go mostly to the
Chinese and Italians. s."-Philadelphia
Times
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The principal loss with breeders II
in Matching; not that the incubators
are 1T fault, but because of the dim
Guilty Of getting fertile eggs There
may be more blanks than prizes.'
When one matches but four eggs, each
costing three cents, the first cost of
producing chick may be more than
the whole cost of the food required to
carry it to . marketable age. 1t is on
the superabundance Of worthless eggs
that all the hopes are shattered. The
Matching of chicks in mid-winter,
either by hens or incubators. is some.
thing that keeps the operator in doubt
until the hatch is over, whether he will
have the egg-drawer ''alive" with
chicks, or have to carry out the eggs
in large baskets to Be buried.-Farm
and FiEes;de.a
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-05-11
A Dsagerous Customer.

Count Teleki, the African explorer,
tells of his pursuit of a buffalo, which
had been wounded the day before.
Such animals are always dangerous,
and the natives. well aware of this fact.
dropped behind, and presently the
count found himself alone. At that
moment he saw the buffalo charging
upon him. not hundred yards away
To take refuge in . thicket would be
fatal. The buffalo would be invisible.
and might charge in the rear. The
only chance was to meet it in the open.
So he stood rs steadily rs he could.
until the beast lowered its horns for .
toss, and then he sprang aside and
fired. The bullet struck the buffalo in
the neck, and it rolled to his feet, dead.
The natives knew the terrible danger
he had been in, and, hearing only one
shot. jumped to the conclusion that the
count had met his end. When they
came, in response to his shouts, they
danced around him in their glee, and
then fell, with wild shouts, on the buf
falo, and cut it up with knives and
DAYS.
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wh%. WHISKY rrs.. /. Faro.

Talking about cold weather, said .
traveller recently. reminds me of the
winter Of 1871. Dakota was just OPEN
ing up, and the town Of Fargo was live
ly, although possessing but few hum
dred inhabitants It grew SO cold
there one night that the mercury froxe
in the thermometers, and no one will
ever know how cold It was. Among
other damage done was the freezing Of
the whisky in the saloons. It was i'm
possible to secure enough heat to thaw
it out, and the only course left was for
the saloonkeepers to put in scales and
sell It by the pound, customers putting
cake. Of It in their overcoat pocketa
and biting it on. Fer several days il
was common for friends to offer each
other . chew Of whislky.-Cinciunati
ENQUIRER.
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EElS2 WELL, RATHkRI

They Grow In Submarine Caverns and Chase
Fishermen Up the Nasts.
"Yes," said little old man, with q
grayish beard and shaEp, twinkling
eyes that pcercd out from beneath an
old and worn-out so'wester, I'm the
very man you are looking for. Did
you ever notice." he continued, put
ting me on the colloquial rack with
ease and dispatch, show curious il is
that people have in their mind a Ger
tain thought or object, and all at once
You look around and there it is2" !
confessed that had.
"Well, not ten minutes ago sat
here by the shanty, looking out over
the sea-and did you ever see such .
blue, sir?" and the old mans voice
softened as he looked out over the wa
ters OF Avalon. 1--WE been at Ma
ples," he added. "but. Lord bless you!
Naples don't begin to compare with it.
''But, as was saying just before you
came up, was thinking that it was .
curious thing that had hankerinR
after sea snakes. and l kind o get it
into my head that someone was after
me and wanted tc knew why did and
the minute you spoke said: Why.
this is the party
"Well," continued the old fisherman,
81 reckon I'm the man you want. Some
of these Italians call me Sea Snake
Billy; but IL I want to catch one kind
of fish more than another. why, it's my
affair.
The sea sarpint? Inever talk on the
sea sarpint, but l reckon I've caught
sea snakes and eels hero that would
make most people think there was
nothing but sea sarpints here. You
sec. when you know = coast as know
this ISIS nd. why you can take your pick
Of fish. Some days I says to myself:
Pm going white fishing and I brings
In nothing but them. Another time it's
jew fish, anu 80 on. That's the secret
of fishing; mako up your mind what
you're after an6.stick to it.
''Well. last month . couple Of young
chaps from the city. dropped into the
shanty. and one said. when he was in
the east he used to 60 ceiling, and he
wanted to 60 ont with me just to bring
back old times We soon fixed . day,
and started out with stopt lines and
fish bait along the shore spiece to .
rocky point where there was quite .
go. and there we anchored. 1t was
king-pin place for eels on the whole
coast You see the eli6. which Il about
hundred feet high. i wearing aVsy
al the time, and the rocks have rollAd
down and ont into the sea, % that theE
form million holes and cracks that
these big sea cells like.
I'VE pot oat tho lineaI and they
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Stewards mother was making sand
Wichss Of deviled ham. The little iel.
low came along and. seeing the can
with the picture Of the imp on IL, 10
Gardsd Il earnestly for awhile and then
said: "4s1ma. what = that stu1RT
''This3 o. this il deviled ham" He
looked ssrioasly st the mixture, and u
IN awed voies inquired: ''Why. mother,
havs they killed himT-B Boston Co,
gToGstionalisA
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The cost ID . little over 3-5 cents
per ipound for . favorable crop year.
above the average. 1t is very often
the case after the crop is laid by, we
hs1ve unfavorable seasons. that cut OF
the crop one-third, say to ten bales to
the plow, which would run the cost up
to ~ cents per pound.
Some say the farmers will have TO
make cotton Mt S cents. see NO way
of making 1t cheaper than they have
done this year. unless some one invents
= successful cotton-picker. and then l
do not know what will become of the
people that depend ON picking cotton
for . living in the fall and winter.
The cotton boil fits the human hand 50
we'll. with its four and five locks, it
looks like nature intended il to be
picked BY hand.
There is nothing put down in this &C
count for my own and partners serv-
iceA Ny partner superintended the
farm and did = good deal of the work
himselfJ. N. Warren, In Macon Ga }
Telegraph.
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TOBACCO IN HAVANA.
DnOklng L. O00O In All plAcoa and 1t
All T1mea.

Smoking L. Doae In All Places and u
All Times.
/ have never seen Q Havana mar
smoking in church, writes = correspon
dent Of the Washington Star. It's
about the only place where he does moi
smoke. He smokes in the street cars
he smokes at the public dining-table,
he smokes everywhere. The presence
of women is not considered at all
When coffee is brought on the table,
the Spaniard or Cuban lights his cigar
or cigarette and begins to send up
clouds Of smoke. He never even thinks
of saying to the ladies: by your leave, y
for the custom Of the country Is to
smoke everywhere. On the railway
trains there is no smoking compart-
ment, for q man is privileged, and, in
fact, expected, to smoke everywhere.
II he is not smoking, his neighbor will
offer him . cigarette. The driver of
your coach will smoke and very likely
offer you q cheroot. At the opera the
man will walk and smoke between the
acts in the spaces behind the boxes and
balconies. You will see finely dressed,
seemingly we,l-bred men, with ladies
in full evening toilet, entering the
theatcr and smoking as they 60. You
never see pipe in Cuba It is the
country Of the cigar and the cigarette.
One Of the odd sigLsS to stranger is
that afforded by the negro women. who
smoke big. long and black cigars IN the
street. 1t was here that the smoking
habit. which has spread around the
world, had its start, and the Cubans are
still more devoted to their cigars than
any other people. The cigar industry
and the tobacco trade give employment
to large portion of the population of
Havana In every quarter one viii rua
across small establishments where
from two to ten men are employed
making cigars. and some children and
women engaged in stripping tobacco.
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-Buegins-''How do you. being .
bachelor, know % much about woment
bonnets and 90 little about the dramar
Muggins-"Oh. spend . great deal o.
Nme q the OVERWHELMINGLY phia
Rkcoed
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81 csn-notsing -the-old-songs,'
she warbled.
"You bet you can't" growled he,
husband. ''And you don't seem r
have any better success with the new
ones. ! think you'd better give NJ
music and take to housekeeping."-
Harper's Bazar.
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a Pet Quar-

Jikniks-The more . man has the
more he wantA
Biskit-Did you ever have twins o
your h0use?-Desroit Free PEesa
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THE LUXURY OF sHAeelNEss


Lies In the Fact That Little 10 Expected
Of the Poverty-Stricken.
There is . luxury Of shabbinese
which exceeds any feeling which has
its root in pride. 1t is the luxury oi
kind which loves above all things te
avoid trouble, and to feel the advan-
tage of q sort of disguise which in.
creases real freedom of action. When
Haroun al-Raschid went about in Bag.
dad in the disguise of merchant he
probably felt twice rs powerful as he
did when he sat on the throne of the
caliphs. for he felt twice as free. He
was free to act like an ordinary citizen,
and yet free also to resume his sover-
eign power At pleasure. To ordinary
men the comfort of shabbiness, where
shabbiness is not imposed upon them
by their narrow income, is that they
feel really at liberty to spend exactly
as they please, without conforming
to anybody else's judgment Of
what it would become them to do.
Besides, even the richest man or woman
is unwilling to expose good clothes to
injury or ruin, whereas it is sometimes
quite a relief to find a suitable occasion
for finally repudiating clothes of which
one is weary, partly because they are
SO shabby, more because. like old serv-
ants, they are SO prcsuming, and seem
to claim q right over you, and to take
for granted that you can never turn OF
such old and tried friends.
Now if the conventions of society re-
- scH s,~ L.
habits of which you have got weary
restrict it in another. and you never
feel SO free as when you are dressed in
shabby clothes, fhr the protection of
which you feel no kind Of anxiety. and
yet which you would not be sorry for
an opportunity of finally discarding.
The last uses of a shabby suit are the
pleasantest uses You feel no re-
sponsibility for them, and yet you are
not willing to find an opportunity
for q rupture with q disguise which
you begin to think little un-
worthy of you. In shabby clothes you
persuade yourself that your dignity is
all interior, and that you have NO need
of dress to sustain it. But none the
less you anticipate without unmixed
regret the prospect Of assuming . cos
tNme more in proportion to your in.
trinsic merits. And when you can
combine the freedom Of nearly worn.
out dress with the anticipation of cast.
ingsof the chrysalis and coming forth
like butterfly, you are probably at
the high-water mark of self-satisfac-
tiOn. To mite the keen sense of he
ing fully entitled to dress we'll. and of
the intention to justify that title, is
perhaps the very acme Of any luxury
that clothes can confer. You enjoy
your proud superiority doubly. first in
parading your difference to the 'accl.
dents"' dress, and next in the imme-
diate prospect Of properly asserting
that superiority on . fitting and near
occasion. Spectator.
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FARMER AND PLANTER.
COST OF RAISING COTTON.
What PFaetieal Grower Ha0 70 Say On IL
subject.

What PFaetiesl Grower Has 70 Say On H.
subject.
have kept strict account OF the
expenses Of four-horse farm this year.
and Is ! had . partner who was in
terested in the same, can come pretty
close to the cost of producing = pound
Of cotton this season in this section
one Of the most favorable years for
cultivating cotton I have known in
twenty years. and on land that has
been well kept up and highly manured
for the last fifteen years. There are
no two years in which it costs the same
with the seasons. The condition Of the
land also has . great deal to do with
the cost. believe cotton can be pro-
duced in Georgia n cheaply ~ it can
be produced in Texas or elsewhere in
the cotton belt
Where land has been brought mp to .
high state Of cultivation. it will pro-
duce from . thousand to fifteen. hum
dred pounds of seed cotton per acre.
The difference in the cost of labor. etc,
will balance the cost Of our guano.
We cultivate eighty-dve acres of cot
ton and forty acres OF corn, with other
small side crops. We hired two hands
for six months At nine dollars per
month and rati0ns- We fed these
hands ON homemade meat and bread.
The rest Of the hands, We gave fifty
cents . day. and they fed themselves.
We paid hands forty cents per hum
dred for picking cotton. they
feeding themselves- We used ON the
crop two thousand bushels of cotton
seed manure. sixty-six bushels of plant
ing seed and Sce5 worth of commercial
fertilizer, and all the stable manure
raised ON the place the year before.
We paid cash tor everything we pur-
chased We raised enough meat. lard.
etc, to do the family all the year and
plow hands six monthA / mention
all this in order to show the favorable
circumstances with which we were sur
rounded to make . cheap crop.
We made sixty bales Of cotton. aver
aging 500 pounds to the bale, and 500
bushels of corn, or about the same
amount we used in making the crop
we raised. We emade 5000 pounds more
pork this year than we made last. and
$50 bushels Of cotton seed less than we
used.
We also ginned and packed our cot
ton with our own machinery, and
hauled it to Macon (twenty-One miles)
with our own teams, 50 it cost us moth
ing except the hands to do the work.
CT.
Sixty bales as cents per pound. ''--sl 500 %
Pork over and above what We had ON
hand. 5000 pounds at cents per
pound ...............-... ....-....-... 100 90
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-"Mrx Lailey seems to grow younger
al the time mo, no; she Is . year
older than she was when first net
her, ten yeaxs ago."-Inter Ocean.