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FARMER AND PLANTER.
RAISING PIGS FOR PROFIT.
To Maze Pig Growing Profitable the Wise
Farmer VIII Begin With Care
of His sow.

To make pig-growing profitable you
should begin with the SOW, before the
pigs are narrowed. Begin fully two
months before narrowing time by grad
uaIly diminishing the corn ration, and
substituting bran, middlings, roots and
sach like. As you diminish the corn,
increase the other feed named. The
last month before farrowing scarcely
any corn should be fed.
Make a comfortable place for your
sows, and don't let too many sleep to-
gether, as they are likely to lie on each
other and kill the unborn pigs
Remember one of the great sources of
profit in pig-growing is the saving of
all the pigs
In growing pigs for profit the first
thing to be looked after is the breed
ing. If pigs are poorly bred we need
not expect much of profit from them.
The better bred they are, the larger
the profit Improperly taken care of.
Don't think that because pig is well
bred that nothing else is required.
Well bred and well fed are words that
80 AOS NtliSi III pig Sloh A'A5.
When the sow first has her pigs don't
disturb her with feed for the first day.
Give her little water only. The sec
ond day she may be fed little slop,
not much. Increase gradually, and let
it be full week before she is put on
full feed Too much milk-produeing
feed will make too much milk and
Il, I. ial,
will put them back in growth. After
the pigs are week are so old they will
take all the mother will give. and there
Is no danger of over-feeding. The SOW
should have all the bran or middlings
mixed with milk from this time on.
Begin gradually to give her a little
corn to keep her from getting too poor.
Increase this corn as the pigs begin
to eat, and at the same time diminish
the slop for the SOW, saving the milk
and feed it to the pigs instead Of the
SOW. Make pen of rails and put sew
erai little troughs in it, and feed the
pigs in it. They will soon learn to go
through the cracks and eat. By this
method the pigs at Six or eight weeks
old, will almost wean themselves and
hardly know they ever had a
mother. They should have all the good
slop they will eat up clean three times
a day, and no more \ lot with good
pasture should also be provided, where
they can have plenty of exercise. Fix
place where they can get salt and
ashes whenever they want it. An old
barrel or box with hole cut in the
side, and filed with ashes mixed with
one-third salt, and placed in the lot
where they can get to it at all times,
is a good way.
The box should be fastened down and
a lid put over it to keep ont the rain.
You will be surprised at the amount
they will eat If supplied with these
things, they won't root so much, and il
may not be necessary to put rings in
their noses. | think they do better
without the rings. If you can get
charcoal for them you will find it mosi
excellent. Farm, Field and Fireside
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HERE AND THERE.

Never feed sloppy food to young
chicks; they do much better on dry
food. Millet seed is an excellent food,
and together with cracked oats eonsti-
tutes one of the very best rations.
To have rotation and variety divides
the labor of the year, reduces the num-
Der OF teams, gives regular employ
ment every month, and develops the
husbandman into a capability greater
than that of mere sower and reaper.
Every farmer ought to give his fam
lily an abundance ofsugar corn. Haitian
acre is not too much to plant, and all
that is not used on the table will make
excellent feed for the cows and the fod-
der is better for them than any kind Of
hay.
1t is learned from official statistics
that the south, in 1897, exported 232,-
OO0.O00 more pounds of cotton than in
1896, and received more than S2O,000,-
600 less for the large crop than for the
small one. Doesn't this LOOK like over
production?
When horse is starved, besides
losing strength and hesa, his bowels
get full of worms, and his skin covered
with lice. Very often he takes mango,
and sometimes the hair falls Suddenly
and entirely off, leaving the skin near
W bald for a long time.
The dairy COW likes regularity. We
have heard arguments as to the best
hours in the day TO do the milking, but
we think il makes little difference to
the cows provided they are MIXED reg
ularly and 90 through the same routine
at the same hours each day
Those of our farmers who complain
they can not sell anything they pro-
duce except cotton should remember
that gilt-cdgs goods OF amy kind are al
WAYS saleabie. aud that any other sort
can hardly be sold at a profit If they
/ don't know how to make products of
/ the highest merit it Is time they wer.
learning.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

aFred must be an auctioneer.a
nWbv?o Last night he sad he was
roing three times before he VENT
Tit-Bits.
Rill-.sDo you believe there are SER
mons in stones9" Jill guess co;
I've seen the texts painted ON the
rocks .''@Yonkers Statesman.
Little Bobbie-"My mother belongs
10 tne Daughters of the American Rev
olution.e Little Eddie-"My mas got
cbainless bfke."-Cleveland Leader.
A Natural EfTect.-"T'm good deaf
stuck on those Jewels Mrs. Bongpong
is wearing tonight" Il don't wonder
at it. Everybody says they are paste"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
An Affectation.-'I believe seid
Willie Washington, that you don't like
classical musie.' II don't mind telling
vou." replied Miss Cayenne, "that that
| Is a polite fiction | have to say that
sometimes in order TO avoid hearing 10
murdered. Washington Star.
An odd tombstone has been placed
IN n cemetery in Lincoln, Neb. Itmarks
the grave of James Jacobs butcher.
who died in 1891. He was OF a rowing
dfsposition. so his father had valise
modelled in marble and placed on the
Grave. The inscription, in addition to.
name, date of birth and death, is:
.Here is where he stopped last."-Fay-
etteville Observer.
A Silver Iining-Mr. and Mrs. Cooper
do not get along well together. She is
not to blame, for he is always saying
spiteful things For instance, when She
happened to say that a murderer had
been sentenced to 20 years in Sing Sing,
he remarked: "Well, he is in good
Iuek" "How SOP. "He will have a
quiet time OF it until he gets out, and
then he will be too old to marry
Harlem Life.
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VETERANS IN COMMAND,
How Some of Our Army and Navy
Leaders Line Up in the Way
of Experience.

Should the outcome of the complica-
tons with Spain be resort 70 arms the
United States will not lack for leaders
trained in the art of war. In fact, most
of thu men who would have places Of
great responsibility and be called into
active service have not only "smelled
powder but have distinguished them
selves in military duty
There Is President Mckinley, the
commander in chief of the army and
navy Of the United States, who was
gallant young officer in the union army
and fought bravely in many battles
from 1861 to 1865.
Secretary of War Alger. the member
of President McKinley's cabinet upon
whom would fall a large part of the
work of conducting operations, is a
trained soldier, and gained high rank
in the union army during the civil war
His bravery was attested by severe
wounds received in battle.
OF those who will direct movements
in the field, Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles.
the commander of the army; Maj. Gen.
Wesley Merritt, Maj. Gen. John L.
Brooke, Brig. Gen. Elwell S. Otis, Brig.
Gen. John J. Coppinger, Brig. Gen. Viii
liam r. shafter, Brig. Gen. William NJ.
Graham, Brig. Gen. James +. Wade and
Brig. Gen. Henry c. Merriam, all were
officers during the civil war and have
shown ability and soldierly qualities
of high order. Most of the senior Off
GERS of the staff departments of the
army were also trained in the severe
school of actual war 30 odd years ago.
All the field officers-colonels leu
tenant colonies and majors-of the reg
iments composing the regular army
had a similar experience. Some of them
reached the rank of brigadier general
or major general in the volunteers.
Many of the captains graduated into
the permanent establishment by way of
the battlefelds of the civil war.
In the navy there is not a rear adj
miral, commodore, captain or com
mander whose first commission does
not date back TO or before the late war.
Every man of rank above lieutenant
commander has been in active service
while hostilities were carried on, and
goodly number have been especially dis
tingushed for courage and ability in
action. To the regular fighting force
of the country must be added a large
reserve, which includes not only vet
Grams of the union army, but former
confederates as well. The country does
not lack for defenders as brave and brill
liant as can be found in any land.-Troy
Times.
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GOD S VOICE.

God speaks in warnings. kindly. to US all,
Where most cur danger lies.
Lest when We hear His final trumpet call
Our wings reach not the skies.
These are His means to ehide and train de-
sire.
To cleanse and guide the will
Sometimes with baptism dark Of blood and
fire
His precepts to instil.
Stern Conscience from its seabbard oft
times draws
Her fateful two-edged sword
To smite the soul that knowing Gods Just
laws
Dares disobey His word.
But the same Conscience. to her own lines
used,
Is slow to recognize
These as Gods ministers-nor yet, I'M
lo0sed.
Herself in their disguise;
A child ungrateful. reprobate and vie;
A parents furnished name.
Brothers, once innocent, in league with
guile;
A sister bringing shame;
Dear friends. long cherished. but as traitors
proved;
High schemes In ruin laid;
And aspirations toward blessing moved
For direst ills betrayed.
All. sharper. bitterer far than death are
these
Gods sternest voice of pain
Yet ere His warnings in such service cease
Ours is lifes highest gain.
Health, purest health of soul. and peace
serene.
Through resignation given,
And clearer vision to discern what mean
These DARK designs of Heaven.
Thus grows the spirit strong to plume her
wings,
Increasing day by day
In faith and love Of all sublimest things
Along the heavenly way.
lame Gardner Hale, in Springfield Mass,
Republican.
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Down on the CoIored business.

"Dey's one thing gwine ter be bad on
de cullud race, eff dey has war;" said an
old darby.
"And what's that?"
"Well, sab, 'fraid dey'n promote
some er DEM"
"Why-you should rejoice over that"
NO, suh-not me! | done see too
much er dat. wy, | once knowed ea
peaceabul en- sociable a nigger ez you'd
in in fo'tnight; but he iined a mill
tary compny, en- dey made him a kun
mel, en- dat wuz he ruination err himl
He des quit workin', en- strut, en- strut,
ter beat de Ian! De town wuz too small
ter hoI him, en- he move ter a bigger
one, but he swelled out too big fer dat,
en- he keep a-swellin' en- a-swellin' night
en- day.
He mos kill his 16 chillun, kase dey
wouldn't call him kunnel,' en- his wife
hol' her head so high dat she knock de
shingles off de shed
mo, sub! | wants mighty few kun
nels in my race--few, en- wild a purity
long stretch er country between 'em!"
Atlanta Constitution.
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Doautnr of the Duke of York.

The duke of York was walking along
Piecadilly the other day with Hon.
Derek Keppel. He was not generally
recognized, and remained for some sec
onds i'm the little throng which alwi1s
collects al the crossing TO st. James
street. At last he made a dash for the
shelter. Soon afterward the constable
ON duty stopped the traffic for the pedes-
triaus TO cross over the street. The
duke. however, was still left standing
ON the shelter, much TO the discomfort
Of two young men i'm hanson cab, who
Immediately recognized the prince. hui
the constable declined to le their cab.
man pass on. At length the duke of
York made another dash and ran round
the horses head. and at length landed
safely on the other side. by which time
he had been recognized all round-St
James Gazette,
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Rev. Sam Jones is said TO make al
income of $50, 900 year from his preaeh-'
ing,
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., has been
elected to and has accepted a trustee
ship of the University of Chicago.
The Spanish ex-minister, Dupuy de
LONE. threatens us with a book ex-
planning the letter which caused MS
recall.
Carolus Duran, the distinguished
French painter, has arrived at New
York on his first visit to America. HIS
real name is Charles Auguste Emile Du-
rand.
Asked to confirm the rumor that he
was about to retire from business, Rus
sell Sage is said to have replied: why,
If stop work, what is there for me to
do?"
The count of Turin, nephew of King
Humbert of Italy, who became the pop
nlar idol of Italy by his duel WIZ
Prince Henri d'Orleans, is said to have
obtained permission to visit the United
States next summer.
Sir Claude Macdonald, British am
bassador at Picking, has attained the
questionable notoriety of being "the
worst-informed diplomat in China.
Though but 40, he has seen military
service in Egypt and has been consul
general in both Zanzibar and West
Africa.
Signor Luigi Capucci, an Italian ar
ehitect fresh from an extended captiy-
ity in Abyssinia, reports that King
| Menelek is not the advanced ruler whom
recent reports have pictured. The sig
nor says the monarch and his people
are mere sarages, with no longings fol
the benefits NJ civilization.
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The darkest hour is only an hour.
Measure your plans by line that
viii reach across the next world.
Inc child viii laugh and cry; the
youth will primp and sigh; the man
VIII twist and lie, and all will groan
and die.
Nothing emits a worse odor than O
fallen name.
Truthful boys are the timber that
great men are made OF.
cultivation that will not permit the
conscience 10 stand erect Is unworthy
The name.-Ram's Horn.
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He Did the CARVING on

Mrs. McFadden-They do say, Mrs.
G'Rourke, that your husband was car
ried off by drink.
Mrs. O'Rourke-Carried off by drinkP
Not bit av it! Me Moike could carry
off more drink than any man what liver
kim from Cork and if he heard you say
them words he'll be turnin' over in bis
grave.-Cleveland Leader.
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no comprehensive rules laid down on
this subject. but all must depend on
the Judgment of the individual farmer.
A good farmer makes good farm, and
a good farm and good farmer makes
the happiest combination of man and
opportunity to be found in all the eoun-
trv.-Texas Farm and Ranch.
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Ethel-It's too bad it's cold.
prayed for a warm day. Does God al
ways answer prayer?
Mamma-Yes il you ask for a thing
IN The right way, and if you don't lie
repro'es You by not giving it,
on, ! see now. The goyerness told
me to try 10 say my prayers in French
TINS month. and I guess I made mis-
tales. N-rI,. l.t.l Life
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Like Some of Her Elder.

Every morning on the way To
school" said the little miss, 1.-THE bows
catch me and kiss me-"
why don't you run from them pr
asked her father.
Because replied the small edition
Of Eve, maybe they wouldn't chase
me."-Chicago Post,
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The Wrong Word.

newspapers make use Of some very
strange expressions" remarked Mrs
snaggs.
DO theyT replied her husband
FOR instance, here is an article
which speaks Of spectators poeEetinc
their losses, when I should supposs
that they really unprotected them. =
Pittsnnrgh Chrouiele-Teleprapb.
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She said was the most provoking
man on earth"
Chicago Post
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Hood's Pills are the favorite cathartic. IS
ROMANCE VERSUS KICKS.
liked Moonshine Vanquished
'..'. the Pleading Poet.

She whom adore is the wife Of fat mar.
quis-a. lop-eared, blear-e;yed, greasy. mar.
quis. "A man without soul. A man without
sentiment, who cares naught for moonlight
and music. A low, practical man, who pays
his debts. I hate him.
This very morning at breakfast, he had
cursed the fishballs and sneered at the
picked onions.
She is good cook. The neighbors will tell
you SO. And to be told by the base marquis
"a man, who, previous to his marriage, had
lived at the cheap eating-houses- be told
by him that her manner Of frying fishballs
was failure-it was too much.
Her tears fell fast. I, too, wept. I
mixed my sobs with her'n. ."Fly with mel"
cried.
Ere she could reply-ere she could articu-
late her ecstasy, her husband, the marquis,
crept sflake-like upon me.
Shall I write it? He kicked me out of the
garden-he kicked me into the street.
I did not return. How could I? I, SO
ethereal, so full of soul, of sentiment, of
sparkling originality! He, SO gross, so prac-
teal, so lop-eared.
Had returned, the creature would have
kicked me again.-Boston Journal.
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ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE.
Why the Congregation Was Scpa-
rated ON Sexual Lines in Ten
nessee Mountain Church.

ION one OCCASION" remarked the able
journalist, II was down in the mountains
of Tennessee, where everything is print
tive, and on Sunday attended Baptist
church, where, much to my surprise, the
women were seated on one side of the
house, and the men on the other. I had
never seen anything of the kind before,
and after the services were over spoke
about it to one of the members, whom
knew quite well.
cts allus been done that away he
said in explanation.
".But why?' persisted.
"'So's to worship God accordin' to our
own consciences, as the constitution per-
vides.'
"tBut sitting on opposite sides of the
church doesn't make any difference, does
it,?
Don't it?' he replied with emphasis.
We'll, hit jis' do. Do you reckon that a
man kin set over thar alongside Nv his
wife where she kin nudge him with her ell
bow about every onc't in two minutes ef
he begins to swag-I say, kin a man do that
under them circums tances and worship God
accordin' to his own conscience? Well, not
much, nowhar; an ,pertickler not in this
here neck Nv woods
"The explanation and the supporting ar
gulnent carried conviction beyond all con-
troversy, and had no more to say in op.
position. "-Washington Star.
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THE BITTER BIT.

Elnathan Batkins was man as shrewd as
ever growed, ..-
He alters said he was himself, and sup
pose he knowed.
He said his eye was alters peeled and want
by no means dim, 50
And fellers got up airly when they got
ahead er him:
He guessed he'd got his eye-teeth cut-he
knowed thing er two
And, as ter shrewdness in a trade, I reckon
that was true:
But. In his bizness dealin's. when Elnathan
drawed the line
Tween shrewdness and rascality, he
drawed it mighty fine.
A lot er fellers' houses here was m ortgaged
up ter Nate,
And when the mortgages come due If they
was one hour late
Why, he foreclosed and grabbed the place,
and consequently he
Was worth a good sight more'n what !
think he'd ought ter be.
He'd leave a wilder homeless, but t want
no consarn err his.
I'm sorry fer yer, missis, but yer know
that biz Is biz"
And out she'd go. and Nate would grin ter
think how much he'd made.
And tell the fellers at the store about his
''rattlin' trade"
Well, durn him! he got ketched at last; two
fellers come ter town,
Real "bunco men" yer read about, and they
done Nathan brown;
One made out he'd been mimi and had two
big bricks er gold
Err course you've read the papers and yer
know the trick Is old
But Nate, he never took no stock in blame
newspaper gas"
And so he give five thousand" up fer them
two hunks err BRASS.
And, fer a month, when he'd go out, the
fellers that he saw
Would say: "Well Batk1ns, how's yer
gold?" and then jest "Haw! Haw!
Haw!'
Up at the store, the other night, we talked
about the trick,
And how t was one 80 cute as Nate got
gobbled up so slick,
But old Eb Small, he seq: why. boys, It's
jest as plain as day,
Nate Batkins never dealt afore with folks
that worked his way.
Nate thought he had a sucker and he'd play
him mighty fine,
But he found out the sucker was on t'other
end the line.
An honest man don't stand no show with
folks Of Nathan's kin,
1t takes thief ter ketch thief that's
how he got took in
Joe Lincoln. in L. A. w. Bulletin.
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me but to go under an operation.
In speaking with friend of mine
about it, she recommended Lydia E..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, say
ing she knew it would cure me. I then
sent for your medicine, and after TAX
ing three bottles of it, the tumor dis
appeared. Oh! you do not know how
much good your medicine has done
me. shall recommend it to all suffer-
ing women.-Mrs. Rosa GAUM, 72o
Wall St., Los Angeles, Cal.
The great and unvarying success of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound in relieving every arrangement
of the female organs, demonstrates
it to be the modern safeguard of wo-
mans happiness and bodily strength.
More than million women have been
benefited by it.
Every woman who needs advice
about her health is invited to write to
Mrs. Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass.
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thing to eat since yesterday morning,
so came here"
There was silence, broken only by
the cracking Of the fire and dashing Of
the rain against the wind lows. ''Well?''
said Miss Maria, at last, interrcgat lively.
Her companion moved uneasily in his
chair, cleared his throat, and said, hes
itatingly:
IF you will help me to get there,
Aunt Maria, I'll pay you back, honest
will, as soon as I get work. I'll be
sure to get it in New York. I am go
ing to try to make something of myself
II know I've not given you cause to be,
lieve me-I've given you lots of trouble
it was the bad company-you said it
would all end badly-I-T've thought
about it all often when couldn't sleep.
But am going to keep straight now,
Aunt Maria, ~" His voice, broke
and he dashed his hand across his eyes.
Miss Maria rose hastily. "Your
clothes are dry now" she said, grimly,
"l'll fix you up bed in the hall room!"
Her nephew looked pleadingly at her,
but her glance was not responsive, and
he followed her silently from the room.
| After Miss Maria returned to the sit.
ting-room half hour later, she sat for
a long time in deep thought. Then
rising quickly went to the door and
looked out. It had stopped raining.
She took her bonnet and shawl from a
closet, and put them on with almost
| feverish haste.
The lamp was burning dimly, but the
dancing light from the fireplace SHIN
| mered on the brass candlesticks. She
reached out her hand to take one down.
II can't" she whispered and burst into
passion of weeping. How could she?
They had been her great-grandmoth"
er's. But he was her dead brothers
son-and there was no other way.
| She resolutely brushed her tears
away, put the candlesticks under her
shawl, and went out into the night,
locking the door behind her.
The next evening, in new clothes
and with money in his pockets, Martin
Henshaw was on his way to New York
to begin life anew, and Miss Maria's
brass candlesticks were embellishing
Mrs. Antrim's colonial room.
II wonder what made her change
her mind!" Mrs. Antrim was saying to
her husband, as they stood admiring
the room. II had given up all hope of
! ever getting them. I think that she is
poorer than ever this winter; she
looked so pale last night, and as if she
had been crying. wanted to give her
ten dollars more than I first offered
her, but she would not hear of it.
Maria always was queer. I am glad
that l have them. Now the Hunts
can't boast so much of that armchair
They haven't anything that came over
in the Mayfower."