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The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-07

The careful use of plants will do
much to produce a home-like effect.
To make a beautiful and harmonious
picture, trees and shrubs should be
planted in such a manner as to give a
pleasing effect. The first essential in
creating beautiful surroundings is the
lawn. 1t forms the foundation for the
remainder and no pains should be
spared to make it perfect. rich and
thoroughly prepared soil should be
provided, n which will retain all the
moisture that it is possible for soil to
retain. Next in Importance to the
lawn zones the arrangement and
grouping of the plants. Plants in
carefully arranged groups and masses
please much more than disconnected
planting. While well arranged groups
are not easy to make, anyone by exer-
cising q little care and patience may
be able to do so as we'll as the man who
makes this his business. All groups
should be arranged to provide as much
lawn as he space will allow and shut
out uncongenial objects on the out
side.
One may consult his own choice in
regard to the plants to be used in
working out the picture. All kinds
can be used to advantage. As a gen.
eral rule, shrubs are as valuable as any
other class of plants, as they attain
their character and size quickly and
are easily moved if desired, and more
oven produce a massed effect difficult
to acquire in other ways. Also shrubs
when once established are less likely
to fail. Trees and shrubs which are
allowed to develop broad, spreading
shapes and graceful forms are far more
pleasing than those which are often
ruined by injudicious pruning
American Agriculturist.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-07
Saved by His Powder Horn.

An old sea captain affirms that he
had an exciting experience twenty
two years ago on one of the smaller
islands in the Philippine group.
During a voyage from San Francisco
to Hong Kong, reports a correspon-
dent of the St. LOUIS Globe-Demo-
crat, his crew mutinied. They gave
him some food and water, a gun and
a flask of powder, and putting him
into a small boat, set him adrift.
After thirty-eight hours on the
ocean, the captain reached an island
and was promptly seized by savages,
who conducted him inland. Except
that he was forbidden to go to the
waterside, he had the freedom of the
island and was well treated. But af-
ter he had been eight months with
the natives he learned, naturally to
his dismay, that they planned to do
him the honor of sacrificing him to
their god at their next great festival.
Protestations were useless. He
had Just one chance for his life, and
at night he made several secret visits
to the CHASTITY spot on the mountain
side where sacrifices were made. As
his ''turn" drew near, he tried to tell
his captors that he had communed
with inferior spirits, and discovered
that their gods forbade lis death.
But although the savages listened re-
specially, preparations for the cere-
mony never stopped.
On the morning OF the fatal day he
was aroused at an early hour by two
attendants of the medicine man, aud
hurried toward the sacred mountain.
The sun was well up when the ascent
began, and the captain dragged along
as slowly as possible, often CHANGING
at the sun, which was beating on the
mountainside.
As he came in sight OF the altar he
craned his neck, and observed the
sunlight stealing toward the stone.
Turning, he warned the. priests that
divine wraty would be hurled on them
and their altar if they attempted to
proceed, but their only answer was to
push steadily on. Below him, gazing
upward, were the villagers, some
watching the proceedings with anxiety.
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Many farmers when setting out trees
by the roadside make the mistake of
planting only one variety, which hap
pen to be the one that they parti-
cularly admire. But variety of scenery
adds much to its attractiveness, and a
row of trees of different kinds shows
in the varying foliage far more beauty
than a single variety could do. Be
sides, where there is a long row of
trees, some will be on low and wet
soil, and others on that which is high
and dry. Besides, each kind OF tree
should have the particular soil that it
is best adapted to. An exception to
this rule of interspersing varieties is
found where rows of sugar naples are
planted along roadsides, to be tapped
for sap when old enough. 1t is then
economy to have the trees in unbroken
rows, so hat the sap may be gathered
more easily. A row or grove of naples
near the house will usually be tapped
every spring, while the more distant
sugar bush may be neglected, when
the woods are full of deep snow and it
is hard work to get into them.
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A CALCULATING BORE,



My friend Bings is one of those ha-
bitual calculators-one of the kind
that says if all the teeth that have
been extracted since the first dentist
began business were to be used for
paving purposes in Hades, the good
resolutions contractor would be out of
a job for ten thousand years. He
thinks in numbers, and if he were a
minister he would get all his texts
from the same source.
The other day he saw me first on a
ferry boat, and Immediately button
holed me. Said he: How sad it is
to think that so much labor goes for
naught!"
1 knew that I was in for one of his
calculations, but l also knew that it
would be useless to try to head him
off.
He stroked his beard, and said,
with an imitation of thoughtfulness:
every day in this Empire State
one million human beings go to bed
tired because You and I and the rest
leave butter on u plates and don't
| eat our crusts."
I told him that l was astonished,
but that he would have TO elucidate.
"The farmers SOW 8, 200, 900 bushels
of useless grain-grrin that eventually
goes out to sea on the refuse "
they milk so, 900 COWS to nc other
purpose than to produce sour or
spilled milk, they allow their valuable
hens to lay 1854, SOC, 00l eggs that
will serve no better purpose than to
spatter some would-be Booth or lie
neglected in some out-of-the-way cor
ner. while their wives are making
1,0OS. 9S3 pounds of butter that will
be left on the edges of plates and
thrown into the refuse-pail. Ii they
didn't SOW the useless grain or fuss
over tie hens that lay the unused
eggs, or draw the milk that is des-
tined to sour, or make the butter that
is to ornament the edges of the china
disks, they would be able to go to bed
merely healthily tired instead of over
worked, and fewer farmers would
commit suicide, and fewer farmers
wives would go insane His eyes
cleaned, aud l knew that, as he
would put it, his pulse was going so
fast that if it were revolutions of a To-
connective wheel it would take only SO
long to go somewhere.
"And what is your remedy for all
this?' asked l, with becoming, if
mock, interest.
"Let us help ourselves to no more
than we want at table, buy our eggs a
week earlier, drink our milk the day
before, eat our bread before it is too
dry. and in six months time there
will be a reduced State death-rate,
more vacspcies in the insane asylums,
!, 456, COS rosy cheeks where to-day
are that many pale Ones"
Just then the ferry-boat's gates were
lifted, aud as we went u several
ways. in the hurry that is characters
tic OF 7,09S, Ill Americans out of
eiaht millions, / thought that, if all
the brains of all the arithmetical
cranks were used in place of wood
pulp to make into paper, We writer's
would get our pads for nothing
charles Battell LOOMS, in the Cen.
fury.
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Preparations for extending the sup
ply of the fruit OF the garden should
be made early every winter and spring,
and even if one only owns a small
place, fruit trees, bushes and vines
should be planted and intelligently
cultivated. First, this should be
done for family use, and second for
commercial purposes. The owner of
o small or large place who does not
raise fruit for home consumption is
not deserving of the name of farmer.
A quarter, half or one-acre plot will
yield fruits in variety and abundance.
Only tested kinds of fruit trees and
vines should be planted. Let the
n~urseryman experiment with new
sorts, unless you do it OF q very small
scale for the pleasure gained thereby.
Too many farmers are led to adopt
new varieties of fruits upon slim
grounds of recommendation, and they
lose money invariably by the process.
The accumulated experiences of the
many will be of use in guiding one in
the selection and cultivation of all
fruits. This experiment crystalizes
in time in the short, pithy advice
that finds its way in reputable agri-
cultural journals. Some times the
advice is repeated so many times that
a few are inclined to sniff at it, and
ask for something new. There Is
very little that is absolutely new in
the world, bat our knowledge adj
vances gradually, and in each little
new suggestion that comes as the re-
suit of actual experience proves OF
great value in the long run.
The man who raises apples to-day
cannot expect something from moth
ing. Apple trees need culture. They
require as much intelligent care as
n other fruit. If you are not
willing to give the trees this atten-
ton, it is better not to raise any apple
trees. If you are willing, then select
the very best varieties adapted to
your region; but it would be a pity to
buy frst-class trees and then stunt
their growth with poor attention.
The apples are a good Illustration
os all other fruits. 1t is not many
years ago that we thought tho apple
trees could take care Of themselves.
Now there is no profit in spples unless
n makes the raising of them a
study. We must select the best trees,
guard them against diseases, fertilize
and cultivate the soil around them,
nick the fruit at the right time, sort
and grade them carefully, and then
pack and ship them t. the right mar
ket. One mistake In this chain of
work NAV knock cat all the profits.
What is true of apple culture is true
of all other fruits 1t is a period of
intense competition, and the survival
of the fittest will follows. W.
Chambers, in American C%ultivator.
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tbev more than half believed what

for they more than half believed what
he said.
They had arrived at the stone altar,
and the captain had turned again to
appeal to the priests, when there was
n loud explosion, and the altar was
hurled heavenward with a deafening
noise. while the priests fell on their
faces, When the smoke rolled away
the crowd on the hillside could be
seen prostrating themselves and bow
ing toward the captain. He was es-
corted back to the village and treated
as a god. Nothing was too good for
him. He was allowed the liberty OF
the island, and two months afterward
succeeded in fitting out his boat, and
one night showed off in the direction
of Manila, where he arrived after {
two days sail.
During his captivity the American
had employed his time mining the
altar with the powder from the flask
he had preserved. A fuse was made
with a piece of reed stuffed full oil
powder, and fire was furnished by the
CRYSTALS of his chronometer, which he
had fastened together and filled witt
water to form a burning glass.
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THAR HAIN'T NO USE.

Thar hain't no use o. strainin' yerselt
As through this life you jog.
The hog that's allus on the root
Is the skinniest kind NV hog;
The stone that's allus on the roll
Is the scratchedest kind NV a stone:
An the bone that's allus bein' gnawed
Is the boniest kind w a bone,
The land that's allus bein' plowed
Is the poorest sort o. land;
An the band that's allus practicin' loud
Is the bammiest kind Nv a band. 4
A fighter allus on the train
Is no good in tie ring,
An O bird that never shuts his yap
Is no good on the sing.
The pan that's allus on the fire
Is the wornest-out kind O. pan,
An the mar that's allus gettin' higher
Is the discontentedest man.
So thar hain't no use o. strainin' yerself-
Yer might ez well keep cool;
For the fool that's aIlus foolin' himself
Is the fooliest kind Of a fool.
-Ju9pe.
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Now that the Siberian railways are
in part completed southern Siberia
may be regarded as Europe's future
in~exhaustible larder. Kurgan, for in
stance, lying on the south Siberian
line, now supplies the greatest butter
firms in the world. Last years ex-
portations of the article are estimated
to have reached o value of 80, 900, 900.
The province also supplies the largest
Russian cities with cattle from the
steppes. Korolkof, the chief ex-
porter in this direction, exported in
the first three months of last year
$500 head of cattle, besides 600, 600
pounds of meat for the Russian army.
Kurgan also supplies Russia with
poultry and eggs. The ,ast egg ex-
port consisted of ninety-fve carloads,
each carload containing $50. 900 eggs,
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Around the World Backward.

1t is announced that au enthusias.
tic sportsman has Just left Brussels,
Belgium, with the avowed intention
of walking around the world back
ward. The feat of going around the
world without a sou in ones pocket
has become an everyday matter-bicy-
Gle tours of the world are an old
story-therefore, there must be some
new invention by which the public,
craving for notoriety may be graft
fed. The man who walks backward
is bound to be safe from accidents, as
the automobile and other vehicles of
~locomotion, if not out of common hui
mainly, at least out of admiration for
a creature of such absolute daring,
must give him right Of way. We may
next hear of some fanatic who has
started out to make the tour Of the
world walking on his hands. Truly,
the possibilities of globe.trotting are
lnnumerable.-New York Herald.
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A man has been aroused from sleep
by feeling a snake crawling over his
face, and has had the nerve to re-
main motionless, knowing that at the
slightest movement the snake would
bite. Trying as was that ordeal
the New Bedford Standard describes
n as terrible:
A thrilling adventure with a trapped
rodent occurred a few evenings since
at the Pine street clubhouse. One of
the members owns a rat dog, and an
other a rat-trap. A rat having been
captured alive the dog and rat had a
meet The guests assembled, and
the rat was admitted to the freedom
of the hall.
He did not enjoy the liberty which
the dog INDUCED in, and made a rush
for his masters pantaloon leg and
crawled up his flesh till the shirt
collar was reached, from which he
poked out his head aud looked i'm
ploringly into the faces of the guests.
The owner of the dog then became
the object of the most intense interest
and solicitude, His apparel was
quickly removed, while the rat des-
cended to his stocking, at which point
the dog became master of the situa-
ton.
Mr.. Hoy relates the experience with
emotions Of quivering dread. He is a
war veteran; he has stood at the bat
ties front. but he has never under.
gone the experience of a frenzied live
rat with sharp claws crawling up his
bare flesh to escape a canine pursuer.
The British empire embraces oye,
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Curious methods of furnishing in
discreet editors are in vogue in some
countries. In South American
Sketches" Mr.. Crawford describes
the interesting experience Of an editor
who had been unfortunate enough to
give offence to the ruling powers by
the freedom CT his criticisms.
The editor was arrested and con-
fined in a narrow passage between the
cages OF two jaguars, notorious for
their bad tempers and their intense
dislike for human society.
The intervening space was so regu-
lated that neither of the ~ferocious
animals could get its paws quite to
the middle line between the cages; so
that a spare, active person, it very
careful to follow the classical advice
about the advantages of steering a
middle course, might manage to pass
without special injury, though the
achievement would be both exciting
and dangerous,
Our editorial friend happened to be
stout, and therefore was the more
easily reached by the occupants of
cages. As if to add insult to injury,
he was given a chair on which to sit.
aud at the same time was furnished
with a copy of his own paper, the
issue which hal brought him into
trouble, in order that he might medi-
tate upon its contents.
He tried to sit motionless and bolt
upright. feeling those sleepy cruel
eyes fixed upon him, At the slightest
movement, or the rustic of the paper,
uneasy mutterings arose from the
cages, and a paw would stretch
stealthily toward him. Leaning
quickly to the other side, he was sure
to be met by the ugly claws of the
second iaguar. 1t was a case of Scylla
and Charydbis.
Every few minutes the iaguars be-
came wildly excited and clawed
tiercely at the shrinking editor, who,
do his best, could not escape those
rending toe nails. His clothing was
torn to shreds, but except for a few
scratches he was not really injured.
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Fanny things will turn up in eve
nah drv Documentary affairs as Con-
suIar report. In one recently pub
I;sbed by no State Department at
WasbinCto. there is a report from Con-
srI Genera Stowe, at Cape Town,
africa reating to an industrial exhi.
h;,;nn at arahamstown, in the Zuur-
berS Mo,ntains. After referring to
tha disply of manufactured goods, in
mh;ob h United States is either rep.
rasented ,r missing, he winds up by
asn;ng and an American mule from
M;ssonr, weighing 1000 pounds, is at.
.aaot;ne much attention" 1t ought
10 Miles weighing a ton are scarce
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There was a crowd at the railroad
station in Boston. Among the persons
gathered was a bright-eyed, barefoot,
smiling newsboy, who bad sold oil his
remaining papers but one. He had
given half his supply to another boy,
who had failed to get any that morn,
ing.
Just then a procession began topass
with a band of music. The crowd
pressed to the iron railing to see and
hear. Among others was q little ne.
gro boy, who squeezed his head
through between the strong rails and
was delighted with his good view. A
short distance above this company,
lust at the top of the incline on which
they were all standing, was a large
truck piled high with heavy trunks,
no one attending 1t,
By some means this truck was
started down the incline. Unguided,
and with rapidly increasing momen-
TEN, it ran straight for the preoccu-
pied company at the railing. A loud
cry of warning rang through the sta
ton. Every one ran from the impend-
ing death. The negro boy alone re-
NAMED struggling wildly, but in vain,
to draw his head from between the
bars. The quick eye of the newsboy,
who had jumped to the other side OF
the truck, took in the situation-cer-
tain death to the pinioned boy if the
truck were not instantly turned from
its course. Without a moments hest
tation he sprang forward and firmly
planted his small bare foot in the path
of the front left wheel. The axle
turned; the life was saved, but there
was a MASKING of bones, the blood
spurted, the foot was lattened. The
boy grasped his paper convulsively,
staggered, and fell-white and uncon-
scious.
Loving hands bore him to the near
est hospital, and sad hearts went to
tell the widowed mother of the deed
of her only son.
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!PILS soon learned
to love it, yet there
is nothing very re-
nlarkable in Bly,
vile Academy. 1t
is a reasonably
good school, in
which achievem emf
is quite up to pre-
tension, and its
boys are much like
the thousands of
others who settle
down to t h e i r
books FIVE days in
the week when the
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name had been pronounced, he had
marched forward to the platform, the
ribbon of the medal had been pinned
upon his coat, and the boys were
cheering and the girls were clapping
their hands, while the galleries were
white with waving handkerchiefs.
Bob kept his glance still fixed on
the chandelier, and listened confusedly.
Tad had won his honors fairly; he
knew it and did not begrudge him
their enjoyment. Yet, after all, it
seemed q queer world where one boy
should have so much and another so
little, where if only a fellows luck
were not
A stir of the sort an audience makes
when something not ON the programme
seems about to happen, brought Bob
out of his meditations. Squire Beecher
was telling the people a story of suf-
fering, of want, Of starvation, or some
thing very neal it; of biting winds and
nipping cold; of a family, poor and
proud, among strangers; of a mother
stricken with illness, unable to help
herself, and cared for by a child bur-
dened beyond her years; of long days
and nights of accomplishing endur-
ing; and at last of the coming of a
brother only too happy to end a long
feud, and to bear away with him the
mother and daughter to comfort if not
to plenty. The squire told his story
well, as if it thrilled him.
There was a moments pause in the
squire's speech before he went on; but
now he was telling them the best of
his story. Somebody, he said, had
saved the lives of the two in the lonely
house; had done what few men would
have dared to undertake in the face Of
the ~fercest storm the region had seen
in years; had carried the pair food,
which had kept alight the spark Of life
and made possible the happy conclu-
sion.
And, therefore, the trustees, exer-
cisiug the discretion vested in them,
had voted without dissent to award,
for the first time since the founding of
the fund, a second medal in q single
year, for bravery and falthfulsess or
the part of a member Of the school.
1t was steadfast courage displayed in
q humble undertaking by one who
builded better than he knew, and upon
whose efforts depended vastly more
more than he could possibly have
known.
"Robert Jennings" rang the squire's
deep voice, ..
The great event was over, the older
folks had gone their ways, discussing
it, while the school boys were grouped
about the Town Hall steps. Tad Rey-
nolds was with them. but the glitter
of his medal no longer held their gaze.
All were looking with shamefaced
eagerness at a boy who stood hesita-
ting as if in doubt whether to advance
or retreat. He, too, wore a medal,
but it was as disregarded as Tad's.
For him, as for the others, the last
half-hour had wrought a great revul-
sion of feeling.
CHANGING down at the faces upturned
to his, he seemed to see not the enc
mics of later days, but the friends OF
the time that seemed years ago. He
made a few steps forward, faltered
and halted. Tad Reynolds mounted
a step.
"Bobl" he said, husky, Give
,all of us, We"
Bob Jennings's hesitation vanished.
"Oh, fellowsl' he cried, and sprang
toward Tad with outstretched hand
Youths Companion.
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Such Is the death the soldier dies
He falls-the column speeds away;
Upon the dabbled grass he lies,
His brave heart following, still, the fray.
The smoke wraiths drift nmongthe trees,
The battle storms along the hill;
The CLINT Of distant arms he sees,
He hears his comrades shouting still.
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A glimpse Of iar-borne flags, that fade
And vanish in the rolling din,
He knows the sweeping charge is made,
The cheering lines are closing in.
Unmlndful Of his mortal wound,
He family calls and seeks to rise;
Bnt weakness drags him to the ground
such is the death-ths' soldier dies.
Robert Burns Wilson, in the Atlantic.
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The British empire embraces over
1000 rivers.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-31
Ladies Ready-Made Department

Tadies Percale Shirt Waists were
Ladies' Fine Percae Shirt Waists. trimmed IN Insertion,
Ladies' White Lawn and P. X. Shirt Waists, were &c.,.
Ladies' White Duck Skirts, were 60c..........
Tsiies white Duck skirts, trimmed in Braid were 75c
Ladies' White P. K. Skirts, were Sl00...
Tades' Crash Skirts were &c.,.