The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29

duction of corn approximating three billion bushels ih a year or an increase of a hundred million dollars.
 Potatoes, cotton, spring wheat and the other field crops are discussed by experts in the light of the recent de- veiopments in scientific agriculture.
 "A Chicken Farm That is Really a Success" describes how a man in Southern Jersey has found the right kind of balance to make chickens pay and how he gets top price for every thing.
 The illustrations in this number are very profuse and combine that rare quality of being both beautiful and useful
 Herbert spencer's One Love Story.
 Spencer was in charge of the busi- ness at the house of his chief. and 1t so happened that the only member of the family at home was a young niece, who was bright. unconventional, and rather pretty. Every morning she used to bring the letters into the office for him. and being alone and wanting com pany, she started talking to him. He was attracted by her. In this way. as has often happened before. a great friendship" sprang up between them, which he said-and 1t was all he would admit-would probably have ripened into something deeper" on his side, when suddenly carefully concealed fiance turned up. and he awoke. The "probable" event must have very near ly taken place, for he told us that even after fifty years he will remember the unpleasant feeling he experienced on seeing her hanging on his rivals arm and looking round at him to see what he thought of it.
 "She was horrid fIirt." exclaimed one of us.
 'she was nothing of the sort" he quickly retorted, loyal to the memory . of this alf-acknowledged love of fif- ty years before. And so stanch and true was he, so simple and straight forward, that he would have no word said against he= conduct.
 It seemed that he not only felt more deeply than he would admit, but that he still cherished his illusions about her; for after he had told us his one poor little romance he suggested rath- CT sheepishly that he should write to her and propose exchanging photo graphs. For although he had never seen her since, he knew where he could get her address. Seeing that he was rather bent on 1t and wanted to be per suaded. we .encuoraged him to do it. Indeed, one of us then and there sug- gested that she should write the let ter for him-an offer which he gladly accepted It would have been wiser not to have written--to have left the ash of this Iove-story untouched to the end, like a mummy in it's coffin, for the re- membrance of the past was still young and fresh in him.
 In due time letter arrived with the !, photograph of the old lady, which he opened in his own room. But 1t was evident from his manner when he brought it down stairs that he was dis appointed. It was strange If he ex- pected the course of more than half a century to have left any trace of the prettiness and bloom of girl of twen- ty, but 1t was clear that with the open ing of that envelope the last of his il- lusions vanished.
 He looked quite sad as he slowly and thoughtfully replaced the photograph in the cover; but as one of us asked, "Why Is everybody so interested it. love-affairs. MT. Spencer? It is be- cause they are common to all?" some pale reflection of the old fire shone out once more as he answered, Yes. that Is one reason; but greater reason is because love is tn emost interesting thing in life. ."-Harper's Magazine for April.
 "Indlvidualism Versus SociaIfNn.o
 Any expectation of sensationalism in William Jennings Bryan's discussion of 'Individualism versus Socialism in the April Century is likely to be unfulfill. ed. The paper. it Is said, is q succinct presentation of the claims and objects