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FF The Value ci Trait J Helen Harcourt, i "And Eve ?aw that tue tree was good for food, and that it was & delight to the eyes."--Genesis. "Stay me with raisins, comfort me with apples."-Solomon. 1 These two quotationo-aud they might be multiplied mau y -f old-serve to show that the people who lived 0,000 years ego held fruit in tho same high estimation in whioh it is held by the natioas of today. There has never been sn interregnum either, nor a ohange of opinion. Just as our faraway grandmother, Eve. saw that the fruit was "good for food," so hss every generation of mankind the world over sokuowledged the same truth, , and, more or less, has aeted upon it. AU adown the lice of the long egos, poets have sung the prsioes of the lusoious grape and the dolioious pcnoli. and painters have1' tried to outvie e.?.oh other in depleting the delicate bloom and beauty of the ap ple, grape, peaoh, pear, plum and tho beautiful berries of the temperate zonco, There is a reason for all these truths. It is not only thst fruits are beautiful to look at, nor even thst they are pleasant to the taste. Away down below these superfioia} reasons M we and implanted a deep instinot that W extends all through the animal crea tion, from the highest to the lowest, | an instinot that te?ohes almost every I living creature to long for fruits, and 3 to get them if possible When we see M a whole family of insects swarming I over our ehoioest fruits, we don't like H it as well as they do, but they are not to blame. They are merely obeying the instinct implanted in them by nature. They "saw that the tree was ? good for food," and acted accordingly, just as you or I would have done un gi der the same conditions. When we B see. pigs and horses and cows sud H sheep "breaking and entering" our orohsrds. and eojoyioe themselves in B the unconscious robbery of our fruits, H need we ask ,how they learned that Bl fruit is good to eat? fl And- then, there is. the brby in fl arms, the human baby, that is more S helpless than any other baby. But fl even this tiny atom of humanity I knows enough to cry for the rosy B apple, and instinctively tries to bite it fl with Sta toothless gwins. And hon S when the baby grows to be a boy? j I We ali know how he will defy whip? fl pinga, the poiivo, law, order every? ! j tb j Dg-only so that he can get the fl fruit that' he loves, and that n?fnjj? K tells him ho must haye, fruir that is B all the sweeter.it it nanga on "some H| other.. ifellow-s" , tree. Forbidden ?J fruits are always the most desirable, ?B ia the view of the small boy, but, fl| af ter all, it is nature speaking; Tde Wm Creator appointed fruiL foi ?ho chief Hf.diet of the children Whom Be loves.' Mit is His desire, that they Bhpuld.be ^^Bttiraoled to it, and so He made it |B beautiful to loot upon, delioioua to 1||we taste, pleasant in its fragrance, ind ; pf such ; great variety that it should';.never;.pa)l upon the appetite by reason of Hs sameness. I Fruit , is a necessity, & very great ae ce a si ty, to health. The whole plan ind instinct of nature seeks to im* ' ; ?^io? ; i^Hspn on the human race, I B&t,.in spito of thia self-evident truth great mass of tho people of civil ? fflied na**OBS ?t-ill look upon fruit as a I K^xury, on which only surplus pennies ifiR?ght to be spent, and thoo chieily Iwr the plea*r?:c of tho children, who, ?!?fc 'viDatural^?oBtir.ct3 still un? Sfgb'-rvortQd, and clos? to tho tountajn a1' ojainor for fruit, frait^ruit.fM| BBB h^iB' a curious illustration of tho |8B*ryers?Ay of human nature, that tho IIS of- families aro more apt to ?Sfr^ tno'r nioney for sweets and con SnKictions than for good, wholesome Hait8' an<* lhat d?Mar8 aT? spent freo --fifffof oakes, winea, brandies and oan* Br8> wber9 only dime? ?re invested WtSS *ho fruits that would bo 00 con |flotiv?ygSfclhealth; And to . tho InaSi ot ?^ ^n5?8 that aro swallowed, iate5rtu JIB?FAL D?FAEB & St??l D? --??eh moro pleasant to take, and erreS^oh ^oro bencfloial, their namo is ^sBF0D' ****^heirreauHa deplorable. ^^S?"119 Amerioaa Pfl?Ple e^peoially lre,4iMd t0 ^? e?aoa-e<- to a olear under -rrf^?-tt|?'of the immecso valrtfl of H?- as actual food. When they {aioeBpo thief j>r?int tho doctors wii! have g5^Bto;l^v>?*<- half the drug stows goodHP oIoeo tDeir doors. Tho people IffeflP to$? taught, and it is the fruit o?'.'^B^i?Pf- ln* ->roit acft?er} who-meat' BF1 teacher?/,, Tho rnanufactui-er ;pf - ?itW5??^8 ^?be pubil? to buy Ms tt?K ?od to atiiact it puts them up Uemlllnot^8 PMfc?g*s.i1 ?nd pushes ?oU*Bp- That is Jwt >-fcat ?ur Xpjfc ?ffie!?tr? *ni daaicra abo?ld do. ?B Food and Medicine. n Tho Sunny South. brandies, wines, otc, set his wares oh! a shelf; and wait for customers to come? Not at all. He advertises them far and wide, and pushes their sale in every attractive Bbape that can be devised* He provides his gin palace w'th all the attractions of a olubroom, with its dsily paper, ,its billiard tables, oard tables, music, and plenty of pretty girls to wait upon the customers attraoted by these injurious things, a9 moths are attraoted by a candle. ' Now, out of these devious ways the fruit growers snd the fruit deslere, who are the olaoses most financially interested in the education of the people to a fruit-eating standard, might well take a hint. Why not fruit palaces, ss well as wine palaoes? Pleasantly fitted up rooms, where, at reasonable prioes, people oouid ob tain the choicest fruits in sesson, prepared to be eaten on the spot, and served at any hour of the day, the year round? Why should not some of our best restaurants and fruit stores mako trial of serving fruit ready to eat, as a specialty, -and try it this coming summer? There ve ?cores of people in our oities on a hot summer's day who would eagerly seize such a chanco to get a nice dish of cooling, refreshing fruit without having to go home for it. Let "fresh fruit a specialty" be advertised by the restaurants and dealers, and they would soon find their trade In this direotion increasing month by month. And all the while these fruit missionaries (they would be nothing else) would be doing the world an inestimable service in thus educating the people on the vital sub jeotof fruit as food. And now let us look into the matter more in detail. | Good, ripe fruit?; con tain a large amount of sugar, and in the form most easily digested. Fruit sugar yields a light nourish rue.;: , and when taken as an adjunct to bread, rioe and similar wholesome foods, forms a meal essentially suitable for warm climates or warm weather. If to thc shevo, milk and eggs are added, we have the most perfeot and easily digested food that is obtainable. For 'it is not tobe understood that frais is ? perfeot and all sufficient food is U= Beif. it ia simply a very necessary adjunct to other foods, having aleo a considerable amount of nourishment of its own f i?o. As far back as records on sock sub jects go. lt has been thc custom for ap ple sauce to be Berved with roast goose abd roast pig. If tho average housekeeper is asked, j the reason why, the answer wi?l probably he, "Oh, I don't know. They always go together; that's the. ; custom. Because they taste: good together, I suppos?:'* ?ovj; "it's the custom^' is not a reason, but tho logical result of a reason, of an instinct that guided mau; age.B sgo, "ulla be yet kpew not tho cause* But there ia a real reason, stronger than custom, and modern science, has discovered the secret. It is. ?bat thc aoids and peptones in the apple t aa 8i",6 i n dissolving and digesting thc fats that ar e always so much in evi dence in a~d f-ign. Bm aoienge goes further, and tells us that ,it is not only with geese and pigs that fruit should be eaten, but always abd liberally, as an important aid to tho 'digestion of other foods. < ; Y The apple is not only ? nutritious fruit as mere food, but it stands fore most as a digestive fruit, although, the grapa is a close second,' of which more next week. It is; a matter pf .experience, o^e that oan bc vori I^IS?; ;obBer^uonV ttat ,botb^Mj|? dren and adults who-'- eat.'fre^^ good^ripe apples, either raw or baked, or s tewed ,v are free from ; the y?rious forma of indigestion snd liver troubles. anet i f rom their direct consequences ^filpation. A scraped ; spp?o is bnjy partly mao?ieated, ?nd cooked appl e a aro al way 8 bc tto r than raw, if one ia K unable to masticate them thoroughly? Baked and stewed, ap ples aro docile nfc remedie s m soy cases of illness. ' ii Peaches bead t the list of auf ?cid fruits and besides a?ording a largo share of nourishment, when catea in a ripe, mellow condition, they at?mulatc the stomach t cud intestines. They aro oool i?g an d healthful in any eb apo raw or cooked. . Fresh fig?, guava's ?ni ; peraimmons i?r^;,vaiio;,;ex?s^e?t foulis, nutritious and wholesome. As to pears, they do not cootain enough' frei; ?vid ' :-?b.\ ^.f:?m^0^iil^'? -bot ' jiSfl^im.Mdat; atb^i^>??^iS5^?:i5f [^Hl^l^j^arali-' ^'?k?y:-'t?;vtttttoh bet-' i*r food : cooked than raw. ;v:The;:?p?nc*ppta Y es?vjpa^j^;^^ [bniqtto ;fr&i? ??? :;ttt?hy; ? respectais? 1 they co?tai? > foment that bas the power ^ usr?'-'.of;thc strange i??Gstrations cf i nature's harmony, that tho two fruits are native to countries whero meat's must be eaton almost immediately after the animal is killed. Under these circumstances the fleoh is tough and hard, but a few pawpaw leaves wrapped around the meat for tweuty minutes or half an hour, will so soften the fibers that it will be ten der and palatable as could be desired. Thia is because the secretions of the pawn AV er- closely akin to pepsin, and beoomes active in the presence of a congenial uoid. The pineapple also possesses thia digestive p~>wer. Children often find this out to thoir sorrow, without knowing the why and wherefore, when they oou?soat? and chew tba core of tho pineapple that is being prepared for the table or preserving. Its secre tions aro so powerful that if muoh of the core is chewed and swallowed, it will aotually digest away some of the skin of the mouth and Hps. But when tho pineapple is cooked, this fermenting principio is ohcoked. The fruit has a good deal of woody fiber concealed about its person, sud there fore is not very easy of digestion. For this reason, when eaten in the un cooked state, it should be grated or out very fine. Pineapple marmalade, made with the grated fruit, one pound to half s pound of sugar, is wholesome an nutritious, as well as toothsome. Bananas, in the state in whioh they generally reach the northern or any distant market?), are not wholesome eaten raw, uuless the skins sre black, and the fruit oo boft as to sppesr over ripe. But when cooked, they are not only very nutritious, but vejy health ful, and may be eaten freely by inva lids and children. The best way to put them in this wholesome condi tion is to remove the skin and ans fibrous portions that may re;aain ot the fruit. Then plaoe tbe bananas in a baking dish with a cup of water tc eaoh dozen. Bake twenty minutes ii a hot oven, and baste once or twioe or else plaoe a cover over the dish which will be still better, and prevent burning. Serve hot. And now a few words as to tb? skins of fruits in general. Natur intended the skin or outside cover o fruits, as a protection against water and the sting of insects, and shouh always be removed. The skin of ai apple is often oaten, and shouh never be; It is ss irritant, and i much of it is eaten, will surely cane trouble, and serious trouble. too, ii the intestinal oaoal. Thea there ar raisins and figs, whioh oome in th list of tough-??i??usd fruits, and ar muoh more wholesome if cooked They aro really poison to children i eaten in the dried state, and many child'a illness nae come from this us suspected cause.' Tho list of fruits a actual foods could be continued ic definitely, but enough has been sai to provo we do not eat half the froi we should, and need to be educate to its importance. How, Indeed. They had not been married ver long, and that completo blissful trui whioh young husbands and wives ha\ in each other had not yet been bro) en.. But , one morning wine meeki remarked: "I monded tho bole in your trousei pooket {as% ms ht After you had goa to bed, John "dear. Now,, am I not thoughtful little wife?** Husband (dubiously)-Well~ei ye-es, you are thoughtful ehougl my dear. But how the misobief di you discover there was a hole io n pocket?; ; " :..- -; : ' ? - Jt- i ? a l'UMlX . VD JUX1 V U . OoM lo the Sooth. How macy people know thai goid miniug ia oarried co to regular, pro saic, everyday industry in tho south ern Allantio States-in Virgioia, tho Carolinas and Georgia? Moro than fifty million dollars worth of gold has been mined in the South since Co lumbus discovered Amcrioa. Indeed, some sixty-five years agc, tho South was produoiog about a million dollars' worth a year; thora was big excite ment about it, and people were pros peotiog hero, there, and everywhere. Those days are past, but the South still produces on a small scale. Gold is not so thickly concentrated in the South as it is in the West, and it is mostly found in ledges of solid rook, which require maohinory to han dle it. There are few placer mines minos in which the gold is found loose in stream beds mingled with gravel and sand. In suoh a mine the gold is sepa rated from the pay earth by washing the whole until all tho mud has flow ed away, leaving only the gold be hind. This ie possible beoause gold is very nearly the heaviest substance in the world, and will sink to the bot tom and remain, while everything else will be carried away by running water. There are many ways of washing gold dirt, the simplest being with th" . "pan," whioh is almost exaotly like the pan the cook uses to make her bread in every morning. The pros pector digs up a shovelful of earth and kneels down beside a brook and washes, letting the soft mud slop over the odge of his pan. It isn't at all hard to save tho gold and let the rest go; he can hardly lose the gold, even if he tries to do so. But it takes very rich dirt to make panning pay, so the rocker was in vented, in which the dirt is shoveled into ? contrivance a good deal like an ordinary baby's rooker. Water is poured in continually, washing away the lighter portions and leaving the pebbles snd the gold. The pebbles are then scooped out by hand. In the same length of time the rooker will wash away many times more dirt then the pan. Next comes the "since." It is reslly little more than a long trough, or series of troughs, through whioh a stream of water is oonstsntly flowing, and into whioh the gold earth is shov eled and allowed to separate itself. Men stand at vinous points along the trough to stir np the mud, when it settles, end keep it going. The gold Gooner or later drops to the bottom and is carried along very slowly, while the mud moves faster, and after a while flows out of the sluice. The gold sluioe differs from a trough t in having a series of little ol?ate, call- j ed riffles, nailed across its bottom every few feet. Behind these the gold lodges, while ibo lighter mud is oarried over. When the day's, or the week's, work is finished the water is cut off and the riffles sro "olesned up." The gold is scooped ont and is "panned," to free it from the email amount of earth that remains?' . As a rule, too, the sluee has a little pool of meroury resting behind eaoh -riffle.. Meroury, or quicksilver-the very same stuff we have in thermom eters-is about ?g heavy as gold, and lies behind the riffles even more solid ly theo gold does. Besides, it has a most wonderful affinity for gold. It seises every tiny flake of the latter that comes near it and absorbs it into itself, lt tho gold is not so very fine ha. it actually floats on tho water and it has to bo very powdery indeed to do this-it will como sooner or later, into contaot with the meroury behind one of thc riffles, and, when it once does that, its travels aro end ed. When the "olean up" is made, tho mixed meroury and the gold-tho "amalgam" it is oallcd- is heated, whereupon the meroury beaomea vapor and ilion away, leaving the gold be hind.-Crittenden Marriott, in For ward. _ Cotton Seed Quotations. Why aro there no standard quota tions for cotton Beed, as for cotton, grain and other staplo market commo dities? This question is often asked by far mers. The matter has been Bubjoot of frequent complaint, but tho proas is helpless. The quotation committee of the ^Merchants' Exchange, whoso quotations are tho only ones avail able, declines to quote oottoo seed iu figures. For the papers themselves to attempt to get tho quotations di rect from the mills is out of question, aB there is a disposition to keep suoh information to themselves, or, at least, out of the newspapers, for obvious reasons. The mill people oontond that there ia suoh varianoe in ideas as to the tnarket that it was long since deoided impracticable, indoed almost impos sible, to make satisfactory quotations. The present method of quotation has been deoided upon after long discus sion among the people who buy the Unlike other commodities, the price of the producto of cotton seed aro not fixed by either the aupply or price of the raw seed, but by tho prinos of other oils, greases, feedstuffs, oto This being tue case, the prises of cot ton seed are not staplo liko those of cotton or grain. Another faotor in the unsettled and highly looalized prices of seed is the fights made by mills for seed. These fights frequent ly boost pricey to unsafe high marks and often run the mills making them into bankruptcy. Thereforo prices paid for seed, that will ruin tho mill which orasheB thom, arc not legiti mate prices. Tun reason papers do not publish ootton seed prices is mani fest. There is simply no fixed and regular market for ootton seed. Hgaatan of Strange But True. "I saw a curious thing the otho? day," said the favorite story teller at n party. "Well, what was it? Is it a true story?" naked one of the listeners. "Yes; perfeotly true. I ssw a duck swimming aoross a pond and a cst sitting on Hs tail." "Indeed 1" exclaimed another lis tener. "What sort of a duck WSB it? Any psrtioulsr kind?" "Yes; it wes a diving duck. Siraugo to say, tho duok dived." For some momenta there was si lence, then a lady asked: "And what became of the poor oat? Was it drowned, or did it only lose one of it? nine lives?" "No; it wasn't- drowned," said the story teller. "You see, the duok div ed in the middle of tho pond, but the cat was sitting on its own tail on a wall close by." - Nothing pleases an aotor more thss a lot of strenuous glad hands. imltatton is the 99 The tmp?ccedeiitcc? popularity of Royster's FARMERS' BONE fertig some of cbmpctit^ Guano, claiming theirs p ^ ^ BONE fa the or?gin/i? 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I -rf 3 S ? < ca w eg ? 0 > OQ M H > O z ONE CAB OF HOG FEED, 3 Have just received one Car Load of HOG FEED (Shorts) at vet y close prices. Come beforatbey are all gone. Now is the time for throwing Around your premises to prevent a case of fever or some other disease, that will cost you very much more than the price of a barrel of Lime ($1.00.) We have a fresa shipment in stock, and will be glad to sendjyou some. If you contemplate building a barn or any other building, see us before buying your CEMENT and LIME.I As we sell the yeiyjbestfqualities'only." O. D. ANDER80?2 A LONG LOOK AHEAD ? man thinks it is when the matter of life insurance suggests itself-but circumstan ces of lat? have shown how life hangs by a thread when war, flood, hurricane and STA suddenly overtakes you, and the only way to be sure that your family is protected in case of calar lit? overtaking you is to in* sure in a soKd Company like-*' The Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Go. Drop Ia *nd see ns about it M. M. 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