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SHE BA ER=DA DTMO VOL. XIV. LAKE PROVIDENCE% EAST CARROLL. PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1901' N 1 THE VOICE. "w TsoNaS wAstaW Over the e1b and the se Oh the vast surge of the UMe To where on the hill I was sleeping, Ad wrmth and earth's gladness! There whispered a Voice unto me, The singing "Arise!" and I caught the sun creep. Of birds through theblossom-drifts white, in And the far bells' silvery ringing! In under the door of the room; All my stained robe, as I stood And my eyes, still salt from old weep. In the sunlight, grew pure; the lark ing, winging, Looked up and saw 'twas a tomb. Shook musico'er pasture and wood. Then I remembered it all:- Out on the glittering lands The hush of loved voices; the token A great white army went slowly Of roses- the tears you let fall; With branches of palm in their hands, The robs half smothered and broken. 'Mid the silence seraphic and holy, Ah. long it had seemed since my breast,- Went over smooth hills by the sea, With the farewells only half spoken,- Vhence the Voice came murmuring Had heaved its last sigh into rest. lowly, In dust fell the wreath from my head. and come unto Me!" As I broke through the cobwebs that FRapturous thrill of those words! bound me; As I felt all their meaning awaken, Still, still the Voice beautiful said, My heart leaped up with the birds, "Arise!" and I felt all around me; All thoughts of old sorrows forsakest Till on the mildewy floor, And out by the fields and the sea Standine a-tremble I found me, I stole till the throng was o'ertaken, And stealthily opened the door. And sighed, "Unto Thee! Unto Thee!" -New York Independent. How dimmu captured a 2000-Ton Tramp By Percie W. Hart. HESE are very nice, my boy," re marked the old merchant, as he handed the char ter-party copies back to young Jimmy Evans. "I like to see them done so neatly and ruled so correctly. Little things like that add greatly to the reputation of our office. Keep on as you're doing, and we'll see if we can't make a first-class hlip broker out of you." The lad's face Bushed crimson with mixed. pleasure and embarrassment, and, saying nothing, which was a very good answer under the circumstances, be hastened back to his tall desk. "Gee-whillikens!" ejaculated Ralph Connor, after Mr. Grenhard had left the office. "I've been here over a year now, and the old man has never given me any such dose of taffy in the whole Lime." "Good reason why," growled the eld erly office manager, who could not help overhearing the conversation of the two lads. "You take a Whole day to make one set of copies, what with tearing up expensive blanks and begin ning again, and even then they're so smudgy and blurred that it's all one can do to read, let alone admire them. The trouble with you, Ralph Connor, is that you don't understand the mean bng of what you are writing. You go at it just as if you were a parrot. Young Evans has pretty nearly both ered the life out of me by asking ques tions, but I will say that he seems to profit by what he is told." "I'm sure, I'm very mdch obliged, Mr. Waldron. for all your kindness to me," said Jimmy. "I know that I owe a great-" "Oh, it's all right," interrupted the manager. "Come over here and check off these commission accounts with me." At the close of this lengthy task. young Jimmy fidgeted about a moment or two, and then said: "Mr. Waldron, may I ask--" Ralph Connor, over at the next desk, commenced to snicker and work one arm like a pump-handle. The office manager turned on his high stool to glare at the humorist, and then back to Jimmy, merely saying. "Well?" "Er-may I ask," repeated the boy, nervously, "may I ask why Mr. Gren hard is so excited about not getting this two-thousand-top steamer char ter?" "Can't get the stcimer," replied the effice manager, without turning around "But there are lots of them in the harbor," persited the youth. "Why. I saw dosens, when I came over in the ferryboat from Jersey this morning." "Yes, I dare say, but they're all either liners or ready chartered," said Mr. Waldron, fussing with some docu ments as he spoke. "You see, this war in South Africa hafmade a great scar city in tramp steamships at New York, as well as at other ports. The British Government is using a great many in its transport service. I'll venture to say there are a dosen firms waiting to snap up just such a ship as we want the moment she arrives. I don't sup pose you reatly know what a tramp steamer is." "No, sir," said Jimmy, "I do not. I've always lived Inland until we came here, and am not posted on any kind of shipping very much, but now that I'm in the business, I'm going to learn all I can about them." "That's rght," returned the manager, admiringly. "Here's a little pointer for you, now. A tramp steamship is one belonging to no regular line, but seeking cargoes from one port to an other, wherever she can get them." "And we have an order to charter a two-thousand-ton tramp steamship, and have not been able to and one, as yet?' inquired the lad. "Just so," assented Mr. Waldron. but what makes the thing worse is this order comes from our.biggest cus tomer, and he declares that, unless we can secure the charter for him by to morrow morning, he will take his busi mess to another ship brokerage con -ern." "Whew!" whistled Jimmy, doletfully. "So I shouldn't wonder it we lost our biggest account," went on Mr. Wal dron. sardonically. "But such a tramp steamer may come Into harbor by to-morrow morn Ing," spoke up Jimmy, eagerly. "Yes, but it it should, how can we be sure-of getting her? The Maritime Exchange serves us all alike in the matter o reporting arrivals. Other brokers have the same show as we do," observed the manager. And he coucludtd by nodding his head slignai. -antly over to.ard the pled-ap work an the junlor elek' deskc. sAnd Jimmny Evans and the rest eo the oMee staR of Grshard & C., ship brokers, of New York OCity. Wem -on Irtmeded in tthe details of the regular laboes. Late that aftroeJimy left the ees and hsasin teward hIs erd basnhe. Jagh s n gb thef, sr ae -as is ps -teag * prMos at W r street, and became very much excited on noticing a certain craft In the I North River. The vessel was heading inshore, and evidently was about to come alongside of a dock. Any long a shoreman, and half of the city landlub g bers, could have told at a glance that i. she was a private yacht, but Jimmy s never asked. He was possessed with u the Insane idea that she was a tramp I steamer, just arriving. The question t of her probable tonnage bothered him. r "I'm sure I can't guess whether she I is of two or ten thousand tons," he s muttered, desperately. But putting this detail aside for a b moment the lad dodged his way across t, the street, in and out among the reck p lessly driven teams, entered the freight i, shed, very much out of breath, and waited for the craft to make her land b ing. This was accomplished in short It order, and scarcely had the gang plank r touched the wharf before Jimmy was a running up it, very nearly bowling e over a portly individual who was about to commence the descent. I- "Well, young man," began the latter, t a tr)fle brusquely, as he staggered f back from the shock of the encounter, y "what are you trying to do? Knock h me-" *- "Please, sir-er-captain-excuse my 0 haste, but are you a tramp?-er-that e is, your vessel, I mean-is she a tramp * steamship?" interrupted the excited re youth. - "Hey?' snorted the other, wonder o Ingly. "Because, If she Is, I can offer you a Sise charter," went on the guileless Jimmy, "that ls-er-if your boat does o not run much over two thousand tons." "Bless me! The boy must be crhzy,' exclaimed the portly individual. o "If I'm right in my guess that this vessel is a two-thousand-ton tramp steamer, and I do hope I am, you really must give our firm the chance h of chartering her," rattled on the en thusiastic youth. "What is the name or your firm?" queried the other, commencing to be Sinterested by the lad's combination of ignorance and earnestness. "Grenhard & Co., one of the oldest ta and best in our line," declared Jimmy, , proudly. "And what share may you have In the firm?" questioned the elderly man. "Me? Oh, I'm only a junior clerk. the lowest in the office. I suppose 1 really ought to be called the errand `g boy, but Mr. Waidron---" "If the office boy of the concern runs around hunting up steamships for d charter, I wonder what duties the head of the arm reserves for himself?" com e mented the portly individual, much is amused. "But you have not answered my 1 question yet," put in Jimmy, fearing Id that he was not making a good Im . pression. "I don't mind telling you ir that it Is a very important matter for . us. Unless we make this charter by k to-morroW morning we shall lose our ,h biggest customer." in "Dear me, dear .s-," cried the ether, to "that's too bad --after all your ei.er to tions, too." "t "Then you're not a two-thousand-ton p. tramp steamer?" queried the boy, with p a falling Inflection in his voice. "No, only a $200,000 steam.yacht," t. replied the portly individual, gravely, e "but I like your spirit, and I'll tell you id what we might do. We might help at you to find what yon're looking for." .n Jimmy was overcome by the friendly tones of the other, and stood abashed, r, but secretly hopeful. W "Captain Patterson." called the is other, beckoning a grissled old sailor at to his side; "this young man is in -. search of an incoming tramp steamer of about 2000 tons, that may be open a for charter. See if you can help him p, out. I won't need the yacht again till Ls late-to-morrow." "Aye, aye, sir," replied the mariner, 0, touching his cap with a forefinger, and is speaking as if such an order was noth l. Ing out of the common way. ,e "And, by the bye, young man." said o. the portly individual, interrupting 1- Jimmy's torrent of thanks, and turn .- ing to descend the gang plank; "you would better send a telegram to you y. people, so that they won't be worried ar should you be absent over night." .I- And away he went to a waiting cah with an attendant valet and two sail my ors loaded down with small luggaga n. After having followed the uggestia of the thoughtfual yacht owner Jimmy re returned aboard, the gang plank wa ne taken In, hawsers cast of, and the lt be tie steamship departed upon her odd er misason, steaming directly down th. re great New York Bay, and into tu be opea sea. rk On the foillowing morning the secuo partner of Grenhard & Co. sabowed of som anxiety in his face as he entered , tho edaee. so "Where's Bvans?" he demanis uir Ieeag over at the unoaeceuple desk. -Nt here yet, sir," chirped hal --K--'-. he ommVe. sr "let I guess." grswmS em -O he ssaas. .r arlS. , . I hew mOt" -*-- - the kindly old man. "Mr. Lawson has not been here yet, Waldron, has her "No, but he telephoned that he would be in a few minutes. Here he s now." "Good morning, Mr. Grephard," cried a thin, under-sised personage, with bright red hair, entering at the mo- a ment. "I hope you've got that charter all fixed for me." "My dear Mr. Lawson," commenced N the old broker, in an evitdentl* Apolo - getic manner, "I trust you----" ii "I am a man of my word," Inter- s rapted the newcomer. "If you haven't v that steamer for me I'll transfer my b custom.elsewhere. Grimshaw has cut n In ahead of me twice now, and itf you o can't supply the vessel--" a While Mr. Lawson was delivering I this tirade Jimmy Bvans had come in, o looking very white about the face, but o with excitement glistening in his eyes. d Hastily scribbling a few words upon a e scrap of paper he stepped forward and 14 presented it to his employer. He re- t! turned to his desk Immediately after a doing so. a Mr. Grenhard glanced carelessly at v the little memorandum, started, read it t again, and then stared over at the how t busily-engaged junior in open-mouthed t amazement. a "-I'll simply have to do as I said," e continued the would-be charterer, "and a hoake a new connection." "I would remind you that I, also, am a a man of my word," replied the head s of the firm, throwing back his head, a "and I never promise unless I can ful- t fill the obligation. I must confess that t I really did not think that I could fill Ii your last order, but, by a lucky chance i here is just what you wanted, the 'Ce. I cilia,' 2100 tons, is in my hands for ( charter at a lump sum within your c limit. This vessel Is just entering the harbor, light, and will be ready to load t at once." Indications point to the lowest of the junior clerks of Grenhard & Co. as one of the coming successful mer chants of the great city.-Success. ' I FACTS ABOUT THE COUNTIES. I the shortest Name - Caster outa , t Mor., Biggest it Area-Lost Counties. Some pecullar facts are being brought 1 out by the twelfth census concerning I counties. For instance the shortest I name of a county is I, in Oklahoma, I while the longest is Saint John theai Baptist, a parish in Louisiana. t Nebraska had a county named L'Bau I qul Court, but the people had it I changed to plain Knox in 1873. since I which time it has grown from seventy eight to 14,343. Vernon County, Wi Is6 was formerly known as Bad Ax. Min- I nesota once named a county Toombs, then changed it to Andy Johnson, and i now it appears as Wilkins. North Da- I kota boasted a county called Gin I Grass, but it was changed to Wells. 1 Twenty-six States have honored Wash ington with a county bearing his I name; twenty-one States have a Jeffer son and a Jackson County; Lincoln ap- I pears in sixteen States. Montana has the county with the largest area, Custer, which covers 20,- I 490 square miles; the second largest is Ban Bernardino County, Cal, with 19,- i 947 square miles. Both counties are larger than either Maryland, Massa chusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island or Vermont. The smallest county is Bristol, R. I., which has only twenty square miles, and Alexandria County, Va., is next, with thirty-two square miles. Texas has 245 counties, the largest number. Delaware has three counties and Rhode Island ave. Wy oming and Arizona have the unlucky number of thirteen each. Texas covers 265,780 square miles, and Is not half so large as Alaska, which has 590,884 square miles. Mon. tana comes next to Texas in size and has 146,080 square miles. The Dlstrict I of Columbia covers the smallest areas of any division, seventy square miles. There are several counties lost,. strayed or stolen. Nothing has bees heard from MonkantacoCounty'. Min., since 1850, when it had a population of 158. Wahnetta County, is the same State, disappeared about the saunme time with a population of two more than the other. Carson County, Ne vada, has been missing since 1800. Among the other countles which have disappeared are one of the Dawson counties in Texas, oledar ¢'o-mty. Utah, an] Lyons C~uty, Nebraska.-Nc. York Sun. leaeno's Tenement Cities. Mr. John Martin. writing in the World's Work, tells. the remarkable way by which Londoh helps to house its poor. The Council has acquired land, he says, for no less than the actual crea tion of two cities, one in the south of London, at Tooting, and the other in the north at Wood Green. The plans for these are drawn and show that on the former 5800 persons will reslde and on the latter 42,500. At Wood Green, where $7,500,000 will be invest ed, a space will be left in the centre for public buildings (a library Is 1l ready promised by Mr. Passmore Ed wards) and a park will be laid out at the edge of the estate where a little stream winds through it. This will be a very Garden City, self-supportig from the first and likely to yield large revenues ultimately to the public land lord. The inhabitants will enjoy self government. They will neither be de bauched by charity or oppressed by rackrents. The advantage to them will be to have a model landlord in a model city; the advantage to the ge eral taxpayer will be the creation of a munlcipal estate without cost to himl and the advantage to the whole com* munity will lie In some relief to over corwdin. Streeg Mee d r ,len Weed. The Boman soldiers, who built such wonderful roads and carried a weight of armor and lggage that would erush the average frm-hund, lived ea oarse bown bread and sor wnlas. Tey were temmperate in diet and zeu lr ad eoastant in enerise The Speans peasant works evert day and es har r the nsit, yet eats e l his Mark bread, tieo ad waterash ttleo rult and -our ves ~s. he walks et with his asi er tsee hem tm e and - e adas 5sl c aI-- satire s e n EVOLUTION OF THE COVERNESS. Mws An and selones asad Has Maor Other Aeoemplishkents. The resident lady governess, who, in romance, has always played suclf a vivid, telling part, and who, in real life, drew a salary a cools would de spise, and accepted snubs a housemaid would resent, is no more. In her place has appeared the lady tutor, who does not expect to entangle the affections of the young gentleman of the family, accept a pittance in exchange for the Instruction she gives, or play the part of mental maid qf 411 work to a crew of noisy, restless, badly spoiled chil dren. First and foremost she is a college graduate, with a sheepskin, a lotof self-rebpect and several special ties. She has either graduated with a view to making private Instruction, as she calls it, her life work, or she will take a position as summer tutor to children whose parents wish them to be 'coached in' certain lines; and this she does merely to tide over a dull season or accumulate funds for furth er Intellectual expansion at home or abroad. Whether a professional or tempor ary tutoress, she does not pretend to give training in all the arts, sciences and accomplishments as her incompe tent predecessor was always willing to guarantee. This up-to-date private Instructor will conduct courses in American history and in biology, or higher mathelbaticg and English, or German literature with music, and the choice is usually dependent Upon what lines the young lady has followed with the greatest interest at college. In Winter and in the city tl tutoress prefers to have her clientele and go from house to house, giving hours or half hours of instruction, as do the mnusic teachers. When the parents, as is usually, the case in summer, want a resident tutoress for the children it would blanch with horror the cheek of the oid-style story book governess to hear the bold style in which the college bred tutoress speaks up for her rights. She is, as a rule, willing to take the children for instruction just so many hours every day; her own hours of privacy and recreation must be re spected, and her salary Is just about four times as big as that paid in the days of Jane Eyre and her sister helots. Not often do the parents offer any serious objections or haggle over terms, and they respect the simply dressed, dignified, clever young wom en who know their value and their business. A wise parent sets a deal of store by the moral and mental in fluence this type of instructress exerts on the children, and this year a new tequirement has crept into the terms on which a private instructress is en gaged. This is athletics. The tutoress who can play golf, swim, row, ride, drive, has a fine wrist for tennis, a good hand on the tiller, and is not afraid of an automobile, can get double the price given her sister who is all intellectual fire, but lacks in muscle. Not only does this muscular tutor get a higher price for her time and tal ents, but, as one young woman who had a good post last summer found out, slt secues by her skill and brawn the particular respect of her boy scholard, and enjoys a delightful social value, which, without her physl cal grace and outdoor acecmplish ments, would never have fallen to her share.-Washington Star. Nlgalrag Faney of the Hour. Tailor made suits with coquettish adjuncts are the reigning fancy of the hour. They are trimmed for the most part with stitched bands of some light color, the material being either cloth, silk or linen. Mohair comes in for its share of attention, and of the usual trimming for such a gown is ecr bha tiste perforated and embroidered. For example, a costume worn recently by one of the season's brides was a navy blue mohair made with both blouse and skirt laid in box pleats. Those on the skirt end below the trimming in the shape of a dcep-ftted flounce. The trimming which formed the short bol ero jacket on the bodice, with sides that descended the skirt and encircled it in a wide band, was of ecru bastise perforated and embroidered with white cord. A charming model of light weight black 'loth has a skirt cut with a deep-shaped flounce, on which Is mounted a serpentine trimming of white taffeta, elaborately stitched and perforated. Gold thread being used to fill in the perforations. The same trimming appears on the sides of the jacket, which are cut to fall below the waist line. The collar is of heavy cream lace. A recently imported trock of gray canvas ha3 a skirt laid In box pleats, about an inch and z talf wide at the waist line, and wid ening out to three times that space at the bottom of the skirt. The pleats are stitched within an inch of the bottom of the skirt, forming a box rleated flounce, deeper behind than in front. On the bodice is a yoke of shirred gray moussaeline de joie, marked off into, diamonds with lines of black velvet---Chicago Record-Her ld. The Watlk stek Sa wowmes. Certain rumors as to things fashion able may be said to recur in cycles. The disappparance of the blouse, the revival of the crinoline, the restora tion of the patch and the coming of powdered hair are all predicted at In tervais, but fulfilment of the prophecy tarries. Just now the walking stick is enjoying attention, and we are be ing gravely informed In various dl rections that "smart people" are ear rying them, sad that they are the lat eat mode. But inqurles and obe-rva tion do not support the present gosip sany more than on puast occasols when similar reports have been started. One . ood and s let relason agalast any general adoption of them at present Is that with long skirts and no pock pets overburdemed womankinad eanne undertake to carry anything fu Iaer thsn ase is now mpelled to ear. As it is, she must stick hebar mite I a a hneehas lte the peepl -g o eabv take her maney ia a - iymeat he ue UrM -, Am inta tigation, too, of sandry famous thopi devoted to sticks and umbreilas doef hot reveal anything specially prepatre for feminine demands. The modert young man, it is true, is catered tot with so much grandeur in the mattes of gold mounting that it is possible some ladies may have said that they were too good for the tnornaniental ~ sex, and should be transferred to themselves.-New York commercial t' Advertiser. e To weea a Salrt Waist Well. n hvery woman wears a shirt waist, but not a great many Wear them well. To look one's best in a shirt waist it must be put on properly and a it must fit. If a shirt waist is adjust. a ed properly the effect is neat and trim r provided that it is spotlessly clean and a that all the appropriate accessorieq1i that go with it-collar, tie and belt-. are also spotless. Fluffy little ties and t jeweled belts with a wash waist arg I entirely out of place. With the shirt waist of to-day the straight-front corset, the equestriennq corset, the ribbon-girdle corset or thj corset waist is worn. During thq summer have plenty of changes in cor- I sets. Buy cheap ones, they wear and 1 keep their shape quite as well as the I more expensive varieties, and you will I be able to afford it. Qver your cor- 1 set wear a corset cover that ends at I the waist line. Then put on your shirt I waist and pin with a safety pin the i centre of your waist to a ribbon or tape sewn at the very edge of the back of your corset. Pin it so it will be taut, but not so that it will drag. The sides of the waist draw down nicely and smoothly and pin to the corset dl rect. Then put on your skirt and after adjusting it properly pin the front of your skirt to the centre front of your waist. Your belt and collar are then ready to put on. Not only will your shirt waist look well if the above suggestions are fol lowed, but your skirt will keep in place.-American Queen. The Open Sunbrsa, Not golden, but black and white are the rays of the "open sunburst" which is executed in hand embroidery on the yoke of a bodice, the collar band or perhaps the "half-bishops" of the sleeves on mademoiselle's golden linen oress. The rays are emphasised with white and black, as they could not be in solid black. A meteoric world of stars and suns has burst forth in the modern toilette. The edges of the pieces of embroidery are stitched with black to the gown. The skirt is probably made with a gradu. ated circular flounce, beaded, you may be sure, with a hand-embroidered band of open sun-bursts. If the effect is good on gold-colored linen it is just as effective in sea-green linen. It is difficult to devise a more cool looking costume than one of sea green, relieved *pith knots of black, or tiny applications of embroidery - is black and white. Such a color scheme rests the ege in the hot months, when one wearies of the profusion of car. rant reds, cranberry pink foulards and glowing tints generally. Ladseape'Oatesaitng For women. Landscape gardening is a calling that must be learned the same as any other. A young man would be ex pected to devote some years to it3 study and practice before he could be intrusted with the commission of work of much importance, and there is no reason why less should be expected of a woman. Cocd work is demanded, and in order to meet the demand there must be thorough knowledge of all its details, and this can only come through practical experience. If a wompaa has aptitude for the profes sion, atd is willing to serve an appren i ticeship at it, as a man must, there is to reason why she should not un t dertake the work, provided she is tphysically strong.--ben E. Bexford, , i the Ladies' Home Journal. I mau woeman Arehselelrst. Mrs. Sarah Yorke Stevenson, of the , Department of Archaeology in the SUnJve~sity of Pennsylvania, has bees rmade a doctor of eclence by the Uni versity. She was one of the founders Sof the archaeological department in the university, one of the firat mem be'r of the American Exploration So Sciety, an! is a member of many seten * tife societies in different parts of the Sworld. SShe has been sent to Rpme and to a Egypt on archaeological tours, and t through her co-operation with the Brlt t ish Egyptian Research Assoelation, SPhiladelphia mnd the unlvereity have t received vdulable relie fr3m the Nile 3 Valley. W hy a Girl Csant Threw. A satburban physician, who has often e been amused at the efforts of the Bryn Mawr girls, was talking the other day. S"It is a physical inpossibility for a d girl to throw strongly and accarately, Sas a boy throws," he said. "A girl Sthrows with a rigid arm, and it is out e of the question for her to acquire a Sfree movement, such as is possible with a boy, because her collar bone is larger and sets lower than a boy's. In other sports, where this action is not t brought into play, she may excel; but she may as well give up all hope of ever learning to throw."-Phl.adelphis Record. The Girl bank Mensenser. The girl bank messenger on her way to make a deposit has her hands very much engaged. On rainy days she - who has not adopted the abbreviated e skirt is seen handicapped as follows: SUmbrella, handkerchief, pocketbook and passbook all held in one hanrd, Swhile the other is holding her dress Sup, all of which suggests that it is k surprising that highway robberies of this class are so uncOmmo.--New I York Herald. .I- ews war She Eam - The ue of pins to hold up stamy p hairs at the back of tbhe head is pea a nag out of fashim, and little bek e velvet bows are preferred insts 1 At y ter tbhe hairs are gsathered p ms it tr it the pin. the velvet may be sflpId he. - neath thes, and them tied lt a bow. .- .sw l na. so Wma al Petty little coesull te inerlu a have a bhigrk hemistwh edge gad a St it -of ema mewy . *, B mar.u wU SIbttle leer-statepsl blaeek, 'T de m ase se prsuty asd I, iS a. ales ts q be e 8*4seist M ege 0- ~ntIW FHBI IB GARIEJI always Treat the 111.6 Well. Stock well wintered is half sam- I iaered. When poorly cared for they a grow poor, and half the summer's pas- a Iture is lost; b7 the time the surammer is I ended such stock has just begun to fat- a ten nicely. Treat stock well for profit's I sake and for humanity's sake. , s the Wiadmlll as the trls. The windmill has become a necessity I on farms. In proportion to cost " gives more power and service than any I machine or Implement on a farm. Not I only will a windmill pump water, but 1 will abo grind the grain, saw wood. Scut the coarse food and furnish power I for many other purposes. They have I been greatly improved, and are capa ble of doing much more than manp I suppose. Developing s High-Clase Dresd. The characteristics of a breed can be fixed only by careful selection of the best specimens year after year, in a breeding being resorted to by breeders 1 in order to avoid out-crosses. It may require half a century to bring a breed t to the desired position sought, hence t t-ose who cross two different breeds e are liable to destroy the good qualities r of both. o Parsnlps For Mileh Cows. e The parsnip is probably one of the 7 best roots ever grown for milch cows, I- and it has a great ad~antage in that it r may remain in the field until spring I when other roots are all gone, and r then be used until grass has grown. It n is as easily grown as the carrot, and like that root it wants a deep, rich and' k mellow soil. Many object to growing 1- it even in the garden, because the n weeds are apt to get such a growth before the parsnips come up that the labor of weeding is greatly increased, but this may be remedied by mixing a few radish seed with the parsnip seed, which will come up so that the rows 7 can be seen and hoed out long before St.e parsnips are tip. They can be 'f pulled when the parsnips pre thinned. ' - d rentilating the Cow Stable. d The cow stable attached.to the farm Ic barn owned by G. W. Emery may be t ventilated with a trap door over the 1 feeding alley or manger, or, better yet, by a chute running from the cejllng 1e through the roof, as Indicated in the u accompanying illustration. , This chute must be closed at the rd ti me n** r-b - cow sTArza wrT V NTuLATOs. lower end with a slide, so that the elr culation can be controlled. Fresh air iy may be admitted through the opening i in the rear at a. care being used to ta place the opening so as to prevent di e ect drafts upon the animals. It the k cows face the teeding alley running to along the side next the main barn, a )f good place for the introduction of fresh air would be at the, end of the Salley, say at b. During vEPy cold ti weather these openings may be closed l entirely. In ventilating through chutes a one should be placed every twenty-five f_ eet throughout the length of the barn. --American Agriculturist. naisiag Irish Wetatees. is Success in giowing Irish'potatoes de , pends on two things chiefy. One ti deep plowing and thorough pulveris tion of the soil before planting and the other Is early cultivatlon. Other things el being equal, potatoes that are planted o in deeply stirred, thoroughly pqlver ised soil will produce a third more po i- tatoes during a dry season than if rs planted in comparatively shallow ~l ground. Deep plowing is best for a n- rainy season, too, as the surplus moist -. nre passes down more readily, and the n. top soil may then be cultivated oftener heo than if plowed light originally. In fact, in growing this crop deep plowing to is very essential to success. It is much ad easier to dig or plow out the potatoes, it- too, when the soll has been deeply and i, thoroughly stirred during cultivation. -o That in favor of early cultlivation is ;l also important. Just as soon as the spronts break the soil the caltivator should be applied and used often until the vine is in bloom. In laying the ecrop by a heavy double ridge should p be thrown to the row. This is another y·-teature of importanee should the a weather turn out dry during the latter l, part of thd season, which is so often rl the case. With the seed deeply planted ut in loose soil, the rows thoroughly clean a and well ridged up at blooming time a aIc good crop may be said to be assured, is no matter what kind of weather smay ln come later.--H. B. Geear, in The Bpl ot tomist. at of Cra Cultar ea Klm Farms. al A thorough preparation of the land for corn is of greatest importane; where this is done the after-work of uenltlvation will be comparatively easy. ay and with proper implements can be y easily and quickly done. Corn should he be planted with a machine, as in this way the hills are placed a little bel.w r: the surface of the field, which will al ok low of the smoothing harrow, or better Sstill, the weeder, being used without Sinjury to young plants. S ~ior best work the ield should be of clear of stone or other obr io, Sand eultivatloahsbould be t rl, no wtter if before the corn is aborve ground. The object shld be to keeLg the surtace soil fine and mellow to s tsight depth amid destroy alal r-· La l weed seeds or vegetation. Where the weeder is sed the wor to be efeetive must be begu befor SIans or weeds get a start, or the grooad becomses paeked or herd, o i will be e Mttle eet-. It shold e nud at Iset.amee a week ltl the g arn gets t high tfr pth pe a whes the catvata my take p Ies SWith the wauis as s- uao hear s l "s gD~ r;: It w rsdqr bhle sa1ehine. This goes astride the row., I edfiatinag on both sides at once, and doing the work most thoroughly and wel' With improved implements a mauh more thorough and effective cault tivation can be performed with the same amonou of time and labor, com pared with older methods. But they r should be used more often, keeping the soil well stirred and mellow, the weeds I in subjectiog' hus giving the crop a much better chance to appropriate the fertilising elements both from the sell and air.- ' RB Towle, in Farm and ! Home. s . trereasing iS.l ertUllty. Any system of farming that has within its consideration the improve sments of soil, Is incomplete without t proper disposal of crops. The increas Sing of erops is generally to be consid r ered of paramount importance, and , their disposal only less so. To feed all crops, with perhaps the exception of r wheat, upon the farm, Is to increase the soil fertility in the quickest way providing, of course, the feeding is properly done. To begin with, no farm a is complete without its horses. On a e farm of "orty acres two horses will be L. suffclent. A sixty acre farm will need s three, and so on for each additional y twenty acres up to 100. After that one d horse for each additional forty acres e would be sufficient. I am speaking of Is work horses that are necessary for s plowing, sowing, reaping, hauling, etc., on the farm. Should one care to raise young horses for market they would take the place of some other animal. te Cattle and hogs are and should be s, the main dependence for'stock on the it average farm. Cattle should have first ig place in that they are so very helpful id in the profitable raising of hogs. When it pigs have a part milk ration their id growth is fast and their health as d' sured. Cows are the greatest consum ig ers of rough provender, thus convert ie ing what would otherwise be a total th loss into a gilt-edged article. The farm ie of the dairyman is a farm always in d, creasing in value and fertility, and as a a general thing the dairyman Teeds d, more than he produces on his farm, rs thus bringing in fertility from else re where. The average farmer should I keep more cattle, and there should be d. a preponderance of milk cows. For every good cow there should be a good brood sow, for in the economy of a in farm these two animals go together. e the hog supplementing the cow.. The me idea is to take everything to market in t. a condensed form, leaving all refuse ig to increase soil fertility.-A. N. Spring le er, in The Epitomist. e Graftlas the Peash. The peach is difficult to graft in the usual way, by cleft grafting, but it can be done, for we succeeded once, though only that one time, and as it was so uncertain-or, rather, so certain to fail -we gave it up. Our finding out the right way was a kind of accident, not necessary to be detailed now. The mode is what has, been termed aide grafting and is illustrated by the cut herewith. It is applicable to young trees from half an Inch to an inch in diameter. The stock is cut of three, "or four inches above the point` at Ir which the graft is to be made-best ag generally a short distance above the to surface of the ground. An incision is' U. then made in the side 6f the stock at he a he I Id atres is incision may be.n inch s ,. lee-th. ninowtobprepa by lower end into the ordinary we fo, it is thee inserted n the Soblique cut made by the anife in the tide of the stock.ded is done withoutarp L dfiulte y which enterlag the bart r tcon of the stock abov te to the cen--as a lever to hold the incision opmay ben wch ile st the scion is put in plae. Of our re The must be takennow to bring the innerby t have innrg down bark nch or o of the stock, as in oi olnary gatng. And iten ordserted that the lch oilqon ct may bde by theplace firmly, a the rthide of thore toc.waxing, which is done withont ton ofusual way. But t stock ovabove the grtee- a i leer to hold the sfirmly without a hie.l is growing thriftily the stub is t place. OF o tort off smoothly, with slop bring cuthe on stu b of the soff in ease of a growith buthe the Previous to this the tl In omudlst looked raftier And cutin ordert that tre eion may be held l plareven t from cutting intormly, a the the grosft by the growth.d be applied; ter We have used this wg, method up done tin ten tbranches as waell as near the ounree red foranch half a inchb or so in diameter will Shold the sdoqrmlyant bud putot a tie. Siurl t-was Inadmm ver when tlye graft e low hg htTi the searly is to beApril, t and whing to save the bud foping eat on ofpl the paride oppoft the branch with the bua oab it was cut wedg ce fashion and growing bad . red iother limb of the te mrt be loosied rafter and iat wast the proper d time, to prhe bud growing and aking ep; tod grahft by the tree. of We ave ased this method ap to the uey, brace. as well as ne the moudh. O be ~ d very rarely trhad a a stock three a id Isbanch alf di amth or an lt didwmetellt his tIad whim had ato bemad of a cowitha ms' ¢w rkety-a dormant btd pot on the pr a-I veous fall-was minadertentle cat be tterlow te bad. This walLs euar to p of tos pt of the branc with the bad be on it wh eat wedge efahion thd Inu aIs esetd toea other 1mb of the tree by oe ce, the bad grow.g a mah ag a ast-*th s otha srott trweve appear r It1 te ia ltbe sad to be dels with a Pns yj-- see JirJ sea.-assess posea d U {Itti anN If Wft~a Gov mor-W. W. Heard, a Lifrntentot.vwar--AIbt Eat. pinal SSecretary of State--John Miohel. Saperintendentdof Eduotioa--4oh* V. Calhoun. Auditor-W. S. Frne e. Treasurer--JiedoGI E. Smith. L U. S. SENATORS. Don Cafferey aod S. D. Vornety. REPRESENTATIVES. 1 Dibriot-i. U. Dave'. 2 District Ado!ph Meyer. SH District-B. F. Broussard. * District-P llraittale. t I & District-1. E. Iatiadell. 6 Distrio-t1 M Robinson. a O UIv sadOSGldsd isetor C da t lades tlAcs .l sEnsteu alndStL to itiw4m!Smin56S wth n t 1a0the t h 1llis siiiw ber tdsrs t.jS6'5S.lrC7 sad they anever Idý SW eesaW l !a at tM sa e.ti b N1, .s e S Usalgee.' lad fortt o. ~..m SOU&I !irtst ~is rt-i In MississiNpI vuIlge as Bail ~ad mýaima do Uosurpasui : 3iy :.Srm 'be 111 OEm srn & $Lri~ od of0aneotia$ at K phfh v~h a Itrds Of the Iulinokl 01w. twtf~loc~rat Railroad tot bes ul setra BtIIOH LW~Y..J he cGrq. 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