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r GOT Tl? S ' De-voted to tlxo Iiitoroestes of XX.vclin County and Xlor Pooplo. VOLUME XVI. SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1900. NUMBER 43. r4 13 r '3 v i 5? 1 1 DON'T HEGIN. Don't beBfn to grumble: "J011 t begin to fret; rgB:Tyb'' are tiresome, lhey'll be brighter yet! Don't begin to fancy Yours a grievous load; There a bigger burden Just across the road. Don't begin to worry Over what "they say;" Sk.,your ta"laiid dolt, That's the better way. Don't begin to envy; Jealousy U blind; Keep the smiles before yon, told the scowls behind. Don't begin to wander From the narrow road; Those alone are hnppy Who can walk with God. Downward, ever downward Falls the slope of sin; Stopping Is not easy; Therefore don't begin. London 8. 8. Times. A Cessation ol Hostilities j THE tramp was different from the accepted type, inasmuch as his ciothes were fairly respectable and whole, although they had been in tended for a large man, and he was undersized and slightly built, lie had evidently been shaved within the last three days. Sot only had he been Bhaved, but his hair had been cut very closely, indeed, nud his fuce wag lean and pale. Hut with all this he was not much more pleasant to look at than any bearded, tattered a ltd bulky member of the wandering fruternity would have been. His face had hard lines in it, and he was tbin-lipped and snaky-eyed, a down-looking man, with the true trampish shamble in his gait and sneaking shoulders. Apparently he had been passing the night in the lee of a hay stack, for there were tpears of timothy clinging to his coat end in the rolled fold of his trousers, and the sun was not yet high. Yet lie already limped, and presently went over to the ditch in the shade of the osage hedge and sat down with his back to the road. First he pulled a flat bottle from bis pocket and swore, seeing that it was empty. Then he siowly took off his shoes and examined a blister that one of them had chafed on his heel. Its condition was evidently unsatis factory, for he swore again, and then, feeling in his pocket, drew forth a dirty rag, which he tore into strips and bound on the afliicted foot. At last he rose slowly Biid reluctantly and slouched on. There was a hill to climb, nnd as he reached its crest he taw a short distance away a little farmhouse, with the smoke curling -from the kitchen chimney in graceful wreaths. The wanderer stopped and made a careful reconnoissance. lie saw two or three fields away a man plowing corni and still farther away another man hoeing a row of something. He - reasoned that two men were about all that were necessary to run a farm ef that size, and the smoke seemed to promise a meal, so he cut a stick from the hedge nnd advanced to the gate. Here he stopped a moment and ex a mined the gate posts, and something he saw there induced him to turn Wk for a few steps, but hunger was gnawing at his inwards, and he mut tcred: "I'll risk it." Mrs. Sim Leacox was known throughout that neighborhood as a real good manager and a terror. She could get up such a thrashing good dinner that her fame as a cook had spread through three counties. Her pies, cakes, doughnuts and preserve were the envy of all the housewives far and near; her energy was super natural, and her tongue was sharp and bitter, as Sam Leacox knew to his cost, and as the hired man knew utmost as well. Mrs. Leacox was- nearly six feet tall, muscular and long around. If Sim had ever shown any signs of insubordination Rhe would have been perfectly capable 01 span inn- him and ouite likely to have . done so. It was Sim's thorough re alizntion of this that kept his home peaceful to a certain extent. There was another thing about Mrs. Le- cox she hated tramps. ; The most masculine-minded and muscled women have their little fem inine weaknesses, towever, nnd Mrs, Leacox was a Arm believer in ghosts and signs and omens and dreams jnore particularly dreams because he usually slept too soundly and, her digestion was too good for her to be Lnthareil in that way very often. She irenernllv went to bed at nine o'clock and snored sonorously until four in the summer, or six in the winter, i ... whe exnressed it. she 'never Vnn'wed nothin' from the time her Lead hit the pillar." But good diges tion will not prevent the falling of .iiii.t-iurg or the thousand ana oilier little warnings vouchsafed by the powers of the middle air to ap. prise inltinted mortals of coming good Jw evil fortune. On the same mora ine; thnt the tramp crawled out of via nest bv tho timothy haystack something uncanny happened to Mrs, t...neox's stove-im liner. i,o Interpretation of signs Mrs ' 1 cacox relied upon the "Gipsy Queen's 11,-eam Hook," a green-paper-covered brochure that she reverenced next to the family Bible and consulted far oftcner. it Is to De leareu. ..., it,i lifter misconducted i Mrs Leacox hied in perturbation of ....:,! tn her dream book, ai that her worst forebodings were more San confirmed. It betokened, the 7 . . said, sudden death and gipsy wHh the mllklnir 0f J0bB . .nemv. although she neg. or ioi ... ..I..-. u uno rder these f P, 7 Yn state in what order these Jected to state m ; wra to come. JUiu ujera was still a chance. "If," continued the oracle, "this should) happen on Friday nnd the dreamer feeds bounti fully the first beggar who comes to the door the troubles may be averted." "Small chance of that," thought Mrs. Leacox. "They ain't likely to come here any time, an' they'd nnehally think twicet before they took the resk of a Friday." The rec ollection of the last tramp who had visited her and of his hurried retreat to the road followed by Dentist nnd of his fearful maledictions as he fleet all this rose up in judgment against the farmer's wife and troubled her exceedingly. She laid her dish towel down after 'she had wiped the last of her breakfast dishes and then went out and. chained Dentist up. Most of the morning she brooded over the sign and tried to imagine what par ticular calamities were likely to be fall her, and, at lust, looking out of the window, saw the pale-faced tramp at the gate. Her first impulse was to take down the big tin dipper and ladle out some scalding water from the iron kettle. Her next was to go to the pantry and take stock of the eatables there, bul before she could do either the tramp was knocking humbly at the door. Oh, but he was an humble and soft- spoken ma nl A victim of 1 cruel and altogether undeserved fa;c, hungry with the hunger begotten of a three days' fast, just out of the hospital, and weak and weary. Trying to make hit way back to .Missouri, wnere an wealthy relatives would receive him with open arms. "Just out o' jail, you menu, said Mrs. Leacox. "An' it won't be long afore you're bnck there again, or I miss my guess. Well, if you want suthin to eat, come in. It was an ungracious invitation, bul the tramp wondered thnt it was given at all.- lie was still more surprised when the hostess set herself about the preparation for his meal. " 'Bounti ful,' the book says," thought Mrs. Lea cox, and she had no intention ol lull Ing to carry out the Instruction liter ally. Generous slices of hnm began to hiss and splutter in the frying pnn the coffee pot sent forth a fragrant aroma and a pan of biscuits was slid into the oven. On the table Mrs. Lea cox set a large dish of preserved peaches and a pie and fresh golden butter and pickles of appetizing np- pearanee. Here was a feast to tempt the most jaded palate, and the tramp really had not eaten for 14 hours. He looked around the kitchen and listened carefully to know whether any other creat ure stirred In the hone. There was nobody else, apparently. It was clear that the woman was par alyzed with fear that was the only reasonable explanation of her liberal' ity. He thought that he would make a trial of it. "Haven't you any aigs tc go with that ham?" he asked, roughly There was warning enough for hiir in the flash of her eye if he had been auick enouirh to see it. She had been washing in the little frame shed art joining the kitchen, and she instinc tively moved toward the broom hunuie with which she lifted the clothes out of the boiler, but the words of the gipsy queen recurred to her: "Feed bountifully the first beggar," and the first beggar had not yet been fed, Fate waited upon the feeding. "I guess mebbe I've got an egg or t wc left," she said, in a choking voice. "Get 'em. then," commanded the tramp. She obeyed and broke the eggs mtc the pan, and a few minutes later the tramp was eating ravenously, while the woman stood behind him, regarding him balefully with her teeth pressed tightly on her nether lip. After a little she moved toward the door, but the tramp shouted to her to stop where she was. "Have you got any whisky he asked. "You want whisky, do you?" she said. "You well, there ' isn t any in the house, b,ut you can have some more ham, if you want." He swore at her viciously, and told her to sit down and stir at her peril Then he once more applied himself to the food, until at last even his 14-hour appetite was satisfied, nnd he pushed back his chair. "Now," he said, smiling in nn ugly fashion, "I want a little financial as sistance. You've got money in the house. Well, I need money. Jlrwg it out, or" and he made a furious ges ture that rendered the completion oi the sentence nnnecessary. Mrs. Leacox rose at the. same time he did, "Have you had all you want to eat and drink?" she asked. "I've had all the grub I need. Now brine out thAt money." "Have you been fed bountifully?' persisted the woman. "I tell vou I've had all the grub 1 need." said the tramp. "ow brings' He did not complete this sentence either, because he found himself under the table, half-stunned, amid a wrec of crockery that he had pulled dow with the cloth. Before he could re cover from his surprise he was graspe bv the coat collar, lifted to his ftt. shaken and thrown violently against the door casing. He snarled, anul reaching in his pocket drew forth clasp knife, but before he could raise his hand the woman closed with iiim, twiBted the weapon from his grasp an drew her finger nnils across his face so that the blood ran. Then she hnd him bv the collar again and shook an buffeted him until he cried for mercy upon which she opened the door and thrust him ionn. He ran down the path to the gate without a trace of a limp and never checked his pace until he was a good m:arter of a mile up trie road. .Mrs, Leacox stood in the doorway panting from her recent exertion, but smiling iri-lmlv. "Well I fed bitn bountifully, any way," the said. Chicago Daily Ifecord CHRIST'S CHARACTER Dr.Talmage Speaks of the Earthly Life of the Savior. Chrlatlans Vraed to Emulate Quali ties Which Were Mot Con.plcu. oaaTh Spirit of Hard Work. Copyright, 1800, by Louis Klopsch.1 1 - Washington, In, this sermon, which Dr. lalmage ends from Paris, he analyzes the char acter of the Saviour and urges all Christians to exercise the qualities which were conspicuous in Christ i earthly life. The text is Romans 8:s: Now. if any man have not we ipim ef Christ, he is none of His." There is nothing more desirable than nleaaant disposition. Without it we cannot be happy ourselves or make others happy. When we have lost our temper or become impatient under some light oross, we suddenly awaken to new appreciation of proper equi poise of nature. We wish we had been born with self balance, wt envy mose people who bear themselves through life without any perturbation and we flatter ourselves that however little self control we may now have, the time will come, under the process of years, when we will be mellowed end softened and the wrong tilings wnicn are in us now will be all right, forgetful of the fact that an evil habit in our na ture will grow into larger proportions and that an iniquity not corrected will become the grandfather of a wnoie generation of iniquities. So that peo ple without the grace of God in the struggle and amid the annoyances and exasperations of life are apt to become worse instead of better. Now. the trouble is that we have a theory abroad in the world that a man's disposition cannot be changed. A man says: "I am irascible In tem per, and I can't help it." Another man saysi "I am revengeful naturally, and I can't help it." A man says: "I am impulsive, and I can t help it." And he tells the truth. No man can correct his disposition. I never knew a man by force of resolution to change his temperament, but by His grace uoa can take away that which is wrong and put in that which is' right, and I know and you know people who since their conversion, are just the opposite ol what they used to be. In other words, we may, by the spirit of God, have the disposition of Jesus Christ implanted in our disposition, and we must have it done or we will never see Heaven "If any man has not the disposition of Jesus Christ, he is none of His." In the first place the spirit of Christ was a spirit of gentleness. Sometimes He made wrathful utterances against Fhariseee and hypocrites, but the most of His words were kind and gentle and loving and inoffensive. When we con sider the fact that He was omnipotent and could have torn to pieces His as. sallants, the wonder is greater. We often bear the persecution and abuse of the world because we cannot help it. Christ endured it when He could have helped it. Little children who al ways shy off at a rough man rushed into ilia presence and clambered on Him until the people begged the moth ers to take them away. Invalids so sore with wounds that they could not bear to have anyone come near them begged Christ just to put His hand upon the wound and soothe it. The mother with the sickest child was will ing to put the little one in Christ's arms. Self-righteous people rushed into His presence with a woman of de based character and said: "Now, an nihilate her, blast her, kill her." Jesus looked at her and saw she was sorry and repentant, and He looked at them end He saw they were proud and arro gant, and He said: "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at her." A blind man sat by the wayside making a great ado about his lack of vision They told him to hush up and not bother the Master. Christ stooped to him and said: "What wilt thou that 1 do unto thee?" Gentleness of voice gentleness of manner, gentleness of life. We all admire it, whether we have any of it or not. Just as the Touch mountain bluff and the scarred crag love to look down into the calm lake a their feet and as the stormiest winter loves to merge into sunshiny spring so the most precipitate and impulsive and irascible natures love to think o the gentleness of Christ. How little we have of it! How little patience in treating with enemies! We have so little of the gentleness of Christ we are not fit for Christian work half the time. We do not know how to comfort the bereft or encourage the disheart ened or to take care of the poor. Evei our voice of sympathy is on the wrong' pitch. My sister had her urm put out of joint, and we were In the countrv. and the neighbors came in, and they were all sympathetic, and they kid hold of the arm and pulled mightily until th anguish was intolerable; but th arm did not go to its place. Then the country doctor was sent for, and h came in and with one touch it was all right. He knew just where to put hi finger and just how to touch the bone We go out to our Christian work with tooroughahandand too unsympathet ic a manner, and we fail In our work while some Christian, in the gentleness of Christ, comes along, puts his hand of sympathy on the sore spot th torn ligaments are healed and the dis turbed bones are rejoined. Oh, for thi gentleness of Christ. The dew of our summer night will ac eompllsh more than 50 Carribbea whirlwinds. How important it is that in going forth to serve Christ we have something of His gentleness! Is that the way we bear ourselves when we are assaulted? The rule is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, retort for re tort, sarcasm for sarcasm. Give him as much as he isudsl ' After awhile ya lookup Into the face of Christ and you I see His gentleness, and you say: "Well, now, I must do differently." Then your proud heart says: "Now you have your enemy in a corner. You will never get him in a corner again. Chas tise him and then let him go." So we postpone the gentleness of Christ. Did you ever know any difficulty to be healed by acerbity and hypercriticism? About 45 years ago the Presbyterian church was split into the new school and the old school. The chasm got wider and wider. The most outrageous personalities were indulged in. Good I men on one side anathematized good men on the other side. Wider and will that they be with Me where I wider the chasm got, until after awhile am." Prayer for Hia enemies: "Fa some good people tried another tack, ther, forgive them they know not and they began to explain away tho dif- what they do." Prayer for all nv Acuities, and soon all the differences ere healed, and t Pittsburgh they shook hands and ere one now to be one forever. Did you ever know a drunkard re- claimed by mimicry of his staggering steps, his thick tongue or his hie- cough? No. You only madden his brain. Cut you go to him and let him know you appreciate what an awful struggle he has with the evil habit, and you let him know that you have been acquaninted with people who were own in the same depths who by the grace of God have been rescued. He hears your voice, he responds to that sympathy and he is saved. You cannot soold the world Into anything better. You may attract It Into something bet-I ter. The stormiest wind comes out from its hiding place and says : "I will arouse this sea. And It blows upon the sea. Half of the sea is aroused, or a fourth of the sea is aroused, yet not the entire Atlantic. But after awhile the moon comes out, calm and placid. It shines upon the sea, and the ocean begins to lift. It embraces all the highlands; the beach is all covered. The heart throb of one world beating against the heart throb of another world. The storm would not rouse the whole Atlantic; the moon lifted it. And I," said Christ, "if I be lifted up will draw all men unto me." Christ's disposition was also one of self-sacrifice. No young man ever started out with so bright a prospect as Christ started out with if he had been willing to follow a worldly ambi- tion. In the time that He gave to the Ick He might have gathered the vast- est fortune of His time. With His power to popularize Himself and mag- netize the people He could havt gained official position. No orator ever won sucn piauaits as ae migni nave won from sanhedrin and synagogue and vast audiences by the seaside. No physician ever got such a reputation for healing power as He might have aU tainud if He had performed His won derfulcuresbefore the Roman aristoc racy. I say these things to let you know what Faul meant when he said: "He pleased not Himself," and to show something of the wonders of His self- sacrifice. All human power together could not have thrown Christ into the manger If he bad not chosen to go there. All Satanic strength could not have lifted Christ upon the cross if He had not elected himself to the torture, To save our race from sin and death and bell he faced all the sorrows of this world and the sorrows of eternity. How much of. that self-sacrifice have we? What is self-sacrifice? It is my walk ing a long journey to save you from fatigue. It is my lifting a great num ber of pounds to save you from the awful strain. It is a subtraction from my comfort and prosperity so that there may be an addition to your com fort and prosperity, now much of that have we? Might not I rather say "How little have we." Two children- brother and sister were passing down the road. They were both very destl tute. The lad bad hardly any gar ments at all. His sister had acoattbat she had outgrown. It was a very cold day. She said: "Johnny, come under this coat." "Oh, no," he said; "the coat isn't large enough!" "Oh," she said, "It will stretch!" He comes under the coat, but the coat would not stretch. So she took off the coat and put it on him. Self-sacrifice pure and simple. Christ taking off his robe to clothe our nakedness. Self-sacrifice. I have not any of it. nor have you com pared with that. The sacrifice of the Son of God. Christ walked to Emmaus, Christ walked from Capernaum to Bethany, Christ walked from Jerusalem to Gol gotha. How far have you and I walked for Christ? His head ached, His heart ached, His back ached. How much have we ached for Christ? The disposition of Jesus was also a disposition of humility. The Lord oi eann nnn maven in the garb of a rustic. He who poured all the waten- of the earth out of his right hand the Amazon and the Euphrates ana tne urcgon ana tne Ohio and the .Mississippi bending over a well to ask a Samaritan woman for a drink. He who spread the canopy of the heavens and set the earth for a foot stool, admitting that He had not where to lav his head. He whose chariots the clouds are, walked with sore feet. Hushing the tempest on Gennesaret and wiping tho spray of the storm from His beard, then sit- ting down in the cabin beside nis disciples, as though he had done no more than wipe the sweat from His brow in Joseph's carpenter shop. Tak- ing the foot of death off the heart of Lazarus and breaking the chain of the grave against the mar- ble of the tomb and then ' walk- Ing out with Mary and Martha with- out any more pretension than a plain citizen Mini? out in the suburban vll- lage to spend the evening. Jostled as thoueh He wei a nobody. Pur- sued as though He were an outlaw, Nicknamed. Seated with publicans and with sinners. Eing of Heaven and Earth trailing His robes ia the dust. How much of that humility have we? If we- tret a few more dollars than other people or gain a little high- ar position, oh, how we strutl We go around wanting everybody to know their place and sayt "Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the honor of my kingdom and by the might of my strength?" Who hai anything of the humility of Christ? The disposition of Christ was also the spirit of prayer. Prayer on the mountains, prayer on the sea, prayer among the alck, prayer everywhere. Prayer for little children: "Fathea, I thank Thee that Thou hast hidden these thing from the wise and pru- dent and revealed them unto babes." Prayer for Hit friends: "Father, 1 tionss "Thy kingdom come." How little of that spirit you and I have. How soon our knees get tired. Where is the vial full of odora which are the prayers of all the saints? Which of us can keep our mind ten mln- utes on a prayer without wandering Not you, not I. Oh, that we might have the spirit of prayer which wae the spirit of Christ. We want more prayer in the family, more prayer la the church, more prayer in the legis- latlve hall, more prayer among the sick, more prayer among the aged, more prayer- among the young. The great advancement of the church il to be in that direction yet. While the council of Nuremberg was signing the edict that gave the church its freedom, Martin Luthet was away off in a room by himself praying for that accomplishment. Though there was no line of com munication between the place when the council was assembled and th room wnere Martin Luther was pray ing, Martin Luther suddenly rose from his knees and said: "It is accom plished; the church is free. Victory, victory!" Oh, for this direct line ol communication with the throne ol God,' so that it may be said of ui aa it was said of Luther: "He got what he asked for!" We want, like Daniel, to pray with our face toward the holy city. We want, like Stephen, to pray gazing into Heaven. We want, like the publican, to pray smiting on the heart of conviction. We want, like Christ, to pray the Christ who emptied His heart of all Us life- blood and then filled it with the sor rows, the woes, the agonies of all nations. CM mountalns and the midnight air witnessed the fervor of his prayer. Th , , chrlst T remark lastly. was a spirit of hard work. Not one lazy moment in all His life. Whether He was talking to the fishermen on the bea;h or preaching to the sailors on the dock or administering to the rus tics amid the mountains or spending an evening in Bethany, always busy for others. With hands, heart, head busy for others. Hewing in the Naza reth carpenter shop, teaching the lame how to walk without crutches, caring the child's fits, providing rations for the hungry host. Busy, busy, busyl The hardy men who pulled the net out of the sea filled with floundering treas ures, the shepherds who hunted up grassy plots for their flocks to nibble at, the shipwrights pounding away in the drydocks, the winemakers of En gedi dipping the juices from the vat and pouring them into the goatskins, were not more busy than Christ. Busy, busy for others. From the moment He went out of the caravansary oi Bethlehem to the moment when tht cross plunged into the socket on the bloody mount, busy for others. Does that remind you of yourself? It does pot remind me of myself. If we lift a burden, it must be light. If we do work, it must be popular. If we sit in the pew, it must be soft. If we move in a sphere of usefulness, it must be brilliant. If we have to take hold of a load, give us the light end of the log. In this way to Heaven fan us, rock us, sing us to sleep. Lift us up toward Heaven on the tips of your fingers under a silken sunshade. Stand out of the way, all you martyrs who breasted the fire! Stand out of the way and let this colony of tender-foot ed modern Christians come up and get their crowns! What has your Lord done to you O Christian, that you should betray Him? Who gave you so much riches that you can afford to despise the awards of the faithful? At this mo ment, when all the armies of Heaven and earth and hell are plunging into the conflict, how can you desert the standard? Oh, backslidden Christian, is it not time for you to start anew for Heaven? Now, I have shown, you that the dis position of Christ was a spirit of gen tleness, a spirit of self-sacrifice, spirit of humility, a spirit of prarer, a spirit of hard work five points. Will you remember them? Are you ready now for the tremendous announce ment of the text? "If any man have not the spirit of Christ, he Is none of Hio." Are you ready for that state ment? Can you stand up and say "Yes, we have the spirit of Christ?1 Not one of us can make that answer to the full question, yet I am to de clare to you there is no discourage ment in this subject for Christian peo pie. You have the seeds of this char acter planted in your soul. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." You might as well blame an acorn for not being an oak of a thousand years as to blame yourself because you are not equal to Christ. You have the im plantation within you which will en large and develop into the grandest Christian character, and there la no discouragement in this text for you to try to love and serve the Lord. Aim high. Sheathe not your sword until you have gained the last victory. Climb higher and higher until you reach the celestial mils, crowns Drigni ana ra- dknt for all the victors, but death to every deserter. The laughter cure is te latest f of indigestion. Here is a hint for cyolci and pessimists. ARMER AND PLANTER THE GRAIN "WEEVILS." Their Unlc fo Development Hn llnp- iil 'l h nt TlK-r i Almost ln-i-nleuliille Amount of MUclilct. All tho various species of insects that attack stored grain uro indis criminately on I led weevils, or simply weevil," but the only true grain wee- ils arc the granary tind rice weevil. hese two insects resemble each other in structure as well as in habit. They re small, Halt ened, brown snout, bee tles of tho family of t'alundridue. Neither in more than a sixth of an nch in length, but their rate of ds- elopinent is bo rapid that they do nn almost incalculable n mount of in- ury in a short period of time. Their heads are prolonged into a long snout or proboscis, at the end of which are the mandibles; their nntenne are el bowed ami attached to the proboscis. The granary weevil has been known as an enemy to stored grain since the earliest times. Having become domes- icated ages ago, it has long since lost the use of its wings and is strictly nu indoor species. Tho mature weevil measures from an eighth of to the ixth of an inch is of a uniform shin ing chestnut brown in color and has the thorax sparsely and longitudinal ly punctured. The larva is legless, considerably shorter than the adult, white in color, very robust and fleshy. The female punctures the grain with her Knout and then inserts an egg, from which is hatched a larva that devours the mealy interior and undergoes its raiiHformntioii in the hull. In wheat nnd other kiiiuII cereals a single larva inhabits a grain, but a kernel of corn furnishes food for several individuals. The mid-summer period from egg to adult is about six weeks, and there may be, under favorable conditions, four or live broods in the north, and as many as six or seven in the south This species is injurious to wheat, corn and barley and other grains, nnd attacks, nlso, the chick ilea (Ciccr arietimim) a food product of the trop ics. Unlike tho moths which attack grain, the ndult weevils iced upon the kernels, gnawing into them :or food nnd for shelter, and being quite long-lived, probably do even more damage than their larva. This species is very prolific, egg laying continuing over an extended period. It has been estimated that one pair will, in the course of a year, produce 6,000 do scendants, nnd it will be seen that the progeny of a single pair are capable, in n short time; of causing considera ble damage. In the state of Texas alone the annual loss from this in sect and rats is listimated at $1,000, 000. nnd the loss from granary insects, to the corn crop of Alabama in 1893 was estimntcd $1,671,382, or about ten per cent. Estimating the annual loss in the snme proportions, we would have for these eight southern states South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Lotiisianu, Tex as and Arkansas, a total of nearly $0,000,000, and this to corn alone. In regard to tho susceptibility of different grains to weevil attack, it may be said that unhusked rice, oats and buckwheat arc practically ex- einpt.hut the hull of barley offers less protection to the seeds. Husked or hulled grains are naturally more ex posed to infestation, and the softer varieties suffer more than do the harder, flinty sorts. Ivenrly all of the grain-feeding spe cie"! In the United Stntcs, have been introduced and arc now cosmopolitan having been distributed by commerce to all quarters of the earth. Upwards of forty species occur commonly in granaries, these living throughout their adolescent stages within the kernel of the grain. A few of the "preventatives" are the bisulphide of carbon. By reason of its intensive action, this is the best known remedy against nil insects that affect stored products. Prompt thresh ing, inspection, quartering, disinfee tion, scrupulous cleanliness in the mutter of bins and grain bags is sug gested as being along the proper line for the extermination of the pest or preventing them from doing great damage. F. H. Chittenden, in Ameri can Farm. THE SIX MONTHS PIG. II Is the Most rrofllalile If lie Ilaa llcen Kept Steadily Grow ing From Ilerlh. If plfs can be raised in six months and sold at a heavy-weight of about two hundred pounds, they pay better than those kept much longer. It is well known to all breeders that it is during the first six" months that the animals gnin the fastest, and after that every pound of flesh or fat ;omes slower and at a greater outlay of food. Up to the period of six months a pig should gain so rapidly that th change can almost be seen iron da to day. loung six-months-olu pigi always command fancy prices in the market, too, for the flesh is sweet and tender and the pork is not all fat Epicures demand this kind of young pork, and they cat with a relish who they would turn up their noses at fat pork from pigs eight months or year old. H should be made a point to raise the young pigs so they will tip th scales at 200 pounds at least at the end of six months, and if they do not do this there is something wrong 1 the feeding or the breed. Pork raiseti at this rate pivys a good profit, while that produced by the slower method of holding the pigs several months la ter does not always reward the owner. When the young pigs are old enough .they should be allowed the run of a pasture field Avhere clover is pretty thick. Turn them lose in the field with the sow, If the field has plenty f good, fresh, running wa'.rr In it, ml ample shade for the animals, they ill do much better nnd not sillier drawbacks from the heat, 'the sow should be fed freely on milk slops . ith brim mixed in it, and when the pigs are old enough let them eat wnu (ho mother. Liberal feeding of this lixtuie should not. tie turned into nsteful practice. Give only as much s they will eat up clean at a time. ceiling twice a day Is better than envy feeding once n day. With this bran, milk and clover ration the pigs nn get along without any trouble for two months or more, nnd they will grow rnpully during the wliolo tunc. When they are two months old a lit tle corn can be fed to them; give them about one ear a day along with the bran and buttermilk Blops. The corn ndds to their fat and strength. nd the liberal feeding of clover keeps the system in excellent condition. At the end of four months the pigs should be old enough to stand a heavier nnd more heating diet, and it is well to substitute for the corn, bran nd milk slops a diet of bran nnl cornmenl softened with water nnd mixed to the stiffness of a dough. Feed this to them twice a day and give theui as much as they will cut up clean at a time. Then turn them lose into the clover Held as before, nnd let them cut in addition all the rtiRs that they will. Finally during the lust month of their lives confine them in close, but perfectly clean quarters and fatten them off with comment nnd bran. Give them twice s much of the former as the latter. nd let them ent liberally of the mix ture. At tho end of the six months they should be fine, fat pigs, weigh- ng from 200 to 240 pounds each, and cery pound will represent a good profit. Cor. American Cultivator. Cnre of the Form Hone, There is no little thing that pays better, in our opinion, than giving the farm horse extra good care during (he summer. It is too often the enso Mint the farm horse is neglected. There are farm horses thnt never have a thorough grooming from the begin ning to the end of the Benson's wovk, and good grooming is pretty nearly as useful as good feeding. Ihe horse that conies into the stable, perhaps covered with dried sweat and dust, nnd compelled to remain in that con dition through the night can not bo as comfortable as it would be if it were properly groomed. "Too much trouble, docs some one soy? Jt is never too much trouble to take caro of a valuable possession. But the inornin;; is not favorable to good grooming, ut least in all eases. Tlin men arc not at limber and lively in the morning ns Ihry are later in the day, anil the brush und currycomb are not plied with the vigor and for the length of time that they ought to be. Kpilomist. HERE AND THERE.' Improve the mind as well as tho soil is a good motto for nny farmer. Let him read good papers and books and become well informed. Kvery farmer should study first how to increase his annual yield of farm products and. second, how to properly market what he produces. Therein lies the secret of success. It requires some work to keep down suckers in a blackberry patch, but n sharp buzzard-wing sweep will do the work nicely. There are better plows mudc especially for the pur pose. The cotton seed crushers are up against it, having put the price of meal and hulls at such figures that feeders refuse to buy. It is the opin ion of some of them that they will have to climb down. It is only in localities near large towns that truck farming can bo made profitable, by single individuals. And then business ability must bo combined with a knowledge of truck farming in order to bring success. While the Belgian hare of to-day greatly resembles the wild hare of England in many ways, still the hit tel possesses a number of vnlnuhls points which the breeders of the Bel gian hare of to-day arc trying to ac complish, but have as yet not been en-' tircly successful. Nature's laws can not be bo vio lated with impunity, neither can they be overcome or set aside, but they can be used to perform all manner of works. All the most wonderful works of science and art are merely wrought by a skillful use of the laws that never change. Cruelty to animals Is a henvy tax . not only on farms, but wherever these burden-bearers are used. Horses and mules are half-fed, overloaded and then beaten because hey can't pull the load. We never see a man beating his team without wishing the blows were upon his Own back. Meat-eaters now want less fat and more lean, no matter what kind of meat it may be. Karly maturity, which is the leading characteristic of nil the improved meat breeds, insures this quality of meat, ns while young (hey are growing rather than fatten ing, making red meat rather than grease. The rice crop in Louisiana and Texos is now being hnrvested, and tlio, yield is uniformly good. One peculi arity of rice is, it can be planted in such manner as to prolong the har vest for mtny weeks. Thus a farm er with 100 acres of rice can plant at different dates from April to June, and the rice will mature in the order of planting. One serious obstacle to raising Belgian hares in large numbers is the careful and close housing and constant attention required. As we understand from what we have read about them they can not be raised in flocks like fowls, but like commer cial travelers, each strsin or pail want a separate apartmtut. i I Hi a- jmjbioriuur." " 1