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t are shallow enough ss sa id to be very good fun, Pahang, in the Malay peninsula, it Is the sole form of boating on many of the streams. These are not only shallow, but their currents are also so strong that rowing up stream is i quite impossible. All goods are taken inland by way of the rivers, so boats are big and often heavily inden. On each side of the boat there runs a plat: 'fo,m for about half the le:irth of the vessel, and upon this platform stand six Maiays armed with long, ligi:t poles They start at the how and walk toward$4istern, planting their p:ies in the sandy bed of the river and push ing as they go. They then draw up their poles. wall; back again and repeat the process, keeping excellent time throughout. When the rivers are in flood and the bottom cannot be reached with the poles, the men must fasten the boats to the shore and wait until the water fails. A Malay waterman who has had Plenty of experienice at "poling" boats should be a clever hand at managing a punt. Copenhagen will send a seie::tific ex. )edition to Siam in the a"tumniu. Last year 4.7Y.ooo cubic yaris oc ;a terial was dredged out of the Duiuth SuDerior harbor. Do 't Tobacco lpit and itmnke T"or Life A% ay To quit t- bacco eas !y and forever. be :ac netic, full of life, nerve and vitor,take No-T.. Bac, the wonder-wrker, that akes weak men strong. All druezists. 50e or '1. Care guaranteed. Booklet and sam;,l- free. A d dress Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Most women are like mlsery--they lnve company. So. 15 Cleanse Your Blood The thing most desired of a Spring Medicine is thorough purification of the blood. With this work of cleansing going on there is coin plete renovation of every part of your system. Not only is the cor rupt blood male fresh, bright and lively, but khe stomach also re sponds in better digestion, its readiness for food at proper times gives sharp appetite. the kidneys and liver properly perform their allotted functions, and there is, in short, new brain, nerve, mentst and digestive strength. Hood's Sarsaparilla3 Possesses the peculiar qualiies Peculiar to Itse(f--which accor plish these good things for all 'who take it. An unlimited list of wonderful cnres proves its merit. Mor-e~ L.nltabies, 1- + of lullaby o are study e chI ourse, d who believes in the influence of sweet and correct singing on the de. veloy:.ng ear of the child. This may seem the exaggeration of detail, but in these days it is the trifles that are t considered in their bearing upon the t I large results The metric system of wieights and b measures is now permitted in Russia, rc and while it does not supplant the national system alread y in use, i1 may be used side by siae with it. Ai or Nothing i in thh has such a record for ab solutely curing femalells and kidney troubles as thi has Lydia E. Pinkham's' Vegetable Oompound, Medicines that are ad- a vertised to cure every-SI thing cannot be specifics for anything. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Oompounnd will a not cure every kind of ill- tan ness that may afflict men, j av women and childrcen, but proof is monumental that'4 it will and does cure all to the ills peculiar to women, as t This is a fact indisput- po able and can he verified sel< by more than a million 1cou women.bo if you are sick don't ex- pro periment, take the medi- frui cine that has the record ye1 sa of the largest number of the cures. po Lydia E. Pinkhamn Med. Co.. Lynn. Mass. equally sure indication is that feeling of lan- mad guld depression. Many swallows of H I R ES S.c.b.., no are best for a spring toanic-and for aummer 'see CharleE. Hires Co. te Malvern, Pa.Te han< muns > ~"$seea / to g f alUte wthThompn sEy e at, ' te Keep a Few Sheep. Every farm, no matter how small, nay carry a few sheep-half a dozen or a dozen-at absolutely no cost to the owner. Sheep consume plants and fodder that other stock refuse. They n2ed no expensive shelter, ex cept in very cold, snowy or stormy r-eather. Their manure alone, if they are pen,ed at night, as they should be always, winter or sammer, to pro tect the:a from iogs. more than pays for all the little trouble and expense to LoGo the:a. A little money for spring limbs and wooi comes in handy early in the year. There is economy in having a few sheep on the farm. They may be pastured with the cattle. Bat in say case, keep them near home, and always under your eye. .-j:p,a Method of Killing Fowls. By opening the bill the artery b to be cut can be seen where it crosses the back of the tLroat under the ear. The sharp killing knife should be in A QUICR wAY TO KILL rotLTR. sorted in the mouth and directed so as to make a clean cut across the ar tery just above a. A half minute to bleed is enough, and when the bird begins to straggle, give it a smart blow on the back of head and begin I plucking at once.-Farm and Home. I Advantaze of Squa:e Fields. Wherever praeticable or at all cou ?enient to have them so, it will be found that fields of a square shape, or nearly so, are the most economical in fencing, and the best, for several reasons. It takes less fence to enclose a given area in the form of a square than any other shape, and next to the square conies the oblong. By all means let the corners of fields have tight angles, unless there are imupor tact topographical reasons for having them otherwise. When a field is square there need be no short rows in caltiva;ing it, and the exact area of the field is easily calculated by the number and distance of the rows. Thus the farmer may know to a certainty the quantity of seed and fertilizer he is using to the acre, and how to count the cost of ploiwing and cultivat iug any crop. Also the yield per acre, if he will weigh and measure. And if the whole farm is laid off in sqnares, there need e no more guess work as to how many acres the culti7able land con ains. A farm looks better having square-shapedt fields, and roads are laced to better advantage. It was a wise provision of some of the States o lay oir the counties in exact squares, and then divide the land into, square sections of 640 acres each. Thus all fat:ns in those States may have the sqpare form, whether containing the vhol'e-sectio n, or only one-half, one fourth,' r one-eighth thereof Anied by one wii od farmer that he had pi teen inches between the roa ree in 'es apart in th e rows, one u ain in a place, and had harvested I hty-four bushels to the acre, he atedt a small plot to wheat on Sep- Il nber 22, 1898, on hard clay soil t at was manured in the spring and r anted to strawiuerries. The plant- fap gwas six inches apart in the row|it ~tween the strawvberry rows. Two in ws he planted one grain to the hill; of :5 row two grains to the hill. He er e the wheat one cultivation on f ril 21. The average number of f ads to the hill in the rows planted es e grain to the hill was eighteen - ge heads. The largest num>er of tii ais to a single grain was thit ty, ich ga;-e a yield of 2097 grains. eC row with the two grains to the 1 gave an average of nineteen heads re the hill. The greatest yield was i rty-six heads to the hill, which e a yield of 2035 grains-sixty > less than the one grain hill. The d was at the rate of 106 bushels to acre, providing the planting was ~lve by six inches. I planted a alt plot to oats on the same kind of on Ap>ril 24, planting six inches Irt, one grain to the hill, and culti ed four times. The yield was at rate of 175 bushels to the acre, viding the planting was dcne ~lve by six inches. He has raised ny as forty-five large heads from iugle grain, when planted six by iches apart one grain in a hill. ea, in 189)7 he had two hills of rye, e of which yielded 126 heads and p'u other 127 heals, each grown from for ngle grain. '"he plants have more iad' for their roots and are abun- l .tly and constantly fed at such dis- o :es while in close seeding they A. e periods of starvation, tir The SeedHng, Apple. mong apple growers a sharp con- E ~ersy has been carried on for years whether it is better to improve list of available varieties by mm tiing from foreign countries or de-j ping new seedling apples. Dis- ] ageents are found on both sides. ( sry large proportion of the apples wet gt from foreign countries have ed of no value after having been par ted in this country for a dozen1 s, while of the seedling a thou varieties have proved not worth gro rowing to every one that has I red good enoug,h to be propagated the ~raftings. TI itt, however discouraging the pro- ush ion of seedlings may be, it is true chel all the progress that has been war e in apples, taking the world as a sue! le, is through seedlings. We must forget that every good apple we 1001 now was one of a multitude of to a ligs. It is, of course, recognized prot the work of producing new varie- wait in this way is very, very slow.ud man that plants 10,000 seeds must et le and care for 10,000) trees. H-! o. ti not ouiy take them out of the lng rows nnd transplant them i a- I1 ond with moure space. but he~ sometimes renlant them. Re- a that he tnust give them fair at- i must be kept fertile and the trees must be sprayed. The borers must be kept off and the canker worms must be prevented from stripping the trees of their foliage. The grower may have to wait ten years for results, as it is a known fact that a valuable va ricty might be late in coming into bear ing. After years of waiting for fruit he may find that not one of the 10,000 trees is superior in anything to fruit now being grown. Such must be the experience of those that labo': for the production of new and valuable varieties., The man that begins the work knows that the chances are that he will never reap the benedit of his toil, for even if he should develop a fine variety, years must elapse before ho will be able to get anythiug from it. Ha realiles that he will have to cut thousands of seions from that good tree and graft other trees, and that he must then wait a few years more till they are fit to place on the market. When all that is accomplished, he still has the question of advertising to face, and this means expenditure of labor and cash. But, hard as the way is, it is the surest way to get new fruits. Instead of one man planting 10,000 seeds, a good many men should each plant a few seeds, and thus dis tribute the burden over many shoul ders.-Farm, Field ant' Fireside. Foultry and Experlence. Probably there is altogether too much dependence upon the advice of others in the poultry business for some to succeed, and while it is wise to read of all the experiences of those who have succeeded and failed, each one must hoe his own row. If we cannot profit by our own expe1ience, it is useless to expect success with poultry. Others may guide us, but we have gr. to learn our lesson ai make its application. Depend upon your own exertions, observation and intelligence, and then supplement this ith the advice of those who have anything to say. That is the only true motto. I should say in regard to breeds that each one must not at tempt to confine himself to one sim ply upon the advice of others. Select sorie of the half dozen most appro priate breeds, and try your hand at each. Then you will gradnally find out what ones you like the best and can make the most from. But it is in the matter of feedin tiat this advice of depending upon yourself and studying your surround ings is the most applicaAe. There are, of course, certain standard feeds for chickens, such as corn, meal, and grain generally, which every one must possess to a certain extent, but out side of this, cheap but effective sub stitutes must be found. Clam and oyster shells are all right for feeding to poultry that is raised along the sea coast, but for a thousand miles inland it would hardly pay to go into the market and buy these shells. The price would more than eat up the profits c'>tained through their use. Butt there may be green bone, lime stone, pebbles and rocks that could be broken up fine, and the poultry would obtain nearly as good results from them. Those living near fcrests would find in the soil and leaves un de~. - - -t and en se c ed the poul. ould give such a var e else wvould be needed. wns and villages have enough Suec use to support several large poultry rms. It is more a matter of study g and making the most of surround g conditions and opportunities than buying and raising feed. Of course ops -must be raised systematically r food, but the by-products of the rm, the house and the city and for t must be utilized to their utmnot. Annie C. Wvebster, in American Cul rator. Great Assistance in Sawing Wood. The accompanying illustration rep ents a device which greatly assists sawing wood. The construction is A won sAWING DEvicr. ily seen from the illustration. A ing attached to one end of the saw Is it back, thus making it possible one man to use a crosscut saw to antage. This has been in success use on my farm for a number ears, and I can recommend it W. Rabbit, in American Agrical Hints For Gardeners. study up. epair the trellises. ir plant pits sometimes. )on't over-water begonias. 'an for an open-centre grass plot. rowing callas can hardly be too anure can now be applied to as ou needn't tell the plants that days w longer. garden planning let the group be keynote. he blossoming season may be ered in even now by setting some ry twigs in a jar of water in a n, light place. The bloom of 1 is delightful. lot soapsuds and the use of an old hbrush quickly works destruction i kinds of piar:a scale. After the ess drench the plant with clean r. It may be said that the hot dlislodges and dlestroys many in s so young as not to be apparent le nak d eve.-Vick 's Magazifie. a tir rqires blowing to give it. cod tatit will be found that rin dn into the flames makes irn up more brightly and quickly +VrMAKI!(D A HEAVY GUN. . rakes Longer Than tae Construottoa of the Ship That Carries It. Mr. W. J. Gordon sketches Wool rich ars4nal in the Leisure Hour. .mong a host of interesting descrip ions may be selected here what he says about the making of a gun: "In iheir early stages these guns are un ixpectedly long and slender things, ow !ng to their being without the coils tnd jacket' that build them up to such bulkiness. They look their longest luriag their wiring, that modern proc isE which enabled us to reduce the bulk Df the gjn so much that the podgy Woolwich infants have developed into graceful boys. There is something startling in finding a gun being treated ike a bat-handle, the only difference being that instead of waxed thread rou wind on a thin fiat .strip of steel having a breaking strain of 100 tons to the square inch, and wind this on in several layers instead of one. The gun revolves in a lathe as the cricket bat does, but much more slowly, and In place of the wooden spool of thread there stands, at right angles to ft, a htge iron reel, from which the riband or wire, as it is called, which is about a quarter of an inch wide, is wound on rpirally at high tension, the spirals beirg knocked up tight to each other with a punch whenever they fail to wind on closely together. The gun is thus wrapped with literally miles of wire, mostly in the region of the pow der chamber. Over the wire jacket come the hoops of cast steel cut out of ingots as disks, and forged into rings just a trifie smaller than the fin ger they are to fit; and when these are finished they are one by one, for there are many of them, heated just enough to expand them, and slipped over the gun to shrink and grip it as they cool, the gun being upright at the time, with a stream of water flowing through its bore tc keep the tempera ture down. In this way wiring is all hidden, and the gun looks as though it were built up entirely of these mas sive hoops, as it used to be. The lathe work and other operations necessitated by all this may be imagined, and we cease to wonder why it takes longer to make a heavy gun than it does to build the ship that carries it." Deauty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. .No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to oanish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranterd, lOc, 25c. 50c. "This is no laughing matter," remarked the '-ditor, as he handed baet the humioriAt'a ma nscript. The Best Prescr:ption for Chills :and Fever is a bottle of GRovE'S TAS ELESS Ca: L To:izc. ItLis ample iron an d qminime in a tas eiess form. No cure-no pay. Price 25c. Automobiles are here to stay, but the man 'who owns one wants it to go, H. H. GnRFNs Scns, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropey Specialists In the 'world. See their liberal offer in ad iers ment in another column of this pa.per: A woman'sngtv is gen VrrALITV low,debilt by Dr. KU Ureo oreoa,rni anid E-Jo Springs, In ;. 5,1L00. c ting Syrup for children C 'ums. reducinkinflama. r .n ind colic 25c a bottle.C Moorehead, Kan., N e,laundry, hall, at c atory and a o-operative fa To Cure Constipation F'orev-er. Take Cascaret- Candy Cathartie. 10 or 25c. I u.C.C. faii to cure,druggzsts refut:d money. The hIZes ef I'raes. ( Is Prunes are sold in three siz0s. The largest size is called the thirty to for tie. This means that thirty to foirty of these prunes make a pound1(. The edium size is forty to fifty, and the small size fifty to sixty. The largest prunes are of course the most valuable. The average price the growers get for |ac? their prunes is three,.and three-fourth cents a poumd. An orchard of 230 trees |3 will give a grower an average profit of $400 a year. An acre will grow, about one hundred trees, l:nted with, he proper distances between them. Te trees bear the third year afte planting, and live from ten to ter years. French prunes pay the best.: Connecti< ut figures from its recenti State school ceaus show that it has P1 wenty per cent, mo(re inhabitants hn it had in 1890. The population of te country on this basis is 75, 150,- I Stops the Cough and Works Off The Cold. CURES AeR!PPE N OT E--Every Drug fr Colds and Grip, In vast terri*ry which is: 4:d 4ii appears on ev I a story of su$ering that one 'ord tells. It says: "I am all tired out. It seems to t!he I can hardly take another step. I haven't a par ticle of ambition. I can't do half my work, I am weak, nervous, and depressed. that's e lood >uble is, you certainly know the "Sarsaparilla' is simply the perfect Sarsaparilia there are a rilla that will make your blood ke it rich and strong. a Sarsapa onic. You want the strongest AYEW S r the personal supervision of three i pharmacy, a graduate in raduale in medicine." All druggists. taken sick, and by the time she began m caring for her. ' I was discouraged, i;ed or died. My husband got me a effects were magical. Two bottles of el woman of me."- JANE M. BROWN, The number of persons bur'ed in the cemeteries of Rome is estimated at six millions. P OTASH gives color, favor and firmness to all fruits. No good fruit can be raised without Potash. Fertilizers containing atleast 8 to 10%- of Potash wvill give best results on all fruits. Write for our pa k ~ L j 1 -y farmer's They are sent free.7 GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New Yo.k. dotentificTredm'entl for all mi:nrof SNERVOUS DISEASES. ON 10 DAYS TRIAL. uminlma lIIIT 'F O( F ('crm 4: eS ac rur n to ., ric to lt& (ur n. ie to,~ c ~ hy eet e >ntt n Calouesan tE'rn -St i l :.u hca ( r. GiIB.SoNIA, PA. IOOFINO VIATERIALS~ 311 &tlt S 0. *' :2. Cavert S'1 t . Balt imre.. .t d. n TTE SE'URED OR K IFee refunded, eat.ent a.rve R OSY EWDIr.cOVERY; ia~ tes. Sooui of testimon:a. ckr d n a t re .t ee Dr. E. E. G1zEEN S SONS. Box 3. Atlacta, Ga UMNEI tKV SCENE. ~uba sells Laxative Bror and Grip prescription s< s virtue and popularit) article. No Cure, No Wha -J Now you know what the tr - cure, -a perfect Sarsaparilla. name of the medicine, for in a great many temedies. What you want is a Sarsapa pure, a Sarsaparilla that will ma rilla that is a powerful nerve t and best. That's "The only Sarsaparilla made unde graduatcs: a graduate il chemistry, and a g $1.00 a bottle. " Last July ry oldest daughter wa: to mend I was down sick myse:f fr and did not care much whether I I bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and its it put me on my feet and made a v Bentonsport, Iowa, Jan. 19, 190C. The chap who courts troub:o very eften troubles Court. how Arc Your KiEdueyf? Dr. i,obs' Spara.us Pi!ls etro all kidney [ . Sample ree. Add. Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or N. Y. ThA shipbuilder frequently has to mend his ways. _. PF mAM FAtE.L5ss DTEs do notspot. streak or give your uo' d an unevenly dyed ap earance. Sold by all druggists. It's funny that as a youth grows up his face grows down. Edneate Your Bowels WVith Cascrets Can dy Cathartie, - re consttipation for ver. 10c. 250. If C. C. C. fai, drugg:sts efund money. It frequently happens that the deeper a man is in polities the more he is out. To Cure a Cold in one Day. Talte LAXAysV Bar a Qursxts TAntLrs iesr&und the nionerv if tfiltQ ~.W. Gaonr.s sir tarrz, cannot be Cured Iapplicatious, as they cannot reach tof the disease. Catarrh is a bilood or nelttutional disease, and in order to cure you must take internal remedies. Ihulh ~tarrh Cure is ;aken internally, and aiets dI tly on the blood and mucons surface. Hali' tarrh (Cure is not a qunack medicine. It was ~esribied by one of the best physicians in is country' for years. and is a reg.ular pre 'rption. It is comn .Med of the best ton i' ~own. comhined with the be!stljood purifier. ;mng dhirectl!y on the mucotus .orraces. The fect combination of thei two ingrielnts is at produces such wonderi fu! re.,uiits in cur. gcatatrrh. .Send f,or tetitmo:a!-e. free. F. .1. Cus:ENEY & Co.. Proie., T1otedo, 0. old by D)ru:gkits, price. -5c. finl's Famtily Pills are the best. T'bst rceedyfo ougSoopin.3-or.gh G i rererr wi scon be cured. Price only 25 cts. urStom cha After I was induced to try CASCA. PTG. I will never be without them in the house. - iver -vas in: a very bad shaee. and m;i head d and I had stomaeb trouble. N~ow. since takt Cascarets. I feel tinc. My w:!e has also used . with b ee cal results fur sour stomach. )s. K1Ei:ra. l2I Cong ress St.. St. Louis, Mo. CA NDY 1 CATHARTI C LTRAD MARK REoSTREK~~ asant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. tDC . Never Siceken, Wecakeu. or Grire.10ce. 25c.t.sc. CURE CONSTIPATION... 4 Xeuedy comp'nvy. hilengo, Montreal. Sew York. 31s TRPSold and cuarant'ed by all drug-i DMUgiats to CURE Tobacco Habit. y :rybo oftegeun ALCOlHOLIC LIQUORS and NARCOTIC DRUGS Make INEBRIATES. THE KEELEY CURE, CURES THEM. l?Ti ct habnd ocae Patients board and lodge in the Iastitution. .ddzess or call at THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, 1og Plain Street, COLUBIA, S. C. Mill Supplies OF EVERY DESCRITION. Write us when In need of ANYTHING In the above line. The Equipment of Modern Ginneries with the Improved Murray Gleauing and Distributing System a specialty. Engines. 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Inoe by over ./'. 27e qremnine have W.VL > Dogis naeau n t,me onbto.ek E x~stL claed tkdof beahr sholdken he -t TN S Boker T. Wash res bis ve' son and all his hest speebhes. Whit. i* problen er' s. ie tnga .W ol ike to en a a ewnole wite nen eo a nznri .cen S oT . 12-924 AustellBaildng AtanC, a DYSPEPSIA! * o Medicine to Swallow ! It not.e'fited neny reunded. r11 or a PAD Dtotb [A I1JG GIIOtERY C anning. S. C. TTENTION is facilitated if you mention thi, paper when writing advertisers. So. 15 2Coug Syrp Taa o. Use N O CUR NO PAY PRICE 25c ft. io-Quinine Tablets >Id throughout this . This signature Pay. Price 25c.