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f -r s .. THOMAS COUNTY OAT. JOSEPH A. CILL, Editor. COLBY. KANSAF A SONG OF REST. O weary hands! that all tLe day Were set to labor hard and lonff, Now softly fall the shadows gray. The bells are run? for evensong; An hour ago the golden sun Sank slowly down Into the west; Poor -weary hands, your toil is done; 'Tjs time for rest! 'tis tune for rest. O weary feet! that many a mile Have trudged along a stony way, At last ye reach the trysting stile; No longer fear to go astray. The gently bending, rustling trees Rock the young birds within the nest, And softly sings the quiet breeze, "Tis time for rest! 'tis time for rest?" O weary eyes! from which the tears Fell many a time like thunder-rain O weary heart! that through the years Heat with such bitter, restless pain-To-night forget the stormy strife And know what Heaven shall send is best: Lay down the tangled web of life; 'Tis time for rest! 'tis time for rest! Florence Tyler, in Christian at Work. FORTUNE-TELLING. The Extent to Which It Is lieved in To-day. Be- How the Business of Foretelling the Fut ure In Carried on in Boston General Keview of the Subject from Early Times. On the front of a house on Washing ton street, near the corner of Com mon, is a modest sign bearing the in scription "Card and Cup Reading," says the Boston Herald. One is loth to believe that in this ago of enlight enment fortune-telling is carried on to any extent that there are any per sons living who " Can look into the seeds of timo And say which grain will grow and which will not." Yet there are plenty of fortune-tellers in our midst who practice their calling by the aid of cards, the sediment of tea or coffee in a cup, by astrology, by clairvoyance or what not, and who find plenty of dupes anxious to woo the "fickle fortune," who, if they do not find fortunes themselves, contribute largely to the fortunes of those charlatans. It is the curse of man that he never is con tented with his lot. It is to be doubted if a Vanderbilt, an Astor or a Jay Gould is for one consecutive sixty min utes perfectly content " with that sta tion of life into which it has pleased God to call him," as tho church cate chism hath it. " Man never is, but always to be, blest." The present is always good enough, and bad enough, for that matter, and why any one is desirous of lifting the vail of futurity to ascertain what it may have in store is something beyond the writer's comprehension. Dickens, in his "Barnaby Rudge," causes Sir oonn cnesior to say: "Ail men are fortune hunters, aro they not? Tho law, the church, tho court, tho camp see how they aro all crowded with fort une hunters, jostling each other in the pursuit. The stock exchange, tho pul pit, the counting-hous5e,the royal drawing-room, the Senate what but fort tine hunters are they filled with?" It is even so; but it is yet to bo learned that tho position of a fortune hunter has been bettered by tho aid of necro mancy, no matter what shape that necromancy may take. As Master Ford sayts: "Wo are simply men; we ido not know what's brought to pass under the profession of fortune telling. She works by charms, by the figure, and such daubery as this is beyond our elements. We know nothing." Fort une telling has been practiced from the earliest ages, and there have been dupes and gulls for all time. The fort une teller can well say with honest Iago: Thus do I ever make my fool my purse." Tho majority of those who consult tho oracle of tho cards are females, and of these shop girls, or to speak it more politely, salesladies, make up the greater part. They have a peculiar penchant for prying into their futu e, and are especially interested in the question of their loves, and whether or no their lovers aro faithful, and if they will make a good marriage. The ma jority of them beliovo in the cards with an implicit faith, and, for the mat ter of that, so do those that humbug them. Almost commencing with the intro duction of card playing, cartomancy, as it is called, or the art of divination by means of playing cards, had an existence. The earliest work known to exist on the subject was written by Francesco Marcolini, and printed in Venice in 1540. In William Rowland's ' Judioial Astrology Condemned," which was published in London in 1652, is related a singular story, which runs as follows: "Cuffe, an excellent Grecian and secretary to the Earl of Essex, was told twenty years before his death that he should come to an untimely end, at which Cuffe laughed, and in a scornful manner entreated the soothsayer to show him in what man ner he should come to his end, who condescended to him, and, calling for cards, entreated Cuffe to draw out of the pack any three which pleased him. He did so, and drew three knaves, and laid them on tho table by the wizard's direction, who told him if he desired to see the sum of his bad fortune, to take up those cards. Cuffe, as he was pre scribed, took up tho first card, and looking on it he saw the portraiture of ilmself cap-a-pie, having men encom passing him with bills and halberds. Then he took up the second and saw the judge that sat upon him; and tak ing up the last card he 6aw Tyburn, the place of his execution and hang- Kan, at which he laughed heartily. 1 But many years later being condemned, he remembered and declared this pre diction." It must be confessed that this was a pitch of refinement 4his changing the pictorial character of the three knaves to which the art of the fortune-teller by cards does not ex tend at the present day. The method of having one's fortune told by the cards is simplicity itself. The individual who is desirous of drawing aside the curtain covering the picture of futurity, after shuffling the cards to his or her content, cuts the cards into three parts, equal or not, as suits the fancy. The fortune-teller then takes up the cards, and lays them out upon a table face up, sometimes in a circle, but generally in rows of nine cards each. Nine is a mystical num ber, and has domination over all charms: " Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine, Peace! The charm's wound up." Every nine consecutive cards forms a new and different combination, and every card is in sympathy with the ninth card from it. After the general fortune is completed, a separate manipulation of the cards is made, to learn if the client will obtain his or her wish, and from tho position in tho pack of the nine of hearts, which is the "wish card," the required answer is adduced. Sometimes the wish card ia made to represent the person of the in dividual consulting the oracle, and whatever fortune is cut and dealt out to this is regarded as the same as hav ing been dealt to the suit of the indi vidual. So much for tho system of fortune telling by cards. It is all humbug from beginning to end. There is no law against it, and if there was it is extremely doubtful if the practice could ever be suppressed. The world is full of dupes, they bristle upon every corner, and it is much to be believed that man is never so perfectly happy as when he is being fooled the most. What says the old song? " Quack, quaok, nothing like quackery. Quacking my friend of the day is the order," and we have it practised in our very midst to the fullest extent. The following anecdote is related of a fortune teller of the past century: Isaac Tarrat was a man of some liter ary attainments in London, and was a contributor to the Ladies'1 Diary and the Ucnllcmaifs Magazine, tie was originally a linen draper, and a thriv ing one, but from various causes he proved unfortunate, and in his seven tieth year knew not where to turn in order to provide his bread. In this extremity he was reduced to be come a fortune teller. In a mean street near tho Middlesex Hospi tal there was an obscuro shop kept by an elderly woman who had long made a livelihood by means of oracle maintained on the premises. It now became the office of Mr. Tarrat to sit in tho upper room in a fur cap, a white beard and a flowing Avorsted damask nightgown, and by tho cards tell the fortunes of all who might apply, re ceiving for his labors a shilling a day and his meals. The woman sat in the front shop and received the company and their money. Tarrat admitted that his mistress treated him kindly, always giving him a small bowl of punch after snipper; there was no great discomfort in his situation, beyond the constant distress of mind ho suffered from reflecting upon the infamous character of his occupation. He had occasion to remark with surprise that many of the customers were of less mean and illiterate appearance than might have been expected. At length, after having scraped together a suffi cient amount of cash, Tarrat gave up the place, and, as it appears, just in the nick of time, as his successor had not been a month in office when he was taken up as an impostor. Tarrat found a retreat in the Charter house, where he lived till his eighty-eighth year, dying in 1789. Cup reading does not obtain to the extent of divination by cards, and from inquiries made by the writer the only information ho has been enabled to obtain leads him to believe that it is practised only to a limited extent. But where two or three old crones are gathered together for tho purpose of taking tea, bo sure that ono of them at least will endeavor to steal a look into futurity by aid of the grounds left in her teacup. An old writer says: " Oh, tho bright conceit, that our horiscope should be revealed to us in a cup, and our fate bo prefigured in the hiero glyphical writings of coffee grounds and tea leaves, or shuffled out to us in the oracular demonstrations of the four suits. The practice of paganism long survived its belief, so has that of divination, unless we are to suppose that the young persons of the fair sex, and the old women of both, are serious prosolytes to its efficacy, when they interpret the cabalistic writing of coffee or tea grounds in a cup, or determine their destiny by the casual upturning of the cards." Perhaps all of us are more or less tinctured by superstition, and a faith in divination will never want converts so long as it affords us a scapegoat for our follies, and it may be, our crimes. If we meet with suc cess in our undertakings we assign the merit of that success to our own pru dence and forethought, and if we fail, our bad luck bears all the blame of our failure. King Lear says: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, moon and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, liars by divine thrusting on, adulterers and drunkard by an en forced obedience to planetary influ ence." "Lord, what fool taese mortals be." Fortune-telling is all a humbug, but perhaps an excuse may be found for it on the principle set down in these words: "There is one sense in which, without the inspiration of prophecy or the charge of imposture, one may rea sonably and beneficially venture to in dulge in the mystery of fortune telKng. Knowing that, in the established suc cession of human affairs certain causes will produce corresponding effects, one may read the future in the past, and boldly predict that the spendthrift will come to want, the debauchee to prema ture decay, the idler to contempt, the gamester to bitterness of soul, if not to suicide, tho profligate to remorse and tho violator of the laws to punish ment" And all this without money and without price, and without the aid of tea or coffee grounds, cups or cards. SAVED BY HER MOTHER. A Wealthy Matrimonial Adventurer Near ly Marries His Own Daughter. " It happened about eighteen or twenty years ago right here in this city. A certain man, whose name you think of whenever you read about sewing-machines, because he was one of the first and most generally known in ventors of that useful implement, paid very little attention to the laws of this country bearing o'n marriage," t-aid a New street man. "Never mind what his name was; you ought to know who I am talking about, for his matrimonial vagaries attracted even more attention to him than did his valuable inventions in connection with the sewing-machine. When he died, in 1875, he left nine recognized widows, and no one knows how many children, for some of his widows' did not make sufficient of a fight for a share of his estate which, by the way, amounted to thirteen mill ion dollars to reveal their identity. Well, as I started to tell you, this old fellow was the father of so many chil dren by his half a score of 'wives' that he didn't know more than one in every ten of his offspring when he saw them. He had to be introduced to them. "In order the more successfully to humbug these deluded women to whom he sustained the relation of husband he gave a different name to each of them, and he used so many names that I guess ho forgot some of them. Ho was always a great admirer of pretty girls, and would spend a small fortune to win the favor of any handsome female of whom he became enamored. One of the employes in the salesroom of his sewing machine company told him one day 6i an extremely pretty girl, who was playing in an amateur dramatic society over in Brooklyn. She was so pretty that all the young fellows were talking about her. "Well, the old codger, ho was about fifty-two years of age, found out when she was to make her next appearance, and secured front seats for the per formance. He fell up to tho top of his gray hair in love with the girl before the evening was over; and in a few days managed to secure an introduc tion to her. Then ho offered her dia monds, dresses, a furnished house, horses and carriages, and, in fact, all those things which a rich person can procure, and almost all women yearn for, if she would marry him. Her meetings with the ancient swain were held in secret and without her mother's knowledge. She used an assumed name when she appeared on tho ama teur stage, although more than half the persons in the audience know her by tho name she was addressed by in the vicinity of her residence. "The girl listened with both ears to what the old man said, and finally asked him to call at her 'homo to re ceive his answer. He went there, sir, on tho appointed evening. It was a cheaply-furnished and small houso in a rather poor neighborhood. The old fellow hadn't been in the house five minutes before his former 'wife,' the girl's mother, came into tho room where he was. They recognized each other, and then the old man had a mauvais quart d'heure, and no mistake He had not given his right name to the woman when he married her, and she did not know that ho was the wealthy and widely-known inventor." "What was the upshot of the affair?" "Well, the old man made a hand some yearly allowance to tho mother, sent the girl to boarding-school, and when he died he left the daughter he wanted to marry a half a million dol lars. Strange story, isn't it? But it's a true one, and lots of the old-timers who read it will remember tho man. What's his name? Well, call him Hummer; that's close enough." N. T. Telegram. Mole-Hill and Mountain. "I tell you, my friend," exclaimed the gentleman, vehemently, as he un folded his napkin, "that a country that tolerates and encourages brutality will never be allowed to prosper. Look at Spain. Look at Mexico. We have not their bull-fights, it is true, but we have prize-fighting, cock-fighting, pigeon shooting matches, and in the fate of those countries ' Interruption by waiter! "What will you have, sir?" "Broil me a live lobster. In the fate of those countries, my dear sir, we may see the history of the United States foreshadowed," etc. Chicago Tribune. m The Bishop of Carlisle declared in a recent speech that men were kept from religion by the character of mod ern sermons. He added that a sermon was very often a text floating about in a quantity of weak soup. The Church man. m E. P. Roe wrote the last chapter of "Miss Lou" on the day of his 1 death, STRAWBERRY CULTURE. Some ml the Advantages of Setting Oat riant In the FalU Many farmers at the close of the strawberry season resolve that they will never go another year without a supply of this most desirable fruit. They keep on forming good resolutions on the subject during the fall and win ter, but when spring comes they find that they have too much to do to allow them to prepare a plat of ground for setting out strawberry plants, for pro curing them, and for putting them out. The truth is that in the Northwest putting in field crops employs all tho timo the average farmer has. The season for planting and sowing is very short, and the success of crops of corn and small grain depends on getting the seed into the ground in season. Every day's work counts. A farmer may cal culate that ho has sufficient time in which to do all his planting and sow ing, but in making his estimate ho does not allow for rainy days, which will greatly delay his work. Seed can not be planted and sown while rain is falling or while the soil is saturated with water. The "seed lime" which is promised is reduced by rainy days. Strawberry plants may be set out in a damp soil in tho spring to advantage, but if the roads are bad, as they usu ally are, there will be difficulty in ob taining the plants. It is accordingly best to obtain and sot out in tho fall. If plants are placed in well-prepared ground in September they will become well-established and will make a large growth before the soil freezes. If the plants are large and thrifty and they are placed in rich soil many of them will bear fruit next summer. If the ground between tho rows is covered with old manure the roots will be pro tected during tho winter and the plants will commence to grow as soon as the frost leaves tho soil. In local ities where tho surface of the ground is generally covered with snow during the winter tho plants themselves re quire no other protection. In places where the ground remains baro dur ing the winter the plants may be cov ered with straw to the depth of two or three inches, and it can be kept in place by throwing a little dirt over it. Early in the spring this ctraw should be removed. It can be taken to the barn-yard, burned, or spread between the rows of plants. If plants are set this fall they should be those produced from runners that took root this season. Thoso that wero first formed will be the best, as they will be the largest and the most likely to produce berries next year. Plants grown on rich land kept free from grass and weeds aro worth more than those that rooted on poor soil among weeds. The land on which the plants are to be set should be prepared before they are obtained. A garden trowel is the best implement to use in taking them up and in setting them out. If there aro dead leaves on tho bottom of any of the plants thoy should bo cut off with shears. If tho roots are very long they should be shortened with the same implement. In putting the roots in the hole prepared for them the leaves should bo pressed together in ono hand. The hole should then be filled with fine dirt and firmly pressed down with the foot. It is never necessary to water strawberry plants set out in tho fall, as the heat will not be sufficiently great to cause them to wilt. If tho ground is moist the plants will com mence to grow immediately. The largest amount and tho finest berries can be produced from a given area of land by setting tho plants eighteen inches apart each way, re moving the blossoms that appear tho spring after they aro set out, and pre venting the growth of all runners. One square rod in strawberry plants set out and tended as suggested will produce for two years as many berries as any ordinary family will use. The large, strong plants that have not had their strength exhausted by feeding runners will furnish berries a longer time than plants that are crowded and arc allowed to produce runners. Many, however, will wish to raise plants in a way that will require less labor. They have all the land they need, so that a saving of it is of no consequence to them. They are long on land, but short on time and labor. They aro ad vised to set strawberry plants in rows three feet apart, there being a space of a foot between the plants. Set in this way the ground between the rows can be worked with a horse cultivator. Strawberry plants need to be re newed frequently. Only two good crops of berries can be expected from the same plant. A plant that pro duces so much fruit will soon lose its vitality. A new bed or a new row of strawberry plants should be set out each year. If there is only a bed plants for supplying it may be propa gated on a piece of rich ground at some distance from it. A few strong plants can be set in it a yard apart, and prevented from producing berries by cutting off the blossoms that -appear. They will r throw out numerous runners, which will produce many fine plants. If a single row of strawber ries is planted and the ground is kept in good condition on each side the run ners will take root on it and the plants will produce berries without being moved. This is the easiest way of raising strawberries, as it requires hardly any labor. Chicago Times. It ia rumored that certain women in Minnesota are 'attempting to have a law passed compeling a man to declare his intentions within four weeks after paving his first visit to a young woman. Courtship by law would be a new social fwlty.. SPAIN'S FAIR DAMES. The Way. of Maid. Md Matron. Ia tha land of the Troabadonnu When a Spanish woman is beautiful she is beyond compare; but this transcendent "beauty, contrary to what travelers would have us believe, is the exception rather than the rule in Spain, and the common type of woman kind is not prepossessing, whilst, sad to say, a Spanish woman's good looks last but a brief span, and as she puts on years she invariably puts on flesh, whilst long before she arrives at the age when we in America consider a woman has a right to be both "fair and fat," the symmetry of her form is certainly not of the character that an aesthetic poet would rave about. In fact, one of the chief reasons why so few foreigners marry Spanish women is, I believe, on this account. A man must be very much gone on l&io senorita of his choice and be possessed of a Bayardian loyalty if ho does not desire to escape from the engagement on seeing his mother-in-law elect. It is really a tax upon any man's chivalry and devotion to'bo suddenly confronted with mamma and the senoras of the family, and to know that tho syiph like Venta by his side will inevitably become every whit as bulky and un wieldy as they. Chaperoning is rigorously exercised in all purts nf Spain, a country where it is not respectable for a female to go oat alone. Every young woman, even unto them who are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, has her chaperono when she takes her walks abroad. Argus may have been 'cute, but in a trial of vigilance I would, I think, be inclined to put my money on tho Span ish materfamilias, who not only keeps her chicks under her wing with a care equal to that of tho most devoted mother hen, but she can sight a possi ble poacher long before he is visible to tho ordinary eye. But then, in justice, it should be added that it would not bo safe for any young girl to walk in the streets unattended, for Spaniards, although exceedingly punctilious and o o-f x tnnitc, Uopportunitc. U opportunity Then a Spaniard's every-day language, even in the presence of his women folk, is of the most free-and-easy de scription. Spanish women have fewer vices than those of many other nations. They are naturally voluptuous, but they are scrupulously loyal to thoso whom they love, making devoted, obedient wives, without bothering their heads about woman's rights, or any of those questions which vex tho souls of their more masculine-minded sisters in this country. Thoy have all the curiosity and but little of the in tuition common to their sex in European countries. They have all the Moslem woman's hatred of physical exercise. Whilst the majority of the lower classes can hardly read or write, the educa tion of tho middle classes is practical ly limited to a grounding in matters appertaining to the rights and usages of the mother church. Their liter ature is almost entirely of a religious character, interleaved with vulgar ac counts of tho doing of the bull-ring. Of the works of foreign authors she knows but little, even by name, whilst her acquaintance with those of her own countrymen is, as a rule, confined to trashy productions of a questionable character. Madrid Letter. SPHACTALIS MINOR. A Jamaica Insect Which KUIs On? the Cotton Planter's Plague. The greatest bane to tho cotton planter is the coco grass. Where it once gets a foothold, from the time the cotton is planted until it is harvests ed, it is one steady fight against this active enemy; and if a rainy spell should happen to come up, and tho plantation work be seriously inter ferred with, the coco will gain such headway that it can not be stopped and will smother and kill the young cotton. F. L. Maxwell, of Killarnoy plantation, Merdron Point, in this State, thinks he has solved the coco problem. A West Indian planter told him of a bug in Jamaica which showed a great predilection for the coco. Mr. Maxwell obtained from Jamaica sev eral hundred eggs of the bug which is known scientifically as the sphactalis vulgaris minor. Only twenty of tho eggs hatched. He began operations with these. He plant ed the eggs in a box, raised several crops of them, and, when he thought he had enough, began planting them in the worst coco patch on his planta tion, scattering them three feet apart just as though he was planting seed. After some weeks some of the coco be gan to wilt An examination showed that the worm had burrowed down two or three feet in the ground to the nut from which the coco springs, eaten it, and thus killed the plant. Since the first crop was hatched out about the beginning of May, five crops of worms have been hatched, have laid their eggs and died, and each crop has been many fold larger than its predecessor, until the twenty sphactales have grown to many billions. In one plaoe they have destroyed ten acres of the coco, cutting it level with the ground, burrowing to the roots and annihilating it, but not injuring the cotton in the least. It is not yet known whether it will attack other plants than coco. In Jamaica it is said not to injure other grasses of any kind. Mr. Maxwell is already shipping the worms to planters in other porttaat oj 'the Sooth. IT. 0. Gmr. N. Y. Sun. formal, aro not in reality courteous, I part3? thug causing a strain which re and their views in regard to women in 5ults in its fructure. Very thin ghibs general are embraced in cynical Tal- ; ,s iess likely to crack from this cause, leyrand's three golden rules: L'oppor- j ns thc heat is m01.e quickly trans HOME AND FARM. Sprinkle salt immediately over any spot-where something has boiled over on the stove, and the place may be more easily cleaned. This also counter acts the bad odor. ' It is always preferable to preserve tomatoes in glass jars. No injury may result from tho use of tin cans, but those who put them up in glasses are on the safe side. Printed fabrics and colored stock ings are injured in color by soap, freez ing and sunshine. Flannels shrink and loose their soft texture by being sub jected to the same processes used in cleansing cotton goods. One reason that thero are so many mortgaged farms is because so many farmers sell corn, oats and hay early, and then have to buy tho same class of articles before the next crop is raised. Be sure and save enough for home use when selling a crop. Farm, Field and Stockman. At house-cleaning time the man should either move or get moved the heavier articles of furniture; he should attend to the cleaning and putting down of carpets; tho sitting up of stoves, and the like; in a word, he should assume .the responsibility for all the heavier and more disagreeable duties connected with good house keeping, and be willing, on occasion, to take a hand in those which are lighter. Good Housekeeping. The peach and plum are nearly enough related to bo budded or grafted on each other. Tho plum endures the cold better than the peach, and the latter fruit grown on plum stocks can be much more easily protected than when grown on its own. The head of a tree of bearing size may be enveloped by a covering to protect it from tho winds, while the hardier trunk remains exposed to the cold. Glass dishes crack when suddenly placed in hot water on account of tho unequal heating of the glass. It is a very poor conductor of heat, and tho part first placed in tho water expands : uciuiu mu liuciu ;iii lUiitu biiu uiuui mitted. Perishable articles of food are left to stand in a warm kitchen, which, perhaps, came directly from cold stor age, and should have a small interval between that and the ice-box or cellar. Meat, milk, fruit and vegetables aro quickly sensitive to such treatment, and taint, sour, wilt, or, as in the caso of garden products, lose their crisp freshness, so that disappointment in stead of satisfaction is many times the outcome of careful and generous marketing. Jelled Peaches: Soak an ounce and a half, or three-quarters of a pack age of gelatine in half a pint of water in a warm place. Peel and stone five ripe peaches, boil tho peaches in water I to cover them, stew for an hour gently. strain the sirup thus made, mix it with the gelatine while boiling hot and stir until it dissolves; pour this sirup over the cut-up peaches, stir in a cup of sugar, pour into a mold and set on ice. A few peach kernels cracked and mixed with the fruit is a great improvement. A discriminating writer pertinent ly says that wcll-equiped farmers who have lands adapted to potato-growing will grow them by tho hundred acres and with profit, oven though prices should be low, while those who can not afford to own an outfit of ma chinery will quit raising for market. The man who plants and harvests by hand labor can not compete in raising for the market with the one who plants and harvests with machines any more than the wheat-grower who sows by hand and harvests with tho cradle can compete with the grower who runs a seeder and a self-binder. The Condition of Cotton. The August report of the Depart ment of Agriculture shows a small re duction in condition of cotton in the Carolinas, Alabama and Louisiana, and an advance in Florida, Texas, Ar kansas and Tennessee. The averages of Georgia and Mississippi are un changed. The general average is 87.3, against 86.7 in July and 93.3 last August. The figures by States are: Virginia, 84; North Carolina, 82; South Carolina, 84; Georgia, 90; Florida, 92; Alabama, 90; Mississippi, 92; Louis iana, 90; Texas, 79; Arkansas, 93; Tennessee, 93. Cotton is almost without exception reported in sound "health and vigor, with as little shedding of leaves and forms as is mentioned in the most suc cessful seasons. There is a little rust, but not serious except in a few coun ties, mostly in Georgia and Alabama, where the "black rust" prevails in cer tain localities. The caterpillar is present very gen erally in the southern half of the lower tier of States, but is doing no injury except in a county or two of Florida. The boll-worm in some places in Texas. Her Frank Acceptance. "Yes." said she "I will accept your proposal this time, and we will be marled before winter." "O, delightr exclaimed he. "Your sudden change bewilders me." "I know it must," continued the sweet thing, "but the fact is, I have just learned that I didn't pass in my examinations last spring, and rather than go back, to the seminary aai stand the disgrace of being put dews, m Til even marry you." No cards. CMocyo Tritmn i V &f$fi m J ykiiMMk6MMMi :4r&& trJfft.'.Jfav'av