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man, clerk. Terms of court?1st Monday
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I BY ANNIE E. OONNELL
yy weddin'journey. Ain't it most
too good to be true?"
Judith Crockett settled her skirts and
folded tog-ether her wrinkled hands
with a long sigh of peace.
The train was getting under way
again.
Eli's weathered old face beamed and
nodded at her.
"It's so, Judith?it's livin', breathin'
truth! Look out the winder at them
fences. See 'cm shootin' past. We're
goin'! 1 feel's df 1 wanted to sing the
loxology."
Like little children they leaned toward
the window and watched the moving
picture outside. Eli's hand found its
way to Judith's and openly patted its
black silk mitt,
"We're on our weddin' journey,moth?
er, jest as true as we're alive. Our hon?
eymoon's jest ris\"
The words drifted back to the trio of
breezy, sweet-faced girls behind. The
whole car seemed to be full of girls.
U iris across the aisle, girls in front, girls
behind, and all of them twittering and
laughing in subdued little gales, after
the world-over fashion of girls.
"Did you hear. Joyce Darrah?
They're on their wedding trip!" whis?
pered Elvah Crane in delight. "The
dear little old lady's a bride!"
"Truly, do you s'pose," whispered
back Joyce. "She's so old?she must be
most a hundred. Look at her dear lit?
tle corkscrew curls behind her cars!"
"Girls, girls, quick!" murmured Mir?
iam Nye, nudging them in turn, "1 do
believe he's going to kiss her!"
Dut the kiss, if it had started, never
reached its destination. Judith Crock?
ett saw it coming, and held up her linger
to wai n it off. "Land, Eli, don't!" she
cried. "Right where folks'll see you!
What'll they think?"
"Well." the old man declared, reck?
lessly, "1 ain't sure 1 care what folks'll
think! It ain't every day 1 go on my
weddin' journey, an' I can't see when
would be a suitabler time to do what
liissin' I've got on hand to do."
He laughed delightedly, in little un
dulatory chuckles. Joyce said she could,
see the twinkles in his eyes through the
back of his head!
"I think he's lovely," she answered
softly, "and so is the little old bride.
They make the dearest little love-story,
right here before our eyes! It's bet?
ter than a story book; my, yes!"
Judith Crockett looked over her shoul?
der and got a. pleasant glimpse of the
vista of girls' faces behind her.
"My, ain't there a heap of 'em!" she
exclaimed. "An' oh. Eli, look quick!
There's one jest exactly behind that
looks like little Emmelinc that died.
I've got to speak to that one, Eli?I've
got to. I couldn't no more help it than
nothin' at all."
She leaned back and beckoned to
Mariam Nye*
"Deary," she called, "do you mind
comin' an' settiu' beside me jest lor a
few minutes'? I want to speak to you."
Miriam's tune stopped short. She
glauced at the other girls in amused
wonder, and then up into the sweet
wrinkled face. She saw the eagerness
in it, and answered it instantly.
"Yes, indeed," she said, "and the gen?
tleman can have my seat here." They
made the exchange, and Eli sat down
opposite Joyce and Elvah, with a nod of
gentie friendliness. He leaned forward
to them, pointing backward with his
thumb at Judith.
"Emmeline died, you see," he said
confidentially, "an' she wanted to talk
to the young lady because she looked
like Emmeline. She always wants to
talk to folks that put her in mind of
Emmy. I don't suppose the young
lady'Il mind, now, do you? I couldn't
bear to set up against mother on our
weddin' journej'. I thought we'd ought
to humor her."
Behind him "mother's" earnest voice
was running on. .j
"We've been married 41 years?Eli
an' me. It was 20 years ago Emmy died.
You lock so much like her, deary, that's
why I couldn't help caliin'you. You've
got Emmy's eyes an' her little round
chin. Emmy had such a beautiful
chin!"
Her own chin quivered a little, but
still she smiled at Miriam.
"You don't mind roe caliin' you,
deary, do you?" she asked. "1 told Eli
I couldn't help it, noway at all, the min?
ute I set eyes on you."
"Xo, indeed, I'm glad to come. I'm
glad to look like?Emmy." Miriam*?
sweet voice and the dead name rever?
ently.
There was a little pause, and to break
it she said: ,
"Is Eli your new husband's name?
You said?that is, I couldn't help hear?
ing, truly?that this was your wedding
trip."
Then Judith Crockett threw back her
head and laughed with such hearty en?
joyment that Miriam joined in from
rery sympathy. Eli and the girls be?
hind laughed, too.
"L.Thd!" puffed Judith in a breathless
gasp, "I hope 1 ain't hurt your feelin's,'
deary. 1 had to laugh?I couldn't a'
ielpcd it, not if I'd bc'n goin' to suffer
for it. It struck me all in a heap when
you asked me if Eli was my new hus?
band?Oh, my land! There, I'm goin'
to stop now."
She put out her hand and smoothed
Miriam's gently, haif apologizingly.
"Ye*;, deary, he is my new husband?
new ev'ry ruornin', an' fresh ev'ry even
in'. Eut the good Lord's let me have
him 40 years. An' I hope He'll let me
keep him always till it's time to go
home, au' then Eli an'me'll go together.
1 shouldn't know how to go without Eli
went, too."
She spoke quietly, but the love in her
plain old face transfigured it, to Mir?
iam.
"Oh," the girl said, softly, "I see now.
I didn't understand."
In the seat behind them, Eli was lean?
ing forward with his elbows on his
knees, explaining things to the girls.
"Most folks don't take their weddin'
journey 40 years afterwards," he said,
cheerfully, "but I do' know but they
would if tbey knew how good it felt.
Judith an'me could tell'em 1" -
He rubbed his finger-tips together
and beamed across at Joyce.
"It seems good, I tell you!" he went
on. "Maybe it's partly because we've
ha? to wait so long, an* there's been so
many put-backs. It was so long ago
the put-backs begun, an' there's be'n
such a sight of 'cm, that we can't scarce?
ly remember all of 'em.
"There was the farm to pay for first
off?we thought we'd ought to put the
weddin'-journey money into that, an'
then the babies come along, one to a
time, an' it went to bringin' them up.
An' when they were up, John wanted to
go to college, an' we wanted to kind of
set the others a-goin'?so we waited for
our weddin' journey, but we never give
it up.
"Wc had to put a mortgage on our
place to help the children along, an'it's
&.9&iiRL3?j^eJM; ff?* IbatBD^- Then
Oudlt? iur me got packed up an' come.
We'd planned jest where to go. you
know, setiin' in fr?nt of the tire winter
evenin's for 40 years. You get your
plans pretty nigh fixed up in all that
time!"
He leaned back in the seat and laughed
over at them.
"Land, ain't it good to boar Eli
laugh?" Judith said. "We ain't either
of us had much time to laugh till npw.
We'vt be'n pretty busy always, but
new we've got a fair start laughi*,' 1
feel as if we should keep it up the rest
of the time. Hut, land, deary, I guess
you'll get all tuckered out hearin' me
go on so. Oh, no, don't go yet!" as
Miriam half rose, smiling. "Stay an*
tell me about you. There's a dreadful
lot of you in the car, ain't there? 1
don't s'pose you all belong to the same
family."
Miriam's sweet face brightened.
"Why, y?s," she said, "we're ull of us
King's Daughters." She touched the
little silver cross she wore, gently sway?
ing it back and forih. "We're going to
Quimby to the convention."
"Quimby!" cried Judith, in delight.
"Why, that's where me an' Eli's goin'
to! Eli went there once when he wasn't
but a boy. an* we always said that's
where we'd go to on our weddin'jour?
ney. Eli wants to show me some of the
places he went to. 1 ain't ever be'n
away* from home, except over to the
P'int, shoppin*."
Eli went back to his seat and touched
Miriam's arm.
"I've wore them all out, yarnin', an' I
guess likely mother's wore you out. I
guess you'd like -to go back to your
friends about now, wouldn't you?"
Judith reached out her hand. "Good
by, deary," she said. "I'm much obliged
to you. It's be'n a little like bavin' a
visit from Emmy; an' oh, Eli, she's goin'
to Quimby, too! Ain't that nice?
They're all goin'."
"I declare! To Quimby, be you7
That's good! Maybe you're goin' to put
up to the same place, too? I'm goin' to
take Judith to the same place 1 stopped
at?it's round two corners from Main
street, turnin' f o your left both times. 1
could walk to it with my eyes shut."
"We're going to the Palace," Meriam
said, "on Axminster street. But per?
haps we may see you sometime. Oh, I
hope so!"
She put her other hand over tne one
Judith still held, and looking down
into the old woman's face. It seemed
like taking Emmy away from her to go
away. It was such a little thing to do?
to stay patiently?if it comforted Em?
my's mother!
"In His Xame," the letters on the lit?
tle silver cross read. If there were only
something worth while she could do be?
cause of those letters!
It was getting late; a station ortwc
more and they would be at Quimby.
Eli and Judith Crockett had settled
down together again and were dozing a
little, their heads jogging to the low
monotony of the wheels'tune. Judith
woke up and nudged Eli.
"EH, wake %p jest a minute! I
won't keep } ou long. Ain't it like goin'
abroad on our weddin' journey, where
there's kings an' palaces an' things?
She said they was the king's daughters,
an' they're goin' to stop at a palace."
Eli nodded vaguely, in dozy indiffer?
ence to her words.
"Well," Judith said to herself, "he
might's well go to sleep again. I'm go
in' to make believe?same as little
Emmy used to do?that Eli an' me's
jourueyin' abroad. It won't do a mite
of harm, an' it's about as nigh to pal?
aces an' kings as Eli an' me will ever
get, till we enter into the Blessed King?
dom over acrost."
She was still smiling over her harm?
less little play, when the train, with a
jolt and wheeze, drew into Quimby.
There was a good deal of confusion,
as usual, in the station of a big city.
Hackmen beckoned and coaKed, and
their strident voices increased the hub?
bub indefinitely. Hacks clattered in and
out, trucks threaded the crowds and
threatened men's bones. And outiuto
the cry and rush Eli-and Judith went in
timid astouishment.
This Quimby? Eli's old face was full
|f unbelief. Where was his Quimby
that he had brought Judith to?the
quiet, peaceful Quimby, with its pleas?
ant, uncrowded streets?
Quimby had grown up. Forty years
make men of cities as well as boys, Eli
Crockett?poor, old bewildered soul!
Joyce and Miriam and Elvah kept to?
gether. They were all going to tbe
same hotel.
"1 don't see tl.*e bride and groom,"
Joyce said, anxiously.
"I don't either," chimed in Miriam,
"and I'm worried about them. We
ought to have kept near them, girls.
The poor old creatures will get lost in
this crush."
"Well," philosophic Elvah remarked,
"it's too late to mend our wa3-s now.
Come on, hurry! there's my grand
fatherly hackman waiting for us."
Elvah was acquainted with Quimby.
She had lived ther* part of her life, and
she and her grandfatherly hackman
were old friends. Her married sister
boarded at the "Palace," and it was un?
der that matronly little woman's chap
rronage the three girls ^ ere to be dur?
ing their short visit. Two days for the
convention, and one for fun, was their
programme.
Early the next morning, on their way
to one of the meetings of the conven?
tion, they dropped into the big, bustling
depot again.
"Of course I don't expect to lind it,"
Joyce was saying. "1 should say not!
Who ever heard of finding an umbrella?"
Elvah laughed. Miriam gave a quick
little start.
"Oh," she said, "I've found the bride
and bridegroom! Look, over there in
the corner!"
Over there in the corner, surety
enough, were Eli and Judith. They sat
up primly, but their weary old faces
had a patient, disappointed look that
broke into pale sunshine when they saw
the girls coming to them.
Judith caught Miriam's hand. "Land,
deary, if it ain't you!" she cried, softly.
"Eli, don't you see who 'tis? Who'd
have thought, now?"
She drew Miriam down beside her on
the seat. "We're waitin' to go home,"
she explained, quietly.
"Going home, to-day? Why, you've
only just got here!" cried Miriam, aston?
ished.
"Yes, I know, deary, but we're goin'
home. We've be'n waitin' all night to.
The train don't go till ten o'clock."
Then, at the sight of the girl's won?
dering face, she added the rest of the
story.
"We didn't know Quimby'd grown up
so. Eli thought it was goin' to be like it
was when he was here before. There
was a little, nice hotel then, where you
didn't have to pay but 50 cents a day.
We'd ought to waited till we got more
money."
It was all there?'the story?Miriam
read it at once, and there was no need
of the sequel to it, Eli was telling the
other girls, but she listened uncon?
sciously.
"Yes, we're goin'," the old man's voice
qua1- ered dejectedly. "I'm sort of sorry
onmother'saccount?sheset a good deal
of store on comin'.
. "She aia^t said a word?bless 3-00, that
ain't mother's way! But she's feelin-*
bad inside. An bein* so tuckered out
makes it worse. You see, you can't get
much good sleep on these little naTrow
6eats."
"Sleep! You haven't been here all
night?" the girlisb voices chorused.
"Yes," Eli said, gently, "right here's
where we've set all night. There's a
hotel over across the track. I went
there to sec about stoppin*. That's why
we're goin' home. They said they was
the cheapest costin' hotel there was in
Quimby, so I knew 'twarn'tany use try
in' any others.
"Judith said she guessed the best
thing we could do was to go right home
again an' wait. 'We ain't giveu up our
weddin' journey, but we'll have to wait
a spell longer."
The girls staid a little longer and
then went away. It was half-past nine
o'clock. They looked at the clock in?
voluntarily, all of them, on their wa}'
ant. When they pot out into the open
air Jovee drew a long breath and stood
still.
The three sweet faces, unwontcdlj'
moved, had the same thought in them.
The same letters on three tiny silver
crosses spelt it out.
Then Miriam, with a little jolt into a
brisk, businesslike tone, said:
"We've got to hurry. There's the day
for fun, you know."
"Yes, I was thinking of that."
"So was I."
"We could give that one up." Miriam
cent on. "Three 'days for fun' almost
make two days for?them."
"And we oould make up the rest," put
in Joyce, quiekl}'. "1 was going to get
a new?oh, never mind what," she fin?
ished. "I don't need it, after all."
"And I don't need miue, cither!"
laughed Elvah, softly.
"Xor I," cried Miriam.
They fingered the little crosses, inter?
preting each other's thoughts instinct?
ively. But it was Miriam who put it
into low, shy words.
"In Iiis name," she murmured.
Two days of overflowing, unexpected
bliss Eli and Judith had, after all.
The girls took them back to the beau?
tiful Palace hotel and made them their
guests. In all the spare minutes they
could find they took the happy old
couple around the city and showed them
its wonders. And when they could not
go themselves they planned the little
trips and started Eli and Judith out on
Ihcm. There was not a moment that
did not have something in. it to enjoy
ind wonder at and lay up for long win?
ter nights at home.
When it was nearly over and they
were saying good-by to the girls it was
Judith who laid her plain old hands on
Miriam's and Elvah's heads like a loving
little benediction and said:
"Put your hand on the other head, Eli,
for me. The Lord only gave me two
hands. There, dearies, God bless you.
The King had ought to be proud of JIIs
:1a ughters."
And when they were at- home again
and sitting in front of the fire together
it was Judith who said, with a long, se?
rene sigh, and Eli who nodded his white
head in answer:
"We've bc'n on our weddin' journey,
Eli. It's livin', breathin' truth, but don't
't seem like we'd dreamed a pleasant
dream, sittin* here do/.in'?"
The firelight danced up to meet the
light in "mother's" face.
"An' don't it seem as if we'd had be;>u
tifulness enough an' lovin' kindness"?
did the shifting glow of the coals, in
sudden sympathy, picture three girls'
bright faces??"an' lovin' kindness
enough, Eli, to last 40 years more?"?
Household.
POPE LEO XI11.'S BIRTHDAY.
Cnrnlneto In the Apennines, the Pcc?
ci Palace aixl the Pope's Hedrooiu.
Count Ludovieo Peeci, nephew of Leo
Xin., and his wife, Donna Yittoria, have
given, in honor of the pope's name day,
a gTeat reception at Carpineto, the
birthplace of the Pontiff, where they
live. Carpineto is a mountain village
with about 5,000 inhabitants, and is pic?
turesquely situated on the top of a
peak of the Lepini mountains. Being
surrounded by points much higher, and
snow-capped at some seasons, it is real?
ly very beautiful. It is far from rail?
ways. One has to drive five hours hi
the diligence in order to reach it, and
it has thus kept much of its primitive
character. The inhabitants arc very
poor, mostly shepherds. The women,
starting early in the morning, some?
times go 15 miles to gather wood. When
they are employed in cultivating the
land they do not earn more tha.n four
or five pence a day.
The present vilkige was, in the middle
ages, a rather important town. It was,
with its surroundings, a duchy, first un?
der the Caetani, to which family be?
longed Boniface VTIL, who hadhisenrs
boxed by a Sciarra-Colonna at Anagnl,
and later under the Aldobrandini, to
which belonged Clement VITT. For two
centuries, however, the most important
family there has been that of the Pccci,
although they originally came from
Siena. The Peeci own the only building
which can be called a palace, and half of
the environs. From their palace, which
is built on the highest ground the out?
look is grand toward the mountains
and picturesque looking down over the
roofs of the medieval town. The in?
terior is much more sumptuous than
one would expect in that half-wild dis?
trict. There are vast anterooms and
magnificent halls, hung with tapestry
and large family portraits.
The portrait of the pope's mother rep?
resents her as handsome and dignified,
and that of his father, in his uniform
of colonel (he served under Xapolcon
I.) as a good-looking man, in whose fea?
tures can be found traces resembling
his celebrated son. Leo is also there.
The likeness is an exceedingly good one
?more than can be said of his brother,
Cardinal Giuseppe Pccci, who died in
1S90 at- the age cf S3, a rigid Jesuit, who
had a rooted objection to posing in any
form for his picture. Among the por?
traits there of persons not belonging to
the family, is one of Duke Loubat, an
American ennobled by Leo XIII., who
has erected three or four statues of the
pope in different churches.
The room occupied bj' the present
Pontiff when he resided in Carpineto is
still called "Camera di Monsignore,"
and has not been disturbed. It is very
modestly furnished, having a little iron
bed with curtains, a small writing desk
near a window, a picture of the Madon
aa, a portrait of the Blessed Margaret
Peeci, an ancestress of his, and a few
chairs.?Pall Mall Gazette.,
Where Mnatnehcs Are Uarred.
Time was in England when the em?
ployes of banks might not wear beards
or mustaches. This restriction has in
almost every instance long been re?
moved. One exception still remains.
The historic house of Coutts, where
royalty keeps its private accounts, de?
clines to alter the rule of a bygone age,
and visitors to its ancient walls will
note that its employes present a re
markablj' trim and smart appearance.
The younger clerks yearning for those
hirsute adornments so dear to budding
adolescence have recently memorialized
the partners on this subject, but, alas!
without success.?Detroit Free Press.
Make it a rule to sell as little feed
as possible and to buy as little as pos
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NEW HITCHING POST.
It Kcepi the Horse from Destroying
the Grasny Sod.
When one places a hitching post be?
side a driveway' on the lawn, the grass
ull about the post is quite sure to be ut?
terly destroyed by the feet of the horses,
since horses will move all about a post
to which they are hitched, even when
harnessed to a carriage. This makes
an unsightly spot, and one where, very
quickly, a pool of water will stand after
every rain. The cut shows an improve?
ment on an "improved" hitching post.
NEW HITCHING POST.
I first conceived the idea of locating
the post just outside the roadway, in
the grass, using the double swinging
iron arm, with its snafflf , to hold the
horse off from the grass. This works
well with most horses, but some will
throw the arm completely up over the
top of the post, and so get on to the
grass with all four feet. This is ob?
viated by using the chain, as shown in
the cut. This permits the arm to rise
just far enough to reach the bridle of
the horse, with play enough so that he
can move his head freely, but does not
permit him to throw it over upon the
other side of the post.
This device of using an arm to keep
the horse away from the post accom?
plishes more than the preservation of
tiic grassy sod. It keeps the horse from
gnawing and disfiguring the post, and
from rubbing his bridle and other parts
of his harness against it?often to the
serious injury of the harness.?Country
Gentleman.
COMFORT ON THE FARM.
It Fnrninhes Encournsrement for Snc
ceKHful Effort.
The lack of comfort in the home of a
farmer is not, as a general rule, so
much the result of necessity as of neg?
lect; nor is it true that man or beast is
better off without it, A lot of chink
holes in the barn may be all right for
ventilation in summer, but they bring
discomfort to the animals and cost a
deal of grain when winter's blasts are
on. Discomfort is a source of weakness
and a hindrance to development. The
word comfort means to strengthen
much, to encourage, to invigorate.
These- certanly are great aids to bet?
ter life and furnish encouragement for
successful effort. The cow will yield
mare and better milk if she-finds com?
fort in her stall and pasture. Thesteer
will lav on more pounds if made com?
fortable.
Carried to its fullest meaning com?
fort is not to be associated with ef?
feminacy or the weakening of body or
mind. So essentinl is this factor to all
life that neither man nor beast can ac
eompiish the full quota of labor with?
out it. Securing comfort then in our
homes and barnyards does not mean
extravagance or an investment that
will not give gcod returns. If a wind?
mill is a luxury then a pump is one also,
for the water might be lifted with a
rope. Perhaps the cynic may call the
well an extravagance for the water
might be carried several miles from
some creek or spring. The farmer who
can afford it and does not have a com?
fortable home is not a lirst-class citi?
zen.?Unral World.
BETTER TIMES AHEAD.
Live Stork nml l-'arin Prixlncc Shotv
nn Increase in Value.
Owners of live stock have been dis?
couraged, as a rule, during the past live
years. Horses anil sheep have been fur
immediate returns very poor property.
Cattle and hogs have at times been valu?
able, but they too often have afforded
no encouraging returns. The signs of
the times are changing, and there is
now outlook for at least a moderate im?
provement in all classes of live stock.
There is steady improvement in man?
ufacturing business, and with the in?
crease in such work there will be a
greatly improved demand for good
horses. As the income of salaried peo?
ple and wage-workers is'advanced, the
grocers and other retail merchants will
be obliged to have more of the average
sized horses for use on delivery wagons.
This will afford a market to many farm?
ers for their average horses, and there
will be a tendency continually among
breeders, with advancing values, to pro?
duce a better grade of stock for the fu?
ture. As values of all the different
grades of equine stock improve there
will be a much better feeling among
the general farmers which will cause
them to invest in much-needed new im?
plements and machinery.
It is usually necessary on the aver?
age farm to depend upon such products
as the meats, butter, eggs, wool, etc.,
for the current expenses and living of
the family. Permanent improvements
must be made, as a rule, from the re?
turns of the occasional sale of a team
or a single horse.
With the increasing value of all kinds
of grain there is every reason to expect
an advance in the prices offered for all
grades of live stock. There has been a
greatly diminished condition of the
flocks of the country, so that the fleeces
will not glut the near future. The dis?
position of so many people to economize
in clothing during later years will
necessarily, of course, force the masses
to buy more freely in the near future.
This urgent demand will advance val?
ues materially. With the masses of
working people employed also, there
will be a steady advance in the demand
for meats and the greater variety of
provisions. When families increase
their expenditures for the table there
will be a sure and steady call for more
of the farmers' products.
It is generally claimed that the sup?
ply of hogs throughout the country is
less than for some years hitherto. The
markets at the yards indicate an up?
ward tendency, so that producers of
pork may take courage to give much
better care to the swine than they were
disposed to do of late because of low
values.
It must be remembered that with im?
proving times and values in their
products the farmers themselves will
be disposed to use more freely better
foods for their tables and more of their
best products generally, because of the
fact that an increase in their Incomes
will permit more liberal living. In too
many cases during panic times some
farmers felt themselves compelled to
use for their own provisions largely the
rvroducts.which were nerishable and to j
i
Cures
Talk
?'Cures talk " in favor
of Hood's Sarsaparilla,
as for no other medi?
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convincing language of grateful men and
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the people; have given Hood's Sarsapa?
rilla the largest sales in the world, and
have made necessary for its manufacture
the greatest laboratory on earth. Hood's
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made?cures of scrofula, salt rheum and
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troubles, catarrh?cures which prove
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Is the best?in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
5j ii n>i< curo llver His; easy to
riOOU S FlIlS take, easy to operate.'ilc.
some extent unsaiaDle. A sugnt im?
provement all along the line should
give courage for rencweH effort.
Everything produced on the farm has
now enoufl 1 worth to warrant the own?
ers in giving it the best care and atten?
tion.?Farm and Fireside.
WIRE-FENCE POSTS.
Nothing In Quite ntt Good and Durable
as Live Trees.
There is no post as good as a solid tree
for the end of a wive fence. The objec?
tion to using the tree for such a pur?
pose is that it is bad for the tree to cut
GOOD SYSTEM OF WIRE FENCING.
away the bark, and if ratchetsare need?
ed, as they are on most smooth wire
fences, they cannot well be put on the
live tree without either destroj'ing the
tree or the usefulness of the ratchet as
the tree grows out over it. By putting
up a four by four, or larger, post at the
side of the tree and close to it and pin?
ning it to the tree by means of iron pins
at least one inch thick, the trouble is
overcome. Such pins cost but a trifle,
and may generally be gotten out of the
scr?p pile for nothing. In the cut R
repesents the ratchets. ? Joseph E.
Wing, in Ohio Farmer.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Every farm has a place for sheep
that no other stock can fill.
For want of sufficient moisture a tree
may Starre with its roots in the midst
of plenty.
Teach the young horses to walk well
and a good foundation is laid for the
faster gaits.
Thorough grubbing is the surest
way of getting rid of elder, sassafras
and persimmon.
Always keep the plow sharp, it makes
better work and is easier for both the
team and plowman.
One advantage in using- the drill or
%eed sower is that the seed will be dis?
tributed more evenl}\
A light daily feed cf oats can nearly
always be given to the weaning colts
at this time with benefit.
When the tools and implements are
stored away be sure that they are
properly cleaned and painted.
The best systems of cropping are in?
variably those which call for the
most thorough preparation of the soil.
Feeding, watering and grooming
regularly will aid materially in keep?
ing the horses in a good, thrifty con?
dition.?Farmers' Union.
Cost of Shipping Grain.
It costs about 13 cents to send a bush-;
el of wheat to Liverpool from Chicago..
Fifty years ago the cost of sending a
bushel of wheat from sections near
Philadelphia now reached in an hour by
rail was much more. With improved
modes and facilities of transportation
distance has been obliterated and the
market extended until shipments de?
pend on time and not the number of
miles. Grain, is cheaper because it can
be produced at less cost with machines
and is more easily shipped. Th& solu?
tion of the problem is to grow larger
crops per acre.
WUNDtRFUL COW THIS.
South Carolina Ilovine Uns Two
Calves in Three Months.
Mr. W. McC. Venning, of Mount Pleas?
ant, is the proud owner of a cow that
has given' birth to two calves within
the past three months. In June she be?
came the mother of a healthy calf.
Since then she has been a steady milker,
and a few nights ago astonished the
little village by having another off?
spring. The second calf is a stout, well
built young- animal, and is sporting
around to the amusement of the vil?
lagers. The first one is almost large
enough to eat hay, and is disposed to
fight its younger brother for the moth?
er's affection. The cow is still furnish?
ing milk to her people, and does not
seem to think her feat near so strange
as the people of Mount Pleasant do.
For a time Alhambra hall is forgot?
ten, and from all sides of the town the
children have swarmed to sec "de cow
wot have two calfs in free months."
But there is no fake about this cow.
If the story is dloubted itwill be an easy
matter to get bundles of proof and af?
fidavits from Mr. Yenning and others.
The oldest Charlestonian cannot recall
an instance of a cow having made such
a record. It is true there have been
cows that have given birth to twins.
The case is remarkable, and adds a new
phase to cow culture, whatever that
may be".
Many persons who heard of the
Mount Pleasant prodigy^ said it was all
bosh. But it isn't. Good) men and hon?
orable men, and men who know how to
vouch for its truth, are prepared to
prove it. This cow will go down in
history. In years to come she will
rival the one in Chicago that kicked
over the kerosene lamp, or even the
famous Ibull of the crockery store.
Mount Pleasant feels a local pride in
the animal, and it isprobable that some
official recognition will be taken of her
patriotic service. It has been suggest?
ed that a jollification meeting be held
and souvenirs in the shape of milk
shakes be presented to the guests.?
Charleston News and Courier.
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Tazewell, - - Virginia.
E. D. BROWN, Proprietor.
Board and Lodging by day, week or month. Meals at all
hours at 25c. Table first class.
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We guarantee they will please you better than any plow on the market.
We will sell yon a first-class Sewing Machine for $20.00 and the best in tbo
world for $30.00,. Guaranteed.
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TAZEWELL, VA.
Turnips Among the Corn.
There is no crop grown so easily and
with so little cost as late-sown turnips
In a field of well-cultivated corn. The
shade of the corn will keep the turnips
from growing much until the corn is
cut. Possibly also their growth will be
checked by the demand of the corn
roots for plant food. Cut in. the Indian
summer that follows the first frost the
turnips will make rapid growth, as they
will then have all the land for their own
use. The turnip will endure a pretty
heavy frost, and grow again if warm
weather follows it. But in our climate
turnips cannot be left in the ground all
winter as they are in England.
Solid!? In Pare 3111k.
Many people are surprised to learn
that milk which is liquid has a larger
proportion of solid contents than have
many articles of food. Milk averages
S3 per cent, of solid matter, of which n
considerable part is albumen. It is this
which coagulates with heat, and still
more when rennet is used. Potatoes are
SO per cents moisture, though wbetfYhe
potato is cooked the starch in it ex?
pands, making it seem much heartier
food than it is. The solid of the potato
is maiuly starch. That of milk is di?
vided between easelne, butter fats and
sugar, the last of which is found in
whey, which, even though it be soured,
shows by that fact that it has had some
sugar In it.
Conclusive Proof.
Percy?I wonder why we say that love
< blind?
Gerald?Because we so often see a
petty girl fall in love with some other
an.?Brooklyn Life.
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COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VALUA?
BLE REAL ESTATE.?Pursuant to
a decree of the United States Circuit Court
for the Western District of Virginia, en?
tered at the October term thereof held at
Abingdon, Va., in the cause of Linda H.
Johnson vs. The Southern Building and
Loan Association of Knoxville, Tennessee,
we shall, as Special Commissioners ap?
pointed by said decree for the purpose, of?
fer for sale at public auction, on the prem?
ises, at 2 o'clock p. m., on
TUESDAY, JANUARY 4TH, 1898, /
the following described real estate situated
iu the town of Graham, Virginia, to-wit:
(1.) Lot 7, block 41, on map of Graham
Land and Improvement Co. This prop?
erty is known as the Mrs. Z. E. Yost lot,
and has a store and residence upon it. It
was purchased by the Southern Building
and Loan Association under foreclosure
proceedings.
(2.). The C. W. Schaffer residence. T
property adjoins C. M. Brown, Q. Morgan
and John Lilly, as per map of R. L. Gil
lespie. It was purchased by the Southern
Building and Loan Association under fore?
closure proceedings.
TERMSOFSALE?Cash as to one-fourth
of the purchase price and for the residue
thereof the purchaser shall execute his
bonds in three equal installments at six,
twelve and eighteen months, with interest
from date, the title to the property to
retained as ultimate security until all
purchase money is paid, and the purcl
to have the privilege of anticipating the
payment of the whole or any part of the
purchase money, or of any or ah of the
bonds given for the deferred payments.
J. R. Miller, .
LI. Peyton Giuy,'
Nov. 13, 1897. Commissioners.
I, I. C. Fowler, clerk of the United
States district court for the Western dis?
trict of Virginia, at Abingdon, Va., do
hereby certify that J. R. Miller ar
Peyton Gray, commissioners in the
of Linda H. Johnson vs. The
Building and Loan Association
ville, Tennessee, have executed t
required of them as commission
decree of the 30th day of Octobej
I. C.
Clerk of the Circuit Court of t
the Western District of Virgi
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ises, especially those leaseil to John and
Cosby Bowman; for the law against all
such will be rigidly enforced.
Wm. G. W. Iaegbr.
July 31, 1897.
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