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TESTED BY TIME. /' Mrs. Robert ?. Broderick, who "~| resides at 1915 Virginia St.. tu San Antonio. Texas, tells an experience that will interest every reader; it shows as well that Doan's cures are last? ing cures. She says: "Up to the early part of the year 190J I had been a sufferer from kiduej troubles for many years. The pain in my back became worse and worse until lt was a dally burden that interfered with every duty. I was much af? flicted with headaches and dizzy spells nnd was nuable to rest well nights. In May. 1902, after using Doan's Kidney Tills I made a statement for publica? tion declaring that they had entirely relieved me of the pain in my back. I bare siuce then had a year's time in whlrh to study the effects of the medi? cine, and while I have had slight touches of the trouble since, the use of the pilb has always driven away all signs of the disorder, and I have be? come convinced of the fact that the first treatment was practically perma? nent in its effects, and I know that a box of Doan's Kidney Tills kept on hand ls I sufficient guarantee against any suffering from the kidneys or back. I should advise every sufferer to take Doan's Kidney Tills, and I know that they will bc surprised and pleased with the result." A Fnnc Trial of this great kidney medicine which cured Mrs. Broderick will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. Fo" sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per bo Id Not Think of the President. A pretty little incident occurred in Governor La Toilette's office, in Madi? son, Wis., while President Roosevelt was holding a reccption'there. Two lit? tle girls edged their way into the crowd in thc office. Their dress indicated that their home was not furnished with all of the good things which children like to have. Governor La Follctte, see? ing thc children, asked them if they wanted to sec thc President. The small? er of the two shook her head, abashed by the big crowd. Thc Governor press? ed them to see the President, when the larger one spoke up and said:? "We don't want that, but we would like something else." "What would you like?" asked the Governor. "We'd like that'flower," replied the little tot. "Papa is sick at home and could not come, and we'd like to give him that flower." She was told she could have the flower, and she was so happy that she cried with joy as she seized thc large American beauty rose. Willing hands stripped several of thc vases in thc Gov? ernor's office and thc children had all of thc flowers they could earn- to cheer up the sick father, whose happiness they thought of amid all of the excite? ment of the presidential reception. A Little King. /An amusing incident is told of King Victor of Italy, one of whose chief amusements is motoring. One day when out with the Queen they were passing through a small village when a breakdown occurred. Amongst the crowd attracted to the spot were two English motorists, who, unaware of the identity of thc occupants, carried on thc following conversation:? "Pretty motor-car." "Yes, and thc lady is pretty, too." "More than can be said of the man. Did you ever see such a little man in such a big car?" *? "I am out of brandy. I wonder if he can supply me. Shall I ask? Perhaps bc speaks French." "I shall bc most happy to oblige you," said the King, in perfect Eng? lish, turning and holding out his flask. Then, as he prepared lo leave, he add cd, "Can I bc of any further usc to you? My kingdom is at your disposal, and it is not so small as its monarch." Same Old (jame. A granger one day cashed a cheque, On a city bank that was a wrcquc; This new-fangled gold biiquc Made him so hopelessly siquc That he hanged himself by the ncquc. Black Hair ?I have used your Hair Vigo ' five years and am greatly ased with it. It certainly re* rcs the original color to gray r.. It keeps my hair soft. "?Mrs. '^en Kilkenny, New Portland, Me. .yer's Hair Vigor has f m restoring color to gray hair for fifty years, and it never fails to do this work, either. You can rely upon it for stopping your hair from falling, for keeping your scalp clean, and for making your hair grow. 11.00 a bottle. All driiHlsd. r ' i ?? inn j.i?i.".iiij?iiii^iW?I If Tour druggist enr.not supply you, ?onA us ono dellar nnd wo will express you a bottle. Pe sure emt givo tho name of your nearest express oilice. Address, J. C. AY Eil CO., Lowell, Mass. H mvm RIPMS Tatala Doctors find A good prescription For mankind. The C<ent packet is enough fol an ordinary occasion. Tin family bottle (price CO ccutjj contains a supply fur a year. THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comments For June 14. Subject: Pani at Rome, Acts xxviil., 16 24 30, 31-GoIden Text, Rom. L, 16?Mern mory Verses, 23, 24-Study Verses, 16-31 -Commentary 00 tbe Day's Lesson. Paul enters Rome (v. 16). 16. "Came to Rome." Rome is reached at last and the long journey is at an end. At this time the city of Rome was at the height of its glory". It held swav over nearly the entire known world. Within a circuit ot little more than twelve miles more than 2,000,000 ef inhabitants were crowded, of whom about 1,000,000 were slaves. "But Paul." Nero, the emperor to whom Paul had ap? pealed, was too much engaged in his de? baucheries and pleasures to care much for such a man as Paul or such accusations as were made against him by the Jews. "Ry himself." This lenity was probably due to the commendation oi the centurion Julius. "With ft soldier." The custom was to chain the prisoner by one hand to the guard. To this chain the apostle frequent? ly makes allusion in the epjatles to the Kphesians, Philippians and Colosiiians and in his friendly note to Philemon, all of which were written' during this imprison? ment. See Kph. 3:1; 4: 1; Phil. 1: 13, 16; Col. 4: 18; Philem. 1: 9, 10. The first interview with the Jews (rs. 17-22). 17. "After three days." Three llays after Paul's arrival at Rome he in? vited those who presided over the Jewish community to visit him. His first steps on passing beyond the narrow circle of those already converts were directed, in accord? ance with his established principia, toward Israel. And a* his circumstances did not allow him to seek the Jews, as he had done in other places, he requested the represen? tatives of the Jewish congregation to come to his lodging. "Men and brethren." This address to thc assembled Jews is of a per? sonal nature, and is intended to counteract ?ertain prejudices which the Roman .lews m||ht entertain. "Delivered prisoner." In as mild terms as possible he recounts "his uncalled for accusation bv thz Jews in Je? rusalem, wJw 'h'.Ocred him into the hands of ?.he J lomans. 18, 19. "Let mc go." He narrates briefly the events given in chapters 21 to 26. The Roman officials repeatedly failed to lind cause of offense in him. "To appeal?' Paul declared that his appeal to the em? peror had become indispensably necessary, beejuse the Jews opposed his acquittal to which the Roman authorities judged him to be entitled. He states that it had not been his ictention to bring any accusation against his people before the emperor. 20. "Hope of Israel." The hope of Israel is the general expectation of the Messiah. In Jesus Paul believed that the expected Saviour had appeared, and for preaching t li ie he had been attacked and made a. prisoner. He held the same faith as all the Jews, only going in thia matter further than they, in that he believed .the ancient promise was now fulfilled. Weean see from the reply of the Jews that he un? derstood their position exactly. "Tin* chain." Roman chains, like our handcuffs, usually indicated crime, but Paul's eh-iin? stand for patriotism and the loftiest relig? ious conception. 21. "Neither received letters." Why the Jews in Judea had not forwarded the accusation against Paul to their brethren in Rome, that they might continue the prosecution before the emperor, is not known, lt is probable that they regarded their cause ns hopeless, and chose to aban? don the prosecution. Paul had been ^ac* quitted successively by Lysias, Felix, Fes tus and Agrippa. 22. "Desire to hear of thee." They im? plied that they had heard of him by their request to know what he thought of this new sect. That they spoke soirautiously, and subsequently made no demonstration of hostility against Pa nj is readily account? ed for. The apostle was held in special favor by the chief olficer of Nero's house? hold, and the Jews of the synagogue were themselves subject to persecution so that they were powerless to persecute the disci? ples of Christ". The second interview with the Jews (va. 23-29). 23. "Cam/1 many."" They came in great numbers. Many accompanied the chief Jews. "Expounded." etc. Paul takes as his theme that doctrine of the kingdom of Cod which was the central truth of the Old Testament and the New, that great disclosure of the prophets which was still, as it had been for centuries, the Bupreme thought and hope of the who'e Jewish people. Again Paul follows the very line of his risen Lord's exposition to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. "Moses?prophets." Beginning nt Mose? and all tne prophets he showed that the predicted kingdom is not limited io one nation, but co-extensive with the world. He showed them that in Jesus of Nazareth all the conditions of the expected Meatian were fulfilled. "Morning until evening." This shows the effort Paul put forth' to save the Jews. 24. "Some believed." A few were won to faith in the Christ, but the many disbe? lieved the teachings of their own Scrip* turc.i, and rejected the suffering Messiah, so plainly disclosed. The seed of the word fell here, in some cases, by the wayside; in Others upon stony places, or among thorns; nevertheless, some fell into good ground. 2.5-29. "Spoken one word." With these solemn words of the Holy Ghost, spoken by Isaiah, Christ had opened Hi-3 teachings by parables (Matt. 13: 14, 10), and had finally closed His minstry among the Jews (John 12: 40). And now Paul, as if himself commissioned by the^Ioly'Chost as a pro? phet of the New Testament, sadly redeliv? ers the same message, enforced by the aw? ful emphasis of the Master's doub'e utter? ance. Thus the apostle, under divine di? rection, formally and finally seals up the gospel offer to God's disobedient and re? jecting people. In this fearful process there are three distinguishable agencies ex? pressly described: The ministerial agencv of the prophet; tlie judicial agency of God, and the suicidal agency of the people them? selves. "Unto the Gentiles." Paul was never discouraged. If the gospel was re? jected by one class of people he was ready to offer it to another. Raul's residence and ministry in Rome (vs. 30, 31). 30. "Two whole years." Why he was not prosecuted before the em? peror during this time is not known. As there was no prosecution Paul was suffered to live in quietness and safety. Nothing certainly is known on the subject. It is Urident. from 2 Tim. 4: 16, that he was at sorJb time arraigned before the emperor, bait when, or what was the decidion, or Ar he was at last set at liberty, are all in? volved in impenetrable obscurity. 31-. "Preaching ? and teaching." Paul did a great work during these two years in Romp: 1. He preached the gospel to a'l who came to him. 2. He wrote several epistles which were by far the most impor? tant part of his prison activity. Cloud of Loeusts. A Dutch traveler, Kurt Dinter, who has just returned from eouthorn Afrl ca, says that one day, while In camr, rn Hottentot land, he heard a rushing sound as if rain were falling In tor rents. Not far away it seemed to hirr as if a cloud had actually begun tc fall upon the earth. The cloud turned out to be locusts. The planters anc* cattle raisers soon appeared with their men and gathered them in bags. The) smoked thc insects to kill them, antf then .dried them in the sun, after which they were fed to the dogs, chickens, pigs, goats and cattle. Thi traveler found that oxen and horses are especially fond of locusts, and gel fat and strong during tho locust sea son, as do the natives, who also gorgs themselves. The Legs of the Tenor. Alfred Ord writes a Cleveland paper Inquiring "Why tenor singers are fat, knock-kneed and have legs like a pi ano?" The man in our town who used to sing a high mosquito tenor way up in H used to have legs that would have made a broomstick appear corpu lent. He was also thinner than fath? er's excuse cn lodge night?Milwau? kee Journal. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. General Trade Conditions. Bradstreet's says: "Wholesale trade awaits crop, labor and price develop? ments. Too much rain is reported foi Western crops, but particularly foi corn, the planting of which is still de? layed. "Business failures io, thc United Slates for thf week number 181, against 155 last week."_ LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour?Soring clear, $3.35(0)3.50; best Patent, $4.80; choice Family, $4.05. Wheat?New York No. 2, 8^c; Philadelphia No. 2, 8o@8o^c; Balti? more No. 2, 82c. Corn?New York No. 2, 56c; Phila? delphia No. 2, SolA@Soy2z; Baltimore Ko. 2, 55(fl5fc Oats?New York No. 2, 41^: Phila? delphia No. 2, 4iI^@42c; Baltimore No. 2, 4i@42c. * Hay.?No. 1 timothy, large bales $2o.5o(?/>i.oo; do. small bales $20.50(0} ?i.oo; No. 2 timothy, $19.00(^20.00; Nd. J timothy, $16.00(018.00; No. 1 clover mixed. $17.50(0 18.50; No. 2 clover mix ?d, $14.50(016.50; No. I clover, $13.50 Sg 14.00: No. 2 clover, $10.00(0)12.00; no grade hay. $7.00(0)11.00. Green Fruits and Vegetables.?We quote as follows: Apples?Western Maryland and Pennsylvania, packed, per bri $1.50(02.25; do, New York, per bri, assorted, $1.75(32.50; do, No. I baldwins $2.oo(o'2.50; do, Russets, per bri. $2.25(0.2.50; do, good to choice Eastern, per br-i $1.75^2.50; do, No. 2, ill varieties, per bri $1.50@I.75. Aspar igus?Norfolk, per dozen $1.00(02.25; do, Maryland and Virginia, per dozen, ultivated, $1.25(52.00; do, per dozen, Aild, $1.00(01.25. Beets?Charleston, per bunch, 2@3c; do, Norfolk, per junch, 2(o\jc. Cabbage?Norfolk, per 5rl $\.\'J" \ 25; do, York river, per -?rate, $1.15(0 f.25;' do~>to&-Xaroiirji . ocr crate, $1.10(0.1.15; do Eastern Shore Virginia, per bri, $1.10(01.15. Cherries ?Maryland and Virginia, per lb 5(o;6c; io. do, do, per bri ?(rf $5.00; do, do, flo, is to size, per box $i.5o^o'3.oo. Cucum? bers?Florida, per crate, $1.50^1.75; do, Savannah, per crate $1.50(02.00. Egg :fants?Florida, per orange box $2.50(0) I.oo. Green peas?Potomac, per lufi )rl ?(o$2.5o; do, per half-barrel bas? ed (l.IOfSt.15; do, Rappahannock. per )rl $1.65^/2.00; do, per hali'-barrel bas-' .cet So^iooc; do, per bri, off stock, $1.00 01.25; do, York river, per bri $165? ?.oo: do. per half-barrel basket 80(0 00c: lo. Patuxcnt, per bri ?(o$2.5o; do Nor? olle, per bri ?(o$2.50; do, per half-bar el basket $i.fxx?/$i.<o. Gooseberries, :>cr lb ?(05c Lctlucc?Native, per bushel, box 40(0 65c. * Onions?New bermuda, per crate $1.00^02.00; do, Egyptian, per sack $3.40^3.50. Or mges?California navel, per box $2.50 0325; do, seedlings, per box $2.oo(? 1.50. Pineapples?Florida, per crate, at .0 size. $2.oo<Vi 2.50. Radishes?Eastern Shore Virginia, per bri, long. 75C(9 51.00; do, native, red, per 100 60(0,5c; lo, native, white, per 100 75c(|u.co. Spring onions, per ion bunches 50(0} ioc. Butter?Separator, 23<n 24c; Gathered :rcam, 22(0.23^; Prints, l-lb, 24(o'25c; Rolls, 2-lb, 24^0250; Dairy pts. Md., Pa., Va., 24(0 25c. Eggs.?Western Maryland and Penn? sylvania, loss off, per dozen ?(oj^J'Sc; Eastern Shore, Maryland and Virginia, oss off, per dozen ?(0-15^2; Virginia, oss off, per dozen ?(015^; West Vir? ginia, loss off, per dozen ?(015; Wcst ?rn, loss off, per dozen ?@i5/2; Southern, loss off, per dozen ?(r^t^x/2; ?uinca, per dozen 7(aj8. Live Poultry.?Hens, heavy to me? dium, IJ@I3HrC; do, old roosters, each *5@30c; do, spring \x/2 to 2 lbs; 27^ }8c; do, iJ4 to iV? lbs, 25(027; do, I b and under, 20^122; do, winter, 2l/j bs and under, 18(020. Ducks?Spring [Mi.20c; do, fancy, large, old, ?@uc: io, small, ?^?9c; do, muscovy ano nongrels, io(Snc. Geese?Western, radi 30@4oc. Guinea fowl, each ?@ *5c. Pigeons?Old, strong flyeri, per pair ?(025c; do, young, do, ?@25c. Hides?Heavy steers, association and salters, late kill. 60 lbs and up, close elections. g\i(aio\ic; cows and light steers, 8Co8'4. Provisions and Hog Products.?Mar? te*^ firm. Our quotations arc as fol? lows: Bulk clear rib sides, io^c; bulk :lcar sides, io)4; bulk shoulders, 9>j| oulk fat backs, 18 lbs and under, gyi; bulk bellies, nj^; bulk ham butts, o}/2) bacon, clear rib sides, ii: clear sides, 11)4; bacon shoulders. 10^2; sugar-cur id breasts, small, 12^; sugar-cured shoulders, blade cuts, io; sugar-cured shoulders, narrow, io; sugar-cured shoulders, extra broad, il; sugar-cured California hams. 9)4; canvased arid un :anvascd hams, 12 lbs and aver, 14; !iams, canvased and inicanvased, 15 lbj and over, 13M', skinned, I4J4; refined lard, second-hand tubs, 10)4; refined lard, half-barrels and new tubs, I0J4; ?ierces, lard, 10. Live Stock. Chicago?Cattle.?Good to primo steers $4.90(05.30; poor to medium ?4.oo@4.oo; stockers and feeders $3.00 04.65; cows $1.50(0)4.60; heifers $2.oo(g} j. 50; canners $1.50(^2.75; bulls $2.2?(g) (.25; calves $2.50(06.65; Texas led Ueers $4.oo(qN4.6o. Hogs?Receipts to? day 27,000 head: tomorrow 15,000; left iver 10,000; market 10 to 15 cenfs lower; mixed and butchers' $6.10(0)6.35; ijood to choice, heavy, $6.45(0)6.62 !/$; rough, heavy, $6.15(06.40; light $5.90^ S.20; bulk of sales $6.20^6.40. Sheep ?Receipts 10,000 head. Sheep steady; ambs steady to ioc lower; good to :hoice wethers $475^5-50; fair to :hoice mixed $375@475; native lambs {4.50(07.00. East Liberty.?Cattle steady; ohoice 55.30675.40; prime $5.00(0)5.50; good >475(o.4.85. Hogs lower; prime, heavy >6.45(0^6.50; mediums $6.05^06.10; heavy borkers $6.05; light Yorkers and pigi ?6.00(06.05; roughs $450^5.70. Sheep ;low; best wethers $4.50^ 1.65; cull? ind common $i.50@2.50; choi c Iambi 16.00(06.25; veal calves $5.7?<??&2jl. 5TRAWS FROM THE WORLD'S CURRENTS Nearly 800 patents have been grant? ed to Edson. American pork is no longer prohibit? ed in Turkey. The process of rapid tanning by elec? trolysis has failed. Tire number of opium smokers in thc United States is estimated at 1.000,000 Thc number of persons in thc nenin n tiaries of Iowa to 1000 population ha? doubled in fourteen years. In Cuba sixteen tons of cane yield one ton of sugar. In Peru it requires only twelve and a half. One in every eight of the patent? granted by the Uniicd States last year was to a foreigner. Every action of human free will is 1 miracle to physical and chemical and mathematical science, says Lord Kel? vin, in the London Times. The largest living thing on earth i? thc new-found red-wood tree in Califor nia. which is about 350 feet high and 156 feet in circumference. The importations of opium tint i? prepared for smoking is double that used bv physicians and morphine habit ues. Thc amount is more than 500,000 pounds and the value $3,500,000. THE OtD DOMINION Latest News Gleaned Trorrj All Over the State. These pensions were granted ^""? trillians:?John M. Davis, Tavlorstown l6;Flect Burrell, Hampton, $46; Chas. H. Dav, Agncwvillc. $46; Levi W. Huff? man, Alexandria, $55; Clara Jackson, Lynchburg, $12. Bristol has scored an important vic '.i?ry in thc determination of thc Vir? ginia Iron. Coal and Coke Company ind the Virginia and Southwestern Railway Company to return to Bristol arith their general offices on July 1 or about that date. These two companies ire capitalized at about $12,000,000 and arc doing an extensive iron, coal and :okc business. A few months ago Judge A. A. Phlcgar, who was then thc general manager, moved thc offices 0 Radford. Citizens of Bristol re? cently urged thc companies to return with their general offices. This invi :ation has been accepted and arrange? ments arc now being made to accom? modate the offices on their return. Thc upper story of thc new Burrin Building has been leased for this pur? pose. Thc comoanies own consider? able land in Bristol and probably will erect handsome office buildings. Mr. J. P. Worrell, of Gladesboro, well-to-do and best-known citizen of Carroll county, committed suicide by swallowing laudanum. He leaves a wife and several children. Mr. Wor? rell was iu thc best of circumstances financi?!ly. and stood high in thc com? munity. He was a ~'ominent Mason and Odd Fellow, and no cause can be assi-ned by his family for his self destruction. T. T. Mitchell, lawyer, former mem? ber of North Carolina Legislature and thc head of a family of talented singers, was found dead on thc bank of Shockoc creek, Richmond. Thc body presented a ghastly spectacle: Dunn? tne cur!> hours of morning, before life was hardly extinct, rats had attacked the face and hands and had mutilated the body terribly. The left car was en? tirely eaten away, so clearly that a knife might have severed it from the head. He was 54 years of age. The reward for thc capture of escaped murderer Grat M. Walk, of Bristol, who killed Policeman Childress on February 7, 1903, has been fixed at $700, and thc money has been secured. William Currier, aged 45 years, a res? ident of Albemarle, while working at at sawmill, near North Garden, was struck in thc throat by a shingle which slipped from his hand and almost in? stantly killed. He leaves a widow. Samuel Purks, of I'*rcdcricksburg, employed by thc Western Union Tele? graph Company, was killed by a train on Hazel run bridge, just outside th? city. He had been digging post holes and crossed thc bridge for something. On returning thc train came rapidly around a curve and caught him. He was thrown 30 feet and fell under the bridge. Both legs and both arms were broken and he was badly crushed. Death was instantaneous. Eli Winslow, who was charged with having feloniously assaulted 14-year old Mamie Brooks, deaf and dumb, be? came a raving maniac while on trial in the Corporation Court at Norfolk. He was ordered sent to thc Eastern State Hospital at Petersburg for life. He had been showing signs of insanity for some time. It took four men to hold him down in the courtroom. The Locustdale Military Academy, in Madison county, closed a very suc? cessful session with a dance. Mrs. Jennie Jett, wife of Mr. John L. Jett, proprietor of Jctt's Hotel, at Floyd, dropped dead at her home. She was a sister of thc late Judge H. T, Dobyns. Mrs. Porter, 86 years old, widow of Confederate Naval Constructor Porter, who designed and built the Virginia, sometimes called the Merrimac, the first ironclad known to thc world, is at thc point of death in Portsmouth. Thc City School Board of Alexandria has decided to substitute two fine schoolrooms for Peabody Hall. Alex? andria has now about 40 public schools and five school buildings, one of which was built in General Washington's tim? and accommodated a free school en? dowed by him. While fishing off Brown Shoals, in the James river, about four miles above Newport News, Thomas M. Scott, a negro fisherman, discovered thc body of a middle-aged negro floating in the water. The body, which had been mu? tilated beyond recognition, was car? ried to Newport News. C. E. Stanley and his son, while go? ing to Church in Roanoke, were at? tacked by three employes of the Blue Ridge Mines, who cut Stanley in the face and then knocked him down with a rock. Tazcwell Creaky mu arrested on a moving train, and with his two brothers, is charged with the crime. The effects of Adolph Michclsohn. thc Norfolk money lender and lawyer who went into bankruptcy recently, were sold at auction. Law books cost? ing originally $5 and $10 sold for as many cents. Thc whole sale did not net enough to pay Michelsohn's cred? itors 2 per cent, on his $7' ooo liabili? ties. G. H. Kent & Co., of Kent's Store, made a general deed of assignment for the benefit of their creditors, naming S. M. Sheppard as trustee. Thc assets arc placed at about $140,000 and thc lia? bilities at about $55,000. Jacob Schcriff, a fashionable ladies' tailor, who has thc richest women of Richmond as his customers, was ar? rested for bigamy. The warrant was sworn out by Mrs. G. Zurow, who claims to be his first and leal wife. Exports from Norfolk last month amounted to $1,208,923, as against $362,191 the same month last year. Capt. Venable S. Hardwick, of Rich? mond, is dead. He was in his thirty first year and was born in Bedford county. Thc election held in Orange county on thc question of issuing bonds for goori roads was overwhelming .de? feated. Messrs. C. II. Kendrick, D. B. Dct wilcr. Benjamin Middleton, E. T. Dct wilcr. Brook Middleton and other prominent business men of Hcrndon, have organized a national bank at that place, with thc approval of thc Comp? troller of U-3 Currency, under the name of thc Citizens' National of Hcrndon Thc capital stock is $25,000. The Carpenters' Union in Petersburg numbers 140 members. * Daniel Brooks, colored, who shot and killed Engineer Charles N. Sweetman io days ago at Newport News, was cap? tured between Hampton and Newport News by a policeman from Phoebus mid a brakem-an of thc Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Judge G. H. Fudge, of thc County Court of Smythe county, has issued an order for an election to bc held on June 23 upon a proposition to issue bonds for $75,coo for road improvement. A cloudburst occurred north ol Winchester, covering thc tracks ot the Cumberland Vallcv Railroad with wata to a depth of 14 inches. Hundreds ol railroad ties were, washed away. Tho Apple Orchard. There is nothing more common than to hear farmers lu all the eastern sec? tion of thc country Mj "Wc cannot grow apples nny more as we once did." Sow, the climate ls not to blame for this, and If apples once grew well Witt you is it not worth white to study tbe cause of their failure uow? Men realize that for the growing of their anuunl crops they must cultivate well aud keep up the fertility of the soil. They do not try to grow coin iud wheat at the same time on the snme field, for they know that lt can? not be done successfully, but when it comes to the orchard they assume that a tree can not only take care of itself Uko the trees in the forest, but that Ihey can crop the land for other things at the same time and still get crops of apples. Hereiu lies the greatest of all the troubles in apple growing. So long as the soil was a virgin soil and abounding lu plant food the trees throve in spite of neglect, but as the) gradually robbed the soil assisted by tbe crops planted among them there was soon a failure, for trees as well as other crops need plenty of availablo plant food in the soil. Another thing that apple trees espe? cially need Is an abundance of soil moisture. It is useless to apply fertili? zers to any plant if there is not moist? ure enough in the soil to dissolve them. Hence the importance for providing a soil abounding in vegetable decay to retain the moisture needed for the so hit ion of tho plant food applied. Few growers fully realize the amount of the various forms of plant food that an apple orchard takes from the soil. At the recent American Apple Growers' Congress in St. Louis Professor Clo? thier gave some very striking figures In th's regard which were taken from Mu? fxn?rirpo??t? vmts itt the Agricul? tural Experiment Station of Cornell University. Ile showed that with an average yield (aud Ibis is a small one in a good orchard) of 200 bushels per acre, that this 200 bushels of fruit would remove from the soil thirteen pounds of nitrogen, only oue pound of phosphoric acid and nineteen pounds of potash, and the apples alone would remove from each acre $2.45 worth of plant food. Then the growth of thc wood and the leaves of the tree must bo taken into account, and it takes a very cousiderabl ? amount of food to ktep up the activity of a large tree. Altogether there was in the orchard a demand for plant food to a total value ot $9.01 per acre. He compared this with a crop of corn making fifty bushels per acre, aud showed that the corn removed little more than the fruit trees, find yet every farmer knows that ho cannot expect fifty bushels of corn per acre unless be keeps Dp thc fertility of the soil, ami yet aw see the same men trying to got tpples from a soil that has been drained by tbe trees in this way for a genera? tion, and not only drained by tbe trees, but called upon to grow a hay crop cr to pasture stock. Is it any wonder that we cannot grow apples as well as we once did? The statement we hare given shows that the demand for phosphoric acid ls very small as compared With that for nitrogen and potash, and the trees will demand more potash thau a crop of corn of fifty bushels per acre, nnd de? mand lt every year, for there can bo no rotation of crops here. In their young state, winn growth is what we want, applications of stable manure will be of great hell), not only In fur? nishing nitrogen but lu giving some hu? mus making matter to the soil. If Kal nit has been used in the preservation of this manure it will not only mnke tho manure better in preventing the loss of nitrogen, but it will add potash thut ls needed. When the trees have reached maturity we advise the seed? ing down to grass. But not in grass to be cut for hay, but grass to be cut only as a mulch for the trees and left on the ground, cutting it several times duriug the season. Then give the grass a lop dressing annually of a fertilizer com? posed ol' 800 pounds of acid phosphate, SOO pounds of cottonseed meal nnd 400 pounds of muriate of potash to make a ton. Usc tilla liberally and get a good growth of gras? and every time you cut the grass spread it to decay nu? der tho trees ns far ns the llmb,s ex? tend and a little further. Theil if rou attend to tho spraying yon eau gro'7 apples just like you did in your boy? hood aud probably belter.?W. F. Mas? sey. ? ~ Paid for His Boast. A man moved to thc country and bought a farm. He was just getting settled when a man with a book under his arm, leaned over the fence and said:? '?Just bought this land?" "Yes." "Very fine farm." '"Yes, sir; very fine." "Must bc worth two thousand dol? lars." ?"More than that I paid three thou? sand for it. Then there are indications of coal on it, which arc alone worth five thousand dollars. "You don't mean ii?" "Yes. sir. There's coal on it. ? Then thc new railway is going across one corner. I consider my farm worth fif? teen thousand dollars oi any man's money. "Fifteen thousand, ch?" "Yes, sir, fifteen thousand at least. I wouldn't take fifteen cents less. What arc you putting down in your book?" "Oh, nothing much. You sae, I am thc tax assessor. Other farms round herc arc not worth morc'n fifteen hun? dred or two thousand dollars, but I've just put yours down at tho figure men? tioned because you insist. Good-morn in', sir; glad you've moved into thc neighborhood, and hope you'll stay some time." Not What He Wanted. A man walked into a hosier's shop and politely addressed the salesman. "I should like to look- at sonic black gloves .stitched with white." he said. "Black gloves stiched with white arc not fashionable now," thc salesman re? plied. 'I 1 eg your pardon." said thc polite customer. "Vou evidently misunder? stood mc. I said I should like to look at some black gloves stitched with white." "They are no longer fashionable," reiterated thc salesman, with impatient superiority. "\ find I must apologize again," said thc other. "I came in herc thinking it was o hosiery establishment; I find it is a bureau ol information. Perhaps I can buy a pair of gloves at the place across thc street"?and out bc went. SI's Plunge. Si Barker, who lived in a hill town in Vermont, became fired with an am? bition to emulate thc men w,ho make money in Wall Street. He read thc financial news of his paper with care and regularity, but it was sonic weeks before he made up his mind what his first move should be, says the New York Tribune. One morning he came in from milk? ing and sat down at the breakfast ta? ble with a manner as mysterious as that of an Oriental diplomatist. "For thc land's sake, Si," said his wife, after looking at his complacent expression for a while in silence, "what bc you a-grinning at?" "Maria, if I told ye," began Si. coolly, "you'd know as much 'bout it as I do. 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