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The PLANTEES LOAN and SAYINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA., I Organized 1870. Oldest 8avlngs\ Bank In Eastern Georgia. Largest Savings Capital in City. Interest - and Jnmponnds every O months. YOL. LXIII. NO. 21? THE CAME The prize for which you're playiaj Perhaps you are indulging just io But, co matter what tho stake is, You're no man unless you like to c Tho girl who smiles upon you mai Perhaps her :nanner tells j;ou that But when tho flirting's ended, ami There is gladness in tho kaowlod;.; Lito is but a game of hazard you : Which is seldom worth tho Stragg But, nt tho final shuffle, when you What a joy there is in knowing yo THE STRAMEST EV W <?> Dy C. SYLYESTi CANNOT tell tho story as ho used to tell it, the dear old mau, short of stat ure, with those pale blue, eyes which shone and twinkled in enjoy ment of the narrative; neither can I hope to suggest his vivid and pictorial style of telling it. How breathlessly I have myself hung upon his lips in agony of apprehension for the fate of the hero, as he dipped his hands into the- but that is to anticipate. I sus pect that a critical listener-if any ono could listen and remain critical, which I doubt-might have detected some vagueness as to dato and "place. If my memory serves, the old gentleman told, tho tale as a "tory ot the Carlist rising in Spain, and dated it about '31. But it is fair to say it may have been Mexico or China, and any dato you please. So now for the story. The generals had been in consulta tion all the morning. Hour after hour passed by, aud the wretched prisoners, closely guarded, waited on in all the agony of suspense. There wsre four hundred oitheai in all, a few haggard women and half-starved children among them. As you may imagine, there was not much conversation. Tho men," for the most part, were dogged and sullen. Some of the younger ones assumed a mood of forced gaye ty which deceived no one. Aud still cajjtives and captors stood (retching fer signs of movement about the entrance to tho General's tent which would announce the end of the conference, and that the fateful decision had been arrived at. At last, soon niter noon, there was a murmur of excitement. The sol diers on guard drew themselves up in militai-y fashion and roughly con strained their prisoners into Hue. The Commander-in-Chief of the victorious army emerged from the tent, mounted his horse and advanced slowly to where the captured force was drawn up, as if he did not. half like the duty ad .to fHfiob",,fl'fl Ja lifiV1-? TO ?perin his'himd, and aa ho reined up his horse and proceeded to read it, you might almost have heard the pul sations of four hundred hearts. The substance of the message was awful. Every mau, woman and child was to bs shot; they would bo allowed until 6 o'clock next morning to pre pare themselves for death. The gen erals were determined to strike terror into all hearts. Moreover, it was weil known that provisions were scarce, and it was easier to shoot their pris oners than to feed them; so the four hundred wera doomed. The scene that followed this fright ful proclamation bailies description. Some of the male prisoners who had awaited it with most apparent uncon cern broke into wild volleys of oaths and curses. Fathers clasped their children in their arms, as if with the intention of defending them. The children were the least moved in all the throng. Such was the effect upon the condemned. But mere serious, and of far greater moment, wa3 the effect upon the victorious army. Sol diers trained io find a terrible joy in battle have an unconquerable aversion to cold-blooded massacre and to shoot ing down defenseless men, women and children, simply because they have fought a losing fight. Moreover, these prisoners were of their own flesh and blood, natives of thc one father land; and the bitterness of civil war could not destroy thc fact of their common race and lineage. The con sequence was that in tho course of an hour or two it became known to the generals that their own troops were on the verge of mutiny. Then there was further conference, held in hot haste, and lasting late like the other The sun went down upon the misery of that doomed host, which had only death to look for with the dawn. About 10 o'clock the sound of a trumpet was heard through the camp, and confused noise as of troops rapidly mustering. Then followed a second proclamation. The generals had decided to be less than just that thoy might ba more than merciful. They would make an example of forty ont of the four hundred; and, as the fairest method of determining which of the prisoners should die, they would compel them to draw lots in the morning. Four hundred papers would be placed in a bag, and of these four hundred papers forty would bear a blood-red cross; the remainder of the papers would be .blank. Every man, woman and child must draw out a paper, and for the forty who drew those with the red cross, Death; for the rest, Life. At the appointed hour an officer gal loped up with the bag, shaking it as he went, that everyone might know that tho tokens of Life and Death ?were fairly mixed. Then he dis mounted, and the business of drawing lots began. There was breathless stillness in the camp, and it was curi ous to notice how the prisoners be haved under their ordeal. Some of them, wheu they drew a blank, waved the little white paper above their heads. Others, scorning any exhibi tion, strode away to the right of the ranks with impassive countenances. Further and further down the line moved the officer with the bag, and .nan after mau drew out a white pa per, and took his place with those who had safely passed the ordeal. The first fifty drew blanks, the second fifty drew blanks, and, as you nary imagine, the relief which came to them meant increased anxiety to those who still had to draw. Indeed, a low murmur of astonishment and indigna tion began to ruo through the three hun . dred left, Thereupon tua oiSoer OF LIFE. ; may not bo a costly one; r pastime or for fun, anti no matter what the game, mit a winner just the same. r not captivato your heart; ; she merely plays a part, I you quit tlio llttlo gumo :o that you've beaten, just the samo, ire playing for a stako, lo that you're called upon to make; como to quit the game, u'ro a winner, just the samol -S. E. Kiser, in Cleveland Leader. M Ii TI WORLD"! :R HORNE, M. A. <r> WM shook the bag again, and, putting in his hand, stirred up the papers, after which the drawing proceeded. But somewhat more slowly 1 At first a mau had one chance in ten to escape; but now those left had no more thau one chance in seven. Hands moved reluctantly to the bag, and drew ont the lots with hesitation. In deed only fierce threats on part of the oificer induced some to draw at ali And still the stream of white pa pers flowed from the bag, and men, ay, and women, too, hurried to the right; but the space on the left, re served for the doomed forty, was un occupied. Even the officer was as tonished when the two hundredth prisoner drew a blank and marched away with the white paper stuok prominently in his hat. Half of tho whole number had drawn their lots, and of those left one in every five must die. The officer took his bag aside, aud made an examination by which he sat isfied himself that the papers with the red cross on were actually lying with the rest, and that it was impossible to distinguish them by the feel. Then he shook up the contents of the bag once more, and resumed his duty. But neither searching nor stirring up of the papers changed the course of events. Fifty more blank lots were drawn; and then, at last, there was a movement, a stir of excitement, a murmur of sympathy. In the midst of it all were heard the frantic pro tests of tho unfortunate prisoner, whose arms were being strapped by the guard. He wildly exclaimed against his fate. Why was hr- to be shot when 250 had escaped? It was monstrous! It was unfair,, unfair! He would not submit. Then he be gan to plead and beg for mercy, and when thai produced no effect, he screamed to his old comrades to save him from murder. Finally he was gagged as well as strapped, and borne off to the left, to the spot selected for the execution. (Pl, i? Ii ii ??ili 1 II ??mu, ?lmwli^ Ju iiHijjjiiE : nerve of more than one among th*?~ miserable remnant of prisoners; and they began to drag the fateful papers more and more slowly to the light, hardly daring to 1< ok at them, lest the awful red eros:, should be upon them. Still, from man to man the bag moved on, and no one drew a second death-paper, dooming him to join thc first victim. The third hun dred had all passed through the or deal, and only one of all the number had drawn the blood-red cro33. Tho tension now became well-nigh un bearable, for of tho remainder almost every other mau, woman or child must of necessity prepare to die. Presently the former ghastly sceue was repeated; another victim was marched off to death; then a third, aud a fourth, and a fifth. Yet be tween -these ill-fated wretches there had been many who had drawn blanks, so that at last an extraordin ary result was reached. Forty papers remained in the bag, and thirty-five bore'the red cross of death. It was at this stage that the officer holding the bag advanced, and presented it to ono whose face showed him to be a foreigner. He was bronzed; but he had the fair skin, and light brown hair of the Englishman. There was an air of distinction about the mau; and the officer looked at him with a puzzled expression, as who should say: "How do you como to be here with this vermin?" The sur prise iu his face was not lost upon the Englishman, who, however, made no ado, but plunged his hand into the bag, drew out a white paper, held it up as if to satisfy the officer, then thrust his hands into his pockets, turned on his heel, and walked away -apparently the least concerned of all the onlookers at this curious drama. Before, however, ho reached the ranks of those who had successfully passed the ordeal, a wild cry reached his ear; and he looked back. The man whose turn to draw had now come was a tall, haggard, fierce rebel; and he was prepared to try his fate without ado. But his wife, who stood next to him, threw herself between him and the bag, with a most affecting cry that they would pass by her husband. The poor creaturo was nearly beside her self with terror; and the soldiers were 2?roceeding to unlock her arms from her husband's neck. Without a mo ment's hesitation the foreigner stepped back to the ranks, and in a quiet, deferential way accosted the officer. "Sir," he said, "it cannot matter to you whom you shoot. I will draw in stead of this woman's husband. Let him take my place and I will take his." There was a murmur of admiration among tho soldiers. Tho woman ceased her hysterical cries to look at the author of this strange interrup tion. There was a whispered consul tation among the officers. At last one of them spoke. "Ho you quite understand that there are thirty-nine papers in this bag, and thirty-five of them are so marked that he who draws one of them must die?" The stranger bowed. "Then if, knowing that, you are prepared to draw for this man, we have no objection to offer." The stranger, without a word, thrust his hand into the bag, drew out a paper and held it up for all to see. It was a white one. "So far, so good," he said, quietly; "the mau is free, and I am free also. Now, by your leave, I will draw for the man's wife." The soldiers gazed at him as if he were out ot his eeuees, The officer held book tho bas for a mom?ut, RU? 1 looked at him from head to foot. He was perfectly calm and at ease. "You mean what you say?" mut tered the officer. "Sometimes," said the foreigner carelessly; "now, certainly." "It's absolute madness," said an other officer. "It's a mad world," said the for eigner. "Well, your life is your own tc throw away if you will." "Oh, but it's not thrown away yet," said the man. "Where is the bag?" They banded him the bag, and he put his hand again among the papers. "One turn for luck," he said, stir ring the papers up. "Now!" and he held the paper high above his head. It was a white one. He bowed to the man and his wife. "We are so far fortunate, " he said, and smiled. The man fell to the t?arth, and was about to clasp the wonderful stranger about the knees; but his wife was be fore him. "Oh, sir!" she cried; "you have a charmed life; you have Heaven with you; you are good, or you have magic Sir, you have listened to the wife : oh, that you would listen to tho mot! ur!" In her fierce emotion she did not heed the efforts cf her husband to re strain her. Every one was moved. The officers could not disguise their feelings. The Englishman alone seemed collected. "Whew!" he whistled. "Children, are there? That's coming it a little strong." He looked at her, musing, for a few second; and added; with a whimsical accent: "It's a little strong. But how many are there? There's only room for two." "These two, kind sir!" pleaded the woman. "Oh, sir, be their savior, and the good God keep you from harm!" "Two, are there?" said the man. "Very well, I will draw for tho two." Then he said, with a sigh, "Heigho! and to think that a mere resemblance in the voice can make a man such a fool!" Then turning to tho officer, he said, courteously: "Will you so far extend your indulgence as to allow me to draw again?" "As you will," said tho officer, but with marked consideration of tone. "I am indeed beholden to you," ho said, and slipped his hand into the bag. "Now, the questiou is, where those two papers are. Well, this for one shot!" and he drew out the paper and handed it to the officer. A shout arose which there was no suppressing. It was a white ove. "You will have your children," he said to the woman; "for if I fail this time, it will only be my life they will .require. And I have no friends!" He turned again to the bag, and said: "We will take the finit that comes this time." He drew it out, shut in his i fi] CflSeiL nbflkCil* i ft1^ S^. ? i ^ f? ^f^ il thara. ,AV> rormd. There were eager faces, quiv- . ermg lips, tearful eyes. But ne waa looking at his hand with a curious, quizzical smile. "There's a handful ox fate!" he said. Suddenly he opened his fingers, and revealed the paper lying open on the palm. It was a white one. Then indeed such a cheer arose aa has seldom beeu heard on this old earth. The officer carried back tho bag to the generals* tent, where he re ported what had happened. The generals, discerning in it the finger of Providence, declared the lottery at an end, released the five victims, and proclaimed a general amnesty. "Curious thing, the voice," said a man in camp that night, over a cigar.' He was talking to the officer who badi carried round the bag. "It's some years now since I heard the voice of a woman strangely like that voice. But for her I suppose I should never hav_ 1 been in this mess. Well, there's j compensation everywhere; for, but for j her I should never have got these ! poor wretches out of this mess. So she's done me a good turn at last; and it makes up for a good many bad ones."-New York Independent. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL All the land above sea level would | not fill up more than one-third of the ! Atlantic Ocean. If the weight ot the body be divided j into eleven parts eight of these parts j will be pure water. An eminent oculist announces that there is twice as much blindness among men as among women. The time required for Niagara to cut its gor^e has been variously esti- j mated at from 7000 to 35,000 years. Roentgen rays have been found to ! act on vegetation like very weak light in experiments by Signor G. Tolemei.; i Dr. Zombaco states that more than' forty lepers circulate freely in the streets of Constantinople, Turkey, and are engaged in all kinds of trades, yet they do not appear to give the disease to the inhabitants of that city. At a meeting of the Torrey Botan ical Club, recently, tho President do scribed some remarkably small pine trees which he had found growing on the top of a precipice in the Shawan gunk ^Mountains, at an altitude of 2200 feet. These trees, although they had perfectly developed cones, were only six inches in height. High prices are paid for butterflies, and some private collections, such as that of the Hon. W. Rothschild at Tring, Herts, are said to be worth $500,000 more or less. Some New Guinea butterflies have fetched $250 apiece. One of the Rothschilds is said to have paid $1000 for a Papilio, now quite common. The demand for rare specimens has led to dishonesty. The insects are dyed or else wings from one species are fastened to the bodies of other species. A Cornell professor mokes an inter esting announcement about brains. The main portion of the human brain is composed of the cerebrum, and the portion anterior to it, devoted ?,to smell, and known as the olfactory bulb, is sometimes treated as a mere appendix to the cerebrum. But this professor, after comparing brains from all grades of the lower animals, de clares that tho human brain is an auatomiaal monstrosity, and that, m a historical view of the brain, the por tion devoted to thinking is more prop erly to be styled a mero appendix to the part devoted to smelling. In some creatures the olfactory portion in mush the largo et part of the brain. 1 CHICK AMi Its Superior Advantages ; For ? The Government finds itself fortu nate in the ownership of such ? ground for the assembling, instruc tion, and manoeuvring of troops as the Chickamauga Park reservation proves to be, writes General H. V. Boynton, in the New York Sun. Un der the act of Congress making the park a national manoeuvring ground, and authorizing the Secretary of War to assemble there such a portion of the regular amy as ho may choose, and also to allo\v and arrange for the concentration and instruction of the National Guard, it was the intention to inaugurate such use of the reserva ron during the coming season. The Adjutant-General of the army was considering what should be done in this direction, and the troops of sev eral States were looking forward to summer or autumn camping at the park. Suddenly the practical uses of actual war set these plans aside, and replaced them by others which in volved the concentration of armies and their preparation for battle. No other nation owns such a field for manouvres. Eleven square miles of the tract are now fitted for regula tion camps. Eight of these are in open forest, carefully cleared of un derbrush, and three square miles are in fields. There are four square miles within the legal limits of the tract not yet purchased. This section is largely forest, and is available for manouvres by which it might be de sired to instruct troops in movements through virgin forest. The entire area within the present limits of the park is clear of fences, and teams can drive over the fields and through the woods in every part of it. When the forests were cleared out the future use of the park for a camp of in struction was kept in mind, and orders were given that room should be made for teams to be driven through it in any direction. The forest portion of the tract was thus made practicabla for artillery movements as well as for cavalry and infantry. There are no swamp grounds in the park, and the soil in all sections is ex cellent for camps. The natural drain age is good, the whole tract rising gradually from the Chickamauga Biyer, which bounds it on tho east for several miles, to the spurs of Missionary Bidge on its western bour.dary. Aside from THOMAS'S HEADQUARTERS, SN( the river it is a watered tract. Several small streams fed by abundant sjjrings traverse it. There are never-failing ponds, meeting nil requirements for the animals of infantry, cavalry, aud artillery camps. Looking forward to the occupation of the park as a camp of instruction, the Commis jioners have provided eight artesian wells in order that it might not be necessary for tho troops to use surface water for drink ing purposes. The natural features of the park pre sent every element of topography likely to bo met with in actual cam paigning. There are fields and forests, each of great extent, low ridges and precipitous elevations, some clear of woods and some in timber. The Chickamauga Biver, with its steep banks, affords every needed facility for instruction in bridge building. The roads of the park system extend along the crest of Missionary Bidge for eight miles and cross Lookout Mountain through the field of the "Battle Aboye the Clouds." All tho roads by which the Union and the Confederate armies approached and left the various fields within tho limits of the park have been highly improved, and give easy access to every portion of the seven battle fields about Chattanooga which are reached by the mileage system of the park. These are Chickamauga, Wau ENTRAXCE TO CHAI:ANOOOA CE ME TE EY. hatchie and Brown's Ferry, Orchard Knob, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Bidge, Tunnel Hill, and Biuggold. Practice marches over these roads will make known to officers and men alike the unsurpassed strategy by which Chattanooga was finally secured, the intricate and quick tactical movements of notable battles, and the splendid fighting of both sides, which has not been elsewhere surpassed in war. In addition to the marches over the actual ground of such contests, the observa tion towers on the main fields, the crest road on Missionary Bidgo, / the roads over Lookout, and the summit of tho mountain itself, afford eleva tions from which every movement, either strategy or the tactics of the several battlefields, eau be distinctly traced. The dimensions of this national manoeuvring gronud will appear from a few figures. Tho legal limits of the Chickamauga section embrace fifteen Btiuara miles. Thc crest of Mi??ionary J?&APARKI I . SI as ?? Maneuvering Ground Troops. |g Bid* e for eight miles is owned by the Government, as are the battlefields of General Sherman at tho north end of tho lidge, and of Hooker and Waithall on lookout Mountain. The central driveway of the park system is already finished from the northern extremity of l Missionary Eidge southerly for twenty-five miles through the Chicka mauga field toward Lafayette. The remaining five miles, are under con struction. In an east and west direc LooKOUT STATION COMMANDING MISSION-. AliX HIDGE. tion the drive from Ringgold to the western limit is eleven miles. From Missionary Ridge at Rossville to Wau hatchie Ridge beyond Lookout Moun tain is six miles. From.the same point by way of McFarland's Gap the western boundary of the park to its southern limits is eight miles. The total mile age Of the park system is over 100' miles. : .' A few concise statements will; show the' advantages which the park* pos sesses for practical field instruction. Standing on the point of Lookout, the three mountain ranges^ and tho river over which General Rosecrans's assess )D GRASS HOUSE, CHICKAMAUGA. strategic campaign extended are all in full view. The front of his move ment, which when it reached the Ten nessee River after crossing the Cum berland had a front of 150 miles, can be readily traced. All the battlefields mentioned in tho course of this letter can be located, and the ground of all the tactical movemeuts of the battles of Wauhatchie, Orchard Knob, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge can be seen and readily under stood. The observation towers upon the battlefields of Chickamauga are under the eye and show tho relative positions of the movements of that engagement to those of the battles about Chattanooga. Ringgold Gap, the closing engagement in the series of battles embraced in the park sys tem, is also clearly discernible. Leaving Lookout Mountain and taking position on Orchard Knob, which wa3 the headquarters of Gen erals Grant, Thomas and Granger throughout the battle of Chattanooga, a near view is obtained of the Con federate position upon Missionary Ridge, and the movements of the Union troops in the Army of the Cum berland, Army of the Tennessee and Hooker's army for their dislodgment can be readily followed. Passing to the crest of Missionary Ridge and driving along its summit, every feature of the Confederate position and all the Union movements as seen from that side are under the eye, as are the battlefields of Lookout and Chickamauga. The observation towers upon the Chickamauga field, which occupy the highest elevations and rise above the timber, enable the student to trace all the tactical movements of the three days' operations upon that field. The Government road to Ringgold will be completed early in tho present season and the lines of battle at that point have already been ascertained and partially marked. It was decided to establish the first camps in the Dyer field, which in one direction adjoin the ground where Longstreet's columns broke the Union lines on the second day of the battle, and caused a considerable portion of the right of the army to be driven from the field in confusion. At its other extremity, it sweeps up to the heights of Snodgrass Hill, where those famous but unsuccessful attacks of Longstreet's columns broke in unend ing succession of magnificent assaults, continuing from 1 o'clock till sun down, against the unshaken lines of Thomas. These camps will be the centre of a division line of three brigades, if the present plan of estab-, lishing the reserve division at the park is carried out. It was also determined to estab lish the right brigade in tho fields aboat the Bloody Pond in front of Widow Glenn's, which was Rosecrans's headquarters, and on the Viniard field, At this latter point, on Satur? day, eevea brlgacloa on each side swept bil ck and forth in Ruoccodi ug viotoyien and defeats, from noon until sundown, in one of the bitterest contests o? those which marked the severe fight ing of the two days. This portion of the line also embraced the brilliant fighting of the poet Lytle's command. The camp of the left brigade is also in plain view of the fighting ground about General Thomas's headquarters at the Snodgrass House,and will cover a por tion of the territory over which Gor don Granger's troops rushed without orders toward the sound of battle, to tho relief of General Thomas and the salvation of an army. Au adjoining camp overlooks the Kelly field, into which Breckinridge's division of Confederates, turning the Union left, penetrated on Sunday morning, and over which five brigade charges occurred in the movements necessary to drive his columns back. In front of this field also ran the four divisions of the Union left, which stood as firm as did Thomas's troops on Snodgrass Hill, and bore the brunt of frequent assaults by the entire right wing of the enemy. The camps for cavalry have been es tablished in the open country along the Chickamanga Bi ver from Alexan der's Bridge to Reed's Bridge, thus occupying the ground where Forrest's cavalry, stationed to observe the right and rear of Bragg's army, was at tacked by the head of General Thomas's corps, which, by a night march, had . passed around the. Confederate right to a position fully in its rear, and cov ering the roads to Chattanooga. Here Forrest's cavalry dismounted, and fighting as infantry, so fought, in well ordered lines, with a pluck and en durance which carried them into the very flashing of the guns of the Union batteries, as to create the impression with Thomas's veterans that they were fighting infantry. On this portion of the field the soldiers now camping there will learn . how for five hours a contest raged constantly at point blank range and often almost hand-to hand where-the severity of the fight-; ing is well "illustrated by the single fact th it one brigade of Forrest's com mand here lost a quarter of its entire forco in killed and wounded in the first hour of the engagement. Chinese Cboltory. The Chinese are a nation of cooks. There is scarcely an individual in their vast community who is not more or less competent to cook himself a respectable dinner. Chinese tradition points to a date some-thousands of years before the f Christian era, at which -an inspired ruler of old first taught mankind the application of .fire to food. But with out wishing to be irreverent, we think it desirable .W confine: nur investiga tions to periods of greater historical certainty. , Tho peasant sits down to dinner cooked by ihe hand of his wifeor daugh ^tergia-iaw. ?, In, largo ^establishments. round a bucket of ateamin cr _rie??Sn from four to six small savory "dislTaqJ of stewed cabbage, onions, scraps of fat pork, cheap fish, etc. They fill their bowls at discretion from the bucket. They help themselves dis creetly with their chop-stioks from the various relishes provided. On ordinary occasions, even a wealthy Chinaman will sit down to some such simple fare, served indeed on a table instead of on the ground, but in almost equally simple etyle. It is only when a banquet is substi tuted for the usual meal that eating is treated seriously as- a fine art, in a manner worthy its importance to the human race. Then tho guests will assemble between 2 and 4 p. m., and will remain steadily at the table until any hour from 10 p. m. to midnight. Pipes are lighted between thc courses, and a whiff or two of light tobacco smoke is inhaled into the lungs; while within easy reach of the table, if the festivity is at all on a grand scale, tho deafening noise of a theatrical per formance continues almost without in termission. TO RESCUE ANDREE; An Expedition of French Sclontlets to Uso an Airship. An expedition sent out by the French Geographical Society arrived recently at Now York. Its object is to reach the Klondike by balloon or airship, and then to go to the rescue of Andree. AIRSHIP TO RESCUE ANDEEE. Their airship is made of silk and is now in transit to Vancouver, B. C. Its capacity is 3000 cubio meters. It carries 3300 kilograms (about four tons). The great merit of the ship is that it is impossible for it to lose any gas. When any escapes it is forced into a separate chamber, where it is kept for use when needed. The great drawback to the airship is that it con tinually loses more or less gas. This flying machine is the most perfect in existence. It was built, by IC. Mallet, who built Andree's famous airship from the plans of the great aeronaut, La Chambre. It is oblong in shape and is constructed on the plans of the well-known De Lisse sys tem. The machine is steered by a system of guide ropes, which are thrown from the car as occasion re quires. The River Nile has its rises, but those that do mischief are not fre quent. During the last 1000* years there has been only one Budden riso o? the Nile, that nf 1820, whoa 80,000 people we dfowne?i Points on Incubators. Old motlier hen is giving plac many sections to the incubator, when large numbers of chicks ar be raised this is undoubtedly the method of hatching. Unfortuna many makers of incubators f urnisl rections for running them which more or less obscure, so that the fol: ing points may be found helpful ai closely iollowed may bo consid? reliable. Neither an incubator nor a hen hatch infertile eggs. Obtain eggs ; duced by healthy, active hens mt with vigorous males and the fei ( egg3 will be very few. Experience has shown that eggs au inoubator should all be put in one time and not a trayfulone day another the .next day or the r j week. Start the incubator anil a it has been running afew hours pu the eggs, selecting those which well formed and which havo not b oxposedto the coldlong enough to h become chilled. The proper temj ature is 103 degrees, though eggs i hatch at a temperature ranging fi 95 to 105 degrees, the lower tempt ture retarding and the higher temi ature hastening the hatching, wi the right temperature brings cki< out on the 21st day. Every incuba should contain several thermometer that the temperature may be rend different parts of the egg drawers, i if not even, the position of tho ei should be changed daily so that all ? have au equal chance. The eggs should b9 cooled daily taking them out of the incubator ten minutes oi more, the time depe: ing on the temporature of the room which the incubator ?3 located, and eggs should bo turned while be: cooled. By the tenth day the amoi of animal heat from live eggs will great and the artificial heat mast regulated accordingly. If weather warm it may be necessary to dispel with the lamp entirely. Care slioi i be used in removing tho first lot chicks from tho machine not tc cl the remaining eggs. Open the d< as little as possible, and when ea lot is removed put in a jar or two hotwater, which will quickly bri the temperature np again and also p. vide moisture. As to ventilation a moisture, ifc is reasonably -safe to f low. the instructions given,. >yt s Kn mr Corn. In yielding fodder this corn has a other desirable characteristic. It i mains green until after the seed ripe. The yield of this fodder nearly double that of ordinary cor The grain makes good flour, and is t so a good porjcorn. As a food produ it is not quito so nutritious for liv stock as Indian corn, but the marg of difference is so slight that on scientific research ?3 able to reveal i In a given quantity it has been lour that Indian corn has 81.7 per cent, i the substances that produce heat an fat and support muscular effort. Kofi corn produces 80.7 per cent, of tl same substances in the same quanti! of corn. It is more difficult, however for the farmer to prepare tho grain < Kaffir corn for food than tho okl-tim corn. Kaffir corn is harder and grii tier, and needs more grinding than ii rival. Neither cattle nor swine mak as great a growth in weight while b( ing fed for market on Kaffir corn a on the old-time feeds, but an exhaus tive experiment, made by tho Stat Agricultural College in Kansas i 189G, revealed that when cattle an hogs aro fed together, red Kaffir cor: (the white Kaffir corn not being so nu tritious as the red) ;s tue best ratio; that can be used on the farm. Tha part of the product that the cattle fai to use iu beef making the hogs absorb and the minimum waste results Elaborate tables have been made show ing the superiority of Kaffir corn t< all other kinds of corn for tho West ern farmer, all based upon the fae that it is a drouth-resister, that it ha the power to grow again after it ha taken a forced rest, and that it doe: not become "fired," as ordinary cori does in a time of hot winds. A remarkably thing about .alfalfa and Kaffir com has been demonstrated in the experiments at the Kansas Agricultural College, aud that is thal twenty pounds of alfalfa hay and eight pounds of Kaffir corn make the "ideal dairy ration." Ifc is asserted by the experts at this institution that on this ration it is possible for the Kansas dairy cow to produce the very best butter at four cents a pound. Allow ing two cents a pound for freight to New York City, the Kansas dairymen assert that they can put butter on the market in the metropolis cheaper than any other producers in the country. If that bo true, the outlook for the farmer who cultivates these unfailing crops of alfalfa and Kaffir corn m ist be rosy, for whether the farmer de cides to transform these crops into butter, or into beef, pork or mutton, he seems to be in a position to do so at the minimum cost.-Franklin Mat thews, in Harper's "Weekly. fi Farm and Gnrdcn Note?. Parrots are good barometers. Just before a rain the most talkative and gabby parrot becomes silent. Transplant thrifty young trees in stead of old ones. Mulch around trees during the first summer after trans planting. Do not plant a tree as you would a ; ost, but dig a hole deep and large enough to let every voot take its nat ural position. If you set hens now give them no more eggs than they can cover well and set them in nests under which iio draught of cold air can circulate. A single bee, with all its industry, energy and innumerable journeys it has to perform, will not collect much more thou a teaspoonful of honey ia a QinglO 30AB0O, How mar must a person live to be my neighbor? Every person is near to you whom you can bless. He is nearest whom you can bless ' most.. William E. Channing. Esamine the apple, quince, plum .and peach trees for borers near the ground. Extract with a thin pen knife and paint witlipine tar, or a mix ture of that and grease. Eggs intended for hatching should be handled when the hands are clean and dry. In fact eggs for any pur pose will look better if handled with the hands in that condition. . The old hens are harder to get to laying in the winter and it will hard ly pay to keep them over; bet ter depend on mature pullets for win ter eggs until you have mastered the problem more thoroughly. Your early pullets are the ones which have been laying the winter eggs. Be prepared to hatch all ycur chicks in the month of April thi3 year and have plenty of eggs for the market next winter when the prices are up. ? Open the doors and windows of the poultry house on every mild day in winter and give it a good airing out. It is keeping the houses closed so much that makes thein damp, and moisture" is a fruitful source of roup. Do not breed from immature stock. Have a good-sized, well-matured male bird at the head of your flock and mato him with only the best and most vig orous females. It brings an increase in the profits which is very marked from that of the common ways of breeding. Samuel Cushman, late of the Bhode Island Experiment Station, in one of his lectures advises farmers to buv the best when purchasing pure-bred cnick ens and says it pays them to pay the extra price and get good sized, early maturing and good laying blood in their flock. WISE WORDS. Concealing faults is but adding to them. Nothing is more easy than self de ception. Drops to remove.all stains-Honor and rectitude. - . As night brings out stars shows us truthsL^^^prti^y^ The greatest and sublimest. y*.wer is often simple patience. You may drive a boy to college but yon can't make him think. Genius-A man who can do almost anythin& except make a living. . Don't quarrel with the cook until after you have eaten your dinner. Don't carry a half open umbrella in a crowd; either put up or shut up. There is hypocrisy in praying for what we are not willing to work for. No man can give his best services where he has not firbt given his heart. God must like common people or he would not have made so many of them If a man has a little money and doesn't work he is rated as a capitalist. He whose only care is to be without care, may look to have a double por tion of it.-Tue Southwest. A Wisc Dog. Yariouo monkeys, geese, a goat, a ewe with a lamb, elephants, cats very commonly, and dogs innumerable are credited with "accosting" persons, and bringing to their notice by vocal means the objects they desire or the actions they wish done. A most in geniously constructed request of this' kind was made a few years ago by a retriever dog late one night in London. The streets were empty, and the dog came up, and, after wagging his tail, began to bark, using not the rowdy bark which dogs employ When jump ing at a horse's head or when excited, but the persuasive and confidential kind of bark which is used in requests and reproaches. Ho was very insist ent, especially when a small, dark passage was reached, up which he ran still barking. As this did not answer, the dog ran back, and took the writer's hand in which he was carrying his glove, in his mouth and gave a gentle pull in the direction of the passage. As this did not meet with the atten tion desired, the dog pulled the glove out of the hand and carried it off up tho passage, keeping a few yards in front and waving its tail in a friendly way. This naturally led to pursuit, when the dog, still keeping ahead, dropped the glove in front of a gato leading into a butcher's yard, and be gan to bark again. As it obviously wanted tho gate to be opened, this was done, and it trotted in without further remark. Every one who has kept dogs knows the tone of the bark of request-a low "wouf," very unlike the staccato bark of anger, or vexa tion, or remonstrance.-"Washington Star. Pitchers In Plant*. Professor S. H. Vines gives a useful resume of the present state of our knowledge of the structure and func tion of pitchers in plants. In the great majority of cases these strac tures are traps for insects; while eth ers have apparently no such function. Among insect traps, the greater num ber appear to be incapable of digest ing the insects which they capture, absorbing only the products of de composition caused by micro-organ isms; these therefore are not correctly termed carnivorous plants. The pitcher of the various species of Ne penthes, and possibly also that of Cephalotus undoubtedly secretes a digestive enzyme. When pitchers are not insect traps, they have some func tion in connection with the supply of water to the plant; either relieving it of an excess of water T * i^b. it may have absorbed, or storing it up fot future uee,