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ALWAYS TELL MOTHER.
Aiways toll mother. She's willing to
bear.
I^illiog to listen to tales of despair.
Tell her when trials and troubles assail
Seek her for comfort when sorrows pre-
VMl.V
Take mother's hand when temptations
entice
Ask her for. counsel seek,,mother's ad-
Vice."
Always tell ipotkcr. In mother confide
Foster no secrets from mother to hide.
Train your thoughts nobly, nor let your
HPB sneak
Words that would kindle a blush on her
cheek.
Motherstands ready her aid to impart,
Open to mother the door of your heart.
Aiways tell mother. Your joys let ber
share
Lift from her shoulders their burdens of
care
Brighten her pathway be gentle and
kind
Strengthen the ties of affection that
bind.
Tell her you love her look up in her
face
Tell her no other can take mother's
place.
Always tell mother. When dangers be
tide.
Mother, if need be, will, die by your side.
Though you be sunken in sin and dis
grace,
Mother will
face.
Others may shun you, but mother, your
friend.
Stands, ever ready, to shield and defend.
Mother's devotion is always the same.
8oftly, with reverence, breathe mother's
name. •. tX.V
—Leslie's Woeklv.
never turn from you her
THE KINQ
)HE bright spring sunshine was
r»he
pouring 1n at the window, fleck-, to his word's!-
lng with gold the hair of a young
girl who stood gazing at a photograph
In a heart-shaped silver frame, which
held the place of honor on tbe mantel
piece.,-. Her. thoughts were evidently
far'a way from her surroundings, as
failed to hear footsteps approach
ing, and was only recalled to herself
by the maid announcing "Captain
Stewart." A flusli of burning color
swept over Elsie's, face, and quick as
tbougbt she snatched the heart-shaped
frame from Its place, and holding It In
her left hand, advanced to meet a tall,
fair man, whose pale face showed signs
of recent illness, and wbo carried bis
right arm In a sling.
"Why, Jack!" she said, "I had no Idea
.you were In London did tbe doctors
give you permission to travel?"
Her pretty face was still flushed, and
after answering her questions as to bis
health, Jack Stewart felt a difficulty In
returning to their old friendly footing
there was a subtle difference In ber
manner to blm that made blm vaguely
uneasy.
go It was more by way of conversa
tion tban a desire for Information tbat
Jack asked, laughingly:
"And who Is the 'King of Hearts'
now? Roberts, Kitchener or Buller?"
Then as his glance fell on the- vacant
place on the mantel-piece, be started
and said, more seriously:
'Tbe King of Hearts' not In bis ac
customed place! What is the meaning
of this, Elsie?"
Once more a blush swept from brow
to chin, and Elsie, averting tier eyes,
remained silent. Then It was that
caught sight of the frame In ber left
hand.
"Why, you have It theryi" be said In
astonishment. "May I not see your
new hero?" Then, Elsie remaining si
lent, with his free band, gently took
tbe frame from her unresisting clasp,
apd without.looking at It, laid It face
downward on a table near, and, resum
ing bis sent by ber side, looked at her
with troubled eyes.
But three short months had passed
since he had sat In tbat room, and bad
learned from tierllps that tbougb she
did not love him, she loved no one else
and he bad started off to South Africa
with his regiment, buoyed up with
hopes of ultimately gaining her love.
A month ago be bad been Invalided
home, and as soon as his doctors bad
pronounced It safe for blm to trSvel be
hadjcom^ straight to EHsl'e, only to find
she had a secret from him that bade
fair to lessen his hopes. From child
hood Elsie bad been a hero-worshiper
of the most ardent kind, and had a col
lection of her heroes' photographs tbat
would fill a good-sized album. On ber
fifteenth birthday Jack bad given her
a beart-sbaped photo frame, which was
destined to contain her hero of the mo
ment, wbo was laughingly dubbed by
Jack tbe "King of Hearts."
Many and various were tbe faces be
had seen In that frame, but now he
feared tbat tbe real king bad come,
who would not only retain undisputed
possession of the photo frnme, but
would also reign In Elsie's heart.
With a visible effort Jack Stewart
roused himself from his painful
thoughts, and turning to Elsie said:
"As I may not see your new hero,
perhaps you will tell me about him?"
"Anything you ask me, except his
name," she replied, meeting his gaze
for the first time.
"He Is a soldier, of course?"
"Yes," she answered quietly.
"Good-looking."
"Very good-looking," she said earn
estly, but with averted face.
Jack, feeling'his fears confirmed by
ber tone, went on huirledly:
"Well, we have got'this far, at any
rate he is physically perfect."
"I did not quite say that," she said,
looking mischievously at blm.
"No doubt you mean that. What
about his character. Do you know (ilm
wnr wnp
THE MELANCHOLY DAYS OF SCHOOL.
Nvu
It was almost a command, so he, with
evident reluctance, took up tbe frame
and looked at tbe face within It.
"Elsie!" nnd that one word contained
a mingling of relief, wonder and, above
all, Joy.
For It was bis own face that looked
up at blm out of the heart-shaped
frame.—The Penny Pictorial Magazine.
SWELL INDIAN GIRL.
Ml.. Tookah Turner, a Highly Accotn
pllihcd Quarter-Breed Cherokee.
The most beautiful.Indian girl In the
West, according to photographers, is
Miss Tookah Turner. She is a quarter-
Gc
—London Illustrated News,
"J
1
CJHrLDREN ItENEW ACQUAINTANCE WITH THEIIt TEACHER
"I bare known liim a long wblle,"
she answered demurely.
"And I have not even beard of him,"
be exclaimed In astonishment.
"But It Is only lately tbat he—that
I
"That you have started a mutunl ad
miration society," be Interrupted, rath
er bitterly.
"Not quite that, Jack," she rejoined,
giving him a queer little smile. "But
what else would you like to know about
him I" Her former embarrassment bad
lefTBvsivand she was quietly attentive
"Is he renowned .for his brains, or for
oravery only?"
"His Intellectual faculties .are quite
above the average she returned, Cash
ing a merry look'^t him.
He wub puzzled'by her manner, and
"Continued rather lamely:
"It is bis bravery then, tbat has
gained him your, favor?"
"H# Is tbe truest, bravestand best
man In the world," she answered, with
earnest, shining eyes.
"Elsie!" It was almost a cry. He
rose from his seat and turned away
from her.
"What Is It, Jack?" she asked and
going over to him she made him look at
her. Something In bis face frighteued
her, and she said again: "What Is It?"
,'"Oh, nothing," he answered "only I
conclude this to be your way of telling
me that all is over between us.",
"Tbat depends on you, Jacit," she
said softly.
"I wish It did," he answered sadly,
but Incredulously.
"But It does. Jack. Look at that pho
tograph."
breed Cherokee girl, and lives at Mus
kogee, I. T. Her father Is a wealthy
merchant. He is a white man, while
her mother Is a Cherokee Indian. Miss
Turner is highly accomplished, having
graduated from several colleges and
schools of. music and art. She is con
sidered the swellest dresser of any of
the girls of the Cherokee tribe, and that
MISS TOOKAn TURNER.
Is saying, a great deal. Some of her
clothes are made In Paris. She has a
tine collection of diamonds and jewelry.
Miss Turner has none of the features
of au Indian, and one would not be
lieve she was part Cherokee unless told
o( the fact. She Is proud of ber an
cestors, but It Is likely she will marry a
white man, as most of tills class of
gir!s do.
Favorite Food Ibr Animals.
Sea Hons, seals, walruses and pell
cans are fed on flsb when In captivity
monkeys, young Hons nnd hippopotnml
drink milk—a full-grown hippopota
mus will absorb fifteen quarts of milk
in a day. Polar bears live on bread
monkeys like fruit.
Tbougb men do a share of tlie world's
creditable deeds, when' it is said of
them "Just like a man," nothing com
plimentary Is Intended.
Money uses Its wings occasionally to
tuke flyer In the stock markets.
THE CHINESE "BOXER" IN HIS WAR PAINT.
A
AROUND A BIG STATE
INTERESTING ITEMS OF LATE
IOWA NEWS.
Tower W Mystery Bald to Be Solved.
Bank Robbers Frightened Away—
Agtnt Forced to Open 8afe-Jall De
livery Discovered Jnst in Time*
The great mystery which surrounded
the daring robbery of the Northwestern
mall train between Chicago and Clinton
last fall is at last cleared up. Tlie Des
Moines man so long suspicioned has been
relieved of all suspicion. The work wan
done by three men wbo approached Tow
er W on bicycles and made their escape
the same way, loaded down with $8,8(J0
in coin and currency. They separated,
one going to Wisconsin, one coming to
Iowa and the other proceeding to a small
town in southern Illinois, and each com
mitted a daylight robbery for the pur
pose of being arrested and being sent to
the peniteutiary for a short time. They
hoped in this way to completely bury
themselves from the world and escape de
tection until all danger of pursuit was
over, after which they could enjoy their
wealth in peace.
Attempt to Hob Bank at Claire*
Amateur bank robbers created great ex
citement in the village of Claire by at
tempting to rob the State Bank of Claire.
They secured entrance to the bank and
sought to blow open the vault by punch
ing out a rivet in the dial on the vault
door. The crevices were filled -with pow
erful explosives nnd touched off. The re
sult surprised the roblers as much as the
people of Claire. The dial ami a" portion
of the vault door were blown through the
front window of the bank and across
70-foot street and through the window
of a hotel. The noise awakened every
one in town and frightened the robbers,
who made good their escape, but without
a penny of the expected booty.
Frustrated Jail Delivery.
What came uear being a jail delivery
was discovered at Atluntic. For a week
or so it has been noticed that the prison
ers made an unusual amouut of noise
and this became so noticeable as to be
come suspicious. The officers made in
vestigation and found several steel bars
sawed off and a tunnel sturted under the
corridor floor. On further investigation
several case knives and files were discov
ered and taken away from tbe prisoners
and the prisoners all locked in their cells.
In a few hours more the eleven prisoners
would have beeu at liberty.
Railway Safe Rifled.
Four masked robbers rifled the safe in
the Minneapolis and St. Louis depot at
Fort Dodge. Roy Tomlinson, the agent,
was compelled to open the safe at the
point of a pistol and was afterwards tak
en up the track and locked in a box car.
Tlie robbery was not discovered uutii the
arrival of a train from the north about,
an hour later, when an alarm wag given'
and the agent was released. The rob
bers secured only (25 in money and a
watch.
Pleads Gnllty to Assault.
C. H. Bliss, the man who assaulted
Mrs. May Rolf, nee Hale, with a hatchet
on the evening of July 28, at Sweet's
Siding, was indicted by the grand jury
for assault with intent to commit mur
der. Ho was brought into court to an
swer and pleaded guilty. Mrs. Uolf lias
nearly recovered from the effects of her
wounds. Bliss was sentenced to teu
years in the penitentiary.
Fall of Circns Beats Causes-Panic*
XOuring the performance at a horse
BhVjw in Oskaloosa a stand of seats conr
taining eleven hundred people fell with
a crash. A panic ensued and scoros of
people were hurt, seven seriously so, but
no deaths will result. The seats were
panic was cievej^'clS^Str^tfr^^* ..^e
tor of tho performance nud seriou
ble averted.
Railroad Project Revived*
The Des Moines and Iowa Falls Rail
way project is being revived again and
there appears to be some prospect that
the road will bo built. The apparent col
lapse of the Duluth nnd New Orleans has
given a new impetus to the line. E. S.
Ellsworth Is at the head of the project.
State Items of Interest*
There are a number of cases of typhoid
fever in Burlington.
The proposed M. W. A. lodge at Pan
ama has beeu abandoned.
Tho new sewerage system at Moute*
zuraa will soon be iu operatiou.
The Maize livery barn at Dunlup, re
cently burned, Is being rebuilt.
A creamery capitalized at $1,500 hai
been Instituted at Diagonal.
Waterloo contemplates establishing a
market place in the near future.
A little fellow in Clinton was run down
by a lady on a bicycle and his leg broken
In two places.
A painter at Davenport came in con
tact with a live wire and received 2,000
volts. He will recover.
The soldiers' reunion at Macedonia was
a great success, about 8,000 people at
tending the closing day.
Mike Miller of Glenwood has sued that
place for $500 damages to his property
through change of grade.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Record of
Glenwood have just celebrated their six*
tieth wedding anniversary.
A thief entered the residence of H. T.
Ehlers In Council Bluffs nnd stole $42
from a drawer of a bureau.
The body of Henry Lauer, aged 05, of
Iowa City, was taken to the crematorium
at Davenport and incinerated.
A young lady named Lyman of Ames
accidentally' ran the blade of a pqir of
Bcissors in her eye, destroying the sight.
Joe Spencc, a lad of Clemans, was
kicked on the forehead by a horse and
the skull laid bare, but he will recover.
An election will be held in Iowa Coun
ty to vote for or against the purchasing
of land for the establishment of a poor
farm.
Two large safes in the People's Fur
niture store in Des Moines were blown
open by burglars, who only secured 3
cents for their trouble.
Robert Soward, who was convicted in
1896 at Independence for assault and
robbery and sentenced to fifteen years'
imprisonment, has been pardoned.
The Institution for feeble-minded chil
dren at Glenwood has secured a 6,000
pound gun from the government for or
nament^ purposes.
Henry H. Hormes, a young business
man at Iowa Falls, has succumbed to
blood poisoning, which started in a car
buncle on his lip.
The Rock Island road has an engineers'
corps at work near Brighton running
lines, with a view to eliminating curves
and cutting down grades.
The 10-months-old babe of Mr. and
Mrs. G.a L. Keefer of Muchakinock was
shot in the right foot by his little brother
who was playing with a shotgun, nnd am
putation was necessary.
Tbe quarterly bank report of the State
shows 210 State banks and 236 savings
banks, an increase of two State and ten
savings banks since the last report.
Surveys are uow being made for the
sewage disposal plant at Marshalltown,
and stakes will be set for the twelve fil
ter beds to be constructed at once.
There was a small wreck on the Greal
Western at Waterloo, one freight train
colliding with the rear end of another,
but none of the crews were injured.
The director of the census announced
the population of Dubuque as 80,207.
Compared with 80,211 in 1800 the figures
show 0^ incrwift la toa yeftfB of 19.7Q per
Ct&tf
Waterloo is to have a new poatofflce
building.
Martin Shup of Peoria dropped dead
while hitching his horse.
The Citizens' Hank at Dallas Center
has commenced business.
The Christian Science Church at Red
Onk hue been disbuuded.
The Christian and M. H. Churches at
Elliott arc to be enlarged.
The new Fanton elevator In Belle
Plaine is now in operation.
It is estimated that ninety-four tons
of mail crosses this State dally.
Tho expenses of the smallpox cases in
Mahaska County are enormous.
The school enrollment at Iowa City
is 1,210, as against 1,185 last year..
A. savings bank with a capital of $12,
000 has been incorporated at Rose Hill.
There is a possibility of a new bank
being established soon at College Springs.
A rural mail delivery route is soon to
be established at Oxford, and another at
K'uloua.
Fifty thousand dollars has been raised
for the endowment of Penn College at
Oskuioosa.
IS. M. Pierce, a carpenter of Waterloo,
was robbed of $4-12 while sleepiug in a
park there.
There is some talk at Denison of a
company being organized to build a race
track there.
The contracts have been let for the
building of the new Illinois Central shops
in Waterloo.
The Rock Island Railroad htiB just
completed two now steel bridges east and
west of Avoca.
The canning factory at Shenandoah
put up about a million and a quarter
cans this season.
A sneak thief recently entered the res
idence of B. Johnson in Trenton and stole
$200. No clew.
Blackhawk County will vote on the
question of a new court house at the
coming election.
Tho pinkeye, which has been prevalent
among horses in Davenport for some
time, has abated.
The Nutwood Driving Association at
Dubuque has dissolved and the track
will be abandoued.
Thieves entered the residence of Frank
Buttcrfield iu DeWitt and stole articles
valued at about. $C0.
The annual report of the State Dairy
Commissioner shows an increase of eigh
ty-niue new creameries.
R. J. Allen of Mason City, a brakeman
on the Milwaukee, fell off a train and
had both arms broken.
Thomas Rok, near Salem, had about*
1,000 pounds of wool stolen from his
barn recently. No clue.
The big sea wall at Cliuton is partly
completed and other river front improve
ments are well under way.
The G. A. It. post at Coon Rapids is
buildiug a fine hall, the foundation of
which has been completed.
A temperance campaign has been start
ed In Des Moines and $1,000 has been
raised to prosecute the fight.
Abb. Mallicoat, living east of Wyom
ing, was killed by a windmill pump fall
ing upon him and crushing his skull.
Miss Margaret Tittemore of Marshall
town is somewhere on the Pacific bound
for Tien-tsin to marry Lieut. Warren
Dean of the Sixth United States cavalry.
She is accompanied by Mrs. Teresa Deun,
formerly a Chicago newspaper writer
and mother of the young^Heutenant, who
has been fightiug the Boxers. Miss Titte
more is one of the belles of Iowa and
is a sister of J. N. Tittemore, general
freight agent of the Iowa Central Rail
way.
Fort Dodge physicians are puzzled over
the case of Martin Swanson, car repair
er of the Illinois Central Railway, whose
body passed under the wheels of half a
train. Swanson was at work under the
caboose when a switch euglne backed a
long train of cars upou him. He tried
to escape, but was caught under the
fore he
his right hip and diagonally across
body, but not a single boue was broken^
nor did he sustain any internal injuries
that can be ascertained. A few skin
abrasions and the dark line where the
wheels passed across this seemingly rub
ber man are the only evideuce of the re
markable accident.
A farmer living west of Metz discov
ered the body of a young mau lying under
the west end of the iron bridge of the
Rock Island road one mile west of Metz.
The coroner was notified and an inquest
was had. In the pocket of deceased wa6
a small memorandum book which gave
his name as Roy C. Blackburn, and stat
ed that J. C. Blackburn of Nepouset, 111.,
was to be notified in case of his death or
of accident. The young man had been
in Cripple Creek, Colo., and evidently
was beating his way on an east-bound
freight train and had been hanging out
too far from tli^car nnd had been struck
by 'some part of the bridge, as his head
was completely crushed.
The trial of M. G. Lee for insaiity
came to a sudden end at Davenport. Mr.
Lee Is one of the leading saints in the
heaven" of the Brethren in Christ at
Barry, 111. His children had sought to
have a guardian appointed for him, for
fear the peculiar sect with its headquar
ters at Barry would get control of his
fortune, but when the testimony of their
Bide was all in Judge Wolfe decided that
the old man was competent to look after
his own business and dismissed the case.
Some of bis peculiarities as brought out
in the testimony consisted In having his
wife baptized in a river covered with
floating Ice in spending much time figur
ing the date of the second coming of
Christ, which he placed in 1001 in con
sidering everyone, including even his rela
tives, who were not of the Barry sect to
be "children of the devil" and to refuse
to take part in elections because he con
sidered rulers to be appointed of the
Lord.
The treasurer at Fairfield will pay off
five court bouse bonds and two poor
house bonds this fall.
Frank Smith, employed in a quarry
near Graf, was rqn over by a dump cart
and suffered a compound fracture of one
limb.
The Supervisors of Blackhawk County
have ordered a new bridge across the Ce
dar at Cedar Falls.. Cost uot to exceed
$20,000.
A man named Alberts at Pocahontas
had his eyes blown out bjTtbe premature
explosion of a stick of dynamite while
blasting rock.
Tho 15-year-old son of Thomas J.
Wright, near Ogden, had Ibis leg torn
by a horse stepping on him. Gangrene
set in and amputation was necessary.
While threshing on the large farm of
H. Faust, west of Waucoma, sparks
from the engine of a steam thresher
Btarted
a fire which burned the thresher,
two large barns, the grain, flax and hay,
from a four hundred acre farm.
Two tramps robbed the store of H. A.
Chnrch in GUman in a bold manner.
They entered the store and while one of
them engaged the clerk in conversation
the other abstracted a number of pairs
of pantaloons and other 'articles and
made off with them.
Mrs. Bridget Ford of Dubuque hag
sued the C.» M. & St. P. for $10,000
damages for the death of her 10-year-old
sou, who, was run down and killed by
one of the. company's engines.
In stepping from in front of an east
bound motor in Council Bluffs Mrs. Mary
Fox, an elderly woman, stepped in front
of a west-bound motor and was killed in
stantly, being horribly mangled.
The body of Mrs. Andrew Johnson of
Mason City was found hanging to the
rafters in the wash shed adjoining her
home. The unfortunate woman had been
the victim of a tumor, which had so
racked her body wlt^ pain that h&4
lwt tar mion
Handling Corn Shocks.
The report of tbe Kansas State Bontl
of Agriculture* says where hand labor
is plenty tbe standard price for cutting
corn by band is 5 cents per shock, four
teen by fourteen hills square, without
board, or 80 cents per acre, as there are
sixteen shocks of this size per acre.
Corn should always be cut on bright,
clear days, or ou such a day as is good
to cure hay in. Two men should work
together, and the shocks should be
started on a jack, which is nmdo by put
ting two legs, well braced together,
near one end of a 10-foot scantling, and
having an auger hole near the upper
end fo^* a broom handle. As soon as
four armfuls are set up against the jack
the shock should be loosely tried with
a stalk and the jack removed. As soou
as the shocks have thoroughly cured,
say two weeks after cutting, those that
are to be stored in the barn should be
baled under G,000 pounds pressure nnd
tied up with a wire (common hay-baliug
wire, one wire will tie up two shocks),
and those that are to be fed frotn tho
field can be pulled up tight with rope
and pulley and tied with binding twine
the twine should be saturated with coal
oil to prevent mice and Insects from
destroying It. Eminent professors have
agreed that it only takes one and a half
inches of rainfall to wash all traces of
digestible matter out of a shock of al
falfa, and corn shocks are also affected,
but not to so great a degree. They have
also agreed that well-cured corn fodder,
put under a good roof without having
had any rain on it, is in every respect
Just the same as ensilage, except the
water content, and it is only necessary
to cut it and add water to secure food
identical to ensilage without the cost
of a silo, with its short life, and also
without the 20 to 25 per cent waste that
mold causes In the corners of the silo.—
Prairie Farmer.
Productive Wyandottcs.
The accompanying illustration shows
a pen of three Wyandotte pullets which
laid last year 472 eggs and reared 31
chicks. The food consumed cost $2.02.
The hens were kept In a yard by them
selves and had a run on a fenced yard
covered with good grass which was
kept short by the frequent use of a
lawn mower, as it was used as a drying
ground for household linen. The fowls
were fed ou corn, and chopped waste
FBN OF THREE WYANDOTTB8.
Eggs laid in year, 472 food consumed,
$2.02 chicks reared, 31.
meat from the kitchen, with soft bones
oroken in a steel mill. The bones were
*oft and were chopped with the meat.
A smnll stream ran through the plot
The hens were early chicks of the pre
vious year, and laid a few eggs in No
vember of that year. They have never
mixed with the other fowls and have
beeu confined to their yard the whole
time. The three hens weigh tweniy
el&ht and a half pounds.
lion Cholera Problem
The hog cholcra problem is ever pres
ent nnd It is not Improbable tne time
will come when tills, disease cau be suc
cessfully treated or at least held within
bounds, says the Orange Judd Farmer.
The so-called new treatment for hog
cholera, that of feeding the meat from
swine dying of cholera to healthy pigs,
is the subject of tbe latest bulletin sent
out by tlie agriculture experiment sta
tion at Purdue University, Indiana.
The claim made was that feeding this
diseased flesh produced a mild form of
the disease and pigs thus fed would
hereafter be free from cholera. Tills
theory was advanced several years ago
and caused considerable comment. Di
rector I'lumb, however, concludes the
method of treatment not entirely a suc
cess, according to tlie testimony at bis
command. The experiment station does
not Indorse tills method of treatment
and distinctly so states. "Hog cholera
Is a contagious disease, and when once
It secures a foothold in a herd, usually
runs its course, and after much fatality
becomes more or less extinct, especially
where serious attempts are made to
stamp out the disease. Thus far no
certain remedy, based on an extended
trial, has been brought out. The In
diana experiment station will indorse
no hog cholera remedy now on the mar
ket, and the most we can recommend
Is absolute cleanliness about the pig
yards and lots and the liberal use of
disinfectants."
Value of Wet Land.
'Don't worry because you have a wet
piece of land on your farm," says J. S.
Trigg, of Iowa. "The chances are that
it Is by all odds the most valuable tract
of land on the farm. Study bow it may
be most economically and advantage
ously drained, nnd then tackle it. The
richest lands In Europe are the reclaim
ed farms wrested from the bottom of
the North Sea In Holland. The redeem
ed peat bogs of Minnesota give fields of
Inexhaustible fertility. The muskrtit
bogs of Iowa wiir grow eighty bushels
of corn to tbe acrc when drained. The
wet lands of the Northwest, upon which
a settler would have starved to death In
an early day, now ditched and reclaim
ed, are richer and more productive than
those of the historic delta of the Nile.
Give us bogs before gravel knolls, wet
flats before limestone ridges, a black
gumbo before a light loam.
"Wet lands nre Invariably good grass
lands. Where grnss will grow Btock
will thrive, and stock means money for
the man who rniseB it."
Bonking Corn for Fcedfnir.
Prof. Henry, In Feeds and Feeding,
tells of an experiment made at tbe
Rapijm tattoo in wltfci* or* lot
ffteers ate 1,105 pounds o* dry corn and
554 pounds of fodder to make 100
pounds of gain, and anotner lot having
corn soaked until it began to soften
gained 100 pounds on 038 pounds ot
corn and 512 pounds of fodder. Here
was a saving of 1(17 pounds of torn and
42 pounds of fodder. At another trial
With steers in pasture and hogs fol
lowing them to eat the corn in the drop
pings, steers and swine gained 100
pounds on 701 pounds of dry corn,
while where corn was soaked for an
other lot they got the same gain from
752 pounds, a saving of 39 pounds of
corn by soaking. In a test lately made
at the West Virginia Station with two
lots of pigs, one on soaked coru and
the other on com meal wet to a mash,
3.85 pounds of corn made as mirjli gain
as 4.70 pounds of meal, or a saving of
85 pounds of meal to 10 pounds of pork.
In a German experiment with sheep
those fed on dry corn made more gain
than those that had soaked corn. We
should expect it to I profitable to soak
corn for hogs or cattle, but not for
sheep or hens.
Kconomical Feed Barn*
Here Is a convenient and economical
feed barn. Above the triangular hop
per, which extends the length of the
building, Is a floor with traps, through
which feed can be placed in the hopper
nnd evenly distributed throughout its
length. There is a door, closed in the
cut, by means of which the hopper cau
be fed from tho wagon. The hopper
opens into a trough, from which the
cattle feed as the grain descends. The
projecting roof affords all the protec
tion needed for cattle Iu southern lati
tudes. For cotton seed the throat of
the hopper should be six inches wide,
with three inches between the opening
and bottom of trough. For corn or oats
a three-inch strip can be placed central-
LA.BOR-8AVINO PERT) DARN.
ly under the throat to prevent too free
flow of grain. The Inclined walls of
the hopper should be supported at in
tervals with 2 by 4 pieces extending
from-trough to rafters.
Shelter in All Pennon.*
No matter what the season of the year
may be fowls should not be exposed,
says the Farm and Fireside. If they
are strong and healthy they will with
stand many changes, and It well fed
and well guarded from the elements
will pass over the critical periods with
small loss. But no one owning valu
able fowls will risk their safety by ex
posure to the vicissitudes of the weath
er at any season. Leg-weakness comes
directly from exposure to severe cold
or continued dampness. There is sel
dom any remedy that touches this
weakness when once thoroughly estab
lished. It more frequently occurs with
fowls that have not come to maturity
before the cold weather sets In. Tlie
growth Is at once retarded, tlie fowl
dwarfed, and the muscles and tendons
hardened. The fowl Is then a sure vic
tim for roup. Sometimes, if tlie weath
er is dry and warm, or the fowls are
allowed a dry, sunny cover under glass
during the day, it mny be conquered.
They may be fed on strong food, such
as wheat nud animal and vegetable ma
terials, with a few drops of tincture of
.iron administered to them iu tho driuk
-""Wch^should be supplied.
Smaller
We believe that no small pan
farmers are "land poor," not in the
sense that the term is often used, that
tliey have much land that does not pro
duce enough to pay the taxes and In
terest ou the value, though some of
them are eveu that badly off, but many
have much more laud than they can
cultivate as it should be, and more than
they can keep up near to its proper pro
ductive^ condition. They may use most
oT It In some way, and think they get
an income from it, but a large share of
those who really make mouey at farm
ing make it upon but a small part of the
farm. A few acres of meadow near
the barns, the orchard and the garden
are profitable. For the rest, If they
sola It or rented it to some oue who
would put fertilizer nnd labor on It and
produce as much on oue acre as Is now
produced on three, it would be more
profitable to the present owner, and to
the buyer or renter. More small farms,
more intensive farming, nnd closer look
ing aftor the best possible results from
small acres are what we need.—Ameri
can Cultivator.
Hessian Fly Solved.
The Hessian fly problem has been
solved, according to newspaper re
ports. A farmer in the central part of
Missouri thinks he has discovered how
to koep the fly out of his wheat at a
moderate expense. Just as wheat was
coming up last fall, he scattered com
mon salt over half a field, leaving the
other half without auy. He used about
a bushel of salt to the acrc. He says it
worked like a charm. Tho part of the
field salted has a good stand of wheat,
entirely free from fly, while the other
half Is badly damaged. Another man
says be prevented damage from fly by
«owlng a barrel of air slacked lime on
fifteen acreB as soon as the wheat came
up, repeating the process at Interval?
of a few days.
Blancliios Celery.
In the market garden all sorts of
schemes have to be followed to save
labor In blanching the plant—the art of
reuioviug the natural bitter quality. At
times the plants are set close together
so as to partially shade one another,
and finally boards are set upright
against the plant In the rows. At other
times albino varieties are employed that
seem blanched because they develop no
green or chlorophyllous -matter In their
structure. But the bitter taste remaius,
To have good celery the process of
earthing up must be continuous. It
requires a very rich soil, and if plenty
of water can be given so much tbe bet
ter, says Meehau's Monthly.
Border Leicester Ram*.
Three-Shear. Bred by and the prop
erty of Matthew Templeton, Sandy
knowe, Kelso, Scotland. First at thf
Edinburgh show champion at Gal^r
stilels this year.
FIRE ON THE VELDT.
SCENE OF TERROR ON SOUTH
AFRICAN PLAINS.
Flames Race Through the Tall Grass,
Destroying Homes of White*, Natives
and Dutnb Beasts—Wreck and Deso
lation AU that Is Left Behind.
Far away ou our left flank the enemy
hold the heights and watch us moving
outward, while between them and us,
stretching.mile after mile In a line with
our column, ripples a line of scarlet
flame, for the foe has fired the veldt
to starve the transit mules, horses and
oxen. Like a sword unsheathed In the
sunlight, the flames sparkle amid the
grass, which grows kuee deep right to
the kopje's very Hps. Birds rise on
the wing with harsh, resonant cries,
flutter a while above their ravished
home, then wheel in midair and seek
more peaceful pastures. Hares spring
up before the crackling flames quite
reach their forms and, like gray
streaks In a soldier's beard, flash sud
denly into view and as suddenly dis
appear again. Here and there a grace
ful springbok dashes through the
smoke, with head thrown back and
graceful limbs extended, bis glossy,
mottled hide looking doubly beautiful
backed by that red streak of fire. The
wind catches the quivering crimsoto
streak and for a while the ilhnies race,
as I have seen wild horses neck to neck
rush through'tlie saltbush plains at the
sound of the stockman's whip." Then,
as the wind drops, the flames curl care
lessly around tlie wealth of growing
fodder, biting the grass low down and
wrapping it in a mantle of black and
red as flame and smoke commingle.
Here and there a pool of water, hid
den from view until the fire fiend strip
ped the veldt land bare, leaps to life
like a silver shield in tbe grim setting
of the bare and blackened plain. Small
mobs of cattle stand stupidly snuffing
the smoke-laden air until the breath
pf the blaze awakens them to a sense
of peril then with horns lowered like
bayonets at tlie charge, with tails stiff
and" straight behind them as leveled
lances, they leap onward, over or
through everything in front of them,
bellowing frantically their brute beaBt
protest against the red ruin of war.
The flames roll on, they reach the stone
walls of a cattle pen and leap it as a
hunter takes a brush fence in his stride,
onward still until a Kaffir kraal is
reached. The soft-tipped billows kiss
tlie uncouth mud walls and for a mo
ment transfigure them with a nameless
beauty that precedes ruin. Only a mo
ment or two and then the resistless de
stroyer flaunts Its pennons amid the
reed-thatclied roofs,- the sparks leap
up, the black smoke curls toward the
sky, while on the neighboring hills
the negro -women with their babes In
their arms wail woefully, for those
rude huts, with all their barbarous
trappings,* meant home—aye, home and
happiness to them. The flames roll on
ward, now in two long lines, for the
Kaffir encampment had sundered them
and now they look, with their beau
tifully rounded curves, sweeping so
gracefully out Into the unknown. All
that they leave behind is desolation,
only blackened walls, simmering car
casses, weeping women and wailing
children.
Away on our right flank we can just
make out the skeletons of what a few
hours before had been a cluster of
smiling farm houses. They do not
smile now they grin horribly In the
sunlight, grin as the fleshless skulls of
dead men grin ou a battlefield after
those sextons of tlie veldt—the gray
hooded, curved-beaked vultures—have
screamed their final farewell to the
charnel-houses of war, noble war,
splendid war, pastime of potentates
cs. invented in hell and pat
London '^^'"^^^^ia^iil^sorrow.—
PRINCE ALFRED.
Duke of Saxc'Cuburjt and Gotha» Who
Died Receutly.
Prince AV3 ed Ernest Albert, Duke
of Saxe-Goburg and Gotlia, who died
receutly, was the younger brother of.
the Prince of Wales. He was borii at
Windsor Castle ou Aug. 0, 1844, was
prepared for tlie navy and entered that
service us a cadet in 1858. He served
at various foreign stations and became
fond of his profession of sailor. In 1802
tho Prince was offered the throne of
Greece, but decliued. In that same
year he was created Duke of Edln-
P1UKCE AliFRED.
burgh, Earl of Kent and Earl of Ulster.
An attempt was made on March* 12,
1808, in New South Wales to assassin
ate him. The assassin, 0*Farrell, was
executed the following April. Iu 1874
the Prince was married to the Grand
Duchess Marie Alexauurovna, the only
daughter of Czar Alexander II. The
ceremony took place at St. Petersburg
with great pomp. In 1893 the Prince,
on the dentil of the Duke of Saxe-Co
burg and Gotlia, succeeded to the'duchy
and took the oath of loyalty In the
presence of Emperor William. He held
the rank of general In the German
army. The children of the Duke are:
Princess Mnrie, born Oct. 20,1875 Vic
toria, bom Nov. 25, 1876 Alexandra,
born Sept. 1, 1878, and Beatrice, born
April 20, 1884. All except Beatrice are
married.
Expenses of the Sultan.
The yearly expenses of tho Sultan
have been estimated at no less a sum
than $30,000,000. Of this $7,500,000
alone is spent on the clothing of the
women and $400,000 on the Sultan's
own wardrobe. Nearly $7,500,000 is
swallowed up by presents, $5,000,000
goes for pocket money and still anoth
er $5,000,000 for the table. It seems in
credible that so much money can pos
sibly be spent in a year by one man,
but when it is remembered that some
1,500 people live within the palace
walls—live luxuriously and dress ex
pensively at tlie cost of the civil list
—It appears little inoro conM,rt*L'usl*
ble.

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