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boBom Tbe phenomenon came back to her mind several times that day, but Lldu was downtown sbopplug, so Mrs. Dili peek said nothing. In fact, all her life Mrs. Dlllpeck had said nothing.- For one reason, Lida was so very pretty that the sternest resolutions melted to treacle at her smile and it was easier to follow around doing the things Lida should have done than to scold her about the omlBslon. And then, to her mother. Lida was still a '. mere child, who doubtless would re form when she grew up. Asking in a rather hopeless way that afternoon whether Lida remem bered to get the silk she wanted and receiving an affirmative answer from that young person, Mrs. Dlllpcck was actually alarmed. "Does your head ache, Lida?" she inquired. "You are sure you aren't feverish or anything?" "Good graclouB, no!" her daughter told her. "I never felt better! Why?" "Nothing," said her mother. "There's so much' sickness around. I Just hope you aren't going to be slckl" Two days later Mrs. Dlllpeck had another shock. Entering the library, she found her daughter rearranging the tables and chairs. "Don't you think It looks homier this way, mother?" asked Lida. Up to that time Lida, with her laughter and harumscarum ways, ap parently had never observed whether the chairs were placed on the celling or side walls, not to mention the floor. Mrs. Dlllpeck sat down heavily. "I guess so," she said, anxiously, as she gazed at her daughter. The rose bloom on the cheek was perfect, the eye was bright Still, Mrs. Dlllpeck was not satisfied. She felt Llda's pulse. "I JuBt know you're going to be 111 or something," she lamented. "Oh, I don't know—I have a feeling! No, you look all right but one can't tell by that I never saw any one look better than my own cousin tbe very day before she was taken down with typhoid I" Ik was the cook's day out and when Mrs. Dlllpeck sturted into the kitchen to prepare the family dinner Lida fol Jowed her. There was a hesitant look upon her face and she stumbled In her speech. "Mother," she said, "won't you please let me get tbe dinner to-night? Honestly, I'd-like to try! I never have, you know!" Mrs. Dlllpeck held to the gas range. Through her mind flashed the succes sion of Thursdays since Lida bad grown up and the cook had been out. A book or a tall always -had Interfered with her mother's desire that her daughter- should learn to keep house. w™ SOKE WONDERS OF ASTEONOMT. By Camltle Flammarloa. The silent solitudes of the moon, distant as they are fi^im us In terms of terrestrial meas urement, ai'£ but the 'mere suburbs of our planet compared to the limitless immensity that lies beyond. Not for from here, not far, that is to say, astronomically speaking, nt an average distance of something under fifty mil lion miles, we come to a most Interesting world. So many resemblances to our own abode do we discover at once that we would be almost Justified were we to Jump to the conclusion that this world is placed where It Is in order to enable us to adopt Juster conception of the universe, and thus enter Into more intimate relations with that bountiful nature Jn whose exist not only all thi worlds, but all the beings inhabiting them. To this world we have given the name of Mars. What beings organized like us would do on Jupiter It Is impossible for us even to guess. Since Jupiter occu pies more than the equivalent of twelve terrestrial years In performing its Journey around the sun, the Jovian year contains no less than ten thousand four hundred and fifty-live days. In this gigantic world we con distinguish neither continents nor sens It is entirely ... enveloped In a dense, Impenetrable, atmospherical envoi op*. What lies beneath these banked up masses of clouds) Is there a liquid ocean? Is there a still burn lng kernel? Neptune, more than two thousand Ave hun dred million miles away, is on the frontier line of the solar system as we at present understand it. We now at .. last boldly enter upon the regions of the infinite. WHAT IS MAN? THE HINDU'S ANSWER. By Mme. Jean Delalre. In one pithy line an Indian writer has expressed the essence of his failh: Brahman 1s real the word Is illusory man's soul is Brahman and nothing else. ThuB, for the Indian sages, man as well as nature is an Incarnation of the divine, an Involution of God and they conceived .evolution as the slow, patient return of all things to their divine source. Involution and evolution were the two aspects of manifestation, the two poles of cre atlve activity, involution, or the Unconditioned, the All, limiting Itself- within tlie forms of the material universe, tbe one appearing as the many God becoming man and evolution, man becoming, or rebecomlng God— the slow ascension of nature through age long periods, from the mineral to the plant, the plant to the anlmul, the animal to man, the man to God involution and evo hition, or the morning and the evening in the vast "day of Brahman"! the outbreathing and tbe inbreathing of Atman, the Great Breath Involution, the sowing of the divine seed evolution, the Ingathering of the divine harvest Whence'comes this knowledge? Hindu scriptures thou sands of years ago anticipated the latest discoveries of LOST HOPE. Alas for the man who never sees The stars shine through his cypress trees I Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The trutii to flesh and sense unknown, That life is ever lord of death, And love can never lose its own. —John Greenleaf Whittle!. THE MYSTERY OF LIDA 1' Mrs. Dilpeck paused with her hand In the air over her daughter's dresser, paralyzed for the moment She had wandered in as usual to banish tbe disorder which Lida always left be hind her and for the first time that her mother could remember there was nothing to straighten up. The top of the dreBser was in precise array, not showing even a collar bow or a hair pin thrown down carelessly. The mir ror surface Itself was dusted. "Well!" breathed Mrs. Dlllpeck. "Well 1" It had always seemed too bad to break Into Llda's engagements. And now— She gazed, mystified, at the beseech ing young creature before her, whose yearning eyes were on the saucepans. "Why, you'd spoil everything!" ob jected Mrs. Dlllpeck. "You run along —I don't mind doing It!" "You never let me," Lida mourned, rebellious]}-. Then slie brlgfitened. "I can set tbe table, anyhow!" she said, triumphantly, and darted Into {he din lug-room. Mrs. Dlllpeck was so preoccupied that Bhe salted the coffee and flavored the custard with onion extract Cer tainly something was wrong with Lida! The child's conduct was 11 turn ti ll nt I and her mother* was vaguely worried. After dinner, when Lida had depart ed for the theater, her mother sat thinking and frowning. "What's the trouble?" asked Dlll peck over his evening pnper. "I don't know," confessed his wife. "I don't feel' rlslit about Lida. She seems well, but I'm afraid she's com ing down with something. She doesn't act like herself!" "Pooh!" said Dlllpcck. "She loons SUE LOOKS WELL AND UAPI'V. well and happy to me! She's all right!" "You haven't got the eyes of a motli or," said Mrs. Dlllpeck. "To crown It all, I found her trying to cut out a sh.rt waist this morning, and she has alwuyg loathed sewing! And she was singing— actually singing, over It. Then you try to tell me!" "Ilow do you make mluce pies, moth ers?" Lida asked the^ next night, nt dinner.. fcven her father stared. "My!" he said, with clumsy pluyfulness. "What's struck you?" Lida blushed. "I Just wanted to know," she said. It was the next day thnt young Flick worth broke the news to them that he and Lida wanted to get married. After the excitement had calmed down Mrs. Dlllpeck wiped her eyes and smiled a watery little smile. "Anyhow," Bhe western science, and taught the cyclic processes of crea tion or evolution, vast periods of activity.and passivity. Worlds are born, attain their apogee and die the hu manities they have evolved are born, attain their full est development, then pass on to other planets, other universes. The perfected men of one great world period become the teachers, the guides of the infant humanity of another planetary cycle. These are the wise ones, the holy ones, the gods that walked* with men whose presence in the early ages of the world Is. hinted at In all scriptures of all natl6ns. To their inspiration are attributable the sacred books. HYGIENE OF EMOTIONS IMPORTANT. By T. S. Clouston. Whistling to keep up courage is no mere figure of speech. On the other hand, sit all day In a moping posture, slgb and reply to everything in a dismal voice, and your mel ancholy lingers. One Is for every man for some period of each day to Indulge in a quiet bit of solitude and communing with himself. Most of us nowadays read and speak far too much and think too little. THE BIIGHT OF DIVORCE. said, "I'm glad It's only matrimony and not typhoid fever that made Lida act so odd! I knew It was something!"—Chicago Daily News. A PROFITABLE BUSINESS. God-Makliiir la One of India's Moat lmmenae Induatrlca, Few of us realize that Into the vast triangle of Hindustan is packed one fifth of the entire human race—more than 200,000,000 Hindus, 60,000,000 Mohammedans, 10,000,000 aborigines and well over 33,000,000 of other mis cellaneous peoples, making up a pop ulation of over 300,000,000, speaking scores of different tongues and divided into hundreds of separate states. Tbe most important lhdustry of In- $./ *S«S There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this: If we wish to cure unde sirable emotional tendency In ourselves we must assiduously, and In the first Instance cold bloodedly, go through the outward movements of those contrary dispositions which we prefer to cultivate. The reward of persistency will Infallibly come In the .fading out of anger or depression and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak In a major key, pass the genial compliment and your heart must be frigid Indeed If It does not thaw. There Is no doubt that there Is a mental gymnastic that can be practiced by reasonable men who wish to keep their mental facilities correlated and under con trol, Just as bodily gymnastics do for-the muscles and tbe Internal organs. By Cardinal Olbbaaa. Government figures show divorces are mul tiplying about three times as fast as the population. They disclose that one mariage in twelve ends In divorce. Men and women enter the marriage state without regard for the sacred nature of the bond they are under taking. They look too much upon life with regard only to what they can get out of It, and with too little regard for that solemn word, duty. The-fault Is not in our system of educa tion, but Is the result of a false, loose interpretation of the Gospel, and the attitude of society towards those who have been divorced. If divorce Is to be checked we should frown upon all divorced parties, and we should also have uniform, strict laws 011 the subject. dla 1B agriculture, for the people area race of farmers, and nearly two-thirds of the masses cultivate the soil, eking out a living so scanty that the slight est failure of the monsoon brings acute distress, If not positive famine. It Is perhaps for this reason that India Is the most god-ridden region on earth. Her deities are numbered In millions, for quite apart from the greater gods, every little hamlet be tween the tremendous Hlamalayas and Cape Comorln has its own set of dei ties, dreadful and beneficent. Thus it will not be hard to believe that god making In India is an immense busi ness. Just now there Is a feeling of deep wrath nrnong the native arti ficers over this holy and most profit able Industry being cut Into by for eign merchants and traders. Only re cently an enormous five-tiered Jug ernaut car of gaily painted wood and steel was made In Calcutta, and of late years Birmingham and Philadel phia have both secured big slices of tb£ traffic in gods. Every village, especially. In South India, is supp&sed to be surrounded by evil spirits, always on the watch to inflict disease anj misfortune on the people. At the same time every little hamlet has also its guardian spirits. RUBBER AND ITS PROGRESS. It HnaJPlarcd a Significant Part In CITIIIBIBB the World. Two Interesting facts with regard to rubber have been brought, out by the international rubber exposition in pro gress nt Loudon, says the Columbus Dispatch. One is the great variety of important uses to which the substance has been put, and the other Is the pro gress that 1b being made In increasing Its production. Thirty countries have sent exhibits to the exposition In ques tion, and It is estimated that there Is displayed In the building where the ex position Is held $5,000,000 worth of rubber In Its natural and manufactured forms. In Ills speech opening the exposition, Sir Henry Blake declared that "during the last half-century rubber has played greuter part than any other substance In expediting human progress." With out rubber, 110 ocean cables, with all that they mean of friendship and com merce among nations, would have been laid. The working of every factory Is In some way dependent upon rubber it is used for valves, washers, etc. It en ters into the preparation of a multitude of things, such as telephone mouth pieces, musical instrument mouthpieces, pumps, vessels for holding acids, elec trical batterleB, and all kinds of levers and switches for electrical work, while, made Into belting, it Is said to be su perior to leather. It has been used for street paving, and It is only Its cost that prevents its general use for this purpose, since Its advantages are manifest. Rubber-pav ed streets would be cleanlyTnW'nolse less and are said to withstand tbe wear of heavy traffic better than brick or stone. NecdleM Expense. He—The astrologer described you ex actly, and said that I should marry you. She—Don't you think It was a waste of money to consult blin? He—Why? She—I could have told you the same thing myself if you had asked me!— Tit-Bits. Cynical view. "Was his courtship a success?" "No." "Why, I thought he married the girl?" "And so he did.". .r- —Birmingham Age-IIerald. Keen Baalneaa Man. Noah landed 011 Ararat. "Fine," he cried—"a mountain and seashore resort 111 one!" Herewith he started to build a sum mer hotel.—New York Sun. Stand In frbut of a mirror when look ing for your worst enemy. The popular cynicism that riches keep men out of prison, while the poor have to suffer the full rigor of the law, has had a number of severe Jolts re cently. The long line of men In high positions and seemingly the possessors of vast wealth who have violated the law, been detected, tried and now are undergoing punishment is a strong In dication that the millennium of equal Justice has at last dawned. In the consideration of such instances of this nature as that most recent one In Chicago,^Peter Van Vlissingen, and C. W. Morse in New York, a prominent feature is the fact that, while reput edly wealthy, when the bubble burst the millions they were supposed to have owned were found never to have existed, or, if they did exist, to have been of pnper, the fictitious value of which was demonstrated when the first winds of adversity struck the fragile figment. It the case of Van Vlissingen. like that of Paul O. Stensland, whose ca reer as a forger was so nearly parallel to that confessed by the Chicago real estate man, conviction was swift and sure. Stensland staved it off for a time by becoming a fugitive, but found that the law was Inexorable. When he was arraigned he pleaded guilty and asked the privilege of beginning his sentence with the least possible delay. To-day he wears the prison gray uni form of the good conduct convict at Jollet prison, the same as does the poorest criminal In the penal institu tion. For him, too, the rule of silence Is enforced as completely as it Is in the case of the most obscure thug or cheap .thief who Is his companion In Ignominy. Fate of Van Vllaelnsen. To tbe same fate Van Vlissingen was sentenced after a trial lasting little longer than an hour. No abjectly poor man could have had a more speedy con viction than has this man who, suppose edly wealthy, found himself in such a position that he was able to steal the vast sum of more than $1,000,000 from people who trusted him aS much be* cause they thought him beyond the necessity of peculation as for any other reason. Of course, the cases of Von Vlissin gen and Stensland are not true exam ples of the alleged condition against which socialists and ^others who harp continually on the favors of the rich and the troubles of the poor complain. When they were finally discovered In their crime neither put up a flgbt In reality their fortunes were such bub bles that when the denouement came, they vanished into nothingness. A somewhat similar condition con fronted George R. McReynolds, the for mer grain broker and warehouse man convicted for defrauding banks by means of fictitious warehouse receipts. McReynolds, however, put up a hard legal flght extending over a number of months. The highest courts were .in voked In an effort to hnve him bis lib erty, but, despite sufficient money to secure all legal aid possible and the powerful Influence of the friends he had made In his affluent days when he was rated a millionaire, he had to go to prison and don the hated gray uni form. Newton C. Dauglierty, the embezzling Peoria educator, had short shrift, al though an effort was made to save him the disgrace of going to prison. But it was unavailing, as have been efforts made since to have him pardoned. John A. Cooke, the Chicago politi cian, reputed to have amassed a com fortable fortune through his connec tion with politics for years, fought as bard as any man, possibly, who ever went to prison. Not only bis own means, but millions of dollars of the money of his wealthy associates, were at bis disposal, and used lavishly. But neither that nor political "pull" saved him. Hon* Not Saved by Riches. .The Morse case in New York is an other example of the lnexornbleness of laws made for the government of rich and poor alike. Dcaiing In millions, the Ice king had transgressed the laws at times when In bis arrogance he believed himself stronger than the law. His hard-fought trial, only recently finish ed, which resulted in bis being sen tenced to prison for fifteen years, which In his case amounts practically to life, and the refusal of the court to admit him to ball, have placed hlin securely behind prison bars, while his lawyers still are seeking legal loopholes through which their client rnaj escape. The cases of former Mayor Eugene A. Schmltz of San Francisco and Abra ham Reuf, the wealthy and Influential political boss of the western city, are fresh In the-public mind by reason of the attempted assassination of Prose cutor Ileney, who has been the nemesis of the graftere of the western coast Once Schmltz and Reuf were sentenced and actually served several months in prison. Then they were released "on a technicality, but the law Is pursuing them more vengefully now than ever, and Ruef was at liberty when Ileney was shot only because of his ability to furnish $1,500,000 ball. The case of Harry K. Thaw, who killed Stanford White, Is probably the hardest contested In which the wealth of the criminal played an Important' part, In the annals of the country. But even in the Thaw case It Is possi ble that his wealth has been against him. At any rate, had it not been for the Thaw millions he woOld either have acquitted 01 convicted promptly, without all'the harrowing suspense, and tbe expenditure of a million dol lars, that has not even resulted" In giv ing lilm bis liberty. His wealth mad* It possible for blm to be branded as In sane. It saved him from the electric chair, but bad he been very poor the circumstances leading up to tbe crime probably would have caused a Jury to be merciful. In this connection the human sym pathy which normal beings feel Is found more correctly the cause of biased verdicts. In the case-of men who have occupied high .and respected positions In a community, the Judge anil the Jury cannot help remembering the man'B former estate, similar to what they themselves are enjoying, his wife and his children, if he has them, and most such criminals have. The "put yourself in his place" idea 1s strong, and shrewd lawyers take pains to develop It But sympr.lhy benefits the rich no more than the poor, except as It may be manufactured by money. The case of Johann Hoch, the wife murderer, and Blllik, whose case has'been in all the courts of the country, although he had no money, refutes the charge that it is only'the rich who can Invoke all the machinery of the law In their aid. General Charles W. Russell, assist ant attorney general of the United States, declares that it isabsurd to cay that wealth prevents prosecution, or, In general, convictions. He refers to the work of Bank Examiner Moxey, who appeared'as the principal witness, for the prosecution In the Morse trial and who lias the reputation of having sent thirty-three wealthy and so-called respectable men to Jail. But money helps, General Russell admits. "The whole thing Is analogous to the care of a sick poor man and a sick rich mnn," he said In a recent inter view. "The rich invalid -ean-hlre the best doctors he can take all the time that is necessary to get well he can avail himself of proper climate and environment, and it's a matter of com mon sense that he stands a better shew, of recovery than the other fellpw. Just so with poor criminals and rich crim inals.' The rich one's chances for ac quittal are better because he can afford to flght longer."—Chicago Record-Her ald. KAISER'S OPERA BILL 9800,000. When He Command* a Performance He Buys Ont the Honse. Some Interesting statistics are pub lished regarding the extent to which the German Emperor personally subsi dizes tbe Royal Opera House and the Royal Theater In Berlin, says the New York Times. Of a total of $625,000 expeuded on them by the Prussian budget, $112,500 Is contributed from the Kaiser's private exchequer. In ad dition he bears the annual deficit some thing like $75,000, sometimes as much as $100,000. Thus the Imperial patronage of dra matic and operatic arts represents a tidy sum of over $200,000 per annum. Even this, however, does not exhaust the list of the Kaiser's theatrical ex penses, for every time he commands a performance, the seats for which are distributed to bis personal guests and friends, be must buy out tbe entire seat ing capacity of the theater, averaging a total of $1,250 for each such affair. The salaries of the Kaiser's operatic add dramatic stars are, of course, small compared with those paid In New York. Not one gets more than $10,000 a year. The general manager of the whole royal theatrical department receives only $4, 500 a year In addition to lh£ free use of-the official residence. Nevertheless, tbe bill the Kaiser will have to foot at the end of this year will be the heavi est he has ever paid, for it Includes the cost of producing his cherls] torlcal pageant the Assyrian panto mlme, "Sardanapalus," which alone cost over $75,000 before the curtain rose on the first performance. IV Mylea Standlah, Hla Boole*. Here Is a facsimile of Myles Stan dish's handwriting found on the fly-lea of one of bis books. The volume, which was recently offer ed for sale for $1,000, Is entitled "The Passions of tbe Minde In Generall," ly Thomas Wright, published In 1021. Capt Myles Standlsh, human sword blade, whose valor saved the Pilgrims at Plymouth from utter destruction at tbe hands of hostile Indians, went back to England In 1025 on business for the colony. Before his return, In 1626, he bought thlB book and carried It back to America with him. The title Itself Bbows the sort of lit erature our stern New England ances tors reveled in. Ilnd Standlsh brought home a novel or a book of poetry It would doubtless have scandalized tbe whole Puritan settlement. ir:,'' Far Flelda Arc Greener. A bdy alwnys brags of what be wll! do when he's a man. And when he becomes a man he al ways boasts of what be did when Jn was boy.—Plck-Me-Up. ,yW~W It is better to leave land unplowed than to plow up more than can be well tilled. Keep salt where your cows can get at It every day 111 the year. The ani mals require It. Clean out your currycomb once in awhile. An old file or a heavy wire nail is good for this purpose. To make excelsior axle grease take tailow, 8 pounds palm oil, 10 pounds plumbago, 1. pound. Heat and mix well. The manure product for a single cow according to figures of the Department of Agriculture ranges In value from $30 to $40 per year. The Crosby peach has proved Itself the best for northern and"eastern grow ing. It is the hardiest peach known and Is a sure and regular bearer in New England. In feeding the hogs sec thnt you do It in a clean place and in-a clean way. On many a farm feed Is wasted be cause of the slovenly way In which Jt 1B fed. A chcap farm paint cnu be made from one gallon of skim milk, three pounds Portland cement, dry paint powder to give desired shade. This compound must be kept well Btlrred, as the cement settles. Stir up not more than oiie day's'supply at a time. Bora llosUtag for Education. The statement is published by Knox (111.) College that by far the larger per cent of the new students entering last year came with the intention of earning all or part of their expenses while in college. The same authority says that more of the old students are working this year than .ever before at Knox. At least 05 per cent of the stu dent body are supporting themselves to some extent. Some nre doing reporting work on tbe local newspaper, some, have positions with the merchants of the city, especially the clothiers, others wait on tables at restaurants and lunch counters for their board, while still' others find it-better to do general work for certain families In return for board and room. Now Type of Plow. A circular-wheel plow Is something entirely new in this line. Popular Me chanics describes It as follows: "It consists of a wheel feet In di ameter, on the outside of which blades or cutters are driven counter to the direction in which the maohlne is mov ing. "The wheel Is hung on a frame and has neither hub nor central axle, the sprocket wheel by which It Is made to revolve applying force at the perimeter or rim. By, this plan, so the Inventor claims the central lever /strain upon the heel Is avoided and the knlVes are gently forced through the soil,'slic ing off layprs. One end of the frame on which' the wheel is hiing is vertical ly hinged to the rear axle of a power traction truck. Wire cables are attach ed to the outer end of the-, frame and carried over pulleys at the top of two upright posts. Below this the ends are attached to a drum upon which the cables which lower and raise the cut ting wheel are colled." Keeping Apples-In Ground. *, I have kept apples until the next year's crop ripened with little or no rot at a cost not exceeding 3icents per bushel as follows: Pick tliem as loon as ripe store In the coldest place In an outbuilding, or the north side of trees lyill do cover about eight inches with'straw, hay or like^ material to exclude the sun and light, as apples keep better In the dark. As soon as freezing, weather comes sort the apples carefully. Then dig 11 trench twelve Inches deep and about three feet wide and of convenient length put in two or three inches of straw, hay or crab grass—I use the latter. This is to keep the apples clear of the ground. Then put in the apples about three high and cover with the same material used to bed them. On top of this put about three Inches of dirt, which should be patted with the back of the shovel, so it will shed water. When the ground freezes down to the npples (In fact, let some of the apples freeze) cover the trench with •bout twelve Inches of hny or com fod der nrrnnged to shed water and keep the frost till spring. About the last of April the apples may be sorted and all those that show signs of rot placed In le cellar or any other cold place. You will find the npples kept this way will be fresh and crisp—much better than if kept in the cellkr. I put very few apples In our cellar, and that Is when I take tli'ein out of the trench as we wish to use them, as the trench Is unhandy to open and close. Care must be taken when opening to keep out frost and air and warmth— Jacob Faith. .: Feed the Land. One often sees an extended 11st or cheap or abandoned farms offered at bargain prices. In most- Instances the property can be purchased at less than one-hiilf of what the improvements cost The laud has become so-unpro ductive as to be unprofitable for cultU vatlon. Yet the farms once produced fair crops and supported their owners in contentment nnd comfort The men who carved these homes out of the primeval forests were fairly prosperous and many of them accumulated liberal competences. The original owners were indus trious, frugal and prudent In managing their holdings nnd each year witnessed an increase to their wealth. They practiced mixed husbandry and always made fertilizers of their forage and tbe bulk of, their grain. Tbey kept, a rea sonable amount of stock and grazed their animals on pastures seeded with clover aud other nutritious grasses. The droppings of their flocks and herds fed the soil with fertility and the land became more productive annually. When rotation of pasture fields to cul tivated crops occurred the farmer was assured of a liberal reward. The development of tbe rich prairie lands of the West prostrated the agri culture of the East. When continental railroads penetrated the government Uuids and afforded an outlet to tbe r- fcV-.TV-V^ ... a «$ $H -. &(«£%» products of unimproved Western prai ries. great herds of cattle and sheep were produced on the free ranges or on land that could be purchased at govern ment prices: Eastern farmers could not compete with the Western ranch men or wheat growers on, cheap, fertile lauds and the products of the West soon dominated the markets of the Bast. This meant to the Eastern fann er not only the elimination of animal husbandry, but also the~deterioratlon of the fertility of the Eastern farms. Following a system of cultivated crops the land declined in productivity until the crops did not pay the first cost of production, and the sons of Eastern farmers sought employment and homes In the industrialists of cities. Experiments are being made of recla mation of the abandoned and cheap farms of the East with artificial fer tilizers. The humuB nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid of the soil need to be restored to give the soil Its virgin vigor. While commercial fertilizers accomplish much in the restoration of worn ont land, %nlmal husbandry ap pears to be necessary for the reclama tion of impoverished farms. The drop pings of animals and operations of legumes are the more rational regime for exhausted land fertility and to maintain the productivity of naturally fertile soli.—Goodall's Farmer. Best War n«kt the Weevil. One thousand cotton planters from Central Louisiana met at Baton Rouge to devise mbans for fighting the boll weevil. Government experts and' boll weevil experts addressed tbe confer ence. Dr. W. D. Hunter of Dallas, who has conducted tbe government fight lu Texas, delivered tbe leading ad dress. The main points -In the system of control were stated by Dr. Hunter as follows 1. Destroy weevils In the fall. 2. Destroy weevils that may have escaped burning and be found along hedge growths, fences, etc. 3. Prepare land early and thor oughly. 4. Provide wind rows and plenty of space between the rows for the as sistance of the natural enemies of the weevil. 5. Insure an early crop by plant ing early maturing varieties. 6. Chop early and give frequent cul tivation in pursuance of the policy of making the crop. 7. Where labor Is sufficient pick the first appearing weevils and Infested squares, but do not burn the squares. 8. Use a cross-bar of iron or wood on cultivators. 0. Do not poison for the leaf worm unless Its work begins at an abnormal ly early date.—Baton Rouge Letter. DECENDANT 07 PENH'S FRIEND. Aneeator of Philadelphia Clergy man Waa nn Advlaer of Founder. Almost within a stone's throw of the plot of ground where William Penn made his treaty with the Indians, and In a church whose membership consists mainly of descendants of old colonial settlers, a historical sermon was preached Sunday night on the life of William Penn by a clergyman who boasts of being the great-great-grand son' of one of the Pennsylvania found er's dearest friends and counselors, says the Philadelphia North Amerlcan. The church is the Emmanuel Episcopal at Glrard avenue and Marlborough street, and the minister the Rev. Ed ward Giles Knight. According to the clergyman, there has always been a Giles Knight. About fifty years ago, because one generation forgot to name any of the boys Giles, one of the family bad his first name changed by special act of legislature. Giles Kuigbt, tbe first came to this country with William Penn in the good sblp Welcome in 1082, and when the compact with the Indians was made was an earnest adviser of his chief. Like William Penn, Giles Knight bad quarreled with his father, then mayor of Bristol, England, over religious mat ters, and he sought refuge in this land that he might' worship his Creator in his own way, and when and how be pleased. 11' his sermon Dr. Knight did net touch upon his relationship with the colonist, but devoted his talk to par ticulars of Penn's early life. Another member of Emmanuel church proud of bis ancestry is John P. Eyre, one of the vestrymen, whose great-grandfather at one time owned the very spot Of ground on which Will iam Penn first landed. Certainly New to the Baalneaa. She was newly married and did not know a little bit about either house keeping or shopping. It was a crush er but Gus, the grocer, was an experi enced man and clever, so he kept writ ing and did not even smile. "I want ten pounds of paralyzed sugar," she began with a businesslike air. "Yes'm. Anything else?" "Two tins of condemned milk." "Yes'm." He set down pulverized sugar and condensed milk. "Anything more, ma'jun?" "A bag of fresh ualt. Be sure lfs fresh." "Yes'm.' What next?" "A pound of desecrated codfish." He glibly wrote "desslcated" cod. "Nothing more, ma'am?" "No." "We have some nice horseradish, Just In." "It would be of no use to us," sbe said "we do not keep a horse." Proad ol Them, "Pardner," said tbe tall tramp af the water tank, "yer don't seem much worried about dem openings in de un der part of yer shoe." "I guess not," chuckled the short tramp as he Warmed his feet'on the hot cinders "dey are de windows of (He sole.*' Not Grambllnff* "Don't you find it pretty expensive to keep up that blg^tourlng car?" "Yes, I do. But I'm not grumbling. You see Martha agreed to give up play ing bridge at tbe Fleecem's" if I'd buy the car. Ob, I'm saving money, all right."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is a waste of time to try to make some people believe thnt there are two sides to a question. -VI Milk that is delivered to the homes of New York City each, morning comes from 80^227 dalrle*. t»MHHWH I II 1 1 1 ^POLITICS OP TH9 DXV Give Ua In a j»lumn aud a half letfer" to William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Ind., the president of tbe United States denounces' Delavan Smith of the Indianapolis News and W. M. Laffan of the New YoTk Sun as thirty-third-1 degree liars because of their editorial charges that a syndicate of Americans made a $28,000,000 rakeoff In the pur chase of the Panama canal. The Intemperate terms of hls lette# exceed anything with which the publle frvs&i has hitherto been favored from his pen, and he enters a general denial on he half of bis brother-in-law and the ad^'i^®1 ministration that there was a dollar of gr^ft in the deal. The letter states explicitly that all -r. tfes papers In the case have been at aU tines' open to the public, and that the United States purchased the canal di rect from the French government and holds the receipt of the official liquida tor of the company. Further than that It sheds absolutely no light on the affair. It is quite true, as Mr. Roosevelt states, that the $40,000,000 was paid, and paid in France. But it is also quite true that only $12,000,000 of that sum ever reached the original stock holders of the De Lesseps PaQama Canal Company. Mr. Roosevelt declares that "the United States government has not the slightest knowledge as to the particular Individuals among whom the French* government distributed the sum." In the absence of that Unowledge-how can he honestly say that no American mada^fg a dollar out of'the deal? Mr. Itoosevelt tells us that no rM ords have been destroyed. Then the books of the liquidator will shpw how that $40,000,000 was disbursed. The only absolute proof of honesty Is dis closure of that disbursement, and any department clerk can collate and tabu late the whole transaction In half a day- It will not take up half as mncb space as this latest white house ful mlnatlon, and Its publication will be a much better answer to criticism. Fact* and figures sre preferable to froth and fury. Let Mr. Roosevelt give us all ths facts.—Chicago Journal. Snoh a Deacaat. It Is with a feeling of deep humllU tlou that tbe admirers of Mr. Roosevelt will read his statement about proceed ing against certain truth-seeking news papers for libel or against the editors and owners of them for criminal llbaL. In ngne of tbe many personal contro versies which have marked his career during the last seven years has he ap peared to such sad advantage. Time was when anyone who showed a disposition to doubt the Rooseveltlan word, to maintain any but an attitude of profound respect for the Roosevelt lan gospel or to Impute to Mr Roose velt things that he might have-said or did say In confidence was swallowsd up I and overwhelmed with an avalanche of torrential abuse- aud cast summarily into the outer darkness, to be thrown np by an angered sea on the rooks at oblivion or something of that kind. The corridors of seven years at time are strewn with the mangled remains of the Impetuous and misguided men who ha^e dared and been undone. Never before has there been even a remote kuf gestlon of'recourse to such a.'coward's weapon as the courts of justice. Never before has there been a hint that Theo dore Roosevelt panoplied with, right eousness and made Invulnerable by nlm bus of sanctity and omniscience, could not defend himself against tbe world -and cbnfound his foes and detractors And what a descent it Is! From the majestic heights of Individual sufficiency* wlth an alert finger on the halr trlg ger, to the depths of the Avernus peo pled by common folk dependent on the law! The chances are If someone should pick a street quarrel with Mr. Roosevelt he would turn the other cheek and call a policeman.—St Louis R» public. -Cans* of the Defclt. For weary weeks students of political economy and writers on questions of finance have been puzzling their brains over the question of the large and grow- •I*-' lng deficit in the national treasury. They have tramped all around the'" .edges of tbe question, considered ths tariff as a revenue producer, descanted wisely on our foreign trade, gathered statistics from far and near to show that the commercial depression was. world-wide, and left the whole matter In a muddled condition. Now along comes United. State* Treasurer Treat and puts the whole race of politicians, statisticians and economists to flight with a "single elo quent, Illuminative sentence. The de ficlt is due to the increase In expendi tures. it Is so plainly, painfully slm** ple. But will the politicians, the statis ticians and the economists accept ltT They will not. On the contrary, they will prove that In a two-bllllon-doUar country the expenditures have nothing-A 3^5 to do with such a question. They wlil prove that just before an election It to Indispensable that Congress work in-— genlously to satisfy the populace,-that all questions of economy be ignored and that the appropriations be so framed that the majority of the votes be won for the party of extravagance. Tie great expenditures, assigned by Mr. Treat as'the capse, are ofllttle Interest and no consequence. The deficit Is caused by Congressional conduct which was entirely justified hy tbe results,of the election last month.—St Louis Re public. v" Short Welsrhta nnd .Rich Dnttes. The sugar trust is defendant In 1 series of "suits by tbe government to re cover $8,624,121 for forfeitures (wd back duties on Imports of sugar since 1001. The government alleges that hs trust's weighing scales at the Brooklyn docks were adjusted to give short weight. But whether the Bugar trust has beta "short weighting" tbe government or not there Is no dispute OB to Its system- atlc plundering of consumers through's tarlff tax. Even- Claus Spreckles, now an Inde. pendent refiner, told the ways and means committee the other day that ab solute free trade would be bettSr than the present unjust tariff schedules "under which the sugar trust- isT ths principal beneficiary and is able to exact special privileges and conditions on sugars produced in Louisiana and tbe Hawaiian Islands." SI It Is the same with all the predatory trusts. Their tax on the necessities 0*' luxuries of Ufe may seem Infinitesimal. J.5&, It makes a colossal aggregate whan tk* article Is universally consumed. H1