The Darkened Stable.
Where animals are kept in the stable
during the summer months, as, for ex
ample, work horses, or, in some in
stances, the breeding stock, nothing
•contributes so much to their comfort
as that of protecting them from flies.
Animals that are kept busy fighting
flies require more food to keep tnem
in condition, and, indeed, it is impossi
ble with an unlimited supply of food
to keep them in proper condition.
Advantage should be taken of the
fact that flies constantly tend to seek
the light places. A stable need not
be absolutely dark in order to prevent
annoyance from flies, and. in fact, we
do not believe Jn keeping stables too
dark, on account of the fact that ani
mals are liable, if kept in such quar
ters for any considerable length of
time, to go wrong in their eyes. Gun
ny sack nailed over the windows of
the stable will greatly reduce the num
ber of flies that will pester the ani
mals. These should not be nailed
down absolutely tight at the bottom,
■or air will be excluded and the stable
will become warm and unhealthful. If
the sacks are partly loose at the bottom
they will still shade the stable satis
factorily and at the same time admit
air. Horses placed in the stable for
an hour at noon will eat better, rest
better, and we cannot help but think
they will work better afterward, if
"they are afforded some protection dur
ing the time they are in the stall. In
some of our better class of stables reg
ular window blinds are used, these be
ing pulled down during the day and
run up at night, thus freely admit
ting the air wheu no protection from
flies is necessary-. It is claimed by
those who use such blinds that
cost is more than offset many times
during a single season in the saving of
feed that is effected by the protection
Which they afford.
Grindstone Frame.
My grindstone frame is made of two
inch plank with hole cut through for
the stone, and wide enough to fasten
on the bearings. The legs are made of
pieces of Ix 4 mortised in. They
long enough so the man who does the \
grinding can stand upright. An axle
IV4 inches in diameter passes through
two of the legs, and there are two
wheels made of inch hardwood board
about eight inches in diameter. Tln^se
sectional view.
wheels run on the axle so the other
eud of the frame can be picked up
and the grindstone rolled around easily
wherever It Is needed. The legs
should be braced as required. The
sume idea will hold good in making a
bench to stand on to drive fence posts,
only the wheels should be larger, so it
will run over uneven ground easier. A
hole through the top of the bench will
take in the handle of the post driver, a
hook and staple on one side would
carry the bar and a drawer in one end
could be used to put in nails, staples,
hammer, pliers and staple puller. In
the illustrations A shows top view of
u a
grindstone in frame.
frame, E 5 an end view, and (' the com
plete side view.—J. Li. Crookston, in
St. Louis Republic.
Stop Eating.
I act on the theory that most people {
eat too much. Much is said of the
evils of intemperate drinking and but
little is said about intemperate eat
ing. yet intemperate eating has killed
hundreds of people where intemperate
drinking has killed one. I aim to eat
temperately, always leafing the table
with the ability to eat more, and with
the appetite for more food, yet wheu
I feel indisposed l stop eating. I do
not always stop entirely. If my ail
ment is not serious, I eat perhaps one
half or one-third as much as usual
and always find relief. If your horses,
cows, poultry, sheep or swine are ail
ing it is safe to take away their feed
for a short time, particularly their
grain. If we or our animals are not
enjoying usual health, in addition to
giving them less food It is well to give
them more exercise. I .ess food, the
drinking of more water and more ex
ercise in open air, the>e are my prin
cipal remedies for ails and aches.—
Green’s Fruit Grower.
Farmer's Dress.
Since rural people are isolated the
tendency is for them to become care
less in dress. 1 am sure that I be
came careless and that I was a fright
ful object to look upon when I was
striving for a foothold upon the farm
under adverse circumstances. It is
well for the farmer, his wife, daugh
ters and sons to slick up in the matter
of dress after the day’s work is done,
so they may appear at the supper table
and during the evening iu clothes
sultan!* for receiving any one who
may happen to call. Very likely no
one may call, but for the sake of the
family it will pay to give this atten
flon to dress.
Ageil Dwarf Tree*.
Surprising results have been pro- j
duced in the line of dwarf trees by
Japanese growers. It is said there are
pine trees that started to grow in the
seventeenth century which are still not
too large to be carried in one baud.
Hie gardeners nip off the tree’s roots,
pinch back the branches aud starve
the tree in poor soil, keeping it barely
•_live and checking the growth almost
entirely. As time goes on. the tree
pains the appearance of extreme age.
but is no larger than a seedling a few
months old.
Mmjaxines on the Table.
When you visit a farmer's home
and find creditable papers and maga
aines upon his sitting-room table you
%r* favorably impressed with that
.armer's intelligence. Shiftless farm
oT> are not inclined to pay out money
foe reading matter. Ignorant farmer*
consider money spent fov reading mat
ter wasted. There is Do better sign
of prosperi'y than to fee upon his
table farm papers, church papers,
magazines, etc.
A Simple Hog Hunger.
Here’s a sketch of a hog hanger,
which is a good one for the farmer.
Take three 9-foot poles. 2% inches tfi
diameter. Put a y a -incb bolt through
the top and two 3-8-lneh bolts in thc
outside poles, as in the cut, 18 inches
from top. so that they stick out i
inche*. Lay the hog on its back, slip
the little bolt under the cord, and raiM
HOG HANGER.
it up. One-half of the hog can be
taken down and the other half left
hanging.
Stock Raising by Electricity.
According to a recent issue of rhe
Chicago Tribune, an electrical system
of stock-raising has been developed on
a moderate scale at the University of
Michigan. Small anh ‘is, such as
rabbits, have already been forced into
matured size and plumpness in two
thirds of the period required by nature,
knowing the possibility of reducing the
'tedious development < larger stock,
especially sheep or cows, by many
months. In several rooms of the elec
tro-therapeutic laboratory, cheap wood
en oens, circular in form, have been
wound to the height of two feet with
electric wires. A moderate current of
one-half horse power circles these
electric pens. From its influence the
air inside the pens is made electro
magnetic, becoming a strong magnetic
field, with sixty-two lines of force to
the square inch. In these pens rabbits
have grown to maturity in two-thirds
of the time that rabbits near them
have developed in non-electrical pens.
These electrically nurtured animals
did not become larger than normal
rabbits: they merely arrived at normal
size quicker. Furthermore, as is the
case with hothouse flowers, they were
found less hardy than their slower
brothers. But. for the live-stock mar
ket, the forced animals had an unex
celled tenderness and plumpness.
Disking Land for Corn.
A correspondent writes us that liav
.Vig heard of quite successful corn
growing in Illinois without plowing
the laud first, inquires whether one
can safely disk the corn land, list aud
plant without the usual breaking.
Sometimes the lighter prairie soils are
prepared in this way and corn Is plant
ed and does fairly well without first
breaking the land. This has been so,
however, in seasons following deep
w inter freezing, and little spring rain
to run the soil together. Only the
light blank soils mixed with some
sand have been successfully grown to
corn by disking, rather than breaking.
In wet spring seasons some risk is
taken even with these soils to plant
in this way. it is far safer to break
the ground first and pulverize It for
corn. And the clay loam should tic al
ways be so treated, and it is best to
break them deeply. Disking heavy
soils and listing for planting would be
a great mistake in any kind of a
season. These soils are run together
and hardened by the r al spring
rains more than others _, and our
correspondent would m i a mistake
to undertake corn growing on his clay
loam lands by merely disking them.—
Exchange.
Swelled Leg Treatments.
Horses font have run at pasture are
often troubled with swollen or
“stocked" legs when first brought to
the stable in the fall, and others that
do not run to grass are so affected
when suffering from ‘ general debil
ity." The following is an excellent
remedy for such cases:
Powdered sulphate of iron (cop
peras! three ounce*, pow dered gentian
root three ounces, sulphite (not sul
phate! of soda three ounces. Have the
druggist mix these ingredients thor
oughly In his mortar and then divide
the compound into twenty-four pow
ders.
Give one of the powders night and
morning mixed in the grain feed, until
all are used. Moisten the grain slight
ly before putting in the powder.
If this does not effect a cure give
a tabiespoonful of glauber salts In the
grain feed every night for two or three
months, if necessary. Gases where the
legs have been “stocked” constantly
and quite badly for some time have
been permanently cum) by glauber
salts alone.
Incubator Don't*.
Don’t use oil less than 130 test.
Don’t help the chick out of the shell.
Don't fail to fill the lamps every
evening.
Don't set the incubator near the
window.
Dou't use the same wick for more
than one hatch.
Don't worry with moisture gauges or
hygrometers.
Don’t turn nor cool the eggs after
they are pipping.
Don't neglect cooling the eggs; it
makes strong: chicks.
Don’t try to hatch duck and hen
eggs In the same incubator.
Don’t trim the wick with scissors;
I scrape off the charred part with a
| match.
Don't think you are smarter than
j the manufacturer of the incubator, for
, you have a lot to learn.
Don't leave the large ends of th*
; eggs pointing in different direction*!
have them ali pointing one way.
CANAL IS NOW OUBS.
FORMAL TRANSFER TO UNITED
STATES MADE IN PARIS.
Clear Title Is Given Uncle Sam to Pana
ma Franchise and Rights— American
Representatives Issue Statement-
Features iu the Negotiations.
-The Panama canal strip aud the Pan
ama canal franchise are now the prop
erty of the United States. The formal
signing of documents whereby the title
passes to the United States took place in
Paris Friday.
\Y. A. Day and Charles W. Russell,
assistant United States Attorneys Gen
eral, jwho have charge, of the negotia
tions, gave out for publication a brief
statement of what had been done.
The official statement says:
"The papers transferring the rights
and property by the new Panama Canal
Company to the United States have al
ready been eiocitel and delivered. They
will be ratified to-morrow afternoon by
the stockholders’ meeting.
“The arrangement includes a general
conveyance aud provisions for deeds and
resignation in the republic of Panama
and in the canal zone now under the jur
isdiction of the United States, in which
zone the civil law continues in force by
reason of the cession of the zone from a
civil law sovereignty. All formalities
of the local law on fie isthmus have been
arranged for and :•-.cured to the United
States.
“The property will shortly be delivered
on the isthmus, and upon being done
the purchase price will be immediately
paid.
“The full text of the principal docu
ments will be made public to-morrow
night.
“The I nited States gets an unincum
bered title.”
The main figures in the transfer have
bi-en Messrs. Bo aud Richmond for the
company, Messrs. Day and Russell for
the United States, and Consuls General
John K. Gowdy and Roberto Lewis for
the U nited States and Panama respec
tively, the two consular representatives
joining in affixing the seals and attesting
the signatures.
Following are the leading features in
the canal negotiations:
Nov. 18, 1901—Hay-Pauneefote treaty
permitting construction of canal across
isthmus negotiated.
Dec. 16, 1901—United States Senate
ratified Hay-Pauneefote treaty.
Jan. 20, 1902—Great Britain ratified
Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
Jan. 9, 1902—Panama Canal Company
offered its property to the United States
for $40,000,000.
Jan. 9. 1902—8i1l authorizing the eon-
ATLANTIC-.,, OCEAN
JJ.
P AC I F I C
struction of the canal adopted by House
of Representatives.
June 19, 1902—Canal bill passed by
Senate.
June 28, 1902—Canal bill signed by
President Roosevelt.
Jan. 22, 1903—Treaty with Colombia
for the construction of canal negotiated.
March 17, 1903 —Colombia canal
treaty ratified by United States.
Aug. 31, 1903—Colombia treaty re
jected by the government of Colombia.
Nov. 3, 1903 —Panama revolution oc
curred.
Nov. 18, 1903—Canal treaty with Pan
ama negotiated.
Dec. 2, 1903—Canal treaty signed by
Panama junta. This was ratification of
it by the provisional government.
Feb. 23, 1904—Panama canal treaty
ratified by United States Senate.
April 22, 1904 —-Papers transferring
title to canal to United States formally
signed in Paris.
JUSTICES TO RESIGN.
Fuller, Harlan and Brown Will Soon
Leave the Bench.
Important changes iu the personnel of
the Supreme bench are now expected be
fore the meeting of the next Congress.
It is known in judicial circles that Chief
Justice Fuller. Justice Harlan and Jus
tice Brown plan to retire. No date is
fixed, but it is understood that they will
take such action within the next few
months.
Having passed the age of 70 years,
and having served more than ten years
upon the bench. Chief Justice Fuller is
entitled to retire on full pay. He took
the oath of offb-e Oct. 8, 1888. Despite
his years, he continues in excellent
health and is mentally vigorous, but it is
known that sickness in his family has
caused him much worry during the last
year. For this reason he has been tempt
ed to take advantage ef the law govern
ing retirement and to leave the responsi
bilities of his position to a younger man.
Justice Harlan will be 71 years old
June 1. He will have bsen twenty-four
years on the bench on the 10th of next
December. He is. therefore, entitled to
retirement with full pay, both on account
of age and account of service. Justice
Harlan’s health has been far from good
in the last year, and he is beginning to
show his age more than any other man
on the bench.
The third justice who is booked for
retirement is Justice Brown. He is only
6S years of age, having beeu born on
March 2, 1836, but he has been on the
bench since Jan. 5. 1896, and so is en
titled to retirement because of length of
service.
BIG FIGURES FROM THE WEST.
Karrelosi Progress Outlined in a Few
Astounding Sentences.
In an interesting article in the Book
lovers’ Magazine Harold Bolce furnishes
some astounding facts regarding the tre
mendous growth of the great Weat dur
ing recent years. We append some of
the most startling paragraphs:
During J9Q3 30,000 homeseekers were
established on free farms in the vast re
gions of Manitoba.
Three years ago in one of the coun
ties of the State of Washington there
were but 95 voters. Now the popula
tion is 26.000 and last year the county
shipped $3,000,000 worth of wheat.
The value of gold and fiah from Alaska
last year exceeded $20.00u,000.
During 1903 60,000 people were added
to the population of San Francisco.
The value of buildings erected in Ta
coma daring 1903 exceeded that of any
other year in its history.
South Dakota produced over $100,000,-
000 worth of grain sud live stock last
year and dug $12,000,000 from the Black
Hills.
Portland. Ore., has a greater number
of millionaires, population considered,
than any other city in the United States.
The people of South Dakota are the
wealthiest in the Union, per capita.
San Francisco. Tacoma. Portland and
Seattle shipped during the four months
from July to October last year 1,201,841
barrels of flour to the Orient, an increase
at 76 par cent over the year before.
VALUE OF NIAGARA.
Its Destruction Threatened by Power-
Seeking Companies.
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The appearance of another corporation
seeking to obtain from the New York
Legislature free power privileges at Ni
agara Falls has aroused wide-spread in
terest. In this connection it is well to
note that the commissioners of the State
Park have already given warning that
some of the present companies enjoying
the privileges of that immense power are
unlimited in the use they may make of
the falls. It is claimed that a possible
development of even the present com
panies would rob Niagara of one-third of
its water, obliterate the American fall,
and leave only the deeper green floor that
curves smoothly over the brink of the
Canadian Horseshoe.
Recent figures show that Niagara de
velops 3,500,000 horsepower which no
flood or drought disturbs, the Great
Lakes acting as an equalizer of the flow.
Allowing for the brief periods during
which horses can put forth their full
force, unresting Niagara could do about
as much work in a year as the 18,000,000
horses of the country combined. It could
furnish nearly one-third of the 11,300,000
LOCATION OF THE CANAL
horsepower now iu use in all the mills of
the country.
As to its worth for commercial pur
poses statistics show that water power
costs in New England from $4.62 to
$23.08 per horsepower by the year. At
the less than average price of $lO, Niag
ara’s power would be worth $35,000,000
a year, an income of five per cent upon
$700,000,000. This enormous sum may
be assumed to be the possible future
value of Niagara as a power.
But, remarks the Utica Globe, have
we, as a people, grown so sordid that we
will consent to grant free of cost priv
ileges that will forever ruin this sublime
spectacle, one of the world’s greatest
natural wonders? It would seem as
though our commercial supremacy might
be assured at far less sacrifice.
A MARITIME WORLD'S FAIR.
New Y'ork: Planning for a Memorial
to Robert Fulton.
A maritime pageant and exposition on
a magnificent scale is being taken up
with considerable enthusiasm by the mu
nicipal authorities of New York as a fit
ting commemoration of the first trip up
the Hudson of Robert Fulton's steamboat
Clermont. A resolution approving the
suggestion aud recommending that steps
be tnken to carry it out has been intro
duced at a meeting of the Board of
Aldermen, and it looks as if New Y'ork
might see iu the summer of 1907 such a
marine pageant as would befit a celebra
tion of one of tlie greatest days in
American history.
The expense would be comparatively
small, because the exhibits are easily
available and would be gladly furnished
by the governments of the civilized
world. The Hudson river would be the
scene of the display. The exhibits
would lie at anchor or along a line of
bulkhead which could be constructed at
relatively small cost. There would need
be primitive boats of all ages and all
peoples—the rafts of the Swiss 1-aeus
trinns, the coracles of the Welsh, the
canoes of the Pacific islanders, the dug
outs of the Siwash, the birches of east
ern Indians; and then of small craft
there might be dories, life boats, life
rafts with nil their applinuees and so
on through the series to the steamship.
There are nearly enough ships at
the navy yards to illustrate the' progress
of the sea defense without building or
altering. There is the old Constitution
iu Boston, which could be safely brought
o\ er the still water between the day of
the frigate and the number of interest
ing types extant of the ships that formed
the navy between that port and this.
Monitors, torpedo boats and submarina
destroyers would have to be added to
complete the display.
News at Minor Not*.
Locomotive trust bought the Rogers
plart. Paterson. X. J.
Harry Lehr appeared at Baltimore
with a lap dog. which wore five different
shades of ribbon iu one afternoon.
The wife of CapL John Albert Fish
was found dead in her room. New York.
.a thought she died from using chloro
iom_
Martin Hannen. a Minneapolis laborer,
was killed and five other persons were in
jured in a collision between an electric
car and a wagon.
Prince Hugo Hohenlohe. brother of the
head of the Hohenlohe-Oehringer fam
ily, married Mme. Helga, the famous
circus rider, at Berlin.
Communication between Buffalo and
Cleveland by wirebss telegraphy for
commercial purposes hes been opened.
William McCoy of Kansas City. Kan.,
a machinist, shot and killed his wife and
then shot himself. He will recover. They
were married last October.
The Southern Railway has been as
sessed $25,000 by a jury because two
unknown men hugged Mrs. Cumie Frank
lin while she was a passenger on one of '
its trains.
Lieut. A. G. Sharpley of the Twelfth ;
cavalry, stationed in the Philippines, has I
been court-martialed for an attempt to
alienate the affections of an euiisted ;
man's wife.
POLITICS finafi
OF THE DAY
Republican Platforms.
The .represenbitiYes of, the Republi
cs y party,-of the State of New,York
wet in convention,: and among other
planks adopted the following on the
tariff:- "We reaffirm our belief that
the greatest national issue is tile main
tenance of prosperity, and we stand
squarely for the integrity of the prin
ciple of a protective tariff." That
principle is required to maintain the
highest scale of American wages and
the supremacy of the American work
shop." On the day following the con
vention the press dispatches from New
York city announced that an enormous
erwod of men and women, estimated
at 8,000, stood around anew depart
ment store seeking work at very low
wages, so great was the crowd that a
large force of extra police were neces
sary to keep order.
The strenuous efforts of these poor
people to get a chance for employment
did not verify the Republican claim
of prosperity, nor did the small amount
of wages offered prove that protection
had maintained “the highest scale of
American wages," rather the reverse.
The prosperity that the Republicans
used to boast of was that the job was
seeking the man aud not the man seek
ing the job. That boast can no longer
be made, for evidently there are thou
sands seeking work at low wages with
the protective tariff in full working
order, supposed to be automatically fix
ing high wages for the wage earner.
More evidence was published in the
news dispatches on the same day that
the Republicans of New York so glibly
resolved in favor of protection, that
some of the cog wheels of that de
ceptive principle were out of gear.
From Lawrence, Mass., came the news
that the Arlington mills had reopened,
which had been closed on account of a
strike among the employes, whose
wages had recently been reduced, and
the employes were returning to work
at the reduced wages. At Palmer,
Mass., the mills of the Thorndike Man
ufacturing Company at Palmer and
West Warren began a curtailment In
the output by reducing the running
time to forty hours t week. That
means but four days' work a week,
and of course but two-thirds wages.
At Fall River a similar condition was
announced. At Minneapolis, Minn.,
the flour mills were to be closed down
the end of the week.
These announcements all appeared
in the New York Journal of Commerce
and Commercial Bulletin of April 13,
and nearly every day that newspaper,
which is devoted to business matters,
contains similar curtailments.
Meanwhile the protective tariff, by
Its shelter to the monopolists, keeps up
its deadly work of high prices, so that
the cost of living is higher than nearly
ever before. But the Republican plat
form of platitudes of President Roose
velt’s own State did not explain this
anomaly of diminishing wages and re
dundant prices. This platform was
doubtless presented to President Roose
velt for his scrutiny before the con
vention met and must have been ap
proved by him or changed to suit his
views, so that, at last, the country
knows that he "stands squarely for the
integrity of the principle of a protect
ive tariff." No reciprocity there, no
word for reforming the monstrous in
equalities.
If any of the wage earners of New
York ever read that platform, especial
ly *he thousands who are hunting the
job, instead of the job hunting them,
what a hollow mockery it must seem
to lie assured of protection and "the
highest scale of wages,” when then
pockets are empty and the cupboards
are bare.
Other Republican State platforms
may be relied upon to speak in the
same strain and the national platform
will only be a little more elaborate in
details, but will also ignore falling
wages and increased cost of living.
The Republican Leaders and Trusts.
The Tawney tobacco bill has ripped
open the Republican party lines in the
Ways and Means Committee, to the
great disgust of Chairman Payne. He
ti>!d the Republican members that he
thought it was foolish for the commit
tee to attempt to do any business at
this session and useless to have any
committee hearings. So because the
Republican members of the greatest
committee of the House of Represen
tatives cannot all agree on one bill,
the whole machinery is to stop. What
a travesty on popular go\ernment!
The representatives of the people in
Congress assembled are supposed to
be engaged in legislating for the wants
of their constituents, but because some
of his associates do not agree with Mr.
Payne lie threatens to shut tip shop,
stand pat and go home. The pluck of
the Republican members has certainly
greatly deteriorated, or they would re
sist this do-nothing policy when there
Is so much legislation that is demand
ed. Mr. Tawney's bill, the matter that
raised this rumpus, was to prevent to
bacco manufacturers from putting
prize coupons iuto packages of cigar
ettes. It is said to be in the interest
of the tobacco trust, and because some
of the Republican members of the
committee voted with the Democrats
and defeated it led to this outburst of
Chairman Payne. When a trust cannot
be accommodated the Republican lead
ers appear to think ii is time to quit
doing business. Possibly the voters
may take a different view of it when
they oast their ballots next fall.
Newspaper Publishers Call for Action.
The Int<-national Paper Company,
commonly called the "paper trust." is
very indignaut at the newspaper pub
lishers who lately appeared liefore the
judiciary <-ommittee of the National
House of Representatives and gave
evidence that the paper company was
a trust and a combination in restraint
of trade. The company, through its
offii'eiW presented an affidavit signed !
by them denying practically all the i
allegations made by the newspaper }
representatives.
“Representative I.illcy of Connecti- i
cut. who introduced the resolution on j
which this investigation is being held, j
declared that unless the committee fa
vorably reports his resolution, as he ;
is confident th*y „i!* do. he will him- j
self lay the t-stimony ir the case be- j
fore the Attorney General with a view
to action under the Sherman law.”
As there are on file in the office of j
the Attorney General of the United <
States a number of cases with evi- j
dencc against trusts, such as the coal j
trust, the tobacco trust and others,
upon which no action has been taken, j
11 seem to be a waste of time {
and energy for more eases to be pre
sented. Tire Attorney General only a
week or two ago &ave out the infor
mation that he wits not going to "run
amuck against the trusts,” and, it is
said, President Roosevelt authorized
this statement. The evidence accumu
lates that the ealuiijaistration ha.®" com
pleted its trust busting campaign and
is now intent on propitiating the trusts
and corporations, so that their contri
butions and co-operation may be a
liberal in the coming as in other na
tional campaigns. Perhaps latej-,
when the call for campaign funds is
urgent, those trusts who have not
"come down” may be threatened with
"action under the Sherman iaw" un
less good-sized checks are forthcom
ing. The man that can best make the
trusts and corporations “come down.”
or "cough up,” as Senaor Quay calls
It. is being earnestly searched for by
President Roosevelt for chairman of
the Republican National Committee.
Sheep and Hens and Wool and Egg*.
The insignificance, of our sheep and
Wool industry is seep, when compared
with our poultry and egg industry.
While the total value of our wool prod
uct last year was only $58,775,373,
that of our egg product was $145,000.-
000 in 1899 and probably $300,000,000
last year.
The value of the 91,000,000 dozens of
eggs laid in Ohio in 1809 was over
$10,000,000. while tlie value of the 12.-
320,000 pounds of wool produced there
was only $3,134,308, and yet Ohio Is
by far the largest wool-growing State
east of the Rocky Mountains. If Ohio
sheep cpuld be made to produce as
much value as do Ohio hens, the pro
tectiouists there, from Grosvenor
down, might be excused for doing
more cackling than do all of the hens
in that State.
Even the value of the poultry killed
for food is $ 130,000.000 a year, or two
and a half times the-value of our woo!
products.
In view of these facts, why is there
so much fuss and feathers about pro
tection to our sheep and wool industry
and so little said about' the industrious
lieu and her valuable egg product or.
the part of our tariff worshippers'/
Could not our farmers he made to be
lieve that their far more valuable egg
and poultry industry is entirely de
pendent upon, the duties upon the eggs
and chickens?
Is it not certain that this industry
would he ruined, and that our domestic
liens would immediately retire from
business if the tariff duties were taken
off and the pauper hens of Europe and
their cheap-labor products were put on
the free list? Are not our projectionist
friends overlooking a good thing when
they neglect to till the. Congressional
Record with speeches and* statistics
showing the great benefit of protection
to this great and growing industry?
Would it not, in fact, be better for
their cause if they would drop the de
clining sheep and wool industry and
let it go to the dogs, where it appears
to be going in spite of extremely high
duties?
The Smoot Case,
The Republican leaders iu the Sen
ate have turned the Smoot case into
a roaring farce. Of course for politi
cal reasons they never intended to act
on the matter until after election, and
so postponed the hearings from time
to time that there might be an excuse
for non-action before the adjournment
of Congress. The Smoot case is a two
edged sword and difficult to handle
without injury to the Republican par
ty. To declare that Senator Smoot
has not committed any crime, or that,
his allegiance to the Mormon Church
is not paramount to his oath of allegi
ance to the United States would be to
antagonize a vast number of jieople
who have been petitioning the Senate
to declare his seat vacant. On the
other hand, the Mormon Church is all 1
powerful in some States, and holds the
balance of power in others, all of
which States are necessary for the
Republicans at the coming election.
That a deal with the Mormon leaders
was entered into by tbe managers of
the last campaign, and
that the Mormons "delivered the
goods” is pretty conclusively proved
by tbe presence of Smoot in the Sen
ate. The good pedple who believe that
Senaor Smoot, if not a polygamist, se
cretly favors ft. and being one of the
twelve apostles, is obliged to hold the
interests of Mormonism before all else,
should turn their attention to the elec
tion of Republican Senators who pay
no attention to their petition,. The
terms of several Senators expire next
March, and the State Legislatures
elected this fall will select their sue-'
oessors. Nearly all of these favor the
retention of Smoot and therefore have
favored postponing action until after
election.
Makes Artificial Thunder.
Prof. John Trowbridge of Harvard
University says that some recent ex
periments lie has made in the Jefferson
physical laiioratory show that "the
astounding noise of a lightning dis
charge is largely due to the dissocia
tion of vapor.” through the explosion
ot the hydrogen and oxygen gases pro
duced by such dissociation. In his
mimic lightning experiments Prof.
Trowhr’.uge produced a torrent of huge
electric sparks. The noise of the dis
charge was so great that tl.e operator
had <o stop his ears with cotton and
then wrap a heavy cloth around them.
Hia Dilemma.
John —How do you get along in your
suit for Bertha's hand?
James —Tell you the truth. I'ro In an
awful dilemma just now. I asked her
to have me the other evening and sha
referred me to her father. I haven’t
been on speaking terms with him for a
long time: and there I am!—Boston
Transcript. ,
M is interpreted.
"Suite Hi?” inquired the messenger
boy with a smile as be handed in the
package.
"It's none of your affair, how old I |
amr snapped the newly acquired do
mestic. as she slammed the door in his
face.—Detroit Free Press.
Mr. Sanger, the famous zoologist,
was once asked by a bore: "What
steps would you incline to take, sir, in
the event of yonder tiger effecting his
liberty?” "Very long ones,” replied
the laconic zoologist.
It is estimated that the population
of British Somaliland Is about 250„000.
Its area is about 08,000 square miles.
DOWNFALL OF ALEXIEFF.
“Great Man of the Last” I* Ignore!
by the Czar ant', resigns.
Soon after tlie disaster to the Petro
psrlovsk and the death of Admiral Mgk
aroff, Viceroy Alexieff, who has been tbs
Czar's representative in the far East,
asked the Emperor by telegraph to **■
Hove him of his position. TLa inima
d'r* cause of the viceroy’s application
is reported to be the appointment of
Vice Admiral Skrydloff, ore of Admiral
▲lexieff’s strongest enemies and sharp
est critics, as successor to the late Vice
Admiral Makaroff. in' command of the
• Russian nary in the far East.
Victroy Alexieff recommended the ap
pointment of either Vice Admiral Den
bassoff or Vice Admiral Makaroff to com
mand the fleet in succession to Vice Ad
miral Stark. The Emperor selected Mak
aroff and at the same time issued a spe
cial ukase making him absolutely inde
pendent. This was the first blow pub
■ licly given to Alexieff. The second was
the appointment of Gen. Kouropatkin
as comiuHiuler-in-t'hief of the army in
Manchuria. That there might he no
doubt of Kburopatkin's exact jurisdic
tion, the Emperor issued another ukase
defining it and gave the former minis
ter of complete control of military
operations in the far East. Ahxieff then
had neither the army nor the navy under
his control, being charged merely with
the civil administration, but in time of
war there is no civil administration, or at
least little.
When the Petropavlovsk was sunk
Alexieff started from Mukden for Port
Arthur, telegraphing to the Emperor on
his arrival there that he had hoisted liis
flag on the battleship Sevastopol, and
would direct the operations of the fleet
until anew commander was sent out.
It is said that no answer to this was
sent by the Etuperor. Without consult
ing Alexieff's w ishes he telegraphed Vice
Admiral Skrydloff to proceed to Port
Arthur via St. Petersburg and assume
command of the fleet.
Certainly the viceroy has demonstrat
ed his absolute unfitness for the respon
sibilities of his once august and unique
position. There are some who believe
that his blundering diplomacy and iguo-
VICEROY ALEXIEFF.
rant contempt for Japan caused the pres
ent war, but this may be a gratuitous no
tion. That lie was not equal to his diffi
cult and delicate task during the nego
tiations between Tokio and St. Peters
burg is, however, undeniable. He not
only misjudged the temper of the Jap
anese. which was perhaps a fault com
mon to all the Russian statesmen, but
he kept the Czar in a stu e of blissful
unconsciousness of the dangers of an
early rupture. When tlie rupture came
he was totally anil miserably unprepared
for defense or resistance at any point
within liis jurisdiction.
Alexieff was neither a good diplomat
nor a good commander. The disposition
of the Russian oriental fleet at tlie out
break of the war—part at Shanghai,
part at Chemulpo, part at Vladivostok,
and part at Port Arthur—indicated a de
ficient comprehension of the principles
of naval strategy. Not only was the
fleet as a whole mishandled, but tlie va
rious ships composing it were also mis
handled. It was owing to the careless
ness of their commanders that the Ret
viznn. Czarevitch and Pallada were tor
pedoed on the first night of the war.
The trouble with Alexieff was that he
did not succeed. Ho was made viceroy
because he promised to succeed. He
was big and bluff and heavily bearded.
He had much animal magnetism, much
self-confidcuce, much energy. He looked
and talked like a man who was apt to
succeed. But the appearances of him
were deceitful. He failed, and he is pay
ing tlie penalty of failure.
Most of Alexieff's powers had indeed
been shorn away before his final “resig
nation.” which merely marked officially
the catastrophe of his career. His down
fall is alike fortunate for Russia and un
fortunute for Japan.
WEATHER STILL DELAYS CROPS.
Farm Work Picks Up in Val
ley, Despite the Cold.
The weather bureau’s weekly sumtnnry
says that in all districts east of the
Rocky Mountains the weather lias been
unseasonably cold and very unfavorable
to germination and growth. Farm work,
however, in tlie Missouri valley anil tlie
southern and middle Atlantic States lias
made favorable progress, considering the
conditions, but .in the northern district
practically nothing lias been and -ue. The
States of the upper lake region were cov
ered with snow. Severe droughts prevail
(in the South.
In Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska
farm work lias picked up, but winter
wheat needs warmer weather. Spring j
wheat seeding lias gone on well in the
southern portion of its district. Corn
generally is backward. In the central
Mississippi valley oat*. seeding lias been
carried on actively. Cotton planting has
progressed rapidly. Fruit has suffered
from frosts and freezing temperatures,
bui prospects are good in the majority of
the fruit sections.
Intersatinff News I tews.
Tlie Kentucky Distillers' Association
has been disrupted by the withdrawal of
the rectifiers.
Bishop Spalding of Illinois urged the
House committee on labor to pass a bill
establishing a permanent commission to
arbitrate labor troubles.
The Ohio Supreme Court fixed July 14
as the da*e for ths execution of Albert
and Benjamin Wade, brothers, convict
ed of the murder of Kate Sullivan at
Toledo.
Wreckage evidently from the Scotch
■hip La Mona has washed ashore on j
the British Columbia coast, and it is j
believed tlie vessel has been lost with the j
crew of thirty men.
In a freight wreck on the Stony Fork
division of tlie Louisville aid Nashville
Railroad George McCoy was killed and
Engineer Thornton, Trainman Edward
Williams and Section Boss MartiD seri
ously injured.
Three hundred feet of the BurlingtOL
bridge spanning the Platte river between
Grnd Island and Phillips, Neb., was de
stroyed by fire. The bridge was nearly
• mile long and ita destruction will re
quire the Burlington to detour all its
trains over the Union Pacific bridge at
Central City.
Complaints were issued at New Ha
ven, Conn., against George A. Maycock
and George W. Lewis, said to control the
National on the ap
plication of Ceiie Tower <H Standard
avenue and Pullman street, Chicago, who
alleges that they have been using thg
mails fraudulently in promoting a pre
mium scheme.
nCWEEKLYj
One Hundred Years *go.
Bonaparte demanded from Denmark
the exclusion of British ships from the
Baltic and all Danish ports.
A general massacre of all whites be
gan at Cape Francois, Hayti.
Heavy re-enforoementa of regular
troops arrived at the Spanish colonies in
Florida.
Four frigates and ninety officers were
ordered to re-enforce Commodore Trebles’
squadron in the Mediterranean.
The King of Spain issued an order
that no French or English prizes were
to be brought into any port iu his do
minions.
Makey, a rebellious Malay settlement
on the coast of Sumatra, was destroy*/
by Euglish troops.
Seventy-five Years Ago.
Europe was suffering from great de
pression in agriculture, commerce and
manufactures, the wine districts of
- presenting the greatest distress.
The House of Representatives rejected
a bill for the construction of a national
road from Buffalo to New Orleans.
The Russian minister and all member*
of liis staff at Teheran, Persia, were as
sassinated.
The British made an attempt to secure
from Germany au agreement for the free
navigation of tlie Rhine.
Paris fashion papers reported that the
sleeves of ladies* dresses were being
made of “frightful breadth.”
The Catholic relief bill, after a long
discussion, was passed by the British
Parliament
Fifty Years Ago,
Cyrus W. Field secured from the Leg
islature of Newfoundland tlie exclusive
fifty years’ right to land a marine tele
graph cable.
The steamboat Secretary of San Fran
cisco, while crossing San Pueblo bay,
was sunk, with fifty passengers, by a
boiler explosion.
A revolution started at Bogota, New
Granada, in an outbreak of the garrison,
which arrested the President and pro
claimed Gen. Mik) dictator.
Four hundred Chinese coolies arrived
at Havana, Culm, as an experiment in
the development of the island's planta
tions.
Spain concluded a loan of $3,000,000,
offering the revenues of the Philippines
as security.
Forty Years Ago.
Gold reached 187 in New York, but
slumped at the close on a rumor that
Secretary of the Treasury Chase was ma
nipulating the sterling exchange market
against the bull clique.
The Chicago Tribune sprung a polit
ical sensation on the eve of the city elec
tion by exposing a long list of citizens
who secured exemption from the draft
by taking out papers as British sub
jects.
The courts of London, Rome, Vienna,
Berlin and St. Petersburg agreed to rec
ognize the Emperor Maximilian when
France should place him on the throne
in Mexico.
Anew war tax bill was reported in the
House at Washington, fixing tlie rate on
whisky at $1 a gallon, on salt at 6 cents
a pound, and on tobacco at 30 cents a
pound.
Charles Sunnier of Massachusetts pre
sented to the United States Senate a
petition signed by 41,218 citizens urging
the abolishment of negro slavery.
Zero weather was experienced in Illi
nois, Wisconsin and tlie Northwest, ind
the winter wheat crop was reported
ruined.
Thirty Years Ago.
Forty-eight saloon men were indicted
at Rock Island as a part of tlie great
temperance wave that was sweeping the
country.
Gov. Baxter of Arkansas was forci
bly ousted from office by Joseph Brooke,
whom the Legislature declared to have
been elected. Gov. Baxter then issued a
proclamation declaring he would seize
the cnpitol building by force and oust
"Gov.” Brooks, who he claimed had
usurped his office.
At the annual meeting of the Chicago
Presbytery, Prof. Francis L. Patton filed
charges of heresy against the Rev. David
Swing.
A plebiscite was taken in Switzerland
on the proposal to revise the federal con
stitutional.
Twenty Years Ago.
A negro was burned at the tsake at
Lyons, Texas, for the suspected murder
of a white woman.
Planters in South Carolina and adjoin
ing States were reported starring as a
result of the prolonged drought.
The Indiana Republican State conven
‘ion met at Indianapolis, with the dele
gates said to be unanimous for Blaine
for President.
Richard J. Oglesby -was nominated for
Governor by the Illinois Republican
State convention at Peoria.
The funeral of Charles Reade, the nov
elist, was held at Willesden, England,
Edwin Arnold and George A. Sala being
among tbe literary present.
Ten Year* Ago.
Gov. Roswell P. Flower of New York
was accused of violating the civil ser
vice law and au investigation was started
at the instance of Carl Bcha-z.
President Cleveland was accused of
showing unseemly friendship fc* Andrew
Carnegie by reducing a fine assessed
against him for armor plate frauds and
preventing a further investigation.
Kelly’s Industrial *‘army,” 1,300
strong, crossed the Missouri river at
Council Bluffs and encamped in lowa.
A bill was introduced in the United
States Senate by Palmer providing for
government loans on farm products at a
rate of one-fiftieth of their market value.
From Far and Near.
Fire at Pender, Neb., caused a lot*
of $20,090 on the opera house.
Col. John G. Butier, just promoted to
brigadier general, is now iu command of
the arsenal at Watertown, near Boston.
Pleasant Porter, chief of tbe Creeka,
has the gout. He blame* it to civiliza
tion.
H. H. Wibert of N w York, an ardent
admirer of President Lincoln, owna a
walking stick which was the martypv
constant companion.
Charles I. Beck of South Orange. N.
J., has a unique collection of postag*
stamps, coins, arrow heads and other
curios of historic value.
Martin I.avitski, convicted murderer,
Mauch Chunk. Pa., was given the free
dom of o c-orridor. One day he grabbed
tlie keys from Stella Rothermal, the
sheriff's daughter, and made his escape.