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& Secret &Mce J ' / . ■ United States Secrecy is so closely shadowed by wrongdoing, is so oftcu allied with acts mankind abhors, that instinctive ly shrink from nil concealment su\e their onn. ine mere fact that a thing must he hidden, that it must be kept in a twilight zone, and is afraid of sunlight aud inspection, presupposes tout which is e\il and shameful. Yet secret service is an ancient and a necessary institu tion. Since Moses sent twelve men into Canaan to in vestigate conditions aiid to bring him a report concern ing the land, every government has made use of the service of informers. In war time the necessity is rec ognized. Kariy in the history of flic American republic Congress appropriated $30,000 to be expended for secret service abroad. This was drawn from the treasury by the di rection of the President, without any voucher except the certificate of (lie Secretary of State. During the Mexican war $50,000 Was appropriated to lie spent under the direction of ibc President. Much of it was expended for the “hire of interpreters, spies and guides for the army." In a suspended account of General Butler’s dur ing the civil war an item for SSO paid for a hand organ and monkey was disallowed until he explained that they were purchased to enable a young officer, who was a linguist, to work his way into Washington disguised as an Italian organ grinder. When the civil war broke out it found Washington filled with Southern sympathizers. Among them were women o'' wealth and position, who had various avenues of access to the plans oi the government. Just before the first battle of Bull Bun one of these, Mrs. Bose Greenhow, obtained from a United States Senator in formation concerning the strength of the federal troops, which she sent to General Beauregard. As reward she received from the Confederate adjutant the message: “Our President and our General direct me to thank you. We rely upon you for further information. The Confed eracy owes you a debt." Women haunted the doors of official departments in the Capitol, stole maps and plans, burned signal lights, nnd when captured beguiled the officers placed in charge. It became necessary to organize a special detective sys tem of espionage at Washington for the protection of the government against disloyalty. The methods of these wartime detectives led to bitter criticism. Even so staunch a Northerner ns Senator Sumner wrote a letter to the President remonstrating against the treat ment of one of his friends and constituents, Franklin W. Sniitn ol New York. Before the employment of those war-time detectives the government h.ul recognized the fact that it must maintain a corps of trained investigators to cope with violators of the national laws-—counterfeiters, smugglers, moonshiners. In 18*10 SIO,OOO was appropriated for the suppression of counterfeiting, td be spent under the di rection of the Secretary of the Treasury. The large Issues of government bills, made necessary by the war, offered fresh temptation to this especial crime. In July. 1804. the appropriation was increased to SIOO,OOO. The Solicitor of the Treasury was given the supervision and direction of the work of ferreting out the counterfeiters, and so gathered about him a corps of men experienced in criminal investigation. This led to the establishment of the work as a permanent bureau, and though other pOcience v^jfeVention The German military authorities are experimenting with the application of w ireless telegraphy to ballQons carry ing self-registering apparatus. One ob ject is to make the balloons descend at any desired moment. This is effected by placing in the balloon a receiver of electric waves connected with mechan ism controlling a valve. When a wire less message is received the valve opens amt fhe balloon descends. The recent proclamations setting aside the Ocala National Forest In Florida and the Dakota National For est in North Dakota bring the number of states possessing such forests be longing to the United States up to 20. If Alaska l>e included. Of these for ests, Arkansas has two, but all the others, except the new ones in Florida and North Dakota, are lu the Rocky Mountain or Pacific coast states. It is expected tint tfcc Ocala Forest area, which covers 201,480 acres, will be come densely covered with the sand pine. No > art of the area rises more than 150 feet above sea-level. The Dakota Forest is in the Bad Lands re gion. and much is expected from its Influence, since North Dakota is the lenst forested state In the Union. The new forest covers 14.080 acres. In many European cities extensive use is being made of high-pressure gas lamps for street-lighting, and to some extent the lumps are displacing elec tricity. They are furnished with in verted mantle burners, and in Berlin the gas is supplied through Maunes heim steel piic. In some of the sys tems the air fa compressed, and in one case pure oxygen Is supplied to the consumers. In London a type of lamp called "self-Intensifying'’ is employed, the air leing compressed by utilizing the heat of the products of combustion to operate a heat engine. In Vienna arc-iights are used to illuminate a park above the trees, and, gas-lamps are employed below. In connection with those lamps, various automatic lighting and extinguishing devices are In use. and much taste is displayed In the forms and arrangement of their supports. Commenting on the round-the-world telegraph experiment recently made by a newspaper In Copenhagen, Ferdi nand Wagner says In a Berlin paper: “There was uothing wonderful in the result. Two messages were sent by the editor to himself at Copenhagen. One went via Shanghai. New York and London and the other via London. Shanghai and New York. The first to arrive at Its destination was the one whib was sent by way of Shanghai. It had to he retransmitted eight times. suS was received at the Copenhagen office in three hours and twenty-three minutes after It had been sent away. The time seems short to circle the globe, but If the various stations had received notice In advance, and if the trial dispatch had been given the right of way. the time would have been re duced rboost to the Shakespearean limit” WHAT IS PEWTER? Its Composition llfnlt4 l Ek laitd Bat Xerer la Aaierico- You will often hear enthusiasts de clare that this jug or that Jug is of “old English pewter." Of course, this may be true, but it is a fact that large quantities of pewter ware were mado in this country and it was not until about IS4O that its making practically ceased, says the Circle magazine. In the first are you sure that you know pewter when you see it? Hun dreds of pieces of •‘pewter’’ have been ahown to me which in reality were "whits metal” or Britannia ware. All departments of the federal government employ experts for the detection of specific offenses and though the op erations of tite special agents of the Post Office Depart ment, of the Internal Revenue Bureau and of the ln siectors of Customs are conducted in secret, the official designation "secret service" lias been narrowed so that it is applied only to that branch or bureau of the Treas ury Department charged primarily with the duty of protecting good Americans from bad money. The scope of the work covered by the secret service of the Treasury Department gradually enlarged until, as shown by President Roosevelt's last annual message, it covered every form of inquiry set on foot to reach sus pected wrongdoers. .Soon after its organization as a bureau secret so: vice operatives were intrusted with the duty of protecting the person of the President. They have been of use In exposing land frauds, in securing evidence to abolish loiteries, in preventing smuggling, in detecting illicit distilling, in exposing the cotton report leak in tin Department of Agriculture, in investigat ing naval officers, and, if Dame Itumor be not a lying jade. In watching Congressmen. But. for the present, at least, the obnoxious provision which prohibits detailing men from the secret service restricts the work of tbo bu reau to the apprehension of counterfeiters and the pro tection of the chief executive. The headquarters of the secret service are in the Treasury building 'u Washington. Here are the private offices of the chief of the division, John E. Wilkie, and his assistant, William Herman Moran. Mr. Wilkie is an Illinois man. In February, 1898, he was appointed chief of the secret service by Lyman J. Gage. Almost immedi ately he organized a special emergency force of men to checkmate Spanish spies during the Spanish-Amerlean war. Through bis efforts Spanish emissaries were driven from this country nnd some of their spies arrested. The personnel of the secret service must for obvious reasons he unknown to the public. The United States is divided into twenty-eight secret service districts, each in charge of an operative who has assistants. In addi tion to the men thus detailed to indicated geographical divisions there are a number of trained detectives who operate from the central office in Washington and who may be sent to any place at any time. Others are sta tioned iu foreign countries. The chief guides and di rects the work, but the Solicitor of the Treasury must approve his acts to make them valid. From each oper ative a daily report covering his work for twenty-four hours is required. These reports, coming from all parts of the country, keep the chief informed as to the activi ties not only of his own men but of those of the under world. Every large city has a branch office of the secret service, but every Important movement of the work must be submited to Mr. Wilkie. To his office in Washington are sent the exhaustive daily reports which give him a view of the country ns a whole, and all articles taken by the agents of the bureau, such as counterfeiters’ out fits, spurious coins, disguises. In course of the yea ’s a large collection of pho tographs has developed Into . complete rogues' gallery, which, used In connection with the measurements ob tained through the Bertillon system, simplifies identi fication of the foolhardy criminals who continue their practices after n first arrest of the delicately shaped pieces marked "Dixon A Sons” or “Vickers” and doz ens of other pieces unmarked ami which are proudly cherished, are not pewter. Neither Dixon nor Vickers ever made pewter; they w r cre makes of “whito ware" and thousands of pieces of their ware were sent here frbui England. The composition of pewter in Eng land. the best quality, which usually is marked with a double X, wng ar ranged by law, and contained 100 parts tin, eight parts of antimony and four parts of copper. In America there was no standard to which the quality of pew ter had to conform, so what our makers took advantage nnd put in as much lead as they could, in many lti stancos the proportion being one-fifth lead to four-fifths English block tin for their best quality, and more lead and less tin iu their poorer wares. There are many opinions as to the best method of cleaning pewter, but only one as to the i>erfect folly of having it "buffed." If you like every thing to shine, then treat your pewter as fol’owa: Take a piece of fine woolen cloth, upon this put as much sweet oil as will prevent its rubbing dry; with this rub them well In every part; then wipe them smartly with a soft, dry linen rag. and then mb them off with a soft wash leather and whiting. N. B. —If convenient, wash them in boil ing water and soap jnst before they are rubbed with wnsh leather and whiting. This would take off the oil more effectually and make the engrov lng look brighter. DARK DOINGS. The Henson One Woman Is Disgusted tri*h the Voting Proposition. When any oue asked little Mrs. Pratt her opinion on the question of eqmtl suffrage she had her answer ready. "I don’t waut to heur anything about It,” she would say pleasantly, but firmly, “and I’d Just as soon tell ymi why. It's because there’s got to be a concealment and mystery about voting, and I like things open ar.d aboveboard. It's the way I was brought up and the way I shall always feel If I live to be a hundred. “I've hnd one experience, and that's all I wane A friend of mine talked and talked to me about voting on the educational question till at last I said I would, because I was brought up to think a great deal of education, and I always shall. So I gave up an engage ment to go to 'be polls and register (and the dress was almost spoiled on account of my missing that trving on. too. because she didn’t wait to see whether it fitted or not, but stitched the seams right up), and then I took the greatest pains to go and vote Just as they and told me to, and what do you suppose Henry Pratt told me after ward? My vote was thrown out be ! cause I had the frankness to write my full name and address on it! “I told Henry that nothing would surprise me after that- nothing.” Hr Gat His Wish. Prof. Edgar L. lArkln, the noted as tronomer. was discussing marriage at a dinner in San Francisco Prof. Lar kin believes that it Is criminal to con tinue for life marriages that are un happy. “Why condemn.” he said, with a grim laugh, “men and women to such misery as afflicts our mutual friends, the Blanks? We all have mutu al friends in the Blanks’ position. At the height of their nightly quarrel the other day Mrs. Blank choked Dack a sob and said, reproachfully: ‘I was reading one of your old letters to-day. James, and you slid in ll that yon would rather live in endless ♦orment with me than in bliss by yourself.* •Well. I go', my v. ish.' Blank growled.” Lots of women would make secret gifts to diarlty if they could only keep .the secret GULF WATERS OF GAY HUE. Streak* of Bine and Green Half a Mile Wide Liirlit Up Ship at Night. A most remarkable marine phenome na was observed by the steamsh'.D Do ver, Capt. You A. Carlson, as that ves sel steamed to Tampa from Mobi'e. When at a point thirty-five miies tiom Mobile light at 7 o’clock on ths e* *ring of the 24th the ship ran suddenly In u streak of light coming from the wa'er which alternated blue and green, the colors being so brilliant that the vessel was lighted up as if she was covered with arc lights with colored giobes, says the Tampa Times. A half mile streak of dark water, and a blackness that settled like i pall over the r ip followed and a secoid streak of the same brilliant huod waters was encountered. The second streak was about as wide as the first one, and when the ship ran out of it the same black waters and a night >f exceptional blackness was also encoun tered. A. D. Montmolllan, traveling freight agent of the line, was on board the vessel, and he and Chief Engl neer T. J. Cole fully substantiated Capt. Carlson's statement regarding Lite phenomena. “I have sailed the high seas for twenty-two years.” declared Capt. Can son, “and have seen Interesting pne nomena, both meteorological and other wise. in the waters of every kno r n ocean, but I never saw anything that approached this blue and green Mgut from the water phenomena. The Mg't was dark, hut clear, and we ran Into the streaks without any seeiniog .yarn ing. I was In the pilot house when wo struck It, and I ran on deck, thinking that something was on fire. •The crew tumbled out to witness It. also, and it was magnificent It was so light that It was remarked b; the chief engineer that it could be road by, and to make sure I grabbed a pap-v and thf finest print that I could Had was easily discernible. Wo ran out of the streak into a streak of black water, and the darkness of the night seemed to Increase as we did so. •‘From the streak of blackness we ran Into th<j second streak of lighted waters. Each of the streaks and the Intermediate streak of black water vas about half a mile wide. The wind at the time was a light northwest. The sea was smooth and we were bearing southeast by east half east, thlr‘y-fl*e miles from Mobile light” It is thought that perhaps a phos phorescent condition of the waters on the bottom of the sea at that point sud denly mingling may have formed a con dition which brought about the lights in question. Craal RtUflou CHw. There is a cruel custom prevailing in many parts of the Taiugu country in India in connection with the worship of the village deities. At the end of a sacrifice a small cart, with four, five or nine pointed stakes standing up right at the corners and sides is brought to the image. Pigs, lambs and fowls are then impaled alive upon these stakes. The cart is dragged in a procession to the boundary of the village. The animals die in agony on the say .and are taken off the stakes when the cart rcache* its destination. Rednctlou la Steal Prodoctloa. There was a reduction of 12 per cent in the production of Iron and steel Li the north of England in the last two months, and wages were reduced for the first time science February. 1906. In the Manchester cot on industry the production is 15 per cent less than a year ago. You probably know you talk tea much, but are you doing anything te overcome the habit? Aid is never satisfactory. The best way is not to need it MENACE OF THE AIRSHIP. LATEST ENEMY THAT WARSHIPS MUST FACE. England is having all sorts of military scares. After having the pos sibility of an Invasion by sea held before the people by their soldier idol, Lord Roberts, and others, with an inadequate home force to defend the land, comes the menace of the airship which may destroy their mighty warships, and this is giving inhabitants of the “tight little island" another fit of fear. The airship is a factor to be reckoned with at any modern naval con ference, says a writer in the Sphere, since the exploits of Wright and Farman the idea of aerial navies "grappling la the blue" seems to be in a fair way of realization. Before very long it is possible that in time of war the lookouts on board a man-of-war will not only have to "keep their eyes skinned" for the first glimpse of a torpedo boat or the diminutive periscope of a submarine, but will also have to direct their attention to the sky above, into which at any moment a hostile aerodrome might sweep up from the horizon, prepared to drop her deadly cargo of high-explosive bombs upon the leviathan of the sen. Possibly at night special men chosen for their acuteness of hearing might be placed aloft at the mastheads as far as practicable from the noises of the sea and engines to listen for the first whirr and rattle of an approaching airship's motors and propellers. Light guns so mounted as to be fired almost vertically and provided with specially designed projectiles will doubtless form a part of the warship's equipment, and with their muzzles traiued aloft and their crews sleeping beside them will be ready to belch fire and destruction at the hovering aeroplane, whether seen coming up by daylight or suddenly discovered by the sweeping beams of the searchlights. And it is by no means certain that the battleship would come off second best She Ls built to take punishment—which the aeroplane ls not —and though she may be badly damaged she may still briDg down her opponent flaming and headlong into the sea. SOME MARRIED MEDITAIiONS. By Clarence L. Cullen. What most women think they know: That meu are crazy over widows. She'll laugh gayly with you about those new cabriolet or peach basket hats but she’ll sting you for the price of enp of them, all the same. The modern woman's idea of an "al lowance" for herself is this: All that is left of the roll after the rent and liu&etold expenses have been paid. No woman ever becomes so outland lshly fat that she doesn’t imagine that her I.usband takes ecstatic iloilgbt in having her plump herself into his lap. Rone women have a sufficient sense of humor to chortle inwardly when their lovers or hnsbanda —synonymous terms in this case—place them on pe desta s. A woman imagines that she’s the dandy little homemaker all right, all right, when she buys her hnrband a new fpreen velour Morris chair on the Installment plan. The reason why she reads aloud to you the Bet ©J the wealthy .in gerle trousseai is to show you what a tightwad you are for not getting her the same kind of stuff. Every woman ought to know that there are plenty of husbands —not ne cessarily prigs, either—who distinctly dislike to heaf their wives tell off-color stories, even if they don’t say so. "Trial marriages," that new time-wlll tel] matrimonial BCheme, sounds all right, but the idea is lacking In novel ty. Anybody who lias tried it knows that the average marriage ls a trial. Often, when a woman fondly iraag lnes the* she is making a man her slave with her languishing glances and subtle flattery, his inner self is riotously, rau eously laughing at her vain imaginings. When a man’s little old carefui'y con cealed dream* and illusions are all warped out of shape through constant contiguity to the selfishnets and greed of his home, his wife calls him “cal lous.” A married woman hates to think of getting to be 45 years old because she feels that at that age she’ll look mid dle-aged. whereas her husband will be just a young fellow and still keenly in the gsme, looks and all. The wife says to her women friends. “Land sakes alive. I’d hate to have a man tied to my apron strings,” general ly is the one who fights like a wildcat when her husband intimates that he'd like to carrj a latchkey. When a woman’s gray hairs can no longer be pushed underneath, combed over, or otherwise hidden, she says, nonchalantly : “Oh. I've been as gray as a badger ever since I was 19—a family trait, you know.” It makes no difference how artfully and resolutely she led you to the hyme neal altar, she is bound to twist it around, after a few years, to make it appear as if you had threatened to commit suicide if she rejected you. Although most of the royal princess ps of Europe are tangbt in their girl hood how to cook, many a sls-a week young feilow on this side marries an American princess whose knowledge of cooking is confined exclusively to fudge. Man is such an unreasonable brute that he's bound to become a bit thoughtful when. ujwn arriving home In the evening, he finds bis wife (still wearing the crumpled kimono he saw her in at breakfast and her hair yet undone) huddled up on the couch “tell ing her fortune” with a dog’s eared deck of cards. BOXING FOR SCIENCE. l.omSom McklnU ‘lndrnli Draw strata the Value at Oxrsren. Dr. Leonard Hill's lecture on “The Use of Oxygen” the other evening nt the London Institution was made doa b'y interesting by the Introduction of a read boxing bout the object being to prove bow valuable oxygen Is In ath letics. The boxers were both from the Lon don hospital and one was an expert with the gloves, the other a novice, says a New York correspondent. The first round, lastlug two minutes, was fought by the latter wthout oxygen. The young medicos hit, dodged, feint ed and hit again. The novice banged out right and left, hut could not get through the expert's guard, while the latter got many blows home, so that he had his opponent panting when “time” was called. A second round was called after an interval and the novice started well. In one minute, however, he was : ‘all in,” while the expert was hardly dis tressed. Then, os the novice sat pant ing, the bag of oxygen was brought and the mouthpiece placed between his lips. The third round was a very brisk one. The novice actually forced the pace for a few seconds. When “time” was called the men were on an equal ity as regarded conditions. The ex pert boxer later declared that his oppo nent hit harder and “stayed” better after taking the oxygen, while the no vice said that he did not know the round would end so soon. CHINA’S WHISTLING PIGEONS. Musical Instrument* Attached to TaJU of Flying Bird*. One of the most curious expressions of emotional life is the application of whistles to a flock of pigeons. These whistles, very light, weighing but a few drains, are attached to the tails of young pigeons soon after their birth by means of fine copper wire, so that when the birds fly the wind blowing through the whistles sets them vibrat ing and thus produces an open air con cert, for the instruments In one and the same flock are tuned differently. On a serene day in Pekin, where these instruments are manufactured with great cleverness and ingenuity, it is possible to enjoy this aerial music while sitting in room, says the Scientific American. There are two distinct types of whis tles —those consisting of bamboo tubes placed side by side, and a type based on the principle of tubes attached Ic a gourd body or wind chest. They are lacquered in yellow, brown, red and black, to protect the material from the destructive influences of the atmos phere. The tube whistles have two. three or five tubes. In some specimens the five tubes are made of oxhorn in stead of bamboo. The gourd whistles are furnished with a mouthpiece and small apertures to the number of two, three, six, ten and even thirteen. Certain among them have, besides, a number of bam boo tubes, some on the principal mouthpiece, some arranged around it These varieties are distinguished by different names. Thus c whistle with one mouthpiece and ten tubes is called “the eleven eyed ODe.” The explanation of the practice of this quaint custom which the Chinese offer is not very satisfactory. Accord ing to them these whistles are Intended to keep the flock together and to pro tect the pigeons from attacks of birds of prey. There seems, however, little reason to believe that a hungry hawk could be induced by this innocent mu sic to keep aloof from satisfying his appetite, and this doubtless savors of an afterthought which came up long after lie Introduction of this usage through the attempt to give a rational and practical interpretation of some thing that has no rational origin wnat ever, for it is not the pigeon that prof its from this practice, but merely the human ear. which feast® on the wind blown tubes and derives aesthetic pleasure from this music. Ip to Hla>. “Do joo think you can manage with my salary of sl2 a week, darling?" he asked after she had said yea. “I’ll try. Jack,*’ replied she. what will you dor—Union Leader. When a woman la Inclined to be die* agreeable she ie sure to mate good. MANY TOWNS SWEPT BY TERRIFIC STORM Wabash, Ind., Massillon and Toledo, Ohio, Struck by Tornado arid Lives and Property Lost. MANY HOUSES ABE IN RUINS Northern Mississippi Visited by Gale Which Causes Death of at Least Nine Parsons in One Place. Death and destruction wore wrought by tornadoes which swept the Missis sippi Valley States, the States In tha great lake re; ion. and the lower por tion of Canada Monday, Monday night, and early Tuesday. The storm struck northern Missis sippi Monday night in a tornado that attained a velocity estimated at from seventy-five to 100 miles an hour. Nine persons are reported killed, fiiteen were injured, some of them fatally, and thousands of dollars’ worth of damage done to buildings and crops. Great Losses iu Tennessee. This tornado, passing north into Ten nessee and Kentucky, caused heavy damage to buildings, wrecking a school house at Buntyn, Tenn.. and imperiling the lives of 300 children. Meager re ports ns to fatalities come from these sections, owing to the wrecking of tele graph wires, but several deaths are re ported, not verified. % Passing into Indiana and Ohio Tues day the cyclone destroyed factories and other large buildings in its pathway. At Massillon, Ohio, the high wind, tearing the roof from a foundry, menaced the lives of 400 employes, killing one. At Wabasb, Ind.. the havoc was wide spread. the loss being estimated at from SIOO,OOO to $200,000. Two dozen dwell ings were demolished, while their in mates tied for their lives. A woman, with her children, was pinned under the wreckage of her home, which caught fire, and she will die from burns. The city’s electric service was wrecked and the toyn was in darkness through out Tuesday night. The wind was fol lowed by a cloudburst, and many bridges are washed away. Many fami lies are homeless. Fifteen are injured, two fatally, in Toledo. Northern Indinon Suffer*. In northern Indiana the storm late Tuesday night killed one man at Al bion. Two hundred houses were de stroyed in small villages. At Cleveland the fishing tug George Floyd with seven men aboard and the sandsucker Mary 11. with a crew of nine men are missing, w bile the barge Norman Kelley, with a crew of four persons, three men and a woman, near Sandusky, was rescued after a desper ate struggle as a result of a fierce wind storm which raged on Lake Erie. In Michigan a boy was killed by the flying roof of a house at Brighton, two boys wore drowned in a small boat iu the Detroit River, and three fishermen were drowned by the capsizing of their boat near Wyandotte. Lightning killed a child at lonia and sot fire to thou sands of dollars’ worth of farm houses and barns. A child was probably fatal ly injured in Detroit by flying debris. At Jennings. Mich., three young men were killed by being caught under a wall that was blown down by the wind. The damage to roofs, chimneys, plato glass, etc., probably will reach $73,000 in Detroit. Wisconsin 1* Wind Swept. A terrific wind storm swept Wiscon sin Wednesday. Many lands were re ported overdue at various ports along Lake Michigan und at Milwaukee, while the northern Michigan copper country reports from five inches to two and a half feet of snow. Southern Canada was a heavy suf ferer from the storm, incomplete ami unverified reports showing that the loss in small towns will reach the hundred thousands. Six persous were Injured and one young child fatally hurt and property loss of $73,000 entailed at New London, Ont. At Buffalo, N. Y., the gale reached a velocity of seventy-five njiles an hour. Four persons, badly injured by flying bricks and debris, are in hospitals, and several ships have been beached, while a dredge was sunk. One man was crushed to death by a falling cornice. The wind retiched a velocity of “ixty eight miles per hour in Pitisbirg. It ifi estimated that damage done throughout the city will be in excess of s.i<)o,<\>o. About thirty persons were hurt, and two of them are so badly injured that they may die. An airship owned by the Eagle Aero plane Company of Pittsburg was about ready for flight when the gale struck the tent it was kept in and blew both tent and airship away, demolishing both. FAIL TO BEACH A MINERS' PACT Anthracite Worker* and Operator* Have Adjourned Finally. The anthracite iniuers and operators who have been in conference in Phila delphia considering wage conditions in the coal fields of Pennsylvania have fail ed to reach an agreement. Ihe confer ence adjourned finall.v Friday. Th* oper ators having headquarters in New lork City departed for th'.t place over the Heading Railway They promised to give out a statement after their arrival there. The officials of the United Mine Work ers of the three anthracite districts met later to decide on a course of action. EXPLOSION KILLS SIX MEN. One lltindp. 'l < #U*sm Wrecked at Povder Works In Xew Jersey. A series of explosions in tb- Wayne, N. J.. works of .00 DuPont Powder Com pany killed six nen. wrecked a hundred cottages in Wayne and shook the conn try like SSearthquake in a radius of fif.eeu miles- Nine of she twenty bui'd ings at tbe work* went up, one after an other. with terrific explosions Jerome T. Marh, who was in the building fir-.: wrecked, was killed. He alone could know what caused tbe disaster. Two Flsbt for Utrl’o Lot*. With bare fists and in the presence of invited friends. Samuel Haziert of Ava lon and C. P. Reynold* of Bellevue, both well known, fought in au open lot is Pitt*burg for the favor of a girl- The young woman, it is reported, has cast them both adrift. Farmer* Dfs for Hlddea Gena*. Farmers near New Carliale, Ohio, hare dug over several acre* in an effort to find par said to have been buried many years ago following a robbery. The ftory of the hidden gems was told by Ben Wid- Um*, a paroled prisoner. ' Hnp* The sheep need plenty of yard room into which theycau be turned ou pleas ant days. Better prices do not make better butter, but better butter will always 1 tend to boost prices. Try it. Guess-work methods are the great est curse to the farm, and explain more j failures than any one thing. Remember, the best seed is none too good. It is a losing game to labor over seed of low germinating power. The farmer is not looking for pro tection or charity, but he does want his riglffs, and he has a right to ex pect that he will get them. Every time cream is added to the cream Jar stir the whole contents, s. that it will be well mixed and promote even ripening of the cream. While sheep are growing wool and making mutton for you they are clean ing the fields of weeds and spreading valuable manure over the land. There will he much cleaner milk If the udder is wiped off with n damp cloth, and the long hair dipped off of the udder and flanks and tail before ml! king. ‘ Stretches” in sheep are caused by too much dry fet'd. When the sheep Rre seen to spre.ujj their legs out and strelcii give n bran niasli and an ounce of linseed oil. It never pays to become so everlast ingly “stuck” on any make of machine that we can not see the good points about any other similar machine nor the weak points of our particular fa vorite. Some of the dairymen were disposed to resent the hue and cry raised about dirty dairying, thinkiug that the mak ers of substitutes for dairy products were at the bottom of It all. If prices are an Indication of the demand for dairy products the dairyman lias no cause to worry. The milk goat industry is occupying considerate attention iu the East. Sev enty-seven goats have been accepted for registration by the American Milch Goat Association during the year. One hundred and eighty-seven are now on record. Any goat yielding one quart or more of milk a day Is eligible. The Japanese are a progressive race. They are adopting methods and ways from all the civilized countries. A consular report says they are devoting careful attention to the improvement of their poultry, Experiments have ihown that Minorca* and Anduluslans are the best breeds suited to their purpose so birds from England as well as America have been selected and ihlpped to Tokio. While environment often contributes to success or failure iu life, the deter mining causes in nine cases out of ten lie In the man himself. There are inen who are bound to rise regardless of ol®tncles that they may find in their way, while another eluss could not lie lifted out of the rut in which they move with anything short of block and tackle. While traits of push or inertia may be In a measure Inherited, it Is well to remember that both may be measurably Increased or diminished by persistent attention or by indifference and neglect. Ohio has a stringent law in refer enoe to the sale of milk products. It prohibits the sale of nii'k under the following conditions: 1. From cows fed on unhealthy feed. 2. From cows fed on we, distillery or starch waste. 3. B'rom diseased or sick cows. 4. From cows kept In a place that b unclean or In an insanitary condl tion. 5. From cows kept in .< cramped or unhealthy condition. <i. When water or other foreign substance has been added. 7. When it is un clean, impure, unhealthy or unwbole some. r*wl* Take Cold Easily. On coid nights the fowls roost closely together and In this way keep warm. Should they crowd on the roost they are apt to sweat and in the morn lDg when they get down on the floor of the pen are apt to fee! chilly on account of the difference iu teui|>ern ture. If, however, there is litter on the floor and the night before grain was thrown Hmong the litter it will not take the biddies long to under stand 'hat by scratching they will not only keep warmer, but there is a strong possibility of finding something to eat. Hens are not as dumb as they look. The Horse Will May. The horse was going to be driven ont of existence by the locomotive, but In stead thereof he multiplied exceeding ly and increased in value, although his Iron substitute was tearing all over the country in every direction Then be was to be redm-ed to Innocuous desuetude by the trolley car, and after that by the automobile. But the De partment of Agriculture reports that in eleven years the number of horses In this country has increased from under fourteen to more than twenty milllens, the aggregate farm value of them has advanced from less than half a btflion to very nearly two billions, and the average value of the anin iias ad vanced nearly threefold, from In ISP to $5.4 in 1900 Perhaps some of our timid manufacturers who are tn a panic lest they should be erupted If they were exposed to a little com petition may take encouragement from the prosperity of the horse. Exchange. Care of Pooltrr- Tbe farmer must keep his poultry tinder the same conditions the jsniltry rnn does bis. If he wisher to profit by tbe work and build up a reputation for reliable goods. Instead of the fowls having unlimited range, they should be confined to generonssired run*— loo feet in length and as broad aj the width of the bouse —and these pens must not be overcrowded. The farmer should build houses that nil. enable him to readily ventilate {iike. fbr Instance, tbe scratching shed house) ftui the manure should be gathered at test ooos a week. Nothing but tbe purest grains and meat scraps ami green stuff should fed. The eggs should be gathered one or more times a day, according to the condition of the weather. And no eggs should be held longer than one week; the enter prising poultryman ships twice a week. An egg should never be sent to mar ket unless its condition and age aro known to the shipper and can be guar anteed. Under no circumstances should eggs found in the “hidden nest” be al lowed to be palmed off on the innocent buyer. In market language “fancy” eggs are guaranteed fresh -not over three days old. “Prime" eggs are those where the age Is not kuown, they being from one to three Wbeks of age. In cool weather. “Fresh case” eggs are a class out of which it is possible at times to secure six good ones, three fair ones, and three that are demoralized, out of a dozen. First Wild Horae*. Thf* first horses of the western plains probnblv were brought there by tha Spaniards. In 1343, more thsu fifty years before Jamestown was settled, Coronado, the Spanish captain, was roaming about the plains of New Mexico, and lie iells of the dogs used by the Indians to haul their plunder on lodge poles. indicating that they had no horses at that date, says the St 1 x>uis Post-Dispatch. ■ In 171 G the Spanish again worked their way east wed across the plains and their letters tell of the astonish ineiu of the Indians at seeing the horses they had with them. The ex j (edition was constantly losing horses and there is little doubt that the first droves of western hurst's originated from these strays. In the early days upou the plains they were us great a pest to travelers ns they are to-day. Woe be unto the luckless camper who allowed a band of wild horses to get close enough to bin gentle horses, tunit'd out for the night, to sweep them off. it was al most useless to follow, for the call of the wild comes to the gentlest of horses when he is thrown with a baud of this kind that have been born and raised free of all restraint. It is a well known f„et that the hardest one to “cut out." the leader of them all in a mad race across the prairie. 1s the old, gentle, well broken saddle or work horse, once lie gets a taste of such freedom. Hon to Treat the Work Tran*. Horses employed for farm work should not he pampered but should be fed generously so ns to sustain vigor and good spirits. A team yi fed and consequently in poor condition and fee ble will not accomplish much real work and it i.i a waste of lime to hire an expensive hand to drive such a team. The work horses should be fed early in the morning and they should have a liberal feeding. The comfort and rest of the team will bo vastly promoted if the harness Is entirely removed at noon while they are feeding. Allow them plenty of time for a good meal and par tlal digestion before they are put to work for the afternoon. It is poor pol icy to put tnem to work right after eating a hearty meal or upon a fill 1 atom a di. If we would allow the teams more rest at noon we would accomplish more work than when they are only allowed time to swallow their food. At evening let them be well groomed und their legs, bellies and feet relieved from all mud and filth. The practice of many farmers of driving a team f'-rough cold water to wash the tilth off t’-Jlr feet and legs Is dangerous, as It causes many diseases that they are subject to. A warm or overheated team should not lx* put in a cold, airy place, but first exercised and then blanketed and [Hit In a warm stable, and after the blankets are removed they should he willed dry with straw or cloths. When a team lias been exposed to rains they should not be left to become dry, hut should be nibbed dry, as chills, fevers and other ailments often result from allowing them to dry by the evaporation of the moisture from their bodies. Iloic Idee. A good preparation for killing hog lice is made by melting three pints of lard and mixing it with one pint of coal oil. The lard may be rancid. Kven me it frvluc will do, the salt be Ing no objection. When the grease has boon melted, mix the coal oil well with it and apply with a rag or brush while warm, but not hot. to the backs and behind the ears of the animals. P.nb the mixture well Into the hair. Since bogs will not readily stand while the application la being made, give them an appetising slop In s trough and apply whim ihs animals are drinking. In this way ons person can, by rapid manipulation, grease twenty to thirty bogs In aoout five minutes. The benefit of putting the grease on the hacks and behind the ears is that it will spread by gravity and Anally cover all of the hogs body. Thor* is no objection, however, to greasing the animal all over, for the more grease put on the more lice will be killed. It la preferable to make Ibe application in the evening, at feeding time, so that one bog will grease another In nibbing against each other In the bed. Before the application Is made, or immediatoly afterward. clean out and remove all bedding material and disinfect the hog house with coal oti and carbolic arid, or coal oil alone, for killing all lice that may be harboring there. Hepect the hog greasing once or twice at intervals of about a week apart, spraying their sleeping qunrter* at the same time, anti the lice will disappear. In summer we kill lice on hogs by digging a wallow lio ! e about two feet deep In their lot or pasture, Ailing it about half foil of wafer, ami pouring a gallon of coal oli on the water. When the weather Is warm the hogs will wal low lit the water covering themselves with mud at the same time, and the lice are killed through having to Touch tbe animals. Oil and water will not mix. hence the pure coal oil come* In lew ct with tbe hide of the hogs, wh’-h is supposed to cause blistering or re moving of hair but In no case, with mauy experiments, have any such re sults followed from tbe use of pure I coal oil. It U likely that wallowing in the muddy water tempers the actloa of tbe oil.