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PIOCHE WEEKLY RECORD. MBit, URCIUI CB. HIT AO A NEW PLAN FOR CANAL. Scheme (or United States to Build Nicaragua Waterway. CAFFERY PREPARING A SUBSTITUTF. Xeealatloa lutradnred la the Senate rropoiiag a Cbt la tha Clnjtoy Hularer Treaty. Washington. Having taken tlie first step toward clearing the way (or the United States to build and conrtol ilie N icaragua canal and avoid complica tions with (irest Britain, Senator Caf fery is now preparing a substitute for the Morgan bill. Under the terms of the susbtitute, which will be intro duced -next week, the United States will open negotiations with .Nicaragua nnd Costa ltiea to acquire the atrip of ground lying in Kicaraguan territory and proposed to be ceded under the Frelinghuysen treaty. Sentuor Caffery offered a resolution providing lor negotiations with Great Britain for the abrogation of the Clay-ton-l'.ulwer treaty. It is purposed to do dipomatioally what the ultra-radical friends of the waterway would do by ignoringthe provisions of the treaty. The AdminiHtrution had no such pur jKise, however. This was clearly con veyed to the British Embassador by Secretary of State liny. Sir Julian Pauncefote was assured hy the Secie tary that as soon as Congress authorized the construction of the waterway this Government would open negotiations with Great Britain for an agreeable set tlement of the terms upon which the canal should be built and operated under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The United States might refrain from forti fying the canal, or it might be main tained with neutrality, or Croat iirit uiiit might enjoy equal advantages. The substitute bill of Senator Caffery will provide that after the United Rales shall have acquired from Nic aragua the strip of land mentioned, the work of construction of the canal shall be undertaken by the Secretary of War after the methods 'pursued in the con struction of public works in the United States. No bonds are to be issued, but $100,000,000 is appropriated from the Treiaury of the United States. As it ia est i ma I d that the time occupied in constructing the canal will be five or six years, not more than $110,000,000 would be appropriated from the Treas ury in uuyone year. Senator Caffery 's plan will he opposed hy the Maritime Canal Company interest, but it will obviate any question of the Govern ment's authority to guarantee the bonds of a private corporation. That the majority of both houses favor the construction ' of the inter ocean canal by the United States is beyond doubt. There will be much division of opinion as to the methods, however, which may prove ho irrecon cilable as to postpone indefinitely the passage of the cannl bill. A SERIES OF LETTERS. tlaeeral Henry, Military Governor of I'orto Kloo, KxpUlaa Hit Policy. Sun Juan de Torto Rico. General Guy V. Henry, Military Governor of the Island of I'orto Hioo, in a series of letters to the council gives dotaila of ' the policy which the Mayors are urged to maintain in the interest of public health and order. He points out that the responsibilities have increased with the increase of their field of action. No person is to be imprisoned with out specific charges being preferred; all persons now in prison without such charges against them are to be freed; customs duties and money values must 1 regulated by the United States Con gress.but the towns are to Iks improved by the adoption of American standards, with a view of educating the people in patriotism and self-reliance; resort to military power is to be had only when absolutely necessary and soldiers who do not respect the civil authorities are to he severely dealt with. Generall lleury appeals to Porto Rioans to smother their political differ ences and to unite in behalf of their country. In a second letter the Mili tary Governor says: "I am anxious to have the people feel that they can be directly repre sented hero for the purpose of ooro plaints, grievances and recommenda tions. I therefore instruct the council to inform the Mayors that they may send here on or before December 19th two delegates from each Mayoralty, one Liberal and one Radical, to be chosen by the respective Municipal Councils. I shall listen to the voice of the people through these delegates, and shall examine and consider what they lay before me." These letters are to be generally published, and a oopy of tho second is being aent to all post commanders, who will report as to cases where proper delegates are not sent. It being evident that the civil courts cannot or will not act with sufficient promptness against bandits, firebugs and murderers there not yet having been a single conviction for either of these offenses, though many have been committed an immediate example is necessary, and General Henry lias ap pointed a military commission to try cases of this character. His activity in these various directions is univer sally commended. Mora "faxes for the Japa. Yokohama. The Government has introduced in the Diet a bill providing for increasing the land tux by 14,000, 000 yen toward an estimated budget deDoiency of 30,000,000 yen. Tlie re mainder of the amount required will be raised by other taxation. It ia be lieved these proposals will lead to a rupture of the understanding between the Cabinet and the Liberals. Mc aro stringing four aluminum Wires "about the thiokness of a lead jlnjii" from Stockton to Rln T eke I ai. lor the company that proposes to ultimately run its line into San Fran ciiteo and supply that city with light and power, CHANGE IN WAR TAXES. AMeadmeata la Iha I. aw I rg4 fcy Ua aaua CwmmUaleaer. Washington. Chairman Dingley of the Ways and Means Committee has received a communication from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. N. B. Scott, reeom mending a number of amendments to the act of June 13. 1808. known us the war revenue act. The recommendations rover chunges oi an administrative character under schedules A and It. also for the month ly payment of excise taxes by sugar re fineries and of a penalty for failing to stump parlor-car tickets. Farther provisions are suggested as to the ex amination by internal revenue officers of articles subject to internal revenue taxes. Commissioner Scott advises that the clauses providing for the (dumping of telegraphic dispatches and receipts or bills of lading for freight and express packages be so amended as to make it definite and certain who shall affix and pay for the stamp. The clause imposing a tax on com mercial brokers the Commissioner re gards a a discrimination against such brokers, and he recommends that it be repealed or amended so as to include produce and merchandise commission merchant", auctioneers and real estate agents and brokers. The removal of the stump tux on mortgages js recommended inasmuch as there is a stamp tax on promissory notes, and the taxing of mortgages given to secure such noU-s results in double taxation, falling on the debtor class. The Commissioner also urges that if brokers pay the secial tax required under the law they should be relieved of the stamp tax under the head of "contracts," which is a tax on all notes or memorandums of sale by brokers. The paragraph imposing a tax of 10 cents on "certillcates of any descrip tion required by law" has occasioned more difficulty in its construction and application than any other provision in schedule A, the Commissioner says, and, owing to the uncertainty as to what certificates are taxable, he recont mends the repeal of the paragraph. Commissioner Soott alsf) recommends numerous changes in other schedules and many modifications of the admin istrative features of the act. COLLEGE MEN IN THE ARMY. Advantage of Military Traliiing In tha School ara Plainly Shown. Washington. The annual report of tlie Inspector-General of the Army, which has just been made public.raises highly the conduct of the war; lie emphasizes strongly the need of peri odical military maneuvers and experi mental mobilization to insure the health and safety of the troops in aotual service. If this is omitted, he declares, the most lavish expenditure, with the best intentions and most un tiring energy us a substitute for prac tical skill, is but a poor makeshift. One of the most interesting features of the report is that upon military col leges. Except for the interruption of military instruction by the withdrawal of regular Army instructors during the war, IS, 000 students are being an nually trained in practical and theo retical military service in private and public schools and colleges. The pres idents of forty-six of these colleges, whose military departments numtiered 7100 students, reported that twenty nine of their regular students and fifty-nine alumni bud been commis sioned in the regular Army, and 157 students and 2)16 alumni in the volun teer army, a total of 54 1 ollicers, or enough for about twelve regiments. Further, 1084 Btudents and ex-students joined the Army as non-oom missioned officers or privates. Accepting these statistics as a fair average, it would appear, says the report, that the regu lar and volunteer armies secured from the students annually instructed by regular Army oftloers at the various colleges enough oflicers for twenty-four regiments. In conclusion on tins subject the Inspector-General says that some sub stantial recognition should be accdrded the st'idents who spend a large part of their school life in military study, and be recommends the selection of some of the best of these students for appointment annually in the Army. Such a policy, he says, would benefit both the students, the colleges and the Government. 1 New reunion Bills Introduced. Washington. Some interesting his tory is attached to two bills recently introduced in the House by Underwood for General Wheeler. The bills are to grant pensions to Mrs. Margaret 15. Shipp, who was killed at. the battle of San Juan hill, and of Mrs. Louisa D. Smith, widow of Lieutenant William II. Smith who was killed at the same plaoe. There was a remarkable simi larity in the history of these two sol diers. They studied together at West Point, graduated together, and, after leaving the academy, both rose to the rank of Lieutenant. They met their deaths in the same battle within fifteen minutes of each other, and finally, the bills to pension their wives were intro duced in I ongress simultaneously. Lookout Point Secured. Washington. The Government, through the Chickamauga Park Com mission, has secured the deeds to six teen acres on Lookout point, the high est point in the Chickamauga region, and overlooking seven states and all the battle-fields adjacent to the park. During the siege of Chickamauga this point was an important Confeder ate position, occupied by a battery. The Park Commissioners will at once replace the battery in the position it occupied during the war and will erect historical tablets at important points. It w ill be left to the several stales whose troops were enguged at this point to ereot monuments and memor ial tablets. Pottery Option Kneaded. Trenton (X. J.) The option secured by a syndicate of capitalists on a large numlwr of general ware potteries in the United States, notably those of East Liverpool and Trenton, lias been extended to April I. Trenton niana facturers are confident the syndicate will succeed and expect the deal to be closed within n few weeks. It is intimated that tha absorption may also include the sanitary potteries now be ing operated by tho Trenton pottery syndicate. FOR THE FARMERS. Soma Interesting Newt for the Rurallst SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN. a raw Meaalhle HUM U Salt the Bmtf AgTlealtarlet. Iteeaa That May BeaeSt aar Baadera. A Faruier'e lre-Heae. To erect a building 13 by 12 feet, 10 feet in height, not including the roof (elect a location somewhat sheltered from the direct rays of the sun. Build a strong stone foundation wall perfectly vcl for the sills to rest un. The inside of the wall must be solidly banked around with earth. The sills are 6 by 8 in. strongly framed together. They may be either of sawed lumber or of timbers flattened nsm two sides. The floor joists are 4 by 8 inches. A strong support should he placed under the center of each joist. The studding are 2 hy 11 inches placed in edgewise, thui forming an inside space of 11 in. for sawdust. The outside is of boards, nailed to the studding cross wise instead of up and down. The flooring is 2 inch boards. Cue 12 feet 2-inoli boards for roof plates. These should lie placed across the tops of the studding and strongly spiked to them. liafters are of 9 by 4 inch material, spiked to the plates. The roof has a slope of 45 degrees and a ventilator 2 hy 3 feet. The inside boards should be nailed to the studding crosswise. Fill the 11 inch space with sawdust when boarding it up. Place the door, which is 20 inches wide, upon the north side and let it extend from the bottom to the top of the building. This long door is to be divided into three separate doors, thus making it more convenient for putting in and taking out ice. To fill with ice, first put 12 inches of sawdust on the floor, allowing a space of 0 inches around the outside of the ice and next to the inside I ward ing for sawdust. There will then be remaining 0 by 0 feet of space for the ice. The ice should be raked out Into cases of 8 feet by 1 foot before sawing. This will fill the space intended for it. In placing the cakes in position, put one layer lengthwise, the next cross wise, being particular to have the ice as level as possible. It is also very necessary for the sue cessful preservation of the ice that no crevioes or holes remain unfilled. To prevent this have ready a pail of thick snow water. If there is no show, use finely cracked ice, also in water. With this fill all cracks, holes or rough places, so that the cake of ice will fit smoothly and compaotly together. By thus increasing its solidity it will keep much better than when packed in the UBiial way. When filled, put 20 in. or more sawdust on the top all over. An ice-house built and filled in this manner has now in it 4 feet of solid ice of last year's filling, which will remain undisturbd when the house is again filled. Sawdaat for Smudge Firing. It is the season for protection against frost, and though smudging has some' thing of a bad name because it does not aot through as manv degrees of low temperature as some would like, it is still an effeotive method of avoiding frost injuries within certain limits. For this reason disoussion of smoking materials is interesting, and the ob servations whioh Mr. T. M. Richards of Poca Ratom, Florida, writes to Mr. J. E. Ingraham, land commissioner of the East Coast Railway, may prove of benefit to fruit growers on this coast. He describes tlie plan commonly in use, and very successfully so, in parts of Carolina and Virginia as follows: In the fall, some weeks before the danger of oold, one should secure a supply of pine sawdust from the mills. Around eacli field of not more than four acres' area (and two aores is better) the saw. dust should lie, deposited in conical piles, 40 feet apart and two bushels of sawdust in each heap. These heaps should bo placet! all the way around each lot, as the wind may shift to any quarter. When the thermometer shows danger of frost, at three o'clock in the morning let men take cans of common kerosene and go to each alter native heap, make a little opening in the top of it, pour in one or two table spoonfuls of kerosene and set it on fire. It will not blaze muoh, but by giving a little time for the oil to spread before firing the sawdust will smoulder and burn slowly until it is all consumed, all the while sending forth volumes of thick smoke, which will protect the plants from the direct rays of tho sun, and prevent them from scalding until the frost is slowly drawn out. In many instances it has been dem onstrated that the sun was responsi ble for the damage dono after freezing. Wherever there was shade through the forenoon no plants were injured. This is also the case among the orange groves. This plan has proved extreme ly Bucceseful where tried. It is very cheap protection and does not require much work. In our pineries, laid off as they are in beds, the small heaps of eawdust could be placed at the corner of each bed and one series out of four or five burned at a time, leaving a supply by alternating tires for the next nip. Read the Agricultural Journal!. I see many of my farmer friends in this community who do not read agri cultural publications, while they de voured omnivorously all political or war news, while this oountry was in volved in tlie recent war. They do not seem to think of any good that can re sult from the discussion of farm topics through the press. To me this is an evident indication that they are neg lecting their true interests, to a great extent, only to gratify a prejudiced feeling. The farmer who studies the best methods of farm work, the grow ing of farm products, stock raising and tlie markets, will certainly want to know the experiences of others along these lines, and there is no better source of information than the columns of the journals devoted to agricultural and kindred pursuits. Some are opposed to the introduc tion of new methods, snd teem to re gard tuoh an attempt as almost a saori lege, while tbey adhere strictly to the old-fogy niethodr of the past. This Ute of affairs is especially true in the rural district The remark is often heard that what was good enough for our fathers is good enough for us, and so there are yet to l found those who thresh their grain with a flail and carry it to the mill on an ox with the ancient "pack saddle" upon his back. Farmers, I ask you to study more olosely all subjects connected w ith tiie farm; become interested in the lest met li o-l a of culture and stock raiting; take two or three good agricultural pajrs, and see what others of your trade are doing. They will toll you of their experiences, and offer suggestions that will be helpful. Your living must come from the farm, and not from poli ti s or the war. I do not ask you to ignore ot even neglect these questions, but always bold them as of secondary importance while your livelihood must be derived from the farm. Frank Monroe Beverly in Agricultural Epil-omist. Nates From tha Aerirultural College Dairy. The college dairy bus just tested a sample of skim-milk from family in town, that pet one cow for family use. The extra milk was set in crocks and skimmed when a thick layer of cream formed on top. As there was but a small quantity of cream, it was churned with an egg-beater. The Babcock test showed the skim-milk to contain 1 per cent butter fat, equal to a loss of 1.17 pounds of butter for every 100 pounds skim-milk, and the butter-milk 5.7 per cent butter fat, equal to a loss of 0.7 pounds of butter fat for every 100 pounds buttermilk. Mr. J. A. Conover, special student iu dairying, also secured samples of skim- milk and butter-milk from a family iu town, and found a still greater loss in the skim-milk, but lees in the butter milk, the skim-milk showing 1.2 per cent and the butter milk 1.3 per cent. This makes a loss of 1.41 pounds but ter for every 100 pounds skim-milk and 1.52 pounds butter for every 100 pounds butter-milk. These figures do not show any great loss to the families mentioned, because the total weight of skim-milk and butter-milk is so small, but they are of interest in that they show the im mense loss that would occur w here such practices are followed on a large scale. In creameries the loss in ekim-n.Uk is usually reduced to a mere trace and in the butter-milk to .1 or .2 of 1 per cent. Poultry Pointer!. There is little that is reliable in the way of experiments in breeding and feeding poultry. It seems a pity that extensive investigations have not been carried on at experiment stations. The poultryman has more breeds to choose from than has the horse or cat tle breder in order to suit his special needs. I have often been called to breeders' houses to see what was the matter with the chickens, and found that the trouble was caused by lice. I feed dry, not sloppy, food. Every thing is kept clean. Cups and dishes are cleaned every day. Frequent changes of food are made. The White Wyandotte cannot be beaten for n general purpose fowl. A fowl very much out of Borts is about as profitable without its head. If your market calls for a certain thing, you must furnish it, if you would have a profitable business. Covering for Wountla. In pruning fruit trees, the untreated wounds often heal quite as well as those that are treated with some cover ing, but this is done at the expense of checking the growth and vigor of the tree or plant. This point seems to have become well established. Our own ex perience quite agrees with that of Prof. Card at the Nebraska station (Bulletin 50), who says; "Taking, all things to gether, nothing seems to be better for covering the wounds made in pruning than common lead-paint, which is closely followed by grafting wax. The wax is superior to paint in the matter of healing, but does not last as well and is not so convenient to apply, al though in warm weather, when it ! works well, there is little trouble in this regard. Coal tar is useful m pre venting the wood from checking, but appears to be a positive hindrance to healing, so that, in tpiteof the fact that it stays well, there is little to recom mend it. Pine tar is no aid to heal ing, being apparently a trifle detrimen tal, while it helps only slightly in the matter of checking and does not last well, therefore it has nothing to recom mend it. Shellac s a failure. It does not last and neither aids the wound in healing nor to any appreciable extent prevents it from checking." Cows With Spectacles. Cows with spectacles are to bo seen in the Russian steppes. The steppes are covered with snow more than six months of the year. The cows subsist on the tufts of grass which crop above the snow, and the rays of the sun on the snow are so dazzling as to cause blindness. To obviate this calamity, it occurred to a kind-Learted man to protect the cows' eyes in the same way as those of human beings, and he man ufactured smoke-colored spectacle which could be worn by the cattle. These spectacles were a great success, snd are now worn by upwards of 40, 000 head of cattle, who no longer suffer from the snow blindness which once caused such untold suffering amongst them. Farm Kates- The brood sow should have strong, tough lones. Market all stock now as soon as properly finished to sell well. It is well to be thoroughly prepared for cold storms at this season. Do not allow the teams to stand over night with muddy feet and legs. Warm quarters are cheaper than feed in maintaining animal heat in winter. By providing plenty ot feed troughs and racks a considerable saving of feed may be made. Excessive fat is of no advantage in a hog. Sell as soon as a good market able condition is secured. In an order for 1200 freight cars given a Chicago firm ia a specification for 8,500,000 feet Pacific ooast fir and spruce. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Important Information Gathered Around the Coast. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. A Samaai ary ar Lata Kvent That Ara Rolled Doit to Suit Our Koay Read era. An expert refsirt on the Philippine. finances says there are 45,000.000 in circulation on a silver basis, and an export trade in '!I7 of f 41,000,000. Quicksilver exports from Sau Fran cisco for the first eleven months of '97 were 4013 flasks, worth 174,40o; for the same period in '08, 57GO flasks, worth 211,582. J. J. Hill, President Great Northern Kail ay, has bought the tax certifi cates on the old Union Pacific road be tween Taeoma and Portland. Priorjto '03 the Union Pacific spent $2,000,000 in this line and the abandoned work and property has been since held for taxes. Eastern papers say that "the longest telephone communication! successfully established in the world" is now in operation between Boston, Mass., and Little Rock, Ark., 1900 miles. Similar facilities have for some months been established between San Diego, Cal., and Boise, Idaho, 2:300 miles. Consul Williams writes from Manila that during the three months ended September 80, 1808, the value of the declared exports from that consular district to tho United States were: Hemp, 4000 bales, f ."7,o0'J.35; hats, 19,803, at 'JO cents, f 3000.00; cigars, 84 cases, 1320.02; grass cloth, 15i .41; total, 13,950.27. Th ero waB about $3,500,000 in the Spokane, Wash., banks last week, and the bankers did not know what to do with it. There has not been a bank statement for two months, but when the last was made the banks were currying ubout 05 per cent. Soon, by reason of the Le Hoi sale, about f 4, 000,000 more money will be thrown into the Spokane banks. At Toeka, Kansas, on tho 8th inst., the board of directors of the Santa Fe Railway Co. made formal approval of the purchase of the San Joaquin Val ley line, by w hich the Santa Fe will run trains into San Francisco. Tho chairman of the board said that the war had opened greater possibilities for the West, and that San Francisco will be a much more important point to the road than it has ever been. The town of Republic, Wash., claims to be the banner town in the United States for sending registered matter through the mails. Up to Nov. 11, in the present quarter, there w ere 850 reg istrations. For the same period one city with 110,000 population had only 45 to its credit. So great has been the registration that the post office authori ties upon one occasion sent a letter of inquiry, thinking an error on the part of the postmaster hud been made. The figures astonished the department. The new executive committee of the California State Miners' Association met recently in San Francisco. The Secretary was authorized to expend 200 in furnishing an office. It was decided not to have the Association headquarters in the new ferry building. It was ordered that county associations that have failed to pay the required 75 per cent to the State Association be immediately called upon for such amount. A motion was carried that the coming State Legislature be asked to set apart one-third of its Paris Ex position appropriation for the purpose of a mineral exhibit there. A tariff for shipments over the Si berian Railroad as far as Irkutsk has been published. Irkutsh is the great trade center of Siberia and the western terminus of the Chinese caravans over the desert.which have for ages brought a large part of the tea consumed in Russia. The new tariff on tea from Irkutsk to Moscow is 2 1-3 rubles per pood, with a separate charge of 3 kopeks per pood for crossing the Yen issei and 2 kopeks for crossing the Oka great rivers where the bridges are not yet completed. This is at the rate of 8.30 per 100 pounds. The rate on high olass freight in the other direc tion is about the same. The distance from Moscow to Irkutsk is about 3400 miles. The total value of the imports'in Apia, Samoa, in 1807, according to the American consul-general, was $829,030, of which nearly half (157,- 005) was from the Australian colonies. The United States sent gocds to tho value of 53,415. The exports amounted to $230,108, of which $125, 380 went to Europe, $54,305 to the United States, $51,473 to Australasia, 14,223 to Hawaii, etc.Of copra (native product) 10,091,520 pounds were exported from Samoa. The consul-general adds that a large percent age of the goods from Australia are of American origin. It is stated that all goods originating east of California are sent to the Atlant ic seaboard, thence to Sydney to Apia, and are delivered there cheaper than they can bo ob tained lirectly from San Francisco. At Phenix, Arizona, it is estimated that enough water is wasted from Salt river each w inter to irrigate 1,000,000 acres in the Salt river valley. It is purposed to Btore these winter floods, to bo drawn from as needed during the summer months, by constructing a reservoir in the mountains sixty miles northeast of Phu nix. The U. 8. Gov ernment has granted the Hudson Res ervoir & Canal Company the Tonto basin, to be used as a storage reser voir. It proposes to build a dam at the head of tho canyon where the river emerges from the basin, creating a lake eighteen square miles to a depth of 100 to 200 feet. It will be neces sary to build a dam 200 feet high and some 000 feet in length at the top, al though the canyon is only 200 feet wide for the first 100 feet frem the bottom. The Territory of Arizona has granted the company the use ot the channel of the Salt river to convey the water to the valley below. To con struct this storsge reservoir, the largest in the world, will cost about $2,600,-000. Atctilaoa Glob Rights. The drureist and the doctor ars eonsine. People are tired of see: . smart C'nll ilren do smart ifiins. Some people act all tlie time a though I tier were at a piiie. Kvery man who starve h's wif U saiil I iy the nei;:lilM.rt lo lie rich. The woman w li never i:i;irrles never It mis out w lint a poor cook she is. A gisiil many couUs make a gooit quality of li.tnl t.i. k ami ilou't know Ir. It is never safe to accept an am.tlelir singer's verdict of an owrn company. A woman's Idea of gelling real reck less is to rut loose, aud tell all she knows. Cir.xi of tlie liver linrd to s'll; think how mucli harder It must be to have il. Atchison lias a man who refuses t go to places liecause his wife won't go Willi him. Kvery girl who has never known" a grief In her life tries particularly hard to look pensive. A woman never liecoines so rich that she can resist the teinptaltoit to wear calico shirt waists. Afler a woman passes 3.1. If she mar ries at all, the chances tire that she will marry a man younger than herself. As a rule, thosp who talk most about longing for a higher life do least to Im prove the life they are compelled to live. Vuli csn occasionally meet all kinds of people; even the man who means It when he asks you to come and visit him. About half the time a man feels like a cat which has Just eaten the canary; he Is getting a lot of alue for eattiqj a mighty poor bird. The man whose hair has come out cau make himself very interesting lo iiuy woman hy announcing that It came nut through a fever. There Isn't any one so good that it doesn't make him mad lo go home to dinner, aud tiud some one sitting la bis chair at the table. Whenever we see a man having a "good time," we are glad that we have quit. There Is nothing so dismal as buying a "good time." It should be as muchithe duty of the "committee of safety" to get loafers out of town as It should.be to bring de sirable men to town. Whenever you see a girl with her hair neatly braided lu two braids. you can make u pretty good guess that her mother Is a neat housekeeper. A man went Into a store to-day, and said: "I want enough rope to rope my bed." Are you old-fashioned enough to remember a bed that was roped? Young people are apt to stuff their iwcket books with purer, to appear rich. Older people, however, have found it wise to appear poorer than they are. It Is well to remember that If your friends thluk you arc a chartnlug cou versatloimlist, your enemies regard you ns a great gossip, and that tliev inav be fight. C'orean Or oiiiaitcera. The lutiiience of the geomaucers ex tends from the Klug to his humblest subjects, aud Illustrates the cunning and simplicity which lire combined lu the Cores n character. These profes sional oracles are consulted on all occa sions by all sorts of people. The Klug never thinks of doing anything without lirst uskiug their opinion. They are more Important to him than legal ad visers are to railways and other corpor ations that employ them, nud they are attached to all the departments of the government. At the same time they are notoriously corrupt, and their advice Is always Influenced by the payment ot money. If anyone desires to obtnlu a favor from the Klug he usually endeavors to secure the good offices of the geoinaucer who Is likely to be consulted, and the n mount of the bribe corresponds to the Importance of the matter. While the gpouiancer pretends to consult the spir its nnd observe the movements of the stars, his client knows that It Is the money that governs his action. Never theless, when the client Is required to perform some official act, he consults the same old humbug, who has been bribed by some one else to Influence his decision, and he Is perfectly aware of the fact. Chantanquan. Perfectly Practical. An odd and convenient custom exists In Oeuoa. Many of the well-to-do peo ple as well as those In moderate cir cumstances do not own either horses or coaches: they own ouly an Interest In them. Four or five or a half-dozen great families club together and buy a coach and horses, then they arrange among themselves the days the differ ent families will use It. Thus one fam ily uses the coach on Mondays, another ou Tuesdays and a third on Wednes duvs, so that an establishment that would be Impossible for one family be comes perfectly practical when the cot Is divided among five or six. Kach fam ily has a set of doors for the coach with their own coat-of-anus ou the panels, which are changed according to the family which Is going to use the coach. The builders ot these vehicles seldom think of building a coach without five or six sets of doors, and arrangements are made so that they are very easily changed. Whre Iroee Papa Coin-? In? The I.eiiv.iir Tageblutt devotes a col mil n to the marriage market. An ad vertisement published lately was as fol lows: "A sou. elderly, solid and seri ous. Is seeking for his father (a strict aud solid man lu a quiet business) an alone-standiug widow and maiden with some ready niouey. offers, with full statement of particular!, to be address ed . The son can be interviewed by appnlutmeut between the hours of U and 11." Itemed y for Burn. A Frenchman has discovered a reme dy lustsintaueous lu Its effects for the horrible burns caused by the use of oil of vitriol. It Is a soft paste of cal cined iniignesln and water, with which the purls burned are covered to the thlckucsN ot an Inch: It alleviates the pain almost Immediately, snd when the pNste I removed no scar remains. Ungrammatically speaking lbs plura) of baby must be twlue. SPANIARDS AND THE " MAINE.; Ca (4. rise bee Telle af tha Reaioaatra tiana A gat act the VeaaeU 81X bulls were killed at the Sunday huii-tilil. Our pa nr. arrireil a the fret one w:is l-iug hauled away dead. After the lifih bull had been dispatched It was derided, as a considerate meas ure In favor of ilener.il Parrado. that we should leave the building and returu ! Havana early, s.i n lo avoid the' crowd. We therefore left very quietly, jnt before the sixth bull entered the Hug. We tried to reach the ferry promptly, so th.it we might return tu Havana on a sie.iuier having but few passengers. Three luembers of our par ly were siii-eessful In iliis attempt, but (ipnerul l.ee. I.ieuieiiant Holmau and I failed. u our arrival a steamer bad Just left the binding. We then bailed a small passenger boat, and were pull ed lo the Maine. While (ieneral Le aud 1 were conversing on the quarter derk of I lie Maine a ferry-boat came across ihe bay. carrying back to Ha vana a large number of people from the audience. There was no demonstration of any kind. The passengers were doubtless those who had left early, hop ing, like ourselves, to avoid ihe crowd. The next ferry-boat was densely, crowded. Among the passengers were a number of officers of the Spanish army aud of the volunteers. As the ferry-boat passed the Maine there were derisive calls and whistles. Apparently not more than fifty people participated In that demonstration. It was not gen eral, and might have occurred any where. I have never believed that the Spanish officers or soldiers took part. It Is but fair to say that this was the only demonstration of any kind made against the Maine or her officers, either collectively or individually, so far as was made known lo me, during our vis it. Adverse feeling toward us was shown by the apathetic bearing of sol diers when l hey saluted, or of trades men when they supplied our needs. After the Maine had been sunk, and' when the Montgomery and the Feru were lu Havana, Spanish passenger-' boatmeu exhibited bad temper by with-, holdlug or delaying answers to our halls at night. The failure of the Span ish authorities to compel the boatmen to answer our balls Impressed me as be ing very closely akin to active unfriend liness. It was at the time when the Vizcaya and the Oqueudo were In Ha vana, using picket-boats and occasion ally search-lights at night, apparently to safeguard themselves. Halls were made sharply and answered promptly, between the Spanish meu-of-war sad the boats constantly plying about the harbor at night. It must have been plain on board the Spanish men-of-war that the boatman were trifling with us. This was after the Vizcaya had visited New York. Capt. Slgsbee, In the Cen. tury. t7 OS lu Maurler's "Trilby" has at last been translated Into Italiau and Is ruu alng as a feuilletoti In a Milan dally pa per, the Corlcrre delta Sera. Kosion books of tlie season are: James Russell Lowell and His Friends, by Itev. K. K. Hale, and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's Reniiulnlsceuces. Marlon Crawford's new book Is Ave rtonm Immortalls. a selection of studies from the chronicles of Rome, and will be Issued In two volumes. Florence K. Upton's Juvenile book for this year Is called The Uollywogg at the Seaside. Her first success was Th Dutch' Poll, followed by The Golly wogg's Kleyele Club aud The Vege man's Revenge. Hezeklah Uutterworth will publish hortly through the Doubleday & Me CI ure Company "South America," a his tory of the struggle for liberty In the Andean republics, Cuba and Porto Hi co. It Is said to be the first connected history ever written of this tropical nnd subtropical America, and Mr. But lerworth prepared himself for the task by two extended journeys through South America. "The War as a Suggestion of Mani fest Destiny" Is the subject of a critical study by Professor H. H. Power which should attract widespread atten tion. It has Just been Issued by tha American Academy of Political and Social Science. Professor Fowers shows, the development of the policy of Im perialism from the time ot Jefferson, snd the lnev'ilableness of the war. He then sets forth the results which must follow from our appearance as a world power, nnd why the final struggle for world domination must be between the Anglo Saxon aud Slav races. Knives Made by Pressure. It Is announced that an entirely new method for the manufacture of tab) cutlery Is being Introduced Into Shef field, F.ngland, and Is exciting much Interest. A round bar of steel is placed lu a machine, and by means ot hydrau lic pressure a perfect knife Is formed blade, bolster and handle. The "fash" Is taken off. aud It Is subse quently ground and polished by ma chinery. One such machine Is capa ble, It Is stated, of producing 5,000 of these nil steel knives per day, at a comparatively small cost In labor. The machines are capable of dealing with any kind of cutlery or tools. A Worldly Habit. Fellows You seem to forget that the world owes every man a living. Bellows No, I don't, but I've discov ered that It has Imbibed the human habit ot not paying Its debts. Rich mond Dispatch. Shore Lines. Tho United States shore lines of ths great lakes are as follows: Outarlu, StO miles; Erie, 370 miles; Huron, 610 miles; Superior, 055 miles; Michigan, 1,320 miles. Fire from Meteor. A meteoric stone weighing four tons fell on a wh rehouse lu Flume, Austria, and set it on fire. The stone crashed through the house and was found burled In the cellar. The surprising thing about Heaven Is that It reuialus a heaven with so many different women living under the earns roof.