THE BELDING BANNER
BELDIN6,
MICHIGAN.
The United Kingdom has colonies
and possessions whose area is equal
to more than twenty-seven times her
own size.
Among the ruins of Pompeii have
been found chafing dishes of exquisite
workmanship, which give undisputed
proof of their uso In the city, which
contained villas of many wealthy Ro
mans. Northern Indiana farmers are ex
perimenting In the domestication of
quail. During the winter the birds are
fed regularly, and on some of the farms
they have become so tame that they
roost with the barnyard fowls.
The watchfulness of members of con
gress is not always rewarded In a way
anticipated. Two resolutions recently
offered In the house requested the pres
ident to return to that body two pri
vate pension 'bills. A member of In
quiring mind wished to know what
was the defect In the bills. "There is
no defect was the reply. "The bene
ficiaries are dead."
Quite a remarkable as the wrecking
of the Pacific Mail line steamship Rio
de Janeiro just at the entrance to San
Francisco harbor on Feb. 22 Is the to
tal disappearance of the wreck. Divers
have explored large areas of the bot
tom of the sea at the point where the
wreck Is supposed to have occurred,
but not the slightest trace of the ill
fated shir has been found.
One of the most prominent Baptist
preachers in the vicinity of New York
has made it a practice In all his pas
torates to write his resignation within
a week of his entrance upon a new.
field, sign, seal and deliver It to the
proper official with the remark:
"There, now! Never ask me for my
resignation. Whenever you want me
to go Just break open the envelope
write in a date to the document and
offer it to the congregation."
The recent appointment of General
Chaffee as major-general is the first
instance of a private attaining that
rank in the regular army of the Unit
ed States. "I should know that Chaf
fee was not educated at West Point,"
commented a military visitor at the
review of American troops in Chin;i
last summer. "He is so unused to full
dress uniform that lie has his sash over
the wrong shoulder." It was true,
and all the more honor to him for his
success.
A recent importation of foreigners
against which no one will be likely to
take exceptions, except, perhaps, the
natives they have come to destroy, has
been graciously received and welcomed
by the quarantine officer of the Cali
fornia State Board of Agriculture at
San Francisco. The newcomers are a
consignment of tachlna flies from
the grasshopper tribe their wholesale
exterminators, in fact, wherever found.
They came as cold storage passengers
and with them came a large number of
ladybugs, for service in clearing the
orchards of red scale the pest of fruit
growers. The flics are to be release.!
in May. They will make short work
of the grasshoppers, which swarm at
thr.t time.
A college professor, reading Lor 1
Rayleigh's "Theory of Sound" a few
years ago, became particularly Inter
ested in that part which relates to tho
vibration of cords. He began to study
the waves which travel along a cord
when one end is shaken, and then to
experiment with cords loaded at in
tervals with weights, and vibrating in
air or water. What could he hone to
learn from such investigations? What
practical results wers to be looked for?
He could not tell, nor could any one
else have told. Yet he studied the sub
ject for five years. The facts he dis
covered make It probable that tele
phone communication may take place
under three thousand miles of sea, and
the professor has sold his Invention for
half a million dollars.
The German army has furnished an
other terrible Illustration of what duel
ing means. An Infantry captain pres
ent at an officer's dinner took offense
at the Innocent but rough horse-play
of an army surgeon, and struck him.
He then retired to his quarters. In a
little while two officers representing
the surgeon appeared with a challenge.
Before they could deliver it a brother
of the surgeon entered and shot the
captain dead. His excuse was that he
sacrificed himself to save his brother,
the surgeon, who had a wife and chil
dren, and could hardly hope to sur
vive a duel with the offended captain,
a noted pistol-shot. Such an Incident
must come home with peculiar force
to the emperor, who has frankly com
mended dueling in the army as the
proper way for a soldier to protect his
"honor."
The name of Sing Sing, no far as
the New York village Is concerned, U
no more, having been changed to
Oslnlng. Manufacturers brought about
this change, the Impression having
gone abroad that all good turned out
in the village were prison-made. The
village showed a decrease In the last
census of 1,313 In population, though
neighboring places showed uniform In
crease. Sing Sins: was Incorporated
In 1813 and the prion was erected
eleven years later. The prison la still
within the Tillage boundary
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
.RESURRECTION OF THE RE
DEEMER SUNDAY'S SUBJECT
"'w la ChrUt HUon from tt JDd
and ISeoow tUm First Fruit of Them
That Slept" First Hook CoriotbUu.
Chapter Twenty Five, Twentieth Verse
(Copyright, 1901, by JL.ouIg Klopgch, N. Y.)
Washington, April 7. The great
Christian festival celebrated In all the
churches Is the theme of Dr. Talmage'a
discourse; I Corinthians xv, 20,. "Now
la Christ risen from the dead and be
come the first fruits of them that
slept."
On this glorious Easter morning,
amid the music and the flowers, I
give you Christian salutation. This
morning, Russian meeting Russian on
the streets of St. Petersburg halls him
with the salutation, "Christ la risen!"
and is answered by his friend In salu
tation, "He Is risen Indeed!" In some
parts of England and Ireland to this
very day there Is the superstition that
on Easter morning the sun dances in
the heavens. And well may we forgive
such a superstition, which Illustrates
the fact that the natural world seems
to sympathize with the spiritual.
Hall, Easter morning! Flowers!
Flowers! All of them a-voice, all of
them a-tongue, all of them full of
speech to-day. I bend over one of the
lilies, and I hear It say, "Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they
toll not, neither do they spin, yet Sol
omon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these." I bend over a rose
and It seems to whisper, "I am the
rose of Sharon." And then I stand
and listen. From all sides there comes
the chorus of flowers, saying, "If God
so clothed the grass of the field which
to-day is and to-morrow is cast into
the oven, shall he not much more
clothe you. 0 ye "of little faith?"
Flowers! Flowers! Braid them In
to the bride's hair. Flowers! Flow
ers! Strew them over the graves of the
dead, sweet prophecy of the resurrec
tion. Flowers! Flowers! Twist them
Into a garland for my Lord Jesus on
Easter morning, and "Glory be to the
Father, and to the Son, and to the
Holy Ghost ;as it was In the begin
ning, is now and ever shall be." The
women came to the Saviour's tomb,
and they dropped spices all around
the tomb, and those spices were the
seed that began to grow, and from
them came all the flowers of this East
er morn. The two angels robed In
white took hold of the stone at the
Saviour's tomb, and they hurled It
with such force down the hill that It
crushed in the door of the world's
sepulchre and the stark and the dead
must come forth.
Tle World' Jre-t Conquerors.
If I should come to you and ask you
for the names of the great conquerors
of the world you would say Alexander,
Caesar, Philip, Napoleon I. Ah, you
have forgotten to mention the name
of a greater conqueror than all these
a cruel, a ghastly conqueror. IIo
rode on a black horse across Waterloo
and Chalons and Atlanta, the bloody
hoofs crushing the hearts of natlon3.
It is the conqueror Death. He carries
a black flag and he takes no prisoners.
He digs a trench across the hemis
pheres and fills it with the carcasse3
of nations. Fifty times would the
world have been depopulated had not
God kept making new generations.
Fifty times the world would have
swung lifeless through the air no man
on the mountain, no man on the sea,
an abandoned ship plowing through
immensity. Again and again has he
done this work with all generations.
He is a monarch as well as a conquer
or; his palace a sepulcher; his foun
tains the falling tears cf a world.
IJlessed -be God! In the light of this
Easter morning I see the prophecy
that his scepter shall be broken, and
his palace shall be demolished. The
hour is coming when all who are In
their graves shall come forth. Christ
risen, we shall rise. Jesus, "the first
fruits of them that slept."
Now, around this doctrine of the res
urrection there are a great many mys
teries. You come to me and say. If
the bodies of the dead are to be raised,
how is this and how Is that? And
you ask me a thousand questions I am
incompetent to answer. But there are
a great many things you believe that
you are not able to explain. You
would be a very foolish man to say,
"I don't believe anything I can't un
derstand." Why, putting down one
kind of flower seed, comes there up
this flower of this color? Why, put
ting down another flower seed, comes
there up a flower of this color? One
flower white, another flower yellow, an
other flower crimson. Why the differ
ence when the seeds look to be very
much alike are very much alike? Ex
plain these things. Explain that wart on
the finger. Explain the difference why
the oak leaf Is different from the leaf
of the hickory. Tell me how the Lord
Almighty can turn the chariot of his
omnipotence on a rose leaf. You ask
me questions about the resurrection I
cannot answer. I will ask you a thou
sand questions about everyday life you
cannot answer.
SlitnlfUence or a Great Konnd.
You have noticed, I suppose, In read
ing the story of the resurrection that
almost every account of the Bible gives
the idea that the characteristic of that
day will be a great sound. I do not
know that it will be very loud, bu:
I know it will be very penetrating. In
the mausoleum where silence has
reigned a thousand years that voice
must penetrate. In the coral cave of
the deep that voice must penetrate.
Millions of spirits will come through
the gates of eternity, and they will
come to the tombs of the earth, and
they will cry, "Give us back our bod-
its; we gave them to you in corrup
tion; surrender them now In lncor
ruptlon." Hundreds of. spirits hover
ing about the fields of Gettysburg, for
there the bodies are burled. A hun
dred thousand spirits coming to Green
wood, for there the bodies are burled,
waiting for the reunion of body and
soul.
All along the sea route from New
York to Liverpool, at every few miles
where a steamer went down, departed
spirits coming back, hovering over the
wave. There is where the City of Boa
ton perished. Found at last. There is
where the President perished. Steam
er found at last. There Is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
hovering, hundreds of spirlts.hoverlng
waiting for the reunion of body and
soul. Out on the prairie a spirit
alights. There Is where a traveler
died In the snow. Crash goes West
minster abbey, and the poets and the
orators come forth; wonderful ming
ling of good and bad. Crash go the
pyramids of Egypt, and the monarch
come forth.
The Immortal liodr.
"But," you say, "if this doctrine of
the resurrection Is true, as prefigured
by this Easter morning1, can you tell
us something about the resurrected
body?" I can. There are mysteries
about that, but I shall tell you three
or four things In regard to the resur
rected body that are beyond guessing
and beyond mistake.
In the first place, I remark In regard
to your resurrected body, It will be a
glorious body. The body we have now
Is a mere skeleton of what It would
have been If sin had not marred and
defaced It. Take the most exquisite
statue that was ever made by an artist
and chip It here and chip It there with
a chisel and batter and bruise it here
and there and then stand it out In the
storms of a hundred years, and the
beauty would be gone. Well, the hu
man body has been chipped and bat
tered and bruised and damaged with
the storms of thousands of years the
physical defects of other generations
coming down from generation to gen
eration, we inheriting the infelicities
of past generations. But In the morn
ing of the resurrection the body will
be adorned and beautified according to
the original model. And there is no
such difference between a gymnast and
an emaciated wretch In a lazaretto as
there will be a difference between our
bodies as they are now and our resur
rected forms. There you will see the
perfect eye after the waters of death
have washed out the stains of tears
and study. There you will see the per
fect hand after the knots of toil have
been untied from the knuckles. There
you will see the form erect and elastic
after the burdens have gone off the
shoulder the very life of God In the I
body. In this world the most impres
sive thing, the most expressive thing,
13 tne human face, but that face Is veil
e.d with the griefs of a thousand years.
But in the resurrection morn that veil
will be taken away from the face, and
the noonday sun is dull and dim and j
stupid compared with the outflaming :
glories of the countenances of the j
saved. When those faces of the right- j
eous, those resurrected faces, turn to-
ward the gate, or look up toward the ;
throne, it will be like the dawning of
a new morning on the bosom of ever- s
lasting day. 0 glorious, resurrected ;
body!
But I remark, also, in regard to that
body which you are to get In the res
urrection, it will be an important body.
These bodies are wasting away. Some- 1
body has said that as soon as we begin
to live we beln to die. Unless we
keep putting the fuel Into the furnace
the furnace dies out. Tho blood ves
sels are canals taking the breadstuff's
to ell parts of the system. We must
be reconstructed hour by hour, day by
day. Sickness and death are at all
times trying to get their pry under the
tenement or to push us off the embank
ment of the grave. But, blessed be '
God, In the resurrection we will get a
body Immortal. No malaria in the air,
no cough, no neuralgic twinge, no
rheumatic pang, no fluttering of the
heart, no shortness of breath, no am
bulance, no dispensary, no hospital, no
Invalid's chair, no spectacles to im
prove the dim vision, but health, Im
mortal health! O ye who have aches
and pains indescribable this morning,
ye who .ire never well, ye who are lac
erated with physical distress, let me
tell you of the resurrected body, free
from all disease. Immortal! Immortal!
In Heaven.
Plenty of occupation In heaven. I
suppose Broadway, New York, In the
buslett season of the year at noonday
is not so busy as heaven is all the time.
Grand projects of mercy for other
worlds. Victories to be celebrated.
The downfall of despotism on earth to
be announced. Great songs to be learn
ed and sung. Great expeditions on
which God shall send forth his child
ren. Plenty to do, but no fatigue. If you
are seated under the trees of life, It
will not be to rest, but to talk over
with some old comrade old times the
battles where you fought shoulder to
shoulder.
Sometimes In this world we feel we
would like to have such a body as
that. There Is so much work to be
done for Christ, there are so many
tears to bo wiped away, there are so
many burdens to life, there is so much
to be achieved for Christ, we some
times wish that from the first of Janu
ary to the last of December we could
toll on without stopping to sleep or
to take any recreation or to rest or
even to take food that we could toll
right on without stopping a moment
In our work of commending Christ and
heaven to all the people. But we all
get tired. It is a characteristic of tke
human body In this condition; we must
get tired. Is It not a glorious thought
that we are going to have a body that
will never grow weary? O glorious
resurrection day! Gladly will I fling
aside this poor body of sin and fling
It into the tomb If at thy bidding I
shall have a body that never wearies.
That Is a splendid resurrection hymn
that we have all sung:
So Jesus slept. God's dying Son
Passed through the grave and bless
ed the bed.
Rest here, blest saint, till from his
throne
The morning breaks to pierce the
shade.
The JtN.n Savior.
0 blessed resurrection! Speak out,
sweet flowers, beautiful .flowers! While
you tell of a risen Christ tell of the
righteous who shall rise. May God fill
you this morning with anticipation!
1 heard of a father and son who
among otheis were shipwrecked at sea.
The father and on climbed Into the
rigging. The father held on, but the
son after awhile Jost his hold on the
rigging and wag dashed down. The
father supposed he had gone hopeless
ly under the wave. The next day the
father was brought ashore from the
rigging In an exhausted state and laid
on a bed in a fisherman's hut, and after
many hours had passed he came to
consciousness and saw lying beside
him on the same bed his boy. Oh, my
friends, what a glorious thing it will
be If we wake up at last to find our
loved ones beside us, coming up from
the same plot In the graveyard, coming
up In the same morning light the
father and son alive forever, all the
loved ones alive forever, never more
to weep, never more to part, never
more to die.
May the God of peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus,
that great Shepherd of the sheep,
through the blood of the everlasting
covenant make you perfect In every
good work, to do his will, and let the
associations of this morning transport
our thoughts to the grander assem
blage before the throne. The one hun
dred and forty and four thousand and
the "great multitude that no man can
number," some of our best friends
among them, we after awhile to join
the multitude. Glorious anticipation!
Blest are the saints beloved of God;
Washed are their robes in Jesus' blood.
Brighter than angels, lo, they shine,
Their wonders splendid and sublime.
My soul anticipates the day,
Would stretch her wings and soar
away
To aid the song, the palm to bear,
And bow, the chief of sinners, there.
CURIOUS IDEAS OF CHINESE.
lienor That Moil Should Not Hob An
imals of Milk.
A curious system of philosophy re
garding eating Is evolved by some per
sons, but the queerest "antl-pronuncia-mento
in some time is that published
in the Loa Chow Herald regarding the
use by man of animal's milk. The eru
dite Chinese who edit this journal of
the twentieth century publish a proc
lamation which says: "Man should
not rob animals of their own proper
food; and, of all animals, the cow is
the most valuable to man. The sel
lers of milk blacken their souls for
gain; but those who drink milk do so
in the foolish belief that it is good for
them. Before taking any medicine, we
should carefully Investigate its proper
ties, and who docs so with milk?
Milk is the natural food for babes
and of young animals; but when adults
drink it, do they not thereby endanger
the life of the suckling calf, and arouse
bitter resentment in the souls of the
calf and its mother? Beasts have not
the power of speech, and so cannot
tell men that by drinking cow's milk
they will become like quadrupeds. If
men must have a strengthening
draught, there are a thousand better
things than milk, so why sleet that?
Besides, the term of life Is foreordain
ed and It cannot be prolonged by
drinking milk. Everyone who reads
this warning is especially enjoined to
abstain from milk in the future. Chlld
len whose parents will not allow them
to drink milk will not be stunted in
growth, but they will have their lives
prolonged and be' Immune In epidemics.
So it is proclaimed In the Hall of
Good Counsel."
Fun and I'atlio or 8tn? Sing:.
Of all griefs, probably those are the
hardest to bear which, while real and
serious to the people who suffer them,
are of a kind to excite unsympathetic
smiles in everybody else. So it is no
wonder that the residents of Sing Sing
are eager to change the picturesque
name of their village. They know per
fectly well the, to the outside world
Sing Sing means a big prison, and they
have wearied of the jests to which the
Identification of the title and the Insti
tution exposes them. So they want to
say that they live In Osslnlng Instead
of In Sing Sing, and the desire is nat
ural enough. But, unfortunately, It
is also funny and possibly it would be
wiser to endure their present 111 than
to bring their sensitiveness to general
attention by taking action for relief.
And how long would it be, moreover,
before the prison association fastened
Itself upon Osslnlng? What Sing Sing
wants to do Is to grow so big that It
can win recognition for Itself. There
is no other cure for Its wees, but a
cultivation of a philosophical indif
ference will do much to mitigate them,
as It will for most other woes. New
York Times.
It Is the opinion of experts that tho
opening of China and Siberia will dis
close large deposits of gold and that
Asia after a while will furnish a large
part of the world's supply.
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Uhe Latest
BooOr
One hears much just now of the
supposed necessity of keeping up with
the times, especially in the field of lit
erature. There Is a real dread In
many minds of not being familiar with
the work of the latest authors who
may be immortals, or mere passing en
tertainersand people rush feverishly
from book to book, apparently con
tented if they can talk even superfi
cially thereof. Nor Is this mere idlo
curiosity. For men toll to acquire the
latest information about current
events and living men, and never seem
to feel that they lose anything by de
voting themselves exclusively to the
quest of this new information. But
they do lose a great deal. Leaving out
of consideration the novel-reading i
habit, the evils of which may easily
be exaggerated, It seems pertinent to
inquire whether it may not be well to
give a good deal more attention than
most of us do to what may be called
old knowledge. Of course, a man can?
not afford to be Ignorant of the things
about him, but the point is that he can
not really know these unless he knows
something of the conditions cnit of
which they grow, and of the causes
of events with which he may be famil
iar. It is a misfortune to be driven,
through the paucity of one's resources,
to use knowledge that Is too new. One
can almost always tell when a man Is
writing out of a mind specially filled
for the occasion. There Is no depth to
his work, no atmosphere about It, no
background behind it. The knowledge
which we are taught In our childhood
to believe was power, 13 a great deal
53
5o
Wants Japanese
Farmers
A novel experiment in colonizing is
about to be made in the Argentine Re
public. It has been found that the
French, German and English Immi
grants for the most part have selected
the cities and larger centers of popu
lation for their residences. In these
places they have got control of many
Industries and take a leading share In
the commerce of the country. The Ital
ians have been engaged heavily in riv
er navigation, while the stream of
Irish, which used to supply the de
mand for agricultural labo.r, filled the
ship yards, and supplied the labor of
docks, flows no more. Some French,
Swiss and German peasants have
founded agricultural colonies and in
certain places the Russians and Poles
form the bulk of the rural population.
But the Argentine government has
decided that none of these nations sup
plies in different numbers a rural
population for the development of the
Ways of the British PvrliLmert.
Applause in the British House of
Commons is strictly governed by pre
cedent and practice. "Hear" Is the
only token of approval permitted, and
that repeated over and over again by
a couple of hundred members pro
duces the phenomenon known as "loud
and prolonged cheers." In a new par
liament it generally happens that in
experienced members forget them
selves and clap their hands. Some
times strangers offend In this matter
to them, of course, all applause Is for
biddenand are promptly shown the
door. The only occasion one remem
bers when a stranger who clapped his
hands was not removed was when Mr.
Gladstone Introduced his first home
rule bill. At the end of the great
QUEEN AS A FARMER.
Victoria Wat l'ractlc! and Sucrcsful In
IUWIim Crop.
Almost from the time of her mar
riage her late Majesty Queen Victoria
was a practical and successful farmer,
says the London Spectator. Her "oc
cupations," to use the business word,
were not mere bits of the royal es
tates, on which to produce butter and
cream for the household. The farms
which her late majesty held for the
longest time, and which became wide
ly known, were at Windsor. They are
not large, considering the wonderful
success of the animals bred there.
One, Shaw farm, Is a grazing farm
with only 120 acres of arable. The other,
the Flemish farm, covers 400 aerts,
of which 240 are arable. They are cul
tivated "exactly as the shrewd and
practical Prince Albert settled that
they ought to be half a century ago."
The whole management has been on
a serious business system, and the
queen Insisted that this, which was
also arranged by Prince Albert, should
be strictly adhered to. The land has
been made to yield good crops, yet
kept unexhausted, and so long as ara
ble farming and corn were likely to
pay this was made the main object.
But It would not have been creditable
had not the queen made htr farms
profitable; and It was In the quick rec
ognition of the necessity for making
a change, and relying more on stock,
breeding, that she again led the way
among agriculturists. The prince eon
sort was the actual tenant. Her ma
jesty, on his death, took over the Ianar
like any farmer's widow, but caused"
the main attention of her tenants to
be directed to the rearing U pedigree
Danger of Reading Too i
Much New
Trash.
more than mere Information. It Is a
condition, a state of mind, a sort of
habit of knowing. Almost no facts
can be unimportant to one who ha
made them a part of his real knowl
edge. Even though he may never use
them directly, they will greatly In
fluence his method of handling practi
cal facts and affairs. So it is that his
torical study is so vastly important.
It broadens the mind, widens the out
look, cultivates the sympathies, ena
bles one to see things In their true
relations, and makes It Impossible for
one to think of even the newest move
ment or development as wholly new.
Information Is of the greatest value,
but It requires genuine culture to deal
with it Intelligently and satisfactorily.
This is specially true of the student of
literature and political affairs. Sound
ness and soberness of judgment, poise
of mind, depth of character, and com
prehensiveness of thought these
come, not from hastily acquired In
formation about what is now going on,
but from patiently and slowly accum
ulated knowledge of the great
movements of history, knowiedge
which has been pondered, and fully
absorbed, and which Is really a
part of the man himself. And
this is true culture. To gain it
one can well afford to pass by many, If
not most, of the novels that are now
being written, unless one have time
to devote to them without sacrificing
the greater good which comes from
serious study of the past. New knowl
edge, like new wealth, is almost cer
tain to have Its vulgar side.
Indianapolis News.
Novel Colonization Ex
periment to be Tried
in Argentina..
country, and has decided to Import
Japanese farmers. A great concession
has been given In the province of For
mosa for the first colony, and arrange
ments have been made to bring over
20,000 Japanese farmers and settle
them there.
From the ' Portland Oregonlan.
The Chinese residents of North Ya
kima have many sacks of rice supposed
to have been poisoned by the officials
and missionaries in China. One mer
chant has twenty sacks put away, and
refuses to eat any or sell to the Chi
nese. Those who claim to know say
that at least $300 Is Invested in pois
oned rice in that city. The rice Is
sold to Americans, but . the Chinese
purchase their supplies from local
merchants. They say that six years i
after eating the rice the victims die.
The object of the poison, it I3 said, Is
to kill off all the Chinese in the United
St?.tC3.
speech a young gentleman sitting in
the front of the gallery vigorously ap
plauded, and the doorkeeper pretended
not to hear. It was the late Duke of
Clarence. The methods of expressing
dissent in a parliamentary manner are
more varied. "No, no," Is the most
common. "Question," too, Is a favorite
mode of challenging a statement.
"Shame" is not infrequently lnterj ct
ed at moments of excitement, though
it is doubtful whether this is strictly
In order. The most approved method
of interruption, however, is shouting
"Divide!" or rather, "Vide!" This is
generally effective in silencing a
speaker, if the house is determined not
to hear him, and is generally resorted
to late at night.
cattle. Her herds of Shorthorns, Here
fords and Devons soon became famous.
During the last eighteen years they
have been among the most steady prize
winners for all-round excellence of the
herds of England; and In the show
sea&on of last spring and summer they
beat all previous records, the Short
horns winning forty-eight first prizes
ana iweniy-two cnampionsnips, and
the Herefords twenty-eight first prizes)
and seven championships; the Devonv
won twenty-six first prizes.
A lllglil nd Scotch Tradition.
There Is an old tradition in the
highlands of Scotland to the effect that
the owner of Balmoral dies when the
snow lies on a particular spot of Loch
nagar, which is rarely covered even
In the severest winters. In fact, ac
cording to the local report, the snow
has lain there this winter for the first
time during the reign of her late ma
jesty. It Is not generally known, either,
that the custom of stopping the clocks
at the moment when a "Laird"' dies
and keeping them so until after the
funeral was practiced at Balymoral
castle, where the clock In the tower
was stopped at the hour of Queen Vic
toria's death, just as the flag waj at
once lowered to half mast
IJIrth of Nw Gfytr.
A caretaker In Yellowstone Park
reports m uircu. oi- a new geyser in
the Fountain geyser basin. For an
hour after II first burst forth through
the earth it shot a continuous stream
of hot water hundreds of feet Into the
air.' It. now plays regularly every two.
tour.