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i :) fo 4 Christianity in Japan. Many of tho prominent men of Japan aro Christians. To this crood belong one member of the Imperial cabinet, two Judgc3 of tho supremo court, two presidents of tho lower liouse of parliament, three vice minis ters of state not to mention a host of officials in the lower ranks. In tho present parliament tho president and thirteen members In a total mem bership of 300 aro Christians. In tho army there aro 155 Christian officers, or 3 per cent of all, and tho two larg est battleships are commanded by Christians. In Toklo throe of tho ;grent dally papers havo Christian cdi tors. Growth of City Clubs. Tho g-owth of city clubs of high class has given cause to open eyed amazement In this generation. In this metropolis thero aro two such organi zations, each of which has more than three thousand members and each of which owns reaf estate valued at many hundreds of thousands of dol lars. Most of tho well known clubs Jn this capital aro flourishing, and show in every way that they aro man aged with striking ability. Club llfo in the principal communities of this country has mnde giant strides in a third of a century. Latest Society Craze. According to the English papers, tho latest society craze seems to bo tho game of magic crosses. Thrco crosses, of small size, and In a num c lier of various colors, are laid on a table In a straight line, and the per son holds a magnet, which ho moves .slowly down the line of crosses. Ono ly one, but not In rotation, the crosses aro attached to the magnet, and when they aro at last all arranged In order tho expert can gain an insight Into tho character and fate of the experi menter. Even cabinet ministers havo consulted the magic crosses. A Hurry-Up Call. Cyrus Townsend Brady, the author, 3iad occasion to consult his physician lor a slight ailment on an extremely cold day. He was busily engaged In 3iis literary work on the doctor's arri "val. Hurrying into tho reception hall from his library, ho said: "Doctor, I wish you to get through with mo as speedily as possible, I loft tho hero and heroine by the side of a littlo babbling brook, and I'm afraid they will freeze to death if I don't get Jiack soon." So sacred is the person of tho Em peror of Korea that to touch his body with a weapon of iron constitutes high treason. Rather than violate this tradition, Ticng-song-tni-ong allowed an abscess to put an end to his llfo In 1800, believing It would be wrong for " him to submit to the surgeon's lancet. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow7 Then ue Dctlnnce Stnreh, It will keep them white 10 02. for 10 cents. A man is worth what he takes out of the world, not what he leaves In it T2t Shortest Way out of an attack of Rheumatism Neuralgia Istousa St. Jacobs Oil Vh!;h affords not only sure relief, but a prompt cure. It soothes, subdues, and ends the suffering. 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Al'THOK Olf TIIU STOKV OV THlt COVVUOV CatrrigkttJ, 1903. fir V. Attltttn if Camtun), Ntt VrM CHAPTER XXVII. The Hill of Dreams. Franklin found himself swept along with a tide of affairs other than his own choosing, itls grasp on tho pos sibilities of the earliest days of this new civilization had boon so full and shrewd that he needed now but to let others build the house whose founda tion he had laid. Yet ever a chill struck his bouI as ho thought of the lost battle at the Halfway House. There was now grass grown upon the dusty trail that onco led up to the low-caved house. The green and gray of Nature were shroud ing busily the two lonely graves of those who had fought tho frontier and been vanquished in that night of terror, when tho old West claimed Its own. Tho Halfway House of old was but a memory. And Mary Ellen, the stately visitant of his sleeping or his waking dreams, no longer might be seen in person at tho Halfway House. Recreant, defeated, but still refusing aid, sho had gone back to her land of flowers. It was Frank lin's one comfort that she had never known Into whose hands had passed at a price far beyond their actual w6rth tho lands of the Halfway House, which had so rapidly built up for her a competency, which had cleared her of poverty, only to re inforce her In her pride. Under all tho fantastic grlmness, all the mysticism, all tho discredited and riotous vagaries of his insubor dinate soul, Franklin possessed a sav ing common sense; yet It was mere frcaklshness which led him to accept a vagrant Impulse as the controlling motive, at the crucial moment of his life. To a very few men Edward Frank lin has admitted that he once dream ed of a hill topped by a little fire, On the Hill whose smoke dipped and waved and caught-htm In its fold. In brief, ho got into saddle and Journeyed to the tllll of Dreams. Tho Hill of Dreams dominated the wide and level landscape over which It had looked out through hundreds if slow, unnoted years. From It onco rose the signal smokes of the red men, and here it was that many a sentinel had stood In times long before a white face was ever seen upon the Plains. Here on tho Hill of Dreams, whence tho eye might sweep to the fringed sand hills on tho south, east to the river many miles away, and north and west almost to the swell of tho cold steppes that lead up to the Rocky Range, the red men had sometimes come to lay their leaders when their day of hunting and of war was over. Thus the placo came to have extra ordinary and mysterious qualities ascribed to it, on which account, in times gone by, men who were rest less, troubled, disturbed, dissatisfied, came thither to fast and pray. Hither they bore the great dead. It was upon the Hill of Dreams that his people burled White Calf, tho last great leader of the Plains tribes, who fell in tho combat with tho not less savage giant who came with tho white men to hunt in the country near tho Hill of Dreams. Since that time tho power of tho Plains tribes had waned, and they had scattered and passed away. The swarming white men Visigoths, Vandals had found out this spot for centuries held mysteri ously dear to tho first peoples of that country. They toro open the graves, scattered the childlike emblems, pick ed to pieces, the little packages of furs and claws. Jibing at the "medi cine" which in its time had meant so much to the man who had left it there. Toward the Hill of Dreams Frank lin journeyed, because it had been written. As he traveled over tho long miles he scarcely noted the fields, the fences, the flocks and herds now cling ing along the path of the Iron falls. Ho crossed the trails of the departed buffalo and of the vanishing cattle, but his mind looked only forward, and h saw these records of the past but dimly. There, on the Hill of Dreams, he knew, there was answer for him. if ho sufficiently besought; that an swer not yet learned In all tho vrry Ing days. It seemed sure to him '.hat ho should have a sign. 0 Franklin looked out ovor a daertod and solitary land as, he rode up to the AT THE foot of tho hill. There were no longer banners of dust whore tho wild gaino swept by, nor did tho eye cntch any lino of distant horsemen, it was an other day. Yet, as did the candidate of old, ho left his horso at the foot of the hill and went up quite alone. It wnB afternoon as he sat down. Tho silence and solitude folded him about, and tho sun sank ho fitly slow that he hardly knew, and the solemn night swept softly on. Then he built a little fire. In the night, after many hours, he nroso and lifted up his hands. At tho foot of tho hill the pony stopped cropping grass, tossed his head, and looked up In tently at the summit. It was morning. The sun toro calm and strong. Tho solltnry figure upon the hill sat motionless, looking out. Thero might have passed before him a perspective of tho past, the Plains peopled with their former llfo; tho oncoming of tho white men from be low; the remnant of the passing Latin race, typified in tho unguldcd giant who, savago with savage, fought near by, one brutal forco meeting another and both pusslng before ono higher and yet more strong. To this watcher it seemed that he looked out from tho halfway point of tho nation, from tho halfway house of a nntIon' Irresist ible development. Franklin had taken with him a small canteen of water, but be thinking himself that as of old the young man beseeching his droam neither ate nor drank until he had his desire, he poured out the water at his side as he sat In tho dark. Tho place wns covered with small objects, bits of strewn shells and beads and torn "mcdlclrio bundles" pieces of things once held dear in earlier minds, lie felt his band fall by accident upon some small object which had been of Dreams. wetted by the wasted water. Later, In the crude light of tho tiny tlame which ho had kindled, this lump of earth assumed, to his exalted fancy, tho grim features of an Indian chief tain, wide-Jawed, betuftod, with low brow, great mouth, and lock of life's price hanging down the neck. All tho fearlessness, the mournfulness, tho mysticism of tho Indian face was there. Franklin always said that he had worked at this unconsciously, kneading the lump betwocn his lin gers, and giving It no thought other than that It "felt cooling to his hand and restful to his mind. Yet hero, born ultimately of tho travail of a higher mnd, was a man from another time, in whose gaze sat the presclenco of a coming day. Tho past and the future thus were bridged, as may bo done only by Art, the enduring, tho uncalendared, the Imperishable. Edward Franklin, a light-hearted man, rode homeward happily. The past lay correlated, and for the future there were no longer any wonderlngs. His dream, devoutly sought, had giv en peace. CHAPTER XXVIII. At the Gateway. In a certain old Southern city there stands, as there has stood for many generations, and will no doubt endure for many more, a lofty mansion whose architecture dates back to a distant day. Wide and spacious, with lofty stories, with deep wing and many narrow windows, It rests far back among the ancient oaks, a stately memorial of a day when gentlemen demanded privacy ami could afford it. From the lron pillars of tho great gateway tho white front of the house may barely be seen through avenues made by tho trunks of the primeval grove. Tho tall white columns, reach ing from gallery floor to roof without pause for tho second lofty floor, give dignity to this old-time abode, which comports well with tho untrlmmed patriarchal oaks. Under those treos thoro lies, even today, a deep bluo grasB turf which never, from the time of Boone till now. has known the touch of ploughshare or the tool of any cultivation. It was tho boast of this old family that it could afford to own a portion of tho earth and own it as it came from the Jmnd of Nature. Uucaught by tho whirl of things, undihturbod esentlally oven by tho tide of the civil war, this branch of an oldSou It em family had lived nu In stathu un affected, though with fortune porhnps Impaired ns had been those of many Southern fnmlllos, Including all tho Dcauchamp line. To this strong haven or refugo had come Mary Ellen Dcauchamp from the far-off Western plains, after tho death of her other relatives In that enturo fo Ill-starred. Tho White hall ed old widow who now represent ed the head of the Clayton family her kin somewhat removed, but nono tho less her "cousins," after tho com prehensive Southern fashion hnd taken Mnry Ellen to her bosom, up braiding hor for ever dreaming of going Into the barbarian West, and listening but little to tho pica of tho girl that poverty had driven hor to the company of thoso who, like her self, were poor. Now, such had been the turn of the wheel, tho girl was nearly as rich in money as hor older relative, and nble to asumo what lit tle of social position there remained in her ambition. Alary Ellen was now well past twenty-seven, a tall, matured, and 8omevhnl sad-fneed woman, upon her blow written something of tho sor rows and uncertainties of tho home less woman, as well as tho rocord of a growing solf-rcllance. If Mary El len were happy or not nono might Bay, yet surely she was dutiful and kind; nnd gradually, with something of the leadership sho had learned In her recent lite, she slipped Into prac tical domestic command of this quiet but punctilious menage. By reason of nn equal executive fitness Aunt Luc roso In the kitchen alRO to full command. Tho Widow Clayton found her cousin Mnry Ellen a stay and comfort, useful nnd practical to a de gree unknown In the educntlon of tho Southern young Indy of the time. Or her llfo In the West Mnry Ellon spoke but little, though never with harshness, nnd nt times almost with wlstfulncBB. Her history had seemed too full of chango to be reality. For tho future sho made no plans. It seemed to her to bo her fate ever to be an alien, a looker-on. Tho rosea drooped across her lattice, and tho blue grass stood cool and soft and deep beyond her window, and the kind air carried the croon of the wooing mocking bird; yet thero persisted In her brain the plcturo of a wide, gray land, with the sound of nn urgent wind singing In tho short, tufted grasses, and the breath of a summons ever on tho nlr. Out thero upon tho Pluins it had been ever morning. Here life seemed ever sinking toward Its eventide. This old family 'and the family house were accepted unquestlonlngly by tho quiet Southern' community now, as they had ever been, as a part of the aristocracy of the hind, and an nppurtenances thereto. The wny of llfo had littlo chango. The samo grooms led out the horses from tho stables, the samo slow figures cut tho grass upon the lawn. Yet no longer were tho doors thrown open upon a sea of light and color. Tho horses were groomed nnd broken, but they brought no great cnrrlnge of state swooping up tho drive between tho lion-headed pillars of tho gateway. When Mrs. Clayton feebly sought to propose brighter ways of life for tho young woman, the latter told her gen tly that for her, too, life was planned and done, tho struggle over, ahd that she only asked that she might rest, and not take up again any questions for readjustment. "You will chango after a while, honey," said her protectress; but Mary Ellen only smiled. It was enough to rest here in this haven, safe from the surging sens of doubt and hope and fear, of lovo and self-distrust. Lot It bo settled. I.et It be ended. ( For her no cavalier should ever come rid ing up the graveled way, nor should lights ever set dancing again tho sha dows In the great dining hall over tho heads of guests assembled in her hon or. It was done finished. And Mary Ellen was not yet twenty-eight. (To bo continued.) JAPS GIVEN TO ATHLETICS. From Early Infancy They are Train ed to Develop Their Muscles. Considering their size the Japanese are undoubtedly tho strongest peoplo In the world. Time and again these littlo brovhi men have demonstrated tl;clr ability to endure fatigues that would break down the most sinewy Europeans. In any Japanese lown ono cannot walk far without uelng confronted by athletics In ono form or another. In the streets you can rare ly escape the painted and gaudily dressed tots who turn baby hand eprlngs, execute somersaults and do other Infantile stunts In a wheedling effort to secure the "hairy foreigner's" wealth, A Japanese matsurl were not the fair It purports without tho be spangled tight-rope performance, the bamboo ladder climbing youngsters, the wrestlers, tumblers, spearsmen or fencers. So deeply rooted is the native lovo for the strenuous life that tho na tional sports of other lands have been tried in Japan. The mikado, with many of the imperial family, attends the annual spring rnces in Yokohama, out nothing In tho lino of Imported sports so appeals to the Japanese as cycling and baseball. Cycling clubs aro scattered all over tho empire, thousands of American bicycles spin across the Island and the foreigners experience difficulty In keoplng even a fow of tho records and trophies out of native hands, Tho Toklo basoball team is an effi cient organization and It frequently drubs tho teams from other ports and cities. At tho Yokohama cricket grounds qxcollont and sharply con tested games may bo witnessed occa Klonally hotwoen the Toklo native team and the Yokohama foreign organization. poultry! Guard Agalnat Gapes. Gnpca are frequently present in a flock without the owner of tho chicks suspecting It. Tho troublo may bo a cnuso of loss year after year and tho poultry raiser Imaglno bad food to bo to blamo, or that tho chicks havo Botno bronchial disease. Gnpos coino to tho chicks by wny ofv tho anglo worms that nro fed thorn, or that ihoy pick up themselves. Wo havo known children to tnko such an Intorcst In tho littlo chicks shut up in their coops that they would dig nnglo worms for them, not knowing that thoy wero nt tho samo tlmo sup plying them with the deauly gapo worm. Feeding nnglo worms to chicks Is a good practlco If It bo known that gapes do not oxlst In tho neighbor hood; but If thero hnvo bcon gnpos on tho farm at nil, feeding tho worms to tho chicks Is n dangerous prac tice. Anglo worms mny bo fod to maturo fowls without fenr of In ducing gnpos, as tho gnpo worms aro ablo to attach thcmsolvos only to tho vory tender membranes of growing chickens. Wo soo tho statement made thnt "on somo farms durlAg certain seasons It scorns almost Impossible to roar broods of young chicks thnt nro entirely freo from it, particularly if tho chickens nro kept under tho ordinary conditions." This Ib true, but tho trouble can bo easily obviated by keeping tho chicks on bonrd floors, On most farms tho chicks can bo kept on griiBB plots; but whero gapeH are bad tho bonrd floor will havo to be resorted to as a protection against tho gnpes. Somo qiilto completo ex periments to demonstrato this have been mndo by the experiment sta tions. Two lotB of chickens wero kept sldo 'by sido, ono on n board floor nnd ono on tho bare earth. In several ropotltlonB of tho experiment (ho chicks on tho bnro ground got tho gapes, whllo thoso on tho board floor did not. In another experiment two broods wero kept on board floors. Ono brood was fed anglo worms nnd tho other wns not. Tho brood re ceiving tho nnglo worms wero soon sick with tho gapes, whllo tho other brood wan unaffected. Formerly tho processcw of llfo of .tho gnpo worm wero unknown, but In recent years thoy hnvo been discov ered, and tho gapo worm la seen to bo n parasite of the anglo worm. Tho worm now carries tho nnmo of Syn gamus trnchealls. It is reddish In color and from three-eighths to three fourths of an Inch long. What ap pears llko ono worm is really two, tho male nnd tho feinalo being per manently nttnehed. This led to tho common namu of tho "branched worm" prevailing in somo localities. Tho mnlo is tho smaller of tho two worms, These worms attach themselves to tho alr-pasHages of young chicks. They nourish themselves by sucking tho blood of tho fowl, and when u largo number of them collect in tho windplpo of a chick tho loss of blood Is great. As many ns forty of those worms have been found in the wind plpo of a single chick. Tho wenker ones among the chicks nro killed off by tho gapoB, but tho strongor ones goncrally survive tho attack. The af fected chickens cough up thoia worms and other chicks eat them nnd be como affected. It Is thereforo best to tako away from among the others the chicks affected with gapes. It Is easier to prevent gnpes th'an to euro them, but there aro remedial measures that may bo taken. Ono is to put tho chick in a barrel and dust In somo air-slaked lime. This will cause the coughing up Df tho worms. A double Horse hair twisted in the windpipe frequent ly dislodges many. A feather dipped in turpcntlno and turned In the trachea will causo many to he dis lodged, and they will bo coughed up. About Pheasants. In the caro of pheasants there aro no hard rules beyond thoso common sense dictates. Circumstances vary so greatly as to cllmato and locality that what might he true of ono local ity would not be true of another. Ono thing Is certain and that Is this, the English or Mongolian pheasants havo come to stay. Their introduc tion nnd propagation havo long slnco passed the experimental stage. Both tho above named birds are strictly a woodland bird and will fly to a wood or coppeB as soon as scared, but their feeding grounds are usually tho open arid Holds where grain and bugs can bo found. Don't think for a moment that pheasants will stay where they aro reared; they may do It some times, but at other times will go miles away, much deponds on tho location, If feed and water Is to bo found in abundance, and tho birds havo a thicket or hiding place to go to when scared they will most likely stay where they were liberatod or raised. One of the best things to keep your pheasants at home Ib to plant a mixed patch of broom corn and sor ghum; this will make n good hiding place and at the same time an nbund once of the most excellent food during the winter months. F. J. Wilson. Tho stockman whoso training has been solely in the school of experience often holds in light regard that which Is written concerning his vocation Let him remember that facts and truths are the same, whether their repository is the human mind or a book. Held by tho former all perish with tho possessor; In tho keeping of ho lattor, tho whole world may bo enefited Prof. W. A. Henry. -. .P f A rM r Breeding of Geese. As I hnvo been a breeder of fancy poultry for a number of years, eBpe dally tho Embden geese, I thtnk I know something about tho brooding of the 8nmc. Qccbo nro a profitable fowl on tho farm. They rcqulro less grain than any other kind of poultry, except In laying season, when they should havo plenty of grass, and water and nlso a liberal supply of different kinds of grain. I set my gooso eggs under chickens nnd whon they begin to hatch thoy should bo wntchod and taken out of tho nest ns fast ns they nro dry nnd kept In a warm placo un til all nro out nnd dry, ns thoy aro very helpless littlo mushy things tho first day or two. Put tho lion and goslings In n grnssy spot with n coop to shut thorn up in nights. Thoy aro vory cnslly raised and aro not subject to disease. I feed tho goslings corn bread until thoy nro largo enough to oat corn. They can bo fed meal nftor thoy aro two or throo wooks old. Keop thorn where thoy can got plenty of grass and wntor and you will bo sur prised to seo how thoy will grow. Early goslings enn bo picked sovcral times in tho fall, but It Ib wicked to rob them of their clothing In cold wenthor. The laying gooso should not bo picked In laying season, If you want eggs. Ono gandor with two lion gecao is nil that Is required, but If you have as many ganders as lay ing goose it wilt bo nil right. They mato off somo timp in Fobruary. Somo ganders will tako ono gooso nnd somo will tako two If there aro moro gocso than ganders. About tho first of March I innko nests for them in straw laying it It! bunchos near somo fonco or building. Thoy will mnko their own nests and begin to lay about tho 10th of March, that Is, tho Embden does, nnd I raise no other kind and havo no dcslro to for they get so largo nnd hnvo so many snow white feathers. Mrs. John W.' Dunn, WoIIb County, Indiana, In Farmers' Review. How Many Varieties of Corn. Recently a mad that had attonded a good many farmers' Institutes ex pressed It as his bollef that wo havo many breeds of corn. Ho thought it would bo a good Idea to hold a con gress of corn growers nnd deotdo on two vnriotios, ono yollow nnd tho other whlto, and then to ndvlso tho farmers to discard all other varlotlos and stick to tho growing of thoso two varieties or to ono of tho varieties. Wo doubt if tho situation would bo improved by such a move. Tho devel opment of corn varieties is bound to go on under the samo stimulus that has given us moro than 2,000 variotles of upplcs, a fow of which aro really good. Tho fact la that at prosent wo know vory littlo about tho corn plant as to adaptability of different varieties to different situations. Doubtloss wo will find that thero nro great differ ences In this regard. Wo havo yot to fit our varieties to our localities. Wo will suppose that tho congress named was held and that Boono County Whlto and Learning wero se lected as tho varieties to bo grown. Then what about the vory large stretch of country in the North that , la growing only flint corn and can grow only flint corn, as It is too cold for tho dovolopmcnt of tho dent va rieties? It is evident that the season differs greatly In length In various places and that the corn variety that will do best In a certain locality must be regulated to some extent by the tlmo It takes to reach maturity after the ground gets warm enough to sprout tho seed. There Is also a great difference in moisture requirements of different varieties, and this must also count for much in tho developing of new varieties, No Hurry to Pasture. At this tlmo of year tho dairyman is looking at his pastures expectant ly for the first appearanco of green grass In enough quantity to allow him to turn out his cows with some chnnco of them getting a fair part of their living. The temptation to turn out, tho cows early should bo re sisted. Tho old way was to turn them out on tho first of May, no matter what tho condition of .the pasture or tho carllncss or lateness of tho sea son. Sometimes tho grass In somq lo calities Is well advanced on the first of May, but in others not. Why should thero bo a uniform dnto, even in custom, for such a matter. It pays to save tho pastures for a week or two when they aro just beginning to got a start. One or two weeks rest at that time will give more satisfac tory returns in the way of pasturage later on. American Hereford Breeders. At tho meeting of the board of di rectors of the American Hereford Breeders' Association, recently held in Kansas City, tho following wero endorsed as persons from whom the managers of the World's Fair could select a Judgo for Hereford cattle at that exposition; Thomas Clark, C N, Cosgrovo, C. A. Stannard, George Leigh and E. J. Taylor. An appropria tion of 1,000 was mado for the Inter national and also for tho World's Fair and $300 was appropriated for tho Il linois State Fair. As judges at tho Kansas City show, Thomas Clark, I, M, Forbes and Dr. Jessy m wero nnrnod. An executive committee was appointed as follows: C. A. Stannard, C. G. Comstock nnd B. 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