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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.
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THE GIRL
HALFWAY HOUSE
A STORY OF THE PLAINS
IIY K. HOUGH. 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. C Rhome.
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