CHINESE BOYS HAPPY. THIRTY OF THEM COMF. FROM \ THE FLOWERY KINQDOM. V They Are Bright and Indnatrlone Scholar! —Queer Impreulone Obtained While ou the Journey—Astonished by the Kallruada. HE arrival of thirty Chinese boys a few days ago threw the quiet New Jersey village of Metuchen into a flutter of excite ment, says the New York Herald. These little fellows have been brought over to this country by the Rev. Huie Kin, a Chinese mission ary, to be educated according to West ern ideas. I made them a visit last week. Before I left they handed me a message written in Chinese. This was written by Jeng Seung, a bright-looking boy of 14. He is re garded as the finest Chinese scholar among them. He told me that if he had remained in China he would be ready this year to compete in the pub lic examinations for official honors. His tutor Is said to have strenuously opposed his coming to America, main taining that the boy’s future prospects should not be lightly thrown away. But his father set such a high value on western education that he let the boy go. Chin Suns Wing is another of the bright hoys. He. is 16 years old abd has attended school in China since he was 6. He was taken from one of the mission schools at Canton, to which he was admitted four years ago. His father is a local Chinese preacher. I succeeded in getting a connected ac count of the journey from him. This is his story, put into English: “My father and mother are both liv ing. I have five brothers. One of them is now in Boston. I wrote home as soon as we landed at San Francisco. I wrote again after we reached here. We had a nice time all the way. From Hong Kong to Nagasaki every ode of us was seasick. Then at Nagasaki the Japanese made ail the passengers go on shore and tak$ a bath. We did not mind that a bit. “From Yokohama to San Francisco all of us felt well and were pot (Jessie k at all. We had plenty of good things to eat on board. The steward 'often brought, us turkey, beef, lamb and other things, and we just helped our selves. We had a part of ship all to our selves, and were allowed to go on the upper deck and play ball with the other passengers. Our steamer stopped at Honolulu, but we did not go ashore. When we reached San Francisco we were kept on board the steamer three days on account of some trouble with the customs officials. “We spent three weeks in San Fran cisco. During that time we did nothing but go sightseeing. We visited the mu seums and public parks. We saw many wonderful things. The merry-go-round was one of them. We paid 5 cents and took a ride on the wooden horses. “There was a machine that puzzled ' us a great deal, and we got lots of fun out of it. If you drop a nickel into It the needle will whirl round a few times and finally come to a standstill, point ing to a certain figure which indicates your weight. But if you don’t put a nickel in it you may stand on the plat form all day and the needle will not move an Inch. “We had heard so much about steam cars in China that we were quite ex cited when we got on board the train for the first time. We had a special car to ourselves. How the train flew over, the track! I tried to count the tele graph poles but had to give up after awhile. “Near Los Angeles we saw a number of Chinese waving their hands at us. We had to change cars at New Orleans. .As we passed through Washington our attention was called to a tall monument. We took a look at it. “When we were in China we heard a good deal about how Americans ill treated our people. Since our arrival kindness has been shown us on every side. Heaven must be a place some thing like this.” The boys still wear their native gar ments but they are beginning to find that these are not suitable to their changed surroundings. While I was there a little fellow had just bought a pair of russet shoes and was showing them to his admiring companions. For amusement they played checkers, kicked footballs and picked blackber ries. Once a week an American friend of theirs calls and gives them lessons in baseball. The boys are required to devote cer tain hours every day to studying En glish. For this purpose they a.« di vided into three classes. They seem to pick up English rapidly. By September it is expected that they will begin their studies in real earnest. Smart S»t nn A Venetian, who had never before lef„ ♦he lagoons, found himself on an ani mal which would not stir. Taking his handkerchief out of his pocket h. held it up and said: “No wonder this horse does not go forward; the wind is against him.” M. D.. who had known Intimately St. Charles Borromeo dur ing his lifetime, finding himself in great danger from a tempest soon after the canonization of his friend, said: “Help me, St. Charles, because I knew you when you were alive.”—Cornhill Maga zine. null In til* Mill', - The woolen mills of New England ard doing next to nothing. GRAPHOPHONE IN POLITICS. Bow It la Fropoaad to Rand Spoookot on Th.lr Tnnli. Tho phonograph or graphophone may play an Important part in the coming presidential campaign. A suggestion has been made to Senator Jones, chair man of the democratic national com mittee, that he consider the matter of buying or renting graphophones and putting them to work for the demo cratic ticket. Such a suggestion has, in part, already been acted upon by the republicans, and it remains to be seen what Chairman Jones will do about the matter. If he does not care to make the national committee the official man agers of such a unique campaign, other persons may put the idea into opera It la Bald that the republicans have put the phonograph to work- In larger - cities, supplying campaign songs lor the amusement and edification of en thusiastic republicans. The suggestion to Chairman Jones, however, is of a different nature. It is that himself, Candidate Bryan and other noted silver speakers make 10 or 15 minute speeches for enrollment on the cylinders of the graphophone. These will be taken and put In machines which will be sent all over the country. They will prove double attractions, and, It is believed, would draw large crowds. The graph ophone Itself would prove Interesting in all the smaller cities and towns of the country, but, containing the speeches of eminent men of the demo cratic party, it would be sure to draw large crowds. The scheme is that democrats he sent through the country with these machines, advertising, like a show, when they would be at a certain place. When they had their audience In good shape, .they would put on the big brass tubes, and the speech would be almost the same as if delivered by the man himself. No charge would be made •although the belief is expressed that if there was a charge sufficient to pay the expenses of the operator there would be big crowds everywhere. It is said that the republican cam paign machines are made to pay their own expenses, just like all the ma chines in use for the public in gen eral. If the idea mentioned should be car- r ried out, it would prove the most novel scheme in the history of American pol itics, and there is no telling what influ ence it would have on the campaign.— Washington Star. » A NEW INDUSTRY. Tha Small Boy Taking Advantage of an Opportunity. “Light yer lamp, mister? Light yer lamp, miss?” is a cry constantly heard at the entrance to Central Park, as ihe signal of a new industry brought into being by the rule requiring bicycles and carriages to carry lamps at night. The small boys who haunt convenient spots where many vehicles pass make more money lighting lamps than they do selling papers. They get many nickels, occasional dimes, and once in a while a quarter. There are thrifty little finan ciers among them, too, as there are among boy business men generally. An amusing example came to disaster in a thrifty little scheme the other night. He saw a cabman light his own lamp with a match from a large and well filled match-box. The boy had a cigar ette stub just fished out of the gutter, “Please, mister, may I light my cigar ette at yer lamp?" “Sure,” replied the cabman, and the boy balanced himself on the cab wheel and lighted his cigar ette deftly enough from the lantern. But the lamp went out in the pro cess. “Oh, mitter, the wind blew out yer lamp,” exclaimed the boy, in ac cents of distress. “That’s your fault, you little imp,” growled the cabman; “light it quick, will you?” The boy protested that he had not a match, and the cabman grumblingly passed him one. It went out promptly, and anoth er met the same fate. When the boy had failed to light the lamp with a third match, the cabman’s patience came to an end. "Look here, young feller,” he snarled, “that's my last match, and you’ve put my light out for your cigarette. Now, if you’ve got no matches, you’d better get some mighty quick and light that lamp. See?” The boy trotted off and bought a brx of matches, came back and lit the lamp with the first one be struck, and then resumed his calling, while the cabman remarked that if a boy wanted to make him give him a handful of matches he would have to get up a brighte- game than that.—New York Times. An Aftylnm Story. This lunatic asylum story comes from Glasgow. Two councilors of that city were taken over a large asylum the other day by one of the patients, a safe man. He had led them to a room to display a view from the win dow, when some one shut the door, with its self-acting lock, and the three men were prisoners. The patient alone preserved his composure. While the councilors clamored to be released, he remarked: ‘‘If I were you. I would be quiet.” No help coming the councilors grew desperate, beads of perspiration stqod n their brows and they fairly yelled. ‘‘If 1 were you," repeated the patient, soothingly, “I would keep quiet.” < ‘‘But we're no daft,” pleaded one of the visitoro. ‘Moots, non! That’s what I said masel’ w-hen I was brocht in.”—New York Tribune. St. Lonl. After the Record. The other day a baby was born in a street car in St. Louis. That town is determined to keep up the pace which it struck when it corraled the Repub lican national convention. DAIRY AND POULTRY. : “ > 1 INTERESTING . CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Haw SaecMRrat Furman Operate This Department of th« Farm—A Few Hints us to th« Curs of Ltvs Stock and Poultry. N our desk lie two letters which treat on the same subject but which are very much aat variance. The one defends the incubator and the other the hen, says the editor o f Western Farm Journal. The incu bator champion ■ays ne has grown tired oi russy sitting hens, of eggs broken in the nest, and chicks trampled to death. Just when you want a broody hen, none can be found, and when you do not want any, all of them have the fever. The other fellow says he tried artificial incuba tion one season and he has enough. No more weak or roasted chicks for him; he has grown tired of getting up at night to look after an incubator, and he cannot stand 50 per cent hatches and under. We are friends of both. While we do not believe that the incubator can give us as good gen eral hatches as the hen can, while we know there is more or less trouble to run a machine, we also know that at tending to fifty to one hundred hens will occupy more time than running three large incubators, and that the results will be about equal. We also know that market poultry culture never received the proper boom until the in vention of good incubators, and we be lieve that the lack of good incubators In England is the sole cause of the fail ure of poultry farms there. Incubators' have an Important mission. They give us chicks wholesale, and they do their work at all times of the year. It may not be necessary for farmers to engage in artificial hatching, but if they want to add a winter pursuit to farm opera tions,, they will find it necessary, un less egg farming is to be the mainstay. We are often asked which is the most profitable, for the farmer to undertake, egg farming or broiler raising. We think thait the chances for success are about equal. We know of farmers who make broiler raising the adjunct. They buy their eggs of neighboring farmers, and hatch only during the winter, so that by the time the regular farm work begins they have disposed of all the stock, and the houses are cleaned and made ready for another season. Of course, on these farms, incubators and brooders are used. We, too, know of farmers who each spring hatch out pul lets which they grow to maturity, or rather get to laying by November, and these furnish a lot of eggs during the winter, at the very time they are bring ing the most money. Each year they hatch out new pullets, and each year they market, as roasters, those used last year. Both plans are good ones where poultry is to be merely a branch or a crop of the farm. For general poultry farming there must be some thing different. Poultry farms, to be sure of success, must have a regular Income; there must always be some thing for sale. For that reason thor oughbreds are advised, and the branches of eggs, broilers and roasters are used. Improved Fowls. Texas Rarm and Ranch says: The greatest improvement that can be made in chickens is by careful selection and breeding from those specimens which possess the qualities desired. We hold, in the interest of utility that the best fowls of all are those which possess the best table and laying qualities. Next to these come general uniformity in ex ternal appearance, which causes them to sell to better advantage, but add nothing to the value of the fowls in the hands of the consumer. This improve ment requires only common sense and care. No technical or scientific knowl edge is required. Let the hens be care fully watched and their laying habits carefully noted; from the best layers save breeders, male and female, reject ing-'those that are badly lacking in color or form, even if excellent layers. This is merely a concession to buyers j who prefer uniform lots. If any mani | fest superior table qualities note whence they come, and watch with a view of duplicating these qualities. Commence always with an established breed, but give eggs and flesh prefer ence over standard points, unless you wish to compete for prizes in a show. In that case everything must give way to a consideration of standard require ments. Eggs and flesh don't count in a poultry show. In this way every farmer can improve his fowls and make them more and more profitable as the process continues. Every year or two years a fresh cock of the breed used* should be introduced to prevent weak ening by Inbreeding. This adv'*' will give some of the poultry writers an attack of cacoethes scribendi and they, notwithstanding they know that this theory of improvement is sound, and that they apply it to the development i of standard points, will denounce it, misrepresent it, and become as mad as ' a sitting hen, because it does not suit j their views, nor promote what they consider their interests. Butter for Britain.—Last year the United Kingdom imported butter to the value of over 15,000,000 per month. For the first eight months of the year her exact expenditures for butter were $46,043,572.12. Of this amount the United States received the magnificent total of less than 1 per cent, exactly $365,970.53. When It is remembered that we are within seven days of the English market and have low rates and refrigerator facilities in the steamers, this is a poor showing. 7-“ Ratter-Mnking without let. "One great advantage the creamery has over the private dairy le In a sup ply of Ice to use In hot weather,” says a writer In Epltomlsl. “Ice In a cream ery comes so near a necessity that few would undertake to run one without Ice. But an abundant supply of water will answer the purpose. It takes lon ger to cool with water than it does to throw a lot of ice into the cream, but there are objections to cooling by put ting ice into the cream. The reports from all markets now contain the infor mation that most of the creamery but ter has defects, due to hot weather. And yet the creameries all have Ice. In the private dairy it is much easier to get along without ice. In the first place no cream has to be carted along the road in hot weather and become heated. In the second place there is less cream to cool and, therefore, less water will be needed. In the third place the cows need water, and the water used to cool the dairy house can be run through it and go to the cows, so there is no extra water needed to cool the cream. In the fourth place a large tank of water should stand in the dairy house and the cream can be set lh this and it will keep cool and need no extra cooling. When the butter comes, cold water Is necessary, not ice. If the wind blows, this problem is al reaay solved on lowa iarms, rur iuey have windmills to pump tor stock and the stock water can run through the dairy house. But if the wind will not blow at that time, then hand pump ing must be resorted to for the supply, or other provisions made. No hand pumping is done for our dairy. A tread power stands in a power house near by and a shaft runs through the dairy house. If cold water is desired when zephyrs are asleep, a horse Is led into the tread and he does the work. No ice is desired for butter-making with such conveniences. Pure, fresh, cold water suits better than stale water made cold with ice. A refrigerator is in the dairy house also. No ice is used In it, but simply cold water. Instead of putting cold water into this refrig erator, the refrigerator is put into the cold water. It is a galvanized iron tank inside of the water tank, and the water passing through this water tank for all stock purposes keeps butter hard and nice In the refrigerator. In hot, still weather, there is no trouble, for, if the wind is missing, the supply : of water is kept up by a horse-power for stock, and so the water in the dairy house tank is always cold.” Roles for Filled Cheesr. The commissioner of Internal rev enue, with the approval of the secre tary of the treasury, has issued a series of regulations for the enforcement of the act imposing a tax upon filled cheese and regulating its manufacture, sale, importation and exportation. The regulations prescribe that on the day when the act goes into effect—Sept, i 4, 1896—all filled cheese in the hands I of dealers must he in wooden packages ; of not lesB than ten pounds each and j every dealer must make, under oath, ! a written Inventory of all packages oil j hand' on that date containing ten ! pounds or more of filled cheese. The ; regulations further prescribe that the ‘ dealer must procure from the collector | of internal revenue and affix to each i package the proper tax-paid stamp. ■ The dealer will then cancel the stamp. In the cancellation the words and fig- j ures must not be defaced. On the 4th of September, or as soon thereafter as , practicable, the Internal revenue of- i fleers will travel over their respective districts, report the stock in the hands of dealers and seize all that is not found duly marked, branded aad stamped. The collector. will keep a record of all filled cheese produced in his district and of the quantity re moved from manufactories for con sumption or sale. He will also render to the commissioner of internal rev enue a monthly return of production, withdrawals and stock on hand. It is expected that the coupon stamps repre senting the pound tax on filled cheese will' be in the hands of collectors of, Internal revenue for sale as early as Aug. 15, 1896, and that blank forms for j manufacturers and dealers will also | be ready for distribution by that date. ’ Th» lloff D«manUfl for the hog he thinks the farmers ! should grow. He has imported from i England specimens of several breeds of the bacon hog, the Yorkshire, the 1 English Tamworth, Jersey, Duroc, and crosses between the Poland China and these breeds and the Chester Whites and these breeds. It is a good work. Food and Color of Milk.—The color of milk is imparted by a chemical com pound containing nitrogen. A yellow color may accompany either a high or a low per cent of fat. It does not necessarily follow that a yellow-tinged mlllc is richer in fat than a lighier colored one, because the color is not necessarily due to the amount of fat in the milk. The coloring matter in milk is influenced by the nature of the food consumed, and also by the special peculiarities of the cow. The milk dealers in the eastern cities sometimes take advantage of the popular Idea that a yellow tinge indicates a rich milk, and so they use just a little an netto to impart the desired color.— Harry Snyder. An Knglioh ( nrn Sulaa. An adaptation of an English corn salad made by a celebrated English cook consists of the sued corn cut from the cpb and boiled until tender in a little water, milk, salt, pepper and butter. Drain the corn ana set on ice until eery cold and serve with a sauce made in the following manner: Mix the yolks of three eggs with one-fourth of a pint of olive oil, and add to it one half teaspoonful of English mustard, a tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar, a dozen raw oysters cut tine and rubbed through a puree seive, a dash of papri ka, a slice of onion chopped very fine and a gill of cream whipped until stiff. —New York Post Piso's Cure for Consumption Is our only medicine lor coughs and colds.—Mrs. C. Belts. 48D 8th Ave., Denver, Col., Nov. 8,’96. A Simple llajr Fever Remedy. Sufferers from hay fever may.accord ing to a German physician, often tem per an attack by rubbing the ears briskly when there is the slightest in dication of fullness in the nose. The rubbing should be thorough, and until the ears grow red and hot. The reme dy is simple enough to insure a trial, and, if even moderately efficacious, will warrant its wide passing from one vic tim to another.—New York Times. 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