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OlttOIN OF COMMON PHRASES. POINTERS FOR CAREFUL WOMEN ALIENS IN JAPAN. INTELLIGENCE OF WASPS. NEW YORK HOTELS. PASSING OP THE WILD HOUSE He better illustration can be had as ts popular fallacies and errora respect tag the origin of phrases in common ase and of familiar sayings, than the recent discovery that the expression "War la hell," waa Invented by Sen ator diaries Sumner and not by Gen eral Sherman, aa supposed. A similar notable mistake la made Bore frequently by English than Amer ican writers in the use of the significant words "After me the deluge," or "Aft or us the deluge," which they credit to toe epigrammatic Hatternich. As a matter of fact the Austrian prince ap propriated the saying from the trad! of Mme. Pompadour and made frequent use of It that it came to be bandied about as from his own aabtle mind. Lord John Russell in giving the Eng- Bab language the sadly worn phrase, "Conspicuous by his absence," In his address to the electors of London said "M I not an original expression of mint tat is adapted from one of the greatest historians of antiquity." Russet failed as name the author, however, and there B bo record aa yet that the antiquarian has found him out "Better hair la from Sidney "Arca dia." wherein Argalus says to Paxthe asa, "My dear, my better half." "To rain cats and dogs" waa one of Bmd Swift's eccentric Inventions. "Sweetness and light," attributed to Matthew Arnold, waa also Swlft'a The was also the first literary au- 1ty to apply the word "duet" in she sense of money payment, a use of Sat substantive which Is supposed to have begun in the early gold period of California. It seems the dean had preached at St Patrick's, Dublin, a ser- asao on charity so long-winded that the egation waa disgruntled. The came to his knowledge. Not long afterwards he had another charity ser awn to preach In the same place. This his text was, "He that hath pity n the poor lendeth to the Lord, and it which he hath given will he pay b again." The dean, after having sted his text in an emphatic man- Mr, said: "Now, my beloved brethren, pea hear the terms of this loan. If you She the security, down with your dust" "To throw dust in the eyes" Polhe aams accredits to Epaminondas.who was wishing to steal a march upon the La cedaemonians, near Tegia, and seize the heights behind them, made 1.600 of Ms cavalry move on In front and ride boat In such a manner as to raise a great cloud of dust which the wind serried Into the eyes of the enemy, un Ser cover whereof he executed a suc cessful flank movement and carried bis Boot. Caesar wrested Dyrrachlum from Pompey in a similar manner. Hie line. "There Is no Jesting with edged tools," la from Beaumont and Vtetcher's "Little French Lawyer." The wisdom thus embodied found expres sion many years In this legent posted la a sawmill near Denver: "Don't mon key with the buzzsaw while in mo- To see the elephant" to see life, to See the world, especually the under side of the world, has a curious origin, little pi i1 ted. It was Inspired by a pas- from Arrlan's "History of India," which It Is related that a woman allowed to part with her honor in exchange for an elephant and indeed gfrHied in the fact that she was so highly esteemed. "The beginning of the end" Is ascrib es to Talleyrand in his answer when as ill by Napoleon, after the battle of Letpslo, what was his opinion of the y state of things. "Let no guilty man escape" was the sajfmmililr endorsement of President Sweat written on a letter relating to the prosecution of the whisky ring. When It became apparent that some ol Ml personal friends were Involved. "Drerythlng is lovely and the goose aaag nigh" Is a saying; comomn U the southern states. Hangs Is probably a. corruption for "honks." the onomato sjoetle reproduction for the cry of the wtti goose, which flies on clear days. "A sea of upturned faces" is said to fTf been used first by Daniel Web gter as a figure of speech in Faneull flax. Best en. September SO. 1841. TaanUlartty breeds contempt" wai aataed from Plutarch's sentence that vtrlcles took care not to make hit i cheap among his people and ap- song them only at proper In- k" The first "father of his coun- i hTaxl us of Rome, and the last i Washington. The Latin "strad- JJaag with distorted legs" was the In asriptlon for the political "On thf Ob of the genuine latter day aphor haas, as near as can be ascertained, lr Baptism of fire," contained In the dis patch of Napoleon to the Empress Eu saata. telling of the participation of thi prtaee Imperial In the affair of Saars arack. August 10, 1170. htacaulay "First an Englishman, ther Whir." is from the old proverb, "First Venetians, thea Christiana," Thomai Haagher the Irish patriot, made a f reel span-so when he said: "If the altai between me and my country the altar." Socrates said: "I an as! aa Athenian nor a Oreek. but i of the world." Patrick Henri "I am not a Virginian, but a and Daniel Webster. aa Americas, I will live at I shall Ale aa Aaterleaa." iMsni Bn" was the rea i Ward toft the leotare hal f -SCftotSllB i a. .- - - v- . - - e A perfectly good but somewhat de mode stuff dress of the past winter can be coaxed cheerfully again into hard service this autumn under a well-nlgb impenetrable alias, One disguise is effectively done with velvet another by scalloping wherever that device can be ventured, and third Is the adding of a bolero front or whole figaro pocket If a skirt Is a trifle the worse for wear at the bot tom cut it in a series of scallops, bind the edges of the scallops with a narrow band of black velvet or velvet In the same tone aa the goods, and then per mit the refreshened border to fall on a straight velvet band that artfully ap pears to be the bottom of a rich un derskirt Should you have a smart skirt of plain green or brown doth left over and you wish a waist for It hie away to one of the shops where they are already getting In their fall goods, and buy some of the new Caledonian plaid camel hair for a body to your dress, because you must bear In mind that this Is to be a fall and winter of combination gowns. Rough-faced goods will be worked up with satin-surfaced cloth, crepons of the most corrugated face are to be draped over glistening peau de suede silks, antique velvet is the proper mate for lady's melton and the sntartest black silk gowns will show heavy in crustations of stitched on black cloth, in od figures or running wreath pat terns. Every resource will be exhausted In order to enable us to escape from any use of braids, while the more lace there Is appropriately introduced In a costume the nearer the perfection of the momentary style Is gained. Here and now let It be understood that strings are no longer on probation but for the next six months will be an active force for beauty in feminine dress, and the smartest little bonnet is put on with one continuous strap or scarf, made of a fold of velvet lined with satin, or a scarf of lace. One end of the lace or velvet is per manently fastened to the back of the bonnet the height of the scarf is then larrted down under the chin and up the opposite side of the head, conclud ing in a small rosette and pinned to the bonnet's rear alongside the other snd, forming a part of the head gear s ornamentation. By this device the bonnet Is held on snugly and to 99 out of 100 women the straight band under the chin Is far more becoming than the ends knotted to a full pompon under one ear. mile piquant touch to this co- luettish top-knot Is a big, brightly-Jew eled broach fastened in the smoothly drawn string a little to one side, and some women, who affect many nne ex pressions of daintiness, will pin one very sweet flower on the tulle scarf that anchors a wide hat so securely. There Is more genuine novelty In the wraps of cloth and fur designed for the autumn clothes market than in either the gowns or hats that are al ready casting their shadows before them. None of the fashionable new. somen at the furriers or cloakmakers are braided. The whole creed of dec oration ia cloth stitched on cloth and fur oa cloth. Not one of all new coats or capes make the slightest pretense of fitting the figure. What the English call box and what the French volante shaped wraps are being pushed for popularity moat vigorously by the manufacturers, and the chances are just even whether this style, so frequently and emphat ically rejected and despised by women. win now be accepted. Clumsily large capes of the same type as were worn last winter are eli gible tor use In the coming season, and the handsomest are made of thick, leek-surfaced dark cloth, with broad borders of gray and brown fur and finished by tall kaiser collars. Another mode shows a cape with long kersey skirts to the hem of the dress, and then over this to the hip falls an other cape of fur, and It Is perfectly patent that the long-haired pelts are to be first in the hearts of our country women this year. Silver fox is the most costly and sumptuous skin, far, far more fashion able than seal or sable, and now, by some secret the furriers are bringing out long-haired black furs, mottled In tiny white specks. This Is called Lab rador fox, and the fur boas are minus heads and tail, and are shaped ex actly like those of feathers and silk muslin ruches that we have worn ail summer. That Is, from great girth at the back of the head a cub bear or Canadian sa ble boa tapers to slender points at the waist line, and few run longer than this .and all are meant to be held to gether with ornamental pins at throat and belt Every handsome fur-trimmed cape ia fastened at the collar In front by aa ornamental clasp and the Jewelers se lect brilliant agates, full of red and white fire, polish them highly and sink them in broad rims of goto, or silver, The whole pin ts about the sue or dessert spoon's bowl and is called Deer's eye and catches the cape to gether under the chin. Long cloth coats that might easily be called ulsters are maae oi Droaa- cioth, vicuna or venetiaa cloth, are cut on the Cbcrterneld or itagian pattern. aa those for men are modeled; their pockets are made ample, and the one feminine suggestion is tne tail, up- rolled cellar, often lined with mole's fur, that gives the tenderest most grateful touch to the face imaginable, and the smoked pearl-gray color of which forms a soft becoming back ground for the face. The majority of these long coats are made to fasten with the buttons out of sight or one or two very choice cut steel disks hold the fronts together and twinkle In the soft deep hair. There is a pretty fashion coming In of using bullet-shaped buttons of brass at trimmings on sleeves ana yoaes nn the fronts of cloth suits. These art copies ef the buttons that small boyi in livery wear and they are not Um first ornaments that have crept InU women's wardrobes. Some of the handsomest of the new umbrellas have Initials ia brass suss la the wood of their handles, moac nai oa leather purses are made oi tall, skeleton brass letters, and travel las saas are brass beans. Sheppiai baas aaa brass-beaded hatptas an araoag fas most attractive aovettles Brass la evtdewtiy the assiaffor U saaeh of tan assmiarlty acicrliils gat metal sad by treating- it te a algh pet Over 1.000 cltlaens of the UnitM states, 2,000 Englishmen and about (.000 Germans and French citizens will be directly affected by the new ordei f things in Japan, by which extra .errltoriallty disappears and foreign residents are made subject to the laws ind business regulations of that em ?ire. Fully 8,000 of the 10,000 foreign ;rs now residing in Japan will be thus iffected by this feature of the fifteen lew treaties which have abandoned consular courts and extra-terrltoiiallty uid made the citisens of the fifteen xmntries In question subject to the aws of Japan when residing In that country. It Is Interesting to observe that the Imposition of the Japanese Is apparent- y to look almost exclusively to the United States In educational matters, is the total number of Japenese stu lents residing abroad, as shown by the :ensua figures, was 2,465, and of this number 2,178 were In the United States. 12 in Germany, 47 In Russia ind Russian colonies, M In England ind English colonies, 21 In China, 14 n Core a and 10 In France. Tne commercial relations between Japan and the United States differ materially from those of many other :cuntries. While our total exports argely exceed our total imports, the conditions are reversed In our com tierce with Japan, as our Imports from hat country greatly exceed our ex- Torts to It This Is due to the fact that Tapan Is the producer of certain al leles absolutely required In the United States, and which cannot or at present ire, not produced In this country. Of -aw silk for our manufacturers our mports from Japan in the year Just nded amounted in round numbers to (15.000.000, or nearly as much as our lotal exports to that country, while radically one-half of our team Import- d was also from Japan, the total from ihat country during the year being jver $4,000,000. Of rice the Imports -ang in the vicinity of a half million lollars; flax, hemp. Jute, etc., for raanu- acturing, In round numbers a half- nilllon, while manufactures of silk rom Japan range between $2,000,000 md $3,000,000 annually. Japanese of- Icial figures show that the exports rom that country to the United States were in iks 47,3ii,i4 yen ana ner mports from the United states 40.- i,087 yen. An examination of the total figures for 1898 shows that fapan's trade with the United States s larger than with any other country, he exports to the United States being .311,154 yen, against 30,473,895 to Hong Kong, 29.198,175 to China, 20,49,4O6 to irance and 7.783.643 to the United Klng lom; while the imports from the United States were 40,001.097 yen, against 62,- 07.572 from the United Kingdom, 40, 64,244 from British East Indies, 30.523,- ;60 from China and 25,610,000 from Ger- nany. Price of Meat The rise In the wholesale price or neat has been gradual and due to auses over which the packer himself las had no control. It has been the ;ommerclal result of the gradual rise n the price of live stock; and this en- lanclng of the value of the herd baa jeen brought about by the general mortage of live stock for slaughter purposes, and the Increased cost of producing hand (stall fed) beef, be cause of the shortage of feed and the ncreaaed cost of getting It If the past prices of meat were right the present prices are so, since they are calculated an the same basis. A comparison of the market for beef cattle on the hoof In Chicago and Kansas City for Aug. 10, 1897, 1898 and 1899, shows that the following top and average prices were paid by the packers at the stock yard? in comnetition for hand fed and choice western beef cattle: Aug. 10, 1897, prime cattle, live weight, $4.80: av erage, $4.15, making the prime dead meat cost $7.90, or nearly 8 cents pei pound to produce. The butcher paid less for It. August 10, 1898, prime stock fetched $5.25; average good helferf brought $4-50- This made prime dress ed beef cost, $8.50, or 8c per pound landed. August 10, 1899, prime bee! cattle sold for $6-20; average good $6.25, making the carcass of prime cost landed, $ , or 1-4 ents per pound. The price of cattle has been creeplnf up for two years In proportion to th shortage of stock and the expenslvt food and weather conditions for pro ducing marketable beet We bavi warned the retail trade of these ad vancing conditions and from time U time advised them to meet the Inevit able by putting up their shop prices That they have lingered at the oU prices for two years and are now forced to meet the state of trade In on Jump la as unfortunate as It was un necessary, but the wholesalers are not to blame, Inasmuch as the stork grow er draws first Mood from the slaughter and for spot cash at that If any on questions this statement let him bit at the stockyards with millions beel of him and ask for credit Natlona Provision er. MRS. C ALLI PER AND THE COLON EI "Jason," said Mrs. Calliper to her ab seat-minded husband, looking towart the clouds aa she spoke, "what a love ly blueflsh sky!" "Bluensh sky?' Cythlar said th Coiooel, with more than his usual dar edness of manner, " 'blueflsh skyf Oh you mean mackerel sky, Cynthia, mark srsl skyr" "No. I don't Jason." said Mrs. Cai:i per, usually, however much put ov she might feel over the Colonel's fall are to appreciate her little Jokes, sc opting his eorerctlons cheerfully, tn tato time, at least, revolting. "No, dasL Jaeoa." she said: "I doa't atee saaefcsrel sky at alL If you doa't Ilk I'at ready to sail it gree ash. or aay color, bi 'Maw Terk Dr. George W. Peckham and Ellsa beth G. Peckham, his wife, have spen years studying wasps. They hav printed a book on the Intelligent in sect and here are some of the storlei they teU: Some wasps will catch spiders, usini the mas food for their progeny, leav their prey on the ground or hide I under a lump of earth until ready fo use, or hang them on a forked brand of bean and sorrel plants, that the may be out of the way of ants whU the nest is dug. Or a queen of somi colony of social wasps will occasional!; occupy the comb of the previous yea instead of building a new one for her self. Wasps, according to their mode o living, may be divided in two groups ctal and solitary. In the case of tin atter each female makes a separati lest and provisions her ofhpring b jer own labor. The eggs are genera!l deposited In the bodies of spiders, mag gota, eta, caught by the mother ant stunned by one or more stlnge. so ai to be not wholly dead until the younii wasp-child has emerged from the egt and has fed upon them to its heart' content. These solitary wasps, having nc knowledge of their progenitors, wht die long before their children see th light, are all the more Interesting be cauBe inherited instincts alone deter mine the course of their activities. Bui their ways and habits are Influenced tf a great extent, nevertheless, by Sf much Individual Judgment and experi ence that they offer a wide field fot study and experiment. I shall relate a few of the storlei told by Dr. and Mrs. Peckham of the manners of these little stinging and severe-looking Insects: The female ammophilas and urnarla make their nests In the ground. They dig a short tunnel extending over tht urface and ending in a minute cave. There they deposit one or more cater pillars, stunned by one or more stings. iay their eggs in the caterpillars' bodiet and close the opening of the tunnel and retire. Just here," Bay the authors, "must be told the story of one little wasp. We remember her as one of the most fastidious and perfect little workers of the season, so nice was she In the adap tation of means to ends; so busy and ontented In her labor of love. In filling up her nest she put her head down Into it and bit away the loose earth from the sides, letting It fall to the bottom ;f the burrow, and then, after a quan tity had accumulated. Jammed It down with her head. Earth was then brought from the outside and pressed In, and then more was bitten from the sides. When at last the filling was level with the ground, she brought a quantity of fine grains of earth to the spot and picking up a small pebble used It as hammer In pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot aa hard and firm as the surrounding turf ace. Before we could recover from our astonishment at this performance she had ropped her stone and was bringing more earth. We then threw ourselves Sown on the ground that not a move ment mlht be lost, and then saw her filck up the pebble and again pound the arth Into place with It, hammering now here now there until all waa level. Once more the whole process was re peated, and then the little creature, un conscious of our very existence and In tent only on doing her work and doing It wll, gave one final, comprehensive glance all around and flew away." Breadth of Llghtnlne. "Did you ever see the diameter of a lightning flash measured?" asked a geologist. "Well, here Is the case which once enclosed a flash of lightning, fit ting It exactly, so that you can see Jusl how big It was. This Is called a 'ful gurite, or lightning hole, and the- ma terial It Is made of Is glass. I will tell you how It was manufactured, though It only took a fraction of a second to turn It out "When a boltof lightning strikes a bed of sand It plungea downward intf the sand for a distance less or greater, transforming simultaneously Into i glass the silica In the material through which It passes. Thus, by Its great heat It forme a glass tube of precisely Iti own slse. Now and then such a tub known as 'fulgurite' la found and du up. Fulgurites have been followed Into the sand by excavation for nearly thir ty feet They vary In Interior dlametei from the site of a quill to three Inch" or more, according to the 'bore of th flash. "But fulgurites are not alone pro duced In sand; they are found also lr solid rock, though very naturally ol slight depth, and frequently exlstln merely as a thin, glassy coating on tht surface. Such fulgurites occur In as tonishing abundance on the summit ol Little Ararat in Armenia. The rock Is soft and so porous that blocks a foot long can be obtained and perforated !r all directions by little tubes filled with bottle green glass formed from th fused rock. There Is a small specimen In the national museum which has the appearance of having been bored by the teredo, and the holes made by the worm subsequently filled with glass. "Some wonderful fulgurites wen found by Humboldt on the high Nevadi de Tolaea, In Mexico. Masses of thf rock were covered with a thin layer of arson glass. Its peculiar shimmer lr the aaa lad Humboldt to ascend th precipitous peak at the risk of his life.' "Why does he make all those motlom with ato ana before he pitches th katlf Tkosa art signals to the catcher Tka lira atea always work la "Daar awl to that the 'concert pitch ft heard aasst aa artsaT" There are about sixty-two prominent lotela In what Is commonly called tht 'hotel district" of New Tork, extend ng say from the Astor House at 3 roadway and Barclay street to the tfajestlc. Seventy-second street and ntral Park West There are several arge and very excellent new houses .hat are outside of the limit mentioned, ut the llBt given comprises the New Fork hotels best known to visitors lc he habit of going there. All the hotels mentioned have a rest lent population, that is, patrons who ive In them all the year round. Th otal number of persons who live In thti ay cannot be even approximately itated, but It is very large, and is In creasing from year to year. The figure riven indicate the capacity of these ho :els for transient patrons, Irrespectlvt f the permanent. It Is estimated by ailroad people that fully 100,0X itrangers take at least one meal In N'ew Tork each week day. The ma jority of these have departed by night- 'all, but the dally population looking 'or accommodations at the hotels Is at east many thousands. Here are the jest known hotels and their capacity :or transients: Albemarle 200, Albert 150, Ashland !00, Astor 300. Bartholdl 150, Brevootl i50. Broadway Central 600, Bucklng- mm 40, Cambridge 200, Cadillac 150. Continental 200, Cosmopolitan 250, Everett 150, Fifth Ave. 600,Ullsey 3UU, Irenoble 100, Grand 250, Grand Union M. Hoffman 350, Holland 300, Imper- al 400. Majestic 600, Sinclair 300, Ma le Antonette- 250, Manhathtan sw. Marlborough 300, Metropole 200. Met ropolitan 150, Murray Hill 600, Morton nouse 100, Netherland 600, lew Am tterdam 150, Normandwle 150, Park tvenue 500, Plaxa 300, St. Cloud 200, 3t. Denis 250, Savoy 300, Sturtevant WO. Union Square 150. Waldorf-As- :orla 1,800, Westminster 200. Assuming that each hotel mentioned Akes only Its normal number of tran ilents, . room Is found for only 14,350 jersons. In the case of the Waldorf ind a few others, patronised by per 10ns with whom money Is no object, wrlor suits will not be broken up Into jedrooms and two or more patrons will lot be put Into one room. But with nost of the hotels In the list there will e a great deal of doubling up. Lucky ndeed will be the man who gets a -oom to himself. New Tork hotel keepers have always wasted, and Justly, that no matter now great the rush they have never alsed the rates. They declare that hey will not do so uuring the Dewey elebratlon. This Is the reverse of the xillcy pursued by Western cities on Imllar occasions. But the New Tork hotel keepers must get even some iow, so they take It out In "doubling ap," though never, they say, going to he extent of uncomfortable overcrowd ng. Assuming, therefore, that on an aver se each hotel mentioned will double ts capacity for the three Dewey days, :8,700 persons are provided for. Then Jiere are at least one hundred smaller Hotels in various parts of the city cap ible of accommodating anywhere from 100 to 200 patrons each. Farming By Wire. Huxley stated that our vital force is the transformed energy of Inorganic natter absorbed by plants, which wlth j ourselves becomes muscular strength ind brain tissue. If the power of living things depends jpon latent forces In matter, then per haps these forces may be able to affect an organism In their turn possibly nold Its future growth If applied In Ume or exercise a marked effect upon Its development A remarkable experiment has been tried with an egg which was being batched. It was found that an elec tric current of sufficient strength to kill the fowl did not destroy the vi tality of the germ In the egg. But the chicken when hatched was of abnor mal shape and monstrous In appear ance. These facts prove that the or ganisation of a growing thing Is influ enced by the Impress of a force upon It before It reaches maturity. The Maaaachusetts Agricultural col lege has proved that electricity stimu lates the growth of plants. Mr. Asa S. Kinney has made experiments for three or four year. They prove that a seed planted In the ground dVes not grow as quickly as one rushed In Its development by electricity. Two lots of 12 groups, each of 113 seeds, were soaked In water and placed Into cylindrical glass vessels at each end. The receptacles had dipping Into them copper disks to which a current was applied. The seeds were kept at a temperature of from 46 to 50 degrees. The seeds treated electrically grew SO per cent quicker than those treated In the regular manner. A great percent age of seeds used In farming are wast ed, aa a rule, and no effort Is made to save them. They rot or dry up. By the above process germination Is start ed beforehand, thus increasing the chances of growth. An electric clock performed the serv ice automatically of allowing the cur rent to affect the seed once an hour for about $0 seconds. Blow-growing seeds grew rapidly after the treatment "I am asked to name several good plants which can bi grown In halls and parlors where the heat Is from a fur nace and the temperature Is kept from 70 to Tl degrees," writes Eben E. Rex ford la the September Ladles' Home Journal. "There are few plants which will stand sack beat. It to too dry. The Ufe-glvtng element has bees burned oat of It The Aspidistra will be saore likely to flow risk under sucr otreaatmaoos than any ether plant that I kaow of." The wild horse of the west destined to share the fate of the buf falo. Slowly, but surely, the great herds of these beautiful almals which roam the plains of Washington, Idaho and Montana are being decimated. In the last two years at least M.900 head of horses have been removed from the ranges of eastern Washington alone. Their disposition has been approxi mately as follows: Shipped to Chicago and other eastern markets, 20,000; sent to Alaska during Klondike rush. $.000; canned into horse meat at Linton, Ore., for shipment to France, 9,000; driven to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, largely for pack and saddle horses, 10,000; broken for use by new settlers In Washington, 10,000; died In the last two winters, 8.000. This loss has been double the natural Increase, reducing the number of wild horses In that state from about 125,000 to 80,000 or 80,000. At this rate of de crease they would last for some years, but the fact is that the horses are being confined to a smaller area each successive year, thereby Increasing their chances of destruction. At least 5.00 died of starvation last winter In the districts north and south of the Snake river. Fifty to 80 per cent of some bands vanished undet the conditions of short grass and deep snow. The cattle and sheep, on the other hand, are rounded In the lower valleys during the fall and fed during the winter. The range horses are now confined al most entirely to the thinly populated counties of Douglaa. Lincoln. Adams and Franklin and parts of Taklma and Klickitat, In Washington. These an imals are worth $3 to $20, according to stlse and quality. A large number of them are cayuses; others are strong, large-boned horses. In June 5.000 head of Douglas county horses were sold for shipment east at 12.50, $3 and $6 per head, according to the size. The horse-canning factory at Linton, Ore., has converted about 9,00 lead Into meat for shipment to France and Germany in the last two years. A still larger number will be canned In the near future, for the Industrial de partment of the Northern Pacific rall vay has aided In the establishment of mother horse-canning factory at Me Jora, N. D. A home market for many thousand ni-ad has been caused by the boom In .l,e wheat Industry owing to the good crops and good prices of the last two years. Thousands of wild horses, that welch from 1.100 pounds upward, have Ueen broken to the plow by both oldj ili'i new tr 1 1 , t: i . aiio iih.iv i hat this local absorption will continue n a limited way for several years In eastern Washington and Idaho. Three Acres and a Cow. Jesse Colllngs. M. P., parliamentary lecretary of the board of trade, whose 'amous phrase, "Three acres and a row," carried Mr. Gladstone and the Iberal party Into power In Great Brit ain in the elections of 1885, has come to :he United States for a pleasure trip. He arrived on the steamer Campania, ind will remain In New York a short time before startlnn across the country. While rest and recreation are his main jblects here, he will make serious ob- ervatlons of American conditions In many sections of the land before re turning to his home. The phrase. "Three acres and a cow," which Is usually thought of when Mr. Collings' name Is mentioned, was first breathed forth by his aa a pious aspi ration when he was campaigning as Mr. Gladstone's lieutenant It express ed what he wlshe could be grantee tv allotment to every propertylesa fam ily of agricultural laborers In England. It was taken by the laborers them selves, however, to express the distinct promise of the liberal party to them In case of success In the elections. It is hardly too much to say that the same belief was the direct cause of the suc cess that did come to the liberals. Mr. Colling was not the man, how ever, to let the laborers" hopes be dis appointed. His famous small holdings resolution soon followedand It was the foundation of the allotment act, which has saved many a rural district In Eng land from ruin. The resolution upset Lord Salisbury's government and mads Mr. Colllngs an under secretary In Mr. Gladstone's third ministry. Mr. Colllngs Is a great friend of Jo seph Chamberlain, and the two have traveled and campaigned -and taken their pleasures together for many year. Both are Birmingham men, and both came to the front through their Interest in Birmingham's municipal af fairs. Mr. Colllngs received an excel lent education as a boy, and at an early period became a clerk to a big Bir mingham firm or hardware dealers. Before long he was their "bagman," or traveling salesman In his own coun ty, Devonshire, and the whole south and west of England. He was pushing and thrifty and saved money. In 1M4 be wsa able to buy up the firm's bust, ness. Under his management It in creased wonderfully In slse. Ia 171 he waa elected mayor of Birmingham. Ho starts dthe "mayor's fund," which gavs relief to 10,00 families during a period ol hard tlmea He was one of the founders of the agricultural union. "Give the laboring classes education," be said, "and they will help to raise themselves." 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