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KQIMIA SKUIIK FARM rVlNC INVESTMENT FOR THE INDIANA FARMER. The Animate Have Beautiful Soft Fur and They Are Very Easily Domesticated. is.fc.rm. Ind. -'peejai )-Skui,k faini 6i!t buis fair to become, one cf the rStable new Industries- unlesa the .toel arise en masse and prot st Tiie are numerous skunk farmers hi 9Ecrrhern Indiana and Auburn will soon "' Owner of these farms, in arfal Instance, have, however. tc- .-n ejoined from continuing the business itecause of the disagreeable character istic tf the skunk. , The company which will farm her if -A lit Kalb Fur company, and the than will begin with 100 sleek an.! 5ny skunk. An effort will be made J fefed the pure black skunks as far aw feasible, as their pelts are north while the peit cf the striped skunk i T!tied at only JI M. Skunk culture at the first glance asigfct seem to be a most disagreeable wBfjation, but such is not necessarily afce case. Among the first things done wma the young animals Is the removal f the went pouches, after which the SMIe animals are most interesting crea- They often become great pets are most Intelligent. Dr. Clinton sort .Merrlam, the well known natural M. tells of one which slept In his jKrtet while he was driving about on professional duties, and walked to his heels when he took a stroll :m e walked too fast the little creature wld stop, scojd and stamp with his feet. If the doctor persevered In '3m rapid walk, the skunk would turn aaoot and make off in the opposite5 di arrttan. -Regarding the skunk's most dread fu SHrfurae, the following concise account given by a naturalist: Tlie skunk's chief weapon of defens ta the secretion of a pair of small Xtasris that are imbedded in a di ns-, 3t2ard-like mass of muscle, which to compress them so fortibly iiat the contained liquid may be ejected t the distance of rom 13 to 16l feet. 3 pouch is furnished with a single t that leada into a prominent nipple 3 papilla that is capable of being mruded and by means of which the faetion of the Jet is governed. The. antion is a clear fluid, amber In col , kas an intensely acid reaction, and Sss a evening is slightly luminous. Its JS-2t.-rvadlng and lasting qualities are eell known to require more than a I mmvig comment. The marked differ e So intensity of the scent In differ nt skunks Is chieflydue to the age of aasr animal. "When recently ejected the are suffocatingly pungent, ex smmtXf irritating to the air passages are capable of producing edema alaae glottis, as are the, fumes of am- When Inhaled without a large tture of the atmosphere, the vic- Sbscs consciousness, breathing be- BKesterU)rous, the temperature falls. rMatmlse slackens, and If the Inhalation i prolonged the result proves fatal.'' skunk's scientific name is Me 80atix Mephltica, which means a foui aaawfling, foul smeller, and shows how Hill the Latin race thought of him. JBcisrs Hibernating animal, but he doe aaesfeep all winter. His family is uea-aatjt-Ifcege, from six to ten, so that the watation of the skunk farms In mm rapidly. The fur of the skunk afc Smtgr thick and glossy, and in this Afrtts value. The fui when "made -up" flpv Vf any other name than skunk pasralry Alaska sabl and black mar ital. When skunks nve not been de ed and are caught wild in traps to method of killing them is Import it. The skunk's bac must be broken F a sharp blow from a heavy stick. animal is in a trap, approach ausly and elowly. "If you go too IT says Dr. Merriam, "he will ele- Bis tail, present his rear and as hf an uncomfortably suspicious al ts fv him a little time and he I about face, peer at you again with SUIe keen eyes. .N'o advance a nearer, be sure of your aim, and ruaate. you strike, strike hard. On re assuring the blow his hinder parts settle aWntesaJy back upon the ground and la)a tail', which was carried high over Das feaek. straightens out limp and pow. assess and the animal soon expires. By aMnting or decapitating the animal, the aaajafag death straggle Inevitably will Mac about a discharge of the scent." neutralists say the theory that the scatters the scent with his tali rataurd and ridiculous. He elevates Ml tall to be sure of his aim. Another las that is declared to be fallacious Is Lthe bite of the skunk Is always at- Sanvaed by species of rabies. XaJs same Dr. Merriam who has made At skunk his especial study, declares CaVt. its flesh is far more delicate than Mar tendertat chicken, "I am able," he paJUa, "to speak on this subject from tantsfe personal experience, having eat BK tn fiesb cooked In a variety of BI6 PRICE FM RACE KORSE. Flying Fox Sells For the Handsom Sum of $16,000. London. Mar. h 20 At the sale of th, late duke of Westminster's string o racehorses, which took place at Kinj? ciere. Flying Fox, winner in ISM o the IJerby, the Two Thousand Guineat the Kclipe stake-s. and the Dom-aste St. U-gvr as purchased by Edruum Blanc for J7.5 guineas (about $lfi,S0). Hlanc is the s.n of th; founder of Monte Carlo anil brother-in-law of Ko land Bonaparte. BRI.NCS MORK THAN OKANDSIRK Flying Fox is a 4-year-old bay col! by Orme-Vampire. Orrocnde, the grand sire of Flying Fox. was sold for iW.OOt (J15n,(K'i to Mi ln,r.ough of San Fran cisco a'.M'Ut Fix yea is ago. Flying Fox therefore brought iibout Wi.Wl nwrt than his grandsire. At the beginning of the sale a reservt price of 311.609 guineas was placed on Flying Fox. This was immediately bid and bids jumped ."K gulne at a time until the racer was "knocked down" to M. ISIanc, amid great excitement. tUanc's competitor In the bidding waf a man named Gilpin, who was acting for an American, probably William C. Whitney. The representatives of the elite sporting world were in attendance at the sale, amorg .them being the princ of Wales. Prime: Christlar of ScbleywIg-HolHein, Lord Coventry anil Iiidy Jcune. CALIFORNIA BEAR FARM MAN RAISES BEARS AND MAKES A COOD PROFIT, found Bruin Was Increasing Faster Than His Sheep and Starts To Raise Them. THE COUNTRY'S CIGAR MARKET. Tampa Florida Claims to Have Sur passed Havana. Tampla, Fla. (Special.) Tampa Just ly lays claim to being the Cuban to bacco, cigar center of the world. Jr. this respect it surpasses Havana, white stitistics show that fully 70 per cent of all the cigar revenue paid in th" collection district of Florida is paid by the Tampa manufacturers. Here are the figure which Know th magnitude of the cigar manufacturing business carried on In Tampa for the year 1M9, and they tell their owr, story: Number of cigars made, 132.7i9,0 Amount of revenue collected, 1427,. 077,09. Amount of duty collected, JiIS,297.:9. Amount paid for labor, t2,92J,.V7.4.r. Selling value of the cigars made. J9,. 2!'."i,913.33. Value of tobacco imported during thf year. $2,l..S.00O. Number of baits Imported during th yar, 1.1,000. Number of persons employed. t.fcOO. Number of cases cigars shipped, 19.000 The organization of a 110,000,000 cor poration here some two months ago combining great Cuban tobacco manu facturing Interests all over the I'nlteo States, insures the ultimate consolida tion here of a!t large clear Havana cl gar manufacturers in the United States. Then Tampa will be the greatest ciga town in the world. NEW YORK IS WICKED. of the biggest skunk, arms are f 111 sear Chicago, which In the J3C3aa langnsge meana the place of tbe TtM spot where tbe city now th natural abode of the foul smeller before the U k th home of the tool and mors deadly XataraMata claim that the , - n ft orach abased aatmal, as, in . f kaath. fee deatroys mice, aal- He ' ' (,JOil almtl ahont m hug as a 0 V Cr W d it rarely sees t i fljiW tOO mUt fat of a J rs at iwwtB- So Says ths Vice-President of the Mission and Tract Society. NEW YORK IS A WICKED CITY. New York, March 20. In his lntrodu tion to the 73d annual report of the New York City Mission and Tract So ciety, Just published, the Rev. A. F. Schauffier, V. D., vice president of tho society, declares that New York is ": stench to decent people and an a bom 'nation in the sight of Ood, because of It moral degradation." "From being an American city." he writes, "New York has become strictly cosmopolitan; from being a practically Protestant community it is now ery largely Human Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant. "Not all the signs of th times, how ever are encouraging. . . . The con. dition of New York City today, Judged from the standpoint of the social vice, or liquor traffis. or gamblers' profes sion, is truly appalling. "We suspect the town will have to drink to the full the bitter cup of it? own mixing until It becomes intoxicat ed with the iniquitous draught and spews It out. Then, and only then, can reputable citizens look for a de cent government. "Church life," Dr. Schauffier contin ues, "in this city during the last year has not been all one could wish. While there have been sign of quickening here and there, on the whole evan gelical denominations have lost ground. With the exception of the Episcopalians an of them, have lost In their numer ical church memberships." WHISKT. The following analysis of whisky it from a Kentucky paper: From a bushel of corn the distiller gets four gallons of whisky, which retails at H-0 The V. 8. Government gets 4.4P The railroad company gets l.Oi The manufacturer cata 4. 00 The dray man get The retailer gets Th consumer gets .....Drank TIN wife gets ....Hanger Tfea afcfldrM at Biff The peHUckfll gets OOdt 7.01 fan Francisco, Cal. (Special.) Sixty nik-s wetit of Ckiah, l'Uh, in the hieh st, wild-st depths of the coast rar.ge t mountains, is where Hog How-man ind his mother and sister live. They un what is probably the queerest farm m the world, for they raise bears f ir he market. Their average Inccim- Is ibout 3.5'jO a year. This is how it ame abrut, told in his own words, and t is all true: "We, started out to raise sheep and Iiog. the same as other ranchers, but the bears killed them faster than we ould raise them. "The bears ate up more of our stock and all of our profit, and there was no way of getting shut of them with so muh waste land about, it I made up my inind that they would have to pay their own keep." Hog Bowman is known by his fami as it hunter of bear to every sportsman in northern California, and any sports man who is so lucky as to receive an invitation to visit the Howman ranch in the autumn or winter, when the annual "cleaning out" occurs, has tales to tell all the rest of his days of Bow man's bear ranch. Ten miles from Laytonville, Bog says his cabin is, but It is ten miles as the crow flies, not by the up-and-down road a horse walks. Away bark In the forties the Bow mans crossed the death-trailed plains, a young couple fmm Missouri. When the gold hunters tame. Bowman opentd a tavern at the ford of the Sacramento river, where the city stands today, and here nine children were born. It was the first outlet of civilization which the returning miner came upon, and it was not infrequent that the Bowman look in a hundred dollars In the morn ing before the children had eaten their breakfast, all In gold dust at JIS an ounce. It was Mrs. Bowman h' an swered with th row boat the miner's summons from the opposite bank of "Ho! Ferry!" and it was she who cook ed the almost priceless vegetables car ried around the Horn In tins, and sold to the miners for an amount gauged by the number of tins remaining in the larder. Finally Bowman died a drunkard. , they say and his wife sold out thc- place. Taking her children, she moved up into the fertile hills of Humbold county and made a home. Tl.e Indians came and burned her boui-t and barn and drove off her cattle, but she nev-r bent her head to f;ite. Wuri" i In the thfsh. with her children, the older ones leading and carrying the younger ones and a babe of S months in her arms she kept her pursuers at bay with hei rifle, and covered her retreat to the nearest neighbor, five miles to the south. It was the last outbreak of the Indians, but it cost Mrs. Bowman her all. and the federal government is still denying her claim for reimbursement. ne moved farther south Into Mendo cino county and toolt up her present home, which, with the children's aid Bbe has managed to make support them. There were so many bears on the ridge that they ate the sheep and hogs and even the chickens, and the brave woman watched her own brood that none of them were carried away by the beasts. The children have all grown up and married to homes of their own ex cept Bog and Mary. Mary is almost as famous a hunter as her brother, and many of the pelts which go to the city in the spring have her name written Inside. When any of the family kills the mother bear it Is an Invariable custom to bring home the cubs. To Mary falls their raising I'ansy is the only bear they have ever kept many years, but she became such a pet that none of the family was willing to part with her till she began to break her chain and wander about creating havoc. Then Bog hired an Indian to shoot and bury her, pelt, fat and all. Kitting with her apron full of apples, Mrs. Bowman would give them one at a time to the brute, rapping her smart ly over the nose If the bear showed impatience. But Mrs. Bowman always got out of range of the great paws before the end of the apples was reach ed. Six feet tall, with snow -white hair, Mrs. Bowman steps over the steep, rough trails about her home as lightly and flat-backed as a boy, as If up there so near the sky she had found the fountain of eternal youth to nullify her 7tl years of hardship and womanly burdens. Bog is six feet four Inches tall; thin as an Indian, afraid of nothing he ever met, and like his mother, he will be a child all his days. Simple, honest, hos pitable, but with strange ideas of the majesty of the law, they live at the top of the mountain ridge, owners of all the land In sight from the height where the cabin stands. Bog Is a ccar In his own land, with a patronising amia bility for "city folks," of whom he stands In great awe when In their own confines, but considers less than chil dren In his. He has laid down laws and whoever comes within his domain must obey them. No dog which no ticed a deer could stay longer than a man who would shoot a doe or yearling or a Wrd In the mating season. Even a bear has its rights, and they must be rsooected. FACTS A!3T LCI A,1. Prof. Trlpler Clves a Few Pointer Concerning It. Chicago, 111 3peclal.) Some Inter esting and altogether new facts ar given concerning liquid air by Charlei K. Trlpler, who has been making nu merous experiments with the fluid, lit alto denies many absurd stories' hicb he says have been set afloat b yirre sponsible persons, and gives an insight Into the real character of liquid ait that will give the general public a ne Idea of its properti-s. Here are hi; words: So many wild stories have been set afloat about liquefied air that I havt been accused of attempting to foist srv. eral absurdities upn the public. For in stance, one story git out that I pro posed to run an engine with three gal lons of liquid air long enough to make the engine manufacture seven gallons of the came article. The tale was con- sidered authentic and people sailed int) me and accused me of claiming that I had invented i?rpetual motion. The yarn was almost too ridiculous to d n '. What I did say, and what I still maintain, is that the expansive power of the air not used up will assist In the manufacture of more liquid a!r. The proposed scheme to cremate dead bodies by means of liquefied air Is also absurd. The body is largely composed of water and liquefied air will not as sist in burning it in the lea.st. Some body will have t' first Invent some compound that will burn water. Li quid air is not combustible and it is not explosive in itself. One day I performed the experiment of freezing th beefsteak in the air for a small party. I broke the steak into a d;jzen pieces, which fell about on the f!iir. A I continued my experi ments I noticed a young man with a lighted match stenKiiily creeping up or; a small bit. of the frozen steak. Mind you. he was using the stealth on the beefsteak, not on me. I'retty soon, from a distance of atnut four or five feel the ''iung man re-iched forward and gin gerly touched the lighted match to the little frozen piece of meat. Then he sprang back clear t the other sld at the mom an If lie expected to be blown out of the house into the middle of the street. After a wliilir the young fellow grew courageous enough to try It again but this time he did It a trifle more bold'- and did not Jump b-uk nearly so far. Several tinun be tried the ex periment without superinducing any ex pl ieive results. Then h appealed to m-iand wanted to know why It didn't do It. It seema that the young man had thought that one frozen porterhouse steak wouht Wow up a building alxint the size of the Auditorium. He had come to investigate liquefied air as an agent for the cremati in of the dead. The report concerning the remarkable cures of cancers which have been treat ed with liquefied air ts quite correct. Some of the cures which have teen ef feeted are little short of msrvelous. Tei haps they are not short of it at all. One man who was treated In New York had a cancer of the n.j. Not only was the cancer cured, but all of the nose, which had been eaten away, was per fectly restored and no trace of the can cer was left. Carbuncles have also lieen treated with perfect success. There are now two or three hospitals down east which are using liquefied air upon patients continually. At my labora tory we make the liquid f')r these In stitutions twice every week. The air liquefies at 312 degree below zero. Just above this point It returns to the gaseous state. At 311 degrees It exerts a pressure of 30 potmds to the square Inch. At 200 degrees below the pressure is 2.000 pounds and at the or dinary atmospheric temperature from 10.000 to 11,000 pounds to the inch. At 347 degrees above xer.i steam exerts a pressure of only 110 pounds to the square Inch. It will be at once noted that the difference is tremendous. In this great force of the gas from the liquid air lies the great value of lb new discovery. J i TEMPORARY EXCHANGE It was o'clock of a Saturday morn ing in February, when Mr. and Mrs. Ktone drove out of the farmyard and took the road northward. The crisp snow of the highway, packed nnd polished by week of pood bleigiiintf, creaked under the runners of their "cutter" anil the sun was shining' glo riously over the wooded hiils to the eastward. J he Mones were trointr to spend Sunday with "Cousin .Maria," .Stone's second cousin, and the object of Mrs. Mone admiration ami rny. She de clared that there wan no house like Cousin Maria's anil no domestic con veniences ami nd antugr like those she enjoyed; tluit nobody wore such beautiful clothes, cr bad such resour ces to "do with" as Cousin Maria. In shorl. Mrs. Amasa Stone, who had not brcn a treat while married, nml who had one of the nicest little farm house, in t lie country, an well as one of the lic.st and most detoted hus bands in the world, was somehow a victim of the most disagreeable and distressing malady, envious discon tent; and the immediate occasion of it was -Cousin Maria. If she e.iuld only exchange Places (perhaps not husbands, but eNerythiufr else) with Cousin -Maria, how hajipy bhe would be! Curiously enough by what strange ironv of fate which we oftcu seecioi pins out liumnn life Cousin Maria felt the same way toward Mrs. Stone. Hie secretly but sincerely cinicd the little woman with the bip. devoted, lover-like husband and the model farm house overlooking- one of the most brant if ul and productive valley farms in New Knglaiui. "If I could only keep house like Cousin Ella!" she would sometimes say to licr hus band, and then t.lie would add to her self: "IViliaps I mipht if I Jiad the nice house nnd the things to do with that she has." Sincere and cordial envy does not make people dislike each other, by any means; and it was natural enough that Mrs. Stone und her cou sin, Mrs. Holmes, should enjoy visit jiff cadi oilier and thereby adding frei-Ii fuel to their mutual admira tion. They traveled back and forth on tlii-ke Mioiul exchanges a good ' dcul. and their husbands, who liked each other (and each other's) fare by irere not broken through for 0t dajs, and no one knew , bow nil neighbor was faring. In the meantime Mr. Stone took care of Mr. Holmes' stock, and Mr. Holmes took care of his, while their wires reveled to their hearts con tent in the supposed domestic, advan tages and improvement for wljich they had envied each other so long. At lust the two families were able to get word to one another, and a day was set for the mutual evacuation of each other's premises and a meeting at llydeville on the way. , Both par- tics were invited to dine at Jason Piper's that memorable day, and the reader may be sure it was not one of those dinner parties that languish for lack of conversation. l-iite in the iifremiM.ui, as the Atones came in sight of their own pleasant farm house. Mr. Stone said, hesitatingly, "John and I had some talk of exchanging farms while we were harnessing up. We thought, "Stop right there, Amasa Stone!" lied his wife, with a sudden uncalled for burst of tears. "If you ever men tion such a thing again" "Why!" exclaimed Mr. Stone, in glad UHtoriHlimrnt, "I thought you were crazy for Cousin Maria's mod- rn conveniences, and John said that Marin made life a burden to him hy hankering after yotir's. So we thought we'd please both of you by swapping farms." "Well, you'll neither of you ever hear anything more on the subject from Maria or me," sobbed Mrs. Stone. "We were both of us so homesick and so ashamed that we burst out crying when we were op In the front chamber at Mrs. Hoper's, and confessed what fools we h.,,1 been. I guess neither of us will ever quarrel with her own things again least of with her own husband." ;are lllm III. fur. He is a Michigan bov now flirhi;,,. Jn Manila. Once, when on a trip east, he squandered his substance too free ly, became remorseful, and while in this mood enlisted. There was notli- ng vicious about him. but. bo wit tt n "iff. strong, impulsive young fellow who had yet to learn that there are limitations even to the am rights of independence. One mom- ASKMS ABOUT LIVESTOCK, To Take Classified Census of the Western Cattle. St. t-ouls, M Marth 2. Within to weeks C. F. Martin, secretary of the National Live Stock association, with headquarters In this city, will start out with a large corps of enumerators to carry out the classified census of live stock between the Missouri river and the Pacific coast. ' Hhy old cows will be obliged to tell their ages and scrub stock of every de scription will have to give an account of their anleced-nt. Under the news syste mauthoriied by the agricultural department of the census bureau the work will be classified. "We expect tu encounter some obsta cles In the woik." said Mr. Martin, "as there has always been an effort made by a certain class of stock raisers to conceal the number and class of ani mals owned by them. This Is one of the obstacles which will have to be overcome, and we havu decided to meet it In the stock conventions held at va rious points." Mr. Martin has very recently return ed from Washington, where he went to confer with M. L. O. Towers, who is at the bead of the live stock census department. The department will with in a week authorize Mr. Martin to em ploy what office end outside help he deems necessary and to proceed with the work. Mr. Martin said that he would make his headquarters In this city and that the clerical-part of the work would be .done by a large office corps here. ' Titers has been an unprecedented de mand this season for novel and fash touabi black dress fabrics. the wav). were never averse to "driv iug over" for a day's outing. The two farms lay some twenty miles apart, in different townships, and al)ii midway between them was a village, where the Stones ami the Holmes each had a special friend, Willi whom it wan convenient nnd pleasant to stop for dinner while going a-viKif nig. The sleigh bells rang cheerily and the mile rapidly fell away behind the Stones' cutter this February morning as they drove along toward Jlvdeville, the balfvvnv village. "1 hope nothing will hapwn to the stock or the hen oer Sunduy, said Mr. Stone. "Oh. dori t worry about that, ex claimed his wife. "You spoke to Leonard, as usual, didn t you; "Yes, 1 ashed him to fodder once a day and attend to the milking. Hut he lives quite a little piece away, and if it should eome on to storm "Storm! Look at the ky!" ex claimed Mrs. Stone, with a scornful laugh. "I declare if you aren't ihe greatest man to worry over nothing! It was still gloriously pleasant when they reanT llydeville at 11 o'clock, and they stopped there full two hours. As they again took the road, at I o'coek, they noticed that the sky had become slightly filmy, but as it frequently does cloud over thus toward tbe close of a fine win tor day they were neither surprised nor disturbed. At 3 o'eiock, however, the wind began to rise, the sky grew more overcast, and before long was spitting sharply out of the north cost. "What do- vou think about a storm now ?" asked Mr. Stone. "Drive along and get there as quick as you can," was his wife's only re ply, as she gathered the buffalo robe more tightly about, her. When they reached the Holmes farm, at about 4 o'clock, tbe wind was howling ami the snow driving across the landscape in sheets. Mrs. Stone got out at tbe side entrance and plunged shiveriugly against 1 he door, but turned at once to her hus band with a look of surprise anil con sternation. J he door wan Ucked. So were the front door and kitchen door, as they speedily discovered. "They're away from home," an nounced Mr. Stone. J hey re gone visiting," groaned Ins wife, "trh, dear! Jo you sup pose its possible they're gone to visit us?" "Shouldn t wonder u bit," replied air. moim. "tome to think of it. I heard a man's laugh when 1 went over to the store in llydeville I hat sounded like John Holmes." But I couldn't tell where it came from und couldn't see anybody that looked like him, so gave it rip." "t.oose!" cried Mrs. Stone. "He was probably over at Jason Soper's, where they always stop out in the barn, like us not. If you'd only men tioned il! Well, we must, just make the best of a bad job. I know where Maria puts the kitchen key when she's away, and we might as well go in and take, possession as they will have to do at our house, I reckon." The key was found on a nail under the stoop, and Mrs. Stone proceeded to take possession, while her husband stabled his horse. When Mr. Stone came in he fount the lamps all light ed and his wife in a high state of ex citement and delight at the prospects of "using Cousin Maria's nice things for a while! I guess it's all for the best," she announced, with unex pected cheerfulness. "For once in our lives we will have a taste of keeping house with modern conven ience!" It was a tremendous snowstorm that swept New Kngland during Feb ruary 25 and 2. Mr. and Mrs. Atone were snowbound for a week In the Holmes bouse, and Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, as It happened, ware aimi. larly imprisoned in theirs. Koads ((inclusive evidence that, he had de- Efn- h""1 "f8 forT' 1i""'' '""""me being the wh. unseal suggestion of ..e ue coin i,r had left when he went to the recruiting oflic. Just, as the war with Spain became a certainty he was walking along bv the Biuriters' Hotel in St. Jxiuis anil came face to face with his old cap lain. Instinctively he clicked his heeli rogetiier and saluted. "I don't know you. sir," said ihe tain gruffly. "Never did know you. You don't know me . Never forget that, sir. Your noun might be Nick el, for anything I ran tell." "Half right," laughed the stalwart routh. who had twigged the captain. "I have been longing to enlist since this trouble threatened. What would von think of it?" "Any folks?" "A mother, well and happy," and l,.cy looked each other in the eve, for if was her serious illness thai had caused tbe boy to ask for a furlough ii nd then desert ed when it was refus ed. "I think I saved her once." ";lad of it. Clad you want in en list. Never knew you before, . but, young man, he careful to lie as awk ward as any oneio the awkward qmid. Detroit Free Press. Tbe Lb In Kngland' Navy. Flogging is almost unknown in the P.ritihh navy nowadays, but it has not been abolished by law. The lash is used as a punishment for a limited number of offenses, and not infre quently years pass without a sin g.e application of the lasli. ltecently, however, an incorrigible character on board one of the warships at Cape Town, was sentenced to receive 1. lashes. He became, unconscious before the punishment was completed and was sent beck to his quarter. The af fair createrl a great sensation in Kn gland nnd may lead to organized agi tation for the abolition of flogging m the navy. Fifty years ago a sentence of IS lashes would have seemed to the public simply a normal penalty for an infraction of discipline and would have occasioned no comment. Today it. is described as brutalBoston Transcript. That Lata r rile Dollar. Renders who may wonder why it I that their favorite newspapers do not illustrate the new Lafayette dollar among other matters of interest are informed that it is Ix-cause of the pe culiar wording of an act of congress and the peculiar interpretation plac- (l upon it by the siecrct service de- nnrttnent of the treasury, which, ta ken together, make it n penal offense to print a representation of any coin. According to this absurd ruling, a newspaper pictnre of a silver coin Is I counterfeit of that, coin and must be lealt with (is severely as if there wns langer that it might, be circulated af such. Philadelphia Ledger. How She Did It. Well, how did your wife manare tier shower bath, deueon?" She had real good luck, Mudarn Moody told her how she managed. She said aha had a large ollsilk Cap, with a cape to it, like a fireman's, that came all over her shoulders, and." She'a a' fool for her pains that's not the way." "Ho my wife thought." "Your wife did nothing of the sort, I hope." "O, no, doctor, she used an umbrel la." "What! used an umbrella; what the mischief good did the shower bath lo her?" "She said she felt bettor. Her clother wasn't wet a mite. 8b t und-r the umbrella for half hour, till all the water had trickled off ind said twss cool and delightful, and Just like a leetle shower bath In an.. mer. Then she took off bar IhJin ud rubbed herself dry arter."