ON THE BATTLE FIELD 'BRAVEST KEENLY SENSIBLE OF DANCER. Hut Their Bill Power Conquers Their Fears en fear i. subdued and not wholly eliminated, Skobeloff said of himself, ‘I confess that I am at heart a coward.’ He despaired of General Gourko because the latter would duck to avoid bullets and shells. In the Northern army, at the close of the civil wur, General Horace Porter tells us that there were only two men known to him who never bowed the head to Iron and lead. Of these, one was Gen eral Grant. So purely a matter of hab it. a reflex action, had such ducking be come, that after a great battle men Wi ld involuntarily bob. as they stood or sat about camp, at the slightest | noise. How. then, la courage to be taught in peace? A Russian general once proposed to 'salt' his soldiery by load ing one rifle In ten with hall cartridges during manoeuvre*. Thl* ghastly pre parative was too revolting to clvtliied mind*, and It has never beeu carried out: but, If adopted. It would make the army trainer! under auch circumstance* invincible, and so In the end tend to shorten war and aave Ilf*, it would accustom the soldier lo the night* and Mriitw of the ballistic hi, and overcome hla dread of the unknown. It would , liable him lo control hla nerve* In the tumult of the netiMl encounter Such n pursuit ne climbing ha* the same moral effect. Endurance, mutual trust. *#lf control. may he learned on the high Alp*, or, fur the matter of that, in a Wastdale, where a slip on the fate I of the mouataln means deal ruction The vultey id slunea down some precip itous gulley I* not lew* deadly than Ih* halt of shell* and bullets *« the battle tv 11 And, in n lea* degree hunting, and the manlier forma of athlotle*. give the anme result. Upon* Involving rtoh to Uht are thu* of supreme value from the national point of vten, and thin a should be remembered when the if w scant and degenerate sweat I them. In Ireinnd n bolt of woman's hair la placed about n child to h**p harm away, and gar It*, salt, brand and *tonh are put Into the cradle of n new born baby in lleUaad u L 1 A NEVER-FAILING MAGNET. Why the Crowd (lathered and Revalued for the Shoe. For days beforehand the billboards of Queen City had been aflame with) posters, announcing the nature of at^ entertainment which was to take place on the outskirts of the city on the af ternoon of June 12, and which was her-) aided as the greatest effort to which) the professional entertainer could) aspire, says the New York World. Great) W'ere the excitement and joy when the news became known, for what man had not cherished the fond hope that he would some day behold this wondrous sight? When the day came round the residents of Queen City turned out en) masse and, with beaming faces that) told of cares for the once forgotten, they repaired to the rendezvous on the outskirts of the city. Arrived there,) they found a square lnclosure of great area which had been hoarded to a height of some twenty feet, added to which, after one had been successful In the mad rush for udmlsslon, one beheld a three-story brick house In the center of the lnclosure. This house was all that the arena contained, and as every spectator made a point of getting as close to it as possible, It was evident that It was to figure prominently In the day’s spectacle. The grounds were quickly packed with an eager, surging multitude that Impatiently awaited the happening of what was destined to be the greatest event In Queen City’s history. "Hush! It has begun!” As the crowd is breathlessly passed, every one Is otf tiptoe, with eyes riveted on the brUfi house. Five, ten, fifteen minutes pass. Dur ing this time the Immense throng stands transfixed with awe and ad miration. Then comes the rude awakening from that blissful repose; for the block and tackle have done their work, and as the fireproof safe disappears through a second-story window the mob breathes freely again and then sallies forth to continue the battle of life. Wild Hour Against Tiger. The wild boar never knows when It Is whipped. In India recently Col. O,' H. Trevor saw a boar fight a tiger, and he tells about It In the Badminton Magazine. The fight was pulled off In a pit ten yards In diameter, with a sanded floor and slxteen-foot walls. Several trap-doors served as entrance^ through which to introduce the ani mals. A trail of grain through one of these doors served to decoy a two-year old boar Into the arena. A tiger, near ly full grown, that for a year had lived an Inoffensive existence In a cage, was forced down a plane from another door, and the two beasts were together. The tiger wanted to get away, his head hung down like a whipped dog’s, and his tall drooped. The fight was ap parently going to be a fizzle, when the natives began to throw things at the tiger. Then the beast began to growl. Suddenly the boar dived at him. The tiger leaped Into the air, and the boar rushed underneath and went half a dozen feet beyond. It puzzled the boar Immediately to have the tiger get away from him In that way, but he turned and made for the tiger again. Threi times the tiger leaped above the boar but the fourth time the boar threw up his head, and the tiger got a rip with the tusks that drew blood. Then the cat turned on the pig, grabbed him by the nape of the neck, and shook him as a schoolmaster shakes a small boy. This done, the tiger dropped the boar and walked away. The tiger had mere ly Intended to punish the little beast. The boar got his breath and recovered somewhat from his dizziness, and, fac ing the tiger again, made for him Just as If the tiger wasn't several times bigger. The tiger eluded the charge easily. Then a trap-door opened, and the tiger bolted through It at full speed leaving the boar wild for a fight. Tht* Public K>e. There I* probably no other influence that causes so much evil as the bale ful influence of the public eye. Take, for instance, a girl who can recite. As soon as she has been encored on the stage she becomes a nuisance to her family and u bore to the public. The public eye has affected her and she will never aguin be content with her corner. The office-holder who refuses to retire to private life after he has once held office is another victim. The singer who keeps on singing at ama teur entertainments when she is a grandmother is another. The cheap actresses who begun their downward career at school exhibitions are also victims. The public eye has more vic tims than whisky and they are a great er menace to the community for the reason that they sign no pledge and make no efforts to reform—Atchison Uloba. U# NAt****. It la not generally known here whrra artist » works are more familiar than their faces that Ueorgs l>u Maurler ead iscurenc* Alma Tadama resembled one another to an amaatag degree, so much that even their intimate friends mistook them A young lady whu prided herself that aha had no difficulty la determining which was which, tad lag herself wave sealed aeit ts Is* Mau rier rem*ik*d I >aaa»i Imagine hew aay on* can mistake yen for Mr Tadema To me the llheaesa la very •light Hy the way I hats a photo graph of yon l*o he so good aa to put your autograph to it * IN Maurler, a» •sating graciously, the photograph oaa produced He looked at It. sighed and eery gealty laid It oa the t«Me, "Thai “ he remarked, "la a portrait of Mr Alma Tadema * Ices* Melos to Vats tender Thsrs are la the Watted a totes ff.lft deal mutes. FARM AND GARDEN. | MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Koine I'p-to-ilaf* Hint* About f ultlvn tlon of the Soil and Yield* Thereof — Ilortlriilture, Vltirullure and florl cnlture. K. Johnson, I n a paper on Indian corn once said: The origin of Indian corn, like that of w^at and barley, is lost In the twilight of antiquity. Hona foiis, who wrote as long ago as 1835, and Is still our best authority, was of opinion that Indian corn was Indigenous both in China and in south western South America. The prehis toric evidence afforded by comparative philology, establishes the fact that wheat and barley were cultivated by a race dwelling somewhere on the plains of Central Asia, at a time so remote that out of their language as the mother tongue, grew, In the course of many centuries the Latin, the Greek and the Sanscrit, and the whole tribe of Indo-European speeches. And the same kind of testimony, gathered from geological Investigation in South America, and from ancient tombs, shows conclusively that Indian corn was there cultivated at a period long anterior to the dynasty of the Incas, which commenced in the twelfth cen tury. However, Humboldt, the uni versal savant says there Is no doubt in the minds of botanists, that Indian corn Is a truly American plant, and that the new world gave It to the old. Those who are of his opinion say It was on his return from bis first voy age, In the year 1493, that Columbus brought to Enrmie the first grains of Indian corn, and thence 1U cultivation spread Into Portugal and the south of Europe. The Portugese, who were at that time the great navigators of the world, having doubled Cape Horn pre viously, and discovered Java in 1496, Introduced it along the African coast and into Java; and thence its cultiva tion spread into India and China, and Indian corn was correctly figured in a Chinese work on agriculture as early as 1662. The weight of Humboldt's testimony is enormous on any such question as this; but then is it not quite as rea sonable to believe that ludtan corn may have been indigenous to China, and have been long cultivated there, as to suppose that In the comparative ly brief space of little more than half a century, it should have been transfer red from America to Europe, thence to Java, thence to China, and have been bo generally adopted and cultivated by that cautious and slow moving people, as to have been figured In a book so short a time after its introduction to the country? The arguments derived from vegetable physiology, strongly favor its eastern origin; because, while farther India and China contain many native plants of related genera, like sorghum and millet, very little, if any thing of the kind, is to be found among the botanical productions of South America. By the barest possibility, Indian Corn may have been introduced into some portions of North America by the Chinese, some centuries ago. And the present remote probability may become a reasonable one, if mod ern antiquarians succeed in establish ing the fact of the discovery of America by the Chinese, at least a thousand years before Its discovery by Columbus—a triumph of skillful and successful research which may not be far off. But whatever the origin of Indian corn may have been, whether on the slopes of the Andes or In the m_ail. t China, modern botanists and natural ists are pretty well agreed that the or iginal Indian corn belonged to the species known as Zea Tunica, or clothed Indian corn, each kernel of (he ear being enveloped in a separate tunic or husk, the grains of which may be of various shapes, and colored yel low, white or red. Descending and de parting from tbis species, the varieties of Indian corn have become innumer able, each country and climate, every soil, situation, and purallel, having oue or more especially suited to the "lr cumstancee; so that an extensive col lection of the varieties of Indian corn would contain apeclmeus from 18 Inches high to as rnsny feet, with cars ranging in also from that of a lady's linger to that of the forearm of a strong man. No cereal accepts the modifications of soil and climate, as easily and quickly as Indian corn; not even the cucurbttlcea cross each other with greater facility. Few plants and no other cereal succeed equally well from the equator to (0 degrees north and south latitude, and no one of them Is more easily and readily preserved through all seasons and for a const 1 erable time, and therefore while the preservation of varieties la an exceed ingly dimrult matter, II la of tittle or ao matter whether they are preserved or not. la a broad and general sense, every soil, situation sn.l climate pro- ! dueea a certain normal development ) of atalb aad ear, aad though calttva- | ilea aad earlobiag tbs soil may la crease the results. It does ao simply by practically changing soli aad ell mala both — apple tree frsse*. I lately resetved frogs Mr M move * of hprlagteld. III. a piers of a breach ar truab of a small apple tree half aa , loch la diameter, the middle ef which ; had bee a aeaily hollowed eel by a *yl ladrteal burrow three-eighths of aa lath la dtamsier ruaatag teagt bales, wiih tereaaluaal broaches te iba cur iam At mw aad this fragment bare the Btarfc af a |e*h halts, aad at the other it had been smoothly ana square ly cut off by an insect known as the oak pruner or apple tree pruner (Ela pbidlon vlllosum). Indeed, my corre spondent Inclosed a specimen of this beetle with the twig, with the Informa tion that It had been taken from the latter by himself. It seems from bis letter that this apple tree pruner has cut off the trunk of a number of trees this summer In a young orchard set out by Mr. Stuve last spring in Effingham county, leaving in each case only a liv ing stub one or two feet high. It works In a similar manner upon the twigs and smaller branches of the oak. As it Is this year unusually abundant, it has probably been in most cuces the agent of u very general killing of the. terminal twigs of the oak everywhere through out the state, so common as frequently to attract the attention of ordinary travelers by rail. The beetle pushes an egg Into (he axil of a leaf, and the young grub when It hatches burrows hence Into the center of the twig or branch. It continues Its downward course In tbo branch or trunk of the young tree until about half grown, when, working from the Inside, It gnaws the branch so nearly off that It ts presently broken from the tree by the wind or by accident. In the fallen branch the grub continues to feed, changing to the beetle within Its bur row, sometimes In fall and sometimes not until spring. In this adult condi tion It is said to escape usually during the month of June. It will be seen from the above account that at this season of year the Insect is to be found chiefly In the severed branches, and that It may be destroyed by gathering and burning them. I should say, how ever, that It Infests the ouk much more extensively than the apple, and that consequently no destruction of the In sects found In the orchard will com pletely protect the trees from subse quent attack. 8. A. Forbes, Illinois State Entomologist. Wlio should . 30. Afternoon, flare. -The court of lh« temple, Jerusalem. (Read the full (ext from the fithle). The Infant Church. The excite ment of the Pente cost has subsided, ami the church has settled down In quiet. Public Inter est has, for the tlmn being, turned In olti er directions. The disciples are yet as thorough Hebrews in creed as they are Christians, and so they steadily attend the services of Ihe temple, while they see, probably, a new meaning In the offered lamb, and feel a new power In the choral song. Lessons from This Lesson. 1 Jesus, though ascended ii|i on high, I*, as he promised to lie, still present with his peo ple and In his Church. Peter believed It and proved It, He Is with us In our pray ing, our striving against slti. and In all our Christian work We want a faith that will make him our strength, and lay hold of him continually. Malt. 1*. 20; IIH. 30, John II. 21; 2 Cor. 12. fl; Col. 1. 27. 2. Had as It Is to he horn lame, It Is far worse to he horn In sin A lame soul I* worse than lame feel, anil no human power can cure It. Jesus can. To heal guilty souls and give a new heart Is his work, and every sinner may prove It so upon Ihe asking. I'sslm 51. 5, 10; 2 Cor. 5. 17; I John 1. 9; Acts 15. S. 9. We ahould have set times and places for the worship of (lod.— A lalairlng man needs his three meals of nutritious food each day, a genteel Idler may not relish even one meal; but he who tolls with brawn Htul bruin requires a regular sup ply of food properly prepared and delib erately eaten. And surely a healthy Christian will eare for the soul at least as well as this. Regularity In the time and pm<(. or private devotions IS as ncrmui as regularity In public services; and the example of I’eter anil John teaches ns that not even eminent piety can thrive without systematic worship of God. Nearly all the charitable Institutions of the world and Ihe benevolent movement* of sodity depend on those who go to the temple at the hour of prayer. When money 1s needed to relieve the world's distress men go straight to the gulf of ihe temple to be*. It Is an Irrefutable testi mony to the worth of Christianity. The suffering and sad have a right to look for sympathy and help from God’s people. Rut the chief Interest of the passage centers around the lame man.—Consider his probable past history. Evidently he was well known to the people (verses 9, Id), so It Is likely that his being “laid dally" at the Reautlful Gate was no new thing. If so, he had certainly seen Jesus, perhaps often. In such a place of con course he must have heard of the great miracles wrought at jr near Jerusalem— the cure of the cripple at Rethesila and of the man born blind, and the raisin* of I.azarus. Very likely he luy there on that memorahle day (It was only a few week* before) wheti, after Jesus drove out the cattle dealers and money changers, "the blind and the lame came to him In the temple; and he healed them" (Mutt, tl. 14). How was It he had not himself been healed? DouhtlPs* the obstacle was In himself. Perhaps he actually disliked Jesus, and sympathized with his oppo nents. Or perhaps he cared for nothing but the alms he got, and was so wrapped up In his greediness for It as to think of nothing else. This last supposition I* sup ported by the narrative. The visible world Is a reflex of the spir itual. From the seen we trace our way up to the unseen. Jn this lesson arc four pictures; The picture of the sinner ls shown In the man crouching at the gate. I. He was a cripple, not a sound, complete man. The child of God has a full, evenly developed nature; the sinner is one who has been distorted, warped from completeness; and only God can rectify him. 2. He was a hi-Kgar. Reggars abound at the doors of churches In the Old World, for worship ers oftener than Infidels are apt to tie charitable. Bln Is want. The sinner, whether conscious or unconscious of hi* condition. Is In the deepest need. 3. He was outside of God's house. There Is some reason for believing that deformed people were shut out of the temple (2 Bam. 5. 8). This man saw others entering to commune with God, while he stood witrioui; arm ho Bianus every sinner. In contrast Peter and John show us a picture of the disciples. 1. They have fellowship. Notice how close was the In timacy between these two men, while In traits they were very different. They had loving communion together; and the bond thal united them was the love of Christ. 2. They have sympathy. Others passed the cripple with a shudder of disgust. These men looked at him with love, for In that distorted hotly was a soul for whom Christ died. True charity Is not a mere almsgiving, hut a love of men awak ened by a love of Christ. 3. They have power. As Peter looks on this msn he reels that he can Impart something to him. We may not he able to heal men's bodies, hut we can bring salvation to (heir souls, of which bodily healing is only a shallow. l,et us say, "Much as I have give I unto thee." Kind In this story a picture of salvation. I. There Is a human Inslrumentallly. Hod never saves men alone, lie always uses men Ma workers There is always a Peter through whom Ihe |iower of (lod cornea 2. There Is a moment of opportu nity. No une knows how many years that man had tu-en brought to the gale, hut one day he met his Jiour of opportu nity. Mn It was with the Hatnarltsn wom an. with Matthew, with Ihe Kthloplan nobleman Muccesa Is to grasp the oppor tunity. tailure la tu let li pass t. The power lay nut In Peter's hand, hut In Jesus's name, that la, In Jeaua himself. Invoked by name unly a divine power can heal the cripple oi make Ihe sinner whole l There was effort required on Ihe part of the man huuself. There Is aUo Ihe picture of the saved man I Transformation one moment a crouching cripple, now leaping on tha marble hoot Greater la Ihe change In tha coaver led sinner I Privilege hla Brel act la la enter the IMtullful ilale and go lute Hod s house fur worship 1 H latitude, praising Hud. and clinging la Ihe epsae lles lively saved euul should mahs thankful confession « Prominence a ifuwd gathering around it* see the heated man 1. > e » » iouter! is an advertisement and an rvbtenco of the ttoopel e power. • H AMP POINT*. Man* i hi Id ten become 4 lev au raged because their k*»* effbttn meet with ha vpproval I ma, ulty add to achievement as tha raw to lag uI Ik# pots del made tha but tel fcrtket TlXre ts is fault that duo* n<*4 kti| ts bruth»it* end staler* and coueths to Mb* Wttk It lUip others when ywtt • ah. keif never Ills what fate tabbed afford kecauaa it 4 fnnktPbbktw MOLIERE'S WOMEN. Row They Compare with Thoee o# Shahrupeare. A comparison with the women char*. neters of Shakespeare Inevitably sug gests itseff, but must be discarded at the outset, for Shakespeare's creations, like the passions he portrays, are on a gigantic scale, while the people of Moliere rarely rise above the stature of the average human being, says th» Chautauqunn. Also It Is to be noticed that In Moliere the feminine roles In stead of standing out In bold relief, with the strong contrasting Individu alities of Beatrice, Portia, Rosalind, take their color from the group of plays to which they severally belong. For the eiutloltation of a heroine as such a love story Is essential In a comedy, but as in Moliere love pure and simple Is rarely the dominating theme It nat urally follows that the heroine Is rare ly the personage of the play. Taking the group of which "L’Avare," "Tar tuffe," "Le Malade Imaginalre” and "Le Bourgeolse Oentllhomme” aro shining examples, the motif Is the vice or foible of nn elderly man and the plot Is worked out on a love story of a rather conventional character. L’Avare himself, Le Malade Imagi nalre, l* Bourgeolse Oentllhommo and Orgon, the victim of TartufTe, are all men of advanced years, heads of fami lies. Bach has n dsughtet, young, lovely and accomplished. Bach daugh ter loves and is loved by a youth ami able, virtuous and devoted. Bach father has picked out a son-in-law ac cording to his own tastes, which never happens to he bis daughter's, and esed* father Is ultimately outwitted through some reactionary movement of hts own foible and Is prevailed upon accordingly to blsss the rightful lovers. Thea» girls are all sisters In kind and char acter. They have charming comedy scenes, In which (hey profess their love, generally to a faithful waiting maid, whose ready wit brings about a happy solution of I heir troubles, or la which they either defy their fathers or Implore them, preferring death or a convent to an unloved husband, and occasionally piquant scenes In whlcb their lovers appear In disguise and make love to them under the very nosa of a stern but sully bamboozled father. A COBBLER PRINCE. Ilrltalu's Hdi Apparent I.earned lb* Shoemaker's Trade When n Toatb. Custom forces the crowned heads of Europe to remain mere amataurs la 'the arts, profession* or trades they fen ded In youth, or which they wera obliged to practise, owing to the prac tical Ideas of wise parents, who may have foreseen that thrones have a way of disappearing In these enlightened days. Queen Marguerite of Italy la a fine musician, and could earn her living as a music teacher; the Czar of Russia, is an expert cabinetmaker, and has. made two or three excellent violins, while tbe Kaiser of Germany is said to be a jack of all trades and a postmaster of all arts. He can make anything, from a drama and a painting to a llne of-battle ship. But It remains for tbo world to bear of a royal shoemaker Iil the person of the Prince of Wales. A Russian nobleman turned cobbler in the person of Count Leon Tolstoi, and, according to the London Woman at Home, It has now been discovered that Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, belr Upparent to tbe throne of Great Brit ain, can turn out a pair of patent leath ers or hunting boots with tbe best of English shoemakers. The Queen of England and the Prince Consort, It ap pears, wished that each of their chil dren should learn some useful trade or occupation, and the Prince of Wales ..«_ „ 1. I kl„ I.. ...I acquired sucb a degree of proficiency that boots made by his hands were the pride of bis fellow-workmen, os they were the envy of his friends at court. The Prince has never Bought to coneal his talent, and even today examines with the eye of a connoisseur the shoes sent him by the furnishers. And that is wuy Albert fSdward la the best-shod man In ISngland. The Origin of “Windfall." The origin of the expression “wind fall," which Is used when one wishes to refer to a streak of good luck, dates back to the time of William the Con queror. At that time It was a criminal offense to cut timber In the British for ests without royal consent. All that could be gathered for fuel or other pur poses was such limbs as tbe wind should happen to bresk and cast to tbs ground. On this account the peasants hailed a great windstorm as a blessing, because It was apt to cast enough of "windfalls" for winter firewood. Prom this old-time forestry custom comes the modern application of the expression. At uue time It was decreed that only such limbs and whole trees as should fall during the tkreo summer months could be ueed as firewood, but the ua luetnees of the act was so plainly ap parent that no attempt was ever made to enforce It.- *». l* which does nut being wish "tmaalsnl* trade, hut he has ■ goodly number of regular customer*. t>n day* when the weather lowhn threatening ihle wise young men In ane* min theeha. good tor twelve bt>ur* eo ihni If It mins sad n sue turner * shine te ruined he gete n new one free of charge The min eheefea are stipe of paper with the date and hour written in pencil New York Preen. The women of Topeka, ken., are tw well ureseed that ike fepehn Journal ik'pks ike town ought to have a hwrow •hue U ..i'.i'CC' : , ‘r. .