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MUKDEN ALWAYS Wars Have Raged Around the "City of Tombe" Than Three Thousand Years . Mukden, the ancient city, now pass ed' Into the control of the Japanese, was - described last August in this manner by an American ;war corre spondent: ' "Most- cities of China proper have 7,212 distinct smells. Mukden , has but 6,214; it has been Russianized and whenever possible the Russian has introduced clean streets, some kind of a sewerage system, orderly houses; hence Mukden is now known as the cleanest town of the many where the filthy Chinese have pre dominated in the past." Mukden belongs to the province of Shingklng and on the line of railway running north it Is about half way between Nluchwang anil Kuangchang tsu. which belongs to the province of Kirln. Now' aside from the fact that Muk den .holds the sacred tombs of the ancient Manchu or "pure" dynasty it has other Interest In that it has been one of the world's central battle points since 1,100 years or more be fore Christ. , Where Russian and . Japan have been, contesting longer than a year, race after race, and nation after na tion, have harled themselves against each other for certainly 3,000 years. The soil about Mukden, the ranges of the Long White Mountain,, the great stretches of gray plains have, been soaked with the blood of tensjof thou bands of warriors. It is a Golgotha a place of bones and the wraiths of men who have gone to their final Judgment in con quest or plunder. , Peopled Long Before Christ. Dates in Cbfnose or Mongolian his tory are much mixed, but so far as accuracy can bo depended upon Muk den Mas a settlement long before Christ was born. Tho Prince of Pohai had soma possessions there about 710 B. C, and at ono tjme Chi nese allegiance was thrown oft en tirely and a centralized government RUSSIAN WORKMEN Half a Room for a Worklngman's Curtain Belongs to Another Family. established with five royal residences, one of which rose at Mukden. . Then came Khltan from Ilulan and lie established the Liao dynasty and Mukden, not yet a very notable place, but. already battle-tossed, passed into other hands. Afterward the Jurchin had their try and they established the Kin or golden dynasty and made Mukden a great trading post on the central highways. Thane highways extended up to the boundaries of the savage tribes on the north Into He-lung-kiang and far along the Amur River extended south to modern Poking, to Hankow, lo Canton and even 'into India. Princes of the royal blood left Muk den In those days of the beginnings, and made two and three year pil grimages to India to learn strange things from wise men and to trade in jewels and fabrics. Fifteen hundred years, after Christ was born Nurhachu had his chief seat of government in the south of the l-ong White mountain, about 100 miles east of Mukden. Mukden itself bad then risen to be one of the most important trading points -of" the" North. It has been stated that its annual volume of business rose into the millions, and that the wealth and fashion of the North congregated there to bargain, play politics, love and; hate. Army, Was Slaughtered. ' In 1C16 Mukden saw a wonderful Army for those days before its gates. Nurhachu had taken to himself the title of "heaven-decreed," and de clared war on China. An army of 200,000 was sent against htm, but, as the chroniclers related afterward: "He slaughtered all; none returned to say of how their end came." . Mukden was captured by him in Artillery Solar Ray Fire. Attention was drawn some time ago by the Army and Navy Qasette- to- a method of representing artillery fire by deflecting light upon the object aimed at, which was tried In France last year. A .similar system is be ing experimented with in Austria, the Kolar rays being reflected upon the object. These rays are visible to the troops and to. their leaders, as well as to the umpires, whose decisions are eaid thus to be facilitated. The ap paratus is used from about 2,000 to 3,000 yards. He Figures Wrong. "The demands of society are so ex acting and the rules of dress so Inex orable that the area of cuticle avail able for vaccination purposes is con stantly becoming smaller," wrote the health officer in his annual report. "Between party gowns and bathing suits there is not much opportunity left." "You are wrong, doctor, there are at least two months between party gowns and bathing suits. You must figure time, and not Inches." X ? J - ft -p ' XMwwUhtf gr 1 r V BATTLE POINT for' More 1621 after terrific fighting and a slaughter, if we may believe the stat isticians, that far exceeds w,hat has re cently occurred there. All prisoners taken. were promptly beheaded. Liaoyang was captured and made the capital, and '"seventy - other-', cities' promptly surrendered. In 1644 the Manchus. risen to great power, marched into China and placed one of their own on the throne of that government, and a Manchu, has ruled there, ever since. In the' eighteenth century Mukden rose to great com mercial and 'political Importance,' but by the time of the opening of the nineteenth century,' through causes largely due to the decay of the Man chu dynasty, the city declined in Im portance, and when , the Russians began- their- active -control of the com munity, after the Chinese-Japanese war of 1894, they found it a place of squalor, filth and disease. Sacred Tombs Preserved. The sacred tombs has been pre served, but tb city was almost Iso lated., from the world; Us people jndo lont. careless, out of touch with the world. The'Russians ratiio it a base of commercial and military supplies, introduced some modern methods of sanitation and proposed to make it tho half-way station between Port Ar thur and Harbin. ' Now the Japanese have it. To them it may. be their; northern ' ter- ; 1 I Innri ttmv will doml- U 1 1 1 l ill luw v. uu j nate, although in all probability, -when it comes to naking the final treaty, they will dominate far to the Kuang-chang-tsu district. Aside from the Russian population 90 per cent of the inhabitants of Mukden, are Chinese. The only language taught in the city (schools is Chinese. The Japanese probably will Introduce entirely mod ern' methods of education and com merce. ' In 3.000 years there have been fought in front of or about Mukden some twenty-odd noted battles of the HERDED LI KE CATTLE. "Home; the Other Half Behind the y . Orient, and it is conservatively esti mated that within and about the city during that time more than 5,000,000 men have been engaged in bloody struggles for the control of territory and government. Roused Artist from Inaction. Phil May, the English artist, who died not long ago, had fits of laziness and when, suffering from this ailment found it very difficult to work. On one occasion he had promised a col oied design for tho Christmas number of a weeklj. The day fixed for its da livery passed by, but no design was forthcoming. The publisher .went hunting for him and found him at a seaside hotel enjoying a time of abso lute inaction. Without going to. see Mr. May, he hired six sandwich men to parade up and down before the ar tist's window with boards bearing dif ferent legends. This was their tenor: "What about our Christmas cover?" "We are waiting for that cover."- It was a delightful reminder, and in a few days the publishers received- one tit t,he most .brilliant designs May had ever executed. Mew Idea for Inaugural Parade. A North Carolina man who thought that the inaugural parade was a good deal like a circus procession, wrote to the inaugural committee as follows: "1 wud like to . cum to Washington end play the countryman in the pro cession. t am the greatest rube you ever seed, ' and am sure that I cud act the part better than any- man in the country. I am a republican ' and want . to show these trlfln' democrats what a man will do for bis president. I arft 'sure I' can please yu. I will work! for--"my grub and S0. cents a day,: jineludin' carfare." , German Students. " 'ihis winter semester there are at the several German universities 33.71G matriculated students, against 89,581 during the last summer semester, and 39,718 last Winter. At the beginning of the nineties there were In round numbers 29.000 students, and in the winter of 1894-95, 28,105; the third ten thousand was not reached until the winter of 1897-98, when the number was ?l,U0, -ijc wi'ch time there has been a steady increases- The larg est number this winter is at Berlin, '7,774. ' . . Life of Country Physician. The strenuousness of the life of the country physician is illustrated in the case of Dr.. George H. Coombs, of Waldboro, Me., who, during the recent storm, found it impossible to run his automobile or force his horses through the mountain-high snowdrifts, walked to West Waldboro and back, a total distance of eight miles, to see a patient. The incident illustrates also the devotion of the conscientious physician to his patients.-Boston Transcript i ..- - mm REVIVAL MOVEMENT IN WALES William T. Stead Greatly Impressed by Its Force and Power. The vast congregations were as so berly sane, as orderly, and at least as reverent as any congregation I ever saw beneath the dome of St. Paul's. But it was aflame with a passionate religious enthusiasm, the like of which I have never seen in St. Paul's. Tier above tier from the crowded aisles to the loftiest gallery eat or stood, as, necessity dictated, eager hundredsof serious men and thought ful women, their eyes riveted upon the platform or upon whatever other part of the building was the storm center of the meeting. . There was absolutely nothing wild, violent, hysterical, unless it be hys terical for the laboring breast to heave with sobbing that cannot be re pressed, and the throat to choke with emotion as a sense of the awful hor ror and shame, of a wasted life sud denly bursts upon the soul. On all sides there was the solemn gladness of men and women upon whose eyes has dawned-the splendor of a new day, the foretaste of whose glories they are enjoying in the quickened sense of human fellowship and a keen glad zest added to their own lives. Employers tell me that the quality of the work the miners are putting in has improved. Waste is less, men gc to their daily toil with a new spirit of gladness in their labor. In the long dim galleries of the mine, where once the hauliers swore atv their ponies in Welshified English; jiernis of blas phemy, there is nov $ut tojbe heard the haunting melody of he revival mu sic. The pit ponies; like the Ameri can mules, have been driven by oaths and curses since they first bore the yoke, are being retrained to do their work without the incentive of profan ity. There is less drinking, less idle ness, less gambling. Men record with almost incredulous amazement, how, one football player after another has foresworn cards and drink and the gladiatorial games, and is living a so ber and godly life, putting his energy into the revival. More wonderful still, and almost incredible to those who know how journalism lives and thrives upon gambling, and how Tory ism is broad-based upon the drinking habits of the people, the Tory daily paper of South Wales has devoted its columns day after day to reporting and defending tho movement which declares war to the death against both gambling and drink. From "The Great Religious Revival ia Wales," by William T. Stead, in the American Monthly Review of Reviews. MAY FIND MURDER MOTIVE. In Tales of "Graft" Police Expect to Clear Up Stanford Mystery. Miss Bertha Berner and Miss May Hunt, secretary and maid, respective-. Miss Bertha Berner. ly, to the late Mrs. Stanrord, uav been instructed by the police not t leave Honolulu. It is believed thaj among the stories of household quar rels and graft, -a hint of the motive for murder may be found. Albert Beverly, the ex-butler, has it is said, made a statement to the police to the effect that in all. by means of "rake downs" and commis sions he had "grafted" about ?2,100 He reiterates his story that he divid ed his "rake down" with Miss Berner and that her share amounted to be tween $1,000 and $1,100. Flying Machines and Fighting. ' Santos Dumont says that the recent generation - will see a perfect ' flying machine that will make war impos sible. There, may be a perfect flying machine, but -how that is goiug to make war impossible is not e-o plain to a man on the ground as It appear!: to be to M. Dumont. He probably in tends to carry explosives and dror. them onto the heads of the people, but the other fellows wjil, be able to dt the same thing, leaving, .we shoulfl say, war not only possible, but might ily destructive. If affairs between bel ligerent powers could be so-adjusted that only one of theti could-have re course to' flying macifines. 'and when the hostilities . break out that ore should get into the. ntaekiUes and. fly away, then war might be sas1 to aave become' impossible. Milwaukee Fret Press.:;. . " Dumb Man Speaks. Fifteen -moirths ago Ttomas Witty, a man employed in Armstrong's Fh'p yard, woke up one morning and found that he had lost the faculty of speech. Remaining dumb, he gave tip his employment. On Saturday he v was selling oranges, with his son shouting for him, when somebody asked him the price cf the oranges, and much to his own 'astonishment his long at tempted utterance came, for he re plied. "Four a penny." Since that mo ment he has been able to speak as well as ever. London Daily Mail. Uoctors' Race at a Fair. An arniTSiBrfeature of the closing day of the nortReeprgia fair held at Chlckamauga. was a "doctors' race." The twelve physicians who took part in the contest had their horses., sta bled near by and were themselv-is undressed and in bed. At tho stroke of the gong they had to dress, hitch their horses to i.heir vehicles and drive 'one mile to a supposed patient. The race was won by Dr. Rudesell." Dr.. Elder was second and Dr. Hunter third. DEATH OF SENATOR BATE Veteran Soldier and' Statesman Suc cumbs to Pneumonia. ' United States Senator William Brimage Bate, of Tennessee, twice governor of his state, a veteran of both the Mexican and civil wars, ris ing from private to major general in the latter and for eighteen years a conspicuous member of the upper house of congress, died at his hotel apartments in Washington, March 7, aged 78 years. Death- was rue to pneumonia and defective heart... Sen-, ator Bate attended the inauguration cerenionies on March 4 abd his death Is believed to be due primarily to ex posture on thai occasion. Senator Bate took his seat in the senate in 1887 and was recently sworn in for another term of six years. He was the ranking minority member of the committee on territories, military af fairs and agriculture and forestry, al so a member of several minor com mittees and chairman of one of the minority committees. Besides the widow, two daughters, Mrs. Thomas F. . Masten of Tennessee : and Mrs. Chillis of Los Angeles, survive the senator. Both houses of the general assembly of Tennessee took appro priate action on the death of Senator Bate. JOKE ON PARIS LAWYERS. Members of the Bar Supposed to Work Only for Justice. The wits of the v Boulevards have been furnish.ecU.wiih a fruitful topic, by the civil court of Paris, which has ordered a lawyer to return the greater part of the fees he received in a cer tain case. It is not in the enforced return of the money, however, that the humor lies, but in the ground on. which the court based its action. M. J. Cornely, who records the incident, says the judge declared that members of the bar there work for justice, not for noney, and have no legal claim to jne sou for services! This, it appears, has been a hallow ed fiction since the days of St. Louis ad we can well believe that its re :rudescence at this time as a judicial let has caused a commotion among he lawyers of Paris. CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN. Sorgeous Raiment a Necessity for Those in Authority. There is no power without clothes, .t is the power that governs the hu man race. Strip its chiefs to the skin, jnd no state could be governed; naked Mficials could exercise no authority; they would look (and be) ' Bike every; body else commonplace, inconsequen tial. A policeman in plan clothes is one man, in his uniform ho is ten. Clothes and titles are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence in the earth.. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous re speqt for the judge, the general, the admiral,: the .bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it. In naked tribes of sav ages the kings wear some kind of rag or decoration which they make sacred to themselves and allow no one else to wear. The king, or the great Fan tribe wears a bit of leopard skin on his shoulder ifr is sacred to royal ty; the rest of him is perfectly naked. Without thjs bit of leopard skin to awe and impress the people he would not be able to keep his job. "Mark Twain" in North American Review. Photographed Wrong Man. A Washington photographer want ed the picture of . the president's friend Seth B;i!ock, the sheriff of Deadwood, who was selected to lead the cowboy bunch -in the inaugural procession. He sent an assistant out to round up Bullock and bring him to be photographed.. Presently the assistant came back with a gray-mus-tached man in tow and announced that this was the man wanted. The man sat for several pictures. As he was going out the . clerk in .the gal lery said: "By the way, , Mr. Bullock, please give me your full name for the pictures." "Bullock nothing!" said the man. "I am not Bullock. I am f-irlorgan Bulkeley, senator-elect from Connecticut."' A Curiou3 Clock. One of the most curious clocks in the world is.' perhaps; that which tells the times to the inhabitants of a little ery, which is nothing but a face, backwood town, and which was con structed some time ago. The machin hands, and lever, is connected with a geyser, which shoots out an im mense column of hot water every thirty-eight , seconds. This spouting never varies to tho tenth of a second. Every time the water spouts up it strikes the lever and moves the hands forward thirty-eight seconds. Fish With Two Kinds of Eyes. The anableps, or stargazer, a flsh of the cyprodont family, found in riv ers of Guiana. Surinam and Brazil. has each, of its eyes divided into -an Bpper and a lower portion by an opaque horizontal line. This gives it in effect two pupils in eaX!J eye, one suited for seeing in the air ad the other for seeing in the water. Tft.e fish is in the ' habit of swimming aFe surface with its head sometimes 3bove, sometimes be to t.fce water linelEishing Gazette. tijjishinj FINANCIAL RECORD THE BEST. Not - Once - in History-- Hae-f City . of Mexico Repudiated Debt. The City of Mexico has been doing business for about 380 years. There is probably no capital in the civilized world that during the same period has been the center of more wars of con quest or revolution, and yet, through all the troublesome days of these cen turies, this city has maintained its financial reputation free from blemish. Kings have come and gone, viceroy has succeeded viceroy, emperors have flourished for a brief regime and rival factions have striven for the presidency, loans have been forced by one general government to be re pudiated by the next, bonds were is sued during the French occupancy that the republic would not assume, but during all the strife the ancient capital of the Aztecs cherished its financial integrity as its choicest jew el and to-day rejoices in the record that not once in all its long history has a debt been repudiated. Modern Mexico. TO DIRECT CANAL-CUTTING. Chief Engineer Wallace Likely to Be Supreme in Panama. Chief Engineer John F. Wallace, who will probably be the actual work ing head of the Panama Canal com mission tinder the proposed reorgani zation of that body, and who is likely to be the real builder of the canal under the president's determination to intrust that work to the ablest man the country can produce, is one of the best known civil engineers in this country, and :SO well 1 known abroad and -so highly esteemed tbatr he has been elected to membership in many f the most scientific bodies of Eu rope. For many years he was connect ed with the Illinois Central railroad, working up through all the grades to the office of general manager, a post he held at the time he was selected some months ago by the canal com mission for the office of chief engi neer. How We Catch Cold. The rationale of the causation of the ordinary "cold" is pretty well un derstood at the present day, and it is generally conceded that when civcu liiory disturbances or vital depres sions are produced, as the result -of localized.or general - chilling of - the body surface, newly entered or already present pathogenic bacteria are en abled to attack the body with very good chances of success. At such times it is said that the powers of resistance are below- par, and, conse quently," the bacterid, gain an easy victory. This point was illustrated in telling' fashion by Durck, who found that. rabbits infected with pneumococ ci developed pneumonia if they were subjected to severe cold,' whereas un chilled control animals survived. Medical Record. Exclusive Religious Circles. There is a good deal of comment just now on the exclusive attitude of certain New York churches. In some it is impossible to purchase a pew or even a sitting. The demand for pews in Grace church is so great that names have been on the waiting list for years. In several other fashion able houses of worship the condition is the same. Some newcomers of great wealth, eager to touch elbows with the most orthodox of respectabil ity, secure pews by sublease, but this is a costly kind of enterprise. It is not uncommon to hear of pews sell ing for $1,500 or more. Indeed, with in a week or two pew 40 of Grace church sold for $1,E50. In St. Thom as' church single sittings sell for $150,,.., .-. The People's College. The American boy does not. as a rule, take kindly to early specializa tion, says Walter L. Hervey in the Chant auquan. The ' general high school course, whether classical or scientific, attracts the" vast majority of students and is likely to do so for many years to' come. The typical American high schpql is one whose chief, aim is to provide general cul ture and. equipment' for life, irrespec tive of academic or vocational des tination.. This conception of the high school is reflected in the name by which it is often, called. "the pec pies' college." ' ', "' Benefited by American Education. Tong Shin Ye, just appointed Chi nese ambassador to England, was one of the second delegation of thirty youths sent to this country, in 1872 to be educated. He was then 12 years old. He and another lad were taken in hand by E. C. Gardner of Spring field, Mass., with whom they , remain ed for two years. Then, having made great progress in the study of En glish, they went to school. Tong re mained in the United States for six years. He finished his education in China A Botany Tea. Dr. Peebles, assistant professor of biology at the Woman's College, and some of her students' gave a unique botany tea in one of the science rooms. All the refreshments, which were of a vegetable compound ex cept salt, jere eaten with laboratory instruments, i The food consisted of lettuce, . tomatoes, asparagus . tips, olives, ginger, fruit salad and bis cuits. The tea was filtered at the table over laboratory glasses. Balti more American. " , JS-tB ivvsNrnoN!, Electric Cigar Lighters. Electricity is lighting houses not only, but cigars as well. An ingenious electric cigar lighter consists of a metal box, perforated and mounted upon a standard . and supplied with 110-volt continuous current fron the lighting mains. Inside the box' are two carbon pencils which are brought in contact by the depression of a thumb piece or button on the out side, and then separated by a spring mechanism which holds the carbons just far enough apart for an arc to be formed. By inserting a cigar in an orifice in the front its unlighted end becomes ignited by contact with the arc, the whole operation taking scarce ly five seconds and costing 10 cents per kilowatt hour. . In other words, 500 cigars may be lighted for about one penny. Taking into account interest and depreciation, the Hew lighter will scarcely be a formidable rival of the safety match. Not for Women Alone. Tn a Broadway car a few days ago a metropolitan belle had no hesitation in pulling from one of the recesses of her dress and secured by a long gold 1 chain around her neck, a locketlike device, and opening it, take therefrom a powder puff, with which she careful-' ly went over her face before alighting from the car. An observer of the male r ersuasion took occasion to indulge in a dissertation on the frivolities of the females,' but it was not long before he had attention called to the enlight ening spectacle of a man engaged in vigorously grooming his mustache with the aid of a pocket mirror, and.. a jointed comb. The jointed comb is quite generous ly affected by the sterner sex, and it is for him as well as the ladies that the telescoping comb has been made by an ingenious inventor from Lon don, Ohio. It will be readily seen how this implement, being made. in. four parts, one fitting in the other, . will form a very compact article. The larger end piece is not supplied with teeth, but comprises a casing into which the other parts collapse. Brooklyn Eagle. National Telephone in Japan. Telephones in the land of the mika do are government institutions. - The service has been established since 1S80. There are forty-five exchanges in Tokio, employing sixty-three men and twenty-five- women clerks, and 115 men and 1,722 women operators. The number of subscribers at the end of November, 1904, was 35.2G5. The tele phone dapartment has 2,537 miles of bare wire, 201 miles of aerial cable, 169 miles of underground cable and C.58 nauts of submarine cable em-, ployed in the servic. The charge to subscribers varies according - to the size of the town, being 48 yen per an nuel in , some of the smaller towns and CO yen in Tokio and Osaka, ' the middle charge of 54 yen being made in Yokohama and other places. The call office fee is 5 sen for a conversa tion not exceeding five minutes, with an additional 5 sen for each addition al five minutes' conversation within town limits, and 10 sen with similar regulations for out of town Subscrib ers. "Wireless" in Naval Warfare. Among the interesting features of the maneuvers of the United States squadron cf evolution at Culebra this winter, will be practice , with relay wireless telegraphy. The. ships will be arranged in column, distant from each other about 100 miles, and wire less messages will be transmitted from the flagship and repeated- from ship to ship, the final recipient report ing to the flagship the exact message -eceived from the penultimate ship. Will Save Cattle and Horses. The latest invention for installation in stables and cattle sheds, and fcav ing for its primary object the imme diate rescuing of horse3 and cattle. In case of. danger, especially by fire, is called "The Lightning Release Lock, There is, no device on the market to day applicable for the purpose men tioned, which combines so perfectly, simplicity of construction, with effi ciency of operation.- It answers a re quirement, the abEence of which has teen keenly felt by horsemen and cat tle owners for many years, particular ly in buildings where many horses and cattle are housed, and which are particularly susceptible to danger by New Stall Stock. fire, in consequence of the confusion attending the release of the animals. The lock is worked by the pull of a lever. It can be placed in any part of the stable that will best answer its purpose. There is one lock in each stable, whioh is connected by piping running through the same, from one part of the stable to the other. The serviceable part of this lock is that it can be utilized independently, for daily use, leaving the main lock to be lsed only in case of emergency. Electric Motors on Long Island. The management of the Long Island i ail way has decided to substitute elec tric motors for locomotives in the handling of all passenger trains. An order ,bas been placed with a Pitts burg firm for motors enough to su persede every locomotive in active service in this department. Power wilt be taken from a wire overhead after the manner employed in trolley car operation. By the beginning of the summer traffic it is expected that all trains on this line will be run by motors, doing away with the smoke. cinders and other discomforts of rail road travel in warm weather. Lettuce for Insomnia. Insomnia can be cured by eatin lettuce. , PLAN FOR BA8UKIENT, BARN. . '- J," - Quarters for Twenty Hte4 of Cattle ,. -and Two. Teams.. The accompanying plans are for w -basement barn. 35 by 58 feet, to ac commodate twenty bead of cattle and '" two teams of horses. The basement wall is 8 feet high; 1 foot thick, and composed of cement concrete.-If stone is used for wall instead of cement.: the building should be 2 feet larger each ' way to , allow 'fort the thicker walls that would be necessary. Unless -gravel is scarce and stone plentiful, cement is much to be preferred to stone masonry and is cheaper. A is the horse stable; B, the box stall; C, root house;, D, cow stab res; . -ill r u Ground Floor P. u H. passages. The small si, jares, three ' on one side' and two ;.on the ' other, shown in the ground iBoor plan, are ventilating shafts -10 Inches square, which extend from the'celling of the basement to the plate -of the barn where they are open to the outside. ' Fresh air should be admitted through 2-inch tiles placed in the walls one foot ' above the lerrel of the basement floor, -and in such position that draughts will not strike, the j animals. - Windows . should be all hung at the top. Stable -doors should all be cut in two horizon tally, making the bottom -part 3 feet 6 inches high. The barn posts are 18 feet high and the roof is hipped. The cost of building; paries in dif ferent localities, but a ir estimate . would be about as folio :; Excavat-.-' ing. $10; cement wall, 25; cenjen' floor, $125; timber, $230, Jumber and 1 shingles, $315; lumber for stable fit- ' tings, $70; hardware,; $40;' carpenter work, $175; silo, $140. This estimate r is for first-class workmanship, and ' matched lumber. The foundation tim bers may be made up of 2x10 inch planks. For the superstructure, square timber should be used. L ! "Ml 1 ' . .. .. to "..' -ia't 3 -t!w7T 4A.iu Timber Framing of Upper Floor. The outside timbers marked A are 2x10 in. planks lying on concrete wall. The cross timbers marked B are 10x10 in. The small black square represents the location of posts, which are placed so as not to interfere with passage in the basement. . A House of Cement and Stone. ' J. W. R. Would it be advisable to build a house 24x28 feet and 18 feet -high of cement and stone? How thick .. V- 1,1 t,n-wnfl Uah m 1. ment would .be required antr whal would be the cost of the walls? Houses built of stone are durable f and warm, but. they pever should be plastered directly oifthe stone. The -walls should be strapped and then lathed and plastered, for if plastered on the stone wall, the walls are al ways colder,- especially in the winter, and the moisture in the rooms will condense on the walls, making them wet. -AJ1. brick, stone' or concrete walls-eiiould be strapped before being lathed and plastered. - . . The walls should be 20 inches thick . : for first story and , 18 inches for see- on.d story. Mortar for laying stone for such a building may be composed , of one part of Portland cement to five parts of sand. ' The cost of stone work will depend ; on the cost of material, where the ' t. building is erected and the class of ; stone, work required. ; For plain rob- bio work the usual price per cord i3 fifteen dollars where cement is used . in "making the mortar. Your walls t would cost $420, estimating them . at ; $15. per cord. Yon would require about 40 barrels of cement. H. - , How to Mend Table Linen. A housewife whose . table linen al ways does her good service mends it with embroidery cotton of a number to correspond with the quality of the . cloth. Under the ragged edges of the tear she bastes a piece of stiff paper, and makes a .network:- of fine stitches back and forth over its edges,' Thin -places and breaks in linen may, run with the flax or embroidery floss, and towels should be mended in the same way. " - ; :'"- f :' "V " ' Tea Growing Experiments. Some of the farmers . near 9anta Rosa. Cal., are experimenting with tea growing, ; and heir efforts seem , to be meeting with success. It is said that there is no reason Why tea should not be grown' in some sections of this . country, though th$ earlier South .Car olina experiment, ia not known to be making great headway. Sensible Rules.of Club. Some easy-going ;. citizens of Hume. Mo., have organized a 'Don't Worry' club. The certificate of m' ibership. bears the following; pledge "I hereby promise that, to the best of my ability. I will not worry, knock, fret, roar or chew the rag, but; will endeavor to remain sweet and! contented for a whole year.":' . No Danger ef Discovery. " "I am afraid some of the dates in my - historical novel are inaccurate. " "That is all right," answered the publisher. "It will never be noticed' People who read history have too much literary taste to .read historical novels." 1 " . ' ' t Needed Money. , De Style Was the : Duke ' on his) knees when he proposed to Miss MUV" yins? . ... ' ' - 'i Guilbusta No; on his uppers Does Not Hqld Good Always. "There's nothing like perseverancb; it wins out in the long run." "Not always; did you ever see hen on a porcelain egg? . J