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SOLDIERS TAKE SIDES IN
BOOTH FAMILY JAR
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They Ask Bollingrton Booth to Head
an Independent American Array but
He Declines and Quits the Organi
zationCause of the Trouble
New War Cry
The trouble In the ranks of the Salva
tion army seems to grow Ballington
Booths peremptory removal by luc fath
er from the command of the army in the
United States has caused dissensions that
way result in a permanent disruption of
tihis famous religious organization If
Ballington Booth lifts his hand in assent
it is believed that the American branch
will throw off its allegiance to the parent
body in England The root of the evil
seems to be jealousy in the Booth family
Ballington Booth for nine years the com
mander of the army in America has been
forced do resign and in consequence has
teggaS
BOOTH TUCKEK
left the army The leaders of the various
branches throughout the United States
asked him to take charge of an independ
ent army saying that if he did so the
Americau army would secede from the
British or parent organization This
Booth refused to do Thus the army re
mains intact but there is no love for tihe
British authorities and a mutiny may
occur at any time Eva Booth sister of
Ballington and daughter of Gen William
Bootih the head of the universal army of
Salvationists is temporarily in command
of the American army She will remain
an charge until the arrival here of Com
missioner Booth Tucker and his wife who
have been appointed to succeed Mr and
Mrs Ballington Booth as commanders of
flhe American forces
The trouble began about a month ago
when Gen William Booth issued an order
-relieving the commanders in the United
States France Canada Australia and
India and ordering them all to report in
London in April The news greatly sur
prised the army in America For nine
years Ballington Booth had been in com
mand here He had found the army weak
and struggling despised and ridiculed
He put his whole soul and energy into the
nvork By Qiis side was his wife a woman
1 0MgIi - education great personal mag
uetisin and undoubted ability She shared
equally his labors and while the dealt with
the men she organized the famous slum
-corps and inaugurated a wonderful relig
ious work among the outcast -women The
Booths found here an army of G000 per
sons They have to day a disciplined suc
cessful body of more tllian 30000 men and
women who are laboring jiight and day
to save souls They have acquired prop
erty aud public support They have made
tihe Salvation army recognized as one of
the most powerful forces for Christianiz
ing -work in this country
The officers of the army throughout the
United States assert that the other Booths
pre jealous of Ballingtons success and
iM
EVA BOOlir
therein is the cause of the trouble This
Herbert and Mrs Bootih deny
The New Commander
F De la Tour Booth Tucker the Jiew
commander is 43 years old He belongs
to an old English family and before he
joined the Salvation army was a resident
magistrate in the Punjab district in In
dia Eight years ago he became inter
ested an the army and after investigation
decided that only by its agency could the
heathen millions be converted to Chris
tianity He threw up his commission
and entered tho ranks of the Salvationists
as a cadet He went to England and
after a stay tlhere of about a year return
ed to India to evangelize the natives The
ex magistrate donned the garb of the in
habitants of the country went barefoot
ed and begged his bread as a traveling
preacher among the Gingaratis one of the
native tribes It was mainly through his
efforts that the army got a foothold in that
vast country He rose rapidly and now
holds the position of foreign secretary
Five years ago he married Emma Booth
tthe second daug bter of Gen Booth and
sister of Ballington Booth She is very
active in army work and is lady principal
of the organizations training schools
Senator Elkins of West Virginia is not
a candidate for the presidential nomina
tion In an interview Mr Elkins declares
that he is content with his senatorial
honors and that the statements concern
ing his presidential ambitions were made
by ill advised friends and are unauthor
ized He says he is for McKinley
William H Luckenbach D D presi
dent of the New York and New Jersey
synod of the Lutheran Church at Hudson
N Y died of paralysis He was 67
years old
WILES AND SITTING BULL
An Interview Between the Two as De
scribed by the General
Made insolent by recent successes
Sitting Bull iu 1S7G sent word to Col
onel 3D S Otis who was escortiDg ono
of Miles supply trains to get out of
the way as he was scaring off the buf
falo If -you dont said the note
I will fight you again I want you
to leave what you have got here and
turn back I mean all the rations you
have got and some powder Colonel
Otis however kept on the Indians
from time to time liring upon him
When General Miles heard of this
affair he moved after Sitting Bull and
on flie 21sr of October found him near
the head of Cedar Creek The famous
medicine man sent in a flag of truce
and an interview was held between the
lines under an agreement that General
Miles should take six persons with him
and Sitting Bull also six
Sitting Bull said the general in
telling the story to a writer spread
out a blanket and wanted me to sit
down upon it but I stood up while be
sat down As we talked one and an
other young Indian sauntered up until
there were perhaps ten or fifteen in a
half circle One of my men called at
tention to this I said to Sitting Bull
These men are not old enough for
council and unless you send them back
we will stop talking Soon afterward
the interview came to an end with noth
ing settled I found out later from a
scout and interpreter named John
Brughier that one Indian muttered
Why dont you talk strong to him
and that Sitting Bull replied When I
do that I am going to kill him Brugh
ier also told me that one of the young
warriors slipped a carbine up under
Sitting Bulls buffalo robe But I bad
in mind the fate of Canby and had in
structed the troops on the ridge back
to keep the spot in range
The next day came a second inter
view The general tried bard to in
duce the Indians to obey the govern
ment and to go to their respective reser
vations Sitting Bulls answer was em
phatic
The Great Spirit made me an In
dian He did not make me an agency
Indian and I do not intend to be one
Seeing that further parley was use
less General Miles gave au ultimatum
through the interpreter
Tell him that either I will drive nim
out of the country or he will drive me
out I will take no advantage of the
flag of truce and will give him fifteen
minutes to get back to bis lines If my
terms are not accepted by that time I
will open fire
Sitting Bull started up with a grunt
and rushed out in a fury followed by
bis chiefs not stopping to shake bands
In a very short time the Indian lines
were all astir with yelling warriors
and with ponies scurrying about and
presently the grass was burning here
and there to stop all advance of the
troops Miles had with him only 308
rifles while the Indians swarmed in
for greater numbers in front and on the
flanks but his men went forward with
a- rush and the hostiles were driven
two score miles to the Yellowstone
leaving some of their dead in the
flight McClures Magazine
Newspapers vs Posters
I struck an inland Indiana town re
cently and about the first thing I no
ticed was flaring posters announcing
the appearance of a second rate star
at the local opera house that evening
In the course of my business I found
myself in a drug store where the ad
Vance sale of seats was -held and after
celling a bill of goods asked for a ticket
to the evenings performance
Oh said the young man behind the
counter those people aint coming
They busted last week
Why dont you take down or cover
up the posters then I asked
Oh everybody knows they aint
doming It was in the papers
Sure enough The management trust
ed to half a dozen lines in the local pa
pers to counteract the influence of sev
eral stands of red black and yellow
posters
And the papers did it Probably
was the only person in the town who
had asked for a ticket after the news
paper announcement
Can you think of any better illustra
tion of the relative value of newspa
per advertising and the other kind
Push
Is Marriage a Failure
The Earl of Stafford married at St
Germain 1694 the eldest daughter of
the Count de Grammont in his will he
thus expressed himself I leave to the
very worst of women who is guilty of
everything that is bad the daughter of
M Grammont a Frenchman whom I
have unfortunately married forty five
brass halfpence with which to buy a
pullet for supper a greater sum than
her father can often give her he being
the worst of men and his wife the
worst of women Had I only known
their characters I had never married
their daughter nor made myself so un
happy
A Liover of Breton Folklore
Le Vicomte Hensart de la Ville
marque who died the other day at the
age of SO had done probably more than
anyone in his generation to popularize
the knowledge of Breton folk lore folk
poetry and folk music in France His
Barzaz Briez a collection of the pop
ular songs of Brittany with the orig
inal melodies and critical excursus and
notes is a statfdard work He was
the first to provide a translation of the
Breton bards of the earliest epochs
A Regiment or Plows
One hundred and sixty plows starts
In a row at a recent plowing match at
Dartford England
Girls like to talk about love because
all of them know some verse they can
vquote about it
THE FAEM AND HOME
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM
ER AND HOUSEWIFE
f he Kate of Farm Wages Should More
Nearly Approximate Earnings Al
ways Carry Insurance Farmers
Should Stand Together Te9t Cows
Pay What Labor Is Worth
The difficulty which farmers find in
securing good help is largely their own
fault The standard of farm wages is
very low and for the very best help
only 2 or 3 additional is what most
of them will allow Of course under
these circumstances the active and en
terprising young men not afraid of
work seek other employments It is
not true that young men seek city life
expecting to have an easier time
though this may be true of some of
them Many work quite as hard as
they would on the farm but they get
better pay than the farm would afford
them It will be better both for farm
ers and young men if the rate of farm
wages more nearly approximated earn
ings The poorest help as it is now
generally gets more than he earns and
this is made up by labor of the farmer
or of other help not fully paid for -
Farm Insurance
Carry a two thirds insurance on your
dwellings and furniture on barns anl
out buildings live stock in stables crops
in barns and upon farm machinery
carriages wagons carts and harness
A policy of insurance for 4000 for
one year in a first class company may
be had for 20 and in a mutual com
pany for two thirds of this amount
Carry enough insurance and do not let
the policy expire It is a duty every
man owes to himself his family and
his creditors Be careful with lights
have no smoking around the buildings
do not smoke yourself and do not al
low others to do it Take care of the
ashes Many fires occur from direct
carelessness Have a large iron pot
or a little brick building to throw them
in Have the ashes taken out in the
morning and if thrown into such a re
ceptable there is no danger Wood
ashes are very valuable to spread
around fruit trees or to spread over the
onion ground and they should be saved
dry Coal ashes after they are sifted
can be used for making walks around
the dwellings and out to the barn A
six inch layer of stone should be first
placed on the earth and then a six
inch layer of ashes Ram the ashes
down hard and a neat dry walk can
be had which will last for a number
of years and will be a great comfort in
wet weather An insurance tends to
make the insured more careful and
easy in mind and if by accident a fire
occurs there is money enough to make
another start with Baltimore Ameri
can
Farmers Should Stand Together
The great trouble with farmers here
tofore has been that they hang together
bout like the grains of sand in a pile
says the Wallace Farmer There is so
much of the spirit of independence
among farmers that they are jealous
of each other and hence by lack of con
fidence imperil the success of any enter
prise their friends may have in hand
and allow themselves to be easily di
vided and conquered
Test the Cows
It will certainly pay a man who keeps
only three or four cows to know what
each cow is doing says Hoards Dairy
man If he cannot otherwise conveni
ently get his milk tested say twice a
month it will pay him to own a Bab
cock tester and one of the spring scales
or balances advertised in this paper
The small testers especially those run
ning with gears are usually quite ac
curate It is sometimes necessary to
whirl the bottles a minute or two
longer in the smaller machines Weigh
the milk given by each cow at every
milking test two or three times each
month and if you do not find it neces
sary to dispose of one or two cows your
case will be one of the rare exceptions
to the general rule A four bottle tester
suffices for a small dairy
Mixing Fertilizers
It does not pay to go into the business
of preparing mineral manures such as
bones or phosphate rock unless it can
be done on a large scale Bones are
bard to dissolve either with acid or
with alkalies and cannot be got into
condition for spreading evenly over the
surface except under difficulties that
make it unprofitable The commercial
phosphates are sold lower than farm
ers can prepare them for their own use
even with the bones furnished free of
cost Besides raw bone makes an ex
cellent poultry feed and it produces
as might be expected a strongly phos
phatic manure What the poultry cant
eat should be ground as finely as possi
ble and mixed with composting stable
manure which is usually deficient in
phosphate
Mating of Hens
The number of hens with each male
should be usually from eight to fifteen
of the larger breeds and from fifteen
to twenty of the leghorn or other small
breeds A better way would be slight
ly to increase but not double this
number and use two males changing
them nearly every day but this is not
always convenient says the New Eng
land Farmer Two males should never
run with the same flock as one will
master the other and a cock that has
been once thoroughly whipped is al
most worthless as a breeder when in
the presence of his conqueror and but
little better even when put with an
other flock
Remember then in selecting breeding
fowl look first for good health next for
perfection of shape and then for pro
ductiveness Size should nt influeuce
the choice or rather a medium size Is
better than very large or very small
unless one is growing a breed iu which
Bize is all important as in bantams In
wj i
sas
plumage a good glossy feather well
be
of good health and of course it
one has a pure breed the feathering
sh6uld be good- enough no
marked strain of other breeds
Canned Meats for Summer
Farmers usually have a plentiful sup
ply of fresh meat in winter when the
weather is cold and by freezing the
meat can be kept sometimes for weeks
without being injured But in summer
it is different and the ration of salted
pork or corned beef is apt to become
tiresome It is a surprise that some of
the fresli meat butchered in winter is
not canned as i may easily be Cut
it in small pieces without any bone
and cook so thoroughly as to expel all
air Then place it quickly in glass jars
that have been slowly heated until they
are nearly as hot as the cooked food If
this is done and the cans are immersed
except their tops in hot water the glass
will not break Pack the meat as close
ly as possible in the can and when
filled cover the top with melted lard
and seal the can The lard will protect
the meat beneath it from any air that
may be under the lid of the can and
which may have ferment germs A
few cans of fresh meat for use in sum
mer will be quite as convenient as the
cans of fruit and vegetables which all
good housewives now put up every
summer and fall in greatest abundance
Fresh fruit in the summer is more easy
to get in the country than is fresh meat
of any kind
Buying and Selling Young Stock
For a farmer who can keep but a
moderate amount of stock buying and
selling is perhaps as profitable a way
as breeding Most young animals can
be bought for less than they are worth
This is especially true of yearling cat
tle heifers and steers They will often
be sold by the time they are near a year
old for little more than they would
have brought when -calves to be sold
to the butcher The gain from one to
two years is greater than in any other
year of the animals existence This is
especially true of heifers which may
be bred to drop their first calf at 2
years old and will thenceforward pay
their way Of course if all farmers
tried this policy there would be n6
young stock for sale But a great many
will always try to raise a fine calf and
be discouraged and reauy to sell it just
about the time when giving it good care
and feed would insure the largest prof
its Whatever stock a farmer buys he
will do well to secure it whpn not older
than a year Left longer it will not
become wonted to the new home nor
do so well as it would if left on tho
farm where it was reared
Microbe Farming
The mystery of nitrification is now so
well known that any farmer can un
derstand it says the Agriculturist
Plants live on nitrogen but apparently
have no power to take it either from the
air or the soil Here the nitrogen-bacteria
get in their work These microbes
like atomic sponges take in the nitro
gen from the soil and the air and
transform it into nitric acid in which
form the plant can consume it A soil
may be destitute of nitrogen and need
both that and the microbes or it may
lack only the microbes in which case
a supply of them renders the field imme
diately fertile Stable manure has lit
tle nitrogen but swarms with the
germs of microbes Add to a field
where cloverseed wont catch a
light dressing of soil from a plot where
clover thrives to perfection and a
catch of cloverseed is almost sure to
result Why Because the soil added
is full of the germs or microbes that
enable the young clover plant to avail
itself of the nitrogen in ground or air
Drawing Sand on Gardens
Many heavy clay soils are improved
by a mixture of sand with the surface
soil It as especially valuable for mel
ons cucumbers and early vegetables
A very slight covering of sand less
than an inch dnj depth will suffice if the
land is not plowed very deeply The
pulverization of clay soils is greatly
helped by baving some sand mixed with
them as this gives a chance for water
to soak into the soil and for frost to
penetrate deeper Tbis also is greatly
aided by undefdralning which almost
all clay soil needs
Leather as a Fertilizer
Leather as a fertilizer has no value
whether untreated steamed roasted or
pulverized It contains from G to 8 per
cent of nitrogen but is insoluble and
it may be years before it will decay in
the soil sufficient for plants to take up
Its nitrogen Hence in Connecticut
and some other States the law forbids
its use in any form as an ingredient of
commercial fertilizers without an ex
plicit printed certificate of the fact con
spicuously fixed to every package
Treat Heifers Kindly
Some of the best heifers are ruined
when they come in with their first
calves To properly train a heifer to be
milked requires patience To strike
her for nojt permitting herself to be
milked when she does not really under
stand your object is to aggravate the
difficulty She should be gently han
dled when a calf and taught by kind
ness alone If she sbows any faults
they must be corrected by teaching her
that you are her friend It is better
to send her to the butcher at once than
to use a stick on her
Shelter for Grindstone
It is very common on some farms to
keep the grindstone out of doors shel
tered only by the foliage of some tree
in summer but in winter exposed to all
kinds of storms These stones are al
ways more or less porous If they
were not they would not make good
material to sharpen metal cutting tools
When a grindstone gets wet and the
moisture in it freezes pieces of the
stone chip off and the stone wears away
unevenly thus soon becoming of very
little value
Some Pertinent Pointers
The following hints on how to make
Roads Better are selected from a neat
little pamphlet sent out by the Juniata
Limestone Company Limited Cove
Forge Pa
r The system of working out road taxes
is a most vicious one and is responsible
for the failure which has marked the
past construction and repair of roads
Since it seems to be a necessary evil
however let us not despair in that it is
evil evil works its own reward
First see that your road can be drain
ed on both sides a drain in the middle
of a- road while quite common does
not help the road much
After making sure the road can be
drained find out how much of the sur
face must come off Dig down deep
lenough to determine whether or not it
has a bottom this side of China Often
you will find as much as eighteen or
twenty inches of mud sticks and stray
etones the collection of some eight or
ften supervisors gathered at great ex
pense to the taxpayers during as many
years
Their removal may injure a few theo
ries but will benefit the road and
thats what were here for
J Right here too many road makers
make their great error they stop en
tirely or worse yet cover the stone
with mud
Why do they cover it with mud
Well bless your honest heart didnt
the supervisor purchase a road plow as
he was instructed and what do you
suppose a road plow is for if not to
jplow mud from the sides of a road and
heap it on the middle
Then throw it away you say
Not much Do you suppose our tax
payers can stand such unheard of ex
travagance
If he didnt cover it with mud he prob
ably went over it with a hand bammer
and gave it a lick and a promise com
monly known as breaking it down
We imagine the recording angel was
kept busy for some seven months and
three days keeping tab on the language
of those who were forced to use the
road forced we say for there many
who saw an advantage in driving three
miles further to get around it
Incidentally what did the road
maker get re elected most likely
We have known as low as seven
votes to elect a road supervisor he
proved to be worth about that much
to the township
We know a township in Pennsylvania
which was turned topsy turvy by a
supervisor who supervised
It now possesses the proud distinc
tion of being the possessor of the best
roads in the Stite
Theres a moralhere probably two
Let the whole road be covered to the
depth of at least six inches with lime
stone screenings
Now look over your road
Is it level
Oh it is is it Well you are all dead
wrong Didnt we tell you to make it
higher in the middle A road that is
level when made will soon sag and you
will find it is easier to drain a road
which is high in the middle than one
with a sag in it
When the State made roads roads
were made
When each township makes its roads
why the tax is worked out as for
the roads that does not matter so
much in the summer they are usually
dry and in winter covered with snow
while in the spring and fall
Too many roads nave been built by
stories told from the top of a rail fence
The mismanagement displayed in
road making would wreck any business
enterprise
It seems as if money collected as road
tax was made of counterfeit or bad a
bole in it else why is it thrown away
If our school tax had been expended
like our road tax the Chinese would
have been sending missionaries to civ
ilize us long ago
Now give your road a chance and
note results
Do it again next year
Not on your life Do it once and that
time well and there you are
The moral is plain dear reader
The mass of our people need educa
tion along this line badly We stand
ready to give our assistance in the mat
ter of making roads better that we may
all enjoy better roads
The Cooks Mistake
A Prairie avenue capitalist who gain
ed the larger part of his wealth in the
sawmill and lumbering industry in
Northern Wisconsin is noted for the
vigilance with which he watches the
small details of his big business As
an example of this characteristic a
story is told of a tour of inspection
made by him to his logging camps in
the pine wcotfs
On this trip the Cfcicago lumberman
was grieved to notice that some of his
teamsters used too many oats in feed
ing their horses and was shocked by
a -few other evidences of petty extrav
agance but what pained him most was
the amount of provisions consumed at
the camp He believed that this was
due to the wastefulness of the cooks
though such waste is difficult to detect
But the Chicago man soon hit upon an
ingenious detective scheme by which
K V
he was able to tell whether or not the
cooks were economical in theuseojL
supplies
At all the earn ps nplg and
fedon the SdapsironYfhe woodsmeriJ
tables After a visit to the pig pen he
approached the cook with a friendly
smile and remarked
Ahf Antolrie thats afiiie fat pig
you ha v e there Gouldnrfc -well
feed another
As Antoine was wise he replied
Xb we cant keep more than one
We havent enough scraps
At the next camp the same question
was asked the unsuspecting Peter and
he promptly replied
Why yes We could feed nnothei
pig just as well as not Send us onev
Then the lumberman fbund the camp
foreman and said OBrien you will
have to discharge that cook of yours
He can feed too many pigs Chicago
Chronicle
Funny Advertisements
Curiuusly worded advertisements
which are funny without Intent are
common in the London papers It would
seem An English periodical offered a
prize the other day for the best collec
tion of such announcements and the
following is the result
Annual sale now on Dont go else
where to be cheated come In here
A lady wants to sell her piano as she
is going abroad in a strong iron frame
Furnished apartments suitable for
gentlemen with folding doors Wanted-
a room by two gentlemen about
thirty feet long and twenty feet broad
Lost a collie dog by a man on Satur
day answering to Jim with a brass col
lar round his neck and a muzzle
Wanted by a respectable girl her
passage to New York willing to take
care of children and a good sailor
Respectable widow wants washing
for Tuesday For sale A pianof ort
the property of a musician with carved
legs Mr Brown furrier begs to
announce that he Aviil make up gowns
capes etc for ladies out of their own
skin A boy wanted who can open
oysters with reference Bulldog foi
sale will eat anything very fond of
children Wanted An organist an
a boy to blow the same Wanted A
boy to be partly outside and partly
behind the counter Wanted For
the summer a cottage for a small fam
ily with good drainage Lost Near
Highgate archway an umbrelhi be
longing to a gentleman with a bent rib
and a bone handle Widow in com
fortable circumstances wishes to mar-
ry two sons Wanted Good boys for
punching To be disposed of a mall
phaeton the property of a gentleman
with a movable headpiece as good as
new
The last is a copy of an inscription
painted on a board which adorned a
fence in Kent Notis If any mans
or womans cows gets into these here
otes his or her tail will be cut off as tho
case may be
No Proof of His Powers
Ethel
Yes papa
I believe you told me once that
young Litewait claimed to be a hyp
notist
Oh he is one papa I know he is
Hes proved it to your satisfaction
has he
Yes papa
Was be trying to demonstrate it
when I saw him kissing you in the con
servatory
The beautiful girl blushed
Yes papa
You considered that satisfactory
proof did you
Yes papa
And youre sure it was hypnotism
Perfectly certain papa
You wouldnt try to deceive your
poor old father in a matter of that sort
would you
No indeed papa
The old man shook his head doubt-
fully i
I think it would have looked more
like a genuine case of hypnotism if he
had kissed your mother or me he
said However well not discuss that
I have made up my mind though that
all hypnotists must keep away from
here
Why papa
My observation convinces me that
you are too good a subject to make It
possible for any of them to demon
strate any real hypnotic power to my
satisfaction As for young Litewait
you may say to him that I feel certalr
that I can hypnotize him so perfectly
that he would never know what hit
him
True Love Wins Even in Russia
AJtussiau girl had her way at Kharfc
how recently Her relatives forced t
to consent to marry a man she disliked
When the wedding party appeared b j
church however and the priest aske4
her if she would take the man she sail 3
No She would not yield to remoi
strance so the party returned home an
argued with her First her parent
beat her then the bridegrooms frlendj
beat her She was taken back to th5
church weeping and the service wa
begun again But she again said No j
and this time the priest saved her froil
her relatives
- J m
w an tea to sing Bass 3
Ferrari the celebrated composer n
Intpc tho TOlmwinf nnondntn j us 1
moirs On a cold December night a nW
in a little village in the Tyrol opent
the window and stood in front of i
with hardly any clothinsr to h hn
Peter shouted a neighbor who wi
passing what are you doing there 5
lra catching a cold What fori
bo 1 can sing bass to morrow
church x
Underwriters have not vp rWil
whether Nero fiddled or played on tl
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