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We have many kinds of fowls de
scribed in the American Standard but
we have not exhausted the worlds
stock by any means Here are two
kinds which are remarkable for their
grotesquencss The Sultans are all fuss
and feathers and the military style of
the cocks head dress is amusing along
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GOLDEN TADUAS
with the air of importance put on by
this bird The golden Faduas have an
unbalanced look which throws doubts
on their business abilities Indeed we
would put our faith on the Transyl
vania hen whose attention seems to be
given to worms and its favorite grub
rather than to any claim it may have
rto beauty The Sultans are pure white
SULTANA FOWLS
the Paduas are laced or spangled with
golden yellow and black and white and
the Transylvania have bare red-skinned
necks and brown plumage on the
body
2sovel Sclf CIosinj Gate
An invention has recently been pat
ented by Dr Peyton B Green of
Wythcville Va in which a simple and
ingenious device is provided for closing
sl gate automatically
Referring to the accompanying en
graving it will be observed that on the
top bar of the gate a roller is journaled
which is engaged by an inclined rod
fulcrumed at its lower end on a fixed
support set at a proper distance from
the hinge post A weight is held on the
rod and can be fastened in any desired
position by means of a set screw To
prevent the rod from leaving the roller
when opening and closing the gate the
bracket in which the roller is journaled
is provided with a loop
When the gate is swung open the free
end of the rod travels over the friction
roller and assumes nearly a vertical
position As soon as the gate is releas
ed the weight of the rod pressing
asainst fhe roller closes the gate By
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hanging the position of the weight
the gate can be closed with more or
less force
Seed Corn
Select the seed corn while the stalks
ire standing in the field Much can be
done ty selection Over 100 bushels
of corn were raised on an acre in Nel
son County Ya by a former member
of Congress by selection of seed Some
istalks contained from five to seven
ears aud grew to a height of fourteen
feet- This may appear remarkable
and may not be repeated but it shows
that in order to secure the largest yields
the seed corn must be selected every
year until the variety is made better
Turnips Growing After Frost
The turnip crop is so hardy that light
frosts not only do not kill the leaves
-but possibly by destroying weeds that
iiave before interfered with their
growth they seem often to make the
turnips grow faster The roots some
times double in size after an early frost
followed by warm moist weather
There is also an improvement in the
quality of turnips after freezing weath
er and it is usually a mistake to har
dest the crop until the surface soil in
the field has once been frozen
Fast Husking
Wither a man shall all his life be a
fastor slow husker depends very much
on How he begins If he Is always slow
and easy and does not try to husk fail
he will get this habit so fixed that trj
as he may he will not get rid of it Yet
the husker must avoid all nervousness
That may make him seem to work fast
but he will make many false motions
and the work will go on much slower
than it looks The fastest buskers say
the secret of this work is to have strong
hands thumbs and fingers and to make
every motion tell
Weanins the Colt
A spring colt ought to be weaned be
fore the pastures have been destroyed
by frost At the same time it should
be used to talcing a little grain twice a
day wbile it is still running at pasture
The oat is of course the best grain for
colts as it is also for the horse It does
not take much oats or meal to keep a
young colt thriftily growing during its
first winter If oats and corn are
ground together without the cob and
some wheat bran is added it will in
most cases make a better ration fed
with cut hay than could be got from
feeding oats alone Xo corn and cob
meal should be fed to young colts or in
fact to any young animal The cob is
extremely hard to digest and at least
for all young stock lias not enough nu
trition to compensate for the danger
from using it
Salt the Manure Heap
Salt in the manure heaps will prove
beneficial As kainit contains a large
proportion of salt and also a percent
age of crude sulphate of potash it may
be mixed with the manure by turning
the heap over care being taken that
all portions of the manure be sprinkled
with the kainit It prevents loss of
ammonia to a certain extent and adds
potash to the manure while salt at
tracts moisture and serves as an aid to
prevent fire fanging of the manure
Whenever manure is turned over the
coarse materials should be placed in
the center in order that they may ba
more quickly decomposed
Grape Vines in Fence Corners
A great many fences are of no use as
barriers because they surround lots
that are never pastured It was on one
such that years ago we saw a farmer
trying to train a grape vine and make
a trellis of it Of course all the work
of cultivating the vine which was
planted in the corner of an old worm
fence had to be done by hand with
spade and hoe But the experiment
succeeded until the fence rotted under
the mass of vines which covered it
Then the farmer was obliged to build a
trellis for his vine which he might bet
ter hare done at first Exchange
Corn Meal vs Shorts for Feeding Pigs
Experiments at the Indiana station
to determine the comparative value of
pure corn iucaI and a ration consisting
of equal parts of corn meal and shorts
showed that there was practically no
difference in the two foods when used
for fattening pork The corn meal
used cost 65 cents per 100 pounds and
the shorts 70 cents
Good Guernsey Cow
Princess May XII imported 4-year-old
Guernsey cow owned by J N
Greenshields Danville Que won first
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1S98 and first at the Industrial Fair
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Cutworm Remedy
Cutworms can not be exterminated in
one season An excellent plan is to
plow the land very early in the spring
about G inches or more deep leaving
the land unharrowed rough so as to
permit the frost to enter The cutworm
can endure frost but if brought to the
surface succumbs to dampness and al
ternate freezing and thawing of the
land Land so treated for two or three
years and kept in cultivation will be
cleared of them Pennsylvania Rec
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Care of Bees
Feed only the best of granulated su
gar for winter provisions Poor feed is
unhealthy and will result in loss
Feed sparingly at first in order that
the queen may occupy the center combs
with brood and then increase the quan
tity
A worker bee is hatched in twenty
one days from the time the egg is laid
Queens in sixteen and drones in
days
It is a good plan at this time to re
queen every colony that has in any way
a defective queen
Arrangements must be made so that
the bees can pass from one comb to
another without going around in order
to secure food in winter
The best plan tto make strong colonies
is by good feeding The next best plan
is to unite all weak colonies in good
season
The objections to uniting swarms dur
ing the day is that it tends to produce
robbing and causes the bees united to
war among themselves
In any colony that during the month
of September is found queenless a lay
ing queen should be introduced as it is
not safe to depend upon their rearing
one from the brcod given them
CAUSES OF POVERTY
Home Conclusions of SvailsticJan ao to
the Miefortiiie of the Poor
Various attempts Izavc been made re
cently to get at the causes of poverty
iy means of statistics In Europe pau
pers are defined ro be thoso who re
ceive aid from government or chari
table funds The proportion of paupers
o the whole population is highest in
England 2S per 1000 In Scotland it
is 24 in Ireland 23 in Holland 20 in
Italy 10 in Austria 0 in France 8 and
in Germany 7 There is no similar di
vision made officially in the United
States and taking the country through
the proportion here Is less ptctbably
than 2 per 1000 When it comes how-
ever to the causes of poverty the
American statisticians are so to speak
right in line with what some persons
would call their conjectures but what
lihey describe as their conclusions
Thus of 100 cases of poverty 11 per
cent are chargeable to drink li excess
213 per cent -to what the statisticiano
taall misconduct a rather vague des
ignation for unwise or reprehenslblo
acts 285 per cent to luck of work cr
inadequate pay for woric dene or in
sufficient half time employment and
most of the remainder to misfortune
What particular distinction the
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are able to establish between
misconduct aud misfortune is not
easily sttited for some acts of miscon
duct are clearly due to misfortune and
many instances of misfortune are di
rectly traceable io misconduct but the
statisticians do not concern themselves
with such trifles ns these They only
deal with what they call broad pro
positions and one of them Jharies
Jooth of East London has ascertain
ed by investigation that in the poorer
districts of the British capital xs ctlv
13 per cent of those male or female
adults who are a charge either upon
the government or upon others for rea
isons not arising from physical cause
owe their indigence to drink Though
ax nas toeen ooservea uy some travelers
in EasfrLondon and travelers wLo arc
not statisticians that the absence of
drink Is at times a more poignant
jcause of visible distress than is un
jbridled indulgence in ale porter or bit
rter beer
London spends 0000000 for the re
lief of the needy Paris 4500000 Vi
enna 3000000 and Berlin 2000000
Greater New York will spend approxi
mately 2500000 New York Sun
Tarlcton and Quoen Boss
In St Nicholas tfliere is an article on
The Court Jesters of England bj
Amelia Woffurd The author says
QueenJ31izabcth inherited much of
her fathers disposition she was gay
fond of lauglvter and wit and like him
she surrounded herself with jesters
Tarleton was the bright particular
star of the number Pace Clod and
Ghesiter were the lesser lights Parle
ton was a native of Shropshire and one
day while rtendiug his fathers swine
was met by an officer of the Earl of
Leicester The officer talked with him
and was so much pleased with his
ttiappy unhappy answers that he took
him dnto masters service and from
the Earl of Leicesters household he
passed into the Queens court
Elizabeth was a very fond and in
dulgent mistress She not only had
Mm attend her at dinner but when she
dined abroad she took him to mak
sure of good entertainment and her1
highest favorites would in some case
go to Tvleton before tihey would go tc
the queen and lie was their usher tj
prepare their advantageous access td
her In a word he told the queen
Jnore of flier faulits than most of heU
chaplains and cured her melancholy
better than all lier physicians Be
sides toeing a jester Tarlcton was also
player to the queen to which office hqf
was appointed in 1583 He had greatf
fame as an actor and appeared princi
pally in irhymlng compositions and jigs
composed by -himself wtrich he danced
and sung Wo would call him a come
tdian dt is said that his fun Lay more in
ithe telling than dn the words and thajl
ihis mere appearance on the stage wit
his squint would send the people inta
shouts of laughiter
Court Fools Who Owned Towns
Hitard who was attached to Edi
jniumd Ironsides is the first court jest
er of whom we have record He owm
ed tflie town of Walworth a gift from
the king He held dt through four sucj
ceedlng reigns and before leaving Eni
gland for ihome wihere he spent his
last days fhe presented -it to the churchy
placing the deed upon the aitar of the
lOathedral of Canterbury
I Gailet Gaiet or Gollet a native ojC
Bayeux was one of William the Con
querors jesters He was attached tq
jYiHiani weai only Duke o Normans
fly and saved his masters life by dis
closing a plot for his assassinationi
Berdic was another he is enrolled Id
Domesday Book at joculator regis and
lord of itfiiree towns all rent free and
five carucatea in Gloucestershire Ha
bere was jester to Henry I and Will
iam Piculph or Pdcol jester to King
John Master Henry who it i3
thought may be identical with Henry
of Avraaiches thepoet laureate or ver
Bificator was jester to Henry III St
Nicholas
Street Nomenclature in Worcester
i Ararat street in Worcester gets its
name from the hill near by which
some wag of long ago considered might
have played an important part in tho
deluge TDiberty street was the home
of a number of colored families and
DBurncoat street proceeded from the
natural result of a hot pipe in a coat
pockex 4Woreester Mass Gazette
Deceptive Appearances
He spake slowly almost painfully
as one not accustomed to much talk
ing
And yet ic had ibeen married thirtf
yeaTs fiKlianapolis Journal j
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WAYS AMD MEANS FOR 1900
Through the recent action of the
Democratic National Committee the fol
lowing Committee on Ways and Means
has been appointed James K Jones
Senator from Arkansas aud Chairman
of the Democratic National Committee
Win 1 Stone ex Governor of -Missouri
John V Altgcld ex Governor of Illi
nois Win V Allen Senator from Ne
braska and Henry M Teller Senator
from Colorado These five gentlemen
represent each of the great political par
ties which gave support to the Chicago
platform In 1S0G and the representa
tion on this committee is not only in
about the proportion of the vote cast by
each party but is by the recognized
heads of the three organizations It
means a unification of the forces that
are striving to better the condition of
the laboring man and the great middle
class of our citizens which forms the
warp and woof of this republic There
is no representation on the committee
of that pernicious element now in
power that seeks only its own individ
ual advancement and prosperity at the
expense of the common welfare
The committee has organized and
opened its office at Room 1044 Unity
Building Chicago 111 Mr W H Har
very author of Coins Financial
School has been appointed by the
committee as its general manager and
WITTJAM II HAHVET
will personally direct the work Mr
Harveys writings on the financial ques
tion have made his name a familiar one
to all our readers and his disinterested
ness and honesty in his advocacy of the
remonetization of silver are so well
known that his name will inspire addi
tional confidence in the success of the
work this committee has undertaken
The plan adopted and approved by
the committee is to secure a subscrip
tion from as many persons as possible
to pay one dollar per month for each
month from now till October 1900
Thus a person subscribing to the fund
of the Ways and Means Committee in
October 1898 will agree to pay one dol
lar per month for twenty five months
or in all 25 One subscribing in No
vember following will agree to pay
one dollar each month for twenty four
months with the last payment due Oct
1 1900 A subscription in December
1898 means twenty three payments the
last due Oct 1 1900 and so on The
number of payments depends on the
month and year in which the
subscription is made and all end
ing on the first day of Octo
ber 1900 Where one is willing and
able to pay more than 1 per month the
subscription will be accepted for such
increased amount as the subscriber is
willing to make Where one is not able
in his judgment to subscribe one dollar
per month he will be expected to get
one or more to associate themselves
with him jointly in the subscription for
the one dollar per month It is the
opinion of the committee that it is only
in this way that the money needed can
bo raised that it must come from the
people whose rights and interests are to
be protected
r All money collected will be paid to
the National Treasurer of the commit
tee and no money will be paid out ex
cept as appropriated by the committee
in session deliberating upon its expen
diture When subscriptions are re
ceived at the office of the committee a
receipt is sent and also blanks govern
ing the details of remittances to the
National Treasurer
It is from the earnest honest advo
cates of this great cause that subscrip
tions are expected and as it will come
from all sections of the country and be
a spontaneous offering in aid of the
great struggle for human liberty so
will it place the leaders of the allied
forces under obligations to the people
for their victory and the voice of the
latter will be all powerful in shaping
the affairs of state
- t Afraid of It
It will be observed that none of the
Republican papers is saying anything
about the enlightened currency legis
lation which the grand old party ha
pronounced for Why dont they print
tho bill reported by the House com
mittee on banking and currency to
which the Republican party stands
committed and explain and defend its
provisions This bill which is sub
stantially the measure prepared by Mr
Hugh Hannas monetary reform com
mittee and introduced in the House
by Jesse Overstreet provided for th
destruction of the greenbacks for the
total abandonment of silver as stand
ardmoney for the irrevocable estab
lishment of the single gold standard
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for the granting of a monoply of the
issue of paper currency to the national
banks and the most vicious and dan
gerous expedient of reckless and dis
honest finance known as banking on
assets The issue presented by this
measure is the most important before
the country save the question of hu
manity and justice raised by the War
Department scandals Why dont the
Republican press discuss this issue
Indianapolis Sentinel
Fixtcen to One
O what is the cry that is rendiiig the sky
All over the South and the West
From far and from near the same slogan
we hear
With never a pause or a rest
Though ftimt in the East it is ever
increased
As you follow the course of the sun
Till the Rockies are passed with a wild
trumpet blast
For silver al sixteen o one
It sounds to the tramp of the far mining
camp
Then comes over mountain and plain
Till caught in the mouth of the planter
down South
While the farmer takes up the refrain
Wherever itis found lis a magical sound
And a wonderful work it has done
Here there everywhere it is filling the
air
Free silver at sixteen to one
From the far Golden Gate to Washington
State
Thence east to Superiors beach
Take your course aud then ship down the
broad Mississippi
Till the shores of Kentucky you reach
Up the fair Ohio past Virginia go
Thence eastward the boundary run
You will thus understand that three
fourths of the land
Is howling for sixteen to one
Though goldbugs berate and their
partisans prate
And their newspapers fill up their
space
They tremble in fear when that slogan
they hear
And find it growing apace
Though they fume and they sweat we will
wallop them yet
And wont we have oceans of fun
As we bury them deep in their ultimate
sleep
Neath ballots of sixteen to one
As fair futures ope through a glory of
hope
To the vision enchanted of youth
As the forces of right come on like the
light
And triumph with justice and truth
So the prospects we see of a swift victory
When the battle at last is begun
Things are coming our way tis the break
of the day
For silver at sixteen to one
J A Edgerton Lincoln Neb
Bismarck and Silver
Bismarck the creator of the German
empire is dead and his works live after
him He was the great statesman of
the century for he succeeded in ac
complishing his purpose in spite of
great obstacles When Bismarck was
called to the task of governing
sia Germany was composed of petty
states He undertook the giants labor
of consolidating them into an empire
and it is because he discharged it com
pletely that he stands forth in history
as one of the few great statesmen of
the era Happily for Bismarck the
king his master was also a great and
wise man with strength of purpose to
maintain his chosen minister through
good and evil report Where in his
tory can be found a parallel of three
mighty minds working in unison for so
many years as the Emperor William I
Bismarck and Von Moltke They hum
bled Austria and crushed France and
through the political sagacity of Bis
marck united Germany reaped to the
full the reward of the victor He gave
the German people confidence in then
selves and on that confidence Bismarck
built the German empire and made his
king an emperor He did not shrink
from the harness the task demanded
more than once he committed great
crimes against the people in the be
lief that it was necessary for their pres
ervation and the unification of the
fatherland Many of his acts were
dramatic and he stooped to ignoble
subterfuges to attain his end He dis
dained the old time diplomacy and his
knowledge of the diplomats of Europe
enabled him to outwit and bewilder
them and the gibes and jokes with
which he taunted them made him fear
ed and respected but in many cases
hated with a bitter hate From our
Democratic standpoint he was a tyrant
and caused untold woe to the people of
Europe by the militarism that he did
so much to build up and foster- which
nothing but revolution can undo On
economic questions Bismarck was dom
inated by the money power brought
about the great necessities of the Ger
man government before the large in
demnity extorted from France was ac
quired He demonetized silver at the
command of the Rothschilds and -it is
said that he was led to this by the
i promise of the great increase in value
of the French indemnity if paid in gold
In his later years he advocated bimet
allism seeing that the increase in the
value of the standard was weighing
too heavily upon the German people
Upon the consolidation of the German
states he established free trade but re
verted to protection to appease the
agrarians whose vote he needed in his
management of the German Parlia
ment
Words of Advice
Vote for the man who yon think
will best represent your interests That
is just what other folks are going to
do tLia fall rote for their own Inter
ests first and their party afterward
especially for Congressional candi
dates If the farmer and laboring class
of people in general would vote for
their own interests instead of party leg
islation would trend different We be
lieve that the Democratic candidato
would represent your interests at all
times if elected
AJccr n Jonah
President McKinley has clung per
sistently to Alger although the wiser
members of the Republican party have
urged him to throw overboard the
Jonah whose presence
bring disaster to the o
threatens to
p There are
good reasons why the President refuses
to part with Alger The two men are
linked together and must stand or fall
together McKinley b political appoint
ments to the army were approved by
Alger and Algers actions were ap
proved by McKinley It is evident1
therefore that McKinley cannot afford
to ask for Algers resignation
Nevertheless many Republican news
papers realizing the menace Alger Is
to his party are urging his dismissal
The Philadelphia Ledger a strong Re
publican newspaper says
The heavy load of Algerism is threaten
ing the Republican congressional ticket
in many parts of the country It is re
ported that the Republican party manag
ers are awakening to the danger of defeat
and are sending appeals and warnings in
all directions that great diligence and
watchfulness must be exercised to avert
disaster
Unfortunately while they recognize the
risks of defeat the political managers re
fuse to see what is plainly apparent to ev
ery one else that the only hope for salva
tion is for them to insist on the dismissal
of the present incompetent Secretary of
War for not to save his best friend couldi
the incumbent be induced to resign of his
own accord To cling to Alger is to invite
defeat to be rid of him promptly is to
strengthen the chances of success i
What the Ledger says is undoubtedly
true but McKinley is not in a position
to take its good advice The best he
can do is to abide in liope that bis
whitewashing committee will help him
and his party out of their present di
lemma
Democrats for Congress
Since Gen Wheeler has given his tes
timony before McKinley s investiga
ting committee it is more evident than
ever that a Congressional inquiry into
the charges against the War Depart
ment Is the only method of arriving at
an official discovery and decoration of
the truth
Demonstration has been given that
the McKinley committee is engaged in
a wholesale whitewashing business
and that only such testimony is accept
able to it as is friendly to the adminis
tration Why is it that Gen Wheelers
remarks are given out in full and ex
ploited with the most exitravagant dis
play by administration papers while
the testimony submitted by the experts
employed by the New York World is
carefully and completely suppressed
But a Congressional investigation will
amount to nothing if the House contin
ues to have a Republican majority Its
members are bound to the President by
the ties of mutual guilt in the appoint
men of incompetent staff officers given
places in the army for political effect
and this being the case no effort should
be spared by the people to change the
political complexion of the House
There is a demand on the part of the
people to know who is responsible for
the death and suffering in the ariny
and this demand also contemplates the
punishment of theguilty nnfn For
this reason a Democratic Congress must
be elected The people owe this to the
soldiers and should not fall to do their
duty in the fall elections
Imperial McKinley
McKinley Is showing signs of impe
rialism and developing some of the
least attractive characteristics of the
Napoleon whom he is alleged to resem
ble in personal appearance It is known
that the President wants a standing
army of 100000 men intending to keep
23000 in this country and send the rej
mainder to Cuba Porto Rico and the
Philippines There is no necessity Cor
Ms sort of thing if the President pro
poses to keep faith with the Cubans
and to refrain from a war of extermi
nation against the inhabitants of the
Philippine archipelago
So far as Porto Rico is concerned
there is slight need of any garrison foe
the people are almost unanimous in
their loyalty to the United States Cuba
if the pledge made by Congress is not
broken will have a home government
in which the United States will have n
right to meddle As for the Philip
pines an attempt to hold them all may
involve this country in a war with Ger
many in which case McKinley will
need considerably more than lOOOGu
soldiers
Imperialism may have attractions for
the man who looks Kke Napoleon it
may appeal to such robbers as Hanna
Elkins Co but the people of the
United States are satisfied with a frefr
republic and have no desire to main
tain an emperor or to support a vast
standing army Chicago Democrat
Maine and Vermont
Maine and Vermont figures indicate
the election of a Democratic House of
j Representatives this fall by a very
j large majority Indeed it would be
very strange were it otherwise The
Congress of the middle of a Presidential
term is always carried against the ad
ministration For sixty years this rule
has only had a few reverses and only
during the war and reconstruction
times
Edmund Burkes political career was
immensely aided by his wife who un
dertook the management of his private
affairs so as to leave him free for pub
lic duties Their marriage was an
ideal one and Burke often declared
that for him all the cares of life van
ished directly he stepped over bis
own threshold