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WITH THE VETERANS.
Stories Tht,t May Bring Btxck
Times to Their Memories.
Teaf la the
for the new and taps for the old
tk aawn of a better day.
tfc plowman's shout in the rice field
And the fleam of a kerchief say.
the women wasn on we
TIm river that flows along.
And lato the sea that sings for ay
A deep-voiced welcome song.
Reveille for the new and taps for the old
And-the trenches are leveled down.
Where the san-flag waved defiance wild
Ta the lesions clad in brown.
Where the Manser spoke and the saircn
lahers Charged down In dread array.
And they who fell found a ready grave
la the lead-torn trench that
Reveille for the new and taps for the old
And the dawn of a better y.
Whan the bolo rusts on the bamboo wall
And the tears are wiped way- .
When th. brown man finds abrother in
The white man firm and true.
On people, one Ood and just one nag.
The old red, white and blue.
-Robert B. Carr In the Denver Times.
to Leave Banker Hill.
v Amanda, near Spencervllle, Ohio,
w tke last resting place of probably
om of the greatest heroes of the battle
of Banker Hill, and the very last man
to leave the trenches in that memor-
able aght Peter Sunderland.
By the time the British had made
the third charge up the grade the pow
der snarly i the fort had become ex
hausted, and the Americans were
. obliged to ight with gunstocks, clubs
and atones. Mr. Sunderland, after ex
hausting his own supply of ammuni
tion, picked up three guns of wounded
comrades, only to find that each of
' them had been discharged. He raised
the fosrth gun when a British soldier
slated a blow at his neck with a sword.
A anlck turn of the gun caused the
swors to strike directly in Mr. Sun
derland's mouth, cutting each cheek
half wsy to the ears. Again the Brit
ish soldier struck, and again the blow
was partially parried, causing the
sword to cut through the wall of Mr.
Sunderland's abdomen; but at the
state time the "fourth gun." which
lsckily proved to be losded, was dis
charged Into his antagonist, and the
bayonet on the gun was thrust through
hist, silling him instantly. The fate
of this warrior seemed to check the
other soldiers for a moment, and Mr.
SuaderUad, who was the last man to
leave the fortification, escaped to the
ins below, where he found a man,
woman sad baby. Sunderland bound a
large handkerchief about bis abdomen,
sad the two men and the woman swam
across the pond, but the babe had to
be pitched from one to the other at
seep places.
Om the opposite shore Mr. Sander
land lay concealed in the bushes for
three days, steadily growing weaker,
the man and woman having sought
safety in flight His comrades came
back daily to search for the wounded,
sat he could not make them hear, ow
ing to his exhausted condition. On
the third day he attracted the attention
sf his comrades by breaking some
sticks sad was rescued.
He west to Ohio about 1817 and set
tled oa land near Dayton. Soon after
this he came to Ft. Amanda, where his
oa. Dye Sunderland, entered land that
Is still owned by the Sunderlands.
Peter Sunderland and wife are both
hnried st Ft, Amanda, where a monu-
it marks their resting place.
Tarehla's War
Col. Thomas G. Lavrler, postmaster
of RockforL 111., tells an interesting
ttory of Gen. Turchin's widow, to
whom the senate has voted a pension
at ttt a month. Mrs. Turchin has
seen at the door of actual want at her
some la Radom for several months.
Contributions by members of the
Orsad Army of the Republic and
athers have been sent to her from
time to time.
At the outbreak of the war Gen.
.Oeorge B. McClellan was a civil en
gineer ia the employ of the Illinois
Central and Turchin was an assistant
ta the same road. Col. Lawler was a
machinist ia the shops, and all joined
the Nineteenth Illinois regiment
Mrs. Turchin followed her husband
when his regiment was called to
Washington to defend the capital after
the battle of Bull Run. En route the
train went through a bridge, the tim
bers of which had been cut by the
Knights of the Golden Circle, near
Vsaeeaaes. Many of the soldiers were
sadly iajared, and on this occasion
Mrs. Turchin cut up much of her cloth
lag for bandages.
Cel. Lawler ssys thst it is a matter
of record that Mrs. Turchin. in Paint
Rock Vslley, between Winchester,
Teas., aad Larkiasville. Ala., went to
the rear aad brought up a section of
artillery and personally directed its
Ire oa the bushwhackers who were
mercilessly peppering the federals
the rocks of the mountain.
far the Army.
The chief of ordnance of the army
ass submitted estimates to the secre
tary of war looking to the enlargement
sf the Springfield Armory plant so
that its dally capacity will be 400
riles. He has also submitted an esti
ssste for the enlargement of the ar
senal at Frankfort, so that 150.000
roamds ot small-arm ammunition can
be supplied each day. Gen. Crazier is
eaerajetkally pushing all the work be
ing done aader the ordnance depart
sseat He has ben advised thst the
work oa the aew army rifles is pro-
aad that satisfactory prog-
i.is being made with the tests of
leM guns at Sandy Hook.
I had a very interesting expen
ses," said a veteran lieutenant re-
itly, "with Geo. Grant I had beea
in th telegraph aad signal corps ser
vice ia the army, aad I had seen him
a goad many times at his best After
the war I weat iato the newspaper
aad when Grant made his
the northern states in 1S65 I
to several ot his big
you know. I could
the temptation to shake
him, ae seemed so timid and em-
ia the face of 50.000 people.
so afraid of cheering men.
. sad children, when in the pres
et BMW soldiers he- would have
right the other way. that I was
itly oa the point of speaking to
In nil my life I aever had seea
a Bsaa so asoalstsly helpless as he was
before a large crowd.
lay x pressed threaga tae
the baleeay where the gen
eral was to stsfd. aad as I was then a
pretty Isras man. I had a hard time ot
L I gt to the balcony oat ot breath
of patience with ail the but-
I tnwdtwo soys
the little halcoay. aad
tear
was' asrigaed
i attorn aad.
aesmelv resist
He null
ftt sartssk' mo that they were very much
Old
out of place, and, without making any
inquiries of the only other newspaper
man on the balcony, I caught the boys
by the arm and was hustling them out
when Gen. Grant said quietly: "Those
are my boys
"For an instant there was the old
general that I had known on the field.
Those four words said all there was
to sav. and I stood cbasbel as under a
stinging rebuke. Then r turned to my
tewspaper friend and said, 'Captain,
won't you kick me down stairs and
kick me up again and report to Gen.
Grant in writing?" That struck Gen.
Grant very favorably. He held out
his hand to me and said, 'Never mind,
we all make mistakes.' "
Oriala of "Backboard.
"There are few persons," ssys a sol
dier who long since returned to civic
ranks, "who know how the name of
buckboard came to be applied to a
vehicle. It was way back in the '20s,
when the transportation of goods,
wares and merchandise was principal
ly all by wagons. Dr. Buck, who for
long years after was the military store
keeper here, was then in charge of
stores en route to army posts in the
southwest In east Tennessee difficul
ty was experienced by reason of the
rough roads, and there were frequent
mishaps, mostly from the wagons over
turning. Dr. Buck overhauled the out
fit and abandoning the wagon bodies,
long boards were set directly on the
axles or hung below, and the stores
were reloaded in such a manner that
there were no further delays from
breakdowns, and the stores safely
reached their destination. The idea
doubtless was not new, but Dr. Buck's
example was followed, especially when
roads were rough, and soon much haul
ing was done by the use of wheel, axle
and boards only. Now the fashionable
buckboard recalls the old gentleman
to some of us." Washington Star.
Got What Ha Gave.
An army officer tells the following
anecdote suggesting its application to
recent events: "A campaign against
the Sioux was on foot, and one of the
columns was composed of three squad
rons of cavalry. There were present
as field officers a colonel, a lieutenant
colonel anl a major. The colonel was
a pleasant, easy-going commander up
to a certain limit The lieutenant
colonel was a cantankerous. fault
finding man, and generally made him
self disagreeable to the major. The
major had to take it being the junior,
but waited for his opportunity. The
day came when on the march the lieutenant-colonel
committed some fault
which roused the anger of the colonel,
and he was then and there, in the
presence of officers and enlisted men,
promptly brought to account The
colonel spared no words, and the cen
sure was complete. He then departed,
anl after he had gone a sufficient dis
tance, the major rode up to the lieutenant-colonel
and gently remarked:
"H'm! rf'm! and how does it seem
for a lieutenant-colonel to be sat
upon?" Army and Navy Journal.
Frishteaed la Battle.
Gen. W. D. Snyman. head of the
Boer delegation in this country, was
"reminiscing" the other night with
several other veterans of the South
African war, and finally the conversa
tion turned on the question of being
scared in battle
"I was never frightened but once,"
remarked one of those present "and
that was before the beginning of the
first fight I was in; but after the first
volley had been fired I was all right
That seemed to break the -ce."
"Weil. I don't know how it may be
with others," said the general, who
stands over six feet and is proportion
ately broad-shouldered, "but I could
never seem to get used to it; I was
just as badly frightened in my last bat
tle as I was in my first And what
is more, when I looked around at the
faces of my comrades. I found they
were just as white as I knew mine
was. With me the ice refused to
break."
stlchlaaa National Guard.
In Michigan Adjutant General Brown
recently spoke the sentiments of the
state militia as follows: "The present
condition of the Michigan national
guard Is quite satisfactory, the entire
command being fully armed and equip
ped the same as the regular army, with
the exception that the state has thus
far received only 500 Krag-Jorgensen
rifles, the remainder of the troops be
ing armed with the Lee-Remington
magazine rifle. There are now more
than 3.000 men in the forty companies
constituting the national guard."
A Mexican War Veteran.
John J. Elliott, a veteran of the
Mexican war, has been visiting at Los
Angeles, Cal. Mr. Elliott was ia all
the battles but one of the Mexican
war. He crossed the plains to Califor
nia in 1850, and has spent his life in
the west He was also a soldier in
the civil war, belonging to the Oregon
Volunteers. For more than thirty
years he has been in Idaho. He ex
pects to spend his remaining years in
Southern California.
War Veteran KUUed by a Train.
Martin Ayres, an old soldier, was
killed by a Missouri Pacific passenger
train near Hiawatha, Kan. He was
cut hunting along the Grand Island
track, which is close to the Missouri
Pacific track. He stepped off one
track to avoid a freight train, only to
meet his death by the passenger
train.
Barvlvor ef th War or 181.
Hiram Cronk, the last surviving pen
sioner of the War of 1812, Is nagging
the last years of a quiet life at the
home ot his daughter at Dunn Brook,
about fifteen miles north of Rome, X.
Y.
Secretary Root may possibly give a
favorable comment upon the bill pre
sented by Congressman Sulzer of New
York authorizingthc payment to the
estate of the late Titz John Porter the
sum of about $130,060, which he would
have received had his name been con
tinued on the army refster without in
terruption. There appears to be some
good reasons for a recommendation in
behalf of this measure on the basis ol
the act of July 1. 1886. restoring Gen
Porter to the army. It was stated in
the preface of that law as a reason foi
its enactment that the statute had foi
its object the fulfillment of the recom
mendations of the army board of 187?
in Gen. Porter's behalf and to his com
plete exoneration. It was the inten
tion of this board, acting on its find
ings, to restore Gen. Porter that o!
which he had been deprived, that is tc
say, his rank and pay, as if he had
not been cashiere-
FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS.
Amusing and Instructive Stories Meant for the
Children.
What Was It?
Guess what he had In his pocket!
Marbles and tops and sundry toys.
Such as always belong to hoys,
A bitter apple, a leather ball?-
Not at a!L
What did he have In his pocket?
A bubble pipe and a rusty screw,
A brassy watchkey broken in two,
A fishhook In a tangle of string?
No such thing.
What did he have In his pocket? '
Gingerbread crumbs, a whistle be made.
Buttons, a knife wtlh a broken blade,
A nail or two, with a rubber gun?
Neither one.
What did he have in his pocket?
Before he knew it. It slyly crept
Under the treasures carefully kept.
And away they all of them quickly
stole
"Twas a hole.
1 -Child's Hour.
Facts Aboat Flag.
What the various signals mean in
the flag code Is told thus in the last
number of New Education:
1. To "strike the flag" is to lower
the colors in submission.
2. Flags are used as the symbol ot
rank and command, the officers using
them being called "flag officers." Such
flags are square, to distinguish them
from other banners.
3. A "flag of truce" is a white flag,
displayed to an enemy to Indicate a
desire for parley or consultation.
4. The white flag is a sign of peace.
After a battle parties from both sides
often go out to the field to rescue
the wounded or bury the dead under
the protection of a white flag.
5. The red flag Is a sign of defiance
and is often used by revolutionists.
In our service it is a mark of danger,
and shows a vessel to be receiving or
discharging her powder.
C. The black flag is a sign of piracy.
7. The yellow flag shows a vessel to
be in quarantine or is a sign of a con
tagious disease.
8. A flag at half-mast means mourn
ing. Fishing and other veseels re
turn with the flag at half-mast to an
nounce the loss or death of some of
their crew.
9. Dipping the flag Is lowering it
slightly, then hoisting it again to sa
lute a vessel or fort If the president
of the United States goes aboard, the
American flag Is carried in the bow of
his barge or hoisted at the mast of the
vessel on board of which he is.
Woaderfat Dollies.
Talking dolls are curious surprises
in these days. One never knows what
they are going to say. It Is said that
more than 70,000 dolls which are
manufactured at Sonneberg, Thurin
gia. have been sent to America to be
charged with the phonograph. A story
of a speaking doll is told by a friend
of Edison's in New York, which points
out that these new toys may act as
moral teachers to the young. Edison's
friend had a little daughter, four years
old, who, in spite of scoldings and
punishments, could not be cured of the
habit of telling stories.
The father brought home a specially
charged doll as a present for the little
girl. The child played with the doll
for a day without noticing anything
different in it from other dolls: on the
morning of the second day. however,
the doll made its voice heard. The
little girl gave her mother an un
truthful answer to a question which
was put to her. whereupon the doll,
which was in her arms at that mo
ment said solemnly: Little girls
must never tell lies; never, never tell
lies." The little one stared at the doll
and laid it down on the carpet Since
that time she cannot be persuaded to
touch her plaything; out the timely
warning has cured her more effective
ly of her bad habit than any' whip
pings or scoldings could do.
An Eagle's Revenge.
Although we are taught from earliest
hildhood to have unbounded admira
tion for the eagle, yet he has few
qualities that merit our admiration,
ind when wounded is a dangerous foe.
A short time ago a woodman, liv
ing near Beach Glen, N. J., shot a
targe black eagle. It fell to the ground,
but when the woodman attempted to
secure the bird it flew at him furiously
with beak and ' talons. He tried to
beat off the fierce bird by using his
?un as a club, but the eagle had all the
best of the struggle and tore the
woodsman's clothes to shreds. Inflict
ing wounds on his face, neck and
hands with his long, needle-like claws.
The woodsman ran with the wounded
2agle fluttering after him. Reaching
the woodpile, the woodsman seized a
iharp ax and turned again on the bird.
The eagle fought furiously as before,
but a lucky blow of the ax struck his
neck and killed it just In time, as the
woodsman was fast growing faint from
loss of blood.
Advice to Boys.
Be thorough in the performance of
svery duty, says a writer to boys in
Success. You will not take the world
by storm all at once. You must begin
it the bottom and work up. However
trivial and unimportant the duties may
be of the first position to which you
ire appointed, perform them with scru
pulous care and accuracy. It is not the
character of the duties to which you
will be assigned that is of importance,
but the method in which you discharge
them. Most distinguished men in our
country who have lifted themsedves to
wealth and prominence bear testimony
to the fact that the faithful perform
ance of their work in every position
which they occupied was the cause of
their success. The young man .who
gives absolute satisfaction to his em
ployer as an office boy or a junior
slerk builds his own road to prosper
ity. And Kermis
While the momentous affairs of the
lation are being dealt with at one
2nd of the White House, at the other
nd of the stately old mansion there
:s the natural, unaffected lite of a typi
cal American family, and now and
Aen Washington society folks enjoy
the stories that come from the nursery
arhere the children ot its first lady in
the land romp as strenuously as any
jther youngsters.
One evening during the Christmas
season the Roosevelt children had a
'east of sweetmeats, and when Mrs.
Roosevelt came into the nursery in
the morning she found Kermit paying
Jie penalty of overindulgence.
"And - how is sister?" asked Mrs.
Roosevelt
"Oh. she don't know she is sick yet"
?roaned Kermit "She's not awake
fet"
Oae Theaaaad Tears Old.
There is always a peculiar interest
attached to any great piece of work
completed by a people living many
aundreds of years ago. This Is esped
tlly so of the Great White Horse ot
'.vlltshire Downs, England.
As you stand oa aa elevation an
look across the country, yoar eye
catches the form of a gigantic waits
horse upon the side of a hill beyond
the valley. It Is a figure cut la the
rock In the side of the Downs, aad ii
175 feet long from the head to the
tail. It is believed to have beea made
in the time of King Alfred, who died
1,000 years ago. The figure Is rather
crude, but when seen at a distance the
outline of a horse is very distinct Just
above the figure, on top ot the hill,
are the remains of an old camp.
Character of the Chips
Chipmunks are industrious little
creatures. In rainy weather they quit
work and curl up In their nests or Bids
in a knot hole away from the wet
Windy weather makes them very nerv
ous. The rustling of leaves and wav
ing branches makes them suspicious
that something strange Is going on in
the world. A chipmunk eats while sit
ting on his haunches and holds his
food in his forepaws. He drinks by
lapping like a dog. He is very neat
about his person, combing out his fur
and his long tall with paws and teeth.
He washes his face by lapping his
forepaws and then rubbing them both
at the same time over his face wtthj
such speed thst the eye can bar!?--
follow his motions.
Iadastrloas Danish Calldrea.
The children of Denmark are taught
to knit when but five years old. Even
in the public schools this is quite an
institution, although the private
schools made It an absolute rule, one
hour each day being given to that In
dustry. The same rule applies in the
homelife, one hour being devoted
daily either to sewing, knitting, cro
cheting, embroidery or lacemaking.
Nor is this considered sufficient; the
young woman of the family is sup
posed never to be Idle, she must always
have something on hand to be taken
up. If a chance visitor comes in, or a
friend arrives for the day, both have
their needlework with them. Wo
man's Home Companion.
An IUastrloas Qaartec
Many years ago there was tried in
Indiana a very interesting case from
the fact that each one of the four
lawyers retained, although then not
known outside of their own state, yet
within twelve years enjoyed a national
reputation.
The members of the legal quartet
became illustrious were Gen. Harrison,
who became president of the United
States; Thomas A. Hendricks, who be
came vice president; David Turpie,
who was United States senator, snd
Walter Q. Gresnam. who rose to the
circuit bench and filled two posts in
President Cleveland's cabinet
Came ef Blowlns the Feather.
The players should all be seated in
a circle with their chairs close to
gether. The leader should then blow
a large piece of goose or swan's down
upward into the middle of the circle.
The other members of the company
should begin a lively blowing to keep
the piece of down in the air. Should
it fall to the floor, the person at
whose feet or nearest whom It falls
must give a forfeit When forfeits
have been collected in this way from
several or all members of the circle
they may be sold in any one of the
customary ways. Conkey's Home
Journal.
Waralags to Travelers.
In a handbook for travelers in the
Soudan issued by the Egyptian govern
ment, referring to the currency, it is
quaintly observed that "in the more
undressed parts of the country" beads
and bracelets are current In the sec
tion on shooting there is a pleasant
reference to the sporting tourist, whd
is warned that onlycrocodilc3 may be
shot at from steamers, and even this
practice is deprecated as being "more
dangerous to the riverain population
than the crocodile."
Tr!ck with Glass of Water.
Yon wager any person that you will
so fill a glass of water that he shall
not move it off the table without spill
ing the whole contents. You then fill
the glass, and, laying a piece of thin
card over the top of it then dexter
ously turn the glass upside down on
the table and draw away the card and
leave the water in the glass with its
foot upward. It will therefore be im
possible to remove the glass from the
table without spilling every drop.
Foeallar Cattom In Venloa,
At Venice, when any one dies, it is
the custom to fix a placard before the
dead person's home, as well as in ad
jacent streets, as a sort of public no
tice, stating his name, age, place of
birth, and the illness from which he
died; affirming also that he received
the holy sacraments, died a good
Christian, and requesting the prayers
of the faithful.
Tar oa His EVeft.
Teacher If you face the north, di
rectly behind you will be the south, on
your right hand will be the east and
on your left hand west Seeing a lack
of attention on the part of Bobby, and
wishing to catch him: "What is on
your left hand, Bobby?"
Bobby (in deep confusion) Please,
it's some tar, an' it won't come off.
Leaden Sehoelboy.
In an essay on the pet subject of
temperance a London board schoolboy
discoursed on the unpleasantness of
not being able properly to direct one's
limbs. His orthography, unfortunate
ly, was less orthodox than his senti
ment "For these reasons," he wound
up, "it must be very auquard to be a
drunkhard."
Plan la
In some of the farming districts of
China pigs are harnessed to small
wagons and made to draw them.
Earned His Eccentricities,
Some people are making fun of the
Atlanta man who had himself pho
tographed in evening clothes while
riding in his automobile. But an At
lanta man who can secure an evening
suit after buying an automobile should
be permitted exceptional eccentricities.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Park areola Cities,
In respect to park area the chief
American cities rank in the following
order: New York, Philadelphia, Bos
ton. St Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, San
Francisco, Baltimore. Pittsburg, New
Orleans and CiaeiaaatL
DAIEY AM) POULTRY.
MTEICSTINQ CHAPTERS FOR wUR
URAL READERS.
This
FcrtHlty of JEsS.
From Farmers' .Review: Hatch
ng season is either now with, or soon
sill be with, poultry raisers, the time
lepeading upon surroundings; and the
ertiUty of eggs is the needful thing;
he way to secure fertile eggs is a way
ill wish to know. Some say a good
ler cent of fertile eggs Is not to be
tad if the fowls are confined to a Uni
ted range, but we have had and have
mown others to have a 95 per cent
f fertile eggs from yarded fowls. Last
'ear ours hsd a limited (very) range.
he yard in which six pullets, two hens
ind one cockerel were confined being
tbout two rods square, and in this
sncIOBure the roosting room and
scratch shed were placed.
Yon may say, the per cent of fertile
$ggs was good, but perhaps the whole
lumber of eggs was small. No, the
iverage from the eight hens from the
16th of February to the last of May
vas 6 eggs per day; a higher aver-
tge than we were able to get from the
ratslde hens. The average would
loubtless have been higher if we could
save secured fresh meat at all times
for them. We fed a mash of wheat
oran, mixed stiff with kitchen scraps
ind salty dishwater of a morning;
tbout a quart of mash; at noon wheat
r oats was scattered among leaves in
the scratch shed; at night a quart of
ihelled corn was thrown among the
leaves.
Nothing pleases hens better than to
ilg up fresh moist earth for them, and
1 think there is nothing hoalthier.
Breen food, cut grass, rye and wheat
was fed them every day all they
would eat; but the way confined hens
snjoy their green meal the best is to
place a slab of sod in their pen. or
2ven pull up large tufts of grass.
No need to fear infertile eggs from
varded fowls if you will pen only
lealthy fowls. Give a variety of food;
induce exercise, and keep quarters
:lean. I prefer a yearling cockerel to
tn older male. Whatever age the head
af the pen must be in the very pink of
perfection as regards health and vigor.
Dne should have not more than eight
lens to one male of the larger breeds;
several more hens may be mated to
t male If of the small breeds, ou
:hicks were B. P. Rocks.
Gather the eggs every day. Keep in
in even temperature, several degrees
ibove freezing; turn every day and
rou may keep them three weeks; then
let and receive good hatches as far as
the age. of the eggs is concerned. It
will probably take from 15 to 24 hours
onger to hatch them. The above care
applies equally as well .to setting eggs
!rom range fowls, or any other poultry,
.'f you would once try the plan of se
ecting eight or a dozen of your best
lens, mating with a No. 1 cockerel,
rarding and using these eggs to hatch
!rom, you would never try other ways.
Emma Clearwaters.
Water in Matter.
Prof. G. L. McKay of Iowa, after a
risit to Europe, had this to say about
water in butter:
No subject interests xr.e more than
water. . I tested a lot of butter In Eng
and for moisture, and the driest but
r I found was from New Zealand,
tome of It running down to about
sight per cent. Danish butter aver
tges about fifteen per cent Russia
van very irregular, some very fine, but
t good deal or it naa a ranK uavur.
t will get over that after awhile,
towever, and I believe that Russia
vill come to the front rapidly. Some
if the highest selling butter was the
French two pound unsalted rolls. My
ocperience with the Irish butter Is
hat it lacks body, which results large
y from the fact that it is churned at
. high temperature. It contains lots
if water, some samples testing twen
y to twenty-five per cent moisture.
This question is now before the Eng
ish parliament, and it seems probable
.hat it will be settled on the basis of
.bout fifteen to sixteen per cent water.
It has been a great problem to me
hat the Danish butter has a higher
ercentage of water than ours has, yet
it the same time It has a mealy, dry
.ppearance. Investigation showed
hat their method of churning and
vorking was peculiar. The churning
s done at a moderately high tempera
ure and the butter comes soft It is
lropped at once into cold water and
hen put on the table and worked
hree-quarters of a minute, after which
t Is again put in cold water for a
oomentthec brought back and worked
rom one to one and a quarter minutes.
This makes only two minutes of work
ng. When finished it is packed into
tegs- for the market It is said that
.his method is used to get the butter
nllk out and have it clear, but it is
irobably intended to work the water
nto the butter as veil. Danish butter
jpill average five per cent more water
ban ours and yet does not show it
routtrr tCrlefs.
Eggs for hatching should be com
paratively fresh. That Is, they should
tot be over ten days old, though some
latchable eggs arc over three weeks
jld when they go under the hen or
nto the Incubator. At this time of
fear it ie easier to keep eggs in a
:ondition for setting than it will be
.ater in the season when the heat is
rreater. Eggs should fe: k"-pt at be
tween 40 and CO degiccs if they are t
jobe kept for roue wrecks before being
ased. This is a diricnlt thing to do
raless the arrangeircn.t be very per
.'ect The naiurtl tcriperalur of the
;arth is about 55 degrees, and this is
irobably an near an ideal temperature
ts we can get for o-ar eggs. We can
rive them to a considerable extent
;he temperature of the earth.
Now that the spring is coming and
with it all kinds of germs, the drink
ing vessels of the fowls should be
.ooked after. Wooden vessels are not
.deal for many reasons. If they are
made of staves they shrink and swell
with the supply of moisture and often
irop to pieces when they are neglect
id. Then, too, they gather slime,
which mav or may not be a detri
ment Iron vessels of all kinds tend
vr corrode and perhaps the rust is not
the best thing that can be given
fowls. Drinking vessels of stone are
ideal. They never shrink with the
dry weather and they never rust
Moreover, they are easily cleaned.
Well-glazed drinking vessels are there- i
fore preferable to all others.
it is a noor economy that leads to
the purchase of musty and even moiay
feed for the fowls. When grain is
spoiled too much for any other use
it is the practice to try to save it by
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THpailSMal ot the Farm A Few
lata as to the Care of Lira Steak
poJ Psasilmw
aaa roaitry.
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feeding it to th aomltry. It m
charged by fanciers that masty graia
is a fraltfal source ot sickness We
cannot prove the point, bat wo are
ready to accept it oa its face. It ia
tow well established that some of the
smats aad moulds are poisoaoas la.
their character. Especially Is this the
ease with oat smut Other smuts
have beea little examined with this
point In view. Until they are proved
to be innocuous let us feed oar fowls
only healthful grain.
Fare Rrd Heat PreAloWe.
We continually meet people who tell
us that the crosses are far superior to
the purebred cattle for dairy purposes.
Against that we have the tact that all
the great records ever made have beea
from purebred cattle, carefully bred
for many generations. Thus we have
three purebred cows belonging to the
Duke of Westminster, that gave LIM
gallons, 1410 gallons and 1.448 gallons,
respectively, In twelve months; this
last one being at the rate ot almost
sixteen quarts a day the whole year
through. All dairymen will know as
a fact, as well as all breeders of any
kind ot stock that if you breed from
crossbreds you can never tell what the
result will be. It may take after its
sire, dam, great-grandsire or even fur
ther. We are not by any means advising
dairymen to go to the expense ot pur
chasing a purebred herd right off, but
what we would strive to impress upon
each and all is to use only purebred
bulls in their herds. See that the bull
Is from a good milking strain, even
it yon have to give a seemingly big
price for him. His cost will be noth
ing compared to the herd when the
heifers begin to come in. The only
sure way to get together a really good
herd Is to breed It You will have to
buy the best you can to start with;
then pick out your cows according to
how they turn out, and have the helfei
calves from the best, making sure that
the bull is from a milking strain and
purebred. By doing this, in a few
years you can get together a really
good herd, and, by judicious culling,
every year it will be improving and
the average yield gradually rising. The
best investment that can be made for
a dairy farm is a good bull. Even
with poor cows to start with, no man
need despair of getting a fair herd to
gether It he can only obtain a milking
strain on the sire's side." It is then
only a matter of time and careful se
lection. West Australian Settlers'
Handbook.
Quality aad qnaatity of Beef. "'
A professor of animal husbandry
says: Some men seem to have formed
the idea that the breeding of fine cattle
is an easy thing. It is unfortunate that
many breeders make no effort to dis
pel such folly with a prospective buyer
on the ground. The sooner that men
generally know and appreciate that it
ia no child's play to breed fine cattle
the better, and breeders generally will
make no mistake in aiding to establish
such principles. Breeders of pure
bred beef cattle have given too much
attention to the outside or external
conformation of the animal and too
little to the inside, where the animal
really lives, and where the valuable
product, beef, is found.
Expert judges of beef cattle on foot
are just beginning to realise that they
cannot tell as much about the quality
and quantity of beef an animal will
cut on the block as was formerly sup
posed. It Is often stated that the cat
tle buyers for the packing houses know
all about these things. The fact is,
their skill and knowledge of the busi
ness runs little farther than being able
to select cattle that will dress a high
percentage of beef and a low percent
age of fat This by no means decides
the value of the carcass, when sold
over the block or the quality of beef.
A plainly bred steer, properly fed. may
dress a satisfactory percentage ot
dressed beef and still be an unprofita
ble animal when sold over the block.
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The census bureau, in its report on
domestic animals announces that all
domestic animals in the United States
have a probable value at least of S5,
200,000,000. Of this the value of an
imals on farms and ranges constitute
over 93 per cent The total value of
all domestic animals on farms and
ranges is $2,9S1,054,11R. against 2,20S,
767,513 in 1S90. There was a gain in
all parts of the country except the
North Atlantic states, where there was
a decrease of horses, sheep and swine,
making a total decrease of 3 per cent
in the value. Iowa leads all states In
total value of It3 livestock, while
Texas ranks second. The former has
an investment In livestock of $272,844,
034, and the latter $236,227,434. Texas,
however, has the greatest number of
neat cattle, mules and goats, but the
average value of these and other an
imals being less than in Iowa, pre-eminence
in value rests with the latter
state.
raffdlne Cora Stalk.
From Farmers' Review: I feed my
stalks whole for the reason there arc
not enough buskers and shredders in
this vicinity. I always cut my corn
before the frost and before they dry
up standing. I would always husk
and shred it I could get a machine to
do the work at the right time. I
feed about three bumllra of fodder per
day. The bundles are about four to a
shock eight hills square sometimes
five. I never thought there was much
nourishment in the butts, of course.
When they an not cut or shredded
they are left. I raiso SO or 40 acres
yearly. I winter from one to two
hundred sheep on them yearly How
ard Lobdell. Van Jlurpr. County, Mich
igan. ItMtls for Oalr Cow.
From Farmers' Review: My three
years' experience in raising beets at
tho state prmlte school has been very
satisfactory m results. They are an
excellent conditioner, and fed judi
ciously with grain, chopped feed and
bran I consider good one-half beet3.
one-fourth liran, oue-fourth chopped
feed lesults in a greater flow of miik of
superior quality. I am not prepared to
answer in regard to tho money profit
of oeets fed alone, a? we have never
fed them -.vitboiit cram. We consider
! the Golden Tankard the most desira
ble kind to. i-aise. TJ. t. Clisby, Branch
County, Michigan.
j The sum of sso.eoo s S'en to the
j employes of the Boston branch of the
American Scda Fountain Company by
J the will of James Tufts, the millionaire
J soda - fountain manufacturer. This
1 amount is given ia lump sums of 1500.
$200 and SlQQ-
Dogs bark when there is nothing
going on. Same complaint about pco-
; pie talking.
An Atchison man who is noted for
being "spiritual" picked out a wife
weighing 200 pound
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las the lives ot great military com
Bsaaders to observe amoag the large
number ot generals who have held in
dependent commands how few have
careers of uainterrupted success. A
mam who, can go through a campaiga
sad flght many battles and never suffer
a reverse must, indeed, be a command
er ot the first order.
The 'Duke of Alva, one of the most
emiaent soldiers of the sixteenth cea
tury, aever, throughout his loag aad
eventful career, lost a battle. The
archbishop of Cologne was struck by
his efforts to avoid a conflict, having
on oae occasion urged him to engage
the Dutch. "The object of a general,"
replied Alva, 'is not to flght. but to
conquer; he fights enough who obtains
the victory."
Oliver Cromwell, throughout his mil
itary career, never lost a battle, though
he very nearly sustained a reverse at
Dunbar.
The Duke of Marlborough affords aa
excellent example of a successful sol
dier. He combined all the qualities
necessary .for a great commander, and
although he fought several battles
against the most experienced generals
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Americans in the region around Swa
tow, China, have been brought face to
face, unexpectedly with a curious hin
drance to trade in the form of constant
fights between clans over the most
trivial things. As nearly every Chinese
laborer is a member of a clan in that
district, the commerce of the twentieth
century is stopped every little while by
the survivals of a past so ancient that
the American commonwealth Is an ab
surdly young Infant compared with it.
The clans are all formed of blood rel
atives and are added to systematically
by interniariage so that all the mem
bers are bound together by ties of rela
tionship. Each member pays all he can
to the headman of his clan, and the
sums obtained in this way are enor
mous. Thus the Ur clan recently fought for
six months and the total cost of the
war was only 13 cents a man, certainly
as low a war budget as there is on rec
ord. A few months ago two men from two
different clans met In a village in the
province. One mentioned the ether's
clan in a disrespectful way. A pretty
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A former Boston newspaper man told
a story not long ago of an experience
of a young woman of his acquaintance,
which, while it has not yet been em
bodied in any work of fiction, at least
gives evidence of Imaginative powers
and may be considered later. The
young woman spent her summers at
an old Marshfield farmhouse, the win
dows of which had an outlook on the
ocean. She had a fad. of course, and It
was the collection of various kinds of
seaweed.
According to the story, she had a
dream one night of a storm-tossed
mariner who came and stood by her
side and implored her aid in going on
a search for treasure lost at a certain
point in the Indian ocean. The dream
passed and the morning came. The
young woman was about to leave her
room when she noticed a small pool
of water which might have been caused
by a dripping umbrella, near the fire
place. In the pool floated a small piece
of seaweed of a variety which she bad
A Little Heroine.
It was "over in Jersey" that a little
incident happened a few weeks ago
in which an 11-year-old girl displayed
qualities of character wortny to be
compared with the men who stood by
their posts in the New x'ork tunnel
disaster. The girl in question, with
a companion somewhat older than her
self was playing on the ice in the
Raritan canal, near New Brunswick,
when the latter suddenly went down
through an air-hole, says Leslie's
Weekly. No help being in sight, the
younger girl promptly laid down flat
on the ice around the hole and waited
for her friend to come up. but when
the latter appeared she was too far
away, and her rescuer couiu not grasp
her. Twice the girl sank out of sight,
and when she reappeared, the other
who bad commenced to yell lustily for
help, but witoout changing her posi
tion, managed to grasp ner friend's
hair. She could not pull the drowning
girl out of the water, but she held on
desperately until a man who heard
her cries came up and rescue both.
The water had flowed over the Ice
around the hole so tnat the younger
girl was half submerged, and more
than half froien when help came, but
she did" not shrink from her effort, nor
seem to realize that she herself was
in any danger, her only thought being
for her companion, whom she had
snatched from the very jaws of death.
Why Be Kent a Doc
A prominent dog fancier and
wealthy man of Philadelphia stepped
into a grocery the other night and ac
cidentally stumbled over a fat old Ger
man, who was sitting in a corner
smoking his pipe.
Under his chair was the most re
markable specimen of a cog that the
gentleman had ever seen. It had the
appearance of a pug. with rough red
hair and a long tail. It was impossible
to resist laughing at the placid old
man and his nondescript dog.
"What kind of a dog is that
ask-
ed the gentleman.
"I don't know." replied the German.
"I suppose you use him for hunt
ing?" "No."
"Is he good for anything?
"No."
"Then why do yon value him so.
"Because he likes me," said the old
fellow, still puffing at his pipe, and the
expression of the dog as he looked up
from under the chair fully confirmed
the statement
"There is no better or stronger rea
son than that" asserted the gentleman
emphatically, as he walked away.
A Kaaaas ."Grafton-"
"Speaking of grafts and grafters."
aid a Topeka man to a Washington
Interviewer .the other day. "I knew a
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The fsmtms Rneataa general, Sawar
off, was another comarader desOaed
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aever to suffer defeat He sjahsed asv-
eral victories against the Tarks
saaiast the Poles, aad ia Italy he
opposed by Moreaa. Betas ce
outnumbered, he effected a brilliant re
treat over the moaataias ot Switzer
land, throuxh Germany, iato
He was held ia great respect by
soldiers, aad although he showed him
self to bs an exceedingly able tactician,
he used to say thst the whole of hhr
system was comprised ia the words
"lAdvaace aad strike."
The Duke ot Wellington, throaghoat
his brilliant campaigns, both la Iadm.
aad ia the Peninsula, has preserved to
himself a remarkable record of una
terrupted successes from the first bat
tle ia which he was vested with su
preme command throughout the Pea
insular war. in which he defeated the
ablest of Napoleoa's marshals, until
the eventful day of Waterloo, when he
defeated the greatest soldier of modern,
times.
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battle was fought in consequence by
the clans. Several hundred men were
on each side. About fifty were killed.
It was a ratisfsctory affair.
In Chao Peng two men of the Ur
Chang clan went out frog-catching aad
passed through one of the villages with
less clothes on than the law allows.
It was late at night and oaly one vil
lager saw it. But the indignity was not
to be borne, and war was declared. It
involved 16.000 men on one side aad
20,000 on the other.
Another battle in which property
valued at 110,000 was destroyed was
caused by a dispute between mea ot
rival clans over a gambling debt The
amount at issue in the quarrel was
.0028 cent.
At present there is more or less de
sultory fighting between the Chow
Yang and the Jao Peng clans. No one
knows what they are fighting about,
but the rate of deaths is estimated as
being ten or twelve a day. which is
pretty good for mere bickering.
It Is hard to be poor, of course,
then, it isn't easy to be rich.
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Thoe Who Can nWliavc It. 1
never seea before. She could not ac
count for it, but it was carefully pre
served in a specimen book.
Not long after she was a passenger
on one of the ocean liners. Among her
fellow-passengers was a professor in
one of the English universities, and an
acquaintance was formed between the
two. The professor shared to a certain
extent her interest in seaweeds, aad
one day she was turning over the leaves
of her specimen book In hl3 company.
Coming to the specimen so strangely
acquired the professor uttered an ex
clamation. "How did you come by that?" he
asked, with a manifest show of inter
est. She told him as well as could be.
"It is strange." said the professor.
"That is the second specimen of that
variety that I have seen. The only
other one that I know of is preserved
in the British Museum and "was found
at a seldom visited point in the Indian
ocean."' Then the young woman re
membered her dream. Boston Herald.
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man out in my state who had your
man beat to death. This fellow adver
tised a sure potato bug exterminator.
He inserted the advertisement in all
the farm and country magazines and
journals, offering to send his extermi
nator for $1. He received dollars by
the thousands. What he sent them
was a little package containing two
small, square blocks of wood, marked
'No. 1 and 'No. 2. The printed di
rections that went with the blocks read
something like this: 'Hold block No.
1 in the fingers of the left hand, the
smooth surface up. Place the potato
bug upon the smooth surface. Grasp
block No. 2 firmly between the index
finger and the thumb of the right band
and uring it tlovn sharply on the back
of the bug. This device has never
failed to exterminate the bug.' Of
course it wasn't long until the post
office people were riding his neck. If
I'm not mistaken he got ten years."
Trash Seal, to Indians.
A worker in the Indian mission field
"rises in her wrath" to remonstrate in
the Indian's Friend against the trash
that some people regard as suitable
contributions for the Indians. She
writes:
"I have just fired some hats and bon
nets which should have been burned
at the stake before entering the mis
sionary field. They could never have
headed off anybody aright and would
have been stumbling blocks to many.
If the Apostle Paul had sent them he
never would have recommended such
'covers for the heads of women in his
congregation. The ashes of these win
make turnips grow, but may their
roses never bloom above the sod.
though seedy enough to plant aa
acre!"
What tho Bishop Wanted.
Not long ago a bishop of stately
mien and sanctimnious expression
went to a small country town in Eng
land to lecture, arriving early in the
afternoon and being at once spotted by
the inhabitants as something particu
larly great and saintly. He went iato
a chemist's shop and in a tone that
froze the young blood of the assistaat.
said: "Young man, do you smoke?"
"Y-yes. sir." replied the trembling
outh. "I'm sorry: but I learaed the
habit young, and I haven't been able
to get rid of it yet." "Then,,' said tas
divine, without the movement of a
muscle or the abatement of one shads ,
of the awful solemnity of his voice,
"you can tell me where I can get a
good cigar."
A handful of common sense is worth
a bushel ot lesrnlng.
How many mea have a weakness for
wishing themselves possessed of great
wealth?
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