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A sadden woe Withered the Joy within my life And left It gray. ade sm old with sadness, wncn Tom went away. aow be brave, dear Heart; The sadness still to sac In mournful wnispeia Vmm wnnd nnd hill: Ob the sky the autumn shadows Trail their gray The van can't shine, until to yon I go. away. . , Stella Pearl Hurls. e It would be difficult if not Impos sible to ind In Philadelphia, or per haps in the whole country, a man who has played more parts, filled more im portant offices, and attained greater emlaeace In business, political, mili tary and social circles than Gen. Louis Wagner. Louis Wagner was born in Germany in 1838, and came to this country with his parents in 1849. In 1861 he en tered the army as first lieutenant or Company D. Eighty-eighth Pennsyl vania Volunteers, and finally became colonel of the regiment and brevet brigadier general. He was severely wonnded and taken prisoner at the second battle of Bull run, rejoined his regiment after parole, and took part in the battle of Chancellorsville, after which his wound broke out again and he was put in command of Camp William Penn at Philadelphia. where he organized and sent to the front about 14.000 colored troops. Ho mastered out in July. 1865. Gem. Wagner organized the Depart- at of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1867. and was elected its first commander; was elect ed Junior vice commander-in-chief in 1878; senior vice commander-in-chief In 1871 and 1872. At Dayton. 0 In .1880. he was elected commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. He is an active ember of Ellis post. No. 8, G. A. R-, of Germantown, Pa., where he now resides. .Starr af C rat Tom Styles, of Fort Scott, grows reminiscent about General George H. Thomas, more familiarly known to civil war veterans as "Old Pap Thom as." Styles was detailed to guard a pay car going from Memphis to Louis ville. At Paris he was left alone with 'the car for a short time. A drunken soldier came along and tried to en . ter the car, and showed fight when he was ordered away. At last, after the soldier had commenced to shoot with his revolver. Styles opened fire with his musket and brought the man down with a hole in his leg. At arriving at headquarters the young soldier was ordered to report the affair to Pap Thomas. He went with fear and trep idation, thinking of nothing but a courtmartial. "I hear," said Thomas, "that you shot a fellow down at Paris the other day." "Yes," responded -Styles. "Where did you hit him?" in quired the general. "In the leg." re sponded Styles. "Well, let me tell yon one thing, young man," said the general. "This country has about all the cripples it needs. If you have oc casion to do any more shooting, shoot to kill." Kansas City Journal to Fi "But the most successful forager In omr part of the army was John A. Mediston of the Twentieth Illinois. On Sherman's march to the sea he was a treasure. He was In command of a squad or company that had free range of the country, and he always came in with supplies. On one occasion he captured a wagon loaded with hams, wine and whisky. It was the sort of a thing the ordinary forager would have sidetracked, but Mediston ran the collection into the quartermaster's hands and said nothing. "One day he dashed into a town as the rebs dashed out, and found a good many things as good as if made to or der. Bat be found also some choice lots of bread baking in ovens. Ex- warts who looked into the ovens re- urn at nrmn ratrinF in mromm liv. ported that the bread was not quite done and recommended that it be left It was against Mediston's principles to leave anything, so, explaining that he had mo time to wait, he said he would take the half-baked bread with him and tnmh the baking in camp. ' this 1m did.' Chicago Inter BT Cetera at Cettjeawra. And how did the Twentv-fonrth Michigan fight? They charged into the as without taking time to load, with bayonet driving the enemy mi WUkmchbv Ban. cantnrea the Caafederate Gen! Archer and many of says a writer in an Eastera Private Patrick Makmer. the general by the throat, aad "Right about; ginersL idncted him to the rear him over to the division er. with a Celtic smile, and "Omneral Wadsworth, sir. allow me to yoa-acansiated wid Gineral Ar- There the welMressed line the forest (luring the long repulsing every attack of the snisaj Gen. Sol Meredith, the raaaamaader: CoL Hearv A. LieaL-CoL Flanagan, the ad- sost every -officer who twenty-two betas kmed 4irO . ., t- - z "W'y"dh----J' , -- I S" ' 't-TP.. - . L fAK wmmmaA. tArH&i- S I Cants. Speed and ODonnell, and Lieuts. Wallace, Safford, Grace, Hum phreyviile, Dickey and Shattuckwere dead npon the field. Seven color bear era were shot down under the lag, four of them, Abel Peck, Charles Bal lon, August Ernest and William Kelly, lying dead almost side by side, while every one of the color guard was dead or wounded. When Corporal Andrew Wagner, was severely wounded, and the colors fell, CoL Morrow ran for ward and raised them. Private Kelly ran up and seized the staff, saying, -The colonel of the Twenty-fourth shall never carry the flag while I am alive." He was killed Instantly. Still asbther brave soul raised the flag, only to falL Again CoL Morrow grasped the starry banner, and, while waving it aloft, he. too, fell terribly wounded. No falling back was thought of until ordered to retreat, and then the flag was dragged by force from the hands of a mortally wounded sol dier, who, with a last expiring effort, tried to raise it from the ground, but fell back, only to die. Splendid Micni gan, your sons have done yon great honor! Iaalaatrs War Indiana's battle record daring the war for the Union comprised a total of 308 engagements, which took place in sixteen states and one territory. One of these states was Indiana, which was thrice invaded by the Con federates. The first invasion of this state or any of the free states by an armed and organized force of rebels occurred at Newburg, Warrick coun ty, on the Ohio river, fifteen miles above Evansville, on July 18, 1862. The force consisted of but thirty-two officers and men, under Adam R. John son, whose object was plunder. The conduct of these raiders was that of thieves rather than soldiers. They ransacked the town and returned five hours after their landing to Kentucky. The second raid was that of a com pany of Kentucky cavalry, under Cap tain Thomas H. Hines. belonging to Gen. John H. Morgan's division. This force. 62 men. entered the state on June 17. 1863. 18 miles above Cannel ton, for the purpose of picking up fresh horses. All except Hines and two of his men were captured. The third invasion was by Gen. John H. Morgan, with about 2.200 men, July 8, 1863, crossing the Ohio from Bran nenburg, Ky. Indiana troops were engaged In the last battle of the war, fought at Pal metto ranch, Texas, May 13, 1865, five weeks after the Confederates surren dered at Appomattox, Va. little Bitter reciter. "Soon after I left the service I was in the reading room of a hotel in Louis ville, where a number of ex-Confederates were talking over the war. A man who seemed to be irreconcilable said: 'I tell you, boys, the war isn't over. The fighting will still go on. There has been a good deal of fight ing. I know, but there will be more of it. Tou will see that the men who wore the gray will never submit.' A veteran of the Confederate service who had lost an arm and who had a saber cnt across the face, turned and asked, "Where did you do your fight ing, my friend? The irreconcilable answered that he was not In the Southern army; that he lived In In dlana, but that he had always sym pathized with the South. "The hard fighters wi.o had worn the gray turned their faces and listen ed respectfully to his wrathful words, and to his prophecies of continued guerrilla warfare; then the man with one arm made answer: 'While we were fighting, you did the sympathiz ing. Now we are done fighting and you are about to begin. Tou may do the fighting and we will do the sym pathizing, but so far as we are con cerned, the war is at an end for ever and ever.' That was the spirit that brought the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray into fellowship in Chicago, down in Vicks burg. and at Cblckamauga." Chicago Inter Ocean. Wwmb Soldier ef the KeveUtlea. The memory of Deborah Sampson Gannett, 'the woman soldier of the Revolutionary war who fought under the name of Robert Shurtleff, was honored lately at a banquet at Sharon, Mass., where she lived more than forty years. Her body lies in Rockbridge cemetery in that town, where the grave is frequently pointed out to vis itors. The banqueting hall was deco rated with the national colors, and in termingled in large letters were the historic names: Deborah Sampson, Mary Lyon, Anne Hutchinson and Hannah Dustin. In a conspicuous place was a placard on which were the words: "I Was There." This referred to Deborah Sampson's oft-repeated saying in her lectures on the battles In which she had participated while dressed as a man. One of the speak ers during the evening suggested that these words be placed upon Sharon's town seal. WaahJagteB a He Leaked. According to Capt. Mercer, the fol lowing describes Washington when he took his seat in the House of Bur gesses in 1759: "He is as straight as an Indian. i M measuring six feet two inches in his etf1rinre on1 Woicrhtncr T7 nnntiH stockings and weighing 175 pounds. His head is well shaped, though not large, and is gracefully poised on a superb neck, with a large and straight, rather than a prominent nose, blue grey, penetrating eyes, which are wide ly separated and overhung by heavy brows. A pleasing, benevolent, though commanding countenance, dark brown hair, features regular and placid, with all the muscles under control, with a large mouth, generally firmly closed." Houdon's bust accords with this de scription. Jast Takla- We Haadleaa. During the war of the rebellion the captain of a Maryland regiment soon to go into action was giving instruc tions as to conduct under certain con ditions. "We are expected to hold this position as long as possible," he ex plained,, "although we are to retreat if the advance of the enemy is not checked. But stand firm." he went on, "until yon see the whites of their eyes and," he added, "as I am a lit tle lame, I think I'll start now." CMMmb Wttl Wed. A 17-year-old boy and a 15-year-eld girl were granted a marriage license at Chicago after the parents of both had siren their consent M. T. Mc Govern li the youth, and he wadded Mlai Eoss Maseoa. - , -i - li.MiliM I 111! I " ' " ' ' ' Mrs. Ida Tilson of Wisconsin nays that she finds it costs about one dol lar ner head to nronerlr homm fowls. She flnres 12 samara feet of mom amd three somare feet of room to each fowl. She has tried wide and marrow perches side by side and finds that the fowls prefer the wide ones. The Improved hem needs a bigger perch than does the hem that was ia the. Garden of Eden, for she is a bigger fowL It is a good plan to have the sitting hens In a separate banding. Nests shomld be no ar ranged that they can be closed by a door at night and thus prevent the hens from roosting on them. It Is little work to close these la the after- mnA nmn them In the morning. To keep the drinking water warm Im, the winter a hot brick is put unuer u. An open scratching shed In winter is better than a scratching room in a house with glass before it AU hens should be provided with a dust bath. The hens should not be kept near cat tle and horses, for the mites will go onto cattle and horses. Not more than fifty hens should be kept ia a Q. Do you haTe a platform under your roosts? A. Platforms are very good, but they must be kept rery clean, or In sects will get in. So we use sand. Q. Should not one have a large scratching room? A. Have all you can afford. Q. Should not nest boxes be sin gle? A. Tes; I would not hare a nest box attached to the wall at all. Q. How wide do you have your perches? A Four inches wide. Q. Is there not danger in feeding too much pepper? A. Yes; I feed it only occasionally In the winter. Q. Does a fowl need stimulating by pepper and the like. A. Not if she is In good health. Q. How about feeding cottage cheese to poultry? A In the making of cottage cheese the sour milk should not be allowed to reach a higher temperature than 100 degrees. If too hard, it will kill young turks. Birds far SaU Shaws. From Farmers' Review: In select ing our birds for the fall and winter shows we get them out In March or April, and when about four months old we pick out a few of the best cock erelssay about twenty looking well to form, color, comb and legs. These are put in a yard by themselves and are crowded right along with wheat, oats, corn and beef scraps or ground bone fresh, and lots of green grass, millet 6eed in small quantity and about three weeks .before the show add ground flaxseed to the mash. It gives a fine luster to the feathers. Select a like-number of pullets and feed in the same way, keeping them by themselves. Now about a week before sendine them away to the Show make your selection from these birds, and make it a point to handle them every day, so that they will not be frightened when the judge takes them from the coop. Often a point or two is gained In this way. If you have white birds, wash them In soft water to which a little bluing has been added. Then take a toothbrush aad clean the legs, and rub with olive oil and sulphur. Then put in a clean show coop aad. keep in warm room until dry. Colored fowls do not re quire the washing, but clean ' their legs and comb. If you Intend to put male and female In same coop mate them several days before. Out of your first selection of twenty cockerels and twenty pullets you can select three nr fnnr of each that ouaht to be win ners. Look your birds over carefully to see if black feathers are not where they would disqualify the bird or pin feathers on leg and between toes Fred Keith, Ingham County, Michi gan. Paaltry Fetote Picked Ua. It is a mistake to imagine, that mongrel-bred fowls are hardier than pure-bred, though this opinion seems to be quite generally held. "Like a rood many other opinions this lacks support by proven facts. Breeders of fine fowls claim to have demonstrated its fallacy. Under the general condi tions of the farm, a thoroughbred will stand as much as a scrub will stand. Light and heavy fowls should not be kept figether. There must be similarity of treatment, and light and heavy fowls do not need the same treatment Diverse treatment can be secured only by keeping the fowls of the two general classes separate. m m One poultryman says: "Never keep a fowl longer than the second season; put her on the market In July or August just before she begins to molt" Other poultry men are lust as certain that It pays to keep fowls for several years. In both cases we lack data for proof. It is to be hoped that with the use of the trap nests and the experiments being inaugur ated at the agricultural colleges, we shall know more about it before long. There is no reason to doubt that there will be found among our domestic fowls birds that will prove good lay ers 'even after they have attained considerable age. The CB-te-Dete The up-to-date farmer keeps no un profitable stock, no scrubs on bis farm. His steers sad his hogs all pay well for the feed he gives them, none of them eat their heads on nor eat his head off. He knows a steer that is not a good feeder and lets some oth er man waste feed upon them. He tests his cows and only those that can be kept at s profit caa lie dowa la his green pastures. Nor will he permit his wife to keep a flock of nondescript flying, scratching, green-legged, black skinned hens, even If her mother did give her the seed. He can't hear the disgrace of it Of course the up-to-date farmer has the latest improved fanning implements and to save horse power and to do most efficient work, always keeps them in perfect order. When Ids farm implemeats are mot lm nee he keeps them housed, If It Is profitable to do so a hundred-dollar wagon shed into which a twenty-five dollar farm wagon is backed by hand every time the team Is uahitched Is not profitable. Joseph Carter. Recent dispatches from Australia stated that widespread devastation was caused by sm earthquake la the New Hebrides Islands. 'The series of earthquakes were followed by erup- of Albrim, Lepeir aad Tissual " " " " ' " M " Mat i II ' '. !. " - ""-l" Wy ., Without good materials it Is Impos sible to spray successfully. There are oa the market many kiade of.saray Img t'"ifi1f and sosae of them are about worthless. This U especially so In such states as nilmois where there are no inspection laws. In away other states the laws make it difficult to sen bogus Paris green or other bogus poisons, and so large quantities of such stuff are dumped om the IHImeia markets. One result of this coadittost Is the discouraging of those that at tempt to spray. They buy this togas material on the market," miz it ac cording to known rules, use it as di rected, and fail to do any good to their trees. There are several ways of telling good from bogus Paris green. The pure article Is light emer ald green In color. Put a little oa some window glass, tap the glass and as the poison settles down It win re main a light emerald green. If It shows white streaks It Is impure. If Paris greea is pure it is an Im palpable powder.' It it Is not pure it will cake. If the Impure is put oa a plate it Will not iaii apart rcauu. Another test Is to put some ammonia into the Paris green. It will dissolve the pure; It will not dissolve the im pure. Wateztes Unless the owner of trees stands some of the more important principles of growth, there Is danger that he will, when applying water, do more harm than good. To apply wa ter in small quantities through the drouthy season Is to cause the roots in the ground to turn toward the sur face and grow In that direction. Then when the watering Is discontinued for any reason the roots dry out much more quickly than if they had mot been watered at all. When water is applied to trees it should be In suffi cient abundance to soak the ground to a depth of several feet The roots will then not turn up to get moisture. If It is necessary to apply but little water at a time it should not be put on the surface of the ground. Dig a hole and put In a large piece of drain pipe so that the water being throwa into this pipe will soak deep Into the ground. In case of not having a drain pipe or piece of tile, a hole cam be made sufficiently deep to act as a reservoir. Let the water soak Imto the ground from this hole. The Ides is to get the water to the roots from some other direction rather thaa from the surface of the ground. " Bgllah Sparrows. From the Farmers' Review: I would say that according to my observatioa the house, or English, sparrow Is In creasing not only In but also outside of the towns. It has become established in large colonies along the neighbor hood In which I now live, and I have also made similar observations near Elmhuret HI. It seems to limit its nesting to the neighborhood of lanns, or at least to roadsides. I have mat observed it in the fields or woods. Iti food being chiefly derived from the road, it naturally prefers to keep near it As to its harmfulness to agricul ture I should say that it Is more in direct than direct It drives away more useful species of birds, not so much by direct opposition as by pre occupying the ground. Its food is composed of insects to but a snail degree. It is therefore virtually a useless bird to man. To eradicate it, however, seems to me to be an almost impossible feat Bounties have proven worse than useless, as much money was expended by the state, and many of our useful sparrows were destroyed by mistake. Ellen Drummond Far well, Lake county, Illinois. Ca-Oaerattea Am Recently the entomologists of Mom tana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon met to formulate plans for suppressing the injurious insects that Infest those states. It Is probably the beginning of much co-operation in this matter. As it has been, the authorities In each state have been doing what they could under considerable difficulties. This conference was called to enable the entomologists to talk over their vari ous problems together. Doubtless this alone added much to their ability -to take effective measures against the In sects. This is especially accessary In the case of such insects aa the Cod ling moth, which has not yet got a firm foothold In the states named. Without doubt all of our states could find much In common for such con ferences. Sooner or Inter there will have to be evolved some general plan of working In the country ss a whole, without regard to state boundaries. Apalyiac Spray. The proper way to apply spraying solutions Is In the form of mist This mist should never be applied long enough for the water to drip from the' leaves, as that will result In scalding. Here comes In the aeces sity of experience in spraying. The man that does the work In the best way must know exactly when to stop. The spraying business is thus seem to be developing into a science. It used to be thought that any man could spray If he only had apparatus and properly mixed materials. As time went on many disasters were reported, which were later seen to be due to inexperience on the part of the op erator. The condition 'of the atmos phere must also be takea into con sideration. If the humidity Is oni such as to wet the leaves, spraying may be done; but if the leaves an dripping it Is too wet to spray. At the Illinois station la five years the percentage of barrem stalks Is the corn field has. been reduced from 60 to 12, by selection of seed from stalks fertilized by other ear-bearing stalks. Experience has taught msay seed corn growers that It Is difficult to get good seed corn of the right variety. The introduction of the score card begins a aew era la the growing of seed com. In this card uniformity has a prominent place, for the ears of corn must be uniform. Copper sulphate cannot he readnj dissolved by putting it lata a vesse. and pouring in the water. The preset way to do Is to put the copper sul phate in s bag aad suspend the hsg in water. The copper sulphate. If mare should be dissolved la from t to 1C hours. This enters Into the of what .is known as Bord tare. It Is used agnlsst fumgoas dis eases, aad should be kept, ready see use oa every farm. ;, - F--'-r--r-.wW'i . Brt-fr - ft j'-rf ' '- -- - - -' f r a aartea of exnerimemts. In contlau- attorn of those coadacted la previous years, was carried oa this past year. chiefly to determine the effeeta of dif ferent pssteurising temperatures, be tween 14t aad 9 dee. om the bac terial coateat of milk, and upon j the quality of the butter, says a bulletin of the Ontario Experiment station. A Joint bulletin by the dairy and bacteri ological departments has been pub lished giving the results of these ex Mriments. Briefly, the results iadl cste that a temperature of Its to 185 dag. Is ray favorable i reducing the bacterial coateat to a low point, ami this temperature also sdds keeping quality to the butter. If we wish to establish a good reputation for Ca bUb butter in the British markets, we shall have to adopt pasteurization; aad if we wish our butter to retala Us fine savor for some time, we snau no well to psstsrise st a temperature of 180 to 185 deg. In our experiments, the whole milk was pasteurised before separating and the skim milk was run over a water cooler before it was re turned to the patrons. Wojoundthat this plam enabled us to send to the farmer a good quality of skim milk for feeding mt Stattec. There Is a considerable increase noted In the supplies of butter lm the great markets of the country. The pasturesla many localities are now in good condition and the cows are pro ducing increased yields. The butter supplies come not only from the many farms, but also from new creameries that are opening up or from cream eries that have been closed since lsst falL It will doubtless be found that tiA mnnitoa thla summer will be somewhat short of the average, due to the fact that the cows go into sum mer in a much poorer condition than was the case a year ago. It is hard to see where, an increased amount of milk Is to come from. The prices for butter products during the past few years have not been sufficiently high to stimulate breeding, and young cows do not give large quantities of milk anyway. It Is to be hoped that the farmers have not been disposing of their cows due to the high price of feed and that an Increased number will come Into use this year. The creamerymen are claiming that the yield of milk Is very low, perhaps the lowest of recent years. There seems no particular danger of a slump in the prices paid for either milk or butter. Salt aaS Water la Batten At the Wisconsin experiment station a study was made of the effect of salt on the water content of butter. In each of eighteen experimental churn ings the butter was divided into two lots, one of which was salted and the other not salted. In other respects the two lots in each case received as near ly Identical treatment as possible. In eight trials both lots were worked once and In ten trials the lots were worked twice, the two workings being separated by an Interval of about twenty-four hours. Chemical analy ses showed that the salted and unsalt ed butter In the lots worked once con tained, respectively, 12.74 and 15.12 per cent of water. In the lots worked twice, the salted butter contained 10.53 and the unsalted butter 14.33 per cent of water. The unsalted butter always had a dry appearance, but in every comparison it was shown by chemical analysis to contain more water than the salted butter. The salt apparently made a difference of about 3 per cent In the water content of the butter. Palp for Caw A nnblicatlon of the Department of Agriculture says: Prof. Thomas Shaw expresses his belief that sugar beet pulp cam he fed more advantageously to cattle and sheep that are being fat tened than to dairy cows. The New York Cornell experiment station, how ever, found that this material gave good results with milch cows, the drv matter (solids) in it being about equal la value to that in corn silage. Ger man experiments with beet pulp for cows have also given good results, the flow of milk being maintained In a satisfactory manner. Some Danish .ex periments have shown that, as com pared with mangels, the butter pro duced on sugar beet pulp was of about equal quality and kept fully as welL Where large quantities of the pulp were fed the cream required to be churned a few minutes longer. - CeaeeatiaUac Dairy EsteMlahBieala, A conference of Canadian dairy ex perts adopted the following: That It would tend to secure s better end more uniform quality of dairy products to have all cheese factories and cream eries, organized into groups or syndi cates' consisting of from 15 to 30 fac tories, each group being under the su pervision of n competent instructor, and that these groups should be cen tralised under one authority in each province; that short courses of in struction should be held in the dairy schools for farmers' sons; to ensure cheese and butter being manufactured only in factories that are free from sanitary defects, and possessed of well-constructed and readily cleansed rooms, pure water, good drainage, and dean utensils, and surroundings. Two TaraM at Aisealtea. Prof. Blair: As a rule Londoa purple is more variable in composi tion than Is Paris green. I would not recommend Its use. It should be done away with. "If used at all more lime must be mixed with it than with Prais green. It is better to go to the drug store and buy white arsenic. Ton caa take one pound of that and four pounds of lime and boil them In four gallons of water for 45 minutes, sad you have arsenlte of lime. This Is a better Insecticide even than is Paris greea. It has this objection. it Is pure white and In some cases might be taken for milk. If used it should never be left around where It may be so mistakes. Jffalltetae Alba. Press Bulletin 233. Ohio Station: ftilr' do not eat sweet clover readi ly, but when confined to it they are said to sooa leara to relish it and it is largely growa for forage and hay in the southera states. It resembles al falfa la appearaace and habits of growth, aad like alfalfa must be cut before full bkawomlag If it is deshd to make hay of it, otherwise the stems btucuae too hard aad woody. Like al falfa It will furnish two or three crops of hay m a season; but It differs from alfalfa lm being n biennial plant, so that it win disappear at the end or the sasssm season after seediag unless is rested itself, - .l'.i - . "-- --V -. (Comdeased from Farmers' Review 6temograaale Report of Wisconsin Rouad-up Iastitute.) R. fi. Roberts read a paper om the handling of early lambs, which was followed by a discsssion. in part ss follows: Q. What breed of sheep, do you keep? A. We keep the Shropshlres. Q. How much do the lambs weigh when yon sell them? A. Sometimes they weigh ss much as 45 pounds. The February lambs are sold la April. Q. Do you use's basemest bara zor these lambs? A. No; I have only am. ordlaary barm boarded up and down. Q. Which will stand mors colt weather, cattle or sheep? A Sheep. Q. Where do you market yout Iambs? A. Ia Chicago. I have shipped to one man there for fourteen years. We ship carloads at a time, by getting other lambs to send with ours, Q. Is there not a limited market for that class of Iambs? A. No. sir; there seems to be cs end to the demand. I dispose of all my lambs at S3 per head at the depot Q. Do you select your breeders from yearlings? A. No; I use two-year-olds. Q. Is silage good feed for sheep? Mr. McKerrow. Our experiment station at Madison has Issued a bulle tin on the matter. We have been feed ing a good deal of silage to sheep at our farm. Our ewes and lambs are doing well They are getting clover hay and alfalfa. They are getting two feeds of silage per day. We have seen no bad results from it Q. How about rape for sheep feed? Mr. Roberts. It is the best feed I know of. Mr. McKerrow. Let me warn you against feeding your breeding stock on rape. It is too stimulating. It ia better to have only half a ration Is rape. ' Canadian exporters are veo shy about buying sheep fed on rape, for they go down quickly when pui on grain feed. Packers Exalaaattea. The Chicago packers are endeavor ing to explain to the people the causes that make beef high. With that end in view they have Issued the fol lowing circular: Why beef is high. The present high price of droned beef Is occasioned: L By the Increased demand in the United States and Great Britain for dressed beef, and 2. By the high price of corn, which is used to such a large extent In feed ing cattle. The advances in the price of corn during the past year have been ss fol lows: Closing price No. 2 cash com Chi cago board of trade: January 2. 1901 S .36 April 1.1W1 42 September 3, 1901 54 December 2 .1901 62 April 26. 1902 62 The following comparison shows that the price of cattle largely coin cides with the price of corn, and corn has ranged much higher in price dur ing the feeding season commencing September 1, 1901. than for many years. ' The wholesale price of dressed beef is governed by the cost of live cattle. Prices months of April 1901-1902: ism uat Extreme range beef cattle at Chicago, per cwt t3.80S6.0e S4.75C7.9I Averag-e price No. 1 cash corn, per bu.... .48 .OH Averag-e weight of cat tle, per head 1.441 lbs. SS lbs. Average price, dressed beef, per cwt $7.0. S9.H The following table gives the com narative cost of feeding a 1,000-pound steer in winters 1990-1901 and In win ter 1901-1902: 190275 bu. corn at 62c 346.SS 190175 bu. corn at 48c 36.00 Increased cost 1902 310.88 On a 1,000-pound steer this Increased cost would amount lo 1.08 per 140. live-weight, and, estimating the dressed beef in a steer at 55 per cent of the live weight, would 'increase the cost of dressed beef 31.98 per 100 pounds. Art aad Batter Btetlaff. Recently we saw a picture of a creamery that had grounds beautified by art and nature. Clumps of ever greens were here and there, while on different parts of the walls of the fac tory Itself were seen climbing vines. Flowering shrubs were also In evi dence. The whole presented a picture of the most inviting kind. Some may ask "What has that to do with bring ing milk and making butter?" The answer is that it has much to do with those operations. The fact that the grounds and the buildings are well kept establishes a standard of clean ness. The man that will look after the grounds and keep them tidy nnd beautiful will be no less careful with the inside, of the factory, and he will see that the vats, the floors and all utensils are also tidy and clean. The flowers have a reflex influence on the butter maker and the employes, and without doubt exert a very great In fluence on the men that haul the milk. Give us more of the beautiful in connection with the work of the creamery and we shall have more care and more interest manifested in the work of milk handling and butter making. Telstel AdTlara tha Csar. Count Tolstoi is again enjoying good health, apparently, as he has renewed his interest in the public affairs of Russia. The count has written a let ter to the czar describing the misery of the Russian peasantry and calling on the czar to aid in bettering the con dition of the people. In addressing the czar Count Tolstoi cans him his "dear brother," and throughout tne letter re fers to him in the second person sin gular. It is said that the czar read the letter with great attention and answered it. saying that there is much truth in the writer's recommendatiqas. Count Tolstoi recommended to the czar that the government purchase land and rent it to the farmers at a practicable price and thus take a long step toward solving the land problem that is giving Russia so much trouble at present At optimist i3 a man who believes that all eggs will hatch. Mosey is the root of all evil, yet we keep digging after the root. In thla region, too, the river Is bor dered with busy cities Dubuque. Keo kuk. Qulncy. Davenport, Rock bland. Mollae thriving railway towns, fell of factories. coUeges, fine residences, aad all the evidences of energy aad culture. Most of them are built upon hills, aad all oa high ground. Seem from the river they present the finest views of themselves, something the cities of the flat country farther down never do. It Is a swift water that rushes past these cities. At low water, which Is usually In summer and fall, the cur rent drops to three inches aa hoar or less. But at high water, whem It stands thirty or forty feet higher om Its hanks, it sweeps along at awe miles an hour with irresistible Im petus. Imagine what that means la a big river nine miles an hour. We are so used to railroad trains that run sixty or seventy miles an hour that it does not seem an overwhelming speed. But consider that when a rail road train is once checked its power is gone. Interfere with the progress of the Mississippi and the river piles up agaiBst the obstruction, sweeps around it, over it, under it. and mo mentarily grown stronger about It The power waxes until it sweeps sway the fret Yet such Is the contrariety of this a- esjlas sales Sli J 'f mT f L jslw, t,lf afrisJiap eTlsptw-wi5wwlla ! amiss ! VA Tragedies Due to Dreams Medecsi Sdcacs Has Loaf. The recent remarkable case of Hen ry C. Krause, who strangled his moth er, has served to recall other instances on record in the history of medical jurisprudence where crimes have been connected with dreams and hallucina tions. One of the oldest cases of the hind is that of the English gamekeeper who was killed by his son. Both were guarding from poachers the preserves on which they were employed, when the son, wearied with the long vigil, fell asleep. Upon being suddenly awakened he seized his fowling piece and slew his father, evidently, in his half-awake condition, acting under the delusion that, he was attacking a poacher. He was tried and convicted, but later was pardoned on the ground that, because he did not know what he was doing, there was no criminal in tent to the action. Marc, the noted English alienist, tells of the famous case of a peddler who fell asleep on the highway, hav ing by his side a sword cane which he carried as a protection against rob bers. A traveler in passing stooped to arouse him, thinking he might be either ill or intoxicated. The peddler WRITERS avaBAeaeAeeeeaBrtAwwww Madera Anthers MmsMcewtly Rewards1, as Early American writers were poorly rewarded. Washington Irving was the first who made any notable suc cess in literature. His Sketch Book brought him 3600. During the forty subsequent years of his life his writ ings from sales and copyrights brought hfaa.it 1 estimated. $205,383. Bryant .received no compensation whatever for his Thanatopsis and ev en at the age of 83 he could not buy a modest borne with all he ever received from his poems. No single production of Edgar Allan Poe brought him over $100 and only two seem to have reached that figure. He sold The Raven for $15. The Bells for the same, though he afterward re ceived $10 for a lengthened and re vised copy. Longfellow's executors estimated that the plates and copyrights of all his work were worth $30,000. The Hanging of the Crane brought the poet $3,000, of which he gave $1,000 TRULY A VALUABLE TYPEWMTEII wltty Kepiy of aa Aatw. Wfca Used A New York bachelor author, who writes on a machine, wrote a note re cently to a spinster authoress, who still works by hand, and incidentally called her attention to the fact that if she wished him to do so he would se cure a machine for her at $5 per month, guaranteed to write poetry, able articles, fiction, etc. A day or so later he received a reply written in a beautifully clear, round hand to this effect: "My Dear Mr. : This is my type writing machine. Isn't it nice? It is called the Blank typewriter. It is sound, kind, in good repair, warranted to travel well in single harness and if you do not say it is the nicest ma chine you ever knew I shall refuse to believe that you were born when knighthood was In flower. It is war ranted, like yours, to write able ar ticles, poetry and fiction with equal fa cility, but, unlike yours, it is not for sale at $5 a month. Its original cost was large and I have put so many im provements on it since that I cannot dispose of it save at a considerable advance and even then should be un willing to part with it except to a re sponsible person warranted to treat it with care." . At present, says the Detroit Free Press, the author is striving strenu ously to become a millionaire, so that he may secure the services of this in imitable typewriter. Overheard la the Gardea. "You are: covered- with the most delicate and beautiful of flowers." re marked the gooseberry bush to the peach tree, "because I am very matter halcyon kiss of the chaste auroral ceohyr; "but do you thlink the peach crip will be a failure this year?" -It would be impossible to say truthfully," replied the blossom-draped peach tree, because I am very matter oflfact and always consider it un wise to speak confidently at so early a stage of the game. In other words, I never count my peaches before they are canned." Judge. wkM flfcaf Oat There are three states which have no debt Iowa, Nebraska aad Illinois. There are three states which have al most ao debt California. Montana and Nevada. :m - . - t that while It wfil throw the strongest obstacle to Ms coarse that cam he haitt, R wffl yield to the slightest One coaM hardly mad a mors striking ilhsttratloa of the power of alight thlsga than the sharp contrast between the behavior of the river against a powerful check asm against a slight one. For years the government engineers straggled to direct the river with mssetve stoma dikes. Whem the river could mot overthrow one of, these it dag amder it aad so wrecked it Mosey without end wss spent on dikes. There was a ' mighty one below Gold Duet landing in Temmeseee. It stood longer thaa most of them, but a flood in 'the river at last conquered and swept It away. How. then, can the river be direct ed? Simply by a few sticks set ia the sand. A row if piling, sometimes with s few brush hurdles, accomplish es it The river sweeps through, ed dies behind it. dropping saa2 and building up a bar. Nowadays, travel ing down the river through stretches that once were broad aad shallow, one fada them narrow and deep, with' sandy sides, over the tope of which can be seea juet the tips of the piles that accomplished the mighty change. Ainslee's Magazine. The beadle of the parish Is always of the vicar's opinion. Record of Sack sprang up and stabbed him to death with the sword cane. He was con victed at his trial, although he pleaded that he did not know what he was about when he committed the act. Another case cited by Marc is that of Bernard Schedmaizeg. Attacked by a phantom in a dream he struc at it with a hatchet and awoke to find that he had murdered his wife, who was the reality of the phantom with which he had struggled. He was acquitted of the charge of murder, the jury in this case accepting the plea that he had done it unconsciously. From Cleveland, O., comes an ac count of a well authenticated case, that of a prominent resident of that city. Out hunting and camping with a party of friends, he was suddenly awakened from sleep one morning and shot a member of the party in tho back, inflicting a wound which caused paralysis. In 1878 Simon Frazer, a Scotchman, 'dreamed that he was attacked by a wild beast, which he killed in his vi sion. When he awoke he found that he had dashed out his child's brains against the bedpost. New York Press. i WELL PAID to the friend who negotiated the sale, certainly a liberal commission. Kera mos brought him $1,000, and these two were the culminating prices for his single productions, though he was an industrious worker for more than fifty years. While Hawthorne was hoarding the $1300 he received for The Scarlet Letter, Mrs. Stowe was counting her thousands from Uncle Tom's Cabin, which brought her $10,000 in the first four months after its publication in book form. For the serial rights she received $300. Emerson, at 74, found his last vol ume the only one that approached a remunerative sale. There is a vast difference, in the matter of compensation, between the authors of the old days and modern writers. The latter arc well paid for their labors and unfortunately it does not seem that their work is anything the better on that account. JOHN WESLEY'S DREAM A PARABLE ala laqalrr tor Gates et Heawa. It is reported that John Wesley once in the crisis of the night, found himself, as he thought, at the gates of hell. He knocked and asked who were within. "Are there any Protestants here," he asked. "Yes." was the answer, "a great many." "Any Roman Catho lics?" "Yes, a great many." "Any Church of England men?"' "Yes, a great many." "Any Presbyterians?" "Yes, a great mnny." "Any Wcsley ans?" "Yes. a great many." Disappointed and discouraged, -especially at the last reply, he traced his steps upward, found himself- at the gates of Paradise and here he re peated the same questions. "Any Wesleyans here?" "No." "Any Presbyterians?" "No." "Any Church of England' men?" "Any Roman Catholics?" "No. "No." "Any Protestants?" "No." "Whom have you, then, here?" he asked in astonishment. "We know nobody here." was tho reply, "of any of the names you have mentioned. The only name of which we know anything here JLs 'Christians.' We are all Christiana here, and of those wc have a 'great multitude (which no man can num ber), of all nations and kindreds and peoples and tongues." New York Ob server. a Qmmmr FamHy. The son of ex-Alderman Griner has' started a small but interesting menag- erie at his home on North Franklin street. It consists of a cat, her two . ' kittens, and two groundhogs. The . groundhogs were caught In the timber northwest of the city by the boy when -they were quite small, and pat with the cat, who had two tiny kittens. The., mother cat adopted the groundhogs" into her family, and she distributes her affections between the four little ones as evenly as possible. The family Is probably the happiest . in the city; at least ex-Alderman Gri- . ner thinks so, and he has watched the interesting group for sesse days with considerable' iaterest. DaavMIe (ill.) News. Ussktnfal demtkts are . coaeeleatlews. They spare so f-. at their - -.". ,. --..Jl it-5l5-;Wrf'ii-tW) w l&-gftagaaB r .' iv ; 4 . - . - . -If . '?-. .TiJ ti ,-.mm?'-
