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Tlie four girls were dressed very
prettily were in a whirl of ex
sltemeHt, for they -were attending the
torse races at a coantry fair and the
SarllBg of all their hearts, Philip, had
ntered. his horse and woald drive the
laimal himself. "I just can't look,"
aid oae. Tin so excited I can hear
my heart beat. What if Philip didn't
win!"
"Girls, Td Just cry any eyes out," de
dared another. "Oh. look at that
horse! He can't win with all that rig
ging on. What does he have that
iron brace over his head for? looks
for all the world as if he had spinal
troable."
"S-s-s-a." warned all the other girls.
"They're off!" shouted some one in
the crowd, and the girls stood up with
a rush.
"Oh. look, look!" said the girl In
brown. "Philip's just beating 'em. Oh,
that nasty old horse is trying to get
ahead. Go it, Philip! Go it!"
The girl in green clapped her hand
aver her friend's mouth. "I should
think you'd be ashamed of yourself.
The idea of yelling like a tough!"
"Don't care," snapped the girl in
brown. "Everybody else is yelling."
"Whoopee!" shrieked the girl wear
ing a red golf jacket. "Philip has
won, he's won. I just knew he would.
You see '13 was his number, and 13
always was a lucky number with him.
He was born on the 13th."
"Don't see as that was a particular
ly lucky event." growled a cross-na--
turad man sitting near the bunch of
girls.
Soon Philip came on the stand and
the girls flocked around him with
squeals of delight He looked sheep
ish and delighted by turns. "That's
only one heat." he warned. "Maybe
I won't win any more."
"What's a heat?" they asked, and
be explained that a beat was part of
a race.
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Old Poem
The first poem of Whittier's ever
printed was "The Exile's Departure,"
which appeared in Garrison's Free
Press June 8, 1826. The next was
"The Deity," published June 22 of the
same year, and both these are collect
ed. The third, "The Emerald Isle."
appeared in the Free Press Aug. 3,
1826, and was never collected. Whit
tier was 18 years old when these lines
were written, and bad not yet the ad
vantage of the academy, nor of any
.library except that of the "wise old
doctor" whom he mentions in "Snow
Bound." Dr. Elias Wold. The unfa
miliar poem is printed in the Independ
ent for October.
Brightly figure thy shores upon his
tory's pagen.
Where names dear to fame and to sci
ence long known.
Uke unsetting stars through the lapse
of long ages.
From the sea-girdled isle of Hibernia
have shone:
Fair island! thy vales are embalmed in
the story
Which hl.nory telleth of ages gone by.
When Osslan's proud heroes strode on
ward to glory.
And ocean's wave answered their loud
battlecry.
The wild vine is creeping the shamrock
ht closing
Its foliage o'er many a dimly seen pile
Where entombed on the fields of their
faans are reposing
The proud, peerless cMefs of the Emer
ald Isle.
Bottle of Mammoth Size
The largest blown glass bottle in
the United States, or in the world, so
far as the makers know, is on exhibi
tion in a window in Barclay street,
just above Greenwich, says the New
York Times. It holds sixty-five gallons
and is shaped something like a baby's
nursing bottle narrow at the bottom,
bulging at the middle, with a small
neck and mouth. The bottle is a trifle
less than five feet high and is about
four feet in circumference at its
widest part
The man who blew it at the factory
in New Jersey is just about as tall as
the bottle. If he could manage to
squeeze through the -neck he could
sleep very comfortably inside of it If
the surface area of the glass blown
Into the bottle were spun silk it would
make a gown for a moderately large
and stout woman. Although blowing
by guesswork, tempered with long ex
perience, the man exceeded by only
half an ounce his instructions as to
the size of the bottle sixty-five gal
lons. The firm read in a Western newspa
per of a "hitherto unaccomplished
feat" as alleged, of a blown bottle
holding forty gallons. The Barclay
street makers sent ono of that size to
the Philadelphia centennial, more than
twenty-five years ago. Just to show
Conceit of
Perhaps the most remarkable char
acteristic of the natives of Somali
land is their unbounded, preposterous
conceit Englishmen mho know their
language have been appalled by it
When watering his camel or his horse
the Somali encourages the animal to
drink by chanting to it in a monotone.
It is at such moments of extemporary
effusion that the man shines in all
his glory. The subject matter may be
the experiences of the day's march,
.the virtues of the animal beside him.
the charms of his latest wife or his
own prowess in some bloodless tribal
raid. By great good fortune the fol
lowing literal translation of one of
these chants or songs came into my
possession, and I insert it without
any comment:
"Will you see a man? Then behold
me! I am a Somali, as perfect In size
Those old
Richard Harding Davis tells of a
friend of his who has been wedded
long enough to acquire the average
married man's attitude of cynicism to
ward the written expressions of de
votion customarily indulged in by
lovers.
According to Mr. Davis, It appears
that tabs friend, with the assistance
of his wife, was recently looking over
aome:old papers at home, with a view
to weeding out what was unnecessary.
Theyiwt about to move to another
dty fBviaid not desire to take any
of the nanpra except what were abso-
( Tfca imhtM cae upon several
Soon the second heat came. "Now
declared the girl in pink, "this Is the
second race in this heat, and then well
know whether he's won or not."
The girl In the red Jacket spoke
very gravely. "I believe this Is only
a brush. They have brushes some
times, rve read about 'em and the
man that was in at the death was It'
or something."
"You're thinking of a fox hunt," said
the girl in green, contemptuously.
"No, I'm not," snapped the girl in
the golf jacket "I guess I know the
difference between a horse race and
a hunt You act as If you thought I
didn't know anything. Just because
you've had one more year of study
than I you think you know every
thing." "I wish they'd shut up making such
a noise," said the girl in green. "Now,
just let me tell you that a brush Is In a
hunt Whoever heard of a brush on
the turf."
"Turf, indeed," retorted the girl in
the golf jacket "You must be a land
scape gardener. Now, I know what a
brush is."
A benevolent-looking man spoke
very gently to the girls. "Excuse me,
ladies, I think I can clear this mat
ter up for you. A brush Is a lively
argument between two young women,
neither of whom knows exactly what
she's talking about A heat Is the
point at which these two young women
arrive just before they dissolve in
tears."
"Hurrah, hurrah," yelled the crowd.
The girls were all glaring straight
ahead of them. "Wonder what they
are screaming at" muttered the girl
in brown.
"This is the end of the final heat
and Philip has won the race," said the
benevolent-looking man.
"And we didn't see him do it," gasp
ed all four of the girls.
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by Whittier
And in far later years, with the purest
devotion.
To the high cause of freedom full many
a son
Of the green shores of Erin, the Gem of
the Osean.
Fair evergreen laurels of glory has
won.
The martyred O'Neal and the gallant
Fitzgerald
On the bright list of glory forever shall
stand.
And fame circle Bmmet. the eloquent
herald.
Who wakened the spirit and pride of his
land.
They are gone! they are gone! but their
memories that linger
On the shores where they perish, no
wretch shall revile.
No slave of a tyrant shall dare point the
finger
Of scorn at those sons of the Emerald
Isle.
Hibernia! though tyrants may seek to
degrade thee.
Yet proud sons of science acknowledge
their birth
On thy sea-girded shores, whose high
genius has made thee
The Gem of the Ocean, the wonder of
earth.
Long. long, has the halo of glory sur
rounded The memory of Brian, the pride of thy
shore:
And o'er thy dim lakes and wide valleys
have sounded
The heart-touching strains of Corolan
and Moore:
O. soon may the banners of freedom
wave o'er thee.
Green island of Erin! may Liberty's
smile
To the luster of primitive ages restore
thee.
The Gem of the Ocean the Emerald
Isle!
that it whs still in the ring this sixty-five-gallon
bottle was made. The man
ager says that he could blow a hundred-gallon
bottle if he had a place to
put it in his window.
Pinned to a card at the base of the
big bottle is the smallest bottle In the
world, its appropriate running mate.
It holds just four drops and must be
filled with a hypodermic syringe. It
is so small that it has to be fastened
against a jet-black background in or
der that persons looking in at the
window can see it More time was re
quired to make the four-drop bottle
than the sixty-five-gallon one.
The substitution of machinery for
human labor in glass bottle factories
is not making much headway. For
the finer grades of work machinery is
no good at all. Skilled mechanics are
at work improving it all the time and
they promise to succeed some day,
just as they did with the typesetting
machines. Meanwhile the efficient
glassblowcr has the call. There is a
great deal of boy labor in the fac
tories, which are scattered through
New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Illinois. Ohio and Indiana Each blow
er requires from two to three boys
to carry bottles from the molder to
the annealing room. In some factories
the blowers are required to furnish
their own boys.
the Somali
and form as Adam was after God had
breathed into him his immortal soul.
Look how beautiful my curly hair is,
and how majestic I look when
wrapped from head to foot in my
snow-white or jungle-colored tobe, al
though there be sometimes only, one
pie (a small piece of money) tied to
it My house is the desert, and I am
born a free man. Free as the wind!
I know neither king nor master. I
am as Adam was, my own master and
king. In the jungle I tend my camels
and sheep; my only labor is to watch
them feed. In my kerrier, my wife,
my dear slave, doe3 all the manual
work, while tending my offspring, and
wee to her if she forgets to prepare
my evening meal. The jedal (whip)
shall then have its turn to make her
remember for tteit day. In such a
state Is any man 'happier than I?"-
Golden Penny.
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Love Letters
huge bundles of letters which he had
addressed to his wife in .the days
when he was striving to overcome con
siderable opposition to his marriage.
He drew a sheet or two from one of
the bundles and read them with a
slight smile. "Well," he said, "there's
no use in being bothered with this
guff. Might as well throw it Into the
waste basket, don't you think?"
"Oh. Tom!" exclaimed the wife,
"how can you talk so! Surely you
don't want to destroy the tore letters
yon wrote me!-'
'Jftfell. all right" absented anbwy.
carelessly; "bo rdiy; the at too
oft to tie."
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THE COMEY TAUTE.
The tats Is W trained ffram Buylftfl
ths Sam. -
The state win not bay amy Cobbey
sfetatea for distribution among legis
lators, which it was authorised to do
by the late legislature, watch paaaed
the measure over the veto of Gover
nor Mickey. Judge Holmes handed
down a ruling to restrain the priatiag
hoard front baying the books. The.ln
janctioa suit was brought by a repre
sentative of the Journal company,
which failed to get the contract r
printing the books, but did have the
contract for ' printing the Wheeler
statutes. The statutes were to cost
the state ft for a set of two volutes.
Jadge Holmes held that the act was
in contravention of that provision of
the constitution which prevents mem
bers of the legislature from enjoying
any compensation or perquisites in
addition to their salary, and In so
holding touches up the modern legis
lator quite freely -for his tendency to
overlook any little provisions of law
that may stand In the way of his ac
quisitiveness. HANS IS SENTENCED FOR LIFE.
Motion tor New Trial Overruled, but
Case Will Go to Supreme Ceurt
AINSWORTH Judge Harrington
overruled the motion of a new trial
In the case of Fred M. Hans, the Elk
horn railroad detective, who was con
victed of murder in the second. de
gree. The judge then sentenced Hans
to the penitentiary for life the limit
for murder hi the second degree. The
motion for a new trial was submitted
by W. P. Guney of Omaha, counsel
for the accused, without argument
The case will be taken to the supreme
court at once on error.
Hans shot and instantly killed Dav
id Luce of Brown county In the' spring
of 1901. He alleged that he did. the
shooting In self-defense while seeking
to arrest Luce on a warrant for shoot
big horses. The coroner's jury exon
erated Hans on this ground, but the
matter was later placed before a
grand jury and Hans was indicted.
MORE STATE TAXES.
Railroads Promise to Pay Two
Months Earlier.
. Fifty thousand dollars railroad tax
es In addition to the amount paid but
year, together with a promise from
the railroads that they .will pay two
months earlier than was required by
the law last year. Is the pleasing pros
oect before State Treasurer Morten
sen. The new revenue law f makes
personal taxes due December 1 in
stead of February 1, and the repre
sentatives of the roads have promised
to comply with this provision regard
less of the date designated in the old
law as to delinquents. The last legis
lature Increased the limit for state
taxes from 5 to 7 mills. This increase
will bring In about 1175.000 additional.
Fancy Price for Jtrmy Heifer.
BEATRICE. Lake Bridenthal of
Wymore was in the city and while
here purchased a very fine Jersey
heifer of J. B. Smith, for which he
paid a fancy price. The animal is a
2-year-old and was the first prize win
ner at the Iowa and Nebraska state
fairs last year.
Typhoid Fever Follows Flood.
GRAND ISLAND. Three members
of the family of Louis Yeti. president
of the board of education, one in the
family of Fred Menck, another In that
of a Mr. Hamilton and two la the
family of Fred Sander, all in the same
portion of the city, are seriously ill
wTi typhoid fever, the result of the
high water of last spring in that sec
tion o- Ve city.
Canning Factory Project.
FREMONT. A meeting of twenty
ousiness men and farmers was held
at the court house with reference to
the project for the establishment of
a canning factory In Fremont by two
Iowa men who are already operating
one plant They were present and ex
plained the plan. They have ar
ranged to buy one of old factory
buildings and expect to be ready to
operate next year. This city will be
expected to see that they get rail
road trackage. The promoters, want
to engage 1,200 acres of sweet corn
for the coming season and will pay
$4.50 per ton for the product
Fine Milk Producer.
C. F. Schwager has a cow on his
Locust Lane farm in Lancaster coun
ty that he thinks is about. as free
handed and ambidextrous a milk pro
ducer as the limit allows for. "Dur
ing last year," says Mrs. Schwager,
"this cow completed and marketed
11,390 pounds of milk, which would
be equal to about 600 pounds of but
ter. The average cow in this state
has a capacity of only about 4,000
pounds."
Lease a Hunting Preserve.
TECUMSEH. A company of young
men hereabouts has leased McLaugh
lin's lake, some ten miles northwest
of the city, and have formed a gun
club. The club has been named the
Union Gun club, and outsiders caught
hunting at the lake will be promptly
prosecuted. The lake has long been
a mecca for local huntsmen, and dur
ing certain seasons of the year duck
and snipe abound there. Fishing Is
good also during the warm months.
Keep Sugar Factory Susy.
NORFOLK. Grinding out granules
of sweetness at the rate of 750 bags
per day, the Norfolk sugar factory
has already sliced up 6,500 tons of
saccharine root and has put on the
market 13,000 bags of its finished
.product during the first nineteen days
of the campaign. The factory will
eat up 400 tons of the beets from now
on every day. The beets are' testing
np wall with about 14 per cast of
sugar ta them this
THE STATE IN A NUTSHELL.
lodge of the Sons of Herman
Instituted la Deairke.
The jury lav the case of Charles Mc
Millan, charged with the UQing of
Lee Jones at Indlsaola on May M last,
brought la a verdict, after bete out
all night of snasalaasator. ,
Eli BtrdseU, a Cass county farmer,
suffered a bad fracture of his left teg
as a result of the overturning of a
wagon toad of apples. The accident
occauaa on a rrnssiag while the driv
er was attempting to turn the team
around.
The electric railway which is being
built between Dakota City and South'
Sioux City by Captain Talbot Is pro
gressing rapidly. About three miles
are graded and two miles of rails and
ties are down. It Is expected to be
completed to Dakota City by Novem
ber 15.
A real estate deal of considerable
Interest was closed at Fremont in
which W. E. Lee 'sold to William
Polite, an Iowa stock raiser, 660 acres
of land east of that dty on the Ar
lington road for $18 per acre. Mr.
Polite Is a breeder of polled Angus
stock and win bring his cattle to Ne
braska shortly.
Charles F. Nelson, an old Swedish
resident of Cleveland precinct, Cum
ing county, commenced his journey
with his family to his old home In
Sweden, but on their arrival In Chi
cago his wife became dangerously
sick and had to, be removed to a ho
pits!.' la the me time the family
will return to Cuming county.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Turner of Edgar
were Instantly killed by a passsngor
train on the Burlington. They were
In a carriage and attempted to cross
the tttck in front of an approaching
train. The train hit them with a
crash that smashed the buggy Into
mall bits and killed the horse. Both
occupants were thrown out in front
of the engine and horribly mutilated.
The walls on Norfolk's new United
States court house are pushing rap
Idly heavenward and all but two of
the 200 carloads of material for the
structure have been received. The
attic timbers wlU be laid within a
day or so. It Is estimated that the
freight bills alone for the building
have been $20,000 and the product
when fnlshed will be magnificent.
The appropriation Is $100,000.
Two representatives of an Iowa
canning company were in Fremont
tookica; for a suitable place for the
location of a branch factory there in
case they can procure contracts from
farmers for not less than 1.200 acres
of sweet corn. As a canning factory
has been wanted there for some time
the corn will be easily secured and
negotiations are pending for the pur
chase of the old Fremont creamery
building.
Evidently there is considerable
faith In Nebraska as an oil state, as
two companies, each with large cap
ital am much push, have filed arti
cles with the secretary of state to
develop and run oil fields, lay pipe
lines, build gas plants and do a gen
eral mineral mining business. The
first to file articles was the Sheldahl
OH and Gas company of Omaha with
a capital stock of $600,000. The other
is the Beaver Oil company of Chad
ron, with a capital of $40,00(7.
A dwelling on the farm of Joe Alter,
north of Alma, burned. It was occu
pied by Will Emery and the fire was
started from a gasoline stove! It was
a total loss.
F. J. Robes, owner of the Crete
brewery, made an ineffectual effort to
blow out his brains at the brewery
office just outside of the city limits,
across the Blue river. As it is. there
is a possibility that the would-be
suicide may die as a result of his rash
act. His right eye was blown out.
Business troubles are given as cause.
George Durkee, who lives nine
miles north of Hastings, is having an
unprofitable experience with a large
stack of alfalfa hay. Three weeks
ago the hay on the outside of a huge
stixy-ton stack turned black and in
a week the haystack looked as black
as a pile of burned straw. A few days
ago a column of dark smoke Issued
from the center, which still continues.
The huge stack became ignited from
spontaneous combustion and it is sup
posed the slow fire will continue a
few weeks yet before the stack will be
entirely consumed.
At Nebraska City Alice M. Pierson
filed a complaint against, her husband.
Milton F. Pierson, charging him with
wife and child desertion. He was lo
cated at White Cloud, Kan., and will
be brought here for trial. This Is the
first case of this kind in Otoe county
under the new law.
While Mr. Hayden, a well known
man in Sarpy county, was engaged in
chopping wood, a stick flew up 'and
struck him a hard blow in the left
eye. The Injury is serious and win
result in the loss of the eye.
Governor Mickey and Captain
Chase of the university returned from
a two days' visit to Fort Riley, where
they witnessed the army maneuvers.
Both report a most enjoyable trip
and both were loud In their praise of
the Nebraska boys.
As Lon Simms was moving a
threshing machine outfit across a
bridge which spans Bear creek, In
Gage county, the punks gave way and
the engine went down onto the string
.era. Fortunately there was no one
injured.
CoL McDonald has been furnished
a copy of a report made by officers In
charge of the entrenching done by na
tional guard troops on the Smoky Hill
flats at Fort Riley, Kansas, which
pays a high compliment to the third
battalion of the Second Nebraska.
The rrfort declares that the work
done by the Nebraska troops was far
superior to that of any other battalion
engaged.
The Crete hospital Is an Institution
that has just opened its dxwa to suf
fering humanity.
"m . ' iMPi--B!6T' HOU
Details of the Udder.
Mlik is a secretion of the mammary
gland, said J. J. Repp in an address to
Nebraska dairymen. This gland is a
dependency of the skin, and is a mem
ber of the group of glandular struc
tures known as compound saccular or
racemose glands. A cow has four such
g!nds whjcu, combined, form what Is
popularly known as a bag, or udder.
Bach gland Is composed of 15 or 20
distinct Tobed which are held together
by connective tissue so as to form's
single conical mass. Each lobe is sub
divided by penetrating septa of
fibrous and fatty tissue Into numerous
lobules which are again subdivided
into the Individual sacs .called acini.
The acini are very small, barely visi
ble to the naked eye, and each one is
lined by numerous columnar epith
elial cells. These cells are microscopic
la size, varying from 1,100 to 1.200 of
an Inch In diameter. Each acinus has
a minute tubular duct leading from it
These small ducts unite to form burger
ones which constitute the ducts of the
lobules. These larger ducts still fur
ther unite to form the common lactif
erous, or milk-bearing, canals which In
turn empty into the Urge cavities at
the lower part of the glands called
milk sinuses. The ducts and mOk
sinuses are lined with epithelium.
By way of illustration, In order to
make the description which I have
given more clear, I win ask you to Im
agine a very prolific grape vine with
fifteen or twenty bunches of grapes
banging close together. This would
represent In a rough way a mammary
gland, each one of the hunches would
figure as a lobule, and each grape on
a bunch an acinus. Now conceive each
grape hollowed out almost to the hull
and then lined with small column-like
bodies. These bodies would represent
the cells. The stem of each Individ
ual grape win represent the small. In
tralobular duct which conveys the se
cretion out from the little sack in
which It Is formed. The main stem of
the bunch and the principal branch
upon which the various bunches hang,
typify the Interlobular and the com
mon excretory canals. The fibrous and
fatty tissue between the acini and lo
bules of the. gland may be likened to
the air which everywhere fills the In
terstices of the various parts of the
vlneful of grapes.
Beef or Milk Not Both,
Speaking to Holstein breeders, Pro
fessor H. H. Dean said: Now, some
breeders of Holsteins advertise that
their cattle are both good for beef
and good for milk. In my judgment
that Is a weak point The Holsteins,
If I know anything about their his
tory and characteristics, are essen
tially a dairy breed, and I was sur
prised to find when In Holland that
they seem to lay a great deal of stress
for both beef and milk. Some of the
upon that point, that they were good
farmers whom I talked with there
criticised that point They remind me
very much of an old German, whom a
young doctor was trying to impress
with the fact that he knew a great
deal about medicine, because he had
taken a course in both homeopathy
and ordinary medicine. He said:
"Veil, that may be so; I vonce had a
calf that sucked two cows and he
made an ordinary steer after all."
Now, I believe a man who is trying to
make his stock both good beefing and
good dairy cattle, will probably find
they are only ordinary steers after all,
or ordinary stock after all; and, if yon
will allow me to say so, I think the
men who are emphasizing that point
are men who are emphasizing a weak
point In connection with the breed.
They are essentially a dairy breed,
and the man who does not keep that
point prominently before him is the
man in my judgment who will make
a mistake.
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A Profitable Cow.
Among the recent reports of the
tests of Holstein-Friesian cows we
note the following: May Hartog Paul
ine De Kol 45124, age 4 years, 11
months, 8 days; owned by H. D. Roe,
Augusta, N. J. During first two weeks
of preparation was given hay, 7
pounds; silage, 30 pounds; bran 8
pounds; hominy, 2 pounds; linseed oil
meal, 2 pounds, and turnips, 30 pounds
daily. During the third week she ate
49 pounds silage, 113 pounds clover
hay, 315 pounds turnips and 130
pounds grain mixture, mixed in the
following proportions: 26 pounds hom
iny, 10 pounds gluten meal. 8 pounds
bran and 2 pounds linseed oil meal.
During the week of the official test
commencing 17 days after calving she
ate 56 pounds silage, 99 pounds hay,
315 pounds turnips, 51.5 pounds hom
iny chop, 48 pounds gluten feed, 24.5
pounds oats, 45.3 pounds bran, and 22.7
pounds O. P. oil meal. Total value of
food during this week per prices rule
4, $1,959. Products: Butter fat, 22.709
pounds; by-product, 600 pounds; total
value, $6,577. Net profit, $4,618. Cost
of milk per 100 pounds, 31.5 cents;
cost of equivalent butter 80 per cent
fat 6.9 cents per lb.
This Is a standard to be worked
toward. With such cows dairymen
could make good profits on their milk
and butter at present prices.
Dairy Cow Constitution.
The first great essential to bo
sought in the dairy cow is constitu
tion, without which she cannot stand
the strain of many years' heavy feed
ing and miUcing. The wide chest
good heart girth, and general appear
ance of vigor are the chief indica
tions of constitution. Other points
largely indicative of production are:
A wide, strong muzzle and jaw; a
comparatively open backbone or
chine, indicating tendency to make
milk rather than fat; a capacious bar
rel, capable of making use of large
quantities of feed; and a roomy, well
shaped udder with large mammary
and udder veins and milk-wells. A
well-known Canadian breeder has
tersely summarized these qualifica
tions in the words: A big mouth, a big
stomach and a big udder. F. W. Hod
son. Where the Trouble Started.
"I haven't quite determined," said
the Charles-street father, "whether to
have my daughter's voice cultivated
here or abroad. What would you sug
gest?" "Oh," said the obliging neigh
bor, "abroad, by all means" and
that's where it all started. Baltimore
News.
Cost of Long-Distance Talk.
The cost for talking over the tele
phone line between England and Bel
rium Is about $2 for three minutes'
time. -
Aa appreciable quantity of soluble
matter is washed oof with the drain
ing of the soil.
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A Disease of the Privet
Soma of the privet hedges of Still
water are being greatly damaged, if
not destroyed, by a fungous disease of
a sort which is called "anthracnose."
The fungus of this disease attacks and
kills the bark and wood of the stems,
says a report of the Oklahoma station.
Starting at a point on the stem, it
spreads through and around the
terns. Whoa th leaves of the plant
first begin to wither, the place at
tacked by the fungus msy often be
located just below the lowest of the
withered leaves and above the green
ones. If there are any such on the
shoot Close Inspection reveals the
fact that the bark Is slightly shrunken
at the point of injury, and. If the stem
be sliced lengthwise, the diseased
wood and bark will be found to be dis
colored, while that below; If healthy,
will be fresh, and that above simply
seasoned. The wood above the point
of the first attack dries out and the
fungus seems to spread down the stem
to the crown of the plant and from
there to an the roots and stalks. About
the point of first attack black spots
appear on the bark, and when the
bark thus spotted is scraped or cut, it
is found that these spots are the open
ings of spore-bearing postules. Hedges
which hare not yet been Injured by
this disease should be closely watched,
and at the first sign of attack by this
disease all the injured shoots should
bo cut off below the affected part and
burned. If the crown or roots are
affected the plant should be removed
bodily and burned. In case the hedge
Is badly damaged It will probably be
best to remove It entirely and not
plant privet In the same pi ce, as the
soU is likely to be infected with the
spores of the fungus. Diseased
hedges are a menace to healthy ones
in the neighborhood. It has been rec
ommended that the hedges which are
exposed to Infection by this anthrac
nose be sprayed with Bordeaux mix
ture, especially in the spring, at the
time when the buds are swelling and
expanding, and while the new shoots
and leaves are tender.
To Check the Apple Worm.
Spraying alone, though successful
within its own limits, cannot ensure
the fullest product of perfect apples
without the concurrent practice of
other methods looking to the final re
duction of the numbers of the cod
ling moth. The most important of
these associated methods is the band
ing of the trees and the destruction
of the attracted worms every ten days
from the fall of the first wormy apple
till the fruit is all in the bin. The
second is the Immediate destruction of
all fallen wormy fruit and the third is
the destruction of as many as pos-iblc
of the worms wintering over undii
barkscales, in old birds' nests, in
cracks in apple bins or barrels, or else
where In the fruit room. These asso
ciated practices are not to be expected
to show their foil results in the sea
son In which the work is done, though
the immediate value of the first if
considerable as a means of reducing
the number of worms of the second oi
later broods of the same season. E
A. Popenoc.
Great Realm of Horticulture.
A prominent writer on horticulture
says: From the horticultural sid9 ol
the business, there are tlree great
series of questions with which the nur
seryman has to deal. These are the
whole question of soil, the whole ques
tion of propagation and the whole
question of varieties. Any one ol
these fields is large enough to occupj
an investigator profitably during a
lifetime. The probability is that ii
any man were to devote his life tc
either of these series of questions,
he would feel at the last that he had
touched only the borders of it
Change in Shire Type.
Now, as regards Shire horses, 1
think there has been quite as great
an improvement in the last thirty
years as in Clydesdales. The type of
Shires that won at London show twen
ty years ago would have no chance
now, the refining process being most
marked in this breed. This improve
ment has been brought about partly
by the organization of the Shire Horse
Society and its annual shows, accom
panied by veterinary inspection, but
principally through the efforts of a
mere handful of progressive breeders
who, to tell the truth, took their cue
from the Scotch breeders and have
been endeavoring all these years to
remedy the defective limbs and feet
and faulty hock action of the massive
English horses.- The average Shire
breeder still maintains with remarka
ble persistency that the more bone
and hair he can produce tho better
the animal, but this claim is by no
means confirmed either by the show
rings or the market, unless the animal
possesses considerable quality and ac
tivity. It is frequently found that tho
extremely strong-boned, heavy-legged
horse, whether Clyde or Shire, has a
distinct element of softness in bis
composition, is phlegmatic in tempera
ment and is neither so active nor so
enduring as the horse with less hair
and fine skin. How often have we
seen big, rough horses that when
three years old looked like six, and
when six looked like sixteen, if they
happened to be alive. Such horses
never have been and never can bo
popular in the United States. Alex
ander Galbraith.
Missouri's Example.
The University of Missouri is cer
tainly doing a most excellent work in
Its efforts to disseminate agricultural
Information throughout the rural
schools of that state. Every year
a teachers' summer school is held r.t
which the teacher-students are giv?n
Instruction In agriculture and horti
culture. At least 5.0CO children in
Missouri are learning this year these
subjects because of tie instruction
given to teachers at Coumbia during
the past summer. The Department of
Education of the state u- preparing to
work with the College cf Agriculture
In introducing the study -)f agriculture
and horticulture into the public
schools. It is claimed that in this
work the University of Missouri is
not only leading the sute. but the
nation as well. It is ceruinly making
a first-class-experiment on a magni
ficent scale. It is ,d tmonstrating
what can be done in thli line. Dur
ing recent years the pollc ' of the men
at the head of that institution has
been broad, and energy has been
shown in pWting it Into pt actice. The
fruition of the work is b.ing already
seen In Missouri and the example is
being feTtli other stares.
It's a fortunate thin? for some men
that tqeir ancestors left them an hon
ored name.
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To-morrow Is Another Day.
Over mossy stone and wound.
Where the amaranth is found
Prom their footsteps not a sound
Slowly shadows creep around.
And love sings: "Will Sorrow
Will Sorrow here forever stay? r
And Hope sings: To-morrow-To-morrow
la another day."
Life is chequered, hopes snd fears
Alternate as smiles and tears,
rhrough the rain the snn appears.
And from time to time one hears
How Love sings: "WlU Sorrow--
Will Sorrow here forever stayT
And Hope sings: "To-morrow-To-morrow
is another day." .
Isaac Bassett Choate.
Told by Old Soldiers.
"Do you know." said aa old naval
officer, -that the man who finally
solved the steering problem on the
monitors and other war vessels was
an old soldier and that he lives in
Chicago? He does, and I saw him
yesterday. When the Miantonomoh
returned from the George Peabody
obsequies at Portland in January.
1870, she was ordered to Boston. When
Mr. Peabody died in London, you will
remember, the British government
sent tho remains across the Atlantic
on the warship Monarch, and Ad
miral Farragut with his fleet met the
Monarch at sea. escorted her to Port
land, and participated in the funeral
exercises.
"Then, as I have said, the Mianto
nomoh proceeded to Boston, where we
expected to remain for some weeks.
Scarcely had we dropped anchor, how
ever, when Mr. S. W. Murray, a quiet
gentleman from the West, came
aboard with an order from Admiral
Porter instructing the officers to givo
the bearer every facility for applying
and testing a new steering gearwnicn
he had invented.
"The admiral, assuming that Mr.
Murray would reach the vessel before
we anchored, directed Capt R. W.
Shufeldt to give the Miantonomoh a
turn or two to show the working of
her machinery. As the officers were
dressed for shore tLis order was not
regarded favorably, but Mr. Murray
said it was not necessary for him to
see the machinery in motion, as he
was familiar with the usual steering
apparatus. What he wanted was to
look over the engines and decide
where the new ones should be located.
"It this Mr. Zeigler. the chief en
gineer, smiled and took Mr. Murray
below, where the latter admitted that
he could see no place for machinery.
But a place was found, two new en
gines to work the steering gear were
put in, and in a few weeks there wss
a test of the new apparatus very sur
prising and gratifying to the naval
engineers. The new gearing worked
smoothly, and whereas with the old
gearing it required a minute and a
half to turn the rudder, with the new
it required only six seconds.
"This steering gear was afterward
applied to all the monitors and other
heavy vessels, and is in use today.
My recollection is that the Mianto
nomoh was the first war vessel to use
the improved gear. If I am wrong
some one can correct me. This new
steering gear enabled vessels to turn
more rapidly, to maneuver to better
advantage, and by its use a vessel
could be steered in case of fire from
any part of the ship.
"It surprised us, however, that such
an important improvement should be
made by a man who served in the in
fantry during the war and not by a
man bred to the sex I learned later
that Murray had been a steamboat
man on the lakes and had contrived
his. apparatus on Lake Michigan, and
when it was perfected had gone to
Admiral Porter, who ordered the test
at Boston. You can't tell what an old
soldier will do."
"That is true," said the major. "Sev
eral -vears ago I was traveling in Mexi
co and went on a long prospecting
tour over the mountains west from
Chihuahua. Out in the wilderness
our guides and guards came in con
flict vrith other guides and guards and
there was danger of serious trouble.
I went among the strangers hoping to
make mjself understood in explana
tion, and said to a friend: I don't
suppose one of these greasers can un
derstand a ord of English.'
"Intactly came from the comman
der of the hostile squad: 'Not a sin
gle word. Cap. Not a single word.
How do you do?' For a moment I
was embarrassed, but I caught a twin
kling look of recognition in the eyes
of the speaker, and, after a few min
utes, placed him as a teamster in our
regiment who at Cbickamauga drove
an ammunition wagon at a gallop to
our line of battle, retiring because of
empty cartridge boxes.
"His mules were shot in ten min
utes, but he distributed the ammuni
tion fo rapidly that when the rebels
got the wagon there was little in it.
When the mules went down Jack took
a rille from his wagon and joined
the men in line. He remained with
the company all through the siege of
Chattanooga, saying that teaming was
too durned risky for him,, and I came
to know him quite well. Here he wa3
now In charge of a pack train loaded
with .ilver, and, as he remarked, too
suspicious to see straight A word
from nim cleared tho atmosphere and
our party went on unmolested."
"Speaking of teamsters." said the
captain, "did any of the boys of the
Fifth Michigan ever tell you of Mike
in the Wilderness? Onue day Capt.
Blackman received orders to send two
wagons to the front for wounded.
Mike was the driver of one of the
wagons, and he didn't want to go. He
reported to Blackman that his mules
were very lame, and asked him to
Fend another wagon. Blackman or
dered him to hitch up his mules, lame
or not lame, and to 'drive like the
devil was after him. Mike went off
in a iuff and was gone all day. About
10 o clock at night he drove up to
the hospital with his wagon full of
wounded, 'n whose interest he was
driving carefully and slowly.
"The captain met him with, 'Well.
Mike, how did you get along?' 'Pret
ty well, sir.' replied Mike, 'only they
kept me foolin about dodgin bnllets
most of the day. I thought, sir. I
never would get anything to put in
the wagon. But as good luck would
have it. by hokey. about sundown the
tebs went to work in dead earnest and
shot me down a load in fifteen min
utes, and here the poor boys are. sir.
It was slow work wid 'em, sir, gettin
:hem water and drivin' aisy so as not
to jar them, but I got a full load. sir.
and may the Doc. there, be as aisy
wid 'cm as I was in brlngia them
in.' " Chicago Inter Ocean.
Cost of the Civil War.
The official records of the civil war
show that 2.778.3C4 soldiers were mus-
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tered into the union service, of which
number 105,653 were sailors and ma
rines and 2,672.341 were in tho army.
Of these 543,393 re-enlisted, which
leaves 2,128,948 as tho actual number
of individual soldiers.
The number of deaths was 359.258
and the number of desertions 117,247.
leaving 1.652473 as the probable num
ber of survivors of the army at tho
close of the war, deserters not In
cluded. Of the 105,693 sailors and marines
there were 21,546 re-ealistmeuts, 4.649
desertions, and 4.588 deaths, which
leaves 75,180 as the probable number
of sailors and marines alive at tho
termination of the war.
.Thus there were 2,213,365 individ
uals in both branches of the military
service, of whom 1.727,353 survived
the horrors of the war. not including
deserters.
According to the latest official com
pilation the whole number of deaths
among officers and enlisted men of
the federal army during the war of
the rebellion, as shown by the official
records, was 359,528. The actual num
ber, however, must be somewhat
larger, because It is known that many
of the records, especially those of
southern prisons, are far from com
plete: Enlisted
Officers, men. Totals.
Killed in action 4.143 K.916 67.05
Died of wounds 2.23 40.789 43.012
Died of disease.. 2.793 221.791 224.5S
Accidental deaths 112 3.772 4.1U
Drowned 10$ 4.S3S 4.944
Murdered 37 483 629
Killed after capture 14 90 104
Committed suicide 2$ 35 391
Executed by U. S 287 267
Executed by enemy.... 4 80 64
Died from sunstroke.... 5 30 313
Other known caues G2 1.972 2.034
Causes not stated 2S 12.093 12.121
Totals 9.SS4 319.944 3S9.42S
"Other causes known" includes all
deaths resulting from quarrel j. riots
and the like, which aro not definitely
reported as murder; from being shot
for insubordination or by provost
guards or sentinels in attempting to
escape or pass the lines; from ex
czustion or exposure; killed while
depredating upon the property of
citizens, and all other causes not men
tioned in the foregoing table.
The Oldest Naval Veteran.
William Macabee. of the United
States Naval Home. Philadelphia, is
making preparations to celebrate his
one hundredth birthday. He is the
oldest naval veteran living, and one of
the survivors of the old frigate Con
gress, which was forced ashore and
wrecked by the Confederate ram Mer
rimac. early in tho civil war.
Mr. Macabee was born in Baltimore.'
in 1803. seven months before Napoleon
was crowned emperor of the French,
and when, as a lad of fourteen years.
he enlisted in the United States navy,
the great Corsican's name was still
stirring Europe, although its owner
was a prisoner in St. Helena.
The old salt remembers well the
time when he served on the Pennsyl
vania, the wooden forerunner of tho
great steel cruiser recently launched.
He was not able to be present at tho
launching, although urged to do so. Ho
seldom leaves the home, complaining
that tho noise of the streets bewilders
him. He prefers to wait for the end
in the peaceful anchorage of the
home.
Daring Exploit of the War.
"By the way." said the major, "do
you know that the Twelfth Illinois
cavalry was at Harper's Ferry in Sep
tember. 18G2, when the Confederates
under Jackson and A. P. Hill made
their attack on that place, and that
neith r the colonel nor his regiment
surrendered? On the evening of Sep
tember 13, Col. B. F. Davis, of tho
Eighth New York cavalry, and Lieut.
Col. Hasbrouck Davis, of the Twelfth
Illinois cavalry, in conference with
Gen. Julius White, agreed that tho
calvary force should make an at
tempt to escape and join McCIellan.
"On the evening of the 14th the at
tempt was made, the cavalry column
moving out under the command of
Col. Arno Voss. of the Twelfth Illi
nois, and guided by the two Davises.
made its way through the Confederate
lines. The command reached McCIel
Ian's army without the loss of a man
and captured on the way Longstreet's
reserve ammunition train of ninety
seven wagons and 600 men guarding
it. This was regarded by Longstreet.
Walker and other Confederate officers,
as one of the most daring exploits of.
the war, but it has not been half as
much talked about as Forrest's escape
from Fort Donelson." Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Number of Enlisted Men.
In view of the prominence that is
likely to be given to the pension
question during the coming session
of congress many inquiries hare been
made as to the actual number of men
who were in the Northern service
during the war from 1861 to its close:
The exact number probably will never
be known. The various states received
credit for 2.S59.132 enlistments. This
:nclu.!es. however, everybody for
whom allowance was made, many of
whom enlisted three, four, possibly
five times, and served out their tennn
of enlistment. The war department
has agured out that, reduced to tho
uniform standard of three years serv
ice, the number was 2.320.272. but thb
probably is well in excess of the num
bcr cf individuals who r.erved.
Veterans Form Club.
On the return trip of the Grand
Army club cf Marsachusetts from tho
San Francisco encampment the com
rades who had been associated on the
train formed, themselves Into a-psr-maaent
organisation, to be known as
tha "California Etna dob.
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