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c fcir 1 1 0 : c? r E4PM 1H4PI, ' JBaJ& - x AA 1 1 . . r --5.' dlTOIk. - X M I ." . ' . jUi aa ::w ..?-.- that :1.-r- of thi ! -;.ftlii-r.J in .i w:-h ! r-T-3--r.l ar." would i- j-U-ai-d o ar.er cirre--ror: -nt-. d-:rir infu-nsaiioa on r-ulo-ct-t?tsru---d Aurfr-- M J Wrag. Svt) Gwd iKxt. I-s Moines. Iowa LEASING FARMS. 'Id Older to have a farm properly workec by the tenant, the buildings and the fences kept in a good state of preservation, there must be a feeling of brotherly kindness between tenant and owner; they must have tborouch- "ly learned the story of 'putting jour ielf in his place." The owner should be kind and oblig ing to the renter, making all needed improvements and repairs, the tenant must be honest and alwajs remember to do as he would wish to be done hy. were he the owner and the otner man his tenant. The cash sjstem "would he the better oat- if there was always a price lor grain per bushel, and the beef, jwrk and other products of the farm so fixsxl as to have but little variation, and aii seasons productive nearly alike. This. however, is noi the case and share reat in tome form is usually :fct choice oi the nnam. and is very generally accept -d b tte owners. Usually the tenant asrees to pay in Srain celiv.vd ai the nearest railwa.v station from ant 'hird to one-half of the crop, in a majority of case:- two fifths, the aifadou and pasture lards drawing & cah rent This is. pernaj s as igood a system of renting by rood nnen on both fides, who make it a rule oi their Iy.es 'to uo a- tfc would like to ix- done by' should prove satisfactory. AH systems of leas-ins farm5? in the pass have had a tt-ndencv to cause the lunning down of the land, impoverish ment of the scil. dilapidated buiidincs destitute ot paint, broken down jard and field iences. and a 5-neially woe begone look to all tht farm, m sad contrast to the look it formerly wore 1 occupied by an owner who a; tidy Had thrifty and a lover oi neatness and pleasant surroundings' for the home on the farm. More attention to the maintenance of the improvements and the fertility c" the- -oil mut be paid by the owner? of farms rents, or they will see values lessen and farm society and prosier:ty will retrograde. Yearly leases should be changed for longer terms: three or five ars is short enough term for the good of both parties. The renter who knows that the ma nure he haul1 out and spread- on the --jnd will fertilize and stn-ncthen M that will bear him a crop oi 4 - V ar will work more heartily ' "!'il"v and ! more likely to r.c-'ii" out oi the urd and . -. th- "juiluings onto the fields - r.vtde'1. n-r should resolve never to - - - -M k-av his farm, if a good noe. as knc a h. cau ria'n him. He ought aiway? to be kind and obhe ing to him that h- will reot to moe a Way from Lis farm een when he thinks i: is for his best interest to do so. On many farm it is necessary to keep a large rart of the farm in srass to make the best use of it la such ases it is best to have a man for ten ant who is acquainted with the care and feeding of stock. It is a cool plan in such cas-es to own the stock la couxpany and divide the net pro ceeds in half. The crowing financial independence of the states west of the Mississippi is a matter for earnest congratulation. It is 3 well-known fact that but com paratively few we-tern farm mort gages are now held by eastern capi talists This is as it should be. PINES FOR WINDEREAKS. ! A Montgomery couny. Iowa, corre spondent wi-he to know wha kind or pine makes the best windbreak His nurseryman recommends Scotch pine. TV do not know of aaythicc better than Scotch pine. unles.s it micht be the Riga -une which is simply the con tinental form of the Scotch We plant ed a groie of these fifte-n or twenty yeyrs aco on our tarm in Dalias coun ty and it is eiorythinc that could be desired. We made a mistake, however, ir. planting them in two rows eicht feet apart with a tree in one row oppo site the space in the other row We shook: have planted them but m one row end ten to twelve feet apart. Even this will be too thick twenty years hace. Plant nursery grown trees not ovr a foot high and be careful not to expose the roots to the hot sun. Don't piant until m May at about the time growth begins. Cultivate as you would a corn field until about the first of July, then mulch. We did not lose more than one in a hundred by follow ing this method. We have not heard of a single case c? cornstalk disease this season, the tock having bad the run of the fields without loss. Just why this should be so it would be interesting to know. There was apparently just about as much smut in the cornfields as usual. "HE SMALL FARMER. The small farmer who is not too high-toned to cultivate the land him self will succeed whe-e a gentleman farmer, who employs hired help and sencs his children to college, will fail, even thouch the latter may control tec time- a; much land as the former and posstss a few thouand dollars. Give the former a chance, select him with care and back him J5'm cash for a start, and he will succeed better -than the l3tter every time. What our arid West needs is net non-resident gentlemen farmers, with staffs of cow boys, but resident, twenty acre, horny handed sons of the soil, who do net consider it beneath their own. or their children's dignity, to drive the plow. milk the cow and earn an honest liv ing by the sweat of brain and brow. A. inch-bred hen scored 97 points at a western poultry show not long since. Scrub hens could have scored 100 E2d ' they just cone to l2vine. Clean the stables twice every day .End use plenty of absorbents in the gutters. LARGEST TREE IN THE WORLD. The other day the Liget tree known to eist in in world was dis covered in the mountains of Fresno county. California The dispatch giv ing the news of the discovery was fol lowed by another stating that it would not be cut down bt-cause it was just In5de a government recurvation. The implication v.a that if it had been just outside itwou!d have cone to the lumber mill, or rather a lumber mill would have rone to it. For so much let us be thankful. But notice. That tree is 350 feet high and 51 feet in cir cumference six fet above the ground. It would have dwarfed the fallen Cam panile of Venice both in height and in bulk and when the Venetian bell tower first looked out upon the Adriatic a thousand years aso. the Sierran giant was already a hoary patriarch. This mammoth ire"1 was flourishing in ma tunty when IVricles watched the build ins of the Farthnon. and it was a brother to th- cedar of Lebanon that Hiram's workmen wrought into the ttinp'e oi Solomon. But to a part of our civilization its chief distinction is that it could be sawed into lumber ennush to load five freight trains of nfxy cars each. The Campanile, of Venice, can be rebuilt, but a gardener who wished to duplicate a tree- like that in California would hae to -it up G " y-ar- to do it. Happily, that particular tree is safe, but many oth ers, hardly !-- majestic, have already been sacrificed to the doctrine that "a man may do what he likes with his own" That :isht will doubtless re main but such :riar.t ire-- tellins his tory pt-rbats aMeuannc tL- pyramids, should become the prop-rt of the na tion hereer found. A the prairie wo'.f disappears his place taken b the red fox. a more destructive animal so far as poultry i- couctrn-d. than the wolf Foxes are 1 becominz quite common throueh large sections of tha "t where they w-re neve.- know n to be before. ELECTRIC CAR LINES. In a sood many parts of the state electric car lines art- being built and routes prospected, and they are in most instance of great importance to the farmer, for when they are in oper ation the ireisht buine-c is quite as profitable as the pas-enger. But it is a n.istake to construct these roads over public highways. It isn't the bet thinz for the companies that Luild the roads, and it is a serious drawback to the people who drive alom the highways Wh n the elec tric line i- allowed the nht of way over a road there i lnt!t space left for teams, and a car is a ureat scare crow to most teams. In some in stances hrss cannt be driven along a road when the-e cars are passing. and some of the old lamily nags be come unmanageable. The countr roads belong to the peo ple and their r ht- should be pro tec'fd. A company that ha- a private rmLt . : way nrer has to stop to avoid accidi.t- or pay liquent damages, as i tht- ca-e wlun :h-y run over pub lic highways. It is a irreat incon unnce to a farmer for him to drive stwra! mi!e out of his direct route to town or to market in ordr to avoid electric roacs. Farmers also are taxed heavily d maintain these roads and they should be proTeted in their en joyment without bother or danger. I In clearing of timber farms m north- ea-T Missouri we notice that it is a common practice to leave the black walnut trees. Just for ornament and as bearers of nut- tbs plan is all right. but it i- a ncreless method of trying to crow the trees into saw logs. for. i ben.g scattered thej make short . trunks and enormous tops and are I thus of little value for lumber. GOOD. CHEAP WHITEWASH. Few people know how easily white wash is made, and how valuable it is when properly applied. It not only prevents the decay of wood, but is rreatly conduc e to the healthfulness oi buildincs. win ther wood or stone. Outbuildings and fences, when not painted, should be supplied once or twice a year with a cood coat of whitewash, which should be prepared m the follow ir.c way. Take a clean, water ticht barrel, or otner suitaole cask, and put into it about half a bushel of lime, slack i: by pouring water over it toiling hot, and put in a sufficient quantity oi water to cover it five inches deep, and stir it briskly until thoroughly slacked, when the slacking ha- been :u!h effected, add one pound (.uch cf sulphate of zinc and common salt dissolved in water. This will cause the wash to harden and prevent cracking, which gives an un seemly appearance to the work. If desirable, a beautnul cream color may be given to the above by adding three pounds of yellow ochre, or a good pearl color by lead and lampblack. For fawn color add four pounds of umber. Turku h or American the lat ter is cheapest one pound of Indian red. and one pound of common lamp- black. Don't ask anybody whether crain Is going to be higher or lower than mar ket quotations. Nobody knows. If they did know they would be fools to ; tell, because knowledge reliable, un- fai'iug knowledge is worth millions. If we positively knew that we could sell wheat short to-day for May delivery-, one-eighth of a cent a bushel less than market quotations, we could pre pare to buy out Rockefeller next June or ?o fishing Do no: bank or market "tips." Use your own judg ment. Don't speculate on margins. AVERAGE. "I was passing through a class room in one of the big down town schools the other day." said a certain super intendent during a lull in a board meeting, "when I heard a remarkable definition of 'average. In answer to the teacher's request to define the word.-a little black-haired beauty cried out: 'The thing that hens lay eggs on. "When the teacher told her she was wrong she produced a book in which she pointed out the phrase. 'A hen lavs on an average five eses a week.' fARBEN A rr&bss.-K,.. Z"lSO CARE OF FARM MACHINERY. V. inter is the time to see how farm ers care fcr their tools and imple ments. More farm tools in the West are boused and cared for now than fif teen years ago. still the hundreds of thousands of dollars every year sacri ficed by rust and ret of machinery im poverishes the farmer. In an Illinois Farmers' Institute Rob ert Edicott read a paper on "Farm Mechanics," from which we take the following statements that ought to cause the digging out of some farm machinery this week then let it be drawn to the barn, cleaned up, oiled and pijt under cover. Mr. Endicott, by a word picture, showed the usual neglect accorded a self-binder, proving that ibout three harvests were all a neglected binder would stand. Then he reasoned thus: "Let's see what profit there is in this kind of farming. Allow eighty acres for one season's cutting for one binder. If the binder has received such treat ment as above mentioned, then three seasons would make the binder cut 24U acres. If the binder costs $125 the 'wear and tear' would amount to about 52 cents per acre. The machine with good care and shelter would cut at least seven seasons, making a total of 51) acres, the cost beins: a fraction over 2 cents per acre. Here we have a difference of 3v cents per acre, rep resenting the profit between care and neglect of a single b'nder. It amounts to about 51tt. The question is will ?! build 3ufacient shelter for cne self-binder. I believe that most of f-u will agree with me that such a sum would build shelter on tne average farm in this country. "Have you ever stopped to think what per cent of the larming imple ments of the state of Illinois are uner root? The report for the year U"' gives 39 per cent of those in use under shelter. The other 61 per cent are left to the mercy of the weather. "It seems strange that the manu facturers have Deen studying the farm er's busines- more than he has him self. I was informed by the head of the Deenng Harvesting company that they instruct their agents to keep ac curate data of all the sales of binders and moweis sold, and when four years have elapsed to look up the purchaser and sell him a new machine. He also made the statement that in doing so they found that in SC per cent of the cases the buyer was ready for a new machine. I am familiar with farms in this neighborhood that are completely dec orated with tools scattered all over the place, protected irom the weather by a very heavy enamel of rust and dirt. In eighT cases out of ten we find the owners (or better expressed, the occupiers i making a special effort to tell everybody they see that there is no money in farming. They are cor rect so far as they know, but they don't know the "wfav:" In some sections of the country cot ton seed meal is not only fed to live stock, but there are sections where it is still sown over the land in the raw form with a view to fertilize the same. Such a use cf oil cake is certainly to be regretted, as when fed to live stock the manurial value which can be cured from it. where proper care is exercied. is nearly equal to the ma nurial value of the product before it is ted. STABLE NOTES. If we all understood better about feeding the horse he would have fewer sick spells. A good share of his trou bles comes from careless watering and feeding. The best experience proves that it is best to water before feeding. If the , hcrse is warm from hard work do not give him ail he will take at once, out let the amount be divided, part when ' going to dinner, part after he has rest ed a little. Feed hay before grain. Not to do this would be like eating our pie and cake at the beginning of the meal, and everybody knows that will bring on all , sorts of trouble. Do not water the horse for some time after he has had his ration of gram, unless you want to lose part of its value. Watering alter feeding grain washes the food out cf the stomach, and prevents the animal from getting the good of it The horse that always ha; grain or i hay before him will not do so well as the one tha is given a fair ration regularly and nas time between meals to digest his fcod and give the stom ach a rest. There is such a thing as killing a horse with kindness. Salt regularly. A pinch of ashes with u.e salt now and then will tend to keep the stomach in good order and prevent colic. Hundreds of our best and greatest men were the sons of farmers. Be sides the trio mentioned, we may men tion the editor Greeley: the poet Whit tier; the inventor McCormick; the evangelist Moody, and the soldier Grant. In conclusion, the brightest student to-day of Yale is said to be the i son of a farmer. HORSE NOTES. Try using cured, shredded cornfod cer for the farm horses in place of timothy hay. It can be ran through a silage cut ter, or be shredded; I prefer the latter Farm horses can be wintered in this way at about half the cost as when using timothy hay. Do not allow anyone on the farm to tickle a colt to make it play. In this way a sensitive, playful animal may be easily made to kick and bite. Talk to the horses. Keep the colts clean and well b?d ded. One slip when trying to get up from a wet unbedded floor may rum a fine colt. Someone should have coined a bet ter name than automobile, and some other than the French word "chauf feur" (pronounced "showfur') for the ' driver, which would have been more acceptable- However, if the Jehu-like driver of the red devil would be a little mere careful on the public roads and give us a better "showfur" our lives, we, the plain, matter-of-fact people, would be duly gratefuL NICARAGUA VOLCANO IN FIERY ERUPTION AFTER THIRTY YEARS' PERIOD OF QUIET The great volcano of Momotombo. near Lake Nicaragua, has, after a period of quiet of thirty years, burst forth in fierce eruption, and for miles atound the country is intersected by streams of burning lava which carry death and destruction in their path. The inhabitants of the country are fleeing for their lives to the highlands and the fertile valley, with its splen did coffee plantations, has been con verted into a scene of death and devas tation. The fate miles from the volcano, is unknown of the city of Leon, eight M BfV-T vrl -' ' 's i'-S ;:iiiaHt -v.' '.S rKlBI w rl? J c EZZZSSBBmmmnRK 'ington, 1. -- 'A. ... 4V7s9 Vl '$zl-zzl7 r4fAMri: VJifQtfZnnA istence and the death list must reach " "ZU-;. - " - V? iA far into the hundreds. fiJi: CNmj mmmmmmmmamimmmmmSmiSmmmmf iurnisnea a nveiinooc ior nuaursus ul wmm : -"- TmMA. r .-- r-vv --- .. mi g3WWBe3'CSSa. The peak of the rearing volcano. Mcmotombo. is shown at the top. In the center is a map showing the vol cano and the surrounding country dev astated by flowing streams of molten lva. Eelow is a street scene in Leon, a town believed to have been buried b y the eruption. and it is feared that it has been over whelmed with all of its l.wu inhabi tants. Over the crater of the volcano hangs a cone of smoke and Same and huge rocks are hurled forth. So dense is the smoke that for the past four days the licht of the sun has been cut off and the superstitious peons are BRINGING SENATE TO ORDER. Alabama Statesman Makes Ideal Pre siding Officer. At times even the staid and digni fied United States senate becomes a trifie disorder'-. This is usually the case when debate becomes transform ed into personal colloquies. At such times the presiding otneer is ignored. the members exchanging sharp re marks from their chairs. Then it is that Mr. Frye vice president pro tern.. ca"s Senator Pettus to the chair. The old gentleman from Alabama soon has his colleagues back in good order. Mr. Pettus .will not allow one senator to interrupt another without first ad- dressing the chair and throuch the presiding officer obtain the consent of ; me -enaior eaimeu io me uoui. .-i i running debate is very difficult under such conditions and the colloquies are interspersed by interruptions of The chair, who declares first one. and then another senator out of order. The Alabama senator performs this duty with such an air of cravity and an evident desire for decorum that no senator can take offense. On suh occasions as these Senator Frye takes a seat in the senate and enjoys the discipline being administered. Education in New York. Agitation against fads in public schools continues with great fury in New York city. One father declares that his boy is now ready to be grad uated, but does not know the name of a single general who participated in the civil war. the time or place of a single battle either in the civil war or revolutionary war. the capitals of five states in the union, the name of a single member of the president's cab inet, the route of a single trunk line panning out of New York, the names of the five borouehs constituting the city of Greater New York, the location of the capital of the state or the name of the present covernor or how to reach Hoboken by ferry. This prodigy of ignorance lives in Harlem and passes for a bright boy among his fel lows. Won Success Despite Difficulties. The district attorney Mojave coun ty. Arizona, lost his hands several years aso in an explosion in a gold mine. Thoush he is handless. Attor ney Dickson i able to perform all the tasks that fall to the let of a man in his profession. He eats and dresses with no more difficulty than people who have the full use of their hands. Around Kincman. the county seat of Mojave county. Attorney Dickson has th reputation of being one of the swiftest performers on the typewriter. In using the typewriter Dickson fast ens two short sticks, especially made for him, to the ends of his arms. and. seated, wen above the typewriter, strikes down with unerring aim and with a rapidity that is marvelous. English Minister in Revival. Rev. W. J. Dawson, until recently pastor of the Highbury Quadrant Con gregational church of London, has ar rived in this county. He will lead a series of evangelistic meetings for the next three months in the leading cities of the United States under the aus pices of the evangelistic committee of the National Council of Congregation al Churches of America. Mr. Dawson said he had resigned his pastorate in London because he wanted to be free to do as he liked. Kis former visit had been so pleasant that he felt an overpowering desire to return here. He will begin his campaign -in Pitts field. Mass. Carries Off Educational Honors. Chandler Rathfon Post of Detroit, v.ho is now studying in Athens under the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship ot Harvard, has won three prizes: By attaining the grade of A in fifteen dif ferent courses, by obtaining highest honors in the classics and also in lit erature. Ordinarily it is considered exceptional to win any one of these honors. firm in ?heir belief that the end of the world has come. So much of the country is covered by the molten streams that flow down I the side of the mountain that it is im- possible to organize rescue parties, and there is no way of arriving at anything like an accurate estimate of 1 the dead. GOT THE WRONG HEIFER. Error of Judgment Cost Congressman Even $1,000. Congressman Beic'er of Ohio, is be wailing the los of 51 ' " He has a fine dairy farm just outside of Cleve land and keeps some very fine stock there. A few days asro he a'tended a sale of some blooded heifers, includ- I ins one which had won a blue ribbon j at tne st. Louis iair. A fine young ani mal was put up. but Beidler decided it was not the right one and was sure of it when the price only reached ?'' 0. j The next heifer was a beauty and the ' congressman got into action as a bid- i der. finally securing it for $L60t. The I animal was sent to his farm at once. Next day a Cleveland man met Mr. , jciuhti. uu a; iu a. ieij U;.i. ujoou. unats the matter. Jake?' asked nis inena. .natter. yenea lieicier. "What s the matter Why. that heifer I bought for SI. 6"" wasn't the prize wirner at all and Stive was!" the one I let so for Lives Lost by Fire Last Year. During 19'4 a total of 6.672 lives were lost in the United States by fires. Pennsylvania took the lead with 641. or eighty more than the loss in New York state. But the mines in this state account for the large loss. Only 15S more persons lost their lives on railways than by fires in 1904. There is creat need of better legislation to secure greater safety from fire than now exist. Yet while great demand is made for legislation to secure safe ty on railroads, comparatively little is heard in the way of demanding such safey in buildings. The laws that are in existence on the subject are not strictly enforced. Philadelphia Press. To Protect Investing Public. Mr. Rigley has introduced in the New York state assembly a biil to pre vent the fleecing of the public through misleading representations by mining and oil companies. The measure pro vides that no shares in any mining or oil corporations shall be sold in that state unless a sworn statement has been previously filed with the secretary of state showing the finan cial condition of the company, the lo ca'ion of its mines or oil properties and ether details. Any violation of the law is mace punishable by a fine of $l.y for each offense. Last of Massachusetts' Ex-Governors. Ex-Gov. Boutwell of Massachusetts took note of his eighty-seventh birth day last week, with a family dinner party over which he presided. Flow ers were sent him and letters of con gratulation, as has been the habit of friends of recent years. This veteran is the last survivor of the seven gov ernors of Massachusetts who were boTi in ISIS. Only the other day ex Gov Clafiin, ex-Gov. Bourtwell's junior by two months passed away. Why Clergy Never Strike. Archbishop Ireland is generally rec ognized as a power for good in set tling labor troubles. During a recent meeting attended by strike leaders and employers at which the archbish op was present the prelate remarked incidentally: "It is well known that clergymen do not go on strike." One of the labor men took upon himself to answer the prelate's comment. "You may depend upon it." he said, address- i inc the bishop, "you certainly would go on strike if you worked by the day. but, you see, you work by the job." Net Just What He Meant. At a dinner given by an English nobleman an old gentleman rose to propo-e a toast, and, though his open ing sentence was enthusiastically ap plauded, it was evidently not quite what he had intended it should be. "I feel." said he, "that fcr a very plain country squire like myself to address this learned company is indeed to cast pearls before swine." It was some time before he understood why his hearers laughed so uproariously. It is known from survivors ho have reached the city that several small villages on the slope of the mountain have been wiped out oi ex- Great coffee plantations that have m, "" ""- - .- . have been completely ruined, and one Spanish planter reports that his loss alone is in the vicinity of $500,000. He was able to escape with his wife and family in a carriage, but fear that a stream of lava that was following them down the valley would overtake them caused the party to abandon the road and take to the higher country. Many of the employes on his plan- 'axion he fears met death during the I first night of the eruption, i The reports of the eruption were brought to San Francisco by the steamer City of Sydney, from Panama. ( Leon is a city of 1.0U'" persons, and ; so close is it to the fiery monster that the atmosphere is almost suffer i eating and so full of cinders that it is ' almost impossible to breathe. The city is situated near Lake Nica ragua and has come into importance in the last few years on account of the fact that it is one of the largest towns near the route of the Panama canal. Thirty years ago. when the last serious eruption took place, more than 500 persons lost their lives, and the country for miles around was devas tated. Those who remember that I eruption state that its earlier stages ' were not so violent as the present ' one, and they express the fear that the present disturbance is only in its pri I mary stages. FARMERS READ THE BULLETINS. Enormous Number of Government Publications Now Printed. The number of Farmers' Bulletins printed during the year was 415, of which 25 were new publications, and the aggregate number of copies 6.435. Ol'O. In snite of even- en'nrr tn L-can down the cost of these nnh;iMtinn the amount expended slightly exceed ed one and one-half cents a copy, the limit set a a iair average cost. The Congressional distribution has far exceeded all previous years. The popularity of this class of publications among senators and representatives srrows verv ranidh- Ven- noarir 4.9u".0fO of them were distributed upon the orders of senators and repre- icuiuinw auu ueieates. an excess over the previous year of S&o.ooo. Dur- ing me past three years this con gressional distribution has absorbed over 13.'M"l.0w copies of Farmers' Bul letins alone, a number far exceeding the ar: ate number so distributed ! up to that time: this notwithstandins that the appropriations for the Con gressional distribution besan with 1S95. English Purchases of Wheat. The reports ot the wheat niarket in tngland indicate that shipments from tne United States have undergone a great falling off durins the present year. The cereal year in the United Kinguom ends on Aug. 31 of each cal endar year. We still lead the world, but were closely pressed by India and with Russia coming not far behind. Four or five years ago we were selling to the people of the United Kingdom nearly two-thirds of their wheat, while in the last year our sales have dropped to only about a quarter of their pur chases. Whether this is ,i fnrcMt f a permanent chance it is probably too ' soon to decide. Certain it is. however, ' that the record of the cereal year 1904 exhibits the roorest relative showing we have made in the English market in wheat selling for more than a quar ter of a centurv. ,. ... Grafting in Russia a Science. ..A0,"e..";ea 5 h?" lfae Russiao ' .iii.ei uoes nis worn may he gath ered from a story now coins the re unas oi European capitals. Prof. Tuxen. the Danish painter, recently handed over to the czar a copy of his picture of King Edwards coronation, which he had been commissioned to do. The emperor expressed satisfac tion with the work and handed the nsinra- or, ro tor...... -, .. ,, j , T. uDie-, tne pnee acreed upon. The order was nre- i --., ; ,u ,,- , p e siitvii iu iuc pioper aisuursmg officer, who gave Tuxen S.Oo rubles, saying the czar's orders were never paid in full. It happened that the painter had another interview with his majesty. when, by accident, the latter learned' of what had occurred. The czar at once paid the 4,000 rubles. The Consumption of Coal. A British parliamentary paper shows an interesting contrast between the production and consumption of coal in Great Eritain and in the United States. The British coal prod uction increased from 219.047,000 tons in 1901 to 230.334.0o0 in 19-33. In the same time the production in this coun try increased from 261,374,ono tons to 320.9S300 tons. But in the United States near'? all the coal produced is consumed at home, for the consump tion for 1903 was 316,029,000 tons; whereas Great Britain has a large sur plus, amounting in 1903 to about 64. 000,000 tons, of which a very large part was exported. Zebra Breeding Farm. Lord Howard de Walden, probably the richest young man in England, has cone to East Africa on a hunting expedition after big game. He has purchased a large territory near Lak Victoria. where he intends to estab lish a farm for breeding zebras. His estate, which consists entirely of prop erty in London, brings an income of more than ll.COO.OOO a year. THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. WHICH UNCLE SAM MAY ACQUIRE. SLrfJSel The Galapagos islands, which, it is ninted in diplomatic circles at Wash- will soon come under the I domination of the United States, corn- Prl5e group in the Pacific. 600 miles from the coast of Ecuador, to which country they belong. There are eleven r , , ..- " . ucmmir. iuv ioiai area is .-uv square miles, and the population 400. Turtles are nimamuc fnrmini. fho chief product In mmGala. pagos is Spanish for tortoise, which animal, gigantic in size, is found in aninial cigantic in siz , the archipela0 The e , !ocaticm of lhe lsland5 , star shows the and the arrow i teat oi tne fanama canal. lor nrotect- ing which the islands may form a naval base. PLACE EDMUNDS. Why Stickler for Etiquette Retired From the Senate. W. J. McConne'l of Idaho, a witness at the Smoot trial, is said to have hastened the retirement of George F Edmunds from th United States Sen ate. There is a tradition in that body that a new member ought to wait at least one session before making a speech. Mr. McConnell was elected from Idaho when that state was ad- t mitted to the union. He drew the short term, whuh only lasted a cou ple of months, so he determined to lose no time. He caucht the presid ing officer's eye and with his formid able voice proceeded to deliver a speech. Edmunds gazed with aston ishment at the orator and then asked his neichbor: "Is that a member of the house?" "No. it is a senator." was the reply. "When did he get in?" further inquired Edmunds. "He was sworn in yesterday." was the response "Sworn in yesterday and making a speech to-day," mused Edmunds. "Well, I guess it is time for me to quit." Then he got his resignation ready. Would Leave "Water Wagon." The Senate committee on military affairs was talkinc over the canteen bill, when someone said to Blackburn of Kentucky: "I suppose you are asainst it. beins on the water watron row." "I haven't taken a drink for six years," answered the Kentucky man. and Proctor dryly suggested: "Exhausted your quota. I suppose." "Oh. no." was the easy reply; "they are makinc the stuff in Kentucky yet. only I'm living up to my resolution. But. gentlemen. I often think of what may happen when I net over into the creat beyond and meet my old pals. Thurman, Edmunds. Cummings and a lot of others. If I should find them absorbing a new brand of mint julep I am fully determined to forget my res olution." Hasty Marriage Causes Divorce. It is often pointed out that there would be fewer divorces if there were fewer hasty, careless and ill-consider- ed marriages. That is true enoush. but it is a poor truth which will not work two ways. If it were harder to get divorced there would be fewer of these ill-considered and idiotic mar riages to bein with. If the people who cet married with the idea in the backs of their heads that they will set divorced if they find marri3ze bores them if these people are not made to understand that divorce is not to be granted for trivial causes or through caprice, marriaces through caprice will soon diminish Atlanta Journal. Sneak Thief at Princeton. Faculty and students of Princeton university are worrying over robberies committed in the dormitories there of late. One of the lamest, was entered a few days aco bv thieves, who car- ried off nearly fl,(.f.n in jewelry. The heaviest losers were H. L. Dillon. 1907. guard on the football team for the last two years, and K. R. McAlpin. 195. The robbery was kept quie; :o facili tate the work of detectives. No trare of the thieves has been found. Sim.lar thefts have frequentlv taken place in the dormitories and the universitv authorities have forbidden the admis- sion of strangers into the buildings unless with proper credentials. Senator Stewart's Evening Dress. Senator Stewart of Nevada has only shadowy notions in some way-. For instance, a few days aco, when Miss i Warren, daughter of the Wyoming CiTlOfrt TT-n rro"7i r " -i Dsw-V ---""., -oo wai, iu v.atJi. i uiu- ln? - &enate met at 1 o clock in- . i , stead of at noon, as usual, in order that the senators might attend the wedding. Just as the Senate was called to order Mr. Stewart bustled in, wearinc eveninc clothes. He had been to the weddinc and evidently thought that, no matter what the hour, such an event demands the best a man has in his wardrobe. Irish Patriot May Return Home. O'Donovan Rossa, the Irish patroit, is considering whether to leave this country and spend the rest of his days in Ireland. Edmund O'Neill, a wealthy resident of Kinsale, has offered to give him outright a house where he and his w-ife can live their remaining days He can return to the British islanes in safety now, the sentence against him of twenty years' banish ment having expired last year. Hay Keens His Carricatures. Secretary of State Hay secures all the cartoons and caricatures in which he is depicted, both domestic and for eign. He has one large room in his home which is papered from ceiling to floor with cartoons. He is also making a portfolio of huge dimen sions. He has the finest collection of Du Maurier cartoons in the world. Grandson cf President a Soldier. Franklin Pierce, a grandson of Pres ident Franklin Pierce, has been des ignated by President Roosevelt tc take the examination for second lieu tenant in the regular army. REPRIEVE FOR MRS. ROGERS. Vermont Murderess Has Four Month Longer to Live. Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers, sentence to die on :he gallows at Windsor, Vt, Feb. C. was granted a reprieve ot Ior months by Gov. Bell. E. B. Flynn. attorney for High Sher iff Henry H. Peck, his deputies and others at Wincsor, presented 'the con fession from Leon Peruana, new senr- . ing a life sentence for compliclTjr. fa the murder. The confession wis tb- tained in Perham's cell in- Windsor ., prison. Perham declares, the; conies" . sion reads, that while Mrs. Roger, tcok part in the murder, he had testi fied she administered the chloroform to save his own neck. The peculiar atrocitv of the crime and the fact that a woman who is noxr only 22 years old wrought out in. her mind the clever plot by which her htis- . band, a man of powerful physique. . came to his death, made the Rogers murder mystery sensational from- the outset. New England doubtless hms . shown more anxiety concerning the fate of the prisoner than that of any. criminal, similarly charged, in the aa- , nals or" the Atlantic coast states. The murder was committed the . night of Aug. 13. 1902. The motive. was Mrs. Rogers passion for a ma who. as long as she was married re- mained indifferent to her. His name is Morris Knapp. and he was a mem ber of the Bennington militia when he first met the woman. When she was 17, Mary Callahan. the daughter of a woman whose life had been filled with hardship and mis fortune and of a father who was irascible and wild, was wedded to Marcus Rogers cf Bennington. The girl had been workinc here and there as a maid servant. She was treated gently, as it was feared her predis position might run along the lines ; suggested by a reckless father in bis ravings before a suffer ng mother. On Aug. 14 .1902. Roars' body was discovered beside a small stream la the outskirts of Bennington. Near by was his hat, and pinned to it was a note, purporting to have been written by him, saying he had drowned him self. The note was penned with ink in a woman's handwritinc It waa generally known Rogers and wife had separated and that the joung wifo cared more for another man. Sus picion was directed tusvard her. At the inquest she said she knew nothing of the matter, but another wit ness, upon whom Mrs. Rocers de pended, broke down and told a story implicating her as the author of the plot. This was Leon Perham, aged 2. mentally feeble and- the sweetheart of Stella Bates, who was supposed to be a close friend of Mrs. Rogers. Fearful oi the law, Perham suddenly turned state's evidence. Perham named Morris Knapp as the man with whom Mrs. Rogers was in love, whe repulsed her because he was married. He declared the girl married Rogers with the knowledge that he carried 55ui insurance on his life, and that to win for herself a new home she de cided to commit murr. Perham's story substantially was a? follows: "Mrs. Rocers wote her hus band she was willinc to make up with him if he would return To Benning ton. He came from Hoosic Falls tc Bennington, and the evening of the murder the reconciliation was effect ed. Rogers. Mis.s Baes, Mrs. Rogerf and myself went for a walk. When we reached the stream -just outside ol the village we sat cown and talked. Mrs. Rocers turned 'he talk around until we were discussing Rogers' phys ical strength. "Mrs. Rocers apparently by acci dent discovered a rope near the bank. She challenged her husband to let her tie his hands behind his back. The first time Rogers pulled his hands away and laughed at his wife for her effort. The third time Rogers con fessed himself her crptive. "I threw my arms about Rogers legs and tried to get the ends of the rope about his Iec. fo. Mrs. Roger1 took out a bottle, peu'ed some stuff on a handkerchief and placed the handkerchief over Rocers' nose and mouth. He struccled fiercely when he realized he had beon trapped, but fell in a stupor and we -i?aed hina in the river." Simplicity of New York Mayor. In one detail of simplicity at least Mayor McCIellan of New York is liv ing up to Jeffersonian tra.inoa. He rever rides in a cab and very rarely uses his automobile. Ever since his inauguration he has walked home to. lunch every day. He lives in Wash ington square, about a mile f-om the city hall. The m?vor's practice is so well known that when the great bliz zard swept the city the clerks of the city hall made be's on the proposition as to whether he would or would not walk home to lunch. He not only walked horn?, but also walked back. Famous German Oculist. Probably the world's createst cccu Iist is Dr. Pacensecher of Wiesbaden. Germany, who is consulted by almost every European royalty and by aristo crats and plutocrats from over the world. He lives a life of absolute de votion to his work, seeing patients rigidly in turn, whether the poorest peasant or the wealthy aristocrat. At his own "klinik" he performs all oper ations. Herrick in Law Practice. D. Cady Herrick. former judge of the New York supreme court and Democratic candidate for covernor in November, has opened law offices in the Hanover bank building. Pine and Nassau streets, New York city. His firm will be Herrick, Farren. Chase & Pennie. Judce Hernck will also re tain his law offices in Albany and will continue to live in that city. nIV j2 n ' WlBr v flW Nothing Omitted. Ethel Did Mr. Taikington tell you what happened to him at Bar Harbor? Ma.- Oh. ne must have told a everything that ever happened to hiaS JM JvT-l U-V H y. i , M v u u 1. .'I ) 'I -il '. ' t v t ? -I i4 i 1 1