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i::si ON THE TRAIL OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY Br WILLIAM T. ELLIS b TravaHna Around tk» World for tin* Poimh «f twi lh« a Pur«l]r £>iaiiit«rMt«d._ StciaUr and ~ " llhrtnHj vMl Om The Boxers and Avengers Have Transformed China £i Peking, China.--Neither missions »or politics in China Is comprehensi­ ble until the Boxer outbreak Is un­ derstood] All roads of investigation lead back to 1900. That was the most eventful year in China s hoary history. Already its vast economic and political significance looms so large that the massacre of more than 200 missionaries is coming to be re­ garded as a mere phase of a great epoch. The Boxer troubles were the birth- throes of a new China. In those ter­ rible days the nation, all unwittingly, broke forever with her self-satisfied, aelf-secluded past. And the punish­ ment meted out to her, including all the horrible and shameful excesses of the foreign troops, and everything else that was comprehended within that unprecedented orgy of lust, loot and lawlessness, has put the fear of civilization into the hearts of the Chi­ nese. Whatever reaction may come --and I write in the midst of one-- ed as a reformer by these. Yuan Shih Kai is also hated by the extreme wing of reformers themselves, whom he betrayed in 1900. thus making pos­ sible the "coup d'etat" whereby the empress seized the reins of power from the feeble hands of the emperor. There is said to be a blood feud be­ tween the emperor and his most pow­ erful subject, and all sorts of con­ jectures are made as to what will hap­ pen when the empress dies. But trie reform spirit grows dally. The revolutionary society is increas­ ingly formidable. Nobody here would be surprised at a national political conflagration and revolution which would be as different from the pres­ ent " sporadic outbreaks as a war is from a skirmish. But, at the same time, nobody expects China to go back to the old days. From what I could glean of the opinions of Sir Rob­ ert Hart and the oldest diplomats, merchants and missionaries, a general massacre of foreigners is not an im- m Yuan Shih Kai, China's Greatest Man, But Now Out of Favor and Power. 4 the natioq will never again array it­ self blindly against the world. Further­ more, 1900 convinced China that Christianity is here to stay; the sword, the fire and the stake of tor­ ture cannot extirpate it. Since 1900 each year in China's his­ tory has accomplished more progress than formerly was achieved in cen­ turies. Undoubtedly this country has made greater strides in the past six years than In the preceding two mil­ lenniums. The change has been so swift, so startling, so kaleidoscopic, that the world outsHle cannot compre­ hend it. Missionaries who come back after a year's furlough have to pinch themselves to make sure that they are awake. China's Greatest Man. This province of Chili, which in­ cludes Peking and Tien-Tsin, affords the most extraordinary evidences of transformation. Its viceroy is Yuan Shlh Kai, China's greatest man, al­ though at the moment overthrown by the Manchu reactionaries who now dominate Peking. It was Yuan Shih Kai who created and controlled the modern army of 70,000 men which is One of the assets of new China. It fras Yuan Shih Kai who made over t&to a modern city a large part of old Native Tien-Tsin. It was Yuan Shih Kai who established there and at Peking a police system and a fire de­ partment, and instituted regulations Which have diminished to an enor- mous extent the filthiness of the streets. It was Yuan Shih Kai who made the narrow, rough and tortuouB alleys which throughout centuries Itave passed for highways give way to wide, smooth, straight, modern thoroughfares. It was Yuan Shlh Kai who fostered a system of modern edu­ cation, of all , branches, and who opened public reading rooms and lec­ ture halls, thus instilling the leaven of modern progress into the mlndB of all young China. To-day Yuan Shin Kai's sun 1b un­ der a cloud. He has been shorn of the command of the army, of all his numerous posts except his viceroyalty, find of what is all Important in Chi­ nese politics, his enormous revenues. ,?The Manchu reactionaries who com- pose the palace clique are on top; but HO one expects them to attempt the t|Ud follies of seven years ago. Halt- possibility; but it will not be by gov­ ernment connivance as before. And whatever comes, China is inevitably destined to become one of the nations controlled by the western ideals of civilization. Martyrs Have Not Made Convert*. This much of the political conse­ quences of the Boxer outbreak It has been necessary to write in order to make plain the religious conditions, with which this article is primarily concerned. On eVery hand I have heard in America, that "the blood of the martyrs" had again proved to be "the seed of the church." It is a surprise to find to what a slight ex­ tent this is true. Undoubtedly extra­ ordinary progress has been made in mission work since 1900, but for direct results of the faithful testimony of the many who heroically sealed their loyalty with their lives I have looked in vain. I have talked with the missionaries In Peking, Paoting-fu, Tung Chow and other scenes of the worst massacres. They sadly admit that they cannot trace any conver­ sions to the Bhining heroism of the men and women, native converts and foreigners, who laid down their lives for the gospel. Instead, there are villages where all the Christians were murdered in 1900 Into which the missionaries are now unable to penetrate. The people say that Christianity has caused them enough suffering; they want no more to do with it. In numerous communi­ ties where mission work was conduct­ ed before the massacres, there is no mission work now, although the mis­ sionary force has been increased. Similarly, for years after the troubles it wap found that tnqulrers concerning "the Jesus way" who had been reached through the street chapels, medical work and otherwise, were forcibly pre­ vented by their families and friends from having anything to do with the church. All this is contrary to the ex­ pectation and preconceptions of Christendom; but the truth is more sacred than any theory. Wherein the Boxers Failed. Certain manifest results from the Boxer days are apparent. As already stated, that uprising, which was pri­ marily directed against Christians and secondarily agalnBt all foreigners, was a futile attempt to stamp out the West­ ern religion. China now knows that Christianity is here to stay, a force to be permanently reckoned with. This is an immeasurable gain for missions. By the wiping out of mission work in North China, all the tactical mis­ takes of missions were obliterated. The missionaries were enabled to map out an entirely new plan of caiB- paign. With the wisdom of experi­ ence, the most strategical places alone were reoccupied. A readjustment of forces and methods followed, which has borne fruit in a markedly in­ creased success. The Empress and the American. For the reasons enumerated, and be­ cause of the spirit of progress which was imparted to China at the bay­ onet's point, the converts of the mis­ sionaries have not only been more numerous, since 1900, but also of a higher class as well. Before that time, while much --too much--was said about the favor of Li Hung Changf of the pre­ sentation of Bibles to the empress, et cetera, the fact remains that the mis­ sions were reaching practically only the lowest class of Chinese. The "rice Christian" was far more in evi­ dence than to-day. Now the sons and daughters of the highest officials at­ tend mission schools. The social standing of the missinary has vastly improved. In Tung Chow, for In­ stance, the proportion of gentry be­ longing to the church far exceeds the proportion in the community at large. This state of affairs runs right up so the top. Probably no foreigners, nertalnly no foreign woman, haa met the empress dowager so often as Mrs 1. T. Headland, one of the Methodist missionaries in Peking. On one occa­ sion Miss Sheffield, of Tung Chow, met the empress, and that shrew^l old woman, who seems never to forget a friend or forgive an enemy, asked, 'Are you the daughter of Dr. D. Z. Sheffield, of the American board, who was so kind to Prince So-and-So, and treated him and his house so honor­ ably during the foreign occupation?" Upon learning that her surmise was correct, the empress sent grateful messages to Dr. and Mrs. Sheffield, and the other American board mis­ sionaries. whose conduct had been so greatly the reverse of looting that they had saved the lives and prop­ erty of one of the imperial princes. When, shortly afterward. Miss Shef* field was married to Dr. Steele, of the same mission, the empress sent her sumptuous presents. It is said, by the way, that the empress has richly re­ warded all who assisted her in that hurried flight from the palace at the approach of the allies. Rubbing Clothes with Murderers. The world has never learned either the full extent of the horrors of the atrocities perpetrated by the Boxers md the allied soldiers (these 4ast hav­ ing violated every law of God and man), or of the part played by the missionaries in the siege of Peking. On the former point consideration for the feelings of the families and friends of the martyred missionaries has prevented a full recital of the in­ dignities to which their bodies were subjected. The magnanimity and the courage of the missionaries now working at che scene of the Boxer troubles are beyond praise. They show no resent­ ment, but only forgiveness. For the sake of these murderers of their friends the missionaries are giving their lives. And they are unafraid, although they are not blind to their danger. They know full well that it is only the dread of the merciless and all-devastating foreign troops which keeps the Chinese from falling upon them again. At Paoting-fu we were entertained at the Presbyterian com­ pound, and Miss Gowans, a quiet, sweet-faced, serene-eyed little woman from Canada, gave up her own room to us. Something was said about the attractively simple white furniture. "It is all made from .packing cases and boxes," came the quiet rejoinder. "You know I lost everything in the troubles, and I did not think it would be right, considering the possibility of a similar experience, to put In more expensive furniture." That was the only allusion made by Miss Gowans to the presence of danger, and she itiner­ ates freely out In the country; yet she lives, unruffled in spirit, in the con­ stant presence of the realized possi­ bility of following her friends to a martrydom. (Copyright, 1907, by Joseph B. Bowles.) PLANNING A FARM8TEAO. Soma luggMtlmi for the Locating of the Farm Buildings. The accompanying plan. may prove suggestive and helpful to one who de­ sires to locate the farm buildings most advantageously. In it the buildings are placed In a row 300 feet back of the front line of the house. This will take them far enough back to prevent smells or unpleasant sounds reaching the home and yet make them near enough for convenient reach. Placing them in line 60 feet distant from each other nearest the grove we would put the main cattle barn, with a small concreted feedlot back of It, and a grass paddock that will never be trod­ den into mud at the rear of that. Then <r» r? . . . IT • '<•' '• * ' jm" MAM wo# jot * • . t ' 'fc NSftXMMeC* eooo GRASS An Excellent Arrangement. oomes a large double corncrib with buggy shed between the cribs, this nearest the house, and next it the horse stable., A distance of 60 feet should prevent fire spreading from one building to an­ other if the roofs are of slate or gal­ vanized iron and if there is any water at all available for drenching the sides of the buildings. Back of the horse stable is a large grass paddock, carefully kept in thrifty condition, and not turned on when too soft to hold a horse up. Then after another Interval the pigs and sheep or either as the use of the farm demands, and again a very small concreted yard with a grass paddock at the rear of this. Now all Is provided for save the tools. I suggest, continues the writer in Breeders' Gazette, that between the horse stable and the pig and sheep barn a roof all of galvanized Iron on Iron supports be put over the 60 feet space, and tools stored under this. Fire w;ould not travel through such a structure, or at least It might easi­ ly be prevented. Such an iron frame­ work is not now very costly. There should also be a wagon shed on the side of the horse stable, unobstructed by posts, so that farm wagons may be driven under and horses unhitched in the dry. To the south of the house why not have a sweep of meadow? It would be beautiful and give one a sense c* space and freedom. Some clumps of trees near the house, but not too near, would add to the beauty of the scheme. Not all the buildings need be erected at one time. INTENSIVE FARMING. One Cause of Drowning. Renewed attention has been called to the probable explanation of many cases of drowning that was sope years ago advanced by Dr. Lowrie, a British physician, as a result of his own experience. After cycling on a hot day, he took a swim in cold water, and was soon seized with headache, dizziness and drowsiness, while mus­ cular effort became feeble and slug­ gish. In many similar cases, he be­ lieves, the swimmer loses conscious­ ness--or faints--from cerebral anemia. If there is no help near, the result Is another drowning accident, and the report of it will probably state that the victim "was seized with cramps and sank." Swimming in cold water is dangerous if the circulation is weak­ ened from any cause, especially after a. fast of several hours, or if there is any heart trouble. It I* Neither an Impossibility or an Absurdity. Intensive farming is a much-neg­ lected art says Farm and Fireside. Some men think it an impossibility! others, an absurdity. But in fact both are wrong, for it is a reality. The day of limitless acres and endless for­ ests has gone. It is unfortunate that the earth doesn't grow with its popu­ lation; but It doesn't, and this fact puts us face to face with the problem of how to get the most out of our land. As population increases farms must necessarily grow smaller. Som'e farmers are making more from ten acres than others make from a hund­ red acres. What a man can get from his farm depends a good deal on the farm, but a good deal more upon the farmer. Many market gardeners and fruit growers utilize every square foot of available space, and get large crops and big prices. The close, personal attention they give their land and crops shows in the results. This is in direct contrast to the belief which so many farmers have that the les3 men they have working for them, the more they save. Land needs to be carefully cultivated and looked after to give best results. Not enough labor i« more of waste than too much labor, for besides the loss on the crops there is the loss caused by neglecting the land. Intensive farming never injures the land, but on the contrary improves it through close cultivation. If the men of this country would run their farms on the intensive plan, they would not only largely increase their incomes, but vastly improve their farms. Jottings. HOW TO HANDLE MANURE. It S,houtd Bo Gotten on to the Land a* Soon a« Possible. It 1s not n question of saving all the value of the manure. In the nature of things, that is Impossible. The best wo" can do under the circumstances is tho question: Is it better to let manure re­ main in the barnyard In large heap* and haul it out twice a year, spring and fall, or is it best to haul it as fast as made? What are the advantages of the latter system? We must re­ member that the manure is never so rich in fertilizing value as when first made. It must waste some of lis value anyway, but hauled out as fast as made, it wastes less than in any other way. If piled in large heaps under sheter, it wastes, according to recent experiments, 18 per cent If piled up in the open air, it wastes 21.7 per cent. From spring to fall we are obliged to let the manure accumulate In the barnyard. But to prevent as much waste as possible, we sprinkle over it twice or three times a week ground phosphate rock. We want the phosphate in the soil, and we want to prevent evaporation, while there is nothing that makes the phosphate more available than the fermentation of organic matter. So we accomplish three things in this way. But from the time the cattle are stabled In the fall till the ground is too soft for wagon wheels in spring, the manure Is hauled daily to the fields that are to be plow­ ed for corn. The advantages of this system are: (1) The manure is hauled and spread when the labor will cost the least. (2) We have clean barnyards. (3) We se­ cure the least loss from fermentation and evaporation. For the summer accumulation, wo find the largest value 1n hauling it out on to alfalfa or clover sod in the fall, plowing it under at once. On this land we plant either corn or potatoes the next spring. But the wise farmer will make gen­ erous provision for the keeping up of fertility in his land. He will not be afraid to buy commercial fertilizers like ground phospha^lb rock, or plow under in the fall a good stand of clover or alfalfa. Every dollar he spends in this way will bring him ten In return. ROOTS FOR FARM ANIMALS. They Have a Positive Value as Feed­ ing Ration for All Live 8tock. As a part of the daily ration, it la stated that roots have a decided value for all farm animals. Some Cornell experiments call attention to the fact that their effect is "tonic as well as nutritive and that breeders of farm animals for exhibition purposes find roots invaluable." Roots should not be fed alone, as they carry too much water. A root feed may vary from 25 to 50 pounds per day per thousand pounds' of ani­ mal. Do turnips and rutabaga impart a flavor to milk? It is claimed not> if they are fed just after milking, and if no roots are in the milking room at the time of milking. A greater average yield of dry mat­ ter per acre may be obtained from mangels, half-sugar mangels, sugar beets and rutabagas than from an av­ erage yield of corn. While it costs somewhat more to produce this dry matter in roots than in corn, yet it is the consensus of opinion that the higher digestibility of roots and their greater relish more than offsets this. Rutabagas produce profitable yields and are well-adapted to early feeding, and are particularly good for hogs, sheep and cattle. Carrots and parsnips, while not yielding so heavi­ ly, are well thought of as condimental foods for horsesi The Cornell station says that In the search for good succulent feeds for live stock, the cabbage should not be overlooked. As high as 50 tons of cabbage per acre has been grown at Cornell, yielding nearly four tons of dry matter and containing one ton of nitrogenous matter. DRAGGING WITH BRUSH. Good Use of Spare Moments. Chancellor D'Aguesseau, finding that his wife always kept him waiting a quarter of an hour after the dinner- bell had rung, resolved to devote the time to writing a book on jurlspru- dence. and, putting the project In exe­ cution, in course of time produced a work in four quarto volumes. When a person can raise three to four crops of bran--alfalfa--to the acre, getting better than a ton to each crop, what pays better for a dairy farmer to raise? The first frost of the season al­ ways putB a keener edge on a cow's appetite, causing her to eat in the stall or yard more freely than she did even with good graBs still in her pas­ ture. Almost before we have time to realize it we will be dry feeding en­ tirely. Milking fifteen cows may mean a whole lot, or it may mean only as TE-jct as some get from ten cows. Quality instead of quantity should be locked after more than it is. The good milker eats no more than the Ordinary poor milker, which is anoth­ er point to consider. Home-Made Device Which Will Level the Field After Seeding, Etc. GetA some tough brush--plum, bull brush or some kind of thorn brush is the best--five or six feet long, then Brush Drag Ready for Use. make according to illustration. Plank A is to sit or stand on; a spring seat can be placed on the plank if pre­ ferred. Drag the field crossways after the seed is drilled in, says the Mis­ souri Valley Farmer, and it will leave it as level as a floor. Pasteurizing Milk at Creameries. Several hundred creameries in the United States make a practice of pas­ teurizing ail the milk they receive; but all should do so. The farmers Bhotild agitate for this, as it prevents the spread of disease. Dust in the Milk. Some of the bottling plants and condensing factories make a rule that the people that deliver milk to them must cover the cans with blankets to keep out the dust. The dust in the milk is always a disturbing factor. The little particles of dust that fly in the air are frequently the resting places of the germs of various kinds of ferments. When the "lust particles fly into the milk they carry these germs with them, and the milk is a suitable medium for their develop­ ment. The grains of dust are so infl. nitely small that no cover fits light enough to keep them out when the wind blows. Lactic acid ferments are thus added to the milk in large num­ bers, and the time during which it will keep sweet is thus greatly re­ duced. For any kind of use the milk should be kept covered 4f there is • large amount of dust in the air. GENEROUS EDWARD ENGLAND'S KING MAKES ISLAND .. %{$*?*Y.;A Historic Old Mont Orgueil 6astle Comes Into Possession of Loyal Subjects of the British Crown.' • The famous old Mont Orgu&f rifetl® has, through the birthday munificence of King Edward of England, come into possession of the Island of Jersey. The old fortress is of no personal use to the king, but because of the mem­ orable and heroic part It has played In their history the Jersey folk take great pride in it. Mont Orgneil stands proudly--as its name implies--looking oyer the sea towards France, whtah is distant some fourteen miles. Its massive keep and strong flanking towers still show how magnificent a stronghold it has been. It is built of huge blocks of stone hewn from the crags at its feet, and before artillery was brought into use in warfare it must have been almost impregnable. A French his­ torian declares that the English in ancient times were so jealous of Mont Orguell that no Frenchman was al­ lowed to pass its gates without; being blindfolded. For centuries the men of Jersey have fought to uphold the flag of Eng­ land in her most southern outpost, and much of the fighting has centered around the castle. It has undergone sieges innumerable. The earliest of which any authentic record exists was in 1338, when Philip of France sent a powerful army to attack England. Southampton was burnt, Guernsey and its castle taken, but Mont Orgueil held out though all the rest of the island was in the possession of the French. Tl^e most prolonged invest­ ment began In 1643 during the eivil war and lasted for over eight months, Lady Carteret, the wife of the famous loyalist, Sir Philip Carteret, holding It all that time against the parliamen­ tarians, while her husband was de­ fending Elizabeth castle, in which he died. But though the king's forces retained possession of the island and the castle for seven years more, it was only because the commonwealth were busily engaged elsewhere. . In 1651 it was decided to Bubdue the Jersey "Py rates," as they were called, and eighty ships, under Ad­ miral piake, with an army of 5,000 men, were dispatched to the island. Owing to dissentions among the garri­ son and the castle made practically no defense. Otherwise it mist ljave been pounded to ruins by the Roundheads' artillery and shared the fate of Eliza­ beth castle, which offered a stubborn resistance. " So . the mutineers un­ consciously served a good purpose and saved a noble mpnument to posterity. Many - famous governors have ruled over toe old fortress. Among them was 8ir Walter Raleigh. He had only a short reign, but left his mark as ono of the greatest benefactors the island has known. To him 1b attributed the introduction of the potato which, mure than two hundred years later, was to prove the salvation of the island when other Industries failed. Until 1693 the castle was a prison as well as a fortress. The moat not­ able of its prisoners was William UIAJ1 HUjpf M UL) 4U - " - • . 71 ' ' Mont Orgueil, Ancient Castle of Jersey Prynne, the Puritan, author of- the monumental work * entitled "Histrio- mastix," in which he condemned 'stafee plays and players, music and dancing, with impartial severity. For this liter­ ary effort, and another achieved when he was a prisoner in the tower, he was condemned to pay the king a fine of $50,000, to suffer the loss of his ears and to be Imprisoned for life. In 1637 he was removed to Mont Or­ gueil after an unhappy voyage of four­ teen weeks "in a bruised shipwract vessel, full of leaks, through danger­ ous storms and seas which spoiled much of his stuff and bedding, and threatening often shipwreck to him." Prynne was confined in the apart­ ment since known as Prynne's cell, a large room near the summit of the tower, and with a fine outlook over the channel through the narrow em­ brasure. The governor took a liking to him and treated him more as a guest ..than a prisoner. After Prynne had been three years at Mont Orgdell the long parliament set him free and he returned to London' in triumph. The ancient castle will henceforth serve the purpose of a museum * In which will be, stored interesting relics of the little island's stormy history. HAY FROM THE SEA BU8Y AND PICTURESQUE SCENES ALONG JERSEY COAST. Valuable Stuff Obtained from Lands Which at High Tide Are Cov­ ered by the Salt Waters. Hay-making on tide-water lands Is one of the interesting occupations of the natives of New Jersey around Barnegat bay, and hundreds of dollars worth of the stuff are literally snatch­ ed from the water each yepr. Late Stack of Salt Water Hay Above High Tide. Placed summer resorters along this coast en­ joy the busy scenes. Bordering Barn­ egat bay are meadows miles wide, in­ tersected by salt water channels, often divided into many islands. At high tide the tall grass often stands deep In water, and sometimes at low water, and always after rains the grass is several inches in water. Forked River, the largest, richest and most popular resort on the bay, with agricultural machinery, stout motor boats and barges, presents the most plcturagque spectacle in hayipg on the bay.flR'he town and river have the same name, but the latter has three navigable forks which come to­ gether, forming the estuary of the same name. Anchored anywhere In the estuary, or passing through it, one may see mowing machines, the horses, knives and wheels splashing through the layer of water on the meadows, cutting down the tall grass. At the same moment, other men fire spreading the cut grass to dry, care­ fully elevating it on little hillocks, while wheel rakes are busy 'With the dried grass elsewhere. On another stretch, men with wagons are gather­ ing the hay and removing it to be put in stacks, either on the river's edge on platforms above high tide, whence It can be taken away on barges when needed, or well back on the high ground adjoining the evergreen for­ ests. Frequently there pass the ob­ server huge barge loads of hay, towed by motor boats or catboats, removing the product to the railway stations for transportation to the cities. Holland in all of its glory can present no more picturesque views, contributing to which are the innumerable clam and oyster craft, catboats, motor boats, schooners, sloops, dories, sneak boxes and sharpies under sail, loaded with anglers and visitors out for fishing, clambaklng and bathing. The Barnegat flats ship annually some 50,000 tons of hay to the mar­ kets, retaining perhaps half as much for local consumption. The producer gets an average of e|^ht dollars a ton at the railway stations and the dealer $13, in the cities. Salt water hay has several uses in addition to its value for bedding, stock. Manufacturers pack bottles with it and nurserymen find it useful in packing young trees and shrubs for shipment. It is also used in stuffing mattresses. Dreaded Malaria. Malaria renders nearly a fifth of the land of the globe dangerous to white men. THE IRONY OF FATE. m * wr rn • -- , V A young man loved a maiden fair Who thought him "simply grand;" He had a surplus of hot air For constant use on hand. "Come fly with me," he urged \he maW. 8he stood awhile in doubt. Then shook her head and sadly said: "I fear to venture out. "The efiiiflb*ial storms, you know, Will presently be here; " What if when thej| began to blow Your gas gave out, my dear?" But still he stayed to urge the maid; At last she heaved a sigh And gave consent, wherefore they went Serenely forth to fly. Alas, that love may never run As smoothly as it should; Her father had slipped out and done The worst a parent eould. The airship which the lover brought I.,ay punctured on-the grass; fheir sweet romance thus came to naught Because of lack oX gaa. V-Chloago Record-Herald. ̂ „ If He Could Do It Again. "Dr. Thudleigh preached his wife's first husband's funeral sermon, didn't he?" "Yes. And I'll bet if he could do it again he'd emphasise the opinion he expressed about the poor man having gone to a more delightful place than this world Is,"--Judge. The City of Casualties. First Citizen (out west)--Did you notice that man? His nose is broken, one eye out, forehead all banged up, and one ear gone. Wonder if he was In the Spanish w|u*? Second Citisen--Not old enough. Maybe he lives in New York.--N. Y. Weekly. Didn't Want It. Inventor--I have just patented a, new nickel-in-the-slot machine, chich I would like you to take hold of. U is an entirely new design and will never get out of order. Nickel-in-the-slot Capitalist--Never get out of order? Huh! No money in a .machine like that--New York Weekljb