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Dank: roosting places for Koala-v are the ptincipal cause of roup an most other di- ”ORB. Prof. DaMnth says that hay fed to cow; hotween meals is worse than wanted, as it butterea with the digestion of the regular ration. éficial investl ution. that bogus nutter ought tobe for idden entirely on sanitary grounds." A bulletin from the Michigan Agricultural 00116 0 makes the suggestion that the state bohn t be employed to exsmino farm seed. Opaciully those of grasses and clover before they are purchased by farmers. A Colorado farmer is said to have South- down lambs aix months old that weigh 140 :unds each, and it has been estimated that av will clip at least twelve pounds of wool «oh when they shall be fourteen months old. An extra. mutton now sells at eight epntayer pound for sheep in lots. each of A.. an mtg- nI.-____ It in growing harder and harder to get good milkers on farms where but few cows '0 kept. Milking seems to be getting more ad more the work of a specialist. Good 1 nilkers on dairy farms are generally sure of he beat wages. They get more milk than careless or indifferent hands would. conse- quently they represent so much cash saved to their employers. Some men are naturally good milkers. They have a. firm yet gentle hand. and a way of getting the cow's best confidence. N 0 man can be a good milker until he does get the cow’s confidence. Such men naturally work towards the large dairies where there skill will be mest appre- ciated. On farms where few cows are kept the milking is too freqnently regarded as an __2.1 -L ._ “ Cabbage need lime," Iayn an experienc- ed gudner. The man who ploughed his ground last £6“ and put what. manure on it imthe winter could be spared, can soon drag in his oats and have this work all done before his neigh- bors have ploughed. And :his process brings the best kind of a crop, too. For beats the soil should be rich, mellow end deep. Plant in drills, about two inches deep and the rows about 12 or 15 inches opal-t. For field culture the rows should be wide enough to admit the horse cultivator end the roots not nearer than one foot in the rows. The mungel wurzel beets grow to A very large size, are course, and wonder- fully productive, making excellent feed for cattle. When the early plants shall have begun to come up in the hotbeda, the potato beetle will attach them. Tomato plants must be watched, or they will all be destroyed in a few hours. The beetle comes out early in the season, before potato plants make their oppeorance, and they will readily devour ony green substance if they cannot find pa. into leaves to consume. The discourse on eye which Mr. Sim made has inst delivered before the Society of Arts is well worthy of the most careful consideration. Eggs, according to the loc- tnrer, constitute aneglocted mine of wealth. They are the one article of agricultural pro (lace for which the demand is unlimited. and rhaps the only one in which we might, id we choose, defy foreign competition. l‘hcy not only mean money, but they com. mand prices that admit of profit compared with which beef and mutton ore of little account. and wheat barely Worth mention- inn. Hens, for those who know hmy to Agaiatant (hmmissinmer 'l‘alcob, of Ohio, declares that he is “confident from his éficial investigggipn. thaft _bogus bgtter rv- r-____ -, E1110“ is worth $11.20. This shows what can be done with well-bred sheep without paying any attention to the value of the wool. fiover keep honey in a cellar. A dry room in the place for it. In more than 500 different ways, each not-bod not onl economical but salutary In In high.” agree. No hone“ sppedto Plenty of whitewuh should be used now, not only for the brighter appearance but Incas: disinfectant. Hot whitewash on to inside of burns, stables. poultry houses Ind big usrters will aid in preventing verming an insects. Ill“- lluua, IUI unmv u ..- “â€"0“. .0... -_ utilize them. lay eggs which. if not made of gold. me quite capable of being turned into thet metal. when they are retailable all the year round, one month with another, at something not muoq short of a penny tpieoe, while the eggs of ducks will bring a It!“ more temuneretlve pyice. _ The refreshing, delightful vapory coolness of the foliage of a tree top in hot, dry days of summer is very familiar-observed and welcomed by all. Fruits freshly plucked from a tree have the same fresh coolness, while those that hevc fallen ug‘unpleasant‘ K and unrefreehingly warm. ew think of a cause of the constant coolnees of leaves end fruit while on the tree. It seems as greeta mystery of nature as the constant nnvarying warmth of animals. It is the crude, watery sap absorbed by the roots in the cool soil and carried so rapidly to the trunk and then up the trunk and out along the branches and into the leaves, all so rapid- ly that it still retains its coolness when ex- haled from the stomates of the leaves. suf- fusing the air with its agreeable refrigera- tion. The great wonder is how the sap reaches the tops of tall trees er rapidly as this evidence proves it to do. It must traverse millions of separate cells on its way, and it seems to ascend against gravity even more freely than it, extends along horizontal branches. No satisfactory solution to this problem has yet been given. In no way can a farmer with less trouble onfloh a poor field with scanty herbage than by feeding sheep on it, to affirm an English Iheep farmer. Horticulture is taught in the common Idwols in Germany. The pupils are requir- ed to bud. graft, transplant, plant seeds, etc,. and they are given instructions on the subject of plant growth, adaptation of varie- ties to soil, climate, etc. Eggs are a meal in themselves. Every element necessary to the support of man is contained within the limits of on eggshell, in the beat proportione and in the most palatoble form. Plain boiled, they are wholesome. The master: of French cookery, however. efiirm that it_i§_euy to dress thorn â€"U”"lwa .â€" --_ 7, nnpiaauantu choreâ€"to be gotten rid of as quickly aapoagible. Where the milkingia regarded as a job to be dodged if possible, it is no wonder that we find bungling or it‘ia no wonder unnkillful work. (Sunflower ucda me good for fowl: ‘fAu ficld mil plufughed is a crop half A MINE or WEALTH "am. People who purchase fowls in market seem to prefer those that have a rich yellow skin with yellow legs, and therefore ponltry- row- re should endeavor to raccommodate t em ; but inreallty the darkolegged fouls are the beat for the table, being finer grained, hav- ing a delicate flesh and thin skin. vfiuable than others, it is|theiuse of kErosene and spraying bellows for exterminating lice in the easiest and cheapest wa . A poultry house ten feet square can 0 thoroughly kerosened in a minute, the fine spray pene- trating every crack and crevice. There is no need whatever of whitewash or the use of any other material for this purpose. The kerosene vapor is effectual. It is estimated that a poultry house seven- teen by thirteen will accommodate forty hens in the winter, and that twenty pounds of coal per day, at a cost of less than five cents, will keep the temperature at about 40 degrees. With this sort of a hen~house you may look for eggs in the coleest months, and the combs will never be hosted. A raw egg, if swallowed in time, will effectually detach a fish bone in the throat, and the white of two eggs will render the deadly corrosive sublimate as harmless as a dose of calomel. They strengthen the con sumptive, invigorate the feeble and render the most susceptible all but proof against jaundice in its more malignant phase. They can also be drunk in the shape of that “egg flip" which sustains the oratorical efforts of a modern statesman. The merits of eggs do not end even here. In France alone the wine clarifiers use more than 80,003,000ayear, and the Alsatians con- sume ful y 38,000.000 in calico printing and for dressing the leather used in making the finest of French kid gloves. Finally, not to mention various other employments for eggs in the arts, they may, of course, almost without trouble on the farmers part, be con- verted into fowls, which in any shape are profitable to the buyer. Even shells are valuable, for allopath and homeopath alike agree in regarding them as the purest of car- bonate of lime. There is always a home market for fresh eggs. Eggs may be cheap and plentiful, but it is difliculh to always obtniu them strictly fresh. Those who have made a specialty of supplying only fresh eggs have found a ready sale near home at prices fully equal to those paid elsewhere. If the Rural New Yorker's poultry inves- tigation have determined, ope th_in_xg more Statistics of Sickness and Death. The holder of a. note orchock "my give no- tice of protest either to all the previous in~ dorsera or only to the last indorser. After the victory of Muhldorf, when the Kaiser Ludwig sat at meat with Us burg- grain and great captains, he determined on a piece of luxuryâ€"“one egg to every man, and two to the excellently val' mt Schwep- rman." Far more than fishâ€"for its watery fiatâ€"eggs are the scholar's fare. They con- tain phosphorus, which is brain food, and sulphur, which performs a variety of fuuc~ tions in the economy. And they are the best of nutriment‘ for children, for, in a compact form, they contain everything that is necessary for the growth of the youthful frame. Eggs are, however. not only foodâ€" they are medicine also. The white is the most efliwcieus of remedies for burns, and the oil extractable from the yolk is regard~ ed by the Russians as an almost miraculous salve for cute, bruises and scratches. A raw egg, if swallowed in time, will effectually detach a fish hone in the throat, If ordinary caution in banking is displayed and your check is raised or forged the bank suffers the loss. In purchasing a bank draft make it out to your own order. Then iudorae on the back : " Pa. to ” receiver, whoever he may be, or “ or er. ” If the draft is lost. in the mafia you can obtain a. duplicate. Reckon neither Sunday nor legal holidays. Individual or firm printed checks are the safest. The law says that in all 103308 from flat- gmnt carelessnens the careless one shall he the loser. If checks do not recumbo you within a rea- sonable time and you get, no recei t for same from an posed receivers, notify t a bank on which t is drawn of the number of the check and putty to whom It was made outta. Some years ago the Statistical Congress at London. England, deduced from the tables of Drs. Farr and Edmunds, the fol- lowing interesting facts respecting sickness and death, which preach important sanitary sermons without the aid of comment 2â€"â€" Always indorsc checks you send hf mail. State to whose order they are pavab o. ever yet rejected an egg in some mine. It. is nnzrimenc in the moat portable arm and In the most concentrated shape. Whole nations of mankind rarely touch any other animal food. Kings eat them plain as readily ac do the humble tribes men. Thanksgiving is good, thanks living 2i: better. The time {or one to strikeâ€"Sixty minute- after 12. “Of one thousand persons at the age of thirty, it is probable that ten will die in the current year ; that there will be ten perma- nent invalids, and an average of twenty sick for the year. “Of one thousand persons at the age of seventy, it is probable that a hundred will die during the year, and three hundred will be sick or become chronic invalide. The wa of very man is dooluntivo of the end ovuy mm. «(Goon “ It is estimated that of every thousand of population there will be seventy-seven sick, on an average. for the year, in Eng- land and Scotland ; fifty-three in Ireland; sixty’sevon in France: seventy-six in Ger- many; ninety-four in Austria; eighty-nine in Italy and Spain ; seventy-one in Holland; fifty-seven in Denmark; and fiftyfive iu the United States. “7‘ F[hie moat salubrious of these countries is Ireland. “ The average number of days of sickness per adult inhabitant In the principal civiliz- ed countries of the globe, is fourteen and two-tenths. In the gUnited States it is ten and five-tenths. “ The average loss per cent. of income from sickness in the'United States is two and nine-tenths; in England, three; in France, three and five-tenths ; in Germany, three and nine-tenths; and ill] Russia, five- tenths. " [)0 YOU BANK? POULTRY N was. Wherever he went, at night, a man, with a long cloak thrown over his shoulder, carry- ing a stick in his hand, followed him, as a. detective {OIIOWs the man he is "shadowing." Even in the heart of the thieves’ quarter this physician was as safe as in the public square at midday. For the man was one of the chief thieves, and his business was to see that no hum came to the doctor. It happened in this way. Lste one after- noon the doctor happened to be in a church frequented by the our of the city. The doors were about to 0 closed, as a. man on- tered and fell upon his knees. His lips moved hastily, and repeatedly he struck the ground with his forehand. As the sexton came up to lock the door, the man threw his cloak over his shoulder and hurriedly left the church. An Incident 0! the t‘helvra Outbunk. During the outbreak of chulere in Naples, three years ago, the hostility of the lower classes towards the doctors was violent. They insisted that the bpread, if not the origin, of the disease was due to them, and called them poisoners and murderers. Phy- sicians who nude visits afluight to the poor’e quarters carried revolvers, or were accom- paeieg by .poljcelpen. I I 1 I L,___-j “vi 3" """""" A French physician, who had volunteered his aid, used to go about unarmed and with- out a guard, at all hours of the night. for, as he said to a friend, " Don Sulvatore Trap- any}; was watching over hirp." As the doctor passed the s at where the man had knelt, his foot slum led against a long Culsbrian dagger which lay upon the floor. Catching up with the man outside, the doctor handed him the knife, and notio- ed his pale face and agitated manner. “ I feel sorry for you." said the doctor. “ Cholera in the house,” the man mutter- ed ~[hrongh his olenche<l_teeth. _ Surreptitioualy, under the blanket, the doctor administered an ether-injection. She rallied, opened her eyes and moaned softly. thereby softening the auspixious eyes around thephysicien. Jones had married the prettiest. woman in town and Brown had married the homelieat and thought she was beautiful. Ono oven- ing they were talking about their respective bettgr halv_eo, anq Brown remnrlgog : “ I am a bad man," said Salvatore looking foufnsed, “ and not worthy of touching your mm .” The doctor handed the reward he lmd promised for the dog‘s return, two hundred francs. The man put it back on the table, saying : “ You saved the little girl. I found the dogâ€"4t is all right now." The (Ina-forvthunked him and shook him byfltlle hunt}. _ The doctor lost a valuable dog. He in- formed the old cobbler. That night a man called, whose appearance was uot‘such as to beget a sense of security. He came as a friend of Salvatore. “I say, Jofiea, I think on and I married the two prettiest women n town.” J ones Iooked at him In surprise a moment, but he saw he was serious. The doctor prepared to give an intraven- ous injection. As he cut open the vein all the women shrieked. The child collapsed; the mother cried : “ She is dying 1 she is dying !" The doctor held the child in his arms. Savage eyes followed his movements, and amid prayers to the Virgin and threats hurled at him, the night wore on. The ficxt night the dog rushed _into the rog_r_n dniagging Salyatgrg pfter h_im_. The doctor announced himself a physician from Paris, and offered his services. The man shook his head, walked away, and then returned. " Are you a stranger 2" said he, curtly. “ Yes.“ “ You have nothing to do with the muni- cipal authorities 2" “ Nothing at all.” “ “'1“ you come with me 3" They went down into a narrow street, walked a long way in the darkness, through a vaulted passage, into a narrow alley, and halted before a tumble-down house. A man came out, and all three went down a pitch-dark passage, crossed a yard, and stopped before a miserable hovel. The man who had come from the house. raised a lantern and scrutinized the doctor‘s face, and then they entered _the_hovel. A reaction set in toward morning. and warmth returned to the body. She moun- ed, “Mammal mamma i” yThe mother's faced glowed with hope. The child was re- tur_n_i_ng to_life._ For'm'onths the physician did not see Sal. vstors. The papers teamed with accounts of nightly attacks, and the dreadful Camorm â€"â€"-tho association of thieves and beggars which once ruled half of Naplesâ€"appeared to he renewing its sway. But whenever the doctor went out at night, he saw that he was followed by a suspicious-looking charac- ter. Subsequently the doctor found out that the man overshadowing him was Salva- tore’s brother, who had been ordered by the Camorm to watch over him. “ You shall have the dog back tomorrow evgpina, if hq be not (1911.! l" sgidrthe man. “Well." he replied, cautiously, and with pride, “I guess you are about ht" right, old follow.” A mother lay upon the floor wringing her hands in despair. Three women were on their knees praying A old women, a crip- ple, eat all in a. heap before the fire, mutter- ing to herself. Brown didn’t see the point until he told hi- wflo.-â€"[Wuhlngton_ (MW. On the bed was a. little girl, half cold and unconscious. No one stood beside the bed, for the lowest class Neapolitans are afraid to touch a. dying person. The mother rose from the floor and began helping the physician rub the girl with the blanket. The rubbing was useless ; the child was sinking Inst. When the doctor lett the house he was guided through the labyrinth of lanes and alleys by the father, Whoselook of gratitude more than compensated the physician for the sleepless night. Several night}. for they preferred to re- ceive his visits after dark, the doctor visited the hovel. On the night: of the last visit, the mother stood on the doorstep, as the doctor departed, praying. “ May the peace which you desire be grpnted unto you !” As the doctor took leave of the father he asked his name. “ Salvatore Trapnneae,’ the man answered, and added, “If ever you want me, excellency, my life and my knife will be at your disposal." Pointiné to Wileâ€"1'0 a ragged old cobbler was seated repairing a boot, he said, ” Ad- drgge yoyrsglf t9 thgt n_m_n if yqn want "101" 'I‘IIE ”00'1‘08’8 SIIAIHDW. Ills Wife Saw the Point. It is quite true that such ties do not pre- vent, and rover have prevented, the «filler- ens nations from usrrellinq with and fight- ing each other. (hoyal falhera-in-law and brothers-inlaw have often, all through Eu- ropean history, Confronted each other on the battlefield, and allied themselves with each other's enemies. A letter published in St. Nicholas contains some advice onco given by Miss Alcott to young writers. It says ;-__u \Vrlte and print if you can: if not, still write and im- pmve as you go on. Read the best books and they will improve your style. See and hear good speakers and wise people, and learn of them. Work for twenty years and then you may some day find that you have n style. and plum of your own, and can command good pay for the some things no one would take when you were unknown. Do you fancy that. any one can be really happy who is selfish? It is impossible. The selfish never have real friends; (may are always grasping something more, whether they need it or not, and, as no one can ever satisfy his own desires if really selfish, they are disappointed and become peevish and irritable. To try to help others; to bommle happy by seeking to make them happy is thodbeat presoriptiou for good spirit: over ma 6. This occurrence strikingly illustrates the fact that marriages among the European reigning families may still haven large influ- en_ce ppou. the course of politipal qventa. Obnoxio‘us, therefore, in Alexander is to the Czar, Prince Bismarck declau'ed that his marriage into the Emperor‘s family was like- ly to bring about unpleasant minionsâ€"and perhaps worseâ€"between Germany and Rus- sia. and therefore Bismarck strenuously re- sisted the arren emenc which was dear to the heart both 0 the young princess herself nuclei her mother, the Empress Vicooria. _ Napolosn the First warred upon Francis of Austria, his futher-in-law, and a. few years ago England and Russia were on the very point of coming to blows, though the second son oi Queen Victoria was the husband of the C x “"8 sister. Yet the reigning families, or their minis- ters, have always arranged marriages be~ tween their members for “dynastic" and po- litical reasons, and not seldom the fact that marriage ties existed between them has turn- ed the scale in favor of or against wars and othr important political agents: In order tolwoid such resulte, the princes of many European states are permitted to contract what are called “morg mastic" mer- riages. with women not of royal blood. But the children of such marriages are not recog- nized as their father’s heirs, or as being of the blood royal; nor does a morganatic mar- riage prevent the prince who makes it from 3133 legelly wedding}: princess of royal blood: So long-continued has been the custom of intermarriages between royal people, that. the present reigning families of Europa are all more or less nearly related to each other; and, in many instances, are related to each other by numerous ties of blood and inherit- ance. It cannot be said, however, that this fact materially lessens the probability of war. Indeed, as the case of Prince Alexander and the German Princess shows, adherence to the custom may bring the prospect of dissen. sion and war nearer, rather than more re- mote. A grave national crisis seemed about to nriue recently in Germany as the result ofa proposed marriage between a duuihter of the reigning Emperor and Prince Alexander of Bittenberg. Alexander was formerly Prince of Bulgaria, and while occupying that throne gave such offence to the Russian Cur that he was abducted. and wxs afterward forged to give np his Bulgerim thro‘ue. Prince Oscar of'Sweden, by marrying re- cently Miss Mnnck, one of the maids of ho- nor at the Swedish court, was obliged to nbnndon all right: to succeed to the throne, any to give up higrenlg as a {oyal_ prineo. Royal marriages wfor dynastic or political reasons often have two opposite results. They often unite in wedlock aprince and princess who know little of each other, and who do not love each other. On the other hand, the rule of dynastic marriages some times keeps apart a prince and princess who do love each other. The latter [8 said to be the case with the Prince Alexander and the Princess Victoria. Sometimes, however, it ha pens that slice- tion and political exigenciesfiiarmonize, and produce happy marriages. 0E such a char- acter, undoubted! , were the marriages of Queen Victoria With Prince Albert; of her son, the Prince of Wales, with the Danish Princess Alexandria; of the present German Emperor with his Empress, and of the pre- sent Czar with the Princess Daamar. Hugh Williams had a. thrilling adventure the other night while driving from Hot Springs to his country home. When half a. mile irom his house his horses evinced con- :iderable uneaaincas, as though they were afraid to advance further in the direction they were going. ”The farmer's team became frightened and ran home With him. As soon as he reached his home Mr. Williams teth- ered his team, ran into the house, picked up his Winchester rifle, and returned to tho spot to take a hand in the battle. He fnuml his faithful dog torn to pieces, but no signs of the “ varmint ” was visible. In thehonarchies, indeed, either absolute law or immemoriul custom has established the rule that royalty can only wed royalty, and that if the heir, near or remote to a throne, marries beneath the royal rank, he ahflhbrfeit his right of suc ‘ession. The fernierrbecoming uneasy, whistied to his large and trusty bulldog, which was but a short distance in advance of him. Just as the (log started to return, in obedience to the alarm, Mr. Williams beards noise in the branches of a tree which stood near the roadside. and when the dog got Within twenty five yards of the waggon he was pounced upon by a. huge panther, which leaped from the tree upon him. A terrible fight ensued. Sudden ‘oye are apt to be followed by momenta oi weekneu. In the reaction from the delight occasioned by the freedom from flood this year, a Montreal paper n e : “ Spring poems are in order in Montree at preeent, " the amen having behaved so well. Ask my level-heeded business men of Mon. treol, even with e warehouse neer the river, end he would welcome a flood to escape the Torn m Pieces by a Panther. Advice toYoung Writers. Royal Intermurrlaues. 11mm is no better way to bring this fact to them than by a few comparisons. Take awell at Baku called the " Wet Nurse." It haejbeen yielding oil for twelve y 1nd in that time has averaged 32.000 gallons a day. These figures are amazing to an American oil producer. They mean that the welthas produced 140,000.000, gallons of oil, or over 3,090,000 barrels. These figures are hurtling to the people of this section when they turn to the statistics of their own industry and find that this one well has produced three times as much as l’rthole in n yo sr of its wonderful business. It lacks less than 400100 barrels of produc- ing as much as the famous Oil Creek district produced in 1869, its most prolific year. The \Vsshington district, among the richest ever discovered in America. in 1887, its ban- ner year, produced but 3,500,000 barrels. This is but 500020 barrels more than the output of this one well in Russia. The wonderful The: n Creek pool, in Butler counâ€" ty. produced in its best twelve months but 268,000 barrels more than this one Russian gopher. Wells that Alone Products More on TIA- nn Entire American Hero. Statistics of the oil business in Russia in“. just; reached this country. and Amoricsu oil menare studying them with ugreet deal ofanx- iety. They thrown new light on tte business in Russia, undfshowuooplsinly that the Baku districts are a most dangerous riwl of the American fields. The out ml; of many of the R insinn wells is proriigious, and for eclipses anything ever heard of in this coun- try. American oil producers huve claimed to have no fears of Russian competition, but with the new information on the industry they are takiugunother vicw‘oi it. _ “Why-didn’t‘jwu get some soup, instead of two pieces of pudding?” asked the one to whom he had linen indebted. .. Such astounding facts as these bring the danger of Russim competition home to the people of the Pennsylvanian fields. This does not stand alone in this enormous pro- duction. The yearly output is given of 3 number of wells, many of them nearly in large as this one. 'l‘ne “Mixzoefi‘ No. 5," also at Baku, has for six years produced 40,000 gallousaday. This is above 2,000 barrels, and the production of Coglev, Tar- kill, and Red Valley, three prolific Vcnsngo county pools, produced but 1,965,000 bar- rels in 1886, gheir best year. - A visitor at the place where the foodie distributed says, that on a cold npring day nine hundred and sixty men were uerved from the food trucks in less than an hour. This took place after the worst distress of winter Wes ovcr. Said the attendant in charge, “\Ve are daily implored to give food to men who have had none for twenty- four or forty-eight hours." “ Please, I’ve no money to-day, said one poor fellow. "l know you don’t give the food quite, because there’d be such 1; lot of us if you did ; but will you take my matches, and let me have a "tile: for them 2" In the midst of such bitter want, a great deal of brotherly kindness is shown by men who feel that a starving comrado’s need is greater thfm their o_wu. U A pom-3y dressed mun one day gavea penny to two others, telling them to buy soup and pudding for themselves. One of them came to the truck, and naked for two " 0-1," was the answer, as he handed one slice to another man, “Hero's n. chum of mine who can get along with a piece of this.” And the man who was thus helped was seen, a few minutes after, dividing his share wigh a qeiglgbaur m-o_re -needy t_hm_1 himself. The record is given of a well drilled by the Nobel Broth rs, called the " Droojn well.” It cost 37 500 to drill. The record of the well is thus stated : Lust October an elderly man, looking very white and thin, stood for three days outside the gate, watching the others as they ate their hot stew. 0n the first day n friend lent him a enny, but on tho aocond no one could nfi‘onf to re eat the loan, and on the third the man fel to the ground exhausted. He had been reduced by starvation to the lowest point of human endurance, and actu- ally died on the spot where he hoped to be fed. This well spouted for 115 deyu. the yield being 3,400 tons for thirty, and 600 tons for eleven days. The well Was then plugged and the supply kept under ground for fun ther wants. The amount of oil spouted by this well. according to the lowest. estimate, was 22,000 tons. or 55,(00_000 gallons: ac- cording to the highest estimate, 500,000 tone or l25.000,000 gallons.” I’unotunlly et non two wretched~looking ante appear, and wait until some one takes pity on them. Some of the men leave a lit- tle food in their basins for thc‘roor animals, besides breaking of? a bit 0 pu ding for anx- iouely watching ohilQren. TheVaprhy ffom one of these geysers was blown_th|_-ough_the ail: fqr eight miles. With these figures before them, coming a. they do from ( fficiul sources, American oil men realize that Russian petroleum deposits are too great for computation. Five hnn. dred wells have been sunk in the Baku dis- tricts, 200 of which, irrespective of the enormous fountains, are now producing 560,~ 000,( 00 gallons of oil every year. It is the opinion of American operators now in that field that this flow “ could be increased ten- fold or a hundredfold.” A very significant fact to oil men is the interest which the Rothschilds have taken in the Russian field, controlling, as they do. a large percentage of the producing and refining business. One of the most active charities in Lon- don is that which provides food for the un- employed, and also for laborers who are not allowed to leave the (locks, where they are busy, during working hours, and who can pay only the smallest possible sum for what they est. Those who have work are expect. ed to give one penny for an amount. of food which the unemployed can obtain for a half- penny, and it is estimated that the first sum covers the actual cost of the bowl of nour- ishing soup of which a deskdinuer consists. This is supplemented by n. slice of pudding when the applicant can nll‘urd an extra half- PelénV: _ One day the‘ettendant wee, ee ueuel, ool- leotlng two beeine of eon-pin e, one for the black cat, and one for the w ite, when he saw a lean, starved humen creature at him through the rnllinge. The two out: finished t Jeir meel end retired, end then the watcher, eprin inn toward the buln, raven- ouel devour the reet of the food. '1‘ e emonnt of good done I? thi- Item of food dhtdhntlon Ie elmoet lllbelA 'S I'fiTROLI‘JUM GEE. SI “9. Stat valion in London.