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'Hii KPi1* Wtmm m VWata. ^ I; .£V*' M^bodirt Churck build- % vbiob has stood sine© _. removed and a handsome •truoture erectad in its plaoe. dutreh was one of the la U*l Mississippi Vallev, ' years-has been regarded - t i •flptfon . _ ltd infancy, was located onthe trial midway betweenCbi- fiockfoni, aad tibte feetat '* ?X3 WU~ "*™v\y^ 2 * <**» " i •*• • J *T$a* TBS I1S8T * u. CHKCCH, OMWOA. Ob times gave the church a great deal of importance. The church society was formed in 1830, and is said to have been the first Methodist Episcopal organiza­ tion in the district now covered by the flock River Converence. A movement |s on foot to remove the present build­ ing to a vacant lot, where it may be t(reserved as a relic. The new build­ up in designed in English Gothic, and will be highly ornamental. The total •eating capacity will be 750. It will be Completed and ready for use by July tiext. Will Batoa Dwor*d to His D«Mh. • A tragedy was enacted at Marshall Friday night which resulted in the death of Will Eaton, a young man not quite 21 years old, and of irreproach­ able character. Mrs. Robert Brown, «n aged and wealthy widow, had re­ ceived an anonymous letter ordering •her under dire threats to place $200 in iin envelope and put it on the fence of lier barnyard next the gate. She f laced the matter in the hands of her wo sons. Rob -rt and Ed, and they ar­ ranged with City Marshal Hedrick and Sheriff Hurst to watch the premises, at- the time the letter required her to produce the money. At about 8 o'clock, jwhile Marshal Hedrick, Sheriff Hurst • and Robert Brown were on the watch, a man was heard approaching. He iwa'ked rapidly to the gate, where a de oy package had been placed. As jhe was in the act of taking it Sheriff Hurst commanded him to halt. He started to run, and Robert Brown fired on him with a charge of bird shot. He fthen turned and darted across the street toward the place of Hedrick's concealment, when the latter dis­ charged a load of shot from a double­ -barreled shotgun. The load struck JSaton in the right thigh, right hand and arm, one shot taking effect in the Ibreast, causing internal hemorrhage, from which he died in about fifteen toinutss. His only words were. "O, why did I do this?" Thaln «u Xnimtor ChrltUultf. * Rev. J. Barrett, a United Brethren Church revivalist, has been conducting a protracted meeting in the Burns achool-house, an out-of-the-place in the Woods of Salt Creek. John Spencer, a muscular woodsman, is a radical votary 4>f the Christian or Disciples' Church, and when any violence was done his own church by the evangelist he would (•all the latter down in open meeting. 'Barrett was clinching a point the oth­ er night when Spencer called him a liar. Barrett jumped down from the f ulpit and a vigorous fist fight with pencer was the result. All parties immediately went to town to have a lawsuit, but compromised without "Iriaf, and the good work will go on. lie v. Mr. Barrett has had weadarful success in the country. Purges Hli Sonl of Ons 81k During the trial of David Billingsley and John Nelson for hog stealing at ' Metropolis Martha Nelson, the aged mother of one of the defends its, faint­ ed upon the witness stand. James Hazel, one of the witnesses for the Srosecution, was sent to jail for ten ays for contempt in making signs to a witness while testifying, and in jail was seriously assaulted" by the defend­ ant, Nel on. Later John Wallace made a confession exonerating Nelson and implicating Billingsley and himself. Rceord of the Week. BKSSIE NORTH, 8 years old, was run over and killed by a street-car at Rock- ford. AT Blue Island. Frank Sayles, a , prominent Knight of Pythias, was run over and trilled by a train. MRS. R. J. ADKINS died from burns and injuries received during the burn­ ing of her home at Chandlerviile re­ cently. IN 1893 $10,095,035 was received in • premiums by life insurance companies in Illinois, while losses of 93,951,372 were paid. CHARLES SWENSON, aged 25, was fatally shot by Isaac Larson, watch­ man at the Union Furniture Factory, Rockfcrd. Swenaon went to the fac­ tory in an intoxicated condition, which resulted in a quarrel. AT Effingham, Gottlieb Stein was adjudged insane and ordered sent to the asylum at Anna for treatment. His mental derangement is the result of an assault made upon him by Will- ism Lsdsssburgi-r, a neighbor, who beat him over the head with a club. AT Jacksonville, workmen were drilling for an artesian well, and va strong ilow of natural gas was struck at the depth Of 100 feet. Some years ago thousands of dollars were spent in an effort to find gas, but the only re­ sult was a number of artesian wells, which have since contributed tj the •city's water supply. HENRY L. SHEPHERD, of Chicago, receiver of the R. H. & W. Railway and a prominent Mason, died at Peters­ burg, acred «0L He leaves a wife and two sons. He had a brother in Chi­ cago. THE coroner's investigation concern­ ing the death of Charles Moody, the barber at Alexandria, who was run over by a train, develops the fact that there WAS foul play with hi" death. The evidence points to the conclusion that he was murdered by some negroes and his body placed on the traex in such a pos ition as to de­ stroy the evidence ot their crime. A detective has been detailed upon the case. • rill©, -- __cer, watch-'1 itfasa worS(s< 3tHt John _e engineer, in a Quarrel Lobe will reoover. CHARLES SCHULTO, a young farmer living near .Rockford. was thrown under a harrow by a runaway team and fatally injured. DICK MAI:KIN, who shot and" killed Sam Gregory in a saloon, was dis­ charged by the coroner's jury. Mau- pin acted in self-defense. FRANK LIVINGSTON, a well-known young Rockford man, died at St. Louis. For a number of years he was a clerk in the i-aimer Hoose, Chicago. MACK WILSON -mas wrested in St. Louis aad lodged in *\jail at Cairo, charged with forgery and swindling the AnMurieaa Express Company. ; THIS funeral of G. H. Dtsckman at Vandalia was the largest witnessed there-for years. The business houses remained (dosed during the services. OLIVER BOSS, aged 80 years, died in Denver, Cot He was one ot the first settlers of Fairburv and held numerous offices of trust in Fairbury's early his­ tory. THE 3-year-old son of John Elf An* derson, while playing about a pile of playing about a ish at St. Ct clothing and was burned to burning rubbish at St, Charles, ig­ nited h death HKAVY shortages have been found in the accounts of the Universal and Con­ tinental Loan Associations and they hav e been given sixty days to make good the assets. JUDGE TULEY, of Chicago, refused to di-solve tho injunction the State Board of Health from pub­ lishing anything derogatory to the Physio-Medical College. AT Monee the warehouse of Simon Miller, containing grain, gasoline, etc., burned down. The loss may amount to $5,030 or $6,000, mostly all insured. The cause of the fire is unknown. THE case of Will Eaton, who was killed while trying to extort money from a widow, was before the grand jury, but they failed to bring any in­ dictment against his slayers. JEFF R. STOUGHTON was convicted in the Clay County Circuit Court at Louisville of the murder of Cynthia A. Stark on July 11. 1893, and sentenced to the Chester penitentiary for one year. JOHN FINNEY and Matt Layman, farmers, near Golconda, quarreled, and Finney was killed. Layman sur­ rendered. Both men have families, and Finney was a man of considerable means. HEALTH COMMISSIONER REYNOLDS of Chicago has been told to make whatever expenditures he sees fit for the purpoee of stamping out smallpox. The State Board of Health approve his plans. AMBROSE KNOWLE, 62 years old, and a leading light in the Salvation Army, has been arrested at Lincoln for horse­ stealing. He served a term in the old Alton penitentiary for a similac^rime forty-two years ago. JOHN W. MASTERS, of Bloomington, was removed to the asylum for the in­ sane at Kankakee, having been ad­ judged insane. A short time ago Mr. Masters, who is a traveling salesman, covering Illinois and Indiana for a Chi­ cago wholesale shoe house, was over­ come by acute mania while at the Hotel Lansing, in Chicago, and be­ came so violent that several men were required to take him to the train. He lost his wife a year ago and has been despondent ever since. E.A. PEKRIN. who claims to represent a Chicago picture-frame house, is under arrest at Joliet, charged with burg­ lary. Perrin entered the residence of John Crique, and, it is claimed, stole a pocketbook in a bedroom. Be was chased and captured bv Crique, but denied his guiit, saying he knocked at the door, which was partly open, but getting no response stepped inside as he was anxious to make a sale. The pccketbook was found later by the fence where he ran in trying to es­ cape. A big revolver was al-o picked up near by. THE Chapman revival services have absorbed a'most the entire interest of Jacksonville. By request nearly all the business houses shut up Wednes­ day afternoon to let the men attend the services. There were meetings in fifty houses in the early morning, forenoon meetings in the churches and in the afternoon a union meeting in the large opera house, which was tilled to over­ flowing, while in a church there was another immense gathering. The meetings were all impressive, and those in charge are satisfied that much good has resulted. AT Rochelle Mrs. James Downey's heroism saved her 4-year-old twins from a horrible death. The children built a lire in the machinery sheds on the place, the building soon being wrapped in flames. They then hid be­ hind machinery in the far end of the building. The smoke attracted the attention of the mother, and as she rushed from the house she heard the screams of the children. Rushing through the flames, she found them and carried them out. All are badly burned about the face and hands ani the hair burned off their heads. DUDLEY THOMPSON is a farmer near Rockford and a favorite with the ladies* For some time past relatives of his sweetheart have made dire threats and white cap letters have been sent him. Sunday morning a trio of masked men drove up to Thompson's house and broke in the window where he was supposed to sleep. Thompson knew in advance of the white caps coming and had instructed his hired man to sleep in his bed while he went up-stairs. The hired man had a loa led shotgun and used it when the window was smashed in. No one knows who the white caps were nor how badly the man was wounded. JOHN J. ANDERSON, fisherman and wood boatman at Alton, gave himself up, stating that he had shot and killed a companion, named Robert Wood­ ward. The evidence showed that Woodward was drunk and assaulted Anderson and that the shooting was done in self-defense. AT Rockford Edwin Burt was ar­ rested a few days ago for stealing a mare and colt from Barney Radican, at Clinton, Wis., thirteen years ago. and he has been taken to Janesville for trial. Now it transpires his raal name is George Peckham. The complaining witness is now past 80 years of age. CHARLES POINDEXTER, of Sedalia, Mo., was arrested at Springfield by Federal officers, charged with making and pass inf.: counterfeit silver dollars, and with selling oleomargarine with­ out its being labeled as such. Poin­ dexter has operated extensively in this State. . BY the mistake of a supervisor Mise Alice Schmauss, of Rockford, was niftOAii nn IK MH STATES PAY PENS!1 t* is Blum* in the Ikfw't Contributed a Dollar ter This DnHag the recent debate on the peu- iisn appropriation,which finally passed the House of Representatives to the amount of •151,000,000 for the ooning "--1 year, many Southern again reiterated a favorite asiertkai of South I newspapers, that it is wrong the, South help pay these pen- en, the South gets nothing in thern to I sioni when return. Meredith: of Vhftaia, who said that he gloried in the fact that there were no patriots in his section during the war, for instance, said in thepend- l that his as much pensions as Vermont, and, he added, "we get no benefit." But the assertion is simply false. The Southern States get much more from the Federal Treasury in various ways than they pay into it. Colonel Hepburn, of Iowa, replying to the gentleman from Virginia, had the figures ready to prove the falsity of these Southern claims. In regard to the assertion that the South helped to pay the pensions, Mr. Hepburn said: "The late Confederate States contrib­ uted not one dollar to the payment of pensions," and he proved his state" ment. the $150,000,000 internal revenue taxes," he said, "the South pays less than $9,000,000; of the #177,- tW ijOi*1 customs receipts, the South pays but $4,000,000, and of the miscel­ laneous receipts less than $2,000,000." Putting those three items together it appears that the total paid into the Federal Treasury by the South is only about $15,000,000. But what does it get back? The statesman from Virginia says that the South has no benefit But it got last Jear, in sugar bounties, $9,000,000: in eficits in postal receipts, $5,000,000; in pensions to Mexican ami Union vet­ erans and their families, $5,000,000. hat already makes 919,000,000 for the ij5,000,00!) paid in. Bui the Southern States get much more than that. It is a notorious fact, for instance, that of the river and harbor bills the South­ ern States always get the lion's altars. It is not incorrect to say that the South, for every dollar which it pays Into the Federal treasury, takes out two, Still they are not satisfied down there. They want protection for everything they raise and produce, for khe tobacco of Virginia, the rice of South Carolina, the sugar of Louisiana, the oranges and lemons of Florida, the cotton which all of them raise. And more than that they want Congress to allow them about $400,000,000 of war claims which have been filed in Wash­ ington. These claims can never be allowed as long as there is a bar on the Federal statutes in the form of a pro­ vision requiring claimants to prove loyalty to the Government during the war, and so long as such a large share of the national revenues goes for the payment of pensions as now. But the Southerners are constantly scheming to remove the obstacles in the wav of the allowance of these claims; they have made several attempts to do so and they may succeed yet. But there is no truth in the South­ ern claim that the South has to pay without any returns. It is the North that pays. But it is remarkable, on the otner hand, that the disposal of all the money raised in the North is left to the States that are the recipients of public bounty. For it is the South that rules in Washington to-day* « POINTED AKRALLAU^ It is hard for a DemocfJrtftf 'paper to open its mouth in these Democratic hard times without putting its foot in it. A recent issue contained the tariff plank of the last Democratic National Convention, and also in another column an editorial urging workingmen to ac­ cept reduced wages. We make two extracts which look charming in par­ allels: Promises, 189-2. We denounce the MaKlnler tariff law [oKlnler t Mctedojr tb« Flftr- flrat Oonsma u toe oalminattnc atrocity of O1M> leflalatlon; we indorse (he efforts made by the Democrats of the present Congress iodlfy its oppres­ sive feature in the di- to mc rection of free raw ma­ te rials and cheaper i i i anufaotored goods that enter into general consumption, and we promise Its repeal as one of the beneficent results that will follow the action of the peo­ ple in Intrusting power t o t h e D e m o c r a t i c r; "J t. . ?>»' " • of jiii urs ui lue v li"* cuit Court. She was on the tax roll as "Al" Schmauss, the name by which she is familiarly known. And as she com­ plies with all statutory requirements, she can insist on serving if she desires. She is the first woman ever called to jury service in Winnebago County. Fulfillment, MM. All that 1s needed to bring prosperity to Des Moines as well as to other cities is to pot this money in olrowa- tion. In order to do so oertaln existing condi­ tions most be met. It Is not necessary to go back to the causes whtMh have led to these oondltlons. It is sufficient to say that one of the periodical readjustments of pr ices o f l abor and commodities as well as of profits is at band, aad all parties inter­ ested should submit graoefully to the read­ justment for their own as well aa for the com­ mon good. Working men in all departments should be willing to accept such remuneration and fix such hours of work as 111 permit of the profitable employment of their labor by con­ tractors and those ea- gagad In building and otner Improvements. This Is a poor time to ask for an advance of waves over those paid last cases to stlokle (Of as high wanes. Oboys Orovor. Secretary Greshara must feel pretty uncomfortable these days when even the Democrats pitch into him. There was nothing neater in Senator Hill's speech than the suggestion that the Republican party must bear a share in the responsibility of the mischievous and riduculous Hawaiian policy of the present administration, because Secre­ tary Gresham, a former Republican, is Secretary of State. Of course Senator Hill meant nothing more than a dig at Cleveland for the selection of so recent a convert to the Democracy as Judge Gresham, a defeated candidate for the Republican nomination for President. But it is probably unjust to hold Gres­ ham responsible for the diplomaoy of the present administration. Cleveland considers the heads of the departments us mere clurkn u' (lie Freslueiii. There is no reason to believe that he looks upon the Secretary of State in a higher light.. He indicated the policy to be pursued toward Hawaii and Grefham --obeyed orders. ; ^ 7; • 1 The Be«t Sagar IMosfay* ' Senator Peffer's declaration that tie Federal Government is under moral obligations to continue the sugar boun­ ties und»r which millions of dollars have been invested in beet culture and sugar machinery in the United States, is eminently sound. It would be an outrageous breach of faith to withdraw these^bounties suddenly and totally, as the Wilson bill oroposes to do. The men who invested their capital in beet sugar factories and the farmers who turned their acres to beet culture did sn relv|ncr mnfidently linon th« fair­ ness and justice of the National Gov­ ernment. Yet the Democratic party stands sponsor for a measure that would absolutely wipe out the beet sugar industry, cne of the most prom­ ising branches of production the coun­ try over entei ed upon- This action is • f K . • ' ' - > • - , irhlgo WAD CSWKI S-- of its own Each house may de- the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly be- navior, and, witdti the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member." Similar porters are granted to all legislative bodies to enable them to nrotect them­ selves from being compelled to associ­ ate with disreputable characters eieot- Ohio Legisla- expelled a ed to membership A few years ago the t. ture, then Democratic, member of their own party on'leaming that h«tjras at one tuns a convict in the Michigan penitentiary. More re­ cently the Illwsis Legislature sent a committee to learn whether a member of that body had ever been an Inmate of the Ohio penitentiary, with a view to his expulsion if the INTI AHD HQUMWIFE. a seat George eas'dsnied to the delegate from Utah. Q. Cannon, because he tun was living in op^t the laws of the Umted proved true. In 1881 Congress defiled from Utah Cannon, "beo four wives and ot Congress with the'resf abiding members of that violation States. Congress is now called upon to per­ form the same high duty in the case of Col, W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Ken­ tucky, who, by his own evidence given in the Pollard-Breokinrldge case, has proven himself disqualified to sit in ipectable, law- .t body. Tea Little Statesmen. Tsa little etatesmen standing in a liaet Hill tried a <*aaapt" and then then wins nUMh Nina little statesmen not very straight; Oroker got rattled, and then there were eight. Sight little statesmea eating Tamstaay leaven; , Gllroy was a glutton, and then there were seven. Seven little statesmen ep to scurvy tricks; MeKane went to Slag Slag; aad then there were six. Six little statesmen taking spoils to wtvet White took "sugar," and than there were Ave Five little statesmen talking tariff lotei Wilson met a whirlwind, aad thea there were four. Four little statesmen up In a treet Breckinridge disgraced himself, «ai then there were three. statesmen wondertag hoodoo,ia* Vbfl there Thne little to do; Gresham was were twu Two little statesmen not havlng tan; Crisp tried to be a Beed, and then there was on* One little statesman quick to never rnat Grover bet on queen high, sad then ties was non& --Toledo Blade Fewer ImmlfrMS (£>mtag. Unskilled labor in the Eastern States often ories out against the com­ petition of foreign immigrants who are willing to work for half the wage Amerloan workingmen receive. Even some highly skilled mechanics favor a restriction of immigration by imposing a tax of $50 or $100 a head on every newcomer. The abandonment of the American standard of living and of wages would, however, stop the im­ migration to this country quicker than a head tax. The eiTect of hard times and the downward tendency of wages which the threat of the Wilson bill has already caused is shown in &e following table of the immigrants ar­ riving at the port of New York during the, five autumn and winter months ot three! recent years: 1M0-S1. October November.. Deoember. January... February.. 17,048 lUttt 11,377 1M1-92. 30.116 1S.T01 90,8*3 1MS-M. IMM 1UM 11.4U •.Ml •.Ml Total for s months. 106,441 --New York Press. 11M1« U.64I Learned a Thing or Two. At an amateur minstrel entertain­ ment given for charity the other erea« ing in Chicago, <ne fb£*wing verse of a song made the hit of the evening: ..... Last time we bad election ;y ; We didn't want protection; We wanted Mrs. Cleveland aad ••• ̂ f Her free-trade husband, too; " ; * , We wanted an improremenfc „ You all were ia the movement, " i " not since that 4th of March i We have learned a thing or two. It May-Be* The new Georgia Senator, Boa, Patrick Walsh, <s said to be a Randall Democrat on the tariff question. If this be true, his presence in the Sen­ ate will not add anything to the peace of mind of the crowd that is trying to push the Wilson bill through that body. But it may ba that Editor Walsh will blue-pencil his convictions when he en­ ters the American house of lords. A Tale of Kxtortlon. A useless snd danger- We present a ous surplus In the na­ tional Treasury tells no other tale but ex­ tortion on the part of the Government, and a perversion of the people's intention. -- Grover Cleveland's let­ ter to Tammany Hall Celebration, June ~ 1888. Pi ure full freighted with revenue for every call that can be made on the Republlo at home and abroad, and with a sur­ plus besides ot MS. Sir, there is no terror to me in a sur-nj|m lilfo f.hfa--SSMtOS Voorhees, April 9, IBM. THE people have now taken to speak­ ing at the polls.--New York Heiald. Yes, and they will do more of it. Grover Cleveland and his cuelfaos will find it up-hill work to run their party with soup houses aad ?eoef/<wa FAITH is said to be able to iwaove mountains; but Grover's faith is insuf­ ficient to overcome an insignificant Hill. SENATOR LODGE dubs the Wilson bill as "The Gospel of Despair.*,- No better definition nas been given of it. Progress Under Queens. It is a singular historic fact that the reign of every queen in modern times has been attended by wonderful ad­ vancement in the material, political, literary, and even military progress of her country. The reign of Catherine the Great, of Russia, witnessed the widest extension of the ttussian em­ pire that had been known up to her time. The reign of Maria Theresa was a period of prosperity for Austro-Hun- gary, in spite of the seven years war, while the reigns of Elizabeth and Anne in English history were ages of glory in letters, art, ana war, ana that of Mary might have been but for the unlucky foreign alliance she formed with Philip of Spain. Great Britain has never seen such an age as that of Victoria, and perhaps will not again for centuries. The pres­ ence <>f a queen on the throne as sov­ ereign seems to inspire all the poetry and ch ival'-v there is in the nature of man, and perhaps that fact furnishes an adequate explanation. THE former tutor of Professor Bil­ lroth says that the famous surgeon was a very dull pupil, and so slow of speech that it seemed as though his tongue was too thick to move. Treatment of tks Am Horse at Wovk-- Kxy^Mst* wlta Mlxod Ureases--Ad- *Ma*s*«f tbeSssnasteaa-rtastttsaek The r»rm Horse at" War*. After a season of comparative Idle­ ness during the winter, the farm hone should be brought gradually into full work in the spring. Do not pat the horses at a ba d day's plow­ ing at first, but rather let them do tighter work for the first few days. Their shoulders will need watching, to see that the collars fit well, that tl̂ ey do not galL Loose collars are the most frequent cause of sore shoulders. Sponge the shoulders night end morning with a strong de­ coction of white oak bark until they get hardened. Many farmers think it too much trouble to remove the collar at noon, but 1 think: it would well repay the trouble in added com­ fort to the horse. It Is like taking off your hat when you come in at noon, tired and heated by your work. Bemoving the collars at noon while the horses are eating gives the shoul­ ders a chance to become cool. When a gall does come, bathe It at least three times a day with cold water. If possible, let the animal rest until the place is healed, bat by all means try to arrange by windintr cloth around the collar to relieve the press­ ure upon that spot. Do not hurry the team too much, but let it take its own natural pace, and it will not need to rest so often, and will leave the field fresher than if hurried along with the whipi ' In marking out ground for corn or potatoes, if one horse Is used it is not so easy to drive in a straight line as when two horse* were used. If a single horse is used it will go straJghter and better if it is allowed to go slowly. A horse that % jerked and yelled at become nervous and does not know what it is about, and cannot do half so well as when he is uncxcited. Give a horse a loose rein when he is at work. He cannot use his full strength if his head is drawn up with a tight check relfj. Perhaps it is not best fur all kinds qj? work that there be no check rein at all, for a horse will be reach­ ing down to the ground when standing still, bin it should certainly allow the horse to get his head'4bwn to a level with the rest of his body. Some horses naturally carry their heads high, even when at work, but most of them do not need to get their heads down to throw all their weight into the collar to move a heavy load. it is the -- -- MOST people can get "daily putter that nothers thi "d&ily bread;" em. " ' "•( f ' fV i V' -a*' , Mixed Grouses. TJ»e experiments made at the Wis- oonsin Experiment Station on mixed grasses are reported as follows: For the purpose of testing the advantages of using mixed grasses for hay and pasture, four acres were devoted to experiments. The mixed seed sown were timothy, (orchard, Italian irye, perennial rye, tall oak, red rye, Ken­ tucky blue, with the clovers. These grass seeds were in nearly equal quantity, except that timothy and orchard grass predominated, tbe whole twenty.nine pounds to the acre. They were sown early in May, on spring plow.ug and fine harrow­ ing, a part of the land to these alone and a part with a light seeding of barley. The seeds germinated and grew welL Tbe advantage of seed* ing to grass seed alone was very dis­ tinctly exhibited; this part of the field grew rapidly, while that with the barley grew spindling and pate. The latter did well after tbe barley was cut, although the difference was very visible to the end of the season. So heavy was tbe growth when seeded jalone that over three tons of hay were taken the same season from two and one-third acres. No hay was cut from the barley seeded part. After the mowing One pasture was furnished for several weeks in autumn, estimated as worth 12 an acre for cattle at 25 c. per week. When the barley was sown the pas- ture was worth half this amount The hay was woith $10 an acre or 98 per ton. As far as the trial goes It furnishes st ong evidence in mixed seeding, and In sowing alone with­ out the shade of grain crops, barley being regarded as one of the best to seed with. The soil was black loam, tajHirssaed with yard manure, Sfco MassU «*rau " We' have already been shown uie carefully kept books of a farmer who owns and tills a little place of only fifty acres. Not having much land to look after, you see he has time to keep his accounts. Some men who have large farms have no time for such foolish things, but this man says tbe time spent on bis books pays better than if put upon working so much more land, because, he says, it enables him to tell all the time what crops, and what fields, and wbat stock pay bim; but perhaps tbat is onlv a theory. You see these book farmers are very often theoretical-- but about his fifty acres. His ac­ count* begin with an inventory of the land and everything on it at the be­ ginning of the year. At the close of the year was another inventory, and in each every item was set down ^ its actual value There was an in­ crease of stock, machinery, and sup­ plies amounting to about $100. The Mftss from tbe farm during the year had been 1900 in excess uf the pur­ chases for supplies and the payment for labor. Besides this, there was every evidence that tbe family had lived well, had enjoyed all seasonable comforts and had not been over­ worked. Tbe total of sales bad been made up from all the products of a general farm, as tbe owner was not a specialty farmer. This is in the nature of an object lesson for men who have large farms and who are overworked in the effort to cultivate all ther land properly, and who in the end find themselves poorly paid for their pains. Tbe little farm is tbe more satisfactory. --Philadelphia In­ quirer. Best Use of Stable Manure. Science points out ucuci6i>cles in stable manure, and in some cases positively bad results have come from its use on crops like potatoes and fruits subject to attacks of fungus diseases. For fruit, especially, ap­ plications of concentrated mineral in of tuif w out *!** But theafc are otfceruiiieqf Stable manure where it never ftS to help. One of these is for cqn, if applied early enough so that part of it is mixed with the so rains before the land is plowed. JLn other, and perhaps the hest us* of stable manure, is as top dressing for young clover. If applied before the seed is sown, or directly after ward* it seldom fails to give a good "tiV'lt. end by making a large clover growth it enriches the land for the next plowing more than a like amount of manure can do applied in any.other w«f. "•••• . „ ;v. Siewtaf >*1«M ProBtabljr.v?1,f < Sandy, warm land is in Northern States necessary for profitable melon growing. A few may be grown for home use on heavy land well fertil­ ized, but they will not be so early nor so profitable as on lighter soil, In­ stead of using a great quantity of coarte manhre in the hill, a much smaller amount of well-rotted stable manure will do better service, and it is better spread over the whole sur­ face that put in with the seed. For hill manuring there is nothing better than a mixture of nitrate of soda with an equal weight of phosphate. This will not make the hill dry up in mid­ summer, as manure either tine or coarse in the, hill wiii surely du Plant Some Peach Tree*. We believe that peaches can be grown in all localities where they used to flourish when the country was new. It is found that they are not Injured during severe winters when their wo d and buds are well ripened, and this depends more on having plenty of potash in the soil than on anything else. Peaches need a great amount of potash. Even peach wood is rich in this mineral, and the fruit and seeds are still more so. Plant peach trees and give them as much potash as they had when the forest had been newly cleared off, and/there will be a return of the old-time 'luck" in growing this fruit---Exchange. tmproTlnc th? Pasture. If good ashes can be easily and cheaply procured, sow a mixtu e of fifteen bushels of ashes and 100 pounds of ground bone upon your pasture now. It will make an early pasture In the spring, and its effect will be seen for many years. Such an application is best adapted to high lands, as it assists In attracting tuo sturc from tbe atmosphere in dry weather. If the ashes cannot be got, or are likely to contain much lime, 100 pounds of muriate of potash may be used to quite as good advantage. To double the amount given in the foregoing would do no harm, and might double the feeding capacity of an acre. ... Crtasson Clover ta Mew Jersey. The Rural ftew Worker report* that crimson clover, sown August 28 in New Jersey, lived through the winter in good condition, though the thermometer was at one time six de­ gree? below zero. This tardiness of crimson clover will adapt it to many localities where it had been supposed impossible to grow it. It it will en­ dure a cold six degrees below zero, it ought to be safe to grow almost any­ where in Pennsylvania, Southern New England and Western York. LOAF sugar should be used always for tea. ALL ruga, when shaken, should be handled by the middle, not by the ends. CORN MEAL IS an excellent cosmetic for the face. It brightens up the skin and cleanses the pores. NEVKU enter a sick room in a state of perspiration, as the moment you become cool your pores absorb. Do NOT approach contagious dis­ ease with an empty stomach nor sit between the sick and the fire, be­ cause the heat attracts the vapor. Preventives are preferable to pill or powder. ONE can test a cake's baking by drawing it to tbe edge of the oven and listening for the faint, sputter­ ing sound which will continue until it is ready to take out This is a better trial than the broom splinter thrust into the dough. To CLEAN hair brushes quickly and easily, take a desertspoonful of harts­ horn to a quait of cold water in a wash basin. Dip in the hair of the brushes, and ppb them together un­ til clean. Then rinse well with cold water; rub dry with a towel, and stand upright at an open window. 'life! A rolled Hasifctt •ays the KewYoric foung man, whew lack slid eagerness in dication that he *«§ tto the corner of VmmM'WtH, streets he collided ? ;th an oMer and knocked off the letter's rflk which also because the yctqr wind. The two hate rolled down the Spruce street Derby well In the .lead, aad ttetW owners followed them, wfcQa ft tMM gathered to wateh. |he ffe*, hill there came puffing a comfortable looking party, tention was called to the sundry howls of|"Hi!" "floP* * and,other equally intelligible lections from the owner* 111 party essayed to stop the flii£tip with his hands, in ^a-iBMneeoNijp,̂ ^: who'grabs for a dtftinll, and twith ^n evident fear thaî a might bite. The Derby A nimbly by and the portly one took a chance at the till hat. stuck out his foot. The silk Mfc. lightly tripped over it So did.tfe owner of the Derby, who was dsp behind and didn't have time to atapt He plunged forward on the back of his neck, flopped over once and landed squarely upon the «itt ba& with a force highly detrimental to Ha appearance. Up he rose with s h""! of rsgcstt$, wetted the surprised portly pgrfjf jfc the diaphragm. Before the ogkijr could retaliate the owner of ttie hat arrived and poked bis ttstlnto tin the collar of the proprietor of lit brown derby, which was meantiaa* making good time toward WilttNfc street. Then there was a real trha> gular mix up, and the crowd off spectators howled with glee. Pres­ ently the man without the browa Derby bethought himself of bfeha* having satisfied his rage hy the shins of tbe other two men. saw it in the act of rolling the feet of a team of draught horsei. After they had passed over a u * * scoplcal examination would have necessary to identify the re The owner left them lyluf In road, went back to the who had desended from of each other's features to objurgation, and suggested that all have a drink and talk the mai over. They disappeared into neighboring saloon, and the crowd melted away. Two minutes there­ after a messenger boy emerged ftw the saloon and returned shortly with terto skull caps. §'•? • • The First Iiocomotlire in WiatBtts The first locomotive used in tbe State of Msine, away back in 1836, is shown in Cassler'9 Magazine for April. The engine, as there de­ scribed, came from England, having been built at tbe works of Robert Stephenson & Co., In the year 1835, and made its first trip over tbe Bangor, Oldtown and Miiford Bail- road on August ID, 1837.' This road was then generally known as the "VeazieirToad," and the track was made ofjrwflw rftHs. strapped with iron. The shackles used to connect the engine and cars were made of three thicknesses of sole or belt leather, held together by copper rivets, and bad a hole in each end so as to hook over an upright stationary pin, bolted or driven into a rigid beam extending from tbe end of the car. The exact weight of the engine is not known, but it probably did not exceed 25,000 pounds, and its power was correspondingly feeble compared with that of modern locomotives. It is said that, for a time, the engine was run in opposition to a six-ox team employed by a Bangor lumber} dealer, who was not willing to pay the rates charged on tbe railroad, and it was not until the management of the line came to what he consld ered fair cha c over to Instinct Seldom Goes WNau&T ; , "I had an experience to be remem­ bered once at Mooeefcead," said Joseph Williams, a laborer on tha Lewiston streets. 1'Three^)f us wm out on the lake one winter's day January when a storm came up. Ww had a couple of horses and rode on sledges made of split birch polea Tft get home and settled in the before night came on was our wish, but for two hours tfce icy cl had been blowing up on tbe Bctizon and now came down in a whld of snow and icy trlnd. In half an hoar we were lost on the ice. Two hows later we crossed our own tracks agadp and knew that we had beea folii about in a circle. To stay out them all night would be death, and to keep on traveling meant to fall at last Finally, as the wind blew along the level surface and the snow beat on our bronzed faces with not* cutting effect, we called a halt Mft discussed again thj rtanga An old guide who was with > us saaptw .that we let the horses taka their *** way off the lake. It seemed fimltstfc but we agreed. Striking the ~ smart clips with the whips we surprised to see them ture. ei tbe left and start off east, thought this would take us farther into the lake, but submitted, and fa half an hour the trees along the bank loomed up through the storm, and we were safek • horse knows by instinct ^hat a man doubts aad questions in such times"--Lewiston Journal. A Big Sewer. Philadelphia is going to give thn world an excellent object lemon in sewer building," said Franeis Heslop of Pittsburgh to a St Louis Globe- Democrat man. "Tbey are building a large, sewer on piles, and if the? succeed in their undertaking, which is ts cost $1,500,000, tbey will have done a great deal toward solving a very difficult problem. Thisnewsewer runs along the bed of the Aramlngo canal, which is too soft to hold the great weight To get over this diSI- culty piles of yellow pine twelve inches square are to be driven down to rock bottom about three feet apart. At tbe top of them a heavy plank floor will be placed, and on this a nine-foot sewer will be built "The undertaking has been dis­ cussed by engineers th.ougfaont the State, and opinions differ very much as to the result of the undertaking; which in several features appears to be daring in the extreme In thia age of engineering advancement it la absurd to say anything is impo«sibg«t and the men in charge of this etagn- lar work are likely to be abte t) eon. vinoe tbe world that after all is something new under the sun.** is,',." .'ii } ^ i<s hsMi '"F • -It >4 • * V ! . ? S . • SF' • .... .T-.'V 'sBM , ttr Taxed. 1 Bouiaauia is perhaps toe itigi&st-1 taxed country in the world. Every, bottle of foreign wine has to pay a shilling duty. There is a tax even on one's door-plate; there is a tax which doctors must pay yearly for tbe prlv- ilege ot exercising their profession. { Sunday in Sunday iu iuost of toe capitals Qg Australian provinces is not an eflf3i*> en Ing day. Concert and thsstflrsl entertainments are contrary to the law, hotels are rigorously daaaft as far as the general pnlBic Is con. cerned, and if a publiean is. eanght dispensing liquor tee tsbeavily fteed. Steamers aad trains are run only on sufferance, slthoegh the shops are al­ lowed to remaic open. In Metboom* however no atanftneper is iltftWeil to eeU even a bottle of irtnger beer or a dozen of apples, yet Melbourne Is the only town where coneertsareheld Sunday, and once they wets high class, but as no charge can be made for entrance they have retrograted in character. An audience is ad­ mitted to the concert baii or bit by bit,* each man or woman hav­ ing to contribute to u coi!ection made at the door as they enter. lime* however, the plate Is round the seats as ia church, don Figaro. ^ 1 l W*.