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endeavored day by the declared th TLLINOT' J, VAN SI^YKE, alitor and Pa MoHENRY. PANIC ON A TROLLEY. MANY NARROWLY ESCAPE BE­ ING KILLED. Cor Crashes.. Into a Swiftlj'i Moving Passenger; Train--Over Thirty In­ jured iri New Orleans Accident--Fa­ tal Crossing Collision in Ohio. Electric Car Takes a Plnnse. Electric car No. 501, of the Western avenue line, at Chicago, took a wild plunge into a moving passenger train of the Burlington Road -at the IGtli street crossing at 5:30 o'clock Monday evening. After the collision there was not enough left of the street car to make kindling wood, but the passengers All jumped in time to save themselves, and escaped with more or less severe injuries; The worst.injury received was by Mrs. Hugo Miller, of West Madison street, who had a sprained ankle. A curious feature of tlie affair is that a year ago the Burling­ ton^ secured an injuiictioit forbidding the street, car company; from using electricity in crossing its , tracks, and until few days.ago it hid been using horses at that crossing. The injunction, however. Was dissolved and the trolley wires,, strung across the right of way. ff fhus Massachusetts etftisfc ,veFo.g<T of .15.31 kuois per hour, The blot tor the MaeGoWan's Pass ern Subpolice Station....'in Central Park, New York/bore this entry. Friday: "Arrested by Officer Michael J. Sweeney, Duke of Marfborough, 23 ytfars old, resi­ dent of England, no occupation, single; temporary residence, Pla?.aXHot£l; charge, violation of park ordinance; reprimanded ..and discharged by Roundsman Ryan." "Tlnis briefly and officially is recorded the arrest of the young Duke of Marlborough, who is to wed Miss Conshelo Yanderbilt, There is an ordinance which forbids wheelmen from riding faster than eight miles an hour in the park or from coast­ ing down hills. The Dulfe did not know this when he hung his feet over the. han­ dle-bar and went Sliding down the road to 104th street Officer Sweniey gave chase and overhauled $he young noble­ man, iriforming him he was under arrest. At the station he was lectured and dis­ charged. e an f mov^bients that gave his watchful friends grave concern last spring have pvm place to a glow of fine health and 'an elasticity of stqp that tell the whole story.of complete restoration of, physical vigor. His real condition- four months ago was such as to occasion serious appre­ hensions. There .were aggravated symp­ toms of heart and kidney troubles, and he was threatened with a physical break­ down. His physicians, Drs. Bryant and O'Riley, ordered him out of Washington and directed him to spend a long summer in the often air regardless of thfc weather. The prescription was.most welcome, and from June' to the' tniddle of October the President put in 'every hour he ' could spare from official! duties fishing, hunt­ ing and sailing. Tike salt air and the ex­ ercise wrought a Wonderful change, and the President returtns to. Washington ap­ parently a well man. His cheeks are brown as mahogany and his flesh hard as iron. He steps off nicely, his eyes sparkle with buoyant spirits, and he is bright Its a new dollar. > ' ;i! WESTERN. Accident at a-Ferry. "/it New Orleans fliirty persons, were injured and three others, it is feared, were drowned by the breaking down of the little iron bridge which leads from the. Algiers ferry-house to the floating wharf, where the -ferry-boat is accus­ tomed to land. It was nearly dusk when the accident occurred. The waiting pas­ sengers crowded ontjp the bridge as soon as the ferry-boat was in sight. The boat, the Thomas Pickler, was also crowded. The engines were slowed down on ap­ proaching the wharf, and as usual the boat almost drifted to her landing. How­ ever, the stern of the vessel bumped against the end of the pontoon, and with a crash the iron span parted and a hun­ dred or more frantic people were dumped into the water among the piling and drift­ ing timbers. The men on the pontoon and those in the ferry-house did not .wait a moment before they began to look to­ ward assisting those in the water. While hundreds of strong hands grasped every plank within reach on the pontoon ttnd dashed them into the water for the un­ fortunates to cling to dozens devoted their efforts to pacifying the women and chil­ dren on the pontoon. Four Men Killed. East-bound accommodation No. 50 on the Panhandle Railroad crashed into a wagon at Miller's Station, Ohio, about 7:30 o'clock Monday morning, demolish­ ing the vehicle and killing the four occu­ pants. Their names were: Edward Co­ gan, Samuel Cogan, Jr., Samuel Cogan, Sr., John Campbell. The bodies were horribly mangled. There is a sharp curve near the crossing and the engineer claims he did not see the Wagon until too late to stop the train. The victims were resi­ dents of Youngstown, near Latrobo, Pa. Battle of Words Only. The Fitzsimmons-Corbett fight will not come off after all, either at Hot Sprnigs or anywhere else. What Gov. Clarke has to accomplish was done Mon- by the Florida Athletic Club when it the fight off. Corbett and his wanted to postpone until the excited opposition to the affair had died out, and a meeting could be arranged on the quiet. Fitzsimmons objected to this, and declared for what he. knew was impossible under the law. Each of the principles is already busy calling the other coward and liar, and preparing for the stage tour which after all was the paramonnt and pre-arranged object o f the projected fight. BREVITIES. Austro^Hungarian sugar refiners have formed a trust. General Coxey is about to start a daily paper to boom his candidacy for Governor of Ohio. Eighteen Foo-Choo rioters, convicted of murdering foreign, missionaries, are to be put to death. At Uniontown, Ala., City Marshal Rob­ ert Britton was shot dead by Y. C. Metz- ger, a merchant. Prairie fires have caused great destruc­ tion in Finney, Greeley and Wichita Counties, Kansas. Thirty persons were drowned at Cali- acau, Lower California, by the storm which destroyed La Paz. At Philadelphia United States Judge Butler held it is a crime to send dunning letters in black envelopes. Barnato's sister-in-law, Miss Alice Hol- brook, is an actress now playing in New York City. She says the "Kaffir King's" real name is Bernard Isaacs. Burglars Wrecked the safe of Hoge, Daly & Co.'s bank at Anaconda, Mont., with dynamite. The noise of the ex­ plosion aroused the town and led to their capture. , The mine strike in the mountain region, extending from Johnstown, Pa., to Al- toona, is not nearly so serious as reported. About one thousand men are out and at least four thousand are working. The 300 miners employed at the North Leavenworth, Ivan., coal shaft quit work and visited the Home River mines for the purpose of inducing the miners at that' place to quit. The North Leavenworth Company is paying SO cents a ton and the Home Compiny 70 cents. The walk-out is to force the Home River Company to pay SO cents. A general strike seems al­ most certain, as the Home River people- are not disposed to accede to the demands made. A serious fire at Millvill£, Minn., start­ ing in A. J. Muehlberg's blacksmith- shop, destroyed the shop, Leonard's store, Schmidt s Hotel and John Larson's dwelling. Albert Hargeson, an employe of the machine shop, was burned to death. The po^toffice building also $4 00(?' t^e ma" WUS save(^ Loss, J.< S. Hackley, who claims credit' for arresting Fraker, tlieinsurance swindles, vvill^ sue the insurance companies for the reward which he says was promised him. n.e tnreatens sensational disclosures if the case is tried. / Developments in the case of Defaulting Cashier J. R. Colean, of the Fort Scott, Ivan., State Bank, shows his shortage to be $50,000 instead of $23,000, as at first supposed. Vice President Stewart says that Colean literally gutted the reserve fund, realizing on $20,000 of the best su- curities h^Jd by St, Louis, New York and Kansas City banks. Fire broke out in the main hoisting slope of the Oregon Improvement Com­ pany's mine, at Franklin, Wash., causing the death of John H. Glover, S. W. Smal­ ler, John 'Adams and James Stafford., The accident was er ased by August John­ son, who dropped lis lamp, setting fire to a gas. feeder. Instead, of throwing a shovelful of dirt .to put it out, he ran down the slope to get the pit foreman. - While he was bringing- help the timbers caught fire. Finding that the flames could not be extinguished, the four men named volun- tered to go down and close a door between the main and auxiliary slopes. It is sup­ posed they never reached the bottom alive, but the bodies have not been re­ covered. Terror pervaded the ranks of West Side thugs and robbers at Chicago* Friday night. All day long Inspector Shea's men had been gathering them in, and when the. shades of night had fallen those who es­ caped the net sought their hiding places and remained there. As one West Side- ci-tizen remarked after gazing down Hal- sted and Madison streets: "A fellow could fire a cannon ball down the sidewalk and not hit a person." It was the quietest night for years up to 12 o'clock. The streets seemed to be almost » deserted." From early morning until late in the even­ ing the Desplaines street wagon rumbled throughout the district, bringing in its load of victims. It was a grand "cleaning up" and one of the most thorough ever made in the city. The books of the sta­ tion showed the names of forty suspects and thirty more whose names were not booked were below.' Potatoes are cheaper now than they have been within the memory of the old­ est dealers in Chicago's South Water street. Car lots on track of the choicest varieties are selling at 23 to 24 cents a bushel, and any amount of fair stock is going at 17 to 20 cents a bushel. Even at these low prices there is littleidemand, and the railway tracks within the Chicago yards are glutted. The Chicago and Northwestern has notified its agents at country stations not to receive any more potatoes till further notice. Minnesota and Wisconsin have more potatoes than they need. In Minnesota many farmers are leaving them to rot in the ground, as they are not worth digging. On Minne­ sota farms as choice and fair-skinned po­ tatoes as a farmer would care to see are selling at 3 to 10 cents a bushel. In Wis­ consin thousands of bushels are buried in improvised cellars in the fields awaiting shipment. Iowa has a big crop, but the quality is poor. Michigan also has a large yield of good quality. Chief of Police Badenoch, of Chicago, has instructed Inspector Schaack to clean out the gang of thugs and burglars that have kept the residents of the North Side and Lake View in continual terror for several months past. "Clean them out if it is necessary to do so at the point of re­ volvers," said the Chief, thoroughly an­ gry at the numerous robberies reported from this territory and the apparent ina­ bility of the police to cope with the crim­ inals that have practically taken posses­ sion of it. Inspector Schaack returned to his bailiwick and immediately laid plans to run the. gang out of the city. He visited Capt. Schuettler, of the Lake View police, and informed him. that arrests, not excuses, must be made to prevent the wholesale raids by the thieves. The fatal shooting of Charles M. Collins, of 112 Sigel street, by a burglar Wednesday night stirred the Chief to determined ac­ tion. Collins was attacked in his own house by burglars who were searching for valuables, and fell to the floor wounded in three places. The crime was a bold one, planned and executed by desperate thieves, who came armed and ready to commit murder in order to carry out their attack. But bold as was the raid, it is' only one of many within the last few months that have kept the people living north of the river wondering what the robbers will do next. The desperate hold-up of the Evanston trolley-car two weeks ago was one of the exploits of the band of robbers. FOREIGN, WASHINGTON. EASTERN. Pennsylvania millers will try to induce Congress to retaliate upon foreign nations who have discriminated against American flour. At Buffalo, N. Y., Dr. Abbie J. Sey­ mour, a woman physician of note, com- mitted suicide by throwing herself in front of a train, •*, At Pittsburg, Pa., J. C. Schaefer Jr., a carriage manufacturer, committed sui­ cide. He was short in his accounts as president ofj a loan association. ' The battleship Indiana was given a pre­ liminary run over the government course President Cleveland will not begin the preparation of his annual message to Con­ gress until after he returns from the At­ lanta exposition. Mr. Cleveland's Cab­ inet officers hint that the forthcoming message will be the most important state paper ever launched by the President. Questions uf a foreign policy will for the first time be given first prominence, it is said. Ihe message in this respect will be so firm and aggressive in tone as to leave no future doubt of Mr. Cleveland's devo­ tion to a firm foreign policy. The finan­ cial question will be thoroughly discussed and the recommendation for a retirement of greenback currency will be renewed. Some suggestion will be put forth for leg­ islation to increase the revenues $30,000,- 000 to $50,000,000, but the President is not satisfied in his own; mind yetj-iiit'ds said, where this extra tax can be most advantageously laid. A Washington dispatch says: Presi­ dent Cleveland's annual message to Con- gress, the preparation of which will soon engage his attention, will be a most note­ worthy state paper. It will be more sen­ sational and perhaps of far greater im­ portance than the famous tariff message of 1S87, which many observers think changed the history of - parties .in . this country. The principal feature of the forthcoming message will be the discus­ sion of the foreign relations;.' It is'well known that the President is-eager for a reply from Great Britain concerning this country's vigorous representation in favor of arbitration in Venezuela, and hewapts this reply before the meeting of Congress if he can get it. Mor6 important even than these immediate questions, consider­ ing the future of the United States, is the policy of over-sea enterprise which the President is expected to foreshadow in his message. If the expectations pf certain of Mr. Cleveland's confidential friends are realized, he will say to Congress and. the (country that the.tinie Jias come -for a new American policy, a policy of aggres­ siveness, both political and Commercial, beyond this country's coast lines. A Washington correspondent says: President Cleveland looks like an athlete in the pink of condition. The flahbihess of <at, dullness of eyes and heaviness of THE JPABM AND H0MU. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM­ ER AND HOUSEWIFE. The Way One Sensible Farmer^ Buys Machinery--Don't Winter Too Many FowJb--How to Relieve Choked Cat­ tle--Shelter for the Stock* How He Bought His Machinery. 1 , To obtain improved machinery when Short of. money, I Went to a retail dealer and arranged to plant a crop expressly to pay for the machinery wanted. I uever order more machinery than I fee! sure I can pay f\or in the fall,' says a writer in the Agriculturist. In this way I have bought all kinds of farm ma­ chinery, and supplied the house with improved house-keeping utensils in keeping with the farm. The insurgents in the Province of Santa Clara, Cuba, have circulated pamphlets advising the inhabitants >not to use the railroads, as they have determined to blow them up with dynamite. jA. dispatch to the Paris Journal from Metz says. that while the Emperor and Empress of Germany were on their way to the cathedral there some person shout­ ed from a window, "Vive La France." It is added that several afrests were made in consequence p£ this demonstration. Tokio, Japan,' dispatch: Theeoihpiicity of the Soshi in the attack upon the im­ perial palace at Corea and the murder of the Queen is confirmed, but the extent of the connivance is as yet unknown. An imperial decree has been issued forbid-, ding all Japanese to visit Corea without special permission. A high qfiicer of the Foreign Department has been dispatched to Corea to expedite the inquiry into the circumstances of the attack upon the palace. An explosion occurred Wednesday on a steamship at Kung Pai, near Kin Chow. The steamship was loaded with troops, and it is reported that 000 of them were killed. The troops Were probably Jap­ anese soldiers leaving Chinese territory, as insisted upon by Russia and France. Kin Chow, of Kin Chow Foo, is a large and populous city in the Province of Hoq Pe. It is rightly regarded as one of the keys of the Chinese Empire. Its site on the left bank of the Yang Tse Iviang, about S00 miles from its debouch­ ment into thei Yellow Sea at Shanghai, makes it a great mart of commerce. Additional advices received at Shang­ hai from KimOhow, near which place, on Wednesday last, the steamship Ivun-Pai was destroyed by an explosion which sank her in shallow water, confirm the dispatch which Stated that the loss of life was believed to be very great. It is now announced that the explosion occurred in the ,fore part of the Ivun-Pai, which vessel was loaded with troops. The ex­ plosion, the cause of which is unknown, completely wrecked the forward portion of the steamship, and only twenty-four persons of those on board of her were saved. IN GENERAL At Ottawa, Ont., an order has beet, issued for opening the Canadian canals on Sundays during the remainder of the sea­ son. The committee appointed by the Chi­ cago mass meetings on September 30, which were held to express sympathy' with the Cubans, has issued an appeal that similar meetings be held throughout the Union not later than Oct." 31, and wherever practicable on that day. in or­ der that the movement may derive the benefit of such simultaneous' action as adding to its impressiveness. An American vessel, the Parthia, Cap­ tain Carter, Bath, Me., bound from Liver- pool for San Francisco with a cargo of coatyawas burned at sea four hundred miles of! the south coast of Chili. The crew took, refuge in the boats, one of which, that under the charge of the sec­ ond mate, with seven men on board, reached Valparaiso, Chili. The other boats have not yet been heard from. Obituary--At Elgin, 111., Henry Olney Billings, of Chicago, 45; at Ilochelle, 111., William Delaney, of Chicago; at Canas- tota, N. Y., Commodore de Grasse Living­ stone, 05; at Janesville, Wis., Richard O'Donnell, at one time a Chicago police­ man; at Saginaw, Mich., Henry Nieu- stedt, Jr., 60; at Adrian, Mich., Dewitt C. Clark; at Chesterton,, Ind., John G. Coulter; at Rockford,' 111., Elikam Nor­ ton. 95; at Franklin, Ind., Elba Dopue; at Bloomsburg, Pa., Judge William El- well, S7. Superintendent Duffield, of the coast and geodetic survey, has been informed that the Alaska field parties have con­ cluded the season's work and are now on Mary's Island waiting to be picked up and brought to San Francisco. The work last season consisted of the locating of Mount St. Elias as on the boundary be­ tween the two countries. Next season the more delicate work will be begun of run­ ning the line between these two points. England claims much more than the United States concedes as to this bound­ ary. The surveys so far made tend to confirm the contentions of this country. General Duffield says there is no longer any doubt that all of the Yukon River basin below the mouth of Forty-Mile Creek is American territory, which in­ cludes the gold field of that stream as far as opened. MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 59c to tile corn, No. 2, 30c to 31c; oats. No. 2. .17 to 19c; rye, No. 2, 39c to 40c; butter, choice creamery, -21c to 23c; eggs, fresh Hie to 18c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common growth to choice green hurl, 2%c to 4V!>c per pound. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 03c to 05c; corn, No. white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5,50; hogs, $3.50 to. $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 02c to 03c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; «.ats, No. 2 white, 17c to ISc; rye, No, 2, 30e to 38c,' Cift^mnttti--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 ,(to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat̂ K'o. 2, 07c to 08c; corn. No. 2 mixed,'3le to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 40c. Detroit--'Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 00c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats7~No.'"2 white, 22e- to 24c; rye, 42c to 43c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 07c to OSe; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2, 42c to 44c. Buffalo--CatVle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00. to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4,00; wheat, No. 2 red, 08c to 09c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 37c; oats,. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. . • -O Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 57c to 59c; com, No. 3, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; Farley, No. 2,.40c to 42c; rye. No. 1, 39c to 41c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.00; wheat, No. 2 red, OSc to 09c; corn, No. 2, 38c to 39c: oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; butter, creamery, 10c to 24c; eggs. West­ ern, 18c to 21c. Wintering Too Many "Fowls. The earlier in the fall the fowls not wanted for winter are separated from the flock and gotten rid of the better it will be for the farmers' profit. Most people postpone this until about holiday time. Then there is nearly always a gist of poultry, and though the fowls have meanwhile made some gain in weight, It is often less than the decline in price.. The saving of tine or two months' keeping is not all the gain by thus early disposing of the surplus. Those that remain have more room and better care. It is a good time early in the fall to secure improved breeds. Choked Cattle. I have seen several receipts in your valuable paper for relieving choked cattle, says a correspondent of the Country Gentleman, but I think the following better than any: Loop a piece of wire; place one hand below the obstruction on the outside, run the wire down the throat below the obstacle and draw it out. Shelter foi- Farm Animals. Every stockman should give his ani­ mals the best shelter he can. Humanity and good financial policy will warrant nothing less. But, unfortunately, some farmers cannot provide good shelters, which are expensive. This is not a good reason, however, why they should not provide as good shelters as they can. One is not justified in exposing his ani­ mals to the severity of the season be­ cause he cannot provide painted build­ ings. Pens of poles, the cracks chink­ ed,"and roofed with straw, cost very lit­ tle in some localities. Sheds of straw are generally inexpensive. Even fod­ der "lean-tos" are better than nothing. The.Shorthorn Carrot. The large varieties of carrot are coarser and less sweet than the- smaller sorts. They also grow deeper in the ground, and-are hard to harvest. This can be done best by going through with a plow, cutting a straight line on the land side next to the row. It will then be comparatively easy to pull out the roots next to the open furrow. But a better way still is to plant the shorthorn carrot seed. This variety grows partly out of ground, and for quality it is not excelled. It does not grow so large as the deep-rooting kinds, but can have its rows nearer and stand thicker in the row without being crowded. The short­ horn carrot is much the best for table use, and it is so much easier to harvest it that Some farmers grow it exclusively for their sjgek. It is the best root for horses, and a ration part oats and part carrot is better than one with a larger allowance of grain, but without the roots. Making Cider Vinegar. There is always a good demand for vinegar, and none is better than that made from cider out of rich, sweet ap­ ples. The earlier it is made, the more rapid will be the fermentation and the quicker will come the change from alco­ hol to acidity. This souring is much hastened by frequent exposure to the air, turning the cider once a day from one vessel to another. This exposes it to the aVv, and if it is done for a few weeks the vinegar will be as sour as by letting it lie in the barrel for as many months. The early apples are often de­ ficient in sweetness. An addition of sugar to the cider greatly increases the alcohol and also the acid in it when that stage is reached. Parsnips Need Frost. The parsnip is not only a hardy veg­ etable, but it is improved by light frosts. Before any freezing weather oc­ curs the parsnip has a harsh, acrid taste. Besides, after the first light frosts the parsnip makes in most gardens a more rapid growth than it did before, espe­ cially if the frost is followed, as it is apt to be, by rains. As is well known, the parsnip may be left in the ground through the winter without being in­ jured.. It requires to be dug as soon as the frost is out of the ground, as it starts to grow very quickly. This soon spoils the flavor of the parsnip, and if the iiew green growth is large, it may even make the parsnip poisonous. Pork Made of Nuts. The nut crop this year is said to be very large in most sections of the coun­ try. It can be made of "use for nuts that will not pay for picking, by turn­ ing hogs into the woods and letting them harvest the crop. This was often done when the country was new. The pork made from nuts is very sweet, but it is apt. to be soft, as the nuts arc oily. Feeding the pigs a few weeks toward the last with grain hardens the pork, and if the grain is not exclusively corn it does not make it less sweet and toothsome. yonr eggs frcsti evgry flay. Have some cheap, clean barrels or bpxes ready; also a barrel of dry salt. When you come in with .the eggs, go directly to the cellar with them, here your boxes and salt are. Cover the bottom about an inch deep with salt Now take the eggs one at a time, and gently press therm big end down, into the. salt, and so on until full. In November your eggs will be^n good condition. All the trou­ ble you will imd will be to wash the salt from them carefully. Your barrel of rfalt will do for another season, or bet­ ter, perhaps, feed it out to the stock. There is but one extra precaution--be sure that all the eggs are fresh and no cracked shells." Cultivating Frequently. Undoubtedly weeds at one time had their use to stimulate farmers to work the soil so as to destroy them. But now­ adays the best farmers do not wait for weeds to appear before they set the cultivator going. The time to kill a weed and have it do the greatest good to the soil is just after its seed has ger­ minated. But cultivation does much rnore than destroy weeds. It mixes the soil, pulverizes the hard lumps and enables? the soil to hold a greater amount of air ih contact with its moist surfaces; This causes fermentation in the soii and develops carbonic acid gas which makes mineral fertilizers solu­ ble. <• , Millet as Horse Feed. Horses are very fond of millet, and especially so of the seeds. . They will fatten on millet hay, but if there is a great proportion of seed in it the mil­ let should be given sparingly. There is a belief among farmers that millet seed injures the kidneys, but we have fed it to horses without injury. All very nitrogenous feeds weaken the kidneys, and should be fed sparingly. It is best in growing millet for horses to sow pretty thickly. There will be few­ er seeds on millet so grown. The stalks will be smaller and more readily eaten than will be those of millet sown thinly to grow a seed crop. Poor Quality of Prairie Hay. The scarcity of hay this year will probably induce large importations from the West. The facility with which hay may now bo baled and sent long distances very cheaply has re­ duced the 'quality pf baled hay very much. Much of the Western hay is of poor quality, and if feed has to be bought, it would be well to buy grain, which is sure to be cheap, and let the hay alone. With plenty of grain which can be ground and mixed with cut hay or straw there Is cheaper nutrition than can be found in hay, especially if it has to be purchased. Salt for Poultry. It is a common error that salt is fatal to poultry, says the American Farmer. This arose from the ill effects of allowing poultry to get at salt when they had not had it as a part of their rations, and once they got access to it they ate enough to kill them. All soft food given to poultry should be salted about as much as the same amount would be for human use, and if this is done they will never eat salt to excess if they are allowed to run where they can get at it. Salt is one of the neces­ sary elements of the blood, and if it is not furnished in some shape the health of tho fowls will be impaired and their productiveness lowered. Sawdust to Bed Pigs. The common objection to using saw­ dust for bedding, that it is not a good thing to have it mixed with the manure pile, does not apply to its use for bud­ ding for pigs. The pig Is the most cleanly of all animals in not soiling his bedding. Sows with pigs will bunch up their straw bedding and then lie on it so as to destroy them. This they cannot do when sawdust bedding is used. The pigs are always cleanly, and the sawdust helps to keep them free from vermin, which often attacks them where straw bedding is used. Grass Around Apple Trees. It is not possible, or best if it were, to plow so close to trees in sod as to remove all the grass around tl(ieir trunks. But such clumps of grass should be dug out with a spade and overturn­ ed. There are no roots close to the stump for this grass to interfere with, but it makes just the shelter that the apple-tree borer beetle needs when de­ positing its eggs. It also obstructs the view of the tree trunk: Every orchard- isli should watch his trees closely dur­ ing the summer for signs of the borer, and the bunch of grass growing around the roots of the tree is what most often prevents the first work of the borer from being observed. Tobacco and Fertility. The tobacco crop requires very rich land, and it is very exhaustive of fer­ tility. Many farmers who go to grow­ ing tobacco thinking that it is all profit, find that it takes most of the manure made on a large farm, with some min­ eral fertilizer besides, to produce a good crop. Whether this manure used for fruit growing would not produce greater profit is a question that tobac­ co growers the last year or two have been anxiously asking. Feeding Rye. Rye is much more easily grown than wheat, and is less exhaustive of fer­ tility. ;lt makes an excellent hog feed, and some farmers have even advocated growing it to be fed down by hogs, claiming that in this way they can get more profit 'HFrom their land with less labor. But iii most localities this would be a very wasteful method of disposing of the rye crop. The straw is often more valuable than the grain. By threshing the grain and then grinding it with(corn an excellent feed is pro­ duced better for hogs than either gx*ain alone. Preserving liggH in Salt. A poultry dealer says in the Massa­ chusetts Ploughman: "Sjncc 1 learned that an unfertile egg keeps better than a fertile one, I have had no trouble in getting ;* good pr^ce for eggs that are laid during Mummer. As soon as the breeding n"».wm Is oyer, kill or remove every male bird on the phice. Gather Kgg Producing Hens. Egg.producing costs less than raising fowls for market, either in time or trouble. They are a finished product, requiring no feeding, fussing or loss. They sell for cash, and there is no dan­ ger of an over production. A Continuous Milker. A red-polled cow at, Wliittlingham, Eng., has yielded milk continuously since she ceased calving, five years ago, her record being 13,734 gallons of milk of the first quality. No other case like this is known. GOOD CROP FIFTY THOUSAND CORRESPON­ DENTS BEING ORGANIZED niriMnn inniMH'. The. Agricultural Department En- i gages in a Gigantic Undertaking-- The Agent Receives Only Depart­ ment Documents in Compensation. Improving the Bervice. Washington correspondence: " ENRY A. ROBIN- sori, the chief sta­ tistician of the -Ag­ ricultural Depar It- men t, is engaged in the gigantic task, of organizing a corps of 50,000 correspon­ dents throughout the agricultural d i s - tricts, particularly in the West and South. This corps will be twice as great as the standing army ef the jiii,I* United States, near- :--: ly one-hajf as great IP1]f"|f I(lias the militia force ti |!|J, |m> • in all of the States -*1111(1 Ji . t| :and Territories, one- twelfth of 1 per cent, of the population of tire United States, fifteen times as.great as the whole corps of first, second and third class postmasters in the govern­ ment service, to Whom nearly $0,000,000 is paid every year. And the work of this corps of correspondents will be performed jj without any cost to the government, ex­ cept what is represented by the value [of some crop pamphlets which are distribut­ ed by the Secretary of Agriculture every month. . • ' ' ,. • This work of organizing is the result of the meeting at Washington last spring of the representatives of commercial bodies from all parts of the United States to protest against the system under which the information about the crops was col­ lected. Tho chief occupation of the stat­ istician of the Agricultural Department is the preparation of statistics showing the condition of the growing crops. Bulletins containing this information are published every month. They are awaited anxious­ ly by all the people who are interested in cotton or cereals. They are of chief inter­ est to the speculators in grain and cotton, because if the government report shows a good condition of the graving crops, the priccs of grain for future "delivery are likely to go down; and if the government report shows a bad condition of the crops, or a decrease in the acreage planted, the price is likely to go up. Whatever the charac­ ter of the report, there is one class of men dissatisfied with it; and never a month passes that the statistican is not de­ nounced by the-speculators as unfair or stupid or corrupt. Mr. Robinson's pre­ decessor, Prof. Dodge, had this experi­ ence, and it was the persistent attacks of the speculators and the dealers in grain in the large cities that- brought about his retirement from the department. Mr. Robinson is having a similar experience, and it is making his hair gray. Weakness of the Old System. Under the old system of making up the monthly crop report, returns were re­ ceived at the statistician's, office from each agricultural county. In each of these counties were four correspondents One of these was designated the chief correspondent, and to this one (lie other three sent their reports of tho crop con­ ditions on a day fixed. These three re­ ports the chief correspondent combined with his own, and lie made a report to the Department of Agriculture on tho crop conditions of his county. There Were (and there are now, for that matter) 10,- 000 of these correspondents, of whom 2.500 sent.reports to the department. In addition to these correspondents, there is another corps which is intended to be just as large, which is organized in each State under the supervision of a State agent, who receives a salary from the government. This salary may be any­ thing from $400 to $1,200 a year. The amount is supposed to be proportioned to the work, Mr. Robinson tells me that tlu- division of salaries has not been entirely fair in the past, and that there is to be a reorganization of these State agencies some time in the near future. These State agents appoint their corre­ spondents in each county, who are in­ dependent of the agents reporting di­ rect to the department. Tho reports ot their agents are made to them direct, and then each State agent assembles the re­ ports which come to him and makes up a general report of crop conditions in tin State to send to Washington. The two sets of correspondents are expected to he a check on each other. If there is any dis­ crepancy between the reports of one and the reports of the other, the statisticiai investigates through a special agent, ami, learns which set of correspondents is wrong. When the representatives of the com mereial bodies met here the statistician went over the subject of the reports will them very thoroughly, and after some consideration he came to the conclusion that he was not raking the country care fully enough for his crop facts. So he de­ termined to multiply the number of the department's direct correspondents by five. Instead of having four correspon­ dents to a county, he determined to have one to each township. The question wat how to get at the right men. Mr. Rob inson decided to write to the county- clerks, as men likely to know the most available correspondents. So he selected twenty-one States, in which from two- thirds to nine-tenths of the grain crops are raised, and sent circular letters to the county clerks, asking them to send the names of men, two in each township, who might bo willing to act as the depart­ ment's correspondents, and who would be competent to make crop estimates. With each circular was inclosed a franked en­ velope for reply. This correspondence has involved no litiJe labor. Most of the county clerks have replied promptly, but a great many- have not replied at all, and it has been necessary to address these again. In all. there are about 2,500 county clerks to hear from, but the department has not entered into correspondence with all of thejn at once. For, when the county clerk replies, it is necessary.for the statistician to address circular letters to twenty men mox-e or less in the county; and when these twenty men have replied, to send circulars to the alternates, in case the men first addressed refuse to serve. No Germ There. At a dairy !n Berlin, famous for the purity of its milk, the milk Is strained through a wire sieve with a cloth, on which rests a deep layer of line sand. Before tlie sieve is again used .the sand is put in a hot oven to destroy any pos­ sible germs. Millfeed and Cottonseed Meal. A close study of the feed market is needed at present prices^ for milk and beef. Cornmeal, cottonseed and gluten aye cheap also: but, even so, it is not always easy to make the sale checks balance the feed bill. • . The Yellow Transparent Apple. The yellow, transparent apple, a new Russian sort, has borne fruit here, and it sustains its character of fruiting while young and pf early ripening. Division of the Sexes. One of the. most remarkable churches is to be found at Freudentlial, In the Black Forest. It is built on such a plan that the men are una&le to see tho women, and vice versa, for it is composed of two wings, which1 meet at an angle where the pulpit stands. The right wing is allotted to men and tho left one to the women of the congre­ gation.--Schwabischer Merkur. • /larvard University began its,258th ..ear . with increased attendance in all departments and the prospects of another prosperoiis year. The students have-been pouring into Cambridge during the past week and the old college yard has shaken off its summer lethargy and become all bustle and activity once more. Owing to the gr«?at drouth farmers of Ohio are not sowing much wheat. Dry weather is injuring the young clover. CROPS IN BAD SHAPE. Agricultural Department Reports V General Decline in Condition. Reports to the Agricultural Depart­ ment show a decline in the conditions of all the principal crops, except oats. r*e- and barley. The detailed summary shpws a wide-spread reduction m the condition of potatoes, due largelj^to drought. Com­ plaints of potato rot come from the Northern and more Southern New Eng­ land States, New York, several of the States adjoining the great lakes and Mis­ souri and Kansas. The losses from leaf blight and insects appear to have been exceptionally light. The most' seriout complaint of the potatogrower this year . is the low price of ,the product, particu­ larly in the Northwest. The report from the department's agent for Wisconsin and Minnesota represents that in the latter State the tubers "do not pay for digging." He says that the yield is enormous. Sweet potatoes have suffered quite seriously from lack of rain and their condition has been materially reduced in many States. In seven States it has fallen from 10 to 22 points. The condition of tobacco declined oyer 2 points. In Ohio, where,condition is the lowest, something over half a crop is ex­ pected, and the same may be said of Maryland and Virginia. Continued drought, hot weather and high winds of September, causing premature 'ripening find, dropping, have resulted in a loss, of over 2 points in the average condition of apples. The greatest loss occurred in the central West, whore the crop was abundant. It is thought both the eating and keeping quality of the fruit has been much impaired, and in many sections a tendency to rot is already noted. The average condition now stands at 70.6. The general conclusion jn the British cereal trade that the wheat harvest of the world for 1S95 is about 100,000,000 bushels less than that of 1804 is an­ nounced in the report of the European agent of the Agricultural Department for October. The estimates of this season's wheat crop in the United Kingdom vary from 23 to 27 bushels an. acre. Both in Great Britain and on the continent the wheat was harvested in such favorable condition as to assure a high percentage of flour. Dulutli reports say that there is no doubt that Northwestern farmers are holding back their wheat on account of low prices prevailing and marketing their coarse grain instead. _ For several days past the receipts of Wheat have fallen be­ low those of last year. Receivers say that offerings are daily growing lighter, and the daily sales there support the statement'. On the other hand, there has been a more than corresponding increase in coarse grains, though of course the daily reports of car inspection do not show as large a total for all grain receipts. LANDING OF MARINES. Great Britain Also Reported to Have Interfered in Korea. Information of the formidable uprising in Korea, resulting in the disappearence and probable death of the Queen, and the landing of military forces by the United States and European powers, has been received by Minister Kurino of Japan from the foreign office at Tokyo. It is quite sensational, indicating the landing of marines by Russian, the United States and probably Great Britain. The latest dispatch to Minister Kurino states that a force of Russian marines, forty in number, has been landed. Thus far they have confined themselves to guarding the Russian legation at Seoul. United States marines were landed from the Yorktown to the number of sixteen. It is believed also that British marines have been landed. Besides these the Japanese have a considerable force of soldiers at Seoul who have been preserv­ ing order. The dispatches come from Tokyo nnd communicate the substance of dispatches received from G«jn. Muira, the Japanese envoy at Seuol. It appears from these dispatches that the trouble had its in­ ception through the Queen's dislike of the newly organized soldiers of Korea. Tho old soldiers had the primitive equipment of the far East, but with the progress of Japanese influence in Korea two bat­ talions of Korean troops were organized on modern methods. Each.battalion num­ bered 000 men, armed with modern weap­ ons. They were well drilled and officered. When the Queen showed her disfavor toward these new troops they appealed to the Tai Won Kun, a powerful chief, who has long been at enmity with the Queen. He accepted the leadership of the new troops, and at the head of ono battalion "entered the Queen's palace. The native soldiers fled from the palace. The Tokyo dispatches do not state specif­ ically what became of the Queen, further than that she has disappeared and can­ not be located. Notes of Current Events. At Gleuville, Ohio, Carl Tonquietz Is under arrest on suspicion of having caus­ ed the death of his infant child by starva­ tion. Patrick Grant, father of Robert Grant, the novelist, a successful merchant at' Boston, Mass., died at the age of SO years. Rhode Island's Grand Army men will erect: a monument to the Roman Catholics soldiers of the State who fell in the ciVil war. James A. Jordan, indicted at Grand Rapids for making false affidavits on mileage and expenses as pension exam­ iner, has; disappeared. The New York Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of Bat Shea for the murder of Robert Ross at the Troy apring elections of 1894. Floods in the Agua Fria and Gila Riv­ ers have caused serious breaks in tho bridges of the Santa Fe Railroad and Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad. Why does the bloomer girl still persist in carrying her purse in her hand? She hasn't yet learned one of the principal advantages of bifurated externals. Near Twohig Station, Texas, J. Shaw, a ranchman, two Mexican men and a Mexican child were shot dead by thieves who had stolen a yearling steer from Shaw. , ' Two men who tried to Work the "three- card monte" game on Benjamin Wilson, a well-to-do farmer living near Peru, Ind., were driven off at the-point of a re­ volver. At Jasper, Ind., Andrew Cumings was fined for. breaking the leg ot John Bur­ ton while trying to separate the latter and his wife, who were engaged in a family ught. George B. Holmes and Ella May Fer- * ris eloped from Lexington, Ky., and were married by Magistrate Hause at Jeffer­ son ville, Ind. The bride was a pupil of Hampton College. Richard W. Card well, bookkeeper of the State Bank of Virginia at Richmond, has been indicted for making false en­ tries and allowing Sanmel B. Nelson to overdraw his account $20,000. An old negro, convicted in the United States Court at Fort Smith, Ark., of steal­ ing horses, said he had been a slave of President Andrew Jackson and that he was horn at the. Hermitage eighty-six years ago; " t< •; .. • . E^alina Bliss, a wealthy lady, died at N<>w Y^irk, and immediately after the funeral the daughter'pf the dead woman. Mrs. Alice Fleming, was arrested at the Colonial Hotel on the charge that she - murdered her mother by poison. ;