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THE MAN AND THE WOMAN. KILLED ON THE FARM. SAVED Bf AN%MSRELLA. A STARTLING RECORD OF TER RIBLE CASUALTIES. Dangers Attcndinc Xiife on a Farm Seen* Greater than Tliose Surround* ins Work on the Railroad.or in a Powder Mill, Worn oui the frowning gateway of the wall , . : That bounds the narrow world of Chastity ' J 3'wo wiMrtals. casting oft priin -Virtues ;iall. • Steal forth .o Wander unrestrained and f r0(.. '• \Amid the blossoms of forbidden fields. Together hand in hand they idly stroll; Each to the other's wayward guidance yioldsr Each tjrinkr from oui the self-same .4 Paphi'an bowl; : >. ,Until so darkly fades Aurora's fire And glories of the sparkling dawn are furled.* . The siren}! of their unbound realm expire. And iongingly they seek again the outer world. iArrived within the closely guarded gate. The one knocks boldly for an entrance there ! . ... 'A*nd straightway tho' the hoiur is dark >,,;saiid late, i- - He is admitted with a welcome prayer. The other seeks admittance now to gain. And to the world she calls in pleading . cry; . • -. • GBut mocking voices echo in disdain And "bolts, more closely drawn speak their reply. ' . . --Twentieth Century. LITTLE BO-PEEP" Kit-hard Dedhani had, been ' out all 'itay sketching--at least nil day-his port­ able easel, with its nice clean canvas. Kind stood waiting, with accustomed pa­ tience. for the decorating touch of the master's brush. At this moment he was sketching in a most comfortable manner, h'is'flannel- elad figure prone upon the ground, his hands clasped under the back of his dark head, a half-smoked pipe dropping out of the corner of his mouth. Twice iu as many minutes he had been obliged to remove one hand, thereby much dis­ comfort Ing himself, to brush aside a persistent fly which insisted upon de­ scending upon his nose. A third attack caused him to open his eyes and utter on impatient word, decently low in tone, just as a clear, high soprano voice Behind him sang: ' Sha-a'l I wake him? No. not I; For if I did he would surely cry. 'And with a decisive shake upon the last •word the branches were pushed aside to revealrthe prettiest little figure that an Itinerant painter could ask as a model. It was a young girl standing there. elad in a golf dress of brightest red, a moist uugolf-like, flower-wreathed •Ira w bat perched on her crop of curly Lair, mischief dancing in her laugh­ ing eyes, playing among her diniplt\s and emphasizing the upward turn of her saucy nose. She held in her hand a Mick with a curved handle, from which depended a knotted string, which she waved gayly abovethe-young artist as •Sic'rose into a sitting position. Then she threw it back suddenly with a startled exclamation, and her face grew crimson. "I beg your pardon," she faltered, "I thought that it was my brother Tom." '/ "Neither Torn nor Harry, only Dick, Tory much at your service. Miss Bo- I mop of curly hair. "Then Rosy is all IVep--or do you still answer to the right; I thought " "How did you know that I was awayV" * "What do you suppose that I Game to the island for?" •'Oil, I don't know--to fish. I suppose. Aren't there four miles of fishingV Oh, <fto, I forgot; you came to .Isketch, of course." "Exactly. Also t,p see--your father and mother. 1 called on ttieiu day be-a • fore yesterday, and they told me that you would be at home to-morrow." "There isn't any to-morrow. I came yesterday." "Moral--Always expect a girl two days before she is due." "But how strange that mamma didn't tell me. When I spolce o|^you she " "Go on; why do you stop at such an exciting moment? „When you Jspuke of me--what did you say?" • t "Nothing." " Nothing for naught.' I hoped that you would please my flattered ear by " "Don't be a goose." "I can't. Both sex and a gigantic in­ tellect forbid it, even had I the inclina­ tion, which I politely deny. How long is It since your Aunt Annie's party?" "Several months, I believe." ""Several! Is that as near as you can come to'the date? My memory is bet­ ter than yours. It is six months to d day--or was •yesterday.'" When they had seated themselves side by side on the trunk of an old trw, Rosalind had tossed her hat. aside and amused herself by stirring up the dry leaves with the stick,she held. Now it dropped from her hand, and she bent to pick it up, lifting a face deeply flushed by the effort; The man watched the bright curls and the little ear,nil that he could see of the face, intently. The ear was crimson. "Did you have any reason for coming yesterday?" he asked. "Had you an engagement here?" She was silent. "1 had. I told someone that I would 1><~> back from Europe and would see her six months from the night of your Aunt Annie's party. Do you know who it was? Do you know where she is? Lit­ tle Bo-Peep, what a humbug you are!" SMI the head did not turn, though it drooped a little and the bright color stained the brown throat. •'Have you quite forgotten our talk that night among the palms in the cor­ ner," he went on, softly and slowly, moving closer to the girl, "the talk that I had tried to have for weeks, when I told you of a .piSaxpi|po>;'that had one" been made by a small gli'l with a snub nose, who wore-a.' pinafore and had a very dirty face?'^I'liiink you remem­ bered it. Though the girl was no long­ er small--in years, at least--she will never be very big. and her nose is no longer snub, it is deliciously tip-iilted! She doesn't wear a pinafore now, and her face is most charmingly clean, but she is not quite so nice as in the old days--then she- " "Where can those children IK -?" ex­ claimed Rosalind, springing to her feet and looking nervously about her. As If in answer to her question came a shout through the bushes, and it was followed by a tall, handsome young man. whose nose and dimples at once proclaimed him "Brother Tom." "Ilello, Dedliam!" he said cheerfully, running his lingers through a moist name of Rosalind given you in bap­ tism?" "Mr. DeJham! IIow did you know hie?" asked Rosalind, ignoring his ques­ tion and digging holes in the ground With her stick. saw your crook. By the way. where are your sheep?" "Would children do instead of sheep? It happens that I am looking for some at this very moment." "And I am busily sketching, as you may see. Yes, I should say that chil­ dren would be capital sheep. Shall I join you in your frantic search?" "You had better blow your horn first and look after your own cows. I pass­ ed them in the com half an hour ago as I came along the path and found you--" "I was not under a. haystack; I was painting fast and furiously, as I told you before--don't you see my traps?" "But how did you know me, Mr. Ded­ liam? You haven't seen me for ages; not since " "Your Aunt Annie's dance for you at Fierce hall. I have a strong memory, you see, and on that occasion you wore froine son of a blue or green dress,/jjggf Tour hair was shorter and you® was l'airer. Don't you cojfgy «n remembering so pen to notice "Why. Tom," said Rosalind, wonder- ingly. "do you remember Mr. Dedham? You were such a little boy!" "Last week and this? Very sir,all; of course, but still by making an effort Lean dimly recall " "How long have you been here. Mr. Ded'nam?" asked Rose severely. "About ten days. Tom. have you anv idea where the children--I should say, shofp--liave strayed to?" "Sheep?" "Your sister Bo-Peep's eight tender lambs; she has been wildly looking for them for the last half hour. She com­ forted them with green apples and then she turned them adrift. She is very tired. It is late. Suppose that you " "I am not tired at all," cried Rosa­ lind. "and I have been interrupting you shamefully. He was working with might and main when I came across him.'Tom. Let us leave him to his paint brushes again and hunt children; that they are .missing Is ;tfti only true word hei mending a fish net, while about ons or another the eight Child :vu clustered themselves, not one lamb missing. The girl stopped short, catight her breath, dropped her brother's arm, aud burst into Such a- passion ol tears as quite drowned and silenced the merry shouts of-- "Oh. Rosy, Rosy. Suah fun! .We ran. away from you and got here."' which greeted her. "Horrid little brats!" muttered Mr. Dedham, as Rosalind was caught in her mother's arms, kissed, patted, com­ forted and borne out of sight. She did hot appear at the supper, for which Mr. Dedham was persuaded to stay. She lay on her mother's bed, quire hidden from all eyes, and was waited upon by a whole liosf of most remorse­ ful children, hearing at intervals a voice which made her hide her face in the convenient pillows. After a whis­ pered confab with Tom, his mother smiled tenderly, and, though she did not tell the children so. she held them not wholly responsible for the break­ down that had so astonished the entire family, • Mr. Dedham walked home by moon- light, alone and very thoughtful. The next morning rose, cool aud lovely, and before he would have been out of bed in the city, Mr. Dedham was seen strolling up the walk to the cot­ tage. Rosalind stood in the open door, looking like a little nun, in the quiet­ est of brown gowns, fastening a mod­ est brown hat on her bright curls. She was a demure maiden this morning, ;;11 glow and fire gone, just a well-bred girl, and nothing left of Bo-Peep. Yes, she was going out, the children had left all theii\ wraps oil the other side of the island, and she and her little cousin were to go and bring them bacii. The children declared that they hud left her so fast asleep against a tree that she had not stirred when they came whooping up, and flesh and blood could not withstand the temptation to run off. It had been intended that Tom and one of the boys should go over the night before, but in the ex­ citement it had been neglected, anl now they had to be brought. "Wouldn't I do as well as a cousin?" Mr. Dedham asked. "I will undertake to carry three times as much, and I really need a walk this morning. Be­ sides, Jim wants to go fishing--don't you, Jim?" .As the boy assented eagerly Rosa­ lind hesitated, colored, glanced at her mother and then reluctantly consent­ ed. They started off on the two sides of the path, Mr. Dedham looking over at his little companion with a tender smile in his eyes, while she talked on, steadily and unbrok^nly, allowing no pause in the conversation until her breath was nearly exhausted. "Suppose you sit down here and rest a minute," said Mr. Dedham. after a time, clearing the stump of a tree with his coat sleeve. It is a very exciting story, and you shall finish it sometime --many times, if you want to, but just at present you may leave your friend and lieiv.Suuday school boys up in Pros­ pect park--we don't need them. You have led the conversation. Miss Rosa­ lind, ever since we left the house- in­ deed, I may even say that you have done all the talking. Now give me my innings." The girl did not resist; she was tired out, almost panting. She let him seat her on the stump without remonstrance and then throw himself down by'her side. There was a long, delicious si­ lence, so long that Rosalind began to breathe naturally again. Then he spoke, low and passionately; "My Rosalind--my darling--my own little girl--six months! It has be'in six years of waiting!" Dinner was over when two young people came slowly around the corner of the house. The man carried a mass of goldenrod, the girl two or three late roses. "Couldn't you find them?" cried a chorus of small voices. "Find what?" "Our coats and hats," exclaimed 1he children. The two young people look­ ed guiltily at each other. "We forgot them," said Rosalind, !:i a little, small, apologe.tJc\.yp^<^^'.Tht're a r e t i m e s w h e n ' a " ; i Sng, but the __ •*!" • 7 iMISlPdH' mamma horrid ifittmg up two little them; "she makes h"my face in buttermilk--ugh! how'fhate it--but they come and they stay! Still, I don't really see how you fame to know me--it seems strange tliat--oh, dear, did I hear" a child cry­ ing?" H^Never mind if you did. You know the rhyme; what is it? 'Let 'em alone and they'll come home'--how many are sussing?"' H' ; ' "T^yo of my small sisters, one small brother, two small cousins, three small visitor*. We were all playing liide-and- tscek. arid when we got tired T took Jim's crook to hook down some apples, and----" -. s "Apples! and green ones, of course! Ton are a nice sort of a shepherdess! And you' fed t hem to the infants, and now they are lying somewhere in the agonizing throes of cholera and you will Tie put in jail and hanged as a murder- rss! Let us run away quick, before they catch you." 'Thej^'wijflp iyit green, and you are •cry disagreeable and--frivolous. Be Hides, I ate them myself, except what, 2 liftvp in. my -pocket." "You have apples in your pocket! And you see here before you a hapless Ituman fellow-creature perishing with hunger, and you have never offered me «ven a bite!v . "What about the cholera?" "Ohj you said they were not green, Tiesidesyou have partaken of them; let us die together, or If we arc brought Hack to life, I will be more generous than Adam. I will not say 'The woman thou garest ni V "It wouldu't be true if you did. and you mustn't be irreligious, as well as sr.: frivolous "Never mind what L am--tell ms • about yourself. Whoa did you get v home': by. Mr. .Dedham. ISS^^j^^niay'See' I The' practical joker was saunterln you before youJ^jgMH * V '^F^^Failoug In the dusk. The inoffensive eh «0Bte^deed,' ;rlfiSlld say prob- y^Plil see me several times." Ba^T>edham, gathering up Ids and closing his easel, "and I am Hoing with you now, Miss Rosalind. May I trouble you to put your finger on this string for me?--no, Tom's finger is too big, he being taller than you. Go, on. Tom, we will overtake, you iii a' minute." But Rosalind, though she placed one small finger' reluctantly on the string, slipped her other hand through her brother's ;arm and held him fast. Mr, Dedham- inns ta che, Toin more brb^I^hu^ «osy looked into neither fa'ce. Tl^fi the three vended their way leisurely through the tangle of bushes, chatting as they went, and once in awhile shouting aloud to attract the attention of any child who might happen to be within reach of, voices. ' ' After the time the search so careless­ ly begun resolved itself into a real one. Rosalind forgot to cling to her brother; Mr. Dedliam no longer claimed her at­ tention. When more tharisjan ^oijr,had passed and the girl's cheeks h$<£ oegun to pale, her face to grow drawn and anxious, a council of war was held. "It is no use to wory over them." Mr. Dedham declared. "Eight such chil­ dren. none of them babies, cannot come to harm so absolutely that not one would be left to tell the tale. You must not tramp around another moment, Miss Rosalind. Tom and I will take you to the cottage and get your uncle and father; then we will go after the wanderers and bring them back, since you do not- hold with Mother Goose's eminently .wise way of treating the matter, 'take my arm or your broth­ er's. and see how soon we will be at home." It was a silent journey, Rosalind urging tliem feverishly on. The sun had begun to sink out of sight behind the hills, flushing the whole scene with .rosy glory as a parting saluie. Surely, Rosalind thought, she had never heard either her father or mother laugh so Shrilly; they turned a sharp eorucr, and the cottage was in full view, tne veranda full of figures. She saw her uncle reading the paper, her mother i knitting serenely, her, father placidly Die in tlis HayGelsl. Fatalities, mishaps and odd incidents have always feeenied to attend unduly tlie gathering of the hay crop, says a western New York correspondent of the New York Sua, but they seem to have been unusually numerous in their occurrence' this season. Following is the record of the haytield in this respect for but little more than a week in (Jhautauijua and ad­ jacent counties alone: Russell Waterhouse, aged 77, a leading farmer of Arkwright, Chautauqua Coun­ ty, was helping his sou Thomas iu the hayfield. They were loading hay. The elder Waternouse, stooA on the top of the load, distributing the hay as his sou pitch­ ed it up. A thunder .storm was coming up, and this was the last load to be hauled in. Suddenly u terrific clap of thunder broke so sharp nyd near that it,frightened the horses. Thoy sprang forward, jerking the wagon so that Farmer Waterhouse was thrown from the load to the^grotihd. He struck on his head! ' His neck Was broken aiuLhe died iJistantly.^y ; ,• -• FaVnier Thomas Reynolds needed help one day last week to gather a field of hay before it was damaged by' a. coming etorht on his farm a.t'Sullivan, Pa. Some men were engriged-on another, part of his farm in a job of sawing with a portable sawmill. He .sent his son to request the men to suspend their work at the mill and hasten down to help with the hay. One of the operators at, the mill, Fred HolcoRib, aged 'Jl. in his hurry to respond to the call, stumbled and fell in front of spot, and, handjcapi^l by their harness and being hitched together, both horses were drowned; It is probable that they would have had to w killed at any rate, for they had been bljpdcd by the stinging of the yellow jnekws. and their .bodies were swollen to an /immense size by the poison. i" VICTIMS pF THE SEA. Thirty Thousand I'capJe Drowned by the Tidnl Wnvd in Japan. Thirty thousand souls hurried to eter­ nity; thirty thousand lives blotted out in five minutes; probably the same number of emaciated sufferers stalking hungry- eyed about the ruins of their former homes--that, briefly, is the, story of the great wave that swept up from the sea and engulfed' the coast of the island of Yezo, Japan. Following is the. summary of the results of the disaster: Iwate--'25,413 deaths, 1,244 wounded, 5,030 houses swept away or destroyed. Mjyagi---,55J deaths, 505 wounded, OSS houses swept away or destroyed; Aomori-- B40 deaths, 24U wounded, 4S4 houses swept away or destroyed. Totals--l'fS,410 deaths, 1,002 wounded, 0,202 houses swept away or destroyed. Of various towns and villages that were visited by the calamity Kamaishi and Taro suffered most. In the former 4.7(H) out (5.557 people wete drowned, while in the latter 2,055 out of'3,747 Were kil». . . J -V- : It was shortly before 8 o'clock on the night of Monday, June 15. that dwellers near the coast, heard a -strange sound that came out, from the sea, swelling on the, calm evening air. The'-dreaded tsunami (sea. wave) was not altogether new to some of those who were su soon to become its victims. But it is asserted that tile people were• exceedingly slow to realize the immensity of the danger that threat­ ened them., "Tsunami!" cried a terror- stricken fisherman, and "Tsunami!" pass­ ed the.echoing wail swiftly from man to man until the silent fishing hamlets rang with the cry. Mad with terror that lent speed to their flying fei-t, the dwellers DIGGING IN THE RUINS AT KAMAISIII. i - - • ; $ < » J o k e f o r t h e J o k e r injr i zeii was sauntering along in the same dusk, unumindful or the presence of the practical joker. Tim practical joker, recognizing a friend in the inoffensive citizen, chuckled to himself and quick­ ened himself to overtake him. The inoffensive citizen was thinking of a story he had read about footpads, and wondering whether anyone would ever try to hold him up. The practical joker suddenly tipped the inoffensive citizen's hat over bis eyes. The inof­ fensive citizen wheeled instantly and landed a fine, large blow between the practical joker's eyes. The practical jok^r went down. The inoffensive citi­ zen promptly sat on him and hit liini again. The practical joker yelled: "For heaven's sake, don't hit me again, John! Don't you know me?" The inoffensive citizen said: "Great Scott!" The practical joker said, in an in­ jured tone: "Hang it ail, John, it's only a joke." The inoffensive citizen looked at the practical joker, who now bad one eye Closed, and laughed. The practical joker angrily asserted that it was no laughing matter. "But you said it was a joke," return­ ed the inoffensive citizen,, "and I think you are right." And he laughed again. But the practical joker hasn't been able to see the point of it to ' his day. Still, it,„was unquestionably a gooc joke.--Tit-Bits. A Monster F.stato. Biltmore, the new estate of Mr. Geo. Yanderbilt, Is a wheelman's paradise There are 95,000 acres in the estate, and ilie system of roadways is so perfect that Mr. Yanderbilt, who is a wheel man, can go a hundred miles over : macadamized road without going off his estate. Under a Bed of Coal. The discovery of a human skull In a good state of preservation by weli dig gers at a depth of forty feet beneath a solid, four-foot vein of coal is at trading a good deal of attention a: Dickinson, N.-D. Every one who has a dead open and shut in anything will stub Ills toe be­ fore he gets through. thi* saw. Before h" could regain his l'eet or the hyst.-.aders could aid him he was cut to pieces by the saw, his head, an arm. and both legs being severed from his jlwo fatal accidents occurred on the Brush farm, near Darien Centre. John Schrader, the hired man. fell from a load of hay with his pitchfork in his hand. In some way he fell on the tines, which passed entirely through his body. lie lived but a short time. Before the news of this casualty reached the owner of the farm he was mowing hay in his orchard with a mowing machine. His 12-year-old son was near by. Farmer Brush called to hiin to come and hold up the low-hang­ ing bough of a tr<*e so he could drive un­ der it. The hoy held it up, but stood so close that as the machine passed him the knives an that end of the cutter bar struck him. cutting off both his feet at the ankle. He died three hours later. Ethel Rice, aged '.), was watching her brother. John, run a mowing machine in a field near the house. John stopped the horses where she stood, dismounted from the machine, and told Ethel to hand him. the wrench, which lay near. The little girl got the wrench, and stepped up near the machine, getting between the cutting forks, and handed it to her brother. As he was reaching for it the horses started. The quickly shifting knives caught the child and cut off tx>th her legs near the knees. At Bedford, Pa., on Thursday, Joseph Bell, aged^ 7;L was at work iu . hia: hay ed over to tlie fence. '. "Might better let your hay rot down in the field," said Shay. "It won't bring .$3 a ton the way this country is being un." "Three dollars a ton!" exclaimed Farm- -• Bell, excitedly. "Why, that would drive us to the poorhov.se." "Certainly it would, and it will," de- dared Shay. Farmer Bell stood with a disturbed •-»ok on his face a moment, staggered for­ ward and fell heavily to the ground. Shay, •apposing Bell nail fainted from effects if the heat, jumped from his wagon to lelp him, but the farmer was dead. Awful Work of Yellow Jackets. George Ring, a hired man on the farm of William Smith, his father-in-law, near Alton, was riding a mowing machine one day last week, when one of the horses- stepped in a yellow jacket s host. In­ stantly the irritable occupants of the nest came out in a swarm amid stung the horses, which, frenzied with the pain of the poisonous stingers, ran away. Ring was thrown from his seat on the mower, and although he fortunately fell out of the way of the knives, he struck a spot where a patch of elder brush had been cut, at the edge of the field, leaving Stiff, sharp butts standing. When other men working in the field hurried to his aid they found him impaled on the stubl^es, one having been forced through the fleshy part of his left thigh and,one through his right shoulder. One ear Was torn from his head,, his lower jaw was broken, and his body badly lacerated by the jagged elder stubble. The full extent of Ring's in­ juries was not known nor could he be ex­ tricated from his awful situation for ten minutes after the arrival of the men. A horde of yellow jackets which followed him as he was thrown from the machine, were stinging him fiercely on every bit of flesh exposed, and had to be fought away and killed before the men could cscuc the unfortunate Ring, who was nconscious and uttering1 heart-rending Ties of agony. His rescuers were terri- >ly stung by the ye'.'ow jackets before they could get Ring uway. lie was car­ ried to the farm house. It is thought that, notwithstanding his frightful injuries, he will recover. The frenzied horses, frazed by the •dinging of the yellow jackets, dashed madly across the field and in among a group of young chestnut trees. Tlier the mowing machine was smashed to pieces. Along the edge of the field oppo­ site the one where Ring was thrown and ten feet below it. runs Cutler creek. The horses, freed from the machine, ran straight for that side of the field# and plunged dowu the steep bank into < the creek. '. ':••. v ' ' - The water is y. 'Je and deep at tha* forsook their frail, thatched huts, and lushed for the bluffs topping the sleeping villages. Some of the first to flee gained places of safety, saw the phosphorescent waters clamor and toss timtx-rs and human beings almost at their feet, and heard them sul­ lenly retreat with their ghastly burden. Others caught by the se.a and beaten most cruelly by the debris which it bore on its crest were yet left behind when it with­ drew. But by far the most were swal­ lowed up and their poor bodies are now only being thrown back on land. The town of Kamaisni, situated a few miles from the iron mines of that name, was almost wiped out, only a few houses standwig on high ground liehind' the town being spared. In this town 4,700 persons, out of a total population of 0,557, lost their lives; 500 were injured; 1,080 out jf 1,213 houses were destroyed. Taro was a village of 2,500 population. Three hundred persons escaped from the catas­ trophe. At. this point the wave appears to have been most destructive; some of the survivors declare it to have been eighty feet high, and the marks left on the rising grounds show it to have been trotis results, it Is well within the mem­ ory of those still alive that in 1854 the harbor of Shinioda was visited by three lnigo wavos, which -destroyed many lives ami much shipping, leavlng the Russian frigate Diana a total wreck.:Moreover, in 18^„. a small wave which fortunately wrought little destruction. Was experi­ enced in parts of the very regions that have now been devastated. . lhe Emperor and Empress promptly gave 14.0UO yen, to be devoted to the re­ lief of the sufferers, and foreigners and Japanese are subscribing to funds started for a similar purpose. FULL BINS FOR FARMERS. Country's Corn Crop Promises to Equal that of L,a»t l'ear. Information regarding the growing corn crop has been received at the De partmcnt of Agriculture in Washington. There is every indication now that the crOp of the country will equal the enor­ mous crop of last year, which was 2,151.- 1-59,000 bushels. That was the largest crop the Lnited States has produced for many years. The crop of 1804 had only been 1,212,000,000 bushels, and it was but a trifle more in .1893 and 1S92, In 1891 »it reached beyond .2,000,000,000 bushels. , . The-pxt.e.nt of the corn crop of the Unit­ ed States this year is about 1,000,000 acres less thati it was last, year. Then it •was 32.000.000 acres. In 1894 it was only '<0,000,000. The average acreage in the prineipiSpborn States Is reported as follows for the two years: 1890. i. . 10(1 .. .100 ' .. ,io:t .. . MM. .,. !>7 .. . 91) . . .105. .. .102 ... 8;$ . .; 94 . .. 97 189.". 104 *100 104 105 •> 100 107 117 107 112 107 102 Ohio ... Mlei1ig9.11 I n d i a n a • . . . ' Illinois . . Iovvil Missouri Kansas Nebraska Texas ......... Tennessee Kentucky ...... The official method of the Clovernment for communicating the state of growing crops to the public is to take "a basis of 100 as a reasonable standard of excel­ lence. Averages in excess are exception­ ally good, and averages below 100 be­ come less'omviuraging the lower they go. With th-iv^'cxplanation' the statements of the officials of the Agricultural Depart­ ment become plain to"thOhe outside the Hoard of Trade.. Tht reports received justify the, following estimates of the av­ erage condition of the crop in the leading corn States, which are given alongside the averages for Ju!y, 1895: 1S90. 189. r). Ohio 100 91 Mlehlgjin 1015 oi Indiana ill »5 Illinois 9.8 92 Iowa 94 105 Kentucky .97 90 Missouri 81 109 Kansas ..; 1Q2 104 Nebraska 103 95 Texas in 118 Tennessee 1)0 9.8 For the entire country the present av­ erage is 92.4. against 99.3 in July, 1895. The condition of the entire crop of win­ ter wheat throughout the l nited States is .75.0, against <!5.S In July, 1895, dis­ tributed as follows: 1S90. 1S93 New York. 70 78 Pennsylvania ..: 70 88 Kentucky 04 Ohio 50 Michigan 73 Indiana 00 Illinois ' 80 Missouri 75 Kansas ; 75 California 100 Oregon *. 95 Washington 100 The.reports received by the department in a general way on all crops are encour­ aging. This ought to be a prosperous year for farmers in' ny>st sections of the country, unless some great calamity be­ falls the harvest. Generally poor condi­ tion of fruit throughout the country is announced in the agricultural report. Apples declined in condition from 71 to 04.0 during .Ittue. The i>eaeh crop prom­ ises to be of medium proportions. Dur­ ing the i>ast month a fall of 12.9 points has taken place, leaving the general aver­ age now 51.8. LINCOLN'S OVATION TO BRYAN. Big: Demonstration in His Home Town -- Reception at the State Houne. Amidst an uproar of booming cannon, pealing church bells, screaming steam I ///, V •SIIIZUKAW' AFTER rTIIE WAVE PASSED OVER IT. of such a height that if is a marvel aiiy human beings survive. The loss of life would have been greater, but for the fact that over a hundred of tiie Taro fisher­ men were at sea and knew naught of the disaster till they returned. Owing to the destruction of tne telegraph lines along the coast it was not till late next morning that news of tiie catastrophe began to spread, and for three days it was all but impossible to afford official aid to the sur­ vivors. Meanwhile the weather had grown warmer. Decomposition of the bodies had set in and it. began to be a dreadful experience to venture in the vicinity of those spots where formerly there had been human habitations. But, worse than the awful scenes to which one could never be­ come accustomed, in passing near the ruined houses was the spectacle of groups of swollen once-human forms rocking to and fro on the sea almost within reach of the shore, while on the beach,itself other, similar awful objects were rolled over and over in rows by,each succeeding wave as it reached the strand. There can be no exaggeration of this frightful calam­ ity or of the never-to-l»e forgotten scenes that have followed and are yet coming In its wake. It has been fonno extremely nrixs I N oiiAcm. difficult'to secure laborers to assist in lo­ cating, recovering and decently interring the dead, and the gravest fears are enter­ tained that disease will lie, bred by the presence of so many decaying bodies. It would be idle to discuss the causes of this extraordinary visitation. It may have originated in some tremendous vol­ canic outburst far away in the Pacific ocean, or it may have been caused by a displacement of the ocean bed on the hith­ er edge" of the Tuscarora Deep, which was discovered by Admiral Belknap in the Tuscarora, and stretches a mighty abyss, ttvs and ^!!e4hird miles the Japan coast. Sea waves have invaded before, but never with ruch dis«p- whisMes and the shouts of 20,000 people, Wm. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President, entered Lincoln, the capital city, of Nebraska, his home. It was an ovation the like of, which the people of that part 'of the country.ppjr.er before wit­ nessed. Half the people of 'the city, men, women and childreu, were.at the depot to welcome him home, jt was a non­ partisan reception, 'fot'"iWh Democrats and Republican's participated in it. The Mayor of the city, the City Council arid distinguished citizens of every political belief were at the train. As far as the eye could reach were thronged streets, crowded windows and enthusiastic shout- ors oil the roofs of the houses. There were bauds of music, men carrying ban­ ners with mottoes complimentary to the Democratic leader and flags and bunting hung from the fronts of the business houses rind dwellings. Even the news­ boys crying the evening papers wore Bryan caps and thousands of people blew t:n horns or rang cow bells,/ When the reception was over .Mr. Bryan went to a platform erected at th'e north end of the State House, where he addressed what is said to have been the largest congregation •of people ever assembled in Lincoln. Told in a Few Lines. There were i591> new cases of cholera in Egypt in two days and 338 deaths from that disease, including those of three British soldiers at Wady-Iialfa. .lames (irilHn, 12 years old, stabbed and killed his 1 (5-year-old brother, Joseph Griffin, with a pocketknife a-t New York during a quarrel over the possession of a baseball mask. /~ A rumor is cijrrciit in railroad cir­ cles that Collis P. Huntington and the Southern Pacific peopie have a hand in the new government of the Oregon Rail­ way and Navigation Company. An expert counterfeiter is now in the city lockup at St. Paul. His real name is Richard Munroe, Ja alias "Whiskers," who has been for so eye of Hastings H Minnesota State B and Charities. Mrs. lxmise Foltz, Koltz, committed suj Pa., by taking lau then made a desperi himself, but was pre was a sister of Jar publican" candidate brother named a „ Q*#* • les Smith. es-conviet, under the tarv of the orrections licliard D. Newcastle, Mr. Foltz ipt to kill Irs. Folt* idsou, Re •ess. Hei <E Senalol Trick of a Smart Yankee Captain to Kludc a Hostile Fleet. An:interesting relic in the Charles- town navy yard museum is an umbrel­ la, which was used by the Constitution in making her escape from the British fleet iu July, 1812. This is all that is toHl by the card attached to it. aud the umbrella is a complete puzzle to nearly every one who .visits the museum. In the lirst place it is utterly unlike any umbrella any one ever saw before, and, in the second, not one person in a liuiu- dre.d is able to figure out how the Con­ stitution made use of it in making her escape from the British vessels. It is exactly like the umbrella frame in gen­ eral shape, but the stick is about ten feet long, with a heavy iron ring at each end, and is about three inches in diameter. The frame slides up and down on it, just like the frame of an ordinary umbrella, aud is made of stout iron bars. Some people think that it may have been set up on the deck to give the officers a little shade on a hot day. but they caunot see liow this help­ ed in the scrape. The purpose for which it was intended and used was for a sea anchor, and its story is as . fel­ low's: •••"• ' ." -x'.. '. On the 18th of Jul}', 1812, the Consti­ tution, then cruising under the com­ mand of that fahious old fighter, Isaac illull, was surrounded by Brooke's ^squadron of five vessels. Before they could close In on him, however, dt felt=~ calm, and C'apt. Hull at once made use of the umbrella, of .AxJiich there were two aboard. , A cabie was bent to one of the umbrellas at what Would be the handle in one of the ordinary kind, and the umbrella was folded tip and Liken out by a boat'tO a cable's length ahead of the vessel. It Was then thrown overboard,' arid'riS ^o'oii^as tlie crew began to haul ih on' the %ihftlak it, of course, spread otft,' !girliiy"j)t' drag by, which the vessel could'he Warped, ahead. While the vessel was Warping up to this one, the other one our, and before the' British'h^d' dis­ covered what Hull was doing, he 'had gotten outside of the circle with which they' had surrounded him. Thoy im­ mediately began to pursue tiie same tactics, but he ran two twenty-four pound guns out of his cabin windows, and kept them from getting anywhere near him, as, whenever one of the boats carrying out a drag, came up astern of him, he would fire with one of the "Long Toms," and in this way kept the ships from closing in. This wan' kept up for two days, and on the even­ ing of the second day came up a squall. LIull carried sail through it, gaining such an advantage over the English­ men that he was able to,elude them in the night, and was out of sight the next morning. Thus, but for the un­ couth-looking umbrella at the navy yard, the Constitution would proivibly have been captured or sunk, ainlwmo of the fairest pages in our naval his­ tory would have remained unwritten.-- Boston Transcript. Burns' Last Wxitten Words. "Iu July, 179(5, the protracted; ill­ ness from which Burns had been'suf­ fering became so acute that he was ad­ vised to go to the seaside as a last re­ sort," writes Arthur Warren, apropos of the approaching centenary of Rob­ ert Burns' death, in the Ladles' Hqme Journal. "He went off to Brow on Sol way Firth. All his thoughts at this time were of his wife, whose condi­ tion was such as to warrant his fears. His anxiety for her increasing, lie has­ tened back to Dumfries. lie was so weak on reaching home that-he could hardly stand. Barely able to hold a pen he wrote a note of appeal, begging his wife's mother, who wis- estranged from her daughter, to e<?me on to Dum­ fries, as Jean was in urgent need of her care. They were the last words he ever wrote. "Let us not forget that the expiring effort of the failing genius was im­ pelled by tender anxiety for his loving wife. In his dying hours lie begged her, if his mind should wander, to touch him and thus recall him to him­ self. It was as lie wished. The touch of liis Jean was the last sensation which Robert Burns carried with him to eternity. He died on the twenty- first of July, 1790, iu the thirty-eighth year of his age. On the day of his burial his son. Maxwell, was born. The little fellow lived less than three years. "The Scottish admiration for Burns was so great that his widow and chil­ dren (three sons and two daughters) were not suffered to know want. A subscription of six thousand dollars was immediately raised for them. Four years later, that is to say, in 1800, Cur- rie's well-known edition of the poet's works appeared. This realised seveu thousand dollars more for thp^fjapiily. These sums made a snug foi'tunejjn those days. Duly invested, the ainoupt yielded an income for the modest though comfortable maintenance of Jean and her chlldreuv Jeah Burns survived her husband -thirty-eight years." y_ "Biiils" Not " ^ ' * Those who are not Irishmen^ some­ times trespass on Irish proserty. A French cure, preaclihig about sudden death, said, "Thus it is with us. We go to bed well, and get up stone dead!" An old French lawyer, writing of an estate he had just bought,^ added, "There is a chapel upon it in vtliieh my wife and 1 wish to be buried, if (Jod spares our lives." An English lecturer on chemistry said, ' One drop of this poison placed on the tongue of a cat is sufficient to kill the strongest man," and an English lieutenant said that the Royal Niger Company wished to kill him to prevent him going up the river until next year. A merchant who died suddenly left in his bureau a letter to one of his cor­ respondents which he had not sealed. His clerk, seeing it necessary to send the Tester, wrote at the bottom. "Silica writing the above I have died.*' The First of Many. . The first white child born on United States soil was the grand daughter of White, the Governor of Koanoke Isl­ and. She was christened by the name of Virginia Dare, and her birthday vv:ls Aug. 18,, 1587. .'T' No woman's hair Is as long hanging down her back as It looks to be in the wad on top of her head. -Lei &-wis© man havc ; ; years, and he will do as fpolish tfiings as .anybody.