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•H -- :Mi THE ANGEL OF EVENTIDE; Then who dost cover all the land In silence with thy soii^of rest; Hushing with soft and tender hand Dark swaying pine and twittering nest; JFrom thy fair, placid, saffron Skies Come gently down with healing flight And seal with sleep woe's weary, eyes Throughout the watches of the night! •J "* Thou upon whom thy pinions fair Doth bear the sounds of vesper bells lUpon the holy twilight air, O'er breezy downs and flowery dells; 'Amidst the loiid-tongued, brazen psalm And silvery songs that sweetly roll Bring thou heaven's healing, perfect calm To every stricken, weary soul! Thou who upon the quiet graves Dost calmly spread thy mantle gray; 'Bedew the grass which o'er them waves When kith and kin are far away. Kiss those who, in the gloom of death, Through all night's dreary watches weep; 'And whisper with thy healing breath, •V "He giveth his beloved sleep!" Thou who in far-back Hebrew days Didst smile on Bethlehem's harvest gold When fair Ituth stood, with wistful gaze Between the new life and the old, Deep yearning for the nobler part Beneath the holy, sapphire skies: Smiie chastely on each maiden's heart, ; And fix on Truth her eager eyes! Thou who on star-crowned Olivet Didst leave him in the waning light Reluctant, oft, his fair locks wet With the cold dews of falling night; Who oft .didst light with kindly sky r --His way to sacred Bethany;. Have pity on the weary's sight And lift each lone one's misery! Thou who,-, with mystic, tender charm, Didst bring all weary ones to rest-- The folded lambs safe home from harm, The babe close to its mother's breast, The swallows to the sheltering eaves, The lark down to his grassy sod; rMake sweet our dreams which Fancy 'v weaves, 1 And leave us in the love of God! --Sunday Magazine. A FUNNY WORLD. • • . • - Vernon and 1 were sitting In the dab. •It was late. The last 'bus had rolled 'home and Piccadilly was almost de­ serted save for an occasional cab that drove by with a flash of lamps and tinkling of bells. Vernon lit another cigar and puffed •way in silence. ."What you were saying just now about a short life and a jolly one," he said at last, "set me thinking about •poor old Jim Barham. He was awful­ ly like you in many ways. You remem­ ber him, don't you?" i I shook my head. "Ah, he was before your time," said Vernon, settling himself more comfort­ ably in his chair. "He was one of the ibest chaps that ever lived. I only wish to heaven he were here now. I tell you what, old boy, we'll have another drink and I'll tell you his story; it's a queer one. Walter!" When the waiter had put down the drinksand lef t-the- room-Vernon--be-- If pifs gnn: "Well, to begin with," he said, "I anust tell you that Jim Barham, when 'I first met him (which, by the way, was •up at Oxford), was looked upon as the •luckiest young fellow going. He was good looking, strong as a horse, and ihis father was one of the richest men in England. The old man had made a devil of a lot of money in trade--I for­ get what sort--and Jim was his only son. He and I were great pals at the varsity, though, of course, I--being on a comparatively small allowance-- couldn't keep quite up with his way of living. Well, to cut part of a long story short, one day the old man went broke. God knows what broke him--specula­ tion of some sort. 1 suppose; anyhow, he. failed1 for all he was worth and Jim rwas left an absolute beggar. As soon as he heard the,news Jim left Oxford, and 1 only saw him for a few minutes at the station, w'hen he cried like a child. My time at the varsity was over at the end of the terns, and Jim prom­ ised to come and stop with me at my people's In Norfolk. I never saw him again in two years." Vernon stopped to knocfe the ash off his cigar. "Go on," 1 said impatiently, for I was getting interested. "J tried all 1 could to find out his whereabouts," Vernon went on, "but all to no purpose. No one knew where he was or where he had-gone to. At last, after two years, 1 met him again. It was at a little Bohemian restaurant in Solio, one of these places where they feed you for practically nothing. 1 had gone there out of pure curiosity, and the first person 1 saw in the place "was Jim. He didn't seem anything like as pleased to see me as I was to see him, and it was some time before I could get him to tell me what he was doing. When he did, his story was a esd one. His poor old father had died 600n afterthe failure and left Jim abso­ lutely penniless and alone in the world, itaone would stir a linger to help him, and he, who had never done a stroke of real work in his life, had to look out -for some way of earning a living. H came to London, starved, for nearly a year, and at last managed to get'a job , Vs 'super' in some theater or other. That was, he told me, what he was doing then. His clothes were old and dirty, he hadn't shaved for a week, and there •were great dark lines under his eyes that told a thousand tales. I begged •him to let me help him, but he refused all offers, swore that he would g"et rid of himself if something better cjldn't turn up, and then left me without even 'H shaking hands. ^ "After that 1 often saw him about, but he would never let me get near, and would slink away directly he saw me. Every time 1 met him he seemed to look more wretched, shabbier and dirtier, and pne day 1 knew how low he had sunk, poor devil! for 1 saw him parad­ ing Piccadilly with sandwich boards strapped-across his back and a general look about him that told of drink and nothing else. After this I lost sight of him again, and I must confess that, in the bustle of business and the excite­ ment of'jSrHitical affairs, I almost for­ got his existence. "One morning, however, about two years later, when I was sitting over a late breakfast, my servant came in and (told me a rough, dirty-looking man swanted to see me. "'I.told him you were at breakfast, sir,' West said, 'but he said that didn't •natter, he was sure you'd see him all *be same.' m i ,* & ' sa;;V:, r ;• " 'What name did he give?' t asked, wondering who on parth nay visitor could be. ' " 'Barham, I think he said, sir,' my servant replied. "I .lumped up and r«n the hall, and there 1 found Jim sitting. " 'Come in, *old man,' i said, and shook him warmly by the hand. "Jim followed me into the dining room,, and when I shut the door sat down at the table and cut off a g^eat chunk of bread. "Til speak when I've eaten a bit,' he said, and broke into a laugh. Tunny thing, a man with £100,000 being nearly starved!' "I looked at the poor chaj> anxiously, thinking his head had been turned with the trouble he had gone through, but though he was in an even dirtier and more ragged condition than when I last saw him, he had no look of the mad­ man., \ • < "When he had crammed the last piece of bread into his mouth he juinped up and seized me by the shoulders. " *1 am not mad, old chap, or dream­ ing, though you know you think I am. Look at this letter, and then tell me if you don't think this is a duvilislh funny world.' "I read the letter quickly. "'Good heavens, it's true!' was all I could say. Y' " 'Yes,' said Jim, Tm the protid pos­ sessor of £100,000, left me by an old uncle who refused to give me a cent six months ago. By ----, It is a devilish funny world,' "He fell intp a chair and burst into a roar of laughter, and I couldn't help joining him." % - " 'But look here, old boy,' Jim said, suddenly growing serious again, 'this is not all I came for. /I came to tell you that you've got to share this with me. We'll have a real good time with this money. It's no use shaking your head, you must join me. And I'll tell you what I'm going to do with it. I'm not going to Invest it or speculate with it or do any of that nonsense. I'm going to spend it. I've had a ghastly, awful time of it for the last six years; I've lived among people you'd scarcely care to touch; I've been an outcast, a scum of the earth, a sewer rat. And it's all because of the lack of this confounded money. Now I've got it I'm^ing to make it pay me back for some of the ills its want has caused me. I'm going to live for fire years. I shall have £20,000 a year and you'll share it with me; and on this day five years hence, when the money's all gone--as it will be--I'm going to blow my brains out!' "He stopped .for a moment and be­ gan to pace up and down the room. " 'Don't talk like that,' I said;"*yoa know you don't mean it.' He came up to me, put his hands on my shoulders and looked me straight in the faee. " 'Old chap,' he said solemnly, 'I do mean it. I am going to live for five years, and I swear before God that on this day five years hence I shall put a bullet into my brain. I swear it.'" Vernon broke off and looked at the clock. say, its-getting- very late,"he said; "I'll finish this yarn another day." "No, no; go on," I said. "Well, Jim got his money all right, banked it and started to live. He went in for every kind of luxury, yachted, raced, shot--did everything a man with £20,000 a year can do. I was with him a great deal, and tried to put a check on some of his excesses, but all to no purpose. He lived a very devil of a lfe, was never in bed before 7 in the morning, smoked like a chimney, drank like a fish and played old Harry with his constitution generally. It was no good trying to argue with him; if one did his answer always was, 'I'm only going to live for five years, old boy, and I mean to enjoy those years, I can tell you.' "For four years this life went on, and h® then woke up one morning to find he had only got £10,000 and one year of life left, and--he was madly in love with a woman. She was a widow, ab­ solutely penniless, but as handsome as paint, and as attractive into the bar­ gain. Poor old Jim became her abject slave. He was always about with her, loaded her with presents, and I grad­ ually saw less and less of him. One day, however; he wrote to me and ask­ ed me to come around to his rooms, as he had something special he wanted to say to me. 1 went and found him in a very excited state, pacing up and down his room like a madman., 'I've been a fool,' he said almost as soon as I had closed the door, 'a con­ founded idiot. I have been living like a beast for four years and a half, and thought I was enjoying myself. 1 made an idiotic vow, and my money's all gone, barring £10,000. Curse it, what a fool I've been!' " 'You know the proverb about spilt milS;, Jim,' I said. "He sunk into a chair with a kind of groan. " 'Yes, 1 know,' he said, 'but, hang it, I can't help crying over it. For I'm in love with the best and loveliest woman in the world, and she'd marry me to­ morrow--only I have wasted most of my money. Ah, old boy, as I told you four years ago, it's a funny world. I have made a confounded mess of my life and I suppose I deserve what I've got, but it's hard, devilish haftl!' " 'Poor old boy!' was all I could say. Jim squeezed my hand hard and sat silent, staring into the glowing fire as if there he might find some way out of his perplexity. I shall never in my life forget that hour in his rooms. I can see the whole scene quite plainly at this moment. The cozy, well furnished room, the pictures on the walls and Jim's sad face showing up distinctly with the red glow of the firelight on it --I tell you that scene's photographed on my memory. I "1- should think we sat like, that for- close on half an hour and then Jixn sud d<>nly sprang up. " 'I have it,' he shouted, 'I know what I'll do. . Look here. I've got £10,000 left. Well, I'm going to try my luck on the Stock Exchange. If things turn up trumps I'll marry and try and live a decent life. If they don't, well, hang it, I'll keep my vow and have don with it. They tell me a revolver bullet doesn't hurt much. It's so soon over. "By the time I left him Jim and I had agreed to go and see a very clever stock broker--a friend of mine--the next day, and ask him to do-his best " 'It's such a funny world,' Jim said as he shook my hand. 'Perhaps I may be lucky, and then my vow can go to the devil and my revolver iDto the gut teat.). "Well, you know what a queer Jad* Dame Fortune Is said to be, and in Jim's case she lived up to her reputa­ tion. My friend made money for him hand over fist. Every company he put money into seemed as if it couldn't go wrong, and, as things were booming, Jlni made about £30,000 or £40,000 in :three drfour months. But he wouldn't be satisfied with that. " Til go on,' he said, 'till the day be­ fore that on which I was to fulfill my vow, and on that day, no matter what the conditions of the market, I'll sell every blessed share I've got; and then, if all goes well, I'll be married the next week.' "I didn't see him much during the succeeding two mouths, as I was very busy at the time, but he kept sending me notes telling me all was going well; and, knowing what shares he held, I could see on reference to the papers that he must have made a pot of money. "At last the day came on which he was to sell every share he held. He came Into the club--this very club, by the way--about 2 in the afternoon, and I could see by his face that things had gone all right with him. " 'Congratulate me, old chap,' he said, 'that's all-' i wrung his hand hard. 'When you've done squashing my hand, old boy,' he said, 'I want you to come round to my place.* "We took a cab and were soon there. " 'Now,' said Jim, Tm going to chuck this revolver away, and then I shall feel- as free as a lark.' v "He took the pistol from a drawer, opened one of the windows and threw it far away into the park below. " 'And there goes the last of my bad luck, please heaven!' he shouted gayly. 'Ahd to-night you and I and the future Mrs. Barham shall have a "dinner to­ gether to celebrate the event, and on this day week I'm going in for matri­ mony.' " 'And bliss, I hope,' I added laugh­ ingly. ' 'I don't hope, old boy, I know,' Jim said. * 'We three dined together that night, and Jim was in the best of spirits. He seemed to have taken a new lease of life, and I could see that the woman he was going to marry really cared for him. She seemed, too, as good as she was lovely. * 'Jim and I went on to the club after­ ward and sat up late talking. ^ ' 'Do you remember this day five years ago,' he said as w^ jiarted on the doorstep. I nodded. " 'Well, isn't it a devilish funny world?' he answered, laughing. "He was, right, poor, dear old chap. And it was even funnier than he ex­ pected, for that very night the Three Sisters held a consultation over him and before dawn broke Antropos had cut in two the thread of his life. « * « » 9 * * 'I say, it is late," Vernon broke off, and his voice was rather husky. 'Troti go my way, don't you? Well, come on, I'll drop you."--Pick-Me-Up. Obeyed Instructions. Mueh is said in these days about the want of obedience to parental author­ ity displayed by the rising generation, but an incident in which the contrary spirit was manifested is narrated by a prominent Western lawyer. His 12-year-old son, a boy of great spirit, but with no overabundance of strength, went to pass a vacation with a cousin who lived on the banks of a broad river. His father, in his parting instructions, placed one restriction up­ on the boy's amusement during his visit. "I don't want you to go out in your cousin's canoe," he said, firmly. "They are used to the water, but you are not, and you haven't learned to sit s,till any­ where as -yet. You'll be there only a week, and with r.11 the other amuse­ ments the boys have and the horses and dogs, you can afford to let the canoe alone for this time and keep your mother from worrying all the while you're away." The boy readily gave the desired promise. On his return he was enthu­ siastic over the pleasures he had en­ joyed. "And I didn't mind canoeing a bit, pa," he said, addressfng his careful parent with a beaming smile. "The boys taught me how to swim, and the only time they used the canoe was the last day, to go over to the other shrre. But I remembered my promise, and I wasn't going to break it the last day. So I swam across."--Chicago News. THE FARM AND HOME MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM­ ER AND HOUSEWIFE. The Best'Viirieties of Wheat--Hand­ ling HOES in Hot .Weather--Improv­ ing Rented Land--Fruit Sells by Its Looks--General Farm Notes. >, Are Wheat Varieties Degenerating. The general failure of the wheat crop in Ohio this year has caused many farmers to think that their wheat is "running out," and the desire to change seed is more general than it has been for some years past, judging from let­ ters received at the experiment station. While there is undoubtedly a great difference in the vigor of different va­ rieties of wheat and their adaptation to various soils and climates, the tests made at the experiment station encour­ age the belief that a variety adapted to the sell and conditions of a given lo­ cality will tend to improve, rather than degenerate, If proper care be exercised in selecting seed from year to year. To illustrate: the two varieties of wheat which head the list at the Ohio station In a ten-year test, Valley, which has given the largest yield per acre, and Penqulte's Velvet Chaff, which has giv­ en the heaviest average weight per bushel, are both varieties which origi­ nated or were first distributed from southwestern Ohio, IS to 30 years ago. These varieties are not proof against all unfavorable conditions, and every season they are excelled in yield by, some other sorts, but no one sort has yet been able to overtop either of them in the points mentioned, in the average of a long continued test.--Ohio Experi­ ment Station Bulletin. Hogs in Hot Weather* A few remarks concerning the hand­ ling of hogs in hot weather may not be inopportune. It Is generally agreed that the early hot days of summer are most fatal to the quickly grown ahd well fattened hog. It seems to be the rule, too, that the finest hogs In a bunch are first to succumb. Shippers when sending hogs to market should be care­ ful not to overcrowd the cars, and shonld also be certain to send along with the shipment a reliable man to sprinkle the hogs at every opportunity and to keep them from "piling," which term Is perhaps more applicable to win­ ter. This man should also take par­ ticular care that he is not charged with more dead hogs than is proper and cor­ rect. In unloading, buyers and inspec­ tors would do well to be in no hurry to weigh during the summer months, as much trouble can be averted by plac­ ing the hogs in airy sheds with well sagged earth floors for a few hours prior to weighing. To show the impor­ tance of this hint, we may add that we have seen numbers of hogs die imme­ diately after being weighed from cars, which, of course, means a loss for the buyer. Some shippers (and even thos3 who have had bitter experience) are very careless 1 n this matter of over­ crowding hogs in hot weather and rush­ ing them through, hence our advice to buyer and inspeotor.--Colman's Rural World. Improving Rented Land. It Is bad policy to rent land where it can by any possibility be bought. A really good farmer is sure to leave the farm he occupies in better condition than he found it, and In this country, unless a special bargain is made, the man who has made the improvements gets no benefit thereby, except as he has made it while occupying the farm. This matter Is managed much better in Ireland, where for a number of years the law requires that the landlord shall pay to the tenant the value of the im­ provements made.- Renting land is much more common in Ireland and England than it is in the United States. It is also true that in European coun­ tries land under cultivation is more apt to improve than it is in the United States. Heretofore, indeed, there has been little occasion for laws to reim­ burse the renter for increase of value in the farm from which lie had been for several years taking off the cream of fertility. Probably as the improvement of land rather than its exhaustion be­ comes more common the laws will be amended so as to better apply to the new conditions. The Cathedral of Seville. We knew already how impressive the cathedral could be at ordinary times. Without, in rose-color beauty, the Gir- alda soars above it; wide steps give to the Moorish wall of its court the height and dignity which we had missed In Cordova's mosque; and the court itself, the Court of Oranges, has all the pic- turesqueness that little tumbled-down houses actually built into the cathedral, and chance balconies, where women iouuge among the flowers, and chance windows behind grilles, and a central fountain, and a few low, fruit-bearing trees, and posing beggars in admirably composed rags, can produce. Within, scaffolding and Workmen in the com­ pletely blocked-up nave, which will take years in the repairing, could not alto­ gether destroy, in our eyes, the gran­ deur and solemnity of the vast pro­ portions, great golden grilles looming up before us unexpectedly in what Del­ acroix calls the cathedral's "magnifi­ cent obscurity," chapels opening on every side, but only the glitter of a jewel in a Virgin's crown, or the glow of the gold in a Christ's drapery, to' show where the altar stood in the com­ forting gloom. One Is "apt to credit the Moor with everything that Is good in southern Spain. , But if it was he who planned the court without, and raised its high wall, it was the Chris­ tian Spaniard who built this most sol­ emn and beautiful of all earthly tem pies;--Century. Bleaching. French manufacturers who have been seeking the best method of bleaching leather are reported to have obtained the most satisfactory results from sodium peroxide--already used foi bleaching wood and silk--a» the oxidiz­ ing agent. IJeavy leather is brushed with a solution of two pounds of mag nesium sulphate and three-quarters of a pound of sodium peroxide in four gal­ lons of water, and subsequently im mersed in weak vinegar or acidulated water. For light leather the same solu tion can be used without the acid treat­ ment Making Fruit Attractive. Fruit is always sold very largely by its looks. The highly colored apples will always bring higher prices than those of a duller or green color. With pears there is a partial exception, as there are so many superior varieties of a rusty color that this rather than bright red has the preference. But with the pears that do color, the more highly colored any specimen may be, the better it is likely to prove. But so much depends on an attractive ap­ pearance that many growers have learned that there is money in putting a spray of green leaves to offset the color of the fruit. This is almost al­ ways done in selling the finest peaches, and fruit growers are learning to treat other fruit in the same way. t bulk, of market potatoes in the past have b^en grown, and from there also will probably continue to come the larger part of the potato crop in the future.--Exchange. Self-Sown Tomatoes. Where large .quantities of tomatoes are grown and the fruit is allowed to rot on the ground, there will be many young tomato plants spring up the following season. They will not be so forward as plants from seed sown In a hothouse, but they will be thrifty and hardy for outdoor setting and come into bearing very nearly as quickly as the later plants.f rom the hothouse. Fall Sowing of tomato seed is little likely to start the seed into full growth, as the rains prevent the seed from trying suffi­ ciently to germinate. Sweet Corn and Beans. Both corn and beans were grown by the American Indians, and the combfc nation of both in the form of succotash was a dish which the aborigines taught their white neighbors to like. It is a curious fact that seed of beans and of the early varieties of sweet corn plant­ ed on the same day will 'be sufficiently advanced to cook together at the same time. The two foods also admirably supplement each other, the beans sup­ plying the nitrogenous or strength-gir- Ing nutrition in which the corn is defi­ cient. There are few who do not like succotash, and the fact that the food la healthy and nutrition as well as palat­ able will not detract from its deserved popularity. ; " • . The Apia^yi If a case of robbing 'bcctfrs look at once for the queen. -4® she is missing, supply a hew queen at otice. Frames Of honey that are intended for fall use in wintering the bees may, be left in the upper stories. \ It will be a good plan to continue to raise a few queens, so that ail the poor ones may be superseded in the fall. It Is a mistake to rob the bees oC honey so closely that feeding must be resorted to in order to keep them from starving in winter. At the close of the honey season the queen will stop ^depositing eggs to a great extent, but a fresh quantity of brood will be kept up. Bees, when building comb, plumb their work, and if the frame Is not in line with their vertical frame building It will hot stick' to the bottom of the frame. Bees varnish everything in the hive towards fall. All sealed combs are varnished to prevent moisture from en­ tering the pores of capping and dilut­ ing the honey; which causes fermenta­ tion by the heat in the hive. Dairv Dots, Winter calves make as good cows as spring calves. Set aside your old dash churn and buy a barrel, swing or box churn. A waiting cow is a worrying cow; re­ member this and feed regularly. Do not mix night's and morning's milk, unless both are thoroughly cooled. THE SALVATION ARMY. Cheaper Growlne of Potatoes. The experience of farmers last year, and as now seems probable this year, also impresses the importance of cheap­ er production of potatoes as the only means of making this crop a profitable one. Last year, indeed, prices went so low late in the season that there was really no market In many places for potatoes at any price. They were of­ fered in cellars or pits to whoever would take them away. No possible cheapening of production could give profit to the holders of potatoes held to be absolutely worthless, but the less that their product had cost them the smaller will be the loss. The large In­ crease last J'ear was mainly from the growing of potatoes in large amounts in places where they had never been grown before as a market crop. In most cases these potatoes had cost' more than the average expense of the potato crop In localities where this crop Is largely grown, and when the market collapsed, the dlsappolnment of the potato grower was all the greater. The truth Is that the cheap growing of po­ tatoes depends much on climatic con­ ditions. The Lake and Aroostook re­ gion of Maine, of Western New York Ohio and Michigan and the neighbor­ hood of Lake Champlaln in New York and Vermont hare tb# moist climate during summer which the potato needs I to be grown successfully Me re the Working undissolved salt into butter will soon cut or grind all semblance tg grain out of it. So far as possible, the food for the dairy cow must be as nearly uniform in quality and quantity as possible. The average yearly consumption of whole milk per inhabitant of the United States is said to be 25% gallons, and of butter nearly 20 pounds. It has been pretty well determined that the influence of the sire in a dairy herd Is greater than the dam in deter­ mining the character of the future herd. The cow that leaks milk may be helped by touching the end of the leaky teat with collodion each time after milking. This dries quickly and draws the orifice tightly together. One advantage in using parchment paper In which to wrap the butter is that it does not stick to the butter, while protecting it from the air. It is air-proof and water-proof, tasteless and odorless. Rye gives a peculiarly rich color to butter, but it also gives it a rye flavor; which is quite disagreeable to some. Tills can be avoided by not allowing the cows to run on the rye longer than two hours in the morning, just after being milked, and feeding hay and grain in the stable. Farm Notes. Brains in business rank above the capital invested, and capable men re­ ceive large salaries. Farming is a business, and should be conducted on a business basis. Wire fences have been productive of great benefit to farms, as they do not abound in fence corners, as in the case with rail fences. As the rail fences vanish there are feweri. propagating places for weeds. Thirty- tons of roots may be grown on any |'ebd acre of land by the right cultivation. This will feed thirty sheep for two hundred days, or two hundred for a month. This will supply two- thirds of the feeding. When a farmer has a theory it indi­ cates that he Is a thinker and is willing to advance In his system of farming. It is right to test all theories, but it should be done in a limited manner. Every farmer should have an experi­ menting plqt for testing fruits and vegetables, as those adapted for one farm may not be suitable for the next. If given the chance, a horse, a cow, or a hog will lick up the ashes In a burnt-up district of forest; something in the ashes satisfies a natural craving of animals. Mixed with charcoal and a little salt, It should be constantly kept near swine. There is, therefore, more than one useful purpose to which wood ashes can be put on the farm. Sometimes there is more to do than to turn out our cows to pasture in the summer and then milk them twice day. Unless the pasture is ample it will pay to feed also a little grain. Even with a" full pasture this is sometimes advisable. The more succulent food; requires more salt, too; and above al# things, see that there is pure water in plenty. The farmer, in making war on in­ sects, should learn to distinguish friends from foes. Many insects are destroyed when engaged In the work of preying on the kinds that damage crops. Birds should also be protected, especially wrens, wMcli will build their nests and. multiply on the farm if suit­ able boxes are provided for them with openings Coo small for the entrance Into the boxeB of sparrows. Story About General Booth from a Former Resident of London. The present trouble in the Salvation Army has recalled some incidents showing how the indexible, hot to say cruel, discipline in the rank and file of the army, and the extreme hard­ ships undergone, especially fay the hewer members. Not many of these stories get intci print, for the rew con­ verts are silent. A bright woman who has lived several years in New York, but is of English birth nnd training, told the other day of an incident twelve or thirteen years ago, which occurred while she was a resident of Guy's hospital at London. She was there as an indoor medical student at­ tending clinics, and also for treatment for spinal trouble, her brother being one of the resident doctors of the hos­ pital. "During a severe spell of cold weath­ er," she said, "three of the patients brought to the hospital were members of the Salvation Army in uniform--two women and a man. All three had col­ lapsed from weakness and exposure while out In the bitter cold performing the work imposed by their superiors. I believe they were begging--or at least one was. That is, as I under­ stood it, each was furnished with a list of names and addresses of people from whom subscriptions were to be solicited, each list representing a day's work of the hardest sort. It was said that if they did not do a satisfactory day's work ; they only got bread and water for supper, - ^ : "The man was found to be danger­ ously ill of pneumonia. The house doc­ tor said that one of the chief causes of his Illness was insufficient clothing. The man had on only a thin cotton shirt of the flimsiest material under­ neath his Salvation Army jersey. The doctor said that to go out 'With such clothing in such weather was simply suicidal, and that the people who im­ posed such tasks ought to be In jail. In fact, all the attendants; in the ward were indignant, and it was almost the sole subject of our conversation at meals. The man said that these were all the clothes he had and he had no means of getting more. They had a trifling allowance, I believe he said, of 3 or 4 shillings a week, and they had to account literally for every half­ penny of it.-- If they spent what was considered an unnecessary penny it was deducted from the next week's al­ lowance. "I don't know so much about the women patients, but we understood they were also very low. They, too, had the scantiest clothing. It is a rule In Guy's, as in other hospitals, that patients who can afford to pay for treatment ought to do so. After a while in this case the hospital authori­ ties sent a bill to General Booth for the treatment of these three patients. The general answered, declining to pay; he said neither he nor the army could be responsible for the medical bills of Its members. He also said, and this was the outrageous part of It, that when a soldier-ceased to work he ceased to belong to the army. The hospital people wrote again and in­ sisted that as these people became ill while performing unreasonable duties imposed by the army, the army ought to pay the bills. "I don't remember how that contro­ versy ended--probably I never heard --but I know the hospital officials were angry enough to make trouble for the general if he did not pay. Some part of the story eventually got in the pa­ pers, and a radical weekly took it up. This paper hunted up the people that General Booth dealt with for his sup­ plies and published long articles show­ ing that he reveled in the choicest lux­ uries In the market and lived like a regular nabob. They said he bought strawberries in winter, the best In Covent garden, at half a guinea a box, and that he bought the most expensive wines and had a cook at £45 a year, which is a very big salary over thero for a cook." It has already been noted that the general has always kept the control of the army, which included the sole handling of the funds, among the mem­ bers of his own family^ GREAT DAY IN CANTON. "World's Oldest Family. As a result of recent investigation It has been shown that the foundation of the families of about a dozen of the 400 barons in the British House of Lords dates back to 1400, the earliest being 1264. The oldest family of the British Isles is the Mar family of Scot­ land, 1093. The Campbells of Argyll began in 1190. Taliyrand dates from 1199, Bismarck from 1270, the Grosve- nor family, the Dukes of Westminster, 1060. The Austrian house of Haps- burg goes back to 952, and the house of Bourbon to 864. The descendents of Mohammed, born 570, are all regis­ tered carefully, and authoritatively in a book kept in Mecca by the chief of the family. Little or no doubt exists of the absolute authenticity of the long line of Mohammed's descendants. In China there are many old fam­ ilies; also among the Hebrews, "but," says an authority, "there is one gentle­ man to whom the World must take off its hat, not as facile princeps or primus inter pares, but as the great and only none-such. This is the Mikado of Ja­ pan." His place has been filled by members of his family for more than 2,500 years. The present Mikado is the 122d of the line. The first one wols contemporary Avith Nebuchadnezzar, 660 years before Christ. Of the seven great religions enumerated by Max Mil­ ler as possessing Bibles, the Mikado family is older than five. The Fatal Horse and Wagon. If. the statistics of accidents could be collected it would in all probability be shown that the most' dangerous way of traveling is with a horse and wagon. We believe there is authority for stat­ ing -that in proportion to the numbers of people traveling In various convey­ ances horses and wagons kill more people than steamboats or railroads or trolley cars or bicycles. --Pouglikeepsie Eagle. : Wo wish we were a freckle-faced country boy and knew the location of a good plum patch, and had a lot of good friends to tell the secret. Culture is dangerous when it reaches the point of taking a womah's mind off the things she has in the oven. . What nasty I "nit" i«( slang this new word Thousands of Railroad Men Visit Major McKtnley. . Saturday was the scene of a big dem­ onstration in Cailton, Ohio:> There were ten visiting delegations of from 1,000 to 6,000 each and utilizing twenty-six spe­ cial trains, and estimated at from 10,000 to 15,000 people. After/the two recep­ tions in the opera house in the forenoon one to the visitors front Hulton", Verona, Oak'Mount and other burroughs of Alle­ gheny County, and the other to the em­ ployes of the Carnegie City mills of Pitts­ burg, the speech-making was transferred to the McKinley lawn, part of it being done in the rain. It was the big delegation of railroad men from Chicago, too large for any hall, who set the example of defying the ele- ments. They, with the three or Jour hun- dred telegraphers who came with them, surrounded the little receiving stand on the Major's lawn and listened' to and cheered the assurances of hearty support delivered by their spokesmen, J. W. Dodge, of the Illinois, and M. J. Burke, on behalf of the telegraphers. --~ -McKinley to Railroad Men. Maj. McKinley responded to the rail­ road men as follows: My fellow-citizens: It would be a hard heart Indeed which would not be moved by this splendid demonstration. I bid yon, eacS and every one^of you, sincere welcome to ^ n#c0<unl,t the greatest honors t0 ^av®, 5,000 representative men ^»nfir^eiffrr.Ki ra,Iroad "nes of the country, centered in Chicago, come to this city to give me their assurance that in the year 1898 they stand by protection, reciprocity and sound money. These delegations , comlnsr long distances present a remarkable phase P°Htlcal life and evidence the deep solifcltude they have for the welfare of our country. Such a demonstration as this would not be possible If the people of the country were not profoundly sensible of the danger­ ous menace which Is presented In the na: tlonal contest of this year. You are here to-day--men of all parties and creeds--because you want to defeat the ef­ fort which is now being assiduously made to. destroy the credit and currency of the coun­ try, and also because, loving law and order, you want to stamp out the spirit of lawless­ ness and repudiation which now threaten it. Your active Interest In this contest for good politics, good government, good morals and good money will be helpful in every part of the country, and Inspiring to the friends of good government everywhere. In the great State of Illinois and the great city of Chicago are nearly 11,000 miles of railway. I have read the official statement of your railroad commissioners, and in the year ended July 30, 1894, Including the 1m- piense traffic of the World's Fair, tile great­ est ever known to date, only sixtyrfive lives were lost. Truly "the laborer is worthy of his hire" and faithful to employer and the public, and, my fellow-citizens, I am glad to gay that the wages of the Railroad men are larger by double in this connthan in any other Country In the Your spokesman has justly observed that no body of Americans have greater Interests nt stake in the pentflng i^tfeal campaign than the railroad men, who are everywhere taking the liveliest; Interest In the proper settlement of the** great principles involved In it.' The triumph of free silver would mean to you, as Its adoption by Mexico has meant to the railroad employes of that country, a decrease In the purchasing power of the money In which they are paid of fully one- half, with comparatively no Increase In wages. Not only that, but It would mean inevitable decreased employment and gen­ eral distress. A 50-cent dollar, employes of the railroad companies, will no more add to your earnings than the railroads would add to their traffic by diminishing the size of their cars. The railway men are deeply interested in the prosperity of the country. They know from experience that when the country Is prosperous railroads are prosperous, and when railroads are prosperous they have steady work and remunerative employment. They know that when the business of the country is poor the business of the railroads Is poor and the employes suffer both In time and-pay.- They are intereatedv^too. ln good-- money, and they are in favor of law and order. They want to-perpetuate our free In­ stitutions for their children forever and ever, Talks to Telegraphers. Maj. Mclvinley's response to the teleg­ raphers was as follows: And now, Mr. Burke and gentlemen of the Telegraphers' Association of Chicago, I am glad to greet you here with the railroad em­ ployes who have honored me with their pres­ ence. Perhaps none of us appreciate the de­ gree of universal acceptance that the tele­ graph has obtained. I remember as a boy reading how Morse, the first to put the tele­ graph Into practical use In the United States, sent his first greeting across the wires, the significant message: "What God hath wrought." Little did the people know then what a gift he had made to his future countrymen, and to the remotest ages. When the Democratic National Conventlon in 1844 was In session at Baltimore, It Is said, the news of Mr. Polk's nomination was Instant­ ly telegraphed to Washington sixty miles distant; but It found no credence there. Men did not believe In the accuracy of the state­ ment, and waited until It was verified by the newspapers or the returning delegates. Per­ haps the news was surprising, where a differ­ ent result was so confidently expected, but It illustrates the credulity of the times and the lack of confidence In scientific accuracy. Contrast this lack of faith with the faith of the old man who, it is reported, having learned to read the clicking of the wires, waited patiently at the telegraph office In Chicago for many hours for news from Ap­ pomattox, and when nt last the wires were clicking the news from Washington that Leo had surrendered he sprang to his feet, with the happy exclamation, which provedf to be his last words: "Now I can die happy. I thank you, my fellow-citizens, for your call, and appreciate most highly, indeed, your assurances of support which your elo- auent spokesman has presented to me. 1 wish I could shake hands with every man in this audience. I do not know that I can do it, but I am plad to meet and greet you. and am glad to know that you are enlisted In the great cause as against public repudia­ tion. Other Delegations Welcomed. Two delegations were massed in one for the next address. They Were the people of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, about 2,500 in number, and the Butler County, Pennsylvania, delegation, also a largo one. These delegations brought three or four bands, a number of clubs and 500 gayly uniformed men. Congratulatory addresses were made by John E. Harris, puddle boss of the Sharon Iron Company's rolling mill; J. M. Evans, president of the Sharon McKinley and Hobart Protective and Gold Standard Club, and H. H. Zeigler, chairman of the Mercer County Republican Executive Committee, on behalf of Mercer County, and" by Col. J. N. Thomas on behalf of Butler County. I£ach assured Maj. Mc­ Kinley that his majority would be the largest in the history of the Keystone State; . , . . Maj. McKinley hurried to the* house when his address to the foregoing was fin­ ished, to pay some attention to individual callers awaiting him ia> the librai®;. He just reached the door when the Committee of the Railroad Men's Gold Standard Club of the northern division of the Pittsburg and Western Railroad froraJFoshur^, Pa., overhauled him and demandeS a response to the introduction of their president, D. G. Moriarty, of#oxburg.,|^\^ The next delegation to S&&; an audi­ ence was the commercial travelers of Cin­ cinnati, accompanied by Caldwell and a number of proniine$i:?Cincinnati business men. The CinciiSmttians had surrounded Maj. McKinley^#h,.the porch and were shaking hands wiq^iiim at the rate of more than one a second when the horsemen escorted a long line of carriages and a longer line of marchers.to the gate. This body was the commercial travelers of Pittsburg, with their wives and lady friends in carriages. They brought a floral tribute of immense size and great beauty to Mrs. McKinley, and their presi­ dent placed a large roseate badge of the club with special inscriptions on the lapel of Maj. McKinley's coat. The last organization to call was the Hardware Men's McKinley and Hobart Club of Cleveland, made up of the dealers and their employes, but originated by tho latter. It was in charge of the president, Maj. Sam Gemmill, and was introduced by Charles A. Parsons. Each of the men in the party wore a white duck cap and carried a tin cane and a flag. Maj. Mc­ Kinley addressed them briefly. r-iiVii-"-" . - "t