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v Th. root of all the confusion in France. end the chief present menaee to the (Ability of the Republic, is the popular hatred of the Jews. There is no other reason for the rage of the popuiace, the shrieking of the press and. ti. disorder in the cities, than the beiiet that Dreyfus, aJew, did sell mi'itnry serrets, that he is being pro tected by a Jewish syndirate, bent on ruining France through its money power, and that the Government so fears thst power that it may try Drey- fus egein in Open court. There can be no other cause for alarm, for it is cer- tain that the power which bought the secrets of the mobilization scheme will not move to Dreffus’ support, the Chamber sides with the [temple in de- mandiu that there shall -l:e no re- trial, and the army, as represented by its generals, insists that the verdict of its court shell stand. There is no rear son anywhere for the pOpular turmoil except the belief, assumed or real, the Jews, and as the Jews everywhere are only an insignificant minority, that e whole people should rage against them seems inexplicable. It is the more so because the Jews labor under no political or religious disabilitjes as any other clam of the pOpulation. Nevertheless, hatred of them has stead- Hy increased of recent years, due in part to the traditional religious pre- fudico entertained for them by the ymasantry, but chiefly to the grow- ing hatred of the money power and, therefore, of the Jews as its most con- gpivuous representatives. no political or religious (1133011112398 \n Franco, always perform their civ- c duties faithfully have served 10V ally In the army, and have been as French Whatever the basis of this new hat- red may he, whether pity for the poor, or any of the rich, or belief that wealth is constantly used to buy le- gislation and influence policies, the fact remains that it has spread throughout France. The conviction of Dreyfus for “betraying” France gave it a fresh stimulus, and when to that was added the efforts of his co-reli- gionists to secure his release, or in the popular view, the efforts of a syn- dicatte of Jewish capitalists to compel‘ the Government to release him, the French public seethed with excitement. , And as the disposition of the Frenth when violently (at 1ted is to express their dissatisfaction either by chang- ing' the form of government or by pro- duclng the kind of anarchy under which dictators appear or states dis- appear, the danger which threatens the Republic is apparent. Should the rage .gainst the Jews continue and result, a violent outbreak, the Government must protect them, not alone because it is its first duty to protect all ci- tizens, but because attack on the Jews will involve attack upon all pro- perty, and to do this the army must he ordered to fire. The crisis will then : have arrived, for if the army shares the papular hatred of the Jews, it will refuse to obey orders; and as it deems its honor to have been impugned, the real charge of the Dreyfus party being that its courts are mere crea- tures of the State and so incapable of rendering a just verdict, it may refuse. In that event, the Government will be powerless, while if the tr00ps obey orders, control will pass into the hands of the group of generals who direct the French army for only by their support can the Government go on. The probability is that both the army which has always regarded govern- ment by civilians with something ap- proaching contempt, and the property- owners whose wealth is threatened, would then demand a stronger gov- ernment, and that the Republic would give place to a dictatorship or amon- u’c-hy. ‘ RAILROAD MILEAGE OF EUROPE. According to a recent official re- port there were at the beginning of 1897. 150.025 miles Jf railroads in operâ€"‘~ ation in Europe. an increase of 3,144 miles over 1896. Of this increase. Aus- tria-Hungary had 806 miles. of which Hungary had 579 miles. In Russia there was an increase of 555 miles. Ger- many increased her railroads 579 miles. the kingdom of Prussia receiving 387 miles. The countries of Europe now having the most railroads in Operation. according to their area. are in their order: Bélgium. 3.582 miles; Great Bri- tain and Ireland. 21,217 miles; Ger- many. 29,355 miles; Switzerland, 2,209 miles; Holland, 1.608 miles; France. 25,â€" 089 miles. 'l‘he other countries of Eu- rope have the following railroad mile- ages: Austria. 18.951; Denmark. 1,605; Spain. 7.615; Greece, 590; Italy, 9.349; Luxemburg. 269; Portugal, 1,451; Roumania. 1.781; Russia, proper, 22.- 455; Finland. 1.484; Serviu. 335; Sweden, 6.078; Norway. 1.201; Turkey and Bul- garia. 1,507 ; the Island at Jersey. Malta end Man. fl miles. a ha 11er that soâ€"{reif‘oictl N379? AND COHMEXTB. B"; W-ol'd! hsgq 9ften prqyed the saw FEEDING FOR EGGS. Corn is a prime heating and fatten- ing food, and in cold weather should be fed warm, not hot enough to burn the crops of the towls, but warm on- ough to be comfortable. There is lit- tle advantage in feeding frosty mm. It requires a good deal of extra fowl heat to warm it. and it can’ be done more cheaply by the farmer than the fowl. one is made of corn crushed, cobs and all, oat meal and bran and all wet up with milk. just enough to be crumbly but not SIOppy. “heat is a fine food for laying hens, and in fact all grains come in for a share of feeding, the idea being to have a change. ’Hens are al- most as fond of a change in diet as human beings are, and the hens cer- tainly do enough better to make it pay. it costs no more to feed a variety than it does to keep on one thing all the time. Some one says that if a hen lays two eggs a week the first egg pays her board, and the second one is profit; this seems a little elastic if made to fit eggs at twenty-five cents a dozen and eggs at five cents, for they sometimes bring no more than that here. All poultry raisers agree on the point that activity is much to be desired. Aftâ€" er the morning mesh of oats and bran. or oats and corn, a feed of small grain should be scattered in straw and the hens allowed to pick it out. by ‘scratch- ing and moving about. This gives them some exercise. Ground bone is one of the best things for poultry, and assists in egg production very much. Bone cutters are not very expensive, but all do not feel they can afford to have them. I have seen a woman take the bones upon a stone and break them with a hammer. The hems gathered around and picked up the flying scraps with great activity, proving that they relished that part of the performance, whether the chief actor did or not. Clover is not as fully appreciated as a poultry food as it will be in time to come. The heads are preferable and if wet uith hot water they will be devour- ed with very great relish, and will fill For a morning feed for laying foWls, a mash is an excellent thing. A good a place left vacant by the loss of the summer grass and other forage the fowls get when running out in the sum- mer time. There is a great deal of nit- rogen and lime in clover that stimu- late the laying propensities in a hen to a greet degree. Almost any kind of vegetables if cooked will be eaten with relish, and green cabbage will be tak- en greedily. The main thing to keep hens laying is to have good layers, to feed for eggs rather than for fat, to make a change, to have something to take the place of the green food they get in summer. to have warm quarters, warm enough to prevent freezing the combs. There should always be plenty of gravel. We have sometimes thrown hard coal ashes in the henhouse in winter time and have found them to make a substitute for gravel. Bones and meat are good --and there, that reminds me of a true story, one that came under my own observation. A certain man who was working for another person, owned a stunted calf. That calf was the apple of his eye, the light of his life, the joy of his heart. but lo! one day the apple, the light. the joy, was quenched, for the quadruped died; there was great mourning. but the carcass was given to the hens. and lo, they began to lay alnd laid so much and so many eggs that these sold to come to more than the real market value of the calf could ever have done. The fowls needed just this stimulus to start them in the good way and they kept it up in a most am- azing manner. While remembering to feed properly do not forget to always keep a supply of drink on hand; the fowls like water above freezing. and they like milk, BM'eet. sour or buttermilk. Keep the poultry house as clean as you can. the fowls free from lice and trust your hens to pay for their keeping. \Vheat is the best single food. if one can have but one kind. FARMING ON SHARES. Tenant farming is on the im'reuse. There a re several plans. Perhaps the most common is for the tenant to fur- nish all stovk. as well as all labor, alivâ€" iding equally the crops. Sometimes the landlord furnishes the horses and feed and receives two-thirds of the crop. The cost of fertilizers, when used, is divid- ed according to the share of crop re- ceived. The tenant usually has house, garden and firewood free. He must deliver the landlord’s share of the crop to the nearest station. Farming on shares has advantages as well as disadvantages. The owner of the farm gets more money out of it than he could by [arming it himself. supposing. of course, that he is not blessed with boys to do the work with- out hiring help. That is to say, Where the owner has to hire extra labor for all the work incidental to raising and harvesting crops, he will save money, as a rule by getting some good man to farm for him for a share of the crop. The trouble often is to get a good man. They are not plentiful. There are more of the other sort. Unless care is taken the owner will bargain with one who is “no good." and who will make nothing, but trouble, for himself or the owner either. - The greatest disadvantage of the ten- ant system is the difficulty of keeping up the fertility and appearance of the fam when rented. The owner can. and certainly should. in the contract, re- sort; the right of naming the rotation THE FARM. of crops. require the tenant ,to haul and spread the manure. and do all the farming in a husbandlike manner. And yet there are many things that could be done tofhelp the fertility, as well as the appearance. of the farm that a tenant cannot be expected to do. After :ubl. Whether it is better to farm on shares must depend on WHEAT AND 56:»: FOR PIGS. After feeding oorn alone, dry wheat alone, wheat soaked alone, and equa parts of dry com and wheat, the In- diana experiment station finds that pigs fed exclusively on shelled corn in 1 cold weather made a gain of 1.16 pounds ‘ per day; those fed on whole dry wheat made a gain of 1.02, while those fed on‘ soaked wheat. gained 1.05. \Vhen fed half corn and half wheat whole, they made a gain of 1.12. The great differ- ence, however, in these feeds is appar- ‘ e‘nt when it is shown fht it cost 11-2 cents to produce live pork with whole; shelled corn, but with whole wheat it; emt when it is shown that it cost 11-2 ‘ cents with whole wheat soaked. :1‘0 3 cents. It was found that the in- fluence of food on the organs and fleshy parts of the body did not seem to be materially different with the different grains. Where corn was fed alone, the bones were somewhat softer than when wheat was fed alone, or where wheat afiâ€"d corn ivere fed together. Both of these are much neglected. And none more easily handled. The markets never seem to be gllutted with good gooseberriea and currents, but if. sur-h Slim 55 the case they can be shipped long distances, or held several days in a. moderately cool place. Their season for marketing is quite extendâ€" ed. The chief enemies are mildew of both gooseberry and current, and leaf spot of the curra‘nt. both of which can he combatted ‘by selecting an Open locaâ€" tion with free circulation of air and thinning by judicious pruning. Applic- ations of bordeaux 'mixture and potas- sium sulphide do much to keep these diseases in check. Downing and Houghton are the best gooseberries and should be planted together for cross fertilization. Victoria. Red Dutch, White Grape. Fay’s and Cherry cur- rants are the best varieties of currants, but the two latter are more susceptible to the attacks of mildew and leaf spot, than the others named. Thorough cul- ‘livation and plenty of manure to keep all plants in a vigorously growing (2011‘ ditiom are great preventives of disease. It, is generally the weak, sod-bound plants and trees which attract diseases and insects. a pezisant’s horse, which, when work- ing, invariably 31:0me to rest after the twentieth furrow. It did not mat- ter how long the field happened to be, nor how tired the animal. might feel, it neéer stopped until the twentieth fur- row had been made, and so exact was the count that the farmer could tell the number of furrows by noting how often the horse had halted. 'l‘wu furious Horses 'l‘llau. Seem w ltmw Something About. Snmhu‘s. Proofs of the horse’s power 01' count- ing: are curious. Dr. Timofieff mentions In another village there was a horse which reckoned distances by posts. and knew what hour it was by the strik- ing of the clock. Dr. 'limofieff was drixing from one town to another, and at the twenty-second verst, tw o-thirds of a mile, one of the horses stopped suddenly. The driver got down from his seat and gave the animal a measure of oats, at the same time explaining to the passenger that the horse was accustomed to being fed every twenty- fifth verst. This time it had made a mistake, but. it could not be blamed. as it did not judge of the distance traversed by its own fatigue or hunger. but by counting the verst posts along the road. It had mistaken for some of these posts three others which greatly resembled them. but which merely Served to mark the boundary of the state foresl. The same horse was also fed in the stable at noon, and Dr. Timofieff him- self observed that whenever a neigh- boring ehnrch clock began to strike the animal raised its head and listened attentively. When the strokes were less than twelve it put its head down sadly, but it displayed every sign of joyful expectation when it heard- twelve strokes and knew that dinner time had arrived. A CONVENIENT C USTOM. In Holland bills are often paid through the medium of the post office. It enables a man living, say. in Rot- terdam, to get a small hill collected in any provincial town without the often expensive and tedious interference of a banker or agent. For that purpose he hands his bill to the nearest post office. It 18 sent to the place where the money is to be collected. After t.he.collection a draft is forwarded to the payee by the office where he deposâ€" ited the bill and where he gets his cash and the bill duly receipted on payment of a small commission, which is pay- able in advance. GOOSEBE RRIES AND CURRANTS. Didn’t you find it rather cold wheel- ing to-day 9v asked Mrs. Bevel Gear, when‘her _husband came in from a run. Well, I wasn’t scorching. v_r;[;l_i-;ci Mr. Bevel Gear. CAN HORSES COUNT ? HE \VASN’T SO \VARM. MAGNETS TB BE EMPLOYED The British Ironclad Victoria to be “as Reclaimed â€" She Men at Ibo Bottom of the Mediterranean lien. Ilavlnx Been Sunk There Several Years Ago In a l‘olllslol. A feat which will assuredly be one of the most wonderful science has yet at- tempted has been proposed to the Bri- tis’h Government. Before going into the details of the British Government's plan it is neces- sary to say something about the sunk- en battle ship. In the minds of most people the incident of its loss is still fresh. The British fleet was steam- mg in double column up the Mediterâ€" ranean. The sea was as calm as a mill pond, and the thought of a ship going to the bottom was furthest of all things from the minds of those in the fleet. 'llhe order came from Admiral Tryon. the officer in command of the ship. for the execution of a maneuver that had always been a favorite one with him wihen the vessels were practicing dif- ficult evolutions. It was simply a turning right about face of the entire fleet. by the simple process of the leading ships 8“ inging bow in toward each other and continu- ing to turn until side by side again with the prows pointed in an exactly opposite direction to that in which they had before been steaming. It was; the simple wheeling inwardly of two; parallel ships. turning as on a pivot until they had turned to be where they had been when beginning the maneuv- er, but with the direction reversed. The only thing necessary to be care- ful about was to see that the Space in w- uich the maneuver was to be made was of sufficient width to keep the ships from colliding, when turning in. preparatory to moving in the opposite direction. COLLISION ‘WOULD RESULT. \Vas caused by his staying too long over the wine at the mess table. Even the most c’haritably minded were torc- ed to place some such construction up- It is generally supposed that the short-sightedness which led an Ad- miral of Tryon's experience to direct the maneuver when every one in the fleet could see that a on the want of foresight that caused so terrible a disaster. As the Ad- miral paid for 'his recklessness with his life. however. it is perhaps as well to pass lightly over that part of the catastrophe. The ships had only half completed the wheeling process when the massive sides of the Victoria were crumpled Like so much paper by the rum of the Camperdorwn, and into the hole thus made water poured so suddenly that although the sailors of the fleet made the most heroic efforts to save life. 20 officers and 336 men went down with the ship. She lies at the bottom of the Medi- terranean, in 450 feet of water of the harbor of Tripoli. All attempts to raise any portion of the equipment of the great ironclad. have been futile. It is too deep down for divers to reach. her. The value of the equipment alone is immense, for the Victoria “as a, modern steel armored fighting ship. 350 feet long, and armed with 110-ton riflee.. To raise. the mammoth ship the Bri- tish Admiralty is considering the fol- lowing method: Above the spot where the Victoria is known to lie they will moor a fleet of wrecking pontoons. The chief in- struments to be used will be monster magnets, which will be let down from the sides of the pontoons attached to great chain cables. The magnets will sink until the at- traction of the steel. sides of the Vicâ€" toria will draw the toward the ship, to be attached in a mug embrace by the mysterious force that every school- boy has tested on a small scale. W hat the diver cannot do, because he can- not get down deep enough to attach chains to the SUNKEN FIGHTING MACHIN E. The magnets will do by the power of the attraction that electro-magnets have over steel. \Vhen one magnet, has been lowered and the points are firmly attached to the sides of the ship. another will be dropped at a little dis- tance. and this process continued. the magnets being lowered at regular in- tervals from each other until the sides of the battle ship are firmly joined to the pontoons by the chains that are at- taghed to themagnets. So large will these magnets be that the lifting capacity of the magnetic power will be no less than 100 tons to a magnet. That is to say. they will stick to the armored sides of the Vic: toria with force enough for each to bear the pressure necessary to lift 100 tons weight. The weight of the wreck in estimated at 7,000 tons, so that it will be necessary for no less than 70 of these monster magnets to he used in connecting the lifting machines on the pontoons with the wrecked battle 1n! wunueruu methods. of were never more strikingly l than they Will be in this éxl Science will give eyes {nut \\ trato to the bed 0‘ the sea. be able by means 01 (Jr/nab meats connected with THE GROPLVG MAG To tell exactly where l hes lation t0 the “1111!. am] “- n . Le toad]! tpo.armored bleit‘s With“ 8‘ ‘ cient suckmg power to xmk “in. . 9 lhe 4 success. A delicate elowu‘ical (“25.5“ * on tho pontoon will record H“. Ile'n‘ Which the magnet has sunk " ‘ 11 V power with which it hub Mm“ 801‘ to the battle Ship “'1“ he in the same way. 8h0“‘ If it i8 Shawl] that thfi‘. force 0f 1.“ MMtiO influence [8 not Suffidfll‘} great to stand the strain that “ml," put “D“ it “mu th? \\ ”I“; ”f 1.11.131» the Chip begins then the magma “2‘ be broken away from LLe insuffL-iq} embrace and a new spot uu me am”; sides played for [111111 .1 firm Mid,“ obtained. When the ram bane 111.1 made 11“. full stroke the lifting tables 11111 simultaneously held in position 1,1 means of hydraulic ii: 1mg 1.1“; T1» rams will tub?!) be lmn red and 311 other lift of 24 feet pixel) to t11e11rm and this operation uill be 1911112111111“ til by patient work the Rl‘t’ul 11am; ship is raised so near H19 511112119“ to allow of her being Imxwl to 111111 lower water and then lwarlwd. All thifl will be the Work of a great deal of time, but the ('onseusus of 51 p1. tific opinion is that it mu he, perform 0d. When it is considm‘o‘d that Q, ed. ‘Vhen it is. Victoria cost to than $8.w0.000. it at As no part of her armament is injureq and the cornparauvely smuilâ€"nzedmk that sunk her can readily be. I'Pmirv‘. In a small way the. tun. ”1‘ 1 method of raising a sunknn 0»: has already been made by 1 ernment authorities. and kw: for the slowness with u 1m. miralty officials take Up nu) gestion. however. feasible i‘ :1 tbs Victoria might have inm- Great Brlluln Bully km» lead. One of the leading 51min: Franco. M. Jules Roche. i: w malpilod some interestixm rigu; ing upon the growth' and MP the world's commerce durum fifty yeam. 'flhe object of tistician in devoting himwit task was to expose the com 1': it!!! between France and Hm the matter of their {OI‘Pign it done. A careful estimate of H raising the battle Ship by the electromagnets shuns I be done for less than $3ilHN thfi Government will b» :41: gainer if the work is .suwwx plgted. long“ Vheno the idea, was first suupvsw an electrical expert, the Gmmnr officials wem sufficiently immv with it to allow a demons! mum I made “’ith a model Ship. Ilu' «1PM water, the lifting capacity ml 13w 1 nets and all things being rv‘uti' the same as those of the: {nmhvm undertaking. This was sun-vessfu? 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