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About Oregon courier. (Oregon City, Clackamas County, Or.) 188?-1896 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1896)
T A YEAR'S HISTORY. Chronological Record of Twelve Months. I FULL RECORD OF 1805. An Epitome of All Events of 'importance. Thm Usual AdmlHuro of Disaster, Crime, rollllcal ( bailees, Commer cial Achievements, and Interna tional t orn plication -Atrocities of Tnrha In Armenia tin Moat H hock ing fane In Modern lllatory-Pow-ers of Kurope Unite in Demanding Reform Cuban If c vol n t Inn Melt In Public Intereat. With but two exceptions, the nature of the events which go lo make up the his tory of thn pust rear Is not startling. The butchery of thousands of Armenia Dl by Turks hiiH aroused tho Buropesn powers, and lit the clot of tln year active preparations were in progress whii'h sug gested thn probable dismemberment of the Ottoninn empire. The revolt of Cuban against Spanish nilu was the next most important nfTiilr, and thnt, too, was In full sway at tin- close of the year. (Spain seems to fruitlessly bend every energy toward ita suppression. Popular sympathy la largely w ith the Cubans, and their success seems not Improbable. In American polltlca the year haa been ex citing, and one of the gnat parties Inia Buffered such reverses aa to leave the chief executive unsupported In politlcul fnith by a majority in either house of Congress. A chronologicul record of events follows: January. 1. Michigan's first nubile Installation of Mate officers. . ,Ocv. Jlorton, of .New York, aworn In. . . . Helgltiin bars Ainerloiin beef. .. Tom Mail lynched at Mount Sterling. Kjr... Klre perish In an Incendiary Are at btncaa ter, K. 2. Death of Col. Edwaid M. Heyl, Inspec tor general Department of the Missouri, at Chicago. .. .(.'arnegle's Homestead men strike against reduction of wages. 5. Klres; $75,001) at Springfield, Ohio; $106, 000 at rtolfeyrllle, Kan.: $1110,000 at Cleve land; $800,000 at the Southern Illinois Iu naiie Asylum, at Anna. . . .Cleveland enter tains Hill at a Cabinet dinner. 4. Scores of villages and cities unite In sending aid to deatltute people In Nebraska $100,000 fire In Milwaukee. 6. Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, publicly degraded for selling war secrets. 6. $1,000,000 lire at Toronto; two lives lost. 7. Biploalon on steamer In Itlo harbor kills 120. . . High water In Ohio Itlver towns. 8. Starving men pillage stores ut St. John's, 9. W. W. Taylor, ex-Treasurer of South Dakota, embezzles $;in0,O0O; his bank at Ked fleld closes. 10. Two Uvea lost In a Toronto tire; prop erty loss, $1100,000. 11. Coldest day of the season In Chicago; 12 below. .. .Storms In the East. 12. Train held up near Ottumwa. Iowa. 18. One hundred tlreiuen frost-bitten at Bradford, Pa.; $l0.00(l damages Several vessels lost on England's coast; flftceu sail ors drown. 14. Hundred mluers trapped by rising wa ter lu North Staff iidshl re. Eng.; 20 drowned. 15. (llaut npwder horror-at Butte, Mont.; 00 people' killed, 100 hurt. . . '. e'rench Presi dent resigns; RoygUSti awake. IT. M. Felix Fiure elected President of France. 18. News of rebellion' In Hawaii ... Death Of Mary, Vice President Stevenson's daugh ter. .. .Alllltla ordered out to protect Brook lyn trolleys. 10. Body of Barrett Scott, the O'Neill. Neb., defaulter, found In the river, with rope annual his ueck . . Sinking of atenmer State of Missouri In the Ohio; forty Uvea iv' tii :- 1 21. Chicago has a thunder and rain storm, with temperature of 94 degrees and a spring breexe, followed by a hurricane blowing 111 mlea an hour. teniperatirre'falMhg' fo 10 dt grees1 above zero; tunny peoule hurt by fa 1 1 -lug timbers, blown from liHSv buildings. 23. Steamer Chlcora anil '-'' people lost off Soutteii.'ivcrt.'Jifrii. ; financial loss, sis-yono ..Dealh o(, i.ord Itaiulnlpli ('burc.lilll . at l.ondan: 25. Seven killed, by Mcmliitii,, UUubolhw gniosioo, . . 'wnnreumni conceaei cdncedei Mexlon s boundary, claim .Fearful wind ami snow storm la I he est. 29. Thirteen snllors drowned "If I'nlnt Ju dith, Conn. 27, Hercury below le.fo.aJJ day in OolcsgO . .. .flnowbfookafaea raanyMVeatern roads, 28. One killed, M ban, in Vandnlin wreck at Coaisvllle, 1ml : . . . 1'resldeTlt Cleveland's currency message sent lo Congreaa, 20. Receivers named for the whisky trust. 80, Steamer Blue sank lu cnHUiou with the Crathle, in North Bea; 314 rites' lost, ai. Dealh of ward McAllister, leader of New fork! society. February. 8, NeWI cif kidnaping of otlb'ers from Dnl" fed siaics gunboat Concord, by Cbjuese, for accldcnutl shooting of a uatlVe. . .Chicago temperature I't below. 4 Three drowned by Milwaukee street car running Ihto an open draw . . Thirty French miners killed hr explosion .... Chicago tein puratare 17 below. .. .Queen I. II abdicates Hawaii's throne. rt. Blizzard sweeps over the Northwest. .. . Alarm for the overdue French liner l.a lias cogUS. , Whole country suffers extreme cold; 20 below at Chicago. ... Nine men lost In open btMts st Milwaukee. ... Bcport of annthlta Hon of Chinese fleet at Wei Hal Wei. .. .Ad Inlhtsti atlou's . urrency measure nud Itoed and Cox substitutes defeated lu the House. 8. President announces the stile of $(12, 400.0UO lu bonds. .. .Coldest .lay of the ycuf In Chicago. 10. Schooner Clara and 1.' men lost off Liv erpool, N S. 11. l.a liascoKne, eight days overdue, mute New York harbor Willi disabled ma chlnery; great rejoicing. 12. $200,000 street-car bum nre ut Chicago. 1.1 Five Sremeu killed, ltt hurt, at I.ynn, .Mass. II) Death .if Isaac I'. Cray, .Minister to Mexico. ... New Hileaus has ten Inches of snow. 20 Death of Fred Douglass, the colored orator, al Washington. .. Quick sale .if late l.oud Issue 26. Blot at Savannah. Oa., because of ex 1'rlest Slaitery's lecture; troops called. 27. $400,000 fire at Chicago; $1,000,000 at Halifax .... Scores of miners killed lu New Mexico. . . .Postmaster General lllssell re signs. March. 1 Mexican train wreck COSTS 104 lives.... Klve killed. 10 hurt, by falling walls at New York. .. .Bebclllon -alns Kroiin.l In Cubs. 2. $1,000,000 tire In Toronto; ttOAOOO at Hallna, Kan. 3. Chicago Times Issues lis last n.unl.er before consolidation vvlih Hie Herald. ,. .'Per rifle snowstorm In Northwest. 4. Flftv third Congress adjourns. 5. Mrs' W. K Vandcrbllt divorced at New Tork. t). One robber killed, one captured, and four . aliens wo mded during raid ou the 04WL Iowa, bank ). Hsrrv Hnyvvanl convicted of murderlna Catherine Olng at Minneapolis. . . Steamer Longfellow sinks st Cluclunstl; tvvciv, drown, d. 10. Spanish war v-'sscl Belna Kegente founders; 40O lost 11. Six men klllwl In New Orleans riots. 12. Seven Italians lynched by miners for murder In Colorado. It Western Newspaper t'nlon plsnt burns at Kauaaa City Two more Italians lynch rd In Colorado. 10. Five killed In round bouse Are st To Isdo; Krlleag resdy print plant af Cleveland burns; $2ia..000 fire st St. Louis Report of sinking of Amerlcsn schooner and crew of 19 by Spanish gunboat 20. Mine explosion In Wyoming kills 00 mlnert... .$100,000 drs In I'eorla, IIL 21. $400,000 Bre st Sioux City; $800,000 at New Orleans. , . 34. LI Hung Chang ihot by fanatic Japan ese; not fatally. . . .$1,000,000 tire at Kansas City, Kan., packing-house. 28. Furious dust storm over Central and Western State!. 28. $1,000,000 firs In Milwaukee. 27. Three train robbers killed os Queen and Creareot routs. 20. Japan declares armistice. .. .Hottest March day over known In Chicago; tempera ture 78 degrees. . .... 80. Death of A. C. Heslnf, editor of Illi nois Siauts eltuhf. April. 1. Boiler explosion kills six at Woburn, Mass. .. .Five die lu Kentucky forest tires. 2. Itanublleans sueeaasful In Ohio, Michi gan, Wisconsin and Chicago. 8. Death of Mrs. I'aran Htsveni, society queen of New York. . , .Orand I'aclflc Hotel of Cblcaau closed . , . Fifteen killed by explo sion In New Orleans. 0. Hunranis Court makes changes In In come lax law. .Train wrecks In Ohio and Illinois kill elabt 8, Discovery of counterfeiting of postage stamps, .,,21 mlnera killed at New What com, Wash. , . .Collapse of six-story brick at Wheeling, W. Va; killed; loss $200,i"i. . . . Blizzard of sand and snow In the West. IS, Crude, oil sells at $2 In 1'lttsburg. .. .Cu ban rebels whip Spanish troops, 14. Death by npoiilexy of Juines W. Scoff, of Chicago Times-Hera Id, lu Now York.... $1,000 OHO hotel nre ut Pasadena, Cal. 15. Conclusion of peace lu the Orient,,,, Cuban rebellion crushed Cattle admitted free from Mexico. II). Three killed, six hurt, at Chicago ship yards, 20. II. II. Kohlsaal buys Chicago Times Herald May wheat sells nt 00 cents..., All grain advuncca strongly. .. .OH goea higher. 21. Five negroea lynched at Butler Springs, Ala..., 15 Inches of snow lu Colorado. 23. Supreme Court decides In favor of Debs In the famous contempt of court case. May. 1. Ten persons killed by a Kansas cyclone .... Mini. Ills kill an Alton engineer. Big Ohio coal strlko on. 3. Awful death roll In Iowa ami Wiscon sin storms. .. .Flvo killed by powder mill ex plosion al South Acton, Mass. .. .Hottest 3d of May on record In Chicago; temperature Mg degrees; one man sunstruck, N, South Chicago and Jollel steel workers strike. . . .Oriental oeace assured. 10. Steamers Cayuga and llurd sunk off Mackinaw, Mich., by colliding; one man lost; pecuniary Iosh, giooiioo. ,, .Temperature ut Chicago drops from Nil to 43. .. .Twelve peo ple hurt by gua explosion at Chicago; rour die. 13. Killing frosts from Nebraska lo the At lantic. .. .Snow Htops I he Chicago-New York ball game at Cblcagl Eighteen lives and twelve vessels- loaf In slorins on Lnku Mich igan. 18. Crest flurrv In corn and wheat. III. $1,000,000 fire ul St Albans, VI Ter rible cirt lupin kes lu Italy .... Killing frost In fifteen Slates. 20. Income lax declared invalid Wheat aells al 74 cents. 21. Jose Marto, President Cuban Insur gents, killed.... 14 killed lu Sun Frunclscn powder house explosion. 25. Two men lynched for assault at Dan vllle, HI . ..Wheat reaches S2 cents. 27. Supreme Court against Debs. 28. Death of (IrONham. Secretary of Slate. 20. Remarkable military reunion at Chi cago, 80. Funeral of C realm in al t hlcago. .. .Ded ication at Chicago of Confederate monument. 31. Cloudbursts In Texas, parching droughts In middle Western States, 00 degrees In the shade In Dakota, six Inches of snow In Col orado, balmy weather on the Pactfla coast, and Wl degrees In New York City. June. 1, 2, 8. Unprecedented hent In Chicago, New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Indlan a polls; many deaths from hent prostration, 4. Drop at Chicago of 40 degrees tempera ture. 6. Sliver convention at Springfield, III. 7. Olney appointed Secretary of State, Harmon Attorney C.encral. 8. $200,000 tire at Kalamazoo. 0. $750,000 tire at Milwaukee. 18. Whlaky trust declared Illegal. 10. Greenville, Ohio, has a $225,000 fire. 17. H. J. Aldrlch falls for $1,000,(K)0 at Denver . ... Deadly storms sweep the Mis souri Valley. .. .Opening of Harlem Bhlp canal. 20. Opening of Kiel ahlp canal. 21. Rosebery i ministry defeated. .. .Two fatally, ten badly hurt, by explosion on whaleback excursion steamer Christopher Colutnbua at Chicago. 2fl. Six nremen killed at Minneapolis; iuu; 000 kail. . . .$2,000,000 lire at San Francisco. 29. Death of Prof. Thus. Huxley at London. July. . ,i j i 3. Daughter born to the Clevelanda. i 7. Terrific strum nt Chicago. .. .Six drown ed at Lake Geneva, Wis. .. ..Michigan swept by forest Area. 10. Christian Endeavor assembles at Bos ton. , . ' i-vt 14. DeatractlTe storm In North Dakota.. Three drpwn at South Haven, MJqh. .. .Seven accidental fatalities at Chicago. .. .Nine killed, by Btomi In New York and. New Jaraey. 10. Beginning of IBn-r-JIarvey debate at ' oi. lis11 HS'- Flint np.peaianre pf bloomers at a boll, Chicago. .. '.Three Cincinnati firemen In Chicago killed. i 18. Nine miners Imprisoned by care-In at fron Mountain. Mich .... British ship Prince Oscar and unknown, reveal llskilo collision; 40 iierlHh 'HI.. Rescue. of Iron Mountain miners.... Cleveland baby named Marlon. 21. 'Drowning-of 148 Itallilns. by sinking In collision of steamer Maria P. ...Four killed at grade crossing ut Wllllomslon, ,Miiss. .. .$400,000 lire In National Linseed Oil Company 'Chicago warehouse. 22. Report of klllloK of seventeen Indians near Jatkson'a Hole. Wyoming; grave trou ble lAmlhent. 1 23. . Furious sionn in Pennsylvania coke region... 'L. S.'A; M. S. train held up In Ohio; 17,000; stolen. 2.1. Thirty-two miners killed by explosion In Westphalia'.' 31. Sixteen perish lu a cloudburst In Col orado and Wyoming. . . . Menominee, Mich., has a $.".00.01 Ml tire. August. 4. False report of race war al Spring Val ley, III., between Italian anil negro miners. . . Murder of British missionaries In China. .. . $1,000,000 Arc at Sprngue, Wash. 7. Drath of George F. Root, the famous composer. 8. Thirteen killed and many Injured by fa 11 Ing blinding In New York. .Death of Supreme Judge Howell E. Jackson, of Tenneasee. 10 $200,000 tiro at Lockport, III. 11. $500,000 fire at Newark. X. J Four killed In a wreck at ltainbrldge, Ohio. 13. $300,000 lite at Philadelphia. IN. Holocaust In Denier hotel; 25 killed Seven drown at Ocean City. Mil 20. Trains lo Id up on the i . vv . si., near Fennvllle, Mich., and ou the I'nlon Pacific near North l'lalle. Neb . ..Eight killed and eight Injured by explosion at Braddock. Pa. 22. Milwaukee loses $382,000 by Are. .. Gantr loses atallleu pacing championship lo Pateben, 211-7 s. Henvy rains In corn belt; aevere storms accompanied by fatalities In Illinois and Ohio. 20. Fifteen miners drown at Central City, Col. Fcptcmber. 2. Oue hundred people hurt on the Sea Beach road. Long Island. 3. Furious storm lu central Northern States. 4. $300,000 fire ot Boston. tt. Triple minder In Sullivan County, Ind. 7. Forty two miner' perish lu a burning mine at Calumet, Mich. .. .Defender de feats Valkyrie lu first cup contest by nine minutes. 8. Five killed by dynamite near Dubuque, loVV;l II Opening of G A. R. encumpnient at Louisville. 10. Valkyrie fouls Defender at the start, and wins second heat of yacht race by 47 seconds; race given to Defender on protest .. .Tviuperature 07 denreea at Chicago. 11. Seven killed by exploding caisson at Louisville. .. Six killed lu collision on Great Northern. 12. America cup goes to Defender. Valky rie refusing t" sail. . . .Seventy-five hurt by fall of a grand stand at Louisville, sty.... News of dcatb of 300 by earthquake lu Hon duras .. . Ex Oucen I.llluokalanl pardoned by Hawaiian Government. HI Six killed In a wreck at Lynchburg. Va. 17. Atlanta Exposition opened. .. .Phenom enal heat In Kansas. 107 degrees. 18. Dedication of Chlckamauga Chatta nooga National Military Park. 10. Spanish cruiser and 4l men lost In col lision off Cuba.. .Steamship Edam sunk In collision; all saved Six die uf heat In Chi cago. 23. Great losses on upper lakes by storm. 28 Death of Pasteur at Paris. 29. Twenty four lake vessels meet disaster in a storm. .. .Hetlrcmeut of Gen. i SO. Continued gales on the lakes; schooner Elms snd eight people lost on Pictured Rocks Mammoth mass meeting at Chi cago declares sympathy for Cnba Nation al League season closed. Baltimore winning October. 1. I'.Biril'llve snics uu orilisu coiihi.... i, una declares urr muepenuence, 2. Texas special Legislature prohibits pu gilism. 8. Million dollar nre at Warren, R. I. 7. Seven killed by exploilon In a Wllkes barre, Pa., mine Masked bandltt success fully hold up a Chicago electric car. 0. Annlrertary of big Chicago fire Fire die by fire In Cincinnati, .. .Steamer Africa and crew of eleven loet In Owen Bound Oeoigla father kills hie nine children, .. .Six children burned to death at Snider, Ont. 12. $100,000 Are loss at Duluth. 13. Pour killed, twelve hurt, on a Pittsburg trolley car. .. .Fire burn to death In a Mani toba prairie Are; Immense property loii. 111. 150.000 aaw-mlll Are at Minneapolis. 20. Ilul-nillllon dollar fire at New Orleani: 1,000 people homeless First snowstorm ot season at Chicago; Erie, Pa., has a fall of ten Inebei. 22. President Clerelaad welcomed to At lanta, .. .$175,000 linseed oil mill Are at Cht- enirn. 21. Lake Shore train rune from Chicago to Buffalo, 510 miles, In T hours 50 minutes 20 seconds, running time, beating world's rec ord. 20. Three killed by explosion of tug boiler at Chicago. .. .Sheriff and posse at Tiffin. Ohio, kill two of a lynching mob. .. .Burning of Virginia's State Culveralfy. 20. Negro criminal burned at the atake In Texas. .. ,$200,000 Are lu SprlngAeld, Ohio , ,,.To killed, throe fatally hurt, in a col lision In St. Louis, 111. Earthquake throughout the central belt of the Fulled States; uo fatalities, little dam age. November. 1. Earthquake at nme. , , .Durrant founa guilty of murder at Sun Francisco. 2. II. II. Holmes found guilty of murder of Benjamin Pltze at Philadelphia. 3. Four killed In B. & O wreck near Wheel ing, W. Vu. .. .Four burned to death In New York tenement house lire. 5. Death of Eugene Field at Chicago $300,000 Are at Decatur, III. 5. Republican lunilallilo $i,noti,iw nre In New York, II. Forty killed by boiler explosion In De troit, Mich., Journal building It ran fam ily of six die lu their burning house at Brooklyn. II. ( hlcago dallies reduce to 1 cent. 10. Twenly killed In a street car accident at Cleveland, Ohli Death of Dr. M. IT. Smith, author of "America, at Boston ... News of auollier massacre by lurKS in Ar menia: 800 sbilu Consolidation of ( hlcago Journal and Press. 111. Furious snow and wind storm In Norm- west Lowell, Mass.; Dallas, Texas; and l'urcell, I. T.r huve big Ares. 21. $II(SI,oihi tire lu springer liiiiining, uiu- cago. . . . Kugene V. Delis roienseo irora Woodstock. Ill, Jail Sultan of J uraey forced to a peace policy by the powers, after he hud countenanced many Armenian massa cres. 22. Five Arctium lose life III n $.MI0,0O0 Chi cago blaze. .. .Release from Jail anil enthusi astic reception of E. V. Delia, labor loader, at Chicago Foreign lleets reudesvous lu the Dardanelles. 25. Tremendous damage at Chicago by storm of snow, sleet uiiil rain; all car lines blocked, wires dowt Fire at Chicago does f300,000 damage Seventy killed by explo sion In cartridge factory ut Pulnia, laland of Majorca. , 28, Three vessels go ashore at Gleticoe, 111.; erewa of 2(1 men saved ... Riot In Jackson, Mich., prison. 27. Death of Alexandre Dumas, Jr., at PsHa 28. Dar of doom for the turkey .... Foot ball guinea: Michigan boats Chicago; Boston and Chicago, tie; Pennsylvania defeats Cor nell; Purdue defeats Illinois; Louisville wins from De Pauw; Columbia Athletic downs Co lumbia University ; Brown defeats Dart mouth. December. 2. Assembling of Fifty-fourth Congreaa; Reed elected Speaker of the House. . . .Zero weather In Northwest. .. .Further maaaarrea In Armenia 7. $350,000 Arc In San Franelaco. . . .Europe storm-swept; British boat and twenty-aeren aallora lost off Scotland. 8 $(50O,O00Ares In Chicago. . . .Death of Ge.o A. Bala, London Journalist Tug Campbell and seven men lost In Lake Superior. . Chilton, Wis., raxed by lire. 10. St. Lonls gets next National Republican Convention. .. .Sultan permlta guard ships to puaa Dardanelles Harry Haywaro hanged at Minneapolis. 11. Burning of Catholic Orphan Asylum at MIlwauKee; zoo cunareu rescucu. . . .munuier Germanic sinks the Cnmbrae, at London; no lives lost.. ..Mob threatens Kaunas Medical College at Topeka. because of grave-robblng. 12. Death Af Allen 0. Thurmnn at Colum bus. Ohio. ' 15. German ship Athena with a cargo of naphtha explodes off Cape May; 14 lives lost. 17.. Clevelaud'a Venezuelan . ;mesage arouses great enthusiasm at , home and astounds Greot Britain Pblladelpjira In the hnuds of a mob during a strike. 18. Explosion on liner St. Paul killed alx men and Injured Ave. . .Hpuse passes $100, (XX) appropriation for Venezuela commission ....Rioting In Philadelphia: entire street railway eervlce suspended Djfytth of Cept. Isaac Baasott, doorkeeper dt the.Sehate. 107 Thlrty-alx lives lost In Newfoundland .flshhlg Aeet bv Itorm '. ti :4oYty-three killed In a North Carolina inlue.'. . Tremendous rainfall at Chicago. 20. Panic ou W all jitreet Senate unani- mouslr passes House 'bill for Venezuelan commission. .. .Cleveland sends financial message tu Cobgreas. . . .'Twe'iitr four miners at Dajfton, Tenn., killed. .. t'npreccdented Aood'at Chicago. . PUFFING THE PLAY. "A New York Succems " Abnsc of Press Courtesy. The United States is a broad and busy country, and It Is well supplied with ex cellent Journals, says me Forum. As Is natural and unavoidable, these gener ally take their tone In treating dra matic affairs from those of the metropo lis. What Is said and dune In New York about plays and actors. Is publish ed all over the union as quickly as the wires and press can spread the news. Consequently the theatrical business of the entire country Is managed from New York. That Is why actors, man agers and the minor personages of stage life flock to New York. That is why for many years past It has been possible for the wily speculator lu rot ten dramatic IuiuIht to set up a Hlmsy stage structure, held together only by the adhesive qualities of paint and printers' Ink, and by keeping a New York theater open and empty for Its exhibition for a stated term of weeks at the expense of ja.OOO or S4.000 a week, and by a continual pestering of the good-natured Journalist - to obtain a sufficient amount of notice of his "great New York success!" to enable him to travel throughout the country with his "show," and gather a rich har vest from those who are eager to see what sort of plays please the people of the great city. Of course the "show ' so,.n falls to pieces from the weight of Ita own worthlessncss, and the seeds of genera', COO tempt for Now York's good taste In theatrical matters are sown broad cast. But no matter. The enterprising speculator, now well In funds, returns to New "ork and is soon iion the full tide of another like venture. Year af ter rear this sort of thing g.es on. Hut the people of the Kast. South and West are becoming wise and wary. The "business" Is not so g.snl now as It i once was In those often-deluded sec tion.. One of the roots of our theatri cal troubles upon which the as should fall quickly and sharply is thai abuse of the press courtesvy -first extended In good nature toward the struggling ar tist, but now demanded as a right by the brass band "show boomer." . t.- w .... with ourselves. BE ALBTJRAL BEADING WILL BE FOUND IN THIS PARTMENT. DE- The Farm a un JuvcHtment Ilrlnea Hotter Returns than Many !iiialnea TriinHOCtiuiis A Serviceable llulat" lug Device Farm Notes. A HolHtlng Device. The gCOOmpgnjrillg ill iimi ru I ion roprc 8ftitM n Hiniplo device which is of grout service when butchering. Tho upright u find li nre 4x4'g, or ordinary' poal tim ber 10 to 12 foot long. They lire set into the pound two or three feet, live feet apart. To the topH of th6K tUtOO e f with bolts or gplkeg, Place o snd d In position, secure the upper ends nt e and f, nnd set the lower ends firmly in lloISTINO DKVICCi the ground. For h use an old shaft or a piece of hard wood and fasten It to e and d as indicated lu the illustration. Attach one end of the two ropes x and y to h and run them through the pul leys attached to the erosspieee e (. fasten these ropes lo the bind legs of i the animal to be lifted. If one rope and a gambrel Is preferred) attach it to the middle of h ami run through a iui ley at m. Two ropes are preferable. By this apparatus one man can lift the heaviest enreass. A wagon box bottom side up may be placed between B and b for a plat form. American Ag- I rlculturist. Kntruncc to n Wulk. Many homes ure approached by side walks across the lawn or yard to lite side or back door. Where these walks enter the grounds It is possible to nt range shrubbery In a way to make the entrance artistically effective. The "tt AUTISTIC OATKWAV. chief point to be borne In mind Is that the gateway should be flanked on Either Bide by shrubbery or small trees. 'The pathiShOUld also curve as It enters one's grounds, .and If the Shrubbery it) far Tied along a little way. on the outer side of the path, the eutrnneo will be hidden entirely front the j'Tidinds a very attractive feature. Tbe-Form oh an Investment.' Those 'who complain that the farm doesn't pay would often tinatftaf after summing up: the 'Situation f i ru t - the showing is not sihadafter ajl, ipi .com pared with business in the city, says tin; Massachusetts ' Ploughman. Secretary Morton, In his aninial report. Illustrates the point by luppos'tng A transfer of j-t.otM) agrlcnleUrally Invested' in each' average farm of 1M7-scree, tWlth stock, tools, .etc, to he the choicest Wall street investment. Kisk that money in rail road lirst mortgage bonds, in hank stocks, or In any other alleged sale se curity which may be found a favorite among shyloCks, brokers, plutocrats, monopolists, nioney1 -power manipulat ors and multi-milHrmairos, and if It re turns 0 per1 cent. It is a remarkably profitable investment in then eyes of capitalists. Therefore, JflMO is the an nual Income, follow the transfer of the farm mon ey Witt that of the farm family to ur ban residence. Now, with the same la bor In the elty or village, asks the Sec retary, can they attain by hard work every day In the year, adding their wages to the Income, as much of Independence, wholesome living and real comfort as the same amount of money In the land and the same heads and hands working on the soil gener ously and healthfully bestowed upon them, In the sweet quiet of a home, amid flowers, trees, fruits and abun dance, on the farm? Storing Onion-. Onions, like other bulbs, can be easily preserved if kept dry, and although, if this Is observed, they will stand a con siderable range of temperature, it is desirable that they have a temperature of from thirty-five to forty-live degrees. When in a damp room they start readi ly, especially if at high temperature, and as spring approaches the buds start even if kept comparatively cool, rare should lie taken not lo store onions in too large bulk, and to prevent heating thov should be in shallow bins or lu crates. The Vulue of the Silo. The next thing we had to learn was bow to grow what was to be put iuto it. We had the corn In drills, using two and one-half bushels of seed to the acre, and getting weakly, sickly stalks that a storm would knock tint, says the Phil adelphia I-edgor. This, as I have said, we at first cut green, but Ihe second year we lei it get a little SSOVS mature, and we found we had done well, as it ner. Our next lesson was that a fot bushel of seed was better than the five times as much we hail lieen more space between using. the rows and hills, it gave us more pgs .v3fek$. Ifliiet. Then we Improved ll est i 1 1 more) by lettliiB ll ('( riper lid'ore cullllig. ll limit ninny do lint's and much experi menting mill Minly to lliul out nil Hint Is known now-more Hum lliono who lire now being beueflteil by the results of OU experience pellll.e. Anyone with n dairy of toll cows and Upward! should have a silo. Nothing en n be grown upon nn ae of ground that will give us great ft turn as corn for I he silo. No oilier kind of corn fod der has given us anything like the same gatlafactlon as ensilage. It Is a milk giving food, bill wheat bran Is neces sary to give the balanced ration. Now we cut the coin when the ears begin to glaze, cutting all of It, ears, blade and italic, and putting It In. Another les son we learned was that preaanre is not Decenary. One Wujr to Have Money. During the winter many conveniences nnd necessary farm tools and Imple ments can be made lu the home work house, says the Agriculturist. Ilujv racks, wagon beds, swing gates, water troughs ami tanks, sleds, tool racks, stalk rakes, chicken coops, shipping crates and berry boxes are simple in construction, Any bright farmer, with the assistance of n blacksmith, can make all nf these and more. The ex pense will be much less than if bought In town or hired made. The tools which every well-regulated farm ought to pos sess will answer. We have in mind a young farmer who does all this kind of work, and lie is prospering in spilt- of hard times, cheap products, etc. He raises as much grain and stock as his neighbors who buy everything "ready" made, and has much more "ready" cash. Try your hand at It when the I weather prevents outside work. .Many kitchen things are also easily made. Home-Made Hauauuis. The sausuL'es that come on the fann er's table ought always to be home made. Those Which are purchased In the butcher shops are almost always made of meat that Is nearly ready to decay, and the high seasoning they get with spices is for the purpose of con cealing their unwholesomeness, A well made sausage is not at all unwhole some, though It Is usually harder lo digest than meat not so highly spiced. The home-made sausage ought to have not more than one-fun ft h of Its meat fat. Most bOUghten sausages contain more fat than this, the sausage being used to get rid of fat meat that would not be otherwise salable. Care in Kecpinit Apples. ' There are greater difficulties in mar keting fruit successfully than lu mar ket Ing any other farm product. Even the best keeping apples will waste enough under ordinary care between fall and spring to more than offset their increased price at the latter sea sou. Most farm cellars are too warm to store fruit successfully, and If ven tilated to keep them cool, it makes w living rooms above too cold. A cellar built by Itself half above ground and half below Is best for storing fruit. This can be ventilated, and in the very Coldest weather a store can be heated To prevent danger of'lile" fruit freezing. Feeding: Corn in the Kar. The Western Dent. corn (loos not dry out so quickly as the Flint varieties. It has 'more weight per bushel of ears, especially if the kernel are, well filled out.' In cold weather or on poor soil the Pent corn will much of.lt be. light aiid chaffy, especially toward llu. tip. end. The Flint corn is less likely to be I'haffy, but if the season is unfavora ble, more or less of It will not be filled out to the fend! ''Whore the pollenlsa- j fTon Is deficient the corn , will be scat tering' oil ''the cob, though the kernels Swin be larger atid better than wn'en they are compressed in an ear where 1 there is mil a missing grain. : , i Keeping Cabhn'ije. ! Most people bury cabbage for winter USB, says Ida Keys, In (lie Agl'icull ur j st. and, if properly done, it Ik the very :est way to keep them. They are. however, not easily got nt when the , ground is frozen or covered Willi snow. ' A part of the crop may be satisfactorily iopt as follows: I rim Hie Heads very ;lbsely, wrap in newspapers and pack n barrels. Set In a cool cellar and use is needed. They will not dry out or leeay as when placed in the cellar with out protection. If this process is fol lowed, a quantity can be taken from tfaie ground tit one time. Keeping: Hoks In Hurnyurds. We know many farmers who make i practice of wintering their hogs in the barnyard, letting them gather ref use that would otherwise be wasted. It is a good plan where the other ani mals are stabled and fed, so that Ihe hogs will not annoy them by soiling their feed. If cattle are fed whole grain a few hogs will get much of their firing by eating grain voided in an lindigestible state. In such cases the bOgg often get quite as much benefit from grain so fed as do the animals to which it Is given. -American Cultiva- tor. Hcduex as Crop Destroyers. I he hedge is not so popular as il used to be. and is destined to be less so as land becomes scarcer and more valua- ble. Bven when closely trimmed the Iic.Il'c destroys (be crops for several feet on either side. In England hedges are much more common than here, but it is mainly because Kugiand lacks other fencing material. The Kp.glish hedges are. however, carefully trimmed and the parts pruned off have the ad vantage of Ix'ing worth more as kin dlings for coal than the cost of the labor required, to secure them. Privc (iood Stock. We have for a long time judged the farmer by the horse he drives. This animal, mote than all others, indicates tlie condition of the farm. Show us a mail with a fa:, sleek san of spirited animals, and we will show you a farm In g.xsl tilth, neat improvements and everything wearing a prosperous look. HI ST0KY OF SOAP. ITS ORIGIN UNKNOWN, BUT THAT WAS MANY CENTURIES AGO. The Oldrnt Keenrd aOroupnf Hubble Hluw ers - A Simp r'artiiry In Ihe City of I'om prll lrMTe uf .Miiniifacture Whirh Have tit, ,i.v. Hern A limit the Name. Tl igln of soap Is a mystery, lint wn have many evidences of ils antiquity. It Is mentioned ut least twice In the Bible, under the name of borilh, at B period cor responding to several centuries before Christ. In the LoUVre in Paril then Is an inter eating oldvaseol Etruscan manufacture VhaM age Is computed at about L'.WlO years, it li interesting lu i aeetlon with (itir subject as bearing it group of children In relief who are engaged In blowing hub hies from pipes. Though we must not overlook the fact that certain vegetable Juices arc capable of being used in blowing bubbles, it is for many reasons more prob able thai soap of artillrlal manufacture was employed for the purposo. In the 'unearthed city of I'ompell, the preservation of which has been the means of revealing to us many antique customs, there is to be seen a soap manufactory, Willi all the kettles ami other paniphornta lla pertaining to the business; iilsnu quan tity of soup, evidently the product of this antique "soapery." The inemorablc volcanic erupt Ion, while removing a city from the face of the earth, preserved to us the evidences of a high civ ilization. I had the good fortune, when visiting Pompeii, t0 secure some nf this ancient soap and also a quantity of a peculiar while clay of a highly saponaceous char acter ami possessing remarkable detergent properties. It was taken from Ihe hot loin of a well sunk Inside the soap factory the spring, no doubt, from which thePom peiiau soap mabufaOturtV obtained the water which he used in making his sonp. Political economists tell us that the quantity of Map coiiMitned by a nation Is n gauge of its state of civilization, and in lids connection it is interesting to observn that the Country in whloh tin' SOBp manu facture vva-llr.! conducted as a commer cial enterprise Is far behind others today as a soap making or soap consuming com munity. The Kngllsh manufacture the greatest quantity of soap per head of population, the OUtpUl being ik lit t le over oue pound per week per head, while in America it is just a little under that figure. Hut wo must not concede that this indicates a higher civilization in Kugiand than at home Ureal Britain not only consumes more soap than we do, in various manu factures, but she exports a great deal of her product to other countries, some of which is used by Ihe people Of the I 'oiled States. So our consumption Is doubtless lit least equal to that of our Kngllsh cousins. Germany follows next, then France, then Holland, while Italy takes a poor sixth place. The United Slates can boast the largest and most perfectly equipped soap factories In the world. Some of them have a capne ity of more than 8,000,000 pounds a week striking coin rast tp the little establish ment at Pompeii, which, though perfect in Its equipment, had scarcely u capacity of as many grains, equivalent to about 40 pounds, in the same time. ' Ot all the soaps which arc now or have ever been nianul'act ureil, those tiiadii from olive oil are the best. If is not surprising that the olive growing oountries of south urn Kurope should have acquired such a great And worldwide Deputation as soap producing regions, for their natural ad vantages for such an Industry are great. The climate and the fertility of their soil lilted them well for the cultivation of the Ollvh on the one hand and on the other the Immense supply of seaweed, known 'as barilla, or bariglla, from the ashes of which they prepkrentheh. caustic lyes, gave them an advantage over thn rest pf the,,. world. However, through the discrivery of a means of producing caustic syda in unlim ited quantity from our enormous salt do- losits, and even from the ocean itself.. Eoapmaklng has beased to bea local indus try. . At tin" present time the alkali plains of tho I'nitcd States promise to bivupme an Unportant center for this industry, for there in nature is to he found a largo liiantity of alkali Which can be had for the trouble of taking it from the soil. It is now boblg used In converting into soap the tallow and grease from the largo herds uf live stock raised on thn adjoining plains. In its essentials the process of manufac turing soap has scat I.v changed since tho time of the Pompellansi The largo fac tories use the selfsame methods that were employed in Pompeii 18 or more centuries ago, and the process is so simple that the farmer, or more frequently his wife, can nnd often docs make his own household soap. The simple boiling of a quickened lyo with grease or oil and the subsequent, ad dition of salt to separate the excess of wa ter and glycerin, whloh would make the Map too soft were they not removed, con stitute the process. Grease and oils used In soapmaking all contain glycerin, and Koapmaking consists in boiling the fab long enough and with sufficient caustic lye to separate all the glycerin from the fat. Until the last two decades it was tho habit of the soapmakcr to throw uway all his waste lyes which contained ibis glycer in, and in this way an enormous value in material must have reached our sewers since the commencement of the present century. Today nearly every soap works is also a glycerin factory, and this is a very im portant and profitable branch of the busi ness Youth's Companion. Whittle Saw Little of the World. Whittier was the only one of the leading American authors who never crossed tbo Altantic. Not only did he never go to Europe, he never went south of the Poto mac or west of the Alleghanies. When the farm at Haverhill was sold in 18M, part nf the price was used to buy a small place, nt Ameshury. and that house was Whit tier s home for B90N than half n century. After his return from Philadelphia in lsu he was rarely absent from Ameshury for more than a month or two at a time, although he did once reside the better part of a year in Lowell. He made visits Boston often and sometimes even to Neve York, anil frequently he spent hU sum mers elsewhere, but until his death hi home was the little house at Ameshury. Professor Hrander Matthews in St. Nicho las rnkind. Young Wife I wonder why the blrdf don't come here any more. I used to throw them bits of the cake I made, nnd Y'oung Hnband That accounti for It. Loudon Tit Bit.