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A formal declaration of party princi
ples specified as the party platform wan
as unknown in the early days as was a
convention. The noisiest, the jolliest, the
most exciting and perhaps least logical
presidential campaign was that of 1840.
William Henry Harrison, hero of an In
dian victory at Tippecanoe, a plain old
man, who had lived, his opponents sneer
ingly said, in a log cabin decorated with
coon skins and had drunk hard cider, was
selected by Thurlow Weed as a better
candidate than Henry Clay. To defeat
Clay in the Republican convention, the
unit rule was adopted. The issues between
Van Buren, the Democratic candidate,
and Harrison were not clearly drawn, but
the adventitious circumstances of Harri
son's early life were skillfully utilized for
theatrical effects. "Old Tippecanoe" was
the slogan. Processions, miles long, with
log cabins, cider barrels and coon skin
caps on poles, stretched from State to
State. Glee clubs were a feature of the
campaign nnd the Indian fighter was fair
ly sung into office.
So vigorously did the Whigs sing their
favorite refrains that echoes of the songs
still linger.
What has rauned this great commotion
motion motion motion,
Our country through T
It Is the ball a rolling on
l'or Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,
And with them we will beat little Van,
V mi, V un. in a Ubeil up umu.
Karewell, dear Van,
You're not our man
To guard the ship.
We'll try old Tip.
In the campaign which resulted in the
election of Itenjninin Harrison the fact
that he was a grandson of old Tip was
not forgotten by his adherents. Many
slnngy, even irreverent references fixed
on grandpa's hat as a fit subject for
campaign quips. In 1844, the year when
the Democratic convention brought the
first dark horse into the running, the
songs of the majority were:
O, poor Henry Clay, poor Henry Clay,
You cannot be our President, for I'olk Is In
the way.
end
Hurrah for Tolk and annexation,
Down with Clay and high taxation.
When John Hanks, cousin of Abraham
Lincoln, carried two weather-beaten rails
into the Wigwam the structure especially
built for the Republican" convention held
in Chicngo, in Mny, 18(50 Lincoln be
came the "railsplitter" candidate as Har
rison had been the log cabin and Jackson
the hickory candidate years before.
In the convention of 1800 began the
modern custom of cheering and counter
cheering. The Seward contingent gave a
parade the dny of the conveintion. While
they were marching Lincoln supporters
filled .the Wigwam. With the naming of
the candidates began the cheering. When
Seward was nominated and seconded the
shouting was absolutely frantic, shrill
and wild. But when Lincoln's nomina
tion was seconded the West was heard
from, and gave a scream that was posi
tively awful, and accompmled it with
stamping thnt made every plank nnd pil
lar in the building quiver.. On the third
ballot Lincoln was nominated. The shout
ing was so deafening that the cannon
which was discharged on the roof of the
building could not be heard inside.
HUNNINQ AWAY FROM HOME.
The Ora y-Hnlreil Man Remember a
Dor Who Tried It Forty Years
Abo.
"Whenever I rend In the newspapers
that a boy has run awuy from home to
fight Indians or seek some -other sort of
adventure, It takes mo buck forty
years," said the gray-haired man In
Iho club smoking room. "For I rnn
awuy from home once, Just as I sup
pose every other youngster does, once
at least, only in my case I wasn't seek
ing adventure, I was escaping tyrnnny.
"It seems foolish now, hut it was
nil very real to me then. The tyranny,
consisted of the one fact that I got
my first licking, nnd I guess there's
no doubt that I deserved It. Hut I
couldn't see It that way theu ; I was
very hitter, and the one Idea I had
was to get away where life was ,ree
and tyrants were not.
"Tlie impulse to depart on my trnv
els was carried out so suddenly thnt
I found myself wandering far nwny,
from the house before It dawned on
mo thnt 1 was 111 provided for a jour
ney. In fact 1 had gone Just ns I
was, with the smart of my physical
ns well ns my inentnl wrongs still
acute.
"As I went I pondered over the mat
ter of provisions, nnd the Iden enme
"to me that I would make my first
stand In a cranberry bog right on
the farm. With this as a headquar
ters I would make raids on neighbor
ing orchards, and If the worst came to
the worst I supposed the cranberries
would support life.
"Well, I reached the cranberry bog
presently and bivouacked. Here 1
should spend the first night under the
friendly stars. I picked out a soft
place for a bed and sat down to wait
the coming of night.
"Now, cranberries are not very fill
ing, especially In the rnw, green state,
but I managed to eat some of them.
And then It began to get dark.
"Well, sir, the shndows fell quickly
on the hills about me nnd the air grew
chill. Fantastic monsters reared their
horrid heads on every baud. The free
life began to pall.
"So It won't surprise you to learn
that a very Utile boy ran home crying
before the supir things had been clear
ed nway, and that he never ran away
again."
DISCIPLINE III BERLIN.
Germans Not Only Obey Rule, Dot
Arc Unhappy Without Them.
The Berllners, nnd the rest of thb
Germans, are the most governed people
on earth. They like It and howl for
more. They have restrictions of all
kinds placed on the order of their dally
lives, but they are used to It. Indeed,
they have arrived at a sort of mental
state in which they look to the author
ities to tell them what to do, and how
to do it, In every contingency. "Ver
boten !" Is the German word thnt has
the greatest vogue, so far as I was able
to see. "Forbidden !" Btares them In
the face everywhere. They are regu
lated In all sorts of ways, down to the
manner they shall conduct themselves
In their houses. There Is a certain
time for beating rugs, a certain time
for playing the piano, a certain time
for everything else. You can move
your household goods only In a certain
wny. You ennnot shake a dust rag
out of the window. You cannot do this
and you cannot do that, and, they told
me, after once you get accustomed to
It, It is a comfortable wny to live. It
absolves you from thought If you know
what hours there are for doing your
work nnd how you must do It. If a
cab knocks you down in the street,
you are arrested for obstructing the
tralllc. Your place Is on the side
wnlk. Every Berliner does exactly what hb
Is expected to do, and you must do the
same. As an example of how well
trained they are, they are not obliged
to have guards on the underground
trains In Berlin. The Berlin folks
know they nre expected to shut the
doors, and they shut them. If you
observe their regulations you nre not
disturbed, but If you violate one of
them you Instantly get Into more kinds
of trouble than you had Imagined could
exist. All you are expected to do Is
to walk a chalk-line, and you can be
happy, If the regulations allow the kind
of happiness thnt agrees with you.
Samuel G. Blythe in Everybody's.
The Unnnoch.
One of the hardiest, bravest, and
most difficult to handle among all the
western tribes was the small but val
orous band known ns the Bannock,
Bannk, or Pnnaifl. This little tribe,
never numbering more than 700, has
for many years Inhabited the country
between the Snake river nnd the moun
tains which mnrk the boundary between
Montana nnd southern Idaho.
Of Shoshone rnce, but brnver nno
more turbulent thnn nny other Sho
shone tribe, the Bannock fought the
Blnckfeet nnd drove them hack when
they came over the mountains, domin
ated tamer tribes of Idaho and Ore
gon, and made themselves general nui
sances, when the white man took the
country.
The Bannock troubles culminated li.
1878, when they broke out in open war,
drawing many of the riute and Sho
shone along with them. After consid
erable fighting their young chief, Buf
falo Horn, was killed by friendly In
dian scouts, and the Bannock warriors
surrendered.
All of tho Bannock tribe, except h
fragment, n't Lemhi, now make their
home on the Fort Iiall reservation.
Some 500 of them still survive, but are
slowly decreasing In numbers. They
do not take kindly to civilization, but
seem to have accepted the Inevitable,
and behave fnlrly well of recent years.
The Bannock nre very dark of fnce, nnd
of medium stnture, while their physique
Is wiry and sinewy, as might be ex
pected with a fighting race, equally ex
pert hi horsemanship and mountnlo
climbing.
i a. Not I'leanant.
Bacon I see a German scientist as
serts, that thoughts can be photograph
ed. Egbert It wouldn't be possible,
however, to ninke some of 'em look
pleasant. Yonkers Stntesnian.
A Flttlnu Term.
"How would you deslgnnte a tailor's
Jug?"
"I don't know of any particular namo
unless you would call It a tight fit"
Baltimore American.
When you see a boy with curls and
a sash, It Is a very good sign that the
father doesn't have his way In tho
house.
There Is one time when a woman
gives as little satisfaction as a widow
er ; Whea she Is la "mourning.
The J'amlly Melon Patch.
Many who pride themselves on a
good garden and are fond of melons
never attempt to grow them. "Cnenper
to buy at 25 cents each?" Maybe for
the first two or three, but If you would
like or dozen or two, enough that If
compnny comes unexpectedly nnd there
Is no dessert for dinner, the melons
can richly replace the pastry that Is
a different matter.
Despite theories to the contrary, mel
ons nre as easily grown as cucumbers
nnd there nre a number of vnrleties
which will mature unless the summer
is unpsually short. A rich, light soil,
sloping toward the east or south and
well fertilized In the hill, will bring
he luscious fruit
If there is danger from dry weather
fill an old pall or oyster can (first per
forating the bottom with nail holes)
with stable mnnure or poultry drip
pings, sink It partly In the ground and
keep it moistened. This will not only
furnish moisture but food. The reser
voir being below the surface will tempt
the roots to grow down Instend of seek
ing the surface, ns when water comes
from il-e hos In only small quantities,
and Uey will be less susceptible to
'Irouth.
If the plants go to vines nip off the
ends, but do not try to check vigorous
growth by starvation. The Rocky Ford
Is one of the best early muskmelous
and one of the easiest to grow, bearing
n profusion.
The Indiana Sweetheart Is a favor
ite watermelon, ripening early and of
excellent quality.
Cut Out the Undesirable Seed
The renl up-to-date farmer, following
the most scientific methods In the op
eration of his ground, Is taught to
make use of the se
lected material only
In order that the
species may be con
stantly Improved,
following the law
of the survival of
the fittest. For In
stance, In the selec
FOB SEED COBX.
tion of the seed to
be placed In the ground, he Is not con
tent merely to secure the best species,
but wherever possible he will go care
fully over the seed and pick out only
the largest specimens to be placed In
the ground. In this manner the pro
duct is generally of a much higher
standard. It Is difficult to carry out
this 'selective scheme In the case of
corn and similar seeds which are made
use of In great quantities. In the case
of corn, however, the small kernels are
generally at the tip of the ears, and In
order to get rid of these undesirable
pieces a corn-tipper has been invented.
The device seems to have been sug
gested by the familiar pencil-sharpener.
It Is -operated by a small crank, and
has a cone with a tooth Interior. The
tip of the corn ear being placed In this
revolving cup, nil the small seed are
cut off, leaving only the full-sized ker
nels on the ear.
' J-eu Weakness,
Leg weakness Is due to chicks be
coming heavy rapidly, so that the
weight of their body Is 'too much for
their legs. This Is not always nn alarm
ing condition, for It denotes that the
chicks are growing fast, and If careful
ly guarded and fed properly they will
pull through all right. The cause
arises from heavy feeding nnd forcing,
which enrries the chicks forward so
rapidly as to cause the legs to fall.
Change the food to a light diet of veg
etables nnd feed bone menl In the food.
They should also be well protected
against the dampness, and the difficul
ty will soon pass nwny. Leg weakness
Is nearly always due to rapid growth of
tho body or from lack of uniformity of
hent In brooders, If the chicks nre small
enough to be kept In a brooder. Crowd
ing and pressing together to keep warm
nt night is a liinin cause of little chicks
having leg weakness. No great alnrm
need be entertained unless the trouble
continues for too long a time, but
ehange the food and keep the birds
ry.
Feed in Cons on Grass.
Trofessors Stewart nud Atwood, of
the West Virginia Experiment Station.
Inst year conducted some careful tests
to determine whether ft Is profitable to
feed milk cows grain on grass. With
out going Into the details of these ex-
Slip
perlments we quote the conclusions as
follows :
"This experiment clearly shows that
there was no direct flnnnclal gain In
feeding the grain to the cows while at
pasture. It Is true thnt the cows
which received grain were uniformly
In somewhat better flesh than those
that did not receive grain, but as far
as the milk yield was concerned the
Increased flow was produced at an ac
tual loss." Data obtained In similar
experiments at other stations are sum
marized, and from these In comparison
with their own Investigations the au
thors conclude "thnt unless dairy prod
ucts are especially high lu price it Is
not a profitable practice to feed grain
to cows at pasture. It Is true that more
milk Is obtained and the cows hold up
their yield better nnd reuinln in better
flesh when receiving the grain rations,
but under ordinary circumstances there
Is no direct profit from the grain feed
ing, as the Increased production usual
ly costs more than It can be sold for."
IIoks that Make Meat.
The h"g rn!o"i' of Knnsns station
made a test to show what kind of a
hog grows the best meat The weights
of hams In the test were as follows:
Berkshire hams, 23 pounds; Du
roc-Jersey, 24 pounds; Toland
Chlnas, 25 pounds. These hogs in
size were as near the same weight ns
possible to get them. The shoulders
of the Berkshlres weighed 21
pounds; Duroc-Jerseys, 19 pounds
nnd Poland-Chinas, 19 pounds. The
Berkshlres have larger shoulders than
the other breeds.
The butcher who saw the hogs
slaughtered thought the Duroc-Jersej
had the most fat on the back ; the Poland-China
next, then the Berkshire.
The Berkshire hnm showed more lean
and less fat thnn the Poland-China.
The butchers considered the breed of
hogs that had the most fat the most
profitable hog, both for the farmer nnd
the butcher.
Utilising Waste Timber.
The wood chemistry section of thi
Forestry Burenu has been giving some
atteutlon to the subject of production
of. turpentine from yellow pine waste.
It Is stated that for the recovery of
turpentine from waste wood the steam
distillation process Is far superior to
destructive distillation, making a more
uniform crude turpentine, and usually a
higher grade refined product The
wastage from the yellow pine cut each
year would yield as much turpentine ns
the entire present annual output In
this country, with a vnlue of $14,000,
000. At the present rate of cutting .the
supply .of long-leaf yellow pine In the
South will be practlcnlly exhausted In
twenty years, but that the methods of
exploitation now In use convert only
nbout half the tree Into market pro
duct.
Milk Cooler.
This milk cooler Is arranged so that
the milk flows In a thin sheet over the
outside. Cold water enters at the bob
torn.
Bacteria In Cold Milk.
M. E. Pennington of the Bureau of
Chemlutry, Department of Agriculture,
reports that experiments on milk kept
at nbout the free. , point showed a
continuous Increase of organisms for
five or six weeks. At their maximum
they numbered hundreds of millions
per cubic centimeter, and occnslonally
they passed the billion mark. Although
the milk experimented with was never
solidly frozen, yet nfter ten days to
two weeks It was a mass of small Ice
crystals. No odor or taste indicated
the higher bacterial content, and even
on heating no curd was produced until
the very end of the experiment
For the Piss.
Plant a patch of sweet corn handy
to the piggery for early green feed. If
early varieties are chosen, the green
stuff will be ready for feeding by July.
By having two or three plots coming
on In succession, nice feed will be con
tlnually on hand until the field of corn
Is ready to be fed. Follow the first
field of sweet corn with millet or cow
peas for dairy feed. F. L. Rlsley.
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SOMETHING FOE EVERYBODY
Canton has fewer than 500 foreign
esldents.
The New York Central employs 50,
000 men nnd between $3,000,000 and
W,500,000 Is paid In monthly wages.
Trained falcons to carry dispatches
In time of war have been tested In the
Russian army. Their speed Is four
times as great as that of carrier pig
eons. If the real estate of Manhattan
Island were divided equally between
Its Inhabitants each Individual would
own $2,020 worth, according to the as
sessed value.
Prof. Carl von Noorden, addressing a
number of prominent scientists at
Vienna on the subject of "Food and
Nourishment," declared that the reason
so many men begin to get fat immedi
ately after they have married Is be
cause their wives give them their favor
ite dishes on every possible occasion.
London Standard.
"Vegetable milk" Is used In Japan.
It Is made from the soja bean. The
liquid Is exactly like cow's milk In ap
pearance, and in taste can hardly be
distinguished from it To make it the
beans are first soaked and then boiled
in water. Some sugar and phosphate
of potassium are added, and It Is boiled
down till It has the consistency of con
densed milk.
Alfalfa was first brought to Kansas
by the late Harrison Parkinan, of Em
poria. Mr. Parkman first saw alfalfa
growing In Chile. He brought the seed
to America, and In the late seventies
he went to Emporia to live. He sowed
alfalfa In a farm which he bought and
the plant prospered. It was slow In
gaining popularity In Kansas, but Is
now one of the State's most Important
'orage crops.
, In New Zealand everybody Is bound
by law to take a weekly half-holiday,
and there must be no shirking the obli
gation. The Grand Hotel, Auckland,
was recently crowded with guests, and
several waiters, Instead of obeying the
law and taking their prescribed weekly
half-holiday, remained at work on the
promise of extra pay. But the authori
ties enme to hear of It and the proprie
tor of the hotel had to appear in court
w here he was convicted and punished.
The death of Gen. Stephen D. Leo
leaves only two surviving lieutenant
generals of the Confederate army. They
are Gen. A. P. Stewart, ranking Heu-tennnt-general
of the Confederacy, of
Blloxl, Miss., and Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buekner, of Kentucky. General Stew
art celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday
anniversary on October 7 last. Gen
eral Buekner was a candidate for Vice
President on the National Democratic
ticket with Palmer In 1S9C. lie was
slghty-flve on April 1 last.
The German Emperor has a well
equipped pottery which brings him In
$50,000 a year. The King of Wurtbm
berg owns two large hotels which yield
him a yearly income of some $40,000.
The King of Saxony owns the famous
porcelain factory at Meissen, nnd the
Regent of Llppe Detmold runs a lnrge
model farm from which he sells butter
and milk nnd eggs. The King of Servla
Is said to own a barber shop and an
apothecary shop, lu addition to which
beholds 'an -agency for mtotor cars.
I once had a cat that did a rathei
remarkable ratting feat. He stalked
two young rats on the eaves of a low
flat stable roof, and caught one In the
usual way. The other Jumped on to an
elderberry tree just below. Bob, how
ever, not satisfied with the one' grasped
It firmly In his mouth, and then jumped
headlong for the other. Either he was
very lucky or extraordinary agile, for
he fell to the ground with one rat still
in his mouth and the other in his paws,
and promptly killed them both. The
Scotsman.
A strtyige story comes from one ot
the Balkan states, where commercinl
morality Is still in Its Infancy. At a
recent bnnquet given at the house of
the prime minister a distinguished dip
lomat complained to his host that tho
Minister of Justice, next to whom he
wns sitting, had taken his watch. The
prime minister said : "Ah, he shouldn't
have done that. I will get It back for
you." Sure enough, toward the end of
the evening the watch wns returned to
its owner. "And what did he say?"
asked the guest. "Sh-h ! He does not
know I have got it back," said the
prime minister. Philadelphia Record.
"Instances of desertion from the nrmj
In Mexico nre very rare and for the
best of reasons," snld Senor Jose do
Mlnaldez, of Nueva Leon. "The reason
lies in the almost sure enpture of the
fugitive nnd the certainty that he will
get not one but numerous floggings on
his bare bnck. These lnshlngs nre done
in the presence of the comrades of the
deserter, and when the men see how
great Is the suffering of the miserable
wretch who tried In vain to quit his
military Obligations, they, are forced
to conclude that It is better to stick to
the army than undergo such a terrlbl
ordeal t" Baltimore American, '