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the Times
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Si Even thenun who hot square may
, b coruered.
, The glory that was Greece" seem
3 to Have Issued to the 1'nlted States.
The Cfcar of Russia la only 88, but he
' has had almost .reverse enough, , to
i make him S3.
It a man boaata that b hat no eue
tnie he seldom baa occasion to boast
of hit friend.
I view of recent dlacloaure Mr.
Rockefeller's Income probably baa been
underestimated.
Notwithstanding bis advancing years
the Sultan of Turkey scenia to be about
the same old Sultan.
Now that Cuba baa bad $300,000
Bra there la uo more doubt that she
la beconilng Amerlcanlied. " ' '
The man who never made a success
o( anything la bla Jlfe always wonders
"why other men do uot beed his advice.
Mr. Rockefeller" taste In art la said
to be crudeJ Tout may be because he
has used his refinery 'for1 other pur
poses. , . . . . .'.
Of course, when the pealnilst fixed
man's limit of time at three scot and
ten he hau never heard of Cncle Joe
Cannon. ' .-,: f '
i J " Now that a hospital for the very rich
Is projected, the doctors will have to
-: think up some more exclusive disease
than appendicitis for them to have.
"I admire the spirit that never gives
up," said John 1. Rockefeller. Jr., to
his Bible class. Must be a great ad
mirer of dad, who doesu't give up
much.
Millinery may be taught in some of
the Chicago schools next year. This Is
encouraging. The time may come when
very girl will be able to make her
own bats.
If we have the right Idea of the
peed of Mr. Harrlman'a train across
the country, when doing Its best, it
passes eight or ten given poluts at the
same time.
Congress baa voted to have the Uni
ted States build the largest battleship
In the world. By the time the keel Is
laid down England will have made ar
rangements to construct t 21,000-ton-ner.
"
A prophet who predicted the "Mont
Pelee disaster, the eruption of Vesuvius
and the San Franclso earthquake says
New York will be destroyed within two
years. This Isn't likely, however, to
worry Wall street half as much as the
scarcity of lambs, which, according to
recent reports. Is becoming more evi
dent day by day. ,
The average man is not accustomed
to" regard his health as bis very best
asset, yet that Is precisely what It Is.
The man who will accord due regard
to bis health, from a strictly business
standpoint, will go further, last longer
and accomplish more In the end than
one who makes health an after-consideration.
Success which is attained at
the excuse of health Is worth abso
lutely nothing to the man who attains
It There Is no pleasure either In the
process or In the final result
The aim of the reformers In school
and college athletics should be clearly
and directly the betterment of condi
tions, not the extirpation of the love
' of combat which is Inherent In the na
ture of mankind. The notion that hard
general work, resulting In full muscu
lar development, saps vitality, weakens
the organs and la a wearying incubus
to the Individual is so Illogical as hard
ly to deserve an answer. But some
persons believe this. Such should pity
the wild animals that guided only by
an instinctively physiological need, run,
Jump, pursue and wrestle' with one an
other, thereby using and developing
fully their whole bodies,
The growing Importance of the gulf
ports for the shipment of western pro
duce is gathered from a statement re
. cently Issued by the Department of
Commerce. For the ten months end
ing with April Galveston, New Orleans
and Mobile exported $30,000,000 worth
" IS' f breadstuff against $33,000,000
worth for all the Chesapeake ports, In
cluding Baltimore, and $37,000,000
- - worth for New York. New York' lead
Is readily accounted for by the advan-
" ,tage. It haj In the cheap water route
j through1 the lakes and the Erie canal,
which also give ber not a little wheat
from the Canadian fields. With a deep
waterway from Chicago to the mouth
of the Mississippi, New Orleans, which
contributes $16,500,000 to the above to
tal of $30,000,000 for the three gulf
porta, wtajld.ttt'all likelihood excel
New York In the shipment T bread
stuff and other western produce.
4 A year atfo the trolley car began to
displace tlie bore car. It mi became
uiuutfest that the displacement would
become general. Many were led to an
ticipate the downfall of the Horse, or.
at least, a grant decline lu tit value of
liorse. owing to their banishment from
oue Hold of usefulness. A Uttle later
came tlie automobile. It has com
menced taking the place lu the city of
the draft horse aa well a of the. car
riage hurxe. That led to predictions
that the day of the horse wa over aud
that tlie raising of them would become
a decaying Industry. The horse refuse
to go, and hi value ha advanced. Ou
Jan. 1. 1887, there were 1-4.:H.0U0
borsea lu this country. On tltaj drat day
of mod there were 18,718,000. In nine
year there ha been an Inrrea of 30
per cent The gain In the number of
mule has been great but not so largo.
In 18U7 there were 2.215,000. This
year, notwithstanding the heavy pur
clwsea made by the British Ooveru
ment during the Boer war, there are
3,-00,000. The Increase In the valua
tion' of these animal I more surpris
ing than lu tlielr numliera. The total
value of hordes has advanced from
f4.'i2,0O0,OOO to $1,510,000,00X and of
mule from $te..000 to $:m,HoltX).
It Is hard to explain such an advance
in values, except ou the theory that
the valuation lu 1807 wa too low or
that for' WOO little lullated. Eveu
after making all allowance. It la man
ifest that the value of tlie horse and
mule has not been affected by the In
troduction of Improved mode of loco
motion. Oue may rest assured that
the 18.700,000 American horses are not
eating their head off. Thorn that are
old enough are employed on the farma
and In the city. The supposition that
horse power might be supplanted by
electric power was not well founded.
There la so much work to be done Jn
the I'nlted States that both kinds of
(tower are needed, aud probably always
will be.
Speakers at a meeting of the Wom
an's Trade I'nlon Ieague In Chicago
maintained the other day that the
wage of women are fur below tiny
American standard of decent living,
and that It Is high time to disabuse
employers of the notion that women
workers are willing to receive unequal
pay for equal work. Some put the
minimum "living wage' at $15 aud
some at $211, but all agreed that a rate
of $d or $7 means "charitable assist
ance" In some form or another. Impar
tial and intelligent student of the
question of woman In Industry like
the two J'nlverlry of Chicago womeu
who dealt with It In the Journal of
Political Economy only a few months
ago recognize that women hardly ever
do "tlie same work" as men. "The de
mand for the same wage." say the uni
versity investigators, "can be based
only on the claim that there I the
'same work.' In the face of the facts
Just presented. It Is fair to ask, Where
Is the same work to be found under
present conditions?" "The facts pre
sented" In the article Indicate that
there Is little direct competition be
tween men and women workers. The
last census report snys that "If we look
at the list of occupations we And
women doing the lighter work, the me
chanical work, the lesg skilled" in the
industries where -they work by the side
of men, American and Brltisn labor
reports contain plenty of evidence that
"women and children perform the light
er, while men perform the heavier
grades' of work in occupations which
employ both sexes. The question of
equal pay for equal work Is by no
means as simple as it looks. With re
gard to the "living wage" generally,
1 It true that the women who receive
less than $15 a week in a large city
must In the end have recourse to char
itable assistance? The girl who lives
at home and Is In part supported by
tbe bead of the family Is not depend
ent on charity. -' Her wages may npt
cover all her expenses, but the family
does not expect that they should. . All
can live In comfort where the wage
of the father are supplemented by those
of two or more children. Coder these
circumstances and they are the rule
rather thon the exception say the
Chicago Record-Herald, women are cer
tainly willing to work for lower wages
than they would need were tbey com
pelled to support themselves absolutely
and to enjoy none of the advantages of
family economy and co-operation. In
regard to amusements, It Is not to be
overlooked that girls seldom pay for
such things, their boy friends and ac
quaintances being only too anxious to
"take them" to the theater, the sum
mer garden, the skating rink, and so
on. An industrial order based on sup
ply and' demand, on competition, auto
matically governs Itself by such fact
and circumstances.
Asktaar Inaoceat (location.
First Actress Why, haven't you
heard, dear, I'm engaged for one of
tbe principal parts In "Beauty and tbe
Beast"
Second Actress How nice I And
who play beauty? London Tatler.
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safes?
i An Klnat-Slded Barn.
Here la plan for a burn of tbe eight-
lded or octagon shape. This octagonal
barn la 25 feet ou each side, providing
accomomdutlnu for about fifty head of
uttle. There 1 a considerable gain
In floor aimce when the octagon form
is used Instead of the square form, the
name amount of wall eucIoHlng great
er number of square feet. Tbe main
objection to an eight-sided barn la that
it la difficult to till with a bay fork or
sheaf carrier. Thl may be largely
overcome by erecting a gable ou one of
the sides of the roof and running a
track In from that bright, which may
te extended to within 20 feet of the op
posite wa.ll. Tbe roof require to be
self-supporting and to secure thl tbe
plates should be bolted together at the
corners and held by a hand of Iron 4
feet long, bent to fit and solidly bolted
so that the corner can never spread. In
the stable part the larger cattle should
be assigned to the outer circle, the
smaller one to tlie Inner row. One
feeding alley serves for the two rows,
and a circular track can be arranged
for carrying illuge. In order to get
sufficient light there require to be an
almost continuous window about three
feet above the ground Montreu I Star.
ftroaarat Rather than Molatare,
It Is much easier for one to be Inde
pendent of dry weather than of wet un
less the soil I naturally wet o that
It may be pipe drained aud thus get rid
of the excessive moisture and this I an
expensive operation, hut uotwltluttand
ing, a most desirable one in tlie end.
1'otuto grower are perhaps more Inter
ested In the problem of how to buttle
with dry weather than grower of any
other crop and, under normal condi
tions, the secret is simply to see that
the soli is pro)erly supplied with hu
mus or vegtuble matter.
It Is folly, or will be found so after a
few years, to attempt to grow potutoes
on the same ground year after year or
to grow them wholly by the aid of com
mercial fertilizers. Here Is where It
pays to make every iKmslble effort to
grow clover for getting heavy crop of
clover under the soil will add the re
quired humus,' which, In connection
with first-clnsa seed, care and cultiva
tion, will enable one to grow' heavy
crops of potatoes In normal seasons and
better than your neighbor' In dry sea
sons. This question of getting humus Into
the soli Is one that must be met sooner
or later by every farmer and especial
ly by those who pin their fnlth very
largely to commercial fertilizers.
Rr foe Pasture.
The early rye always shows Itself
soon after the weather begins to moder
ate In the spring, and some farmers
usually then begin to use it for pastur
age. It Is a mistake to use tbe rye too
early, as it may cause scours. It Is very
laxative In It effects, being watery, and
a change from dry feed to young rye
very early In the season may result In
loss of milk.
The Pleaslu) Garden, '
: If you have a garden it carries with
It the satisfaction of going out early. In
May and gathering radishes, lettuce,
young onion and spinach. A few
weeks later early peas and beet are
there for tbe taking... By tbe Fourth of
July early potatoes, sweet and nutty,
after a fashion never found In any
store, cari be'du,g. In succession fol
low snap beans, crisp cucumliers, to
matoes, corn that Is sweet In some
thing more than name and niuskmelous,
fragrant, melting, delicious.
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I'ruMt la romt TalealneJ.
A bulletin entitled improvement
Thinning" hn la-en Issued by the Stat
foreeter of Massachusetts. Tbe author
show that the growth on considerable
arena ran be Improved and made more
productive by the application of moder
ate thinning while the stands are In the
process of development. Thin a often
aa the material to be removed will pay
for Ita removal I the' rule laid down
a to now often to thin. A to the de
gree to which It I safe to thin, the
cover should never t broken to such
an extent that It will not close again lu
two or three year and cast dense
shade. In answer to the objection that
I sometime urged that such work I
Impracticable under existing conditions
of the labor and wood market, the au
thor refer to the fuct that thinning
ha been done and la going on now In
Massachusetts and neighboring States,
aud that It hn not ouly paid for Itself.
but has In some Instance yielded a net
profit of from twenty-five cent to $2 on
each cord of wood removed.
Prvpara laa Waul Well,
A wool grower sending wool to mar
ket In a lieavy, dirty condition, leav
ing anything In the fleece to make
more weight, and expecting to get more
money Is greatly mistaken. Buyer es
timate tbe value of the clip by the ncl
yield of cleau wool. When growers do
their best they secure for themselves
the best result. The soundness vjf the
fiber may be tested by stretching i
small staple between the finger. Ktn
pie 24 Inches In length up, I clussed
combing lielow clothing. tabor ex
pended In prepurlng the clip for sale Is
well bestowed and bring Ita own re
ward. The yolk In wool la the oily
substance which glvea color ami lend
softness to the fleece. It ulsn promote
the growth of the fleece and prevents
the wearing of tbe II Int. (iood feeding,
shelter aud cure promote thl secre
tion. .
raatlsaflan the Orchard.
The lusect tux Umii Ihls country'
agricultural Interest Is something
stupendous. Indeed, were It not for the
ravage of Insects, greut and small, the
life and profits of the horticulturist
would be so attractive a to completely
change the present attitude toward
their occupation. The government ex
pert are doing an enormous amount of
educative work In determining the ex
act organisms that are rewuslhle for
each particular form of damage and
the best method of combating same. I'll
migatlon la ou of the modem farmer'
magic science wands by which, In a
trice, be clears bis crops of Insect life
that If not held eradicated would prob
ably destroy hi entire crop. In Cull
rornia immense buiiooullke arrunge
menta of canvas are used In fumigating
fruit tree, and now a Texas Inventor
proimses to modify the plan, with the
idea of making it available for smaller
crops, such as cotton and corn. The
appliance consist of n supporting truck
for movement over the ground,' general
ly by the use of horses, a combustion
chamber for the formation of the
fumes, or gases employed as fumlguiit
and a framework, adjustable us to
heights, and a hood covering the whole.
At the rear a deflector curtain Is pro
vided, with n depending shield extend
ing across tlie combustion chamber to
deflect the fuiu,e and force them Into
contact with the plants. With an nppn
rntus of this general type It Is possible
to effectively and rapidly treat lurgt
numbers of plants, the deflector or hood
extending over two full rows of plants
Sacramento Bee.
. Awake la Mexico.
Mexican farming Interest are wak
ing up under the example of their
neighbor of the North, mid a 'new
school of agriculture 1 to be estab
lished under the charge of oue of Lu
thef Burbunk' co-worker. This school
is the first of the kind to be establish
ed lu Mexico, and Is located near thv
boundary line. The conditions there
ure similar to those In Texus and south
California, and a high grade of ugt-lcul
ture mny be expected under Intelligent
methods.
ORACH II MARKUP AGAIN.
Tfcls Make II Tint far Mllllea
Ira Saell' llaaaaler.
Orsce floell I married again, Thl
would be nothing remarkable except
for tl fact that she ha been married
flv time before thl. With such
good start at her g h promise
to eclipse all record, She I daugh
ter of Aino J. Btutll, th Chicago mil
lionaire, who wa murdered In hi home
In 1SS8 and whose murderer wa never
captured. Her I (lrcle' record:
1HH At 10 year of g ran away
with and we married to Krnuk Mxou
ttttrin., formerly coachman and dancing
master. Korglven by her father, alio
lived with her husband for ten years.
Thro children burn.
IfttX Divorced ou ground of tueotii-.
patablllty.
1 HUH Reunited lo former hualHiml by
plea of eldcat boy, who waa III. Mar
ried at bedside of dying child.
I WW Obtained second divorce from
Colli n on ground of Intoxication.
1800 Married lo Jame C. Walker,
theu clerk lu Virginia Hotel, (lav
mm. mure snkll corriM, rrc.
him $.V.00 with which he purchased
an Interest In tlie Kountalu Hotel
Waukesha, Wis.
1001 Obtained divorc from bus
baud In September on charges of cruel
ty. Asserted that he burned manu
script representing her literary labor.
11HM Married for third time to
Frank Nixon Cofllu, Oct. 17. Honey
moon In Metroolo Hotel lasted four
hour. Divorced Coffin Nor. 11 of th
same year.
W03 Married to I'erkln A. I,y
man, clerk lu Vnnuy Hotel, Califor
nia, -..
lixirt Murrled to Hugh M. Love.
young California newsiHtper man who
I a graduate of the 1'iilrerslty of Cali
fornia, Ksoaeratlaat Veaablaa,
Once when W. Ilolman Hunt, th
English painter, was dining with Thack
eray, ne noticed a marhlo bust of th
novelist aa boy, Tho bust wa well
modeled, says Hunt lu his roeeiitly pub
lished volume of reminiscence of "Pre
ltapliacllHiu and tho 1're Raphnellte
Brotherhood," and admirable for Its
open expression. It registered the form
of the now, the finking of the bridge
which distinguished his handsome, dig
nified face.
As Iluut gazed he recalled th report
ed remark of the housekicer at Char
terhouse, after Thackeruva iiunlllstlc
encounter with Vcmible. and on see
ing the bruise which Thackeray' face
hud received :
"You have destroyed the look of the
hambiouieat hoy In the school"
When Hunt had silently decided this,
rhuckeray noticed him, and exclaimed :
"I know what you are wondering at
You want to know whether the bust
was done 'before or after.' Well, It
wa done before,"
Hla Wlaalasi War.
"I don't ee," beguu an argumenta
tive citizen, "why, If that member of
Congres la a unpopulur and generally '
obnoxlou to everybody a the newpa
liers say he la, he get so many thing
from the House." Then, says tbe New
Vork Tribune, a man who knw .
gained.
"Suppose," ho said, "you were a busi
ness man having Imperative business
to attend to, and a man came In and
at down next to you aud began to file
it saw wouldn't you give hhu what
he wanted?"
No llaek Action.
Mr. Gladstone knew how to admit
tliat ho wa In the wrong. On one oc
casion he did o. candldlv and hnrt.
jtmnly, as become a gentleman.
But he preferred to keep clear of the
noceaslty for apologies, and had cant
belief In their efficacy. ,
"You can't unpull a man' nose," he
once ald to hi private secretary,' Sir
Algernon West
Obeettr a N.erToas Dlaorder.
Dr. Gabriel Leven. a Pari 'physi
cian, says obesity 1 a nervous dl.nr.w
caused by a form of dyspepsia.
After all, flowery eloauence navn
attained a compliment a pleasing a
cm one or uiree word: "You suit
roe."
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