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Show J .1 .1 ! Rose in Eight Years from PEWt BROUGHT Poverty to - I'm mense Wealth Frorathe poor debtor' oath to a fortune of 120,000,000 la - leB than of a Jump, eight year is a good-debut Mr. Albert C. Burrage has cleared the leap successfully and is one of the richest men in Boston and his millions. He was born In Ash-bur- n ham, Mass., but went with his parents to California at ; the age of three years, returning when eighteen years old to enter Harvard. He graduated four years later and commenced study pf law, being vhiitted to JjslpessJjthat the the Worcester county bar. city. Mr. Burrage is now forty-on- e In 18S5 he married Alice H. Haskell years Of age. Eight years ago he was strug- of Roxbury. near Boston, a very pretgling along on a very meagre income ty girl, of humble parentage, like Mr. gained by hisefforts as a Iawyer.But Burrage' 'himself, and she -- madehe is one of two things either a man pleasant home for him on his meager of destiny or the possessor of great brain power, x He prefers to be called the 'latter. TTad "any one prophesied that he would beeorafe within seven he would years a have had nothing but the deepest pit for the prophet, yet the financial romance of this young lawyer reads more, brilliantly than an Arabian Nights tale. To learn how very poor Mr. Bur; rage really was ten years ago, one has only to tarn to the records of the poor debtors' court tot the years of 1891 and 1892, which shows three cases 'where be had defaulted in Judgments obtained against him. Mr.. Burrage owes his good fortune (n the very beginning to his industrious reading of the newspapers. It was ten years ago that he saw an account of the legal fight in Brookline, Mass., between Henry H. Rogers and Edward Addlcks, who had conflicting gas interests in that town. Mr. in addition, had a large gas interest in Boston, Being Interested in this fight as an outsider, Mr. Burrage looked up the charter of the old to-da- y rufflin, in ones room in sufficiently frightful to curdle almost any mans blood into a dish of living blutwurst or crimson heavy-jawe- d, d schmlerkase, goodness knows. But to merge from sweet sleep and fix the startled gate upon an Intrud- ing"' the world cannot prevent from betraying its femininity oh, brothers, who among us shall undergo this experience- and not- - feel hla jreasoa .tottering from the shock? - Fivim Fy about Miss May Willard, professional burglar ftsd' Kvafoi Impesaonfttor, haafas-terialized a, terror of appalling portent to the masculine soul. For gen- erations vye have laughed at ' Women, of their timorous bedtime habit of looking tinder their couches for a possible man. It is safe to say that hereafter no St. Louis man will be able to retire tranquilly without tirst having satisfied himself that there is no womati under bis bed. Even then, alas, his slqefi will he fitful and feverish because of the fear that ere daylight the' woman who failed to hide herself under his bed will come to him through the winbecause dow! LAWYER WAS PERSPICUOUS. J: - S Brookline gas company merely out of curiosity, and learned, to his surprise, that the company had, by legislative enactment, the right to extend its pipes into Boston at will. Mr. Burrage saw his opportunity. Hoping for much, but never dream. ; dug, of .all .that w as to come of.that little notice, he made himself known to Mr. Rogersand revealed his discovery, together with the statement that an option for the purchase of the - Brookline gas company could be obtained. Mr. Rogers was delighted. It gave him a weapon against Mr. Addicks, and the Brookline gas company passed Into the hands of the Standard Oil company. To make matter clear it must be explained that Mr. Addick had for years been enjoying a virtual ail the gas business in Boston. The people were protesting against price charged. The contract tor lighting the streets of Boston was about to expire and the mayor Invited Mr. Addlcks to meet him and consider a proposition for a reduction of rates. Mr. Addicks did not see the mayor. ' v This little Incident and the of the Brookline Gas com- - pany were almost coincident. Mayor Mathews realized that the greatest foe to monopoly was competition, and r when the Brookline Gaa company came forward and offered to light the city for far less than the Addicks company its offer was gladly accepted. Mr. Addicks was thus pushed to the wall and gladly came to terms in the end. As counsel for the , Brookline Gas company and the Standard Oil company, Mr. Burrage was given the enormous fee of 1800,000, said to be the largest ever known in legal history anywhere In the world. This was the beginning of his Alad- din-llk- a The Standard Oil wealth. people appreciated the worth of so brainy a man to such an extent that they not only invited him to embark with them in some of their copper deals, but when the Amalgamated Copper company was formed, he was appointed to represent New England In the directorate, a position which he ' holds . And that is how Mr. Burrage made mon-opoly- the-high to-da- s . sfiti equal parts. ' ' We think it pays to buy straw for this purpose, a wp save the cost of strasf in $he feed we save. Before we adopted this plan tor summer ss well as wlnleikj fed the poultry out in Lad to feed fieeki of the yajd,i sparrow that would gather around at feeding time. Now the sparrows bavs found out they cannot get a free lunch every tkuh the chickens are fed they do not pother any more. This plan answers another purpose beside keeping the fowl in. perfect health. As our floors are composed of dry earth the constant scratching raises a constant flutV-JIckeeps the house and fowlrtree from yermin. Of course w have dropping board under the perch. es, which e cleaned frequently,-of crystal We altiys keep plenty grit ana panulated bone before our fowls and those that are yarded up get beef sera three time a week and plenty of green stuff, such aa lawn clippings, fabbage and lettuce leaves. We do not soak any of tbe grain in summerbat feed it all dry. I want to say, aftefthq, fowls have scratche this litter JLne it makes the wry bes mulch for strawberries or to put around tomato vines In summer or to give bulk and. value to the compost heap, Wt find that fowls treated in the w&yjl have described do Jus$ as better yarded up in sumwell, if mer than funning at large. E. J. ' Sad- - ler' QrifrwV (laA . rs' Revel s In reply to tbs inqtjj-y- What do you consider the most jfsfitable feed to give fowls tfie hot weather? I would say: during My- erper1ei;e'H&2'"i&rih5"tQ "believe that w heat &d oats make the best hot weather feLt But there it ae much lm porting in how to feed it as In what to jtmi, especially in hot weather, among eb llrger breeds, as fowls are pretty .muck like the human family. When thqhet weather comee on they t a cool, shady place and want to take things easy. Now, we think they should bs a&de to serateh tor their living Just 4 much In summer as winter, so wovlde them with plenty of Utter in their houses and into this all - tbe grain is thrown, sometimes ata, and they have wheat, to find alt they eat la this way. We have the litter about six inchee deep on the floor Of the house, the litter is part ,Eti'ay and part fine shavings, -- aftelt f Summer Feeding, p Ad-dick- s, w ' v i Eloquent and Amusing Declaration of a Country Attorney In Ohio. salary and shared his poverty with fortitude. When Congressman Tompkins of they live in the most lordly Ohio was practicing law in his youngmansion in all New England, a superb er days in the buckeye state and was palace on Commonwealth avenue, winning his spurs he occasionally which was built at vast cost and fur- found it profitable to accept a case In nished with the best that Europe and a Justices court in the country. He America could afford. tells the following story of the He half a be a u ti fuF Tf alia n ' vll rt '' Ar fir a rural b a ms ter before Cohasset and a palatial borne in Red- such a magistrate. The case was one in which the lands, Cal., surrounded by thousands of acres. Here he spends his winters plaintiff sought to recover damages with his family, traveling in his pala- from a railroad company for tbe killtial private train, with numerous ser- ing of a cow. During tbe course of vants and the costliest of appoint- his argument the country lawyer ments. used this expressive sentence: Mrs. Burrage is a pretty woman, If the train had been run as it nouId have been ran, or if the bell tall and slender, whb is as yet bewildered with the vast wealth that has had been rung as It should have been come to her. She has no social ambi- rang, or if the whistle had been blown tions. Her husband loads her with as it should have been blew, both of Jewels and fine clothes, and she drives which they did neither, the cow would He not have been Injured when she was about in very splendid carriages. " is as much her lover as ever. They killed." once forced Mr, ho, Tompkins does not state bafS.fouy children, to know poverty, sow revel la the whether the man Recovered dattidgeS giory of riches. They have the most for his bovine. superb playrooms and toys and are keen in their enjoyment of the fairy-likTwo Ways to Teach Parrots. "There are two ways, said a bird things that come to them. Mr. Burrages Steam yacht Aztec, dealer, "of teaching a parrot to talk. which was launched from the Cres- One way is to put him in a darkened cent Shipyards at Ellzabethport re- room, to sit in a corner and to recently, is' the largest steamer built peat over and over again the word this season, and when finished will be you want him to acquire. A clever one of the most elaborate afloat It parrot will learn s word or a phrase was built for Henry Clay Pierce of after some four hundred or five hunSt Louis. Mr. Fierce finally decided dred repetitions; wjhile for some It that the yacht was not at large as he takes a week or more. Ton mast wanted, and she was 'purchased for keep still in the room. No sounds Mr, Burrage, for whom she is being from within or without the house, The yacht cost about save your voice monotonously repeatcompleted. $340,000 to build and equip. She is ing the phrase to be acquired, must to be ready by Aug. 1. reach the parrots eah Some people teach their birds in a room, speaking from a place of conA WOMAN UNDER THE BED. cealment in a closet or behind a door. Awful Possibilities Which the New This method is not so good, "because, in the' light the parrot's attention is Century Has Brought Forth. Beyond all possibility of a reassur- distracted." to doubt the the contrary, terrifying The Title of "Doctor." ing story developed by the arrest of Tbe-titof "doctor" was invented le May Willard, a St Louis young woman, who confesses that she has been in the twelfth century and conferred in the habit of burglarizing hduses, for the first time upon Tnerius, of the disguising herself in mans attire, will University of Bologna. The first "docstrike a panic to ail masculine souls, tor of medicine was Gulieimo Gorde-nlwho received the honor from the say the St Louis Republic. Waking in the dead of night to espy College of Aostl, also in Italy, in 1220 the ordinary housebreaker, a bury; Metaphysical Magazine. , - s Dropping Boards.' Tbd topping should he cleaned from-th- e dropping boards' frequently both fotthe sake of cleanliness and a meniyre tn tbe best pbasl-rblcoifiUori fbr u&Sr It IS almost necessary to use an absorbent of some kind on tbe boards Land piaster Is without doubt one of the best materials usable. Some people use ashes But wood ashes are very apt to affect the feet and leg of the fowls Coal ashes sause a Jobs of tbe ammonia, though they are very good lor keep ing doin' lies It baa been 'charged that land plaster gathers dampness, and that la probably correct, but the solution of that part of the problem is to keep the boards fairly clean ail the time, disposing of the dropping every day or two. We think there Is an absorbent that can be used to ad vantage if the manure Is to be cleaned sway but once a mouth. ' e To-da-y argu-menTTir- e well-lighte- d o, Poultry Manure. Poultry manure is among the most vaiuablff of fertilizers manufactured on the farm, but it cannot be handled farm-madin the same way that other e mamiri Tq 'rhfftrffleS." It" cannot throwAjut and left to tbe mercy of the elements without- a loss far greater than usual with- manures- .- it con-tala large quantity of ammonia which is readily cast off into the atmosphere. It must therefore be combined with some absorbent to preserve its manorial value. Lime should never be used, but many other things, like land plaster and dirk may be. put the manure with its absorbent in barrels and keep from getting dry enough to be considered dust In a state vff complete dryness chemical changes take placetbat may destroy thqjast tpstige of Us fertility. It is by all means advisable to put it where it can be useful to the crops as soon as possible, us The Egg Preserving Swindle. From time to time there appears in the press of the country a wonderful story of how some person has made money in large quantities by preserving eggs. It is not infrequently and headed "A Fortune in Eggs winds up by referring the reader to a concern in New Concord, Ohio, or some other place where the formula can be obtained that will do the business: The scheme Js. to get a lot of free advertisement for some chemical of no Value or for something that could be bought a great deal cheaper in the common drug store. To an our readers we say, do not be caught by this trick. The best formulas for preserving eggs are published without charge by the Farmer Review, and these formulas are hacked up fey the experiment stations of the United States The Pekin Bantam, also called the Cochin Bantam, Is a native of China, and was first shown in England ir 1861 1 The progenitors of those then exhibited had been stolen from the Summer Palace at Pekin during the Chinees war, when during the Anglo-Frenc- h Expedition in I860 that palace was lacked. Hand Separator Cream. Prof. E. W, Curtis, at a Kansas convention said: - The farmer that hat been in the habit of .separating his milk on the farm will not again go to featUtngtitx,mt!fctotheeTwroryi-H- . avoids hauling. The aklm milk from a hand separator is more suitable for calf feed than is whole milk. On tbe otlier.. han(L.lha,rcam-- , separate(l by the hand separator is not so good as the cream the creameryman separates from the whole milk brought to him. We cant get the patrons to take care or tnetr cream. AVe' can get some of our patrons to do that at first, hut they soon find out that they get no more for , their milk than do the patrons whose cream is brought to the factory in poor condition. We have tried scoring, but that has not proved successful We are now buying cream both by the Babcock test and by the acidity test, paying less for the cream that has too much acid. The time is coming when there will he a pasteurizing establishment In every village of the state.. In that case only sweet milk can be taken, for it will have to be received sweet to be successfully ' pasteurized. Q. What does it cost to gather tbe cream separated by 'the hand separa- t Uniformity In Butter. Uniformity In butter is one of the most difficult things to be obtained, yet it is one of the things that the market demands It is claimed that Is even more ex vthe Brtlsh market tipg in this regard than Is our own market. The foreigner demands that he receive the same kind, of butter each time, for he wants to know that it la good, and how can he know that- - it is good unless it be uniform? Moreover, tbe taste becomes educated to a certain product, and demands to be catered to. The grocer that goea Into a commission house to purchase a large lot of butter win take what he knows to be uniform, and that ferny.' As woo it as lia finds- hotter that is not uniform he 1s afraid of it it to give confirequire i uniformity dence. '.Ttie - butter makers on tbe farm 'have to face tne same condition of things that is faced by the makers of creamery butter, if they want to ell their feutter on the open market Uniformity cad be attained only by scientific methods, and these methods are within the reach of every person that cares to, make the effort to uniform. have his butter. , product Guesswork will, need to be dropped and exact measurements substituted. Tbe sale must be weighed into a known weight of butter. The thermometer must be used both In the ripening of the cream and at churning time. Tbe acid test must be understood and utilized. In fact the person' that desires a uniform product cannot afford ,to neglect any detail of operation to secure that uniformity. - The English Buying American Cows. The agent of a large creamery establishment in England is la this CUii U y - -- "ptij C hraiTxg"''cOWw'tfi-'-"STiTi- home. He says that the English have Experiments Intended to Foster and Develop Industry. The United States is engaged In ex-- . periments intended to foster and deIndustry In , velop the sponge-raisin- g this country. , The only sponge state in America is Florida, off the coast of which lie the great sponge banks. Of late they have not been yielding the quantity desired, so the United States fish commission has set out to plant sponges in Florida Keys As yet their efforts have not been rewarded with any great degree of success. Thb' sponge Which they' plant' refuse for some reason to grow, but the scientists In the governments employ will xuA xivw up. , The United State fish wcomtnlssSon ship Fish Hawk Is UU cruising stout Florida waters, and the sponge scientists are keeping right on planting sponges. By experiments which they are now conducting they intend to demonstrate at what depth a sponge can grow, and they expect to explode the old theory that fifty feet is the limit Tha Value of Honeety. William Alden Smith of Michigan, in illustrating the value of honesty in politics, told a story the other day of an old governor of Michigan, wbq became a candidate on condition that he should not be asked to make speeches. An occasion soon arose, however, when the regular orators were absent from a meeting, and the crowd Insisted on hearing from the candidate himself. He walked to the front and bravely announced that no was no speaker, with considerable -Wpetm-6H"SBd 3 little bSitlsgr : r for to talk proceeded When tbe meeting was of an hour. over the candidate had quite come to the conclusion that he was a speaker after all, and especiaiy did be feci so when an old farmer came up to him to say that, although a lifelong Democrat, he had decided as a result of what be had heard to vote this time for the Republican candidate. Before the latter, in his blushes, could stammer out a response, the farmer continued: "What we want as governors is honest men. You are one. You You said that you were told the truth, I shall vote for you. New York Post. , three-quarte- bn n t UNCLE 8AM RAISES SPONGES. sf-fi- for some time purchasing cows It the European countries, but eg peel xiy in Holland. It has, however, ben found difficult to secure enough cws of the kind needed, and so he baa crossed the Atlantic for that purpose. It is a pity that American find it advisable to sell cows to go across the water. We need in this country all the best cows as breeders. It may well be feared that American dairymen will sell the best they have in thia line, as the English will pay enough to make it an objoct to do so. .It is reported that cows are very touch higher in "price in Europe than in this country, and that is a disturbing factor viewed from tbe standpoint of tbe American dairy industry. It Is to be hoped that this buying will not become popular with Europeans, as it pays the American far better to sell the products of our dairy cows than to sell the machines tht produce the dairy products. i t was-durin- g A farmer: I am a patron of a creamery and have a hand separator. I have been getting six cents per pound more tor my milk than those that haul their own milk to market, and 1 have the sweet skim milk to teed to my calves. test In Washington's Exclusive 6L Johns One Sold for $2, 750. At an auction sale held. Friday at Sloan's auction rooms two pews in St Johns Protestant Episcopal church, Lafayette square, were sold at big prices. Pew No. 52 brought $2,750, while pew No. 77 was sold for While thee prices may seem $1,600large, in reality they are not, for is Is a rare thing for a pew is old St John's, which Is the 'church In Washington, to be bad for "love' or money. The 'church edifice being so small, the pews have tor years been moat sought after, and, hey f have' been attainable only of recent- - years Then they. are sold outright to the purchasers and remain in a family until that ft ily either dies out or moves ' h irom the capital Often pewbilfl.-, with small families sell a eoat in tbe pews for a eertsln number of year end even a single seat bringspriewf-awa- y up in tie hnndieds of dollars, It has been several years since there ' was a cban e to purchase a pew in St Johns, The laat one sold at auction of course the Cleveland, administration. It brought a beltep price tnau the two sold Friday on account of its superior location. There is a walling list of persons who desire pews or seats in St Johns which, if filled, would takeriip all the seatings in a new church almost twice -- tha size of the present one. Some years ago a Baltimorean bought a pew In St. Johns and gave it to the church with the distinct understanding that it was to be placed at the .disposal of the president of the United State and bis family. Presidents of late years, however, have rarely used this pew, for Mr. Cleveland attended - tbe Presbyterian church, and did Mr. Harrison. President McKinley was a Methodist and Mr. Roosevelt Is a Dutch Reformer. Mrs. Roosevelt Is an Episcopalian, and she, with, the Roosevelt children, now occupies thd presidents pew almost every Sunday. Washington Correspondence Baltimore ultra-f&shlona- A. I find that my summer make is four times what it is In winter. Prob-- . ably the average cost of hauling is about 1 cents per pound of butter-fa- t Babcock PRICES. - tor? Paying for Fat and Casein. In Prince Edwards Island some of the cheese factories have adoptedth plan of paying patrons for not only the fat in the milk but also for the casein. According to the rules that havs been adopted by most of tbe factories in this country purchase by fat content only is practiced. This seems to be the correct method. It has been shown that the relative casein and fat content of milk is about constant This Is tbe case with normal milk. Of courst if a man skims his milk and and then sells it by tbs Babcock test bs himself is the loser of a part of tbi casein. But this factor is unimportant as it la not likely that many farmers that send milk to cheese factories skim off a part of the cream. Ws can ae no particular advantage in taking the casein into consideration when buying milk fer anything, provided that milk 1 be ight on the HIQH to Doctors and Lawyers Feet. In conversation the other day a prominent lawyer remarked to a physician of repute that the Plant estate to some - forty millions, amounting viouid bring the lawyers about a million dollar as fees. The doctor ask-e- d the lawyer: Mr. F., suppose Mr. Plant were dying, but, there 'being k chance of saving his life by a difficult operation, a surgeon should operate and save Mr. Plants life, would that surgeon be Justified in sending in a bill for As $100,000?" The immediate answer was; Certainly not" Weil," asked Dr. M., how is it that the lawyers can charge such large fees?" Because," replied the advocate, "a lawyers fees are fixed by- tbe courts. And the celebrated physician, whose office fee of ten dollars is often ' grudgingly paid, remarked: "You lawyers have solved the problem of self preservation, while we are spending our time in the preservaNew York Times. tion of others. A mans business Is a curie when he la too busy to stop to d? good. Rams Horn. 1 1 |