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Show probably no crop largely (grown that yield a better profit than the potato drop Yet the per acre yield throughout 'the country la (mall, dot very largely to poor method 1m handling the aoll The potato accommo date Itself to many varieties of soil and to all kinds of culture. Perhaps this tact Is taken advantage of te too great an extent, and not enough care used la any part of the process of producing the crop When we consider that more than 1,000 bushels of potatoes have been raised on an aor in different parts of the country, and that less than 100 bushels Is tha ordinary yield, we are farced to believe that we are not using all of our poaslbl advantages. - The-firs- requisite Is t well-prepar- ed land, drained if it so requires. This good preparation means plowing deep enough to admit of the fullest growth of root. Whatever may be eaid against deep plowing yet it certainly has tendency to send the roots down I yond the summer drouth, which is often n thing of great Important. The writer remembers a little corner la potato patch In which coal ashes had been - thrown. The ground thus Increased In depth gave moisture te the plants when In all other parts of Us patch they were dying dor lack of moisture. The probable reason was that in that part the toil wae so porous that Us roots had been abls to strike deep and ito reach Into a stratum of continuous moisture. This is not to advocate Ue use of coal ashes as a fertiliser for potatoes, but to illustrata the principle by which a lose soil permits the penetration of roots. A to hilling there la great diversity of opinion. We know thnt it is becoming quite popular to advocate Ue doing away ef Ue eld style of hilling, and to say Uat Us ides of hilling was n barbarous one. originating among Us bogs ef Ireland. Ths whole settlement of Ue question must depend on clreumsUnces. Some varieties have to he hilled anyway, unless we expect to have some of the potatoes on top of Ue ground. The question of moisture runs Into thnt of hilling. A certain man some years ago abandoned Ue hilling process and planted all of his potatoes on the level. It happened to be an exceptionally wet summer and the entire crop was damaged by lying too much la the water. Hilling would have done some good In Uls esse. Returning tp the States he settled down for a while, but the taste for adventure would not permit him to rest, so he decided to try his fortunes la Cuba, He enlisted as a lieutenant colonel In the Cuban army, Joined a filibustering expedition and landed at In August of 1896. After many hardships he reached the army under the command of Gomes. Early in October Gomes and Garcia Joined forces and moved upon Gulmaro, which was strongly fortified snd defended by a considerable force of Spaniards-. - Funston. was .second in. command In charge of the artillery to W. Dana Osgood, who had won renown as an athlete and football player while at Tha the University of Pennsylvania. most formidable piece of artillery was a Hotchkiss rifle, capable of hurling n shell. Later dynamite guns were brought Into service by Funston, to the great distress of the enemy. After much hard fighting and a brilliant charge led by Col. Menocal, a graduate of Cornell, now chief of police In Havana, the largest fortification was talma. The HotchklSs gun waa planted ta this position of vantage and n destructive fire opened on other fortifications. Unfortunately the brave Osgood exposed hlmseif to the Spanish fire and fell with n bullet hole through his brain. Funston tbeu took command of the artillery, a position to which he was appointed by Gen. Gomes. A few days The daring exploits ef Colonel Frederick Funston In the PUUlpplne Campaign have been briefly referred to during tha war In the East., but the romance of that gallant uoldter of fortune would make a novel worthy Jt Dumas Balauc. His bold and courageous attack upon 8,000 Insurgents with only 20 of his plucky Kansas volunteers, amid a shower of Mauser bullets, a few days ago. Is only one of the undertakings that has marked the romantic career f this hero. Oelonel Fuuston was born in Ohio In I86&, .end After' brief schooling decided to shift for himself. He began as a Santa Ft train collector, and half n dosen cowboys In New Mexico and Colorado and western Kansas who laughed at the little toy collector, ns they termed him, put their facet la court plaster and bought new gun. One dt his favorite pastimes was te disarm burly cowboys who insisted on shooting holes through the roof of the smoker. Tiring of this work, he secured s position as botanist In the agricultural department at Washington, and waa assigned to the Death valley expedition which was sent to eunrey that fearful alkali waste in southern California, where the temperature ranges above 90 degrees Fahrenheit all the year round. It was a fearful trip. Every man who went In that expedition except Funston Is either dead or insane. One day Funston started across the his-carte- nd rsnbk Mow Site Pesigas far UmHUsi. WHEN NO PERSON New York Sun: Reproductions of photographs from live models - are superseding the designs of draughtsmen ta certain kinds of advertising. This change may corns from thw necessity for greater accuracy or In response to a public demand. It la noticeable that tha -- male models employed for this purpose ' exhibit far than better physical development those of the other sex. ..There Is pus picture in particular used to call attention to an athletic device. In which a mans nude back, evidently from an untouched photographic negative show the physical perfection of an antique. A similar presentation of the .hack, of a modern. woman "would reveal emphatically tha superiority of the mala figure. To exhibit tha back of a modern woman with the same frankness would require considerable retouching of the photographic negaThe tive to make It presentable. truth of the matter le that the modern female figure has been so abused by the exlgencfee of fashion, the repression of lines here or their exaggeration there, that' It has become nothing more than ah artificial construction upon which to drape clothing. This la exemplified In thoee advertisements In which female model are employed to display knit under garments, as compared to those, that exhibit the fit and form of corsets, gowns, etc. The lines of the first, which are frankly displayed, suggest anything but grace and harmony, while those models used aa a framework upon which to hang garments for New York, arriving hers January 10,188. ,Vheu war with Spain was declared Funston a as commissioned colonel of the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers. Afterward he was offered a position on Gen. Miles staff, but declined, preferring to guy with his regiment. About two months before the declaration of war Col. Funston married a young lady in Saa Francisco. When his regiment was ordered to the Philippines imperative instructions were Issued forbidding the wives of the officer to accompany their 'husbands on the transports. Mrs. Funston. how-ve- r, ho la of the same daring apirit as her husband, donned a uniform and went aboard with a rifle over her shoulder. Wheu a couple of days at sea her sex was discovered and at Honolulu she was left behind. Nothing daunted, however, she took tha next transport and landed lu tha Philippines, where she has been by her side even ftrlog Hns. From the day the Filipinos opened the attack upon the Americana Col. funston has led his Kansas regiment into the thickest of the fighting; where the most desperate fighting was, thers was to be found Col. Funston and his brave Kansans always advancThe record ing and never retreating. of the regiment has been one long series of fearless and successful bus-bau- THE GUILTY MEN FLEE LIVE MODELS DARING OF GENERAL FUNSTON Tier la ds to-th- e- charges. A Ms( iksSme t ipptttnitprreff - Hrs noKc k&inv Sffor rfoy r 1884, established Uere ' OVERLOADING Kan Joss Seals Abroad. Dr. Frank, Set one of the most noted scientists Germany, recently presented a paper on the San Jose scale before the Berlin Horticultural Society. In view of the attitude taken by Germany and FVancs toward American fruit Importations and ths scale, his conclusions are of Interact, says Country Gentleman., He says there are twe species of seels la Germany which have been thought possibly Identical with the Sun Joae Insect, but that his provs their distinctness. Ha iuveotl-gstlon- s quotes American entomologists as say lag that tha San Joan scale praducas three broods yearly, each aid tea Weeding about 800 young. Dr. Frank however, has satisfied himself a.i only ona generation of about M Is produced. He thiaka it questionable whether the San Jose scale eaa live la Europe at slL Wa raepaetfully gest that tha Germans and Frenchman send a discreet man apieee to Amerloa to see the San Josa scale, and learn something about It Clover and Timothy Ray. Clover noises cut before It reaches the blossoming stage will have when dried from seven to tea per eent of albumlnolds,. which, makes it a . vary nutritious ration. Timothy, whan Ks beat estate, which la a Httlo befors It has blossomed, has only about tour to five per eent of albuminoids, if U -- - - atandsuntlldesdiljmost are changed to woody vary .hard to digest Uss fibre, which is Tbs second growth ef clover U asueh richer than tha first It Is ba(d to ears It without discoloring from excessive fermentation. . If. secured la good . order It should be saved for young stock and - for poultry, to he fed to each Is small amounts with other feed. Ex. . v - 0. r w, .Science of Oheesemaklng. There are many branches of science that are Intricate and very difficult to acquire 'and understood, and 'If there la ona more difficult . than another tha manufacture of cheese seems to be that one. When we consider the hidden power " of rennet action, the active effect fermentation and bacterial influences, tha varied unknown conditions milk ns received at cheese factories and tha Intricate combinations that any or nil of those form to affect the final result, we see the many dlfflcultlaa tha .chseeemaker must overcoat. D. 1L McPherson. L . deaaHnaae la the .poultry yard and houses Is the key to success; the lack f It Invitee all kinds of diseases. Keep tke cow clean and comfortabla . -- J Whitewash Ah Tk UsaW Waa O J" Irmm gaasa Cease, f I was never mixed np with a smuggling transaction but one lu my life," New Orleans business man, said whose name may aa well be left out, and my experience was so painful that I swore off then and there. I had a deal In West Texas on hand at the time and had made a abort trip over the. Mexican, frontier, during which . picked up a handful of very flue opals. A wicked friend showed me how easy it was Jo carry them over the Une without paying tribute to Unde Sam, and I waa Weak enough to yield to tha temptation. When. I got on the'earn at El Faso, however, to tome-eas- t Dallas I was haunted by a guilty conscience and had a horrible premonition that some secret service officer waa on my track. Presently my at tentlon became attracted by a man " with a black beard, who kept looking at me furtively from a seat across tha , way. 1 tried to persuade myaelf that It was all Imagination, hut a number of things occurred during that rtdo that satisfied me I was really being watched. I went Into the smoker, for Instance,- and before long caught a glimpse of the black beared chap peering through the end of the window from the platform. It waa the same In the dining car, and, to make a long story short I reached Dallas thoroughly . That evening 1 began to unstrung. think had shaken the fellow off my track, when 1 happened to stroll out of the hotel, and there he waa, standing behind a pillar. Needless to s7, I didnt sleep a wink, and when I bumped Into the sleuth next morning and aaw that he had shaved off hie beard I gave myself up for lost However, that was ths last of him, and for the balance of my stay I was unmolested and gradually regained my equanimity. That the man had been shadowing me waa undeniable, but what bis purpose could have been and why be dropped the gam so abruptly were mysteries which I waa forced to leave unsolved. It was two years before I found out Then I ran across the man one day by accident In a 8L Louis restaurant, and bs owned np. It seems that he bed been a publlo official In a small Texas town, find got mixed up In hie accounts. He swore to me that H was only bad bookkeeping, but the grand jury Indicted him for emberqlernent, and hd Skipped until things calmed down. . I happened to coincide with a description he had o a detective, end all hi s,rng move were actuated by exactly the same motive that prompted me to run namely, to see whether he was being watched. We were both fooled by our fears. Hla affair bad since been settled up and we enjoyed a good laugh and u eold bottle together. But I am a reformed smuggler tor life. fect upon payment by nurserymen of la now permanently by law. ( BaaggHwg 1st a Wary Waa Trie TSssfkl Alea Ataraae the actual expenses of Inspection. The sale of shipment of nursery stock wlth--' out such certificate Of inspection will be illegal sifter July 1. . By the s law the entomologist Is required to dis-- . Infect, at the expense of appropriations mads for the purpose, all Illinois orchards now Infested by the Ban Joss scale. The office of Ue state entomologist, which has been by common consent of the parties concerned located at the University of Illinois sines Mm OeUty SSIeerefcto leepeetlea ef Illleola Orekerda. The state legislature passed during Its recent session a law requiring the state entomologist to Inspect all Illinois nurseries once each yesf, and In all cases where these are found free from dangerous insects and fungous disease to issue certificates to this ef; PURSUETli THEM. stable twice a pear. A fft HAfiDlP -- cuT 4 prforr Gtfv? desert, 125 miles, after the matt; he got lost; the canister of water gave out, his horse fell under him, and for hours be walked without twenty-fofood or water with the temperature registering 110 and the tun beating down upon him. He dared not Ue down and rest, and bis mind began te deceive trfm, but be found Me road and kept straight on, in spit of the . sailing voices In the air, the booming of imaginary cannon, and the gurgle of deceitful water. After coming back from Death valley Funston went to Alaska, still worktng for the government botanical specimen. After fifteen months he returned home and equipped himself for another expedition which today 1s a record-breake- r for all Alaskan travelers. In April, 1898, Funston left Chlleoot Inlet, and wltk a party of miners went of the Tn-kOver the divide to the bead IndianTwo guldee took river,: him down the mouth of the Porcupine river; he tacked hla boat, the Nancy Hanks, np the Porcupine to Rampart House, an abandoned Hudson Bay com-patrading post There he and started to spend tb Arctic winter. The monotony of the thing palled on Funston, and with n single Indian he started for an evenings walk to ths Arctic ocean. Funston and ths Indian got lost. ' On day thsy cam across a party of Indiana going to .. a whaling fleet In the Arctic ocean. Funston and hla Indian joined the party and cam up to the fleet, which waa from In tb ice, where be told the news of the presidential nomination. of 1892, and of the election of Cleveland. He started back to Rampart House and got there Just ae the morning nf spring .was dawning. He bad made a journey of 00 miles In the dead of night of an Arctic winter, Pearys famous journey la Greenland waa only 400 miles, and It was made In the light of midsummer. .r t was too busy to get fa, But Funston mous. Leaving Rampart House be went down the Porcupine river and on down the Tukon to Its mouth alone la an open boat, a journey of over a thousand miles. He made hie report, quit the government service, and went to Central .America, where he tried to establlah a coffee plantation and failed. ur oa ny INCIDENTS IN GEN. FCNSTONS CAREER. later he and Col. Estrampee, a New Orleans hoy of high position, led a charge against the enemy , each carrying a dynamite bomb In bis hand, to hurl at close quarters. Before this could be done a wbltt flag waa hoisted and Gulmaro surrendered. Following that same a score of bat-ilq-a of minor Imports are. In which be took conspicuous part - At Bey a mo be tad a cavalry charge, 600 mounted Cubans attacking 2.500 Spanish infantry. When within thirty yards of the enemys line his hors was shot from under him. His troop swept on, but he, remembering that teddies and bridles were eckrce in the Cuban army, stopped in that bell fir until be could release hla, which be carried off tha field. - la this battle be received three wounds, none of them serious enough to send him to lbs hospital. At Lae Tunas he bandledthe dynamite gun with telling effect,. . The victory against an enemy of force superior to the Cubans was wholly due to hU skill In sending dynamite shells where they would do th most IQo4GtJkriB.. according to ths observer's view point Just before tb victory Funston wu shot and bis bone killed. The beast fell in such u manner as to crush his rider's hips. Wounded as he was, after the surrender Funston hobbled to headquarters to protest against the execution of fifty Cuban guerilla, who were raptured fighting under the Spanish flag. When hie appeal for clemency and humanity was refused b determined, to leave the Cubans, and accordingly applied far furlough, which wm granted by Caltxto Garcia He waa glvea a letter to the civil government, which wae instructed to provide him with transportation to tbs Unltsd States. Armed with this hi struck for the coast, but was surrounded by the Spaniards. He saved his life with that wit which had previously stood him tn good stead on many occasion. Seeing that capture was Inevitable, be made a breakfast of the Jetter from Garcia and then advanced with his hands in the air, an' nouncing himself presented a. . was used well by the SpanFunston . iards, wbo thought bis presentation would have a demoralising effect upon tb insurgents. He wee sent to Havana, from which city he took passage a During the campaign against Malo-tb capital of the Filipinos, the Kansas regiment was exposed to a raking eroaa fire from the enemy. Gen. Otis realising the danger they were In summoned Col. Funston and asked, How long can you bold your position, k, colonel r , - Until ay regiment b mastered out, sir." was ths answer. t This U but an Incident of tb gallant. career of this soldier of fortune whose deeds a few days ago la charging the Insurgent lntrenchmente and routing them with hut n handful of eu called forth tbe following from Gen. MacArthur: "While R was not a bloody engagement it wad on of the most daring and moot magnificent that ever took lace. Whea it Is considered that the Filipinos numbered several thousands of men, with almost trenches, the feat of our soldier la forcing them out to almost without parallel. I want to make this statement strong. The credit of thla (rent success to due to the daring of Col. Funston of tbe Kansas volunteers, and to. the quick discernment of Gen. Wheaton." well-arm- ed to Os Old Jewelry. .Very pretty girdles ran be mad np With a box of Jewelry. Tbe "Mt" of our grandmothers, who wort pendent earrings and large brooches to match, are just nrir tbe very thing, in specially with precious stones-se- t pyramid betting. A clever Jeweler can put a small slide on tbe back without destroying Its future usefulness. The brooch can be made to servo aa s clasp, tb earrings at either' side, with a handsome belt of ribbon. old-sty- le - ' convey tb Impression of supple snd graceful outline. French sad English technical Journals us this fora of publicity as much as we do, but they give no evidence that the foreign type of female figure to In any way superior to ours. Adsaeeed Ret trader tbe Ctrenseteeeee. I cant give you a job without discharging soma one else," said Mr. Dimity to aa applicant for employment. Td Ilk to employ you, but you grasp the eltuatlon, dont youT" Well, sir," wa tbe reply, under the circumstances I hardly see bow I can." 8pre - Moments. protection from snow-drift- s. Ship- Trad kse again mad ft possible for careless and unheeding ship owners to expos the llvra of thousands of British seamen to the fury of the ocean. Tb margin beyond which ships were prohibited to be loaded baa again been placed so low that the majority o( them will go out with every chance The law enacted of foundering. mainly through the personal efforts of tbe famous Samuel Pllmaoll, who pent a lifetime in ameliorating tb condition of the British sailor, directed that on the eld of every British merchant ship should be painted a circle IS Inches In diameter, with a bar drawn across the middle. Below this bar, a heavy penalty waa attached for loading tb vessel. While bis taw was tn action, fewer wrecks wert known than ever before. Last December tbe Board of Trade decided to Umtt this act to vessel up to and Inclusive of 230 feet In length. Since this revision nine steamers have been lost In tbe Atlantic alone. An aggregate of 24,750 tons, worth more than 12,506,000, has been lost by overloading, to say nothing of tbe live, Ths- law was repealed by a complication of fed taper . - Swede free e Beltons. , A writer of the Strand Magasine describes ths astonishment he experienced when, riding over London In n balloon, at a height of more than halt a mile, he heard the deafening roar of the great city beneath him as ft could not b heard on tbs ground. Tb noise, pven at that height, was so harsh snd intense as to b painful to ths ear. How perfect a sound. conductor the sir to was shows when the ballooB drifted tar over the city to, a wooded part of country, where the murmur of the leave moved by, tb wind half's mile below was distinctly beard. , te Ovet t 0M, You , (furiously) scoundrel! Ton villain! Why did yon elope with my daughter?" New "To avoid ths tnsufferabl fuss snd nonsense of n society wedding." Paterfamilias (beamingly) "Thank heaven, my daughter got s sensible huband."Nw York Weekly. Paterfamilias ' - Tb ' Mesa Tble. A woman think! that when she speaks of tbe M. 8. 0., the A. R. L., or the G. K. T. club, to which she belongs, that the men who bear her Its awake alt night for a weei trying to find out wbat the tatters stand for. Women are such mysteries! Atchison Glob. Bon-In-L- aw A Drew hark. - than 2.000.000 trees bare bees pleated along tbe line of the Northern Pacific railroad, in Dakota, to eerv as et Reseat wreck. recent act of tbe London Board of pra-par- ad . . More - on - Merries. sorts of things eom from Ohio. The latest to a sew fora of marriage, designed principally to maintain the rights and Individuality of tbs wlfs equally with thoee of the huabaad. Under the aew method, therefore, the bride does not change her name, aor does she promise obedience. Tbe first man and woman to be joined by ths new ceremony, original with them, were the Rev. Herbert N. Catson and Miss Lydia Klnsmlll Commander of Toledo. They had agreed before marriage that' anything short of soul-uniwa desecration.' For the woman to give herself to tbe man In return for her support was a revolting Idea to them. Tb rata that tbe woman change her name they regard aa another mark of the . servitude of the wife to the husbaad; the Identity of the wife la lost and her name and Utle indicate her degraded condition matrimonially, and any on can tell she Is married and whose property she Is. They therefor agreed that the equality of the eexee demanded that tb woman retain her own name. They were married by a civil Justice, and though they are man and wife, she will go through life as Mrs. Lydia Commander, and not as Mrs. Caseon, At ths ceremony they read- - a declaration of belief which had been : and signed by both. to Be the Cease - seipeee Overtook Be "This region open to fishing on pie Among the latest names of In this country are Hobson, Vs.; Bigebee, Ark.; Dewey, N. C- -, and Manila, Ky. past-offic- es Sun- day T" asked the visitor. "Yep," replied the native; but all the gin mills ta closed." Philadelphia North |