Show ELIISMIOIl Senator Captured by Cole Younger During Civil War Outlaw Prevented Shooting of Prison-Who Repaid Him by Aiding In Getting Pardon Many Years After t ' (vM Js r' - ' y y 'fvSf - - ' v feif’ f 0 ' yi Cy 7' :$ j & && w ir ry-- A w H f A FAMILY FORAGC burden in that instead of the fiddle head and long ears of his commoner brethren he possesses the small fine-chiseled countenance and delicate shapely legs befitting a mule who is a gift from a sultan to a lord Another foreign importation in the Alington fold is a family of Angora goats whose chief beauty Is their long silky luxuriant hair which Is carefully combed out and washed each day Less striking but more useful are Wharfdale and Policy a pair of ideal Not pink pigs but white pigs pigs with plenty of hair to keep them warm and thriving with legs not long enough to permit them to run over much and with bodies giving such promise of future pork ana bacons and hams as to cause the very sight of them to make a negro’s mouth water And then of course the farm at Crichel contains many animals which like the Angora goat are kept more to fill out the collection than for any utilitarian Among these purposes are the little white guinea-piglooking like so many animated powder puffs as they flit about with their bright eyes glowing like searchlights in a also a number of white rahbits fog anti a flock of snowy pigeons which circles round and round the housetop in such clusters that from a distance one would believe a midsummer And snowstorm was raging there there are Russian geese too strange little creatures with stealthy gray eyes and hair all curled and ruffled like a wet feather boa These do not compare in beauty with the “sllkle” fowls the snowy whiteness of whose feathers is enhanced by their shining purple combs and turquoise ear lobes But aside from the fine specimens represented it is the careful attention care which is exthe pended upon them and the large grass runs and portable washtubs enabling them to live as they should which keeps the Alington collection in condition and renders it easily the finest of its sort in the world 6f ?W4 CQfirrvriCftr the beginning of time white been a color much revered by huNowadays we talk about a man” when we wish to designate a good fellow and in days gone by beasts and birds which were of Illy hue were even deemed sacred That From has manity “white idea still obtains at least to the extent that white animals of all sorts are highly prized by fanciers and that the most noted of the present-dafancy farms are those which make a specialty of whie stock Now that the taste for amateur farming is becoming so universal several of these “white farms” are springby far the oldest and best ing known is that of Lady Alington at Crlchel England which has been in existence over 35 years says the Loa Angeles Herald Sunday Magazine They bsw probably the finest collection of white stock that has ever been assembled The farm teams there are white or rather pale gray for there is no breed of English horse extant which Is pure white The Shires come the nearest to it an these are easily the finest of the kind In existence as Mr Armour who went to British horse shows with his prize pair of American grays and was in every instance beaten by the Shires can testify Prized even more by the Alingtons than their splendid horses however is a rare white mule presented to Lord Arlington by the sultan of Turkey This unusual animal aside from his unique coloring differs from most mere beasts Washington — Stephen Benton Elkins senior senator from West Virginia is a native of Ohio but was “raised” in Missouri and there received his education It is not generally known but it Is a fact that he has had a career which for variety of experiences and range of adventures outrivals that of almost any other man In the upper chamber Just now after a service of 15 years in the senate as a confirmed regular he has taken the leadership of an insurgent movement of his own the treatment protesting against which the Payne tariff bill gives the Industries of the new industrial south and also against the domination of New England In the great committees of the senate in Senator Elkins’ autobiography omits the congressional directory mention of one of the most remarkable incidents in his life He was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1860 and later became a union soldier during the civil war Nowhere was local bitterness more intense than in Missouri and that feud was the beginning of the outlawry which for many years after the war was continued by the’ gangs of bandits During the war the bandits carried on their strife with utter recklessness of human life Young Elkins was captured by a gang of the guerrillas of which Cole Younger was a member The ethics of the game that the guerrillas played in those days prebe shot scribed that the captive Younger for some reason had taken a fancy to the young prisoner and insisted that he be spared It was finaland Elkins soon afterward ly granted went to New Mexico where he practiced law and politics and became a great property owner laying the foundation of his fortune Many years after the war Cole Younger and two of his brothers were FIRE IS THE GREATEST FOE OF OUR WOODLANDS Often Kindled by Sparks from Railroad Locomotive and by Settlers and Farmers in Clearing Land or Burning Brush Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America no other terrible as fire Forest fires causes spring from many different They are often kindled along railroads by sparks from the locomotives Carelessness is responsible for Settlers and farmers many fires clearing land or burning grass' and brush oftens allow the fire to escape Into the woods Some one may drop a match or the glowing tobacco of a pipe or cigar or a hunter or prospector may neglect to extinguish his camp fire or may build it where it will burrow into the thick duff far beyond his reach to smolder for days or weeks and' perhaps to break out as a destructive fire long after he is gone Many fires are set for malice or revenge and the forest is often burned over by huckleberry pickers to Increase the nextseason’s growth of berries or by the owners Is so Senator Stephen Small Badly Their Camp c i First Time Several Wounding Damage Bat Comes Again Frightening All of a Party in the Hills of India Doing and x When all the conditions are favorable forest fires sometimes reach A few such gigantic proportions fires have attained historic importance One of these is the Miramlcht fire of 1825 It began its greatest destruction about one o'clock in the afternoon of October 7 of that year at ev place about sixty miles above the town of Newcastle on the Miramichl river In New Brunswick Before ten o'clock at night it was 20 miles below Newcastle In nine hours It had destroyed a belt of forest 80 miles long Over more than and 25 miles wide 2600000 acres almost every living thing was killed The Peshtigo fire of October 1871 "£r 4 ' V 4 v ' Trunk Damaged cattle or sheep to make better pasture for their herds There is danger from forest fires In the 'ry portions of the spring and summer but those which do most occur in the fall harm usual' At whatever time of the year they appear their destructive power depends very much on the wind They cannot of Elkins B captured following their raid and robbery of a bank at Northfield Minn Cole Younger was sent to the Stillwater (Minn) penitentiary for life and served some 20 years Then in bad health and broken and repentant he asked a pardon The effort for that pardon developed There was bitnation wide interest ter opposition and also earnest InNo man sistence that it be graned had larger Influence toward securing it at last than the man whose life Younger had saved Senator Elkins far from forgetting the service that had been done him worked as hard for the aged outlaw as the famous old brigand had worked for him In the end the pardon was secured and Younger proved the good Judgment of the men who got it for him by living a worthy life thereafter Senator Elkins came to congress as delegate from New Mexico and while there became acquainted with Senator Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia whose daughter he married As the a result of this after leaving house he moved to West Virginia and He always was engaged in business the but great present day wealthy in fortune has been made mainly West Virginia ofIs richsaid that he is one the It est men in the country and to many who are best acquainted with his affairs it would be no surprise to be assured that he is worth $100000000 third attempt to provide Itself with a meal was frustrated In the same way as the others had been and fortunately it only succeeded in In dieting The whole party slight injuries an officer in charge of a survey par- then spent the rest of the night surty in the Lushal hills adjoining the rounded by fires and keeping up a Cachar district of Assam dealing continuous hullabaloo with a series of ferocious attacks by At daybreaS' they moved off to a a tiger on two of his surveyors Lushai village carrying two of the The tiger made his first appear- wounded men and their maps but of at 18 the on camp ance February leaviug their tents and everything Surveyor Gopal Singh when It is said else behind them On their way they to have sprung upon the surveyor and were met by the camp officer L Willwere seated who khalasls his one of iams who had somehow received alongside of each other while the news of the desperate straits the men evening meal was being cooked For were in and hurried off to their assome reason not known the tiger did sistance He did what he could for not touch either of the men and dis- the injured men but one of them was appeared as suddenly as it had come in such a woeful condition that ha out the men were bo alarmed that died almost immediately They were after spending a sleepless night they all sent into Sllchar however and a moved their camp to that of Surveyor band of armed Lushai was dispatched Amar Singh about four miles off On to the abandoned camp to collect and February 21 however the same tiger bring away all the kit that had been presumably attacked the camp again left there tents They found the seizing a khalasl who was washing bedding and blankets and bags of his cooking pots in a stream not 20 rice torn and dragged about and a yards from the camp sight rule and plane table stand bearOne of the tindals by ing marks of fangs Probably they armed with only a stick very pluck-llhad been utilized in beating it off rushed at the tiger and tried to When Mr Williams met the party khalasl unfortunate off the it beat so profoundly afbut It was not until the rest of the all the men were Less Expensive two squads came up that the tiger fected that not one of them could above a whisper and begged speak and his “Home” remarked the newly mardisappeared prey dropped not to be sent back to the same U ried man “is the dearest place on only to return a few minutes later be to to allowed work for earth”' and in spite of the frantic shouting cality but field season in open “Then why don’t you give up houseof the men seized Nandu by the arm the rest of the country which they have keeping and board?” rejoined the It was again driven off but again re- cultivated to do been permitted bachelor turned and Belzed a third khalasl Its The Survey of India Notes publishes the following graphic account of an attack on a party of surveyors: An interesting report is given by ) the them ’'sfcfiS FEROCIOUS TIGER ATTACKS SURVEYORS Animal Makes Two Visits to A sudden change of fully watched wind may check a fire or may turn it off in a new direction and perhaps threaten the lives of the men at work' by driving It suddenly down upon' rra- Forest After Being Swept by Fire travel against It except when burning up hill and not even then if the wind is strong ' The wind may give them strength and speed by driving them swiftly through unburned inflammable forests or it may extinguish the fiercest fire in a time by turning it back over its path where is nothing left to burn ' In lighting forest fires the wind is always the first thing to consider and its direction must be care- Preserving Eggs Eggs six months old are said to retain their freshness when preserved by this process adopted by a firm in the north of England: Acting on the theory that an egg decomposes owing to the entrance of bacteria through the shell the eggs by the new process of preservation are first disinfected and then immersed in a vessel of hot paraffin wax in a vacuum The air In the shell is extracted by the vacuum and atmospheric pressure is then allowed to enter the vessel when the hot wax is pressed into the pores of the shell seals which thus hermetically it Evaporation of the contents of the egg which has a harmful effect is and the egg Is thereby prevented practically sterile Loss of Weight in Fruit station has The New Hampshire demonstrated the fact that the steady loss of weight which fruits undergo even under most favorable conditions of storage is duetto a process of by Fire was still more severe than the Mrramichi It covered an area of over 2000 square miles in Wisconsin and Involved a loss In timber and other property of many millions of dollars Between 1200 and 1500 persons perished Including nearly half the population of Peshtigo The most destructive lire of more recent years was that which started near Hinckley Minn September 1 189L While the area burned over was less than In some other great fires the loss of life and property was very heavy Hinckley and six other towns were destroyed about 500 lives were lost more than 2000 persons were left destitute and the estimated loss In property of various kinds was $25000000 Except for the heroic conduct of locomotive engineers and other railroad men the loss of life would have been far greater The means of fighting forest fires are not everywhere the same for they burn in many different ways but in every case the best time to fight a fire is at the beginning before it has had time to spread A delay of even a very few minutes may permit a fire that at first could easily to have been extinguished gather headway and get altogether beyond control When there is but a thin covering of leaves and other waste on the cannot ground a fire usually burn very hotly’ or move with much speed The fires in most hardwood forests are of this kind They seldom kill large trees but they destroy seedlings and saplings and kill the bark of older trees In places near the ground The hollows at the foot of old chestnuts and other large trees are often the results ofhese fires which occur again and again and so enlarge the wounds instead of allowing them to ' heal breathing similar to’ that in animals whereby oxygen occurring is taken in and carbon dloxld given out Lowering the temperature does not stop this breathing process but only slows it down Therefore apples cannot be kept in cold storage an indefinite period as many people believe Feed for Pigs I have been forced to depend upon my farm for my pork and have learned that plenty of rutabaga turnips clover and one bag of corn will put a hog through the winter then put to pasture till fall It makes good pork and at a low price There Is money In it and no need to depend' upon the west for pork Machine Planting of Fodder Crops The common wheat driil has been found the most convenient implement for planting cow peas and soy beans utilizing only the eubes needed to allow a proper distance between tows In ordinary ground 32 to 34 inches is a satisfactory distance |