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Show THE INDEPENDENT. William F. Gibson, - - Editor. E. N. Jordan, Business Manager, i Entered at the Pest Office at SprlcgTllle. Utah, for transmission through the miiltti second-class matter. Issued Every Thursday Morning1. TERMS OF- SUBSCRIPTION. One Year $i.00 Mil Months 1.00 Three Months 50 ASK FOR AIJVKKTISIXO KATKS. HOU RN1NQ CUSTOMS. Violet the Correct Color In Turkey Diplomat's Fanny Krror. New York Press: Some men like to Rear a broail band of black crape on their hats. They think it improves the appearance of man and chapeau, and do not hesitate to adopt it whether there is a death la the family or not. The British have taken to the arm band as an outward show of grief, and we see its employment creeping la here. It is in very poor taste. Following an ancient and honorable cu.-.tom certain people regard the ?eath of friend as an exemption from bathing for seven days. The Greeks and llo;. :'ired. and all nations, at one thr.- ..',.v.h-er, ..',.v.h-er, have had funeral feasts. In a fashionable fash-ionable street on Sunday I noticed tied to the doorknob of a brown stone house a Kiourning rosette and streamers, stream-ers, the olors of violet. I once saw a similar emblem at the Hotel De By-zance, By-zance, in Constantinople, and the landlord, land-lord, Mr. Arghiropoulo, informed me that the ordinary color for mourning in Turkey is violet. When we see a black hearse we say "grown person;" when we see a white one it is "child." The ordinary color for mourning in Europe is black, in China white, In Ethiopia brown. It was white in Spain until 1498. You all have heard the story of the Chinese minister at Washington, Wash-ington, who, having but recently arrived, ar-rived, threw the entire legation in mv,u.iJlus un-aue a uoy einpiavea tu scatter white handbills through the city cast a lot into the windows and doors of the big house at 2703 Four teenth street. He thought the pieces of paper had been sent there by order of the administration to signify to him that some high official was dead. The blinds were closed and the embassy solemnly proceeded to suspend business busi-ness for three days. QUEUES HUNG UP. As an Kvldeuce That Chinese Rebels Had Met JuHtire. Shanghai correspondence New York Sun: Letters from a missionary who has just traveled across North Anhui from Honan.selling Bibles for the British Brit-ish and Foreign Bible society, give graphic pictures of the terror and distress dis-tress caused by the rebellion in that province. The missionary started out with a corporteur and two young Chinese Chi-nese wheeling barrows. For several days they simply heard rumors of the approach of the rebels, who were killing, kill-ing, plundering and burning. Finally, after four days' travel, they neared a large city toward which crowds of fugitives fu-gitives from the surrounding country were pouring by every road. At all the small villages rusty old guns were being furbished up and spears brought out for use. The city was reported to be full, but thousands were pressing about the gates eager to secure the shelter of the walls. The missionary was unable to gain entrance to the gates because of the crowd, which would give way only to an official. Many of these refugees had come some distance, and all were carrying their household belongings in carts or in wheelbarrows. Little children were crying from hunger and exposure. On reaching Suchon, in Kiangsu, it was found that the soldiers had defeated the marauders, killing a large number. Over the west gate were hanging about 70 queues, some with the ears attach ed, and over the south gate were 200 more, grim evidence that justice had been dealt out to some of the criminals who have terrorized the whole province. pro-vince. PARENTS GO INSANE Ore t'hrixtian Seieivoe and Sear Their . Children with Hot Irons. j San Francisco Examiner: Ten years j ago In Paso Robles a pretty sixteen-year-old Swedish girl became the bride of an industrious young man, a native of her own country. During these ten ! years the couple lived in comfort and ! contentment. Five children were born to them. Today these little ones are ! worse than orphaned, for their parents j have been committed to the asylum for j the insane at Agnews. They are fan- j atics on religion. Converts to the doc- j trine of Christian Science, they refused 1 medical aid when their youngest child was taken ill with convulsions. They claimed to see strange, supernatural visions, and in obedience to what they declared a divine behest they seared their children's bodies with red-hot Irons. They had selected the 5th day of April as the date for crucifixion of themselves and children. Their mania is the more remarkable because they are people of education and Intelligence. Intelli-gence. Fortunately it Is rare that a father and mother lose their reason simultaneously, as did this unhappy couple, whose children, cast upon the world unprotected, now call the "poor farm" of Monterey county their home. 0 Stop Pauperism. The municipal authorities of Mons, Belgium, have just adopted a resolution resolu-tion which will prevent children from being born paupers in that city. Every child born in Mons, after being registered regis-tered officially, will have a bank account ac-count opened in its i..ae with the city savings bank. The authorities will deposit de-posit one franc for the infant, who, when he arrives at a sufficient age, will find this as a nucleus to augment with his penny savings. The original deposit of one franc can not be drawn at any time, but the interest accruing is the property of the young depositor. Improved Values. Stranger (in Rainbow) I suppose this suburban trolley line has increased increas-ed yalues hereabouts? Farmer Greene Oh, yes! Ole Bill Gosslyn wasn't worth the powder to blow him to Bridgeport till he got run over by one of them cars now he's worth $5,000.- Puck. Where Dreams Would Fall. Van Twiller I dreamed that I committed com-mitted suicide last night on your account. ac-count. Miss Oldun (gushingly) He! he! er hadn't you Inter apeak to mommer about it? Van Twiller Oh, I wouldn't dream of that. Judge. The man hoo thinks right, and hoo loves yocmanity better than creed, eldum goze rong, unless lie (.j weU paid fur it wen nobody la lookia. DAMPFIEE SKETCHES. GOOD SHORT STORIES FCR THE VETERANS. I ft or the Greatest Battle In the World's ero JVapvleon Wept Tears of Sorrow When He Saw His Army Shattered Retained II U Presence of Mind. In Darkness. I will be still. The terror drawin nigrr" Shall startle from my lips no coward ci v; Kay, though the night my deadliest dread fulfill, I will be still. For, ah! I know. Though suffering hours delay, Yet to eternity they pass away, Carrying something- onward as they flow, Outlasting woe! Yes, something won; he harvest of our tears Something unfaded, plucked from fading years; Something to blossom on beyond the sun. From sorrow won. The agony So hopeless now of balm Bhall sleep at last, in light as pure and calm As that wherewith the stars look down on thee, Gethhsemane. Florence Earle Coates. After Waterloo. until 11 o'clock at night the emperor had marched with the last battalions of grenadiers that still supported the retreat. Accompanied by Soult.Drouot, Bertrand, several officers and a dozen red lancers and chasseurs of the guard, he reached Quatre-Bras at 1 o'clock in the morning, vainly hoping to find there the Division Girard, which had been ordered to that point. The emperor dismounted in a glade of the forest of Bosser, near a bivouac bi-vouac Are, kindled by some grenadiers of the guard. A wounded officer, fleeing flee-ing along the road, recognized the em peror by the firelight. He was stand- 1 Ing erect h,s armg foldeJ upon hU 1 Drea3t motionless as a statue his eyes j fixed ln the directloI1 of Waterloo. There were no tidings from Grouchy, who, they feared, must be in danger. The emperor ordered Soult to advise him of the retreat of the army, and direct him to retire upon the lower Sambre. Soldiers of every branch of the service were running along the road and across the fields. Commandant Command-ant Baudus, on horseback among the fugitives, saw the little group of the imperial staff and joined It. The emperor em-peror asked if he had not met some army corps not entirely disorganized. Bandus replying that not far from Quatre-Bras he had passed the Fifth Lancers still marching In order under Col. Jacqueminot. "Go Instantly," said the emperor, "and order him to stop at Quatre-Bras. It Is late, and the enemy finding this point occupied, will probably halt." Baudus started at a gallop, but fire opening upon him from the first houses at the cross roads he returned to the emperor and entreated en-treated him to withdraw, "since he had no longer any support." As he spoke he saw that Napoleon was silently weeping for his shattered army. In his gloomy face, pallid as wax, there was no life except these tears. But In this dejection the emperor retained his presence of mind. The Girard Division not appearing, he concluded con-cluded that his orders had miscarried. If ignorant of the defeat, it was in danger of being surprised and captured by the enemy. He ordered Baudus to hasten to Fleurus and bring up the division di-vision on the right bank of the Sambre. Sam-bre. Then, yielding to necessity, he set out for Charleroi, where. he arrived at five in the morning to find only the maddest confusion. The single bridge across tne Sambre had give way under un-der the pressure of escaping French troops. The streets were choked with fugitives and encumbered with the broken and pillaged vehicles of the hospital trains d the commissariat. A false alarm that the Prussians had attacked the town had destroyed all discipline. The citizens and the soldiers sol-diers had rifled the military chest which the paymaster had bravely but vainly endeavored to save. The coach containing the military portfolio had been stopped; but the Due tie Bassano was able to destroy the most Important papers. To restore order was impos- j sible. After giving a few orders which no one obeyed, the emperor pur sued his way on horseback to Phillppe-vllle, Phillppe-vllle, where he was joined by the Due de Bassano and other officers, and again by Marshal Soult. His first efforts were to rally the army. Orders were dispatched to certain cer-tain commandants to take charge of such detachments and stragglers as ! they could collect, supply them with food and arms, and direct them to epecifled places of rendezvous. A new order was sent to Marsha! Grouchy, to retire upon Philippeville or Gevit. Then the emperor "wrote two letters to his brother Joseph, the one care- j fully relating the result of the battle, j to be read to the council of ministers. ' The other, a private letter, disguising ! nothing of the great disaster, announc- 1 Ing his Immediate return to Paris. The 1 second letter closed with these words: "All Is not lost. By uniting my forces, j all reserves, the National Guard. I shall have three hundred thousand : men to oppose to the enemy. But I I must be aided, not hampered. I be- ! lieve that the deputies will fee! it to I be their duty to unite with me in or-4 empire, says an authority, than in all der to save France." j the world outside 6f it. They are .The direct route from Philippeville kept up by the Celestials on every to Paris was unavailable on account cf tarai, on the private roads, on the pub-the pub-the bodies of Prussian cavalry over- i lie roads, on the streets of cities and running the country. At Rocroi, on the circuitous route he chose, the inhabitants. in-habitants. Unaware of the preat disaster, disas-ter, swarmed to see and salute the emperor. em-peror. Their acclamations awakened him In his carriage. At Mezieres. the want of fresh horses delayed the imperial im-perial party from half past ten until midnight. When at last they got off ; SOj?ier f gar,ris"n touted, j "lve lEmpereur!" until the last car- nage nad passed tne glacis. The next evening at Laou, Faubourg de Vaux, the emperor alirhted in the courtyard of the post house. Through the wide open door they co-:ld see him from the street, walking up and down, his head bent, his arms crossed upon his breast. There was a quantity of straw scattered in the court upon which the stables opened. One of the bystanders said, In r. low tor: "See Job on his dung-heap!" Napoleon seemed 60 downcast, the scene was so Impressive, even to the rustic mind, that they dared not acclaim him. A few timid, half-stlfted hours of "Vive l'Empereur!" came from the crowd. The emperor stopped and raised his hat. A detachment of the Nations! Guard arrived to form the guard of honor. The emperor made every provision pro-vision for rallying his scattered forces. Then, after nightfall, without waiting for Marshall Eoult. whom he had left with orders at "Philippeville. he resumed re-sumed his hurried journey to Paris, where his enemies were conspiring and wfcere his greatest &g?r lay. ? Without soldiers, and without canntsn, he could not face the enemy on the frontier. Soult and the generals ware as competent as himself to collect and reorganize the stragj.lers. From Paris, with Davoust and Carnot. he hoped to forward to Laon all available troops, all stores of provisions and arms; with the co-operation of the Chambers, to secure fresh levies of men and supplies and ln three or four days return to take command. It has been charged that Napoleon "abandoned his army," as in Egypt and Russia. Alas! Napoleon had no longer an army. He kne-v nothing; of Grouchy, with the divisions of Van-damne Van-damne and Girard, but believed him to be in great peril. Of the 74.000 combatants com-batants of Waterloo, possibly 40,000 might have escaped across the Sambre, but mora than three-fourths of these men were scattered from Cambral to Rocrol, making their way homeward, singly or in little parties. When Napoleon Na-poleon left Laon for Paris, the 20th of June, he had 2,600 soldiers assembled at Phllllpreville, and about 6,000x al Avesnes. This was the army. A Crate Man. "That is one of the bravest men 1 ever knew," said Gen. l.osecrans pointing out his inspector-general, Arthur Ar-thur C. Ducat. "I saw him cooly face almost certain death, to perform a duty. Three on the same duty had fallen before his eyes, and he had to run the gauntlet of a thousand muskets, mus-kets, but he did it." The wordj were spoken to James R. Giimore, while on a visit to "Old Rosey's" army at Murfreesborough, who records them in his "Personal Recollections." C"i. Rosecrans referred to Ducat's behavior at the battle of Iuka. The inspector-general had observed that a regiment of Gen. Stanley's division was about to be overwhelmed by a much larger force of the enemy. . "Ride on and warn Stanley at once," said Rosecrans, as Ducat reported the danger. An acre on fire and swept with bullets lay between him and the menaced regiment. Ducat glanced at It and said: "General, I have a wife and children." chil-dren." "You knew that when you camo here." answered Rosecrans, coolly. "I'll go, sir," said Ducat, moving his hor6e forward. "Stay a moment. We must make sure of this," said the general, beginning begin-ning to write dispatches, the paper resting on the pommel of his saddle. He wrote three; gave one to each of three orderlies, and sent them off, at intervals of about sixty yards, over the bullet swept field. Then he looked look-ed at Ducat, who bad seen every one of the orderlies fall lifeless, or desperately desper-ately wounded. Without a word, he plunged Into the fire, ran the gauntlet in safety, got to Stanley, and saved the regiment, but his clothes were torn by Mlnie balls, and his horse received a mortal wound. Kx-Koldiers Colonizing. Several thousand American regular soldiers are to be mustered out in Torto Rico ana Cuba in the next few weeks, says a Washington correspondent correspon-dent of the New York Press. They will receive their extra pay, orders for passage pas-sage home on government transports, and the mileage from the port to the places where they enlisted. It will be optional with them to return to the United States. These soldiers will be turned loose on the islands. What proportion of them will elect to remain where they are discharged the government has ro means of Judging. Discharges are now being granted to regulars who enlisted for the war at the rate of about 100 a day in Cuba. Many of these discharg- I ed men are apparently ln no haste to I return to this country, and there are j so many of them now ln Havana that I they cause uneasiness among the Cu-! Cu-! ban police. So far these Americans j have behaved remarkably well. They j have given as little trouble as a like j number of recently discharged soldiers might in an American city, j The growth of a disposition on the j part of these soldiers to settle the islands is-lands i3 being observed with much interest in-terest from Washington. It has a i)earjng on the question of assimilation I of the Porto Ricans and the Cubans by 1 the United States. A Curious StvWs Custom. The tenacity with which Europeans cling to ancien: ways 13 seen in a curious curi-ous custom which prevails at the present pres-ent day in Basel, a Swi6s city of nearly near-ly 100.000 inhabitants. Horses being ! very expensive in Switzerland, the mid dle classes cannot afford the luxury, and when a young man becomes engaged en-gaged to be married he levies on one of his rich neighbors fv,r a span. Though he may net know the rich man even by sight, he notifies him that he wishes his carriage and footman to call at his home at a specified time. He then uses the conveyance to call with his fiancee upon everybody of their acquaintance. At the marriage the same thing takes place again. It is expected that the groom will give a tip of from $2 to $4 to each coachman to employed. The Land of Ducks. There are more ducks in the Chinese on all the lakes, ponds, rivers, streams ' nnd brooks in the country. Every ; Chinese boat also contains a batch of ' them. There are innumerable hatch-; hatch-; iug establishments all through the em-1 em-1 pire, many of which are said to turn : cut about 50.00 youne ducks pvpt-v rear. Salted and smoked dnir a- ducks' eggs, constitute two of the most common and important articles of dief in rhina Study the Art of AdrertUlng. Professor James Bryce in a recent address at University College, Liverpool, Liver-pool, suggested that the students should take a systematic training in what he denominated "the art and mystery of advertising." At Hli Head. He "Wasn't Clawn's wife named Stone before she was married?" She "Yes.and it was a very suitable name." He "What do you mean?" She "Oh, nothing! Only she threw herself her-self at his feet." The famous expression, "Don't shoot v-Ml you can see the whites of their c-es" has been supplanted out in the Philippines by a new phrase. According Accord-ing to one of the members of the Twentieth Kansas regiment the customary cus-tomary order prior to attacks upon the Filipinos is: "Don't shoot until you can see the lights on their cigarettes!" A WONDERFUL MAN. AT THE AGE OF 62 GEN. IS VIGOROUS. GOMEZ Chivalrous Toward Women Great Favorite Fa-vorite with Children M Iff Pretty Daughter Clenueneia and Her Bright Brother Speak English. (Special Letter.) Up to the present time the photographs photo-graphs of Gen. Gomez have not done him Justice. In a curious, persistent way they give him an angular figure, half despfrrate, careworn expression, and age from 70 to SO years. As a matter of fact, the insurgent leader has a slender, erect figure, as active as a young man. He is 62, but his face is as smooth and free from lines as that ji a man ten or fifteen years younger. His dark eyes are bright, keen and searching, in physical vigor Gomez is a remarkable man. But he is even more remarkable in his forceful character. char-acter. It marks his face strong and stern in repose, but gentle, magnetic -and winning when he smiles. In self-defense, self-defense, probably. Gen. Gomez recently sat for his photograph. He could not stand the wild, weird pictures of him In shop windows, that are at best caricatures. cari-catures. So he had his photograph taken a few days ago, and to protect himself, said it must be copyrighted. It is a good picture, true and lifelike, says the New York Tribune. Gen. Gomez is plain and unpretendingthoroughly unpretend-ingthoroughly democratic in his tastes. There never was at any time the least chance in the insurgent army for the "pomp and circumstance of war." On the contrary, all environments environ-ments were rude and poor, and Gomez shared literally the hardships and privations pri-vations of his men. But the common com-mon ground between Gen. Gomez and his staff officers is uncommon. There Is a certain deference of manner and speech shown by his staff to Gomez that is not simply military etiquette and discipline. It is a deference that one does not see on the part of the American staff officer, no matter what the rank of his superior may be. Between Be-tween Gomez and his staff there is not even the suggestion of familiarity. At the same time it is perfectly apparent there Is a clear understanding and entire en-tire harmony of thought ani action. However brusque Gomez may be as a soldier an-' unconventional in camp GOMEZ, HIS SON AND life he is extremely courteous to visitors. vis-itors. He receives women with a courtesy cour-tesy and quiet dignity that would grace any drawing room. On the occasion oc-casion of the enthusiastic demonstrations demonstra-tions when he cams to Havana it was the march of a "conquering hero." But it was the women and children who went wild In the streets, rushing in crowds and massing about his horse, utterly reckless of danger. The tender side of his nature, ln a wonderful gentleness and meekness, is shown In his fondness and love of children. At Quinta de los Molinos, where Gomez has his headquarters, children of all classes go to see him. At the house in town where his young son and daughter are stopping with friends, there are half a dozei. children in the family. The moment Gen. Gomez Go-mez appears the children are about him to kiss him and sit on his knee, and in every childish way demonstrate their affection for him. To his own son and daughter, though they are grown, Gen. Gomez manifests the same tenderness that he shows to little children. chil-dren. Clemencla Gomez Is a pretty, dark-eyed dark-eyed girl of IS, and her brother, two years younger, is as bright, quick and alert a3 an American boy. Both are educated in English, speaking the language lan-guage without an accent. They are the only members of the family who as yet have come over from Santo Domingo to join Gen. Gomez here. They are very proud of their father. But they want to take him home. That means more to this boy and girl than any honor Cuba can give to Gen. Gomez. "My father has given many years to Cuba," Urbano Gomez says, "and now we want him. We want to take him home where he will have no more hardships and will have rest. But if he must stay in Cuba then my mother and all the family will come here." STARTLING COSTUME. Worn bj the Gay Belles of the Upper Niger. Lieut. Hourst, of the French army, fas published a lively personal narrative narra-tive of his recent explorations in Wast Africa. With four white companions ht pluckily sailed down the Niger river in an aluminum sailing boat of about seven feet beam, managing to carry her and her smaller consorts, manned by friendly natives, the whole distance Trom Timbuctoo, past Say and Bussa, to the sea, without serious accident or loss of life. Being a Frenchman, the most amusing parts of his boo''! ire devoted to descriptions of the Negridan ladies, whom he studied along the river banks. He was not captivated by their beauty. Indeed, he compares them to Durham oxen' or negresses. "who. like Englishwomen, Englishwom-en, when they are ugly at all, are really real-ly revoltingly ugly." The corpulent matrons of the Niger eagerly clad themselves in yards upon yards of cheap Paris velveteen, but there were girls of more slender make, whose 60le attempt at dressing was staining their legs to the knees with rocou or red dye, "which gives them the appearance at a distance of wearing nothing but light red stockings." The gay lieutenant lieu-tenant confessi i that he was confused a.3 a shy Englishman at the unwanton sight, but one of the red-legged beauties, beau-ties, noticing his embarrassment, remarked re-marked very sensibly: "Are we so badly made that we need hide cur-selves?" cur-selves?" All in good time. When we are old like our mothers we will wear clothes." This frank explanation seems, somewhat unaccountably, to have put the visitor at his ease. The meii folk likewise have their amusing amus-ing traits. A declaration of wai was one day brought to the lieutenant's boat. While it was being translated M. Hourst covertly watched the ambassador. am-bassador. After delivering his message mes-sage ha had prudently soug'at refuge behind a piece of rock, but finding that no notice was taken of him, he peeped out, first with one eye, then with both eyes, and finally ventured into t' o open with the plaintive interrogatory: in-terrogatory: "Is there any hope of my getting a pair of breeches?" FOOLED THE BUZZARD. Bird Sat Watching the Soldier, Waiting for His Death. The following story is told of a certain cer-tain corporal who was in Cuba with the First Illinois regiment. Men were being be-ing laid low every day by the fever ami those who were compelled to do guard duty over the Spanish prisoners ran in great danger of being numbered among the fever victims. "1 had not been feeling very well for two days," said the corporal, "and on this particular day I was assigned to guard duty. I had not held down the job more than three hours when I roiled under the shade of my 'dog tent.' almost insane with the fever. I drank all the water from my canteen and went to sleep. When I awoke an hour or two later there, in front of the tent, perched upon a stand of guns, sat a great bleary-eyed, hungry-looking buzzard, keeping an eye on me and patiently waiting for my demise. I watched the buzzard for a minute or two, and then resolved that if ever there was a disappointed dis-appointed bird of his sort he should be the most disappointed bird of the entire lot, and he was. He evidently HIS DAUGHTER. understood that it was all off. so he flapped his wings, arose in the air, and soared toward San Juan blockhouse." block-house." WISCONSIN'S MARRIAGE LAW. (Madison, Wis., Letter.) Assemblyman John M. True, whose anti-Gretna Green bill will soon become be-come a law, is one of the most remarkable remark-able men in the legislature. He has ever protested against the reputation of his state for "easy marriages," and has always arrayed himself against the immoral in this commonwealth. He was for a number of years the secretary secre-tary of the State Agricultural Society, and mr.de it a great power, but when it fell irto the clutchps of the racehorse race-horse men he was the foremost of the members who helped to wreck the organization or-ganization and secure the transfer of the state fair to the State Board of HON. J. M. TRU-". Agriculture. Mr. True is the representative repre-sentative of the First district of Sauk county, and was a formidable candidate candi-date for the speakership against George H. Ray, but withdrew. He is a native of New Hampshire, and is 61 years old. His reputation for respectability respecta-bility and for hatred of vice of all kinds is widespread and enviable. A Costly Drought. The drought of the last few years has cost New South Wales an enormous enor-mous amount of money. The flocks of the colony have shrunk from 66,000,000 to 46,000,000, representing a loss of 20,-000,000 20,-000,000 sheep. If to this is added the loss of the natural increase, the shrinkage shrink-age amounts to 50,000,000 sheep; enough, that is, to equip a considerable-sized colony. In addition, there has been a loss of nearly 300,000 horses and 150,000 cattle. That the colony has been able to survive these terrific losses is a striking proof of energy and resource. Translated into money, the colony has suffered a loss, due to mere Inadeqrate rainfall, of from 12,000,-000 12,000,-000 to 20,000.0C 0 sterling. FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. TO Som- Cp-to-Date flints About Cultivation Cul-tivation of the So'.l and Yields Thereof Horticulture, Viticulture and Floriculture. The Soy Ilean as a Farm Crop. A bulletin of the Indiana Experiment Station says: A comparatively new and promising leguminous crop for Indiana In-diana farmers is the Soy bean. This plant has been successfully grown In different parts of tho state and at several points farther north in the United States. It thrives in good corn soils, and will grow wherever corn can be successfully produced. Being a quick maturing annual, it will prove especially helpful to those who cannot grow clover. A crop of soy beans can be produced between the spring and autmuii frosts anywhere In the state. The soy bean may be grown for pasture, green forage (soiling), (soil-ing), for hay or silage, or for seed. It will yield nine to 12 tons of green fodder, fod-der, iy2 to 2M tons of hay. and 10 to 40 bushels of seed according to variety, condition of soil, etc. Varieties. If seed is desired, the earlier varieties, only, should be grown in northern Indiana. The Medium early varieties will doubtless mature in most parts of the state, and are to be preferred owing to their greater yield. The later varieties might be grown for soil renewal or soiling, but they would hardly mature seed. Culture. The soil may be prepared as for corn. If impoverished by previous prev-ious cropping the soil should be well supplied with lime, potash and phosphoric phos-phoric acid. Nitrogenous manures have also proved beneficial in New England. The seed may be sown broadcast with the wheat drill, in rows 16 to 21 inches apart, or with the corn drill to be cultivated as corn. The earlier varieties va-rieties of soy bean may follow a crop of rye or barley or be sown in the standing corn at the time of the last cultivation, if the weather is seasonable. season-able. If sown in corn put in two rows of soy beans between each two rows of corn. Sow about two peck3 to the acre In rows, like corn, and cultivate, it seed is desired. For pasture, soiling or hay, sow four or five pecks to the acre. Food Value. Soy bean hay compares com-pares favorably with clover hay in chemical composition. The seed is very rich in protein and can therefore be fed advantageously with corn. The 6eed should be ground before feeding. The seed is readily eaten. Stock as a rule, do not relish the stems and leaves at first, but soon take kindly to this forage. Soy beans and sorghum supplement sup-plement each other as soiling crops Corn and soy beans, together, are said to make good silage. Harvesting. Begin cutting at the time of early bloom, for soiling. Cut for hay when in full bloom, and as soon as the pods have formed, for silage. Cost of Seed. Seedsmen offer soy bean seed at $2.50 to $5 per bushel.. This makes the cost far too great to justify growing soy beans as a general crop. Farmers are advised to try soy beans In a small way as a special crop, and then grow their own seed if the crop gives promise of being valuable. W. C. Latta, Agriculturist. Figures on American Dairying. An article in the Chicago Record contains the following: The census of 1890 put the total annual an-nual value of the agricultural products of the United States at $3,75S,519,483 say $3,750,000,000. Today our total agricultural production cannot be less than $4,000,000,000. The part of ths which is dairy produce has been est-mated est-mated by Mr. Henry E. Alvord, chief of the dairy division of the Unite! States department of agricu.iture, to b1? $500,000,000. Mr. Alvord's figures ara as follows: Annual production. Value. Butter 5275,000,000 Cheese 22.500,000 Milk 157,500,000 Skim milk, buttermilk, whey and calves 43,000,000 ToaI $500,000,000 Mr. Alvord regards this estimate oT $500,000,000 as a very conservative one, and no doubt it is. It follows, then, that one-eighth of our total agricultural agricul-tural production of every sort, including includ-ing wheat, corn, oats, hay, cotton, tobacco, to-bacco, beef, pork, mutton, poultry and wool, is dairy produce. In Great Britain even a greater preponderance of dairy production prevails. In round numbers the total value of all the produce sold off the farms of Great Britain and Ireland amounts to $1,000,-000,000 $1,000,-000,000 annually. Of this amount $162,-500,000, $162,-500,000, or about one-sixth. Is said to be dairy produce. For a particular year (1894) the figures stood as follows; Total value of agricultural produce sold off the farms of Great Britain and Ireland Ire-land $988,747,385 Value of milk sold 78,000,000 Value of butter sold 58.800,000 Value of cheese sold 25,665,000 Total value of dairy products prod-ucts $112,405,000 According to Mr. Alvord the cows which are dairy animals kept in the United States number 17,000.000. Roughly speaking they may be classified classi-fied as follows: Engaged ln butter production. 11, 000,000 Engaged In cheese production 1,000,000 Engaged in milk production. 5,000,000 Total 17,000,000 The production of these cows is estimated es-timated to be as follows: No. Annual product of cows. of each cow. 11,000,000 125 lbs. butter 1.000,000 280 lbs. cheese 5.000,000 350 gals, milk It will be observed from these figures fig-ures how small relatively is the cheese-producing cheese-producing branch of the dairying industry in-dustry in the United States as compared com-pared with the butter-producing branch and the milk-producing branch. The explanation of this will appear further on. In Great Britain and Ireland Ire-land a very different distribution of ;he three branches of the dairy industry indus-try occurs. Cheese-making occupies much more important position in those countries than it does with us. In 1S94 the number of dairy cows in Clr?5t Britain and Ireland was estimated esti-mated to be 3,925,486. The amount ot milk produced by these cows was estimated es-timated to be 1,766,438.700 gallons. About one-eighth of this milk was used on the farms where it was produced. pro-duced. The distribution of the remainder re-mainder that is, of the milk sold off the farms either as milk or as butter or cheese was said to be as follows: Butter sold 225.000.000 lbs. Cheese sold .225.000.000 lbs. Milk sold 575.QOO.000 gals. There Is an enormous waste ln da!ry production which few people realize. This waste is due to the practice too prevalent among farmers of keeping for dairy purposes cows that are not food dairy animals. Mr. Alvord estl- rsfttcs that upoa the farm of this "ountry many animals are kept "probably some millions" that "do not produce the value of their annual cost, however cheap and wastefully poor their keeping may be." This grave fact I3 generally recognized by good dairy farmers, but unfortunately it Is not recognized by the rank and file of farmers generally. Instead of 350 gallons of milk annually, as supposed sup-posed tn the above estimates, dairy cows should average from 575 to 600 gallons of milk annually, and instead cf 125 pounds of butter annually, as asupposed In the above estimates, good dairy cews should average from 200 to 225 pounds of butter annually. It cows of the proper standard of production produc-tion were kept, two cows would produce pro-duce what now is produced by three. The enormous loss, therefore, that accrues ac-crues to ci.r dnirying industry, through the use -if cows not up to the standard excellence will be apparent to every one. 8!iri'! for Home tirounds. From Farmers' Review: Plant a few small shrubs near the house, so that the foundations of the house will be screened and the house seem to rise out of its surroundings. The choke of shrubs depends somewhat on the soil and location. 'ihr;re are a great many shrubs that are very appropriate ap-propriate for p anting on the grounds, but only a few will be named here. Common Lilac Syringa Vulgaris This is one of the commonest and most highly praised of garden shrubs, and one that has given rise, either by natural variation or by crossing with other species, to a great number of superior forms. The colors range from white to various forms of lilac. Syringa Tersi.-a. This is a distinct small growing species, with slender, straight branches and lilac or white flowers produced in small clusters. The form bearing white flowers is named Syrimra pc-rsicn alba; and there is one with neatly divided foliage, Syringa persica lancinlata. Philadelphia. This Is a genus of shrubs which are remarkable for the abundance of white and usually sweet-scented sweet-scented flowers they produce. They will thrive on almost any good soli, and require no special treatment Philadelphia coronarins, Philadel-phus Philadel-phus totnentosa. Pliiladelp hus gordon-lanus gordon-lanus are all large growing bushes and give a succession of bloom. Honeysuckles, or Lonicera, are all of the readiest culture, and succeed well even in poor soils. There are a largo number of species, some vining and some of a sturdy bushy habit. Lonicera Loni-cera fragrantissima blooms very early and 18 very fragrant. It retains its leaves nearly all winter. Lonicera tar-tarica tar-tarica produces white and pink flowers flow-ers in the spring, and later during the summer yellow and red berries are formed, which are as attractive as the blooms. Berberis Vulgaris also produces attractive at-tractive flowers in the spring and scarlet fruit in the fall. Spireas aie excellent shrubs and make very good low screens, and also give a beautiful display of flowers. Spirea Thunbergii, Spirea Van Hout-tei Hout-tei and Spirea reversiaua give a succession suc-cession of blooms. Deutzia gracilis and Dtutzla crenata floraplena are very compact shrubs, with close spikes of very attractive Sowers. Look for the Tent Caterpillar. Owing to the lateness of the spring there is still time to make use of all the methods of checking the apple-tree apple-tree tent-caterpillar for the coming season. The young larvae are probably prob-ably yet concealed in the egg-bands about the wild cherry and apple twigs and these bands can easily be located, cut off and burned or soaked in kerosene. kero-sene. Certainly the ravages of the little pebts upon the leaves can only be begun, even in the most favored localities, and the voracious caterpillars caterpil-lars can be met by arsenical sprays. Tie nests of those escaping the poison can be cut out or burned upon the tree, and a final search of the orchard along in June will reveal the yellowish- white cocoons which then conceal the 1 marauders. After July the egg-Lands egg-Lands will be fuund again and can be looked for in every orchard operation until the next spring. Encourage th3 children to sic-k them out and destroy them; anil try to make friends with the cuckoos, chickadees, Baltimore orioles, wrens and vireos, who will aid you in getting rid of caterpillars or eggs. YViid cherry trees about the premises shouid be carefully watched as they are the favorite food plants of the caterpillars. These simple remedies reme-dies and precautions are taken from Bulletin No. 152 of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station (Gene (Ge-ne vJ. Tt'Kt Your Seed Corn. The Illinois Experiment Station sends out the following advice: Farmers should test their seed corn. Owing to the unusually wet fall of 1898 there is a great deal of poor seed corn as is shown by numerous complaints com-plaints from farmers, and by tests made at the experiment station. Every farmer should test his seed corn before be-fore planting. This can be done at slight expense by using a box of soil. A still better method is to use two dinner plates. Place an inch of soil in the bottom of the first plate, moisten and cover wiLii two thicknesses at u.tiy clotn, preferably old cloth that has been washed several times. Upon this place the seed to be tested and cover with another moist cloth. Then cover by turning the second plate bottom upwards over the first to prevent the soil from drying out, and set in s warm place. t Temperature for Seedlings. It would be well to caution those who have sown seeds of annuals during the last few weeks that the seedlings must be kept cool. If they are subjected to the heat of the ordinary living room (70 degrees Fahrenheit) they will be drawn, weak and spindling, and 1 111 perhaps not do so well after being planted out as if the seed had been sown directly into the ground. iLu-deavor' iLu-deavor' if possible to keep the seea-lintD seea-lintD in a temperature not higher than 60 degrees, with a night temperature of not above 50. If kept no warmer thaa this they will make a stocky, sturdy and healthy growth. Viomao'i Home Companion. Stable Manure. The experiment station sta-tion in North Carolina well says In a recent bulletin that "North, South, East and West, stable manure Is al-met al-met universally regarded as a complete com-plete manure, yet it is too nitrogenous a raanure for ordinary farm crops, and needs for each and every ton used th addition of from 50 to 100 pounds ot acid phosphate and from 25 to 50 pounds of high-grade muriate or sulphate sul-phate of potash in order to make a properly balanced fertilizer of it, without with-out which best results cannot be ob tained, neither can they reasonably b expected." Ex. A NOTED ASTRONOMER AMERICAN WINS FAME IN FOREIGN FOR-EIGN LANDS. Rct. Dr. a. M. Seirl-, a Oraduate of HarTard, the offl-l.l Atr.inotner ol the Viatlen at K:ue Wai Formally w l'ltrlan Fretcher. There Is a subtle Irony, in view ol Galileo's fate, in the Pope's keeping an astronomer. The present dircctoi of the Vatican Observatory is Rev-George Rev-George Mary ea:!e. A. M. Ph. Jl Though of American stofk for spheral sph-eral generations on his father's Side, he w-as born in Lcndon. on June 27. 1839. Dr. Searle's childhood and yoth were passed in Brookline. M.iss., where he received his early education, afterward after-ward entering Harvard, from which university he graduated in the cla?s o' 1S57. having, among his other classmates, class-mates, Johu Davis I-ng, Secretary of tb navy in the present cabinet. Dr If. til e .1 1 in! 1 it-'t ; REV. DR. G. M. SKARLE. Searle then became assistant to Dr.. Gould in the Dudley Observatory at Albany. State of New York, where on September 11. 1S5S. he discovered the asteroid Pandora, the first diseovrry of the kind ever made in the States by original search, ln January, 1859, Dr. Searle entered the service of th United States Coast Purvey. In I860 he received the degree cf Master of Arts from Harvard University. Dr. Searle was originally a Unitarian; Unita-rian; but in 1859 he entered the Protestant Protes-tant Episcopal (Anglican) Church, remaining re-maining in that communion until August 15, 1862. In September. 18G2, he was appointed assistant professor at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Md., and remained in that capacity until 1866, when he returned to Harvard University as assistant in the astronomical observatory of the university. Here he remained until 1868. STANDS HIOH IN SCIENCE. Dr. J. L. Wortman of New York, who has accepted the chair of natural history his-tory at Yale, stands high among scientists sci-entists on this side of the water. Dr. Wortman was born in Oregon City, Ore., on Aug. 25, 1856. His early life was spent in the west; but immediately immedi-ately upon graduating from the University Uni-versity of Oregon he located in the east, and became associated with Prof. E. D. Cope of Philadelphia. From 1877 to 1884 he conducted explorations In the western fossil beds for Prof. Copa duttng the summers, and In the winter win-ter studied comparative anatomy under un-der Dr. Joseph Leidy at the Philadelphia Philadel-phia academy, ln 1884 Dr. Wortman wa appointed anatomist of the United StMes Army Medical museum, at 1 Wnhington. While there he studied ' me-alcine at the Columbia Medical col-I col-I leg, and In 1887 took the degree of j M. The same year he became dem-j dem-j oni.rator of anatomy in the George-i George-i toy n Medical college. The appoint-j appoint-j ment of assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology of the American Museum I of Natural History was tendered him j in 1891, and 6ir.ee that time he has been j in New York. During the time of his association with the museum. Dr. ; Wortman has conducted all the field work, and the collection of fossils. j which Is one of the finest in the world, is practically all his work. He has j also written a large numb.-r of articles ' and books along his choHeu Hue, both in collaboratiou with o!her scientists and alone. In 1SS3 he wrote "Recent Discoveries of Fossil Horses." which was published as an appendix to "Horses' Teeth," by William H. Clarke. In 1884, in collaboration with Prof. Cope, was written "An Account of the Mammalian Fauna of the Post-Pliocene Deposits." His most pretentious work is "The Compaia ive Anatomy of the Teeth of the Vertcbrata." published pub-lished in 188G. Dr. Wortman has alr contributed a number of articles to scientific journals, among which is one on "The Origin of the Horse," published pub-lished In French by the Revue Scien- DR. WORTMAN. tifique in 1883. He is the writer of number of the American Museum Bulletins. Bul-letins. Dr. Wortman has read papera before many well-known scientific societies. so-cieties. Is the Run Oettlne Hotter? Dr. T. J. J. See suggests, in the As-tronomische As-tronomische Nachrlchten, the somewhat some-what startling conclusion that the sun Is stili getting hotter. The process however, is too slow to have any but S scientific Interest for the present inhabitants in-habitants of the earth. Another result of Professor See's researches, which is contrary to the generally received opinion. Is that Jupiter and Saturn, Instead In-stead of being cooling bodies, may also be increasing in temperature, and that eventually they may become self-luminous self-luminous like the stars. But if Jupiter were self-luminous, and Its intensity or adiation were as great per unit of surface sur-face sb that of the sun, it would give at night two or three hundred times as much light on the earth as the full moon gives! An Argument for Kspanson. H There ara millions of people In this country who don't play golf. That proves that we need more territory. 1 5he How? He Because when th-;y do play golf we won't have enoun room for links. |