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Show .,,. 'vr mms? . V . ' , r V , : .. ' :). V r : . v - : - .;;. - :- . ,v '' 'tV SOME RICH BEGGARS. concoction of beefs blood, cornmeal and glue. . They do much drinking and t. much talking, talking about everyBIO FORTUNES POSSESSED BY thing, yard politics, the prize fight, sometimes about the 'gazabos who MEDICANTS. have that day dropped hard earned coins Into their overflowing coffers. Thrifty Sehcm.r IFiio Hm Swindled The fact that the public Is being con-thn rablifl SacMxf.lly SIO stantly fleeced by these beggars, while on the K.nt 8IJ of Xm known to the police, does little good, York Clover Mat hod Fallowed. as a sort of Free Masonry seems to ex- i SON- - r Fan-bnndl- (New .York Letter) : .n ' On the great East Side of New York, mong other peculiar things of Interest are the mendicant aristocrat $ r men and women whose trade 'is begging and who have made the business pay. From the Bowery, east. to Essex street -- -- and from Delancey south to Bayard, constitutes tne stronghold of the 509 professional beggars of the metropolis, and . within the area thus bounded the susceptible public is fleeced out of .vast sums daily. The methods of extortion pursued are varied and, so clever an; the petitioners for aid, the danger of police interference is reduced to a minimum. W. thin the last month, however, the four richest of these 500 professional beggars have been captured and sent up to Blackwell's Island the notorious Mary McCann for a year, and Charles Berkowltx, Fred Allen and Joeeph Buckley for one month each. The methods employed by atiy one of these equal, if they do not exceed, In cleverness the impositions practiced by the .BqcgRndian mendicants of the Middle Ages. The most ingenious method followed was that which bas made Mary McCann Independently rich. f l.var ' Method. Mary ITrCaaV The fortune of Mary, wife of Patrick McCann, a laborer, is conservatively estimated at 860,000 and it has been deposited under different names in various savings banks of the city. Mary is a comely woman of 40 years and in her appearance there is nothing to suggest an exponent of the highest art of begging. She has never been seen to solicit alms, all ber time having been spent at her little tenement with her children. But in the privacy of her big rooms, she was constantly doing a liig business in writing to rich men and women for financial assistance. Her methods necessitated a keen insight into human nature, an Intimate knowledge of the lives and htahlts of the best society, and a versatile pen. She rarely troubled any man or woman whose name was not prominent, and her biggrst - - 9 u . lli "Panliaiiillar. he three other rich beggars sentenced belong to a different school, known in East Side parlance ns the panhandlers." One of them, Charles Berkowitz. came to New York from Poland fifteen years ago. He was hopeful of learning a trade, but his uncle had other plans for the boy. He bought the boy a tin cup, taught him to roll his eyes back and look at the sun and then stationed him at a busy corner of the city. At first young Irkowitz cried with the pain that came from rolling his eyes up at the hot sun all day long. He was afraid of going blind in earnest. However, it took but little persuasion on the part of the uncle to make him understand that a better living could lie made at begging without eyes than with them, and after a few years crutches, blind eyes and sores, but all Charles Berkowitz was stone Idind. The uncle died and then the blind beggar had all his earnings to himself. He invested his money in East Side real estate and is now possessed of a 'I - GARIBALDI. PREPARING TO VISIT THE, UNITED STATES. r of th Fa mom ters Bomi ln 1807 r.nrl Ha Ha - 'Who Ea- Lad Caloago la To Yialt Stormy Lite September. r .. ' fj. j" . r Is constantly relcrred to as an instance of the deplorable ignorance of ancient is not, however, times. !T1 variably a proof of such Ignorance. Anciently the .use of the mark was not enufined to illiterate persons, says the Kansas City World. Among the Saxons the hiark of the cross as an attestation of good faith of the person signing. was required of those Who could write, as we.l as to stand In place of the signature of those who could not write. Even in those times if a man could write or even read, his knowledge was considered proof presumptive that he was in holy orders. The clerl-cuor clerk, was synonymous with penman, ainl the laity or people who were not clerks did not feel any urgent necessity fur the use of letters. The ancient use cf the cross was, therefore, universal, alike by those who could and those who could not write; it was. indeed, a symbol of an oath, from its associations, as well as the' mark generally adopted. Hence the origin of the expression God save the mark, as a form of ejaculation approaching the clinracter of an oath. The-sJgnatu- s, Fat-re- Ah KiprrtU Ailylc. The advice oi u woman so well able to assist and direct nctorB and actress- es as Mrs. Fernandez, the well known dramatic agent, o.i the subject of going on the stage should be worth acIn Everybody's Magazine cepting. Mrs. Fernandez says: "My own ad vice to the dramatic aspirant is to first find out whether you possess the of mimicry, of making benatural of seeming to fuel as you do not. lieve, If you are comely In person and your voice is strong, you may, without further cpiadiicatioa than ordinary intelligence, get as good a living in the theater as you could e'sewhere. and perhaps better. But lacking the inability herent, and to impress yourself upon others, to engross them with the subject you try to illustrate, to impersonate clearly to them the individuals of your anecdote. to send it all through their eyes and ears into tbelr hearts and souls, you need not hope to become more than an ordinary player. k, k FARM V,V . A People Th Ramon Why Simply Concrewro-- Vote n Prnt. . member is paired with somebody who is supposedly absent. If he responds present, and subsequent'y finds that his pair Is for any reason released, he Is at liberty to change his record to yea or nay, as he prefers, while if he had remained in his seat during two roll calls, that roll would have been forfeited. Thus present usually means that a man Is paired with somebody who is away, hut that he wishes to reserve to the last his voting rights in case that pair should chance to be "declared off" by mutual consent. Youth's Companion. Will th Hint - e, prec-tire- bo-for- e. j 81.-00- 0. "lyr MATTERS OP INTEREST i AGRICULTURISTS. r tloa or th Hortlmiltara jandTfeventg 1 TO ninta A boat fnltln and YIU Tk(aof 1 lllraltar aa Ftertaal-tar- a Soil Horticultural Observation. Among the visitors at the Fanners Review office last week waa L R. Bry-kn- t. Secretary of the Illinois Stats Haxfe Our Engine Fa led ? to Central ycrX Horticultural fie Hs brought The Midland Railway Company of bas just with him some Society. of tbe apples Liiiaiu li. .ewman,-who samples has cold England administered a actively entered upon the duties of hs has bat in. cold storage since last douche to our pride of industrial con- - his new post as president of the New Seventeenth of May, quest by announcing that the Ameri- - York Central and Hudson River rail-ca- n .fall. theIt was tbs were as hard and fresh yet apples .locomotives tested by the road road, is, as may easily be imagined, .looking as the day they came off the have cost from 20 to 25 per cent more tree, and their color was excellenL Mr. than the British in fuel, GO per cent Bryant said that they bad been held more In oil, and 60 per cent more In all through the winter at about 82 derepalra. 'Against these fatal defects Of this two things may be said; grees. are to be counted only the trifling offone Is that more apples should be put sets ' that the American locomotives into cold storage warehouses, to lessen were delivered in a few months inthe glut In the fall, and another is that stead of in three years and that their the Willow Twig is a most excellent price was less than that of the Britapple for that purpose. We doubt If ish by 82,000 apiece. It is explained tnere be any other apple that will In enthat American railroad practice come out better in the spring or sell gines are made to be worked to death more readily. and thrown on the scrap heap. English locomotives are expected to become heirlooms. The folly of planting some kinds of But there Is piobahly trees in the fall in some of our northsomething more than that behind the ern latitudes is frequently well IllusMidland's figures. In all neutral martrated by the results of that prac'.ice. kets the American machines give perfect satisfaction and are crowding the Recently the writer of this had c cession to look over a large mass of English out. That is the case even Steal hr slate railroads of British coloshrubbery that was planted last fall, nies. Before our manufacturers adthe planters Insisting that that was mit that their products are failures the proper time to plant. This fprlng on English roads they would probably at least of the plantation la to see them tested by American dead and most of the shrubs will have to be pulled up and replaced. The adengineers and firemen. vice of our state horticultural socieshould be taken. The Illinois ties "ShamrocKT Coante . ... State Horticultural society has given The beautiful countess of Limerick tbe matter due consideration and has , has the title of "The declared in favor of spring planting SfiZmrock Countess, for, thanks to in all localities north of Springfield. ber efforts, one of the British war In warmer regions fall planting is funds has acquired this spring a' subdouhtleaa all right, especially where stantial addition to Its funds owing the winter supply of moisture is good. to the sale of the dear little shamrock so cleverly organized by the The Illinois State Horticultural Somistress of Dromore castle. The oung countess before her marriage Miss ciety has for a number of years conducted stations with Burk the daughter of one of more or less success. These stations Irelands most popular sportsmen, and number, we believe, eight, and are herself, both as a girl and since her over the state. The object scattered one ridof marriage, the. straightest of their existence is to try the same ers to hounds in the Emerald isle fruits In different parts of the state. the group of those enerEvery new fruit, whether tree, cane, getic. peeresses who do all In their or bush, is sent to each of the stations. power to improve the lot of their poorAfter several years it is easy to aper friends and neighbors. Tbe Shamrock League has succeeded beyond the proximate its value for tbe locality in which it is being tried. We say apwildest dreams of its promoters, and which the March proximate, ' for even trying a fruit in during days preceded DUadtfanfage or nine parts of the state will For the great majority of girls over eight not prove positively what it might do fifteen years ot age a girl's school or In another location other than the yet college is much to be preferred, in Not the climate but tbe eight only the opinion ot one person, at least. I soils must be and the comconsidered, I in think this binations of soil ..in speak only what infinite. are almost .onnection. I know that many of the men The ia to greatest get difficulty men women will and .risest and beet will run that these properly . ot iisFcnt to my reasoning or my and this difficulty Is increased the fact that little money, is availby It should not be forgotten that the able for that purpose. A man Is paid emotional life is growing in and domia rental of about 85 per acre per year nating the life of all young creatures. for the land on his farm actually ocGirls can think and study better away the orchard or cupied by experimental from the society of youths of their small fruits. This land la at the presown ape thau they can in company with them. To get the best results ent time not often in excess of three from study tbe mind must be kept acres. Then the owner gets perhaps as free as possible from distractions 825 per year for taking care of the plantation, and the trees and plants of an emotionol nature. The associations of school life should be calm, are furnished to him free. If the man by instinct he will healthful, cheerful and free from all be a horticulturist on work the from year to year carry deor is that premature of exciting will get results. Some of the carevelopment. The "flirtations of school and g takers, however, weary of and college life nre confessed by eva short time and the trial orchard ery one to be out of place and out of in is neglected. There Is also another time, yet when young men and young disturbing factor namely, death. We women are together nothing can prevent such episodes. This one fact instance J. V. Cotta, who was a most COUNTESS OF LIMERICK. horticulturist and had charge and thorough alone tells against 17 Lady Limerick and her frlendi of a station located on his farm. trial so strongly that nothing can entirecame the whole work death When worked hard .all day tying up tiny G. Sweet. ly offset It. Ada there was interrupted, and it now nosegays of Ireland's national green seems likely that the trial orchard will blossom and dispatching it to all corAll Oiler a "Poster. ner! of the world. Is it possible to be driven Insane by cease to be, as the land will pass to heirs and the land under the orchard a poster? This is a question which Is not owned by the State Society. debated much in is at being present The fie tv E.jcplost'Oe. Probably tbe state will ultimately proIf the claims made by officials ot De's Moines, la. Miss Bertha Atkinson for the purchase of land believes of will she that that go vide. money for city the war department concerning the efused such stations, but the be to po.-ta opposite her window ficacy of a new explosive are borne mad if of the State Society will not, at out by subsequent tests, the L'r.Ued is not removed. So real, so vital, so funds the present time at least warrant inStates may possess a secret which will appalling has become her horror of vestment In real estate. the painted placard that her friends have Important bearing on the interin come to tbe share have apprehennational politics of the future. sion. Accordingly a protest has been Knnna ;ypum and H lain. i Warships and fortifications which Many people will be surprised to have heretofore been regarded impreg- made to the municipal authorities, and know that gypsum is found in nable will be at the mercy of Amerin targe quantities. In his address beican guns. It has been demonstrated fore the State Board of Agriculture that the thickest Harveyizcd armor Erasmus Haworth stated that Kansas will not withstand the new projectile rsnxs second in the Union as a prowhen hurled by one of the greet guns ducer of gypsum and the value of Its and, what is more important, .l.at the marketed product. Kansas gypsum is explosive with which the projectile is two distinct varieties, which differ loaded will be discharged Immediately ltom each other in origin and In methr la pierced. od of manufacture. The most abund' g exMaximite, this new ant variety is the ordinary rock gypplosive, Is called after Mr. Hiram sum, which exists in broad layers, Maxim, it Inventor. Mr. Maxim is with limestone and shale the inventor of smokeless powder and so that in every respect it is a gen.has made, a specialty of high explouine rock. It is this form of gypsum sives. It Is announced by the oflU inis which is so abundant In the vicinity in charge of the tests which have been of Blue Rapids and on the south side made on the Sandy Hook proving of the Hill river opposite Solomon. It grounds that .the results far surpass also occurs near the little town of anything heretofore attained in any Hope and many places south of it, country. Experts express the opinion from Sumner line to the state line that the building of battleships and and last but not least to the southwest fortifications may be revolutionized in Barber county. Here It occurs as as the result of the discoveries made immense masses of stratified rock, by Mr. Maxim. measuring In some places 30 feet or more in thickness. It also caps the To the Girl Leading College . hills in the rough country to the Aim for success. Do not select a southwest of Medicine Lodge. This rock gypsum in the various places calling,, which Is beyond . you. It Is better to be a good housekeeper than named Is exceptionally pure and cona poor teacher, it is better to be an tains only about one or two per cent of foreign matter. It is equal to any than an inferior expert stenographer ' to" hsan efficient gypsum in the world for the manufaclawyer: It THE OBJECTIONABLE POSTER, ifiari an inefficient doctor. Perture of the highest grades of plaster the poster may be removed. Meanof Paris and when properly mixed haps the more ambitious calling will while is agitated by inwith efficient retarders makes as high bring a slight notoriety In the begin- tense Des Moines feeling. The contagion spreads grade cement plaster as can be found ning, but if a girl wishes to take a of diB1eaBe rthe on the markets of Europe or America. worthy place In the world she must daily' No ever say. authorities Another variety of gypsum known in not follow her bent..sbe must consid- Kansas and elsewhere is pulverlent in er whether she has strength for the idly' There are eight submarine cables of form. It is found near or at the surlong race. Temple Bailey in Womans face of the ground In wet or marshy Home Companion. over 2,000 miles in length. places and is mixed with more or less matter, such as soil, clay and earthy all while the I much excited, subjects Tride. K.ing Loofe Toy sand. This is a pretty picture ot the little of the youthful monarch are greatly Experience shows that it is profitboy king of Spain and his queen moth- - interested. When he leaves Madrid er, taken shortly before the 16th birth- - King Alphonso will go first to Rome able to apply gypsum to some kinds of soil. Last year Forest Savage of day of Al- - to receive the blessing of his venerable He will then Lawrence applied a few hundred phonso was godfather. Pope Leo. c e e b rated proceed in state from one capital city pounds of gypsum to a wheat field. The vigorous growth and healthy last month. to another. Already, it is said, prepcolor of this portion testified to receive green to arations been have to begun According derived from the condition benefit the a of him. series In tbe Spanish Paris, especially, law, a boy magnificent fetes will be given in his of the gypsum. Bro. Haworth thinks comes of age honor, though France has no royal that the productiveness of Kansas soil when he has princess to offer as a candidate for can be greatly increased, particularly eted queenly honors. The only contingency in the eastern part of the state where compl fifteen years which may delay or evpn prevent the gumbo patches are common and hard-pa- n is abundant. Ho was betraying of life, so coming tour is the fact that both the no secret when he stated are litCarlists professional and the Republicans that the that many of the big packing houses tle boy king watching for an opportunity to rise. used large quantities of ground gypis now pracfor when the first of the saloonkeepsum to mix with other animal fertiltically own master, ers arrested was called up for trial izers. The fanners ot the west are day he promptly pleaded slow in getting around to commercial though it is the other guilty, and was assessed a heavy fine. fertilizers, but when these materials said the queen mother will retain-heMiss Berry says she will continue! her can be had near at hand there is no power for another year Within a few the saloons of the town reason why they may not be profitweek. If is expected that King Al- - Bre until all on Sunday and are kept able. J.loBed on will a start out grand tour pbonsp of the capitals of Europe. On this tour e he. is expected to select 'a bride to j Maitland, Nova Scotia, was a Judging at Kansas City Show. with him the ancient throne of cn shipbuilding center many years ago, Frank D. Winn, secretary of the Nathat the industry Is tional Breederr. show and also of the Spain, and royal mammas with mar- - ago, and it is said riageable daughters are consequently to he revived . Poland organization representing ; Frident of j two-thir- ds well-ear- Three i esponses are heard to a roll-ca- ll In congress; they are "yea," "nay," and present." The meaning of the last, unlike that of the other two, is often misunderstood, as la shown by the current phrase "voting present." There Is no such thing as'"voting present, since that response signifies the. very avoidance of voting, it counts neither for the affirmative nor for the negative, nor does it compel either side to get out more votes to make a majority, as is usually tbe case in private organizations where- a "blank" When the seventeen rote Is cast. members of the House Ways and Means committee responded in a recent critical vote, eight yeas, seven nays and two present.the yeas .had prevailed. A majority of "those present and voting is the usual parliamentary phrase. Saying present fulfils only half of this condition. Why. do congressmen make this response, then, when its effect is like that of no vote? The reasons are diverse. Sometimes men desire to go on record as neutrals particularly when their real position is one of antagonism to that of their party. A member may also have a private or persona interest in a contest before congress, and so, like a Judge, refuse to take any part in its decision. In such circumstances be may respond "present, making an explanation thereafter of his reason. These cases are exceedingly rare. In actual practice in the House of Representatives the system of pairing accounts for A most of the present responses. - fr GARDEN. - ri Hom-tlm- 'V ASD -- VOTING IN CONGRESS. liveli-Ihkk- i for some'Weeks'was protected by the the Clmiglianesl brothnotaf -- r!gands, ers', In the ' forest of the Slla. "They aided him to escape to- - Greece Upon the birth of the present King bf, Italy he was granted an amnesty,' bat on his return to his native land was arrested. After many difficulties he finally succeeded in joining his distinguished father in France. In 1874 he gave up hia military life and married an English lady. Being without an occupation he determined to try his fortunes in Australia. There at various times be was engaged as a workman and a storekeeper and finished as secretary to Sir James McCul-locpremier of Victoria. After his return to Italy he was elected to parliament, but found legislative life uncongenial and resigned before tbe end of bis term. He is now living quietly in bis mountain borne at Rlofreddo, in tbe Roman Appennlnes. He has ten children and one of his daughters is now attending school in this country. GEN. RICCIOTTI GARIBALDL so-call- ! 1 . ned d of Fh'rt Walut Com f The male shirt waist, says a traveling man in the- habprdashery line, is so far from being a dead issue that I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it universally adopted. In this country at any rate, within the next two or three years. It is going to have five or ten times as great a vogue this summer as it had last season, as I am in a posiconsiderable fortune. tion to know. The big firms of shirt The cases cited are but two of many makers have felt the masculine pulse schemes which are successfully worked in this matter, and the verdict is ail in Women In Holland. in the great city, but the police find favor of the shirt waist. They have A great change has come over public it almost impossible to discover the frauds. From time to time, rumors feeling in Holland as to girls in the accordingly gone in heavily during the I. past fall and winter for the manufac:ppor classes earning their own reach the authorities regarding of hot weather shirt waists for ture women TIi? prejudice against beggars schools, where mendicants are taught the tricks of th? working for a livelihood has almost men. and it's the best gamble in the trade and furnished with the necessary disappeared and even rich women world that their product won't be such as sometimes choose a profession. They tnrown back on their hands. The vast begging pararhernalia, efforts thus fur tj locate such schools number doctors, dentists, many of majority of men approve of the shirt waiBt, and so do the vast majority of have failed. There is no end, how- them first-ratphotographers and garwomen particularly women with husbold 1.000 About deners. d to' is which the posts ever, girls deception bands and brothers, who have heard some 3.000 are upon an unsuspecting pnhlir. An as assistant men folks growling over the distheir in Cross the' White barroom lu the of evening spent a:iy nurses, trained, one of the half dozen cheap Rowerv Homes, and on a par with the very comfort of wearing coats during the lodging houses reveals so many courts best of their profession. A woman is sizzling spells. ot miracles, which even Paris cannot curator of the Natural History muMoney in New York Saving flank. exceed. These places are where the seum in Harlem and another holds the There is more money in New York panhandlers resort after the days same post at Utrecht, while a. third savings banks this year than ever work is over. They come here to gos- is head dispenser at a hospital In AmThere are more depositors and a sterdam. The railway, post, and telesip and to smoke and drink had bee sum due each. The number or larger served are offices and worse whlskr. by largely graph accounts is 2.072.190. This shows open women clerks, who altogether outnumAft- -r llie lines "Work. an increase for the year of 90.819. Tbe men. the ber hall the the In hphind barroom big total amount deposited to these acof disthemselves direst all the they counts is nearly 91.000.000, 000. During a Town wiihnat OfUrere. guises and trappings of mendicancy. the year 8268,235.513 was added to this Crutches arc tossed into corners, bro- The town of Kenton, about fifteen sum. The amount due each d!ken bones are unbandaged, humps miles from St. Louis, enjoys the disat present Is 8457. The interestdepositor paid or in backs the from of of the tinction twinkling only incorporated credited during the past year amounted appear being A nan roils up his trouser j town in the I'nited States that Is not to 831.339.820. The expense of hn eye. leg and unstraps his peg and down governed by some kind of town officers, the savings banka was but 82.56running per comes his own leg out of its hiding it was incorporated half a century ago. This is a reduction of six cents dumb each was tell The and Fenton deaf that then It supposed place. per thousand over the previous year,' s. other stories an1 sing sentimental would be one of the large towns and of 40 ceq,t8 per thousand in the There are no sightless eys rounding St. IauIb. but it failed to last four years. , now. The blind sit about tbe little grow: the people became disappointed round tables and read the evening and did not think it worth the trouble Aluminum VVIr. newspapers like any other free born to elect officers. There are three separate American citizens. Swellings have circuits from the Niagara powerAn old maid Is a woman who has house to disappeared, as have also sores reat Buffalo. N.. Y., two of which cn the Cower of youth gone to seed were made out of p"tty and out of a sur-eong- . ' La.. early.-joine- : r .' A4S should expect from American officials in the same positions', there will never he occasion to remove them. And the good thinrs to be expected of them are the more because by all account they are the people not preternaturally Immoral. '1 hey are treacherous In . war, they lie and steil from strangers, yet of thn Illiterate. The mark waicti persons who art unable to write are required to make instead of their signature, is In the form of a cross, and this practice, having been followed by kings and nobles. -- - 'Wm . - they are temperate, continent and considerate cf l.f?; they have pleasant homes: they can be fairly industrious and, with pioper education and training, they promise at least as well as the people of the Spanish Americas. Army officers transferred from the Philippines to Cuba have been surprised at the contrast between Manila and Havana. The latter city, they say, is far below the capital' of the eastern group In appeal ance, in cleanliness of the inhabitants and especially in the outward tokens of morality. In Havana vice is open and rampant. In Mani'a It is at least inconspicuous, and Gen. MacArthnr reports that, so far as the social evil is concerned, the city compares with any in the United States. Leaving New York, or at least Manhattan, out of the consideration, this is Cattery. Brooklyn Eagle. :o- of 1869, of which he was th leadsr, was crushed, he fled for his life and ist among the beggars, whereby they Gen. RIcclotti Garibaldi, the famous generally manage to thwart the invesItalian revolutionist and son of the fatigations of the charities officials and mous general who entered Rome In ei.de the arm of the law. ' .1807 Garibaldi, the liberator is preHe paring to visit the United States. unveilthe at MOR'LITY IN MANILA. be to is' coming present monument to his distinguished Compares ing of a Cap' tat. r tli. rhl Ipplnr father In Chicago in September. ' Favurab'y with Otb.r Cltlas. Gen. Garibaldi has led a stormy life Some wrong notions have been plenhis career bas been filled with and tifully held in our part of the country events. He was educated la thrilling over as to the part of it that lies and began bis military career We have England against the coast of Asia. 15. He bas served under of at the age was supposed that Manila, for example, of banners the Italy. France, Greece a town of superficial civilization and and the flag of southern revolutionary not were who citizens that Its few Insurrection Italian the When veritable sans cu.ottes were not true Italy. representatives of their race. We imagined that such a civilization as m:ght be found there by a careful comb.ng, would Le no more than a relic of the Spanish occupation, and that Just outside of the ii:y gates we should fall into wilderness ami savagery . But we are learning to know the Filipinos, as We they are learning to know us. of . usein them possibilities discover fulness and morality. They are enjoying more personal liberty than ever they had before, and they are moving toward such policies autonomy as is good for them. Their progress henceforth will depend more on themselves than on tlielr American protectors, and every move toward a better civilisation will be gladly encouraged by our government. Already minor offices have passed Into native control, and some of the courts have native judges. If the they will show the snme honesty,same same sense of justice and the courage and JnteMgence that we JOHN DOE. HIS MARK, Origin or .h-- j Cro. ns a Slguatar MAItY M'CANN. harvests were reaped among thn people whose names appear daily in the society columns and in the list of When arrested steamship arrivals. there were found in the house hundreds of letters already sealed and stamped, ready to he posted. They told divers tales of hardships. ir wSa to Ths.l11 to some charitable woman prominent in ' society and ' pose as a former maid at the woman's house Her letter would state that ehe had left her employment to get married that she had prospered for a time but that her husband, a fireman, had been injured by a falling wall and that ail their savings were gone and they were face to face with starvation. Their rent was overdue and the landlord was importunate. In v'ew of her past faithful services, she made bold to request 910 to satisfy the landlord and thus keep a roof over their heads while she paid the living expenses by taking in washing. Such a letter usually rc-- , suited in a check of good proportions being forwarded and Mary would select a new victim. The matter finally came to the attention of the authorities and the clever swlnde- - now languishes in Jail. OF -- are copper, and installed on the same pole line. The third circuit la strung upon a separate pole line throughout its entire length, and is of aluminium instead of copper. This . aluminium line has the same resistance as each of the Other two, and la composed of three cables of 509,000 circular miles each, made up of 37 'strands. At the present market price of copper wire it is cheaper to use aluminium for overhead lines where the conductors do not have to be insulated. The conductivity of aluminium is less than .copper, and the price per pound is greater, but the volume per pound of aluminium is much greater than that of Copper on account of the lower specific gravity of the metal. When, therefore, resistance per pound is taken as the basis for comparison aluminium Is found to be cheaper. OP MOUNTAINS. A CLIMBER 1 Whyiupar 61 Yrara mml Agllr. Now Wiry OH ' tint That intrepid climber of mountains, Edward Whymper, is now sixty-on- e. He is Btlll wiry and agile. As everybody knows, Mr. Whymper first scorecj. as a mountaineer of tbe first rank when nearly thirty-si- x years ago he conquered the Matterhorn. In the decent three of jiis companions and a guide loBt their lives. His highly interesting "Scrambles Amongst the Alps,'. published thirty-on- e years ago, procured for him from King Victor Emmanuel the decoratalon of the Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus. But Alpine climbing was play compared with the work 'Mr. Whymper subsequently undertook. In the early seventies he explored part of Greenland. and in ascended certain of the Andes peaks. His published description of both expeditions have en- -. riclied science, as is universally admitted. His father. Mr. J. W. Whym n per, a engraver in his day, has almost reached ' f he patrlarchial age of ninety. His- eldest brother, Fred, who told the world in his Travels in Alaska. all. about that remote region .a generation before Klondike was heard of. has now unfortunately lost the ubs of his limbs from the effects or frost bite In Alaska In tbe middle of the sixties. Another brother, n Charles, is the animal painter. Mr. . '79-'8- 0. well-know- - . well-know- Iruasla to llmliand As a measure if Her Coal. on Piussia, it i reported, will nationalize some of her coal lands. The radical legislation tb that end will not be. however, on Henry George's line of c tnfiscation. A fair price will be paid to the present owners.- - The ataia-withus acquire sufficient fuel to operate the most Important railways-- and Jt will work the mines bn a system of the utmost justice to the miners. Tbe step, if taken, will 'be the first 'official confession that Prussia feels the approaching diminution of the British coal deposits, a fear emphasized by the suggestion in high quarters that an export duty l;e put on- German coal to n , - keep It at home. Old t anal to Reopened. Before long it will be feasible. It Is hoped, for a bont to traverse England, entering at me Severn on the west arfd emerging liy the Thames on the east. Not every one. perhaps, is aware that the two great rivers have been connected by a canal since 1789. A hundred years ago the canal which Joins the Thames at Lecblade,- in Oxfordshire, 146 miles from London, and the - Severn at Frampton. Gloucestershire had a trade of 50,000 tons annually. It was considered an engineering triumph. too, in those days. For two and miles it runs through a tunnel below Pemberton hill and Hat--le- y wood. With the advent of the railway the waterway fell Into desuetude, but its use Is to be revived. one-quart- Co-Educati- on sub-station- er well-doin- er Kna it tua-flmo- death-dealin- jg-oeii- er ! i j for ! 1 his r i , : The grape has more sugar in it than any other fmit, nearly 15 parts In 100 being sugar. The peacl. has least, only 14 per cent. Truth without peace is turbulent, and peace without troth is seoure ln- justice. Bishop Hall, s, con-clueon- R. ! Hu ' . ; wood-shar- i ! : ag-iin- Chinas, gives tb following explanation of system of judging adopted by the managing committee on Poland Chinas at the City show this method to apply only of course to the Poland China breed: The four Judges who will tie ribbons on the Polands at the Kansas City show are T. B. Hart of Illinois, J. M. Klever and J. C. Hendrick of Ohio and W. Z. Swallow of Iowa, who was substituted for W. H. McFaddeu. who could not serve on account of bis official position with the American Poland China Record These gentlemen are all company. well known and have the confidence and esteem of breeders throughout the country, both as to their judgment and their honor. The managing committee does not believe that any one of these men would let any little personal feeling Interfere with their best Judgment in placing tbe awards, should there be any, yet there are always those exhibitor who Imagine they will not get a fair deal on account of personal differences, etc., and to ease tbe minds ot such men, we have adopted a method of Judging which will make It almost Impossible for any breeder to be injured without there are as many as two of the judges prejudiced against him. Two Judges will work on each class with a referee to decide In case of a disagreement, and one Judge will then of course be out on each class. The judges will be rotated, the referee changed each time a well as the man who is out It can readily be seen that unless both of the Judges on a class or one of the acting Judges and the referee are disposed to be prejudiced and working against the same breeder. It will be Impossible for him to get tbe worst of !L This method of judging was adopted for the great combined cattle shows at Kansas City this fall and In tbe opinion of the committee would be the most satisfactory that could be used for the Poland China hog exhibit I am not informed as to tbe system that will be employed by the other breeds. Tbe committee determined to go to the extra expense of the additional fourth judge to make it as fair and satisfactory to all exhibitors as possible, which it was thought would be appreciated by the breeders and be the cause of a larger and better exhibit. . Illark PpanUh. The Black Spanish la one of the oldest varieties of domestic poultry. Their name has been Identified with the In- dustry for hundreds of years, and v. erth on the farm has Their long been ot much value. haughty bearing, large red comb and wattles, and the white face and lobes peculiar to the breed, contrasting with toetr glossy black plumage, render tnem most striking fowls. White-face- d Black Spanish have long been favorably known for their exceptionally fine laying qualities. Tbe oldest of the nonsitting varieties, they still maintain an unsurpassed record. The pullets are early layers, averaging 150 to 180 eggs per year, the Lens beginning somewhat later after molting, but compensating for auy loss of quantity by the Increased size of the egg. while bens and pullets alike are well above the average for winter laying. Their eggs are large and white and of good flavor. Their white faue Is a distinguishing feature, and should be long, smooth, free from wrinkles, rising well over the eyes in an arched form, extending toward the back of the bead and to tbe base of the beak, covering tbe cheeks and joinfbg the wattles and ear lobes, tbe , greater the bettc.-- and should depth of surface be pure' white in color. Tbe color pf ' plumage throughout is rich,' glossy black, and any gray In plumage a serious delect. Shanks aqd toes are blue, or dark leaden blue. Comb !b single and bright red In color; wattles, bright red, except the inside of tbe upper part, which is white; earlobes, puce white. No standard weight is given for Black Span lea; they average In b!z that of tbe Leghorn and Andalusian. their practical t-- e 1 Toad A Mad I considered da. Out of the queer use of a common creature regarded as must potent in old-timediotae there came the most surprising and nearly the most important of Inventions. Nearly every school boy knows that a toad can cause warts or make the cow give bloody milk, but not everybody knows that toads are also powerfully medicinal. It is a tact. Martin Luther says so. These are his very words: Experience has proved the toad to bv endowed with valuable qualities. If you run a stick through three toads, and, after having dried them in the sun, apply them to any peBtllent humor, they drew out the poison, and the malady will disappear. Fope Adrian always carried a bag about his neck containing dried toad, pearl, coral, gum. tragacanth, smaragd and other articles of junk. It did him a power of good he Raid. It was all that kept him up. And lest yon think that they only did that hundreds of years ago, I want to Kay here that when my father was a boy and suffered from quinsy they used to tie live The frogs frogs about his throat. nearly clawed tbe hide off. They did not cure the quinsy, but that's a detail. Harvey Sutherland in Alnslee's. Alfalfa In th Hog Ratio. At the Oklahoma station alfalfa pasture. with and without the addition of grain, was studied with a number of pigs. Other forage crops wei ; also tested, Including sugar beets, sorghum, sweet potatoes and peanuts. During part of tbe tests the feeding stuffs were cut and fed; during the remainder of tbe time they were harvested by tha pigs. These tests led to tbe following general conclusions: Alfalfa is excellent as pas ture for hogs. Pigs will make some gain with no other food, excellent gains when fed grain on tlie alfalfa. Continuous pasturing will injure and may destroy the alfalfa. With rare exceptions, alfalfa should not be pastured the year it Is sown. Sorghum also makes a fair pasture for hogs. Sowing planting peanuts or sweet potatoes, and allowing hogs to harvest the crop, giving them some grain in addition, reduces the cost of pork production. Sugar beets are much relished by any class of stock. The greater cost of growing them as compared with other crops makes it doubtful if they are an economical crop when used In large quantities. cow-pea- s, cow-pea- s, A Southern writer says that at present a great many in the Squth are sending North for first class pigs, but owing to the fact that they are not willing to pay first class prices, are getting scrubs at scrub prices. The present population of Athens In Greece is only 80.0(H). There is no sc? curate census of the city when in its ancient glory, but it ia supposed at one time to have contained 500,000 inhabitants. The city of Birmingham, Ala., has already begun to make preparation for a metallic exposition, to be opened there Nov. 15, 1904, and continue until May 15. 1905. |