NEW TROTTING TRACK. A friirlciit Mints Tlint I l:i"'tMl la l.owrr Itprnrct. The illuHt ration of a imw trotting trneU herewith presented will irve rf ftlis(ir1iin' Interest to the tons of limit samlH i-ntfntfpil in tho 1roellnr, train Intf nnd rnclnir of trotters nml piwrrs. Severn! trnrU throughout the eonntry aro claimed to b the "fiistest In exist ence" ly rtputlvr Mnplutloti owning tln'in, lmt thu evidence of tho fuMest pprforiniinoiv points to ' tiki Term Haute (lml.) trnelt ik thu "Kiti(f Hoc" of them all. Over till track IJueen Xnnry trotted to her record of 2:01, which tiino It Uo tho pacing record for paecru In harnens, nnd Champion Mascot tnudc thl roeoril In a raeo over the Tcrre Haute track. Record count with trotting tracks nn well an with trotting horsen. The track illustrated Ih virtually tho Tcrro Haute track, with the addition 2. r, D LAWN Y mum GRAND srAND STAND. 1. JudpeR (Stand. 3. 8. 4. fctartor'a Stood. 'J'lmer's Stand. Starting Wire. S. Finishing Wire. of a neoring chute. Every horsi'tniiii will at once perceive the imnicnue ad vatituiro of this addition. Nine-tcntlis of the accidental collisious on the old f:mhioncd elliptical tracks occur 1 1 i 1 o rounding the lirst tarn. The reason is obvious. The word Is given with per haps ten horses lined up iicroM the track, licforo they get fairly settled in their stride they tiro obliged to swing to the left, like a platoon of soldiers. It is hero thut tho utmost skill of the most experienced drivers Is frequently insnfiicient to keep tho horses from breaking and Rwerving, and collision is inevitable. With tho track Illustrated the horses have nearly a full quarter mile after receiving tho word before they nro asked to negotiate tho first turn. l!y thu time it is reached tho field is more or less htrung out and but two or four are asked to make tho turn toputher, if that many. The turn is short, and before tho horse makes up his mind to break he is around it and tailing down a straight 6treteh with victory ahead, if ho trotii fast enough. The scoring chute can be made any desired length. The horses ure in the cure of tht) starter until tho word "Go" is given, From that int.tunt they are in the liunils of the judges until the llr.i.hing wire Is reiiohed and tl.e criveru have dismounted Kvery foot of the track can be seen by the judges and the spectators in the grand stand. The th.icrs ure in line wl'.li both tho starter and the judges, also with the tjilarter, half-mile and three-quarter pules. No tlaf is required at the threo fpjarer polo to enable them to catch the tt in" IftheTerre Haute truck is, on a -oount of its shape, tho fastest hi the country, whut will it be with the addition of tho straight scoring chute? The comparison has been made with the ellipUcal track for tho reason that the kite track is already a back num ber. That it is a goxl track for horses to trot over is beyond a question, but they are so fur away from tho grand stand so largo a part of tho journey that people cannot see satisfactorily. Tho Idea of adding the straight scor ing chute is the product of the brain of W. C. CrevcUng, of St. Louis, well known throughout tho west us "Clem" traveling, ono of tho best trotting liorso starters in tho country. It was while starting the hor-.es at the lato Tern; Haute meeting that ho conceived the idea of tho "chute," and all tho horsemen, as far us heard from, enter tain u very high opinion of its useful ness. St. Louis Republic. fattening Khrrp for Market. Wo venture tho assertion that it will be pretty safe for those in a position to fatten shoep for spring market to do so, unci to prepare for early spring lambs. There, is always a t'ood proflt in tloin this, but it seems as though there ure circumstances which would warrant Vmall feeders in adopting this system more generally tho coming winter. I'he present condition of flnunees will ileter irmny wholesale feeders from feeding very extensively next winter. Feeders are and no doubt will bu cheap enough, but many won't care to risk Buy large Investment In this line, v.hilo others will lack thu capital. It looks, then, us though there would bo lulilclcnt Indications to justify our IIoe!::niir.ters In enlarging this settle-of business. The markets will need tho UH'.ul l upply of good lumb and mutton, tnd prices will certainly be good enough to well remunerate our Uoek Kinsters. Wool and Mutton. Small Cons Heavy IVedurn. The dulry experiments at the world's fair show that small cow tiro us heavy feeders u tho large ones. The cost of food and production of tho Jerseys was hut little different from that of tho tiueri.seys and bhorthorns. They con sumed uioro food than tho Guernseys and but a trifle less than thu blwt horns. Tills demonstrates that tho cost of tho food and production do not de fend upon tho size of the cow. WASHINGTON LETTER. THENt.7 TARIFF BILL. NO PKRSONAb INCOME TAX. Who Should Triut Postngj Stamps? (From our Regular Correspondent.) Washing-ion, Nov. 27, 1893. Kvery nninial in the republican menagerie is today howling in concert. The new democratic tariff doesn't suit them. This is not strange, although they protend to think it so. The Chicago platform declared against the doctrine of protection and in favor of a tariff for revenue only, and the Wil son tarilT bill is in letter and spirit strictly in accordance th pr;uiitb If give3 the largest free list the country UrtM .... I I . iius every nai and m accordance with the expressed wishes of hundreds of manufacturers in that free list is included much of the raw material used by American manufactures. Among them the following iron ore, coal, pig tin, hemp, flax, jute, silver, lead ore, copper wool, satt, crude borax, binding twine, cotton ties, and lumber not advanced in preparation beyond sawing. It cuts about every protective item in the McKinlev law down to a strictly revenue basis. The new bill is in the main satis factory to demociats, although there are some tilings on the free list that some democratic members of the House would have preferred seeing a small duty retained upon. Prominent among these are iron ore, lead ore and coal, but the democrats on the committee after carefully studying the matter irom every point of view con cluded that it would be undemocratic to make fish of one and flesh of the other and they were accordingly put on the free list. Those who-are best informed believe that the judgment of the majority of the Ways and Means committee will be endorsed by the majority 01 the House and that the bill will be passed by that body sub stantially as it is today. The action cf the Senate is not so certain. The opposition will be concentrated upon the Senate, because of the sum demo cratic majority in that body. There are several reasons why a section providing for a personal in come tax was not attached to the bill. In the first place there are quite a number of democrats who are op posed to a personal income tax. But probably the strongest reason of all was the desire to know just how much revenue it will be necessary to raise by an income tax before deciding the rate and method of that tax, a know ledge that could not be obtained un til the new tariff bill becomes a law.. Meanwhile the tax imjiosed by the bill upon the net earnings of corpora tions may prove a satislactory substi tute for a more general income tax. President Cleveland will not, I am informed on good authority, go into the Hawaiian matter in his annual message further than to say that it will be fully treated in a message later. He prefers to wait until the episode is closed before dealing with it in a mess age to Congress. Secretary Lamont's annual report was the first to be mads public, these of the other members of the cabinet, with the exception of Secretary Car lisle will follow during this week. Secretary Carlisle's report will proba bly go to Congress before it is pub lished. Why shouldn't the U. S. govern ment print its own postage stamps ? Chief Johnson of the Bureau of En graving and Printing isn't the first man who has asked that question, but he has asked it in a very practical manner, by submitting figures to the Post Master General showing how much cheaper the Bureau of Engrav ing and Printing could do the work than any of the private parties who have submitted bids for printing the stamps during 1894. An unofficial estimate is that the government could save at least $25,000 a year by print ing its own postage stamps. There is a doubt it seems as to whether the Post Master General can under the present laws give the contract to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the matter is now being consider ed and will in a few days be decided. Secretary Herbert thinks, notwith standing the present depressed con dition of government finances, that we should continue making addition to our navy, and his annual report will recommend the construction duri'g the next fiscal year of one battle ship and four torpedo cruisers, and there is reason to believe that the recommen dation will be endorsed by the Presi dent's message. Representative Cum mings, chairman of the House Com mittee on Naval Affairs, says there will be no trouble in getting a bib favorably reported from that commit tee to carry out the Secretary's recom mendations, and that he hopes the bi 1 will get through all right, but it is plain to see that he has some doubts about it. There is a number ofdemo crats in the House who will oppose any further expenditures for new ves sels at this lime, some because they think the navy already large enough, and others because they think the monev cannot be spared. It's all the same, a slight cold, con gested lungs or severe cough. One Minute Cough Cure banishes them. W. S. Rishton, Druggut. I cttcrs From Dr James B. Noal. Wc have just cast anchor in the mouth of this tivtr, the same one which Mrs. Neal and I lived on for two months in famine time, and have thus reached the end of our steamer travel. We have still three or four days journey oveiland, so we shall not reach Chinanloo before Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, but even thr.t wi I make a saving of several days over the Iri ) overland. We came on board this boat on Tuesday evening at Chcfoo and weighed anchor about half past one the next morning, but had not proceeded more than thirty miles on our way up the coast when our boiler sprung a leak. As there was a high wind and heavy sea repaiis could rot be made at sea so we were compelled to return under sail to the shelter of the Chcfoo bluff, where we lay until olxmt 2 a. m. the next morn ing, losing thereby a whole day. That night of tossing on the Gulf of Pachili stands out in our memory as one of the most uncomfortable nights we have ever spent on ship or on shore. In the first place this boat is a small one and used only for coast service and has only one cabin for foreign passengers, which I of courie left for the use of Mrs. Neal and Miss Pon dexter, intending to sleep myself in the dining room. But before they could get settled they discovered the beds were full of roaches and silk worms, so they were afraid to sleep in them. So we all took our traveling bedding up on the deck, and settled down there for a night's sleep. Wc were really very comfortable then and should have gotten along famously if a squall had not come up and the rain driven us inside. Then the gir s took the top of the dining table covered with a travelling mattress, and I took a lounge and we tried to sleep, but alas, such a time as we did have! Never have I known in all my ex perience such rol ing and tumbling and tossing about as we had that nij;ht. Such rattling and breaking of dishes and tumbling of chairs until it seemed sometimes our ship would turn bottom side up. Never shall I forget the way poor Mrs. Neal and Miss P. kept sliding first forward and then backward on the lop of their slippery tabte, every once and awhile starting up with a horrified exclama tion of fear, lest they were falling off into space. To me it was most amusing until seasickness, to which even Mrs. Neal had to succumb, at tacked me, when the novelty Of the situation lost its charms, and I was only too g ad when we dipped anchor about 9 a. m. in quieter waters, and we could crawl out and get a breath of fresh air. You can imagine how ever,.what our feelings were to have to realize that we had endured all this, and traveled nearly sixty miles only to find oui selves again in sight our of starting point. After breakfast the cap tain and first mate left in a sail boat to Chefoo to take word to the Chefoo office, but in trying to land, their boat upset and they were in the water about an hour before they were pick ed up by a Chinese tampan, so you see we had various anil very varied ex periences that first day. Yesterday morning about 2 o'clock we took an other start westward and when we woke up we foui.d it a beautiful bright day with smooth sea over which we sailed all day stopping at two Chinese ports, at the latter of which we went ashore with the captain, Mrs. Neal and Miss P. gathering shells while I went with the captain for some gun ning along the shore. We bagged nine birds which we are to have for tilnn (lunch) this noon. Our captain is most agreeable and attentive ; In has given up his room for two nights to the ladies and had the cabin clean ed so I have been able to sleep there. We are to leave the boat and start overland, but our journey will soon be over and by coining this way we have saved lime and discomfort in Chinese inns. It seems somewhat natural to see once more this desolate famine country with its low lying shores and flatness so depressing in its monotony. We are all quite well and glad to be getting on so well as we are, though we are now two days behind time, the boat leaving Chefoo one day late. We expect to find several boats from Chinanfoo awaiting us when we get ashore as I telegraphed for four to be sent down. We go up on a cargo boat in a little while with our goods. James B. Neau On Board Native Boat, Sixtv 1 at, Sixty) ANFOO J. '893- ) Miles 1'rom Chin an October 3 We are at last drawing near to the end of our long journey, and I can a-sure you we shall be giad when it is all over and we are again settled down in Chinanfoo. We hope to get there day after to-morrow, if all goes' well, but both yesterday anil to-day we have made such poor time we may possibly be delayed an extra day. We left Shanglia two weeks ago 10 day, after spending three days there, one of which was Sunday, attending to va rious matters, and reached Cheefoo in about forty-eight hours. Here we were delayed live days, waiting for a small coast steamer, which runs only once a week. At last we got oft, after we had grown veiy tired of waiting, and in about two days reached the end of our sea voyaging, which had begun just a mouth before at Vancouver. The place where we landed is mere ly a Chinese village, and not the most attractive sort of one, a it is built away out on the northern limit of an extremely flat, barren region, with few or no trees to relieve the monotony of the bate landscape. Here we found a man from Chinanfoo waiting for us with four small native boats, which I had telegraphed from Cheefoo for, and in the afternoon of the following day we embarked on this river, which wc 'nave been following steadily for the past three days and more, sometimes making excellent progress, when the wind has been favorable, at other times, getting on very slowly. We have with us not only our own things for our new house, but a number of packages for others in Chinanfoo. So wc found ourselves our first nigl.t out very much crowded, as three boats were filled with goods. The next day, however, we succeeded in having two more boats, that is a pair, for they al ways go in pairs, one behind the other, so since then we have been much more comfortable. I wish you could see us as our caravan, or rather, fleet, moves slowly up the river. Each boat is, perhaps, twenty-five feet lone, and in the middle is covered with mats, spread over bamboo arches, about three feet and a half high in the centre, and sloping down to the sides of the boat, thus covering over a space about seven by five feet, which is used for sleepini' purposes at night, and for lounging in during the day. The ex posed ends of the boats are used, the back one by the boatman who poles, the two midd e ones for seats and na tive stove for cooking, and the front one for various articles, and at times by the second boatman, who, when not pulling on the bank, stands there and poles, unless the wind is strong enough to get on without poling. The above description app'ies to the two boats we occupy ourselves. The four other boats are loaded with goods in the middle under the matting, so ar ranged as to be cool enough for sleep ing places at night by the boatmen. When the wind is favorable we have our sails hoisted, each pair of boats having one sail, but when there is no wind or it is contrary, one man pulls a long rope fastened to the mast and one poles behind. Our first night was rendered uncom fortable not only by our being crowd ed but also by rain, which came down steadily most of the night and dripped through the lower parts of our mat ting cover and blew into the more or less exposed ends of our shelter, so that we had a hard time to worry through the night. Since then how ever we have had no more rain and hope we may be spared any more such experiences. The second day out we passed through the region where four years ago we lived for two months and distributed famine relief. I visited the village we made our head quarters during that time and was very pleasantly received by those who knew me but I was made heartsick by the looks of the place, which in stead of improving has gone steadily backward ever since the great famine, owing to repeated floods from year to year. In fact they are constantly suf fering from famine in that region, w hole companies of the people, men, women and children going off for hun dreds of miles to beg in droves for food. We used to have them by fifties in Tungehow from the region of the Yellow River, two or three hun dred miles away. The Yellow River, with its constantly recurring floods, is truly "China's Sonow." We have found evidences all along for the past three days of the direful influence of China's fatal river, the country for miles showing the recently dried mud or the pools of standing water t made by the last flood which took place over two months ago. As we go farther south and from the sea we are getting away from the desolate flat barren country we started in, and into more thrifty and prosperous looking regions and nearer to the hills, with out which I think an) place looks so uninteresting. When we reach Chin anfoo we shall be right at the foot of hills to the south, and on the edge of the immense plain which stretches far away to the north away beyond Peking, Chinanfoo., Oct. 7th. We reached here, as we expected to about noon day before yesterday and since then have teen busy readjusting ourselves to our surround ings, becoming acquainted with the new members of our station, and greeting our Chinese fiiends. It warms our hearts to see how cordial many of the Chinese seem to feel toward us and how glad they seem to have us back. The one whom I have had most pleasure in seeing again is Mr. Ma, or pernaps I might almost call I him Dr. Ma, who was my most faith ful assistant lor aDout seven years during my first stay in China and who studied medicine with me in the first medical class. He is a most estima ble christian and a thoroughly reliable man. It seems very nice to be back again among the Chinese. I realize more and more how mucji bth"vi,. and I love them and how p)eo$unt ijt is to live and worltmong thenj.'V W are being entertaiel for-the present until we can get our rented Chinese house in otder, which we shall occupy until we secure a suitable site for our new house in the suberb. The land Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. UOGeb09OOeoCOOQOOOCC9OC9OOUCwCOPlOv.' r o o o o o t i j : ; 1 n t-it v BROWNING, KING & CO. 910-912 Chestnut Street WARRCN A. REED o9oecooooi3oo90oe9ooet)fficeeQ k Great Tbtagiviiig Gilt, Is American i:::.;" r .rtTf.''P pnlntoil thnw Invelv works rSrt r,1'S r"i" "him! 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Enclosed And three cents for the postage, packln?, etc. Name Post onioo county State ; on which the hospital is built is too small I fear, to accommodate our house too. The prospects seem good for getting more land soon. On Mon day.day after tomorrow, I begin again the teaching of the medical class of five and my regular dispensary work, so that what with this regular work and the putting up of more hos pital buildings I shall be very busy. James B. Neal. The Advertising Of Hood's Sarsaparilla is always with in the bounds of reason because it is true ; it always appeals to the sober common sense of thinking people be cause it is trie ; and it is always fully substantiated by endorsements which, in the financial world would be ac cepted without a moment's hesitation. Hood's Pills cure liver ills, consti pation, biliousness, jaundice, sick headache, indigestion. They may talk of the devotion to the sex, but the most faithful attach ment in life is that of a woman in love with herself. 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