WARM QUARTERS PREVENT DIS EASE. No farmer will burn corn or hay in a stove, in order to keep his ani mals warm in winter, but he burns extra quantities of such materials in the bodies of the animals when he does not provide warm quarters. Heat must be procured from fuel of some kind, and the animals must have the fuel or fall off in weight and pro- duction. Warm quarters save food and prevent diseases. FAT HOGS VS. LEAN HOGS. Those who advocate the advantages | of hogs with less fat and more lean | are correct, so far as market prices are concerned; but where a farmer has plenty of corn, it will pay him to sell fat hogs. for the reason that fat | can be produced at less cost than mus- cle, and also because a fat hog re-| moves less fertility from the farm than | a lean one. Much depends upon the | corn crop, however, well as the market price of corn. as CARE OF YOUNG STOCK. Younz stock is often too much ne- | glected. It looked upon gsome- | thing of little present vaiue, but to be of value bye and bye. Hence, it is] left to shift for itself, and this, too, during the very period in its existence | when it should be most cared for and when its future value can be most en- | hanced. When young stock left | to pick up its food here and there, | just as it can get it, it fares badly; | and this is a chance when it is fed with older stock. A common result | is stunted growth. Good shelter] should be provided during the winter months, and separate from that of older stock, at least so arranged that the young things may not be an- noyed, for continued fear preys upon the young animal's system and inter- feres with growth. is as is or CORN A PROFITABLE CROP. in the eastern states, where dairy ifs a large industry, more land m be devoted to for exportation, but on the from the silo, cattle and hogs chasing. For balance the may beans give trate required. hese crops should farmer almost bran would not se} Corn. fe or as { and t the t to farm to the us save pur 1 needed to ration, or alfalfa for roughage, and the protein concen to grain hu + protein clover be grown will SOY make the independent, dairy gs little required. Then let him weed his dairy, keeping no cow that not give 6.000 pounds of milk, or make 200 pounds of butter in a year. Corn, in my opin. fon, cannot be grown in the middle and eastern states in competition with the great west, for shipment The grain and stover must be utilized on | the farm and marketed in live stock or dairy products, to make the corn crop profitable to the farmer of the] Ohio valley or the older eastern states. —Orange Judd Farmer i be out does over HANDLING SHEEP WITH PROFIT I have a flock of about fifty and keep them in a house 24x36 feet. This house is well ventilated, dry and | I mever allow my sheep to get wet dur | ing the winter, If I can help it. best results with lambs born during January and February. If the tem-| perature is low all this time, so much the better. My single lambs average ten pounds apiece. When dropped I] am on the lookout and transfer ewes | and lambs to a basement pen with a temperature of thirty-five to forty and above. The ewe gets a quart of oats per | day and when the lamb is seven days old it is docked, and if a ram is cas-| trated. 1 provide a box stall with a creep and in this I keep a supply of oats, so that the lambs can get at| ft when desired. | continue feeding! them oats after grass comes. By this | treatment Januaryand February lambs | sell at five cents a pond when months old. They generally average | 100 pounds per head. My ewe lambs | kept over are sheared in July. During the season of "98 [| reserved twenty ewes. These were sheared in July, the smallest one producing two and | one-half pounds of wool. My flock] was sheared the last of March in 1899, | a few of the lambs at twelve months | shearing “eleven pounds. [ Kkeep| Shropshires and like them -—P. B. Dietes in New England Homestead. ewes I have | six | THE FRUIT BARK BEETLE. Considerable interest has been | aroused in not a few fruit growing lo- | calities over the depredations of what | is known as the shot-hole borer. The | following extracts taken from a re port on this pest by Professor R. H. Petit, State Entomologist for Michi gan, will probably be of interest and valuable to many who have or are lia. ble to come in contact with this pest. The first intimation of the trouble is the discovery of numbers of smal! drops of gum exuding from puncturos in the body or limbs of peach, plum, cherry or apple trees. A closer ex amination reveals a small round hole a little less than one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter under each drop of gum. If the outer bark around the hole be removed or pared away, a small burrow will be found to extend for a longer or shorter distance in the layer between the wood and the bark, sometimes branching considerals'y. These burrows or galleries usually exhibit a definite arrangement when carefully examined. There Is an egg chamber, along the sides of which the eggs are laid. When the young grubs hatch they commence boring a tunnel away from the brood chamber and continue until they attain their full size, when they go a little deeper and pupate, coming »out in time through holes bored to the surface, as adult, winged beetles. The effect on a tree of a number of these borers usually leads to its death. The beetle itself is little more than one-sixteenth of an inch long, somewhat cylindrical, al most black in color, and i8 covered with minute punctures or pits. It be longs to the family of scolytidae or bark borers. The insect seems to pre fer to work on trees that are in an unhealthy condition, hence one shou!l strive to keep all trees healthy and vigorous. When a tree is but sligntly attacked, the bark may be pared out where the tunnels are, or the trees coated with a whitewash mixed with paris green or arsenic. This wash {3 said to be an excellent preventative, If a tree is badly attacked, the cheap: est and best way is to cut it out and burn it. If there happens to be a poor, worthless tree in the orchard, it is a good plan to girdle it in midsummer to induce the beetles to lay their eggs In it. and then cut it down and burn it before the beetles emerge, which is said to be about the middle of June. Several broods ¢f insects are matured At a meeting of the Missouri Valley Horticultural Society, one of the mem- bers gave a description of his method of keeping apples. His cellar is 80x40 feet, and about eight fect deep, bully of stone. He sets the barrels (with out heads) one on the other, three high. The cellar has a large double door in the end and regular tempera- ture is maintained by opening and closing this. He opens at night to ad- mit cool air and closes in the day time, and by this process a comparatively uniform temperature is maintained. The upper story cannot be kept as cool as the lower, and in this he keeps the apples that are to be sold before the holidays. In building such a structure he advises the use of stone in the lower part, but wood for the upper, as it can be kept cooler. Another member reported that in $000 bushels of apples. He first sprinkled a solution of coperas, then piled the apples in as high as possible. Upon being asked for his ventilation, sald that not want much; that it experience that the apples ex. posed to the air, rotted than the in the middle. Apples left in have a greasy coating formed on the outside, and if they once reach this stage they are comparatively free rot. This coating is formed In six weeks to two months, and most of the rotting is during this period. The cellars should sprayed frequently to stop all fungus growth. He afso advocated building storage houses over springs, as flow of water will keep the house cool and also give sufficient ventilation. bins opinion he they did was his on too worse Se piles from from done be FARM HINTS You cannot keep the poultry house too clean. If you keep six cows it will pay you to have a hand separator. There is not much profit in fatten- Don’t neglect to give the pig-pen a coat of whitewash as often as re quired. Avoid churning cream at a too high and grain of the butter. Keep the stables free from foul odors and filth of all kinds. Milk ab- sorbs these things very readily. Each cow should be milked by the same milker so far as practicable, and should have gentle treatment always. Don't, dear dairyman, think of allow- one to touch the butter by hand during the process of making i. Milk at the same hour every day, mit. Warm quarters must be provided for pigs in winter, or there is a waste growth is checked. Is any one prepared to deny the statement that a ton of well cured and well kept corn fodder is not worth as much to feed as a ton of hay? Don't try to keep any more hogs than you can properly care for. A few well kept are more profitable than a large number improperly kept. A very good substitute for skim ' A gallon of petroleum and a gallon of machine oil will make a mixture that will kill the lice on hogs. Mix it thoroughly and apply in a thin spray on the infested animals. Breeding ewes should be fed at all times so as to keep themselves and their lambs in healthy growing condi tion and the early lambs should be forced by means of extra food given to the ewes. Corn stalks, well cured, are a good roughage for cows, but where they are the principal feed, corn or corn meal carrots and mangels, with a sprinkling of meal. It will pay. A Wealthy Russian Magnate, Prince Yousupoff, a Russian mag: nate of great wealth, has a most mag- nificent collection of diamonds, which is one of the most valuable in Europe. One of the collection, valued at 2,600, 000 roubles, is kept at his fine estate TIME LOST IN LIFE, | Three-Eighths of One's Existence is Practically Lost. “1 read the estimate prepared re eently by the British Government with! reference to longevity among men in who fond of mathematics, “and I do not care how much men may figure on the lengthening of life's average-— the fact is, a fellow doesn't live so long after all. Life is very short when we come to think of it. It Is, indeed, a fitful fever, to borrow the simile of the poet, and the distance hetween the cradle and the tomb is the span of one's hand. How much of a man's life is devoted to the actual work of accomplishing whatever his highest aim may be? Did you ever think about figuring on this problem? 1 have, be- cause, I guess, | happen to have a penchant for mathematics. But it is {interesting for other reasons. Of course, a fellow does nothing until af- ter his twenty-first birthday. He must attain his majority before he enters upon the duties of iife He- fore this time he is passing the pre- paratory stages of life, and, theoreti- cally, is equipping himself for its seri- ous battles Fifty years is the life of the average man, although life's general average figures down to a point much below this “Give the average man thirty years beyond the period wnen he becomes of age, 1 it would be safe to as- gume, even in this rushing age, that tho ave and thirty minut=g in eating, allowing for the time it takes him to go to and 18 goerious guess from his le hat of one hour and every twenty. or in exchang- ing pleasantries with his friends aod chatting on unrelated to his business, in winding his watch and in other indulgences of an innocent and barmiess Kind This would make a total of nine hours out of every twen ty-four that a man spends in things that are unrelated, in a strict to his b This amounts to three-eighths of the life that is be fore him. He has yoars «nn which to do his work the tab We might safely figure he spends an average hirty minutes out four in other min of Ways topics sense, 1siness. thirty \ He would devote elev months as indicated, and do his Hitt en three sleeg years and and to other to and nine le do. things hn YOars months in hich to “Twenty ye time, ra looks like a good bit to thi thing of living purpose, to endear to our y accumulate a little money besides, » time does not seem long 1 than this when and gatheri meetings and 1 these f{ but shen we come for a ourselves ing countrymen really much shorter we allow for Sundays i and prayer that sort, but not figure man's life 1 have left them out —-Philadelphia Enquirer social ngs things of inctions in do ERA OF HIGH SPEED. Examples of the Strenuous Life on Transportation Lines. BRIEFLY TOLD. Condensed Special Dispatches From Many Points. received these pen sions: John Ludwig, Sizerville, $12; Henry Harmon, Pittsburg, $6; Vin cent Amos, Scenery Hill, $10; Freder ick Berthel, Washington, $12; William Morlock, McKeesport, $12; George Coy, Den Run, $10; Michael P. Dick, oaring Spring, $8; Joseph B. Milburn, Bristol, $12; Oliver Staley, Claysville, $12; Orion W. Miller, Tepleville, $12 Alfred M Gorley, Uniontown, $10: Nancy Holmes, Millvillage, $12: Alfred Walton, Dick- {| sonburg, $12; William H. Robinson, | Pittsburg, $6: John H. Camp, South Oil City, $6: Martin S. Potter, Altoona, $10; Philip Johnson, Oil City, $6; Hi- ram Davis, Saegertown, $8,350; Johnson H. Crick, Rimersburg, $8; Damel Sim mons, Braddock, $12: Charles W. Smith, Dugall. $12; Samuel A. Morse, Leroy, $24; John Kelly, Sandy Lake, $i0; Rhoda A. Adams, Russell, $8; Rachel Hilty, Pittsburg, $8: Mary H. West ift Lydia A. Cox, Wells $25; Sarah A Transfer, Vande boro, $2 Fruit, i Sourwine, ™ son 0 $8; Julia A Rockford, Amos A. Hassler, a 15-year-old George Hassler, of Ephrata, was foun of George Harman, a ret Pennsylvanians P ryr $8; dead at the home Penryn. Hassler good health, but inve coroner's physician she monia developed during the the boy was ed tigation wed that pneu ioht and night and smothered to death fire at the Pittston poured kerosene When the kitchen home Harry Sigafoos, at burn, Mrs. Sigafoos it Ihe can of ploded, setting clothe Her sistance and In Both was de stroy Owen Mcla man on th would oil Can and fire 1 husband ght ’ Lid won } own aught tire seriously burne« The | ed by are ie vill 3 Viiie, On an hour on the electric raliroad be tween Berlin and Zossen is the latest manifestation of the tendency of the age. This particular railroad bas been built under the direction of the kaiser as primarily a military line, he having made up his mind to test the value of electric traction in War. Presumably its success will induce the country to be gridironed with electric lines as “first aids” in mobi. lization. The results of the speed trials are. however, commercially val factor electricity may become as a transportation agency, though we must know more than we know now of the conditions under which the Ger. man experiment was made before con- clusions are absolutely safe as to the utilization of forces. A vast amount of knowledge remains to be attained before we can figure the commercial value of electricity as a motive power on a scale more extended than its present But it is not alone in Germany that speeding up is the order of the day. Here in the United States the trans. continental lines are virtually being rebuilt, the reconstruction being point. ed toward speed. The trip between Boston and the Pacific coast, which only a few years ago “spoiled” a week can now made in four days and four hours. This time will be sharply cut when the improvements between Ogden and San Francisco, now in progress have been completed. Ben. ton. we believe it was, who in the dis cussion of the Pacific railroad project was wont to point to the setting sun and say “There ia the east.” The use be At the Pacific coast the fast-speeding trains will shortly be met by steam- ers much faster and much larger than any heretofore Known in our China- Japan sorvice. All railroads tributary to the trans continental system-—and most lines are now-—foel the influence of this ex- pansion and are placing big orders for rolling stock. The entire output of American Locomotive Company for next year has been contracted for in advance when its capacity will be 2000 locomotices per annwm. For through business, for long hauls, the own. Nor ean it be expected that it will be stabled for good until the doubts as to the cost of electricity for the safne business have been re gelok, near Moscow; but the most val uable of all is at the Yousupoft pal: ace at St. Petersburg. The latter ia especially rich in historic stonea, that it is a cheaper agency than steam.~ Boston Transcript. AA AAA SAARI A sea anemone taken from the Firth in captivity until 1587, Standard pany, Beaver Pittsburg & Brad, to build seven miles of Armstrong and Butler « $70000; president, Edware Dewey, New York | Under the order sent out by officers of the American Steel & Wire Company ! of Pittsburg, a pension department has | been created in that organization. [Its provisions retire from service nd under pension all employees who at- | tain a certain age or whose physical con {| dition necessitates a relief from duty i The new went into effect January 1. The company has about 20,000 em | ployees. A fixed fund, the amount of { which has not yet been announced, has | been set aside by the Company It will be placed in charge of a committee of disbursement A board of arbitration, to be announced hereafter, will be ap- pointed to frame regulations State Treasurer Barnett reports that at the close of business on December | 31, there was $4.300.631.57 in the general fund of the State Treasury. Philadel phia banks held the following sums Farmers and Mechanic< National, $136, Quaker City National, $639.- | 236.92; Corn Exchange National. $75. { 000; National Bank. Germantown, $30.- { 000; Ridge Avenue Bank, $20000: Sixth i National, $30,000; Southwark National, | $30,000 Auditor General Hardenbergh will proceed against a number of corpora tions which have not complied with the law passed by the last Legislature re quiring them to pay to the State treas- ury a bonus on their authorized increase of capital stock. It is alleged that in many instances this increase has been made and not reported, and the law punishes such delinquents to the extent of forfeiting their charters, Having read of the action of the May- or of McKeesport in offering to ac i knowledge total abstinence oaths on New | Year's Day free of charge, Alderman Alexander M. Sayder, of Lebanon, an- nounced that during this whole year he will administer swearing-off oaths with- out price. He has added the stipulation that all violations of the oath are to be punishable with thirty days m jail. Al ready a large number of persons have taken the oath. Dairy and Food Commissioner Cope has turned over to the State Treasury 81.600 collected from violators of the “sleo” and pure food law. Of the sum #35 was paid by dealers convicted in Westmoreland county. The lower public school building in the Second Ward, Allentown, was dam. aged by fire to the extent of $2,000. The fire occurred before any of the pupils were in the building. he old part of the schoolhouse was one of the two buildings in which the first homeopathic medical college in the world was started, this being the institution out of which Hannemann College in Philadelphia grew. It has been used for public school purposes many years, ida, the Syeat-old daughter of Henry Urban, of ncaster, was burned to death, the result of playing with matches aclive order 500.11 ; COMMERCIAL REVIEW, Geperal Trade Conditions, Bradstreet's says: the old and confidence in the new year are the dominant feature the entire industrial, commercial and financial sit uation. The week has naturally been quiet to the verge of dullness as regards new business, the main attention being concentrated in gathering up the threads of old business, in stock taking and ir preparations for the future. A eral quietness i steel situation, whi loses activity Wheat, including flour, exports for the week aggregate 4.81847: bushels, as against 4,201,543 last week and 3,014,301 in this week last year. EXPOrts, July 1 to date (twenty-seven weeks) gregate 140,740,501 bushels, as gh 806,545 last Corn exports aggregate 270,236 bush- els, as against 424,336 last week and 4,470,521 last year. July 1 to date corn export 20,820,751 bushels against 7,048 8635 last Business failures in the United for the week number 270, as against 219 last week, 268 in this week last year, in 1900, and 237 in 1894, 1808, and 458 in 1897. Satisfaction with of CONSPLUOUs exception AY yh vy Cds against HCA SOT. 3 ATE y as Season States 22 333 1n Flour Jest Patent, $ Grade Extra, $4.25; $3.20a3.40 Wheat Philadelp! No 2, Re Corn LATEST QUOTATIONS, 4.75; Minnesot: . x s » SNEW XOX ani) , Bg! Eated adeiphia vegetables quot IF 0 HAR A ba WW a nt & Wh a * Boao ; ‘estern, per Eastern Shore brl , $2.00a2.50 asi 00 land, per bri, Arundel. per brl, Richmond's, per brl, I i North Carolina, per 2.2% Dressed Poultry. —Turkeys—F head and feet off, 13a14¢; hoice, head and feet off, poor to medium, and feet off, 12a13¢c head and feet off, choice, mixed, —aloc; do, poor to age. Geese, head and feet off, 10M2a11¢ Turkeys—Fancy, head and feet on, 13a t3%4¢; do., good to choice, head and feet on, —-at2c¢; do. poor to medium, —aioc Ducks, head and feet on. good to choice, ttat2e. Chickens—Young, head and feet on, choice, —at0¥sc; do., mixed do. pagizc; do. poor to aBc Geese—Head and feet 10 choice, —atoc Eggs. —We quote: Western Maryland and Pennsylvania, per dozen, Eastern Shore (Maryland and Virginia) per dozen, 26a--c; Virgima. per dozen 26a—<c: West Virginia, do, 23%5a20c; Western, do. Southern, do 23c ; guinea, per dozen, —3 C age, choice, at mark, per dozen, do. do. loss off, do., 20a2i« prices to 1 cent higher Butter Creamery separator creamery gathered cream, 22a23c; ery imitation, 19a20c¢ Cheese — New cheese, large, 60 pounds, 1o0¥4at1c; do, flats, 37 pounds, 11a114¢c; sicnics, 23 pounds, 11izat1l4c $2.00a2 S$200a2 fancy, $200a a TOC Chickens ali« medium do., medium good on, 208 ; 208 | 2% sid stor 18aigc; Jobbing 20a27¢ ; cream- Live Stock. Chicago. —Cattle—Good to prime, $6.50 a7.75; poor to medium, $4a6.25; stockers and feeders, $2a4.25; cows, $1.25a40%; heifers, $2a5.25; canners, $1.25a2.30; bulls, $2.25a465 Calves, $336.50; Texas- fed steers, $3a400. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $626.60: good to choice heavy $6.35a6.70; rough heavy, $6a6.33; light, $6.10a6.40. Sheep steady strong ; lambs strong 1oc higher; good to choice wethers, $325a485; Western sheep, fed, $4.258400: native jambs, $3.50a6.10; Western lambs, fed, $3525.00. East Liberty. ~Cattle—Choice, $6.20a 6.40; prime, $5.85a6; good. $5.35a6.35; fair, $4.3024.50; common, $2.750378 Hogs—Fair to prime heavies, $6.5520.08; best mediums, $5.43a0.50; heavy Yorkers, $6.30a6.40; hight do. $610a020: pigs, $5.00a6.00; roughs, $320. Sheep—Best wethers, $300a4.15; good, $3.408375: mixed, $2.50a3.25; culls and common, $in2: vearlings, $324.50; lambs, $426.10; veal calves, $7a8. LABOR AND INDUSTRY There are 25.000 union clerks, Canada has a department of labor. China is to have an American bank. ourncymen tailors have 240 unions, Frisco blacksmiths enjoy the nine: hour day. Bakers announce unions the past year, Laundry union label is used in twenty. two cities, i Musicians issued, forty-three charters during last year, \ Los Angeles has a Woman's Ugion Label League. At Stockton, Cal, no union men idy in anv line of trade. 3 10 to seventy-two new [ Oats For Yay. i We have found oats for hay to be an easy and profitable crop; but to be a success, tuey should be planted in | the fall. The quality of the sofl must | determine largely the time of plant ing. We want to get the oats well started; but we do not want too large a growth before real cold weather seis in; for if they have begun to run up, they are more lisble to be killed back badly. On the other hand, If | established, the freezing and thawing i likely to throw the plants out of the ground, especially on ciay land, for such land expands snd contracts very, under the action of cold and moisture, The Georgia Experiment Station has adopted a system of drilling their oat seed in the bottom of small furrows, which places the bud of the oats below, the general surfgce, thus making the soil give it a partial protection. But thelr method of planting only two rows at a time Is rather laborious, and until some better tool has been found for putting in the seed than the drill they, use, the practice will not be generally adopted. If the oats are planted at the right time the danger from winter kill- ing is not great, and only in a very exceptionally cold time will your stand be destroyed, Also, If the winter graz. will be still greater; while if your ob- ject is hay, theze Turf Oats are de- cidedly preferable, as the straw is more tender and stock eat it up clean, where they leave a large part of the stiff Rust-Proof straw. We had one exceptionally fine acre of these Turf Oats last spring, from which we gathered ten big two-borse wagon loads of excellent hay. The oats stood from four to six feet high all over the field, and. were cut just as the top grains began to reach the dough state, and while the straw was green. We have been feeding our mine head of horses and mules on this hay all summer, with the addition of a small feed of corn once a day, and they have kept in fine condition, doing beavy work all the time. The land on Ih these which best oats grown was a stiff clay loam, and had been maiured the year before; the land was in tomatoes at the time Where land in the spring rebreak for oats; had had some very, and the land had become hard, my mdition so seemed necessary been well broken do not usually in this case we 10 its Te was land lumpy, necessitating consid- work to make it fine; but we worked it down, replowed, and worked it down again before sowing two bush- els of seed to the acre, 1f land is broken deeply for any win- ter grain crop, great care must be taken to work it down until the seed- bed is fine and firms, otherwise the rain roots cannot get a good hold and will be more liable to suffer from the cold. The unusual success of this acre of oats was undoubtedly due to the extra work put on the seed-bed, for we had other oats on equally good land planted at the same time whose yield *vas not much over half as large. Oats are strong feeders and very large users of potash and nitrogen; the analysis of oats in bloom about the time they are cut for hay, show them to contain ammonia, 1.19 per cent; phosphoric acid, .67 per cent, and potash, 2.564 per cent. If your land is strong and you have a good pea-vine stubble 0 sow your oats on, your soil will probably contain a sufficiency of ammonia; if It does not, it will be shown by the oats themselves by their light green or yellowish appearance, and this can be corrected in the spring by an application of about 100 pounds of nitrate of soda to the acre. The main thing to concern ourselves about now is the phosphoric acid and potash. Now, if we wish to obtain the best results, the proportions of these in- gredients should wary according to the texture of our soil; of course, no fron-clad rules can be laid down, but general experience has shown us that light, sandy soils are more deficient in potash than red clay soils: 1 would, therefore, recommend for light soils a fertilizer analyzing ten per cent. phos- phoric acid, and ten per cent. potash, made by combining 1600 pounds acid phosphate with 400 pounds muriate of potash to make a ton; for heavy clay soils a fertilizer analyzing about twelve per cent. phosphoric acid and five per cent. potash, made by combining 1800 pounds acid phosphate with 200 pounds muriate of potash. This fertilizer: appiied at the rate of 300 or 400 pounds to the acre should insure a find crop. You can apply it broadcast after the oats are plowed or worked in: or bet- ter still, barrow it in about two weeks before planting. —Professor ¥. J. Mer riam, Battle Hill, Ga, and poor time, and up A Polsonons Tree. One of the most extraordinary trees in the world is found in Madagascar. It is known as the tangen tree, and because it abounds in poison the name thnghinia venenifera has been given to it by botanists. In the criminal ree ords of Madagascar it has played a notable part until ouite recently. Whenever an accused person was brought into court, fruit from the tree, about the size of an apple, was handed to him by an attendant. Thereupon the judge, who was surrounded by several witnesses, bade him eat the fruit, and assured him that if it pro- duced no 111 effects he would be deemed innocent of the charge which had been made against him. On the other hand, if the poison in the fruit killed him, he would be considered guilty, Many unfortunate persoos, 1s sald, lost their lives in this way
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