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When S'jinome said he loved her, Pieo liiig earntly and low "Yes," she answered to hi question. Though she meant to tell him "No." Josephine U. Ntcholls In Travelers' Record, THE CQHSULA8 REPORTS. Cuban Horrors as Described in Offlcia Documents. Those persous who expect to fiad In the Consular reports submitted to Con gress by the President Monday de scriptions of conditions more horrible thau those heretofore pictured in tho newspapers will be disappointed. Near ly every report has been edited, aud the excerpts sent to Congress show that the editing was not done carefully if the in tention was to support by this evidence of United SlaU's representatives in Cuba the picture of the distress preseuted iu the President's message. The iiiefTage depicts with greater force than the re ports the distressing situation which has prevailed in Cuba since Weyler's order of concentration was issued. The text of few of the reports is given aud in some instances no two consecu tive paragraphs are permitted to ap pear. Nothing that would be likely to incite special hostility aguinst auy con sul is contained in the communications as laid before Congress. The edited re ports do not give such graphic de scriptions of the suffering among the reeoucentrados as have been furnish ed by the newspaper accounts publish ed from time to time. From the ex tracts hich Congress has been per mitted to see it apper.rs t'.utt none of the Consular otlicers went into a de tailed narrative of what he was able to s?einhis Cousular district, instances of distress being substituted for a gen eral story, with sufficient details to show how terrible the suffering has heen. But, blue-penciled, emasculated, and apparently robbed of their moot significant descriptive passages as they are, the reports nevertheless show a condition of affairs horrible enough to convince the greatest doubter that the newspaper accounts have not been ex aggerated. Much of the material submitted has already been made known to thecouu try. One of the iuclosures is a letter from Geu. Maximo Ooinez addressed to President McKinley, which has been published in The Bun. It was scut to the State Department by Gen. Lee, who explained that it wasdeliver ed by a messenger whom he did not see. Briefly summarix-id, the rejiortashow that of 400,000 people affected by Wey ler's order of concentration more than half have died from actual starvation or disease due to lack of fo.d. There are forty-nine separate reports and a number of inclusures. The com muuicatio'is cover a period from Nov. II, l.S'J7, to April 1, lb!S. With the correspondence is a report from the Secretary of State to the President, re ferring briefly to the fact that the an swer to that part of the resolutions of Congress making inquiry about reci procity negotiations with the Cuban Government will be found iu a sepa rate rejtort prepared by Johu A. Kas son, Special Reciprocity Commissioner. The correspondence opens with Gen. Lee's letter inclosing a copy of Gem Blanco's decree to better the condition of the reeoucentrados. On Nov. 'JZ Gen. Le sent to the State Department a statement of what appeared to be the condition of affairs iu the island at that time. He says that the insur gents will not accept autonomy; that a large majority of Spanish business men and property holders prefer an nexation to the United States to au tonomy; that the SpaDisti authorities are sincere in doing all in their power to encourage sugar production; that Blanco, Paudo, aud Secretary-General Congosto are conscientious ia their de sire to reiieve distress, but have not the means to tarry out their benevolent purjioses. mi.NU BY SX1.KS IX HAVANA'S IiITlTI KS. At the time Gen. Lee sent this letter the sutleriug was lessening in Havana on account of the work of charitable organizations. Gen. Lee mentions a report that Geu. Blanco would give $100,000 Spanish money to the relief fund. Under date of Nov. 27, Geu. Lee inclosed a statement from two gen tlemen, whom he knew as men as of veracity, telling of the condition of reeoucentrados iu the ditches on the outskirts of Havana. Among 4(k) wo men and children whom they found there, forty or fifty were djing daily. The gentlemen who wrote the account, which is replete with sickeuiug inci dents, saw a number of eop.e die. All the rtcoueeu trades were horribly ema ciateo. "In one corner," says the report, "a poor woman was dying, surrounded by htr children, who contemplated her in silence without a lament or shedding a tear, they tlnnnelves bein real spec tes of hunger, emaciated in a horrible manner." "Among the nia.iy deaths we saw there was seen one impossible to forget. There is still alive the only wituess, a young girl of Is, whom we found seemingly lifeless on the ground. On her right side was the body of a young mother, cold and rigid, but with her young child, still alive, clinging to her breast. Ou ber left siJe was the corpse of a dead woman, holJiug her son in a dead embrace. A little further on a dying woman, having in her arms a daughter of 14, crazy with pain, who, after twelve or fourteen days, died in spite of the care she received." Again it is said : "If auy young girl came in anyway nice looking she was infallibly condemned to the most abominable of trafflos." A CJXSPIBACY AGAINST AMERICANA Between Augut and November all bt.t 307 of the 1,700 people who had en SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, tered the ditches had died. On Dec 1, lSw'7, Gen. Lee telegraphed the depart ment to tell the United States Consul at Matauzas of "an extensive and dangerous conspiracy" there under the ex-Governor of the province directed against Americans, "action against them the Americans," says Gen. Lee "to be contingent upon a movement of the United States Government In favor of the independence of Cuba. Two days later Geu. Lee, In a mail ed report, said: "I still think that two warships at least should be at Key West, prepared to move here at short notice, and that more of tiiem should be sent to Dry Tortugas aud a coal station established there." A report from Gen. Lee of Dec. 7, 1S!7, was couched in language which the State Department has partly para phrased. The Consul General, it is ex plained, says that measures for the re lief of the reeoucentrados are not 6ut-fk-iently energetic to be effective. At that time Gen. Lee had seen no effects of the Governmental distribution of aid. An interesting report comes from Gen. Lee uuder dale of Dec 13. He says: "The interest for and against autono my is most unequal. For it there are five or six of the head officers at the palace and twenty or thirty other per sons here in the city. Indeed, there is the greatest apathy concerning autonomy in any form." DBEADFIL. RliSULTS OF' STARVATION. Again in this report Gen. Lee says: 'I am obliged to say, too, that the Gov ernment of this island has not been able to relieve from starvation the Cu ban population driven from their homes by the Weyler edict aud no longer at tempts to do so. Ou Dee. 14 Gen. L?e reported that in the province of Havana 52,000 reeou centrados out of 101,000 had died. This did not include the city of Havaua aud seven other towns, where the death rate was about the same. For reliev ing that number of reconceutrados $12,500 in Spanish silver was set aside out of $ 100,000 appropriated. In an expurgated report, under date of Jan. 2, 1SHS, Gen. Lee savs that Weyler's recoucentrado order made 400,000 self-supporting people, princi- pally women aud children, into a mul titude to be sustained by the contribu tion of others or die of starvation or of fevers and of being massed iu large bodies. Their houses were burned, their farms and plantations destroyed, and their live stock driven away or killed,'' says Geu. Lee. He estimates that 200,000 of the rural population in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana, Matanzia, and Santa Clara have died as a result of the recou centrado order. Whole families died simultaneously, he said, and mothers prayed that their children might be released by death. Full reports of the rioting in Havana last January, sent by telegraph by Gen. Lee, are included in the correspond ence. Ou Jan. 14 Gen. Iee recelveu a cipher message from Assistant Secre tary D iy instructing him to maintain frequent communication with the Uni ted States squadron at Key West as to the state of affairs iu Havana. Gen. Lee on Feb. 10 telegraphed to the Statu Department that Blanco had returned from bis tour of the provinces, and tht-re were rumors that a demonstra tion against him was to be made iu Havana. I think him an excellent man, but iu an unfortunate position," he said. INTERFERENCE OV SPANISH OFFICIALS. A number of Gen. Lee's communica tions of last month are iu reference t the presence of Miss Clara Barton iu Havana aud the distribution of relief supplies. A report from Consul Barker at Matanzas is inclosed in one of Gen. L?e's letters. It says that the military Governor of Matanzas and other mili tary officers positively refuse to allow the rveoneentrados, to whom Mr. Bar ker was issuing food in a raw state, to procure fuel with which to cook it. The Spanish authorities also refused to allow the reconceutrados to gather veg etables, telling them that "the Ameri cans propose to feed you, and to the Americans you must look." A dispatch of March 2-4 informs thr fetate Department Uiat the Civil Gov ernor of Havana has directed tho Al caldes aud other authorities not to give out any facts about the reconcentradwsi to the American Relief Coruuaitt-. Gen. Lee's last communication abcuc the reeoucentrados was under date K April 1. It gave notice of the issue- sf Blanco's decree terminating reconerai- tration among the country people, as 1 inclosed a copy of the decree- Consul McGarr at Cienfuegoa, UBdVrr date of Jan. 10 last, reports all taw sugar mills in mat district in opera tion. The demand for labor had given employment to a great number of thw idle male reconceutrados, and ia measure relieved the destitution there. Several of the principal sugar estate were owned by Americans, aud most of the skilled employees were brought, from the United States. Small preda tory parties of insurgents, be said, inadw frequent attempts to burn the corn fields, and it required constant vigil ance to prevent their destruction, The reports of Consuls Brioe. Hyat, and Barker, at Mitauzas, Santiago, aJ1 1 Sagua la Grande, respectively, are mustbi j more emphatic on the subject of Vttri starving reconcentrados than are the reports of Consul-General Lee, for the- H reason that they were in positions- tx -if the present death rate is contin ue more of the actual conditions. i x,eJ there would not be a soul left In MISERY BEYUNI DESCRIPTION. Consul Brice, under date of Nov. IT last, writing of the condition of afiair in Matanzas province, said no relief thousands there. The municipal au- i .... tuonlles were tola uy me military su- thorities to issue rations and clothing, but no atteutiou was paid to the orders. The death rate In Matanzas city at that time was more than eighty daily. "As I write," says Mr. Brice, "a dead negro woman lies In the street within 200 yards Of this Consulate, starved to T c!.,tti -,tn.hia mnrn. L death. ing, and will lie there, may be, for ? ' t USVS. i The misery and destitution in Matan- .. . i . ii - i . 1 tas ana otaer towns m iue ai.'riur, it remarks, are byonJ description. Mr. ESTBlLISHlCr J Brica tells of u Insurgent victory on Nov. 13 near Mocha, eight miles from Matanzas. Again, on Dec 8, Mr. Brice sent more observations, as be calls them, telling of the terrible mii-ery, aud the failure of the authorities to give relief. The relief offered, he says, is only in uame. "Death rate is dimin ished somewhat," Mr. Brice remarks. "Now about sixty-three daily. There are less people to die. The scenes of misery aud distress daily observed are beyond belief. Here is one out of hund reds: In a family of seventeen living in an old lime kiln, upper part of city limits, all were found dead except three, and they barely alive." Mr. Brice's next report ou the reeou centrados was dated Jan. 18. Iu short, jerky but effective sentences, character istic of his whole correspondence, he tells of the misery about him. Things were improving in Matanzas then, ow ing to a more systematic distribution of food and medicine. "In behalf of these people," he says, "I earnestly ask the department that some prompt measures be taken to fur ther relieve them. They are abso lutely helpless no work, shut up iu cities and towns like rats in a trap to starve. We have fifteen or eighteen American families American recon centrados who own properly in the country aud were they allowed to go to their homes could make a good liv ing. AU these have begged aud plead ed with authorities uuder Blanco's order to go, and iu every case refused. Since May 24, 1S97, to Dec 20, 1S07 seven months we have given food and medicines aud relief to an average of 303 American citizens at a cost of $3,175 Spanish gold." 00,000 STAR VI Nil IN MATANZAS. In one of his communications sont in January Mr. Brice submitted a few facts illustrating the suffering in Mat anzas province. "There are In Matanzas province," he said, "over 93,000 people who are in ac tual starving condition require food, clothing aud medicine. In addition to these there are thousands of families of the better classes, formerly well to do, who are to-day living on one meal a day, aud that very scaut. They have sold or pawned furniture, jewelry aud clothing to eke out an existence until all is gone or nearly so. Too proud to beg, they suffer in silence, and many die of starvation. The daughter of a former Governor of this province was seen begging Incognito on the streets of the city. Many of these people call ou me privately at my residence asking to be remembered, for God's sake, to be remembered when this relief comes from the United States. It is to be hoped that this re-Mef from the United States will c 'me yiickly, for hundreds arc dylrg daily 1 province of star vation. Conditions are dreadful and no relief is afforded by Spanish author ities." Consul Hyatt, at Santiago de Cuba, sends references to many engagements between the Spaniards and the patri ots. Ou Dec 14 he told the State De partment that "the order of reconcen tration is now practically wiped out, aud, so far as the Spanish Government is concerned, men go about nearly as they please." He says that Spain will have to prosecute the war more vigor ously if she would conquer peace in Cuba. There arc many thousand square miles at the Santiago end of the island, he adds, where a Spanish soldier has never trod. Withiu this zone the patriots have their families, corral their horses and cattle and raise their crops. Mr. Hyatt says he will not attempt to answer why Spain has not attempted to penetrate this region. DISEASE HELPING HUNGER. Conditions among the reconcentra dos had grown worse when Mr. Hyatt wrote again, on Dtc 31. The death rate was appalling. A disease known by various names and resulting from insufficient food was raging among the natives. Out of a total of 16,000 Span ish soldiers sent to Manzanillo, nearly 5,000 were in hospitals or quartered on the people. Many had smallpox or yellow fever. Mr. Hyatt tells of three American brothers named Rivery, own ers of coffee, cocoa, and orange groves, who had been rendered penniless by the insurrection, and were being sup plied with food by bim. In Santiago at that time there were more than 12, 000 people sick in bed, not counting those in military hospitals. This was 3-5 per cent, of the population. The question of the success or failure of autonomy is discussed by Mr. Hyatt In a report dated Jan. 8, ls'.i8. He says the Spanish Government has made a most energetic and thorough campaign to make autonomy successful. Some of this report is elimluated and Mr. Hy att's conclusions are not contained. "It will be seen," he says, "that Cubans are moving very slow in accepting au tonomy." In a report dated Jan, 12 Mr. Hyatt says: "It is beyond the power of my pen to describe the situation in eastern Cuba. Squalidity, starvation, sickness, and death meet one in all places. Beg gars throng our doors and stop us on the streets. The dead in large numbers remain over from day to day in the cemeteries unburied." Again, on Jan. 22, he writes: "The military situation is completely overshadowed In Import- .nee bv the starving, struezliniar mass. -whose cry is: 'Bread, or I perish V " The descriptions of the awful scenes jn Santiago are related in this corn- nnunicatiou, which is concluded in those words : The city at the end of five years. For a.he masses it is speedy heap or sure death." WORK OF RELIEF. On Feb. 1 Mr. Hyatt sent theopin- that "autonomy is already a dead iiu u-hilH luivinir Insunrent leaders issue, while nuymg insurgent leauers thus far is not a marked success. I do not believe that the Western Continent has ever witnessed death by starvation equal to that which now exists in east ern Cuba." Relief measures began to have a good I . . i .1......... .t If. ue " sanuago iu reorua.y,auvj Hyatt says that with the free u-e of I t Jl s t - .. si.. I A.. 11 N"u" l"c """" '" 0 per cent. In the first week. ...... ... !.. .1- - cr... v nue writing a letter to me outic jv . .K Of i. , .4 -tu.f rn u-Vi tofi puruucmou j. c-. on .-.. " - Jthe American Consulate was situausi 1827. APRIL 20. 1898. "was blocked by the hungry throng for nearly a square abve and below the entrance." The ladles of Santiago did excellent work in relieving the dUtress. The medicines sent by the United States had almost miraculous effects In restor ing ieople to strength, he said. Under date of March 24 Mr. Hyatt wrote that the property holders of San tiago, with few exceptions, and with out distinction of nationality, strongly desired annexation. Vice-Cousul Jona, writing from Sa gua la Grande, ou Nov. 11, said that the scheme of autonomy promised for the island was vigorously denounced by nearly every one in that place. "I tan not help to foresee," he said, "that far from improving the actual condition of thing", it will make it more and more criticaL To express, to delineate the affiielions, the anguish es, witnessed at every step would re quire much to write, aud no lavish of colors could approach the reality. No fiction, no history in the world, ancient or modern, can be compared an instant to this frightful, dreadful suffering. Perhaps civilization has not seen the like of it. I beg to be permitted to say that, in my humble judgment, the ef forts toward the enforcement of reforms or autonomy will prove altogether fu tile." Consul Barker at Sagua laGnvnde in formed the department on Nov. 20 that the Spanish military was powerless to protect the planters iu Sagua, so that they might proceed with the grinding of caue. The same Consul five days later wrote, giving the number of deaths iu five towns from January to November as 100,730, and saying that "with me the conviction is firmly rooted that within sixty days 00 per cent of the populace, including the rank and file of the Spanish Army, will reach a stage of craving hunger." On Dec 13 Consul Barker made a pressing appeal for aid for the starving populace and Spanish soldiery of Sa gua. Two days later he luclosed clip- pings from u Havana newspaper de scribing the impossibility of grinding cane In Santa Clara province. Similar letters describing destitution and distress were seut by Consul Bark er on Dec 2S, Jan. 8, and Jan. 15. Un der date of Jan. 10 he wrote : "When Spain will admit defeat to mortal, in my humble judgment, dare predict. That ber plan of settlement autonomy Is a failure, and with this failure passes from under her dominion the island, is not to be questioned. Pending this admissiou on her part, thousands of human beings, guiltless of bringing on or having any part in the insurrection, are dying for want of sustenance." Eemirkabie Rescue. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfleld, III. makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled oa her lungs; she was treated for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. Ha told her she was a hopeless victim of con sumption and that no medicine could care her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump tion; she bought a bottle and to her de light found hers-.'lfbjnelitted from first dose. She continued its U v.-and after taking six battles, fund herself sound and well; now d.es her own house work, and ia as well as she ever was. Free trial bottles of this Great Discov ery at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset Pa., aud G. W. Brallier's Drug Store, Berlin. Pa. Large bottles 50 cents and $100. 011 Jabal and tie Fire Eater. A student of the University of Vir ginia says: "An editorial iu the Index on the fighting qualities, or rather the lack of fighting qualities, of the fire eaters in the late war puts me in mind of a conversation I had with one of our professors some time ago. He said that he would be glad to have war with Spain on one coudition, namely, that only the jingoes aud yellow journalists would compose the army. He then told me an anecdote of General Early, who signed the secession papers with tears in his eyes. Near him was an old fellow from Charlottesville who was just howling for secession. Turning to hlui Karly said: 'You'll never spill a drop of blood for the cause,' and sure enough about six months later General Early came upon this Cre eater driving a wagon loaded with shoes which he was selling. 'Help yourselves, boys,' said the general to his troops, aud they did it." Dover, N. H-, Oct 31, 1S9J. Messrs. Ely Bros. : The Balm reach ed me safely and in so short a time the effect Is surprising. My sons says the first application gave decided relief. I have a shelf filled with "Catarrh Cures." To-morrow the stove shall receive them and Ely's Cream Balm will reign supreme. Respectfully, Mrs. Franklin Freeman. Cream Balm is kept by all druggists. Full size 50c. Trial size 10 cents. We mail it. ELY BROS., 60 Warren 8L, N. Y. City. Give the People a Chance. From the Philadelphia Bulletin. A New York bank president Is quot ed assavinz that the government could readily obtain from the great financial interest of the country all the funus It needed If bonds were issued. This is true, no doubt But the biggest finan cial interests of this continent are the interests of the masses of American citiiiius who create the wealth of the na-ion. They are the ones who should first be considered if bonds ara put on the markeL If these goverumeut securities, backed by the superb credit of the United States, are excellent in vestments fr the bankers they are equally good investments for the wage earners and the farmer. It Is the peo ple who fight the battles and pay the taxes of the Gjvernment. They are entitled to the foremost chance when bonds are to be sold. Scrofula, fait rheum, erysipelas and other distressing eruptive diseases yield quickly and permanently to the clean lng, purifying power of Burdock Blood Bitter?. Lincoln and McKinley. How much like a belated echo com ing over from 132 all this hot talk sounds; about McKinley's cowardly conservatism, about the rising tide of patriotism; about the popular demand for immediate action; about congress forcing the president's hand, and all that sort of thing. It's more than a generation since then, and few of the excitable persons who are full of red blood aud patriotic fervor, and thrills of one sort or another, remember it. They were not here at the lime. Those who were here aud old enough to take coguizance of current events can re member that the cry for immediate proclamation of emancipation, which was raised almost with the first out break of hostilities by certain earnest and sincere patriots, had grown to pop ular clamor along iu the spring and summer of 1S6'2. The sad-eyed patient man at the head of affairs was too slow for the men of impulse aud men of action. The eloquent orators, of the anti-slavery movement, who conceived themselves to lie great leaders and im agined that the war fr the Union was their crusadj aiust slavery, to which the preservation of the Union wasonly an Incident, waxed hot over the delay of the president in taking what they considered decisive action. "Fools drift; pilots steer," said Wendell Phil lips, in one of bis carefully studied passionate outbursts, and the audieuce applauded him to the echo. Mr. Lin coln's most devoted friends were carried almost off their feet by what seemed io be a popular uprising. But be was un moved, patient, calm, waitiug tiaiply for the ripening of the occasion in the fullness of time. "Stand still, Dick, and see the salvation of the Lord," was bis answer to the importunities of his old friend, Governor Yates, of Illinois. New York Tribune. "I feel it my d-ity to give you a truth ful statement of what Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrha" i Rme dy did," writes J. S. Collins, of Moore, S. C, "I had a child about two years old, that had the diarrhivj for two months. I tried all the best known remedies, but none gave the least relief. When this remedy came to hand, I gave it as directed, aud in two days the child wits completely cured." Sold by all druggists. Things Worth Kncwinj. Store pulverized sugar in wooden kegs. For a burn take sweet oil and lime water (equal parts , mix, and keep the burn well covered with it. If sweet oil Is applied to the skin immediately after a blow or bruise it will not turn black and blue. While traveling, a good way to carry bottles to prevent their being broken is to carry them in the shoes in the trunk. A mucilage that proves satisfactory is made of equal parts of guru arabic and guru trag:teanth dissolved in suffi cient water to make a thick paste. Fat will not burn if it has something to do, so if it has to be left idle for a few minutes put a crust of Lread or a slice of raw potato into the kettle. The cleanest way to drive water bugs or roaches from bureau drawers or closet shelves is to sprinkle powdered burax over and around the shelves, and cover with clean paper. For a stiff neck, pains in tho chest: Warm some sweet oil and rub on thor oughly with the hands, then cover with sheet wadding, the shiny side out. Wear it until you feel comfortable. Soap used on the hair is apt to make it brittle. If any is to be used tar soap is best, aud after using riuse the hair in several waters, in which a little powder ed borax has been dissolved. To remove a refractory screw from wood heat a piece of iron red hot, and hold it on top of the screw for a minute or two; then the screw-driver will easily takeout the screw if used while the screw is warm. Sobbed the Grave- A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by bim as follows: "I was iu a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunk en, tongue coated, pain continually in back aud sides, no appetite gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortu nately, a frieud advised trying 'Elec trie aimers;' and to my great joy aud surprise, the first bottle made a decided Improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them. Only oOcts per bottle at J. N. Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa., and G. W. Brall ier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. "Lightly Turn to Thoughts of' War Doubtless others have n itie vl these historical facta aud coincidences. April 10, 1775 Battle of Lexington. April 21, 1M43 First engagement of Mexican war. April 12, lsoi Sumter fired on. April 13, 1S01 Sumter surrendered. April 14, lsol Lincoln's first cull for troops. April 0, 1S Lee's surrender. April 11, 1W5 Lincoln assassinated. That is quite a record for April in the United States. Some people are won dering if April, 1S!S, will add to the list another memorable date. Waterbury American. The Banger, of Spring Which arise from impurites in the blood and a depleted condition ol mis vital fluid may be entirely averted by Hood's Sarsaparilla. This great medi cine cures all spring humors, boils, eruptious and sores, and by euriching and vitalizing the blood, it overcomes that tired feeling and gives vitality and vigor. Hood's Pills cure nausea, sick head ache, biliousness and all liver ills. Price 25 jents. WHOLE NO. 2438. Barrel of Money For War. The money in circulation ia the United State ia more than ever before. It has increased $24I533,U'S In the 21 months since the Chicago convention tok the ground that the money of the country could not increase materially without free coiuage of silver, aud it stands at "high-water mark." A Treasury statement just issued shows that the money in circulation in the Uuited States at the beginning of the present mouth was $l,70ii,0-Sl)4-3, a sum greater thau was ever before shown iu any of the monthly statements on this subject by the Government. More than that, gold in circulation is great er in quantity than ever before. It in creased during the mouth of March, in the teeth of the war blasts, nearly $1,000,000 a d ly, th-3 actu il g tin for the month as shown by the Treasury fig ures being $28,244,800, while the total increase in the money in circulation during the month was f25J.Gol,asO. Thus the people of the United States are now better able to supply the mon ey necessary for a war fund, whether it is gathered from among them by taxa tion or by loan, or both, than at any previous time iu the history of the country. The latest statement of the Treasury Department shows the "avail able cash balance in the Treasury, in cluding gold reserve," to be $225,000, 000. The coutrast between the financial condition of the couutry to-day and that when it had fairly entered on the civil war iu iy2 is strongly marked. Then the money in circulation was less than no.OJO.OOO, or one-fifth of what it is to-day, and the amount per capita 10 W, against $23 GO, per capita to-day, as shown by the latest statement of the Treasury Department. The money iu circulation is more than double to-day what it was in April, 1S7;, and the lat est rep-irt of the Comptroller of the Currency shows larger sums o i deposit in the national banks than ever before iu the history of the cjuutry. Official reports of the Government also prove the deposits in savings banks to be In amount greater than at any previous time. The fact that Government bonds drawing a low rate of interest are sell ing far above their face value, even though redeemable within a compara tive short term, demonstrates the desire of citizens to invest their money in Government securities. "Patriotic" Novelties. In New York, according to the Even ing Post, the street fakirs have reaped a harvest of dimes by the sale of Maine cratkajaek novelties. Chief among the.e novelties are photographs aud lithographs of the Maine, Maine hats, tlai buttons, Maine and Cubau souvenir spoons, "Who Did It?" "How It Was Do::e," and "What We Will Do." "WHO dip it?'' "Who Did It?' a card bearing a drawing of the Maine at anchor in Ha vana harbor is an oM toy, railed "snap shots," in a new form. In "snap shots" one touched a match at the end of a gun, aud the firj ran alon a thread of silver n"tr.U, b -t-vea thj picture and the carJ upon which it was mounted, to a 'cap," which exp'odjl to tha ut ter destruction of a little bird that had but a mom ?at before bt'eu sittin r h p pily oa a feuw ra:L Bat in "Who D d It?" the fuse runs from the foot of Morro Castle to the battleship, the for ward part of which the explosion of the cap blows to atoms. One hundred gross Were toll on the street in a single wjk. "how it was done." This novelty will be supplanted in a few days by "How It Was Doue," which differs from it only iu that the fuse runs from the hand of a Spaniard seated on the rocks at the base of Morro Castle. Oue thousand gross are now in proc.'si of manufacture. FOR THE "FAIR SEX" TRADE. "M line hats" tiny hats of blue, with "Maine-" branded on the ribbon, and tails of red, white and blue have not "com up to the mark" as 'good sellers.' According to the fakir, they were made for the "fair sex" trade. Every woman in the land, it was thought, would want to wjar one. Few women, the event proved, had any such desire, and the manufacture of the hats has, conse quently, been stopped. "You can never calculate for that trade," is tha fakir's reflection. The Best Liniment. "Chamber lain's IVia Balm is the finest ou earth," write Edwards & Parker, of Plains G.i. This is the verdict of all who use it. For rheumatism, lame back, sprains, swellings and the numerous slight ail ments and accidents common to every household, this liniment has no equal. With it in the house, a great deI of pain and suffering may be avoided. For sale by all druggists. Preparatory to sending his company to Butte, Mont., not long ago, a theatri cal mnager wrote to the proprietor cf the opera house of that place to inquire how many pieces he bad in his orches tra. The reply he received was as fol lows: "Would say that we havethne pieces in our orchestra, viz: Piano, piano stool and piano cover." A Jerseyman who has an eye to bus iness has written to one of the New York papers to ask whether it is true "that horses are to be furnished the marines." He adds: "I haveanumber of good mounts I should like to dispose of to the Government at half their cost price." The verses about ' Captain Jinks, of the Horse Marines," are evi dently still accepted in good faith in some parts of New Jersey. "Some one asked an Atchison girl at a party recently If she was of Cubau origin," says the Atchison Globe. "She thought be referred to her large dark eyes, and was flattered ; but he waa really thinking of her neck, which was like ibat of a reconcentrad." Upward of 11,000 school children of Roubaix, France, receive free food and clothing at the expense of the town. Their dinner at school consists of soup, bread, vegetables, meat and a f beer. Attbebeginulngof summer and of wintereach child receives a coin pUt suit f !etss L-iwns are desirable oa farms and suborban lob, but it frequently hap pens that the grass dies off If a dry summer cornea. If the lawn Is small, water can be supplied two or three times a week, but on large grass plots this cannot always be done. There are two modes of making a lawn. One 1 to cut sod and turf the plot, in which case water must be used nntil the grass starts. The other is to plow or spado tli plot, apply plenty of well-rotunl manure and seed to mixed lawn grass. This should be done in August, but if rains are plentiful seed sown in the spring will mak a lawn before the summer la over. The most imporant point is to use the lawn mower at prop er time. If the grass Is kept very close it will not thrive, especially the first year. It may be mowed twoor three times during the year, so as to thickeu the growth, but to keep the lawn "shaved" al all times will injure th grass, as it must be given lime to be come well established. The bet fer tiliser for a lawn of one acre is a mix ture of 50 pounds uitrate of soda, 75 pounds muriate of potash and 50 p Hinds boue meal, which is not a heavy application, however. Mulch the lawn late in the fall with fine manure that is free from litter. Seeds are being Introduced luto this) country from Asia that may prove of much benefit. A species of alfalfa, superior to any in this country, has been secured, and muskmelonsof extra large size and superior quality, some varieties of which are winter keepers. Cherry trees that thrive in locations where the thermometer goes 40 degrees below zero may also be mentioned, and also a variety of raspberry, which is large and endures the cold, as well as a large number of other fruits, vegeta bles, grains and grasses. Evergreen hedges are ornamental and useful. The desire to secure a quick hedge induces close setting of the plants, which causes them to crowd iu after years as well as struggle for plant food. Give plenty of room at first, al lowing not less than a yard of space between plants, as they will fill the space: as they advance in growth. The enemy of hedges is the basket worm, and the "baskets" should be picked off and burnetLThey are really cocoons aud can be easily found. Spray the hedge with Paris green two or three times during the season. A good garden fertilizer, suggested by the New Jersey Experiment Station consists of 200 pounds each of nitrate of soda, dried blood and tankage (making &W pounds); muriate of potash, 400 pouuds, and phosphate, l'JOO pounds. It will then contain about four per cent, of nitrogen, nine per cent f potash. It makes oue ton of fertiliz-r and may be used in any quantity pre ferred; Oats sown for forage should not be overlooked. The crop should be cut while the seed is in the milky stage, as the stalks are then in the best coudi tion, containing the elements then ou the way to complete the grain. Oals cut at such a stage and properly cured are highly relished by stock. Try using a single stake for tomato plants if a trellis or other support is in convenient for each plant. Simply drive a stout stake, about four feet long, into the ground and set out a tomato plant at each stake. Nip off the bot tom branches and allow the plant lo grow so as to make its branches near the top, which will protect the fruit from rotting. Rape should be given a trial by every farmer who desires to increase his supply of green fiod. It is gaining favor wherever introduced and is solv ing the problem of sheep raising. It should be sown as early as possible and is ready for use in seven or eight weeks, providing several cuttings until frost or freezing weather comes in the fall, or it may be sown iu succession until July. Sow five pounds of seed broad cast on oue acre, first having the ground in good condition. If the seed is drilled into the soil then only one half the quantity may be used. Rape is also excellent for cattle, swine and poultry, but for sheep it is considered superior, the sheep being turned on the plot, or hurdled on portions, as pre ferred. Tnose who planted early peas may be disappointed in the seeds not germina ting, tlue probably to the freezing cf the ground and the seeds rotting in the soil. An excellent mode of planting peas is to put them in a trench, about seven inches deep, coveriug the seed about an iuch, and as the plants grow in the trench fill in with dirt arouud them until they get beyond the surface. By so doing the peas ill produce more pods and last longer. If the wheat looks weak broadcast 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre over it, and a change in its appearance will lie noticed in a few days after the first rain comes from the time of sow ing. The wheat plants will become green and make rapid growth. The cost of the fertilizer w ill bealout $2 50, but it will increase the yield of grain and straw more than to repay for its use Those who grow asparagus by level culture object to the work of cutting the shoots. The proper way is to hill up the rows 30 inches high, so as not to be compelled to bend the body low lit cutting. If l be shoots are cut just as the tips are appearing through tho ground they will be tender from the ends to the butts. It Is not always that the entire crop of peaches or plums is destroyed be cause of a sudden change to cold weather. While a large number ef buds may bo destroyed, yet enough may remain to pay a profit; as it is well known that during those years when crops are short the prices are much higher. Light crops do not exhaust the trees and lands as much as do crops from overladen trees, hence the cost of production is lesseued and the profits greater. Some seeds have very bard shells and should be soaked before planted. Pars nip, salsify, carrot, and parsley seed should be put in hot water and allowed to remain 24 hours. The seed can then be mixed with dry plaster, or fine dry earth, but if large plots are to be plant ed, it is better to use the seed without soaking, owing to the difficulty of using it in drills, planting when the ground is damp. It is now conta nded that it is a mis take to cut blackberry canes back too low, as they will give better crops if allowed more cane. They should be given better cultivation than is usual ly bestowed. Oue point to observe is that if the old eaues have not been cut and burnt there will be damage from borers. Blackberries vill thrive ou all kinds of soil, but to secure good crops fertilizer should be supplied early in the spring and the canes tblnnsd M( Ia th row wcer tVr a ton clow i T
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