J i ( W rVlfl'l'UI.'ll I'll I p A Comedy of By H. J. O'Higgins. i u N explanation it must bo i f, II acknowledged that the "live Filipiuo warrior ami wilil uniu" liml endured inoro cUiiiTId, that day, from the "barker" of tlio JfYV show than his solf-respect ljr as a while man and a citi- ' f.en would allow him to hour cheer fully. And for tlntt roiiHon he sulked nt table whoa the management and the staff of tho Bowery "Falaeo of Illusions and Turkish Beauty Show" ' aat down together in their eating s room to a luuchoon of bread" nnd snu : sagos. It was the midday iutermis nion. Below stain, the barrel organ , was dumb. Tho wicket of the ticket ollico was empty of its viaiou of bella donna eyes and cornstarch shoulders. Tho hall of illusion of inoandescent lights an.l bewildering mirrors was dark and deserted. And the curtains , in the last compartment of the exhibi . tion parted limply on vacant stage ; whero two ancients in flaxen wigs had ' been posing agaiust tho Bhabby huug ; ing of a Turkish harem. Here in tho eating-room, the com pany was gathered about a greasy pine table that stood bolwecu the : noofaiusr-stove and the sink. A feeble .! light, altering through the dirty win dowa upon the bare arms ami bare , shoulders of the women, showed a 1 auspicious difference in color between : the roupth arm that had not beon powdered and tho tender whito of tho neck that had. The lad who tortarod i the agonized organ down stairn chewed rhythmically ou a tongh crnstof bread, i his head still turning tunes, his eyes ) aet in the vacant stare of nn animal 1 at feed. A young girl beside him, ) with a smudged face and untidy hair, choked on her sinsage, and "Suipey," ' the counterfeit Mexican for whom she ' posed as the human target in the grrat dagger-throwing "stunt" of tho free performance, rallied hoi with . facetious "Think yoh'dbeeu swallowiu' : swords. ! The tiokot-omce beauty, who was ' i the manager's wife, grinned at this wit, and the scrawny boauties in the , tawny wigs .lifted their pencilled eye- browa appreciatively but witn care. t The manager he was the "barker' . and the olnoial "boaucer m one : inusaular porson dircoted the eyes of f the company to he sulking "Filipino' : with a wink aud a nod. "Think he'd boen swallowiu;? insults," he chuckled t "Aguinaldo," as they oallcd him, i preteudod uot to hear, huwped over i his plate and glowering at a knot in : the table. He had covered his paint . ed nudity with an overcoat and ' underskirt. lie had pulled off his rusty wig, and takeu out tho ring of bono that had boon piuched into his nostrils. But around his eyes were till two circles of yellow oohre. His color was red brick-dust to within au inch of his flat black hair, and there it tamed skin white. When he ate his sausage, ho drew back his painted hps aud took tho food carefully be tweer. his teeth. Tho grimace set his lace for a savage snarl. "Eats human Hash," the manage nuotod at it, and laughed again con temptuonsly. The ticket-office exhibit drow he eyes over her husband slowly, and swung a glanco down the tablo at the Filipino. "Aguinaldo" was staring at his tormentor dumbly. "Looks ai if he'd like to cat me, don't he?" tho latter whispered loudly to the table. They either laughed or they did uot. The organist did not because ho was thinking of nothing. "Suipey" laughed to ourry favor with the management, and the two women langhod because they understood tho game that was being played and mocked at it. They knew that "Aguinaldo" did not dare to face au open rupturo for fear he should find himself ou the street. There was a note in their cackling that was a chal lenge to the inauagor. "Any time he likes to try a chaw at me, I'm game," he blustered. Thore was uo auswer. "I ain't heard that Filipinos are much on the light," "Snipey" laugbod. "Aguiualdo" picked up his over coat, and slouched away to his sleep ing room, pattering down the hall with bare feet. The organ grinder, who shared the room, followed him. "Aguinaldo," in his room, oust otT tho shirt he wore, and appeured in a pair of kuiokerboskers, from which tho legs hud been amputated high on the thigh. He had only a coat of brown stain to protect the bulk of his body from tho chill air. "I won't ntand it much longer," he said to him elf and the boy. "I'd sooner be a sandwich man again.' The imitation lar-skiu whioh he hooked about his hips did nothing to warm or con sole biin. lie put on the over coat again, and coughed tentatively. 'A man might's well be in jail as cooped up in a splintery paokin' case. Au' that fool pokin' fuu at him." 11a picked up the wig of red-black Lair, aud fitted it tightly to his soalp no tightly that it piuched his skull as if in a vice, and pulled his eyebrows liigb on his forehead. Then the bone ring fouud sore spot in his nostrils. Ii looked at himself in the glass. He bad a hot itch of revolt in his blood tii revolt of an irritated skin against the discomfort of a hair shirt aud ha shook his fist aavagely at his re flection in the mirror. Then he went inta the baok of the shop whio'i asrved to house the exhibition, and from the wreok of a discarded peep kow drear out a flask. It would keep out the eold. It also kept in the heat the heat, that is of his irri tation aud mixing with the luncheon, . .started a rebellion iu his head Whn he beard a thundering demand tut bis prompt appearance from that triuae oppressor, the manager, "bark er and "bouncer," he lifted the tail ul hi bearskin aud thrust the flsik fata the hip-pocket of his legless knickerliookers, planning to have a:i utaer drink. iu his cage. Tha manager did not see anything ia his manner except a childish bad b a ut or, aud "Aguinaldo," climbing aiu to his platform, gjk over the tide S88 II Mi 1 ' 1 Bowery Life. of a box which was seven feet loner. three foot wide ond four foot high. He sat down in the bottom of it. A wire top was added, making the side three leet higher, so that when the exhibition began he might stand up without showing more ttiau bis head and chest to the public who had not yet passed the ticket olllco to the platform on which he was elevated. WheU not routed by the manager to a mock fury that flung him with savago hands upon this wire netting, he sat with his baok agaiust the mid of tho box and bis legs outstretched bo- fore him, seowling nt the faces which showed ovor tho sido of his cage. The enameled beauty was already in the ticket olltce. "Snipey" and tho humau target were ou the plat form infrontof "Aguiualdo's" box. A calico screen hung betwoon them and tho Hall of Illusions, and behind that Hereon the boy waited with tho baud organ. Ihere were two lines of muta- scopes in tho hall, and at the fur end of it, behind a row of curtains, there was tho machinery of threo option! il lusions arrangements of lights and mirrors for tlie production of the "vanishiug lady," the "boheadod lady," and tho "animated bust." A door beside these curtains led into the second compartment where tho scrawny beauties posod. There was third room with nothing in it but tho broken peep-show aud such old lumber. And tho method of tho entertain ment was just this. A orowd was gathered by the invitations of the "barker" at the door, and welcomed into the free show beside the ticket office. From that the honey-tonprued orotordrew them past the ofticn (where they paid live cents each) over "Aguiu aldo s pluttorm into tuo Hall of Illu sions. Tha entertainment there was rather disappointing after the prom ises of the placards and pictnrcs iu tue windows ana or tuo manager on the platform. Itwonld cost ton cents more to realize those promises iu the next compartment. A number of "touts" led tho gulls into the Beauty Show, where they received another disappointment when the golden haired auticmos were nosed for them They were told then that iu tho last compartment there was something that they must not inform the police about. It would cost ten cents more to see it. If auy were fools enough to pay that ten couts, they came upon the lumber room. The three touts laughed nt them. The manager and ".Snipey" awed them. The lights had been turuod down, and if they hal any money left iu their pockets, they were glad to esoape by a side door and say nothing. It was this progression the manager intended to begin when he called out from the door, "Are yeh all reacy?" The organ staggered into an uncertain melody for answer. "Suipey" twirled his tiu-bladed daggers on the plat form. The vision in tho ticket-oflioe smiled, and "Aguinaldo," hidden in his packing-case, got the bottle from under his bearskin and attempted to tilt it to his lips. He had forgotten tho bone ring that huug from his nose as low as his lower lip, and he spilt tho precious liquor over his face and down his neck before he knew it. Then he jerked ont the inconvenient decoration scratching the tender skin of bis nostril as he' did it, so' that his nose began to bleed wiped off his faoe with his hand, smudging tho liquor-loosened colors and drank co piously. The manager had thrown opon the door and was already casting bait to his gudgeon. "Walk iu, gents, walk in. Free performance right on the inside. No charge for admission. The finest show on tho Bowery. Th'orig iual Palace of Illusions an' Turkish Beauty Show. Children uot admitted. Walk iu, boys, walk in. Its free gratis for uothin'. Step right iu- side. Dou't block the entranoe." The three "touts" who hail been gazing at tho photographs of the cho rus-girls in the window, led the inva sion. It was a holiday ufternoon There were youths sight-seeing ou the ltowery who would not venture there after dark, and the barker invitation gathered them iu. "Free porformancu just beginuiug," he kopt crying, "Suipey began lo jugile, witn his daggers. When tho crowd increased. he cast one aguiust a shield of thick planks. The orgau stopped. In nervous aileuce ".Jenny, wuo liad been waiting in the baek-grouud, stood up beside the dagger iu the plank, and the "Mexican," throwing aside his sombrero, cast the live re iiiaiuiog knives at her, one by one They struck iu a circle about her bead, and the musio bum out again trtuin nhantly. This performance was repeated un til some thirty-odd men and boys were jammed into the small space before the platform. Then the manager came in from the door, and took his plaoa beside "bnipey." The musio choked off on an unfinished bar "Now, gents," he said, "just a wo meut w'Ue I tell yeh w'at we got in aide. I got the finest show that ever opened on the Bowery, l irst an foremost, boys, we got the -Filipino warrior an" wil man" pointing from the paintinpr of hairy cannibal pur sued bv soldiers to the box in whioh the invisible "Aguinaldo" steadied a whirling bead at the voice of his tor mentor. "He was cap-tured eighteen miles from Manila, an' brought to this oountry, jest as yeh'lt ace'm there, by Signor MaroheBi" pointing to "Huipey." "An' I tell 'yeh, boys, fer the trut', he's the ugliest an' the lowest species of the human raoe that ever breathed the pure an' enlightened air of this eonti-nent. Yeh'U see'm in all hie native barbarity, the sulkiest' bmte that evei eat a pork sausage. Women faints at eight of him. But yeh don't need to be afraid, boys. He', " Thore was a snicker from the audi enoe, Au indeaoribable faoe had ap peared over the aide of the paoking oaae. "Aguinaldo" had pushed baok hit wifl to oool hit lorenead, ana tue , brown of his eomrlexion ended in a white lino over his eyes, lellow oohre, blue tattnoings, brown paint, and tho red of his bleeding nose had run aud mixed together in a mess of eel or on cheek aud chin. He blinked drunkenly t the crowd, and drummed on tue wires or ins caire with tno enpty flask to stop the speech. "X er a liar, lie said thickly. A yell of laughter drowned the mon itor's furious onth. "Y'or a liar au' a fnkir," he said slowly, "an'yershow ain't worth auy more than y are yer- self an' that's uuthiu' but dobts. IHe owes mo fer two weeks' salary," he explained to the screaming public an he s tryiu to bully mo into quit- tin' bo's he won't have to pay mo." lor the moment the manager had stood by, helplessly. But when he heard the "Filipino" abuse the "finest show on the Bowery," andrecoguized tho malice of his attempt to frighten away the full haul of gudgeon that was coming int j his net, he rushed upon tho cage with an ugouizod and en raged "Drunken fool" that lifted above tho storm of laughter like a woman's scream in a shipwreck. The object iu tho cage answered it with an inarticu late howl in the same pitch of voice, and tho mirth of the nndienco fol lowed in a screech. The manager grasped the wires and shook them furioiiHly. "Aguiualdo" pounded his lingers with tho bottle, yelling like a ilemon. Then, "Snipey, awakening from astnporol bewilderment, Blipped tho fastening on the cage aud threw oft' tho top. The shrill cry of "the warrior and wild man was the But He choked iu his throat by lingers of the raging manager. tha "Filipino" was no weakling, throw himself forward, pounding his assailant. The cage camo over with him. The two men rolled together on the platform, the painted demon on top. "Snipey" jumped to the res cue, and was wrapped up in a tangle of arms ,aud legs that kicked and fought and tore the clothos of the Mexican aud the manager with a fe rocity that would have shamed the most determined Filipino that ever fought. 4 mob, gathering iu from the Btreet, honied and applauded. "Jenjiy" screamed and wept. The ticket-office beauty turned pale around her rouge, and the orgau-griuder and tho antiques from tho Beauty Show gazed over the. calico screen in mute terror. It was a wild miuuto beforo "Aguin aldo" was choked into helplessness, carried bodily into the Hall of Illu sions aud held face down, with "Sni pey" ou his shoulders, until the man ager cleared out tho crowd. When a slow policeman came up to the gapiug mob at the windows, he fouud the frout door shut and all quiet within. "Aguiualdo" was sleeping peacefully on tho floor, covered with a curtain from tho Turkish harom. "Suipey" was sitting by tho stove upstairs, sew ing up the rents iu his Mexican cos tume. The manager was bathing his face iu the sink. "What happened?" he said to the officer. "Oh, another Filipino revolt. An' you bet I'm a auti-expansioner henoefort' au' forever more. Madge," he said to his wife, "get that feller's money ready. He gets his auto-nomy to-night." New York Post. rialll IMelielsu HftpttneM. 'I suppose," she said, "that you had an ancestor in the celebrated lit tle party that 'came over' with Will iam the Conqueror?" "Perhops," he replied, "but I have nover looked tho matter up." Of course you aro a lineal de scendant of some one who came over in the Mayflower?" ' I don t know. It is possible that I am, but I have never hunted up the reoords. "Well," she went ou, "you are descended from an officer of the Revo lutionary .War, aren't you?" 1 Hiding himself cornered, he broke down and confessed. "My father's name," he said, was Szfchzerskondnwski, which he changed to Dowa, with the sanction of the court." She sat for a momont, almost crush od. Then hope seemed to re turn to her, and she aakod: "How much did you say yon ex pected your father to leave you?" "I figure that my share of the es tate will bo about $2,000,000," he said. "All right," she auswered briskly; "we eau worry along without the liueago and still be happy, dear.". Chicago Times-Herald. One uf Kiiuriccoit'a Uull ly. Tho late Charles Haddou Spurgeon was uot ono of those geniuses who suddenly beoouiu a revolution to their friends. As a child he was exceed ingly intoMigeut, aud his subsequent development was continuous. His schoolmaster looked to him whouever a question had loug gone unanswered. One winter's day, however, when the weather was bitter cold, a change seemed to come ovor the boy. His answers went wide of the mark. Soon he dropped to the bottom of the class aud stayed there. Tho teacher was puzzled; his prize pupil seemed to have lost every spark of intelligence. But as he thought, he noticed that Spurgeon at tho foot of the class, sat right in frout of the stove. It took but a moment to re arrange the pupils. The bead boy was given the warm aeat, and Spur geon was plaoed next the window, Then the questions began again. The change was oomplete. From that moment Spurgeon did not hesi tate for the right answer. Five niin utes later he was once more at the head of the class, sittiug in frout of the atove. Youth's Companion, A atranc Campaign Kit, To find instances of the appalling impracticability distinguishing the formation of Great Britain's irregular corps, it it only necessary to read the list of the kit being taken out by the City of Loudon Volunteers, The ortioers of this body oarry to the plains of South Africa au air pillow, cork mattress, canvas basin, canvas bucket, a tin box of candles, a lantern. a filter and a host of other impedi ments that au Amerioan otiloer wonld burn before starting on a ten miles' tnaroh, while the men are laden down with four pair or trousert, (our pair of shoes, three caps, pajamas, two laree Turkish towels, a filter, clothesbrush, a writiug portfolio and other domestic artiolej. No wonder he British forces are not mobile. I A PHILIPPINE KKSUMli. GENERAL WHEELER WRITES A SUR. VEY OF PEOPLE AND RESOURCES. Mngnllluence of tlie C'liiirrlm anil Mon- tei-lrn ,tlTi Ira n Tlmy ll(l VOOO Yrnr Asn A l iillnre of tha Itlre Crop Would 'nue it I amino, ry EN KB. All JOSKPH WHEEL I EB, of the United States (JT Army, writes ns follows to tho Now York Sun from Sanlu Rita, Philippine Islands: I have now seen much of tho coun try and tho people iu thnt part of Lu zon for about fifty miles north of Ma nila. Iu every town thnro is a mag nificent stono church and aoouvout or monastery. The valuo of tho church and monastery of a town seems to bo equal in many cases to the value of all tho other buildings in the town. Tho sugar storohenses are also ex pensively constructed buildings. They have very thick stone walls and either tile or metal roofs and cover consid erable space of ground; Lome of thorn have dimensions of about sixty or sev enty feet by 100 feet. There is a genoral impression that tho insurgent army is made up very largely of people without property, nnd that peoplo who havo property desiro the Americans to control so that they can have protection and feel th.it their property is secured to them, but I find that there is also a fear or apprehension among sonio of the wealthy that if tho American control and givo universal suffrage, the power of the wealthy people would Le taken away and their hold ou property very much impaired. I think that if the wealthy people could be assured that they would be protected in their prop erty rights by the United States it would have a very good effect. The friars nnd priests uro charged with all sorts of oppressions and mis demeanors, but it must bo remem bered that friars and priests aro very numorous, aud iu so largo a body there will bo found every possiblo phase of character and disposition. The religious orders are very rich. They have been acquiring prorerty for nearly threo centuries. The statement I have seeu that seventy per ceut. of tho people of Lu zon can read aud write is a great mis take. It may bo true of Manila, but it is not true of the rural districts, and the percentage of illiteracy in the other islands is much greater than iu Luzou. The appearance, mode of life aud method of performing work is to-day very much liko that described iu the Bible of tho bogiuuing of the Chris tian era. The peoplo dress very muoh as they did 2000 years ago, the moans of transportation by carts drawn by cara boas is about the same, aud their methods of shelling aud cleaniug rico are as primitive, as possiblo nnd no better than they, were 2000 years ago. During tho Inst few years sugar mills ud rice mills have been oreoted iu some of the larger cities, and this has especially been the case since the building of the Mauilu and Dagupan Bailroad, but in the smaller cities and towns rico is husked by pounding by hand, and is winnowed by throwing it up aud thus separatingthe chaff just ns iu tho earliest times. Nearly everything can be grown, but oranges and bananas are not as good as in other localities, the reason uo doubt being that they seom to give them no cultivation whatever. If they wore cultivated I believe they would bo as fine as the products of nuy other country. Tobacco is grown in the valloy of Cagayau, iu the northeastern part of Luzon, which is said to bo equal to any tobaoco iu the world. The coffee grown is said to be superior to Mocha. Bice is the principal product, and n failure of that crop will cause a terri ble fumiue, as the people depend al most entirely upon it for food. Sugar s the principal crop for export. The greatest amount exported iu any ouo year was 201,081 tons, which was in 1893. Corn grows very rapidly and tho ears reach their full growth about sixty days from tu: tune of planting. The provinces which are especially spoken of as productive of corn or niai.o are Visoayo, Isabella, South Camarines, Pampanga, Pangesinan, Nueva Ecija, liulacan, Bataugas, Albay aud Abray. Wheat is grown in Bataugas and San Isidro, Isabel aud Ilocos Sur. Thore is a great abundance of very valuable timber in these islands aud many varieties of beautiful hard woods under native names, such as mahogany, black walnut and ebony. Gold, copper, coal, irou, sulphur, lead, building stone, petroleum aud guano are fouud. Thore are many different tribes liv ing iu thoso islands, the ouly ones iu native rebellion being the Taealos. This tribe occupies some eight prov inces in tho neighborhood of Manila, aud their association with Europeans has made them more civilized than other tribes. Monkeys are numerous, the flying squirrel whiou has a nuo skiu is found, and also the wild oat, tho wild hog, and tho water bullulo. The lion, the tiger, the hyena, leopard and the bear are found in these islauds. Iu varioty, plumage aud charming sing ing tue birds are said to bo superior to those of auy other part of the earth. Crocodiles, boa constrictors aud lizards are found. There are many dangerous snakes, but iu this densely populated district there are very few, and tho people tell ine that very sol dom is any one bitten by them. They also toil mo that the natives under stand how to cure the worst of the bites by using herbs. Tho flowers of the island are very beautiful, and many years ago a priest ooueoteu tuonsauds ol varieties, aud I saw iu a convent a copy of some books giving a description of eaoh flower and a painting of the flower, apparently in water colors, eaoh paint ing occupying a large space. The market place of each town is filled with men. women and children with their baskets, and fruits aud other artiolot lor tale. Although bananas and cocoanuts grow iu onr yards, we take care not to inolost any thing, but purchase of the natives At first, prices were reasonable, but now we pay about a ceut, Mexican apiece for bananas and about five cents apiece, Mexicau, for coooanuts The natives bring very uioo little fish to us, whioh they oatoh near the lowu. The relations between tho soldiort ' of my command and the people are most cordial. Our soldiers protect ' them in every right, and as they sell market products to tho soldiers at higher rates than formerly obtained, they appreciate this as ono of tho ad vantages our occupation is to thorn. Thero is no limit to the bamboo, which grows with great rapidity, and is used iu building houses. Tho leaves of the nipn palm are used for an outside covering of the roofs of houses. The women do t great deal of labor, and they and the men ofteu wear hats nindo of grass pnlm leaves or bamboo, which ore sometimes thirty inchos in diameter. Theso hats turn water and servo as au umbrella an well as to protect the head from tho sun. I ofteu see women working in tho fields with umbrellas like thoso iu nse iu America. Tho sngnr mills are vory primitive, very much like thoso first constructed in Cuba and other sugar countrios. If the methods of cultivation now in nsc in tho Hawaiian Islands aud Louisi ana were used, and if tho improved ir.auhiuory which those localities now have were introduced, the amount of sugar producod in the Philippines could be increased ninny fold. Tho exports of hump have grently in creased. I loarn the following abont cotton from reliable sources: The cotton tree is found growing in au unculti vated stato iu many of tho islands of tho archnpelago. Long staplo cotton was formerly extensively cultivated iu the province of llocos Norte, w hen, many years ago, largo quantities of good cotton r tuff - were exported. This industry still exists. Tho culti vntiou of this staple was, howover, discouraged by tho local governors, in order to urge tho planting of to bacco for the Government supplies. It has since becomo difficult to revive the cotton production, ' although nn essay in pamphlet form (for which n prize was awardod in Madrid) was gratuitously distributed over the col ony in 1888 with that object. Never theless, cotton spinning and weaving is still carried on, on a reduced scale, in the Iloco provinces (Luzou west const). Wild cotton in practically useless for spinning, as the staple is extreme ly short, but perhaps by hybridization aud careful attention its oulture might become valuable to tho colony. The pod is elliptical and the cotton which bursts from it nt maturity is snow white. It is used for stuffing pillows and mattresses. It is a common thing to soo wild cotton trees planted along the high road to servo as telegraph posts; by the time tho seed is fully ripo, every loaf has fallen aud nothing but the bursting pod remains hanging ou tho brauches. Bailroads judiciously located could bo built very cheaply, and tho dense population and the freight which must exist whero tho production is so abuudant, could make the railroads very profitable. The nativo horses or ponies abouud. They are small but swift and strong. Tho doiuestio animal is fed on rice, mo, esses and grass. These pomos are also lonnd wild in tho forests. Tho buffalo or carabao is tho draught and plow animal of the islands. It is powerful, dooile and easy to train or manage. It is very slow and must be immersed in water every day aud during hot weather two or three times a day. The nesli of the carabao is used for food. When wild it is dangerous aud even when tamed is dangerous it deprived of water baths. Sheep do not thrive, but oxen, goats, dogs, cats, pigs, chickous, ducks, turkeys and goese are more or less abundant. A few deer are tamed; iu a wild state they are frequently seen. The pigs are thin, but show marked traces of the Berkshire-Kentucky species. Freighting nn tho Western l'Inlna. Freighting by ox teams became so important an institution on the plains by 1852 that two companies with' capital of about $10,000 eaoh, made tho transportation of freights from the East over the plains nnd across the mountains to California and New Mexico a regnlarly orgauized outer- prize. Alexauder Majors, who is known all over theWcBt as the priuco of plains freighters, began freighting in 1818 ou the Santa Fe trail with six wagons. James Fuller began a year later with twenty oxen and two wagons, ou the Utah trail. In 18135 tho firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell was formed at St. Joseph, Mo., aud by inhl the llrm employed in its freight transportation to New Mexioo nlone 5000 men, 2300 nngons, nearly 500 horses, 18,000 oxeu and 5000 mules. The capital invested at that time was upward of 1, 800,000, and tho profits of the business woro enormous. The United States paid $270,000 to Russell, Majors & Waddoll iu 1800 for freighting to army camps, aud even more during the days of the Civil War. The company formed by James Fuller for transportation of merchandise, urmy supplies and hides over the Utah trail did a smallor business beeauso the transportation facilities by tho Isthmus of Panama formod a great computing factor iu the California freight businecs. Nevertheless tho Fuller Company em ployed oxen, wagons, horses aud mules that represented u value of $700,000 in 1850. Outwitting B Hull, After five men aud a horse aud cr.rt had tried for an hour to get an unruly bull who had laiu down a half block from the entrance to the Chicago stockyards to get up and move ou to his doom, a boy came along nnd solved tho problem in a moment. He said the bull was tired and hungry, so ho ran into a barn, got a small bunoh of hny, stood in front of the animal, end iu less than two minutes he had it up on its feet. Walking ahead, ho coaxed it iuto the yards and into a pen, in great glee over his success. AinerloHii Hay Abroad. Immense quantities of hey aro be ing shipped from this oountry to the British army .in South Africa and to the Amerioan army in tho Philippines. It is rebalod horo beforo shipment and the regulation packago it about the size aud shape of a nail keg. Dur iug the process it is subjected to great pressure so that a given quantity only occupies about one-third the space re quired by ordinary baled hay. Phila delphia Record, ' ,, FARM Al GARDEN. llt Hnll l-'nr Uiim Ititnnlt. It is a fact that all Lima beans do best upon land moderately rich, as upon a strong muck soil they grow loo rank, have too much foliage, and are not inclined to set- tho pods until the growth of vine has boen checked in some way, either by dry season or by having complotod their growth. This is oven more noticeable iu tho bush Lima than in the pole Lima, and should serve ns a cautiou in regard to the soil they should bo plnuted in and against the use of strongly pitrngene ons manures. Moderately well-manured clay or clay loam seems to bo best adapted lo their growth. An Ksninpla or Parent t'renervntloii. Tu his annual address before toe Wisconsin Forestry Association, Pres ident B. S. Iloxio said that wo are not in tho dark concerning the preserva tion of forests, beeauso iu the old world it is no longer nn experiment. Bohemia is ono of tho most populous countries on the globe. Its climate is cool with rather severe wiutcrs. As a consequence large quantities of fuel are used, most of which is taken from tho forests thnt cover the mountain sides. , For mnuy centuries theso for ests havo fnrnished fuel and building material for a dense population aud retained nearly , their primeval aren. This is duo to tha forethcught nf the government in ordaining that as trees wore cut down others should bo plant ed to fill tho vacancies. Now vast stretches of donso forests cover tha mountain slopes. WHrm Wler I'.n- fnttle. Those who warm the wator for their cows, or sonio who do so, say that the cows noed to drink but onco a day. With the water nt n temperature of sixty degreos thoy will till themselves with enough for twenty-four hours, and as there is no chilling of the sys tem or the digestive organs, the di gestion goes along steadily, aud the milk product is much greater than whou they are watered twico a day with cold water. Wo have no doubt that cows could become occustomod to taking enough water at one time to last all the day and night, but we should prefer that they had it twice n day if they were ours. We never hnd a eow that was a good ouo for milk that would uot driuk, and drink heartily, twice every day iu winter, if tho water was not colder than fifty de props, aud when we have had one that wonld not do so we always found her neither a trolitio milker, a persistent milker, or an easy fatten er. Some times giving suoh a cow u liltlo extra salt iu hor feed will stimulate her thirst so that sho will driuk more freely and regularly. While it was our custom to salt regnlarly we found that some cows seemed to want more thau others, aud we tried to make sure that each one .had enough, though sometimes after buying a cow we found it best to limit hor on salt until sho hnd been accustomed to having it every day. Too much salt, or the too much water they drank afterward, wonld scour them to dis agreeable extent, if not a dangerous one. Boston Cultivator. For Currying Heavy lloxnt. One of the unhandy things to move npou tho farm is s, heavy box which has uc handles or other projections. The illustration shows a contrivance that permits two persons to pick up a heavy box and walk oil' with it. A blacksmith from au old chain and a rod ot irou can make the uuair m a few moments. A pole cau be slipped through the upper links of the ohain to take hold of. American Agrioul tnrist. Iinporlnnre of l'miilnc mill Soil. Excessive pruning is to be credited for a share of the work of destroying tne vigor of trees. Guttiug away great portion of the branches, some of them ofteu lnreo oues, causes decay at tuo point ot severing aud is reoeptaole for insect pests, and tho dostrnctiou of corresponding quantity of roots, which decay aud give rise to fungus growth. Merely rubbing off superfluous buns as soon as they ap pear, or cutting cut diseased or do oayed brauches, usually will be all that is necessary in the line of pruu ing. The other important point iu the process of building up a tree is proper soil. Perhaps from no cause do trees suffer more thau from lack of support from the soil. Orchards are too often planted on indifferent ground, because it is not so good for cultivation; aud for this very reasou it is not so good for fruit-growing, Soil in which corn will grow woll will produce fruit trees. But they must not be left to grow aud bear fruit from year to year, depeuding on the na tural strength of the soil. The cum Hold is not so left, but is replenished eaoh year with more or less fertilizing inatcriar; and bo must the crobard be, if healthy fruit-bearing troes are ob tained. For a situation for an orchard, up laud, with rich loam toil, is best. If it must be ou wet or heavy clay soil, it should be drainod and supplied with plenty of sand or loam, worked well and deep iuto the Boil. Loam or alluvium, composted with manure from tho cattle stalls, is, iu Reneral, a good fertilizer for the orchard, and should bo supplied every two or three years, or oftener if needed. The compost should be worked down deep into the soil at the extremities of the roots, and as deep nearer the tree as can be done without damage to the roots. Such management will insure vigorous, healthy trees, that will not so readily succumb to disease. The Epitomist. A CooU rl- Itsek. Perhaps uo other thing oonueoted with the foediug of sheep has been discussed more thau the rack to fee i in. Mr. L. W. Oviatt, of Miohigai alter many years' experience eon IriVed the rack thowu iu the illustra TT r.XCKI.I.EKT PEVKX I'On MOVINO IIOXP.R. tion, whioh, ho thinks, waste of feed and damaza ,r' more completely than any tttij ... . . " i f IK E ;LJrt r i Vfflo the kw the i-21: ' Flil. 1-AN IMPnOVEl) Kiip.Rf lrooh ' fclllstll: devised. This rack comlni lam sir wings of the folding rack tsrpeff manger-room of thu old rr.cl'j'"' described as follows: ?' The wings (A) in Fig. n,ntoM hinges (B), and may be ti jipel tHiut stand perpendicular on the : tho rack. Theso wins aro i..ri two wido boards, the wider tl1( iib t Tho posts (C) of 2x4 stuir, on t MWt" side of tho rack, hut they Mnl5i"0a eiiuer oni or in. j, nao I ; spnr inches wide; E. top board sit ' ' wido; I, slats, about 3 inHip nt cn it space between r. and 1), &-ntt inches; space- between shits slwoi i inches ns to size of sheep i, "1,un 12-foot rack will aceoinmodait ( ia n 12 sheep on n side. I, bottom fmerst placed entirely under ami i"1 "V iiecurely to the bottom of tlieri5",j center bottom board plucoil nnd hipping onto the other two IP t This leaves a shoulder of on Ll.r.on 1 Weld dnd. FlU. THE HACK iifim.i:em. their 1 IIAS'RKO. against which the shoop can gn. corn or roots of any kind. TMn hs of the rack should bo two feet wo,:lf Tho wings should meet within JLtr" six inches. rJ. Mr. Oviatt thinks thnt the irl'on Biit iu Fig. 2 will be au iij'i" ment on that shown in Fig. 1. ,i,e'ii cut is not properly made, Lotre a The slat (A) should be nu? boards (B), and nailed firmly tt-, i, (('). Ihese remaiu firm and Vi The hinges should bo on top, i f ',' the wide boards (D) con turn T" ,,, rest ou B, B, ont of tho way wt.lt is i wants to clean out the rack. ( wise the wings are the same as i ri(Ub(lJ 1. Ohio Farmer. wk i Ilia It Illeease or 1'oiiltt.r. Ndy Feather Pulling-The mean!!1,',,0 that effects poultry, as they striit all i other until naked, aud as the t'"' : must bo always renewing tho (ei t"0 tho hens caunot lay. It is rtr-pui , idleness, and especially if itctivreny i aro conllued with no oxercne. I ' 1 best preventive is to keep tbij, busy at work scratching, llo'in.i begins it sho will soon teach others; therefore romove tliijfj1, culprit at once. If it becomes!, it is not easily cured. It may u timea bo necessary to sell oft'ttiJ'J and begin anew. We havo teit,,,, from parties who cured the bi'irw p cutting off tho upper or lower sto u UIU, WUICU, Ul UU1HBC. HINkt. ft longer than tho other. After r(, t, off one of them the edges aro i;My down. This makes it dillk'!0 catch a hold on the feathers, Ij'-j aro, are not enre the remedy is inli thro- The first fowl caught iu tho net s-r, ; be at onco killed, as sho will I"T&UI tho others. The cause is idltt When tho neck of the cook is Hf. ' .... I th or the breast bare of fentuerr heus are then picking him. in, awhile thoybegiu to pick ouch t "j Some have smeared tho birds "''-j, out smearing is unsightly, io'tiui cutty is to handle the birds, Hfni-n arated they soon forget it. A that pulls feathers will not 1J,'. tni . hens caunot continually protein, n feathers and eggs during sucbti nu Heus Eatiuo? Their Esris lt .,. oulties egg eating and feather ,0fj5 ing are met with, aud, being Her eo suit of hobit which is acquired,'" uot easily be remedied. As ii,,; hen learns to eat eggs she teach ton vice to the others. To i)ieve.L'- vice is difficult, unless especially,, pv trived nests are arranged, oru, i the hen is so situated that slieS'i!r. well reach the eggs. To prowVn vioe make the nests dark or put fi,-jt in a dark place. Tho nest '-J'Xu have a top so as to compel the wain, i u msieau oi jumpm ' leut should be high enough off of th'U ti: to prevent the hen from standi in the floor and eating out of tlie 0 Nests to Prevont Egg Eatinr ot tho opening of the box ahouldh'M'o wall instead of the light so as i",,. ' tho nest dark. To make biicu . l0 take a soap box and knock r u.. front, leaving the boards on '"l1',. bottom, sides and back end. 3k i- opening of the nost nail on s ' to tho bottom) three inobee high tciof vent the hens from rolling;, out. The floor of the box boip u , seven iuohes off tho floor, whibt m the strip iu front) will briugtl" ing to the net ten inches "l,y.., floor of the room. The beu ih v-. np to the opening, lay her tfW" come off, as she will not have rep , eat the egg while she is on tht o:i". and must come off, in whioh c-"i tu.-. canuot reach it from the floor. I1'- nrtut hnr ehorld bn nntv lar6 etL '. " i" irt D,.,.....,,ll. tl.o linil.'l lav- Fiold aud Fireside. -'- KnllirlitAlilnr Her Mrs. Flighty "Well, wbattt1 ft est war nows. dear? Mr. liantT ibehinu uis r "Ou I Aguinaldo has warned h' j Buller to keep his foroes wi'ai'J limits of Ladysinitb, or he ' lease all the prisoners at Otis aud hit brigade moved o aud gave battle to Ooui I u.'' losses were enormous over "x dred and fifty Tagala aud dred and two Kafllr-Boeri slaughtered!" Mrs. Flighty (shuddering!;)'' war perfeotly horrid I But I tuou au interest in it 1" -Puck- Nl ft; so I Ir kn J
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