I ANOTHER FILIPINO REVOLT I IS! jt Comedy of N explanation it must bo ' acknowledged that the "hvo Filipino warrior anil wild unin" had endured raoro chaffing, that flay, from the "barker" of tho !,rvy ohow thau his self-respect lT as a white man and a citi zen would allow him to bonr cheer fully. And for that reason he sulked ut table whoa the management and tii staff of tho Bowery "Pulaoo of Illusions and Turkish Beauty Show" sat down together in their eating room to a liinchoon of bread and sau sages. It was tho midday iutermis ftioa. Below stairs, the barrel orgau was dumb. The wicket of the ticket oflico was empty of its vision of bella donna eyes and cornstarch shoulders. Tho hall of illusion of inoandesceut lights and bewildering mirrors was dark and d exerted. And the curtains in the last compartment of the exhibi tion parted limply on a vacant stage where two ancients in flaxun wig hud beou poniug against the shabby hang ing of a Turkish harem. Hero in tho eating-room, tho com pany was gathered about n greasy pine table that stood between the cooking-stove and the sink, A feeblo light, filtering through the dirty win dows npon the bare arms and bare shoulders of the women, showed a suspicious difference in color between tho rough arm that had not been powdered and the tender whito of the neck that had. The lad who tortured the agonized orgau down stairs chewed rhythmically on a tough crnstof bread, his head still turning tunes, his eyes et in the vacant stare of un animal at foed. A young girl beside him, with a smudged face and untidy hair, choked on her s.msage, and "Suipey," the counterfeit Mexican for whom she posed as the human target in the great dagger-throwing "stunt" of tho free performance, ralliod her with a facetious "Think yoh'd been swallowin words." The tioknt-offlce beauty, who was the manager's wife, grinned at this wit, and the scrawny beauties in the tawny wigs lifted their pencilled eye brows appreciatively but with care. The rauuager he was the "barker" and tho olllcial "bouncer" in one musonlar person directed the eyes of tue company to ihe sulking "Filipino" with a wink aud a nod. "Think he'd boeu swallowing insults," he chuckled. "Aguiualdo," as they called him, pretended not to hour, huroed over his plate and glowering at a knot in the table. He had covered his paint ed nudity with an overcoat and an underskirt. lie had pulled off his rusty wig, and taken out tho ring of none that had been pinched into bis nostrils, nut arouud his eyes were still two circles of yellow ochre. His color was red brick-dust to within an inch of his lint black hair, and there it turned skin white. When he ate his sausage, ho drew back his painted lips and took tho food carefully be tween his teeth. The grimace set his lace for a savago snarl. "Eats human flesh," the manager quoted at it, and laughed again con temptuously. The ticket-office exhibit drew her eyes over her husband slowly, and fiwung a glanco down the tablo at the Filipino. "Agninaldo" was staring at his tormentor tlnmbly. "Looks ai it he'd like to cat me, don't he?" tho latter whispered loudly to the table. They either laughed or they did not. The organist did not because ho was thinking of nothing, "Hnipey" laughed to curry favor with the management, and tho two women laughed because they understood the game that was being played and mocked at it. They knew that "Agninaldo" did not dare to faee an open rupture for fosr he should find himself on the street. There was a note in their cackliug that was a chal lenge to the manager. "Any timo he likes to try a chaw at me, I in game," he blustered. There was no answer. VI ain't heard that Filipinos are much on the light," "Snipey" laaghod. "Aguiualdo" picked up his over oat, and slouched away to his sleep ing room, pattering down the hull with bare feet. The organ grinder, who shared the room, followed him. "Agninaldo," in his room, cast off the shirt he wore, and appeared in a pair of kniokerboskers, from which the legH hud been amputated high on the thigh. He had only a coat of brown stain to protect the bulk of his body from the chill air. "I won't stand it much longer," he said to hiin- eu ami me uoy. "i a sooner be a aandwich man again.' The imitation bear-skin whioh he hooked about his hips did nothing to warm or con sole bim. 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' fun at him." He 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 vioe, and pulled his eyebrows high on his forehead. Then the bone ring fouud a sore spot in his nostrils. He looked at himself in the glass. He had hot itch of revolt in his blood the revolt of an irritated skin against the discomfort of a hair shirt and he ahook his fist savagely at his re flection in the mirror. Then he went into the baok of the shop whio'i nerved to house the exhibition, and from the wreck of a discarded peep wkow drew oat a flask, ft would keep out the cold. It also kept in the heat the heat, that is of his irri tation aud raixlug with the luncheon, jtUrted a rebellion iu his head. Wkn he heard a thundering demand fur his prompt appearance from that triane oppressor, the manager, "bark er" and "bonnoer," be lifted the tail W his bearskin and thrust the flaik into the hip-pocket of his legless knickerbockers, planning to have a:l either driukjn his cage. The manager did not see anything i a his manner except a ohilduh bad bamor, and "Agninaldo," oltmbiwf 4au ttt his platfoiw, got over the side By H. J. O'Higgins I I3overy Life. of a box whioh was seven foet louc. mroo iuoi wiiio ana lour feet high. He sat down in the bottom of it. A wire top was added, making the side three feet higher, so that wheu the exhibition began he might stand up without showing more thau bis head and chest to the pnblio who had not yet passed the ticket olllco to the platform on which he was clevotod. Wheu not roneod by the manager to a mock fury that flung him with savage hands upon this wire netting, he sat with his back against the nd of tho box and his legs outstretched bo fore him, scowling nt the faces which showed ovor tho sido of his oage. Tho enameled bcouty was nlroady in the tioket oflice. "Snipey" and the humau target, were on the plat form in frontof "Agninaldo's" box. A culioo screen hung between them and the Hall of Illusions, and behind that screou the boy waited with tho hand organ. There were two lines of muta scopes in tho hall, and at the fur end of it, behind a row of curtaius, there was tho machinery of throe optical il lusions arrangements of lights and mirrors for the prodnctiou of the "vanishing lady," the "boheadod lady," aud tho "animatod bust." A door besido these enrtains led into the second compartment where the scrawny beauties posed. There was a third room with nothiug in it but tho brokcu ,jeep-show and such old lumber. And tho method of tho entertain ment was just this. A crowd was gathered by the invitations of the I'barker" at the door, and welcomed into the free show bosido the ticket office. From that the honey-touguod orator drew them past the oflico (where they paid live cents each) over "Aguin aldo'a" platform into tho Hall of Illu sions. Tb9 entertainment there was rather disappointing after the prom ises of the placard and pictures in the windows and of tho manager on the platform. It would cost ton cents more to realize those promises iu tho next compartment. A number of "touts" led tho gulls into the Beauty Show, where they received another disappoint ment when the golden -haired antiques were posed for them. They were told then that iu tho last compartment thero was something that they must not inform the police about. It would cost teu cents moro to see it. If any were fools enough to pay that ten couts, they came upon the lumber room. The three touts laughed at them. The manager aud "Snipey" owed them. The lights had been turned down, and if they ha.l any money left in their pockets, they were glad to escape by a sido door and say nothing. It was this progression the manager intended to begin when he called out from the door, "Are yeh all reac"y?" Tho organ staggered into an uncertain melady for answer. "Suipey" twirled his tiu-bladed daggers ou tho plat form. The vision in the ticket-oflice smiled, and "Aguiualdo," hidden in his packing-case, got the bottle from under his bearskin and attempted to tilt it to bis lips. He had forgotten the bone ring that hung from his nose as low as his lower lip, and he spilt tho preeions liquor over his face und down his neck before he knew it. Then he jerked out the inconvenient decoration scratching tho tender skin of his nostril as he' did if, so that his nose began to bleed wiped off his faoe with his hand, smudging tho liquor-loosened colors aud drank co piously. The manager had thrown open the door and was already casting bait to his gndgeon. "Walk iu, gents, walk in. Free performance right on the inside. No charge for admission. The finest show on tho Bowery. Th' orig inal Palace of Illusions an' Turkish Beauty Show. Children uot admitted. Walk iu, boys, walk in. It's free gratis for uothin'. Step right in side. Don't block the entrance." The three "touts" who had boen gazing at tho photographs of the chorus-girls in the window, led tho inva sion. It was a holiday afternoon. There were youths sight-seeing on the Bowery who would not venture thero aftor dark, and the barker's invitation gathered them iu. "Free performance) just beginning," he kopt crying. . "Suipey" began to juggle, with his daggers. When tho crowd iucreaseJ, he cast one against a shield of thick planks. The orgau stopped. Iu n uervous silence "Jenny," who had been waiting in the back -ground, stood up besido the dagger iu the plank, aud the "Mexican," throwing aside his sombrero, cast the live re maining knives at her, one by one. They struck iu a circle about her head, and the musio burst out again trium phantly. This performance was repeated un til soma 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 plaoe beside "Bnipey." The music ohoked off on an unfinished bar. "Now, gents," be said, "just a mo ment w'ile I tell yeh w'at we got in side. I got the finest show that ever opened on the Bowery. First an' foremost, boys, we got the' Filipino warrior an wil' man" pointing from the painting of a hairy cannibal pur sued by soldiers to the box in whioh the invisible "Aguiualdo" steadiod 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'll see'tu there, by Signor Marobesi" pointing to "Suipey." "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'll see'in in all hit native barbarity, the sulkiest' brute that evei eat a pork sausage. Women faints at sight of him. But yeh don't need to be afraid, boys. He's " Thore was a snicker from the audi ence. An indescribable faoe had ap peared over the side of the paoking oase. "Agninaldo" had pushed baok his wis to cool his forehead, and th brown of bis complexion ended in a whito line ovor his eyes. Yellow oobro, blue tattnoings, brown paint, and tho red of his bleeding nose had run and mixed together in a mess of enlor on cheek aud chiu. He blinked drunkenly the crowd, and drummed on the wires of his cage with tho cjapty flask to stop the speech. "Y'er a liar." he said thickly. A yell of laughter drowned the man ager's furious onth. "Y'or a liar an' a fakir," he said slowly, "an'yershow ain't worth any more thau y' ore yer self an' that's uuthin' but debts. IHe owes mo fer two weeks' salary," be explained to the screaming pnblio, "an he's tryiu' to bully me into quit tin' so's ho won't have to pay ino." For the moment the manager had stood by, helplessly. But when he beard the "Filipino" abuso the "finest show on tho Bowery," and recognized tho malice of his attempt to frighten away the full haul of gudgeon that was coming into his net, he rushed upon tho cage with an agonized and en raged "Drunken fool" thnt lifted above tho storm of laughter like a woman's scream in a shipwreck. The object iu tho cage answered it with au inarticu late howl in the same pitch of voice, and tho mirth of the andionco fol lowed iu a screech. The manager grasped the wires and shook them furiously. "Aguiualdo" pounded his lingers with the bottle, yelling like a demon. Then, "Snipey," awakening from a stupor of bewilderment, slipped tho fastening on the cage aud threw off tho top. Tho shrill cry of "the warrior and wild man" was choked in his throat by the lingers of the raging mannger. But the "Filipino" was no weakling. He throw himself forward, pounding his assailant. The cage camo ovor 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 iu a tangle of arms ..aud legs that kicked and fought aud tore tho clothes of the Mexican and the inauager with a fe rocity that would have shamed the most determined Filipino that ever fought. 4. mob, gathering in from the street, howled and applauded. "Jenjiy" screamed and wept. The ticket-office beauty turned pale arouud her rouge, aud the organ-grinder and tho antiques from the Beauty Show gazed over the, calico screen in mute terror. It was n wild iniuuto beforo "Agnin aldo" was choked into helplessness, carried bodily into the Hall of Illu sions and held face down, with "Sui pey" on bin shoulders, until the man ager cleared out the crowd. Wheu a slow policeman came up to the gapiug mob at the windows, he fouud the front door chut and all quiet within. "Aguiualdo" was sleeping peacefully on tho floor, covered with a curtain from the Turkish harom. "Suipey" was sitting by tho stove upstairs, sew ing up tho rents in his Mexican cos tume. The manager was bathing his face iu the sink. "What happened?" he said to the officer. "Oh, auother Filipino revolt. An' yon bet I'm a auti-expansioner hencefort' an' forever more. Madge," he said to his wife, "get that feller's money ready. He gets his auto-nomy to-night." New York Post. Plain l'lalielan llapiiliimii. "I suppose," she said, "that you had an ancestor in the celebrated lit tle party that 'came over' with Will iam tho Conqueror?" "Perhaps," he replied, "but I have nover lookod tho matter up." "Of course you are a lineal de scendant of some one who came over iu the Mayflower?" "I don't know. It is possible that I um, but I have never hunted up the reoords." "Well," she went on, "you are descended from an officer of the Revo lutionary .War, aren't you?" Finding himsolf cornered, he broke down and confessed. "My father's name," he said, "was Szfchzerskondowski, which he changed to Dows, with the sanction of the court." She sat for a inomout, almost crushed. Then hope seemed to re turn to her, and she askod: "How much did you say you 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 answered briskly; "wo cau worry aloug without the liueago and still bo happy, dear." Chicago Times-Herald. Ois or ftiuricoun' Dull Knyi. Tho late Charles Haddou Spurgeon was uot one of those geniuses who suddenly beoomu a revolution to their friends. As a child he was exceed ingly iutolligent, and his subsequent development was continuous. His schoolmaster looked to him whenever a question had long 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 and stayed thore. Tho teaoher was puzzled; his prize pnpil seemed to have lost every spark of intelligence. But as he thought, he notioed that Spurgeon at tho foot of the class, sat right iu front of the stove. It took but a moment to re arrange the pupils. The head boy was given the warm seat, and Spur geon was placed next the window. Then the questions began again. The ohange was complete. From that moment Spurgeon did not hesi tate for the right answer. Five min utes later he was once more at the head of the class, sitting in frout of the stove. Youth's Compauion, A Strang Campaign Kit, To find instanoes of the appalling impracticability distinguishing the formation of Great Britain's irregular corps, it is only necessary to read the list of the kit being taken out by the City of Loudon Volunteers. The officers of this body carry to the plaius of South Africa an air pillow, oork mattress, canvas basin, cauvas buoket, a tin box of oandles, a lantern a filter and a host of other impedi ments that an American oflioer would burn before starting on a ten miles' march, while the men are laden down with fonr pair of trousers, four pair of shoes, three eaps, pajamas, two lury.e Turkish towels, a filter, a olotuesbrusb, a writing portfolio and other domestic artiolej. No wonder e British forces are not mobile, A PHILIPPINE KESUME, GENERAL WHEELER WRITES A SUR VEY OF PEOPLE AND RESOURCES. MnenlDcencs of tlie Clmrrlic ami Mon aaterlita Mntlvna lres n Tliajr I l t SOOO Yrnr Aen Fallnro of ths Itlce Crop Would muM a tatnlnn. y ENERAL JOSEPH WHEEL I f ER, of Iho United States VjT Army, writes as follows to tho New York Sun from Hantu Rita, Philippine Islands: I hove now seen much of tho eoun try nnd tho people in thnt part of Ln .on for about fifty miles north of Ma nil a. Iu every town there- is a mag uificent stono church nnd a convent or monastery. Tho vol no 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 storohensen are also ex pensively constructed buildings. They have very thick stone walls aud either tile or metal roofs and cover consid erable space of ground; Lome of them have dimensions of about sixty or sev enty foet by 100 foot. There is a general impression that Ilia insurgent army is mado up vory largely of people without property, nnd that people who havo property desiro the Americans to control so that they can have protection and feel that their property is socurod to them, but I find that there is also a fear or apprehension among somo of the wealthy that if tho Americans control and givo universal suffrage, the power of tho wealthy people would le taken away and their hold on 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 vory good effect. The friars and priests uro charged with all sorts of oppressions and mis demeanors, but it must bo remem bered that frinrs and priests nro very Humorous, and in so largo a body there will bo found every possiblo phase of character and disposition. The religious orders are vory rioh. They have been acquiring prorerty for nearly three centuries. Tho statement I have seen that seventy per cent, of the people of Lu zon cau read aud write is a great mis take. It may bo true of Manila, but it is not true of the rural distriets, and the percentage of illiteraoy in the other islands is much greater than in Luzon. The appearance, mode of life aud method of performing work is to-day very much like that described iu the Bible of tho bogiuuiug of the Chris tian era. Tho pooplo dreRs very much as they did 2000 years ago, the means of transportation by carts drawn by eara boan is about the same, and their methods of shelling aud cleaning rieo are us primitive as possible aod uo better thau they were 2000 years ngo. During tho hist few years sugar mills aud rice mills have been erected iu some of the larger cities, and this has especially been the case since the building of the Mauila and Dagupan Railroad, but in the smaller cities and towns rieo is husked by pounding by hnud, and is winnowed by throwing it up and thus sepnratingtbe chaff just as iu tho curliest times. Nearly everything can be grown, but orauges and bananas are not as good as iu other localities, the reason uo doubt being that they seoui to give them no cultivation whatever. If they wore cultivated I believe they would bo as line as the products of any other country. Tobacco is 'grown in the valley of Cagayau, iu the northeastern part of Luzon, which is said to bo equal to any tobacco in the world. The ooffee grown is said to bo superior to Mocha. Rico is the principal product, and a failure of that crop will cause a terri ble famine, as the people depend al most entirely upon it for food. Sugar is the principal crop for export. Tho greatest amount exported iu any one year was 201,081 tons, which was in 1893. Corn grows very rapidly and tho ears reooh their full growth about sixty days from the time of planting. The provinces which are especially spoken of as productive of corn or roaizo are Viscays, Isabella, South Cainarines, Pampanga, Pangosinan, Nueva Eoija, Bnlacou, Bataugas, Albay aud Abray. Wheat is grown in Batangns and San Isidro, Isabel aud Ilooos Sur. Thore is a great abundunoe of very valuable timber in these lslauds and many varieties of beautiful hard woods under native names, such as mahogany, black walnut and ebony. Gold, oopper, coal, irou, sulphur, lead, building stone, petroleum aud guano are fouud. There are many different tribes liv ing iu thoso islauds, the ouly ones iu native rebellion beiug the Tagalos. This tribe occupies some eight prov inces in the neighborhood of Manila, and their association with Europeaus has made thorn more civilized than other tribes. Monkeys ore numerous, the flying squirrel whioh has a flue skiu is found, aud also the wild oat, the wild hog, and tho water buffalo. The lion, the tiger, the hyena, leopard and the bear are found iu these islands. Iu variety, plumage and oharmiug sing ing the birds aro said to be superior to those of auy other part of the earth. Crocodiles, boa constrictors nnd lizards are fouud. There are many dangerous snakes, but iu this densely populutud district there are very few, and tho people toll me that very sel dom is any one bitten by them. They also toll mo that the natives under stand how to cure the worst of the bites by usiug herbs. The tlowers of the island are very beautiful, and mauy years ago a priest colleoted thousands of varieties, aud I saw in a convent a oopy of some books giving a description of eaah flower aud a painting of the flower, apparently in water colors, each paint ing occupying a large space. The market plaoe of each town is filled with men, women and children with their baskets, and fruits and other artioles lor sale. Although bananas and ooooanuts grow iu our yards, we take care not to molest any thing, but purchase of the natives. At first, prices were reasonable, but now we pay about a cent, Mexican, apieoe for bananas and about five cents apiece, Mexican, for cooounuts. The natives bring very nioe little fish to ns, whioh thuy oatch near the town. Tho relations between thesoldiori of ray command and the people are most cordial. Our soldiers protect them in every right, nud as they sell market products to tho soldiers at higher rates than formerly obtaiued, they appreciate this as one of tho ad vantages our occupation is to them. Thero is no limit to the bamboo, which grows with grcnt rnpidity, and is used iu building houses. The leaves of the nipa palm are used for nn outside covering of the roofs of houses. The woineu do a great deal of labor, and they and the men often wear hats made of grass palm leaves or bamboo, which are sometimes thirty inchos in diamotur. Thcso hats turn water and serve as au umbrella an woll as to protect the head from tho suu. I ofteu see women working in tho fields with umbrella like those iu nse iu America. Tho sugar mills are vory primitive, very inncli like those first constructed iu Cuba and other sugar countries. H the methods of cultivation now in ns in tho Hawaiian Islands and Louisi ana were used, and if tho improved rcnehiuory whioh those localities now have were introduced, the amount of sugar produced in tho rhilippiues could be increased many fold. Tho exports of hump have greatly in erensod. I learn the following abont cotton from reliable sources: The cotton tree is fouud growing in au unculti vated stnto in many of the islands of tho archapelago. Long staplo cotton was formerly extensively cultivated in the province of llocos Norte, when, mnny years oiro, Inriro ounutities of good cotton stun" were exported. 1 liia industry still exists. Tho culti vation of this staple was, however, discouraged by tho looal governors, iu 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 a prize was awarded in Madrid) wan gratuitously distributed over the col ony in 1888 with that objeot. Never theless, cotton spinning and weaving is still carriod on, on a reduced scale, in the lloco provinces (Luzou west coast). Wild cotton is practically useless for spinning, as the staple is extreme ly short, but perhaps by hybridization aud careful attention its oultitre 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 shilling pillows and mattresses. It is a common thing to soo wild cotton trees planted along the high road to serve as telegraph posts; by i the tune tho seed is fully npo, overy leaf has fallen and nothing but the bursting pod remains hanging ou the branches. Railroads judiciously located could bo built very cheaply, and tho dense population and the freight whioh must exist where tho prodnctiou is so abnudant, could make tho railroads very profitable. The nativo horses or ponies abouud. They are small' bnt swift and strong. Tho domostio auimal is fed on rice, molr.ssos and grass. These ponies are also found wild in the 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. Tho flesh of the carabao is used for food. When wild it is dangerous nud even when tumod is dangorous if deprived of water baths. Shoep do not thrive, but oxou, goats, dogs, cats, pigs, chickous, ducks, turkeys and geese aro moro or less abundant. A few deer aro tamed; in a wild state they are frequently seen. The pigs aro thin, bnt show marked traces uf the Berkshire-Kentucky species. Frelehtlne on tho Wrutem l'laltis. Freighting by ox teams became bo important an institution on the plains by 1852 that two companies with' capital of abont $10,000 eaoh, mado the transportation of freights from the East over the plninti and aoross the mountains to California and New Mexico a regularly organized outer prize. Alexander Majors, who is known all over the West as the prince of plains freighters, began freighting in 1813 ou the Santa Fe trail with six wagons. James Fuller began a year later with twenty oxen and two wagons, on the Utah trail. In 1855 tho firm of Russell, Majors k Waddell was formed at St. Joseph, Mo., and by 18(11 the firm employed in its freight transportation to New Mexieo nlone 5000 men, 2300 wagons, nearly 500 horses, 18,000 oxen und 5000 mulos. The capital invested at that time was upward of $1,800,000, and tho profits of the business were enormous. The United States paid 8270,000 to Russoll, Majors k Waddell iu 1800 for freighting to army camps, aud evon more during the days of the Civil War. The company formed by James Fullor for transportation of merchandise, army supplies and hides over the Utah trail did a smaller business beoauso the transportation facilities by the Isthmus of Pnnauia formod a great competing factor iu the California freight bnuinecs. Nevertheless the Fuller Company em ployed oxen, wagons, horses aud mules that represented u value of $700,000 in 1850. Outwitting Hull. After five men aud a horse and enrt had tried for an hour to get an unruly bull who had laiu down a half block from the entrance to tho Chicago stockyards to get up and move ou to his doom, a boy oarae along and solvod tho problem in a moment. He said the bull was tired and hungry, so ho ran into a barn, got a small bunoh of hay, stood in front of the animal, end iu less than two minutes he had it up on its feet. Walking ahead, ho oouxed it into the yards and into a pen, in great glee over his sucoesa. Amarloau Hay Abroad. Immense quantities of hey oro be ing shipped from this country to the British army .in South Africa and to the American army in tho Philippines. It is rebated hero beforo shipment and the regulation pankago is about the size and shape of a nail keg. Dur ing the prooess it is subjected to great pressure so that a given quantity only ocoupies about oue-tbird the space re quired by ordinary baled hay. Phila delphia Record, ... , 1 ytMUt,Ut4bMAAAtii nm ami umm. llftnt Soli For I.linM Itimn. It is a fact that nil Lima beans do best upon land moderately rich, as upon a strong muck soil they grow too rank, have too much foliage, nud are not inclined to -set tho pods until the growth of vine has boon checked in some way, either by dry season or by having complotod their growth. This is even more noticeable in tho bush Lima than in the polo Lima, nnd should serve ns a caution in regard to the soil they should be planted in and ngniust the use of strongly nitrogeno ous manures. Moderately well-manured clay or clay loom seems to bo best adapted fo their growth. An Kxntitpla of Forest I'roiiomitlaii. Tn his nnnunl address before Toe Wisconsin Forestry Association, Pres ident B. S. Iloxio said that wo are not in the dark concerning the preserva tion of forosts, becauso iu the old .world it is no longer nu experiment. Bohemia is ono of tho most populous countries on the globe. Its climnto is cool with rather severe wiuters. As a conscqnonce large quantities of fuel are used, most of which is tanen from tho forosts that cover the mountain sides. . For mauy centuries theso for ests havo furnished fuel and building material for a dense population and retained nonrly, their primeval nren. This is due io tha forethought 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 the mountain slopes. Warm VVntvr I'or futile Those who warm the wator for thpir cows, or some who do so, any thnt the cows noed to drink but onco a day. With the water nt a temperature of sixty degrees tlioy will till themselves with enough for twenty-four hours, and as thoro is no chilling of the sys tem or the digestive organs, tho 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 accustomod to taking enough water at oue time to last all the day and night, but we should prefer that they had it twice ft day if they were ours. Wo never hnd a cow that was u good ono for milk that would uot driuk, nnd drink heartily, twice every day iu winter, if tho water was not colder than fifty de grees, and when we have had one that would not do so we always found her neither a f rolitio milker, a persistent milker, or an easy fuitntier. Some times giving such a cow u little extra salt in hor feed will stimulate her thirst so that she will drink more freely and regularly. While it was our custom to salt regnlarly we found that some cows seemed to want more than others, and we tried to make snre that each ono had enough, though sometimes after buying a cow we found it best to limit her on salt until sho had beou uncustomed to having it every day. Too much salt, or the too much water they drank afterward, would soour them to dis agreeable extent, if not a dangerous oue. Boston Cultivator. For Carrying llaary lloxni. One of the unhandy things to movo npon the farm is a heavy box which has nc 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 of iron can make the affair iu a few moments. A pole cau be slipped through the upper links of the chain to take hold of. American Agricul turist. Iinpni'lHni-a or I'ruiiliig nml Soil. Excessive pruning is to be credited for a share of the work of destroying the vigor of trees. Cuttiug away a grent portion of the branches, some of them ofteu large one's, causes decay nt tho point of severing aud is a receptacle for insect pests, and tho destrnctiou of corresponding quantity of roots, whioh deoay and give rise to fungus growth. Merely rubbing off superfluous buds ns soou as they ap pear, or cuttiug cut diseased or de cayed brauohes, usually will bo all that is necessary in the line of prun ing. The other important point iu the process of building up a tree is proper soil. Perhnps 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 mill grow well will produce fruit trees. But they must not be left to grow and bear fruit from year to year, depeuding on the na tural strength of the Boil. The corn field is not so left, but is replenished each year with more or less fertilizing material1; and so must tho orchard be, if healthy fruit-bearing trees are ob tained. For a situation for an orchard, up land, with rich loam soil, is best. If it must be on wet or heavy clay soil, it should be drained aud supplied with plenty of sand or loam, worked well and deep into tho soil. Loam or alluvium, composted with mauure from tho cattle stalls, is, iu general, a good fertilizer for the orchard, and should bo supplied evory two or three years, or oftoner if needed. The compost should be worked down deep into the soil nt 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 L'pitomist. A Good rtfp Hack. Perhaps uo other thing oonneoted with the feediug of sheep has been discussed more than the rack to feel iu. Mr. L. W. Ovlatt, of Miohiga J, after many years' experionoe con trived the taok shown in the illustra EICRLI.ItKT EVI(T. POn MOVINfi IIOJF.R. tion, whioh, ho thinks waste of feed and damage vwinj'JUkOIJ IUI1II nilj FKI. I AN IMPROVED Kilt lOKtl . J irttlr devised. This rack coin!,; " wings of the folding rack fp"s manger-room of tho old rt ,nd. dnscribod as follows: j a', The wings (A) in Fig. fom hinges (U), and may bo tipp, stand perpendicular on the?', the) rack. Thcso wius ar? k'i two wide boards, the wider t- W t Tho posts (C) of 2x4 stuff, ot "l!n side of the ruck, but they ftv.lu either out or in. 1), hac ifr inches wide; E, top board m: ' wide; F, slats, nbout 3 inc!;",. space between E and 1), ',11,1, inches; spaco between slat or 1 inches as to size of sheep i,on 12-foot rack will aucommoili 12 sheep on a side. I. bottoi.ir placed entirely nuder nn.;"!'1 iiocurely to the bottom of Uumi center bottom board plneedfron nnd lapping onto the other 1 the This leaves a shoulder of o n 0 -ll FtO. BACK DIFFKKEJ-dr f KAXOK1). rn' . tout against which the shoep can c K' coru or roots of any kind, T.ftai of the rack should bo two foet The wings should meet willir.!",, six inches. Mr. Oviutt thinks that the !,on' ment iu Fig. 2 will be nu i.J ' inent on that shown in l'i" :tet cnt is not properly made, tfeai The s nt I A1 shnn 1 a n; X, boards (B), and nailed nroiljibj it;). These remain firm iwhVJi The hinges should bo on top, t the wide boards (D) cuu turn ttht rest on B, B, out of tho way 'is n wants to clean out the rack. wise the wings Bre the Hauiei'j1 1. Ohio Farmer. liti Dlacaaei of poultry. ty I Feather Pulling-Tlie menf that effects poultry, as they st 4u u' other until naked, and ns ttjst b must be always renewing llwlr0'' tho hens caunot lay. It is ci I idleness, and especially if tidi ly are confined with no oxeroieBl best preventive is to keep tlifaJ busy at work scratching. II i". begins it sho will soon te'.M: others; therefore remove 'igL1 cnlprit at onco. If it becoDU!tot it is not easily cured. It mi' i times be necessary to sell off ami uugiu anew, ire navu "'ship from parties who cured the L.f pir cutting off the upper or lower j' .1 l tit ... ble, which, of course, nm to longer than tho other. After off one of them the edges are down. Thin makes it tliOi catch a hold on tho feathers, nu an 'J v it k i th are not sure the remedy is in'- rIMiA fimr fnivl Annrrlif in tlia Hi1!' be at onco killed, as sho wilt (-Ja tuo others. The cause is i-le Wlimi tlm nAP.If nf tho iHink iC V or the breast bare of fcntbi hens are then picking him. awhile tliev lieoin to nick oacli Some have smeared the birds but smearing is unsightly. 1 oulty is to huudlo the birds. ' arated they soon forgot it. i thnt pulls feathers will uot hrj 1 hens caunot continually prorio: feathers and eggs during sue!' Hens Eating Their EsTs a i u c In c oulties egg eating and feathery-,, ing are met with, aud, being ou. suit of habit which is ncq iir lo uot easily be remedied. A" 11 Vi; , hen learns to eat eggs she teacttj . vice to the others. To pre'" vice is diflionlt, unless ospecii i trived nests aro arranged, o'ti i the hen is so situated that she kuu woll reach the eggs. To ire"t. ' vioe make tue nests darn or p"L i, in a dark place. The nest m have a top so as to oompel the 4 walk iu instead of jumping uu tl R should be high enough otToftun to prevent the ben from BianJtutu the floor and eating out of tef0l Nests to Prevent Egg Hatiofw u tho opening of the box should'te t wall instead of the light so tho nest dark. To make siKH take a soap box and knock mjl front, leaving the boards on t- i bottom, sides and back ouil. opening of the nest nail on ' tho bottom) three inobes h'sM . ' ' vent the hens from rolling 'f' out. The floor of the box b r J seven inobes off tho floor, wto-4nu the strip in front) will brinK!''' ing to the neft ten inches f'J, , floor of the room. The ken y, up to the opening, lay uer i -nr :n l..i-fli uuiub uu, oa duo win ijuii eat tue egg wuiie sue s ou "'. u and must come off, in which ok, . oanuot reaoh it from the noo' nest box should be ouly large : to accommcdate tho lieu." Fiold and Fireside. " KnllKhtaiiliiK Hor- Mrs. Flighty "Well, est war nows, dear?" Mr. .Flighty behind ui rj, "On! Aguinaldo has warned Buller to keep his foroes ' limits of Ladysmitb, or he ' lease all the prisoners at Otis aud his brigade moved ' aud gave battle to Ooin 1'"., losses were enormous over drad and fiftv TiliaIh and B'"'l dred and two Kaflir-Bo"" slaughtered!" Mrs. Flighty (shudderingly)' war perfectly horrid! But I ueh au interest in it I" -P"" M vX M z to V tDCM- 11
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