THE OPTIMISM OF NATURE. M'itTHTTB. 'A I mrhat An tl.a In their low surge-sob on the 'beach? yv o him me snore as we may, AnrI fflnrtHpn mm fa mm w-a xaartk And, bending low down, hangs many I The blowings we give to beseech." Anil lvlot fl,iua,.a it-n al f What returns lor the storm's rude oiasi r "U'a lrink nf ll.. a..- n.l II.. .1 When the (rown and the terror r past; We lilt our fores, derrful and true, And smile on the world to the last." Ye stars of the distant sky, We alc why yo twinkle so bright. Methinks 1 hear your reply, "Our home is a reuion nf lin-lil- We beam with radiance pure, from on i To lessen the gloom of the night." They hail us from every side, And our visions of life expand; Sweet voicings! they're near to abide, Their misvion cnuld we understand As angels of. good they're near us to guide With touch of a magical wand!, We may not dispel the rloud. Nor the lightning's scathe avert; With troubles we may be bowed. Though ever upon the alert; lint why should our folly the soul en shroud, ' Or fear from the right divert? Fond nature, so kind and so true! .She treats us with never a slight; She spangles the nights with dew, And wakes our affections with lizht; Ilcr blessings, her gifts, her rewards arc not few, In all and through all to requite. Success. i THE WARDEN'S RECRUIT A TRUE STORY. -lly John Dickinson Sherman. IX IVkln, upholding Mir- dlgulty of tl Stum a mi stripes, thorn is a young I.'iiited States mnrlui! with 4 iin unusual history. The war den or a Stnte penitentiary Is willing to guarantee that the young murine will serve his country faithfully uuil well. William Simmons la not the marine's name, but so we may call him; and this is hi story the true story of the value of a kind word: gtmmoiis's boyhood was passed In the slum districts of the West Side of Chicago. Ills companions were ruf fians ami thieves, and In time he be came the loader of a gnu;;, nnd a bold and reckless criminal. Ills history during Iila youug manhood Is written 1u the blotters of the West Side sta tions ami In the records of the crim inal court. Two years ago a series of daring highway robberies raised on unusual outcry. SimtoiiM was under suspicion, and thought It best 'o leave Ohlcngo. He hung about U town In Indiana for several weeks. ' Then the safe of a storekeeper waB blown opiyi one night and several hundred dollars taken. A week or two later Simmons was caught nt Fort Wayne In the very net of opening a safe. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for ouo year Simmons did not make a nioTul con vict. At first bis sole thought was to break Jail. After two weeks of plan ning he ojjiuiitcd 1 S'"'J w,iiu a 5' and umde n desperate effort toeJcape, but was overpowered and punished by confinement in the dungeon. When, after n reatnnablc time, he was brought biiek to his cell, ho was far from being subdued; he was as ugly as a caged wild beast, and refused to work. Hack he went to the dungeon. In the meantime the warden had kept an" observant eye on the young convict, had seen that Tie was Intelli gent, and rejolveJ to nppeal to his reason. After Simmons had been long enough iu the dungeon to nuiet down, the warden went to him and said: "Now see here, young man, you are gaining nothing by acting like this. You are no fool, and you can reason the situation out for yourself. You've no chance nt ull along your present line. If you are ugly, you've got a bad year ahead of you. I've been watch ing you, nnd I believe you bavo some better traits than you bavo shown.' Why not try the other tack? I w&ut you to live up to the rules of the prison and behave ydurscif. It's a much, e tini er proposition thnu the one you've manned out. You turn over n now leaf and the guards will treat you well. .What do you snyV" Slmmomf finally agreed to give the warden's pluu a tilal. Jit Core long he became one of the model prisoners of the institution. Uo kept his temper, worked well, and wm respectful nud obedient, tie attended to his own busi ness strictly, anil made no attempt to curry favor Willi the oltielals. Wheu it c.'irue time for Simmons to leave the pribou, the warden had Uim brought luto his private olttcc. "William," said be, "your time will be up to-monow. Yoa will get a de ceut holt ou.l ten dollars. I suppose you will go back to Chicago. The teu dollnri ought to keep you two weeks, and In that tim! you may get some thing to do. Now hero's twenty dol lars more; it's a personal loan, li will take rare of you nnother mouth, and in that tlire you surely ought to gut a Job of (?oms kind." "Bet why should yon lend mo twen ty dollar)" nsked Simmons. "Well," replied tin warden, "I think you have the mnklug of a very decent aiun iu you. I'm nfrnid you will be tempted to go back to the old gang if jou don't get work, uuil I wont to give you a chance. You've got sis weeks' leeway, and If you do light you can get a new start in that time. And whatever you do, dou't get caught stealiug In Indiana." , Simmons did uot say much either then or tho next day, when the ward en saw him off at-tho station. He made 110 promises nt nil. A few days later came n letter that lirmi?iir mln. filed grief and hope to the wurden'g heart. Tho letter was from Chicago, urn. maieq uolilly: "I fell in with the gang last ulght. i big woa t do. I am srolii fn i.r nut CHu't reform in Chicago ."..uuil Simmon. , For tho lioxt two Weeks tho wnvriVr. Winched lUc (;i,c:igo newspapers anxi ously. That t io young follow had been temp.ed ho was surer be dreaded lest he had fallen. Ills only hope was tl at Simmons had fled from teniptu- ...... nun uuu ieU Chicago. At the end ..: iorin:giit a letter camo In the muimar imiwiim.g. Tho wardim dref a long brenth of relief to see that It whs postmarked In Annapolis, Mary. innu, out ne wag not prepared for the news that It contained. "I have enlisted In the United States marines. I may never be an officer, but I am going to try and be a good soldier. Yours, William Simmons." The warden filed nwny the letter be side the other with a feeling of thauk fnlness. Ho knew that Uncle Sum keeps a close natch and a strong ban I on his rightln;; men; moreover, the young fellow was out of the reach nf his former Chicago associate. That wns the Inst he expected to hear from William .Simmons for some time; but In less than two weeks came n third letter, which the warded opened with the liveliest Interest, for It was from San B'ranclseo. It said: "(lot here to-day. Leave for China to-morrow. Coming through Nebraska a young woman nt a station pinned a flower on my coat You can't Imagine how It affected me. Will write from tho other side of the world. Wllllnm Simmons." "Uod bless that young woman!" snld the warden to himself. "She may be as homely ns a hedgerow and as Ignor ant as a Moux squaw, but she touched the right chord in his brenst. The mnn who hns the courage to fight for bis country and can appreciate a flow er from a womnn's hand is on the right road. I believe in my soul the' boy Is safe for all time." And when the warden put the letter with the oth ers there wns n moisture in ills eye that Is unusual with officials of State penitentiaries. True to his promise, Simmons wrote from the other side of the world from Tien Tsln. The letter was a long time In coming, but It arrived nt last. Like all the other-, It was short and to the point. It tend: "I wns on the firing-line yesterday nnd didn't run. We leave for Pekln In a day or two. Kudosed find $25. Thnnks. I'll never steal In Indiana or elsewhere. I'm cured. Ood bless you. William Simmons." The warden now reads with great Interest all the army pews from Chlun and the East. If some day he should find among the list of dead the name of William Simmons, he would grieve sincerely. He is sure, nt any rate, that lie will never see that name disgraced, and he hopes that some dny he mny ngnln grasp the hand of the man whom his own kind .word saved from a criminal's end. Youth's Companion. The Passport In ltussla. The train slows down as It crosses the frontier, and creeps gently up to the platform of the first station on Russian soil. Furtively peeping out of the window, you behold a number of stalwart men uniformed la the Rus sian stylo, nnd wearing the peculiarly Iiusslau top boots. The polite conduc tor comes to the compartment nud bids you get the passport ready. Af ter a few minutes of waiting, during which anxiety Is not diminished, au officer in smart gray-blue uniform comes nlong, attended by a soldier with a wallet. He demands the pre cious document, nnd, noMng Its fpr elgiT origin,' casts upon Us possessor a k.een4 ".enrolling glance. Then he looks for the all-lmpprtant visa or Indorse ment of the iVusslnn official iu the country of Issue; and on finding it he passea coldly on without a word. All this Is very formal and impressive; yon feel ns a prisoner feels when the chain of evidence Is tightening round him; your thoughts wander back to the past, and you wonder whether any Indiscretion of your Insignificant youth may not rww be brought up in testimony against you. Tho utmost care is taken In the study and registration of these docu ments; every Russian must have his passport; every foreigner entering or leaving the country must have It, too. Whether native or alien, you cannot move about tho country without the document; when you arrive In a town it must be submitted to the local po lice; when you leave that town the po lice must Indorse the passport with lheir sanction to the Journey. The system gives the authorities the firm est hold over tho people; nnd wise Is the stranger who compiles carefully with every part of the formality, Chambers's Journal. Monkey mid Sugar Cane. Some years ago, when In charge of the Mauritius -Government railways, trains of sugar canes, loaded in open- sided trucks, were worked over a sec tion of the line from the plantations to the usino centrnle, some miles dis tant, and the three first miles of the single-line railway passed through a forest with trees quite close to the rails, up a very steep gradient and around sharp curves. When the first down passenger train from Port Louis had passed the crossing station the londed cane train was dispatched tc ward the summit. In tho meantime, some monkeys In the forest had tlpied the passage of the descending passen ger train, nud had fixed sentinels, who signaled to their expectant comrades on trees the approach of the cane train. As the trail, went crawling up the Incline a troop of monkeys sprang upon each wagon, ten forming the train, and threw off quite a goodly number of cnaes, which were gath ered up as the train slowly passed on ward. These depredations beenme so serious that the planter appointed a watchmnn to patrol this "length," but tho "ualgaches" have a superstitious dread of killing a monkey, which they term "di monde meme" in Creole. The looting of these trains by these ma rauders was, however, ultimately stopped by other means. The Specta tor. A Victor Hugo Museum, Thanks mainly to the munificence of M, Paul Meurlce, says the Westmins ter Gazette, Paris is about to be pro vided with a Victor Hugo Museum. The bouse which is to be used for the purpose is the one in which the poet lived from 1833 to 1848, and In which much of his most successful work wag. written. Among the treasures with which the building will be stocked are a library of some 6000 vol umes, a large collection of drawings made by Victor Hugo himself and a number of bronze and marble busts. Under- preseut arrangements the niu seum will be formally opened on Feb ruary 20, 1002. This date la particu larly appropriate, Inasmuch as it is that of the centenary of the poet's birth. r 4 ! AGRICULTURAL. Peed I.I ah 11 v In 1 1. a nr.nn s...nn. During tho summer months fowl.: snouiu not be overfed; that Is, they Should not be (Hvpll mnrn Minn mm. half the amount of food which they ordluarlly would get during the fall and winter months. And, furthermore, that which they get snouia be or light character, such as will produce the lenst heat and fat. Tho old fowls. If on range, should nave scarcely any grain food, except, perhaps, whole onts. at nloht. The insects and seed that they gath er during the day will plentifully sup ply tholr wants, and keep them In a healthy state. All food which produces heat and Tat should be avoided. nnI no hnllava "better results can be had if fowls are given only a alight feed of whole oats late In the evening. Home and Farm. A "Cot Under" For Hay Kara. - To give tho forewheels a chance to "cut under" the rack sides, use tho device shown in tho cut. The curved Iron makes a neat appearance and "ob viates tho necessity of bringing the THE DEVIOB. rouuds over tho opening into the inte rior of tho rack to secure a support for the lower cud. A blacksmith can readily make the Iron pieces to fit Into the desired position, leavlug a hole nt the top of the curve for the "round" to fit Into, ns shown. This mnkes a much neater Job than the usual form, nnd gives a clear space from side to side in the rack. Intelligent Animals or Scrubs? There Is lust na nuiph illfT..r..n,-n ho. tween the intelligence of blooded ani mals and scrubs as there Is between tho Intelligence of educated and uned ucated persons. As n rule educated men aro "as kind as kittens." If they have anv "crndintu" ir i thnt they exhibit them. They endeav or to make themselves agreeable to everybody, high nnd low, and It Is a pleasure to nave associations with them, while the flueducnted ten boorish and unpleasant to deal with. They have their notions of mut ters, often not founded on either fact or reason, nnd If crossed in their Views, an ebullition of temnor la ant to result. Tho thoroughbred mnn. vhon fn nnn. versatlon with a soruh mnn ironnrnllo tries to ascertain what the latter really does or does not know, while the scrub usually goes on with a voluble tongue and tells all that he known nmi that he does not know, and his speech is chock run of great I's. And this is the difference. A scrub horse does not know much for a horse, neither can he learn. There is not phohm. matter In his skull to be a fairly teach able animal. Balky, runaway, vicious norses are almost invariably of this Class. Thoroughbred ennlnoa nro al together different animals. They "take" to educatlou as a calf does to Dlllk. and seem In rlnliirht- In iw.lr. tutored. In acquiring knowledge there is as mucn ainerence between them and scrubs as there is between day and night F. U. Sweet, In Tho Eplto mlst Intelligent Swine Feeding. There Is quite a revolution going on In swine feeding, which inust not only have a beneficial effect upon tho health of the animals, but upon the quality of the pork. We are still Inclined to consider quantity more than quality in this foedlng, but gradually we may eeipect to see the old methods of feed ing the animnls with slops give way to something like what may be called a refined and civilized diet. A good deal of tho prejudice existing against pork in the past was duo to this slip shod and careless method of feeding the swine. Any old thing wns consid ered good enough for the pigs, and the pens and feeding trough were in many instances so literally dirty nnd filthy 1hat it nauseated one to look at either from the Inside. People who were fond of pork vowed they would never eat it again after looking In a filthy pigpen and seeing the kind of food the animals devoured. As a partial excuse for this the pig was said to be dirty and filthy by habit and nature, nnd that It preferred to grub its food from dirt and mud. This theory is not sustained by ac tunl practice. Turn the pigs out Into a clover field, nnd they will keep as clean as the cows, but if you shut them up into narrow pens where they do not get the food they need, they canaot help from getting dirty. Con fine human beings In the same uarrow qunrters and they would prove almost ns filthy in their habits. It Is the ar tificial life we gave to the pigs that made them degenerates. American Cultivator. Grubs and Cutworns. The eggs that hatch out white grubs are laid by the May beetle, which usu ally does not come till about June with us. The eggs are deposited in thlu grass, as a rule, so the young grubs can live on the roots when they liatch out. They are three years get ting their growth. The lust year they are very large and white. Now,' as a rule, the beetle will not lay any eggs In thick, heavy clover and grass. At the time she comeg such clover and grass completely covers and shades the ground. Instinct teaches her not to lay her eggs in sucli a place. It would be too. damp and cool for them to hatch. She goes to an old, run-out Bod, or thin grass, where It Is drier twd the gun can get la better. Sometlmeg eggs may toe laid under f cf use on the surface in a stubble field Iiut not often, I think. Instinct would prevent. So to keep the grubs from Injuring yo make your land rich with manure and tillage, and grow a heavy Crop of C?0vcr and trrsas. Tlwn An let It stand to run down, but aftor , BJOwing It one year plow, while free mm from grubs and plint corn and potn tors. In nbout four years seefl down ngsln. I have found thousands of young grubs hatched out Just on the edge of a field of heavy clover, but none Whatever "in the clover, unless there were thlu places In it. All can not do this way, of course, but It Is the sure way of keeping free from grubs, nnd cutworms and wlreworms will be discouraged, too. Such pests accumulate In an old sod. T. B. Terry, la Practical Farmer. Making Rntter at II nine. "I enjoy making my own butter," a lady snld to me the other day. "I know It Is considered quite the thing nowadays to send tho milk away to get rid of the care and work of mak ing It up. And no doubt there la some thing in this; but the pleasure of mak ing my own butter Is great enough to overbalance and more than overbal ance the few cents a pound It costs me to do my work." I have thought of this many times since, nnd I am convinced that there Is more In this good woman's side of the argument than most of us would be willing to confess. No doubt It Is a saving of strength In some ways to send the milk to the creamery. With many farmers' wives this Is no small Item. They have so much else to do that they do not derive the pleasure In caring for the milk at home. But there Is a satisfaction In couvertlng the sweet, pure milk Into golden butter. The entire process Is one full of Inter iot, whether we stop to think of It or not. The way by which tho cream rises is a mystery to most of us. Why does It separate from the milk? Tnke, then, the process of churning; that Is a strange thing to many. The study of these things Is highly Interesting. I hen, the satisfaction of using your own butter Is worth a great deal. Not all of us can quite enjoy the butter which we buy. Who made It? Was he clean In nil his ways? What was the condition of ,hls stables? Were his cows well cared for? Were thev sound physically? We would like to know. Hut here is our own butter. How beautiful It looks! Fresh, sweet nnd pure ns the crisp grass nnd the crystal wnter could make It. We are not afraid to put it on the tables for the use of the king, and we can recom mend It to the most fastidious pur chaser. E. L. Vincent, In Nebraska r armer. " milling Hoof Water. On many farms the -wnterlnir nf h stock Involves not a SIttle hardship both to the owner nnd to his stock. If the watering place Is nt a distance, the inconvenience is doubly felt In rainy weather. It is an easy matter FI3. 1 LEADER FROM THE EAVE9 TBOtJOH. to store up the water that falls upon the roof, so that in stormy weather at least the stock In tho bnrn can bo watered without exposure. Bring the wnter from the eaves troughs hi through the siding, as shown in Fig. 1. If the bnrn hns a cellar, a brick PIO. 2 TXIE WATER, TANK. cistern can bo built in one corner and tho wnter drawn on by a faucet into a tub beside it, or raised to the first floor by a pump. If there Is no cellar, build a plank tank, as suggested iu Fig. 2, in one corner of4tho barn and locate a trough beside It' It will prove a convenience the wbolo year around. New England Homestead. Sailing Crops For Fruit Culture. Trofesaor H. E. Van Deman, of Vir ginia, delivered an address before tho Western New York Horticultural So ciety, from which the following notes are taken: The eowpen I recommended for trial as nn orchard catch crop and ni trogen gatherer. The enrly kinds are the only ones to grow here. The cow pea will grow anywhere corn will, and Is no more tender than corn. It will mature in seventy-Uve to 100 days, and Is such a rapid grower that six weeks to two months' time will give a wonderful growth and add a great deal of the most valuable kind of humus to the soli. Sow one bushel of seed per acre Just before tho ln.t cultivation. Sow broadcast, drill Iu with the graiu drill, or, better still, sow In drills and cultl vate. At the Olden fruit farm, in Mis souri, where they sow BOO to 1000 acres every year, they turn iu several huudred hogs after the apples are picked and let them eat the cowpeas. They get several carloads of good pork without costing anything for grain. The cowpea is the salvation of South ern agriculture, and there Is more In it for Northern agriculture thuu most people Imagine. The Canada pea is a wonderful plant to add fertility to the soil. Sow It at the time of the last cultivation or drill It in between the rows. It will live long after frosts come. Bye, buckwheat and even turnips are useful to sow In order to odd hu mus to the soil. They should be plowed under Iu the spring us soon as the ground Is fit. Winter veich Is nn other crop that will catch tho nitrogen of the air. It la a pod-beurlug plant, and should be plowed uuder very early In the spring. Sow twelve to fifteen pounds of Crimson cloverseed per acre. Cover two to three Inches deep. The cause of many failures has been In not cov-e-lng deep enough. The soil should have enough ruoisturo in It to casry tne young plant for four or five weeks. In Oxfordshire, England, Mie super stition prevails that the arrival of a German bund Iu a village WteuUs ralu .... Self-Imposed Taxes. I v ENEItAL HOY STONE snld recently in a speech at Far- kersburg, W. Va. : "Among tho taxes which the farmers pny are some that are unavoidable, nnd theso It Is useless to talk about. There are others which farmers Impose upon themselves, which they hesitate to share with others, which they submit to without a protest, nnd even cling to when they aro being removed. Tnese taxes we cannot talk about too much. These are taxes, too, which bring no useful revenue, nor even sup port a tnx gatherer; they are burdens as needless as tho traditional stone which balanced the grist on the wny to mill. "Through the fnllure of the Govern ment in the original surveys of the public lands to Iny out a scientific sys tem of roads, and divide the lands ac cordingly, fnrmers have beea. left to lny out the roads for themselves, and generally they have put them on farm lines, going over all the bills that come In their way. The result of this is the hill tax In hilly regions and what mny be called the square corner tax on the prairies. "The amount of hill tax I have esti mated in one county Iu New Jersey, and round that needless hills double all the cost of hauling in the county, making practically a money tax of $10,000 annually to the township. The peoplo have paid this tax for 100 years, nnd yet they wonder why they are poor. In the prairie regions, for want of the diagonal ronds which the Government should have laid out, the farmer, to reach a point ten miles to tho northwest, for Instance, travels seven miles north and seven miles west, adding forty per cent, to his dis tance, or, for tho nverage of all travel, twenty per cent. This Is the square corner tax. "The mud tax Is probably nbont equal in total to the, hill tax, nud this, again, doubles tho cost of nil wagon transportation; yet many farmers are opposed to stone roads. "However, the farmers themselves are doing away in many places with the enormous burden of the fence tax, and with it will go the snowdrift tax and the waste land on tho roadside. They are slowly abandoning narrow tires and tracking wheels. Moreover, many of them begin to reollze tho enormity and absurdity of the hill, mud and square corner taxes, and wo may hope in time to see In this coun try, as we do In France, beautiful hard roads everywhere, winding through farms, with crops growing closo to the wagon tracks and the roads serving perfectly every purpose of public use and private convenience. "You ask how all this can be accom plished without a burden of taxation which will neutralize its benefits. I nnswer thnt it Is nil being done to-day 1- a hundred places In the United States, nnd thero are farmers who ac knowledge that they are getting rich in these hard times solely by reason of the improved roads which have been forced, upon them, and are raying with perfect ease any additional tax they Impose. Theso Improved ronds nre being built In ninny wnys and in various forms of construction, nnd every year's experience reduces tho cost and brings nbout nn ensler pro viding of the necessnry means. "It would be a very long story to go Into the details In this direction, and I would not bo prepared to say which Is the best of the many methods of con struction and of payment Both need to be greatly varied to meet the con ditions in the various States, and a careful study of local legislation Is necessary; but the vital question Is for tho farmers themselves to settlo gen erally -whether they want good ronds, and whether they will accept the help of those who nre willing and anxious to Join In paying the cost of road Im provement. If they will take up tho subject In oil their organizations and appoint active working committee to visit the nearest accessible localities where good roods prevail, and to urge such legislation as will make them at tainable everywhere, the work will soon reach a point where its own mc Luentum will carry it forward. ' "The estimate of your able secre tary that $000,000,000 is wasted annu ally in this country through bad roads Is supported by that of other statisti cians, and from this it appears that the tax they Impose takes one-quarter of the whole value of all farm pro ducts In the United States. To abol ish this tax is a reform great enough to engage the best attention of this Congress. It Is a practical and practi cable field for Its energies. What the Congress says on this subject will be listened to everywhere, while what It says on other subjects may fall on deaf ears." The Crusade in Kentucky. The women of Kentucky are evinc ing much Interest In the good ronds movement. Fully one-half of the 2000 persons present at a convention at Hopklnsville to advocate road im provement the other day were women. And the fact that a great many farm ers, too, were there in spite of this being their most busy sensou was very encouraging to the projectors of tho assemblage. Fifteen counties were represented by storekeepers, manufac turers, professional and public meu, as well as tho agriculturists. Gov ernor Beckham spoke, and said ho thought much more of good roads than he did of building political fences, and that he is more interested In building up Kentucky Industrially than ho Is Iu the uiuklug of auy politi cal slate. Abandoned Trip, The proposed tiausconlluenlal nulo mobile trip inaugurated by the Cleve land Plaludealer has. been abandoned, owing to tho impossible feat of diiv. lug tho machlue through the sand drifts of tho Sahara of Auverlcu. Everything wont well uT.til fhe desert was veaehed, and although lao miles were mndei UhouhIi it, the last thirty miles weroVlmpasKublo, nml Ilia vu ture was rvluctntitly giver, up. LIVE.WIRE FISHINC. T.itrj Fish That flats Within Ten Feet ef in net is (;augnt. It Is "positively shocking" the way thev nre rntphlnfr rluh at tUa rtl.mfr f the St. Anthony Falls Wnter Power v wni,niij , mis, ioo, in race or a large sign on which Is Inscribed In plain let ters: "No Fishing Allowed: Keep Off." But, then, only the Immedate attaches of the power house are privileged. The electricians have become r used to working wonders by electric ity such a miracle, for instance, ns running the street rnllwnys of two cities without scarcely having to turn a hnnd themselves thnt they aro in rne no bit or cnlllng the mysterious fluid to their asslstnnce whenerer it is convenient to do so. They started out early In the season, which did not open until Wednesday, to fish in the legitimate way, but rail ing to get any fish to spenk or by hook, they determined to catch them, 1 1 pos sible, by crook to electrocute them. Since then fish have responded with such wonderful alacrity to the novel bait that a few minutes' sport will give the new fisherman "a nice mess." The sight would bring tears to the eyes of Ike Walton, who believed "art for art's sake." who accounted It a more creditable performance to catch one fish an hour by patient, painstak ing, philosophic endeavor, than to slaughter the flnny tribe on the whole sale plnn In short order. At the power house they take a good le wire, properly Insulated, where the nngler holds It, and stick the snme Into the water. Water is a good con ductor, as everybody knows, aud every time a fish comes within ten or twelve feet of the centre of disturb ance ho Is conducted to tho surface. He Is not dead he Is simply shocked Into insensibility by his sensational re ception, and If left to his owu re sources would soon be himself again. But the cruel man on the ledge of ma sonry which juts out into the river around the nower hmme. ihrnn.i, which the tall race comes pouring. reacnes oertiy into the water nnd scoops up the unfortunate fish wiih net. Perch, shiners, bullheads, crapples nnd an occnslotinl st llrpnnn nrn onurvlit- in this way. One of the electricians who was directing the mighty ma chinery which generates 10,000 horse i'"' "iu mat ne had caught a sturgeon earlv In the weighed twenty pounds. He said that uu uruinary current or electricity was strong enough to brlno- th mi streperous fish to the surface In most cases, ue had to hand the sturgeon considerably more than the average before he could make him "li arm o.i be quiet." ' Sometimes n slmnlo I electrical connections Is used. It Is uuug over tne side of the wall Into the river, and does the ally as tho wire apparatus. The law uu.-s uoc specincally forbid electric fishing, but Game Warden Fullerton is going to see If tlm sport can't be stopped. Minneapolis Journal. What a Boy DM In one Week. Bfouday Had to dltr bait fn- Ho go a-flshin. He fished all dny. and two men brought him home 'hour ..n. per time. Tuesday Club a tree to m.f a uiA-a nest, an' fell out o' the tree nn In tha back of a mule that wuz grazlu' under it. The mule didn't like thnt. an' inroweu me up into the tree again. Wednesday Proposed to Jimmie Johuson's sister. Asked her to Fly with Me. Her mother heard me, an give me such a llckln' with a shingle that I flewed by myself, an don't feel tired enough to sit down to-day. Thursday Fell Into a molasses bar rel, which wuz only half full. Though we nil have our Troubles and Sor rows. I must say that lire is Sweet to me. Friday A barbacne was given to the Sundny school Children yesterday. We all had more than we could eat and carry awny. It Is good to belong to a Sunday school. Saturday Tho new preacher como to spend Sunday with us. At break fast he ate seven biscuits, one beef steak, an' a fried chicken, an' drlnked 4 cups or coffee. Ho asked mo If I didn't want to be aa angel? I told Him that ir He stay long, an' bis Ap petite held out, I'd have to be one. Atlanta Constitution. The Cat Goditess. In old Egypt there was a burial place ror sacred cats as well as ror sacred bulls. A cemetery of cots ex isted near Bubastls. A few years ago Monsieur Navllle found buried in the mound tho ruined temple, of Bast or Pasht, the cat goddess, who gave her name to the city. The foundation of Biijastls carries us back to the period or tho building or the great Egyptian pyraulds. The Bubastls of the Egyptians is the same as the Artemis of tho Greeks, who Is generally said to be the same ns the Diana of the Romans, a goddess of light, representing the moon. Kr Rn.t or Pasht was connected with the cat on tho one band and the moon on the other. Accordingly It is quite possible that puss, when she figures as a sym bol lu the Egyptian worship, repre sents something inastronomy and lu the calendar. Ovid calls the cat the sister of the moon, and says that Pasht took the form or a cat to avoid Typhon. Ac cording to Plutarch, a cat nlnori in . lustrum denoted the moon. It is stated Dy some writers that the "cat" was an Interclary month, ailile.i in tho hundred and twentieth year to rectify inu caieuuar. The "Angelus." Millet had burdlv hee'n ria.1 tn years when from one hemisphere to cue omer Doth the French peasants and the American cowboys nailed up the "Augelus" over their heads us a holy image. It Is said that when Millet had finished that picture be showed it first to a peasant, one of bis neighbors at Burblzon. The latter gsxed long and silently at the two humblo luOor ers, pausing with bowed heads over their furrows. In the nifdxt of their work; and as Millet, by look and ges ture, questioned him, and awaited his opinion, the worthy fellow said: "The bells are ringing, are they not, sir? We dou't see them, but they hear ihem." "Come," snld Millet, "thnt is all rljjht. I see 1 have inn.lii iU3se.'f uaderiitood." Pull Mall Utiaette. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Oeseral Trails Costftlloos. . Nw York (Special.) R. G. Dun & Co.'f "Weekly Review of Trade" says: 'Continued favorable weather condi tions have resulted in the saving of much late-planted corn, and in the Northwest ideal weather for spring: wheat harvest na been enjoyed. As this ia the point that business in alt ?arts ol the country has been most carefully watching, the general feeling; a better than a weeic ago. "Official returns of pig iron produc ;ion in the first half of the year show a record-breaking aggregate of 7,674.713 tons, exceeding the remarkable output of the previous year by 32,044 tons. "Violent fluctoations have marked the course of ewn prices. The top point of the previous week wa not re gained, but traders on the short side of the market were comoelleel to cover at a loss. The decrease in marketing i not in proportion; to the advance in price. Whatever benefit' mav have ac crued from the hiah level rrf crices. it certainly has driven foreign bnyers out of the market, Atlantic exports for tho week amounting to only 764.178 hush els, against j.ioo.o.it a year ago. Wheat is of less interest to speculators, but in egitimate trading it 1 especially act ive. "Bradstreet's" says: "Bu3iness fail ures in the United States for the week were 160, as against 100 last week. 170 this week a year agr; 156 in 1890, 169 in 1898 and 214 in 1897." LATEST QUOTATIONS; Flour Best Patent. $4.45: High Grade Extra. $.1.05: Minnesota bakers. $JOoa3.io. Wheat New York. No. 2, red, 76Wc: Philadelphia, No. a. red, 7iJ-ja72c; Bal timore, bs'jaCSS'c. Lorn New xork. No-. 2, 61c; Phil adelphia, No. 2, 59a59c; Baltimore, No. 2, 00,161c. Oats New York. No. 2. 42c: Phila delphia, No. 2, white, 45c; Baltimore, No. 2, wtiite, 4,i5-ja44C. Rye New York. Nn. 2. ,ay,c: PluU adelphia. No. 2, 59c; Baltimore, No. 2, 53c Green Fruits and Vegetables Ap ples, per bbl, fancy, $2.ooa2.so; do, pet bbl, common, small, $1.0031.50. Beets, per bunch, I"4a2c. Blackberries, per quart, Rochelle, 4a5c. Cabbage, native. per 100, fiat Dutch, $2.ooa5.oo. Canta loupes. Anne Arundel srems. oer bas ket, 3oa5oc. Carrots, native, per bunch, iS-iaJc. Corn, per dozen, Sa8c. Cu cumbers, per peach basket, lsa2oc. Cur rants, New York, per 8-lb basket, 15c Egg plants, per basket. 6sa7iC. Huck leberries, per quart, 6a7C. Onions, pet 54-bbl basket, 6oa6sc; do do. per full bbl, $i.5oai.6b. Peaches, Maryland and Virginia, per box. ordinary. 25a;oc: Georgia, per 6-basket carrier, Tjcali.so; do, South Carolina, per carrior, 75ca $1.50. Pears, Manning Elizabeth, per basket, 4oa6oc. Pineapples, Florida. per crate, as to size, $2 00a J. 25. Squash, per basket, isaoc. lomatoes, per 2- basket carrier, 403750; Eastern Shore, Virginia, per carrier 4oa75c; do, Anne Arundel, per basket, 30350c. Water melons, per 100, select, I18.ooa20.oo: do, per 100, primes, J 12.00a 15.00. Potatoes White, new, Norfolk, per barrel. No. I, $j. 2533. 75; do, do, Nor folk, per barrel, No. 2, $2.ooa2.5o; do, do, Eastern Shore Maryland, per bbl, lj.25a3.50; do. do, Eastern Shore Vir ginia, per bbl, $3.2533.50; do, native, per bushel box, $i.i5ai.30. Sweets, new, North Carolina, per bbl., $4.ooa 5.00; do, do. Eastern Shore Virginia, per bbl, $4.5035.00. Provisions Bulk shoulders, SAc; da short ribs, g'Ac; do clear sises, 04c; bacon rib sides, IoJ4c; do clear sides, iojc; bacon shoulders, 9,'4c. Fat backs, 8c. Sugar cured breasts, '3j4c; sugar cured shoulders. 9!4c. Hams Small, I3'jc; large, 13c; smok ed skinned hams, 13,'Z.c; picnic hams, 54c. Lard Best refined, pure, in tierces, 9'Ac; in tubs, gc per lb. Mess pork, per bbl, $16.00. Live Poultry Hens, ioaioc; old roosters, each, 25330c; spring chickens, I2aijc; ducks, 739c; spring ducks, 8a 10c. Hides He3vy steers, association and salters, late kill, 60 lbs and up, close selection, lootic; cows and light steers, Eggs Western Maryland and Penn sylvania, per dozen, a 13c; Eastern Shore, Maryland and Virginia, per doz en, 313; Virginia, per dozen, l2'iai3; Western and West Virginia, per dozen, I24ai3; Southern, per dozen, ai2; guinea, a7. Dairy Products Butter Elgin, 21 22c; separator, extras. M'Aiil: di. firsts, iQajo; do, gathered cream, ioa20; do, imitation, I7ai8; ladle extra, isat7; ladles, tirst, I4ai5; choice Western rolls, I5ai6; fair to good, 13314; half-pound creamery, Maryland, . Virginia, and Pennsylvania, 21022; do, rolls, 2-lb, do, 20. Cheese New cheese, large, 60 lbs, ic4iaio?ic; do, flats, 3,7 lb loViaioW: picnics, 23 lbs, native. Live Stock. Chicago. Good to prime steers i.t.n- 36.35; poor to medium $4.4035.40; stock- ers and feeders, $2.5084.40; cows V2.75&' 4.65; heifers $2.3535.00; bulls $2.504.50; calves, $3.003475. Hogs, mixed and butchers 9s. 5035.95; good to choice heavy 95.85a6.05. Sheep, choke weth "s $J7Sa4-25; fair to choice mixed 93.25a3.75; Western sheen $T2;ar8;: yearlings $40034.35; native lambs $2,25 35.40; western lainD 54.35a5.40. East Liberty. Cattle steady: extrai 5 5005.75; prime $5 4oa5 50; good $s.ic' 5.25. Hogs about steady; prime. heavy 96.ooa6.05; assorted mediums $6.00: best heavy Yorkers $5.9536.00; light do 5-8sa5.95; pigs 57oa5.8o; skip 94.50 5.25; roughs 94.0035. 50. Sheep steady on best grades; best wethers 94.20a 4.30; culls and common $1.50:12.30; yearlings. $-3.0034.50; veal calves. $5,504 6.00. 1 LABOR AND INDUSTRY Bombay has twenty cotton mills. Oklahoma's wheat crop is 30,000,000 bushels. The world's ships are worth $294,000, 000. Sioux Falls has a book hat weighs 181 pounds. Beiumont, Tex., has telcgra-ph poles 180 feet high. A New York factory makes 30,000, 000 cigarettes per week. Philadelphia unionists will establish a co-operative laundry. Russian express trains do not run faster than twenty-two miles nn hour. The Penryhn slate yuarries in Scot land, largest in the world, employ over 3,oiX) men. . . .. , Hie wages ot meruuers 01 me ini caiio Seamen's Union have been in creased 25 cents a day. The Austrian government nas passed a law (or tne legal iimiiauon 01 ma hours of Ubor of coal miners to lima per day. An ordinance lias, been adopted by the 'town council of Yorkville, S. C. making it a misdemeanor for any prr-; son to be sees staggering en the- . trecti of that town.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers