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ANTED a. ounce, hands to
pick over beans. Will take
beans to your residence
and will pay twelve and
a half cents a bushel. Drop a card
stating number of bushels wanted. Ad-
dress box 437, Lewistown.”
This is what twelve-year-old Nora
Nagle read in the local paper. Then
she consulted her mother.
“I want a dollar very much, mother.
Please don't make me tell what for.
May I have the beans?”
Mrs. Nagle remembered that Christ-
mas was coming and gave consent.
“Eight bushels!” said the man,
laughing when he saw how young the
applicant was, “you'll never stick to
¢‘yoU'LL NEVER FINISH THEM.”
‘em till they're done. ['ve got to have
em in ten days exactly.”
“Yes, IT will,” replied Nora firmly.
“My father says that to ‘look before
you leap, is a sound business prin-
ciple, so I've considered a good deal.
I'll have them all picked over in ten an
days sure.
Consequently nearly every
picked over beans. The first bushel
was “just fun,” the second not quite
so funny, the third not comical at all,
the fourth needed this mental remind-
herself:
“This is business; I've undertaken it
er from Nora to encourage
and I must finish.”
Various were her espedients to rest
her wrists during the movements of
sorting; in her dreams she was con-
stantly engaged in picking
damaged and discolored
somelow would get back
culled quantity, and when the seventh
bushel was begun Nora's si
beans that
out and discovered’ Nora, her head
within the basket of beans in a dead
faint.
Then Mrs. Nagle thought it time to | her
She sent the girl outdoors
interfere.
for her customary exercise and fresh
air, saying firmly:
“No more beans, my dear.”
But big Brother Tom, impressed by
the quivering lips of the little sister,
whispere., “Never mind, sis, we’ll have
a family party to-night and rope ’em
all in to help.”
So invitations were given out and in
the evening father, mother, two sis-
ters and big brother Tom and little
and Nora gathered in the
kitchen and made short work of the
Then they had some
brother Ben
remaining beans.
of the company peanut wafers and
guessed conundrums and in conclusion
Nora gave them a grateful Kiss ull
around. And that, her father said,
was very good pay.
“You're a clipper to pick beans, ain't
ye?’ said the man when he came for
“Now, you watch the postofiice
to-night, little woman, and I shouldnt
wonder if you got a nice dollar bill.”
Nora did watch the postoflice, but uo
Not that evening nor the
bean man
proved to be a swindler who had dis-
posed of his sorted product immedi-
ately and left for parts unknown with-
them.
dollar came.
next day nor ever. The
out paying any ot the bean pickers.
Did Nora ¢
she felt very
much like it.
“Would it bave been better, father,
to say I must h.ve my pay when he
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Mr. Nagle nodded, very
JUTTLE
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spare
minute before and after school Nora
out the
into the
X ister, hear- | off.
ing some one fall in the kitchen, went
2 Not a bit, although
proud to
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Nora firmly refused to test further the
kindness of her friends.
“Mother says ‘enough is enough.’
That sounds right, and I'm going to
do errands after this for ‘commoda-
tion's sake,” she insisted.
That might Nora told her plans to
her pillow. “No one will ever know,”
she whispered. “How can they if 1
never tell. Let's see. Two pairs of
stockings will cost fifty cents: I know
where I can get a fascinator for nine-
teen cents—the blue is the prettier,
but I think 1 better get red; it
won't show soil so quickly—that's six-
ty-nine cents; a pair of mittens
will be twenty cents more, then
there's leven cents left for a hair rib-
bon. Then I'll do ‘em all up tight and
drop them inside Myra Pell's door.
She'll want to see what's inside the
bundle before she looks outside, and
Sugared oranges.
Codfish eroquettes.
Griddle cakes.
DINNER.
Puree of chestnuts with croutons.
Canapes of oysters. Olives.
Salmi of partridge. Mushroom saute,
Fruit punch.
Roast beef, brown sauce. “
Sweet pickles. Cclery. .
Mashed potatoes. Stuffed onions.
Chiffonade salad.
Grated cheese. Wafers.
Christmas pudding. Foam sauce.
isque ice cream.
Fruits. Coffee. i
Coffee.
Nut~.
LATE LUNCHEON.
Tongu~ in aspic. Bread and butter.
Coffee.
Chocolate with iady fingers.
Oyster Canapes—Cut ten thin slices
of bread, cut in rounds, toast and but-
ter and place in oven to keep hot.
Wash and drain one quart of oysters.
Throw the oysters into a hot pan,
shakes quickly, and add one table-
spoonful cf butter, half a teaspoonful
of salt and a dash of cayenne. When
they reach the boiling point dish on the
rounds of toast, garnish with a thin
slice of lemon for each one, and serve
at once.
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ells of \Qhristmas. greet the™d
trains of the new. world chimes
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In the song that their brazen throats. cut-fling |
nd murmur and swell.
Peace. Peace on earth. unto man” good-will!"
To the world they tell of the tidings sweet. ||:
Loud clanging and swinging o'er’ hollow and hill, 4
Thro’ woodland and villaee"and citv and street:
(Then hushed again is the Christmas mora)
The clangor is done. the sound hangs furledi
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that'll give me a good chance to run
declare, when Myra came into
school the morning we had snow, she
was ’'most froze. Just thin cotton
stockings and no mittens! And I don’t
believe she gets enough to eat. Course
mother washes, but her father
just hangs around and tells the rest
what they ought to do. But I'll never
tell her who gave her the bundle. If
I did she'd either tha k me to death,
and that would make me feel so
‘shamed, or else her father would
think I might give her something all
the time, and my father wouldn't like
that, and I guess my father knows
what's best. Now, let's see—two pair:
—
took the beans away? Would that be
the way to dn business with a strang
have his little daughter draw this help-
ful conclusion instead of merely be-
moaning the fact of being victimized.
He also felt indignant enough to pay
ber from his own pocket, but waited,
wishing to see what she would do.
Somehow after that Nora had many
chances to earn pennies. When she dic
errands for different members of the
family, to her surprise they insiste
upon dropping payment into the litte
bank she had made ready for her bem
money. And the neighboring women
too, all at once were so busy they could
not take their babies out for airings.
“If Nora would be so kind as to do
should have ten
this for them she
cents an hour.”
Nora caught ¢
ihe opportunity eag-
erly and every ‘ne day promenaded
NORA’S CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.
of stockings, a red fascinator, a pair
of mittens—red, with long wrists—a
hair-ribbon and a one-cent pencil. That
just makes the dollar. And I shan’t
wait for Christmas, either. I'll slip
off to-morrow morning before I go to
school and buy ‘em ,and hide ‘em till
then open Myra's door just
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night,
enough to slip the bundle in; then
run.”
“well,” continued Nora, more and
more drowsily, “as old lady Banks al-
wvaye says, '[ hope a blessing will go
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NXORA’S YULETIDE.
the village
Atl last the dollar
was earned and
with them.” With the utterance of
this wish Nora dropped into dream-
land.
Searcely a week had passed before
the Nagles had conjectured the whole
truth. Little brother Ben came home
from school and told bis mother that
“Myra Pell, that skinny girl that lived
in the alley, had a lot of new toggery
and Nora acted just as if she owned
her.”
So the older members of the family
could guess where the dollar went to,
but they respected the little business
woman's wishes. It is rumored, how-
stocking. —Denio Stuart, in the Chicago
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Record.
n’s Chaistinas,
Beneath the cedar and the pine,
And gleaming Christmas holly,
wreath entwine,
- Qur silvern notes are jolly.
«| For in the home are charm and mirth,
ol And here were sadness, folly—
Here, in the dearest spot on earth,
Beneath the Christmas holly.
| The Childr
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Our happy tuoughts
ever, that Santa Claus is going to
find the bean man and that Nora will
dollar bill mn her Christmas
Fruit Punch—Put one pint of water
and one pound of sugar and the
chopped yellow rind of a lemon on to
boil. Boil five minutes; strain, and
while hot slice into it two bananas;
add one pint of grated pineapple
(canned) and a quarter of a pound of
candied cherries. When ready to
serve add the juice of six lemons. Put
in the centre of your punch bowl a
square block of ice; pour over it two
quarts of mineral water; add the fruit
mixture and at the last minute two
shredded oranges; mix all together.
Serve in thin tumblers.
Roast Beef—The roast beef of old
England still enters conspicuously into
our Christmas fare. It may be new to
many to learn that the object of serv-
ing it at this season was really to re-
mind cur forefathers of the bulls sacri-
ficed by the Druids when the sacred
mistletoe was cut.
Christmas Pudding — Mix together
one pint of stale bread crumbs, three-
quarters of a pound of stoned raisins,
one-quarter of a pound of sifted flour,
one-half a pound of cleaned currants,
one-half a pound of shredded suet,
three-quarters of a cuprul of sugar,
one-half a pound of shredded citron,
one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one tea-
spoonful of salt, one-half a teaspoon-
ful each or nutmeg and allspice. Beat
together four eggs, add one-half of a
cupful of molasses (light) and one-half
a teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in one-
half wineglass of hot water; stir this
into the other ingredients add the
grated rind and strained juice of a
lemon; turn into a greased mold and
steam, or boil, five hours. (The Christ-
mas pudding is supposed to be emble-
matical of the rich offerings made by
the three kings to the Infant in the
stable at Bethlehem).
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SAT IN A an a.
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Grain Weevil.
Those who are troubled by weevils
in the grain bins or their barns should
not forget that bisulphide of carbon is
a sure preventive of their ravages.
About one ounce of it is sure death to
all that would be in a hundred pounds
of grain and other seed, and vials of
that size just thrust down into the
surface and uncorked will go to the
bottom of the bin, as its fumes are
heavier than the air. As it is explo-
sive take care not t> carry any light
near it. It is also sure death to other
insects and to squirrels and rats. Do
not use more than the above amount,
as it may prevent germination of the
seed.
Feed for Cows at Calving.
A writer in the Practical Farmer
claims cows that are expected to be
fresh should not have any grain for
several weeks previous to the event. It
is often the case where a farmer has
an extra butter cow that he overfeeds
her at this critical period, or gives her
such quantities of grain, in the hope of
making her do a little better the next
time, that she is liable to have miik
fever or other disease that may cause
death. It is - better to be on the safe
side and not feed any grain for at least
three days after calving. A cow will,
undoubtedly, make as much butter in
the long run when this is done, as if she
were fed grain right along. Even if
this were not the case, 1 for one would
prefer to avoid the risk which heavy
grain feeding always entails.
Don’t Confine the Poultry.
‘The poultry keeper who is limited to
small yards for his fowl seldom suc-
ceeds well in buying farm-raised chick-
ens to fill his pens. The unusual con-
finement seems to be irksome to them.
We mean such as are raised where
they have free range, which not all
have on farms in this section. Each
year the number of farmers who keep
their hens in yards is increasing, and
when we read, as we often do in some
Western or Southern papers, of the
trouble from the hens scratching veg-
etable and flower gardens, picking
fruit, soiling the feed in the barn and
the tools in the ched, and stealing
their nests to bring out late chickens
when they do not want to care for
them, we wonder that any one will
keep them who cannot fence them into
a yard where they will do no harm.
We have known people to let their
hogs run about the dooryards and
roads, and we would about as soon
have them there as the hens.—Ameri-
can Cultivator.
Weedy Milk.
There are weedy pastures in the
land, and there are pastures free from
weeds. It is plain that the more milk
from clean pastures and the less from
weedy pastures we have in the cream-
ery the better the chance to get a good
flavor. The creamery manager, in or-
der to manage, must know the farm
conditions of each and every patron,
and the weedy milk must be separated
so as to run as little milk as possible
into the cream. As it is not practicable
to keep all the milk from clean past- |
ures separate from that coming from |
weedy pastures at the weigh can—at i
least it may not be practicable—the
proper caper is to separate all the
cream, thick and rich, running the
minimum of milk into the cream; then
take the same cans of milk from pa-
trons with pastures free from weeds—
patrons who are neat and tidy, who
keep the milk pure and uncontaminat-
ed—and dump this milk straight into
the cream vat in sufficient quantities
to insure the right percentage of fat
in the cream and cause it to ripen in
time. This is a winning method—a
winner because it is founded upon na-
ture and common sense.—Creamery
Journal.
Winter Work.
Wirter is upon us, and the farmer
should rejoice, not because it will be a
season of rest, but because it will give
him an opportunity to do so many
things that he has neglected in the
hurry of planting, cultivating and har-
vesting. We fear that we should not
make a success of farming if we were
in a region of perpetual summer. We
should hinder our work by trying to
do too much, and leaving undone the
work that should be done. There are
many little things for which there
seems to be no great haste. They can
be done at any time, and that means
that they are never done, or done in
great haste when they reach tke point
where they must be done. When we
were farming we used the days when it
was not suitable weather to work out
of doors in putting all tools and ma-
chinery in good condition, including
farm wagons and carts, and they were
painted, if they needed it, which most
of them did even after one year's use.
The work might not have been done
very artistically, but the paint served
to protect the wood from the weather.
Then harnesses were cleaned, mended
and oiled, and repairs made on gates,
fences, etc., while during the pleasant
days manure was drawn out, and the
summer wood brought nome. Ail this
so helped when the spring work began
that if we desired to go on a
again we should much prefer to take it
in November than March, observes the
American Cultivator, unless we were
sure that our predecessor had been one
who spent the winter days in getting
ready for the coming season.
farm
Storing the Squash Crop.
After the crop has been cut and
piled, not over three deep, for a couple
of days, with the object of having the
end of the stem seared by the sun, the
sooner the squashes are stored in some
southern exposure where they can be
readily protected from the frost of
night and uncovered to the sun by day,
is a good temporary substitute. It is
not wise to leave them piled in the
field, for exposure to the long, cold
rains which are common late in the
fall is apt to injure heir keeping quali-
ties. I have known a crop of Marrows
that had been so exposed to spot all
over with rot within a few weeks after
they had been housed. Shall we store
our squashes in a cellar or in some
frost-proof, airy building, such 3
squash house, double plastered, with
double windows and with a stove for
colder weather? 1 have stored hun-
dreds of tons both ways and therefore
can speak from a large experience. To
cellars in general there is this objec-
tion: They are damp and tend not on-
ly to rot the squashes, but to keep
from ripening those not fully ripe
when gathered.
The one argument for using them is
that the squashes come out of them
as bright colored as they went in and
Interviewing Santa Claus.
hence are very attractive in appear-
ance, but this is more than offset by
the objection that wnen kept late in
| cellars they are more liable to rot on
purchasers’ hands than when kept in a
squash house. When storing in the
squash house if those not fully ripe
are placed in the warmest part of the
building on the upper platform, and
especially just over where the stove is
located, they will generally ripen up
and keep later than those that are
fully ripe when housed.—J. J. H.
Gregory, in New England Homestead.
Keeping Up Soil Fertility.
The first thing in keeping up fertil-
ity is the saving and proper applica-
tion of manure. Thousands of farmers
are letting the manure waste in their
barnyards, and are using commercial
fertilizers. Fertility can be kept up in
this way, but a lack of humus will
soon follow. Soil deficient in humus
will dry out in dry weather and a seed-
ing of clover will be next to impossi-
ble. Do not flatter yourselves with the
idea that you can keep up your fertil-
ity on commercial manures alone.
You must save and use all your farm
manure. Spread the manure on the
higher portions of the field. Save
everything. Do not let a thing go to
waste, but put it on the land. It
makes little difference when you put it
on, only see that it goes on.
Plow under all the clover you can.
Rye will do to plow under very well
Any green crop will answer. Do not
let the ground lie bare during fall and
winter. Sow your corn stubble to rye.
This can be done atthe last cultivation.
It will not only save fertility by the
roots taking up fertility and storing it
in the plant, so as to be available for
the next crop to follow, but it will
make excellent pasture for your sheep
and hogs during the fall and far into
the winter.
Do not hesitate to araw the manure
as fast as made during the winter, and
spread as fast as drawn. If your land
is too, hilly this may not be the best
plan provided you have a good way to
save the manure at the barn. But as
the manure is usually kept around
barns, the loss from washing down the
hills will be no greater than the loss
around the barns. Manure drawn out
in winter saves that much from the
spring's work. Often in the spring
the ground is soft, and I have seen
ground injured as much by the tramp-
ling and cutting up by the wheels as
the manure did good.
A wise rotation of crops is also
necessary in keeping up fertility. No
rotation should be longer than four
years. Three years will be better.
But a four-year rotation will do very
well provided clover is given an im-
portant place.—I. N. Cowdry, in Amer-
ican Agriculturist.
The Eoy Left on the Farm,
In many of the homes of prosperous
and progressive farmers at this sea-
son the oldest boy or the precociously
bright one is being sent to college.
The neighboring high school had
graduated him with high honors, and
now the family name is to be made
glorious by the brilliant achievements
of this favored son. In the father’s
plaus for the boy are dreams of state
and national fame that are not won
behind a plow or out in a hayfield,
while the mother may fondly hope that
the dear boy will be called to the min-
istry, and in packing the trunk places
his Bible in a conspicuous place. All
unconsciously tliese parents are prepar-
ing a farm boy of stalwart brawn,
clear brain and pure heart to enter the
activities cf life in some distant city.
Every effort bends in this direction,
and that, too, many times at the price
of much toil and sacrifice. God knows
the city has need of such. If it were
not for the strong, vigorous, clean
young manhood of the rural districts
that comes to the centres of population
to vitalize them urban social and busi-
ness problems would assume a more
enigmatical character than they now
do.
But what of the boy left on tne
farm? Has agriculture no demand to
be served? In our conception of farm-
ing have many of us got far beyond
the Indian, just digging, dropping and
covering the seed and gathering the
harvest? Farming is a business to be
learned, and needs the trained mind
as much as does any profession that
places alphabetical endings to the
boy's name. If John is sent to college
to take a medical course and Tom
must farm, then it is only just to Tom
that he may be given a course in agri-
culture. Then the boys will be social
equals. It's not mere work that separ-
ates men socially; it is their mental-
ity. Cultured minds will demand bet-
ter environment. Many farmers hav-
ing good farms well stocked, and even
having bank accounts that suggest
that the day of absolute need is not at
hand, will suffer themselves and their
families to go without many convenien-
cies that would lessen the farm labor.
At the agricultural colleges such farm
economic problems are given due con-
sideration, and the bright boy easily
adapts them to his own conditions and
environment.—Rural World.
Memory and Tact Failed.
There is a well-known Detroit wom-
an whose friends and family say is
short on memory but long on tact.
This is her latest experience as told
by herself:
“One afternoon recently I was sit-
ting on the veranda when a man, car-
rying a small satchel, came up the
walk. He bowed pleasantly and I re-
turned his greeting as cordially as I
could while racking my brain for his
name. It was gone forever. Here was
an old friend from out of town, prob-
ably, perhaps a relative of my hus-
band, and I could not recall his name.
It was agonizing. However, he must
not feel a lack of welcome, so I greeted
him warmly, shook hands and invited
him to be seated. 1 said 1 was de-
lighted to see him and knew my family
would be equally glad. I regretted that
so long a time had elapsed since we
had last met I hoped he and his fam-
ily were quite well. Of course he had
come to dinner.
“Thus 1 rattled on, fearing to let
him speak lest he discover what a hyp-
ocrite 1 was.
“Finally he managed to say:
“I am afraid you don’t know who I
am.’
*“+Oh, yes, 1 do,’ I responded. ‘Of
course I know perfectly.’
“ ‘No, I am sure you don't even know
my name.’
“ “Well, 1 admitted reluctantly.
‘Your name has escaped me for the mo-
ment. But don’t tell me. It will come
back. 1 am so wretched on names. No,
you must not tell me. I want to think
of it myself.’
“Do not try. 1 am only the sewing
machine fiend. I came to do some re-
pair work.’ "—Detroit Free Press.
In a Primal Role.
The Russians have a veteran actress
of whom they are very proud. Madame
Orlay, 1n spite of being 95 years of age,
| recently appeared on the stage in a
| performance specially given in aid of
a charitable insitution. Madame Orlay
has the distinction of having been the
first actress to play Lady Macbeth and
Ophelaa in the Russian tongue
FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.
FIFTH DAY.
No business of importance was trans-
acted by the Senate in open sessioi.
practically the entire legislative day was
consumed by an executive session, after
which the Senate adjourned until Moa-
day. The developments of the session
were: An agreement on the part of the
Senate to vote on the amendment offer-
ed by the committee on foreign rela-
tions providing for the policing of the
canal, an amendment offered by Sen
ator Teller striking out the treaty pro-
hibition against the fortification of the
Nicaragua canal when constructed.
SEVENTH DAY.
The Senate spent almost five hours
in executive session, considering the
Hay-Paunceiote treaty.
A bill to provide for the appointment
of an additional district judge in the
Northern Judicial district of Ohio was
passed, after which the Senate went in-
to secret session.
EIGHTH DAY.
The shipping subsidy bill was taken up
in the Senate. Mr. Clay, Democrat,
Georgia, opposed the bill on the ground
that it wonld cost the government $9.-
000,000 a year for 20 years and donate
that vast sum to the ship owners carry-
ing the foreign trade of the country.
The Grout oleomargarine bill, passed
by the House, was referred to the Com-
mittee on agriculture. The credential
of William A. Clark and Martin Magin-
nis appointed senators from Montana,
were referred to the committee on privi-
leges and elections.
NINTH DAY.
Business suspended in both branches
of Congress on account of the centen-
nial celebration of the National capitol.
TENTH DAY.
By a vote of 65 to 17 the Davis amen-i-
ment to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was
adopted.
Senator Hanna defended the shipping
subsidy bill in a three-hour speech.
Senator Money introduced a resolu-
tion providing authority for the abroga-
tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty by
diplomatic negotiation.
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HOUSE.
FIFTH DAY.
The Grant oleomargarine bill was
passed by a vote of 196 to 92. The bill,
as passed, makes all articles known as
oleomargarine, butterine, imitation but-
ter or imitation cheese transported into
any State or Territory for consumption
or sale, subject to the police power of
such State or Territory.
Representative Tayler, of Ohio, has
introduced a measure for Federal pro-
hibition of polygamy.
Representative Graham introduced a
bill to give ex-prisoners of war $2 for
each and every day imprisoned and a
pension of $12 a month in lieu of any
pension now received.
SIXTH DAY.
Representative Graham, of Allegheny,
at the request of the Union Veteran le-
gion, introduced a bill granting per diem
pensions to all honorably discharged
officers and enlisted men of the United
States army during the civil war.
Most of the day was devoted to eulo-
ies on the late Representative Alfred C.
Harmer, of Philadelphia.
SEVENTH DAY.
The House passed the executive, leg-
islative and judicial appropriation bill,
carrying $24:496,378, and then adjourned.
It was the first of the great supply bills
of the session.
EIGHTH DAY
The debate on the war revenue reduc-
tion bill opened in the ouse, Mr.
Payne, of New York, chairman of the
ways and means committee, spoke on
behalf of the majo#ity, and Mr. Swan-
son, of Virginia, on behalf of the min-
ority.
A’ congressional inquiry into the
Booz hazing case is also decided upon
by appointing a special committee of
five members to investigate.
TENTH DAY.
The House adopted a resolution for
a holiday recess from Friday, December
21, to Thursday, January 3. It was
agreed that general debate on the bill
for the reduction of the war taxes
should close at 2 o'clock Friday. Coa-
sideration of the bill was resumed.
ELEVENTH DAY.
HOUSE.
The pension gppropriation bill, carry-
ing $145,250,000, was reported to the
House, which then went into committee
of the whole on the bill reducing the
war taxes. The House adheres to the
$1.60 rate on beer and refuses to abolish
the one-sixth and one-eighth barrels.
An amendment was adopted retaining
the tax on railroad, steamboat and ex-
press, freight receipts and compelling
the company to pay the tax.
ELEVENTH DAY.
SENATE.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
lations proposes to abolish the Clayton-
Bulwer agreement ana not ask the con-
sent of other powers to the new conven-
tion. Further amendments to the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty have been agreed up-
on.
MINES AND MINERS.
Great Coal Deposit in Hungary—Coal De-
posits in Every Province in Ireland,
But None Are Developed.
United States Consul Hughes at Co-
burg has reported to the State depart-
ment the news of the recent discovery
of a large deposit of house coal, esti-
mated to contain at least 1,600,000,000
tons, at Barmocz, Hungary. The qual-
ity of the coal, he says, remains tq be
proved, but the deposit is to be develop-
ed on scientific lines at once.
“The Industrial Resources of Ireland”
has formed a text for many an address
and articles innumerable, but unfortu-
nately, so far,, without much result, says
the Ballymena Telegraph. There is
known to be coal in Ireland, but having
once got a bad name like the dog in
the story it has stuck to it; tradition
says there are lead, iron and other
metals, and there are bogs which the
Germans have discovered and are mak-
ing paper from, but beyond these hazy
ideas the average intelligent Irishman
has no conception of the rich resources
nature has laid at his door. Attempts,
it is true, have ‘been made to get at
these deposits. but in the vast majority
of cases they have had to be abandoned
in consequence of the limited capital
available.
It will come as a surprise to many to
learn that no shaft of any importance
has been sunk during the century now
within tench of its close. The Irish
board of agriculture may regard the
minerals of the country as underneath
its province as well as heyond it, but if
funds can be obtained by the board for
a survey of the country with a view of
its mineral wealth, the money would be
as well laid out as any ever expended, or
likely to be expended, by the depart-
ment,
There are coal fields in every provin:e
of Ireland. Very few of them have been
tapped. As far back as the year 1824
the report of a partial survey was pub-
lished. This stated that the coal of Ire-
land was good for culinary and manu-
facturing purposes, and also that some
of the strata was very extensive. In
one case ja stratum was estimated
to consist bof 30000000 tons of good
coal. The {Lough Allen district is be-
lieved to be good for 20,000,000 tons.
These are ohly two out of many, and
with Englishiand Scotch coal at famine
prices it is sunprising that no movement
has been directed toward the tapping
of this source ‘of wealth.
fn Bavaria the Crown owns 3,430,000
acres, one-fifth of the whole kingdom.
\
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Thirty Years of the Rhine.
Augustine Birrell begins in the De-
cember Century a series of papers on
the Rhine. In the opening pages nc
moralizes on the changes since he first
before the Franco-
| — - _-—— — ee endl
| Wonders of the Forbidden Palace.
oops through
the Forbidden Palace at Peking a party
of civili including the ladies of the
T several well-known mis-
sionaries, was admitted. Tea 1
{ After the march of the
knew the river, 1 . 1s serv-
Prussian war: ed, and then the imperial! palaces were
“In 1868 the Rhine was at least an inspected. The most remarkable f{ea-
open question, a theme for the public-
ist no less than for the poet. But now
the difference!
there not now stand on the quay, a
sight for all the world, a copper mon:i-
ment, 45 feet high, of the Emperor Will-
jam 1.7 Truthfully does the useful Bae-
deker observe, in one of those new issues
of his which record so impassively the
mightiest changes, that it (the
ment) dominates the landscape in all
directions!
is a monument to the Empress Augusta,
that faithful spouse and sympathetic
correspondent. Needless to add, Kob-
lenz has its Bismarck Strasse. ‘La no-
ble et sainte patrie de tous les penseurs |
forsvok in 1870 the lecture soom for the
tented field: and or the 16th and 18th
of August, on the plateaus of Gravelotte,
bought with a huge price of German
blood the right to call beth banks of the
Rhine her own. ;
What are two-and-thirty years in the
history of the Rhine? Celts and Ro-
mans, archbishops and princes, kings
and emperors, she has known them ail.
What is it to her to whom the spire of
Strasburg belongs? Nay, to whom in
any real sense does it belong now? Bui
to the east and west of Metz lie the
bleached bones of a hundred thousand
men, Frenchmen and Germans, who
were ready to forswear the pleasant sun
and to go down into Hades before their
day for the cause symbolized by the
Rhine. How horrible it would be coui:l
a river be ironical, could its waters
sneer! The charm of nature is her ir-
responsiveness. She answers you back
never a word.”
Marconi’s Great Task.
In his Dorsetshire laboratory, week in
and week out, works Marconi, the ma-
gician of wireless telegraphy. He only
visits London to attend meetings of the
board of directors, and, thrice happy, he
is spared the reading of all save the
most pressing business letters. His dis-
covery has been patented in every civ-
ilized county, yet Marconi is aware that
competitors are running him hard in the
race for improvements and consequent-
ly he is never content with what has al-
ready been done.
“We have proved the efficiency of
Marconi’s invention for a distance of |
08 miles,” said Major Flood Page, the
secretary of the Marconi Company, “and
I wish you could tell us how to cross
the Atlantic.”
It is the solution of this distance dif-
ficulty which is now taxing the ingeni-
ous brain of the tireless Marconi. The
curvature of the earth over so many
miles of sea causes the trouble. To
speak to Ostend, over forty miles, of
water, necessitates the erection of a mast
of communication 40 feet high, which
is at the rate of a foot of mast per mile
of distance. By this calculation, wire-
less telegraphy between Southampton
and New York would require on either
side a mast measuring about three thon-
sand feet in height—nearlv as high os
Snowdon and 19 times the height of the
Nelson Column. But Marconi is san-
guine of his ability to solve the mast
problem, though it will, of course, take
some high thinking and deep reflection.
—London Express.
Good Farm Hands Scarce in England.
The decay of agricultural skill has
gone too far. Men who can trench an:
drain, quick-fence and sink a well are
becoming few; farriers and thatchers
are rarities, indeed, and the minor, but
still important, arts of husbandry linger
only among the dying generation.
Moreover, an impression is growing
wide and deep that for the better type
of laborer, now that he is equip-
ped with some education, has a wider
outlook and has learnt to adapt himself
to new conditions, the provision of
small holdings. whether under the act
or independently between landlord and
tenant, may prove his industrial salva-
vation. For while it is recognized that
many must be unequal to the special de-
mands of the life, two or three of the
best men in every village in the coun-
try could do well with holdings of from
20 to 3G acres, i
gheir skilled labor in those times of pre
sure when the farmers only demand
them, and they would rear healthy fami-
lies with a growing desire to remain 01 |
the land.—London Daily Mail.
Tuberculosis has been placed among
the diseases which are subject to quar-
antine. The commissioner of immigra-
tion has so decided in the case of
Japanese who arrived at San Francisco |
from Japan ill with this lung trouble.
It was decided that<the patient
not land, but must return to the port
from which he sailed:
The November fires burned three col- |
lege buildings, one a gymnasium; a
chamber of commerce building at St.
Paul, a theater at Paterson, reforma-
tory building at Pontiac, Ill, a Metho-
dist church at Oswego and a $75,000
brewery 2t Lowell, Mass.
A large python which had been fast-
ing for two months in the Perth (Wes
Australia) Zoological Gardens, made its
way into a cage of ourang-outangs anl
swallowed two of the occupants.
Thirty minutes Is al! thetime required to ' =
dye with Pur~ax FapELEss DYES,
ull druggists.
Sold by
Cincinnati is now claiming to be the |
greatest whisky market in the world. |
The there announces
wholesale trade
that the year will be the heaviest the |
city has ever had.
Headaches and Nervous Depression are
quickly relieved by using Garfield Head-
ache Powders, which are composed entirely
of herbs and are harmless.
Paris has a population of 3,000,000 |
persons and only 46,000 are Protest-
ans.
Uncle Sam's Soldiers
Will eat Joes Plum Pudding for Christmas |
dinner. The U. 8. Government has just pur-
chased a large consignment of Libby, McNeill |
& Libby's famous plum pudding, which will
be supplied to American Seldiers in the Phil-
ippine Islands and Cuba.
The loss through drought in Western
Queensland during the last seven years
has been about £ 7,600,000.
The Best Preseription for Chills
and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS |
CmILL Toxic. It 1s simply iron and quinine in
a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 5c.
The land where the city of Hannibul,
Mo., is now located sold in 1828 for $640.
A dysyeptic fe never on gocd terme with
bimpelf. Something ie always wrong. Get
it right by chewing Beemar’s Pepsin Gum.
France has
factories.
twenty-two organ manu-
I am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago,—M=rs. Tros, Ros-
BINS, Maple St., Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17. 1900.
Nearly £300,000 worth of articles are
pawned in London weekly.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing 8yrap forchildran
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammeoa
tion, allays pain. cures wind colic. 25¢ a bottle.
More than half the population of the
earth has direct access to the Pacific.
For fatigue of mind and body take Gar-
fleld Headache Powders; they bring im-
mediate relief and no reaction follows their
use; they are made from herbs.
in a mile of railway there are more
than 2,000 sleepers.
a od
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TaBLETS. All|
droggiss refund the money if it fails to cure.
E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25
The number of suicides in the Ger-
man empire last year was 10,700.
At Kloblenz itself does |
monu- |
In another part ol the town |
They could still give |
could |
| tures of the imperial buildings are said
| to be the exterior gilding and the i
cases carved out of single stones,
lions and other orna-
{ the empress is trim-
-r the inspec-
2S Ww cle again, and
permitted enter the
.ondon Da 1.
| figures of dragons,
i ments. The bed
| med with solid
| tion the ga
| no one
i
| grounds.
Rice Culture Revived in Rumelia.
The British vice consul at Philippop-
I mentions the re of rice plant-
ing as one of the =
in the recent histo
The cultivation
Egypt by the Tur
Eastern Rus i.
introduced from
s 200 years ago, and
i continued to flourish until the creation
fof the Province ei Eastern Rumelia,
| when, on sanitary grounds, it was d
|
|
|
couraged, and for some time practically
ceased to exist. During the past few
years, however. the industry has reviv-
| ed and is now full of promise for the
| future, as experts say the grain is in-
| ferior only to the finest Carolina rice.
i —
Losses Are Carefully Guarded.
You never see Monte Carlo referred
{ to in any of the newspapers of the south
cof France when somebody has
won a large sum of money at the tables.
These papers are bribed to insert reports
of big gains by the players, and to keep
out news of big losses. The suicides
are also not reported for the same rea-
son. When an English paper contains
a disparaging reference to the place it
is forbidden, for the time, to be sold in
Monaco, and is removed from the pub-
lic reading rooms.—New York Tele-
gram. .
except
Poland is the only
in this century prior to the present
events in South Af whose con-
querors have offered no terms but an-
nihilation to the vanquished.
conquered nation
$100 Reward. $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis-
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
is the only positive cure now known to
Pi ernity. Catarrh being a con-
Tr;
isease, requires a constitutional
Hall's Catarrh Cureistakeninter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy-
ing the foundation o i
f the disease, ana giving
the patient strength by building up the con-
stitution anc sisting nature in doing its
The proprietors have so much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun-
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of imonials. Address
" & Co., Toledo, O.
oJ. 0
Sold by DS
3 i
all's y Pills the best.
The latest quotation for a chicken in
Manila is $1.25, and for beef $1.50 a
| pound.
Best For the Bowels.,
No matter what alls you, headache to a
| eancer, you wili naver get well until your
bowels are put right, Cascarers help
nature, cure you without a gripe or pain,
| produce easy natural movements, cost you
| just 10 cents to start getting your health
| back. Oascarers Candy Cathartic, the
| genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tab-
| let has C.C.C. stamped on it. Beware of
| imitations.
om . : .
{ Thus far in 1900 England has import-
| 1g al ;
led 12 per cent. less foreign grain than
{in 1800.
|
Feeds
the Hair
Have you ever thought why
your hair is falling out? Itis
because you are starving your
hair. If this starvation con-
tinues, your hair will continue
to fall.
| There is one good hair food.
| It 1s Ayer’s Hair Vigor. It
| goes right to the roots of the
hair and gives them just the
food they need. The hair
stops falling, becomes healthy,
| and grows thick and long.
Ayer’s Hair Vigor does
| another thing, also: it always
Jojreres color to faded or gray
air.
One dollar a bottle.
If your druggist cannot supply you, send
us $1.00 and we will express a bottle to you,
all charges prepaid. Be sure and give us
your nearest express office.
. C. AYER Co., Lowell, Mass.
Send for our handsome book on The Hair.
1 Safest, surest cure for
Dr. BuiPs: throat and lung
| C h Hopes People reise
| it. Doctors prescribe it,
( oug Syrup Quick, sure results,
| Refuse substitutes. Get Dr. Bull's-Csugh Syrup.
We make a specialty of mince
meat — employ the best skill — use
the best materials.
We stake our fame on it. We
use it to advertise the many other
good things that we make.
a Shan-
Interest.
designated
tes Govern-
MINCE MEAT
A package makes two large pies.
Your grocer will furnish it if you
ask him. You will find it better
than home-made — better than any
mince meat you ever tasted. You'll
eat Libby’s foods thereafter,
Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago
Our book, “How to Make Good Things
to Eat,” sent free.
FREY'S VERMIFUGE
The children's tonic,
cures of WORMS. Removes
them effectually and with-
out pain. 60 years’ recozd
{/ of success. It is -the re-
medy for all worm troubles,
Entirely vegetable. 25 cts,
atdruggists, country stores
or by mail.
& S. FREY, Baltimore, Md.
DR. SHAFER
octor) can detect and explain
{the most complicated chronie
|disease by the urine ;ifeurable,
treat it successfully by mail,
. | Bend 4 cents for mailing case
™ for urine. Consultation, anal-
X |ysts of urine; report and book
on this new science, free.
. F. SEATER, XD, 423 Penn Ave,
First Floor, Pittsburg, Pa.
P. N. U. 51. 1900.
NEW DISCOVERY; gives
DR oa
eatmaond
guick relief and cures
d 10 days’ tr
cases.
Book of testimonials an
Free. Dr. H. H, GREEN
8 BONS, B
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Bd Best Cor
in time.
Ifamicted with Thompson's Eye Water
weak eyes, use)
| LIBBY’S ak of Frost.
nt. interest
deposit,
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