The starry flag is to be raisod ovei every scboolhouse in Missouri. Tho King of Portugal's precious life is insured for $400,000. London compauios carry the risk. "Tho nations of Christendom are everywhere arbitersof the fate of non Christian nations," boast the New York Observer. Rev. Dr. Thompson, of tho Madison Aveimo Presbytersan Church, Now York City, believes in making temper ance a part of tho compulsory educa tion in our public schools. Hypnotism is becoming a too con venient cloak for all kinds of human weakness and wickedness, protests the Now York Mail and Express. It is an exceedingly populnr (substitute for the Wurn-out insanity pies. Tho Pittsburg coal men say they aro not afraid of tho long-diBtance transmission of electricity generated by water power, as they can seud a ton of coal by water a thousand miles at a cosl of twenty-five ceuts. Under a roeont law foreign dogs are no longor admitted into Iceland. The measure is due to the fact that in 1893 a foreign dog was proved to have in troduced a malady previously unknown which killed the greater part of the shepherd's dogs on tho island. Homo idea of the extent of the trade in chewing gum may be gained from the shipment recently of three cart of one kind of gum to Louisville. The shipment was one single order and wat not considered especially noteworthy by the firm making the shipment from Chicago. The oompotition of electrio cars in Connecticut causes the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad so much apprehonsion, says the Amorican Agriculturist, that statistics are being proparod to show the legislature how the great road will suffjr if electrio roads are allowed to parallel it. The New Haven road will also fight in the courts to shnt out electrio roads. The distance which derelicts traverse is much greater than is generally sup posed. A careful rocord of observa tions has resulted in the preparation of a chart which shows that the hulk of the schoonor Fannie . Wolston has drifted, during the last five yours, more than 10,000 miles. This calcula tion is based on forty-six reports of its having been sighted. Anothei derelict, which began its wanderings in 1891, drifted abont 3,500 miles up to the time it was last seen, when it bal been afloat 615 days. The W. L. White, another floating terror oi the sea, roamed over the North Atlan tic for 310 days, oovering in that time About 6,000 miles. Statistics are demonstrating that embezzlement, liko suicide, is chronic, laments the San Francisoo Argonaut. It bad its periods of epidomio, when it seems to bo almost universal, and then again it subsides, and assumes poradio form, when a single case attracts general attention. The figures are qnite curious. During the eloven years beginning with 1881 and ending with 1891, the total amount of bank embezzlements footed up $127, 000,000. Prior to 1884,thoy averaged about 82,000,000 a year,- But in 1884 the Grant & Ward catastrophe raised tho total above $20,000,000 and the footing for the year was 822,154,000. It then fell back to an average of about $3, 000, 000 until in 1889 when it jumped to $8,000,000 and hung round that figure till 1892, when it nourly reached $20,000,000 and 1894 when it amounted to $25,234,112. statisticians now figure that for the next eight or ton years it will bo safo to reckon on $45,000,000 a year. Of the $25,234,000 lost by defalcations in 1804, $9,147,000 wore lost in New York, the banking centre of the coun try. The next state in the list, strange to say, was Tennessee, where the lead ing banks had been unsound for years, and liquidation long post poned lad to a iisolosure of de falcations ' amounting to $4,161, 000. Illinois, with defalcation amount ing to 81,813,000, fills the third plaoe ; here the losses and frauds may be traced to speculations connected with the World's Fair. Iowa, Mis souri, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Mioh' igan and Ohio follow in order, and California joins the . prooesjiou with defalcations amounting to $022,000, The other States figure for compara tively small sums. It is manifest that the heaviest embezzlements take plaoe in the cities where olerks handle the largest turns, and where the op portunitie of speculating with stolen money are most frequent. Three Kisses of Farewell Three, only three, my darling, Separate, solemn, slow i Not like the swift and Joyous ones We used to know When ws kissed because we loved each other, Blmply to taste love a sweet, And lavished our kisses as the summer lav ished heat But as they kiss whose hearts are wrung When hopo and fear are spent And nothing Is left to give exoept A sacrament. First of the three, my darling, Is snored unto palm We have hurt each other otten, We shall again. When we pine because w miss each other, And do not understand How the written words are so much colder Than eye or nun 1. I kiss then, dear, for all such pain Which we may (rive or take i Burled, forgiven before It comes For our love's sake. The second kiss, my darling, Is full of Joy's swer.'t thrill i We have blosse.l each other always; We alwjy wl:l. We shall roa-a until we fenl oaea oth?r, Pant all of tlmt and space; We shall listen till we hear each other . In evory plaoo. Tho earth Is full of mnsscngnrs, Which love sends to and fro ; I kiss tlio , darling all for Joy Which we shall kn iw. Tho last kiss, O, my darllntf, My love, I cm not s? Through my tvars, as I remembir What It may be. Wa may died and never sse ea:h other, Die with no time to glvo Any sign that our hearts are faithful To din, as live. Token of what they will not sie Who soe our parting brea.lth, This one last kiss my darling, soaU The kiss of death. Saxe Holmes. RIDING TO DEATH. My name is Morgan Grenoble and today I have reached tho turning point of my thirtieth year. People say that I look "odd," with almost snow white hair, and wonder how it came to bj thus to one so young. Eight years ago, come the 29th of this very month, I stood at the altar with Laura Comstock. I was a telegraph operator and was stationed at Way burg, a station twen ty miles from Stookton, and at the terminus of the then D. O. & C. R. railway. Returning from our honeymoon I left my wife in Stockton and proceed ed to Wsyburg, intending to remain at my old post until relieved, which I thought would be in a few days, as my offered resignation had been accepted at headquarters. The engineer on the "up" train was Mark Mooro, a rather handsome young fallow, who had been my rival for the hand of the woman I called my wife. When the train stopped at More- land's I alighted from the passenger coach and walked forward to the en gine. Mark was busily engaged oiling the maohinery. "How are you, Morgan?" he said, as he espiod me, and held out his band. His disappointment scorned to have left him and he was very pleasant. "Going to Wayburg?" he asked. ', "Yes." "Just got in with me, then," he said. I replied that I would do so, and when the train moved away I was OO' cupying a seat in the engine, chatting with the engineer. "One hardly notioes the asoent, but the descent is an entirely different thing. I was thinking, Morgan, what a terrible thing it would be if an en glne, with full power on, were) to be- oome unmanageable at tho top of the grade and dash away." I shuddered. "And if a man bent on revenge were to plaoe a fellow creature bound on the engine, what a terrible death he would hasten to, with almost lightning rapidity." 'Suppose the engine should en counter the C passenger?" "Then death would spread his wings over the spot of the collision." I had no desire to pursue the con' venation further, but he persisted in it, and I was greatly. relieved when the train ran iuto Wayburg. ' The following night ' was dark and tempestuous, and I alone ocoupied the station, watching the little machine before me. That day a new engine bad arrived and Mark Moore had been put in oharge of it. From two o'clook in the afternoou to five I saw him moving about the en glne. ' ' Until ten I watohed the little ma chiue. Then Mark opened the door and stepped into the small apartment. "Are you reoaiving despatch, Morgan? he asked. "No, Mark ; why do you ask?" "Because if you are not I wish you would leave the dicker a bit and oome and look at my Red Bird by lantern light. I am going to run down grade to Citalincrs, reverse the engine and run back. The train will not be due hero for au hour, and I can go to Chalmers and return within twenty minutes." We walked into the great temporary shed where the new and beautiful en gine stood, ready to run off at the command of its master. "I dare not be so long absent from my post at this hour, Mark." "Pooh, man, there's no danger. You must go with me." "But I cannot, Mark." He put his lantern on the ground and then sprang erect "You shall, Morg Grenoble!" he cried, and before I could answer bim, ho dashed me to tho earth and planted his knees on my breast "Not a word out of you, Morg," he said, fiercely, producing a rope. "I'll tell you what I'm going to do. You know we were discussing the conse- ptence attending the rush of a mad dened engine down the grade. I reck on I won't go to Chalmers, but will send you clear to the bottom of the grade." "Mark Moore, you are mad," I said. "Would you murder me in cold blood and others who are coming up on the 11.10 passenger?" "Yes," he scid coldly. I might have resisted, but resistance would have availed me nothing, for I was constitutionally weak while he was a lion. "Now for the ride to death 1" he cried, lifting me up and bearing me into tho little engine room. Again I pleaded for mercy ; but as well might I have pleaded to stone, for he met my prayers with taunts. 'What will it profit you, Mark," I asked, "to wreak your vengeanoo on me? The hounds of justice will run you to earth, and you will suffer for your crime." "What care I?" "There 1" he stid, at last, as he closed the furnace door. "Everything is ready for your ride. You'll go right through Stockton; but I reckon you wou't have time to stop to speak to loving Luira. Goodby, Morg; write wheu you get to the foot of the grade. " The engine was moving and he leap ed off. "May heaven have mercy on your soul, Mark Moore!" I shoutod after him. The grade botwoen Wayburg and Chalmers was quite steep, and bofore I reached the little town the speed of the Bid Bird and its tender seemed to rival that of the telegraph. Tho towns, with their glimmering lights, appeared and were gone in a flash. The manner in which I was bound permitted mo to look out of the win dow. I did so, and Stockton, the home of my wife, greetel me with its many lights. Ah&td, I saw many people waiting for the 11.10 passenger. ' The next moment I was carried past them. I saw their astonished faces, and heard a piercing shriek. I recognized the voioa as my wife's. Thore was one hope for me just one. Perhaps the operator at Stockton had telegraphed down the grade, and, thus warned, the coming train would switch, and save its passengers from death. Looking out, I saw far ahead the glaring headlight of the southern train. To me it looked as though it stood on my track. Evidently the train had not been warned. Suddenly I heard a man shout, "Stand back!" and then, crash I all was dark I "Is he injured much?" somebody asked. Sympathizing faces bent over me, and a surgeon was examining my wounds. The ties stopped the engine," said the surgeon. "We reoeived a tele' gram from Stockton, informing us that the new engine was rushing down the grade. The southern train was switched off upon its arrival here, and we set to work to pile innumerable ties on the track, which, thank heaven, checked your mad career." "Telegraph to Stockton," I said, "to my wife." It seemed as though every bone in my body was broken, and I cannot tell how I ever survived through the pros tratica that followed. But I did, to find my hair rivalling the spotless purity of the snow, and crow's feet on my youthful forehead, My rival was never tried, for the third day following his arrest ho was conveyed to an asylum, ' a hopeless maniac Boston Globe. I0K FARM AND GARDES. HOW TO DE-IIORX. This is the way I do-horn cnttle writes Androw Doty. When they are small calves two to four weeks old, wot the plaoe where the horns grow with cold water, and thou rub in concen trated lye thoroughly. This has been tried with good success, as the horns nover grow after that is done. DELICATE FLAVOR OP BUTTER. As a rulo, the supposed delioate flavor of fresh butter just from the churn is due to the small quantity of buttermilk loft iu it, tor perfectly fresh butter is wholly insipid and with out any marked flavor at all. Very soon the buttermilk develops the usual strong flavor, and this is found in the butter, unless it hns been thoroughly washed freo of buttermilk. Then the true butter flavor develops itself in a few days, and at first it is very plea sant, and has a delightful aroma, but this soon becomes strong by tho de velopment of the fatty acids of the butter, and gradually increases to what is called rancidity. It is best to wash butter thoroughly, if it is to be kept more than two or three days, but for immediate use it will not need so much washing. American Farmer. OILING THE HARNESS. Beforo tho busy soason commonccs on the farm is a good time to oil the harness, and if any seams are be ginning to rip repair them.either with fow stitches or as we commonly do with copper rivets. First thoroughly wash the harness so as to have it free from sweat and dirt. We find tho easiest way to accomplish this is to take the harness to pieces and sonk it over night in strong soapsuds, having the water as warm as is comfortable to hold tho hand in when the harness is first put in. If too hot it will scald the leathor. When taken out iu tho morning, most of the dirt is gone and a littlo rubbing with a ooarso rag will remove the spots that did not soak off. Neat's-footoil is iu tho long run tho cheapest oil we have ever found for oiling loathor of any kind, and espe cially harness, as it is exposed to the fiction of dirt, sweat, and very often is out in tho rain. If tho harness is not very dry, a half gallon of oil will be enough for an ordinary set of har ness, though we have soen harness so dry that a gallon would bo none too much. A nickol's worth of ivory black will give a beautiful color and polish to tho loathor if it is tuixod with tho oil before using. Be sure, though, to got ivory black and not lamp black, as tho latter rubs off badly, nave tho oil warm and as you take tho straps out of tho water run tbom a fow times through tho oil, wipo off with a rag and bing up to dry. If not then soft enough repeat the operation. Treat your harnoss in this way and it looks like new and if it is oiled about throe times a year will outlust three or four sets that never reoeive any oil It is an old saying that "five oil ings equal a now harness." Farmer's Guide. RKARINQ XOtWO TURKEYS. It is best to confine the brood for a week at least aftor hatching. Should the mother heu then beooins restless, she may be let out during the middle of the day. As the turkey retires early and dislikos being disturbed af ter sotting down for the night, be sure and coop them before the sun sets, The young turkeys will oat but littlo the first week. Feed separate from the mother, for she will devour all the food within reach. For downright greediness, an old hen turkey has few equals, . Dry. broad soaked is sweet milk is one of the best foods for the young, as is curd from fresh butter milk. A whole flock has beou raised on warm curd. A custard made of one egg to a pint of milk, tbickenod with bread, (no sugar), is a good food, When about two months old, feed whole wheat, part of the time and mix corn meal with their feed ; this should not be fed exoluBively. Allow plenty of liberty, as confinement will kill young turkeys. When the mother hen begins tramping wildly from oue side of the cpop to the other, better let her out unless the weathes is unfa vorable. When about the size of partridges and old enough to follow the mother in long rambles, the young will need but little attention, simply a little feed morning and evening. They much prefer bugs, grasshoppers, inseots and seeds to a more civilized ration. Do not neglect to bring' them home at night and put under shelter until old enough to fly into trees and care for themselves. - Turkeys do not always mdeot wisely the best resting place fur the night, hence . vermin sometimes attack and annoy thorn. Teach them to come at tho sound of your voioe ; it will save many a weary tramp in search ing woods and fields. Six weoks' time is sufficient to fat ten for market. Food twioe a day all the whole corn they will eat, but do not attempt confinement, as a turkey chafes uudor restraint and will lose flesh rather than fatten. They will not take more exercise than is neces sary to koep in good health. Ameri can Agriculturalist RnORT DER TALK. "Every one Las a way of their own" is au old adage, and I suppose just as applicable to tho.se that handle boes as it is to any other work. But as we are never too old to loam, oftentimes we are benefited by comparing notes, facts and experience. To be sure there is not a fortune for everyone in bees, yet if properly cotiductod "boo keep ing" is not to be despised. For the benefit of those who have had littlo or no experience with bccs,I will drop a few suggestions. As bees are very much annoyed by noise, place them as far as possible from such, and where there is the least danger of their being disturbed It is a good plan to have your hives where thoy can readily be seen from tho bouse ; in that way much trouble is avoided. But see that they are well protected from the sun and wind. We nover oppose our beos, but always work quiotly, using plenty ofsmok(T; fiud' tht decayed wood Is preferable to sulphur. Those that are afraid of being stung might find it a good idea to protect the hands by a pair of rubber gloves. and a roil for the head and faoa; veil should be long enough to reach well under the coat As the boes are busy about noon, we plan to work among them then as they are easier handled, in transferring thore is little danger of attracting rob bers. In the fall if there are any weak swarm, always unite Some make tho mistake of housing their, bees too soon ; thoy should not bo put in thoir winter quarters until sovore wonther begins, and then care should bo taken to give good vontilation from above. Never place them where it is damp or poorly ventilated unless you want dead bees. If your collar is inclined to dampness, a pipe two and ono-half inches in dinmotor passed up through the floor and connected with tho stove pipe will servo to overcome tho dump ness. Unless the wintor is exceptionally oold, bees may be safely wintered on their summer stands, provided thoy have tho hive well protected with straw, and are given plenty to live on, from thirty-five to fifty pounds of honoy makos a good allowaaoj for bees wintered out Gouorally speak iug, I would not advisu all to leave the hives cn tho summer stands still I assort it may be dona if precaution is taken, and think, on the wholo the chances would be no greater than to undortako to house thorn in a damp or poorly veutilatod cellar. Farm, Field and Fircsido. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Good draiuage, natural or artificial is essential to success. The busy soason is now approaok ing. Are you ready for it? Remember on ploughing days that a horse's enduranoo has a limit. Do not be in a hurry to keep the cows out of the stable at night. In the spring when the roads art heavy don't overload the team. Seo that all the farming utensils are in order for the spring and summer campaign. Potash is the chief fertilizer to be applied to fruit troes, partloularly after thoy come into bearing. Don't work the horses too bard at first. Let them gradually become ao customcd to it after their long Winter's rest. Barn manures are generally more economically used wheu applied to farm crops than when applied to orchards ; yot they can bo used with good rosults, particularly when re juvenating old orohards. A lesson to learn in the poultry business is that egg production is far more profitable than ohioken raising as oommonly followed, A dozen eggs brings as much in winter as a ohioken of 2 1 or 3 pounds, and are much easier to raise. The tin cans filled with sweetened water and plaoed at various points iu the orchard of the Oklahoma Experi mental Station proved very efficient bug traps. Several hundred May beetles, oriokets and grasshoppers were caught This plan of utilizing t.iess hitherto useless artleles U fully justified by results. ' A rWJson'i Powerful Tog. . TLe examining surgeons of tb Bixty-flfth Regiment, New York Na tional Guard, reoontly found a Sanisun at Buffalo. Among the candidates ex amined was Bert Bartram, a cartman, about 83 years old. When he had stripped for the examination he sat on a chair and asked the physicians to stand on his ankles. One stood on each ankle, and then, apparently with out auy great effort, Bartram raised his legs until they stood like parallel bars, and held the doctors in the air for two minutes. Four Hebrew clerks in a wholesale clothiug house found this Samson a week earlier. They knew that he prided himself on his strength and put up a job on him. Ho gets the wages of two men on account of his groat strength. Bartram was delivering some heavy cases at tho clothing house and lifted the cases on and off tho dray without the aid of skids. One of the clerks pointed to a big case on the floor nud asked Bartram if he could lift it They told him it held 700 pouuds of cloth. Ho offered to bet that he could, and agreed to return as soon as he had de livered the other packages on the wagon and do the trick for them. Whilo he was gone tho young met? emptied the case, drove four long nails through the bottom of it into the floor, and went into the collar and clinched tho nails. Then they returned the goods to the box and waited for Bartram. He appoared at the ap- pjiuted time, strode over to tho case and took hold of it It didn't budge. "Sure there's only 700 pounds in it?" said he. The four young men assured him that that was all it contained, and then offered to bet him that be could not lift it. Bartram put up $20 against $20 raised by the four clorks. Then he removed his coat,' fastened his big hands on the case, gave a powerful tug and the case rose in the air with a crackling of timber and a oloud of dust Six square foot of the floor came up with the box. Bartram pocketed the mouey and after reprov ing the young men for the attempted frnud went away. The carpenter bill of $8 was paid by the crestfallen clerks. New York Snn. Lesson From the Far East. In Japan there livos a native scholar and writer than whom no one has done mora toward introducing education and civilization into his oountry. Re peatedly he has refused both titles and remunerative offices. . This man bad never sought for wealth, but ha had acquired during a long life of usefuluess a moderate sura for his support iu Inter years about ten thousand dollars in our money. WLou tho war with China broke out, ho at onoe gave this money to his government as his contribution toward the war expenses, saying that individuals must make sacrifices for the cause of patriotism. This splondid example of love for the native land illustrates the intensi ty of the patriotic spirit in Japan. The general absence of this unselfish nose iu China hns been one cause of her defeat. Office has been used to satisfy personal greed. The govern ment has been feared and cheated, not loved and strengthened. A Japanese student in this country, talking with an Amerioan, said naively, "In Japan I was a Christian ; here I do not know what I am. I do not understand your young men. They do not want to do anything for the oountry. They want to make money, or get in Congress, or marry rich widows and go to Euro pe. In Japan every young man wants to do some thing for the country." Devotion to the general good, ear nestness iu advocating what is for the interest of all rather than for that of the class or individual, willingness to give ono'a own time and trouble to ad vanco noodod reform these are qual ities that should be universal. In them lies tho hope of the future. Youth's Companion. Tit for Tat. Customer (who has made a collection f of some of the choice candies iu the store) Now, if you will wrap these up, I'll take thorn home, examine them, and lot you bear from me. Confeotioner (astounded) - Why, man alive! I oau't stnud that f ' Customer Can't stand it! Why, your wife comes up to my dry-goods tore about twioe a week and does the nil,". ( J J qww. wva It's Advantage. Dusty Donovan You're do most reokless man I ever seed. . If dat dog 'ud bit yer, yet might 'a got the hyderfobia! ' Saturated Sam (ecstatioally) Dat'ii' wot 1 want. When yer has dat, Dusty nobody, dast offer Water ter yer, any shaps er form I Puok. 2 V J. if i 0.f i,.
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