They say now that the Spanish aoldiers in Cubs sell thoir arms and munition to tbo insurgents. By a verdict in tbo Kansas City Circuit Court n man baa been bold re ponsiblo for the damage dona by a runaway horse driven by bin wife. The number of book which nro the clirpct outgrowth of the Bacon-Sbakcs-Huro controversy is given as 275, opnngh to fill tvi good-sized book- CMOS. Professor B, B. Richardson, Direct or of tbo Aro-tfcan school at Athens, Greece, advances t ie theory thnt the horrors attributed to the River Styx by the ancients were due to fever flerms, with which the locality is still Ente Field says thnt while she was In .England she was asked in good faith whether the language taught in the public schools of the United tftates wos English or Amcrlcau. 'Oh, American,' I replied." says Miss Field, " 'English is a dead lan guage. It is only learned by univer sity men who go in for classics.' " A man who kuowj, tolls the Phila delphia Record, thnt a concern in Philadelphia makes a profit ot $24 on tbe carcass of every home. In the first place the hide is valuable, and -the leather known as cordovan is taken from the akin over the rump. The other leather is soft, and is used mostly for slippers and heavy driving gloves. The hair from the tail and niaiio is made into haircloth, and tbe short hair is used in shifting cushions and horse collars. From the hoofs oil is extracted and the horny substance is sold to eomb manufacturers. The leg bones are used for knife handles. The ribs and head are burned to make boncblack after the gluo has beeu extracted.-. By various prooessos phos phorus, carbon ite of am-.nonia.cyanide of potassium and prussio acid are ob tained, and somotimcs the moat is canned and shipped to Europe. In an article on international mat rimonial alliauces the London Specta tor says a good word for the American mnn: "He is often as polished as the European ; he is usually much better .cultivated civilization not being by -any means the strong point of the European aristocrat, and while he is .at least ns eager a lover, be is, by the consent of two continents, a rather more dovoted husband. Why, then, in he paused over for one who cornea from the outside? W'hIuuc,. ui.it au dition and literuture and unaccustomed Whs have something to do with it, and itbat the higher society of Europe ban, '.for the Arnt-rican girl, something of tbo charm of. romance, as of an limits soverod and hotter country in which it will be pleasant to uudcrtake an ad veuturo. The thirst to try the c-xperi-'.ment is a natural emotion with some thing of pootry in it, as well as love of adventure, , aud wo hardly see why the Amerioan girl who elocts so new, and, as she thinks, so bright a life, -should be accused either of snobbish ness or of ovorvaultiug ambition." Surely an American journal would hardly be more fluttering. The thriving town of Greeley, Col., 4ias just bold its second annual potato festival "The city of Greeley," says the Denver Times in noting the event, "is just twenty-six years old. Last year, in Ootober, 1894, a meeting oi prominent citizens was hold to discuss (be advisability of expressing in Kmc suitable manner the glory of this great agricultural ooutro, whoie growth from the little dugout on the 11ains in 18C9 to the beautiful com tnuuity justly termed the 'Garden City' iu 1894, gave such au opportuni ty for the quarter-ocntennial, and it ' was decided thut the potato, Greeley's - ahief glory, should be orowned kiug, nd it is to do honor to this rreat staff of life that the ouutry for miles aroaud is here today assembled. Silver may b demonetized, wool may be entered tree, freight rates may cause the man ufacturing cities to suffer, but to the annsnally fertile soil of this section of tbe state, oombined with the re sources of half a dozen large irrigating i . i - rt i t - . esnsui, tue ureaiey jjumtu uus riseu to promiueuoe seldom attained. ly any agricultural product of any portion of this oouutry. Potatoes the people .mast Lave, and tbe Greeley potatoes -sura admitted the finest in the world. She demand for potatoes will always 3be great, and as tbe population in creases, so will the domand for the potato grow in proportion. Greoley ftuu depended, duriug the twenty-six jreara ot her life, ou this staple, aud potato in tnru has been grateful, aud fcaa given her no oause to regret the f'-jie and money spent iu bringing it ' vf present perfection. - Over the Hirer, Over tbo river on ons of thus Jars , Over the rlvnr, Into the bonnty ot heavenly bays, Over the rlvor! Rolling oa waters when lotuses smllo, Passing by many a trnpioal Isle, Sighting savannas thorn mile upon mile, Over the river I Over Uin river on one of these times- Over the rlvnr, Into the dazzling suit storieit climes, Over the rlvor! Music forovoraml beauty for aye, Sunlight unen.llng ths sunlight and ilf Never a farewell to weep on the way, Ovor the rlvor I W. T.IInlo.ln Memphis Commoralal-Appenl. A DECREE OF SILENCE. tir MRS. M. I ItATNB. TV lion Allan Davis married Lnelln Clark, persons who were not consulted iu the matter as very few were wondered what he saw in that girl to fnli iu love with ; not her beauty, cer tainly, tiuce she had none; nor her intellectual grnoes. which were few and far betweeu nor ber amiable character, for she bad a sharp tongue, aud they left the mutter as one be yond their comprehension. But if sny of them bad asked Allan himself he could not have told them. It was enough for him that love goes where it is sent, and that ho did love Luolla with bis whole true heart, no one know butter than he. So they were married, and I wish I soiild add tbe dear old storybook formula, "livod happy forever aftor," but as this is a true story and not a romnucc, it must follow out tuo boston track of real life, evou to the bitter aud. All knew when ho married his wifo thnt she had a complaining tongue. He bad heard her talk to her old father, and not even his great love for her could make her stinging words pokcn without any apology or passion, joi in other than discourteous aud un filial. Aud when the meek old man bent his bead to tbo word that was more cruel than a blow he Allan blamed him for submitting so tamely to a woman's invective, promising to himself a different state of affairs, when he should have the right to ob ject. For a brief time Allan was as happy is any of us are permitted to be in this transitory life, and Lnella, pleased with her new estate, aud her handsome, loyal husband, wus like a creature of a different nature, and tbe aid father having passed peacefully sway, left an interim of suspended boHtility, in which Allan established s kingdom of happinoss, which he imagined to be on a firm foundation, lie was never more mistaken. For tho ruler of this kingdom was the queen of discontent. Allan had never been nagged, out ljuclla was perpetually nagging. Having found the vulnerable point in his armor of peace, she thrust the javelins of anger in, with the slightest pretext, and smiled to soe bim wince. It gave evi dence of her power. Tbo old father bad escaped; but ber husband was hors, he must stay and hear. I know this is not a pleasant story, and readors need go no further nnless they are interested in a curious psy chological fact I myself am a bo licver in hcrodity. I am sure that somewhere in the past this woman had an ancestor with a sharp tongue, which she bad never tried to bridle. If thore is sympathy for the man who inherits a consuming thirst for drink, why not for the woman who has had bequeathed to ber a bad temper whiob she took with her hair and eyes ? Luella bad everything to make ber hoppy, from the standpoint of any roasouablo being, but she uover ceased complaining, and at Inst the good nature and fortitude of her husband deserted him and he tnrnod, not as the worm turns, but rather like a raging lion, and Luella held her peace in sheer astonishment "I wish you were dumb," he said, in a whisper of concentrated wrath and scorn. "I wish I might never bear the sonnd of your voice again." Like all evenly balauced natures, when he overstepped boundaries be went too far ; but there was this in ex tennation, his words came from the lips and not from the heart ; they sounded far worse than they inten tioned, aud they recoiled on himself, even before be had seized his hat to leave tbe house. He turned to soe their effect on Lu ella and found to his horror that she had fainted. Then he called bimsolf a brute, sent for friends and a doctor, and hung over his wife prostrate with grief and remorse uutil she opened her eyes-and reaoguizod him. He begged her forgiveness,. but to all bis entreaties she only shook her bead feebly until at laat, when ha pleaded for one word, she mndo a mo tion which indioated a wish to writo aud with a horrible fear tnking pos session of him, he gave her paper and pencil and this is what she wrote for bim; "You have your wish. You will hover hear my voice nirnin. I am stricken dumb." It was noised about in the commu nity, and people talked old people especially, of what they called a "vis itation of God." The doctors had another name for it ; they called it acute paralysis, and said it was reflex aud would pass away presently, but they were wrong iu thoir prognostications. Luella went about her work again, the light house hold duties that devotoped ou hor,but not one word came from her mute lips. Allan, who was beside himself with grief and disappointment, urged ber to lunru the labial language, indeed offered to forego speech for her sake, and learn the lessons of silence with her, but she would not listen to the suggestion. And then begnu the mar tyrdom of Allan Davis. Luolla could hear perfectly, so that her husband and friends were not con strained in their speech, but any word she had to say, any message or answer in their conversation coming from ber must be writteu. She was always pro vided with the menus ot communica tion, and writing tablets of the daint iest sort were scattered around the house, like some new bric-a-brao ot speech. The devotion ot Allan Davis to bis afflicted wife was somcthiug marvel ous. II o never wearied of lover-like attontions,aud be never demanded the slightest recognition of them. Ho spoilt every hour ol his existence not employed in bis business in devising pleasures for Luella, aud on those un fortunate days when a dumb devil of ill-nature assorted itself, ho . met her mute reproaches with a self-abasement that was neithor unmanly nor servile, but Christ-like. His bonny brown locks turned gray, bis laughing, boy ish face took on the shadows of early age, but his spirit remained serene and patient, and the love be held in his heart for this woman grew brighter and more fervent toward the end. And the end enmo before tho fire ot youth had quito turned to ashes the end for Allan Davis. It was a simple case ot influonza at first, with no suggestion of danger, until one dny tho doctor looked grave, and tho next he said to Luella: "Your husband will die!" He watehod her sharply, but no quiver of au cyolid told him what he wanted to know. She wrote a ques tion on her tablet: "How soon?" "At any time tonight, perhaps," answered the doctor, and again he watched bor narrowly. Did be but- prise a tl isu of joy in her cold eyes, a strati go tense drawing of tho lines around her severe mouth? It might have been his imagination, but at any rate he was glad for Allan Davis. Tho end came at night, when Luella watched with ber husband ulono. Ho had boon sleeping nnd dreamed some thing that wakened him with a wild start, and made nil things look unreal all except his wifo, wuo bent over him with a new solicitude in her face. He saw it aud was grateful. "I am going to leave yon, my dear, he said in tho slow precise tones of those who are noarly done with ha man speech, "will you not lot mo have as my last glad heritage a word of forgiveness for the great I did to you ?" Luella looked at bim, and an nn mistakablo gleam of triumph shone in her eyes and expressed itself in her movements as she seized her tablet and wrote something upon it in plain, distinot letters. Allan saw tbo look and the hope that had for years sus tained bim, seemed now to be seemed now about to be realized, and he lift ed his head to road for the last time that beloved handwriting. But God. more merciful than his creature, bad auointed bis eyea with film, and with the written words he so longed to see held before bim by an unfaltering hand, he loosed hi hold on earthly love and hate, and despoiled the last sting of a torrible revenge. For this was what Luella had writ ten for her dying husband to read: "Sinoe you are about to die I will tell vou that I have never for one moment boen incapable of speech. assumed u misfortune to punish you as vou deserved. I have suooeodod. Detroit Free Press. Little Time Keuulred, He (with persoual uarrative, foar fully thrilliug( To colloot my boat tered wit was tbe work of a moment She (musing, oh, o sweotly,) Yes it would hardly take longer. A Curious Factory. From the Ht. James Uazotte I learn that London has a factory for the making of penny dreadfuls. It is not in a very flourishing condition, for the pay is poor from 75 cents to tl per 1,000 words. Tbo factory con sists of a small, low roofed room up five flights of Btnirs in tho neighbor hood of Floot street. The factory ands are four men, who sit at the long denl table, covered with the pict uresque ornamentations of various ink stains and four more or less do lapitated chairs. One ot the four explained that scarcely any plot is requirod merely thread running through a story, on hich they string the adventures like beads. Tho threads are all very simi lar : the hero goes abroad in search ol inmeuse treasure, or else devotes his fe to discovering the murderer of is futher, nnd chapter aftor chapter he performs marvelous feats ot skill and daring, until the last one, in hich tho villain is killed and all ends appily. One man supplies the plot. He geti them from anywhere aud everywhere, Another ho Las never been out ol London, writes the sea stories, a third the Indian stories, though, until Buf falo Bill went to London, he nevct taw an Indian. The fourth man is publio school man, and a cut above this kind of work, though he is past doing anything better now. Once 'he was a risiug author, but bis first suc cess ruined bun. We have a well-known author in ow York who writes penny dreadfuls over an assumed name, but he doesn't ork iu a factory, nor is he, so far as kuow, compelled by necessity to do this sort of thing. He apparently does it from choice. The reader of such tales as "Phil the Foliccmnu, or 10 Mystery ot the Little Attic Room," do not suspect that their favorite author writes of fashionable fe for another class of readers iu another quarter of the town over an othor name. The Critic. Billions of Beans. Boston has long been noted for its baked brnns, but not until reoently has auy inhabitant of the old Puritan city bud the temerity to figure out tho total amount of consumption of tho city with respect to bonus. This man es timates and gives figures to prove that ho is not fur from right, that Boston consumes annually 8,007,080 quarts of beans. It's an eaiicr thing to arrive at thau it looks, for beans are a staplo weekly diet iu Boston. No Sunday breakfast iu Boston and its vicinity is complete without a savory dish of this most pnlatablo article preparod Boston style. Then, too, thore are big factories n Boston tho solo business of which is to prepare baked beans for Bostou faiuiliee, hotels aud restaurants. The annual produot ot these boaucrins is ,128 qunrtH, nnd thoy supply only n limited constituency. Noarly COO other restaurants uso about 773,500 quarts, while tho various bakeries scud out each year not far from 3,000, 000 quarts.' The Boston Globe, which gives these figures, doos not tell whether or uot tho oanned beans that Boston beanerios send out are inoluded in this amount That trade must amount to millions of quarts every year, for Boston baked beunsare found in near ly every city in the country. They may be bought, morcovor, iu Loudon aud Paris. Apropos of bakod beans, here is the way they are baked in Maine. A hole is dug in tbe ground, filled in with rooks nnd ohuuks of wood. The wood is fired and burned to embers. Then tho hole is cleared ot the em. bers uud the pot set in among them, the embers being placed over the top of it, thus hermetically sealing the beans aud giving them gradual buk ing for 24 hours, for tbe rooks may hold their beat for two days. From this it "would seom that long bakiug is the real seerot of a good mess of beans. Teeth Reading. Aecording to tbe London Telegraph tooth reading is tbe latest fad. The "soieuce" is only in its iufanoy yet, but the following are two or three of the item which it professor assert to be incontrovertible: "Teeth that are long and narrow donoto vanity: projectors indicate a grasping dispo sition ; treachery is best known by small, white, soparated molars; incon. staucy by overlapping toeth ; aud tbe possessor of wide separated ivories is sure to tell all he kuois. Those who wear false one's possess a character that tho soieu'oe oannot read. Sir Ernest auson Bhaw, tuo new British minister to Japan, ia said to be ono of the best Japanese scholar in the world. FOR FARM AXD OARDEX. FRNCH now WITHOUT FENCES It is well to gat rid of uscloss fences. But in ninny places where the fence is removed the soil is filled with rocks, bushes nnd trees so that it is impossi ble to plow or cultivate it. Such tin usod fonce rows soon become as bad a ntnsnuco as the useless fence thnt preceded thorn. It will pay, gener ally, to clear up such fence rows if only for the looks of tho place. While the rows remain, showing that fences bad onca occupied that spot, thoir absence must indicate thnt farming in thnt neighborhood is less prosperous Uipu it used to be. Boston Cultivator. OnOCKD WHEAT FOR COWS. Ground wheat for cows is not a ju dicious ration. Tho experience of the best focders in tho ceutral west, confirmed by tests at the Illinois ex periment station.shows that better re sults are obtaiued from feeding bran and middlings than tho pure wheat Even with the most careful of feeders the auimnl is very apt to be overfed, aud turned against the pure wheat feed Appotite for a pure wheat ra tion varies to suuh an exteut that it is almost impossible to fix a stated amount of food thnt an animal will eat aud relish every duy. If it must bo fed, give the cow only what she will eat up clean. American Agricul turist PEF.DINO FOR EOI1S. Feoding for egg production is a different affair altogether and there is even a difference between the feed ing when tho eggs are required for the market aud wheu thoy are wanted for hatching. When the eggs are in tended for the market tho male bird must be excluded from the heuyard. when this is done the eggs will keep fresh longer, aud iu fact will never addle, but merely dry away. The virgin pullet or hen or pullet will lay more eggs than tho mated one. Stimulating food fills the egg bnsket. It may consist of wheat bran two parts, ground corutneul one-eighth part, season with salt and one-half toaBpoon of ground cayenne popper to tho pint of food. For hatching eggs the best diet is wbont, oat s, ground bouo,clovcr and blue grass and plenty of frosh water for auy and all pur posos. Interstate Poultry man. NATIVE VAIUETIE3 OF THE PLf.M. In many localities, and espociully in tho Westorn States, varieties of our nntivo wild plums suocood better, or at least, are not so badly infested by the plum weevil as the European varieties. For this roasou they have becomo immensoly popular of lato years, and vory large quantities of these bright coral red fruits are to be seen in our Eastern mnrkots. Judge Samuel Millor of Missouri, who hus experimoutod cxtotisivoly with tho untive sorts, says that the Hiinkcyo is the largest of all, and is excel lout in quality. His choice from among tho many'that have boon fully tested iu Missouri ore tho Wild Goose, Do- Soto, Louisa, Prairio Flower, aud Golden Beauty, the lattor boing vory desirablo on account of its lato keep ing qualities and excellont flavor. The no Japan plums known ns Kel scy's Japan and the Satsuma are too tcuder for Missouri, and are rooom mendod only for tho South. This will bo a disappointment to those who have boen expecting great things from those Japan plums for planting in the middle and Northern States. Now York Sun. THE CHARACTERISTICS) OF GOOD BlLAOE. Good corn silage should be bright groen, only a little uai-Ker man when put into the silo, and free from mould. The kernels of corn should be nearly natural in color, and -the silage should have a mild aoid taste and a well-marked smell. Any mold ing of the silage, any strong offensive odor, and any dark or black color are indication of losses of dry matter than eight to. twelve percent. A silo which gives this kind of silage is de dofeotive in some important particular. There will be Mattered through the ilago small spots tho size ot the hand, or perhaps the size ot the bead, where there is a little mold; but these should bo very few. A general molding or blackeuiug of the silage in oontnot with tho walls is proof positive of faulty walls or bad filling. The eilage against the walls should be bright and free from mold, and where it is not, an unuoooaaary loss is being sustained This is an important matter for the feoder to uudorstaud, beouuso oattla will eat ailngo readily where there has boen as high as fifty per oant loss, so that the fact that cattle eat the ilago all up i no eriterioa that Vg losses are not being sustained. A feeder enn no bettor afford a loss of twenty pur cont of bis silage than he can afford a loss of one per cont of fat in bis milk. New England Home stead. v MUTTON SHEEP. The American who intends to make money from sheep raising must not ignore the fact that suocess is only to be attained with better care and better food than we ordinarily give our sheep. This is somewhat difficult to mater,owlng to our ingrained convic- tiou that those animals are destined by nature to act as scaveugcrs. A falser beliof was never disseminated. Sheep do not prefer weeds to grasses or graius. They will cat them rather than rtarve, but that is all. This has been a great disadvantage to tbem, a weeds do not contain nn equal amount of nutriment with the same bulk of grass. Besides, this lack of fastid iousness has done much to strengthen the idea that sheep need no care at all. It is this general misnpprohension of the facts which explains the failure of tho special English sheep in many sections of this oouutry. These sheep have boon raised to thoir present high position by years of oiroful breeding and feeding. Thoy are provided with rich pastures in the summer, while juicy roots supply the noeded succu lonco in' winter, producing a juicy meat, which it is impossible to obtain from corn. The delioato flivor is givou by rape, which is pre-einiuontly a slioop feed, though, nufortuuately, but liltlo known iu this oouutry. These slioopmust bo kindly treated, not harried by dogs and boys; they must be handled gently and quietly, so that they make each day a growth of ubont three-quarters ot a pound for the first ten months, when they become excellent mutton. To do this requires a skilful shepherd. Tbe fin est sheep in the world will soon degen erate it the keeper is incompetent. It is only by intelligent care aud scien tific feeding that they have been brought to their present stute of per fection. Their development has been to some extent at the expense of stam ina. Thoy can no longer cudure the treatment nud exposure to which, we subject the scrubs, or, if they do sur vive, they rapidly lose the desirable characteristics which have been so slowly aud carefully cultivated in them. Like everything else, it is easier for them to run downhill than up, The shephord who expects to raise mut ton equal to tho English must study their methods and intelligently adapt them to tho somewhat changed condi tions prevailing bore. This is the ouly road to success. Now York World. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The English dairymen use largo quantities of milk preservatives. In a gninoa pig or rabbit one hour old, there is muoh more than four times as muoa iron as in the same animals two and a half mouths old. Charred bone, as well as charred corn, is good for poultry, for tho sake f the charcoal it contains, which is - vory healthy for them, pnrifying the blood and aiding digestion. As an athlete undorgoes training for his work, so with equal care the farm work homes should be - groomed and exorcised through tbe winter, thut they may be in the finest working con dition when the working season arrives. Then they can do everything of which a horse is capuble without strain or injury. An Illinois feeder roports that he has had excellent results from feeding silage to fattening sheep, making as high as twenty ponuds gain per head n ninety daya, feeding grain in addi tion. Ue lias leu as many as lu.uuu head ou ensilage at one time. Silage houuis to ue as useiiu uuu saie ior sheep as for auy other kind of live stock. The general result of sowing win ter oats in the northern states has been unfavorable, the plant growing well enough uutil tbo severe cold oomes, when they gradually subonmb, and by the spring there ia not one blade left to survive. Sometimes, by a rare acoident of wea ther, a few will remain, but as a orop ot this kind ia not fitted for any locality north of Virginia. Orohard grass is on some aeoount the most valuable of all Ipnda, It is a very loug pereunial, romaiuiug a great many year in the ground uuder the best culture. It 1 early aud vigor ous enough to make hay in May, and pasture from August uutil tho winter, or tor winter if kept tor it, aud the yield on good land is equal to that ol any other. It i also one of tho not nutritious rf grane.
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