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Tin flrowlng nf Parsnips.
The nrnii naturally iul mot
1owu more d 't'i'lv tliim im.v other nf
tliu eni-nli'iit roots. It needs a rich
(loll. If thi? sulisoil ha not liemi en
rii'liml it should lie u!verlzetl with a
subsoil plow, mid tint broiiRlit to the
surface. We have seen parsnips that
were fully 1(1 inches long, of which all
the growth except two or three inches
wn hi-lpw the ground. In harvesting
parsnip" n furrow Hhotiht he thrown
from tio rows, leaving the siile of the
furrow an close as possible to the
rootn. No root in better than the
parsnip for mili'U cow.
Cnlda unit llimp In Fnwl.
Thin in the season when fowl are
subject to colils, which if not prompt
ly checkeil, will booh develop roup.
A few days of warm, rainy weather,
followed by extremely cold nights,
will deiiiaud prompt attention for the
Hock.
Make ft trip to the rousting room
every night before retiring.aiul ipiiet
ly listen to the breathing of the birils.
Those with the first symptoms of cold
will breathe heavily, gradually in
creasing, until noon that peculiar gasp
which no one can mistake is easily lo
cated. Then take the bird gently to
a warm, dry room, bathe the head
with 'warm water and castile soup;
auuoiut with vasellue, inject a few
drops of kerosene in nostrils, and let
it remain quiet during the next few
days. Feed light diet, such as stale
bread and crackers, but do not give
any grain.
When a cure has been effected, do
not hastily return the bird to the
poultry house, lie sure that no eign
of disease remains, for a relapse is by
far more dillicult to cure than the first
attack.
A few drops of Douglas' mixture,
added daily to drinking water, will do
muck to ward off colds. Hut aside
from this ton In your fowls need no
other physic W. H. Cambroii in
Farm uud Home.
Cars of Young Helton.
Most of the difficulties in growing
Valuable cows, where the breeding
hasbeea what it should be, come from
their feeding. It is hard to say
whether the fattening or the starva
tion policy is worse for the future of
the cow. By the first she is made tit
only for the butcher. Uy the second
the animal is stunted and its digestion
impaired so thut it is little good for
any purpose. There should be an
abundance of food, and a good share
of this should be succulent, so as to
furnish nutrition iu bulky form and
stimulate the glamls that carry the
milk. All the large milk-producing
' speeds of cows have originated in mild
and moist climates, where succulent
feed can be had during most of the
- year. Ensilage is good feed for heif
ers, though if it be of corn fodder
some dry clover bay should be fed
with it to iucrease the material for
growth. If clover cannot be bad a
malt ration of wheat bran mixed with
the corn ensilage will make a better
feed tbau ensilage alone.
We believe in breeding heifers
early, and at the same time feed liber
ally of food that will make growth
rather than fatten. If a beifer drops
her first calf wheu she is a year and a
half old she will always be a better
milker than if she were kept from
breeding until a year later. If the
beifer is too small let there be a long
time betweeu the first and second
breeding, and in the meantime feed
more liberally than ever, but not with
corn. Home oats-may, however, be
given, if the milk production is large
enough to keep the beifer thin in
. flesh, but the grain feeding should be
atopped when the heifer dries off as
sue approacuea uer seconu parturition.
Heifers thus managed will be about as
large as if they were kept until they
were past two years old before being
bred, and tuey will all tueir lives be
much better milkers. .Boston Cum
, vator.
Vegetable flanlaa anil Ham Orchard.
The time spent in making and tak
lag care of the vegetable garden and
. borne orchard is the most valuable
time spent by the farmer.
I reach this conclusion by this mode
f reasoning: II a farmer would work
(or just a living off bis farm, what
process would he follow f Would he
not proceed to plant just what be
needed of the necessaries of life, say
one sore wlieat, one-nan acre pota
toes, one acre fruit, one-half acre
vegetable garden, perhaps two acres
for corn and oats? This would raise
living for a family of six persons.
In fact. I think, the gardeu and or'
shard ao important, and would pay so
well, that if the farmer would reverse
';. the order of things and give praotioally
, all but time to growing living from
his farm, which wonld onlv take. sav.
five acres of it, and oh, how he could
make that fire acres yield with the
time Ue wool 4 nave to give to it
It seem to me he could figure a
Iivict out of Iva acres so cultivated
Voall this not bt mora aatisfaotory
- t "i t reading over fifty or 100 aorti
mid then only making a bare liintf,
a twenty-four out of every twenty-
live do?
A farmer does not need to run n
fifty or 100 acre farm to fend n rmv, a
horse or team, ntid n sow ntnl pigs.and
a few ehlckeiis. This can, and is
11111 nllr done on the garden mid or
chard part of the farm.
If the average farmer would keep an
accurate account of his income from
the part of the farm III question, I
think lie would find it to bo of much
more importance than he is aware of.
He bus never learned to count the
worth of the eg he ate for breakfast,
or that glass of milk he drank, or that
excollout spread of nppto butter he had
on his bread, or that chicken pot pie,
or the one hundred ami one similar
items; these he forgets to count in his
living. If he lived in town where all
these things cost money and are in the
expense column, he would then real
ize the value of them.
Hut besides all this, when the gar
den and orchard are properly cared
for, the j ay comes in more ways than
one. We do nut only work Tor pay or
money alone, we want satisfaction,
pleasure, enjoyment from our labor.
I fail to see the enjoyment iu fol
lowing the plow nud harrow over
cIhiIm and through dust, day after day
for a bare lixing, whnu that same farm
er could grow as much corn on one
acre well tilled as he can on live, or
dinarily funned.
1 wish to magnify the importance of
the little gnrilen and orchard well
tilled, a there is where the pleasure
as well as the prollt comes in.
Ami 11 word more on the pleasure
siile of this subject, would not the
wife of your bosom bo ten times more
happy when the vegetable garden and
home orchard are properly cared for?
E. n. Livingston in l arni, l ield
and Fireside.
Wliilrr Troll! from Hens.
W. II. Jenkins of Peluwiire county,
New York, writes: ('1111 hens be made
to pay a good profit wheu routlued in
houses in winter? As hens are usually
kept, they do not generally commence
laying 011 a paying basis until warm
weather comes in the spring, when
nature furnishes the conditions which
are necessary for egg production. Kgg
laying is a part of reproduction, ami
instinct prompts the birds to fulfill
this function during the most favor
able seasous.
To obtain eggs iu winter we must
make the conditions as nearly like
those in spring as possible. First
notice that the main conditions are
warmth, plenty of room for exercise,
uud well-balnnced food.
Houses should be built low, double
boarded, with building paper between
the boards, and under the roof, if
made of shingles, aiui I prefer a tight
floor made of matched boards. There
should be large windows to let in the
sunlight, w ith di.ors to close over
them on cold nights. I try to make
the house so warm that I can stay iu
it on the coldest days without becom
ing uncomfortable.
The following plan of feeding has
been quite satisfactory. I mix bran
middlings and corn meal in about
equal parts, putting in a tablespoon
ful of ground bone to every two
quarts, and season the mash with a
little salt and pepper and wet up the
mixture with hot milk, wheu I have it.
In the morning, I feed the mash to
the hens, nud give them only what
they will eat up at once, but not
enough to quite satisfy them. I then
scatter a few haudfula of grain, using
wheat, oats and buckwheat for a
variety, on the floor aud cover it with
leaves, chart' or other looselitter. This
is done several times a day to induce
the he us to scratch for the grain and
thus get plenty of exercise. In the
ooldest weather I feed them boiled
corn at night. I give them warm
water to drink and keep cut clover,
meat and bone, grit and shells in
boxes ao made that they cannot get
Into tueiu and acratcu them out. I
hang up cabbages and chop up the
celery trimming to keep them supplied
witu green food. 1 try to give them
the kind of food that hens naturally
seek wneu on a large range la sum
mer. men luriusn tueiu a warm
house aud make them work for a part
of tueir living.
No cockerel should be kept among
the laying hens; except wheaeggs are
wanted for batching. The eggs will
keep better, and the bens will lay
more of them. I have kept sevoral
hundred bens and had only one cock
erel, which was used in the yard of
thoroughbreds where the egg were
saved for inoiibation.
A mistake which many people make
is in not giving their .fowls sufficient
room. Last spring a man wanted me
to buy bis bens, I went to see them.
and he was keeping seventy bens in a
room twelve feet square. He bad fed
and cared for them all winter with
hardly an egg to pay him for his work,
The beunery I built has ten rooms,
each twelve feet square, and it does
notpsymeto keep over fifteen bens
in a room. I keep Buff and White
Leghorns and Minorcas. These lay a
large whit egg for which I can get a
laucy price.
In my business of truck farming I
find that the ben manure saves me
eoaslderable money in fertilizer.
Whan it ia mixed with plaster on the
rooata, than dried and pulverised, it la
specially . valuable in growing early
Vegetable. American Agriculturist.
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THE REALM
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je Vi '-:t-!vr-Mt:.Je
tyllsli C'netmne for Misses.
' No feature of the season, says May
Mauton, is more marked tlinu the free
use of bayadere stripes, TI10 stylish
costume shown is mado of cliovij
rtLot'si? waist and rour.-oonnn bruit.
showing irrogulnr linos of green woven
on a mixed tan-colored ground, with
trimming of black I raid and full front
and yoke of green velvet. With it is
NORFOLK BLOUSE WAIST.
worn a toque with crown of straw but
full brim of velvet and trimming of
feathers.
The foundation for the waist ia a
fitted lining which includes the usual
pieces and seams and closes at the
center-front, but the blouse proper is
fitted by shoulder and under-arm seams
only with the basque portion attached
at tbe waist line. The full vest of
velvetis attached to tbe right shoulder
and seamed to the ' right-front but
books over onto the, left. The round
collar that widens to form revers at
the front, is faced with tan-colored
poplin and seamed to the open neck.
Below the revers the blonse is closed
and held in place by straps of the ma
terial buttoned aoross over the narrow
velvet vest. The sleeves are two
seamed and snug-fitting. At tbe waist
is worn a belt of the velvet closed by
means of a steel clasp.
The skirt is four-gored and fits
smoothly aoross the front and over
the bips, the fullness at the back being
laid in backward-turning plaits. It is
lined throughout and stiffened with
balr-cloth for a depth, of five inches.
To raakefnis blouse for a miss of
fourteen years will require ' one and
three-fourths yards of forty-four-inch
material. Tbe skirt will take three
and one-half yards of the same width
goods.
Norfolk Blouse Walt! For LadlM,
Whatever novelties may come or
may go, writes May Mauton, tbe Nor
folk jacket is too essentially comforta
ble and convenient to be allowed to
fall into disuse. This season it
pouohes slightly at the front and has
an added basque, but 'all the funda
mental features are unchanged. Tbe
model show ia the double-column il
lustration is tad of blaok and white
oheok trimmed with silk braid, bnt
any light-weight cloth or cheviot ia
qiplly sniUwia, The foundation a a
OF FASHION. $
.?,; ie5,v:ee.-e
fltlod lining Including flin nitial
pieces and seams, which closes at tho
centre-front, but the jacket proper is
titled with shoulder mid iinder-nrm
seams only and rinses invisibly at tho
left side. The plaits, Which 'are ap
plied, are rut separately and laid onto
the cloth, those at the b-k atrd front
meeting exactly nt the shoulder seams.
The basipin portion is separata an 1
seamed at the waist line, where a belt
of the material is worn. The sleeved
are two-seamed and (It snugly, nnd are
simply flnishnd with bands of braid.
At the nock is a straight, high collar
ond With tho jacket is worn n jaunty
hat of black straw, velvet trimmed.
To make this jacket for a lady iu the
medium size will reiitiirn two ond one
fourth yards of forty-four-iuch ma
terial. A dirt's Hearer Jacket For ftprlng.
The popularity of the renfet
seems never to wane. With the open'
ing of spring styles it is shown, with
some variations to be sure, but practi
cally in the familiar form of last year.
The model shown is of covert cloth in
a warm shade of tan and is eminently
girlish and simple at the same time
that it is stylish and serviceable. The
backs are seamed at the centre and
joined to the fronts by means of side
backs, the fullness below the waist
lino lining laid in two underlying
plaits at cHiitre-senm. The left front
laps well over the right where the
closing is effocted by means of buttons
and button-holes. All tho free edges
are finished with a triple row of dark
brown braid and a second row of but
tons further trims the front. The
slneves are two-seamed and fit snugly.
The fullness at the arm's-eyes is col
lected in gathers and the wrists are
flnishnd with three rows of braid. At
the neck is a deep roll-over collar rut
In points and finished with braid in
harmony with the coat. As shown,
tbe lining is changeable taffeta in red
and green. . But for genuine spring
wear the seams can be bound witu
bias bands of farmers' satin, the edges
nnderfaoed with broader banda of the
same stitched flat at tbe upper edge
and the fronts faced either with the
same or with ailk to a point beyond
tbe buttons. Tbe lining, while it
means additional elegance, cannot be
oinLa' BjtariB jackit.
said to be essentiat as many jacket
are finished without.
To make this reefer for gL'l of
eigbt year will require one and 000.
naif yard of Mty-iour-incn material.
New Maa Yeilla.
The new nuns' veiling U the daint
iest sort of summer fabrio made of
ilk and wool mixed. It ia very thin
and shear, and oom ia lively soft
eolor with a striped border oa the
dga.
mi
KUE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
The following ienslcir.s were granted
Inst ek: limine M. tteeker, Jr
ilenn, McKenn, si; Jnnnthnn K. Tute,
KnlrcliHiice, Is; J. A'1:nns Vera, t'lixtiM'
( 'II v. ID; Hiiiniiel H nlt.'iitruv. r, Hniilli
Fork, IU; W'lllnm U. Hnmliach, H.ilts
Iniiif, $1; John J. Cauihpy, Avonl.i,
IJlle, JO; t'lnrksun W. rliclit, I'nIM
sun, Jiinlntn, Knnmcl M. FU2, 1 1 1 i
KI'Ikp Hummlt, Franklin, ts; Ji tin hits,
MuntlliK'loti, H; William M.Af.e,
riiiienlxvllii-, ; Kugcne Mini linn,
Mcnilvlllc ti; I'nlrlck ('lurk, Johns
town, to 110; William l'lillllis. Homer
City, It to 110; J. ('. IIou4c, Knne, ! to
10; Clinton M. French, Athens, Hrml
rnril, 14 to tie; John K. Itusi-horouKh,
lumbar, ID to $; Andrew J. Hlv.e,
W'nnhliiKlon, fl to $S; Thomas Mllvrt
nn, Mill Vlllnae, F.rle, till; Armstrong
C. I'owell, Patterson, Juniata. H to
fin; John Wilkes, rcrryopnlls, f to ti
In men 8. Ilanlon, Alli-Kheiiy, tfl to
Peter I. Homer, I.avery, Krle, I to
117; Priscllla Foster, Corry, IU; Henj.
F. hefever, HnyMclil, Crawford, l; li.
dray. Ilrnililock; K.dwarrl Fll.itrlck,
WlllliiniHiiort, 112; Matthias Hunse,
Pittsburg, $S; Chester II. Hussell, Mc
Kenn. Kile, $; Isaac P. Mason, Ovlil,
F.rle, tfl; Wllllnin C I.uts, Mm raysvllle,
Westmoreland, IB; Finland Irwin,
(lamliles, Allegheny, 1 t' t; Chauilcey
(.'. Hays, Townvllle, Crawford. IK to $8;
Perry Hmlth, Klcharilsvllle, Jefferson.
17 to Cyrus A. Yout'r. casseiman,
Somerset, $s to tH; Newton H. Hrad
dock, Wlndrlrtire. Oreeno. t to H;
Mnry Cain, Pittsburgh, $1; Margaret
Arr.lcrger, Allegheny, I; Kllsaheth M.
Miller, IMIIIner, Oreene, 912: Thomas
It. Htorer. Hcenery Hill. Washington,
16; Iiavlil Davis, Allegheny, IU; Al an-
ler Hnxlett, Hohller'a home, Krle, Is;
John lllhert, Wllllamsport. H; John
H. Held. Ilelli-font. 1: llenjamln l.uce,
Taylorstown, Clearfield, 16 to t; W. II.
May, llentley Creek. Hrailford. l( to
t:'4; Jacob Nnrrls, Hpoers. Washington,
10 to IS; F.zra II. Oooillln, Cookiiort,
Inillana, Is to tlj; James K. H-linont,
Mkilale, Allegheny, lit to :;0; Maurlco
K. Palmer, llrnilford. 1: Kllen Crox-
ton, Florence, H.
Hull was begun ot Krle Montlay by
Walter K. Hcllows. of Pittsburg, with
associate counsel In Krle, In behalf of
John H. Miller against Killtor William
Plumb. Thus. O ver and William
Kelleher. of Curry, for damages In the
sum of tlo.WO. Miller Is the colore 1
porter at the Orandln hotel In Corry
who wan burned on the night or Feb
ruary 1st. Miller, In his sworn state.
ment, says he went Into the Phoonlx
Imtel to get a drink, and while there
the defendant threw alcohol or some
other Inflammable stuff on him and
lighted his saturated clothes with
matches: that he was thrown on the
Moor, was severely burned In divers
Place on hi body and I tinder a
physician's rare In Pittsburgh.
The safe In the Washington Hotel at
Huntingdon was blown open early the
other morning and H0i) In money stolen.
From marks In the snow tho thieves
were tracked to Knterkln, where one
of them was captured. He gave his
name a Philip Fagan, of I.atrob.
When searching 1103 In currency and
:.i In gold was found on him. This was
Ident tied by the hotel proprietor. Fa
gan had a gunshot wound In his I'K, an I
the proprietor said he fired at the burg
lars while they were running away.
The state live stock sanitary boarn
met last week In the executive depart
ment. The regular appropriation of
tUMMM) for the work of the months of
March, April and May was made. Htate
veterinarian Pearson reported that 1.-
4Wl herds of cattle had been examined
and that 300 herds yet remain to be ex
amined. He was directed to strictly
enforce the new law requiring the In
spection of cattle brought to this Stat)
for breeding purposes.
The people of Cranberry township
are alarmed over an epidemic of spinal
meningitis. Hunday night ur. o. w.
Cary. a leadlrg physician, was strick
en with the disease and men in an
hour. His neighbors, James Illack, Jr.,
and , Lemuel tlurns, were attacked
rtiesday. and died In a short time, and
Mr. Hlack's daughter Is believed to be
dying.
The body of Henry Dressier arrived
for Interment at Wllllamsport one day
last week, and with It came a peculiar
story of his death. Dressier and a own
named Lunro were talking. Lupro was
ntandlnv "at rest" with a shotgun.
Lupro s little boy stewed up behlnu
him and pulled the trigger. The tea I
took effect In Hresaler's side and he
lived only eight hours.
Fire the other night broke out In tn
Ills Run Opera House at Dubois and
damaged the stock of C. F. Nell, cloth
ier. Loss, .,0O0; Insurance, I4.0C0; the
restaurant of T. C. McFrown, loss un
known; the building of Dr. J. C. Coch
ran, loss. 11.000. and a dwelling owned
by the McClure estate, causing a total
loss of 112.000.
A hunt for rats and sparrows be
tween teams at Prosperity. Washington
county, took place recently. A total of
1.774 of the pests were slain, the King
team wining, with 5,092 scalps. Theso
two teams flnlshed a rat hunt two
weeks ago and showed the tails of 4
698 rodents.
In attempting to board a moving
train in the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad yards at Wllllamsport. the
other day. William Livers, aged 11
years, was killed. His body struck a
switch target and he was thrown be.
nath the cars. HI twin brother pulU
Ml him from beneath the train.
A war cross appeared In the heavem
about Hollidaysburg last week. It was
red In color, with a background of b us
cloud. Hundreds ot people viewed
the strange phenomena In the sky, and
the superstitious accepted It a the
dread token of international strife with
Bpaln.
Andrew O'Brien, an employe of th
Oliver Coke Company at Lnlontown
the other day leaped down the shaft al
the company's No. 2 plant. He fell 200
feat and waa dashed to pieces. He had
been drinking. O'Brien leaves a wlf
and seven children.
In the Junior oratorical contest at Le
high university recently, the tint pris
of 00 was won by Henry Anderson Wil
cox, the second and third prizes re
spectively by William Lathrop MeakJ
and Ueorgs Loom la Komnson.
Hugh Doran. an employee of the Na
tional pipe works at Scottdale, was run
over by a freight train ana instantly
killed last Tuesday. HU head woj
completely severed from the body. It
Is thought he committed sutc:ve.
The police force of ConnelUvIUe. num
bering four officers, has been ill
charged by Burgess Joseph 8. Bryner
Town council was to have met to elect
a new force, but failed to do so, and
the town Is without police.
train jneiiiiiuua, a pruimiieut (arm
er of Oil City, and a brother of Cap
tain Homer McCllntock. of the Oil Clt
"Derrick." was found dead In his bed
the other morning. Heart disease it
assigned as the causa.
Merrltt Long, who killed Floyd Tuck
er at Mt. Morris, Oreene county, wu
convicted of manslaughter and escaped
from the Waynesburg jail last June. It
back at his old quarters, bavin beer
brought from Iowa.
John Rosa, a laborer In the Pearsor
limestone quarries, near New Castle
Jumped f feet the other day to avoid
being crushed ay a cave-ta or rocks asi
dirt. HU right leg was broken la thrsi
places.
Ooorge Kii)ntr:cit, for illegal iliiioi
n!llng at Conmmul Lake. get nl:i
months In .tail, and I fined Ji.'jc" and
tfsts; John Mcinlr, same offense,
four month. I-M10 nnd costs.
Mnry M. Pronnlleld sued the Ur wn
field ,M. P. Church nt I'nl mtown f. r til
nmoiint of a rlZ" nlerel h.r for rnl.
Ing ::ou for the church, and was award
ed the full amount, tr.O.
A lo-yenr-'il'l Son ir J. sih lia'T.
near Piosnnt fully, who hnd Ms su i
fractured v. hl'e hnr Jtked out f tilt
si-hoid ln'iis d ur, ill d f n m the 1 ijury
the either ilny.
Purlnir th" nbs-nee of Mr. All"
Tleiilr.e from home, nt Knstmount, Von
county the other day, her children
plnyed with kerosene and her son, ajej
(, was burned to death
C0NCRE33.
fsnat.
Warhlnrton. Feb. 21 The nte ae-
f-eptod the hou- resolution nprr'HTtnt
Ing Ijoo.noo for the ralsit g of th wreck
ed battleship Mnlne. There wss no de
hnte. Mr. Allen (Pop., N.h ) renewed
the resolution offered by him Inst week.
Irerilng the committee on naval nf-
fairs to mnke thorounh Inquiry Into tho
destruction of the battleship Mnlne, 1
inn It wn agreed to without objection.
Washington. Feb. 22 In th Hennte
last Tuesday Mr. Morgan (Ala.) secur
ed the ndoptlon of the following reso
lution: "That the committee on naval
lffalrs Is Instructed to Inquire and re
port whether a man of war, equal at
east, to any warship tn the world, t
rw named the O.vtrge Washington, can
be built, armed and commissioned
within a period of 12 months by the
use of the facilities of the ship yards,
machine shops, mine and foret of
the I'nlted Htate. wherever the same
be found; and that the committee
have leave to report at any time by bill
or otherwise."
Th" resolution offered a few flay ;
by Mr. Allen to appoint a committer
of five senators to Investigate the
Cuban situation wa withdrawn by It
author when It wa laid before the
Senate Thursday. He said It was sure
nf defeat. Mr. Spooner (Wis ). sn'k-
in the right of Henry W. Corbett to sit
In the Henate from Oregon, under an
appointment of the governor.
Hoots.
Washington. Fob. 19. After four diys
of consideration the house passed th
bankruptcy bill reported by th" house
committees on Judiciary as a substi
tute for the Nelson bill passed by the
senate at the extra session last summer.
The bill in known a the Henderson
bill and contain both voluntary and
Involuntary feature. It I considered
jes drastic than the measure passed
bv the last house by a vote of 1C7 to 87,
The Involuntary feature, however, had
but 1 majority. To-day a motion to
strike out the Involuntary feature wa
defeated by a majority of 33. the v.ot
standing yean l.Vt. naye 12.V Kleht-"en
Republicans voted against the bill and
12 Democrats for It. The Populist
with one exception voted against It.
Wash ngton. D. C. Feb. 21. Thl
was private bill day In the house, but
little was accomplished, owing to the
fact that most of the time was con
sumed In the passage of private pen
sion bills coming over from the Friday
night session three weeks ago. The
feature of the day wan the spirited
contest over the bill to pay Newberry
college, a Lutheran Institution In Soutn
Carolina, 11.1.000 for dnmages by feder
al troop. It was finally passed.
The house last Wednesday adopted a
resolution calling upon tho treasury de.
partment for Information concerning
steps taken to prevent filibustering ex
peditions ami their cost.
Hpeaker Keed announced the surdn
of the Joint resolution appropriation
$200,000 for raising the wreck of the
Maine. The house, then, in committee
of the whole, proceeded with the con
sideration of the sundry civil appropri
ation bill.
The houae devoted Itself strictly t
business last Thuraday and disposed of
forty additional pages of the sundry
civil appropriation bill. An unsu"css-
ful attempt to Increase the appropria
tion for the suppesslon of epi
demic diseases by $JO0.000 led t
considerable debate on the advUu-
btllty of establishing a national quar
antine. The fact that the government
Is preparing for contingencies wa re
cognised In the house to-day whan
Chairman Cannon who has been labor
ing to keep down appropriations, ac
cepted without a word of protest an
amendment to Increase the appropria
tion to care for the unused machinery
at the Springfield arsenal. Mr. Ol lett
explained the necessity for using this
machinery might occur at any time.
A long and somewhat exciting debit! -over
the question of river and harbor
appropriations was precipitated In tha
House Friday during tha conslderat'nn
of the sundry civil appropriation bill.
It was practically agreed by all thom
who participated that there would b
no river and harbor bill at thi session
of Congress, and this led Mr. Moody t
attack the contract ltms carried In tha
sundry civil bill.
Mr. Berry, of Kentucky sueceeeded
In securing the adoption of an amend
ment Increasing the appropriation f r
the Kentucky river from $105.0'M) to
$350,000. Only four pag's of the bill were
disposed of to-day. The senate amend
ments to the army appropriation bl l
were agreed to without debate.
Washington. Feb. 2.1. Representative
Barrett, of Massachusetts has Intro
duced a resolution In the House allow
ing the nava affairs committee to In-
corporate In the naval approprlatl n
bin provision ror an appropriation not
to exceed $5,735,000 for n?w dry docks,
or extensions to existing ones at Bos
ton. New York. Norfolk. Port Roya',
New Orleans and Maro Island. C'lf:r
nla. Chairman Danford of the Immi
gration committee of the house mad)
another effort to secure unanlmouj
consent for the considers tlon In th
house of the Lodge Immigration bill on
March 15. but Representative Mahany
objected. Mr. Danf,;rd th' n gave notlc
that on that date he would call up
the senate bill which I lying on tht
sneaker'a table as a privileged matter.
Ialirsot Ad us.
Mr. Broslus followed this with a s'm
Tillar story concerning a Quaker, wrlui
Amos Cummlngs of a story-telling
gout in the Huuae cloak-room. Me-n-,ng
a well-known Friend the Quaker
aid: "I never use hard names,- Will
am. but If tha Mayor should come to
Tie and say: Moel&h. I want thee ti
rlng to me the biggest romancer In
the city,' I would come to thee and.
putting my hand on thy should. r. say,
William, the Mayor wants to se
;hee." "
Tall Cyrus Sulloway. of New Hirnp
(hire, displayed the most brilliant
lem In the reminiscent line In the civtl
lervlc debate. He said that eomi
where in th South a bright colored
oy appeared before the commUaloner
ind was examined for the position of
letter carrier. Th first question asked
ilm was: "How far Is It from the earth
10 th moon?" The . boy exclaimed:
'My Ood. It you'se gwtne to put me oa
that route I will withdraw." He tk
oia bat and lar.
The first mention of tbe pip orgaa
tn history la In connection with So o
moa'e Temple, whire there wa an or.
f aa with 10 Dlsea
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