REMARKABLE MASTODON BONES DUG UP. V n IV MT SC .( 4 DITI'n WIIKRR Til K HONKS WKItK VOCNI). The remains of another mastodon have been discovered" in Oranpe Comity. New York. Tliii is the elovonth discovery of tlio kind since 1TU1, i . . i 1 1 1 1 . i . r . . il . A - .l. 1 k . ! 1 J(1T Willi iiivj iiivi'it iiiinLV ni.i.vo,. a .i i .1 I II. 1 . I - . I. . I. I . 1 - I 1 . ooooooooooooooooooooooooog Busy Days at the 8 Recruiting Stations, Mow I'nrl Hum IMeks Ont nil Men R for tha rhlllnplnea. Q $0000000003000000030000000 UST now, by order of the President, ten new regi ments are being mined, equipped end Kent out . it Yii ; J . r 10 tue 1 uiupinuu iur )o& immedinte e e r v i e e . ni i. ,i:m ...u luurw in uv uiiiiuiiiijr in ranking up these regiments. From ail the various re cruiting stations established in the United States eomes the reassuring report that the only difficulty is that of selection. Among the applicants there is of WOULD BR RECRUITS QUIZZIXO THE COH FORAIi. course a oertain contingent from that large, floating mass of waifs and strays who have not yet reached the stage of trampdom, but who live as best they ean, with no settled home or calling. So it requires nice judgment to pick out the right ones from the mass. Then, there are tramps open and elf-eonfeased, or if not actually con fessed by word of mouth, self-evident. . When the evidence takes the form of an over fragrance of breath or au over rosiness of nose they are promptly dismissed. Stalwart and vigorous as many of them are in appearance, alcoholism is sternly barred by the army regulations. Permanent and professional traraphood would in it self be an insuperable obstaole, but tramphood that is only a recent no- cident in an otherwise orderly life may be overlooked if the applicant has excellent qualifications iu other resneots. Then there is the larcre armv of the unemployed who have no vagrant liabits save those entailed in the dreary pursuit of work. These are what the French call consents de faim oonscripts of hunger. Though they are nominally volunteers, they I KM 6ERYIN0 OUT EQUIPMENT TO HAW RECRUITS. are driven into enlisting by that hard est form of compulsion starvation. For on that .wants to light, ninety Bin simply want bread. Bat if they 1 irsve ben earnest and willing and , t ont in their aearoh for bread, if (-ytTt always pur ehad it by the J - vfae" TwS. T uowta Jim ii.. i it. i i . i . 1 1 , ll a ! il.. . 1 ni7i:iiv.im ui .no tuiicwin . n I rtl. . I 1 1. I. 1 f I .. 1. I.I.I. I sweat of their brows, and if they have the mental, moral and physical quali fications for lighting Uncle Hani will not deny them the bread which they aro more willing to purchase with their blood. Hut not even these form the best material which Uncle Sam linn thrust npou him for selection. Hotter far are the brawny, brainy and eager youth, from town and country, who, tired with the true soldierly spirit, unforced by emptiness of stomach, come with hearts and heads full of patriotism and generous ambition and high ideas to offer their services to their common uncle. The hardy backwoodsmon of Now England, the daredevil cowboys of the Western plains, the stalwart farm bauds iu the great agricultural dis- r.Ecftcira waiting to be tricts all over the United States these with little training develop into the finest soldiers in all the world. There are three recruiting stations in New York. I have stood in all three of these places and watched the crowd of applicants streaming in, a panoramic study of human nature in its highest and its lowest forms, of alort and splendid youth, of depressed, disappointed and degraded maturity. In all of these stations the method if the same. A aergcant sits at the desk in the room into which the applicant is ushered. lie is patient, but shrewd; kindly, but firm willed. He does not balk at any uncouthness in manner or speech. He is not offended, aven by the freshness of the lad who bluntly de clares, "Say, captain, I wanttoeuhst," or even the unconscious rudeness of the tough who inquires, "Be yon the bloke who wants soldiers?" Be reeogniaes that they are not yet soldiers, bnt if they have soldierly timber in them they may ytt be pol llshed to ths point of proper aoldlerly deportment. On thiof ut U oa tht . 1 1 II I II. - - , alert for at the start. This is nntrnth fulness. Lies about the age are most usual. The age limit is from eighteen to thirty-five. But boys under eight een must have permission from parent or guardian, duly sworn to and at tested by notary pubjio. If a boy oi obviously not morn tliau eighteen or nineteen declares that he is over twen-ty-ono the chances are that lie is on the lookout for a long truancy from home. Hut if the sergeant was satisfied that the applicant was neither too young nor too old for service he must be examined as to other points of qualification. The requirements exact that if he lie a candidate for the regu lar army he must bo a native boru or naturalize! citizen, able to speak Knglish and to read and write; if for the volunteers it is not necessary that ha nlioulil be naturalized or know how to read and write, but he must speak Km;lih. These points are easily passed upon, tt is most difficult to determine whe ther his habits are orderly, his character good, if he is out of work, whether it is his own fault that ho is so, and whether he is unmarried. No married man in ncceptod. The shrewd ness of the officer must supplement the nnswers he receives, and must further be called into piny to deter- mine at a cursory glnnoe whether his physical characteristics are sufficient ly near the mark to make it worth while submitting him to the necestary examination by the army surgeon. If he succeed in passing the ser geant, this examination is the next step before his final acceptance. Every morning beginuing at half-past eight the applicants who have passed the preliminary examination are mustered , bent to their ro3T. before the surgeon. Tests are made of the heart, the lungs, the eyes, the teeth, the hearing. The body is stripped and the individual is made to go through calisthenio exercises. It is a curious faot that more noonle fail through defects of tire teeth and of the eyes than any others. Uncle Sam requires a good digestion and good eyesight. The applicant must have at least two sound pair of molars, each directly above the other, so that they oau properly perform the function of masticating the food. I be eyes must be at least three- quarters of the normal. Printed test cards are placed at a distance of twenty feet, and the man is made to read let ters of varying sizes. Many learn here for the first time, to their dismay that their eyesight is defective. It is really pitiful to hear the ex cuses, perfectly honest to themselves, wuicn tney roauo for wiiat they deem to be a mere temporary lapse. They had been anxious; they had been ner vous; they bad not happened to sleep wen me nignt before. "Give me another trial," pleaded a man, who bore every other appearance of robust health. "I'll bo all right to morrow." But the flat had gone ont. It could not be recalled. He went ont angrily, rubbing his eyelids, as though they were rebellious children who hadwil fully brought their pareut to shame. To all the men, indeed, who fail in the final test, just when aoceptauoe seems in sight, rejection is a crushing blow. They who survive are propor tionately jubilant. To each of these Is given a meal tioket and a comforta ble cot in a room back of the recruit ing office which he makes his head quarters nntil he is sent off to camp for the training which will turn a mem ber of the awkward sqnad into a sol dier. Then he is ready to be shipped to the Philippines. From two hundred to three hundred men a day apply to tho threektations in New York, but rarely have mors than twenty-firs or thirty been se lected. In the first half of the year the in. anranoe companies lost by fir in the United States and Canada $63,695,760, an increase over the sam period of last year of 17,463,000. The fraternities of th United States hav 6,000,000 mombsrs. Masons iMd with 708,008. TITH MAJOR ADMINISTERS TUB OATU. pR FARM AND GARDEN, rntntfiiM lli-ipilm t'ltrftfttt Irrlantlnn. ltiiil the water through between tlio rows of potatoes as quickly as possi ble and sue Hint theie is a free open inc( at the lower end so Hint the wnter will not bark np and stand. After once inigntiuv, the land should never bn allowed to become very dry. Wa tering in usually discontinued after tlio first of September. In some parts of Culm iido tlio potato crop is not ir rigated until after the young tubers ate re!. I ppillns; invrr In I'nwls. The very common advice to fund clover to hens as an aid to egg pro duction needs a caution attached to it. If hens have grain with the clover they will not piol;nbly eat too much of the lighter food for their grind. I'.ut exclusive rolianco on cut clover as winter feed for a dnv or two tuny so clog the gizzard with iilit indigest ible food, Unit wliou grain is given it only makes the mutter Worse by fur nishing more heating iiiaterinl to fer ment iu tlio crop. Wherever much grain is given to fowls lliey bncomii too fat to lay, and it is sncli liens thut are moHt likely to bo crop brouiid. SkltiiMilllc Fiffllnit lltutmn Foml. Hliiiiiinillc contains nearly all of the food value of the original milk, with tlio exception of the bit, mid even this may be present to the extent of from one-tenth to 1 percent. It contains from 8.5 to 4 per cent of protein, nbo'it ft per cent of milk sugar a'ld .8 per cent of ash or mineral matter. Its chief value is ns n mus.-le making food and hence it is of trout value to growing children or laboring people. Its economy as mi article of diet can best be shown by comparing it with other foods. Twont . -live cents will purchase (I 1 -'2 times as much total nil trionts and live times as much protein in nkiinmilk at two rents per quin t as in sirloin steak at twenty two cents, or four times as much nutrients and !) 1-2 times as much protein as mutton shoulder lit fifteen touts per pound. Or throe quin ts of skimmilk, worth from six to eight cents nt retail, will hold more total nutrients and more protein than a pound of round steiik. At the present prices the only com mon food niutniials thut will furnish inoro protein for a giveu sum of money thiiu sUimiuilk nre beans, wheat flour, oat iiieul, com meal and salt codllsh. ;'.rCT Tlln I'lvpr-lllntimlng ItriRps, Evor-blooiuiiig roses may be rnisod from soeil, nud will fl.wur tlio first season. The prettiest wuy to arrange over-blooming roses is to plant them in n circular boil on tho lawn or in the garden. One could hardly have a bed of any otho:1 (lowers which would give half the delight and satisfaction through the summer and full. The bod should bo mado mellow and rich. Iu tho North tho plants would have to be housed for the winter. Keep a good lookout for weeds. Some people iniiko the mistake of looking for all the excellent qunlities in one rose. Lovers of roses who enn afl'oi d to buy them will be able to have all the common kinds by exchanging with iheir friends. The blush rose, tho moss rose, the June pink rose, the cnbbn!o, the damask, the Persian yol low, tho white and the sweet briar rose make a collection not to be de spised. These are all hurdy. I, ate in the full give them a good mulch of lunnure, and iu the spring add soot to more mnuiireund spade it in. All tho doad wood should bo tut out and tho tops of tho plants pruned slightly. Eternal vigilance is the price of roses. The rose chafer, little green worms and aphis, may be speedily disposed of by using an emulsion of kerosene nud sour milk. Apply it thoroughly to the bushes on the under ns well as the upper side of the leaves. To make the emulsion, take one part of kerosene to two parti of tdightly sour milk, nud mix them together until they from n jelly-like snbstnnro. Add to oue part of this jelly twelve parts of wuter, and apply with a sprayor or sprinkler. As for the tiny spiders that infest roses, drown them. Water is tho one remedy for them. Hose slugs can be destroyod with powerful hellebore, sprinklod on when the bushes are wet with dew. Dalmrilllili III Citlf. Itorns nre an unmitigated nuisance in a hord of cattle, iu every herd there is oue "boss" if not more; ami it requires feed to provide the energy to tight nn 1 the activity to elude the fighter, llornlosa cuttle can be kej.t iu smaller enclosures, will des'.roy less fo.Ider, will utilize what they ea; to better advuutuge und can be shipped at less expense. Horns nre expensive from whatever staudpolut they are viewe But there need not be a con stant dehorning of grown animals. The growth of the horn can readily be prevented. When the calf is born there nre no indications of horns. But their de velopment begins at once, and iu a very short time the button cau be felt. Cut away the hair shout this nub or bnttou; wipe the hairless part with a sponge dip ed in water and uminouiu, and then dip the eud of a stick of caustic potash iu water,, and then rub it on the button until the skin begius to start. The application should be made when the calf .a from oue to three weeks old. In the majority of cases that will he the eud of horn growth on that calf. The entire stick of potash, except the end that ia ap plied to the button should be wrapped with paper to prevent burning th bauds. Mature animals should not be de horned ia fly time. It has been done. and th "application of tar bas pre vented bsd results, bnt It is Inadvis able. We do not advise a novice to undertake the operation. Better em ploy a veterinary surgeon to at least de horn a few of the herd, until tho ownor becomes somewhat familiar with tho process. Clippers are the best dehorning apparatus. limy re move the horn at a single stroke. In our experience and observation do- Horning noes noi causa iiincu snuer lng. The Agricultural Kpitomist. Kft nn Ifunit. The mift nil linpoi tnnt mixture that every tree-owner should have on bund is kerosene emulsion, iliis is made by dissolving half a pound of hutd sonp in hot water; then add two gab Ions of kerosene, nnd chum with s pump for ten minutes; then add nbunt throe gallons of hot wnter, and you will hnve the emulsion in irood condi tion for slorngn. When you wish to apply this mixture, dilute it with live or ten pints for trees, nnd for rose bushes tlio solution nlioulil be very much weaker; otherwise you will damage tho foliage of your hushes nud the Honors as well. It is far bet tor to experiment with a wnnker solu tion; nud if insects and slugs are not destroyed, apply tho second day a stronger solution, i'nr i.cule insects you may make the solution very much stronger, nud tub it stoutly into yout trees. Hi ur in mind always that pure kerosene is ns ditadly to vegetation as to animal lifo, and must lie applied with common-sense nud cnution. It is unwise to be without s stock of this emulsion on hnud the wbolo year through. The experience of horticulturists during 1HHH ought to have taught them the necessity of also having on hand Bordeaux mixture. Inuring July and August of the year a fungus develop menttook place, which ruined millions of barrels of apples, as well as se riously injured the pear crop. This could have been met ami checked by a prompt application of the Ilordeiiux. I think it as well for us at all times to apply Bordenux in the spring. It is made by a mixture of loppoi' sulphate und quicklime, liissolve six pounds of the sulphate in four gallons of water, slack the lime iu an oquiil nmouiit of water. Then mix the two and ini renso tlio water to foitv gal Ions. Koep your barrel, as well as the keroseud emulsion, and nil other inuteriuls, in n separate room in your bnrn, w here they can be locked up tight. Hour iu mind that nil rot moulds nnd mil'dews nre of the fungus o. dor and demand the fame uppliea tion. Tho Kil'i'ioti cm do no harm where it doe's no trood. Hcncruber that ft sue, essful ..rctft.,(iisl is on9 w'.o is nlreiidy fiinrhhod with spraying materials, pu ups, etc., and is not compelled to hunt up a neighbor to borrow materials. All fungoid attacks are very sudden, ami will not allow of any delay in tho application of reme dies. J. p. Powell iu New York Tri bune. Transferring Itrrs frmn llnx tlivea. There are at least three ways of transferring bees fiom box hives into movable frame hives. The old method is to pry open tho old hive with cold chisel aud hammer and cut out the combs und fit thoin into the frames of the movable frame hive and fasten them iu with sticks and strings. After trying this method on several colonies I must pronounce it messy, sticky and unsatisfactory. A much better wny is to drive them out by the following plan: Take the hive which is to be transferred under a tree in the shade or ulougside of a building and turn it bottom up, place on top of it on empty box of the same size, blow in a little smoke at the bottom occasionally und drum on tho old hive with a oonple of sticks for ten or fifteen minutes. Nearly all the bees and the queeu will go up into the empty box above. In the meantime place the hive in which you wish to put the bees on the stand where the old hive stood, so as the field bees wh'ch will be coming in all the time have a place to go. Of course they will be rushing in and out, not knowing wliut to make of it. Tuko the bix of bees and dump them in front of the new hive and they will soon run iu and make themselves at home. Stand the old hive in a new locntion and drum out again iu twenty one days. Put these bees in a new hive or add them to the old colony as you piefer. If oue desires two hives from the one, it is best to let the old box hive cast a swarm first, then drum in twenty-one duvs, and the one drum ming will Iih nil thut is nece-eury. Sii'l auothur way, which is better and less work than either of the above methods if one wishes to keep the whole force together and get the most honey, is to take a movable frame hive full of combs a week or two before swarming time and pla. e under the box hive, closing the entrauce of the upper hive and compelling the bees to go through the new oue. When honoy begius to co ne iu ra iidly the bees will crowd the queen in to the lower story, always putting the honey above the brood. When the queen is laying nicely in the lower story, put a queeu excluder between the two hives and roon all the brood will be hatched out above and t combs will be fi led with honey. It cau ba taken off, th combs cut out, the honey extracted, the old combs melted into beesax and the old hive cut up into kiudliug wood. I am trying some thia way now aud find it the most satisfactory method of all, gettiug more honey and wax aud keeping down the increase. F. O. Hermau in Oi uuge Judd Far- Aa India 9tarkwr. Sleeping Bear, a full-blooded Oros Ventre Indian, successfully conducts a general store at Great Falls, Mo a. He will not give his own people ord. it, but extend it to a limited nnaibar of whites. H STATE NEWS CONDtNSED OVERPOWERED HIS NURSE. Delirious With Fever Hotel Prcprletoi Jumps From I 8ccond-8lor Win dow to Hit Death. While (Mil Inns from typhoid fevei Arthur f lilnmoml, proprietor of the Khleiifelil limise nt Klireiifelil, Jumped from n seennil-stnry wlmb.w the other Mailt nml received Injuip-s from wi.li-h h" died. He overpowered the nurse. Miss Walter. He never reKHlned con seliiiisiiess after beliiST picked up. He was 30 years old. The following pensions worn granted Inst week: J'litilck Nootmn, deal, Mc Kees ll.ieks, l to H; William W. !e crone, YVii'llmry, $17; Prnncla Noonan, MeKees Itneks, fM; Klnnora Kehmldt, AlloKhcny, $K; Kllen II. Hhnrp, West Ijchanon, S; Adam Howers, Alwood, Is to $1.'; .lane Heely, .luhiistown, H; Hiirnh M. .Immerman, l.nurelvllle, $S; Hniah J. fasey. Kile, I2; James V. (lower. Fort Hill, t; Holomon '. Mil ler, Troulvllle, $s to $12; Frank Vofcel, llnllidayshiirK. $12 to $14; Kilns H. Flory, Altenwold, $! to $10; James M. f lllrd, Cotinellsvllle, $s; 1'athnrlno Wanner, Johnstown, $12; lletsy (turns, Itnssell, $; Adam Wolf, (lend, I'otnejr vllle, $1-0 t $'i(i; Henjiimln Mann, 'J'lonn, $1 to $; Patrick J. Iloylln, Khrenf.-ld, H to $10; John A. Wooleraver, Indiana, $1 to $S; Henry W. Hinder, Kloomfleld. $ to $H; Frnrik It. Klvldne. Hen Avon, Alli-nheny, $4 to $i; MeorK" W. Jack son, HIkiiix town, $1(1; Hiimuel Ktoutner, Kverett, lledrord, $10; Jennie Overly, Mount I'leuKBMt, $'; Mary Jane Atche son, llorlln, $S; F.llnn Wolf, Putney, vllle, $12; Henry W. Honk, llenver Falls, IK to $10: Hnmuel II. .McKrlde, Hewlekley, $2 to $d; William I. Mack, y, Altootiu, $17; Christopher Hlewart, drecr, Id to $1; Terronee lielnsler, Ht. AiiKiistln, $S to $12; Joseph Crawford. Kverett, $S to $1(1; William llalley, KnoxdHle, $14 to $17; John W. Itamsey, Hlllsvlew, $s to $IL'; Levi W. Patch, YoutiKsvllle, $() to $1; Jam"S H. Jordan, rtirixsutnwiiey, 111 to $10; Maria A. Patterson, Kenwood. $s; June Itlch nrds, HlnssliiirK, $s; Kllen Torrenc, I'lttslmrK. $; MarKaret I.. U. (lard nor, Altoona, $s. That a thief sometimes has nn un dercut rent of honor about him was demonstrated at Kutler a few days ago. A limit 2d years ago lr. J. K. Ilyera was called on to attend a young man, a stranger, who had a very bad esse of typhoid fever. The patient had neither friends nor money and the young physiciHti gave him his profes sional services, as well as nursing him, without any hope of pecuniary toward. About a year later a gang of robbers were captured In the northern part of the state and sent to the penitentiary for long terms. Among the lot wns th doctor's fever patient. The docf r hud long since forgotten about the circum stance, and was much nrpiled when a middle-aged limn walked Into his of fice and asked htm If he remernliered the young man he had nursed through bend. The middle-aged man pulled un attack of fever. The doctor remem out a Hat wallet and counted out the amount of the doctor's bill, thanked him und walked out. Altnr an ansi-i.Ce l.f 37 years, J'iatt Hodges returned to his old home at .Millers Plutlon near Franklin last week. In ISG2 he left hs family and went West to seek his fortune. Kor several years he wrote to his family," but his le tters llnaly cased. Believ ing him to he dead, Mrs. Holmes re married. Her second husband db-d a few months ago. Last spring while In Mexico Jlodipa (JeciUd to leturn. J(i beat Ids Wny to New Orleans on freight trains, and from there walked to his old home. He and his wife ex pect to live together the rest of thei: lives. (leorge Merger, a prisoner In the em tody of Iietectlve Morris Weiss, leaped from a Pennsylvania rallr'ad tra n go Ing 40 miles an hour a little west of Altoona Friday morning. The ollicer made a vain attempt to catch him be fore he got out of the window. No stop was made. The pair were on their way to Hcranton, where the prisoner was to be tried on a charge of aggra vated assault. W. K. Colter, aftr serving tlx months In the county Jail at Homersei for stealing a suit of clothes, walked out of his cell Wtdne'day and a.artwi for Johnstown on the Penney. vanla railroad track. At Mineral Point a shifter struck him and he was In stantly killed. 11:1 Identity was not discovered until his mother and step father of Coalport come nnd claimed his body. Coron-r Roberts, of Fcranton, pre vented the Interment of i'eter Kelbeit's 6-months-old daughter until he can have a Jury paaiiupoa the c,u stlon whether or not the pannts of the child are guilty of criminal neglect In not calling a physician to minister to the little one during its prolong d 11 nets r,f cholera infantum. The parei.u are Christian Hclentists. Two men believed to have hen Italian laborers wer killed and their oodles horribly mutilated near Kaston. the other morning by a railroad train. The remains or tne men- were scat tered along the Lehigh Vall-y tracks for a mile. Portions of one man's body vei carried to Newark. One man' head was cut off. While trying to make a coupling; In the Pennsylvania railroad yard at Al toona recently, Harry Colbert, a brakeman, aged 24 year.", accidentally lost his ootlng and fV.l upn the track j. 'ie car wheels passed over him, cuttlrg off his left leg and left arm. He was also Injured Internally and cannot recover. Kobert Hhaffer. a well-kmwn farmr of Dunbar town?h'p. was p ilnful y In lured by being gored ty a s.eer. Ha was taking a herd of c ait e to tha barn, when they atta k d Mm. knrck leg him down and Irampll'g upon him. He has a son In Company I of Con nellsvllle, who hurried hems to see his father. While Sirs. Kate fiisby wai car y ng 1 lighted lamp from one room to in Mher in her home at Scottdale, the lamp exploded, covering her wkh burning oil. In a moment her clc th ing was on fire from head to ftt. and before the fire could be extinguished: she wus so tadly burned that sl-e d ed. Charles Swwiman and Eiwari Keefe. employes of the Erie P.at road: Company convicted cf Rckliii triin running at Ccrry. were s.-nie c d th afternoon by Aldernjan Albert Tru a dale to pay a line of $10 and c s:. A -torney Hosklns. for the c mpiry p-M the cists and gave noil e of spp al. Erie has raUcd $1,000 fur Pcr.o K.co storm sufferer. A well known machinist. W. F. Rug glei, of Altoona. met with Instant deatti while crossing the Pennsylvania rail road tracks in the yard a few days ago. His body was cut In two at tn waist. He wa 42 yeara old'. While celebrating the Tenth ro'.un teers' home-coming at tha Cecil, ne groes got Into a row which end d In a grneral-shootlng. Reuben Peral l shot dead by Oorfe Taylor. jo wa Jl pa -uaiu.piH "11 vanla railroad smiting engine Market crossing. HarrUburg, the evening and killed. Vane Moore, of Washington. killed by falling from a derrick oil wau.
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