treeiand Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVKBY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY TUB TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FKEELAND, PA. SUBM'KIVTION HATES: One Year 1.£0 Six Mouths "5 Four Mon:h3 50 Two Mouths 25 The date which the subscription is paid to (s on the address label of eufh paper, the change of which to u subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittauce. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this ofllee whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be puld when subscription is discontinued. Ma' e all momy orders, checks, etc,,payable to tltr Tribune Frintinj Company, Limited. We presume that it is not for publi cation, but merely as an evidence of good faith, that the czar supplements his proposals for universal disarma ment with a loan of 5150,000,000 to be expended on his artillery. It is becoming more and more prob able that the British invasion of the Soudan will open up a large aud fer tile region to the cultivation of Egyp- i tiau cotton, and this article is soon to ' be grown in India on a larger scale ! than ever before. Hence lower prices | are looked for in England. How far < such competition can go before it seri- ' ously atl'ects tho price of American ' cotton cannot easily be predicted. | ! The town of Pullman, 111,, as or gan izt d and established bv its founder, whose name it bears, is soon to give up its distinctive character and become in fact as well as in name a part of > the municipality of Chicago. Under 1 the supreme court decision the com- I puny is reported to be preparing to give lip its building other than those j used strictly for the purposes of car- ( buildiug, which means that it must i give up its control over the town of Pullman. J Samoa shows signs of progressing \ toward civilization. The old method i of electing kings by the club and spear ' seems to have been abandoned in favor of the more intricate and less bloody arbitrament of the ballot box and the courts. Certain chiefs, it is related, have elected Mataafa king of the is- I lauds, while other chiefs have elected Tamasese. The Mataafaites appear to be in the possession of the electiou machinery, for the Tamasese crowd has protested and has filed a caveat before the chief justice, who will de cide tho dispute. The chief justice is au American citizen, aud soon the unique spectacle will be presented of a representative of the greatest re public in the world umpiring a king contest. The salvage system of the Salvation Army is to be introduced into San Francisco. This is auidea of General Booth, the basic principle boiug that idleness leads to evil, and that the man whose material wants are satis fied is more amenable to spiritual in fluence. The system is in operation in three cities in this country, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. In the last named city ten large wagons are inconstant service collecting waste, while a large number of men are em ployed in sorting the material for the market, and in repairing such broken articles of household furniture as can be made of use to poor people. Many women are also engaged in, rescuing from the waste, articles of clothing which can be made serviceable by mending. The repaired articles are sold for a few cents each, the money thus received going to the one who made the repairs. There are mauy possibilities in the development of the idea, one addition in San Francisco being an arrungement with the news paper publishers to clean out the of fices in return for the waste paper. Where Ood'a Angel* Hovered, Working among the poor of Loudon, an English 'author searched out the life career of au apple woman. Her history makes the story of kings and queens con temptible. Events had appointed her to poverty, hunger, cold, and two room-* in a tenement, hut there were three orphan boys sleeping in nn ash-box whose lot was harder. She dedieuted her heart and life to the little waifs. During two and forty years she mothered and reared some 20 orphans—gave them homo and bed and food, taught tliern all sin- knew,helped some to obtain a scant knowledge of the trades, helped others oil to Canada and America. The author says >he had misshapen feat ures. but that HQ exquisite smile was on the dead face. It must have been so. she •'had a beautiful soul." us Emerson said of Longfellow. Poverty disfigured the tipple woman's garret, ami want made it w&tohed; nevertheless, God's most beauti ful uugels hovered over it. Her lite win a blossom event in Loudon's history. Social reform has left her iuiluence. Like a broken vase, the perfume of her being will sweeten literature and society a thousand years lifter we are gouc.—Newell Divight Hillis, D. D., in "The Investment of Udluonce." Governor /Torthen has been doing good work for several months in the direction of having the gold fields of the States worked. He has succeeded In getting some mining experts from Colorado to visit the gold-bearing sections, and these experts are well pleased with i\*hat they have seen. | NEWS AND NOTEsI 8 FOR WOMEN. * H * White Broadcloth For Bridesmaids* White broadcloth is much used for bridesmaids' gowns. At a receut fash ionable church wedding such costumes were worn with large purple velvet picture hats. Poplin a Favored Fabric. Poplins of various qualities nnd in many new effects are one of the favored fabrics for the season. They have a silky finish, and in dainty stripes, cheeks and dots of soft, delicnte color the spring patterns are exceedingly effective. Lace Tea Gown* Popular. A lace tea gown is the hoight of I muny a woman's ambition. The most beautiful aud costly are made of guipure woven to form the garment without cutting. The long, grace fully shaped redingote is worn over a satin model of its exact shape and either white or of some light, delicate tone. The underdress may be lace, muslin or silk, aud the approved trim mings are bows, plaitings aud scarf ends of black tulle or velvet. Have You a Pretty Arin? It is quite the rage in New York if one hns pretty arms and hauds, to leave one arm ungloved. The artlessuess of arrangement is captivating. Men mar vel at the beauty and women less blessed at the "boldness" of the fad. To carry out the simplicity of the idea but one ring must be worn, aud that on the little finger, and the beauty of the hand is enhanced to distraction by a filmy lace background formed by a carelessly held lace hnndkerchief. Large arms are no longer admired. A Hint For Girl Writers. If young girls with literary aspira tions would devote their energies to writing for children, they might suc ceed beyond their widest imaginings. They are not sufficiently removed from the period of childhood to have for gotten all their youthful fancies,while they have not yet learnt the bitterness and sadness of lost illusions. Clever children's stories, too, are difficult to obtain, so the editors say, and, there fore, command a fair price. No one has yet stepped into the shoes of the gifted authors of "Alice in Wonder land," or "A Flat Iron for a Farthing" and many other delightful tales, and - the post is open to any youthful aspir ant. Miss Farjeon, a daughter of the well-known writer, who is only seven teen, has already started on a pros perous career of story telling, and two young members of the aristocracy, Lady Clementine Hay, daughter of the Marquis of Tweeddale, and Lady Mar jory Gordon, daughter of Lord Aber deen, the late Governor of Canada, edited children's magazines in their : schoolroom days. It should be a de [ lightful career, that of telling stories to children, with their appreciative and unerringly right enthusiasm aud enjoyment.—Lonpon Graphic. Correct Hat Pins. It is modish now to show more of the hat pin than its mere head, so the pins themselves are made ornamental. The finds of inventive geniuses are turning toward a pin that will stay in the hat without any danger of falling out. Recently there was a patented split that was provided with a little spring which worked by pressure. A very nice hat pin, with a head of amber, had an amber fastening accom panying it, made Becure by a gold chain. The "fastener" was stuck in | the hat, so that to lose the hat pin you I must lose the hat also. J A very special little piece of jewelry is a band of pearls connected with hat pin by a gold chain. The pearl band is ÜBed as a brooch or as a pin upon the breast. The gold chain dangles from the hat pin, and makes a pretty bit of finery for the woman who likes fripperies. The band may match the hat pin, and be of any jewels or plain gold. Hat chains are seen on some of the French toques. They are only pins in another guise. One of fine gold and pearls pretended to clasp a huge nosegay of violets upon a chenille toque. Of course, it only pretended, but what was its deception worth when - it looked so nice?— London Mail. New Baby Coaches. There are fashions even in baby carriages. This statement is prompted i by the fac-t that along the streets of i Philadelphia the babies of the rich are seen in a new sort of turnout. The old-fashioned baby carriage, with its pillows, lace and satin, its flounced parasol and its ribbons, is doomed. The rich baby will no longer bo trundled in one of these. For this baby carriage what is known as the English baby coach is being substituted. Plain leather, severe woodwork, a thoroughly British con ception, replace the daintiness and elaborateness of the French models. The new baby coach is, in fact, radically different in design. It needs little more than shafts and a small horse in front to actually make it a miniature wagon. ' It hnß higher wheels nnd is in itself higher and narrower than the baby carriage so familiar to Philadelphia. In get-up as well as shape does it differ. There is not a sign of pale, delicate colors, no "baby tints," no ' white wheels, yellow wheels or enameled body. Nor is thereamuch , belaced, beruflled and beflounced sun shade, parasol or canopy. The new baby coach is entirely of black. It is lined plainly with black leather, and ; its "top" is built on the lines of an - ordinary buggy top, moved up and j down in the same manner. Severe Tralnftig Which Nurses Take. 1 For hospital nursing a woman's age Bust bo between twenty-three and thirty-three years, as younger rhan twenty-threo she is not capable of judging for herself, anil over thirty throe the habits and characteristics are too firmly fashioned. A perfect physical condition and a successful examination in reading,writing, spell ing, simple arithmetic aud English dictionary will admit her to tho train ing school for two mouths, during whjch tijne she receives free board and lodging. If the two mouths' probation is sat isfactory the candidate becomes a member of the busy school, ilons the uniform and works in earnest. If ticketed as day nui'9o her hours will be from six a. m. to six p. m., with a short time each day for open-air ex ercise, one half holiday each week and half of Sunday. She is personally in structed in the manner of dressing blisters, burns, sores and wounds, the preparation and application of fomen tations, poultices, cups and leeches, the management of helpless patients, making of beds, changing clothing, giving baths, prevention and treat ment of bedsores, best methods of friction fco the body and extremities, bandaging and the making of band ages and linen splints, care of pa tients' rooms, airing and warming rooms, a limited number of emergen cies and how to treat them, and the preparation and serving of food for the sick. This would seem enough to fill up every minute of the lime, yet there are other things to do. There are ob servations and reports to the physi ician in charge—very, very accurate they must be—not in the case of one patient only, but of two or three, and perhaps more. A.nd there must be found time to attend tho lectures and take notes upon them—yes, and ab sorb the result into a well regulated j brain that will stow it away and pro j duce it when wanted. Implicit obedience in every matter, a cheerful face and manner and an infinite stock of patience must be added to all this and there you have the main part of a nurse's life.—Philadelphia Times. Gossip. The two richest prima (lonnns are Adelina Patti and Sibyl Sanderson. A bill making women eligible to the office of notary publio has been re jected by the Touuessce Senate. Women preachers are more popular in the Universalist and Unitarian Churches than in other denominations. Mrs. Leonard Wood, with other ladies in Santiago de Cuba, is orgauiz ing a branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Auimals. The wife of the Rev. Dr. Lovejoy, au applicant for a pulpit in Mount Vernon, N. Y., took his placo the other Sunday aud preached for him when he suddenly becamo ill. Mrs. Margaret Black, of Glasgow, Scotland, is a member of tho City Board of Education. She is nlso nil officer of tho school of cookery, and is activo in other Hues of valuable work. Au insurance company in Warsaw, Russia, recently discharged all its male solicitors nnd agents and ap pointed women in their places on the ground that they were bettor qualified for the positions. The Countess of Menth, well known in this country through her interest ill aud praeticnl help to various charita ble and philanthropic movements, has given the sum of §50,000 toward es tablishing in Dublin a home for work house girls, where they are to be in structed iu the nrts of domestic ser vice. The three prizes of §250 enoh in a well-known magazine competition for the best story, poem nnd essay, open to students who received the degree of B. A. iu 1897, have been won by three young women, although more men than women entered the contest. Vassal' furnishes two of the prize winners and Smith one. Gleaning** From the Shops. Safety veil pins, Cotton goods for shirt waists. Hats made entirely of grebe. Yak lace for flannel petticoats. Taffeta cross-striped with chenillo. Hatpins of jewels, pearls and silver. Muslin nightgowns with rever ef fects. Chiffon embroidered with silver, beads. Ostrich tips white with a colored center. Plain band bracelets without an opening. Flannel dressing sacquea with flossed edges. Remnants of black and colored dress goods very cheap. Embroidered handkerchiefs with scalloped edges finished with lace.— Dry Goods Economist. A Jupnnege Peculiarity. There is a peculiarity about the Japanese that does not attach to any other people, and it is this: The average Japanese are very suspicious of small wares that are not backed up i with fancy trade marks. They buy goods much more rendily that carry a device or an emblem, or that bear a seal, and many a good article would be iu danger of rejection because not , put up fancifully. They also attach importance to small neat packages, not too mauy of a kind together; this is more in keeping with Japanese tastes. In America, small articles are put up and sold by the dozen; the Japanese want them seperato, and this is not only true because things are generally on a smaller scale, but there are financial reasons why it is so. There means are limited, and they use everything sparingly. It is probably true that the German ex porter understands the native taste better than any other. The markets are full ol small wares from Germany, put np in attractive style and in small Quantities | TALES OF PLUCK AND ADVENTURE. | ss-rosso® LUtlo Cayuse. After the big rush for gold in Cali fornia in 18-19, a firm in St. Lonis es tablished the Pony Express, to carry mail over the plains and mountains from St. Joe to Sacramento. At White Horse Station, in Wyoming, which was particularly subject to In dian raids, an old trapper by tho name of Whipsaw was placed in charge. One day a Sioux In.dian came to the station with a naked and half-frozen Pawnee boy, whom ho offered to sell for a knife, Whipsaw took mercy on the boy and bought him. He proved a valuable aid, for the lad's keen ears detected the approach of horses, the scream of a panther, the growl of a wolf, when Whipsaw could hear noth ing at all. In tho dead of night he would rise and whisper "cayuse, cayuse!"—the Pawnee name for horse —and "Little Cayuse" became his name. One night, according to Cy War man, who tells the story in his now book, "Frontier Stories," the Pony Express was two hours late, and the two men keeping tho station were growing very anxious. "Presently the Pawnee crawled out, put his ear to the ground, came back, and shook his master. " 'Cayuse?' asked Whipsaw. " 'Heap cayuse,' was the boy's re ply, and they understood. "Littlo Cayuso seized his rifle, slipped out, nud the two men followed him. To guard against surprises of this sort, Whipsaw had dug short trenches, deep enough to hide a man, all about the cabin, and now, to his surprise, Little Cayuse planted him self in one of these holes. Without a word the two men took plnces, oue to tho right the other to the left of the boy, and waited. "The clouds were breaking, and in the starlight they could see tho Sioux, six of them, near the cabin door. They listened—one of them pushed the door open. Now an Indian went in, camo out a moment later, and they all filed in, at the very moment that Whipsaw was about to open fire. Instantly he changed his plan. They would charge on tho cabin door and fight the gang, which outnumbered them, even counting the boy, two to one. Without a word, Whipsaw got to his feet, and instantly his compan ions were at his side. "Little Cayuse grasped his rifle with fourteen shots in the magazine. There was no word of command, but as Whipsaw leaned forward they all started double-quick for the cabin. Ten pacos from the door they stopped, tho boy still sandwiched between tho men. The Sioux must have heard them, for now they came pouring out. Beforo they had gained tho open air the little regiment opened fire. Two of the Indians fell, the others re turned the fire, but with bad aim. An other round from the white men, and two moro Sioux bit the dust. Bob was pumping his rifle, when n ball from the cabin door shattered his right shoulder. Dropping the gun, he pulled his six-shooter and continued to fight. Having emptied both of his revolvers, Whipsaw slammed ono of them into the face of a Sioux, who came for him with n knife. The two men began fighting close now, while Littlo Cayuse kept pumping smnll shot into the other remaining Sioux. Seeing Whipsaw hard pressed, the boy begun to watch for a chauco to use his little rifle. Bob succeeded at last in stopping his man, nud then fell in a fnint from loss of blood. Whipsaw had been shot and badly cut, when his an tagonist paused to get advantage. In stantly Littlo Cayuse shoved the rifle as near tho Sioux's left side as he could get it and pulled the trigger,and the big, bnd Indian sank in a heap. "The next day, t when they were caching the carcasses of the dead In dinns, Little Cayuse shocked and surprised tho white men by constant ly clubbing and kicking tho corpses. Of a sudden he gave a wild yell,seized his rifle, and began emptying it into , ono of tho dead Indians. Whipsaw took the gun away from him. "See! see!" cried tho boy, pointing at the dead Indian, and the trapper recognized in ;the object of the boy's wroth tho hideous features of the scar-faced Sioux who had sold the child, by whose hands he had in his own good time been taken off." An Amerlcau Sailor-Hoy. "Ben Porter" was about fifteen years old when, in 1859, he wrote from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, to which ho had recently been appointed, "Just think of my being here, going to school,and the Government paying me thirty dollars n mouth for my com pany! Aint it bunkum?" It turned out "bunkum" for the Government, which "had the worth of its money from that schoolboy before it was done with him." So writes Dr. H. Clay Trumbull in his "War Memories of a Chaplain," in which he sketches the career of this "wide-awake, enthusi astic American 'sailor-boy—for boy he was to the last." Immediately after the capture of of Fort Sumter, tho Secretary of the Navy graduated the first class of the Naval Academy, and Porter began his active service as a midshipman on the Itoanoke, then on blockade duty. In the Burnsido expedition he com manded six launches, with a battery of Dahlgren howitzers and one hundred and fifty men. In the sharp fight on Uoauoko Island Porter's battery was on land in the advance position, and the boy of seventeen did such execu tion that he was commended by his su perior officers as having "not only con tributed largely to the success of the clay, but won admiration of all who witnessed the display." Before he was eighteen young Por ter was in command of the gunboat Ellis, and took an active part in the re duction of Fort Mason. Ho became an ensign, and in 18G3 Admiral Dalil gren selected him to explore Charles ton harbor, and learn its obstructions and channel ways. This difficult gncl delicate task had to be done at night; sunken torpedoes and an ever-watchful enemy had to be faced. For twenty-four consecutive nights this eighteen-year-old boy groped his way in tho darkness, while during the day he was on duty on his ship's gun-deck—she was in action six teen of these days. He found the passageway of tho blockade-runners, passed the enemy's forts again and again, and actually skirted the wharves of the city of Charleston. On oue occasion, when a boat from the fleet was run down by the Confederate steamer Alice, that daring, chivalrous boy flashed his lights and rescued eight of the drown ing men, although he thereby made himself the target of guns from land and sea. The brave young ensign was at times so exhausted on his return to his ship that his men had to lift him from the boat. In the night attack on Fort Sumter young Porter was taken prisoner, ami sent up to Columbia, where Chaplain Trumbull was his fellow-prisoner for several months. The boy side of his nature showed itself in prison; he was the life of the party. In a room ad joining that of the naval officers thero was confined in irons a Captain Harris, of Tennessee, held as a hostage for some Confederate prisoner under special charges. It was the delight of Porter to put his mouth to the keyhole of the door and whistle o lively tune, while the captain danced to it with the accompanying clanking of his chains. Keleased from prison, Porter passed an examination for promotion, was com missioned as lieutenant at nineteen, and put in command of the Malvern, the ling-ship of the squadron. While leading an assaulting party against Fort Fisher, he fell at the head of his men. "The most splendid fellow I over knew. My beau ideal of an of ficer," said Admiral Porter of this youth, who, in years a boy, had done a man's work. A Sniinmh Hero. "The greatest exhibition of courage I saw in the big Santiago fight was by a Spanish officer," said Trooper Charles K. Learning, late of the Sixteenth ltegulars (Kent's division). "It was on the 2d of July, when the desperato fighting occurred before San Juan Hill. At the extreme south end of the third row of Spanish trenches there was a little mound of fresh dirt on which stood an officer looking through a pair of field glasses and shouting encouragement to his men. The air all around him was simply alive with projectiles, but he paid no more attention to them than to flies. In less than five minutes I saw him have three almost miraculous escapes. The first was from a piece of shell which struck some entrenching tools stuck in the mound, less than a yard away. It tore the tools all to pieces, and the splinters killed several men, but he was entirely untouched. A moment later a couple of men jumped up, one on each siue of him. Ho seemed to be directing their attention to something, and while doing so dropped his glasses. He stooped to pick them up, and before he could riso both men were cut dowu by a sweep of machine-gun bullets which probably took them on about the line of the head. In almost less time than it takes to tell it his sugar-loaf straw sombrero flew into the air, aud when he picked it up it was a total wreck. At that the men around about where wo lay all burst into a laugh, for the figure he made looking at the tattered hat was irresistibly funny, in spite of the horrible tragedy in progress. After that I lost sight of the officer, and can't say whether became through or not. He was certainly insensible to fear." Adventure With a Tijjer. The ardent seeker after big gnme is often in peril of life and limb, but ho rarely counts the danger, or if he does, the excitement and glory strike tho balance in favor of the risk. Colonel K., an English officer stationed in India, met with a singular adventure while tiger hunting,in which he lost an arm. Tho Colonel had wounded a tiger from an elephant's back. The tiger charged, nud the elephant, taking fright, bolted through the jungle. To save himself from being brained nud swept off by overhanging branches, Colonel K. seized a stout limb, aud raising himself, left the elephant to go on alone through the forest. To his dismay, ho found he had not strength and agility sufficient to swing himself up to sit on tho branch. In vain he strove to throw a leg over,and so raise himself. Looking down, tho sportsman dis covered that the tiger had spotted him and was waiting below. The hor ror of the situntion can be imagined— tho enraged tiger, nud tho helpless, dangling man knowing he must fall into those cruel jaws. How long he hung there ho never knew. He shouted nnd shrieked in an ngony of fear. He eased one arm a little, then tho other; then hung despairingly by both—till at last tired nature gave way and he dropped! He remembered thrusting one arm into the tiger's jaws, and then con sciousness loft him. His life was saved by the arrival of a friondly rifle barrel held close to tho tiger's bend, and through tho subsequent amputa tion of the mangled arm by a skilful surgeon. In 1870 there were only 1700 news papers published in all Spain, nnd to day tic number is still smaller. gp||pK^ The Amaloiir'g Orchard. Everyone likes good fruit, and but few gardens, however small, are thought complete without it. But notwithstanding the appreciation for good fruit, it is seldom found perfect in small gardens or orchards. The fault lies in too much dependence on the trees, or rather a lack of interest in cultural methods. Trees are plant ed out in perhaps the most careful manner, after which they are expect ed to care for themselves and produce good fruit abundantly. They fact is, they need continual attention just as much as we do. This need not devel op into a burden if regularly and properly attended to. Now, one of the most important con ditions to insure thrift is a soil mellow and cool in hot and dry weather, yet how frequently may trees be seen growing in sod or together with some crop that does not require cultivation. Such trees quickly outlive their usefulness, and their stunted branches can only produce undersized and immature fruit. Then old trees are expected to live on a small allowance of food. It is forgotten that the roots of a tree have to get their food from nearly the same soil year after year, and in the case of sod laud, even this food must be di vided. To have good fruit, health and vigor must be encouraged—not rank growth, which might be induced by overfeed ing, for this is opposed to fruit bearing. For most moderate-sized orchards or garcleus it would be desirable to commence cultivating by plowing be tween the rows in late fall; but in light soils summer harrowing is suffi cient. Judgment must be exercised as to the extent of cultivation, de pending on the conditiou of the trees. Experience must teach how far from the tree trunk the roots extend, for care must be taken not to disturb them during the summer or feeding time. Good stable manure may bo spread on the surface of the soil after the lat ter is frozen, provided the ground is comparatively level so the fertilizing constituents may not be washed away. As the feeding roots are principally on the outside, the manure need not bo spread at tho base of large trees, but in a circle several feet therefrom, Auotker, but more laborious method, is to dig shallow trenches running towards the base of the tree, [and till in well-rotted or composted manure. Root pruning, to make too vigorous trees more productive, and top prun ing to thin out old wood, letting light and air amongst the branches, areaho good subjects for the auialeur to lojk into.—American Cultivator. Spraying the Currant. The varieties of the red and white currant, Ribes rubrum, usually shed their leaves very eurly—often before the end of summer. This early drop ping of the leaves has not been rec ognized by all as the result of,disease, and currant bushes often fruit well iu spite of it. Some years ago the ex periment was made at our station of spraying currant bushes with tho Bor deaux mixture and ammouiacal copper carbonate solution in early spring, and the applications were repeated at intervals until June 1. The result Bliowed that tho sprayed hushes re tained their foliage considerably longer than those not sprayed, but the fruit was so badly soiled that tho treatment was not considered prac ticable and so it was abandoned. The last season the experiment was made of a single spraying with Bor deaux mixture alter the harvesting of tho fruit, and the result was striking. The early dropping of the leaves of the red auil white cu. *ant ic due to an attack of a fungus, fevj toria ribes, and our experiment the ln-< seeUis to Hhow that this disen- may be very largely prevented by spraying the bushes after the fruit is harvested. The premature dropping of the leaves reduces the vigor of tho plant, and doubtless tends to the production of inferior fruit.—E. S. Golf, in Country Gentleman. Renevriug Old Seed. Very interesting experiments are being conducted at the Amherst (Mass.) station in bringing to life seeds which are too old to sprout well. It is hoped that tests will eventually lead to results of great commercial value. Nothing has been published on the matter as yet, and the follow ing is the result of an interview with Messrs. Stone and Sharp: Old seeds have been treated with a two per cent, solution of asparagin. a vegetable extract obtained from Ger man chemists, and the result has been to increase the germinating power greatly. Seed which before treatment showed only fifty per cent, of germi nation with one-half worthless, after treatment showed ninety-eight per cent, of germination and only two per cent, which failed to sprout. Sineo 'asparagin at present costs $1.50 per ounce, the method is not profitable for ordinary seeds. But seeds of new varieties and certain flower seeds which are actually quoted at more than their weight in gold might bo treated this way with profil. Experi menters are in hopes of finding a cheaper way of making this article for treating the seeds.—New England Homestead. According to railroad statistics for the past year, one passenger was killed for every 2,250,000 carried. I There were 41,810 arrests in Boston last year, a decrease of some thousands I from the record in 1897. THRcE WuMcN IN WAR TIME. I. One snld, with a smile on her proud young lips: "I have brothers three; they are far on the sea, ?or thev serve on tho decks of the fighting ships! Is It strange that war comes home to me?" 11. 'And I, bad I father, brothers or friend, I would givo them nil at my country's call! llv sorrow Is, I have none to send, And my sharo lu the glorious war Is smalll" 111. But the third arose with face aglow: "Mino are a hundred thou9aua strong— jVherever my countryman meets the foe— And my hoart's in the war the whole day long!" —Edith M. Thomas. HUMOR OF THU DAY. \ Edna—"l believe that young Mr. Timson is half-witted." Mario—"As much as that?" Tommy—"Maw, I don't git enough putter for my bread." Mrs. Figg— 'All right. I'll give you less bread." —lndianapolis Journal. "Mamma, what kind of a bear is lhat?" "That's a cinnamon bear, lear." "It doesn't smell a bit like unnamon."—Chicago Tribune. "We are terribly cramped for space n our flat." "That so?" "Yes; we iveu have to use the family skeleton or a hatrack."—Chicago Record. "Buckles seems to be making noney out of liis degenerate poetry." 'Yes, he might be called wiso in his legoneration."— Indianapolis Journal. Man Razes on the mercury And still His soul is vexed, As. all alert, lie waits to see Which way It's gniuß next. —Washington Star. Teacher—"Thomas, can you tell me vhich battle Nelson was killed in?" Tommy (after a momeut's reflection) JL —"I think it was his last."—World's domic. Miss Gush—"Oh, captain, were you iver boarded by a pirate?" Captain Storms—"Yes; ho charged mo §ll a lay for a hall bedroom on the fourth ioor."—lndianapolis Journal. A pessimist is one who viows The world through glasses that are blue; Fho, if he llads a dollar, stows Aud kicks because it wasn't two. —Chicago Daily News. Moth—"l overheard some callers aying this room is furnished in ex icrable taste." Other Moth—"Why, ho idea! I never ate more palatablo tpholstery in my life!"— Detroit Jour lal. She—"Have yon noticed that Mr. Ihortleigh is paying a good deal of Itteutiou to Miss Clevertou?" He— ' Yes, and it's the first time I ever ' mew him to jtny auythiug."—Chicago tews. Askius—"How did young Pokeloug nke his rejection by Miss Brisk?" feller—"Oh, he was as badly broken ip os a compound word is after a tuttering man gets through with it." —Judge. "Yes," she said, bitterly, "you oved me then—and now!" She mused and sighed. "It it merely a ovised passion," he calmly replied. 'I still love you now and then."— Ilevelaud Plain Dealer. "How many passengers a day do 'ou handle?" asked the platform bore. 'Only the young and good looking ines," the car conductor explained, dly watching an old woman with a >ig basket struggle from the car.— dinciunati Enquirer. Small Boy—"Mamma, was General iVashiugtou blind?" Mamma—"Of :ourso not. Where did you get that tlea?" Small Boy—"Nurse took no io tk' Old Ladies' Home to-day, and ihowed me a woman that ho kissed." —New York Weekly. "Did she ask you if she was the >nly girl you had ever loved?" "No; iho said she wouldn't insult me byiu- umating that I had so neglected my ipportuuities. And besides " "Well?" "She said she didn't have to ask; she could tell."—Chicago Evening Post. Modest Requirement. The surgeon of a military station luring the Civil War was noted for his flowery language, which never failed, even under the most trying cir jumstances. He was not popular, and the oflicors treated him at times with icant courtesy. On one occasion the Colonel appro priated the surgeon's tent for a mess table, without the formality of stating his intentions. The surgeon sent a complaint to tho general in commaud, in which he said, "I have not so much as a fly to inter pose between my head and the star decked heavens about me." This dooument went through tho nsual routine, and was at last returned to the surgeon with the following en- M dorsement: "Colonel R. will cause a fly to interpose between the head of the complainant nnd the star-decked heavens above him as soon as possi ble." A Colony of Outlaws. Writers of fiction have frequently pictured tho idea of an unknown tropi cal paradise being turned into a gen- l eral asylum for outlaws and criminals. In the Bonin Isles, not far from Japan, such a refuge has actually been dis covered. Men of every nationality, who have made civilization too warm for themselves, have deoamped to this ideal rendezvous, leaving tho police to record the unsatisfactory result of theii investigations as "gone abroad." Nc rates or taxes have to be paid, and government seems to be entirely dis pensed with. The discovery was made by a Japanese vessel which called al the island. In future tho aliens will have less freedom and consequently less happiness, for the Japanese do minion will have to be recognized. Tho dream is over.—Western Morn ing News. \
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