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NEWSY CLEANINCS. China Is sending many studentg to Japan, 274 being there now. The United Slates imports annnually from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000 worth of tea. The American cigarette "invasion" of the British market is only of very small dimensions. The population of Canada increased ten and one-hall' per cent, in the decade from 1891 to 1901. The Columbus (Ohio) School Board has ordered that dancing be tabooed at all social functions of the High School pupils. The Populists of Kansas have de cided that there would be no affiliation between the Populists and Democrats in Kansas this year. The year 1901 was far from a pros perous one for the tanning industry of Germany. Too much credit has re sulted in many failures. The Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians of Great Britain have un dertaken a joiut investigation into the causes and prevention of cancer Foreign trade of the United States is at the rate of S9O per head. That of Canada is S7O per head, and In pro portion to population it leads the world. The average salaries of school teach ers in Maryland is less than $275 a year, and the Teachers' Association is to petition the Legislature for an in crease. Notwithstanding the fact that 150,- 000 freight cars were built in this coun try last year, the railroads lost more than $30,000,000 because of the scarcity of such equipment. The Chinese are preparing to fight the re-enactment of the Geary Exclu sion law. A proclamation has been is sued by the Chinese Six Companies re quiring every Chinaman in the United States to contribute at once the sum of $1 to be used in the effort to de feat exclusion. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Secretary Long will resign soon. Justice Gray has suffered a stroke of paralysis. Tope Leo XIII. lias entered on the twenty-fifth year of his pontificate. Former President Cleveland had splendid success in his duck shooting trip in Virginia. Governor W. E. Stanley, of Kansas, lias announced his candlducy for Unit ed States Senator. J. Pierpont Morgan's profits in financ ing the steel corporation's "merger" are given at $11,239,088. John Ilays, the first white man to discover the immense copper deposits of Michigan, still lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and is ninety-seven years old. King Leopold of Belgium is suffering from an obstinate throat complaint. 110 went to the Riverla, hut found no relief. The greatest precautions have been taken to prevent complications. William Edward Lecky, the author of numerous publications on morals, rationalism and democracy, has been elected a foreign associate of the French Academy of Moral Sciences. Benjamin F Jacobs, who was the originator of the international uniform lesson series, which wns adopted at the Indianapolis convention, in 1872, has just retired from Sunday-school work, after a service extending over forty six years. M. Santos-Dumont has a stoical way of looking at the serious mishaps that have followed his recent airship ex periments. He is undecided regarding iiis future course, but has lost none of his enthusiasm and will keep on trying new experiments in midair. The attention of Prince Henry has been brought to the fact tlint preserved in the State Library at Albany Is a gift of Frederick the Great to George Washington. It is a beautiful sword bearing the inscription, "From the old est soldier, to the greatest soldier." Mlxod History. The juvenile son of an army officer made a strange mixture of the history of George Washington the other day. A viEitor called during the absence of his parents, and to entertain the chil dren and instill a lesson of manly hon or and patriotism told them the fa mous stories of the liberty hell and the cherry tree. The scion of the soldier was much Interested, but the details got badly twisted in his head. When his father returned home he was told of the fine story the visitor had told about the father of his country. "Washington must have been a won derful man," said the boy. "He smashed the liberty bell with his little hatchet and his father whipped him with a cherry tree for telling a lie." It took paterfamilias some time to straighten things out. TWO KINDS OF DOLLARS. There's a difference in dollars, for some 'Tis the sorriest error to measure our gold are so pure By the number of dollars; 'tis better And wholesome and big and delightful; To think of their quality; lind if they hold While others which men in their hurry A genuine joy for their getter. procure For a coin that is good when we win it Are little and tarnished and frightful aright, The good kind bring riches that stand With conscience and heart in our dcal for success ing, With honest, intelligent striving; Is only a counterfeit, pleasureless quite The others bring only that sense of dLs- To him who obtains it by stealing. tress --Nixon Waterman, in the National Maga- That comes of unmanly conniving. zine. L £ £ ( OXIE people do not believe if the stories tliey hear of lOj ghosts," said the doctor, as he leaned back In his chair on the opposite side of the table from the lawyer and his wife, whose guest he happened to be for dinner. The lawyer leaned back, too, but the law yer's wife could not because the tele phone was up against the wall behind her seat. "But they do believe them down la the country where I came from," continued the doctor, while the lawyer's wife crumbed up a crack er and let the pieces fall in her finger bowl. "For instance, a story was cur rent when I was about fourteen years old that wns realistic enough nud had proof enough to have been so even if it was not. "The Pennsylvania Hallroad—known then as the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago—was building, and the right of way cut through a sandhill less than a quarter of a mile from our front gate. In building the line there were several places to be graded, and no better material could be found than the gravel in this bill. Next to the wagon road, which wound away through the sands of the hill, stood the red house and barn of Graham Davis. Some time before this a scourge of small pox had visited the community. Two of the Davis children had died almost on the same day. Anyway, they were buried in the same eoilin and in the same grave. The graveyard was in the orchard, as a great mauy graveyards of the early settlers were. ENGINEER WATSON TIIBEW ON THE AIR BRAKES. "As the railroad company pushed in Its siding against the hill Graham Davis found himself short of room, so in the course of time he sold that cor ner of his farm to the company, and moved from his house and barn, for getting all about what he had in the orchard. The neighbors remembered, and it was not long before weird stor ies of slamming doors and grewsome noises were told about the country side. Some people went so far as to declare they had seen the two children, hand in hand, going through the or chard to the school, as they had often been seen in life to do. This happened only at midnight when the moon was high and the air clear, so there was little chance of making a mistake. The sidetrack made its way farther and farther into the bill. The crew of this gravel train consisted of Irish shov clers, a Yankee conductor aud Scotch engineer. One by one the trees of the orchard fell as the gravel was dug from beneath, and loaded upon the flat cars by the red-shirted gang, who talked and joked and idled away their time like a flock of geese. "One day the crew came upon the box buried in the orchard. A shout went up from the Irishmen, for they had found the skeletons of the children. 1 Down on the siding stood the long train of flat cars, with the engine smoking away at the end. Robert Watson, fa miliarly known as Bob, was fanning himself in the window of the cab. Conductor Thompson was somewhere along the shady side of the box car, which did duty as the caboose. On the hill there was a big commotion, and the sand and gravel came down faster than it had ever done before, following the heels of the shovelers. These Irishmen ranged themselves by the side of the train, panting and jab bering i.i away few could understand. Bob Watson stuck his head far out from the cab window and inquired the cause of the trouble. Conductor Thompson went leaping up the hill like n kangaroo until he got to a box half covered with sand beneath a tree in the orchard. Then Thompson went back faster than be had gone up, and sat down on a tie. No color was in his face, and his hands trembled. Surrounding him crowded the Irish men, who made so much noise no one heard the lightning express as it went thundering by. Nor would the men go hack to work, as long as the box was on the hill. Engineer Bob Watson called the conductor to bim and learned the situation. " 'l'll take the things out of there,' as he slipped down the iron steps to the sand. Up the hill he went till he came to the box, when he caught hold of the protruding end and he gave it a twist that sent both box and the en gineer rolling and tumbling with the bones rattling down the hill. Con ductor Thompson sent a delegation to the new home of Graham Davis to tell him where the bodies of the children were, and to request him to carry them away. "Then the men went back to work. When evening came a large Irishman walked up to the. cab of the engine to where Engineer Bob was lighting bis pipe. " 'You've got the bant, Bob. Watson, and if you take my advice, being a man who's uninterested, you'll get out of this job and won't pull no train on this division of tlie Tittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Koad.' "Engineer Bob Watson laughed, got the signal from the switchman and blew two blasts from the whistle for off brakes and started toward town with the water boy trailing along be hind in an attempt to catch the impro vised caboose. "The incident on the bill was for gotten,almost, perhaps entirely by all except the Irishmen, who seldom lost a thing of this kind from their mem ories. Time wrought many changes. Bob Watson was advanced until he was given charge of a night express between Chicago and the East. Con ductor Thompson controlled the des tinies of the passengers on this same train. One night they were coming into Chicago, with the moon shining full and the face of the country almost as clear as at noonday. Off to the left was the sclioolhouse, and to the right, coming down the road over the crossing, were two children, a boy and a girl, with a tin dinner bucket swing ing between them. Evidently they did tot see the express, and reached the centre of the track at the same instant the engine struck the crossing. En gineer Watson threw on the air brakes, blew the whistle, and the whole train shuddered to a standstill. Watson grabbed a flare and sprang past the wide-eyed lireman out into the night. From the coaches the white lights of tlie brakemen dropped down, and the blue lantern of the conductor waited until the yellow flare of the conductor came up to it. Then the conductor and the engineer went back, looking under every car the full length of the train, and to the crossing; even on the crossing there was nothing, no sign of an accident, neither to the right nor to the left. "So the train went on. "A month later the moon shone again. Again Robert Watson's train came to the crossing. Again he saw the two children, the boy and the girl, coming down the ror.d to the right with their dinner buckot between them. Again they stepped on the crossing as the train reached it, and again that flyiag morjster was brought to a stand. The engineer's flare mingled with the lights of the brakemen, and the con ductor carried hia blue lantern back to the crossing. There the men faced each other. " 'Look here, Bob Watson, said Con ductor Thompson, 'do you remember what place this is? Do you remember the orchard that once stood on the hill over there behind the schoolhouse? Do you remember what the Irish shov elor said to you? I'll tell you you've hit the hant.' "Together the men walked back to their posts. "Once more a month rolled around and the moon shone on the little school house and ou the crooked trees of the orchard held in existence by the school laud. Englueer Watson saw the chil dren coming down the road long he fore the train reached the crossing, lie signaled to his fireman for more steam and opened the valve wider as the engine swung up on the crossing. There was a jar as the wheels passed over " At that instant the telephone bell rang as it luid never rung before. The lawyer's wife screamed, sprang up from her chair and suuk back in it, and yet the hell rung. Together the lawyer and the doctor carried her to her room and the lawyer hurried away to the drug store on the corner. "Doctor, I wish you would finish that ghost story," said the lawyer's wife the next day as she was sitting up from her siege of hysterics and the telephone man had come around and straightened the wires. "What did the engineer hit?" "Now, the train did hit something that night, but when the crew went back to look all they could find was Davis' spotted cow, which had been making her way to the old home. The moonlight made her look odd, and, after nil, there may have been a bit of superstitious blood In the engineer. At any rate, he resigned Ills run when he got into Chicago that night I saw him a bit ago pulling a freight on the New York Central. But the 'hant' had left him."—Harry A. Armstrong, In the Chicago Record-Herald. Tramps' Directions. Take the one single incident of di rection of rendezvous, memoranda, etc., on water tanks and in stations. I have looked for such with very smnll suc cess, considering the bulk of the le gends about them.though I have found them. Aud although very striking cases of selection among houses for begging purposes have come to my notice, I have never yet found a per fectly authentic instance of designat ing mark. When, therefore, the resi dence of my frieud, A. L., was visited regularly, and that of his next door neighbor, P. 8., a lawyer, neglected, and that of his opposite neighbor, Sheriff A. M„ shunned, I am confident it is all due to oral commuuicatlou. And It shows what was possible in the days before the telegraph and news paper that when my friend Judge S.'s patience finally broke down, and from the defender of tramps in court and their feeder at home, he told one of them to let It he known from Hartford to Boston that he "would arrest the next one who came to his door," inside of forty-eight hours the plague had ceased!— The Independent. The "lleglra" of 183". It Is almost certain that a record number of Americans will cross the Atlantic for the coronation, and it is very probable that record time may be accomplished. But such events will not attract so much public attention as the records established in the spring preceding the coronation of Queen Vic toria. The Great Western steam packet caused immense astonishment by mak ing a maiden trip from Bristol to New York in fifteen days. On May 7, IS3B, she started from New York on her return voyage with passengers desir ous of being preseut in London for the coronation. Quite 100,000 persous as sembled to witness her departure, with hands of mnslc, and a variety of steam boats attended her to Sandy Hook. Site carried sixty-eight cnbiu passen gers, the grentest number that had ever crossed in one ship, at thirty-five guineas each, llcr arrival at Bristol on May 22 settled the doubt warmly discussed by the British Association, two years previously, as to the possi bility of steamship communication be tween England, and America.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Story of a Stick. The reformers who hold up the Ger man army as a pattern to be admired will perhaps allow that even its excel lent discipline has some drawbacks. Among the many regulations of the military code is one which forbids any body to present himself before a re cruiting oliieer with a cane in his hand. Some days ago a reservipt so far forgot himself as to enter the office of a recruiting sergeant-major accom panied by his walking-stick. For this heinous ot'feuso the unfortunate reserv ist was promptly court-martialed aud sentenced to ten weeks' imprisonment for insubordination.—To-Day. Hlh Majesty's Inconvenience. The Kins observed tlie other day that one of the inconveniences of heins a monarch was that he could no longer use his clubs, lint numbers of his male friends are asked to come to Morlbor ough house, and more thau once, when some very intimate associate of oldcj times is writing his umne at the lodge, the liveried servant will say: "I am desired by His Majesty to telephone when you come in. "Will you wait until I see whether it is his pleasure to see youV" In this way the King keeps in the closest touch with social move ments.--Liverpool I'oaU OOOOOOOOOOOOOOCQOOOGGOOOOO IFARM TOPICS 1 o u DSOSaOOQOOOCOOu OGOOOOOOOQ o How to Attain Success. At the present day every farmer ia compelled to pursue the best and most economic methods in order to succeed. The choicest of everything desired in market that the farm will produce should be grown, and the farmer must use skill as well as labor. Strict busi ness methods must he practiced, and the farm should be made more and more productive every year. Any sys tem of farming that gives a temporary profit while the farm is losing fertility will eventually lead to ruin. Ventilation of the Stables. Ventilation of the staldes is im portant, but how to ventilate without crenting draughts of air is really a problem to. solve. The first thing to consider is to keep the cold out; yet the air that comes in during midwin ter Is often very cold. Au excellent plan Is to have the stalls roomy, open the doors and windows during the warm portion of the day, and close them at night. The draughts along the floors will be partly prevented by abundant bedding. All stables should be whitewashed and made as light as possible. Root Sllcers and Hand Plows. Within the last few years farmers and poultrymen have had within their reach appliances for sliciug turnips, carrots, potatoes, or even for cutting cabbages. These contrivances cut the roots to thin slices, aud the fowls eas ily and readily jfick them to pieces. Such foods, when sprinkled with bran or corn meal, make fine messes for the fowls. Where the fowls are kept in yards one of the most convenient im plements for cleaning the yards, by turning under the top soil, is a liaud plow. It is usually an attachment to the ordinary hand wheel hoe, and will be found very useful in yards where an ordinary plow with horse power cannot be used.—Farm and Fire side. The Ideal Firm Ilor.e. Probably the ideal farm horse best illustrates the kind of animals needed for the farm. A good plow horse or farm horse is a heavy, but not clumsy animal, and one capable of exerting great power and endurance In plow ing or hauling. At the same time the animal must be a fair road horse, uol n trotter, but one that can get across the country roads at a moderate pace. The animal should also be a fast walker, and not a slow, clumsy, mule like creature. Such ideal farm horses are bred now, and to lie found on thousands of farms. No farmer of any progressiveness would think of walking behind some of the old, slow walking farm horses of a dozen years ago. Sueli an animal performs about one-half the work that a model farm horse does in a day.—C. W. Knox, in Massachusetts Ploughman. A Cnlf-VVcnnlng Device. It Is sometimes a difficult task tc wean calves, for some of them will persistently suck the old cow at every opportunity. A device to break up the habit may be made of a board an Inch thick, making the dimensions to suit the head of the calf. The sides should 4— Mr 1 be cut out so that the eyes of the calf will not be obstructed when the board rests against its face. Holes are bored in the board and straps run through them in such a manner that they may be fastened to the halter worn by the calf. Fowls in Winter. Two things are positively necessary to tlio propei- wintering of fowls in confinement. One Is proper and sufii cient food, and the other proper ven tilation. Corn may be considered the staple food, although u variety of grain, as wheat screenings, oats, buckwheat, etc., is highly relished. Especially is cooked food, such as turnips or potatoes, mashed with meal and fed warm, advantageous on cold, frosty mornings. Besides this, give some vegetable food, as cabbage, turnips tops and mangels, for which purpose a supply should have been laid in in the fall, and if eggs are expected do not neglect feeding some meat scraps or bones, clam or oyster shells, broken up, for eggshell material. Ventilation of the hen house, when fowls are not allowed to run out, must be given every day where necessary. It is a wise precaution against many of the diseases fowls are heir to, yet care must be taken not to have a draught of wind upon the fowls, especially when on the perches. It is often the case that fowls are overcrowded, even in winter, and the constant Inhaling of Impurities in the air makes the system more susceptible to disease.—Poultrymnu. | HARD WAY OF THE INVENTOR. Ike Instinctive Hostility of Mankind to lludical Changes. Marconi embarrassed in bis experi ments with wireless telegraphy— threatening the commercial value of the cables—ls simply history repeating itself. Papin, of France, saw his first steamboat destroyed by enraged boat men. Jacquard's tlrst loom was burned by the silk weavers. Har greaves's first spinning jenny was de molished by his fellow-spinners. The London Times building had to be gar risoned with armed police in order to bring out the first steam-printed edition without a riot of hand-press men. The stage-coach people fought the first steam railroad, and the cau dle-makers the first gasometer. Stranger still, scholars and scientists have clasped hands with commercial selfishness to obstruct new inventions. Chancellor Livingston and Daniel Webster both labored to postpone the steam railroad. Sir Humphrey Davy and Sir Walter Scott joined in ridicul ing the discovery of illuminating gas by Murdoch. New war devices hare fared no bet ter. Breech-loading rifles and metallic cartridges were offered to our War Office in 1801, but the Civil War was fought until 1804 with muzzle-loaders, and metallic cartridges were not used till 1808. Fulton devised naval tor pedos in ISO 3, but was laughed at for his trouble, and the first use of the torpedo was in our great conflict. Ericsson's terrible struggle to get his Monitor tried, and the adoption of the ironclad man-of-war years after Its inventor had grown weary of urging it upon governments, are well-known history. And though smokeless pow del- was invented years ago, the Span iards surprised us with it in Cuba and the Boers surprised the British with it in South Africa. What with the commercial interests always alert to save themselves from new things and the instinctive hos tility of mankind to radical changes, the way of the inventor is almost as hard as the transgressor's.—New York World. Tile Troubles of the lilcli. The first point in the condition of the Idle rich which takes the eye of the student is that they are tile victims of circumstances. Like Ihe Idle poor, the idle rich suffer because there is nothing for them to do, but the greater hard ship of the idle rich lies in the fact that they do not seem fit to do anything. Some philosophers have supposed that their leisure qualified them to take charge of the political and economical affairs of people who were at work, and there has been a good deal of po lite regret among us that up to the present time there has been an appar ent purpose of providence to turn out leisure class to account in this way. Wo have seen that under other systems they are turned to account in this way, but their conduct of public business under these systems has not convinced us. It seems to have been mainly in their own Interest, with few escapes from the vicious circle which forms the logic of their lives; it seems to have tended always to the perpetuation of that leisure class which, it was philoso phized, their public employment would practically put an end to.—W. D. How ells, in Harper's Magazine. London's Undermined Houses, Underground London is, no doubt, a very convenient, picturesque, and, when properly confined in tubes, safe enough place, but too much of it be comes awkward. An underground city might prove too much even for the Lord Mayor and the Court of Alder men. And yet a strong disposition ap pears to have seized certaiii parts of the "square mile" to get down below, probably to escape the cold, and they are consequently crackling in an omi nous way. Uneasiness prevails among property owners on both sides of Flnsbury pave ment, owing to gaping Assures which have appeared in many large business premises. Ground floors, upper floors and basements have alike suffered, and in several instances the cracks are said to be most curious. Many of the properties have been recently surveyed, and reports are being drawn up in re gard thereto. It Is supposed that new excavations are responsible for this dis quieting instability. Loudon Tele graph. Wearing Out the Nerves. Many people wear themselves out needlessly; their conscience is a tyrant. An exaggerated sense of duty lends many a person to anxious, ceaseless | activity, to be constantly doing some thing, over-punctual, never idle a sec ond of time, scorn to rest; such are in & unconscious nerve tension. They say they have no time to rest, they Have so much to do. not thinking they are rapidly unfitting themselves for prob ably what would have been their best and greatest work in after years. Self control of nerve force is the great les- • son of health, and therefore of life It self. To understand how to relax is to understand how to strengthen nerves. Hearty laughter Is a source of relaxation, as are also all high thoughts, as those of hope, beauty, trust or love. Relaxation is found in diversion.—London Doctor, Pure Air in Public Schools. Physical culture lin3 been introduced in the elementary schools ot the city. It is hoped that much good will result from it. But physical culture cnu ac complish very little beueflt unless there lie pure air and plenty of room for the little ones. Unfortunately the crowded* ■ j* condition of the schools prevents this in many of tile schools. The need is more school houses.—Philadelphia Times. . V*
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