Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"UNDER FIRE." le woman behind the preserving pot Is surely deserving of fame: te's not like the man behind the gun. But she's "getting there," just the same, he hero is trying to maim or kill. And great is his show of nerve; ut praise should go, too. to the woman who Is using her ?kill to preserve. o time is she wasting in drill or march. Which fits the brave soldier for strife, ut she gathers around her whate'er she'll attack, And then gets to work with her knife, le pares and she cores, and she slices with care 'Tii fingers and muscles are sore; hen. hither and thither in other tasks, She skirmishes over the f oor. le gallantly stands afc the firing line, Unmindful of heat and toii; U flushed in her face ind her fine eyes strained By watching the things that must boil, le spices and sweetens and stirs and skims, Til weary from head to her feet; ut bravely she stands till her work is done, With never a thought o? retreat. se carefully gathers the harvest of sweets Her deft hands have patiently made; he marmalades, pickles, and jellies, preserves. In jars, glasses, crocks are displayed, le works not for plaudits, or chaplets, or praise: Vet. while she no laurels may claim, le w >man behind the preserving pot Is surely deserving of fame ?Tho Commoner. IM PRICE'S WELL. By Charles Mcllvaine. IT - .wOR twentj*-threeyearsof his h" '' oui marT'e^ life Tim Price bad I f si 11iive<i ?n tbe i)ank ?f Eik ' !|}? River. A steep path led from his doorstep to the water, sixty feet below. E> this path his wife and daughters td carried all the water needed in ese years, save when charitable >uds poured their contents upon the ipboards of his cabin roof and bark itters carried the eave-drippings to irriedly placed wash tubs. Twenty-three years of toil for his >men, and Tim Price had not dug a ?Ii! ? "Tim," I asked one day. -when a fair ughter, supple, rosy, breathing hard, ought two buckets of water from e river, "why don't you dig a well?" Tve been tbinkin' about it, Colonel, n goin' to some day, when the boys e home to helo." answered Tim. In a awling tone. 'Thinking about it!" exclaimed his arp-featured, care-worn wife, ending a baby by the open fireside, 'hinking about it! That's what u've been doing ever since we were irried." 'Now, don't git a mad on. Jinny. I'm in* to dig one some time." VIrs. Price gave the burning logs a ove with her foot. "Give me a diprful, Sadie," she said. "My throat as dry as a seed gourd." week later I asked, ' Why don't u dig a well, Tim?" Tim moved restlessly in his chair, flush could make his red face redIt was difficult to tell where Tim's ?e left off and his red hair and whisrs began. "I've been thinkin' abuat . I'm goin' to when the boys are home to help." There was a tinge asperity in his tone. Did you ever hear the fable of 'The rk and the Reapers?' " 'No," he replied, gruffly. 'Well, I will repeat it to you: Once ark had a nest of young in a gramId. While she was seeking food I'or >m the farmer leaned over the fence IL said, 'This grain is ripe. I must E my neighbors to help me cut it.' e young larks were terribly frightfd. When their mother returned 'y told her of the cause of their ire. 'Never mind,' she said, sooth:ly. 'Nothing will happen.' The next day the farmer came with i son, and said, 'My son. the grain is e. We must call our neighbors to Ip us cut it.' Again the young ones, frightened, a their mother. 'Be content, chilfcn,' she said. 'You will not be dished.' On the third day the farmer eximed, as he looked at his grain. 'My L the grain is dead ripe. Our neighps are busy with their own crops, b must get to work at once, and reap purselves.' I'Now, said the mother, 'our time fc come. There is danger. We must lat once.'" hm saw the moral and squirmed, pose tales of yours are like my le's teeth; they ain't real,'' was all I remark he made. Bays afterward, under the provocar> of water buckets, I asked, "Tim, ft yjm eyer hear the fable of 'The QT>rl. tha I)An?A%.r, )' ?) In HUU IUC Avcapotd ; im remained silent, but looked tord bis rifle, then significantly at me. Whenever I had opportunity, I made n's life miserable by oft-repeated >ry, "Tim, did you ever hear the >le of 'The Lark and the Reapers?' " eceivdd answers in all sorts and dees of anger. 'im avoided me. I discovered that ordered the water to be carried at ht, and round the cabin, instead of pugh it to the kitchen. He growled pis daughters if they came into our Isence with mud ou their shoe* or lathing faster than usual. If I Igbt him he headed me off quickly |h some carefully studied comment: pem young larks was a skeery set. tir mother ought to have picked 'em ft then spanked 'em;*' or. "The old [nan lark ought to have stayed about Be and heard fer herself, and not I her young ones gpt scared;" or, Ijy fool knows when grain's fit for Itin'. I reckon the lark knowod, I;'! or, "It was a fool of a lark that Idc her nest in cuttin' grain. She Iht have knowed they'd diskiver it." E his main hold was in, "Larks don't I arytimo, anyway, no time, never." an allusion did lie ever make to moral; but lip winced under it, and Br A/1 nivin nifl nc M|?v? ? ?>?OI I too, puiai.-5U-Wl spring Sunday came. Tho birch Is were burstiug aud toning the sli gray of the brauchrs with melgreen. Bass were leaping in the y and rod-liorsc wore threshing tlie al with their tails, as they struggled * .. I frtil&L.-.. against its swiftness. Sadie was (lipping her buckets in the river. Tim Price and his family sat on the bank, heads one way. like swallows on a rock "Tim." I said. "look at Sadie. Did you ever hear the fable of 'The Lark and the Reapers?"" Tim leaped to his feet. He shook with rage. He looked murderous. He stooped and picked up a stone. Hisr wife grasped him by his throwing urm. He jerked away from her. , "Colonel," he fumed, "if you ever ax me that question again I'll rock .you? rock you out of the country, er I'll shoot you! Blast your lark and reapers?grain, neighbors and grumblin' old [ farmer! He ought to have cut the grain his own self, when it was ripe, an' not waited for help." "That's so, Tinx." said his wife, quiet. ly laying her hand on his arm.. "Thnt's what the CoJonel means, telling his old story?you ought to dig the well your own self, and you'll stop thhikin' about it and get it done. The help can come arterwards." Tim looked at her, then at Sadie, car- ( rying her two heavy buckets up the j bank. He looked at me. A flush of shame overspread his face. He took his wife by the arm and turned her ^ toward the cabin. "Come on, Jinny," he said, resolutely. "Show me where you want the well, an' I'll start digging | it to-morrow. And he did. With pick and shovel: 1 with the boys, girls, and Jinny herself 1 winding the windlass, hauling up dirt,' i ?and, gravel, from sunrise to sunset, he struck water and had the well I walled by Saturday night. "We'll let 1 her stand for the water to settle over Sunday," he said. > I The next morning, before breakfast. 1 he laid his hand on my shoulder and i said, "Come, Colonel. You shall haul the first bucket of water." I We all went to the windlass, and I ' wound up as pure a pail of water as '< ever was filtered through mountai6 < sands. Rosy, laughing mouths tasted it, and happy ohs and aha pronounced 1 acceptble verdict. ' Tim turned a glowing face to me. perhaps made redder by the sun's first peep over the mountain top. "Thar, Colonel," he exclaimed, joyously, "the well I've been thinkin" about these twenty year is done dugged! If you ever say lark and reapers to me agin I'll rock you out of the country, or I'll shoot you. I might be obliged to you, though. I'll h'ist another bucketful au' carry it into the house."?Youth's Companion. >'ew?p?peri and "Style." Dr. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton University, seems not to feel quite as Mr. James does about our newspapers. Talking lately to a representative of the New York Herald about the deficiencies of college undergraduates in writing English, he praised the English of the newspapers as remarkably good. He found it generally terse and clear and to the point, and was surprised that so many reporters, writing s? hurriedlv. wrote so well. It is odd that there should be this disparity of impression between Dr. Wilson and. Mr. James. It must be that they have not read the same papers, or that Dr.Wilson has been reading the editorials and stock market pieces, and Mr. James the baseball and racetrack items. Or perhaps they have, different notions about what writing should be. Dr. Wilson says: "Style in writing is something I do not believe in. It sets a limit to expression and sets a wet blanket on thought." j Mr. James has style, but his power of expression is limitless. Peter Dooley ^ Dunne has style; so has George Ade, sc had the judicious Hooker, so had j Newman, so had Izaak Walton, and Lamb and others. But they expressed themselves and unblanketed plenty of thought. When any competent hand like Dr. Wilson says he doesn t believe * in style in writing it means that he doesn't believe in bad style. "Style" conveys to some minds only the impression of stilts, artificiality, rigidity and hobbles. The way a writer . writes is his style. If he writes much, ? n_' is as sure 10 nave a siyie ui ms ( own as he is to have a voice of his own. He can't help it.?Harper'* Weekly. One on Chief Justice Fuller. Chief Justice Fuller, while driving recently from his country home to town, found that the tire of one of .the- wheels of his buggy was loose and about to come off. He worried along till he came to a little stream, where he stopped his horse to wet the wheel. Driving into the stream and out again he saw that only a part of the wheeel was wet, so he drove in again and out again, and repeated this seesawing backward and forward till a man came along and told him to stop a minute while the wheel was in the water. The negro then took hold of the spokes, turned the wheel around and soon had it wet all over. The Chief Justice looked on in astonishment and said: "Well, I never thought of that." *i U n V* " ranliorl fhrt innn * 'c-Atri n mon j.auu, icj/iicu. iuu man, ovuic uicu ^ just really has more sense than others, anyhow."?New York Press. * The Law of It. 1 The old buck in the story, who * dropped a sovereign in the plate at * church, mistaking it for a penny. * could get no great satisfaction out of 1 the sexton, as will be recalled, but he * was not the old buck to give up easily. ( Accordingly he sought legal advice, 1 with a view to instituting a suit at ' law. s But the lawyer whom he consulted ' was one of those rare and gifted souls 1 who would rather be witty than cich, * or almost anything else for that mat- 1 ter. 1 "Sir," said he at once, "you have ro ' case. You were guilty of contributory { negligence."?Puck. ' I ScoMlu;; Keioriu. 1 It is accepted us a truism among educators that no child can be made permanently good by simply scolding. , The oversco'.ded child is made worse ] by the process, and the overscolded ( politician is equally likely to deterior- , ate, and for the same reason. Even a | good dog will try to earn a bad mime, ( if he has it thrust too often upon him. ( l'robably it would be an exaggerated , statement to say that the essential spirit of reform in this country is the spirit of the scolding parent, but it re- i , scmbles it too often.?George W. Alger, i in the Atlantic. THE 1TEW m " . Whwi 19 LU The revolt of Norway lias naturall; tlonal flag.. As is sbovro*above,, tvIi ??*?? Hoff Vao 1 anH 5. rM I/YT U UI0UWCI, uu^, iivv. M..v. ? j 3, a somewhat unlovely combination the fighting flag of cach country in t est the truck of the mast. No. 4 show before the action of the Storthing. T! the fighting flag, which will appear a ME BIGGEST ELEPHANT TUSK! EVER FOUHD. This is a picture of one of the tw< largest tusks that ever came into th ivory trade. Both came from the sam mimal. l*he specimen here supported by fou Ivory carriers weighs 247 poundi rhink of carrying around to a ver; venerable age a weight of nearty 50 pounds in tusks alone! No wonde that an elephant's neck is so thicl and muscular. One cLs^y about eight years ago ; party of black elephant hunters on i slope of Mount Kilimanjaro saw th animal that was carrying ruese won Jerful tusks arouiid and killed it. Tb pillagers down below were much as tonished when tliey saw four mei carrying the ivory down the mountain They had never seen a tusk before tha was more thau a one-mau load. The tusks were taken to Zanzibar I I IT ! ONE OF THE TWO LARGEST I vhere.they were the talk of the town The bidding for them was spirited, am laturally enough they were purchasec .'or the American trade. Both of then :ame to New York, but one crosset he oceau again and is now in th( British Museum. The heaviest Asiatic tusks that arf mown to have eom<; into the marke veighed 109, 10(5 and 100 pounds. Th< argest tusk of a mammoth yet duj >ut of the soil weighed 173 pounds. So the old animal which was caughi in the side of Kilimanjaro takes the )alm, as far as the records go. in an ;ient or modern times. MARKINGS OH THE SAW. An invention pertaining to compouni :ools of the saw type lias for its objec i design as simple and efficient as th< >rdinary saw and almost, if not quite is cheap, provides means by which th< - .11 ?**" W*^^,ii'r saves much calculation. various angular cuts resorted to in car >entry may be expeditiously and easilj 'ound and marked. The blade Is slml ar in type to the ordinary baud-saw ;xcept that it must have a straight mck and carries a number of inscribed ines to mark different angles, such a? ifteen degrees, twenty-two and one lalf degrees, thirty degrees, forty-fiv< legrees, sixty degrees, etc. Other cor elated information, such as thi imount of rise per foot of run of horl lontal measurement for any of th< ingles within the scope of the saw ii idded. These marks considerably in :rease the sphere of the tool and ren ler it: unnecessary to employ the usua miter when au angle cut is, to be foum ind marked, without in any way ren Jering tlie tool cumbersome or interter [ng with its ordinary use. Moreover the improvement does not add appreci ably to its cost.?Philadelphia Record. Profit From Acre of Strawberries. While there were many remarkabk fields of strawberries in this vicinity the past season none surpassed th< :rop of Oiiver A. Newton. From on< icre G200 quarts of berries wer< picl^ed, vhich netted $503.02. The ber ties were of the Gaudy variety, exten sively grown h-re.?Bridgeville Corre spondence Philadelphia Record. The cotton factories in Lancnshjrt spin enough thread in six seconds to g< round the world. } ' - - ' s .. r.dZi... % RWEGIAU FLAGr S j ! _ tiu??? t ma , na y resulted in a mocKJca^lon of the nnlie Norway ,and Swe/Jen have each its,Pectively, there is alsoe Union flag, No. t of Nos. 1 and 2. This last is borne on b he "canton," or corner, of the flag near- *' s the fighting flag of Norway as it was , ^ he Union i3 now by edict banished from Q s No. 5. ? I U ! CUTS THE THREAD. ? n One of those impressive little inven o tions that makes everyone with anj e mechanical talent laugh at his owu ob- t e tuseness and lack of observation i3 a ^ thread cutter for sewing machines thai , r has just appeared to the credit of n g i. man hailing from Waltham. Mass. Any f one who is at all familiar with a sew0 ing machine must have been impressed r with the multiplicity of attachments ji ? and conveniences that go with a mod b em up-to-date machine, and yet despite 1 the seeming abundance of contrivances n i this fundamental attachment has long p e been overlooked. On the work support b i- table, and extending from the needle- b e hole, there is a thread slot with con a i- verging edges, leading to a thread-cut n a tin? device. ' Tne arrangement 01 nie o i. needle-bole nnd slot is such thnt th?? o t shuttle is securely gripped bo facilitate d the ready cutting of the thread. WheD h It is remembered tli:it the snipping a " ^'t '" i iif bi 1LEPHANT TUSKS ON RECORD. o] pi shears are not always at baud, and j11 I tbat it is not always convenient tc 1 reach the under thread to sever it, the f* 1 i;alue of an attachment that is nevei 1S ! | ! [ J j. i ? lm ail I I I J^ I I r< I 11^ 1 I ? THREAD CUTTER ON SEWING MARHINF ni (.j, misplaced may be appreciated.?Phila ^ delphia Record. rc DINNER CAN IMPROVEMENT. w fr Even the dinner pai! offers the sru fn dent an opportunity to comment upor ^ the evolution that is inevitable ic Cf mail's- handiwork of the present daj a| and generation. The one-time universa kettle bears but slight resemblance sj to the modern adjustable dinner pail fc with its several receptacles to keef u, each of the articles carried in good ^ as well as attractive, condition. An ai example, in which economy of space p, is reduced to a science, is shown here U1 with, the happy thought of a Nev r Yorker. It consists of a casing, opex at the ends, and provided with sliding covers. The interior is divided into i aj t * si ! 3S'8^? : I I / C( 1 tl IMPROVED DINNBB PAIL. - C( , number of compartments, each. com plete in itself, and removable through 5,1 either end of the casing. At one end n there is a small flask td carry the bev- C( 4 erage preferred by the owner. Beyono ' are other compartments or receptacles fl k to hold the fruit and staple vianch 01 \ which constitute the mid-day repast ai ' As each receptacle is complete in it- ct self and practically air tight, there ifl 11 no opportunity for the different articles s Kwftmp miissT or to otherwise lose ^ tlieir original attractive appearance ,( wlien packed.?Philadelphia Becord. 4 n > Sedgwick connty (Kans.) pays $1 h for each coyote acalp. t __ . - ' - t Chicks Fed on Corn Me?l. Wlien chicks are fed on cornmeal, an [o not make it into dough, as it is not mi ufflcient, but with each mess of corn- fe? neal mix fresh milk instead of water, tei md the value of the mess will be in- F reased. Give the chicks a variety of PI eed. as they will eat any kind of seeds v small grain, especially broken wheat, rhe chicks are liable to get wet by 1 Hiding in the milk, although it is ex- Pftl ellent. If this is not the case, the en tiilk wiil become sour and breed disn*e. Mix the milk with cornmeal and tin et the mess be eaten up clean; then thi he chicks will relish it and thrive on gr< lie mixture.?Farmers'^Home Journal. ha spi rid ni? It is better to raise eight good pigs.- ec< ban twelve inferior ones.. There will Th e more money in the former than of i the latter, though they outnumber, thi liem. Quality is more important than th< uautity. laj All troughs and feeding pens should a e kept scrupulously clean. Don't let hei ny food remain after they get through thi rith the food in the trough. It sours, of loulds, and is unhealthy. eai Be sure .ho pigs have a trough for pie ^lemselves that cannot be reached by an he mother or the other hogs. It ap caches them to cat and prevents any Th lirinkage during -weaning. It is a avs elf-weaner.?Indiana Farmer. a wi Rooat and Nest Boxen. A poultry exchange gives the followig excellent plan for roosts and nest oxes: pU "One of the most important arrange- a g lents iu the poultry house is the pro- ' er location'of both roosts apd nest crJ oxes, and the plan here described has ^ een found all that is desirable. Its * dvantages are the placing of the ^ josts low. the chance for a dropping ti0 oar a unuer tue roosis ana rue tocuuon ? the nest boxes where it is quiet nnd ^ ark. a condition quite pleasing to laylg hens. "Make a frame of the desired length q nd of a width so that the nest box fee I ? * ^ 3 ^ b | UC03X AND NEST BOXES COMBINED, ug( ill be twelve inches in the space oc- W. upied by the hen. The side boards me re eighteen inches high at the back leti nd when covered with matched the r.n?Ao nrliinh fi-vtMY* fhft H fAnnin (t Pftr faiuo, U 111CU tuixu I.UW Ufcw^|/*MQ --Dard, it comes even with the floor in tlie ont. Then fasten posts at either end ine ' tbe front ou which the frame com- 1 asing the perches is to rest, fastening wh lis frame to the box frame, which are rings the perches level. The one on ?en side of the board frame is then tha irtitioned off to form the nests, which nul re about a foot square in the clear, poi his plan forms a neat, compact, com- we ined roost and nest boxes, and as it suf placed.away from the wall there is ing ttle opportunity for vermin to infest C . The illustration shows the details hai lainiy, the drawing at the top labeled a s vo indicating the nest boxes, which the re shown in the main drawing by In 3tted lines." mu it Pioterlinsr Timber From Uecajr. nw In a German periodical devoted to top rchitectural and engineering topics, a tra Titer named Nussbaum discusses the tai 2st measures for seasoning timber ger iid for preventing the growth of dry j It *11111 ULLITI uiocaoto lu MU1VM ??. Xlitl al>lo. He points out that for nurner- pai :s reasons it is inexpedient to fell the rar mber when full of sap, and there are pel any objections to the plan which has cer ;en recommended of leaving the felled ^Wl mber for several years in the forest per Clcr it has been cut down, for it is mi] ten exposed to the attncks of various igetable parasites and fungi which )ound in such places. A lie advises that directly the leaves or ab< iw fir needles have been formed onj lose trees which are hereafter to be of tiled in the autumn should be ringed cul ?und by the removal of a wide strip of pig irk. including the sap layer. This Th ould hinder the ascent of moisture the oni the ground- and would cause the are liage to extract from the trunk all are ie sap and liquid particles in the enc 'Ms. Such a procedure, moreover, en- of jIos the wood to dry very rapidly at 'ter l.eing felled, and then the log the tould be at once removed from the .pro Test and stored in a dry situation for 1 se. By emptying the sap vessels in ? lis natural way the attacks both or iimni and vegetable parasites which ey on the juices are avoided.?Trib- ' je-I'V.ruier. ? Thn Quften ISce. ^ The queen is a fair and stately bee, ffering from the workers both in iape and color. She is longer than honey bee by one-third, and !jome- j| hat longer than a drone, but not quite > big around.. y The queen is treated with the great- 4 ;t respect aud affection by the bees. circle of her offspring often surround er. testifying in various ways their ^ iitiful regard, offering her food from ^ me to time, and all of iheiu politely r?K) acking out of her way, to give her a of ear path when she moves over the )inbs. So strong Is the feeling of an{ ip workers for the queen. tJi^t if for ily reason she is removed, the whole ^ >lo?y is filled with consternation and lQ isniay. Her death, wlion it is too iate i tho spiisou to raise another queen, ^ loans the Ji!i;il cxiiucliou oL the . ( i ,s ' 'I""1- , ... . Hie A good queen wnl somet.mes ^ar . om two to three tiions.-iml eggs :i day, jl>0 r nearly, the weight ol' her own body, .,,w ad continue doing it for weeks in sue- ,-01 ?ssion. At the beginning of the season ie quopn lays eggs in the worker celi*. Qn he walks over the combs, puts her fad into earn rpen coll as she conies ? it, as though to discover whether 1 : is occupied or is in fit condition to I frceive an egg. I have often watched in ow fnitlifully she goes about her rn? ;ork, from an observatory hive, for ton n Ufa itv Phe queen only stinga other queens, d seeks only to kill her rivals. She ly be handled to any extent, without ir of being stung. She has also great jacity of life, as well as longevity.? G. Herman, in Massachusetts oughmau. t Rats In the Chicken Yard. never failing remedy for these sts of the chicken yard is not at prest in sight; but a substitute may be >ntioned, a remedy that fails somenes and many times succeeds. It is s: Spread fresh bread with sweet ?ase, such as is saved from frying con and pork. Rats will eat bread read with gilt edged butter, aud they ly like it better, but on the score of >nomy;try. grease spread - liberally." ,en apreuu on lue yrease <niy the phosphoric pastes, aud over is poison sprinkle sugar. Cut ? bread into small squares and ' them where the rats run, a few in place; but not where chickens, or ns, or children will get them. Do s in the evening, having set cans water where the rats may find them jily. In the morning gather up what ices of bread Lave not been eaten (1 bury them. If they have all dispeared during the night, rejoice, rere will be fewer rats around for rhile. In the course of a week make mush of cornmeal. mix the poison fli it crvriritrln <1 liH-lf* ciifrnr ntror fbo ) and hide it awny from them in ne dark places. They will And it (1 eat it. Again rejoice. But do not ice the same kind of dish for rats lecond time in the same place. They i cautious and suspicious. Be more ifty in providing tidbits for them in they are cautious. Now a little ef, again scraps of fish, and then ?ad and grease. Vary the temptan, and they will fall victims to it? illiam R. Cory, Windsor, Conn., in ; Tribuue-Farmer. f t Advantage* of Silage. ?he difficulty of securing succulent id during the dry period of summer, 3 also during the winter season, has ?n met in several ways with varying :cess. But for general feeding upon st dairy farms throughout the Cen-j 1 States corn silage is the most ecomical succulent feed which cart be tained for cows at a season when sture is not available. When fed th other grains so as to make a haired ration, it tends to heavy milk iduction and is always very cheap d. By the use of the siio, green d can be had at less oost than for ling, sinca with the silo corn may be id to a greater extent Professor J. Fraser, of the Illinois Experint Station, states in a recent bulin, No. 101, that in Illinois corn is > best single crop for silage, and nbined with cowpease or soy beanSs feeding value may be somewhat reased. 'he time to cut corn for silage is en fully tasseled, and when the ears > just beginning to show the dents nearly all the grains. It is found .t at this stage the dry matter and trients as well are at the highest nt. If ripe, silage will not settle 11 into the silo, and so will not, be ficiently protected to prevent epoillorn for this purpose is most easily idled by cutting with a binder, using liuge cutcer auu iuigtr nunc iu ia&c bundles without cutting the bands, filling the silo the leaves and stems ist be thoroughly mixed, and after is put in the shock well tramped ct to the wall. After filling, the i six inches should be wet once and mped occasionally for a week to obn a compact layer, which will preve the silage. tecords of the cost of silo filling on leteen different farms in various, ts of Illinois show that the cost iges from forty to seventy-five cents 1 ton, the average being fifty-six its. Of 372 comparisons made besen silage and unsilage milk, sixty cent, were in favor of the sHage ik.?Orange Judd Fanner. A Fig House. l veteran raiser of swine ha3 set >ut raising his animals on the colr plan, somewhat after the plan raising poultry. He has no diffity after the first week when the s learn which house is their own. e pigs are placed on the range with se roionv houses as soon as they old enough to graze. Tlie houses built low and arranged so that the Is are open near the top, using slats heavy material with a wide board the bottom. The back is solid, and re is a good roof which i3 waterof. he ffont is arranged so that the torn board may be removed: it is >ked in place at each end, and over entire front is placed a sloping f, somewiu'; in form like the roof -i rnujc wArvf fnrnichpS H vcru nun. xiiio iuul t,ui ide. :iud with the partly open front I sides, there is plenty of ventilaj. The pigs graze nil they wish 1 then go into the pen to rest or get out of the hot sun. At uight y occupy it very rantfy. sleeping on grass. With the smaller pigs care taken to place the bottom board of front in place and hook it at night, y feeding that is done is given in a ugh at the side of the colony house. i> illustration shows the construcii of these houses, which shou'd be all enough so they may be placed si stone boat or sled and carried lev cover in the fall.?Indianapolis ws. n the early days of steam railroads England, it was customary for an jine driver, when about to cross a d, to give warning of his approach liimvincr a tin horn. , FOREIGN NEWS CATHEfrtNG r, r Four Great Affencfei Formally Cover th* Happening;* of the World. ' Annually the members gather in general convention in New York and elect a board of directors of fifteen members. By common consent the mem' bers of this board are chosen from different parts of the country, so that each important division is represented. They are trained newspaper men, who bring to the discharge of their duties an intimate knowledge of the business and a high sense of responsibility. The board of directors, in turn elect a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary and general manager, an ... ? assistant secretary and assistant general manager and a treasurer, and designate from their own number five members to serve as an executive committee. The world at large is divided, for the purpose of news-gatliering, among four great agencies. The Reuter Telegraph. Company, Ltd., of London, gathers and distributes news in Great Britain and all her colonies, China, Japan and Egypt. The Continental Telegraphen Compagnle, of Berlin, popularly known as the Wol?T Agency, performs a like office in the Teutonic, Slav and Scandinavian countries; and tb? Agence Havas, of Paris, operates in j the Latin nations. The field of the Associated Press includes the United States, the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippines and Central America, as well as the islan&s of the Caribbean Sea. Each of these agencies has a representative in the offices of the others. Thus . ? the Associated Press Dureau in London adjoins the Reuter offices. The telegrams to the Reuter company are written on manifold sheets by the telegraph and cable companies, and copiesare serv*^simultaneously to the Associated'Press bureau, the Wolff representative, the Havas men and the Reuter people. A like arrangement obtains in Paris, Berlin and New York, so that in each of these cities the whole panorama of the day's happenings: passes under the eyes of repres^tatives of each of the four agencies. But the scheme is much more elaborate than even this arrangement would indicate. Operating as tributary to the great agencies are a host of minor agencies?virtually one such smaller agency for each of the nations of importance. Thus in Italy the Stefani Agency, with headquarters in Rome, gathers and distributes the news of ? . Italy. It is the official agency, and. to it the authorities give exclusively all governmental information. It is controlled by Italians, but a large minor ity of its shares are owned by the Agence Havas, of Paris, and it operates in close alliance with the latter organization. % Thus, if a fire should break out in Milan, the Secolo, the leading newspaper of that city, would instantly telegraph a report of it to the Stefan! Agency at Rome. Thence it would be telegraphed to all of the other Itaiian papers, and copies of the Secolo's message would also be handed to the representatives, in the Stefani headquarters, of the Reuter, WolT, Havas and the Associated Press agencies. In like fashion, if the fire should happen in Chicago, the Associated Press would receive its report, transmit it to the American papers, and furnish copies to the representatives of the for eign'agencies stationed in tne i\ew York'office of the Associated Press. Of the minor agencies the most important are the Fabrl'Agency, of Madrid; the Norsky Agency, of Christiania; the Swiss Agency, of Berne; the Svensky Agency, of Stockholm; the Corresponded Bureau, of Vienna; the Commercial Agency, of St. Petersburg, and the Agence Balcanique, of Sofia. But the Associated Press is not content to depend wholly upon these official agencies. It maintains its own bureaus in all the important capitals, and reports the more prominent events by Its own men, who are Americans and familiar with American newspaper methods. These foreign' representatives are drawn from the ablest men in the service, and the offices they fill are obviously of great responsibility. They must be qualified by long training in the journalistic profession, by, familiarity with a number of languages, and by a presence and bearing " ' vi?. 4-v.om mincrlo with WHICH WHl euauic un.ua ? men of the highest station in the countries to which they are accredited.? From Melville E. Stone's "The Associated Press," in the Century. Motor Car Sneak Thieves. The increasing number of robberies of motor cars is1 a matter which demands the attention of every manufacturer to provide a remedy. An ordinary sneak thief who would steal# a" horse and buggy could not even be suspected of stealing a motor car for the simple reason that he wouldn't know how. The motor car thief is usually a worthless chauffeur or discharged mechauic who has picked up his knowledge of handling a car whilo honestly employed. He may never have driven a car of the same make as the one he steals, but he can learn very quickly, even while he is running away with it. To put it out of the """ w "f such rascals to steal a car should only require a simple locking contrivance, say to the pedal clutcli, the key of which the owner could carry, in his pocket when he leaves the car at the curbstone. The words "cannot be stolen" would make a good addition to an advertisement.?Motoring and Boating. JoarnallsU a* Bull-Fighter*. The scribbling cricketer is being outclassed by Spain. A bullfight is being organized at Pampeluna, in which the whole body of matadors, picadors and banderiilos will be selected from journalists on the staff of the Heraldo, the> Imparclal and other papers. Somo vivid and picturesque copy will no doubt result from this novel form of corrida. It is to be regretted, however, that the impressions of the chief actors in the performance?the bulls? cannot be given to the public.?London Chronicle. At At La*t! A mnn who is always on the lookout for novelties, says the St. James' Budget, recently asked a dealer in automobiles if there was anything new in machines. "There's a patented improvement that has just been put on the market," replied the dealer. "A folding iiorsaibat fits unde^ the .peat."