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The Missouri Bar Msomtion h*« adopted a series of ir^'inmueudstionfl which, if followed, will rwdicslly re- dnce the diroree basiaess iu the Wis- •ouri courts. A New York circus manager has placed at the service of the w,ar de partment twenty-five elephants for the campaign in Cabs. In one way or an other those Cabans, sooner or later, are bound to be given a show. ^ China is to-day the scene of the peatest land-grabbing raids that the world has ever witnessed. At the present rate it will be only a little while until there is nothing left of the indent empire except its great wall and a job lot of musty superstitions. The proverbially dull English Sun day in disappearing under the influ ence of the bicycle. In this country the reverse is the case, declares the New York World. The bicycle has nearly killed Sunday baseball in many Western towns. The State and Federal Fish Com missioners are now engaged in re stocking the Dataware with shad, their purpose being to deposit at least 30,000,000 small fry this season. If kept up a few years this will mean tlu» development of an important industry and the establishment of u reliable source of food supply. Says the New York Post: Atimelyre- buke has been administered by Justice Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, to pettifog ging, or what the Pennsylvania court calls‘“perverted ingenuity.” The oc casion was the filing of an appeal in the case of a man condemned to death on the morning of the day of execu* tion, not a ground of newly discovered evidence, but on alleged errors of the most formal and perfunctory kind, which, had been already passed upon by the lower court in refusing a new trial. It was simply a move for delay, or, in the language of the court, “a flagrant example of the perverted itandard'of professional ethics, which assumes that counsel should help his client to escape the proper conse* quences of his act by any move or de- Tice, short, perhaps, of actnal fraud or imposition. This is a very serious error and apparently becoming more widespread, especially in cases invol- Ting life. The boundaries of pro fessional privilege and professional obligation are clearly defined, and in no way doubtful. Counsel represents the prisoner to defend his rights. In •o doing he is bound to exercise com* petent learning and to be faithful, vig ilant, resolute. But he is at the same time an officer of the court, part of the aystem which the law provides for the preservation o! individual rights in the administration of justice, and bound by laa official oath to fidelity as well to the court as to the client, MARY, KNITTING. When Mary slU a-knUting Beside the cosy lire. Her bending face so happy With motnernood’s desire. It makes the room seem holy, A consecrated place, With Ood's smile in the fire-light That flickers on her face. The clicking of the needles, The crumble of the coals, Make such a quiet music For our two quiet souls! And when the little mother Hpreads out the garments small, The look, the touch she gives it Like saintly blessings fall. We sit until the twilight , Her snowy weaving blurs. And In the creaking shutter A little night-wind stirs. Then Mary's face sinks lower Unto the little gown, Until she seems to kiss it Befoie she lays it down. —Harper’s Bazar. * A FRIEND 1H HEED. -• * Japan’s industrial enterprise con tinues to excite fresh wonder and as tonishment. Without the least exag geration it may be affirmed that this little island empire is entitled to the world’s record for its growth and pro- gross within the past few years. Prior to the recent war between Japan and China, the former country was little-understood iu this hemisphere. Most people labored under the impres sion that Japan was wedded to her Idols, nnd'that progress in the modern ■ease of that expression was wholly foreign to the atmosphere which she inhaled. But even prior to the war which brought her to the front with so much prestige, Japan had seriously commenced to rid herself of her en cumbering superstitions and to borrow western ideas of life. To-day the lo comotive, the telephone, the tele graph and the electric light are mir 1 soles of progress as familiar almost to the Japs as they are to us, who first produced them. From some interest ing data recently compiled by one 0* our consuls to Japan, it appears that the manufacture of matches is exten sively carried on in the kingdom. There are now some forty-five estab lishments iu all, employing not less than 11,000 operatives. Sinee J893 the growth of this industry, although retarded by the recent war, has been phenomenal. In 1896 the value of it* total output Aggregated •1,672,706, and in 1897, $1,706,612. The wide, awake enterprise of the kingdom is ■till farther illustrated in the activity displayed iu its navy yards. At tha present time Japan is engaged in the construction of seven war vessels. If Japan continues to develop at the pres ent rate, there ia no telling what pos sibilities of national expansion lie be fore her. Seaweed la XutgitioRs. Seaweed, though not the diet for as •plcure. Is, when dry. richer than oat- meal or Indian corn In nitrogenous con stituents, and takes rank among tbs moat DUtrlOTW at vegetable foods. / They used to make fnu of him at the office. He was a queer old fellow, with a solemn face and what we thought ridiculously polite ways. He would take ofi' his hat when he came in and say: “Good morning, gentlemen. I trust I see you all in good health this tine day.” And some of the boys would nod — and some wouldn’t do anything; but I never could help standing up and bowing, perhaps because I knew that my mother would have said I ought to do it. And, yon see, it w as gentlemanly of him, I said; and if he was a little creature, with a queer little wig, why, he looked something like a gentleman, too. I said so once to Merrivale, next desk to mine; but—well—I didn’t try it again. You see, Merrivale was up to every thing, dressed elegantly, sneered at everything almost, and I’d come from • country town and he was a efty man. Nobody was down on “Old Dumps” as he was, especially after be made us that speech about our conduct to the ladies. Dumps made the speech you know, and it was Merrivale who had said the lady only came in to look at him. “The man who calls a blush to the cheek of a woman by look or tone must have forgotten his mother,” said Old Dumps. “When that lady asked you a civil question she relied on her belief that you were a gentleman, Mr. Merrivale. When you answered her as you did and spoke to her as you did any one could read your insulting thoughts, Mr. Merrivale; and yon did not even rise from your seat, sir. You proved that she was very much mis taken.” -•r" \ “Mean to say that I an Jet itfcntle- mauV” said Merrivale, ft. 'In this instance, Old Dumps, “you certainly have not con ducted yourself as one should.” “Mr. Dumps is right this time,” said I. “Bah!” said Merrivale. “You’re from the country.” “Thank heaven for it, then, my young friend,” said Dumps, as he sat down. After that Merrivale was never even half way civil to Dumps,and the boys followed Merrivale’s lead. But I liked the old fellow. When we met in the street I’d take off my bat and shake hands and say some of those polite things that mother used to tench me to say. And I wrote of him to mother,und she said she was glad that her boy knew what was due to u good old gentleman. Sometimes, when I lived at Hare- dale with my mother, I’ve sefcu the sky beautiful and bright and blue one hour and the next black with the clouds of a thunderstorm. Just that way my trouble came tome—an awful trouble—such as I could not have dreamed of. I had written to my mother that I was doing well and liked my business, and would be clown to see her Sun day, when I was sent for to go into the inner office; and there—I can’t go through with it—I can’t even remem ber details; but I was charged with being a thief. You’d have to understand our par ticular business, as well as bookeep ing, to know how I was supposed to have done it; but they believed I had Jobbed them of $500. They urged me to confess. I was innocent, and I said so. Then they told me they did not wish to be hard on me. I was young. The city was a bad place for boys. They would be merciful and only dismiss me without recommendation. All I could say had no effect They proved me guilty be fore they accused me, they said; and at last I staggered out into the office. The boys were getting ready to go home. I saw they knew what had happened. ~ * “None of yon believed this of me?” said I. “None of you who knew me?” Ami Merrivale said: “Look here,Forrester; you’re lucky to get off so.” And Grab said: “I suy, Forrester, don’t talk too much; you’ll give yourself away.” And what with shame and rage and grief, I could have died; when out of his dusty corner came Old Dumps, in his little snuff colored overcoat and held out his hand. “Mr. Forrester,” he said, “I’ve watched you ever since you’ve been here. I know what you are. Yon are incapable of a dishonest act, and what is more, I will prove it before I rest. The man who respects others always respects himself. The man who honors his mother will do no dishonorable thing.” lie took my hand in his arm, and, bowing to the others, walked out into the street with me. I beard Grab and Stover and Carberry laugh,but Merri vale gave a furious look and stood, white to the lips, looking after us. “Mr. Dumps,” said I, “I thank you for your confidence in me. I deserve it-in this, at least; but it saves my heart from breaking under this dis grace. How shall I tell my mother?” “Don’t tell her yet,” said he. “Wait. Others shall think of you as I do soon.” Then he went on in silence. He took mqGo his own room, where he kept bachelor’s hall. He made tea for me and served me with sliced potted beef and thin bread and butter. And it was not until we had done tea that ho said to me, very apologet ically, after I had called him Mr. Dumps: “Mr. Forrester, excuse me, but I am not named Dumps. That is the name by which the young men at the store consider it witty to call me. I confess I could not see the wit, but it rather hurt them than me. 1 saw by your manner that you had made a mis take. My name is Adams." I was so much ashamed of having used the nickname,innocently as I did it, that I could have cried. But my old friend comforted me. One day he came to me, flushed with triumph, and took botli my hands and shook them hard, and said: “My dear boy, it’s ali right. I’d watched before and had had a clew. ; Your character is cleared. The firm welcomes you back with regrets that j they should have suspected you, and : the real oulpit is found. The real cul- pit is Merrivale, and Stover is his m- complice. ” Ami so it really was. They had doctored my books and meddled wjth my proofs. I went back to my situation and I’ve got ou well ever since; but there’s more of my story. Think of my dear ‘ Old Dumps turning out to be my unde—my mother’s own brother—and neither «f us guessing it. Long ago other people had quarreled and so separated these two, who were always friends. Think of the little man in the shabby wig and coat proving to be quite rich and going down into the country to live with his sister for the rest of his life. Jn vacations and holidays I go to see them. They are happy together, and the little table is set with the old china, and there is potted beef and jelly, and I’m pfitted like a child. And in my uncle’s room the miniature of the young lady hangs on the man tle-piece as it did in his lodgings. And once he told me its sweet, sad story and I knew why the quaint, old man in the office had a more true and tender gallantry to women, and m bs a braver friend and more perfect gentle man than the young fops who grinned at him from the high stools between his desk and the window and gave him the q^ckunme of Old Dumps. A VETERAN’S REMINISCENCES, PENMAN’S WONDERFUL FEAT. An Australian AU<lr«**s<-* Knvelnp*** Both Hands at Same Time. Wrapper writing is, it would seem,' a popular way of earning a livelihood with the inmates of Rowton house, London, a siifpauny hotel. Hero is an amusing story of the perfection to which it may be brought by practice and a strong will. “There is a tradition lingering among the elder brethren of the wrap per writing profession to the effect that once upon a time when the work was better paid than now, a young man from Australia turned up and ventured as a last resource into their sphere of tabor. He spent his all and found himself stranded until funds should arrive from the antipodes. So on the suggestion of un acquaintance, he applied for a job at the world-famed firm of Schmidt k Co. On being duly installed and supplied with 500 en velopes and some pugeif from a direc tory he looked around and asked for a pen. “‘But yon have one already,’ said the young man iu authority. “ I want two,’ said the Australian, and au obliging fellow scribe supplied his need. The scene which thereupon ensued battles description, for the col onial. separating the pile of envelopes into two equal lots, begun copying the addresses by writing simultaneously with both hands. So runs the legpnd, at least, and, furthermore it is averred that his rapidity was such as to put the ‘sloggers’ to shame. Fifty pens dropped from the nerveless grasp of those who but a minute before had b^en Writing against time and as if for dear life. A hundred eyes were fixed in astonishment ou the unknown one. Presently the young overseer who superintended the labors of many old enough to be his grandfather rose and timidly said he would consult‘the governor.’ The tatter arrived, and the situation being explained, tb® Australian was turned into a loose box all by himself and fed with another thousand or so of envelopes. At this rate he earned enough in two or three weeks to enable him to last out com fortably till bis remittances arrived, then he went home and Schmidt’s knew him no more. We asked the old gentleman who told us this yarn to till his pipe and have another cup of tea, for we thought he deserved both.” Cot off Hor Hair to Buy HrriML Recently au east London ^ church worker, in her daily rounds of, visita tion, went to see a woman who was living in the deepest poverty.! While they were engaged in conversation the door was suddenly flung open and a young girl rushed into the room, ex claiming, “They won’t buy it,mother!” The visitor, turning around, noticed that the girl’s head was closely shorn, and in her hands was an abundance of beautiful hair,which she had been un successfully trying to sell in order to procure bread for her motherand her self. Civil War Experiences With Tents of Various Kinds and With Xone. “When we started out," said a civil war veteran, “our regiment had tents famished by the state, just as many ether equipments besides wore in those days at the outset to volunteer regiments, and as I suppose they will be now. Those tents were made to hold ten men each. We had five of them on each side of the company street. They hod a ridge pole sup ported by a centre pole, forming a sort of great T. The tent was drawn over the ridge pole from which it sloped down all around to the gronnd, where it was pegged down. The gnns were stacked around the centre pole. In these tents the men slept, lying like the spokes of a wheel, with their feet toward the centre, though in cold weather they would often lie closer to gether, spoon fashion, to keep warm. With ten men in a tent there was no room to spare. They were made to hold that number and no more, but there was likely to be somebody out on guard duty or away for one reason and another, and so these tents were not always crowded. There was some times a little spare space. It was a mighty little, but as compared with nothing it was room. This spare space when it did exist was variously utilized. In the teut that I was in, with one or two men out, we used the space for a stove which wo built of bricks and some pieces of iron that we got from a dismantled building near where our camp was located, with a chimney of tomato caus, which for some reason we couldn’t get to draw. “When those first big tents were worn out,as they were in afew months, they were not renewed. From the time of leaving the state we had ceased to draw supplies from the state. We had become actually a part of the army and we drew army supplies. When we needed tents we drew from the quartermaster’s department the regulation A tents, wedge-shaped,and about seven'feet square at the base, and made to hold four men, or five on a pinch. I remember ver^jr well the first camp we had with our new tents. We made a new camp ground at a lit tle distance from the old, and pitched tne tents there. They were brand new, of a uniform whiteness, and they certainly did look slick and handsome and businesslike. “We liked these tents better than the old ones. With four men in a tent, in a settled camp, it was possible to build raised bunks for two men each, a bunk on each side of the tent, with a little gangway between,, where you could stand, or put your feet il you were sitting on the edge of the bank. Sometimes with four in a tent the men build separate bunks, one on each side, and two bunks one above the other in the middle. Then there were two narrow gangways and each mau had a separate bed. The beds were narrow, of course, but any sort of bed was a great thing, aud an A tent was as good as a .house. . “There were times when all we had were shelter tents, half’ of a shelter tent beingapiece of cotton cloth abonf six feet in length by three or four feet iu width. Two pieces fastened together made a tent, or rather a shel ter for two meu. Sometimes a man preferred to sleep alone under his own single piece, rigged up the best way he could fix it, so that he could crawl under it. He had to lie straight and quiet to keep under it. And then there were times when men had no tent < at all ,or no chance to pitch them, and when they just simply lay down without shelter and were glad of the chance, but whatever a man might have or he without, he always hung ou to his rub ber blanket.”—New York Sun. l-VtioliMj Tor Honduran. Tons of woven wire fencing, the product of Pittsburg factories, will soon find its way to Honduras, where it will serve to establish boundaries i between the various farms of the in- ^ habitants of Central America and act ! as a deterrent to the roaming of the j southerners’ cattle and sheep. The j order is said to be the first of its kind ever placed with a local concern, and the quantity wanted is reported to ex ceed any former quantity asked for I by a Central American customer. The contract calls for about 5000 tons of the wire product, all of which is to bo shipped withiu three weeks after the placing of the order. The order is the outcome, it is re ported, of a meeting of cattle men, held at San Piedro last January. At this gathering the influential and exten sive owners of cattle and sheep re ported that great trouble bad been ex perienced in keeping the cattjo within the iuclosure. Several of the mem bers of the body said that the warj ones among the animals had lifted tb» rails off the fences and thus estab lished an opening, through which all the other cattle could leave and roam the unclaimed territory to suit theii will. A radical change in the method of fencing was, therefore, necessary, it was decided. —Pittsburg Dispatch. PUadvantage of Wraith. “The possession of great wealth hat been demoralizing to the Osage In dians,” said Mr. C. M. Bass of Okla homa. •■Every year they are getting mort worthless and more unwilling to ex ert themselves in any nsefnl way. There are only 2000 of them, but they own over 1,090,000 acres of fertile land/have $9,000,000 in trust with the goverument, which allows them five per cent, interest, and have lands leased to cattlemen and farmers that bring them in a handsome revenue. Each family of the tribe owus ovei .5000 acres and about $30,000 ir mouey. The Indian isn’t by nature much of a worker, and when he hat such a ‘soft snap’ as these Oeaget have, it is no wonder that he degen erate! into a chronic loafer.” Won’t Bay Show Birds. Do not bny and pay high prices for show birds, particularly if they have been exhibited. The treatment they have had has not been favorable to egg production, and has been unfavor able for producing fertile eggs. They have been forced for size and form, and dosed to induce glossy plumage, until the feathers are worth more than the rest of the bird, excepting for a family dinner. How to Cultivate Artichokei. Answering the inquirer who asks how to plant and cultivate artichokes, Farm, Field aud Fireside gives au ex tract from a letter from a Missouri reader. He says: “I plant them in drills eighteen to twenty inches apart one way aud two feet and six inches the other, and cultivate the same as potatoes. When the hogs root them out through the fall and winter, the ground should be plowed and har rowed in the spring aud left alone, as there will be enough remain in the ground for seed. Should they be too thick, take a one-horse plow and plow up strips, leaving rows from twelve to sixteen inches wide.” Traning. In pruning trees the branches re moved should be sawedjoff close to the main trunk or limb on which they grew. If a long stub is left the wound will not heal over, but remain open subject to the attack of disease germs, which, when they have once gained entrance, are sure sooner or later to produce “black heart,” which may extend through the whole tree. In cutting back small brasiches or “leading-in” the cut should be made just above a good strong bud so that no stub is left to die back and invite disease. All large wounds should be painted over to prevent “checking” and to keep out germs while the healing pro cess is going ou. When smaller branches have been removed or cut back, it is well to spray the whole tree with Bordeaux mixture, which not only prevents germs from enter ing the wounds, but also checks their growth on other parts of vie tree.— John W. Lloyd, , j Dehorning Cattle. The saw was first used , iu dehorn ing and I always had &u*aversion to its use, but when the knife came I at once had my herd dehorned. Then I commenced the use of chem icals on my calves to prevent horn growth, and for years have had no horns except in cattle we have bought or where we made a partial failure in stopping their growth. With neither kuifa nor the use of chemicals can there be any charge of cruelty or causing suffering any more than clipping a lamb or pig’s tail, which everybody believes is right. I have never had any special trouble with horned cattle, but the dehorned ones are so much more peaceable that, especially in a new country where ac commodations for stock are so lim ited aud so much more crowding necessary, that I very much prefer the hornless ones, they housing together under the shed or drinkiug at the trough as closely as hogs. I would strongly advise that no horns be allowed to grow.—J. M. Bice. InTertlouit Dineasrs Among Poultry* Dra. Smith and Moore of the bureau of animal industry, Washington, D. C., have made important investiga tions on above subject. They find that “black head” in turkeys, diph theria, cholera and roup in fowls are contagious. They also believe that so-called roup, influenza and some times cholera are different stages of the one disease—diphtheria. How ever this may be, it is stated that diphtheria is infectious, and it may be transmitted to children. Therefore, the great importance of separating all sick fowls and confining, them to some ontbuildiug, keeping the children away. Doctoring sick fowls is very unprofitable business, and there is seldom any reason why the fowls should be sick, provided you have done your part. Your part is to keep the roost clean and free from lice. Give clean water daily. Fill up all low places where water is apt to col lect and clear away all rubbish—burn ing it is the proper thing. Furnish good sharp grit for the fowls, and don’t get the poultry so fat that the organs will be so clogged that they cannot perform their normal duties* Make the roost tight and dry and pro vide convenient dusting places. Make the fowls exercise by scratching in litter. In fact, this 'last point amf clean, fresh water will go a long way toward keeping the fowls in good health. There is no kind of stock on the farm that is more healthy than fowls when they have proper care. Too many people try to crowd 100 fowls into a small house. This not only lessons the number of eggs, but is apt to breed disease as well. The fowls in the centre of a crowded perch will get too warm, and there for® colds will follow. A house twenty bv thirty feet is not a bit too targe for 100 fowls. The proper way is to di vide the fowls up into smaller flocks of say twelve to twenty fowls each,and separate them during cold weather at least—Agricultural Epitomist Pegging Down Plant*. , Aq admirable way, according to Vick’s Magazine, to glow most any of the hybrid perpetual roses is by peg ging them down in the garden. Plants grown in this way furnish many more flowers than when raised in the regu lar way. The young sho&ts of each season’s growth are pegged down in the fall by the use of small sticks placed often enough to keep the branches fastened solid. In laying the branches down, leave none nearer than eight or ten inches; after a bush has been pegged down for several years the space will become crowded, aud then the old wood can be cut away to give room for the new branch es. The new shoots should never be pegged down when iu a growing condition, but when the wood has ripened off and become dormant in the fall is the proper time to do the work. Should it happen, as it sometimes does, that some of the old wood must be left, because too few new shoots h&T3 grown to take its place, the old wood should be pushed back to two eyes or buds on each branch; the shoots will then start out iu .the spring,making new wood for blossom ing. The reason for this pegging down* process is this: The rose bush has a latent bud at every joint of the plant, which is only waiting for a good chance to grow and produce blossoms; planted in the ordinary way only those at the top of the bush have much of a chance to develop, but when laid down every one of the latent buds will stand au equal chance with every other in the distribution of the sap, moistpre and sunshine and few of them will fail to grow and bloom. A bed of roses grown in this way presents a grand appearance, as the surface of the soil is nearly hidden by the foliage, above which the lovely roses are growing thickly. These bushes need enriching often, as they are being forced so hard, and a good dressing of well- rotted stable manure is almost a 1 necesity every fall. Some of the shoots that have become covered with earth will root,especially if the branch becomes partially broken or hurt in layering. Natuue, in her effort to heal the place, will callous it over and then roots are quite likely to form. “* ' 1 Weak Colonies. Many colonies will be reduced down very weak from coming through the winter. It is very desirable to save every colony that is in a healthy condition and that hare good qneenff. We can very materially help out such colonies by giving them some atten tion at the right time and in the right manner. A weak colony will always do better in a small space, aud this can be arranged by fitting a board down in the hive, one on each side of jnst the number of combs the bees can occupy, thus coutracting the space, with these division boards. Weak colonies may thus be tucked up iu small quarters', aud surrounded thoroughly with warm protection so as to confine as much heat as possible, and in this shape, with good food at their disposal, it is surprising to see how rapidly they will build up and need more territory to accommodate their increase of business. Strong colonies may be drawn up to strengthen weak ones, and this is very frequently done at almost all seasons of the year. It is done by taking a frame of brood bees, or brood without bees, from a strong colony aud giving it tj a weak one. It has been found, however, that to do this iu early spring proves more of a detriment generally than to allow the strong ones to keep what they have. Iu building up in springa strong colony will rear more brood alone than both colonies if the brood is divided, the One being a weak colony. It is only by good management that we can get weak colonies built up strong by the time the honey season is on, for if they are not strong at this time, it will be at the expense of the honey crop that they will reach their fullest capacity. A good, fertile ’queen is capable of producing enough bees in a very short period to make an immense colony of bees, but she is altogether governed in this respect by the number of bees in the hive, and she lays only the number of eggs that the bees are capable of taking care of. She occu pies just the amount of brood combs that the bees cover well, and in this she does not venture too close to the outside line, and as the number of bees increase and more space on the combs is occupied, she extends her territory in laying eggs. A queen bea is .capable of laving 3000 eggs in a single day under * the most favorable circumstances, so that if 35,000 bees are a good colony she could prodnee it in twelve or fifteen, days, if it were not the ease that she is governed by being thus limited.— A. H. Duff. A canal thirty yards wide and firt yards deep would not carry off one fifteenth of all the water that run through the water-pipes and sewers 0 Berlin, or oqe-ninetieth of London.