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- Berlin, Much 10. ? The Tsge
bUtt to-day userti that the oon
V Hbtton prevails in government
circles in Russia that war with
England la inevitable, aa a re
l^'nKof the preaent Japaneee war.
l Russia is actively preparing to
r strengthen her defences on the
Baltic coast The minister of
^ marine has asked the inhabitanta
of the Finnish inland Kallin to
" leave the entire island to be pre
* pared for fortifications.
Prince Uchlomsicy, the Csar*s
confidential advisor, is qnoted as j
saying that a Russian attack on
EMK
India is imminent.
Chinese Neutrality.
* Paris. March 10. ? It* is official
ly confirmed that the Russian
ambassador at Pekin has enter
ed a protest against the massing
oTChinese troops on the Man
churian frontier, claiming thatj
this would endanger the main
of Chinese neutrality.
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ffifinr of BawU to Help
i ling the War Fund.
8k. Petersburg, March 10. ?
/ The Csar has contributed two
hundred million rubles the war
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A Good Start.
St. Petersburg, March 11. ?
The Russian torpedo boat flotilla
? ..left port Arthur at broad day
light this morning and. attacked
: the Japanese fleet One Japan
-eee torpedo boat wae ~*unk and
? one Russian torpedo boat de
stroyer, the BespOshtchadni,
was sunk. The fate of the lat
v ? ter's crew is not known.
Admiral Makaroff inaugurated
his assumption of the command
of the Russian fleet at Port Ar
thur by a complete change of
tactics. As soon as be appeared
he ordered the removal of the
> Battleship Retvisan, which was
. stranded at the mouth ot the
harbor and barred the channel
at oertain stages of the tide, ma
. king the egress of battleships
Impossible. This ? morning he
directed a sortie of the torpedo
boat flotillo, supported by part
of the Russian squadrop, against
the Japanese.
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Washington. March 11. ? Ben.
ator Tillman was much more un
comfortable today then at any
time during his illness, though
his condition was not necessarily
worse. His throat is distressing
him greatly and the suffering is
most acute. The physicians again
today found it necessary to lance
ft and the indications are that
another suoh operation will be
necessary tomorrow as a second
abeoess appears to be forming.
* Still the physicians see no cause
for apprehension and believe
careful treatment and patience
will insure relief. They think
that in short time Senator Till
man will have recovered suf
; ficiently to enable him to go
south to recuperate.
national Fraternal Union.
The candidates who have been
nominated for the monument
committee are as follows:
TREASURER.
L E Cayoe, Hopkinsvllle, Ky.
B. W. HIH, Delmsr, Del.
J. E. Denton, Chsrlotte, N. 0.
. Win. M. Everhart, Wheeling,
V W. Va.
1 F. Cooke, Dover, Del.
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FINANCIAL SBCRKTARY.
W. A. Schrock, Camden, 8. C.
J. 8. Love, Carrifille, Ky.
J. E. Tall, Ltard, Del.
Dr. Thos. D. Cook, Wilming
ton, DeL
CORRESPONDING 8ECRRPTARY.
J. B. Burkholder, Martins
burg, W. Va.
. John T. Dise, Tangier, Va.
Charles W. Dempster, Butte,
Montana.
W. A. Vesa, Athens, Ga.
F. C. Murray, Richmond, Va.
J. I*. Cannon, Camden Del. ,
The treasurer to serve three
years. Financial Seoretary to
serve two years, and the Corre
sponding Seoretary to serve one
year from January 1, 1004. One
officer to be elected each year
thereafter.
The Treasurer shall be custo
dian of the monument fund, and
shsll give such bond in a guar
antee company as may be advised
by the board of directors.
The Financial Secretary shall
receive all contributions for the
fund and turn the same over to
the Treasurer monthly. He must
also give s bond in a guarantee
company.
The Corresponding Secretary
shall contract for all monuments,
have them shipped and delivered
for erection, keeping a complete
record of each transaction. He
will not be required to give
bond.
Each olticer shall perform such
other duties as may from time to
time be deemed necessary for
the good of this department.
For the first term the honors
of the tfffioe shall be all the com
pensation allowed.
VOTE, the polls are now open.
Cut out the blank ballot which is
on the last page of the Advocate.
Vote for your choice of the can
didates by writing their name on
the ballots and send the same to
the Supreme Secretary.
The "polls" will remain open
until the last day of March. You
can vote any time until then, but
the sooner the better, so send
in your vote at once.
When the ballot is received
the same will be recorded and
your name will be place upon
the monument list On the last
day* of March the ballots will be
turned over to the Supreme Pres
ident who will count them in the
presence of two witnesses and
declare the three candidates re
ceiving the largest number votes
elected. Immediately thereafter
the successfal candidates will be
notified and shall qualify and
take charge of the monument de
partment at once.
Each vote and a report of the
whole proceedings shall appear
in the April issue of the
Advocate.
The voters shall pay the 25
cents contribution to their local
secretary with April dues. The
local ~ secretary shall forward
same to the Financial Secretary
and the Financial Secretary
shall turn same over to the
Treasurer, each officer obtaining
a receipt from the receiver.
After the first 25 cents contri
bution there shall be no more un
til a death occurs, then each
member shall be notified and an
other contribution shall be levi
ed and a like levy shall be made
for each death occurring there
after or at least often enough to
keep a sum of $100 at all times
in this fund.
No member shall be compelled
to pay into this fund but no
member not a contributor shall
toe entitled to its benefits.
This department shall not af
fect or Interfere In any way
with the Class A, B or Funeral
| departments, but shall bs separ
ate and distinct therefrom.
Had we been opentug this
feature from the tagtaatof (or
er three years ago) the onet to
members would not here exceed
ed 25 cents each sad we oould
have erected a $100 monument to
each of oar deceased members
and have half the money as a
surplus yet in tne fond.
It Is hoped and expected that
each member of the order will
hare their names enrolled at
onoe. It is certainly cheap* ef
fective and beneficial* Look ov
er the list of candidates and send
in your ballot at onoe to the
National Fraternal Union, Mur
ray, Ky. ? Fraternal Advocate.
?He Oftended the Empress.
The Veri trine were boys of
-enormous wealth end power.
Paul held a high office at court.
One night, glittering with jewels
and orders, the young prince,
who wag one of the handsomest
of men in Russia, danced in a
quadrille opposite the empress
As she passed him in the dance
fancied that his eyes scanned
her gross figure with covert
amusement. After the quadrille
she beckoned to him, and, with
a smile handed him her tiny
ivory tablets, containing seven
pages, one for each day in the
weeir. On the first was written:
"The Imperial ball-room St.
Petersburg." On the last: "The
mines, Siberia."
He read it, his face grew gray
aa that of a corpse, bowed low*
kissed her hand, and withdrew,
"taking, " says the old chronicle,
"his wife, the beautiful princess
of Navgorod, with him. He was
heard to say as he left the ball
room: 'My minutes are number
ed; let us not lose one.'"
Flight or resistance was im
possib\e. The hold of Catharine
on her victims was inexorable
as death. Prince Vetitsin was
forced to remain passive in his
palace while each day the power,
the wealth, and the happiness
that life had given him were
stripped from him.
First he was degraded from
all his offices at court; next, his
estates were confiscated by the
crown; his. friends were forbid
den to hold any communication
with him; his very name, one of
the noblest in Russia, was taken
from him, and be was given that
of a serf. Then his wife and
children were driven out of the
palace to herd with beggers.
"On the last day,*' says the
record, "- Paul Veritzin, in rage
and barefooted, chained to a
convict, %ade an eternal farewell
to his home and departed to the
dark and icy north. He was seen
of men no more." ? Life of
Prince Veritain.
Cotton Delivery 1890.
Among the resolutions adopted
by the National Alliance at St.
Louis was the following:
"That cotton producers be ad
vised not to contract any debt in
the future that will obligate
them to deliver their cotton on* a
given day, sooner than the 25th
day of December." ? Southern
Farmer, March, 1800.
This is as good advice now as
it was then ? Ed.
If th? negro** were qualified to rule
the southern whites 84 years ago. whj
is npt Booker Washington, highest
representative of his raoe, a suitable
person for vine president on ths Re
publican ticket? Will tha Republican
newspapers of the north please tell us
why he Is not qualified ; why the ne
groea with suoh a representative,
should not be reoognixed; why ths
door of presidential hope should bs
longer dosed to them by the party
they bars so faithfully supported
even to their andologf
White Knight cigar, a -splendid
smefce, oall for them at the Oaaiden
Drrg Company, and lake no other.
Chicken Column.
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BffoEatlnf.
There is no way of caring hens
from eating eggs, but to prevent
them -my mechanical means is
easy* A nest with a double bot
tom, the npper one inclined so as
to allow the egg to roll to the
lower one answers well, but the j
haoit.is one that is easily acquir
ed, ami is a lasting one. Hens
learn it by being in the presence
of broken eggs, but they rarely
break eggs themselves until so
taught. If the nests are arranged
as to keep the eggs out of their
reach, they will forget the habit
if fed liberally with meat for
a white, but the safest plan is to
cut omthe heads of such fowls
beforwthe habit becomes general
with pe flock. ? Exchange.
?. Vertigo.
4KJne of my early pullets that j
u laying quite steadily during
the nice days of fall, quit, but
still goes to the nest. Her head
Is ben^Tback, and she keeps it
from side to side, and
look wild. I took her
test, and she ran a few
~ then fell. Some dsya
,rs all right. J. M."
is troubled with ver
hy an undue flow of j
head. ~ PoMTbiy you'
are feeding too high, aud giving ]
too much corn to eat. Some
times this trouble wears away
without medicine, and by a
change and reduction of food.
Give four grains of bromide of j
potassa every second day- and
between times a pinch of epsom
salts to physic. Hold the bird's
head under a faucet so that the
cold water will fall heavily. If
this treatment does not cure,
bleed one of the veins under the
wings. _____
z Poet Notes.
If you wish strong ohioks, never set
eggs from so unmatured pullet.
When ben* have free range with
their brood*, e tucks are seldom trou
bled with lice.
It Is s frest error to live s hen more
ohicks In early winter then she osn
hover well at night. Too few ohloka
are better than too msny any season.
To produce the largest and
best geese for market, cross the
Touloure gander with the Emb
den goose
Look out for heavy showers.
A little rain will not hurt the ]
chickens, but they should have
convenient shelter from heavy
showers.
The poulterer who has all the
milk he can use has at his hand
one of the finest egg-producing
and flesh forming foods that
nature provides.
Set few eggs under the hen in
cold months. Nine is good num
ber for ordinary size hen. Eleven
may be given large hen, but
never more than eleven in Feb
ruary and March.
A few small lumps of coperas
put in their drinking water is an
excellent tonic and appetiser,
and if a box of broken bits of
charooal be kept within reach,
much bowel aerangement, the
result of indigestion, would.]
doubtless be prevented. Fowls)
and all lower animals have a
natural instinot suggesting pro
per remedies fbr their various
indisposition, and as a rule it
seems better to place simple
remedies within their reach then
to begin dosing them indiscrim
inately.
FARM CLIPPINGS.
The Hones (or the Farm*
Farmers can nee draft horses
with greater economy in their
business when they adapt their
farm implements to the capacity
of heavier teams. They seem to
forget or fail to consider the
value ot the team is in exact pro
portion to its weight, if the large
team is equally well propor
tioned with the lighter, for plow
ing, harrowing, reaping, mow
ing, and all heavy hauling, if
they ouly adapt their implements
to the greater weight of their
teams. If the team weighs 1,000
pounds per horse, the plow may
cut 18 inches and the harrow
20 feet, the mower and reaper
in proportion, as well as for the
1,000 pound horses to use the 12
inch'plow, and other tools in pro
portion, a heavy team may as
weii plow four acres as a light
one two and one-half.
A good draft horse can be
raised to 1,000 pounds as quickly
and as cheaply as a grade steer
of the same weight, and will sell
on the same market for 2i times
the price, and as promptly; will
pay his own way from two years
old on the farm. It is now too
late in our experience to say that
such horses are not salable at
'any time for cash. There is none
left in any community where they
have been offered for sale. No
market in America has ever been
supplied with them; 1,600 pound
sound horses of any breed will
bring $200 in any State m this
country at this time. The de
mand for them will increase in
ggpportion to the increase in
railroads and genoral commerce
forever. ? Western Agriculturist.
To Tell the Age of Cattle.
A heifer has no rings on her
horns until she is two years of
age, and one is added each year
thereafter. You can therefore
tell the age of a cow witn tolera
ble accuracy by counting the
rings on her horns and adding
two to the number. The bull has
no rings, as a rule, until he is
five years old. To tell his age
after that period, add five to the
number of rings. The best way
to tell the age is by the teeth,
which is of course the only way
with polled cattle. What are
called the milk teeth gradually
disappear in front. At the end
of three years, the second pair of
permanent teeth are well grown,
at four years the third pair, and
at five the fourth and last pair
have appeared, and at this time
the central pair are full size. At
seven years a dark line, caused
by the wearing of the teeth, ap
pears on all of them, and on the
central pair a circular mark. At
eight years this circular mark
appears on all of them, and at
nine years the central pair be
gins to shrink, and the third at
| eleven. After this period the
age can only be determined by
the degree of shrinkage gone
rally. At fifteen years the teeth
are nearly all gone.
O. J. Farmer.
The farmer must be more equal
to his surroundings. We have
seen, says the Iowa Homestead,
farms upon which were thorough
bred horses, cattle and swine ?
but common fowls. It is not in
keeping. If a thorough bred cow
will give more milk and butter
than a poor grade, is it not con
sistent to suppose that a through
bred hen will lay more eggs and
give a better quality of meat?
I What is true in one case is true
in the other.
The Whits Knight; no smoke to
compsro with it. For sslo st the Csm
den Drug Company. Trjr them, sn<l
| ho oonrinoed.
A Mm? Trick.
I witnessed a mean trick one
night last week. I wm return
ing home at i a.m. iron a prayer
Meting in Brooklyn. There was
a Brooklyn -newspaper man with
me. We were pasirag through
a very quiet 4nrii street, With
rows of stately %rtdk houses on
either side of the way. You
couldn't tell one from the other.
They were Identical in their out
ward looks, and these were no
numbers visible.
? ? Ah, * * said my journalist friend,
"this is judge Jones* club night.**
"Why do you make that un
provoked assertion?" I inquired.
"Because he lives in this row,
and I see nis sign out. "
"His sign? What do you
mean?**
"Look at the gate under the
stoop of his nouse. You remark
a fluttering scrap of linen tied
to the bars? Well, that's put
there by the servant that the
Judge may identify his own
house when he returns home in
the small hours loaded to the
muzzle."
"That's an infallible'?scheme, "
said I in enthusiastic admiration
| of this device.
"Infallible?** repeated the
waggish Brooklyn journalist.
"Don't be so sure of that. Wait
till the thing has stood the test
of time.**
And with that be dtffifberatety
untied the linen signal and, walk
ing two doors down, tied it to
the area gate of another house.
"What did you do that for?" I
asked, as he hurried me away.
"To convince some people that
they are not so smart as they
think themselves," said he, with
a chuckle.
"But the Judge may be shot
for a burglar. "
"That will be no irreparable
loss. There are fifty persons
anxious to fill his plsce. Offices
never go begging in Brooklyn,**
said the hardhearted Jester.
I have been watching the pa
pers for an account of the acci
dental shooting of a Brooklyn
Judge, but- not a line has ap
peared. I wonder how the Judge
got out of the scrape, anyhow.
I should like to have his story of
his adventures of that early
morning, but of course I would
not dare to ask him.? New York
Star.
Matrimonial Catechism.
What is marriase?
Marriage is an institution for the
blind.
Why do some people never marry ?
Because they do not believe in di
vorce.
Wheu a man thinks serio??ly of mar
riage whafhappens?
lie remains singl*.
Does a girl ever think of anything
but marriage?
Only that, and how to get married.
Kbould a man marry a girl for her
money?
No. But he should not let her be
come an old maid Just becanse she is
rich.
Is an engagement as good as mar
riage?
It's better.
How may we tell when a courtship
has progres??ed?
When the man take* to yawning in
the girl's presence.
When two thin people become en
gaged what happens?
They immediately grow very thick,
When a man ?.a? popped the quest iop
has he finished?
No; he has yet to question Pop.
When asking papa, how should ?
young man act?
He should face papa manfully, and
never give him a chance at his back.
Why do?* a bride wear a veil?
to that she may conceal her satlsr
faction. ? .foeeph van llaalte in New
York Times.
Hirscli Bros. A Go's, new milr
liner was secured by them from
the firm of J as. O. Johnson, of
New York, the largest 9ml most
up-to-date millinery house in the
United States. Bhe will arrive
in a few days, and in the mean*
time, their stock of Millinery if
constantly arriving.