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SEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY Famous Georgian Who Uttered a True Prophecy. Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill Predict ed That His Attack on Mahone Would Be HI* Last Speech. By E. J. EDWARDS. With the possible exception of Alex I "*"'? ? H. Stephen?, ylce?pre6ident of i the confederacy, no othor statesman ol ; the south who entorod congress durin?; ; the reconstruction ora so greatly iu-; terested both members of congress and | visitors to the capitol as did old Hen- ! jamln Harvey Hill of Georgia. First , as a representative and then as a son- I ator, ho was especially conspicuous be cause ho was tho member of the state convention of Georgia In 1801 who ! oarnostly opposed tho proposed seces sion of that state. After Georgia se ceded, however, Mr. Hill gave his earnest support to tho cause and be came a member of the confederate sen ate, whero ho met Georgo G. Vest of IfilsBouri, who served us a confederate senator before he became a United States senator from Missouri. Veto ran members of congress of the seven ties and early eighties who remember ed John C. Calhoun thought they de tected a strong physical resemblance between Senator Hill and Calhoun. at least in the contour of tho features, the heavy over-hanging oyebrows and the stiffly brushed hair. Undoubtedly the greatest speech that Senator Hill delivered during his congressional carrer, which began in 1876, and ended Beven years later, was that In which he vigorously attacked Senator William Mahone of Virginia for his unexpected alliance with tho Republicans, a movo that brought about a tie, Instead of the slight Dem ocratic majority which had been an ticipated. -4f Senator Hill sat in the front row, on the aisle, of the Democratic side. Sen ator Mahone had been alloted a seat at the end of the row upon tho Repub lican side. Theroforo it was possible for Senator Hill to face Senator Ma hone without changing his seat or even stopping from his desk to the alslo, and through the delivery of his caatigation of tho befrllled man from the Old Dominion, the Georgian took cdvantago of this position to drive home his Bontencos of damnation of Mahone'e course in the senate. Senator Hill began with a voice that never seemed more powerful to the packed galleries and the body of the senate. It was of vast volume, a deep, reverberant bass. Yet, not long after he had started upon his strictly parliamentary tongue lashing of the man who was hated and despised of the Democrats, ho occasionally halted, as though trying to catch his breath. Then, at times, his voice became sud denly husky. Again, what seemed to me to bo an expression of pain passed "fcver his features, and towards tho cnJ ' of tho speech he paused frequently, I often that he might swallow a drink j ./>f water, which he t?oK as though his I iuC"'.!? v.cro parched. ' Perhaps half an hour after the sen?- ' tor had finished speaking It fell to my lot to meet him in a horse car going down Pennsylvania avenue, 1 ven tured to say that I bad had the pleas ure of listening to every word of his Speech, and was sure that It would at .tract widespread attention. As I spoke I botlcod that he hold his mouth open In a peculiar way. "I thank you for what you have laid," the senator replied. "But 1 am fearful that It Is my last speech In the bonate." j "1 thought you were occasionally In j some physical distress," l said, as the senator panFed. "Yon were corn et," he said, "Sonn portions of the speech were delivered while I was In great pain, and nearly all of it was delivered under much physical inconvenience. There Is some thing the matter with my throat. It becomes peculiarly dry, with a parch ing dryness, whon I am compelled to talk long. I am going to Philadelphia to consult a Specialist in a day or two." That he did, and tho surgeons dis covered that an excrescence had grown upon the tongue. It was removed al most Immediately. But In a little while Ihe malignant growth reappeared, and then it was that the senator knew he was doomed. He went to his home and died soon after from the effects of this trouble, somewhat similar to the disease which caused the death of General Grant. Ilo had. indeed, BftOken prophetically when he said that ho was apprehensive that the speech in which he attacked Senator 'rtfahone would be his last in the fed- , eral senate. iCoi.y right, i(?lo. i,y k. j. lid wards, All Itlglits Reserved.) Lord Rosebery as Sir Boyle. A member of tho audience In the 1 King's theater, Edinburgh, puts on ??cord one of Lord Rosebcry's Infre quent mixed metaphors. After refer ring to a recent speech and tho Im possibility of saying anything new. j 'n? added. "There aro ono or two ' i*rumbs which I should like to pick ?up. slnco I spoko at Manchester, ?wnlch I think essential for a clear at "Blpsphere at this moment.'"?Glasgow Herald. An Example. JtU there any exception to the great r?lo that like produces like?" #CertainIy." ^Niime ono." j?Don't you get hard cash from A > soft thin?t" FARM AND KEEPING BEES ON ANY FARM No More Intelligence and Skill Re quired In Culture Than In Poultry ?Work Needed. It requires no inoro Intelligence and skill to ralso beoB than to keen poul try. It requires a certain amount of work and at tho right time, yet this In no sense, equals the attention given poultry. But for some reason few farmers havo beeB. If It is lack of knowledge that keeps them from It then the excuse is easily overcome for there are many bee journals and books that would give the deBlred In formation. If It Is a fear of bee stlngB, theso may be prevented by certain appliances. Surely no one should be kept from the enjoyment of honey because of cost. The bees and the necossary equipment need not coBt much. Perhaps some have been led to believe, through foolish news paper reports, that bees are Injurious to fruit. This Is not so. Bees cannot break the skin of any fruit. Because they are seen sucking the juice of punctured grapes they have been falsely accused of dol^g tho punctur ing. Honey is tho purosi and the least harmful of sweets. Tho farmer could Just as well as not get a few hundred pounds for use on the pancakes. Tho honey crop Is clear gain, for no flow ers need necessarily be raised to pas ture tho bees. They aid in the fer tilization of lruit trees : id tho small er clovers. Get a few hlvea of bees this spring and start in a modest way to gather a ulde line crop from the farm that has heretofore been going to waste. LANTERN FOR FOOT-WARMER Enterprising Canadian Has Placed on Market Unique Heating and Illuminating Device. An enterprising Canadian concern has placed a unique combined heating and Illuminating device on the mar ket In the gulso of a lantern foot warmer, says Popular Mechanics. It Is designed, of course, for uae in rural communitlefl, where consider able driving 1b nocesaary during win ter as well as summer. Placed under neath the lap-robe, which, It Is claimed, interferes In no way with proper combustion, the lantern effeo Lantern Foot-Warmer. tlvely warms the feet and limbs, which means comfort all over. A copper ribbon passes over tho burnor, and this conserves tho heat without affecting tho radiation of light. Should light at any time be re quired, tho dcvlco is immediately available for Bitch a purpose PROPER DRAINAGE ON FARM Much of Laying Out and Excavation Can Be Done by Farmer With Little Expense. (By WALTER n. L-KUTZ.) In hundreds of cases whero drain ago Is deslrablo it is not necessary to employ an engineer to lay out the work, nor to uso expensive systems of excavation. Much of this work can be done by tho farmor himself after the exorcise of a littlo thoughtfulness. After a heavy rain In summer?any time when there is standing water on the field- hit tho fanner go over his land and determine if the water, at its height, seeks a natural runway. It is easy to see where water would escape If a few places aro lovelod down to a point below tho wator above them. Place stakes at thoso high places, and as soon as the ground will permit of working, get busy with a team, plow and scrapor and cut down these high ?places. When another rain cornea see if the water flows off. If not, observe where the high places are and again go over them with team and scraper. Begin work at the lower end of the natural water course and work up towards tho sloughs. There may bo places where greater excavation may bo required, and this can often be done with a spade at seasons of the yoar when there is a lull In other work. Open ditch work of this char acter for a few years will relievo many fields of wet and unproductive places now existing, and tho farmer will scarcely reaflzo the cost, while the expense of cultivating tho entire field will bo reduced and its produc tiveness Increased. HEALTHY YARD FOR POULTRY Essential Feature? in Keeping Chlok ens Ar? Clean Quarters, Grass and Exercise. Tho essential features in poultry keeping are clean quarters, graBs und exercise; coops that are easy to clean, easy to feedvnnd not expensive to make. After many years of study and experiment with all tue different kinds of poultry houses I find tho fol lowing plan Is tho simplest and bj far the best, except In tho snowy pe riod of winter, when tho birds and Cheap Poultry Yard, yards can be placed in an open thed facing south. Tho yards are built In sections four feed wide, two feet high and 16 feet long. One or 20 sections can be placed end to end and the length of the yard Is only limited by your boundary or whatever else there is to restrict you. A grass and clover held is the best, but when I started my yards they were on corn stubble and a fine grassy yard has grown without seed ing In two years, writes R. Thomas In Rural New Yorker. The materials are kept In all lumber yards. Six arbor laths 1x2x16 white pine finished and free from knots and other weak spots, c^at abovit 25 cents each, will make the frame. Tho sides, ends and top can be Pl?de up of plaster laths nailed one Inch apart for ?mall chick ens and 1% tq 2 Uivhei ?gf aflult Jowls. Porch lattice 6trlp? are neafeT, better and a^ little moro expensive,, but If painted would make a neater appearance and be moro lasting. The end section should be closed at the ends with a sliding door to shut all birds in when moving yards; inter mediate sections are braced on tho ends and left open otherwise. Tho top of each section should hare* four feet closed with light lumber or a sheet of galvanized iron which will furnish shade for the fowls on warm days. For broder yards these sections should have the whole top covered with galvanized iron or light lumber and It will save much loss from sud den showers, but make them light enough to move easily. The roosting room should be four feet square and two feet high with two roosts and open at the top like a box. These coops are easy to move by just drag ging them along. They will hold 12 or 14 Leghorns and have roosting coops enough to accommodate your flock. Laying houses are the same slzo with four ne*ts on each side opened at the top. Those houses should be closed at the evening feed ing time to stop birds from roosting In the house or nests. Dry mash hop pers are.kept In another house of the same pattern and each house should have one or more sections between them. Theso yards make idoal Leghorn yards (they are always in their own place and not scratching nt your neighbor's garden), which Is their greatest recommendation. 1 am a trucker and my neighbor's chickens do me moro harm than all the bugs. Each morning a little grain is thrown in tho end Eoctlon, and when all tho birds are in close the side and then move each section over Bidoways till nil aro on the clean grass, then move the ond section, birds and all, taking care not to pinch their toes, but they are usually too eager for the new grass to get their toes pinched. Roosting houses should have no bot tom. Laying houses have only wire netting on bottom of the nests to keep in the straw *whon moving the house. Tho dry mash feeding house should have a wood floor. Water, grit, shells and charcoal can be kept in tomato cans or lard" palls on the outside of tho yards where tho birds can reach them easily by putting tholr heads through the slatted sides of the yards, and the feeder can see at a glance if each pail is full. The 'water, grit, etc., will always bo free from droppings, which is never the caso when theso utensils aro kept Inside a poultry house. Tho ground will Imvo grown up to grass in about two weeks' time when you can move tho yards back to their original place and move over daily, a task that will but take about two minutes per section nt the most. Every two years the plot should be plowed and used for a garden and a new piece seeded to blue grass and white clover tho year previous to be ing used as a poultry plot. There win be no waste of fertilizer In those droppings on the living sod. In tho out details of this plan are shown. Feeding Chiokens. There is no profit in chickens Cb& for the ordinary market after they have roached the weight of three or' four pounds. I bought about GO fnrm rnlsed chickens this fall with the ex pectation of making money by fatten ing them. They were divided ituto three different lots and fed by three different methods, says a writer In an exchange. I added approximately OQo pound to their weight In three weeks, at a cost of hetweon 11 and 12 ceatM. 1 nought the chickens for eight aad one-half cents a pound and netted bwi tents a pound when I sold them. ? CHALMERS ON NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING If any man on earth is qualified to speak on advertising it Is Hugh Chal mers, head of the Chalmers Motor company, and If he praises newspa pers as advertising mediums?as the host mediums, iu fact - -editors of newspapers may be justly proud and accept his statements as fact. Mr. Chalmers began his career as Office boy for the National Cash Reg ister company, in time became its sales manager at a salary of $72,000 a year, and all this through his keen knowledge of advertising. His speech in part before the Pub licity club of Springfield, .Mass., is as follows: "There are two excuses why any man should not advertise. The first one is, 'I have so much business? why advertise?' The second is. 'I have so little business I cannot af ford to advertise.' So if a man is looking for an excuse between these two he always has one. "I believe that newspapers are the best mediums for advertising because the people are always looking for news. They buy a newspaper to read the news, and they stumble into the advertising. I believe in all kinds of mediums?magazines, both weekly and monthly and W#$kjy newspapers. I believe in any medium that has a legitimate circulation, but I particu larly believe in the newspapers as being the best way of reaching the people with almost anything yp}| have to sell. "1 believe that advertising and salesmanship are the chief factors in distribution, and the relationship be tween the two is the closest?in fact, they are inseparable, because all ad vertising is salesmanship and all salesmanship is advertising. If you want one word that will take the place of both that one word is 'teach ing.' Advertising and salesmanship are teaching people to believe In you and in the goods you have to sell. In advertising, however, you are talking to thousands or perhaps hun dreds of thousands of people at a time, while In salesmanship you are talking to one or two persons at a time, so that it might properly be said that advertising conducts a public school, while salesmanship gives In dividual lessons, but jn each one you arc teaching, whether it be in printed advertising or in orr.l salesmanship. "Now let's consider the advertising side of tills question for a few mo meins. As i have'said before, I don't thin I: it is possible to get up any set of rules governing advertising, be cause just as surely as you try to do this you will lind the rules won't i work. Instead of being a set of nil's, advertising mainly consists of having the right idea and using it at the right time. That sounds simple, and It Is. too, but it is one of those things so infernally simple that they are hard. We make it hard some times because we try to go about it with a set of rules which some one lias told us about, or we try to apply to it other tests instead of trying to apply to it the one test of simplicity and plainness and of common sense. To my mind there are only three fun damental principles in advertising, and these are as follows: First, be honest; second, be sensible; third, be persistent. "I say 'be honest* because every advertiser should remember that ad vertising doesn't create value?It mere* ly tell of It. The value has to be in the article itself. Advertising never added to or detracted from any article ever sold, and. while it is possible through advertising to create a lot of first orders through misrepresentation, yet it would be Impossible to repent such an advertising campaign, and no permanent suoooss^wns ever built up oil misrepresentation or misstatemcnt. "I say 'be sensible' because there are so many men who seem to talk about everything elso but the right thing when they get to writing adver tising copy. 13o sensible because the majority of people who read copy are endowed with good common sense, "I say 'bo persistent' because you have to keep everlastingly at It. Peo ple soon forget?there Is so much to attract their attention?and unless we keep persistently at advertising we had better not begin at all.' As my good friend Colonel Lafe Young of Des Molnes has said, 'Every man, wo man and child in this country knows that a railroad crossing Is dangerous, but the railroads don't take down their "Stop. Look, Listen!" signs.' Keep up advertising and be persls tent. Why? Because the hardest thing to find today Is yesterday's newspaper. If you don't think so, try to find one. "Thero is no particular mystery about advertising. In the last analy sis- it is simple, common sense plus printer's Ink." SQABBLE OVER PATRONAGE., House Democrats Disagree when the Method of Distributing Plums ia Brought Before the Caucus. Washington, April 0.?House Dem ocrats are In a peck of trouble, :md unless a caucus, to be held during the coining week, probably Monday, relieves the situation of its embar rassing features, complications of a still worse character may result. The present trouble has.come about because the patronage committee, appointed at the former caucus of the Democrats, divided up the patronug?; that is to be nllowcd each Demo cratic member. Under this arrange ment only $1,200 will go to each rep resentative. That in itself is not suf ficient to bring even one first claivs employee to Washington. But to add to the troubles of the 'day some of the stronger members already have placed constitutents in places that pay from $3,000 and up, and to do thl. It has been necessary to take away' from other members less prominent their $1/200 wortfi of patronage. Tut latter, as a consequence, are sore and do not look upon such a procedure as fair. It is believed that in view of BUCh a situation the caucus will deceit. that all patronage shall fall upon the four elective officers of the he i r clerk, sergeant-at-arms, doorkeep^j' and postmaster, and that these offi cials shall make all appointments and be responsible for all empl? f >s in their respective departments. if this Is dons an embarrassing situa:U.n^ will be avoided. To Polish Old Furniture. 4 For furniture there is nothing to equal olive oil or raw linseed oil, rubbed Into the wood, according to the grain. The woodwork may re quire restalning as well. Ordinary old oak is always improved by rub bing it with warm beer. It should be remembered that linseed oil has the effect of darkening mahogany. . Our line of Old Hickory Poroh Furniture is very complete, and prices very reasonable. S. M. & E. H. 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