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THE COUNT] RECROU. Published Every Thursday ?at? KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. IiOUlS J. BR18TOW, Kdltor and Proprietor. France now concedes that the Americans are rather a superior people. This is gratifying, but had she not changed her opinion the United States would probably have gone right along, just as though France herself did not exist. A professional school of electricity is to be established at St. Germain, \ near Paris, France, to be called the Ampere Institute. The school is intended to furnish laborers and foremen with an electrical education, aud first-class instruction will be Riven in both theory and practice. A ."purse" raised by the grateful passenger? on a train saved from destruction by an alert small boy near Burlington, Vt., a little while ago,was found when placed in his hands and carefully counted to contain SI.80. Whether th > passengers lacked appreciation of the value of their limbs or their lives is not told, but it is said the oompany "will do the right thing .. by the lad." The more the country sees and hears from the young hero Hobson, the more it is fascinated by the roundness, the largeness of his development Mentally, physically, morally, he is built upomthe heroic model. If one were asked for a type of the result of a century oi democratic institutions, for a man who would best embody the American citizen, self-reliant, selfcontained, ready for any emergency and master of it when it came, could he do better than to point to Richmond Pearson Hobson? asks the New Vnrt Wr?rM Major-General Crease, of the British Royal Marine Artillery, has devised a new scheme for the coast defense of Britain. His plan is to build eighteen floating batteries of 11,500 tons each, thickly armored from deck to keel 30 as to be practically torpedoproof, but of such light draught that they can fight in shallow waters. They are to be armed each with sixteen heavy guns in four two-story turrets, and manned by naval militia. He would have, besides, nine "battleship exterminators," armored destroyers of great speed, supplied with a ram, torpedo tubes and light guns. The cost would be $100,000,000. Genera^ Crease is now on the retired list. Some of the manufacturers of glucose in Chicago have turned their attention to the production of corn oil? an article extracted by pressure from the germ of the graii^ by a method similar to that used in the manufacture cf linseed oil, leaving a residuum not unlike in its character the oil cake of commerce. It seems that in the production of glucose, it was a matter of necessity first to extract the germ, this, for a long time, involving a waste. As against this, a company now turns out some 350 barrels of corn oil per day. Most of the oil goes to England for soapmaking. It is shipped in second-hand oil barrels, ea^h of a weight, when filled, of 100 pounds, rated at the factory at three cents per pound. Some of the oil is used in this country principally in mixing cheap paint and for adulterating linseed oil. It is regarded as a rapid "drying" oil. Men prominent in shoe manufacturing in Lynn, Mass., believe that that industry needs for its profitable continuance a trade training-school. It is as essentia] to their business, they say, as is the texile school to the " i r> T.attaII 'l'V? a UXObiUVVl * C ?UUUOU J 1U JUVnCil* xuc difficulty to be met is that of maintaining a supply of trained workmen. Because of the tyranny of the trades unions, only the families of members of the unions can learn the lasting or cutting trade. A young man cannot learn the branches of the trade in Lynn unless his father teaches him. Otherwise if he wishes to learn the trade, he must go out of Lynn, or earn a commitment to the State prison. In the latter institution he is imperfectly taught, and if he learns the trade thoroughly elsewnere, he is apt to remain where he served his apprenticeship. In either event the Lynn industry suffers, as the reanufa nlnrorc ln<j? larpfl flmnnnfe cvout '"1"? ' o- - "'J year through the poor -work of lasters or cutters who profess to know the trade, but have not sufficiently mas. tered it. The manufacturers of the city have promised their support to the movement of opening a trade school, and the project will probably i be brought to the attention of the City foajtqi at aa aarij date, - - -?> 1 trtt V ?ifaMKJ???J?88Ma??Mi Wpffliis FIT! \ The Bridgeport Murder Mystery Ui raveled by the Victim's Father. i I THE IDENTIFICATION COMPLFTF The Young Woman Whose Bismetnher< Body Was Fished Out of the Water Bridgeport, Conn., Was Last Se? Alive With Charles Bourne, Who Di appeared After Kemains Were Fount Eridgkport, Conn. (Special).?The rays tery surrounding the finding of the dis membered remains of a young woman b two boys is beginning to clear. The r< , mains have been identified as those < Marion Grace Perkins, of Middlebon Mass., by her father, Frank Perkins. Th father having looked upon the withere and distorted face of his child, went out t Stratford avenue and over the bridge froi which the murderers tossed portions of th body. With him was Undertaker Joh Cullinan. While ho looked across th dreary stretch of the sea pond, the spot where the bundles containing the dismem bered sections were found were shown him He was silent. He heard the story of th monstrous crime, sighed and said: AJCI US gO UBCK. The young woman had been the recipien of attentions paid by Charles Bourne, th son of wealthy parents in Middleborc , Bourne spent the summer at Onset, Mass. where Dr. Nancy Guilford, of Bridgeport had practised and was well known. Sh had met Bourne there. Bourne sent for Grace Perkins to com from Mlddleboro to Onset on August 24 She left home the following day, and re mained a week at Onset, at the house o Mrs. Sarah Snow. In company with Bourne she left Onse on September 1. They were seen tha afternoon at Tremont! From this poin , all definite trace of them has been lost. The question of identity having been set tied, the portentous mystery of who cause* her death, and of where now is the persoi responsible for the butchery is the matte of absorbing interest. TORAL ATTACKED BY A MOB. HU Iloufie at Vigo and Steamer oil Whicl lie Took Kefuge Stoned, Vioo, Spain (By Cable).?A crowd o about 700 people besieged the house o General Toral, who surrendered to Genera Shafter, demanding that the troops whici had arrived here from Santiago de Cuba 01 board the Spanish steamer Leon XIII. b< immediately landed. They proceeded t< the quays cheering the troops, and won with difficulty dispersed by soldiers of th< garrison. Afterward a crowd of about 1500 people returned to the quays, and when they saw the soldiers landing barefooted and nearly naked they became infuriated, and surrounded General Toral's house, hooting and hissing and stoning the building. Eventually the Spanish General succeeded in escaping to the Leon XIII. On learning this the mob gathered on the dock, and stoned the steamer for half an hour, smashing the cabin windows. The vessel was obliged to leave the place where she was moored. GENERAL HASKELL DROPS DEAD. The Excitement ot the Seventeenth's Homecoming Too Much For Him. Colcmbcs, Ohio (Special).?Brigadier" General Joseph T. Haskell, formerly of the Seventeenth United States Infantry, dropped dead at the Columbus barracks from apoplexy after having participated in the parade in honor of the return of the Seventeenth from Santiago, where the regiment distinguished itself in that marvellous charge at El Caney on July 1. General Haskell, who was then Colonel of the regiment, was shot in the breast, in the knee and in the heel during the battle, and lay on the firing line all of one day while the Mauser, bullets flew over his L If !*/* * lift o r* A Vk/\??r?4A liCtlU, lie VT as lueu J'ieivwa up I?uu uvauv to the division hospital. His left arm was paralyzed as the result of the wound in his breast. The excitement of the celebration in his weakened condition was too much for him and resulted in his death. Gloucester Welcomes the Gloucester. Gloccestee, Mass. (Special). When th? auxiliary cruiser Gloucester sailed up the harbor she received a splendid welcome. The vessel was met by the Mayor, the City Government and prominent citizens on a steamer, and by a fleet of 200 or 300 craft of all kinds. She proceeded to her anchcrage amid loud, continuous cheers, and Mayor Davis, the Reception Committee and others then climbed on board and welcomed the officers and crew, to whom the freedom of the city was extended by tho Mayor. The crew marched through the city and passed the City Hall, where they were reviewed. After the parade there was a reception to the officers in the City Hall. Czar's Peace Proposals. The Czar's disarmament proposal has speedily become a minor subject of popular and official interest in England. The impression prevails in diplomatic circles that some sort of conference will be held, if only for the purpose of testing Russian bona fides; but the best opinion coincides with that which Mr. Chamberlain is reported to have expressed on his arrival in New York, to the effect that nothing practical will resub Evacuation of Porto Kico. Details of the evacuation of Porto Rico were practically completed by the commission. Lares, Aguadilla, San Sebastian, aud th? Island of Yicoues have been given up. and the whole Spanish army will embark as soon as transports are sent from Spain. Killed by a Woman. Mrs. Emily Erwin, wife of E. B. Erwin, a merchant of Mammoth Springs, Ark., shot and instantly killed Dr. Robert S. Blair, a I prominent physician. Erwin was away from home, and the doctor attempted to jatcx the house when Mrs. Erwin sh^t 1 j PASSING OF THE KOUCH RIDERS. j, Koosevelt's Unique Troopers Celebrat< Their End by a XijjhtV. Frolic. Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, L. I (Special).?The rousrh riders are no more They have been mustered out of the army, for which they have made a glorious record. This picturesque and historic body ol soldiers, cavalrymen who had the unique I experience of eoincr thrnuirli n milifuru campaign without their horses, are now scattering to their homes, or wherever they intend to take up again the dull life of the civilian. The men keep their arms as sou!<l vonlrs of the war. at . iii JBfi\ 1- ?/ COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT, e (On horseback while in camp at Tampa. Fla.. before the start was made for San o tiago.) ? Colonel Roosevelt has been mustered out also, and leaves the military service of the country to engage in the rnoro peaceful occupations of life. As Colonel Roosevelt received his discharge papers he remarked: "This ends it, eh?" His manner and tone betrayed considerable emotion, and he left the tent alone, without waiting to see the members of his r staff who were waiting to speak to him. The last few hours of the last night the rough riders spent in camp wero not dull. There were great bonllres in the camp, and a series of Indian dances was held. Lev! Jones, the Choctaw; Rattlesnake k Pete, the Sioux; Polluck, the Pawnee, and McMichael, the Apache, all took part, t There was the Sioux 6tamp dance, signidcant of the hardening of the ground when the rains let up m spring; the snake aauce ? iQ> p*l\/Af6 ^u'i Blcoici. f\ XHOCTaW J \ in O of the Apaches, in which rattlesnakes are usually carried in the hands of the dancers, i who imitate the motions of that reptile iu tliflip c*?>r?c nn.1 hrk.lv I'rtntftrt inns (the I rough riders did it without the snakes), tind the Moqui smoke dauce, the dance of peace (ami the harvest, in which the dancers smoke red clay pipes and leave long trails of smoke behind them as they circle about. Indian cries and warwhoops were kept up all night. There was not a 1 man iu the whole regiment who slept, the officers also enjoyed the fun. 1 An important event was the disposition 1 of the mascots. Troop I finally decided to present their Colonel with Teddy the eagle. Accordingly the whole body marched to where Colonel Roosevelt was seated signing muster out papers and Trooper Coe made the presentation speech. It was: "Colonel, we men present that eagle to you and-we want you to have it, and if anyi one knocks you. send him to us aud we'll fix him." ? ' Josephine, the mountain lion, belonging to A Troop, is to be given to the Central Park Zoo. The regiment's dog i Cuba has so many owners that it has not PRESENTED TO COLONEL LOOSE VET. been arrange;! for, an.l uuie i. j.v>W3 away on some train it will be lefc to tbe life-saving station here. Secretary Alger has intrusted to the eare of Colonel lloosevelt the flags which his command carried through the campaign. A few days before the men also presented their colonel with a statuette. "Busting a Bronco."' Many of the rough riders are enjoying themselves by seeing the sights of New York City. In fact, the town is in the care of the soldiers who have been mustered out or are on furlough. The rough riders are objects of interest to the people, who never fail to give them the attention which is now a part of the life of the veteran of the opauisn-American war. Republicans Oppose Expanalaa. The Colorado Republicans met in State; Convention at Denver, and adopted a" platform in favor of bimetallism. A resolution favoring the annexation of the Philippines met with a storm of protests and was withdrawn. Henry R. Wolcott, of Denver, was nominated for Governor. Bicyclist Killed on a Kace Track. At Pennsboro Fair, Ritchie County, W I Va., a few days ago, wnue scorcmng oa a i ' race track, Tom Richards, who entered the | races as Ed. Vincent, of New York, collided with an unknown cvc'.ist and was filled* OUR FINAL PEACE TERIST Commissioners to Paris Receive the President's Instructions. NO DEVIATION IS PERMISSIBLE. We Will Keep I.uzon and Insist Upon a Semi-Control Over the Other Philippine Islands, With Spain in Apparent Charce? Spain May Ketire Altogether ?General Merrltt'a Views Needed. Washington*. D. C. (Special).?The State Department gave out the following statement concerning the discussion between the members of the Cabinet and tho Peace Commission: "The members of the Peace Commission, with the exception of Senator Gray, whoso absence was due to his inability to withdraw as counsel in a case in which ho was engaged sometime before his appointment as one of the Peace Commissioners, have spent the greater part of Wedne sday and Thursday in a free discussion of the duties with the discharge of which they have been intrusted by the President. Senator Gray before sailing will have a full conference with the President and his associates. "While, for obvious reasons, it was determined that the nature of the instructions as to the negotiations about to be entered Upon should for the present be kept secret and made known only after definite results shall have been reached, it is possible to state authoritatively that the commission goes to Paris fully prepared to follow a course of action mapped out for it a? th? result of the consultations of the last two days. "At the very outset, it will be made clear to the Spanish Commissioners that, as in the case of the preliminary protocol, there can bo no deviation from or modification of the demands made by the United States. The decision reached by the President, after a full consultation with the members of the commission, subsequently received the cordial and unanimous approval of the Cabinet at a meeting: held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon." The instructions finally drawn up nnd approved by the President and his Cabinet at this special meeting; mean, in the opinion of Washington expert observers, "permanent American control of the Philippines." Contrary to general expectations, the Commissioners have been given one positive instruction in writing. It is: "The full nnd unconditional cession of the island of .Luzon, on which the city of Manila is situated." The President had this instruction reduced to writing, in order that the American Commissioners might iav it before the Spaniards with absolute deflnlteness and Insist upon it as a preliminary to further negotiations. The disposition of tho Philippines outside of the island of Luzon is left to the discretion of the Commissioners. Considerable latitude will be given them, but on the main point the cession of Luzon Island their instructions are ironclad. A Cabinet official said that the insistence upon Luzon Island would likely result la an offer from Spain of the entire croup. This would not surprise the President, he said. All Spanish interests in the Philippines are centered on Luzon Island, and with this under the control ef the United States Spain would be unable to maintain sovereignty in the remainder. If Spain should comply literally with the American demands and cede Luzon, the Commissioners are authorized to exact certain tradiug privileges in the remainder of the Philippine group. They are directed further to obtain an agreement from Spain that none of the islands shall be disposed of to ary foreign power. A joint protectorate may be suggested, in which event the American Commissioners hare absolute power to accept such a proposition. General Merritt will meet the Commissioners in Paris and his knowledge of the situation iu the Philippines will influence the view of the Peace Commissioners as to the character of the government that they will aslc Spain to establish in the islands outside or .Luzon. CONNECTICUT REPUBLICANS MEET. Senator Lounsbury Gubernatorial Standard Bearer The Tlatforiu. New Haven, Conn. (Special). Senator George E. Lounsbury was nominated for Governor of Connecticut on the first ballot. The result was: Lounsbury, 356; Porter. 120; Dewell, 16; Merwin, 1. The rest of the ticket is as follows: Lieuteuant-Governor, Lyman A. Mills, of Middlefield; State Secretary, Huber Clark, of Willlmantic; Treasurer. C. S. Mersick, of New Haven; Comptroller, Thompson S. Grant, of Enfield; AttorneyGeneral, Charles Phelps, of Vernon. The platform indorses the administration of McKiuley; advocates Investigation of^any incompetency on the part of war ?mciais; stanas xor iue goiu siauuitru; protection; urges a larger navy; a proper 9ea coast defence; the completion of the Nicaragua Canal; approves the annexation of Hawaii, and demnnds legislation for the upbuilding of the merchant marine. The oflfes of Attorney-General appears tor the ?rst time on a Connecticut State ticket. Shortly after his nomination Senator Lounsbury was escorted to the convention, and, amid great enthusiasm, accepted the nomination in a short speech. CENERAL OTIS HIARD FROM, Insurgents Withdraw Froiu Manila and Affairs More Satisfactory. Washington, D. C. (Special). General Otis cabled the War Department as follows: "Manila, September 15, 1899. "Adjutant-General, Washington, D. C.: "Affairs much more satisfactory*. De mands for withdrawal insurgent forces complied with, and all withdrawn or withdrawing to-day, except small forces in outlying districts, which arc not obej-iug insurgent leader. Aguinaldo requests few days in which to withdraw them by detachments and punish their commanding officers. Over two thousand already withdrawn. No concessions granted insurgents, but strict compliance with demands of8th iust. required. General good feeling prevailing. Manila quiet and business progressing favorably. No difficulty anticipated. Have been Compelled to confine Spanish prisoners temporarily within limits of walled city Otis, Commanding." ' French Occupy Faslioda. The Constantinople correspondent of the London Dally Mail says: "News has been received here of the occupation of Fashoda (on the White Nile, south of Khartoum) by I the French expedition under Major Marchand, assisted by 10,000 Abyssinians under Ras Makonnen, the Principal-General of Emperor Menelik." The Rebellion in China. A revolution in Central China seems unavoidable. The rebellion in Hainan and the province of Kwang-Si is beioK joined by thousands of the Literati, who are bitterly osedjo the Maachu dynasty. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Items. General Otis cabled from Manila that no more American troops were needed. He snid the insurgents were desirous of remaining on friendly terms with our forces. The internal revenue collections for July amounted to $'27,804,573. Secretary Long issued an order reorgatv IzfLg the North Atlantic fleet, which has been reduced to thirty-one vessels. The militiamen on the Dixie and Badger are tc be mustered out. Mr. Day tendered to the President on Friday his resignation as Secretary of State. Judge A. (5. Thompson, member of Congress from Ohio inthe Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congress, has been appointed United States District Judge for the Southern district of Ohio, to succeed Judge Sage, retired. The President on Friday received and accepted the resignation of John Bassett Moore as Assistant Secretary of State. Mr. Moore will bo the Secretary of the One man was Instantly killed and throe were injured by the falling of a scaffold in Brooklyn, N. Y. The dead man is John Kearns, forty-seven years old. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, is opposed to a costly banquet at the coming peace jubilee inthat city. He says it woula be a waste of money that could be given to needy soldiers. William Kane was shot", and Edward G. Jackson, his companion, was beaten Into unconsciousness in St. Louts, Mo., a few days ago by striking plasterers on their way to work. Kane died and Jackson will recover. Professor William R. Daly, one of the most noted life savers of the United States, for many years champion swimmer and champion oarsman of the Pacific Slope, died in South Boston, Mass. Death was caused by pneumonia. Warren R. Stickneyshot himself dead at Ann Arbor, Mich. The cause of suicide is believed to be loss of his homo through financial difficulties. Mr. Stickney was a cultivated and intellectual man, and was once Superintendent of Schools at Chicopee, Mass. An earthquake aroused the people at i Husley, South DaKota, at 4 o'ciock rrtaay morning. Houses trembled and dishes rattled on the shelves for about thirty seconds. The shocks seemed to travel eastward. An order has been received by a St. Louis street car company for 250 street cars for the Japanese Government. The order, which will be filled, calls for the completion and shipment of the cars within niuety days. The amount to be paid for the cars is ?360,000. The Bergen County (N. J.) Grand Jury lndict(ed Nicholas Jackson for murder. He is accused of having bound his six-year-old boy Lewis to the West Shore tracks neat Teaneck several months ago. The body ol the lad was found cut to pieces. Troops are being moved South, where they will be established in winter camp. preparatory to tne occupation 01 uuua uuu Porto Kico. Every coal merchant in Frankfort, Ky. has been iDdicted by the county Grand Jurj on a charge of conspiracy. The coal mec combined to fix prices. I Nine hundred anJ fifty officers and men of the Ninth Regiment arrived in New York City Friday from Chickamauga. | With few exceptions the men looked hale and hearty. Twenty-six men were sick. W. D. Bynura resigned the Chairmanship of the National Committee of the Gold Democrats, with headquarters in Chicago, and George Foster Peabody was elected in his place. A resolution commending Mr. Bynum's work was adopted. Companies B, D and F, a battalion of the fTki.^nnfk QfafAo Infunfrrv rp. turned from Montauk to Governor's Isiand. New York Harbor. The battalion left for the war with 226 officers and men on April 16. It came back with only 113. At Virginia Beach, Va., Henry Idstern, a cottager, and his gue9ts, T. 8. E. Dixon, of Chicago, and Arthur McLaughlin, of Newark, N. J., went bathing in the surf. One of the men got beyond his depth and the others went to his rescue, but all were drowned. The body of Charles Spinks, a wealthy resident of Newport, Ky., who was drowned, was found at the west end of his coal fleet in the Ohio River. One insurance policy for $10,000 had been renewed only the day before, perhaps not two hours before Spinks met his death. The finding of the body gill compel the payment of $125,000 insurance which Spinks carried upon his life. Captain Ichabod Wiliev, of tho wrecked schooner Bartlett, of Thomaston. Me., Captain Henry Vonharten, and a colored roan of Beaufort, were drowned by the capsizing of a small sailboat off Hilton Head, 8.C. The soldiers' monument, put up on the common by the citizens of Uxbridge, Mass., was dedicated, Wednesday, by H. If. Legg Post, G. A. R., and presonted to thetown. Veterans and Sons of Veterans from Uxbridge, Northbridge. Milford, Douglas, Grafton and Upton took part. The Obdam sailed from New York for Ponce, Porto Rico, carrying a battalion of Pennsylvania troops, sixteen postal clerks and army stores. The last of the rough riders were mustered but at Camp WikoiT, Montauk, L. I., and Colonel Roosevelt is now without a | cuiuiiiauu. Boston is to have free ice-water fountains in all parts of the city next summer. Forelen. The Russian Minister of Finance. M. de Witte, has arrived at Berlin, Germany, to effect a new Russian loan among the German bankers. A conflict between insurgents and Turkish troops occurred near Candia, Crete. Some Christians were killed and several wounded. President Masso of the Cuban Republic has issued an address to the Cuban Army, announcing the end of the war. praising the 1 soldiers as models of abnegation and heroism, and expressing gratitude for the assistance rendered bvthls C5unlr7; reuee commission. General Otis, the acting Military Governor at Manila, cabled that his collections for the United States Treasury account since August 14, the beginning of the new regime. This is in the current Mexican money. A'J investigation of the conduct of the War Department is assured. Secretary Long has given orders for the retirement from active service of the ram Katahdin and the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius. * *. Domestic. Tke transport Concho arrived at Moutauk Point, L. I., from Ponce, Porto Rico, bringing Major-General James H. Wilson and his staff, of the Sixth Army Corps, and volunteers of Indiana, Missouri and Pennsylvania. ivory isoomoy, a iarm lanorer, empioyea by Mrs. Abbie Parcher, of North Saco, Me., was found dead with a bullet hole in bis body. Boothby was about forty-five years old. It is supposed he was killed by a stranger, who asked him if he would aid him to fix a broken-down carriage. Boothby went with the man. and the next morning he was found dead near the roadside. Conductor G. M. Riley and Engineer John Pettinger were killed and Brakeman Tressler badly injured in a railway track on the Denver and Bio Grande in the Black Canyon, a few miles west of Sapinero, Col. From some unknown cause, while running at full speed, the engine and one car left the track and went into the Gunnison River. agricultural topics m Standard Apple Barrels. There has been some variation in the size of barrels used to carry fruit to market in New York State, but last winter the Legislature changed the law, making all apple barrels with heads 17i inches across, staves 28? inches, and the barrel to be at its bulge sixty-four inches in circumference. These are the standard barrels in most of the fruit-growing States, and farmers who put up apples in barrels smaller thau this may tind it difficult to dispose of them at any price. ? Cooked flay For Stock* \ ~ All of the nutriment in grass is iu ^ the hay, but it is not iu succulent form. If the hay is subjected to steam heat for an hour or two, it will be filled with moisture, and be considerably expanded besides. It might pay for cows which do better on succulent food, but horses and sheep will eat the hay dry and get all the nutriment there is in it. Succulent food is not adapted to the horse. To be in good working order his excrement should be nearly dry, and pass out iu the round balls that every one, even in cities, has seen on much trodden roadways. . 15ee Hives Kxposeil to Hot Sun. Thin hives placed directly in the sun during the warmest part of the season are in danger of destruction by the combs melting down in a heap. A temporary shade of some kind should be used during the warmest pnrt of the day, and may oe a ooaru placed in such position as to shield the hive at this particular time. Bees are very good at doing their own ventilating, but at times the heat gets beyond their control. The Bee House remedies this evil, besides many others, and if once you keep your bees in a properly constructed house, you will not return to out apiaries. It has been a question whe.her or not bees ought to be located in shade at all seasons of the year, and I believe I would so prefer them if the shade were not too dense, but a dense shade so that the sud cannot strike them at all I would not have. If the sun could shine on them except the hottest part of the day, I n--i- 1,1 u- ? A rr IIIillK it \>uiwu uc |;?ciciuuio, ?a. Duff, in Farm, Field and Fireside. Poisonous Garden Plants. Among the garden plants commonly in vogue which possess a poisonous nature botanists mention the flowers of the jonquil, white hyacinth and snowdrop, the narcissus being also particularly deadly, so much so, indeed, that to chew a small scrap of one of the bulbs may result fatally, while the juice of the leaves is an emetic. The berries of the yew have killed many persons, and it is pretty well known nowadays that it is not safe to eat many peach pits or cherry kernels at once. The lobelias are all dangerous, their juice, if swallowed, producing vomiting and gidditress. with pains in the head. Lady's slipper poisons in the same manner as does poison ivy, the bulbs seeming to be the most harmful. Lilies of the valley are also as much so. There is enough opium in red poppies to do mischief; and the autumn crocus, if the blossoms are chewed, causes vomiting and purging. The leaves and flowers of the oleander are deadly, and the bark of the catalpa tree is very mischievous; the water drop wort, when not in flower, resembles celery, and is virulent. Correct Temperature For Churning. What is the correct temperature f^r churning? That (question is ;> me oftener than any other au ; it is one of the hardest, questions to answer in the dairy curriculum.' aen us old fellows were boys our grandmothers stuck their fingers in the cream and that allowed them to come within about two hours of a correct ohnrnincr temoerature. At least that O JL is how long it seemed to me when I had the fun of splashing buttermilk all over my eyes and nose. When the thermometer was discovered in the dairy some fellow found that sixtytwo degrees Fahrenheit was about right for average lots of cream. In fact nearly all creams wiil pound out within an hour at sixty-two degrees. But in churning we do not merely want to get the butter, for we can pound all the flavor out of butter if we are careless about the temperature at which we churn. Since the separator has come into the dairy and we find ourselves able to make cream of any degree of richness that suits us, and having found out that the richness of the cream regulates the temperature at which it should be churned, and desiring to save the flavor of the butter, we have naturally become more critical about our I ringing these two factors to getlier. Therefore now we say that rich cream taken from shallow pans set warm shoulil be churned at fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit. Thin cream from deep cold setting should be churned at from sixty-two to sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit. Separator cream should be churned according to its richness from fifty-four to sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit. But softly there is another factor in the game which is the food the cow eats. I cannot name them now, but you may put oil meal or corn meal for a low temperature, and cotton seed meal for a high one, even to seventy-four degrees Fahrenheit. Having told you all I kuow about a correct temperature for churning, let me give this piece of advice: Experiment all ?-ms\ rv* f f >* fn Q & XTrt XT - f mi V IUC vv ay ii wm Uiij iwui kw uvfvubj with your cream and in that way find out which is the best temperature for your cows with your system of dairying.?Home and Farm. Japanese children are taught towrite with both hands.