Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1890 — Page 4

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Whisky -was first made in Ireland by an English monk. Now “the affrighted quail whirs o’er the field away,” provided he is not perforated with a large load of No. 9 shot A Chicago Justice has fined a woman sls for kissing a dude. Any woman with the bad taste to kiss a Chicago dude deserves even greater punishment. The papers of Micager Hancock, of Indiana, for whom the Senate Pension Committee has recommended, a pension of $25 for his services in the war of 1812, show that he is 102 yeas old. “Lewis the Light,” a Philadelphia religious crank, is testing the forbearance of a long-suffering public by circulating a “poem” of bis own composition. Lewis the Light’s meter is out of order. A veteran who died at Plainfield, N. J., the other dav requested that the bugle with which he had led his comrades to victory be buried in his coffin with him. When Gabriel sounds his trumpet he will be able to blow a return blast. Henry Shubert, of Peoria, Hl., tried to see how quick he could get married after being divorced, and accomplished it in seventeen minutes. It however,took him two hours to get rid of the smell of the bushel of eggs thrown against him by his fellow citizens. A very smart young man in Savannah tried to pay his car fare with a SIOO bill. The conductor was accommodating, and stopping the car he went into a store and got the bill changed, giving the young man a shot bag full of silver, amounting to $99.95. When people say “calculate” they use a word which goes back to the very infancy of our race and the very beginning of the science of arithmetic. It comes from the Latin calculus, a pebble When men first began to reckon and to compare numbers they could think of no better way than to lay pebbles along side of one another on the ground, and hence the word for counting. And now British capital proposes to place England within four and a half days of this country. Capt. Hamilton Gunn, who is representing the enterprise in this country, says that its projectors propose to spend a large sum of money upon the Michigan side of the Sault Ste. Marie, making one link of a system of transportation to Nova Scotia, with a connection to New York, and Atlantic steamers of 100,000 tons or over. Large vessels of the same line will also run on Lakes Huron and Ontario. A French physician says that he has demonstrated that rheumatism can be cured by the sting of bees. The virus of the bee acts, he say si, like a vaccinal inoculation, and a sufficient amount of it will render the patient entirely free from rheumatic attacks. He says, however, that it would require the services of a good many bees to cure a well-established case of rheumatism, and the remedy appears to be worse | than the disease. Bees may be good ■ for hives —bee hives—but few people ! would care to use them for rheumatism or any other human ailment. According to the annual report of the Pullman Palace Car Company, 5,023,057 people were carried in their cars last year, against 4,242,542 the year before. The figures are interesting, as showing how extensively the more luxurious modes of railroad travel are coming to be used by the people. The palace car was originally monopolized by the rich, but it is no longer considered a luxury beyond the reach of persons in ordinary circumstances. The public generally enjoys all the comforts of traveling, and they appear ' to be willing and able to pay for what they get. Thomas G. Woolfolk has for the second time been sentenced to be hanged. He is the man accused in Bibb County, Georgia, of murdering ten people of his own family. On the night of August 7, 1887, Woolfolk took an ax, and going from room to room in his father’s house, butchered every one of its inmates while they slept. They were his father, step-mother, three half-sis-ters, three half-brothers, one infant in arms and an aged aunt. The evidence was circumstantial, but the long delays and retrials have come about more through the horror with which people .shrank from the, belief that a son and a brother could commit such an awful act. William T. Chamberlain, of Norwich, has invented and perfected a gun which promises to be the most durable, simple and effectual gun ever made. It is called the electric hydrogen gun. There are three methods of firing the arm. ' J3y the first method, Mr. Chamberlain claims,the projectile is sent from the gun by a pressure equal to 37,003 atmospheres, by the second process by four times that force, and by the third • method it is transformed into an air gun with a pressure of from 1,500 to 2,0)0 pounds. The gun is simple, without Other machinery .than the chamber and barrel. The demand for new valuable weapons is so great that some of the great powers may find in this arm the ' executor ‘hey have been anticipating,

while Mr. Chamberlain may find in it the fortune the shadow of which has kept his brain active and hi; hands busy for many a day. The new National Park takes in the entire drainage area of the Yosemite and much more. It embraces the whole of the upper Tuolumne River, with the Hetch Hetchy Valley and the greater part of the Toulumne watershed. It includes Mount Lyell and its glaciers, Lake Eleanor and the Mariposa, Merced and Tuolumne groves of big trees. It stretches from Lake Eleanor to Wawona and beyond, and from Hazel Green below Crane Flat to the highest ridge of the Sierra. It is about fifty miles in length by thirty-five in width, and considerably exceeds the State of i Rhode Island in area. This magnifi- | cent reservation will be by far the most beautiful park in the world. It will lack the weird marvels of the Yellowstone —the geysers, the painted rocks and the stalagmitic formations—but in ■ the magnificence and the charm of forJ est, cliff and waterfall it will be beyond comparison. The solemn antics and mummeries of the “vegetarian philosophers” are enough to make the face of the earth broaden into a smile. Yet vegetarians are useful, aud their good work will be felt long after their fad has been buried in the dust of ancient history. These worshipers of cereals, raw and cooked, : of nut and fruit diet, while they will i not cause mankind to return to the eating habits of our simian prototypes, wil do this much good: They will instruct the ignorant and the wasteful in ways of economy; they may bring about some reform in the matter of excessive meat eating and beer drinking and cause people to pay more attenfim to the products of the earth, which are now too much neglected. There is no doubt that much of the corn fed to pigs would do more good if eaten by people. The vegetarians will finally disappear in the clouds of the fad. but they will leave much grain for the world in their theoretical chaff. A prominent New Jersey cranberry grower says that the New Jersey berries this ye’ar a:e unusually fine, and will bring $4 per bushel. Jersey berries can be kept in good condition from now until May or June of next year, with little or no shrinkage, and no loss to the owner. Cranberries are grown in the poorest lands of the country, but yield a large profit. The culture of cranberries is rapidly becoming the chief industry of the lower counties of the State, particularly Atlantic County The swamps and marshy lands are hardly fit for any other use, but make excellent bogs. The people are beginning to realize that the barren lands which have hitherto been only an expense can be utilized, and large sums of money made from a very small investment. A grower who has had long experience in making and managing bogs said recently that a first-class bog can be made for from s(>o3 to SBOO an acre, according to the quality of the bog. That a sense of the dignity of American citizenship still animates the Americans abroad who revere the traditions of the past is occasionally made manifest. Those who attended the reception given by Prince Leopold, who represented Emperor William, to the doctors in attendance at the Berlin Medical Congress say that the action of the head of the American delegation of physicians and gentlemen, as compared with the servility which marked the action of the English, French. Italian, .and other European delegates, wa i such as to make every American proud of his citizenship. The American scientist bowed with the same dignity that he would show if he were introduced to a fellow citizen, while the leader of the English delegation, who was a “Sir” in addition to his professional distinctions, groveled. “It made one sick of rank to see it,” -was the remark of one clever American doctor on repeating the incidents of the reception in the Shell Room of the new palace. “One might expect subserviency from the peasantry, but not from scientists.”

For Ra helors Only.

Agree with the girl’s father in politics and the mother in religion. If you have a rival keep an eye on him. If he is a widower keep twoeyes on him: Don’t put too much sweet stuff on paper. If you do you will hear it react in after years when jour wife has some especiul purpose in inflicting upon you the severest punishment known to a married man. Go home at a reasonable hour in the evening. Don't wait until a girl has to throw her whole soul 1 into a yawn that she can’t cover with both hands. A little thing like that might cause a coolness at the very beginning of the game. If, on the occasion of your first call, the girl upon whom you have set your young affections looks like an iceberg and acts like a cold wave, take your leave early and stay away. Woman in her hour of freeze is uncertain, coy and hard to please. In cold weather finish saying goodnight in the house. Don’t stretch it all the way to the front gate, and thus lay the foundation for future asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia and chronic catarrh to help you to worry the girl to death after she has married. Don’t lie about your financial condition. It is very annoying to a bride who has pictured a life of ease in her ancestral halls to learn too late that you expect her to ask a bald-headed old parent who has been uniformly kind to her to take you in out of the cold.— Saturday .Evening Gazette.

OUR RURAL REVIEW.

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS PRACTICALLY DISCUSSED. Devon Cattle for Beef and .Hille—How to Feed Dairy Cows—A Productive Breed of Poultry—Clover a» an Egg Maker—The Latent W heat Blight—Take Care of the Trees—Household and Kitchen Recipes. THE FARM. Stock Suffering from Indigestion. It is not to be supposed that man alone suffers the horrors of indigestion. Domestic stock kept in pasture in summer and on coarse feed in winter may never be victims of dyspepsia, but the conditions of modern domestic animals are very different. Some of the improved breeds are as high fed as men, and when corn is the main diet it is often as indigestible as the average human diet. The evil of improper feeding is greatly aggravated if stock is young. If they are kept from overloading their stomachs until a year old, there is little danger after this of hurting them, as by this time the stomach has become so strengthened as to digest almost everything. Kill tlie Poorest Pig* First. It often happens on every farm that the pork barrel gives out early and the farmer is obliged to resort to his pigpen for a fresh supply. It is almost equally common for the inexperienced farmer to select the most thrifty pig in his lot for killing first. Tills is nearly always a mistake. The lack of thriftiness is not cured by age, and when one pig is eighty and the other a hundred-weight, the increase is likely to be 120 and 200, if both are kept long enough. The stunted pig should be killed as soon as it is in fairly good condition. A thrifty pig will pay for keeping until it rolls in its own fat, and will often pay better between 1(M) and 200 pounds than at any earlier period of its growth.

Wheat Scab. Clarence M. Weed of the Ohio Experimental Station describes a disease which is new to wheat in this country, though it has before appeared in England. It is a fungus attacking wheat heads in many parts of Ohio the present year, producing a whitish covering of the glumes, and entirely preventing the formation of the grain beneath. This disease is said, to have prevailed in many parts of the United States, and may account in a most unsatisfactory way for the present small wheat crop. In Madison County, Ohio, a field of one hundred acres which was estimated at thirty-live bushels per acre proved on threshing to yield only eight bushels. When the threshing began it was found that the grains beneath this fungus were wholly lacking. . Trees on the Farm. One sound piece of advice which Horace Greeley gave to all farmers was to take good care of the wood lots, and see that new plantations were set out when the old ones began to die out. The average farmer looks upon timber planting as something entirely out of his line of work, and yet if he would be a broad and liberal cultivator of his fields he would recognize the great importance which this work has upon the fertility and value of the place. A great many farmers as they grow old allow their places to run down, reasoning that since they cannot be here much longer it doesn't matter how the place is kept up. This is misuse of money and time, for when the estate comes to be settled up the farm will have to be sold, and if not properly kept in order it will not bring one-half its real value. Every fanner owes it to his family and posterity to keep his farm in the best condition possible, even if he thinks lie is to die tomorrow. Timber may not have much commercial value in certain localities, but it should be grown, nevertheless, and new plantations put out occasionally to keep young, vigorous trees near at hand all of the time. But unless one is far removed from towns and cities, groves of locust trees can invariably be made profitable. Where there is a good sale for locust posts they can be made to produce at tiie rate of several hundred dollars worth per acre. After the grove has once been started the young trees will constantly grow up to take the place of those cut down, and trees may be cut off nearly every year. Maple trees can also be grown profitably, and sold for shade trees when young and vigorous. I have s.een plantations of maple trees bring high prices simply grown and sold for shade trees. But the farmers should set out plantations with the idea also of protecting his crops, and the trees can then be made doubly profitable. On many of our hillsides in the East groves of maple, locusts and other trees could be planted profitably. In their present condition the hillside lots are not of much value, as the water leaches through the soil or washes down the sides in gullies, so that all plant crops are torn up and destroyed. Good groves of trees could be planted here successfully, if only thinlyplanted grass could be. sown between them and obtain a good start. The roots of the trees would retain the fertility of the soil, and prevent the water from washing it away. On level fields the plantations of trees would be of value as windbreaks, as well as timber producers, and no farmer can afford to neglect this. The amount of wheat, corn and various grains that is destroyed every year by heavy winds should be a sufficient warning to tempt every farmer to make some protection for the plants. The advice to plant trees on the farm cannot be given too often, and if only one farmer should heed the warning each time such advice appears in print, the article would not be written in vain.— S. IK. Chambers, in American Cultlvatar.

THE STOCK RANCH. Devons for Beef and MI Ik. The largest Devons in this country and England, and many of the best milkers, are seldom seen at prize exhibitions and show yards, for at such places it is symmetry and compactness that attracts the attention of the judges. The journey to and from the exhibition and other incidental exciting causes always tends to reduce the flow of milk, so that while in the show yard the animals never yield the same quantity that they do at home. The purest bred Devons are, after all, better for the show yard than for practical purposes, and this is recognized even in England, for many of the best bcef-oroducing and milk yieldcrs never see the inside of exhibitions. The purest breeds are smaller in size, and while they contain many excellent qualities, they cannot surpass some of the heavier

weights which inevitably arrive at maturity earlier in their life. The pure Devons are better fitted for districts where the pasturage is not of the richest, and they are not sought after by those possessing rich pasturage. In Devonshire and Somersetshire the North Devons are not found on the richest districts, but on the light and varied soils, which are in places hilly and uneven. The North Devons are raised for prize shows, beef and milk, and the greatest care is taken to see that symmetry and compactness are perfect On the rich alluvial plains near the coast a larger and heavier class of Devons is raised, which furnish good beef to the London market, but less attention is paid to pedigree and breed. The Devons can be made - to attain great weight, but It is not characteristic of the breed. The beauty of the breed is that it can be adapted to a light soil, and excellent beef and milk produced therefrom. In England the size and general appearance of the Devons will be seen to change in different districts, which is due to the fact that certain classes of Devons have been adapted to certain grazing districts, where less attention is paid to pedigree, and more to general practical good points. The same breed could thus be raised successfully in many parts of this country where larger breeds cannot live off the scanty vegetation. Rich, luxuriant pasturage has a tendency to increase the Devons in size and to make them coarser and unsymmetricai in appearance. They are a breed especially adapted to a light soil, and at North Devon, the great breeding and grazing district of the animals, the pasturage is not the richest part of the two counties celebrated for raising this breed. The fact is, farmers in this country could improve their stock by using this breed in the light soil districts of the country both for feed and milk.—E. P. Smith, In American Cultl-. valor.

THE DAJUtI, Feeding Dairy Cows. The milk of a cow contains all the elements that form the animal body. We must therefore, select her food accordingly. We must also remember that two-thirds of the food consumed by a fair cow, says H. D. Thatcher & Co. in Ohio Farmer, is required to keep her body in repair, while the remaining one-third is converted into milk. It is an extra cow whose digestive organswill properly prespare for the lacteals double the food required to repair her own system, so that one-half of the daily ration is converted into milk. We would consider the following a fair daily ration for a heifer, fresh for first time: ha y 18 pounds Wheat bran 4 Groundouts 77.7 1 “ Cornmeal 7.7.7' 1 “ Carrots 7777..777777 6 “ or Early -cut hay 18 • Wheat bran 3 “ Cornmeal 777.777 1 • Middlings... . 7777.777 1 “ Oilmeal 77777 1 “ Beets .7 77 77'7 "" 10 • or Early-cut hay 18 • Oat straw g « Cotton-seed meal *" 1 “ Pea meal .77.77777 1 “ Ground oats ’............771 “ Wheat bran 77. 1 “ Cabbage 77777777 8 “ Other similar kinds of food that the dairyman finds more convenient to obtain can always be substituted. Good ensilage from corn, rye or other substance, will take place of the hay, carrots. beets and cabbages. When the cow is on good grass it will answer without other food, but the moment it is insufficient to entirely satisfy her, something must be provided to keep up the full flow of milk, for when once she is allowed to shrink she cannot be brought up again. e would consider the following a fair daily ration ior a cow weighing 1,000 pounds: hay 20 pounds Wheat bran 4 Cornmeal 77.777 4 “ Oilmeal 7.77777 4 “ Beets 777.710 “ or Early. cut hay 15 Straw 77 7 5 “ Wheat bran 777.. .7.7.77 7 8 “ Oilmeal ’’ ’ * 3 « C0rnmea1.777....77777777777 5 “ Carrots 77.77 8 “ or Corn ensilage 60 “ Wheat bran 7.7.7 6 “ Cornmeal 7 7.7. 6 " We are thoroughly convinced, by careful experiments made by ourselves at different times, that a cow will yield enough more milk from the same quantity of foyd, when, grain and dry hav are fed, to pay for cutting the hay with a straw-cutter and mixing the grain with it. When the grain is fed separately it passes directly into the second stomach, while, if mixed with the hav, it is all remasticated by the chewing of the cud, to the satisfaction of the cow and and the profit of the owner. We know very well that the average dairyman will not do this. He does, however a great many things that do not pay half as much profit for the labor.

THE POULTRY-YARD. Clover for Poultry. Clover is an excellent poultry food, not to be fed alone, but with grain. It takes the place, to a great degree, of the green food which poultry get for themselves when allowed to run on the farm in summer. Pack a few barrels of it away and see if it doesn’t pay,, in the increased number of eggs and better general health of your fowls. Green second crop clover should be used—the younger and tenderer the better. Pack it in a heavy iron-bound barrel, such as a vinegar or cider barrel. “Tramp'’ the clover in little by little, pressing it tightly as possible ■with a heavy piece of wood—a piece of cordwood, for Instance. Pound and jam it down till every bit of space in the barrel is full, then put on a cover, and on top of that a heavy stone, and let your “cheese'’ stand for a month. The stone ought to weigh 200 pounds, and then your clover will come out a solid block, that can bo. cut in slices. When you want to feed it. take the barrel apart," and put your clover cake on a box or in some dry place. Shave off thin slices with a sharp knife, and feed to the hens at noon instead of grain. Pack enough of the clover to last until you can let your hens out again in the spring, and after feeding it sec if your receipts in eggs don’t fully pay for all your trouble. The hens areas glad to get filling food as horses are to have hay.— Farm, Field and Stockman.

SlclllaiiH. Though not a particularly new breed of fowl, the Sicilians are not old standbys, having been imported some few years ago from , Sicily. The Sicilians belong to the Mediterranean type of fowls, says the Poultry Review, and are classed with what are known under the general term of Spanish fowls. They

! are confined to the yards of only a few breeders, and with them they are very ’ popular, and from the good reports we I continue to have from them, they are ! justly great favorites. I In shape, carriage, style and size they l resemble the Brown Leghorns; their ’ plumage resembles that of the Golden I Penciled Hamburgs. The comb is round and somewhat ’ shaped like a saucer, and nicely spiked ; round on the outside, and measures from I three-fourths to one and one-fourth of ■ an inch in diameter on hens, and still larger on cocks; and a small crest the size of a pea right behind the comb. The comb makes the birds look very nice. The face is red and they have yellow legs. Their great economic claim is based upon their laying. Their eggs are white in color, large in size; and produced in great numbers. They lay more eggs in winter when prices are high, than any of the small breeds. They are veritable egg machines, like all other varieties of the Spanish family they are nou-setters. As chicks and fowls they bear confinement well, are of a gentle disposition and small eaters. If given their liberty, they require little food, being good foragers. They are the fowls when eggs are wanted in large numbers and during the whole year. Possessing such laying qualities, we would bespeak for them the attention and consideration of farmers and poultrymen who breed for profit.

THE HOUSEHOLD. “Darned” Needlework, Embroidered mirror frames are the latest device of needlewomen, and are very beautiful in effect, as well as puzzling as to origin, when completed. When reproduced in cheap material and inferior work they will doubtless become as undesirable as are the painted frames once so much admired. The material employed for the frames is something rich and firm in weave, and the embroider}" is wrought in harmonious coloring of soft blue and pale rose shades for the conventionalized flowers, shades of bronze green for the foliage, and light gold filoselle darned work for the entire background. The embroidery when completed is laid on a flat or curved surface; at the inner edge a mount of white enamelled wood finishes it, and a carved scroll of the enamelled wood surrounds it. The background is almost invariably darned, as its effect is richer than any materia], no matter how costly and handsome, and the work recommends itself to the ladies to whom line needlework 13 a delight, because it requires much less time in completion than the large pieces frequently undertaken, but left unfinished for want of opportunity until the fancy for them has passed in the light of some fresh novelty.— New York Sun.

Bits of Information. Freckles, pimples, blackheads, eyebrows that meet and superfluous hair are defects easily and cheaply remedied. There are many ways of removing freckles. One is: To a quart of buttermilk add two-thirds of a cunful of cornmeal and a teaspoonful of salt; bathe the face every night, allowing the mixture to dry in. Lemon-juicd. in water will remove them, but it leaves the skin so tender that they are apt to be increased by it. Moistening the face and putting on powdered saltpetre is highly recommended. Tincture of benzoin one ounce, water, one pint, makes a delightful application, if a tablespoonful is added to a bowlful of water. Freckles, tan and pimples may be removed (and will stay removed as long as the remedy is used) by the corrosive sublimate lotion. The formula is; Five grains of corrosive sublimate, two ounces of alcohol and four ounces 0 water. For freckles, moisten a cloth with the lotion, wipe the face two or three times daily, and at night apply some kind t»f ointment, cold cream or camphor ice. A very nice ointment is made from one-third, white wax and twothirds lard; melt the wax first, and add the lard; pour into small tin moulds which have been dipped in cold water. The freckles and tan will disappear in about two weeks, Pimples should be bathed several times a day. Blackheads require flour of sulphur, used after the lotion treatment. The face should be washed with good soap. Do not use the high scented soaps; the white castile, made from olive oil and bicarbonate of soda, is always safe to use. Wipe the face thoroughly and dip a soft flannel in the flour of sulphur, and rub all over the face, taking care not to get any in the eyes. In a few minutes, wash off with the soap and water and bath with the lotion. The sulphur may be used twice or three times a week, until the blackheads are removed; afterwards once a week will be sufficient to keep them off, using the lotion once a day. Where the skin is coarse and red, a thin gruel should be made from oatmeal and strained. To a pint of gruel, add a very small pinch of salt, an ounce of alcohol and a teaspoonful of tincture of" benzoin. Moisten the face with this and wipe with a soft cloth. When the complexion is thick and oily, wash with Italian medicated soap, use the sulphur j once a week and the lotion daily. Out-of-door exercise should betaken every day, and frequent warm baths with a little ammonia in the water. Fresh fruit should be eaten judiciously. A dish of raw tomatoes, with shivered ice over them, if eaten for breakfast, will bo found not only apetizing, but as beneficial as a liver pill. Bad breath, if it comes from sore throat, may be cured by making a solution of chlorate of potash, a teaspoonful of crystal to a pint of water. Dose, a teaspoonful every hour until relieved. Where the teeth are decayed, they should be taken care of by a competent dentist; in the mean time, the mouth may be rinsed with a very weak solution of permanganate of potash. Dissolve some of the crystals, say a teaspoonful, in a pint of water; put enough of this in the water in which the mouth is to be rinsed to make it a rose pink. Wash the teeth and rinse the mouth well. This is a poison and should he kept in a safe place, as should the corrosive sublimate lotion, which is a violent poison if swallowed. When the gums are diseased, the myrrh and chalk dentifice is excellent. Eyebrows that meet are not becoming, but may be easily removed with small tweezers. The shape of the eyebrows may be improved by judicious thinning. When the eyebrows are too thin, frequent brushing with a small brush will increases them.— Good Housekeeping.

Van illu, Cream Sauce. Two beaten eggs, four tablespoonfuls granulated sugar, two cups sweet milk (or one each of milk or water), butter size of hickory nut; stir over the fire in double boiler, until as thick as very rich cream. Do not boil. When cold add a very little vanilla. Use sauce cold.

GEN. JOUBERT.

The Ex-President of an African Republic on ■ Visit to the United States. Ex-Vice President Joubert, of the Transvaal republic in South Africa, is visiting the United States, and was in Chicago recently. As his name indicates, he is of French descent. The Transvaal, like the Orange Free State, is peopled by Boers, who are the descendants of Dutch colonists, mixed largely with families of Huguenot blood, who originally settled at the Cape of Good HopeZ During the last war with England, which culminated in the defeat and death of Sir George Colley, nephew of Lord Wolseley, at Majuba Hill, and the concession of the Transvaal claims, Joubert was commander of the Boer forces in the field

GENERAL JOUBERT.

and was one of the leading spirits in the resistance to England. General Joubert’s life has been a remarkable one. He was born in the British Cape Colony. While a child he was taken by his parents north on a “trekking” expedition. From a poor boy he became Chairman of Congress, Speaker of Parliament, Secretary of Native Affairs, Vice President and Commander General, a position he now holds. He is the richest man in the Transvaal, being a large landowner and a planter. General Joubert has been elected president of a commission to arrange for a Transvaal display at the World’s Fair. According to General Joubert America is carrying everything before it in the Transvaal, American manufactures being given the preference over those of Europe.

RANKS NEXT TO MOODY.

No more successful follower of Dwight L. Moody as an evangelist hasappeared than is now recognized in the person of B. Fay Mills. At Decatur,.

REV. B. FAY MILLS.

Jackson, and Springfield, in Hlinois, he has led religious services, and haswon upon the hearts of people, largely because of his forcible and earnest pulpit protestations of gospel truth, accompanied by simple and judicious methods of reaching those with whom he is brought in contact. He only labors with such churches of an evangelical character in any given place asshaM have agreed to unite harmoniously and heartily in earnest and faithful work. Mr. Mills is now conducting meetings in and around Chicago. Perhaps no evangelist with the exception of Moody has had such phenomenal and uniform success in saving souls as Mr. Mills. Everwhere be has gone his labors have been attended by religious awakenings the fame of which has spread the world over. Mr. Mills is a native of Mprristown, N. J., and is 33 years old. His home at present is in Providence, R. I.

WEARING SHOES ALTERNATELY

T is true economy aw ■ for every person to feJS I h av e several pairs |||f Kg of shoes and to wear them alternately. In the first -dS>C7d| place, by so doing, a» corns and other soreness of the members may be a. t o a considerable degree avoided.

These come from continual friction Or pressure at a certain point, and as no two pairs of shoes “bear” on the feet quite alike, the change breaks up the continuity, and obviates or prevents the unpleasant result It is also better for the shoes Do not wear them, in ordinary weather, if the best service is desired, more than three or four days, or a week at most, before giving them a chance to become thoroughly dry. Many, if not most, feet emit sufficient moisture to affect the shoe, giving it the sticky, unpleasant feeling which is so familiar, but to which we do not often give a second, thought. Contrast this feeling with, that of a shoe which has been standing unused for a week or a month, and notice how grateful the feeling of thorough dryness in the last-named. Perhaps the reader never thought of that before.