Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Page 3

AT WAR WITH HERSELF.

The Story of a Woman's Atonement, by Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTER XXX VlOon tinned. “Do not doubt me, Paul,” she whispered. “My life is so novel to me. Let me enjoy it undisturbed for some time longer. He was satisfied: he was beside himself- with joy that she had voluntarily given him this little caress —she who was so distant and reserved. Her manner had often puzzled him. He had no right to doubt her, yet there was something sc strange about her conduct. , .She seemed always as though she were trying to make amend t to him for something—as though all her affection and kindness came from a desire to make atonement. He could not understand her. She had never wronged him; it was not her fault that she was the nearest of kin. There was no reason why she should accept him if she did not love him. £3he had had offers from some of the most distinguished men in England, and had refused them for his sake. She must love him after all, but he wished that she would show her affection in a fashion that he could better understand. He saw her often —he rode over from Weildon every day—but, in some 6trange kind of ■way, he never seemed to draw nearer to her pr to understand her inner life better than he had at first. Ethel Dacre was still at Crown Leighton, althought it was sorely against her will that she remained there; but General Dacre had gone abroad, and he had said that he should much prefer his daughter's residing with Tier friend . during his absence than keeping house all alone at Westfield. Ethel could offer no reasonable objection, therefore she remained. * * * * * * *

One bright morning in September Lernie stood at the library window alone. The lilies were dead, the roses faded, and in their place great sunflowers turned their bright faces upward, and tall dahlias reared their heads with handsome flowers. The leaves were falling from the trees; they lay, crimson, brown and gold, on the ground; the wind swept them along, and then moaned over them. The fair face looking wistfully from the window at the falling leaves had changed most remarkably. It was not less beautiful; but the brightness and radiance were gone—there was a worn look that did not belong to youth —the eyes were vei’y bright, but there was somewhat of fever in their brightness —there was a flush on the beautiful face, but it told more of unrest than of health—there was a tremulous movement about the white jeweled hands, a sudden quivering of the lips, both tokens of a mind ill at ease. No one saw Lady Chamleigh without remarking the change. Miss Templeton had been from Kew to spend the summer vacation, as she told the parents of her pupils, with the Countess of Charnleigh, of Crown Leighton, and when she had seen Leonie, she had cried out in wonder—- “ This gay life dees not suit you, Lady Charnleigh; you are so changed. You look as though you had had long years of incessant gayety —you want rest. ” “Rest!” the girl" had re-echoed mournfully. “There is no rest in this world." And after Miss Templeton had been there for a few days, and had noticed, to her dismay, the fover of unrest in which the girl lived, her surprise had become-greater still. “You cannot sleep in the dark, ” she had said, one day, after overhearing a conversation between Leonie and her maid; “you do not like the twilight: vou cannot endure to be left alone, you crave for continual excitement as children do for foed. My dear Lady Charnleigh, you give me the impression that you are at war with yourself.”

How the words had taunted her. How they taunted her still! They described her state of mind as no other words could have done. It was not a tempest, not a struggle, but a continual warfare —and the warfare was self against self. There was hardly a single moment, night or day, during which her better, nobler, higher self was not crying out in rebellion against the deed she had done. There was hardly a single moment in which heart or soul was free from that war. She was swayed by impulse as were the leaves by the wind. She would rise one morning determined to write to Paul Plemyng, and tell him all—determined to undo her great wrong—to give up the wealth she was so unjustly keeping from him—to be honest, loyal and true. The resolution would last until she went downstairs and saw the magnificence that surrounded her. “I cannot give it up,” the unhappy girl would say; “it is the best part of my life. I could not endure poverty after this.” At other times, the memory of the lover she had lost would be so strong within her that she would be ready to give up everything she bad in the world only to see him again. At such times she loathed even the name of Paul Flemyng; she avoided seeing him when he came; she went out into the green solitude of the woods and called by name him whom she had sent from her with a lie. No wonder that the radiant face grew worn-looking, and that the bright eyes lost their clear light; no wonder that sweet snatches ot song and sunny laughter were no longer heard. Lady Charnleigh stood watching the falling leaves. The wind* no longer wafted to her rich, warm gusts of perfume; it was wailing over the dead flowers. “My life was virtually over,” she was thinking to herself; “this world has no tnore to give me. I have lost my lover: nor spring nor summer will ever bring him back to me. Some time, sooner or later, I shall marry Paul Flemyng. I shall live and die Countess of Charnleigh. I shall live and die one of the fairest and richest women in England. But my life will not'have been a happy one, though I have my heart’s wish granted to me. Oh, if I had never found that will, or if, on finding it, I had but acted loyally, Bertram would have been mine, and I should have been happy!” She had made herself believe that in a short time she should forget all that was unpleasant and enjoy her wealth as she had been wont to do. She had believed herself capable of growing hardened in her sin; but the conscience she had done her best to trample under foot seemed to grow more vigorous in its opposition day by day. “I am at war with myself,” she saicl, "and peace will come to hie nevermore. Was the prize worth the sin? Too late! It is too late now. I cannot change what I have done. I must take my life as it comes, and make the best of it.” ( So through the autumn and winter she did her best to drown all regrets. Even Lady Fanshawe, who enjoyed gayety as much as any one, was almost astounded. There was no cessation to her young relative’s dissipation; balls, fetes, charade parties, dinner parties, archery meetings, croquet parties, picnics, every variety of amusement that it was possible to imagine, followed each other in rapid succession. No

day passed without some kind of entertainment. Leonie seemed to dread only one thing, and that was time and leisure and thought. Lady Fanshawe and Miss Dacre had grown tired of asking each other what had come over her. Ethel thought she had been deceived in her first .estimate of her character. She seemed to live only to kill time, and not to turn it to profit. Even those who shared her hospitality began to talk of her and say that it* was sad to see one so young giving up her heart and soul to the pursuit of pleasure. Paul Flemyng was the only one who saw no faults in her: he made all allowances. It was but natural, he said to himself, that, on suddenly finding herself possessed of almost unbounded wealth, she should want to enjoy it in her own way. Spring came round again, and it was decided that Lady Charnleigh, Ethel and Lady Fanshawe should go early to London. The Duchess of Warminster had invited Leonie to spend some time with her in her beautiful villa near the Thames, and she had joyfully accepted the invitation. “The ghost that h aunts me at Crown Leighton will stay there,” she said to herself, “and I’ll be happy again. *

CHAPTER XXXVIL People in London made the same remarks about Lady Charnleigh as her neighbors in the country bad made. Gayety and pleasure were delightful; but it was possible to have too much of both, and the young countess went quite to the extreme. Did she ever rest? Did she ever sleep? Her days and nights seemed to be one leng round of gayety; she danced, sang, acted most gloriously in private theatricals and charades—she did everything except reflect. The season was half over when the Duchess of Warminster insisted upon Lady Charnleigh's paying her promised* visit. “I saw you at the opera last night,” said her grace, “and although you talked and laughed so gayly, I thought you looked very tired,and not at ail well. They tell me you lead the gayest of lives in London—a week at the villa will do you good. Life is not so hurried there.” “It is not quiet, I hope,” returned Leonie, quickly: “there is nothing* I dislike so much. ” “My dear Lady Charnleigh, forgive me—remember 1 am old enough to be your mother—but I would not counsel you to speak often in that fashion; you mean no harm, but such words do not sound welL No, we are not quiet—that is, there is a large party always staying with us, and each one amuses him or herself according to taste or fancy. 1 have never yet seen any one looking dull. ” Lady Charnleigh went, leaving Lady Fanshawe and Miss Dacre, who had declined a like invitation, in the London mansion alone. Leonie found lite at the Duchess’ villa gay enough and pleasant enough; no one ever interfered with visitors there—each one did just as he or she liked; and one Sunday morning, when Leonie awoke, the world around looked so fair and bright that she decided upon a ramble through the woods. As a rule, she hated and dreaded solitude, but to-day heart and soul desired it. She said to herself that she would go out away from the world of men and women to where the green boughs waved in the wind, and the birds sang of peace and of love. She wandered through the woods—how far she did not know; she walked fast, memory and fancy both busy with that terrible past which she could never undo. She wandered over the rich clover meadows, past the hedges all covered with hawthorn, past pretty limpid brooks that sang of Heaven s great love for men in making earth so fair. She came to a narrow gieen lane, where wild flowers grew in rich profusion; there was a rude stile at the end, and when Leonie reached that she stood for some moments lost in admiration.

There was a broad path that ran through the clover meadows, and the path was bordered by tall, stately elm trees, it led to .the most picturesque village that she had ever seen; and there, at the foot of the hill, stood an old gray church, the tapering spire and the arched windows of which were covered with ivy. There was a quaint, old-fashioned gate standing open, as though inviting all to enter; within were green graves where the dead slept in that beautiful summer calm. As she stood watching the tranquil loveliness, the bells began to chime. Never while life lasted did she forget the solemn beauty of that hour. The birds were singing around her, the bees hovered over the rich clover, the bright-winged butt3rflies sought the wild roses, the sweet western wind came laden with the rich odor of hawthorn, and above all was heard the. sweet chiming of the Sabbath bells. It was all so fair so calm, so sweet, so like a glimpse of the far-off meaven, that the girl stood still and felt the solemn, beautiful calm stealing over her.

How long was it since she had knelt at her mother’s knee and learnt her simple prayers? Exalted in rank, how long was it since she had risen in the morning and said one word of prayer—since she had offered one word of thanks to Heaven ere she had retired to rest? How long was it since she had ceased to read the grand old Bible stories? She had done nothing right, nothing good, since she had bartered her soul for richos and her love for luxury! They were going into church now, gray-haired men and little children; the sweet, simple faith of her childhood seemed to come back to her as she watched them the time recurred when she had believed with a child’s faith that if she was good she would go to heaven. Was there any heaven for her, her hands laden with theft, her soul stained with dishonor, with fraud, with untruth?

She had hardly looked at the religious side of the question before; but now that it was brought before her she stood, a< it were, face to face with her own soul, wilh its dark stain of crime, and she turned, shuddering, from it. In the whirl of dissipation she., had kept such thoughts at bay; in this sweet, soleunn time, when the Sabbath bells were chiming, she could not evade them. The conscience she had so long deadened cried loudly at last. Leonie drew her veil tightly over her face and entered the church; it was not like'y, she though to herself, that any one here would recognize her; she was only a visitor, and might never see the place again. After morning prayers the congregation sang a sweet old hymn, a: d then a white-haired minister stood up to preach. He was not eloquent, he was no grand orator, but : his lips had been touched by divine fire. He spoke from the depths of his hfeart, and his words touched the hearts of others. He spoke on a common theme; he told his simple hearers that no one who persisted in sin could ever go to heaven. Such plain, earnest : words, so true t so strong, no one who j heard could ever forget. Long before he had finished, the 1 fair, stately head was bent, and tears flowed like rain from the wearied eyes. No hope, no heaven! Was an earthly crown to be vyeighed in the .balance

with an eternal one? What mattered it that a diadem should shine on her brow here if her face was never to be seen among the heaven? Could it be possible that the punishment of her sin would be so terrible, so great? Sbe did not fear punishment in this world. Here she could keep her ill-gotten goods, here she could enjoy the wealth for which she had given so much; but the justice of that other world was inexorable. She wept, and the tears of pain caused by an awakened conscience were as the cooling dew to the thirsty flowers. Suddenly she raised her head and saw that most of the people had left the church, and that the white-haired minister stood in the vestry alone. Impulsive as she had over been, Leonie rose and went to him. As one in a dream she saw a little square room with the branches of a laburnum-tree waving against the window. She turned to the minister—neither then nor afterward did she learn his name. “You are a truthful, earnest man,” she said, “and I want to ask you about a soul that is in trouble—will you answer me?” “To the best of my power,” he replied. “Thus it was—where it happened matters not,” she began. “Some time since there were two claimants for a large property—one a man, the other a girl. The girl, by the chief judges in the land, was pronounced next of kin, and as such succeeded to the inheritance. When she had enjoyed it long ehough to appreciate its value, she found a will, by which the late owner left all to tho man. What was she bound to do?” “Give up the inheritance to him, most certainly, ” replied the minister. “But she could not—she could not go back to poverty and privation—she could not give up the wealth and luxury. She kept the will and determined to marry the man whom she had defrauded —did not that meet tho difficulties of the case?” she continued, eagerly. “Wai not that restitution sufficient? She would give him all in that way. Speak to me—tell me, was not that enough?” “No,” he said, “that was not enough —either to satisfy the law of man or the law of heaven.” She clasped her hands with passionate eagerness and ds ew nearer. “But do you not: ee that by marrying him she gives him the property just as though sne had put the will into his hands?" “No,” he objected; “it would be but left-handed justice after all—not pure and perfect. The sin of theft and fraud—of injustice and dishonor—would still be upon that girl’s soul.” “Would there be hope of heaven for such a soul?” she asked. “I cannot—l dare net say; I should not like to die with tho same stain upon my conscience. ” | k“You are a good man,” she said, turning away, “pray for a soul in pain.” Before he could answer her she had gone; but all day and all night those words rang in his ears —“pray for a soul in pain.” |TO BE CONTINUED. |

HE IS A GOOD FELLOW.

A Traveler Has a Good Word for tho Original Turk*. Of the Turks it may be doubted whether they should he called a nation or an agglomeration of individuals of many races who find one common bond in Islam, says a traveler writing in a current magazine. In the first mosque you enter at haphazard, you may see the pure Turk, often as fair and flaxen as any Norwegian, prostrating himself and repeating his prayers beside the blackest of black Africans. And as you enter the sacred place both, at tho self-same moment, will instinctively glance at your feet to see whether you have taken off your shoes or have slipped on a dusty pair of the “babuj” which will generally he offered you at the door. Among Mohammedans, as among Roman Catholics, universality of common practices has something imposing in it, and you instinctively respect the Mohammedan for requiring you to reverence the spot on which he prays. And here at the very outset let me say that after many visits and some residence in the East I am strongly inclined to believe in the original Turk—when he is to be found. Greeks, Armenians, Persians and Africans have given him a bad name by calling themselves Turks and sometimes by misgoverning his country, but he himself is a fine fellow, and belongs to the superior, dominant races of the world. He is naturally a fair man, with blue eyes and of fiesh complexion, well grown, uncommonly strong, and very enduring. He is sober; he is clean; and he is honest even to his own disadvantage, being by no means a match for the wily Greeks and Armenians who are perpetually fatteping on his heart. There is a common proverb in the East to the effect that it takes ten Jews* to cheat an Armenian, and ten Armenians io cheat one Persian. The pure Turk has no chance against such people.

Uncle Sam’s Prisoners.

There are now about 1,500 individualS, sentenced for violations of the laws of the United States, scattered about in forty odd penitentiaries in various parts of the country. The government sadly needs more prisons. It owns at jjresent only five penal establishments —two penitentiaries in Washington State and Utah, and jails at Washington City, Portsmouth, Ark., and Sitka, Alaska. Besides these it rent 3 a few jails in Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory. The institutions mentioned being insufficient, Uncle Sam is obliged to make use of those belonging to the States. A bill wa3 passed by the last Congress establishing three federal prisons big enough to accommodate 1,500 guosts, but the necessary clause appropiating money to build them with was omitted from the law by accident.

Married One Hundred Years.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of a marriage is a silver wedding, the fiftieth is a golden wedding, the seventyfifth is a diamond wedding, but what is the one hundredth? An impossible thing, says the learned editor, when the question is referred to him. Yet such a wedding is actually reported as celebrated not long ago in the town of Zsombolyl, Hungary, where the venerable couple have long been allowed a pension in recognition of their great age and their fidelity to each other. The marriage of this aged pair is duly and officially recorded as having taken place in May, 1793, at which time, according to the record, they were of marriageable age. As in Hungary at that time a bridegroom must have reached the age of ZO and a bride that of 15, the pair must now be at least 120 and 115 years old.

The highest pressure used to drive a water wheel is claimed by a valley near Grenoble, France, where a turbine ten feet in diameter has been operated since 1857 with ahead of 1,638 feet. A flow of about seventy-five gallons of water per second give’s a force of 1,500horse power. Do not force others to bear the burden of your song.

PLEA FOR INCOME TAX

MR. M'MILLIN, OF TENNESSEE, . IN ITS FAVOR. Saji the Rich Should Pijr More Taxes— Measure Is Opposed bj the Republican Minority—lnsurgents st Rio Taught a Valuable Lesson. Debate In the House. Tho debate on the internal revenuo bill, including the provision for the income tax, began in the House Monday. Mr. MeMillin (Dem., Tenn.l. Chairman of the sub-committee of Ways and Means on Internal Revenue, began his argument. Said he: If a man owns (5U.UJ0.000 or (100,000,000 north of property in the United States, as some do, he pays only on whst be eats, what he drinks, what he wears and the other things he usea The time has come when this should be changed. 1 ask oTany reasonable person whether It is unjust to expect that a small per cent of this enormous rerenue shall be placed upon the accumulated wealth of the country Instead of placing all upon the consumption'of the country. Is It not time that the great estates, which aie protected by our army, which are defended by our navy, which are benefited by the various operations of our Government, should contribute in some greater degree to carry on that government through which alone they could have been accumulated, or by which they are to be protected? The people of the United (tales do not ask that all of It shall be placed on accumulated wealth! , But they do insist that It is not unreasonable or unjust to require that a very small proportion shall be. And yet when It Is proposed to shift this burden from thoso who cannot bear it to those who can; to divide it between consumption and wealth; to shift it from the laborer who has nothing but hi 9 power to toll and sweat to the man who has a fortune, made or inherited, we hear a hue and cry raised by some Individuals that It is unjust and inquisitorial in Its nature and should not be adopted.

Tben we Insist. Mr. Chairman, that It Is not unreasonable or unjust that a small part of this money should be collected from this accumulation. 1 know of no argument that is at all conclusive or rutionnl that can be urged against this form of taxation. I believe that onco It Is inaugurated It will not cease to be a source from which to draw some of the vast revenue that we need. Mr. Chairman, It has been the effort of ihe Ways and Means Committee to so construct the bill as to leave It, as far as possible, free from crltlctaip. Unlike the old law. It does not require a schedule from every citizen. Only those who havo $4,000 Income havo to mako a return. There is nothing in this against which any just man can complain; there is nothing to arouse fear that any 111 can come from it. It is no tax on broad. It is no embargo pluced upon prosperity. It is no effort to prevent prosperity. It is no death-blow aimed at commorce. But It Is an effort to In some way require each citizen to contribute to the government in proportion to wbat he has. Other Arguments Pro and Con. Mr. McMlllln was followed by Representative Ray (Rep. N. Y.), who opened the debate for the Republicans In opposition to the income tax. He attributed the business depression to threatened tariff changes and contrasted a Democratic policy on an Income tax during the war and at present

Mr. Tarsney (Dem.. Mo.), member of the Ways and Means Committee, followed. The income tax was first resorted to In the dark days of the civil war. When the war ended and tho people began demanding a reduction of their excessive burdens, instead of taking the taxes off the uecossarles of life by lowering the tariff rates one by one, the internal-revenue taxes were removed. The taxes which the rich wore able to bear were repealed; the taxes of the poor wore retained. This was unjust. Men should pay according to their wealth for the support and protection of the Government. There were s7o,ooo,ooU,ooV\vorth of property In this country. If oiro man owned $1,000,000,000 worth would It not be just that he should be taxed his equitable share for the proportion of his property? Mr. Dlnsmore (Dem., Ark.) said this hour was an auspicious one. as It marked a new era in taxation. It meant that tiie wealth of the country was to pay a just tribute to the Government for tho benefits it received irom the governmental system. It meant that ihe great burden of taxation was to be taken from tho shoulders of the poor. Mr. Daniels (Kep, N. Y.) called attention to the hostile attitude occupied by the Democratic party toward the income tax for years and quoted tho words of groat Democratic leaders like Samuel J. Tilden In condemnation of It. He proceeded with n careful argument against the income tax. Mr. Williams (Dem., Mlsa), in supporting the Income tax, said that It was not it new thing. It has been resorted to by every democracy since the days of Solon as the most equitable of till taxes. He was followed by Mr. Hall (Dem.. Mo.), who has been one of tho most earnest advocates of an Income tax. Taxation, as Mr. Hall asserted, came from ono of throe sources—rent, profit or wages. Ho quoted from Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and other eminent political economists In support of the principle of an Income tak. Mr. Covert (Dem.. N. Y.) In criticising the action of the Ways and Meitns Committee said he was opposed to free trado and the Income tax.

DECKS CLEARED FOR ACTION.

American War-Ships Prepare to Resent an Insult at Ulo. Monday was one of the most exciting days that Rio Janeiro has experienced since the commencement of hostilities - between the insurgents and the Brazilian Government. The United States naval fleet stationed in that harbor has furnished the excitement. Provoked beyond the endurance of patience by the continued carelessness of the gunners aboard the rebel watship Aquidaban, and tried by the indifference shown on the part of the revolutionary Admiral to all his protests that American vessels entering or leaving the harbor were not afforded proper protection by the rebel fleet. Admiral Benham made a demonstration with the American war vessels under his command which will undoubtedly have the effect hereafter of securing proper recognition of the rights of vessels under the American flag. Three American vessels, the bork Amy, Captain Blackford; the bark Good News, Captain Myrick, and the bark Julia Rollins, Captain Kiehno, were fired on last Saturday by the insurgent vessels. The three captains held a hurried conference and determined to appeal for protection to the United Sta:os war ships and to request that the barks be given an escort to the wharves. Capts. Kiehne, Myrick, and Blackford put off in small boats at great danger to themselves, and pulling up to where the flag ship New York was stationed, stated the case to Admiral Benham. He promised to adjust matters. Admiral Benham then sent or.o of his officers to the Aquidaban with orders to acquaint Admiral Da Gama with the-facti and to ask him to have an end put to the reckless gunnery. Da Gama was apparently in a very bad humor when the American officer arrived on board, and with many exclamations of impatience he listened to the recital of the grievance. When the American officer had finished making his statement, Da Gama, with a shrug of his shoulders, said in a very sharp tsne: “It is not .my fault. The American ship captains should know enough to keep themselves and their crews out of range of our guns. I shall not take any notice of this matter. ” This curt response to his message aroused the ire of Admiral Benham, and he determined to make such a showing that it would produce a lading effect upon the insurgents. In the morningi she decks of the vessels of the American fleet,wore cleared for action. The bark Amy, the captains of the

other vessels haring took her position in the ranks of the American vessels, arid was escorted to the wharf. Throughout the whole affair not a single shot was tired, but the scene was quite as impressive as if this had been done, and the incident has taught the insurgents a lesson. After passing along Rio’s water front the fleet returned out into the bay and anchored in nearly the same position it had occupied previous to the demonstration. Full protection Irom this time on will be given to all American vessels.

HISTORY COSTING MILLIONS.

The Government In Preparing an Enormous Work on the Rebellion. The biggest literary work ever undertaken in America* is tho military history now being proiuced by the United States government under the title of “War of the . Rebellion. ” It was begun twenty years ago. The whole work will embrace ,120 huge royal octavo volumes of 1,000 page seach and a gigantic atlas, and tho cost will be about $2,500,000. Each separate book in a set is three inches thick and weighs from fifty to sixty ounces and the combined, weight of an entire set will be 520 pounds. The volumes, if set up in a row on a single shelf, will extend a distance of thirty feet. Eleven thousand copies will be printed, so that the edition will comprise 1,320.000 books of 1,000 printed pages, aggregating 1,320,000,000 pages of matter, exclusive of the atlas. Up to this date eighty-nine serial volumes have been published and about $1,800,000 has teen sj ent in all branches of the work, or about $20,000 a volume. The printing and binding alone cost SIO,OOO a volume, while tho previous preparation cf each volumo for tho printers’ hands cost an equal sum.

SENT TO THE SENATE.

One Envoy Extraordinary and a Number of Minor Offlclnls No mln it tori. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: Envoy Extraordinary and Mtniater Plenipotentiary ot the United States to Bolivia— Thomgs Moonlight, of Kansas. United States Consuls—Edgar Battle, of Texaß, at Acapulco, Mexloo; I.ouis Brnhl, of Texas, at Catania, Italy; Frank W. Roberta, of Maine, at Nogalea. Mexloo, Collector of Customs—John T. Galley, at Los Angeles, Cal. Surveyor General of Washington—William P. Watson. Receiver of Public Moneys at Seattle, Wash. —John V. Terry. Iteglaters of Land Oflleea—Thomas J. Bolton, at Los Angeles, Cal.: Solon 11. Patrlok. Visalia, Cal.; Raymond Miller, Pueblo, Col.; William C. Bowen, Del Norte. Col.: Louis Davis, of Georgia, at l’crry. 0. T. United States Marshals—Wm. L. Desmond, Northern District of Iowa: Charles R. Pratt, Western District of Michigan. United States Attorneys—Alfred P. Lyon, Eastern District of Michigan; John Power, Western District of Michigan: Robert Culberson, Western District of Texas. Judge of Probate in tho County of Emery, Utah—Herbert Savage. To be Rear Admiral—Commodore John G. Walker. Postmasters Salle: David P. O’Leary, Evanston. Iown: A. J. Salts, Corning: Mosos M. Ham, Dubuqne; Thomas llowtnan, Council Bluffs. Michigan: John Drawe, Marino City: William A. Ilahlko, Alma; Alfred V. Erlcdcrich Traverse City; Stiles Kennedy, St. Louts. Minnesota: J, Leroy Paul, Brown Valloy; A. W. Blakely, Rochester.

How the World Wags.

Jim Corbett, tho pugilist, arrived in New York, was given an ovation, and mado a spooch. C. W. Leach, a prominent mining man, was accidentally asphyxiated at Grass Valley, Cal. Attorney Madigan, of Now Ulm, Minn., will go to the penitentiary for live years for perjury. Matthew R. Ashton was found guilty of killing his aunt, Mrs. Daniel Stone, of Janesville, Wis. Mrs. Lease opened tho campaign at Topeka, Kan., and paid her l aspects to Gov. Lewelling in her speoch. W. J. Holt, Fort Wayne, Ind., was fatally shot by the explosion of a revolver in his overcoat pocket. Joseph Brown, hit on tho head at tho McNamara riot in Kansas CUy, is expected to die from tho wound. One of the Floming brothers, desperadoes, was killed and the other captured by officers near Boggos, W. Va. Bad-debt collectors have been swindling residents in Southern Minnesota, in twenty-one towns secqrjng $30,000. Henry Hurbon, insarie convict in the Columbus, Ohio, prison, is thought to have died from the effects of a beating. Suicides: Bruce Grant at Newton, Ga.; George Helche, at Pittsburg, Pa.; Marshal N. Crawford, at Kansas City. Mills of the American Cereal Company at Akron, Ohio, wore destroyed. The loss is $lo0,000; insurance about half. Clay Shackelford shot and badly wounded his brother Bates at Richmond, Ky., in a quarrel about a euchre party. Stockholder Hatch, of Now York, .declare i Nicaragua Canal funds have “been misappropriated and tho officers overpaid. The 8-year-old son of C. F. Emmett while coasting was run down and killed by an electric motor at St. Joseph, Mo. Wm. Chapman, a Pittsburg," Ran., merchant, was found horribly mutilated in his store, p:esumably tho work of robbers.

While riding a railroad velocipede near Spokane, Wash., Joseph Wall was run down by a Union Pucilio engine and killed. Egypt’s Khedive may bo deposed. Tho succession will lull upon his brother, Prince Meliomat Ali, in all probability. Professor Grogorowitsch will try in a series of explerim. nts to hypnotize Milwaukee subjects by telephone from Chicago. Emperor William’s 36th birthday anniversary was brilliantly observed at Berlin, overshadowing the Bismarck demonstration. Three prominent Cleveland, Ohio, men were arrested by government inspectors for running a fraudulent insurance scheme. John Rhodes, claiming to be a revenue agent, was killed with a club by Samuel Williamson, a negro, in Obion County, Tennessee. Louisiana Supremo Court reversed the decision of the lower court in the Olympic Club case, thus ending prize fighting in the State. During the year the Chicago Citizens’ League prosecuted 701 saloonkeepers for violation of the law. Fir.es and costs were $10,753. By a lamp explosion at Cleveland Samuel Mawby, an aged invalid, was terribly burned, from the effects of which ho died an hour later. Tom and Bryan Leath are suspected of having poisonod James Basket, a wealthy old miser, who died suddenly at Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. A. E. Buohanan, wife of a prominent young dentist of Indianapolis, commenced suit for divorce, alleging desertion on the eighth anniversary of their marriage. John B. Johnson and his son George fought If with shotguns and revolvers while drunk at Los Angeles, Cal.i The father was shot in the breast add the sod la the abdomen.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Farmers Hhodtd Not Neglect Opportunities for DUcus'lng Ways and Mesn« of Success—Clean and Contenlent Pump Platform—Low Yields of Corn. Convenient Pamp Platform. A correspondent of the American Agriculturist has Just fitted up his pump platform in a convenient wav, as seen in the engraving. Agalvanized Iron pan fifteen inches across and eight inches deep, of a semicircular shape so as to fit snugly against the pump, with an inch pipe to convey tic water, is placed directly under tho spout. Into this pan all tho drippings and water that slops over fall, and are conveyed by the pipe to a flower garden where tho

IMPROVED PUMP PLATFORM.

ground is irrigated, by filling a small trough into which the plpo empties to save tho supply for the altches. Bohind the pump a trap door, fitted with strap hinges and a hasp, staple and padlock, opens into a convenient receptacle In which butter, cream, vegetables to bo warmed over, and meaLs can be kept quite as well as In a refrigerator, and without tho expense for Ice. The platform is mado of a framework of two by six inch joists, with a floor of matched flooring nailed on both sides, tho interveiling space being filled with clean sawdust This keeps out frost in winter and heat In summer, and with the provision for currying off tho drippings, It is always clean and healthful. Keeping; Ten ms Busy. It Is one of the ehlof difficulties of farming on a smull acreage that tho necessary work to bo done In plowlng, cultivating, and marketing crops requires a Tull team part of the time, while there is not sufficient work to keep it ctiiployed all the time. Idle horses soon eat morotlmn their labor during a small part of the year Is worth. Yet the small farmer who relies on hiring team work done is alwa\s handicapped by finding It Impossible to hlro teams when he most needs them. The only other recourso is to change tho methods of farming. Put on nioro labor’ and capital por acre, and thus grow crops which will keep the teams busy most of tho year hauling thorn to maiket. If there aro days when no marketing is to be done, tho teams oan bo employed just as profitably In drawing manure. In most cases this on a small farm will make It necessary to buy most Ji not ail the food that the teamsoat This Is what market gardeners almost invariably do. They cannot afford to grow hay or grain on land that 'will prolnce live and perhaps ten times as valuable a crop in something, else. Buying all their feed they know just what It costs them, and are less likely to lose by keeping teams Idle. Tho chief difficulty with rnanw farmers In making their farming pay is not recognizing that the feed which they grow and feed Is worth its markot value, and that whatever eats such feed must return at least what It has cost, and can be sold for. Unless this Is attended to, the losses from non-paying itock will eat up profits that can bo iiade otherwise. Farnisr* 1 Mooting*. Even thpugh tho farmer has felt to some extent the general depression of business that has prevailed, he can find much consolation In the thought that “the farmer feeds them all,” and no matter how other kinds Df business may lie effected, the soil will still be called upon to yield of Its abundance to feed tho hungry and Indirectly clothe the naked. For this reason farmers should neglect none of the opportunities offered lor social intercourse and discussion of ways and means of success In the assemblages of all kinds that will occur during the winter months for the consideration and discussion of matters connected with different branches ot farm industry. It makes little dlfierence what thp meeting is, whether It Is one of fruit growers, stock raisers, of those interested in the breeding of horses, tho production of sheep, poultry raising, or housekeeping; there is an opportunity for gaining information at a small cost and at a season of the year when the farmer Is more at leisure than at any other time. Association of those whose lives aro spent upon tho farm is beneficial in its way of smoothing off the rough ways and manners that are said to adhere to those sometimes denominated “hayseeds.” Again every new idea, the reception of the thoughts of others, adds so much to the fund of knowledge ai d general intelligence which Is the true measure of the man or woman. Farmers do not neglect any opportunities.

The Size of the Bee Hives.

There is a common tendency among beginners in bee culture to make the hive too large. The idea is that the large hive has more room for honey, and this'ls fortified by memories of large,bo'Hdw trunks filled with honey, sometimes found in bee trees where colonies worked undisturbed for years. But there are very different conditions in a dense forest than those which prevail in a bee yard where numerous hives are placed near each other. In the forest the bee mothr is not often foupd, at least during first few years life of .the colony. The hive in u yard: ought not to bs,larger than the queen requires fa? brood comb and the honey supplies: for the winter. If more space than this is given It is so much extra work for the bees in fighting the moth. Nine frames will give 1050 square inches,of comb, and that Is sutticlant for most queens. If more is given than the queen needs it will

be filled with noney that will remain from year to year and strongly attract the moths. It will also be apt to make the bees sickly. Farmer* and Hard Time*. Farmers recover from hard times sooner than can any other class They have the means for reducing expenses and living within their income as city residents cannot da At the worst, the farm will afford a home and a suply of food with some surplus. It is always the case when little money is coming to the farmers they reduce their expenses in propjrtloD, or as the old saying is. “Cut their coat according to their cloth.’’ Three or four years ago Southern farmers had a succession of bad years. They were badly in debt, and the price of cotton was so low that there seemed little chance to get out of debt again. But late reports from the South are that they have done so, and now owe less than in many years. The South now grows more pork and beef than over before. This diversification of its industry has helped the price of cotton, the chief money crop. Something like this will result to Northern wheat-grow-iug farmers if they diversify their crops and thus get their money from a number of sources instead of depending wholly upon one. Low Yield of Corn. It is surprising how low the average yields of corn are, taking the country as a whole. Twenty-two to twenty-three bushels per acre is the yield reported for 189::, and yet with good culture and manuring, yields of more than 100 bushels of shelled grain have been attained. No crop has its yield Increased more certainly than corn by manuring and thorough culture. Tho soil cannot be made too rich for corn, as it easily may for auy or the smaller grains The average yield or this crop is, therefore, a fair test of tho increase or decrease of soil fertility. It is doubtless growing harder to sccuro largo corn crops than it used to ho. The longer land Is cultivated with poor management the loss vegetable matter It contains. So long as soil Is full of its original supply of decaying roots good corn crops are grown. Now tho old conditions ipust bo supplied by manure and tho plowing under of clover. A Portable Fence. A cheap pontable fence isdosirablo, sometimes, In establishing temporary pasture grounds, fencing stacks, etc. A vory convenient form of panel Is shown In tho illustration. The end of ono panel locks within the end of

PANELS OF PORTABLE FENCE.

the other. For inciosuros of any magnitude, it would be necessary to set It up in tho form of a worm fence. In or.ier to give greater stability, the cleat or slat at ono end of the panel may be loft six or eight Inches long, when one stroke of the spade would let It deep enough In tho earth for ordinary purposes. Those panels will be found very convenient on the farm, even whore It is Intended to use posts, as a bit of wlro will hold thorn to the post, and they may bo removed again and again without injury. Duck Italslnir by Who’esiile. Mr. Pyo of Eastport, L. L, grows about 20,000 ducks per year. He buys his eggs and uses Incubators to hatch them except during the last week of Incubation, when the hen docs tho business better than the incubator can do. The hen is kept at work continuously and at the closing of tho hatching season has become exhausted, and is given several months to recuperate In. Mr. Pye makes his ducks weigh from four to six pounds each, when they are killed, packed in barrels and sent to tho New York market. The season lasts six to eight months, and the shipments average 800 ducks per week. Fifteen to 20 cents per pound aro realized for ducks in the New York market. , A Photograph Basket. 1 recently saw a pretty receptacle for photographs made of an ordinary splint basket, such as grapes are sold in. The basket was given a few coats of white paint and a finishing of enamel. It was ornamented with dashes of gilding and tiny bunches of for-get-me-nots, and liued first with a scented layer of cotfcop walding, then with pale blue silk caught in plain and smooth. The basket was fastened at each end with a handle made of a small piece of whale bone twisted with blue ribbon. These handles were bent slightly outward, and sewed on with a stout needle and thread.

Farm Notes. " Dry sulphur rubbed into the pores of tho face at night is’ an excellent remedy for annoying Irritations. Coarse hay may not be valuable as good timothy or clover, but the addition of a few pounds of bran may convert the inferior hay to a valuable food by.giving a greater value to the ration. Indigestion is one of the most serious disorders affecting all animals, and it gives rise to many diseased conditions that have no apparent cause to one who does not understand how a disturbed digestion affects every function or the system. There is as much difference in bees as there is between full-blooded and scrub stock, and, like in all other animals, quality tells fully as much in bees. By a proper and Jud clal selection in breeding, a very considerable and marked impiovement is possible. An ordinary well with a ten-foot windmill, which every farmer has or ought to have, will furnish sufficient water to irrigate a garden of three to five acres, and the plant to irrigate fofty or sixty acres will cost about S3OO. The tiling, laid, will cost from $22 to $25 per acre in additi m. It has been demonstrated by pracj ticdl experiments that it costs less to produce lean meat than to produce fat, which means that wheii a variety of food Is given there will be a greater gain in weight, with a fair proportion of lean meat, than when the animgl is provided with corn' jxdusively.