Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1901 — Page 8

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. SATURDAY, JULY 13. 1001.

II. CLAY EVANS AS HE IS

ins rnitsn i, n aii vr Ti:mvrics ,ND INS PIUI.IC RKCORD. Independence of Thought mid Action Ünr of l'rniiioii (onimloiioue?r Lnnllut.- Attribute. Vashinsjton Letter In Now York Post. To rend the letters or a.j-irnnts for ofT.ee by the soldier vote, like Sickles, or lisUn to the mouthlngs of orator? like Tanner, who make a living off the ro!.fortur.cs of their "dfar roir.Mdrs," one would fancy that a portrait of Henry Clay Evans would require the pencil of a Dore. Mankind. It i3 true, has pot past the point of believing that everything monstrous or irredeemably wicked must wear horns and a tail or this superstition would be drawn upon to account for the partiality shown by the present commissioner of pensions for a highcrowr.ed hat and the conventional frocl: coat; but at least he must have the red face of a butcher, the swagger of a bully and the hoarse bas3 voice of an ogre and spend his time in a chamber of rock and steel with a double-barred gate so that his vlctim3 cannot get at him with their remonstrances or prayers. Let us have a ptep at this dreadful creature. We approach his lair on tiptoe. It is a plainly furnished, not too inviting chamber on the second floor of the pension building. The door Is wide open, with the air of standing so all the time, and no sentinel challenges our right to draw near. Behind a flat writing table, with a portable telephone at hand so that he can respond to every ring In person, fits the grim wrecker cf bogus veteranship. Ills profile Is defined ogainrt the light of a west window. To our surprise there Is nothing gross about it. The nose is not bulbous, but straight, clear cut and somewhat sharp In outline. The mouth is large, but the Hps are too thin for those of a cannibal. The chin is prominent and betokens IlrmIicss of will. The whole profile suggests a medallion. The complexion we discover as we get a. better view of it Is xale. almost fallow, rather than florid. As he acknowl edges our salutations we observe that his voice 13 high pitched and distinctly nasal, and has an Inilection never separable from good humor. Can this really be the tyrant of whom we have heard so much? lie 13 too fine looking to be repellant, his six feet of bony frame and sparse muscular tissue hint nothing of the overbearing giant and his eyes twinkle with unarfected merriment as he throws a Jest into his greeting. If this man Is all his enemies have described him nature has cast him In a most deceptive mold. THE PRESSURE ON" THEM. Tbe truth Is that every commissioner of pensions who has held oflice since President Grant's inauguration has been subjected by a gang of thieves and plunderers to the alternative of being used or being abused. It i3 to the everlasting credit of most of them that they Have taken the abuse rather than yield the use, but some have made short stays. Van Aernam, of New York, held the place for two years. Atkinson, cf Nebraska, for less than one, Gill, of Nebraska, for seven weeks. Clark, of Rhode Island, for four months, and Murphy, of Pennsylvania, for ten. No rote is made here of Tanner, who let the claim agents run him into such extremes of folly that President Harrison had to get rid of him inside of seven months to save his own administration from wreck. Nobody runs Evans that's what's the matter with htm. The attorneys have tried It and failed; the President of the United States hasn't tried it, and knows that It would be useless even if ho felt so disposed. Evans can stand up before any man alive and deny his mastership. Better still, he can step before a mirror and look himself squarely in the eye, whicn Is more than some of his traducers can do without taking something to steady their iTerves." The fling Is thrown at him through the hired newspapers that he was not a soldier In the civil war, and therefore cannot sympathize with soldiers in their distress. As a matter of fact he was an enlisted man in the Forty-first Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. What is more he has made his own living in legitimate business ever since, instead of lobbying vicious pension bills through Congress, drumming up claimants under these bills, suborning perjury to support the claims, and cutting a big chunk out of the first payment of his clients with which to line his own pocket. If the roil of pension shysters were searched for men who could say as much, there would not be names enough In the list to till a good-sized visiting card. NOT A REFORMER. The idea that Evans Is a reformer In the ordinary sense of the term is as far from the truth on one side as the charges of Tanner and his mob aro on the other. He Is as "practical" a politician as McKinley himself, though not so successful, largely because hi3 yes is always yes, and his no, no. He was not, in his brief career as a member of Congress, particularly friendly to the civil-service law. As first assistant postmaster general he placed and displaced public functionaries after the manner for such cases made and provided. After he became commissioner of pensions he overhauled certain parts of the field service with a freedom which drew protests from the friends of civil-service reform. But it is not charged against him that he put bad men knowingly into" good men's places, or that he ever prostituted his bureau personnel to the pleasure of his party or its own damage, indeed, it is his persistent refusal to appoint men of weak character or indifferent honesty to important positions under him which has added some outwardly respectable recruits to the Tanner crowd. These last, including senators, representatives and other holder of important oft ices would be horrified at a suspicion that he would lend a hand. even indirectly, to any form of robbery of me government. ah tney wanted, of course, was to give responsible places to men of their own choosing, who. they felt ure. would bear down "Just a little" less hard in the enforcement of laws. But, when Evans called to thank the President lor the honor of his appointment, and was told that the b-st form his gratitude could take would be a tirst-rate administration he accepted this statement at its full face vajue. and nas lived up to his side of the understanding both in letter and in spirit. A SINCERE MAN. Evans was in Congress also a champion of the force bill. A Pennsylvanian by birth. educated In "Wisconsin, and a settler in the South after the civil war. he came to the conclusion that negroes who wished to edu cate themselves and improve their condi tlon offered more promising material for citizenship than white men witout ambi tion for either knowledge or property, and did rot hesitate to say so; and If the laws ot tne Mie could not be made to protect the negroes in tne exercise of their citizen righu. he demanded that the general government should step in and make good the default. Whatever one may think of his logic, no or.e could have discussed the sub Jct witn mm at that time, as did the writer, without being strongly impressed witn nis sincerity. lie hail had a taste of the highhanded methods of his Democratic neighbors in handling the ballots when he ran for Congress and came near being cuuuiru uui, a icw ears later, wnen a candidate for (Inerr.i.r of Tennessee, ho was treated to another and ruder specimen , i. v . : . - ......... t i . . i - . f m ii. ueui uLiu.iuy eiecivd Dcyoiul a reasonable doubt, but denied possession of the otnee. Thi was the m.-r galling because. At. l .. v- - - - I ..l uiuuKii a .x ruurn seiner, ne was no carpet-bagfier; he had brought his all with him to the South, resolved to stay there and become a ioai son uf his adopted fctate; tie nad invested Jn and bunt up sue ct-stdiii iniiMMii.ti enterprises mere: lie was H large landowner at Chattanooga. In hort. he had corne to take hi.s part and lot with tne 1 ni:es.- --ans in as g.md faith and as wnoie-nearted a way as tne Kentuckian or the North Carolinian who had only an invisible border to cross. By that gov ei net ship election of lvi, riv.rovr. hartes a tile which exhibits Kvabx in a most chura terlstie light. Me v as determined not oidy to win if possible, but to niak-.' plain to his fellow -countrymen evtrywhett that all he had said in denunciation of th" local ! tion m, thods was well fowndtd. Western Tiiinev-eo is sstrcrigly lenio rati'-; e.istm 'IVnr.e sof is quite ay. stroi.urly Republican. The news of the returns from the pulling in the several crunll s is sent to the central party headquarters. Mr. Evans secretin, Instructed the Republican shrrtffa to -end In. as their first Informal returns, only Co ct cent, of

the artMRl Republ'can vote In thlr count: s. Th- I-mc".Tatic knd r? at once w--nt to work at thir own l'.cures. and rnsntly anm-uno-d. with full d til's, the xact majority obtained throughout the .State by Mr. Turr.ey. their candidate for (jovrror. When they had put thvmselvts beyond the pos-ibi.ity of re?r. at. Evar g ive the signal, and the vf results In the Iiepubl'ean counties w.-rc brought out, with vouchers an 1 everthir.;; complete. Thrt only thing 1-ft to the Democrats, who were already in possession of the State government, was to ho'd fist to what thy had. Kv.ins having r.o de-ire to she! th people's bii.jd in pursrit f h!s constitutional rights, put upon r cord his prote-r against th uurp3tiori, and wiihdrtw to private life once more. IS WELL INFORM ED. The ir.ci'Unt just related illustrates Evans's method cf lighting. lie is never noi?y, always commands his temper, but has within reach at all times a perfect arsenal of facts and data with which to confound his enemies. They cannot guess at any moment into what an ambush they may be walking. When his attention was first called to Siek!c3's diatribe?, he merely smiled, said, "Oh. let him talk." and went on with the routine business of hi.s olhce as If there were not a e lot; 1 in the sky. It will be noted, however, that he was able to seize the psychological moment, and spread betöre the public n few bits of Siekles's manuscript which made the general ridiculous. That seems to have been the way he. met the running charge of the G. A. R. committee who undertook the investigation of his shortcomings two years ago. According to the statement of one of the number present to your correspondent, they must have come at Evans full of the spirit of destruction, some of them undoubtedly crediting the lies which had been spread broadcast by the claim agents and their newspaper -utrans. What he did was not to stand upon his dignity as the head of the pension bureau responsible only to the President, but to throw open all the doors and invite them to bring to his notice every case of injustice perpetrated under his administration, in order that he micht set it right ami punish the subordinates who had deceived him. According to the writer's informant. thy brought forward case after cse. the papers were put freely into their hands, and they failed to find one which justified the accusations against the commissioner. Unlike most men with a public controversy on their hands, Evans never takes the first step to "get into the newspapers." The representatives of the press have to go in quest of whatever they get on his side of the rpiarrel. Notoriety for its own sake is something for which he has no taste. Open to approach by all. at work so steadily from morning till night that he even has his luncheon brought to his desk, he is never too busy to be courteous: and high and humble, rich and poor, stand on a level in his presence. lie will take as -much pains to rce that a de?ervins ca?e fulfils

the requirements of the law as to Keep nts calendar clear of an undeserving one. Sympathy with the old soldier in distress he has n abundance; toleration lor tne fraud ulent claimant, or respect for the well-to-do man who will stretch a technicality in order to play pauper at the public pension dispensary, he has none. Far from being a great statesman or even tne ideal type 01 politician, with no stain of the mugwump or reformer in his blood, but with an hon est purpose and a conscience void or orfence toward the government and his fel low-veterans, Henry Clay Evans is one of the marked men of his generation, a credit to the administration that has supported him. and a model to other officers in trying positions of trust. WHAT YOUNG HEN CAN DO. Albert Johnson anil Ilanh McGotvnn Encourngtiic Examples. Kansas City Journal. Twenty years ago Al Johnson, brother of Tom L. Johnson, was a horsecar driver in Louisville. Last week he died in Brooklyn a millionaire. At the time of his death he Is said to have owned a controlling interest in sixty-six street railways in the smaller Pennsylvania towns. lie was still a young man, only forty, and might have attained to much greater success if he had lived. His rise In life was due to his own pluck, determination and industry, lie succeeded because he deserved to succeed. He utilized all his opportunities. He had the courage to tackle difficult undertakings and the zeal and resolution to carry them through. The more ho accomplished the more he under took. Probably he undertook too much. for his death is attributed to an attack of heart disease brought on by overwork. A very similar case is presented in the personal history of Hugh McGowan, a Kan sas City man. well known to everyone in this vicinity. It has not been a great many years since McGowan was a teamster in the employ of Tom Corngan. He was a good man with a team and attended to business. Afterward he worked for Corrigan in the operation of the street railways of this city. Later he engaged with the Barber Asphant Company and rose in the estimation and confidence of that company until he was made its local manager. A few years ago he was sent by the Barber people to Indianapolis. There he again became connected with street-railway business, and has been made manager of the Indianapolis street railway system. As agent of the Elkins interests he has recently negotiated for similar systems in other cities, and there Is a somewhat persistent rumor that Kansas City Is to be Included In his list through purchase of the Armour Interests in the Metropolitan Company. There are numerous other instances of a like kind in American business life today. In- every important line of industry there are men who have climbed up to success from the bottom. Their capital was common sense, energy and determination. Not every young man can do as well, but every young man who has the same kind of capital can make good progress. Business success is not the highest aim in life, perhaps, but many regard it as such and it undoubtedly is important. With such examples as Al Johnson and Hugh McGowan before them there is no good reason why young men who have not the advantages of education or Inherited wealth should be despondent. The theory promulgateel by some of the latter-day politicians that there are no opportunities for young men these times is false, misleading and harmful. GRANT'S LOST ORDER. Faraoni Historic Document Tarns' I'p In the rocket of a Texan. Buffalo Express. The recent vilt of many of the Texas Press Association to Buffalo has brought to light a valuable war document which has been missing since the battle of Mission Ridge, on Nov. 25. 1S83. Manager A. B. Penfleld was accosted last Tuesday by a tall. soldierly-looking man. with an accent which betrayed hi Southern origin, with a hearty, "iou are Mr. pennehl, are you not? "I am," said the manager. "Well, my dear sir. I am Capt. Harry Lacey, or corsicana. lex., and wllh mjregiment fought the federal troops at Mis sion Kldge. I wish to say your picture la very fine extremely fine. .-Ir. and I am glad to see the action so impartially reproduced. I was with Rogers's Texas Rangers, or. rather, what was left of the Rangers. You know we, as an organization, were badlv cut up at Corinth. Miss. Well. Mr. Penheld, your Red Star Midway route is all right. and 5'our shows are superb. I shall, like all the rest of my editorial confreres, carry back to Texas, sir, a lively sense of gratii . . 1 M . t iuue ior your great Kinemess to us as a bod-. Now, I am going to give you a treat." .Mr. l'ennein started pick witn rrignt. as he saw visions of a drinking bout and realized that th. average Southerner elrank as well as he fought. He. however, was much relieved when he saw the tall Texan unbutton his frock coat and draw forth from an inner pocket, wun care, a worn leather book, from an inner pocket of which he took a worn piece of parchment, such as was used during the civil war for general orders or dispatches. enfolding it. the former Confederate cap tain said: "Read that. sir. and fell me if you realize what a treasure that paper really is?" Mr. IVnfleld looked at the unfolded sheet and read as follows: "Chattanootraa. Tonn.. Nov. 24. WTJ. "Major General George 11. Thomas. Chattanooga : "General Sherman carried Missionary Ridge as far as the tunnel with only slight sVirmlsh'.ng. His risht now rests at the tunnel and on top of the hill, his left at Chlekamauga creek. 1 have Instructed General Sherman to advance as soon as it is lUht in th morning, and your attack, which will be simultaneous, will ba in co operation Your command will it her carry the ritV pits and rid?e directly in front of them or move to the left, ns the presence of the enemy may require, if Hooker's posltl'-n on the motmt iin (cannot be maintained with a small firc-, and it is fout'd Impracticable to carry the top from where h . It would be ndvl'sable for him to move tip the vall-y with all the force h- cm spate, and ascend bv the first practicab!e rond. P. S. GRANT. Major General." Mr. Penfleld gasped. Here was the original order-thc lcng-loet order which Gea-

r-ral Grant In his own personal memoirs speaks or lost. Turning to Captain Lacev. ho said: "Where did you get thi.O"' The old soluicr said: "Why. when Sheridan forced his way to the crest of the ridge I b:oke through Iii.? line in the confusion, and. passing rapidly down to the first line at our old position, lud in a rifio. pit until nightfall, when I escaped and joined Longstreet in Virginia. In the bottom of the pit I found the order, with some other papers addressed to the federal General Granger. I think it dropped from some officer's coat in the scramble up hill. I have manarp d to

rtrrn jt ev r sinee. tor It was mat caaie ho orders in this paper which carried the day for the I'r.ion forces, 50 you ?cc It has a great historic value." Mr. Penile Id pleaded with the Southerner to sell it. but the tall Toxin refused, witn a dignity which told Mr. Penfield to desist. Tho former Confederate leaned over ihe platform and scanned close'. y the great bat tle, saying softly: "Its grand. Its real. but all so terrible." wiping a furtive tear from his eyes; "but it took Western blood to do it. and, after all, they were mostly of Southern extraction." In fact, the great man to whom Grant addressed the order was a Virginian. THE POTOMAC FLATS Are Heins Reclaimed and Will Make AYiiftliiiiKtou u Fine Park. Washington Post. For the first time In several years the channel of the Potomac is now sufficiently deep to permit vessels of the greatest draught which come to Washington to pro ceed, if desired, to Georgetown. The chan nel above the bridge is 20 feet at its least depth and is 130 feet wide. Ultimately it will be 4Ö0 feet in width. The removal of the shoal which has ob structed the upper channel, was completed some days ago by the Gulf, Atlantic and Taclfic Dredging Company, which has the contract for the Improvement of the Poto mac flats, under the direction of Lieut. Col. Charles J. Allen, engineer corps. United States army. Last winter a channel 20 feet in depth and 100 feet wide was dredged at the east cxid of the Washington channel at the mouth of the eastern branch. The material removed from the river bed was eleposited on the lower portion of the Hats, to be known as Potomac Park, and at the same time about a mile of the stone wall surrounding the improved flats was rebuilt with cement, and is now a handsome feature of the artificial island in the i'otomac, designed for ultimate use as a great pleasure ground for the people of the capital. The desiern of dredging the channel of the Potomac at Washington first took the form of congressional sanction ami appropriation in At that time low marshes covereel the water front for long distanres at several points above and below Long bridge, their grasses catching the sewage or tne city. They were unsightly and a constant menace to health. These marshes have been reclaimed by pumping the material taken from the river bed through large pipelines set on piles. It has been deposited on the marshes, around which walls were first built, and has made solid ground of C30 acres of noisome swamp land. The height of Potomac Park above mean low water was established in 1S82. at thirteen feet, this being two feet higher than the highest point reached by the freshet waters of 1S77. In however, the freshet waters reached a height of fourteen feet. No change was made in the plans on this account, as It is not regarded as likely that such a height will ever again be attained by the water here, especilly in vie of the deepening and widening of the channel and the proposed erection of a new bridge in place of the Long bridge. The process of dragging the channels and filling the flats is an interesting one. A hydraulic dredge of tremendous power is used, and to it are attached 1.200 to 2.000 feet of pipe, whose outlet is at the portion of the adjacent flats, whsre it is decided to deposit the material from the river bed. The low parts of the flats are first dyked off Into sections of several acres each, connected by sluice gates. When the drtdge begins to pump up silt, sand and water from the river bed it is conducted through the pipes and into the selected area of the flats, where its fluid nature causes it to be distributed evenly over the surface. The soil, being heavier, quickly sinks, and the water is permitted to run off through the sluice gates, finding Its way by a grada tion of the areas to the river again. The material remaining quickly dries out, and in a remarkably short time is covered with a heavy growth of vegetation. The latest portion of the rats to be filled is the area immediately to the east of the causeway which forms a part of the Long bridge. This was selecteel because it was lower than the rest and iather marshy at times, making an unsightly appearance. This has now been filled in. In selecting the area to be filled that nearest the point of dredging is usually chosen, but in such cases as the one just filled the necessities of the occasion are regarded. What was known as the Kidwell meadows were not embraced in the work of Improvement, though within its contemplated area for several years, owdng to the litigation over the ownership of that territory. This left that portion of the Hats in a condition much behind the remainder. The contract under which the dredging and filling operations are now being conducted was entereel into last September, and Immediately thereupon the dredging company sent a giant nydraulic dredger from ilmington, Del., toward Washington. This vessel was caught in a storm off the Virginia capes and completely wrecked. The contracting company at once commenced the construction of a new dredge. which was completed, and began work here April 1. Colonel Allen stated yester day that it had done more work in a given time than any single dredge ever used in the river operations here. The dredging and filling wdll continue under the present contract for a year or more, or until tho appropriation available is exhausted. The operations have been carried on in this way since they 'were begun. Congress appropriating, from time to time, such funds as hive been necessary to continue with the improvements. When they are finally concluded Washington will have this great are' of 630 acres, bordered on one side by th; river and on the other by the winding walls of the tidal basins, a park of the richest ground, many feet above tide water, and suitable for the most artistic efforts of the landscape gardener and the road builder. It will be crossed by a railroad and wagon bridge, provided for by the recently enacted bill for the change of grade, etc., of the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Dis trict of Columbia. WHAT DO COLLEGE STUDENTS KNOW Very Little, if the Williams Tot Rep resents Them. New York Evening Post. What do college students read? one is Inclined to ask at each new exposure of the Ignorance of these presumably Instructed youths. That they do not. at any rate, read standard literature is strikingly shown in the current report of the professor of Eng lish at Williams College. Finding his elec the classes singularly devoid of int'orma tion about the best-known names and worns in English literature, he determined to fathom this ignorance. A division of forty sophomores was chosen as the corpus vile. Ot these students, who undoubtedly represent fairly enouuh the average reading and culture of the American undergradu ate. ten we-re unable to mention six plays by Shakspeare; fourteen did not know the author of "In Memoriam;" twenty-two were unacquainted with Sam Weller: twenty-three could not name the author of the 'Mill on the Floss;' twenty-six could not mention a work by Ruskin; thirty-four could not tell who talstaff was; and thirty five could not mention a single poem by cither Wordsworth or Browning. To the casual observer this relative illiteracy of the educated will seem as amusing as the poerty of a the poor-rich; to educators generally it presents a very serious prob lern. The condition of the freshman class In the same coilege was even more deplorable, it was assumed that tney had no literature. and the attempt was made to see how much grammar they possessed. To this end the entire class was asked to write at dictation the sentence, "The Browns' house 13 larcer than curs, but ours is more con venient than theirs;" and also to write the correct form of the alternative expressions. iiu )uu MJiiu;-t: ii iu uc iinii tur ne) ; ana "Give it to whomsoever (or whosoever) deserves it most." No explanations were called for. the task being simply to write the sentences correctly. Out of the one hundred ana sixteen stuueiits wno took the ex amination, just three were able to write all the forms without error, and forty-five erred at all possible points. Now. the un der class men of illiams College are presumably no: greater sinners against grammar and orthography than are undergraduates generally, and It should not be forgotten that a man may make money in this world and even enter Into the kingdom of he iven without any spelling at all; but the condition of things revealed by these tests eertainly shows that the- schools and homes In sending up their young barbariar. so much in the raw are sauly overburdening the cbllege departments cf English. As a sheer measure of self-defense, we should imagine, the entrance requirements in LnslUh will have to ba etlffcned. x

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mm Incubator vs. Hen. C. E. Chapman. In Country Gentleman. Our Incubator Is in the house cellar, is a hot-air machine and does not vary a half degree In the three weeks if the lamp i3 properly cared for. In setting it up for work a spirit level was used to get it exactly level so that the heat would be uni form in all parts of the machine, an important point and should be attended to and the thermometer This is always kept in one place for uniform results. The lamp Is a large one and will heat the machine without turning on a high dame, thus avoiding tho danger of overheating and burning out the parts. It will hold oil enough for two days, but is filled ano scraped every morning, which prevents the formation ot gas. which occurs in nearly empty lamps, and the crusting over of the wick, causing it to smoke. I always scrape a match across the burned wick once, which leaves it straight as it was before, and I can keep it in better form than with a pair of shears. Our lamp has burned now eight weeks without going out or being trimmed in any other way. 1 put two hundred eggs on the trays and thirty-two more on top of them, so that when I tested out I would have full trays. This can be safely done if the temperature Is kept down to 101 dezrees on the lower tray, which will make it about 104 degrees on the upper tier, but when I had 10J degrees on the tray it cooked the eggs laid on extra. The eggs were laid in with the big end up and started slowly, being twenty-four hours warming up to the desired heat. I began to turn the morning of the fourth day and tested them out the sixth day. All but fourteen were fertile and showed well-developed germs in the large end. When eggs are laid fiat or with the little end up the chick's head will be In the wrong end: it docs not have room to turn and break out. They seldom hatch in such cases. The ventilators were kept open from the start and v;e dried clown as much as possi ble. No moisture is used in this section. and most oierators agree that the bes: hatches are obtained where the air space s largest. Our cellar is fairly dry as to condition of walls and floor, but has a well n one corner. The eggs are turned twice each day and allowed to cool a few minutes, till the thermometer is at DO degrees when resting on the eggs. No turning is done after tne morning of the eighteenth day, and the machine is not opened again until the hatch s over. I had to turn the burr of the reg ulator half round each morning to offset the heat generated by the chickens in the shells, and had to take off the extra eighteen eggs on the tray before turning each time, but kept them marked, so that could tell them from the others. They were In a temperature or xoi degrees an the time. The hatch was as follows: Good strong chicks, 121; weak chicks. 2; weak germs died early in hatch, 35; full-grown died in shell. 57; total. 218. A full percentage of the upper tier hatched. Now, will some one tell me why they die on the nineteenth day. full grown, without "pipping" the shell? Every egg pipped, except two, gave strong chickens, which lived and are growing splendidly. The egg3 were more than usually fertile, and should have hatched well. Six hens were set at the same time, and give results: One left her nest every few days and had to be put back on her eggs. which felt cold to the hands: one had a fight with an Intruder and broke an egg, which smeared the whole setting and compelled washing the eggs In warm water. They had eighty eggs, which were not tested out at any time, but were from the same lot as the others. They hatched seventy-three strong chicks, but smashed six In the nests while coming out; seven eggs were not fertile. Xwo of the hens left their nests while the eggs were hatching, and one was gone an hour, yet hatched every egg. It does not seem to make any differ ence if cold air does strike a hatching chicken in a nest, but it dries them fast if in an Incubator. Hens seem to be ahead, or am I at fault somewhere? Who can aid me? Experiments with Potatoes. Philadelphia Record. Every farmer is interested In Increasing his potato crop, and the various methods of growing potatoes always receive consideration. Recent experiments made at Cornell University, under the supervision of Mr. J. L. Stone, demonstrate to farmers the applicability to their soils and conditions of methods in potato culture that have given excellent results. The farmers who have been requested to elo so have also conducted experiments on their farms. and thus assisted in arriving at conclusions regarding the proper course to pursue in grow ing potatoes. The experiments extended over a period of five years, and all kinds of weather favorable and unfavorable prevailed. To show that much depends upon proper cultivation it may be mentioned that in 1S35 the average yield of potatoes for New York State was 122 bushels, yet the maximum yield at the station was 415 bushels, while in 1S37, when the average for the State was only 62 bushels per acre, the maximum yield on the station grounds was '622 bushels. In ISW eleven plots averaged at the rate of 193 bushels per acre, ranging from 14 to 2Zi bushels, although the average for tho State was but SS bushels. During that year drought prevailed, and as tho land was then becoming deficient in organic matter the condition made the crops more liable to Injury from drought than formerly, but the thorough preparation and tillage given the plots produced strong and vigorous plants, despite the severe drought of the summer, though an early frost killed the tops before sufficient late rains had fallen to enable the plants to produce the usually large yield, which, however, seemed assured up to the time of the unfortunate event. The larsre yields obtained were secured by thorough preparation of the land before planting, thereby developing m tne son an abundant supply of readily available plant food and securing the storage of a large amount of water, accompanied by deep planting, followed by frequent and pro longed tillage of the crop, thereby preventing waste of moisture by evaporation from the surface of the soil or by transpi ration from the leaves of weeds, and at the same time bringing more plant food into available condition. Also, and an important matter, bv maintaining healthy and vigor ous foliage on the plants during the entire season by spraying with Bordeaux mixture and Paris green. A comparison or tne mini mum and maximum yields of potatoes shows clearly that the large crops are se cured by proper cultivation. The best re suits at the station were obtained by com binlng the twice plowing system (autumn and early spring) with deep planting, in thoroughly fitted soil, and giving prolonged, freauent, level tillage and using lnsectl cides. Farmers who made experiments got the best yields from autumn and spring plowing, in some cases the difference being very large in favor of the double plowing compared with spring plowing only, while deep planting and level tillage showed a marked increase in yields compared with shallow planting and hilling. These results were obtained on various farms, and are valuable to those who make the potato crop a specialty. Many farmers are satisfied to cultivate their crops only when necessity require? They do not neglect the crops, keeping down the weeds and grass, but the experi ments made at the station and by the farmers who assisted show that cultivation does more: in fact, that the more the land is cultlvateel the larger the crop. One farmer got fourteen bushels more of'potatoes from land that had been cultivated five times than from land cultivated twice. Another plot that gave 1ST bushels per acre was ex ceeded by an adjoining plot that had been cultivated seven times, which yielded 194 bussels per acre. It is plain, therefore, that frequent cultivation is beneficial. While deep planting gives better results than shallow, yet dep planting should not follow shallow plowing that is, the fur rows opened to receive the seed should not go to the bottom of the soil that was stirred by the plow. If it is desired to plant six inches deep the land should be plowed eight inches deep. If land has never been plowed deep then the plow should go down onlv one Inch more each year, plowing in the" fall of the year. It is well to understand also that better tillage and larger crops cause the- removal of more plant food from the soil; hence the use of manure and fertilizers, or the growing of cover or sod crop.'' to be plowed under should not be overlooked. If th.j farmer will give as much labor to the potato crop as it really demands he win sunVr but little loss from drought, and his yields will be such as to pay ail expenses and return a prom. Farmer nntl IIoro. Washington Post. "An interesting feature of the recent suspension of racing at Chicago," said Mr. Thomas Elworth. of that city, last night, "was the Invasion of the racing stab'.cs by farmers. They wanted to buy race horses. All through our Western country ia the fall we have agricultural fairs.

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rests at which there are running and trotting races, und the farmers like to have a horse that can pick up a few of the fair-sized purses offered. Illinois and Indiana farmeis liive plenty of money now, and I suppose there were- a score of them at the Harlem track every day after the meeting was suspended. They all wanted horses that could run half a mile or five furlongs and repeat. The country fair rnees are all heat races. The farmers found plenty of animals not quite good enough to win on the big tracks which could turn a half in fifty scconels or better, but they found few that could repeat. Still, several were bought, and there will be some real thoroughbred going after purses :n the bushes, as the agricultural fair races are called. "One very desirable result of the introluction of thoroughbreds into the farming community Is the benefit to the class of stock in such a community. The horses bought for racing purposes are used for breeding, too. and the cross of thoroughbred stoelv on the ordinary good farm animal soon makes a fine race, strong, spirited. Intelligent and handsome." Millions in Corn. Chicago Chronicle. If the farmer is to get riches he must get them out of the soil. Neither the Chicago Board of Trade nor the free coinage of 30-cent dollars will make him rich. The hocus-pocus politicians cannot add a bushel to tae productiveness of his land. nor can the "kings" of the corn pit add anything permanently to the value of his crops. Having accepted these obvious truisms, the farmer will be interested in the scientific experiments now being conducted by the Department of Agriculture, with a view to increasing the corn crop of this country without additional expense or labor. The scientists have found that by cross-breeding the nitrogen contents of the corn are increased and the number of ears to a stalk are increased. Experiments made in growing lO.OöO specimens of these hybrids have already demonstrated that it is possible to double the yield of corn lrom a given number of plants. in aeleutlon to conducting these experi ments the department is sending out some valuable advice to farmers In the matter of selecting seed for planting. This advice is to go through the field and select corn from the largest stalks for seed purposes. Not one farmer in lO.OOO ever thought of doing such a thing. The uniform practice of larmers is to select the largest ears irom tne criD ior seed. There's more money in corn than in the promises of politicians. The liible holds up for emulation the man who makes two blades grow where only one crew before. now to ao tnis is what Secretary Wilson is trying to show the farmers. In the meantime the products from corn, such as oil, glucose, rubber, cellulose, paper and nour are oeing multiplied and the r value Increased. The tune is coming when there will be millions in corn. IfvColonel Sellers were on earth to-day there is little doubt that he would begin planting corn on a large scale. The value of the corn crop of the United States in 1S83 was 5620.210.110. or more than double the gold output of the whole world. Fertilizing; Experiments. Vick's Monthly. Experiments have been carried on in England for the last seven years to find out whether it was cheaper to use heavy dress ings of farm manure, or light dressings combined with varying quantities of chem icals; or whether it was possible to grow the produce with chemicals alone. The results obtaineel were both Interest ing and conclusive. Where chemicals were used, the produce In some cases was doubled, as compared with that produced when the land had been treated only with a dressing of farm manure. The chemicals used were nitrate of soda, superphosphate or lime, or basic siag and Kaimt. In the case of strawberries, a five years' record showed that a light dressing of farm manure with nitrate and other chemicals gave the best results, far exceeding those obtained from a heavy dressing of farm manure alone. With the cabbage tribe it was satisfactorily demonstrated that it is possible to grow them more cheaply with simple phosphates and kainlts than with farm manure. With regard to potatoes. the experiments showed that a certain amount of farm manure in the soil was necessary, but that when phosphates, ni trates and kainits were added, a greatly mcreaseei crop was obtained. Farm Notes. The most unpardonable sin in connection with American agriculture Is waste. So says Governor Hoard, who is a popular speaKer at ew ungiand institutes. A Tennessee farmer says of cow peas Those who make a practice of growing peas nere ao not consuier it equal to good clover hay nor as heavy a yielder. lie adds that the hay is unfit for horses. When a cow is in full flow of milk she should not be allowed to fall off as . long as it can De avoided. If she does not seem to like her food tempt her with something else, and always milk to the last droD. Cows like a variety of food and will give gooa returns tnereror ir it is provided. Bran is an excellent fertilizer for crops. as It Is rich In nitrogen and mineral matter, but It is made more valuable when it is fed to stock, not only because it serves as food, but also because when It Is passed through the body of an animal It is in bet ter form for crops. Bran is a cheap mater lal to purchase, as it brings profit as food and produces manure of the best quality. The color of butter is largely influenced by the food. Butter is sometimes white and at certain seasons It may be a golden yellow. The coloring of butter by artificial means, such as the use of annatto, will never be necessary where carrots are grown and fed regularly. Cows that receive a variety of food at all seasons of the year will usually produce yellow butter. A new remedy for scours in calves has been discovered and tests made at the experiment stations verify the claims made In favor of the remedy. It is to give the calf a teaspoonful of dry blood at each meal, care being taken to stir the blood In the milk to prevent Its settling to the bot torn of the pail. The effect is almost im mediate, only two or three feedings mak ing complete cures after all other reme dies failed. This remedy is ore that costs almost nothing and is harmless. It costs just as much to regain the value of any animal or plant as to produce such A pound of flesh lost must first be regained before the next pound can be produced. In the meantime there is loss of labor and time. When weeds prevent the growth of plants there is waste of time In removing the weeds, which could have been destroyed when they were young. It is not only the loss of the articles which diminish the profit, but the waste of valuable time can not be recovered, which keeps the farmer at a disadvantage. Currant bushes are usually too thick and are seldom properly cultivated. There are some advantages in training currant bushes to a single stem at the ground, as they are then more easily cultivated and kept clear of grass and weeds, buch bushes are easily raised by rubbing off all the buds from tho lower part of the cutting when planting, all of which will be below the surface of the ground. Good crops can be obtained, however, from bushes with several stems, provided proper pruning and cultivation be bestowed. MAG X ATI? MORGAN. He I En)- of Acres, lint ever Talks for Reporter. New York Special to Pittsburg Dispatch. J. Pierpont Morgan, the most-talked-of man in the United State? because of his vast financial interest., will return from Newport to-morrow, where he went on Friday niht to spend Sunday. After this morning Mr. Morgan wid be at his accus tomed desk In his otlice at Wall and Broad streets. Mr. Morgan is a remarkable man In every respect. While many men who occupy prominent positions, and particularly those who employ countless numbers of worklngmen, tike precautions for their personal protection. J. Pierpont Morgan goes about just tne same as an ordinary individual, iou can see him any week dy seated at his desk on the first rtoor by the open window. This weather he is always coatless. and always smokes a great, black cigar, half of which is in his mouth. He is one of the few of the "Mg" men who can easily be seen. Any one who sends in his card can secure an audience with the financial wonder if he is not extremely busy. Newspaper men are seldom refused admittance, and yet J. Pierpont Morgan warf never known to have given out any information. Reporters have come to know that they might as. well remain away from him. When he has anything to give for publication it Is sent out through a Wallstreet financial bureau, which supplies tho newspapers. All of this matter Is inspired; all other interviews with Morgan are cither false or have been secured from persons very close to him. Morgan will alt patiently and listen to the questions of an Inttr-

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& TUG SLIXDAY SCHOOL LESSOX. Third Qnartert Lfmon lit Sin and Re demption Genesis 111 1-1.". Genesis "Third" is a target fairly iot through, not only with the dart of a vulgar infidelity, but the well-aimed arrows of a scholarly criticism. But. after all. the chapter is unharmed. It stands alone In literature. It is helpful toward the solution of an occult problem the origin of evil. By some it Is accepted as a literal history; by others as a vivid pictorial and poetical description of man's early struggle with evil. Under either interpretation. Adam and Eve are represented as nobly endowed. They had a happy environment, and were under the direct and daily tutelage of their maker. But they were on probation. In Eden the problem was solving whether they would persist in choosing to obey God cr not. A test was given. It was simple, but adequate, and exactly suited to their estate. Of the fruit of one attractive and conspicuously located tree they were forbidden. The prohibition was o explicit, peremptory and oft repeated that in advertence was out of the question. "Thou shalt not!" was fairly written upon the leaves of the tree. Persistent abstinence was a visible and potent sign to God and angels, good and evil, of their conscious and voluntary loyalty to God. Under th Adamlc covenant God stood ready for His part to supply grace sufficient; but Adam, on his side, must choose to keep obeying God. we have no means of knowing how long the happy Ecen life con tinued. The true Idea of Adam's state Is probably that which places him midway between the savage and the sage. He was a laborer, but suffered not the excessive weariness and vexa tion incident to labor now. He was busy getting "dominion," subduing the triple kingdomsearth, air, water; vegetable, animal, mineral. In the evening hour, when activities cease and the human heart is ever most impressible, he enjoyed immediate communion with his creator, who corrected his mistakes and inspired him with new courage and love. At length, at some period when man's tutelage was far enough advanced to make his chances for enduring1 the ordeal most favorable, a crucial test was permitted. The outcome of the ordeal was not predestinated defeat. Adam had a good fighting chance. He might have persisted in his love, trust, obedience toward God. He ought to have. The odds were not against him. He had had overmastering- examples of God's goodness. constancy, wisdom, love. He ought to have been loyal. - An overweening vanity determined man to lift himself in the scale of being, even If he must needs make the staircase out of the broken commandments of a loving heavenly father. The deed was don already In subjective Intent, In the deliberate and pleasurable entertainment of the suggestion of doing it. Flesh and eye had already lusted, and pride had put the finishing touch. The manual act of reaching, touching, plucking, was only the ob jective complement of the mental determination. the other hemisphere of the full, black orb of sin which rolled on Adam with its crushing weight. Their eyes were opened, but not to see themselves exalted to the lofty plane of their maker, but fallen Infinitely below the plane on wnicn tney were standing oeiore. "ine normal relation between the 60ul an! body was destroyed, so that the body ceased to b any longer a pure Instrument of the spirit." So they were overwhelmed with their first sens of shame, and ceased to be "like unconscious, unembarrassed children." Out of the shad ows of Eden. In which, with a silly, ostrichlike instinct, they sought to hide themselves from the omniscience of their maker, God called them. It was a fearful meeting. The- reality of man's fall is evidenced by his changed bearing. Their frankness of Innocence is gone. When fairly eornere-J by his omniscient prosecutor, with the historic cowardice of sin, he seeks to cast the blame directly upon the companion whom, up to that moment, he had loved devotedly and sheltered courageously, and Indirectly upon the benificent being who had given her to him. Across the densest gloom Of this shattered paradise God let one ray of heavenly hope fall aslant: "The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head." The agedong strife just then beginning, with Its varying fortunes, between the good and the evil seed, dhall viewer, chewing at his black cigar. After the interviewer has nred off all the questions he can Mr. Morgan will turn to his desk again, always with the same remark: "I have nothing to say for publication. Then he rings a miserable little bell and summons one of his lieutenants. You know then that the interview is ended. If this docs not happen to dawn upon you one of the flunkies will 50on lnrorm you or tne fact. J. P. Morgan is certainly a peculiar man. AN ECHO OF 1896. 31 r. Bryan's Recent Address at tbe Madison Chautauqua. Madison (Ind.) Courier. Hon. William Jennings Bryan has come, spoken and departed- Are there any who think as well of him now as before his speech at the Chautauqua? Mr. Bryan, it cannot be denied, is an able, educated and experienced orator and lecturer. lie knows the proprieties of an occasion as well as any one in the country. His admirers, and it is to be presumed he still enjoys a few, must admit one of two alternatives viz., either Mr. Bryan is unable to make any but a free-silver speech of the 1836 brand or he is so narrow-minded and prejudiced as to deliberately take advantage of a nonpartisan occasion to fotce his worn-out and twice repudiated campaign fallacies upon an unsuspecting and disgusted audience. The points, the arguments, the phrases, the stories, were all old and taken from his ancient efforts in the campaign of 1SC:. The only new thing was the title. "The Conquering Nation." and this was suggested by the success of the Republican party in its foreign and domestic policy during the last few years of Mr. Bryan's prominence and opposition. No one went lecturing after Cleveland' election upon such a subject as "The Conquering Nation." Mr. Bryan's performance could only be eclipsed by a lecture on secession and state rights by JefTerson Davis, but as Mr. Davis is as dead as the lost cause, free silver and Bryan's prospects for the presidency, this may not be. and our esteemed William Jennings will continue to stand at the head of the procession as a dispenser of cold liver and decayed eggs trom the lecture platform. TO ALTOMOUILi: IIKGI.W CI1S. So Mhiij- Machine In I'ee that Advice 1 Timely. Outlr.g. Anv one can run an automobile, but one should know, not only what to do. but why to do It. One mistake beginners make la to run the automobile too far when first learning. The novice should be content with a few miles on the flrst day. increasing the distance each day very slightly. He will learn something about the machine every

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.V-'. finally rca?e when the man cf calvary puta his bitten heel upen the serpent's head. THE TEACHERS LANTERN. Modernize this lesson. Translate It into the language of to-day. Every boy and girl snl older person can be shown to be standing under a tree cf tet. Dfstiny is declltng now by ore's attitude toward God. The chances cf a happy outcome are better and worse than those of Adam. Worse, because of an hereditary predisposition to a wror.g choice. Better, because of the' provisions cf mercy. Where tin abounds, grace much more abounds, rven now Gods voice Is ringing, "ßonl daughter! give m thin heart!" One doea not need to run the whole gamut of tia to be lost. Merely declining to obey God is enough to exclude one from His presence. Picture the srproach of the first night after the excitir.g novelty of their experience w-as wearing away; the twilight hour when retrospection is natural; when one wants to be assured of some strong safeguard; just when Adam and Eve were feeling most orphaned, the heavenly father sought His erring children. He has been doing so ever sine. So. if the sinner feels a quickening cf conscience, a kindling of desire, it is God at work, and In the most opportune hour. It is the supreme dictate of practical wisdom to know one's opportunity, and improve it. e CHRISTIAN EXDEAVOR. Topic for Jnly 14s Individual Work for Christ Acta rill. 20-40. "The vast majority of Christians in this day are useless," stoutly declares Dr. Talmas. "The most of the Lord's battalion belong to the reserve corps. The most of the crew are asleep in the hammocks. The most of the metal is under the hills." If this Is so and there is much truth In it then it is a terribly sad condition of affairs, slnca Christians are the salt of the earth, and if they lose their eavor. wherewith shall the world be salted? By virtue of his calling, his powers, his blessings, and his opportunities, ther is no one on earth that should be so fiercely active as the Christian; and Christians are active enough, but Is it always about their Father's business? One of the tombs best worth seeing in SL Paul's Cathedral bears tbess noble words: "Major General Gordon, who at all times, everywhere, gave his strength to the weak, his substance to the poor, his sympathy to the suffering, his heart to God; died at Khartoum, TCtb January. 1S3." Over tbe grave of Alexander Mackay. that Ingenious, undaunted, mechanicmissionary to Uganda, are set the words: "X doer of the word." Now these are .r.lendld epitaphs. How can we earn their like? Not by proxy work. Not by delegating all our good deeds to a committee, a pastor, a board or a society. We must support these; they vastly enlarge the churches' power for good. But they can never take the place of individual service. A discouraged young doctor was visited by his farmer father. "I'm not getting along at all." said the young man. The father sat near that morning and watched his son care for twentyfive unfortunate in the "free dispensary." "I thought you said you were not getting along V be inquired. "I did," was the reply; "there's no money In this." "No money V shouted the old man. "Why, if I had helped twenty-five people In a month as you have in one morning I'd bless God that my life counted for something. Keep right on and I'll gladly work on the farm to support you." We are all so slow to see what this old farmer saw, namely: That the only life worth living la a life of helpfulness, and that the best kind of helpfulness springs from personal contact. Lady Holland was constantly complaining because she had nothing to occupy her time. One day she uttered her characteristic lament ia the presence of th poet Rogers, who rv hr om sarcastic but valuable advice: "Try something new. Lady Holland; try doing a little good.1 There is no ennui in a life of Christian service. Every day is full of fresh Interest. Every night Is full of peace. Let us all adopt for our own this prayer by the Ill-fated Maltble D. Pabcock. who so beautifully exeznpUned its spirit In his life: O Lord, I pray That for this day X may no: swerve By foot or hand From Thy commandNot to bo served, but to serve. AM03 R. WELLS. day, and by taking it easily will avoid trouble through Inexperience. Any new machine should be run carefully und slowly at first, in order to limber it ur properly. A new automobile is not ready for a long run. There is another reason why a beginner should take it easily. If he makes a bad blunder, he is apt to lose confidence In himself. This is not true In all cases, but it is In a great many. Most men do not realize what a powerful instrument an automobile Is until they operate one and make some mistake. Then they have an exhibition of the pent-up energy stored in the carriagebox, and if that power is improperly applied, damage will result. Another great trouble with novices is that they try to make too much sped. This is most dangerous. When an Inexpert operator is speeding his machine, he is apt to become excited, and thus lose control of it. It is very exhilarating to travel at a high rate of speed, and the temptation to do so is great. A beginner may appreciate the danger, and have vowed never to make more than ten or twelve miles an hour; yet in a week he will probably be disappointed If he cannot beat every automobile or trolley car in his neighborhood. L'ven the expert chaffeur should not use hi automobile for racing if it was not built for it. A raclna automobile is desjgned for racing; an ordinary automobile 'is not. If a man has an. ordinary automobile and races in it. he is abusing its pow?rs. He is expecting it to do work for which it was not intended. And if he has trouble, it Is his own fault. An automobile capable of running at a high rate of speed is valuable In case of an emergency; but It dot s not follow that because it is fast it should always be run up to its limit. And it is a mistake to do it. Never turn corners swiftly. There is danger in It. The centrifugal force may cause an upset. Even If it does not. it 1 also bad for the machinery. Never atte.npt grrat sped in rjlmblni: hills. It may be gratifying to own a machine which is a swift and pure hlll-cllmber, but you should not force the automobile. Steam and electric machines are propelled up hills by simply giving the motor mora steam or electric current. Gasoline carriages are operated differently. A low or hill-climbing gear is thrown into play which reduces the speed of the vehicle but increases its driving power. This caution against speed in hill-climbing applies particularly to electric and steam vehicle. A storage battery is sensitive, and the electric vehicle should be taken up a hill at the rate of speed which is best for its articular battery. Steam carriages are 'notable hlll-cllmbers; but this is no reason why they should be abused every time a hill is attempted. Cockney Talk. New York Times. "I thought I understood the coeknev dialect fairly well." said Charles W. Davis, who has Just returned from a trip abroad. "I know my Dickens, and am letter perfect in Albert Chevalier's songs. Rut some of the people I met in London keep fsr away from both. One day. at Westminster Abbey, a ragged woman who was selling flower, with a baby l:i her arms, came un lo me and said: 'I soly. master, won't ye "buy a posv for the lydy. fur the evke of thi byry