Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1901 — Page 6

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THK IXOIAXAl'OLIS JOUK.NAL, rJ'Ji UK SI) AY. UCTÜKHR . 1S)01.

LOOTING QUESTION AGAIN

un. 111:111 0rrr.1t m-:rr.i: a;i"nm m: Mvri:n ( Hi rn isn. Snr III I'nmou C onf-jiMi W'nn tendril mn 11 Ilurlesuui nml YYn t'oiintriil. To ih IMitor of Tho Indianapolis Journal: Sir Since th rtlif of the bslt-sd in I'ekins no f aturo of tlu China qu.-tion has attract! yuch wide attention, through the American pres-s. as lout. As your paper, along with many others, has psed criti-' clsm on my vWw. conc-rrnlr.pr loot, as well . ns on my cwit conduct in iho. matter, I writ not for the purpose of xplaininp away actual fact, hut to hHp in th und"r--t;inlinj? of ral lircumtancfs. Now, I o!o r.ot claim perfection fvt n a. a miionary, nor I I relieve that missionaries oui;ht ' r.ec-.s:arily to !' more p-rtV t than others; but I trust I am not as black as I am palnt-l. Uwlnff to much unctuous rant an.l rnlsrr presentation in the criticisms on loot, I wrote last March to the North China Herald an ironical confession intended as a burlesque. It was understood in China, , but. from what I have ?et-n in American paper?, my attempts at humor fell as Hat . as Mark Twain's latest missionary joke. "Without goins into any lengthy defense, I will say this much. The throe houses from which I secured my "spoils of war" were tho'c of hish officials implicated in the IJoxer uprising and Imperial attack. ! Kverythlnr in these houses was officially ; confiscated: and what I secured was with . consent of auch authorities as a. French j general, the British minister, and our ; American officers. Under these circumstances I have no qualms of conscience In what I did. X firmly believed that all such men ("despicable wretches") who nearly encompassed our massacre, should be punished, and I did what I could to point out to the authorities "where these guilty men had lived. This was "the now and then" : of my looting. All my denunciations have been hurled only at the guilty ringleaders, and. so far as I know. Justice allows no leniency in dealing with such. At the same time, I never lost my sympathy for those who were really innocent, iience. in th section under American administration, where I have lived for eIx years, I favored the looting of only two or three houses, while hundreds of my neifihbors kept me busy in securing for them protection against indiscriminate looting. 1 have banners and tablets presented by Chinese as tokens of their appreciation of what I did for them, but I have not yet ? heard any complaint of the kind of looting which I commended. I live in a houe which the owner urged me to occupy for protection against looting. He has provided the furniture and has wanted no rent, though 1 Intend to compensate him for his kindness. A FORM OF PUNISHMENT. I Taking cases of looting In themselves, my conscience would heartily condemn many of them; but when I consider the circumstances and view the matter as a whole, I am forced to reiterate the statement made In the Forum for July, on "The Kthics of Loot." that. If there was wrong. It was In the war, "not in the incidental result of the collection of spoils." I contend that looting was a form of punlshi ment. without which the officials and peo- ' pie of Peking would again be likely to undertake the task of exterminating all for- ? eigners In China. As It Is, they will not attempt it again very soon, certainly not in Peking. One should remember that war was In progress, and w were still In the enemy's country. Peking never surrendered, as It : did in the war of 1SW, but hnd to be captured by the loss of many lives. It was not a case of peaceably entering a friendly city on a mission of preaching the gospel. War. with its sad and horrible incldents, had begun, and ha 1 to be carried on. I regret that such things must happen. I very much regretted that I was among the wounded lying In the hospital while It was being shelled from the palace grounds. Th Imperial government brought on the trouble, and we. caught in the trap, had to do many things contrary to our usage and professions if wo and those dependent upon us were to be u.t ved. The war was a most anomalous one. Not merely were imperial troops engaged In the attack, but thousands of the people were among the combatants. The government and city may be said to have joined the Hoxers. whose one aim was our death. In this sense there were few in the city who were properly noncombatants. Peking, as a whole, suffered for complicity ia .crime. t Circumstances certainly modify the right or wrong of an action. ' Legitimate looting In Peking in time of war may be lawleMS thieving In New York in time of peace. illsslonaries In Peking, during the siege ami auer, naa 10 no many inings contrary to the usual custom and spirit of missions. They became volunteer soldiers carrying the rifle, pointed at their fellow-men. They built barricade and dug mines. They worked on Sunday as on week days. They devised plans for sending messengers through the line?, weaving for them strange things to hay-falsehoods, in fact should tthey fall into the hands of the imperial troops or the Roxers. They joined in helping on measures to kill. They prayed like the Psalmist for the destruction of their enemies, in many ways, according to the 'letter of the law. the Decalogue was broken. Iteyon! a. doubt, they offended the proprieties of an ordinary and placid life. MISSIONARIKS AND WAR. One missionary, in fact during the siege, was appointed chairman of "the loot committee." Instead of sayins that the missionary was not part of th war, and was criminal if he did what the military could clo. I would say that he was very much in the war rather more than he wished to be again. While I acknowledge that international law has regulations against looting In war, I yet know of no war down to the present time, where In case of capturing a city which refused to surrender, the enemy suffered no loss of property, either througii official orders or one's nonohVial good pleasure. In the civil war. even where towns and people surrendered. . there was hacking and burning, by permission of distinguished commanders. One general in the allied forces In Peking, applauded for his condemnation of looting, yet furnished his headquarters from a wealthy family friendly to foreigners, and at the present writing the family has received no compensation. It is really most Ulllicult to aprl.v 'nternational law to a groat mcny feature? of the anomalous war and peace of the last year or more. How forgiveness, meekness, non-resistancegreat principles of the Christian teachings are to bo applied to times of war. bloodshed and widespread collision 1 do not attempt to expound in a single paragraph. It is clear, if the interpretation of some home critics had le n followed, that nil of us foreigners in Pekitig s-hould have handed ourselves over to the Dowager Kmpress and her hordes of Roxtrs. and. in loving charity, quietly allowed ourselves to be cut to plecfs. The blowing up of the Maine flung Christian Amtrica into u war of "humanity" and revenge but the barbaric butchery of over 11) of our own Mesh ami blood In North China far away from the scenes of war-is met by the luunbvpamby sentimentality. How good a thing is persecution." I may be wrong in my theology and ethics both, but l am thoroughly convinced that Christianity, that the holy law of high Heaven, does not mean leniency lo such lawless, officials of t.le Chinese government as hurried on the upri-dri which closed the nineteenth century. Let the multitudes of China be helped In loe, but let justice, stern and relentless, be meted out to those who spurij the rtKht and trample on law. "It must reeds be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offense Cometh:" hi: wi:nt fokaoing. It has been affirmed by some that if American civilians after the .-lege needed anything for themselves or for the Chlnos? dependent on them, they could have been u?plled from the American commissariat. As a matter of fact, the American army found it hard to look after iteif. The troops went "foraging" for spiral we. ks. and when they retail to purchase supplier ther accepted euch help as mine more than once. I ma'!c arrangement with three Chinaman to go ome distance trorn the city to bring In sheep, cows, fowl and vegetables to supply the troops ai well as ourselves. Th only time 1 went "foraging"

I ji.ii l the bill, and at a pretty good price, too. The lirst shops p:id to trade in our part of the 1 ity were ihns- for whom I si cured "passes." I-Vr three weeks my Chinese friends almoi-'t supplied the wants of th" Pr sl 1 nan minion. The little which we eould et from tin Anvrlean commissariat wa obtained with ccnsiihr-a!..-diMU-ulty. Though I had only one change of clothing. I was told by the quartermaster: "We only supply ourselves and the legation. If you are in need, it is your own fault. You shouldn't have been in Peking. We are not here to look after missionary s." The three correspondents who were most severe in their condemnation of looting had no compunction of conscience in purchasing from the "loot auction?" at th: Rritish legation. It is Interesting to note that whin they were called upon to pay they presented checks which, mysteriously, have bei n dishonored at the bank. My conclusion is: Let the friends of China, real or assumed, not wait for war to begin to preach, but in times of peace do all in th Ir power to prevent war by lr.culcating principles of mutual helpfulness, justice and generous intercourse. rilLUKHT RRID. Peking. China, Aug. 2:.

Mr. Itefd'w Little Joke. Mr. Held sent the fon going letter to a number of other newspapers, including the Now York Kvenlng Post, which printed it with the appended comment: "The painful duty of explaining a joke of six months' standing falls to the Rev. Gilbert Reid, missionary at Peking. Last spring. when criticism of missionary loot was rife. Mr. Reid wrote to thv North China Herald 'an ironical confession. Intended as a burlesque,' by way of rejoinder to the rallies of the prvss. Fatwitted news writers and editors took the joke seriously, and now, under date of Aug. -H, the perpetrator of the hoax explains the Incident at length. The most striking thing about this serious explanation is that it is far more humorous than the joke itself. The Rev. Mr. Reid offers the time-honored apology that his loot 'was a very little one,', or. in his own words. 'I favored the looting of only two or three houses.' And this he did by way of retribution upon those who 'had nearly encompassed our massacre.' Furthermore, he lias saved many innocent Chinese from pillage; In fact, for his staying of the looting hand which was outstretched over the home he now occupies, the landlord, on his side, has abstained from collecting rent. The old refrain, 'Come live with me. is evidently sung with uncommon fervor by the guileless Chinaman confronted by a member of the missionary 'committee on loot.' "This whole matter bears a more serious aspect, which Mr. Reid's very entertaining explanation fails to cover, if, under the stress of a cruel ami urgent necessity, the missionaries were forced to do regrettable things, why not say so frankly and have done with it? The constant befuddling of the plain issue is what is really disheartening. There is no arguing with a mind which can say: " 'How forgiveness, meekness, nonresistance great principles of the Christian teaching are to be applied to times of war, bloodshed, and widespread collision. 1 do not attempt to expound in a single paragraph.' For the temper of such apologists is to raise revenge to the position of a Christian virtue, and to assume the position of the scoffer, that the Christian virtues are too. line for emergency wear. The less of such Christianity there is in heathen lands, or, for that matter, anywhere in the world, the better it will be for all of us." DROWMXG IX C.OLDEX S.WD. Jienrlr Lost UN Life In n 3IIre Worth $1,200 n Ton. Denver Republican. C. F. De Jersey-Grut and L. Simpson, both of Sydney, Australia, are traveling on pleasure through the United States. Mr. Simpson has had an experience that does not often fall to the lot of man of being nearly drowned in gold. And it happened in thl3 wise, he says: "I was in New Zealand about a year ago,, and was down in the southern part of the place. There is a river there, named the Zaldas, and a very peculiar river it is in a good many ways. It is remarkable for the strength and swiftness of its current in the mountains, and it goes underground for a space of about a mile in Its middle course. Rut the chief of its peculiarities is the gold-bearing quicksand to be found near its mouth. There is about a mile of the river there, where it spreads out, that is full of quicksand, and for a good distant t this sand is full of gold. Is assays as high as $1,200 a ton and is, of course, a very valuable thing. Until recently there was no known way of utilizing this gold, but about a year ago a new method was found whereby the gold could be extracted. "Well, I was near there, with a party of friends, camping and shooting and lishing. The first night 1 rode out on my horse down the river to see some people that lived on a farm near the mouth of the river. There was a light wind blowing at the time and it blew my hat all of a sudden from my head and out into the stream. It floated down slowly, and I rode on the bank and followed and watched it. I thought that it would soon come near the bank, and then I would be able to go out and get It by making my horse wade in the stream. I had not heard of the quicksand. "Pretty soon, it did not come near the bank, and I urged my animal out into the river. The horse would not go, however, and neighed loudly when brought near the water. After I had made repeated efforts to get the horse out Into the stream I gave it up, and then thought that I would w;ule out and get the hat myself. It was close to the bank and the river did not look deep. "So I jumped off the horse and into the stream, and then In an instant I knew what was the matter with the animal. For I had struck the quicksand. It was the place whore the gold is most to be found, and that sand there is worth lots of money, but it did not eem to make any difference to me whether it was gold I was sinking In or Just plain sand. It rose higher and higher on me, and I felt that It was surely the end. Rut the luck was with me. and I was pulled out by a chance passer on a horse, who threw a lariat over my shoulders. I thought that I was surely being cut In two bv the lariat. Rut I was not. and I was pulled out after a while and got over my scare. That sand where I was is now worth millions of dollars, and I was literally drowning In gold, but it wasn't any fun, I can tell you." M'KIXLin'S ffrilGKOXS. IIIkU i:nglili Authority Shows the Trentment Was Without Fault. The Lancet. In considering the reason or reasons of the fatal issue of the ca.e we may leave out of consideration the bullet itself: where it was lodged it could do no harm, and time and the patient's strength would have been wasted in searching for It. The Injury to the kidney also appears to have been of but little moment and need not be further considered. The damage to the pancreas was probably unimportant, though it has been suggested that the escape of pancreatic juice may have caused, or assisted In causing, the "gangrene" of the bullet truck described in the account of the necropsy. This is hardly likely, as the "gangrene" was found also in the wounds of the stomach wall. The peritoneum and the wounds of the stomach remain to be considered. There seems to be no evidence that at any time was there any peritonitis, and this was confirmed by the absence of Jeucocytosia. the blood having been examined several times during the patient's life, it does not appear from the account of the necropsy that any bacteriological examination was made of the peritoneal wall or tluid. Still, we shall probably not wrong In assuming that no peritonitis was present. The empty condition of the stomach prevented extravasation occurring, at least to any great extent. The wounds In the stomach wall were sutured with a minimum of delay, and apparently no leaking incurred. How shall we account for the "gangrene" of the margins of t'ie wound? There is no need to suspect any poisoned bullet, and the supposition that such a bullet was used was probably due to the fervid imagination of a reporter, not unwilling to pile horror upon horror. It Is by no me. ins rare to find after revolver wounds of the stomach wall that but little attempt at repair is made. This Is to be attributed in part to the local action of the gastric juice and in part to the patient's general state. The pathological condition has been met with before and will doubtlessly often occur again. Surgery does all of which it is at present capable. The wound 1 carefully sutured and the peritoneal cavity Is aseptic, and yet healing does not occur. The bruised gastric wall ha not sufficient vitality to recover and it makes no effort. The favorable prognosis which was put forth at first was so far justlled that in some cases recovery might have followed, but the Issue hardly conies as a surprise. The injuries were terrible, the patient was no longer young, and the circumstances wire such as to produce, even in a man of Iron courage, the maximum of shock. If we may ejiture to criticise any portion of the treatment, we feel inclined to suggest that the feeding bv the mouth was somewhat In excess of that which is usuallv considered advisable. Rut while we say this we know- that to the brilliant burgeon's and cxirincd pliiiar around President McKinley's there may have been Indications for the bo!.,i treatment impossible to be disregarded. In short, on a careful reiew of the whole case we fenl

I'ARM AND GAPvDLN INTERESTS

Mnintenmice Ration for Cnttlc. The following bulletin has ' been lately hsii'd fiom the Kansas Kxperimcnt Station: On account of the probable scarcity of feed during the fall and winter of ld-(2, the Kansas Experiment Station undertook an experiment in feeding wheat straw and adding enough ground wheat to secure a maintenance ration. Three dry cows averaging 1,2; pounds live "Weicht, two two-year-old heifers averaging l.CJ pounds, and three calves averaging ZVi pounds, were selected for this test. The experiment began Aug. 1, when the aggregate weight of the eight head amounted to 7,o27 pounds. As the cows came from good sorghum pasture and the heifers and calves from good prairie pasture they did not relish the wheat straw for the first few days and or.ly consumed about ten pounds daily per hi ad. The cattle were fed four pounds of ground wheat daily per head throughout the experiment. Ry dampening the straw and sprinkling the grain on and through it. considerably more straw was consumed, the average for thirty-one days being sixteen and one-half pounds daily per head. At the close of the flrrt week every animal in the experiment lost in weight, tne average being sixty-two pounds per head. During the- second week they regained a considerable portion of this loss. At the close of the experiment, Sept. 1. the three cows weighed an average of 1,172 pounds, a loss of lifty-four pounds per head for the thirty-one days under experiment, the heifers average 1.0C7 pounds, a gain of eight pounds per head, and the calves averaged 523 pounds, a gain of thirteen pounds per head. The total weight of the lot at the close of the experiment was 7,217 pounds, a loss of Uu pounds for the lot, or thirteen pounds per head, a small Item when one considers that it all came in the first week of the experiment. The total feed consumed by the lot was 4,232 pounds of wheat straw and VJ'2 pounds of ground - wheat. The straw was hauled about eight miles and did not contain any chaff or refuse wheat. When the cattle have access to a strawstack they get considerable chaff and more, fir less shriveled or waste wheat with the chaff. Under these conditions cattle would not need as much wheat as given above. This experiment indicates the possibilities in wintering cattle. When wheat straw, doubtless the poorest roughage on the farm, can maintain an animal with a small outlay for ground wheat, it ought to encourage a farmer to hold his cattle. Straw is abundant, especially in the western part of the State. In many places it Is being burned in order to get rid ef it. Where straw can be had for the hauling and wheat at W cents per bushel the feed cost or keeping a l.C'i-pound cow on a maintenance ration need not exceed $1.25 per month. Suppose the straw costs $5 per ton. the feed cost would be only ?2.5o per head per month, or $1.5o more than it usually costs In years when feed is plentiful. Most every farm produces rough feeel considerably better than wheat straw. Prairie hay, corn fodder, Kaffir-corn fodder, sorghum fodder or hay can be fed either alone or in combination with each other and the amount of grain required for maintenance reduced. Where red clover or alfalfa is available little or no grain need be fed. The present low prices of stock cattle, with ever prospect of high prices in the spring, and the cheapness with which the cattle can be wintered, as shown by the above experiment, should induce farmers to hold their cattle, even though they could be sold at fair prices. Sheep Sruh. "Among the acts of the last session of the Indiana Legislature," said Professor C. S. Plumb, director of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Purdue University, "was one making It compulsory to dip all scabby sheep. The object is to stamp out this expensive but unnecessary disease. The reports of the state statistician for the past few years have shown that there has been a considerable number of sheep affected. The forthcoming report will show more than 8,0ou head reported to be affected for the year ending June 30. There is no question but there have been many errors in reporting, but deducting these therestill remains a large number of affected sheep. "Scab Is produced by an Itch mite that causes itching, rubbing, pulling and shedding the wool, causing a bare and cabby skin. The parasite cannot live for any great length of time off the skin, and eioes not thrive on any other animal. It is, therefore, possible to stamp out the disease by killing all mites by ellpplng. Solutions of tobacco, lime and sluphur and arsenic are effective for this purpose. The tobacco solutions have preference. They may be made by taking from twenty to twenty-five pounds of tobacco leaves and stems and soaking for one day in sufllcient water to cover. Then boil for an hour and draw off after six hours. Dilute to one hundred gallons. Add twenty pounds of sulphur and use while warm. The lime and sulphur dip may be made by slacking eight pounds of lime in some water, adding twenty-four pounds of sulphur and diluting to one hundred gallons. It is troublesome to prepare the tobacco solution, and is about as cheap to buy the extract ready for use. The lime and sulphur dip is injurious to the wool. It requires on an average of one and one-half gallons of dip solution per head for more than twenty-live head. The second dipping is necessary at the tenth day so that the cost for material must be reckoned at about 5 to 7 cents per head. The coal tar or creolin dips are excellent for ticks, but not as effective as they should be for scab. As far as known nearly all affected sheep have been dipped, but any person knowing of such disease should report the same to the state veterinarian, Lafayette, Ind., at once, as efforts will be made to complete the work before cold weather." The Walking: Hone. Drovers' Journal. There can be no question of the value a horse that is able to walk three or four miles an hour. Some people who are unable to look at but one side of a question, object to such horses, because it is Impo5sible for a man to follow a plow at that gait for ten hours a day. But this if no objection. If a horse can go four miles an hour, he can go .three in the same length of time, and this Is none too fast for good plowing. " A slow team going at the rate of two miles an hour, does not turn a furrow well, for the furrow slice will often fall back, when slowly turned, especially In stiff land or sod. The quicker movement gives sufficient velocity to throw the furrow slice completely over and break It loose from the subsoil. Resides, it is better to plow one or two acres a day of six hours than the same justified in saying that surgery did Its best: the sad result Is to be ascribed to the lack of vitality of the tissues themselves. hhavr nrnns." Ilrltlsh O H!cer AVho Co to Dentil in llattle W'earitiK Parade Finery. F. W. Unger. in "With 'Hobs' and Kruger." pays the following tribute to ltritlsh soldiers:" "Up to this time my relations with the British officers had been almost entirely of a soeial nature. I found them, without exception, to bo the most courteous and pleasant set ed men 1 have ever met always dignified, and with what seemed to me to be an exceptionally high sense of honor, their code of which every man appeared to live up to. also. Later on 1 was able to see something more of the same men in action at close ejuarters. 1 do not care to criticise their efficiency as officers, for what demerits they have are more the fault of the system than of the material. Hut as to courage and bravery, the Knglish officer has few equals and no superiors. Hravery, especially in time of battle, is largely a matter of comparison. The British Tommy, drawn from the slums of London, where for perhaps many generations he and his ancestors had never known the meaning ot comfort, taken on a dreary voyage to Table bay, half baked in cattle cars for a thousand miles across the Karroo desert, then marched in the heat of day. sleeping chilled anil wet at night, on half rations hII the time after such a preparation a teal battle or skirmish with the enemy H a tremendous relief from a terrible monotony, and requires only a low grade of courage to urge Tommy onward he has so little to lose. "Hut with the aristocratic officers the ease is quite different. They have been in perhaps half a dozen campaigns before; there is nothing novel In the experience. Thev have left comfortable barracks or luxurious quarter and clubs iu London: they belong to the upper ten thousand who have rr.ore or less of all thtt man can desire. They hae lf t b- hlr.d. and hope to go back to. ll that's b st in lift-. They nay lose what all tin- rest of humanity are strenuously striving with might and main to thtaln. And they know it. And whenever they rush out under Mauser fire, twenty yards ahead of their companies, shouting Vorne on. men!' they know their chances ate not one in ten. for cvff.y skir

amount in one of ten. ami the quicker way is not only more effective In quality of work, but is easier on the man who is driving. In harrowing, rolling or any of the multifarious duties that a hi se is called tipon to do on a farm, a quick movement is indispensable to good work; and when en the road the saving of one-fourth to one-third the time is a great aid to expedition in work, and is consequently economical. A draft horse that has been trained to walk four miles an hour is worth in money fully twice as much as one that consumers two and a half of three hours. This is a rapid age and crops must be jHanted rapidly, harvested in a hurry, and got to market before prices go down, and slow horses have no place in it. Corn nntl Poultry. Western Poultry News. The fact that the corn in Nebraska and the other Western States in the great corn producing belt Is going to be barely more than one-third of a crop Is not an occasion for any ioss of sleep on' the part of those engaged in the business of poultryraising. CorfT, as a rule, should cut but very little figure In the neenl of poultry. The wheat crop in the West is not only abundant, but enormous, and at present writing we know tf several farmers who are feeding wheat to their stock. The farmers of the West should come to rely more upon poultry as a means of helping out during times of drought and crop failure. The experiences of some of our Western farmers, which have been related to us, convince us that during the great panic and drought of 1S3, ls!4 and Ü05 the poultry of the West was the salvation of more than one of them. Requiring little to subsist on, poultry during these trying times furnished something that could be turned Into cash wherewith the necessities of existence could be purchased. Surely many of them have not forgot already the lessons learned during that time.

Select Seed Corn Knrly. Correspondence Orange Judd Farmer. My method is to go into the Held the latter part of September or the early part of October and select the very choicest ears. These are placed In a room or bin where they will not be exposed to dampness, rats or mice. The ears are usually strung on wires and allowed to remain until a few days before planting.' The uneven kernels are then removed ami the ears run through a sheller, when the seed is ready for planting. Throw- out every ear lacking good size and uniformity. It is very necessary to guard against the ravages of mice and rats, although it is sometimes difficult to do so. Sometimes Instead of going through the field I select my corn from the wagons when the men are unloading at the cribs. I tie the ears together with a cord or wire and hang them up to dry. The only difficulty in this plan is that when men are husking by the day or bushel they do not like to assist in selecting. During the last eighteen years I have used a cellar where I can hang 4,000 ears from wires fastened to the Joists. This cellar Is free from dampness and has given excellent satisfaction. YVhnt Hurts Oar Cheese Trade. Indiana Farmer. In one of his excellent addresses at the recent Huntington Institute, Prof. Henry called attention to the fact that our cheese exports fell off 42.per cent, from 1S90 to 1900, and said that it was due to the making of fraudulent filled cheese, which was begun in Illinois "and extended to nearly the whole country during that period. The effect on our foreign trade In cheese was so marked that public attention was called to the matter, and legal steps were finally taken to put an end to the manufacture of such cheese. It was a public object lesson, teaching that honesty is the best policy. It will probably take this country several years to recover the loss, as we shall be compelled to show In a series of years that we are now making honest whole-milk cheese, and that the export stamp means what it says. It Is said that the consumption of cheese also fell off greatly in this country, and this will have to be recovered by the same slow process. Farm "otes. Rotation of crops not only enables the farmer to get the best results, but largely aids in preventing diseases of plants. Rotation, which includes clover, distributes the plant foods to advantage, and prevents loss of any particular element required by plants'. Plowing In the fall may be beneficial or not. according to the texture of the soil. Light soils will lose fertility if left bare during the winter. The late weeds that cover the soil sometimes protect against leaching, but no weed should be allowed to mature. Rye is an excellent cover crop and grows on nearly all soils. Many suggestions have been made in regard to spraying, but the use of kerosene sho.nld be done carefully. Kerosene emulsion is recommended for many purposes, but there are strong and mild emulsions, according to the proportion of water used. Pure kerosene, even in small quantities, will quickly destroy peach trees. Straw is valuable on the farm, not only because it can be used for food, but also because it can be made to assist in retaining warmth in the stalls in winter. If cut in a feed cutter and used for bedding it will prevent draughts of air along the floors, and it can then be swept out with a broom and mixed with the manure, being a much better absorbent than If left uncut. The garden plot may be chanjed every two or three years In order to prevent diseases of plants. The plot for the garden should be selected at this season of tho year, plowed, and a liberal application of manure made, which should be harrowed in. Sow rye to cover the ground, and plowit tinder early in spring, using a small nuantltv of lime, or apply wood ashes. Have the plot so arranged as to cultivate in long rows In order to save labor. The fall is the time to make the garden plot fertile. Those who keep late pullets with the expectation that they will begin to lay in winter will be disappointed, as a rule. Such pullets seldom begin to lay until the warm weather of the spring season begins. Birds do not lay in winter in their natural state, and the barnyard fowls are no exception, as they must receive assistance in the way of food and shelter. Domestication makes changes in the characteristics of birds, and the only way to secure eggs in winter Is to have the fowls under summer conditions, if possible. Karly pullets should lay in winter, but late pullets do not fully mature before winter, and do not then lay to their fullest capacity because they must supply their bodies with material for growth and warmth. mish results in two or more officers killed or wounded. "I have seen these clean-faced, longlimbed 'lion's cubs' leading charges, going to certain death witnout flinching, as though thev were but cheering a cricket match. While I cannot but fmd fault with a certain recklessness in their manner, yet 1 must admit there are no braver men in all the armies ot" the world than these same aristocratic British officers, who frequently go into action wearing kid gloves, white collars and a monocle." A Journalistic Achievement. New York Post. How to run a daily newspaper without reporters has been settled by one NewYork publisher. The former staff of eight or ten men have gone, and only three are required for all duties. How do they manage? A man who for a brief time was one of the three explained: "We had the morning papers ahd those printed in Philadelphia, if the locals were dull we clipped the Philadelphia papers, simply changing the location. If John Smith, of No. l'SIIö Vine street, had something happen to him we presented him with an address up in Harlem. 1 am told that the day after President McKinley's assassination the news columns were filled by a straight cut of about a page and a half from a local morning daily. Having dispensed with reporters, the editorial staff is now having its turn, and a former employe Is considering an offer of weekly to furnish two and one-half columns of editorials dally and three and one-half on Sunday, or at the rate of about a dollar a column." A Devout Churchman. New York Telegraph. J. Pierpont Morgan will leave for San Francisco to-day to attend the Kpiseopal Church Conference in that city next week. In pursuance of a policy followed for many years Brother Morgan will entertain the diwnitaries of the cht rch lavishly in his own home, a mansion having been leased for the purpns. On account of stress of business Brother Morgan is sometimes obliged to postpone or cut short his European trips, but he never fails to attend the annual conferences of the Kpiseopal Church. No trouble to prepare quick breakfast if you have Mrs. Austin's famous Pancake Flour. Heady In a moment.

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