Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — Page 7

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FARMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 270. Farm of 140 acres, 2 miles of pood railroad town of 400 inhabitants; a twostory frame house of 8 rooms; frame barn 54x00, all in good shape; tine orchard; farm well watered; 40 acres in timber, farm lays nice and nice roacjs to town; 70 acres more can go with the 140 if purchaser wishes it. Price S2O per acre. No. 278. Farm of 84214 acres; framehouse of 5 rooms, good frame barn, a fine young orchard, 100 acres in timber, balance in good state of cultivation, a fine stock farm as well as a good grain farm, it is a well watered farm and lays nice; 2 : 'i miles of railroad town. Price S2O per acre, one-half cash, good time on balance at 0 per cent, secured by first mortgage. No. 279. Farm of 200 acres; frame house of 6 rooms, large frame barn, Ice house and other out-buildings; farm is well watered, lays nice, well fenced; 3 miles east or west to railroad towns on J. M. & I„ B. & O. S. W. or Big Four. Price S2O per acre. No. 280. Farm of 700 acres; said farm has three dwtflings, two good barns; three good orchards; this farm can be put into 3or 4 good farms; part of farm is rolling, but is not bad, most of it level and smooth; 3 miles of a good railroad town, 14 miles of Madison. Indiana. Price S2O per acre, two-thirds cash, balance on good time at 0 per cent, secured by first mortgage on said farm. No. 281. Farm of 100 acres; 5 miles of good R K. town of population of 400. Nice frame cottage of 0 rooms, large frame barn, fine orchards of all kinds of fruit, farm lays nice, in good neighborhood. Church and school close to said farm, Price $2,200. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New, hi-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. \V. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas & Sou. Wagner Bros. & Co., Nelson St Son. J. H. Maguire & Co.. W. M. Naur. Herbert Goff and Wagner's plow factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the county, would be pleased to show them w hether they wished to buy or not.

Where to Locate? WHY IN THE TERRITORY TRAVERSED BY THE . . LOUISVILLE and NASHVILLE RAILROAD —'THEGreat Central Southern Trunk Line, IN KENTUCKEY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, WHERE Farmers, Fruit Growers, Stock Raisers, Manufacturers, Investors, Speculators, and Money Lenders will find the greatest chances in the United Stages to make ' big money” by reason of the abundance and cheapness of Land and Farms. Timber and stone, Iron and Coal, Labor—Everything! Free sites, financial assistance, and freedom from taxation for the manufacturer. Land ar.d farms at SI.OO per acre and upwards. and 500.000 acres in West Florida that can be taken gratis under the U. S. Homestead laws. Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District will make enormous profits. Half Isre excursions the fint and third Tuesdays oleach month. Let us know what you want, and we will tell you where and how to get it—bat don't delay, as the country is filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and all infoimation free. Address, R. J. WEMYSS General Immigration and Industrial Agent, LOUISVILLE, KY.

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GARDEN AND FARM

RYE VALUABLE FOR HAY. W. D. J., Wisconsin, wants to know how he can secure early hay; says drouth has injured meadows in his section and present shortage of feed makes it desirable to have hay at the earliest possible moment. There is no better method of securing early hay than to cut rye just before it heads or just as the heads are appearing. Very few farmers realize the value of this crop for that purpose. Cut with a mower, allow to wilt pretty thoroughly, then place in shocks where it must remain until cured. If the weather is at all favorable, these shocks of wilted rye will dry thoroughly and Tesult In a nutritive forage, bright green in color and very palatable. Even if the weather is not the begt, a shock of wilted rye, if well put up, will withstand a lot of rain. It can be allowed to remain in ihe field until thorongnly dried out. This hay is much more valuable than people usually suppose. It Is rich in protein, making a fine feed for dairy cows and young stock. It can be cut early so that the ground may be devoted to a late crop of corn or of cowpeas, soy beans and the like. We cannot itnphasize toe forcibly the importance of this on the average farm. —American Agriculturalist. ROOTING ROSE SLIPS. The propagation of our favorite roses from slips and cuttings usually receives attention in the fall. A favorite method with the amateur is to place the slips firmly in the soil and turn a glass jar over them, allowing it to remain over the slip until the settled warm weather of the following spring. This is an excellent plan, as in almost every instance the little plant will be found to be well rooted and thrifty when the jar is removed in the spring, and it will soon start into strong sturdy growth. This method of rooting roses is especially satisfactory for the tender varieties that would not stand the cold of the first winter without the protection of the close fitting glass jar. From the hardy roses, however, slips and cuttings will “strike” very readily in July or August, and will become strong enough before hard freezing weather to live through the first winter with very littie protection. The method which experienced rose growers recommend for the mid-summer rooting, is to take off the slips with very little of the old wood, press wet sand very closely about the lower end of the cutting, place panes of glass over the bed or box in which the cuttings are set, and keep the sand warm and moist. Examine them in a few weeks and if they have begun to throw out roots transplant them carefully to their permanent beds, and shade them from the heat of the sun. If it is desirable to root the cuttings in the beds where the small bushes are to remain—to avoid the risk of loss in transplanting—follow the same process of pressing wet sand about the roots, place a large jar over the cutting and remove it when the roots start. —P. W. Humphreys, in The Epitomlst. FEEDING HENS FOR EGGS. We all have our ways about feeding hens, and very poor ways some of them are, too. We learn very slowly. A man who gets eggs right through the winter told me the other day how he fed his fowls, and I pass it along because I believe he Is right. Instead of feeding the warm meal or bran and corn meal in the morning, he feeds whole grain, say, of wheat, in the morning. This he takes into the house the night before and places it where it will warm while his wife is getting breakfast. Then he scatters it among deep litter on the floor. The hens work at this well on toward noon. About one quart is given to a dozen hens. The wheat is varied after a few days’ use by cracked corn, buckwheat and wheat. He has no bone mill, but thinks it worth while to hew bone with a hatchet for his fowls. This he feeds once or twice a week. 'At night the warm bran and meal mash is given. The hens eat this and go to the roost feeling warm and comfortable. A string suspended from the ceiling supports a cabbage hanging high from the floor, so as to compel real work on the part of the fowls. At first the hens did not seem to like the cabbage, but they soon learn to eat it voraciously. Shells are furnished all the time. The pan of water is placed on a box so high that the hens cannot get over into it, and yet within reach, and the vessel is kept clean. This man was getting eight to ten eggs a day from a dozen hens. —E. L. Vincent, in New York Tribune Farmer.

PRODUCING BABY BEEF. A desirable feature of tbe feeding of baby beef is that the relative Value of steers and heifers at calf weight is nearly the same, while ttye difference in value of the male and female when they are mature Ib considerable. From inquiries made of prominent Kansas feeders we found that from 900 to 1,500 pounds of grain were required to put 100 pounds of flesh on an qnlmal. The average of the reports turned in was about 1,000 pounds of grain for 100 pounds of flesh. Our experiments have demonstrated that it takes but 500 pounds of feed for 100 pounds of grain when baby beeves are handled. This makes a saving of half the feed required to to fatten heavier cattle. We also found that the native bred calves raised at tha station made better gains and sold

better than the range calves we experimented with. In resp/ect to the breed of calve 3 to feed, I think the best returns can be had with feeding crossbred stock. Select any two of the reputable beef breeds, be sure to do that, and the resultant cross will give satisfaction in the feed lots. We gave the principal! feeds a thorough trial on our baby beeves and finally arrived at the conclusion that alfalfa hay and Kaffir corn made the best returns. This should be welcomed by Kansas farmers, inasmuch as both of these feeds are raised throughout the State. Thus baby beef feeding need not be a local innovation.—Prof. Cottrell, at the Kansas Improved Stock Breeders’ Meeting.

GAPES. Already the cry goes up throughout the land regarding the prevalence of the gape worm. japes are a dangerous element of the poultry business and take hard fighting to eradicate. The trouble is caused by a little pink worm about a half inch in length, that attaches itself to the mucous membrane in its wind-pipe. It derives its sustenance from the blood of the chick. By creating inflammation, often extending to the lungs, it causes strangulation and death. The worms or the eggs are originated by dampness or by being confined in filthy quarters. It is claimed by some that they emanate from the common earth worm, as localities where they are in abundance is generally a paradise for the seeker of fishing worms. Many remedies have been suggested and every breeder has his own mode of procedure. The removal of the worm is the result desired and many devices have been produced for that purpose. Perhaps the best remedy is that of using airslaked lime as an irritant; this causes the chicken to cough and sneeze and enables it to remove the mass from its throat without assistance. The* proper way to administer it, is to place the chicks in a box, cover this with a coarse grade of muslin and dust the top with powdered lime. This will produce the desired result. Care must be taken not to overdo the matter. If first dose is not successful, repeat in one or two days. Another remedy which has worked quite successfully is the use of a coarse horse hair. Make a loop of the hair and insert into the windpipe; by a rotary movement the worms may be entangled and dislodged, and thus by the removal of the hair the worms are taken from the windpipe and the life of the chick prolonged. An expert operator with a hair as described can save nearly every chick, as the removal of the worm is all that is necessary.—lnland Poultry Journal.

THE HIRED HELP. It would seem that the question of securing good and reliable farm help might be simplified by making the laborer feel that he is wanted on the farm. No one is ambitious who knows that lie is hired only because he is actually needed by a man who would discharge him any minute if his services could he dispensed with. Possibly if the wages were fixed at a reasonable rate for the year, and not cut down to board and a mere pittance in winter, the tendency would be to induce good help to stay. Again the farmer should not demand more than a reasonable day’s work. Don’t work a full day in the field and then compel the hired help to do the chores, but stop the outside work early enough to leave time for milking. It is nut wise to do unnecessary work on Sunday, there is enough that has to be done. Possibly, too, it is unwise to let the hired man’s pay run. Pay him regularly at the end of the month to keep him in necessary spending money. The man who indulges in a spree after every pay day is not good help under any condition and better be discharged. If it Is possible, it is well to make a good man feel himself a part of the family as it were. Do not relegate him to a side table and make him sleep in the stable, but give him a good bed and hoard. Docking on stormy days, letting pay day come irregularly, and making the hired man feel the family is above him generally is a pretty sure way to sicken even a good hand. Farm work at its best is confining, but need not be irksome if the farmer, Ly the exercise of judgment and generosity, treats his help as he would like to be treated were he in a similar position.—W. E. Stone, in The New England Homestead.

Napoleon Bonaparte’s Wealth.

Napoleon Bonaparte’s will, among those of great men, affords the nearest parallel to that of Cecil Rhodes in the fortune it bequeathed. He was surely the richest exile since the world began. From his lonely home at SL Helena he bequeathed to his reratives and friends $40,000,000. He had been rich, in gold as in power, beyond the dreams of avarice, and there must have passed through his hands a private fortune such as mortal man has rarely dreamed of. His exactions set down at nearly $375,000,000, whloh is, after all, but six times multiplying the gift he secured for himself from the Austrian treasury after Austerlltz. He died forty times a millionaire.

Not Always to Blame For It.

Some women think more of their hats than of their husbands, and the hats are not always to blame for it, either. —New York Times. Of thd 199 million acres whieh make up New South Wales almost three million are water, and 22,700,000 are mountains and sterile lands.

RUSSELL SAGE, NEW YORK FINANCIER, IS 86 YEARS OF AGE.

Russell Sage, who recently celebrated his eightx;sixth birthday, is one of the picturesque characters of the time and has been prominent in New’ York for more than half a century, not alone because of his great wealth, which runs up in the many millions, but also on account of his original personality. Mr. Sage began life as a farmer’s boy, but at the age of Id was hired to-a grocer, and soon owned a store of his own in Troy, his native Stute. In early life he dabbloffin politics, and was Alderman of his town in 1545. Railroad operations soon attracted him, however, and when Jay Gould began his gigantic stock manipulations Mr. Sage was his most intimate friend and business associate. Mr. Sage has figured in most of the large Wall street epochs and crises of the last quarter of a century, and in some spectacular personal escapades.

KNOX IN CAFE QUARREL.

Attorney General Punishes Philadelphia Millionaires. Attorney General Knox admits that he was a participant in an unpleasantness in a case at Atlantic City, hut he claims

that published accounts of the affair have been greatly exaggerated Friends of the Attorney General who were present at the “scene” at Atlantic City state that, so far from being struck by three infuriated capitalists who disapproved of his course regarding the trusts, Mr. Knox

ATTY.-GEN. KNOX.

was the means of inflicting condign punishment upon ope of the party. According to Mr. Long, private secretary to the Attorney General, who was present, a party of men, including several Philadelphia miliionaihes, among whom were said to have been Charles T. Schhen, Theodore Cramp and Mr. Stevenson, entered an Atlantic City case and took a table near that at which the Attorney General, his family and several friends were seated. Some of the newcomers became boisterous, Mr. Long says, and used excited language and such that it became unpleasant to Mr. Knox and his friends to remain near them. Knox accordingly asked a waiter to step over and request that the loud language cease. The waiter did so, and the men, becoming enraged, grew more violent than before. “Well,” Mr. Long concluded, “the result was a slight encounter. It is not true that Mr. Knox was struck. One of the other men got it good and hard, however. He was struck by one of our party. I don’t care to say who struck him. Then order was restored. That’s ail there was to it.” This is the story according to a New York correspondent.

TYPHOID IS EPIDEMIC.

Chicago Health Statistics Show Big In- . ' crease in Disease. Typhoid fever is epidemic in Chicago, according to reports from hospitals and statements of physicians. At the Cook County Hospital Friday there were 250 cases of the disease, or more than three times as many as were under treatment at the corresponding season last year. That typhoid fever is swiftly increasing in prevalence i 9 shown by the fact that of the 250 cases at the county hospital 117 have been gained since the beginning of August, the record for July being 133. In other words, the increase has been 88 per cent in less than a third of a month. The whole city, according to the health department, has 40 to 50 per cent more typhoid cases than are normally known at this season of the year. If the epidemic keeps tip for three days more the capacity of the Cook County Hospital will be exhausted. “Then,” said Warden Happel, “we shall have to place beds in the corridors unless private hospitals come to our relief.” The county hospital, it is said by medical men, affords a fairly reliable test of the general health of metrooplitan Chicago, since the patients are drawn from all sides of the city and from the suburbs.

News of Minor Note.

May Irwin, home from England, says she has quit the stage. Fire in Pittsburg business district caused $300,000 loss. Explosion injured five firemen. George D. Midjlleton was electrocuted at Clinton prison. New York, for the murder of his wife in 1001. The steamship Roslin Castle sailed from Hamilton, Bermuda, for South Africa with the first party of returning Boers, numbering 350 persons, on board. The sloop Lovell Delle, owned and sailed by Captain Allen N. Calder, of Thunderbolt, Go., was capsized during a squall and Captain Cnlder’s father nud mother, wife aud iufaut daughter were drowned. The Servian cabinet, which resigned on July 24, hit’s ended the crisis which resulted from the resignation by consenting to remain in office. Yip Hay, the Alaska Chinese murderer, taken from the steamer Dolphin committed suicide in jail at Port Townsend, Wash., that night by strangling himself with a shoestring. O. W. Coffelt, charged with the assassination of Santa Fe Detective Montgomery, was transferred to the jail of Sedgwick County, Kan., by order of Judge Lawrence, because of threats made to rescue him.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Greatest Crops Ever Harvested Are Predicted by State Statistician—Burglars Break Into Upland Jail and Rescue Comrade—Prayer in Bank. The grain yield of Indiana will probably exceed the totals of all previous years. Reports gathered by the Indianapolis News from bank officials and reports to the State statistician agree in that conditions were never more favorable than now for bursting granaries and continued prosperity. B. F. Johnson, State statistieia’n, says: “Except in a few counties in the northwest part of the State, where the corn has boon drowned, Indiana has never seen such a crop. Even with the damage in the northwest, the crop will bo far in excess of last year's, when 147,StHMtrtd bushels were harvested. Where previously the yields have been running twenty to thirty bushels an acre,'reports now indicate thirty to fifty bushels. The oats crop will be immense if it is threshed in shape. The acreage seems to be slightly below that of last year, but the total yield is well above it, probably over 44,327,300 bushels. Last year the crop amounted to 41,044,771 bushels. The danger is that the farmers will try to thresh their oats wet. They should allow the grain to remain in the shock until it is dry before threshing. There is nothing new to lead me to change my estimate of 40,000,000 bushels for the wheat crop. The crop last year was 33,000.000 bushels. About 00 per cent of the wheat north of Indianapolis is in the shock. It should he treated as the oats—allowed to dry in the, shock before threshing.

Break Into Jail to Rescue Pal. While making his rounds at midnight the other night. Watchman Stells of Upland saw a man acting sulpiciously in front of Little's drug store. Upon questioning him the watchman became convinced that the sthre was being robbed, and the stranger was on watch for the burglars. Not daring to make a noise lest the other men escape, Stells marched the stranger off to jail, and then secured assistance and hurried hack to the store, hut the robbers had escaped and had carried off the money drawer, together with a lot of notions. The man in jail gave his name as Hardy, and admitted that two other men were in the store when he was arrested. At 3 o’clock the next morning, after the jailer had retired, there was a crash at the jail door, and it was knocked from its hinges. At the same moment two men entered and released Hardy. The three men hastened from the town. When a posse was organized to pursue them no clew as to the direction taken could be found. Knelt and Prayed on Floor of Bank. Enos Randall, a highly respected farmer, living near Gray, went to Njihlesville and paid off two notes at the l-lrst National Bank. As soon as the transaction was finished he knelt down on the floor in front of the teller’s window and offered up a fervent prayer, thanking the Lord for deliverance front debt for the first time in forty-four years. The incident attracted much attention.

Girl Arrests n Burglar. While the family of Peter Aklcs. near Trinity Spring.-?, was absent from home some one broke into the residence and stole a watch, rings and other jewelry. Gertrude Akles. the lti-year-old daughter. discovered the theft and ran down the burglar, Curtis Jones, at Williams and arrested him. On his person were found the jewelry, several other watches and a handful of rings. Aeronaut Falls to Death, Prof. Frank Iteed, an aeronaut of Marion. fell while making a parachute leap at Millersburg and was instantly killed. He was married to a young woman in Marion about one year ago, who was with him at the time of the accident and witnessed his fall to death. He was lit} years of age, and had been making parachute leaps for ten years. Ftute New* ia Brief. Richmond has eight State conventions booked for 1903. Red Men will manage a street fair at Rochester in tlie fall. The total capitalization of industries established at Newcastle since Nov. 1, 1901, is $1,435,000. Andrew Stapleton was found dead in Ehrlisk’s mine at Now burg, aud the coroner is making an investigation. P. 11. Clark, an old engineer on the Clover Leaf, fell front his engine while trying to oil it while in motion, and was ground to pieces, at Silverwood. Indiana l’ythians on route to California over the Rio Grande road ran into a cloudburst twenty miles south of Colorado Springs and had a thrilling ex peri-, enee in rushing through the edge of the cloudburst at the rate of sixty-five miles an hour. Lyman Allen, while under the iuHucnce of liquor, attacked his wife in Fort Wayne and inflicted injuries necessitating the service of a surgeon. While the doctor was dressing the woman’s wounds Allen swallowed poison. He died in a few minutes. The Chicago police have been asked to aid in the search for Mrs. Tolton, the wife of William Tolton, the Westville man who was taken to the La Porte county jail to escape a mob of his townsmen. who suspected him of murdering his wife and wanted to lynch him. Sheriff Small hopes to secure an interview witli the conductor of the Wabash train on which Tolton say* his wife took passage for Chicago. The engineer of the train is positive no woman passenger was at the station on that particular morning, and the station employes are equally confident Mrs. Tolton ha* not hoarded a train on that road. Jacob Day. living on Fulton street, Chicago, was found dead in his room at 32 South Capitol avenue, Indianapolis. He had been employed on the Cluypnol Hotel. Heath is supposed to have been caused by heart disease. * As the result of a conference over a breach of promise ease Prof. Calvin Ewing of La Porte agreed to marry Miss Lily Mattis of Chicago. The next morning he changed his mind and the case was compromised by the payment of $201.) to the plaintiff, who returned to Chicago. Ewing then secured a license to marry Mrs Tillie Erdman.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

In round numbers, 75,(XX) postmasters help Uncle Sam in carrying on his business. Nineteen thousand clerks in offices of the first and second class render their assistance, and 18,(XXI city carriers distribute daily the mails from house to house, while 10,000 rural carriers - perform daily the same service in the thickly populated country _ districts. Ten thousand railway postal clerks cover the country night ami day over the great iron spider "web of railroad lines, gathering and distributing the mails as they fly. An army of contractors and sub-contractors, operating daily and weekly schedules, penetrate the remotest and most isolated communities, distributing them to another army of fourth-class postmasters. One hundred and sixty thousand, in round numbers, counting everybody, from the Postmaster General down to tin* ;>ostmaster in a fourth-class office, with a salary of $1 per month, or even less, is the number of Uncle Sam's employes in t-hc postal service. About 111,000 is the number in all the other branches of Lis civil service. About 271,000 is the grand total. Among the long list of government employes who draw pay from Uncle Sain, the distinction of being the smallest salaried of any falls to Charles- Henry Gibbs, keeper of the “hug light” at Nantucket, who annually about June 20 receives a check for sl, his year's salary. What is known as the “bug lighthouse” Is situated on a hill near Monomoy, Mass., oil the south side of Nantucket harbor, and at the same time when the island was at the height of its fame as a whaling port, was considered an invaluable guide to vessels entering the harbor at night. For twenty years it has not been used at all, but the government still retains the lighthouse and is willing to pay a man $1 a year to live there. The keeper has no work to do. but is allowed to keep hens and breed cats for a living. The Agricultural Department has received a copy of the new German regulations for meat inspection and importation. which says that fresh meats eau only be imported in whole carcasses; carcasses of cattle and hogs may he split in half, but the halves must be left together and be accompanied by the head, lungs, heart and kidneys. Cow beef must have the udder attached, and pork must include the tongue. Except hams, bacon and intestines, no piece of smoked or preserved meat weighing less than S.B pounds is allowed, and acids of all kinds, as preservatives, arc prohibited. The State Department finally has decided how to treat the people of the Philippines in relation to other countries. The first precedent is the ease of Eduard Fancixo, of Manila, who applied to Ambassador White at Berlin for a German passport. The Ambassador’s decision was that the man should have protection ns a Philippine native loyal to the United States, but not being an American citizen he is not entitled to a passport. Representative Littlefield, of Maine, who is expected to represent the administration in the formulation of an antitrust law, has confided to a Washington correspondent the main features of his ' iilan, as follows: Federal control of corj ywrations engaged in interstate commerce; power given to the government to inspect the doings of corporations having capital stock: regulation by the government of increase in capital stock. An old soldiers’ association, intended to spread over the country and to include soldiers of all wars and their sons in national political organization, lias been started in Washington. I>. C. It will be modeled after existing political parties, hut will not interfere in party [xditics except in the effort to control nominations and elections of men favorable to soldiers. J The War Department has decided to convert Chickamnuga Park into an imI in ease maneuvering ground, and as a first step Secretary Root has allotted S4SO.iNNi for the construction of barracks and I quarters to form an army post with ae- ' eonimoiiations for one regiment oUcaval- ! ry and one company of field artillery, on property adjoining the park. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw 1 lias j ordered the enforcement of the law dej in. • Hiding answers by aliens to a list of questions, without exemption of cabin j passengers. As the questions are very personal and somewhat embarrassing, much indignation has been shown by pasi sengers compelled to submit to the ordeal. Secretary Root, accompanied by Adjutant General Corbin. General Wood and Colonel Randolph, made a trip of seventy miles to and from Leesburg, Va.. where they went to inspect the District of Columbia national guard camp, in an army wagon drawn by mules. Secretary Shaw lias placed laborers and all unskilled workers of the Treasury Department under the classified service, thus disposing of the last of his political patronage. He denies having favored a five-year limit for division chiefs. The Navy Department will hereafter pay no attention to recommendations of Congressmen for discharge of enlisted men, un order to this effect having lns-ii signed by the President. Colonel R. M. O’Reiley fins been np- ! pointed surgeon general of the army to succeed General Forwood, who will reI tire. Revenue officers provided with stamps nre to be stationed on New York piers, ! in order that incoming passengers bring- • ing cigars into this country may purchase, in payment of internal revenue taxes. The Postofflce Department has revived nn old plan to have nticauccled and nnservloeuble isistnl cards redeemed at 75 l>er cent of face value, pnyahle in stamps A flue of SSO and one month's suspension is the penalty imposed on Major j Glenn for torturing Philippine natives.