Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 February 1898 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

I. IHMNf. I'uhlUbrr.

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INDIANA

HARVEST-TIME.

i m free to XT I never have ht( thron. a yet: An old hn looks Ilk h owned on, when h- ready to set: AnJ thr cat looks like eh- owned OM, ihn; tie tskes the rocking-, hair. I als ays think a king or ;ueen mut haw mat kind of air! I'.ut where I feel like I own one. good a a kins or queen. A. i m-yt a little belter, la on t ha mow i tig -machine, Star snd Comet ahead of me. pulling for all they're worth, a pa the wheal Jut bowing down to froI tell you. I own the earth: j-e seen In some queer old picture a king I. a sar-machine Vita scythes fixed round the wheel-hubs or maybe II wu a queen Hut I shouldn't like that business, you may all It what you will. War. or glory, or victory, but murder is murder tili. p. . I :ike aty kind of a chariot better than that old thing That used to mow off people, ax-l arhow. what's a king? The more I read the paiera the more It .-. ms to me That a king la the farthest person In the worlJ from being free Hut when I'm up on the mower, wat -hing the falling wheat. With the whole blue sky above me. I 1. 11 u. life U weet! Ar.d you'd wonder If jrou could listen to the thoughts that come to me. That seem to grow right out of the things 1 bear and see. Or.e of the thoughts that mother put in my hear, to stay Was how the lrd of the harvest took things of every day. Ar.d showed their wonderful meanings, and made the far things Iear I t. i g ihem to little com m I. ne that were near. A storm ame up from the valley yesterday fternoon: We were t-ound to save the wheat dry', and we stepped to a lively IUI I . And the Ml l.lg load rolled into the barn, all safe and sound. Just as the clouds turned over, and It seemed like the world was :r.. i ! vy. taad and wat-hed and MtSSad the I. ginning split the aky: The thurder roared and shattered, and the storm went by. And gr-at white clouds like tasties arid mountains floated low, A:; Ural.r.g with the sunshine, whiter than any snow. I knew whst mother was thisklr.g. It aasr.'t far to seek: I . I m not murh at talking. I waited for her :u speak. The world was shining, sparkling, but all as still as death. "And the reapers are the ar.geU." said mother, under her breath J!r-ar. t Vandegrift. In Youth's Companion.

t I BY WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. (Written forThls Paper

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WE IXYS called him "OurYeteran." To the townspeople he was por c Jofcl Wordeu. ao inmate of the eoeatf jioorhouse, an expense to the tav paver of the county, and a generally unintereMing character. Hut I l-rlieve that we boys knew the old man better than our elders, for we got r.earer the w i.-m. patriotic old heart. And i.i pwtrtotlw A wooden leg and ann.es coatsleeve testified to that. Du; these things did riot seem to raise h'.m t - the balance of the inmates of the C .unty bouse to the grown people of X. aiWT With us boys Our Veteran" wa I

general lavorue. n an. .i " ...... stories of the war. Some of them f the -ad incidents of that long and 'crrfblf conflict, and some of them of the humorous things he saw ami cxperieneed while wearing I'ncle Sam's blue. 1' !.. masterpiece was the "Charge at i." That charge in itself wa- but a incident of a great batUe. The hisI fits h; rdly mention it. It may or J IJ not hae had any important effect o-.t the rewult of that bloody engaget. but to "Our Veteran" Shiloh wa the one great battle of the war. beside M ilek all others were but skirmishes, and that charge the greatest feature of Ii e Ft! til battle. I ..- n.r the war Old John hadlcena serceant in the th Indiana e.ialry. N - . iiunand had been with tirant at 1 fa -Lshurg. lie hid liern through the ."i lead in c up to the siege of that city, had in fact, seen active service fr..m the beginning of the war under t.r.utt or his predecessors in the MisI seippi valley. Of the battle and skirmishes of these campaigns he had an inexhaustible fund of stories and incidents that would interest ns. Of these v. e seldom heard the same one twice, nd no two of them ever began in the same way. But with the ""Charge at Bl ..h" it was different. The incidents 'f that tide were related to us every Saturday afternoon, and ita completion Watt signal for us to scamper home, for there would be no more stories that 'ay. It was eien aw a fitting climax to I fthe other stories of the day. We could always tell, too when that ' ry was coming, for he had a way of ducing it which he never used for BJ other. lie would take his pipe from his mouth, lay it on the bench beside !. then rising to his feet would berin: -Now. boys." We could always tell. too. when that Th"t was the introduction to the I rge at Shiloh." His pray eyes "id kindle with a. new light, the 1 pci body assume n more erect pop. Veteran" would for Mie time beirg liecome Sergt. John Worden, of the H Indiana cavalry. N -w. boys. 1 am g"ing to tell yon rf 'hat great battle at Shiloh. Of the alry charge in which I lost both an 'm audi leg while following ray coun'r' flajr across a bullet-sw ept meadow. aa a wonderful charre. boy a; I

ibink it the most wonderful of the war. I can see it all now as I ajaj it 20 jeart o. "I can see thoe shadowy forma tnov iug quietly through the timlirr -vay i.er to tl.e left; they are w plain that RM ought to e utile to see them to... There are oi ly a few of them in sight Bts, but lU het there are more back of them. See them working towards the edge of the timber, dodging from tree, to tree, craw ;,g through the grass and running a r the more open spaces. Cap. them fellows mean trouble." Hy the t.me this atage of the torj wus reu. hetl the old soldier had he come -. ,i it,us to our presence. He wai titrhting the battle oer again, srein the things and saying the things he die M yearh tefore. "Cap. see that? 8ee that smokel That's a line of skirmishers opening fire on us. Detter raise them muuln I little. Johuny: you're fallwi short. "Cap! Cap! See there! I told yoc t!..-re was more a-comin. See that sec

ond line hack in there? They meat business. Cap. I bet they do. See then -kinii.shers i .in.iu' .iv 'I'm ri. f. ::.ivvi in the center i crawling further out Bl I that little rush on the righr ? What y ou say. Cap? IKn't think they'll do ui any harm? Why. man. Pfj bet they com at us clear across that meadow. Hu then. Cap. they're only infantry." "See that kirnush line a filiin np Cotnin in from the main body. Come on. Johnnies; we're a-waitin' for you. Them bullets is gettin a little closer Cap. Must of raUed the tight a bit. Zip! That un went too high. Just jibotit a thousand yards there, Johnny ; that'll catch us. Way on the left there. Cap. See! Another company goin' in. The center ol that line's crawled np SO yards in ten minutes. Hurry up. Johnny; it'll be -!ark before you get here if you don't n..ie faster. "What's that y ou say. Cap? Lieut K.-aser hit. Wast their ornery bidet. !"1 nay m for that before this day I er. l'!I bet. Wonder if the old man '11 let us charge 'em? They're comin' on a little further. Cap. There's one of them in that grass along the creek A nie one down there is A troop isa.'tct that fellow. See him fire. There he ROM again, ar.d. jy the great Harry, he L' -t him. There. Johnny ; there's a les von in shootki' for you. Them feliowi in old A know how to crack 'em out. "It's a shame. Cap. not to charge oh 'em. May lie the old man's waitin' to get m all together. Oood idea, too, that is. See old Col. Hank down there. Cap. See him watchin em. Deiiev he's got most the same idea I have about chargin' 'em. My. but I'll bet he'd like to end the old th across that meadow after 'em. "Uood! There goes an orderly. 1 bet he's got an ordrr for the old th to charge. Them Johnnies seem to be inclined to do the same thing themselves. See them Iinin' up. Told you, Cap. they was comin" after us. "There goes little Hilly on the bugle, boys. Listen an see what he's te'lin us. "'Mount!' Onto them prancin' steeds of yours. We're goin' after them Johnnies. We'll settle your score for you. lieutenant, even if they didn't hurt you much. We're comin', JoLnnies. better run. " 'Forward, guide center, march!' Hear what little Hilly says on that bugle, boys. Steady there in the center. Dress to the right. Next it'll be trot, and then gallop, and then " 'Trot!' There it is. I told you. boys. The next will come just outside the timber in a minute. Them Johnniea don't know what's after them, or they'd be getting back into the woods. " 'liallop!' Keep the line there, boy a. It's bay n nets we're coin' agairst. boy s. Salvers against bayonets. Lit tie Hilly w ill be speakin that last command in a minute now. "Charge! Chnree! Charge!' Bitty, you're a jewel. Watch for the ditch, boys. Jump it. Over you go; there.

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Des, that's a girl. Onto them r.ow. bara. Ict them have it. Kememler the scores we have to settle with these Johnny rebs. Don't let them run away. Kight at them. now. "They're goin' to shoot, hoya. It'a to be bullets first, then bayonets. There it comes, a solid volley. "iio oi . l". I'm hit. One more score for vou to settle. See that it's done well!" It always ended so. The oid man sank down onto the bench and leaned baek against the building. The recitation was given with all the force and gesture that he must have used that day at Shiloh. and had cost him more strength than he could well spare. Kach Saturday he seemed to grow weaker. We boys always left quietly without a word of farewell. They would not have been heeded had we offered them. This story, always the same, relate! in the same graphic manner, stamped the Incidents of that charge on my mind so strongly that I shall never for get them: but "Our Veteran" has crossed the last river, has made his last charge, and 1 shall never her r tht Charge at Shiloh" from hit lips afafs

"Do you know 1 don't think ranrb of Maw son." "Vou don't bavt to. You ran size Mawson up in t wo se ends " Ilrookiyn Life. Waiting Mrs Angell-"IIow do you like the new minister?" Mrs.Ooodwill "I don't know y ei. 1 haen't met his wife." Chicago N.vva. No Returns. "Do yi,o think there it any money in polities, Jimpaon?" "You bet there is. That's where all miue went." Detroit Free l'reaa. "No, I never take the newspajwra home; I've a family of grown updmogh tera, you know." "Papers too full of crime, eh?" "No. too full of bargain sales." Truth. "They have never spoken since thJP took part in private theatricals." said Miss Cayenne. "I Me; professional jealousy." "Oh. dear, to; something far worse. It's amateur jeakiusy." Tit-Hits. "Why does the baron look so glum? I thought he had ju.st married an heiress " "So he has; but hespeculated few days after the marriage and lost the better half of his w ife."-Fliegende Hlaetter. Cnscientific First Arctic Explorer "I have a'-.vays considered Co!umbus a somew hat overes'inate! man." Second Arctic Kxplorer "Why ?" Firat Arctic Kxp'.orer "He discovered America the first time he went to look for !t." Puck. The Tri?' of Flattery. "That man Crumlett has more invitations to dinner than any other man in town." "How does he work it T "He tells every hostess w ith a (frown-up daughter that she must have married much below the legal ajre." Cleveland I'lain Dealer. "What made Kladderfleisch in such a hurry to get out of liermany?" "He happened to bear n close resemblance in personal apT firav to Emperor Wi'.üam." "There was no harm in that." "No, but there came a boil on the end of his r.nse or.e day. and he w as afraid of being arreted for lese majeste." Chicago Tribune. TREE I0.0OO YEARS OLD. i.lnnt of rrehUfnrle llmea t -earthed la Kaarland. An xtraordinary discovery, and one which is just now exciting considerable interest in antiquarian circles in lncashire and Cheshire, has been made at Stockport. During the excavations in the construction of sewage work for the town some workmen came across what has since prove! to be a massive oak tree, with two immense branchew. Prof. Hoyd Dawkins. the well-known antiquary, is of opinion that the tree Is one of the giants of prehistoric times, and he say s that the tree is certainly 10,000 y ears old. The corporation of Stockport are at a loss what to do vsi'h the gigantic fossil, which it supposed to weigh about 40 tont and as it is necessary that it should be removed a proposal has been made to blow it up with dynamite. This has aroused the indignation of a large section of the publis', who presented the following petition to th corporation: "That there is a valuable tree of old oak at present lying upon and exposed in the gravel on und within their property; that the quality in color, grain and solidity is better than any that ran be bought in the open market; that for artistic work alone it is irrently to be treasured, for nothing in this country is at present crown which can come up to its dimensions; that it contains within itself sufficient material to make the furniture for any public building or town hall which may be erected for the public benefit within our borough: that it only require lifting from ita bed. which in the opinion of competent geologists may ! roughly estimated as 13.') years of occupation: that private effort has fatlrdMo achieve its removal: that its ib struction would le a public loss and an artistic calamity t that jour representatives in council be and are hereby requested to conserve for the borough this grant of nature to her sons and da'ichter. whose ercDatures are hereby affixed." The corporation have rcerved their deoi.-ion. ar.d in the meantime efforts arc being mnJe by loca1 ontiquariana nnd others t' bring pressure to bear upon the council to preserve the tree for the benefit of the town and the country. It is believed that no discovery of such importance has hitherto been made in this country, and this bei ing so it is hoped that those interested j in auch matters thronghout the eounI try wiil lend assistance toward pre- : serving the tree. London News.

Wilhelm II. Tos TalUasaa. The bouse of llobenzollcrn possesses a family talisman. Since the time of the Klector John Cicero, who flourished toward the end of the fifteenth century, each n:ler has, when possible liefore dissolution, handed to his success r a scaled packet. This contains a ring, in which is act a black stone said to have been dropped by a huge toad on the coverlet of a princess of the family Just as she had given birth to a son. Frederick the Great found the rine in an envelope, which also inclosed a memorandum, written by Frederick I. stating ita value and its mode of trans

mission. Schneider, the librarian of William L. declare that he saw the packet handed by Oeilir.g. the treasurer, to his royal master on his accession, nnd further asserts that he read his account of the talisman to the emperor, who fully confirmed it St. James' Gazette. Kt posed Her Age. Spnatts Mis Elder is much older than I thought. Hunker Impossible! "Well. I asked her if she had read 'Aewop's Fable,' and she taid she read them when they first came out."- T tBita. Carreet. The Man a.v. little boy, is your dog good f ir rabbits'' The Kid No. siree. He (a mighty bad on 'em. Catches every ona thai ha Jvmps. tt-to- Date.

EARNING ANO INVITATION, lateraailoaal tasssr School fus-as

for earaarv T. It

(Based L'pon I'eioubafs Select Kotes 1 TllF I.I.-8S. N -Matthew 11 3a- KesS th wt !f chapter, und Luke 1A1--OOL;EN TKXT Come unto me all jre. that 1. aar Sad art heavy lades, and 1 wUl give SSS rest. statt. Id A TIM :. -Latter part of the summer of A. D. 3L I'UA 'F. -cJalile. probably In the viclaltj of las cltias on the shore of Um lake. COMMENT. Aft-r a proclamation of the Kingdam, and the call to repentance, thert is now heard a aasTaj of warning and of ju- gnuent. Frc:n this time onward these warelogs j.Tow more and more terrible to the close of His ministry. Ses Luke 11:3Mj l .:l-5; 16:13. and their strongest and most terrible expression in Matt Chap 23. Abbott. Hut at the same time merry stand close betide judgment, and the purpose of judgment is to persuade men to accept ( f mercy. L Warnings. Va. 2"-27. A desega tioo of John'a discip.es came front Macherus, where John was imprisoned to inquire of Jesus w nether He was the Messiah or not. Many things must bare conspired to try John's faith. Jesusdic not come as the expected Messtaa wai

supposed to come, with kingly glory.

THE MAINE DISASTER. A SuuuLiet Account of tbo Qroat Calamity.

Story of lk Kspli! o T M try Ose of it.. atatne'. osrin Juil a ttmr- itatoii.. i i i i . i i. mm !., the tauaa of It.

KdT West. Fla.. Fehl -Ucwt. Jobs J. Klsodin. of lialtimore. one of Iii Maine a survivor, w ho is at the key Wtal hotci. gar the correspondent lai evening s succinct account of Urn disaster, saying that not until now bats be seen able to recollect the M-qucm-u of events in the awful ten miuutea follow ing the explosion Tuesday evening. Lieut. Biandin was on the Trent' n at the time of the disaster off .sa:ua ia March. o n Aiu. ri. iiii au 1 'n-r-aaan vast r la lost 24 men all told. Lieut, itandin says: . ' I -a u . -. . .i . : if !i ;i tli.- ru -n had been piped below. I looked down tn. main i. at les and over the aide of the ship Lv.-rvthing was absolutely normal. I wa ked aft to the quarter deck. Ik-Ii d tlu-rear turret, as is sllowed aftei eight o'clock in the evening, and -at .town on the port side, w in r i .: - ! t.r a few minutes.

I neu. f.'- r.'.ivni I van not ex-

::er:Di. ST STssSÄ Pi- ' now . I moved to the

yoke and yet John had heralded bin

as the Messiah. There vrs great uStall of opinion among tbe people. Tbe work wat going on almost imperceptibly. There were healings, and blessed words, and crowds, but no signs

of deliverance.

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starboard ui.- and sat down there. I was feeling a bit glum and. in fact, wa so juiel that Lieut. J. Hood came up and ask d laughingly if 1 was as.eep. 1 sad: "No. I am on watch." fear-eiv had 1 spoken when there

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this menage. He d.scoursed to the peo- ,hm( l M and ,hj ,..e about John. Many objected to , t,-t , ,lowetL Tbrn c9Jae u John's wty of coming, and the same hharp T1sairi- hJUe sav numerous people criticised Jesus for coming in ; detonations 1 remember only one. It anotaer maacer. like children whe KTmri ta m, trja. the came from wai ted to dance when the musiciac tht. p..rt o.. f j. ward. Then came a played tad m isle, and to mourn when p,rft raw. of idssiles of all kinds, tbe music was cheerfuh Nothing would J irntu narfe slssSJI of eetuent to blocks suit them j of w.k1. . railings. fragmcnU of

Then Jesus oegan to warn me pss ' grating ao a - fe debris that would

pie of their daegtr. Every postible

Has must be brought to bear. He saw them despising their opportunities, blindicg their ey?t, searing their consciences, rushing headlong to destruction, when help arc! salvation were at hard. "They repented not" (v. 20) even in the presence of the DIviM worki whose object was to lead them to repentance. "Woe unto thee, Lhorszin! woe unto tbee. Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in vju. had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackolo:a and ashes." IL The Invitation. The Two Ilurd?ns. Vs. 29. 30. L c. Jesus now draws men bv trood placed before them, as

He had urged them by the woes that were behind them He invites all that labor and are heavy laden, straggling under too heavy burdens, moving with difficulty and pain, as a ship is said to labor, w hen badly ballasted. SB a stormy sea. The burdens are our sins, our bad habita, cares, sorrows, remorse for the past, fears for the future, anxieties, losses, sickness, disappointments. Inability to find work, debts, business cares, and all the other things that make life a burden. It Is often the burden of self-consciousness. Christ's burden is ot. of duty, of selfdenial, of labor for Him. of tbe care that are needful for our best character and development. It is a burden of faith when we cannot see. It is tbe burin of love and gratitude. And It is ' infinitely litrht compared with the other burden. There ia no real rest without some burden. This rest was (1) Tl.e klr.d of re-t -bat can be given. Its source was from withSSJt (2) It is the rest from the urden of sin. Forgiveness brought peace. (3) If is the rest of protection. God keepirg ns under the shsdow of His wing. () It is the rest in the promise that all things should work together for good. (5) It is the rest of new and refreshing strength. Tbe burden is light, is even SU exhilaration and joy when strength

is given to bear it. (6) It iv the rest of

love, of the sympathy ar.d friendship otnvrv have heard that the Havana

of Christ. harbor waa full of torpedoes, but the III. The Invitation. The Two Yokes, j ofliccTa whose duty it wss SB ev.uninc Vs. X). 30. 29. "Take my yoke upon jnto that reported that they found no you:" The emphasis is on my. in eon- ign of any. Personally I do not letrast with the yoke they have been ac- J lj,.Tc. the .Spanish bad anything to do customed to liear. A y oke means three ( with the disaster. Time may tell. I thintrs. (1) It is a mark of obedience hope so. and Submission. Tbe fiirre ia taker, i - Ve were inadelicatcpositionon the from oxon. who submissively yield to the Maine so far ss takinif any precauthe yoke of their master. (2) It is the tions w as concerned. We were friend means of service. It enables one to do in a friendly, or alleged friendly port, work. (3) It it service w :h at other, and -uld n t fire upon or chailengu Uauaily two are yoked tocether. the appr vh of any boat boarding us. The Yoke of Bs'sn. No one can es- I unlevs convinced that her intention cape from liearing s yoke of tome kind. 1 wss hostile. The yoke men had been bearing was j I wish to Heaven I could forget it. chiefly the yoke of Satan. They were j I have been in two wrecks now. sud avn-invsrStn him nH for him Anil his 1 have bad HIV share. Htlt the reverln'r-

yoke is alwaya galling. The yoke of pride, ambition, selfishness, of fashion, of worldliness. of sin and remorse, of self-indulgence, of sensuality, of covetonsnets. is always a heavy, bitter, galling yoke, an Fsryptian bondage. It is a yoke with Satan, a going in his company and receiving his reward. It costs somethknff to be a Christian; It costs much more to be a sinner. The Yoke of Christ Is Easy V. 30. For (1) it is the service of a irood Master

who it seeking ever tbe best for II it disciples acid servants. (2) It is service

THE FARMING WORLD; ETTING PEACH TREES. Aa (Sat fr.lM.ruitrr Tells Hoe aaS V Sea tu II It. On year ago last May we set 100 peach frees. Having often heard the tdvtce given to set small treta instead if the large, first-class onet we felt that possibly we bed made a mistake whejj

giving tbe order. Wishing to tave the time of ose or two years' growth, if possible, we ordered the best two-yesr-3ld tree. They were shipped in good condition and were set aa soon as received. They were well set. sllowing all roots rheir natural position. We cut tnj- roots off that would otherwise be rramped or bent up and cat off all in(nred or mangled portiona of roota. Did not dig all the holet before beginning to aet the trees as tome do, but set ttskes for the trees and then brought tbe trees out to a convenient place la tbe orchard, covering the roctt with a quantity of wet straw and mota with blankets over thia. It takes very little hot sun snd still less of drying w it.d directly on plant of tree roott to affect their growth. Tha spot selected for the trees had been plowed very deep snd thoroughly fitted before the trees came. Kach hole wat dug for the particular root that was to he planted in it. After tbe hole waa dug tbe tree waa placed in position, when man No. 1 held it ther and tramped the fine soil about the roota as man No. 2 shoveled the dirt in. After the treet were planted we cut them hack or pruned them until they had the appearance of a whipstock, snd that about 3 feet In length. It see mi almost a waste f growth and the wrong thing to do to prunes Sice shaped tree ao severely, but out limited experience in this line haf taught ut that it ia the thing to do. and that the tree will soon more than make up in growth for thia "tctburk." Oal of the ion we have lost one tree. They have made a remarkable growth and we have not regretted setting larg ireea. The above treet are now well filled with fruit buds, but buds on a peach tree thia time of year cannot always be considered budt of promise. We did not consider it neeestsry to lote the use of the ground while the trees wer ge'ting lsrge enough to trait. We tet ttrawberries for plants !a u,e rows f trees and three feet from this rw , each side just half way

cosid have elapsed. I had to wade ln rrw ne " e r to mv knees, and almost in- rs"pberrfes. Tve. berry plants and i .1, ... ... ! were mu.ehed w ttb .table manure

BldUllt lilt. 4fu va - ' -- - On the poop I found Capt. !sigsbee. as cool as if st a ball, and soon all ths officers except Jenkins and Merritt joined us. The poop was above water after the Maine settled to the bottom. I apt. rsigsbee ordered the launch and barge lowered and the officers and men. who had by this time assembled, got the boats out and rescued a number in the water. "Capt. sigsl'ee ordered LieutenantCommander Wainwright forward to See the extent of the damage snd if anything could be done to rescue those forwsrd or to extinguish the flames, which followed close upon the explosjssj and burned fiercely as long as there was any combustibles slove water to feed them. "Lieutenant - Commander Wainwright. on bis return, reported the total and awful character of the calamity and (apt. igsbee gave the last sad order, 'abandon ship' to men overwhelmed with grief, indeed, but calm and apparently unexcited. "Meantime four boats from the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII. arrived, to le followed soon by two from the Ward line steamer I ity of Wsshiinrton. The t-.vo tats lowered from the City of Washington were found t- ! r. : -i with dying debris from tbe Maim- and unfit for use. Capt. Sigsh.-c was the last man to leave his veaael, and he left in his own gig. "I have no th.-ory as to the cans.' of the explosion. I can not form any. An examination by divers mar tflll some

thing to a court f iiKitr.rv. I. with

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ue ueva as;t im r xpiosion. ' I w , t. hvd by a piece of cement end knwa. dow n, but 1 was not hurt, and gstN. my feet iD B moment. Lieut. Hood hst -un ttte. poop, and I supposed, as rAu,,wed. he was dazed by the shock fVaiMit to jump overboard. I hailed kfs and he answered that be had run ' u. poop to help lower the bouts. b

got thwre. though scar .- a :n i.i .

er year ago. anJ all expre-, their thanks for It in growth the past asnas raer. A. D. Olin, in National Stock, nam.

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PLANTS AND FLOWERS.

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( aitlaaa la Sand the

Method of Peoaaaratloa. What it cailed the mud syatem of root j f, l utting ia often uaed for small quantities. A shallow dith of any kind which will h.-i I two or three inches of aand it selected. Tbe sand is entirely covered with water, which ia renewed at evaporation tskes place. Cuttings or alipa are aet in this mud bath.

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8TAHT1NG CCTTINGS IN KAND. which ia placed in the warmest window of tbe house Heing surrounded by moisture they can stand the sun without wilting. Root the hardies kinds first, such as geraniums, verbenaa and fuchsias: coleus. heliotrope, etc., can be left until later. Thia method I well adapted for amall house conservetone: aa this is sometimes obtained by heating ten or fifteen degrees above th air in the room it causes the quickest growth, tt well aa the window. A bottom heat, an incloaed space with a common oil lamp placed below IL Young seedling plants are very apt to "damp off" In their young stages. It is found that this occurs simply from exposure. If the young plants, just at soon aa they can be handled, are lifted and reset in the soil deep enojgfi to expose only the seed leaves, this damping off ia completely checkfd and it rareiy occurs again. Farm and Horn

ations of that sullen, yet resonant, roar, as if the Itottom of the sea were groaning in torture, will haunt ine for mauy a day. and the reflection of that pillar of flame i-otnes to me ev-u when

Wtiea to Trim tnple Treea. It does not psy to doctor up old neg teeted trees, except to get a supply ol fruit, until young treet become bearable. Apple trees are very cheap. If iome old trees are desired to be kept prune, during mild weather, before April L I3on't trim trees during hard frost. Prune to admit air and aunahkna alao to remove limbs that cross each other or chafe. If the pruning knife ' rsed with discretion from the time th tree ia young, a much better tree latecured. If the ground is poor, tree

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Spanish commander. Capt. Manu.d Kliaa. for the services the Spanish sailors had rendered upon the occasion of the great disaster. "Contrary to the reports current, ths divers have not yet made any investiga- . . j . , I. i . i... . l

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anrOGESTIVE QCKSnoNS 1. What was the title of last Sahhath'a le. on t What wa :u chief tear hin? 1 What are the two main thought ln today's lesson? A Why were Jesus' warring to the people necetsarr? t Is It any mors likely thst we would turn to Jesus and follow Him If Tie were here to-day with as In bodily presence than these people of snclent OslUee? C. Why Is the yoke of Satan so heavy avid the yoke of Christ light and easy? 7. How ran w learn of Jesus, and what do we find tn Him we should -k most to imitate tn our own Irvea? t What I the rt the Saviour promises? Is It the rest of Inaetlnn. or may ft sot h the rest that com from work-

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COUNSELS CONSERVATIVISM. Hear- ttlmlral Klaaoerlv l i r.- o. Hasty Jualsoiewl and llfiatile KtprrMlon. Nkwton. Mass.. Feb. It Kcar-Ad-airal louis A. Kimberly. who eimmauded the I'nited States siiadnn at Apia. !atnoa. at the time of the disaster there, was asked to give an opinion on the cause of the sinking of the Mains he ssid: One 'hing seems to me certain: The less that ia said against Spain and the Spaoisli government at this time ths better it will lie and the less for regret thert mav be ncreafter.

Caaae nf Home Fallares. It i an easy matter to set a few cur ranta acid gooseberry plantt along tha ' fence row, and then leave them to tha mercv of weeda and worma without . fertiliration or cultivation. Then tha owner wonders why it Is hit fruit it so much inferior to that of hia mora thrifts neighbor. No wonder that h

comes to the conclusion that "there i only row and then one who is calculated to raise fruit anyhow." Plants, like animal, need a well-balanced ration asid a large per cent, of brains la one of the principal ingredient. Currant and gooseberries are no excep tios to this rule. These plants will beat . me fruit without care, though It will be smsller In site, poorer In qaality and ths yield less thsn when liberally treat L Tann sad Uoma