Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 48, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 September 1904 — Page 2

EAILROADS LN AFRICA RECUMBENT STATUES OF QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRINCE ALBERT IN MAUSOLEUM AT FRGGMQRE. y,r..,H,.H..H.rij ifoMMEMT'I TOOT OF THE LOCOMOTIVE IS HEAF'D IN THE JUNGLE. OLITICAL .

Iron Horse 'ow Goe Where a Few Years Ago Frightful Unman Sacrifices Were Practice-Civilization Beins Extended in the Dark Continent.

One of the greatest works which civilisation to-day Is accomplishing is the opening up of blackest Africa by the railroad. Fire years ago there v.ere less than 9,000 miles of complete! railroad In that continent. To-dp.y there are over 13,000 miles. Very rttle of this railroad development in the past few years has been In the civilized Sands like Algeria and Egypt, Gape Colony, and Natal, which are fairly well supplied, but the tracks hare been extended through the jungles, forests and deserts of the tropical colonies. In 1800 the length of these colonial railroads was only 1,226; today there are 4,475 miles of colonial railroads In operation, and thousands of native laborers are at work on over 1,700 miles, which will probably be added to the completed mileage within another year. The prospects are that within the next six years there will be 25,000 miles of railroads in Africa. The brain of the whites and the brawn of the blacks are carrying on tills wonderful work. The barbarous African has been enlisted in it He has everywhere supplied the rough labor except on the Uganda Railroad, where sufficient hands could not be ecured among the scattered herder folk of the interior, and so some thousands of men were imported from India. Not only In railroad building but also In all other industrial enterprises throughout Africa the barbarous AfriFfailrocdf BuHdina. Ftailrcacts ProjcfeJ

MAP SHOWING RAILROADS IN AFRICA.

can is the instrument that is being employed under white guidance, in the colossal task of transforming the continent He is a powerful and necesaary factor in the work, and on the whole he is doing hl3 part well. Man-Eatins Lions a Hardship. All kinds of strange and unexpected experiences have marked the progress of this tropical railroad building. One day, as the Indian laborers were loading dirt on a train of flat cars on the Uganda Railroad, a lion sprang among them, seized a man by the middle, and plunged away with him into the jungle. His skeleton, stripped clean, and fragments of his clothing were four; a day later. Lions seldom make these bold forays. As a rule, they flee the presence man unless they are brought to bay or enraged by a wound or an attack on their young. But If it ever It.ppens that they eat human flö U Ihey are likely to crave for more anl include the human race amon$ their prey. The man-eating lion, as he is called. Is not numerous, but he creates the utmost consternation whenever he appears. In the course of three or four days three other Indian coolies were dragged off Into the Jungle, and the whole force of laborers olt work, went Into camp and prepared to defend their lives. It was nearly three weeks before another spadeful of earth was lifted. A large area of Jungle was surrounded and a grand hunt organized, with the result that several lions were killed; there was no more trouble with the man-eating variety. It is a somewhat nor el experience for a traveler to find his train brought tD a sudden standstill, and to see on the track in the rear the mangled retrains of a half -grown cub which had ctood on the track fascinated by Uie epoctaele of the approaching train, and fild not know enough to get out of the way. This has occurred on several occasions. It la almost impossible in the Jungle end forests to keep the rank growth f tropical vegetation from y choking ßte track. It is conjuinally being cut away from the sides ox the roadbed and from underneath and overhead; but as the train Jogs along at ten or fifteen miles an hour the traveler often hears the swish of the leaves and twigs brushing against the roof or of the grass sweeping the sides of the car. Sometimes the view of undulating savannahs, as the panorama un rolls itself from the car window, i rcry beautiful; again the Journey lies, for scores of miles, amid vast expanses of high' Jungle grass , or amid gloom cf dense forests, and the oumay is then Inexpressibly depressing and monotonous. No.Kisht Trarel. But one may see the whole country C3 far as it Is revealed from the cars. .Tiere is no such thing as nlht travel en these roads. They axe too. new, the encrpected Is likely to cccur, and ths ctations are too far apart to run any cf c-ttia- into trcutl? In tha iours cl Czx-zzz; cd all trcizj C-- ts t'Z-t et cue cr another cf tha cations. Tcu cz3 no vroci. except ii t2 c-r

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In the royal mausoleum at Frogmore, near Windsor Castle, repose th remains of Queen Victoria and her consort. Prince Albert, in one tomb. When the prince died the queen had a recumbent; statue of him made and placed upon the tomb. At the same time a statue of the queen was made, by the same sculptor, and when she died this was placed alongside of that of her husband, in the space that had been reserved for it A photograph of the statues has recently been made . - th first time, by permission of the king. It is reproduced herewith. . statue of Queen Victoria represents her as much younger than she appeared to the present generation, the sculpture, of course, like that of Prince Albert, having been modeled when both were in the prime of life. The queen is depicted in regal robes, wearing a Jeweled crown, and holding a scepter in her clasped hands.

equipment, about the construction and fittings of these tropical railroads. White ants and oiher ravenous insects would make short work of wooden bridges and timber ties. All such things are made of steel. There are some stone bridges and they are excellent specimens of masonry; but most of the bridges are of steel that were cast in parts in European and American shops, giving skilled workmen a chance to see a bit of Africa while spending a few months at this or that stream where bridges are erected. The locomotive, however, triumphs over one Insect pest, and that is the tsetse fly, whose bite is fatal to horses and cattle. A stage coach company, 4M forgetting all about the deadly nuisance, tried to establish a route between the port of Beira and the gold fields of Mashonaland. Some forty miners filled three coaches and off they drove in high spirits till they reached the tsetse belt, where all the horses died In a day. The ruins of those abandoned coaches may still be seen from the cars as the trains now slip through that Jungle region. Where Unman Sacrifices Abounded. In the tropical belt wherever the track winds along the sluggish rivers, the traveler 13 usually regaled with the sight of the hippopotamus and tht ocodile lazily watching the progress of civilization from their oozy beds in the fetid mud; and during the nights at forest stations he becomes familiar with the hideous cries of every beast of prey that Africa harbors. Perhaps the story will never be told of the terrible sufferings that the rail roads have cost through the low Jun gles and forest belts. The difficulties, for example, In the building of the Beira Railroad were almost superhuman, and a heavy toll In human life was exacted by the deadly soil and climate. The colonial powers are already beginning to feel the great advantages derived from the lines they are pushing into the interior. Before the road was built around the Congo rapids it cost $200 a ton to move freight along this stretch of 235 miles. Before the Rhodaslan railroads were built from Mafeking to Bulawayo, 492 miles, the price of freight was $500 a ton, and a passage ticket cost $150 between the two places. The cost of freight and passage on all African roads is still very high, but the railroads are reducing it to a fifth or a seventh of the former rates. , Steam communication by water and rail still exist between France - and the famous city of Timbuctoo, which twenty years ago no white man ad entered except in disguise. Through trains are running between the Indian ocean and Victoria Nyanza, and a steamboat takes passengers from Port Florence to Mengo, where only a few years ago King Mwanga was burning hundreds of native Christians to death. The locomotive whistle is heard daily at Kumassl, whose name is infamous In the history of the most horrible human sacrifices in Africa. A railroad is rapidly extending along the dry In nds between Berber, on the Nile, and !kim, on the Red sea, through the .Orion where Egyptian troops battled in vain with the forces of the Mahdi. POMPEII HAD SOME POLITICS Remarkable Evidence Said to Unv Been Found There. Recently Joseph Offord read a paper before the Society for the Encourajpmsnt of the Fine Arts In whch described what must have been a municipal election In Pompeii ehcrtlj before, in 79 A. D., the ashes and lava of Vesuvius overwhelmed it and Herculancum. It is the claims cf iandldatss that we read In theca Strang end long undacpheratle luzzzl-'JLzz

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on the walls. It is the Pompeiian way of announcing: "For mayor, Michael J. Gracchus, the friend of labor." Some of these placards are rudely done. Some are set forth -with skill and with embellishments. One of them contains a bit of street car healthfood verse all painted in red. No iess than our own candidates of to-day, those of the year 79 were put forward by parties of supporters. There were the trades interests. There was the money power to be vituperated on the stump. The spellbinder addressed as "Friends and fellow-citizens of Pompeii," the woodcutters' union, the fishers, the performers and dyers, the barbers and porters. He explained to them what were the mere rights of man and what were their more glorious privileges as free and united advocates of the six-hour day. And there were faddists in those days persons to whom South Boston would apply the epithet "bughouse." These were the long sleepers, the deep drinkers. They ran a candidate In common who was solemnly pledged to the suppression of street noises and the chief plank In their platform was a club sandwich. The heterogeneous religion of the city crept into politics. Venus was principally worshiped we know, but by the side of her temples were shrines to Isis and Horus and Anubis. And at this last election we hear of a minority party who in caucus assembled Jic!ded to call themselves the Isis passive registers. They seemed to desire most of all representation on the police force. Boston Transcript. POINTS WHEREIN THEY DIFFER. One of the Sex Contrasts American Women Unfavorably -witli lnurllali. Despite all' the loudly expressed opinions to the contrary, nothing can touch the really smart English woman as one sees lex at the Carlton or at Prince's at the luncheon hour. There is a bewitching, graceful femininity about her that is in evidence in every detail of her costume and a certain something that, for lack of a better word, we must call refinement Our most charmingly gowned women In America have all a tendency. to extravagance in dress and ornament. The well-dressed English woman is simple in her style, despite her frills, and it is only in the evening, when she puts on her low-necked gown, that she allows any of the daring extravagance that one sees do freely displayed at our fashionable hotels on Fifth avenue yhere women meet for luncheon. Then, the English woman's face Is patrician even when she is far from beautiful. The finely modeled noses and chins, the long, slender necks are the rule, and, although good eyes and mouths are not so plentiful, the clear lines of the faces under the frilly hats are very satisfying from an artistic standpoint Our bifurcated girl and our gentlemanly young business woman, in her stiff collar and her four-in-hand scarf, have, of course, stood for something fine, vigorous and gloriously Independent. We have chummed with our masculine kind to an extent that has made the most popular type of society girl, the racy, washing woman who above all scorns any suspicion of being an Ingenue. 3Iany of our younger matrons have astonished restaurant groups by affecting the style of the most popular actress or opera singer in the manner of coiffure or of corsage. It has been absolutely impossible to detect the difference between the successful demimonde and the society leader, so far as either dress or manner is concerned. And, at the same time, the English woman of society 13 inclined to be fast but she Is never unfemlnine. For that rea-xn she never suggests, that under her baby lace hat and Its chin ties lurks the same deviltry, coquetry and desire for the subjugation of man that first possessed Mother Eve and broke up the light housekeeping in Eden. Life. . Wear Rings at Night. "Women are not wearing rings as they did several years ago," said a well-known gem expert when asked if rings are no longer stylish. "Thej buy more rLngs than ever before, but they use them only for full dress. "Why, as recently as five years ago the sex had a cntze for making pawn shop displays on their hands, and wore rings morning, noon and night anywhere and everywhere. Even women in the deepest 'mourning did not dis card their rings. "But it is not so now. The matron Is content with wearing her wedding ring, even putting aside her engage ment ring, while her single 6ister, 11 she wears even ona ring, usually adopti a plain dull gold seal 7ing adorned witS her coat-of-arms or somebody else's. "Rings are brought out with th& stars, but it Is now considered quit? .vulgar to burden the hands with them in the daylight" Anan always likes his mother-in-zrr circng his most distant relatives. A rich nan neve? refuses tha zz zl:? c Lira in charge.

i ..A-.---... . . . ......... . IXZZTTXTTTT arx Dangers that Confront Us. The greatest blunder the Republican leaders could make would be to as sume that the electicn of President Roosevelt is a foregone conclusion. The victory eight years ago was made de cisive because the perils of Bryanism were made apparent and voters turned out for self -protection. But when party lines are strictly drawn there Is no safe Republican majority, no safe Democratic majority. It Is largely a question of which party can draw the independent vote, which ticket appeals to a third party of un certain numbers but which wields a potent influence in national affairs. For the past two campaigns the Republic ans have won this element, and should win it again. There is nothing in the Democratic platform to reassure the country. It is evasive on every great issue, and even the tariff plank is constructed in a manner that satisfies no one. It de clares that protection is robbery, but Instead of promising to stop the "wrong," plans a "reasonable" revision, a palpable sacrifice of principle in the great game of vote catching. The antics of the St Louis conven tion on the money question were so lu dicrous that its candidate for President, after agreeing through his spokes men to swalllow any kind of pill the delegates might offer, was forced to recant, and its Juggling of the Panama canal plank showed plainly the differences that exist within the ranks. There la a well-defined determina tion on the part of Democratic leaders to pay no heed to principle, to let all issues drift where they may, but to go after the votes. The platform there fore is a mere assembly of words.

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formed to deceive the unwary. The free trader will be shown that tariff is robbery. The protectionist will be told that the party Is pledged to go no further than "reasonable revision." The silver "Democrat will be appeased by the declaration that the money question is merely held In abeyance and that his principle will triumph all the sooner for Its present suspended animation, while the sound money Democrat is to be convinced by Par ker's telegram that he is for the geld standard. It is against this doublebarreled proposition that the Republican party must make its fight, and it will require yeoman effort to bring the truth to light that all may see. The Republicans have plenty of am munition to use upon this ambiguous structure. There is nothing evasive in the Republican platform. Not an issue Is dodged. Every principle Is blazoned on the party standard. And the people have the glories of past performance as pledges for future action. The Republican record speaks for itself. The administration of President Roosevelt stands out conspicuous for Its Americanism, for Its courage, for its fidelity to conviction; and it would be remarkable, indeed, If the masses of the voters can be led astray by the lying standards of the opposition. Toledo Blade. A Texas Prediction. The tariff niank prepared by the subcommittee and rejected by the full committee would have been more acceptable to the East The substitute which was adopted and which appears In the platform declares that ''protection Is robbery." This Is the BaileyBryan i.lea, and Bailey and Bryan at heart are free traders. It is not the Idea of the East or the Southeast who are com mitted to a tariff for ri venue and protection for local lndusfcics and local staplei . Louisiana demands protection for sugar, Alabama and Tennessee for iron and coal, and Xorth Carolina and South Care Una for the output of their cotton 'mills. Free trade, to use the picturesque language of old Bill Allen, of Ohio, "Ls a d d barren ideality." Tariff reformer may win; free tradeis never in this country. Ten years hence the South ern wing of the Domocratic party will declare for a protective tariff. Dallas Herald. West I Anti-rarker. The game of rainbow chasing has ever been a favorite" pastime . with Democratic newspapers. Just no? the Eastern organs of the party are publishing predictions that Parser will carry certain Western States which are reliably Republican. In point of -fact, had they -been in the donbrfu! column In the last two campaigns. hey would be to-day, as they arc, al'solutoiy certain for Roosevelt ' The condition Is this: The President Is enormously popular throughout the West. It is a personal popularity that would arouse sweeping majorities in his behalf, even were there no other factor making for his success, but the Democrats of that ection are intensely free silver la sentiment, and Parker's telegram has turned them away from hfcn. Like Bryan, they are disaffected, and they will by thousands and tens cf thousands vote for Roosevelt. There are a number of instances rhlch may be given showing the drift

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of Democratic opinion. The chairman of the Michigan Democratic State Committee has repudiated Parker; t&e former chairman of the Iowa Democratic State Committee has publicly announced his support of Roosevelt In the Missouri Democratic convention, which named Folk for Governor, Bryan's name was received with mighty cheers when it was mentioned, but Parker's was received with cries of "Who is Parker?" These are straws showing the direction of the political winds of the West The Democrats detest David B. Hill, and resent the capture of the party by him and' the Wall street crowd. They look on Parker as the tool of Hill and the trusts, and on the trust proposition alone they will vote for Roosevelt The nomination of Davis, a West Virginia railroad and mining property promoter, strengthens their view that the party is In the hands of the element the Western Democrats call "the plutocracy." There is no hope for Parker in the West Toledo Blade. The Situation in Ohio. Republicans of Ohio are preparing for a live, aggressive campaign, says the Toledo Blade. The organization is In excellent shape and thoroughly drilled for the work. It has won notable victories before under the splendid managment of Senator Dick, and it will add another laurel to the wreath in November. There are no dissensions in the ranks, no differences of opinion over the platform, and absolute unanimity as to the ticket The modern normal plurality In Ohio ia rery close to a hundred thousand. President Roosevelt may fall short of this a few thousand, and, allowing that many Democrats who keep away from the polls in off years will vote in the national election, he will lose a percentage of the gold Democratic vote that went to McKinley, but he will gain two votes for every one he loses. There was nothing In the work of the St Louis convention to enthuse the Ohio Democrat The Buckeye delegates were led to believe that Harmfcn would be chosen as candidate for Vice President but his barrel didn't measure up to the standard. In turning him down, Parker's managers virtually served notice on the Ohioans , this State was to be considered hopeless territory. No part of the Davis millions is to be distributed among the faithful here. They must work out their own salvation. Bryan's friends and he has a host of them In the Buckeye State are indignant over the treatment accorded him. Every effort to humiliate him struck deep in the Buckeye heart No matter how earnestly he may urge them to be regular, they will have their revenge. The Democrats who opposed him in '9G and 1900 furnished a precedent and Dave Hill gave the provocation. Decreasing Failures. In the matter of recent failures there Is evidence of our general prosperity, and the fact that our protection is panic-proof. The liabilities for the past six months were as follows: January $1S,1S3,573 February 13.S12.553 March 13,770.595 April 13.136.CS8 May 9,817,998 June 8,409,502 The above shows , an Improvement every month since January. The liabilities for May and June, 1904, as compared with the same months of 1903 and 1902, were as follows: 1904, $18,2S7.500; 1903, $20,(HO,SC0; 1902, $19,303,751. Democratic spellbinders should cut out the above figures and paste them In their hats for use this summer. They fit in well with the savings bank statistics and all other general evidences of a substantial prosperity, j unaffected by midsummer dullness or the business lull of a campaign year. Attacking the Tariff; The Democratic party, Including Bryan, admits, defeat until the next campaign on the issue .of honest money. So it is proposed to fight th's year on the Issue of the tariff. For eight years the Democratic party has fought the honesty of the laborer's wages. Now the fight is against the sufficiency of the laborer's work. The people resisted successfully in 1S0G and in 1900 the fifty-cent dollar in tho pay envelope, and will resist as successfully half-time in the works of industry. . , The Republican party and Its candidates represent steady employment at American wages. That party and Its candidates will be victorious over the tariff tinkers as over the dolllar plug gers. Troy Times. An Unpleasant Becollection. The Democratic proposition to "revise the tariff" reminds the country of a similar proposal in 1C02 which was accepted. The recollection is net pleasantBurlington Hawkeye.

ABOUT SWEET CORN. Sweet corn is used before fully matured and dos not, therefore, require as long a periodfor growth as field corn If standard varieties are planted now there will be ample time for successive supplies if the ground is in good condition and fertilizer also applied. GRAIN IN SUMMER. On the farms where fowls have unlimited forage, one feed of corn a day will be found sufficient during the spring and summer months, unless by reason of drouth the supply of Insects and vegetable food be cut off. In such cases the necessary variety must be supplied. DISEASE ON TREES. Never wait for a disease to spread on trees. If the "yellows", appears in the -peach orchard dig up the tree, burn it at once and examine the trees at least once a week. Black knot on plums, and blight on pear trees should be looked after before damage is done, but if remedies fail it Is better to burn the trees than to allow other trees to become Infected.

THE CABBAGE WORM. If the worms appear while the plants are very small the best thing to kill them is white hellebore (obtainable at any drug store), used by dissolving one ounce in each two gallons of water and spraying, or sprinkling the plants, or by applying it dry, dusting it on. As the plants get older and Targer the best remedy for the worm is the common insect powder known as pyrethrum, which is best applied by mixing one pint of it with two quarts of common flour, keeping it in a close box for a day and then applying with an insect bellows. The louse found on cabbage is best destroyed by applications of tobacco water, which is made by using one pound of tobacco stems in four gallons of water and adding enough hot water to make it all hot. Let the mass stand until the water is cold, strain and add soft soap at the rate of two pounds to each fifty gallons of the Infusion. Apply with a sprinkler or a spraying pump. INDIGESTION IN COWS. It would be folly to attempt to say what combination of foods causes indigestion among milch cows, for, as a matter of fact, lack of variety is frequently at the bottom of the trouble, even with cows that are supposed to be fed on ideal rations. The animal is no more able to keep in perfect condition on one combination of food than is the human. No mitter what the cause of indigestion, the first thing to do ls to relieve the bowel3, and an excellent dose for this purpose Is a mixture consisting of one pound of epsom salts, one ounce of ground ginger root and one cupful of molas?es in two quarts of warm water. As a tonic to follow this cathartic, give two ounces of hyposulphite of soda three times daily in water. Powdered wood charcoal and salt should also be placed where the cow can eat it freely. A complete change of food should be given fpr a week or two, when gradually the former fcod may be resumed for a portion of the week. Indianapolis New3. CHICKS DIE IN SHELL. A Louisiana reader is having trouble with his incubator, because only one-half the eggs hatch, the others dying In the shell Just before they are ready to break through. The fault may be with the incubator or it may be with the operator. Perhaps the operator opens the incubator Just as the eggs begin to hatch, or perhaps the moisture pan has been neglected both of which will cause the chicks to die In the shell. Do not open the door of the incubator after the first eggs begin to pip, even thoush the empty shells accumulate around the chicks. Let them remain until they find their way to the hover below. About the eighteenth day sprinkle the eggs with warm water and set a pan of 'water beneath tho egg tray. The healthy egg should hatch a chick. We do not know what is meant by warts on chickens. If it be a blood j disease give a few drops of tincture of i iron in drinking water each day, and bathe the head in warm water and castile soap. Scaly legs are caused by small parasites that bury under the skin. Equal parts of kerosene, lard and sulphur Tubbed on daily will soon effect a cure. Kerosene on roosts will positively prevent scaly legs at all timos. This trouble, like lice, is the result of neglect, and there is really no excuse for its existence. Home and Farm. STUNTED LAMBS. A stunted lamb' presents a sorry picture to the up-to-date sheep breeder; nevertheless, there are few flock3 in which more or less of the kind are not found. Semi-starvation is a prime j factor in stunting the growth of a ! young animal; disease is its close ally, while anything that will cause it to lose Its baby fat is more or less responsible for a hindrance to its proper or normal growth, says American Sheep Breeder. No matter what breed of sheep one may keep, if the lambs are not properly fed and cared for It is but a matter of a ehort time before that 'breed assumes a miniature or Lilliputian type of its original standard. Sometimes even well fed animals are dwarfed by the inroads and ravages of parasites, external or internal, or maybe both. When a lamb loses its baby fat it is literally a premature adult Stunted animals sometimes recuperate and thrive, but rarely do : they make up what they have lost in growth and become what they otherwise would ba If their growth had remained unchecked. EYen where prime rations are fed lamia are sometimes stunted through errcra Ih feeding. Keeping yearlings tn3 l-riha tcjether is not cducive

to t;je proper maturing of lambs, a? sometimes the struggle between them in their endeavors to reach the feed troug'j is so severe that Hie lamb is outclassed, loses courage and gives up the battle in despair, with a consequent loss of flesh, which means a stunting of its growth.

MAKING CLOVER. AND TIMOTHY HAY. The proper curing of hay i3 one of the most important points in securing the crop. In my own experience I have found that the more rapIdly the hay ls cured the better thehay will be. There is a difference In the mode of cutting and curing between clover and timothy, and as I am a great friend of clover I will take that first. I commence cutting about 4 o'clock in the afternoon and with a six-foot machine can cut four or five acres, according to the size and shape of the piece, before dark. In the corning 1 start the tedder as soon as the sun has sho-an on the mown hay for an hour or so, airt keep it going until the first mo vn hay is cured enough to commence raking. Then I stop the tedder and begin raking with a sidedelivery rake and use a good loader to place it on the wagon. Hay can be put in a good tight mow with 40 per cent of its own moisture in it. and make the best of bay, with nice, clean, bright leaves and blossoms the same as when cut. which should be when the first few blossoms begin to turn brown. Hay put in the mow with ten per cent of foreign moisture in it will not keep good; some of it will be spoiled when taken out. Salt sprinkled on hay when putting in a i low has spoiled a great deal more hay than it has saved. Leave the two last loads in the evening on the wagons in the barn, then in the morning, while the dew is on the grass, they can be unloaded by the spare hands. Also have them sharpen the mowing knives and get things ready, so when the time comes to begin again on the hay, everything will move off fast and at an advantage. Timothy should be cut in the morning and tedded as fast as cut, and by 2 o'clock the most of it can be loaded for the barn.. Try and fill a mow with hay as quickly as possible and have It as near the same all over, that is. packed the same; this makes quite a difference in getting good hay. Keep the barn doors shut as much as possible and keep the mow as tight as you can. A great amount of firstclass hay has been spoiled by leaving the doors open at night, and the cool air from the outside coming in, comes in contact with the heated air from the mow, and causes a great amount of moisture. This settles back on the hay and causes a great amount of moisture. This settles back on the hay and spoils it W. F. Hilfiker, in Farmer's Guide. HOG NOTES. Charcoal given to the sow will correct scours in pigs. A small handful of oil meal will have a good effect on the system. The hog pasture must have shade, or shelter, and abundant water. Drain off the filthy wallowing holes and give the hog a bath of clean water to plunge in. Young sows that do well with their first litters may be considered good brood sows. Watch the hogs and be sure that they are not lousy. If lice are found, spray the hogs with some good dip or kerosene emulsion. Hogs thrive best when they are surrounded by clean, dry conditions and not compelled to wallow in filthy holes and stagnant pools. When the pigs begin to smell round the trough, give them some milk and oats or middlings in a small trough, in a pen not accessible to the sow. Twenty-four hours after the pigs are born give the sow a slop of wheat middlings or bran. A little warm water or milk will do no harm at any time. Always give water or slop to a hog before feeding him grain. This will greatly increase the gains and will tend to keep him In better health than if allowed the- erain first. Every man . who raises pigs should take enough time each day to look over his herd and note the condition of each hog. If any show signs of ailing they should receive attention. Kimball's Dairy Farmer. Our Large Physique. Interesting facts regarding the question cf physical degeneracy have been furnished by the use in England of old tailor measurements for comparison. A firm in the North of England has compared the measurements for clothing made two generations ago with those of today; the result going to show that chest and hip measurements are now three inches on the average more than' they were sixty years ago. The same conclusion is reached by the experience of the ready made clothiers, who, it is said, nearly always find that the presentday wearers of clothing require distinctly larger sizes than their ancestors. . , The, London Telegraph thinks that these facts, whatever may be their generality, do not quite dispose of the question of degeneracy. They arewhat we should expect from the moreabundant and cheaper food cf the people, their better housing and Improved sanitary surroundings; but the testi mony regarding the unfitness cf recruits and progressive laik of stamina in towns, and especially manufacturing, populations cannot be disregarded. As has recently been very properly emphasized, good air Is the first necessity, more vital thaaVren sufficiency and variety of food-UThe peasantry of Kerry and Tipperary"are not so well fed as the''Ä'itury; hands of Lancashire, but thi, are tiner men and xrcmcn.