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*% c^r o V__X -T l ^’ - *^**- Improved Nest Boxes. The accompanying drawing reproluced from Orange Judd Farmer, illustrates very well the improved nests deJlgned and successfully used by William Proctor, of Essex County, Mass. They are very easily made and the plan of construction Is as follows: Take three boards, one inch thick by 12 Inches wide, and of any convenient length. The boards are placed far enough apart to admit of two nests side by side. Strips two inches wide and one Inch thick, represented In the diagram as b b, are nailed across both top and bottom to hold the uprights In place and make the frame firm. Supports for the nest boxes are wires, designated by c c In the diagram, and to put them in place holes are augered through all the boards, which Is best PRACTICAL NEST BOXES. klone before the rack is put together. Strips might well be used in place of the wires and would give additional strength. If wire is used, it will prove most satisfactory if kept tight. The nest boxes are made of one-half Inch lumber. They are HVi Inches wide, 12 inches long and five Inches deep. The bottom is made to project six inches, providing a step for the bens to alight on. The space above the boxes would depend partly on the breed of poultry, but with boxes five inches high a 14-inch space between wires will be sufficient. The improved nest boxes have the advantage of being light, easily made and readily cleaned. Rabbits in Apple Orchards. One of the incidents and expenses of orcharding on a large scale is the constant warfare necessary to wage on rabbits so likely to work great destruction to young apple trees. Wellhouse & Son, of Topeka, Kan., | , their orchard in Osage County,

■ . n. of tomM* 4*. * — Action of 1,700 rabbit traps. For xvtir orchards they have 2,000 traps. These traps consist of a box 22 Inches long, made of ordinary 6-inch lumber, 1 inch thick, closed at one end, and with an inward swinging wfre gate, a, in the other end, which Is shut by contact of the rabbit with a trigger, b. after he has fairly entered and taken the bait at c. About 4 feet of lumber and 4 feet of No. 12 galvanized iron wire are consumed in the making of each trap, which costs complete from 12% to 15 cents. This trap, as now constructed, is consld--a EFFECTIVE BABBIT TRAP.

ered well-nigh perfect, cost and efficiency considered, and is the result of twenty years of experimentation in making traps, and studying the nature and habits of the rabbit Farm and Home. New Sugar Plant. The Agricultural Department is inquiring into the statement of ConsulGeneral Guenther that a new plant has been discovered in South America that promises to supplant the sugar cane and the sugar beet. The plant contains a large amount of saccharine matter and a high percentage of natural sugar properties which are easy to extract. It is said to be easily cultivated in climates like those of the southern portion of the United States. According to experiments made by the discoverer, the director of the agricultural institute of Asuncion, this plant is said to yield a sugar which is from twenty to thirty times as sweet as ordinary cane or beet sugar. Minnesota Dairy Figures. The report issued of the State dairy and food departments shows that the 681 creameries of Minnesota which have been inspected during the past season consume every day 5,400,000 pounds of milk. The figures for the year show that 75,000,000 pounds of butter are produced by these creameries and sold for $17,500,000, of which $12,500,000 went directly into the pockets of the patrons of the creameries. The 681 creameries are furnished with milk by 420,000 cows out of the 915,000 cows in the State.

To Boom Spanish Farminc. American capital will be used to open up large areas of undeveloped farming land in Spain, if the $5,000,000 company, announced to be under way in New York, succeeds in its attempt. Apparently, the plan is to start factories for making agricultural machinery and to introduce extensive irrigatlon and other ambitious projects. All this would be a great turning of the tables since the days when the whole of America was mainly a stamping ground Spanish adventures. Wide and Narrow Tires. At an experiment station it has been demonstiated that it requires 40 per cent more power to draw a load on a wagon with 11^-lneh tires than one with a 3-incb tire. With a Baldwin dynamometer careful tests were made

ith a loaded wagon drawn over bluegrass sward. In a wagon weighing 1,000 pounds it was found that a load weighing 3,272 pounds could be drawn on wide tires with the same force required to move 2,000 pounds on narrow tires. Moreover, the wide tires did not injure the turf, while the narrow ones cut through it. A Bin Grain Farm. Oklahoma claims to have the largest farm In the Southwest. It is the 101 ranch In the Ponca reservation, - and is so big that it is necessary to plant several varieties of wheat in it—one of which ripens several days later - than the other—in order that all of • them may be harvested at their prime. 5 On this farm the wheat fields are of • one thousand acres each, the cattle pastures are of one thousand to 1,500 t acres each, and pasture six thousand head annually, the corn rows are one • and a half miles long, requiring five hundred mules and three hundred men 1 to handle the crop, and it takes thir--1 ty self-binders three weeks to cut the ‘ wheat crop and a dozen or more steam ’ threshers forty days to thresh It 1 There are fifty thousand acres in the ranch. I Possibilities of Poultry Business, The next thing in New'York may be an egg corner. The eggs laid tn the United States every year by hens are worth fully $145,000,000. The poultry sold brings $139,000,000. To haul to market all the eggs that all the hens lay every year would take a train of cars 866 miles long. This would reach from Washington to Chicago, where everybody eats one egg a day, or a total of 2,000.000. The great American people are only beginning to realize what a boon they have in the great American hen, and they are cultivating her and her progeny. They are providing incubators to raise her little ones that, she may not be interrupted in her work of delivering the daily egg for the daily consumption of not only the Chicagoan but all other townsmen. —New York Commercial. Fine Potatoes in Maine. “I doubt if any of you people down here in Washington ever saw anything like the sort of Irish potatoes that we raised in Maine this past season,” said Mr. A. C. Gardiner, of the Pine Tree State. “We have one county—Aroostock—that is the banner potato county of the Union, and this year it broke all its previous records in the production of the Murphys. Don't set me down as a retailer of romance when I tell you that I saw among a number of giants grown there one specimen that weighed four and a half pounds. Plenty of three-pounders were in evidence, and the big ones were just as palatable and luscious as those of smaller size.”—Washington Post. New Varieties of Fruits. There are many ney varieties of

yehi4%go! Some of vSWeus£? may be, and no doubt are, decided Improvements upon the older ones, but there are still quite a number which are not desirable for general and profitable purposes. It is well, however, to use a little caution In making purchases of new varieties, for a market plantation especially, and to try only a few at first. If they prove desirable it will not be much trouble to order more, and if they do not the loss and trouble is not great. Grind Grain for Hogs. Tn feeding dry whole wheat there is much waste because much of the grain is swallowed whole. Any small grain used for feeding hogs should be coarsely ground, for unground grain Is totally indigestible, for the outer skin that protects the digestif. Ie portion of the grain is unaffected ky the digestive juices of animals, and. having no gizzard and grit whereby to do the grinding themselves, it is not digested, but wasted. —Farm and Ranch. The Farm Surplus,

The farm surplus should never be sold in its original condition if it can be changed to something else with profit. Hay, when fed to dairy cows, and only the butter Is sold, leaves a portion of the profit on the farm, as the butter is derived mostly from the air, and it is to this fact that creameries which return the skim milk and whey to their patrons have done much to increase the fertility of some farms by rendering the manure of the farms more valuable. Water for Horses. Horses require a considerable amount of water daily, the quantity varying with different seasons of the year, the amount of work performed, etc. The time of watering, whether before or after feeding, is a matter of little importance and, generally speaking, may be regulated to suit the convenience of the feeder. Horses become used to either method of watering, and irregularity should be avoided, as sudden changes are apt to prove disturbing. Watered Farms in Maine. Irrigation is reported from Maine on eleven farms in the last United States census, 1899. Os the seventeen acres irrigated, fifteen were in vegetables and small fruits, and two in hay. On most of the farms the water was pumped from wells and directed upon the land through pipes and hose. The cost of the irrigation systems was $2,170, or $127.65 per acre, and the value of the irrigated crops was $2,555, or $150.29 per acre.

Tobacco. It is not generally known that tobacco is grown somewhat extensively in several districts in England. So also is Indian earn. The great bar to success in the culture of the tobacco plant during recent years is the want of the svn. but it is a fact that many cigars smoked in London are formed of material grown within a radius of forty miles from Bowbells. Pigs Kat Charcoal. It is said that charcoal is a very valuable hygienic agent for pigs. It is a corrective, and acts as a preventive against various diseases arising from disordered digestive organs. If some charcoal, or even ashes, are put j in the pigsty, the pigs will soon show i they like it.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Rivals in Fatal Fight Over Girl—Soldier Saves Deaf Boy at Risk of Life —Elkhart Railroad Hand Inherits Large Fortune. The town of Wallace was the scene of a bloody combat the other night between William Woodrow and Harry Lowe, reputable young men of that community. As a result of the affray Woodrow is in jail awaiting a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and Harry Lowe is dying at the home of his mother. For several months the men have vied with each other for the favor of Miss Daisy Bruner, one of the pretty young women of that vicinity. She showed no particular choice between them and in their rivalry for the girl’s affections Wood row and Lowe became bitter enemies. The other night they met in the village barber shop and quarreled about the girl. Woodrow drew a large knife and thrust at Lowe. In the fight, which extended about the shop and out into the mdway, Lowe was terribly slashed about the body and head. | Risked Life to Save Boy. Elmer Grim, a soldier from the Philippines, is the hero of Buckskin. As an Evansville and Indianapolis passenger train was passing through the town a deaf boy, 14 years old, was seen walking along the track. The engineer blew the whistle and reversed his engine, but the boy continued to walk along the track, heedless of the danger. Grim saw the boy and, running along the track for seventy-five yards in front of the moving engine, reached the boy in time to save him from death. He hurled the lad and himself from the track just in time. Grim was injured by his fall in leaping from the track. When the train stopped and the passengers learned of the rescue of the deaf boy they tossed coin to Grim until he had nearly a hatful of silver. Cuts Oft’Son with $15,000, The will of the late Judge James Cheney, supposed to be the richest man in Indiana, was filed for probate in Fort Wayne. The document is so drawn that no inkling of the value of the estate is given. The entire estate is left to his three daughters, Mrs. John C. Nelson of Logansport, Mrs. John N. Kimberly of Neenah, Wis., and Mrs. Charles Knight of Fort Wayne. They are also made executors of the will and administrators of the estate. The son, Roswell W. Cheney of Louisville, is to receive but $15.(X)O and SSO a month during his life. Each of his three sons-in-law is given SIO,OOO cash. Becomes Heir to $200,000. Charles Osborn, a Lake Shore Railroad workman, has fallen heir to $200,000 through the death of his father at St. Paul, Minn. The parents of young Osborn separated several years ago, and while the mother and son remained in Elkhart the father spent several years in the West, acquiring mining and other property. The mother died about two years ago and the father has frequently asked the son to come to him, his last ap-

’ b^'^l o.n what, was his The deceased and his family came to Elkhart from the East. Brief State Happenings. Fire started in the Shields Clothing Company’s store at Fort Wayne, causing a loss of $75,000, partially insured. South Carbondale is a new town in the Warren County coal field. This coal field will open in the spring with 800 operators and miners. While trying to thaw out a gas generator with a gasoline lamp at Glendale. John McCafferty, William Taylor and Alfred Ellis were fatally injured. Mrs. Mary Barr, a director and former secretary of the Homestead Loan and Investment Company of Indiana, is charged with land frauds in a suit fi«d by the receiver in Indianapolis. "The Commercial Traveler.” the flyer i on the Clover Leaf Railroad, plowed its , way through a flock of sheep near ’ Clarkshill, killing fifty-four of them outright and five otiiers died later of their injuries. The ministers, liverymen and undertakers of Shelbyville have gone into an odd combine. They have agreed among a.l. 1.. ♦l.ne 11IX £llllol*-

themselves that there shall be no funerals on Sunday. The ministers set up the claim that the funerals sadly interfered with church services. Preliminary contracts have been entered into whereby Mathis Bros., owning a plant in Chicago for . the manufacturing of ventilating and heating apparatus for large buildings, will remove to La Porte. The company employs nearly 100 men now, but upon removal will employ more than 200. Joseph Weeks and Cora M 'eks, his wife, were taken before the Lawrence Circuit Court to answer for the murder of Cora Weeks’ mother. Mrs. Susan Ireland, who was found dead Sept. । with a bullet hole in her head. The case is a mysterious one. Mr. and Mrs. Meeks were the only witnesses of the woman s death and they claimed it was suicide, I but the coroner’s verdict said murder. । John Rhine of Fort Wayne recently i returned from Kalamazoo with the body of his son. James, who died iu the asylum for the insane in that city. The young man disappeared from Fort Wayne four years ago. He was picked up on the streets of Grand Rapids, Mich., in July, 1901, but was unable to speak. He was declared insane and sent to the asyjum under the name of John Doe. He never spoke until a few moments before his death, when his speech and reason came back for a moment, and he told who lie was.

The man found murdered in the vzoods near Indian Springs is believed to be a baseball player named Calhoun, who was with Wheeling last season. lie had been rooming with a bartender named King, and it was the latter’s shirt with the mark “King” which Calhoun was wearing and which was found near the body. Presence of mind saved from death Martin McGregor of Hammond, a switchman in the employ of the Chicago Junction Railway. He fell beneath his train and, hearing the engine coming, he seized a brake beam and clung to it until the train was stopped. The Big Four Railroad is reported to have contributed SIO,OOO to the fund for erecting a gymnasium at Purdue University in memory of the students killed in the Big Four wreck last October. A daring safe robbery took place :O the oilice of the Star elevator in Indianapolis. The robbers worked for an hour and exploded seven charges of dynamite. . Terrified people in the neighborhood stood at a distance and watched the op- '. erations of the robbers, who finally be- ’ came discouraged at their repeated fail- ■ tires to reach the inside of a burglar ' proof strong box, and loft a few minutes ’ before the police arrived. Only a small j ram of money was taken.

| SUNDAY' SCHOOL. | Z LESSON Foii JANUARY 3. X RXPOSITION BV RICKARD St. VAUOHA!*. The Boyhopd of Jesus. Luke 2:40-52. Memory Verses, 49-51. Golden Text.—And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.—Luke 2:52. If no record has been made of Jesus’ boyhood we could infer its general character from the man He became. We have something, however, more certain than inference. In a few brief, vivid words Luke has told us of the boyhood of the most wonderful life in the world. “And the child grew.” The human note sounds in the words. Jesus was divine in the quality of His life, human in His limitations. He emptied Himself and was made in the likeness of men (Phil. 2:7). He grew in body. He was a healthy, vigorous boy. Wherever there is growth there are nutritive, formative forces. Some of the forced which helped make the human life of ouf Lord: The home in which He lived. So decisive is home influence that the Talmud says, “W hat the child says out of doors ■ he has learned J Qseu h -a righteoux-mx'i" >r^|~TnD). As for the mother of Jesus, a little study of the “Magnificat,” as her song is called (Luke 1:46-55), shows that its authoress was poetic, pious, patriotic and deeply versed in Scripture. It has been conjectured that Salome, mother of the Apostle John, was her sister. Certainly Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, was her cousin. In the home where Jesus was nurtured some of the noblest influences of His time were regnant. The Scriptures, the books of the Old Testament, were Jesus’ library. At an early age He was taught to repeat from memory much of its teachings, first of all, Dent. 6:4-5, 7:7. The public utterances of Jesus at a later time show the most intimate acquaintance with the sacred writings, especially their prophetic parts. Probably there was a school connected with the synagogue which Jesus attended. Nature also profoundly impressed him. It was visible near Nazareth in many of its loveliest aspects, the hills, the Plain of Esdraelon, the Lake of Galilee, the far Mediterranean. When Millet, painter of the Angelus, first saw a sunset on the waves he was filled with boyish ecstasy. “My son,” said his father, reverently and with bared head, “it is God.” His tasks had meaning also for his life. Like every Jewish boy, he was taught a trade. No one can lay a stone wall with his hands without laying an invisible one in the wall of his character. “I doubt if any boy ever amounted to anything in the world, or was of much use as a man, who did not enjoy the advantages of al liberal education in the way of chores.” < Public conditions lalso had some bearing upon the life olf the Galilean boy. His home at Nazareth was close to the international highway which ran from Egypt to Damascus. There was near the presence of Gentile peoples to enlarge the outlook and sympathy. Palestine then throbbed with intense life. Jesus lived in no fr ’ stagnant land.

. bill at the focal c e life of the molded Jesus His life is toflf » ae nmking’of grace of God words, “And the fur look into the pjj m •’ j s a we hefir the word R , r ]j^ e j csus> ns lad of twelve, M upon the lips of the fellowship with C Father.” By loving He was. j became what A Visit to Apart from gem Jerusalem, knowledge of Jesus iral statements, our this single incident. Jmyhood rests upon the Jewish !■ ourt i q’| le j» assover was the deliverance fro Jf JuJy R celebrated It took place in A n Egyptian slavery, days. Jesus parei )r ,| ] as t c d eight went yearly to Jer as pj ous p eO pi Ci When a Jewish bo: usalem to the feast came ‘ a son ot the t was twelve, he beforth expected to < law - and was hence . just as American a ]| j^g precepts, responsibility at tw^ oys ass m ne political We can imagine ( en ty- on e. dling ardor with "Something of the kinward to a visit to ich Jt}sns looked for . He knew the stoi t ] ]e national ■capital, prophets, the glOHy of its kingß an(] messianic hopes wh of itg temple the The journey was p ch cen tered about it. roml to the east

ituv made by the length the pilgrims the j ordall ‘ At the shoulder of liie :aun Galilee rounded the eager eyes of JMo unt of Olives and city of the Great ?sus res ted upon the At Jerusalem th- ing feast, offered a fes, y ate i> a ssover first ripe barley tj re sacr jfl ce an j the brought with them e y j iad reaped and Mary prepared to Then Joseph and feast lasted eight . e t urn home. The was compulsory °’ays, but attendance days. It is plain tl y on brst two early in the week jt- they started home doctors were still ( r ^ie schools of the returned. They se session when they der the suppositio: o , lt for Galilee tinsome other part of that Jesus was in they went a day 'the caravan. Thus made the startling journey when they j been left behind. i SCO very—Jesus had They retraced t^ I many parental_££rq r steps> haunted bv lon the return, a* A day they spcnt among the vast <‘f n y_J n their quest Jerusalem. At which thronged temple courts w angth in one of the spoke informally t^.'ome learned rabbis a child, listening -he people they sawaccording to the frigntly to them, and asking as well as | om O s tlie occasion, The masters in Ishswering questions, the wisdom of the I] sa t astonished at drew nearer, and, r . Joseph and Mary ly. it was Jesus. they looked closeNext lesson: TI the Baptist. Matt. Preaching of John

Kurina Old Boarder —I;i m o, that you gave tbav does it happen and me the toughian the tenderloin Waiter Girl —Hd? stay yet. ’ " ain’t decided to — Matrii Samuel—Maj nial DrUb the army late a Thompson entered Simon —Well, advanced rapidly, under such re«tU-see. he had been at home. ly good discipline No 1 “Now,” said hi re t. “you’ve got a stonother, severely, cause you stole intch ache just beall that mince pine pantry and ate “Yes,” groaned i worth it.” p boy, “but it was h/ “Papa used Cory. said the bride ill me an angel,” “No wonder,’ L short months. had promise' mned the man who freight. ,y the household Hbo’it s always harping

; ASLEEP IN THE SNOW. ► Explorer Who Thonght He Had Died ’ After Reaching Top of Aconcagua. > After reaching the top of Aconcagua, ’ one of the highest peaks in South America, Reginald Rankin was overtaken by a blinding snowstorm. His companions lie had left at a camp miles below. His descent on the moun i tain is described in Longman’s Magazine. The farther he went the worse grew the storm; soon he could only see a few feet in front of him. Twice on slippery, hard snow he fell, and was at 1 once whirled down the slope at a terrific pace. How far he rolled in this way he could not tell, but it must have boon some hundreds of feet. “The deadly cold of that blizzard at twenty-two thousand feet was fast overcoming me,” he says. “I felt that I could go no farther. By the side of a big rock I saw a little scooped-out hollow’ in the snow. ‘Doubtless,’ thought I, ‘this is my appointed grave.’ I sat down in it, quite glad to have ended the struggle. “When I awoke I thought I was dead. The crescent moon was riding through a sky of deepest metallic blue, against which the white peaks that on every side hedged In my view struck with an almost unearthly contrast. As I gradually comprehended the full j glories of that magnificent scene exultation filled my soul. ‘The kings of the world,’ said I to myself, ‘are not half as well buried as I am.’ “There was a certain amount of cause, apart from the received tradition that people who go to sleep in snowstorms never wake up again, why I should believe in my bodily extinction. I was utterly without sensation of any । kind in my limbs, and when I tried to | move them they made no response. “The snow must have ceased soon j after I lay down the previous evening, | for I was only partly covered, and my ! feet stuck black out of the white man- | | tie, with the toes turned inward to- ; I ward me in a horrible curl. I began | । by trying to work my right arm, and I । after desperate efforts 1 broke it loose i I from the ice which bad frozen it hard to the snow beneath. Then I worked my left arm loose. Having freed my arms, I broke my back free from the ice the heat of my l»ody had generated, and sat up and tried to work my ‘ legs. Here I was less successful: my . legs seemed paralyzed; 1 could not i move them at all. “At this stage in the proceedings my I delight in having the finest tomb on earth was sorely dashed. Here was I tied to the top of Aconcagua like a dog to his kennel. Every man must die once, but I strongly resented having ■ to go through the process a second time. After about half an hour's concentrated effort of will I succeeded in freeing my right leg, which appeared to be very nearly as useless free as it was tied, so numb ami limp did it feel. With the left leg I had still more trouble. At last 1 had both legs more or less at my command; but they

obeyed orders very slowly and reluctantly^ and the feet were both absolutely insunof^mrte.” T Mr. Rankin’s fingers were partly frozen, his feet completely frozen, so that upon reaching civilization the toes were amputated. Sy superhuman exertions he reached his guides, who had given him up for lost, and they hurried him down the mountain. His sufferings on the journey were extreme, and upon reaching Inca he was helpless for a considerable time. It Answered Well. VS ife (with solicitude of tone) —It | must bo very lonesome sitting all by yourself at night, balancing your books? Husband (tenderly)—lt is. my dar- i ling. SS ife—l have been thinking about it for some time, and now I have got a I pleasant surprise for you. Husband—A pleasant surprise? SS’ife—Yes, dearest. I sent for mother yesterday, and I expect her this evening. I mean to have her stay with us a long time. She will take

’ care of the children, ami I can go I j down and sit in the office with you i j while you work. ; ' Husband—The dickens—that is to i say, I couldn’t think of you going to : town. W ife—lt's my duty, dearest. I ought 1 to have thought of it before, but it ' never came to my mind till yester- . ‘ day. Oh, John, forgive me for not ’ thinking of your comfort sooner. But , if I will go and sit with you to-night, j Husband—To-night! Why, I—l—-the I fact is I got through with my books last night. Wife—You did? How delightful! And so you can now stay at home every evening. I'm so glad. And the delighted wife ran off to make preparations for the reception of ' her mother, while the husband, with j sombre brow, sat looking at the pic- ■ ture of a card party, with one member ; absent, in the glowing grate. A Modern Indian Wedding. j A modern Indian wedding contains a j grotesque combination of civilization < and barbarism, as will be seen from 1 the following account of a marriage ! ceremony wjhich recently occurred in ’ Oklahoma: ( “The bride was ‘handsomely attired'

in pink silk foulard, with pink silk ribbon sash, blue collar and cuffs, black hat with yellow and lavender trimmings, a green veil and black gloves. The bridegroom wore the conventional black, except bis coat, which, it being a warm day. he had left at home. He carried an immense eagle wing.” Expert Testimony. “To settle a bet,” said the visitor, “how long can a man go without food?” “Ask the man over there,” said the snake editor. “Is he the editor who answers questions” “No, he's a poet.”—Philadelphia Press. Upstairs. ' Fifteen- two and a pair makes four,” said Subbubs, who was playing cribbage with Popley. “What have you in your crib?” "Ah!” replied Popley, absent-minded-ly. “Just the sweetest ’ittle ootsumstootsums girl in the world.”—Philadelphia Press. The office hunting season is open for twelve mouths each year.

ZION IS AFFLICTED. - WANT AND WOE STALKING THROUGH DOWIE’S CITY. i j i : Officers Are Living in Luxury While the Poor People Hu<l<li e j n Flimsy Structures, with Little Food and Less Fuel. i Want and woe will stalk through Zion City this winter unless money comes in liberally to relieve the situation, writes a correspondent. The fuel supply of . many families has run out entirely and the food stocks in the general stores are low. Few of the working class among the Zionists have any money other than the scrip issued by Dowie in lieu of money in payment of wages, which is redeemable only at the Zion general store. But with the store stock exhausted the unfortunate persons will be utterly unable to procure the necessities of life. I hen will come the desolation and suffering of Dowie's faithful. The well-to-do among Dr. Dowie’s followers, though sore perplexed by the present trials and tribulations of the head of their church and community, will probajdy come out of the ordeal" with only the experience of inconvenience to remind them that they’have been disturbed for once in the even tenor of their contented living. But this is not so of the rank and file of the Dowieites. They have nothing, no money to live on, much : r • • ^1 JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE. less to give up in response to the imperious master who is responsible for their | sad condition to-day, and in whom, despite their sufferings, they will place implicit faith. Their loyalty is marvelous. The extent to which they have beggared themselves is shown by a tour of that portion of Zion City in which dwell the poorer workingmen and laborers. It is a bleak, desolate place in winter, for the settlement rambles over a great, unprotected prairie that slopes to the marshy shore of Lake Michigan, and is open to the se/ere winds that come from the north or east from over the big inHundreds of the poorer families, the persons employed in the big factories—men and women—live in the bleakest part of the town, on the outskirts toward the west, the middle of the great prairie. The homes of many of these toilers are mere apologies for dwellings. The walls of many are merely strips of tarred paper nailed to slender wooden frames. But, worse than these shanties are the habitations of other Zionites, simply frail canvas tents, with barely room for a stove to cook oh and a pallet or shakedown. Still others, and they are 1 fairly numerous, are combinations of tents and sheds, crudely constructed and barely strong enough to withstand the force of an ordinarily strong wind. i What a contrast to the wretched makeshift of his lowly followers are the I conditions enjoyed by Dowie's deacons ami leaders, and the fine luxury with which the general overseer has encompassed himself! The Elijah Hospine, where some of Dowie's councillors and leaders live, is a commodious structure, the equal of many of the pretentious hotels in Chicago. Shiloh House, the residence of Dr. Dowie, is a three-story double structure of brick and wood, a mansion tiiat would be considered appropriate in the most aristocratic residence quarter of Chicago. It contains over a score of commodious rooms, furnished in positive luxury, with al! the modern conveniences to be found in the homes of the wealthy. Electricity and gas are used for illumination and for other purposes. Os servants there are fully a score, all in livery. In the rear of Shiloh House is a large stable, in which are kept several stj lish carriages and six horses of high breed. Despite the threatening aspect of affairs, the loyalty of Dowie's followers to the reincarnated Elijah has not weakened in the least, and those who have given up all they have weep because they can make no further sacrifices, having stripped themselves of absolutely everything on which money could be realized. MARINES RUSHED TO COLON, Dixie Sails with 600 Men and Five Months’ Supplies. The auxiliary cruiser Dixie sailed from the League Island navy yard, Philadelphia, the other day en route for Colon, carrying 600 marines and five months’ living and fighting supplies for 1,000 men. Six companies of marines divided into two battalions sailed on the Dixie. Company A is composed of men from Boston, Company B Washington, Company C Annapolis, Company D Phila- !

■ delphia, and Companies E and F Brooklyn. Nearly a train load of army supplies, hospital tents and blankets has arrived at San Francisco under rush orders, having been expressed by the governmei> from Omaha to the superintendent of the transport service in San Francisco. The consignment had been carried on the fastest trains through the West. Aluminum Money in Inwa, The aluminum money in circulation in lowa is not “fiat” money, as the dispatches call it, but credit currency, and one of the most interesting illustrations of the capacity of a community to supply itself with the medium of exchange, I unless thwarted by some pernicious law, I says a western paper. These half-dol-lars, quarters and dimes circulate freely, not because of the currency denomination stamped on them, but because “they are redeemable at several of the more important stores.” One of the merchants of a farming town in lowa devised the scheme “to increase the volume of money in circulation in the community and move the crops.” These aluminum coins increase the volume of currency, just as checks do, and are, in substance, checks drawn by the merchants on themselves instead of their banks, and made of aluminum instead of paper.

NT ore Railway Horrors. The railway accident that took place near Connellsville, Pa., Wednesday night, bringing death in a most hideous form to more than sixty passengers, and the accident Saturday evening near Grand Rapids, Mich., which caused the death of twenty-two passengers, give frightful confirmation of the interstate commerce commission's conclusions regarding the shocking mortality from American railway casualties. The commission has declared the annual record of killed and maimed to be a “disgrace to the American people,” ami no one can read of these latest disasters without feeling that the characterization is justified. Even if it were true that under present methods of railroading such catastrophes could not be foreseen or prevented, what should be said of the system or lack of system which fails to provide for such prevention? Is the science of railway management still so primitive that collisions cannot be guarded against? It theJjusi~ ness of railways to trai^^^^^W^W — saTely ’amT it is the prime requisite of that business that they supply every conceivable precaution necessary to prevent killing people. Accidents cannot be explained away. It is the fact that they occur and not the reason for their occurring that constitutes proof of inefficiency. If they are not due to gross negligence that fact only emphasizes the innate and essential faultiness of the system. The railroads must stop this slaughter of their passengers and it is the duty of Congress, of the State Legislatures and of the courts to compel them to stop it.—Chicago News. Within four days fully one hundred persons were killed in the United States in railroad accidents and as many were seriously injured. Two of these accidents—that on the Baltimore and Ohio, near Pittsburg, and that on the Pere Marquette near Grand Rapids—have cost ninety lives, and the list may yet be increased. Both of these accidents might have been avoided if safety of passengers and trainmen had not been sacrificed to desire to “make time.” While the Baltimore and Ohio wreck was due immediately to timbers which had fallen from a freight preceding the passenger train, the real cause was an effort to make up for lost time. And although the immediate cause of the Pere Marquette collision is given as the blowing out of the . red signal light at McCord, the real cause seems to have been an attempt to save time.—Chicago Post. When life depends upon so uncertain a thing as the burning of a light in the face of a blizzard, it is evident that reforms must be instituted in the operation of railroads. The case of the Pere Marquette road is but one of a score this year—one of many horrors which would have been averted had the block system been installed, a system under which but one-seventh of the railroad mileage in the country is now being operated. In every body of men some incompetents are found. Even the most efficient men occasionally make blunders or are guilty of of road men, errors may mean many deaths. — Congress should pass a law compelling railroads to instalj the block system and take other precautions. Possibly it would be wise to have a track patrol in addition to the block system. At any rate, the traveling public must be better protected.—Chicago Journal. WAR SEEMS INEVITABLE. Diplomats Expect Battles to Be Raging Soon in the Orient, That war between Russia and Japan is almost inevitable is the opinion of diplomats who are informed of the latest entanglements. Official communications from high sources say that the Japanese war party is growing in strength and is I bringing all its influence to bear on the I government. Influential officials continue in their determination to keep China neutral, if possible, in the event of war, but in this connection it is noted that the Chinese board of war has ordered the viceroys to furnish full information as to the number of foreign-trained troops available for active service. The viceroys of three of the central provinces have reported that 90,000 such troops are in readiness. This unquestionably is an exaggeration, as the great majority of the foreign-trained troops exist only tn paper. The Russian government is noting with the closest attention and keenest interest the quite uncommon energy now being shown by the Chinese in making warlike preparations, under the guidance of a large number of Japanese instructors, cables the New York Herald’s St. Petersburg correspondent. This has grown so serious as to come into the first line of Russia’s calculations, broadening out the situation on quite new lines. Such a complication would bring into play the Franco-Russian and Anglo-Japanese treaties. It is announced here, says a dispatch from Buenos Ayres, that the Argentine men of war Moreno and Rivadavia, built at the Ansaldps yards. in Jtulv. have been recently sold by the mediation of the English firm of Antony Gibbs & Co., for $7,500,000, but the government does not say which nation is the real purchaser. The Cudahy Packing Company of South Omaha is just in receipt of a rush order for 1,000,000 pounds of extract messmeat for the Russian government. The shipment must be made from South Omaha so as to reach San Francisco before Jan. 26. On that date two Russian ships will be prepared to sail from that

l tv can 11V1U LUill port with the beef. It is learned in Omaha that the ships will also carry a large amount of other supplies, which are now’ on the way or are in preparation for shipment from various parts of the United States. All of these supplies, it is said, are for the War Department of Russia. Short News Notes. A small gold watch which disappeared a year ago at York, Pa., from Miss Kate Stover, has just been found in an abandoned crow’s nest. The Rev. Dr. John S. Lindsay, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Boston, is dead. From 1883 to ISBB he was chaplain of the House of Representatives. M . B. Leeds of New York, president of the Rock Island Railway and formerly a resident of that city, has given $lO,000 to the Richmond, Ind., public hospital. Henry Lippold, 18 years old, son of a prominent citizen, was drowned in Fish-er’s-lake, near Falls City, Neb. He was crossing the lake on the ice and broke through. The Kansas City and Olathe electric road filed a mortgage with the register of deeds of Johnson County, Kan., for $400,000, covering its line from Kansas : City to Olathe.