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c7 \ 1 * v -^^SOS-S^*-Small Stock Burn. The accompanying plan of basement of barn, 30 by 34 feet, contains rooms for eiglit head of cattle, one single horse stall, one box stall, and one sheep pen. The floor above has a driveway of 12 feet, with a mow of 12 feet one side over the cattle, and one of 10 feet over the horses and sheep pen. The stairway goes down from the side of the barn floor and the feed is put down through a swinging door in the side of the mow beside the stairway. By using the swinging door it will always be kept shut and prevent draughts in the stables. The cost of a cement concrete wall, and concrete stable floor, together with the frame work above, would be H EE 1 ' —* J c j y — — b — L —gr lb 0 I X 1 I | Zd..„| . H rj 1 c I C * 1 PLAN OF STOCK BARN. A—Box stall; B—Horse stall: C—• ■Sheep pen; D—Feed room; E —Cow stalls; F—Gutter; G—Passage behind rattle; 11. ll—Mangers; I, I —Posts under sill. about $415, besides the expense of boarding the men working on the barn. If the board has to be paid for it would cost about $125. Side Lines to Farming. Some of these may be very profitably taken up by farmers as well as gardeners, advises Hural New Yorker. In some localities the farmers follow this course to such an extent that it is hard to tell just when farming leaves off and gardening begins. It is a good practice, and the small farmers are often able to turn as much clear money on two or three acres of sweet corn, cabbage, horseradish or like crops as from their entire regular crops. It would be time well spent for many farmers favorably located to plan for some of these crops. There is easily $75 to SIOO in an acre of sweet corn properly managed, and more than that in horseradish. With the latter crop nearby markets are not so much of an object, as it will stand storing for high prices and hauling or shipping to any distance. The sweet corn, however. is an entirely different matter, and without easily accessible markets at tneTitii»n>g~faelories'Tcities for immediate supply the grower will very likely get caught. Cabbage also is worthy of attention as it may be easily stored to await favorable market opportunities or long shipment If necessary. So there is no reason why many of the ordinary farms may not become far more profitable than as at present conducted. Cook Vegetables Outdoors. The practice of cooking cabbage and turnips in the house sometimes leaves an odor that is unpleasant to

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good plan. At first I took an old piece of stovepipe and made some openings in the bottom for admitting the air and in this pipe I made a good fire, hanging my kettle over as shown in the sketch. I liked this plan so well that I have since had a camping stove made for cooking things in an outhouse or out of doors that leave an unpleasant odor in the dwelling.—-Cor. St. Louis Republic. The Future of Poultry. That the poultry industry of the country is yet in its infancy is clearly shown in the constantly-increasing demand of both eggs and dressed fowls. The general trend of the markets for the past two years has shown a shortage of supply, and a consequent advance in price, until to-day the prohigh tide, with no prospects of any early change. More poultry has been raised this season than ever before, and yet the people want more, and the demand will continue to grow. The wise poultry man will, as the buying goes, “get in on the ground floor" and be prepared to furnish his part of the supplies which the markets ore sure to demand. Barley Crop Is Increasing. The production of barley in the . United States has increased greatly within the past few years. It is esti- | mated, in a general way. that about ' two-thirds of the product is good enough for malting purposes, the remainder being used for feeding. Only a small proportion of the crop is exported; in the record year 1898-99 the exports amounted to 23,661.662 bushels. but this 'was exceptional. The usual quantity of exports in late years is from 6.000,000 to 8,000,000 bushels. Stunted Pigs. Sometimes these are caused by an inherited disability to make use of the food given them, but probably more often by conditions after birth. If they are watched It will be found I that the other pigs are driving them I from the teats and later from the | trough, says Farmers’ Review. Having | »nce become weakened they are lesa I

able than ne other pigs to fight for their food and have to be satisfied with short rations. It is evidently a part of the pktu of nature to eliminate the weakling as a breeder. However, these same pigs, if given a chance at the teats and the trough, often develop into good sized hogs and prove profitable. We would not, however, advise using such an animal as a breeder. The hint that nature has given us should be taken. We agree with her in wanting for breeders only the most vigorous. Homes in tho Country. The advantages of country life over crowded quarters in our large cities was discussed in a sermon by Dr. John Merrith Driver delivered recently in one of the Chicago theaters. br. Driver said in part: “With the almost illimitable empires in the West and Southwest, rich with opportunities for the poor man to acquire a home and competence, yet thousands beg in Chicago; other thousands live by crime alone; other multitudes eke out a pitiful livelihood always within easy reach of the tooth and claw of abject nakedness and starvation; others, by close and often humiliating economy, get along fairly well until the first strike or shutdown, or sickness, or accident, and then go to the wall. “And yet out in God's country the green fields and blue skies and rippling brooks are fairly riotous with - -invitations, "sayhig-r ‘vtHWTiTThei 1 fl'Ofir race course and dance hall; come out of slum and back alley and dingy tenement .aid find for yourselves and for your children acres of your own, society at once simple and inexpensive and yet self-respecting and ennobling, and religion pure and undefiled.' ” Feedinc Apples to Stock. A correspondent asks for an opinion as to the advisability of feeding apples to farm stock of various kinds. There can be no possible objection to it, provided the feeding is done in connection with the other rations. A large orchardist living near the writer stores all his cider apples for feeding to his stock, as long as they’ last. In feeding to horses and cows his plan is to cut up several quarts of the apple into small pieces and mix grain with them. In feeding to hogs, sweet apples only are used for this purpose. They are fed whole or, if large, cut in half. For poultry they are chopped fine and well mixed with bran, and sometimes with wheat, the feeding being done in a trough, so that there will be little waste. As a matter of fact, unless there is a silo on the farm, our animals get too little green food and oftentimes the surplus apples and potatoes, as well as other vegetables, can be used to better advantage in feeding stock than in any other way. Simple Feeding Rack. The accompanying illustration shows a rack which, as told in the Tribune Farmer, is much used in Pennsylvania for feeding cattle in the yard. The corner pieces are made by quartering a log about ten inches m Rjfl R r " Jit I - ' . FEEDING RACK. diameter and five feet long. The boards should be five inches wide and one and a quarter inches thick. The figure simply- shows the manner of making the rack, without claim of accuracy in dimensions. Four head of cattle can feed at out' time, and all loss of feed is prevented in wet weather when bay or fodder would be trampled into the mud. Brace rack as shown. Brine for Keeping Pork Meats. For one hundred pounds of meat, take about eight pounds of salt, two pounds of sugar, one pint of New Or- ! leans molasses and two ounces of saltpetre. Pulverize the saltpetre, dissolve it in water, and with the sugar and molasses stir it into the brine. It requires three gallons of water with the eight pounds of salt to make the brine strong enough. Old barrels must be well scalded and scraped before i using again.—American Cultivator. To Make Lean Pork. There are countries which grow their pigs without corn, and feed the wastes of the dairy with barley, oats, peas or roots, and make lean hams and bacon, which are most choice. This accounts for the great favor with which the English hold Danish pork. Farm Notes. A Williamston (Mich.) farmer hired four women to husk corn, being unable to get men, and in seven days they’ husked 1,160 bushels. If we could only’ do our own work as easily as we sometimes think we could do the other fellow's work what a happy life we would lead. .. An. Illinois fanner js said to dry out blns or cribs of damp grain by putting layers of drain tile through the mass. We should like to hear from any reader who has tried this. Eggs are sold by the dozen regardless of size. Should potatoes be sold in the same manner a gigantic kick would be made by potato consumers. A dozen potatoes may weigh one or ten pounds. The State of Wisconsin, says Hural New Yorker, is trying to get rid of the German carp in its southern lakes, which are destroying the bass and spoiling the wild celery beds that furnish a feeding ground for canvasback ducks. Planting potatoes with long sprouts on them is a bad practice. When this is done the long sprout will rot and decay and another has to be started, which weakens it and retards the growth. This may not be known by some, but it is a fact. It is very essential that each farmer should know the nature of his own ! soil. It may differ materially from that of a neighbor, in which case it would be folly’ to imitate him. Many failures are made by not knowing the nature of the soil. When a crop is grown on soil unfitted to It it is very much like fitting a square plug in a round hole. One should study to adapt crops to his

- I most people, and | some very good I housewives do not cook these vegetables on this account. That these vegetables may be served without being bothered with this unpleasant condition, I have hit upon a very

CANAL TBEATY WINS. SENATE RATIFIES THE PACT WITH PANAMA. Vote Jh Taken Alter Long Debate and Great Isthmian Channel Is Made Possible—Ail Amendments Are Rejected in Kxcrntivc Session. Late Tuesday afternoon the Senate of the United States ratified the treaty with the Republic of Panama for the construction of a ship canal across the isthmus. The vote was taken before the Senate opened its doors after the executive session. The Senate met at 11 o'clock—an hour earlier than usual. Teller, of Colorado, and Simmons, of North Carolina, voiced the last protests of the opponents of the convention with Panama. Simmons, however, declared his intention of voting for ratification. In the executive session Senator Morgan spoke at length in denunciation of the treaty, and was answered by Senators Cullom and Lodge. The opponents admitted defeat and desertion of their comrades to the treaty's barm er. When th)' Senate wont into executive session to bring the treaty to a vote the amendments offered by the committee on foreign relations ami afterward withdrawn were offered again and voted down. The Bacon amendment, providing for a treaty with Colombia, with a view to satisfying any future demands of tb"^ Panama, also was rejected. Just throe months ami twenty days had elapsed between the declaration of independence of the Republic of Panama and ratification of the treaty with that republic by the Senate. It was Nov. 3, 1903, that the people of the isthmus threw off their allegiance to Colombia. Three days later the government of the United States recognized the independence of Panama. Twelve days later the terms of a treaty between the United States and Panama were signed in Washington by representatives of both governments. VENEZUELAN DECISION. Three Warlike Powers Given Preference in Collection. The Hague arbitration tribunal, which has been considering the claims of the blockading powers for preferential treatment of their claims against Venezuela, has decided unanimously that the three blockading powers—Great Britain, Ger- ’ many and Italy—have the right to a preference of 30 per cent of the customs duties at La Guayra and Porto Cabello, the litigants to pay their own costs in the procedure and divide equally the costs of the tribunal. The United States i is commissioned to carry out the decision ' 1 of the tribunal within three months. In giving judgment the tribunal points | out that it has been guided by international Law and the equity of the case and that the protocols signed nt Washington since Feb. 13, 11)03, and particularly the protocol of May 7. the obligatory nature of vhu h cannot be doubted, form the legal basis of its sentence; that the tribunal is not competent, to question the jurisdiction of the mixed commissions at Caracas or to judge their action or i 1 the character of the warlike operations > of the blockading powers, or to decide if ' the three blockading powers exhausted ’ all pacific moans to prevent the nc< < s sity for employing force. The tribunal decides that it is in a I position only to certify that since 1901 Venezuela refused arbitration, proposed — ; ncrnsiqiis by Germany and Great Britain; that after the war no formal treaty of peace was concluded; I that the operations of the blockmlers were stopped before they had received , satisfaction for all their claims, and. fur- ‘ ther. that the question of preferential . treatment was submitted to arbitration. The tribunal declares that it found and recognized in these facts evidence in j favor of the great principle of arbitra- j tion in all phases of international con- J flict. The decision of The Hague tribunal in the Venezuelan case granting preference to the blockading powers. Great Britain, Germany and Italy, was received at the State Department with marked signs of disapproval. It was held that such an award favoring the nations that reported to war at the expense of peaceful creditors was calculated to put a premium on war.

ycafaifß, Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools in this country have a membership of 2,884,000. Evangelist A. C. Jeffries, father of James J. Jeffries, the pugilist, is holding revival meeting'. The Rev. Dr. Oren B. Cheney, for nearly forty years president of Bates College, is dead at Lewiston, Mo. Three graduates from the Toronto Training School have recently opened a deaconness home at Hamilton, Ont. The Rev. R. J. Campbell recently exclaimed: “God help the man who boasts of a select or intellectual congregation I” The bishop of Trinidad, Dr. J. T. Hayes, died suddenly in Liverpool, England. He was bishop of Trinidad since iBB9. The factory girls of Fitchburg, Mass., have assumed the support of a mission ary in Shanghai of the World's Y. W. C. A. A monument to Hosea Ballou, the founder of Universalism in America, has recently been dedicated at his birthplace, Richmond, N. H. A few days ago the Pope took a stylographic pen from a Protestant journalist’s hand and pronoun od a benediction. He returned tho pen, saying: “No one has a nobler mission than a journalist in the world to-day. I bles your symbol of office.” Methodism in Stockholm, Sweden, has a suitable place for its activities. A building has been purchased and is now undergoing alterations to adapt it for its new uses. It will contain an audience room, a room for the Workingmen’s institute, and iome apartments for rental purposes. The favorite niece of Pope Pius X., Miss Gilda Paroliu, is about to be married to a rich landed proprietor of northern Italy. The Rev. Dr. G. L. Pearson, presiding elder of the Hawaii district (Methodist), is having a good year. He is opening a mission among the Koreans, with prospects of abundant success. Korea, which is attracting widespread attention because of its part in the controversy between Russia and Japan, is one of the newer mission fields. The twentieth anniversary of the establishment of missionary work there will be celebrated next September by a special conference of missionaries

| SUNDAY |SCHOOL t LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 28. Hearers and Doers! of the Word.— Matt. 7:21-29. Golden Text. —Be .ye doers of the Word, and not headers only.—James 1:22. At the beginning of Jesus' ministry, soon after His baptism and temptation, Ho gained wide fame in Judea, and still greater fame in Galilee as a miracle worker. But not for that alone, nor, perhaps, chiefly. He was a teacher to the multitudes—a most wonderful teacher. He told them things the like of which they had never heard before in away they had never known the like of. Hero was a people, bo it remembered, quite unlike ail the ot ler peoples of the world in one particuli r—in its religion. And this religion had set up standards, aims and desires in the hearts of the people that made them a peculiar people. They had road over and again in their law, which they revered, such words as these, “Sanctify yonlrgelves therefore, and be ye holy; for ilam the Lord your God. And ye shall keep My statutes, and do them; 1 am thl Lord which sanctify you.” or again, .'“And ye shall be holy unto Me; for I/the Lord am holy, and have severed yotj from other people that ye should (Lev. 29:7, 8, WhyhrnL^f need to be ,<s prcamn.fi7- -naat* um Uis teach? ig . n, l so strange, so new in their cars’? \V)hy did it UH a heart need? For many generations back the people had been gradually falling away from a true appreciation of their own law and of its purposes. Thc4 became disobedient to the law and canned in their hearts the spirit of disobedience. They could not be described as “qoers of the Word.” But they were hearers of the Word. There had arisen—-one might say they had created amongst themselves by the fact that they would not act in accordan< e with their law--a class or caste of mon xyhose duty it v’as to interpret the law and din it into the ears of the people. The people wefc certainly hearers of the Word, but for the most part they wore hearers only, ! So when Jesus begpn to preach to and teach this people the^ still were a peculiar people in that they had vague notions and longings that had been inherited from past generations, and had been implanted in them by the history of a time and spirit that had long ago passed away. Even in their habits they had not yet sunk to the level of other nations; but that distinction was fast disappearing. And all because they l-.ad ceased to be doers of the I Word. They were deceiving their own selves. (See the last part of the verse frdm which the Golden Text is taken.) They did not know (they could not know, for such knowledge comes not in controversy, but in right action) that “Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless |tnd widows in their affliction, and to ke^P himself unspotted from the world.” The teaching of Jesus in this was very new to these Jews, and very much needed indeed. Notes“Lord, Lord.”—Both acknowledgment and r.quc-t are implied. Not all who acknowledge that Jesfis is Christ, nor yet all who ask to bc| taken for disciples will have their request granted. Verses 22 and 23. —Jesus did not deny that these people vho so called upon Him might have dye all they claimed. Perhaps they did pr>T>li<-~ YertnrpsTnry had cast out devib ami done mighty works. What of hat'? That did not entitle them to citizenship in heaven. They might have dome all they said without having earnesfily set themselves to obey the commands, of Christ. There are those twho take an intellectual delight iu the [truth and pass it on to others. There age those who have by means of ‘'personal!magnetism,” force of will, or whatever power it may be, tho ability to heal eerqain kinds of diseases. But these things do not at all make those people true followeits of the Lord, or heirs of eternal life. Profess. —Speak openly: declare solMnnly. Verse 24. —Jesus speaks of those who know His teachings,. Those who do not are evidently to be judged by a different standard. The man who follows Christ by obeying Him is built upon a rock. The sayings of Jesus form the basis of his character. of his idealsj of his actions. These sayings become oily a part of him. as the foundation is part of the well built house; but the chietf part—the part which by its form and solidity determines the stability of tho rest of the edifice. Verse 25.—The rain and floods and wind that beat upon the house of the parable are the trials and temptations that men all have to undergo. These come upon a man with the persistence of rain, tho tremendous force of flood, or the hurry scurry of a great ami baffling wind. Nothing ct n withstand the shock but a life built up m Christ the only solid foundation. Verses 2G and 27. —Hero we have the other side of the picture, a man who has built upon his o?wn self-esteem, upon what others have told him, upon Buddha, Confucius, Mahoaiet or some latter day saint. Such a qne may have built so as to present qijite a respectable residence in the eyes; of the world. But let adversity come, iand temptatio-. and doubt and fear, let the storms of controversy rage roundiabout. and down comes his respectable h«us-e. It was of no use, for it could not w ithstand such forces. Vsiestiona. In what parable (known by the name of two animals) does Jesus describe the Judgment Day and declare that men's actions will determine the judgment to be passed upon them? (Matt. 25:31-46.) Who wrote these words, “For other foundation can po man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ?” Read the whole chapter from which they are taken and see that in building upon our sure foundation there are yet precautions to be taken. (1 Cor. 3.) Difficult. “What does ‘reductio ad absurdum’ mean?” “It means the art of cutting .up a seven-pound turkey so it will supply fifteen hungry’ caters.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Observed n Coolness. Count Boyion de Bakkoviisnek (to his rich AmeHcgn bride)—How does madam like ze climate of my eountree? His Bride—So far as your relatives represent it, count. I find it decidedly frigid.—Chicago Tribune. Behind the Scenes. The Soubrctte —The leading lady looks kind o’ down in the mouth tonight. The Comedian —Oh. well, she hasn't made it up yet.—Philadelphia Bulletin.

RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Feud Likely to Conn Alons Kankakee River—Corpse Stood Up in Pulpit During Funeral—Sma 11 Boy Injured by Bully—Youth Commits Suicide. Bitter feeling that may develop into a feud prevails on the Kankakee river near Thayer, over the assault on Allie Blood, a Monon switchman, by Henry Foss, a wealthy farmer. Blood is expected to die end Foss’ friends deelare that they will never allow the officers of the law to arrest the assailant. The light between the two men took place in Thay-, er, in front of a saloon owned by Jehu Dewolf. F<»s’ friends declare that Blood insulted a woman and Foss resented it. Blood's friends, backed by John Moerton, another switchman, declare that the fight grew out of kicking a box from the saloon door down the street. Foss. Moerton says, blamed Blood for this ami a quarrel ensued. Foss picked up a ne< kyoke and felled the switchman with it. He was knocked senseless and is thought to have suffered concussion of the brain. Boy Injured by Bully. Harmon Webber, a boy residing northeast of Decatur, lies flat on his back, maimed possibly for life, as the result of the, bullying of one of the larger of his playmates. A big. burly boy. during in-■,lm-nnss)ons. bad.a uxuetiee with many .pf the smaller boys of tossing them up ami letting them down to see how much they couhl endure without squealing. Harmon was one of them, and a few days ago he was thrown up and allowed to drop. »ind in doing so was so badly ruptured that he lies at the home of his parents in a pitiable condition, under the doctor's care. It may be that his injuries are of such a nature that he will nev->- agaiu be strong and well. Corpse Upright at Funeral. With tho collin and corpse upright before the congregation and the face of the body uncovered, funeral services for Rev. James Hart, pastor of the General Baptist Church at Folsomville. were held iu his church, where he had been minister for fifty-five years. He had requested just befory his death that the coffin be siood on end. so that he could look out on the congregation lie had served so long. Three ministers occupied the platform with the corpse. During the services many in ibe congregation became hysterical. shouting fi-anti<-.illy to the dead minister to return to life. Rev. Mr. Hart was 7G years old. and a veteran of the Civil War.

Jilted Youth Kills Self. Walter Schetinman, aged 19. son of prominent Tolleston people, blew his brains out at Indian:) Harbor when rejected by a woman much older than he. Schuenm.'.n left n pitiful note behind telling his motive for tho deed. He was morose during the day and when his emplojcrs heanl a -hot in the basement in the afternoon they thought young Sehennman was 'hooting rats. On going to tho cellar there was seen a resolver in Seho;imnan's dead hands. DrusrgDt Murdered in Store. William Runyan. South Bend druggist. was murdered by an unknown man in his store. It is thought robbery was the motive. Joseph Snchanek. who has a cigar factory adjoining the drug store, attempted to capture the murderer and narrowly escaped being shot. Runyan was prominent, having been a resident ■ il. M -lor .u. of ypnrs. The Hllirderer lost his cap in the struggle, winch' is the only clow to his identity. AH Over the Stat*. Noblesville has a smoke unis.nice problem on her hands. A robber, who wore a veil over his face, held up and rollbed Thomas Raper ami R. I'. Layne, at McVille. One of the oldest residences in Washington ( ounty. known as the John Oxerman phue, has been destroyed by fire. Passenger train No. 6 on the Pennsylvani ) line was wrecked in a collision at Hobart One man was killed and four injured. John Mich: Is of Pori er committed suicide bj hauling because he lost a s7> bill. He uas 70 years old and leaves a family. A jury at Bluffton has declared that J. W. Terrell, convicted of murder, has become im ane since his first trial, and he will probaldy be sent to an asylum. Roscoe Dillen of Uamden. who recently graduated at the naval academy, Annapolis, has been assigned to duty on the battleship Wyoming, now on duty at Panama. Mrs. John Anderson, aged 39. of Michigan township, died in terrible agony. While mentally unbalanced she stuffed her clothing with paper and then set fire to herself. George Schroeder of Mackinac. Mich., won the wood sawing championship of the United States and a SSOO purse in Hammond. Four States were represented. It was a big sporting event. The winner challenges the world. Frank Royse, a wealth}’ merchant, died in Lafayette under circumstances that have caused rumors of suicide. He was found in the basement of his store suffering from revolver wounds. It was said at the time that the accident resulted from the careless handling of the weapon by Royse. Four masked men appeared at the Sugar Loaf mine in Vincennes and ordered tho enginoc-r to stand aside while they stopped the pumps, turning the water back into the shaft. When this was accomplished they battered the engine to pieces and fled. No clew to the men has been found. The mine has been closed for some time owing to labor troubles. John S. Kiser, ex-postmaster of Upland, who defrauded a number of people out of several hundred dollars by giving checks on banks where he had no deposits, is now in Cuba. A child has been born to his wife since his sudden departure a few weeks ago. Fanner oil well No. 2 came in at Princeton with an estimated flow of sev-enty-five barrels. Oil is now flowing over and running down to the creek. A dam will be built to hold it. The camp is composed of home people. This makes seventeen flowing wells within a short distance of the city. The clothing stock of Keller. Broyce & Co. at Muncie was damaged $30,1)00 by fire. The damage to the Johnson block is estimated at $5,000. Paul Merrill, member of a prominent family, taking a post-graduate course at the Indianapolis high school, has been suspended by a teacher because he refused to sit beside a negro. M. M. Barnard, assistant superintendent of the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville, captured Sumner Hapner, paroled convict, at St. Louis, in time to prevent his enlistment as a soldier for service abroad. Hapner was originally sent to the reformatory from Union City, Uaving been convicted of burglary.

STORM SAVES FLEET. JAP DESTROYER FLOTILLA DIVIDED BY A BLIZZARD. Russia’s Port Arthur fqualron Thus ! Escapes — Russian Re-I.nforcementa j Moving Rapidly to the Yalu River— i Alcxieff Appeals to His Troops. A hoav.v storm spaii>d the Russians I from a desperate torpeilo attack at Fort ■ Arthur on the morning of Sunday, Feb. |

14. During the preceding night the vessels of tlie Japanese flotilla of torpedo craft wore parted by the force of the blinding snowstorm so that . only two of the larger ilest royers succeeded iu forcing their way through the fierce gale to Port Arthur. When they arrived there they attacked separ-

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ately and the officers of one of them are co: lident that they succeeded in torpedoing a Russian warship. The destroyer Asargiri, in charge of Lieutenant Commander Ishikawa, arrived off Port Arthur about 3 o’clock in the morning and was met with a sharp fire from the fortress and Russian ships acting as scouts. The Asargiri dischargod several torpedoes at a big warship, but the result is unknown. Japan Embarks Th-e?-Divisions An oiT, ;a! lhHpfF«4i_fe.ceived from To-. kio announces that one of-ttn* DICFt iffportant movements of Japanese troops yet made occurred Wednesday. One of the main branches of the army, consisting of three divisions and including a division of guards, went -^Vboard transports. Previous landings of Japanese forces in Korea and elsewhere are said to have been small compared with this simultaneous sailing of three divisions, aggregating approximately an army of 30,000 to 50,000 men. The Japanese authorities, it is stated, had taken every precaution to prevent information from going out concerning the embarkation and the destination of this army. It is believed that the destination of this force is a point near the mouth of the Yalu river, or a spot on the Liaotung peninsula, flanking Port Arthur. APPEALS TO HIS TROOPS. Viceroy Alcxieff Says the Almighty Is with the Russians. The text of an order issued to the Russian troops by Viceroy Alexieff follows; “A heroic army and fleet have been intrusted to me by his majesty, the Em-

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peror. and now. । when the eyes of the' Czar of Russia ami : of the world are up-' on us. we must re-, member that it is I our sacred duty to■ protect the Czar । and the fatherland. 1 “Russia . is great! and powers ul and if i our foe is strong this must give us additional strength! and power to fight

him. The spirit of the Russian soldiers and sailors is high. Our army and navy know many renowned mimes, which must in this hour serve as an example to us. “Our God, who has always upheld the cause that is just, is doing so now. Let us unite for the coming struggle; let every man be of tranquil mind, in order the better to fulfill his duty, trusting in man p<-ffiffl?fl l iT^c?sk, remembering that ’ prayer to God and service to the En^ j peror are never wasted. Long live the I Emperor and the fatherland! Ged be ! with us! Hurrah!” CZAR INVADES KOREZs. — Russian Troops Cross the Yaln River anti HoFl Wijn. The report that 3.000 Russian troops had arrived at Chin-tien-chong, opposite Wiju, on tho Yahi river, is confirmed, as is the report that the Russians have occupied Wiju itself. They have 2,090 troops at Wiju. The Korean minister at St. Petersburg announces that although 36.000 Korean ! troops are stationed about Seoul, his government preferred not to take up arms against Japan, because Korea is neutral and felt sure Russia would soon drive out the Japanese. Emperor William has notified the Czar and the Mikado that the German hospitals at Kiaochau and Y’okohama are available for the care of men wounded during the war. The Russian general staff announces that the war office is willing to accept volunteers for service in the far East. They must be under 40 years old and have had military training. The volunteers will be enrolled in the reserv* battalions under Viceroy Alexieff. <7^ & 7^ Somewhere under the snowdrifts a fine crop of winter wheat must be tucked away. Perhaps Mrs. Mavbrick is in hiding for ' the purpose of warding off marriage proposals. When a few million bales of cotton fall on a financial house something is likely to break. Having ordered so much canned beef, Japan may feel that it must tight in order to get its money back. If he is going to act this way the former friends of the groundhog will vote to have him made into sausage. At Bismarck. N. D., the temperature dropped fifty degrees in one night. Bismarck must be the Chicago of the Northwest. As the country was watching them the Congressmen came to the conclusion that it would not be right to take the extra mileage. Do not lay all the blame for the trouble in the cotton market on the boll weevil. The speculation weevil has had something to do with it. King Edward in his speech from the throne said he was worried about the scarcity of cotton. Still, the Queen gets enough of it to darn his socks. St. Louis has mortgaged the gate receipts of its exposition to Uncle Sam as security for a big loan. Uncle just cannot keep out of the show business. Perhaps the attorneys for the Chicago boy bandits were so particular about selecting a jury because they remembered that their clients pleaded not guilty. That London lawyer who left $60,000 in bank notes in an unlocked portmanteau in a hotel room while he went to get shaved seems to have needed the lesson he got.

THEwmaY ’ Sliipiß ■ ’ii 1 * " ifiwSLJ ■■ \ '■' iW: : ■ One Hundred Years Ago. The brig Ohio reached Canton, China, from Philadelphia, after a passage lasting 109 days, in which it made a running fight with pirates off the Ladrone Islands. Aaron Burr was nominated by the Republican (now the Democratic) party for Governor of New York. Lieut. Decatur burned the captured frigate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli. . ^ en - Charles Pichegru. Moreau, and forty, other French officials were arrested 4or_a lUIIU life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Congress extended the boundary of Mississippi territory northward to th* 35th degree of latitude. Semi-official announcement was made in London that King George HI. showed symptoms of insanity. The Legislature of New York passed an act providing for the gradual emancipation of negro slaves in that State. j Seventy-five Years Ago. Confidence in the government of Mexico, which had been suffering from a long period of anarchy, was reported restored by a resumption of British trade. Andrew Jackson. President-elect of the United States, arrived at Washington by coach while the electoral vote was being counted in the House of Representatives and cannon were being fired in honor of his election. Pope Leo NII. died at Rome. James Wallace, tho English, tragedian, made his first American appearance at Washington. Arthur Trevelyan announced his theory of the phenomenon of sound. A revolutionist society, called the Black Eagle, was organized by Cubans, who were trying to shake off Spanish rule.

Fifty Years Ago. Gen. Flores assumed office as president of Montevideo. Two Russian squadrons, mistaking i each other for Turks, fought a battle | near Klafat with great loss of life before i the error was discovered. The Mexican war brig Espanada failed front La Paz to drive Col. Walker’s filibustering expedition out of Lower California. The Spanish government schooner Pizarro was wrecked off the eastern end of Cuba, 300 troops being drowned. The population of the United States was announced as 23.000,000, including 8,000.000 negro slaves. The English Baltic fleet sailed from V ietoria, who Two thousand Russians were slain by the Turks in an attempt to seize an island in the Danube. Forty Years Ago, The House of Representatives, by a I vote of 78 to 62, adopted the resolution for a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery in the United States. The largest cannon manufactured in the United States to that time, a 20-inch Rodman. carrying 1.000 pound shot, was cast at Pittsburg, Pa. Union troops under Gen. W. T. Sherman, entered Meridian, Miss., and dej stroyed the Confederate arsenals and the i railroad there. A bill was introduced in the House 'at ' Washington offering loyal slave owners ! S3OO bonus for each of their negroes al- । lowed to enlist in the Union army. The Milwaukee (Wis.) Chamber of | Commerce petitioned Congress to con- ; struct a wagon road through “Dakotah” and Minnesota, so that $25,000,000 in gold could be transported from Idaho to the East. Twenty-seven of the 100 federal officers who had tunneled out of Libby prison at Richmond, Va., succeeded in reaeh- ■ ing Washington. Thirty Years Ago. Dr. Dio Lewis issued his appeal for a i national anti-saloon crusade. I Gladstone tendered his resignation as i premier to Queen Victoria at Windsor j and Disraeli was summoned to form a new cabinet. j The great national anti-saloon crusade, which later became the “red ribbon” and W. C. T. U. movement, spread from Ohio into lowa, Indiana and New York. The Massachusetts Senate rescinded its famous resolution censuring Charles Sumner. John A. Logan was criticised for presenting to the United States Senate a petition signed by Edward Cullerton, James McGrath “and other Chicago business men,” asking that the currency be increased from $200,000,000 to $500,000,000. Disraeli and Lord Salisbury made up their differences and the latter promised to aid in forming a new British cabinet. Twenty Years Ago. Gladstone was assaulted in the streets of London by an unknown enemy. Bismarck snubbed the United States House of Representatives by ordering the German minister to return to it the resolutions adopted on the death of Herr Lasker. Col. Coetlogan, commander at Khartum, was made acting governor general of the Soudan. Shawneetown, 111., was submerged by an Ohio river flood. A resolution of censure on the British government for its vacillating conduct in the Soudan-was adopted by the House of Lords on motion of Lord Salisbury. Queen Victoria’s book, which her critics described as a tribute to John Brown, her Scotch servant, was issued in London. Gen. “Chinese” Gordon arrived at Khartum and proclaimed El Mahdi sultan. Ten Years Ago. John Y. McKana, the political boss of Coney Island, was convicted at Brooklyn, V. Y., of election frauds.