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Sowing Wheat.

The manner in which wheat is sown is
of vital Importance, for its influence is felt
to great extent right on to the harvest
ing Of the crop. An all important matter is
the thorough preparation of the seed bed.
That it pays to carefully prepare the soil
for wheat has been proven time and
again, and vet not one field in ten is prop
erly stirred and pulvcrized before the
seed is sown. Remember that it is i'm
possible in the care of wheat to make the
soil too mellow or too fine. All work
done in this direction is amply paid Tor by
the future crop.
It also pays to drill in the seed, even L
ore has to hire the drill. 1t insures the
even dropping and covering OF the SEED,
and is q saving of seed. Avoid the use OF
foul or imperfect seed; it is q waste OF
time, labor and land to sow wheat that has
not been carefully screened and WlnnoWed
to free it from foreign and Imperfect seed.
In sections where smut is likely 20 appear
avail yourself Of such preventive meas
ures as treating the seed to brine or So
luton of vitr;ol.
Each farmer must decide in great meas.
ure the question as to what variety OF
wheat to SOW. 1t is not safe plan 10
make an entire change in any one season,
and especially where the previous ylelds
have proven fairly satisfactory. A safe
rulc is to SOW the soil devoted to the main
CROP in some we'll tested wheat in your
own locality, and experiment with prom
is;nc new sorts on small scale. bushel
Of GOOD, clear seed, drilled in. is considered
m ample quantity for one acre by many
farmers. The usual rule is from one
bushel 10 five pecks, drilled in. and about
one half bushcl more sown broadcast.
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ANOTHER BROKEN BANK.
THIS TIME IT is THE METROPOLi-
TAN OF CINCINNATI.

The President and Vice President of the
Institution Under Arrest-Sketch of the
Two Men ard of the Causes of the
Collapse.
Another Cincinnati bank failure-and it is
shocking bad one. The Metropolitan Ma
tional bank of that city, which quotes it's
'scapital paid up'' at 100000, is in the
hands Of the United States comptroller of the
currency, represented by the bank examiner,
and its president and vice president are in
Jail! Only constFuctively in jail, that is, for
they are out on bonds of 1000 each. And
this is the really sensational feature Of the
case; for enough is known to prove that de-
positors will be paid in full, and even stock
holders will not lose more than fourth of
what is due them, but the president is the
Honorable and ex-Mayor William Means,
and it looks just now as if his chances were
first rate to ''do time at Columbus"
OF course all readers of current news
know that Hon. William Means was once
elected mayor Of Cincinnati on reform
ticket, and supported by elements which
made the election great honor to him; but
this gives but a faint idea of the shock his
arrest caused in Cincinnati He was much
more than an ex-mayor, very much more
than reform politician, a successful bank
president and wealthy man; he was
highly respected and public spirited citizen,
a leader in church and society, an active
promoter of oil the schemes in which Gin
cinnati delights, the musical organizations,
the great exposition, the centennial celebra-
tion and all the suburban adornments which
make the inhabitants proudly style their
city the "Paris of America"
And yet it looks very much as if this
prominent and highly respected man had
been swept from his moral anchorage by the
waves Of speculation, and had violated the
most stringent of the national bank laws by
borrowing the banks money far beyond the
allowed limit, and allowing syndicate Of
directors to put s500,O00 of stockholders
money into real estate speculations.
Here is the history in brief: One year ago
or more the developments in natural gas and
of coal and iron lands in that region tapped
by the Cincinnati Southern railway excited
raging real estate fever in Cincinnati. To
men with the fever on big returns on speedy
investment looked certain-they always do
in such cascs-it was only to put the money
in, wait {; few months, get it back with big
profits, replace it and go on rs before. No
one knows how much money went into the
new schemes, as mos of it was in the way Of
s'dyers'' by men who could afford to risk
something, win or lose. But 3 syndicate Of
directors of the Metropolitan invested $780,
00o It appears that they dropped the wad"
(as western spectators say just abolt tho
time the wave of speculation was highest,
and thereafter prices went downward, and
only losses showed on the ledger So about
the time Messrs. Harper, Hopkins & Co.. Of
the now dead and gone Fidelity. sunk their
banks million or SO in the Chicago wheat
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nibal four years DIR. ABEL LEONARD.
and has been rector of Trinity church,
Atchison, for more than six years.
During his residence in Kansas he
has been member of the stand
ing committee, secretary Of the Diocesan
convention, delegate to the General conven-
tion, and dean of the Northwestern deanery.
On Oct. 20, 1887, he was elected by the house
of bishops to be missionary bishop of Nevada
and Utah. He received the degree of S. 7. D.
from Griswold college, Iowa, and Bethany
college, Kansas. It is a singular coincidence
that he and Bishop Talbot were born in the
same county, were classmates at the same
school, college and seminary, that they have
been intimate friends from childhood, were
ordained to the ministry by the same bishop
on the same occasion, that each performed
the marriage ceremony for the other, and
that they have been elected bishops of adjoin-
ing Jurisdictions
DR.. Leonard is an enthusiast in his work,
and possesses all the qualifications fer the
high Office to which he has been called. His
six years ministry in Atchison has been one
of marked success. The conservation of DR..
Leonard took place at Christ church, St.
Louis, in January. Bishop Vail, of Kansas,
presided; Bishop Talbot, of Wyoming,
preached the sermon, and Bishops Tuttle, Of
Missouri, and Thomas, of Kansas, presented
the candidate. There We're also present
Bishop Perry, of Iowa; Bishop McLaren, of
Chicago; Bishop Seymour, of Springfield;
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, and Bishop
Burgess, of Quincy
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ther: went up to the walking match at
the Alnllson Square the other day while it
was in full heat The first thought a man
has when he looks down on the weary wights
pegg:ng away for dear life is that of pity.
Then he laughs
Why: Because it's funny.
just as soon as man sets out to do one
thing, to the exclusion of everything else, he
loses control Of himself in everything else.
Every man has SO much will power, and he
is obliged to concentrate it on the object in
view. The consequence is that all his little
peculiarities crop out, and they are sure to
make tho spectators laugh. Parson lilly
was the funniest of the lot. He has a crook
in his back like an Alpine stick, and he tries
to counteract this by holding his head high
up. His arms stuck out on each side of him
like pair of awning rods, and his feet went
ahead of him at great rate, but they came
back nearly as far. Perhaps that's why he
didn't ''get there"
"Well, I never" said an old lady from the
country. II thought this ere was walking
match, but declare to goodness if they amt
running"
That is one of the privileges of walking
match. You can run. You can even start
in at IL o'clock Sunday night and run all the
week as hard as you want to.
That is, if you can stand it.
But they don't all do it. Sometimes they
run and sometimes they walk. Then they
will vary the monotony by snatching up
something to eat A cup in one hand and a
spoon in the other, joggety jog, joggety jog,
around the track they go, through the long,
weary hours.
Do they get tireds
Well, rather.
There is no more utterly woe begone speci-
men of humanity than a pedestrian who has
just finished six days contest
And yet when they get through they are
willing to do it over again. One would think
that one such trial would be enough. But it
isn't Future matches are frequently made
Oh the last day of a race.
How do they go into it? What are their
methods Of training, etc.?
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MRS VANCE. CAPT. VANCE.

FRANK PHILLIPS. CAPT ANS. HATFIELD.
Mrs Vance, Capt. Vance and Capt Hatfield,
were returning home, when they met the
McCoys. Capt. Vance ran down the noun
tain side he was descending at the time. As
soon as the McCoys saw him they opened
fire. which the captain returned. Mrs Vance
was about half way between the two. She
held her ground, the lullets flying by her
thick and fast. The McCoys yelled to Ter to
sit down, but she wouldn't. They called out
that they would shoot her, and she told them
to shoot. Presently she heard Vance shout:
Orally on the top Of the hill, boys" Then
she knew he was hit and delirious. The old
lady told them they needn't fire any more.
It is suppo ed that this murder was not in
spired by the noble purpose of the former
ones, but that it was simply to acquire pos
session of the captains rife.
And it is supposed that the fight will go on
yet many years, or until some one in author
ity with nerve puts stop to it.
But the violent death Of the last Hatfield
and the last Mccoy may occur in the mean
fi,l,o
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The princes recognition of Sullivan will be
driven quite out of mind by the latest exhi-
bition of his manners, madc the other night
at a London theatre. The Prince of Wales
had been on tho race track all day, and ono
of his horses had won. Then the prince had
dined. He had also wined. During one Of
the most interesting portion Of the play, tho
effects Of the dining and winning became
noisily apparent. Before tho audience knew
that royalty was tho offender, there wcro
hisses and calls of ''Put him OUT When tho
identity of the disturbing person was dis
covered, there was general CONSERVATION.
Finally the prince and his suite left.
The London morning papers said nothing
about the episode, but I. P. OConnor, Irish
II, P, who was present, dished the story up
in great style the EeSt afternoon in his even.
ing paper, The Star. Developments Of a
somewhat interesting nature arc not impos-
sible in the near future.
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There is q peculiar incident connected
with the career of Ben Hogan, the reformed
pugilist, that is not generally known. When
he was training to fight Tom Allen he
noticed that despite his training, care and his
peculiar diet he was growing weaker and
more nervous, SO that be was unable to sleep.
He was treated by the physicians for ma
laria, but it afterward developed that he had
been poisoned by the cook who furnished
him with tea, the leaves of which were satu-
rated with copperas. Green blotches ap-
peared upon the surface of his skin, and tho
medical men treated him then with arsenic
to counteract the effect of the copperas. 1t
is a singular fact that Heenan when he fought
Sayres was dosed in similar manner so that
Savers could win.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette
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HATFIELDS AND M'C0YS.
THE WARNING FAMILIES OF PIKE AND
LOGAN COUNTIES.

A Long Series of Bloody Murders Which
Have Become Scandal in Two States.
Map of the Region and Portraits of
Some of the People Interested.
Pike county, KY, and Logan county, W.
Va, separated by little stream called Tug
river, have for many years been the scene of
warfare, bloodshed and murder, such as one
might rather expect to find among the Rocky
mountains thirty years ago than in country
which has been settled more than century.
Two factions, the Hatfe]ds, Of Logan county.
and the McCoys, of Pike county, have been.
engaged in numbering each other for twenty
five years.
In 1868 Capt. James Vance, Hatfield, an
officer Of the Confederate army, made raid,
during which he met one Of his former
friends, Mccoy, whom he shot, This was
in the Hatfeld-McCoy war what the firing
on Sumter was to the nation. Some time
after three McCoys lurked near Vances house
for the purpose of filling him with lead.
Vance's wife, however, pretended to look for
her COW, spied out the enemy's camp and in
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Electricity i. Form of Matter.

1t is well known fact that quantity OF
electricity measured i'll coulombs never IS
generated never is consumed, and never does
grow less. excepting leakage. The current
flowing out Of a lamp i; exactly the same i'll
quantity as that going into it. The same is
true of motors and of generators, showing
that electricity of itself is neither consumed
while doing work, nor is it generated. After
doing work in lamp or motor it comes oat
inprccisely the same quantity cs it entered.
A battery is not able 10 generate quantity or
coulombs of electricity; all it is able to 10 is
to take the quantity which pours i'll at one
pole and send it out at the other pole with M
increased pressure, or L. NJ. F. Electricity,
therefore, is not merely force Tor form of
energy), but matter. 1t is precisely analogous
to water i'll IL water circuit. The water is
neither consumed nor generated. The pump
merely increases the pressure of the water
which flows i'll at one end. The water motor
merely consumes the pressure and converts
it into mechanical work Of another kind 1t
does not consume the water. The quantity
of water, measured in units of quantity, is
the same in all parts of closed circuit Ct
water.-Carl Herring i'll Electrical World.
\ a1issio-ary's Work.
Dr. Elmslie, missionary among the Eulus
west Of Lake Nyassa, has sent home the FIRST
book printed in the Ubungoni language as
issued from the neighboring mission press at
Blantyre 1t contains the Decalogue, pas
sages fro!a the Psalms, Proverbs, and tho
Gospels, and fourteen hvmns.
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The Cabbage Worm.

The cabbage worm has not been visibly
affected by the hard things said against
him, nor have the numerous sure cure
remedies sensibly affected his appetite.
Peter Henderson suggests the application
of alum water, one pound of pulverized
alum to three gallons of water. This will
not injure the plant and may kill the
worm. Pyrethrum, either in powder or
solution, is effective. The great difficulty
is to get any preparation on the worms,
and to repeat the application as often as
the successive broods hatch out.
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GEN. JOHN L. THOMPSON.

Death of Another of the Men Who Risked
Life in the Civil War.
Gen. John L. Thompson, prominent
lawyer and citizen of Chicago, died at his
home recently of paralysis. Gen. Thompson
was only 53 years old, but he had been hard
worker, and his death is attributed to over
work in railroad case which had been ell
gaging his attention.
John Leverett Thompson was born at Ply
mouth, N. H., Feb. 2, 1885. He studied two
years at Dartmouth, and one year at Will
Jams college in the class with James A. Car
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LODGE MONTANA FEBRUARY 24 1885,
six days walk without the use of stin1ulants

DIX uhyS Walk WlLnOuL the use OF SCl10ulanCS.
But what do you think Of cold cabbage9
Strokel is an Austrian, and this is what he
likes. He logged around the track with
plate Of "cold slaw" in his left hand and ate
it with the fingers of his right strokel, next
to lilly, the Canadian parson, was the fun
niest walker. They called him ''The Crab"
He has big hands, and he wags them inces-
sanity: One would think, to look at him,
that this ceaseless motion alone would tire
him out, but it doesn't seem to.
Another curious character is Sullivan. He
is a young fellow, and had to be carried out
in the great race of 1884 before it was over.
He was nicknamed the Ghost, and he looked
it every inch. He carried tho specter Of
sickly smile along with him, and if he had
been going to his own funeral he couldn't
have presented q more wobegone appear
ance
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formed her husband. Vance slipped out the
back door, got III the enemy's rear, killed
two of them and put the third to flight.
Then the McCoys met one Stratton, a Hat
field, on road in Pike county, and scored
one for their side by shooting him. About
five or six years ago johnson Hatfield, son
of Capt. Anson Hatfield, met and wooed
Mccoy girl. One night he ran her Off He
lived with her till he became tired of her,
and then let her go.
By this time Winchester rifles became
plentiful, and the warfare began to be prac-
ticed on large scale. One day after an
election three McCoys knocked down Hat
field and cut him up into mincemeat. Where
upon Capt. Ans. Hatfield raided Pike county
and carried off the three offending McCoys.
These McCoys, ono Of whom was but Is years
old, they tied to trees and amused themselves
in pouring bullets into them till they were
dead.
After good many more murders. the state
of Kentucky concluding that if she did not
interfere there might be bloodshed, offered
heavy rewards for Ans. Hatfield and sew
eral of that gang. Frank Phillips, Nc
Coy, was then deputy sheriff of Pike county,
KY. Taking the warrants, be led a gang into
Logan county and captured the stepfather Of
man for whom he had warrant. Soon
after another raid was made into Logan
county, w. Va, resulting in the capture of
more prisoners. Then the Logan county
Regulators gave notice that if there was
any more sfooling" somebody might get
hurt. This kept the peace for while, but
not long. On New Years night about a
dozen Hatfelds surrounded Randall McCoy's
log cabin and called ON him to come out end
surrender. Mccoy was naturally timid
about obliging them, whereupon they set the
house afre. All the occupants of the house
except one, including an old woman and a
young girl, were shot down. The escaped
man was Randall Mccoy, whose wife, four
sons end daughter have been killed.
Capt Vance, of the Hatfelds, was the next
to fall The McCoys went to his house when
he was away and robbed it. An old woman,
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS

J.. Any one who takes paper regularly from Il
Postoffct-whether directed to his name or another
or whether he has subscribed Or not-is responsible.
for the payment.
II person orders his paper dscoE slnued r..
mnst pay ai arrvarages. the publisher will cor
sire &c ss,! it until payment is made and collect th
wfO'e amcant, whether the paper is tsken from tire
office or rot.
3. The counts have decided that ,efueinc to take
thcnewspaperr or perjodicas from the Postofnce q,
removing and leaving them uncalied for, is prisnl
fdcie evidence OF intentional fraud,
Papers ordered to any address can be changed tc
Remitanccs by draft, check money order, or reei..
tered letter may te sent at risk. All Postmaster.
are required to register letters application.
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THOMAS j. POTTER.
Sketch and Portrait of Live Weste
Rai1rnad Man.

Sketch and Portrait of q Live Western
Railroad Man.
Thomas j. Potter, first vice president and
general manager of the Union Pacific rail-
way, is undoubtedly the best known and at
the same time one of the most popular rail-
way officials in the west. Since his Install
ment in the position he now occupies, he has
completely reorganized the forces in every
department. of the railway, and brought
about such changes as have been of greatest
satisfaction to the public and of vast good to
his corporation. To Mr.. Potter more than to
any other individual is due the credit of de-
creasing the time Of transit from the Mis-
souri, river to the Pacific coast, the reduction
in running time Of trains amounting to a
saving of about twenty-four hours between
sthe above mentioned points, and thirty-s
hours between Chicago and the coast.
Mr.. Potter is an Ohioan by birth, having
hean horn in Carroll cOnntv on Anp 16 124O
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OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

A Pail Mall Gazette Cartoon-Royalty
at the Theatre.
Americans, or at least those Americans
who are devoted to fisticuffs, have read with
interest of the various interviews that have
taken place between the redoubtable Sullivan
and the Prince of Wales during the stay of
the former in England.
It may be of some interest to our readers to
know how the newspapers of London regard
the princes devotion to pugilism, and to
crafty whatever curiosity exists in this
respect we reproduce a cartoon from The Pail
Mall Gazette, together with the accompany
ing text. The title is pretty bad Latin for
ssIn pious memory of St. Sullivan"
N p1AM MEMoD1Aa sA,;cT1 sCLL1vASI.
Adesigner Of raucl, ability has sent us this in
genio,,s idea for c stained glass vindo0 to be
placed in Marlborough house. It was stated on
Tuesday that the master of Marlborough house
was the chairman of a committee which has been
formed for the purpose Of presenting Smith and
Kilrain with valuable E1emento for the pluck
they displayed in q recent encounter. AS the re-
port has been authoritatiyciy denied by the Press
Association, our artist will not be able to submit
fresh designs for the other window, which he had
projected with Mr.. Smith and Mr. kilrain Us tho
principal figures.
It is supposed that subtle vein Of British
humor runs through tho text. The discern
ing may be able to find it.
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the service as private. He rose, through
tho Rhode Island and New Hampshire vol
unteers, to be full colonel and brevet briga-
dier general He served in the army of the
Potomac, and was in most of the battles of
that army. At Gettysburg he captured
portion of Lees army. He also took part in
the raids made under Gems. Stoneman and
Wilson. In the Shenandoah valley, under
Sheridan, he fought in the battles of Fishers
Hill, Waynesboro and Cedar Greek, and
in one of the cavalry engagements of the
valley Gen. Sheridan directed Gen. Thomp-
soa to conduct 1000 prisoners to the rear.
He was subject to attack during his march
of several days, but turned in more prisoners
than he had receipted for.
At the close of the war Gen. Thompson re-
turned to Chicago and resumed his desk in
the law Office he had left four years before.
Soon aftcrward he began practice on his
own account, and at the time Of his death
was one of the most prominent members Of
the Chicago bar.
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PODular Remedies

Some people assert that they keep in good
health by eating fine juicy apple every day
before breakfast; others who are, or fancy
they are, bilious, take the juice of one lemon
in little water each morning before eating;
while many dyspeptics claim to find relief in
drinking at each meal gobletful of water
as bot as can be taken.
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and absinthc, his left eye became horribly
projecting like a tumor"-and
from the pain and previous drinking he be-
came insane. 1t was finally removed. He
is 3G years old, married and the father of
two children.
Louise treated the affair lightly and ex
presses sympathy for the mailman. There
is, of course, no political significance at
Tackled to such all affair; it only interests the
public because of the remarkable career Of
Louise Michel, who has been soldier, de-
claimer, rebel, exile, convict and pardoned,
the companion of Rochefort in New Calcdo-
MIA, and is now once more the apostle Of an