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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-29

the PEARSON Tor TWO days.
tho night before the Yale.Princeton football
game last November will recall q conference
that was held by Coach Butterworth, Hinkey,
NOR was that they had decided TO spring a sur
half back on the Yale toam-a man who was
thai. this player was no other than Ransome Of
California. but as no change was made In the
makeup. OF the team the matter was forgotten.
1t has since turned out that the man who was
IS a better buoking half back than Kelly OF
Princeton. Dursuon, at one time, played tackle
on the varsity. but later developed such re:
out early, last season for q regular place. I'm
fortunately though. he fell behind in his studies
and when Coach Butterworth attempted to use
him In certain game the faculty, interfered.
IT was an attempt TO secure permission from the
faculty to let Durston play against Princeton
that caused the little conference In the New
Haven House, and the reason Durston did not
hrm. IL 10 believed that Durston will make the
Yale varsity team next fall.
The unsportsmanllke methods of some English
men 10 strikinKly illustrated In an Incident that
has just come TO light Last year young Edward
Hanlan len Eyck of Worcester went to Henley
and won the diamond sculls. Since then he has
ysnia. Not long ago. It is said, he received a
letter from q prominent Englishman living here
asking for an interview. Ton Eyck granted
one, whereapon no was politely informed that
the committee IN charge of the coming regatta
at Henley would deem 1t q favor II Ten Eyck
did not send In his entry. The young OArsinan,
II is further said. asked for an explanation and
simply a case OF not being wanted; that II he
fused. chiefly because the American boy is not
. HsntlsnI ans son" end that The easiest way
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-29
YACHTING.

i antse. o.. MfNERALIzED RUBBER CO, is Tin.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-29

Chief Consul Hines of the Michigan division
Of the l. A. w. has been offered his choice of
the position Of Second Vice-President or
Treasurer on the Potter ticket. At the request
Of bis division officers he has notified Potter
that he will accept n nomination, but that he
has no preference. 1t 10 likely that he will bo
slated for the Treasurership.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
HERE AND THERE.

On most of our farms the poultry
would fare better if corn were kept
more carefully. The excess of waste
corn within reach keeps the poultry
too fat for egg-laying.
We should breed stock enough to
eat up the feed of the farm. The great
scarcity of desirable young stock in
this country, with such an abundance
of cheap food, was never before known.
Try to raise some crop different
from those of your neighbors, becom-
ing skillful in it's management, produc-
ing a fine and desirable article, and
finding a home market for it with little
competition.
If properly kept and judiciously
applied to land, poultry manure is
worth one-half the cost of the food the
fowl gets, and yet little account is
taken of the droppings when an esti-
mate is made of the profits.
The product from an acre of ground
depends about equally upon the soil,
the seed and the cultivation; but if any
one of these falls short of what it
should be, more than its own proper
ton of the crop is apt to be lost.
There should be grapes on every
village lot. Let them have a we'll
drained soil, good cultivation and close
pruning and then they will well re-
pay for the space they occupy. Soap
suds is an excellent application, be-
cause of the potash it contains.
There is personal element enter
ing into all calculations as 70 the cost
of the several farm products which
renders the efforts at our experiment
stations futile. The cost depends upon
the man and his methods, his land, his
location and the cost of his labor
1t seems that often a man does not
know what a crop nor an animal costs
/ simply because he Is afraid 10 invcsti-
| gate he IS already pretty sure he is
paying too dear for his whistle. but
disaster viii come sooner or later. espe-
eially in times of depressed prices
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
THE CORN FIELD.
seasonable Suggestion for the Coming
Planting.

Planting.
Corn planting will soon begin in
most southern portions of the cotton
belt. In all regions it is desirable
to plant a portion of the crop as early
as conditions will permit, for several
reasons; one, the early corn ears
more heavily, making less stalk;
another, because it is better to have
eggs in two nests in place of all in one
nest. The seasons may hit one if they
do not the other. Corn planted the
first of March ought 10 mature by July
list and thus escape July draughts An
other reson for early planting
is that early-planted corn clashes
less with cotton crops; it is ready
to receive its first working after cotton
is planted and before it COTTON is ready
for its first working As the ground
will not be very warm at the time of
early planting, the seeds should be COW
cred quite shallow, so the suns heat
may reach them readily. To guard
against depredations of birds, coat the
seed very lightly with tar. This will
also protect from bud worms to some
extent, though these worms are not apt
to injure early planted corn. Very
early and very late planted corn escape
their ravages; intermediate plant
ings suffer most. Plant only good
land and such as is least likely
to suffer from drought. Don't rely
on the corn crop alone for stock feed,
the crop is too uncertain for that, but
plant enough for bread and part stock
feed, for animals are fond of corn, and
it is desirable to give them variety. In
the olden times, when our lands were
fresh, corn WAS more reliable crop
than it is at present. Sometimes when
one is short of provisions, it pays to
plant moderate quantity of some early
variety of corn that will mature in
June-some of the smaller varieties
that can be planted quite thickly, say
in three feet rows and hills one foot
apart in rows.-Sout hern Cultivator.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
THE HAY QUESTION.
What Shall We Sow to Renew the Hay
Meadows?

The army worms in 1896 ruined all
the timothy and herd grass meadows;
the drought of 1897 ruined the clover
SO there is little, If any, kind of hay left
to the farmer. This is a problem eaus-
ing farmers much thought: What shall
we do for hay? Few of our farmers can
afford to keep their stock on grain. 1t
is therefore timely to look up substi-
tute for the hay crop we have lost. |
doubt if our folks will in years attempt
timothy meadows again to any extent
While think there will be an unusual
area given to clover this spring, it will
avail little till 80, meantime we must
bridge over. The millets produce large
crops of coarse hay on fine, rich land,
but there are those of us who class mil
let very low in feeding value-little
above bright straw. Then there is en-
silage to the big dairy man, bat this is
not suited to the small farmer. |
CHANGED to have an experience without
hay that might prove valuable at this
crisis that is on u.s. 1t is this: Two
years ago | had very rich spot of
alluvial soil of two acres This be-
ing in my oat field, was sown to
Burt oats. A storm coming about
the time the oats in this valley
were ripening, they were lodged
so badly | cut them with mower and
made hay of them. | have in my life
never seen such yield of hay, nor
have | ever seen its equal value. 1t was
literally corn and fodder both" A
friend just returned from Texas tells
me that baled oats, cut after me style,
is the most sought after hay in that
Market that where it can be had they
feed no corn. | have set aside a few
rich acres which shall attempt to get
them in by February Is if possible.
Who else can tell us what to SOW for
hay?-J. II. Burrow, in Farmers Home
journal
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
CERTAINTY OF DEATH.
An Oculist Says That by the Veins Of
the Eyes One May Know.

Whether man be really dead or not
may be read in the veins of the eye.
This important discovery has been
made by DR.. Chalmers Prentice, an emf
nent Chicago oculist. He says that he
can tell to certainty by the appear
anee of veins and arteries in the human
eye whether there be any spark of life
left where death has been pronounced.
Or, rather, his discovery is of such
nature that death will never be pro-
nounced unless the examination of the
eye veins show it is absolutely certain.
There has always been widespread,
haunting fear among people of being
buried alive, and DR.. Prentice's discoy-
cry, if it be all he claims for it, will re-
move this fear.
His experiments along this line be-
gan some 20 years ago. He had OBJ
served that in life the veins and ar
teries of the retina have distinct diff
ferences in color. The veins contain
dark, blackish blood. while the arteries
contain bright crimson. AT the back
part of the eyeball these two shades of
blood may be seen under the light of
the ophthalmoscope dividing the re-
tina. Even in the case of the blind this
distinction in shade may be seen. I'M
less, of course, an opaque film has
formed over the injured eyes, or the
eyes have been entirely destroyed.
In death however, DR. Prentice has
found that the shade distinction entire
ly disappears. The blood in both
arteries and veins is transformed into
pinlish color of uniform shade.
An exhaustive examination has been
made and Dr. Prentice has never found
his simple test to fall. In a case of
suspended animation, where others had
pronounced death, he observed the
shade distinction and saved the man
from being buried alive.-St. Louis Re
Dublic
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
THE CORONATION CHAIR.
Claimed as the Most PreeioUs ReIio
I'm All England.


The most precious relic in all Eng
land and to the English in all Europe is
an old Gothic chair which stands in the
chapel of st. Edward in Westminster
abbey beside the sword and shield of
Edward Ill. 1t is made of black oak
in the Gothic style, and the back is COW
cred with carved Inscriptions, includ-
ing the initials of many famous men,
The feet are four lions, that look like
poodle dogs with their tails eurled up
over their backs. The seat is large
stone about 30 inches long by is inches
wide and ~ inches thick, ana all the
sovereigns of England for the last 500
years have sat upon it when they were
crowned. The chair is known as the
coronation chair, and the stone is
claimed to be the same which Jacob,
the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham,
used as a pillow when he lay down to
sleep in the starlit plains of judah that
memorable night as he was on his way
from Beersheba to Haran in search OF
wife. It was then he had his dream,
and saw angels and archangels ascend
ing and descending a ladder that
reached to Heaven, and Jehovah came
to him and made the great promise
which is being fulfilled to the Jews this
very day. And Jacob took the stone
and set it up for pillow and poured oil
upon it, and vowed a vow and called the
name of the place Bethel.
The kings of Israel were crowned
upon this stone from the time that
they ruled a nation-Dayid and Saul
and Solomon and all the rest.
The story goes that $50 years before
Christ. at the time of the Babylonian
captivity, Circa, the daughter of Zede-
diah, the last king of Judea, arrived in
Ireland, and was married at Tara 70
Heremon, prince of the Tuatha de
Danan--whieh is said to be the Celtic
name of the tribe of Dan. The tradi-
tions relate that this princess went
originally TO Egypt in charge of the
prophet jeremiah, her guardian, and
the Palace Taphanes, in which they re-
sided there, was discovered in 1886 by
Dr. Petre, the arehaeologist. After
some years they went hence TO Ireland,
and from Circa and Heremon Queen
Victoria traces her descent through
james l., who placed the lion of the
tribe of Judea upon the British stand
ard.
jeremiah is said to have concealed
this sacred stone at the time of the
destruction of Jerusalem and the cap
tivity of the Jews, and to have brought
it. 'the stone of the testimony" Bethel,
the only witness of the compact be-
tween Jehovah and Israel, to Ireland,
where 1t was known as the liza phail
(stone wonderfully. 1t was carried to
Scotland by Fergus J., and thence to
London in the year 1900, and has been
used at the coronation of every king
and queen of England from Edward |.
down to Victoria. 1t is thus the most
priceless historical object in the Brit
ish empire, as 1t was the Palladium of
Israel. 1t Is a curious fact that the
affairs of Ireland were called Bothel,
houses of God.
In the same chapel surrounding the
coronation chair In Westminster abbey
are the graves of six kings, five queens,
four princesses, duke and a bishop
w. f. Curtis, in Chicago Record
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
IN THE DAIRY.
Tests to Discover Whether or Not the Busi-
ness is Profitable.

Working in the dairy is by no means
a satisfactory process to the wide-awake
man, and yet that is what many of us
are doing. We have a vague notion
somehow that things are not as they
should be with us The balance of
trade is decidedly against us at the
end of the year. Profits vanish; every
thing drags on from year to year in a
decidedly unsatisfactory way, and in
spite of all we call ourselves dairymen
We rush along, trying to keep up with
the procession, but all the while we are
conscious that we are falling farther
and farther into the rear.
Now, would it not be well for us to
just stop and find out where we are?
Life is too short to be spent in follow
ing shadows, Let us try to settle the
question, first of all, what are our cows
doing to pay for their keeping. To do
this it is not necessary that we should
invest in costly and delicate apparatus.
For small amount of money we may
purchase testers which will show us
the value, or lack of value, of each
cows milk. For some years | have been
working to bring my herd up. | have
now number of young cows with good
blood in them. 1t is a great pleas
ure to me, as well as source OF
extreme satisfaction, to settle the
question for once and all whether my
work has been in vain or not. Side by
side in the stable stand mother and
daughter. The test shows me that the
daughter yields me milk richer by many
per cent. than her mother. No guess
work about it. | am able to know this
positively. When the time comes for
wedding out, shall know cows to part
with. Tests pay. If we are obliged to
buy expensive machines to make these
tests, they still pay.
Then what about the feeding value oi
the grain and other stuff fed our cattle:
How many of us know this with any
degree of certainty? But / hold that
the time has come when il stands Us
in hand to decide this point. II
will no longer do TO shovel our managers
full of valuable feed mot knowing what
use our cows will make of il; nor can
we carefully pitch in the hay or corn
regardless Of the capacity Of the cow to
assimilate II Again. use the tester IN
the cream PAL before churning: 1T will
ssye hours OF valuable time in churn-
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
Winter MhImsIes.

The golf-stockinged young man with
the handsome combination tandem cy-
Gle is not in it at the moment with the
ar-muffed possessor of a rough wooden
bobsled.
Teaching a girl how to skate is an
extremely pleasant form of exercise,
4 the girl in question happens to be
pretty and if you really like her; also
If her papa ia WORTH a cool million or
so, as well as several dozen other ''ifs"
which the reader can probably piece
out for himself.
If snow was only money how quickly
the sidewalks would get cleaned off.
Sleighing is sport that can best be
INDUCED in by parties Of two or twenty.
ANY number between these limits is a
dangerous social experiment
To throw snowbslls is human, 70 mot
get mad when one demorahzes Il cents
worth of laundry work and a dollar
necktie is divine.-N. Y Journal.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

The place was stuffy gable cham
Der in a third-rate hotel at popular
Virginia summer resort. In all the
loneliness of its Partisan artful artless-
ness it lay-the gown in which an ambi-
tious mother had dreamed that her be-
loved would find the Aladdin's lamp
that would restore them to the station
they once held in the gay world. 1t
was the first time the gown had been
taken from its box since Pauline
summary departure from the Raget
mansion. Mother and daughter gazed
at the airy, Elusive creation which Mrs,
Raget's generosity had provided, but
only with the detached interest of Wis
itors to a musem; it did not appeal to
them as n personal possession. Nothing
could be more out of touch with the
life they had been leading in the shah
by little hosiery in which they were
grateful to have found shelter for the
summer months-trusting like the
sparrows, to Providence for a winter
nest. But as her eyes rested on the La
France roses encircling the low bodice
the mother revived in fancy the TIT
umphs of her youth, quenched all too
quickly by widowhood and poverty. A
last desperate effort to save the old
homestead had emboldened her to
make her way to the metropolis and
seek the advice of q discarded sutton,
Col. Raget, who in the interval had
grown rich beyond the dream of av-
arlce. In her calculations she had over
looked the colonel's wife-for she who
had attained that enviable dignity was
an obscure, unconsdered factor in the
bellehood of Lucretia Detmar. Had the
widow been less guileless she might
have OWNED in Mrs. Col. Raget's adj
miration of Pauline's beauty, to which
her attention had been called by the
colonel, and her offer to launch the
girl at the Raget expense in the smart
set" hint of malicious self-satisfac
ton rather than sincere desire to bet.
ter their fortunes.
"She was beautiful as a dream,
wrote the colonel's wife, but times
and standard have changed, my dear
Lucretia. There's no counting on the
vagaries of the modern wife hunter"
"You must have looked lovely, dear
est" said the mother, venturing tc
shake out the rosy rufIles. How
should love to have seen you"
But Pauline heard not. For her, the
stufTy room, the sultry August day, the
airy, fairy gown, had vanished. She
was again at the Patriarch-not in the
mazes of the dance, but in the gold anC
white, hushed stiffness of the dressing
room, whittier many debutant. solici
tous to escape being catalogued among
the wall flowers, had preceded her un
Ter the nameless preteXts known e
feminine art. II was in an interval o.
the lancers. Her partner-a pompou!
vraybeard who had sized her up as h
would a FLY at Tattersalls-had lef
her TO exchange banalities with {
neighboring grand dame. Unconscious
~ Pauline turned. she knew not why
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

ing. Test the amount OF salt used In
the butter bowl; guess work is toe cost
ly a way And, finally, test yourself.
Are you up-to-date in your methods, or
are you score of years behind the
times? | sometimes think we are too
exaeting in every way except with our
selves. How is this, dairymen? Are
we up to the standard ourselves?-E S.
Tincent in Farmers Home journal.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
Her Laurie! :: ::
q: Crowned Defeat.
By Ida Rose MeCabe.
Copyright, 1889
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. dismal fail

DAULINED ETMARwas dismal fail
ure. If her bewildered little brain
had INDUCED Inisgiving to the con-
trary, it was ruthlessly dispelled as she
followed Mrs. Col. Raget and the Miss
Raget with her retinue of gallants from
the ballroom of the Patriarchs.
Social successes are born, not made, v
remarked Mrs. Raget sententiously as
the family carriage rolled down the
avenue.
Miss Raget, the superb" to quote
the society column, yawned acquies-
cence.
MEN are such stupid lot" said the
belle of two seasons.
When Pauline had been dismissed
with an osculatory good night, mother
and daughter sat down in their night
dresses, after the manner of woman
kind, to talk it over.
"She was by all odds the loveliest
girl" said Miss Raget, tossing her pink
satin slipper to the farthest end of the
room.
"Unquestionably, said the colonies
wife. "And manners so refreshingly
artless and winsome-the manners of
her mother. Lucretia was a thoroughly
well-bred woman"
"And yet" said the superb"
"Pauline fell fiat hopelessly fat. Off
like a rocket, down like a stick"
Mrs. Raget sighed. "Not a man
sought her for a second dance after
midnight"
Mrs. Col, Raget's supremacy in
the "smart set" was invincible. Not
only had she successfully launched the
innumerable daughters of her own
household on the eapricious upper crust
of the social wave and piloted each to
snug harbors in the way of well APP
pointed establishments and presentable
poses of husbands, but she was the
adored social sponsor of scores of pref
ty women, who owed to her manipu-
lations their title of Madam. While
Mrs. Raget's tactics ELECTED admiration
they eluded analysis. This lady was
credited with being able to determine
twenty minutes after a girl crossed a
ballroom for the first time, whether
she was destined for success or failure
So unerring was her judgment in this
pivotal matter that she is said to have
sent home on the occasion of her debut
no less a parsonage than the fourth Miss
Raget; and never was the latter per.
mitted, during her maidenhood, to make
a second appearance at Patriarch
But for once in her long reign Mrs
Raget had miscalculated.
The Louis XIV. pendulum chimed
three.
"Well ?" said the superb"
Again the colonel's wife sighed.
"There's no alternative. We must
send her home"
Arizona republican., 1898-06-01
DRoUTH STRICKEN REGION.
General Gill Describes Conditions in
Southern California.

General Edwin S. Gill, who returned
on Monday morning from short visit
to California, was at his Office again
yesterday. Mr.. Gill says that the
crop prospect throughout southern
California and especially in the San
Joaquin valley is extremely gloomy
Heretofore in grain raising, sub-irriga-
ton has been depended upon, but On
account OF the light rainfall this
season the undercurrent has not been
available At this time the grain is
hardly more than shoe top high and
it is already drying up. The smaller
farmers have begun cutting it for
feed, and the larger ones are turning
stock on their fields.
The apricot and nectarine crops will
he very light, having been severely in
jured by late frosts. The grape crop,
that is, the raisin grapes, will be album
dant. Mr.. Gill spent a short time at
Fresno and while there drove out to
the vineyard of friend, one Of the
heaviest growers in the state. His
crop is estimated at 100 tons. As has
been stated, farmers have heretofore
depended on sub-irrigation for grain
raising, though surface irrigation has
been employed in fruit raising. There
are abundant facilities for irrigation
and the misfortune of the present
season will likely lead to water de-
xeI0DrnerIt