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the Baker and Rowland islands. Baker
island is in latitude 10 degrees 20 min
utes north, longitude 176 degrees 20
minutes 80 seconds west. Rowland
island is about three miles north of
Baker. Neither of them is inhabited
and the total area of both is about
one square mile.
Another unique American domain
is the Marquis of Weeks island. twas
discovered by Capt. Foster, COM
mander of an American sailing YES
sci, who, by permission of James G.
Blaine, who was then secretary Of
state, hoisted the stars and stripes
over the deserted spot, which is sit
uated about 1900 miles west of Hon
olulu. 1t has an area of three square
miles and so inhabitants. Unlike
Baker and Rowland islands, Capt. Eos
ter's little discovery is we'll watered
and bright with vegetation. Moreover,
it lies in the track of vessels sailing
between Hawaii, China and japan, and
almost within hailing distance OF Ma
Mia; and will therefore make an eX-
cellent coaling station for our Asiatic
fleet. In West Indian waters we have
for some time owned Navassa island,
located about 20 miles east of Hayti
and 90 miles east of Jamaica. 1t was
discovered half century ago by Peter
Duncan, who assumed ownership I'M
der an act of congress and was the or
ganizer of the famous Navassa Phos-
phate company, which purchased his
title to the property.
As colonial possessions go those
which we own now are not worth very
much, but it is perfectly safe to say
that before the Spanish-American war
closes we shall at least have Puerto
Rico, one of the worlds garden spots.
1t is one of the richest of the West
Indies. being the fourth in size. 1t is
90 miles long from east to west and
Sc miles broad. A lofty mountain
range runs through the island from
east to west, its highest altitude being
nearly 1000 feet above the sea. Its
area is $3.50 square miles, with pop
ulation Of 100000. OF these half are
white, 24O,OO0 mulattoes and $4,000 ne
groes. 1t has in the past paid an an
nual tax of So, 100000 to Spain. Almost
every commodity the soil can produce
is raised in the island, and its climate
is far superior to that of Cuba. Even
under the repressive influence of Spain
its trade has amounted to $25,O00,O0O
q year-a sum that will be vastly in
creased under the beneficent infiu-
ence of the United States. Strategical-
" the island is bound to prove of great
value. 1t has a number of splendid
hnrbors, to say nothing of the thrifty
and well built cities of San Juan
Ponce, Guayama, Arecibo and Fajardo
With Puerto Rico go the islands 0i
Pinero, Culebra and Bieque; all oil
them small, but of remarkable beauty
mud rare fertility.
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out work, AMI that accounts for the
proverbial Incidence of the natives.
Another Pacific group belonging to
Spain which may be ours before long
are the Carolines, with an area Of $50
square miles and population of 10000
souls. The Carolines are divided into
three groups, the eastern, western and
central. Spain originally claimed all,
but few years ago Germany grabbed
the Marshall islands, and has held them
ever since. The central, or main group,
which still belongs to Spain, comprises
48 smaller groups, or total of 400 or
500 islands Among the products of the
Carolines are rice, corn, wheat, sugar,
cotton, tobacco, indigo, bread fruit,
castor oil and other valuable export ar
ticles. The natives are particularly
thrifty; the women being neat and at
tractive and highly virtuous and the
men industrious and ingenious. A
change in the government of the
islands, which guarantees property
rights and assures just methods of tax
atom, WOulu NC WClCOlnSO ny lhS SSA
tie natives, who have, like the Cubans
and Filipinos, suffered for many dec
AIDES from Spanish tyranny and extor-
ton.
In the course of time the Carolines
are destined to become a popular win
ter resort for American tourists, be-
cause perfect climate and the rarest
scenery in the world combine to make
them an earthly paradise. Among the
curious natural features of the group
are palm trees which produce vegetable
ivory, and banyan trees that grow
downward, the seeds being planted by
birds high up in other trees, deposited
in bark and crevices, sending down
rootlets to gather sustenance and mois-'
ture from the soil. Another tree bears
fruit so offensive in odor that no
stranger can endure it, but once In y
mouth its fruit is simply delicious.
G. w. wEIPPIERT.
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JGelR3GEIGG GCGGCEnG 9GEn
OUR COLONIAL EMPIRE
Some Of the Islands Which viii Be Ours
When the Treaty Of Peace Has Been Signed.

Even among annexationists of the
most pronounced type there is some
question about our permanent occupa-
tion Of the Philippines with their mot
ley and semi-barbarous population OF
100000 people. From a commercial
point of view the islands might be de-
veloped into valuable colony, in the
course of half century, but they would
for generations be a disturbing factor
politically. Millions of the Filipinos,
as they are called, are savages, worse in
every respect than the North American
Indians. They are a mixed race, with
the vices of the Polynesians and Chi
nese coolies predominating. Spain, al
ways considered the best and most
cruel tax gatherer, has never derived
any direct revenue from the islands,
the cost Of administration and suppress
sion OF rebellons more than eating up
the revenues from all sources.
With the Ladrone islands the case is
different They are inhabited by a slow
going but thrifty race, many of them
descendants Of MeXicans who emf
grated to the Pacific group early in the
century, with n sprinkllng of the ma
tive stock, and will form valuable adj
dition to our colonial system. For coal
ing station purposes the islands are
without peer, and when decently for
titled they will enable our warships to
dominate the highways Of the Pacific.
The group has an area of $50 square
miles, with population of about 49,
COO, The chief products are cocoanuts
anu bread fruit, which grow spontane-
ously everywhere. One cocoanut tree,
it is claimed, will feed a man; hence a
grove of fruit trees, according to a re-
cent writer, is to the islander what u
herd Of cows is to the Pennsylvania
farmer. Other products are guava,
corn, wheat, bananas, figs and arrow
root. Fish is found in great profusion
in the thousands of lagoons with which
the islands are dotted, and can be
caught without seine or hook. Nature,
in fact, has been so bountiful that man
can support himself absolutely with
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single entrenched line, and that very
short one in comparison with the ex-
tent of the territory which II thorough
ly protected His right was protected
by the James river, his left by the
AppomattoX, and his rear by their
junction, the two streams uniting near
by. Then bends OF the two streams
shortened The lines which had been
chosen for entertainments, while II in
creased the area which the line en-
closed. Previous to ordering any
troops from Butler, sent my chief
engineer, Gen. Bernard, from the army
of the Potomac TO that Of the James
to inspect Buffers position and ascer-
tain whether / could again safely make
an order for Gen. Buffers movement
in cooperation with mine, now that
was getting so near Richmond; or, II
could not, whether his position was
strong enough to justify me in with
drawing some Of his troops and having
them brought around by water to the
white house to join me, and reinforce
the army Of the Potomac. Gen, Ber-
nard reported the position very strong
for defensive purposes, and that l
could do the latter with great Sc
nurlty; but that Gen. Butler could not
move from where he was, In coopera-
ton, to produce any effect. He said
that the general occupied a place be-
tween the James and Appomattox
rivers. which was Of great strength,
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ship and the assassination of our sail
Ors."
And Admiral Sampson was right,
The men under Schley's squadron of
SIMPSONS feet made every shot tell
and the result of their work was that
every one of the warships of Spain was
destroyed by explosions and sunken
in such manner as to resemble the
shattered battleship, the Maine.
As soon as Commodore Schley dis
covered Cervera's fleet in Santiago har-
Dor he began blockade of that har-
Dor, and the statement went broadcast
through the newspapers that the Span
;ish ileet was bottled up" Recently
there have been inquiries made con-
corning the origin of that expression,
1t was first used by Brig. Gen. Bar
1nard, chief engineer of the army of the
Potomac, in June, 1864. Gen. Barnard
made use of that expression concern
ing the army of the James under com
mand of Gen. Benjamin f. Butler, He
rwas answering inquiries propounded
by Gen. Grant, and used the expression
innocently, by way of illustration,
Gen. Grant, in his Personal Memoirs, u
gives the story in full, with apologetiC
mention of the fact that he gave Off
rciaI currency to the peculiar state
1ment. "I'he position which Gen. But.
Ter had chosen between the two rivers
THE James and Appomattox, was one
of great natural strength, one where
"a large area of ground might be
thoroughly inclosed by means of
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nntle.a nIIchIgnn ToMn.

Tt is a curious fact, says the Evart
mich. Review, that Evart has NO rats,
or at least has none up to this time,
and in our nearly 20 years residence
here we have never seen or heard OF
but one rat being seen here, and that
was several years ago, when one was
killed at the depot. But it seems that
we are in line of progress in this mat
ter, as well as in others, for the other
day Win Ramsey killed large one at
the Evart roller mills. The rodent
was seen several weeks ago and the
men have been looking for him. So far
as known there was but one and 1T may
be that we are not to be cursed by the
pests as are other places yet for
awhile.
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THE CORN HARVEST.
How to mig Up "A Cutter Which Does
Very Effective Work ON the
Average Farm Yield.

Any ingenious farmer can rig up a
sled with knives set oblique to the run
ners, so that when drawn between
rows OF corn The cutting may be done
with horse power. This plan is far
better than the old hand cutter, but
not up to the patented corn cutters,
each of which do the work of IS men.
Runners (a) are 3 feet of 2 by 12-inch
plank. Width of sled 2 feet 10 inches.
Knives (b) are 2s inches long, made of
blades of an old stalk cutter, very
sharp, slant slightly upward to make
a slanting cut; their front end is fas-
tened firmly to the sled by wood
screw; the back end, IS inches from
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[special correspondence.l

Slowly but surely the conviction that
the United States should acquire a
great colonial empire is gaining
ground. When President Mckinley
urged the congress to declare
war against Spain for "human-
ity's sake" and incidentally to
avenge the Maine, the popular impress
sion was that the conflict would be
over in a few weeks, that Cuba would
be declared an Independent republic
and that we would demand n money in
derhnity from Spain just sufficient to
defray the cost of the campaign,
Everything was to be done for the sake
of humanity, for the starving recon
centrados and the brave Cubans who
fought against fearful odds for the
precious boon of liberty.
The first man to knock this pretty
scheme !nto smithereens was gallant
Admiral Dewey who took possession Of
Manila bay before Washington had
had time 10 think what should be done
toward obtaining foothold in the
Philippine islands. Then Capt. Glass,
the intrepid commander of the cruiser
Charleston, captured the Ladrone
islands; Gen. Shafter and Commodore
Schley conquered the eastern end of
Cuba, and Gems, Miles and Brooke have
Puerto Rico at their mercy now. AS
sort of entire acte congress passed
the Hawaiian annexation bill, and by
legislative enactment acquired 1869
square miles of territory and queerly
assorted job lot of 10000 new citizens,
Empire making truly has begun in
earnest, ard heaven only knows where
it will end.
1t is not generally known that the
United States already possesses a
"group" of islands in the Pacific ocean,
although 1t was acquired as long ago
as 1857. These islands are neither very
populous nor fertile, but are of in
terest because they were our first
colonial possessions-the beginning
of our great Pacific empire. The
islands are known to geographers as
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CANNOT FORGET 1T.
Spain Will Remember the Maine
for All Time to Come.
Never before Has Warning Nation
Had n Better DhttIecry--OrigiA
OF the Expression "DOt-
tied Up"
Especial washington Letter,l
lHE WAR with Spain has q

IIEJ HE WAX with spain mas quick
encd many minds to memories
II OF the civil war. In private
conversations and in public prints war
stories constitute the predominant
topic; and some Of the veterans tell
stories of their own recollections of the
Mexican war, while others narrate In
stances told them by their fathers con-
corning the movements OF troops and
individual acts of heroism in the war
of 1919.
Everybody Is proud of the new navy
of this country, and every conversation
concerning the war bears primarily up
on The work which has been done by
Dewey, Bagiey, Hobson, schley and the
other officers and men on our warships.
Ii is well known that all of the men
of the navy have determined from the
first that Spain in particular and the
whole world in general should remem-
Der the destruction of the battleship
Maine in the harbor at Havana on the
might of February IS, 1898. When Adj
miral Dewey, regardless Of contact and
other mines in Manila harbor started
in a direct line for the doomed fleet
CT Monteio, over his flagship he ran up
the signal "Remember the Maine" In
Mnnila bay there were seven armored
cruisers and two gunboats flying the
Spanish flag, and three other boats of
less Importance; and there were $500
nj
lcry equipments in Montejo's fleet.
The signal of Admiral Dewey was re-
spondcd to by the cheers of every man
under his command, and with vivid
recollection of the disaster and outrage
to the Maine they went to work, smoth-
cred the fire of the enemy, and COM
pIetely destroyed the entire Spanish
naval complement in Asiatic waters.
Spain sent Admiral Cervera into
American waters with the best ships
of the Spanish navy to teach the
Americans something about war, Ger
Nern's squadron was soon bottled up
in the harbor of Santiago, and when an
attempt was made to escape, the ar
mored cruisers Almirante Oquendo, In
fanta Maria Teresa, Vizcaya and Girls
tobal Colon, with 1000 men, all of them
war vessels of the Maine class, were de-
,StrOyed in actual warfare, as the Maine
was destroyed in time of peace by Span
ish demoniacal criminality, And the
men under command of Commodore
SchIey went into that fight also with
the signal flying, Remember the
Maine"
When Admiral Sampson held his first
conference with Gen. Shafter, after
plans had been agreed upon for a COM
hined attack upon the city of Santiago,
Admiral Sampson said 81 hope, gen
eral, that you will have the men under
your command as thoroughly imbued
with the desire to make the Spaniards
remember the Maine as the men of the
navy are determined to do. Before this
campaign is over we will make those
Spanish ships in the harbor look like
the destroyed battleship in Havana har-
Dor, and every officer and man aboard
of my fleet is determined that every
shot fired shall carry with it death and
destruction to the nation which is re-
@ponsible for the destruction of our
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TWO FARM MANAGERS.
of Land Owners Can Draw
Valuable Lesson.

The following case illustrates the
difference between good and bad man
agement on the same place: A farm
contained about 800 acres. The man
ager was good local farm foreman.
He carried about 30 brood sows to pro-
duce pigs TO be sold as "roasters" in
the city. The sows lived in close con-
fnement, became uneasy, ate their
pigs and there were no sales. Hay
was grown in connection with some
corn, oats and potatoes. The man
nger worked at anything and every
thing while his men Hoped along to
suit themselves. This management
continued for three or four years;
then an energetic superintendent took
hold. He released the brood sows, cut
down the feed and got them into a
healthy condition; purchased lot of
sheep for early lambs, raised a guam
tity of roots for the sheep and horses,
potatoes in quantities for early mar
ket, and made other changes of i'm
portance. The first manager received
$40 per month and found, and went be-
hind $4,000 to $4,000 a year; the new
manager received $1,000 per annum
and found, and made the place self
supporting. Both men were honest
faithful and industrious, but fitted for
different positions. - Troy On. "
Times,
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and where with an inferior force he
could hold II for an indefinite length
of time against superior, but that he
could do nothing Extensively. then
asked him why Butler could not move
from his lines and push across the
Richmond g. Petersburg railroad to
the rear and on the south side of Rich
mond. He replied that 1t was inn
practicable, because the enemy had
substantially the same line across the
neck of land that Gen. Butler had.
"He then took out his pencil and
drew n sketch of the locality, remark
ing that the position was like bottle
and that Buffers line of entrench-
ments across the neck represented the
cork; that the enemy had built an
equally strong line Immediately in
front of him across the neck; and 1t
was, therefore, as il Butler was in n
bottle. He was perfectly safe against
an attack, but as Bernard expressed
it, the enemy had corked the bottle
and with small force could hold the
cork in It's place. This struck me as
being very expressive of his position,
particularly when l saw the hasty
sketch which Gen. Barnard had drawn,
and in making my subsequent report
used the expression without adding
quotation marks never thinking that
anything had been said that would at
tract attention, as this did, very much
to the annoyance, no doubt, of Gen.
Butler, and, l know, very much to my
own. l found afterwards that this
was mentioned in the notes of Gen.
Badeau's book, which, when they were
shown to me, l asked to have stricken
out; yet it was retained there, though
against my wishes. make this state
ment here because, although l have
often made it before, it has never been
in my power until now to place 1t
where it will correct history, and /
desire to rectify all injustice that l
may have done to individuals, particu-
larly to officers who were gallantly
serving their country during the try
ing period of the war for the preserva-
ton of the union. Gen. Butler certain
ly gave his very earnest support to the
war, and he gave his own best efforts
personally to the suppression Of the
rebellion"
The relations between Grant and
Butler at that time were very much
strained, Butler, in fact, upon Grants
suggestion, having been removed, by di-
rection of President Lincoln, from the
command Of the department of North
Carolina and Virginia, and ordered to
repair to his home in Lowell, Mass.
After the war the differences be-
tween the erratic genius from the
Bay state and the hero of APP
pomattox were amicably adjusted.
1t was because of his desire to set But
Ter right that Grant devoted so much
space in his book to description of the
incident,
Now we know how that expression
originated. Butler was bottled up" by
the confederate soldiers, and Admiral
Cervera was bottled up" by the Amer
lean navy. Buffers army was taken
out of the bottle by Grants orders.
Cervera's fleet oozed out of the neck
of the bottle, and the Brooklyn, Texas,
and Oregon smashed every ship, kill
ing many men and capturing many
more. The Spanish fleet is no longer
bottled up" but all survivors of the
Spanish navy to-day have ample cause
to Remember the Maine!"
SMITH D. FRY.
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Grnns-Tattenea beef.

So economical of grain were the
farmers of olden times that 1t was
reckoned quite all advantage to fatten
cattle on pasture. The idea evidently
was that grass was the product of ma
ture, costing nothing, and if not used
must be wasted. Grain of all kinds
cost labor to grow and harvest it, and
IL not fed it could be turned into
money. So far as economy goes, we
believe the practice of grain feeding
for beef is best. But the old grass
fed beef was always tender, while
granted beef was not, especially il
the grain was fed in winter with dry
hay. The feeding of a very small
amount of grain to fattening cattle at
pasture makes them much fatter, i'm.
proving the quality of the beef, as
well as making its production more
cconomical.-American Cultiyator.
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keep out bottom dampness, A pole
should be set up in the middle of this,
to give steadiness to the stack, par
ticularly to its upper part, and to af-
ford an attachment for ropes that
should run from the point at the top
down over the sides, to keep the hay
from blowing off. Under these ropes
put cap of cloth to start the water
down over the sides properly. In this
way but minimum of loss will be
ced.-American Agricultural.
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Green Material for Henn.

If the hens run on clover field it
will be all they win need while the
weather is warm. White clover is bet
ter than the red, because it is short
err and can be more easily eaten; but
any kind of grass may be utilized. A
lawn that is frequently moved is the
proper place for chicks, as they will
incur less liability of becoming wet
when there is heavy dew or rain,
which may be very injurious to all
young poultIy.-Farm and Freside.
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cts too bad" he said, scornfully,
"that you haven't any sense"
ooh, it is immaterial now" she an
swered, "but it is too bad 1 didn't have
any"
And he was so we'll satisfied that no
knew what she meant that he careful
ly refrained from saying: "When%--7
Chicago Post. --,
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BUILDING A STACK.
1t Ii Task Requiring hut Little
Work, But Some Care Hnd
ThOughtfuIness.

Many tons of hay will have to be
stacked out of doors, because of scant
room within the barns, Many of these
stacks will probably be wholly, or in
part, spoiled from improper building.
A platform should first be built, to
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Queer.

1t is strange how very few women
are willing to admit that they remem~
Der anything of the late war.