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The emotional and almost hysterical
state of the popular mind throughout
those sections of the West and South
west that have been suffering from a
total or partial drought of more than
three weeks duration can be better I'M
derstood and appreciated by city resi-
dents, perhaps, if the situation be strip
ped of all sentimentality and presented
in purely business light.
There are vast areas in the Mississippi
and Missouri valleys in which the main
dependence of the people in town and
country is corn. Corn means more to
them than cotton to the people of the
South or wheat to the people of the
Northwest. 1t means more to them than
all the other products of their farms put
together because, in addition to its mar
ket value, corn meets practically every
necessity of man and beast.
1t answers the purpose, on occasion, OF
wheat, oats, barley and rye, and in the
absence of these can be substituted for
them. And it can be put to uses for
which the other grains individually or
collectively are uusuted. In the matter
of fodder and feed for live stock alone,
corn is almost an essential in the cattle
and hog raising and fattening region.
The city resident is not as a rule an
eater of corn bread or corn mush. Corn
cakes he regards In the light of a luxury
rather than a necessity. He feels that
so far as, he is personally concerned he
could manage to do without corn alto
gether. Nevertheless corn enters very
largely into his daily diet, for nearly all
the meat he eats is corn fed.
The total wheat crop Of the United
States might fail and the other nations
of the earth would and could contribute
toward making the shortage good. When
the price of wheat -four in this country
advances beyond a certain point the
wheat of the world is directed toward
our ports, and if the price remains ex-
cessive the bread eaters OF the world
turn to corn flour. They have done it
more than Once, and their doing of it has
brought several wheat corners to an in
glorious ending. Wheat furnishes a staff
of life for man, but corn furnishes a staff
Of life for man and beast.
Although corn will grow in every State
and territory in the Union, the recog
nized corn belt.-that is, the area in which
corn is produced alJundantly-is limited.
The great State of Maine raises corn, for
example, but in 1899 it produced only
427,42S bushels, as against 242,249,S41
bushels raised in iowa Ten of the States
fall short of the LOCO, 000-bushel mark;
thirteen fall short of the ,000000-bushel
mark. While twenty-seven OF them ex-
coed the 10000 000-bushel mark, some Of
them rising to nearly 100,O00,000, only
six of them pass the latter figure and
only four produce beyond 200,000,000
bushels.
The six great corn-producing States Of
the country, with their production in
bushels and the farm values of the same
for 1899, are as follows:
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he knew Maclay was going to treat
Schley as he did in his book, before the
publication was issued and that the
statements We're substantially true, as
they appeared to have been taken from
the official reports of the battle. The
action which Schley has at last taken has
been expected by his friends for some
time. From the treatment Rear Admiral
Schley received at the hands of the mis-
torian the friends say, it is obvious that
the author tried to defame the officer.
A telegram was sent to Admiral Schley
by his friends, stating that it was duty
he owed himself to disprove the histo-
RAMS charge. 1t was the Schley news
papers that began the agitation over Ma
clay's reference to Schley as a coward
and 20 what Maclay termed his caitift
fight from the enemy. Schley's failure
to take prompt action against Maclay or
the Appletons, who published the work,
has caused murmuringS even among his
defenders. Naval officers who have here
tOfore refused to he drawn into any dis
cussion as to the merits Of the Schley
controversy have been showing some feel
ing over the silence of Schley under the
latest attain Ol HIS IulpSIIly dGu pEOItS~
siOnal standing, while those officers who
have not been so reticent have not failed
to express themselves freely on the sub.
ject.
For three years past charges and counl
ter-charges, ordinations and recrimina-
tions, have been hurled back and forth,
and while the American people have sym
pathized with Admiral Schley and have
believed that a great wrong was at
tempted against him, they would gladly
see the question set at rest. The battle
of Santiago is of course the main sub
iect Of controversy, and while technically
Admiral Sampson was in command as
the court Of claims has decided in respect
TO bis prize money interest he was not
in actual command while the battle was
raging Admiral Schley was in COM
mand, and was responsible for the move
II. n
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UNION OF FARM HANDS.
Indiana TiIIers of the Soil Are Sue
cessfuI in Their Organization.

cessfuI in Their Organization.
'"Farm LabOrers' Union, No. 924T,
branch of the American Federation of
Labor" the only organization of it's kind
in Indiana, although only a month old,
is already returning benefits and becom-
ing 50 popular among farm laborers that
the officers say it will soon spread over
Knox and adjoining counties. Originally
formed among the farm hands of w. II.
Brevoort, Knox County, the union Isl be-
ing rum on basis to secure to member
ship laborers from any farm, and twenty
seven farms are already represented
among the List of members.
Their wives and daughters especially
are approaching and encouraging the
union, and take pride in announcing that
they now have shorter hours of work and
more time for recreation, rest and study,
a desideratum not obtainable heretofore
with 10 and II o'clock suppers and 3 and
o'clock breakfasts. The leader and
perhaps the most enthusiastic woman
among them Is Mrs. Thomas Murray,
wife of ONE of BrevoOrts tenants
The union holds enthusiastic meetings
twice a week in the open, in the district
school house or the church on the Bre-
WORT farm, or in their hall in Vincennes
Just as suits their convenience. Better
wages and shorter hours, fair and uni
form treatment and improved modes of
living, secured through the arbitration
method, usually receive thorough discus
sion at these meetings. followed by a
short hour of social enjoyment
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scHLEY TAKES ACTION.
Admiral Asks Secretary Long for a
Court of Tuuuiry.

After nearly three years of silence under
the lash of official and unofficial charges
against his character as man and his
reputation as naval officer, Rear Ad-
miral Winfield Scott Schley has at last
demanded a naval court of inquiry 70 in
vestigate the charges and insults which
are heaped on him by Historian Maclay
in the third volume of his History OF
the United States Navy" in which the
Sampson-Schley Santiago harbor contrO-
versy is dealt with at length. When q
decision has been reached by this body
the matter will not end there. a civil
action will be brought by the admiral
asking that the historian pay his dam
ages tor libel
The controversy, which had smoldered
after the first blaze following the close
of the war, began to flicker again when
Secretary Long of the navy ruled out
Maclay's book at the naval academy at
Annapolis. Rear Admiral Sampson has
been quo,ed several times as saying that
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young woman to send her forth man,
acled by ignorance to take part in the
strenuous life confronting every man
and woman of to-day. The educated
woman is the best equipped of her sex
| for wifehood, says the Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette. By education is meant
not, of course, mere book learning, but
that culture which is physical, mental,
ethical and Industrial.
That girl is right who states: From
my judgment, cOllege-bred, practical
girl is more fitted for housekeeper or
wife than girls that have been less for
tunate, and you men that expect so
much want to stop and look at things
from an intelligent standpoint. We are
all born with more or less knowledge Of
housekeeping; we are born with that
motive in view, just as much as we are
born girls; we are impressed from ba-
byhOOd almost that we are some time
expected to have the same responsible
ties that our mothers have. Now,
say that the technicalities of law, medi-
cine, music, art in all its phases, help to
perfect our understood allotment"
The kind of man worthy 4 wife is
able to select from those who spent
their time in college one who acquired
the knowledge needed for use In all the
walks of life. The true colIege-bred
woman can give. when called upon,
practical illustrations of useful KNOWN
edge. In some instarCes-toO many in
deed-the knowledge Of the college girl
has. after her marriage, no call for ac-
tive exercises. She marries either an
inferior man or one who places her in
position without due freedom of Ic-
ton. The woman in such case is to be
pitied rather than blamed for lack of
success in housekeeping. 1t is not her
lack of knowledge, but her surround
ing that is at fault.
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Here is view of the railroad wreck
on the Wabash system at Cass station,
six miles from Logansport, Ind. The
picture shows the narrow escape of one
of the coaches. While the rescuers were
at work this coach was constant menace
to their lives. Fifteen were killed and
many injured in SIC accident, which was
caused by a culvert being washed out.
Conductor Brownlee, who had charge
of the wrecked train, tells story of how
his life was saved by taking warning
from the apparition of hand thrust in
front of his face a few minutes before
the accident Instead of commencing at
the front of the train to collect tickets
he began at the rear as result Of the
warning given by the phantom hand.
Brownlee says he expected something
was going to happen.
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THE LITTLE WIDOW


- ~~~-~~-~-~-~|~~~
n n the sunshiny room Of Mrs. Endi-
colt there was a buzz of cOnversa-
= ton and the sound of shipping of
scissors, and it was evident that the
Embroidery circle of HuxbriGge was in
-oncIave. Mandy Nichols occupied the
lhair by the window, and as she raised
aer head from the bit of satin on which
she was working an impossible flower,
she gave an exclamation.
Here is Mrs Hemenway," she an
bounced, 'and the little widow just
passed her in her carriage and bowed
10 her.
The impudent thing Did Mrs. Hem
suway-Oh, here she is" and the host
SIS arose to greet her guest, who with
much rustling of stiff silk entered the
FeOm.
$50 glad you came, dear" cried Mrs.
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Total value for the six States. s3ls, 1852, 426
The same States produced in 1900
1278, 23S,O72 bushels of corn, valued at
1891 ,642, 0S5.
The total value Of all the corn pro-
duced in the United States for 1899 was
| 5000, 21O,110, and for 1900 S75l, 220. O34,
50 that the SIX great States Of the corn
belt named above produced in both years
more than all the other States combined.
And it is in these States that the effect
of the drought has been most severely
felt 1t is reported that the Kansas
| crop is practically a failure. but this is
doubtless an exaggeration The loss in
Missouri has been put at from 80 TO 70
per cent In Illinois it is thought the
crop will show a loss of from % to 40
! per cent.
The same estimate has been applied to
the other States in the group II these
| estimates be cut down so that the aver
| age loss by reason Of the drought will
! appear 10 be % per cent, which is a very
| conservative figure, the money loss in the
| six States reaches the enormous total Of
| $50. 100000. \ good rainfall a week ago
! would have saved all this A good rain
! fan now would save fully as great loss
| in the States named.
This saving would not be to great
| firms or corporations, but to Individual
farmers, whose all is involved in the
/ outcome Of the drought. Every day OF
the drought means the loss Of millions
10 these people Every inch Of rain that
| falls means a saving % millions It viii
be seen that, as matter Of dollars and
cents, the farmers Of the corn belt have
reason for the emotion they are exhibit
| ing when the clouds exhibit signs Of gath
ering or breaking above their whitening
corn felds.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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temple in Philadelphia. For three
years he was the potentate Of the tenn
pie. and he was elected 10 the office or
the deputy imperial potentate at the
last meeting Of the ShrinerS. Mr.. Shat
fer. as may be imagined. is one OF the
most enthusiastic Of the ShrinerS in the
country. He Is devoted TO spirit and
purpose OF this order. and few men
have moro mystic friends than he has
in his home city and, throughout the
country. Il was believed from the be
ginning that he would be promoted
from the second highest to the highest
Office in the order. Mr.. Shaffer is promi-
nent in the furniture trade Of the city
Of Philadelphia
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CHASING AFTER FIRES.
A New Wrinkle in the Insurance Bust
uess Said to Paw Well.

A New Wrinkle in the insurance Busi-
uess Said to Pay Well.
The latest thing for fire insurance
agents to do is to be on the spot look
ing for new business while old business
is burning up. One of the canvassers
of a New England company began to
make money so rapidly a few months
ago that some of his competitors tried
to find out how he did it.
They learned that he made a special
ty of following the fire engines, and if
the fire happened to be in a tenement
house or fiat, he waited until the flames
were subdued and reaped a harvest by
inSuring the other tenants and neigh
bOrs. Most people are apt to be so bad
ly scared by fire near their home that
if not insured they are glad to take out
policies on the spot. 1t didn't take the
other agents long to catch on, and it is
said that the other day after Il fire
twenty-one agents wrote seventy poll
cies in the immediate neighborhood.
at is a great scheme" said one of
these agents yesterday. "All one has
to do is to hit the iron while it is hot.
Don't talk insurance to any of the ten
ants or neighbors while the fire is go
ing on, because they are likely to be
too excited to think of anything but
their personal safety. When every
thing is quoted down and the fire en-.
gines are going away is the time to
Jump in with your proposition. OF
course, none of the larger companies
permit agents to get business in this
way. but there are countless small uh-
derwriters who never question the
source from which an application
comes so long as the risk is not I'M
usual. This chasing after fires is one
of the new wrinkles of the fire insur-
ance business. A profitable one. too
New York Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-07-30
THE LOST GARDEN.

SSomewhere in the distant southland
Blooms a garden-lost to me
Warm with peoples burning fragrant,
DrOwsy fires l may not see.
Subtle shadows fit and beckon
Down dim pathways bound with yewi
Where white wrath wanders lonely
'Twixt the darkness and the dew.
in the ruined walls that echoed
Once 10 happy-hearted Moods,
Now the steaIehys lightfoot lizards
Unmolestad ageaf their broods.
~And beneath the oleanders,
No clear voice sings, as of old;
But the feet caressing sunbeams
Whisper secrets TO their mold.
Though | follow as the Uthyind
Fares his way through wood and plain,
Though l question hill and valley
l shall never find again
MY lost garden-where lie buried
Joys that swift the glad hours sped;
Only one could bid me enter;
Only Love-and Love is dead.'
-Aiuslee's.
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Plan Big Trolley Com bine.

Philadelphia and other Eastern capital
lists are planning the construction of a
network of trolley lines in Wisconsin
which will cost $1O,OOO,OOO. 1t is be-
lieved that the ultimate result of the
scheme will be a gigantic combine of the
trolley lines Of Wisconsin, Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and Michigan, under the
general control of the Eastern capital
lists. Among the new lines proposed is
one from JanesVille to Geneva and Lake
Delayan to- be controlled by the owners
of the GAINESVILLE Beloit- Rockford line.
The latter will soon be connected with
Chicago. The new line to Geneva will
connect at Elkhorn with Racine and an
other line will connect Milwaukee with
the southern lake region
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peal to your honor regarding my son
!" but the rest was never finished
as Mrs. HemeEway swooned, and would
have fallen but for Helen's strong
young arms. She sent a servant for
the doctor, and then did her best for
the woman who had insulted her. The
physician arrived, and at the same time
Guy Hemenway. One glance at the pa
tient, and the doctor said bluntly
Smallpox"
Helen went white to the lips, and put
her soft hands to her pretty, f1ower-like
face. The maids fed from the room.
Il am sorry, Mrs. Sartoris," said the
doctor. but l will have to isolate you
until | am sure you have not caught
the Infection"
The little widow looked at her enemy
as she lay helpless, looked at Guy as
he tried to take her from the room, and
thought of Bebe.
1T would be easier for you to look
after us together" she said, bravely,
though her face was still white, there
fore. | shall stay with Mrs. Hemenway
if you will promise to look after my
little girl"
And weeks later. when Mrs. Hemen-
way took her first drive her son held the
while a little auburn haired
child sat at his side, and Helen, now
Mrs. Hemenway, looked after the old
er woman's cOmfort.-Philadelph
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THE BADGER STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY
CONDENSED.
Dairy Products of the State-Many
Trolley Lines Projected = Gold and
Copper Found in Webster-Bauk Fail

''The dairy industry in Wisconsin is
steadily increasing in extent and con-
stantly improving in the value of its prod
ucts," says Dairy and Food Commits
sioner II. C. Adams, in his biennial re-
port. just issued. In support of this
statement the commissioner submits fig
ures showing that the dairy products OF
the State in 1900 were worth $50, 900, 600.
the classifcations being:
Butter, 100000 pounds, worth SIG, 600, coo
Cheese, G0.000,000 pounds, worth. 6,G00, geo
Milk and cream consumed by p
/, O66,OOO people, worth $500. $500. COO
Increase Of stock value .......... $500, coo
Aotd4 '.'.''. .s... 30, 3UO,UUU
No account is made in this statement
q the Skinned milk Of creamerjes. and
private diaries, which is a large item.
1.-The State not only contains so per cent
more cows than ten years ago." the COM
missioner says, "but they average better
in breeding and in economic milk-produc-
ing quality. The 1000 creameries of the
State are turning out annually 6O,000,000
pounds of butter that averages good. Pri-
vate dairies produce 20,000,000 pounds
more, of which 80 per cent. or 100000
pounds, will grade with the average
creamery product, leaving 100000
pounds or something over Is per cent of
inferior quality"
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COLLEGE GIRLS as WIVES

"The Educated Woman Is the Best
Equipped of Her Sex"
II is now admitted, especially in
America. that q woman is as much en-
titled 10 education as man; that thor
ough school training may be OF great
benefit in the discharge OF her every
duty as wife. mother and matron. and
that il is unfair. as wen as unjust. TO 3
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and one Of the best
known men in that
city. He has just
entered upon his
hfty-hrst year and
for more than one
half Of his life has
been 4 Mason. Up
wards Of seventeen
years ago he joined
the ShrjuerS. and
for twelve years he
othciated in the
post Of Oriental
tyusfya 81 Tn 7 II
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John Charles Schubert, one OF the best
known young men of Racine, leaped into.
the lake with suicidal intent, Henry Viii
hanson jumped in to save him, when
fearful fight took place in the waiter and
Williamson was obliged to strike Schu-
bert in the face and render him uncou-
scious before he could be dragged from
the water. His lip and face were ~ut
five inches. The young man has been in
bad health, occasioned by a fall from
S+rnnt oar
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Telegraphic BrevIties.

Ex-Gov. Stephens, Missouri, viii be a
candidate for Congress. 1t IS said.
Consul General Stowe, Cape Town. has
quit because living expenses devOur his
salary too fast.
Rockefeller and Morgan are about 70
staw a bank in Paris with SJO0O0,000
capital il IS said.
Miss Gilman. 63, sister Of the late mill
ionaire tea merchant, New York, has
been declared insane.
Reports from Alaska say that many
persons on tie islands Of 81. Paul and
st. George died from measles the past
winter
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snaTks from the Wires.

Jesse Oliver, who lived near Ironton,
Mo. was killed By lightning during a
storm.
Or. W. Fl. Bragg. aged 70 years. is
dead at Bonham. Texas. He was Mex
lean war veteran.
According 70 insurance statistics, teeto-
talers may expect seventeen years more
life than drinkers.
Herman Wiecking Of Button. Ind,
will start Nov. / on trip around the
world via Honolulu.
Body Of a man clad in evening dress
was found floating in the Delaware river.
at Philadelphia. Probable suicide.
Chicago trolley car jumped the track
and ran into a trolley pole. Was split
In two. Six persons were badly hurt.
John Galloway. o wealthy and retired
farmer. was killed by lightning while
working in bis barn at jamestown, Kan.
a new trolley line betweca New York
and Connecticut promises : .esulG. run
Of sixty miles an hoGE outside Of city
gaais@
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Chiffon Bank EaiInre.

The failure of the German; Exchange
Bank of Chiffon, according to the ale
cations of the State Bank Examiner, is
one of the worst in the history of Wis
constn. The liabilities of the bank amount
to 100000, while the available assets
will reach only 100000.
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Ancient Land SURVEYING.

Professor Eisenlohr has lately exam.
ined the plan Of a survey of land, made
some 1900 years before Christ, and
discovered in Babylonia. The plan was
drawn On a clay tablet on the other
side Of which was a calculation Of the
area Of the land Eisenlohr finds not
only that the computation was correct,
but that the methods used striki gly re
sembled tboss O. modern sury Jors. in
Guiding a system Of checks TO insure &C
curacy of work.
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Victim of Daring Thieves.

Mrs. Marie Jenje had been in Milwau-
kee but two days when she was injured
in gasoline explosion, from which she
narrowly escaped with her life, and was
robbed of $1,000 which was sewed in
800 bills in blanket which was miss
ing after the explosion. She talks no
English, but through an interpreter she
said that she thogght she had been fol
lowed from Europe by the thieves. The
firemen are inclined to think that the
gasoline was exploded by someone inten-
tionalGy. She is just from Bohemia (
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Rich Deposit of cold Found.

A rich deposit of gold has been found
on the property of j. p Allen in the
town of Webster. The mine was located
by NJ. Aonti, a prospector living in
Genoa, and from specimens of the ore
which have been examined by experts the
deposit is destined to be the richest ever
located in Wisconsin. The ledge also
shows rich outcrOppings of copper. Mr.
Monti has already received several offers
from capitalists in La Crosse for an in
tereSt in the mine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-07-30

Experienced lumbermen say that in
the process Of seasoning, wood should
be occasionally replied, and decayed OF
defective pieces removed. lest they in
feet the others