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Arizona republican., 1901-10-04

You assume no risk when you buy Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Di- arrhoea Remedy. Elvey & Hulett will refund your money if you are not sat isfed after using it. is everywhere admitted to be the most successful remedy in use for bowel complaints and the only one that never falls. I, Is pleasant. safe and reliable.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

Albert Payson Terhune might be de-
scribed as an athlete tied to a desk.
He was fence, boxer, weight-thrower
and sprinter in college; crossed the
Syrian desert on horseback, afterward
living among the Bedouin tribes and
preparing material for his book, Syria
from the Saddle" ION my return to
America" he writes, 81 got a job as
reporter, working my way up, mainly
through luck, to the post of subeditor
and special writer. Mr.. Terhune once
proposed to box three rounds apiece
with the six foremost heavyweight
prizefighters in the world (Jeffries,
Corbett, Sharkey, Mccoy, Rubin and
Fitzsimmons), and write up his expe-
riences with them in a series of arti-
cles for his newspaper. The articles
made hit. He is also a contributor
of humorous articles to various period
icals. His latest literary venture was
novel written in collaboration with
his mother Marian Harland Terhune.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16
A BRAHMIN WEDDING.
Elaborate Ceremonies That Spread Over
Week.

Oriental marriage ceremonies are the
most elaborate, and those of
Brahmin wedding, spread over the
greater part of a week, are probably
the most complicated All the Hindoo
gods are invited, and on the first day
the pair sit under an alcove or canopy,
with their faces turned to the east,
while married women wave lighted
camphor to avert the evil eye. On the
second day the bridegroom appears
eager to make pilgrimage to Benares
to wash in the sacred waters of the
Gauges. His future father-in-law, after
much entreaty, persuades the would
be pilgrim to give up the idea, and the
priests profess readiness to accept the
will for the deed, at the same time ac-
cepting a gift of IA flags, by which the
bridegroom symbolizes his purity of
freedom from sin. A thread is then
tied on the mans right wrist and the
woman's left to show that they are
united for life. The father-in-law now
feigns to behold in the bridegroom the
great god Vishnu himself, and makes
an offering to him. linen water is
poured over the two, and the tall"
jewel set in gold, is tied on the brides
neck, while sandal paste, perfumes
and flowers are offered TO the guests.
Fire is then brought in and, while a
sacrifice is offered to Agni. the couple
walk hand in hand seven times around
it, and so make the Seven steps"-a
symbol of everlasting friendship. The
next day the astrologer points out the
star Arundhati to impress upon the
pair the duty of faithfulness. Then
they eat together and, having sprin-
killed. each other with rice, a final bridal
procession takes place at night, when
friends and relatives again avert the
evil eye by the ceremony Of Arati, or
waving a lamp over the heads of the
newly wed.-Utica Globe.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16
birds tn DIscarsl.

The breeding season has nearly
passed and there will be found mum
ber of hens and possibly male birds
that will be of no further use to the
breeder, and consequently, will be in
the way. Especially is this true with
those who have but limited accommo-
dations, and as such fowls must have
room, and consume food, and litter
and foul the yards, the better plan is
to dispose of them at nominal price,
even, rather than to keep them later.
If they are to be sold in market, they
will be in better condition for that
purpose now than in early fall, as af-
ter moulting begins they usually drop
off in flesh.-Fanciers Gazette.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16
Siberian Butter.

Speaking of the development of the
Russian dairy industry the Boston
Morning Herald says:
I'VE recently alluded to the new port
which Russia is attempting to estab-
lish in the far north. This port is to
be used for the shipment of agricultur-
al products during the winter months.
While the ports on the Baltic are open,
however, a very large dairy business is
carried on between Russia and Great
Britain. Quite recently the Russian
government entered into a contract
with a commercial house at Riga, a
port to the south of St Petersburg, to
establish direct line of steamers to
London. These are to be equipped with
special refrigerating plants, and week
ly trips will be made from Riga, large
ly with cargoes of butter. 1t is
planned to collect this butter at the
railroad stations on the Siberian rail.
way, the train starting at oh. Spe.
cial fast freights made up OF refrig.
orator cars will be run, each car car.
rying about eight tons of butter. On
arriving at Riga the butter will be in
spected, and, IL it is thought necessary,
repacked before being placed OH the
steamers. It is hoped that this fast
freight and steamer service will build
up business in other lines, but the
principal article that 1t will depend on
is butter, and the Russians hope to
very largely supply the London mar
ket."
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16
HE'S NOW A WHEAT KING.
Clerk who bought Kansas Farm Land
and IL "A Millionaire.

ana H "a millionaire.
The wheat rentals of John T. Stew
Yrt OF Sumner county will amount to
nearly 100000 bushels of wheat this
year, says the Kansas City World.
In his home county he owns 115 quar-
ter sections of land and about thirty
quarter sections in adjoining counties.
He rents the land on the basis of half
the yield, he furnishing all the seed
and taking chances of securing a crop.
1t is estimated that If all the wheat
due him on rentals this year was ship
ped in one consignment ii would re-
quire seventeen freight trains of fif-
teen cars each to take it to market.
His rentals in wheat last yeat netted
him $4,000. In addition to owning
about $350000 worth of land. every
foot of it paid for he has nearly $780,
600 worth of bank stock and $500, 900
invested in farm lands in Sumner
county and Oklahoma. About twenty
five years ago Mr.. Stewart began life
city at $50 a month. He slept in the
Office and was economical in other
ways. He began loaning money in
Sumner county about twenty years ago
and has developed into a remarkable
financier. 1t is said that his ambition
is to finally own a railroad and he may
crafty it, as he is still very young
man, not more than 40. He carries a
small memorandum book in his pocket
and 1t is said that he can take it out
at any hour of the day when required
and tell every debtor exactly what his
account is. Indeed, 1t is said that ac-
counts of his vast transactions are al
ways kept in book that fits his trou-
sers pocket. 1t is said that he lives on
less than 500 per month and that out
side of this his largest annual expense
is $500 to the Methodist church his
wife and large family of children at
tend. He is not fond of travelling ex-
cept to go to Democratic convention.
a diversion he is passionately fond Of
He is a pronounced temperance man,
and, 1t is said. believes in the prohibi-
ton laws of Kansas.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

A traveller in England rested at noon
at a wayside inn, and took luncheon.
The landlord was a social person, and
after presenting his bill sat down and
chatted with his guest. by the way"
the latter said. after a while, what is
your manner" my name" replied the
landlord. lis Partridge" All" re-
turned the traveller, with a humorous
twinkle in his eyes, by the length of
your bill should have thought II was
Woodcockl" This story. as it appears
in a recent book by a distinguished
English diplomat. is credited with hav-
ing amused Bismarck.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

One Of the most notable exemplars Of
peculiar dietary custom is an American
army officer of good physique, who. in
several years of exacting service at an
out-of-the-way western post, subsisted
entirely on canned goods" It was his
custom to open cans at haphazard, a
single can for each meal; whether the
contents were fish, fowl, or flesh, vege-
tables, or fruit, he ate that and nothing
more, and he lives to tell the tale. But
he was always active, physically and
mentally, except when asleep, and he
oreathed fresh air.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

A comparative statement concerning
the importation of pork, bacon, and
lard into the Philippines during the
calendar year 1900, as compared with
the calendar year 1899, has been pre-
pared in the division of insular affairs
of the war department The total i'm
portation of these commodities for
1900 was. valued at $685. 23, as against
s144,669 for 1899, showing an increase
of 81 per cent.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

The Oriental maxim that nobody
should run if he can get along by walk
ing, or stand if sitting will answer or
sit if it is possible to lie down, finds
many adherents in days of extreme
heat. Telephone offices are unusually
busy because so many people resort to
them to save making trip, and street.
cars are filled with those who would
otherwise walk. In short, all easy ways
of doing things are at premium,
with the result that those persons who
are employed in the occupations that
save physical effort on the part of the
public are worked harder than ever.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

That concrete is to take the place Of
brick and stone as building material
is the hopeful belief Of Mr.. Edison,
who has discovered a cheap method Of
making Portland cement Before many
years, he says, contractor will just
take his wooden form-one of twenty
or thirty standard shapes-and go out
and pour a house" which will cost
very little and will be fireproof. Hail
the happy day! Such structure should
be almost as imperishable as the bill
for the rent.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

The Foreign Tract society has trans
lated Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress"
into no less than ninety-five different
languages and dialects. Some of these,
as might have been anticipated, are
Of jaw-breaking character. So much
SO, indeed, have the compositors Of
the Oxford University Press found the
Eskimo language to be that they have
demanded a higher rate of payment in
regard to il.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

The roof garden at the Merritt
building, Eighth avenue and Nine
teenth street, New York, has been
crowded every night since it was
opened, July /. The admittance Is
free. and religious meetings, with
much music, are held every evening.
Although the garden holds $500, the
crowds were so great last week that
hundreds had to be turned away.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

The total annual production of tim
Der and firewood of the German for
ests is estimated at 3S,OOO,OOO tons, and
this is supplemented by an import of
100000 tons. The material progress
of the country would not be possible
had it not the large home production
to fall back upon.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

A road is being built in the high
Alps which passes the Great st. Ber-
nard and also the hospice of that name.
This great engineering feat will be fin
ished and opened to traffic in July Of
next year.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16
Poultry Briefs.

Poultry Briefs.
Dilapidated old shacks for poultry
houses do not indicate success with
poultry. A few may make fair show
ing under such conditions, and aspire
to Dothing better. But to most men
the dilapidated affair means non-in-
terest in poultry. The best way to
repair" such buildings is to tear them
down and build new ones.
The well-versed poultryman should
not be too ready to give advice to anna
tours that will enthuse them in the
poultry business. Often novices rush
into poultry keeping on a large scale
and lose all they have, while IL they
had been held back and induced to go
slow success might have crowned their
efforts.
Houses and runs should be in pro-
portion. 1t is seldom that the yards
are large enough for the houses. In
cities and villages it is no unusual
sight to see good-sized house and
run no larger than the house in the
area covered. The result is a per-
fectly bare and often dusty ground
plot. The area of the yard should be
at least ten times that of the house
in which the birds are kept, and II
the yard is still larger 1t will not be
of excessive size. In fact, 1t is best to
have the area of the run so large that
1t will remain green through the en-
tire growing season
A writer on poultry subjects says:
Put 100, 200 or 800 eggs into an in
cubator, and after the second day you
can notice the odor of what the stock
that laid them have had access to-.
This is no fanciful idea, any careful
operator has noticed this. Likewise
such a fowl when boiling in the pot
gives out the same unmistakable odor,
and while the same can not be detect
ed when cooking the egg the flavor can.
A fowl with access to the manure pile
or pig pen 20 not fit food for man, nor
are the eggs Doubtless there is more
truth in the ABOVE than we generally
believe. We are in the habit Of look
ing upon our fowls as perfect strain.
ers, thinking that we can feed them
anything and that they will eliminate
from the food all that is undesirable,
even in smell. Scientists are coming
to believe that only pure food should
be fed our domestic animals at any
time.
A successful poultry raiser says:
There is a class of enthusiastic nov
ices who write to know If they can
make living at poultry-keeping. They
might as we'll ask If they can make a
living at bridge building. A living can
be made at bridge building. by one who
knows all about it, but for one, we
would soon be in the poor house II we
had to depend upon bridge building, as
we would not know how to begin on a
bridge. And one can make a living
at the poultry business-if he knows
how. No novice can do it, and we are
frank to say so, but it will at least
cost the novice less to begin and try
to learn at the poultry business than
in any other direction" 1t is rather
strange that man should expect to
succeed in business in which he has
had no experience; yet we find new
men every year rushing into poultry
keeping, certain that they will sue.
coed, though without a moments ex-
perience in poultry-raising.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

our ostrich farms are profitable.
Birds are worth 500 apiece and
good specimen yields about $50 worth
of feathers at a plucking.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

Public attention has been conferred
of late upon the Chinese in their own
country; but the position of Chinese in
the United States now demands con-
sideration The act of 1882 suspended
the immigration of Chinese laborers for
ten years, and the act of 1892 continued
the exclusion for ten years more. This
part of the law will expire by limita-
tion next year. A bill will be introduced
in the next Congress to extend its pro-
visions for another period of twenty
years. On the other hand. an effort will
be made to repeal the act. Thus the
whole question of the treatment of
Chinese immigration will be reopened.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

To the kid glove trade of the world
France is the undisputed center, and
the beautiful city of Grenoble, 400 miles
south of gay Paris, is the veritable
cradle of this most interesting indus
try.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

IN the smaller places in England
horses have to be borrowed for the
fire engines Often thirty to fifty min
utes are wasted in getting horses,
which, when an alarm of fire was
given, were at work at their daily
duty. A considerable amount of time
is also lost in finding the proper har-
ness for them. The horsing of steam
fire engines in country districts is a
very difficult problem. There is hardly
a town of any size in the United States
which does not have one or more fire
engines, and they can be got under
way with delay of from thirty sec
onds to minute and half, while in
the larger cities even thirty seconds
would be considered slow work.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

Fifteen thousand two hundred and
sixty feet is the height of the snow
line on the equator 1t is. about 5000
feet in the latitude of London.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

Reports from the Northwestern por-
tons of the United States and from
Canada indicate that there is a good
demand from western ranches for
stockers, at good prices. Many are be-
ing shipped from Canada and from
points as far south as Texas. The
western movement of pure bred bulls
is also very noteworthy, and the ex-
pansion of the ranching interest is
said to be greater this year than ever
before.
The Billings Gazette reports that
shearing in Wyoming is progressing
nicely with but few delays. The clips
in almost every instance have been a
surprise to the flockmasters, in that
they are much lighter this year than
ever before. The wool Is shorter,
looser and cleaner than for years. One
large clip is said to have fallen short
of last years weight over $4,000 pounds
and the same number of sheep were
sheared this year as last. Others will
fall short from 5000 to $4,000 pounds.
The fiockmasters of that section are of
the opinion that the clips will be muck
lighter than last year.
The Rocky Mountain Husbandman
says that while the owners Of live
stock, horses, cattle and sheep. have
been very much frightened about the
season, and not without reasons, the
indications at this writing are that
Montana is TO have an exceptionally
fine grass crop. The snowless winter
and the. dry spring, especially in the
eastern part of the state, and the fact
that a succession of snowless winters
and dry seasons were followed by an
exceedingly dry summer, created con-
siderable alarm about the beginning OF
April. But the fact of general rains
throughout the entire country. and
some rain in the eastern portion of the
state, with the opening of May, is
rather reassuring, and It is scarcely
probable now that the grass crop will
be short. Had things been as favor
able a month ago stock cattle would
have ranged at least 81 per head high
er than they now do, and much larger
purchases OF southern cattle would
have been made.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16


1t will be seen that the lambs fed
alfalfa ate the more hay. made the
larger gains and returned a higher
profit. In the above calculations both
kinds of hay were estimated at $500
per ton and corn at 80 cents per hun
dred pounds.
During the latter half Of December
good lambs for feeding were worth
$3.50 to $500 per 100 pounds on the
Chicago market At these prices the
market value of the lambs at the be-
ginning of the experiment would not
have exceeded $500 per head. Averag-
ing both sets the feed eaten cost S1.13
per head. The selling price at $4.65
per hundred brought 1888 per head,
leaving the small net profit of % cents
per head and this after allowing $500
per ton for all hay fed and 80 cents
per hundred for the corn. In large
quantities both hay and corn could
have been purchased at considerable
lower prices. Taking the results given
above as basis OF calculation a
farmer, by purchasing grain and feed
ing lambs, may secure a return of
S11.05 per ton for alfalfa hay and S10.-
SO per ton for native hay.-Luther
Foster.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

Boys have a great desire to pose as
heroes, and to have authority over
men. Soldiers and policemen are
boys in whiskers.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

Place sitting hens in dark places,
where they cannot be disturbed by
other fowls
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

Sprinkle -four of sulphur in nests OF
sitting and laying hens.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

An innocent plowman is more
worthy than vicious prince.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16

No man is strong who is unable to
conquer himsef.
The Yale expositor., 1901-08-16
Some Lamb- FeedIng ExperIments.

Some Lamb-Feeding Experiments.
The lacts resulting from the lamb
feeding experiment at the Wyoming
Experiment Station are here reported
In brief. The principal objects sought
In the undertaking were TO make a
comparison of the feeding value CT al
falfa with that of native hay and to
determine the cost of feeding lambs
for market under the conditions prev
alent on the Laramie plains and in
other parts of the state.
In December when the experiment
was authorized good average lambs,
such as were most desirable for the
work, could not be secured and it was
found necessary to select the one
hundred made use of from a
bunch of culls. After a week
of preliminary feeding, the lambs were
divided into two sets equal in number
and as nearly so as possible in weight
and quality. The experiment began
December 2Sth, and continued for
period of ninety-fve days, closing
April 2, The two lots had a limited
amount of corn and all the hay they
would eat. The lambs were slaughtered
and consumed in the home market.
The butchers were highly pleased with
the way they cut up and especially
well satisfied with the demand for
them. The meat was of excellent quail
ity. The people of Laramie consider
1t the best mutton ever placed on sale
in this market. The following is an
extract from the summary:
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Friend-Oh, he is doing literary work,
Is he?
Lady--Well, l suppose so. He solic-
it's subscribers, and when they pay him
the money he writes for the paper they
want.-Detroit Free Press.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-12-02
MRS. MCKINLEY MELANCHOLY.
Wife of Late President Can ScarceI
Hear Her Loss.

Wife of Late President Can Scarcely
Hear Her Loss.
A dispatch to the New York Herald from
Canton, Ohio, says: When DR.. Rixey left
Canton two months ago for Washington 1t
was with the understanding that he would
not return to this city as the physician of
Mrs. Mckinley unless her condition should
change for the worse. Her health for her,
was then about normal. That state has
continued, and when her physicians are
asked now as to her health they reply, In
general. that she is doing very well.
While true, this is not all the truth Phys
ica1ly Mrs. Mckinley is about in the same
condition she has been in for years, but
there are features about her case that make
her friends anxious for her. 1t is the period
of Mrs. McKinleys mourning, and of
course she would not be expected to go out
much even IL physically strong, but 1t Is
also the period OF Mrs. Mckinley's melan-
choly 1t is with the latter feature that her
friends are most anxious.
Mrs. Mckinley is constantly attended by
her sister, Mrs M. c. Barber. who has
given up her usual home duties and devo.es
all her time and energy to making life as
pleasant as possible for Mrs. Mckinley.
On the day after the President was laid
IN the vault in Westlawn cemetery Mrs.
Mckinley was driven to the tomb, and was
allowed to enter and to remain for a short
time beside the casket containing her be-
loved dead. This visit was repeated daily.
Friends have at last prevailed on her not
to enter the vault. and her visits now are
to the tomb. and to the family lot where
rest the ashes of her children.
Callers on Mrs. Mckinley are but few,
as she is so respondent that even her most
intimate friends have failed to bring back
any degree of cheer to her. Her pleasures
II she has any, are In the past.