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Another Victim of the Saloon.

Another victim of the saloon" is
becoming a daily, even hourly occur
renee. The latest report comes from a
correspondent of the State Leader in
Missouri. He writes from Deray, Mo:
Another soul has been hurled to
death through the rum route. A young
man, just in the bloom of youth, came
to this place on train No. %, drunk,
he could not stand up. He lay down
on the ground by the side of the depot
until dark, when he aroused and start
ed down the railroad track, and came
to bridge; while trying to make his
way across the bridge in his drunken
condition, before he had gone far he
was overtaken by train and instant
ly killed. His mother. who was wait
ing and watching for the return of her
son, when told of his sad end was
completely overwhelmed with grief"
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Child Labor In the South.

Owners of cotton mills in Georgia
have taken steps toward the restriction
of child labor, reports the Magazine OF
Social Service. They have put into
effect an agreement that no child I'M
der II years of age. excepting children
of widowed mothers, or physically dis
abled parents without other means of
support, shall be allowed to work in
mills, unless certificate is shown OF
school attendance for four months in
the year. 1t is also agreed that no
child under 10 years of age shall be al
lowed to work in mills either day or
night The following paragraph. added
to the general agreement on child Ia
Dor, was posted in the Lindale branch
of the Massachusetts, mills, near Rome,
Ga: The Massachusetts mills in Geor-
gia have built and equipped a first
class school in which every child in
the village can be educated without one
cent of expense to the child's family,
and although we cannot compel the at
tendance of children of school age, it
is earnestly requested by the manage
ment of this company that every such
child shall attend
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Small Wonder He Tottered.

couple Of men bought tickets OF
one of the city ticket agents yesterday
for Dawson City. After the gratified
railroad man had gathered up the
money, S240 in all, one of the men
said that another fellow would be in
later for a ticket to the same point
The two men had scarcely left the
room when another man walked up
to the counter and asked for "a ticket
TO Dawson" With the assurance OF
the late purchasers of tickets to Daw-
son City in his mind, the agent is
sued another ticket to the same far
off place, folded it up and put it in an
envelope. AS he laid the ticket down
the stranger demanded:
How much?"
Zone hundred and twenty dollars,
please
Whats that?" fairly shrieked the
stranger, as he tottered backward and
came near falling through the plate
glass window. Then it developed that
the man wanted ticket to Dawson
Minn.-six dollars and some cents
Duluth News-Tribune.
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Temperance in England.

In England the government is even
more closely in sympathy with the
drink evil than in this country. The
London Christian says: Another il
lustration of the fostering care which
the government bestows upon the
drink trade is afforded by recent let
ter to the Liverpool School Board,
in which the Board of Education no
t.ify their refusal to permit elementary
temperance teaching as subject of
secular instruction, and prohibit such
teaching in school hours. Already
the delegates present at the conference
OF the Denbighshire Temperance As
sociations have resolved to take
measures to bring the subject before
parliament, and it is to be hoped that
a very general movement will be made
to secure the reversal of the adverse
decision arrived at by the Education
Board"
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cooperative Fruit Selling.

(Farmers' Review Special Report.)
At the Wisconsin Horticultural
Meeting c. E. Basset of Michigan said
in part:
One of the first drawbacks we had
to contend with in the Michigan fruit
belt was the cost of transportation.
The location of our orchards is such
that we can patronize either the rail-
road or the boat lines, but there has
been no competition between them. An
express company operated over the
fruit train for about Ia years, furnish
ing very poor service and stubbornly
maintaining a six and one-half cent
rate on small baskets to Chicago. We
had no organization and the efforts of
individuals to get better or cheaper
service were of no effect. The season
of 1883 brought such low prices for
fruit that it was evident that some
thing must be done and cooperation
was resorted to. The Fennvil!e Fruit
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The Old SAINT. Fee Trail.

1t wound through strange SCARED hills,
down canons lone
Where wild things screamed, with winds
for company:
Its mile-stones were the bones OF pio-
neers.
Eronzed. haggard men. often with thirst
a-moan,
Lashed on their beasts of burden toward
the sea-
An epic quest it was of elder years,
For tabled gardens for good, RED golu'
The trail men strove in iron days OF OLD
To-day the steam-god thunders through
the vast,
While dominant Saxons from the hurting
trains
Smile at the aliens. Mexc, Indian,
Who offer wares, keen-colored, like their
past:
Dread dramas of immitigable plains
Rebuke the softness of the modern man /;
No menace, now, the deserts mood OF
Still westward lies a green and golden
land.
For, at the magic touch of water. blooms
The wilderness, and where of yore the
yoke
Tortured the toilers into dateless tombs,
I.o, brightsome fruits to feed mighty
folk.
Richard Burton in February Century.
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Look Toward,

It is wise for US to look at the dan
gers, to be fully aware of the perils, to
be tremblingly conscious of our own
weakness; but it is folly and faithful
ness to look at the danger so exclu-
sively, or to feel our own weakness so
keenly, as that either one or the other,
or both of them combined, shall OBJ
scure our sight to the far greater and
confidence-givingt truth of the knowl-
edge the sympathy and the extended
protecting hand of our Brother and
Lord. We belong to Him if we have
yielded our hearts to Him, and we
will not suffer our holy one to see
corruption" here and hereafter.
If you look down from the narrow
ledge of the Alpine arrete, to the
thousand feet of precipice on either
side of the two or three inches where
you have your footing you will get
giddy and fall If you look up you
will walk steadily. Do not ignore the
danger, nor presumptuously forget
your own weakness; but when I said
my foot slippeth, Thy mercy held me
up" Recognize the slippery ice and
the feeble foot and couple with them
the other thought. the Lord knoweth
them that are His. Alexander Nc
Lareu.
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Cuban Tobacco Prospects.

On account of the very dry weather
during November and December the
tobacco crop in Pinar del Rio Province
will give a yield below the average;
in some localities of the province,
where timely showers fell, the crop is
very good, and considerable amount
of leaf of a good quality was cut dur
ing the last few days of December; but
over large areas, and especially in the
hill region of the province, where the
dry weather was long continued, the
prospects for even a fair yield are dis
couraging. In the localities of western
Havana with irrigating facilities the
crop is in a very satisfactory condi-
ton, but elsewhere the injurious eff
fects Of dry weather are very marked.
In extreme eastern Santa Clara Prov
ince the rainfall has been fairly abund-
ant and very good yield of tobacco is
anticipated; in the other tobacco Sec
tons of that province an urgent need
OF rain existed throughout December.
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Krupp and Essen.

THE old lady" Herr Krupp's
mother, managed the small business
affairs. while Alfred stepped into the
shop, rolled up his sleeves, worked all
day with his arms and then until mid
night with his brain. says the Out
look. They lived in a small cottage,
which is still standing in the factory,
and which he did not exchange for a
better home until long after his mar
riage. | now quote Mr. Krupp's own
words uttered on the twenty-ffth an
niversary of the founding of the fac
tory:
From my 14th year l had the care
OF family father during the day.
added to hard work at the factory, and
at night had to study how to overcome
the difficulties in the way; during this
period I lived on potatoes, bread and
coffee, and scant portions of meat, and
toiled until late in the night; for
twenty-five years l struggled thus
until conditions grew little easier.
NV last remembrance of that period is
the growing danger of total ruin. and
nv endurance suffering and hard Ia
Dor to avert the calamity; and | say
all this for the encouragement OF
young men who have nothing. are
nothing. and want to get something
and be somebody"
In 1892 the factory gave employment
10 ONLY ten men; at the time of Mr..
Krupp's death over 10000 men We're
employed in and about Essen, in the
factory. and the adjoining mines.
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Bricklayers and stonemasons were
among those whose daily wage was
fixed at 33 1-3 cents by order of the
general court of Massachusetts in 1880
The colonial bricklayer mad done little
up to that time but build freplaces
After the fire in Boston on March 16.
1881. the governor ordered that no more
wooden chimneys should be built, and
from that order the bricklayers expert
enced a boom. Ten thousand brick had
been imported from England to Massa-
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Temperance In Sweden.

Swedish temperance organizations
after much discussion, have decided to
adopt a practical plan of campaign in
order to obtain legal enactment de-
fning what shall constitute intoxicat-
ing and what Notwithstanding beer. 1t
is proposed that all beer containing no
more than IS per cent of alcohol be
untaxed and sold as Notwithstanding
beer, and that all beer containing a
higher percentage of alcohol be con-
sidered as Intoxicating. taxed and SUBJ
jceted to the control of the Gothen-
burg system.-Ram's Horn.
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Cold Storage Houses.

The cold storage warehouse is a
thing that the farmer can well conSid-
er. By it he can save not only vast
quantities OF vegetables that now go to
waste but he can save losses in the
sale price by being able to carry his
produce over the time when there is a
congestion of farm produce in the
markets. Hitherto the farmer has re-
lied very largely on his cellar as the
means of keeping his produce. Once
in while a cellar is so built and so
handled by those in charge Of it that
it does the work fairly we'll, but for
the most part the cellar has proved
to be a poor place in which to keep
perishable farm produce.
At Neoga, Illinois, is a cold storage
house constructed under the direction
of the University of Illinois and owned
by the university. 1t was completed
last summer and filled with perisha BILE
produce. The ice room was filed with
20 tons of ice, 20 tons of which have
melted to date. The so tons now in
the house are melting SO slowly that
they promise to hold the temperature
at its present point for a very long
period. For some months now the
temperature has been 33 degrees, one
degree above freezing. All through the
fall this temperature maintained itself.
Evc<l when the very cold weather came
in December the temperature in the
storage house did not fall but re-
manned stationary. This is rather re-
markable when We consider the fact
that no fire was kept in the building
to in any way balance the greater cold
outside. A small variation might have
been expected. The insulation is so
perfect that no variation at all results.
The melting of the first 20 tons of ice
was due to the heat in the produce
stored in the building. When that heat
had been taken out the expenditure
of ice became almost nothing.
The construction of the building is
on the most approved plans. The ma
terials used are wood and building
paper. Dead air spaces are so ar
ranged that the passage of heat waves
is prevented. The building cost So
900 and will pay for itself in storage
fees in less than three years. Prod
uce kept at a temperature of 33 de-
grees can be held almost Indefinitely.
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Artificial Marble.

Manufacturers are actually making
marble by the same process by which
nature makes it, only in few weeks
instead of a few thousand years, says
the London Builder. They take a
rather soft limestone and chemically
permeate it with various coloring
matter. which sink into the stone and
are not a mere surface coloring, as in
seagliola. The completed material
takes a fine polish. and many of the
specimens are of beautiful color and
marking. Used as veneer it is about
one-third the price of natures marble.
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"rhe White Slaves of Ensl.nd.-

Evidence of the deplorable state of
some women in England is given in a
graphic illustration by the London
Sphere, showing the women chain
makers of Cradley Heath at work.
But of course it is not from choice
that women labor, and it must be
strange indeed. to find them working
at the anvil-an employment that
properly, and by all dictates of hui
manity, belongs to the sphere OF man.
In The White Slaves of England" R.
H. Sherard has given lurid picture
of the women chainmakers. Cradley
Heath. located in the Black Country, is
the great center of the chain industry.
There 1000 tons of chains are turned
out every week, from the huge four
inch mooring cables down to dog
chains.
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Shippers association was organized in

Shippers association was organized in
1891 and the Granger System" Of
shipping fruit was adopted. The sue
cess OF our association under this plan
has been wonderful. We have a local
agent Of the association who receipts
for and loads the fruit into ventilated
cars, holding about $500 small bas-
kets each. for which he receives $3.50
per car A special fast fruit train
starts from Fennville at six o'clock
every evening, Saturdays excepted, for
Chicago. The cars are all billed to
our Chicago consignee, who does the
unloading and attends to the freight,
ETC., receiving for this service $500
per car.
AS result of this cooperation, we
have been able to secure the adoption
of standard climax package, which
has resulted in a saving in their cost
of more than one-half. The freight
rate has been lowered from the ex-
press rate Of six and one-half cents to
two and one-half cents and. the boat
lines having to meet this competition.
every shipper in our fruit belt has
been equally benefited by the operation
of our association, whichever way he
SAiPpCu lie dSSOCIdIlOh heiS hCtuoiis
reduced the cost of packages and trans
portation to about one-third of what
it was under the old plan. The very
first year the association did business
it saved one large grower fully $1,000.
In one year our fruit section shipped
100000 small baskets of peaches, and
the saving to the growers that year
was over 100000.
Not only have we obtained better
service at much less cost, but 1t has
been done with a cash profit to the
association. This profit, amounting to
many thousands Of dollars, has been
expended in the grading and graveling
OF our public highways, until we now
have reconstructed several miles OF
hrst-clasS roads. Before our asSocia-
ton undertook this work, 200 or 25u
baskets We're considered a good load.
while now our teams handle more east
ly 500 to 700 baskets. By our unity
of action we have also gotten the rail-
road to donate 300 cars of gravel for
this road building.
We have five central packing houses
at Fennville. The foremen and pack
ers. having no interest in the fruit,
pack top and bottom alike. and every
basket can thus be guaranteed.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRl-
CULTURlSTS.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Guilt
walton of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures viticElturs and
Elortculture.
OAt Smut.

CAT Smut.
Dat smut is far more destructive to
the oat crop than people imagine. Pro-
lessor Moore of Wisconsin says that
last year 20 per cent of the oat crop
OF that state was destroyed by oat
smut. The amount in bushels lost
last year is placed by the Wisconsin
agricultural college professors at 49,
100000 bushels. This loss occurred in
year when the oat crop was very
short. Professor Henry says that this
100000 bushels could have been
thrown on the market without depress-
ing the market price of oats material
ly. In case Of big crop Of oats
throughout the country such an addi-
ton would depress the price some, but
not under conditions that existed last
season.
This 10000, 900 bushels of oats could
have been saved to Wisconsin farmers
if they had followed the advice that
has been so repeatedly given them by
the experiment station. For years
now bulletins have been widely circu-
lated through the state, telling the
farmers how to treat their seed oats
so as to avoid the smut. In addition
Professor Henry secured the publica-
ton of his instructions in this mat
ter in more than 800 local papers pub
l1shed in the state. But in spite of
all these things it is the belief Of the
professor that not one farmer in 5000
treated his seed oats last spring. He
says that the farmers are finding fault
because their taxes are high and com
plain of 100000 being spent on schools
In the state while If fed
oat smut alone to rob them Of many
times the amount. Moreover. oat smut
is increasing so rapidly in the state
that If the farmers do not begin to
treat their seed oats they will in a
few years have to go out Of the bust
ness of growing oats.
Professor Moore made some expert
ments to determine the rapidity with
which oat smut increases. He sowed
some seed oats in which about two per
cent of the grains were smutted. The
resulting crop had ten per cent OF
smut. That seed was planted and the
next crop had twenty per cent of smut.
Seed from that crop gave a crop OF
oats having 81 per cent of smut. This
shows what is likely to happen if the
farmers do not heed the advice given
them.
Smut spores do not live over in the
ground, being unable to survive the
winter. They are carried over only in
the seed. This seed may be made safe
by soaking in water and Tornado
hyde; the combination should be one
pound of formaldehyde to so gallons
Of water. The oats should be put in
sacks and dipped into the solution, be-
ing left there for twenty minutes or
more. An hour will not hurt them.
What is true of Wisconsin as to smut
is also true Of many other states in
the Union where oats are grown ex-
tensively. Everywhere the farmers
should dip their oats to prevent the
smut
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Not So Deaf as He Seems.

Representative Ketcham of New
York is deaf. He is not, however, al
ways as deaf as he seems tc be-
Yesterday one of his constituents
who was stranded in Washington
sought Mr.. Ketcham at the capitol, to
negotiate loan. When Mr.. Ketcham
appeared, the would-be borrower con-
Quoted him to a corner of the lobby.
Lend me So" he said, with his
mouth close to Mr.. Ketcham's ear.
"Eh?" said Mr.. Ketcham, as if he had
not heard word.
Lend me ten shouted the constitu-
emit
You said five just now" remarked
Mr.. Ketcham, waking up.-Waseington
Post.
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No general rules can be laid down
for the feeding of colts; but, as in the
case of the calf, it is very necessary
that proper care should be exercised
in the selection of foods. Cows milk
may be substituted, if necessary, for
that Of the mare. The colt should be
taught to eat grains, any of
which may be fed to advantage; the
choice would depend on ruling prices
At times, when the colts are teething,
it will be found more profitable to
warm and moisten the grain ration.
Hay of first quality, preferably alfalfa,
should be fed in conjunction with the
grain, so as to properly develop the
digestive system.-M. e. Jaffa.
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Sweet corn is considered very COM
mon table food among farmers, but in
the cities it is highly valued. The ho-
tells use it great deal and keep it
on their tables as long as it can be
secured. The men that cater to this
trade use many varieties of corn and
plant at different times so they will
have a succession. Therefore the cit
liens and the patrons of hotels get
sweet corn for weeks and months. Not
so the family of the farmer In most
cases the corn is all planted at about
the same time, and the green corn is
at its best for use for but a short
time.
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Men for General Homework.

In West Philadelphia last week foui
men answered an advertisement calling
for a man to do general homework,
OF the four men who made application
for the place one was Chinaman, ona
colored man who had been porter in
a club, one a retired sailor a!d ths
other a widower. The man wis ad
vertised would not tell which of the
men he engaged, but he was not LOTT
to express his preference for a man to
do the work rather than a woman
With his wife and daughter he had
lived in Japan and in China, where they
depend entirely on men.
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Immense Office Building.

Permission to erect the largest Of
fee building in the world has been
granted by the city of Chicago to the
National Safe Deposit Company. 1t
Will have 191 feet frontage on Dear
born street, and 231 feet frontage on
Monroe.
There will be sixteen floors, each
having an area of $4,000 square feet,
or more than an acre. The building
will be planned to accommodate 5000
persons and will be at least one-third
larger than the Monadnock building.
1t will cost $4,000, 900.
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Reducing Honrs of Work.

A strong influence in the reduction
of the hours of labor has been the
treatment of the subject by industrial
economists, who have studied the sub
ject and written much upon it. 1t may
seem strange that while the eight hour
day was common in some OF the great
or employments in England 100 years
ago, the American employer was ex-
tremely reluctant up to almost the
present time-if. indeed, he is not, as
a rule, still reluctant-to put his as
sistants upon that basis.
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Reach AmIc.bl. Aereement.

Strikes and lockouts in the sheet
metal industry in Chicago will be i'm
possible in the future, as long as tho
agreement made between the Sheet
Metal Contractors association and
Sheet Metal Workers union, No. 70, is
in force. Ever since the lockout of two
years ago in the building trades COM
mittees from these two associations
have been trying to reach an agree
ment. The bone of contention was the
competency of the workman" Both
parties commended that it was their
right to be the judge. An arrangement
has been agreed upon that committee
comprising an equal number from each
association pass upon the ability of the
candidates for mem bership of the union
the employers agreeing to employ none
but union men.