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All the corn they use is when it comes to
fattenin' EN- the last month.
Bought 5,4O7 last year They brought
s3,3ss.45. Lost SOL at ranch by hog
cholera. That knocked off 1,45O. 90 from
the profits. Had to buy 7O,O45 bu hels OF
corn, and the expenses totalled up to
SIPS, O5o.es.
To show his stock he stopped at neat
looking farmhouse, which was the home
Of one Of his fourteen foremen. On the
way to the field back Of the house he said
that he paid the foremen from $50 month
to 81 900 a year and house rent. He also
said that good foremen were hard to get.
By crawling under or over fences feed
ing ground was reached, and some of the
hands picked up on the way were sent for
horses to round up the cattle, In short
time they had bunch OF frightened white
faced Herefords before their owner.
The hands kept them from running long
enough for a picture to be taken. Then
the feeders were released and fled with their
tails sticking straight out like pumphandles.
what is beef selling for on the hoof?1
Mr.. Rankin was asked on regaining the
buggy.
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was scarce and high. Then the packers
had to pay almost double for beef what
they are paying now
In the tour Of his ranches Mr.. Rankin
told how he became millionaire. He
spoke of the early days Of his married life.
when his wife did not have money enough
to buy bread board, and kneaded the
family baking on the head Of the -four
barrel The Renaissance appeared to
give him pleasure. He also recalled how
he made his first purchase of land in the
Tarkio Valley.
At noon he stopped for dinner at farm
house occupied by one Of his foremen, and
ate with relish the corn bread, the fried
'sow-bely." the potatoes and the stewed
apricots' that the farmers wife served
to the hands He gave directions here and
there and talked over the situation at the
different ranches with his foremen.
Evidences Of his management were
seen every where At this place he inquired
about a new water tank for the stock.
Such tanks were on every ranch, the water
being pumped into them by windmills.
At another point it was drainage canal
twelve miles long which he had excavated
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THEIR PRIVATE PERRYBOATS,
SPEEDY CRAFT THAT BRING RICH
MEN no TOWN DAILY.

ehey, Arc OF All Sizes and Mako Railroad
T1me-Discomforts OF Land Travel
= kyoided-A Number OF Them Have Been
Constructed for This Special Service
Any morning or afternoon several steam
yachts may be seen near any one Of the
many landing places around the city. At
the foot Of East Twenty third street, where
the New York Yacht Club has station;
of the Battery and at Thirty-fourth and
Forty-second streets on the North River
they mostly congregate
These boats have been called the private
serryboats Of their owners. They are used
by their owners to bring them from their
summer homes to the city in the morning
and to take them home again in the after
noon. They begin to arrive before o A. M.
After they land their passengers they 90 to
some yacht basin or anchorage until
wanted for the return journey. They begin
to start for home about o'clock, and by
sunset at the latest all are gone.
These boats are Of all sorts, shapes and
sizes Some very wealthy men have large
steam yachts, like the Kanawha. owned
by H. H. Rogers. Others have smaller boats
not quite so luxurious in their fittings nor
30 speedy
Still others have craft specially built for
the service. They are slick, racing like
little vessels, have just enough room for
the owner and perhaps couple OF friends
on board and make the journey in almost
railroad time For longer cruises the owners
have larger vessels.
The fastest Of the small ferryboats is
the Niagara w., owned by Howard Gould.
MIR. Gould has summer house at Sands
Point, and when he comes to town the
Niagara ~, leaves the private dock on Mr..
Gould's estate and is soon travelling faster
than many railroad trains toward the city
This boat is credited with a speed of more
than twenty-seven miles an hour, and it
runs along 80 steadily that there is no dis
comfort to those on board. The Niagara ".
lands at the foot OF East Twenty-third
street. and in less than an hour after leav-
ing his home Mr.. Gould is in his Office on
Broadway.
1t is an ideal way Of going to and from
business. There is no long drive to the
railroad station, no waiting for a train,
no long, dusty, hot journey in stuffy rail-
road cars. The trip is made pleasantly on
the water, the passenger has lots Of time to
get cool before arriving at the hot city and
after his days work he cools off again on
the trip home
The morning newspapers are on the boat
when the owner comes on board, and his
breakfast is ready to be served. Some busy
men take their stenographcrs with them,
and on the way to town dictate letters
which are to be sent away the same day.
Other business is prepared and transacted
and sometimes important deals are carried
through while the boat is speeding toward
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the city.
The Niagara ~. is 112 feet long. She
has comfortable saloon, tastefully fitted
up; a stateroom, bathroom, galley, and
accommodations for the crew.
August Belmont has O fast ferryboat.
1t runs from Glen Cove, which is not far
from Mr.. Belmont's summer home on Long
Island, and docks at the foot of East Twenty
third street. Sometimes the boat goes
on down the East River and makes landing
at the Battery, which is nearer Mr.. Belmont
Office than the Twenty-third street landing.
This boat ia named the Scout and her
speed is 81 miles an hour. In model she
is very much like the Niagara ". and
is about the same size. She has saloon
stateroom and the usual accommodations
OF a boat of her size.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has boat exactly
like the Scout, which is named Mirage.
He has also'a larger yacht, named the North
Star. and for which the Mirage is used
chiefly as a tender. The Mirage brings
Mr.. Vanderbilt to town, because it is easier
to handle i'll the crowded waterways near
the city than the larger boat, and makes
much better time.
George and Harold I. Pratt, who have
houses at Glen Cove, have recently had a
gasolene boat built, named Dodger, that is
one OF the most novel of these ferryboats
This craft is 90 feet long and is driven by
two 250 horsepower motors.
Each engine has six cylinders, and they
are OF the explosive type. Jets of gasolene
are exploded in each cylinder to drive
them. and it is thought that this boat, when
her engines are in good running shape
and the newness has worn of, will develop
a speed Of rs miles an hour.
The Pratts want to make the Journey
from Glen Cove to the city in less than an
hour, and with this new boat they can do it.
The boat carries 200 gallons of gasolene,
which is sufficient TO drive her for forty
hours, or for distance of 1 900 miles.
Forward of the engine space are a large
saloon for the owner, a stateroom, toilet
room.and lockers. Aft OF the engine space
are messroom, galley, and rooms for the
q bridge.
This Gait las a rather peculiar appear
ance. She has neither smokestack nor
spars and her model is very similar to the
entrance and a slight overhang. There is
q turtle deck forward, and aft the stern is
fiat and shaped like that OF O torpedo boat.
j. Rogers Maxwell is the owner OF the
steamer Celt. This boat is used to ply be-
tween Maxwellton, which is Mr.. Maxwell's
home, near Glen Cove, and East Twenty
third street, but she is not so regular as
some OF the other boats, because Mr. Max
well Is an enthusiastic yachtsman, and
whenever there Is a regatta he wants to be
on hand 10 sail his boat. or IL he has not a
race for his yacht to watch others race
The Celt is more yachtlike than the ferry
boats already mentioned She is 40 feet
long, and is handsomely fitted. Her speed
fast enough for Mr.. Maxwell, who can
afford to spare little time and have more
comfort.
Ex-Mayor Low, when he was in Office,
owned the steam yacht Surprise, and he
house at Mamaroneck. Last year he sold
his boat and has now purchased smaller
boat, named the Sunbeam. This is Herre-
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every day, Smelling seed corn, disking the
ground twice, and cultivating it four times,
all within fifty days, allowing five days to
go a-fshing in that time, if you've good
men.
Il pay them SOS a month and board them,
wet or dry, and they needn't set their feet
on ground after they are hitched up
What is the yield to the acre." he was
asked.
Runs all the way from 30 to 40 bushels
Have raised 140 bushels, but that was the
scratch yield. The average is 100 bushels. !"
What do you do with it all?"
Feed it. I buy cattle Off the ranges in
the fall and feed the corn to 'em, keep
'em at the different ranches, and feed 'em
out doors all winter.
1The number Of cattle at the different
ranches varies from a couple OF hundred
to thousand. Didn't buy as many feeders
last year as before Corn was too high.
Can't make profit these days paying 40
cents for corn for feeding. Only had 5,104
last year. The proceeds were $3os, 557.13.
'Twouldn't have been worth while but for
hogs, They are about all profit. They
run after the cattle and live on the waste
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Of mule teams attached to farming imple-
ments filing along the road, and deploying
into huge field whose farther limits were
lying somewhere in the horizon. A care
full count showed that there were seventy
two teams, with three mules in a team.
They were attached to seventy-two double
row cultivators.
1t was o'clock in the morning, and Mr.
Rankin had driven out to see them begin
their days work, as a European monarch
might ride out to see o battery OF artillery
going through field maneuvres.
There are 600 acres of corn in that patch"
he explained. Those teams and cult
vators are giving it its first cultivating.
we planted all this corn with double
row listers. each Of which ploughs and plants
two rows Of corn at the same lime One
man can plough and plant from 10 to 20 acres
a day. I've seventy listers, and our average
planting at the outset Of the season was
from 400 to 1900 acres day.
sIsave the wages Of 100 men every day by
using machinery. 1 don't keep a man
that can't raise an average of two acres
OF corn every day he goes into the field. 1
figure that man can attend to two acres
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shoff boat and is.eo feet long, She can make

shoff boat, and is'GO feet long. She can make
1872 miles an hour.
Frederick D: Underwood is the vice
commodore Of the Atlantic Yacht Club
be found of the club anchorage at Sea
Gate. The Alice makes a trip up the bay
each morning and lands Mr.. Underwood
at the Battery, and takes him down the
Earbor in the afternoon.
Frank j. Gould owns the steam yacht
Helenita, and it is used largely as ferryboat
when Mr.. Gould is not off on long cruise
During the season Mr. Gould lives at Lynd
hurst, Irvington- on the Hudson, and the
Helenita can bring Mr.. Gould down to his
Office almost as fast as the railroad train
can. He lands downtown.
One Of the fast ferryboats Is the Ievan-
ter owned by Wilson Marshall. This boat
halls from Larchmont when its owner wants
to come to town, and lands at the foot OF
Twenty-third street, East River.
The Levanter Is not quite large enough
or fast enough for Mr.. Marshall. She Is
credited with speed Of twenty miles an
hour, but Mr.. Marshall wants ~ get to town
faster than that, and this winter he is going
TO have larger and faster boat built.
Charles H. Flint owns the fastest of these
private ferryboats, the Arrow, and she
runs from any point where Mr.. Flint may
be stopping. Sometimes 1t Is to and from
the .Ardsley Club, sometimes the Atlantic
Yacht Club, and often Mr.. Flint will visit
and return to town the next morning. This
boat usually makes a landing at the Bat
terry, which is the nearest point to Mr..
Flint's office.
w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., uses his steam
turbine yacht Tarantula as ferryboat
to bring him from his house at Hampstead.
The Tarantula is very fast craft and can
make the trip in abort an hour, always
landing at the foot Of East Twenty-third
street.
Another we'll known ferryboat is E. G.
Benedict's Oneida. Mr.. Benedict Is very
fond of long cruises and often goes Off for
several days at time, but when attending
to business he comes from his house at
Indian Harbor, Greenwich, on the. Oneida
and lands at the New York Yacht Club
float at the foot Of Twenty-third street.
r. c. Fisher has recently had gasolene
boat built named the Aletes III, This craft
plies between New Rochelle and 1s5th street
morning and evening.
John d. Archbold comes down from
Tarrytown on his fast boat the Vixen. This
boat uses oil as fuel and she is one of the
speediest Of the small craft in these waters.
She lands downtown.
Among other ferryboats are A. Dewitt
Cochrane's Alvina, which runs to Hastings;
William p. Eno's Aquillo, which runs band
from Saugatuck, Conn; c. M. Meyers
Maspeth which runs TO and from Bay Side,
and George +. Dominicks Varuna, running
TO and from Greenwich.
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Ills Honey Was Not There.
From Lippin colts Magazine.


country newspaper man, who is very
fond of honey. visited a neighboring city
recently and at one OF the hotels he was
served with some delicious honey. He en-
joyed It so much that he told his wife all
about 1t when he returned home. On his
next trip to the city she accompanied him.
They visited the same hotel. and when
the noon meal was being served he said to
his wife that he hoped they had some more
OF that honey. 1t did not appear. how
beckoning to n waiter, said: Say, Sambo,
where is my honey" He was almost para
lyzed when that worthy prnned and re-
piled: She doan' work here no more, boss.
She done got n Job ut the silk mill"
The wife received a handsome new dress
solemn promise not to tell the story.
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"A LOST BIOGRAPHY.
Why One Life of Benedict Arnold
Met Destruction Before 1t
Saw the Light.

aIt's not an unusual thing for man to be
forestalled," said man who writes, "but
when subject that has never been ade-
quately treated ccurs to him and he creates
an interesting dressing for some previously
unknown facts and then sees his whole
fabric anticipated by half do zen other
men, ! think he may be justified in 10 sing his
patience. I know I lost mine
About two years ago my little nephew
asked me questions about the treason Of
Benedict Arnold for a composition his
teacher wanted. The idea struck me that
for man who was so intellectually identi-
fed with the Revolution there was very
little of his history known, and if could
secure enough material and discover any
slight pallia6on of his offence it might be
favoIably passed by the publishers literary
adviser.
Il knew there was at least one biography,
that in Sparks's Lives written about
$780, but it was 80 scanty that it hardly de-
served the name.
Il looked o yer the field to make sure that
1t was clear and found that beside Sparks's
work the only other book written was a
rambling relation OF Arnold's career by
a collateral relative, printed and published
by the author in Chicago about 1885. As
far as I could learn it had a very small
sale.
in time L raised quite a structure. I
dug up information that Arnold's wife
was more than friendly to Major Andre
before her marriage, that she was frenzied
Tory, that she had controlling influence
over her husband and that the beginning
of his weakening loyalty could be traced
to his acquaintance with her.
Well, had collected all this when 1
CHANGED on reviewers criticism OF an
Arnold book. Then I got my first throb.
However, this wasn't so bad, as found on
inspecting it that it only treated OF an
episode in Arnolds life.
1T was called An Account OF the Mont
gomery and Arnold Expedition to Quebec
and described the movements OF the force
from Newburyport to Canada, dwelling on
the labor and ability Of the commanders.
and generally handling Arnold pretty
fairly. This had never been done In the
hundred-odd years that had elapsed, and It
woke me to all the activity could muster,
This book also deprived me Of fruitful
territory, as the Canadian invasion had
never before been fully Covered by the
historians.
Il put in as much more work as could
give, but / was additionally hampered by
the heavy nature of the research For
instances, the easiest papers had to 60 over
were the Force Archives, collected by Peter
Force. fat her Of Gen. Manning F. Force,
and these comprised twenty thick tones Of
nearly fifteen hundred pages Of nonparen
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Infatuated PahanE Bees.

From INC MaIdV NdH.
A surveyor in Pahang accidentally dis
turbed a nest Of bees. On seeing what he
had done he turned and bolted through the
jungle But IL was Of no use, for a large
number of the insects pursued him and stung
him on the eyes. nose. cheeks. neck and hands
After run Of about a quarter Of mile,
with the insects at work all the time, he fell,
and the bees appeared to pass over him.
But shortly afterward several OF them re-
turned to the charge. During his wild rush
through the jungle the unfortunate surveyor
tore and cut himself badly with thorns.
Finally. one Of his coolies discovered him
and took him back to his quarters. During
this encounter some of the Surveyor coolies
took refuge in an adjacent stream. but, never
theless, they were also attacked. and finally
had to bolt through the jungle.
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TOLD OF BEES AND WASPS.
Bees Stop Church Service.

Huntsville correspon dence Nashville American.
Services at the Presbyterian Church were
prevented and the congregation routed in a
most unusual manner Sunday.
A colony of humble bees have taken pos
session Of the belfry, building their nest
around the bell rope. and when the bell was
rung for services yesterday the fiery little in
sects. resenting the disturbance. came down
en- masse, attacking the worshippers, singing
three of four gentlemen and putting the en-
tire congregation to flight. forcing them
to the Methodist Church for services. A
briga de Of small boys will be organized to
e1terminate the bees. for unless this is done
1t is not likely that services can be held in the
church.
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Wasp Sting Killed.

FROM the London Express.
ooachman named Fisher, employed by
Mr.. Compton Rickett, NJ p, has died at
Lewes as the result OF wasp sting.
Fisher was employed on Mr.. Rickett 8
estate at East Hoathly. Essex.
The wasp. unnoticed by the coachmen n,
had fallen into jug OF beer. Fisher drank
the beer and swallowed the wasp.
He was severely stung internally. and
died from the stings and sufocation due TO
the wasp remaining in his throat.
Forty minutes after wasp stung Mrs.
Martin Of Vange, Essex. ON Saturday. she
died from the shock.
A woman has just died at Crewkerne,
Somerset, from the sting of o bee.
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Bee Ran Oh in Heart OF City.
From the Chicooo Ns,ss.

There is a bee ranch with more than mil
lion bees In the heart of one Of the densest
residence districts OF San Francisco. 1t is
owned by Philip Prior. principal of public
school. and Is in the little back yard Of his
home. For ten years he has kept his bees
there, has harvested about a third of ton of
honey each season and has been at no expense
for food for his interesting and industrious
pets.
Although 1t is distance Of two and 3ne-half
miles from the Prior bee ranch TO GoldAn Gate
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Mail Carriers Horses X illed.

'Mishouka correspondence Cincinnati Enc uirer.
While eating his dinner yesterday, Hugh
W. Grant. rural mail carrier. permitted
his horses to Craze along farmers property.
They disturbed a hive of bees. and the
latter turned upon the equine invaders with
a fury that made the horses frantic. In seek
ing to escape they overturned two more
hives. and this augmented the attacking force
so that the carriers horses were stung to
death. Grant secured a new team and COM
pleted his route.
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Park. the Prior bees make the trip there, col
lect loads Of honey and get back to the hive in
two minutes. making bulletlike flight at
the surprising rate Of I6o miles an hour.
Mr.. Prior has demonstrated this by having
an observer watching certain bee favored
places in the park and exactly timing the ar
rival there of bees he purposely sprnkled with
-four as they issued from hive. He has also
kept time on the absence OF the whitened bees
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Centrdhd correspondence Topeka Capital
A. W. Swan of this city. one Of the leading
bee men Of the United States, has the highest
record for honey producing in the country.
He has one swarm that produced twenty
pounds OF honey in three days.
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Delphos correspon dence Cincinnati Enquirer.
Elias Buckler. a farmer living near Del
phos. has a remarkably luxuriant growth of
whsk ers.
Recently while working in the fields a
swarm Of bees came along and settled in this
growth. Mr.. BuckleT sat down and re-
manned quiet. When hll the bees had settled
In his beard he slowly arose, walked home,
and with the assistance OF others hived the
buzzers.
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Attack Party OF Lady Cyclists.

From tho London Daily Mail.
While riding between Worsley and Booths
town party Of lady cyclists were surrounded
by swarm of bees. They were compelled
to alight. and were the victims of the bees
attentions for nearly mile before they could
remount and get away.
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stuns a Horse to Death.
From the Neuburn Neus.

William Brown, who resides on the Ulster
county side of the Plattekill, near Bnrling-
ham. had the misfortune to lose a horse last
week. it being stung to death with bees.
The animal which was blind, was turned
into the yard and in its wanderings over
turned hive. The honeymakers attacked
the intruder with fatal results The poor
horse suffered intense agony before death
came to its relief.
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Thirty.five Pigs stunS to Death.


Thirty-6ve pigs belonging to a farmer
Of Saragossa. Spain. were stung to death
by bees.
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