Hornellsville Weekly Tribune from Hornellsville, New York • Page 10

tA Improve the Paitamtce department of agricnlturo has sine of its boyt qualified specialists i field investigating grasses, water and other conditions of vital in, to live stock growers of the pas- Mi regions. Professor Scribncr of the in of agrostology brings back sonic fofconragiug advices from localities vis- ed by him. In a recent interview he ifttcd that "the ranches on the east of 1C 1 Rocky mountains are iu a deplor- ble, condition, some containing as liny as 10.000 theep, with not a nior- grass for food. It is a common i-' Mying that it now requires BO acres to raise a steer out there. No wonder prices of meat are advancing all over the country.

My object in the investi- gatiou is to prccr.re a plant that will restore those ranches. Some meats will have to be niada to lease the land to tho stock raisers. The depart' ffienfc already started grass and forest plants in the Walla "Walla district In the Yakima district. Washington. great qnantities of stock are now being raised on alfalfa.

They can raise nine toes of this plant to an acre. It nets profit to the acre. The land has to depend on artificial irrigation, however, and usually a couple of artesian wells suffice for the strip. They jnst tarn on the water and raise alfalfa withont lifting a hand. Rye, corn and wheat on these lands have also become i a failure.

i inspected the grass at Walla Walla. where a grass farm was established last year, for testing the adaptability of various grasses to the climate east of the Rocky mountains and for investigating the habits of growth of new and untried varieties. I was much pleased with the experiments. A forage plant of nrach prominence and entirely new to agriculture is the inercalie bean, which I procured from New Mexico. This bean is rna' "ng a fine growth at this experiment station and may prove to be as aitiable to the dry regions east of tbe mountains as the velvet bean is to the gulf states.

I also tested may other new kinds of lands and grasses in various parts of Oregon I think a grass will be found to take the place of the bunch grass of eastern Oregon that will stand drought and transplanting. It will be a lioon to the stock raiser of those sections. "I spent some time in California in the region of Astoria. I here examined the grass in use in sandy soil, some of which was planted last year as an es- periment. I found it a success, and it is now called Astoria blue grass.

This grass will thrive in pure sand and ia relistied by stock not only on the coast. but in the interior country. The propagation of this grass will prevent sand drifts, such as they have on the Columbia river, which cover big- trees, sometimes forests, and are very A Champion Sliortliorn. The Shorthorn heifer Lady XVII is a roan, calved in March, 1897. bred by and tie property of Mr.

C. M. Cameron. Balnakyle, Munlochly, Ross-shire. Her sire-was Sultan (69.683), dam Lady by Mr.Dnthie'a Lord Violet remarkably fine specimen, Bays Live Stock Journal, was first aa a yearling at the Black Isle "RAZORBACK" HAMS.

A Great American Prodnct and How It Nninvd. "One of the lxst and apparently not the least appreciated of tin- many ini- portaiit food products which America sends to England and Fiance is tbe celebrated 'SmithfioKl' or 'razorback' ham, for aboni 85.000 of such hams are annually shipped to those two countries from this a leading exporter of provisions in New York to a writer for the Washington Star. "In England, where the domestic hams have a tendency to be fat and coarse, oiir Sinithfield hams have among connoisseurs a very high reputation for leanness and great delicacy of flavor, both of which qualities are not thought to be excelled by even the famous hams of Germany. As the British consumer is willing to pay a fancy price for the product, some of our choicest 'razorbacks' are exported to John Bull's markets. "The name 'razorback' is derived from a small town on Pagan creek, near Norfolk.

where some hundred years ago the hams were first cured by a man named Todd of Smitbficld. The animal winch produces the Sinithfield ham is a semiwild hop; that is found in the mountains of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The hog peculiar to these regions is long nosed, shibsided and has unusually long legs. It is not a prepossessing animal, but when properly fed it supplies a ham that is unexcelled anywhere in the world. "Much of the fine flavor which is characteristic of these hams is largely due to the care that is exercised by the farmers in feeding the hogs.

In summer the young 'razor-back' is allowed to run wild iu the woods, and his meat thereby gains a gamy flavor by fall, when "he is turned into a field from which crops have been gathered in order to fatten. In the district which produces the most Sinithfield hams there are large quantities of sweet po tatopfc and peanuts grown. "Both these foods fatten the animal with astonishing rapidity, but the fat is still soft. So the next step is to pec the hog up arid give him corn and plenty of clear water. With this diet the animal's flesh hardens quickly to the defaircd extent, and he is then ready to kill.

The curing is done with Liverpool salt and saltpeter, after which the hams are washed clean and slowly smoked for 40 days over green liickorj or red oak wood. Many farmers raise the hogs, but few cure them. They are sold to skillful cnrers, who supply the Argentine Live Stock. A very elaborate scries of statistics with regard to the number of live stock in the Argentine Republic has been issued, says the London Live Stock Journal, which it may bo of iiituroht to recapitulate. As regards cattle, the latest returns yr.ve the total at 21,702.048, as against 21,961,657 in 1888 (the date of the last census), so that there would appear to have been a decrease in numbers, though against this has to be set the fact that the average weight of the cattle is nearly double what it was ten years ago.

Horses are estimated at 4,446,809. as against 4,234,032 in 1888, and of these 4,016,297 were draft horses, 414,985 of native breeds and 15,577 thoroughbreds. With its 4,500,000 horses the Argentine Republic comes next to Russia and the United States, and has 111 horses to every 100 inhabitants. The total for sheep is 74,379,562, as against 66,706,097 in 1888, and the Argentine ig only exceeded oy Australia with its 99,000.000, having 1,859 head for 100 inhabitants The number of animals of other kinds and of poultry is as under: 1S9S. 1SS3.

Donkcja and mules 48J.369 Goats 2,748,4.00 Ostriches S2.4H7 Voultrj 9,111,322 MATRON AND'MAfb. widow or Horace Vernet, the pftiuwr, has just died iu Pari-t. A prohibition paper has been started in Imliuiiupolib by Miss Itose brothers of 'fi'iw llaute, hid. lisd Mary Crocker of San Francisco has come of age (Hid i 1 now 000,000 iu her own right. Mrs.

Uichard Crokor announces that her sons will not uro into jw'itii's because she i a mini pn.vs for whatever heights IK- iniiy icacii "wrviuB his country through politics." The first woman to be admitted to ChiciiBO Theological seminary ia Miss Florence Kenslwm. of Testament i i in tin- AiiK-rioaii College For i Constantinople. Mrs. Adi-lo li- Barnes, postmistress at Deluvan. wns the only woman pii'M'iit nt tin.

1 postmubters' banquet in nonor of 1'oHtniaster General Charles Kinory i Riven iu Chicago during the i i i a MiiK 1 Keh.x Kame. the widow of the former Fiench president, intends making a stay of some weeks in Switzerland to regain the health of which tbe shock of hi'f hiishniul's death i her. She is accompanied by hi'i daughter. Mis. Thoinns II.

Mercein, president of the Society of Colonial I a of Wisconsin, died recently in Milwaukee- us the snlt of a surgical orc-nUioti for cancer. Mrs. Mercein was ie-elected president of the society few day.5 before her death. Mrs. A.

linoirene Paul, superintendent of stieet i in the down town districts of Chit-ago, bus received -orr- inendation for the a in whk'i she ipo'-od of tbe great of debris in the streets i the a festival and for her management of her gangs of men at a time. The widow of "Parson" Brownlow, one of the var governors of Tennessee, has jiist obierved her eightieth biithd.iy at her in Knoxville. She has piesrrv- ed her hnsbnnd's library almost intact iinil takes in ale in showing visitors the bookcases filled i i i elisions and political woiks. Despite her SO years she shout, few signs of old nge. Lady Farrer.

whose husband has jnst died, is descended fiotn two distinguished Jobiuh Wedgwood, tlie grunt pottery maker, and Sir tosh, the hi'-turian nnd philosopher, her She 1.1 a sibtei of Miss i a Wedgwood, who is i in the literary i of London, and a lelntive of Lady Salisbury through hei mother. Last fall Mrs. Merrie Hoover Abbott, as a ptnctica! joke, was elected public- piosocntov of Ogemnw county. She ntely took ofnee i of the protests of her lav. yer.

Quo war- raiito proceeilings eie begun by the attorney geneial. and now the supreme i hut one di.vpiUing voice, ha-- deciilt-d a under the laws of Michiiran no vor.iiin can hold office, so Mtt. Abbott mubt gL-t out. PBEFTED INTO POULTRY POINTERS. 6HOBTHORX HEIFER LADY XVII.

Farmers' society and Wester Ross chows in 1898 and gained the special prize given by the H. and A. society at the latter show for the best female. She won the first prize and was reserve for the female' champion to Cicely, the property of her majesty the queen at the Highland society's show and was champion at the Wester Ross and Black Isle shows this year. What Good Meat.

Poisoning by alimentary substances is so frequent and the grave symptoms following the ingestion of tainted food are often BO transitory that their causes elude detection, says The Sanitary Record. Recently it has been proposed to make use of the clumping reactions, made familiar by the Widal test, to determine the bacillaemic qualities of meat, and it would seem that the method promises much. It may be wise to recall a few of the characteristics of Bound meat Good, wholesome meat is neither of a pale pinkish nor of a deep purple tint. It has a marked appearance, from the ramification of little veins or intercellular fat. Tho fat of the internal organs especially is lirm, hard and snety and is never wet, that of diseased animate is often soft and watery.

Gocd meat has but little odor, whereas diseased meat smells faint and cadaverous. Good meat bears cooking without much shrinking or losing much of its weight, but bad meat shrivels up and boils to pieces, this being das to the larger proportion of watery and gelatinous material and the absence of true muscular substance. Under the microscope the fiber should clear and well denned and free from infusorial animalculae, while that of diseased meat is sodden, as if it had been soaked in water. The transverse are indistinct and wide apart. animalculae abound in it Totals 13,078,814 8,181,650 It may be added that the total head of horses, futile, sheep, pigs, mules, donkeys and goats is put at 104,412,042 and their value Fleatr or Over 1,000 rams and ram lambs al- mdy christened Dewey, and several jwcinctato hear from! God help thi fwordinf secretaries 1--Sheep Breeder.

and Grades. It ib often a mistake of young breeders to suppose that the fine appearing grade stock which they have secured by crossing pure bred animals with native stock will prove as good as it looks wnen put to the test of breeding. This in the nature of things cannot be the case, says the Boston Cultivator. All the excellencies of the pure bred stock have been fixed in it by more or less close breeding, or, in other words, breeding to nearly related stock. The produce of this in and in breeding is quite likely to be somewhat delicate in constitutional vigor, and it requires that there be bred several strains of the same breed so as to perpetuate its excellences -ia lines not too closely related.

By breeding two animals of these different strains together, enough new blood is introduced to maintain the stamina of the breed and yet without lessening its special value for the purposes for whicL it has been bred Crossing to wholly unrelated stock produces a mongrel that is more than likely to perpetuate the worst qualities of both dam and sire ii carried beyond the first cross, which as an individual may be better than either. The grade males should always be emasculated while young. Tho females may be kept as breeders if they are always bred to pure bred males the same breed which produced the grade. In HOB Feeding. A vast amount of hog feeding is dom at a loss every year.

have an immense power for nf food and can use up grain remarkably fast without making any commensurate return if tbe feeding is uot dont I i judgment. IIICh For Rambouillet rams continue to go a big prices. $100. $200 and $300 being frequently paid for good specimens. Good foraging is a great help to a moiling hen.

Too much and too rich food often causes apoplexy. Yellow i i mean indigestion rather a cholera. Accumulating filth is a prolific source of disease, especially gapes. Much of the trouble and disease among poultry are results of keeping them too close. In selecting breeding fowls avoid in and in breeding--that is, breeding from fowls that are too closely related.

TJiulor ordinary conditions a dozen selected heus and one active male should supply all the eggs needed for hatching. Ko adult ducks should be kept except such as are needed to produce eggs foi hatching--one drake for every live ducks. The health of the flock depends upon the health of each individual. Contagious diseases may be brought on the farm by a bird from another locality. A strong solution of red oak bark ia said to be a good remedy for chicken cholera.

It may be mixed i the soft food aud also added to the driukiug Louis Republic. PERT PERSONALS. Queen Victoria and Oom Paul are both old enough to know Record. Lieutenant Colonel Otter of Toronto will go to the Tiansvaal to make the lur Free i'less. Russell Sage says, "Everything I have tried for 1 have got." And some people are mean enough to say that ho has got it Ameiican.

Mrs. June Lindsay lrs broken the SOO mile bicycle record in 98 hours and 4S minutes, but the question is, Can Mrs. Lindsay make Angeles Times. General Fiinston is said to prefer a seat in the United States seuate. He probably wants to swim through the columns of The Congressional Washington Post.

'Walter L. Farnsworth, the Chicago candy man who confesses to 42 wives, none of whom, so far as he knows, is dead, would probably do even better than Mr. Roberts as a congressman from Times. THE ROYAL BOX. Under and under tlie dew, Dead--but tlie of you! Tor you knell near the Until veiled pluco I felt jour (ears fall imT my face.

And the rose tJiat JQU li'ft where my dreami must be Thrilled the llioucht of you down to me! And I fail), from my couch in the white walled dust, "She in to her love, she is Uue to her trust, "And lier tenderost tears will fall for Till we meet in liod'u utcrnitj." n. Under lire rose and uncier the dew, JJoaU--but 1 dieani no more of you! The stormy winds o'er my dwelling IXud are the ros-s that Meswd my tjrjve. For you never kneel liy my voiiL-h (o iay The louni; worda that you baidt.that Crumtiles my name on the marble's crust. dreams are dead, and my a i A a a SIBERIA'S BIG GOLD CROP. Ont The Prince of Wales, contrary to his precedent, has begun dining at restaurants.

Queen A ictoria lias not worn her crown more than 20 times during her whole reign. The shah of Persia has one of the finest private libraries in Asia and spends much of his time with his books. King Menelik of Abyssinia ia said to be work upon a chain of eudcnce to sup- poit his claim of descent from King Solomon. The crown prince of uennany is; fast becoming an expert cydist. At a fete held i i at the cadet school in which he is student, at 1'lon.

the prince won two first priy.es in bicycie races, in whic he had pitted against him a number of clever young riders. QuantltieM of It of tlx: i i In spite of the most stringent Itus- siau lawn on the subject-- talcing away ot" gold without government 1-011- sout-- there- is ail enormous business clone all over Siberia in gold, both dust and, especially, uujzsets stolen from the wondngs. It is a criminal to be found in possession ot gold: but as so large a propoitiou of population of Siberia, consists oi those sent there for punishment, anil the only further punishment they have to fear is deportation to some more distant region of the wime barren aud joyless laud, the deterreiit is by nu means so formidable as a mere perusal of the awful menaces of the statutes at Urst sight seems to convey. Moreover, the successful. dealer in stolen gold rarely fails to escape tbe penalties of bis offense, even when caught redbandi-d.

The Russian oilicuil. even in Hussia proper, is seldom altogether unreasonable: and in Siberia, where the pregnant of dishom'bt "ch.nov- nik." "It's a long way to a is. St. Petersburg-- is especially significant. the official is "good natured" 111 the i-uri'ine.

nnd a i can always be bought to accept unpleasant responsibilities. A great part of tbe gold is conveyed the Chinese frontier-- a is, across the river Amur, which is The sole 1 defense of tbe frontier against smuggling from both sides-- ami tinds a ready sale at ruinous sacrifices in exchange tor a certain fiery Chinese vodka. The valuable properties of this spirit, much esteemed by aud a alike, are that it the customer the beatitude of intoxication oue day, and on tbe next he can a a i the same exalted state by the cheap expedient of drinking Chambers' Journal. The Betrothal FUiifr. The early history of the wedding ring is not easy to trace, as it was apt to be contused with the betrothal ring.

This was once the more important of the two. for iu the days of our forefathers the betrothal was the great ceremony and marriage only the ratification of the contract. Then a spouse was a betrothed person, and to espouse was to be betrothed. The ceremony of espousal or betrothal was celebrated with all possible solemnity as the contract of a futur" "eternal bond of love." No doubt tbe reason for thus solemnizing an engagement was that In times of violence and lawlessness the church thought It needful to protect the woman and therefore made the betrothal so sacred that a violation of the contract was punished with excommunication. A betrothal service was used, which still forms part of the French and Italian ritual, and, indeed.

the first part of -the Anglican marriage rite down to tbe woman's "1 will" Is simply tbe old betrothal service. Remurlcnl)le Tumors. Some remarkable records of tumors are given in Tbe Lancet. The largest known is a uterine tumor that weighed 303 pounds, described by a doctor of Bucharest. llunter removed one weighing 140 pounds from a woman whose weight without the tumor was 93 pounds.

The largest solid tumor of this class weighed 10G pounds. The record for i a tumors is held by a Chinese patient, who had one weighing 169 pounds; without it she weighed 77 pounds. There is a New York one of 149 pounds and a German one of 14G. For mammary tumors a case is on record where the growth in one breast weighed 04 pounds and in tlie other 40 pounds. THE BEGINNINGS OF SOME LITERARY CAREERS.

Didn't Knoir Bin John I. Blair in his earlier days owned a western railroad along the route of which he established a series of lunchrooms, at which employees of the road were to be charged 50 cents and all passengers 75 cents. Mr. Blair once dined at one of these places and, concluding his meal, laid down a half dollar. "Hold on!" cried the cashier.

"Yoa don't belong to this road!" "I know that," replied Mr. Blair. "The road belongs to me." Gotlinm'n At the present time there are between 500 and 1.000 men in New York Who are worth $1,000,000 or more. In 381H. when New York had a population of 110.000.

there were only 19 men who were assessed at $100.000 or more, and a POLITICAL QUIPS. i i i i i i i a wlui i i' Tor. but it dopMi'i disclose liic The i i i the rest of the country RCts when it tries to comprehend Now York politics is a i to a obtained by gazing at a nest of phia Public Ledger. the highest assessment was only $200,000. The cost of keeping up the drinking fountains and cattle troughs iu London Is $8,500 per a A single trough in a a i i i costs The willow is one of the most adaptable of plants.

A willow switch stuck in the wet will almost invariably take root. How Some of the Noted Men nnd Women Iltive World of lipttfrn Cntne to the Domain of Fiction. 'i licro ia an unfailing fascination Ii the story of the beginnings of brilliant careers, and especially of the of men aud women who have coil tbe world of readers, and fame and fortr.ue in the difliculi path of letters. One of the most successful of Uterarj partnerships had its origin is a casual tapper conversation at a Boboiul.ii club. Walter Besant aud James Itice both youug men of literary ambitions were discussing one of Dickens' novels, when Itice said, casually: "If I givt you the plot of a Besaut, will you write it?" "I don't mind answered; aud within a fen the first of a brilliant series of novels was under way.

Rider Haggard was reading for tut bar in the early eighties with an on the woolsack, aud no dream of the career iu fiction that awaited him when it occurred to him, as a recreation from the dry bones of tbe law, tc weave a story out of his South Africac experiences. To bis surprise and delight the story flowed fluently undei bis pen, and finally assumed ample shape as "The Witch's Head." Thai it was uot a success mattered little; for it had shown him his true and paved the way for "King Solomon's Mines," and all the gold they yielded. It was only when briefs declined to drift to his chambers that Anthony Hope Hawkins, a young barrister, in all the modified glory of an untarnished wig. turned his thoughts to the pen to while away the hours of wailing for solicitors wbo carne. It was thus that he wrote "A Man of Mark," which rather suggestive of distinction than productive of present profit.

But fame came quicker than briefs after all, and bis "Prisoner of Zencla." four years later, gave him all the start be desired. Grant Allen bad wooed science to little pecuniary purpose for many years before he was tempted to stray into lic- tion, for i he never lind much rcispect. Perhaps no OUL- was as surprised as biuibelf to tud that he could write a story quite as cleverly as a scientific treatise, and while "Physiological Aesthetics" brotigbt him ivpute as a mail of science, "Philistia" pointed the way to gold, which these days of stress is so much better. The scieuce which be designed tor a staff became a recreation, but bis heart was in it rather than in his novels. M.

Zola was tying up parcels in Hachette's publishing house when he was tempted to read one of Flaubert's novels. Much as the youug packer was impressed with its cleverness, he thought he could write a novel quite as good, and he immediately set to work with the results known equally to the world and his bankers. It was the memory of his long tramps i through the Australian bush that turned Guy Doothby's thought to fiction. He bad new material full of interest to the reading world. Why not present it In the marketable form of a novel? The suggestion took shape In "On the Wallaby," and the world knows what that led to.

With Morley Roberts ft was the same. He had for many years led a life of adventure, which was stranger than fiction, iu every part of the world, and in all characters from cowboy to common seaman. It was easy from such rich material to weave the "Western Averuus," tbe first of hig long series of thrilling romances. Jerome K. Jerome's Bohemian life and stage experiences suggested to him the idea of bis first venture in letters, "On tbe Stage and Off," as at least a variant from teaching, clerk's work and acting, which had made up his precarious existence for some years; and when Mr.

Zangwill grew sick of teaching the three R's to young Jews, what more natural than, with his skill with the peu, he should weave a story of the "Children 'of the Ghetto," although this was not his first venture in litea-ature? Marie Corelli had no thought of fiction when she -was training for the career of a musician and composer; and it was a strange psychical experience that turned her thoughts to the pen and inspired her "Romance of Two Worlds," which took novel readers by storm. It was loneliness and weird inspiration of the South African veldt that impelled Olive Schreiaer, a dreamy girl in her teens, to speak her thoughts on paper in "The Story of an African Farm." Mrs. Hodgson Burnett was only a schoolgirl, busy with her books, when a group of factory girls streamed past the window through which she was gazing. One of them, unlike the rest, a tall, striking girl, arrested her attention; and it was around this single figure, seen for a moment, that she wrote her beautiful story, "That Lass o' Lowrie's." Professor Green, the lovable Oxford tutor and author, was tue inspiration of Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Robert Elsmere," In which he figures as the bero, Grey.

Cut Mrs. Ward's first book, "Milly and Oily," was written for her own clilidren. M-iv Florence Marryal's novel. "Love's Conflict." was written jit (lie i ot' great trouble and suffering, and served tbe double purpose of distracting ber thoughts from her grief aud pointing out a career that was to bring much compensating pleasure as veil profit. "Dcai- ine, wire, not done yetV Why.

AH street railway companies operating in the city of New York ore required by law to run at least mw closed car iu every four at all seasons of the year. The Japanese government decided some time ago lo increase the price of here it is supper time, niul you are still iu ra ji tickets by one-third. The result your wrapper," said Mr. Wil liains as be came home, from his work and found his wife still en deshabille. "Yes, but do you not know that 'woman's work ib never doneV There is the baby Ella, but do you not know that all women have so much to do.

If you would only hurry the least i bit. yon would accomplish all the work in much shorter time. I could do it all in one- half the time." "Oh, John!" "Well, you jnst KO off somewhere nnd seo if you don't find things in 'apple p'e order' when you couie back." eiid- cd the evening chat. The Tuesday following she received a note saying: Dear Ella--Come immediately. I am very ill.

Your mother, E. F. P. When John returned from his work and had road the note, he said: "Go, by all means. I will attend to the housekeeping," added he, with a confident air.

"John, 1 shall be obliged to leave the baby at home. In case I should not be at home again tomorrow will you see that he is fed?" "Of course. Do you think I would starve hiuiV" Tlie next morning, while Mrs. W. was on her way to her mother's house, John was at home, introduced into the mysteries of tbe kitchen.

About dinner time he went down into the cellar and soon returned with a large bowl of sweet cream. After placing this on the table he put on his hat and coat and sauntered down to the butcher's after a steak for dinner. i In going out he forgot to shut the door after him, and on his return home he found five cats lapping the cream he had left on the table. I "Well." said he, "I shall say nothing of this to Ella, but I'll broil tbe steak, and that will quite make up for the loss of the cream." lie then tied one of Ella's aprons 1 around him, as he had seen Ella do when she was about to engage in some such I kind of work; put tbe steak into a frying pan and covered it over with pot lid, I tully expecting to find the steak nicely done when he should again raise the lid. Alas, however, the steak was burned to a cinder! "That is strange," said John.

"Ella's broiled steak never resembled this certainly." By this time he was quite hungry. He was not quite so boastful as he had been that morning. "There is, at least, one thing I'll have for dinner. I'll warm up the potatoes that are left over from yesterday's dinner." So John put a large lump of lard in the frying pan and soon after the potatoes. The potatoes were soon warm, but as he sat down to eat them he surprised at their greasy appearance, as well as at the amount of lard left in the pan.

How many times he had wished Ella back acain that day. In thinking of his i many disappointments, together with the fact that he had uot yet had his dinner, poor John knew not what to do with himself. The ringing of doorbell aroused him, and be, forgetting his ridiculous appearance, rushed to the door. "I have come to fcall on Mrs. Williams," said the lady Jwho rang the bell.

"Mrs. Williams is njot in at present." "Then I should liKe to see Williams if he is "I am he, madam." "You?" said the lady, trying in vain tc keep from laughing. Then poor John, suddenly recollecting his ridiculous appearance, felt ready tc die of shame. There livas no help for it, however. He invited the lady into the close front parlor, in which the fumes ol the burned steak and hot fat were still distinct.

Scarce knowing what he was doing, he led her to the sofa, and she sat down, not upon it, but into the pan containing the lard. John started back, not knowing what to do or say. In the midst of these troubles the baby bcgnn to cry, nnd John, now terrified beyond everything, rushed into the othet room, mentally resolving that if Ella did not come soon he would put an end to these trials. Tho lady in the front room kept very quirt. She thought she heard some one crying.

She listened. It was John. He was talking to himself. He said, "Oh, dear Ella, come back to me again and forgive me, and you shall never hear me boast again!" Then the old lady in the front room slipped off her wis, her old black veil and her dress, and in a very few moments his Ella, lor it was she, stood before him. "Oh, Ella, forgive me!" -were his first words on recovering from his surprise.

She forgave him, then told him she had planned all to cure him of housekeeping. "You have done BO, darling," said York News. An Extra Fight on the Field. It was at the time of the Zulu war. Buller's troops, which had been skirmishing to the front, --ere suddenly taken to the rear by their commander for reasons that were of course cogent.

A war correspondent who was out with the fighting lines was dissatisfied and expressed his contempt for the leader, who had thought the movement necessary. Bill tecresford (Lord William), who was on Buller's staff at the time, overheard and took the grumbler up sharp, declaring that he would not allow his chief to be abused. The correspondent was not to be put down and repeated his aspersions. "You must take it all back or fight me," cried the pugnaciously loyal Beresford. "Coiao on, then!" sturdily cried the other, and both jumped off their and fell to fisticuffs then and there alone, their own people fast disappearing over the veidt and the iiuius coming on hand over hand.

It was not till Buller missed his aid-de-cnmp and aeariug of the minor encounter iu progress that he sent back an escort to bring the two combatants in. The story is a strange one and by no moans discreditable to oithpr soldipr or Toduy. was a loss instead of iu receipts. In the nine months ended Sept. 30 2.500 miles of new railroad were built in the United States, aud before Jan.

1 this will probably he increased to 4,000 miles. Africa has now uearly 10.000 miles ot railway, and offers an unlimited field for uxttMi'dohs. The dream of a great line extending the whole length of the cona- mili's. seems likely to be realized early in the Ui.w century. CHURCH WORK.

There are 7,131 Sunday schools in Germany, i a mer.iberbhip of 854,047. Nearly 175 Congregational churches have adopted Cue individual cmnuj'jnioa eui. It is stated that there is a growing decrease in the number of divinity students in Scotl ind. The Indian national convention of Young Men's Christian associations will be beJJ in Bombay. Dec.

28-31. Two women have been ordained ministers in the English Congregational church. They arc I he first to be ordained by that denomination in Great Britain. nest For Hair. of the advantages to the appearance that may be gained from the summer sojourn in tbe country is a rest to the hair from the elaborate dressing that it must needs receive in full season days.

Hair fashions have been hard on the natural growth for several years past and have brought many beads to such a condition that a toupee--in 'plain language, a wig--is a portion of the toilet outlay of most women past their earliest youth. Hair ever bet'rizzled and twisted in complex devices cannot remain in natural wholesome condition. Something may be done to save it from utter extinction by giving it a rest from pulls and twirls as often as possible. One wise lady of ruy acquaintance always wears her beautiful long black hair hanging in a plait down her back in the mornings at her country seat. COUNTY COTJRT-fountv of Steuben- Edmund W.

Sheridan, plaintiff, against John J. Sheridan. Harriet Amelia Dewey. Josephine Wilhelm. William S.

Sheridan, Philip P. Sheridan add Horace G. Sheridan; defendants. To the above named defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer on the plaintiff's attorney within twenty days after! the service of this sumirons. exclusive of the day of service and, in case of your failure to appear or answer, will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

Trial to be had in the County of Steuhen. Dated this 9th day of October, 1899. MILO M. ACKER, Plaintiff's Attorney. Office and P.

0. address, 119 Main street, Hor- nellsville, N. Y. To John J. Sheridan, Josephine Wilhelm William S.

Sheridan, Phillip P. Sheridan and Horace G. Sheridan: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of Hon. F. H.

IlobiBSon, Steuben County Judge dated the Sth day of November, 1899, and filed with the complaint in tho office of the Clerk oi the County ot Steubi at Bath, N. Y. MILu Jtt. AUJUSK, Att'y Office and P. 0.

address, 119 Main street, Hor- nellsville, N. Y. 52w7 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In pursuance o( an ot Hon. M. Bumsey the Surrogate of the County of bteuben, 'in Surrogate's Court, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against William K.

Stewart, late of the town of Fremont, ia said, county of Steuben, deceased, are required to exhibit the with the vouchers thereof, to the undersignei the executor of the last will and testament said deceased at his residence In the town of Fremont, in the said Cuuuty of Steuber, on or before the 15th day May, 1900. Dated November 3d, 1839. SAMUEL B. HENDEE, Executor. NOTICEITOICKBDITOBS.

PURSUANT to order of Hon. Kumsey Miller, the Surrofcftte of the County of Steuten, Surrogate's Court, notice is hereby given that allpeiBona having claims apaingt Philetus A. Allen, of the of Dansville, in said County of Steuben. deceased, are required to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the undersigned, the Executor of the last will and testament of said deceased, at his residence, in the city of in the said County of Steuben, on or before the 10th day of May, 1900. Dated, October 32th 1899.

GEORGE B. BDRDETXE, Executor. (NOTICB.TO CRBDITOB PURSUANT tolan order of M. Rumsey Millep the Surrogate of the county of Steuben, in Surrogate's court, notice is hereby given that all per sons havinp claims against I. fish, late of the City of Hornellsrille, in said county of Steuben, deceased, are required to exhibit the same with the vouchers! thereof, to the undersigned, the administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of said deceased, at his office in the Btar Clothing House, on the corner of Church and Main streets, in the city of Hornellsville.

in the said county of Steuben, on or before the 27tt day of December. 189'. Dated June 189C HENRY ERLICH. Adminlitrator PURSUANT to on order of M. Rvunsey Miller the SurrOKHte of County of Steuben, rogate'B Court, notice is hereby given that persons having claims against Charles E.

Beach late of the town of Homellf ville.in the said County of Steuben, deceased, are required to exhibit the game with vouchers thereof, to the undersigned. the Administratrix of the goods, chatties! and credits, of aaid deceased, at ther Residence in the town of Hornellgville, in the said County of Stenben, on or before the 15th day of Nov- veraber, 1899. Dated May 4th. 1899. FRANOIS M.

BEACH, Administrator, DURSUAUT to an order of Hon. Kmnsey Miller, 1 Surrogate of the County of Steuben, in Sur rogate's Court, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against Timothy Burdin, late of the Town of Fremont in County of i-tenben, deceased, are required to exhibit the same -with vouchers thereof, to the undersigned, the Executors of the last will and of said deceased, at the residence of Charles A- Stillman, their place of business aa such executors, in the city of HornBllsviHe, in the said county of Steuben, on or before the 10th day of February, ItOO. A. BURDIN, STILLMAN, Executors. STATE OF NEW YORK-- Supreme Court, County of Steuben.

Clement Stewart vs. Addie E. Action for divorce. To the above named defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in action, and to serve a copy of your answer on tiff's attorney, within twenty days TMJ vice of this Summons, exclusive of da service; and in case of answer, judgment will be taken dsf ault for the relief demanded in Trial to be held in the County Office and Post-office address, Homelteville, N. Y.

Stewart: The foregoing A i ill Mil.ill town i a out, but 1 sot away all right." "What did you do?" "I found a monkey wrench on the toeftouben'CountyCterir nnrl timer! OU the MJ OI street and tuned Kec- ou rd teuben County 'dated ce, at Bath, N. FKANKH. ROBINSON, 4 NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER!.