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In a cont'esL for the Democratic leadership in New York State, Richard Croker bias defeated David B. Bill, and the State Committee has declared for Bryan as Presidential candidate. The diplomatic list, just issued by the 'Washington State Department con- tains the new~ title of the British Ambassador. It shows that Sir Julian Pauncefote is now "the Right Honor- able Lord Pauncefote of Preston G. 0. B., G. C. M. G., Ambassador, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of Great Britain.” fl‘vurks have renewed their murder- nus assaults upon Armenianq. ‘ Owing to the increased cost of buildâ€" 1ng material, Andrew Carnegie has raised his gift of $300,000 for a public library in Washington to $350,000. The revolution in Venezuela is spreading. AThe oaurtat London has appoinged a receiver for Mandalay, Sons & Field, the well known engineers and boiler- Inakers. The firm is hopelessly insolâ€" Vent. The captain and seven of the of the wrecked brig Ida Maud, Chatham, N. B., for New York, arrived at; Philadelphia. Walter VVellman, the Arctic travel« 161‘, is at New York. , B‘aron Paunwfote of Presion, Brit- ish Ambassador l0 the UniLed States, will sail on hm return to Washington on November 1‘. An American fisherman has been x'rrested at Skibbereen, Ireland, for fishing inside the limit. The British Government is thinking of introducing three penny telegrams. The standing reward offered for the capture of deserters from the British army has been raised from £1 to £2 sterling. Lord Londonderry’s second son is (lead from consumption at London. Mr. James Crathern, who some time ago gave an organ to SL. George's Church, Montreal, now offers certain improvements which will bring Abe to- tal coat to $16,530, and give the church the finest and most complete organ in Canada. At the Intercolonial station at Hali- fiax, the safe of the Dominion Atlantic Railway was blown open, the cracks~ men secured $100 in cash and private papers of value to officials. The Imperml authorities have con- sented to bear the cost of recapping about: 7,(‘sflés,(}~f!{‘v munda oi cordite amv munition, stored at Quebec, which was found to 1m d-L'Rmive. ' Members of the "Sign of the Cross” Theatrical Company will sue the uwn~ ers of the ill~fated steamship Scots- man to recover the value of their ef- flecis lost in the wreck. IL is reported that the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. have placed 01‘- ders for 30 or 40 new lacomotives with. manufacturers in the United States. This is the result afgthe strike. Two uni/11ers, named James Mills and Chas. Crane were killed at Moyiequy, B. 0., ‘by a premature blast 'in Laké Shore mines. Their bodies were hor- ribly mang‘ed. The contract for the new post-office atl Woodstock has been awarded by the Government to J. A‘. Desrivieres, of Ottawa. The building will cost about 381,000. The boilermakers and blacksmiths of the C‘. P. R. shops at Winnipeg to the number of about 100 went out on strike in sympathy with the striking machinists. The official survey of Nova Scotia coal mines has pmoved the known seams to be of unsuspected magnitude and new seams have been found. A shipment of $800,000 in gold, has reached Skaguay, the largest single dhlpvment that has come up the Yukon Rlver and over the White Papas road- During September 11,101 immigrants arrived am Winnipeg. The Statistical Year Book for Caul- ada‘, 1898, has jth been issued at 0b- .taws... A steamer to cost $20,000 is to be built? at Kingston for the Muskoka (Lakes. An exploding lamp set fire to the clothing of Miss Marie Goyer of Montreal, burning her to dea_th. Ten tons of dressed poultry was fihippad from the C. P. R. station at ‘ ondon, Ont., ‘to Vancouver, BC. President SIhJalug‘hnessy, of the Can- adian Pacific Ry., ‘has started. for the Pacific Coast onhis annual tour of in- apection. The Canadian Pacific Railway land Sdepartment reports very heavy sales of farm lands in Manitoba, one day‘s sales amounting to 37,000 acres. More letters have been stolen from the Kingston post-office. [Boiler-makers are on strike from .Vancouver to Revelstoke. O. R. 1305qu manager of the C. P. R. telegrapha, has been appointed a director of the ORR. Montreal Irishman are arranging for a reception 'to John Redmond and Mayor Tallon, of Dublin. CANADA. 1 Hamilton is {to have night schools. A. temperance league has been form- qd at Hamilton. bursting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States, and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for My Reading. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. UNITED ST ATES. GREAT BRITAIN. GENERAL. crew from have All-English. paper gives a list of what it terms “ the fourteen mistakes of life.” ‘Vhile there are undoubtedly other mistakes than those mentioned, the list is afairly comprehensive one, It is a great mistake to set up our ovm standard of right and wrong, and judge people accordingly; to mear sure the enjoyment of others by our own; to expect uniformity of opinion in this world: to look for judgment and experience in youth; to endeavor to mold all dispositions alike; to look for 'pierfection in our own actions; to wor; ry ourselves and others with what cannot be remedied; not to yield in immaterial matters; not to alleviate; all that needs alleviation as far as lies in our power; not to make allow- ances for lthe infirmities of others; to consider everything impossible that we cannot perform; to believe only what our finite minds can grasp; to expect to be able to understand evâ€" erything. And the last and greatest mistake of all is to live for time alone, when any. moment may launch up into eternity. r 'Utpward of 18,000 horses are annual- 1y consumed by the people of Vienna. , "I don't like to think ill of anybody in my OfWD pr,0:fvession, but I’d. like, even now to m‘ee’r the man that swip- ed that silver.” "I got that stuff together and it made a pretty heavy sort of a sack. And then I stopped right there. I knew the house was empty, well enough, but I wasn't taking any chances at all; I night have. struck a good trade' up stairs, but I'd struck a good one hown. sure; and it seemed as though it would be a blunder to take one chance in a million of spoil- ing the good thing I’d got by reachâ€" ing aft-er more, and so I just went away and Went home; and I got there, with all that. stuff, almost as soon as I'd have got to the housqthat I’d set GMT to go to, if I’d .gone there. My folks was away, like they was out of that house I’d just come from, and baby like I spreadI the silver out on a table in a rock!) downstairs and look- ed at it and left it there and went to band. I woke up in the morning think- ing otf it, and came down to look at it again, and it wasn’t there; it was gone; to the last spoon; and‘ a latch shoved back from a window, showed how. "And it was a comfortable house, I tell you‘ everything just as slick and nice as could be; people of means, and people who knew how to live. and who limd happily; po-oty things all around. and showlng so you could tell that the folks had ’em there ’cause they liked 'em; not just for show. And the silver was what you might have expected in‘ a house like' that. It was solid; and good and handsome, and at the same time kimd o’ chubby; that is, it was inclined to ba' sort of stou‘tish, rather than tall and slender. It 10:01;- €|d gdodi h'umored and cheerful, some- how, and it suited me right down to the ground, and when there is somebady that. some-thing is susppiied; 1 suppclse it'c a current; of some sort; that; the air is charged with, but anyhow, you can hell by the feel whether there’s any- body in a harass or not, and there wasn’t anybody; in this. But it wasn’t deserted, not by a long shot; it just seemed to me as though they’d all gone off somewhere for that night, the whole kit' and cabaodle of 'em, and left the house alone. “And I'm blast if there w-aa a living soul. in the house; that is, as near as I could guess. L' couldn't tell for sure, of course, without looking, but I im-a agine I can tell always as scan as I step into a house whether there’s any- body in it or not. In a dead house, so! to speak, that is, you‘ know, where there’s newlife, nobody, the air’s ’dead; I dloln’t mean with the ‘deadness oi sh’ucâ€"up roorms, but it lacks something ; lugth Exasperuilngx Ending of a Pro- siren-0‘s Night’s Work. "One night! when I set? out; as usual with a definite object in View, knaow- mg just where I was going to go." said the retired ’burglar, "I stopped at anothlar hpruse on the mat}, some- thing that I very rarely did; but somehow this hou’se struck me as being good; you know ‘how things come to you that. way somtimas, and we can’t accciwnt for 'em. It was too early, half on threev-quarters of an} hour he- fiore I’d,- h‘ave. git at: the house I had started far, huh I didn’t even wait for timei. I just want ahead! and went in. The Ameer of Afghanistan is reportâ€" ed to be daily, sanctioning brutal exeâ€" cutions His actions are resulting in a general 9xodu's. Agui-naldo has given Agoncillo full power to negotiate for the release of the Spanish prisoners- held by‘ the gilipinos. Agoncillo is at present in ans. Exâ€"King Milan h‘aa desecrated the grave of Kara George, W119 headed the Servian uprising in 1804. Lord Kitchener will lead an expedi- tion of 6,003 Egyptian troops against the Khalifa. we censorship over press des- patches at Manila has been removed by.Gen. Otis. ‘ fl‘he son of the Grand Vizier of Turkey has been assassinated in Con- stantinap-le. Jamaica Has an enormous orange crop, but cannot get barrels for pack- ing. MORE HORSE EATER-S THE RETIRED BURGLAR. F OURTEEN MIS‘TAKES‘ Winter grain is to some extent pro- tected from heaving ourt by the ridges which the drill leaves on- each side of the rows of grain. Bust if the land is heavy and the soil is frozen under the grain rows, these hollows often fill with water in winter, and this en- tirely destroys the plant, for its root, being held light by the frost, the ex- pansion of the water in freezing snaps the leaf growth just at the surface of the ground, making it impossible for it to sprout again. Spring grain is not subject to 1111s injury, and there- fore for spring grain drill seeding Ihas advantages over broadcasting, es- pecially ii there is a fertilizer attach- ment whereby fertilizers may be disâ€" tributed in close contact with the seed. 11115 has proved so great a benefit to grain crops on loamyland [Many old farmers believe that with modern improvement in cultivating implements, the grain (drill for seedâ€" ing grain is not in:me if any improve- ment over the oldâ€"flashioned practice of broadcasting the seed and harrow- ing it in. The drill distributes the seed more evenly than can be done by hand sowing, but the‘grains are left in lines closely crowding each other, and between two ridges which when. beaten down by rains or melting snows cover the seed mud plant too deeply“ When .the drill was first introduced it was reckorned an advantage that its tubes made some impression on the clods which the cultivation at that period usually left on the surface. But the clods prevented the wheels of the drill from sinking so deeply in the soil, and thsz keep the points of the distributing tubes near the surface. When the grain field is prepared with the disc hurrow or the spring tooth cultivating barrow the soil is mellow- ed much deeper thanit should be.‘ To sow the grain on the surface of a mel- low seed bed, and then merely run a smoothing barrow over it to press it into the soil, leaves the grain in bet- ter, condition for growing than to cov- er it as deeply as the drill is sure to do. ‘ Pumpkins, if taken from the field before hard frosts, and then judici- ously fed to cows from; the manger, form valuable supplemental fall feed. When root crops, as mngles, turnips and carrots, are pulled, the. tops should be saved andl fed fresh to cows, for there is much‘milk in them. Corn fodder out early, before it has been touched by the frost, and then well stocked to preserve it bright and green. loses little of its succulent val- ue fed after frost has come. It should be out up and fed from the manger, where the cattle cannot trample half of it under foot, as would follow where spread on the fields. ‘At no Season of the year is milk more profitable for butter and cheese making than during the autumn months, but a limited yield means only a limited amount_ of profit. Besides attending to the bodily com- fort of cows as cool weather advances, their food supply should be kept at its maximum instead of allowing the vagaries of the season to regulate it. I can only explain it by the hypoâ€" thesis that most dairymen consider the fall shrinkage of milk inevitable, which I contend is a mistake, at least to thy, extent now purevailing.’ One has got to be but half way ob- servant to notice whow rapidly cows that are not sheltered shrink in milk yield following cold nights. It has seemed strange to the writer many times that this fact was not more gen- erally appreciated and remedigd by d'airymen at large.. ' Where, on the majority of dairy farms, cows receive no shelter at all in autumn, until they go into the win- ter stable at “freezing-up time,” this will keep them from suffering and fran physical and lacteal decadence. To get them accustomed to the new shelter drive them into it at dusk a few times, and they will find it themâ€" selves thereafteru 1A few salt boxes attached to the wall will also bait thm t_o the place more surely. By leaving it open on! one side, and of sufficient capacity to comfortably house all of the :milch‘ stock, -no floor or stalls need be provided. The ground under it should be elevated and well drained, wever, and kept covered with dry litter for comfortable bed- ding. Such a shed need not be erected for the purpose alone of protecting cows on cool autumn) nigh-ts, for it will serve as a shelter against cold rains alud hot sun alike. In My opinion no pasture should be without one. -A shed tightly boarded and open on the least exposed side‘will answer this purpose admirably, and add many more pounds of milk to the fall yield of cows. It is best situated near the e'xit gate of the pasture, so that the cattle may be readily found and driven up in the morning.- At this season of the year it is too cool for cows to lie out in open pasture at night, and not cold enough, per- haps, to warrant housing them‘ in the winter stable. An intermediary place should be provided, that will afford sufficient shelter to keep the milch cows from getting chilled through the prevalent cold dews and frosts of September and October, writes Geo. E. Nowell. WWWMWM SUSTAINING THE AUTUMN FLOW. Agricultural DRILLING GRAIN. WWW A missionary who had spent a long term of service in the far East said, with emphasis: "People at home do not dream of the solitude of the for- eign missionary. At first, and [or a year or two, those at home send many letters; then they lose interest. and one by one ceases to write, and except from her own family, the miseionnry receives few communications. The disappointment and heartache are too great for realization by outsiders when a mail comes in and no letters are brought to the women who is haltthe world's width away from home.” We might: make a mental note of the need of courtesy in answering the letters of all exiles and absentees. ] Time was when men and women tookl letterâ€"writing very seriously, and sat: down to the desk as if\ to an. important] task. The scrawls of the modern girl“ her hasty dashing off of an epistle to catch a post; her dozen notes scribâ€"i bled in hot haste and illegible penmanâ€"; ship, sealed with sprawling wax, and; dismissed with a sigh of relief, would} have filled a young woman of Jane Aus-j tin’s. day with unfeigned horror. Apart from the stilted style, affected by per-j sons who had the courtliness of their, period and its leisure, without the in-, born grace of the. raconteur who is of no? period, but belongs to all time, the' epistolary remains of the last cenâ€" tury, and of still earlier centuries” possess an interest which we shall vainly seek in the annals of our ownl day when we come to search for them; in letters. Cowper, Madame de SeVi-5 gne, Mary Mitford, the ladies of the; Hare family, Mrs. Browning in a yesâ€"i terday just past, and others, Whose" memoirs from art of our literary; wealth, are good examples of the per-: feet letter. 1 A week, or even a fortnight, is an appropriate interval to allow between the receipt of a friendly letter and its reply. A month or two months is too long a space to elapse, and as procras- tination is always the thief of time, she who waits a month may awaken after awhile to find herself derelict in the correspondence of a year. Fatal to the habit) of letterâ€"writing is the ten- dency to postpone the return letter, and few of us, looking back over the road of life, fail to see how friends have dropped out of sight and hearing, sim- ply because at one or another point the interchange of expression ceased. Yef as only lovers and romantic schoolgirls, or oeveted married pairs temporarily absent from one another, can keep up a regular correspondence involving a dailyletter on each side, ordinary mortals need not try to an- swer letters with such startling pqomptness. Indeed, the doing so carâ€" ries a suspicion of desire to get the duty off one’s hands, and, by so much as the recognition of obligation is ap- parent, the letter loses something of its spontaneity, and much of its flav- or and charm. AN SWERRING OF LETTERS. When to answer a letter, not imperâ€" iousiy demanding an instant reply, is a question which appeals to one’s sense, of, the fitness of things. Few peo- ple are superior to ’the feeling of plea- sure which a letter brings, with its thought of friendJy remembrance, and its breath’ of the world outside the immediate environment of home and neighborhood. A letter is a bit of one‘s friend, and however homely in its deâ€" tails and simple in its expression, it is a reminder that one’s friend is not indifferent to one‘s welfare. Usually the reading of an affectionate letter produces an expansion of [kindly senti- men‘t toWards the writer, so that the impulse is to sit down at once, before the impression1 fades, and send back an ackngwledgment by return mail HOG FEEDING. The hog is generally termed the money maker for the farm“ a He en- ables the farmer to convert his grass and coarse grains into .cashi and to' do so at the least expense to the pro- ductive capacity of his farm. says a writer. The mum who sells grain modueed upon this farm year after ysuear will soon exhaust his far-m, while the farmer who feeds the (pure- dmctions of his farm will not only maintain but may improve the fer- tility of his soil.‘ Farmers as a rule do not give sufficient thought to the food question, as to the best method of feeding for securing the largest amount of grain from the feed. It is not always a question of wihat will produce the greatest amount of pork, but how can I get the largest amount of pork, from the food grown on my far-m, being those for which it is best adapted. The chief expense in grow- ing hogs is the feed. ' Therefore it is a. matter that is entitled to the greatest study of the farmer. It is apparent to everyone that the more gain that can be got out of pastures the cheaper is the production 'of pork, and experience will teaoh that some grain with the pasture is more profit- able than an exclusive grass feed. There are a great many root feeds and vegetables that have but little feeding qualities, except that they enable the animal to get more omt of his grain. The hog that doesn’t eat, doesn’t grow and doesn’t gain and is no profit to the owner, therefore it is necessary to see that the hog is kept in a condition 1 that will give him a natural and strong appetite to insure the best‘ growth and profit. It is not a good plan to overfeed. it is also import- ant that feeding should be done regu- larly at stated times. [there is no- thing that will throw an animal out of feed and out of condition and in an unprofitable state so quick as con- stipation, and this should be provid- ed against. It is the forerunner of various diseases and complication. that most farmers now scarcely at- tempt to grow grain without putting some mineral fertilizer with‘ the seed. Dewey is perhaps the best small swordsman among the senior officers of the navy, indeed, the best in the service, excepting possibly Lieut. Com- mander Lucien Young, whose skill with the colichemarde, or three-cornerâ€" ed duelling sword, is amatter of note, all through the service, declares the Washington Post. Standing about 5- feet 9 1â€"2 01‘ 10, lithe, and with a‘cat- like quickness, the American admiral would be a mighty dangerous an- tagonist with the glittering blade in his handâ€"if he meant business. He has. a liking for the swond. “It has been the weapon par excellence for the knight and the gentleman for athou- sand years,” he once said, talking of’ the arms blanche to a comrade. “With it kings bestowed the accolade. It is the knightliest and noblest of weapons, with its record of chivalry, the white arm comes down through the ages, the. last legacy of the dead days. of roâ€" mance and beauty to the twentieth cen- tury.” i Self-respect is the Cornerâ€"stone c all virtue.â€"Sir John Herschel. Robert B. Porrter, whose name has been associated with the proposed port- folio of secretary for the colonies, as well as governor of Cuba, is regar‘dEd as an excellent man for the place,“o‘\'av~ ing to his wide familiarity with the trade and industry of the world, and particularly with the industrial condi- tions of the Antilles and the Orient), in which he spent much time. Mr. Porter, although ‘born in EnglandLhas been an American since he was/ 15. began his career as a newspaper mum‘ in Chicago in 1872. and while en- gaged in journalistic work he spent his leisure 'in the study of tariffs and the science of statistics. Later he visâ€" ited the industrial centres of Europe and wrote learned articles on foreign trade and manufactures for the New York Tribune. These articles were afterward published in book form. The Kansas City Star puts the trusts into rhyme as follows: ' Trust) in copper and trutit in rails; Trust in whiskey and trust in ales; Trust in coffins and tnust in wine, Trust in pickles and binding twine 7 Trust in glue and trust in rice; Trust” in coal and trust in ice; Now letd the toilers pass under the re , , Trust in everything but a trust in God! Railroad manager‘s say that still more powerful locomotives are needed to secure maximum economy. Larger driving wheels mmst‘be used. Engines are demanded that will haul at least 2,000 tons on grades at sixâ€"tenths to seven-tenths of 1 per cent, and 60 inch wheels. Locomotive builders are equipping to‘ meet the demand. For taking cane of an invalid for nearly three years, Mrs. I. Harden, a negro living in Kansas City, has beâ€" come heir to nearly $8,000 worth of property and money. Mrs. Harden’s Legator, was Mrs. Jennie Deiucico, of San Diego, Cal. Mrs. Defucico was a fullâ€"blooded Spaniard. It was while doing servant duty in Washington, D 0., that Mrs. Harden, med; Mrs. Defu cico, who was visiting the family of t California representative. Elihu Root is the eighth Secretary of War credited to New York. His- pu‘edecessors from the State were John‘ Armstrong, Madison. Peter B. Porter, John Quincy Adams; Benjamin E. Butler, Jackson; John C. Spenwr, Tyler; William L. Marcy, Polk; John M. thofield, Johnson. and Daniel S. Lamont, Cleveland. Out in Kansas a farmer who was walking through his Whea‘t field had on); of his legs broken by having a, Wheat stalk fall on it. At least this. is what a commission man telegraphed his house in Minneapolis. Major Rice, now colonel of the 26th Infantry, was a college mate of Adâ€" miral Dewey at Norwich University. Vermont. The two heroes have been lifelong friends. Since 1873 Australia has shipped 200,000,000 rabbits. TheLy seem ’to be increasing. The average from New Zealand is 15,000,000 a year. Canning rabbit mea,t for. export is a great in;- dustry. Workman, fr'om interior towns in Pennsylvania. are flocking to the big cities where iron and steel are mad& to find employment. Prof. Garner, the simiagn specialist, having failed to make a monkey out of man, is now trying to make’ a man of the monkey. l Michael Angelo has been arrested in Atchison, Kan., for selling liquor. Mike has finally come to grief. I Taunton, Mass, is to have a brew- ery. The Eagle cotton mill of that place is to be transformed into one. Cheese cloth is going up in price“ The demand for the anticle by street fair queens is the cause. During his trip throulgh Colorado Governor. Tanner came into possession of a black bear, which be shipped to Lincoln Park, Chicago. The Fall River cotton mills are hint. ing at combination with a capital of $40,000,000. Neighborly Interest In His Doings-Matter of Moment and l'lirth Gathered from H] Daily Record. Owing to ill-health Vice President Hobart will‘not be a. candidate for: re- election. ' ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. WHM UNCLE 8AM l8 M.