and lived up in the mountains of New Hampshire, I worked for a farmer and was given a span of horses to plough with, one of which was a four-year-old colt. The colt, after walking

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a few steps, would lie down in the furrow. The farmer was provoked and told me to sit on the colt's head, to keep him from rising while he whipped him to break him of that notion,' as he said. But just then a neighbor came by. said, 'there's something wrong here, let him get up and let us find out what is the matter.' He patted the colt, looked at his harness, and then said, 'Look at this collar; it is so long and narrow, and carries the harness so high, that when he begins to pull it slips back and chokes him, so that he can't breathe.' And so it was And so it was; and but for that neighbor we should have whipped as good a creature as we had on the farm, because he lay down when he could not breathe.'

Boys, always remember that all animals are dumb, and cannot make their wants known.

Think before you strike any creature that cannot speak.— George T. Angell.

Two Acres For Four Persons.

"CAN a family of four make a living on two acres just outside of a city of over 150,000, with plenty of water for irrigation, and a greenhouse 20 by 100 feet? And what can be produced to best advantage for family support?"

This query was submitted by the Rural New Yorker to a number of practical gardeners and florists, and among answers received were these:

Jerry Dutter, of Indiana, says that he would not be afraid to take the greenhouse alone, and a half-acre garden, and support a family of four by raising early vegetable plants for market. He would also grow carnations and such other flowers as will sell in the market. Strawberries and other fruits that bring the best prices are advised, as are gooseberries and currants. Some of the tree fruits, such as plums, peaches, and pears, set among the small fruits, would be a source of profit, and he would also keep a good cow, a few chickens and a pig to eat the refuse and waste from the garden. Many other little things would suggest themselves to a thinking man from a study of the markets he intends to supply. A few swarms of bees are also suggested, which would be a help to the fertilization of the flowers.

Professor Bailey, of Cornell University, says that the family can make a living upon two acres; but would need to grow specialties, and these specialties would depend upon the adaptability of the grower. As a rule, the greatest amounts of profit can be made from specialties in winter fruits, in vegetables, and in flowers, but there is also more risk in the growing of these.

T. C. Kevitt, of New Jersey, says that the inquirer might set one acre to strawberries, 30 by 34 inches, let only four runners grow to each plant and let only one plant grow to each runner. He advises Glen Mary, Ridgeway, and Parker Earle as the varieties best adapted for this method of culture. He figures out that the acre would yield, at the low price of five cents per quart, $750, which, after taking out all expenses of growing and marketing, would leave a profit of $398. The other acre might be best set to currants, raspberries, blackberries, plums, and peaches, but nothing else would pay as well as strawberries. He would set both acres to strawberries and would not bother with a greenhouse.

ONE ship drives east, another west,

With the very same winds that blow,
'Tis the set of the sails and not the gales,
Which tell the way to go.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life,

'Tis the set of a soul that decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

THE percentage of beet sugar produced in the United States during 1897 to the total consumption is reported as 24. It is expected that for the season of 1898 the production will reach 4 per cent.

NOTES ON THE WAR.

A DESPATCH says that the crews on the ships of Cervera's fleet were freely given liquor before the attempted escape from the harbor of Santiago, and that when taken prisoners many of them were under the influence of drink. Another despatch says that when in the running fights the firing of the American ships became more deadly, and the Spanish gunners were deserted their guns, and then were being slaughtered, they shot down by their own officers. "As the battle grew more desperate the wines and liquors belonging to the officers were: handed out to the crews, so that with drunken courage they would keep up the hopeless fight.”

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, in a letter from in front of Santiago, on the 3d instant, describes the hardships of the American troops. "They have been," he says, "in the most cruel heat, and wet with frequent showers, for three: days. They are unable to move about. They are under an unceasing fire.

"I went along the trenches this morning, and saw men. lying in the high grass, which was as wet as a sponge. The dew had not been out of the clothes they wore since June 30. Some of them had been without food for forty-eight hours. When food did come it was hard tack' and coffee. Those who smoke and they are in the majority-were suffering agonies from the lack of tobacco. Their nerves were so unstrung in consequence that as a substitute they were smoking grass, tea-leaves and herbs.”

It is a

CAPTAIN R. D. Evans, who commands the battleship Iowa, which took part in the destruction of Cervera's ships, has given an account of it to the newspapers. graphic description, and exhibits impressively the horrors of the battle. Many shells fired by the American ships took effect on those of the Spanish, doing great damage, and causing terrible loss of life. On the Vizcaya, the officers said they "could not hold their crews at the guns," owing to the terrible fire, and the number who were killed and mutilated. The details are too shocking to be reproduced in the INTELLIGENCER. It is to be hoped that the eager readers of the war despatches in the daily newspapers will realize from them what war is.

APPREHENDING the bombardment of Santiago, a great number of inhabitants abandoned their homes last week, and came out of the city into the American lines. They were not able to take anything with them, and were in a starving conbeing several thousands. dition. Their number is represented in the despatches as At El Caney, the little village where there was such hard fighting on the 1st inst., there were said to be 8,000. A despatch on the 7th said: "The country for miles around is dotted with the camps of refugees. They have little clothing and no food. The Red Cross Society is working among them. Miss Clara Barton visited them today. Five thousand are heading for Siboney, their route being thirteen miles along through the brush and cactus, through which they were wearily plodding barefooted. They heard that there was food at Siboney, but in this they are mistaken, as there is hardly enough there for the soldiers. Many refugees began arriving at Siboney to-day. A large number of them are women and children. The sick were carried on litters. The condition of the roads, so called, is awful. It is reported that many of the refugees have already succumbed to the heat and the hardship of their journey, and are lying half dead by the roadside.'

bleating kid he had in his arms. Many of the children among the refugees are sickly. It is a common sight to see refined women sitting by the roadside weeping and begging for food, wearing all of their finery and making desperate attempts to maintain their dignity in distressing circumstances."

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We all know, says the Springfield Republican, Italy's colonies have cost-an army and navy whose expense is impoverishing the people and has already brought the nation to the verge of bankruptcy, internal revolution, and anarchy. As for Spain, the present premier, Sagasta, is reported as saying some time ago: 'Our colonies have cost us dear. Within the last twenty-five years we have spent in them 3,000,000,000 francs in defensive works. Only the most important cities and points have been fortified, as we could not erect works everywhere. The cost would have been 7,000,000,000 or 8,000,000,000 francs.' And all to feed a false national pride which our jingoes are striving to cultivate in the people of the United States. Germany's colonial experience is of recent date, but the Boersen Courier of Berlin already finds that: A. heavy burden has been laid upon Germany by her colonial policy. About 11,000,000 marks is spent annually in this connection, and a further expenditure may be looked for in the future. The revenue derived from the colonies in no way offsets this expenditure.'

THE total losses of the Americans, in the fighting before Santiago, from the 1st to 3d inst., are reported by General Shafter as follows: Killed, 23 officers and 208 enlisted men, total 231; wounded, 80 officers, 1,203 men total, 1,283 ; missing, 81 men; grand total 1,595.

CURRENT EVENTS.

RUMORS of efforts to arrange terms of peace have been current for a week, and different reports as to the disposition of the contending factions at Madrid have been circulated. Senor Sagasta, the Spanish prime minister, offered the resignations of himself and other members of the Cabinet to the Queen Regent on the 11th; a dispatch on the 12th says that Sagasta will remain in office and form a new Cabinet. The "Conservative press" of Madrid, a dispatch says, declares that Spain is prepared to accept peace, provided it implies only the loss of Cuba. The demands" of the United States are not known, but according to a Madrid dispatch, they include (1) the possession of Cuba and Porto Rico, with a port in the Canaries; second, an indemnity of £48,000,000 (about $240,000,000), and third, the retention of the Philippines as a guarantee of the payment of the indemnity.

THE threatened bombardment of Santiago continued to be postponed last week, from various causes, one of them the possibility that the city would be surrendered. General Toral, the Spanish commander, offered to surrender, on the 9th, provided his army were allowed to march away under arms, and with flying colors. General Shafter refused this offer, under instructions from Washington, it is said, as it was believed that the actual capture of Santiago would have a "moral effect" upon the negotiations for peace which are now expected. A bombardment by the fleet was begun late on First-day afternoon, but being at very long range, and the city entirely hidden by the hills, was ineffective.

DISPATCHES from Santiago at this writing do not yet report the surrender of the city, but this is expected at any time. Its surrender has been three times demanded the last by General Wheeler, who went into the city for the purpose. Further bombardment of the city by the warships has occurred, and "the range" having been obtained, great damage has been done by their shells. General Miles reports the rains "the heaviest I have ever known." He has ordered the buildings at Siboney, within the American lines, and near the landing-place, to be burned, for sanitary reasons.

REINFORCEMENTS have been sent to General Shafter for the operations at Santiago. The "second fleet of transports arrived on the 25th, with 2,500 men. On the 9th, two steam

ships sailed from Charleston, S. C., with more troops, and one of the ships took General Miles, the military chief of the United States army. These ships arrived on the 11th. General Shafter was then said to have about 23,000 men under his command.

THE auxiliary cruiser St. Louis, (New York and Southampton steamship, American Line), reached Portsmouth, N. H., on the 10th inst., with 54 officers and 638 men, Spanish prisoners of war taken in the destruction of Cervera's ships. Admiral Cervera and his son were among the former. The men are to be kept at the Portsmouth navy-yard, the officers, it is stated, will be sent to Annapolis, Md., to the Naval Academy.

LIEUTENANT R. P. Hobson, and the seven men who were with him in the sinking of the Merrimac, at Santiago, were exchanged between the defenses of the city and the lines of General Shafter's troops on the 6th inst. They were in good health, and said they had been well used.

THE Spanish fleet under Admiral Camara, which had passed through the Suez Canal, but had halted at Suez, on the Red Sea, was ordered back by the Spanish Government, and re-entered the canal on the night of the 8th inst., to return to Spain. It made the trip through on the 9th, and at 5 p. m., sailed westward for Carthagena. Its recall appears to have been due to the announced despatch of an American fleet under Commodore Watson to attack the ports and commerce of Spain.

THE resolutions annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States were passed by the United States Senate on the 6th instant, by a vote of 42 to 21. The Republicans were generally in favor of the resolutions, and the Democrats generally opposed, but there were six Democrats who voted for the resolutions, and two Republicans who voted against them. The resolutions recite that the Government of the Republic of Hawaii has in due form ceded its sovereignty to the United States, and that this is now accepted, ratified, and confirmed. The Islands become subject to the sovereign authority of the United States, and until Congress shall pass laws governing them, they are to be under the administration, civil and military, of persons appointed by the President. Five Commissioners, of whom at least two shall be residents of the Islands, are to be appointed by the President to recommend to Congress such legislation concerning the Islands as they shall deem necessary or proper.

THE American members of the Hawaiian Commission have chosen Senator Cullom Chairman. They expect to sail about August 1, for Honolulu. A New York regiment of volunteers, the Ist Regiment, has been selected for garrison duty at Honolulu. It is thought that the present president of the Hawaiian Islands, Sanford Dole, will be appointed Governor by President McKinley, under the provisional organization which is to exist until a permanent system is provided by Congress.

BOTH Houses of Congress adjourned finally, on the 8th instant, at 2 p. m. The next session will begin the "first Monday in December." At this session the appropriations amounted to $982,527,991, of which $361,788,085 was to meet the cost of the war with Spain. These were by far the largest appropriations made since the close of the Civil War. President McKinley signed the bill annexing the Hawaiian Islands on the 8th, and next day announced the five commissioners who are to prepare a code of laws for the Islands. The Commissioners are Senators S. M. Cullom, of Illinois, and John T. Morgan, Alabama, Congressman R. R. Hitt, Illinois, President Sanford Dole, and Judge W. F. Frear, of the Hawaiian Islands.

FULL details of the sinking of the steamship La Bourgogne affect somewhat the statements given in the paragraph last week. There were, it is said, 565 persons lost. Of the saved none belonged to the saloon passenger list; 12 were second

class, and 47 steerage passengers, and the remaining 105 were members of the crew, making 164 altogether. Only one woman was saved, Mrs. A. Lacasse, of Plainfield, N. J., whose husband also escaped. The entire list of the first-cabin passengers, 88 in number, were lost. Distressing charges of brutal conduct were made against some of the men, who it was said prevented passengers from getting into the boats, upon the rafts, etc., and it has been intimated that trials in the courts may be instituted. All the officers except three, of minor rank, were lost, and one telegram from Halifax says the crew acted well, and that most of the sailors who were saved were picked up from the water by the rescue boats, and were not in the Bourgogne's boats.

The French Consul-General, at New York, exonerates the crew, and throws all the blame on the panic-stricken steerage passengers.

A NUMBER of serious fires have occurred: at West Hammond, Ill., 10th, the plant of the Western Starch Manufacturers' Association, at West Hammond, Illinois, the buildings of which covered seventeen acres of ground. Loss, $250,000. At Cleveland, O., 9th, the Parsons' Block was wrecked by fire, causing a loss estimated at $885,000. One man was killed. At Pentwater, Michigan, 9th, over 6,000,000 feet of lumber at the yards of Sands & Mills, together with other property, the loss approximating a half million dollars.

NEWS AND OTHER GLEANINGS.

THE announcement that Judge Edward M. Paxson would devote a large sum of money to the erection and endowment of a free public library near his home in Buckingham, Bucks county, (Pa.), is confirmed by the publication of fuller details of his plan. He will set aside $100,000 of his estate for it, of which $25,000 is for the building, $35,000 for the books, etc., and $40,000 for endowment. It is to be a memorial of his mother, Ann Johnson Paxson. He expects to personally supervise the erection of the building, and its equipment.

NOTICES.

-The estates of the two Wistar brothers, Richard, and W. L., in Philadelphia, which had been in litigation, were recently settled. After paying specific legacies, $98,558, and debts and expenses, there remained $180,645. Of this, $50,ooo was given to three attorneys who tried to break the wills, and $50,000 more to two attorneys who defended the wills, making $100,000 for these lawyers, and leaving $80,645 for distribution. There had already been allowed to an administrator $35,000, and to his attorney $10,000.

-Between the cold weather in the spring and the dry weather in early summer, fruits in the region of Philadelphia are a short crop. At the meeting of the Solebury (Bucks county) Farmers' Club, on the 2nd inst., John S. Williams reported that the fruit crop was growing shorter and shorter. All the small fruits were drying up. There would be a fair crop of summer apples, but pears and winter apples were being hurt by want of rain.

-In Chicago, at the beginning of this month, the stereotypers employed by the daily newspapers struck for higher wages and shorter hours. The employers refused and suspended publication of all the morning papers. No morning paper was issued in that city on the 2d, 3d, 4th, or 5th of the month, but men having been procured from other cities, the papers came out, in very reduced size, on the 6th, and later were made the usual size.

—A destructive storm of wind, lightning, and hail passed over part of Berks county, Pa., on the 9th inst. Thousands of panes of glass were broken, fruit trees stripped, crops levelled, and grain-stacks scattered. On one farm eight cows were killed by lightning.

-Three buildings in New York City within a stone's throw of each other hold $282,000,000 of gold coin and bullion. These are the Sub-Treasury, the Assay Office, and the Clearing House. The last holds the most, and it is all coin gold, $167,000,000.

-The steamship Delaware, of the Clyde Line, bound from New York to Jacksonville, was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the 8th inst., off Barnegat City. All the passengers and crew, numbering over seventy in all, were rescued.

-Ex-Senator J. D. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, who is now in London, has cabled to Secretary Long, offering the Government the free use for hospital purposes of his estate on Saint Helena Island, opposite Port Royal, South Carolina.

-It is estimated that $25,000,000 was expended for fireworks in the United States in connection with this year's celebration of the Declaration of Independence—an immense sum to spend for noise and smoke.

**A meeting under the care of the Committee on Education of New York Yearly Meet-present. ing will be held at 2.30 p. m., Seventh month 30, (after Westbury Quarterly Meeting), at Westbury, L. I.

The meeting will be addressed by the President of Swarthmore College, William W. Birdsall. It is expected that Helen Magill White will also be present. All interested are invited to be present. WM. M. JACKSON, Clerk.

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THE average walking pace of a healthy · man or woman is said to be seventy-five steps a minute.

SUMMER OUTINGS.

PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED TOURS VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company announces the following Personally-Conducted Tours for the Summer and Early Autumn of

1898:

To the North (including Watkins Glen, Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Quebec, Au Sable Chasm, Lakes Champlain and George, Saratoga, and a daylight ride through the Highlands of the Hudson), July 26 and August 16. Rate, $100 for the round trip from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, covering all expenses of a two weeks' trip. Proportionate rates from other points. To Yellowstone Park and the Trans-Mississippi Exposition on a special train of Pullman sleeping, compartment, observation, and dining cars, allowing eight days in "Wonderland and two days at Omaha, September 1. Rate, $235 from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington; $230 from Pittsburg.

To Niagara Falls, excursion tickets good to

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Last week we were offered a large lot of these single suit lengths, ranging in May P. O., Lancaster Co., Pa. price from $2 to $4 a yard, for $1.25. We offered $1.50 for our choice, and took the best of them.

FOULKE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH Taken at Reunion at Gwynedd, May 30. $1.00. Photograph of Edward Foulke's House.

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Two ten day tours to Gettysburg, Luray Caverns, Natural Bridge, Virginia Hot Springs, Richmond, and Washington, September 28 and October 19. Rate, $65 from New York, $63 from Philadelphia. Proportionate rates from other points.

For itineraries and further information apply to ticket agents, or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Philadelphia.

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WATCHES.

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For rent or sale, Queen Anne Cottage, 12 rooms, steam heat, and open fire grates. The location is very delightful, directly overlooking the athletic grounds of the College, and very close to the meeting-house; one acre of ground, and plenty of fruit. Apply to

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