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marly every traMe Founded In IS74 It grew until SS99,
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ing Ita meat premialng ported In the pact.
Fresh Air and Longevity
BOSTON contemporary takes the pe-
culiar attitude that the residents of
MsM* the country districts are more igno-
A rant of the value of fresh air than
those living in the city, and calls
upon urban visitors and summer
boarders to "enlighten” their hosts
on the efficacy of fresh air as a pre
ventive of tuberculosis and other
diseases. We are inclined to dis
pute this charge. Both country and
city have had our rather careful at
tention, and we are prepared to state
that the population of each have
about an equal regard for the well-
ventilated room and workshop. As a rule it is the
denizen of tlie city who is the principal offender
in this direction. Speaking from a general stand
point, he is given to late retiring. He does not
want the industrious sun slanting across his eyes
at an early hour in the morning, so he closes in
the shutters or pulls down his shade, thus shut
ting off the free circulation of air. He is then
given to wo lering why he feels drowsy and lan
guid the following day and finds the breakfast cup
of coffee indispensable to getting up the proper
amount of “steam” to tackle the day’s task. The
country cousin, within our observation, is not as
remiss in this particular. Oftener than not he has
a special reason for wishing to rise at an earlv
hour, and he likewise, as a class, has a deep-rooted
objection to a stuffy sleeping-room. It must not
be forgotten, moreover, that the man outside the
city has infinitely the advantage of the man inside
the city, in that the very nature of 'his occupation
forces him to spend a greater portion of his wak
ing hours in the open, where he miust, nolens
•volens, absorb more or less untainted atmosphere.
Town or city or country, there can be no dis
puting the hygienic influence of air uncontami-
nated by smoke or the germs or th£ filth of man
kind and his mechanical products. The medical
profession wrestled for many years with that
scourge of the centuries, consumption. Medicines
were tried: changes of climate were tried; every
thing and anything that seemed to offer a remote
chance of relief or cure were given an exhaustive
investigation. Finally, specialists came to the con
clusion that the only cure for this dreaded malady
lay in that substance which we value so lightly as
to call “as free as air.” They experienced and
found out that if an infected patient spent the ma
jority of his waking and sleeping hours in freely
circulated atmosphere, confined himself or herself
to a nourishing and an easily digestible diet and
observed the proper hygienic laws, that the hea;!-
ing art had done its uttermost n>ward staving the
ravages of the destroyer.
The principle applying to the cure of tubercu
losis, applies somewhat differently to the health
and the activity of the entire mind and body. Oc
casionally, we are cited instances wherein indi
viduals who spent the better part of fhieir time
within doors live to abnormal ages. But in the
overwhelming preponderance of cases, length of
years goes to the man and the woman- who live
mainly in the open air, letting the tonic made in
the laboratories of the Almighty have unrestricted
access to their -lungs, .and through these organs to
the bipod and the vital activities of the body.
It is a sad commentary on the shallowness of
the human viewpoint that it should, so often, over
look a means for health so near at hand and so in
significant in price. The ether of the firmament is
the common property of the beggar and the mil
lionaire—yet neither one appreciates it at its true
worth. If it were put in bottles and retailed at an
enormous cost; if there were a patent on its man
ufacture; if one had to cross the Atlantic to take
it as the baths at Naudheim—it would have many
more devotees. But just because we can step to
the window or the front door and inhale, without
let or hindrance, long breaths of this bringer of
years and vigor, few f us trouble, to do it. We
breathe—it is true. We do so, however, inciden
tally, involuntarily. Rarely do we throw out the
chest, draw in such supplies of air as penetrate
every flabby crevice of the lungs, and send the
blood tingling to the furthest extremities of the
body.
If we did—if we realized, to the greatest ex
tent—the full value of this elixir so free and so
pervasive, it is a safe assertion that the figures on
national longevity would advance 50 per cent and
that half the diseases with which the human fam
ily is afflicted would find it convenient to make
their escape by the nearest possible route.
The Man With a Chronic
Grouch
HEOLOGIANS ^galore are frequent
ly wont to enter into finely-spun
debate regarding the existence of an
“unpardonable sin.” If ever an agree
ment is reached on its presence in
the calendar of earthly offenses, we
sincerely trust there is one type of
man that will be at once placed into
intimate and uncomfortable relation
with it. He is the customer who is
never happy unless engaged in
pricking the bubble for some hap
less innocent of his acquaintance.
He may indulge in this gruesome
pastime because by nature he is biiious and ideals
of any description goad him as does the scarlet
rag the bull. This is as far, however, as our chari
ty can go in extenuation of his performances. For
be is responsible for a great deal of the unhappi
ness which secretly haunts our minds, and for the
placing of an unceremonious period after many of
the strange notions which,, in spite of our twen
tieth century enlightenment, we are foolish enough
to cherish.
No reflection is meant on the gentleman who
sees his friend unconsciously engaged in an un
worthy cause, or being unduly influenced by ma
lign or disastrous agencies. Intervention at such
a time is a privilege and a duty, which should be
tactfully performed. But there is the callous-
natured brute, for instance, who points out to the
hilarious youngster the form of grandpa or papa
under the picturesque robe and flowing beard of
Santa Claus. He hal> his counterpart in the citi
zen that performs the same service for the mature
man—only that the hoax which he is exposing
may be much more seriously important 1han that
of the beautiful old German custoifi. He is the
practical villian who would rob life of its sparkle
and romance, and tearing aside the veil from some
of our finely conceived fancies, show us just how
grim and ghostly existence really is.
Such a man is an ideal idol-breaker. With his
mallet of fact and his crowbar of logic he makes
the round of his friends, and even casual acquaint
ances, and does not consider his task complete
unless he has left crumbling clay and thin air in
his wake. He is equally reckless with the ideals
of the young and the old. the middle-aged, the
man, the woman, the child. What valid excuse
he has for his own existence is a mystery. The
good he accomplishes is nil, and the harm infinite.
Unimaginative and intolerant of pleasing fancies,
he deserves to be classed with some baneful drug,
the only office of which is to depress the circula
tion or dull the consciousness.
If you wish to render service to yourself and
mankind, ferociously snub this individual at every
opportunity.
Sawdust.
It seemed a monstrously impossible
thing for us two to starve, yet starve
we must, and that right presently, un
less relief should come. We were even
now on our last boot-leg. Of the sup
plies we had laid in, nothing remained
but a tin of nutmegs.
"Of course We ain’t eat nutmegs',’’ j
muttered, half delirious.
Suddenly Paoli leaped to his feet.
“Bring me those nutmegs!” he cried,
in a tense voice.
I brought him the tin. He glanced at
the names on the label and a wild shout
of exultation burst from his lips.
“They are! They are Connecticut
goods! The bucksaw! Quick!’’ he
shrieked, and trembled like a leaf with
excitement.
I began to see. In feverish haste I
orought the bucksaw.
It was soon over. In less than ten
minutes we sat each with his dish of
breakfast food before him, and ate, and
laughed, and wept, hysterically.—Puck.
If Shakespeare Had Written for Broad
way—
Hamlet, to his pother:
“Mother, for love c.f grace.
Forget it! Cut it out!”
Hamlet, to Horatio:
"Horatio, I am dead, not yet, but
soon!”
hamlet, to Ophelia:
"Beat it to a nunnery! Sklddoo!”
—Puck.
Can This Be TrueP
Hon. is not necessarily a title of re
spect. Sometimes the newspapers use
it merely to conceal thoughts whose
utterance would probably result in em
barrassing suits for libel.—Exchange.
The Better Wish.
“I only •wish,” growled the pessimistic
man. “that I had all the money that Is
spent for fireworks In this country every
year.”
“That would be a comfortable sum,”
remarked the optimistic one, “but while
one i.s wishing he should wish for
plenty. I would rather wish for the
money that is n-ot spent for fireworks.—
Comic Paper.
LISTENING.
Golden stars across the heavens
With their small feet softly creep,
Fearing lest they should awaken
Mother Earth, who lies asleep.
Listening stand the silent forests
Every leaf a little ear,
And, as in a dream, the mountain
Shadow arms outstretches near.
But who called? I heard an eciho;
Through my listening heart it -fell.
Could it be her voice—or was it
Nothing but' the nightingale?
—Heine.
Busy Worl«
M. Mouromtseff.
WO noted men n
apparently are j
ted against ea
other in Russ
One represents t
continuation
autocratic rule a
the crushing
popular aspiratlc
for constitutioi
liberty. The oth
who was presidt
of the duma tl
has Just be
summarily disbar
Southern Fox Farming;
^ The Profit it Offers ^
IN TWO PARTS—PART I.
By HELEN HAROOURT.
Written for The SUNNY SOUTH.
Leaves from an Old (Scrap B00K
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
I FIND in the old war scrap-book the
following interesting account of Gen
eral Kirby Smith’s battles In Ken
tucky. as it was published in The Knox
ville Register in September. I8B2:
“The following highly Interesting let-
000, while ours win not reach more than
ifront 300 tx> 500 killed and wounded.
Their loss In killed and wounded officers
is very heavy. The troops were from
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, and com
manded by General Bull Nelson—Colonel
Cassius M. Clay commanded a brigade.
Genera! Smith cCTnmanded our troops,
iNa.ha.nt, after a thirty-two minutes’ fight.
We steamed up to within 50 yards at one
•time, but \ye fought at 200 yards. We
opened with our 8-Inch gun. Two of tlieir
15-inch balls came crashing through the
iport side, disabling the marine gun’s
crew and No. 3 division crew. Another
shot knocked the pilot house all to ,
seriously wounding both Austin and Her
nandez, the pilots. Being thus disabled,
the ship ran aground, our guns could
not be brought to bear upon any object
and humanity and instinct prompted
Very worthy source, and is j and by hard fighting and the blessing'of
#<r , a ^ utmos * credit; j Ood, we. destroyed their fine army. It
jrenerni Smith hnd staff mounted their | was a grand sight to see our ill-clad, and
.arses a o clock Saturday morning, sometimes barefooted troops, with no ifood
t0 f the ,front . 8 ml,es . :nnd but little water, marching with a ___ „
Tusf Wnn. ?^ CeS last night. , steady front on their splendidly equipped | surrender, as in less than fifteen minutes
/ th °, plnce the ® nem y ! foe. It wa s one of the grandest battles
attacked us, opening with artillery, and j I ever saw.
a '” U a t , an h< ? ur ,he Gantry opened; in j "i t filled our hearts with pride to see
. s . n an hour we drove them from j cur men move onward and never give
Jhe r ® rCat 8laUKhter on »way. Glory he to God on high for the
their side, we taking many prisoners, j splendid result
ficcrs^vT' 1 ™ h T T ' eS, r‘ a,Iy ln ° f ' ‘‘General Smith and staff escaped un-
fleers. Me moved on about 2 miles U-.urt “
beyond Rogersville, at which place the
first fight occurred, and .found them again ; SURRENDER OF THE ATLANTA
0 ”’ When W * ma ' f ' e the attack ‘ I The following, found in the old scra.p-
, r * * lm f, 11 dro ' e tbem Uom book. Is an Interesting account of the | them and us comfortable. Tomorrow we
tr th ^L,7 1 a h .. 8tm f ren, , er loss lK)tl1 surrender of the confederate ironclad i are to be sent north, and it may be some
a Z wl,h steamer Atlanta: i time before you see or hear from me
rma. ier loss on out side. This second “At Inst we have definite accounts of again. Yours truly, W. B. M.’
.J^ C,ITT . e<1 , ab0ut 2 or 3 o'clock, a.nd the late naval fight ln Warsaw sound, “The following from an officer on board
our troops, having marched some 8 miles, . and the surrender of the confederates
® n d having no water except a little taken states’ Ironclad Atlanta. We are permit-
fnmi the stagnant pools along the road, ted to copy the following letter from a
and seeing the enemy again preparing member of the crew to a friend In this
city. It shows that the Atlanta surren-
Charivari.
(From London Punch.)
According to Th e Express large quan
Uties of tinned food are being destroyed
or given to poultry.” This, iwe sup
pose, is how bad eggs are made.
The leading London hotels are now
full of American millionaires and mul
timillionaires, and the former complain
•bitterly that the latter treat them as
so much dirt.
The agitation in favor of more com
fortable prisons continues. There is no
doubt that the fact that they are
not all that can be desired keeps many
persons from using them.
"Why,” asks The Medical Times,
“should we tell patients what we are
giving them? Depend upon' it, by so
doing we lose ou r dignity as a profes
sion.” This i® certainly what has hap
pened to the beef trust.
Still Learning-.
(From The Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
“Does your eon graduate this month?”
“Oh. no. Hp has another year on
the track team.”
The Bright. Pupil.
(From The Chicago New*.)
Tie.acher—Why did the ancients bee
Iirve th e earth to be (flat?
Bright Boy—’Cause they didn’t have
no school globes to prove it iwtaa round.
The New Aladdin.
(From The Pacific Monthly.)
A school teacher on the lower east
side in New York a few years ago re 1 '
the story of Aladdin's Lamp to h r
charges. The next day she rrqw s?ed j
the m to write the story for her. r V:n-J
mi e Flynn, however, had been
the previous day, and had not heard
the story. But with the craftiness of
the gamin, he did not intend to display
his ignorance, and accordingly wrote
the following composition:
“Alad'iin iwuz a kid what hung out
down to Baxter st. he sold wuxtrus
and shooted craps, his ole man wuznt
no good and his nta she licked him
awful, so Aladun he didnt mosey round
home much, he could fite to, and one
day he picked a scran iwid a dago cause
the dago win all his money sheetin'
craps. he nocked the tar outer ?Tie
dago but a nothc r one comes runt-in
up and hands him a package rite on
the left surch lite. bout a our frum
then he had a peach of a mouse there
and when his ole man sees him he says
whats the matter and Aladun says I
fell and hit the curb, you lie says the
ole man. you bin fitin- and sum'body
put out your lamp, cummere till I make
it two. and thats the story of Aladun
and his lamp.”
the rotten thing would have had not
a human being aboard.
“ ‘We all deeply sympathize with our
noble and gallant captain, who is suffer
ing and overcome with mental anguish.
Every man stood nobly at his post from
the first to last.
“ 'Our loss is one killed, eight severely
and ten slightly wounded. They are re
ceiving the best care from our captors,
who are doing all they ca.n to render
to receive tis, we halted our men and
gave them several hours' rest. Every
thing being ready, a short march brought
•us within sight of Richmond, where the
enemy made a third stand, when we
moved on ana attacked them the third
time. After hard fighting we routed
has also been handed to us, with the lib
erty of making it public:
“ ‘United States Ship Vermont, Port
Royal, S. C., June 18, 1863.—Dtar :
I am a prisoner of war on 'board this
The Wolf Story.
(From The Rochester Post-Express.)
A red-faced man was holding the at
tention of a little group with some won
derful recitals.
“The most exciting chase I over had,”
he said, “happened a few years ago in
Russia. One night, when sleighing about
ten miles from ray destination, I dis
covered to my Intense horror, that I
was being followed by a pack of wolves,
d fired blindly Into the pack, killing one
of the- brutes and to my delight saw
the others stop to devour It. After do-
l*g this, however, they still came on.
I kept on repeating the dose, with the
same result, and each occasion gave me
an opportunity to whip up my horses.
Finally there was only one wolf left, yet
on it came, with its fierce eyes glaring
ln anticipation of a good, hot supper.”
Here the man who had l/-en sitting
in the corner burst forth in a fit of
laughter.
“Why, man,’’ said he, “by your way
of reckoning, tk»u last wolf must have
had the rest of the pack inside him!”
“Ah!” said the red-faced man without
a tremor, “now I remember, it did wab
ble a bit.*'
T is an industry new, and
yet not new, this of fox
farming. Here and there
in this great country of
ours a few enterprising,
wide awake men have es
tablished themselves in
this odd line of business,
and have proved that
there is money in it, big
money, too. But the ven
ture is so nerw that there
is as yet no literature on
the subject, as there is on
raising cattle. horses, sheep, goats,
poultry, and other live stock, or old es
tablished industries. Thus far most of
the experienced ranchers have been lo
cated north of the Mason and Dixon
line, but it has only happened so. The
fox does not, It is true, like extremely
hot weather, but Is quite at home ln
our southern country, although drawing
the lino at the tropics. As a matter
of fact, fox farms in the south will
prove to have their advantages over
those of colder climates ln this, as in
other live stock Industries.
The oldest and most successful fox
farms of today are located on the nu
merous Islands of southeastern Alaska,
whose climate Is milder than that of
New York, In the southern part of
Maine and along the Gulf of St. Law
rence. These and others, today. To
morrow and for many other tomorrows
will come the turn of the south. Its fox
farms will be numerous, and they will
have come to stay, and to multiply. For
all who have tried it intelligently have
found foxes a more profitable crop than
potatoes, or hay or vegetables, or any
thing else that can be grown. The
bright eyed, bushy tailed little animal
raises a fur that Is in greater demand,
and brings a higher price than other
crops. A poor, hard working farmer up
in Maine, who was also something of a
hunter, growing weary or the struggle
of making a living out of a worn out
farm, decided to try fox farming. It
was only an experiment, and he en
tered on it with fear and trembling,
amidst dire predictions from his neigh
bors of disaster. But today he has a
highly profitable business, and his poor,
worn out farm Is known far and near
I as the best paying piece of land ln
Maine.
ALWAYS PROFITABLE.
Wherever fox farming has been estab
ltshed and conducted on a basis of com
monsense care and thrift it has proven
profitable. Fox pelts are valuable prop
erty. Those of the black and silver-
gray foxes bring the highest, even fabu
lous prices, the finest specimens selling
for from eight hundred to one thousand
dollars. As a matter of fact, the black
and silver grey foxes are identical, the
latter being black with a sprinkling of
gray hairs, which produce the handsome
silver luster so much admired. The
reason of the extremely high prices ob
tained for the black fox pelts is their
scarcity, as well as their beauty. For
right here is a rock on which the fox
farmer founders so far as this one little
black fellow Is concerned. It Is almost
Impossible to raise the black fox in cap
tivity, and it is scarce in the wild state
for the same reason, which is that the
old males are cannibals, and never lose
a chance to eat the young as fast as
they are born. They will gi ve battle
to the parents rather than forego their
favorite feast.
The man who succeeds in outwitting
old Mr. Black Fox, or in breeding out this
bad trait, will have a big fortune in
hand. And some day some one will
succeed in doing this very tihing, we may
and makes them his
ed, represents the people who des
popular government. Sergei Andreivi
Mouromtseff has long been conspicuc
in tho struggle against autocracy. He
a member of a noble family ( and w
educated in the IfnTverslty of Moser
receiving his degree from the law depa
ment. Subsequently he became a prof,
sor ln the famous school, but his vie
became so radical that he was compel
to leave the Institution. He then pr
ticed law for a time, and later becai
an editor, but the paper was suppress
by the police. Mouromtseff has It
been a member of the Moscow zemst-
His wife, before her marriage, was c
of the most popular singers in the I
perial theater in the old capital. C?
Nicholas has long been known as a ^
dilating rider, who lacked the courage
his convictions. ,.ith one ear open
the appeals of the people, the other b
been listening to the cajoieries of t
bureaucrats, who despise constitutor
government. He is the eighth ruler
the house of Romanof-Holsteln, w
born May 18. 1868, and ascended t
throne November I, 1894. His reij,
politically, has probably been the an
and thetr wants
friends.
AN ALASKAN LESSON.
All alonjr t'he southeastern coast of
Alaska are scattered hundreds of small
islands. On as many of these are es
tablished fifty or more ifox farms. More
than half of them are not yet paying [ dTsastTnus in the history of the err*.re
a profit, because to reach that point re- ] * **
quires thne, which they have not had.
Some of these farms began with only two
pairs of foxes, and of course where the
beginning Is so small, the owner must
expend patience i.n lieu of the cash he
does not possess. The profitable in
crease will come by and by, If deserved.
Some of the larger island fox farms arc-
owned by companies which have started
with several hundred pairs of animals.
Their profits will come quickly, of course.
Until quite recently these Alaskan islands
•have been looked upon as worthless, but
now that they have been found suitable
for ifox farming, they will soon produce
a harvest which will add largely to the
wealth and beauty of the world.
Those Alaskan islands should serve as
an object lesson to us of the south At
lantic coast. Scattered all along that
coast are many islands even better suited
to fox farming than those of Alaska.
hese could be utilized in like manner.
T7SSELL SAGE
dead, in his n:r
:leth year, at .
summer home
Long Island. .1
Sage, who is
puted to hatfe 1
an estate varjV
from seventy-
one hundred n
lions, was the nr
tor of Ameri-
\anciers, and w
known as havl
Russell Sage. the largest cu.
mand of ready money of any of the W
street operators. He was famous for t
eccentricities, his apparent parsimor
and his devotion to work, whi
amounted almost to a mania. The i
mor hss gotten abroad that the read
of his will will create a stupendous
But It is not every one who can own j P-’ise to^the nation, as many f i
an island, and so it is well that the way
has been found to make a fox-proof
closest friends hint mysteriously ■ Uaf
will leave enormous legacies to char
ifenee on the mainland.
And now let us look Into the details
of fox farming and .fox housekeeping.
The experience of one of the first fox
farmers is worth noting by way of show
ing what can be done by a poor man
with patience, perseverence and ordina
ry Intelligence. Tie had no money and
no experience, but he borrowed the one,
and bought the other on time, paying a
pretty high price for it, too, but, as he
said later on, "It paid.” He bought forty
female and twenty-five male foxes, but
owing to the long and severe voyage nec
essary to convey them to ills island,
and also to change of climate, he lost all
but half a dozen the first year. Nothing
daunted, he borrowed more money and
bought forty pairs of fine animals. He
had bought some experience by this
time, and these prospered. Then he
built a smoke house for curing fish for
the food of his ifox family, this 'being
their favorite stand-by as a steady diet.
This fox farmer had a boat, but it was
only a little dory, ail that he could af
ford, with nets and fishing tackle. This
was five years ago. Today this plucky
man owns a five ton schooner, and a
gasoline launch, large and seaworthy.
He has lately sold to one company, twen
ty-five thousand dollars worth of live
j ble institutions
ENERAL Hr!
NARDO It EYE
who Is alleged
be the leader in
r e v o 1 u t.i ..na ! ,
movement now-
progress in .Me
,1*0, is
at pi
General Reyes.
governor of t
state of Nuevo a-
a general of div>
ion in the arm
Up to two yea
ago lie was mini
ter of “’war, b
fell into disfavor with President Diaz, :n
was relegated to his present positi
Reyes is very popular with the ai
and is a man of iron courage aim tl
termination. Since his removal from t
cabinet, for the reason, as alleged, th
hip son published in his newspaper
article attacking the Diaz administrate'
Reyes has chafed over conditions «\i:
ing in the country, and may take ;
present opportunity to try coaeiusio
with Dias In an effort to wrest from hi
the reins of power. It is conceded th
he brought the army up to its prese
__ state of efficiency, and it is known of
foxes to stock its new ranch, and has j men that he entertains desires t" • rul
been made superintendent of the latter, I °/ tbe re PubUc. He is in the , .me
which is near his own farm. He has also i life and ruggedly healthy,
constant small orders for from ten P
forty pairs of foxes, at one hundred
and twenty-five dollars a pair. Besides
these live sales, pelts are being sold ail
the while, taken from marred Or Infe
rior animals. Yet all these sales make
no apparent difference in the number of
foxes on his little Island, so one can
see how his small initial stock has mul
tiplied. And the entire expenses of thi
once poor man’s farm, from its beginning
'to the present time, have amounted to
only twenty thousand dollars, includ
ing the cost of the schooner and gasoline
launch. The sales have amounted to
more than double this sum, to say noth
ing of the stock on hand.
As noted above, th e blaack fox, while
the most valuable, can scarcely be con
sidered as really domesticated like the
other more common breeds. Perhaps by
and by, some wizard working among an
imals as the Wizard Burbank works
among plants, will evolve a way to reduce
the wild black fox to civilization. That
It can be done, there is no doubt, because
more difficult things are .being done ev
ery day. In fact, as we shall see pres
ently, the work has already begun In the
».« , , - , “■ J evolution of the black fox from the
animal o 'V 5 ? 11 ° f this nilu 6'' h, y , red. which is more amenable to kindness
animal, when dressed, becomes a very at- ’
tractive blue.
dered simply because she was unfit for|-vessel. We were captured yesterday
such a fight, having been so seriously! morning by the United States steamer
damaged by their shot that a contlnu- Wehawken. All the officers are safe. We
anco of the struggle would have resulted | lost one killed (Barrett) and seven or
In her utter destruction, with all on board. | eight wounded. Of the officers wounded
Indeed, she was unable to fire another' there Is Wragg (master), slightly; Aus-
them, and drove them through the place gun. and the surrender was a clear work tin (pilot), dangerously; Hernandez (pilot)
a little^ before sundewn, in utter confu- of necessity. It is stated that ’every man j slightly; Thurston (marine officer),'
lion. In this last fight we did not lose of the crew stood nobly to his post.’ This
nmny men, but we captured from 1.200 is just as we expected, and shows how
te> 1,500 prisoners, besides their killed cautious we should be in inferring trea-
and wounded. After we had whipped son against brave southern men. We
them in front and started them running, hope The News and Its correspondents
■Colonel , with his confina-nd, who had will learn a lesson from this experience,
been sent aroninj on the Lexington road and otase to indulge in unjust and horri-
to catch them, keeping his command in .ble suspicions ailxmt their countrymen for
ambush until the retreating army came
tip, attacked them and succeeded In cap
turing and killing nearly the whole army,
taking all their guns and .some len pieces
of artillery, with all their wagons, stores,
etc. It is estimated that their killed,
wounded and missing will reach some 10,- j
the future.
‘‘The following is the letter:
** ‘Port Royal, June I"3, 1863.—Dear
Friend: Contrary to our expectations,
our vessel was necessarily and unavoid
ably surrendered to Captain Rogers, com
manding the monitors Wehawken and
slightly.’
“A letter from Master Wragg says he
is slightly wounded over the left eye and
in the ankle. Doing well.”
LEE'S LAST LETTER TO JACKSON
The letter written by General Lee to
General Jackson, before the death of
the latter, was as follows:.
Chancellorsville. May 4, 1863.—Genera i:
I have just received your note inform
ing me that you were founded. I cannot
Continued on Loot Pag*.
Our Pillar Box.
(From Punch.)
Simple Headache Cure.—Take a pound
of black pepper, and to this add a lit
tle Hour, a raw egg and a pinch of salt.
•Make into a paste, put Into a bath towel,
and tie it tightly .round the neck. Leave
it there till the headache goes of its
own accord.
Etiquette of Cards.—When leaving
cards, di) not tlxrust them under the
door or throw them casually down the
area, but ring the bell and hand them
to the servant. The cards, of course,
should contain no advertising matter.
Hygienic Boots.—Y’ou nave been mis
informed; brown boots with separate
divisions for eaclxtoe are not being worn
ln London this season.
He Had to Button Them.
(From The Cleveland Plain-Dealer.)
They took him,to the sanitarium moan
ing feebly “Thirty-nine, thirty-nine,”
he whispered.
“What does he mean by that?” the at
tendant Inquired.
IPs the number of buttons on the
When fox farming was first etafted. four
things were considered essential to suc
cess. “First, foxes that will breed, and
whose skins are valuable; second, plenty
of food; third, a suitable climate; fourth,
an island.” The first three items still
temain in force, but the fourth .has been
proven to be unnecessary. Where an
island can be utilized for the purpose, the
expense of fencing Is saved, as the water
is a sufficient barrier against escape,
unless, indeed, it is water that is liable
to freeze solid' and ma/ke
and becomes partially tame
The man who can command a good
supply of the black .fox pelts will also
command a fortune. The pelt of the
common red fox is worth comparative
ly little to the fox farmer, as It brings
hardly enough to pay the expense of
raising It. But in the blue fox the hap
py medium is found. The male of this
breed protects instead of destroys its
young family, and Is easily tamed up to
a certain point. Its pelt varies in price,
according to quality, .from a few dollars
to eighty or a hundred. It is the color
to the n>ainland. But the fox farmTln I ^ 7^* thB
Maine difterence. The blue fox varies in col
and other Interior places have
been made secure without the aid of a
water fence.
As we have said, the business Is a very
profitable one when fairly started, and
properly conducted. The amateur fox
farmer, knowing this. Is apt to Indulge
ir roseate dreams and wpnderful cal
culations on paper. He figures that fifty
pairs of foxes will each produce at least
four young ones every year. In six years,
at this rate, he calculates that he will
have not less than seventy-two thousand
nine 'hundred foxes. At the moderate
price of S30 a pelt, 'he will then be worth
t2,187.000. Think of the stupendousness
ef »he thing! Hia hair almost stands* on
end at the very thought of such a sum.
A.nd all this great total from an Invest
ment of only about SI5,000 in the six
years.
These figures, startling as they are,
are correct—in theory. But theory and
practice don’t always go together. The
fox farmer will do well if, with a start
of fifty pairs, 'he has, at the en<j of six
years, seven thousand foxes. The vast
difference here between theory and prac
tice, is not altogether In the foxes or in
the location. It lies with the owner or
manager. Some men fail entirely. Some
n ake Just a bare living. Others make
a fortune, and a big one, too. Just as '
some people succeed and others fail in
raising poultry and live stack. The man
ERNARD SIIAT
w hose works ha
received the appr
bation of the bis
op of Lomi r ai
whom I’rofessi
Zueblin, of Chic
g‘\ also has t.ik
occasion recent
to commend, is r.
ted as a literate
and play weigh
He was born
_ Dublin in IS5
Bernard Shaw. went to London
the age of 20 and began writing for o
soure socialist publications. Successive
he was musical editor of The Star ar
dramatic writer for The Saturday R
' iew. meanwhile composing pi ~. stt
of which have achieved popularity, whi
others have been forbidden represer'.-
tion on the stage. Mr. Shaw is a strut
socialist, an opponent of vaccination ar
a consistent vegetarian. His most n<
ttd dtamatic productions are “Arms ar
the Man," “Candida,” “The Devil's l it
Mrs * barren’s Profession : ar
Man and Superman.’ He also has writ
ten four novels, the principal of ;viilc
is called "Cashel Byron’s Profession." M
Shaw delights in swimming and excrcis.:
freely on a bicycle
TWO-YEAR OLD GLOBE TROTTED
(From the New York Herald.)
A smart red jockey cap and a swagzi
scarlet top coat, with labels, are all til
prevented the smallest traveler fro-
fc^ing loot in the shuffle when he etr
•barker Thursday on the steamship C.
drie for an unescorted trip across th
Atlantic. His entire experience of th!
world has been crammed Into two year
or from a genuine navy blue to true] an<J months; but If he Is still
Maltese blue-gray. The darker the pelt. unsteady In his English he "is nc
the higher the price. The original foxes
of this popular breed came from the Pri-
bolof or Seal Islands.
WITHOUT THE ISLAND.
Turning now from the island fox farms,
where nature has provided an impene
trable water fence, (except when frozen),
let us see how it Is with this industry
when the cunning animals must be con
fined without the welcome aid thus af
forded. We have made mention of a
certain farmer up in Maine who solved
this question, and proved that an island
is not a necessity of fox farming. This
man had hunted foxes for years, and was
familiar with their nature.
He knew that to be profitable they must
bs healthy, and that to be healthy they
must be happy and contented. This lat
ter they would never be if they real
ized that they were, not free to go where
they listed. For foxes love their liberty
as well as two-footed Americans.
And so this man built a fence 16 feet
'high, of specially woven wire, to keep
so on his sturdy Untie legs, ami tfc
prophecy is that he will be the pet of tl
ship before Miss Liberty is well out :
sight.
The top coat will have a label flrml
attached to one of the buttons, annoum
ing that 'tihe wrnrer is "Charles Clinto
Gladwin, Jr., of New York, bound fc
London. England, to be forwarded to Mr.
E. Barr, 49 Priory road, Chadwick, hot
don, England.” On its reverse side w-'
be the legend: “Son of Charles Clinto
Gladwin, N. Y. A. C., national and metro
polltan snowshoe champion. Unite
States and Canada.”
The little 2-year-old was left motb:
less when a babe of a few months. II
father reared him with all the ca-re an
gentleness a man can give to such
task, but when his sister, Mrs. Barr, of
fered to receive the little fellow in h»
home till he was old enough to be sen
back of Ms wife’s new frock.” the Inm- who makes the success is the man who
ily doctor explained. Hove* animals, and studies their wjqrs
foxes in amd other animals out. Rut the! to Rugby. Gladwin gladly accepted
foxes could look out and see Into the far
distance, and thus did not know them
selves to be prisoners. Some few of them
did, however, see fit to go to burrowing,
and this took them out on the other side
of the fence. Further escapes were quiek-
OonttUMd on Last Page.
A pair of round blue eyes, a shock
fair hair, and very manly attitude, wit!
legs stretched wide apart, distinguish Mr
Gladwin, Jr. He tas already tried hi*
powers on the pair of skis his father 13
boriocely made for him before he ha'
learned to toddle. The boy will be tn®
*t Queenstown by friends.