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THE MOST ROMANTIC AND DARING FIGURE OF THE SEPOY MUTINY The most heroic figure upon ait! in the final campaign of the poy rebellion in India, fifty years was a woman and a rebel, and ear t and death of the rani of * 1 , n< surpassed in passionate in." and chivalry by the story of Joan of Arc herself, Is recorded among pages of history which will move in;i'i sympathy forever. The outbreak of the mutiny found the East India Company in possession of the principality of Jhansi. people were a quarter of a million in number. A few years beforp the jah had died childless, and his tory had been annexed. His widow had been treated with ness, and her heart burned with wrath against the alien dominion, which she believed to be as sordid as cruel. The news of the outbreak was no ■ooner brought to the great stone fortress where a brooding woman lived with her ladles than the rani, with the instant and unexpected deci *ion that never failed her to the end, resolved to strike against those who had, ns she conceived, usurped the lands of her dead husband’s house, and withheld her rightful revenues. She unearthed burled guns; she dis¬ pelled the suspicion of the British •cent; she was allowed to enlist troops upon the pjea of protecting herself against the rebels with whom •he was secretly negotiating, and when her preparations were com¬ plete she attacked, swift and fierce as a tigress. The handful of Christians in the cantonment threw themselves into the fort, a massive structure built apon a high granite rock. Among the little garrison there were women and children, as well as a number of British officers. The rani leveled against the walls the hidden cannon whicli had been again brought to Bght. In spite of a gallant defense, the doomed garrison were short of .water, of food, of ammunition. They attempted to parley. The rani killed their envoys and renewed her attack. Her impatient efforts were foiled, and she passed swiftly from honor¬ able warfare to the act, of ruthless perfidy which lias left a stain upon her name. The rani herself sent in a flag of truce, offering the garrison aafe conduct to a British station. The defenders accepted her terms. As they passed out unarmed they were aeized and bound, and without dis¬ tinction of sex or age were utterly destroyed. For a time the rani of Jhansi was fueen of all the land that she beheld from her towers. Her stronghold, .with its elaborate cincture of granite walls from sixteen to twenty feet thick, was a formidable danger upon the flank of the British operations in Central India, and for some time they had not available any force sufficient to reduce It. When Sir Hugh Rose arrived with his inadequate force be¬ fore the walls of the rani’s capital *he odds against the' British must have appeared hopeless to the native sniud. The city of Jhansi was more than four miles in circumference, with 30,000 inhabitants. The towers and cannon of the citadel dominated all the country below. In sheer mil¬ itary ability, nothing in the mutiny from'end to end was better than Sir Hugh Rose’s campaign in Central In¬ dia, and that born warrior had •reached a critical moment of his ca¬ reer. But he had grasped' by intui¬ tion one great secret. He knew it to be even truer of Asiatic warfare than of other situations in life that he who hesitates is lost,. “When your enemy is In the open go straight at Kira, and keep him moving, and when Behind ramparts still go at him, cut off ehr.uces of retreat when possible, pursue him if escaping or escaped.” These were the golden rules which a eenUary of India experience had .taught him. But the rani was determined to hold out while resisthnee was possi¬ ble, and never to fall alive into the hands of the besiegers. She inspired her own sex by her own example. The aative women were often seen work¬ ing on the walls and carrying ammu aition to the defenders. There are lew more picturesque and gracious Tisions than that of the rani and her ladies, in jeweled attire, visiting the “Black Tower” in the magical light •f the cool hour of the evening. But the rani was reserved for a treater and a stranger death. Into the few last weeks of her life was crowded more drama than she had yet known in all her previous years, Sir Hugh Rose stormed the city but e ‘ " L ” 15 OU5 \ 1 e nu 11 !ns b J - ' • The British , had to carry the palace tootn by room. The enemy fired trains of powder laid along the floors, and exploded even the ammunition in their pouches. This struggle went •n for thirteen hours under an a palling sun, but “the queen” w r as not among the prisoners. All day long she had watched the struggle. When every hope of saving the day was gone she made such an escape as Dumas might have imag iued. Her horse had been brought ••m I t into the fore ditch with the conniv ance of some native troops serving ! with the British forces. From a win dow in the turret side she was low ered down and swung into the saddle. With a few hundred men about her, , and with her little stepson in her lap, she rode away and reached Kal ! pi in safety. This was another native fortress at a distance of 100 miles, and again the presence of the rani (created the storm centre of a strug gle in Central India. Sir Hugh Rose followed hard on the track of the fu git.ive, and marched as much as pos sible by night. Kalpi was perched on a high rock rising out of the Jum ma, rlnth and of was deep surrounded ravines. Here by a again laby- | the rani fought in person, but Sir Hugh Rose was not to be denied, Constantly felled by sunstroke he was up again fighting his way for ward, and Kalpi was won. But even yet the Mahratta amazon j was filled with iwiconquerable will and courage never to submit or yield, She now conceived and carried out a maneuver almost Napoleonic in its unexpectedness and overwhelming effect. With the whole rebel army ! she wheeled round, crossed the Cham- 1 bal River, not like a fugitive, but | like a conqueror, and dashed upon i the great fortress of Gwalior, whose | mighty rock rises out of the plain as J Gibraltar towers above the sea. The I Maharaja Sinhhia had remained loyal | to the British raj. His army was at- j tacked and vanished. His troops joined the rani as soon as she ap- j peared, and Sindhia, the greatest of the Mahratta princes, was a fugitive; his palace was captured, and its treasury, with its famous jewels, was looted; the arsenal fell into hands of the enemy. In a single day the rani, thought to have been crushed by two disasters, had more money, more arms and more troops than ever. No marvel that this great feat oc¬ curring in the middle of 1858 caused at first almost as much excitement . and alarm as the original outbreak j of the mutiny a year before. Sir Hugh Rose was worn out, and his | leave had just been granted. With- | out a moment’s hesitation he bent himself to his work once more, and gathered up all his energies for a final blow. Again he covered the distance between him and his goal j by heavy marches in the fatal heat, j and pushed toward Gwalior, breaking j the enemy, in hand-to-hand fights. I Before the fortress was taken the rani was dead. Dressed like a man, I in a red jacket and trousers and with a white turban, she perished in re¬ sisting a squadron of the Eighth Hussars, who charged through the enemy’s camp, carrying everything before them. A pursuing trooper* believing her to be a man, cut her down with a mortal stroke. Round her neck was the celebrated pearl necklace, taken from Sindhia’s treas¬ ury, and once belonging to the Por¬ tuguese regalia. She was only twen¬ ty when she passed away, leaving be¬ hind her, with all her faults, a name which had won imperishable honor, and the memory of a spirit as high as ever nerved a woman for war.—De¬ troit News-Tribune. WISE WORDS. • Too many canaries spoil the con¬ cert. There’s a mirror maze in every man’s heart. My own self-conceit I modestly label “ability.” When May weds December, Cupid salts down another heart in his cold storage plant. We swear to love forever and a day—and life at best is but a twenty minute vaudeville skit. The rain descends on the just and the unjust, but principally on the um¬ brella-less. The bird of time is either a lark or a carking crow, accordingly as you are young or old. For a bruised heart try the lini¬ ment of another love. Rainbow gold is currency in the land of dreams. A chaperon is Cupid’s accredited ambassador. Too often the early bird gets broiled for breakfast. Little pitchers never get full, once you start to supplying the neighbors with milk. > Greater love can no woman pro¬ claim than this: That girl is good enough for my son „ An Infant crying in the night » can shatter the silence as effectively as an ® army with bauners and a , . rass an A man alw &ys feels as if he had been held up by a highway robber when he is approached for his part the preacher s salary. The disinterested devotion of broth ers is evidenced by the fact that the only girls they ever try to help be perfect ladies are their own sisters.— From “Eve’s Epigrams,” in the New York Telegram. id ev.’S? eaj £ii fr»im u* i practical advice about DIVERSIFIED FARMING Indirect Fertilizers. Gypsum, or land plaster, is sul¬ phate of calcium, and has a limited action. It does furnish calcium and some sulphur, which are both re¬ quired in considerable quantities by such crops as clover and turnins, but its chief action is in aiding the pro¬ cess of nitrification by which ammo nia and the nitrogen of organic mat ter are converted into forms which are readily assimilated by the plant, and in liberating potash and other elements of plant food from insolu ble forms of combination and mak \ n g them available. Lime, like gyp sum. aids nitrification and liberates plant, food from insoluble forms of combination, action.’ but ft is more powerful j n its Heavy clavs, which are rich in insoluble form of potash, and RO ils containing large quantities of humus are those most benefited by lime. In reclaiming swamp lands the acid humic matter of the peat is neutralized by the lime and the con ditions thus made suitable for the oxidzftion of the nitrogenous organic matter and the production of ammo n ia and nitrates. Lime has also a very beneficial influence on the phy S j ca i condition of the soil. Common salt supplies no Ingredient of plant food. The little value which it possesses is probably due to its action in the soil where it helps to set free more imnortant con stituents, particularly potash. it is important to bear in mind that these indirect fertilizers do not add plant, food to the soil, but that their chief value lies in the fact they liberate plant food from insolu ble forms of combination. Hence if crops are not growing on the land to make use of the liberated food, or if the soil has been overstimulated by a large and frequent application lime, gypsum, or salt, loss of nitrogen potash and phosphoric acid will cur. Consequently these stimulants should be used in moderation. On soil not acid in nature one to one and . one-haif tons per acre of lime at in- : tervals of five six would be ’ or years a sa f e application. — Professor A, ; Harcourt. The Farm Timber Supply. There are hills now that have tim her of more or less value on them which the owners intend to clear off i just as soon as possible, Timber is going to be worth more than what it, kind ever j been worth, no matter ! : is. The United States Forestry is doing good work in find- ! new ways to use lumber of poor to better advantage. Lumber would not have been put in fifteen years ago is gladly now. Furthermore, the farm always have its supply of wood fuel, for posts, poles, etc. If the hills were used to the best a large proportion of them' have the timber cut off grad¬ and with discretion. It should the aim to keep a stand of timber a large area—not merely in When a tree died, it could be for whatever it was worth most.. trees were- standing too thick, of them could be cut out; but cutting should be done in a way would give a- regular supply of to be cut from year to year. trees would tend to keep a layer rich leaf mold to enrich the land, water, provide shade for stock nesting places for birds. The day not distant when it will generally considered favorable to a farm to many birds about to feed on insects. Birds that are now supposed to be enemies to farmer will in the flight of fuller be seen to be more friends enemies. The .timbered land tend to perpetuate springs, since rains, instead of rushing off down hillsides, will be caught by the mold and held there till it slow¬ penetrates to the deeper layers of land. From these deeper layers will gradually come forth in which will supply water for and maybe to run a hydraulic for raising water for use about and barn. Cottonseed Meal For Hog Feeding. To those wishing to use cottonseed I for hogs recommend: ' now we 1. For animals on heavy feed that more than one-fourth the weight the grain ration consist of cotton meal. i 2. That this feeding continue not I than fifty days, cr that the pro-' of meal be reduced if feeding to be continued longer. 3. That the meal be mixed with he other feed and all soured te¬ eth er. 4. That as much green feed as ossible be furnished the hogs. 5. That a close watch be kept ant! taken from any animals not or gaining well. Feeders who have had experience the meal will probably be able o exceed these recommendations. vliich, however, allow the use e meal to greatly improve a diet. One pound of cottonseed J meal to five of corn furnishes the nutrients in the most desirable pro¬ portions for fattening, while one or two of corn are more nearly correct for young growing stock. Of course other feeds are desirable for their in¬ fluences not attributable to their composition, but it is not often that' the adopted standards can be ignored in feeding any animals for profit.— From Texas Agricultural Experi- 1 ment Station. | Gottin Bermuda, Getting Rid of It. £ Bermuda seeds very sparingly in our climate, and when pastured there i is very little danger of it spreading ■ through the manure, It can be grown from seed, which can be had of the leading ? a edsmen, or it can be mo re quickly, I think, grown from cuttings of the running streams planted In the soring. It is a hot weather grass and should be planted in the spring only, When it is de- 1 sired to break up a piece plow it shal : lowly and rake out all that you can. , then sow thickly with cowpeas, and there will be little left, for it will not stand shading. But when you once have a good pasture of Bermuda, I hardly think: that you will want to break it. ir you will top dress it , with some bone meal every spring you will have the finest pasture you ever saw for tire summer. But even where Bermuda grows rank enough to make a fair crop of hay, I would hesitate about using it for hay, for while it seeds sparingly, it does seed, and in this way it may be scattered to fields where we do not want it.— W. F. Massey., Don’t Be a Soil Robber! What does it profit a man if he sells $10,000 worth of produce at, say, $5000’ profit, and damages bis farm $6000, Many never think of I do not think than any man has a right to rob his soil of all its fertility any more than he has to rob a friend; for God'gave us a f ertile land to pro¬ duce our crop, and should we rob it, what will the future generations do? When looking over the worn, waste,, gullied lands of washed farms of once fertile soil, I stop and wonder, should the owner ever be lucky enough to reach the pearly gates, if St, Peter would not send him back to stop those hollows that he let wash out during his shiftless and unappre ciative life upon earth.—J. D. Stodg hill, Shelbyville,, Ky.„ in Progressive Farmer, Money in the Woodlot. The treatment of the woodlot or of vacant land that ought to be made into a woodlot is a subject to which too little attention is paid, consider¬ ing the money that there is in it. In traveling over the country one sees an aggregate of thousands of acres of old fields whicli have lain idle for twenty years, encumbered with scrubs or worthless growths. Had they been intelligently handled they would now be producing merchantable trees. “Oh, well, twenty years is too long to wait, anyways,” says Simpson Slack. But, Mr. Slack, you can look ahead ten years, surely. Now when your woodlot is ten years old, you can find a purchaser who will wait the other ten. Pine Woods Mold For Sweet Potatoes. If your soil is rather heavy for po¬ tatoes, try plowing under a heavy cover of half rotted trash from a pine woods, pine straw and rotted stuff. The great market crop of sweet pota¬ toes on the eastern shore of Virginia is largely made with this material. Every pine woods there is raked' clean every spring for the sweet potato crop. And they make them, too. But I know, too, that a crop of crimson clover on the land would do better and be cheaper than the labor¬ ious hauling from the woods. But where there is no clover and you want a late crop of sweets, try the woods trash.—W. F. Massey, Example For the South. At Hutchinson, Minn., not long ago there was a procession in connection, with a dairy convention in a section that went to the bad a few years ago on account of the chinchbug. A Jer sey cow headed the procession and wore a silk blanket on which was printed, “I raised the price of land in McLeod Councy to ?100 per acre.” That was a nice jump, and thousands of counties in the South can have as good experience if the farmers will go at dairying in the way the Minne sota bunch did. Use Sprightly Breeds. For the use of the farmer the more breeds of chickens have in their favor, since they will travel about more to hunt food consume more insects. A Hint About Food. There is toe much salt pork and beef used in the South. More poultry for home consumption better meals and more health. ^Oixir^S §yrup#fT^s gently enflft acts yet prompt¬ ly on the bowels, cleanses ft te system ojl'ectually assists one in overcon -Co habitual constinati ion permanen oenejicial ejects ly. To get buy its the genuine. California planujactured battle Jig 'Strup Co. SOLD BT LEADING DRUGGi STS - 50f po-BSfru. ' V. TOWER S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF -W) OILED CLOTHING looks belter-wears longer- 11,1 ' and gives more m l\ \ bodily comfort’ because cut- on i large patterns, yet than ^ d costs no more vj} \ \ the just as good kinds SUIT 5 TO 5 LICK[R 5 $ 3 Qom\ SOLD EVERYWHERE \ Every garment ° bearing (he „ , sign of the rish f 5 i CATALOS FRCt A J TOWTR CO BOSTON U 5 A T°WCP CANAQ'AN CO LlMiTCD TQPQNTQ CAN Spicy conversation should be handl¬ ed gingerly. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens thegums, reduces inflamma¬ tion. alla vs pain, cures wind colic, 25e a bottle Bad iuck doesn t bother trie man who makes the best of it. Hicks’ Capudine Cures Women’s and Monthly Headache. Pains, It’s Backache, Nervousness* diately. Prescribed by Liquid. Effects imme¬ results. 10c., 25c., and physicians with best 50c.. at drug store*. The Housekeeper's Error, A young married woman walked Into a grocery store the other day angry to the roots of her hair. Throw¬ ing a piece of yellow substance on the counter she shrieked forth to the grocer’s clerk who had: taken refuge behind the counter: “Here, you swindler,, is the soap that does the washing alone;, the soap that makes wash day a thing of joy, when the housewife- may sit In her easy chair and; receive callers; the soap that makes a lather fine enough for a man to shave- with, hut Which takes out every stain—no mat¬ ter of what nature—from the linen Here is the soap—” “I beg your pardon, ma’am,” be¬ gan the clerk. “Never mind'^sir; d'on’t interrupt me,” broke in the irate bride. “But,, ma’am,” insisted 1 the clerk, picking up the piece of yellow stuff the woman had’ thrown upon the coun¬ ter, ‘This isn’t soap, this is cheese.” “Cheese! - ”' exclaimed the astonished woman. “'Cheese?" “Yes, ma’am, your husband bought three pounds of soap yesterday, and also three pounds of cheese, This is the cheese, ma’am.” “Well, that accounts for the oth¬ er thing also,” said the young house¬ keeper, becoming milder in temper, “That’s why I couldn’t get a suds today, and why—the welsh rabbit tasted so queerly Ta«t night. — - NO GUSHER But Tells Facts About Postum. “We have used Postum for the past eight years',” writes a Wis. lady, “and drink it three times a day. We never tire of it. “For several years 1 could scarcely eat anything on account of dyspepsia, bloating after meals, palpitation, sick headache—in fact was in such misery and distress I tried living on hot wat¬ er and toast for nearly a year. “1 had quit coffee, the cause of my , trouble, and was using hot water, but this was not nourishing. "Hearing of Postum I began drink¬ ing it and my ailments disappeared, and now I can eat anything i want ■without trouble. “My parents and husband had about the same experience. Mother would often suffer after eating, while yet drinking coffee. My husband was a great coffee drinker and suffered from indigestion and headache. “After he stopped coffee and began Postum both ailments left him. He will not drink anything else now', and we have it three times a day. 1 co :ld w r rite more, but am no gusher—one state plain facts.” Battle Name given by Postum Co.. Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to , Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Rea¬ son.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. 'I b ( 'F are genuine, true, and full of human interest.