bad ' must look We raise ..m p m m ,t ns.e sam Houston of "exas were gret crones. that marred the career of his father. On voice Is In beddes.7 I In- to s00 of the American after my coal oilans. have bought of Indian own. There are sin states. It was a picture worthy of Punch, one these nights tragediaa MONEY IN FARMING which -a oe&er a - LOST APPETITE. THE BOOTH DYNASTY this eccentrie pair take their afternoon Edwin Forrest. was itting far back in a near Clev . Ohio." We shook hands clnding Iowa. Vedlee avenu. box. He was on a. visit to his friend le ba b of saledad g every ye. promenae along Pennsylvania private Two uaer-midnight en the The pries at ths m if seld Is only 1U Houston stood six feet four inches and Xames Oake@a the "Acorn" of the New months5tr, manst Booth about fIlve feet live Inches, As it was York Spirit of the Times. OakM told me morning of M,15 when going to oents a bhel. If ya tra t lote CWLD NOT EAT THE MOST my room, I h the newsbycry: - It will bring you 49 csts a bushel. That winter. Houston's ample shoulders were afterward that the only comment Forest w of the I sebry and bad &e ofthe Peculiarities of a Distin- covered with a large blanket that made on his prospective rival was. "Why tral Extra!" oth had shbt Prelident operal Is the diere between so" TEMPTING DISHES. Uncoln. - EMzced and maddened crowds farming. It -Is the dherence between 13 reached to his heels, his ed head was don't the young man learn his lineer As between a Mexican sombrero. Edwin had imbibed most of his father's surged throughLthe streets. No one would of cents and 4 oast, the difference Family. surmounted by huge of such Agriutm a an a lse. The tarm- wilaeeut &a as- guished Booth was fashionably attired In a brown, great characters by ear In the theater, he believe that a Poth could be guilty big P1edt big poor Maam 0"M wood at long-skirted overcoat, with buttons high un did not trouble himself with the midnight an unspeakable crime. Remembering the er sens his grain and keeps peer, the goed his and his classic as of his fine eonversation with Wilkes em the -steps of farmer turns it into meat and dairy pro- Osma Hat Ene.- simos.w smat a wr in the small of back, oil. But now, recognition I said to ducts and rich. lack at it! The corn head held up a high-crowned silk hat; and powers cane to him, he felt forced to con- the Metropolitan Hotel, myselft 1 m R gets little Booth with the holder of the "it Is- true." N14 language can give expres- 1M3 M 110 Is worth 13 cents a bushel in Iowa. It is Neer--'Ete OCae Or dhe Emmage. BECIBE BY DIE WRO IEW THEM thus they marched, clinging tend for mastery that cents a to the arm and with dificulty keeping pace dramatic crown. The fault that was toler- sion *to the detestation of the crime shipped east and it Is sold for 2 hero of San father couldn't be took the life of'the greatest man Ainerica bushel to a man there who trn it late with the sturdy strides of the ated and condoned in his no Piom the Jacinto. They were on pleasure bent, and overlooked in this son. Edwin has produced. 4Yet Wilkes Booth was meat and makes a profit, or it may even Lender. (este"da. Mfe. promising assaasit The of exaltation Our Corn and How to across the Atlantic and be turned Into Genius Marred at Times Mental were soon lost to the view of the amused himself began to perceive that the time had hired spirit Big Crop go Per the otestatim of as 4 which har by pedestrian In the hospitable portals of a come to- chasten and curtail the Bacchil that made hlmp:exclaim as he leaped upon meet by one of the farmers in England, be impaired or lst thraugh so remne4g this his the stage aftet: the fatal shot "Se semper who will 15 cents a bushel for it. mU c0mae In e leteenes with iW. Williams' famous hostelry. I never saw singular ebullitions that destroyed great father. of Make It Pal's for sade l'eoaple. 'Ebi statement 11 man and master of tragic emotion if he to reach the height on whiQh tyrannis"' wasetut the natural outcome Pay. Think of thchlnoe that the tarmer wbo Perversity. mighty expected the :hat In the blood of an raises has to amake over the mta"ti-o*d by the espermi me declaratioes again after this engagement at Washing- the master sat supreme. Edwin Forrest distemper lay it masney sadt messes wits wham tsa guis have ton. still held the scepter, and was In the very Il-regulated npiad in the father. which other.." lemm a bsm 6Ad medatesa. Among the nay In 1852, under the of his son zenith of his when the daring skipped the other children and lodged in "I suppose that Is the kind of farng who an ever tietmjt tha artauAar prop- auspices great powers of the mad Wilkes. EXPERIMENT STATIONS of Mar- AN OLD ACTOR'S MEMORIES Junius, he went with Edwin to California. young actor made his gallant attack on the the. superfcilalblain you do. Mr. Secretary?" aty Dr. Williams' RS1lls S *hrg' intellectual world by his ideal presentation CHARLES POPE. "Yes," was the reply. "I have been shall, Ir.. we Uves at No. 10 her% act. Sttreet. raising corn more Gheeiad, Oio. Mr. lirsaall to a as. ag'nt of Hamlet at the Winter Garden In New for than forty years an the IAke ad the MR. RAT OF RENO COUNTY. and I have never a hnisal. I raise Moere Michigan Suothern ltatiraad. York. I saw him quite often during (owrighted. 1W, by Frank G. (arpenterJ sold and his territory etteads frau Cleveland to Tilede. WrlUen tr The Zeening S!ar. hundred-night run of this play. Chatting hegs and stock and I feed all the grain Lke statmnds of others who ore their hnaita acted Statesmen Make Merry Over Written for The Erening Star. that I make." ad to 1Dr. Williaas' lid Mr. Mar- HAT THE BORDER cne day he said: "I understand you Populist THE MOST vigor 1ils. Charles de Moor In German in San Fran- lisa Request for a New Name. ONE OF Paosfsh ExpendituWes. bait never besitates to King their p.ale. lahis line of sanity was visit some day members case It -aa seceamary to ate Uasil a fe'w i"tes .f cisco. I intend to Germany From he Topeka State Journal. important "Speaking of Mr. the pils to restoe hinm to the fell a.-nsion of touched Hamlet in that - 001 Europe. Secretary. by seleral and should like to play some- of President McKin- bodily health. lila dig'atiIe organs had 1-.a.sOthello of possessed of with the of They nicirnamed him Corn vwuir and pe.fec'tly attifatIyamner. is ftlly handed it down unchanged from gen- bettering Meal Murphy. Mr. estimated that narrating his eipere:ee ath them Mr. Marsh.AI who were acquainted the distinguished German actor. Bogomil the farming Inter- Murphy so": eration to succeeded in having we could increase the value of our with their history. Daneson, who spoke the part of the Moor generation, ests of the United easily --I.sat spring I was, takees slht Witt, todUImLma- a bill introduced In the present house of corn crop at least one hundred million tOry riaeUMatIsm. and My eltire ayatetM w;as lifet- and certainly by all in German. Mme. Scheller spoke the part which are to asking that be be allowed States, dollars I year by the foreign demand?" ed. TO retlaee the ufttering It was manMar who came in contact of Desdemona in both languages. As I representatives * be in a worse at With iodine. After thope msh' treatuaSt name. The ;aid to "That Is all Imagination!" replied Secre- at e law to establish a new family - c eonvakeent. iut the attact had with them. was then to appear in German as Othello by ndition than tary Wilson. "I don't a word it. saip;-4 n.embers of the house, realizing the man's today believe of oy strtaigth aad Icett sue eatremely weak and It has been my hap- with her at the Stadt Theater, our conver- have been at The European farmers don't want our corn. teeble. I emeld emr.-Ay lift as arm or a leg. infortunate plight, cheerfully acceded to hey know that corn is Th2s weakness cale and piness to know them sation naturally flowed in that direction. aLny time since Cap- They very poor in nitro- pert.t.M. iny ey:.t.tu. all from the request and pased the bill, but when it genous matter. It does not make good applied e 11l- to toy rtas.ach and titgestive personally, He did go to Germany, although he stuck it tain John Smith's manure. The of apparatus as to my lite. I sam disn.a-re'l that the last and reached the senate Saturday afternoon percentage nitrogen in lont as an the first. Junius Brutus, to to his own vernacular, surrounded by Ger- did went Lau the terrible oriva- corn Is about I to 10. while seed I bad nty amispttite alWnist ttmiLle met an entirely different fate. Not only colony .Ugh only flax though I a-wver had one. I had so destre itat- youngest. man players, who were his greatest ad- the members of that body ruthlessly tions of the "starving time" at James- and cotton seed meal are almost half nitro- ever to peartake of any nourilklient. and the The terrible deed of John Wilkes Booth, mirers. Ovations greeted him everywhere. the bill, leaving Mr. Rat to con- town in the first of the seventeenth gen. The European farmers have to have nateral avslt was that my overalseea'n.- w.s slaughter half I was that struck down the foremost American of the actors with laurel. His tirue living with a name which is undoubt- food that will enrich their lands. So they estteinely slow. and nmy parents eared g- crowning him century. Heretofore the republican ma- the refuse our to Nuff-r a or fall prey to anot.her our time, had its origin in the disordered and his brilliant associa- edly the bane of his life, but they also took import of oil mills by the tag amslgwew triumphs there Rat's jorities of Indiana and Illinois have thousands of tons. Did ever al met on account of moy de4t.IIltata' c-nndtiln. if John Wilkes Booth. the of having fun at Mr. Ohio, you realise a brain of the young man's father, for not tion with Irving at the Lyceum Theater, opportunity that we are "Many day I wald meat take any euurinhasient, are His splen- expense. come from the farmers, but at the last the great paint users of the and wtwever I dad the was too lmintg- madness there was at least perversion of London, matters of. record. We use more anatity His success there was marred by his uu- did career in this has furnished The bill came up under the consideratioa election McKinley was saved by the vote globe? paint than any other aldeant to materially hasten aal lenara-e.nit. intellect In the of this brilliant country once and we of we". for laut I progenitor reliability, and he returned, leaving Edwin themes for many loving poetic pens. of local messures, and was at opposed of the cities. The future of the people, Import quantities flax T ting ditaes prepared ms.. and handsome family. there, and landed at New Orleans, where Senator Farrelly, who stated that the present seed from India and other countries to d not touch tbem. I t.gan to ic-twtne orte In the winter of 1858-9 1 was in Valti- by regime upon things bet- make oil. or les slarmed. as did say gparents. sit ot day Junius Brutus Booth was still in the he acted for the last time, his closing parts more Jones. who later senate had decided not to change any depends making linseed Much of the refuse of "Iron acting with Avonla of a sim- ter the are, in fact, the this seed to The farmers my mother suggested the paaihasn of some .f Iir. twenties when he measured himself against being Sir Edward Mortimer in the married the Gustavus V.Brooks, names, and had turned down bills for farmers. They goes Europe. Williasu' Pink Pilla for mae. 11ay otl I h-a ' "Review" tragedian, to the there understand its we. who Chest and John Leimp In the in Australia. Avonia and 'Mary Devlin ilar nature, and that no exceptions ruling class of the United States. There value, and recoammended to her by a neliltbor who a ski the great Edmund Kean, who then domin- at the St. Charles Theater. He boarded rule should be made. He was followed by ought to keep it. let It go. We. on the thema a itthintg shart of itracutous. and 'lw It of Booth's were very intimate. Edwin was then at are more of them than of any other pro- o~per sa atcd the British stage. In spite the steamboat J. S. Cheneworth, was taken home to the sus- Senator Hessin, who said: hand, Inaport nothing from Europe that so enthusiaatteaily their camlent qunalli handsome. face and before could reach laying desperate siege has been fession. By the last census forty-four out adds to our material wealth. One of our that moth.-r wasn peruiadd to try thema. Th. to expressive powerful. suddenly Ill, dying he who was a cheery, bright "I know the rule of this body melodious voice. that won him instant at- uncared for and al- ceptible Mary, on measures of this of every hundred persons in the United chief imports, for instance, is sugar. This Is root miuch motre tot tell aw, for i delit ha.A medical aid, seemingly and We were all then, not to act favorably a cannot tat three or four einar-e tention. Kean still continued to hold his an end to a pretty girl. young there was ever an exception I States were engaged in agricultural pur- is largely made up of starch. Now, the like aun who most unknown, inglorious and exchanged the secrets of lovers. kind, but if suits. We have meals a day. dtt i? supremacy with press and public. most checkered career. we have reached It in this case. I today in the neighborhood starchy elements of come from the I dined with him at his modest home, and think of which are worth, all plants "ThMre- heewest o' Ill. Wlitarma' Pink PiV! tiv-d Booth had ability enough, but lacked On a visit to California in 1856 I first met think that we should not only grant this 5,000,000 farms, air. Sugar is not good for manure. You me ciound .s a and will dt,, 1the of met his stately mother and accomplished told, more than thirteen billion dollars. at dollar, they staadiness of mind and tenacity purpose, Junius Brutus Booth. Jr., eldest son of sisters, Asia and Rosalie. Asia afterward man's request, but should also give him a might cover a field two feet deep with same for any one el se. I nat sure. It wn- as0t for had he persisted Kean's irregularities the actor. Like his father, his head and I therefore offer as an amend- We make a profit in good years of some- sugar and it would not raise a crop. Still loug ufter I tegin to usme ithe plill that I -od14 great married John Clarke. the comedian, name, like two to would soon have given him opportunity. was molded on classic but he had a Sleeper ment that the word 'hole' be attached to thing billorf dollars out of farm we pay other countries more than a hun- feel myslf Improving. My tra'egth h-gain lines, and settled in London. Edwin took me and aetto ats-t did and I wag on 'the But love triumphed over ambition. The of more athletic proportions than the name 'Rat.'" products, it is upon the farms that dred minion dollars a year for it. It is prac- miy app1.tit.. the figure out to Greenmount cemetery, where he we depend to a large extent for good or ried 'gain In a al..rt ti. That IN mtly x.- would-be Roscius abandoned contest, the sire. A handsome face and amiable Senator Farrelly-"As an amendment to tically paying a hundred million dollars a atn glad to give It for the- b-ntit him a man whom it had placed a noble granite shaft over the I ask that the amendment bad times. If the farmers are doing well for air. Think of It!" perte-ne,and expression bespoke grave of his with the in- the amendment, flows year of other. WaO tay haveh ist their aptealtee was pleasant to meet. father, simple be laid under the table." money like water, and the sun of through a.kaesA." prosperity shines. When are ill He Believes In Beet Sugar. -aat Junius Jr. Senator Hessin-"As an amendment to the they doing Dr. Williams' Mlnk PHI for Pale ttaitn. 1 Brutus, amendment to the I want the the dark clouds of discontent breed an- "Why can't we prevent that. Mr. Secre- In 9 ntisdc-nNe-d ftor. all tie ele'mentm. n-a try amendment, new life atnd ricI awta to at- t4.1u.d While playing at the Chatham Theater, man who proposed it to be laid under the archy, sociallsi and false financial tary, by raising our own sugar?" to give had theories, and reigns. restozw al'atteral nereit. Tln;-i are ala s --. 1ib' lew York, the unsophisticated yauth table with my amendment." adversity "We can," replied Secretary Wilson, "and for troalIts s-1talsar to fa ai.les. teel, as t-I been caught in the toils of matrimony by Senator Jumper-"I move that the amend- The Bonn of All the Farmers. I have taken to encourage stoas, rtarilarties utnd all forns of ikn. rent to the amendment to the amendment. already steps In twn effect a radid a-uro Itn all -,at artist. Clemintina De Bar. You will thus see they h', the experienced and the men who propcsed the amen linents, that the Secretary of the growth of the sugar beet in this coun- arising freom mental worry. tverwerit tar e'sa-'e sister of the noted Ben De Bar, comedian be all stuffed in the hole together." Agriculture is now a very Important fac- try. We are now sending out beet seed to of whatever nature. Pitnk -ill. ae a- id in hlws This was a most versa- (rever In laost Itaika at NO Vett a Is m. -r si and manager. lady With all the fun, nobody said anything tor. Who is the man that McKinley has different parts of the Missisippi valley. booem for $2.50. and nmay ta- had ot all drunazia. tile actress, but far from prepossessing of that even approached second-class wit. chosen? What kind of a man is he? What we can raise er direct oalt from lDr. Willim' I-talicine Some member moved that the bill There Is no doubt but that Ivy -feature. Tiring of this incompatible al- finally is he going to do? I can answer these ques- the sugar beet, and we ought to make all Company. ebscatesady. N. Y. liance, young Junius sought the freer at- be recommended not to be passed. This of our own sugar. We are now paying motion carried, and Mr. Rat will be com- tions in part in the chat which I had with osphere of California with the Argonauts at the $15.000.000 a year to other countries for with him and handsome pelled to either bear up under his load for Secretary James Wilson Agricultural We a vast amount of What we want to do Is to show him wire and carried young I had a letter of intro- this product. get Harriet Mace, whom he soon made his at least two rears longer, or apply to the Department today. beet sugar from Germany. and a great deal to strike." district court in his county to give him the duction to the new Secretary from Senator the "We are trying to learn this by meats of wife. W. B. and as soon as card was of cane sugar from Cuba. I believe and found him a sen- relief he wants. The latter is the shortest Allison, my we will raise all we the experiment stations. which are lo- I saw Junius often and most sent in I was admitted. A tall, time will come when sible, upright, amiable man. He had not satisfactory way to manage such angular, need." cated all over it' country. Then mnta at matters, and the legislature Is justified in plain-looking man of about sixty years of these stations are studying the soils. the the least taint of the ecentricity that to as I entered "You were speaking of Germany, Mr. See- marked the father and other of his broth- not paying attention to bills to change age began get up the door. L Are the Germans to be climate and the crops4 most prafitably names. By the time I had reached his desk he was retary," said ers. Nor was there much of the suspicion allowed to discriminate against our meat adapted to tiaelr region. They are tennlttg on his feet. His long right arm was stretch- out valuable ottlit tins the re sults of the "divine fire" that gave the father, ed out toward mine and his hand products without cause as they have in giving Edwin and Wilkes a claim to be classed CABIN IN WHAGIH LINCOLN WAS BORN horny the past? of their etw-rimc-tits. and advice to the gave me a cordialgld-fashioned shake. It farrters In regard to different maittrs I with the immortals. Yet he was a good was James Wilson. the new Secretary of "No." was the reply, "we shall stop that. actor and had some suoreme moments. It Was Torn Down and Then Again I think. We have already begun move- want to see :lse halttins go to -v-ry Agriculture, the man who is known all over farrer who teds them, and I have al- He was a superb athlete and had few peers Rebuilt. the west as one of the best farmers of the ments toward that end. We have given with either foil or broadsword. With the orders the Treasury Department ready organised a system to get th-m in George IT. Yenowitie'In St. Nicholas. Mississippi valley, and who is noted among through to the hands of the W. have celebrated maitre, Col. Monstery. who had as one of that no meat shall be allowed to go out right twop'e. Junlus Brutus Jr. Twelve yea,rs ago the cabin In which agriculturists everywhere being already a list of a hundred thousaid names Junius Brutum Booth, Sr. his salle d'armes at Frank Wheeler's gym- Booth, the most practical, up-to-date authorities of this country that has not been inspected nasium in San Francisco. we had many a Lincoln was born was torn down, and the with by the agents of this department. Every and we will soan havt a million. W.. are hot scription, "Booth," on one side, and on the upon everything connected farming. will guirg to form a syndieste of farm t we left th' field to his rival and eloped with "assault" with foil and sword, often logs were hauled: to an adjoining farm, He asked me to be seated and for an hour piece of meat that is- carrieS abroad winding up with a few rounds of the man- other the family motto, "Dum spiro spiro." and used of the have a certificate of inspection. If the for the farmers. It will be Uncle Sam's the swe.'t and beautiful woman who be- I have known him in every relation of in'the.'constructIon another we chatted together about himself, and it will not cost the tarm- came of a ly art. and what Uncle Sam Germans discriminate against such meat syndicate. the mother family dtstinguished life; with his fellow players he was ever house. The old frm had practically been American farmer if era a cent. We will make the differ.nt for great talent and beauty. He went to Junius Brutus Booth, Jr.. came east in might do for him. Mr. Wilson is a good they must show the reason why, and 1S%'. his wife having died, leaving a daugh- considerate. courteous and kind. As a abandoned, ad nearly all the people in the they cannot, there will certainly be a dis- states do their share In the work, but we Amsterdam. where it is said he acted in the son, In his household deference talker. His voice is slightly metallic and to matters all th- Dutch was an ter. He became lessee of the Boston The- showing neighborhood had'quite forgotten, a second come at of about crimination against them as to the things pro'ose push along line language. He accompilshed and affection to his amiable mother and his uords out the rate and to out we ater. He married Agnes Perry. a fine act- time within k deeade since the death of as which they send to this country. This mat- give everything that van linguist, for it is of record that he appeatred cultured sisters. He was chivalric and two hundred per minute. He has many cn to as rers, relict of Harry Perry, an excellent true, ter of foreign trade is a business matter. learn how farm protitably and we I1." Otr,:tes In Racine's tragedy at the both as lover and husband. Once can Lincoln, that be was born on the "Lincoln homely expressions as had Abraham Lin- Fren.-h thcater in New actor, who died in California in ISM. Booth only as as an If the Germans will not treat us fairly we FRANK 0. CAHPFNTI't. Orleans, where he I rerrember seen him roused to Spring the place has always been coln and his talk is full of ideas received the acclaim. Theatrical was not a successful manager any more having farm,":as is of meat. He is a well-educated can easily retaliate. We Import something highest anger, giving vent in strong terms to his called. The is egg full worth of tradition abounds with stories and anec- than his brother Edwin. Later he leased i~ncohn birthplace fifty-four man, and once or twice in speaking of his like ninety-odd million of dollars' LAFAVETTICS' VisoT To ANGCR6S'A. Booth's Theater on 23d street and 6th ave- outraged sense of justice. It was after the miles southeast of Louisville. It can be from every year. though -A CLOSE mFEss6. dot.s of the vagaries and eccentricitics of death of his second home in Scotland he quoted passages from goods Germany this singular genius. nue, in New York. He failed to make the wife, Mary MeVicker. reached from' D isvIlle to Eliza- the broad Scotch as it was the balance of trade last year was a little 2 -es'e so me. or rati-er, Mary Runnion, for she was not by going Burns, giving Was Great Exciltement Oles" rent for the owners, Edwin told bethtown, in Har in county, a distance of used by the poet who composed some of in our favor." His Elder Booth's Facetiousness. Neither were good managers for them- James McVicker's child. He had bee's "Mr. Secretary," said L "you have been Trglp to Ihe Um6ted States. easly managed his fcrty-two miles, and then taking another his verses as he followed the plow on his Gecrze Jamieson, an excellent once selves. but art did not suffer. It was said through affectionate, road from Elizabethtown to not far from that upon which Secre- connected with the Iowa Agricultural Col- From the Ladles' Home JOumal. actor, that Edwin lost $500.000 in his theater. But diffident nature, while this extraordinarily r Hefdeth the slazsonF of the EastHodgensville,In fee; farm, Are such much told me that he was strolling with Booth a ride of twelve miles. The Lincoln Spring tary Wilson was born. From time to time lege. colleges doing very "It Is difficult to understand, at this late in his time he earned over $1,500J,000 as a gifted being lived: but when death severed B Warm Puritan-who tear. her own delight, as we the clerks would in pa- good?" a!or g St. 'harles street, New Orleans, when the tie that held his soul, their farm Is three miles from this quaint old talked bring day, what a furore of excitement player. loyal greed town, on Nolin's creek, directly on the pers and letters for the Secretary's advice "Yes. Indeed, they are." was the reply. passed he Jamieson) made some remark about of gain became too manifest; they crowded pub- are making better farmers. The suc- over this country when Lafayette arrived The Beginnings of Edwin. him too and lic road leading from flodgensville to Bu.4 or signature, and I could see how rapidly "They the w.-ather. Booth fell upon his knees far, he asserted his manhood. a how Mr. Wilson handled Its cessful farmer of the future is to be an once more In America. is Edwir. Booth had been In California for There never was a falo, village six miles to the east. It is and carefully The visit an his- ther- and then, 'O wise sweeter, gentler nature a pleasant minutes' business. He was not at all disturbed by educated farmer. My boys went to the exclaiming: young some a wide of charac- than that which inhabited the mortal tene- twenty drive over a toric event to be remembered while mem- man, how much more art thou than years acting range gcod dirt road, through a poor, but inter- the interruptions, and I noticed that he agricultural college, and they are now on thy ment called Edwin Booth. His charities farms and are well. You can see ory endures. During President Monro..'s Icoks.- I told this to Edwin one day, and were esting country. followed each letter line by line with his doing he many, but secret. Few knew that The before he to It. I what I think of farming by the fact that I second administration the United States said. "The old man was guying him." within a short time of his death he original Lincoln cabin had been torn finger put fhis signature On., right he gave us his idea of down, and the materials had been moved saw several other instances of his careful trained my boys for it. and that they In- extended Its Invitation to Lafayette. He Othello, bought an annuity for the aged actor, Ed- At one in the con- tend to make It their life work. shon h-- made as black as a negro. What mon S. away, as stated, by a man named Tom business ways. period arrived at Staten Island on August 15 tSun- with his Connor. His reverence for his versation a clerk brought in a wretched dressing and bandy legs, noble art and his high view of the actors' Davenport, who used the logs in his own requisition Farma Lands as an Envestment. day). 1t24. accompanied by his son. Gaorge he was a sorry sight. Not even his fine -ouse. for a horse. As he laid it down before the calling is gloriously exemplified by the he said that the horse which this "Do you consider farm lands a good In- Washington Lafayette, and also by hle rea.i:o could save it from occasionai rip- munificent endowment of A. .W. Dennett, a New York gentleman, Secretary p!eP -,f laughter. But his the Players' not the new animal was to displace had been in the vestment, Mr. Secretary?" son-in-law. A formal reception took plane despite eccertrici- Club in Grammercy Park, so ac- long ago bought Davenport house, thy'e. he gav" us some great acting during lovingly recovered the logs, and, after much diffi- service of the department twenty-four "Yes, I believe that they will rise In on the following day-the first fruits of the complished under the intelligent guidance and that this warrant authorized one that. rite. miemoral,!e week. His Rien- of those active culty, restored the cabin exactly as it was years value. We have a vast population. It is most abundant harvetst of welcome which ar) a"I w-re intense spirits and constant friends of the clerks to go up to Virginia and buy Shylock and thrilling and companions, William Chas. originally, using the very same timbers, steadily growirg. The world will always Lafayette was to receive during his year in t ir whirlwind of passion. 0h Bispham, door, window and frames. It the another. The ter-at E. Carryl, Lawrence Hutton, E. C. Bene- occupies "Who is the man who le to do the need food, rnd we have some of the best of travel through the United States. scene in the "Iron ('hest" with dict and Thomas Aldrich. former site, and is in much the same con- buy- Wtf'r i is still vivid in Bailey dition as it was ing?" asked the Secretary. food lands on the globe. The Mississippi "Lafayette was sixty-seven years ,Id my memory. HIs when the Lincoluns left it. Antrica as the nation's Surso. should the boy reveal the terrible John Wilkes Booth. The cabin Is eighteen feet long, sixt-en feet "He is the assistant veterinary professor basin alone could feed 10000000,, and this when he visited secr-t. was of the was the a small of our soil. We guest, and carried his years lightly. Hits appalling in demoniac fury John Wilkes Booth I first met in the sum- wide and about twelve feet high, department." reply. is only part good The I1-sh still creeps at the mere recol- from the counting "Well," said the Secretary, "send him are already the greatest manufacturing na- head was shaped like that of Burns. Ie mer of I858. It was in a billiard room next floor to the ridge pole. There is nose. lection. M n: one door one in. I want to see what he knows about a tion of the globe, and our mineral re- had a high forehead, long, aquiline only and window-the latter a rather hair was Yet wicn the wonderful actor came from to Grace Church, managed by Michael an inches horse before I send him out to buy one." sources are such that we will ultimately and thitt far-. His sawly oper-ing twenty square. A large and His eyes were dark the se-ne he was as playful as a kitten t Phelan,ing, "Youthenhandlethe championa swordofprettythe cue.well."We open tireplace, built in the most primitive How He Learned Farming. have an enormous manufacturing popula- quite plentiful. I had the of an and the of food for this will gray. restless and twinkling: his eyebrows, pert Fitzhardinge, old played several games; he was an expert. way, occupies nearly the whole of one end chat with Wilson I tion, supplying man. When he first saw me early in the of the cabin. The chimney is made During my Secretary create a great demand for farm products. light in color. but heavily marked. Ilil evenin.g & scrutinized me most mysteri Indeed, he excelled In all athletic sports. of asked him how he came to know anything and land will grow more valuable as the Imouth wast firm, andl his lips smiled coutr- Like his brother he was small logs, placed together just as ously. "What do you play?' he asked "June," a maste1 houses are built. Inside of it, flat stoneslog abcut farming. He replied: country fills up." Iteously at the holiday crowd assembaled to "Fitzh tr'1inge." saId L. "My boy, my deat of fence. I was struck with his placed on-the ground made the "I was born a farmer, and I was "Are the farms of the future to be small Ido him honor. The general wast ttot very boy. tnis won't do at all. You are no eas3 hearth, and brought tall. but well made. His face was' disatne- movements of alluring, springy grace. ThE wide fiat stones placed against the logs up amid the traditions of the farm. My an- or large?" made up properly. Come with me anc classic Booth head sat above broad should. kept the fire within bounds and "They will probably become smaller as ly pleasant, and Its expra-ssion wast ana tddt FI'l fix you.'' and he did. I found out wha' protected cestors for generations have made their mixtuire of shrewtdn.s,. decision and gtai Edwin Booth as a Young Man. ers and deep chest. Taller than any of thE the wooden chimney. The Inside, from the the pcpulation grows." am".ed the actors when I glanced into a other Buoths, his frame was compactll hearthstones to the top of the chimney, living by tilling the soil. I was born near "Will our farmers ever live In villages, as good humor. His costume was a swallow- mirror. I wan made up like Scaramouch knit and instilled with life in every fiber was thickly daubed with The Ayr, Scotland. My father wanted to come the farmers of Germany do?" tailed coat and trousers of dark brown, The great man was having fun wIth me. ters, excelling in negro dIalect parts. He clay. chum. Wil- with a great display of white waistcoat and visited Australia in with He was then engaged to Matt Canning t< ney reaches only half way to the roof of to America before he was married, but his "No, I think not." replied Secretary Kindly King. company Laura go to Montgomery. Ala., to take his the and is rounded son. "I look for the railroads to travel neckcloth. A b~unc'h of seals hung from a A~ Footliglt Keere and his life-long friend, David C. inita house, off with small parernts would not let him. The journey to broad black ribbon at his waist. Over his T-t he was kindness Itself. I was tion in the great roles that made his fathel sticks. Tils simple fireplace furnished America then was about as among the farms, and for electricity or vera Anderson. stopped at the Sandwich islands much of an un- motive to carry the far- shoulders hung a cloth riding cloak, green- young and very nervous, and had mislalt famous, and in which Edwin was now forg most of the light, all of the heat, and the dertaking as a trip to the moon would be some other power ish blue In color and lined with red." on his nay back to California, playing at ing ahead for first place In the dramatli sole means for cooking the meals for today. So father settled down upon the farm mer and his prodtucts to and from the miar- my cane, No young actor can at the ------*- -- play San Frar,cisco and Sacramento; with Hen- arena. A family.Cid"hThe cabinntam?did not have even a in Scotland. There I was born and kets. Rapid transit will bring the farmers man ry who was afterward editor of the loft, there I think we will old w-.thout a cane! The great maz Sedley, I did not see him again until the winte: or second story, as have most cabins, Ite livwhoed -areuntil losing.I was Takesixteen.m Then we alli .sufficiently together. I don't Time Geod4 06d 'Einings corner until he found Rourd Table, he was the chief player with of 1865. He was then a full-fledged was built ever have thc socialism of Germany among hunted every It. sta. by Thomas Lincoln, father of the came to America. We settled first in Con- We used to have like Catherine Norton Sinclair, who had recent- in some of his father's parts, and had madi President, some time about or our farmers." old-fashlofned thiags, htoming Wthen in Washington Booth and Genera ly non her divorce suit from Edwin For- 1804 l.05, necticut and farmed near Norwich. About snd gr-eers, his mark in the south and west. But sud and was entirely constructed with an az three years later my father got the wester "What Is the cause of the disaffection We used to hanae just acomu eecp msade out et rest. denly his voice failed. He was compellec and saw, the tools of the among the farmers today?" and Forrest pursued every one who counte- simple pioneers. fever, and we moved out to Iowa. Iowa pork thens. to remain idle, his time being passed main The clapboard roof was anchore.d down by was at that time far west. We came there "The low prices of farm products Is one Bat no-w it's tatutlaa, enomme, and things mta~s nanced his wife with unreasoning virulence. ly -in Washington. From there he coult small logs, laid lengthwise on top of ten years in advance of the railroad. Fath- of the causes." said Secretary Wilson. from a htaak. He never forgave Edwin Booth for easily run over to Bel Air, the home of thi rows of oak the "This, added to the lack of knowledge of And Pot au Feut and JulIenone, oisee my daughter's with her. Edwin had having boards. There were rno nails er entered some land, and I worked with learned to eaook. played just finished family In Maryland. He was .a great fa or hardware, The door hinges were of hIm three years, when I took up some land how to make the most of their opportun- a tour of the mining towns and closed his vorite in Washington society; his talent a. wood, and the windows an ities, Is keeping many of our farmers poor. We to have a er beet- Just o:atinatry at Sacramento to paneless had In- of my oan. Well, I have been farming tused ptieae engagement preparatory an actor, beauty of person and engaging side board shutter, held in place by raw- from that day .to this." I don't think the farmers are badly off to- ment. embarking for' the eastern states, under manners made him a welcome guest in day. Thcse who are in straits are largely And pletkleda gelgs' feet. apiare rib5, tlt, V nl other an: hide- thongs. There were chinks and mudc "But, Mr. Secretary," said I, "what kInd t.. cat ; contract to Bien Baker, to begin his career company. The men were charmed and th< between the logs, and the puncheon of a farmer are you? Uncle Jerry men who have begun farming without cap- thting' as a star to fill the void left by his father's women fascinated, It was, said that th1 floor Rush, ital, and who have not miaed their manure While owt'sIat llet andt ragout, and leg of aut'aa death. was pegged down. It Is probable 'hat af- when he was Secretary of Agriculture, told laratlstd. handsome and witty daughter of a cer ter Abraham -Lincoln's grandfather was me that part of his life he had been a with brains and economy. There are thou- Awd mat-rai aui gratla. sand sheep's bead Hotllas- I followed his engagement at the Forresi tain famous senator was greatly in byv killed by the Indians at Long Run farmer and part of it an sands of farmers in my state today who daised Theater, where Junius and his wife were with him, and it was soon rumored tha house, in Jefferson county, Ky., theineeling agriculturist.I are making money and there are thousands family astred him what he meant by that, and he The good olad tintgas av passed away. In sile-nt, principial players. Edwin Booth had been their engagement was shortly to be an went further into the forest, and took S saId that the farmer was the man who will continue to do so." in California so long a time and had ap- nlounced, when Booth's terrible crime pu section of land in La then tip who sad reta'ent: so often, that his Rue, part of made money by farming, but that the agri- Unele Sam's Param News Syndieate. We're lots oaf hight-falutin' things, but noting mucah peared notwithstanding an end to the romantic episode. Hardin county, Later, to better his for- culturist was the man who spent lots to a-at. persoial popularity, even this, his last en- The peculiar teaching, or rather lack o of "How do you like being Secretary of And while I naevet say a word. ad always leaasant had not him an tune, Thomas Lincoln left this farm ori money on experiments, but usually came gagerr.ent, yielded adequate teachirg, of the head of the Booth family Nolin's creek, and settled on Knob creek, out behind." Agriculture, Mr. Wilson, and what do you look. sum to begin his journey east, A few of his and the vagaries of that extraordinar:~ dozen miles from laugh," replied the Secretary, with to do Yeu tet I've had dysgp'iaa slinces mu dauighter's friend1s rallied again and asked me to give man,. found perhaps greater expression Hodgensville, andi froni a expect here?" learned to ,'ook. I1 there he went to Indiana, and later to 1l111 lag,"and another definition of the two "I can't answer that just yet," replied up one of my nights for a parting benefit John Wilkes than in any other of the chil nois. terms is: 'The farmer farms the farm, hut to the young star and to participate in the dren. Raised In this wild and free way the agriculturist farms the farmer.' the Secretary. "I am still like a cat in a Result *t Enms-semmeat. p.erformance. This I was most happy to without the restraint of proper parents matters it Is I don't know what Well, strange garret, and I do not know all of From the tb-trolt Free. I'nea. do, although I had never met Edwin. Or influence in the and It little what that you wani you might call me. Consumption is no father, surrounded b; a or a believe in practical scientific farming. the holes and corners. I believe, however, "Why that man was always a crabbled of the evening of the day on which this mat- the atmosphere of a so-called chivalr -whether .situation servant--s have made that there is much to be done, and that vespecrter persons. The germs of this te r had been so "want" ad. in' The Star will reach money in farming. At least woman hater," sneered the young lady most dreadful of diseases float in the air pleasantly arranged, which then had greaser expression iL the have made my farm. I had nothing whet we can accomplish considerable by going heard a knock at my dressing room door, Maryland than any oth~l southern state, I person who can fill your need, to work In the right way. There is a rev- from Chicago. we breathe, in the water we drink, in the was in the I started, and I have now a farm of a I act of changing my dress for is perhaps not so surprising after all tha thousand acres and a good ene." olution going on in our farming methods. "That was before he had met our Die- money we handle. Perfectly harmless the last ac't of "Ingomar." A slender, young Wilkes became imbued with th Ah OpaL. "How much Is land 1Vorth in Iowa?" Slipshod farming will have to pass away troll girls." smiled Miss Cadillac. "He ad- in a healthy body, they are absolutely graceful form slipped into the room. A same ideas of our government that i "It on the was and the farmer of the future wDi put In his his misfortune in been pair of luminous eyes shone Out the A rose of fire shi6tt6 veil of snow, depends land," the reply, will do the most mits having brought deadly wherever weakness exists. The froma pelled great spirits of the south t 3nArlgleam athwart a misted sky: "Within the past two years I have paid at licks where they good. up in Chiedgo." beautiful oriental face Illumined by as rebel. As I have said, he had access to a' heeewlaol. ga4( deep if thou woulds; know as $82 an acre for land. of lungs' are the most sensitive of all the sweet a smile as ever came from a circles in the The high Plenty om vital The delicate of the finel3 capital. department The flame-wnght'apell of its pale witchery. land is worth $75 an acre, and -almosa organs. lining chiseled mouth. A hand was extended, were honeycombed with southern sympa And nwee rmlu eat isrvae everywhere in Iowa farm lands are wortl DELUTIAN SPORT- long cells and passages is easily irritated. which met with a firm and cordial grip thizers. Everything was ripe for a cor And now thdrrifted nodthbeautyshed the brief as high as $40 per acre." If the blood is impure and germful the Only simple words "Thank you,' spiracy. The loss of his voice made hit So myni shy love, aneath her kerchief white, soon becomes came from his lips, and he disappeared. brood, The prospect of fame as an acto Money in Farnn. lung lining inflamed. Im- seemed to be passing from him. HI pure matter accumulates. If a consump- Edwin's Snecess in lago. "But,Mr. Secretary~can the farmers mab brother Edwin had the field. He must d Who tremnbieth over that she yieldeth me. out of land at such thee tion germ is in the body it lodges there I played Othello to his and the something to Impress himself mar -And now her lips her heart's rich flame hav money prices? Is Iago, housn upon any money In farming, and would you ad and propagates. Soon the entire body was packed. In his performance of this kind and leave a name, In Richard he ha told; is full of bacilli and has often spoken the lines, "The aspiring yout And now they pale that they have been 50 bole vise a young man to go into It to mak consumption subtle part I saw then the budding fain that fired the Epheslan dome outlives I -EDNAH In~OCO CLARK1E. firm hold. that was to flower Into a brilliant and money?' prom fame the pious fool that raised it." most of our fa er's in Iowa Many doctors say that consumption Is perous career. And so began a The Pate of the New Wommam. "TIhe all friendshil Before Lineoln's Death. ~nr making money," replie Mr. Wilson. "'1 incurable and necessarily fatal. They that only ended with his untimely death. Dromn Harper's your young man is the right kind of are mistakes. Dr. Pierce's Golden Med- He was not for That was better than no fame at all. man. he has a for ungrateful, during oni It was at this time a youn if liking farming ical. Discovery will cure 98 per cent, of of his brilliant engagements at the Si I saw him again and hsenough business sense to far. all cases of consmption, if taken prompt- Charles New he the Metropolitan Hotel in New York. rightly, he can do well. In buying a farn Theater, Orleans, volun was In the "Corsican however, he should go out to look at th according to directions. It has cured teered for of course acting Brothers"- Vram ly my benefit, and, Niblo's. He saw the duel scene and land with a. spade in his hand, and shoult thousands. It is quickly absorbed by the drew a tremendous audience, I spol know that some kinds of land are hard blood and searches out every disease acting about it nett day. I remembered atte Richmond to his Richard III. We actes ward his eyeing me from head to foot, cheap at any price. He should studyth germ in the body. It assists nature to tcgether often In the south and west, sat soil and the markets, and become aar throw off germs and all effete matter and bu ing manufacturer instead of a mere raise only once in New York. and that for Bei of raw materials for other people to restores the body to perfect health and Baker's benefit, The play was replied: "I have had magny a-bout wIth bot Anak "Othello, of money out of them," strength. and I was terribly frightened, as I has your brothers,and especially with 'Juna I oh--"iy htsayprri eo "What do you mnean by that, Mr. Secr. When the bowels are clogged they unload their never acted so great a part as the Moor I3a who is a' master." "How long is your el tary?' said L.. isnpurities into the blood which in tura deposits the metropolis. Here the sweetness c f gagement?1" he inquired. "A mionth longe* "I mean just what I replied Mr them throughout the entire system. The victimo Booth's nature was again manifest. for said L. He paused, eyeing me curiousl Wilson. "It is the farmsayi,"manufactures of this 'odto usafer from headchsblurred words of encouragement came from him a t surveying me from heed to foot, "Wha who are =man the money today, It I viuion. heart-burn, soar stomach, foal taste is the end of the great scene in the the mouth, atetce ad third, ac1 .you are through here," said he, "take the men who are taking their raw mate biliousness. Doctni when the audience summoned us before the run down to Washington, I have some el rials and turning them into mat and ee Pierce's F'leasat Pellets promptly care consi curtain. - We also appeared together at tha terprises on hand that may Interest yol the making' tiou and these attendant ill.. One isa gentle theater in Boston. That able lng meat who are. the mney never seN manage1-, I'll give you a good time, and if you fall It is the fellows who ae h ihee grpe. Druggists Thomas Barry. was the lessee. Here he be- with my ideas, we'll make a fortune," In the =mreaut corn bae o.. te giae.