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The Brussels Post, 1892-7-22, Page 7JULY `2 2, 1892 AGRIOULVTRAL, The Reapers °Frage. 1 Item that it lore:tying tit:loin all the Bolds of Leo ; lean hear the reapers singing o'er the mond» ows, ealling mo; "And wherefore ci une you not io-day to NAP the golden grain But Fli never 000 thO Wag Of Lee, nor reap with them again, "And wherefore came you not to -day 1" they cry across the Lvhent 'And wherefore mime you not t" the winds ere chiming low and sweet, And far and: 0e00 sweet sounds I hear from over mount and main ; But Isbell mit see the holds of Loo, nor reap in them again{ 0, wherefore 00010 7011 note The hand of au- tumn dole: the Roe ; The world to like a picture where the harvests 010110 10 God; There's ,‘-el; a late white rose Inc yon in valley and in plain, But I shall not ROO the fields of Lee, whore blooms that rose again! "Ab. wherefore come you not? The doves have left their woodland nests, 'WM the gold of autumn gleaming on their downy, teoder breasts, And they are call ng to you softly, "Conic homer" But all their calls tire vain : For Isbell not hear the birds sing in the fields of Lee again. 0, comrades, cease your crying, ae ye reap in fields of Len; Yo have there so many reapers, there is never need of me: 0, doves, leave not yew nests, nor call in len- der tones and vain To him who hears, with failing tears, but can not come again I Reap on, ye inen and melds ot Leo, for those who soW must reap; And lain reaping far away, while ye your vig- ils keep; But there is no song upon my lips, nor golden IR the grain, And I shall not ROO th0 fields of Lee, nor reap with you again --(Frank L. Stanton, Transferring Beata Answering the question "Can I transfer my bees from a box hive m May ?" Dr. Mil. ler vys in National Stockman : Y3u can transfer them at any time, but probably the most transferring has been done when fruit trees are in bloom. At that titne there is a great deal of honey in the hive, and the less honey in the combs the more easily hendleel and the less daubing. If you transfer at a time when bees are gathering no honey, there is danger of starting robbing, and a colony just trans- ferred is in a poor shape to defend itself, When working on fruit -bloom the bees are in good condition to mend up their combs rapidly, In many casee it is better to trans- fer about swarming time, followiug the plan devised by Jemes Haddon. Drive out the old queen, and a majovity of the bees into a hiving -box (almost any empty box will do) and move oho old hive back a few feet, reversing the entrance, Then put ou the old stand a hive Heel with frames of foendation, and shake the bees down in front of it. In twenty-one days the worker -brood will be all hatched out in the old hive, and you may then drive out every last be from it, and add these bees to the others on the old stand. This gives you a rousing colony that ought to store honey if there is any to store. The old combo can be melted up, and if you wish, you can save out straight worker-oomb to be fastened in frames and given to swarms. If you want to increase the number of your colonies, a modification of the above plan might suit you still better. Wait until your colouy swarms, and, after hiving it, put the swarm on the old stand, re- moving the old hive ton new location. This will make all the field bees from tho old hive join the new swarm, and there will belittle danger of a second swarm. In twenty-one days from the time the swarm issues, transfer the colony from the old hive, /etting it remain of course, on the same stand which it has occupied for the last twenty -n0 days. One objection to this plan is, that if honey is coming in rapidly, there might be a good deal of it in he way. Is the Shorthorn the General Pnrpose UOW? Mead by las. Tolton before the Dominion Shorthorn Breeders' Association.) In which breed or in the crosses of what breede can the general purpose cow be Sound? is a question that has been many times athed, but, so far as I know, it has not been definitely answered. Neither do I suppose 11 will be settled for all time by this paper. The cow that is bred for epecial purposes, such as for beef, either by stall feeding or grazing, or for dairy pur. poses, has and rilways will have her ad- mirers ; but, after all, what the general or average farmer wants is a cow that has to as large extent as possible all these qualities combined. Before endeavorineto answer the ques- tion, it might be proper to try to define briefly what would constitute the general purpose cow. Would it not to as large a degree as possible be the cow that, when judiciously mated, the produce, if 0 cow calf, in type should be equal, or superior to the dam, or which, if a steer ettlf, will be fit for the market in the shorteet possible time, making the highest returns for the feed consumed ? Would it not also be the 00W which, for the feed consumed, pro- duced the greatest number of pounds of butter or cheese of the finest quality, and when she has fulfilled her time for breeding and for dairy purpoaes, earl be turned into beef of the highest quality at the least possible coat? If the lino of argument so far is sound, we readily perceive that it would be of no avail to look for this cow in those breeds which are specially bred for beef purposes i neither will it be of use to look for her In those breeds whioh are bred exelueively for tbe dairy. Now, I persume, it will recline° but little or no argetnent to demonstrate that the Shorthoen cow will nearly always.produce her own type. If bred with the main object of beefing purposes, she takes a prominent and consmououe stand,among the beef eat. tis fed in this country; and I think the same might be old of every other country whore improved broods of cattle are kept As an instenae, at the late fat stock show held at Guelph all the &nimbi exhibited (with the exception of one or two) were Shoethorns or grade Shorthorns. Again, in early maturity she takes o prominent place among ether breeds. A friend of mhie lath Winter fattened a number of yearlings that were two•year-old steers when shipped in June hist, isna they weighed from 1400 to 1405 lbs., and heifers of the same age that averaged 1375 lbs., and there are many instances of these making from 1 100 to 1200 lba, at that age ; and, again, are there any flier specimens, of owes, heifers, and eadves found in Any of the breeds than we 000 000005 Om Shorthorns exhibited at our agricultural ex I: ibi Mots Now whet is the tectied of the Shorthorn eoW ati a dairy oow 1 I am free to confese 11 0107 be dillicu't to prove that she 005100 up to the qtalifientious let:1 down in this paper i and if 80, / think there are 011031011 Iwo eauses why she does not, First, 1 LiiIiik it may be safely asserted that Shorteliorn breeders generally have p0111 more attention to their feeding and beefing gnalities then to is good performance at the milk pail, tVith this I ars not propon to 111111 fault ; Itis 001 1110 intention of this paper to flint fault for the breedere linty have good came for the pertionlar line of breeding which they have followed. Secondly, if there have beim nompetitive (este In this country, not only with other lreeds nf math:, but in. clividual records showing what ean be done with a Shorthorn for a stated period, such competitive reeords have not come under my observation. I give the /Mowing, clip- ped from an agricultural paper, 03 the result of the Britieh Dairy Show of 1 800. Al this show there WOCO 437 eattle entered for the competition, and the tents were RR follows : Short -horns, 121. 1 ; Dutch, 1 lA ; Ayrshire, 08.8 ; Guernsey, 98.) ; Jersey, 90.8 ; Red Poll, 611.1 ; Dexter Kerries, 08,1. The see. ond prize-winning Short -horn soared 117.9 pointe, but had the greatest milk yield of any in one day, viz., 5.3, but being under 3 per cent. in fat ; so you see in Britain, where some of the breeders breed for milk- ing purposes, the Short -bore cow can show a good record. At a Farmers' Institute meeting which I attended lately, one gentle- man stated that the best dairy cow was a °roes between Shorthorns and Ayrshires. To get the best, you will notice it requires a cross with the Short-hern. Now, is 11 001 a fact that public: opinion is a fairly safe guide iu domestio matters as well as other questions? Ibis true that it may and does sometimes err. Well, how is public opinion on this general purpose cow question? Although we have in On- tario nearly all the leading breeds of im- proved cattle, and we have bad them for many yea's, what do we and? Why, about nine -tenths of the cows kept by the general farmer are Short -horns and their crosses. Now, you have noticed that the title of this paper was the query, "Is the Short -horn cow the general purpose cow ?" I have endeavored to presenteome facts and figures with the view of nnewering ths question in the affirmative, but will leave it with you to say whether I have done no or not, Plowing In Green Crops. A. W. allEEVER Ls "min umisme moire". I arn asked if I would advise sowing hungerian millet tribe plowed in for fertiliz- ing a field to be seeded to gram in Septem- ber, and I can answer most decidedly that I would not I have never had much faith In the economy of raising good fodder to be plowed in to enrieh land. 11 10 too expeu- sive a fertilizer. It is better to feed it first to profitable stock and then get two profits, one from the animals and another from the manure made while feeding. A crop of millet growing through the summer months will extract from the soil about all the available plant -food the sort contains and cannot give itup to the succeeding crop till it has itself beeome thoroughly decomposed which will not be in season to help the grass much this year. And if the grass fails to get a good Start SOW11 in September it might about as well not have been sown at all. Turning in green crops for manure is a popular practice in sections where wheat raising is the chief business of the farm and where a crop of wheat can not be grown without, manitee oftener than once in two or three years. We are being taught now that clover and other plants prodneing root tubercles are capable of gathering nitrogen from the atmosphere and so by their growth the fertility of 0 soil may be actually in- oreaseil. Millet is not a member of this class of plants and can carry to the soil nothing of special value as & fertilizer but what it has taken from the soil during its growth. Clover, beano and peas turned will increnso the fertility of soils after de- aompoeition, but even these are worth much more fed to stook and the inflame saved to apply to the land. I have no doubt that man could exist on i theearth without the aid of farm stock but at the present time and with existing ideas and habits it is far bettor to encourage the s keeping'of all tho profitable stock a farm will carry and to feed all the fodder grown ra. f thee than turn it under for menure. There is a great amount of vegetation grown t that man cannot utilize as food till it has first been converted into animal food by the live stock of the country. The study of the firmer should be how best to utilize this material Turning under is not the best way. 1 TE BRUSSELS POST. FOR 71-1E LA.PIS. A SO 111Meral Love, Did vOil OVOY 111104 ef the dna Elaine, 1111V11111,1. w,, met In the sylvan wood, Inn the tuarteensinpli at. the Sounteiti's brit e:nil:wn el :toupon ns as thee re wstood Yo,, were a rose In your wordier hair. A. 1v110.10:4 ,101j10 013 yonr lave, An Snit your atm es the sparkling ARM And °genet 11 with a dainty grime, tool :lino toget her, fthe high-el:se tlfallt, I ur both sexe, was virton,lly non-exi,,,. A CRIMSON PAGE, 1 lave made this rensemeet with:oil, imm' , wearying you , locenee my mind the history of the .2 011,1it kin of Patna 11 woolen shoo, isse im 0 r000nl of their grad - 5, nal but etezely emoseripation from bondisno and from humiliation. It is beeonse iv:An- on have obtained 00 many rights, hare been g, relieved from 00 many din, nabilootions, and are now allowea to exercise so Timmy eallinge formerly monopoliend by men, that I ,he 1I004 eMphatirally eentend that 114W that they have complete control 00 01' their prop. ertv, ; now that bad liesbands cannot cheat or buff y them out of their earnings ; now that they can beemne members of the school board, ancl vote, being householders, at municipal elections, and be elected to serve as parochial guardians, and have be. come in many important directions eitizens of the oommenity, theyare entitled, not only in justice, but in plain, commoli, }ample reason, to the Parliamentary franchise, provided they min be iilated on the register of householders or lof gers. To the Ohre and stupid sneers about " Petticoat Government," the "Shrieking Sisterhood," " Wild Women," the " Lady Lord Chancellor with Twins," and "The Right Honorable the Female Home Secre- tary nursing her baby while making a epeeth," I do not attach the value of a brass farthing, To serve the ends of fair argument these Intokneyed witticisms are as useless es tt would be to reprint John Knox's furious tiredt against " The Monstrous Reginient of Women." Who ean refute a sneer ? Every great social tnovement boa to pass through three stages before it obtains acceptanee—thi etage of sheer idiotic or malevoleitt riffle:tie ; the stage of honest and conscientious, althorigh perhaps nits - taken, oppoeition ; and the stage of being contested through interested motives, The last is the liereest. The sarcasms about Woman Snfi rage lore nearly spent ; although the advocates of the movement are frequent- ly laughed at or abused as faddists. Very possibly, if the words fads and faddists had been known eighty years ago, the persons would have been thus derided who objected to women being loaded with fetters in Eng- lish jails, or to their being whipped at the cart'a tail through English streets. It wa$ not until George IV had ascended the throne that Mr. Sthrges Bourne contrived to gat a bill passed prohibiting the corporal punish- ment of females; and very possibly there were seine highly respeotable people at the time who regarded Mr. Stu:ges Bourne as O featherheaded and mischievoue innovator, The fad of one generation is very often the wisdom of the next or of ths genetation after that—I repeat "after that." I on not pleading for women to be eleated mem- bers of parliament yet awhile. I doubt whether very many women who are agitat- ing for the franchise have the slightest ambition to enter Parliament. The ques- tion is too vast and too complicated to be dealt with in a hurry ; and if woinen are to become legislators it will probably be et a period when parliaments and ethee thinge of this world will be of no moment to me. Still, I do earnestly hope, that, ere ley race be run, I shall tee so much common justice done to 1000380 08 will enable them to enjoy equal rights with men in exercising the Parliamentary franchise, I never bet; but, did I wager, and could a poll be taken of all the Parliamentary voters in England. I would lay a very heavy stake that for every twelve intelligent male voters on the regis. ter, I would produce a dozen ot quite as intelligent women. • And 01101e to my thltstIne Fund yOU gave A draught of the glowlog wine or love, Anil the shy, sweet ;dance of your starry eyes. A inagieepen o'er my spirit wove. 1 held youp hand in the donee that night - 1 held yourimage MOM, aly heart, Alas I Masi that the summer's love With the summer flowers should e'er departt I donut FINN b0-01151tt, 1118000120 you see— Ivry curtain 0)0011 00 the val,1011s peat ; Wateh 1110 long proemeeen MArching flown The windy walks of thno. Fair womensmile, And kindle with a look the smite 1)2 11100, Then vanish into mists of Night and Dream The elioth of arnior sounds and Princes fight With Princes, Love walks here—and Hate and all For which men live and dIs ; tend flying, pass Beyond the echoes ot the world's applause. Some magio etrange has brought them book to -night, In habit as they lived—those happy :lead— Whom the depth's rivalry oan 087 110 more. Bravely they wear the laurels of the pad. " Thu.." whispers she, "0 charmed them in old days, ".Aod thus," he says, "1 strove, and fOtight, and won The plaudits of the throng. Ah 1 Life was good; And, to the player, Hfe is doubly life 1" There, in the wings, I nee them smile and wait, : Cheer you the living -1 willpraise the dead. —1Loulso Chandler,Moul ton. The Progress of Women- OY 5110131310 Ant:US1l0:3 SAL: I have studied the social condition of sny countrywomen for at least forty years of active and ahnost incessant journalism ; and if I may be allowed to take a brief retrospect of the social condition of women, say in 1852, an compared with their present status in the community, the task will be made lighter no ine, and my purpose clearer to my readers. Al the period of whboh I speak, a married woman wee, financially speaking, the mere chattel of her hush:mil She had not the right to control her own income, if she bed elm, or even to enjoy her own earn- ings, if she earned anything. She might have a worthless, drunken, brutal husband, who, after illthreating her for years, might torn up again some evil morning from Nor- W5y or Nicaragua, or Newgate, and break up the home she hod formed for herself and her children during his ahSenee seize und squander what money she had seraped to- gether; sell her furniture, and then &hexed again for any indefinite period. lf she had riehes, her wealth could not be secured to her without cumbrous and costly legal set- tlements ; while a dissipated or heartless husband might wrench from her every penny of interest accruing from her capital. There was no cheap and expeditious law of di. voree which could free her from the matri- monial tie when her life had become intel• arable through the cruelty or the infidel. ity of her husband. To get rid of the brute entailed a ruinous expenditure of money. She had first to go to the Ecclesi- astical Courts to get a divorce from bed and board; and next, a private Act of Parlia- ment had to be procured before the con- jugal shackles could be dissolved. To get a divorce was like walking over broken bottles—you bled at every step. The cheapest of divorces cost a thousand pounds. Then again, if a poor girl, en- gaged, say, in a Moose of business, or work - mg us a dressmaker on her own account, Was so luckless as to lodge m a house of which the tenent was backward with his rent, the superior landlord inight put an execution, and the sheriff would seize the young women's few goods and chattels, and sell them, so to speak, under her nose. l'here Was no Lodger's Protection Act to nye lier from this cruel wrono. Sbe had, was true, the phantom right of "replevin," vhich she rarely knew how to assert, or had money enouah to act upon. There vas no Aggravated Assault Act to punish with imprisonment and hard labor the erocious ruffians who inaltreated women. A man might pound hie wife or his mistress slmost to a jelly for forty ebillings, or gouge one of her eyes out and knock all her teeth down her throat for five pounds. Next to her positive legal grievances came the almost innumerable disabilities and oda slights to which the HuglishWoMall was subjected forty yeers ago. The Lees- ature, 11 15 true, had, some ten years pre - 'lonely, rescued women from the toil and he ignominy of working, more them half naked, in coal pits. I had also restricted tbe hours of labor of women, and of :Mil. dren, too, in factories ; but there remained an immense number of industries quite suitable for females, and by the pursuit of whieh they now earn, 11mi:4:adequate wages at least bare livelihoods. There were no female clerks nor bookkeepers ; the type- writer did uot exist, ana the sewing -ma- chine was in its infancy. Few, if any, mem. bers of Parliament or men of letters had the courage to engage o female amanuensis. A law stationer 00110 engaged a female to copy l egal doeuments would have been praotic- ally boyeotted—aithough the word R- eif had not been then invented—by the cap- able and drunken law writers of the epoch. There Was no Girton, and there was no Nownhain, and local university examinations were unknown, There were very few high schools for girls. Harriet Martineau was the only female newspaper leader -writer in England. There were no lady journalists, properly speaking, no lady reporters, short- hand writers, art; critics, or purveyors of so. Mew parsgraphe. There were a few female engravers and lithographers, but the male p ractitioners in those arts looked askance at their female competitors. Women were not allowed, by custom at least, to be composi• couid not, ask:rally, Ito members of school ors or watehroakere, or home decorators, boards, which did not exist 1 but they were not allowed any voice in parochial affaire ; far lose were they eligible to become mem- bers of a board of guardians. Ascending higher in the social scale, nee found ladies, in 1852, suflbring from a multitude of petty but annoying and humiliating restrictions, Some of my fair readers rimy smile, and eeen evince a little incredulity if I tell them that so late as 1 &Wit was considered indec- oroes for & lady to rkle in a hansom ; ood that a lady who elothed hereelf in a leather. protected skirt and gaitere, and went out with a party of gentlemen, partridge or heasant shooting, would have been looked pOil AB mad or bed. Until about the 001110 me, we borrowed the Grand Hotel system om Franco and the United States, and de- elopecl and improved both, there were no nglith hotels, either in tho metropolis 0,,, t the watering plane, in which any public ' Wee tome foe ladies ea well as gentlemen 1 xisted, A gentleman traveling with Isisfie or daughters, and alighting et an hos el, wee foeced to engage & private room 1 WaX candlee and all the reet of it, et xtortionato prices; 01,2! although there Wee sprinkle of foreign restaiirante in London here Mies mid gentlemen could luneh Native Africans in Our Harbor. If any one visits the piers in the harbors on the Atlantic where vessels from Liberia can be found while in port, Inc will general- ly tee a number of native Afrioan sailors, fine specimens of physical manhood, who appear very intelligent, active, and indus- trious. They belong to the well.known Krn tribe, which lives along the coast of Liberia. The men are in great demand to load and unload vessela along the African coast They are often taken hundreds of miles, as far as OltinerOons, to act as longshoremen. ff he Krus have the interesting Imola arity that they prohibit all forms of domestic slavery among them. The Kru inlant is marked at his birth On the forehead with blue tattooing, which 10 the eymbol of his own liberty and of the opposition Of his people to any form of servitude. Some Europeans doing business in West Africa say that it would. be impoesible to carry on trade without the help of the Kra men. Many of the Kens are now in the service of the Congo State. They are help. ing to build the railroad from Matadi to Sta.nleyPool and are as bandy with the shovel as John Chinaman himself, The Kru man will not consent to separation from his tribe for more than a year at a time, 11e carries with him a piece of cord with which to mark the monthly vestments received from his employer. On each pay day he ties a knot in the cord, and after he has made the twelfth knot he atarte for home. He is frugal and economical, and is not apt: to Oslo service away from hoine more than two or three times. When lie returns with the money he has 15001111101010d be takes a wife and settles down. The Kru man le one of the most itsefill of the native Africans. Donbtless a email proportioo of our negro oitizens are descendants of the Kees. though slave dealers usually spared the Krue because they were too useful in the service of white mon along the OASIS to be diminished in number by tronsportieg them ite tileveir to foreign lands, Abbas Pasha the new Khedive, line a bi facl, if we may 'believe the ehronielers �f fe, Vienne, like most rulers. The young Xliedivo delights in the companionship of .1.1 gold fish, and once trained a ((einem Cam 0, to come to the top p21113 tank at hie tall of c "Ohirra t 1" The Omar eollects post. e ago stamps, The late Prime Albeet Vidor, w a Wales, bad a room fill! of cigarette boXes, t The yoting Xing of Spain colleets mischief, w and the Prince of Monate Wands from the 0 ropes with 00)1)011 gentlemen who do not beat the bank adjust themselves to the w trees of Monte Carlo, Mediome for the Haft To brush and brush and still to brush is the best medicine for the hair, remembering always that it is the hair and not the scalp which is to receive this treatment, writes Mrs. Mallon, in the July Larlics' Home Journal. Upon the brush used depends a great deal. In the first place it must be immaculately °leen, tuiff ono's brushes should be washed as religiously as is one's face. The comb should be coarse, so that it will disentangle the hair if it is snarled, but if the hair is well brushed the oomb really is of very little use. A fine comb is never advised. The brush should have loeg, soft bristles that go through the hair, taking with them every particle of dust and leaving behind them a glow that is beautiful, -- A Mirror Glove. Coe of the novelties of the day is the "mirror glove." A woman has often need of as much looking glass as she can dee her face in. In the atreet, at a bell, at a theater, in the shops all sorts of little disarrange- ments may occur, and to set them right a mirror is an absolute necessity. The want is ono that really hoe been long felt, and some clumsy attempts 110Ne been made to tneet it. But the very handiest form of portable mirror is the new "mirror glove." A little flap is buttoned up into the palm of one glove. When it islet down a small cir- cular mirror is disclosed. Tho advantage of this arrangement is said to be that the wearer can look at herself without looking as if she were looking, When Forks Came in. It was about the year MOO, and in the reign of James I., when forks were first in- troduced into England, This "piece of refinement," we are told, Wall derived from the Italians. In a curious book of travel, published in the year lell, the writer says: "I observed a custom iu all those Italian cities and towne through the which I passed that is not used in any other country that I saW in my travels. Neither do I think that any other nation in Christendotne doth it, but only Italy. The Italians, and also most strangers that ore commorant in Italy do alsetsies at their meales use a little forke, when they out their meat°. For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke, which they hold in the other hand,. upon the tame dish, This forme of feeding is generally in nee in all Italy, their forkes being for the most part made of yron, or steel, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen." Before the revolution in France it was customary, when a gentleman had been invited out to dinner, to send his servant in advanee with his knife, fork, and spoon. If he had no servent he carried them with hini in his pocket. Some of the peasantry in °tante parte of Germany and Switzerland to -day carry a case in their pockate, containing a ; knife, fork, and spoon, The Saleswoman Waii Beni te the 000asion. I A. young saleswoman in a dry goode steno , who had just gold & quantity of goods to a lady asked: "Will you have the goods sent, or take them with you?" "Do you airmen that 10111 going to emery o bundle like that'?" asked the shopper, ins dignantly, " Oh, no inedeni," answered the saleewoman, mistreas of herecif, "1 supposed your carriage was et the door and thatyou might prefer to tnke yonr purchnee with you." And she scored one on the victoriotie side. --- Nothing is difficult ; 11 10 ouly wo who are indolent -4S, R, liaydon. The Story of Wtiffe Disputes Re "With Mood, FURTHER .PARTIOU.LARS OF TEE AWFUL TitAGDAY AT aomE. STEAD. sosseszezissoetssresossers rnarohecl TIJOY did 30 30 00011 glauce at the stern, AF 1,2 II 1 tk 11, 1111,1 glOO,Mo Ing eyee of their victere, mid altheugh 61I Q road was rough and thvir herd, d the nogney mad i le"Y Ai, the intersection of Ifeieel t•trect and Eighth avenue there is a hill. Al the foot 01 1110 hill and fronting on the avenue ie the big brick hall, 15 the Lop story of whith is located the beadquurtere of the etrikers. This afternoon the headquertern were elos. eft, bet from one of the open windows sprung 07010, from which hung a large American lig. When the column reaulled 11/e ereet of the hill those in the front ranks looked down into & veritable sea of Mem More than a thousand determined looking men awl pole•facod, talkative women wore mass- ed on either side of the 11,011310, This throng was at least a quarter of a mile long. For fully an hour these men and women had stood and waited for the captives, and ILO 18 natural segeence they were in no pleasant humor, Great oloude of yellow dust herald. ed the adesuce of the colunin. There woe a moment of perfect silence, 018 00101110 as it W55 portentious, and inighly them follow. ed by a perfect war of bILE611 00(2 OA palls. The lane never faltered, The leaders knew that h ninth gauntlet must, be posted, coma what would, and decided that the best plan was to proceed with all possible speed. The armed escort 0100 with an ovation, and the first batch of peisoners, who were j albite very heele of the ,or mite, managed I to escape the attention of the crowd. For the long line of bleeding men that followed them the conditions were not so pleasent. A tall, handsome woman in n blue calico gown began the trouble by throwing a hands ful of dust in the eyes of one of the piisoners. The num stopped in his tracks and uttered 5. groan of agony. "dsly God, I'm blinded,"' be moaned. "Serves you rigbt, you dirty curt" replied his assailant, and she pulled from the poeket of her gown a bit of jagged stone and hurled it with crushing loree at Ole suffering man. The stone struck him in Ole mouth, and although hawse six feet tell and weighed at least 200 pounds be fell face downward on the road. Two of the guards I raised him to his feet and led him away. 'MIS Man was badly hurt the blood gushin from an ugly wound in his right cheek an fo.ir of his teeth were knocked ont. Mere words cannot describe the scene that followed. Despite 'the pleading of the guards and the protests of ole,, conservetive men, the mob vented its spleen on the dazed and wounded prisoners. Alen wereknooked down, pounded with clubs and stones. and women spat in their faces and tore their clothing, amid screams, cheers, and hisses. It was a perfect pandemonium. A P10.12011011 1141.15.0 81007. O'Day, one of the captured Pinkertons, said :—"I was employed to come here and guard and watch the Carnegie mill proper- ty," he said. "1 hest no idea that I was coining here to do any shooting or to be a target for any other rifleman. When we landed at Homestead this morning we bad 280 men and 280 Winchesters. 'Ale had pro- visions for three months, and we all had with us some clean linen and additional suits of clothes. In feet, I metaled to believe that we would have a pleasant time up here/ There were five or six of our men killed and at Leath twenty ot them were wounded, I but none of them seriously. But, however, 00 10011 will ever be able to deectilie the awful feeling of our men during the day in those barges. It seemed sin: months of awful misery and distress. " We expeeted to be shot or to have the boat blown up every minute. I wanted the fellows to surrender early in the morning, but they believed the working people would wear themselves out, and then we would be allowed to land peacefully. They were too. long winded for us, nod we died several deaths while WO were being bombarded., Rut after all death would have been a relief from the cruel treatment we received after wo surrendered and while we were being marched from the barge to the jail. If I was 111103108 I was hit SOO times, Es en little boys stood back and showered rocks at no. The' women slapped us in the foes, and nearly' every man we passed struck me a eickening blow about the face, bead, or neck. I was hardly conscious when 7 was landed ie this den." O'Day's eyes were both blackened, au. ugly gash had been cut in his cheek, and is• long scalp wound was bleeding ireely. The, physicians who were endeavoring to dreser Ole wounds of those who had been hurt the. worst, had not yet reached him, nd be complained of beiug weak and sick from the loss of blood. His case WAS only one of the many of his unfortunate fellows. The &sent of the Troahl On the south bank ot the narrow Monon- gahela River, eight miles to the southeast. of Pittsburgh, is this little town of Home, stead, which the whole world is now wetch- ing. There is a level borderiug the river, but the great Carnegie works occupy most of thio. The town rises from tho river upon the terraced and gently sloping hill- sides. The houses are none of them pre- tentious, and moat of them are the modest homes of laborere, both skilled and unskill- ed, Each laborer owns his own house. Each has a little yard about it. Ten years ago Homestead had less than L000 inhabi- tants; now it has over 12,000, of item 5,500 are directly employed by the Carne- gie mills. These mills with their dozen large and • substantial buildings and their huge chim- neys, shadow the whole town and dwarf it. Yon see at a gledice, no matter from what direction you approach it, that the Carnegie Steel Association is the cause, the life, the whole of this town, that without it the town would never have existed, that With its cloeing the town would bedeirerted. Its 5,500 laborers, with their falnilies and the few shopkeepers, policemen, and other employees incident to a munimpality, are entirely dependent ;Ron the $80,000 handed out at the little window of the business office to the long line of intelligent and prosperous looking men who have earned it in the Carnegie Until a few weeks ago this town WAS 10. place of honeet labor, fruitful in content- ment and clomestio happiness, The files in the futile:me blazed day and night, the nues chinery never oeased its roar, and the noise of it filled the whole town under the 'nab. canopy of smoke from the chimneys. Now all the sounds of houeet iechistry have cones oil The great mills have been changed intce a fortress the bitterness that can only end in bloodshed exiets between employers awl employees, Itonest industry ha.a been °banged kith the zeal for violenee and bloods shed. Already the strike war las its roll of killed and wounded. And the battle ban only begun. The UMW Work of lite Strikers —The I 111UNICrO11041,04$100115 irOM COP140.0 And Willehrfiler—Th 0 7111d Dy lug Mon I moils of- the Disaster —sumacs: Ls or the Dreadful Day. It will never be known definitely who fired the first :Mot which started the slatigh• ter that made so many homes of mourning in the manufacturing eity of Homestead, Pa. Tile first gun, however, was fired from Ole Pnikerton barge, and is thought to have been discharged by the captain of the ganef men, who was afterward killed. The last moinent before the slaughter, the crowd was surging downward against six of the lead- ing mill workers, who 'stood with their basks to the Pinkertons, fairly under the muzzier of the rifles, trying to keep the mill men back from what seemed certain death. Clear as a bell far above the roar of the angry crowd, came the voioe of 1Flugh nell, as, hatless and cutlass, he tried to check the angry men. "In God's name," he cried, "my good fellows, keep back, don't press down and force them to do murder." It Was too late, the appeal was drowned by the sharp report of a Winchester from a man in the bow of the boat. The first ball had hardly left the smoking barrel on its mission of death before it was followed by a sheet of flame from a score of rifles in the Pinkertonshands. 1Vi11iam Foy, who stood at the front with his foot 05 0110 gang plank staggered and fell, his blood gushing out. For a moment the crowd was struck dumb by the attack. Only the groune of several wounded men were heard. The echoes of the rifles had hardly reached the neighbor- ing bilk: ere the crowd replied, Out from the semi -darkness of the morning flashed a wall of fire. The men on the bank, too, bad arms and were using them. The leader of the Pinkertons chipped his hand to his breast and fell overboard, sink- ing beneath the waters, while several other Pinkertons staggered losek and were carried inside the boat by their comrades. At the first dash of the Pinkertens' rifles many of the crowd took to their heels, lint close to the water's edge stood about 200 of the angyy Men firing their revolvers straight at the Pinkertons. Soon the latter, unable to withstand the firing, retreated into their cabin and fired from under cover as quickly as possible. When the men on shore had emptied their revolvers they retreated up the bank, greeting every shot from their enemies with defiant cheers. The Captured hyraders. In something less than an hour alter the defeated and disgutted Pinkerton forces had lowered their colors the victors marshalled their prisoners of war into the yard, just back of the greet water tanks. The captured navaders wore in a very bad Way, physically and mentally, and as tl oi lied. died together on the network of treokn they formed a gruesome spectacle. Their faces were blackened with dirt and powder and stained with blood. Some earned their arms in improvised slings, and many were without shoes. A majority of the men car- ried cheap leather travelling bags and bun- dles of clothing. A double_guard of Home- stead men,armed with the 1Vinchesters cap- tured from the barges, encircled the prison- ers, and direr:fly behind the guards W1LR throng of men, women, and children. Freed from 0110 Olinger Only to be Con, fronted With Others. At first the mob devoted its energy to jeering and hooting the captives, but long before the outer ramparts of Fort Frick were readied the air was thick with stones hurled by the maddened populace. In their eagerneSS to do physical damage to the prisoners the rabble lost sight of the fad that hundreds of their own men were ex• poeed, and several of the escorts were struck by the flying miseiles, bet the general aim of the fast growing crowd was unpleasantly accurate. In the beginning the dazed Pinkertons made no attempt to defend themselves. They did their best to dodge the stones, but even before they reached the outer gate their bodies were literally covered, with bruises and wounds. When this awful pageant arrived at the gate directly oppo- site the railwas station at Munhall it paus- ed in its journey to allow a freight train to pars. This interruption lasted only a few minutes, but it must have seemed an hour to the prisoners. At last the final car pass, ed, and the journey was resumed. Over the. P. V, and C. tracks they stumbled, then down the sloping side 01 1)10 roadbed into the little gully at the side of the station. At this juncture one of the prisoners drop. ped 0 big yellow valise from sheer nervous. nees. The mob pounced upon it like a pack of hungry wolves. They severed the flimsy look, and in lees time than it takes to de. scribe it the valise WAS opened and its 000 - tents scattered in the dust. A big red.fneed man picked tip a freshly laundered shirt and waved it over his head. Thousands of in- flamed eyes caught a glimpse of the shirt., and them as if- by arrangement, a dozen grips and bundles were wreeted from the now thoroughly frightened prisoners, Soon the air was filled with all sorts and conditions of underwear and clothing. This unique episode tickled the people, and fora time diverted their attention from the pris- rers. During their brief breathing Spell he guards moved closer to their captives, and the gaps in the long nolumns were des - ed up. Just beyond litunshail Station the road token & midden bend, When the leisders turned the bend they were confronted by a veritable wall of noisy, excited humanity. in the front ranks of this neW and unexpect- ed obstacle were a group of Women . armed with brooms and °Whs. It looked then as though no human power could peevent collision. But, thanks to the quick wit; of 0110 02 the leaders, the clanger Wae averted, mid what bid fair to be a tvagedy was traria. forred into a comedy. It happened this Ways A 'Woman's AWN' nevengo. One wo ran, who appeared to be the leader, raised her broom, and in a shrill voice said ; "Whore are the dirty black Miceli? Let's have them, boys." At thie critioaljencture the leader shouted hi a a voice so load 1)301 11 could be heard by all, despite tho din and confusion ; "Why my good woman, wo went our shirts laun. doped, and we are going te make these tramps do the job et out rates," This rough joke was °bereft to the 00110, and by good luck changed the fickle humor of the mob, "Make way for nil" commanded the joker, end, etrange to relate, thoee in front obeyed, Slowly and reluotantly the people mem:flea up against the high, Whitewashed feller- of tlie company, and by its narrose Imie the dolmen eolvanoed. Thum with low. ocl heeds and. laggard steps the l'i»lortens The strong and the week alike wither a1, the touch of fate.—[Carlyle. TIMM is no Man so ft iondless but what ho eatt fincl a friend sincere enough to tell hint disagreeable tentlis.—[Bulwor The rate of progeoesion of a storm it often fifty miles an hoer, and a serice lute often been traced ie & direct ii116 from north to seals a aist&noo of 400 niiles. The average altitude of thunderstorms bee been fond itY 110 itet ovee 5,000 feet above the surface el the earth,