Secretary Wilson's Butter Scheme

Professor James Wilson, United States ascretary of agriculture, says be means the scientific experts iu his department 3hall worii for the farmer and not for the adniiration of other scientific gentlemen. Ono of the first thiugs he is going to do ÍS, if possible, to work up a trado with Great Britain in American butter. A grain broker who sat next Mr. Wilson at dinner one eveuing happened to speak of the American corn he ehipped to Denmark. Professor Wilson asked what the Danes did with the corn. He was told that they fed the AmeriI can corn to 'their cows and then shipped bntter at a good profit to England. Professor Wilson decided that if Denmark could bny American corn to feed cows with and then make a profit ia England on the butter thereby produced American creamery men could ship butter produced at home from American corn and send it also to Great Britain and make still more profit. Ho directed one of his assistants to buy several hundred pounds of the best American creamery butter, pack it very carefully, and ship it to London and sell it. Part of the butter was to be packed in 60 pound tubs, in the American way, part in square boxes in Australian style and the rest in tight tin cans. This was to ascertain what style of package the English liked best. The agent was directed to be particulafly careful that the flavor, salting and color were of the best. The order is now being fllled. Secretary Wilson is of opinión that our best creamery butter is equal to any in the world, even the Danish, as indeed it is. He wishes to find by experiment jusfc what the British and Europeans want in butter and then prepare au article which will fill the demand. In this way he will extend appreciably the market for American dairy products. Such science as this is the kind that the agricultural department is paid for engagiag in, exactly. It may be remarked incidentally that the conscienceless American scoundrel8 who have been shipping butterine and divers vile compounds to Europe under the name of American butter have about ruined the reputation of our dairy products there. If Professor Wilson shall succeed in rebuilding it, he will confer a great benefit on his country. With a population of 350,000 the Central American republic oí Honduras has more politics to the square inch than even some of the states iu our own Union. At least every three years there is a revolution or an attempt at revolution. Tie present distnrbance is a revolt of the Conservativa party against the rule of the Liberal party, the one now in power, with President Bonilla at its head. Honduras is one of the three countries cornposing the Greater Republio of Central America. Perhaps the two other and more stable states of the confederation may be able to hold Honduras level in the present crisis. The cause of arbitration is gaining steadily, even in South America, that región of political convulsión. It is certainly owing to the influence of the United States tbat this is the case. This country looks on with satisfaction when Brazil and French Guiana follow the example of Venezuela and Great Britain and agree to settle their boundary dispute by arbitration. It was probably in deference to French wishes that the president of the Swiss republic was chosen as arbitrator instead of the president of the United States. For sisters iu the sume, confederaticn a queer feeling seeius to exist befrween Swedeu and Norway, as is shown by the petition of the Norweeian tanuers to their storthing. Thoy ask that it impose a heavy duty on leather to protect theru from goods imported froni Sweden arid America. Instead of giving his services to arbítrate disputes between foreign countries Kiug Oscar of Sweden and Xonvay would have enough to do to arbitrate between the two qnarreleome states of his own kingdom. A new scherue of ummer pleasnre has been started for the benefit of those who have no yards and cannot get away from the city. It is to have the roofs of bouses so constructed that they rnay be turned into gardens. Pot planta, rugs and tables are to be put up there, an awning will protect from the fiercest rays of the snn, and day and night the air, such as it is in a city, will circuíate. Arrangements will be also made so that the family can have their food hoisted to the roof and take their meals there. The first battle in our own civil war was a disastrous reverse to the Uniou troops - nainely, the fight at Ball Kun. But it set the whole iiorth ou fire with determiuation as nothiug else could have done. The Turkish war Btarted out Bimilarly, with defeat for the Greeks. Perhaps the preliminary defeat is what they iieed to make theia Buniinou all their vesonrces. The moruing ou whicfa uevs csme that the Turkish forces near Mouiit Aualipsas had moved upon the Greeks at Nezeros Eev. Agathodoros A. Papageorgopoulos, Greek archiruaudrite in New York, prayed publicly for the triuniph of the cause of the Ethuike Hetairia. Kuowledge is not what you memorizc liy rote out of books. It is what $?u ubsorb and raake a part of yourseit