Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"JiUroKuii Latherer*." The advantage of plowing pease, cldYer and other nitrogenous plants under is that nitrogen is added to the soil because such plants are "nitrogen gatherers." When oats, rye, or buck wheat are turned under there is no gain in niki.sen though such plants assist in fora.lng humus. A Way to Uot Kid of Potato Buj?. A good w*v to get rid of the potato bags that axe so troublesome and do so much damage each year is to take about a pound of what is known as "trash" tobacco and about fourpo'unds . of cedar twigs. Place these in a large kettle and.pour on about 10'gallons of water into which about a quarter of a pound bf lye soap has been dissolved, and let the whole business boil for 20 minutes or so. When this ls cool ft may be sprinkled eh the vines with a broom or small brush as often as re quired. It would be a good idea at first to apply it every other day. To Avoid Soft Shell Eggs. Study your hens, keep them warm la winter and cool in summer, ami above all have no filth or Hoe. Do not buy hens from a flock that has at any time been' afflicted with Ms disease. Al ways Beparate the layers from the non-layers if it can be done. The lay ing hens will have larger and redder nan the others,Dat a- hen that wants to lay and is too fat also has a red comb. Soft-shelled or misshapen eggs are a sure indication that the hens are too fat The fat has crowded the repro ductive organs ont of proper shape, hence the misshapen eggs. Not feed 4 ing enough bone or shell making ma terial is the canse of soft-shelled eggs. Make your hens,, hunt for their feed and you will have no trouble in this respect Cattle and Water. It ls not at all unusual to see cattle pastured in a field la which the oaly water-supply is a small, stagnant pond or two, covered with green scum, and filled with anima Icu lae and .water in sects; and to see other cattle watered from barrels that have collected the rain water from the roofs of the barns and outbuildings, and which frequent ly swarm with larvae of the mosquito, besides being ?apure and stagnant: to see cattle driven quite a distance only once a day for water when if at . that time some, of them do not feel like 'drinking they, must endure then* thirst another 2-1' hears. Water plays one ef the most impor tant parts in the' make up of every living being. Life can be sustained quite a 'time on water alone. How im portant it ia then to see that the cows whose milk we drink and whose flesh we eat have their water fresh and pure instead of being contaminated by the absorption of that which is impure. The Epitomist Cabbages JU a profltable Crop. The cabbage erop can be made a profitable one on the. farm, as all heads not sold ia market may be used as green food ia -vinter for cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. Beginning with the early varieties, and following with 'intermediate and late kinds, one crop . may mature after another, while the .ground from which the early heads are sold may be planted to turnips. It is possible-to have cabbage nearly tall the year round by'proper methods of .growing and storage. The very ear ly heads are grown in cold frames.. Cabbages thrive'on rich soil that has bee?r*fleaj?ly manured, and as the ???e?* ls one that draws largely ou the soil, and - the plants are also gross I feeders, there is no risk of giving too " much manure. It ls a crop that thrives with frequent hoeing or cultivation, every working of the soil seeming to benefit the plants. To make them start off in growth rapidly scatter a tablespoonful of nitrate of soda around each plant and hoe it into the soil. A little later, just as the plants are beginning to head, repeat the applica tion of nitrate of soda. Feed ia? Taine or Buttermilk. A reader asks information regard ing the feeding ef buttermilk. Ia its simplest terms the answer is that but termilk and skim milk which has been allowed to sour some are the same. Cream is merely milk with an addi tional proportion of butter fat After this batter fat has-been churned out, the remainder ls simply skim milk. Skim milk and buttermilk both vary in amount of butter tat retained, and the amount of acid fermentation some what controls the feeding value. Because buttermilk has some acidity It is not recommended for very youug animals, sweet sklmmllk being prefer able, but. th? Massachusetts experi ment station, the only station which has tested lt, reports practically equal results ia feeding pigs with skim milk and buttermilk and this is corrobo rated by the experience of farmers. The same is true In regard to poul try, while In . regard to human food, the stomach often takes kindly to but termilk when other forms of milk cause trouble. This is doubtless due te the beneficial effects of the fermen tation, many invalids'certifying that buttermilk "will almost grow a new liver." Both sklmmllk aad buttermilk can profitably enter the human die tary to a far greater extent than is now common. Major Alvord has very strongly recommended an increased use of skimmilk in cookery, and has published articles to that end, and as skimmilk and buttermilk are Ide? tica! in composition, the same holds true with both, remembering that but termilk ls usually a slightly fermented form of skimmilk. Dairy buttermilk is generally richer than creamery but termilk, and for two reasons: The small dairy churn does not churn out the fat so extensively, and it is a gen eral creamery practice to wash thai granulated butter and run the wash water into the buttermilk tank, there by diluting it-American Agrcultur lst Util I ilns Space In the Barn Lort. There are too many barns with un used space overhead. Generally the space over the barn floor is opea from the floor to the root Sometimes there Is a small scaffold overhead at each end of the barn floor that usually holds a load or two, with the great central space open to the roof. This isathe way we used to have our barn, but now we have R arranged so the entire overhead is in use eight feet above the floor and'stables. Along in front of the horse stables, we had a strong girt framed in, eight feet above the threshing floor. This was done when the, barn was first built. Then, after a few years, we were short of storage room, and we framed in some temporary girts on the opposite side of the barn floor to coresnond itt. ?xelght with those on the horse sta ble side. These are light and strone;, and can be easily taken out and laid to one side. Then .we have light joists reaching across the barn floor, with ends resting on these girts. All this arrangement can be taken out in a short time and laid to one side out o? the way. A floor is laid on the joists to within a few feet of the barn door in which we draw hay. The team can go under the floor until the load strikes the upper floor, and then we shift our bay fork so that we can un load and fill nearly all the space over the barn floor full. We feed from this flrst, and by the time cornstalks ara ieady to draw, the hay in the other mowg will have settled so they will bold all that is left over the barn floor, leaving the entire space for our corn fodder, or any other stuff we wish to put up there. As we don't sell hay it is not often necessary to take out this floor, but it remains there year after year. It hot only makes more roora, but makes the barn and stables much warmer. It is easily reached by a short ladder. This space can also be filled with nice*dry straw for bedding, but we pre fer to stack our straw close to the tack barn door, where it is easily reached, and live stock can ru? around it. We can get all the bedding we want very easily, and then it ia handy to cut and throw the stack down for the live stock to work into manure. A barn is larger than it looks when all the space is occupied, and a little thought along these lines may save building more barn room. I know I was surprised when I came to fill the unoccupied space upon our barn floor. -I. N. Cowdrey, in the Country Gen tleman. Intensive Orchard Cultivation. There is more need of intensive methods of orchard cultivation than ever, tor if there is anything that modern experience teaches ?, is that fine fruit raised in abundance pays" exceedingly well, whilefordinary fruit, either in small quantity or in abund ance, hardly returns profit enough to represent interest on the Investment. A great many people go into orchard ing with the idea that they know it all; bat after they have tried it for a few years they drop it aa unprofitable, or wisely learn that they knew next to nothing about the Industry. There is located near me an orchard which pays the owner a handsome in ; come. It occupies 50 acres of land that bas been brought to the highest state of fertility through persistent work for 10 years. Every acre of that land is capable of making any fruit tree or* vine produce their best Through carefiil selective methods the owner has obtained the trees and vines which he considers do the best in his locality, and the fruit of which has a high-market value. Every variety pro duces-the finest fruits-grapes, pears, apples, peaches and small fruits. Ev ery modern scientific method of cul ture, protection and stimulation of the plants and trees has been experiment ed with, and after careful tests those found satisfactory adopted. This orchard never fails to produce excellent fruit So constantly does this happen year after year that the man's reputation for the finest fruit shipments has extended to all markets within 100 miles. There are off sea sons when the fruit is poorer than in other years, and when the crop ls small; but during years when others cannot sell their fruits because of poor quality and glutted markets, this -neighbor of mine has orders for his products at satisfactory prices. In deed, the commission men seek him out.and-try to induce him,to sell; but he has learned to valise his products at their true worth, and no specula tor can_hope to come and buy him out | unless" the cash is handed over first For five years now he has averaged from 10 to 20 percent more for his fancy fruits than the average market price paid. His secret is not a difficult one. He has made intensive culture his aim in life, and he has developed his orchard to its utmost limts. In his early ef forts he found his trees yielding poor fruit. Time and again he was de ceived by the recommendation of oth ers in regard to varieties of vines and trees, and he had to cut out poor and inferior varieties. This severe meth od in time helped, for lt enabled him to establish a fine orchard of trees and plants that he personally knew all about It is the old story of man learning for himself, but persisting through failure and discouragement, always having faith in the future. He believed some day he would make the business pay. Today he does, and he is such a master of the whole industry that he is sure of his Income.-S. W. Chambers, in American Cultivator. Varying; Information. A traveler who took the trans-Si berian route across the Russias says in "A New Way Around an Old World" that the preliminary answers to his questions about ways and means were delightful in their diver sity. In America, Japan, China and even Russia he was cheerfully misled, in various fashions, about his journey. No two pe?ple agreed concerning it, or came within sight of agreement. These were the comments upon his scheme: "It can't be done." "You can do it easily." .lt will take two months." "Yon can go through in 22 Jays." "You will get stuck on the sand bars for weeks." "You will have no difficulty whatso ever." "The steamers run only occasional ly, and do not begin until June." "The steamers run daily, and the river is open early in May." "You wijl need heavy clothes and all your winter furs." "You will'find delightful summer weather." "You will have to ride in cattle cars when you have ended your Jour ney by boat" "You will have the most luxurious railway accommodations in the world." The result of experiment was, how ever, that the journey was full of dis comforts and deiays, and yet proved well worth the trouble. The Honest Watchman. The owner of a factory found his night watchman asleep while upon duty and discharged him on the spot. The man returned next day and asked to be appointed day watchman at a salary of $10 a week. "But I do not require a day watch man," said the factory owner, "and why should I pay you $10 a week for doing nothing?" "Well," replied the former watch man, "I just think you're getting mighty stingy all of a sudden. You used to pay me $20 a week for doing nothing."-New York Commercial Ad vertiser. The Indian name of the Charles river in Boston was Mis-sha-um, which meant great highway. OYSTERS IN TEE SUMMER WHAT THE BIVALVES DO DURING THEIR VACATION. Shell Crib* for Little Ones- Oysteniien of Narragansett Buy Kept Busy for Weeks Klxine Them - Strange Appearance of the Oysters When Only tx Vern- Old. So many Providence river and Nar ragansett bay oysters as went their gastric way this past season haven't been eaten before-anyway, for many yeaft-B. It would be too much trouble to tell all the reasons tot this fact, but it can be remarked without any inconvenience that these oysters are good; they have made a reputation, and that kind of thing has a wide cir culation, for everybody is its free ad vertising agent. When April runs out with the last R for four months, nobody, everybody knows, eats any oysters. But lt' will not do to think that because the sea son for stews and half-dozens on the shell will bo over on the 1st of May that the oys'terman will then take a vacation. If he has left the city on his little steamer every morning be fore 7 o'clock during the fall and ^winter and dredged all day for oysters * which he brings back in deck heaps in the evening, he has other things to do during the summer which are even harder work. Already the season is so nearly ready for its departure that the mar ket steamer comes up to the city but once in two days, and every boat in the company's fleet gives all its possi ble time to improving the oyster beds. A few years ago oysters grew wild like berries, and-, people went out and gathered them, neither wondering nor caring how they came to be. Now it Is different lt takes an oyster four years to mature, and lt ls good or bad pretty much according to the way it te treated. Its term of four years begins in July, when its mother spawns. An oyster insists upon having something clean to place her young upon. She will not drop them on the sandy bot tom, for that would mean death. So the oystermen take the great piles of oyster shells which have been grow ing all these R months until they rise to the tops of the fish houses and coal sheds on South Water street, and about the 1st of July, Instead of sell ing them for road dressing, as they do, carry them down the river and shovel them over the beds where the oysters lie which will begin to spawn by July 25. Before the 20th, the once used shells are back in nearly the same place where they were growing the year before. And in a few ?ays as many as a 100 baby oysters as large as a plain dot are using each shell as a common crib. When these "Mttle shell fish become nearly a year old, the growers trans plant them. That is what the.M. Dew ing was doing this last week. The foreman, Joseph W. Gardiner, who has lived with oysters since he was a small boy, and yet admits that there ls much more he is going to know about their ways before he Is ready to retire as emeritus, stands at the wheel in the pilothouse, steers the steamer over the bed of the one-year olds and then directs the dredgers. The dredgers are made of heavy iron bars, with a net attached, the whole resembling a woman's reticule multiplied about a 1000 times. There is one dredge for the port and one for the starboard side, and they are run out on chains which are pulled In by steam. The steamer drags the dredge along inside between the meshes of the .het When the weather ls kind and the wheels run smoothly, the men can take on board 500 bushels In an hour and five minutes. Eighteen hun dred bushels ls the usual day's haul. One-year-old oysters are strange looking things. They are as small as half a thumb nail, and, sticking by the hundred to an old osyster shell, they make an even more peculiar ap pearance. When the men have taken on a load, they pull out the star fish, which destroy hundreds of oysters every year. Then thc." carry the pile over to another bed, back and forth, they shovel the shells overboard. As the water ls deep, the different old shells with their kindred barnacles, separate on the way to the bottom, where they have plenty . of room to themselves.. It ls by transplanting that the oys ter gets its most marketable shape. It would be long and flat If lt were ?ever touched from the time it began to the time it was culled, but, by hav ing its pasture changed it becomes round and flat. For an-acre 350 bushels are used In the transplanting. When the oysters are two years old they are transplant ed again, this time 500 bushels to the acre; once more when three years of age they are taken up and put in an other bed, and Anally, when four years ?fd, they are placed on the market grounds to fatten. The market beds are in shoal water, where the tide nins strong. If thc tide is always on the move and the oyster Hes on a bar just In its way the shell fish will grow by the hour. Oysters won't do any grow ing in the wipter; the water is too cold. About the ist of May, however, they start in to add to their size. When, in October, they stop sending out their shells., they'grow their meat out to the shell and in a month they fill up the spare room. Rhode Island oysters, dealers in the state say, are rated higher than Chesapeake Bay's. When they come from the best land In the river here they are supremely delicious, but only one-third of the grounds are first class. Great losses may suddenly strike a wealthy oysterman and leave him in debt A gaje will often kill millions of oysters by throwing sand over them, for they die when covered up. Not long ago a company with beds near Rocky Point lost 15,000 bushels of oysters In two hours. Down by Nayatt Point, where Mr Dewing and other dealers have their grounds, there is no danger from high winds because of the cove there, but still there ls risk In unpleasant plenty. An important part of the oyster business is watching and keeping away thieves. Some firms have a pa trol boat on the beds the year round, but in many places the river freezes over the grounds, and it is useless to keep a man and a craft there - 12 months in a year. One man does all the watching as a rule, living on the boat He seldom takes more than six hours a day for sleep, and that during the day, so as to be awake and vigi lant durjng the night. Thieves do not trouble oystermen now the way they used to 10 years ago, because so many precautions have been taken of late against any marauding. Still, the growers do not stop watching.-Providence Journal. A French writer states that of every 100,000 men of the army or naval pro fession 199 become hopeless lunatics. Among mechanics the number is only 66 per 100,000. TRAPPING ON THE EASTERN SriQR Hunters Make Their rivinT from ?kips of Otter, Muskrat unit Mink. State Senator William F. Apptfe garth. of Dorchester county, arrived in Baltimore on Sunday on the steam er Tied Avon witn 25,000 otter, mink a nd muskrat skins, valued at about $60f>0, which he had collected from thc trap pers of his county. The senator saijd: "Much of the southern part of Dor chester is composed of low-lying, marshy land, cut up into small islai ?8 and peninsulas, about whose sh the fresh water streams of the Bl water and Honga rivers thread th way. It ls the ideal home of aqu fur-bearing animals. Ever since hides of the muskrats have begun Ito be utilized the trappers of Dorehesfcer have done a thriving trade in the cap ture of them, and they are practicably as plentiful now as ten years ago. J "The otters have not held up against their persecutors so successfully, ?nd have now become very rare. There are yet many minks in some favored sec tion's, and in my immediate neighbor hood about 200 were captured dunng the last season. In Lake's district, where I operate, there are about p.00 trappers, but of that number about ?ten procured the majority of the 25,000 skins which I have just brought to the city. ) "The successful trappers depend ?al most entirely upon the product of t?elr marshes as a means of support, and through the proceeds coming from fish, animals and wild duck during the ?in ter season are enabled to live ^ery comfortably. Cabins or shanties jar? erected upon or near the marshes, 'and during the trapping season, which lasts from January 1 to March 31, they live practically upon the marshes. Some of the most successful own their marshes, and many others rent either on fur shares or a money rent from the owners. A hundred acres are con sidered a large range for one man to hunt over, and usually, upon a good marsh, 25 acres worked thoroughly will produce as many pelts as a larger area covered insufficiently. "The trappers are hardy fellows, who can stand any amount of expos ure. Most of them have been raised from boyhood upon the marshes and the traits necessary for a good trapper are instilled into their youthful minds from the start. The men frequently work several hundred steel traps. Very little shooting is done but sticking rats with gigs which pierce thTough theil' houses when the tide covers th3 marshes is yet extensively pursued. As many as a hundred rats are some times speared by one man during a day's hunt. "Women haev also been known to prove successful trappers, and I have seen them attired in men's clothing and long rubber boots plunging about the marshes spearing rats or tending the traps." The prices this season are but little different from those of last. Rat skins sell in Baltimore at wholesale at 12 cents for brown and 23 cents for black. M*lnk skins bring from $1 to $2 each Baltimore Sun. Abandoned Ant Villages. The traveler frequently meets in the open plains of Sudan what appears to be giant mushrooms, relates Lieutenant A. Bacot in La Nature. On closer examination, however, it is seen at once that these mushrooms are abandoned and weather-beaten structures of white ants. These struc tures or abodes were originally cone-shaped. It is familiar to many that these convivial insects^mal their nests out of organic material which'they grind between their jaws. These materials consist of wood, leaves, also partly of clay, and by the use of their saliva the ants make them still more plastic and durable against all sorts of weather. The covering layer is prepared with a sort, of var nish which is quite as waterproof and impenetrable as a tar roof. While the rain cannot go through the roof, the sides of the abode are made porous so as to admit the air. When the nests become old they are abandoned. The side surface becomes weather beaten, while the middle pil lar remains intact owing to the protec tion of thc impenetrable roof and ls thus able to render longer reslstence in its thin form. This is the simple explanation given by Lieutenant Ba cot as to the form of the mushroom. Many of the nests are. however, made from the very first with overhanging protective roofs. The. dome-shaped nests, owing to their great waterproofing qualities, are used to a large extent as roof bricks by the natives in Congo. This is, perhaps, the only good quality at tributable to these damaging insects." Tho Extinct Mucking-Blrd. The mocking bird Is practically ex tinct save in captivity, and there are but few of them captive, for the bird does not take readily to a cage, and unless caught when very young, lt is reported to commit suicide rather than endure imprisonment, or to be supplied with poison by tho free birds that pity its fate. It was discovered not long ago that many of the negroes on the plantations,'knowing very lit tle about ornithology, shoot any bird they come across and are indulging in potpie made of the American night ingale. This slaughter has been largely stopped by the license taxes placed pn the sale of shotguns and ammunftfon. This action was not take, however, un til there were very few mocking birds left in Louisiana. The same is true of the game law which was passed only at the last session of the legislature, when the ducks had been killed or largely driven from Louisiana; and the action of the Ornithological union in regard to sea birds also came a little late.-New York Sun. Je ?vs and flics*. No player has yet made a fortune out of chess, and many of the great masters find it difficult to make even a mere living from tho game. This makes it all the more remarkable that such a large percentage of the most famous players are Jews. Among present-day players may be mern tioned Lasker, JanowskI, Marocsy, Tschigorin, Tarrasch, and Marco, all of whom are Jews, and in the past generation Steinitz, Zukertort, Lowen thal, Rosenthal, Kolisch. Ha/wits and Horwltz. One of the Rothschild fam ily, though he never takes part in tournaments, is known to be a first class amateur, and his interest in the game is so great that he has found positions In his bank in Vienna for many a struggling professional chess player.-London News. A Keinarkablo Election. Probably the most remarkable elec tion ever held in ibis country was'fhat for seven municipal officers at Eudora, Miss., recently. Only eight votes wero cast, seven of them by the candidates who were elected, and six of tiose candidates were judges and cornjoodf? sioners of the elections. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. I A new method of blasting without report or shock has been devised. It consists of first charging the holes i on the line of the cleavage of the rock with steam to heat it; then introduc ing a charge of liquid air to suddenly chill it. The sudden contraction of the rock by the liquid air raakc? it bvittle and easy to romove. The belief that the diamond is pro duced in the "blue ground" rock of South Africa is probably a mistaken ono, according to Professor Bonney. He has carefully examined some blue ground bowlders containing diamonds and found them water-worn, and com posed of garnetiferous rock. Two of the specimens showed the diamond ap parently enbedded in the garnet, which leads the Professor to call attention to the very close relation that evident ly exists between the two stones. The Professor concluded that the diamond does not originate in the blue ground, but is there as a derivative of older rocks. Migrations of rats have been known, also of squirrels, the latter moving over the country in thousands. Many fishes are affected by reasons of activ ity. The writer once witnessed on the ' Maine coast the arrival of a devastat ing horde of dog fishes or small sharks two or tnree feet in length. The day previous not one was seen, but suddenly they appeared like an army. Thc cod and haddock fishing of the lo cality was completely ruined by the voracious throng, and the fishermen began to fish for the small sharks, which were converted into dressing for farms, while the livers were made into. Aluminum, or aluminium, as it is more properly called, has not been used In the manufacturers long enough for its qualities to be generally known, and metal workers frequently ask about its strength. Under trans verse strain it is not very rigid, but it will bend nearly double without breaking. Its tensile strength is greatly increased by forging and pressing at a temperature of GOO de grees Fahrenheit and if alloyed with nickel it is much stronger than when pure. Cast aluminium'is about equal in strength to cast iron in tension, but in resisting compression it is compar atively weak. Consul Nelson of Bergen is the au thor of a report that a Copenhagen chemist after experimenting for sev eral years, has invented a cheap sub stitute for rubber, which he calls "solicum." It is produced from as phalt, and can be used for the manu facture of linoleum, rubbers, insula tors, etc. It is also claimed that th? material can be used as a paint, in all colors, and that it is absolutely water proof. The immense value which a cheap and good substitute for rubber would have has led to a great number of experiments during recent years with various substances, none of which, however, up to date, have shaken the pre-eminent position which rubber holds as an insulator and waterproofer. In the report of the director of the Peabody museum of Harvard univer sity-Prof. Putnam-there Is a para graph on the famous Calaveras skull, which is now in the possession of the museum. Prof. Putnam spent a week In a careful study of the site where the skull was found and reports that he ls at this time only prepared to state that after a careful sifting and cross-questioning of all the stories told at Angel's Camp as to the finding of the skull, he has come tb the con clusion that these stories "are not worthy of consideration as evidence." Samples of the materials from the shaft of the Mattison mine were brought to Cambridge for study. Mining work in the auriferous gravels of Tuolumine county has recently been again undertaken and fragments of implements and bones have been found, it is said. It Is likely that more evidence on the antiquity of man in California will soon be forthcom ing. DEADENINC MACHINERY NOISE. Some of tho Novel Expedients Resorted to by Engineer*. Hair felt has repeatedly received mention as a means of deadening vi bration and noise from machinery, placed for this purpose between en gine bedplates and foundation cap stones and underneath rails subject to heavy train traffic. Now, however, cork is said to have been used in Germany with the same end in view, the available particulars being to the effect that a sheet, made of flat pieces of the cork, in mosaic fashion, corre sponding in size to the bedplate of thc noisy machine, and held together by an iron frame, is laid under the ma chine. What measure of success has been obtained with this new expedient is not told, though as a means of tem porary relief it probably answered the Intended purpose. The true solution of most, If not all machinery vibra tion problems is, however, to be found in proper foundations, ample in area and weight, and it generally pays to provide these If at all practi cable. To what exercise of ingenuity the engineer is sometimes put in accom plishing this was illustrated a dozen or more years ago in one large factory, where, on an upper floor, a row of small engines had to be installed for the independent driving of a corre sponding number of different ma chines. Though the building was of substantial construction, with steel floor beams, it was a foregone conclu sion that that row of engines would cause trouble if set with nothing but the floor as foundation, and as it was undesirable to raise them much above the floor level, each engine was pro vided with a separate foundation, built up of brick and mortar in the usual way, but suspended by steel straps between the floor beams and thus projecting down into the head room of the floor below. Seen from there, each foundation, with its en gine, appeared as if resting on airy nothing. But those suspended inunda tions accomplished all that wa^j ex pected of them as vibration absorbers. -Cassier's Magazine. A IM ni or ni Fable. When the new reporter came in to write his first story, after adopting journalism, the hardened sinners in the office began to offer bets. One and all wanted to bet $10 that he would. Just to accommodate them, a foolish but sportive stranger took them up. And when thc new reporter turned in his copy, which told about a cir cus, it was found that he had not referred to the elephant as "the giant pachyderm." So the stranger won. It ls wrong to bet. Submoral-But the new reporter did not know how to spell "pachy derm."-Baltimore America. PEAT CHANGED INTO ELECTRICITY. Germans Will Utilize Enormous Ceposits of Turf Fuel. A scheme for the transmission of electric power and its distribution on an enormous scale is to bc tried in North Germany. It is proposed to utilize the great peat beds there for the manufac ture of currents that shall bc distributed to m vufacturing centers. It - ' estimated that an acre of turf ten feet thick contains a thousand pounds of dry peat, and that this is equivalent to 480,000 lons of coke. In thc peat valleys of North Germany therp is an area of a thousand square miles, which should furnish the equivalent of 300,000, 000 tons of pit coal. That would be more than thc total production of Ger many for three years. It is proposed to burn this turf at central stations, each of which will have engines with 10,000 horse power capacity, consuming an nually 200,000 tons of turf, the product of 200 acres of the beds. These power stations will grind out electricity that will be conveyed by wire to the consumers. One application of the power is to bc to boat traction on the canal pow in course of construction to connect Dostmund with the peat re gion. Another very interesting application of the power will be in the manufacture of acetylene, the materials of which can be obtained easily and cheaply in the neigh borhood. It is calculated that with a horse power of 10,000 acetylene can be produced daily in quantities equal to 150,000 gallons of petroleum, or equal in value in one year to 20,000 tons of foreign imported petroleum. Hop Pickers. It requires a great many hands, and has to be carried through quickly. As soon as the time arrives the East Lon doners by the thousand give up their work' and take the train to the hopping. Then they have thc finest time imagin able. They arc quite free from any inter ference ; no one watches over them ; all day long they are out in the fields. They are paid, and paid well, by thc basket; therefore they work hard. In the evening they have games entirely of their own devising. There is no lady to watch the I girls, no young university man good with his fists let loose upon the lads; ? money is plentiful, suppers are copious, ! beer flows in streams, they dance and sing at their own sweet will. The farm ers, so long as they do no mischief to j the crops and orchards, do not inter- j fere. At night the girls sleep in one ; barn and the lads and men in another. When hopping is over they come back to ? town. Like Bottom, they are trans formed : their cheeks, which were pasty colored, are now rosy and sunburnt ; they are no longer the children of the curb; the-y have been adopted for the time by field. How they get back to work I do not know, but I believe that in many fac tories the employers look forward to the hopping desertions and make arrange ments accordingly.-Sir Walter Besant in The Century. j." - Are Tou l>'aln{r Allen-? loot-Ease 1 It ls tho only care for Swollen, Smarting, Tired, Aching, Hot, Sweating Poet, Corm and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to bo shaken into tho shoes. Caros while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoo 8tores, 25c. Bamplo so_:, Fli?E. Address, Allen S. Olmstod, LsBoy, N. Y. Freight eau be carried on trolley cars within thc city limits of Detroit, Mich. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first dov's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nervo Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. It. H. KL IKE, Ltd., ?31 Arch St., Phila. Pa. A laugh' on the face is worth two in th<3 Bleeve. ' _ PnsAM FADELESS DYES do not stain tho hands or spot the kettle Sold by all drug girts._ Only three per cent, of the total ?and area of the Southern States is under cul tivation. _ There ore 6742 locks and keys in the Grand Opera House, Paris. Bet For ibo Bowels. No matter what oils you, headache to a cancer, you will novor get well until your bowels are put right. CABCABETB help natur?, ouro you without a gripo or pain, prodaco easy natural movements, oost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CAS CABXTS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, ->ut up in metal boxes, every tablet has J.CC. stampod on it. Beware of imitations. Speaking of autographs, it's the man with a big bank account whose signature is most valuable. Bee advt, of SMITHDEAL'S BUSINESS COLLEOE Those who ut i half tick and mentally do pressod, and glowing old in both mind aud body, aro suffering from starvation ot tho narres, Dickey's Nervine ls a nervo food and nervo tonic. People got bettor when they have takon a tow dosos of this wonderful medicine._ Sick Headache And similar affections, resulting from disor dered stot ch, oro promptly relieved by a foll dose of >Jrab Orchard Water. The beat part of the Kimberley dia mond field covers nine acres only. ? LUXUR Lion Coffee is not GLAZED, COATED, ot otherwise treated with EGG mixtures, chemicals, glue, etc*, etc Lion Coffee is a Pure Coffee. Watch 0 Just try a package 1 understand the rea: LION COFFI In eveiy package of LION COFF fact, no woman, man, boy or girl w comfort and convenience, and whic the wrappers of our one pound seal Facts About the Black Diamond. The deepest cc.liery in the world is al Labert, Belgium. From the opening tc the bottom of the s' .ft is a distance of 3,500 feet. A cubic yard of the best coal weiglis 3.054 pounds. Great Britain contributed 5.800,000,000 of thc i2.cou,ooo,ooo tons of coal mined in the world during the nineteenth cen tury. Before a coal gas explosion can occur there must bc six parts of gas in every hundred of air in the room but four per cent, of coal gas will cause suffo cation. SOCIETY NOTE. "You're old," the younger woman cried, "You're through-you've had your day !" The other sobbed a sob or two, But dashed her tears away, And said : "I am a has-been-yes ! As all the world's aware, But you-you're just a never-was, You nasty thing-so there!" -Chicago Record-Herald. Peace In tho Philippines. Pease in tho Philippines ia bound to prove profitable to all concerned. Warring con ditions, whether they be in the Philippines or in the human stomach, are equally dis? M troua. If your stomach has rebelled, there is one authority that will quickly subdue it. It is noa te tier's Stomach Bitters, and it cures constipation, indigestion, biliousness, ner vousness and dyspep3ia. See that a private Ile venue Stamp covers tho neck of tho bottle. London's new water reservoirs near Staines will cover eleven square miles. One alone will be as big as Hyde Park. E. A. Rood, Toledo, Ohio, says: "Hall's Ca tarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen years agc and she has had no return of it. It's a sure cure." 8old by Druggists, 7Cc. Some men can never find anything about the house except fault. Siro. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for cbildroa teething, soften tho gums, reduces Inflamma tion, allays pain, cores wind colls. 25c a bottle Agriculture is developing rapidly in the West Indies. To thc golf writer the pen is mightier than thc sward. Piso's Cure cannotbe too highly spoken of ss a cough cure.-J. W. O'BBIEN, 322 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Even a small barber can be called a strapping fellow. Dark Hair u I have used Ayer's Hair Vif for a great many years, and though I am past eighty years of age, yet I have not a gray hair in my head." Geo. Yellott, Towson, Md. We mean all that rich, dark color your hair used to have. If it's gray now, no matter; for Ayer's Hair Vigor always re stores color to gray hair. Sometimes it makes the hair grow very heavy and long; and it stops falling of the hair, too. {1.00 a bottle. All draatsts. If your druggist cannot supply you, send us ono dollar and we will express you a bottle. Be sure and give the name of your nearest express office. Address, J. C. A Y kit CO., Lowell, Mass Constipation Does your head ache ? Pain back of your eyes? Bad taste in your mouth? It's your liver ! Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They cure consti pation, headache, dyspepsia. 25c AM druggists. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful ' brown or rich black? Then use BUCKINGHAM'S DYE WAT BO cu. or Pnom, en R. 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