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AN OSTRICH FARM.
Bill Arp Tells of tbs Riff Birds sod
How They are Bred In Georgia.
This ostrich farm was planted here
on last rfaanksglvlng day. It is a branch
of the one at Galveston. A few years
ago these enterprising men gathered
and brought fifty-two young birds In
Africa. They chartered a vessel and
landed thirty-nine of them safely In
Galveston. The others died. Last fall
Mr. Pearson, who Is a Misslssipplan,
brought over here a number of adult
birds and also a pair of those that came
from Africa. He has here now about
thirty which are grown and married
and has a number of chicks from two
days to four months old. There is a
large inolosure, where the males and
females of marriageable age are turned
In and kept until the male makes his
ohoioe. Tho female acquiesces with
out any coquetry. This pair are then
transferred to a smaller inolosure,
where the male at onpejwglns the pro
cess of subjugi
most shamefully-—strikes her, -bites
her, pursues her and gives the poor
thing no rest. I saw him at it, and
wanted to take a big ttick and maul
him. Complete subjugation Is his aql-
mus and after he gets that and she
humbles herself to tbe\ ground and
pleads for mercy his wholb manner Is
changed. He lakes her to wife and
treats her with the greatest considera
tion and kindness the rest of their mar
ried life.
' Very many of these birds have mated,
and every pair has a separate enclos
ure, say about 60x100 feet, where they
raise their young/ The hen lays from
twelve to twenty eggs—lays them on
the ground In a saucer like place,
where the sand has been scooped out.
The eggs are In full view and have no
protection. When the litter is all laid
the male bird begins the Incubation and
sets upon them every day from 4 p. m.
The fe
male then promptly takes her place and
sets from 0 a. m. until 4 p. m., but
DIDN'T KNOW IT WAN NEWS.
The Experience of a Young Reporter
, on a Country Newspaper. ^
Atlanta Constitution. /
" The man who has never worked on
A country newspaper doesn’t know a
tenth part of the trials and tribulations
of the business,” remarked a young
reporter. 7 •' •)
r> At one time In my career I was
1 city editor ’ Of a small afternoon paper
in a small and sleepy old. Southern
city, and during the few short months
that ! held the deslTl got more hard
earned experience than I ever dreamed
of getting. I came to the town with
certain preconceived notiors of what
constituted news—notions that I had
acquired after somevears’ experience
in larger places. The flrkt thing I
found- necessary was to readjust these
notions to my altered environment.
The readjustment process was where
the rub came In. .
-‘‘ For Instance I discovered that the
chance meeting and incidental scrap
of Captain Jones and Judge Smith's
respective dogs was worth a column
and a kalf, and that If I didn’t give it
that much the public was disappointed.
But If Captain Jones and Judge Brown
happened to be present during the
fight and were drawn Into the encoun
ter and one of them pumped a few
slugs In the other, I was Instructed to
feature the dog fight and add at the
tail end of tbe-story a paragraph set
ting forth the fact that the captain
and the judgewnld not agree over the
merit of the contest and ‘ had an ani
mated ergutnent.’
It took just two visits from angry
citizens who threatened me with dire
destruction if I mentioned them In con
nection with such stories to convince
me that It was best to abandon my
cherished hope of Introducing metro
politan newspaper methods In the
town.
“What did I do for news? Why
you could take out a search warrant
and hunt all day and never find* an
Item worth three lines. The result
was that I developed Into one of the
most prolific fakirs that ever shocked
the sensibilities of a sober-mlnd com
munity. The gigantic pumpkins, the
five-legged calves,, the two-headed
dogs, the midnight visits of safe blow-.
HOW MUCH IT TAKEN.
A Comparison ol Oar War In lbs
Philippines With ths Conquests of
Other Nations.
In the Review of Reviews, which
favors the expansion policy, the follow
ing Interesting figures are given :
It Is only after some processes of re
flection and comparison ihaV we oaa
fully appreciate the magnitude that
our expedition to Asiatic waters has
assumed. Gen. Kitchener performed
wondrous feats last year in his march
ing against the “Fuzzy wuxzy ” of the
desert, but there were only 7,000 or
8,000 white soldiers under his com
mand, the remainder of his expedition
(12,000 men approximately) being made
uo of the Egyptian troops of the Khe
dive's anmy. We are now, therefore,
using five times as many white-skinned
English-speaking men In our campaign
for the pacification of the Philippines
as Gen. Kltchner will havF used in
establishing peace and order through
out the Soudan. In their recent cam
paign against the fierce warriors of the
mountain tribes of northwestern India
on the Afghanistan frontier, the BrltUh
made use of more than 32,000 troops,
but of these bhly 10,000 were-'whlte
soldiers from the British Islands; the
others were native Indian regimentt.
The French, having annexed the great
island of Madagascar to tneir empire,
found It necessary In 1895 to wage a
considerable war In order to make
gooa their possession; but the number
of French troops sent to Madagascar
always takes a few minutes off about ers and how they mysteriously blew
noon to partake of her dinner, which out of tbe city without doing any dam-
the Yeeper provides, and consists of
chopped cabbage and clover hav and
small stones and oyster shells. I for
got to mention that the hen lays an
egg every other day and the time of in
cubation is forty days. My son, who
was with me, remarked to the old En
glishman that our common hens laid
an egg every day and on Sunday they
laid two. "Is that so,” said he. “I
was not aware of that. It Is indeed
very wonderful, and bow does the hen
knw when Sunday comes ?”
“Oh,” said my son," they bear the
church bells ring.”
‘‘Wonderful, wonderful,” said the old
man with the simplest credulty.
So devoted Is the male bird to his
first love, his fiancee, that be cannot
by force or persuasion be Induced to
take another. We saw a poor, miser
able, lacerated hen In hospital quar
ters. She had all the skin torn from
her breast and Mrr.Pearson said the
keeper made a mistake when he trans
ferred a pair and placed the wrnng fe
male In the Inclosure and the male
tried to kill her Immediately and liked
to have succeeded. She was not his
bride and he knew It.
As soon as the chicks break the eggs
and come forth they eat nothing for two
or three days. The mother takes them
up gently with her bill and warms
them under her wings or hovers over
them in the sand. I suppose that is
where the expression came f>*om—
" under the shadow of thy wings ’’ I
saw but one new born chick. It was
only two days old. There were quite a
number of half-grown birds and they
are ungraceful, unseemly and almost
hideous. Indeed, the adult birds are
not much better after their plumes
have been pulled out. Every nine
months they have to submit to this de
gradation, for the plumes bring In the
revenue Each male bird gives but
twelve black plumes at a picking and
these are worth from 14 to 17 each.
These are exquisitelv beautiful and if
I had been rich I would have purchased
a pair for my bride. The females are a
light color of brown and white and
furnish from sixty to one hundred
E lumes in a season, but they do not
ring half so much.
Mr. Pearson says that ostriches well
kept live to be seventy-five years old
and It does not cost much to kg&pjjiem.
—not half as much as It does to xeep a
horse or a oow. . _ ,
-Old Grover Cleveland 4s the largest,
and finest bird on the farm. He stands,
when erect, about eleven feet in his
stockings and his mate, Frances, Is the
finest female bird. They have raised
one brood and have begun on another.
age, and the multltudlous other yarns
that I conjured up to k*ll space caused
the town to be divided In Its-estimate
of me.
“ The charitably disposed half was
of the opinion that I had missed my
calling and ought to have gone In for
fiction, .while the other half was un
compromising In'the statement that 1
was the biggest liar that ever hit that
neck o’ tbe woods.
“ One day while court wks in session
the county fair was on and my time
was divided between the two. One of
tbe cases that came up for trial was a
particularly Interesting one. and I was
aniiomrto get all the details. Just
before the conclusion of tbe closing
speech I had to rush to the office to
look after the make-up. When 1 re
turned the trial was 4ver and the
crowd had dispersed. So I hunted up
the aged clerk and asked him for the
verdict and the incidents that had
transpired while I was absent. He
told me that the jury had decided In
favor of Colonel Blank, but when
pressed for particulars, he said that
nothing of Importance had happened—
that the trial had been devoid of spe
cial interest.
“ Cotes ain’t what they uster be,
said he. ' Why I remember back In
’49 we uster have some excitement en
durin’ cote day—’
“ But I didn’t have time t} listen to
ancient history and rushed back to the
office aud wrote the story- Fifteen
minutes after the last paper was struck
off one of my subscribers sauntered in
and remarked, after a prefactory dls-
couse On the weather :
“ 'By the way, did you bear ’bout
Lawyer Hamilton floorin’ Lawyer
Simpson with a chair at the courthouse
this afternoon i" ” •
"I hadn’t heard about this bit of
E leasantry, but I feigned a complete
nowledgeof the whole affair, and we
mutally agreed that Hamilton had been
a trifle hasty. No sooner had my In
formant left than I chased back to tbe
courthouse and asked the clerk why in
the name of the nino gods he hadn’t
told me about the fight.
“‘Ef that’s what yer call news,
young man, you’d better go back where
yer come from, News! Why there
wuz no guns drawed, no blood shed,
and in fifteen minutes after It happened
I’d plum fergot about It!'
“I took his advice and returned
where I came from.
roops
was only 16,000. The most severe of
England’s Zu.u waisin South Africa
was fought with less than 7,000 British
soldiers.
In ohmparing our own position In the
Philippines with that of the Spaniards,
t Is worth while to note the fact that
when the Filipino Insurrection of 1890
broke out there were only 2,000 or 3,000
regular Spanish troops on the island.
There were, of course, volunteer com
panies, consisting of young Spaniards
resident in t^e Philippines for busi
ness purposes or as officials in the civil
service ; and there were^reglmeote of
native troops under Spanish officers
But the largest number of Spanish
troops ever sent to the Philippines was
present at the time when Gen. Prime
de Rivera subdued the rebellion and
subsidized Aguinaldo and the other
leaders to leave the island. It would
seem at that time, and also probably at
the time when Admiral Dc wey sailed
Into Manila bay, that there were ap
proximately 20,000 Spanish soldiers
throughoat the Philippine archipelago.
Without vouching for tbe precise ac
curacy of these statistics of Spanish
troops, It Is probably .fair to say that
we have now a great many more sol
diers In the Philippines than Spain
ever had there, If we omit from the
reckoning the natives whom the Span
lards had enlisted. Not only have we
assembled a large army In tbe Philip
pines, but we have gathered there
far more formidable fleet than the
Spaniards ever took into the waters of
the Pacific—in fact, a fleet three times
as effective as any that the Spaniards
had employed.
TREES FOR CAMP CHASE.
AnMuimxfeuBE
Baking
Powder
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
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THB LOWRY ROUND BALE-
Lafayettb Dollar.—Charles E.
Barber, engraver In the Philadelphlh
mint Is drawing the design for tbe
^ a tiii dollar to be minted by the United
The Prince of Wales and his wife, Lilly | states In commemoration of LaFayette.
Langtry, are_the next best. Then The director, of the mint has received
comes Mark Hanna and wife and Mc
Kinley and no wife, for, alas, he klljed
her In a fit of passion and has not yet
chosen another.
Then there are Teddy Roosevelt and
his wife, Cuba, and their little new
born child, Florida. Next are Admiral
Schley ana wife and next Mr. Pearson
pointed out General Wheeler and wife.
“ Why,” said I, General Wheeler
hasn’t any wife.” . •
" No, but he wants one all the same,’,
said he; and next came Bob Fiizsim
mons and wife—the meanest bird In
the lot, said he, for he Is an exception
to the rule and fights his wife and
everything else in sight.
Well, of course there was a very fine
pair which were called Dewey and
wife and another .pair called Sagasta
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This Is enough to give the young
people an idea about ostriches and it
would have pleased them to see one of
these noble birds hitched to the beauti
ful little buggy and driven around by
Mr. Pearson. Altogether, It was a re
velation to me, and I enjoyed my visit.
It seems to me to be a very simple
business and one that does not require
any more genius than raising mules or
cows or sheep. Jacksonville Is a beauti
ful town. It has grown Into beauty
within the last few years. Its cleanli
ness is a most attractive feature. Its
beautiful wide streets pared with vltH-
fled brick, its handsome public build
ings and private residences, Its general
air of comfort and hospitality, and its
polite and well-mannered people, and
its evergreen* that have defied the
hard winter, all make Ita lovely place
for the sick or the well. The soldiers
have gone but the tourists are yet
heft. I left home In a blizzard and
hurried down here, but the chilly blast
beat me and has just passed over
gone. Bill A
—Sir Arthur Colton is one of Eng
land’s oldest soldiers, being. In his 96th
year. On four dlffei ent occasions his
medical advisers told him he had
not a week to live, and sixty-four yean
ago, when serving In Persia, his grave
was dog in readiness for his oocupa-
a letter from Robert J. Thompson,
secretary of the LaFayette monument
commission, suggesting that on one
side of the coin the faces of Washing
ton/LaFayette, Lincoln, McKinley and
Grant appear, and that If practicable
the signatures of LaFayette and Lin
coln be given in fac simile. On tbe other
side Mr. Thompson suggests .-the use
of the prayer of LaFayette for the.
United States, which consists of about
forty words.
It has not been found practical to
use the signatures of Lincoln and La
Fayette, and Pressident McKinley has
given positive orders that nothing per
taining to him appear on the coin.
The prayer of LaFayette will probably
be tised.
The proposition to have the outline
of the Lafayette monumeat on the coin
has been abandoned. The monument
Is to be ereoted in Paris by the LaFay
ette monument commission with con
tributions of patriotic Americans and
will be unveiled on July 4, 1900. Con
gress authorized tbe secretary of tbe
treasury to buy silver bullion and mint
85,000, to be given the commission and
disposed of as souvenirs. Tbe bullion
for these coins will be the first bought
bv the United ^States since tne , repeal
of tbe Sherman act.
—John C. Sheehan, the Tammany
chieftain, was In St. Louis recently,
and in the course of an interview 1 he
said: " In my opinion Bryanlsm is
stronger than ever in the West and
South, and those portions of the coun
try practically dominate the Demo
cratic party. Indications point to a
Democratic victory, for despite the
successful conduct of the war the pres
ent policy of imperialism Is each day
making new enemies for the Republi
cs party?’,
—Three Presidents of the United
States were born in April: Thomas
Jefferson April 13,1743 ; James Buch-
April 23, 1791 ; Ulysces S. Grant
April 27, 1822.
—Gen. Wheeler has recently had set
as cuff buttons two buttons which were
shot from his uniform daring Jhe civil
Honoring the Men Who Now Sleep
' In Nameless Graves st Columbus,
Ohio.
''The following extract Is from the
Columbus (O.) Press-Post in regard to
the planting of trees In tbe Confeder
ate cemetery at Camp Chase on the
8th of April:
Tbe planting of trees indigenous to
the States which once formed the
“Confederate States of America” in
Camp Chase Confederate cemetery
Saturday morning was an event of un
usual and unique importance in tbe
succession of events which fill the
measure of a day and a lifetime, and
one which the future historian will ad
vert to as an epoch making one. The
trees were planted by members of tbe
local camp of Confederate veterans,
assisted by Colonel W. H. Knauss, &
Union veteran, wno is responsible for
Confederate Decoration Day, (com
memorated here every June at Camp
Chase cemetery in which are buried
over 2,000 Confederate dead in name
less graves,) as well as fhe planting of
tbe trees.yesterday -uorning. .
Tbe trees were all sent'here by mem
bers of camps of United Confederate
Veterans in response to a circular let
ter sent each camp in Southern States
by tbe commander of tbe organ Ration,
General George Moorman* of New Or-
leans, La., who has been one.of Colonel
Knauss’ warmest admirers and meet
xsalous co-operators in keeping green
the 2,200 Confederate graves fit Camp
Chase, a few miles west of b&e.
General Moofman’s circular wa»~io».. boilers,
spired by Colonel, Knauss’ suggestions
that Southern trees should be planted
and would no doubt thrive well in
notherh soil made sacred and conse
crated to men who fought bravely and
valiantly for the lost cause, and in re
sponse to the commander’s appeal have
come to Colonel Knauss here not only
saplings yearning for the earth and
soil in which to stand and grow as a
monument to the reunion of States
lately enunciated by the Hiepano-
American war, but letters containing
sentiments inspired by sad and tender
memories, by hope for the future and
by confidence in the present.
These sentiments at times are gems
of prose-poetry, and merit a place, if
not in tbe world of books, at any .rate
in the literature of the day and the
hour.
INTERESTING TO FARMERS.
Advantages of the Nfcw System of
Baling Explained—'Cotton Com
pressed at tbs Gin it* th*. Country.
The Lowry round bale appears to be
the Inauguration of a revolution which
111 prove important in results. Mr.
. J. Mcran, of tne Atlanta Constitu
tion, reports the outcome of an exhibi
tion in Augusta recently as follows:
Tbe round bale as against the square-
bale. which has so long been popular,
and th£ reality of which seemed to be
visionary, has proven to be a fact It
las been demonstrated that through
its important invention not millions
only, but tens of millions and In time
hundreds of millions of dollars will be
saved through the cotton planters of
the South. Nay more, the existence
of the South as the home of the cotton
planting industry will be saved by this
;reat agricultural revolution, which is
bound to oe so widespread In its effect
and far-reaching in its consequences,
if the claims made are verified.
During the last few months I have
written much upon the question u of
agriculture. When New Year’s Day
of 1899 dawned upon the cotton States
pitiable condition indeed was at
band. It was truly said that upon
that day tbe farmers of the South stood
stripped of every resource. The crop
wliich bad been their staple was un
profitable. What should be done to
remedy the condition? It was urged,
and it still must be urged, tbkt tbe
farmers of the South, as a first and a
necessary condition, must raise their
entire borne demand. No agricultural
country can afford to Import a single
agricultural product which can be
raised within its own limit. If there
Is profit in selling beef in Georgia, it
exists in greater proportion for tbe
Georgian than it does for tbe Nebras
kan, because he saves freight and
otber expenses. Still, after all baa
been said that was necessary upon
that subject, tbe fact remains that cot
ton is our staple crOi>, that it has been
profitable under crude management
and unskillful methods, and if profit
able under such conditions, to which
must be added the extortion and lm«
posit-ions of the commercial system
which grew up under it, it must still
be profitable if we would call into play
Inventive genius, and give to cotton
that aid of Industrial invention which
has made tbe other crops profitable to
people where tfiey were raised.
Hence it was that when I beard of
th$ exhibition of the work of the round
cotton bale, which was given in this
ci.y, I decided to attend it in a critical
spirit, because the farmers of our
country are entitled to the very best
information which can be given to
them, since upon their success de
pends tbe prosperity of every interest,
financial and commercial, which goes
t;ke.pupour community. ThepriS
ence of tbe members of tbe Georgia
Travelers’ Protective Astociation was
made tbe occasion of a barbecue given
upon tbe ypot which added much to
tbe enjoyment of the occasion, and to
tbe elucidation of tbe facts connected
with tbe new invention as well as of a
comparison of its results with that o(
tbe old system.
The first statement made, that by
the use of tbe round cotton bale, the
annual saving under existing condi
tions would be not less than 837,000,000,
was one calculated to challenge credu
lity, because if it were possible to take
137,000,000 which goes Into the pur
efiase of cotton at Liverpool, and to
place It in the pockets of our farmers,
cotton would then become a remunera
tive instead of a losing crop.
Tbe Augusta plant consists of one of
tbe old style Morse compresses, com
prising an immense amount of machi
nery', and reducing tbe cotton to a
density of 221 poundf* per cubic
There is also in operation a converter
plant, which means tbe transforma
tion of tne square standard bale, or tue
old style compress bale, Into tne Lowry
bale. This plant consists of one 35U
horse power tandem compound con
densing engine, supplied by steam by
a battery of three 100-horse power
which furnishes tbe motive
power for ten Lowry presses, ten
Bramweil and Clark cotton feeders
and openers, as well as ten conden
sers add -flues, which transfer this cot
ton through a series of flues to the
tedious to try to mention them. In the
first, place, the marketing of his crop
Is brought within his own supervision,
the immense army of middlemen will
be swept .away, and tbe merr whoBd'
labor has made thjs crop "will receive
the profit for ks' production. As an
illustratldn of the manner In which the
farmer! of the country have lost hereto
fore, it is only necessary to repeat a
statement recently made by Mr. Hester,
of New Orleans, that out of an annual
cotton receipt of one million three hun
dred thousand bales in that city over
thirty-seven thousand bales were made
up outjp! the samples which had been
ruthiesllessly ‘plucked from the bales
by the men who handled them, which
should have gone into the parishes of
Loulsana. In addition to the great
loss from sampling the old method of
handling cotton subjected it to damage
■i various kinds, which is called “coun
try damage ” in commercial circles, but
which Is really commercial careless-,
ness in handling the farmer’s cotton
after they receive it. By this method
whole bales are rolled around in tbe
mud, muddy bales laid up against
others, paint oozes through and marks,
and by every concatenation of circum
stances tbe farmer becomes tbe general
victim who must stand losses of care
lessness and a great deal of design In
addition to those which nature bad
visited upon him.
The revelation which is made by the
Lowry baling process, therefore, be
comes apparent. It is not obly a great
labor saver in the d:rect womof baling
and compressing tbe cotton, but It
leads to a whole series of Improve
ments, which necessarily , follow, and
all of which will contribute to a more
skllfull handling of the crop, to lessen
the expenses in bringing it to market
and consequently should lead to a
greater return to the pocket of the
armer. Such a movement as this de
serves the name of revolution, because
It will inspire new hope Into the hearts
of our farmers, and It will securq-the
continuance of onr supremacy of the
cotton market.
Among those who were Interested
spectators of the day's developments
was State Commissioner of Agriculture
O. B. Stevens. Mr. Boykin Wright,
in his speech welcoming the commer
cial visitors, expatiated upon the pos
sibilities which lay ahead of this new
development. *
In addressing tbe regular convention
later on, Hon. Clark Howell referred
to the occasion which bad brought
them together, and complimented the
enterprise shown by the company and
what new methods t ould be instituted
in the baling of cotton by the adopting
of the round bale machinery. He said
the round bale marked as great a re
volution in cotton packing as tbe type
setting machine bad done in printing,
and that in -a few years it would be
just as complete in its recognition and
adoption. ,
P. J. Moran.
GREEN MANURING. r
Correspondence of The^Cotton Plant:
Green manuring .ipeans thtr supply
ing of the soil with nitrogen through
(he medium of certain leguminous
crops of the clover and cow pea class,
which possess tho peculuu//aculty of
absorbing nitrogen, from the air, the
nitrogen passing into the soil when the
crops are plowed under. The practice
of manuring is becoming more popular
each year, nor is this to be wondered
at, seeing that it is one of the most
economical plans that can be adopted
on the farm. >
Green manuring really serves a
ihree-fold purpose. In the first place
it furnishes the most expensive of the
three fertilizer ingledibnfs,' nitrogen,
to the soil at practically no cost to the
:armer. Secondly, by turning under
the leguminous crop, which has been
cultivated, the supply of organic mat
ter is thus largely increased, and every
armer of experience realizes the im.
wrtanco of having sufficient organic
matter in his soil, especially during the
dry seasons. Thirdly, in the sections
where the legume is sown as a winler
crop jt serves as a cover t > the sod
throughout t>he rainy season, thus pre
venting the leeching out of much val
uable plant food, which would other-
wise be^ washed away by the IrMvy
winter *rains. This is especially the
cate in the Southern States where rain
fall has had more to do with depleting
i;he soil of its natural fertility because
of. the exposed condition of the land,
than all the crops whichanay have been
grown on the land.
In'lhe Northern States clover is usu-
ally selected as the legume for the ro
tation,, while in the South tho cow. pea
serves the same purpose. Both clover
and cow peas are vigorous feeders and
can get plant food out of the soil which
other crops are unable to .obtain, h
must he remembered that while these
legumes have the faculty of absoibrng
their nitrogen from the; "atmosphere
they must depend upon the soil lor the
other elements of plant food, namely,
phosphoric acid and potash. It is a
much more economical ptaitifl7he tong
run to supply a sufficient amount of
these two ingredients each year, and
thus insure a large
LABOR AND CAPITAL
A Vicious Elephant.-Rajah, the
famous mao-killing elephant, has
killed his ninth man. Frank Fisher,
his keeper/ had had trouble with his
sweetheart and was on a big drunk to
relieve his feelings. He went into the
winter quarters of Lemon Brothers’
circus at Argentine, Kan., scarcely
able to walk, and in a spirit of bravado
went to Rajah and commenced to tease
him. He tried to make him open his
mouth, and when Rajah refused to
obey his orders he etruck him on the
trunk with his first. At this the pon
derous beast knelt on him, crushing
his life out instantly.
Fisher had been Rajah’s keeper
nearly ever since he had been in "Capti
vity, which Is about seven years:- -Dur^
ing that time he has seen his charge
kill eight other men, most of them em
ployees of the circus, who had grown
careless and too venturesome in Rajah’s
vicinity, and had had several narrow
escapes himself.
Rajah is an unusually large ele
phant, and has always been troublesome,
aside from his propensity for killing
men. Last fall ne broke loose and ter
rorised the people of Argentine for
two days before he was recaptured.
In the mean time he made all kinds of
trouble for the railroads, which have
yards at Argentine, by tearing up
their switches and disarranging their
signals. He* blockaded the Santa Fe
track for several hoars bv throwing a
box oar off the irack. His was recap
tured only after being shot repeatedly
with a rile.
Lowry pefigses, thus showing the dlf-
ferei.ee In simplicity, and difference
of cqmmqrclal value, between tbe old
style compress square bale and the
present type of Lowry bale. In fur-
An Emblem of Peace and Reconcilia*
tlon in tbe free Library at Home
stead.
Mr: Andrew Carnegie has done so
mucb good that be must have enjoyea
many happy hours, but we doubt if
any experience of his whole life has
given him more gratification than tbe
cordial ant ever enthusiastic reception
which was accorded to him by the work
ngmen of Homestead on the occasion of
the dedication of the free libra*y in that
city which be endowed. Mr. Carnegie
then and there made an address which
Indicates bow deeply pleased he was
by tbe manner in which he was re
ceived. He said in the course -of his
remarks I-'
‘‘For the first time, my friends,!
stand before a Homestead audience
with peculiar feelings. Mrs. Carnsige
foot" W 6 It t hat she must be with me at Home-
stead. Why this occasion Impresses
us both as notbiag else could, wilt be
readily understood. The one great
pain of bur united-Uvea, arising’
business, and which has haunted us for
years, came from the deplorable event
here, which startled us when Lr away
and which even yet has not lost its
power at intervals to sadden our lives
The memories which Homestead has
called up to this time have sometimes
saddened us, and we hoped that this
occasion might fill our minds with such
a beautiiul picture as to enable us to
banish the cruel memories of the past
forever. Imagine our happiness when
now this happy meeting, the cordial
and joyous welcome accorded to us, and
'/A a i i <4 aaAna) Vzorzrztv
therance of the system there is also id
operation a complete cotton ginning
system of three 70-saw gins, elevating
and cleaning system with single flue
condenser and Lowry press, operated
by two electric motors, of &0-borse
power cap<*city. This plant shows tbe
system ol handling cotton in tbe seed
from the wagon to tbe Lowiy bale, all
of which have a uniform density and
size as previously stkted.
The operation of the machine so
simple and yet so effective was a sub
ject ol universal wonder to the travel
ing meu. Tbe seed cotton, taken from
the wagon by a flue and drawn Into the
hopper which feeds the compress was
pressed into its spiral formation until
it reached a length of 36x18 inches in
diameter, with an empty core which
furnished the means of inserting the
wrought Iron wires with which the
bale was held together. Thus, within
twelve minutes, one bale of ootton was
-fed into tbe gla, passed through that
press and came out fully compressed,
ready for delivery In Liverpool, and
doing away completely with any ne
cessity for a visit to the old cotton com
press. Here It will bsTaeen that the
entire system of cotton compresses
which haviri been in existence cost
ing millions ^>T dollars and requiring
millions of dollars for tbelr support
may be entirely done away with, and
the result is th«$ the money hitherto
expended In malntaing these expensive
plants will now find its way back to the
farm which has t) stand the levy hith
erto made upon them. To leave aside
teohnioal language, every neighbor
hood can have its gin just as it stands
at present without any addition of
capital, of skill, of employees. To this
gin they can add the Lowry : baler,
wh.ch will dp Its work as well as the
work of the ootton compress,, right on
the spot, and which must force the
buying «f-lb.e ootton at the gin in
future instead ' Of at the compress as
heretofore. The advantages which
this system will bring to tbe farmer
so numerous that It would be
the ^thousands of childrens’ happy,
8miling.{aoes, stamp a new picture of
Homestead^upon our minds which wil’
gladden our hearts as It flashes before
us wherever jte may roam. By this
meeting, by your welcome, by these
smiling faces, all tbe regretfu
thoughts, all the unpleasant memories
are henceforth and forever ‘in the deep
bosom of the ocean burled.' Hence
forth we aje to think of Homestead as
we see it today. This building which
I now dedicate, may It, Indeed, be be
tween capital and labor an emblem of
peace, reconciliation, mutual con
fidence, harmony and union.”
Mr. Carnegie stated some facts which
Indicate that tbe labor at Homestead
la perhaps tbe best paid in tne world.
During tbe 311 worxlng days of the
year preceding hts address the aver
age pay, iqan and boy, inc’udlng com
mon labor, at Homestead, vas 82 91 t
day ; 8906 a year. Pullman has often
been held up as a model, bat the high
est average ever paid there was 8535 a
year.
Mr. Carnegie claimed that bis firm
had paidv and is paying at Homestead
“the highest wages ever received by
labor.” This fact and tbe dedication
of the beautiful Carnegie library at
that place, warp a sufficient expiana
tlon of tbe cheers which greeted anc
followed Mr. Carnegie during his visit
to Homestead.
—At Hamilton, Mb., a negro woman
of that city who has been an invalid
fbr twenty-five years, was recent.y op
erated upon for tumor of tbe stomach.
Instead of a tumor tbe physicians
found a livp snake. Names are given
and the story Is not a fake.
—" Papa,’’asked a 4 year-old young
ster, “ are all little boys made of dastr”
“ Yes, my son, ’ was the reply. “Well
then,” continued the little fellow,
wish you would make nurse stop uslnf;
tbe whlskbroom on me. I’m afraid
she’ll brush me all away.”
—Last year in twenty-four cities of
the United States, 884A' divorces were
asked for, and 6603 were granted
gipwth of the le- juried.
SOMETHING ABOUT FLIES.
Once while calliug-bt the house cyg a
friend; one of the noisy, big
fli'es’’ was heard -humping reckl
about nt the window pane. The lad
rose and with a cloth soon put a quie
tus upon the pseudo busy hum of the
adventurer. The. honsewife went at
the maLei; as though it was important -
and plied the cloth about with consid
erable vigor and, of eburse, grace of
movement. I didn’t as? for an expla
nation of the performance, but under
stood the whole thing and was con
vinced that she understood just what
she was about, or had inherited a very
thrifty trail of character from some
knowing ancestor. Whatever the in
centive, this prompt ware fare oh the
tirst flies of the season I thought a very
sensible thiug.
Of the immense swarms of flies only
a few p iss the winter. Thqse which
live over ihe winter to perpetuate the
swarms the following year hibernate
in our houses or oul-ouildings, in the
cellar or in the attic and about the
chimneys, hilling in any sheltered
place or crack. They then come forth
in the early spring. These are mostly
females, ready to reproduce. A single
female produces about 150 eggs. The
eggs hatch in a d^y or so and in from
seven to ten days the larva- or “mag
gots" attain their.growth', and in a few
more days become full grown flies, and
we have a yew brood. These soon be
gin egg laying an.I the process is re
peated, many times during the season.
If aU^eggs hatch aud half of the first
brood are. females the progeny..of a
single eai ly fiy at the second'genera
tion would be 11,250 and at the third
843,750. Considering this rapid rate
of increase it is not a bad idea :o lake
some pains, to destroy the first fly of
the season.
Flies lay their eggs in decaying ani
mal and vegetable matter.- A pile of
Irorse T iUHfHire~i t s a favorite breeding
place. They multiply in other un
cleanly places about tbe premises.
They are iiot to he exlraonlinaril
abundant.iu : the. neighborhood
slaughtering jor butchering establ
menl unless the most rigid cleapliu
be observed and all waste promptly
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gumespwhich means plenty of nitro
gen and organic matter. On the other
hand, if clover or peas are sown and
no phosphoric acid or potash applied,
they will soon draw these two ingredi
ents from the lower depths of the sob
and store them up for the subsequent,
crop, but of Course, such treatment
will speedily exhaust the soil of its
natural supply of the'ingredients men
tioned and iu time it would he difficult,
if not impossible, to get a “caich” of
legume itself.
Where green crops - are turned under,
especially in the sections of this
country^ it is advisable to make an oc
casional application of lime at tho rate
of' about 30 or 4<» bushels per acre of
slacked matonal. This promotes a
rapid decomposition of the organic
matter and will at th'e'same time pre-
venigsouruess or acidity, which oth
erwise apt to occur. The Ifmt may be
applied broadcast immediately after
the crop is turned undei, when it wi'l
soon, of Its own accord,, work its way
into the soil and hasten the action of
decay.
The value of greQji manure cannot
be over-estimated, and it is manifestly
to the interest of every farmer to in
clude either clover or cow peas in Ins
farm rotation. As nitrogen coils aboul-
threc times as much as phosphoric acid
or potash, it is evident thatdiy resort*
tug to green manuring a grt.u -living
may be juade iu the expen-e of ferti
lizing.-JA small dose annually of phos
phoric acid (say about 3m* lbs. per
acre) and 150 pounds muriate of pot
ash will keep up the soil’s .supply of
these ingredients aud it at the same
time .good cultivation is practised,'the
productive capacity of the laud will be
greatly augmented.
The selection of the legume should
of course be regulated by local condi
tions, but it matters hot whether clover
or peas be tukeff, as the principle is the
same in both cases. Green manuring
is especially effective-in orchaid cul
ture, and in sections where large quan-
lilies of fruit are grown this practice
is followed by the majority of themost
intelligent growers.
George Wilson.
Giva-tbe young chicks plenty of tine
grit. They must have it.
r
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""Ter-
The woman
who truly loVes
her husband
will keep a
watchful eye on
his health. She
will i. remember
that if his health
t is neglected, any
telephone call
from the office
may be a message
that he has been
•stricken by death*:
The average man
does not feel that
he has time to fool
awav about trifling
indispositions. He is too busy making
money. He says he leaves sickness to the..
Woman folks.
That is the way men commit suicide—
tall* of thousands of them A woman can
stand between this danger and her husband
if she will. A little watchfulness—a sug
gestion now and then and a little of a good
general remedy always at hand piay s^vc
her husband’s life.' Dr. PiercCV Golden
Medical Discovery is a remarkable remedy *
for hard working men and women. In a
Certain sense, it is a cure-alt, for the reason
that It goes down to bed-rock and cures the
disorders that are responsible for the ma-
ipnty of serious illnesses. It strengthens
the atemach, and makes the appetite keen
hearty. It invigorates the liver. It
elfia the natural processes of secretion and
excfltion. It makes the assimilation of
the food perfect. It purifies the blood
apd fills it with the life-giving elements
that build new and healthy flesh tissue.. It
tones the nerves. It is the gnat btood-
raaker and flesh builder. It cures 98 per
Cent of all cases of laryngial, bronchial,
throat slid kindred affections, which, if
neglected, lead up to consumption. It is
also an tinflitling remedy for all nervous
disorders. An honest dealer will not urge
a substitute.
“ Last winter I took sick with what the doctors
tailed la grippe,” writes Mrs. Sarah Parley, pf
Fairfax, Atcniaon Co., Mp< " Was aick for a trout
lour iu arfhs and 110‘bitig that t took see md to
lo me 1 nj good. My frit mis thought I hrd con
sumption. J coughed up blond fora long while,
and nesrlygave up uM hope of ever getting well.
TKeardoinr Pi-rce's Golden Medical Discovery
aud thought I would try It. I*had not-finished
the first bottle when t t>egan to get better. I
have taken two bottles of the'' Golden Medical
Diacovery ’ and one of the ’ Favorite Prescrip
tion * axd feel better than ever before hi my life."
While attending to the first tlies it is
al^o important to observe' cleanliness
about the premises subsequently if we
would reduce the annoyance from these
insects.
Flies may egrry .the germs of disease
or dontagioM from place to (daer on .
their bodies. If a consumptive is care
less of liitliy and expectorates upon )he
Boer a By aiights. are! feeding on the
sputum, may alight next on the nose
of a healthy person and place there''
the geniis of the disease. 'Aside from
this and the fact of t-heif being bo filthy
and annoying, tlies are not to be classed
as injurious insects. They do much
useful scavenger work,-aud one writer
says on the whole they arc perhaps - as
useful Us annoying, if we would ob
serve'cleanliness about the premises,
however, tins scavenger "work w ould
not fie TTccessaryv and agree]qg on this
we may -at-lt. I believe, follow the
example “f the' ImiiM wife ami kill llie
first fiy of tho season if we can. Don't
think, however, that a “bottle fly” is
the parent of the cotqqiou housefly of
that the housefly can "ever grow into a
“blue fioMle.” A little ify- never be
comes a big fly. An iuseet with wings
is*alwav-s full grown, whatever its size
or whatever kind of insect it i-.
E. W.
- t'lemson College, 6'.;C.
The I’iltslutrg Disp itck says ; Ffhm
+ tellable source it is ascertained that
I’htlip I*. Armour, the Chicago packer,
is trying to consolidate the glue, con
cerns of the country. 4t is estimated
that it will take*’ about ?2(),<*00,000 to
buy up all the ^lue factories, .In
western Pennsylvania millions ol dol
lars a fe invested in the industry, aud
g.ves>m(iJoyme!;t idRtmisands of men
Philip 1). Armour already mamUai
lures about oBP-eighfli'bf all the glu
used in the United rbates. The Amer
ican ’Vilue Company, a combination
tomb'd th r ce years ago, controls about
one-third of all the output, its factories
being located iu half a dozen States.
Mr. Armour has made an offer in spot
cash-for the company’s entire business.
The compAny is considering the offer,
and, so the report goes, will probably
accept. The deal consummated, it is
said, Mr. .Armour w ill he in a position
to undersell all competitors. From
that point of vantage,.he will nutke
cash clfers for the remaining glue -iae-
tories of the country.
o
A syndicate of Babimore and Rich-
mono capitalists, hcaflpd by John Skel
ton Williams, the new president of the
Seaboard Air Line, has closed a deal for
the purchase of 1,800 acres of valuable
mineraUinid manufacturing site lands
near Gate City, six miles from Birming
ham. While th<5 purchasers have not
publicly announced their plans, it is said
that two iron furnaces of 200 tons
capacity each are to be erected, aud that
large glass works are also in con
templation, ;—-——-——
Ex-Congressman Tom L. Johnson,
the well known street-rail road magnate
of Cleveland, O., is quoted as saying
that the time is coming when the people
will ride free upon the st eel cars, run’
and operated by the municipality, just
as 1 hey now get their letters delivered
free by the postal system.
Sent bv prepaid express on receipt of price.
ALLIGATOR LjNlMENT CO.,
y iCLarlwjUm. B. O.
08 BO PINK'S
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