The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, January 19, 1886, Image 2
$'v5_ Waiting.
Wnen all the happy woods and hilla
Are filled with tmmmor's melodies,
"When the oold hand of winter stills
The rippling streams, tho whispering trees,
' My heart uuchange<l 6ings still one song,
"My love, my love," tho whole year long.
For all tho inystory of life,
Tho hopo of dawn, tho night's despair,
The greed ot gain, the luit ot strife,
And grinding want and gnawing care,
Lie drowned beneath tho sunlit sea
kji my groat joy?bIio lovotli mo.
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Tho summer winds tluit corao nnd go,
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Laughing about the shady ways,
Tho wators in thoir ebb and flow
Havo still 0110 voioo through nil the days:
"Love mocks at time, love laughs at i'alo!"
7 -. ' I wait, because who bids ine wuit.
Nor would I wondor il" she came,
In any place, on any day,
From out the sunset's orimson flame,
Or down the morning's misty way ;
Nor dream it more, nor find it less,
The marvel of her loveliness.
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V THE DENTIST'S STORY.
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An up-town dentist was surprised
one morning last week as he entered
his office from an adjoining parlor by
the apparition of a weary-looking
young man in a dress suit, who was
reclining in the capacious operating
chair, and smoking a cigar. The dentist
had been nrenareri bv liia sflrvnnt
to see a professional visitor, but he
was totally unprepared for the visitor's
luxurious, free-and-easy attitude. As
the young man recognized the dentist
through the aureole of smoke he remarked,
with the tranquility of one
who is used to that sort of thing:
"Doctor, I want a tooth filled."
The professional gentleman, who
idso looked a little weary, took a needle-like
instrument from a marble
shelf with his right hand, and, with
his left, gently pulled down the young
uiun s ciun, disclosing an interior that
. fairly glittered with gold. As the
^ . dentist put his head closer to the
young man's mouth and tapped gently
on the only tooth that seemed to have
any of its original structure left, he
became aware that his patient had
( ; lieen drinking. As the dentist made
ithis discovery, which furnished him
with a reason for the unexpected visit
and attitude, the young man found
out that the dentist was not a prohibitionist.
"I suppose," said the dentist, tapping
, the tooth again, "you want gold put
- in this?"
v The young man nodded aflirmatively.
The dentist noticed, as he tucked
|" a lowei unaer tne young man's chin,
I i that be wore a massive gold watch j
B - chain, diamond shirt studs, and a big I
I solitaire ring. He mentally concluded
1 that the young man could afford to
pay $50 for having his tooth repaired.
An energetic agitation of a little
H Bteel probe in the hollow of the bad
Nfcooth dispelled some of the young
I nHm's weariness.
I sfiould say," the dentist observed,
; I as he inserted a revolving tool, opera|
by a treadle, into the cavity and
| Worked it around with great enthusi|asp\?"I
should say that the gold in
your head is worth a snug little sum ?"
The young man made a sound indicating
that it was.
The dentist's liquor, apparently unlike
the young man's, was speech-provoking.
"Who filled them?" hfi inmilro?l oa
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he withdrew the tool and let the pal
tient spit out some part of the superL
fluous tooth.
The young man languidly answered,
Pi as if the dentist were boring him as
' well as his tooth, that it was a certain
well-known dentist.
k "Is that so?'' said the tooth mender,
H with a surprised expression. "Why,
r he and I were partners less than eight
years ago. He's a good dentist; one of
the ornaments of the profession, sir. I
once had a very funny experience with
one of his customers?very funny."
A look' of distress came over the
young man's face. But the dentist's
- ( liquor spurred him on, and he began
in the style of a man who had told the
Btory before:
"I was crossing Broadway at Twenty-eighth
street one rainy summer
night about live years ago, when a cab
came dashlDg along, spattering the
mud right and left. Just as it bounded
over the crossing the head of a?
does that hurt??the.head of a pretty
VOIlItff woman nrnfriula*? frrwnr. ??
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'Ouch 1" exclaimed the young man,
.Starting up in the chair. "You struck
& nerve. /Why in the deuce "
"I beg your pardon," said the dentist,
backing away as if he expected
i the young man to pitch into him. "I?
gv V*?I?think not?I don't believe the
ne>ve is exposed. But if yott will be
calm and permit me to look, I will find
out;!' and the dentist introduced a little
^ r>look|lng-glas3 into the young man's
feputh and examined the tooth. "No,"
aaid the dentist, confidently, "the
nerve is all right." Then he got to
werh With the revolving tool again,
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and resumed his narrative, notwithstanding
the frown on the young
man's face.
"As I was saying, just as she put
her head out of the window her teeth,
an upper set, fell out in the mud. I
saw her handkerchief raised to her
mouth and her head disappear in the
darkness of the interior of the cab. I
picked up the tedth, and, after wiping
them off with my handkerchief, put
them in my pocket."
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the first time, a glimmer of interest in
the narration.
"Of course," the dentist went on, "I
expected the cab to turn around directly,
and I waited on the corner to have
the pleasure of handing the teeth back
to their lovely owner. But I was disappointed.
The cab rattled right on.
1 took the teeth home and examined
them attentively. I recognized them
as the handiwork of my former partner
and myself. They were a valuable
set, and as I turned them over and
over under the gaslight I recalled the
face of the young lady for whom we,
my partner and I, made them. It was
the same face There, I guess that
will do." And the dentist withdrew
the buzzing tool, and going to a little
cupboard took out some cotton, a box
of gold foil, and a little automatic
rammer. As he returned to the young
man's side and began the final work of
filling the tooth, he noticed that the
look of weariness had almost vanished
from the young man's face. He constructed
this as an invitation to to
sume his story. lie ventured to ask
the young man where he had left off.
' 1 think," answored the young man,
"that you said it was the same face?"
"Oh, yes. It was the same face I
saw at the cab window. I went to
bed and dreanud about the young
woman."
"What?" exclaimed the young man,
starting up in the chair. Then noticing
the interrogation points in the
dentist's eyes, he became 'calm, and remarked,
"Excuse me, but that nerve
gave me a tremendous thump."
Well," continued the dentist, sis he
rammed in the gold, "the first thing
that 1 heard after breakfast the next
morning was that a young woman was
waiting for me in the office. I had an
intimation that I would see the owner
of the false teeth, and when I opened
the door leading to the office I saw her
sitting there, a vision of perfect womanhood,
except a set of upper teeth,
j She was in a tremor of excitement,
j Shef said she was (hold your head back
a little) driving home from the theatre
with her young fellow (that didn't
[ hurt, did it?) when she lost her teeth,
j Her young fellow (keep your head
steady, please) had never known that
she wore false teeth, and she feared to
let him know under such circumstances,
so she clapped her handkerchief
over her mouth, pretending that she
had a sudden attack of neuralgia, and
kept it there until her young fellow
left her at her door. Living in the
next block, and knowing that I had
helped to make her lost teeth, she decided
to come around, and, if possible
have another set made before night,
when she expected her young fellow to
call on her again. I made a hurried
cast of her mouth, and told her to
come around four hours later. While
she was absent I polished up her teeth
a little. When I handed them to her
that afternoon she said: 'Why, they
look almost exactly like those I lost. 1
wonder if they will fit as well.' I advised
her to try them and see. She
did, and I never saw a woman look
more delighted. I never told her that
they were her lost teeth, and (Don't
get impatient. I will be through in a
second. 1 Icruess she never will knnw "
"Oh, yea," said the young man,
cheerily, as he got out of the chair the
dentist having completed the process.
"She will know to-morrow when she
returns to the city."
The dentist looked as if somebody
were about to pull all his teeth out.
"By the way," said the young man,
"you didn't finish that story. You forgot
to mention that you charged the
lady $150 for the teeth. I don't know
what this job is worth, but, whatever
it is, you may charge it to my wife.
I'm the young fellow you spoke about."
The dentist stood in the middle of
the floor gazing in a bewildered way
at nothing as the young man picked
up his hat and walked toward the door.
He bowed politely before going out,
and remarked:
''Doctor, allow me to make a sugges?Ia?
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uivu an jmibiug; uy nnepiag ine oranay
out you will keep your professional
secrets in. Good dayl"?New York Sun.
Gloucester fishermen from Newfoundland
aver that on several, occasions
this season they saw a spectro
ship skurrying over the water. She
was of strange build, her sails old and
not a soul to be seen on deck. Once
when about to strike a rock she suddenly
disappeared from sight. They
were very much alarmed at the apparition.
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I USEFULNESS OF BIRDS.
Information for Farmers and ;
; Fruit-Growers.
An Investigation of the Feathered Tribes j
of the United States
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The ornithological branch of the ag- J
ricultural department, recently established
and put under the charge of
Dr. C. Heart Merriam, is beginning to
arrive at results. The idea is to obtain
exact and reliable data about the
food and migration habits of different
birds, so as to furnish information
which will be of advantage to farmers
and fruit growers. One thing that is
being established is a grand route
map, showing the movement of different
kinds of birds. It has been found
that the great number of birds in nass
ingover the country do not spread over
a wide area, but that' they have certain
beaten tracks, so as to speak, that
they always follow. They have established
routes which their ancestors
have been traveling over for hundreds
of years, and have regular places to
stop for refreshments. They generally
follow the low lands, keeping by a
river when they have one in their
course, or go along the coast, and they
tuwitys louow exactly the same course,
year after year. Here comes in the
investigation of food habits. Stomachs
of birds are being received by I
the thousand and examined. The
professor says: "The most desperate
criminal we have had to deal with is
the pugnacious little English sparrow.
He makes no defense whatever, and
he has been convicted and sentenced
to death. He has been caught in the
act of committing most terrible depredations,
and upon examination his
stomach has been found to be overloaded
with stolen provisions. He is
the worst of all the feathered criminals.
His conviction was upon verj
strong evidence, but more damaging
testimony is coming in every day.
Here is an affidavit which sets fortli
that an immense oat-field has been
completely stripped of its crop by immense
bands of these impudent little
J robbers.
"The crow has appeared in his own
defence, and has made out a very good
case for himself. He is very intelligent,
as are all the starling family.
He pleaded guilty to eating corn thai
has just been planted, and acknowledges
that he steals a chicken occasionally
and ea^ts eggs, and that he has
even gone so far as to steal silver
spoons and bright, sparkling jewelry,
of which he is very fond. But he protests
that he makes ample returns for
all of these depredations by clearing
out bugs and worms and grasshoppers,
that if left alone would do much more
harm than he does. He claims that he
is working the farm on shares, and
asks for his own subsisteuce only u
very small part of what he saves to
the farmer. lie is a very profound
bird, and seems to have the best of th 1
case. An analysis of his stomach 1
shows a very small percentage of
grain. In fact, the English sparrow," 1
continued the professor, "is the only
one that has been convicted. All the
rest compensate in some way for their
wrong-doing, and in the balance oi
good and bad the good outweighs the
bad by a great deal.
"The robin ia an invaluab le bird
and the meadow lark is harmless and
happy, his sweet voice cheering the 1
early-rising farmer. When all the '
cases on the docket are tried it will be I
found that very few birds could be ais- ;
I pensed with. Too many have already I '
been condemned on circumstancial ev- I
idence. Farmers see flocks of birds in 1
their grain-fields and at once conclude
that they are eating tho grain. In :
this way they accused the bobolink. 1 i
went into Virginia with my gun
not long ago. The Farmers told me <
bobolinks were devouring their grain. I
Great numbers of the birds were in thf I
fields, apparently eating the grain, I
but I shot about forty of them, and
when I examined their stomachs 1
found not a. sign of grain, but any ,
number of insects. They were not j
eating grain at all, but freeing it from ,
destructive insects. However, when
they change their feathers and become j
rice birds, they change their good hab- j
its, also, and become very destructive to ,
the southern rice plantations. Iq large ,
rice fields it keeps two men busy shoot- ]
ing them all day long, each man using ,
UD sixteen Tionnda of nnwdar In a
week." ,
"Herr Professor."
"Why don't you address the profes- 1
3ion with mister?" inquired a long- 1
haired German of an American friend
who iiad just greeted an acquaintance
with "Hello, Professorl" "Now in my
country we always say Herr Professor."
"Hair professor! well by jove, that
accounts for your professors being so
well supplied with it."?Arkaiisaw \
Traveller.
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~ TOPICS OF THE DAY.
According to the statement of a
Madrid music journal, no professional
pianist became a victim of the cholera
epidemic in Spain. One can easily understand
that souie piano playing
would scare off even the cholera.
European sugar refiners have lately
discovered in Central India a forest
tree which seems likely to come into
general use as a substitute for the cane
and the beet. It is called the Maheva,
and abounds in Southern Hindostan.
Its blossoms yield an immense amount
of juice, which is easily converted into
sugar of an excellent quality.
In a paper on the rule of the road,
from a scientific standpoint, Sir George
Campbell, a member of the English
parliament, maintains that tlm mo?*t
natural and convenient method for all
right-handed people is to turn to the
left on meeting others in the road, as
is done in Great Britain, instead of
turning to the right, as we do in this
country. He opposes the proposition
to make a change in England.
There are seven sisters in New York
who possess 608 inches of raven hair,
and a statistician recently computed
that their combined hair, if placed in
single strands, would reach over 160
miles.They put their hair in silk bags at
night to prevent it from tangling. The
father of these girls, Itev. Fletcher
Sutherland, ha3 been pastor of Methodist
Episcopal churches in Geneseo,
ajvuiis auu ijocKpori, . l'., and is the
only survivor of President Buchanan's
inaugural dinner given at the National
Hotel in Washington, at which
some forty guests were poisoned.
The statistics laid before the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg Association
at its late meeting in Chicaco
must have made its members feel that
they were something more important
than llies on the country's coachwheel.
It was asserted in those
statistics that the annual value of
dairy products in this country was
$100,000,000 greater than that of the
entire wheat crop, and $120,000,000
greater than that of the cotton crop;
while the amount of capital interested
in cows was said to be greater by
$40,000,000 than that invested in bank
stocks.
According to the latest official statement
published by the authorities of
Russia, there are in that country not
less than 14-00') snn**r? miluo /-.?i
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producing land, but of this vast territory
the field at Baku is the only one i
worked, and even this covers only the
limited space of some threw and onehalf
square miles. The output is
enormous, and the fact is stated by
one who witnessed the opening of a !
well in that locality that a column of
oil spurted to a height of 100 feet,
carrying great stones with it, the flow
continuing until a large lake of petroleum
iras formed. The product is refined
on the spot, the residue being
used as fuel for steamers and railways.
In the cotton mills of the United
States in 1870, there were employed
134,860 people, men, women, and children
combined. The amount paid in
wages per head, on an average, was
$288.10 for a year's labor; or at the
rate of 92 cents per day for 313 days,
the number of working days in the
pear. In 18S0 there were employed in
the cotton mills 172,544 people, and
they received in wages for their year's
labor $243.65, or $44.45 less than in
1870, or about 80 cents per day. Now,
If we allow for a 20 per cent of a
reduction in wages since 1880, it
would leave the average wages of
each operative 64 cents per day; while
the consumption of cotton between
the two periods of 1870 and 1880 had
Increased 40 per cent per head.
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?jf. uttiuimtsuijr ul irans is or opinion
that the symptoms of hydrophobia
in man are mainly due to the imagination
and the irritability of the patient.
He himself had introduced his finger
into the throat of a mad dog and drew
it out covered with frothy saliva; In
irying it he observed that he had a
slight excoriation on his finger. He
lightly cauterized it, but, ten days
after, he experienced a sense of constriction
about the throat He felt
alarmed; the difficulty of swallowing
increased until he could not drink
anything, and the sight of water
caused spasms. The will, however,
was strongly exercised, and at the end
of three weeks the attack was inast
tered. This is not an unsupported
experience, there being at least one
other notable euro by sheer willpower.
"Will-power, by the way, has
also been successfully exerted to overcome
the effects of a venoraoos reptile's
bite.
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| A village in Switzerland, more than
five thousand feet above the sea-level,
and surrounded on all sides by snowi
clad mountains, with a climate where
the thermometer often stands at
twenty degrees Fahrenheit in the day,
and below zero at night, does no1
seem to be quite the right place "foi
consumptive patients to winter in.
Yet, such is Davos, where, for man;
seasons recently, doctors have beeD
sending their patients with the best
' results. These results are due to the
extreme dryness and purity of th?
air, the dryness removing catarrh of
the bronchial tubes, and the absence
of organic matter in the air preventing
irritation and breaking-up of lung
tissue. Patients are recommended tc
begin their stay in the place during
the Summer, so that the coming Autumn
may acclimatize them and enable
them to bear the cold of Winter.
The Plftfifi haw nlpnfv nf umnawmonfa
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and the only fear is that it may
become over-crowded, when its benefits
must surely disappear.
Type-Writing.
The type-writer is generally sup- J
posed to be a machine of recent in- i
vention, but it really dates as far back
as 1714. One Henry Mill obtained in
that year in England a patent for a
device that would "write in panted
characters, one at a time and one
after the other." There is no description
of his device to be had now,
but it is no doubt true that Mill's invention
was the parent of the present
type-writer. The idea seems to have
lain dormant for over one hundred
years, when it was taken up again by
various inventors, who sought at sun- I
dry times to embody it in a machine |
that would work satisfactorily, but j
apparantly without success until 18G7, i
when a firm in Milwaukee made a
type-writer that was actually used.
To such perfection has the machine
been brought that even the most detailed
and intricate statements, containing
column after column of
figures, can be readily made with it,
and in a neat and business-like form
that is impossible with the pen of the
average writer. Its use has opened a
field for women who have to earn their
living that never existed before.
They are naturally expert and skillful
in using the fingers, and they readily
learn to use the type-writer with great
speed. A number of schools have
added it to their regular course, and
3'oung men who learn to use it find it
far easier to obtain situations. Charles
lleade said : "I advise parents to
have their boys and girls taught shorthand
writing and type-writing. The
shorthand writer who can type-write
his notes would be safer from poverty
than a great Greek scholar."
The speed with which an expert
operator can rattle off words and
sentences is wonderful to one who has
never tried to use the machine. The
fingers play with a swift and ceaseles
motion over ths keys, accompanied by
the monotonous "rat-tat" of the machine,
ami sheet after sheet of neatlywritten
manuscript is taken from the
roller, from two to three times as fast
! as an average penman can produce it.
: Few people write with a pen faster
t.h;ir? twnnt.V nr fhirfrv mnrrla o mlnnfa.
| an expert will bring out of the typewriter
fifty to eighty words in a minute.
"What, then, must be the value
of a clerk who is an expert at both
shorth and and type-writing Chicago
Times.
A Good Itemedy.
Ho3tetter McGinnis met Dr. Perkins
Soon over a few days ago on Austin
avenue.
"I am much obliged to you, doctor,
for that tonic you gave me," said Hostetter,
taking the learned physician
warmly by the hand.
"So it helped you, did it?"
Helped me? Well, I should say it
did. I never had anything brace me
up as that tonic did."
"11 ow many bottles did you take?"
"I didn't take any myself. Catch
me putting such stuff down my throat.
"When I want to commit suicide I'll go
at it in a different way."
"But I thought you said you experienced
beneficial effects from it."
<kSo I did. I gave the stuff to my
rich uncle, who had just made his will
In my favor, and now he is no more.
One bottle of your tonic knocked him
cold."?Merchant Traveler.
Can't be Cremated.
You can't destroy a false set of
teeth in the retort of a crematory,
says an expert This I deem one victory
of art over nature. Our own
teeth we can reduce to ashes with tl e
rest of the body, but false teeth and
gold plate hold their ojvn. Silver
plates or any other substance used by
dentists will disappear, but 4.000 degrees
of heat have been turned on artificial
teeth without destroying them,
and the gold rivets in the teeth after
that hen- has been applied will also
be found intact
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CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
An Indian and a Chinaman are partners
in the stationery business in a
Nebraska town.
A foot-pound is a force which will
] raise a pound one foot, and 33,000 of
. these foot-pounds make one horsepower.
A new industry has sprung up at
New Orleans. Heads of large fish are
dried and sold for table and mantel
ornaments.
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A pearl as large as a pigeon-egg was
shown in Paris recently. There were
114 others in the bivalve from which
it was taken.
} Prof. Binz finds that coffee is an ab!
solute antidote to alcohol, if it betaken
j in a sufficient quantity. Dogs saturI
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drunk.
The divining rod is still believed in,
and used in some parts of England.
It is said to have been successfully
used a short time ago in finding water
on the premises of a brewer, where
digging boring had failed.
An Italian astronomer declares that
the planet Mars is peopled by intelli|
gent beings, who are trying to attract
| attention from dwellers on this planet,
j He is now engaged in making experiI
ments with a view to discover what
i the messages mean.
j Statistics show that dogs go mad no
oftener in dog da>'s than at anv other
time. If anything, the number of cases
is somewhat greater in spring. The
bite of a rabid cat is more surely fatal
than that of a rabid dog. It is a mistake
to suppose that a rabid dog fears
or shuns water. In the early stages of
the disease it drinks freely. Later it
delights to seek the water and plunge
its nose in, but is unable to swallow a
drop.
A joint or gimmal ring was anciently
a common token among lovers. It
was generally made of two or three
hoops, so chased and engraved that,
when fastened together by a single
rivet, the whole three formed one design;
the usual device being a ring. **
"When an engagement was contracted,
the ring was taken apart, each spouse
taking one, and the third one being
presented to the principal witness of
the contract.
Cattle on the Track.
"Do we try to avoid killing animals?
We do when it is possible," said an old
engineers "But if it is impossible to
stop the train before reaching them it
is dangerous to lessen the speed, for
when a train is moving slowlv a biir.
w w "D?
healthy steer is sometimes enabled to
derail it. If I see 1 can't stop before
reaching the animal I pull the throttle
wide open and let her go. In going
around a carve one night eight miles
from Davenport, on the Rock Island.
I saw a steer standing on the track.
He did not move, but looked straight
at the headlight. I opened the throttle
and the next moment hit him. I felt
the jar. He was literally chopped to
pieces and the particles of llesh covered
the headlight, so that I could not
see until the next station was reached.
The engine svas covered from the pilot
to the tender with blood and pieces of
fiesh."
"The worst animal to encounter on
a railroad track," continued the engi- '
neer, "Is sheep. Even if they are on
the outside of the fence they will venture
on the track when the first opening
is rfinphp.fi- AnH t.lio Ann
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lead is followed by all the rest. Ilogs
make a bad mess. I hit a drove one
clay while runoing fifty miles an hour.
Realizing I could not stop before
reaching them I let the engine have all
she could take. There was a slight
jar and a moment later the porkers
were flying in every, direction to the
sides of the track and over the engine. *
As the animals began falling the fireman
sarcastically remarked, 4Pork is
coming down.' That engine was the
bloodiest and dirtiest ever taken to a
shop. They were two days cleaning
it."?Davenport (/a.) Gazette,
Cotton's Many Uses.
Nothing about cotton need be wasted.
The fibre having been separated,
the seeds are apAn "linted," all the
cotton adhering fothem beinc removed
and Bold to the cotton men. Then the
husks are removed and used for fuel
in the furnaces on the pffemises.
After the seed is ground, cooked, and
pressed, the oil being extracted, the
refuse forms an oil cake, which is
shipped in large quantities to Great
Britain for food for cattle. Last of
all. the a3hes have a virtim nf thAin
own, and are sold at a high price.
The oil goes to Chicago to make butter
and lard; to Cincinnati, where an
illuminating oil is made from it, and
to an Eastern city to bo made into
pure olive oil for sdlads. It is already
taking the place of lard in cooking, j
greatly to the advantage of everybody.
Inferior grades serve as the batii
for the best soaps.?New York Sun.
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