Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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In all Great Britain has ive -flags the royal standard, the union jack, the merchant flag, the naval ensign and the blue ensign, the flag of the naval reserve. The union jack is hoisted by colonial ..governors and each colony " . shows a different badge. It takes long practice and constant study to identify every British flag that one would see in a voyage around the world.-Chicago Tribune.. The Scilly group contain about forty. Islands, only five of which are inhabit ed. A Fireproof Mat. - - A German of Munich has invented a #reproof mat, consisting of asbestos fibres, which when applied in good time, will etinguish a fire or allow persons tg approach easily for the pur pose of turning on water or rescuing property withoit risk of burning. A tunnel under the straits of Gibral tar is proposed by Mr. Berlier, who lately drove the tunnel under the Seine for the sewage disposal of Paris. in League With Undertakers. Medical circles In Berlin are much agitated over a statement made by a prominent physician of that city to the effect that nurses in the private hos. pitt:l a are in league with the under takers, who distribute among them circulars offering as much as $25 by way of gratuity for a good job. America's Best Products. The value of all the gold, silver, cop per, iron, coal and lead -minedz every year in America Is exceeded by the products of the forests. Even the com -.bined wheat and coton crop is less in value than the forest products. A flaunted Railroad Car. Every one has heard of haunted houses, but the railroad men know ct haunted cars as well. For instance, on the Louisville and Nashville there is a caboose known as "1908," which carries on in the most - supernatural manner. What do you say to a caboose that suddenly begins to shake and shiver like a man with the ague, and this, too, when it is standing alone on a track? My informant solemnly as serted, also that "190S" is. subject to attacks of hysteria. It jumps up and down without the slightest provoca tion. He says it did the most remark able thing, - however, one day near Richmond, Ky. It was standing on a siding with all brakes set. All at once It started and ran up grade, over an embankment into a field. Life Isn't Worth Living to one who suffers the maddening agony of Eczema, Tetter and such irritating, itching skin diseases. - Every roughness of the sk:n from a simple chap to 'retter and Ringworm even of long standing is coinpletely, quirkly and surely cured by Tetterne. Is comfort worth 0 cents to you? That's the price of Tetterine at drug stores, or by mail for pr ce In stamps from J. T.Shuptrine, Savannab,Ga. Boston has established a municipal labors. -.The New York Ledger Is now successfully seold by bright:boys and girls, who thus earn :many valuable.premiums. Two cents profit er-each coysold.. -No money required iD - ~danee. en name -and address for corn 4 t.oaflit :includingl.Premium. Lst,-to -Do ' eons?ldeBulig In Illihols du ingIk. ast year 118 coal ~ines were aban oned, and 79 mines opened. Beauty Is-Blood D)eep.. Clean blood means a clean skin. No ~ beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar -tie clean your blood and kee~ it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and 'iving all im~ - - b from thes . Begin to-day to and that sie m~'ilious complexion bytaking Cascarets-euty for ten cents. Al drug gists, satisfation guai-anteed, 10e, 25c, 50c. The "life tree" of Jamaica grows end thrives for months after being uprooted and exposed to the sun, - SBootlng Syrups and other like remedies only lull to quiet and sleep, but DRi. MOF~ FE 'T'S TSETHINA (TEET1HLNG POW DERS ) Aids Digestion, Regulates the Bow els. eures the child and makes teething easy and for the child's sake do give them at once. It is said that in many Welsh villages the yew tree and the church are of the same age, the one being planted wh3en the other was built. -________ NIo-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. SGuaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak * men strong, blood pure. 60c,$1. All druggistS *The Montreal Cotton Co. has made an ar *rangement with the town of falleyfield, Quo., and will erect a new mill there. - o' oac Stad Smoke Your TEfe Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag vetic. full of life, nerve and vigor, talre No-To Bae. thoeaoder-worker, that makes -realk men strong. All druggists, 50c or el. Cure guaran teed. Boolet and sample free. Address *Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. A stock company is being org'anized in Fort Hunter, N. Y., to manufacture .knit goods. ~Mr. Trent-, late of the Fort Hunter Mill will be superintendent. Scrofula Swellings Health Was Very Poog.But Hood's <arsaparilla Has Ciured Her.. "My-iaughter hadtscrofula swellings on h~r.e end. her Hiealth was very poor. She did nd~tlbtain -lasting 'benefit- from medicines un ~ -ean taking Hood's Sarsaparill a.. ~ Wles of this medi cIne entiraFy~ re-e d she has never been trouble& Eisero~u uw inee I have great faith in Hood41arsaparillia." Mrs. L. D. Effner. -It - - Hood's adraparilla Is America's Greatest Me'dicine.'f; six for $5. Hood's Pills cure anl liver ills. 25 cents. - "'I have been troubled a great deal with a torpid liver, which produces constipa tion. I found CASCA RETS to be all you claim for them,. and secured such relief the first trial. that I purchased another supply and was com pletely cured. I shall only be toe glad to rec ommend Cascarets whenever the opportunity is presented." J. A Smn'u. g2O Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. - CAN DY - - RaDS aRn REGIaTERED Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. DC .Good. Never SIcken. Weaken, or Gripe. Ic, 25e.50Oc. ... CURE CONSTIPATION... sterHln:: Remedy company. Chiemgo. M(ontreaI, New York. 32 NO-TO-BAC So" an " arnee blrug -7HEN writing Advertisers piem' mention this paper. '~So. 24 Lanc Phater on Potatoes. The first application of Paris green b potatoes to kill the potato. beetle should be with land plaster. A table spoonful to a half bushel of the plaster thoroughly mixed will be strong ttnough. Not only will the poison kill the potato larvae, but the effect of the plaster will be to make the vines grow stronger and cause more copious dew on the leaves, which will destroy many potato- beetles' eggs. Transplanting Wild Flowers In digging the wild flowers, especially those having bulbous roots, be careful to go deep enough to get hll of the roots. Leave as much soil clinging to the roots as possible, and after wrapping them in damp moss or grass, roll the plants up in paner to exchicle the air. Gather a basketful of leaf-mold front under the trees where no grass grows, the first inch on the ground being the best, ttnd tise this freely in making up the bed for the reception of the wild flowers. After planting them in-their new quarters water liberally and shade from the- sun for a week or more. A rather shaded location should always, be selected.-Womian's Home Com panion. Spiouting Potatoes By the Sun. The practice of sprouting seed pota toes in sunlight is an old one and ranked by many with the 'old miethod of planting "by the light of the moon" as pure superstitiou, but the fact re maius that repeated tests bf reliable growers have demonstrated that there is something in the plan, and that at least it is worthy of trial. The idea is to spread out on the floor of the barn, where they will get the full sunlight but not the direct rays of the sun, the seed potatoes, to keep them there un til the sprouts are an inch long, then planting at once. The sun-sprouted tubers forced plants through the ground sooner and the stalks are stronger than with seed not so treated. The one great point :in favor of the plan is that sun-sprouted potatoes are entirely free from scab. Why this is so must be left to our scientific men to answer, but it would seem as if the exposure to the sun in some way de stroys the germs of the disease. Mottles in ;-utter. One of the small troubles dairymen have to meet is.knowu as mottles, and is caused mainly by' the use of too cold water in washing the butter and by the manner in which it is introd1tced into the churn. By the use of water too cold, the outsids of the butter granules becomes hardened while the inside is soft and remains so despite working or tempering with salt, leav ing the fine thread-like streaks in the butter that are so objectionable. The water should be introduced into the churn slwly and should be tempered -.retysto-tmpes"treof the-charm~ The usat metho:1 of intr'oducing col d wvater into a churn forc:ibly, through a hose or pipe, is responsible for the large mottles, which are caused by the water striking the granules of butter and causing them to turn too hard to break up. These are comparatively small things, but large enough to fre quently spoil the sale of butter or to mnaterially reduce the price obtained. --Atlanta ,yournal. Use of Electricity in Agriculture. MIilton Whitney, chief of the divis ion of soils of the department of agri culture, in his annual report to the secretary says: "The electrical method of moisture determination has been still farther perfected. Sixteen sta tions have been equipped with elec trical instruments in various parts of the country, and in several impoitant types of soil. Records have been kept1 at these stations for periods varying from two to four months, and it has been found that the method can be used by any one with ordinary care. As a result of these field records, I feel perfectly satisfied with the opera tions of the metho-d, and equally sat isied that it will prove of great value in soil inlvestigationls, as well as of practical and commaercial value. One great value of the method is that the electrodes are permanently buried in the field1. at anyI depth desired, and the~ field can be cultivated or crolpped as usual. The elecirical resistance betwveen the electrodes is read from au scale, atnd this resistance varies.ac cording to the iquare of the water contents. By once thoroughly stan dardizing the electrodes and by the use of tables furnished by the divis ionU, the moisture contents of the soil can be determined at any time from the electrical resistance of the soil." Barrel Strawberry Culture. Probably many readers have heard of the plan of'raising strawberries on the outside of a barrel. If one has * only a small city1 e e *. por village- lot, or - "backyard," the , eperimient is well worth trying. The -- . *Instration shows one or two wrin - .kles that may help make the experi ______ment a success. KovEL wAY TO RAISE First b o r e the BERRIEs- holes all about the barrel, then put inside a drain pipe made of fou~'r strips of board, reaching! from the to1) to the bottom. The! oints should not beC tight. Now fill in earth about the pipe and set out the stre-.wberry plants in all the holes and over the top.- Put the barrel on a bit of plank on the bottom of which1 wide castor's have been screwed. The barrel can theni be tued about every few days to bring the sun to all the plats. Anordinary flour harrel will answer very well for trying this in teresting experiment.---American Ag riultarist. _____ Bedding Out Plants. Toward the end of May, in an or dinary season, the danger of latefrosts is over, and the first real warm days f early sumimer are at hand, It is well now to get all plants; so far as possible, out of doors rather than keep them in the house. Put all "soft stuff" (the florist"s term for all soft-wooded plants; such as gerani ums, coleuses, salvias; etc.) out of beds or in the border. Carnations and other plants such as are intended to be grown for the following wintcr'e supply of blooms should be given choice places, so that the plants will have an opportunity to get all the strength possible in the short time that they are out. Chrysanthemums may be . plunged in a good location. Large specimen plants, whether in large pots or tubs, do better when either set on the lawn under the trees or partially plunged than if placed on the veranda or porch; where they are apt to dry out too quicl:ly and require such constant watering as to become a wearisome work during the extreme weather. Palms in large pots are especially partial to being plunged. If possible, keep no plants at all in the house, and much less in the con servatory, for unless given an abund ance of water and plenty of air such adverse conditions are not very con ducive to the best growth of the plant. A Post Anchor. Where temporary wire fences are used to any considerable extent, the corner or end poste may be anchored as shown in the illustration. The large rock, a, is sunk into the ground as deep as the post is placed and the earth is solidly trampled above it. Place the wire around the stone be fore it is put into the ground, then pass it around the top of the post. By using a stick, b, the wire can be tight ened if~ there is any tendency to be come loose. To move the fence, loosen the lower stre.nd from the posts. 6 ANCHOBING A POST. Begin at one end and make a coil about two feet across. Roll this on the ground, crossing and recrossing the strand of wire with the roll, about every foot of length on the strand. The barbs will hold it and keep,_the rolttogether. When the roll is large as is convenient to handle, cut the wire and begin again. When replac ing fasten one end to the post where the top wire is .to stay and roll along the ground close to the posts. Fol low with the second one a little further off and then the third. Experience has proved to me that this is the easiest, quickest and best plan to remove wire fence, as after some practice it can be done=quickly.--New England Home stead. Farm and Garden Notes. Start the chicks right and keep them growing. Plant trees and truly you plant blessings. If the little chickens droop, look out for lice. Keep lime, grit and charcoal before the chickens. Fight the lice; they are sure death to profit in poultry. Make use of every broody hen you can find this month. Adjusting boards should be used in hives of all weak stocks. Colonies having defective~queens are always the foundation of trouble. Little wooden troughs holding about a pint of sirup are-good for feeding bees. Colonies selected for breeding rhould conta'n a good supply of dr>ne comb. The supply of drones depends en tirely on the amount of drone comb furnished. Colonies selected for breeders should be pushed by early feeding to their ut most limit. Have you forgotten the parsnips you left in the ground last fall? 'Tis time they were dug. Do not feed in the morning, as it tends to caus~e robbing and to make the bees restless. It is just as necessary to select for the production of drones as for the production of queens. Bees are not apt to attach comb to cloth, so cloth divisions between frames serve as a guide. Be sure that the entrances to the hives are keep open. The bees want good, fresh air to breathe. Pollen is always stored in or r.ear the brood nest, and here is the place where the bees will cluster. Queen bee cells should never be re tained in any colony except one that is in a natural, healthy condition. If the seed is poor th e crop will 1)0 poor, no nmatter how much of an out lay has been incurred in preparing theo soil. Plant good seed or none. Novel Plea For a UHll. In the course of a speech in support of his "foxscalp" bill in the Kentge~ky Legislature Representative Haifieh!, of Pike County, said: "I ask for the p~assage of this bill in the interests of religion and morals. If you pay no bounty for fox scalps no one will kill the foxes; if no one will kill them they will kill the chickens, and whar you have no chickens you have no preachers, and- whar you have no preaners you have no religion and no ~moal-" Trade of the Philip s. For several years, bee u~ng with 1893, the imports from thehilippines have been considerable. Athe total value of Philippine prod brought to the United States in year was $9,159,857. This amount in des sugar to the amount of nearly $3,01,000. The fellowing year the imports were valued At more than $7,t000, 0G, aniffrthe past three years they have averaged over $4,000,000. Since the imposition of a. duty on sugar, there has beenagradual falling of' in the importatians of that article, and while in 189) the- imports of sugar were valued ot y2,270,902, in 18'97 they amounted to only $1,199,202. Next to sugar the itincipal articles imported by the United States have been textile grasses. These amounted in 1893 to over $6,000,000, and in 1897 to more than $3,000,000. During the same period, however, the United States has sold little to the Phiiihpiues. The total exports in 1893 amounted-to $154,378, and have not reached that figiue since: In 1897 they amdunted to only $94,.97. The chief articles of export has been refined mineral oils. Breadstuffs and manu factures have made up the remainder of a meagre list. Spain, on the other hand, , has en joyed a monopoly of the. tobacco trade with the Philippines and has furnished the islands with a greaten gnantity of manufactured goods and food products than any other nation. Probably much of this; however; icas sent to the Spanish -forces. In 1896 Spain im ported from the Philippines goods valued in pesetas at 227519,994, and sent to the islands goods valued in pesetas at 38, 357,757. Great Britain and France have also maintained more extensive. trade rela tions with the Philippines than the United States. The total value of the foreign trade of the Philippines in 1896, exclusive of' the trade with Spain, amounted in exports to $20,875,000, and imports to $10,631,250. These figures will doubtless be cited as furnishing a reason for the retention of the Philip pines and a strong effort to secure the greater part of the trade now enjoyed by Srain. - What Spain's Misrule Means. Prior to the last revolutionary out break the amount of yearly tribute which Cuba was forced to- pay into the treasury of Spain fell little short of the average sum of $25,000,000. In view of the comparatively small number of peo ple living in Cuba the enormous burden entailed upon them by this exaction be comes a; once apparent. In 1884 Spain extorted from. Cuba in the way of rev en ues the outrageous sum of $34,269,410. She applied $12,574,485 of the money thus . collected to the payment of old military debts incurred in sub duing popular outbreaks in Cuba; $5,904,084 to the use of the war department in carrying out need ed improvements, and $14,595,096 to the payment of salaries, pensions, etc., to Spanish officers and clergymen. Ont of the immense revenue collected from Cuba in 1884, only $1,195,745 returned to Cuba in the way of benefits. This fact in itself, without the prolonged ef fusion of blood which drenched Cuba's soil in consequence of her effort to free herself, more than vindicates the right eousness of that cause wEhich the Uni ted- States has assumed in undertaking to expel Spain from the western hemis phere. - Women in Business. .From the Free Press, .Deroit, Mich. A prominent business ngan .recently ex pressed the opinion-hat there is one thig that, will prevent w omen from corn let ely illing man's plac * tife business.d - ca het are sick too often. ,rs. C. W. Mansfld, of 58 Parrar St., Detros s "A complication ilments kept me awake nights an e out. Iconld get no relief from m ine and hppe was sipping away from ..A young lady in my employ gave me a box of Dr. Wifliams' Pink Pills for Pale Peopie. I took them and was able to rest at night for the first time in months. I bought more and took them and they cured me as they also cured several other people to my knowledge. I think that if you should ask any of the drug gists of Detroit, who are-the best buyers of Dr. Williams'Pink Pills they would say the young women. These piis certainly build up the nerv'ous system an'd many a young woman owes her life to them. "As a business woman I am pleased to recommend them as they did .. more for methan any . .. - L physician - and I can -- /i, 4 g i ve D r. 2Z . Will iams' P i nk Pills for Pale P eopl e eredit for ~ ny general good health to-day." Suddlen't Prostrated. No dliscovery of modern times has done so much to enable women to take their proper place in life by syfe-guarding their healthm as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Acting diredtly on the blood and nerves, invigorating the body, regulating the functions, they restore the strength and health to the exhausted woman when every effort of the physician proves una vailing. For the growing girl they are of the greatest beneflt, for themother indispensa ble, for every woman invaluable. For paralysis, locomotor ataxia, and other diseases long supposed incurable, these pills have proved their efficaey in thousands of cases. Jaipur is a state wiith an area of 14,465 square miles, and a population of over 2, 500.000, chiefly Hindus. Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 100, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. Eggs are currency in South America's in terior. Lyon & Co's "Pick Leaf" Frnoking Tobacco gives the consuimere the very best Tobacco they can get. 2 ounces for 10 cents. It Is fast winning its way to public favor. Try it. Germany has 135,090 school teachers; America 35.000 To Cure a Cold in One Day. Tnke Laxat' e Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it fails to curc. 25ic. At Whatcom, Wash., a woman working for an evaporating company peeled 15,491 pota toes in twenty days and earned $20. .T. S. Parker, Fredonia, N. Y., says: "Shall not call on you for the $100 reward, for I believe Hall's Catarrh Cure will cure any csc of catarrh. W~as very bad." Write himi for particulars. Sod by Druggists, 75e. ST. VITU?S' DANCE. sPASMS and all ner vous diseases permanently cured by the use of Dr. K ine's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FR EE $1.00 trial bottle and treatise to Dr. Rt. U. Kline, Ltd., 531 ArehStreet. Phila., Pa. Fits perm, rently cured. No fits or nervous ness a fter first day's use of Dr. Kline's G;reat Nrve Restorer.S$'trial iiotAAe and treatise free Dx. R.H. LK Lm. Ltd.. 931 Arch S,., Phil13. i N'Ir.. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for &nf fraren eething, softens the gums, r'educing inflami tionallays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.I Pisos C,ic cure-1 me of a Throi t and Lung trobl" or three ydar'-' st-indin.-E. C,ADr, Huntington, Ind. Nov 12,18590 Upward of 19. 000.000 American flags have! been sold sinethe blowing up of the Main.. To Curo Constigation Forever. - Take Cascarets CandyiCathiartic. 10e or 250,. ?J C. C. C. !a1l to cure, d.@ggists refund money. be renoe a n levs ts l,-l eel It costs about one-fifth shaving soaps and many who rA pose for years, will not have The vegetable oils of whic V, for many special uses for whic: unsatisfactory. A WORD OF WARNING -There are m " just as good as the ' Ivory';" they ARE I ty peculiar and remarkable qualities of the gen t upon getting it. C4pyrlght,1898, by The Prter 1 THE RAINY SEASON IN CUBA. Sakd to be the Most Charming of the Year--. Epidemics Due to Negligence. Mr. William T. Hornaday, chief natu -alist of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, has spent nearly ten years in East India, Borneo, and Sumatra jungles collecting rare animals, birds, insects, and serpents for the Smith sonian. He is the only white man who ever lived among the head hunters of 3orneo. "All this talk of the danger in Cuba >f the rainy season, yellow fever, etc., is greatly exaggerated," Mr. Horna day said recently. "Because the Span ivh army has lost heavily, many un informed persons fear that the country would be as fatal to newly arrived Americans as it was to green Span iards. The Spanish troops I saw were wretchedly fed and clothed, and abso lutely no heed is taken to enforce the mnost obvious sanitary regulations. ['hen the food, clothing, medicines, weyhigth ensoudhaetolv 1pn sfrihdbycnrcos h Madin-ihteofcesadsml in et.The "Span is ae favor maes a Spnihrofsihlther, oesni bein nertetie wn lathe s erie Int cost s atonifth handgortosRaco many hostt ai peoe for years,e way.av Thtrie ee taboflen ilth o thi alar myseial juglssnearh inoth wic Siasatisfamps,ory. ig wm ater, t a ooe havin thIo; e uARE ustomedua and reable qualies fod Ihe nee upon getti etuc fjngle it ee dayst CIarowe of texcealent Epetoitw Dor tre pealitnce. I eraset o thsoagnd nstton :he Eais, Indalwy Bouond suatr.aI jungles colletig raranials,x birdhe kine, andne septs for damp Smth-s >ut,itno hanes eonl hie mnewhar eeridon thate head hnterawas of Bornneeeymrig.nacpo o "Alle tis o tave itoifnt the ne n Cub ist gratly.eHageyores Mr. Hiona aye sid recent Beuethe yuself, .ts rmyojas ost avixcly,n manyhing infored pesosithta theseutontrd vek,thrned be tao ne farive Aericns Cua itha toeree n S wrtchedlylasd an Cbnlothe, and abo oe obvios sanitary srgtonsth nTe ttes food, clohin thedMaine eryhigtleviein shoul tropics, said: Sun, is funihe Cbynratmos, ho tn iesn wit the oears atbgnsigene styabou the poorsolder intoa adiseasts an eth. idde Spanishr wome hsavey aisying 'hen outrnoons and oetime ohe Plippnery they neve retompned My suc Spander moter wihing asonei comieg kneowsh otime whhe ruis. do ricel unspearmby israing thatou ffCs. an rrel ever mayve knost t Sprain beor nihr son gos thswoalle After seo yeas give lifedving or? malaria growngso veetarthion the makes water,a and otenbaving trop eat unaey utmedB eatn badl.y-cooked food, 1n schewindgha ovr-ndlgec li te fupits helth toutwoy, threel pr eautins. I thenger, anlways epn under sleI alway ofrelite fandnels onet ther skin, andhevgesept Yanke frmp New hapshirels mh augh to wth owufever. changs oel fortel unerwlar baesdesa thet Itho,re alwas fhi and t ake from sixe to i grains o >fquinine every morning nd a pofho coff etaosbe if you haere;i nothn the ote watr whae your soes toange you, eon wifl youe musveu ths feverriflyo ougw the Unitly Stesemire frusin itsoroRic wih abou 108cle macng hy-e.e Withtee ptreais andout reek ther onehad bies nomoeat ofhd fever, ing 3,u70 suanhre mis. Is ouraica. otu"sthto ni Mlr. parrallelasm;Ca born,ysiand fo sons yarsea ahsesof.tmt snd inh ropial couries i te tropic,tais:i The nran sasn moeate it caleveu and Cua,i the Cans The mosterarm-egh in>eo f the yeatinr.ges beihrns genest aluywabotiathe,500deet fhehighelst toethe milue, Seteberra It suLly rino in the afteheasn, anso60mfetie eiht. Thevery heay landrangempanom ver nownmls outsidth.e is.and g enlly watopsd avinset which 1,30 T { ~ 1111'l;f :e shaving soap because it vhich softens the beard to kin unharmed. s much as the so-called have used it.for this pur any other. h Ivory Soap is made, fit it n other soaps are unsafe or iny white soaps, each represented to be OT, but like all counterfeits, lack the uine. Ask for" Ivory" Soap and insist . aamba c..ima siderable rivers. The climate is hot, but not unhealthy, and the island free from beasts of prey and serpents, although infested with rats, centipedes and mosquitoes. The rainy season in Porto Rico does not begin until Sep tember and lasts until March. Owing to the hills the northern lowlands have a superabundance of moisture, while' the south suffers from drought, a re sult of the prevailing winds. It is ex tremely fertile, its staples being sugar, coffee and other tropical products, tobacco, cotton, rice, yams, plan tains, eto. Large herds of cattle are raised, and it has undeveloped mines of gold, copper, coal and salt. Its ex ports are about double those of Jamica. and amounted in 1896, in the four prin cipal items of coffee, sugar, molasses and tobacco, to about $16,500,000. Its exports to Spain in 1895 were over $,00,000; its imports from it about $!000, 000. LIGiTIIOUSES IN WAR. Biow They Can Be Used to Lure an Enemy's Ships to Destruction. The lighthouse keeper has his special ruties in times of war, and it is in his power to render valuable service to his country's cause. The extinguishing of the lights in the bay was the beginning of a policy which was outlined early in March by the lighthouse board. At that time general instructions were issued. to thle keepers of the light houses ordering ~them -to familiarize themselves and their assistants with all. the reqtuirement irncide igences of war. The extinguishing of the -shore lights will be a last resort as the extensive commerce of foreign merchant vessels would be seriously interfered with by it. The order to put out these lights will only come in case of actual danger of invasion by foreign men-of-war.. In considering the various means by which the lighthouse keeper can ren der service in war time, it is neces sary to know something of the -lights themselves. In every lighthouse~ sta tion the beacon has some character istic with which tne mariner is famil iar, or which he may readily recogni.S by .an examination of his chart. In some cases the beacon is a fixed, white light which never changes, but sends its rays far out to sea, where the watchful pilot recognizes it at a glance. Other lights change from red to white, or the reverse, or show a disk, one side of which is white and the other red. The approaching mariner knows at once in what direction he should steer. If the red light is on the right and the white on the left side of the disk, he knows that by keeping to the left he will find a safe channel, while dangerous shoals await him in the opposite direction.' Of course, it is obvious that the lighthouse keeper by reversing the colors on the disk could do inestimable damage to unfriendly vessels. In all such cases it is obvious that our own mariners must be wara ed in time of the changes contemplat ed. ' Other lighthouses have a beacon flashing white at regular intervals. Thus the characteristic of the light at Fire Island is "one flash every minute." If this were changea, so that the light would flash only once in two minutes, the mariner would be as bad,1y-off as if there were no light at a.ll. With the idea in his head that he had reached a point near Fire Island, the usual signal would signify to him that his calcula tions were ~wrong, and that he was in an entirely different locality.. Another means by which the pilot guages his location is the distance of visibility of the- light. Shinnecock-' Light, for example, is a fixed white light situated on Panquogue Point, on the north side of Shinnecock Bay, L. I., one mile from the line of sea beach and about midway between Montauk Point and Fire Island light stations. It is visible at a distance of 18%~ nau tical miles. Now, if it were known that an enemy's ship were approaching, the light could be screened so as not to be visible .at all or to be visible at a half or quarter of the usual distance. The vessel might thus be led into a trap before its pilot realized his proxi mity to the dangerous coast. The chang,ing of fog signals has also been contemplated as an effective means of deceiving the enemy. It i.; the opinion of those most familiar with the subject, however, that in cases of actual invasion of our waters by the enemy's ships the signals would be discontinued altogether. 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