Show OLD BACHELORS' I a dream in the midst of my And as fast as I it came into My thoughts ran along in such beautiful I'm sure I ne'er saw any poetry It seemed that a law had been recently a tax on old bachelors' pates should be And in order to make them all willing to The tax was as large as a man could well The bachelors and said no horrid and horrid And declared to save their own heart's blood from f such a vile they would not pay a But the rulers determined them still to So they set all the old bachelors up at A crier was sent through the town to and To rattle his and his trumpet to And to call out to all he might meet in his Forty old bachelors sold here And presently all the old maids in the Each in her very best bonnet and Prom thirty to and Of every all to the The then in his labor And out as he held up a much for a Who wants to In a twink every lady In at a highly extravagant The bachelors all were sold off in a And forty old maidens some some older each lugged an old bachelor home on her SNEEZING POWDER SUBDUES Vicious Animal Badly Injures Man in Fort N. Barney a local is in a dangerous condition as the result of a battle with a vicious Kent is much bruised and battered from bein-dashed to a cement floor and trampled and his left hand was frightfully mutilated by the anim Only by resorting to a novel method was the man's life He was alone in the box stall with the enraged and nobody dared to go to his although the tumult attracted many awed Directly across the street Gifford Wood has a novelty store and he was selling a customer powder such as chievous boys are fond of circulating in public places to cause general sneezing and coughing to all who in-hale With Wood rushed to the scene of the man-stallion and when he realized the helpless and dangerous predicament of having brought with him in his haste a quantity of the sneezing quickly scattered it in the The stallion in-haled liberally through his widely distended nostrils and was attacked by a fit of tremendous sneezing that occupied all of his attention and enabled onlookers to drag Kent from his Wood is now a and his friends will make an application for a Carnegie NEW RUBBER PLANTS IN Vice Consul Richard M. An resident in Mexico for some during that time has been experimenting in rubber-producing has discovered in this district a a and three plants which yield first-class crude These plants are not as yet botanically and are known here only by their Indian Analyses have been made of all these plants in the United and the result of each test has been the production of a first-class crude the laboratory tests made in Kansas City producing rubber that was The tree is of quick growth and can be propagated from slips put in the Limbs that were thrown in the shade and left for six and on being planted took root and are now growing Trees planted from slips will be large enough to prune in three years limbs cut from the trees furnish the pruning can be done every This tree produces about 6 per cent crude The three plants referred to grow wild and can be reproduced from the In three years they well The plant being then from 4 to 6 feet in may be cut to the root each using the cuttings for the extraction of the leaving the root to recover itself and produce the same each The mode of cultivating these plants is about the same as for they will produce 8 per cent crude The vine gives a free crude rubber with no gum-It grows in the extending over the surrounding and is the richest in giving 10 per cent of the crude commercial Experiments in the j cultivation of this vine are now being carried The discoverer is conducting experiments in different processes of extraction of and coagulation of the milk from these plants and vine and and states that he will be able to produce crude commercial rubber for about 15 cents gold per |