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Show 'r r ' o X' i- - IN THE , QUEER AND CURIOUS , THINGS AND-EVENT- Tim Maa With Um Um HaIm Tuwa't Rif Bw Kite la Which All Ik, Bah Their Bmm la a Cvaaw -BUr Mdw yiDprtotff, Ih. 0a th Ham with tb Hun. - dey say In Zmu Klaahlight: Dat de poem" hit sou do, Iat de Miss an tropu aritaU Takes de possunusiie new. Now 1 b read dat poem kyarful, Wld a hjpomtie eye. An de meat dat s lu its smokehouse Am a bangin' mighty high. But 1 has die obsuhvashun Bout dp tioof ob dem ah lines An' yo'll find it fits de eaahun Same e taters fits de vines. Bat ah poem am a falluah, Ez all talimin' pugsons know, k Foh de nacbul reason. Bar's no niggali aid dat hoe. Frank Armfieid' In North Georgia Citizen. pine-blan- I,. Tbiag on onr The horse Is a noble animal, as all the world knows But when It comes to speed and staying power he Is not in It with the camel or, rather, to speak quite correctly the dromedary, since It is the dromedary whirl) la l.ied for swiftness, the true camel being the beast of burden. In most uncivilized slid open countries the bearer of important communications who Is denied the aid of the railway might with advantage to himself exchange li s horse for a dromedary. The thor- urn bred dromedary In the pink of (ondition can do his twenty miles an . 1 our for a surprising number ol lours; a "blood horse would be hard put to it to exceed, on a gallop, some fourteen miles an hour, and the fifth hour would almost Infallibly find him played out to the point With half a dozen of exhaustion. hours rest per day, not necessarily Including food and water, the "crack dromedary can be pressed to Us utmost speed for a week. Famous as the Tartars me for tbeit small, swift horses, they yet reserve their greatest enthusiasm for their camel races, in - which there compete some of the pur cst- - blooded animals-I- n all Asia. Bad though the character of the average oont 1& there are among bis arlsto-'crati- c repiesentatlves beasts ,as loyal and gentle a? any that ever wore hoof. the dro Every schoolboy has i tul .Mpaclty tor. tor '.! ing both nutriment ln.it hump and water In its species of cellular etom- -. too Well neb. ' Add to this the fact, known, of Us almost Incredible speed when highly bred and trained and one can hardly help wondering that Europeans, and especially European war officials, have not paid more attention - to Its marvelous qualities as a means of rapid communication. It Is useless, of course, for ctvtHzed countries with paved roads, Its feet being too sort to tand the hard, monotonous level of modern highways. But on suitable Around there Is nothing that can compare with It for speed and "bottom, except, perhaps, the dog,, which, however, cannot carry a rider. The elephant, though, can outstay the horse, and Its lumbering trot of eight miles an hour can hold on for half a day at a stretch, and keep this. degree of speed, going for many days A horse, pressed to its limit of swiftness, must rest on alternate days or It will collapse. Exchange long-distan- by-be- art est ' Main Town's Bin Bens Kilo. There is a comfortable little town called Blue Hill, because it Is situated under the brow of a little mountain of that name, way down In one cor ner of Hancock county, Maine, which claims the distinction as being the only town fn the universe which has a town bean kiln beanklll the natives call it It Is an old Institution, whereby over 99 per cent of th beans eaten in the town are baked. It was ts way back In the 60s when the went to Blue H11L One of the to some of hls family while on people in Blue Hill chanced to get mired in a mud puddle and while scraping the clay front his boots no-- ticed that the consistency and grain was that of the finest brick clay. He prospected a little and found that the hills about the place were of the same kind of clay and that sand of prime quality was close at hand. Blue Hill bay was a natural harbor. There was a steady demand for brlcka everywhere, and so It was that the to Blue Hill and started the brick making business. The Hackensack people were enterprising and their crew of employes grew larger and larger until it absorbed all - the available' natives, and It was necessary Import menfronrthe neighboring towns. This necessitated a boardingts house and so it was that Mrs. frame house bebig four-stor- y came the shelter of forty or fifty men with enormous appetites. They were not particular as to the menu so long as there was plenty of food and Mis. Llnscotts beans were pronounced Just about right. Although the house was equipped with spacious brick oven, what with and the bread and" pies hnd puddings ' other things, tha capacity was considerably strained. Mrs. Linscott was complaining of this wbebher bus band, 01' Dave Linscott, said he'd Ldn-scot- - Lln-scot- able-bodi- ' v- - , AND GARDEN. MATTERS OR INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. Stan la AMM TO Cal-- ul . Tie! 4 TkaftW BarttaalMua IlUaalNM aal MeeUea f Um WartaallM ot Mlsiuh MaYkum a nt a ixiem 'Bout some gemmao wid a hoe. Which dey say iu luhned suhcles. Weeds a wide an moustrous cow. But see about He talked the matter over with the foreman, and so It happened that one Saturday afternoon, when work was s ttttie alack. the crew turned to and built an enormous in the Unseat! doorysfd. It was like a huge brick oven as much aa snythlag else. They called--la beaakill. because It was not much of anything else. The firebox was arwood and ranged to taka In four-fothe arrangement of flues and frits was the result, of many conferences,' and tbs consensus Of opinion of all the expert brick burners of the works. "Build r big enough," said Dave, and It was big enough tor hundreds of bean pots. The kill was a great success. Nothing was ever seen like It. No such beans ever tickled the palate of a hungry brick workers as tame out Of th Linscott bean kiln. Then the neighbors began to briag their beans Just aa a sample order. And when they brought them once they did again. Finally the kill" became eo extremely popular that thrifty David thought there might be a chance for specla-tlon- , and so a fee of 1 cent per pot And this was tha established origin of Ups kiln. The original structure has been rebuilt and altered many times. The Linccotts got rich and moved back to New Jers-- y, but their successors kept up the kiln. The price has been advanced with the Increased price of wood, But the custom has not fallen off, as more people have moved In. and the town has become a famous summer resort And now of a Friday night all the youngsters of the vlllags may be seen about sunset heading tot the bean kill with the family bean Bill Meader, the present propots prietor of the kiln, is a jovial old soul, and crams In the dry. hard wood In eordwooi lengths, and anon runs his arm into the Immense ovens to gauge the heat, while hls purse becomes bevvy with the nickels and dimes which flow In. He knows just bow all hls customers like their beans; bow Mrs. Perking wants hers rather under, and Mrs. Peabody likes hen most burnt; how the hotel people want theirs thout the lasses. Boston Herad. b VII-h- I FARM It ODD CORNEA. ed UniV Walks. It has been estimated that there are at least a couple of hundred lovers' walks In Great Britain, all of which ahe more or. less renowned in story, song and tradition. As for Ireland, no one has ever yet been bold enough to try to count the number One of the most renowned is that at Matlock, the beautiful Derbyshire town. Next is Is the lovers walk at Its shadiness la summei Rothesay. has made it a favorite spot for many other persons than sweethearts. The beautiful Spencer road, at Ryde, Isle of Wight, can boast of royalty bavlni shared its charms. It Is said, to have become known as the 4' Lovers Walk limply became there was hardly a pals of lovers In Ryde but used It for tbeli repetitions of tbs "old, ' old ' story, though the authorities never seemed te favor the name, bnt have always referred to It officially as Spencer road. One English town can boast of having a municipal lovers lane. This ti It is I Blackburn, In Lancashire. winding walk, arched In by tall trees bordered by old stones and kept trim and tidy. Here the girl from the mlU or factory listens to the same old tals snd It thrills her just as It does th daughter of an earl, who hears it under the lofty elms at Ryde. In Derbyshire. near Buxton, there Is a renowned lovers leap. The story goei that a maiden who had quarreled wltk her sweetheart In a fit of deepail threw herself over the cliffs into th rocky gulf below. The tale whethet true or not has survived for over ( couple of centuries. order of merit Cat Herman thf (Diversity of Pennsylvania has jut,; added another to hls mahy"dtx-coi.Me- s in the archaeology of Babylon He has dug up a library Of 17,010 tablets wuich belonged to the great temple of Nippur. Not one of these tablets is of a date later than J250 BC. Professor Hilpiecht says that five years will be consumed In un-.- u thing the remaining treasures of the temple. For ten years the University of Pennsylvania has been the ruins of ancient Babylon, and its collection of those antiquities is the finest of Its kind In the world. Nippur was one of the oldest seats of religion and civilization in Babylonia Prvfi-SMi- r Haw Mai I faal Aapla Benjamin Kewhall ot Chicago, in en address te Illinois bwrtieulturUta, !iAn4i i . piling cord wood apparently, hut really aa difficult as any art To a man applying for a position as an apple packer for ua, 1 usually ask the question are you aa expert packer, and the reply usually is, "yes Indeed I was brought up on a farm and have raised fruit all my life. Somehow I always feel discouraged when I hear this .reply. The nest question, state Just what experience you have had," usually brings out the fact that the farm wae not really a fruit farm, though a few old apple trees might have been In evidence. This Is usually enough as far aa experience goes, but I sometimes try still farther' and nsk the expert to write a few samples ot some of the directions and will offer one or two herewith. I. Take the barl and put nothin but good stock in nnd lsve your twos and ciders out Put the prase onto her good and hard and mark the barl on the head." Imagine an inexperienced man trying to pack with these direction. He would probably put the head onto that the her so good and hard cider would fly In all direction!. Another by young man Just from an eastern college and who also knew it all. is aomewbat different in style, but not muck better in substance. "Select a convenient spot in the meadow for the packing operation and get ail your utensils at convenient distances from your men; select your PROF. lllLPRECHT. specimens of fruit with acrupuloua Its great temple, upon whose library care and see that not one specimen pr. Hilprecht has Just come, was co- which le not extra fancy in quality la eval with the beginning Of Chaldean allowed access Into th package; take history. This temple was sacred to only th finest varieties in the meadBel, the god ot which the Bel, more ow, leaving more common one tor generally known, was a later modifithe farm animals and for mincemeat cation. The date of the founding ot If you follow these instructions imthis old temple Is now conceded a be plicitly you will have no trouble la 7000 B. C., or earlier by 3,000 years stateselling all you pack." ThU last than the time fixed as the beginning ment ia probably true, and w would of the world, according to the biblical have no trouble selling all we translators of Genesis. But long before packed, but we can imagine troubl In the building of this temple civilization other directions and so can you. ruled in Babylon. According to ProWe have many ether samples, some fessor Sayee, for the beginning ot of which are even more rldlculoua, but Babylonian writing we will have to these two, I think, will answer my search among the relics of centuries purpose. . They show that neither livthat lie far behind the foundation ot ing on a farm nor going to college the Temple of Nippur.' makes an apple packer. Experience and common sense are Hie best teachers, hut ualecs the experience has lneretn War. - Mr. Nabeshinw of the Japanese lecommon sense is sided by study and gation, who Is a close observer ot Chi- experience, even these ar not suffnese tactics In the war between China " icient and Japan, says that the reported loss no one la this comthat It take I of 1,200 at the battle of Pletsang Is pany needs to b told how to pack approbably i an overestimate, or else ples, Possibly there might be a difshows that the Chinese have adopted ference of deopinion in some minor tbs methods they employed during the but the main points, good cooptails, war with Japan of using underground erage, careful facing, honect packing, minea..Tbe Japanese found these Chi- thorough shaking, - with tbs greatest nese mines one of the dangerous meth- care of all in the leveling off ready ods of destruction, ai they Were id un- for the prem, we would probably all usual and so adfoitly concealed. At on. agree one time the explosion of such a mine In a free country supposed to be free srttealtarel from the enemy caused widespread deA fruit grower give! th advice to howstruction. As winter advanced, never mix red and green apples toever, the snow on the ground permitas It gives the Impression that ted the Japanese scout to trace the gether, la badly mixed and of no grade. lot the sent out footprints of Chinese parties to lay mines, and they were carefully The Japanese plume are beginning avoided. At present there Is no such to appear in some quantities In th means of detecting the mines. They market where they have Chicago are characteristic of Chinese lovd of brought good price this year. Where gunpowder and fireworks, although they can be grown they are destined much more deadly than any other mil- to play an Important role, as their itary contrivance used In that Country. flavor and color ar in their favor. The fact that they bear abunlantly In favorable locations will doubtless enBnwi. yoanj andcommander of the courage their further planting. Major Waller, us American marines in the fighting beAn advocate of summer pruning exfore Tientsin, Chipresses the opinion that pruning may na, jrhoso report be done In summer that cannot well was made public done at any other time ot year be by the war deInside namely cutting iaway th partment Aug. 17, branches where the tree Is too dense recommends Lieut to peymlt the sunlight to get Into all A. Eugene Harding Its parts. The reason la that when. the of the marine corpi leaves are on the branches th degree for promotion for ot denseness of th tree may be unga conspicuous derstood much better than when the In action. leaves have fallen. ' m. , Lieut Harding I was and born The man that would today be a sue- -' Harding. raised In Quincy., A cessful fruit grower must have In himHe was a captain in the. IlHnols self thc aUUiy to adapt new methods guard, but resigned about a year and new idea. Not that he should albefore the Spanish war broke out ways adopt new methods and new When war wa declared th troops ideas, hut he must be able to change were Called for.- - Harding enlisted as a U the new things can demonstrate private in the 6th Illinois. Col. Culver their value. Some men are so fixed made him a captain, and he was given to the old ways that they will not even the command of the Taylorvllle com- consider new dhes. Such men are ' pany of that regiment He served badly handicapped when they try to through the Spanish war and In 1899 make a living out of fruit raising unwaa appointed by the president a lieuder modern conditions. tenant in the marine corps. It is evident that it pays the seller t0 rade frult especially tree fruit, TV,. men that are making the most Th Dr. JTfoSm th in an address before out of . apples .aM.like.lfcrops the British Medira association, pra- i,rnedjhK and aetacconnngl?. Mirlbetl harJ work aa a remtiljr for jrujt goeg to the hlgbeat priced many Ilia. , He declared that regular , ttaryetSi jn hich are never found th and steady work, e best cure fori are ungraded and of a mls- a thousand nervous auments, and that nature. The cull should cejjaneoug this ia true is shown by the fact that home, given away or fed to the hard working people are not those ajj(, other anlmaa. lt they are who are affected by these ills. H de- fruit and sold m!xed With first-cladared that nervous prostration, worry, in any case; for are away gVea and brain .enslon are too often syn-- 1 reduce the price of the good fruit onyms for the effect of, gambling and to such a point tb&t the value of the . drink. There can be no question that additional quantity is lost hard work is healthy, ior it is those' who work hardest that llvs 'longest Bw, r Glob Alibek. and the lazy die young. On advaii- Circular 22, of be Division of Bota-- y, tag of Dr. prescription of the United States Department ot ie that it ia easily fo4lowce4 nd that Agriculture ssy's: The" bur, "Of globe. j th remedy la cheap. art simple - ttfrite a Letter, sentence of life imprisonment PotMTii The hanging over Caleb Powers, who. was convicted of complicity in the ,murder of William Goebel, does hot seem to weigh heavily upon the prisoners spirits. He has hope of a release from confinement or a mitigation of his sentence through a new trial or an appeal to the higher courts on a writ of error. Powers still maintains that he Is innocent of the charge against him, and has made public the following state' ment: To the Public: I am asked my opinion concerning my trial and the verdict of the jury. Could I have but one opinion! Can any man, or woman of this state, have but one? That on of the greatest Judicial farces known to history has been enacted here in my trial, under the forms of law, no Caleb Powers. wu ,nforaed man can doubt Innocence is no shield with 9 100.000 and the methods of Campbelllsm against you. The rectitude of one's past life counts - for naught They say Taylor ,ls guilty because he was at his office, and that I am guilty because I was away from mine. I have never had, and I now have no apology to make for being true to the trustimpoaed upon me by a majority ot the votera of this state. History will draw Its dark lines around those who have outraged me and disgraced the judiciary and blackened the history of the state. fair-mind- tVoider see' ed Wife, Countess Von' Waldersee, the wife of the famous German field marshal (whom the emperor will probably send to China as commander la chief ot the forces there). Is an American princess not by marriage but In her own right ghe te one ot the 'women of America who have married abroad. Her first husband was Prince To Frederick of Schleswig-Holsteimarry her on terms of equality the prince sacrificed hie title and royal rights. Then the emperor of Austria made him Prince of Noer and hls wife Princess of Noer." The princess was Miss Reads of New York, daughter of a, wholesale grocer. JHer. husband was sowri n. Obrttea Md Tha aderetorm. Walter Pollock, an English naturalist. writes of the conduce of two cats during a recent electrical storm, Thi storm was an unusually severe one. T have never before in England," he says, "watched for so long such incessant, vivid, and seemingly ubiquitous lightning. Of two cats in the house, one, and that the elder, was so scared that, having found shelter Indoors, COUNTESS VON WALDERSEE fled out again, seemingly in sheet old at the time of the "marriage, very affright, and only returned, a dripping and died during the honeymoon, rag, when the terror of the storm vu Immense fortune to the widow, past. The other and younger cat pru- who at the end of mourntwo dently stayed indoors. But both today ing, married the Count years Von Walder-seare 'bags of nerves. Cats, to be sura then a young officer. Countess are normally bags of electricity, so one understands thelr condition. - More Waldersee is one ot the most brilliant curious is it that an elderly, specially courtiers la Europe. 11 leav-lngwi- ls e, courageous experienced, highly educated and, as to travel, UlysaefcHke col Jie dog should have obviously gone through much the same gamut of emotion aa did the cats, though his dignity Impelled him to conceal the fact as much as he could which .was not much. It may not be uninteresting to note that after the storm the unmistakable Leyden-ja- r fmell clung strongly to every room where there had been even a' chink of window left open. .000 Library The Ancient Fifth. , for service" in China. The Fifth is one ot the eldest and best regiments in the regular service, and It has one of the best records ior active service In the entire army. The Fifth was organized on July 16, 1798, and after several consolidations with other commands again became the Fifth In 1569, and has so remained ever sime. Richard Colonel SUI s tMowitlra Comba, the -- Three tramps Jumped on a locomoOf the regtive which stood in "the yards 'Of the has been in iment, On-ra- y & Grande Rio railroad at Denver the service longer Col., on July 9, and started out on than any other ofa heavy down grade. Aa the speed Inficer now engage! creased two ot the tramps became in Active duty, lie frightened and jumped. One, however, entered the army remained on the locomotive, but was 1855 and has in. unable to "control it. and about Are er been; in miles out the engine jumped the track Notwithat a curve, badly wrecking itself and standing1' that he, issince. more . than 65 the track. The tramp escaped with old and that he will he retired years but a slight scalp wound and was aft- next year, he la aa anxious aa any of . - . erward arrested. the young men of the regiment to get to the scene of the conflict in the orTo widen a business street, the ient Capt Hackney will hare charge Round Tower In Copenhagen 159 feet of the Fifth after it lands In Chipa. Jn height is to be bodily moved, a He has been In the - service for 35 distance of 50 yards. year ef it-ev- . 'J, ational The Fifth United States Infantry is Just about to sail from San Francisco mUchoke (Cynara etfoymui) la cultivated extensively In the eonntrtes about the Mediterranean, where It Is native and where It thrlvee la the open air. It ia grown to n lena extent la gardens ia central Europe and England, but being sensitive to severe cole requires winter protection la all these northern regtonk It is a vegetabls having a very delicate flavor and 1s suri to become popular lq this country on the tables of thnee who appreciate good things to sat The bur artichoke is not to be confused wltk the Jerusalem artichoke fHelUnthiia Uh- rosus) occasionally grown in this country for its tubers, which sreused as a forage tor fattening hogs and Jther domestic animals. The bur artichoke Is a perennial. with stems 8 to 4 feet high, and large plnnatlfid leaves fromk to &Jeet long. The leaves are whitish green above and cottony on the lower surface, their bases extending in wings down the terns The flower bead, which la he portion eaten, li very large, something like that of the sunflower, but with blue florets In the cultivated plant the base of the flower head and the bases of the enveloping scales are quite fleshy. Cultivation In Europe. The bur artichoke is commonly propagated from suckers, which - are produced around the crown. These are pinched off or cut off except. two or three, which ara left to produce the flower beads- ,- The operation ot detaching the suckers requires care, for" it Is necessary that a portion of the mother plant should be removed with th sucker, without cutting the old stem too deeply. The suckers, after they have been pruned, are ready for planting. Artichokes may be grown from seed, but most varieties do notB, reproduce by this method with any dsgrds of certainty. However, Gros vert de Laon, s sort much liked at Paris, refrom seed. produces fairly true The best soil for bur artichokes Is os that Is rich and well drained. The best method of preparing the ground Is to trench it, spading in n considerable quantity ot compoeted ' manure Black, turfy soils ar especially suit .- uw C la-tn- j , ss j Pye-Smlt- r ' to-typ- e The shoot able for its cultivation. are planted 2tt feet apart. lh row I to 4 feet apart the care required, and the methods of cultivation being similar to those used In the case ot cabbage, eggplant etc. - Sucker planted in this way will yield head in au Whes for the, first year. ur iirtkMtSM r the seed la sown In hotbeds ia February or March, In rows about I Inches apart. and tbs plants ar finally thinned to about the earns distance apart in the row. These ar ready to transplant when they have four leaves They should be set out three or tout together In a hill, the hills 18 to 1 inches apart, in row 3 to 4 feet apart The cultivation ia this case Is , th same as where the suckers are used In transplanting, th tap root must N ' " cut as this favors the production ol lateral shoots Car must be taken to leave,ji good hell of earth around tht roots Any thorny seedlings should be destroyed, as they represent worthless reversion. To avoid the somewhat difficult operation of transplanting, the seeds may be sown, four 04. five together, ia hills, where they art to remain 7a the field, A small depression Is mad on top of the hilt A and th seeds ar lightly covered wltk very rich eott This method has th drawback that plants do not fruit at all th first year, wberea they almost certainly do If transplanted from a hot bed. When bur artichokes are grows In regions where the winters ar at all cold, th plants must be protected at the approach of freeslng weather. On of th heat ways la to make a hill ol river sand or earth over the plants, after removing th lower leaves, and heap up leaves or strew oter this -- 1 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, when in Chicago recently, expressed a hearty Interest In th International live-stoc-k exposition, He said the live-stoc-k interests ot Chicago deserved great oerdit for enterprise and foresight In organizing such a grand exhibition. It was bis opinion that it would be timely, valuable along both commercial and educational lines, and wonld prove ot Vast benefit to tbs livestock Industry of the whole country. WUh hls brothers. he visited th Dexter Park Amphitheater, which will b the mala building, containing tha grand stand and main show ring, during tbs exposition next December. Th following special order has been Issued by th department of agriculture: "It ia hereby ordered thpt Canadian cattle may he imported into the United States tor exhibition purposes at the interexhibition to be national live-stoheld from. Dec.; 1 to 8.I13QQ, at Chicago, IU,, wtthoutbelng subjected" to "the" tuberculin test; provided they are accompanied by a certificate issued by s Canadian official veterinarian stating that such cattle are free from contagious and infectious diseases, and. provided further that they ar returned Immediately to Canada at th close of th exposition. . All Canadian -cattle, sheep and swine Intended for tbii exposition must he shipped directly to the exposition grounds, and not unloaded In any public stockyards" A disposition to hold wool appears to prevail all over the western rang country. c ck 4- V -- - ! 0 ' I '! ' . |