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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1892)
T. Farm Notes. Po'ato Scab. Potato scab can be, evaded if not entirely eliminated. The last assertion is based upon the following facts demonstrated in myinvesigations: ' 1. Scabby or disease bearing seed tubers can and will under ordinary circumstances produce a diseased crop. 2. Seed tubers free from the dis ease germs will in any soil," clay, sand or muck, raise an undiseased prod uct, provided only that the soils themselves are free of the disease. 3. The disease germs can remain from crop to crop in the ground. 4. By soaking the seed tubers be fore planting in chemical solutions I have been enabled to raise an undis eased product from the scabbiest of seed whenever the ground was known to be free from the disease. There is no substantial evidence that any soil of whatsoever kind can in itself give origin to the disease. Seeds free from the disease germs will produce a healthy crop in the heaviest, closest clay, the blackest muck or any other soil in which potatoes will grow at all when the soil is known to be free from the dis ease germs. But it has been demon strated that when planted in soil in which the germs are placed or upon ground that has been previously used for potato crop, the product from the pure seed is very liable to be badly diseased. Old patato tops and refuse from last vear's croD when buried in the hill with such seed upon new ground will engender the disease. It has been found that the disease may remain effective in the ground at least four years without the inter vention of potatoes. It is possible that barnyard manures may become contaminated from refuse matter containing; the disease and thus become a source of infection. Only one treatment can now be recommended as being practically effective and yet not injurious to the crop. There are, however, at least three others which give promise of being equally effective. The one mentioned may be called the corrosive sublimate treatment, and as now de veloped consists in soaking the seed potatoes in a weak, solution of that substance various periods of time according to the strength used. One wishing to try the corrosive sublimate treatment, if to n greater extent than to insure the raising of healthy smooth potatoes sufficient for seed the following year, will find it best to proceed about as follows Procure an ordinary barrel and fit into the base a common wooden . faucet. Purchase of a druggist two ounces o! finely pulverized corrosive sublimate. Empty this all into two gallons of hot water and allow it to stand over night or until apparently all dissolved. Place in the barrel thirteen gallons of water, then pour in th two-gallon solution. Allow this solution to stand in the barrel four or five hours, during which time it is several times thoroughly agitated to insure equality of solution before using. Select as fair seed potatoes as possible, wash off all the eld dirt and immerse as many as you can or wish to treat at one time in the solution j one hour and thirty minutes. At the end of the time turn the solution into another vesseL The same solution may thus be used a numler of times if wished. After.drying, the potatoes may be cut and planted as usual. Plant upon ground that has not previously borne the disease. The potatoes may be cut before treatment if wished. The corrosive sublimate is a strong poison and too great care cannot be exercised in its use. The strength of the solution as here recommended, one part in one thousand, is the same as that used in surgery and is not such as to work injury unless taken into the stomach. Great care should be taken in handling the pure sub stance and all treated potatoes should . be planted. - The solution should not be placed in metallic vessels. Is the deep scab of potatoes a dis ease general to root crops? To present date it is found to be common to the various varieties of beets. Many lots of the common red or yellow table beets found on the market are more or less affected. This is to be expected when they come from the : family garden a place where potatoes are commonly grown. The disease on sugar beets reaches proportions more extensive than ever noted upon potatoes, often the greater part of of the surface being covered Witn the beet it does not .as a rule result in cavities, but the corky forma tions are very extensive. H. L. Bolley in the North Dakota Experiment Station Bulletin. Night Working Honey Bees. Bees work at night in the hive apd build comb as perfectly as if an electric light shone there all the time. . Pro fessor Schieber enclosed honey in well-corked flasks, some of which he kept in perfect darkness, while the ' others were exposed to the light. The portion exposed to the light soon crystallized, while that kept in the dark remained unchanged. Hence, we see why the bees are so careful to " obscure the glass windows which are sometimes placed in their hives. The existence of the- young depends on the liquidity of the saccharine food ' presented to them, and if light were allowed access to this, it would, in all probability, prove fatal to the inmates of the hive. A thief named Frame is wanted at Stockton. At hia rooms were found provisions, clothing, mechanics' tools of all kinds, picks, shovels, rakes, a pistol, blankets, counterpanes, shoes, a sledge hammer, a valise, washtubs, saws, cans of paint, common chickens and fancy birds, cases of coal oil, cases of plug tobacco, kegs of fish, - crowbars, brackets, leather and rugs, many of which articles have been identified by those from whom he stole them. Some of the thefts oc curred three years ago. Women's World. Cleaning Hints. A housekeeper asks, "How can I clean pans which have been smoked on a coil-oil stove 1 I have tried soap and water and it only makes them worse," and Mrs. Grayson replies in Table Talk : Mineral soap is recom mended for this, but I have found it easier to wipe off as much as possible with a piece of soft, dry paper, then with a clean piece of soft paper or rag dipped in vinegar, and then the sand soap to brighten it. When using an oil stove myself, I have never had anything smoked ; but some servants are not so careful to keep the wicks turned low. This treatment will also remove soot and smoke from the mica in the doors of stoves when a fresh lire is lighted with kindling wood. Another one asks how to keep the zinc, under the stove bright, and sand soap is again recommended; but a cloth moistened with kerosene win polish zinc as bright as silver. A scrubbing brush is kept in my bath room, and each person is requested to scrub the tub after bathing; but once a week I have it rubbed ( after it is thoroughly dried with a soft towel) with a cloth which has been dipped in coal oil. Another- one complains that her dish towels-smell badly, notwithstand ing the fact that " they are washed out every day." If they are washed, as I have seen them done, in the rinse water, I do not wonder they are dis agreeable. They should be washed, after each time of using, in clean cold water, with plenty of soap and plenty of rubbing, then well rinsed, also in cold water, two or three times if need be, to get all the soap out, and hung in the open air, when practicable, to dry. Silver and glass should never be rinsed, but wiped. Some one else says : " I have seen it stated that milk pans should be washed in cold water. Is not this something new?" It often happens that people read carelessly, grasping only part of an idea. Pans, bowls, pitchers and tumblers that have had milk in them should be washed first in cold water, then in hot, soapy water, then scalded with clean, boil ing water and wiped with a clean, j dry towel. Many persons dry their pans by setting them on the back part of the stove, but this is always risky, as they are apt to be forgotten, and so injured by the melting of the solder; or if lined with granite or porcelain, the lining will be likely to crack and peel off. Nor is it a good plan to fill kettles or pans with water and put them on the stove with the idea of loosening substances which have adhered to them in cooking; it will only make them harder to re move. They should be filled with cold water and stand in the sink or on -the table with a small piece of washing soda or a few drops of am monia in each. This will soften and make it easy to scFape out whatever sticks to them. When possible to do so, it is better to wash cooking utensils as soon as you are through using them ; it is not only easier to do, but it is better for the hands. If you have an old tin pan which is I 1 u&l , mm L yi mice ihulo au bUI. bottom, don't throw it away. It will De found invaluable to empty grounds from the coffee-pot, tea leaves, rinsings of cups and dishes, and even to pour the dish water through, keep ing all crumbs, seeds, etc., from going - into the sink. It is fine crumbs, lint from dish cloths and towels, loose strings from the mops or hair from the brushes that help to choke up the drain pipe. And all this an old tin pan that is good for nothing else will save. The Kerosene Lamp. A very desirable, if not indeed a necessary, feature of the sitting-room lamp is a bright-colored shade either a soft rose or a pale yellow in order that the influence of the light may be softened and toned. A green or a white shade is as impossible with a truly cheerful sitting-room as a black one, according to the New York Tribune. A lamp with handsome shade looks well enough without its being dressed up like a little old woman in petticoats, either of tissue paper or silk. It is not a mere matter of taste, for in fact these dresses are dangerous, but they are too fussy to the refined eye, and as for contribut ing to a wholesome sense of home comfort, which is the essential pur pose of a lamp, they do anything else. The lamps most attractive, safe and useful are some species of the circular burner. The care o tbete is generally stated fully in circulars which go with them, bnt in general lamps are kept in order by simple rules. Clean the chimneys every day, trimming or brushing the wicks clear of all burnt parts daily by scissoring, and renew them before they get too short. Fili the lamps freshly each evening. Carry lamps with care and place them'on some solid table or stand at one side of the room, where children romping or other persons moving about briskly may not come in contact with them. The oil can should be cleaned occa sionally with a tablespoonful of soda dissolved in a quart of water. Never leave the light turned down, as in such cases it will always smoke. Either let it burn at full or put it out altogether.- When there are '. vo or more lamps lit in one root their shades should be of the same color or of harmonizing colors. At this season especially the lamp is an object to take good care of. It is a beautiful symbol as it is a most useful pbject Miss Daisy Hopkins is the latest proof that common sense ana iair olav are getting the better of .the musty old authority and time-worn ricrhts of English universities. The courts have decided that she had a perfect right to walk around with an undergraduate without being subject to arrest by a college proctor and his bulldogs. Skirt dances at social gatherings for ladies only are the prevailing lad in Boston's most aristocratic circle. Albert Victor, heir of the prince of Wales, died, or the grip Jan. 14, agea 28. . He was a rather light-headed dandv and credited with being slightly Jess immoral than his father. Current News. Court. The free coinage bill introduced by Bland. of Missouri, chairman or the house coinage committee, for the free coinage of silver provides that the unit of value shall be a dollar of 412J, grains of standard silver, or 25s' grains of standard gold. Any holder of gold or silver bullion of the value of $100 or more, of standard fineness, shall be entitled to have the same coined, free of charge. The bill fur ther provides for the use or coin notes and their redemption in coin. The acts of 1878 and J uly, is1.'", are re pealed. As soon as France reopens her mints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of ny, to 10 the president shall make proclamation of the fact, whereupon the ratio shall be the legal ratio in the United States, and there after the standard silver dollar shall consist of 400 grains of standard silver. The senate has passed bills for the establishment of a life-saving station at or near the mouth of Rogue river, Or., and appropriating $325,000 for the construction of two government revenue cutters for service on the Pacific coast. The senate has passed a bill donating to Oregon for a state park townshins 27. 28. 211. 30 una 31 ol ranges 5 and 6 east, Willamette meridian. An amendment to the federal con- sritution, providing lor a uniform marriage and divorce law, has been introduced in the senate. A resolution has been adopted by the house calling on the secretary of the treasury for information as to whether at any time since the )', per cent bonds became due there have been sufficient funds in the treasury to pay the same, ami if so by whose authority he assumed to continue such bonds at 2 per cent, and why the same were not paid at the time they were due. The house committee on ways and means approves a bill providing that on and after Oct, 1, 1SU2, the following articles shall be exempt from import duty unless export duty is laid by the country whence they come, in which case the present duties shall prevail : Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves; timber, square or sided; wood, unmanufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for; sawed boards, planks, deals nnd all other articles of sawed lumber; hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks, wagon or gun headings, blocks, and all lik blocks or sticks, rough hewn or sawed ; staves of wood, pickets and palings; laths, shingles, chipboards and pine or spruce logs. Also bills providing for the admission free of binding twine made in whole or in part from jute, hemp, sunt, manila, sisal or other textile grasses or fibrous substances; barbed wire of all kinds and iron rods for fencing, and all salt, fine or coarse. in bulk or in packages. A bill was introduced Jan. 14 to re peal the sugar bounty. Congressman Camiuetti has pre pared a bill prohibiting the interstate transportation of trees, plants, vines and all nursery stock infected with scale insects, codlin moths or other pests, with their eggs or larva". The house has adopted a resolution declaring it to be the judgment of the house that the granting of subsidies or bounties by congress in money, bonds, or b- pledge of the public credit to promote special private in dustrieg or enterprises, independent of the constitutional power of con- gress, is unjust, impolitic and in man ifest conflict with the spirit of repub lican institutions. The resolution further declares that in view of the present condition of the treasury, and because an efficient and honest gov ernment can only be assured by the frugal expenditure of public money, while unnecessary and lavish expendi tures lead inevitably to venal and corrupt methods, no money ought to be appropriated by congress except such as is manifestly necessary to carry on the several departments, frugally, efficiently and honestly ad ministered. The vote stood 164 to 95. Bills for$75,000 for a public building at Fresno, 100,000 at Salem and $100, 000 at The Dalles have passed the sen ate. The Louse adopted rules Jan. 21 and adjoined till the 25th. Labor I'nlon Notm. The Indianapolis street-car strike ended by the men returning to work on the promise that the differences between them nnd the company should be left to arbiUation. The four wood carvers employed by the West Coast furniture company of San Francisco struck because a non union carver was employed. He left because he did not want to bo the cause of trouble, butlwhen the strikers returned they were told that no union men would be employed hereafter. The Southern Pacific's freight brakemeu at Portland struck Jan. 11 against an order that one brakeman on each train remain on top of the cars. The company rescinded the order a'ter one day of strike. The stonecutters on the Sacramento postofilce struck Jan. 16 for an eight hour day. The Northern railroad is handling reight from the Arkansas Pass road, in Texas, and this is consideted the end of the strike. Strikers stopped travel on the elec tric cars at Pittsburg, Jan. 20. The Southern Pacific employes in Texas will not handle Arkansas Pass freight. The Arkansas Pus railroad strike has been declared off. Grow Extravagance or Wane Charged, The contractfor building the barns, sheds, corrals, fences and poultry houses at the Whittier reform school was let to A. H. Donecken for 13,!K)0, without advertising for bids.' The construction of the main building and factory was let to J. M. Skinner & Co. for $129,336, although Donecken's bid was $3435 less. . The girls' cottage was built by Skinner & Mackay for $4000, and the books show that they were allowed $2579 for 6Xtra labor and material. For 150 school desks $787 was part of the Los Angeles furniture company's bill, although Phil Hirsch fleld & Co. offered to furnish them for $4!)5. Of $25,000 appropriated by the legislature for furniture, only $11,000 was expended by advertised contracts, the balance being goods bought in open market, no discount being al lowed. Among the other items are the fol lowing: One china decorated dinner sot, $00 ; ono folding bod, $110; one antique folding be.!, $1 10; one clinin- bcr suit, $100; cum untic-iic oak side boaid, $225; ono leather Turkish chair, $(!5; twelve leather antique armchairs, $1S0; ono antique chiffon ier, $75. Out of an appropriation of $2500 for agricultural implcment-i, stock, etc., $1000 was expended for buggies and carriagc. (U$25,Ooo appropriated for furnishing, there remained on Oct. 20 only $S 3!) to replace broken ut tides and purchase new furniture for the increasing nuinlier of pupils. These facts wore brought out by an expert employed bv the grand jury. Flirlit lit I'otlit lCryt-M. Point Reyes was thrown into a fo ment Jan. 21. Jack Cameron, a horse trainer and sport, was shot through the neck by a man named Antono Cheno. Uis assailant had his head broken by a crowbar, and a Spaniard named Antono Rivera was also iu- jurea. Uiiineron, tneno ana invent were shaking dice at the bar of Hall's Hotel. Rivera accused Cameron of cheat ing. 1 Ins aroused I'amoron ana no struck Rivera. A general sctiftle en sued betweeu the three men, and then Rivera left the room, returning in a few moments with an iron bar. He started for Cameron with the up was raised Par and when lie wilhin a foot of 1 1 i in attempted to strike him. Cameron evaded the biow and wrenched the bar from his assailaut's hand. He then turned on Rivera and struck him on the head with the bar, leveling him to the ground, with a broken head. Cheno, when lie saw his friend laid low, left the room and scouted a shotgun. On re-entering the room he made for Cameron, who was still in the plac?, and aimed the gun at him. Cameron rushed at Cheno and struck him over the head. At same time Cheno tired tin gun, charge striking him in the nock. the the General News. Judge of Crimes Foster of Valpa raiso recommends that the three Chileans whom ho convicts of stab bing American sailors be imprisoned for term; of live years down and that John Davidson, uu American sailor, for hitting with a stone a Chilean who was stabbing an American sailor, bo imprisoned from ton to fifteen years. Mexico has paid the total award to the United States under the con vention of 1skS. It amounted to $I,S"5,UI0. Chili continue s sauev and the war cloud grows. The Pealody miK'uni has an ex pedition at O'pai), Honduras, explor ing the prehistoric ruins then-. The government has given the right to explore for ten years and carry away hail the relies found. The act exempting the Willamette vallev and coast railroad from pay ment of taxes in Ronton, Linn and Marion counties has Iwen declared constitutional. UNITED STATES. The new ouarters are lciiig plated nnd piustftvl for$l gold pieces in Clii eair.i. Mrs. Howe, the Woman's bank swindler of 15ostou. is dead Jan. l'J prisoners in Ki Janeiro to the nuinlHT of I1.0 mutinied and cap tured three fort.-'. After a sharp tight the troops recaptured the forts anil locked the rebellious prisoners in their cells. Three children at VesH-rs. Wis.. locked in n house while their parents were al'Sent, upset n lamp ami were burned to death. The Louisana delegates to the na tional Republican convention are in structed for Hatrison. The conven tion declared against the lottery. Warren Springer has been arrested in Chicago fur ciiiniual responsibility for the death ot live of his workmen in a briler eXdosion. Similiar action was taken in repird to the siicrin tendcut, Kdward Gallup, Engineer Charles Schrocder and Fireman W. H. C-irtwright ami Charles Lying. Tlie jury was in session seven days. It was shown that the city boiler in spector had ci'iidonined the boilers ami withheld a eortillcnte pending certain repairs, which were never made. The fuel used in the estab lishment was manure, netting Springer a saving of $15,itNl a year. A powder mill at Catlettsburg, Ky.. exploded Jan. is and six men were killed itml several injured. The male members of the Sims gang of moonshiners and murderers iu Alabama have nil been lynched but one, Neal Sims, and he is in hiding in the wood. Several of the women of the gang have been lynched also. Mrs. Rose Skinner of Beatrice, Xeb., has gone insane from Christinn science &tuly- She says her spirit is in the wrong body and the spirit that is in her hotly wants to kill her little cliihrren. Suit has been brought in the federal circuit court at Chicago t break up the American Preserve, company for violating the anti-trust law. Two California lions in the neigh borhood of Leipt-lo, O., ami made havoc among the livestock. A party was made up which hunted them for about it week, during which time n dozen men were thrown down and frightfully lacerated with their claws and teeth. They were killed Jun. 14. A street ear ran in front of an ex press train in Chicago Jan. 1 1 and two Krson were kuici ami iiiuureu wounded. Freddy Oebliard is n drunkard and will take the Keeley bichloride of gold treatment. - Cardinal Uibltona denounces the Louisiana lottery. Joseph H. Coates & Co., the well known Philadelphia cotton linn, have ruiled fortl.lXXi.ono. The Para Hublier Shoe company, at South Farmington, Mass., after sink ing $1,000,000, is going out of business. " The Prohibition party national con vention will assemble in St. Louis June 2i. The basis of representation is as follows: Each state is entitled to four delegates-at-large ami is also entitled to twice as many delegates as the number of congressmen tho state is entitled to elect in 1892 under the new apportionment. One additional delegate may be chosen for every 1000 votes or major fraction thereof cast forFlsk and Brooks in 1888. Each territory is entitled to two delegates. The Minnesota Farmers' Alliance demands the submission of the pro hibition question to a popular vote. The charitable societies of Chicago are said to consume 80 per cent of their receipts in officers' salaries and supplies. A broken rail wrecked a train near Brainard, Minn., Jan. 15, and Mrs. Edo Andrews and Lily Wallace of th Andrews' opera company and another woman perished and many were badly hurt. Judge Botkin, the Kansas judge who was reported to have resigned on account of the trouble at Arkalon, consulted with the governor and de cided to stay on the bench. Peace has been so far restored that the state troops have been withdrawn. "Jack the Slasher," who has cut twenty drunken men in the throat and nook lately in New York, has boon caught in the act. His name is Henry G. Dowd and he hits been in an insane asylum. FOREIGN. The riot at Asconcion had no con nection with the Garza revolution. The king of Dahomy makes an in come by capturing slaves and leasing them to the Uormans. At Tillis, Russia, Jan. 18, a proces sion of clergy and a dense crowd of people wore crossing an nrm of the river on a temporary bridge. The structure fell with its burden into the stream. The; result was th it many wore crushed to death, many drowned ami a large number injured. The pope has the grip. Because the daughter of Silvestra Gutierrez persisted in going to a ball at Valencia, Venezuela, her mother poured ooal oil on her, in her ball dress, and set heron lire and she was burned to death. A plague of frogs, following in the wake of one of locusts, is devastating Bolivia. A priest of Teaeales. Salvador, be trayed a pretty girl who had been placed in his charge. She confessed to her lover, who killed the priest ami was arrested. A mob surrounded the jail to lynch him, but the jailer showed light. The rioters tore the jailer to pieces, but the slaver ot the priest, Adrian I tarda by name, esoaed. The discovery of a cave lined with pure silver is reported at Poterboro, Out. The reln-ls who held the town of Ascension have Ihhvi captured. Remiji, their leader, escaped. A oorresiondent at St Petersburg say. the male inhabitants of Chela hitisk are leaving by hundreds to avoid seeing their families starve to death. The unburied carcasses of horses and cattle lie in every direc tion, together with human lodtes. The only food left is dry mixed herbs. A trawler from that locality says hardly anybody appeared to have partaken of anv food for three d-iys before his visit, and ail were ex pecting death. A whole village took the last sacrament totrether. A monument to the hanged an arohists will le unveiled at Chicago during the world's fair. The boycott on the Chicago and Alton railroad declared by the trunk roaiis a year or more ago litis Ix-en declared off. Th SWklyom Girt. The Siskiyou girl is not safe to triftV with. Her life ha been ient aesthetically fhe Is a eouvensnnt with nature fromearlj childhood, and having nothing else, prob ably, to do. she r-ils her lessons In moun tain streams and Monu-bcaten rocks. Miss Siskiyou Is a healthy and strapping dame. She has remarkable strength and her power of endurance would sham a Sao Joaquin mule into committing suicide. Generally she is a capital shot, and with her brothers and father has assisted In the slaughter of bear. tilch abound in the mountains. She is expert with rod. and as a rider she could give points to the most daring queen of the circus. Sb comes of a predatory race, for these moun tains arc inhabited by a class of people who declare that they would die of suffoca tion In a village, and that God Intended man for the mountains and wild beast for blm to forage upon. Under such conditions we find a tall and sinewy girl, with a foot ample in its dimen sions, long but not broad, an ankle thin and well set. and an enormous length of limb. Her body Is slight and willowy, her shoulders broad and straight, the chest but little developed, the throat thin, sup porting a small bead with very marked features. Her Iinir is generally tawny, her eyes blue, cold blue, her nose hooked, her mouth thin but largo and furnished with strong white teeth. Her voice is me talic, and it has a queer ring In it as one accustomed to command. Sue pays no at tention to ber dress, and is unguilty of any attempt to make herself attractive. Her flirtations are limited, and so Is her acquaintanceship. She admires the fes tive cowboy, while she has a wholesome contempt for the lumberman, whose occu pation she deems girlish. But her whole soul at least that portion of it which. poor girl, she has is given up to the pro fessional hunter, for in these mountainous wilda there live men whose business it Is to hunt, as the rancheros oiler respectable rewards for the SKins of coyotes, bears and mountain lions, and a skillful shot can make more money at this pursuit which to him, after all. is pleasure than can the man who herds stock. San Francisco Chronicle. - To Check a Congh or Sueeio. Dr. Brown-Sequard is credited with the following suggestions for preventing cough ing, sneezing, etc Ho reminds people that In bronchitis and pneumonia hacking or coughing greatly increases the trouble at times: Coughing can be stopped by press ing on the nervea on the lips iu the neigh borhood of the nose. Sneezing may be stopped by the same mechanism. Pressing In the neighborhood of the ear, right in front of the ear, may stop coughing. It is so, alio, of hiccoughing, but much leas bo than for sneezing or roughing. Pressing very hard on the top of the mouth is also a means of stopping coughing, and many say the will has immense power. There are many other affect ion associated with breathing which can !e stopped by the same mechanism that stops the heart's ao tion. In spasm of the glottis, which Is a terrible thing in children, aud also in whooping cough, it is pomiblo to afford re lief by throwing cold water on the feet or by tickling the soles of the feet, which pro duces laughter, and at the name time goes to the matter that is producing the spasm and arrests it almost at ccen " The Rev. ocpuiuua Smtin w.t many years ago vicar of St. Cross, Neneham. lie mailo no secret at all of his habit of buy log ready-mado sermons any mora than his fondness for old port and of whist playing with leading parishionera until midnight ot every Sit unlay, lie was a kindly nalurod, easy-going man. and was popular among his equally easy-going flock. One Sunday morning, on going in to tho vestry after service, bo found his old clerk in tears. What' the matter. Jones?" inquired the vicar. "Oh, alrl" re plied the clerk. " this Is a painful surprise for us all." Surprise, Jones? What do you mean?" " Your sermon t his morning, sir. Wears very, very sorry, aud you gave us no warning." "Sermon, Jones? Sermon? What do you mean, man?" " Why, sir. your farewell sermon. We are all dreadfully cut up." And it I quite true that that morning the Her. Mr. Smith had actually read an old farewell sermon without either In leud lug or know lug it. 1 he bueclalor. OUR PLANET'S FUTURE THE NEXT UNIVERSAL FLOOD TO OCCUR IN ABOUT 25,000 YEARS. The I'nlled Htute Will be one Vast Surging firm Tlt Tup of the Itorkjr Mountain Will Appear a I4lan.1l AU Sign, of Life Will be De.lroyed. A noleiitlnt calculated lately that if the people upon our planet continued to in crease, at the same rnto an they have for the last fifty years thoy would have in creased in lh4 years from the present year to Bui'.h an extent that the earth would not produce Bitlllrieiit food to nourish all this enormous population. This leads to the inquiry: " How much of our planet Is rcully iiihitmUMJ by nur species at the present time?" writes Her man Ohlsen in the Brooklyn Standard-Union. At the north polo, from the most northern point to a latitude of 80 decrees. no haliitalloii Is possible under our pr8- ent changes of seasons In winter nor in summer. The island of Spit.bei'Ken. also the Peninsula of Nova Zombla in the east ern hemisphere, and Iioiu the center to north of Oreeulaud in our own hemis phere, are sparsely Mettled by huiitors and sealers Id tuo depth of summer, and even to the seventieth decree of ltititud the population is very sparse and only ex ist In summer, with the exception of the North Capo of Norway. This shows 20 de grees of latitude as almost altogether un inhabited by men tion Ibis iflobe. From the seventieth to the sixtieth de gree, wil h the exception of Norway, a por tion of Sweden, Kurolx:un Russia to the Urol mountains, the population is very sparse, as all through Silwria and Kaiu schatka. Upon our side of the globe very j little (Herniation is found in Greenland, the northern Itritlsti possessions and Alaska. fcvon down to the tlftietu degree north ern latitude we find In the southern British possession). Lihrador and a northern part of Newfoundland, very few people upon au enormous area of land. Down to the 4-ith degree of latitude France, the northern part of Spain and Portugal to the center, almost the entire kingdom of Italy. Switzerland, Austria. Hungary. t'ie Balkan eniiisula, the north east art of Asia Minor, with the entire Chine" empire and part of ,laau, again furnish a very large contingent to the great army of men living ujxm this earth. Canada and the n irthem ortiou of the United Slates are also well pulalcd in the east, but very sparsely in the wst. as far as the fortieth degree. When wo proceed further down to the $th degree on oue side, we see the mst populated laud in the east and very thinly settled iu our western count ry. In the eastern hemisphere upon the same degree of latitude we tind the same there; part of SiMtiu and Portugal, the island of Sicily, and Grecian isli-s. Asia Minor, Persia, Thibet, the south of 'China, and Japan contribute largely to the population of the globe. The great d-sert of Sahara exhibits a very large country almost unin habited ; but Kgypt . Arabia and India are well represented with a very large number of people to the i'lh degree. Upon our side Mexico and a part of the West Indies iu the Atlantic, and the Sand wich Islands, in the l'acitlc ocean, are ail that we have of the solid land in a va-st body of water Boating over the solid part of our earth: to the Mth degree Central America and the southern (mi lion of the West Indies, and Ca;e Verde islands uion the western; and the southern Sahara desert, the latter almost uninhabited, with . --.ii ..,-, .. i-,... well ipulalcd part of Ka.-tern Africa southern Arabia. India. Aunm. and the I'hillipine Islands. firm all the solid laud upon the eastern iin of the globe. The population from the equator to the 50th degree of latitude south is very scant, and with the exoeptiiKi of a narrow strip upon the l'acitlc and Atlantic scalrds, large portions of this va.-t continent have never N-en explored by our Caucasian race. In the eastern hemisphere, from the equator to the 4-th degree, the southern part of the center of Africa, with tie large islands of Madagascar. Java and New Guinea and the continent of New Holland, or Australia, furnish but a very small num ber of people to the population of theearth in proortion to theirenonuus area of very productive land. Thus we that a verv small portion of our planet is at piesent inhabited, and of all the whiIe enormous surface of the laud. risen above the watcr by successive up heavals, containing .!. nit Utt.ii.o.oo square ndles. only aUut 17.i).'are luliaUled by a total population of about S7i'.i'.oj peo ple, the wean covering still a!. mt 3-4am.i- W0 square mile. The l-st portion of Africa. trie sHithern jrtii of the great Ku-ian empire, tue souttn-n I acilic islands, the largest part of the continent of Australia. North America westward, and pretty much an rHHito America, can oe mauo just as productive as tue present fcuroi-ean stares p,,. (Joins ur to the Newfoundland and as pontons of the United Mates, and j do my iuu, conquered friend curled thus.inspttoof all the nvat prospective j up Ms tjlll and comment to growl, the increase of the present population, the ; big Newfoundland doing likewise, each erth con l made to produce sufficient ,jOJ going round and round in a circui food to nourish all the coming generations ; tous route while thus parleying, the big tor mousau.isoi jears to come, until use next flood shall send the waters of the southern hemisphere to the northern, cov ering once more all the solid land in the north, and only allowing the chains ol mountains to show tlieir Ui aliove the surging flood as they do now in the vast southern l'acitlc ocean, giving still tangi ble evidence of the last universal flood upon our planet. If the equinoxes pnx-ocd one-half second a year southward beyond the tropic of Capricorn the lropi-s will be across; the present south txle in alnu; ii.iW vears from the present, cau-iug the next univer sal flood. At that time the l nited States will be one vast surging sea. wh.se waters will wash high tip to the tops of the Kocky mountains. The latter will then form a continuous group of islands from Central America to Cae Kit hurst. A few of the highest peaks of theAlleghauiesandof the Appalachian mountains may reach just above the waste of waters covering with thousands of fathoms all our cities, rail roads and great monumental structures and all the signs of a busy auO progressive civilid life, and of the arts of man will be destroyed. The mighty Mississippi. Ohio. Missouri. Cumberland and Hudson rivers will flow no more among t he t hrif t y farms and happy abodes of men. but all will l desolatiou. after they have been obliterated bvthe im mense northward surging and ail destroy ing llood. In Its turn the bed ot the south and mid dle Pacific ocean will be laid dry and form vast continents. I lore pew rivers will com mence to flow and form their primal courses to the sea. Vegetation will spring up. and year after year will continue its usual res urrection upon the time of the vernal equinox, as it does iu the present year and as it has been wont to do iu our latitude for thousands of years. Then after a great many years the foot of man will press again this virgin soil and man will bring with him his sorrows and his Joys and begiu again his tight for existence between hope and fear until the end. ltl.lt-t Ou.. I had gone to tne cemetery with a friend to view the monument he had erected in memory of one of his family, and we were afterward strolling about in the winding paths, when we met an old woman, a gray-haired, wrinkled, and feeble old woman, who had been com pelled to ro-t in her wa'.k. "I was looking for for Potter's Field," she explained, as we came up. We offered to show her the way, and as she limped along at a slow pace she said : " They re all burled there huband and three children. I- was sickness, poverty and death, and the dead bad to go to Potter's Field. We felt the shame of It. but what could we do?" "Will you remember the locality?" I asked. " Oh. yes. I used to come quite often, but it's been five years since I was here last, as I moved away. There's big elm, with a limb branching off to the left, and near It is the tombstone of a soldier." When we reached the space reserved for the bodies of the very poor she was all attention, but we ha I walked half a mile b-fore she Ident tiled the tree. It's right here tha- he was burled, and the children's i-ravet are furtuer down," she said a she tod by the tree. Next moment wail of anguish was wrung from ber heart. Meu had been there and levelled tbe earth blotted out the mounds and filled up the hollows to prepare for other pauper graves to bury the dead atop of the dead. It was so further down. The rough mound which had once marked the children's grave to a mother's eye were there no longer. "I I had to come once more!" she sobbed in her bitterness of spirit. " It Is the last time, for I am old and feeble. If they had left the mounds I could have told mine from all others. But see! There are no graves here ! My dead are gone, and I shall never Had them again !" And as we passed on she sank down on the grass beneath the shade of the tree she liaii kept so Ions In mind, and her tearful plaints followed us liketbo3e ot some starving child desperate in his despair. The Gratt Traveler. In point of actual distance covered, the greatest traveler Iu the world Is said to be Chief Engineer Sewell of the White Star fleet, who la well known in this city. While in charge of the en gine department of the vessels of that line, notably the Britannic, Mr. Sewell completed 132 round trips between Liverpool and New York, traveling the enormous distance of bl8.J0 nautical or 9U.OJ0 standard miles, nearly four times the distance between the earth and the moon. This to said to b- only about two-thirds of the distance traversed by Mr. Sewell since he became a seagoing engineer. Chief Engineer Kitchen, who was In charge of the Adriatic's engine for six teen years, but who now superintends the Britannlc's. boasts a similar record. He has made 154 round trips between Liverpool and New York and has trav eled over VA XI nautical miies. or 1. 1W. U)J standard E-glif miles. N. Y. Herald. CONSUMPTION. 1 bmve poaitir. ranwdy tor the boeduesa; by it Qc tbooaanda of eM of the wont kind mad of lone Undin hT twa carad. Iodoed c strooc i my fita in iu efficc7. InAt I w.U end two bottle nu, witb VALUABLE TREATISE aillitewutiiriiil (w woo will end m Uwit Kztmw and V. O. ddr'M, T. A. FUoram. M. C . 1S3 Pearl St.. N. Y. CAN D03S TSL 'OJEFHtR? 11 T W a Kforv sit m Sn Thai ICz!ftt In Cnnne Kkn'l. At the Box Hotel in Crookston. M nn some six years ao. my attention was more than once called to two dogs that were allowed to loiter about thfc hotel ofnoe. These dogs were the greatest of friends; in fact, so "chummy" as tc cali forth admiration from the various hotel guefts. One afternoon one of the dogs which had been backing In the sun on the floor of the office suddenly gave a bound and started for the door. I immediately stepped to the door and opened it. and the dog passed out, going in the direc tion of the Manitoba depot, where I ob served some ten or twenty other dogs holding a pow-wow. Then I closed the door and resumed my 6eat. Immedi ately I heard a terrible commotion in the direction in which the dog had gone. Stepping to the door I observed that a full fledged dog fight had begun. Arriving at the scene of the battle I found that my dog friend of a few min utes previous was the under brute in a big fracas. He was howling with pain, while a big Newfoundland dog stood over blm making the fur fly. A blow on B'ne cran.uni irom a oau ciuo m the hands of a small urchin who stood hard by soon put a stop to the New- j foundland's ferocity. The under brute ' started for home pell mell. and when I arrived at the hotel I found the poor hrtitji . f ttiA . n ia rinnr hlawfln. n .4 bruised awaiting admission. I opened the door and passed into the office, the dog following me- Lying on the floor in close proximity to the office stove reposed the sleeping carcass of my little bested friend s com- panion. He was a large brute of tho mongrel species a cross between a bull dog and a mastiff. The poor, conquered brute upon entering the office proceeded in the direction in which his dog friend lay stretched upon the floor, and going up to him, commenced to sniff at him from head to foot. Presently tne sleep ing dog rose to a sitting position and, gazing at his conquered friend some two or three minutes, seemed to take in the situation at once that his dogship had but lately rece.ved a terrible whipping. After a little more sniffing on the part of the conquered brute, both dogs started towards the door. I stepped to the door, opened it and 1 he dogs passed out. Both dogs started in the direction of the de pot platform, some or 50J feet south of the hotel, where taey espied several dogs, among their number being the big i Xewfoun Hand, the object of their Ten hotel doc in the meantime standing hard by watching proceedings. Presect ly the big hotel do; give a spring and landed a goou hold on the jaw of bis bi opponent. Bith dogs reared in the a.r. the Newfounlland coming down the under do-;, and the chewing be received in that fracas I suppose h- never forgot. my little conqu -red friend nipping tne big rascal from behind at every ci anoe presenting itself. Kansas C.ty Star. An KKif i,wu rwi inaE. On Mondav last a loud noise and slight j shaking of the earth caused no little mm- . derment among residents ne,r the hills. ! Investigation proved the cause to be an ice slide. A small and innocent spriug is-; sues from the side of one of the moun- j tains, its waters spreadirg and flowing over a steep incline of rock. During the nast winter mouths ice formed against his wall of stone, increasing in size until one vast icicle, fully twenty feet in thick-j ness and 1 OA) feet in length, projected in- - to the valley below. From the warmth of . the sun and its own weight it released itS hold and thundered dowu the mountain side, carrying evervthing before it. even , "... i- ....... ti. w. . -u . trees three f.-et m diameter. Tho who have visited the p'.i.-o say that the foot of the cliff presents a mass of broken ice, ii. .i. t .... . , k iifr v f..f in h.itrht trees, limbs, and eanh tift reel in lu .g it- This is a repeuuou of occasional similar! occurrences in previous vears. but ou a irraiiderscale.-S.-attle. 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Ol . why m Biryr, R:,,r oo rom. oyWtst mounted on his : wheel and riding, say. toward the north, Mm-, o-:,,,,,,,.. to tilt toward j his right. He is n vv goiu; not only north with the maclrni.'. but e:tst also, tie turns the wheel eastward. The point of support must of ueo'ssity travel tu the plane ol the wheel; hence r. :tt ou -e begins to go eastward, aud. as it moves much faster thautheridertilts.it quickly gets under him. aud the machine is again upright. To one standing at a distant., in front or rear, the bottom of the waee: will be seen to move to the right and left. 1 conclude, theu. that the stability of the bicycle is due to turniug the wheel to t'e right or left, whichever way t ie loaning is, and and thus keeping the 'nunt ot support un der the rider, just as a l y koejs upright on his lingers a brtvmstick standing on Its small end. Ioi i ir Science Monthly. Tot Sensitive. 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