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I I HE Hood River orchards present a
lively scene theae bright Novtra-
JL , days, with men, woman and
. boya gathering the 100,000 bush
ela ot winter applea. Abqut one-third
of the crop, consists of the famous Yel
low Newtowns and Bpltsenbergs. Which
are .being packed for the New York mar.
keta and for export to London, Liver
pool, Berllrty Hamburg, Parle and ether
European cities. ; , ; -
;' The applea are carried front the or
chards to large packing houses or betas,
where, the fruit is graded and sorted, all
apples that contain the smallest blemish
being cast aside as "culls." when tbey
are later made, into cider or sold as
cooking- apples. The packera must un
derstand their work thoroughly and are
In charge of a foreman. - who superin
tends the parking, to aee that none box
strictly first 5lasa applea era put Into
tne ooxee. ,
- To become an. apple packer one tnuat
receive a certificate of competency from
the shipping association, when he is
supplied with a rubber -stamp with his
Individual number, which, he is com
pelled to 'put on each bo of apples bs
packs.' Should this box of applea fall
to pass the- inspection of the foreman
and other exam mors the applea are re
packed at the packer's expense, rack-
era are paid e cents!-a box for their
work, v They are expected to make an
average of $1 a day. If the applea run
over 121 to the box. the packera receive
bants a .box for their work. After a
bo Is packed the name of the applea
and the number In the box must be
stampedat the end."T": T' 7 r"
Jn the . eastern orchards apples are
packed in barrels, holding three bushels
tech, but sa. western, applea are Intended
for the . fancy trade, boxes holding a
bushel are used exclusively. 'Hera -the
applea boxes are lined top,, bottom and
aides, with heavy lining paper. ; This
paper la about the thickness of blot
ting pape&but mora flexible than card
board. ' A sheet of paper Is placed be
tween the layers of applea. while each
apple la separately .".wrapped in - tissue
paper. A nailing machine la entployed
lir pressing mown . therlids, '-ana nrter
being lialledT a box of apple's, with the
bulge., looka .very much like a small
barrel.: If a solitary apple ahould cause
the box to rattle after it is packed and
lied the.box haa been Imperfectly
packed and la considered unfit for ship
ping as the applea would be bruised.-
A strictly fancy pack will run 14 and
71 applea te the box. some going aa low
as 54 and even 4 t to the bushel, box.
Such apples bring the top prices and
re eagerly sought for by eaatern buyers.
Contracts for II. li apples do not in
clude those averaging below in to the
box.,'-. ' ,-.-
Hood River apples' make the 4.000
mlle trip across the continent In refrig
erator cars. Two and three cara are
being loaded each day' and started east
The Spltxenbergs and Newtowna will go
direct to New Torn, while Baldwins,
Jonathans and Klnga 'are going, this
year, to southern fallfoxnU. where the
apple" crop was a failure.. Several large
shipments of this class of apples want
Tlie
From the New Tork Bun. .
SAID the manager of
high, grade .Naw York ho-
teL "we have nothing num.
bered 11 In the shop, pot
evens bellboy. What do I myself think
of the 1$ superstition? Well, you've, ad
dressed that question to a non-euperstl.
tlous individual who, nevertheless, is
victim of prejudice through experience.
"For nine yeara I was head clerk of
lone of the leading hotels of Philadelphia.
kne of the finest rooms in the house was
room IS.. And that room II was, seem
ilnslv. there to stay. - '
'The -proprietor waa a aorewa, out
very testy business man or wuager ante
Icedenta. Ha was violently opposed to ill
Imanner of superstitions, and he waa par
ticularly grouchy over the prevalence or
the JS superstition. To indicate his nos
tllltv toward the It proposition he saw
to.it that ths 11 room was one of the
most desirable iu the house.
j "The head clerk whom 1 displaced told
'me about thla when 1 went- to work at
J the hotel. , - - ' ' - ' c' ;' "
I " 'You needn't ever aay anything about
lit to the old man it would make him
boll but don't give that 1$ room to any
body you know, and like,' the retiring
jhead Clerk aaid to me. A - V
I "I took the warning rather gaily. The
'room was vacant on the day I took my
Inew billet. That evening a bridal couple
Ifrom Pittsburg came along. The young
Iman wanted the best accommodations to
Jbe had, of coujse.. ''".' -r-:-. "
, "The It room happened to be. the best,
'and I put the pair In that room. On the
following Afternoon, while the "bride
groom was out, his bride was curling her
hair, using a gaa Jet by the dresser to
heat the curling tonga. Bhe was crimp
ing her back hair when the hot curling
I tonga slipped out of her hand and fell
under the collar" of her combing Jacket
"The young woman's screams aroused
the entire floor. The chambermaids
found her rolling on the floor In agony,
the hot curling tongs still searing the
fleeh of her back. She wag frightfully
.burned and had to be taken to a hospital.
I "A week or so after the bride had
been taken to the hospital a couple from
,8an Francisco, with a twc-ear-ld boy,
came along, late at night, and the night
clerk put them In It. The young one
'swallowed a big brass pin on the follow
ing day. The pin stuck in the child's
threat, and he had to be operated on by
a aquad of Philadelphia Burgeons. Thar
I got the pin out. but the operation caused
(the child to lose the use of bis voice for
several years. - ' . ' r"
"Not long after that the first vice
president ot a railroad . running Into
.Philadelphia took the room one night
'after" a board of directors' dinner his
room at his club- being torn up In the
process of refurnishing and. having
dined pretty well, he left one of tne gas
burners slightly turned on when ha went
to bed. He wss found, black in the face
and all but dead. In the morning, and'
had to be hustled off to a hospital to be
brought back to life, v
"The It roots was beginning to get. on
my nerves by that time; -but there was
nothing I could do shout It, knowing, as
I did, the "Id gentleman's violent an
.tinathy to the It superstition.
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ttOODJR BALDWIN ''9fASff&
into Dawaon earlier In tae season..;
An i-gear-old apple orchard la sup
posed to produce 1 500 worth of applest
As the cost df production. Including cul
tivation, . spraying. . picking, packing,
boxep.4 etc- runs.froni 4t5ao":40--ojxom and packers Is -already
acre, this leaves the grower a profit for
each acre of 1300 to IStO. r Many acres
in such orchards as those of Sears
Porter end. G. R.- Castner will duplicate
their record of last year, when they re
turned 11,000 to the Jingle acre, bucb
land could not be bought for $1,000 an
acre. -j.-v '...'.;'.-..-
The averare price of Hood River apple
land ranges from $60 to $200 ah acre.
while aalea have been made at $400 an
acre. The price depends on the ago. of
the orchard and the varieties of trees
planted. Uncleared land may be obtained
for even leas. . The', new orchards are all
set to such high prlcSd apples as 'the
Bpltsenbergs and Newtowna, -and very
few such orchards are on the market
The present acreage planted to apple
trees In Hood River valley la 1.800. This
will be greatly Increased the coming
wlntar and ' acrlna-. Whlla this year's
crop la estimated at 100.000 boxes, an
Increase of 6.0.000 over that of last year,
the output wilt increase by leaps and
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Tkirtieen - HJD
"A few. weeks later a wealthy yOung
woman from Altoona, whose fiance had
died under the knife In a Philadelphia,
hospital ' soms months' : before, came to
town, ostensibly to do some shopping.
The II room wss the only thing I had
fitting her requirements. - v
"I knew nothing of her history then,
and, as she seemed to be a self-contained
young woman, I couldn't figure out how
anything could happen to her. She spent
most of the night In writing letters, and
then she lay down on the bed and took
enough prusslo acid to kilt 20 womeni
--"The aummer business waa light that
year, and for three months after the sul
clda of the Altoona girl . I contrived to
keep room 11 vacant. On the very first
day when the tall rush began I had to
fput a couple front New Tork in 11.
"The man got to the room a trine in
toxicated that evening, and his wife up
braided him. . Bhe had been doing soms
fancy work when he entered the room,
and aha had a email pair of scissors In
her band.. Angry at being reproached.
the husband made a menacing move to
ward her. .
"She put out the hand that held the
scissors to" protect herself from what
she thought would be a blow.' The points
ot the scissors blade penetrated her hue
band's right ere end ruined It. v - . r
- "A few years later the man's other
eye, through sympathy with ' the de
stroyed one, went wrong.-and left him
totally blind. . His wife died, of a broken
heart over what aha had done, and the
man Is now alone, slishtless, and a figure
of misery. - , -
- "All of this time, the stubborn old pro
prietor of the house waa storming at
anybody who even dared to hint that the
11 .room waa a hoodoo, 'land every time
anything happened In tlw room he de
clared that it was a coincidence for all
that.' He declared that he' would tear
the house down before he would yield to
a' beggarly superstition by taking the
number off the It. room door. :
1 "I couldn't begin o tell about all of
the wretched occurrences .that occurred
in room II of tmtt hotel during the next
four years. I may go on record aa say
ing that perhaps not one out of five oo
tipanta of the rootri escaped. Thre dif
ferent cases of smallpox occurred in the
rtm. , AH three of the victims died In
the Philadelphia peat house. One - of
them was a wealthy French-Canadian.,
another a banker front Memphis, and the
third a young woman from Omaha who
was-; buying her wedding trousseau In
the ease.. - . , ' ' .
-"The room had to be thoroughly fumi
gated and completely refurnished each
time, of course, but stin ths stubborn
old proprietor would go up In ths air
tnd tU but foam at the month at the
very suggestion that the number 11 had
anything to do with the room's bad luck.
A wealthy young Philadelphlan, fam
ous as a whip and all jxond sportsman,
after having been Jilted by a Philadel
phia girl who. Is now the wife of en
Austrian nobleman Who blackens her
eyes event little while, came down to the
house one night. Joked with the night
clerk when be was handed) the It key.
took a drink -or two at the bar, went to
the 12 room and was found on the bed
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IILLSIITH ,75. STATl? BOARD
,JnrArcrri-iiiTi 10001 fMMrt
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bounds' In the" next few -years. - and, by
10 the crop-will approximate 0,000
bushels. , j; ' t , M--..-C t .-;.
It will require 1.SO0 care f move the
crop, and this, with the problem, of finding
giving the anxious ones concern.; The ex
pense of packing, at t cents a box, will
I amount to--40,0ft0. Packlngrequlres.
SKiiiea MDor. ana it u not every one wno
can meet the-rigid requirements of skill
demanded "by the shippers -who propose1
bv a high stsndard pack to secure the top
prices for Hood River apples. .With such
an enormous output $2 prices cannot be
expected to prevail, but Hood River shlp-pt-rn
intend to lead competitors by the
quality of the fruit and the care taken In
placing the .fruit .on the, markets
. Hood River Bpltsenbergs are today the
highest priced '.applea, in i-the-world.-Farmers
here have reduced apple culture
to a science, and the' peculiar quality of
the volcanic soil of the valley-produces a
high color , that apple buyers say It not
fpund elsewhere. The Spitsenberg Is an
early and prolific bearer. .The fourth
year after, setting out the trees, they be
gin to yield a good income. 'After seven
years, three boxes to the -tree is a con
servative yield! ..." , v,'
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with S' bullet hole" In. his left temple on
the following morning. , 1
" "A'Harrieburg glrlj who had been ' re
fused admission, to. a., sisterhood.. : the
headquarters of which Is In Philadelphia,
on the-ground that the veil wasn't her
vocation, drew the It room that aame
evening and left a call that would, enable
ner to eaten an eariy train nacx to nar
rlaburg. She changed "her mind as to
that during the night, and when the boy
reached her room to -call her in the
morning he amelt gas and had to climb
over the transam. - Bhs wss dead on
couch, with all the gaa Jets turned on.
run force. - - - i c
"A rich Australian and bis wife,- on
their way to England, were chloroformed
In their sleep in that It room by a thief
who used a skeleton key to gain en
trance, and robbed of $70,000 In cash and
Jewelry which had not been deposited 10
tbs hotel safe. -.
"A woman and her little girl who oc
cupied the room while waiting for a
steamer bound down the coast were via
ited there by some young Philadelphia
relatives, boys, who In entering the
houses smuggled a huge mastiff. In with
then! They got the big dog -up to the
It room,- where they were to make the
csll without being detected by the bell
boys. ; .. -I--'-- : .- . .1
"The little girl angered the dog by
pulling or twisting his tall, land , he
Jumped, at her and all but tore her to
pieces before Ker mother's eyes before
hs could be beaten off by the hotel help.
"These are only a few of the evil oc
currences In the It room of that Phila
delphia hotel while the number was per
mitted to stick. A great many occupants
of the room, of course, escaped with only
minor accidents or misfortunes, and a
small proportion escaped altogether. But
the hoodoo was there, and there . with
both feet ' "1 , '"' - "- ... ' -
- "At the end Of the fourth year of my
stay with the house, 'an employe who
had been discharged for insubordination
gave It away to the Philadelphia news
papers that the long string of queer oc
currences in the hotel had taken place
In the It room, and .they made so much
of tt that the house was seriously dam
aged In Its prestige for some time.' But
right In the face of this the old man re
fused to abandon the It .room.
"He died a short time afterward, how
ever, and the, heirs of his estate were
very willing that the It figure should
be taken down from that room door once
and forever, and that tt ahould hence
forth be designated as Parlor A..
"I was wlth4he house for five years
after that. . Nothing unusual eVer hap
pened in Parlor A. , '
"The answer T I don t know.-. There la
nothing else In life or death with regard
to which, so far a I know. I havs a
particle .of superstition. i But'when It
comes fr the It thing I know, for 1 have
been through1 It." - , . , . .
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From the Chicago News.
Mantle "Fred - railed me a duck the
nther evehlnav . 1!ow is that for a com-
pllmeiTtr . - ; - -
Clara "M)h. x suppose IPs all right In
your case, dear:- you san't , -very well
change your gait." . , . - : ; i .
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. Dumplings . made from Hood ' River
apples are being .eaten in old England
aa well as New England; In the froaen
camps: along Alaskan- glaciers and.' on
Hawaiian, sugar plantations; they .are
served-i In Germany, . and enjoyed in
Franpe. texst .week, a carload , was
shipped to Shanghai. Into almost every
land., and dime, .the .Hood Rivet. apple
has gone and has. conquered. r,r in"
. It was only a few years . ago that
apple-growing became .a business in the
Heed river-. Valley. . Before, , rancbera
had placed. a few fruit, trees about the
place Just because every well regulated
valley - farm - Is - supposed - to have an
orchard. , But these trees,. like Mr. Fin
ney's turnip famed In verse, grew and
grew" and grew. ; VIsttoTS from tll
Omarlc raonntains of Missouri,-where the
big red applea grew, tourists from the
Kansas , river valley, where -apples . and
potatoes a re . vicing with the - sun
flowers land, cyclones. In . fact, .men
f rom every apple region - In America
happened .to look about the Hood river
oouSXry. They 'soon saw that "as a
frult-ralsing - region it could not be ex
celled. They ; purchased ; land. : then
planted apple treea. Today the valley'
Is-an .orchard; tomorrow It will be a
forest of apple trees, - with"-here and
there a clearing for a strawberry patch.
Men who delight In Agues tall visitors
that .the Hood river valley is nearly 10
Dangerous Black
- Spider" -
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HE one poisonous Insect of
North America " the bite" of
which Is nearly as tout
that - of a ."rattlesnake ' la
found In abundance In this, city and Its
vicinity.-'' - -i."-'
- So says C F. Schwarts, one of the ex
perts - in the - bug department of ' the
Smithsonian 'Institution. " . ' '
"The noxious Insect In question." con
tinues Mr. Schwarts. "is a small black
spider so different in appearance from
any other spider that there is no mis
taking it It has a globular shining
body devoid of hair,- black la color, and
usually with a red spot. - -. V,.
"The Investigations Into all reported
fatal or harmful results from-the bites
of -spiders which the agricultural depart
ment has been conducting' for the last
14 years hss led to 'the determination
of one Instance . In which- the bite of
thle- black spider, whose scientific -designation
la latradectue mactans, has re
sulted in the death of the victims. - This
case was that of a child about two years
of axe. who" was bitten upon' the lip.
end there is no doubt that the death of
the ' child 'a few hours afterward was
the result of the bite. Of course In the
case of a full grown person-the bite
of - this spider - would - not) be- likely to
prove -fatal, though there 'are well au
thenticated Instances where it has caused
great pain aad Inconvenience.-the poi
son remaining In the system a consider
able period. : - r r' ' .-:
"This, spider i Is chiefly a menace to
persons handling old wood, as It fa usu
ally found under loss and In woodsheds.
I would undertaketo go Out now and
find, a dosen specimens in an hour. Tou
will ssy .that It Is strange that more
persons are not . poisoned by the latro
dectus insets ns, for such Instances are
Very rare. The fact Is, he Is a very lasy
fellow, - alow In movement, and when
discovered In his native haunt assumss
a dogged sullen attitude rather than an
offensive one. - ' .......
Still It Is very possible te conceive a
man's carrying a log upon which la one
of these spiders and being bitten la the
face or neck. In which event that man
would probably be laid up for several
weeks with a severe case of poisoning.
Frequent reports have been received at
the agricultural ' department -' of -full
grown persons hsvlng been killed by the
bite, but It hss been Impossible to fully
verify these, -.
A farmer In North Carolina- seat an
account not long ago of one ef hia la
borers being killed by the bite of this
spider. Hs described the symptoms ex
hibited by the victim., which were slml
lar to Instances recorded In southern
fcu rope, where this spider Is known .by
ths name of 'malmlgnlat.te.' "
Str Oharies Tastaant a rather at to, 7
' From' the London Dally Express.
Sir Charles and Lady Tennant's Infant
daughter, born a few daya ago at The
(Hen. Psebleshlre, Is the third child born
to them since their marriage in !. -
Sir Charles is now. an octogenarian,
aUd has bees a grandfather since 147$.
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miles 'long, -averages five miles wide,'
contains about 45,800 acres, -nearly tO,-
000 of which Is tillable, baa now about
2,800 acres planted In -apple trees.-and
Lahla year's crop is expected to fill box
cars enough to make up five, freight
i rains of 25 cara each. . Bpltsenbergs
nd Tellow - Newton . Pippins are the
favorltea. with growers, . j
TrThus" the- story is dryly" tol'd. . Bui
there are. many Interesting details. .
Mr. Bears of the firm of Sears A
Porter, a few years .ago decided to give
up business in the east and move to the'
Pacific coast. '" He" went to California,
but did not stop -there, and turned to
Oregon. Arriving in ' Portland, ha
thought that a little trip up to The
Dalles would be a pleasant "way to
Spend a day. 'The (w hundred dollar
ha started with had. dwindled to a very
smaH pHe.- On the way up the river he
saw a few. boxes of apples on "the boat.
They looked good to him. ; He Inquired
where they had been , grown. He was
told Hood River. Mr. Sears did not go
to The Dalles, haying suddenly made up
his mind to stop oh? st the 'town near
where the applea had been grown.
This was several years ago, before the
Hood 'River valley- had become famous
for lta apples. Mr.. Bears Js still, there.
It Is said .that his share of the apple
lands In . the valley is worth at least
$30,000, and that, be has refused time
H.
O. HA VEMETER several years
..ago offered $1,000 for proof
' that a shark had ever, bitten a
human being. .-
. Ever since, whenever people who have
no personal acquaintance - with sharks
talk of them, they are prone to declare
that sharks do not bite -man, and point
to the fact that that $1,000 has not been
claimed. ' - . v
The real trouble la that the reward
was never deposited -in the hands of
stakeholders.- Evidence of the biting
propensities '- of ' sharka Ms not . to be
gathered In the countries where sharks
do- it But If ths millionaire is deslr
ous of losing- his money he can turn the
dollars over to the navy department The
evidence ., is enough to convince any
body.
. The department records and logbooks
are not prone to small deceit and thla Is
what they. report in plain and simple
language
--The medical Journal of the Falmouth
shows ss follows:
- "Off Pensacola Navy Tard, July 11,
114. About li o'clock last night a
noise waa heard as If some object .fell
overboard. A boat) waa sent In search.
but nothing was found, snd, on muster
ing the crew this morning at daylight.
J. Griffin wss found missing, snd it Is
supposed be must have fallen overboard
last night, snd waa drowned. His body
has not been, found.
"Off Pensacola Navy Tard, July It..
1145. A shark was- caught this day on
board the sloop: of. war Saratoga, snd
on opening .Its stomach the head of a
man waa found, which was recognised
by the officers snd men of this ship ss
being that of Jones Qrlffln, quarter
master," who Is supposed to hsve fallen
overboard on the night of July 11."
Michael Deley, seaman, was trans
ferred from ths Atlanta when at the
navy- yard, -Norfolk; to the hospital at
Norfolk, on September II, 144. on ac
count ' of a lacerated wound received
while bathing in the-Elisabeth river near
the ship during the swimming hour. Hs
wss severely bitten in the left thigh snd
leg. and the medical officer, states thaU
from the a OTP ranee of the laceration It
was presumsbly done by a shark.
'-"Samuel MoKle, quartermaster third
class, while bathing in the harbor of
I lollo, Fr I.,-June 14, 1101, was bitten
by a shark, the left leg being torn away
at the knee. The man had gone ashore
with a firing party at 1 p. m., and about
two hours later went In swimming, as
the men had been la the habit of doing.
While about 10 feet from the shore, in
a depth of water of It or It feet he was
heard to give a cry and was seen to dis
appear for a few moments. When 'he
srose to the surface be swam to the
dinghy and waa helped Into the boat
"It waa then seen thst his left leg
was gone. A tourniquet Improvised from
a. allve match box and handkerchief was
aer-'lad by one of . the mea and the
.i'.t-.ghy: .started off to the ship, distant
about two muee. Amputation was per
formed st the lower third of the femur.
The patient stated hnt hs remembered
nothing -except that, ha felt something
seise Ms leg and draw him down. When
seised he evidently, thrust his hand down
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APPLHS OP TttE W0LFKIVB RVAKiE TM
after time to sell ons acre of his prop-'
rty- for -guffl-mor thaii"to"touior
his bank account the day he left the
eastern city torses what -the wast looked
like. . - ' ' , .',' ""'
Another - story of the get-rlch-qulck
sort is told by another Hood. River man.
The hero of thla tale is a printer, spend
ing most of his time sticking type in
the office of a Hood River paper. About
six years ago he arrived in that town,
broken In health and with only $0 cents
In his pocket. Doctors who stood well
in their profession bad told him that he
hd:only bl few weeks j live, but.thia
knight of the stick naa a family and
went to work. A few weeks later be
sent for his family. Today the dying
man is as strong as be waAts to be,
owna 40 acres of apple land, a, part of
which la planted with fruit treea, has
Juat paid the mat bill incurred by Bend
ing hia oldest boy to college, has a posi
tion and. is happy. ... .
The best orchards of ths valley .are
Irrigated. The water -used In Uhs
ditches comes . from "MounHooo ... Iu
many ot tns orchards the" trees are
planted seven yards apart. They begin
to bear early, three-year-old trees hav
ing produced a boxful each, while a
year later a tree that only bore a few
11 montha before will keep an expert
Bicker bus for some ome. . - .
But the trees do not grow like weeds,
nor do the apples come as the flowers
In May. There la plenty of work to do
to. make the orchards bear flrst-cUss
fruit. Real estate dealers In Hood
River- do not tell strangers that the!
apple treea are free from pests. They
in an effort to free himself and caught
the fingers In the shark' mouth, aa on
the left hand were two triangular
wounds In ths shape of the points of .a
shark'a teeth. After the accident a native-
stated that- three montha before a
man was caught by a shark la the same
locality. ''
Daley and McKle both recovered.'
The statistical report of the V. 8. 8.
Amphltrlte, at Ouantanamo, Cuba. -March
tl, 1104, states: An ordinary seaman,
Clarence A. Longwdl, serving on the
coal barge No. 1, waa drowned en the
night of March It under peculiar cir
cumstances. While out rowing In one of
the chip's boats In which was another
sailor and the boatswain of barge No. 1,
with his wife, the boat was struck, stove
In. and capstsed by some fish or other
inhabitant of the sea.
. Ths boat waa In deep water and ths
force with which aha was struck wss
too greet for any possible Impact with
g floating object. -Longwell, who could
not swln, having lost hia- bold on the
boat after struggling for a few mo
menta on ths surface, sank. -
The body was found sshors nesr
Fisherman's point on the afternoon of
the luh, with the bead .'and one foot
missing.,- It1 was Identified by tatoo
marks. As the body was somewhat de
composed, after being inspected by F.
M. Furlong, on duty with the marine
battalion at Fisherman's point, it was
barled. Death was undoubtedly due to
drowning, as the man remained dtt -the
surface ah appreciable - time after the
boat was . capstxed and no shsrk wss
seen near him; the mutilation probably
occurred later. Embedded In one of the
planks of ths boat where she wss stove
In. wss found what appears to be a
piece of a Bark's tooth.
These records settle the question, but
there are others. ' Travelers in West In
dian, Central American andT: African
ports know that' some" strips of coast
are dangerous ss 1 rattlesnake-Infested
ground would be. ' In the awampy sea
ports of Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa
Rica and Guatemala there are elways a
- few large . sharks who act as It they
owned the harbors.
These fish, easily distinguished by
their slse from their collesgues who
swim around In schools, are universally
respected... Now and then some extra
large one gets the title of "Warden of
Port" or "Harbor Master." Generally
these sharks keep themselves glutted on
the masses of jrefuse swept Into the bay
from ths land) and on atuff that falls
overboard from the ships.- But there
are times of famine, and then the long,
lesn shapes Jn the water scurry sround
for souethlng to eat and .If it happens
to be a man the man goes down.
It B true That the black boys of St
Thomas. Key West and other places
where the water, la clear will come In
their dugouts sround aa anchored ship
aad dive for coins la the middle-f the
shark-haunted harbors. But It Is slso
true that such amphibious creatures as
the Fortune Island men. the Haytlan
boatmen and the men of Central America
could not be. hired to go Into the water
slong their coasts. - When building rafts
of logveood to, tow to a tt'y they are
i.
- . . ' ..... 'T , .
are. honest In their talk. . The eodllH ,
motlT. a-3nIbe. valley," and 'Is just aa ",.
busy as In any other community where
found. But the warfare that la carried'
on against the pest Is a winning one. .
: Blx ' times during the eeason each -tree
Is carefully sprayed with-a white
arsenlo spray. It has been found that
If this spraying is done carefully and .
attended to at proper - times, that ' the
fruit suffers so little from, the raids of
the moths that the- damage caheed by
the pest is reckoned aa nllr-In one sec- .
tlon of the valley, where the nights are
cool,- the moth, appears' rn small num.
bers; in fact, some say that It doee not . .
appear at -H. But while the growers,"
In this section do not have to fear thla .
peat, they often wonder , If the frost
will nip. the buds. - - v -. y . .
The ammunition tasedby the growers
in their warfare against, tlje moth is -made
as follows: -
One pound of white aVsenla and two',
pounds of al soda are poured Into a
gallon of water; thla mixture Is boiled
until the-.lluld beoesaes eiear, which '
generally takes-. about 15 minutes; to
this. Is sdded an' amount equal, to that '
which evaporated during the - boiling,
thus making a full gaiJon of liquid .
called arsenlo. . For the spray, one' and '
a half pints of arsenlo are mixed In 50 I
gallons1 of water. Into which six pounds
of slaked 11ms has been added. When
ever a codlln moth begins to eat aa ap-
pie with thla spray on IV his mothahtp
soon goes to rest. - - .
Bordeaux is used to fight the' gree,n.
aphis, while lime and sulphur haa kept -the
San" Jose scale in Its place.
perpetually on" the qui vlve for the ory,
"Shark!;' and scramble away from, the
edge ef the logs in a hurry. ;
The diving, boys of Aden -haW been- -used
many times, aa proofs thst sharks
do not bite men.' Aden is a menageria of
sharks. Yet the negro snd Arab boys
paddle out andt dive with apparent dls"
regard of them.'. . . f a
But there. Is a famous photograph
which proves that the Aden shark bites
boys Just ths ssme.
This was taken by an Englishman.
Mr.- Llnford. in the summer of 101. Ha
had Just taken a photograph of a diving
boy, aad waa ready to snap s, second
picture, whan -somebody threw a eoln
end a boy went Into ths sea headfirst
He came to the surface and the shutter
was snapped. It was. not until the
photographer hsd pressed ths button
that he saw what had happened In that '
moment - .--..: . ....
'A shark had broken water, seised the
boy and pulled him under In that In- '
stent . The picture shows one arm of
ths boy protruding from the sea, A
splssh of white froth sround It shows
where the shark Is turning to go down
With, his prey.... ..... .-.. i.t,..-;... ...
, Most of the falae notion about sharka ,
arise from ftie fact that observers of
ahsrits ef temperate climates do net real
ise tmtt the fish of the tropics snd semi- -tropics
sre different in' . temperament
from those of the northern waters.
The northern sharks rsrely attack he- ""
man beings. They sre mostly of mores -
less harmless varieties which sre bot
tom feeders, as sluggish s they are
cowardly. The. tiger. .. leopard, blue.
white, basking and other great aharka
do not cross the gulf stream If they can'
neip it. , .... -i. '
Most persons suppose that "shark" ' .
means a single variety of flab. In truth,
there are so many different kinds of
sharks that even an "expert Ichthyologist
win nesitate to try to name alL
There are more ' than 20 kinds of
toothless dog shsrks alone. More than
50 kinds. of deep sea shsrks have been.
brought up In deep aea d red gee. They ,
have brought up miniature sharks mesa. .
urtng little more than a foot though full '
grown. ....
In contrast to these tiny sharks are
sharks that. Wilt measure 10 feet and
mare, with a mouth (large enough t '
swallow. man. -: t .' '
Cared by aCarrlage Offe.
William Harper and Miss Pent Pur-'
ham, living near' Center Oose, Vt, were
married this week, the Rev. Mr. Ker
ford of the Baptist church, officiating.
Miss Durham had been bedridden
about It yearn, and for most of the
time was unable te walk. Harper was a
widower, having married a sister ef
Miss Durham. He felt a deep Interest
In hia alster-ln-law. snd was frequently
a visitor to her house. A short 'time
So Harper, told Miss !'' " t-et If
she would get np srt t Is t "I '
marry her, Theiw- , ( -
fort snd Sucre" " ' '
In yeara fie - - '
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