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JACOBS OIL
HAZARDOUS HAYING.
On Alpine Heights Where Goats
and Sheep Fear to Tread.
Brawny Swiss Maids Compelled to Mow
Grass In Masculine Attire Weird.
Bocky Region and Plucky Folk.
Who Inspired Schiller.
The hay makers on our western
prairies, and for that matter on the
hilly and mountainous meadows ol
America, can form no conception of
the hardships that the Alpine wildheuer
of Switzerland have to brave in order
to gather the winter's provender for
their cattle.
Wildheuer, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, is the name given to small
peasants men and women who
climb the rocky peaks of the alps
during the months of August and
September and gather the wild hay
that grows on almost perpendicular,
isolated grass plots, over yawning
precipices and near threatening
glaciers. The reader is reminded of
Schiller's graphic description of this
fraternity in William Tell. It occurs
in the third scene of the fourth act.
Gessler, the governor of Switz and
Uri, approaches down the sloping
Kuessnacht pass with rocks on either
side, licfore him is a projecting cliff
overgrown with brushwood. Armgard,
the poor wife of a wildheuer, falls with
her children in front of the governor's
horse and begs for the release of her
husband, who is perishing behind
prison bars, and when Rudolph tier
llurras, the adjutant, asks her: "Who
are you, woman, and who is your hus
band?" he receives the following words
in reply:
A poor wild-hay man of the Rigtberg
Kind sir, who on the brow of the abyss
Mows down the grass from steep and rocky
shelves
To which the very cattlo dare not climb.
Harras, the horseman, is conscience
stricken, and thus intercedes for the
petitioner:
Dy Heaven! A sod and miserable life!
I prithee, give tho wretched man his freedom:
How great soever his offense may be
His horrid trade is punishment enough.
To the woman:
You shall have justice: to the castle bring
Your suit: this is no place to deal with it.
And, indeed, no more dangerous oc
cupation can be imagined. The work
is laborious and the harvest poor. The
mowers and rakers ascend with ropes
and Alpine shoes the dizzy steepnesses,
where goats and sheep do not venture
to graze, much less the larger cattle.
The mountaineers here are, of course,
never assailed by vertigo and kindred
troubles, which must be accounted for
by heredity and constant climbing of
perilous heights. But for this work
only such men and women can be hired
who can find no other means where
with to keep the wolf from the door.
These are the folks who work during
the balance of the year at ridiculously
low wages by day in villages and inns,
or as wood-choppers and weavers dur
ing the winter. Hundreds of house
holders in this vicinity rely for their
whole year's supplv of milk, butter and
cheese on a single cow, and must make
hay on the mountains while the sun
shines during August and September.
Every canton in Switzerland has its
hay laws which set apart two months
during the year for hay gathering and
which appoint the very day on which
the work may be commenced, besides
imposing many other oppressive ordi
nances and regulations. As soon as
the hay day has come these complacent,
easily contented, semi-Roman Teutons
gather in convivial companies and be
gin their climbing marches amid the
yodling of popular ditties and the sing
ing of religious hymns. All carry al
penstocks, scythes, rakes and ropes and
a small knapsack of food and drink,
sufficient for several days.
Often places are encountered where
the grass is especially rich and lux
uriant, but which can only be reached
by dangling a mower down over the
rocks and thus enabling him to gather
a few sackfuls of hay at a time, when
another man is let down to finish the
plot. It is generally found most ex
pedient to select some accessible spot
near the mountain road and then to
throw the hay bundles from the va
rious little meadows along the paths.
And it is marvelous with what dex
terity the rakers have learned to throw
their bundles.
Sometimes, however, no such con
venient place can be found; then the
poor people are compelled to carry
their heavy, compact bundles on their
shoulders down the steep, dangerous
mountain path or to let them down
with ropes from one to another some
what like the water carriers of ancient
Egypt.
In the Canton Switz many young
women are employed for this work.
They are usually robust, brawny
young mails, full of courage, every
movement betraying power and agility.
Necessity compels them to wear mas
culine attire during these labors. As
in the case of the Tyrolean shep
herdesses, skirts would prove a great
impediment in their work.
A well Illaclpled Man.
Army discipline is supposed to be
very strict indeed, and oders must we
obed swiftly and silently. The best
disciplined soldier ever in the Russian
army lived in 1777. He was stationed
before the door of the palace during a
heavy flood, when the empress, seeing
from her balcony that the water had
reached the sentinel, called to him to
retire. This the soldier refused to do;
and when the empress asked if he
knew who she was, the man replied
ailirmatively. Although he knew her
majesty he would not leave his post
until his corporal relieved him. The
water increased until it reached the
sentinel's knees. The empress sent
several messages to him, but he refused
to obey her. Finally she was compelled
to summon the corporal, who was found
asleep, and he was obliged to swim to
relieve the honest private, who by that
time had only his head above water,
and would composedly have suffered
himself to be drowned rather than
disobey orders while obeying his sover
eign, WASTE OFTOOD BY AMERICANS.
People from Europe Astoniahed by Our
Careless Table Methods.
An English health journal expresses
great surprise at the quantity of food
eaten by American against English
laborers. It is very curious to see how
different foods preponderate in differ
ent industries. The textile worker in
Europe will have 05 pounds of meat
per annum for every 100 units of con
sumption, or, say, a quarter of a pound
of meat a day, while steel workers in
dulge in 114 pounds for every 100 units.
On the other hand, the weaver con
sumes more flour than the steel work
er 275 pounds per 100 units instead of
208 pounds. He also takes about 71
pounds of sugar more per 100 units,
and a dozen more eggs; of butter, lard
and tea both take about the same,
though both in tea and eoffee the
weaver a little exceeds the other. That
is, in the calling which demands the
greater muscular exertion, a greater
amount of nitrogenous food is required.
On the European .ontinent the con
sumption of meat by workers is much
less than in Britain. Even in the iron
industry the Oerman is little more ex
travagant than the English weaver,
while the Frenchman consumes only
57 pounds and the Belgian 55
pounds. On the other hand, the latter
consume more flour and eggs, more
than twice as much of each. Their
consumption of eoffee, too, is large 14
pounds and 19 pounds repectively, tc
the Englishman's 3J pounds; but i'
must also be taken in the reckoning
that tea does not appear in their ac
counts. But all these figures pale be
fore the statistics of food consumption
in America.
The Illinois iron worker manages tc
consume 393 pounds of meat per 100
units, and though this is excessive, 206X
pounds are put down as the average of
Pennsylvania, 197 pounds for Ohio,
187 if pounds for West Virginia and 155
pounds for Tennessee. The average
consumption of flour for the states is
about 250 pounds, but voracious Illinois
again comes to the fore with 300
pounds, and sugar, butter and eggs are
everywhere more lavishly used than in
Europe. Here, as in Europe, iron and
steel industries are found to be more
self-indulgent than any other trades,
but the expenditure here is far above
that of even the most extravagant
workers of Europe. Much of the food
accounted for in these figures is actual
ly consumed, but a large margin must
be allowed for what is wantonly de
stroyed, and when the history of the
waste of food products in the United
States eomes to be written it will con
tain some startling and not altogether
pleasant reading.
THE SAMOYEDS.
Esquimaux Who Are Low Down In the
Order of Intelligence.
The reindeer Lapps and the Samoyeds
stand, in intelligence and morale, at
the two extremes of the Esquimau
group the Lapps at the top, the
Samoyeds at tho bottom. These latter
have no reindeer nor any other de
sirable possessions. Virtually, they are
beggars, yet they serve to show some
thing of the habits and character of
the people they represent. They are,
as one would expect, small in stature.
I do not think I have seen a man more
than, say, five feet two inches in height,
says a writer in Longman's Magazine.
Their faces are very flat, and they
have the slitlike eyes of the Mongol.
Often it is impossible to distinguish
any eye at all, but simply a slit, only
just not closed up. The specimens
here, even young men and girls, suffer
much from blindness. Whether this is
due to snow, or whether hereditary, I
am unable to say, but their eyes turn
white, as if with a form of glaucoma.
In person and habits they are dirty in
the extreme. They live in skin-covered
wigwams, which are very simply made.
The reindeer skin with the hair out
side is stretched over poles, at the
apex of which a hole is left perhaps
for escape of smoke, though I saw no
fires burning in any of the wigwams.
Inside is a confused heap of men, wom
en, children, skins, food and dogs lit
tle mongrel dogs, that creep around
your calves in a doubtful kind of way.
Every spring, about May, a great
northward migration of these people
takes place. It is then that they scat
ter themselves about the I'etchora and
I'ustosersk districts and along the Si
berian coast, many of them passing up
to the Yalmal peninsula and Waigatz
island, where are their places of sac
rifice, adorned with skulls of polar
bears, and their ancient centers of re
ligious observance.
When a Samoyed dies, he is buried,
and with him is left sometimes his
sleigh and always some small domestic
articles, such as food vessels. Norden
skiold supposes that these are intended
for his use in the future life. It may
lie so, but I fancy we are sometimes in
clined to attribute to such observances
a significance they do not possess. The
custom of leaving offerings at the grave
of the departed is a very universal one, I
and need not necessarily imply more ,
than respect and regret.
Kept for Four Centurle.
A curious story, illustrative of the
peraervative proprti of carbolic avoid
gas, or "chokedainp,"' comes from
China. In the province of Anhui a party
of miners opened an ancient shaft,
where, according to the official records,
a terrible catastrophe had occurred
four hundred years ago. When the
miners entered they came upon the
bodies of one hundred and seventy
miners, who had perished in the mine,
lying where they had been overtaken
by the deadly gas four centuries back.
The corpses to the eye were as though
of yesterday, quite fresh-looking and
not decayed in any way. The faces
were like those of men who had just
died. On an attempt being made to
move them ontside for burial, they one
and all crumbled away, leaving noth
ing but a pile of dust and the remnants
of the stronger parts of their clothing.
Tne miners, terrified, fled from the
spot, and though there were valuable
deposits of coal in the shaft, nothing
would induce the superstitious men to
return to their work.
LAUNCHING A BATTLESHIP.
It la a Complex Problem and a Slight
Mistake Would Cost Millions.
Albert Franklin Matthews tells an
interesting story of "The Evolution of
a Battleship," in the Century. This is
a history of the construction of the In
diana, so far the only vessel of this
class we have in our navy. After de
scribing the wonderful power of this
monster, the most formidable engine
of war in the world, antl the manner
of its construction, Mr. Matthews siys:
So the building goes on until the
launching day comes, and two broad
ways are built up against the bottom
of the vessel, and the keel-blocks on
which it has been resting are knocked
away. In the launch of the Indiana
Mr. Nixon ran a row of electric lights
beneath the bottom of the vessel, add
ing another innovation to the details
of American ship-building. Each
launching way consists of upper and
lower planking, between which is
spread thousands of pounds of the best
tallow. At the bow of the boat these
upper and lower planks are clamped
together, and when all is ready they
are sawed apart, and the vessel starts.
The upper part of the ways slides into
the water with the vessel, and the low
er part with the smoking hot tallow
remains stationary.
A launch in these days is so smooth,
and so soon ended, rarely occupying
more than twelve seconds from start to
finish, that one scarcely realizes its
difficulties. Three things are absolute
ly necessary, it must be on time, when
the tidal water is highest; it must
be of smart speed, bo as not to stick on
its downward journey to the water;
and it must be accomplished without
straining. So complex a thing is s
launch that the careful engineer-in-charge
is able to estimate the strain
on every part of the vessel for every
position it occupies, at intervals of on
foot, on its way down the incline.
There is one supreme moment. It is
when the vessel is nearly two-thirds in
the water. The buoyancy "of the water
raies the vessel and throws its weight
on its shoulders. Here is where the
greatest danger of straining comes,
and should the ways break down the
vessel would be ruined, a matter of
marly two million dollars in a ship
like the Indiana when it was launched.
The launch over, the machinery is
lifted in and fitted, and then cornel
the board of government experts, who
look the vessel over inch by inch, the
fires are started and the trial trip fol
lows. For four hours, amid suppressed
excitement that answers nervously to
every quiver of the vessel, the engines
are run at full speed. A premium or a
penalty is at stake now. The breakage
of a bolt or the disarrangement of a
valve may mean thousands of dollars
of loss to the contractors. Trained
workmen are locked in the firerooms,
not to be released until the test is over.
Cooled drinking water with oatmeal
sprinkled upon it is run down to them
in a rubber tube from a barrel on the
deck. A hose is played on the costly
machinery in places where there is
danger from overheating, as thouirh it
were on tire. Almost every pound of
coal used on the trip is carefully se
lected. When the four hours arc passed and
the strain is over a sigh of relief, from
everyone on board, and even from the
vessel herself, goes up, and the ship
passes from the contractor to the gov
ernment, und day after day while she
is in commission the flag will be sa
luted and the score or more of other
ceremonies and formalities observed on
a man-of-war will follow.
A WATCH OF WOOD.
The Remarkable Ingenuity Which Secured
Pardon for a Kuaslan Convict
A watch descrilied in the Scientific
American is an excellent illustration of
what may be accomplished by a combi
nation of ingenuity, skill and persist
ency. It is a watch made almost
wholly of wood by a watchmaker, who
was convicted of some crime and sent
to Siberia by the Russian government.
The convict made this watch to while
away h's time, and was pardoned be
cause of his work. The only tool he
had to work with was a penknife. Ir
regularity in the work can only be dis
cerned by examining it with a glass.
Nevertheless it is remarkably accurate
and the watch runs and keeps fair time.
The wood used was box wood. The
numerals on the face are small pieces
of ivory, inlaid. The dial wheels are
of ivory, and are set on the face of the
dial. The hour, minute and second
hands are of tortoise shell. The second
dial is recessed on the lower part of
the main dial. The wheels and plates
of the movement are of wood, while
the pinions, balance, cylinder and es
capement wheel are of ivory. The
rachet spring is of wood. The plates
are held together by wooden pins and
the balance bridge by ivory screws.
The key with which the watch is
wound is made of wood with an ivory
sip, and is made like a modern rachet
key. The winding "square" is of ob
long shape. This ingenious watch
maker also constructed the box in
which the watch is contained. All the
joints are perfect, so that the box it
practically dust proof.
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DANGEROUS DUST.
That Whloh Is Created In Factories
by Modem Machinery.
Terrible Explosions Sometimes Result from,
the Accumulation of Flying Fibers of
Wood and Cotton-Head In
Powdered Metals.
Each development of manufacturing
processes appears to augment the fire
hazard, not merely by reason of the
dangers incident to the increased speed
of operation, says the New York Jour
nal of Commerce, and also to the con
centration due to the greater units of
larger buildings, but more especially
to the greater amount of dust thrown
off by the more rapid manipulation of
the stock in the new methods of manu
facture. The comparison of the readi
ness tif ignition of the shaving to that
of the log holds good in all combustible
material, namely, the finer the subdi
vision the greater the facility of igni
tion and the greater the rapidity of
eamliustion. Tho severo accidents oc
I'urriiiff in those lines of special manu
facturing using powdered wood and
pulverised cork, so that these sub
stances can be classed as explosives
under such conditions, illustrate the
occurrences resulting from such
changed conditions. It would be trite
to make any references to the explo
sives of grain dust in flouring mills or
of hop dust in connection with the man
ufacture of malt, but there are continu
ally occurring instances of the explo
sion of materials not ordinarily In
cluded in the list of explosives and
which are made so solely on account
of rapid combustibility entirely due to
subdivision.
An explosion occurred recently In
that portion of a print works where
the cloth was received into the estab
lishment "in the gray" directly from
the. mills without any treatment, and
was being wound into large rolls pre
paratory to the processes carried on In
that establishment. The short, fine
cotton fibers were shaken out of the
cloth as dust by tho rapid winding to
such an extent that it became neces
sary to put a ventilating hood over the
machine. An electric spark at the belt
1 Ignited some of tho dust, and it pro
duced an explosion which blew off the
roof and wrecked the contents of the
building with such violence as to seri
ously injure five men at work in the
room.
With the old method of opening and
picking cotton by which It was blown
ml.o a "gauzwroom," there were numer
ous instances of explosions occurring in
-uuncctinii with such fires, but that
ekiss of accidents !iU6 been very much
reduced by the present invthod of lap
per pickers, which wind the cotton into
a relatively compact cylinder. The ex
plosion of cotton filters in nappiug
roonis are still of frequent occurrence.
Within recent years a fire starting in
the cnrdrooiu of a cotton mill produced
an explosion which was exceedingly
violent, and spread the flames to an ox
tent !eyond the scope of the fire ap
parutus and compassed the destruction
of the mill. The explosion from dust
in the various forms of continuous
driers used in textile mills have been
such as to require the utmost precas
tions by way en? construction and con
tinuous cleanliness in order to secure
conditions of safety. When the facing
dust accumulating on the trusses of a
foundry was being washed from the
beams by a stream from fire hose,
when the works were shut down dur
ing an enforced vacation, such as has
occurred during recent times, the dust
filled the building and was ignited by
the fire at the portable forge, where
repairs were under way.
. But such tires are not by any means
confined to the dust of ordinarily rec
ognized combustible materials. Fires
have been known to occur in the dust
of iron thrown out from the tumbling
barrels used for polishing tacks by
their attrition on each other. One
form of the well-known parlor fire
works, which produces such a bright
fulguration, is merely the combustion
of finely divided steel, whose tempera
ture of ignition is so low that the hand
can be held, not only with impunity,
but also without any sensation of heat,
directly in the scintillation of the fire
works. The finely powdered zinc,
known as "zinc auxiliary," which is
used in connection with the rejuvena
tion of the indigo dye vats in the color
ing of cotton, is so rapidly oxidized by
a small amount of moisture that fires
produced in that manner are of fre
quent occurrence, and the danger is so
well known that many lines of water
transportation refuse to take this ma
terial under any condition whatsoever.
New L'aea for I'orenlalo.
China is more and more adopted for
all sorts of new uses. One sees now
china-backed combs and brushes and
china-handled button-books snd glove
buttoners, all to accompany china puff
and jewel boxes and the little trays
that already adorn my lady's dressing
table. Beside these there are china
framed mirrors and, of course, candle
sticks as well as picture frames; one
may even have a chiua bracket on
which to set some of the bric-a-brac.
The Webfoot Planter, a Portland peri
odical devoted to the interests of farm
ers, stookraisers, orohsrdists, bee-keepers
snd poultry raisers, will be sent free of
charge for one year to all those who pay
np sll arrearages and one year in ad
vance, or to sll new inbnoribers to the
Gazette. This offer is made for a limited
time. Those wbo desire the naper tnnst
mention it when they settle their ac
Baking
Powder
LONG-LIVED CARP.
One Old Specimen In Fontalnbleaa Is
Over Throe Hundred Years Old.
When the fish commission, some years
ago, began to introduce carp into the
streams of this country it is doubtful if
they knew what a lasting monument
they were building. It is pretty gen
erally known, says the Washington
News, that the sluggish and, to fisher
men, despicable denizen of the water is
gifted with a tenure of life, barring
chance encounter with a hook, a big
black bass with his back up or other
vicissitudes of piscatorial existence,
which exceeds that of most creatures,
but the actual age that they do attain
under favorable circumstances is ap
palling. Ther'e are very few fishermen
who haven't a yan almut some wily
old trout or bass tftat has been known
to frequent the same pool for many
years, but Assistant Secretary of State
Rockhill tells of a carp that can give
any of these fish points on how to at
tain a long life, lie says that in a
pond at at Fontainbleau there is, or
was when he was last there, a bar
nacled old carp that had been placed
in the pond in the reign of Francis I.
As that monarch flourishsd during the
sixteenth century, Mr. Roekh Ill's carp
is considerably more than three hun
dred years old. To prevent any mis
take by future generations the gentle
man who occupied the office of commis
sioner of fish and fisheries for his royal
highness placed a metal tag in the carp's
fin, and it is by this mark that the fish
is known from the others in this little
lake.
Insurmountable Difficulty.
It is pleasant to see men jealous for
the purity of their mother tongue, but
one may easily carry even so commend
able feeling as that to a laughable ex
treme. Frederic Hill relates in his
autobiography that he and his broth
ers were once interested in obtaining
some medical appointment for a friend.
A letter, or circular, had to be drawn
up, and to be perfectly sure of having
it in the best form the young men
sought the good offices of a certain Dr.
Blair, who was their friend and neigh
bor, and a very exact scholar, lie
undertook the work with great good
nature, hut day after day the boys
found the document "not quite ready."
Time was precious, and finally the doc
tor was obliged to confess that he had
run against a difficulty. In one sentence
he was absolutely unable to decide
whether he ought to use tho word
"which" or the word "that." And
there he stuck, till tho boys in des
peration took the work out of his hands.
WHAT A BABY DID.
It Nearly Got Its Mother Into Jail, Tin
Oot Her Out Again.
Here is a rather pretty story which
is vouched for by a London journal,
showing how a small baby once got his
mother into serious difficulties and
then made amends by getting her out
of them again. It seems that a poor
seamstress with a child in her arms
was tried for the theft of three gold
coins. She said in defense: "I went to
my employer's house on business. I
carried my child in my arms as it is
now; I was not paying attention to it.
There were several gold coins on the
mantelpiece, and, unknown to me, it
stretched out its little hand and seized
three pieces, which I did not observe
until 1 got home. I at once put on my
bonnet and was going back to my em
ployer to return them when I was ar
rested. This is the solemn truth, as I
hope for Heaven's mercy."
The court could not believe this
story. They upbraided the mother for
her impudence in trying to palm off
such a falsehood for the truth. But
she so pertinaciously asserted her inno
cence that a novel experiment was
made in her favor. One of the officials
proposed to renew the scene described
by the mother. The gold coins were
placed on the clerk's table. The moth
er was requested to resume the posi
tion in which she stood at her employ
er's house. There was a breathless
pause in court. The baby soon discov
ered the small coins, eyed them for a
moment, smiled and then clutched
them in his fingers with a miser's
eagerness. The mother was at once ac
quitted. One of the most fantastic birds is the
laughing owl of Florida and some
other southern parts. He sits well up
in a tree late at night and emits a se
ries of loud, strange ha-has that sound
like half-human laughter. The sound
is sufficiently terrifying to a nervous
camper unaequinted with the habit of
the bird, though less gruesome than
the unearthly call of the Chesapeake
loon, heard at all ho irsof the night
along the shores of that bav.
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