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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-03-12

If the city employees are not paid
they can blame Callaghan and 40
one else. Had there been less ex-
travagsnce, better management, the
city would have plenty of money 10
meet it's current expenses.
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Swearing Witnesses In Japan.

4 japanese Journal, describing the
manner in which witnesses are sworn and
evidence taken in native courts Of
Justice, says that with the japanese any
thing to which man affixes his seal is
considered more sacred than what he
may say. Hence each witness is required
to make declaration to the effect that
with mind free from bias in favor of or
against either of the litigating parties,
and with perfect fairness, he will give
evidence, and after this has been read
out by the Recorder of tie court and
handed to the witness in the form of a
document, the latter Is expected to atti1
his seal to it. The same plan is adopted
with the statement of facts which, in the
course of the examination he undergoes,
witness makes in court. The purport
of his evidence is written out by the Re-
corder, and before leaving the court he
is required to make what corrections are
necessary to render the written state
ment trustworthy record of his evidence
and to guarantee its correctness by affix-
ing his seal. Though this process occu-
pies a good deal of time, it precludes
the possibility of the evidence given
being incorrectly reported, which, in
trials where the decision of the court de-
pends largely on oral evidence, is a
matter of much moment.-London
Times.
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Cavalry: Cost of horse, S175; useful
like, say seven years. therefore cost per
annum, S25; maintenance, $500; total
cost per annum, S225.
Thus it will be observed that the cycle
is much the cheaper of the two. Another
thing, cycles are much more easily car.
ried by rail than horses; aud with re-
gard to the staying powers of the cyclist
and the horse, the cyclist has it a long
way.
Great distances have been covered by
military cyclists in short space of time.
The record is held by twelve members
of the 'Artists" Volunteer Cyclist Corps.
Last year they rode distance of 102
miles in sixteen hours and 6fty-6ve
minutes, fully armed, and out of this
time they were forced 70 halt FIVE hours
owing to an accident, making the actual
time occupied in riding the distance a
little over twelve houl..
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What the future of military cycling
will be it would be hard to tell. At the
present time nearly every volunteer bat
TALON has cyclist section attached to it,
amounting in all to some 5000 men. In
the regulars the cycle is also fast coming
into favor. At Aldershot is to be seen
a remarkable multicycle called "Vic-
soria," which is capable of carrying a
dozen riders, and conveying provisions
and ammunition.
Sir Evelyn Wood is of the opinion that
Parliament would not be making mis-
take by sanctioning the raising of atleast
10000 volunteer cyclists. Lord Wolse-
ley is greatly in favor of military cyclists,
for in a recent speech he said: =.
"There are very few countries in the
world where you cannot use cycles. Dur
ing the whole time was in India, dur
ing the mutiny, do not remember, ex-
cept when actually in the hills for three
or four days fighting, one days march
or any one fight in which we took part
where cycles could not have been used
with the greatest possible advantage. -
New York Journal.
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Horses With Sixteen Toes.

The orohippus, the ancestor OF the
noble horse of to-day, is first known to
have existed in the eocene period of ge-
illogical epochs. Some OF the species
were as small as the common silver fox
of to-day, and all had sixteen hoofs, four
on esch foot, just like the COW brutes of
the present age. After long ages had
elapsed the creature became three toed
representative of animal creation; later
on he had single split hoof, or eight
toes altogether. The perfected equine
of the present may be said to walk on
its middle toe nail, the twelve others
which his ancestor, the orohippus,
had having been "evoluted" out of ex-
istence.-St. Louis Republic.
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Giant Trees of California.

The fame of the "big trees" OF Cali.
fornia is worldwide, but they arc not,
as many who have never visited the
Slope suppose, scattered all over the
Golden State and in plain view OF every
railroad station between Salt Lake City
and San Francisco. Neither were they
known to the first settlers who braved
the dangers of trip around the Horn,
or the greater dangers of an overland
journey to the new Eldorado. The first
white man who is known to have gazed
upon the sylvan moaarchs was trapper
by the name of Down, who accldently
discovered what is now known as the
Calaveras Grove, in 1852. After the
Calaveras Grove, which is in the county
of the same name, the only other con-
siderable growth of them are in Mariposa
County, where in an area two miles
square there arc 427 Of these monster
trees from 275 to $40 feet in height and
from twenty-five to forty feet in dia-
meter, and another grove known as the
Fresno Grove, which contains soE> 6OO
trees, the largest eighty one feet In dia-
meter. Placer County, fifty miles north
of Calaveras, also has small grove o.
these giant redwoods. The largest tree
in the Calaveras Grove is about $50 feet
high and measures forty-6ve feet in dla-
meter six feet above the ground. 'Ihe
Grizzly Giant" the pride OF Mariposa
County, is ninety-three feet in diameter
at the ground, and sixty-four feet i've
yards higher up. Just think OF it! A
TIE that would make square block OF
wood as large as the average St. Louis
building lot! Their leaves are awl-shaped
needles, and the cones which grow upon
them Ohese trees are coniferous) are as
big as two-gallon jugs, being in all
other particulars almost perfect counter
parts of the common pine cones. The
= Grizzly Giant has the greatest circumfer-
ence of any tree now known to exist:
There are but two trees in the world
taller than Mariposa's 35O-foot prize
taker. They are of the ''blue gum
variety, are AGO feet in height and may
be found near Quelarup on the Black
wood River in West Australia. .-St.Louls
Republic.
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Cycles, too, are noiseless, and, an
other thing, cyclists can creep along on
the roads behind the hedges unseen,
whereas men mounted on horseback can
not, except when the hedges are very
high, and then if the roads become dry
a cloud of dry dust is sent up into the
air by the horses hoofs, and consequently
the enemy are made aware that cavalry
are about. By bending over machine
cyclist is really able to make himself
shorter than the ordinary foot soldier;
but he still keeps plodding on at the
rate of about eight or ten miles an hour,
and is likely to reach his journeys end
with much more certainty than the man
on horseback.
Carrying dispatches, skirmishing, and
reconnoitreing are the chief duties of
military cyclists, and owing to the long
distance which they are able to cover in
short space of time they are likely to
prove of great service in performing
these duties.
As patrols they are likely to prove ex-
how a detachment managed to get
through the enemy's lines and gain the
information they were told of to obtain.
Seeing wagon filled with straw coming
along the road they tipped the driver to
let them take shelter with their machines
underneath the straw. This the driver
agreed to, an6 by this means the cyclists
got through the outpost lines, accom-
plished their purpose with perfect safety
and unobserved.
There is one thing wanting in a cy-
clist corps that has not yet been tried,
and that is a band. Many suggestions
have been made, one of which is that a
huge musical box should be carried in
the same style as the Gatliny gun is con.
veyed at the present time. The person
who suggests this is CT the opinion that
it may be possible to construct machine
in such way that when the riders work
the treadles the musical affair should
give forth martial strains.
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It is therefore likely that in time of &C.
ton the military cyclist will be able to
get within an easy distance of the field,
dismount and detach his rife in a cou
pie of seconds, put his machine in a
place of safety, and be on the scene ot
action quicker than he could by any
other means.
The cyclist corps can do some very
smart things. For instance, they can
form q zereba in FIVE or six seconds, Tor
the defence of a road, as seen by the IL
lustration. The cycles are stacked one
to another, and the men get behind and
fire at the approaching enemy.
The military cyclist is really an in
fantry man on temporary wheels, for
when engaged in fighting he dismounts
from his machine, places his cycle on the
ground, or hides it somewhere while he
fights on foot.
Last Easter a regiment on wheels
proved of great service in the man9uVres
off Dover, aud gained the CONNIE adation
of the military authorities. The Gatlins
gun was used and carried for the first
time by the corps during these man
euvres. The weight of the gun is
ninety-seven pounds, and the ammuni-
ton was carried in cases for the purpose.
The gun was transported to and from on
a gun carriage composed of four safety
bicycles coupled together and ridden BY
four men. An ambulance was also car
ried in this way, and on a smooth road it
could be teken along at speed OF about
ten miles an hour.
Captain Eustace Balfour, of the Lon
don Scottish Regiment OF Volunteers,
gives the following estimates of the costs
of mount of cavalry in proportion to
that of cyclist infantry. The cyclist in
fantry: Cost of cycle, per man, $50,
life of cycle, say six years, therefore
cost per annum, So; repairs, oil, etc,
Guy $50, total cost per Sunum, S15.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-07-06
An Ent0mOl0gicaI BuncO Steerer.

The mantis (Greek: a diviner) Is
curious insect of a green or blue color,
and varies in size from grasshopper to
a wren. 1t derives its name from habit
it has of sitting upright on a leaf or
branch wrapped closely in its gauzy
wings, its head turned skyward in con-
templative, devotional attitude, with
crossed forelegs, partly raised as If in
prayer. However, 1t is the Pnarisee OF
the insect world since "for pretense 1t
makes long prayers" 1t is the entomo.
logical bunco steerer. Its turbulence IS
in inverse ratio to its external piety.
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VALUE OF CARROTS.

Carrots may be made profitable crop
in many places by combining growing
them for market and for home feeding.
In any large town there IS always con-
siderable fall and winter demand for
them at prices that pay well, and all
surplus stock is worth much more than
the cost of production for feeding.
Horses and COWS, colts and sheep all
thrive upon them, and for such use their
value may be put at about fifteen cents a
bushel. As 600 bushels an acre can be
easily grown upon good, rich land, it
will be seen that the crop is profitable If
grown for feeding alone. They should
be sown about the middle of June. The
halt-long varieties are to be preferred on
account OF the greater ease with which
they may be harvested. Sow upon
ridges, same as those made for sweet
potatoes. Then by plowing down one
side of the ridge the roots are easily
taken out by hand.-Chicago Times.
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FERTILIzING ORCHARDS.

No man can grow good orchard
without fertilizing the trees in some way.
Unless the soil is very exhausted, nothing
is better than unleached ashes for the
purpose. They contain the potash
which the trees take from the soil for the
development and growth of fruit. Ashes
tend also to compact and solidify the
ground, and therefore greatly improve q
light soil.
The most important time to begin fer
tllizing is when the trees are young, and
it should be repeated every year. If
the soil Is poor the second year an at.
tempt should be made to bring up the
entire acre of orchard. One way to do
this is to grow peas and turn them
under. This method has succeeded in
a number of cases.-American Farmer.
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SHADE PLANTS.

In addressing the Association OF
American Cemetery Superintendents at
Chicago last autumn, Mr.. Zurich, OF
Toledo, Ohio, said, with regard to
plants that can be used to cover the
ground beneath trees where grass will
not grow, that he had experimental sue
cessfully with two ''sod forming" plants,
Herniaria glabra and Veronica repens.
The first named, he explained, ''is a
moss like, creeping plant which covers
the ground in very short time, and
surpasses g grass sward in beauty. A
strip of ground was planted in April
with one hundred such plants set apart,
and in less than two months the entire
surface was covered closely. The plants
were thinned out, so that we obtained
more than twice the original number,
and an adjoining new piece was planted
with the same result. This procedure
was repeated in August, and before win
ter set in we had beautiful greensward
of Herniaria growing. A very cold
winter followed, and the plants were
tinged slightly brown, but by April were
again charmingly green. II. glabra will
thrive in any soil in the open sun or in
the shade" Veronica reopens, the
speaker, said, has somewhat larger leaves
of shining green, and generally the same
characteristics as Herniaria glabra. A
grave mound planted with it in August
was completely covered by fall. and with
q slight protection during the winter was
brighter and fresher than the mounds
covered with myrtle (Vinca) and ivy.
The special feature of this plant Is that
IN May it IS completely covered with very
light blue flowers as the plant ITSELF
Scientific American.
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have avoided if the work had been done
at the proper time often causes consid-
erable loss after harvest has we'll COM
menced.
Generally wheat needs less curing out
than any other kind of grain. Hence
the usual plan of management is to cut,
bind and shock it up as fast as possible
after the work is begun. And in a very
short time after harvesting it is ready to
be thrashed or 60 into the stack. While.
if properly shocked up, wheat can stand
out some time without injury, yet the
better plan is either to attack or thresh
as soon as possible after cutting. In
nearly all cases, if it is to be thrashed
out Of the shock without stacking, ar
rangements should be made in advance
80 there will be no unnecessary delay.
No matter how we'll shocked up, there is
always more OF less risk with wheat until
it is thrashed, There is risk of the grain
heating if put up in large quantities in
tight, close bin, but if it is spread out or
shoveled over so that free circulation of
air is given through it, the danger of loss
will be very small, surely no more than
if stacked up and allowed to stand ex-
posed to elements for some time.
One advantage in cutting wheat in
good season is that the straw is much
more valuable for feed, provided, of
course, care is taken to stack 80 that it
will keep il good condition. One advan-
tage in thrashing out of the shock is that
the work is done and out of the way for
the rest of the season and the work of
stacking is saved. If the work is care
fully done there is no more danger of the
wheat spelling in the granary than in the
stack, and it is an item to reduce the cost
as much as possible. Louis Republic.
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TO PREVENT COWS FROM KICKING.

Edwin J. Doty, Meager County,
Montana, writes us that of all the
methods that he has tried to prevent
COWS from kicking, the most certain is
to take a small rope about twenty feet
long, with loop in one end, throw it
over the back and across the loins, ana
get hold of the loop with stick if the
COW. is unruly. Bring it just in front OF
the udder, pass the rope through the loop
and draw tight, then stand of the length
of the rope and let her have her "buck
out" and then go up and tie firmly. 1t
is impossible for cow to kick with this
contrivance on. After few days the
rope may be put on more loosely, until
dispensed with entirely. have tried it
on all kinds of cows, and it has always
proved success. 1t will also break q
COW of the habit of moving around the
yard while being milked, and it is pain
full for her to take step while the rope
is on.-American Agriculturist.
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it is a perfectly safe and an es-
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It's a powerful, invigorating tonic,
and a soothing and strengthening
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purely vegetable, perfectly harm
less-and carefully adapted, by an
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For all the arrangements, irregu-
larities, and weaknesses peculiar to
the sex, the "Favorite Prescription !"
is a remedy so certain that it can be
guaranteed. If it doesn't give satis-
faction in every case, the money il
returned. No other medicine for
women is sold in this way.
No other medicine can be.
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CUTTING WHEAT.

Generally, after the first crop of clover
is cut and stored away, the next crop to
harvest IS wheat. In order to have it Of
the best quality and to save it with 'the
least loss it must be cut at the right stage.
If cut too green the grain will shrink or
shrivel UP more or less in curing It, while
if allowed to get too ripe it will bleach
out and not be of q good color, while
there will be more waste in handling.
Of course where there is considerable
acreage it is always best to begin in good
season.. with plenty of allowances for
contingencies. Generally when the grain
is passing out of the doughy stage and is
beginning to harden it is in the best con-
ditiou to harvest, and the nearer the
work can be done to this time the bet
ter. As with all harvest work it is much
the best to have all of the necessary ar
rapgements made so that the work can
be pushed along as rapidly as possible.
A. little delay that small expense would
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-07-06
SHEEP FOR MUTTON

The choice of sheep for mutton de.
pends not only on the character of the
sheep itself, but on that of the farm.
The crops that can be most conveniently
grown is special point to be considered,
for the value of the carcass depends on
the feeding. The best mutton cannot
possibly be secured without the use of
some kind of root crop, as this succulent
and digestible food is indispensable for
a good quality Of meat, the favor of it
especially depending on the food. The
best mutton sheep is the Shropshire, TAX
ing size and quality into account.-New
York Times.
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ployed cyclists as scouts during the haste'
maneuvres of 1885.
The Twenty.sixth Middlesex Cyclist
Corps, the regiment on wheels. have
their headquarters in a house IN the
Queens road, Chelsea, nearly opposite
Chelsea Hospital. The garden attached
to the house, some $50 yards long, Is
used as drill ground when the corps is
not at the Guards barracks, and in the
stables large number of cycles are
stored.
The Twenty-sixth Middlesex, the only
volunteer regiment on wheels IN the
country, and consequently the pioneer
among volunteers, started with handful
of men as recently as April 1, 1883, but
it now musters 120 members, split up
into two companies, one in the south OF
London and the other in the west.
The members of the cyclist corps have
shown their ability on many occasions.
For instance, at the military exhibition,
the regular soldiers perform on horse
back, including lemon-cutting, tent-peg'
ging, fitting at the ring, etc. In order
to bring about successful operation the
cyclists found it necessary to ride their
machines at the rate Of about fifteen or
sixteen miles an hour. The lemon was
suspended by a single wire, and on ap-
preaching it, the cyclist, while going at
this high rate of speed, had to guide his
machine with the left hand, while he
slashed out at his fruit with his right.
At the exhibition this corps gained first
prize in the drill composition, and each
member of the team was presented with
q silver medal.
Ordinary bicycles are of no use in
military cycling,a and consequently moth
ing but safeties are called into requisl-
ton. Each cycle is fitted up to carry the
rife at the side, which can be taken out
in three seconds; a pouch, 100 rounds
of ball cartridge, signalling flag, etc.,
the whole weight of which is something
under seventy pounds, including ma
chine. When in full marching order
these cyclists can get along at the rate of
ten miles an hour and even faster.
The latest invention in the way Of
military cycles is one by gentleman
hailing from Ealing, London. The
weapons of warfare carried by the mill
tary cyclist are all plainly to be seen in
the sketch. Not an inch of spare space e
is lost, as besides carrying 8 signal flag
and rifle, the back and front wheel is
taken up by leather valise, which is
divided into various parts, the upper
portion of which carries supply OF
cartridge cases, and there is plenty OF
room below for the various travelling In
struments required in case of accident to
the cycle and for all other necessaries.
The whole thing only weighs about
f'fty.six pounds.
The standing gear on military cy'
Gle is an important part, and it is made
specially important in the construction
Of the machine referred to. A single
prop is removed by the feet from the
spring clip. the upper portion of which
engages with the mud guard, passing
through the same, and putting a brake
on the wheels, thus preventing the ma:
chine from moving forward, or the wheel
turning to an angle, the cycle leaning on
the side prop still out of the vertical.
Fixed to the handle bar is valise, in
which can be carried the kit.
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1t uses It's arms tor selzlng It's prey ana
for fencing like hussar with Others OF
its own species. Some of the native
Australians keep them IN cages and
match them like fighting cocks. When
its Pecksniffian devices fail to replenish
its larder it dimes off smaller brethren of
the same church, and as the females are
the larger, their lords have hard time
of it when provisions run short. New
York World.
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The total sheep stock in Great Britain
at the end of last year exceeded by three
million head the focks of two years ago,
and by more than four millions the aocks
of 1881.
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Nova Scotia was discovered by G abot
in 1897.
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| Syrup

Ny niece, Emeline Hawley, was,
kaken with splitting blood, and she
became very much alarmed, fearing
that dreaded disease, Consumption.
GShe tried nearly all kinds of medi-
line but nothing did her any good.
Finally she took German Syrup and
6he told me it did her more good
6han anything she ever tried. 1t
Stopped the blood, gave her strength
and ease, and a good appetite. I
had it from her own lips. Mrs.
Mary A. Stacey, TrumDull, Conn.
Honor to German Syrup. q