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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-15
HAMMOCK METERS OF YucAras.
Pretty Girls Who Look on the Bright
side of Life.

If hammock were made in lucatan
meztiEa lhalt breed) girl Barefoot
ed, but in flowing white cotton gar
mentS and with her black hair smooth
and glossy rs ravens wing, she stood
netting the hammock on an upright
wooden frame. In the hut or out
house where she worked were three or
four other members of the family. each
with their frame aud = hammock in
course of construction. The workers
were cheerful, gentle, and contented.
for they were earning heir bread and
making the best OF everything, always
looking at the bright side of life; such
is their happy disposition.
In the eastern part of the peninsula
a particularly fine. soft hemp is pro-
dueed. 1t is called "pita' and is SO
highly appreciated that none is ex-
ported. the people of the country keep
ing it for their own hammocks. FASH
ionable young women of Merida. the
capital, take pride in netting their own
luxurious hammocks.
Twenty years ago comparatively
few hammocks were made for eNporta-
ton, bat they were, "a they are vet,
the only couch used throughout Iu-
catan. Beds are considered uncom-
Portable. The hammocks used there
cost from s. to $50 each. Then came
the demand for cheap hammocks
abroad. and the pretty girls and buxom
matrons were set to making something
very much coarser than the work they
were accustomed to-hammoeks that
they themselves would not have
deigned to rest in-worth 50 or 50
cents when finished. An expert can
make three or four of these hammocks
a day, and receives about l2 cents for
each. The article is sold in New York
for 81 or little more. Formerly all
the twine was made by hand; now this
is only done occasionally. Men aud
boys twist it rapidly, rolling the fiber
between the hand and the nude thigh;
beginners tie piece of leather over
their skin. Colored hammocks ars
made by combining red. blue, aud yell
low twine, the dyes being obtained
from the native woods.-N Y Tri.
blIse.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-15
Farm Notes.
pUCk RAISING.
A Large and frontAble Business Carried
ON in Ipswich, Mass


Duck raising in Ipswich, Mass, is
mostly carried on by one man, Mr..
Seymour |. Hudgens So far this
year he has sold more than six thou
sand ducks and nearly five hundred
spring chickens Mr. HudgenS finds
a ready sale AZ remunerative prices
for every duck and chicken he can
raise He kills and dresses a good
many ducks, but lately he has sold
them in large quantities alive, and
at better prices than when plueked.
The Chinese will not buy any dead
chickens or ducks, but buy alive and
do their own killing.
He keeps about 400 old ducks, to
obtain his supply of eggs. These
ducks begin to lay about the first of
January, some little earlier in
December and continue laying until
June The eggs are taken every
day and when he has obtained 400
he begins the Matching, This is
done in four incubators which are
situated in warm dry cellar. The
incubators are carefully tended day
and night to see that the temperature
is at the proper height. He begins
with all his ineubators full, and
afterwards fills them at different
times with an interval of FIVE or six
days between.
AS soon as the eggs are hatched
the young ducks are taken and dis,
tributed through the feeding houses
OF these he has some twenty five
small ones about two feet and e half
high, and the same in length. These
are provided with feeding troughs
and low stands for the young ducks
to roost on. They are all kept warm
by heating lamps and are properly
ventilated. 1t is while the young
ducks are in these houses that they
require the utmost care, both as to
their food and the temperature,
They are perfectly voracious and re-
quire to be fed five times day. A
great variety of food is given them
but the greatest care is taken in
cooking i, and in giving it at regular
times and in regular quantities and
alternating different kinds. When
the young ducks are three or four
weeks old they are transferred to
the larger houses, which are heated
by furnaces.
OF these houses there are three,
each about 200 feet in length, all
glass on one side, with yards, drink
ing and feeding pans. The ducks
are kept here until they are eight or
nine weeks old, then they are shut
up in small yards and pens and fed
upon corn to fatten them. When
they are 10 or II weeks old they are
at their best and are then prepared
for the market There is large
building where they are killed,
plucked and packed in boxes ready
for the market.
Mr.. Hudgens also has extensive
chicken coops and henneries wherein
he raises early chickens for " broil
ers in the spring. He begins
Matching his eggs for chicks early in
December and continues to hatch
them during January and as late as
February, but he thinks there is
more profit in the raising of ducks.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-15
For the Best OF Reasons.

There is perhaps no moro unfair
question than that which certain re-
jected swains are said sometimes to ask
the object of their affection, subse-
quent to a refnsal-"But why won't
you marry me?"
A formula for q reply to question
of this sort is said to have been framed
by young woman who had to do
with an importunate lover Said she:
Il would marry you but for three
reasons"
Tell me what they are" he inn
plored, that | may remove them"
Unhappily for him she did tell him.
The reasons were. rs she stated them:
-In the first place, do not love you:
In the second place, | don't want TO
love you; in the third place, couldn't
love you il did want to-"
Surely a reply so comprehensive
should satisfy any reasonable man.c
if it did tend to injure his self-esteern.
-Hdrper's Bdzar.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-15
SHE Is A DRIVER.
The Average Farmers Wife Is MsrciIess
to Herself

To herself
She drives herself as she would
drive neither man or beast. From
early morning until late at night
she drudges on. There are no noon
ings, no rests in the shade, no little
maps after dinner for her. Not be-
cause there cannot be but because
she has not yet learned the import
ance of these little breaks in the
daily round of monotonous duties.
She does not realize that it is this
steady grind that is making her old,
cross and discontented, while her
city sister is still fair and in the full
enjoyment of life, her family and
her friends. Neither does she know
that nature cannot be wholly defied
that she demands a certain amount
of rest, which if persistently with
held inevitably leads to mental and
physica, decay.
She may acknowledge the need Of
rest, and even long for it, but she is
slow to act. "By and by" when
this or that or the other thing is
accomplished she really will take
better care of herself She means
well, but the woman who waits for
the farm to be paid for, for the new
house to be built or the children to
grow up before she takes rest,
makes fatal mistake.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-15

Mr.. Thomas Will conduct nothing but first
class house, and cordial welcome will be e1
tended to all guests.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-15
UNITED STATES.

The Senate bill granting to the
State of California 5 per cent of the
net proceeds Of all cash sales of
public lands in the State, to aid in
support of its public or common
schools, and making an appropriation
for the purpose, was Nov. taken
up and passed.
President Miller of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and ST. Paul road has is
sued orders restoring all salaries af-
fecteG by the 10 per cent reduction
made about two months since. The
immense business done by the road
in the Worlds Fair traffic and the
generally improved business situation
is responsible for the order.
Brigadier-General o. w. Flagler,
chief of ordinance has made his an
nual report to Secretary Lamont.
1t shows the amount Of expenditures
during the fiscal year 1893 was 49,
702, ,202. Among the first matters
treated in the report was that relat-
ing to the inadequacy of the general
appropriation for arming and equip
ping the militia of the United States.
1t now appears that the murderer
of the Wrattan family, Stone, who
was Oct. 81 before the Grand Jury
at Washington, Nd, stated that
Charles S McCafferty, whose wife is
heir to the Wrattan estate, and
Robert Swanegan were among his
accomplices in the murder. Swane-
gan was brought before the Grand
Jury, but was not held. For some
reason McCafferty was not brought
in.
Sells Bros, circus men, have sued
the Providence of New South Wales
for $500, 900 damages and have
attached all the property OF that
province at the Worlds Fair. The
action grows out of the act Of the
New South Wales authorities three
years ago in quarantining their out
fit when they attempted to land
there on the ground of contagious
disease among the circus horses,
nearly half of them being afterward
killed. The suit is for consequent
loss
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-15
w olnan'S World.
Sonae Mhinls 81 Old Nur~es- Some fault.
In An Infants Wardrobe.
BABY CLOTHES.

Some whinas OF Old Nurses. Some kauit.
In An Infants Wardrobe.
The hardening proceSs, SO called,
of slight clothing and exposed legs
the low neeks and short sleeves of
our srandmothers are fortunately
out OF fashions a dangerous one in
this climate, and those who practice
it should clearly understand that
child 50 treated may be entirely free
from colds, yet suffer from the eff
fects of insufficient clothing in the
form of less vigorous growth. On
the other hand, writes DR.. Town
send in the Mothers Nursery Guide.
we must by all means avoid the OPP
posite extreme of too much clothing,
depressing the baby by its weight
rs well as by its excessive warmth.
This, unfortunately, is a common
mistake. Such babies are too warm,
they perspire frequently, have fire.
Quent heat rashes and are particu.
larly liable to take cold.
Avoid the two extremes; the baby
with cold hands and feet and chilled
legs needs more protection; the baby
frequently hot and perspiring is too
warmly clad.
The ordinary flannel band that is
pinned behind is Objectionable, as
there is always danger of its being
pinned too tightly, \ circular one
of elastic woolen material is to be
preferred; this can be knitted or
made of woven wooden. But the old
fashioned nurse will say, there is
need of tightly pinned binder to
prevent rupture. The answer is
that the tightly pinned binder is
more liable to cause rupture, and for
these reasons.
Rupture, or hernia, is forcing
OUT, under the skin, of some part of
the bowels from their proper place,
and in babies occurs either at the
navel or in either groin, the latter
being more common.
Now when baby takes deep
breaths, as in crying, the bowels
naturally move up and down. II
this movement is hindered by the
tight binder, the bowels seek some
outlet, and may be forced down
through the canals in the groins,
causing a rupture. Where there is
tendency to rupture at the navel,
the ordinary tight binder although
not aiding in it is insufficient to pre-
vent rupture; The pinning blanket
has several serious faults. In the
first place it generally covers the
chest with cotton or linen instead Of
wool, although the latter is some
times used. In the second place, it
requires to be pinned; and given
garment to be pinned, and woman
to pin it, the occupant of the gar
ment is sure to suffer from COM
preston, which is generally greater
the greater the neatness of the
woman.
The pinning blanket offers spec
lal inducement to tight pinning from
the fact that it is otherwise liable to
slip down having nothing over the
shoulders to hold it up, The average
woman is, l think, incapable of
realizing the tightness of garment,
being always used to tight gar
ment herself.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-15

Small growers of fruit should al
ways look for market near home,
and depend on that chiefly
In small dairies it pays to raise
the heifers which are to replenish
the herd.
There are many agricultural prod
ucts that have never been attempted
in this country, simply because at
tention has not been called to them.
Experiments are now being made
with view to widening our variety
OF production.
Enjoyment of the boasted comforts
of country life should be the watch
word of the home. The boy who is
compelled to sleep in hot attic,
while the cool bedroom remains
closed, awaiting no expected visitor
will not value his home, and why
should he? The best is none too
good for the owners-the parents
and their children.
The best quality OF meat is secured
from pig and not from a hog.
Therefore we should crowd our pigs
from birth so as to get them fit for
market at the earliest possible age
six months.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-11-15

A western man now in Egypt doe,
not think much of that country. the
pyramids" he says, "are simply big
stone piles. see nothing remarkable
about them except they were built by
remarkable fools. The sphinx is little
better; the old girl has lost her nose,
but it is quite pert yet. The finest in.
stitutiohs here are the American girl
who come over to see the land.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-26
Charleston People Demand Straight
Prohibition.

CHARLESTON, s. c., April pa new
move in the fight against the enforcement
Of the dispensary liquor law which is to
20 into effect July lat, was developed
here to-day. A meeting was held last
night by number of leading merchants
and property holders to consider the sit
uation, the counsel employed by the
LIQUOR dealers having advised that it
would be useless to attempt to resist the
law. Representatives of pretty nearly
every society in the city were present
and it was decided to send circulars to
the freehold voters of the city requesting
them not to sign the petition OF any per-
son applying for the position of State
dispenser OF liquor. Under the law a
majority of the freehold voters OF the city
must sign the application of anyone ap,,
plying to be appointed a dispenser and
the applicant must be teetotaler. In
Charleston there are, out Of q population
Of 65, 900, exactly 1,5l9 freehold voters, 80
that 760 of these must sign petition IN
order to have a State bar-room opened
here, The following is copy OF the cir
cular sent out by the meeting; "At a
meeting of the presidents.of the various
societies and citizeps of this city held at
Turner's hall on the 21st day Of April, ,
1898, the following resolution was adopt
ed:
"Resolyed, That the presidents Of the
various societies DO and are hereby re.
quested to urge upon their members and
others to use their influence with freehold
voters not to sign any petitions for Great
ing dispensaries in this city and County
and Chat a copy of this resolution be sent
to each society in the city and State. ~
SDecinZ 10 GreenUiEle NepS,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-26
Another LynchlDg In South Carolina.

DENMARK, S. c.. April 24.-The excite
ment Of the populaoe eliminated at 9
o'clock, in the lynohing of John Peterson
by an infuriated mob Of 500 persons, who
filled his body with bullets while it
dangled from tree. There Is every rea-
son to believe that Peterson was lnncent
and that the mob in its fury wreaked its
vengeance on the wrong person. Peter.
son had been suspected of the crime and
was hunted by the country people and
went to Columbia last Saturday and de-
livered himself to the governor for his
protection. The governor to-day turned
him over to constable to be taken to
Denmark, and wired deputy to have
present the Witnesses whom Pc
terson could establish all allbi for him.
Miss Baxter, as stated above, failed to
identify Peterson as hor assaulter in fact
she stated positively that he was not the
man. After her father came to town and
declared his daughter could not recognize
the man who assaulted her fire was added
to flame. Somebody had to die and some
body has died.
Peterson was carried up the railroad
track short distance. A moose was
placed around his neck and it was tied to
q bent sapling. Some one cried, "let 'er
co." and the unfortunate mans body
Shot up into the air filled by thousand
bullets. Peterson's hands and feet were
not tied and he must have swooned away
before his neck cracked. The crowd
stayed around awhile and fired bullets
into the body and dispersed.
COLUMBIA, S, c., April Ex-Governor
Tillman's action in allowing Peterson to
90 before the mob in its frenzied condi-
ton to be tried by Judge Lynoh's court
is meeting with severe condemnation
here. His action is regarded az having
been an invitation to the mob to take the
negro and pass upon his case in its own
way.-Dispatcb to atlanta Constitution.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-26
She Held Up Her Han.

TOPEKA, April 1.-THE advocates Of
equal rights have cause to congratulate
their sex upon another avenue recently
opened to women, though there have
been no bulletins sent out. A woman Of
Kansas City named Maria Pendry, which
is probably one of her many aliases, took
to the road as highwayman, or high
waywoman. Her first venture was g
financial success, but unfortunately for
her enterprise she was captured, and will
now serve two years term in the peni-
tentiary.
The woman "held up" her man In the
regular way, presenting revolver to biz
face aud demanding GLANDS upp' as be
came around corner, He obeyed, fol
there was very evidently shoot in her
eyes, and stood still while she riaed his
pockets. Resenting this invasion oi
mans domain, as we'll as the loss of his
money and watch, he hastened to the po-
lice station as soon as he was released
and policeman found her.
A woman IN this city, bright little
leader of the equal rights movement,
said "Why not7 I do not say, of course
that the calling she adopted was right
eous one, but why was she any more to
blame than man under the same cir
oumstauces 2"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-26

EIt ia not 80 many years ago since the
siestion. .sWho struck Billy Patterson f'
Rxs 8 common slang for any unanswera-
tis sproblsm. Few people, however, had
11ys idea that there was any real Billy
tatterson, or that anybody really struck
Hm. It turns out now that Billy was an
&k1M person, powerful man. with 9
81 like q sledge-hammer, and that be
tualiy received the blow, but was never
blo to find cut who it was that gave it.
aie Interesting event happened some
ttysyecrs since at Gainesville, Ga, and
Inv was so outraged by the blow that
oferad finally reward Of one thous-
|d dollars to any one who would reveal
IS identity Of the man that had the
dacity TO strike him. This reward, II
said, lis still awaiting claimant in the
snklin Comfy, Ga, court of record,
IA the daughter Of the man who struck
B historic blow is about to make claim
t The man that did it was George
riIiarton, who at the time lived at
a1klin, Ga. Hs was very careful not
SeYeal his tden sity to the enraged Billy,
8 sshen the reward was offered, moved
cf the country to New York, for fear
secret would in some way leak out.
s daughter, Mrs. Jennie g. Connolly,
Athoi, u. Y, is the only one now liv-
whofs acquainted with all the cir
nstancas, and it is said that sheis fully
80 establish the facts. "Who struck
fiy Patterson7" is no longer an unan-
afable con1ndrum.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-26
THE SHERIFFS IN THE SOUP.
Tho Unltod States Supreme Court Against
Them.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 24.--The
supreme court has denied the petition for
writ Of habeas corpus in the South Caro-
lina railroad tax case. This decision
leaves the matter in the hands of the
South Carolina Federal courts and the
sherifFs will have to stand the punish
ment ordered for contempt of court.
The decision was delivered by Chief
Justice Fuller. The case came up on
petition of Sheriff Tyler. of Aiken Coun-
ty, for writ of hdbeas corpus to release
him from Imprisonment under the judg-
lnent OF the circuit court Of the United
States; that he be fined $500 for contempt.
He had seized train on the South Caro-
lima railroad upon q warrant issued by
the State authorities for collection Of
taxes, which were in the controversy.
The road was in the hands Of receiver
appointed by the United States court and
be was adiudged guilty of contempt for
failing to release the property under
order Of the court. He came to the su-
preme court for relief.
Justice Fuller road an opinion contain
ing much stronger language than Is usu-
ally found in such documents, denying
the application of the petitioner for the
writ. He said the seizure of the property
by force was unjustifiable and could not
be defended. The claims of the State for
taxes are not superior to the general rule
which makes property placed in the
hands of receiver subject to the orders
of the court; they are to be determined
in the regular way and in proper man
ner. The action of the circuit court,
Chief Justice Fuller said, was in no sense
an action against the State of South Caro-
lima, which, it was concluded, could not
be maintained under the eleventh amend
ment to the constitution. In conclusion
he said the circuit court was equipped
with the fullest power to protect its dig
nifty and to enforce its mandates, and its
use of these powers in the case in point
could not be reviewed here. Therefore,
the petition for writ Of ha6eas corpus
was denied. The same judgment was
announced in the cases of Sherifs Riser
and Haines which came TO the supreme
court of the United States with Tyler for
relief-,Special to Greenvitle NeWs.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-26
Port Royal UnbOttled.

SAVANNAH, GA, April 23.-The decis-
ion of Judge Pardee In the case of the
Port Royal and Augusta Railroad has
been received. Mr.. Averill was appoint
ed receiver of the Port Royal Road by the
State Court and was directed by it to ap-
ply to Recorder Conner, Of the Ger 'ral
Railroad, for the possession Of the prop
erty, Averill asked the United States
Circuit Courts to order Conner to turn the
property over to him.
The Port Royal Road is fully organ
lied company and is not ipsolvent, but
passed into receiver Comers possession
as part of the Central Railroad, the Cen
tral owning the majority of it's stocks and
bonds. The Court orders Receiver Co.
mer to turn the property over to the Port
Royal and Augusta Company and dis
charges Receiver Conner.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-26
Clemson College Opening.

Mr.. Tindal returned yesterday from
Fort Hill, where he had been in attend
ance upon q meeting of the Clemson
Trustees. He said that the Board found
that work on the building was progress
ing finely and that there was no doubt
about the college being ready for opening
on July 6.
The question of electing resident
physician caused much discussion and
forty-six ballots. There were thirty
applicants for the place but finally DR..
T. j. Redfearne, Of Chesterfield, was cho-
sen.
Mr.. J. K. Wright, from Laurens, was
elected foreman Of the iron department OF
the shops. He has been in this business
for many years.
Mr.. Litton, who has heretofore been
doing the woodwork on the buildings,
chanical department.
Mrs. Fitzgerald Of Newberry was cleo
ted nurse aid m2tron.
A resolution was passed ordering a
more extended prospectus. It will give
fuller information about tho college
than has heretofore been published.
All desiring copy may get them
Hin.
On July q the State Alliance will visit
the college and will spend one day there.
The trustees will extend a cordial well
come to the members, and will do all il
their power to make the visit pleasant
one. An effort will also be made to get
some distinguished speaker, aud it is
hoped that Congressman Hatch can be
secured.
All the professors are requested and
expected to be at Fort Hill on June Goth
to arrange about rooms, classes, etc. The
Board did not elect President at this
meeting. The matter Of the selection of
an available man was left to committee,
which will report at the meeting to be
held the first Wednesday in Juns,-Cb-
l,lna6ia Register April 13.