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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
cealed in the clothing Of the old

S0esAoSA IL 4Ii0O1A1AAS VI otA0 #Vt0
man. g. % ls 5ess .s*=z &. S .-..5 st.s
The total value of the goods was
estimated to be nearly $11, 900. zss. s.s5,..
!: A loud laugh rang through the
room at the expression of dismay on
the old mans face. There was little
sympathy for him, but the position
of the poor old lady and her daugh-
ters was indeed pitiable. So. i. 5Ssss55
In the excitement of the moment +
did not think Of remarking the APP
pearance of the girls until "a an ex-
clamation from one Of the passengers
drew my attention to them. They
were no longer round and plump, as
just before leaving the ship, but had.
resumed their former lank appear
ance. -. r. f'- 9'Ts $as-E'3 <3.
ascertained later that the grea ter
part Of the jewelry had been con-
cealed in the clothing of the daugh-
ters. as the father had stupidity .im-
agined that, owing to, their youth,
they would not be suspected. i.
On my return voyage I learned
that the old man had been compelled
to pay double. duty on his goods.
Whether or not he ever made a sec:
ond attempt at smuggling / cannot
say. 1t was the last time he ever
crossed the Atlantic on board any
ship under my command. -Captain
Charles w. Kennedy, in Youth S
Companion. = -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
FLOWERS OF GUIANA.

OFchldS GROW IN Masses Around the
Trunks of Hugo Trees. Il
In padding up the smaller rivers
of Guiana the visitor is struck with
the beauty and variety Of the orchids.
and other epiphytes perched on
every limb and branch above his;
head, says Youngman's Magazine.
Coming from a temperate climate
where only moses, lichens and per-
haps q fern or two, can live under.
such circumstances, he sees great
arums, with rosettes Of leaves six or
eight feet in diameter, crowded:
groups of hard-leaved tillandsias,y
mistletoelike punches of rhipsalis,s
orchids, ferns and MOSES, all strug-}
Cling for places where they can find
room to enjoy. life. and propagate,
their species. ). ~. ].
In the dense gloom of the Forest.
where the branches interlace with
each other, they cannot. secure
enough light, but wherever the con-
tinuity is broken by river or savan-
nah, the trees on the borders are
decorated with wealth of these, in
teresting plants. = From the river;
nothing but a sloping bank offoliage.
IS visible, but by padding through
the outer screen; $ which comes down.
into E ater,; al scene is re- re-
yealed overhead. Although the di-
rect rays Of the sun are. shut out,
there is generally sufficient light for
the epiphites, and here they give
quite festive appearance to what
would otherwise be a tangle of bare
limbs and branches 2sg AZ ..-.- -
Down to the smallest twigs every
one is loaded with upright, dropping
Or hanging plants, some appearing
coarse and aggressive, others hand
some in both foliage and flower,
while delicate little orchids and
ferns among the moses are most
pretty and interesting. Where a tree
leans over the river, .or great
branches; stretch across a. creek,
these are covered with epiphytes,
the long, cord-ike, aerial roots of
some of them hanging from height
OF fifty feet or more and branching
out into dense,5 broom-like masses of
Il bers as they touch the water s57a /.
Even the trunks have great clumps
OF orchids wherever there is q suffi-
cheney Of light, while here and there
plant has made itself at home In the
midst of. a tangled mass OF bush
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
Can Plants See?.

Darwin gave it as his opinion that
some plants can see, and an Indian
botanist relates. some curious Incl
dents which tend to- verify this be-
lief; Observing one morning that
the ltendrils Ola convolvulus: on his
yerandah had decidedly leaned over
toward his leg ashe lay in an atti-
tnde of, repose, he tried series of
experiments with long pole, placing
it in such a position that the leaves
would have to turn. away. from the
light in order to reach it. ( In every
case ,he found that the tendrils set
tshiemselvessyisibly toward the pole,
and IN q few hours had twined them
selves closely around it. " zs..-... + 80
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02

enjoyment in Japan, China, and other
parts OF Far Cathay, the secretary's
order was recalled, the officer was
ordered back to his ship, from which,
by the way, he had removed but
few of his personal effects and his
wife remaining on the station, they
finally, after somewhat more than a
year, returned to the United States,
quite we'll pleased with the order ex-
cluding officers wives from the ben.
efts Of a foreign cruise.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
WILLOW AS A CROP,
Cutting Time Comes Once In Four Years.
f.. - But 1t PRys. sI

49, 70 f. e - Hut 1t K1ySs -.
In beautiful sweep Of low1and
north of Melvale station On the
Northern Central railroad, and about
nine miles from the city, there is
peculiar farm, says the Baltimore
American. It is; peculiar in that it
renders to. it's owner and tiller bit
one crop in four years and that a crop
of willow shoots.
The farmer, Antoine Spath, came
from Frankfort, Germany, many years
ago, and after erecting himself COM
Portable stone house, which still
stands in the midst of a picturesque
clump of willows at the end of the
little valley, set about planting his
first crop of willow shoots. Every
Year since he has gone on planting
row after row until the valley has
become: covered with them" Spath
had learned the art of weaving willow
ware in his boyhood days by the
shores of the river Main, and as ia St
as his little plantation grew he gath
cred the shoots, stripped them of
their green outer covering and after
drying them wove baskets of every
conceivable form or size
SIT seems rather peculiar work in
this country" said the willow far
mer in speaking of his business, ''but
in all parts of Europe, especially in
the German provinces, it is very
common thing to find willow plan
tations and willow weavers, for.
there willow is used in many forms
and for a greater number of purposes
thansI find it used in this country.
In Germany and France willow is
| employed in making at least twenty,
different sorts of bird cages, while
in America metal is used-brass or
iron wire and different woods. Among
the best families in European
countries cradles. woven by the,
German workers, may be found con
structed entirely of willow. Then
there are 9 buQdrsa and epe shapes
of marketing baskets, baskets Used
by milliners and laundresses, baskets
and panniers to be carried upon the
backs of men and beasts for holding
fish and fowl. = u
TO prepare the willow for the
weaver we plant the slips in long
rows, parallel. With running stream
of water, and cut them when they
have attained four years Of growth.
The cutting time is early in the
spring, before the sap is done run-
ming, and after tying them Ii bin:
dies they are placed il ponds 81
water to keep them in Green state
until ready for Stripping: Stripping
the willow is accomplished by draw.
ing the witches through and be-
tween tYo heavy iron. stanchions,
whose edges peel the light green
bark from the White heart, and then,
after drying or curing them upon
long racks, we have got the willow
in a form for the weaver.
I ''1t was many years after I planted
this farm With willows before any
one thought 3f initiating my example,
but now, there are Several other
plantations located upon the Wash
ington and Annapolis roads, and
though you may find, quite as busy
scenes there you will scarcely find
a more picturesque place than. this
anywhere, and that was one of
the reasons that led me to settle
| here
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
Tie, Persian Royal Family.

The shah of Persia has five sons
and thirteen daughters His three
married sons have ;stwenty-one chill
dren. The Persian official year book
mentions the royal j. family three
brothers and two sisters of the shah,s
while the uncles,z great-uncles and
cousins number 14O. .sss.s,s,.q- = 20, .zs:S
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
Couldn't Ring in "a; = Pun. on 81 Him.

Reporter---I wrote, '.Ihe instru-
ment was a genuine Stralivarius,
and you changed it to zone of the
latest makes. ~ Desk Editor-Well,
doesn't that express the same ideaP
What dive want to advertise this
Stradivarius for p Boston Tran scrint
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
Two Points of Vta-

What a deliciously lazy thing q
! hammock ann '' is" = said Miss Start, as she
sat in one. d g#z5= 6 s5s .t4.@ i 5.s St
'tHumph! >Lazy!" thought the ham
mock. ..She doesn't know how hard
i have to work holding her up. -,
Truth. u 5s5fa f@''s}<s Il. Is i & '# #ls..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
A FOOL KINGFISHER,
1t Persisted In Stealing an Anglers Bait
- rS5s and Came to Grief. :, !.

1t Persisted In Stealing an Anglers Bait
- : c5s and Gamezto Grief. Il
Now, let me tell you a little incl
dent orttwo that happened to me last
summer,4--, says correspondent of
the American Angler. One day, as
I was walking across the river bridge
with two friends and happened to
look down into the water, which,
by the way, is about forty feet dis
tant>from the bridge, I saw pickerel
about two feet long, lying there in
the clear water near the shore. I
told my friend to stay there and I
would get my rod and line and live
minnow and catch the fish. I did so
and put q nice little sinner on the
hook. i had an automatic reel with
ninety feet of line on, it. I let the
minnow down in the water, and it
hardly reached there before king
fisher came down from under the
bridge, seized my minnow and started
down the river. When he got the
line Strengthened out he let the min
now drop, and l supposed he went
on down the river, SO I started once
more to Acatch the pickereI, but had
hardly got: my line in shape again
when down came Mr.. Kingfsher and
took the minnow again: This time,
however. he went back to the bridge.
and after g moment or, two. let the
minnoW fall back in the river. and [
then went after the pickerel again,
and for the third time down came
Mr.. sKingfsher, but he got the hook
along with the minnow and I held
him fast. He flew straight up in the
air and ] let him have the whole
ninety feet Of line; then!1 reeleds him
in from the sky and you never heard.
such q noise as he made, but landed
him all right then took him and
showed him to all the fishermen in
town and then let him go, and he
went back to the bridge. .ar.A
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
Nothing to Foatrr. Z

Jims son--I tell you what it is, old
boy. You onght to see DR.. Cureall
about your case. 81.
Sick Friend--To be frank with you,
! am little afraid of doctors.
Jimson--- Oh, you needn't be afraid
OF CurealL He isn't a regular doctor.
New York Weekly.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
Bostonese.

Emma-What's that noise? it
sounds as though they were pound
ing beefsteak. Jane on guessed
right; but We always speak Of the
performance as. rendering a ban
quet. Boston Transcript.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
Providing for Posterity.

: - FroViuIhg riuIhg TOT Posterity.l = @:*.te
\: President promised Jones an off
fee, didn't he?''' . III #.sF,f$4 .,Iz I.
Yes =sss sss5.. III. &Ixz9se;. -,
Sls5'.And l5 now Jones is dying?'' 5sa1ss..s
s.1es; couldn't wait any longer.
But he's made a will and left it to-
his grandchildren when they grow
up. Atlanta Constitution. ss
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02
THE WoolNG OF THE WIND

Rose OF dusk, didst ever :-3 z, ~
Regard the seas refrain? .. ,S,
That is no love that never
Returns with time again. ~
Because am the saddest
or things beneath the sun :, ffss% !
because thou art the gladdest s.. g5r4
That ever he looked on ss5..,s.
: Because no ways to:wander 4f&"
Allure me any more, sA-ft. TE7 ~
With white sea dreams to ponder -
All day beside thy door go
Because there's not rover -
But wearies on q day So
! And not . faithless lover :EbEs g. :!
But sorrow doth repay 5:.E
/: I rove the world of shadows; Il el14 !
Awraith OF the blue RAIN z<-lh
- And in the dawn's deep meadow 80.
eturn to thee again. ,', :STssssSsrrss p
- - = --Lippincott's Magazine,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-02

Joseph Maytub1ey. a full blooded
Ehoctaw Indian, has been awarded the
highest honor for oratory at the
Trinity College. Durham, n. c., COM
mencement.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-07

England, France. and the Continent
have a fine trade and are largely under
contract for their goods.
The world was led to believe during
the summe that the current crop
would be s, 900, 900 bales and more than
their requirements.
Since then, estimates have been
modified, but they still believe that the
crop is much larger than it is.
The Agricultural Bureaus report, if
it means anything, indicates a crop less
than last year, which if true, would
materially increase the price of your
chief product. You have been a .cused
of holding back your cotton. Whether
it be true or false it has had the effect
of advancing prices one and one quarter
cents per pound.
AS the market is principally infu-
enced by the movement of the crop,
the object of this letter is to suggest to
all those who have not urgent liabili
ties to meet, that after November 15t
you keep all your cotton on your farms
for a period of two weeks and then
market slowly and watch the effect on
the market.
If sent to the towns or ports and held,
it has no influence as 1T is counted.
f, Others combine, and why not we9
This effort to advance the price Of
our product no doubt will be criticised
by the spinners and buyers of cot
ton, and all kinds of evil will be pre-
dicted, but since we accomplish our
object we will be satisfied.
If we succeed the farmers will then
know what to do in other years when
the price is below the cost of produc-
ton.
To accomplish our object it will be
necessary for each one who receives a
copy to read it to his neighbors, bring
it before the Alliance, if you have such
an organization, and in fact give it
wide publication so that on the day
named, and for two weeks thereafter,
not a bale be moved from the farms.
The market may not feel the inlu,
ence of the light movement until the
second week, but it surely will re
spond.
1t does not cost any thing to make the
experiment.
Respectfully, A FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-07
FRUIT CULTURE.

A bulletin (No. 92) is now ready for
mailing, on the subject of fruit culture
by the N. G. Agricultural Experiment
Station at Raleigh. 1t contains 148
pages and is improved by having 81
cuts to illustrate the various subjects.
1t is very comprehensive in scope, en-
b~racing two general heads. The first
includes propagation, planting and
culture Of fruit trees and fruit bearing
plants, and the preservation and ship
ping of fruits. The second head EN-
braces insects and diseases affecting
fruit trees, plants and fruit, with rem
edies for their destruction. The pub
LEGATION is copiously illustrated with
cuts showing how to graft and propa-
gate fruit trees and vines and train and
pl them; also cuts of insects and
how diseases affect them, together with
appliances to destroy these enemies.
1t is a manual for growing fruit trees
and keeping them, as we'll as for the
care of fruits in reference to gathering,
packing, shipping, drying, preserving,
and canning them. Varieties of fruits
are described, as well as those most
suitable to various sections Of North
Carolina.
This publication will be sent free to
all residents of the State who apply,
ana to outsiders who send 10 cents in
stamps. Apply to DR., H. B. Battle,
Director, Raleigh, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-07
THE BANANA TRADE

Before 1860 the banana trade in Nov
York was such that 500 punches of ba.
nanas were too much for the New York
fruit market, and they could be worked
off only with great difficulty. Until
thirty years ago the importation of ba-
nanas was confined to the three spring
months, and it was not until 1879 that
the first steamers were chartered as
fruit carriers for the West Indian
trade, and the business has developed
so rapidly that for the twelve months
up to the first of last July 1873 steamers
have been engaged in carrying bananas
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-07
GRAZING RYE AND BARLEY.

How soon land. may be grazed after
sown to rye and barley for this pur-
pose depends on uncertain conditions
the main items of which are the
weather and state of fertility, and
moisture of the field in which the grains
are sown. If favorable weather &C.
companies and follows the deposit Of
the seed II a rich moist soil, it will be
nicely vegetated within a week, and
by one or two more weeks might be
lightly cropped if desired. But If the
ground is soft it would be best to hold
stock off until the plants have filtered,
and are covering the ground with a
green carpet, which will take several
weeks more. Four to six weeks may
be soon enough to begin grazing, re
gard being made to growth and best
treatment of the plants grazed.
How much grazing can be done on a
given area is quite as uncertain and
depends On the same conditions. The
Judgment of the grazier in removing
the stock when the roots are likely to
suffer from exposure to sun or teeth by
too close cropping, or when by packing
the too wet soil harm may be done, is
also an important factor in this case.
The skill with which the stock is
handleds.and numbers apportioned to
keep the growth cut Off enough not to
out-grow a gooding height, and avoid
cutting too short and packing, will be
the controlling factor after grazing has
begun.-E M. Emery, AgrtcultHrist,
~ @. Experiment Station.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-07
ALEXANDER COUNTY MDS>

Mr.. EDIToR:-Alexander
lance, in session assembIad dOo u
passed the following resolnt Oct. d
Re8oIUed, That We heartT%uS;
the proceedings of the Iaat wy y endora
ance meeting, especially tba @'afe Ali
latlng to the di~stricting Of tba part se
that we may be furnished wig 0tate 8
officer to address us at }''u a STATE
meeting. quarterly
2. That we heartily end.
champion Of reform from SrSe tie
lima, Senator Iroy, Tie opIv tou'h Caro-
in that body, for s.t. .aq.i /. "uV larnes
stand and for his most a,io "'tu heroic
the Se~natefor the free coinoa "Oores8 10
and against the unconditjono7T u silver
the Sherman law. 'epsaI of
3. That we sincerely call
ator Vance not to give IN H. opon Sen.
a compromise with the sbvIo sI'lte by
we do ask him to stand firm 1,'t Is but
cause. 'oF our
4 That we return thanks
brothers and sisters Of PonIar . " toe
Sub Alliance for the very pano, springs
hospitable manner in which tbou and
entertained this honoraoIo Ivy aaTe
especially for the very splendid, ant
rendered by our sister, Miss u woSe
Warren, and we now dissenbL ,OoR
renewed association as a brotbas, WHO
Long live this noble Order" u0O0
5. That our County Sacretarr
quested to send all the procaoiin W e.
this meeting with request that f5 os . u
published in The PROGRESSIVE P,pSn "
Hickory Mercury and Cuucosion
W. W. TEAerp
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-07

between the West Indies and the United
States. The trade has grown until 1893
the receipts of bananas in New York
amounted to 3 us, 625 punches. New
Orleans is also one of the most impor-
tant ports for the banana in this u
try, the enormous quantity of 4,483,3 5l
punches having passed into that city
from Central America during last year.
From New Orleans the bananas are
quickly and cheaply distributed by
special trains throughout the entire
Mississippi valley, and the fruit is often
cheaper in Chicago than in New York.
The total importations into all the
United States ports during the last
wear we're IL, 695, 1856 punches, weigh
ing about 1926 900 tons. The cargoes
range from 5000 to 80 900 punches,
and are frequently disposed Of at auc
ton. AS much as 50 per cent. of the
fr1it received in Boston and New York
is of the yellow variety, and all the red
bananas are received from BaracOa.
The most delicate and delicious bananas
are occasionally had from Aspinwall,
and the trade is now SO great that
steamers are being built expressly to
carry this merchandise in a state of
ventilation that leaves it in this coun-
try in q good condition.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-11-07
WAKE COUNTY E T

BRETHREN The following circular
letter speaks for itself. The spirit of
it was adopted at the meeting of Wake
County Alliance on the 25th ult., with
the request that it be published in The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, and that all the
Alliances and the public generally
abide by the same.
Respectfully and ~fraternally,
L. N. RANEs, Sec.
NATCHEz, Miss, Sept. 90, 1898.
To the Farmers Of the SOWth:-The
price of cotton is in your own hands.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-06
IMMIGRATION.

A Washington dispatch announces
that "the local Federation of Labor,
embracing twenty-eight trades in the
District of Columbia" has petitioned
congress to suspend immigration for
five years. This is in line with similar
action taken by labor organizations in
other parts of the country, but it has a
special significance from the fact that it
may be taken as fairly representative
of the feeling at the national capital on
this important subject, and from the
further fact, as recited in the press dis
patches, that two-thirds of the men at
the meeting which put this labor fed
GRAFTON OH record as opposed to immi-
grafton were themselves Of foreign
birth.
That foreign-born citizens should be
foremost in demanding suspension Of
immigration is, after all, natural
enough. These people come from the
crowded districts of Europe, and it is
difficult for them to at once realize this
country's capacity for receiving and as
similating the thousands who annually
flock to our shores. Once safely landed
themselves, these immigrants begin to
be apprehensive lest old-world condi-
tons shall follow them here. They are
afraid of being crowded, and afraid of
too much competition in bread winning,
while the native-born American laughs
at the very mention of such possibilities.
This applies only to those Immigrants
who remain in the large cities and fac
tory towns, and belong to what is known
as the laboring class. When they get
out of the cities and into the fields and
ranges CT the West, they realize that
there is no present danger of over
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-06
Read 1t in Person.

HELENA, Mont, Jan. 6.-The legis-
lature convened in joint session this
morning to hear the governors mes
sage. Gov. Richards read it in person,
the delivery occupying over an hour.
1t was conceded on all sides to be an
able document. The vote for United
States senator will not be taken until
Jan. II.
Both houses Of the legislature ad-
iourned shortly after hearing the gov
errors message. Nothing in the way
of legislation can be done until the COM
mittee on rules reports. This Is looked
for tomorrow. Gov. Richards message
pronounced in favor of several impOr-
tant measures. An amendment to
the election laws to prevent bribery is
strongly urged. He recommends that
the registration law be changed so that
voters can register at their own polling
place any time up to within few days
of the election. The placing of the
names of candidates, in parallel
columns on Australian ballots is
also urged, so that a straight
ticket for any party can be voted with
a single mark. He also recommends
the enforcement by legislation of pro-
vision of the constitution excluding
Pinkertons or other armed bodies of
men, not authorized by law, from this
state. Liberal irrigation laws are Sug-
gested, and memorials to congress ask
ing for a free silver law are recon-
mended.