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Jones' Success with scratch" Crew

Jones' Success with scratch" Crews
One of the strangest things in Paul
Jones career was the success he
achieved with scratch" crews. In
his greatest fight, contemporary his
tory says, he had 'as bad a crew as
ever was shipped" being made up of
all nations, among them Maltese, Por-
tuguese, and Malays, who did not al
ways comprehend the word of COM
mand. Paul Jones has been severely
denounced for having returned to the
place of his birth bent on destruction;
but, as Cooper justly points out, an
officers oath obliges him to do all in
his power to harass the enemy; and 1t
was not only Paul Jones right, but
his duty, to use his knowledge Of the
Scotch and Irish coasts in the prosecu-
ton Of the war. If he had any feel
ing on the subject, 1t would have been
his duty to suppress it. But Paul
Jones probably had no feeling what
ever, except resentment. He had left
his native land as a child, and upon
his last visit he had been cruelty i'll
used, as he thought; and he did his
duty on this cruise with no more re-
pugnance than he would have felt at
doing 1t elsewhere-and did it merci.
fully.-Century.
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by a new capitol might be erected mt
Providence and the old one retired.
A bond issue Of 81, 800, 900 was author
lied. Many were the designs which
were submitted, until at last one was
decided upon.
Differing in many particulars from
the antique, the style of the work can
not be called classic. 1t represents the
French treatment of the classic, is
wrought out honestly and purely, and
almost better than any other State
House In the country satifies the aes-
thetic demands of variety and unity
without the smallest sacrifice Of char
acter. 1t will be built Of white mar
BILE, on balustrade terrace Of pink
granite, In a park of seventeen acres,
on the crest Of one of the seven hills
which give variety of interest to the
city Of Providence. No architectural
impression worth experiencing Is to
be had without the aid from the factor
Of height. Thus the special fortune of
this building is that it can crown Cap
itoline Hill.
Its dome at its highest point will rise
314 feet above tide-water. Not only
will 1t be visible to every county In the
State, which is not surprising, but to
parts Of Connecticut, and all but the
remoterl parts Of Massachusetts,.
From end to end the structure will
measure 325 feet; from ground to apex
Of dome, 234 feet. On the first floor
1t is planned to have department offices
and vaults for storage. On the second
story, In one wing, will be the Senate
chamber, an exact reproduction Of the
old Senate chamber in the capitol at
Washington, regarded as one Of the
best audience-rOOms in the world; and
in the opposite wing the hall of Repre-
sentatives. Library, State, reception,
committee and other rooms will be con-
veniently connected with each. Light
will come from above to the halls of
legislation (architecturally, that is); the
rotunda will have height of 140 feet
and Il diameter of % feet; and one OF
the remarkable effects attained by the
arrangement of the story will be q
clear vista Of full 200 feet from the
hall of Representatives through the
rotunda and two statuary halls to the
Senate chamber
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ment. His men are as murderous as
himself. All but one are In the vigor
Of life; they are from 20 to 40 years Of
age, and extremely secretive. Wrapped
In their burnous, flowing robe, silent
and immovable they await their prey.
They have slain, robbed and cheated,
but, strange to say, only their own
compatriots, for there Is no record of
any white man having been molested
by them, and for this reason they look
upon the interference of strangers as
uncalled for and unfair.
Areski has been many times caught,
ana even sentenced, but until now has
contrived to escape by the aid Of false
witnesses. Unfortunately for him he
committed the grave error Of murder
ing man with pull" His last vic
tim, an Arab sheikh, Abdul-Reschid
by name, held friendly relations with
the French governor general Of AL
geria. While carrying the tribute Of
several natives villages to Algeria, he
was captured, robbed OF the money
and put to death with horrible tor
ture.
He was beaten with rods of the
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How the Graceful Creature Kills It's
Enemy, the Rattlesnake.

How the Graceful Creature Kills Its
Enemy, the Rattiesnake.
The antelope, which in former years
was common In Western North Amer
lea, is now rarity. 1t may be found,
however, on both sides Of the Sierra
Madre, Mountains, reaching down into
Mexico, where 1t Is still hunted.
A full-grown male antelope stands
about seven feet eight inches at the
withers and Is about five feet In length.
The general color is Of yellowish brown
In the back and upper portions, with
white below. The animal Is a type OF
grace and activity. Itsslimbs are long,
slender and delicate, terminating in
sharp, knife-like hoofs, that are often
used as weapons, especially when the
antelope meets a rattlesnake. At such
q time the 1.-THE animals are much ex-
cited, and the one possessed of the
most courage possibly will undertake
the act of executioner. This 1t accom-
plishes by leaping into the air, bring
Ing its hoofs together in point so that
they come down upon the coiled SER
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which is the large sap tub into which

which is the large sap tub into which
the sap from the buckets is poured.
An orchard of 700 or 800 or even 1000
trees need not require the farmer to
hire help, If he has two or three men or
boys i'm the family besides himself.
From an orchard Of 700 trees an ordi-
nary run of sap for two days will en-
able the farmer to collect about eighty
barrels. Sometimes sixty barrels of
sap can be collected from 700 trees in
one day.
As soon as the men begin collecting
the sap, the fires in the big evaporator
furnace must be started, and the boil
ing of the sap begun as fast as 1t is
brought in, so that none will be wasted
by souring, or the quantity brought
from the woods may not so far exceed
the accommodations at the house that
while waiting TO get room for 1t much
will be wasted at the trees. At the
time when the sap is running freely the
farmer must often keep the fires going
and the sap boiling all through the
night, and, of course, he Is likely to
have to work all day Sunday and Sun
day night as any other time OF the
week. 1t is all-important that he make
hay while the sun shines"
When the work Is hardest the fun Is
at its best Those who have but a small
orchard will ''spare" some of the fam
lily to help a relative or neighbor
through sugaring. And the sugar par
ties-what one Of Vermont's sons OF
daughters ever forgcts them? The snow
is still upon the ground, and as night
comes on the clear cold air upon the
rock-ribbed hills brings the color to
the cheeks and quickens the step. And
the smell of good maple syrup-well
perhaps, that may have something to
do with quickening the step; but the
young people are not long on the road
TO a sugar party. The time 1t requires
to go from n sugar party varies. An
average computation has never been at
tempted; for, as at husking bees, the
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Sometimes a small branch of stripped
maple or beach is dipped into the ket-
tie and you have the fun of twirling 1t
until it cools. Then you break Off the
candied branches.
The modern evaporator makes 1t pos
sible to do much sugar making In a
short time. The evaporator is made of
tin, copper or galvanized iron, and Is
so constructed that the sap flows In at
one end, and, by means of partitions
extending nearly across the pan, is
made to take zigZag course to the
other end, where it IS drawn Off as
syrup. The sap in the pan Is kept
shallow-about one-half inch in depth
and evaporates very rapidly. Rapidity
of evaporation is greatly to be desired,
not only on the score Of time but be-
cause the sooner sap Is converted into
syrup after 1t runs from the trees the
lighter will be the color and the finer
the flavor of the syrup and sugar.
The sugar house is rough little
building, with shed half full Of we'll
dried cordwood for the boiling fire. The
room is mainly occupied by the boiling
apparatus. with the bunk Of the man
who has to watch the pans Of boiling
sap day and night One side Is taken
up by the oven, which is built on bed
Of brick and consists Of two brick walls
about two feet apart, 21a feet high and
II feet long, with an iron door at the
end near the shed entrance to the
house. A huge, old-fashioned brick
chimney stands at the other end, where
there also is a sort of square, brick
furnace to hold big kettle. In the
roof, near the center Of the ridge pole,
a large slot opens to the sky as an es-
cape for the steam, which rises in
heavy volumes from the pans on the
fire.
The sap as it comes from the maple
tree Is like water and has barely any
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more flavor than good water. But it
doesn't take much heat to produce fiav-
or. A barrel of good sap will make a
gallon of syrup or eight pounds of SUI
gar. After being reduced to syrup in
the evaporator the product is allowed
to cool and settle, more or less of i'm
purities being precipitated by standing.
The syrup is now ready for putting into
cans for sale. The size mostly in use is
one gallon. The proper consistency of
syrup is generally conceded to be IL
pounds to the gallon, and this degree of
density is reached at 219 degrees Fab
renheit. The sap is never made into
more than syrup in the eyaporator.
Then it is poured into large porcelain
lined kettle to be boiled to sugar. If
wanted for sugar the boiling is contin-
ued until the thermometer indicates
232 degrees for pail sugar, or 23S or
240 degrees for cake, when the mass Is
removed from the fire, stirred briskly
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In the Moon.

1t is generally supposed that there is
no atmosphere (at least, no such at
mosphere as We have) In the moon, for
these reasons: first, no clouds have
ever been observed, second, stars,
when the moon passes before them,
disappear instantly instead of gradu-
ally, as they would If a strongly re.
fracting atmosphere surrounded it.
No water has ever been observed; and
this Is also another reason why there
Is no atmosphere, for water would
certainly produce an atmosphere of its
own vapor, even II no other gas exist
ed to form It eN
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thorny hibiscus common to the coun-
try, his hands land feet were cut on,
his tongue torn out by the roots, and,
to finish all, his eyes were put out and
he was stabbed to death with hum
dred wounds. The colonial govern
ment at once sent an overwhelming
force of native police and French
military to capture lei Bachir and his
band and they succeeded.
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young man has the girl Of his choice
II he can get her.
At the party the hot sugar Is dropped
upon the snow and forms into frogs"
and various other imaginative repro
ductions of animal life before 1t is con-
sidered at the stage Of perfection for
eating. Some have bowls of snow and
saucers Of hot sap, and the great fun
Of a "sugarlng of" party Is to sit out
on the wood pile, covered with buffalo
skins, and candy" the sugar by pour
ing a spoonful on the snow In the bowl
and eat 1t with doughnuts and crullers.
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"HE season of maple sugar max
ing comes at time when the
- farmer could not profitably en-
ploy his time otherwise, usually about
March 10, and continues three or four
weeks according to the weather. Sap
will run only when the temperature Is
at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and stop run
ming as soon as frost is out Of the
ground, or directly after the snow Is
gone Sometimes the cold weather con-
tinues so late In the spring that 1t Is
nearly April 1 before the thermometer
goes above 30 degrees. In 1893 the
farmers in Vermont did not tap the
trees until the latter part of March.
Last year the tapping began about
March 8 or 8.
AS soon as the weather Is favorable
the farmer gets out his buckets and
sets to work tapping his maple trees as
quickly as possible. The maple trees
are tapped by boring the trunks with q
small bit-usually half-inch-about ~
inches deep, and from one to three feet
above the ground. Trees are not tap
ped until they are about one foot in
diameter. After tapping, spout made
Of clean maple, beach, tin or galvanized
iron and fitted with hanger for hold
ing the bucket is driven firmly into
the hole made by the bit; bucket of
tin or wood is hung upon the spout, and
the tapping process is finished. The
buckets are ordinary water pals. gen.
orally all alike, and each farmer usually
paints all his buckets one color.
Only one hole is bored in young trees,
but 1t is not uncommon to have as
many as half dozen buckets, with two
spouts each, hung to naples of large
size. If the bucket fills with sap in a
day the run is good one, although
twice this amount is obtained in ex-
ceptionally favorable sap days. What
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is called "good-sized" sugar orchard
will contain from 500 to, 800 trees. There
are many orchards Of 1,500 trees, and
In the northern and central parts of
Vermont orchards Of 1000 to 1000 trees
are not uncommon. When the sap be-
gins to run well the farmer and all his
family must work hard. A man with
large farm will employ help outside Of
his family frequently, and use two or
three pairs of oxen or horses to make
the rounds of the trees with a sled on
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The Banjo.

photographers have agreed that
"banjo" is corruption of the Spanish
"bandore," which has words Of simi-
lar sound, spelling and significance In
many tongues. 1t Is quite likely that
the Arabs, In their conquest or by
trade, may have introduced the guitar
and banjo into Western Africa, whence
1t was brought to this country.
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First Foreign Salute 20 Our Flag.

First FOrefgn salute 20 our rag.
In Quiberon Bay there was q great
French fleet under the command of
Admiral La Motte-Picquet, and from
him Paul Jones obtained what he
claimed to be the first foreign salute
ever given the American flag. 1t is
true that the governor of one of the
Dutch West India Islands had got in
trouble the year before for saluting
the American flag; but La Motte-Pic-
quet's was undoubtedly the first direct
and unqualified salute. 1t was not
obtained without some address as well
as boldness on Paul Jones part, as
the alliance between France and the
United States was not then signed;
but when the French admiral agreed
to salute. he did 1t courteously, pay
ing the compliment of having his guns
already manned when Paul Jones sail
ed through the fieet-Century.
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for short time, and then poured into
tin pals or cake moulds, as the case
may be, to harden.
The cake moulds are often series of
parallel partitions on a large wooden
board, with spaces in them about three
inches apart and tust wide enough to
admit n knife blade The moulds are
dampened with sponge, then the hot
sugar poured In. Little fancy tins are
also used for moulds. The farmer gets
anywhere from 10 to Is cents per pound
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IL May he Seen from Every County In
al the State. sis 81 "A i
Newer States and richer, having ten
or twenty or even thirty times Rhode
Islands resources. may indulge their
pride In one great and splendid capi-
tol. But Little Rhody has preferred
instead TO keep two capitols, one ut
Newport and one at Providence. Neith-
er OF these has been adequate and her
lawmakers have felt for long time
as though they were unduly crowded.
So In 1892 provision was made where
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Mrs. Peck-Thls paper says that a
sea captain says that In times of great
disaster women are more cool than
men. Mr.. N. Peck-I have seen In
stances of 1t. "You? I'd like to know
when" when they were getting
married. Indianapolis Journal.
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Carter Ii. Harrison at the corner of
Ashland and Jackson boulevards. 1t
was there that Chicago's Mayor died
by the assassin's hand on Oct. 2S. 1893.
The house stands well back from the
street, surrounded by lawns and trees,
in which Mr.. Harrison took such de-
light and pride. Patrick Eugene Prem
dergast, the murderer in this case, paid
the penalty of his crime upon the scnf-
fold
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AN AFRICAN BRIGAND.
Vowed to Kill a Man for Every Year
He Lived.

He Lived.
In Algeria, northern Africa, the
French captured and sentenced to
death the most ferocious and success
full brigand that the modern world has
known. Areski-elBachir is the name
Of this bandit and he belongs to the
Berber tribe which inhabits the Kaby-
les country and which claims its de-
scent from Ham, the son of Noah.
Areski Is 45 years of age and boasts
that in accordance with VOW he slew
a man for each year of his life. How
many more he disposed of In the way
Of his business Is not known.
At the head of a band Of % robbers
Areski has terrorized all Kabyles, and
set at defiance the forces sent against
them by the French colonial govern
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Let Us All Laugh.

She (after the unmasking)-I see that
strawberries are on the bill of fare,
George. He (nervously) Yes, but they
are very sour ut this season of the
year. She-Of course; but 1 think
will take a few. One cannot expect
strawberries to be at their best In
March, you know.-Harlcm Life. q"
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for his sugar. and from 70 cents TO u
a gallon for his sIrup. A sugar maple
produces on an average about 3h
pounds OF sugar during season
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bination stream and spray nozzle. The
ring over the end of the bell of the
latter serves only to keep the ball in
position when not in use. The ball
touches neither the ring nor the sides
of the nozzle. when u stream is flow
ing
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Borrowell-"What would you do IL
you were me7~ Buggins-"Pay myself
the $40 you owe ple."--Philadelphia
Record. =,
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The only friends who are not ashamed
of you In your shabby clothes are the
friends whose clothes are shabbler
than your own.
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No one hates you quite so flercely
as the dead beat who owes you money.
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Scenes Of Two Cruel Crlmcs Which
Have Horrifed Chicago.
At the corner Of Ada street and Wash
ington boulevard, Chicago, there still
stands the house which. for long
time. was grewsome object Of inter-
est to everybody In the city. Seven
years ago at some time during the night,
A. ]. Smell was murdered In his house,
handsome mansion, 425 Washington
boulevard. The details Of the tragedy
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SO few women know how to use dry
goods after they get them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-22
A TALE FROM TARSUs.
No Americans Were harmed in the Re
ported Outrages.

No Americans We're harmed in the Re-
ported Outrages.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22.-Acting Secre-
tary Adee today received a note from
Mavroyen Bey. the Turkish minister to
the United States, saying that the Turk
ish government had informed him
thorough investigation had been made of
alleged outrages on Americans at Tarsus,
The result of these Investigations he
wrote, was to the effect that the
cook in the family of Prof. Christie of
ST. Pauls institute at Tarsus had been
assaulted by native Turks and that no
Americans were concerned in the mat
ter nor injured. The minister also stat
ed that the Turkish offenders would be
tried and punished.
The state department expects to re-
ceive information on the same affair from
United States officials in Turkey, as Min
lister Terrell advised the department
some time ago that he had taken steps to
have the matter investigated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-22
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
CHICAGO 1TARKEr LETTER.

Furnished by Topeka Grain and stock Ex-
change. Room 3. Columbian Building.
Wheat-Another weak and depressing
day in the pit Feeling at the opening
strong on some good buying by the COM
mission houses like Schwartz, Dupee,
Farnum and Logan. This buying was
again put down as covering up hedges
on northwestern account but after it was
over the market was left without mater
ial assistance from any quarters Cuda-
nv started in to fill the crowd and
the return of Partridge from
his vacation was e supposed to
be factor in the market. The wealth
er was favorable for harvesting in the
spring wheat districts. Cables were
weak from the beginning, with slight
rally in Liverpool Berlin, Paris and
Antwerp all lower. No business from the
outside, and in fact the bears were in
complete possession of the pit and using
every effort to smash prices. Northwest
ern reports were moderate, clearances
fair at 100000 wheat and -four.
The Price Current saw no reason for
reducing the wheat yield, and their for
mer estimate still obtains. 1t spoke
of a tendency to increase market
ing, and if any exists it is so small
that it is not discernable. No one
ever saw the situation SO strong and the
market so weak. Speculation is a dead
standstill for the present and lack of
outside business results in slow dragging
markets.
Corn and Oats Conditions prevailing
in the corn belt were we'll nigh perfect
and the selling was again the predomi-
mating feature. Oats steady.
Provisions were only fairly active.
Armour's brokers were not conspicuous
lower all around. The close was only at
a moderately rally from the low prices
Hogs at the yards $4,000 head, and 5 to
10c lower