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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-01-10
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-01-10

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for sale stamped from steel except
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-01-10

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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26

done in agriculture by q single irriga-
tion community if properly managed.
However, the States themselves will
determine the manner of development,
and they will probably do it speedily.
But whatever plans are adopted the
approved irrigating methods now sue
cessfully followed by individual capi-
talists and communities in the now re-
claimed deserts in the West will doubt
less be pursued to greater or less de-
gree, enormous dams and storage
reservoirs being used to collect and
save the surface water as it flows down
the mountain sides in springtime, and
distributing canals and ramifying
bitches being utilized to apply the
water to the crops.
By these irrigating methods 25, 000,-
600 acres of land, chiefly in California,
Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana,
Utah and New Mexico have already
been reclaimed within the past twelve
years, and a large proportion of the
irrigating works employed there, Gre.
ated by American engineers, will
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26
A GAY Scene.

No more brilliant scene can be i'm.
agined than q dancing palace in the
Isle of Man at what may be called high
tide. The floor is immense; four or
five thousand young women are dane
ing on it; the young men in tennis
fannels and colored scarfs, the
young women in light muslin and
straw hats. You sit in the gallery and
look down. Sometimes the white
lights in the glass roof are covered
with red and blue and yellow, and
these tints are cast on to the dancers.
This simple artifice is astounding in
it's effects. The mere sense Of size
and the presence Of so much life must
count for q great deal. You have to
witness the scene in order to realize
it's extraordinary fascination. The
low buzz Of the dancers feet, the
clang and clash Of the brass instru-
ments, the boom Of the drum, the
quake of the great glass house itself,
and the low rumble of the hollow
floor beneath-it is like one thing only
that / can dream Of or imagine-a
battlefield set to music.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26
Roman House Heaters.

Methods used by tho Romans for
warming their houses were clever. In
Rome its,lf artificial warmth may have
been broug ght rarely into use, though
The Italian winter requires fires ut
times, but when the Roman took up
his abode abroad as the conquereor he
certainly lived In chilly climates. In
the country houses he built in England
be had carefully devised heating Or
rangements, which are called hypo-
causts. These are flTes running under
the tcssellated floors. Fires were lit
outside Of the house, and the hot air
passed under the floors. To do thus
much required q knowledge Of tho
builders art, with the necessary pre-
cautions against fire. Remnants OF
these hypocausts are found to-day in
England, built during the Roman oc-
cupation.
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of 1877, throwing open the desert
lands 1ndiscriminately to settlement,
resulted in attempts by large syndi-
Gates to snatch the sites of water
courses and other vital points suitable
for the location of dams and reser-
voirs.
This would have amounted eventu-
ally to a pre-emption of the whole re-
gion-almost entire States-as posses
sion of the water would entail neces-
sarily the possession of the land too,
for the mere land without water
rights would be worthless. Accord.
ingly, by subsequent acts the lands
containing reservoir sites were with
drawn from public entry and costly
Investigations were made by the Geo
logical Survey for data with which to
prepare maps of reservoir sites. BY
further supplemental acts the with.
drawal provisions were repealed, but
the right of way for bitches and canals
was reserved by the Government.
But the lands continued in a desert
condition and unsettled, and so Con-
rress was at last prompted to turn
them over to the States in whose bor-
ders they are located, to work out
their salvation as best they may.
Various schemes are now proposed
in these new States to avail themselves
of the desert land donations. One
plan is for the States to build irriGa-
tion works with labor brought from
the oyercrowded cities of the East and
Middle West and to pay for that labor
half in cash and hnlf in land, the land
to be occupied when the irrigation
works are finished. Another project
is to establish a model irrigation
farming colony in some typical desert
distric. 10 demonstrate to the outside
world by object lesson what can be
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26

stand comparison favorably with any
others in the world. No better ex.
ample, for instance, of the value and
growth of irrigation could be present
ed than the new development of the
orange and lemon industry of Southern
California. In the year 1870 there
were only $4,000 orange and lemon
trees in the whole gold State. Now
there are 5000. 900, and chiefly in the
SIX most southerly counties. Their
product of oranges and lemons, Guilt
vated almost entirely by irrigation,
is enormous and highly priced in the
market. Eastern people can scarcely
conceive of Southern California ex-
cept as an orange and lemon raising
country, and yet the early vegetable
crop of that same section, not to men
tion its fruits and wines, is even more
valuable than the orange and lemon
crop.
But the region presenting the most
perplexing difficulties, though per-
fectly solvable, it is believed, is the
country known as the "Great Plains, I"
just east of the Rocky Mountains, be-
tween the 103d and 9th meridians of
longitude, extending from Canada
southwark to Mexico. The region is
$50 miles wide on an average and 14O0
miles long and covers an area of 6O0,-
900 square miles, embracing the east
ern strips of Montana, Wyoming, Col
orado and New Mexico and the west
ern portions of the Dakotas, of Ne
braska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
There the rainfall is deficient and un-
equal and, though the soil is rich,
farming is uncertain and insecure.
The streams of the region are few and
inconsequential as compared with
those in any equal area in the humid
sections of the country, and during
prolonged droughts the vegetation
dries up and the land becomes semi
arid. Thousands of people who have
settled there in the past have been
compelled by repeated crop failures to
move away. Still, in each of these
semi-arid strips encouraging progress
by irrigation has been made of late in q
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26

tend the reclamation of desert lands
almost indefinitely ore in process Of
projection and construction, and theee
will soon place under ditch additional
tracts of vast acreage. These new
projects are not confined alone to the
States just enumerated, but are scat
tered over certain Southern States
and in measure over the New Eng
land and Middle States, where ad-
vanced sgriculturists and capitalists
are adopting irrigation methods and
appliances. In Texas and Florida ar
tesian wells are being largely resorted,
to for irrigation, and in Louisiana and
Alabama, despite the heavy precipita-
tion and constant humidity the semi
tropical heat of summer and accom-
panying evaporation, tending to pro-
duce drought in the growing season,
have shown the necessity of artificial
irrigation by eonduits and bitches.
The irrigation OF sugar, as well as of
rice, is fast growing in popularity
in Louisiana and Texas, since irriga-
ton eliminates the element of chance
from farming operations and makes
the planter nearly independent OF the
freaks of weather. ....
It is really a subject of standing
wonder that thorough irrigation has
been neglected and ignored so long in
modern American agriculture. An
o;opf 90 nivi1i1ofion and rioinafintys
probably in the cradle of man-Aaia
Minor-irrlgation has been the source
of untold wealth from prehistoric
times. It has been practiced un-
brokenly in India and China for un-
numbered centuries. The Romans
adopted it from the East and trans
ported it into Italy and the south OF
France. The Arabs and Moors intro
duced it into Spain and the Spaniards
brought it with their conquests to
Spanish America. Since ancient
times, however, the art of irrigation
has remained practically stationary.
whereas almost everything else has
been revolutionized by civilization
and progress. Our own practice of it
is relatively in its tender infancy.
We have much to learn from the an
clients and from the East Indians and
Chinese of to-day in the matter OF
economizing water, in utilizing river
silt, in the mysteries of aeration,
meteorology and geological chemistry.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26
SMALL ARTEsIAN WELL FOR IRRIGATION IN NORTH DAKOTA

preliminary way, albeit without much
concerted action or syste m; for until
recently very little was known OF the
existence, extent and character of SUBJ
terranean water supplies on these
plains. Fortunately, however, recent
Government investigations have upset
the old notions and have proven the
entire plains regions to be literally
under]aid with water, which can be
availed of so as to reclaim the arid
surface and render it wonderfully pro-
ductive. Under all these lands what
1s known as "sheet water" is suspend
ed below the soil in successl"a OF
subterranean lake beds, like series
of huge sponges, and in these beds the
lost, imbibed and percolated rainfall
is stored or flows slowly through un-
derlying layers of sand and gravel
grit above impervious strata. This IS
called the "underfow," and it is
found to be copious and inexhaustible.
This "underhow" is the key to the
reclamation of the Great Plains. By
recovering it, and in conjunction with
that, by storing the surface waters
and rainfall now running to waste, and
by systematic economy in the use OF
water, together with tree-plantins and
the prevention OF prairie fires, this
whole empire, it is contended by ex-
perts, can be converted into a verlta-
ble garden OF gigantic proportions,
capable OF sustaining q dense, instead
of us now, a sparse population. These
lost underground waters 1t is pro-
posed to recover by mechanical means
-hoisting machinery, pumps and
windmills-by artesian wells, and by
gravity, with sunken dams, canals,
perforated pipes and conduits. The
cost would be heavy. bat it would be
insignificant in comparison with the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26
CHAPTER VII

A man push I'D his way into the Office,
and every eye Tas fixed upon this last
arrival.
Previous to placing before the reader
the evidence which this parsonage gave.
or recording Stuart Harlandrg explans-
ton as to how the skeleton Legs and
wax impressions came in his possession,
we will relate certain adventures which
befell Harland after he left his room on
the night Of the murder.
Stuart reached the depot and boarded
the train which he desired to catch just
as it was moving out of the station.
He saw several persons on the plat
form whom he knew, and he exchanged
greetings with them.
In the coach which he entered he rec
ognized no familiar face, but the train
had not gone far when he had struck up
acquaintance, as people sometimes will
on arailway train, though inclined to be
exclusive elsewhere.
A young gentleman who seemed in
clined to make himself agreeable found
an opportunity to open a conversation
with Stuart, and the two young men
were eventually favorably impressed.
They were soon chatting Familiarity.
Finally, at the request Of the stranger,
Stuart accompanied him to the smoking
car, where, as it chanced as the coach
was overheated, they both removed
their overcoats.
Excellent cigars were produced by
Stuart's new acquaintance, who, by the
way, represented himself to be Bos-
tonian and scion of q wealthy family
whose name was familiar to commercial
men.
For some time the new acquaintances
smoked and chatted pleasantly, but as
the night drew on their conversation
gradually tagged, and both seemed in
clined to nap.
1t was not long before silence fell be-
tween them, and soon Stuart's heavy,
regular breathing assured his companion
that he was sleeping soundly.
The young man did not awake until
the loud voice of the brakeman smote
upon his ears as he shouted:
Albany"
This was Harlan's destination, and he
sprang to his feet just as the train be-
gan to move.
AS he hurried on his overcoat he
glanced about for his recent companion,
but he vas gone. and then Stuart dis
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26
A Worried Farmer.

A farmer who has been studying
agricultural journals writes the editor
of an Ohio paper that he is stumped.
He says he reads in one journal that 8
side window in his stable makes g.
horses eye weak on that side.
Another paper tells him that a front
window hurts his eyes by the glare;
those on diagonal lines make him shy
when he travels; one behind makes
him squint-eyed, and a stable with
out windows makes him blind. The
farmer wants to know whether there
is any place outside the heads Of those
editors where he can hang his win.
dows. s.-Garrettsville lind. Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26
The Eest Signal Light System.

The best night signal lights ara those
invented by Lieut.. Very, Of our navy,
and named, after him, Very's Signals.
They consist of white, q red and q
green star, each fired into the air from
a pistol, so that by firing one, two or
three of them in quick succession and
in different orders, with pause be-
tween the groups, different letters or
signal numbers can be made until q
sentence is complete. They can be cas-
ilv read from vessels twelve miles
away.-St. Nicholas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26
Feeding Seed of the Wild Cane.

Farmers about Pittsboro, Ala, have
found that the seed of the "wild cane,
which grows abundantly in the neigh
boring swamps, is an excellent feed for
cattle. The plant is said to grow lux
on almost any sort of land.
and to yield more seed to the acre
than any other cereal. New Orleans
Picayune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26

accruing values and benefits. Already,
on account of the introduction Of
these appliances, there has been de-;
cided growth of settlement on the
plains.
Summing up results of irrigation in
the United States to the present date.
the 100000 acres of once desert
land can be apportioned approximately
thus. - ,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26
Hollands Girl Queen.

The revived, rumor that the girl
Queen ot Holland, little Wilhelmina,
woulu be betruthed to Prince Alfred,
Of SAKE Conurg Gotha, is matter OF
interest. It has been expected that
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26

"You will take the oath and then we
will listen to any statement you desire
to make" said the coroner as Stuart did
not reply to his last remark.
The young man was duly sworn and
then the inquest proceeded and new and
startling DEVELOPMENTS ensued.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-26

IN early marriage would be arranged
for her for dynastic reasons, as she is
the last of her race. There is no one
now living to inherit the crown. The
Queen is nervous, delicate girl, but
is very bright and clever.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-07
HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL COURIER TUESDAY

to do this or do that,--such was the
 news from the encamped Army of the
 Potomac which came hot over the wires
 as General Hooker was preparing for
 an attack all along the lines. With what interest were the New Haven boys letters home read, and especially looked
 for were the letters to the home papers
 one of our prominent citizens of to-day,
 writing from the front to the Journal
 and Courier' his letters abounding in
 quaint and striking humor, voiced the deep interest of the soldiers in all per
 taining to Fighting Joe, and in one of his letters announced that in the ab- sence of any official news the most strik- ing indication that move upon the enemy was at hand was that Fighting Joe came out of his tent that morning and ran his sword into the ground quite a distance, which news spread like wild fire among the Inyriads of tents of the soldiers of the Potomac army, the in- ference being that Hooker must be med itating early aggressive operations.
 Hooker was brave and brilliant com mander. He had manifested not only great personal bravery and @ gallant and daring disposition, but high quail ties of generalship also; yet at the crit teal point he failed; at his highest op- portunity for slgnalizing himself, he was lacking. No doubt he had much to
 ontend with in the jealousies and envies which were engendered over his suc- cesses, but he for one thing lacked one great and necessary element in a great commander,-se
 To-day in old Hadley, Mass, the town where the brave Hooker was born, oc- CUTS a grand celebration in honor of his name and fame, The house in which he was born is still standing. He was lineal descendant of that sturdy Puri- tan, Thomas Hooker who was leader of the company of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay colony which found ed Hartford and the colony of Connect icut. The celebration to-day in honor of General Hooker will partalSe largely of a personal tribute to this hero, and his old comrades of the Third Army corps who yet answer to roll call will be there in force and they have arrang- ed that the celebration shall be fitting one in all respects.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-07
SoIREE.

'In my business, lady, it's impossible to get a days Swork." You don't say Whats your business?" 'I'm a night watchman. ."-Scribner's
 There are some people whose religion wouldn't fool the most credulous person on earth; but they expect the Lord to swallow it-Atchison Globe.
 Cholly Five O'Clock--How would you --aw-llke to own little-aw-puppy Miss Fourleaf? Miss Fourleaf--This is so udden!-Louisville Truth.
 Dr. Fogg-Young man. I am afraid shall not see you in heaven. Irreverent Youth-Cheer up, doctor; you are not so wicked as tEat.--Good Company,
 Tommy-Pa, what is an intellectual soiree?" Mir. Fig-It is generally one where the refreshments do not cost much more than sixpence head.-Tit- Bits.
 A country bridegroom, when the bride hesitated to pronounce the word "obey," remarked to the officiating clergyman: "Go on, measter-it don't matter, I can make her. "--Tit-Bits.
 ''I guess" said the sharp-nosed girl, that I will take the wind out of her sails" Why" asked the fluffy girl "don't you be up to date and say take the wind out of her tires?"-Cincinnat Tribune.
 "Well," said the good-natured man. as the friend of former days left the room, 'I'm $4 ahead on that transac- tion." "Why, he borrowed a dollar" "Yes, but thought he was going to ask me for five. e."--W Washington Star,
 ''IIave yez heard" asked Mir. Horr- han, leaning over his bar, "fwat is the newest thing in the way av drink?' "AV coorse," said MT. Grogan. Tt Is the whiskey thot is sold over this bar, to be sure"-Indianapol Journal
 Mrs. Hammond--Mrs Hashcroft was bragging again to-day about keeping her boarders so long. Mrs. Foraweek- She doesn't really keep them long. She keeps them so thin that they look longer than they actually aro.-Indianapolls Journal
 Sue-I am afraid papa was very ang- ny when you asked him for me, wasn't he, Jack, love? Jack-Not at all. He asked if I knew any more respectable young men who would be likely to mar ry your five sisters, if properly coaxed." -Tid-Bits.
 MT Moneybags-I'm afraid the DOT