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RATES or nDvEseTisIN
HOW TO TgLL A BAD EGG.
An InfziliSIe French Method which Re
quires Only a Lighted Candle

When one calls for fresh egg in
Partisan eating house, the chances are
that one Will be properly served. Not
that there are no bad eggs in Paris as
7 well as elsewhere, but there are certain
men employed at the central markets or
halles whose only duty is to sift the bad
or doubtful eggs from the good ones. In
one of the cellars of the halles one sees
a man passing his hands rapidly before
his eyes and in front Of lighted candle.
Around him are baskets containing
thousands of eggs His duty is to sepa-
rate the bad ones from the good. and he
is remunerated ut the rate Of 75 CEN
times, or Is cents. for 200 eggs
He accomplishes his work with ex-
traordinary dexterity. With one hand
he takes three or four eggs and brings
them TO the exact position he wishes be-
tween his eye and the lighted candle as
if by magic. For an egg to be good the
part that appears black must be com
pletely detached from the part that APP
pears white. In other words. the yolk
and the albumen must, through the
transparency of the shell, be seen to be
quite separate. The white looks as if il
radiates about the central nucleus, and
this nucleus is simply the embryo of a
chicken, which being denser, floats IN
the liquid which nourishes it. When
there is confusion between the trans
parent and the obscure part, the egg is
doubtful
To sort eggs out quickly requires
long experience. The selection Of winter
provisions is an especially delicate task
In addition toreporting on the freshness
of eggs. these operators in the central
markets also examine the size of eggs.
Those that pass through a certain sized
ring are puton one side as too small
The employee separates eggs merely by
touching them. AS the French markets
are flooded with the produce of tiny Ital-
ian chickens, the task is often very
long one.
The men are all sworn in to do their
work honestly, and with their serious
and automatic look they make between
81. 90 and So day. The other employees
of the halles bow down to them and are
ever willing to acknowledge their scien-
tific superiority. Philadelphia Times.
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limits s. Gfa aeon isto canns az in
dustries a. iria nzAai4 5 which are IN
the district rsps.ni~g in the iint e
the reenliar oval valley. yhica Nsas
made bv be splitting ol an aniieiinal
axis.
In this dis-i,t are 20 iron furnaces.
Eve rolling mills, many foundFies aud
minor shops. two cotton GIN maauiae-
tories ard q great variety Of m'uor es-
Establishments. And all this is but be-
ginning. Say all with whom tax, Ter
the great pohlem is solved. Carnegies
have showm that CIR loyv silicon ere Is
readily convertible into steel hy the
Basic process. III 4 q, Ca as possible al
the furnaces viii be changed so as 70
produce the kind needed. Carnesies
have just bopght $4,000 tons, ana the
Illinois steel company 10000 tens OF II,
bat only two furnaces at present can
turn ont this low silicon ore. When all
do SO and many more are built--weil,
the most riotous imagination can scarce
" picture the futare of Birmingham.
There's 500. 600, 600, 600 tons Of red
hematite Gre in that one mountain and
plenty more all around. and we can turn
il into iron at less cost than anywhere
else in the world. And much more Of
the same sort.
But WANTED TO know what the labor
ing men were getting ont oi ali this, as
they told some very hard stories while
the great strike and labor war was ON.
First be il noted that there are 1900
convict miners in this county, and the
gentleman in charge allowed me TO
range the vast prison where those tenn
porarilv idle are confined. OF the 400 or
SO there at least three-fourths are col
ored, and so / am told it is in the stock
ade. A good deal Of liberty is allowed,
and in the courtyard white and black,
male and female. enjoy social equality
which would have delighted Theodore
Tilton. Incidentally / may add that
interviewed Mrs Howe, white wom-
an. whose case is interesting all Ala
bama. as she is awaiting final trial on
the charge az murdering her stepson.
She comp'aecntly called my attention to
the fact that she did not look like a
murdole&, : Int / have not seen specl-
mems cnargh 10 ho an expert
There are 5000 free miners in the
county and about 1000 more in the dis
trict, and the average of the pay roll
for the largest mine is $1.s5 per day.
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tentions opera house they wear exactly
the same stolid air of indifference as at
home. They are al totally destitute of
that intelligent curiosity which is the
germ and motor of progress as so many
Gosha Utes Their first sight of the rail-
way trains does not rouse even qulver
in their faces. Men who work in the
great rolling mills tell me that when
one of these fellows delivers any back
woods product there he never manlfests
the slightest interest in the ponderous
machinery or cares to look through the
place. They haven't even ambition
enough to get drunk, and if, as rarely
happens, one gets too much whisky, he
does not shout or fight, but drops on the
first convenient spot and goes to sleep.
How did this class originate? There
is a tradition in the south that they are
descendants of those tramps and low
grade criminals who were transported
from England in early colonial times,
but | apprehend that the stock must
have been recruited considerably by the
drift from other classes. They rarely
commit crime of any kind and are radl-
cally distinct from the moonshine"
distille1s and fighters of whom we have
read so much. Clay eaters are still found
among them, and / have had few
pointed out TO me, but the tendency OF
that class is to die ont. The clay most
affected is a peculiar waxy kind without
a particle of grit, and some physicians
maintain that the habit results from
sort of low grade scrofula which affects
the stomach lining. This cheesy clay re-
lieves the irritation, and hence the crav-
ing for it, The negroes, among whom
the habit is very rare, say it is nothing
but shiftlessness. DAY doan do moth
in, sab, ac so day wants to be pickin at
somefin, an day ain t got sittels to pick
at, an so day picks at de clay. " Such is
the learned diagnosis of our hotel porter,
who adds that day mighty seldom mar
ries 'ceptin 'mong 'emselves, always
cousins an sich y "A regular clay eatah,
q durn low down clay eatah, = is the
country negro's term of extreme con-
tempt.
1t is a pleasure to turn from such peo-
pie to Birmingham and its very lively
people. In 1881 | visited the city, but /
cannot recognize a spot then saw. The
frame hotel patronized is gone, and
the site covered by a block of stone and
brick. The city then had 3, 100 inhabit-
ants; the census of 1890 credited 1t
with 1000 and the county with 49,
600, but soon after all the residence
suburbs were annexed and now the
school census indicates city population
of 90, 600. The city stretches from Red
Mountain to North Birmingham and
from West End to East Lake. and still
there are 10 suburban towns outside the
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This includes many negroes, doing the
lowest grade work at 80 cents "a day,
and many others at 81. So the estimat-
ed daily average of miners proper is
SO. 40 per day, and a few of the most
skilled make 49, The highest wages in
the district are paid to the head roller
in a rolling mill-namely, $l5 per day
--out of which he has to pay two help
ers. Similarly the boss puddlers get
high wages and pay helpers, so the
range in the furnaces is all the way
from $l.75 to $4 Common labor is
rarely above 81 day, and many hun
dreds of negroes are working at so cents.
The negro quarters of the city are by
odds the poorest have ever seen, north
or south. / really do not see how life
can be maintained on the south half Of
Second avenue and adjacent streets, and
nv guess is that if the city authorities
do not bestir themselves before spring
they will have little pestilence to deal
with. A pathetic proof of the narrow
lines on which these poor creatures live
appeared in the fact that several with
WHO'LL 4 Udlhcu NO1u ulCy WIN q sSASC -
gladness, that lately the price of -four
had been put down to 90 cents sack
Go pounds) and meal to 20 cents. .
need not give the enthusiastic talk
or the figures ON cost of material by
which the boomers prove that iron can
be made here much cheaper than any
where else in the world, and that Bir-
mingham is destined to be the Sheffield,
the Sligo, the Bradford and the Man
chester, all in one, Of the new world.
Investors viii investigate, and for 9TH
ers such figures would be wearisome
Whether this city is really to have 1885,
900 people in 1900 and $50, 900 in 1910,
as the most moderate assert, is more
than / know, and one mans guess is as
good as another's. ]. b. PARKE.
Birmingham.
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The Poor White CutsNa Sorry Figure
AIongside the Alert and Progressive citi-
zsns who Are Making Birmingham the
Manchester Of America
There is paradox in the social make
MP Of northern Alabama which is at
once puzzling and amusing. There are
many paradoxes indeed, but this one Is
remarkable. In the midst Of wornout
old cotton fields, red hills and forests
has suddenly sprung up line Of lively
modern cities, and IN and around them
is unique civilization of a very high
order, as different from the old north as
from the old south. Yet all this new
ness, all this stir of industrial life and
pleasant refinement have not produced
the slightest effect upon the old resi-
dents of the hills, and from a city with
10000 inhabitants, electric lights and
railways, magnificent hotels and pala-
tial residences, streets like Broadway
and churches and school buildings equal
TO those Of Boston, one may pass in an
hours walk to district unchanged
since 1860 except by natural decay,
where lean and lanky men, and leaner
yellow and shriveled women, sit in
"shacks' unfit for blooded cattle, in the
midst of dirt, dogs and towheaded chill
dren, chew natural leaf tobacco and spit
through thecracks Instead of being inn
proved, old citizens declare that these
people have retrogTaded because the few
among them who had any talent and
ambition have been drawn away to the
new cities.
Just in front of the hotel where ] am
writing is type Of this class. He has a
little bull of scrub stock, clad in har-
ness composed of rope, leather and old
clothes, in shafts made Of saplings at
tached to a cart that would be show in
any northern city, and in that cart is
his family, all listless, dull eyed and
seemingly half asleep. Up our way we
smile at the country pumpkin who gazes
in open mouthed wonder at the sights Of
the town and is curious about things
long familiar to us, but these people do
not stare or wonder or inquire. On this
magnificent street and in front of pre-
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rr..- +. ground from the very
l.'t ,Yrur Wheat, grown in Min
alt'. -.t It.ota, and is recognized as
ae'. .,,-l.rd If high grade flour where
ile '.l H contains "a large percentage
s,t rea rf wheat and a very small
O ~ .-.-.a1 of starch, and for this reason
made from it, does not become
lit'- ,T.-e.ess. bIt retains the Sweet
az '.- -.frTe Flour, aud will keep moist
Iru,saI days.
,r.t.re number Of testimonials as
Y. 5..,I making qualities, we insert
Z '' '''-t.raa. lrst fcOm Mr.. Martin Nj.
,egE Va ne Baker, who is well and fav-
W. w. greVn. and we expect very few
S..t! Sa.t!l..i hIcer cities, buy more flour
l'nt. ,.re thlu does Mr.. Smith. Mr..
..Ie.sa t8 us. when your car arrives
u ,ns sd barrels Of the Washburn,
-frta.s Flour This is the fourth
e.-t. barrels we have sold him.
,.. tbe following firms, Mr.. VIM.
p-1'.,,r our new Baker on Church
..-.a. vhois getting up a reputation
S,frs % bread. Mr.. Rullman ordered
s,,~ eur last ear as much flour as he
.,g5 store. And from Mr.. James
y-.roe orlr old established Dry Goods
Meant and many others. We are now
-rro,rr on the fifth car load of the
aE0d Media" ," and no complaints
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Prnnea For enc world.

There are in all over 5000 acres OF
prune orchards Of bearing age in Ore
gon. There are also several thousand
acres Of 1-year-old prune orchards not
included above, but which will add ma
terially to the total output Of fruit. A
good crop this year will mean, therefore,
an output Of 5000, 900 TO 10000, 600
pounds Of cured prunes in Oregon.
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-rnIng an HOnest Penny.
Anticipated Nonsense.

A wild bull grows tame if bound with
the twigs of fig tree. Amber draws all
light things 10 it except basil and such
as are dipped in oil. A loadstone will
not draw a piece of iron that is rubbed
with garlic. Now, all these as 10 mat
ter of fact are very evident, but it is
hard, if not altogether impossible, to
find the cause. .-Plutarch-
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IN an exouisitely prepared dinner. Another
will enjoy these things half as mnch - an
other not at all. The things that people
see are inside them. What one sees ana
what one enjoys depends upon the booty
condition depends upon the capSsiSN Io,
enjoyment - depends upon the health ana
the vitality The sick man has pam OF Iis-
comfort SO impressed upon him that ne mas
no time to think of much else. A weak
man has all he can do TO struggle tor mere
existence. He has no strength TO use IN
procuring pleasure. His performances are
limited by his strength. He can do only
few things so he can enjoy only lew
things. The man who Is perfectly vel ana
vigorous enjoys life TO the full. The bed
ridden invalid enjoys Il not az all The
man who is half sick and half well gets out
of life about half what he ought To- l)r.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery makes
neople we'll 1t doesn't do il in miracu.
Ions way. There isn't anything unnatural
about tit is the most natural thing IN the
world. Il simply puts the digestive organs,
the stomach, the liver, the bowels, in per
feet order and thereby makes the blood
pure and rich II doesn't have TO do any
Thing else. Nature does all the rest. All
diseases live and thrive on impure blood.
Keep a stream of pure, rich, red blood how-
ING into a diseased spot, and the disease
will not stay. A man lives on rich, pure
blood. and disease dies on IL. That's the
difference DR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery makes pure, rich blood - makes
men and yvanen strong and healthy; brings
GOOD appetite, good digestion and builds UP
solid, healthy flesh.
address with 81 cents in oneceut stamps, TO
cover cost Of mailing onlr, Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association Buffalo y y, and get Tree
copy Of the Peoples Medical Adviser IeoS pages
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Remarkable Ink.

One of the most remarkable inks
known to the chemist is made Of prep
aration Of pIussian blue in combination
with nitric and hydrochloric acids. The
writing done with this ink has the sim
gular property Of fading when exposed
70 the light and recovering its color
when ti,.sn iisto tho shade Of placed IN
ossfeci Gs 1aess.
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Cenulose Products.

It is now stated that by subjecting
pure cellulose to the action of caustic
soda and afterward treating the same
with carbon bisulphide, which has been
practiced in England, Il product possess
ing remarkable industrial value is the
result Dissolved in water an insoluble
coagulum is produced, which, whom
washed and removed from the water,
becomes hard and compact, in which
condition il is found available for tool
handles. buttons and other articles, or
if the material, while still in solution,
has alcohol added 10 it there is obtained
a mass which may be stamped into a
variety of objects, may be used as a
medium for pigments in printing cotton
goods. applied TO cloth as facing or
used as substitute for leather. 1t is
also stated that cloth having a coating
Of this solution is flexible in washing,
but stiffens when ironed, so that shirt
bosoms, collars, eaffs and table linen
may be made from it advantageously.-'
New York Sun
~rnIng an Honest Penny.
Miss Lily nestles familiarly ON the
lap of young gentleman who has been
paying his addresses to her big sister all
through the springtime Of this year.
"Tell me. sir, are you we'll oif?'
"Yes, my little pet.
"You are very well off?''
"Why, what difference can it make
to you whether am rich on not?'
"You see, my big sister said yester-
day that she would give 30 francs to
know if you were well off, and ! should
like to earn the money. '--Gaudriole
Evening capital., 1895-11-12

The things That
ncopie see are in
side of them and not
outside. No two
people see the same
thing exactly alike.
One woman may
look out az a beau
tifai landscape and
see all the beauty
and rcstfulness and
rrandness that there
i in il. Another one
will look out al the
same scene and see
nothing. One VIII
find enjoyment in a
brilliant company,
inmusic. in dancing,
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This Flour comes from thelargest mills
in the World, having daily capacity of
Il, 500 barrels. and bY getting it direct
from the mills, we are in position TO
give to dealers aud consumers the very
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Flour. FLOUR. Flour.
We want to Sell in the Next 10 Days
100 BARRELS of
. VASHBURN. CROSBY Co.'S
cELERRATED
Gold Medal Brand"
.SDri3Q Wheat Flour,
Ard n accomplish the above end We will offer the
.coId Medal for 10 Days at Same Price of
SuperlatiVe,

-I5 Flour took prze the Centennial Exhibitor
uIa in At Mlers Exhibitions al 1880
,F.r. Fair, Chicago, 1893
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K. K. MAGRUDER G co.

Annapolis. Nd, October 2sth, 1895.
Gents Replying to your inquiry, relating TO
the Washburn. Crosby Co IS Gold Medal Brand
of Flour, will say that the best evidence can
give you OF its being euFirely satisfactory. TO
me- IS the fact of my continued orderst 20 you
for the same. / have worked several brands
OF high grade Spring Wheat Flour, but prefer
the Washburn. Crosby Co.'S Gold Medal
Brand. Respectfully.
MAkTIN NJ. SMITH.
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Annapolis Nd, October, 1895.

Annapolis Md, October, 1895.
r. r. Magruder Il Co.:-The Gold Medal
Brand of Flour that / have been getting of
You is isentirely satisfactory, and take pleas
ure in recommending IL TO any one wishing
high grade OF Spriug Wheat Flour. Respt,
VIM. PULLMAN,
Baker & Confectioner, 10 Church st.
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AnnapoIis. Nal. oetober esth. lsa5.


Gentlemen After many attempts 10 find
good Hour that could be relied upon at all
crosby Co Gold Medal Brand. Have used
five or six barrels of the same. and have
always found il A. No. /. in ali respects.
Respectfully,
o29 10d JAMES MUNRoE.
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OLD SOUTH AND NEW.
SHARP CONTRASTS OBSERVED BY A
NoRTHERNER IN ALABAMA.

The Poor White CutsNa Sorry Figure
Alongside the Alert and Progressive citi-
sens who Are Making Birmingham the
Manchester OF America
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-14
A SERIOUS MATTER.

Americans Condemned to Death For Par.
ticipatiOn in the Hawaiian Revolt The
United States Government Orders Minis
ter Willis to Intervene-The Correspon-
dence Laid Before Congress by the
President.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The president
sent to congress the latest telegram
from Minister Willis and Secretary
Gresham's instructions. in reply, show
ing more serious condition of affairs
than reported in the press dispatches.
The following is the presidents let
ter:
transmit herewith for the informa-
ton of the congress copy of a tele-
graphic dispatch just received from
MIR. Willis, our minister to Hawaii.
with copy of the reply thereto which
was Immediately sent by the secretary
of state.
lSlgned. GROVER CLEVELAND.
The dispatches are as follows:
HONOLULU, Jan. 6, 1s95.-SAN FRAN
CISCO, Feb. 6, 1s95.-TO Mr.. GRESHAM
Revolt over 9th. Casualties. govern
ment, 1; royalist, 2. Court-martial con-
vened 18th; has tried thirty-eight cases;
200 more to be tried and daily arrests.
Gulick. former minister. and Sew
ard, minister, major in federal
army. both Americans, and Richard,
Englishman, sentenced to death; all
heretofore prominent in politics. l..
b. Walker, formerly in the United
States army, imprisonment for life and
$1,000 fine. Other sentences not dis
closed. but will probably be death.
Requested copies of record for our gov
eminent to determine its. duty before
final sentence, but no answer yet. Bit
ter feeling and threats of mob violence
which arrival of "Phiiadelphia'' yes
terday may prevent. Liliuokalani
made prisoner 10th; on Gath relin-
quished all claims and swore allepi-
ance to republic imploring clemency
for Hawaiians. Government replies to
Liliuokalani: This document car not
be taken tn exempt you in the slight
est degree from personal and indi.
vidual liability" for completely in
late conspiracy. Denies that she
had any rights since January IA, 1898,
when she attempted new constitution
Fully appreciates her call to disaf-
fected to recognize republic. and will
give full consideration to her unseifish
appeal for clemency" for participants
[Signed] ALBERT S. WILLIS.
SECRETARY GRESHAMS REPLY
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. :. 1895.
To COOPER, UNITED STATES DISPATCH
AGENT, SAN FEANCIsCo-For ward fol-
lowing by first steamer to A. S. Willis,
United States minister. Honolulu:
If American citizens were condemned
to death by a military tribunal, not
for actual participation in reported
revolution. but for completely only, or
if condemned to death by such trib-
unal, for actual participation, but not
after open fair trial with opportunity
for defense, demand delay of execu-
ton; and in either case report to your
government evidence relied on to sup
port death sentence.
GRESHAM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-14
AFFAIRS OF MOMENT

Treated OF in the Annual Volume ON
Foreign Relations Issued by the State
Department-The Current Volume More
than Usually Interesting, Owing to- the
systematically.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S-The annual
volume of foreign relations containing
The diplomatic correspondence between
the state department and American
ministers abroad during 1894 is now
In press. The forthcoming issue prom
sses to be more interesting than most
OF its predecessors, on account of the
unusually important events in which
Americans have been concerned that
have occurred in various parts of the
world during the past year. China.
Japan, Turkey, Great Britain, Ger
many. Nicaragua, Hawaii. Corea,
Russia Austro-Hungary and all the
South American republics have had
more interesting questions with this
country than usual, and although
, 4nany of the matters have already be-
casne public property, it seems that
several notable successes that have re-
suited from American diplomacy have
been saved for presentation to con-
gress with the new volume. which is
practically the annual report of the
secretary of state.
The case of John Hoffman, an Aus
Srian-born citizen of this country who
was expelled from Prague last July,
for reasons of public welfare" at
tracted considerable attention at the
time. The reason given for the ex-
Spuision was because it appears
contrary to public peace and order that
persons who have evaded the military
law in this manner naturalization
sabroad) should sojourn in this coun-
try" Minister Trip, in commenting
upon the settlement of this and similar
cases, makes the following statement
that has considerable application to
.armenians and other foreigners who
come to this country, not as the great
body of desirable immigrants, to re-
main always and become incorporated
IN American affairs and interests, but
simply for the purpose of securing
American projections: Il am disposed
80 think the reasons that Austria-Hun-
gary gives for closing her doors to for
mer citizens who have openly evaded
faeT military laws good one. 1t is an
Iundeniable fact that hundreds of
young Austro-Hungarian citizens APP
preaching the age of military
service emigrate to American and, re-
fsnain there just long enough to acquire
citizenship. return again to their ativc
scopntry to permanently reside, resum-
nag their former citizenship and allegi-
aDce to the government in everything
but its military laws. In time of
peace they burden us with their claims
of loyalty; in time of war they deny
their assumed allegiance and claim,
by abandonment, a restoration of their
civil rights to which they are entitled
by birth"