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FARMING IN JAMAICA.
eIrs. Hawthorne Tells Howa She { Grows Yams and Tomatoes
For the New York Market-A Woman's Experiments in Agriculture in the West Indies-The Natives Wonder at
 American Tools.
IcopYRIeHr, 1se5.l

Our farm is eight miles from the coast, and between 2,100 and 2,300 feet up on the hills on the north side. An area of one hundred acres contains no less than seven small but aggressive hills from one hundred to three hundred feet in height, but all capable of holding crops of one sort or another. Jamaicans always use their hillsides partly because they have to, and partly because the soil is especially rich in these situations. Here are planted yams, cocoa and the like tropical produce. A hoe is scraped among the looserocks wherever little soil has accumulated, a yam is planted and a pole stuck in beside it (unless 8 small tree offers substitute), and anon the yam has in an ineXplicable manner grown up, clothing its pole with pretty, hop-like festoons of dark green leaves. In year from planting the yams are dug, and If they have had chance to expand they will often be a yard long and as thick as a mans leg.
 Upon taking possession of our little farm our first task was to clear patch for the home garden. The ''ruinate''- that is to say, the trees and brush which spring up after land has been cultivated and abandoned-was first cut down. This cutting is done neither with ax nor scythe, but with tool peculiar to the West Indies, called machete. It is a sort of gigantic knife, the blade two feet in length and three inches broad with formida ble curve to it like scimetar. The handle is like that of the sword bayonets used in the army. The lower part of the edge only is sharpened; the metal is of poor quality and the edge often needs reviving, though it can be very sharp for awhile. This picturesque imple- ment does all the cutting and moving work in Jamaica, and with this and a pickax and crowbar the primeval forest is subdued.
 The brush, having been cut, must be carried off on the heads of the men Cor women) and piled up in heaps to burn. The grass and weeds, if very rank, must also be cut. and then comes the pick axing. Pickaxing costs from one dollar to one dollar and q half ersquare chain.
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 is understood to have been the origin of alleged unfriendliness be tween himself and Platt. It seems that this ambition of the mayor has all along been understood by MT. Platt, and,- while not openly avowed, the story is5 that when it was intimated to Mr. . Platt he expressed himself as not un-, willing to aid MT. Strong, but that it was rather early in the season for consideration of such a ques-s ton. Immediately the story went about that Mir. Platt had another man in tow for the place, and Clarence Lexow is named as that man. Be this as it may, the gov. ernorship is certainly, the object. of the mayors ambition, and hea thinks he can readjust local po-o litical lines and get nomina-... ton next year. Hence the rather un-a friendly relations existing between theli rural and urban sections of the party All the talk seems to take very lit- tie account of the present governor, who is believed to have commanded Q respectable number of votes himself, and who is not getting out of political life apparently. It will be remem- bered that there was talk of presi- dential nomination for Mir. Morton, but this booming is purely local and it is said in the interest of Mayor Strong. It is a trihe odd that Mr. Strong has kept his little slate unbrok- en so long. He has done about as he pleased, locally, and when Mir. Platt pointed out that he was only thinking of party interest in 1896, and that MT.
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it is about to be pushed with renewed vigor, and as it is designed to be very fashionable affair and as only the tots of plutocracy will be exhibited, it fol- lows that the public will have to be sifted pretty thoroughly before it per colates to the precincts in which gilded infancy is on parade. The show was planned by the deceased Ward for the late spring and it seems likely that it will come off about that time. Mrs.
 William As.or took about warm in- terest in the enterprise, and her depar..
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Growth of the TTuman uair.

The influence of diet on the growth of hair has often been discussed. It has been shown that starchy mixtures, milk and many other foods recognized as being highly nutritious, are, in fact, sure death to hair growth. Chemical analysis proves that the hair is com posed of five per cent. of sulphur and its ash of twenty per cent. of silicon and ten per cent. of iron and man. ganese. The foods which contain the larger per cent. of the above named ele- ments are meat, oatmeal and graham. Henry pointedly says: Nations which eat most meat have themost hair"
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If the sod be thick asld tough, all roots must be shaken out before raking and planting can be done, for pickaxing has not the same burying effect that blowing has. The roots are, of course, put in the compost heap so as to get whatever value as manure they possess.
 The soil, as revealed by these opera tions, is dark chocolate color or deep crimson, turning lighter on exposure; it is of friable quality and there is no trace of a subsoil; it seems to go down to any depth. Our home garden runs along the top and side of swell of land about twenty feet in height, and in one place we have an excavation six feet deep, at the bottom of which, the character of the soil was the same as at the top, and going still downward in- definitely The soil'always is loose and crumbly, and even after rains does not ''pack;" altogether, it is most peculiar stuff.
 In our immediate neighborhood are numerous caves and sink-holes in the limestone rock, many of them of large size, and in one of these there was a collection of bat manure which had been accommodating for unknown ages. We bought the cave and its contents for seven dollars and fifty cents. Next we bought donkey, with panniers, for fifteen dollars. A boy of seventeen or so, at wages of dollar week, makes himself useful by cutting and fetching wood from the hills (which are densely overgrown with forest) for the kitchen fre-no coal is used or needed-and bringing from the cave three loads of bat manure per diem. This creates in the soil fury of productiveness, and we have peas, cucumbers, etc., ready to eat six weeks after planting.
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SON. ner so conSplcu- ous in a governmental transaction In which Uncle Sam got the worst of it. But MT. Stetson acted for the syndicate in direct opposition to the wishes of the president, and he is by no means so closely identi- fed with the business interests of Mr. Cleveland as many suppose. MT. Stetson has always had charge of vast financial interests since he first at tracted attention at the bar, and he has drawn up more financial agree ments of quasi-public character than most members of the bar. It was ow- ing to Mir. Morgan that MT. Stetson re- mained so closely identified with the bond issue, and Mir. Stetson did his best, it appears, to have some other man finish the little business. But in the midst of his activity MT. Jordan, sub treasurer, 1t is said, sent word in a violent hurry that he could hold out only twenty-four hours against the drain of gold that was sapping the vitals of the United States treasury, and Mr. Stetson had fairly to rush the matter through in order to save the treasury. It was very narrow escape for the administration, and had even train been missed or day lost our na- tional treasury would have practically repudiated it's obligations. MT. Holman took pains to find out the details of all these incidents, and he is credited with the observation that his glory as watch dog of the treasury has been dimmed by the greatness of it's trick poodle, this being the disrespectful manner in which MT. Stetson is alluded to by con- gressmen who by no means relish re- cent administration financial transac- tions The last two weeks have, indeed, been very memorable in Wall street.
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THE SAINTS BARREL

fuential families in New York, are known to be committed to the idea, but they do not consider it timely to agitate the project until the completion of the new cathedral of St. John the Divine. This cathedral will be the finest church edifice on the American con- tinent, and as the diocese of New York is far wealthier than most of the sees in the mother communion, it is likely that its growth will be signalized in the manner desired by the excessively high church. As for the opposition of Bishop Potter and his entourage, that will hardly count, since the worthy church. man will probably be dead by the time the great cathedral is ready for consez cration, and what he may think will have no great hearing or consideration then.
 The archiepiscopal episode, as it has begun to be called, marks the acute stage of that interecine war in the Episcopal church in the metropolis over the question eff sacerdotalism which has brought bishops and clergy into more than one unpleasant conference. There Is no denying that the high, churchmen have the most at command from numerical and pecuniary point of view, and the bishop himself is known toshave uttered fear that they are inclined to go rather far. Only the immense personal influence of Bishop Potter and the known excellence of his administration have succeeded in stemming the tide of itualssm. The more radical members of the flock are very much displeased with the bishop, and through their efforts resolution was passed at a recent diocesan confer ence referring this whole matter to the general convocation next autumn. The scene of hostilities is thus transferred to an impartial body and the Episco- palians of New York are already hard at work in efforts to secure an ascend- ancy in the sanctified body. As for the low church body, they are alluding to their antagonists as irreverent and as playing the part of saints with barrels whose money is their only claim to con- sideration. The opposition, however, applies the term ''saintly devil" to the leader of the low churchmen, and alto gether the ecclesiastical situation is embittered.
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son (so caiiedj 1t rains regularly for three to four hours in the afternoon, and is gloriously fine all the rest of the time. The heavy rainfalls are called tpond rains," either because one of them could fill a pond or because it seems as if a pond were being einptied out of the sky. One of them, lasting two hours, filled five thousand gallon cistern, and it was said to be very moderate specimen of pond rain, tool
 MRS. JULIAN HAWTHORNE.
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Strong was hardly available as can didate that year, the mayors friends be- came angrier than ever, interpreting this assertion about next year as a def nite announcement that Mir. Strong should not have Platt's support next year for the governorship. Altogether this question of the governorship has caused good deal of embarrassment to the party and is likely to cause more unless MT. Strong retires from the field.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10
Roller skates for soldlers.

Rubber roller skates for soldiers in the field as substitute for bicycles are advocated by an English army gymna. sium inspector in the United Service Magazine. A continuous speed of eight miles an hour is easily attainablc with them, and on coming to impass. able places, where bicycles would have to be abandoned, the skates can be taken off and flung. over the shoulders.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10

wi t h his wife and daughter he proposes to take an active part in the preparations now making to make the coming In t ern a t ional yacht r a c e a great event. MT.
 Vanderbilt h a s b e e n, it is al- legged, rebufed by those W h o
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th @ lam e nted Ward McAllister had applied his energies during h i s Ia st days, have be e n to some extent~ren- dered nugatory by his untinely demise. But the plan h a s n o t b e e n dropped.
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recently, i t 1 s said that the eff forts to have an
 American arch b i s h o p estab- lished in N e W
 York will in no sense be aban- doned. Those of the high church school, and they include all the wealthy and in-
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bond loan has been interpreted as an attack upon the presi- dent. In reality 1t is an attack upon MT. Stet- son, and efforts have been made to implicate the president in an act of bad taste.
 It is charged that it looks ill to have the pres ident's law part
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10
AGENTS WANTED.

AGENTS WANTED.
 M NANTED-General agents selling household w necessities; entirely new; exclusive terri tory; no competition; big profits; SIP sample outfit free. Send for particulars. Columbia Chemical Co.,, 69 Dearborn street, Chlcago. GENTS-Make $5 daily. Marvellous inven- A ton. Retails 25 cents. Two to six sold in a house. Sample mailed free. Forshee x Maxim fincinnati o. n1S sun-1y yIIANTED-Agent to take orders by sample w at home or travel; expenses and good salary or commission to right party; samples sent on application. Address with stamp LOCK Box APO, New York City. jy7 su we TIT ly
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to make a record for himself as
 mayor of New York, and that he has been sue cessful in that ambition no' one doubts. But he has an eye on other things as well, a n d his ambition to be governor of the 4
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FOR RENT.


 TOR RENTING nice 4-room cottages close T in, In good repair and low rent. NO BUS lst avenue, between Sth and 9th, and nice 4-room houses at East Birmingham J. ID. Crosthwait, 11sl2 21st street. ml0 2t THREE rooms and bath room for rent, un- l furaished brick house; finest locality in ihe city. Apply 1902 9th avenue. m1o 2t FOR RENT-The fine brick livery stable on II Avenue A and 21st street. J. D. Crostb- wait, 1lsl2 2lst street mo ~ NOR RENT-Front office Potter building. I James T. Meade. delo tfsu
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MT. yanderbiIt,s Trlp.

When Mir. Cornelius Vanderbilt gets back from Italy, whither he has gone
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

GOO0 MONTHLY RANTtED-Manufac- ELUU turing concern wants representative in Birmingham Cor any city not taken). Must have few hundred dollars cash to pay Tor goods on delivery after orders have been cured. F. E. Vail, Morse building, New York.
 m1O St
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Mir. CIeveland,s Partner.

The outcry raised against Mir. Francis Lynde Stetson in connection with the
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MALE HELP WANTED.

MAN OR LADY to manage distributing g A samples, cards books, circulars, do cor respondence. Send Sylvan Company, Detroit. Mich. l0c for samples, soap, etc., and get special offer to you. 5 5 U
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TADIES. NOTICE-Mesdames Livingston 4 and Greene will take pleasure in showing you new system for dress cutting at their business room, 51 l 18th street, Monday alt ernoon Also a special feature of the after noon will be the cutting and fitting of seam- less waist All ladies cordially invited.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10

TOR SALE-Corner lot 60x150 feet, 17th | street, between 10th and llth avenues, house; price $1 200 (good terms). worth 5000. Smith, Chichester Yancey. 5 St
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10
Mayor Strong's Ambition.

William Lafayette Strong has been looked upon so far as ambitious solely
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Churchmen n Prepare Chastiser1ent
 for Bishop Potter.
Strong Is Ambitious-Mr. Vanderbilt Will Take Hand In the Cup Defending Business-Preparations for the Four
 Hundreds Baby Show.
lCoPYRIGHT, 1895. l

In spite of the adverse action taken by meeting of Episcopal clergymen
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10

MARRIAGE PAPER in plain sealed wrapper; M hundreds of descrptions; many wealthy; lU cents. MT. and Mrs. Drake, 15o Wash ington street, Chicago.
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Baby Show IncipiencIcs.

The efforts to get up a baby show of the Four Hundred, a cause to which
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10

NOR SALE-Second- hand Remington type- | writers; styles Nos. and 5; stock of ten machines to select from; all in excellent re- pair W. J. Dangaix & Co.,, 2o03 lst avenue.
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WORLDS FAIR WINNERS-Conger strain w of Barred Plymouth Rocks eggs for sale; SI 50 for 13. G. H. Mitchell.
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FEMALE HELP WANTED.

XJrANTED-Women to take crochet work to w do steady work at home, city or country. Particulars on application. l.. White x Co.,, 2Q9 State street, Chicago, Ill.
 feh 24 3t sun
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CIRCULARs TO DISTRIBUrE-1o 1000 every U month; S5 per 1UOU. Send five references and 10 cents. Dept A., Ford Mig. Co.,, Chi cago.
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ADIES to do fancy work at home. .Delray IL Needlework Company, Delray, Mich.
 20 30t
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MISCELLANEOUS.

rRIENDS-E eng a stranger in the city would like to meet some friend in F. f. r. Address P. 0. Box 26.
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BUSINESS PERSONALS.

GUIDE to Successful Speculation-How to U trade successfully on limited margin on grain and stock markets; mailed free. Coates & Co.,. RIalto Building, Chicago, Ill.
 I ADIEs, ToNTE IS THE ONLY SUCCESS IL FUL Bust Developer known. Never (scnied) for 2c stamp. Mrs. pr. H. T. Miller, 2l Quincy street, Chicago. my2s-1y-sun
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FOR SALE.

UOR SALE-One of the finest lots on the I South Highlands; 100x140 feet; fronts south on car line; only $650; this lot would De cheap at twice the money. Smith x Stinman' l2Ol9 l9th street. 3e zt
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LADIES, pr. vorsll's French Female Pills IL never fail safe and sure; sealed sl.oo;
 pany, 55 State street, Chicago. Ill. sn ly MONEY TO LOAN-on furniture, without re-
 M moyal, from S10 up. s. R. Searle. 17th street. between Ist and 2d avenues. my2-3m
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CALFSMAN WANTED-To sell cigars: $10o . salary and expenses; outfit free; experi- ence unnecessary. Reply with 2c. stamp. Figaro Cigar Company, Chicago.
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CHEAP COLUMN.

NY ITANTED-Half of large house with good w people for small family To keep house, or nice cottage. State particulars and address
 1 J. M. Dewberry, city.
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WANTED-Three men as solicitors in your
 w town; salary $15 weekly. Wri to the G. E. Martel Portrait toryinE House, the largest in the south, 17l2 Canal. New Or leans, La. m1o Tt
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XUHY do people complain Of hard times, w when any woman or man can make rom $5 to Sl0 day easily? All have heard ,. of the wonderful success of the Climax Dlsn Wasn ah 1T, money selling it-but anyone can make money. because every family wants one. one agent h made SAYS. 36 In tEe last three mon ihs, after paying all expenses and at tending 10 regular business besides. You don t have to canvass; as soon as peopie Washer Address the Climax Manufacturing Co.,, 45 Starr avenue, Columbus, .. Tor par ticul9rs. oec oo-Eol pun
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(UANTED-If you want employment we need
 w you If you need employment we want you. Address with stamp Nashville Business Exchanpe 3lO12 Union street. Nashville, Tenn IT su wed st
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NANTED-Day boarders; gentlemen only. W Apply to J. Willis, l70s 9th avenue.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-02

pineries OF the Baltic plain, additional
precautions are practiceS. OF course.
spark arresters are in common use.
but the main reliance is laid on q
safety strip" running along the rail-
read, and more or less elaborate.
Often this is only a clearing. frequent
ly cultivated by the guards as potat D
patch or for n field crop. The ideal
and most effective treatment is a rail-
road embanknent. which is, of course,
kept clean of infammabie matter by
timely burning; then cleared space
about : yards in width; next strip OF
forest IS to IS yards wide, in which
the ground is kept as clean rs practi-
cable and free from dry wood, and
which acts as a screen for flying Gin
ders; beyond this is a ditch 10 TO I2
inches deep and 8 10 feet wide. the
dirt Of which is thrown to one side,
making a ridge which may be planted
with broad-leaved trees. About every
90 rods a cross ditch is made, SO that
the WHOLE combination safety strip,
which is about 30 yards wide, Is di-
vided into smaller fields. within which
IL is easy for one man TO confine an H.
cipient fire.
In this country we would hardly
need to go TO so much expense but we
might considerably reduce with small
outlay much of the loss from locomo-
tive fires. The Pennsylvania railroad
company IN New Jersey. from Camden
10 Cape May. in preference to paying
plowed or scarifed on either side OF
its road a strip about rod wide, and
this is tolerably effective A ditch
within 30 yards from the right of way
in the woods. and timely burning
over in spring OF this space, would be
more effective. and I think any ad Join
ing forest owner would gladly permit
such protective measure TO be taken by
the railroad company on his land. and,
indeed, could afford to contribute TO
the expense.
This cause Of our forest fires. then,
is largely avoidable; and so would Be
the fires due TO other careleSsness. IL
we should once set out in earnest TO
punish the offender. The trouble with
our laws, even when they are backed
by pm bic sentiment, is mainly that the
machinery 70 execute them is alb
sent or too weak. Minnesota, fright
ened into action By the sad experiences
of last year, this winter enacted fro
law with a commissioner 20 execute IL.
Wisconsin, which has suffered almost
as badly as her neigh Dor, has also en-.
acted law. approved on April Il, in
which the chief clerk Of the state land
Office is made the forest warden. with
the assistant chief clerk as his deputy.
In both cases an organization of exist
ing town officers as Ere wardens - at
tempted, but whether these officer.
viii be able to do their various duties
without negiecting the last one i'm
posed remains TO be seen. especially "a
the provisions for expenses are ex.
trcmely scanty. These laws, as well
as the one so satisfactorily inaugurated
in Maine, are reroodeled more or less
closely after the forest FIRE lay OF New
York.
Not AT Of the fo-e.. fires are avoid.
able. but most Of then can De prevent.
I'd; at least. they need not be allowed
10 spread beyond control, provided the
people VIII it-Gsrden and Forest
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-02

law at night. lie has been graduated
as No. 5 in class of III, and WAS ona
of the six who received honorable
mention BY the faculty for scholar
ship. For excellence in debate he won
the first prize-a set of law books cost,
ing 500.
AT last NJ. Andre, the Swedish
acronaut, and man OF science, who
proposes to reach the north pole by-
balloon, has secured a companion IN
the person of Mr.. Elleholm, OF ths
Stockholm Meteorological bureau. Mr.
Elkholm has recently devised a scheme
OF determining the velocity Of the up
per current OF mir by observing the
clouds
-Mascagni and Leoncavallo have
quarreled ticrcely. The latter wrote
an article attacking "Cavalleris Rus
ticana.' giving long list of passages
which he said were not original. with
the sources from which they were
taken. Mascagni retorts that he Is pre-
pairing an account Of what is orr inai
ia Leoncavallo's work, aud that il will
be very short one.