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The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
Ia. Whl.ker. 81 Fourteen.

Ezsl Jenkins is 14-year-old hoy liv-
EGG I'm Carrard county, KY, whose
srlafm to distinction is based on the
Rncf that be has a fully developed black
zzusfache that many man of 30 would
ne proud TO boast. The boy was hardly
dnz years old when the fur began to
sgsrsut on his upper lip. Contrary to
Che usage OF boys he did not encourage
HIS growth by surreptitiously shaving.
IKE never put a razor to his face. but
rzhe hair needed no encouragement, but
<rsafinncd 20 grow and become darker,
xzz,fa the usstache was thick and long.
HE remarkable feature is that che boy
h nat particularly developed beyond his
years IN any other way. He is not
1hove the average in height or weight.
Ii sill wears knee pants, and il is q
@1.er SIGHT. to see the kid fumbling
1T his mustache and curling the ends.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
bagging as so much waste, for nothing
is paid to the prodnce Of the cotton.

II
bsgging as so much waste, for nothing
ID paid TO the producer Of the cotton.
Now, it appears, the ties which the
ultimate purchaser gets free OF cost
with his cotton can be riveted to-
gether and used a second time, and, Of
course, are sold by him for that pur-
pose. 1t follows that the tare allow
ance for the ties is actually source
of profit to the ultimate purchaser, at
the expense Of the cotton producer,
and it can not be justified accordingly.
Whether the matter is worth the at
tention Of the producers and their rep
resentatives, they must decide them
selves. That it is not altogether a
small matter plainly appears when it
is considered that it involves the ques-
ton of whether or not the farmers
shall continue to bear indefinitely the
whole cost Of tieing the cotton crop,
as they have borne 1t heretofore. The
cost of the ties for an eight million
bale crop. at 81 cents bale, it may be
noted, is over two million dollars, all
or nearly all Of which goes into the
pockets Of the ultimate purchasers as
clear profit. Southern Farm.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
CROSS BREEDING.
A Prolific and Interesting Subject of Dis
cussiOn.

A Prolific and Interesting Subject of Dis
QUESTION.
There is much discussion going on
in the papers just now on the subject
of cross-breeding, that is coupling ami
mails of the different thoroughbred
breeds together. This is an idea that
takes hold of every tyro who makes a
start in the breeding business. He
finds that one breed has a speciality for
making beef, while third is famous
for the large quantity of butter it pro-
duces. Why not then cross all these
together, and thereby concentrate all
these virtues in one animal? He is
simply asking too much of COW nature.
By these crosses he may, and some
times does, produce few exceptional
animals that seem to constitute the
type he is looking for, but as to their
being thoroughbreds and capable of
reproducing themselves as the original
breeds could, that is quite another
question.
By mixing the breeds up those pre-
potent powers that have taken years
and years to fix in the breeds have be-
come scattered and antagonized until
these cross breeds are no better than
native scrubs, SO far as prepotency is
concerned. We find that in order to
fix a popularity in breed, we must
breed, feed, select and train the off,
spring for long number of years with
a sole purpose to that one end before
we can fix a prepotency to reproduce
that characteristic, and this same line
of action must continue if we wish to
keep it. Every ont cross we produce,
either with another thoroughbred or
scrub, is very likely to break up the
whole shooting match" and reduce
our new breedsof veritable scrubs.
This rule runs through every branch
of nature, and is just as marked in pro-
ducing vegetables and fruits, where
crossing can be done, as with animals.
To be sure, some breeders of long ex-
perience, finding some peculiar weak
ness in their stock, have with great
Judgment introduced an out-cross with
animals strongly imbued with opposite
qualities and then bred strictly back
to their own breed, and thereby i'm.
proved the original breed, but do not
fiattter yourself that you can do this
without long and extensive experience.
Better leave good enough alone until
experience proves the truth of it.
Home and Farm.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
MAN OF IRON NERVE.


4 81 81 4 II
How He Snatched q Lighted Candle from
Keg of Powder.
1t happened in London many years
ago. On the third floor Of large ware
house was stored considerable guam
tity of gunpowder. One of the barrels
containing the explosive had been
opened for the purpose of examining
!, the contents, and had been left uncoy-
cred.
In the establishment was employed a
young man of peculiarly headstrong,
needless emperament-just the sort OF
fellow who nowadays picks up pistol,
pulls the trigger and shoots comrade,
and then explains with many tears that
he didn't think it was loaded" This
clerk was sent upstairs one evening
on some errand. He carried in
his hand lighted candle, and on enter
ing the store. room, without paying the
smallest attention to what he was doing,
clapped down his tallow dip right in
the midst of the powder in the open bar
rel. There was no candlestick-he sim
ply jabbed the bottom of the candle into
the loose black dust in which single
spark would let loose force that would
rend him in fragments and lay waste
the entire neighborhood.
He had scarcely lifted his hand when
he realized the whole situation; but his
craven soul was too weak to face it. He
fled in abject terror, and related
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
HERE AND THERE.

To insure good, sweet, reliable
milk requires almost as much care and
labor in summer as to make butter.
Few milkmen realize the fact, and
hence the many failures to give salts
faction.
While ducks or geese do not seem
subject to roup or cholera, vet they
will become lame and droopy often ii
too closely confined in damp quarters.
Look after the small econonomies in
poultry keeping.
AN unsophistlcated person might
suppose it would be easy to buy rurs
linseed oil for painting; but let MIN go
try it and he will find thai the puTest
he can get is largely petroleum or cot
ton-seed oil, and that paint mixed with
it will dry up to powder and blow off
the boards.
The farm hen is an important ami
NAL, so likewise is the farm cook. Tho
one lays the eggs for breakfast and the
other breaks day" for the cook, that
she may prepare them in time for the
workers. But there are altogether too
many noisy, 'conceited cocks kept on
almost every farm.
The farmers east of the Mississippi
are offering battle to the band of plum
derers known as the Cotton Tie trust.
This trust now controls practically all
the cotton tie factories, and has adj
vanced the price to double that it was
before. This new attempt to fleece the
farmers of the south justifies any de.
gree of resistance within the sanctions
Of the law.
"A supply of dry earth, stored under
shelter for winter use. will be found
very valuable in the hen house during
the winter, when the ground is frozen,
and it will serve many purposes. Asst
cost nothing but the labor of storing it
away IL should be attended to before
the wet season begins-s
Bees must, in order to collect q
pound of clover honey, deprive $4,000
clover blossoms of their nectar. To do
this the 200 flowers mpst be visited
by an aggregate Of 3. $50, 900 bees. Or.
in other words. to collect its pound Of
honey one bee must make a,75os0oo
trips from and to the hive.
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what he had done to the horror-stricken
group below.
1t was crowded district and the dan.
ger was indeed fearful. Many of those
who heard him rushed out into the
street shouting the alarm, and general
panic ensued. A frightful catastrophe
seemed imminent.
There was, of course. one way--one
only way--in which the disaster might
be averted. 1t might be several minutes
before any spark fell from the wick;
there might still be time to lift the
burning candle from it's perilous rest.
ng-place. But who dare undertake the
task!
Happily for the community, there was
one man among those who heard the
words of the affrighted boy, whose
nerve was equal to the emergency.
While the others fled for their lives, he
CROPPED his way through the dark pass
age-way and up the narrow stairs. In a
far corner of the big loft he perceived
faint glimmer. and made his way to.
ward it through the piled-up bales and
boxes. The lads story was only too
true. There was the candle, stuck aslant
among the deadly black grains, the
wick already burned and dropping
downward. There was not moment
to lose.
And there was not moment lost,
Quickly, but with steady touch, the
brave man caught the candle between
his clasped hands, sheltering. the flame
with his palms. As he lifted it out OF
the powder, the wick sputtered and a
glowing fragment dropped,hot upon his
outspread fingers--but that was ALL The
town was saved.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
BIRD SLAVES ITSELF.
The Bearded vulture Is an Adept at the
BARRIERS Art.

The Bearded vuIture Is an Adept at the
BARRIERS Art.
The lammergeyer, or bearded yul-
ture, found throughout the whole
mountain chains of the old world,
actually shaves himself. The expert
barber who has for his customers the
Fifth avenue miliionaires could not
ply the keen-edged razor to the stubby
beard of his particular patron more
deftly than the monarch of the noun
lain tops prunes his own brist,y beard.
The head of the vulture is clothed
with feathers. end from the sides of
the under mandible proceeds a. row of
black bristles. From this peculiar Fro
lection of feathers the bird derives its
name. A layer of similar bristles be-
gins at the eye and covers the nostrils,
forming a feecy mustache.
With his strong and sharp claws,
which act as the razor, he begins to
trim his fibrous whiskers with great
care and dexterity. He does this with
great regularity. and soon the dowry
beard and mustache give way to full
growth of bristly feathers.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
CHILD INVENTORS.

Ha1xtosy or the First Telescope and the
Argand Burner.
That many children have great in
srerasnify of mind in fashioning toys OF
VARIOUS kinds is well known. That
EEAey have very frequently turned this
axnnHity to good use in the invention and
Sr0sastruction of some of our most use
EHl mechanical appliances is attestcd by
a2ne following instances:
The children of Dutch spectacle
nuaker happened to be playing one day
with sosne of their fathers gIasses in
farsnf OF the shop door. Placing two
<f the glasses together they peeped
ekrr,ugh them, and were exceedingly
sssannished to see the weather cock of
the neigh boring steeple brought within
N short distance of their eyes. They
SHere naturally puzzled, and called their
father 10 see the strange sight.
When the spectacle maker looked
&hrE1gh the glasses he wes no less sur
,F,ri<ed tiaan the children had been. He
went Indoors and thought the matter
esr1er, and then the idea occurred to him
HIiHt he might construct curious new
fay which would give people good deal
of amusement. Not long after the tele-
sscope was an accomplished fact.
a poor Swiss, named Argand, in
vented lamp with wick fitted into
q AsiEow cylinder, thus giving supply
nE oxygen to the interior as well as the
.sr1ferinr of the circular fame. At first
ArEand used the lamp without glass
,ssiAzn,ney, the invention of which inn
Hogfant adjunct would doubtless have
yspen delayed for some time had it not
Eaaea fnr the thoughtless experiments of
his Tftfie brother.
Gncsiay when Argand was busy in his
~urEEuom, and sitting before the burn
zng lamp, this boy was amusing him
ssE by placing bottomless oil flask
pvex different articles. Suddenly he
Eiaced it upon the fame4of the lamp,
(which instantly shot up the long
eiEcafar neck of the flask with increased
SrilEfancy. Argand did not allow such
n. suggestive occurrence to escape him.
Tine ifEea of the lamp chimney almost
7zrn1ediafely came into his head, and
I'm u short time his invention was per-
Merfnd-
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
AIuar. ast. enc Worm.

A very strange animal, related to the
lemurs, and peculiar to Madagascar,
is the aye-aye. It feeds on wooJ-bor;ng
grubs that tunnel into the bark of
trees. The beast cuts away the outer
bark with its chisel-like teeth. and as
the worm retreats to the end Of It's
hole pokes after 1t with finger. This
finger is a remarkable organ. evidently
provided by nature for this purpose. be-
ing abnormally long and armed with
a hook-shaped claw for dragging out
the grub.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
POSTAL CARD MAGNET.
- Rr~1ty Experiment Which Must Not BE
Tried in Damp Weather.

II Rr~4ty Experiment Which Must Not BE
Tried in Damp Weather.
Mo- doubt you've all made rubber
Gntnh pick up bits of paper by first rub
1sng it briskly on rough coat sleeve,
&~E did you ever hear of postal card
chat could be turned into magnet?
Balance a walking stick on the back
@f a chair and tell the spectators that
yau are going to make it fall without
nauching it or the chair.
Having thoroughly dried a postal
card preferably before an open fire.
rub IL briskdy on your sleeve and then
Bold it near one end;of the stick. The
stick will Mt once be attracted to the
card, and will follow it as if it were a
uaagnet- AS it moves it will soon lose it's
equilibrium and fall from the chair.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
a vExEp QUESTION.

lNwUmr On the schoolr0orn, one morning;
1Ey gwo little girls were there,
sLrsE ever their atlas bending.
EE1ch with puzzled air.
MARY sfanced up as entered.
Arzd said. with an anxious look:
-.Dlxamn1a- perhaps you can help US.
wf Says here. in this book.
-~xhaf nc bought Louisiana
Frrsu che French. Now that seems
sgseers
Etpy Nellie and don't understand
How they could send 1t here.
--yNhcever brought the land over
muzr have taken SO many trips.
Nell says they put it In baskets:
Esa1f 4 think 1t must have been ships"
ELLA johnson Kerr. In st. Nicholas
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
FARMER AND PLANTER.
SMALLER FARMS.
A Wholesale Division of Farms the In
evitable Result of Present Conditions.

A Wholesale Division of Farms the In
evitable Result of Present Conditions.
| If present conditions are continued
much longer, wholesale division of
farms will be the inevitable result. A
large per cent of the farms are mort
gagged, and for three years compara-
lively few have been able to reduce
their debts. Some have been unable
| to pay the interest. This is due to the
universally low prices of farm prod
ucts. A prominent farmer in one OF
the best agricultural counties of Mis-
souri, told the writer a few days ago
that he is one of large number Of
farmers in his community who is
ready to divide his farm-that is sell
off enough to lift his mortgage. With
scarce money and panic prices for his
surplus, he can never liquidate by sell
ing produce from his farm, no matter
how intelligently, industriously and
economically he and his family may
operate the farm.
There are tens of thousands of farm
ers to-day who are anxious to sell
enough land to lift their mortgages,
OuV SoAulOlOuS ICuuCC biC ~ W.
ucts of the farm below cost OF produc-
ton correspondingly decrease the
price of the farm, and, with a
falling market for land, as the result
OF constantly approaching money
standard, the owner of land must sell
at reduced price and lose money on
his original investmentin order to pay
his debts and get out of the clutches
of the interest gatherer. Many farm
ers would be better off to sell part of
the farm, if they could do SO at fair
price, and pay their debts, and by be-
ing able to operate the smaller farm
at smaller expense, on the intensive
plan. could make more profit on
smaller area.
As large farm as can be paid
for and profitably handled is all
right, but in many instances
more clear money, more peace
and happiness can be secured on
40 or so acres than on 100, $50 or $40.
On the large farm there are too many
worrying details, and large part of
the profits go up in expenses. The
wise young man who contemplates
buying farm will purchase no more
than he can pay for in cash. and will
leave some surplus cash to operate
upon. With such a lever to work on,
he can soon add to his farm, if he de-
sires. But the man in debt for part
of his farm, and with no money
to operate on, is seriously handi-
capped; his life will be an
uphill task, and he will spend his days
vainly trying to lift his mortgage and |
get to where he can ''tal1e life easy"
OF course, if agriculture were protect
ed from the combines of greed, and
the industrious farmer could get his
share of the fruit of his toll, the mort
gage would lose many of its .terrors;
but under present conditions, mort
gagged home frequently means per-
petual slavery. The only advice that
can be given is for those in debt islto get
out as soon as possible. and for those
who are out to stay out-Journal of
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
POSTAL CARD MAGNET.

az course you understand the prin-
sszEke of the experiment. BY rubbing
sA< card you waken electricity in it,
nxd &C thus becomes sort Of magnet,
u1fh the power to attract light bodies.
Da not try the experiment in damp
S,vrafI,er.-Chica0o Record
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16

Turned to Base Uses
The room in which Napoleon died n
now used rs a stable
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-10-16
( A NARROWING TALE1
Two Four Leaf Clovers Bring TrouI
stead of Luck. /

stcdu OI LUCK.
Here is an absolutely true tail
two sprigs of four-leaf clover.
serve as warning to all wo1
girls who believe if one spri
them luck two should make
tune:
Mrs. William F. Greene, the
physician of Mount Vernon, haI
telling her friends for years she
some day to find four-leaf clover. v
ever she stopped to rest on any o.
many bicycle rides she searched
grass for one of the magic green SD
Now, the rule about finding fouI
clover sprigs is this: One means
good fortune, two brings very bad
in their train, three means sudden
to the finder and four means will
test, etc.
Mrs. Greene did not know this.
one morning she started on her
for Oakland beach, near Rye, OF
sound. On her way to the railroa
ton she happened, or, rather, md
to find, four-leaf clover.
With a little cry of delight 81
mounted and plucked it. She v
joyed when she discovered anot
leaf spray beside the first.
she put them in her card ca
began to work their fateful $
away.
every sorry, ma'am," said
gage agent at the Mount Va
road station, "but there's to-
cycles now for the 9:3O train.
to wait until the 1880 comes
sob, WE'LL" said Mrs. Gree
self, "what does it matter?
my lovely clovers."
At Oakland beach Mrs.
about to pay for bathhous
found she had lost her pocks
tanning her gold watch az
she still had her clover 5
friends engaged the BATH
and then she learned that
the multitude of bathers
one hour and half fo1 4,
swim.
When about to start
discovered she had lost
change from the pockets
ing skirt. She borrowed
began her journey.
Something shiny sudden
front of her wheel when
road station. She disI
looked for it, but in val
borrowed quarter that
of her glove and rolled
"How fortunate thu
the clovers," murmu All
under her breath. .,s
journey home on he ~
Near Marmarone
was punctured 4 'aSx
walked a mile Def NJ
who repa sF
and pumped up the wi NJ
At New Rochelle NJ ~
mined to borrow car
Mr.. Morgan, VIII
taxes On reaching the Of
" occupied she remember
been there for two year
was away on business
Still, the clovers were So.
Several rods south OF \
the punctured rear tire CAV
The weary traveller walked
to Pelham before she eou''
,ne to help her. -.
He was a gardener ana ne
rully filled the tire with w
he garden hose. When 'n,S
lone Mrs. Greene resumed
new. but she soon found II nc,
walk again. The tire w0u' I
water. hou I
Mrs. Greene arrived AZ Y
Exhausted. A Mount vernon
,airer told her she would nav
lew tire, as there were 'n''
he old one. la he
"very unlucky tire s al,,sr,
mated her two lucky clO III
Ter more than $40 70 = AZ
he accompanying Wcr' y va
nent end wearines'-
The morning times., 1896-08-23

story OF West Point 1t is narrative
dealing with The divorce evil. The hero
Is a VirgInian, aud while in Europe he
becomes fascinated with barbara Weis-
haunt, German peasant. who has ee-
Come celebrated actress. All OF Eugar's
relatives are wealthy aristocrats, and
lie iears their fury II he marries her. While
RarIara is acting in the United States tile
next year, Edgar secicily narries ter, but
they are not happy, and separate in sEolt
time. Edgar briDcs her 10 Keep tie mar
rage secret and never cross his path.
Edgar had obtained an appointment to
West Point just before his marriage. and he
fears he caDnot give it Up without exciting
suspicion as to the cause, so he enters
the academy. and there is q description OF
caGet-lIfe. He regrets his marriage with
Barbara, and wants to get rid of ter. and.
while on furlough, he obtains divorce fiom
her.
Edgar fails in love with Dolores Wood
vile. a rich Baltimore belle, who ts visit
ing West Point. and becomes engaged to Ter.
But he discovers She thinks divorce is very
wrong. and he conceals oil his past life
from her. Amongtbe cadets atthc academy
is Emil LtoDhardt. cousin Of Rarbara,
WHO has always hated Edgar, and heen
jealous CT Lin. In revenge for fancied
wrong. hercveals Edgar's divorce to Dolores.
and breaks off the engagement.
Dolores dies of broken heart rather
than do what she thinks is wrong. Edgar
has terrible attack OF brain fever. Which
destroys his reason for time The trial
through Which he has passed completely
changes him, and he becomes an earnest
Christian He dies OF fever contracted
while doing mission work in the city Of New
York. Barbara, Edgar's divorced wife.
marries III old German baron TO secure a
tile and social position. Here's plot with
a vengeance.
The morning times., 1896-08-23
:. Reai. Estate Affairs.

II your house vacant? Do you want "a
tenant? Is your house for sale? Do you
Hant purchesercs Do you want to borrow
money ON. your real estate? Or. hare you
his for sale. city or cosntry. Place tirctn'
with The Times Real Estate Bureau
aud get quick returns. Ofnce, Tenth aud
Pehnsyfyania avenue northwest.
The morning times., 1896-08-23

- HE mos. economical form of travelling
is Journey throUgh the shelves or
the library Often inLn3te asSo-
ciation with places ana people leave
The morning times., 1896-08-23

And now comes the wcirdest part of this
most weird Of books. It is tire story of Gail
Hanilton's own experiences in the realms
of the supernatural.
$50 far I had written" said she, "when
it befell me to be tented in that valley of
shadows. My experience there am sure
that you, dear neighbors, and all friends,
will be glad to learn, chiefly because 1t
was experience, a little also because per
haps it was mine.
ut was early morning, but so swiftly
the darkness fell that / have always
thought OF it as evening. I was standing
by a lounge in nay room when ! felt IN yself
sinking. There was no pain, no alarm,
no fear. no feeling. had but one thought,
that it would be a shock TO the family to
find me on the floor, and that ! must get
upon the lounge. might have succeeded,
but the seat OF the lounge had a movable
lid, and, instead OF pulling myself upon
it. pulled the cover off. when. or If.
gave up the struggle, ] co rot remember.
or the lapse OF time. only there was q
The morning times., 1896-08-23

Atlantic City-Cape 1iay by h q O.
n. r
Fridays and Saturdays. 10 a. m and IL
M. Round trip &C. Goo3 returning untfl
. Tuesday. S.t.th.s5y&as
The morning times., 1896-08-23

A LITTLE story which will interest
every one who has spent vacation
10 the Adirondack Mountains, ind
those who have not as well. for IL is
written on broad and attractive linrs.
= Caroline Wastburn RDckwoOds newest
story, AN Adir uiidack ttounance.'' II is
fresh with the mountain air and the cool
dow in high places. TIE story is built
On probable lines ami wsrks ont an
Interesting plot. bnt it has valne in Is
environment rs well us for itself. The
locality is in the pcishburliood Of AnBper-
0apd So decidedly local is the color and