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The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, CANTON, OHIO, |
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Crooma ia a Sad Man.

DR.. William Croome, a dentist, was sued yes
terday for divorce by Lillian NJ. Croome, his
wife; She says he is extremely cruel She en-
tered suit against him some time ago, but
Withdrew 1t on his promise to do better. He
proke the family china and his promise at the
same time, and now she says she will believe
b inn nora " :
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12
Owes His Life to a Prescription
From His Deceased
Mother.
HOW HE ESCAPED wooDMAN.
Marvellous Story of the Rarcher
Kings Conversion to the
Spiritualistic Cult.

George E. White, ''the Mendocino Cat
tie King" has been converted to the doc
trines of spiritualism, and is now a strong
advocate of the cult.
"Do you know" he said cautiously,
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12
The Fire Department.

The Fire Commissioners met yesterday after
noon and accepted the designations of Daniel
Martin of engine IL, WI R. Bartlett of en-
gine 25 and John Driscoll of truck 3. Howard
Marden was appointed hoseman of engine 30,
Thomas Dorland hoseman OF engine II, and
Thomas f. Murphy hoseman of engine 25.
Thomas Kelly of chemical engine was fined
five days pay for neglect OF duty.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12
GOING To PLACE
HAWAIIAN BONDS,
Ex-Minister Jones to Sell
100000 of Four
Per Cents.
CAN DO 1T, HE THINKS
The Government Will Make Over
100000 Year by It,
So He Says.
is NOT HARD UP FOR MONEY
lts Idea Is to Swap Its Per Cents
for Bonds Bearing a Lower
Rate of Interest.
IS NOT HARD UP FOR MONEY

Hon. P. G. Jones, president of the Oldest
American house in Hawaii-tbat of Brewer
d Co.-and Minister of Finance under
Queen Liliuokalani during the last part of
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12

The Euphrates is termed in the East
'The Royal River" from the fact that
672 kings have reigned on its banks.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12
CrOSSlal'S Specific Mixture

With this remedy persons cure themselves
without the least exposure, change Of diet or
change in application to business. The medicine
contains nothing that is OF the least injury 10 the
bottle
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12
New ro.pAY-pRY GOODS.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29

frizzed her hair in the latest style,
carried scarlet parasol in her village
walks, and after enjoying the triumph
of exhibiting herself and her new pos
sessions to the iuhabitants of Dripping
Springs, she announced her intention
of going to the seashore for the sum
mer.
"Going a-husband hunting, "de-
clared the gossips. "There amt no.
body good enough for her in Dripping
Springs"
But if Melzena heard them she paid
no heed to their gossip, but packed
her new big Saratoga trunk with her
new finery and set out on her long
journey.
AS the weeks passed on, Hazel and
Aunt Comfort enjoyed themselves in
their new home, in spite of the evil
representations.
And indeed, though the dissatisfied
kinfolk shook their head over Hazel
and her doings, they were very we'll
pleased to ride out to the farm on
summer afternoons and eat their fill
of the ripe, black heart cherries, or
drink tea from Hazel's lowered china
tea cups; or to spend the day and dine
on fried chicken, green peas, new
potatoes and other early vegetables,
raised by the industry of Hazel and
Aunt Comfort.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
RAISING CARROTS.

Make preparations to raise a few
carrots next season. In many por-
tions of the country they will sell ut n
good figure and thus add to the in
come of the farm. If they cannot be
sold readily they will make an excel
lent and profitable addition to tho feed
of the horses, colts and cows through
the winter. If you are 'winter
dairyman" a few pounds fed to the
cows each day will go far toward
making that fine "butter color" that
is SO desirable, yet often so hard to
get in the winter. Experienced culti-
votors get eighty bushelsper acre. If
you can grow half as many they should
not cost (if cultivated largely by horse
power) more than 10 cents per bushel,
and it will be worth very much more
than that as an addition to the feeding
ration. Sow the seed rather thickly
in drills, and thin out with narrow
bladed hoe, so as to leave the roots
about three inches apart or in clumps
of two or three or six inches apart.
The latter method will not give as
nice, smooth roots for market, but
will give as good yield, quite as val
liable for feeding, and will greatly re-
duce the labor of thinning. Use the
stump rooted or half-long sorts, as the
labor of digging is not so much as the
care with the longer varieties. Wis
consin Agriculturist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
Running a Tiger In.

Admiral Sir G.. w told me that
when he commanded an Indian troop
ship full-grown tiger was embarked
for passage to England as present
from some Indian prince to the Queen.
1t was magnificent animal, and for
many years afterward exhibited at the
Geological Gardens. One morning
about 5. 30, the captain was awakened
by a messenger, who said: "Please sir
the tiger has broken loose!" His
reply was: clock my cabin door and
call me when he's in his cage again.
1t appears that in cleaning the
cage, the men being then washing
deck, the door of the cage had been
unfastened, and the beast had escaped,
causing a regular stampede, the blue
jackets forward running up the rig
ging, aud the soldiers taking to the
hammock nettings and the hurricane
deck. The tiger ran aft; the men
had not heard of its escape, and were
throwing buckets of water about. The
scene appeared to puzzle the tiger.
At any rate, an old quartermaster real
lied the situation, and taking his lam
tern, flashed it full in the face of the
tiger. He then took the animal by
the scruff of the neck, ran it forward
to it's cage, and slammed and fastened
the door in iffy.-Westminster Bud
| get.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
Romance Of n wig.

A tragic ending of q comic scene
has resulted in the heroine of tho adj
venture being conveyed to the hospital
in very precarious state, while the
hero is securely under lock and key
at the depot of the Prefecture of Po-
lice in Paris. The whole affair turned
on some silly fun and stupid horseplay
about a wig A young man had been
facinated by the attractions of girl
few years his junior and had asked
to be permitted to pay his attentions
to her, but she was by no means dis
posed to return the compliment, as
he had become very bald through ill
ness, and, as the object of his affec-
tions concisely put 1T, she would never
dream of marrying any one with no
hair on his head.
The youth meditated over his dis
comfiture, and then happy thought
flashed upon him. He would repair
the rsvages of unkind nature by re-
course to art, and forthwith he wended
his way to q hairdresser's shop and
became the delighted possessor of a
wig with curls and loye-locks and elab-
arate parting in front and behind, which
as he fondly hoped, would produce
the desired impression on the heart
of the obdurate young woman.
Thus adorned, he proceeded that
evening to a restaurant, where she
was dining with some friends, but to
his horror, she not only burst out
laughing when he appeared on the
scene, but presently made dash at
his wig, which she tore off, revealing
his denuded head to the astonished
gaze of the party. The youth en-
deavored to wrest the wig from her
grasp, and so, finding herself hard
pressed, the fair maiden passed it
over to the other side of the room, and
then, as ignorant of the fact, he still
struggled, she dealt him slap in the
face.
Beside himself with disappointment
and wrath, the young man snatched a
knife from the table, and ere the spec
tators of the scene could interfere, he
stabbed the girl in the neck. Cries of
dismay now resounded instead Of peals
of laughter which had hitherto rent
the air as tho young woman fell faint
| ing to the floor. Tha police were sum-
moned, and while the youth was led
off in custody, the girl was taken to
| the shop of neigboring druggist
pending her removal to the hospital.
1t is feared that she will not recover.
London Telegraph.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
Banking Underground.

A Cleveland architect thinks that
the occupancy underground quarters
by large bank in that city is going
to mark a revolution in building. He
says: "The idea is not new, but in
this case it has been greatly developed
and look for startling results. 1t
has been shown that with the aid of air
shafts and other appliances quarters
a story below ground may be rendered
far more comfortable than those above
and with care exercised in the venti-
lation these quarters will doubtless
prove perfect from a sanitary stand
point. II this is so one story below
ground. why not three or four, and
if two, three or four, why not ten or
twelve if necessarily This may solve
the problem of economy in building
space and do away with the sky-scrap-
ing buildings that in other cities are
already causing unfavorable COM
ment. 1t may be long time hence,
bnt believe the time will come when
there are us many buildings ten sto-
ries underground as there are that
number above the surface Of the
ground" This sounds chimerical, bu,
perhaps II 10 not --Bauker's Enoyclo'
pedis Monthly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
A NEW WAY OF RAISING ONIONS.

I had some Prize Taker onion seed
! sown by florist for me about the
, middle of March. with l.. G. Beecher.
The ground was plowed, narrowed and
raked about April 10, and the seed,
which was to be sown in the open
ground, was drilled in with Planet
Jr., seed drill as soon as the ground
was ready. The adjoining ground was
cultivated occasionally until the second
week in May, when / transplanted
those sown in the greenhouse, those
sown in the open ground being about
1-2 inches high at the time. The
method of transplanting onions that l
had seen was to take small basketful
from the hotbed, then with a pointed
stick make small hole, into which
the plant was placed, and after firm
ing the soil around it, one after an
other was transplanted.
When received my plants from the
greenhouse the weather was exceeding
ly dry and did not deem it best to
follow this method. first moistened
the plants in the box, and rs l took
them from it they were placed in water
to avoid willing. I made drill about
two inches deep aud two inches wide,
into xrb,nh xva onxyp tha on ~, A nuantitv
of fertilizer as had been bestowed
upon those sown in open ground. /
used the brand of phosphate designed
for potatoes. This was mixed thor
oughly with the soil, and water was
poured into the drills. One plant at
time was placed in the drills, and
with my hands pressed the moist
soil around it, at the same time draw
ing lightly some of the dry earth to
make the ground level and to keep it
from baking. The distance between
the plants was two and one-half to
three inches. This may seem to be
a very slow process, but it can be
done nearly as quickly as you could
weed onions in the ordinary way, and
you save that wedding; and we all
know that wedding onions is no envia-
BILE task.
The transplanted onions gave me
very little trouble, while those sown
in open ground required twice the care
to keep them free from weeds. Not
one from the transplanted plat was
smaller than the largest of those grown
in the ordinary way. All but three Of
the transplanted ones ripened natur-
ally, while in the others there was
about peck of unsatisfactory ones
and the yield was twice as much. The
only objection can find is that retail
dealers complain that they are too
large, as many are sold by the quart.
This could be overcome, il they would
buy and sell by the pound.
BY this transplanting method We
can get onions much earlier,as there
will be several weeks difference In the
time of ripening. There is also no
waste on account Of small ones. We
dispense with two weddings ] am
; perfectly satisfied that u is proatabls
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
Water and Gold.

II is not generally known, even in
California, that millions of dollars
are annually taken from rude heapsfof
base-looking quartz by the flowing of
water over huge piles of broken rocks
that contain the precious metal. The
process of robbing the earth Of its
gold has now been reduced to such O
fine point that the gentle flow of water
over the ore CLEANS it of its golden
treasures, and this works we'll in cases
where the old chloride and other
methods are not so useful.
The water used by miners in briun/
ing gold from piles of mineral bel
ing quartz is charged with q simple
chemical, which has the potency to
dissolve gold and hold it in solution.
The sparkling liquid, which flows
over hundreds OF tons Of quartz
trickles through the mines and seeks
its level laden with gold, is charged
with deadly poison, cyanide of po-
tassium, drug which ferrets out the
minutest particles OF the yellowish
metal, and dssolves them and brings
the precious burden to the vats, for
conversion into refined gold again.
The cyanide process is as noiseless
and unerring as the laws OF gravita-
ton. The method is based ON the
fact that even a very weak solution Of
cyanide OF fpotassim dissolves gold and
silver, forming respectively auro-po.
tassic cyanide and argento. potassio
cyanide. The solution is separated
from the solid mineral, and the gold
and silver are precpitated in metallic
form. During the last five years the
process has been introduced into al
most every gold field in California and
elsewhere, and more than $40. 900. 900
has been recovered by the gentle flow
of the waters charged with the msgi-
cal chemical.
Precipitation is effected by the use
of fine pieces of zinc, 50 arranged that
when the rich waters flow over them
the fine gold clusters in rich deposits
over the zinc. for which it has an
affinity. The gold deposits itself in
the form OF fine dust on the plates OF
zinc. Boston Journal of Commerce.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
-IENTIFIC SCRAPS.

II 10 impossible for human being
to breathe at height greater than
seven miles above the earth.
Professor d'Arsonval OF the College
OF France has been making series OF
experiments with the torpedo fish.
A fabric made of pine and spruce
wood pulp is made into overcoats in
Leeds, England. II looks like frieze.
The highest inhabited building in
Europe is the Alpine clubhouse, on
Mt. Rosa-twelve thousand feet above
sea level.
A man is as old as his arteries. II
they are soft and compressible, the
deteriorating effects of old age have
not yet appeared.
Twenty millions Of meteors are said
to fall upon the earth every day. their
aggregate weight amounting to some
thing like two tons.
Size for size, thread of spider silk
is decidedly tougher than bar of
steel. An ordinary thread will bear q
weight of three grains.
If man ate in the spiders propor-
tion he would consume the equivalent
of four barrels of fish, dozen hogs,
three sheep and two oxen in a singl
day.
Penn's Cave, Penn, near Belle-
fonte, is to be illuminated by electri-
city and electric railways are to be
built between the railroad station and
the cave.
street car in Glasgow, Scotland,
with new oil motor in place OF
horses was exhibited recently. While
on the trial trip tue oil tank took fire
and burned the whole exhibit.
An exhaust pipe from the power
house of the railway company at
Chester, Penn, pours out hot water
oil day. Scores of economical house
wives regularly visit the place and fill
their buckets with the boiling water,
saving themselves the expense and
trouble of heating it.
Professor Proctor, the astronomer,
while on visitto Florida, studied the
fight of turkey buzzards. He OBJ
served that they were able to soar
quite Independent of any motion OF
their wings. They seemed to balance
themselves on the air and move for
ward, and sometimes upward, without
the expenditure of any force at all.
He attempted to account for this on
the hypothesis that as they were NOV
ing forward at very high velocity
they did not rest on the same air long
enough for the air to be set in
motion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
Crusade Against student Duels.

In some of the German universities
the faculty of late has begun to show
unusual severity in dealing with the
"measuren" (student) duels), and in
Halle Rector Droysen announces that
the participants in such duels will
be vigorously punished, and that,
more especially, roaming the streets
by students exhibiting half-healed sa-
ber cnts in the face must stop. Chi
cago Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29

and labor-saving, and as we univer.
sally adopt this the buyers will be
better satisfied, as we can furnish on
ions of uniform size and much earlier
and they, too, will find IL more profit
able to sell them by weight. DIR.
Sturgis experimental with red on
ions and is satisfied as to its advan-
tages. New England Homestead.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

A bushel of apples make about six
pounds of evaporated fruit.
A berry garden for next season
should be decided upon at once.
II the trees in the orchard stand SO
close together as to exclude air and
sunshine, the inferior trees should be
removed.
Geese are more hardy and much
less trouble than chickens and turkeys,
and the profits are very much larger.
During the summer all they need is a
good pasture. They begin laying
when q year old, and lay from thirty
to forty eggs in the season. Three
geese are enough for the company Of
one gsudsr.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.


p'chr hhDiNt fOWbS WITH WHEAT.
Wheat is not safe food if given to
any animal in excess. 1t swells in the
fowls crops and causes Indigestion,
which produces staggering and paral-
ysis of the neck and death in short
time. Fowls will swallow coal il it is
lying about and gravel is not easily
procured. A supply of gravel should
be furnished to all poultry If the
soil has not plenty of it in it. This is
indispensable for the crushing OF the
food in the gizzard, which is part of
the multiple stomach of birds. New
York Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
His Bluff Called.

Hell was going to ask you TO 90
with me today, but thsre's
no snow ON the ground.
Shs--Thsn. am afraid. you will
have to get carriage. PUCK.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
Bridge Builders.

We build bridge OF trust
From night to morn,
Amystic arch of dreams
Till day is born.
We build bridge OF trust
From friend to friend,
And often break the span
We cannot mend.
We build bridge OF trust
From shore TO shore,
And shadow figures steal across
At peace forevermore.
--xlorcnce A. Munroe In Detroit Free Press
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29

"Bless me, Hazell' cried Aunt
Comfort, one bright summer morning,
"here's your Cousin John an Arvilly
a-comin' out in the spring wagon, an
man with 'em. Who kin it be?
'Taint the minister, I know, fur he's
more grizzled lookin' an hain't got a
p'inted moustache like this one"
1t was baking-da and Hazel was in
the kitchen, her sleeves rolled up and
her cheeks flushed to bright damask
red.
81 hope the best tablecloth is clean,
whoever it is, she returned, peeping
into the oven at pan of cherry tarts
that were almost swimming in their
own crimson juice.
The stranger with the "p'inted
moustache" proved to be Mr..
Nicholas Bycroft, who had stopped
on his journey to spend a week with
his Cousin Arvilla, John Mulford's
wife.
Mr.. Bycroft's first visit to Cherry
Farm was by no means his last one,
and, for some reason or other, his
weeks visit stretched to a month, and
the month had almost doubled itself,
and still he fingered at his cousins,
near Dripping Springs
One summer night he stood with
Hazel on the latticed porch at Cherry
Cottage, the soft moonbeams filtering
down through the scarlet bean.vines
overhead.
"There amt another woman in the
world ever wanted to marry, Hazel
only you" whispered Nicholas ear
nestly. 81 want wife that can help
me to make home and to enjoy il
after it is made. Think of my big
ranch out in Texas, now. I shall live
there lonely old bachelor all my
days, unless you go with me. Say,
Hazel, will you go?"
And so, much to the delight o.
Cousin Johns folks, and the surpris,
of other relations, the wealthy cattle
rancher carried Hazel off, to be mis-
tress of his Texas home.
Aunt Comfort was left in possession
of Cherry Farm, rent free, for thu
rest of her days, aud here Melzeni
Milford was glad to seek an asylum
when she returned from the seashore Q
with only remnant Of her legac.
left and with no prospects of marriag
settlements on hand. Saturday Night
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29

Married? No; nor 1 don't never
expect to be-" solemnly asserted Mr..
Nicholas Bycroft, as he fastened the
hasp of his trunk, and took down his
breech-loadiug rifle to see that it was
in order.
For Mr.. Nicholas was making final
preparations for his journey to Texas,
where he was going into stock raising
on cattle ranch of several hundred
acres.
"Get married, indeed" he con-
tinued, muttering to himself. "There
amt more'n one girl in hundred I'd
have, an like as not that one wouldn't
have me. If there was girl now
that thought of anything besides
a-curling her hair an dressing herself
up in silks an furbelows, an had any
idee of what home ought to be, l
dun know but 1 might-But pshaw |!
if there's any sich girls, I've never
come across 'em, an never expect to.
I'll be an old bachelor an live by my
self, like Uncle Tom"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-06-13

to the coinage of both gold and sill
yer without discrimination against
either metal, or charge for mintage,
at the ratio of Is to l independent,
of the action of any other nation.
Mr.. Goodwin moved that the
resolutions be tabled. Mr.. Hadnot
moved as q substitute that Mr..
Goodwyn's motion be tabled. Sub
stitute carried.
Mr.. Hadnot then called for q
vote on his resolutions, and the
resolutions were adopted by a ris-
ing vote of 80 to 6.
The chair appointed as delegates
to the Baton Rouge convention, w.
p. Hickman, G. H. Teal, j. P. Had
not G. w. Wainwright, M. e.
Swafford, Green REEVES, w. w.
Wallace, Sam. johnson, F. M.
Sharp, and H. v. Mccain.
On motion of H. G.. Goodwin
the meeting adjourned sine die.
G. 81. TEAL,
w. G. ROBERTS, Chairman.
Secretary.