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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Three persons were killed and seven
injured by an explosion in fireworks
factory in Berlin yesterday.
The Spanish government has order
ed that 500. 600 be devoted to the re-
lief of the suffering peasants in Cuba.
Mr.. P. a. B. Widener, president of
the Philadelphia Traction Company,
will give his palslial residence to the
city for a branch of the Philadelphia
Free Library.
at the special election in the sixth
congressional district of Illinois yester-
day Henry S. Boutell, republican, was
chosen to succeed the late Congressman
E. D. Cooke, who belonged to the same
party.
Mr.. Richard Croker, the head of
Tammany Hall, says ex-senator Hill,
of New York, had nothing to do with
the late campaign in that State, but
that Senator Murphy is the State lead
or of the democracy.
Secretary Lyman J. Gage made the
principal address at the annual dinner
of the New York Chamber of Com
merce at Delmonico's last night and
said that agitation of the financial
question can do no harm now.
Frederick W. Miller, proprietor of
the hotel at Great Falls, above Wash
ingtoD, who attempted suicide on the
morning of November - by shooting
himself on the little island opposite his
hostelry. died yesterday afternoon as
result of his self,inaicted injuries.
The Spanish cabinet has approved
the scheme of Senior Sagasta, the prime
minister, for the autonomy of Cuba, in
Guiding the clause of the trade regula-
tons giving the Cuban chamber the
right to fix the Cuban tariff. The de-
tails are as yet unknown and will not
be published until the Queen Regent
gives her sanction.
Chairman Bgnum, of the gold demo.
cratic party, has issued an address in
which he reviews the results of the re-
cent elections in several of the States,
and accounts for the defeat of the dem
ocrats. The sound money democrats,
he says, are not discouraged. Gains
have been made in certain sections, he
says, aad free silver is losing ground.
representative Dorr, of the Third
West Virginia DISTRICT, while in Wash
ington yesterday said he was firmly
convinced that the civil service reform
law will be repealed before the expira-
ton of the Fifty fifth Congress. Mr.
Dorr only gives expression to the senti
ments of very many of the members Of
Congress who are drifting into Wash.
ington after their participation in the
late campaign.
As result of the dispute between the
authorities of Jersey City and the
American Sugar Refining Company
over the price of wa r, the company
Yesterday discharged 600 of its 100
Jersey City employees and declares that
tle others will be dropped in few
days and the sugar house in that city
permanently abandoned. The point at
issue between the Company and the
city is the price to be paid for water
used in the refining works.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23
Muck Lands Made Valuable.

Beginning near Lawton, Mich, and
extending westerly past Dowagiac, Is
an immense swamp, says Drainage
Journal. A portion OF it is covered
with black ash and birch and other
large portions have In ages past been
buried under water so long that its
growth of trees has been smothered.
Roots and earth-imbedded trunks
alone remain to tell the story. De-
nuded of its trees, the swamp presents
the appearance Of a plain. Centuries
OF decay of vegetation produce rich
plant food. No part of this swamp
produces better returns for it's tillage
than that near Decatur. Ten years
ago the state made a ditch five miles
long In this swamp, which drains into
Dowagiac creek, and from thence into
the st. Joseph river. Owners of
swamp land constructed laterals. and
large body Of the land was brought
into condition for cultivation. Shrewd
residents OF Lawton, Kalamazoo and
other points invested in the swamp.
They grew mint. celery and onions.
The ground produces fine celery, and
an effort has been made to COLOMBO
Hollanders from Kalamazoo to work 1t,
but so far without marked success. Be-
fore being drained these muck lands
had only a nominal value. Now they
sell at prices ranging from $40 to 500
per acre, depending very much upon
the market facilities. The growing o.
mint OF the muck land has been and Ia
yet renunerative. The mint produces
a valuable oil when distilled. Each
mint grower has a small still. and the
distillation is said to be a very simple
process. 1t is claimed that mint grow
ers realize a profit of $40 or more per
acre.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

seed for 10 to 10 minutes in scalding
water-temperature of water 1872 to 1873
degrees F., and soaking the seed from
IS to 20 hours in a solution of POTASH
um sulfid Diver of sulfur) made by dis
solving one and one-half pounds of the
sulfid in twenty-five gallons of water
This solution should be kept in wood
en- vessel. In the hot water treatment
the seed is placed in a wire mesh YES
sci or in an open gunny bag and then
immersed. Ten minutes treatment
gave the same results as fifteen min
utes, while the longer did no injury.
With the potassium sulfid method the
grain is covered directly by the liquid
and allowed to remain for the time
stated. In both cases the seed will
need to be dried to SOW in the drill, but
may be sown broadcast while still wet
Details of these methods will be found
in Bulletin GA of the Ohio Experiment
Station. Another method was tried IN
1896. 1t consists in treating the seed
oats in piles by sprinkling with solu-
ton of potassium sulfid from water
ing can with rose. The grain must be
repeatedly stirred during treatment
and the sprinkling Is done also at in
tervals of an hour. BY this sprinkling
method the smut was reduced from IL
per cent to per cent in one case; from
2S per cent to 10 per cent in another.
Hot water and snlfid soaking treat
ments OF the same seed reduced the
smut to lilo Of one per cent and clio
of one per cent of smut respectively. 1t
will be seen that the sprinlHling method
Is not SO complete a prevention as the
hot water and soaking methods.
The details of the sprinkling method
are as follows: Dissolve one pound OF
fresh potassium sulfid in fifteen and
one-half gallons OF water In a wooden
vessel. This solution will be enough
to treat 500 pounds or fifteen and one
half bushels OF seed oats. In other
words, every gallon of the mixture,
made as directed, will treat one bushel
OF oats. Place the oats in piles OF five
to eight bushels upon a tight floor and
sprinkle with the sprinkler every hour
until the liquid is used. Just enough
should be applied SO that none goes to
waste. The seed should be we'll stirred
between sprinkings. After all the So
luton has been applied, the oats should
lie not more than six inches deep and
should be thoroughly stirred twice a
day. 1t Is best sown about two to
three days after treatment. Manifestly
the seed will be swollen and must be
applied In a larger quantity per acre.
The attention to the condition of the
seed after treatment and before sowing
Is evidently as exacting as for the hot
water or soaking methods. The pref
erence of the Experiment Station is for
the hot water method as most effective
and at the same time most practicable.
This sprinkling treatment Is stated for
the benefit of any who desire to use It.
There is no method of seed treatment
that does not involve labor.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

pearance. that settles 1t that whatever
should become Of the bodies OF our
Christian dead. they are going to come
up, the nerves restrung, the optic nerve
reillumined. the ear drum a-vibrate, the
whole body lifted up, without its weak
ness and worldly uses for which sAere
IL no resurrection. Come, is it not al
most time for us to go out to meet our
terminated dead? Can you aot hear
the lifting of the rusted latch?
Oh, the glorious thought, the glorious
consolation OF this subject when find
Christ coming up without any of the
lacerations for YOU must remember He
was lacerated and wounded fearfully
in the crucifixion-coming up without
one. What does that make me think?
That the grave Will get nothing OF us
except our wounds and imperfections.
Christ went into the grave exhausted
and bloodless. All the currents of His
life had poured out from His wounds.
He had lived life of trouble, sorrow,
and privation, and then lie died lin
gering death. His entire body hung on
four spikes. No invalid Of twenty
years suffering ever went into the
yave SO white and CHASTITY and broken
down as Christ. and yet here He comes
up so rubicund and robust she supposed
Him to be the gardener.
Ali all the side-aches, and the head
aches, and the back-aches, and the leg
aches, and the heart-aches we will leave
where Christ left His. The ear VIII
come up without its heayiness, the eye
will come up without its dimness. the
lungs will come up without oppressed
! respiration. Oh, what races we will
run when we become immortal ath-
! lctos! Oh what circuits We will take
when all earthly imperfections sub
tracted and all celestial velocities adj
ded we shall set up our residence in
that city which. though vaster than all
the cities OF this world shall never
have one obseQuyl
shattered masonry OF our Lords tomb.
point you TO world without hearse.
without muflled drum, without tumu-
lus. without catafalque. and without
tear. Amid all the cathedrals Of the
blessed no longer the Dead March in
SAUL" but whole libretti OF "Hallelujah
Chorus" Oh. put trumpet to lip and
| finger to key, and loving forehead
against the bosom of a risen Christ.
Hallelujah. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen!
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

Paris physicians have gone on a
strike. The municipality has been pay
ing 81 visit to certain designated doc
tors for responding to emergency calls
when the patients were too poor to pay
the fee themselves. This arrangement
proved somewhat expensive. so that the
project OF police changed the basis OF
pay and paid the doctors salary Of
S120 year. In some districts this was
satisfactory as there were not many in
digent persons. 1t was discovered that
some official physicians were compel
ed under the new system, to make Wis
its for about so cents each, and, as n
result there was a strike among the
doctors. The Paris Medical Syndicate
will be asked to aid the doctors In their
fight against reduction in fees.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

The frequent newspaper accounts OF
accidental shooting are usually &C.
ccmpanied by the plea that the per-
petrator did not know the gun was
loaded. One efficient precaution, which
may serve as an example. was early
taught TO ex-President Rutherford b.
Hayes. He had been promised a gun
on his fourteenth birthday on the con-
dition that he should never point il,
loaded or unloaded, at any person. The
long-expected day arrived. A beauti-
full little rife was placed in his hands,
and beside himself with JOY. the boy
took instant aim at the giver, exclaim-
ing, Look out, grandma, I'll shoot
your The gift was Immediately re-
called for six months, by which time
the bitter but important lesson was
mastered.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

Recent French statistics show that
while the number of adult criminals in
creased eleven per cent during the last
dozen years, the number between the
ages of sixten and twnty increased
twenty-five per cent. In Paris, more
than half OF the criminals arrested are
under twenty-one. Similar tendencies
are manifest in England and Germany
and in this country. American Grim
biologists have repeatedly called atten-
ton to the increase OF Juvenile crime.
Probably a variety of causes operate
to produce this result; but in all the
countries mentioned, and in ours not
least, one of the chief causes Is the
publication of the sensational details
of crime. The president of the New
York Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children, in his last report,
declared that the chief agency in train
ing the young in vice is vicious journal
ism. The papers which print lurid
stories of crime, wildly illustrated, and
give elaborate sketches of criminals,
lead young readers TO imagine that
there is something heroic or romantic
in a criminal career.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

are equally successful-with trees
transplanted under the ordinary meth
cd with us. Many more can be packed
in case for shipping in this way, and
heavy transportation charges thus
avoided. II has been long the thought
of the writer that by far too much
value is placed on the root fibers; and
distinction should be made between
the true roots and root fbers. The fiber
is practically only 4 thread-like pro-
duction which pushes out OF the main
roots in large quantities. They live
only for one year. just as the leaf does.
and they can be of very little practical
use to a tree in transplanting. The
success OF transplanted tree comea
from tho new production of these
fibers. The food of tree is taken in
by the root hairs. which are produced
at the end of these little threads. and,
unless cASe is a new production OF
these fibers. the tree will not grow.
What is needed in successful trans
planting is an abundance of two or
three-year-old roots, and not annual
hbers. 1t is this which makes a trans
planted tree much more OF "a success
than one not transplanted. When the
large old roots are shortened. and
number of new, true roots proceed, this
is the class of roots desirable. If there
are number of this class to the main
stem OF the plant, we should be apt to
regard all the other mass OF very old
roots and half-dead fibers as being in
the way Of success rather than to aid It
For trees generally, Mr.. Stringfellow's
method will not be adopted. but the
thought is useful in showing us the
absurdity of many of our old views
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

II is said that a number of the
gents who read Mr.. ingalls, graphic
and really literary account of the mill
at Carson have taken exceptions to the
sentence in which the distinguished
author says ''it had been bruited
about" This they regard as having
a covert personal application and some
OF them may send def to the atten-
uated Atchison statesman. Before Mr..
ingalls, started for Carson. however, he
purchased three blood-red neckties, and
it might be wise for the gents" not
to be too hasty.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

In this age of sophistication there has
been much righteous and indignant
protest at adulteration of food products.
The practice is a menace to health, and,
as the buyer does not get what he pur-
1fases, IL is swindle. 1t is no wonder
that a long-suffering public is begin
ming to revolt, and there are hundreds
OF people who will indorse the manly
stand taken by the editor of the Larn-
ed. Kas., Chronoscope on this ques-
tion:
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23
Irrigatlug Hlll-Sides.

The Country Gentleman calls atten-
ton to the test of Connecticut farmer
of the value of irrigation on sandy soil
BY the aid of rams water is elevated
from a valley brook to a reservoir at
the top of the hill. From here 1t is dis
tributed to leading points ON the farm
in two and one-half inch pipes, and
from these old discarded fire hose is
used to distribute the water over the
fields. Wooden troughs in twelve-fooI
sections feed into each other, and are
easily moved about the fields. These
are set at proper grades wherever want
ed. and the water turned into them
through the hose. BY series of little
gates along the trough water Is allowed
20 run down to rows OF melons, straw
berries or asparagus, the flow being
regulated so as to run freely, but with
out washing. This year. wishing TO
carry over some old strawberry beds
for fruiting another season, Mr.. Eddy
cleared the rows, narrowed them to
eight or ten inches. and turned on the
water. The beds took on a new,
strong growth. and are as nearly per-
feet as can be. Then. to extend the
plantations, runners from new beds,
as new plants developed, were taken
up with little or no root and thickly
lined out in rows a foot apart. the
water put trickling down the rows so
as to keep them moist all the time. and
the little runners went at once 10 work
making strong, new plants with album
dance Of flbrous roots. Celery, cabbage
and other crops are treated in like
manner
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23
Good Roots In rrnnsplantlng Trees,

Mr. II. M. Stringfellow, fruit grow
er OF Texas. and who is regarded in
that section as a good authority on
practical fruit culture. has lately start
led planters by contending that young
trees planted for orchards. or, one may
say, for anything else. are better with
out roots than with them. He cuts in
all the roots to mere stump. making
the tree little more than a mere cut
ting. says Mehan's Monthly. The top
is OF course at the same time cut in.
severely. 1t is argued that there is
great point gained, provided such trees
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

Who owns Cincinnati. anyhow"
shr.eks John R. Mclean. The gentle
man who returns from over the Rhine
after midnight could probably tell with
one eye shut.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

Mr.. Andrew Lang sneers at 1.-The in
expensive pathos of Dickens 1t is not
everybody that can afford high-priced
pathos. That is the reason, perhaps.
why the demand for Dickens books Is
still so much greater than for Mr.. An
drew Lang's?
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

When 'heresy" discussions rage.
there il comfort for timorous people.
who fear the stability of the truth IT.
self. in the warning addressed to an
excitabie brother by a Methodist di-
vine. you think you hear explosions
within, the church," he repeated.
Nonsense! They're only noises in you.
own headr'
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

Profitable Dairying.-There is no use
trying to make dairyilg profitable on
old lines. Better cows are needed al
once, and they should have the best
care. Stock that has to stand out in al
kinds of weather and has no shelter
from the fierce storms that SWEEP
across those prairies. other than a
barbed wire fence. will never yield
enough milk to be n source of impor-
tant income to the owner. Cows must
be we'll housed and well fed; and better
care of the milk before it goes to the
creamery is absolutely essential. Clean
illness in the barn. about the milk
rooms, with the pals and cans in
which the milk is handled, should re-
ceive very close attention. Get the
milk to the creameries in flrst-clasls
shape, free from the bad odors tina,
are SO often absorbed by 1t, and thu
fault will lie with the creamery man.
agenient IL the finished product is not
of high grade.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23
FARM ! AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
ACRICULTURISTS.
Some Up-to-date Hints About Cultiva-
tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof
--HorticuIture. viticuiture and FIori-
culture.

HE Ohio Expert
ment Station has
used several meth
DDS of treatment
and two of these
W ere uni formly
successful. A third
method reduces the
smut one-half 10
three-fourths. The
successful methods
are immersing the
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

The New York subtreasury is short
of $1,000 bills. For this particular part
of Wall street we acknowledge a fellow
feeling.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23
Treating Strawberry Plants.

An eastern exchange says: l.. j.
Farmer, a widely known strawberry
grower of Pulaski. N. Y, has method
Of his own for spring treatment Of
strawberry plants. The plants are talk
en- I'D very early and trenched closely
in sloping trenches, about seven inches
deep. twelve to fifteen plants to the
linear foot, and crowns even with the
surface. The roots arc clipped before
trenching. The whole surface is mulch
ed. the beds leach consisting OF three
trenches eight inches apart) thoroughly
soaked, and a week after sprayed with
Bordeaux mixture. The plants are
kept in the beds, where they can be fire.
quently sprayed for mildew (Which in
Oswego county is worse than rust)
about six weeks. Ten thousand can
thus be treated on a square rod of
land. About May 20 the plants are set
IN the fields, and will ordinarily need
no more spraying until after they have
made a crop. Mr.. Farmer puts the win
ter mulch on early, about as soon as
the ground will bear wagon. Horse
manure is the preferred mulch.
The Farmers Review regards the
above with a good deal OF suspicion
and does not advise its readers to try
II. It can hardly be believed that the
plants set out in May could develop
enough roots to give large yield OF
fruit.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23
rALMAGE'S SERMON.
"a RESURRECTION MISTAKE"
EASTER SUNDAY SuaJECT.
FROM the Text; ''She. Surprising Him
To BE the Gardener. Saith Unto Him;
Tell Me Where Thou Hast Laid Him and
VIII Take Him Away 2aa aO;Ib.

ERE are Mary
NJ a g d a e n and
Christ. just after
his resurrection.
For four thousand
years a grim and
CHASTITY tyrant had
been killing people
and dragging them
into his cold palace.
He had a passion
for human skulls.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

AS a recognition of the good work
done By the Salvation Army in Detroit
II relieving distress among the poor.
the citizens have contributed g. 900
TO purchase the building used by the
army as headquarters.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

Butter and Cheese Consumption.-rn
1887 the United States consumed $780,
600 tons OF butter and cheese: the Unit
ed Kingdom, S2S.OO0; Russia. 100000,
Germany, $4,000, and Austria, 1870. 600.
The people OF Canada eat more butter
and cheese per capita than those OF
any other country. The annual con-
sumption in the United States. per in
habitant, is 20 pounds, and in the
+. United Kingdom 10 pounds.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

II ex-senator Ingalls, hadn't been
conepicuously engaged elsewhere. we
would have had our suspicious as TO the
authorship Of that Gladstone letter to
Westminster
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

The proposition to put chewing gum
on the free list received knockout
blow on the jaw.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

The man who thinks for himself will
also think for the long procession that
follows him.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

hay will be in clover during the next
four years.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

State legislatures propose to contract
he scope OF the kaleidoscope.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

After Christ's interment every cellu-
lar tissue broke down. and nerve and
artery and brain we're n physiological
wreck, and yet he comes UP swarthy,
rubicund and well. When see after
such mortuary silence such radiant APP
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23

Read up on the dairy business.
The Yale expositor., 1897-04-23


were shadows over the family plot be-
longing to Joseph OF Arimathea, is ii
strange that there should be some
shadows over our family lot? Easter
dawn, not Easter noon.
Shadow of unanswered question:
Why were they taken away from us?
why were they ever given to us If they
were to be taken SO soon? why were
they taken so suddenly? why could they
not have uttered some farewell words?
why? A short question, but whole
crucifxion of agony in II. why
Shadow on the graves of good men and
women who seemed to die before their
work was done. Shadow on all the
graves OF children because we ask our
selves why so beautiful craft launch
ed at all IL il was to be wrecked
one mile outside of the harbory But
what did Mary Magdalen have to DO
in order to get more light on that
grave? She had only TO walt. After
a while the Easter sun rolled mp, aid
the whole place was flooded with lls'r
What have you and l to do in order
to get more light on our own graves
and light upon the graves CT cur dear
loved onesg Only 70 wait.