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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-06-03
commencement Honors at vermont
Academy.

The appointments for the Fuller prize
contest in defamation at Vermont acad-
envy, Saxtons River, have been made as
follows: Misses Dexter, Haskins, Knapp,
Mead and Wright Messrs Arnold, Ber-
dan, Hunt, Fiske and Stone The con
test will be held during the anniversary
week.
Those receiving commencement honors
are: Miss Carrie Dexter. WardsbOro, VT:
Miss Nellie Stearns, SaXtons River: Miss
Isidora p. Morehouse, Lawrence: True
man D. Woodbury.. Bow Mills \. H.:
Miss Estella Goodell. Westminster West;
Abbott T. Hutchinson. Burlington: Will
fred J. Stone. Vergennes Adm c. Wood
bury. Perkinsville.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-06-03

Grover Davenport seems a little better
at this writing.
The next regular meeting of Spofford
grange will be held on Saturday evening
June 4th, at ,.3O sharp.
Ira D. Farr has job carpentering at
the lake for c. 2. Gibson, building an addi-
ton onto his barn there
Twenty-Five members of Spofford grange
attended the 25th anniversary of Protec-
tive grange at Brattleboro last Tuesday
evening, All report pleasant time,
Farmers are all hustlers this week try
ing TO get their crops put into the ground
their corn crop being now ten days or
more late
Cheshire County Pomona grange viii
hold a special meeting with Great Meadow
grange at Westmoreland town hall next
Wednesday, June Sth. Closed session will
begin at 1890 a. NJ, public session at . p.
NJ.
There have been several nice strings of
fish caught out of the Connecticut river
within the past week A pike weighing
nine pounds was caught by Fred Randall and
Arthur Davis Burton johnson caught a
six. pound pike
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of the Argentine changes. You get into
the tropics. The province of Tucunan
raises quantities of gItfT cane. II
produces IS per cent Of the sugar con-
sumed in the Argentine. It's soil will
yield 100 bushels Of corn to the acre.
Much Of It IL wooded with tropical
trees. It Ia mountainous, having an
average elevation as high as Denver
and general appearance much like
that OF the country along the Penn
sylvania railretld at the Horse Shoe
BEND. Here the streams are dry half
the year and boiling torrents during
the remainder. The Tucuman valleys
are hot in the summer and warm in
the winter. BHenOs Ayres people go
there to get away from the cold, q
thing that seems ridiculous to me, for
the city is never much colder than Ea-
van1ah or Atlanta
In addition to these sections there
are other lands still nearer Bolivia
heavily wooded, the Chaco and For
are tropical and wild and filed with
half-naked Indians. These countries
have been little explored and are COM
paratiyely unknown
Further west ip the Andes IS a coun-
try unlike anything in the United
states. 1t is both mountainous and
tropical. The timber here disappears
o1id ltll1cI di Ilc4l6S COME TO Inc SURFACE.
The finest Of marble and the most
beautiful onyx l have ever seen exist
In this region. Here. are mountains
said to be rich IN gold and silver. Some
mines are now being worked. The
mining engineers of the Rothschilds
and others are prospecting In these
mountains. The great drawbacks are
the inaccessibility of the country. the
lack of water and the enormous cost
OF carrying mining machinery into it.
THE WHEAT REGION.
The wheat region CT the Argentine is
comparatively a small part of the
whole territory. I VIII write Of it more
fully in the future. 1t lies chiefly
north Of Buenos AyTes and east Of
Cordoba. in the basin of the Parana.
and also in the province Of Entire Rios.
between the Uruguay and Parana rlv-
ers. This country is like Illinois along
the Ohio river. IT il 9ivided into com
pantively small tracts. and Is largely
farmed by colonies o. foreigners.
Such is birds eye view OF the Ar
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gentine Republic. ] will fill out the
picture in letters describing different
parts Of the country and the different
industries
POPULATION OF ARGENTINE.
The Argentine now has 1900, 900 peo-
pie. 1t grows fast 1t has trebled
within thirty years, and its people
claim they will have 100000 in 1900
More than 100. 900 Immigrants came in
last year. More than one-third Of all
the people in the country are foreign
ers, and 70 per cent of the foreigners
are Italians. More Italians are coming,
and l see from a statement in this
mornings paper that King Humbert
estimates that 100000 Italians wil emf
CRATE next year. Eighteen per cent OF
the immigrants are Spanish and per
cent French. This makes 92 per cent
of all the immigrants of the Latin race.
The remaining per cent is made UP
Of British, Russians. Danes. Swiss and
Portuguese. Until lately there were so
few Americans that they were not
worthy of consideration. Now Ameri-
cans of the better class are coming in,
and they will form an important fac
tor in the Argentine. The Portuguese
as a rule do not stay. The men Of the
other classes remain. In a generation
or so they marry Argentine girls and
become Argentines, and out of the
whole IS being evolved the Argentine
type of the future.
PEOPLE OF ARGENTINE.
These Argentine people are not like
the South Americans of the west coast.
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bricks, sometimes matched and some
times rooted with galvanized iron.
Then put here and there a larger
group of low buildings surrounded by
flowers and trees belonging to the rich
proprietor and you have the basin of
the Rio de la Plata. You must spot
the landscape with sheep and cattle in
fiocks of thousands and imagine vast
fields, for the farms often include tens
of thousands of acres and one man
may own many square mile of land.
Further south of Argentine Is q ta-
hleland very like Northern Nebraska.
II is covered with sand and grass.
Streams twenty feet deep and eight
feet wide cut their way through
crumbling banks. The land rises in
terraces from the sea to the Andes.
The soil is poor and much of it Is a
sandy plain. upon which nothing will
grow except by irrigation.
Again, going from the basin of the
Rio de la Plata westward. the land rises
gently to the province of Cordoba, one
of the seats Of the old civilization,
and still further west to Mendoza III
the foothills Of the Andes. Cordoba
Is devoted largely 10 grazing. 1t has
a mountain chain running through it
and 1t is much like West Virginia,
save that 1t is not wooded. The prov
ince of Mendoza is on the plateau Of
the Andes. 1t is a grape and wine
country, its vines producing a ton of
grapes to the acre and every twenty
vines a gallon Of wine. Its general
character is like that of Pennsylvania
about Lancaster and York.
Going further northward the scenery
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Its mountainous country is compare
lively small, but its plains are among
the largest Of the world, extending
from the hot lands OF the tropics on
the edge Of Brazil to the cold terraced
pampas OF Southern Patagonia.
VALLEY OF THE RIVER PLATE.
The best parts Of the Argentine Re
pGbHc have been built up by the won
derfuI system OF streams which has
its outlet in the River Plate. These
rivers are the Uruguay, Paraguay, Pill
camayo and Parana. They form a
vast drainage system which has been
carrying the lands down from the
mountains for ages and building up
this country. They drain a country
larger than the basin of the Misslsslp-
pi and, In fact, as large as half of
the whole United States.
The best lands of the Argentine lie
along the rivers. The most OF the coun-
try is a great plain gently sloping in
the north and central part from the
AnJes to these streams. If you could
see the Rio de la Plata, or River Plate
You could ruliZe what a great earth
builder IT is. 1t is an immense river
100 miles wide at It's mouth and $50
miles long to the point where Il IS
formed by the junction of the Uru-
quay and Parana. 1t is so full of soil
that II drops 10000 tons of mud every
hour into its bed This is a load so
great that, If you should load in on to
two-horse wagons, It would take ~ line
OF teams sixty miles long to carry 1t.
| entered the Rio de la Plata on a
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From Chambers Journal.
Imagine a gold mine. You may Sc
lect many climates--Siberia Or Africa.
Fiondike or Aus - 'rnIa or
India. Sitrnte your mine where YOU
will; so long as it be a gold mine the
procedure of as aging is the anne i; il
the wide world over. Select a mass Of
ore weighing, perhaps. ftsy pounds,
and smash it up.- Do not expect to see
any gold in 1t, because the precious
metal is probably so thinly and uni
formly scattered through the quartz
that II is impossible to spot grain to-
gether. Continue grinding the ore till
1t is in the form of y, powder. This
powder is heaped into a cone, which is
divided into four parts, Of which the
SAM Ter takes two whose angles are
opposite to one another Mix these
two parts thoroughly, and again di-
vide into four; take two portions again,
and so on till q sample of convenient
bulk is obtained. By this logical meth
cd the sample yielded is, on any or
binary calculation of probability. GER
tain to represent accurately the orig
inal mass taken.
A certain quantity of this snmple is
now weighed out, two equal amounts
being taken as checks upon each other.
The weighing may be done in denomi-
national values of either grammes or
assay tons The assay ton is "a most
convenient invention, and is very sim
ply explained. The ordinary ton e.
tains 81, 666.6 ounces; if. then. we make
a unit tan assay tom weighing 80. 1867
grammes, each .001 Of a gIhmme will
equal one ounce per ton. Thus, no cal
culation Is needed at all to estimate
the gold richness of an ore per ton.
Say we weigh out, then, two separ-
oya Of
ton CA. To- each. With each mix thor
oughly bicarbonate OF soda, litherge,
borax, glass, and -four in varying pro-
portions; when thoroughly uniform IN
color. empty the mixtures in freclay
crucibIes, and strew on the top thin
layer of salt. Put on the lids OF the
two crucibles and surround them with
living coal, coke, or burning vaporized
benZoline in a crucible furnace. The
crucibles are heated till the masses Of
ore and fiuxes are in a state Of tranquil
fusion-that is, not bubbling or boil
ing The white-hot fluid is then poured
into iron moulds and allowed to cool.
On examination. after cooling, the
fused masses will be found TO consist
of: ID A layer Of white substance,
which is salt % A Stag. This is usual
ly dark In color, often resembling
ma1achite. and is formed by the fusion
of the borax and soda with the worth
less or earthly matter (gangue) in the
ore. (3) A lead button, produced from
the Htharge, or lead oxide. originally
mixed in the charge. This lead button
contains all the silver and gold IN the
ore The heat of the furnace drives
off from the lead oxide it's oxygen, so
that pure lead Is left; this, in virtue
of its weight, percolates downward
through the Stag during the heating OF
the furnace, collecting all the gold and
silver present, and eventually forms
button weighing, II proper amount Of
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THE ARGENTINE IN 1898.
How the Country and How 1t Compares
Unite

German steamer, In which I sailed
from the Falkland islands to Monte
video. The waters Of the sea were
stunned by mud long before we reached
the mouth Of the river. 1t took US all
night to sail across 1T, and IN the morn
Montevideo. When I took my bath l
found the tub filled with what looked
like split pea soup, and when 1 let the
fluid out there was a sediment in the
bottom of the tub so thick that I left
foot prints in 1t quite as plain as those
which frightened Robinson Crusoe IN
the sand Of his desert island
The sea captains tell me that these
enormous masses of mud are rapidly
filing up the bed of the Rio de Ia
Plata. Its depth varies from thirteen
to thirty-six feet, but it has many
banks and shcals. This silt has given
it a bottom of fine sand. The big
steamers which come to Buenos Ayres
often have to plow their way through
the mud, and already the people are
talking of a jetty system similar to
that which Eads built at the mouth
Of the Mississippi.
HOW THE ARGENTINE LOOKS.
I can give you a better idea of the
Argentine Republic by comparing 1t
with parts Of the United States. Take
the great Yslley of the Rio de la
Plata as you find it here and for hun
dreds Of miles to the west and north
of Buenos Ayres. If you Will imagine
yourself in Illinois south of Spring
field along the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers you will be in a country much
like this. You must, however, cut out
the cornfields, leave out the woods ard
make the lands all pasture. Thke
away forty-rine farm houses out Of
every fifty, tear down all the barns.
and in the places of our neat country
homes put hUts Ct mud and straw and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-20
HOTEL THIEVES AT WORK.
Jewels Valued at $1,000 Taken
From "a Room In the Savoy.

Jewels Valued at $4,000 Taken
From "a Room In the savoy.
NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Hotel keepers
of this city have for weeks been great
ly worried by the successful operations
OF sneak thieves. The Waldorf-Astoria,
st. Cloud and Holland have all recent
ly reported jewelry robberies to the
police and now comes the Hotel Savoy,
where, at the dinner hour, three of the
guests were robbed of jewelry money,
etc. of total value of about So 200.
The victims in this case were Isaac
| Singer, of the Singer Sewing Machine
company; Mrs. Singer and their son,
Mortimer Singer, Of Parsons & Singer,
real estate dealers, at No. 81 Nassau
street
The Singers occupy suite of rooms
| on the second floor of the Savoy. They
all went to dinner together on Monday
evening, having locked the doors Of
their apartments. The maids went to
dinner at the same time.
At about O'Clock Mr.. and Mrs. Sing
er and Mortimer Singer returned to
their rooms. They were locked as when
! they left but the moment then enter
ed, it became clear to them that thieves
had been busy there. Bureaus and
chiffoniers had been opened-broken
open where locked-and their contents
scattered about the place. Wardrobes
had been ransacked, the clothes being
taken~ out, evidently for the purpose
Of searching the pockets, and then cast
upon the floor. All the conditions
showed that the thief must have en-
tered with the aid of a skeleton key
and have done his work with desperate
speed.
Mrs Singer lost several diamond
ornaments. Her husband and son were
robbed of studs pins, cuff buttons and
other articles, all containing either dia-
monds or other precious stones. All
three lost handsome gold watches and
portemonnaies containing money. They
were disinclined yesterday to supply
particulars regarding the stolen prop
erty, but it is known that its total
value was of the amount mentioned.
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Gold Assaying.


| flour has been added originally, about
sixteen to twenty grammes The -four
has the effect of varying the size Of
lead button produced, and is said to
possess a reducing action.
The next step in the process is to
get rid of the lead without also losing
the gold and silver This is done by
an operation known as cupellation. The
cupel is a small, round, bone-ash cup,
which is placed in a sort of flreclay
tunnel with one end closed up known
as a muffie. The mufllc is heated from
the outside, either by burying it with
Goals or by playing burning gas on
every part of 1t. When the cupel has
attained the heat of the interior of the
mufife, the lead button is placed in 1T
and the door of the muffle shut so as to
procure the greatest amount of heat
possible. When the lead is seen to be
melted and Tuning, the muff1e door is
opened to admit the air, which is suck
ed in by the intense heat.
The oxygen contained in the air
oxydizes the lead into lead oxide, and
the bone-ash cupel absorbs lead oxide
like a sponge, but refuses 10 absorb
the god and silver; so that at ieIgth
there is left in the cupel only a button
Of the two precious metals. 1t is TO be
supposed that two ore samples have
been treated similarly both in the
CIuClDlSS dulQ CupelSs Dul IOI I4lc Sake
of convenience 1t is better to explain
the treatment Of one only. Inc bead
of gold and silver obtained weighs,
let US say, .0016 of a gram4ne. This is
noted down. The bead after weighing
is fattened out in a hattening mill, so
as to expose as large a surface IS pos
sible to the nitric acid winch is then
added to it. On heating, the silver is
destroyed, but, of course, the god is
untouched by the action OK any single
acid. The remaining pure god IL treat
ed with stronger acid, called parting
acid" to drive off any suspected trace
of silver, and then washed with wa
ter. If the parting" of the gold from
the silver has been successful, the gold
if left as a thin, small sheet. From
this all moisture Is driven off bl heat
On weighing, the gold may be az neavy
as .0007 of a gramme. Then, as it mas
previously been noted that the total
gold and silver bead had weighed .o016
of a gramme, the weight Of silver pres
ent must have been .0009 of a grapme.
That IS to say, in one assay ton Of
32.6667 grammes there are .e0J7 or a
gramme Of gold and .0003 gramme of
this all moisture is driven off by heat
silver. II has been stated at
the commencement of this ar
ticle that in an assay ton
each .001 Of a gramme represents
In a real ton one ounce. Therefore We
have seven-tenths of an ounce Of gold
that Is IA pennyweights 90 dwt. equal
1 oz.)-and nine-tenths Of an ounce
of silver-that is, IS pennyweignts, TO
the ton. Quod erat faciendum.
Many minor processes, such as roast
ing, scorifcation and inquartatIon, en-
ter into the work done in an assay;
but 1t has been desirable to make the
process as clear and free from conf
phcation as possible. and for this rsa-
son q simple ore has been selected
OF course the results obtained from
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Copyright. 1898. by Frank G. Carpenter.
iimiIGiZ-==1.

Copyright, 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter.
BUENOS AYRES, Oct. S.-The Ar
eentine Republic amazes me. I expect
ed TO find it something like the United
States, but it is as different as lemons
are different from pumpkins. Some
times 1t seems to me that the United
States is the lemon and the Argentine
the pumpkin, but oftener the United
States is the bigger OF the two. We
have a booming country Things also
boom in the Argentine, but the charac-
ter and conditions of prosperity are en-
tirely different here. We raise some
wheat; so does the Argentine. We raise
wool; the Argentine far outstrips US
in sheep. We have the more land; but
the Argentine has a territory which Is
almost all good for something, and it
is in area at least one-third the size
of our country. without Alaska and our
new islands. The Argentine is longer
from north to south than the United
States. 1t is almost twice as long. If
we could lift it up at the corners, twist
it around and spread it over our coun-
try from east to west, placing the low
est edge Of Patagonia at New York,
the borders of Brazil and Bolivia would
be some distance beyond Salt Lake
City If we could cut it up into patch
work pieces and fit them upon the ter
ritory Of the United States, every inch
of our land east of the Mississippi
would be covered, and the remnants
would be larger than the area of a
number of our states west of that river.
The Argentine Republic is twelve times
as big as Great Britain. 1t is five time.
as large as France, and it is greater
in area than the states Of Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Ari-
zona, California, Utah, Colorado and
Kansas com bined. This wonderful land
Is made UP of mountains and plains.
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ten years ago what is known as the
Cooperative Telephone company. In
1889 IT had 1,200 subscribers; it now has
1900. It's capital has more than Goub-
led, and its profits last year We're about
$50, 600. 1t has 1900 miles OF wfrss most
Of which are in underground condutts
This company gives a reduction of SO
1-S per cent to all business firms who
are among it's stockholders It is nee s.
sary to buy about $40 worth of the
stock to get the reGuc.ti n, and the rates
per telephone are $3.50 a month in
American gold. Private residences and
doctors can have the same rates with
out stock. Business firms not holding
stock must pay SIS a month, and as the
company is now paying dividends OF
about per cent it Is far cheaper to
be stockholder.
Frank G. Carpenter.
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American. The other twelve are in
Spanish, Italian, French and German
The Argentines are letter writer's
They use the mails. One hundred and
seventy-seven million letters passed
through their /. 400 and odd postoffices
last year, and their postal revenue was
$50 900, 600. There is a fair telegraph
service under the government. The
telegraph lines, If tied together, would
reach around the world. They have
a length of 25, 900 miles end, with the
exception of the railroad lines, all are
in the national system
COOPERATIVE TELEPHONING.
There are plenty of telephones, too,
and the same trouble exists here as
with us-that is, the telephone rates
are too high. On this account there
was founded in Buenos Ayres about
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two assay tons simultaneously ought
to be coincident with one another and
this is why two assay tons have been
supposed to be treated together in the
above explanation.
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Cheap HOmeseekers' Excursions to
the South
Are run twice every month by the Wiscon-
sin Central Lines; tickets are good for
stop over in Land Seekers Territory south
Of the Ohio river. For particulars call az
City Ticket Office. 373 Robert. ST. Paul,
MINI.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-19
PASSENGER TROUBLES.
PITTsBURG AND GULF CARRYING
PEOPLE FOR NOTHING.
That Is Ono of the Charges MAIDS by
the westcrn Association Lines.
Katy Fighting Hard.

Chicago. January ls.--Passenser rates
from points In the territory OF the Western
passenger association tc Texas are in 4 bad
state of Generalization. and as matters
now stand there are few trains running 10
that territory at the present time that
are paying their expenses OF operating.
The decentralization is laid by the associa-
tion lines at the doors of tho Plt,sburg and
Gulf against which all sorts of charges are
made by its competitors. One charge made
against it is that il has been carrying pas
sengers for nothing after they had been Sc
cured by another road: it is said TO sub
ordinate all things TO its policy of building
up Port Arthur. The Missouri Kansas and
Texas, which is not so deeply Interested in
that territory as the Pitttsburg aud Gulf.
is making hard fight to retain its traffic
The result is that the Northern connec-
tons of both roads are suffering, but are
powerless in the matter.