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The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
SPENDS HIS LIFE IN PRISON.
The Unusual Method of Securing Ma
teriaI for a Book Adopted by
Russian Author.

Count Rocco Dianovitch has made
the getting into prison the chief bust
ness of his life for "a of the AZ years
he has lived for the purpose of gather
ing information for a book he is
anxious to write on the subject. AT
- he left his home md went into Prus-
sia. where he was arrested for tres
passing, and sent to prison for three
months, working at chair making
from that time to this he has never
been free from the desire to continue
his prison explorations, says the Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
From 13 till he was 20 he was in and
out of more than 20 prisons in Bel
GUM. Prussia, Poland and Russia His
first experience of Jail life in Eng
land was liz Liverpool, which was one
of the worst he was ever in, filled
with drunken sailors from all over tie
world. He stayed there six days. when
lie paid his fine and got out. the first
time he failed to serve his sentence.
Then he went to Ireland, France.
Spain. Italy, Greece and Turkey, tlen
TO Egypt, where the jails are the
worst in the world except Australia;
next TO India and Japan, and then to
America, where he remained for more
than a year, spending most of his
time in jails and penitentiaries.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
QUEER WAYS OF "COVITES."
II You Refuse to Buy of Them Your
NeishbOr May Get the
Article Free.

In an al iticle on the "Covites" of the
Cumberland mountains, published in
Ladies' Home Journal Sarah Barn
well Elliott says: "The people are usu-
ally squatters on small lots of un-
clesred mountain land, which is ex
tremely shallow and poor. They usually
live in log or slab houses-sometimes
'chinked' and sometimes not; some
times with the floor and sometimes
witaout-eking out an existence by
peddlipg either the nuts and fruits OF
the wilderness, or theiryery poor 'gyar
den truck They are very keen a bar
gain. even when they have no idea OF
the proper value of the thing in hand
and though they are very hospitablt
when you come to their houses. and
will give you anything they have in
the way of food, they will never give
you anything that they have brought
10 SELL They may give it to your cook
or to your next door neighbor. or they
may throw it away just outside your
gate, but you having declined to pay
their price they will not give it to you
at least, not that special article"
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
LATEST CENSUS SCHEME.
by Which Every Person I'm the World
VIII Be Counted in
One Day.

A scheme is now on foot in Europe
to make careful census of the entire
population of the earth early. in the
year 1900. 1t is the intention Of, the
people agitating the plan to have an
army of census takers start out on n
particular day IN every quarter of the
globe and complete he work in few
hours. The returns are to-be sent into
a central station at BerLe, Switzer-
land. The governments of several
countries are reported TO have already
expressed their Willingness to aid the
work in every possible way, reports
the New York Journal.
The takers Of this great census will
Of course have much important data
to guide them in theirwoTk. The most
important results in this direction are
those obtained by John Bartholomew
T. r. G. S., Of Edinburgh. According
to his figures the present population
of the entire globe isin round numbers
LAO, $50 COO, This is divided up as fol
lows: Tndo-Gcrmanic or Aryan, 545,-
G0O,000; Monaghan or Turanian, G30,-
100000; negro and Bant. 150000,000;
Hottent0t and Bush, 10000; Malay
and Polynesia, 35,0O0,oQ0, and Amer
lean Indian, 100000. It is expected
that the most difficult part Of the un-
dertaking will be to count accurately
the population of China and the vast
hordes Of central Africa. Those who
propose to undertake this work claim
TO have such Influence back of them
that the scheme is sure to be success
f1,1
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
HERBACEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY.
The Juices of Certain Fruits Can Be
Made to Take the Place of
Nitrate of Silver.

H. n. Toply, Of the department of the
interior in Ottawa, who discovered
recently a method of developing mega
tiyes without the use of dark room,
has discovered that the printing of
photographs is not dependent On nj
trate of silver. Heretofore be nitrate
has. had TO be used in all prints. but
Mr.. Toply says that the juices of GER
tain fruits are equally as good, if not
better than the nitrate for photo
graphic printing purposes. BY means
of this discovery photograph can be
printed upon anything-wood, pulp
and paper-which can absorb these
Juices The juice is not used just as it
comes from the fruit, but it is sub
iected to a process which Mr.. Toply,
of course, desires to keep to himself
at present. He has been engaged in
the development Of the process for
five years, says the New York Sun.
His attention was first directed to
the possibility of "herbaccous rho-
tography,"" as he calls it, by the with
ering of the white pine. which becomes
a very dark gray under Sunlight. A
piece of planed pine was placed un-
der the negative ard exposed to sun
light without treatment, and a perma-
nent print on wood was obtained. Mr..
Toply followed up this discovery by
a series Of experiments with the juices
of fruits, which he found would not
ONLY turn dark gray, but would become
let black il sunlight. The process is
so simple that were it brought into
general use the price CT photographs
would be reduced o 4 minimum.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
SLOW BURNING POWDER.
A Description ofthe Brown Prismatic
Powder and the Way 1t Is
Loaded IA Charges.

f. 2. Rogers, Of the United States
navy, contributes an article on Big
Guns and Armor Of Our Navy" to the
August ST. Nicholas. Mr.. Rogers says:
Black powder, with its gistening
grains, is untitled for our modern guns,
because it explodes too quickly, and
when the charge is fred it turns al
most ;nstantaneously into gas, eXerting
Immediately all its force, which, of
course, decreases when the shot moves
toward the muzzle, because the gas has
more room Chat is. the inside of the
gum 10 expand in.
But nowadays what is called "slow-
burning" powder is used. When it is
fgnited the projectile first moves slow
ly; but as the powder continues burn
ing. the quantity Of gas and conse-
quently the pressure, is constantly in
creaSing; thus the speed of the shot be-
comes greater as it goes cut Of the gun.
Sometimes grains Of powder still burn
ing are thrown out when the gun is
fired, which shows how slowly it ig-
mites.
This new powder is brown, and it is
made up into heXagonal, or six-sided
pieces. with holes through their centers
A mass Of it Jocks exactly like lot OF
rusty iron nuts. Each Of these grains
or "prisms," is about the size Of large
walnut, and when the charge. is made
up the prisms are nicely piled, and over
the pile is drawn white serge bag
The white bag is a powder section
and contains 110 pounds of brown pow
der; and five of these make up the full
or service" charge for the great 13-
inch rifle, whose projectile is two
thirds as tall as an ordinary man, and
is larger and weighs. more than many
Of the very cannons themselves with
which Admiral Nelson fought the battle
Of Trafalgar in 1905.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
CAN SEE THINGS GROW.
The Tall Story London Paper Tc.ss
About a Recent German
Invention.

The farmers wall about bad wealth
er, and cattle disease has become a
dead letter, says London Tit-Bits.
Prof. Sclinck. of Stuttgart, Ger
many, says that he cannot only grow
your vegetables while you wait-right
from the seeds to the full-blown cab
bage or lettuce as the case may be
but can also rear the newborn calf
into the prime healthy OK in few
hours.
In the case of the vegetable king
dom, scientists nave long been on the
verge of the professors discovery. 1t
has long been known that if potash
were applied to potatoes the seed
yielded more than double the quanti-
ty, and, which is more important, that
disease seemed TO disappear.
Now, Prof. Schinck, not only uses
potash, but mixes it with albumen.
The exact process is not yet known.
You call at, say, midday, and in your
presence he viii plant cabbage seed
in substance which looks like red
earth.
Then he will take the newly born
calf, which again you can supply, and
commence injecting his concoction
into it.
] know it is hard to believe, but you
can actually see the plant and animal
growing, and by 6:3O the cabbage will
be full-grcwn, ard the calf about the
size of healthy 18-month animal.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
MEXICO AND THE PHILIPPINES
The Latter Territory Was Long a
Dependency of the
Former.

From the foundation of Manila in
1871 up to the year 1919 the colony of
the Philippine islands was a depend
ency of Mexico, says the Contemporary
Review During that long period there
was absolutely 10 direct intercourse
between the mother country and her
far eastern colony. Everybody and
everything destined for the Philip
pines passed through Mexico until the
American colony threw off the Span
iSh yoke. Thenceforth for 81 years,
communication with Spain was via the
Cape Of Good Hope. The commercial
history of the Philippines would be
800 long to relate here in eEtensO; suf-
fee it to say that it is a series Of strUg-
giles between the cOlonists. who sought
liberty to trade freely with Mexico and
China, and the Spanish king and his
councillors and the trading community
iii Spain. who persistently determined
to curtail that freedom as much as
possible The policy Of the Spanish
merchant class was to hold Mexico as
their exclusive market. They opposed
Philippine traffic with China because
this necessitated silver dollars, which
they knew must come from Mexico
surreptitiously, if the islanders were
not openly permitted to give goods in
exchange. The famous gaHeons. which
were so frequently interrupted and
seized by British privateers from the
days of our Queen Elizabeth onward,
formed the only connection between
Mexico (Acapulco) and Manila.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
FORTY PER CENT. A MONTH.
A Man who Borrowed So in 1895 and
Has Since Paid Back
$500.

One of the most remarkable suits
recently brought in Chatham county,
Ca, is now pending before Justice j.
r. Saussy, Jr., of the Fourth militia
district. 1t is Il suit for usuTy, the case
being one where a negro borrowed
$500 from a loan broker in 1895, and
has since paid him $500, and the
broker still claims a balance due of
$40.
The way in which this state Of af-
fairs is brought about is remarkable
one, and yet simple, says the Savannah
News. 1t is done simply by charging
40 per cent per month interest, or
thereabouts.
James Erwon borrowed 5000 from
H. L. Drake & Co. in 1895. AS a matter
of fact, however, he received only five
dollars, the $1.O6 being charged for
drawing up the papers and negotiating
the loan. 1t was charged up against
the negro, however, with the original
amount borrowed.
Since he borrowed the money Brown
has paid to the concern SS4.99, in
amounts ranging from so cents to two
dollars, and has every receipt given
him from these payments. Brown
got tired of paying in his money so
regularly, and it looked as if there
would never be an end of the thing.
This set him % thinking, and he final
ly learned that there was such thing
in Georgia as law against usury.
The Georgia law against usury, how
ever, permits the party aggreved to
bring suit only within year from the
time the usury was charged and col
lected. Brown, therefore, can sue only
for the interest he has paid in during
the last year. He got all Of his receipts
together and 4 statement of the ac-
count Was made showing that he had
paid $28.50 usurious interest within the
last year, and that is the amount he is
now suing for.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
BEFORE SANTIAGO.
Gulv. 1881

July, 1859
Who cries that the days Of daring are those
that are faded far.
That never a light burns planCt-bright 10
be hailed as the here's star?
Let the deeds of the dead be laureled, the
brave of the elder years,
But q song, we say, for The men Of to-day
who have proved themselves their
peers!
High in the vault of the tropic sky is the
garish eye of the sun,
And down with its crown of guns a-froWn
looks the hilltop to be won;
There is the trench where the Spaniard
turks, his hold and his hiding place,
And he who would cross the space between
must meet death face to face.
The black mouths belch and thunder, and
the shrapnel shrills and flies;
Where are the fain and fearless, the lads
with the dauntless eyes?
Will the moment find them wanting? Nay,
but with valor stirred!
Like the leashed hound on the coursing
ground they wait but the warning
word.
moves with a shout and a swing,
While sharper far than the cactus-thorn
is the spiteful bullets sting.
Now they are out in the open, and now
they are breasung the slope,
While into the eyes of death they gaze as
into the eyes of hope
Never they wait nor waver, but on they
Chamber and on,
With "Up with the flag of the stripes and
stars, and down with the flag of the
6onr
What should they bear through the shot
rent cir but rout to the ranks of Spain,
For the blood that throbs in their hearts is
the blood of the boys of Anthony
Wayne!
See, they have taken the trenches! Where
are the foemen? Gone!
And now "Old Glory" waves in the breeze
from the heights of San Juan!
And so, while the dead are laureled, the
brave of the elder years,
A song. we say, for the men of to-day, who
have proved themselves their peers!
Clinton Scollard, in Leslie's Weekly.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
MALE DOLLS.
They Form Only Five Per Cent. of the
Total, But Many of Them
Have Character.


Of the doll population males form
perhaps five per cent. and females
95 per cent. Many dolls are capable
Of passing as either, according o the
way in which they are dressed, but
in some The male sex is indicated by
parting their hair on the side. An
other popularity about boy dolls is
that grcat many of them represent
types. Many sailor dolls are sold.
some of them logged out in white
flannel suits of the regulation cut and
with the broad top sailor hats, making
very trim and jaunty figures. There
are dolls dressed as Little Lord
Fauntleroys. There is a boy doll
known from its dress as marquis,
and there is a farmer boy, standing
with his suspenders over his shoulders
and wearing straw hat, a very pretty
/; figure indeed. There are many har-
lequin figures and many Santa Clauses
and many negro boys, these including
dolls of worsted Some boy dolls and
girl dolls are sold together in pairs.
There is, for instance, couple known
as the bride and bridegroom; another
pair is known as Uncle Sam and the
Goddess of Liberty, says the New York
Sun.
Among more conventional styles
! there are boy dolls dressed as little
men and wearing derby hats, and boy
dolls dressed as old men and as chill
/ dren, and then there are handsome big
boy dolls dressed in silks and satins.
Boy dolls are sold at all sorts of
prices. Sailor boys, for instance, cost
at retail from 25 cents to five dollars
each
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
oldest Liquor in the world.

The gold water" of Dantzig, Prus-
sia, probably is the oldest liquor in
the world, and the estate upon which
il is made, known as Der Lachs, is now
celebrating its three hundredth ami
versary. The books of the makers
show a full and complete record of
sales since 1898. Under date of 1915
may be found the entry: THE Rus
slams and Prussians are besieging the
town in order to free it from the
French. Have sold off all ny stock of
spirits.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
AMERICAS OLDEST NUN.
She Is CoIoFed and Said to Be One
Hundred and Seven
Years Old.

The oldest nun in the United States,
both in point of age and in length of
service, is Sister Ellen Joseph (colored),
an inmate OF the Convent of ST. Fran
els, Baltimore, Md. says the New York
Times.
Sister Ellen Joseph is said to be 1O7
years old. When she first put on the
habit of her order, the Obate Sisters
Of Providence, GO years ago, she was
then in the prime of life. During her
60 years Of service she has been active
in performing deeds of charity and
goodnss. Connected with the convent
is an orphan asylum, in which there
are about rs little girls Nobody has
been more Painstaking in the training
Of the children than Sister Ellen. She
has been equally jealous in her deeds
Of charity outside theconvent. For the
last two years she has not left the
building, and for some time before hat
she has not been able to take an active
share in the duties of the community.
Most OF her time now is spent in a
wheeled chair in lrer room. She has re-
tanned her faculties to the present.
She was born in Marlborough, Prince
Georges county, Md, of slave parents,
and was taken to Washington with her
parents by the family of her master, a
short time previous to the burning of
the city by the British IN 1914. She was
baptized into the Catholic faith about
1927 by Father Schiever at Old ST. Mat
thew's, Baltimore. About this time her
freedom was given to her. Sister Ellen
is the last survivor of the band re-
ceived into the order by Father Jou-
bert who died in 1S43
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
SHE WAS DETERMINED.
The Terrible Warning Left a SUBJ
scriber by 81 Young Woman
Boo.1 Agent.

A gentleman of this city who has
not much time for reading, yet is
kind-hearted and particularly suscep-
tible to the pleadings OF the gentler
sex, was recently approached by d
lady who is acting as subscription
agent for a new publication. When
the subscription list was presented to
him the gentleman would have liked
to decline to purchase. as he did not
wish the volume, but the lady was
persistent and he was weak, and he
put down his name. hoping that for
tune would find fer him some way cut
of the difficulty, says the Baltimore
News.
Later the lady called to deliver the
book and to collect the money, but he
had aontrived to be out. And every
time afterward when she appeared he
managed to beout. until finally her pa
tience became exhausted and she left
for his perusal- this note:
"By the relentless intervention of
the invisible hand of Providence have
been prevented from delivering your
book, but | would not fer a moment
lave you doubt the moveIess stability
and fathoInless profundity of my de-
/ termination, for the flammeriferous,
monoculate autocrat of day shall
cease to radiate the outrageous re-
cesses of the forest. the translucent
queen of night shall cease to peram-
buate the diaphanous concavity of
| tie cerulean heavens and the horison-
GUS clangor of the heavens artillery
shall cease 10 below forth its appeals
in sulphurous, igerous fulgor before
my determination diminishes."
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
BUSY BRITISH sHIPYARD.
That at EIssIck Is Said to be the Big
gest One In the WOrld-Ships
Under Way.

The capacity of Elwick yard in Eng
land is greater than that of any other
in the world. Among the vessels at
present in evidence at Elwick are the
OHiggins, Chilean warships, just COM
pieted; General Baqmedana. Chilean
training snip, on the stocks, will be
launched in about four weeks; Hal
Tien and Hai-Chi, protected cruisers.
built to the order of China, sister ships.
completed, moored in river; Takasago
japanese cruiser. near complete; AS
sama, japanese armored cruiser, 9.7CO
tons. nearly complete; Tokima. Jap
anese armOred cruiser, sister ship to
above; unnamed cruiser. preparing fol
Japan, not quite laid down; Tordensk
jold, Norwegian battleship. waiting 10
be delivered; Albany, cruiser built for
Brazil, but bought by United States
now plating, launched in three mont his:
Don Carlos L., Portuguese protected
cruiser, just launched; Pactolus. thild
class British cruiser. built TO ad nira!tA
design, ready in about month; ter
pedo boat destroyer of large size, 20 go
so knots, not ordered, will be COIN
pleted before the end of the year, and
if not previously bought. will go into
stock; another torpedo destroyer, same
size as above, but fitted with Parsons
turbines. to go 33 knots, to be finished
this year; unnamed cruiser, 1890 tons.
10 be launched shortly, not ordered;
large frst-class battleship. unnamed.
15.lO0 tons, being built for the Japan
esenavy. This will be the biggest bat
tieship yet constructed, will have
phenomenal speed, and, notwithstand-
ing her great size, will pass through
the Suez canal.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
The Kaiser criticised.

Tt is singular that Kaiser Wilhelm
should not have mace any allusion to
the manly and noble Won Moltke dur
ing the whole of his funeral speech
ifying. 1t was all my glorious grand
father" and Bismarck. The former
was undoubtedly a very amiable and
estimable old gentleman, devoted to
opera dancers, but there was less IN
him TO admire than there was in VIII
Iam's father, Emperor Frederick.
whom he always carefully abstains
from mentioning. Won Moltke was the
real hero Of the Franco-Prussian war,
without whom neither Bismarck nor
my glorious grandfather" wculd have
attained to the greatness Of reputa~
ton in which they died. = Boston
Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
habits OF THE CAT.
its Actions Show It Is a Solitary AMI
NAL by Nature and Free
from Grecdiness.

All the cats habits show it to be by
nature a solitary animal. Even in early
life, when family ties bring out tie
instinct of association, this is APP
parent. If you compare the play of
puppies with that of kittens you will
find that in one case companionship
of some kind is an essential, for if a
puppy has no playmate of his own
species he will try to make use of the
nearest biped; whereas a cork or a bit
of string is all that is necessary TO
satisfy the requirements of the kitten.
The way in which the cat takes its food
is a sure sign that in its natural state it
is not in the habit of associating with
greedy companions, says Wild Traits in
Tame Animals.
When given something to eat it first
carefully smells the morsel, then takes
it in a deliberate and gingerly way
and sits down to finish it at leisure.
There is none of that inclination 10
snatch hastily at any food held before
it which we observe even in well-trained
dogs, nor does a cat seem in any hurry
to stow its goods in the one place where
thieving rivals cannot Interfere with
them. Indeed. no greater contrast in
natural table manners can be observed
anywhere than when we turn from the
kennel or the pigsty and watch the
dainty way in which a cat takes its
meals. That cat allows people to
approach it while it is feeding without
showing jealousy proves that it does
not attribute TO human beings like
tastes with its own.
The Winslow mail., 1898-10-01
SPAIN'S GLOOMY FUTURE.
Pessimistic Opinions cf weIi-fn-
formed Native C2 That
CCunfrE.

Opposed to those who believe Or
hope that Spain will emerge from her
troubles with a mere stable govern
ment writer in the Fortnightly, who
signs himself "A Spaniard," and who
evidently knows his country well
draws a gloomy picture of what vii
happen after peace. The burden 0.
taxation will be frightful. The public
debt, swollen by the expenses Of war,
will foot up to more than 81, Geo. coo, eco,
the annual interest charge on which
will amount to $140.000,0O0. Yet the
citire national revenue in prosperous
years has not been more than $150C00,-
GOO. Reputation or bankruptcy lies
clearly in these figures. Then there
will follow the destruction of those
industries which the colonies have
been made to support, turning thou
sands Of operatives out OF employment.
More than 100000 soldiers will be like
wise set adrift, and 10000 officers put
on the retired list where the pay of a
captain (f he is lucky enough to get
it at alp is about 60 cents day. When
all these helpless multitudes begin to
feel the pinch OF hunger, then, says this
Spanish writer, the ''tocsip Of revolu-
ton" will sound and it will depend on
the army Whether Spain shall be Carl
ist or republican. In any case, he
thinks it out of the power of any party
Ito eNtricate my unfortunate, much
beloved Spain from the abyss on the
edge of which she is now tottering. "
Spain makes her melancholy bow to
the vast continent which her enter
prise once opened up to the world and
eXcIalms:: 'MOritura te sahltn''