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The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08
Salvation Army Farm.

The Darkest England scheme for
raising the submerged tenth" is di-
vlded into three branches-city shelf
ers, farm colony in England and an
oversee colony. Hadleigh farm COL
ony, about SO miles from London, is
beautifully situated on an estuary of
the Thames some five miles from
Southend, and comprises 3 ,050 acres of
all sorts of land, which about II
years ago was quite wilderness. But
under the skllful management and
the labor of men who heretofore were
a loss and a danger to the community
great change has been made in the
vast area Of derelict Essex farms, so
great indeed that last year the gross
turnover was $125,O0O Brick kilns
show that the army is engaged in
other pursuits as we'll as farming. At
the base Of the hill, which starts al
most at the railway embankment, are
three brick fields, whose total output
for last year was 5000 900 bricks, yield
ing to the credit of the colony $23 800.
AT present this wide-reaching estate
is worked by 800 men, clad in motley
garments, but nearly all wearing good,
strong, serviceable boots. The hous-
ing of the "colonists" is simply ar
ranged. There are two larger dormi-
tories, with 80 or 40 beds in each,
where new arrivals are lodged. AS
they prove themselves ready and will
ing workers, they go up grade to
another building, occupying a room
where there are ten beds, and then
TO room with only three, and lastly,
some few get small rooms to them
selves. A newcomer is given any work
to do, and allowed one shilling a day
for the first fortnight or so, even If
he does not earn it, This payment is
made in colony coins-brass discs,
marked 4d., I'd, Id. and I'D, of no
value outside the farm. If the worker
proves energetic and quick he can earn
anything up to four shillngs or five
shilings a day, and when he leaves he
gets in return for savings he may have
accumulated equivalent current coin Of
the realm, amounting sometimes to as
much as "a, or $40. Last year out OF
775 men drafted to the farm 309 were
restored to their friends and helped
4nto good situations and all of them
are still apparently doing we'll Down
here" said the manager, we begin
work at o'clock in the morning, and
go on till 6 in the evening, with an
hour and three-quarters off for meals.
If a fresh hand seems inclined to loaf
we give him less food and let him know
why he has been locked. Our labOrers
can have what they like to buy for
meals. For breakfast the charges are
Tea, Id. per pint; bread and jam or
butter, I'D. per slice; spiced meat, Id.
per plate; timed salmon, lRd.; three
sardines, Id; ham or beef, I'd; cheese,
Id. Dinner: Hot roast beef or mutton,
Sd; stewed meat, hash or pie, I'd; ;
cold or hot bacon, I'd; potatoes, I'D;
seasonable vegetables, hd. pudding,
Id; bread, I'D; tea, 1ad. per pint.
Tea is the same as at breakfast. Thus
a man can make good breakfast and
tea for Sd. meal and dinner for 4d.
or &C."
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and by manufacturing drinking cups
and other utensils from the outside
shell. From the trunks of the trees
the best palm boards are made for
houses, because of their resistance to
the inclemencies of the weather.
There are masses of fiber at the base
of the leaves, which appear like
punches of tow or bast. These are
the fibrous remains of dried leaves
which have lost their fleshy portion.
and appear like pieces of cloth woven
from thick tow. This is used for filter
ing and sitting.
Hardly secondary to the palms in
point of usefulness is the bamboo cane
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Labor Notes,
st. Paul horseshoers have raised
their prices

st. Paul horseshoers have raised
their prices.
Japan's tea crop is enormous and
prices will be low.
Milwaukee is now the largest manu-
facturer OF bicycles.
Southern cotton mills find it diff
cult to obtain sufficient labor.
American timber is being used for
sleepers on japanese railways.
More than 1000 kinds of rubber
shoes are made in the United States.
The output of the East Indian cotton
mills last year was in excess of the de
mand.
Exclusion of inferior tea from the
United States has increased its sale in
Great Britain.
The new mining law Of Illinois is
satisfactory to miners. Every mine
now has a certified mine examiner.
The furniture manufacturers of Wis
consin have joined the national trust
and raised prices of chamber suits 81
and more.
great day is awaiting to descend,
a great day of God, in which we will
not use men to make money, but will
use money to make men. Edwin
Markham.
GeOrgia's increase in aggregate val
ues returned for taxation to the office
of the controller general for the year
1899 is SO, ,S08,674 over the amount for
last year.
Harlem fiat owners are talking about
organizing an association which shall
have for its object the securing of leg
islation chat will give them the right
to hold the furniture Of tenant who
tries to leave without paying rent.
Coal men throughout the country are
watching with interest a coal channel
ing machine recently patented by a
Bellaire (O) man, for which it is
claimed that it combines the qualities
OF speed, facility of operation and dura-
bility.
Professor Ely once said: "The trou-
Bile lies in what to do with the twenti-
eth man. Nineteen employers will
grant fair conditions to their work
men; the twentieth, only considering
his profits, refuses, and ultimately
forces the other nineteen to his level.
The Midland Mechanic, Kansas City,
tells true story when it says some
union men can assess themselves 81 a
day for booze, but when 10-cent as
| sessment is levied by his union for
some worthy purpose a howl goes up
that would put a hungry wolf in the
shade.
Ninety per cent. of the zinc producers
in the Joplin (Mo.) district have shut
down in compliance with an order
from the Missouri and Kansas Zinc
Miners association, in an effort to force
the smelters to pay schedule of prices
laid down by the association a few
weeks since, and to which the smelters
refused to accede.
In the big sewers being dug in Chi
cago a machine is boring sewers forty
feet beneath the surface of the streets
faster than three gangs of brick-layers
can lay the brick to enclose the sewer.
The machine requires only 1OO-horse-
power engine, and its work Is wholly
automatic from the moving OF itself
to the hauling away Of the earth and
dumping 1t on the outside.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08
Prin ting In COlOrs.

An improved method of printing col
ored illustrations in books has been
invented by Ivan Orloff, the manager
of the government printing Office in
St. Petersburg. Instead Of applying
the successive colors one after another,
allowing each to dry before the next
is used, the Orloff machine prints all
the colors with one turn of the cylin-
der. On the curved surface of the CYL
inder are arranged IS many blocks as
there are colors to be employed. AS
each block passes a particular point a
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08
Caper Spurge.

Bulletin Sc, U. S. Department Of
Agriculture says: This plant is called
also garden spurge, myrtle spurge
mole plant, mole weed, mole tree,
gopher plant, antigopher plant, wild
caper, caper bush, VOLTS milk. and
springwort.
Description and Where Found.-This
s a smooth, herbaceous, milkyjuiced
perennial, two to three feet high, with
stiff erect stem, and opposite four
ranked leaves, the lower of which are
thick and oblong, the upper, thin,
broad and heart-shaped The flowers
are greenish yellow and rather small.
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forest, while most
of them have been
planted for shade
or fruit. Orange
trees, mangOes, ag-
uacates, breadfruit,
mameys and other
stately trees are
common, while. as
in our own defOr-
ested region, there
are a few timber
making trees which
have been spared
the ak. Besides
these larger trees,
fiamb boyanntes, MIS-
perOs and guiana bo-
mas of smaller
growth add their
foliage to the wood
ed aspect of the is
land.
lGrp arc n9nV
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08

This beautiful plant may be seen
everywhere, growing in graceful,
feathery clumps. It's stem is used for
fence posts, telegraph posts, and con-
struction of the huts of the peasant.
The individual joints are also used for
utensils, flower potts. and for propagat-
ing the cocoanut seed.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08

roller, carrying the appropriate color,
falls upon it and smears it with ink.
The surfaces thus linked transfer their
designs, in passing, to a composition
roller, which, in turn, transfers the
entire combination to form" from
which the picture is then printed at a
single stroke.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08

bushes which bOr-
der the seashore to
the gigantic decidu-
GUS trees, mingled
with the fronds and
trunks of towering
palms, which add
height to the lofti-
est peaks and ridg-
es. Those who have
read Kingsley's in
teresting descrip-
tion of the tropical
forests of Trinidad
or Lafcadio Hearn's
vivid pictures of
the vast woods of
Martinique will be
disappointed not to
find such forests
and woods dupli-
Gated in Porto
Rico, except in the
single instance of
the summit portion
Of Ell Yunque, in
the Sierra Luquil-
10, where there are
about eight square
miles of virgin
forest The island
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08

extract an Oil from
the fruit which is
good for lights and
other uses. The
central part (the
heart) of this palm
is cooked and eaten
like cabbage, and is
sometimes prepared
as a salad. The
Indians call it the
"pira" (pile or
pyre). In Porto
Rico it is used
rarely, although it
has an agreeable
taste.
The COCO palm is
found in great
numbers on the
plains and coasts,
and is a profitab BILE
plant for cultiva-
ton. The external
sheath of the CO.
coanut is composed
of a multitude of
hbers which fOfrm
a nap of a reddish
color, which is eX-
cellent for calking
boats, as it resists
water better than
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08

CARDS "She" and Stevensor's TREAS
aye Island" had been read by small
fraction of the people in the mill. The
Investigators decided that a library
was badly needed in that locality. The
mill hands wondered if, with the books,
they would also be given the time to
read them
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08

on the contrary, individual trees are
abundant and well distributed every
where. Along the roadsides, around
every hut and throughout the coffee
plantations are many trees, a few of
which are remnants of the aboriginal
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08
Peas and Beans Nutritious.

Peas and beans are the most nutri-
tious of vegetables containing as much
carbon as wheat and double the
amount Of muscle-forming food.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME NOTES OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

American Rule Makes Cuban Labor Ag-
gressive--Kansas City Labor Temple
These Have Little Time to Read-Sal-
walton Army Farm m-Labor Notes.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-12-08

tow, and endures longer. The In
dians make cordage from this
fiber, and sails for their boats.
and in the dockyards of Guaya-
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-04
FORGED NAME Of
HIS EMPLOYER
Charles Dean Arrested
at Santa Barbara.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SANTA BARBARA, Oct. 3-One of
the boldest forgeries ever attempted
was discovered to-day and the forger
arrested late this evening. Charles
Dean, who has been passing where he
was not known as G. H. Davis is ac-
cuSed of forging the name of James
Wiley, the railroad contractor. who has
a camp of stonemasons near this city,
and when arrested he told the Sheriff
that the right man had been caught.
Drink cards and women wrecked his
life, which had been a very successful
one until the last few years Dean was
for some time bookkeeper at the camp,
but was suspected several weeks ago
and dismissed. On September 16 and Is
he forged Contractor Wileys name to
two time checks, which he had secured
before leaving the camp, in the sum Of
$52 and $170 respectively, and they were
then cashed by c. H. Frink and Ed
wards & Co of this city.
So cleverly were the signatures made
that Wiley himself was puzzled for a
time. After securing this money Dean
remained in the city, spending it at the
card table, bar and with women. and
when caught this evening in his rooms
he had very little Of the money left. He
confessed to the Sheriff that he was
the party sought.
Dean, who is man of forty years or
more, spent his boyhood in this city,
and became civil engineer Of some
note. He was employed in the early
days by the Southern Pacific Company
in construction work, and was after
ward sent to Mexico to work at his pro-
fession.
He there got possession of consider
able land and became a large cattle
owner He spent several years in the
San Salvador republic, and during one
OF the instructions was given a com
mission of general. He is familiar with
several languages, and speaks French.
Spanish and German fluently. He came
from a very good family He began
drinking heavily few years ago and
since then has lost most Of his prop
ar{v
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-04
SHOT BY THE
MAN He WOULD
NOT EMPLOY
Chief Engineer of the Oregon
Short Line Muir
dered.
Special DISPATCH to The Call.

SALT LAKE, Utah, Oct. 3.-John G.
O'Melveney is dead and Captain J. f.
Mills, formerly Lieutenant Governor Of
Idaho and recently connected with the
Second United States Volunteer En-
giheer Regiment, is In the hands OF the
State authorities as the result Of a
tragedy which occurred here late this
afternoon.
O'Melveney was the chief engineer Of
the Oregon Short Line Railroad. He
was in his office about o'clock. 1t
appears he was alone when Mills en-
tered. The latter had made application
recently for work in O'Melveney's de-
partment, but had not been accepted.
It is claimed that he blamed O'Mel-
veney. He fired three bullets into his
victim, then dropped the revolver and
quietly walked to General Traffic Man
ager Eccles' Office and in the most nom
chalant manner informed him of what
he had done. He said:
'Mr. Eccles, l have shot Mr.. O'Mel-
veney. l told him this morning that I
would do SO, and have kept my word"
Police officer Lincoln appeared on
the scene about this time and said:
Are you the man who did the shoot
ing?" Mills said that he was and he
was at once put under arrest
O'Melveney was shot while writing
at a desk, and the ink had scarcely
dried on the paper before he was dead
Il appears there was no one present
when the shooting occurred, and the
exact cause OF the tragedy is not
known
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-04
Denis Conner Dies in
Harbor Hospital.
WAS A FREE CLINIC PATIENT
PAPERS VALUED AT $4,000
FOUND ON HIM.
Boiler Makers Go Back to Work on
the Transport Leelanaw = Santa
Rosa Sights the Raft-Water
Front Notes.

Denis Conner, whose home was at 60s
Broadway died in the Harbor Hospital
yesterday from an attack of asthma He
was stricken on the corner of Washing
ton and SanSome streets and was at once
hurried to the hospital. Dr. Dorr did
everything possible for the old man and
for a few minutes it looked as though he
was rallying. Then he collapsed and was
dead in a few seconds.
When searched at the hospital there
was found in Corners pocketbook a card
Of admission for him to the free clinic for
the poor at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons and in another pocket a bottle
of medicine put UP at the free dlspensary.
Wrapped up in a handkerchief was his
bank book, showing that Denis Connor had
soVe6 81 on deposit IN the Hlbernla Bank.
while in his mp pocket was $8S 50 In cash.
The body was removed to the Morgue,
Where an autopsy will be held.
Thirteen of the striking boiler makers
went back to work on the transport Lee
lanaw yesterday. The men mad been
working for the Union Iron Works and
quit out of sympathy for their comrades.
y Yesterday morning nine of them went to
work and during the afternoon four more
of them asked to be taken back.
The transports Zealandia, City OF Para
and Valencia will probably not get away
before Saturday. The Zealandia is ready
but the paint has not thoroughly dried.
The Para is not yet painted, but the Va
lencia is ready to go out at any time. The
Pennsylvania, with the Washington boys,
will probably get in to-day, and the Tar
tar, with the Kansas regiment, about Sat
urday.
The steamer Santa Rosa. which arrived
from southern ports yesterday, passed the
tugs Rescue and Monarch with the log
raft in tow about fifty miles this side Of
Port Hartford There was cross sea
running and a northwest breeze was blow
ing, but the raft seemed to be making
good weather of it." The tugs were COM
ing along about two knots an hour.
Lieutenant LoWdenham, who came up
on the transport Valencia, is bewailing
the loss of 1000 fine Manila cigars, He
port wharf. but the customs officers are
Of the opinion that they We're stolen by
the soldiers on the ship. Captain Lane Of
the Valencia is also of this opinion as a
large, number Of empty cigar boxes were
found among the soldiers baggage.
Captain Blair was back on Change yes
terday after fortnight spent at Byron
SPRINGS His sr1 holiday id yodd has do done the m gallant
get back into harness again. Captain
Blair is with the Alaska Commercial Com
T0OV
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-04
BOUNDARY OF
VENEZUELA FIXED
End Of the Long-Stand-
ing Dispute.
COMPROMISE OF THE CASE
CONFESSIONS AWARD Is
UNANIMOUS,
Ex-President Harrison Receives q
Handsome Commission for His
Services as Attorney
in the Case.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS, Oct. By the direction Of the
Anglo-V Venezuelan Arbitration Commits
sion some Of Great Britain's claims as to
the interior and on the coast are disal-
lowed. Her frontier will start at the
Waini River.
The award was unanimous. It was con-
Sidered in the nature of a compromise
rather than as favoring Venezuela 1t was
read at 1905 p. m.
The decision, which was read by NJ F.
Demartins, the umpire who has presided
over the deliberations of the tribunal, is
as follows:
THE undersigned, by these presents,
give and publish our decision determining
and judging touching and concerning the
questions that have been submitted to US
with said arbitration, we decide, declare
with said arbitration we decide declare
and pronounce definitely that the line of
frontier Of the colony of British Guiana
and the United States of Venezuela is as
follows:
Starting on the coast at Point Playa,
the frontier shall follow a straight line
to the confluence of the Barima and the
Maruima, thence following the Thalweg
OF the latter TO source of the Correntin
otherwise called the Cutari River.
Thence it shall proceed to the confiu-
ence of the Haiwa and the Amakuru;
thence following the Thalweg of the Anna
kuru to its source in the plain of Ina
tika thence IN a southerly direction along
the highest ridge of the Imatika Noun
tains to the highest point Of the Imatika
chain, opposite the source Of the Barima
and the principal chain of the Imatika
Mountains; thence in southeast direc-
ton, to the source Of the Acarabisi
Following the Thalweg of the Acara-
bisi to the Cuuyni, the northern bank OF
which it shall follow in a westerly direc-
tion to the confluence Of the Cuuyni and
the Vanamu; thence. along the Ihalweg
OF the Vanamu to its westernmost source:
thence in a straight line to the summit of
Mount Borarima; thence to the source of
the Colinga. From this point the frontier
shall follow the Thalweg of the Colnga to
its confluence with the Takulu; then along
the Thalweg Of the Takulu to it's source,
thence in straight line TO the most west.
ern point of the Aketrari Mountains the
highest ridge Of which it shall follow TO
the source of the Corentin, whence it will
follow the course of the river"
The award Of the tribunal, briefly sum-
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-04
FOUL MURDER OF
A LONE WOMAN
Burned to Death in Her
Cottage.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CRESCENT CITY, Oct. S.-A report has
reached this place of frightful tragedy
at the little town of Wedderburn. form
erly Gold Beach, in Curry County, Or,
last Tuesday night.
The home of Mrs. A. J. Edison, which
was hidden from the town by a small hill.
was on Wednesday morning found to. be
In ashes and the charred remains of Mrs.
Edison, who lived alone in the house, were
found among the cinders and debris.
The affair. which at first was presumed
to be the result of an accident, Is being
Investigated, and developments begin to
hint strongly of arson and murder. The
unfortunate lady was quite advanced In
age and was believed to have had a con-
siderable sum of money concealed about
the premises. She was known to have
had about $40 in silver a few days before
the fire Search was made in the ashes
of the ruins. but no trace of coin or
precious metal was found, though the
services of an expert miner with his gold
pan, We're engaged. A f1ve-gallon kero-
sene can was found near the corpse, the
contents of which are presumed to have
been used to make the confiagration as
effectual as possible. It is said that a
certain individual of generally bad repute
is suspected of having committed the
crime
Mrs Edison was an old and highly .es-
teemed citizen of Curry County, and a
thorough investigation will be made.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-04
CALIFORNIA; "HY JYNKs."
A Visit by Cabinet Officers to a
Council Of the National Union.

The San Francisco Cabinet of the Ma
tIonal Union paid an official visit last
night to California Council in Elks Hall.
In addition TO full representation Of the
membership there were present about $50
other members of the order from the
local councils and the one in Berkeley.
The visitors were welcomed by President
H. A Graves, and after the business OF
the evening was over there was a "hy
jynks." which was sired by w. A. s.
Nicholson. whose witty remarks in intro
ducinS those who were called upon to
entertain kept the jolly crowd in a roar Of
laughter There were addresses by l..
Vincent, President Coleman of Berkeley
Council Senator James r. Field; n. r.
Arter, president of the cabinet; Sergeant
Steele Of the Minnesota Regiment; Cor
poral Donaldson, and Richard Lee, a
member of the council and late a volun-
teer in the First California Regiment;
vocal music by the National quartet:
tenor solo from Martha by F. Purdy;
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