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The age-herald., 1899-04-30
Siamese Football
5IHIIftsD IT OOtUhHE From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
 The Siamese youth have only one game worth considering, and that one is ,ndige- nous-or native Burmah-the question of percentage being much mooted one. At all events, the game requires certain amount of activity and is very interesting to tho on-looker. It is a kind of football-in fact I have heard it called Burmese football played with a ball about four inches in di- ameter made of braided rotan, entirely hollow, very strong and resilient. The num- Der of contestants is not arbitrarily fixed, but play is sharpest when there are enough to form a circle about ten feet in diameter. The larger the circle after it has passed the desirable diameter the slower the play. The game is to keep the ball tossing into the air without breaking the circle. As man fails at his opportunity he drops out, and when there remain but four or six, the work is sharp and very pretty. The bail is struck generally with the knee, but also with the foot, from in front behind, and at the side Some become remarkably clev- er have seen player permit the ball to drop directly behind his back, and yet, without turning, return it clear over his head, and straight into the middle of the circuit, by a well-placed backward kick of his heel.
The age-herald., 1899-04-30
COTTON SEED OIL
 INDUSTRY SOUTH The Great Number of Mills and EX- tent to Which Product is Used.
OVER THREE HUNDRED MILLS
The Value of the Seed Farmers the Many Food and Fertilizer Products Extracted from Then-Some Interesting Facts About the Value of this
 Industry

show. To each bale of cotton weighing 800 pounds goes one-half of a ton of seed. A n-millon-bale crop would therefore afford five million tons of seed. Each ton of seed contains forty gallons of oil. The mills did squeeze from the ten-million-bale crop of 1S9i-195 nearly 69000, 900 gallons There are now more mills, but all should reach that possbility-so 1t may be said that the oil product is above one-third of a maximum and below one-half.
 When one-half of the seed is carried to the oil mills, the oil product will be 100000, 900 gallons. The product has been dou- bled in ten years, and the indications are altogether favorable to an increase in the coming ten years to the round figures men, tioned, or to the crushing of one-half of it's seed production This would involve the moving of nearly three millions of tons, all of which would be moved by rail, except 0.e-half a million tons. This would be equivalent-to 125,000 cars, each loaded with twenty tons
 It is difficult to say what becomes of the unsold one-half, more of>less, or the seed crop. Reseeding consumes six-pecKs to the acre, or about 300, 900 tons. leaving two- mill ion tons to be used as fertilizers, to be fec out and to be wasted. The proportions of these home uses cannot well be defined. The uncrushed seed is neither good animal food nor good fertilizing material, and yet large quantities are annually consumed in these ways. The tendency in every state is, however, to sell all the seed, and to buy back hulls and meal as they may be needed. Some large planters or dealers endeavor to bargain for the bi-products, and the man who can secure the meal of his seed drives a good bargain. The oil mill generally wants more than linters, hulls and on
 The farmer is receiving at present ten cents a bushel, or $6 a ton, for seed; and may be accepted as an average price at the starting point of seed from a ten- million bale-crop, which will be the average crop of the next five years. Assuming that one-half of the seed crop be sold, the farm- CTS receive $15,09O,0OO. A very productive acre yields bale of lint and one-half of ton of seed. The seed in that case would bring s an acre. The average yield is, how ever, below one-half of that figure.
 But the farmer who sells his seed must either buy back cotton-seed meal at about $15 ton, or else he must buy commercial fertilizers, and in either case 1t is some what difficult to make cotton at a profit in the five-cent years, which promise to abide
The age-herald., 1899-04-30

formed into cakes. covered by heavy can vass, and are at once placed in the presses. The process of squeezing is open at all points-nothing is hidden. Every surround Ing IS as cleah as soap and broom and brush can make it The oil passes directly to a tank, where it is barreled, and made ready for market as crudt cotton-seed oil. The residuum is yellow cake about an inch thick and two feet long, Hld .. fott wide. After these cakes become dry. they are passed through a mill which turns them into the cotton-seed meal of commerce.
 The entire process eliminates every par ticle of dirt and destroys every germ. The hard shell or hull or hull is a guarantee against dirt. It is better protection than the shell of the peanut, for it is harded and tougher. Then, too, in the southern mills the seeds are fresh from the fields. The milling season rarely outlasts the picking season more than three months. No one who visits an oil mill in the south can es- cape the impression that the oil from cot ton seed is pure and sweet, even if his prejudices prevent him from considering it wholesome
The age-herald., 1899-04-30

The south has one large industry that 1t monopolizes, and every year that industry is increased. This is the cotton-seed oil industry There are about twenty-five cot ton-seed oil mills in Holland and England, supplied with seed from Egypt, but their product is neither large nor of high qual- ity, and practically and generally speaking, the cotton states of this country control the great industry that has substantially been created since the civil war. In 1870 the production of oil stood at about S,0OO, Oc0 gallons; it is now about 7O,OOO,OOo, with a tendency upward. At the close of the civil war there were but four mills in the country; now there are about $50. Tho number in operation in 1897 was 335
 A list of the mills in single state wiil4l Il suffice to show how the mills have been built with an eye to small transportation charges and ample supplies of seed fresh from the fields. In Georgia, for example, there are mills in Albany, Americus, Att lanta, Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Con yers, Coyington, Dawson, EIberton, For syth, Griffin, Hawkinsville. Hogansvlle, Jackson, La Grange, Locust Grove, Macon, Madison, Millegeville, Monroe, Newman,
 
 and Waynesboro. Some of these towns are so small they cannot be found on the map. And as it it in Georgia, so it is in the other cotton states, Texas leading. The industry cannot be concentrated in the southern cities because such a course would involve higher freight bills-an objection that elim- mates the states that do not grow cotton. Cotton seed is bulky, a bushe weighing about thirty pounds only. The seeds, as they leave the ordinary gnnery, are fuzzy, covered, as they are, with the short rem nants of the lint that tena ciously clings to the hulls. The weight of a bushel really depends upon the pressure placed upon tho seeds that fill it, and today it is unsettled how much a bushel weighs. Thrown in loosely, bushel would not weigh thirty pounds; pressed down, bushel would weigh thrty-five pounds. In this state 1t has been agreed that 100 pounds make three bushels.
 But numerous as the mills are becoming in the south, they do not crush one-half of the crop, as a short sum in arithmetic will
The age-herald., 1899-04-30
THE MAN BEHIND THE FLOW

s. E. Riser in Chicago News. There's been a lot to say about the man be- hind the gun, And folks has praised him highly for the noble work he done; He won lot of honor fer the land where men are free, It was him that sent the Spaniards kitin' back across the sea; But he had his day of glory, had his little spree. and now There's another to be mentioned-hes the man behind the blow. A battleship's wonder and an armys mighty grand, And warrin's a profession only heroes un- derstand; There's somethin' sort O thrilln' in a flag that's wavin' high, And it makes you want to holler when tho boys go marchin' by; But when the shoutin's over and the fight in's done, somehow, We find we're still dependin' on the man be- hind the blow. They sing about the glories of the man be- hind the gun, And the books are full of stories of the
 wonders he has done; The world has been made over by the fear less ones who fight; Lands that used to be in darkness they have opened to the light; When Gods children snarl the soldier has
 to settle up the row, And folks haven't time fer thinkin' of the man behind the blow. In all the pomp and splendor of an army on parade La,s>-- IL. And all through the awful darknessA 9tiist3t 3
 the smoke of battles made; In the halls where jewels glitter and where shoutin men debate, In the palaces where rulers deal out honors to the great; There is not single person who'd be doin' bizness now Or have medals if it wasn't fer the man be- hind the blow. We're a-buildin' mighty cities and we're gainin' lofty heights; We're awinnin lots of glory and we'er set tin things to rights; We're a-showin all creation how the worlds affairs should run. Future menll gaze in wonder at the things that We have done, And they'll overlook the feler, jst the same we do now, Who's the whole concerns foundation that's the man behind the blow
The age-herald., 1899-04-30
Sixty Years Married
Detroit (Mich.) Journal.

From the Detroit (Mich) Journal.
 The Hon. Charles T. Gorham and wife celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniver- sary at their home in Marshall, Mich., April TO- General Gorham was married to Miss Charlotte Eaton Hart, daughter of pr. J. w. Hart of Durham, Greene county, New York, April 10, 1889. He was president of the First National bank of Marshall for thirty-four years, and previously was pres ident of the institution when it was pri- yate affair. In all he was connected with financial institutions for fifty-nine years. He was born in Danbury, Conn.,, May 29, 1872. In 1870 he was appointed United States minister to The Hague. He was as sistant secretary of the interior under Sec retary Chandler from March, 1876, to April, 1877, when he resigned.
The age-herald., 1899-04-30
Inheritance
rom the Detroit Journal.

From the Detrolt JournaI.
 'The meek" insisted the Cloth, "shal inherit the earthp'
 The law bowed affably.
 "No objection to that!" protested the Law. "None whatever! The meeker the better! Oh, yes, indeed!
 In fact, apart from the injunction against stealing, religion cannot be regarded as be- ing particularly inimical to success in this noble profession.
The age-herald., 1899-04-30

hereafter. And if the farmer buys meal of the oil mill, it is not only expensive, but It is so finely ground that It's fertilizing prop critics are expended in the cotton rows be- fore the cotton is fruited, or even haf- grown. If, however, there is a crusher al hand driven by mule in tread mill, or at the end of a sweep, the seed ean be turned into excellent food for the farm ah- lmals, agg also into a fertilizer that will outlast the growing season and show itself in the second crop.
 In the census of 1890 the statistics of cot ton-seed sales were for the first time gath cred. In that year 1793, ,S69 tons were mar keter; and the oil product was 100000 gallons, or something less than twenty-five galons to the ton. The product per ton was not as low as this, and it is plain considerable portion od the purchased seed was used for fertilizer or other purposes. The oil product is now 50 pi' cent. larger than 1t was in the census year, and this fact would seem to demand a full half or the seed of a ten-millian-bale crop, or two and one-half million tons; but the chances are, as have stated, that over one-third of the seed production is carried to the mills, and not quite one-half.
 Assuming that one-half of the seed crop is carried to the mills, what becomes of the remaining one-half? This is, as I have stated, very hard question. A percentage Oh thS ANtdiuSu iletll lS GAOppeu lOl lScuih5 purposes; another percentage is fed to the stock without chopping; small percentage is chopped or crushed for fertiiizing pur- poses; very considerable percentage is composted with barnyard manures, or with swamp muck, to be placed later on in the cotton rows-leaving doubtless a handsome percentage that is either wasted or unac- counted for. Exact figures are valueless. No two estimates would agree
 But the half, more or less, that is carried to the mills can be traced very accurately. ton of it becomes in a mill:
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-08
Increase In immigration.

Eastern papers are giving out the
news that immigration this year is cx-
traordinarily large. From July I, 1893,
to May 20 of this year, 2o7,o36 emf
grants have passed through the chan
iIcls Of the immigration bureau in New
York city. The arrivals for the prcced-
ing year were 1854. The natonalities
representing the greatest numbers are
Polish, Irish, Scandinavian and Ger
man. The number presenting the great
est proportion Of illiterates are Portu-
guesc, Asian and Turks. Germans bring
the most money, $45.oo per capita. The
Swiss bring $42.22. Galicians and Por-
tuguese bring least-$7.23 and $7.28 per
capita 1t is estimated that 100000 emil
grants have arrived at Canadian and
otilcr Atlantic ports, which will swell
the grand total to larger figure than
has ever been known before. Russian
emigration has been going nearly all to
the British Northwest Territory under
the protection OF the Canadian govern
lncnt. The Swiss and Germans largely
move West, while the Turks, Assyrians,
Greeks. Italians and Portuguese remain
in the East.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-08
The CRY Of the Children.

Do you hear the children weeping, o
my brothers, -,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads
against their mothers, -
And that cannot stop their tears. -,
The young lambs are bleating in the
meadows,
The young birds are chipping in the
nest,
The young fawns are playing with the
shadows, "a.
The young flowers, are blowing to-
wards the west
But the young, young children, o my
brothers,
They are weeping bitterly! u'.
They are weeping in the paytime OF the
others,
In the country OF the free.
They look up with their pale and sunk
en- faces,
And their look is dread to see.
For they mind you OF their angels i'll
high places.
With eyes turned on Deity.
"How long," they say, chow long, O
cruel nation,
Will you stand to move the world on
child's heart,-
Stifle down with mailed heel its palpi-
tation,
And tread onward to your throne
amid the mart?
Our blood splashes upward, O gold
heaper,
And your purple shows your path!
But the child's sob in the silence curses
deeper
Than the strong man in his wrath"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-08
VIM. M'KINLEY's OWN WAR.
What The Cost of It Has Been Ii
Men and Money.

Although the war in the Philippines
is MIR. McKinley's own-congress never
having declared 1.-THE American people
are fighting and paying for it, says the
New York World. They are therefore
entitled to full and trustworthy informa-
ton concerning it. A double censor
ship, at Manila and at Washington,
keeps this information from the people.
But these facts are not denied:
First-The war has now lasted 100
days, or IS days longer than our war
with Spain. We hold, after this period,
less Of the territory than Spain occupied
and less than we held in August of last
year. The rebel forces are now more
troublesome" than at any. former time.
Second-The war has cost nearly 700
men killed, 6,5oo wounded, 10000 in
valided. 1t has cost $63,ooo,ooo in
money, and is costing nearly 5000 1000 a
day. Our. losses in the fighting in Cuba
which resulted in the surrender of Santi-
ago and the end of the war with Spain
were about 23o killed and 1900 wounded.
Our losses ins-Porto Rico were three
killed and 40. wounded. :.
Third-There have been sent to Gen
eral Otis $1,000 men. Some 1880 more
are under sailing orders. The president
has decided, it is said, quietly to enlist
the $1,000 volunteers he was authorized
by congress to add to the army for tenn
porary use.
Fourth-According to the best expert
testimony it will take from 100000 to
10000 troops to subdue the Filipinos
and hold the principal points in the
islands.
Fifth-The rainy season will soon put
an end to campaigning. "Fifty per cent
OF our men will be incapacitated by
sickness and the territory overrun will
have to be abandoned; Manila will be
in state of siege again." This is the
testimony of DR.. McQueston, late of
General Otis staff and the health officer
OF Manila.
Sixth-The presidents peace commits
sion is total failure, owing largely to
its inability to consider any terms ex-
ccpt unconditional surrender and abso-
lutte submission to the sovereignty OF
the United States"
This is not a pleasing picture. 1t is
neither benevolent assimilation" nor
successful conquest. It has all the ap-
pearance of foolish and futile and
endless guerilla war
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-08
sssia' sis. instructed Hts the their WISE
Thus the desire for il. V. be
came living principle in ~

mes instructed their y ASeWise.
Thus the desire for ii. Y. be
came living principle in ~
the continental congress, and t..
ciple found utterance on the 9TH OF {.
Richard Lee moved, THAT these unit.
colonies are. and OF right ought to be,
free and Independent states; and that all
political connection between us and
Great Britain is, and ought to be, to-
tally dissolved" The resolution was
not considered until three days after
ward, when it was resolved to postpone
its further consideration until the Ist of
July, and that a committee be ap-
pointed to prepare declaration to that
effect"
This committee was appointed on the
nth, and consisted OF Thomas Jefferson,
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger
Sherman and Robert Livingston. Mr..
Jefferson was appointed chairman of
the committee, and to him and his COL
leagues assigned the task of preparing
the draft of declaration to be pre-
sented to congress. 1t was drawn with
care and was unanimously adopted by
the committee. On July the draft of
the declaration was reported to the
house, Benjamin Harrison in the chair,
and for three consecutive days it was
debated.
At length, on the Fourth of July, a
unanimous vote of the thirteen colonies
was given in favor OF the great declara-
ton which pronounced them free and
independent states. On this memorable
day, when it became known that final
action was to be taken, thousands of
citizens anxious to learn the decision of
congress crowded the streets of Phila-
delphia. In the steeple of the old State
House was bell on which, by happy
coincidence, was inscribed, "Proclaim
liberty throughout all the land unto all
the inhabitants thereof" In the morn
ing when congress assembled the bell
ringer went to his post, having placed
Ills boy below to announce when the
declaration was to be adopted, that his
bell might be the first to peal forth the
glad tiding. Long he waited, while the
deliberations went on. Suddenly he
heard his boy clapping his hands and
shouting, Ring! Ring!" Grasping the
iron tongue, he swung it to and fro,
proclaiming the glad tidings to all the
land. The crowded streets caught up
the sound. Every steeple re-echoed it,
and with cannon peals, bonfres and il
luminations the patriots that night de-
clared their joy.
How they shouted! What rejoicing!
How the old bell shook the air,
Till the, clang Of Freedom rufled
The calm, gliding Delaware!
How the bonfres and the torches
Illumed the nights repose,
And from the flames, like Phoenix,
Fair Liberty arose!
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-08
A Ferocious Editor.

y down-East editor has drawn up
some new game laws which he wants
adopted. The following is summary:
Book agents may be killed from Oct.
to Sept. I; spring poets, from March
l to June I; scandalmongers from April
I to Feb. 1; umbrella borrowers from
Aug. to Nov. 1 and Feb. i to May l.,
while every man who accepts news
paper two years, and, upon being pre-
scnted with his bill, says, I never Or
dcred it!' may be killed on the spot,
without reserve or relief"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-08

Recall to mind the heavier trials OF
others, that you may bear more lightly
your own troubles.-Thomas Kempis.
Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-10-11
OUR CITY AND CHucHES WITHOUT LIGHTS SUN
 DAY NIGHT.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS OUT.
Caused by an Armature Burning Out at the Water
 Works.

Sunday night about 3 o'clock an armature on one of the machines at the plant of the Light and Water Company burned out and about one half of the city. including residences churches and public streets, were thrown into utter darkness and confusion.
 In consequence of the accident all lights on the eatlre circuit went out. In the circuit are the Christian and Trinity Episcopal churches at each of which the lights went out without previous warning, and the congregations had to be dismissed amid confusion and darkness.
 There was much murmuring and complaint throughout the city this morning, especially among the mem bers of the above named congrega. tions. Among the most indignant worshippers was Dr. s. W.Crutcher, of the Christian church. T was just warming up to my theme, wheL had to dismiss my corgre- gation" complained the preacher this morning, ard you can just put it down that whenever 8 parson kicks that he has a perfect right and is warranted in doing so,
 At the Water and Light Conpa- ny's office it is explained by saying that it was "only an accident, such as was unforeseen, unavoidable and liable to happen at any time. J We hope, however, sad MT. Bridges this merning, ito have the damage repaired this afternoon so that the lights can be turned on to night. .
 All of which is true we believe and hope, but nevertheless those who pay for lights by the imonth, including the city, should receive a reduction on their monthly light bills.
Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-10-11
Reading in Bed.

Reading in bed used to be objected to in the old days on the score of danger, and one of the first injunctions of a hostess to her guest was in refer ence to that prevalent but disquieting practice. But in these days, when electric light has removed the risk of fire, the question is one solely of it's benefit or harm to the prospective sleeper The Medical Press and Cir cular is of the opinion that a short course of some standard author may act as a composing sedative, but works which contain extremes of wit, melo- drama, comedy, tragedy or philosophy should be avoided. Like a good sup per, the reading should be neither too heavy nor too stimulating. On the other hand, most physicians are of the opinion that bed should be kept as much as possible for sleep. A habit of reading before putting out the light and closing ones eyes is apt to grow and become a tyranny, and, like drugs, the more you indulge in it the longer has the reading to be to have the de- sired effect. It must be admitted however, that the habit. to all but those fortunate beings who are asleep the moment their head touches the pillow. is very seductive, and that a good many peoples most serious read ing is done at that time.-London Tele- graph.