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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

THAT son-in-law of yours is a cool
one" remarked one Griswold street bank
er to another 'and has a long head for
business. Does Ire ever get rattled?"
N'Oh, he has his limit like the rest of us.
When he asked me for my daughter he
was SO comfuddled that he kissed me and
shook hands with the girl detroit Free
Press.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
Teachers and Schools.

seat one hand crashing through the
rear window of the car. An artery in
the back of his left hand was severed
ana the blood spurted out in streams.
he was carried into DIR Blake's office,
bandaged.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

our typewriter is going to leave"
Whats the nfatter?'
She says she wants a position with an
employer who has sense enough to see
when she's fixed up to go to the Matinee"
Chicago Record.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16

The franchise for the Blackstone
Valley Street Railway Company is in
the hands OF the selectmen, and after
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

coasters, and can go to point where
you can reach the Pacific Ocean by
walking three hours at moderate
gait. 1t is but twelve miles distant.
II your steamer has mast fifty feet
high, by climbing to the top of this
mast you can see the blue line of the
Pacific in the distance.
The natural part of the Il is
formed by the San Juan and
Lake Nicaragua, of which it is ..l out.
let The lake is basin in the Cen
tral American Plain, filed with fresh
water ranging from ten to 240 feet in
depth, and is 10 miles in length. Its
outlet is not less than 400 feet wide nt
any point, and varies from twelve to
fifty and sixty feet in depth. But at
one point of the river, and only few
miles from the Atlantic coast, an
earthquake or some other convulsion,
possibly thousand years back, threw
up barrier of rock, which must be
cut or rather blown out in order to al.
low the passage of large steamships.
To take away this rock and to build
locks and dams to support the walls OF
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04
Very Absent Minded Men.

A friend calling upon Peter Bur.
rowes, celebrated Irish barrister,
one morning in his dressing room,
found him shaving himself with his
face to the wall, and asked him why he
chose so strange an attitude. The
answer was, ''To look IN the glass. T"
"Why, there is no glass there" said
the friend. "Bless mel" exclaimed
Burrowes, "I did not notice that
before" Then, ringing the bell, he
called the servant and questioned him
respecting the looking-glass which
had been hanging on the wall. "Oh,
sir" said the servant, ''it was broken
six weeks ago." A certain learned
professor at Cambridge is a very
absent-minded man. A friend of his
had been seriously i'll. When he was
convalescent the professor used to
send him jellies and other delicacies,
One day he took him fine bunch of
hothouse grapes. The old friends
were very pleased to see each other,
and were soon deep in discussion.
The professor, becoming interested,
began abseDt-mindedly nicking the
grapes, taking one at time till they
were all gone. On going out of the
door he called back to his friend,
"Now, mind you eat those grapes
they will do you all the good in the
world"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

81 plainly as upon others, but nearly
all sorts are in some way improved by
being worked in the fall. If the soil
is stiff and clayey, nothing seems to
improve it so much rs fall plowing.
Let fall plowing be practised each
season for series of years, and q
finer and more mellow soil will surely
follow. II good dressing of light,
strawy manure, such as horse stable
dressing, can be applied, spread broad.
cast upon the soil and plowed under,
so much the better. But il the farmer
has not the dressing, plowing alone
will help to improve the soil surely.
BY turning up the soil late in the
fall the action of the frost will serve
to render IL finer in texture.
Freezing and thawing are among
the great agencies in preparing the
soil for better production. Stiff clay
soil is poor soil for plants to do good
work in, even il it be made rich with
dressing; the roots cannot penetrate a
hard soil and poor crops are the re-
suit. Every farmer who has had a
practical knowledge by treating such
soils cannot fail to see this, and they
must work with this point in view ii
they hope to succeed, that gradual
deepening of such soil by ditching and
fall blowing are the very best methods
to apply. No soil can produce even
fair crops while it is in cold and hard
state. Then let us devote our atten-
tion to making an improvement. We
must work to render the soil fine, and
to take the surplus water from it by
ditching aud blowing. Let freezing
and thawing come in to help us.
Nothing can be cheaper than this in
the farm economy.
We have treated soils such as have
been mentioned above many times,
and these methods have proved salts.
factory in every case. We hope that
all farmers who may have such soils
to work will try this mode of treat
ment and report results. A. Il,
Eau ght in American Cultivator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04
! FOR FARM and GARDEN.
Early Maturing Hogs.

Young pork is always best as well
as the most cheaply produced. I'M
less the animal is wanted as breeder
it is not usually kept until year old.
The breeds that mature early will
make more pork at less cost at six to
eight months old than those that keep
on growing two or three years and at
tain very heavy weights. But it is
still better to keep a breeding SOW of
some of the coarse, large. .boned hogs
and then grow litters of pigs from her
when mated with some of the small
breeds that mature earliest. The half
breeds will make more pork than will
the thoroughbreds.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

The past season has thoroughly de-
monstrated the value of the bordeaux
mixture for blight on potatoes, and it
has quite us thoroughly shown that
the use of paris green and london pur-
pie, alone or mixed with land plaster,
has no good effect. Potato growers
should bear this fact in mind next
season and use the bordeaux mixture
freely, not only on potato vines, but
other vegetables and fruit trees where
foliage diseases of any kind appear.
without question it is one of the most
valuable implements for use on the
farm, and the bordeaux mixture can
be easily and cheaply made at home.
So there seems to he no reason why
the blighted, scabby potatoes that
have been put on the market for the
past two years should not be replaced
by the fair, smooth specimens of the
days when scab and blight were prac-
tically unknown, or at least not for
midable.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

water to the required depth are the
great engineering feats of the Mica
ragua Canal. Tons of the most power
full explosives must be used. Holes
must be drilled in such a manner that
the force of the explosives with which
they are loaded will work directly on
the portion of the channel to be exca-
waited. Some of the blasts will contain
fully 80, 200 pounds of explosive.
II ship passes through this cut the
summit of the rock will be higher
than the top of her mainmast. An ex-
cavation over 125 feet wide must be
made, for the minimum width of the
canal will be 100 feet.
Two great dams will be needed to
maintain the water ways at proper
level. These are termed the Ochoa
and Tola. The rock taken from the
channel described will be used in
building them, mixed with cement.
1t is calculated that they will prove
strong enough to retain the tremend-
ous water presture.
On the Pacific side is what is known
as the Tola Basin, which will be filled
with water to the depth of thirty to
seventy feet, by another dam 1900
feet long and seventy feet high. From
the Ochoa dam to the Tola dam ves-
sci will travel waterway over $50
miles long, on which the fall is but
four feet of the entire length. To
reach the summit level, as this is
termed, that is, the highest point of
the canal, involves another engineer
ing problem, on which many years of
study have been spent by some of the
most noted experts in the world.
The decision reached by most of the
engineers has been system of locks.
The plans provide for three on one side
of the summit level and three on the
other. The highest will raise vessel
iorty-fve feet, and the lowest will raise
her between twenty and twenty We
feet. They are to be $50 feet long,
eighty feet wide and thirty feet deep.
The st. Louis or st. Paul, for instance,
could easily be accommo dated in them.
The canal will be less than thirty
feet deep and 100 feet wide on the bot
tom. The locks will be constructed
of the largest blocks of stone and con-
crete ever used for this purpose, and
will be closed by gates of steel, be-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04
Strniniug MILK

There are some points about strain
ing milk that are not general y thought
of, and therefore the milk is not wholly
cleared of its bacteria. In the first
place it is important that the milk
should be put through the strainer
aud set where its cream is to rise as
soon as possible after it comes from
the COW. 1t often accumulates bac-
terra very rapidly if left in stables eX-
posed to foul odOrs. Besides, if left
long some of the cream will rise and
will be so mixed with the milk that
what does not cling to the strainer
cloth or wire will not rise as cream
again. The straiuer should be thor
oughly washed by dipping it first in
cold water and moving it rapidly
through both ways, so that bacteria
will not adhere to the underside, as
they are apt to do if the rinsing water
is merely poured on the strainer from
above. Then repeat this process with
water pretty near scalding heat. In
that way if there are any bacteria Oh
the strainer they will be killed
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

labor, but of the proper kind of labor.
A gentleman who is engaged in the
coffee industry said recently that his
laborers would get drunk on Sunday.
take all day Monday TO sober up, come
TO work ON Tuesday and continue
working until Friday or Saturday,
when they would lay off again, so that
the mozo of the country labors about
one-half Of the time. Counting Sun
days there are 165 fiestas, or feast
days in Nicaragua, during which time
the mozo tolls not, neither doth he
spin"
The Department Of Matagalpa is
destined to be great coffee center at
no far distant day when the great
canal is built. There are now about
1000, 900 trees under cultivation and
each month the number is largely in
creased. Persons who claim to have
knowledge of the subject state that
whereas in other parts of Nicaragua
the yield per tree is from half a pound
to pound and half of coffee, in
Matagalpa the trees produce from two
to four pounds. A number of Ameri-
cans are engaged in the coffee indus
try, some owning as high as 2000 man
zanas-nearly 1000 acres. These
lands can be purchased from the Gov
ernment at the rate of 81. so per man
zana, being about two English acres.
Though there are some large holdings,
the majority do not average over
twenty acres.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

II is not natural for the horse to go
long without drink of water. His
stomach is small and cannot hold n
wat r supply for long time. Water
ing morning, noon and night when at
work in summer time is none too often.
If the work is very heavy two table
spoonfuls of ont meal stirred IN the
pail will make the horse drink better,
and will also prevent so much cold
water from iniuring his stomach. 1t
is mistake to suppose that II horse or
any other domestic animal prefers to
drink water only few degrees above
the freezing temperature. If it is
lukewarm the horse will drink more
freely and the water will be less apt
to iniurc him.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04
DOES IT MEAN sEPARATloN7
A stir Caused by an Act of the Norwegian
Diet.


A great stir has been caused in
Norway and Sweden by the recent ac.
tion of the Storthing at Christiana in
the matter of the Norwegian flag. The
Storthing has voted that hereafter
Norway's banner shall float without q
iack-the symbol of the union with
Sweden. Some say that should King
Oscar veto the resolution two more
diets must pass upon the matter be-
fore it can go into effect; others that
the new flag will come into immedi.
ate use. Since 1874 the closest rela
tions have been maintained between
Norway and Sweden. At that time the
flag of each nation was changed so that
the jack in the upper left-hand corner
combined the colors of the other ma
tion. For several years past, how
ever, there has been growing feel
ing of discomfort in Norway concern
ing the close relations of the two pow
ers. This dissatisfaction King Oscar
has 'striven to assuage. The two
countries have entirely separate and
distinct governments, but are ruled by
the same king, Oscar of Sweden. Each
country has its own parliament, which
passes laws for its respective coun-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

have been interested. Elaborate maps
have been made, volumes of scientific
data compiled and every engineering
problem has been studied and dis
cussed.
The scheme has been a diplomatic
question for over three.quarters of a
century. Several times the United
States and England have been on the
verge of declaring war over the pos
session of Nicaragua. Each realized
the Importance of that country if a
canal were built
The Nicaragua Canal may be briefly
described as q summit level of navi-
cation in fresh water, 1853. miles long.
110 feet above the sea level, reaching
within three and one-half miles of the
Pacific and twelve and three-quarter
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

try. All laws are subject to the ap.
proval or disapproval of the king.
The flag of Norway, with the jack
left out, will be four red corners, with
a Greek cross of blue through the
center. The Swedish flag has four
blue corners, with jack of red, blue
and yellow in the upper left-hand cor
ner and a Greek cross ofyellow in the
center. The Norwegian flag had
formerly the jack, which contained
the bar of yellow as symbol of the
union with Sweden, but this will not
appear in the flag in the future.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

lnikes of the Atlantic Ocean. The total
length of navigation is 1891 miles !;
there will be three lift locks at each
end of the summit level.
For miles huge machines must dig
away loose rock, sand and mud and
force it through pipes some two or
three miles away. For many miles
machines must scrape ont the bed of
the river and lakes along the line of
the canal. Some of these great dredges
would dig out from 5000 to 5000 cubic
yards of material every twenty-four
hours. Thousands of men must work
with picks and shovels where the ma
chimes cannot stretch out their giant
arms and dig away at the canal bed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04
A PIngne of Rats in BrusseIs.

The Rue Berckmans, one of the
most fashionable quarters Of the capi
tai, has just been visited by plague
of large rats. No house has been free
from these unwelcome visitors, anG
the havoc they have made is so great
that most of the residents have beer
put to fight. Some of the rats are o,
an extraordinary size, and hitherto
the measures which have been taker
to free the neighborhood of the pes'
have proved of little avail. --Brussel,
rrespondence of the London Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

machinery. II is now universally adj
mitted that n short cut must be made
for ships between the Atlantic and the
Pacific.
Since 1896, when the first party of
American engineers penetrated the
tropical wilderness of Nicaragua, every
part of the country south of Mexico
has been carefully examined. The
United States, Europe and Mexico
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04
MnIchinr Strawberries

The plants should be covered with
some coarse material just before the
severest weather comes on in the fall.
1t may be applied before the ground
freezes or after it is frozen solid. III
covered before, the mulch should be
dropped off at the ends of the rows
and carried onto the bed with forks.
After the ground is frozen, You can
drive anywhere, depositing the ma
terial where most convenient to spread.
The entire surface should be covered
just deep enough to entirely hide the
plant, When applied the straw will
be about three inches deep. Rains
and snow will cause it to pack down
to an inch. Strawberries will not
smother, no matter how deep the COW
ering, ii it is not applied too early in
the fall or left on too late in the
spring Remove the covering and
put it in the paths between the rows
about May l., or as soon as growth
starts. Just before the berries begin
to ripen, go through the fields and
pull all weeds and place the straw
carefully about the plants so as to
cover all the surface not occupied by
the plants. Orange Judd Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

The feeding of hogs in the field is
becoming more in practice every
year.
Putting them in pens on floor will
no doubt have tendency to put flesh
on more rapidly, as it deprives the
hogs of exercise, which is necessary to
good health and better pork. Then,
pen feeding requires more labor in
taking everything to the pen to feed
besides the daily cleaning.
More manure is wasted around a
hog pen than any other place. Owing
to it's oiiensiveness and being filed
with corn cobs, which makes it trou-
blesome to handle, it is left TO lie right
where it is thrown out of the pen.
While this manure is of the best, be-
lieve there is the least attention paid
to saving it of any manure we have.
When hogs are fed in the field all
this good manure is saved with the
least trouble. There is no drawing
out and spreading, as the hogs have
done this work better than it can be
done by hand. While you may add a
few more pounds on the hog with the
same amount of grain by pen feeding,
this will he more than overcome by
the saving of manure and the decreased
amount of labor required.
don't believe in having lot on
purpose to feed in and keep it for
such, year after year, with nothing
else in it. This would be an entire
waste of manure. Every farmer should
have some small fields and change
them for feeding purposes. Where
hogs were fed last year should be put
into some crop this year.
They may be fed with profit on a
clover sod that you intend to plow for
corn next year DO this feeding on
the poor places af the field, and make
them as rich as the richest places. II
you have few hogs, an old wagon
can be loaded and driven where you
wish to feed, changing places each
load. If you haven't the old wagon,
n store box set up high enough so that
the hogs won't get into it will do. II
You have a lar2e number Of hogs, q
runners and drawn with team any.
where you wish. We have one of this
kind that holds about hundred bush.
els, made of rough boards. Our man
made it in couple of hours. 1t is
Just a large boz, made strong enough
to hold a hundred bushels, with nc
roof over it. One end is made to take
ont, so you can use scoop from the
start when you commence feeding.
Then the end can be placed back
again.
But how about the water in those
fields with so many hogs? Yes, they
must have water, and all they want OF
it, and water that is fresh and clean.
Well, we fill barrels and draw them
out TO them on stone boat, enough
at one load to last week. When the
weather is warm, water ought to be
drawn twice week to keep it fresh
enough. But once week will dc
later on in the fall.
Ashes and salt should be kept be
fore them all the time. Cut hole il
the side of box or barrel and fill il
with ashes and salt thoroughly mixet
at one part of salt and three of ashes
and cover it over to keep the rain out
You will be surprised at the amount
they will eat. 1t keeps them in healthy
condition.
If the weather is hot, some kind o
place should be fixed to shelter the
hogs from the sun. Cheap affairs o
some kind that will suggest themselves
to the farmer can easily be arranged
Il. N, Cowdrey IN Farm, Field ant
Fireside.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04
To Dry the Hair.

A New Yorker has patented an ap'
paratus for drying the hair after wash.
ing or shampooing, metallic casing
having heating stove at the bottom
with air inlet holes, the air being
drawn to the top of the casing and
blown through funnel by means oi
o revolving fan.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

Ore of the best variations of the
nll-corn diet for fattening hogs is some
old process linseed meal, or if this
cannot be procured, use cottonsced
meal with some oatmeal not bolted
All the linseed and cottonseed meals
contain some oil, and to this extent
are laxative. But all the cottonseed
meal made nov has the oil so squeezed
ont of it that il is unsafe to feed it to
young pigs, aud it can only be fed to
old hogs in very small quantities, and
then not very safely 1t will need
some roots to go with it. But these
should be given any way when corn is
fed to hogs, as the starch of corn is
hard to digest. Besides the oil the
oil meal contains some nitrogenous
nutrition which makes the feed bet
ter balanced ration.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

\ n AL building
seems to be the
rage now.
Dividing North
and South America
by means of the
Nicaragua Canal
will be the next
great engineering
feat.
Americans will
do it, American
skill and ability
will plan it, Ameri-
can contractors will
execute it with the
aid of American
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04
Advantages of Fall PIowing.

Nearly every farmer who has been
caring for the farm for series of
years will have seen the benefits of
fall plowing in many ways while run
ming the farm. There may be some
soils where the bsuefits are not seen
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

side which the largest lock gates in
the world will seem as pigmies.
The greatest industry in Nicaragua
is coffee culture. The one drawback
20 the business and to all enterprises
in Nicaragua. is the want. not only Of
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

The reason the Nicaragua route is
the best one is that water way has
been found that requires canal dig
ging for the shortest distance. You
can leave the Caribbean Sea in a
stesmer the size Of one Of our small
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04

The children of the United States
each year consume toys that cost at
retail $40. 900. 900.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-04
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Scenes Along the Proposed Waterway to Divide
North and South America.

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