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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
Long Range Rifle Shooting.

In the current number of The Nine
teenth Century Mr.. Baillie- Grohman
says British rifle shooting suffers by
the Britons' preference for long range
shooting. He points to the defeat of
the English team at the recent inter-
national rifle match in Holland. Out
of eight competing teams Britain was
fourth in the prone position, fourth in
the kneeling position and a bad eighth
In shoulder shooting, thus receiving the
seventh place in the aggregate. This is
due, he thinks, to the British neglect
of shoulder shooting and shooting at
short ranges. He contends that the
British long distance shooting borders
perilously near upon "fancy work." He
advocates the formation of rifle clubs
on the analogy of local football and
cricket clubs.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30

In a lecture at Leeds, England. DIR.
Cohen said 2O,OO0,0O0 of the English
people are jewellers in large towns. In
Leeds 20 tons of SCOT are sent daily in
to the air, and about half of that comes
GOwn again into the town. SCOT is not
all pure carbon, but 10 per cent of it is
thick oil, which makes it stick to ev-
erything it comes in contact with. DR..
Cohen found that three-Quarters Of the
deposit collected on glass plates which
he exposed consisted of SCOT. In some
parts of Leeds the smoke normally OBJ
scures about one-fourth of the total
daylight. Yet the Leeds corporation
has a bylaw limiting the emissions of
black smoke from boiler chimneys to
five minutes per hour.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30

The culture of the pistache nut is
likely to prove of very considerable
value in California, Arizona and New
Mexico. With the exception of the
home consumed product of a few iso-
lated trees the entire quantity now
used in this country is imported, and
its use is limited almost exclusively
to ice cream and confectiOn f1avoring.
says The Scientific American. Along
the Mediterranean, where the choicest
walnuts and almonds are raised. the
pistache is considered the very best
Of all nuts for table use. 1t is very
nutritious and fattening and of a de-
liciouS flavor of it's own and should
soon come to be a leading article of its
kind in our markets. Mr.. Swingle.
who has been investigating foreign
plants and fruits, perfected arrange
ments by which some choice CRAFTS
will reach this country next spring.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
Key to the PuZZler.

No. STA Dollar. Beak, eagle, date,
stars, locks, cap.
No. 37S.-GeographicaI Puzzle: Lady
smith. Cape Town.
No. 319.-A Charade: Lighthouse.
No. 3SO.-Arithmograph: Pyrenees.
No. 3S1.-Riddlemeree: Competition.
No. 3S2.-Rhomboid: Horizontal-Past.
Tart. loot. Tool. Vertical-P. At
Sat. Trot. Too. To. L.
No. 3S3.-Transpositions: Broil them.
Roast it we'll Tapioca. Peaches.
Oranges.
No. 3S4.-Word Squares: 1. 1. Wish.
2. Into. 3. Stun. 4. Hone. II. 1. Edit.
2. Dare. 3. Iris. 4. Test. III. 1. Fame.
2. Abet. 3. Mean. 4. Etna.
No. 3S5.-An Enigma: Lock.
No. 3S6.-Anagrams: 1. Language. 2.
Scholar. 3. Envelope. 4. Furniture. g..
Variety. 6 Epigram. Z. Epitaph. g..
Festival. 8. Foreign. 10. Phaeton.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
Forest Trees From Seed.

The propag cation of forest trees Ell
Their for decorative plants, ,windbreaks
or forests is comparatively slow
process, according to bulletin SO of the
Virginia experiment station. The hor-
ticulturists of that station have been
making extended tests along these
lines and find that the seeds of such
trees as the silver maple and other
species which ripen seed early should
be gathered and sown at once. They,
can be planted in the same manner
and grow as rapidly as peas. Seeds
which ripen late in the fall should
be sown in autumn and then taken up
and planted in spring. Nuts like wal
nuts can be planted several bushels in
a heap and then taken up and planted
in rows in spring with perfect sue
cess. 1t is usually practical to plant
nut seeds where the trees are to stand
If nothing interferes with their growth
thereafter. sQn rich soil they grow
with great rapidity.
All forest tree seedlings should be
grown on a mellow soil, so as to en-
courage the development of strong root
systems. They should be transplant
ed into nursery rows at the end of
the first or second year. Slow grow
ing plants like oaks should remain two
years in seeding beds, while the more
rapid growing varieties should be
planted when only a year old. Most
forest trees do best when set out from
five to eight feet tall. The tulip pop
lar tree does very well if not permit
ted to stand in the nursery too long.
At the end of the first year it should
be tranSDl3 nted To ifs DerTnanaDt To-
cation. The following list of trees are
grown with comparative ease from
seed: Black walnut, bur oak, hack
berry, honey locust, box elder, green
ash and pecan.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
SUGAR AS FOOD.
Professor PfuhI of Germany Makes
Interesting Experiments.

Professor PfuhI of Germany Makes
Interesting Experiments.
Germany has just completed elabo-
rate experiments in sugar as food for
troops. The object was to test a sugar
diet in cases where great exertionsi
were made within a brief period. Ac-'
cording to reports, the experiments
with the various army corps resulted
favorably.
Professor Pfuhl, head of the physio-
logical laboratory of the army, states
that it proved that a sugar diet In
creases the muscular power in a COM
paratively short time, considerably
shorter than the white Of an egg, the
effect of which, however, is more last
ing, though sugar has the advantage Of
being much cheaper. The extraordi-
nary rapidity with which sugar is alb
sorbed by the body explains its rapid
effect on the nervous system, which is
of the greatest Importance in cases
where bodily recuperation is desired,
as In long distance marching.
Professor Pfuhl, in experimenting
upon himself, found that after long
walks three or four Jumps of sugar re-
moved all feelings Of lassitude and to
d ceTIdlu extent TeStOreu Tic eldSIlclIy
Of his muscles, this effect being fire.
quently produced in a quarter of an
hour. He is of the opinion that artifi-
cial substitutes for sugar will not have
the same effect. Professors Senator
and Muik of the Berlin university have
come to the conclusion that sugar has
q high nutritive value as the purest
and most easily soluble hydrate of car
bon. A certain minimum of albumen,
differing according to Individual cases.
must be supplied in any circumstances
and cannot be replaced by sugar, but
sugar as food for people is very valu-
able both on account of the cheapness
and ease with which it is manufacture
0d
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30

Our farmers have an idea that they
can't afford to raise grass on high
priced land In some countries the
farmers think they cannot afford to
grow anything but grass on their best
land. Holland is a vast checkerboard
of meadows, and whoever thinks the
Dutch don't know how to farm should
take an early opportunity to post them
selves. The best farming regions OF
Europe are covered with grass and
kline. Our southern farmers found
their antigrass opinions upon the down
trodden natural pastures that take a
COW to 10 or 20 acres, says Farm and
Ranch. Many of them are totally IN
acquainted with the idea of preparing.
fertilizing, top dressing and planting
grass. Grass being a natural product
of the soil, they imagine that it needs
nothing that nature has not supplied
and that if weeds spring up and choke
it out it cannot be helped. Then. if
they have grass, it is plowed up AM
planted in cotton or corn, which is
carted away and sold, leaving the
farmer and the farm poorer than they
were before. The best farmers, from
the most ancient times of which we
have history to the present, believed in
grass. nourished it and prospered,
while everywhere where grass has
been n neglected feature or no feature
at all of the farming agriculture has
not prospered. The province of grass
is to make food for man and power
for his plowS and wagons, and it is at
once the best and cheapest crop that
can be grown for these purposes.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
Protection of Natural Water Sup
plies.

circular has been addressed by the
secretary of the County Councils asso-
citation to the district authorities in
England and Wales calling attention to
the faulty state of the law as affecting
sources of water which are or may be-
come necessary for local consumption.
1t is pointed out that if certain urban
districts are supplied by a local water
company another water company can
purchase land outside its own area, but
within the limits of the urban districts,
sink a well thereon and arrange with
railway company to carry the main
along the railway line into its own dis
tributing area, thus depriving the ur-
ban district of the water supply which
is necessary for the use Of the inhab-
itantS and for their health.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
Othe11O's Defense.

I'll present
How did l thrive in this fair lady's love,
And she in mine.
Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still questioned me the story of my life,
From year to year-the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That have passed.
1 ran it through, even from my boyiSh days,
To the very moment that he bade tell it:
Wherein 1 spake of most disastrous chances,
OF moving accidents by food and field;
OF hair-breadth 'scapes i the imminent deadly
breach;
OF being taken by the insolent foe,
And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence,
And portance in my travels history:
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads
touch heaven,
1t my hint speak-such the process;
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear,
Would Desdemona seriously incline:
But still the house affairs would draw her thence;
Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,
Shed come again. and with greedy ear
Devour up my discourse. Which 1 observing,
Took once plant hour; and found good means
To draw from her prayer of earnest heart,
That 1 would all my pilgrimage dilate,
Whereof by parcels she had something heard.
But not intentively: did consent;
And often did beguile her of her tears,
When 1 did speak OF distressful stroke
That my youth suffered. My story being done,
She gave me for my pains world of signs:
She swore-in faith twas strange, twas passing
strange;
Twas pitiful, twas wondrous pitful:
She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished
That Heaven had made her such a man: she
thanked me;
And babe me, if had n friend that loved her,
/ should teach him how tell my story,
And that would WOO her. Upon this hint, spake:
She loved me for the dangers 1 had passed;
And loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft 1 have used.
Shakespeare
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean-roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin-his control
Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain
The wrecks all thy deed doth remain
shadow of mans ravage his own,
When, for moment. like drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and I'M
known
His steps not upon thy paths-thy fields
Are not a spoil for him-thou dost arise
And shake him from thee; the vile strength he
Yields
For earth's destruction thou dost all despise,
Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies,
And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray
And bowling, to his gods, where haply lies
His petty hope in some near port or bay,
And dashest him again to earth-there let him
lay.
The ornaments which thunderstrike the walls
OF rockbuilt cities, bidding nations quake
And monarchs tremble in their capitals,
The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make
Their clay creator the vain title take
OF lord of thee and arbiter VI
These thy toys, and, the snowy flake,
They melt into thy yeast of waves, which
Alike the Arnadas pride spoils of Trafalgar.
Thy shores empires changed in all save thee;
Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what they?
Thy waters washed them power while they were
free,
And many a tyrant since; their shores obey
The stranger, slave, savage; their decay
Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou;
Interchangeable save to thy wild waves play,
Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow;
Such creations dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form
Glasses itself in tempests in all time,
Calm convulsed-in breeze, gale, storm,
Icing the POLE in the torrid cline
Dark -heaving; boundless, endless and sublime,
The image of Eternity-the throne
OF the Invisiblei even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep made; each
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread. fathomless.
alone Byron.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
No. 3S9.-An Enigma.

While l 6, T. my miserable dinner 6. Z
the old hotel, 1 saw a 3. 6, Z run over the
floor, and presently n man came in and
showed us a box which he said contained
an /, 2, 3. He wanted to let it out, but
we were afraid to have it done. When
went to the landlord to pay my bill, l
found the old 3, 4, 5, 6, Z, had charged
me enormous 5, 6, Z, s, 8, and 1 refused
to pay the full amount. He became
quite 4, 3, 6, Z, 8, and, though 1 cou'1
not understand a word he said, he Kissed
me out. So I came away and left him
practicing his l, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, Z, 8, 9.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
The True ArtichOk

"The name artichoke is commonly
applied in America to a tuber resem-
bling the potato now grown extensive
1y in some localities for stock feed and
for distilling alcohol, but not generally
popular as food for human beings.
These are properly the Jerusalem arti-
chokes, while the real artichokes are
plant. These are n delicious vegetable
priced by rich and poor alike in Europe
and produced by millions in France
and Italy. The plant is a perennial
and the fine varieties are prOpagated
by suckers from the roots of old plants,
as are pineapples, and do not come true
from seed. In order to introduce the
culture of this much neglected vegeta-
BILE carefully potted suckers of several
Of the best varieties were imported.
The New York market is supplied now
from Europe. principally from Naples.
Artichokes have long been priced in
New Orleans and are grown there ex-
tenSively for the local market and for
tanning. 1t is confidently expected
that the culture of this delicious vege-
table viii prove remunerative in the
south and that il can be introduced in
to other markets besides those of New
Orleans and New York" says Mr..
Swingle in the report to the depart
abroad as its agent.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
Insignificant Existence.

There a number of US creep
Into this world, to eat and sleep;
And know no reason why we're born,
But only to consume the corn,
Devour the cattle, fowl. and fish,
And leave behind an empty dish.
The crows and ravens do the same,
Unlucky birds of hateful name;
Ravens or crows might fill their places,
And swallow corn and carcasses,
Then if their tombstone, when they die,
Be mt taught to flatter and to lie,
There's nothing better will be said
Than that they've eat up all their bread,
Drunk up their drink, and gone to bed"
Isaac Watts.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
! Cure For SedSiCkneSS ;
} Belt Said to Protect the Sensi-
tive Nerve Center.

Carlo Calliano, doctor and surgeon,
subject of the king Of Italy, claims
that, after long study and numerous
experiments, he has discovered that
seasickness is a reflex phenomenon due
to the acute stimulation Of one of the
nervous centers, located deeply under
the epigastric region. Properly di-
rected pressure upon this nervous CEN
ter, he asserts, Twill prevent or cure
seasickness'' To this end he has pat
termed a belt of elastic fabric, provid-
ed with an inflated cushion of TRAN
gular shape, the internal side of which
conforms to the shape of the anatomic
organization of the gastric region.
When this belt is worn, it presses the
cushion against the body, ''arresting
Independent movement of the organs
and exerting a gradual pressure upon
the celiac plexus," the nervous center
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
No. 3O3.-Letter Changes.

1. Change the second letter Of an arti-
Gle found in nearly every house and have
a black substance.
2. Change the second letter of a coilec-
ton of shade trees and show an article of
wearing apparel.
3. Change the fourth letter of some
thing worn by ladies and have an aux
Hilary verb.
4. Change the third letter of bird and
have a substance obtained from pine
trees.
5. Change the second letter of hard
mineral and have a pretense.
6. Change the third letter of an animal
and have a tree.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
SUGAR CANE.
Suggestions About Pin ntinE-ROOts
Used Instead of Canes.

Suggestions AbOut Pin ntinE-ROOts
Used Instead of Canes.
1t has been and is still generally
the custom in this section to take
down what cane it is proposed to plant
and bank it, covering it up, fodder,
stalk and root, with dirt. 1t generally
keeps all right, but sometimes it spoils,
more or less, and nearly always
sprouts, SO that in planting in the
spring many of the eyes are broken
off and lost, no matter how much care
Is exercised.
After the seed canes are banked the
remainder of the crop is cut dewn and
made into strip and the roots left to
rot and remain in that way for a sea-
son or two. Now, experience has
taught me that these roots are the best
seed, as they are full of eyes, and each
root will make a large bunch of cane,
whereas joint of cane can only make
one stalk, though suckers may grow
around it, but these do not get an even
start and are generally smaller The
roots may be dug up with spade or
grubbing hoe and banked as the cane,
but they should be separated one from
another first, SO that there will be less
handling and minimum of danger of
breaking of the sprouts in the planting
next spring.
But my plan is to plant them at
once, in the fall. Take a pony turn
ing pillow and lay off the rows by run
ming in the same place twice. going
and coming. Then drop the cane roots
every two or three feet, as desired,
and bed back on them with the same
pillow. This ought to put them six to
ten inches under the ground and out Of
danger of frost. Then in spring, when
the ground gets dry and in good con-
dition, bar off and harrow the bed
down or scalp it off with a hoe, and it
will sprout all right.
The canes may also be cut off even
with the top of the ground and the
roots covered with pillow, so that they
will generally keep, but this is great
waste of seed where seed is any object.
We generally plant our cane in low
places and along the bitches where the
land is the last to get dry enough to
work in the spring, so that either the
cane is planted too late or while the
land is too wet to obtain the best re-
suits, but if the plan of planting in the
fall is practiced one may rest easy and
give the land plenty of time to dry
out, and the tearing away of the bed
then will put the land in good fix for
the young cane to grow off well.
If fertilizer is used. it may be ap
piled in the far off furrow, which
should be deep, but l prefer to plan;
the cane in rich land and use what fer
tilizer 1 have on something else.
Cane pays, here. 1t produces from
200 to over 400 gallons of molasses
per acre under favorable conditions
and is certainly no more trouble nor
expense than cotton, writes an Ala
bama correspondent to The Southern
CultiYator.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
No. ss7.-Hidden Christine. Gifts.

No. 3S7.-Hfdden Christmas Gifts.
"No matter where you go or what you
do, Lloyd, please don't forget to bring
my - you know what"
81 would like to ask a test question,
papa. Did you see Tommy tussle down
in the front area with Kenneth Moore?
Tommy never cried boo Kenneth hit
him pretty hard too. All in fun, papa"
Mother says that if 1 know at Christ
mastide three of Keble's hymns by heart
she will give me something 1 wish for
every hour"
When the bell rang, in came, rather
damp to be sure, little girl. She wore
a pink slip. Persuading her to advance
and dry her clothes, she skipped about
the hearth, singing
"To and fro, see me go,
AS show heel and toe"
Trip, in delight, made a spring, and I
heard a gurgling little sob. 20 auntie?'
and the disguise was over. 1t was only
my merry Esther come to stop an hour.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
GEMS IN VERSE.
OLD FAVORiTES.
S1eeDlessness

SleeDlesSness. -
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by
One after one; the sound of rain, and bees
Murmuring; the fall of rivers winds and seas,
Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure
sky;
I've thought of all by turns, and still lie
Sleepless; and soon the small birds melodies
Must hear. first uttered from my orchard trees,
And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
Even thus last night, and two nights more, lay.
And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth:
So do not let tonight away:
Without thee what Is all the mornings weaHhf
Come, blessed barrier between day and day,
Dear mother IF fresh thoughts and joyous healthi
Wordsworth.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30

The motto represented by the large
stars is Biblical and composed Of three
words.
The upper horizontal, of five, names a
powerful bird with talons. The second.
an edible fish. inhabiting both fresh and
salt water The third, fruit highly es-
teemed. The fourth, IAN answer" The
fifth, a flower bearing large deep red or
rose pink or white flowers. The sixth, a
division of time. The seventh, angry"
The eighth, foremost" The ninth,
worth" The tenth, ito follow"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
Protection Against jack Rabbits.

In answer to a query how to keep
jack rabbits out of young alfalfa Texas
Farm and Ranch says: There are but
two known ways of keeping jack rab-
bits out-one is to kill them and the
other to fence with rabbit proof wiz
netting. You can poison them with
bits of sweet potato touched with
strychnine and stuck on sharp sticks
six or eight inches high. There is some
danger in this method. Br'er Rabbit is
hard to trap if he has room togo round
the trap.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
No. 3SS.-A TransposaI.

1t was a lovely winters day.
The total was serenely bright.
The winds were hushed, and nature lay
In peace, as moonshine is at night.
A CITY PAIR went on a stroll
That afternoon along the walks,
And love, that had of them control,
Led them to matrimonial talks.
Two weeks go by; wedding scene
Is witnessed by a merry throng,
And life, now joyously serene,
To them seems as marriage song.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
So the World Goes.

"Well, rain falls on the just and the
unjust" Not much. The unjust steal
umbrellas"
Wig-Jones says that he can read
woman like a book. Wag-Yes; but he
can't shut her up like one.
81 never saw n man of more confiding
disposition that Barber" THAT'S Bar-
Der, all right. Why, he even believes his
own les
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
No. 391.-FractiOns.

One-fourth of Ohio, one-siXth of Dan
ube, one-eighth of Delaware. one-eighth
of Missouri. one-siXth of Amazon, one
fourth of Nile form what river?
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30

Louisiana's yield of sugar is estimat-
ed at from one to two and one-half
tons per acre, the average being per-
haps not over one and one-half tons.