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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-06-09
COMPASS AS A LIFE-SAVER.
Two Men Owe Their Lives to the LittI,

Il W. Il wv AttlE LtttS 10 Ih0 LIIII0
Needle.
Two men were saved from death on
the Lake Erie ice during the recent
blizzard by one of those chances which
are seemingly inspired by Providence.
Matt Carrig and Dennis Foley, who
had gone out from Buffalo to fish
through the ice, were suddenly caught
by the binding snowstorm when a
mile from shore. They packed their
kit and started their dog, trusting the
animals sixth sense to find the shore.
The dog wandered about for a time,
shifting the air, and lay down, COM
pletely lost. Carrig then started out
alone to find where they were, if pos
Stble, keeping up a continued shout
ing, that he might not lose Foley. He
came upon a stretch of ice from which
the wind had blown the snow, and
found several holes cut where fisher
men had been. A box imbedded in the
ice attracted his attention and he dug
it ont. 1t contained a pocket compass.
Carrig is an old sailor, and the find
saved him and Foley. By the compass
they determined the direction of Bug-
falo. When they landed at Michigan
street they were nearly exhausted by
the cold. They had been nearly eight
hours lost upon the ice.-New York
Mail and Express.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-06-09

be transformed into a new article of
manufacture by an inventor of New
York city. This pdtentee claims a
portable candle holder in which there
are two fixed wings for the support Of
the candle and an adjustable wing at
tached to the handle. This arrange
ment permits of the use of candles of
different sizes, and of the removal If
the butt end which is left after the
candle has burned down as far as pos
sible. The simplicity of the design
permits of cheap manufacture, an es-
sential feature of such an article.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-06-09

Mr.. ]. S. S. Brame, F. S. c., gave a
lecture at the London Institution,
Dundee, the other day, on Modern Ex-
plosives.' He began by showing, says
the Courier of that city, that an ex-
plosion was simply rapid combustion,
caused by the combination of oxygen
with some indammable material, and
the application of a light. A step on
ward led him 10 guApowder-charcoal,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-06-09

ipTHo 1 1--WE lOr inc breat E&hlD1t1On.
Engineering mentions the surprising
fact that 10000 horsepower of machin-
cry will be required for the Paris ex-
position. AS it is intended that the
processes of manufacture shall be dis
played side by side with exhibits of
raw material, much machinery will be
distributed throughout the Champ de
Mars, and the transmission of energy
will be electrical. About 5000 horse
power will be needed for this purpose
besides $4,000 horsepower for light
ing, making a total of 10000 horse
power. The steam producing plant
will be collected in two buildings plac-
ed parallel to the old Machinery hall.
Of course in each case the generators
supplying steam will constitute exhi5-
its, and payment made for the steam
supplied. with an allowance towards
the cost of installation. The coal sup
PLY will be taken through underground
passages. The electrical units, consist
ing each of an engine and direct
coupled dynamo, will be placed as near
as possible to the boiler-houses in a
gallery parallel TO them.
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As to Fertilizers,

In general it is best to try to grow
nitrogen gathering crops in rotation
WITH cereals when cereals are grown
at all. The roots Of the clover crop
remaining in the ground enrich the
soil with nitrogen in such a form that
it can be used by the succeeding crop
or cereals. Experiments seem to show
that all this nitrogen produced from
a single crop of clover, the roots only
being left in the ground, but the plant
no turned under, is sufficient only to
supply he needs of the first grain crop
coming after it. Potash and phos-
phoric acid should be in the soil in
good quantities to ensure the proper
n economical use of the nitrogen in
the soil. 1t does not pay to attempt
to use any one class of fertility with
out the presence of the others. Thus,
1t is found that what is called a COM
plete fertilizer-nitrogen, potash, and
p~hosphoric acid combined-gives the
best results in all cases.
If, however, a single grain is to be
grown on the land for an indefinite
period and without rotation the appli,
cation of fertilizers to the land should
be governed as far as possible by the
constituents of the whole grain plant.
This can be found easily from any
book giving a list of grains and their
analyses. In the case of barnyard
manure this rule cannot be followed
unless the farmer be ultra scientific.
for it will require a good deal of fine
figuring to determine about what are
the constituents of a manure pile, the
problem being based on the foods that
have been fed out in the making of the
said pile.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-06-09
Well Along in Years,

isn't Bellies husband old enough to
be her father?" Her fatherl Why,
my dear, he's old enough to be a cap
tain in the United States navy!"-Phil-
adelphia North American.
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Novel Candle Holder.

Nothing to the inventor appears too
trivial for improvement, and even the
modest candlestick that has remained
the same for generations is now to
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-06-09

Nine. Melba, when a girl in Austria
liza, learned to be a good horsewoman,
an requirement which she has religi-
ously kept up aver since.
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Russian Thistle as Fodder-A Ne
braska friend of mine whose stock
wintered last year largely on Russian
thistle, thinks that it isn't a bad kind
of a weed. after all. And many in Ale
west are coming to the same opinHn
The Russian thistle is proving a bless
ing instead of a curse to the drouth
stricken or desert lands. Moreover. II
is not taking the country" in INV sso-
ton, as was predicted a few years ago
The various laws enacted against if
are practically dead now, because there
is no need to enforce them.
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SCIENTIFIC TOPICS
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.

Modern Shoe Polisher Novel Candle
Holder-The Moon and the Weather
Popular Beliefs as to Their Con-
uectlon Are Altogether Unfounded.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-06-09

Heredity in breeding relates to trans
mission. 1t is doubtless governed bv
fixed laws, but many of these are "a
yet imDerfectly understood,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-25
JOHN PARTRIDGE, AN OLD
BRIDGEPORTER

Bridgeport Dec. 24-John Partridge,
one of the early settlers, died last night
at his home 21G3 Main street, after an
Illness of a few weeks. The deceased
leaves a wife and one son, John II. Par
fridge. He was seventy-eight years of
age.
Mr.. Partridge was well known among
the old residents, and some fifty years
ago was prominent in the affairs of the
city. He was one of the old might
Watch" a body of men that patrolled
the city long before the establishment
of regular police force. He was also
a member of the first volunteer fire de-
partment that ever served in this city,
being connected with Big g." which
did such yeoman service as to spread
its reputation as the first volunteer fire
company in the state. He was a mem
Der of all the leading social clubs that
We're identified with the city's early his
tory.
Mr. Partridge had been in failing
health for the past two years, and his
demise was not unexpected by his fam
ilV
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and asked me in a subterranean whis-
per if I was not an American. On re-
| plying Automatically he said, in a burst
| of confidence: Som l. Michigander
i-lumbernan--'n I got the greatest
landed about ten thousand dollars
worth of teakwood thirty miles below
here, and if / can set it away from the
| hippotots I'll go back to the States in
style" He and his pardner, he ex-
planned had floated the wood down a
river, and accidentally ran into a hip
popotamus family, whereupon both had
to swim for their lives. They had come
up to Zanzibar for guns and ammunl-
ton to rescut their property.
AS in other parts of the world, one is
Inundated to see no vessels carrying
the American flag. In the last twelve
months but two Maine sailing ships,
and no American steamers, landed at
Zanzibar. Fortunately however, this
is no criterion Of our commerce At
present no country can compete with
us in the so-called piece goods trade,
though the British consul points out
religiously each month to the home Of
flee that this is the most profitable traf-
fic in East Africa, and wants to know
why the Manchester firms do not get
after it. America, however should
widen her market in this part of the
globe with the exporting of hardware,
building material flour, provisions and
all kinds of cheap cloth "Americani'
shoes. machinery and novelties are as
popular on the east coast as below the
Zambesi. The rubber industry, too,
only waits to be developed, the country
being rich in that product.
Zanzibar is free port for all imports
except liquors, arms, ammunition, to-
bacco and rice. AT all coast ports the
uniform duty is per cent, ad valorem.
Export duties are the same, and the
list includes rubber, ivory, cloves,
hides, pepper, cocoanuts tea, coffee,
and many tropical products. The eX-
ports last year from Zanzibar amount
ed to $7567,035. OF the imports, those
of America for one monts amounted to
more than the combined shipments of
all Europe-Allen Sangree in Ainslee's
Magazine
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position could be secured during the
| night. This system had, however, the
disadvantage of enabling the Beers to
retreat unmolested under cover of dark.
ness when they had mind to go back
No enemy could be more dangerous
to attack In front than a large body of
Roers well intrenched and with their
horses hard by under cover Excellent
shots, we'll armed, always abundantly
supplied with ammunition they would
open fire at two thousand yards range,
not only from trenches, but from every
point of vantage or scrap of cover that
could shelter a single man. Many of
the best shots among the Beers would
go out for the day with two rifles and a
loader, and in their little rife pits or
econces one would often find several
hundred empty cartridge cases, their
harassing fire being a constant annoy
ance and causing many losses. Good
men though the Beers are, they are
wanting in the habits Of discipline and
obedience required for the conduct of
an attack; many hang back when it is
question of crossing a fire-swept zone,
and after the bravest have been killed,
the others melt away and generally re-
fuse to persevere.
There is no doubt that the pony
proved as valuable an arm to the Boer
as his Mauser, and that the mobility
(which is the essential characteristic of
Boer tactics has enabled him to con-
tinue struggle which would otherwise
have long ago come to an end The use
made by the Beers of their mounted
men for reinforcing threatened points
may be probably laid to heart, and
academicians might do worse than in
quire what would have happened at st.
Privat had the French Imperial Guard
consisted of mounted riflemen, and
what use similar troops might not have
been to Werder on the Lisaine.-Fort-
nightly Review.
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CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT
AT the City Mission Hall Last Evening
for the Children of the Sunshine

AT the City Mission Hall Last Evening
for the Children of the Sunshine
Band.
Another company of children gather
ed around the Christmas tree last even
ing at the City Mission hall. Every
Sunday of the year the members of the
Sunshine Band hold a children's meet
ing at the mission hall under the care
of the City Miscson circle of the Kings
Daughters. Last evening the fathers
and mothers and friends of the children
were invited to meet with them for their
Christmas celebration which had been
arranged by compittee of the King S
Daughters consisting of Mrs. Fenwick,
Mrs. Robbins and Miss Florence Bar
ker, the organist of the Sunshine band
The missionary pastor, Rev. Mr., Moss
man, presided, and at the hour for the
commencement of the exercises the
members of the Sunshine Band march
ed into the hall and to their places sing
ing sOnward Christian Soldiers" All
present Joined in the singing OF "All
Hail the Power of Jesus Name" after
which the Scripture story of the birth
Of Christ was read by Mrs. Fenwick,
the leader of the Kings Daughters, and
prayer was offered by Mr.. Stottlemeyer
of Yale seminary.
The programme for the children was
las follows:
Christmas carol-Magnify His Name
Sunshine Band.
citation-Christmas Greeting-Myr-
tie Brown
Grandchildren, Wake and Sing-By
the Sunshine Band, with duett by
Harold and Winnie Robbins.
Recitation-Christ the King-By thir-
teen children, each of whom placed
letter in position.
Song Christmas Anthems Ring-Flora
Curry.
shine Band.
Dialogue-Merry Christmas-Willie and
Helen Curry.
Recitatfon-The Angels Song--Stella
Kelly.
Song-Christmas Bells-Sunshine Band.
Recitation-Hurrah for Santa Claus
Harold Robbins.
During the exercises there was an ad-
dress to the children by Rev. Mr.. Moss
man, and at their close the Kings
Daughters distributed the Christmas
gifts to the children, together with can
DIV bags, apples nuts and popcorn balls.
"a Bible was also presented Miss Winnie
Robbins as prize for the most regular
attendance at the meetings Of the Sun |
shine Band throughout the year.
The last of the Christmas entertain |
meuts at the City Mission hall will be |
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Trarr11ers Guide.
New York, New Haven and
Hartford Ii. If.
December 2, 1900.


| FOR NEW YORK-*4:05, $3.50. x6:1u,
x7:00 500, "S:1O, $50, 1885, Al0.3o a..
M, "12:10, 1916 1880 (parlor car linn
ited)s "1:35, goo. $3.50. 500, $500, *4:17,
$3.50, $40. 5:S5. $50, *7:lo 1910.
e:l5 bridgeport accommodate on) 1910.
s:l5 p. NJ Sundays-*4:05, 1880, x8:O0
a. M, $3.50. x4:3O. *5:1o. x6:15. $40.
%s:10, $3.50, 1910 D. m.
FOR WASHINGTON via Harlem
River--f105, *11:5O p. m. daily
FOR BOSTON via Hartford and Will
limantic-*1O:O3 a. m.
FOR BOSTON via New London and
Providence-*2:10, 1920, *11:35 (parlor
car limited) a. m, *12 :05, *2:47 "4:05,
'4:55, "6:55 p. m. Sundays-*2:1O, 1926
a. m *12:05, *2:47, 1855. 1855 p. m.
FOR BOSTON via Springfield-"1:1 10.
xl0:10, "11:05 a. m., *1:45. 1852 D. m.
Sundays-*1 10 a. M, $3.50 p. IN.
FOR MERIDEN, HARTFORD,
SPRINGFIELD, etc.--*1:10. GAO. $500.
xlo; O3 Ito Hartford) x1o:1o. "11O5 a. M,
1908, *l:45. $40, 500. "5:52, (6:15 to
t1artford) 500, 1000. 11:15. Ito Meriden)
p. m. Sundays-1:10 a. M, 1903. 1852.
S:2S p. m.
NEW LONDON DIVISION
For New London, etc.-*2:1O. 1920,
lparlor car limited a. M, t12:o5 2:15.
%247, 1905 s4:55, 5:15. CHS. ito Say
brook Junction), "s:55. 1920, (Guilford
acc.) p. IN. Sundays-s2:10, 1920 a. M,
l2:05, *2:4I "4:55, 6:55 p. m.
AIR LINE DIVISION
hor Middletown, WiliimantIc etc
G4e a. m, 12:55. 1888, COS p. m. Sun
uays--El5 p. m. Connecting at Middle
town with the Valley branch and at
Wlilnantic with Midland and Central
DIVISIONS and c. V. r. r.; at Turner
Vllle with Colchester branch.
NORTHAMPTON DIVISION
For shelburne Falls, Turner's Falls.
Williamsburg, Holyoke, New Hartford
ana intermediate stations-7:5O a. M.
and 400 p. m. For Westfleld and in
terlneolate stations, 5:57 D. m.
FOR Pennington, New Hartford and
5;57 p. m. wv
BEHkSHIRE DIVISION
For Derby Junction, Derby. Anson;a.
etc.--6:15, 1900 500, s:s5 a. M 300
noon. 1:1o 2:S9, s:57, 4:4o. $50. ESQ
1850, 1000, 11:3o p. m. sundays-s.s5 a.
M. $3.50. $40, $3.50 D. m.
For Waterbury-7oO, $780, s:s5 A M.
l2;OO, 2:39, $50, 1850, 1880 D. m. sun
days-S:25 a. M, GAO p. m.
For Winsted--7:0O, 9:35 a. M, 2:s9.
o'5u p m Sundays-S:25 a. M. GAO D. m.
for shelton, Botsford Newtown. DAN
pury' Pittsfield, State Line-e:e5 a. M.
1857 y. IN.
FOR Albany, Buffalo, Detroit. cincin.
natl, st: Louis, Chicago and the West
via Bridgeport-6:1 a. M: via state
l41ne-9:35 a. M, 1857 D. m.
For Litchf1eld and points on I,itchre,d
branch-3:57 D. m. (via Derby Iunc-
tion), 6:10 a. m. (via bridegroom,
Express Trains. xLocal Cypress
G. r. Hampstead
General Passenger Agent.
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BOER LINES.

The Boers nearly all fought in front
line without reserves; each party or
commando defended the hills or trench
es it CHANGED to occupy, and would
bring heavy gun and rifle fire to bear
upon any position captured; it was fire.
quently more discussed whether posi-
ton could be maintained when won
than whether it could be taken. A very
severe cross fire was always brought to
bear from all sides upon the position
gained by our troops, and the situation
was often a difficult one until the
ground won could be intrenched or ar
tillery brought up to answer the hos
tile gun fire. For this reason we natu-
rally drifted into the habit of attack
ing late in the afternoon, SO that the
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-25
OBITUA-RY NOTES.
DEATH Of James G. Battersr,y.

James c. Battersby, aged sixty-six
years, for many years a resident of An
sonia, died in this city yesterday at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Eta G..
Adams. He left Ansonia about ten
years ago and since then had lived in
this city. He was carpenter by trade
and for nearly thirty years previous to
his moving to New Haven had lived on
Maple street Ansonia. He was a vet
eran of the civil war; having enlisted
from Manchester, this state, in May
1861, as a musician in Company A, First
Heavy artillery. He re-enlisted in Feb
ruary, 1854, and in May, 1865, was APP
pointed principal musician.
Mr.. Battersby was member of Maui
gatuck lodge, I. o. O. f., Of Ansonia.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs.
Eta c. Adams and Mrs. Mary I. Ly
man of New Haven and Mrs Lula L.
PeiX of Danbury.
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Notice to Contractors.
City Engineers Office, No. II City

City Engineers Office, No. II City Hall,
New Haven, Conn, Dec. Dist, 1900.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received
at this office until 2 p. m. Dec 31st. 1900
For furnishing a horse power pavement
scraper
Blank forms of proposal, and any nfor-
bonds, ETC., will be furnished upon applica.
ton
No proposal will be received after the
time specified, and all proposals not on the
blanks furnished or not properly filled out
will be rejected.
The right to reject any or all bids is re-
served.
BY order of the Director of Public Works
d22 3t c. w. KELLY, City Engineer
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EAST AFRTCA'S METROPOLIS.
The International Struggle at Zanzibar
for Trade.

| The International Struggle at Zanzibar
for Trade.
Because they do not hurry in zanzi-
bar, it must not be understood as a
lazy spot. Let no one think that; on
the contrary, it has now become the
metropolis of east Africa, and rarely a
| day passes but that the ig-bellied
| tramp ships from Rangoon, Hamburg,
Liverpool and New York discharge
their cargoes on the shelving beach and
| fill up again with the rich products of
| the island and it's mainland near by.
| This much to the poignant envy of
! Emperor William, whose own possess
sions lie just across the channel the
capital of which, Oar es Salaam, is
making every effort to defect tlither
the trade from Zanzibar. In no port of
the world are Germany and England
contesting so bitterly for commercial
supremacy as on this African east
coast, and the rivalry has now reached
such point of intensity as to be a
cause of open RUPTURE any moment.
With the projection .of railroads to the
interior and constant land-grabbing,
the two nations are running a neck
and-neck race, and both, not to be out
done one by the other, are sowing the
earth with golden coin, in the hope that
it will be returned tenfold as the land
is developed.
Germany, however, with her East
African steamship line, that has now
begun to circumnavigate the dark
continent, sailing from Hamburg week
1u lie In tba 1ao6 nor,1 ~, aroia1l,y Io
English ministers, while wrestling with
the TransVaal problem, cannot afford
to lose aught Of that one which con-
fronts them further north. In less than
decade the willy and subtle Teutons
have subsidized this great steamship
company, now so prosperous that every
year it is enabled to build a new vessel
out of the dividends; they have planted
cloves, coffee and tea plantations and
made them pay; have exploited rubber
companies, built two railroads, as
against England's one, and have sent
out hundreds of colonists.
Meanwhile America has not been idle
having seized two-thirds of the petro-
leum trade, one-half of the ivory trade
and doubled her shipments of cotton
ClOLU, dl lLGlil llittL LII ilinllCp OIC-l
ter Of all the imports to Zanzibar.
Yankees are landing every week, pro-
specting for American firms of every
description, and ON the coast one will |
find plenty of adventures. While at
dinner at the European hotel in Fan
zibar the evening before ] left, great, |
person, with sun bisters on
his face and hands, sat down opposite |
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DEATH OF A PHILANTHROPIC
WOMAN

| Susan B., widow of DR.. Harmon w.
Shove of Woodbury., died Friday even
I ing after long illness. Some time ago
a consultation was held by Drs. Russell
of New Haven and Bull Of Naugatuck,
and it was then decided that there was
very little hope for her. To those who
knew of this consultation the end was
not unexpected
Mrs. Shove was born in Woodbury.
February 20, 1888, and was a daughter
of Hon. Thomas Bull, for many years
an important business man of Wood
bury In 1861 she married DIR. Shove,
who had a large practice during his
lifetime. He died in 1892 They had no
children, but Helen w. Shove, the
daughter of the doctors brother, who
in 1895 married Edward S. Boyd. then
teacher Of Parker academy, has always
lived with them and was considered al
most as their child. Mrs. Shove had
two sisters and brother, of whom one
sister, Miss Elizabeth A. Bull of Wood
Julia e. Bull, died in 1888. Her brother,
David S. Bull, was for many years
treasurer of the Woodbury. Savings
bank He died in 1892. Mrs. Shove, as
the wife of DR.. Shove, was well known
in this and the surrounding towns.
Some years since she gave to the town
of Woodbury. Orenaug park, tract of
over fifty acres and had laid out con-
siderable money in beautifying it. One
Of the last things she did was to con-
tribute towards and superintend the
erection of a tower on the park, She
was a member of First Congregational
church of woodbury..
The funeral was held yesterday after
noon at 1870 at the house and the inter-
ment was in the South cemetery, Wood
bury.