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FOR EXTRACTING WAX.

is placed on this sack. .Fhe glass lid
is then put on, and as the wax melts
it will strain through the sack and run
down through the spout into the lower
part. A common dishpan sets under
the spout to catch the wax. There is
little water in the pan. The glass
will keep the wax hot all day. If any
dirt gets through the sack, it will set
tie at the bottom of the hot wax ir
the pan, and when the wax is taken
out, next morning, it will be in the
shape of beautiful cake, while all
the dirt will remain in the water. By
this method there is little bother and
no danger of the wax getting on fire
and endangering the house. The wax
is entirely free from foreign SUBJ
stances, and is first class in every re-
spect.-F. E. Brown, in Agricultural
Epitomist.
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
Keeping Well Water Pure.

It used to be an old-fashioned Gus
tom in the country to put one or two
trout in well to insure the water
being pure and wholesome. If they
did not keep it so it was supposed
that they would give warning of it's
impurity by dying themselves. We
are reminded of this by seeing in an
English paper that Prof. Sobrero, of
Turin, has lately advised the use of
eels in the house cistern for the same
purpose. He says two or three not
large but lively eels would devour any
thing in the water in the shape of ami
malcules, infusoria, bird dropping
from the roof or vegetable matter of
any kind. We think they would also
take any animal matter like toads or
rats that might fall in and drown.
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
INCUBATOR CHICKS
1t II Less Trouble to Raise Them Than
It Il to Run After a Lot OF
Setting Hens.

Blessings on the man who first in
vented the incubator. It seems little
short of marvellous how these wooden
machines (when intelligently man
aged) will hatch chickens so perfect
ly. They really have a better start
in life than the chicks the old hen
matches, for the very simple reason
they have no lice. How many read
ers have tried Matching ducks in an
incubator, I wonder. There is no pref
tier sight than one of those wonderful
machines full of little ducks when the
last ones are out of the shell. The
greedy little things begin to ''nose
around" with their long yellow bills)
for something to eat before they get
dry. I hatched three little quails in
my machine last summer. After they
got dry tried to put my hand on one
of them and he hoped away to the
darkest corner, the little fellow didn't
want to be "cotched." .
Some people condemn artificial in
cubation. For my part would rather
give the incubator the little care it
requires than to run after lot of
setting hens. It is so aggravating to
have an old hen stay off her eggs till
they are cold, or maybe break half the
eggs. Some old hens are like some peo-
pie, there isn't much dependence to be
put in them. And if you have good
incubator (and I believe the most of
them are all right) you can depend on
them as money makers. OF course
there is more work attached to raising
the chickens. So much depends on the
person, whether he make success of
the chicken business. Then I think
one has to have love for any work
he is engaged in to be successful.-Na-
tional Stockman. .,.4
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
LOCATING AN APIARY.
Is the Place Where Bees Lay
Up Honey and Thrive.

If it is the intention to make bee
keeping business, for the dollars and
cents that are in it, it is certainly of
great Importance to consider well the
location of the same. There are locali-
ties, even in the radius of few miles,
that are much better than others.
There are localities where white clover
is very abundant, and where a crop
is sure every season, whether it is long
or short, while there are others that
are not so, and occasional years only
furnish crop. Eastwood is another
principal honey resource, and where
this and clover both abound is de-
sirable locality for an apiary. Bass
wood or linden is good timber to
cultivate. 1t is very hardy and makes
a rapid growth, and might take the
place of cottonwood, so extensively
grown in the west. In valley where
fall flowers are plentiful is good
point to seek for, as a late flow of
honey is very desirable to place bees
in good wintering shape. Alfalfa is
one of the best honey producing plants
we have at present, and it would be a
safe place to locate, even if no other
honey plants are in reach, but it would
be all the better if other honey plants
are present. There is long list of
honey bearing plants, but we will give
but few of the principal ones. Millet
or sweet clover, crimson clover, alsike
clover, mammoth or pea-vine clover,
tulip tree or popular, black or sour
gum, wild asters, golden-rod, willows,
maple, buckwheat, cleome or spider
plant, all kinds of berries and all kinds
of fruit trees, whether wild or domesti-
cated.-A. b. Duff, in Prairie Farmer.
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
BEEF KILLING IN MANILA.
Novel and Striking Scenes in the
Public Slaughter House of
the Filipino Capital.

A visitor from foreign parts in the
city of Manila, whose sensibilities are
not too acute, will find it worth his
while to drop i'm at the public
slaughterhouse, in the place known as
Arroceres. This is on the river bank
to the northeast of Manila, and is
much-frequented spot, where, besides
the slaughterhouse, are located the to-
bacco factories, the botanical garden,
Spanish theater and the kiosko, de-
signed for, public dances.
The proper time to visit the slaugh-
terhouse is about midnight, for this
is when the principal business of the
place is done. Owing to the tropical
heat, in which fresh meat becomes
putrid in an incredibly brief period, it
is necessary that the killing of ami
mails should be done at night and the
meat distributed at once for imme-
diate use. All this work is done in the
wide-spreading, low building in the
square at Arroceres.
When operations are at their height
the scene is picturesque in the ex-
treme. The great majority of the ami
mails slaughtered are the large native
cattle, most of whom are brought
here, to tell the truth, not because of
their being in specially fat and juicy
condition, but because they have out
! lived their usefulness elsewhere and
are here to be converted into beef as
a last resort. The killing is done en-
tirely by natives trained in the busi
| ness until they have become experts.
The cattle are led in from the pens at
the side of the building and are held
by stout ropes over long troughs that
run up and down all through the
structure, and into which the blood
| flows when the animals are first
struck. The fatal blow is given with a
large, sharp knife in the spinal cord
just back of the horns. AS a rule one
blow is enough. The animal drops
without sound and scarcely CULVER
1t sometimes happens, however, that
! the thrust miscarries and the beast is
only badly wounded. Then sometimes
terrific and exciting struggle ensues
before the enraged animal is subdued
and the finishing stroke given.
A specially novel feature of the pro.
ceedings is the rush made by the ma.
tive women and children, who are al.
ways present in great numbers, to col.
lect the blood as it flows from the
freshly killed animals. This product
of the slaughterhouse is greatly priced
by the natives, and is served up in
| various simple forms at their meals.
It costs them nothing except the
struggle to catch it as it drips and
flows in the slaughterhouse, and this
price many of the poorer class are
willing enough to pay. The scramble
for blood is not attractive to casual
visitor, for the stuff gets spilled and
streaked around over the hands and
clothing of the people, and the scene
is grewsome enough. AS soon as the
animals are killed the meat is cut up
and distributed at once among the
local markets in all parts of the city.
-Leslie's Weekly.
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
SAVING COLONIES.
Bees That Are Apparently Dead Can
Often Be Saved by Taking Them
Into Warm Room

Colonies of bees apparently dead may
be found, owing to the unusual wealth
er conditions existing this winter. The
A, B, C of Bee Culture gives the follow
ing:
sometimes colonies may run out OF
stores unexpectedly, and, to all ap-
pearances, be dead from starvation,
the greater part of the bees on the bot
tom board and others with their heads
in the cells. Now, if they have not been
in this condition more than three or
four days, they can often be revived
by taking them into a warm room.
AS soon as they begin to show signs of
life, sprinkle them with diluted honey
or sweetened water. In the course of
two to six or eight hours they will
come to life, as it were, crawl up on
the combs and be nearly as well as if
their mishap had never happened.
Such cases occur most frequently in
the apiary, when the nights are not
very cold. Valuable queens may often
be saved when but few or none of the
worker bees can be resuscitated; for
it is strange fact that the queens ten
acity of life is greater than that of any
of the workers.
I'm my earlier experiences I was try
ing very hard one year to winter my
whole apiary, of As colonies, without
any loss. I did it, but one of them
came so near being lost that it was
saved only by the above treatment;
therefore, friends, don't be in hurry
to decide that colony is lost ire
trievably."
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
ThE S'1l,eR.x, i, ! :: :, lfllk$S
WHAT THE CAR WHEELS SANG.

With scream of the whistle our farewell
said, N.s ..@ ~.
And into the blackness of night we sped
On and on
To meet the dawn,
Under the sky where the stars burned red
Past hills that stood where the SHOWS
were shed,
Ghostly white as the shrouded dead; .
On and on
To meet the dawn:
True hand at the throttle and hope ahead!
The steel rails ringing
The swift wheels singing:
ITO kith and kin, O hearts that roam
In vine-wreathed cot, and marble dome,
Over the world we bear you home!
Whirled through the dark where the black
Steed drives
Are joys and sorrows of human lives;
Laughter and weeping,
And children sleeping
On the breasts of glad mothers; and visit
full wives; T 5r- 5ls D.. =. ~
The clank Of chains and the grip of gives!
Where Light the soul Of the Darkness
shriveS! .a- r. ~ ;.
The steel rails ringing
The mad wheels singing:
''To gloam or gladness, O hearts that
10 OalkcHSu u"SllllS VI IIidIOle oOue
Over the world we bear you home!'
There are hearts that listen with hope and
fear
For the signal thrill of the engineer;
That throb and thrill
At that signal shrill;
Does it bring them the rose or the rue
to wear?
The song, the sigh, or the burning tear?
On and on
To meet the dawn
The black night dies, and the hills stand
c!ear
''What are you bringing,
Oh swift wheels singing
''The hearts that hunger-the hearts that
roam
Over the world we bear them homer
Old friends, old lovers, in a rapture wild
Kiss of the mother and clasp of the child;
The night is gone
We have met the dawn;
Never so gladly the sweet sun smiled!
Never the spirit of night beguiled
The hand so true,
That the throttle knew
Bearing the burden of mother and child
On and on
To the joy O. the dawn!
With ever that song to the hearts that
roam
''To vine-wreathed cot and marble dome
Over the world we bear you home!'
F. l.. Stanton. in Atlanta Constitution.
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
Fowl. In PLUM Orchard..

The difficulties of growing plums,
owing to the attacks of the curculio,
have almost driven this delicious fruit
out of the market. Hens in a plum
orchard do not seem to protect the
trees, but in a few recent experiments
which have been tried it has been
demonstrated that if the hens are al
lowed in large orchard they will be
kept too busy with other insects to
notice the curculio, but if the hens are
confined, and each yard contains one
(not over two) plum trees, under which
the hens will congregate for shade,
with but little grass in the yards, the
prospects will be favorable to a large
crop OF plums.-P. f. Jacobs, in Amer
lean Gardening.
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
HOW TO RENDER WAX.
tractor Invented by q Pacific
Coast Beekeeper.

I melt and cake all my wax in sun
extractor of my own invention, which
is illustrated below. It is made of two
compartments, both of which have
glass lids. The wax to be melted and
renovated is put into the top or large
compartment. There. is Slated
frame placed on the bottom of this
upper box and burlap sack is placed
on top of this Slated frame. The wax
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
Not a Writing Man
"HE Boy stood and looked and looked
BY Constance Cotterell.

THE Boy stood and looked and looked
at the Girl. 1t was by no means the
first time he had met her, and he would
have been extremely glad to know that
it was the last. That's to say. he would
have wished, of all things in the world
never to part from her again. But this,
The acknowledged to himself, was past
hoping for. All her people were so
clever, everybody she knew had written
something or other, she was only used
to the very most intellectual persons.
Why, even this party that he was now
at was given in the great room at the
end of her fathers garden where he
wrote his wonderful books. And he
he was such countrifed fellow. He
only had money and ridiculous, quite
intellectually useless strength of body.
He could only shoot and hunt and play
games, and manage dogs and horses.
Boorish pursuits, he thought, despair
ingly. Once he frightened for mo-
ment as he looked round the crowd of
nervous, narrow-shouldered men.
''I'd bet anything not one of 'em could
bring down a pheasant at a hundred
yards!" he said, and almost chuckled to
himself
Nobody took any notice of him. He
felt that he had hardly any right to be
there. If he had taken a composition
prize at school, or even so much as writ
ten letter to the papers, he felt that
he need not have stood there so
ashamed. Once She in her capacity as
young hostess had come and spoken to
him. Very shyly. What single thing
in common with her could such stu
pid fellow as he have? And so she had
left him alone after taking him to one
or two girls whom he supposed to en-
body genius in it's most terrible form,
the feminine specimen, and who there
fore found, and left him dumb.
So he wandered off into far corner,
for it was large room, and when he
had put himself behind small grove
of portfolios he could watch her with
out being seen or being in anyhody's
way. For long time he gazed at her,
very fair and in white, with what he
called lump of black velvet against
her shining white shoulder. Then at
last she was lost to him in throng far
away at the other end of the room. He
turned his back on everybody, and
looked with a curious. ingenious won
der at some Inca drawings which were
in the corner on the wall. -
He did not observe that the noise of
voices grew less and less, and then
ceased altogether. He was lost in
dream of Her until suddenly he was
awakened by the electric lights going
' out altogether and the sound Of key
turning in the lock of the door. He
listened acutely then. and heard the
gay voices growing fainter outside, as
the guests went along the Chinese Ian
termed path into the house to supper.
He started out of his corner to rush for
the door and try to make somebody
hear him. But he entangled himself
among the portfolio stands with loud
noise, and when he extricated himself
and felt cautiously round in the dark
ness for landmarks he found that he
had lost his bearings. The sounds out
side died away.
He stood still and wondered what he
should do. And where was She? What
more worthy man was handing her to
support His teeth came together at
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08
HENHoUsE WINDOWS.
Circumstances Where Winters
Are Not Too Cold.

The window here illustrated was
recently described as in use by a noted
poultry fancier. The method of con-
struction is here pictured. The win
dow is low, and has the sashes hinged,
SO that one may step out into the yard
from the henhouse through the win
dow. The upper sash is Hinged at the
top and swings out, being held up
Warren sheaf., 1900-03-08

! and So got for So and So, and you never
seem annoyed at anybody's book being
success, and you never say a good
thing and then seem to think you've
wasted it, and you don't talk about
form and local color and
"You see,'' he pleaded, '''I'm quite
novice!"
''And always when you came into the
room there seemed to come breath
from the mountains where nobody
hunts for unusual words and where
one can live with real and beautiful
things instead of writing about thc4n
and Liked that
He was SO sad and so happy that he
was dumb.
"D'you know, Td-I'd rather you did
MT write!"
'Dulcie!" He had never dared even
to think of her by her name, but now
| it seemed the one word in the whole
world that belonged to his lips. sDul-
cie!'
eyes," she whispered.
''Don't you like writing men %
''I'm sick to death of them''
Gould you like man who couldn't
put two words together?'' he painted.
''I'm afraid I do.''
Gould you-could you love him ?'' e
'I'm afraid [ do.''
For one sharp moment happiness
seemed a greater agony than despair.
Then he leaned his face to hers, and the
agony was gone.-Good Words. {.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1900-03-22

IT Rancho Viejn. az 9.745 yrs.
passed another resaca. al I1.O20
varas set post and entered Palo
Alto prairie, at 1895 varas
post on bank of big lagoon, at
1888 Varas a post on top o.
Iona Alto, at 1924 Varas a
post at PIT Isabel road near Pit
al, at 5000 varas a post, at 81.
$50 varas a stake, 932 varas due
east from the post where the
upper line of Brownies adloin
ing tract enters the tim Der, at
,26.O30 Varas post and entered
tim Der, at 36, $40 yrs road from
San Antonio TO Peparo and To
renos, at 2S.810 varas middle
OF resaca de los Cpraies, al 80,
600 varas a mesqnite marked
- three chops on north aide
of an old road from Soldados to
Peparo, at 31.917 varas SET
post and entered prairie, at 81
10 Varas a post, at "a 1856 yrs.
marked mesquite 81 three
chops fore and aft in Yard OF
RefugIo ranch at 81, $50 varas
passes resaca and road to Ana
cuas Atlas at So 900 varas n
post in prairie at $1,000 varas
post and entesed tint Der at
-...--. varas passed road to
Ornlgas a post al Al 600 varas
post IN prairie at 52.15O varas
post al 63.395 Varas to the
Northeast corner or this surrey
on he bank of the Arroyo Co
dorado near Tavernos Crossing /:
thence up the Arroyo South
4S7a : West 800 varas TO The
and Invest corner Of this survey
Nor Northeast corner of Brown
e's adjoining survey; thence
with The line Of said Brownies
survey South 31k West 81.
9OS varas 10 the place Of begin
ming Said shares nun beers
Twelve II nd Twenty eight 28
hereby conveyed contain In the
aggregate 25.5S5 acres ofIand.
more or less but of which how
ever are 10 bereserved excepted
and deducted 1851 8 acres. more
or less, heretofcre 6onve red ~
a. /" erhlskl TO varIp Gus parties
a. follows: 1st. to Luna Az Cot
flngham on Decem bdr 18th 1887
90 = acres OF land ny deed re-
corded in book so page 5s4
records OF Cameron cl unly.Tex-
as, 2nd. To Isaac r Harry on
December 18Th 1887, 1.}61< acres
by deed rect rded in Book "G''
page $50, records Of spaid Cam.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1900-03-22

county to which reference
ia here made for more
particular description. Said
share number - contains. fif
teen thousand four hundred
and niue acres of land, is the
lower or eastern part OF said
Espirito Santo grant and is
more particularly described as
follows, towit:
Beginning at the southeast
corner of Miralies and Fernan-
deg tract, a post on main road,
and running thence down said
road south 55o east elk hun
dred and ten varas, S 40 east
1900 varas, S 61o E 400 varas,
to the east boundary of the sec
ond 2nd sixth and and west line
Of the third, 3rd sixth or Carajos
lands. a post for corner, thence
with said last named line n
61-2o E $3.50 varas TO a posi-
for corner on the Arroyo colo
RADIO, northeast corner this sur
yey aud Of said second 2nd
sixth, this Is the same line less
.495 varas which is described in
feel ! notes OF the second 2ud.
sixth and ii is not necessary to
repeat ;thence up the Arroyo col
orado with it's meanders n 56
1-2 Wv PAT varas, n II 1Ao W
67S YRS. n SIS W $50 varas, to
the northwest corner of this sur
vey a post and corner of the
adjoining survey for Miralles
and Fernandez Thence with
the east line of said last named
survey $ u W, 51,791 yrs. to
the place of beginning.
Said share number % COM
prises two bodies of land-one
of 823 acres and one OF 1858
acres respectively,a and contains
in the aggregate 1915 acres
OF land.
The said S23 acre tract is
more particIarly described as
follows, towit' Beginning q a
post on the north bank of the
sio Grande, river set for the
south east corner Of the next
survey above made for James
g Browne aud the south
west corner of this survey
and running thence down the
Rio Grandr with its mean
ders s 81 : Z So varas, S
Q 344 E 595 varas, S 1919
W 297 varas, S 81 1-2S u 400
varas, TO a stake Set ont on the
exiension Of the 1ieision line
between said Browne's tract
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1900-03-22

and tits survey. Thence with
said division line s 312o
S68 varas TO The bank of the
river in TresquiIas Petrero.
Thence down the Rio Grande
S40140 IS varas, s IS "a
E 1900 Varas to a stake at the
southeast corner OF this survey.
Thence with line OF next d.
vision below, n 2 12o T al
500 varas set post on first
high land among palm trees
and at farm road, and at $50
varas left the palm grove
at 780 varas. high land jacaI of
Cbapa, west 10 varas. at 850
varas post and road, at IA o
varas a palm post and road, at
5000 Varas road and post, al
1877 varas a road, northeast 10
San Vicente and post, at 4, 839
yrs a stake on the east line Of
G JagOu's tract in wire fence.
thence with said fence and line
of JagOu's, S 912o 1915
varas to his southeast corner
post, thence with south line Of
q. Jagon's fence N 80 1-27 W.
1880 varas, To stake on line of
said Brownies survey and set
post few varas south of
fence, thence with the east
line of Brownies land and
west line of this survey > 8
IL , W. SIG varas to the place
of beginning And the said
1858 acre tract is more partiru
larry described as follows, towit,
Beginning at point II varas
west of the gate on the north
line and fence of @ Jagou, near
the resaca. being also on
the line OF Brownies survey,
adjoining this survey on the
west and running thence with
north line of said Jagon's tract
and fence. S. Is 1-2 1890 varas
O southeast corner of this sur
ey and on the line of the next
adjoining below made for NJ
kennedy a stake at fence east
side Of rpsaca; thence with
the line Of the NJ Kennedy
surrey and eastern line of this
survey, Il 2 1-2o Eat 40 YRS.
nnrIh hank OF resaca 1 $50 YRS,
q post entered Llabo Medrano,
al $500 Varas left prairie al
4,1J3 varas, rssaca or po, d
AT 4 500 varas left same, at g.. /
$50 Varas passed through labor
OF Santa Eiaya. at 1850 varas
Rio Grand- railroad track. at
S, 0z0 Vafas south bank ofresaca