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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
ODD LIVING HONEY BOTTLES.
Mexican Table DeIicacy Is Furnished by
Red Ant.

A late traveller in New Mexico had
for his dessert a unique dish. 1t was
like, yet unlike, so many amber COL
ored cherries, each with a most pecu-
liar stem. Doubtful, yet polite, he put
one between his teeth and was sur
prised to find that the little sac con-
tanned a honey-like liquid. 81 see this
is your first acquaintance with the
honey ant said his host. HE -four
ishes with us, but does not get UP to-
your northern climes. l believe Col
orado is his limit"
Then in answer to the question on
his guests face, he gave the following
little history:
THE honey ant is a small red insect,
living in rounded mounds, or, in some
cases, in low heaps extended over an
area from 20 to 80 feet u He is;
most Industrious, like others of the
ant family. Indeed, he works day and
night. His food is a sweet, syrupy
fluid gathered from gals, those curious
enlargement of growths on trees and
plants. With this he fills his body,
oL1O, az, uAllhO Lis SOu0lhy IAO DOCJ liz
has not added the making of vessels
for food storage to his other accom-
plishments, he supplies the deficiency
in a novel way and interesting me
In other words, he uses for this pur-
pose the largest individuals of his own
species. The liquid food is forced into
the crops of these selected ones, each
foraging trip adding to the supply until
these crops, which nature has covered
with plates that can spread apart Is
need arises, have reached their limit Of
distention. The living bottles, or re-
ceptacles are now practically helpless.
They are not neglected by their COM
panions. A dark room is built for
their accommodation, and here they
cling to the ceiling, receiving additions
to their stores or supplying food for
the hungry workers. The people in
this part of the country esteem the
honey ant a delicacy. We use is for
our dessert as you use grapes or cur
rants"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

Threatened men live long" some
"times-when, for instance, they chance
to be criminals whose counsel are anx-
,ious to make a record. Almost ten
years ago a man in the state of Wash
ington was convicted of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be
hanged. That sentence has been thrice
reaffirmed, but the man has not been
hanged yet. The state supreme court
and the United States Supreme court
have had the case before them, in the
form Of exceptions and objections, dur
ing these ten years, and the con-
demned mans attorney declares that
he has still many cards to play"
Such attempts to 'cheat the gallows''
have the evil effect of arousing against
a convict a sentiment which is not
easily to be distinguished from vim
dictfweness.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
A Toad in a Howlder.

A remarkable flint bowlder has been
discovered at Lewes, Eng, and is now
in the possession Of Charles Dawson.
F. G. s., of Uckfeld. In a cavity within
the bowlder was found a ~full-grownl
toad, which must, when young, have
entered the hole in the stone by a small
aperture. There the unfortunate pris-
oner waxed to adolescence, and prob
ably he may have died of chagrin on
finding that he had delayed his exit too
long, for the hole afterward became
silted up. The bowlder, which is shown
in section and also with the pieces ref
placed, was exhibited at the last meet
ing of the Linnaean Society, and is
eventually to be placed in Henry Will
let's collection at the Brighton ,Mu-
scum.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

Russia has decided that it wants the
American bicycle, having tired of the
clumsy English and German ar
ticle. Such are the comforting reports
received by the managers of the Amer
lean Bicycle company, which does
much of the exporting of American
machines. Russia finds more popular
use for the machine at a moderate
price than it has found heretofore, and
the many American-made machines
that travellers about Europe have seen
have convinced them of the superiority
of our machines over those of Euro
pean make. So there is an unusual de-
mand this year, a fact which pleases
the American maker who finds the de-
.mand here falling off as compared with
that which existed when all America
was bicycle mad.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

Few persons know that the United
States government derives an income
from some of the largest bathing es-
adjustments in America, if not in the
world. The hot springs of Arkansas,
which have been a resort for invalids
for many years, are owned by Uncle
Sam, and he extracts a payment of $50
a tub for the use of the medfcated wa
ter. AS there are 534 tubs, the spring
brings him an income from that
source Of $4,000 a year. The various
hot springs, which are said to number
seventy-three, issuing from the west
side and the base of Hot Springs noun
tain, and which are now obscured from
view, have been converged in many in
stances from several different issues
into n outlet by development work
done on the reservation under the ST.
pervision of the various superintend.
AntS,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

The experiments are for the purpose
of improving and perfecting bombs
that are now made for the purpose of
exposing the position Of an enemy at
night, and to reveal the character of
defenses to be attacked These pro-
j~ectiles explode on impact, h%berating
a flaming compound. One compound,
consisting of sulphur, saltpetre, and
hydrocarbon, is a blue light mixture.
The illumination lasts as long as the
saltpetre supplies oxygen to maintain
combustion.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

President John Henry BarrUws of
Oberlin College, u that John
D. Rockefeller has offered Oberlin
5000, 900 on condition that the college
raise $500, 900 during the present year.
AS $780, 900 of this is already pledged,
there seems to be no doubt that the
college will claim the gift before Janu-
airy 1. During the two years Of the
presidency of DR.. Barrows, the endow-
ment has been increased by 500, 600,
not counting the $500, 900 expected
from the sources just mentioned.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
In electing Henry P. Dawson to the

In electing Henry P. Dawson to the
presidency of the Liberty National
bank in New York last week the
stockholders of that institution placed
in control of their property a man
who is today the youngest bank presi-
dent in the metropolis. Mr.. Dawson,
at the age of thirty-three, ranks not
only as president of a national bank in
the financial center of the continent,
but also as the secretary of the New
York clearing house, the organization
of the banking interests.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

The tree planted at the Naval Train
ing Station in Newport an dedicated
to the memory of Admiral Philip, who
commanded the Texas at Santiago, will
typify the vitality and growth of the
hero's fame. His record illustrated at
once the valor and humaneness that
characterize the model officer. He did
not fear a fighting enemy, MOI fail to
succor a dying foe.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

the crop will be light; that growers
are having trouble in some parts of
the state with canker worm and in
others with the leaf roller, in still
others with the dropping of the apple
and Eeach and with the peach leaf
curl, but that good crops of the tree
fruits last named. are promised never
theless. Averages for the northwest
ern division of the state, embracing
nineteen counties, are as follows:
Apples rs, pears 40, peaches 80, plums
80, cherries 95, strawberries 95, rasp-
berries 65, blackberries 80 and grapes
SIS.
The averages for the twenty-five
counties embraced in the northeast di-
vision are given as follows: apples
80, pears rs, peaches 80, plums, IS,
cherries 65, strawberries 20, raspber-
ries 60, blackberries rs, grapes IS.
In the southeast division (32 u
ties) the following averages were OBJ
tanned: Apples IS, pears go, peaches
and plums 95, cherries IS, strawber-
ries so, ~raspberries 20, blackberries 80,
grapes 80.
The averages for the southwest di-
vision which embraces 3S counties are
as follows: Apples 80, pears 76,
peaches 95, plums 80, cherries rs,
strawberries 80, raspberries 80, black
berries 95, grapes IS.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

The undergraduate body Of Roam
oKe College, Salem, Va, includes four
Koreans-one of them a son of the
emperor-and five native Porto Ri
cans. A Korean recently won the
prize for English defamation.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
TO THE PAN-AMERICAN.

Reduced rates are made to the Pan
American Exposition by The Michigan
Central, "The Niagara Falls Route"
and a delightful trip arranged. Special
illustrated souvenir, with full informa-
ton, now in preparation. Send address,
with four cents postage, to o. w. Rug
giles. Genl Pass'r and Tkt Agt., Chi
cagn.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

HE should have a grass lot of at
least one-fourth of an acre, in which
there is a house six or seven feet
square, and shade to protect him from
the hot sum-" says a contributor to
American Swineherd.
"The lot should be inclosed with a
substantial fence, SO it will be impos-
sible for him to ever break out. 1t is
almost impossible to cure a boar Of
fence breaking when they once get in
that habit.
"In selecting a location for a boar
lot, l prefer to have it entirely separ-
ated from the rest of the herd. In
fact, where he can neither see nor hear
the other hogs. for if the boar should
be one of the restless sort he will not
take time to eat or rest if placed along
beside the sows in breeding season,
and the boar that does not eat well
can never develop into a first-class ami
NAL. Therefore, l consider that the
location of a boar's lot has much to do
in developing a young boar.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
Fruit in Missouri.

A report just issued by the Missouri
State horticultural Society states that
the strawberry crop in the southern
part Of that state is being cut short by
dry weather; that raspberry vines are
badly injured by anthracnose and that
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
Hortiouitural observations.

Prof. E. S. Golf says: The Wiscon-
sin oat crop of 1898 was estimated by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture at $4,000, 900 bushels, valued
at SIS, 500, 900. Allowing an average of
five per cent, which is probably not
an excessive, estimate, the smut tax of
1898 in our state amounted to about
$775,000.
In plants like the apple, which are
widely dispersed by means of graftage.
there is more or less departure from
the original type. The Newtown Pip
pin, which originated in Long Island,
has varied in Virginia into the Abe
marie Pippin, a poorer keeper than the
original. In the Northwest it has va
ried into a form which has five ridges
at the apex, while in Australia it is so
different as to have been renamed the
Five Crowned Pippin
All plants are made up of a success
sion OF colony of shoots, originating in
buds. These shoots show as much
tendency to vary as do seedlings. The
degree of variation is not usually as
great, since the latter unite the quail
ties of two parents, while the former
are the product of n parent. Never
theless, sudden and marked bud varia-
tons are not uncommon. AS a mat
ter of fact, many of our cultivated va
rieties have originated from bud
sports. The nectarine came from a
branch Of the peach. A French horti-
culturist gave, in 1866, a list of 154
commercial varieties which had origi-
mated by bud variation, while Prof.
Bailey estimates that there are over
300 such sorts grown at present in our
own country.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
Agriculturai Notes.

Formaldehyd is a colorless, pungent
gas obtainable from wood alcohol and
readily soluble in water. 1t may be
purchased at drug stores in liquid
form, that is, dissolved in water. Its
property of destroying the spores OF
fungi was discovered by the German
scientist Loew, in 1888. 1t is not pois-
onons in moderate amounts, even when
taken internally. In 1896 Prof. H. L.
Bolley, then of Indiana but now of the
North Dakota Experiment Station, be-
gan making experiments with a solu-
ton Of formaldehyd for the prevention
of grain smuts, and potato scab. His
results were so satisfactory that the
formaldehyd treatment has come to be
regarded as the standard preventive
for these diseases.
y . .
Smooth brome-grass will withstand
extreme changes in the temperature
without injury. It's ability to produce
good pasture during long periods of
drought far exceeds that of any other
cultivated variety. In Canada where
it had been exposed to a temperature
of several degrees below zero and not
covered by snow it was entirely I'M
injured.
The yield of hay from smooth
brome-grass varies from one to four
and a half tons per acre according to
climatic conditions, method of seed
ing, and fertility of soil. The quality
of the hay is excellent, fully ~equaling
that Of timothy in palatability and
nutritive qualities.
In experiments with hairy vetch at
tie Mississippi station the yield was
increased 64.6 per cent by scattering
inoculated soil in the drills with the
seed, and 81 per cent by soaking the
seed in water containing the tubercle
germs. The amount of nitrogen was
also considerably increased by inocu-
lation. The inoculated soil used was
obtained from a field bearing hairy
vetch which had an abundance of
nodules.
Have you tested the clover seed? 1t
pays to do SO.
The origin of clover seed is of much
Importance, but receives little atten-
ton from farmers, who buy their seed
without ever attempting to ascertain
it's place of origin. Yet scientists that
have looked into the matter believe
that, as a general rule, seed grown in
northern ATTITUDES will produce
harder plants than seed grown in the
South.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

All that is best and purest in a man
is but the echo of a mothers benedic-
ton. q
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05

According to ]. D. Smith, state en-
tomologist Of New Jersey, who has
spent three months examining the
fruit industry of Germany, France,
Belgium, Holland and Hungary. Ger
many offers the most promising field
for American fruit. He thinks France
is unfavorable and says that Europe
has very little to teach us in the treat
ment of insect enemies, for the con-
elusive reason that pests are less
troublesome there than in this coun-
try.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-05
AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.

Some Up-to-Date Hints About CultIva-
tiOn of the Soil aud Yields Thereof
horticulture. 1~itirulturs aud FloricuI-
ture.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-09-14
FELL OVER A BRIDGE
MRS. JOHN NJ LINTON BECAME GID
ny WHILE CROSSING v~BRIDGE.
She Fell over the Edge and Landed on
Rocks About Forty Feet Beiow--
Was Seriously Injured--An
Unfortunate Family.

While walking across the Cumber-
land Valley railroad bridge ON her
way home from town Thursday at
10 O'Clock a. III. Mrs. John Nj. Linton,
became giddy and fell over the edge
Of the bi idge onto the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad tracks, about forty feet
below. She was probably fatally in
jured by the fail.
Mrs. Linton had just been TO to town
qualify as administrator Of the estate
Of her husband, the late John NJ. Llu-
ton, who died about month ago as
tie result OF injuries received IN a
runaway accident. AS she reached
the middle of the bridge on her way
home she looked down into the awful
space below and became giddy Ter
ribly frightened, she began rnning
toward the northern end of the bridge.
Az she reached that portion Of the
b ride which spans the b, and O..
tracks she ran over the edge and
dropped through snace TO the banks
about thirty feet below. AS she
struck the bank she bounded off onto
the rocks along the tracks, about ten
feet below the banks.
Mrs. Linton was picked up in an
unconscious condition andwas carried
into the house of John Wolf.
DR.. Andrews examine her and
found that she was badly bruise
about the body and injured internally.
The nature of her injuries cannot
be determined the doctor states, un-
til about "a hours have elapsed, but
theyEare probably very serious. Nc
bones aresbroken. After she regain
ed consciousness she was removed
to her home on the Williamsport
pike.
This accident adds grief to a
family already made sad by chapter
of misfortunes within the past
month Mrs. Lintons husband was
injured in runaway accident and
died from his wounds. Following
closely upon her husbands death her
brother Thomas 7. Chapman,
was struck and killed by lightning,
and now she, widow % years OF
age, is seriously injured.
This accident should be warning
to all trespassers on the bridge. The
railroad Company has placed signs at
each end of the bridge warning all
persons not to trespass on the bridge
n nd if the warning is not needed the
company is not to blame.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-09-14
THE BOARD OF TRADE.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD NOMf-
MATED FOR THE ENSUING YEAR
Industry Nearing Final settlement
The Prospect IL Favorable.

4 Ine prospect h FaNOFhpbfs
| The meeting of the Board OF Trad,
Tuesday night was attended by large
and representative body Of Martins
burg's LEADING. business men. Much
interest was manifested in the dis.
cussions, nearly all of those present
showing their interest in the welfare
Of the city By taking an active part
in the business before the meeting.
Messrs Max Robinson. James +.
Thompson and W. II. Polling. were
appointed as a committee to retire
from the room and select nominees
fur the various offices of the Board,
20 be voted for on the 2nd Tuesday in
October.
While the members of the com
mittee were out the matter of the
location of the new industry iii the
b. and O. shop buildings was taken
up. The committee reported favor
able progress an. 1t Is likely before
the end of the week, the matter will
be finally settled.
After remaining out Of the room
a short time the mittee returned
with report suggesting the follow
ing as nominees for the various
offices CT the Board Of Trade. which
report was unanimously adopted, as
follows
President. Lee NJ. Bender, First
Vice President, f. S. Emmert
Second Vice President, D.. M. Kilmer
Secretary, O. W. Boyer; Treasurer,
f. f. Wilson Executive Board. w.
II. Polling, j. M. Henshaw, Mas
Robinson, j, W. II. Fisher, j. f.
Thompson, G. A. Miller, Alex Clohan,
p. K. Deatrick, w. H. Crawford, II.
s. Cushwa, Edward Rutledge, J.
T. Nadenbousch, g. S Hill, NJ. G.
Tabler, W. H. Wilen, G.. w. Nc.
Known, G. c. Smith, AT. Hess.
The President, Vice Presidents,
Secretary and Treasurer and fourteen
members of the Board of Directors
are to be elected on the first Tuesday
IN October, the voting to be done be-
tween IL and IL in the morning and
from 2 to 4 in the afternoon
Messers J. W. Barrlck and J. II.
LLOYD were appointed tellers for the
election.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-09-14
HELD AN INQUEST.
All the Evidence Tended TO show That
Sheriff ZeIIer Had Used avery Pre-
caution 10 Protect Grant
While In Jail

That -. William Grant came to
his death from causes unknown to
us.
This was the verdict returned
Wednesday afternoon by the coroner S
jury summoned 70 inquire into the
death of Grant, who, as has been told
in the World, died In the Hagerstown
Jail Sunday afternoon at 20 o'clock.
After viewing the body and hearing
the testimony of Jacob Wheaton,
the night Waterman in Grants cell
the jury adjourned.
At 80 Wednesday afternoon the
jury reassembled in Justice Hoffman 5
office and heard the testimony of
some eight witnesses. The note
found in Grants shoe was also evil
dence.
The evidence all tended to show
that every precaution had been taken
by Sheriff Zeller and his assistants
to protect Grant and to keep him
from being furnished maens by which
he could take his lie. While the
physicians stated there were indica-
lions that Grant had taken poison,
they were unable TO say what kin d
of poison. 1t had been intimated that
morphine had been used, but DR..
Morrison stated that had Grant taken
sufficient quantity of morphine Sun.
day afternoon. he could not have
reused at / O'Clock Sunday forenoon
FUNERAL OF GRANT.
The body of Grant was taken to
Shepherdstown Tuesday morning for
burial. A brief service was held at
the house before the body was taken
away. Rev. +. II. Delk offered
prayer. There were no flowers
The funeral took place from the
home of Grants father IN Shepherds
town Tuesday afternoon at o'clocR
Rev. Max Lentz OBLIGATED and inter
ment was made in the Shepherdsto0 Il
| cemetery
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-09-14
YOUNGEST THE STATE.

Attorney Obey Sutton of Clarks-
burg son OF Hon. John d. Sutton of
this city, arrived last night. The
firm of Sutton and Sutton represents
the youngest attorneys in the State,
both being admitted TO the bar upon
attaining their majority. Obey will
leave Saturday for six weeks. tour
through the South and Southwest.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-09-14
NOTICE TO TAxpAYERs.

All taxpayers are heI eby notified
that as required by law | or one of
my deputies will be at each voting
place in each district in Berkeley
county for the purpose of receiving
taxes in each distJ let, and that pur-
suant to law discount CT 1.2 per
cent will be allowed on all pavments
of taxes for 1900 then paid
The following are the places and
dates of attendance.
Hedgesville, Oct. oth
Allensville Oct. 9th.
Tomahawk, Oct. 10th.
Gera, dstown. Oct, 9th.
Shanghai, Oct. 10th.
Bunker Hill Oct. 9th.
Inwood, Oct. 10th.
Darkesville. Oct. 18th.
Swan Pond, Oct. 14th.
Be1ington Oct. 18th.
Falling Waters, Stehley's store Oct.
10th.
Marlowe, Emerson's store Oct. nth.
G. L. Stuckey,
Sheriff, Berkeley Co..
Martinsbug, Oct. 9th. 3t.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-09-14
SUPERIOR EQUIPMENT
which includes Additional Floor Space.
Better Educational Facilities

DttteE hGtlftteb.
The Central Commercial College,
North Center street, this city, for
years Maryland leading commercial
school, opens on Sept. 2nd with near
ly two thousand additional feet of
floor space and an exceptionally
strong and efficient corDs of teachers
experts in their several lines. The
college was greatly overtaxed last
year, and the outlook for the present
season is so encouraging that Prof
Presho found it necessary to secure
more room and the college now oc-
cupies two entire floors Of the Gep-
hart building on North Center street,
near Baltimore, the different depart
ments occupying separate rooms,
which is claimed to be a decided adj
vantage to the students in the saviI z
Of time.
On Wednesday August 2Sth the for
nal opening Of the school will take
place when the entire faculty will be
on hand to welcome the public. Prof.
G. K. Presho, president of the college,
gives his time to a general supervision
of the institution and has special
charge of advanced accounting and
banking.
Prof A. W. Straub, vice principal.
who has been with the college several
years. will have charge of the adj
vanced shorthand and typewriting
work. Gregg's shorthand will be
taught by Prof. Willis Norvell, of
Wheeling, w. Va, who will have
charge of that department.
The new principal of the CONNER
cial department is Prof E. Fl. Fearon,
of Columbus, o., pen artist OF high
rank, who has had several years ex-
perience in business and teaching.
He will teach penmanship, book
keeping and similar branches.
Bookkeeping, higher accounting,
shorthand, and typewriting are
taught in superior manner in this
school. The tuition is low, the work
first-c class and these graduates are in
demand. In fact there is no school of
the kind that can do or has done NOR
for its graduates than this we'll known
institution. Daily News Aug. "a.