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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-08-16
QUIET AT ouRYEA.
wasLsry Their. Not started mp, Conss'
qn~ntiy Na Treobi~.

WasLery There Not started mp, Conss'
qa~ntiy M Treabi~.
wiikesbarre. Aug. i5.-Duryea, the
the scene OF Thursdays riot is again
quiet No attempt has been made 20
resume operations az the Warnke
washery and IN consequence no crowd
collected. There were a few strag-
glers. mostly boys. gathered In the vi.
clnity. but when Il became known
there. would De no work az the wash
cry they went home.
Sheriff Jacobs and a large number
Of deputies were on guard Thursday
night. but were not molested The
sheriff told the owners OF the washery
that II they wished % start up the
works he would see that their en-
ploycs get ample protection But there
we're no employees 20 90 20 work. Near
" all the men who we're at work
Thursday were arrested and sent 20
Jail by local authorities. When con-
stables came 10 the washery 10 make
arrests the took everybody In sight
Sheriff Jacobs feels confident there
will be no more trouble at the wash
cry.
Later IN the day twenty-five depu.
ties and employees % Warnke washery
AZ Duryea. arrested Thursday after.
noon charged with rioting AID COM
mitted 20 Jail In default Of $4,000 bail
each. were given hearing in court and
released upon furnishing bond. $40
Tor entire party Immediately after
their release the deputies took train
for Duryea. whore it is said they Will
60 on duty again
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-08-16
B...b-n Pr..ia..s IN con,.mp,.

Chattanooga. Aug i5-Attorneys
for the Memphis Baseball association
has secured an attachment from the
chancery court here against ex-presi-
dent John b Nlcklin. OF the Southern
league. for contempt OF court In d.
recting the New Orleans team. recently
20 not play In a game with Mmphis.
with 81. Vrain In the box. after the
chancellor had granted an Injunction
restraining the league from interfer-
ing with 81 vrain NicklIn gave bond.
The application for an attachment FOR
Manager Powell OF New Orleans for
contempt. vas refused on grounds Of
his being a nonresident OF the state
Of Tennessee.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-08-16
M.mphl.. A..la..,.l,, Knl.a.

Memphis. Aug. l5.-F. II. Gerdes.
president OF the Memphis Pump Works.
heard noise In his yard early Thurs.
day morning. and taking his revolver
went 10 investigate He fell In a ditch
the weapon was discharged aud the
bullet entered HIS brain. killing him
instantly.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-08-16

-ney were tosd Dy the detectives unoss
they knew a. the agent" that there
was no strife. but that they were
wanted 10 build a new railroad.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

not better. They tried and succeeded,
and during the proper season the
fine, big white onions on sale in all
the fancy fruit stores, which the deal
ers cali Spanish onions; are the re-
suit of that effort. They are Spanish
oniohs only to the uninitiated buyer;
for they have been no nearer spailn!
than Long Island or New jersey
where they are grown:
Despite the fact that these onions
are often Is inches around, and grow
sc freely that close to 1000 bushels
of them have been taken from sim
gle acre, they are 80 mild and tender
that any one can eat them without
ill-effect. Physicians regard them Win
much favor, because they induce a
natural sleep, and patients who couid
by no means eat the ordinary, strong
onion can partake Of them freely. AS
it is, the homegrown product today
excels all the onions brought from
abroad, not excepting the far-famed
onions Of Bermuda: !.
What has been told here simply
furnishes an idea Of the great prog.
ress made in this humble line OF IN.
dustry. Every vegetable on the mar:
ket has been improved so greatly
that the consumers would make q
great fuss were they compelled to. go
back to what they thought was SO nne
10 years ago. It is clear that the
'brother Of the OK" is doing his part,
even IL he does it quietly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01
CAUSE OF DUST RAINS
Sand Driven by Wind to Europe ITO"
African Deserts.

Sand Driven by Wind to Europe from
African Deserts.
About year ago there was KIM OF
plague, or visitation, of dust rains
throughout Europe: Few sections Of
the continent were spared. From the
cities of Sicily to the islands OF the
Baltic red mud drizzled down upon the
earth, and the men who watched the
phenomenon were stirred, according to
their training and disposition, either ID
awe or to curiosity. Among those VINO
we're curious rather tnan awestruck
and who regarded what they had seen
as a matter for scientific rather than
religious research was DR.. Hapke. Now
DR.. Hapke Is q German. Accordingly
he went to work analyzing samples OF
the dust that had fallen of different
places, noticing color, amount, specinc
gravity, taste, and all other particu-
lars. The results of his Investigations
Lave finally appeared in a memoir, to
which is appended a map showing the
geographical distribution of the dust,
in terms Of grammes per square kilo-
meter.
1t appear; that the cause and origin
of the dust rains are now once for all
determined. The predominance OF
sand and the presence of magnetic iron
in all the dust that could be found
prove conclusively that the desert re-
gion south of Tripoli and Tunis is re-
sponsible for the whole trouble. The
ground of that part of the world Is
not firm enough. 1t is carried up into,
the air by the wild and is then rushed
across the Mediterranean to encounter
European clouds and to fall upon Eu:71
ropean soil, no longer sand, but mud.
Wherever it falls, town and country
are colored a bright red.
The spectacular effect can be imagin-
ed and the superstitious reverence the
peasants have for the blood rains"
cali easily be understood. Superstition
will vanish, however, before tn i'm
placable industry of the Teutonic herr
professor. One of the by-products OF
Dr.. Hapke's works will be that it will
be easier now to study the movements
of the glaciers. DR.. Hapke has marked
the points at which glaciers have been
discolored by the dust rains, and by
observing those points, scientists will
be able for the future to study more
accurately the laws that govern glac-
ier conditions. Altogether, DR.. Hapke's
memoir illustrates pretty we'll the
character of scientific study in Ger
many at the present time.-Chicago
Tribune,
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easily admitted a carriage and pair
CARRYING another vehicle on top. AS
mushroom caves go it was certainly
handsome one, but just as cold and
damp as any other, with switchback
sort of road lending from the entrance
| To the bottom Of the Gives. Here there
| was space for six lines Of mushroom
beds to wend their irregular ways side
by side, as will be seen in our photo
graph:
In no cave of such dimensions are
all the mushroom-beds in the same
stage of advancement at once. Whlle
some thousands of metres are III full
bloom, others are not so far advanced,
and in some passages the beds are
only just being laid down, Willie IN
others The work of clearing out old and
useless beds is being carried on.
Scrupulous cleanliness is an absolute
sine qua non ere a new bed can be
laid down. The cave must be cleared
Of the old bed entirely; not a particle
of it must be left, for with all the
mushrooms aptitude for lightning
growth it Is something Of a dandy In
the vegetable world:
New beds are laid down every FIVE or
six months; ana as they do hot bear
until three months have passed the
harvest need be q rich one, for the
average cost Of bed ere 1t SLOWS
signs Of produce rs two and a half
francs Der metre First the manure
has to be secured. and then, ere it can
be used. it has to be prepared, the WORK
taking from three to six weeks. When
ready it is carried into the cave or
shovelcd down a shaft as 0ttasi9n re-
Quires.
The building of the beds is peculiar
and laborious process. Sitting astrlde
the portion of the bed he has flrst
made the worker gathers armfulls OF
manure and. presses the material down
TO an even height in front Of him. Thus
lie is always provided with a seat. Ere
the spawn is sown the temperature OF
the beds must have reached about
twelve degrees to fourteen degrees
Fab, The spawn sown, the manure is
covered with sand, aud then every two
or three days the beds must be literally
watcrcd. At the end of three months
tie buttons" poke their heads through
then gradually the beds become COW
cred with white hoods: which on at
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

from morn till eve, pass their lives in
cultivating the champignon.
I was told that should find these
"under-boulevards" of the great city
we'll worthy OF visit, and in weak
moment Of curiosity I accepted the
offer of an influential friend to obtain
permission for myself and a photos-
rapher to descend into the bowels Of
the earth and learn something Of the
art of underground mushroom-grow-
ing.
We departed one fine morning, the
photographer and I, for Malakoff, on
the outskirts of Paris. We found the
mushroom-farmer on his farm await
ing us-a well-built, bluff, hearty speci-
men of French fermier, NJ. Burvingt
by name. looked around for signs of
cares; but failed to find them; nor did
see any hills in the neighborhood
under which they might be. In an
swer to question was informed that
they were just fifteen metres under
our feet!
'This shaft leads right into them. v
said the farmer, indicating a covered
circular hole in the ground | had not
hitherto noticed. He pulled the boards
away and I looked down, shuddering
for / looked only into fathomless dark
ness. How we were to get down puz
zled me; how the Photographic ap
paratus was going to fare worried the
photographer, and we were both i'm
mensely relieved to learn that this
shaft was not the entrance. but only
the place where they pitched the
manure down. I still had hopes OF
gaining entrance other than by dc
scending a shaft-a gentle slope OF
something of that sort was what
wanted-and 1 felt convinced that TIL:
would be the case when our guide sait
we had rather long walk before us
1t proved q good three-quarters of al
hours journey, over fields and dowl
country lanes, ere he stopped suddenly
before small square fence and told
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with his stature, filled the blackness,
rumbiing away down the many arteries
leading from where we were standing
and coming back again from a dozen
different directions. In answer to his
call there presently danced in the dark
void ahead of us couple of lights. :,
They heralded the approach of
couple of champignonnistes,; who,
emerging from their habitual gloom:
disclosed themselves rs short, dark
individuals, Of none too prepossesslng
appearance, attired, with but scant re-
gard for the temperature, in blue cot
ton trousers, blouses and wooden
shoes.
Provided with light-..lall round
colza-oil lamps fixed on the ends OF
sticks-and encountered with the
Photographic materials, we moved for
ward, and then the real torture of the
experience began.
We formed weird and ghostly pro-
cession as we moved forward through
tile inky iiacknessi the silence broken
only by our footsteps as we Splashed
along through the puddles, the solemn
drip; drip of water from tile walls and
roof, ain exclamation now and then
from myself as I nearly tripped over
one of the mushroom beds, and strange
mutterings from the man who was to
work the camera.
The famous mushroom-beds were ut
our feet. We were, i'll fact, walking
in the narrow space between them-a
path perhaps foot in width. They
ran along the caves in rows, two
against the sides and a pair down the
centre. They seemed to be banks OF
sand some two feet in height, and i'll
clining up from a two-foot base to a
rounded top. The soil was clammy
and crumbling to the touch, and inlaid
with round white discs, varying in
circumference from the dimensions OF
shilling to a smallsiZed sauccr-thc
precious cllampignons.
"1s there much of this?' l asked Of
the farmer leading lis. who seemed
prepared to walk OH fOreter.
''Sevcn or eight kilometres" hs aii'
swered, unconcernedly.
We had arrived at bend. How long
1 had been creeping onwards; bump
ing now my head and now an arm,
stumbling, sprawling and saying
things, Know not; but my back ached
frightfully, and 1 appreciated more
than ever before the comforts Of being
4 short man.
1t seemed we had walked for ages.
Eve will take a photograph here"
said, which brought the party to a
halt. A blue, binding glare went up,
illumining the space around with such
q light as it had never seen before
and showing up plainly the trio OF
clampignonnstes crouched down rs
they worked, and soaring a million
flies and spiders and goodness alone
knows what other insects and vermin
The light died down and went ont
and again the lamps sprang into ETC
and she'd their flickering, welcome
CLEANS around.
After securing some pictures we
gladly sought the upper world again
1 had no ambition to explore the caves
in their entirety, but only to get my
cramped spine once more into its nor
nal position, to sit down and gather
mushroom knowledge from the lips OF
the grower himself Fifty years be
fore. he told me, these caves had beef
open to the broad light of day. They
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01
Ants In Kansas.

A plague of ants has appeare
the northern central counties of
sas, and the insects are destrt
the alfafa and wheat crops. All
tation within a radius of several
of their hills is killed. The ant
a larger variety than has ever
seen in the state before. They
t.ply very rapidly, and the farmer
using every means to EXTERN
them. The insects have invaded
cities and towns and are making
miserable for the inhabitants.
are very vicious and do not he:
to attack either person or anime
terfering with them.-Topeka g
spondence Chicago Record-Herald
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

taken over ps the cultivatGr Of nEsh
rooms. This is the history Of most OF
the caves which are now used for this
purpose, not only in the neighborhooo
Of the capital, but throughout France.
But nil are not Of the genre haze
lust described. The famous caves "i
lssy=les- -AIohlineauX, owned BY clianl
pisnonnisth SAuvageot, are III decided
contrast to those previously visited; IS
large as the others were small-thirty
feet in height at least. And there was
no ladder to descend; one walked
straight into the tunnel from the day
light. for. it pierced hill, chalk hill
whence had beon quarried thousands
of tons of chalk Of the quality that
makes acquaintance with the tips of
billiard cres. The main tunnel, cutting
clean into the hill for distance OF
rot less than $50 Fsrds, would have
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

tanning the required size are collected
for market. Unless, however, metre
yields four kilos of mushrooms at the
least the proprietor Of the cave has
little occasion to be cheerful, for its
creation and care account for an out
lay of three francs, while the harvest
only fetches q franc per kilo.
Winter is the best season for the
champignOnniste. Then, NJ. Sauvageot
told Inc, he sends to market no fewer
than ore hundred baskets 4 day. which
means 100 kilos. while during the
other seasons OF the year forty baskets
OF 40 kilos is the daily output. In the
production Of this perennial harvest
thousands of workmen find employ
mcnt round Paris alone-men who pass
their days in damp and darkness, with
ONLY spiders and flies to keep them
company, and yet seem to experience
no evil effects as the result OF
their strange surroundings.-The Wide
World Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01
O.d-Timc Games.

Many of tie games which diverted
our forefathers have fallen not only in
to desuetude, but into state OF obllv-
ion. People have vague ideas about
bull-baiting and cock-fghting, but
they know little Of the many other
sports which entertained their ances-
tors. and which by reason of their in
humanity arc not now countenancsd
by sportsmen.
A writer in "Bainley's Magazine" re-
wives the memory of some Of these
games. He quotes an advertisement
which appeared in 1852, announcing
that, "at tie kings bear garden at
o'clock in the afternoon, will be a horse
baited to death of most vast strength
and bigness, being between is and l9
hands high" Then We are told OF
"goose riding" sport in which
live goose was tied by the feet to
high rope stretched across the court,
where men rode at gallop striving
to pull or the head of the goose as
they raced underneath it.
Pig hunting consisted N turning
loose a pig with tail cut short and
well soaped and then giving chase,
the winner being that man who could
lay firm hold of the difficult tail ard
keep the pig prisoner. Cock throwing
was a game where the unfortunate
rooster, tethered by one leg to The
ground, was made the target Tor
broomsticks thrown from distance or
twenty-five yards. The article gives
other instances, and it should be read
by humanitarians as pleasant testi-
mony to the steady civilization of our
popular English pastimes.-LondoD
Globe,
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and reached the bottom the photog-
rapher followed him. Wien the prim-
tive. ladder oscillated no longer he
meath his weight I went slowly and
silently down. landing safely in about
three inches of mud.
1t had been 12O degrees in the sun
above, for the day was particularly
fine. Down here It was cold, damp,
dark and uninviting; so cold that l
sllivered in my shirt-sleevcs, fol l had
left my coat above. Our guide shout
ed, and his voice, being in keeping
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

IA.
u n lit the ground floor iccllars,
NV sewers and electric tubes al
Nh ways eXcepted( and ends, at
the top story, but in Paris, while bust
ness is being proftably conducted III
the bright sunshine Of the loftlest
etage, it is also being rs profitaDly
pursued in the darkness Of the depths
below, far beneath even the sewers
aud the famous Metropolitan Railway
Of which the Parisians are so proud
Fer Paris is honeycombed with sub
terranean vaults and passages. 1t is
literally built upon columns and walls
and If one fine morning the world
a#oke to learn TINT tile bottom had
fallen Out Of the Gay Capital and it
had crumpled up like house of cards
itMould be no surprising thing to those
familiar with the underground world
ofsParis. 1t would seem as though
the former inhabitants had devoted
theif efforts to hewing ont place
wherein they might seek refuge in
case sof dire necessity, for, though few
ate aware of the fact, the entire popu-
Iafion Of Paris could hide itself be-
meath the city.
!, 10 build the city we know so well
otday: past generations delved and
dug beneath it for the coveted stone.
What then were quarries have now be-
come caves, portions Of which have
been converted into !eatacomhs and
contain the bones of the dead; willie
others are used for the very mtthdane
purpose of growing mushrooms-those
sweet, tasty little champignons with
oft which no ragout is complete and
which one never falls to find on a
FEench menu. The mushroom is a
csnestible particularly favored by the
French. Wagon-loads from near and
far find their way into the central
markets of the city every day in the
year, and the annual consumption by
the Parisians Of this vegetable repre-
sents a value of over a quarter of n
million sterling. Both beneath the
city itself and outside it these strange
mushroom extend for miles in
all directions; and in them hundreds
ofsmer, who often never see daylight
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01
Formosa Cuts the riG,ni'.

The people of Formcsa are begin
ming to cut their hair. That sounds
like an idle announcement. but ii
means a great deal. 1t Eeans fna!
abandonment of the life of an outlaw.
From many districts news OF the re-
moval of the pigtail is that the change
has been brought about by tho eNte:-
sive operations undertaken against the
rebels. The people Of Formosa have
been wearing the pigtail for 500 years.
Japan Mail,
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climbing variety that grows on
poles and which, like the Frenchmans
strawberries. bears continually until
killed by frost.
The struggle for supremacy in the
various lines continued, and slowly,
like the tortoise, the humble onion
pressed forward for recognition. Spain
produced large onion that was fine
grained, of mild flavor, aid almost
white. The native onion growers
thought il was fine and that they could
turn out something just as good, II
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01
Park Attractions.

The Superintendent-Now, children,
why do we love to go to the beautiful
marks? What do we find there that Is
always fresher and purer than it is in
the city?
Truthful Tommy, with cheerful
promptness)-Popcorn, sir!-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

were the scene of great activity, re-
sounding continually with the eXplo-
sions of gunpowder, for there men
were quarryiug the stone that helped
tG build Paris. Later OH they had been
abandoned and covered in. to be tinally
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

us we had reached our destination.
And We had been following the line
of one of tue underground passages
all the tirne Opening Il gate, the
farmer revealed q shaft. After our
5,lide had disappeared over the ledge
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01
N-isay Cure.

Tie Territorial Board of Health of
Hawaii is to begin Il series of expert
ments to determine the value Of N-ray'
IN the treatment of l2prosy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

Should the Pope live till 1903 he will
celebrate his diamond jubilee as a
Bishop, his golden jubilee rs a Car
diual and his silver jubilee as Pope.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

The butterfly invariable goes to
sleep head-downward on a stem OF
grass, with its wings tightly folded.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

If all the land planted in corn in the
United States this year were massed,
the area would exceed the British
Isles, Holland and Belgium combined,
or four-ffths of the area of France or
Germany.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01

The authorities Of Lisbon recently
took strange step to relieve the Port
uguese capital of loafers and beggars.
These children of leisure were gath
cred together, dumped into steamer
and deported to the Portuguese COL
onies in Africa.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-01
QUAINT Ako CURIOUS.

The village church at Upleatham,
North Yorkshire, is claimed to be the
smallest in England. The church
dates back to 900 years. Some of the
tombstones in the graveyard are dated
1850.