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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-26

tropical countries produce enough to feed
hundred times their population.
Take Jamaica. for instance. She exports
large quantities Of bananas, oranges and
pineapples to the United States, but mil
lions Of those fruits are left to rot on the
ground
A walk through miles Of plantations
shows thousands Of trees weighed down by
luscious fruits which have not been picked,
because the market price at the moment
did not pay for the cost Of export. Those
fruits are nil left to rot
The worlds mango crop is the greatest
waste of all. The mango lis one Of the finest
fruits in the world and perhaps the most
nonrishing 1t grows in bewildering pro-
fusion in most parts Of the tropics.
The negroes eat nothing else in the mango
season. They sit under mango tree
and gorge themselves oil day long. An
average tree bears over 5000 mangoes.
each AZ big as large orange. and there
are hundreds Of thousands Of mango trees
in Jamaica alone. The natives. with all
their appetite, cannot eat per cent Of
the crop. which may be estimated at TO-
600 900, OOO mangoes year
Unfortunately the fruit cannot be ex-
ported. II will not stand sea voyage unless
it is treated with greater care than il profit
able to give. Thus it ia that many tropical
countries are covered at certain seasons
Of the year by rotting mangoes,
An American travelling in the West
Indies once rode along a mountain path
k,l vail law Foil
mangoes. In some places they were a
foot deep.
There lie great waste at sea, where it is
generally supposed that food in regarded
at its proper value. On the big passenger
liners the stewards throw overheard every
day almost as much food as the cabin pas
sengers eat-sometimes more.
On voyage on West Indian steamer
| a New Yorker saw nearly two million ba =
nanas and oranges thrown overheard be-
cause they were ripening too fast All day
long the sailors hove the golden lunches
Of fruit 10 the waves. yellow streak
Of wasted food stretched az far as the eye
could reach in the wake Of the vessel
There is enormous waste Of food in the
great cattle and sheep-rearing countries,
especially in New Zealand. Australia, Ar
! geatina, Colombia and Venezuela Hun
| dreds Of thousands Of sheep and cattle
| are slain merely for their hides, horns
and hoofs, the expectation of tho meat
being Improbable.
A man who worked on a sheep run in
New South Wales declared that he once
saw the carcasses Of over six thousand
sheep on one farm, They had been slain
for their wool alone. and none of the meat
was used.
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PTtKLED RATVRD TIES.
Process That Makes Them Last Twice
a. Long as Formerly.

LINCOLN. Neb. July % The rapid do
crease in the supply Of timber and the con-
seQuent rise in price have forced Western
railroad companies to seek Some method
Of pro longing The life Of the wooden ties,
Years ago tie cost only fcw cents Now
adayS i cannot be bought for less than
10 cents,
The Burlington officials think they have
solved the problem by picking the ties,
and so confident are they hat it is a paying
proposition that large amour of money
has been expended in establishing pickl-
ing plants al various points.
As the blood Of the body il removed in
embalming and replaced by q prcserril x
fluid 40 the sap Of the wood is ext acted from
tho ties and replaced with n solution Of
zinc chloride. Not only is the sap TAX, n
out but the solution permeates the cells
OF the fibre and upon drying deposits tho
mineral 40 evenly thai they are protected
against the action of the outside mOistur"
10 such an extent that the life of Mo tie
il more than doubled
Fifty thousand lies a month are picked
in the main plant, Mt Sheridan, Wyo, The
saving is considerable. Ia pickle n tie
costs from toto u cents, but whereas Oregon
fir, the lumber now generally used. rcts in
four wears. the treated ties last from eight
TO twelve years.
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people have swarmcd up the steps.
fifth avenue, Borough Park, Bath Beach
and Coney Island" calls out the starter
in his same distinct, inexpensive fashion.
Again the rush begins. The crowd
starts headlong to get seats. Some Of
the people are sen, back by the conductor,
whom they question others take their
seats before they discover they are on the
wrong train, and some are actually in the
right car.
Through the crowd about the announcer
asking him questions 40 rapidly that Union
Street" "Fatbush." Kings Highway"
"Aven,le 3" and Prospect Park" hang in
the air like mosquitoes group plsh". its
way. Two patriarchal men with long
boards lead 1t. and behind them follow
woman in hot black dress. with her brow
covered with a false front: dark haired
age: n man few years older than she. olive
skinned and black eyed and four children,
nil under H. Every person in the party
carries some kind OF a bundle.
Forcing their way through the crowd,
the two men are within speaking distance
of the announcer. ,.
asked the younger OF the two.
The announcer had yelled only a few
minutes before that il was the train. But
thew hsd stared at him dumbly until
second before the time for the train 10
start. Then they had put the question to
When they heard the polite yes" panic
seized the party. The heed shouted some
thing in an incomprehensible tongue 10
the others, and they turned to catch the
train. They butted and elbowed, pushed
and wrggled themselves through the
congested group on thu. platform.
nv this heroic struggle most OF them ar
rived at the edge OF the platform in time to
get on the car But when the gate was slam,
med shut, one of the children who had
got separated from the rest OF the family
stood on the platform and lifted UP his voice
in lamentation.
From the disappearing car came slgnals
~ distresr and there were cries OF advice,
"Jkev ESeyl' shouted one Of the party
s,,nSing on The -~ar of the car, whittier
he had hurried in his exc tement, we VAT
- ve Wait in Bro-o-o-O-kyn.'
B,t key had no ticket, although he did
bsvn the lunch basket When the next
Convey Island train started out however,
he was on board, thanks 10 the polite an
nounoer who had explained the SAD CIR
c,Instanccs under which lkey had lost MS
family, ,;zl .,,,.L
hust los and mis,nderstandS, asks questions
and makes mistakes from 10 IN IN" morn
mo until late in the evening Through II
ait 40 long as his hours last, the polite
imperu.rbabity OF the announcer ~ nor
disturbed He calls out the dest inations OF
,hs trains and he answers Questions with
me same csr-otf care and distinctness.
Not all Of the travellers by the Bridge
are so ignorant Of what they are looking
FOR. The racetrack people, Tor instance
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-26
PRAYED FOR 4 TEAM AND GOT IT.
Latest Answer TO Prayer Received l., an
Indiana Mission.

INDIANAPOLIS. July % The Rev Samuel
SNYDER, superintendent of the Faith Rescue
Mission at Muncie has just received an
answer 20 prayer which convnces him
more firmly than ever that higher power
than his own is directing the Iabors OF the
mission
The purpose of the mission is to rescue
Young men and young women from evil
associations, and il has been supported
en rely by gifts received in response to
PRAYER Thus few evenings ago the
united prayers o. The workers were invoked
for washing machine. and the next day
ono was sent to the MISSION by kindly
disposed person who had learned through
a friend that the laundry needed one. II
was then determined to pray for sewing
machine and this came after a couple of
days.
During the warm weather last week.
when some Of the inmates of the home
whose health had been wrecked by diss-
patton were suffering from the sweltering
heat, il was suggested that n drive late in
effort was made in praying for horse and
carriage.
Mr Snyder prayed frrvently for two
nights without result and then 81 IN" Of the
workers. who had always received prompt
answer to similar petitions, began I" he dis
was confident that the lord had heard the
petitions but IN" third nsht Of prayer
came and wont without The expected
arrival Of III" team.
The next morning. Will" the inmates
were gathered around the little altar, a
farmer knocked al he do0r and when il was
opened said:
81 was going down 20 M"ucie and ne
my nc,EhhoiS n +ked mo If wouldn't leave
that rig here Where do you want IT,
Mr. Snyd'r walked down 10 ;hr gat''
with the farmer and there he found
handsome bay horS" attached 10 S'T!.-
which was nearly rew, Inquiry Developed
the fact that II had heen sent 90 the home
by a woman nj Upland, Grant county, who
had heard of the work Of the mission. hut
knew nothing of & prayers for the horse
and carriage
The horse was immediately named
Faith, and the rig has proved means ~
pleasure to the inmates ever aimee"
Everything we get, everything We owl,
comes by faith" said Mr. Snyder 'o-aay,
land we ask nothing from any one rErept
God We rely wholly upon His pro misses
and we have never asked III vain.
-Wc are getting the home nicely t.r-
nshed and have many COnNonleNcCs Tri our
work and all IF them have "omr from God,
When We wanted a washing maCGiNc We
asked God for il and go, il Wien We Han'"d
n sewing machin" We Appealed 10 Him and
He sent il and when We "an'ed h"'k" and
carriage He gave il ~ US
when our provisions heGin to rtu ,rw
we 40 tc (Gd and ask Him a. roplensh rNem
and He has never failed 10 answer our
prayers. #,.
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4 GREAT HONEY lEtR.


That il has been an unusual, and TO IN"
farme", an unprotitabia season, no one will
deny. On Long Island esp' cially ali work
done in he spring was virtually money
thrown away and farmers are, even now,
busy repantir and in some cases repough-
ing Tor what should have been early crops.
But the drought has it's comprnsations,
One Of them il found in the fact that tho
honey dew is here an unfaing sign OF a
prosperous honey year.
Among the hills Of Long Island the maple
trees gi-t"n with ii and about Hampstead.
the chestnut leaves have been sticky wit tn
its sweetness il can be- seen when not
excessively heavy glittering upon the
surface of leaves like freshly sprinked water
but, unlike water, ii is slightly sticky
TO the touch and to the tongue its taste is
delicatelv sweet
An old farmer will tell you that ii falls
at night like ordinary dew. Science, how
ever. de Scribes il AZ a sweet liquid srcrrted
by certain small homopterous insects
such rs plant lice, bark lice mealy wings
and some leaf hoppers, which congregate
on the leaves and banks Of various plants and
trees. notably pines, oaks and beeches,
and suck their juice"
This sweet liquid il "oflen taken Up
by III" bees "a 1t falls on Tho surrounding
vegetation.' II is usually of m inferio
quality, though that from pine tree aphides
is some; imes fairly good Most Of il granu-
lates very soon after having been gathered,
sometimes even before the CELL, have been
sealed"
Also known as hpncydew is "A sweet
emulation which under peculiar conditions
of the atmosphere drops from the leaves
of certain plants to be eagerly taken up
by the bees This substance is some
times very abundant and of excellent
quality apparently an accidental exuda-
ton through the plant pores, brought
about, very likely by some sudden change Of
temperature and is merely the saccharine
juices of the plant which. when refined, may
become excellent honey"
The bees his year have made an UNI
usual growth. The boughs of all trees
bend and sway as If laden with heavy fruit
and lift their crests like mass OF soft,
mpenetrable plumes. For this reason the
sweet juices Of the trees may be excessive.
doubIy sweetened by those golden days
Of the long spring drought for the longer
the drorghr the thicker the hon"ydew.
Now each rain which washes away tho
honeydew is the honey bees loss and the
farmers gain.
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THE STRUGGLE TO THE SEA.
DtIIi SCENES or WOE WHERE
THE BRIDGE TRAINS START.
Traps In the way Of the tninitiatrd~-'he
trowtiug anti the Confusion Vues'
lions tor the Gmprriurbable starter
The knowing Racetrsrk GOrrs.
WILL SHE PIPE THE MOSQUITOES OUT or


lb" people who Journey to the sea by
VA Of The Brooklyn Bridge have the'T
troubles, 30 has Inc man who starts the
trains at the Manhattan end of the Bridge
The starter is there at 10 o'clock, when
iuG first train leaves 1t is decreed by
som" inscrtable rule OF Bridge admin
i,ration that the sale Of tickets shall not
h"gin until FIVE minutes before 10 by
that time the crowd numbers two or three
hundred people.
The unfortunate ticket seller is almost
overwhelmed in the effort TO sell 30 many
tickets in such a short time The crowd
hHId in check by the delay PUSHES up the
steps waving its tickets.
Train for Fiatbush. Sheepshead bay
and Manhattan Beach. calls the starter.
On hearing this announcement half the
crowd rushes pell-mell into the cars fall
Ing over one another, dragging the children
along and bookading the doors Inc
other half PUSHES mp 10 tho starter
rcd-faced woman in a white shirt
wals' arrives first She mops her red
fac" with one hand and with the other
drags along a child Two other children,
them lunch basket Iii their free hands
they carry bathing suits wrapped in news
SAY" she begins, docs this car go to
Timer Park?"
She learns that IT does not,
Then does il go to Bath Beach or Coney
l''and?" she queries, growing less and less
amiahIc
She learns also that il does not go 10
either Of those places.
-, WELL" rhe begins, shaking her head
Il never
But she is swept out of the way by the
crowd surging around her. 1t has been
increased by the misguided people elected
from the cars going to Manhattan Beach,
In the meantime the train has glidsd out
OF tho station.
why didn't you ten me that was tn"
Manhattan Beach trnin?" shrieks one woman
almost Ia frenzy. Here I've been st anding
all his time and the train gone"
Tho starter does not even look Mt me
woman, who * in turn rushed aw by
the waves that beat around her. Another
train is in now and another hundred or more
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II 10 apparently considered in Some way
fault 10 be thus protected above the aver
age, "a though the immune had some sort
OF dissraceful understanding with the
mosquito and had bribed it to leave him
alone
Folks do not care to sit next to an i'm
mnne. for they have notion that they
get double share Of mosquitoes thereby,
their own and those that rightfuly belong
to the immune If the immune in his inno-
cent pride makes little boast that mos
q,ltoes won't bite him. some one il sure to
say tauntingly
Well, I'd be ashamed to confess it! You
cant 30 half SO nice and sweet as we are
Finally, If the immune happens to he a
girl she has a very slow lime of it, indeed,
for Young men find certain pleasure in
protecting young women from mosquitoes
as they sit In dark corners Of the veranda.
So the moral appears 10 be that If you
are girl mosquito immune don't say any
thing about it, unless indeed yon want
to play heroic part in the world.
For the collector has a beautiful and
poetic idea. In his collection he has the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-26

The collector is really proud of a find
Of his own in the miscellaneous class. He
has discovered that here aud there is
person who is practically immune from
mosquitoes, an individual whom mosqui-
toes will seldom bite, never If there is
any one else near.
If they do sometimes inadvertently
thrust bill through the immune's skin,
the poison is quite Ineffective and leaves no
mark. Whether there is in such persons
an excess OF some element in the blood
which the mosquitoes dislike or whether
the immune has some scent about him
which is dsagreeable to them, the col
ector Of mosquito facts and fancies has
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-26
Those Mosquitoes!
Cd d Facts an d F a c les
Discovered This Su IN IN err.

The collector of oddities is just now doing
a biz business in mosquto facts and fancies,
which he has catalogued under several
heads as follows: Exterminators. real and
imaginary, preventives and cures for tho
bite, more or less successful; mosquito
yarns and miscellaneous items
The most not eworthy, because the newest
snecimen, of the first class is Of course the
Acomomcymis cuiicis. and vision Of this
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sisted in counting in dark corner of the
piazza, whence, owing to the mosquitoes,
all the rest had fed
This devoted pair would have been
obliged TO abandon their post at last IL he
happy expedient OF tying up heads, hands
and feet in paper bags had not occurred
TO them This state OF things had its
limitations, to be sure, but the notion was
considered decidedly clever for all that.
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are very sophisticated lot who know
just whore they are going and the quickest
way TO get there They Chamber over the
sides of the open cars, tumble in through
the windows head first, and taking their
coats of and their newspapers out seat
themselves to enjoy the ride
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musical pipe, dain'ilv threading her way
through I'll" mosquito districts till she
draws the mosquitoes all out in one long
stream behind her
As they drop stricken by the wayside
some one shovels them into piles and burns
them up. Thus would the fair piper be
come a bright and shining light in her
generation. a heroine of the first order. Or
the ground might be divided into districts
and so give a number of girls chance,
besides fastening tho happy day when
the land shall be nosquitoless.
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not vet discovered. But in these days
when mosquitoes are az one Of the plaques
OF Egypt the lot of tho mosquito immune
might seem to be one Of unmixed happi-
ness and content.
Never to he worried when two or three
mosquitoes go shriling their little song
about your bedroom. calmly to lay yourself
down to sleep in the certain knowledge
that they will turn dsgusted away from
you az the first sniff. To sit in graceful ease
while other folks are savagely slapping
their ankles and necks, to present a COM
plexion smoothly fair while others nave
red and blotchy visage all these ad-
vantages should contribute 70 perfect
ST ate Of felicity. But one Of the immunes
declares that their lot is by no means so
happy as might be supposed.
The great good fortune Of the immune
evokes bitter envy and general unchGrt-
tableness in those who are not 80 favored
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Hamelin. He gees her stepping bravely
out into the world cheerily playing little
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-12
FINE GROCERY PLOT.
Chicago Jobbers Victims OF a wild
Conspiracy

Chicago Jobbers Victims OF a wide
Conspiracy.
Chicago, Sept III. BY the arrest 81
eight men the wholesale grocers Of CHI
cago struck an initial blow at a wide.
spread conspiracy by which they have
lost thousands Of dollars worth Of mer
chandlse IN the last few weeks.
Those In custody are six teamsters.
receiving clerk and a retail grocer.
Other arrests win be made during the
day and the promise IS that fifty 81
more men, employees Of the wholesale
houses as well as retail grocers win
be involved in the charges. ACCORDING
to the confession Of one of the prison.
ers the scheme was worked in this
manner
For instance, a driver would take
sixty bags Of sugar out Of the ware.
house Then he would drive around
to some retail grocer who was IN On
the play and would deliver perhaps
fifteen Of the bags to him. That dope
he would deliver the other forty five
to the wholesale house
"Of course to make the records seem
right It would be necessary for TIE
drivers to have an understanding with
some receiving clerk in the wholesale
house. The receiving clerk would check
us for sixty sacks received In this way
the theft would not be detected until IL
was found the stock on hand was he
coming depleted"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-12
TALK OF THE TOWN.

Wanted. A boy to run elevator in the
Miles block.
Auction sale today at the city auction
rooms at and p M, Monday evening
at o'clock.
Wanted good, capable girl for kitchen
or table work, at once. Apply at 21 JEFF
ferson street.
All the Altruriaas who do not wish ia
order their magazines or books themselves.
are requested to leave their order and
money with Miss Sherburne this week.
There will be a regular meeting Of the
Ladies Of Clan Gordon Monday evening.
Sept. "a, at which large attendance Is
desired, as business Of Importance is to
come up. Mrs John Anderson.
Students are prepared for business In
the shortest possible time at the Montpel
Ter Business College, 20 State street. time
varying from three to six months. The
telegraph department an important feat
ure, good positions furnished in this de-
partment when competent.
For the benefit OF those who have been
unable to procure tickets for the sham
rock Us. Reliance yacht race In Miles hall
sept, II, the committee have placed lin
tied number Of tickets at +. O. Marrlon's
cigar, store, where those wishing to at
tend may secure them. Starting gun fred
at O'Clock, Time limit four and half
hours.
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HERE AT HOME.
're Ciiisens Gladiy Testify.

/ Barre Citiaens Gladly Testify.
u is testimony like the following
! that has placed The old Quaker REM
I eay' so far above competitors When
! people right here at home raise their
| voice in praise there is no room left
for doubt Read the public statement
| of Barrie citizen
Mrs. JOHN Bresett tJohn Bresetti
stone CUTTER, residence, Pleasant
street near FortneY, says @Doan s
Kidney Pills. sold by r. A. Drown
drug store. did me more good than all
the other remedies for the Kidneys !
ever used For the results obtained
most emphatically endorse the pre-
paration. At different times for three
on four years I suffered from acute
baekachh and when that was not pres
ent there was duh aching through
my lotns and kidneys, sometimes
changing to sharp twinges positively
proving that in some way the action
of these organs was disturbed When
an the acute stage twinges were sure
90 catch me e stopped, and If I at
tempted 70 lift anything even light I
was always rewarded with extra ag-
grayated aches. In the morning 7
have often been so lame and sore
across the small Of my back that [
could hardly get out or bed and all
though / tried remedy after remedy
advertised / received little IL any bene-
fit A friend was so emphatic about
the merits Of Doan's Kidney Pills that
I took his advice and commenced the
treatment They helped me after a
dose or two and when completed the
treatment Of two boxes. the backaehe
ceased my kidneys were thoroughly
eleansed and I was In better health
than had been for many a long day"
For sale by all druggists. Price go
cents box. Foster-AIilburn Co. Buff
alo y. T., sole agents for the United
states
Remember the name Doan's-and
take no other
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-12

II tired Of paying rent, read the ad. Of
the p A. Perry Real Estate Agency on
page
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-12

Murray City, o., Sept. ii. John
Mamet a saloon keeper was fatally
shot by Marshal X. A. surtees. ana sa.
loon Keeper G. w. Van Sickle and VIII.
liam McComb, the latter's bartender
We're wounded. Surtees was wounded
in the wrist Mamet was arrested by
the marshal on a charge Of keeping his
saloon open on Sunday. When the
men met Mamet. il is said. at once
drew his revolver and shot point blank
at Surtees. Surtees returned the fre.
hitting the saloon keeper iii the abdo.
men once in the breast. once in the hip
and once In the hand Van Sickle was
shot in the thigh and McComb IN the
hand by Mamet while they were trying
to take his revolver away from him.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-12
HAIR GOODS.

win i. u ~, y Meaker, 90 Jefferson ST. NV agent
Pieces siaa S. % furnish Hair Goods. Wigs Front
a ny from my Manchester store IhanEine
psst p sna lor their liberal patronage N the
IN tba aN y something continuance Of The zane
gouTs uris1 sa IN Iof my agent and myself, am
As- a. tsspeeE, NJ YORK
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snow il santana.

Glasgow. Sept. la heavy snow
storm has driven tile deer from the
highlands.