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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-17
TOTAL OF SLOCUM VICTIMS
PROBABLY WILL EXCEED 700

morbidly curious persons who lined the
adjacent streets.
Despite the many curious ones the
crowd was a reverent one. OFTEN. as
the groups standing on Twenty-sixth
Street stood and talked in low tones of
the catastrophe. from the interior OF
the pier shed would come despairing
cry which told that some one else In
the silent row of bodies had been iden-
titled.
This evening the body of girl OF
eight years which was declared by
lneighbors to be that of the little daugh-
ter of Henry Heinz. of Front Street
was washed up aginst the side of a
pier at the foot of Clinton Street in the
East River. hardly a block from the
girls home. The tide by a strange
vagary had carried the little body from
the scene of the calamity of North
Brothers Island down through the mar
row channels of the river to this point.
so near her home. The girls mother
Mrs. Annie Heinz, is among the dead
Information was received at the Dis
trict Attorneys Office this afternoon
that Engineer Conkling who said to
have persisted in the disaster was alive
and in hiding.
County detectives under the direction
of Assistant District Attorney Garvan
are now looking for him.
When the tide turned and began. to
fall about. sac O'Clock this afternoon
the current slackened so that additions
could be made safely to the wreckinF
party. Sixteen boats were about the
sunken steamer at this time and the re-
suit was that in less than half an
hour twelve more bodies were reco--
cred off the beach and one from the
wreck itself.
At the last low tide tonight twenty
FIVE bodies were recovered near the
wreck of the Sfocum, Ono Of these
bodies was that of woman about 40
years odd. Around her neck was what
looked like a life preserver covering.
Coroner OGorman says that he found a
quantity of puIverized cork inside the
woman.s waist. He thinks she tried
to save her life by donning the preserv-
er and that II went to pieces. When
Coroner O'Gorman discovered the cork
he said:
II may use this in fixing the blame
for the death of this woman when her
body is identified. She had been cool
enough to put on the life preserver
and had 1t been in good condition she
might have had chance for life"
Harrison to Mcclellan.
Chicago, June 16.--The following tel
egram was sent to-day by Mayor Har-
rison to Mayor Mcclellan:
Hon. George B. Mcclellan, Mayor, New
York city:
Chicago sends to New York her
heartfelt and keenest sympathy on ac-
count of the terrible calamity which
| has Just occurred. Her own recent ca
| tastrophe makes us mournfully appre-
ciative of the sorrow into which your
city has been plunged. Please COM
mand US IL we may be of any assistance
/ whatever. Sincerely yours.
Carter III. Harrison,
Mayor OF Ct&csseS
The leader., 1904-12-03
CLOCK TO RUN 1000 YEARS
British Inventor Constructs UNIQUE
Timepiece with Radium as
Its Native Power.

Richard Strut, son of Lord Rayleigh,
of England, has made a radium clock.
which will go for 1000 years without
winding.
In this clocka small piece Of gold leaf
is electrified by means of a very small
quantity of radium salt. 1t bends away
from the metal substance and keeps on
moving under this influence until it
touches the side of the vessel. At the mo-
ment of contact it loses it's electrical
charge, upon which it springs back and
is electrified again. The repetition of
this process over and over again is the
whole secret, and Sir William Ramsey
considers it might be expected to con-
tinue, barring accidents, for couple of
thousand years.
Asked If such an instrument could be
made reliable timekeeper-one by
which a business man could keep his APP
pointments-Sir William answered:
Eyes, so far as the principle is con-
cerned. Youhave the energy, and, unless
the thing stuck at some time or other, it
would go on and on, and could be regu-
lated to move the hands of clock face
to a mechanical nicely.
Sir William did not think such clock
would be very expensive luxury. 1t
ought to be possible to make one for
about 1000, he thought
The leader., 1904-12-03
PACKING BY MACHINERY.
Elaborate Mechanism Which Makes
It's Own Package and Weighs
and Wraps the Goods.

An ingenious packing appliance has
been invented by Mr. Van Allen, of
Paris. By means of this apparatus,
which is almost human in it's action,
it is possible to fashion the package,
charge it, and then seal it ready for
transit The appliance is combination
of a weighing machine and a packer.
First the machine cuts off the requisite
length of lead, paper, or whatever is
utilized for the envelope, from a con.
tinuous travelling band, pastes and folds
it into shape, leaving the mouth of the
bag open. The package then passes
along, stopping in its passage for a
moment to receive its contents of tea,
sugar, or cereals, through funnel. 1t
makes another forward movement, and
an elastic pressure piston comes into
action and rams down the contents to
the minimum volume. By further
series of operations the bag is shaken
into shape. pressed, and the ends are
folded down, pasted and then labeled.
Not once during the operation is the
bag or its contents touched by hands.
The inventor has been engaged for
three years upon his device. When per-
fected it will perform the work of 10
people and complete the whole cycle
of operations at the speed of 40 pack
ages per minute, thus effecting a re-
markable saving in time and expense.
The leader., 1904-12-03
BLACK HAND OUT FOR CASH
Secret Italian Order Seeks Only Money
While "Mafla' Exists for
Plain Revenge.

An Italian thus described the secret
society known as the BLACK Hand
which has come into such prominence
of late. ut should not" he said, "be
confused with the malta for that ex-
lists for purposes of revenge only. The
Black Hand seeks only money, and
sticks at nothing to obtain it. To be-
come member of the fraternity
candidate must be recommended by
some one already initiated. The new
recruit is required to furnish list of
his wealthier friends or acquaintance,
who are eventually blackmailed
through the fundamentally of the
new member. who may even be
ordered to assassinate anyone who re-
sists the attempt. II he disobeys the
order he may himself be murdered by
another member of the society The
leader of the gang resides in Italy, and
from there directs his subordinates in
all parts of the world" The "BIack
Hand" is very powerful in the United
States, where 1t is said to net over
500, 600 year from Its victims.
The leader., 1904-12-03
QUEER ELECTRIC BOAT.
Cuts Its Own Canal Ahead and Fills
In Behind Itself in It's Search
for Gold.

Were that interesting and miscalcu-
lating gentleman, Robinson Crusoe, to
find himself upon one of the sand slopes
Of the Pacific coast, he would think that
his toilsome building of a boat so far
from water as to be unavailable when
finished was being repeated on large
scale. A pit 100 feet long by 40 feet
wide and IL or Is feet deep has been
dug, and in this, often miles away from
any open water, is built-a large, fat
bottomed barge, scanned and caulked
and made properly seaworthy.
On the barge are erected derricks, and
much strange machinery driven by
powerful electric motors. BY the TINA
all is installed, water has percolated into
the pit, and the boat, built under such
queer conditions, is afioat.
This is the gold dredge. The sand
with which it is surrounded contains
gold in quantities which would not pay
to work out, except by such a scientific
apparatus as this.
When operations begin the sand and
soil in front of the boat are dredged up,
dumped into sideways on board,
washed, sifted and treated so as to Sc
cure valuable particles, and the debris
(tailings) is then deposited over the
stern.
The work goes on continually, the
unwieldly boat gradually eating it's way
through the marshy slopes, filling in the
canal behind, as it works along foot by
foot, andQ never having floating room
more than few feet beyond it's own
length.
The electric current is generated in a
separate power house on land short
distance away, and conveyed to the mo-
tors on board by the usual conducting
wires.
The leader., 1904-12-03
women as Farmers.

Hard as is the work of a farm, it is
yet an enterprise in which many wom-
en- have made, and are making
marked success. Women are adopts at
close calculation and reliable figuring,
and their plans will come more nearly
to II alization when they have under
taken a work, than will those of men
upon whom. the care and duty of
f1nanciering depends. Nicely and ac-
curacy of detail are feminine charac-
teristics, and in no place does such
nicely of calculation play part Of
more Importance than in farming it
self, and as applied to all the depart
ents of farm, or agricultural under
takings. Ncmen can farm, do farm,
and are to be noted as successful
farmers. One woman we know who,
after the death of her husband, man
aged a large farm and made it bring
even greater returns that he had done.
She has grown to become one Of the
shrewdest of calculators and managers,
and her bank account has been ma
terially added 10 in the past few years.
And what other women have done,
still more of them can do.-Eiptomist.
The leader., 1904-12-03
SCRAP LEATHER TIES.
The Latest Substitute for Wood in the
Manufacture of Supports for
Railroad Tracks.

Scrap leather is the latest substitute
for wood in the manufacture of railroad
ties. This process has been worked out
by F. w. DuAnell, of West Warren,
Mass, who has had occasion to give the
subject of paper making some study. and
the leather railroad tie is the result.
He claims that the tie can be made
so hard that it will resist spike, if this
were desirable; but when the tie is made
at proper density for railroad pur-
poses, it will take the spike as nicely
as wood, and will hold 1t much better.
The tie is said to resist the action Of
water and chemicals to great extent.
and the inventor estimates its life at
IS years.
Samples Of this tie put down some
% months ago In the yard on the Boston
& Albany railroad at West Springfield
have not shown the least wear, although
they have been subjected to the hardest
usage. The material from which these
ties are made represents the waste Of
the shoe and leather goods factories, Of
which there are many Ia New England
The leader., 1904-12-03
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CHINESE TREE IN FLORIDA.
Rice Paper Plant Is Said to Be Well
Adapted to the Climate of
the South.

The rice paper tree, one OF the most
interesting of the entire fora of China,
has recently been successfully expert
mented with in Florida, where it now
fiourishes with other subtropical and
Oriental species of trees and shrubs.
When first transplanted in American
soil the experimenters expressed doubts
OF its hardness, fearing that it would
be unable to stand ~the winters. All
these fears have vanished, however, and
1t is now the universal opinion that it
is as well adapted to the climate of this
country as to that of the famed Flowery
Kingdom.
1t is a small tree, growing to height
of less than Is feet, and with trunk or
stem from three to five inches in diam
eter. Its canes, which vary in color &C
cording to season, are large, soft and
downy, the form somewhat resembling
that noticed in those of the castor bean
plant. The celebrated rice paper, the
product of this queer tree, is formed of
thin slices of the pith, which is taken
from the body of the tree in beautiful
cylinders several inches in length.
The Chinese workmen apply the blade
of a sharp straight knife to these cylin-
ders, and, turning them around, either
by rude machinery or by hand, dexteri-
Ously pare the pith from circumference
to center. This operation makes roll
Of extra quality paper, the scroll being
OF equal thickness throughout. After
cylinder has thus been pared 1t is I'M
rolled and weights are places upon it
until the surface is rendered smooth
throughout it's entire length. 1t is alto
gether probable that if rice paper max
ing becomes an industry in the United
States those primitive modes will all be
done away within. W. Herald.
The leader., 1904-12-03
savs the Nut-Bearing Trees.

Nut-bearing trees are too generally
neglected on the general farm. That
they are sources of profit and salts
faction, few will deny. By planting
along roads, fences and on waste
ground, walnut and hickory trees cost
nothing, furnish shade for stock, add
to the attractiveness4a and value Of any
farm, and supply the family with nuts.
A start is easily secured. Bury, before
the ground freezes, the seed nuts, SO
that in spring they will be ready for
planting in Athe nursery. In three or
four years they will be ready for set
ting, and in six to eight will begin to
bear. These nut trees grow on great
variety Of soils. From the latitude of
central Illinois, south, pecan trees can
be grown. In Georgia, Florida, Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Texas, profitable COM
mercial pecan orchards are common.
In California the English walnut is o
great money maker, even on the high
priced irrigated land of that state.
Consider the nut growing problem
carefully, and begin this fall by bury
ing peck or two of walnuts, hickory
nuts and pecans.-Orange Judd Farm
The leader., 1904-12-03
OFFICIAL CUP OF COFFEE.
Proper Method Of Brewing the Bev-
erage to Be Determined In
Washington.

BY direction Of the secretary Of agri.
culture the bureau Of plant industry Is to
take up at once experiments to deter
mine the best manner in which to brew q
cup OF coffee. To this end, says q Wash.
lngton report, +. L. Lewton, specially
trained expert, has been engaged. The
view Of the department is that a cup Of
coffee is good because Of the manner in
which it is brewed, rather than from the
quality of the bean from which the bey.
erage is made. 1t will be appreciated by
all persons acquainted with the art and
mystery of coffee-making that various con-
dltlons, apparently trivial in themselves,
have to be taken into consideration In
producing the beverage.
For instance, in the process Of roasting
the beans may be more or less damaged
by being under or over done, and the
flavor of the coffee thus impaired to
corresponding degree. Hence the necessity
Tor ideal conditions in roasting. Again, the
effects Of water at various temperatures
upon the ground coffee and the proper
period for infusion will, for the first
time in the history of coffee-making, be
thoroughly and accurately ascertaihed.
The retention of caffeine, the active
principle of coffee, to which it owes its
stimulating effects, and the elimination of
the cafeotannic and caffeic acids, which
are not only injurious to health, but COM
municate an unpleasant, bitter taste to
the beverage, will be, Of course, the prin-
cipal objects.
The leader., 1904-12-03
SWINE coRREcT1vEs.
Swine Stockmen Should Seek to
Supply the Natural Cravings of
Their Hogs I'm Winter.

During the winter, when the pigs
are more or less confined and have no
green or succulent feed, as they do not
in a large majority of cases, they de-
velop craving for something not
contained in their ration of grain. w.
A. Henry, referring to this tendency
in his book on Feeds and Feeding"
says:
Every stockman who has kept pigs
in confinement has observed their
strange craving for seemingly unnat-
ural substances-sand, rock, soft brick,
mortar, rotten wood, charcoal, soft
coal, ashes, soapsuds and many other
articles being greedily deyoured when
offered. Such objects lie outside the
range of nutritive substances, and
we are puzzled to know why they
should be so eagerly consumed. In the
wild state the hog ranges through the
woods and open tracts, living upon
small animals, larvae and vegetation
generally This material is of such
character, and is gathered in such
mannef, that some of the soil is swal-
lowed with it. With rings in its nose
to prevent roofing while in the pas
ture, confined on board floors during
the fattening period and given feeds
containing little ash, the pigs life is
passed under unnatural conditions.
Another cause for this craving may
be the Intestinal worms, which are
checked or destroyed by some of the
substances consumed Unsatisfactory
or incomplete as such explanations
may be, the fact remains that the
pig seeks out these unnatural sub
stances and greedily consumes them.
The feeder would best supply what
the pig Graves In this direction, and
search for the explanation later IL he
wishes.
Ashes, either from wood or coal, will
always be in place in the feeding pen
and always in the feed lot. 1t Is sur
prising how much of these will be
consumed by bunch Of pigs. Feeding
trials show that pigs when confined to
an exclusive corn diet. are greatly BEN
Gifted by ashes, this substance caus-
ing the feed to be more effective and
adding to the strength Of the bones
the latter result probably being due
to the lime IN the ashes. Bone meal
is another substance useful for
Strengthening the bones OF. pigs. BY
saving the droppings, substantially all
the value Of this high-grade fertilizer
may be secured for field and garden
after it has served It's purpose with
the pigs. Farmers Home Journal.
The leader., 1904-12-03

is digestible, and much Of the materi.
ais will be found In the manure heap.
It may be claimed that the farmer uses
as much ''shoddy' materials as the
manufacturer, If the matter may be
considered from cartain standpoint,
for the reason that they are used over
and ovef again, going through various
processes and serving many purposes.
There is. IN addition to the feeding
value Of materials, also manural
value, and frequently the manuaral
value is greater than the purchase
price Of the article, a fact which
should be considered by all farmers
when purchasing bran, shipstuff, gluten
meal, linseed meal or cottonseed meal.
Every purchaser Of any of these sub
stances should be made with a view
of feeding both the land and the
stock, and the value apportioned and
estimated according to the results ex-
pected from both sources of profit. A
hundred pounds Of food given an AMI
NAL increases its weight to a certain
point, but as only a portion is digesti-
BILE, the food finds its way to the ma
nure head. where it is used over again
to produce more food, like the "shod-
dy" of the factory, with the difference
that In the manure heap it undergoes
chemical processes, which at it better
for the purposes of the farmer
Joshua Humble, in Epitomist
The leader., 1904-12-03
Air Fertility.

If we consider the inconceivable
amount and variety Of impurities which
are constantly arising from the surface
Of the earth in the form of gases,
created by the decomposition of animal
and vegetable matters, we can easily
understand that the air must be heavi-
ly charged with them. They would in
deed very soon suffice for the destruc-
ton Of all animal life, but for the pro-
vision for their withdrawal from the
atmosphere and restoration to the soil
by the falling rain. The air is pure
and sweet after shower, because the
rain has absorbed and carried of the
offensive matter with which it is
charged, end the rain water is nause-
Gus and unfit for animal consumption
because It contains these impurities.
But if filtered through the soil it
energies as a spring of pure water,
having deposited in the soil all the fer
tilizing ingredients it contained, just
where they were within reach of the
hungry plants which feed upon them.
1t would be hard to find in the whole
system of natures wonderful works q
more beautiful or perfect illustration
than is here afforded of the simple
and quiet manner in which tho most
important results are attained, and
the economy which forbids the loss Of
the smallest particle Of material with
which her storehouse is filled. -Epito-
Vroict
The leader., 1904-12-03
WOLVES HELD At BAY
A GREEDY PACK OF ILLS SURROUND
A OLERGYMAN'S WIFE.
Through the Arrival of Timely Aid She
Escapes from the Terrors of q
Prolonged Siege.


Escapes from the Terrors of q
Prolonged Siege.
The Rev. w A. Denton. of Girard,
Crawford county, Kansas, tells the fol.
lowing story Of narrowing experience
of one of the members of his family /:
" My wife, he says, g was assailed for
fifteen years by a combination Of all
ments following the birth of our first
child. The food she ate fermented in
her stomach, she had frequent dizzy
spells, her limbs were swollen and pain
full, her nerves were quite shattered, she
was unable to sleep and she was many
times on the verge of heart failure.
" physicians gave her only temporary
relief. Finally the favorable reports of
some relatives and neighbors led her
to make trial of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People. She expert
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They relieved her sleeplessness, the
srnothering sensations have disappeared
and have not annoyed her for years.
They freed her from stomach trouble
and the dropsical tendency was miti-
gated. The progress of the rheuma-
tisln, which had begun to make her
fingers crooked. was stayed and the pain
was banished. In every respect theY
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edy she had ever used, apd she is today
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DR.. Williams Pink Pills are our sta
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cents, and may be had Of al druggists
or direct by mail from Or. NJ lliarns Ned
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sure you get the genuine substitute
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The leader., 1904-12-03
SCIENTIFIC sTRAYs.

Although iron pyrites and copper
pyrites are difficult to distinguish I'M
derground by candle light, they are
separated usually by the use of the
bluish-white fame of magnesium wire
or the acetylene light.
A square foot of uncovered pipe,
filed with steam at 100 pounds pres
sure, will radiate and dissipate In
year the heat put into 1916 pounds
of steam by the economic combustion
of 1913 pounds of coal. Thus, ten
square feet Of bare pipe corresponds
approximately to the waste of two
tons of coal per annum.
Oxygenated water at IL volumes is
pronounced by M. A. Renard the best
preservative Of milk Added directly
after milking, in the proportion of two
to three per cent, it decomposes in six
OF eight hours into water and oxygen,
leaving no foreign substance as do
borax or salicylic acid, and effectings
no change like boiling or freezing.
The antiseptic action persists long
enough to prevent alteration.
The new carbon-molybdenum CON-
pound of Henri Moissan is obtained by
heating melted molybdenum and alu-
minum in the electric furnace. The
metallic product is treated With con-
centrated solution of potash, when
needle crystals of the new compound
are obtained. The substance is very
hard, scarcely attacked by acids, I'M
affected by water or steam below 800
degrees, and promises to be of value
for molybdenum steels.
- The physiological effects of electric
currents have been investigated by
Prof. Nernst at Bonn. The safety of
the human body when exposed to a
powerful high-frequency electric cur
rent has been explained as due to the
passage of the current over the sur
face of the body only, but Prof Nernst
finds the reason of the currents harm
lessness to be probably that it does
not have time to effect change in the
cellular tissue before the reversal of
the current takes place. Experiments
on frogs have confirmed the new the
DRY.
Humility is never seen in the mirror.
Chicago Tribune.