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The Port Gibson reveille., 1905-07-13
versus Fl. Fa.
Ellen Clenshaw.
ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON.

Euen Al6uSndW.
BY virtue of an execution direct
ed to me by the Circuit Clerk Of
Claiborne County, State of Missis-
sippi, in the above styled cause, of
date July 5th, 1905, /, G. S. Magee,
Sheriff of said County, at the front
door of the Court House of said
County, on the
9th Day Of August. 1905.
between the hours prescribed by
law for sales under execution, will
sell to the highest bidder for cash
the following described property
levied on by me as the property of
said defendant, to-wit All Of Lot
Four "a, Square Thirty (3o), in
Grand Gulf, County Of Claiborne,
State of Mississippi.
Witness my signature this 9th day
of July, A. d. 1905.
G. S. MAGEE, Sheriff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
Teaching and Text Books.


The address of Associate Superintendent
A. s. Higgins to the Brooklyn principals
last week revealed the teacher Of experience.
Mr. Higgins put his hand on several of the
weak spots of the schools as no outsider
could have done. And especially he stood
up for the despised textbook Under the
present practice the teachers write upon
the board the particular things out of the
textbooks which they wish the pupils to
learn. Then the pupil copies the text from
the board, carries 1t home and learns 1t
over night. If the boy has copied straight
he may learn the particular thing required
II he does not know what the sentences on
the board mean, however, or If he copies
them carelessly, his lesson for the next day
Is spoiled and he is thrown behind in the
douple-quick march which all school In
struction must be- Mr.. Higgins insists that
it Is part Of the business of education to
teach children where to find things in books
and how to learn them from the text If
the child does not acquire this habit in
school he viii be unable to use books after
ward and his growth In mature life will be
restricted by that lack. Mr. Higgins pro-
test against large school houses should be
read carefully in the board of education, as
well as needed by the principals. He in
sists that man cannot be an effective
principal over school of more than 1000
pupils. For a larger school he may be a
superintendent, but he cannot be a principal
because he cannot maintain personal rela-
tfons with all the children in his building
The chief thing in education is personality
and the inspiration which comes from per-
sonality. The cutlery against the feminiza-
ton of the schools is because the pupils can
not come in close personal contact with men
teachers. 1t is bad enough not to have any
men class teachers. but that evil is made
worse when the schools are SO big that
the principal is some mysterious figure In
the background instead of the personal
friend which he should become to every
child at some stage of the child's progress
through the school
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23

devoted most Of his activity, however, to
Odd Fellowship, being a member of Ma
ganenu Encampment. No. 4; Canton Wash
ington, No. /, and Naomi Rebekah Lodge,
No L. He was secretary of Harmony
Lodge, ]. o. o. F.. and scribe of Maganenu
Encampment 1. o. @. F.. for nearly forty
years, holding both positions at the time
of his death.
He first Joined the order of Odd Fellows
in Philadelphia and was admitted to men,
bershfp in this jurisdiction by deposit of
Withdrawal card. He served as a member
of the Grand Lodge, LO.O.F., for a number
of years and was elected grand master of
in 1887, he was elected grand secretary,
which position he held until 1892 when he
was elected a representative to the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge. He was continuously
reelected until 1904, when he declined an
other election and was again elected grand
secretary. which position he held until his
final Illness compelled him to give it UP at
the session of the Grand Lodge last July
Mr.. Allan had very large circle Of warm
and devoted friends
The Grand Lodge, /. o. o. F., will meet
this evening at Odd Fellows Hall in special
session. to take appropriate action on his
death. MIR. Allan leaves three daughters
married, and living in this city, and two
sons, one of whom is employed at the ship
yards in Bath, Me.
The funeral will be held Mond4y after
noon from his late residence, and the IN
terment will be at Congressional cemetery,
where the Odd Fellows will hold services
in the chapel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
The Aerial Rail Hoist.

The transference of mineral from the
mine, underground to the mill on the sur
face, in many instances for a distance of
several thousand feet is usually accom-
pushed In two distinct and separate opera
uons-hoisting and hauling
1t would seem no easy task to improve
upon the methods of hosting, as employed
In our modern. well-equipped mines, but as
much cannot be said regarding the subse-
Quent operation of horizontal transference
or tramming from mine to mill. The diff
culties attendant upon the usual methods
employed, such as hand tramming and ami
mai or mechanical haulage, are the follow
ing: Loss OF time in transferring mineral
from the hosting to the hauling apparatus;
extra labor necessary, and increased eX-
pense resulting therefrom.
The special and often peculiar conditions
of the occurrence of mineral and the loca-
ton of the mine must be largely deter
minative in the choice of methods to be en-
ployed in each case, and methods are often
chosen which are apparently wholly map
plcable and expensive, yet, owing to spe-
cial adaptabillty, are warrantable, or OF
necessity chosen, due to practically insur-
mountab.e local conditions of material Ia
Dor, etc.
The successful application of cornbina-
ton hosting and haulage apparatus, such
as rope ways, to moderate vertical and
horizontal distances, especially the former,
has led to it's application on a more ex-
tensive scale. Increased height of lift, In
shafts. has been attempted, and certain
degree of success has been attained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
THE YELLOW BIRCH wITHE.
Of Use in the Backwoods From the
Cradle to the Grave.

Otis tMe) Cor. New York Sun.
Before the days of cheap Irvine and cheap
wire on spools," said Bill Remick, when
farmer or woodsman wanted to fasten
anything so that 1t would be there when he
called the next time he used a withe. sup
pose that most of the rail fences used by
the first settlers in Maine were held in
place with yellow birch withes.
IT have seen them used to bale hay, and
tie up bags of grain, and splice cart tongues,
and keep grindstones from leaping out Of
frames. and to tie out calves while feeding,
and to fasten the names of work horses
about the collars and to hinge the swinging
part of threshing fail to the handle. and
to bind on loads of wood and potatoes and
apples and hay when they were taken to
market.
Fifty years ago a bundle of wthes was
as necessary at funeral as a dead body
All collins were made by the local carpen-
ters then. without paint or varnish. Such
articles as beckets were unknown.
Instead of having silyer-mounted ham
dies, bundle of stout withes was twisted
about the coffin near the head and near the
foot, and when the bearers were ready to
proceed they took a firm hold of the withes
and went along.
Last spring when 1 was digging for
den of young foxes in the old Mariavile
burying ground came upon a rotten coffin
that had been wrapped in birch withes for
more than seventy-fve years. The ash boards
crumbled at the touch of my spade. The
coffin plate had rusted so that l could not
make out any name. But those coiled and
twisted limbs of sapling yellow birch were
still strong enough to hold yoke of oxen.
Its seems as If those old chaps who
cleared up farms for us and then impover-
ished the soil 1t would grow no crops
were associated pretty intimately with
withes from the time they came into the
world until they quit 1t for good. The hood
OF the cradle was made from yellow birch
limbs woven In basket work
The first time and every time the child
went wrong he received an application of
yellow birch in the place where yellow birch
did most good. From early manhood to old
age wathes were the most useful and the
most needful articles about the farm, and
when death stepped In and wound up the
business sheaf Of birrh withes enwrapped
the coffin and held 1t in shape until all in
side had turned to dust"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
So, 500, 900 In Bean Money.
,m the New England Grocer.


More money is spent each year in Boston
in buying baked beans than would buy the
largest battleship In the United States navy.
In 1904 the gross receipts of beans in Bos-
ton were more than $4,000 barrels In each
barrel are five bushels. The average price
at which these were sold by the wholesalers
was s1.s5 bushel. and when these beans
were sold again by retailers to their Gus
toners they brought an average of II cents
q pound. or grand total of SO, sos, 272
There are other places where beans are
used. but they are not Boston beans, and
can never be, unless the man who superin-
tends their baking happens to have served
an apprenticeship in some of the Boston
bakeries.
So tremendous has the demand for baked
beans become in Boston that two compa-
MES have been formed whose business Is to
bake beans for restaurants and quick-lunch
establishments. One of these companies
uses an average of 1000 quarts week and
the other 10000, yet the beans that these
companies bake are but drop in the
bucket compared with the consumption Of
the city.
The most remarkable feature of this re-
markable consumption of beans Is that the
demand Is steadily increasing. and that
1900 more barrels of beans were sold in
Boston in 1904 than In 1908. There are sea-
sons in which the demand for this staple is
greater than others, notably the months
from Thanksgiving to April.
Taking the receipts in Boston for 1904
of 6S.I32 barrels, that would give the num-
Der of bushels 343, eco. or 1887 12o quarts,
weighing 81 ,994, 24O pounds
Accepting as the population of Boston ap-
proximately $4,000, this would give each
inhabitant, men and women. boys, girls
and babies, an average of 81 quarts These
81 quarts of beans would weigh las pounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
uoNpoN's SUPREME PROBLEM.
Physical Degeneracy That Has Come
About Through Unrelieved Poverty.

From Everybody's Magazine.
side of the Thames, half mile above the
parliament buildings is a group of sub.
stantial fiat houses built and owned by the
London county council. The architecture Is
good, air and light are provided for, the
courts between are paved with asphalt,
everything is clean, well-ordered, quiet,
eminently respectable. In front is little
strip of park where the children play. On
Sunday, July 2. at noon, there came through
one of the asphalt courts a young man, q
little boy and young woman carrying q
baby. They were dreadful to look upon. all
of them clothed in dropping rags, ema-
ciated. tallowy and unclean. The woman
had vacant face and next to no chin; the
man had sloping shoulders, one higher than
the other and stopped. The boy reproduced
and exaggerated the physical defects of the
man and the woman. The man slowly led
the way down the court. singing. I have
never known a thing more grotesque and
horrible. He was singing Rock of Ages
not to the Inappropriate air OF Abtis to
which it is usually sung In America, but to
the tune used in the churches of England.
It was not that his voice was feeble or
tentive listener with kind of horror was
that 1t was not the voice of a human being.
They walked very slowly down the court
and looked up at the windows. Two or
three Were opened and some halfpence were
thrown out perhaps five. And thus. sing.
Ing in this frightful fashion. they took their
rags and their misery out of sight
They were the problem of London, those
four, and they stood before the best answer
that London has yet been able to make.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
Fruits and Nuts.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
England is NOT tho land Of

From the Chicago Chronicle
England is not the land of fads and fam
cies and 1t is surprising to read in recent
dispatches from London that some of the
foremost people in that city have become
nut eaters.
Lord Charles Beresford and Lady Beres-
ford head the list, and the Earl of Buchan
and Neville Lytton are late converts to this
diet. They were all originally vegetarians,
but they have now discarded all food ex-
cept fruits and nuts, and nuts alone served
hot and cold constitute the principal course
of the dinner. 1t is said, at many Iordly
mansions. 'Ohi If the unemployed only
knew exclaimed a London nut eater re-
recently. that they could live luxuriously
on or 3 cents a day on the finest food In
the world and that 1t could be varied SO
much that there would be no monotony of
dishesr'
Sir w. E. Cooper, nut eater. publishes
comparative table of the nutriment con-
tanned In nuts and meats, and these are
some Of the percentages: Pine kernels. 95.
brazil nuts. "a; chestnuts. SO; walnuts. ";
monds. 81; pork. 81; mutton, "a: chicken,
Is: veal, %, and beef %.
Vegetarianism has many respectable dew
otees In every community, but perhaps
there Is not reputable physician in the
world who would not say that this fruit
and nut diet was an absurdlty. They
would give two reasons for saying so. The
first is that nuts are extremely indigesti-
BILE and for the most part pass out of the
body in the same condition in which they
enter 1t. They are often said to promote
digestion and to some extent this is true,
but they promote digestion for the very
reason that they are not digested them
selves. That is, they act mechanically on
ether food, just as cheese, mustard seed,
fig seed and even bird shot do, by keeping
1t distributed and accessible to the gastric
juice.
Another reason for this opinion would be
that nutriment in a greatly concentrated
form is almost as useless in the stomach
as so much sand The stomach is a highly
elastic pouch and no matter how much
nutriment is put into it, healthy digestion
is impossible until the stomach Is distended.
1t must be measurably full before the gas
trio juice is secreted. Food which Is 30
per cent nutriment is useless, because IL
swallowed in quantities large enough to
distend the stomach 1t would produce over
nourishment and disease.
OF course, as soon any one fixes up
nice theory in regard to diet some one
comes along with an experience which
oyerturns It, Antecedently it would have
been regarded as absurd to suppose that a
man could live and thrive on rice. but the
Japanese and Chinese have shown that he
can do So In like manner there are even
in this country converts to fruits and nuts
whose experience would seem to prove
that they are the only proper food for man.
The trouble with the fruits and nuts diet
Is that it has never been demonstrated to
be beneficial on the large scale that rice
diet has been. The human body has so
many eccentricities that there is nothing
SO wild and ridiculous in the line of diet or
OF cures that It has not had its advocates
and its triumphs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
MYSTERIOUS MAN OF LETTERS
Englishman Who Has Taken Up His
Residence on Island of Bouton,
NEW YORK.

From Lloyd's News
Latest mails from Celebes, in the Eastern
Archipelago. tell of the advent of a mys.
terious Englishman. who has taken I'D his
residence on the Island of Bouton.
Early in July arrived in a sailing boat a
bronzed broad-chested stranger, accompa-
MED by little fair-haired dwarf. appar.
emily his servant. According to the story
told by the agent of wealthy merchant Of
Macassar. the two white men proceeded to
build a large log house, the interior Of
which they painted brilliant scarlet. Over
the threshold, flanked by union jacks, they
raised gigantic wooden shield, bearing q
portrait of the master of the house seated
at the apex of a pyramid. around the base
OF which crowds Of pygmies groveled. look-
ing upward with expressions of bewilder.
ment and awe. Beneath this wonderful dee
vice was mysterious inscription: Il am
q M. 0. L."
Hundreds of natives came to look at the
funny white men, but the master repeii.
ed their curiosity. brandishng a coupe OF
revolvers. The quaint shield reused the ad.
mfratfon and curiosity of all, and stories
were told by the superstitious of dark deeds
done at midnight in the house of the
strange white man.
One native. more educated than his broth.
ers. read the Inscription beneath the shield,
anu tfle WOrQ went 1Ortn tnat the Dig Wnlto
man was a new god, named Amol, and that
the dwarf was his attendant priest. This
story was readily believed because of tho
hundreds Of sheets of white paper which
Amol daily covered with mysterious writ
ings. believed by the natives to be charms
against disease.
For six months the EngEshmen lived on
the stores they had brought with them.
Then the dwarf set sail for Macassar to
lay in a new supply. He told curious tale
about his employer.
Amol. he said, had told him that he was
the greatest English novelist alive" But
the English people were fools, and did not
appreciate good work. Cheap journalism
and upstart publishers combined to stlfle
men of letters He was himself a man OF
letters. although one would believe 1t.
For years he had been unwillingly compelis
ed to prostitute his genius that he might
live. But at last a rich lady. who had
hoped that he would marry her, died of a
broken heart. bequeathing him her fortune.
Forthwith he shook the dust Of London on
his feet leaving behind him, he hoped for-
ever. his unappreciative native land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
A VALUABLE TREE.
The Mahwa Tree of India That Pro.
duces Sugar.
From the National Druggist.

From the National Druggist.
AS reliable commercial source of sugar
the flowers of the Mahwa tree (Bassia lati-
foiia) of India are being brought into no
tice. The following description Of the tree
and of the numerous products that 1T yields
are from translation of a lecture deliv-
cred by Prof. Voight before the Natural
Science Society of Hamburg, Germany:
The Mahwa, as a nut-bearing tree. has
been known for many ages In the laws
of Manu- the priesthood Of India are for
hidden to indulge in madhvi, fiery liquor
made from the fruit, and in the Collection
of Indian Remedies" by Suruta. we are
told that the tree yields a sugary paste
from which a fermented drink is made.
1t belongs to the sapotaceae (star apple
family. the family to which belongs the
very important gutta-percha tree of the
Malay archipelago, and Is found only In
the northern border of India, where II
grows clear to the foot of the mighty Him
alayas. 1t grows from SO to 80 feet high,
and Is one of the few deciduous trees OF
that region. It's blooming period lasts from
the end of February till April Quickly
after the pollen is formed the whitish tubu-
lar flowers swell to balls about as large
as a cherry, which contain large amount
of invert sugar (honey). The flower tubes
fall, covering the ground in the greatest
profusion. They are eagerly gathered by
the natives and eaten. A tree yields from
200 to 300 pounds of flowers, which, when
dry, weigh about half as much, and occupy
about one-fourth as much space.
The land Is leased to the natives, and as
the region where 1t grows Is of a poor and
stony soil the tree constitutes an impor-
tant source of food.
The fruit Is usually mixed with rice and
thus eaten. The dried flowers have very
much the taste and appearance of ra1sins.
They are exported to Europe as a curiosity
and are also used as food for animals. Dis
tillation yields large percentage of spirits,
which, diluted with water, makes "davu,
native whisky very much used. 1t comes
on the market In oaken barrels. and IS
highly esteemed by Europeans, who claim
that It equals the best whisky. Almost
every village has Its distillery In the
island of Carougo. just outside of Bombay
some 10000 to $1,000 rupees are invested in
stills alone.
Beside the flowers the seed are of con-
siderable use. They contain a fat of but
ter-like consistency, which serves as a
food stuff. 1t is called '.mowra." and the
crude stuff is known as "illipe," and is
used by the Europeans largely for making
candles. soaps. etc. The wood is very hard
and lasting, and is much used for making
the wheels of the native bullock carts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
Experiments With Foreign Seeds.

The department has been experimenting
largely with the introduction of foreign
seeds, Cuban, Sumatra and Porto Rico be-
ing all tested In different parts Of the
country. Some of the results have been
gratifying, but it Is found that the quail
ties of the plant are modified considerably
by environment, temperature, SOIL fertiliza-
ton and the Hike, and after a tobacco
from tropical country is settled here, 1t is
frequently necessary to breed back and
select types that keep the virtues of the
parent plants and at the same time are
good growers on alien soil. There have
been some excellent results in Florida,
where there is grown tobacco that with
careful selection will probably come up to
the best Cuban. There are also experiments
going on with sun-sheltered plants, and
with the introduction of tobacco into parts
of Texas, where heretofore cotton has been
practically the only crop. The introduction
of tobacco into Texas is expected to benefit
the farmer financially by giving him good
alternative crop, and it will do good deal
to repair the ravages of the boil weevil
where the pest has killed out the cotton
crop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23
Toll of the Sea.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
While the periis of the sea will never be
removed 1t Is comforting to know that
they are not nearly SO formidable as they
once were. The recent English statistics
of losses by wreck and other ocean disaster
present assuring figures, They are valuable
for the reason that the British flag flies
over nearly half of the entire shipping tom
mage of the world. The naked statement
that q, $50 persons persisted in the last four
teen years at sea and In rivers in ships reg
istered In the united kingdom is sufficiently
depressing but statistician in the London
Chronicle, by an analysis of the data
comes to the conclusion that the risks of
the sea are much less formidable than those
professions
The statistics cover the period from 1891
to 1904, inclusive. In 1891 the masters and
seamen employed numbered 2lS247. The
lives lost aggregated LOIS, percentage of
.SS, or i in LA. The writer observes that
the report does not specifically declare but
Implies. that passengers are included In the
list, and that, inasmuch as O wreck rarely
occurs which involves large loss OF life,
the percentage named would scarcely be af-
fected- In the whole fourteen years there
has been large increase in the number
OF men employed, but the percentage Of
death losses fell from .SS, or In ia, In
1891. to .46 In 1904, or in 300. There has
been an annual average decrease of 81 in
While the vicissitudes of the sea introduce
an element OF uncertainty in the hope that
the ocean voyage is being steadily shorn
OF its dangers. the figures. show. so far
as past experience can, that life on the deep
is gradually growing safer.
Seamanship Is improving; vessels are
| more stanchly constructed; safety devices
are added constantly. Communication be-
tween a vessel in distress and other ships
by wireless telegraphy is playing its impor-
tant part In the rescue Of Threatened lives.
The Chronicle writer notes also the patent
sounding machine. Lord Kelvin's compass,
improved speed measures, better methods
of determining q ships position, better
lighting and submarine signaling, ''by
which ship may be warned of the prox-
unity of land In the densest fog at q dis
lance certainly OF ten miles. The passing
of the sailing vessel has also contributed
greatly to the safety OF crews and passen-
gers. Without the aid of steam dangerous
situations arise at sea from which escape
would be easy for steamship. but impos-
sihle for a sailing ship.