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Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
Death.
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I am a microbe of vast and fearful power.
NV name Is Death where e'er I'm found.
float through the air and sink
i into the vitals of the sons OF men:
The youth in joyous spring OF life;
THE man. mature in years and strength;
The newborn babe and she
Who watches tenderly his breath OF
life:
The coyish maiden, and the sage
OF tottering steps and silver lscks;
All alike grow faint and listless,
Weak and wan, and sink at last
To their eternal rest, beneath my glance.
Quietly at first 1 work, mid jest and
But not more surely does the sun sink lew
behind
The western hills
Than make felt my power
Through every limb and fibre Of my VIC
TINS frame.
IT'S said that he laughs best who laugheth
last;
And laugh last, yea many q million time
AS perceive my victim gaze with hollow,
vacant stare
And note his breath come short, and
gasp and-cease.
Hal Hal Another triumph Of my prowess!
And now. float away to murder once
again
To snatch some maiden from her lovers
To strike a youth, his mothers all:
Ceaseless my work. know not pity.
Greedy am I, and each one whom i slay
adds fuel to my greed.
So do / live and reap my harvest day by
day Of Death.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
Malt Coffee as Food.

A Russian army doctor attached to
the I'd Turkestan Rife Battalion has
been making some interesting expert
ments in the matter of nourishing sol
diers. DR.. Cyrillus Koljago admins
tered to ten men for ten days malt cof-
fee as their sole beverage, with the re-
suit that their weight increased during
the time to the extent of 832 grammes
a man. A like experiment was made
by giving tea to the same number of
men of similar constitutions and for
the same number of days, and i'll their
case the doctor certified a decrease of
weight per man to the extent of $40
grammes. He then put the twenty men
together back on to tea, and those whose
weight had been so signally increased
by the malt coffee had within ten days
lost GO grammes head. The doctor
now states what is very important to
note, namely, that his experiments have
led him to believe that it is not merely
the nourishing attributes of the malt
coffee which mark this increase, but
that its effect is mainly to increase the
action of the digestive organs, enabling
them to draw from all other food taken
the utmost quantity of nourishment
each may contain
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

In these tablets is not imported, but,
on the other hand, Is grown at the
experimental tea gardens Of the De-
partment of Agriculture at Summer
vile, S. G. A few weeks ago DR.. B. T.
Galloway, chief of the Bureau Of Plant
Industry received a large box of SAM
pie packages from Summerville.
Each box of compressed tea contains
twenty tablets about the size Of cent,
but probably twice as thick. The
various kinds of tea such as Oolong,
American Breakfast, black and green,
ETC., are all prepared in tablet form
ranging from sepia to dark green in
color. The tablets as heretofore stated
are made from tea grown at the Pine
hurst tea gardens Summerville, S. G.
and contain the purest of leaves
thought to be unsurpassed by any i'm
ported tea. The tablet form is accom-
plished by compression with machin-
cry. The directions furnished for us
ing the tablets are rs follows:
Drop one tablet in teapot for each
SoeS Of water and after vi to
stand four minutes, stir gently, strain,
and serve. If made in the cup, use one
tablet. Tea will Immediately settle to
the bottom of the cup, then strain the
liquor into another cup, and sugar and
cream as desired"
While it is explained by officials of
the Department that this new form of
tablet does not improve the flavor or
taste of the tea, the chief value lies
In the fact that the product occupies
less space. A pound package of or
binary tea, it is stated, would occupy
about twenty-five times as much room
as one of these little packages of TWEEN
ty tea tablets prepared by the Agri-
cultural Department.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
The Docking of Horses.

Agitation is promised to urge the pas.
sage of laws against docking horses,
and owners of horses are being petit
toned to join in the crusade. Dealers
never dock horses, except at the re-
quest of buyer To offer a horse for
sale with bob tail is to create the sus-
picion that it is Second hand" one that
has seen service before in the city, in
stead of being fresh from green past
ures. Yet the dealers rarely sign such
petitions. They declare that the opera
ton of docking is not excessively pain
full and is atoned for by the easy life
it leads to. To have the tail shortened
is the initiation the rough horse pays
to gain the comfort and light duties of
private stable.
Fashion is not the only reason to act
uate the buyers in having their horses
locked, but it is the principal one. A
few say that the shortening of the tail
makes for cleanliness, as the tail does
not become draggled with mud and dust
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
No. u
%NEYGYHEfs TEA RAISING IN THE UNITED {ENXN$E1s
ESXY3WilSTg STATES. ySQs&YNEz-'
Of AoruIu

The Department OF Agriculture Presents America
Tea in Tablet Form.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

The Department of Agriculture has
been making some experiments, which
from present results seem to promise
a revolution in the method of pack
ing and preparing tea. The usual
method adopted by tea raisers here
tofore has been quite crude in that the
dried tea leaves were merely slowed
in a loose and bulky package. The
effort of the Department of Agriculture
is to furnish pure tea in a most con-
venient form and in a manner to pro-
tect the leaves from losing any of
their strength through exposure to
the air. This has resulted in a meth
cd Of COMPRISING the leaves into tab
let's, each of sufficient size to make a
delicious cup of tea What would or
dinarily make big package of tea
can by this unique method be placed
In a space about the size of safety
match box. Another significant feature
Of the experiment is that the tea used
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

when locked, and another set main
tains that it is really a comfort to a
horse to remove the heavy useless mass
of hair. City horses do not Craze in
pasture, so the argument that the
switching of the long tail keeps away
mosquitoes and flies has no value in
this argument; but decided objection
may be voiced against the nuisance
switching tails would be to a horse or
pair in heavy harness. All style and
grace in front action, a pair with hang
ing tails would look as untidy other
wise as a woman in bedraggled skirts
So said a coaching amateur, and he had
plenty to add to the plea for docking.
Essentially docking is not a painful
1--WE do not feed the horse on the
is brought into the operating stall the
horse at once begins to MUNICH eagerly
on the oats in the manger. A canvas
hammock is flung under its belly and
the horse is hoisted to its tiptoes by
pulleys, when a gate is stuck across the
stall close to its heels and the tail pull
ed over, the flat top rail making an
operating table. A stout Irvine is tied
tight about the tail at the point to be
severed The hair is turned back and
bound, exposing the bare skim
"a few short jabs with surgeons
knife and the tail is severed. Mean
while, cauterizing iron has been
brought to white heat in charcoal
hand fire, and the next act is to scar
the cut with the iron The horse
winces, but it does not take the tenth
part of second to seal up the wound
AS soon as the iron is taken off the
horse will resume its munching of oats,
and except while the cauterizing ircn is
applied it feeds without check through
out the entire operation.
No one knows what the horses think
about it. That docking is cruel may be
granted, but the gains to the horse
seem to counterbalance the hurts. All
of which sounds a good deal like an
argument made by an interested party
as an excuse for continuance of
practice almost universally condemned.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
Tea Handled by Machinery.

The effort of the Department of Ag.
riculture for sometime has been to
find means for providing food for the
Army and Navy which could be pre-
pared in such a way as to save space.
Tablet form naturally suggested itself
to them and it is now believed by the
government officials that the tea tab
lets will fill the requirements not only
of the general government but those
of general merchandise and family use
An important feature in connection
with compression of tea into tablet
form which should be considered of
prime importance is that modern ma
chinery takes the place of the ancient
manual operations of the Chinese OF
course, great advantage Of the ma
chine in the tea industry is reduction
In the price of labor, but more i'm
portant item is the elimination, as far
as possible, of human contact. BY tes'
timony of travellers in the Orient II
is stated that the tea factories Of that
section are as rule anything but
Clearly, the result of the herding to-
gether of so many people-not very
clean or healthy people-in cramped
and often very hot workshops. The
tea tablets as prepared by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, are made from the
tea after it has been dried and rolled.
1t is then put through boiling proc.
ess after which it is placed in small
moulds about the size of a cent, where
by means of great force, it Is COM
pressed into small tablets. The op-
Grafton of the machinery is so perfect
and so rapid that the leaves can be
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

The Pinehurst gardens embrace al
present about 80 acres of tea plants
in various stages of advancement and
produce from a considerable variety
Of seed over 10000 pounds of dry tea
annually. The original seed for the
Pinehurst tea gardens was procured
through the Offices of the United States
Department of State and the Chinese
Government from the celebrated Drag.
on'S Pool estate near Hangchow, China,
whose output commands too high a
local price to admit of it's expectation.
Picking tea at Pinehurst is done by
carefully trained and well superin-
tended corps of colored children who
show great aptitude in this direction. In
stances have occurred of fine plucking
by one child in day of over so
pounds of greenleaf whereas the aver
age in the Orient hardly exceeds 20 to
80 pounds. Experiments at the Pine
hurst gardens show that tea from all
modern climates could be made as pro-
ductive here as at their source, a
change in climate and the difference in
cultivation and manufacture having "a
tendency to affect the quality of tea
when prepared for the table. This Is
the reason assigned for the difference
in the American grown tea from that
Of imported. The Pinehurst early sea-
son tea is considered more delicate
and milder than that of cooler climates.
The autumn season tea Is stronger Elm
color and taste and resembles the
product from the more southern re-
gions of the Orient
The Secretary of Agriculture believes
that there is an excellent field in the
United States for home tea indus
dustry for we consume approximately
100000 pounds of tea annually or
little less than one pound per capita.
Our people, he says, pay at retail about
$40,000,0000 a year for tea as against
$50, 100000 for coffee and $1,000, OO0,-
600 for alcoholic beverages. It has
been calculated that the American peo-'
pie drink 4000OO,O0O gallons of tea an
nually We are primarily nation of
coffee drinkers; in proportion to our
population we consume only about one
sixth as much tea as the Britain,
whether at home or in the colonies.
While the United States does not i'm
port the cheapest kind of tea, never
theless our importations are chiefly
Of inferior qualities. The first demand
Of the American consumer is cheap
ness, and often-times he will purchase
tea of poor quality on account of ac-
allurements of crockery
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
He Had Had Experience.

AS the fearless white man entered the
kraal of the native king, a salute was
sounded on drum of serpent skin, and
six warriors with necklaces of human
teeth rafting about their threats, led
him before rough ivory dias, on which
sat majestic and formidable figure.
Hail." said the white man. And with
out loss of time, he took out one of his
brass watches, wound it up, and showed
its works to the dusky monarch "This
MARVEL" he said, 81 will give your
majesty, making you the envy of all
men, and in return for only six tusks
of seventy pounds weight each. The
king took the watch, produced a mo-
nocle from pouch hidden in his shield,
and, after a moments study of the
brass trinket, returned it with languid
smile. Last year," he added, "in Lon
don, l exchanged an old wooden war
club for bushel of these things, and,
by Jove, don't you know, there wasn't
one of them that ran above week"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

people of the United States are aware
that tea is grown in this country. AS
matter of fact, however, this coun.
try not only raises tea but produces
an article, said by experts, to be of
a higher grade than imported tea and
which has no equal for cup qualities.
For years there has been a gigan-
tic struggle between British and Chi
nese tea growers for supremacy in
the worlds tea trade. The most i'm
portant feature of this struggle has
been the substitution by the British
of modern and specially constructed
machinery in place of the ancient man.
ual operations which the Chinese seem
to envelop in mystery. Labor in In
dia, while cheap, was not cheap enough
to accomplish the overthrow of the
Chinese producers and leave margin
of profit. The conflict between the
rivals thus settled down to a trial of
watch, thermometer, and steam or
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

interest in the United States. A hun
dred years ago the first tea plant was
introduced at Middleton Barony on the
Ashley River near Charleston, S. G.
Mr.. Junius Smith in the forties made
experiments in tea culture at Green
vile, S. G. and in the fifties the Uni
ted States Government collected in
Asia and distributed tea seed by the
Patent Office through the south Allan
tic and Gulf states, which later gave
rise to many thrifty little gardens
capable of supplying all domestic
wants. While these experiments prove
the adaptability of the tea plant to the
United States they did not prove the
possibility of a lucrative industrial m
dertaking. The United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, however, in the
last quarter of the 10th century I'M
dertook an investigation along this lat
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
A Perfect Example.

A lawyer whose mouth was extra
ordinarily large, had on the witness
stand a Southern backwoodsman. The
Ewitness had replied to a question that
EFT was non-possibility." Quoth the
lawyer: ga non-possibility? Now
will you tell this court and this jury
what you mean by non-possibility?
Give us an example" "Well," said
the witness, 81 think it 'u'd be nom
possibility to make your mouf emmy
bigger widout settin' your years furder
back"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

water power, against the UNIQUE and
unnecessarily elaborate functions Of the
Chinese manipulation. On the up-to-
date British tea estate almost the whole
process of tea making from the trans
portation Of the plucked leaf from the
gardens to the factory, to the final
boxing of the finished product, is per-
formed by machinery. With all this
machinery, however, it is necessary
that two processes must be performed
by human hands-the plucking Of the
leaf from the bushes and the cutting
out of inferior leaf or accidental ad-
mixtures such as stems, straws, etc.,
from the finished product
The intense activity in the tea In
dustry of other lands awakened like
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
Was a Proper Judge.

When the last Cleveland baby was
born, Mr.. Cleveland was asked about the
weight, which he gave at twelve pounds.
DIR. Bryant, who was present, interrupt
ed the ex-President to say that the nurse
HAD reported the young hopeful to-be an
sight-pounder Nothing of the kind, J"
said Mr.. Cleveland. 81 weighed him
with the same scales that l use when l
|go fishing"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
An Insult TO The Horse.

"Would you mind walking the other
way and not passing the horse% said a
London cabman, with exaggerated po-
likeness, to the fat lady who. had just
paid the minimum fare. "Whyp she
inquired. Because if e sees wot 'e's
been carrying for a shilling ell ave a
fit" was the freezing answer.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
PhiIippine Cities.

There are four towns in the Philip
pines with a population exceeding
10000 each, and thirty-five with q pop
ulation exceeding 5000. Manila Is the
the only incorporated city In the
islands. and its inhabitants number
244.782.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

doned. Towards the close of the Gen.
fury DR.. Charles u. Shepard, at his
own expense renewed this plantation
and later received the general assis-
lance of the Department of Agricul-
ture. This is the Rinehurst tea nur-
sery of to-day.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27
Briefs From Everywhere.

There are over $12,0ONOoO worth of
Jewels on Mahomets tomb.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

A large number of the Jews resident
in Jerusalem are of the blond type.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

Mexico produces about one-third OF
the silver of the world.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

A drink of coal oil has been recon-
mended for cold. No one should take
more than tablespoonful.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

An ant will live one month after its
head has been cut off, 1t is difficult
to drown an ant. Submerge the insect
for several days and he will resume
operations as though nothing had hap
pened.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

Sir Henry Irving's birthplace a
Keinton, Vaudeville, has recently beer
sold for $4,000.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

The marriage ceremony was not
solemnized as religious rite in
churches till the time of Pope limo
cent III, in the year 1893.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

Over half a million acres in India
are devoted to tea culture, a com.
paratively new industry there.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

Gold mines, abandoned by the Span
ish many years, exist near the Panama
canal route and will be re-opened.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

The youngest archbishop in IL
world is DR.. Glennon, of st. Louis. +
is AZ years old
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

A railroad is being built to the sum
NIT of Mont Blanc.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

The Khedive of Egypt has a saddl,
so heavily mounted with gold that i
is worth $4,000.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-01-27

I ter line and established an experiment
tai station near Summerville, 8. G.
For various unavoidable reasons the
undertaking was failure and aban-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-04
MIR. HUGHES DEAD.
Popular Newspaper Man of Taiiassee
 Commits Suicide.

Commits Suicide.
 The sad tidings reached the city yes terday of the suicide of stephen M. Hughes, a well known newspaper man of Tallassee
 According to information brought to Montgomery by several citizens of Tal- Iassee, MT. Hughes was found in dy- ing condition in his bed about 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning. He had been shot with a 22-calibre short, from a rifle. and the ball had entered his brain at the bridge of his nose. The rifle was found in the bed beside the dying man and 1t was believed that he had inflicted the wound upon himself with suicidal intent. Efforts were made to revve hm, but the wound was fatal and MT. Hughes expired about 7:S0 o'clock.
 Stephen Hughes was well known in Montgomery He was brother of Henry N Hughes, deputy clerk of the City Court of Montgomery. Henry Hughes was notified by wire soon after his brothers death and he left hur- terday afternoon.
 The dead man was born at Verbena, but he was reared and spent the great CT portion of his life in Montgomery. He served as q printer for several years on The Advertiser, and only in recent years had he moved to Tallassee where he was the editor of The Tallassee Tri- County Weekly at the time of his death. He was about thirty years old and unmarried. Friends of MT. Hughes say that he had been in failing health for some time.
 MT Hughes is survived by his moth CT, Mrs. Emily Hughes, two brothers, Henry Hughes and Clarence Hughes. two sisters. Miss Maggie Hughes and Miss Annie Hughes. and an uncle. Henry Fl. Matthews, clerk of the City Court all of Montgomery.
 The remains will reach Montgomery at 1O.50 o'clock this morning over the Western Railway of Alabama. The
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-04

funeral will take place from the Union station, Rev. Stewart Mcqueen. rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter, of- ficiating.
 The following will serve as pail bearers: Val opp. H. M. simpson, W. c. Bostick, Norwood Smith, Mark ID. Brainard. John N. Todd, Horace Hood' Jr. and Thomas L. Peach.
 Interment will be made in oakwood cemetery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-04
An Enjoyable Function.

Tonight. at Klosky's was held a most enjoyable function. It was clebra- tion of the second anniversary of the Bank of Mobile. N. B. A, the youngest institution of the kind in the city. The growth of the bank, since it's or ganization two years ago is something remarkable and so conceded by other bankers of this city. While the organi zation was filed on December ?, 1903. the doors were not opened until today two years ago.The interior of the build ing is conceded to be one of the hand
 somest in the city. The feast, which was made up of all the delicacies and good things of the season. consisted of Martini dry cocktails, cream of chick en soup, soft shell crabs. pompano, santame, teal duck, guava jelly. baked French peas. We've cliquet, strawber- ries. cream, creme de menthe and veg tables.
 Hon. Joseph H. Lyons acted as toast master and many brilliant addresses were delivered during the evening.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-04
CAUSE OF DEED UNKNOWN.
Mental Worry Believed to Have Been
 Responsible.

NtNepoAHtDtSs
 Tallassee, April S.--(special)--s. M Hughes, editor of The Tri-County Weekly, committed suicide this morn ing by shooting himself through the head No reason was assigned for the act The only evidence found was q note stating Notify 1T. N Hughes, Court. House. I am dead. He will at tend to everything" No name was signed to this note. but 1t was in Mir. Hughes's handwriting.
 MT. Hughes slept on cot in the printing office last night and this morn ing about o'clock when Willie Turn CT. q boy about twelve years old went to the office a gruesome sight met his eyes. There upon the cot, with the small rifle. the instrument of his death. lying across his breast with the blood oozing from a wound in the cen ter of his forehead lay MT. Hughes in the agonles of death. The boy ran and phoned for a physician and then nott- fled r. L. Mckenzie. proprietor of The Tri-County Weekly. that Mir. Hughes had been shot. MT Hughes was still alive when found but was unconscious and remained so until the end. which came about thirty minutes after he was found.
 What caused the deed no one knows. Some suppose that financial and other troubles so preyed upon his mind as to cause him to end it in this way.
 MT Hughes came to Tallassee last July and assumed the cditorship of The Fri County Weekly. Those with him had noticed for the past week or more that MT Hughes seemed in mental worry about something. but knew not what It was On this bright April morning. in the vigor of young man hood, suffering from some mental wor- ry unknown to his friends, MT. Hughes sent n rife hall through his brains that ushered his spirit into the pres ence of his Maker.
 Mir Hughes's brother came up this afternoon and will take the body to Montgomery for burial
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-04
CUNNINGHAM WILL SPEAK
 AT COURT HOUSE TONIGHT

the city court room at o'clock this evening. He is without doubt one of the finest speakers in the State and never fails to interest an audience. He will discuss all the questions involved in the gubernatorial canvass, and fully explain how and where he stands. Dr. Cunningham is personally very popular in Montgomery and there ought to be a large attendance at the meeting. Every citizen Is interested in the mat ter of who shall fill the high offices of State. Go to the court house at 8 o'clock tonight. You will be enter tained and instructed