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The Washington herald., 1909-06-27
NASHVILLE TAKING
ON new ACTIVITY
Spends S5,OOO,OO0 in Build
ing Up the City.
FACTORIES ALL DOING WELL
Passes Through Period OF Removing
Overhead Wires which Greatly
Improves Appearance of Things.
ShOemakIng Center of the south.
More Manufactures Needed.

Nashville. Tenn. June 26-The year 1903
holds every promise Of being the best IN
sJructlon Is on and architects and con-
tractors are among the busiest people
Along commercial lines merchants and
manufacturers have gone ahead % their
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sale and retail. aggregated 81. .00C.190
SI.GOO.OOO for Education
The trustees OF the George Peabody
Fund have donated 20 the Peabody College
FOR Teachers. located IN Nashville. S.o00.-
600. To this the State. county. and city
have added $50. .00e.
Nashville IS the second school city IN
the United States.
An inferurban road running south 70
Mount Pleasant. the center or the great
est phosphate rock field in the country
has just been opened, and another line
has been chartered 20 run IN an opposite
direction to Crocker Springs. the Cars
had OF America.
Work on The Inc of the Nashville ana
Huntsville Railroad IS rapidly progress
ing and new line 20 the extensive coal
fields. m Van BUren County. viii soon be
built
Nashville has recently been selected as
the headquarters Tor the national bank
examiners for several Southern States
The Nashville Board OF Trade. with its
membership nearing The 2.001 mark IS The
uyeliest and most progressive CONNER
cIal organization in the south. II is be-
hind and pushing every movement for
the welfare and upbuuding OF Nashville
II not only takes Its members on periodi-
cal tours OF inspection 90 visit manufac-
turing enterprises and see Nashville
grow. but the school children OF the
higher grades visit these industries. and
grow 70 know the greatness OF their own
town. BUY Nashville Made Goods Is
the slogan on every side.
Sends Out Trade Trains.
Nashv!ne's Booster Club" sends out
every year a trade extension tour com
posed OF 100 heads OF houses. manufac-
turers and educators on a special train
OF Pullmans. with uniformed brass hand
and silver-tongued orators, such as only
the South can produce. 70 speak OF the
wonderful city Of Nashville. These tours
last fer a week and every state con
tiguous TO Tennessee has been visited and
trade turned % Nashville
Nashville manufactures a greater Va
riety OF articles than any Southern city
II IS the largest grinder OF soft winter
wheat IN the world: its grain business
reaches nearly S3o.O0.000 annually. Nash
Vile IS also the largest hardwood lumber
producing market in the country.
The United States government has re-
Gently established IN Nashville a pure
food laboratory Z 8 SHANNON.
Se-eta-y Board = Tllde
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27
children Carry SnInhur.

Children from eight to fifteen years Of
are are employed IN the sulphur mines OF
Caltomsetta, Sicily, 20 carry the mined
sulphur 10 the surface Of the earth. The
occupation Is very unhealthful. ard the
children, after two or three years service.
become complete physical wrecks
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27
Kheat sprout. III shocI.

Nashville, Tenn, June 2s-RaIn con
tinues throughout this section and re-
ports arc coming in OF wheat sprouting
IN the shocks. The loss from that cause
viii reach thOUSlnds or dollars IN Middle
Tennessee. The same conditions prevail
in Northern Alabama and Southern Ken
fucl<v
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27
RniIding in Nerr York.

ItIss estimated by New York builder
that there are buildings under cohstruc-
ton IN that city which win aggregate
in value more than $100.OO0,OO0
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SKETCHES HISTORY
Or CATTLE TICK
How PerniciOuS Insect Pas
SeS its Short Existence.
HAS FIVE STAGES OF GROWTH

Eggs Hatch fn Pasture and seed
Tick Attaches 20 Host MoIts
Twice and EmergeS Perfect-aIat-
ing and EEg-Iaying Periods Fol-
IOvs-May BE Starved Out.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

electric service The buzz and whirr OF
the trolley and the downtown life night
and day present the modern electrical
city. The merchants are on the eve Of
Installing great white way
The city water system mas daily fl
tration capacity Of 100000 gallons, with
ample reserve for FIRE emergencies. This.
with its well-equipped FIRE department.
affords the city the best OF protection.
oklahoma City water IS S&T per cent
pure according TO the Lake Michigan
standard
The system embraces s. miles OF water
main So miles OF sewers. 60 miles OF
paved street, and 200 miles OF sidewalk.
score OF other hotels. and more than fifty
restaurants to0take care ot the travelling
frblic. Oklahoma City publishes four
daily and twenty weekly and monthly
periodicals and gets out one OF the really
big Sunday and daily newspapers OF the
country. The county courthouse cost
Sl26oo0. The public enjoys the advantages
OF 2 $4,000 public library Congress has
appropriated s2so.o0o for the new govern
ment building
Value OF It's Churches.
Forty-hve churches. having a property
value Of Sl5oQO0o. suggests the substantial
representation OF the church in Oklahoma
City. All denominations and their auxu-
iary socities are represented. The First
Baptist Church. the largest IN the state,
has place Of worship estimated 10 be
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27
BIG SHOE CONCERN
OBSERVES BIRTHDAY

Continued from Page One.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

Last years volume Of business. whole
sale and retail. aggregated S225.ol0.090
81 I.GOO. 600 for Education
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

The public utilities are owned and Oper-
ated by the city OF New Orleans. and. IN
addition. the city owns and operates its
own stleet-repair plant.
The waterworks plant, one OF the best
In the United States. and the largest OF its
type In the world. IS naturally Of special
Interest. It Is a system of sedimentation,
coagulation, and filtration through the
American rapid filtration system. There
are two pumping stations OF S0.0o0 90 gal
Ions capacity per diem. with an average
pressure OF f5 pounds, a maximum OF 100
pounds. while across the river Is a 4,oo0,-
eoO-gallo1 miniature independent system
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27
It's Public Utilities.

Oklahoma City has as proud an array
Of public utilities as a city OF 5000 ever
owned.
A metropolitan street railway system
'seXtends forty miles, with interurban
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02

been to the buyers advantage to haTe
it cut in foot lengths. He WI !
have received the same actual guam
tity of wood for 1920 less.
1t also makes considerable differ
ence to the seller whether wood i;
chopped or sawed. If chopped the
chips are lost. Where the logs are
large this loss amounts to no small
total. In a cord of four foot wood
with sticks six inches in diameter the
chip loss is from 6 to per cent,
and of course the shorter the sticks
are cut the greater the loss. If the
wood is sawed the sawdust loss is
Cords of split wood contain less
than cords of round sticks. The fine.
the wood is split the more it makes.
Hence wood dealers are often willing
to sell kindlings all sawed and split
for the same price a cord as unsplt
wood. They get back the cost Of
labor in the increased bulk.
A cord OPS cubic feet of foot
hard wood usually contains about SO
cubic feet of solid wood; a cord of
3 foot wood averages S31a cubic
feet, of 2 foot wood 81 feet and Of
J. foot wood, s. feet. The conifers (sof.
woods contain 80 to 96 cubic feet.
Thus the purchaser receives on an
average about twothirds of a cord Of
real wood and one-third of a cord of
spaces.
In some countries wood is bought
by weight and the buyer comes more
nearly getting what he bargains for,
but even then he may miss it if he
receives green wood when he wants
dry According to timber testing en-
gineers Of the United States Forest
Service wood may lose half or more
its green weight in seasoning.-FromI
the Forester.
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Grow Weatherwise.

A bright yellow sky at SUISSE
means wind. .,u
When the sky is particular! iA'
of stars, expect rain. ~,
Three foggy mornings are usu'"
followed by heavy rainstorn.
rainbow in the morning IS pc.
of more rain coming. but one III '''
evening indicates fine weather.
A morning fog usually clears as" 20,
before noon; an afternoon log n''
set in for the day, -
4 red sunrise indicates rain snu
50 does q gray, lowering sunset -
one where the sky is green or ~
lowish green. a.
The twelve DAYS Immediately -.
lowing Christmas are said to denu NV.
the weather for the coming year, W
da- for each month.-AnsWers.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02
Growth Of Cuba.

r. P. Cane, resident consular
agent of Cuba for Louisville, KY,
has received some interesting stats
tics on Cuban growth and progress.
At present the total population is put
at 2,04S,9S0, divided as follows:
Males, 1,O74,SS2, and females, 974,09S.
Referring to the last census, that OF
1907, the increase in eight years has
been 30.2S per cent. Many munich
palities show phenomenal increase,
and only one a loss. the city of Car
denas, which had thirty less inhabit-
ants than in 1899
Five cities increase 10 per cent.
Nuevitas, Ila de Pinos, Whales, Ran
cho Veloz and Saqua la Grande.
twenty-five cities increased from
10 to % per cent.
.Twenty-nine cities increased from
% to so per cent.
Thirteen cities increased from SO to
rs per cent
Seven cities increased from IS to
100 per cent
Mantau, in Pinar del Rio, increas-
ed LOT per cent.
Mayari, in Oriente, increased 13S
per cent.
These last two are, respectively in
the extreme west and the extreme
east of the island, and the increases
are accounted for by an increased de-
velopment of the cultivation of to-
bacco and the colonizations in the
Bay of Nipe in districts formerly
very sparsely inhabited.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02
WOOD BY THE CORD.
Things the Woodmen Know That
Nav Not Be Known to Others.

A cord of wood 8 cubic feet,
Or the contents of pile 8 feet long,
feet high and 4 feet wide. Wood
is marketed on this basis. A pile
whose length, breadth and height
multiplied together gives this num-
Der of cubic feet fills this require
ment, no matter whether the sticks
are long or short, straight or crook
ed, round or split. unless there is an
understanding to the contrary. Never
theless a cord, though it comes up
to legal measurements, Is an uncer-
tain quantity even when the seller
is honest and the buyer satisfied
A lumbernan may have a tract OF
pulp wood which he sells to paper
mill at S. cord for as many cords
as it will make. It is in the contract
that he shall cut and stack it. He
cuts it in IL foot lengths and when
the job is complete it measures 200
cords and he receives $1,000 for it.
Would he have made or lost by cut
ting four foot lengths instead OF
twelve? He would have lost in the
first place from the additional labor
required to cut foot wood, but his
principal loss would have resulted
from a greatly diminished number of
cubic feet, due to the fact that short
sticks lie closer together than large
Had the 200 cords of IL foot wood
been cut in foot lengths there would
have been only II cords and the
owner would have received for it
$3.50 instead Of $1,000 It was there
fore clearly to his advantage to cut |
IL foot lengths. but it would have
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02
Fleece Destroyers.

Beavers have been accommodating in
the State to such an extent that they
have destroyed property in some
instances and the owners of the pro
perty have had to apply to the game
commissioners Office for permits to
kill them.
Anthony Sneeve. wealthy cattle
man. living fifteen miles up Brush
Creek from Gypsum, Col, secured a
permit. recently and brought in ten
hides few days ago. He built half
mile fence from quaking asps last
fall on one portion of his ranch. but
me winter being long the beavers
supply of food ran out They sailed
forth and found that fence a tempting
morsel. Every post was cut off close
to the ground and the beavers then
cut the rails into short lengths. stow
ing those in their huts until they
were ready to eat the bark Then
they carried the wood out and float
ed it down stream.
A Mrs. Bond. living half mile be-
low Pine in Platte Canon, also Sc
cured permit to kill beaver colony
on her place. She planted hand
some grove of shade trees few years
ago and they are now in a flourish
ing condition: but a colony of beav-
ers built a dam in the Platte during
the late winter and they insist upon
stealing her nice, soft shade trees
unless she stands over them with
club nearly all the time-Denyer Re-
publican.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02
ssS,. =.
Wicked
Secrets Of
the Sultan'S
Palace
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

The fallen Sultan Abdul Hamid is
beginning to get accustomed to his
new life in his prison villa at Sal
Oniki, writes a Constantinople cor.
respondent.
Nervous at first, he now seems in
terested in the simple things which
surround him, sometimes going for a
walk in the garden and asking the
names of the flowers. OF the women
Of the harem who have accompanied
the master, two girls. aged fourteen
and fifteen years. respectively, are
installed as his favorites.
In the meantime, extraordinary dis
coveries have been made in Yildiz
Kiosk. and go far to prove the many
strange stories told of Adults queer
devices to protect his life and wealth.
To get the safes open a clever
GOLDSMITH was brough from Pera. AS
soon as he began to work on one Of
them he warned all present to stand
away, as he feared an explosion.
AS soon as the door began to turn
on its hinges detonations were heard.
They came from pistols placed in
the safe, which were fired automatic
ally when the safe was tempered with.
The eunuch Nadid, from whom in.
formation is being extracted concern
ing the Sultans secrets. was taken
through the apartments of the palace
with his hands fastened and soldiers
all around him. All advances were
made with utmost precautions. 1t was
we'll known that there were all kinds
of traps and ambushes, which the
eunuch alone knew existed, and into
which he could let those accompany
ing him fall.
In that part Of the palace where
the Sultan resided there were found
rooms with doors in the walls, hid.
den rooms, movable doors in the floors
and pits full of spikes and other kinds
of diabolical inventions.
There were also lay-fgures found
representing Abdul Hamid, and adj
made. They were used to
hide his presence in one part of the
palace, being placed so as to give the
idea to people outside that he was
reading in a certain room or sleep |
ing.
In one of the greatest cellars were |
found innumerable elephants tusks. |
The strong box, containing silver,
jewelry, account books and bank
books referring to deposits in foreign
banks-that in the Duetsch bank
to $4,000, 00O-was trans
ferred to the Minister of War.
One of the reports made by The
Parliamentary Committee, taking the
inventory of Yildiz Kiosk. mentions
the discovery of a number of foreign
and Turkish bonds in the clothing Of
Prince Kahn, son of Abdul Hamid,
who accompanied his father into ban
The clothes were searched
because they were being forwarded
or the use of the prince at Salonika.
Another find consisted of numerous
papers and reports contained in 2
strong room. Among them was a
arge sum in 500 rouble notes, scat
cred about between papers.
According to a government official
Prince Durham Ed Din, son of Abdul
1amid, intends to organize rising
n Albania and to march on Salonika
It the head of an Albanian army to
et his father free.-Washingto Star.
|
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02

! OF Texas, Arizona and New Mexico
Land owners who have this formerly
| despised weed growing upon their
holdings are now in fair way 70
reap a fortune.
When it was discovered a few
, years ago that a good grade Of crude
rubber could be manufactured from
! the guayule shrub experiments began
| to be made by Mr.. Pacius and others
with various other kinds of wild vege-
| tation to learn if they possessed com
mercial properties. Mr.. Pacius found
that the cadelilla contained wax TO
the amount of 81 to Az per cent.
He gathered a supply of the plants
and began experiments with view
of arriving at process of economical
extraction of the wax. He perfected
this process a few months ago and
it is now in practical operation.
The manufacture of this vegetable
wax is already on paying CONNER
cial basis. The demand for the pro-
duct comes at this time chiefly from
Germany The present price of the
wax in Mexico is $500 gold a ton.
It is said that it takes about thirty
tons OF the weed to make one ton OF
the crude wax. The coast of produc-
ing ton of wax is SIS gold.
The land upon which the candelilla
weed grows profusely is producing
a big revenue in the localities where
factories have been established. It
is said that where land is we'll set
in the plant it can be made to yield
a profit of 5000 to $500 gold an acre
year.
The candelilla wax is said to be
harder than any other wax. This
fact has caused it to be in demand for
the manufacture of photograph rec
ords, pharmaceutical articles. warm
ishes, shoe, leather and wood polishes.
insulation in electrical wiring, gums,
candles and many other things.
The fact that the guayule shrub and
the candelilla plant are now known
to contain valuable commercial pro-
perties has aroused the interest Of
the Federal authorities of Mexico AMI
it is said that a series of chemical
experiments and tests Of the various
other desert plants which cover great |
stretches of land in northern Mexi- |
co will be made under the direction |
of the Government with the view of |
any commercial proper, |
ties that they may contain. One point
which grows profusely along the Rio
Grande is called gubernador and is
being used extensively for the manu-.
facture of boiler compound. There
are also two or three kinds of shrubs
and weeds which possess cleansing
almost identical in effect
with washing soap. The roots of one
of these shrubs are used by the ma
tive MeXicans to the exclusion OF
soap.-'New York Sun.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02
SEA FOOD AND TYPHOID.
Oyster Beds Being Mapped and Ex
amined by State Board.

|
Although the earliest outbreak OF
| typhoid fever attributed to the eat.
| ing of oysters was reported in 1916
and, especially since 1880, many 9TH
, er cases have been placed on rec
ord, but little is as yet known posi-
lively upon which a determination o.
the sanitary conditions of shellfish
can be based.
Nor has there yet been establish
ed a definite relation between any
estimated pollution of water or Of
shellfish and the disease producing
liability of such polluted water or
shellfish. The evidence connecting
the eating of polluted oysters with
outbreaks of typhoid fever cannot,
however, be questioned.
In the United States the most not.
able examples of such epidemics
were those at Middletown, Conn, and
at Atlantic City. The Monthly Bull.
letin of the New York State Depart
ment of Health in reviewing the sub
ject refers to the conclusions of the
British Sewage Disposal Commission.
This commission, according to the
Medical Journal, concluded that a
considerable number of cases of en-.
teric fever are caused by the con-
sumption of shellfish which have been
exposed to sewage contamination,
though an accurate determination of
the number Of such cases was nat.
urally not possible.
The most careful studies and in
vestigation of actual conditions are
necessary before any positive con-
demnation or trustworthy certifica.
ton of oyster beds can be made. Such
an Investigation is now being car
ried on by the State board and data
are being secured as to the pollu.
ton of the streams, tidal waters,
ETC., In the waters adjoining Long
Island and Staten Island, which com.
prise the oyster cultivation districts
in this State.
The location and extent of all beds |
have been mapped out, visits to the
beds have been made and 1928 sam.
pies of water and 2O4 samples of
oysters have been examined bacteria |
logically. The results of the studies
In the field and in the laboratory are
in accord. but>the work is still pre-
liminary and the department is not
yet prepared to pass judgment.
That unrestricted pollution of the
waters of the State should cease is.
however, evident, and the policy of
me Department of Health in prevent.
ng in so far as it has the power the
lis arge OF raw or ineffectivsly
reated sewage into these waters
viii be continued and extended.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02
WAX FROM A MEXICAN WEED.

The Once Dsspised candeIiiIa Now
Worth $500 or More an Acre.
The discovery by Oscar Pacius of
Monterey Of a process for extracting
wax from the candelilla weed is caus-
ing the establishment OF new In.
dustry In Mexico and Texas. The
candelilla grows abundantly upon
many millions OF acres Of semi-arid
aAnl IN northarn sMaxinn and narta
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02

1t IS the naeertainty Of ro,,..
muses. he Chicago News. that 1 ruas.
mt 90 dahy about them. a''
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02

Piety adopted because it nave =.
fesses the Chicago Tribune - ~, "
more than It is worth. w
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02
His Prospects.

"My dear said the banker to MS
only daughter, 81 have noticed a
young man attired in a dress suit in
the drawing room two or three eve
nings each week of late. What is
his occupation"
He is at present unemployed, faith
err" replied the fair girl. a dreamy.
PARKWAY look in her big blue eyes:
but he is thinking seriously of &C
cepting a position as life companion
to young lady of means. "-Tit-Bits.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS

4 reputation at a quilting bea =.
a'out as long is a celluIoid "a
on satan's OH aomestead, signs A ts'
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02

FOR every person that acts Bh.
tonic on us. 1000 act like a mus,,.
plaster, comp.ajIs the New W.
Press. '~
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-10-02

A new Bible Seminary Building has
been erected in the Methodist Mission
in Manila. Philippine Islands