Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1894, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, i804-TWENTY PAGES. 18 LOADING 2 A MELON STEAMER. GET THEM PLUGGED The Season of the Juicy Watermelon is Here, GROWTH OF & NEW INDUSTRY How it Has Been Fostered by the Southern Railroads. EMPLOYMENT FOR MANY a elincsetiamits Written for The Evening Star. T= SIGN, “MELON today,” displayed on a trio of the tempt- ing™ glossy green fruit in the cafe win- dow notifies the pub- He that the day of the famed Georgia watermelon is at hand. The small gamin of all shades flattens his nose against the pane, sighs regretfully and tries to console him- self with the reflection, “Bime bye Unkle Rub'n sell um cent er slice,” and with a whoop he rushes off with his neglected papers. If he could behold the pickanin- mies on a southern melon farm burying their grinning faces fn slice after siice of the juicy fruit his patfence would be sorely tried. The busy man, as he eats his after- @inner melon and reads his Star, probably has no idea of the importance that this same meion has as a factor in the com- merce of the south, rivaling even the pea- nut and the sweet potato. When the railroads invaded the southern wilderness the managers saw at a glance the Immense profit they would reap if ways end means could be devired to transport the melors that grew fn such surprising abundance to the northern states. The @reatest difficulty lay"in teaching the na- tives how to cultivate the melon. To them the idea was preposterous, gilding the ily, so to speak, but after many experi- ments an? losses a melon was developed, Juicy, crisp, yet tender and with just the Fight thickness of rind to bear the many Oh, How Tempting. handlings before reaching Its destination. Thus the Georgia meion, as we know it, managers of the railroads have done everything toward building up the now immense trade, visiting the homes on their roads and distributing seeds among the people tco poor to buy them. As soon as elons are ripe for shipment begins a scene of bustle and ac- tivity ting, testing and piling the wag- ons and ox carts to go to the station, where the cars, stand waiting for thelr freight. At the station the women, picka- Minnies and men gather ike bees around heney—melon being free to all comers—for besides the left overs there’s many a slip *twixt the hand and the car, end then how the pic! innies revel. But the most pic- one 1s the great Boston or New loading up. Early in the the sun fs just pepping . a small car load comes before the breeze, setting ted follows in her wake, and other, and they drop s from the steamer. In a few Minutes a line of rcwhoats stretches be- tween and the men toss the melons from one to the other until ey are safe In the vessel. As their lithe, blueclad figures ay to and fro they keep time to a song with sweet rhymic swing. Occasionally turesque York steam Pickaninries on Melon Far there Is a splash and a melon bobs up on the waves. Yah! yaht rings across the water and the ehout of derisior Pears ike your fingers is all fumb: Other Splashes follow and the eager little wharf Tats tow the on ashore. Some idea of ihe enormity of th> water- p may be formed? when the num “li annually in the United States down at 150,000,000,000, When the tea, the ete. ¥ Night Oxtside the Mark nor wi | Chicago; the labo rs on the farms, the gatherers and shippers. Then the com- mission merchant comes in for his share of the profits ere the melon gladdens the public palate through hotels, cafes, huck- Sters and curbstone venders. ‘The’ hous wife carefully saves the rind for pickles and preserves, while «an excellent sweet- meat of the rind spiced {s sold in the shops. While the Georgia watermelon plays an important part, no true Washingionlan would award it the palm of superiority oyer the branch melon, for the melon ralsed around here is hard to beat. Cornfield Harbor, famed for the ice cream melon, a variety with pale green rind and white meat and seed, must not be passed by with- out mention. In a few weeks the streets will echo with the cry of “Watermtiyns—sweet watermillyns—plug ‘em at yore door.” The Uttle shops will bear the magic sign in strag- gling letters: | Watermeion on ice, 2 and 5 cents a slice. The clam man's cart will be.de- serted for the more attractive pennyworth at his rival's, the melon vender’s. And Saturday nights, one side the market, amid flaring lights from the spouts of battered coffee pots and the babel of voices there will be a mighty thumping and plug- ging of melons, and all Washington will feast. With the small boy at the window we say speed the day. THE TALL IKL'S MISTAKE. She Started Out to Have Fun With the Young Englishman. From the Buffalo Express. The tall girl with the yellow hatr and the white dress had announced Ler intention of having fun with the young Englishman who was a guest at the house where she was staying. He had but lately arrived in this country and he was here for a few days on his way to a leisurely inspection of the west. “I suppose, Mr. Chiimediy,” the tall girl said when she got her proposed victim ranged up beside a lot of other girls who wanted to see and hear the fun, “1 suppose you find this country much differ- ent from Engiand?” “Indeed, I do,” replied the young English- man, politely. “It is very different.” “Do you like it?” “I hardly know yet. I have seen but very little of it, you know.” “Disappointed, aren’t you?" “I can't say that I am.” “Weren't you grieved because you didn’t find any Indians tn Central Park in New York waiting to scalp unwary Britons? You surely thought Indians would be ther “Pardon me, but I had no such idea.” “Well, you expected to hunt Buffalo on Long Island, I'll be bound, and jooked for cowboys and Mexicans on the wharf, to say nothing of bears and deer in the Bat- tery?" “You are entirely mictaken. I expected to find none of the things you have men- tloned.”* “But you didn’t know how large this country was. You had an idea—confess now-—that you could run up to Buffalo in half an hour from New York?" “I knew it was a ten-hour ride.” The tall girl was rather disconcerted by this time, but she bit her lips and con- tinued the battle. “lad no idea of going out to California and back in the same “Didn't think that most of the people here were savages ani dresscd in skins when they dressed at all?” “Certainly not.” Ii our habits, customs snd institutions Were strange and outlandish to you, no douht?”" “Some of them strauge, but none of them outlandish.” The tall girl was nonplussel. The other girls were laughing at her d{scoratiture. She nervously twisted and untwisted her handkerchief and finaliy sald: “Weill, you are a queer sort of .n Englishman. How is it you know so much?" In tones icy enouga to cau temperature the youns Englisnman replied: “Because, miss, I studied geography when I was at schcol.” Then, while the tall girl blushed red as a peony, he coi ed: “I also studied deportment, something which, I fear, was not Included in your curricu- lum.” The tall girl was so mortified that she didn’t leave her room for two days. e a drop in — eae ahve ‘= The Very Thing. , From Puck. F.rst Speculator—“I don’t know what We'll do with that tract of land back of Hog Mountain. It’s too far from the city to make suburban hemes; and it is so full ot malart: nd mosquitoes that it couldn't be farm Second Speculator—“We'll have to run up a hotel, then, and make a summer resort of it." —_ + e+ __ How Fashions Are Designed. From the Chicago Herald. _——, — ( The top, the dish and the jar. THE BLUE PENCIL Wielded by a Competent Hand Needed for the Record. THE BULKY PROSEEDINGS OF CONGRESS Failure of Efforts to Secure Some Judicious Pruning. |THE LEAVE TO PRINT Written for The Evening Star, T HAS BEEN SAID of the Congressional Record that it is the enly periodical in the United States, if not tn the world, which is edited by its contribu- tors, The Record un- fortunately has no editor. That is one reason why it has in- creased to twice its former size in ten years. There are other conditions, of course, to account for the 20,000 pages in the bi- ernial publication. The two houses of Con- gress now adjourn at 5 and 6 o'clock, when 3 or 4 o'clock was the hour of adjournment twenty-five years ago. The sessions of Con- gress, tco, are longer. Then, while the mem- bership of the House can be reduced in the reapportionment, the membership of the Senate Increases constantly. Therefore the speechmaking increases. The Record grows until its great bulk {ts appalling, and the proposition that an. editor should be ap- pointed to “blue pencil” the copy for the congressional daily has Leen discussed a great many times. Two years ago St was even made the sub- Ject of an investigation. Of course, nothing came of the Investigation. A recommenda- tion was made to the Fifty-second Congress that an editor be appointed, not for the pur- pose of cutting down the speeches made in the Senate and House, but for the excision of unnecessary matter in the report of the proceedings. But so many objections were raised and so many culties were en- countered that the subject was finally-aban- doned without the accomplishment of a g00d. For example, it was proposed to omit from the Record the full text cf bills which are read at length. he argument in favor of this econcmy cf spuce was that the bill, sulted being numbered, could be coi original. But the official rep. aying that the me. take copies of ail the bills introduced home, and that an intelligent understandin his. & of the debate tn nin Cases Could not be »s, unless the bill we sible, Aly the reporters of take it on themselves to one house w to appear in the re prt of the proceedings of the *iher house. © objeciion has ever been QV to this, And, of course, the official reporters do not always repeat word for word what is said either in devate or in the transaction of the routine Procecdings of the House or Senate. Not as Reported. For example: The little cony in due form, between the and the President's private s whieh ocgurs when the messages of the President are preseated ts epitomized by the re In a few well-ctoren words. It w great waste of the little dialorw Presiding officer—The pend while the cl from the Presiden Capt. Bassett dent of the Uni Private secretary Presiding officer—Mr. sary, Private secretary—f am air President of the United State: to the Sonate sundry message: Senator will r rec : of the United Stx cessuge irom the Presi- ed by the Ss to present writing. In place of this form of dialogue, which ia repeated several times each w to the reat editication of the ¢ i the report- ers note in the proceedings that a me was received from the Presid acter of the message is deve is laid before the S y the pr: officer. accompanies the presentation of pet and memorials. Instead of giving the President” and the ‘Phe Senator from Pean. sylvania” which precetes the pres-ntation of a petition b ers say that petition of — ented stammers in addre: @ great many thing: to say, and omits are very necessary, ng the chair, end says that he doesn't want great y that of this time is simply trying to offer a yle amendme: without debate, the reporters do not at tempt to reproduce the stuttering or th unnecessary word: Wanted it An In, But the necessity for accuracy even in| hings s shown very Fer exam en Mr. Reed 3 ccmsent Was asked one day by a republican memb-r for per- Mission (0 continue his speech after limit cf time Some one obje x the direction when sald: “The gentleman fr. A southern member, addre: said: “It is not the gentleman from Texas that objects, but the gentleman fr. sylvania, Mr. B lew 5 chalew confirmed this statement, and the reporters ebridged the incilent so that it read in the Record next morning: The Speaker—Is there objection? Mr. Buckalew ob, eX The southern member who had made the correction came to the reporters the follow- ing day and made quite a fuss about this abridgement. He said that the statement of the Speaker that “the gentleman from Texas objected" should have been printed. “There is a peint in that,” he said. “The Speaker has an object in throwing the edium of objecting upon a southern man, and I want his remark to appear in the permanent Record." ‘The reporters made the change tn t copy which is used in making up the pct manent or bound Record. Where there could be no objection to cutting down the matter in the Record Is in the item of “re- consideration.” Whenever a bill is passed some one moves to reconsider the vote, and then a motion {s adopted to lay that motion en the table. This ts what might be termed in the vernacular of the west a legislative cinch. It tles the bil! can by anv chance move to reconsider the vote by which that bill was passed. As this proceeding used to appear in the Record it ing the chair, “The bil we read a third time, and being eng! accordingly read the third ssed Mr. Saunders moved to ree vote by wh: 1 noved that the mo: only on the bills and ich have passed both the President in pled 13,314 lines , OF 131 columns of that va! ution. Even that space was 8 been saved by judicious Congress. There ts a great ore space which could be economized n editor, if such an officer were au- 1 to be But the jealous amber of the urpos2 of sp toward speech, either So the propo- ut of an editor to make cha: hi bse marks as yo that no one who hi ppear In the eard them dal “ered would Then there ts the dialogue which | up so that no one | : 2 recognize them. It would be a good thing if Congress could restrict the “leave to print” in the House. This is an institution hopes to the House.’ There are only two instances of leave to print granted in the Senate, Mr. Sprague of Rhode Island was making a speech at the special session of 1869; and as he had occupied several cays and the Senate was anxious to adjourn, it was proposed that he “have leave to print the remainder of his remarks. It took the public printer a week to finish the publica- tion of Mr. Sprague’s “speech” in the Rec- ord, The remainder of the speech was com- posed of letters, which Mr. Sprague had re- ceived, thanking him for his supposed labors for the laboring man. Mr. Quay recently had part of his voluminous tariff speech printed unread in the Record. * Leave to Print, The reason that the “leave to print” ts not much known to the Senate {is that speech ts not abridged there. Every Sena- tor Is sure of an opportunity to say all that he wishes to say on any subject under discussion. In the House, because of the unwieldiness of its membership, debate must be Iimited and members who wish to place themselves before the country in the right light have po means of getting in the Recurd usually, unless they obtain per- mission to print remarks wich they have not delivei This is quite right and just; but It woull be well /f the number of col- umns for each speech should be limited, and if a rule should be adopted that unneces- sery matter in the Constitution of th United States, Washington's farewell addre: and lung magazine articles, such as have been printed frequently, should not be ad- mitted to the Record, ze of the “leave to print” has abusel, A good many years ago a delegaze named Downey primted in the Record a long metrical composition, in- tended to be a profount politico-philosophic poem. Mr. Garijeld, who was then a mem- ber of the House, offered a resolution to have the verses excluded from the perma nent Record; and his proposition was adopt- ed. At another time a representative from Ohio, named Mungen, publishel in the Rec- crd under the printing privilege a scurrilous personal attack on Senator Sumner. This speech also was siruck from the permanent Record and Mungen was formally censured by the House. It would have been well if both these publications and many others which have followed them could have been excluded from the temporary Record. But it fs doubtful tf the Hox will ever con- sent to the establishment of « supervision over the remarks of its members, except by the House Itself. GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN. a ENGLISH CHAMPAGNE DRINKERS, Some Notable Poluts in Which They Difer From America: From the New York Recorder. Since the time when, in merry cold Eng- land, Dr. Johnson declared “port” to be the only drink fit for men, the taste of the British wine bibber has undergone a con- siderable change. Some stout-hearted old uire may still keep up the habit ‘passing the bottle” arcund the board, but the “six bottle men ave long since died out. ft may be the tendency of mod- ern life which has brought about a cha in the habits and pursuits and, driving them fr . the si ecach and rul Tinto the Eng the hunting al sperts in ed the sturdy claret and characte! t a2 ultivated ant th taste till it can weil be said that t ng, the keeping, the and the fi wine have by rticularly English led $f the one of he gate the nd vintag ave none bat the r, when the gre: r vintages to th 2 uch a notable label well-known nn gravely mertis of th wo te i the | pur: ns for fine e, and, aft ich wine the ] decide as to wl |wiven. So subtie is their h 15 t their opinion i | finds its expression in th id fer the diferent 1s at th ss, Which » for pric naglund. ris alw price for wha but e Cherper in A wine dri ing to pay the high s the best wine, ts hi agne much ¢ Americans ean get the same ns we find fa a recent aper than ning. number unce, Ridley’s Wine and Spirit Trade Ctreular the following quotations per dozen of e nds of champagne of the vint 83 to SS: , and G. H. Mamm Wt came brands woult merican consumer in his home double the price viy eae, of co % Dut anothe ie cha is the lack purchasing the brand. ‘The Climate is Frvorable. ence in the posses: the brand he prefers, stores it tilious care in his cellar, which is a or keeping the wine for y condition, The English cl! rs wine preservation. Any ion cf with pun good celler in England will not show a greater variation in temperature than a few decrees t the year. In America we are at a disadvantage. In cur climate, even in the best of cellars, the temperature varies t degrees and more. This makes it imposai bie to keep so delicate an urticle as cham- pagne from leaking. The Englishman also serves champagne differentiy from the manner in which it {ts served in our country. ‘True to our predi- lection for ice-cold drinks, we insist upon the bottle being as cold as Greenland some even go So far as to have the pagne “frapped,” and are not sati less the liquid ts turned Into a frozen mass. To the Englishman this Ric seems & wrong Conc to the subtle fiivor of the wine, which fs destroyed by, Inténse cold. He ts careful to leave the cHampagne in the ice cooler only a short tine before it is con- sumed, and believes that thus he loses none of the delicate bouquet of this pi beverages. fe ne a Ana She Smiled Through Her From the Chicago Triby - —“Lebelia, Xe shall have to give up that trip to the seaside. We can’t y on account of the strike.” McSwat—"It’s ashame!” it's too bad. But, we'll say woulf have cost. the ‘That's comfort.” 2s! And now I can have those nd earrings you said we coui ford on account of our trip to the seasid ree Profound Theory. me oe From the Indianapolis Journal. Mr, Jason—“! ll jist bet It that rted this here strik Mrs. Mr. Jason— fashion this y them there rest till their hus’ jand’s sake!" za bea Meking It Plexsant for Mint. From Life. art with | For | ¢ of .| bark from { | | | a cranium and cross bon The Great Collection That Belongs to Uncle Sam. THE SKELETON OF THE GREAT AUK Human Bones Less Costly Than Those of Animals. USED AS FERTILIZERS Written for The Evening Star. Ress ISLAND— that is, a part of 1t— has been reproduced for exhibition at the National Museum. It was on that lonely rock, thirty-two miles off the coast of New- foundland, that the now-extinct great auk had its principal roost. Fifty years aso the last individual of the species per- {shed. It is “repre- sented now by a skeleton, worth $600. standing by a heap of bird remains such as chiefly compose the surface soll of Funk Island, while alongside is an egg of the fow}, valued at $1,500, together with the inner skin of another egg. The National Museum possesses nearly all of the great auk bones in existence; they are the most costly bones in the world. The finest collec- tion of skeletons in the world is stored at the National Museum. They are arranged in a serles, so as to run upward from the lowest fishes through the reptiles and birds, to man. Human bones are much cheaper than those of many other animals. One can buy a nicely-articulated skeleton of a man for $40, or of a woman for $~sex makes some difference in the price—whercas the skeleton of a gorilla costs $300, of a whale $150, of an elephant $400, of a lion $75, of a horse $70, of a cat $ and of a python $7: ‘The dones of a human being are nearly one-quarter water during the life of the individ: phosphate of lime, but contain a good dcal ef animal matter and other elements. In the ske n of a man are nearly four :nds of the metal calcium, which is many nes more Valuable Chan go yan ounce. Thus in the 6: f the averase tramp may be found material with a market value of about $15, (0, but the troubie is to separate it trom the substances wath which it is combined. | That is what makes only in bones that phosphate of | feund in anything like a pure s | body knov vi ly that human import into this to grow crops with. Not long ago > from Mexico to the caricads of human ve beon obtained from an- thern Mexico, but more thom pus old and remains tes of ten to ha $4 c probably abandored were fi thered cometeri ments OL vnassorted s) Limated that 50,000 i esented in the lot. Hunan Bones as Fertilizer. ld not be considered a novelty Years ego, Englisa farmers bones lo some extent to fer- tlize their jand. battietield of Wate: foo Was for a tuae Lase of suppiies, and Pied ey mumaues from a nue powder. Tee etchel for tnis purpose by served corpses of s of years doubt- f bat This +m) § formed part cf tne > huis of the m te of « between . Cor years otd out through the nostrils nd the body er beirg & vative sul mache of linen iclosed in a rian bark i she at port New wind to consist in | part 1 of tt one- fourth were hu . The balance | posel meinly of the bones of hor r of ber hold rbod was a e me led to by fri of swa ht rms of blue 3 the acter of the k lors and the 7 Information that the boaes hy land cemeteries of that country [shipped to the United State | fertnli The p | tons for market | dustry. ‘The chi and were for use as paration of human skele- s quite an important in- nier for this branch [et commercial Paris, where | three concerns are engaged in the business nsiderable seale. They obtain the isite sunplies of raw material in the ef bedies from public institutions, most of them being those of paupers and criminals, who have died in the asylums and prisons. The French government con- siders it a good plan to turn to a useful account in this way after death the thieves and murderers who have been enemies of society during their lifetime. It is a rule recognized In most countries that a person who accepts the hospitality of an almshouse must sacrifice the privilege of ordinary Christian burial, Europe Suppttes the Skeleto In the United States the existing laws weuld not permit the establishment of a factory for bleaching end preparing human paupers may find their way to the dissect- Ing rooms of medic but it is required that evente: hall be ac- « 1 for and b But in Europe this matter Is regarded from a different view, and the manufacture of of men, women and children for ar Nin and Vienna, as well as in Paris. Thu it happens that the human skeletons re- quired by fie institutions in this rountry are imported from abroad. The only sort of skeleton produced here Is of the family type, which is kept in the . To supply the di d in this coun- out 1,500 skeletons are Imported an- This reckoni mihor parts, such as ¥ are in great request being absolutely indispensable ry ceremonies, One may purct for only $1 ly in does not include 13 and thigh bones, by secret so- for But if you want some the way of a skull be studied sep. Ing even the little bones of © lower jaw can be detach feature is calculated to excite thovghts In the mind of a man a mother-in-law. % buy a very goo? skel $10. A plain skull c students of obstetrics there Is a and for the pelvis, which comes zed to defy supersti- the use of skulls for young h pro be seen Herrmai in VALUABLE BONES? They are chiefly composed ot | 1, being worth | * etons, it | ced of mum- | The | Then the bones are they are scraped and bleached in the sun. It ts said that the French secure the 4 agp whiteness which marks their work | in is line by treating the bones with | ether and benzine. Finally, the bones pass into the “finisking room,” where they dre assorted. Many skeletons being cleaned at once, the bones are more or less mixed up, and a single skeleton aS sold may consist of fragments of a number of individuals. A female skeleton {s worth several francs more than that of a male, Wars Cheapen the Demand. The disarticulation of skulls is performed Separately in the factory, as it ts a branch requiring greater skill and nicety of manipu- lation. With the crania of young adults, or childrer it is effected by the ingenious pian of filling the emptied skull cavity with dried pease, which are then steeped in w ter, and in swelling compel the disjunction more delicately than would be possible in any other way. The skeletons of infants are treated by themselves. A distinct boiled, after which kelet, fte1 ‘arist, ethod if fo Femove tho flesit by means of he are | A MAN WITH A HISTOR branch of the business has to do with the preparation of skeletons of various animals for the use of natural history students. These are sold to schools and colleges. Liz- arés, snakes, frogs, and other reptiles and Latrachians require special care on account vf the delicacy of their bony structure. Wars are apt to have a depressing effect on the market fer human nes. For some time after the conflict between Russia and Turkey the cheapness and abundance of the skeleton supply injured the trade some- what. Great quantities of bones were col- lected on the battleticlds which marked the history of that memoreble struggle. Con- querers of old did not take the trouble to bury the people slaughtered along their lines of march, but left behind them hun- dreds cf thousands of bleaching skeletons, which were gathered years afterward and piled in pyramids tLat were soon. wasted away by the winds and storms. After the battle of Morgarten the Swiss made such a pyramid of the bones of the soldiers of Charles the Rash left on the field. ‘The weiter begs leave to quote an essay- ist in the Saa Francisco Chronicle, who states that in the process of cremation the flesh tissues disappear, and there is left a residue composed of pieces of bone of var- ious sizes, which, if water is added and they are driod, become a coarse dust, that may be hermetically sealed in an urn and pre- served for an indefinite period. In Paris the benes of the dead have been removed year after year trom the cemeteries to the cata- combs, until the number of skeletons as- sembled, more or less complete, amounts to 6,000,000, Bones of saints are scattered all over Europe. There are twenty jJawbones of John the Baptist alone, and nine of St. Bartholeméw’s hands are well known. The most extensive collection of osseous relics is that of the 11,060 virgins in the Church of St. Ursula at Cologne, each separate bone of which is presumed to be capable of per- forming The ordinary bone-boil- discountenanc- 3 cighborhood of fac- engaged in the business, has a wide | ccmmercial importance. The shins, thighs | and fore-legs of cattle and sheep are clean- ed at these esiablishments and turned over cturers, who make them up inte , tooth brushes, collar buttons, buttons, umbrella handles, 8 and combs. Great quantities igh bones, whi furnish the best are exported to Europe and ck to this country In manufac- turel shape. The ribs and skulls are used | for making bone black, which is employed chiefly in sugar rcfineries, The marrow of the bones yields the “bear's grease” of com- merce. The Preparation of Skeletons, Skeletons of animals reach the National | Museum in the rough—that fs to say, with part of the flesh still adhering. They come | from all parts of the world. The small | skeletons are simply soaked in water, serap- | ed and bleached in the sun. Those of larger i ked until the flesh fs rot- Then they are taken out and steeped t washing soda, after which they are bed With brush. . they are put into a weak solution of chloxide of lime, to ents in the | bleach and deodorize them. Finally, they | are spread out in the sun to whiten before | putting cones together and seiting up skeletons, —— WOOD FOR KINDLING PURPOSES. | How It is Prepared by Steam and Ma- | ehinery for Use. j Pine kindling wocd comes principally from the forests of Virginia. The trees, Says the Scientific American, are first cut down and the trunks quartered and sawed into proper lengths. The wood Is then | carted to the coast, packed into sailing ves- | sels and brought to this section, where it is bought up at the docks by the dealers and | manufactured into kindling wood, being first | Sawed into short lengths, then passed | through a steam splitter which carries the | pieces to an elevator, which in turn passes them along and drops them down into the } delivery wagons. The pieces of timber, are four feet six inches in Jength, st sawed into eight and one-half inch lengths, the saws used for tie purpose inches in diameter, one-eighth rkness, having fifty inch aws make per n ute, ie to saw up about ay. The pieces, | ; sawed, are passed to a § They are first placed end | | © endless chain, which, by | | » hexagon wheels and a ratchet | is worked by an eccentric, nm with the wood to move knives, which pass down leces of wood, tt each humber and bolted Y are tweive inches nes in width and three- h in thickness. The knives 1 down a perpendk slide with | eive-inch stroke, maki bout eighty pr minute. The erdiess chain 3| twelve inches in width, and passes over a ed, the top cf which is covered with an iron plate which protects the cl in from the blows of the knives when striking | a. At every downward stroke of | the knives a movable bearing which the | Knives pass through holds the pieces of wood down firmly against the chain. With the upward stroke It releases the split wood, which Is moved forward about two inches at a stroke by the chain, which is worked by the ratchet wheel and eccentric. The pieces of wood then drop down into an ele- carried off to the delivery wagons by a number of buckets bolted on a twelve-inch cotton belt. These buckets are eighteen Inches apart, and made of wooden strips three inches in height and about one and one-half inches in thickness. They are held in place by being bolted to narrow fron strips or the under side of the belt. The belt is about forty-five feet in length, and travels about 1,000 feet per minute. The splitting machine can cut about twenty cords per day. A delivery wagon holding about one cord can be filled in about fifteen minutes. The wholesale price of Virginia pine at the dock is from $7 to $8 per cord; the manufactured kindling wood brings from $11 to $13 per cord. Don't Speak English, From Youth's Companion. It is hard to be called upen to see the point of a joke without being given eu‘li- cient time to see it in. A gentleman with a serious face said at a recent small gather- g of people: What are we coming to? St chusetts th of the Un h langua ne exclaimed. persisted the a two years of i A Maxim Up to Date. alveston News. 2 half a loa 1 get mad and destr ses The Heartless Summer Girl, from Harper's Bazar, these dors and he the bakery. ot permit anybody to ¢ 5 nin prepa: | He—"Do sumer girl has) any heart? She-"Of course she has, rm h 8 or less, her vi % from every fellow in i 3 — The Terrible Experience That Be- fell John W. Thomas of Theta, Tennessee. AMicted with a Peculiar Disense, His Body Covered with Lumps. Could not cat and Thought he was going te dry up, Mis Recovery the Marvel of Tennessee. (From the Nashville, Tenn., Banner.) Mr. John W. Thomas, Jr., of Theta, Tenn., 18 a man with a most interesting history. At present he is interested in blooded horses for which Maury County 1s famous, “Few peopie, I take it,” said Mr. Thomas to a reporter who had asked him for the story of his life, “have passed through as remarkable a chain of events as I have and rema‘ued alive to tell the story. “It was along in 1884, when I was working in the silver mines of New Mexico, that my trou- bles began ; at first I suffered with indigestion, and £0 acute did the pains become that I went to California for my health, but the trip did me lttle good, and fully impressed with the idea that my last day bad nearly dawned upon me, I burried back here to my old home to die: “From simple indigestion my malady devel- oped Into a chronte inability to take any sub- stantial food, I was barely able to creep about, and at times J was prostrated by spelis of heart palpitation, ‘Phis condition continued until one year ago. “On the th of April, 1893, I suddenly col- Japsed, and for days I was unconscious, in fact Iwas not fully myself until July. My condi- tion on September Ist, was simply horrible, f weighed but seventy pounds whereas my nor- mal weight 16 165 pounds. All over my body there were lumps from the size ofa grape to the size of a walnut, my fingers were cramped £0 that I could not more than half straighten them, I had entirely lost control of my lower limbs and my hand trembled so that I could not drink without spilling the liquid. Nothing would remain on my stomach, and it seemed that 1 must dry up before many more days had passed. “I made another round of the physicians, calling in one after the other, and by the aid of morphine and other medicines they gave me, I managed to live though barely through the fan.” Here Mr. Thomas @isplayed his arms, an@ Just above the elbow of each there was a large trregular stain as large as the palm of thehan@ ané ofa purple color, the space covered by the mark was sunken nearly to thebone, “That,” said Mr. Thomas, “is what the doctors did by putting morphine into me. “On the llth of December, 18%, Just eight months after I took permanently to bed—I shall never forget the date—my cowsin, Joe Foster, of Carter's Creek, called on meand gave mea box of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills forPale People, Saying they had cured him of partial paralysis, with which I knew he hadall but died. I fol- lowed his directions and began taking the med. icine, asa result I stand before you to-day the most eurprised man on earth. Look at my hand, it 1s as stead, yours; my face has a healthy look about it; I bave been attending tomy duties foramonth. Since I began tak- ing the pills I have gained 2 pounds, and Iam still gaining. All the knots have disappeared from my body except this litUe kernel here in my palm, I have agood appetite and Jam al- most as strong as I ever was. “Yesterday I rode thirty-seven miles on horseback, I feel tired to-day but not sick. I used to have from two to four epells of heart palpitation every night, since I began the use of the pills I have had but four spells altogether, “1 know positively that I was cured by Dr. Willams’ Ptuk Pills, and I believe firmly that itis the most wonderful remedy in existence to-day, and every fact I have presented to you 1s known to my neighbors ns well as to myself, and they will certify to the truth of apy te markable cure.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are not a patent medicine in the sense that name implieg They were first compounded as a pre- scription and used as such in general practice by an eminent physician, 6&0 great was their efficacy that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach ofall, They aro now manu- factureé by the Dr, Williams’ Medicine Com- pany, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or bendred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold in this shape) at cents a box, or six bomes for $2.50, and may be had ofall druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company. SSSVTOSOSSORESTEOS S88eC8: :FACIAL LEMISHES. ‘The only imstitetion In the south ae voted exclusively to the treatment of the Skin, Kealp and Rivod and the re- toval of Fucial Biemisbea, eee ACNE, SUPERFLUOUS Mara, POLES, MULES, ECZEMA, Wants, KEP NUST PRECKLES, RED VEINS, TATIVO MARKS, UILY SKIN, SUALS, PLACK HEADS, AND ALL BLEMIS'IES DANDRUFF, OF THE SKIN. Sos. Hepburn, venuarovoasr & Groauate of Jefferson Med. Col, Phila, and the Royal University of Vienna, MEKTZ BLDG, COR. TH AND F STS. Consultation free. mhi0-cott SPED DOO SPH e PHOT NOS EV EHTS NO! WISHES NEVER BOUGHT FURNITURE. ‘There is only one thing that's as good a8 cash—that's CREDIT—WE MADE It BO. 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