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VOL. XIV. LAKE PROVIDENCE EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1901. NO: 3.
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N eminent military expert, d
having extolled the cavalry of a
his own country, continues: a
"The same is practically true ii
of the American horse soldier, only a
perhaps a little more so, because, es- b
pecially 'out West,' the American al- f
most lives on horseback, and of course f
most li-es on horseback, and or course rours. 'Tie skirmisn line auvances, *auuu w experieuce3 uei rue LL Ju5
he has the old Anglo-Saxon affection firing "volleys by platoons." 'by lish Hove of Parliament, is again be,
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for horseflesh in his blood. Then, tOo, sqi
some of the most graceful horsemen an
In the world are to be found in the azi
Southern States The great training, tbh
however, of these cavalrymen has been cal
found in the Indian wars. Their work of
there was rough-riding in the very ovi
truest sense of the word, and nowhere dit
could man and horse be found more ter
perfectly joined as a fighting unit than DI1
on those wild battle-grounds on which the
the white man and the red man fought fro
their last fights." ma
During the earlier stages the train- tro
Ing of the United States cavalryman out
differs in no essential particulars from the
that of the Infantryman, but, later on, wl
the great variety of instruction in the hie
cavalry arm of the service renders it oni
most interesting for both officers and oth
troopers. Beginning with the "set- ces
ting-up" exercises, the recruit looks the
forward to the time when he shall be fut
assigned his horse and be a full-fledged F
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cavalryman. The new horses, or "re- ev
mnounts," as they are called, no doubt the
also lo h: for the time when neck- W
bending lessons, the passaging, the
turning of the forehead to me right
and left, about. etc., are over, and ar
longs, as does the recruit to be among cr
the horses that know how to handle
themselves from their foretops to their bi
heels. After the soldier has earned r
to sit his saddle and to gov'rn his de
horse, he gets the more Interesting at
lgnishing-work-jumping, potato races, tr
sa.bre practice and rough riding. In t
the old cavalry regiments, before the b
Spanish war and the present reorgani- m
sation. whole troops could give exhi- m
bitious of Cossack riding that were at
not to be seen outside of a cricus. Ti
'.g troop known as the "Black
Horse Cavalry," at Fort Myer, Vir
ginia, contains men who are believed
to be the finest riders in America. u
1'housands of Washington society peo- ht
*le go out to witness their weekly ex- fr
klbition drills, and are not only inter- to
eated, but excited, for there is nothing uc
bore thrilling than a drill with the
Rlgor, snap and precision that are dc
abaracteristic of our American cay- pi
A FANCY CAVALRY EVOLUTION-THE MOVING CR08S.
lrmy. Beginning with the simpler evo- Customer-"I want an umbrella."
lutlons of the troop these "BIack Dealer-"Do rou want a good one or
Klors" troopers go through the ao o can >.4d Ma md r
with equal precision and a marveloun
uniformity. As in some of the Euro
pe-n armies all American cavalrymen
are dragoons, that is to say, they are
trained to fight both mounted and dis
mounted. While dashing down the
,t, drill-ground, doing some intricate
3f movement, the troop is given the com
s: mand "dismount to fight on foot," and
ie in a couple of seconds the men are in
ly an infantry skirmish line, and their
a- horses are being led to the rear, at a
1- full gallop, by the No. 4 of each set of
3e fours. The skirmish line advances,
in firing "volleys by platoons," "by
,, squads," "firing at will," etc. Upon f
n arriving at the proper distance "mag- T
e azine rapid fire" is ordered, and finally b
the imaginary enemy is charged and n
a captured. Then follow the exhibitions a
k of Individual horsemanship-jumping h
y over hurdles and fences and covering IT
e ditches and stone walls. A most in
e teresting feature of the drill at Fort
n Myer is the training of the horses and
li their use by the troopers as a shelter
t from the enemy's fire. At the com
mand of the captain, a word from each
trooper, and the horse goes down with
n out a quiver, and lies at full length on
a the ground, while the troopers fire
I, with carbine and revolver from be
e hind their shelter, and with the weap
t ons resting on the horses' backs. An
] other word of command, the firing
ceases, the horses are all standing,
s the trooper in the saddle, awaiting
a further instiuctions.
] For the Musical Ride the arena is
cleared, and from one of the entrances
at the extreme end the band rides in,
followed by the entire troop, now
dressed in full review uniform, and
slowly circle around the inclosure.
The entry is made in pairs, dividing s
to the opposite sides of the ground, -
the horses keeping time to the music, a
and moving as a unit, turning, wheel- h
ing, halting, taking up the trot, the t
gallop and the charge with the accur- s
acy, regularity and mechanical pre
cision of clock-work. At the entrance
end the leaders wheel about and break
into a canter, which is followed by all
while a number of fancy movements
are gone through with-crossing and
counter-crossing, forming stars, form
ing the figure eight, the ladies' chain,
circling around each other, and so
on, until the spectators are worked up
to the highest enthusiasm. When
these figures are finished the troop
draw up in two files at the end of the
arena and charge at full gallop, cheer
ing and yelling, and only halting with
in a few inches of the wall at the other
end of the arena, when it seems that
c- every rider's neck will be broken by
)t the collision.-Frits Morris, in Iarper's
r- Weekly.
1o Vauishins Bird Bae***
t The flamingo and the pink curlew
d are no more, the paroquet and egret
Sre going fast, the white pelican is a
re tradition only, like the dodo. Some
Ir birds increase under the protection of
man because he wages war on more
is destructive enemies. The quail sets
l at naught the breech-loader and the
s' trap if allowed to forage in the grain
n fields, but there are others that vanish
1e before the face of man as does the
`1- mist before the morning sun. We
may delay the end, perhaps, but it is
re at last the survival of the fit.-Florida
Times-Union.
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A- oAouutlas or It.
d "It may be merely fancy," remarked
a. Mrs. Seildom-Holme, ' out since my
o- husband began drinking the water
-. from that iron spring he has seemed
r- to be ten times as obstinate as he
ag used to be."
ie "Perhaps," suggested Mrs. Nex
re dore, "the water is tinctured with
v- pig iron."--Chicago Tribune.
is The astr hn wsay Again Ieue9 one
be r sh ean osens or ParUueitel
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ad RE Behr Monorail systeml by
In which It Is proposed to give a
Ir lightning passenger service
a between Manchester and Liv
of erpool. rfter having met with all
s, kinds d experiences before the Eng
pon fore that body demanding recognition.
ag- The measure is now being considered
ily by a committee of the House of Com
mad mons, before which Mr. Behr has
one again appeared. He stated that he
ing had designed carriages to give accom
ing modation for 10,000 passengers a day,
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sic, and another series for 7500 passengers,
eel- but he said it would be as unfair in
the the committee to bind him to any de
!ur- sign of carriage as it would have been
ccur- sign of carriage as it would have been so to speak, by the brothers Charles ,
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d the tn limit Rtenhanman to the "URocket" In Rn ert Coll(n. and its ancestors I
to limit Stephenson to the "Rocket" a:
type of locomotive. The carriage, of R
which this is a sectional view, Is sixty oi
feet long and ten feet ten inches wide, s]
and has accommodation for 100 pas- el
sengers, each person having a separate fi
seat, specially arranged so as to avoid b
discomfort while passing round the a
curves at high speed. The electric
current is picked up by trolleys at- f£
tached to the car, but insulated from c
the bottom of the bogies flexibly ti
coupled together by a specially de- c
signed joint, of which the carriage t
consists. The bottom part of the car- n
rlage is quite open, so that all the t
guide wheels are exposed to view, and I
there is ample play between the car
riage and the line. The motors only
are completely shut off on all sides by
a box for their protection. The guide
wh*es are two feet in diameter, and
there are sixteen. They are very
broad, and are inclined vertically to
the trestles, instead of being horizon
tal, thereby considerably reducing the
friction. The guide wheels below the
driving wheels are attached to the un
der frame of the carriage, and those
between the two small bogle wheels
are attached to.the centre of the bogle
itself, so that they cannot move at all
with the carriage frame.
The storted Castlo.
Yoe had better make it ten stories
higher," said good King Arthur to the
royal architect.
"What is the use?" queried the lat
htr.
"Odds boddikins and gadsooks,
eitlir. Know ye not that the men of
the future will have to have a storied
castle to write aboutt'-Baltlmor
American.
sCanad had 8217 miles of team sil- 1
wsadr lM fh and ew has 14 J llIs 1
QUEER bDIFERENCES IN CA.TTLEa G
th Are the Dires Rs alt Ot Natima
Prgesdices.
That it iS possible for popuiar taste
to exercise ai ha6st potent influiedee on
the developmneit of animald that itre
used tdO food hats ltely been shown t
in the difference between Prench and
English cattle.
The English are very fond of roast
meat and show a marked preferencd 6
for those portiohl bf A tow; sbch is
the fllet, that hre in the regiod Of the
lolth, ¶vheieai the French like nothing
bettet thai "'ot-au-feu,'" hich is
inhde bf boup had boiled meat, the
trimp being the pait of the animal
froni Whith the meat is takexn Thus,
if it is tree that steak is the most pop=
uiar dish in England, so it is equalif
true that "pot-an-fen" or beet a la
mode is the most popular dish in t]
France. 1
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for its large loins, its well developed
ilhi
the Limousin, which is the typical
rump, which is both prominent and
Bepanying awapicture of this fact, threspetiveld- e
the rrst, second and bothird qualities ofhave I
nabe seen that in France the entire rump
thoseand a mall portionts of the animals that are
garded appreciated. As a result the
shoulder and flankwhich is take typical English
cow, and is almost as muchand stomachappre
atBerld in, on the other hand, onl-day notable
foper its lart of the loinsrump is regarll ded as of
chfirst qualnd itys small flaccid rump, while an
the loins, and the shoulder typical on
rumpsigned to the third rank.ominent and
spacious. e
Theseing diffcturences indof taste respectively, e
Smorthe first, secoriking than the differencd qualities ofbe
ham has a sharply de rated in thead and a
small neck aLond should Bers;lin. Its back isl
be useen that in France theook most pains to rum-p
andprove that portion of the banimal ire
gardedwhich s the fiet, so dear ty the Eng
lishoul and German palate Onnk take secotnd rank
and that the head,rump is hardly developed at
are, not highly prized. In London and c
Berall. In a Limousin cow, onon the other hand, only the upcon
per part oy, the rump is gregatly ded veloped.f
first quality, though not better than 11
the loins, and the shoulder is con. -
"These differences are not the result
ofe sthariking than the differences be-oth a
well-kn the awn Frencimals themseagriculturist, whoA Dur
has bhaseen sthaudrply defined the subject. and a he
Duprove that portion of the was cnimalre in ated,
sowhich is to speak, bso dear to the brothers Charles
lish and German palate. On the other c
hand the rump is hardly developed at
all. In a Limousin cow, on the con
trary. the rump is greatly developed. t
"These differences are not the result
of chance," says P!. Paul Difloth. a
Swell-known French agriculturist, who
n has been studying the subject. "The
Durham cow of to-day was created,
n so to speak, by the brothers Charles
and Robert Coiling, and its ancestors
were the iorthoras that used to feed
on the pastures of Durham. Their
shape was faulty, however, and Rob
ert Colling, noticing one day a beauti
fully formed calf in a yard behind a
blacksmith's shop, determined to try
and improve the breed by means of it.
"The experiment succeded, and
from this calf, known later on as the
celebrated Hubback, the Durham of
to-day are descended. These English
cattle differ in many respects from
those of France. and the difference
must be ascribed in great measure to
the fact that the British and Germans
like beefsteak and roast beef and the
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A head of fair hair consists of 148,.
040 hairs, dark 106.,000. while a red
head has only 29,200. Fair-haired pee
ple are beeelast ls anmenures h
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EA GWOTHA'S MOONSHINERS
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SN INDUSTRY RIVALLING THAT OF 1a
to THE CREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS.
rn the city Moeoshtaners nd Their Cnalnmi
4d ...- PreSti Until 'oey Are e tad p
out - e~C te u llsUi is tneSments. C
hoi the tifdier is dla t
at Wheih Williahi i BStrong, ha Mayor h
bt New York,. iialted the AtlanttA Ex= "
Sbositibti A few ears ago, With a del- g
e egatiot of NeW York business ined,
he Was nesiorted one hight by his e
s outheri hosts to a far offt ountain
ie top that he might mnoisteti his lips
al With a drop Of the briginal hiountain d
d' dew, distilled by the famottu moon. s
shiners of Georgia and Tennessee, re.
lates the New York Post, The trip
'I ap the dark ountmtain-side to the little
distillery, tucked away in the crevices r
of huge rocks, was made with all the v
mystery and secrecy with which tra- t
dition has surrounded such a pilprim
age, and the Mayor was much im- *
pressed. Upon his return to Atlanta a
he frequently referred to the expedi
tion. Finally one of his fellow-towns- a
men suggested, that after all, the af- I
fair, so far as the Colonel, as Mayor t
of New York, was concerned, very
much resembled the carrying of coals
to Newcastle. "You can get the same i
stuff distilled with the same disre
gard for the Government," he as
serted, "right in your own town-al
most, in fact, under your official nose.
What's the use of breaking your back 1
climbing around rocks and up slip
pery mountains?"'
"That's just it, precisely," retorted I
the Mayor. "I never yet knew a man
bred and brought up in New York
who had the slightest regard for the I
d- eternal fitness of things. Of course
re I could get it in New York, but where
)P would the sport come in? I could go
re up to Central Park and shoot grizzlies I
bo and lions, and tigers, but that
ih wouldn't be hunting game, would it?
e- There is not one of you fellows that
le has any sense of the proprieties."
id To those who have always asso
le dated this ancient work of moonshin
'l ing with double-barrelled shot-guns
ts poked through the crevices In remote
id mountain fastnesses, with a pictur
esque old outlaw at the butt end of
n- the gun ready to annihilate the Gov
ly, ernment officer, who had been lured
of within range by the "tiny wreath of
'ts smoke curling upward from the still,"
ill New York does seem to be lacking in
up the proper stage setting. That metro
re- politan moonshining should be carried
he on at the present day almost exclusive
ik, ly by the Russians and Poles would
ch seem to be almost sufficient prove
od cation for the late Mayor's comment
'P- regarding the properties. And yet
of New York-lacking as It apparently
an Is in all the essential details--can fur
mn nish some excellent sport for those
whose business It Is to hunt moon
ot shiners-in the runaways of the na
be- tive moonshiners these hunters are
ar- known as "them fe4'ral haounds." In
I a the capacity of its illicit stills, in fact,
is and in its modern methods of reduc
tal ing solids to spirituous liquids New
Y- York is far In advance of the old
m- fashioned school. In the mountains
in the stills are almost universally con
ig- structed upon a small scale, with the
ier object of moving them on consider
at ably less than a moment's notice.
'i- They are all portable and can be
1 taken from one place to another al
ult most by hand. In this city, on the
a contrary, the plants are evidently put
ho up with some idea of permanency.
'he They vary in capacity from one hun
ed, dred to one thousand gallons. Fre
les quently four and five tanks have been
found by the Government officers
linked together, each tank having A
capacity of one thousand gallons. The
most elaborate moonshiners' plant
ever discovered in New York was in
West Fifty-ninth street The camp
occupied the entire upper stories of a
large building, and contained, besides
all the necessary modern utensils for
distilling, three large tanks, with a
capacity of three thousand gallons
each. From the plant it was possible
to turn out nine hundred gallons
dally.
The "boss" moonshiner of this still
was a Russ:an-a man looked upon by
the outside world as an eminently
proper and prosperous member of the
community. The seisure of his plant
meant a los to hiblm of several thou
sand dollars in money and a number
of years of liberty. Few of his local
moonahlning contemporaries, 'how
ever, cherish such qpblitious plans
for detraunding the Government The
vast majority of the illicit stills are
found in the basements of the East
Bide tenement-houses. It is neces
sary that the illicit distiller should
ora have at least one "Inside" confeder
eed ate, and he generally works In col
eir lusion with the Janitor. Years ago
Sthe Irishmen had a practical monop
i-- oly of the moonshining industry and
a the whisky then was distilled from
trY molasses. Nowadays it is made al
it. most altogether from sugar. The
and average-sied mash is made from 100
the pounds of common granulated sugar
of mixed in a barrel of hot water and
ish with enough yeast added to produce
rom iermentation. This mash is allowed
ncee to stand for forty-eight hours, and is
a to then boiled and the vapor from it con
1ans' dened. This condensed vapor is the
the finished moonshine article. It Is a
colorless liquid with a sweetish odor,
but although harmless to the eye and
nose, it is deadly to a man's fac
altes. It frequently tests as high as
160 proof. The average price received
by the city moonshiner for this dis
tIllatlon is one cent a proo a gallon.
Therefore. If his whisky tests l10 per
sent, he receives $1.Oa galon for it,
and to this must be added, of course,
the Oovernment revenue, which he
does not pay. This amount varies
Saccording to the quallty of the stuq
and the prooft at which it tests. The
coset to the moonshiner of distilling
a gslon of whisky is about forty-Ave
aenat, so that be makes an aetual
proat of more than 100 per cent plus
the amount he evades tn revenue
taxes. The specmmens of the moo"
shtne.r' ork whleh are to be seen
In the oese a Georlge . ThempeaJ.,
lahd of the ISecret Servie braech of
a the ltaernas Uvumua sericse, at
frd me Mlsa of the extent to whiK
the ladastry is eanid a here. They
14, asket tn all mot af bott and
red Ius, and te top of Mr. ThImssm's
p,- at. Is whelly eel bMath
I Jas * . The sle of the qLespt1aet
n sY a se s IWp ItIel o
i twenty-gallon copper ean. A speei
men contained in the former repre
lents the skill and cunning of a Brook
lyn moonshiner, better known to the at
letectives as the "Schoolmaster." He 01
was a thoughtful and studious moon
shiner, who found both profit and
pleasure in his work. Before he was at
maptured, a few months ago, and sent ai
td frison for two and a half years, at
be wrote a book on distilling, which was di
ldjy tead by those interested in the h
subject, The illicit distillers here And
a market for their stuff among the
iheap East Side saloons, dishonest ~
eWholesale dealers, and sweatshops. tl
So far as the elements of danger and C
laring are concerned, there is the r
same difference between hunting a tl
local tnoonshiher and one of the mona
tain type as there is between trail
ing a grizzly bear and a cotton-tail l
rabbit. If, in the wealth of odors
which emanate from an East Side
tenement-house a citizen were able to
set apart one that resembled a cross
between the smells of a bakery and
a brewery, he could rest pretty well
assured that moonshining was going
on in the immediate neighborhood. It
is by this penetrating, pungent odor a
that the internal-revenue officers in
many cases obtain their first clue.
And it is because of it, as well, that
in the summer months the moonshin
ers cease operations in the city and t
more to the country.
The proprietor of an illicit still sel
dom goes near his plant after it has
been set Up. He merely goes about
obtaining contracts and customers,
and has his middle-men "deliver the
goods." Many of the "go-betweens"
are womenz One of them used to go
about among the sweatshops peddling 1
the stuff from a rubber bag. which
she wore beneath her dress. She was
as cunning as a rabbit, and her
"doubles" and "crosses" and "balks"
in the tenement coverts which she I
knew so well, many times threw i
"them Fed'ral hanounds" who were
pursuing het off the trail. She was
finally caught, however, and sent to
jail. Nowadays, few of the raids on
illicit stills are attended with any- i
thing which might be called "thrill- ]
ing." The moonshiners would rather
run away than fight, and if they can
not run away. they prefer to sur- t
render peaceably. They will choose
cunning rather than courage any day, E
and from their point of view it is 1
the wiser policy.
NOW IT'S BALLOON BALL 1
A Game Imparted From Swedenf,Take
Hold in This Country.
According to the Baltimore Sun,
balloon ball is growing in popularity 4
in that city. It is a Swedish game.
Says the Sun: Yesterday a game took
place in the court adjoining the Druid I
Hill Park playgrounds. During the I
hour before the game began the chil
dren who attend the playgrounds- I
between 200 and 300-had a jolly time. I
The little tots played in the sand pile, I
building forts and other marvelous 1
structures; some of the other ones
swung back and forth on the see-saws;
others swung around the Maypole, and
still another set-and these were little
girls-gathered in a big ring and
listened to stories told by the assist
ant director, Miss Constance Keech,
When the game began the children
-all except the little tots-lost in
terest in everything else. They lined
up on both sides of the court, and they I
urged their friends on nobly. Bleach
ers are lacking In the neighborhood
of the balloon ball court. Two park I
benches drawn up close by the court
did duty for judges' stand, press box
and grandstand. When the rest of
the spectators wanted to sit down
they sat on tae ground. In their ex
citement the rocters crept nearer and
nearer the court. When things be
came dangerously congested the um
pires demanded free tracks, and the
enthusiasts subsided-until the next
movement of their heroes drew them
Irresistibly forward.
According to the rules of the game
the court in which ballbon ball is
played is eighty feet long to ten feet
wide. A transverse line divides .2
into halves, and each halt is sub
divided into two blocks, the first of
whleh is thirty feet long, while the
end or goal square takes up the re
maning ten feet. The players choose
the sides of the court In which they
wish to play. Then they take their
places. Each captain stands In the
centre of the court, twelve paces back
from the central line, and back of
him the players are grooped. No
definite places are marked for them,
but as the aim of the players is to
keep the ball out of the goal square
the players usually dispose themselvfa
with two standing on the inside divid
ing line of the goal square and the
remaining three take their places near
the outer edge of the goal square.
Hands and feet and eyes are called
Into active service in the game. The
ball used Is an ordinary football, but
it is tossed from band to hand-not
kicked and not batted like a baseball.
It is kept on the fly as much as pos
sible, and this gives the game Its
name, "balloon ball."
The rules governing the game are of
the simplest. The captain of one side
tosses the ball into the opposite side
of the eourt. The members of the
rival team are on the qul vive. They
rush to meet it, and whoever aestcbes
It has the right to jump three pace
nearer the central line before tossing
it back. It the ball falls no harm Li
done so long as it does not fall n the
goal square, but when It does fall then
one point is scored for the side that
sent the ball. As soon as a ponlat has
been scored the teams change sides,
and so the game goes on until nine
points have been scored by ne of the
teams
A Uumesl myss.
I wonder why it is that all uP
parently ewly-marrid couples I
have seen an the electrlc ars or i
stenam trains tn the past moath of
roses and the present moath of rm
crackers and heat Mve acted thl
wise: The brklde looks straight ahead,
searcely ever smiling, while the groom
lols over toward her in a manser a
e are-ase u to be almost abject ad
mreemwithout Ife or spirit or later
eat nla his new wife?-Bton eJoumL
Mlchael Angelo's hemae tin me,
It which the panlater spent the ht
twet~ years of bhi Ufe and 4m,
a be tern dw 1 ias t·rr wham. llr
O(31m
ECIE1fCE AND INDUSTRY.
Tee melts at 32 degrees, water boils
at 212, lead melts at 594. and the heat
of a common coal fire is 1140.
The sun's surface is known to be P!
subject to greatly increased disturb
ances every 11 years, known as the
sunspot period. Auroral displays and
disturbances of the earth's magnetism
have a similar period.
In a German experiment eggs
packed in various ways in June gave
the following results in February:
Covered with vaseline, or kept in lime
rater, or in potassium silicate solu
tion, none spoiled; in wood ashes,
varnished, or treated with potassium
permanganate, 20 percent; painted
with collodion, or with potassium sili
cate, 40 percent; dipped a few sec
onds in boiling water or alum, 50
percent; kept in salt water, all spoiled.
In a paper read recently before the
Royal Meterological society, on "The
A.dicity of Cyclonic Winds," Mr.
Rupert T. Smith states that from his
observations made in the neighbor
hood of Birmingham during the years
1674-1890, "the equinoxes do not ap
pear to be very stormy periods. but
that the greatest frequency and force
of cyclonic winds occurs some two
weeks before the spring equinox and e
some three weeks after the autumnal fa
equinox."
A Vermont scientist has made a
very extensive collection of micro- g
scopic slides of snow crystals Per
feet crystals are by no means always w
common in snow storms. A whole
winter may not yield more than a
dozen opportunities to photograph
complete and perfect crystals. These
are most common in widespread bliz
rards, while local storms often pro
duce imperfect granular forms. It is
very possible that the character and
extent of a storm may, eventually, be
predicted by an examination of the
snow, and that a new aid in weather
prediction is at hand.
In science J. B. Dandeno finds that
at the maximum density of water the
water in the cell of a plant begins to
expand while the cell wall continues
to contract as cooling goes on. This
contraction will extrude water
into the intercellular spaces. When
the freezing point is reached the wa- a
ter in the intercellular spaces freezes
first because less dense than the con
tents of the celL The crystallization
outside the cell gives off latent heat,
which tends to keep the cell contents l
from freezing for a considerable time. ]
Finally also the cell contents may be
frozen, but only after nearly all the E
water has been expressed into the in- g
tercellular spaces. If now the tern
perature be raised the ice melts first
in the intercellular spaces and gives
the familiar wilted appearance of a
frozen plant when suddenly warmed.
If, however, the temperature is very
gradually raised the cell will re-ab
sorb the water as fast as formed and
no injury result. If the cell contents
be completely solidified permanent in
jury results.
Liquid Air for or atine.
Liquid air may be the blasting agent
of the future. A paper recently read
before the British Institution of Min
ing Engineers by A. Larsen, described
some tests recently made in the Simp.
lon tunnel with cartridges which con
sisted of a wrapper filled with a car
'onaceous material, and placed bodily
in liquid air until it was complettly
saturated. The cartridges were kept
in the liquid, at the working face of
the rock. until thye were required for
use, when they were lifted out, quick
ly placed in the shot holes and deton
ated with a small gun cotton primer
I and detonator. It was found that, orw.
Ing to the rapid evaporation, the useful
Slife of the cartridge was very short.
I The cartridges, which were three Inch
es in dlamter by eight inches in length
Shad to be fired within 15 minutes asf
Ster being taken out of the liquid air;
oetherwise there was danger of a mis
fire. It was chiefly on this account
- that the tests were discontinued. The
I disruptive effects, however, were said
to be comparable to those of dyna
r mite.
The Orltg of 1asbsl!.
SThe origin of baseball-"our nation
al game"-is not definitely known, but
the first club organized to play It was
· in New York, in 1845. Singularly
enough, this club, like the one first
Sorganized to promote rowing, was
Scalled "The Knickerbocker club." Af
* ter 1851 other amateur baseball clubs
c began to organize, including the At
lantlc, Mutual, Union, etc. In 1857 a
i convention of delegates from 16 clubs
Sin and around New York and Brooklyn
t was held. About 10 years later, at the
t annual convention of the National as
L soclation, in 1866, 202 clubs from 17
states and the District of Columbia
Swere represented. The college baseball
associations were started about 1862
Sor 1863. Amateur baseball throughout
Sthe Union was at Its height in the
· years 1865, ls6 and 1867. Profession
eal baseball was recognisea In 1868, and
the first games were played in 1869.
Harper's Baar.
A ChLsme. Newsbr.
K i-Ko is the name of the only Chin
ee newsboy in New York. He works
in Pell and Dover streets and sells
the Chinese Weekly Herald. That's
what is is called in English. The
Herald is printed in the Chinese Ian
guage, and, according to a regular
subscriber, contains all the news of
the fowery ktngdom and the Philip
pines, together with the latest gossip
of the United States in which the
SChinese are interested. KHi-Ko yells
I "Zxtra!" and tells wonderful stories
a about the contents of his paper, just
I the same as his American brother
|- does.-Chicago Journal.
Te Wlseter Maometn.
In this country December, January
Ssad Pebruary are called the winter
d moaths In no constry is March con
. sidered a wnter month; we think that
L November, December ad January are
or oad to be the winter months in
h, Dagaadj.-New York Sk.
w e30m, aeordtng to the seimu
Sjut tlkem bi*egWAe abaehtasa
State GuT'llIam t of L~n!iian.
Governor-W. W. HEard,
Lieutenant- Governor-Albert Esto
pinal.
Secretary of State-John Michel.
tduperintendentof Education-John
V. Calhoun.
Auditor-W. S. Frazee.
Treasurer--Ledoux E, Smith.
U. S. SENATORS.
Don Caftirey and 8 D. McEnery.
REPRESENTATIVES.
1 District-K UC. Davey.
2 District-Ado;ph Meyer.
d District-R. F. l~ronasard.
4 District-P. Brazeale.
5 District-I. E. hrandell.
6 District-S. M. lRubinson.
coxxanczas
$o COL S.S
S41 n nowenrd a ea e Nad
no eharlatanism raeS.
OIa 100 Gold and SIfver -
Ixpold Itoa. Commase
course Includs5uee Aet .
matinglr and Auddtlg._ and
os euaranteed Hn her and
Slaperor to any Iuer In t.e
South. We own our oolleg
building snd have une qaeq
taoilities and Y aueL e
,reedusd - abe ldgI poettions all over the
I lo . Istrsotlnalli personal.
ng n·merous busess anections and
being aoontersay and rep.tbly known, we
Iare peuter ad1iasges is aoing students to
pis As"rt Is ei seded with Soaul College
la whostudents do actual bsine with
ral goods aod atual ismeos, and they keep
IM books a the latest labor saving forms.
lSMkents ester at any Utr. nlnsb, ce
demlse. Shorthand an Business school. All
idzs s M. SU00.
Mississippi Valley
Baluoad uinaltdas
SUnsurpassed : D1iy : Service
R OBLEAMS & .IPHI=
a oonnecting at Memphis with
trains of the llinois Oen
tral Railroad for
Cairo, St. Louis, Chicago, Cn
Scinnati, Louisville,
- mklring direct oonnections with throulgb
a trains for all points
NORTH, EAST AND WEST,
inolading Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cleve
land, Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Richmond, St. Paul, Min
neapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Hot
'Bprngs, Ark., and Denver. Close
connection at Ohioago witb Central
Mississippi Valley Boute, Solid Fast
t Vestibuled Daily Trains for
SDUBUQUE. SIOUX FALLS, SIOUX CITY,
Land the West. Particulars of agents
of the Y. A M. V and sonneoting lines
yWWx. MIvn , Div. Pas. Agt,
New Orleaun
S Jo. A. Boom, Dirv. Pa. AgtL,
Memphis.
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Chioan.
W. A, KwIera, A. .P. A.,
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Only direet roste to
n- *lasi, St. Lals, Chiep. 1mas Cii
-and all point
O NORTK, EAST AB VEST.
U- Only diret teute to
Jasts, ilsksbverg. la Oteims
And all points is Tezas ad the South
e Double Daily Trains
Fast Time
at Close_ onoeotlooa
tnroe Pllmo n e n eep esl .
bet nw Orlue. sad Me
lnme Cits . St. Louis and
oy Moar with Sraet-las. Mnee to all points
n- The gpat eteet bridge spanning the
at OM. wive at Cairo ompleted, sad all
ar tairn (freight end pamsger) now ran.
gsqularly over Itithusavelg the
dlasys ed euoaymsmeideat to trean
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