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From the Executive Committee of the
Board of Directors of the West Vir
ginia Hospital for the Insane.
The recently renewed attacks be
ing made upon the management of
the West Virginia Hospital for the
Insane by a portion of the partisan
press of the State, is of such a rep
rehensible character, in view of all
the circumstances, as to demand a
brief and unprejudiced statement to
the public from the undersigned
members of the Board of Directors.
The so-called evidence taken by
the Investigating Committee of the
Legislature, sent to investigate the
management and condition of the
Hospital last winter, is not given to
the public on the ground of its im
moral and indecent character and
unfit for publication. IIow proper
and moral some bitter partisan edi
tors in our time can be! Yet at the
same time they are constantly guilty
of offences against morals and honor
that would make a fair and just
minded person stare in astonishment
at such methods of “upholding vir
tue and rendering vice odious!’,
These are a part of the dark and de
vious paths of such political hacks,
playing for the stake of olliees and
plunder alone, prostituting honor,
morals and decency in the unholy
game. In this mad and disappoint
ing strife,
“As the mind saddens with failure,
Murkier grows the shade."
But while the evidence is withheld
from the public, these “moral” edi
tors tell the people that the Investi
gating Committee found a frightful
condition of affairs existing at the
Hospital. The honor and good
name of the Superintendent, of the
ohl Board of Directors, of the Gov
ernor, and of the neir Board of Di
rectors, are all to be sacrificed in
order to sustain the report of the In
vestigating Committee—a report
that cost the people several thousand
dollars—a report, the conclusions of
which are not warranted by the
batch of dirty, filthy nonsense,which
they call testimony. Testimony in
deed! It would not bo received as
testimony before any tribunal, either
civil or military, in the land, on ac
count of its hearsay character. No
person of ordinary intelligence can
examine it without a feeling of in
dignation, that such an amount of
public money should have been ex
pended to collect such u quantity of
foolish, contemptible drivel, and cru
elly and unnecessarily harass and
alarm the feelings of relatives and
friends of patients under treatment
at the Hospital. To more fully com
prehend the depth of this whole in
quiry, the report of the old Board of
Directors to the Governor, that fol
lowed the above report, should also
be carefully examined. That Board
was composed of some of the best
and purest men in the State. And
they arrive at a directly contrary
conclusion, founded upon the same
data, which was the basis of the re
port of the Investigating Commit
xee.
The assertion that we, as mem
hers of the new Board appointed by
Governor Wilson, were so appointed
with the understanding that we were
to vote tor the retention of Dr.
Bland is a malicious and infamous
lie. We would never have accepted
the appointment under any such
condition. All that Dr. Bland ever
could have honed for, in the appoint
ment of the new Board, was that
they should be men of good charac
ter who had not already made up
their mind to condemn him without
a full and careful hearing of the
whole case—that they should not he
of the same stripe as the Legislative
Investigating Committee. We did
not know ourselves that we should
support Dr. Bland, when notified of
our appointment. We had no pre
vious notice that we were to be ap
pointed uutil it was announced in
the newspapers. After careful ex
amination of the condition of the
Hospital, and of the two foregoing
reports, we became satisfied and
convinced of the injustice and out
rage perpetrated upon Dr. Bland by
»he report of the Investigating Com
mittee. According to our conscien
tious belief from the information
that is within our reach, this war
upon Dr. Bland is nothing but a plot
and conspiracy of the “outs" to have
Dr. Bland removed, regardless of
justice, decency, or honor.
The principle effort of the Inves
tigating Committee appears to have
been an attempt to show that Dr.
Bland was an immoral and depraved
man This was too much for them
to accomplish. The attempt showed
the animus and*malice of the whole
proceeding. They overreached them
selves. Dr. Bland is too well known
throughout the State to be struck
down by the slander of cither male
or female yhovls and harpies. The
condition of the Hospital is good,
and the unfortunates confined there
in well and kindly treated, and care
fully attended. The Board of Direc
tors could find nothing to justify the
removal of Dr. Bland at its meeting
in June last, and consequently did
1 not do him that injustice. The clec
tion of officers of the Hospital was
postponed until the meeting of the
Board on the 23rd of August, at the
request of one of the members, who
asked for such delay, and insisted
that he could not then vote intelli
gently upon so important a matter.
Let these “moral” editors proceed
with their blusteringand lying chat
ter. Such an infamous course, in
reference to a great eleemosynar}'
institution, and in view of the facts
in the case, can only render them
contemptible in the estimation of all
reasonable and fair minded people.
Their motive will be fully under
stood.
This, once and for all, is our re
plv to the lies, malice and hate that
actuates this latest renewed attempt
to mislead the public mind and bol
ster up the infamous report of the
Legislative Investigating Committee
on the management of the Hospital
under Dr. Bland's administration as
Superintendent.
J. Bassei.,
A. F. Whelan,
Ik a C. Post.
the shooting of stone
WALL JACKSON.
After night fell Stonewall Jack
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son rode out with his staff to rccon
noiter in front of the lint; he had
gained. It was his idea to stretch
completely around in the rear of
Hooker and cut him off from the riv
er. The night was dark and Jack
son soon came upon the Union lines.
Their infantry drove him back, and
as he returned in the darkness his
own soldiers began firing at their
commander, of course mistaking his
party for the euetny. Jackson was
shot in the wrist and in the upper
arm at the same time. His horse
turned, and the General lost his hold
of the bridle rein; his cap was brush
ed from his head by the branches;
He reeled and was caught in the
arms of an officer. After a moment
he was assisted to -dismount, his
wound was examined, and a litter
was brought. Just then the Union
artillery opened again, and a mur
! derous fire came down upon the par
ty through the woods and the dark
ness. One of the litter bearers
stumbled and fell, and the others
were frightened; the}- laid the litter
on the ground, the furious storm of
shot and shell sweeping over them
like hail. Jackson attempted to
rise, but his aid-de-camp held him
i down till the tempest of lire was
lulled. Then the wounded General
was helped to rise, and walked a few
steps in the forest; but he became
faint, and was laid again in bis lit
I ter. Once he rolled to the ground,
when an assistant was shot, and the
litter fell. Just then General Pen
der, one of his subordinates, passed;
he stopped and said: “I hope you
are not seriously hurt. General. I
fear I shall have to retire my troops
they are so much broken.”
But Jackson looked up at once
and exclaimed: "You must hold
your ground, General Pender; you
you must hold your ground, sir!
This was the last order he ever
gave. He was borne some distance
to the uearest house and examined
by the surgeon, and after midnight
his left arm was amputated at the
shoulder. When Lee was told thathis
most trusted Lieutenant had been
wounded he was greatly distressed,
for the relations between them were
almost tender. “Jackson has lost
his left arm,” said Lee, “but I have j
lost my right arm.”—Adam Jiadeav j
in St. Nicholas.
SURGERY RY A BIRD.
—
A Cleveland man discovered a
bird’s nest in his barn, and found in
it two young swallows. Upon tak
ing one bird in his hand he was as
tonished to find one of its legs very
thoroughly bandaged with horse
hair. Having carefully removed the
hairs one by one he was still more
astonished to find that the nestling’s
leg was broken. Upon visiting the
‘•patient the next day the leg was
again bandaged as before. The bird
! surgeon was not again interfered
with, and in about two weeks it was
found that the hairs were being cau
tiously removed, only a few each
day, and finally, when all were tak
en'off, the callus was distinctly felt
and the union of the bone evidently
perfect, as the bird was able to fly
otf with its mates.
How Many Feathered Friends We Have.
Ttird Call.*
Out of some 10,000 species of
birds recognized by ornithologists
there arc S6S species and sub-spe
cies which make their home in
North America. There arc also S2
others which find their way to this
continent as stragglers from other
countries.
A large and vicious-looking spi
der, nearly the size of an egg, was
killed in an Augusta (Ga.) flower
garden the other day. and in a few
minutes at least fifty red ants came
crawling from his ugly maw. They
seemed none the worse for their
close confinement, and, with the aid
of a little sunshine, were soon as
lively as ever.
AN UNLUCKY DAY.
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Old Miss Freshours Tells Some Blood
Curdling Tales.
Betsy Hamilton in Atlanta Constitution.
I would er started on a Friday,
but I knowed it would fetch us to
Sunday o’ gettin’ to. Dallas, Tex.,
and folks hadn’t orter travel on a
Sunday less hits a life-and-death
case. Pap, he didn’t kcer nuthin’
about Friday no more’n airy nuiher
day, but maw and Aunt Nancy and
old Miss Freshours and them would
er tuck a plum jeminy fit if we’d er
left on a Friday.
“Friday’s a turribleon lucky day”
says old Miss Freshours. You gals
mustn’t think about gwine on a Fri
day; bad luck would be sho’ to fol
ler you. I never is seed it fail; iet
a body start a journey on hangman’s
day aud bad luck is sho to overtake
’em. Why, hits a heap wusser’u
movin’ of your cat or your broom, or
sittiu’ of a lookin’ glass broke. My
Becky Ann when she took a fool no
tion to marry aud go off, why she
moved her cat and her broom in 3pite
of all me and Malindy Ann Jones
could say, and she haint had nothin’
but bad luck scnce she left. And
thar's Miss John Ilcnry Scrubtree’s
folks broke they looKiu’ glass a mov
in’, and none of ’em haint seed a
well day sencethey got to Massysip
—so the Johnson gals was a tellin’
ot me at meetin’; they written ’em a
a letter, and that’s the news
the letter fetched. And I mine
mighty well long time ago when old
man Jeremiah Striogfeller’s folks
moved over here in waggins from
away yonder bey ant Possim valley
how the\’ was two days a cornin’ and
started on a Friday. They never
thought about hits bein' a Friday.
lou may uoi oeueve 11, out mem
Stringfellers never hail nothin' hut
bad luck alter bad luck, corn tinner
ly putty nigh all the time the endu
rin’ year, HL sot in fust with ther
old ridin’ nag, she taken the bline
staggers reckly after they got here
and died, then the mites got amongst
ther settin’ hens and they never done
no good scasely at all, and ther ole
red cow she died with the holler
horn, and the ole 'oman she taken
sick and died and look like nothin’
they dnuc fur her never done her no
good, and they corn crap turnt out
nothin' but nubbins, and they taters
and pumkins all went to vines too
and the ole man was plum broke up,
and he knowed in reason it was all
bokase he moved on a Friday.”
“Now. lletsv, says she, don’t you
uns go to startin’ of a journey on
Friday. Bad luck is sho’ to foller.”
Then the ole critter told a dream
she had about me get tin’ kilt olfn
the k’yars, and Cousin Pink gittin’
crippled. She mought cr fixed it
t’other waV, only she know’d I was
the one that wanted o start on a Fri
day.
“Ah. law,” says she “folks these
days tries to fly right in the face of
na-tnr, and go contra ry-wise to
Prov i dence. Why, when I was a
gal, nobody never thought about
gwine no whars on a Friday, and
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starting ot no sorter piece er work
on Friday, and jest as sho’ as they
done it bad luck was at ther heels.
Betsy, you and Pink hadn’t orter
leave this yer house without yer
rabbit-foot an’ yer boss shoo.”
So we showed her our rabbit foot
and lorse shoe, and told her we
wouldn’t go tel a Monday—and she
went home satisfied, and dremptthat
we had might}’ good luck.
The old critter will allers believe
she was the occasion of us not a
startin’ on Friday.
Herr Schiller, a well-known Ger
man architect, reports some facts of
interest as indicating the radius of
the circle of protection of good light
ning rods. On June 17 last, at the
village of Montigcn.lightning struck
a pear tree 33 feet high. On one
side, 115 feet away, was a school
house, with a rod 5G feet high. On
the other side was a church, 328 feet
away, having a lightning-rod reach
ing up 154 feet. Both rods were
well placed and had tvorked wbll when
tested, and the level of the foot of
the tree was about the same as that
of the two buildings. It is evident,
then if the facts have been accurate
ly reported, that the radius of the
circle of protection is not more than
twice the height of the rod.
—-—•—
Sheep manure contains from 90 to
95 per cent, of the plant food con
tained in the rations consumed by
the sheep. It is, therefore, a very
rich fertilizer, as experience has
shown. It is especially rich in ni
trogen in an available form, and for
that reason is excellent for use as a
starter in the hill for corn and po
tatoes.
Omaha Reporter—“Had a big
drought down in Texas, I hear.”
Texas Man—“Worst kind. Why, at
one time it got so bad that our local
paper actually printed a regular
church prayer for rain in the edito
rial page.” “Did it rain?” “Well,
we had a sort of shower a week or so
ago.” “Yes; nothing like advertis
ing.”—Omaha World.
NASSAU.
A correspondent of the Sun de
scribes New Providence, where Nas
sail is situated, as a coral island, like
all the Bahamas, made up of the dead
skeletons of untold millions of little
coral polyps, from one-quarter to one
half an inch long. The island there ,
is rock, covered very sparsely with
a very thin soil. It seems wonder
ful how plants find enough soil to
grow in. Take a cocoanut orchard
for instance: The ground, instead of
being covered with grass, is nothing
but bare rock, very rough and un
even, the pieces of rock being of the
most irregular shapes and in size
from a small knob the size of one’s
head to a water-worn mass as large
as a man’s body. Each cocoanut
palm is planted in the centre of a
circle about two feet in diameter.
Over this circle is scattered some
soil, and then a stone wall about a
foot high is built around it to keep
the rain from washing away the soil.
The soil is then covered to a foot’s
depth with clippings of sponges,
about the cheapest thing to be had,
to protect it from the too intense
heat of the sun. Under all these un
favorable circumstances the young
palm shoots up. At first there is no
main stem with leaves, as in our or
dinary trees—only a lot of beautiful,
broad green fronds, like a fern,which
all start from the earth at one spot
and grow up to a height of seven or
eight feet, each drooping gracefully
outwards towards the stone wall.
Next the bunch of fronds begins to
be uplifted from the ground on the
end of a short stem. The stem grad
ually increases in height until at
length you have the adult palm—a
slender upright stem forty to sixty
feet high, without a branch bearing
at its top a bunch of great rustling
leaves, each about ten feet long, with
clusters of cocoanuts between them.
A cocoanut orchard here is essen
tially a lot of stone tubs filled with
soil, each with its tree. From such
an orchard is obtained a very fair
idea of the sort of land of Nassau.
An orchard is, of course, a cultivated
spot, where each tree is set out and
cared for. The general run of the
land is just as rocky, but is covered
here and there with enough soil for
seeds to take root. In many places
the country is quite thickly wooded
Go into one of these woods, however,
and you walk on the bare coral
rock.
Nassau, the town, has a popula
tion of from 10,000 to 15,000. The
one large hotel, the Royal Victoria,
is a very comfortable looking place,
girdled with broad piazzas. There
are many places of interest in the
town. In the sponge markets are
collected huge piles of sponges hook
ed up from the shores of this and
neighboring islands. The sponges
are first dried, and then a negro sets
to work with a big pair of shears
and cuts off all the dirty and poor
parts, anil the sponges are ready for
the market, which is nothing but a
big shed on the wharf. Of course
there arc barracks here, and the Eng
lish officers arc seen now and then
cantering along on the little island
ponies, with their sabres nearly
touching the ground. There are a
few white soldiers, but many lire ne
groes in zouave uniform. In the
markets are fish, scraggy meat, any
quantity of fruit, all grown on the
island, the chief fruits being oranges,
bananas, eocoanuts aud sapodillos,
which look like potatoes and have a
sickening sweet taste. The pineap
ple season is just opening. The ne
groes who tend the stalls are, in
many instances, native born Afri
cans. Some twenty years ago a
slave ship or two were captured by
British men-of-war and the slaves
were liberated. A great many of
them settled on the Island of Nassau.
They are very black, wear rings in
their ears, and have holes in their
lips and three or four great oblique
seams on each check. They talk in
an almost unintelligible modification
of English.
HOW TO BOIL ONIONS.
To every quart of onions you will
need a quart of cold water and half
a tablespoonful of salt. Boil slowly
for two hours, then drain in a colan
der and let t hem get cold. Make a
sauce with a tablespoonful of butter,
the same of flour and one-half pint
of milk, rub butter and flour thor
oughly together and add a little
black pepper; boil the milk and
pour it over the flour and butter,
and stir all the time to keep smooth;
put the onions in the sauce and let
them remain there until the sauce
boils; the sauce ought to be very
thick when served.
Considerable attention was at
tracted to a country wagon which
stopped on an Atlanta street the
other morning, for on the inside
were two loggerhead turtles, each as
i large as r. washtub. They looked
as if they were old Enough to have
j been in the ark, and their heads
were as big as a man's. They were
caught on a cat-line set intheChat
* tabooche river.
BREAD MAKING. *
The Milling World gives the fol
lowing facts of interest to all house
wives:
A barrel of flour should make
from 270 to 285 live cent loaves.
Many bakers blend four brands, as
two Minnesota springs and two In
diana winters, before they get the
right alloy. Others use only one
grade of spring and two of winter
wheat. These make the best brands
of fancy bread. Formerly yeast was
made of malt, potatoes, and hops,
and this is extensivel}* used. Fancy
bread bakers use a patent yellow
compressed yeast. It is popularly
supposed that bakers use alum ex
tensively in order to whiten their
bread. That is not the fact. There
is no necessity for the use of alum,
and it is not used in the trade.
There are about twenty large steam
bakeries in New York, which give
emploj'ment to several hundred men.
One of these, a noted Broadway es
tablishment, makes a specialty of
Vienna bread, and does an immense
business. Vienna bread is made in
air tight ovens, of the best grade of
flour, and milk is used instead of
water in mixing the dough. In bak
ing, the steam settles back on the
bread instead of escaping. This
makes the outer crust thin aud ten
der, and gives the bread a peculiarly
rich taste and pleasant aroma.
What is known to the trade as
“steam” bread is another recent in
vention. It is made of the very fin
est of flour and baked in air tight
pans, which inclose it on all sides.
It is thus baked in its own steam,
and possesses a flavor peculiarly its
own. One very large bakery in New
York is devoted solely to the pro
duction of aerated bread. It is a
steam factory,and the bread so made
is extremely light and spongy. The
invention is an English one, but
has been in use here for years.
When the dough has reached a cer
tain consistency, it is run into an
air tight cylinder and strongly im
pregnated with carbonic acid gas.
This creates the lightness and spon
giness without detracting in the
slightest from its nutritious quali
ties.
AMERICAN VS. RUSSIAN PE
TROLEUM.
United States crude petroleum oil
is to Russian crude as cream to
skim milk. United States crude
yields about 75 per cent, of the fin
est illuminating oil the world pro
duces. Russian crude yields only
about 29 per cent, of an inferior il
luminating oil. United States crude
yields about 12 per cent, naptha or
spirit of such a valuable character
that it readily sells for 20 per cent,
per gallon more than the oil. Rus
sian naphtha is unmarketable, and
it is mostly burned to get rid of it.
United States lubricating oils, an
other product of crude, are now so
low in price that Russian lubricat
ing oils are practically debarred
from competition in many of the
European markets. United States
crude yields a considerable percent
age of scale, used for candle making
and this is a product of great value;
weight for weight it is worth four
limes more than refined petroleum
oil. The Baku crude yields no scale.
Thus the United States, in the sur
passing richness of its crude, has an
enormous and unapproachable ad
vantage over Russia.
The daily production of the Uni
ted States is in excess of the world’s
demand, and has been so practically
for the last ten years. In addition
to this excess in the daily produc
tion of the United States, there are
stored there, above ground, .'14,800,
000 barrels of 42 gallons each, the
actual unmarketed accumulations.
—Pall Mall Gazette.
EXCITING SCENE AT A BULL I
FIGHT.
The Petit Marseillais gives the
following account of a panic which
occurred at a bull fight outside Sar
agossa the other day: “After two
bulls had been dispatched without
any special incident the third, an
animal named Salado, jumped over
the barrier into the amphitheatre,
crushing sn old man and a lad of
18. It would be difficult to give an
adequate description of the panic,
and the tumult which ensued. The
whole of the spectators jumped to
their feet. In the twinkling of an
eye the space around the bull was
vacated, and the crowd rushed into
a corner, trying to protect itself by
means of planks and sticks from the
expected charge. A young man in
one of the boxes tried to shoot him,
but the three bullets from his re
volver which he managed to lodge in
him only served to increase his fury.
One of the men then tried to run
him through, but he missed his aim
and the bull charged him furiously.
The man stepped aside, and the
bull’s horns went so deep into wood
en paling that before he could with
draw them two men plunged their
swords into him. Even this did not
kill him outright, the enraged ani
mal staggering some thirty yards
and breaking down a number of
benches before the breath was out
of his body.”
POISONED ARROWS.
Omaha Republican.
I had often heard of the poisoned
arrows, and determined to ask the
old Indian arrow-maker about them
anil how the}' were made and im
pregnated with the deadly poison
which they were supposed to con
tain. He looked at me for a full
minute and then said:
“First we take a bloated yellow'
rattle-snake in August, when he is
most poisonous, and tie him with a
forked stick to a stake; then we
tease him till he is in a great rage.
This is done by passing a switch
over his body from his head to his
tail. When he thrashes the ground
with his body and his eyes grow
bright and sparkle like diamonds,
we kill a deer, antelope or some
i o\her small animal and, tearing out
the liver, throw it to the snake
while it is warm and the blood still
coursing through it. The reptile
will strike it again and again nud
pretty soon it will begin to turn
black. When he tire3 the snake is
teased again and he is induced to
sink his fangs into the soft flesh
until all the poison is extracted from
him and the liver is reeking with it.
He is then killed and the liver lifted
with a sharp pole, for so dangerous
is it no one dare touch it. The liver
is to let lay for about an hour, when
it will be almost jet black and emit
a sour smell. Arrows arc then
brought and their iron heads pushed
into the liver up to the shaft. They
are left sticking there for about an
hour and a half, when they are w ith
drawn and dried in the suu. A
thin, glistening, yellow scum ad
heres to the arrow and if it but so
much as touches raw flesh it is cor
tain to poison it to death.”
I asked if Indians Rtill used pois
oned arrows. “No,” lie replied, “no
man, Indian or white man, for years
past, has been shot with these ar
rows and they are no longer made.”
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THE TRUTH ABOUT BLOOD.
HOUNDS.
Rochester (N. Y.) Union.
Every time dogs are put on the
trail of a criminal the telegraph is
sure to say they arc bloodhounds.
Now, there are not many blood
hounds in this country, and we ven
ture to say that of the few there
never was one of tin* breed used in
trailing men. The dogs which be
fore and during the war were used
to track runaway slaves were always
spoken of as bloodhounds, but they
were nothing like the animals be
longing to that breed. They were
a cross between the Siberian dog
and the long low hound so much
used by Southerners in hunting.
The strain of Siberian blood gave
the result of crossing the large head
and short cars as well as size, and
the strain I loin the hound gave tin
animals the sharp scent, which ena
hied them to follow a scent hours
after its making. These dogs were
ferocious, while the true bloodhound
is anything but that. The dogs
running in the street here which are
called bloodhounds come from lin
stock used tor the purpose described
in the South, but are not so well
bred. They are more of a ctir as a
general tiling. A thoroughbred
bloodhound is one of the handsom
est dogs that live. He is a large,
heavy-boned animal, with long ears
and a broad, pleasant face, with
brown eyes, which, on account of the
red always showing, arc considered
by people who do not know any bel
ter a sure indication of savagcncss.
The bloodhound is a dog much mis
represented. He has a bad reputa
tion, which lie never earned himself,
but was given him by persons who
knew not what they were talking
about.
Iced Cocoaxi t Piddino.—Orate
one cocoa not. Shell and blanche a
pint of almonds. Cut a pound of
mixed candied fruit in small picees.
Dissolve a pint of sugar in boiling
water. Beat the yolks of six eggs
until very light, add them to the
boiling syrup; stir over the tire three
minutes, take ofT, and beat with a
wire spoon nn’il cool. Add the fruit,
cocoa nut, vanilla to flavor, a pint of
cream and a small glass of sherry
wine. Mix and pour in a freezer.
After it is frozen set in iee five, hours
to harden.
Frozen C'cstard Ft ddixg.—Make
it a rich custard, flavor with wine
and vanilla, pour in a freezer, when
half frozen add pounded almond-,
chopped citron, and brandy |x*ache>.
Make the freezer half! all of custard,
and fill with the fruit, freezx* hard,
pack in ice for two hours. Serve in
glasses, with whipped cream, sweet
ened and flavored.
There are 25,000 workmen engag
ed in the rubber industry of Ameri
ca. The new syndicate of importer*
and manufacturers represents a cap
ital of $35,000,000. The annual prod
uct is worth $100,000,000.
He is rich who has a goodly store
of happy' memories.