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V i THci BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER M. 1901. NO ESCAPE FROM FATE. Man of Overmuch Fruoenct the Play thing of Ditatter. 'Theso railway diamer my fr age overmasters," wild ho; 'i wont I lite m the iralu;" ami atartlug to travel, o'er rownio ami gravel, fo :t lift broke a largo hole In his brain. Tkcmt atcamboat tAplnstonii till wo vlth eomnioilniis; I will walk if It ukea nut a ut'i li." So h walked all varatloii. but iutvou prostration cone ,.etely broke down ItU physique. "I wouldn't rlilo In a phai tuu. not If A should weigh h ton; If you lido be I lint horses jou'ro dead." Then t cy clone came whirling:; his houso start "i twirling anil thundering ilown on Ms head. ' I won't ride a bicycle, break hone llkn ii n hide, unit go til thoe hospl tui cribs," Then bicycle-rider, a wheelman named Snyder, rod.- against It 1 mi mil broku In IiIh ribs. Thou tho surgeon Inspected Ma hitkhone deflected, anil found that his head hail been Hdlt; hut young; Mr, Snyder, tho blcyclo-rlderwhy, he unnn't Injured a bit. "In no church congregation I'll take nit my Htnt iou a church may burn down in a inlniito." liut that night a dh i' iiiiiiii'iii IiuIjIo flro burned down Ills own house ami him la It. Lou Mu Tit Bits. 1 JXftita One of Corea's Superstitions. Near the city of Soon!, the capital of Corcii. is n hill mlled I'ouk Han, which wus formerly covered with iivm. Tlio legend runs that go long .is a tree remained on the hill bo long v.- 1!I Corca ninintuin Its Independence, ::nd therefore no one la allowed to c;:t or lunch a tree. Put the natural consequence of this want of forestry ln'-i been t hut the trees have gradually dli d nit, until now only one is left (in this one tree It la believed that the lute of the country rests, and when it goes ('en-en as au independent Mate will go with It. My Queen. I did lii-l l:n... I ha. I a Ii lohd fi in:,i l.j liuii.ii' In mivcj II 1IH"I lil.V I ... I ill:'- Ill M' I'.USit C'lld. .Iiim . Intnl. 1 1 d I . a k.iiive. i;.r I ii!: v:i.' 1 1 1 :ti 1 . 1 kurw lie nut in iiiv i i i il' xi:y. Vi I "In- whs 1 1 ! Hi siull tlio pint if : i y i :iii i iiriiiy. And wlit'ii I saw In r regal face Ainu ur iii'n.i Ihi' in1. Vi. i.-i iiais i'liam;liia nf iny cusp, I III III '1 I H -1" MM MIV iIH'.'ll. '1 11. iv may in- Ihns'n nf IiIkIht rank, 'I ki'i afi r v.mth than she. L'ul iinw tl'-i' iU.'i'ti nl tiuniis 1 tliimk Klic limit lln' Uii Ii I'm' mi'. .N'i'W Yorker. Ccunted His Grandmother. When some surprise was expressed that a r.iiiall boy should prel'er to go for n 1.111111111'!' outing to the .sleepy vll lage where his mother lived as a lit tic pirl. instead of to tho seashore with Its "attractions," the little fellow re plied: "I count my grandmother." In the plans of many families at this season of the year "counting the grandmother" plays an important pnrt Her welcome firms form for the child "the Hist line of reserves." to use .ii" '-ne -...,o,'q n -..'- ,....v.vv, however hi wthey may be, never di .;ceiid to a point where we are obligoi to sacrifice Iho quality for the sake of the price. If you buy any of us, yoi do so with the guarantee of a big dol lar'fi worth of satisfaction with ever dollar cash n. L. Wilson Hardware C msxmameam Lubricating Di reel 2 from Refinery Xo Consumerlj cNo Jobber's profit! I Write for Prices Today! GULF REFINING COMPANY NEW OFLEAHS. LA. OIL Preparing for the 6trawberry Bed. (bo. V, Williams lu a communlca lion to the Missouri Btuta Hoard of Agriculture, says: Strawberries roijulre a hlghor, dryer location than the blackberry. They will tint live on wet land. While there an be no iron clad rules to cultivate ftrau'herrles by, there are a fow sen em! rules that will hold good In near-' ly oil bolls. The preparation of tue Held Jhould begin In the fall before icltlnB In tho gprlns. Never set strnw-1 several teeth have appeared; meats berry plants In the fall. If tho land are fieipiontly a pint of thf bill of Ik not well drained. It can bo ahled I fare. These, as well as the other ar very much by a system of suIikoUIiik, ! tides of food, are necessarily swal breaking with nn ordinary two horse lowed without proper "mn; 4 lent Ion. turning plow, following each furrow ! Pepper, mustard, , Worcestershire with another team hitched to a slim. I sauce, vinegar and highly seasoned it n.ng "bull tongue," running tho "bull j i-alails nlso find their way into these lonmio" In tho bottom of tho furrow, young and tender stomachs until, ns which breaks up tho soil very deep i t':e re-tut of such a diet, fermentation hut docs not throw It out on top. This ' sets lu nnd a little distillery Is created manner of breaking has a two fold ob-! In these youthful temples. I'nder ect, ono la It forms an under drain-1 mcIi conditions n child becomes Irri igo that carries off tho surplus water, ; u.Mc, quick tempered, untruthful, and tho other, It forms a reservoir thnt , ft v. mild be surprising If it grew up holds moisture and furnishes the to noble manhood." .ihints with "drinking water" dining a Irouth. When ground Is plowed, cover j .vlth barnyard manure, putting 0:1 from ten to twenty tons per acre, j "ext spring at tho proper tlmo to set lilants, which Is when tho earliest 'dooms nave opened, disc or cultivate tlio ground over until it Is thoroughly milveiized. Mark off tho rows north I an" continuous lasts uuring me pu ami south four feet apart a lifdit ' ' f their winter or summer sleep, wheelbarrow makes a good marker. In j During such slumbers the more active letting, follow the track made by tho functions i.f the body are to a great wheel, as a guldo Is all that ia needed, extent suspended, while those that are Set plants from eighteen to twenty-1 carried on act slowly and entail coin four Inches apart, setting with a nar-, jiartuively little waste of tissue and row spado. In selecting plants, they . energy. Moreover, before the period diould be taken from beds that havo ; or the winter torpor or hibernation icvcr borne fruit, that Is from beds ! takes place, many animals, such ns wt tho spring before. By following bears, accumulate largo stores of fat : his plan year after year, and tho prop- j on various parts of the body, which r selection of plants, the strawberry can bo improved. No Overproduction of Ft-uit. Rnmo fenr nn nvnr-nroductlon of fruit; I do not. I have heard the sleep, or aestivation, and is used up warning cry from timorous souls for In a similar manner, their summer orty years that we were sure to have ! sloops being undertaken for the pur nn over-production of fruit! What is pose of avoiding the season of great iho actual condition? What are the ; heat and drought, when food is dif- ,'acts as to an over-supply of fruit? H-l. n. ..l.n..4- .l.n lnMAnn Till 1 fl lflTl 1 f tho country1 as compared with the increasing supply of fruit? In the time that it has taken the population of the United States to double, her fruit supply has increased five-fold. In the face of this, we would naturally oxpect fruit to decline in price. Has uoer war, gave a very imuresuiiK mi tt? No indeed; hut on the other hand pression of cx-Prcsldent Kruger. "The it has gone up and up In price, till it president of the South African Repub is now beyond tho reach of the com-. lie." he wrote, "is indeed a grand old mon people and only the rich may in-1 savage from ono point of view and a ilulge In the use of ordinary fruit. At n.o ml...i im r.r.a tiucVint nf imnii apples Is worth two bushels of wheat or corn! We know of apple orchards 'his past season that sold for two hundred dollars per acre, peach or chards that sold for as much and In some places more, and strawberry heds that sold fpr from one to three hundred dollars per acre! In the face 'if all this, with our millions of acres if superior fruit lands that can be bought at from five to fifty dollars per acre, with a splendid home market and an ever and rapidly Increasing foreign demand for all our fruit, shall we continue to let the masses go hun gry for fruit and tho tables of the -lch bo supplied with Inferior fruits from distant states at extortionary prices? N. F. Murray. Soaps as Insecticides. A report of the United States De partment of Agriculture says: Any Tood soap Is effective In destroying 5oft-bodled Insects, such as plant-lice ind young or soft-bodied larvae. As vlnter washes In very strong solution, hey furnish ono of tho safest rnd nost effective means against scale In :ects. The soaps made of fish oil and iold under tho name of whale oil aps are often especially valuable, nit variablo in composition and n.er ts. A soap made with caustic potash ather than with caustic soda, as is ommonly the case, and not containing nore than 30 per cent of water, iiniild be demanded, the potash soap ielding a liquid In dilution more rcad ly sprayed and more effective against nsects. The soda soap washes arc 'Pt to be gelatinous when cold, and lifficult or imiiossiblH to spray except vhen kept at a very high temperature. :-'or r'ant-llce and delicate larvae uch as tho pear slug, a strength oh ainod by dissolving half a pound of ap in a gallon of water Is sufficient. Soft soap will answer as well an hard, mt at least double quantity should lr raken. Good milk costs a good dpal irorc han unclean milk, as it requires ad fitional amounts of labor. Also somr Uahles are so badly arranged and -onstrurted that they make it fm wrsihle to produce good milk in thrn without an outlay for alterations. Put the good milk la worth more than thr I poor milk to any consumer. Lire are great deftmyera of yo-:nr- turkov. It it difficult to find tbn on the turkeys, but tbi is vo r-aor hy the ott fbould not take prr f-autlons aeain?t them. A rood pr'a ing i:i do as a r"t"ctVjn. ThoM Lave 'airb-4 t:. liv .xk ir.t' r'f? "f tr.e eour'rr J.i.nr tat they are adviini ine li:r Ue eah j--ar. Sible tO tLtkl.9 It i'i. fco'i-r. "- j ft more marl.t-4 a vance. Fub'Tibe I Ti; Ijjt'.fpn.e. ONE CAIJ3G FOR DRINK HABIT. Expert Traces Intemperance to Im proper Feeding. "There U a ciiuso tor th drink hab- jit which even tiooil Christum parents d. not understand," say a writer In Wl.nt to ICat. 'They cannot realize uhv their children, with beuuilfiil cur rounding and dally Christian Inflii eiii'i'i. KoutctlmcH go far at-lray. be coining sadly Immoral, and in many htstiiiici'H ilrunlianlri. When they, ax well us initny of the physicians, xhall have exhuiiMteil all other clforts to lo cate i ho vaunt of tho trouble, let them leeU to the stomach the poor, abimcd (itoniaeh and they will. In all proba bility, find the source of the evil, Kroui Infiincy many of the little ones are j.Ivcn food beyond the capacity of (heir dln'xllw orgaiiH. An soon na PREPARE FOR LONG FASTS. Mature Takes Good Care of Animals That Hibernate. A large number of species of nn!- j "- umlergo more or less prolonged suilico to supply all tlie waste entailed by the respiratory function during the period in question. Fat Is also ac cumulated by the mouse-lemurs of Madagascar previous to the summer ficult or impossible to procure, TRAITS OF PRESIDENT ....UGER. Poultney Bigelow Writes of Great South African Statesman. Poultney Bigelow, writing before the j noDie siatesman irom auouier. nu .a i t heorot ica llv the first citizen of the most democratic community, yet In practice ho surrounds himself with a tawdry splendor that would shock many a crowned head of Europe. When I first had the honor of meet ing this anachronistic phenomenon ho was drinking coffee and throwing cut a cloud of strong tobacco smoke but a still greater volume of violent lin guage, emphasized by tho thumping of his massive flst upon the table. Tho room In which he received was crowd ed with long-haired, full-bearded nnd stolid-featured fellow burghers, who reminded me partly of Russian priests, partly of Californian miners, and part ly of certain alleged portraits of tho apostles. I feared that I had unwit tingly interrupted a cabinet meeting, but later it turned out that this was Mr. Kruger's usual 'at home.' When the president is net at his oflicn ho delight.? in nothing so much as enter taining his countrymen with eofiio, tobacco and political proverbs. Ho harrangues bis viFltors with the voice of a bull in distress, ami they like it. lie governs by peifrmal contact !.i:d spoken l arables, . and It Is his lx .i-t that ho knows personally every citi sen of Ills rcriiblio " Per. . in-eli l f t t: ; . orcmot ir. Vreisa. :m . v i.i 1' Solt'icr, C'):;:i.i".: dor :i a ,:n, !;; i r- :iev((I to be csi gf-:'i u l i i t uiii.-". I aad si;..:!! v.i i !:!. ii his Minn if ::c:t thi' small . t. s nti.iit :"J jeir; !-..!.! r . ii.ee I: ii'-iri i:i"! of the . ;ivt i'i i-i I n 'id try la the .ciuiir. :. I rt'puidicr. I "Id and In:-, !. aa 8 r !'. Hin . vt. art?.- l:-:'.ian : ; if the fict ll.;:t 1 r's ri -i fr irr he lime.' t r.inl lit h:i' i;. '.'..: '. ..rs ago, when h I .'ith,ns i a i'. v. was fk-hting f.n the Hide of the gov ernment, his rivl't arm a Mt by a hell. It Is that win n hf fu ind 1:1k arm wns 1: a:y Miorcd h" liar Led '.ff th ret wit i I.:. o.n ;.ni! 1 1 i the short sltili bo.md i::d r.niM il Irt work in the fie:-!. N iw. for U. mtv Ices to Panama 'Imlur t?;e criwul i.r riod f its biri'i. I l a" Im"": '-raM' ! V".oirfi to ,hv i! i ;"' ' , f "'I' to study th D.iliti-y or,aiiiiiatii.r. iJ the lea dine tiati. n . Pagan Ritet at Funeral. An IntT't.r.r Is,' .r.ri"' -r-d r .. .1 r milh th- but.: f fi-n.T . Gei TE" It K!(.ui, i I ' f .. N V. th rarrj ii t .i i - l .': ' crave y K 'j . '. r 1 i . blh iilK. Mr if. . v. i., plian. iiid fcT I ' ' S chtrrb 'b ? U' . ! ' e:,t ti 1U- lu'i'ii. - : r ' t. ' jnicfe, T" '.. : tf in' i"- I At tli? rtmt i.-i'i'i !..- -v ; u; . . at tbe li-al .f i: i - .--iw rir .rii ui, :i i. li .ii i. t e'!i of ti'i fr : ear acd l:lrf:h-'-i i Uie cone fh cl 'Lt '.-n .'.. Yarding Fowls. A good deal of experimenting IH havo to bo done before the ijuentlon of yarding fowls U settled. With Hie small Hock on the farm tho problem la not a large one, but with the largo flock tho problems Increase both In size and number. If a man havo ov era! hundred hens shall ho let them all havo tbo run of tho farm; shall ho conflno them In one yard; fr In several? Tbo man with a good '"y fowls will hardly enro to let them have tho run of tho farm. With a small flock It la different; nnd ho will need to keep them confined only while tho plants are getting a stnrt In tho spring. After tho gurden has got to growing well the birds may bo turned lu with no possibility of harm except to lcttuco nnd to tomatoes when they begin to get ripe. As to other vegeta bles tbo birds will only provo a help by picking off the bugs. Also In the lull of the year when tho praln has been harvcbted the birds will do tho farmer much good in his gruln fields by picking up the seeds that have dropped from the bends In tlmo of har vesting. Incidental arrangements and circunistar.ces also affect tho problem. A lady told tho writer that she had 200 Urown Leghorn hens. She sold hor husband was n thresher nnd much grain was hauled to his farm and threshed there. Tills gave a consid erable amount of lost grnln which supported her 200 fowls with little other food. This was n happy arrange ment that seldom exists. j All things being equal, It will be better to keep largo Hocks yarded ! most of tho time. If there ore more than one flock they may be turned out 1 after tho grain harvest, one flock one ; day and another another. But It !s 1 far easier to keep tho flocks Bhut up and establish a regular system of ' yarding nnd feeding them. In this country of cheap land there seems lit tle reason in depriving fowls of room. Tho more room tho less the required height of the fence. Yards on farms should be large enough so that they can be divided Into two or threo parts. . Greon stuff, like rape and oats may be sown in one part, and after It has obtained a good growth the fowls may be turned In and another part of ' tho yard seeded. It Is not possible to ' grow any crop whllo tho fowls are in the yard as they will feed oft tho developing crop to the roots. If a man have heavy fowls the fences need ha not more than three feet high. The birds will not gen erally try to fly over. This does not include tho Plymouth Rocks, which are both quitp heavy and good liyers. We have found that with a good-sized yard a four-foot wire fence will stop even the Leghorns if there Is no board at the top of the fence. They will not make the. attempt to fly over un less they can '.have a board to light on. On the other hand, In cramped quarters wo have seen Leghorns be come very expert In getting over a : wire fence even without a top board. I It Is a mistake to suppose that fowls having the run of tho farm lay i more than birds yarded. Carefully conducted experiments have failed to ' show any advantago of this kind, I popular impressions to tho contrary ; notwithstanding. The man that yards his fowls must simply supply them with the green and animal food they would get on their foraging expedi tions. The Narragansett Turkey. The Narragansotts are next in size to the Bronze. The ground color of their plumage Is black, each feather ending with a band of steel gray edged with black. This gives a gray ish color to tho surface plumage. f St '-' Niirrasniifvtt Turkey (MmI. Thr y are be autlful in form and feather and breed true to shape and color. Th female is lighter In her markings than the male. The weight of the males runs frnm 2't to 3'i po'ind and of the fen. aii s 12 to 11 pounds. An Incubation Eupcriment. tK II . 1... ..lb.l . ..... I ... I II I 1 II.' U , ,' .11 . J"' 111,,' II j r-rc" trmn varioua Bourn-h ha.-'' b'--n ( Mt In the 1m ubatoi . til tli"ne, ".2'i". tr J i r 'iiU -re f nil". Tl.r-e , thoiifcand tl r-e hundred and f'rt -; tit 4'. p'T f-ti.t., t.f the f.rii, i kn (n- I dtrhed 1 1 Ih iii 3s .;r tit rf tbe t'i'al n .fi.t. r. 1 h-fTi-i-ri'y 'f liat'l.irnr ur: ! r eoi 'liii'r lar.re'J finrn p r -i.t to 1 p'T flit Tbi tt riri'i is - ,',knii-d in ', direci-in ,f t -t ;. . !. -friiiniy cf .e tna'tir-'n d ' in flu'ri' ! tit i'ihbm an4 rfnn " v. a urt up'-S tie La'.'b I:bod- 1 nr.d EU'loa. 1 ..ra I ft f tr.''ii. ( .r. - - - ;:-r f.v. tjt tLur l-itg lail is "i'i i. f kliom n. NATHAN tELU4 IT fO LtSi. "?.i?ii','?i iv;".'!-.:? itei Beaumont, "Ah Sin. Esqujre." By way of coiTohoriiting my view hat the title "Ksipilre" is utterly do iold of meaning, one of my renders nentions that in Singapore, where 'io has resided for eleven years. It Is mt only universally bestowed on :very white man, but alm upon the wealthier Chinese and Asiatics. "Ah 3ln, lCsq.," looks and sounds well. It will surely lend an additional iitlrue Uon to life in a Hand mine or com pound when the Celestial knows that the wealth he amasses out nf his "av erage minimum" wage will entitle him to such a designation, llf; could not get a peacock's feather or a yellow Jacket at homo for anything like the price. London Truth. Grouse Has Many Defenses. The grouse has a hundred tricks of ielVnso. It will lie still until the muter Is within a yard of It, then soar iralght upward In his front, towering like a woodcock; again, it will rlso forty yaids away, and the sound of Its .villus is his only notice of its pres ence. It will cower upon a brunch under which he passes, and his cap will not be more than a foot below It as he goes, and though It Iiiih seen him approaching it will remain quies cent in fear until his back Is turned. It will rush then,' and when he has Flowed himself hurriedly around he will catch only a glimpse of a brown, broad wing far away. ( NOT CUT OUT FOR SOCIETY. Westerner Sure He Would Never Shine Among the Smart Set. I'ncle Joe Cannon tolls of the trib ulations of a congressman from the Went, out for re-election, whose wife craved social honora. It tppeara that the statesman re ferred to was a man of very plain habits, little given to the frivolities of .'he smart set, but In some way his spouse managed to convince him that his re-election depended In a largo measure upon bla taking a more prom inent .art In "aoclety." Bo tho west erner energetically set about to meet Mi wife's views. Hut It went hard with him, and finally ho denpalred of in r becoming anything like a society nan. "One day he came to me In great iMMnn. Til be banged if I'm not retting !tk of It,' naid he. 'The -tial game baa pot me ln' for rood, for turc lint what make Die mad la that I fcbmiM te trjtng to muke giod a !j1u!I l.l.e tl.ia lin I baneu't nma t-r' t ii: " of tbe fun'lainenlal ilt-ai tit tt nii me." ""ArM -bat If this fundamental .!k? I asked. - '.r.ij'.f tt.ia.' r p'bd the candi dt- f.ir re.itl'rn. 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I!emenil fne tt ff-ftr,ton, "THE COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA," ionMer. U-:in Jn'r 4tb. AM; yonr H-.tn. Tk k-t kr.ti or w rit. n for ifTormatioa relet t tbe -T.-1-Ar:L-)) l i'keta" to Colorado ia St. Infills "One Way Via the Denver Road" H. S. Da . T.P.A. R. W. Tir ton. C Fan War tit Texas. Animals In Winter Quarters. Many nnlmals, like squirrels, eor nilci) and 'hamsters, lay iip supplies of food in their winter quarters, on which they feed during waking Inter vals In tho torpor, ho thnt the fast Is by no means so prolonged or so con tinuous. They are, however, yet other nulmiihi, such as bats among mam mals, frogs ami toads among amphib ians, nnd the west African lung fish among- fishes, which apparently neither put on fat nor lay up a store of fond during their period of torpor; which In the ense of all ot them Is unusually prolonged. Coins Fortune from Pennies. One man who controls tho public slot machines at the resorts on Coney island makes a profit of more than gliilii a week. That is net profit. Ho has more than $28,000 invested in his plant. One of the best posted slot machine men the other day estimated that, exclusive of the gambling ma chines, which flourish in the West, more than half a million pennies are dropped into slot machines every day, while on a holiday a million would be nearer the mark. Longevity of Forest Trees. 1 Information gathered by the Gor man forestry commission assigns to the pine tree 700 years as a maxi mum length of life, 425 years to the silver fir, 275 to the larch. 245 to the red beech, 210 to the aspen, 200 to tho birch. 170 to the ash, 145 to tho elder, and no to the elm. The heart or tho oak begins to rot at about the age of Mill years. Of the holly It la said there Is a specimen aged 410 years In exist-ni-nr Aschaffenburg In icrmauy. ICntcrprisc want win always In lug results. T.A. A. A, C nteon, O. P. A. Ih. Tiua. A I