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The Sea-Coast Echo - CHAS. G. MOREAU. PUB.. ST. LOUIS. MISSISSIPI* | The early bird doesn't get the worm merely by being early. Every little presidential candidate has a keynote of his own. In case of a coal strike will the coal bin give space for a mushroom bed? The cellar of a Pennsylvania farmer h*.H dropped into a coal mine. Lucky man. Our own weather is bad enough, hut In China they are having a reign of terror. Being shot at occasionally la not one of the legitimate annoyances of a king’s job. A California woman with a “model husband’’ has been granted a divorce. She deserves 1L Another blow to woman suffrage. An Illinois genius has Invented an unbreakable window. Butter can be made directly from grass, says a scientist. Possibly a misprint, for “grease.” The Countess of Warwick says that j a woman Is at her best at fifty. Guess j how old the countess is. / A Missouri girl wants $2,000 for seven kisses. One would almost im agine from that that kisses are scarce. The New Jersey assembly has passed a bill imposing a $1 tax on female cats. Is there a mousse trap trust? This Is not such an extravagant na tion after all. A New Yorker was kill ed crossing the subway tracks to save a nlckeL Sarah Bernhardt will get $7,000 a week for playing In vaudeville — al most enough to buy fresh eggs every morning. Proprietors of Ithaca soda fountains will not hail with joy the news that Cornell students have adopted the no treat rule. A judge In New York rules that mother love Is not necessary to a child. In some cases we are in favor of the recall. It is said that 200 former criminals ■are driving taxicabs in New York, in reading the above sentence the “for mer” is silent. A preacher says that the saddest hour of the day comes after sunset. That’s when most of the vaudeville j stunts are pulled ct£. A Parisian philosopher says that vio lent movements produce violent thoughts. He must have found a slip pery sjdewalk somewhere. Ten aviators have been killed so far this year, compared with four in the same time last year. Does this indi cate how aviation progresses? A man in Yonkers tried to kick a dog anu fell with his legs paralyzed. Even nature has joined In the general objection to kicking dogs around. Two New York mctormen ran over the same unfortunate pedestrian. Those two men are wasting their tal ents by not gett.ng Into Wall street. Andy Carnegie arises to remark that the iarmer is the only bappy man In this country. And yet we seldom hear of a steel magnate dying of grief. A Cleveland preacher says the Amer ican home is rapidly disappearing. He must be missing the old-fashioned din ners be used to be Invited to.. Laced boots with spats have been authorized by the kaiser with the un dress uniform of German soldiers. <Jerman army officers may have spats, "but they are forbidden to have duels.. The attorney general of California has decided that when a California woman becomes the wife of aa alien she loses her vote. Does a German girl who is married to an Irishman become Irish? Because she had a revolver In her stocking a Los Angeles woman was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. Her hobble skirt must have been longer than most of those that are seen hereabouts. Astronomers have discovered anew star In the heavens. Theatrical mana gers discover them In any old place nearly every day, and when the nat ural supply gives out they manufac ture them. A New York physician who married a doctor wants a divorce because all his patients deserted him and went to her for medica! advice and treat ment. Some men are so exacting that they are not satisfied merely to have It all in the family. A. Maurice Low in a lecture at Yale the other night characterized newspa per reporters us “men of trivial minds without perspective and with out education.” Some reporter had probably referred to Mr. Low as one who “also spoke.” A Brooklyn 'woman spent SSO for a casket tor ber pet dog. We presume she also had while crepe on the door. An English mining engineer Is in this country offering for sale an ex plosive called amerite. which he claims to be more powerful and less dangerous than dynamite. Indeed, he asserts that it is as safe to handle as a sack of sugar The Inventor be lieves amerlte will not explode the coal duel in mines. If this Is so the ew explosive will be a life-saver and should coaklv supplant all others '■S'-'- ‘ '"V/'.. • % . fIILY HAS RECORD' Kilby's Have Run Postoffice in Maine Town 112 Years. William, the First One, Held Post for Twenty-Five Years, Then In Straight Succession, Came His Son and Grandson. Bangor, Me. —Horace P. Kilby, act ing postmaster at Dennysville, Wash ington county, will take a civil service examination, and if be passes be will succeed H. Howard Kilby, wbo bad been postmaster since June SO. 1897. The office has been in the Kilby fam ily for 112 years, with the exception of two brief Intervals. If there is another such. Represents tive Prank Guernsey of the Fourth district, who has just recommended Horace P. Kilby for the place, would like to know it. The Dennysville postoffice was es tablished February 24, 1800, with Wil liam Kilby as postmaster. He held on for twenty-five years, according to the records In the postofflce depart ment, and then, on December 6, 1825, presumably about the time William Kilby was gathered to his fathers, John Kilby, presumably his son, quali fied and remained postmaster for twenty-seven years. August 20, 1852, Cyrus H. Kilby be came postmaster. Whether he was a grandson of the first postmaster and the son of the second Is not clear. He held on for less than two years, and then, April 38, 1854, Benjamin Kilby became postmaster and held the office for twenty-two years. December 21, 1876, Howard H. Kilby became post master at Dennysville and held the place until February 27, 1886, when Herbert Hallowell, a member of the Kilby family, became postmaster. He remained postmaster until the Demo crats elected a president. It required a few months for the pleas of some of the good Democrats of Dennysville to move Washington, but on June 18, 1887, Edwin H. Smith was appointed to the place. Presumably he was a Democrat. June 1, 1889, Howard H. Kilby came back into his own and served through the remainder of the Harrison admin istration and until July 1, 1893, when {William P. Fenderson got the office during the second Cleveland admin istration. Again, however, a Kilby was recog nized, and June 30, 1897, H. How r ard Kilby was commissioned as postmas ter and he served until early in Feb ruary last. The office is a small one, and the emoluments have been small. But it now pays about S7OO a year in salary. Once Horace P. gets well seated in the office, under the present civil serv ice rules, it will not be easy to oust him. So no one can say when the Kilby regime will end. Steak Saves Man’s Life. Youngstown. O. —A piece of meat on a fork probably saved the life of Elu Solger of East Youngstown. A fellow boarder got into an argument with him at their boarding house and made a jab at him with removing a piece of steak which he had on the eating utensil. The meat stopped the fork from penetrating far into the neck of the man assailed. BOOM IN TIN STOCK New "Napoleon” Is Revealed —Ed- mund Davis, Back of Present Manipulation, Likes the Title and Dresses the Part. London. —The records of quick profits made in the rubber boom have been beaten by those established dur ing the rise in tin shares, which has been going on quietly the past year. Only now is the public, outside of the stock exchange, beginning to take no tice of the tin boom, which is still far from attracting as much general at tention as did its predecessor, the rub ber boom, in which ail London seemed to have taken a hand. Last year Anglo-Continentals were despised and rejected, and stood at 7 shillings ($1.75). Only a few days ago they were bid for greedily up to $35. Thus the lucky person who had a thousand shares at 7 shillings, cost ing him $1,750, if he held them, would have been able to sell for $35,000. ThisQp a stupendous profit and beats anything the rubber boom gave us. at any rat© as far as the speed of mak ing is concerned. Edmund Davis, the man at the back of the tin boom. Is one of the most picturesque figures in the city. He has been associated with West African properties for many years, likes to be called a “Napoleon of Finance," and rather dresses the part. He also likes to be thought a great connoisseur of art At one time he rented the Piazzo Desdemona in Venice, and perhaps still retains it He is almost as well known on the continent as in London, WED YOUNG AND BE HAPPY Fewer Divorcee* Follow Early Unions, a Medical Expert Says—Most Separation After. Cambridge, Mass. —“Men should marry young,” said Dr. William F, Loos, the Harvard Medical expert. He added: “Statistics show clearly the great benefits of an early union. An impor tant feature is the better health. The offspring of youthful marriages as a rule inherit greater mental and physi cal well-being. "Our ideas on the subject of the marriageable age and the require men's for the union are all wrong. A father. instead of opposing a youthful marr age. should encourage. Statistics Show marriages that usually end in divorce are contracted by people more than thirty years old.” Heavy Burden on New York. Support of indigent insane aliens is jOaling New York more than $5,000. £0 a year. - BCE tmtmammmmrn — ‘"’ '"" ************4U O—M Wi< 77/i5 MOUT£/?£y AT 3WATOW SHEVERE fighting in and around Swatow, China, has caused the utmost I terror among the people of that city. The United States cruiser Monte rey is there and some days ago landed a detachment of marines who took charge of the custom house. FIREMEN TURN RAT HUNTERS Odd Situation Develops as Flames Break in Minneapolis Flat After Search for Rodent. Minneapolis, Minn. —Curiosity, a rat hole and a match entered into a com bination which caused a fire in a flat building here and which also turned firemen called to extinguish the fire temporarily to rat hunters. *The fire started when Mrs. Ray Oliver, who had been frightened by a rat’s daily parade about her home, decided to close the rat’s nest w ith a piece of tin. The curiosity part came in when she lighted a match W> peep into the rat hole to see just what it looked like, and the flaming head of the match fall ing. set fire to paper scraps. The fire followed, also the firemen, who extinguished the flames easily, and then were asked by Mrs. Oliver to hunt the flat over for the rat. It was not found. Has Violin 200 Years Old. Pottsville, Pa. —Since a violin 300 years old was sold recently for $30,000 at Lancaster, friends of Mrs. James E. Steel, daughter of Thomas Will iams, a retired Reading Railway pas senger conductor of this place, have endeavored to persuade her to dis- and he is supposed to be the smartest market manipulator the city has ever seen. He was the creator of the present boom, and he Is now careering round the continent, carrying the glad news that Anglo-Continental 10 shilling shares are cheap at $35 to all the greedy people in Paris, Berlin and Holland. When he Is in Berlin he wears the Order of the Red Eagle, which he re ceived from the Kaiser, according to the London Evening News, from which thes# details are taken, says the correspondent, “ostensibly because MAY TURN COAL TO POWER New Electric Laboratory at Harvard Expected to Prove That Great Sum Can Be Saved by Process. Cambridge, Mass.—The claims re cently made by certain English scient ists as to the possibility of saving, coal mining expense by turning the energy of the coal Into electricity at the mines has the approval and sup port of Professor Comfort A. Adams of Harvard. In a statement regarding the work of the proposed new electrical labora tory here. Professor Adams says that he believes that some day Boston, New York and other cities will receive their electricity for heating, lighting and power by wire from the coal fields. The installation of a million-volt transformer In the Harvard laboratory IMAGE CONVERTS AGED INDIAN Old Jim Forrest, Paroled From Sam Quentin Penitentiary, Sees Miracle in Prisoner’s Statue. San Quentin, Cal. —Jim Forrest, an In dian chief of the Modoc tribe, found a sermon in stone when he recently was paroled from San Quentin prison aft er serving seven -years of a long term for murder. Testing first the air of freedom on the day of his liberation, the gray-head ed Indian espied on the hillside near the steel door through which be had come a clay statue of an Indina wel coming the genius of civilization Hurrying toward the clay present ment of bis race, the aged chief fell on his knees and with arms outstretch ed prayed to the symbot of his people. The tears welled from his eyes as be knelt on tl e cold sod Below stood a group of prison at tendasts, trusties in striper and visi tors at the penitentiary, deeply moved by the silent tableau on the hill •Ua In snntW nerl of the nrknn pose of an instrument owned by her late husband, which is claimed to have even more value. This instrument Is 200 years old, twice the age of that which brought so fabulous a price, and it was pur chased In South America. The in scription, plainl/ legible on the inte rior of the instrument, bears out the age of the violin, which has a re markable tone: “Joannors Baptists Guaraguini Placentinus Fecit Medio lani, 1712.” GIRL WILL DRIVE A STAGE Signs Contract to Carry Mall and Pas sengers Over Dangerous Route In Colorado for a Year. Meeker, Colo.—Miss May Robertson, 21 years old, said to be the first wom an stage driver in the United States, recently began her daily run between Meeker and Buford, a distance of 30 miles. Miss Robertson has been familiar with horses since her childhood, and of late years brok-a bronchos on her ather’s ranch near here. She has signed a year’s contract to operate the stage which will take her over an extremely dangerous and onesome mountain road. The stage will carry passengers and mail. he disagrees with the anti-German feeling in England, but the probability is that he put Emperor William into some ‘good things’ at the bottom, for even the emperor is not averse to buy ing shares at 7 shillings and selling them at $35. We hope this remark will not be taken to mean that the German emperor is at the back of the Nigerian tin boom. “Numberless small people have fol lowed Davis into tin. but the curious thing Is that although they were will ing enough to sell their shares when the market first rose they all now are buying back the holdings which they disposed of some months ago. There fore, at the moment no large fortunes have been actually made otft of the tin boom. They are all paper profits.” will, it' is believed, prove that such a scheme is feasible. The Harvard ex perts hope to show that by using a current of 1,000.000 volt:? .electricity may be economically carried distances of 1,000 miles or more. Thousands of Flying Loons. San Diego, Cal. —The first sign of spring was evident on San Diego bay when a flock of loons, estimated to have numbered 10.000, mobilized on the surface of the water and maneu vered to the weird calls of the leaders until their formation w r as perfect. Then at a signal the feathered visi tors from the north, which have been about San Diego all the winter, rose, ana in wedge-shaped body headed for their northern summer home. Many persons lined the bay shore and witnessed the strange mobiliza tion, which lasted for more than an hour. clad In stripes, performing a* men tal task, was the creative artist whose band had formed the heavy clay figure which had moved the Indian convict to reverence. The statue was the work of a convict. Indian Jim will pass the remainder of his days with his tribe. Double Tragedy In Domestic Quarrel. Augusta, Ga.—ln a rage because his young* wife would not wear the kind of dress he wanted her *p. N. H. Bailey, aged twenty-one. toi: "er that he was going to show who was boss in that house. He fired four shots Into her breast, and then fired a bullet through his own heart. Family Attacked by Rat. New York. —A ten-pound. 27-lnch rat fought five members of a family over the ground floor of their home In East New York. It was killed only after a desperate struggle in which one woman was badly bitten anc ao other driven into hysteria. -• I v HOMES. JN_ AFRICA High Standard of Refinement Exists Among the Dutch. Boers Are the Backbone of Country—* “Colored Help” Proves to Be Household Problem Abund ance of Work for Men. t . Cape Town, Africa. —In South Af rica there are many and varied Influj encea at work shaping the character of the country—in its home life no less than in a political sense. When we read and speak of the lack of re finement exhibited in the homes of the Boers we must not forget that there Is another section of the Dutch popu lation of British South Africa. There Is a very high and very exact standard of refinement in hundreds of old Dutch families in the Cape peninsula, fam ilies in which the traditions of ages back are carried out to the lettwr, whether they stand for niceties of do mestic life or Its warm-hearted hospi talities. There are four colonies in the union of South Africa, and each has its own characteristics; every nation under the sun has given its quota to the peo ple of those four distinctive countries; the two dominating races are just in the midst of a process of settlement of the many questions that have vexed them for the last ten years; and be hind all this there is the great fact of the problem of white and black. These are the elements of which the colonist must form some sort of sympathetic estimate. A common objective for all blame is the colored servant question. But many a tired and seasoned South American housekeeper would not give up her “colored labor” for any other that could be supplied in its place. The disasters of the system come from the abuse of it. A great many Df the women who employ black ser vants In South Africa have the most Imperfect way to treat or manage a servant of any sort. As to the routine of every day life ,n South Africa, there Is not very much to mark that as being distinct From the routine anywhere else. Men ivork hard; the demands of commer cial life are heavy, and the “slacker” is useless; in short, there are many in & Typical South African Home. men who discover for the first time when they reach Africa how much work they are able to do. The cli mate is energizing, however, and work dees not kill. Not always with perfect justifies tion, perhaps, the South African comes to look on life with a certain detachment; he does all that he ought to do, but does it carelessly, as if It were less than noteworthy. He does not become flurried; he dines at night —and takes plenty of time over it — and he appears to be careless of money even when he is not really so. Such an attitude as this brings much satisfaction, and the man who has that attitude cannot very well be charged with vulgarity or with the error of missing the whole meaning 3f life. TREES CLAIMED BY OCEAN Fishes Swim Where Once Were Held the Drills of Soldiers on the Island of Panay. Panay, P. I. —From Fort San Pedrc to the outskirts of Oton, including all of the beach side of Iloilo city, the sea currents are rapidly* washing away the ssnd and gravel and allowing the sea to encroach on the mainland at a dangerous rate. Old residents tell us that where the water now reaches was formerly solid ground; that sol diers were cnce drilled where now the fishes swim. During the high tides of a few months since probably a hundred large cocoanut trees were literally washed up by the roots on account of the beach having been gradually swept away to such an extent that the waves could beat against them. These trees had been growing along the water front for many years and only fell after they had been under mined by the constantly encroaching water. The property along this beach la val uable and should be protected. Not only is it valuable, but seme of it constitutes the most beautiful part of this city, and for this reason also should be protected. We suggest that steps be taken to have government engineers look into this matter with a view of making I recommendations for some kind cf protection against the constant wear ing away of this valuable an 3 beauti ful part cf our city. I j Grew 2,CCO Poi nds of Tea, Xew York —South Carolina pro duced last year two thousand pounds cf tea. some of which has sold for as much as 41 cents a pound. Lead in S!te. Phl adelphia.—Slate is being quar ■ ried commercially in ten states of our country, Vermont and Pennsylvania leading in the industry. Wedded Sl* Couples for 25 Cents. Center, N. C. —One minister married six couples in a week, and his fees foi the lot amounted to 25 cents. PROGRESS MADE IN TICK ERADICATION L kar*. | s'**" Sm\ ’ It I \ v. / I 1 1 ' j>~\ * ,i l|*~' > 'y an xaiM/rir ~ir* <By COOPER CURTICE. D. V. fi., M. D.) The damage and losses caused by the cattle tick are enormous, being estimated at from 140.000,000 to 1200,000,000 a year, but systematic co-operation work by the government and the affected states for the eradi cation of these parasites is rapidly lessening this amount. The following are the results of this co-operative work during the past five years. In Virginia 24 counties have been released from quarantine. In North Carolina 42 counties have been cleaned, and in South Carolina 4 have been released and B*. are nearly clean. In Tennessee 26 counties have been released. Kentucky has been com pleted. Several counties in Georgia, Ala v BEANS IMPROVE SOIL Not Many Plants Surpass It as a Fertilizer. its Quick, Rank Growth Makes It Ex cellent as Cover Crop and for Or namental Purposes—Sound Seed Must Be Used. Few crops give more satisfactory re pults for as many purposes than the Velvet bean. Its first use was for the purpose of covering trellises, screens pf unsightly places. Its quick, rank growth makes It excellent as a cover crop and for ornamental purposes. fThis feature makes it objectionable in pitrus groves because of the danger that the trees will be completely shaded, or that the vines will inter jfere with gathering the fruit. In open iflelds, however, it is not only an excel lent cover crop, but is very efficient in ithe eradication of •‘roublesome weeds, its use for human food is limited. 5 Like other legumes it is of great importance as a soil improver. The nodules which collect nitrogen from the air vary in size from a mere speck to the size of the pecan. The greater Velvet Bean, Showing Leaves, Flow ers and Young Pods. part of the nitrogen, however, is found In the vines, leaves, and seeds. An pntire crop plowed under as a ferti lizer has been found to add to each pore ammonia equivalent to that ap plied in 1,900 pounds of cottonseed fueal containing 7.5 per cent, of am pionia. A ton of beans in the pod contains 54.8 pounds of nitrogen, 31.8 pounds of potash, and 13.8 pounds of phosphoric acid, having a fertilizing value of $lO or sll. The hulls con tain a much higher percentage of phosphoric acid and potash. The time pf planting velvet beans depends upon the latitude, season, and the purpose for which the crop is grown. Sound seed must be used to secure the largest yield. If the beans are planted in the pod, they may be Leaked over night to soften the pods and hasten germination. This method pf planting wastes seed, prevents planting by machinery, produces an uneven stand by reason of poor germ ination. and renders seed selection by jmeans of the fanning mill impossible. ■Velvet beans may be improved in yield by seed selection. As the beans can not be cultivated after the vines have reached any considerable length, prep aration of the seed bed should be deep and thorough. The time of harvesting will depend entirely upon the purpose for which the crop has been grown. If used for hay, the crop should be cut just when the young buds are well formed, al lowed to wilt about 48 hours, and cured In the shock for several days To avoid loss through the dropping of leaves, the vines must not become too dry before being placed in the shock. The velvet bean Is a highly nitro genous feed and should not be fed alone, as such feeding has been re ported as causing abortion among cattle and hogs and blind staggers in horses. The hay when fed exclusively to horses is likely to cause kidney trouble, but this danger may be over come by mixture with an equal amount of crab-grass bay. It is also stated that the fat of hogs fed too exclusively on velvet beans is dark in color and offensive in taste and smell. Handling Dirty Eggs. It would he better to wash eggs r-ent to market than to send them In a dirty condition. But washed eggs have no keeping qualities. The water appears to dissolve the gelatinous sub stance which teals the pofes of the shell, and air Is thus admi ted. and soon starts decomposition. The tetter way to treat dirty eggs is to take a woolen rag only slightly m listened with water and gently rub off the t,rt. bama, Louisiana and Mississippi have been released and in many other counties in each state work is going on. Oklahoma has released 7 counties, Arkansas 10, Texas 7 whole counties, and parts of 5 others, and California has almost entirely stamped the tick out of the 15 original infected coun ties of that state. Summary: There have been freed of ticks and released from quarantine 127 counties and parts of 20 counties out of 927 originally Infected; 90 are in varying degrees of disinfection. Over one-seventh of the counties have been cleaned, and over one-fifth of all the originally Infected counties have been worked in. About one-tenth of the counties now infected are being worked in and are partially clean. PROBLEM OF SOIL MOISTURE Farm Should Be Terraced, Plowed Deep, Well Cultivated, Crops Ro tated and Fertilized. The key to the problem of soil con servation lies in the due control ot t 1 ,> water that falls on each acre. The water Is an asset of the greatest pos sible value and should be looked upon as such; saved, if held where it would do good—lost, if permitted to run away—doubly lost If It carries away soil of value and does destructive work below. The remedy lies with each Individual farmer. Terraces should be constructed on all undulat ing farms, and crops cultivated on a level according to these terraces. All but too late parts of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina awoke to the fact that they had too long allowed the rains to fall and the floods to come, unrestrained, and wash away their source of wealth, leaving them red, unproductive, gullied hillsides, in place of their once productive farms. They awoke to the fact that they must conserve what they had left. The subject of terracing was agitated, a few pioneers terraced their farms, and proved to the majority that the idea was practical. The farmers see ing the benefits of this were not slow to adopt the method and the result is that they have reclaimed their once depleted fields ami are now producing from one to one and a half bales of cotton where only one fourth bale per acre was a good yield before terracing was adopted. For uncounted ages the soil'* of China has been tilled, and instead ot being exhausted, is even more fen lie than it was in the beginning of their cultivation. The reason of this is tl at each farm is terraced to a level —cul- tivated on a level —no fast down-pour of rain washes away their soil, but It Is retained by (heir terrahes and is drawn off gradually, or finds Its wUy to the streams through the subsoil. We must awake to the fact that our lands are our means of livelihood — that the farmers produce food and' clothing for the ever-increasing urban millions, as well as themselves. Conservation of soils and moisture are items that affect all, and the farmer, who is the man on the ground and who has charge, must build for the future, as well as the present. The farm should be terraced, plow ed deep, well cultivated, crops rotated and fertilizer used, where needed. Shoes on Farm Horses. Farm horses should not be com pelled to wear shoes any more than Is necessary. If you have no heavy work at this time the shoes may removed now that the ice is off the surfaceof the ground. A shoe stunts the natural growth of the hoof and should not be worn too long withotit being reset or the growth of the hoot is cramped. Cow's need raucb water. Never allow the dairy sire to rur. with the herd. A separator saves two or three handlings of the milk. Constant vigilance is the price of success in the growing of garden crops. Overcrowding and overheating have caused the death of hosts of young chicks. Cleanliness and ventilation are highly imporent factors in raising brooder chicks. Don’t keep rapping your horse with the whip unless you want to drive a regular old plug. Salt is of especial importance to the dairy cow during the winter w ben she Is fed on dry feed. Do not force a dairy cow to seek shelter behind a barb wire fence on a stormy or frosty day. As foaling time approaches give the mare a rest, but let her have exercise in the open air every day. The newly-hatched chicks must not be removed from the incubator until they are thoroughly dry. You can generally tell a sheep farm by its neat appearance. The sheep keep the pretty well cleaned up Running tbe Incubator Is like most other things, we get results largely la? proportion to the work we our selves.