NEW AEKIAL MOTOR. Ksroprsn Aerouanta Clnini That It IN CunKlruclrU on the Mini I'lnuKihle Theory. Kuropean aeronauts are just now talking a great ileal of a very novel airship, which lias been constructed by MM. Filippi, of Bizerta, ant! Mailer, of Tunis, and are wondering whether it will really do all that they claim for it. They maintain boldly that their airship can be uplifted and made to move in any desired direction by means cf atmospheric, pressure. "Our balloon," they say, "will be en tirely at our command after t lie atmos phere has been artificially rarefied in front of it." Their invention 111 no way resembles an ordinary balloon, it is shaped like a skirt, on which are several masts. On the summit of each mast is a cone, and this is surmounted by a small wing. A machine causes the cone to turn, and their rotation, it is said, is bound to create an impulse under the airship which will necessarily send it upward. In the front and'rear of the skiff there are also revoh ing cones, which are de signed to rarefy the air and thus pre vent the balloon from stopping. That this is a most plausible theory all scientists admit, but some of them insist that 110 balloon constructed on this principle will ever be able to travel through the air. Thus M. Henri de Parville says: "MM. Filippi ana Maeler are ine.ely wasting their time. A doz en years ago M. Puskas, a well-known scientist, came and told me that he had at last invented a perfect balloon. I asked him what the principle was and he said atmospheric pressure. I (joint ed out many objections to it, but he went ahead, and in a short time he had j JJ . IFL'-V JcQu' x P 1 A « THE LATEST IN AIRSHIPS. built a 90-foot balloon, at a cost of 350,000 francs. "He was then more enthusiastic than ever, but somehow he never suc ceeded in getting his balloon off the ground, and he died in Vienna without accomplishing his object. Now, this Puskas balloon was designed on ex actly the same principles as the one constructed by Messrs. Filippi and jMo-'er." "1 he idea is certainly ingenious," says M. A. de Cunha, "but at the same time this would be a very dangerous airship, for the reason that a machine is used for the purpose 01 keeping it in the air and in motion, and if this machine were to break a calamity would cer- J tainly occur." j Othc-rs, on the contrary, are eotifi- | dent, that the new airship will travel j speedily and safely through t he air, and | both they and those who disagree with I them are waiting anxiously for the | first test of the airship, which will be j made near Paris at an early date. A PLANT THAT COUGHS. Tie Gntniln, a Tropical Vine. Sneer,e» Violently When H ron slit in Contact with Uimt. It is now well known that the sharp ! and broad distinction formerly made | between animals and plants does not I conform to the facts. The cells of plants, like those of animals, are dif- ; ferentiated in functions and are ] grouped to form special organs of nu trition, respiration, excretion —even for the perception of light. The sensi tive plant (Mimosa) has u well-devel- ■ oped sense of touch. A certain tissue in the leaves of ! plants performs the functions of a j liver. The respiration of plants is espe cially interesting. On the under side of leaves and on green stems are mil lions of microscopic mouths, each of ■ which is opened and closed by two movable lips. These openings are the terminations of passages which are filled with write-, vapor, air and other gases, produced by the chemical changes which accompany growth. The vine called the coughing bean (Eutada tussiens) is a native of moist, tropical regions. By accidental t.insportation of its seeds it has gradually spread to much less congenial spots, especially rail road embankments, where it endures drought, very well, though its growth is stunted. I'ut there is one thing which it cannot stand, and that is dust. When the breathing pores become choked by dust the gases accumulate within the leaf for a time and then afe forcibly expelled in an audible paroxysm of coughing and sneezing, which makes the leaf trerrble violent ly. At the same time the whole plant becomes red in the face, so to speak, through the sinking in of the green chlorophyll grains and the appear ance of particles of red coloring mat ter on the surface. The Eutada is sometimes cultivated as a house plant. Sweeping the room is very apt to set the poor plant a-coughing, to the intense astonish ment of persons who are unfamiliar with its peculiarities. DISTEMPER IN DOGS. Coeenn of the I)i»eH>e Han Recently Keen lnolated and Vaccination IK NOW Unite au Fait. Vaccination of dogs as a preventive of distemper has just been announced in England by Dr. Copeman. He re cently isolated the coccus of distemper and through experiments with the cul tivated germs has prepared a vaccine that renders animals immune from the contagion. l)r. Copeman discovered that the lab oratory cocci, injected into a dog, was universally fatal. But when treated with diluted carbolic acid at .1 temper ature of CO degrees centigrade the vac- VACCINATING A DOG. cine so prepared made animals immune from distemper in any contact. This discovery has been recognized as of great value in England. At the same time Dr. Copeman has not had a chance to prove how long this immun ity may last, and dog breeders all over the world are to be brought to try the vaccine with an eye to its lasting ef fect. This discovery is interesting from a pathological point of view from the fact, that long ago the disease was classed as a variola and an inoculation of cowpox was proved to be ineffectual against it. From the time of Aristotle canine distemper has been recognized. In 1028 it almost wiped out the dogs of Bohemia. France suffered from it in 1740. and before the century ended nearly every part of Europe had felt the scourge. It exists in nearly every part of Europe to-day. Time and again 111 recent years un successful efforts have been made to find the germ of the distempr r. Now that it is found it does not show marked variations from several other well-known micrococci. FREEZING BACTERIA. Freoh Experiment* Prove That I.one Continued Cold Will Dentroy Even the Liveliest of Them. Within the last year or two some in teresting experiments have been con ducted in England, with the purpose of ascertaining the effect of extreme cold on the vitality of various kinds of bacteria. The tests were made with liquid air and liquid hydrogen, by means of which temperatures were ob tained .'ioo to 400 degrees below zero. In the majority of instances the mi crobes withstood this amazing chill and on thawing out exhibited signs of life. 1 In these experiments, however, the j cold was applied for only a very short j time, a few minutes or a few hours, j A different class of tests has just been j reported to a bacteriological congress j by Dr. W. 11. Park, of the New York | health board. lie employed only ty phoid bacilli, but in order to make the investigation more thorough he took specimens which he had cultivated from 20 different eases of disease. Thus any inequality in their hardiness was guarded against. The particular j feature of this scheme was not the se | verity of the cold, but its duration. 1 Having prepared a lot of tubes con taining his culture, Dr. Park reduced | them all to a temperature of 2.'! de | grees Fahrenheit, only a little below ! freezing, and kept them there. Then at intervals he would remove a tube and examine the bacilli. At the end of ny a days he found 42 per rent, of the microbes in the first j tube alive. In a week all but 14 per cent, were dead in another. In two j weeks only 7% per cent, survived, in j three, 0.4; in five, 0.11, and in seven, I 0.0. The percentage diminished as j time went on, until in 22 weeks, or j fully five months, all of the bacilli I were dead. The tube opened after 18 j weeks was the last to show anv life j left. It thus appears that a long win | ter will usually kill typhoid bacilli, even if it is not a severe one. Pn»t Trolley Cnr Servlee. In Philadelphia a fast trolley ear is being tested. It takes newspa pers in the early morning to Chest nut. Hill, 14% miles away. It runs at a rate of:15 miles an hour, includ ing a stop at least every three-quar ters of a mile. Occasionally it lias run a mile in a minute and an eighth and it has made the entire distance in 25 minutes, including slops, which is the same time as the express trains make for the same distance. It maintains its schedule time reg ularly, but on one occasion it was late ter. minutes, owing to the wreck of a hay wagon which was on the road. Cnrion* Tc«t for I)eafne*M. A novel and curious test for dpp.f ness or approaching deafness has i just been described by a Paris spe cialist. If the handle of a vibrating tuning fork Vie applied to the knee or other bony portion of the frame the sound cannot be heard by the person who possesses an unim paired ear, but if the ear be attacked by disease, then the note can b« heard distinctly. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1901. THE ART OF GRAFTING. Cleft Method Denerlhetl In Detail, To gether with lliittm 011 the Prepar ation of Urnfiiiiif Was. The terms used in grafting are ■eion, which is the part inserted, and stock, which is the tree grafted upon. Cleft-grafting is probably more gen erally used than any other kind. It is commonly performed to change the bearing of apple, plum and various other trees and plants. It may be used 011 very small branches or stocks, but is best adapted to large branches. The tools used on larger-sized stocks are a sharp knife for cutting the scions, a sharp saw for cutting off the branches or stems, and a grafting-chisel for splitting the stocks and for holding the cleft open while the scions are be h' 1 jjH^ (bf-i- l|H> INSERTING THE SCION. Ing inserted. On small stocks a sharp knife alone is needed. The work is done as follows: The place selected for the insertion of the scions should be where the grain is straight. The stock is then cut square off ruid is split through its center to a sufficient depth to allow the scion to be putin place. The cleft should be held open by the wedge-shaped part of the chisel (a large nail will answer the purpose in a small way) until the scions are inserted, when the wedge is withdrawn, allowing the stock to spring back and hold the scions in place. If the stock does not spring back into place it should be drawn tight against the scions by a piece of string. The number of scions put into each stock will depend upon its size, but generally not more than two are inserted, and on small stocks only one. It is absolutely necessary for success that the inner barks of both scion and stock come together, as shown in Fig. 1. When inserted the scions should ap pear as shown in Fig. 2. The scions should be wedge-shaped for about one THE SCION INSERTED. and one-half inches where they gointc the cleft in the stock. They should also be wedge-shaped crossways, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to bind the inner barks of scion and stock together. They should each have two or three buds above the cleft. The scions must be of wood of the preceding year's growth, and no older. It is important to use a sharp knife for making the cuts. When the scions are inserted and in place all the cut surfaces should be covered with grafting-wax. Clay and cow-dung well kneaded together in equal proportions into a stiff mastic may be used in place of wax, but all things considered wax is most desir able. A good grafting-wax for general use may be made as follows: liesin, four parts by weight; beeswax, two parts; tallow, one part. Melt together and pour into a pail of cold water; then grease the hands and pull the wax un til it is nearly white, in the same way that molasses-candy is pulled. In ap plying the wax, place it in warm wa ter to soften for use if too hard. Grease the hands, to prevent it stick ing to tlit'in. Grafting is generally performed with greatest certainty just as growth starts in the spring. The buds on the scion should not have started at the time they are inserted. Plums generally graft best just before the growth starts.—Farm and Fire side. Mnklne KomniNH at Home. To make homemade koumiss, cow's milk should be diluted with one-third its volume of water and two tea spoonfuls of white sugar added per quart of liquid. A small portion of this is rubbed into a paste, which is then placed in strong bottles and al lowed to ferment. After a few days during which the bottles should be repeatedly shaken, a beverage of great value in cases of digestive dis turbance, as well as of excellent pal atability for a healthy person, is pro duced. Especial care must be used in corking the bottles tightly, and it is safer, owing to the great pressures produced by the fermentation, to wrap the bottles in a heavy cloth be fore shaking them.—Dai-y and Creamery. Work pushed early will fount for mop than six weeks Inter. Have everything in hand to take advantage of all the good days as soon as the soil will wcrk up properly.—Nation*! Rural. A UNITED STATES MARSHAL Thanks Peruna For His Rapid Recovery From Catarrh. EX-UNITED STATES MARSHAL MATTHEWS, OF MISSISSIPPI. Hon. S. S. Matthews, ex-Uniteil States Marshal of Mississippi, in a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Company of Columbus, Ohio, written from Hazelliurst, Miss., says: "/ am happy to say that I am cured of catarrh and need no more attention from you. It is a great satisfaction that lam able to write you that Peruna has in my case done ai! that you claim, and that I will need no more medicine." j J iQJ TAT WI Ifilffl From Monday to Saturday—at every ffffihfoiOTWßiMMlWlW turn * n *he kitchen work —a Wickless Blue Flame Oil Stove will save labor, jg- time and expense—and keep the cook J ijiipilmi; 1 ■ =comfortable. No bulky fuel to prepare | II Mij i- J or carry, no waiting for the fire to come j|| 111,' J jMyr up or die down; a fraction of the expense Oil Stove ylspiL-s ! will boil, take, broil or fry than a j I have them, write to nearest agency of STANDARD OIL COMPANY. Mflfafl |f il «|| EASILY ACQJIRED FAME. lie Was Bunnlng Tor (Klirr and <>ot the Bis Boost Jimt iv Help Him A loii^. "I never realized how easilv a man may eourt fame and get undeserved credit for a very ordinary act until I got into polities," observed the modest aldernianic candidate, relates the Detroit Free Press. "The other day I stepped out into the street and stopped a walk-away nag attached to a heavily-loaded brick wagon. The animal had simply strayed away while the driver went to get a glass of beer or something. I don't believe the old ring-boned ani mal had the ambition to run away even if he had a light wagon behind him, and he certainiy was going at a cold molasses gait when 1 stopped him. As 1 'geed' the horse around and returned him to the curb one of my admiring constituents who touch ed me for campaign expenses occa sionally, rushed up and, grabbing my hand, exclaimed: " 'By George, old boy, that was a brave act! I expected to see you t ram pled under the horsa's hoofs any minute.' "Then a very inquisitive young man whom 1 might have recognized as a newspaper reporter advanced and plied me with questions. That evening my attention was called to a •windy, not to say 'fierce,' article in which I was described as a great hero. It was headed 'Daring Deed— An A'ldermanic Candidate Stops a Runaway Horse at the Risk of His Life,' and a graphic word picture was drawn of flying bricks, plunging horses and scurrying pedestrians. "It was a great send-ofl and the en thusiastic constituent who was the first to congratulate me touched me for a 'five-spot' on the strength of it." ftfnrtf ftirenri. Mr. Xewlywed—Com, won't you break bread with us to-day? .lack Jester—No, thanks, old man; yon see. i c*n t stand manual labor. By the way, ib it her fust attempt ? —Ohio State Journal. No Innovationn for lllm. "Please, sir," said the honest office boy, "may 1 get off this afternoon?" "Why?" asked Mr. Oldskule, knowing that a ball game was scheduled; "is your grandmother dead?" "Oh, no, sir," replied the h. o. b. "I want togo to the baseball game." "No, indeed!" snorted Mr. Oldskule. "You stay right here in the oliiee. I want it understood that the traditions of our fathers must and shall be respected so long as I am in charge here." —Baltimore American. 'IV« (iooil Friend*. If you have pimples, tetter, eczema or any disease of the skin or mucous membranes that can be reached by an outward applica tion, it can be cured by using Palmer's Lo tion, the greatest beautifier and skin curer, which should be kept in every household, ready for any emergency. Palmer's Lotion Soap possesses all the medicinal properties of this lotion and should be used in connec tion with it, in preference to any other soap, as it will greatly assist in curing ail sach afflictions. If your druggist doesn't keep them, send at once to Solon Palmer, 374 Pearl Street, New York, for samples of Palmer's Lotion and Lotion Soap. Mrs. Johnsing—"l jes' met Mrs. Yallerby, an' she tole me her daughter done eloped wif a gemman in de iron business." Mrs. Jackson—"Well, I declar"! Sech airs! Who am de gemman?" Mrs. Johnsing—"He'sde ('hineso launderman 'round de eohner."— Philadelphia Record. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. First Impressions.-—Mamma (to Bobby, who has never seen young lambs) —"Weil, Hobby, what do you think of them?" Bob by—"l like the funny way they bark!"— Punch. Cheeli CoiiKhH, Cold* i»n«l Cronp With Hoxsie's Croup Cure. Noopium. 50cts. A good many men are so shiftless that they never dress up except on Sunday or when their church gives a dinner.—Wash ington (la.) Democrat. Some skeptics are like the near-sighted man who skates right up to the danger sign to see what it says.—Detroit Journal. It's when things are coming your way that you admit they are going to suit you. — 1 Philadelphia Bulletiu. The great multitude take this rem-? edy without any other advice tliaji| the directions to l>e foond upon "tbe bottle and in ihe pamphlets. There» are those who prefer, however, to cor respond with Dr. llartman durinja their sickness. To all such he -.vilf make prompt and careful answer without charge. Hon. J. F. Crooker, of Buffalo, N. Y.» who was for years Superintendent of Schools at Buffalo, in a letter dated October 16 writes: •• I have been a sufferer from ca tarrh six or seven years, and J * utter trying many * / V remedies was in- J * duced by a friend IH ' W2}| J to take Peruna. 1 ?■ 112 * The results have ■ L t been highly satis• | | factory. I take ■ pleasure in rec- J '' t ommending Pe- J Hon. J. P. Crooker, fc runa to any one I S iCbi"" 'l suifering with oc *-■ «■•*■«« catarrh, as my cure is complete." Hon. B. H. Doviner, Congressman from West Virginia, in a letter from Washington, I). C., to The I'eruna Med icine Co., says the following of their catarrh remedy, Peruna: "I join with my colleagues in th« House of Representatives in recom mending your excellent remedy, Peruna, as a good tonie and also an effective cure for catarrh." Mrs. Mary C. Fentress writes from Paradise,Tex., the following: "I think I can say that your good advice and medicine has cured me of chronic ca tarrh. I have had no pains in my head since I have taken Peruna. I have bee a in bad health ever since '59, and have taken a good many medicines which were only of temporary relief. Peruna is the catarrh cure. The Peruna stopped my catarrh of the head so that it did not become chronic, and J am very thankful for Dr. Ilartman's advice and medicine." Peruna is a specific for all catarrhal diseases. It acts quickly and bene ficially upon the inflamed mucous membrane thus removing the cause of catarrh. Catarrh is catarrh wherever located. Catarrh is essentially the same every where. The remedy that will cure catarrh in one situation will *urc it iri all situations. If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Peru na, write at once to Dr. llartman, giv ing a full statement of your case ami he will be pleased to give you his val uable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of Columbus. O. A Confidence Iletween Member*. "I understand," said one member of the legislature, "that the senator whom we re cently elected was beset by footpads and robbed in Paris.'" "Dear me!" answered the other member of the legislature. "Those Frenchmen have such a brutal and direct method of getting a man's money away from him."-—Washing ton Star. It's a mighty deaf man that doesn't heal the dinner bell.—Chicago Daily News. Many a poor tune is played on a good horn.—Chicago Daily News. In 3 or 4 Years an Independence Is Assured IIWjPJ.MWTBnBPnTf you take up venr home* jKfflffffffctrwil l in Western ('anuria. Ibo CcbN llunri of plenty. llJiis -OV4 I t4JpSl£ I* trated pamphlets. Kiting lexperiences of farmer.* KlO> H I A who have become wealthy \WjM%L\u crowing wheat. report 1 yv A n Qof delegates, etc.. and fu I information as to rcduce>l railway rates can he had application to the Undersigned. who will mail you atlases, pamphlets, etc., free of COM. K. PKDLEY, Sunt, of Immijrrat tion, Ottawa. Canaria; M. V. MCINNKB, No 2 Merrill Blk., Detroit. Mich ; K. T. HOLMES, Room 6, Bi« Four Bldg.. Indianapolis. lnd. READERS OF THI9 PAPER I>ESI KING TO BUY ANYTHING ADVEKTISKI) IN ITS COLUMNS SHOULD INSIST UPON HAVING WHAT THE# ASK FOR. REFUSING ALL SUBSTITUTES OR IMITATIONS* SENDLHOURi!^^ and upon receipt of same I will send yon a K proposition whereby you will be liberally H paid for a few minutes of your time; no ■ canvassing, us I have nothing to sell. Il ■ costs you absolutely nothing. Write to riay. ■ h. s. KRUO, 3100 Pine Street, St. Loulsv Mo. 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