nb a ———
LOGGING GIANT CYPRESS.
A PECULIAR
SWAMPS,
Church With Cypress Furniture.
Cypress logging is an amphibious sort
of a business, says The New York Sun,
swamps, which often are merely for
ests through which living water
ecources toward the in a thousand
channels. It is seldom found on stag
nant swamp land,
grows where clear
culates round the
trees There are
places in Florida
Live cypress ti
it sinks if felled
sequently
fre
of the
girdling
the
Sed
water
the glant
running cir
roots of
hundreds of such
and Louisiana.
that
mber is 80 heavy
when green, and con
bermen have to work
ght months t« in
cutting to prepare the timber
the trees and thus preventing
the circulation of the sap. Thousands
of trees thus killed
the felling. Gl
and dangerous
colored chor s. who
water in
iIS'n
m e ya year advance
by
§
in advance of
i
«ling is both arduous
work. It is dope by
gfand often waist
he haunts of ti
snake, the
deep in
dreaded moe
t noth
and the wildeat, to say
swarms of mosquitoes and other equa
“he men endure
a day, and last
wave swept
the South, and the
iy pest ferous insects, 1
all the hardships for $1
winter hen the
through
cold
i, {empera
ture for weeks was near the
point, ti
at the
They
tiles, but
for th
waist no dry
when task was
{in th nietures
River in Florida, one
Inmber industry is
wese hardy fell
or
insect
ered intensely
constantly wet
land to
lav's Over
Ookla
’
phase of
1116
iu
oY
press Kime
i
best adv: wonderful
is fed hy rings of
mendous volume, and it winds
many
moss-dr
dreds of
it at one
another, between
miles th endless acres
Ith
‘hes, whiel
gO
ped CYPIess trees 1% hun
ir brane
LOODS, {
point only return
SOUrCe
junction with the St. John's
main
all
flooded
Between
are more
forest
1
the water slowly
of two or three at
sriection. One company
office
on this river
JD acs
cents to 32
Ago
gers fr
of tl
Michig
great
e work, Soon the
wklawaha Swamp
blows of the axe,
nu, and the crashes ¢ of ,
throu
the bran
{ell
water
could i ard the rs 1 rit
clanking he 1 ging
ery, } the logs
the re
stream
tne
A logging camp in this swamp con
a bunk boat with a kitchen at
and a pull boat. The pull
a powerful hoisting engine
their neighbors
yas splash indo the
i
14
as huge
swirt
ted to
» swamp to the
upon whi were raf
big river
sists of
tached
contains
baat
with its square bow
tall and sturdy cy
denuded of branches
and ix secured
the bank against a
tree i
press and
decorated wit
the top.
vated point upon this tree to a similar
giant a quarter of a mile back
gwamp is a taut steel cable from which
depends a tix
an endless steel ca
a band of red cloth near
Stretehing away from an ele
in the
ley or carrier attached to
ble
unwinds upon the spool of the engine
Attacl the trolley is a huge palr
of sharp-pronge x} Tongs
spanning ‘a log feet in
Lew ditig away from the boat is a
marked lane traversed by the tre
Trees are cleared away on each
the cable to the full extent of its gr
and the lane terminates only where
end troe of the trolley line stands, This
point reached, the cable is taken down
and another lane soon radiates from
the pull boat. When five or six lanes
have been made the tract has been
pretty well cleared of serviceable trees,
and the boat and camp are moved to a
new point of vantage,
When a cypress is felled in one of
these lanes it is cross-cut in lengths of
which winds an
att to
capable of
five diamets
the
the grapnel or a bight of chain grip the
end lying toward the boat. A whoop
from the foreman of the gang notifies
the engineer. who blows his whistle
and starts the engine,
log rises clear of the water and stumps
water, sending up fountains of spray as
it rears over bnees and stumps and
splashes in the open pools.
house,
an aromatic
painting it almost a crime, In Welaka,
¥la., there is a beautiful little church
entirely of cypress, even to the furni-
ture. It is the handiwork of Dr. C. 8,
Packard, who long ago gave up
practice of medicine tr younger men
and devoted his attention to mechanie-
8! pursuits The warm tones and the
fragrant odor of the spicy wood makes
this little house of worship one of the
most attractive in the 'vnd. The pews,
the altar, the library bookcase, floor,
wainscoting, columns and ceilings are
all of Ocklawaha cypress, wrought by
ibe doctor's hand.
ee
SOUTH SEA TRAGEDY,
A Ship's Crew Murder Captain, Mate
| and Passenger.
The particulr ms of a South Sea tmg-
ly, only a mention of which
ws been made In the dl patel hes, have
i Just come to hind A short time
a cablagram sated that the schooner
Marta Secundia, flying the Spanish
flag, put foto the Pelews in November,
Her crow had mutinied and killed Cap
tain Brown, Mate Herman Holdman
nd r
From a Istter
O'Keefe, the Ki
that the
American tn
Her «
Chrinose
Sagi
ago
a passenge
roceived
nz of Yap,
from Daniel
information
in question
wling vessel Maria
ists of the
amd f
IE 1
ir
is received viRsa|
was the
"WOR
wo ir
Two of t
] Pelews, COMPANY.
he
and
pul
Mrs
caren
Foiug
Brow
learned
| wy.
¥ wi § - TT
horrible stor » murder he
pris SOT
: Spania’
ntineers w and
“re
board gunboat Va
hich conveys £* 4]
em to Manilla
To Photograph
reported from
Thought.
Washingt
It is ing
what
Mr. Jul
ins
on
thnt
the in
y
telephone,
Of,
ROOTS ity,
ity,
ventor of
* by which human
istered in a manner
the volee
has produced ade
ean t
¢ ht
thought
! tl which is
registered on the exlinder of a phone
The inventor has devoted thres
pment
His explanation of
a company of s«
graph
years to the of this won
derful mec
its operat ent
last week was, that
tricity was its motive power and chem
istry its recorder; that the chemieally
sensitized surface of cylinder, while
undergoing decomposition by the elec
tric current, receives the magnetic
thought-waves which stream from the
physical brain of the operator, and por
trays them, vibmtion upon vibration,
form upon form, with microscopic fi
delity in an imperishable message.
The mechanism is about 8 inches
long, 6 inches wide, and 3% inches
high. The registration eylinder is ©
inches long by 14% inches in diameter,
made of vulcanized rubber for insula
tion, and rotated by a vibratory me
A thin, hard, tubu-
lar envelope fits over the cylinder and
bears a supersensitized outer coating
for receiving the thought record. Dur
ing the cylinder's rotation the electric
ity decomposing the surface of the
film is supplied through this electric
pencil, propelled in its traveler along
this fine screw parallel with the cylin
der, which it gently touches, thus
directing a spiral, thread-like course of
the current upon its face. The electric
pencil being removed after completing
a or. on the film, the same traveler
now attaches to and carries the repro
ducer along its face to read the record.
The reproducer consists of a large elec
tric tympanum at the machine, con
necting by flexible tubes, bearing con
ductors to two smaller tympanums o
receivers, fitting upon the temples
through which the reproduced thought
is conducted fo the brain. A practi
cally indefinite repetition of the read-
ing can thus be made without diminish.
develo]
inism
ion to ists
in substance, odin
the clearness of the record. —Iudus-
trinl World,
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
ITEMS OF TIMELY INTERE
FARMER.
Fattening Hogs-~Cultivation of Potatoes
«Farms Growing Better--A
About Fertilizers.
FATTENING HOGS,
When hogs are being fattened they
wre highly fed, and have
nder such
to acldity of the
salt and
thie hogs to correct
conditions they
hand
chareonl
this and
blood. No
sulphur
ercise, 1
Hable
lime,
are stomae
Ashes,
sought hy
answer the demands of the
that In Hen of these the
eles wind
he pig readily
and blood
doubt
aid othe unre sought
for the same pig
need
POTATOES
equi 13
hein clan,
wr head of the
far will
mom
horses
fork
total qual
{ols
Hifieult
£00
in i
to doubl
winter
nck
cellar
Lorses,
“oinpost
the
200 two-he SWany
which is spread TYE BEIT
under the
in
heaps
muck,
to any
i under
the
fore of the
COWS, 118 the
and
Ixy
the pig-pens in
Tndeed,
this quantity
use of
may be increased
amount, for it
well-established fact that one ton of
half-dried muck is equal
value when decomposed in the compost
heap with as much of the best manure
made from well-fed animals
On this basis it should be a steady
business of the thrifty farmer to dig
out as much mock from a swamp, al
though he may have to buy the privi-
lege from a neighbor
has a supply of his own-—during the
winters, procuring two or three loads
of pewly-burned Hme to add to the
heap to prepare the compost for early
use in the spring, and in building a
stable this matter is always to be con- |
sidered in making the plan, so that the |
vehicle may be taken through the barn
to remove the manure as it is peeded
for this use New York Times,
1 §
He i= A
reasonal
swamp of
MARKETING EARLY LAMDS,
It is of the utmost importance that
reach the New York market as carly in |
the week as possible, as Saturday Is |
retailer's day, and the lambs ought to
be sold before Friday noon. The man-
ner in which the lambs are dressed de-
terraines to quite an extent the selling
price, Neatly dressed lambs are al
ways preferred to those of like quality
poorly dressed. In order 10 secure the
most perfeet hieeding and at the same
time provest the wool about the head
suspend the BO
that its hb
foot on
Inmb by the hind feet,
ead will clear the floor hy a
more, In bleeding the lnmb an
opening should made only on one
of neck, preferably the loft
fmmediately back of the head and
in front of the neck bones, The open
ing need not be lnrge, but it will |
essary to the knife blade a consid
| erable sweep, in order to be sure that
the large artery is severed, The stom
intestines should be removed
disturbing the lun
AR BOON intestines are ro.
he
appearance
For lambs
forty pounds
spreaders about four
will be right
1g spreaders are used
be
side the
i wiles,
ME Lie
give
neh and
without
i liver.
art, £8 or
ns the
spreaders should inserted
the lnmab the
offered wale,
ng
moved
giv £*
when
| to hrext
i
for
weigh fro to
n thirty
i
tressed welght,
teen inches long about the
breaking the ribs
» pout
AN sun
the hwmith
poultry
fits over the
ast Da carefully
refore the
guarded against thi windows
should
around
the col
foe wil
double ght
fae amd made tight
{
there 18 Do chanoey 107
blow ir. Besides
are double ti
light
will be olscured bij
1 i
ENS HIOWS
3 $
admit but ttle
ax they
i the coldest
days, fi OY
from the freezing of the
the
ering of hw
fnoisture in breath of the fowls
Sunlight and warmth are cheaper
better than medicine and stimulate
ing
Ex¢ eit
with
iay
when the ground
fowls are to be turned
for a short time every day to
scrateh In the sunshine, But the wintry
gnow, the
ot
the run should have a windbreak,
edge. Where boards are scarce, corn
stalks piled against the wire petting
fence to the north and west will allow
the fowls to sun theinselves in com
fort,
tion,
is sternly repressed by the successful
eeper. It is much more trou.
ble to Keep one hundred binds in one
flock rather than in two,dut it is better
to be sure than sorry, amd sickness
means expense and worry. Only as
ercrowding mbéans the loss of all prof:
fts. Each fowl shonld be allowed at
least five square feet of ground room,
and ten would be better,
The accommodations having been
the supplies for the
poultry are next to be seen to. A lib
eral supply of sharp grit will prevent
the attacks of indigestion from which
so many fowls suffer. Plenty of clean,
fresh water is so arranged that the
birds can help themselves without fear
of wetting, the water being renewed
daily. Charcoal is supplyed by charred
corncob thrown in among the flock for
the birds to peck at, or it is given them
occasionally in thelr food.
—
The food given
try-Keepers
what he has
sial rule,
breakfast
usually
BROTHA,
by successful poul
depending largely
nt hand The
however, 8 to give a
in ti norning
of table
other
varies,
pon gen
Wirm
Thin
Heat
ables
Ori.
be fed
fowls can comfortably
early
3
consists BCTADS,
and
up and thi
This
warm as the
it. If the
hearty one
thing at noon,
is seattersd
I kept se
before
potatos veg ol
conkod kened with
tinea l mash should ns
ent
very
BOTH.
mol mend is not a
they may be
Hing
but generally some grain
and the
day. In
rOOKRt i
floor,
all
{0
about the
rds are riatehing
fle
he
4
thie
SvYening, gong
irty grain ration is fi
cold and
This Is most
d to keep ont
promote egg production
important, as self
the
intended
Gre
Pres
and the ele
be
ervition Is first law
for eges will sed
winction of warmth
enix
for
the pre
siOry
ean and several
weed
chafing
young man
'nited
at a dinner one eo
make
itn at
is All
Niales
eng
him uncomfortable hy
wut his country The
wrt H. Was
consular agent at Madge
Merritt, consul at Chemnitz,
first one of the Americans at.
ith a one of the
the
burn
burg
was the
tacked w aunt from
cond
of the Presidents of tl
Merritt nas
some deliberation,
not give the
we TTnited
with
and his
German friend the declaration that he
believe was another
American present who could do it
Young Washburn had sald nothing
until now, but he broke in and de
elared: “I ean do it and 1 will give
vou the Vice-Presidents. He was about
ned them over
drew from
3
there
and he said: “While 1 am: about
taries of State top.” The German got
nh on the young man as he went co
rectly through the list, They were pret.
| ty well backed down already, bul
Washburn had ne dea of letting them
off so easily. “Now. I would like to
know,” he sald, “whether any of you
can give the names of the Prussian
ritlers from the time of Charlemange
and his ons down to the Emperor Wil
liam?’
Not one of them could go half through
the list, and they were on the point of
apologizing to the young Massachu-
setts seliolar. when he took them down
still wore by modestly suggesting:
“Perhaps T had better do it for you"
He began with Charlemange, and went
through the list without a break, much
to the astonishment of his German
hosts and the delight of Consul Ed-
wards and the other Americans. “How
did you do itY" asked Merritt. “Oh,
my father had a taste for such things
and taught them to me when I was a
boy, You sea, they are sometimes useful
to know,” he replied Kansas City
Star,
* prsmsnnatl
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Only a fow yoLrs tan zht
in Eagiand at ritigh Gulia con
tained Binee then
nti ad
xt
Wins
T6000 square milion
goal lox have been discoversd,
the colony hax expanded in British 1
books 1
Murs
y 100,006 sq aare miles
Julla Ward How hinks that
ung woinein
ERIN AT
11 Posse
Tu Ws
X Pra
iam
# x3
weet rer ols ys theory of the
effect of
Wal
ed wi
in a teak in Pome
broke Ia Ww ues
have been mammiculyed and seventeen
od soon Prom this
rinning Ne Mills and his
alksy of hicago, Dope 0
bail a ins a They ave
incorporated themsalves nodes the tithe
of “The People's University,” dave se
cured an option on 3.000 acres of land,
amd Bave all the fumids wich the)
fink pecessary. The plan of the In
aftudon ds sest the stadent must work
ft ony for ifs education, bk also To
his Hving while attending school, Bach
staden: must pay, upon entering, $160
for a sohoarahip, which will eniille
im to a four years’ course, The school
wil be ran on fas coopemtive land
meantime working on
VET pis
basroanaiyic depression
tor T. Mills of ins hart
an
Ohimago
fl nstri
nm vig
Two
he calls college
fal on ©
town#irip,
more are
trvhle bog
nERoCLEeR,
EX ros
3 4
Same
the stadoots
farm lands connected with the school
and in factories which #t is proposed
to bull amd operate. AN earned will
go 110 one coopenitive or comm unistic
fund, The sinlents are expected to
ear the ground Nor sites, excavale for
foandations, and bum the brick for
the bulldinge ‘The few who bave al
wvady entered will begin operations by
ewting wood fo Resp themselves warn
and to fire the prospective rick kilns
wideh it is hoped to operate this spring,
when seventy more stademts have
promise] to come, Ther will Hive in
tents anid] they can constroot more
subsnintial dwellings, Which they Sope v
a de upfuse next Sepenbye :