Republican news item. (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, June 09, 1898, Image 8
A BIG ENGLISH FARM. HER LARGEST ONE IS VERY SMALL BY AMERICAN STANDARDS. It la Situated In Lincolnshire and Contain* Only a,SOO Acrea—The Farm Occuplea an Kntlre Parish—'The Method of Cultivating; the Crops—KveryililiiK Clean and Neat, It may not generally be known, but it is a fact that the largest farm in England is in Lincolnshire. Five miles from Louth, on the Louth and Lincoln line, is the parish of Withcall. The farm occupies the entire parish, and its area is upward of 2,550 acres. Nearly 2,000 acres are under the plow, and from that may be gathered an idea, of the number of horses required to work this large undertaking. The farm is so large that three yards are needed. They are named the north yard, the south yard and the home yard. There Is also a smaller supplementary one—the New Farm stead. Ten cottages form the homes of the laborers at the north and south yards, while near the home yard is situated Withcall house, the residence of J. W. Ward, the lessee of the farm. The railway runs close by. Near are also the church—a prettily built edifice and pleasantly situated —the rectory and the schools. The district is very hilly and in consequence of this there have been made two large cuttings so as to form a road to the north farm. In one of them may be seen a thin bed of ful ler's earth. Down the valley, which is crossed by an embankment formed of the chalk taken from the cuttings, may be seen a small reservoir. This supplies the whole parish with water. Some years ago the owner, Mr. Clay ton, caused pipes to be laid all over the farm, so as to supply both houses and cattle. The water is forced from tlie reservoir by a very ingenious con trivance consisting of a water wheel and "donkey" pump. There are roughly speaking, about six miles of water pipes. The water is exception ally good and throughout the driest of summers there is always a constant supply. There are a large number of ani mals on the place, including about seventy working horses, upward of 500 beasts, 2,000 sheep and the pigs at the last census nLimbered 100. The farm is made up of large fields, eight of which are over a hundred acres in area. A few years ago tiie owner caused one of the fields to be cut up, for its area was over five hundred acres. A part of the same field now measures 130 acres. A steam cultivator, with two powerful locomotives, is constant ly at work, while twelve horses may often be seen plowing in one field. The cattle are sent into the "mar shes" for the summer and brought home in the autumn. Everything is clean and neatly kept and it requires no great discriminative power to know when the limit of Withcall farm is reached. A great feature is the plowing, for the "boys" take a perfect pride in their furrows, and if any one wants to see a furrow a quarter of a mile long and as straight as a dart let him in spect the work on this expansive farm. Agricultural depression does not seem, outwardly at any rate, to effect this district to any remarkable de gree. The average wage is 2s. 3d. per day for six days, all of equal length, no Saturday half-holidays being al lowed hereabouts. Potatoes are largely grown by the i laborers, who by the kindness of their j master are enabled to have a large plot of land in the fields, besides their j own gardens. Scientific farming there j is none here, but all engaged have long experience on the land, and know how best to derive from it the great- i est benefit. Unmans i'ostvased of Tails. In April, 1890, the 4th Ghoorkas were sent from Mandalay, in Burmah, tc Shlllong, in Assam. As the troops marched through the country of the Ahoms the wet weather obliged them to seek shelter in what appeared to be a granary. The native priests objec ted to the quartering of the troops in the granary, but upon the command ol the officers the doors were battered down and the troops entered. The granary proved to be an Aliom temple and four Ahoms were within worship ing. It was the first time that speci mens of this remarkable race had beer seen by white men. The word "Ahom' is derived from the Sanskrit and means unequaled. These people declare thai they are descended from the god India and refuse to hold communication witt white men. They are a very law order of liumai beings, apelike In stature, with abnor mally long arms and perfectly devel oped tails. Their feet are shaped on almost the same lines as those of ar ape, the toes being prehensile. The officers brought one of the Ahom women and her children to Shll long, where a photograph was taken of one of the children. Maxima Up to l)ate. Necessity fathers the iuvention ol many lies. It's a polite wind that blows no body's hat from his head. Do as you would be done by, if the other fellow did you. Make hay while the sun shines, but make haste when it rains. The proof that the pudding is not fit to eat is in trying to eat it. You may lead a man to water, but you cannot prevent his drinking some thing stronger. Never take the will for the deed, when you can get the deed for a rich man's will. First Aid to the Iqjured. For cramps or pains In the stomarb try a few drops of essence of camphor For a nervous headache a cup ol moderately strong tea in which two or three slices of lemon have been in fused. For tired feet put a handful of com mon salt into tour quarts of hot water. Place the feet in the water while it is hot as can be borne. Then rub the feet dry with a rough towel. For binding up cuts and wounds al ways use linen, not cotton, as th« libres of cotton ar« flat and apt to ir ritate a sore place, while those of linen are perfectly rounded. J&OST'TO" SPAIN."® RICH COLONIES WHICH SHE HAS DRIVEN TO FREEDOM. One by Oue the Arrogant Dong Have Been Stripped of Valuable l'o*ae*sionn Which a Little Tact and <2ood Government Would Have Retained. The general rebellion of Spain's American colonies occurred In the ear ly years of the present century. Not only were Spain's affairs in a desperate condition abroad, but also at home dire dissension prevailed. In the autumn of 1819 a considerable army had been brouglft together at Cadiz for the sub jugation of their revolted possessions in America. But the officers and troops refused to embark, and a series of internal disruptions followed. The revolt in Spain's Argentine colo inles in South America broke out in 1810. In that year Chile and Para guay successfully rebelled. The war for Chile's independence lasted eight years. The Argentine Republic estab lished its independence in 181G. Ven ezuela, Ecuador and New Granada, or .Colombia, were lost by revolt in 1819. The revolt in these States was led by Simon Bolivar, named El Libertador for having rescued South America from the Spanish yoke. Bolivar also led the insurgents in Bolivia and Peru, the lat ter State being the last of Spain's pos sessions on the American continent to establish its independence. This was in 1826. The Spanish conquered Peru early in the sixteenth century. Peruvian silver was freely poured into Spanish coffers, and was drained out again to meet the expenses of the wars which the Spanish home government maintained. At the outbreak of (he war of independence in South America, the Spanish Govern ment had already declined greatly in internal strength. Spain was distract ed with the dissensions of a regency, and was racked by civil war. Howev er, in IS2O the Spanish Viceroy had an army of 23,000 men in Peru, and all the large towns were completely in the hands of the Spanish officials. Brazil belonged to Spain in 1378. in that year it was wrested from the Por tugese, who had discovered it at an earlier date. During Spain's troubles with the Netherlands, the Dutch cap tured Brazil, anil from the Dutch the State gained its independence. As to the States of Guiana, their ti tles were much in dispute for many years. Spain owned what is now Brit ish Guiana in 1580, and lost the prov ince in 1002 to the Dutch, from whom it went to the English. Mexico was the richest and most pop ulous of all the Spanish-American col onies. Frequent insurrections occurr ed here during the Napoleonic wars in Europe. Pending the war for Mexican independence the most revolting atroc ities were perpetrated on both sides. The Spaniards conducted hostilities with the most wanton cruelty. The war was one of extermination, the in surgents being slaughtered like brutes. In 1824 the independence of Mexico was recognized by every country ex cept Spain. Spain relinquished Florida to the United States by treaty and purchase in 1821. The Bahamas, which were Colum bus's earliest discovery, were depopu lated by the Spanish and were never again settled by them. The English occupied them in 1029. After the with Spain and France the British se cured the Bahamas by the treaty of 1783. Jamaica, which was discovered by Columbus on his second voyage, in 1494, was taken possession of by the Spaniards in 1509. The inhumanity of the conquerors was so great that fifty years after the Spanish invasion the native population is said to have en tirely disappeared. Oliver Cromwell sent out a British expedition in 1655 which captured the island, and in IC7O it was formally ceded to England by the treaty of Madrid. Haiti's early ' history corresponds with that of Jamaica. Within little more than an age after 1492 the abo rigines had been swept away by the re morseless cruelties of the Spaniards. The eastern part of the island finally wrested itself from the Spanish in 1805 and established Santo Domingo. When Magellan, in 1519, circumnavi gated the world for the first time, he claimed all the islands of the East In dies for Spain. The Philippines alone to-day remain under Spanish domina tion. The other islands of this group fell to the French, English and Dutch during the wars waged by Spain with these countries from the time of Phil ip 11, to the close of the Napoleonic wars in 1815. Loaded Down With Nuinea, Rutherford County, North Carolina, is a place of queer names. The chil dren in one family are going through this vale of tears as follows: Zeno, Zula, Zezulon, Zinnie, Zolen, Zaco, Za luski, Zenix, Zalf, Zeolly. Still another family boasts these names: Kansas Love, Quilina Quiltina Quinn, Eulalia Valtsia, Flabanico, Anifesto. Another thus disfigured their children: Linsco, Lansco, Stumpeo. Lanidiaiir llefore Knowledge, Berlin University, owing to the large number of foreign students frequent ing it. has established an instructor ship in elementary German to enable them to learn ,he language in which the lectures are delivered. (ieriuuny HUM \O Servant Problem. Empress Augusta Victoria of Ger many found 144 German servant girls to whom fhe could give the golden servants' cross for having lived forty years with one family. Only one was found in Berlin. I WIVES OF CHINAMEN. OEPLORABLE INTERMARRIAGES OF WHITE GIRLS AND MONGOLIANS. 8o«lologlcal Student* In San Frauoiico and UlNWhtr* Art Face to Vaea With a Grave Problem—The Terrible Fate Endured by Confiding Women. Nowhere in the world is th»re such a striking commingling of diametri cally opposite races as there exists to day in the Chiaeee quarter of San Francisco, writes Lucie F. Pierce. Nowhere has the Mongolian race so persistently Intermarried with na tionalities of the white race. No where have white women who venture to enter lnito such a contract so lost their caste, their station in society, and become such wretched outcasts, without a friendly tie of either clan or country, as they have within the limits of the California city. Marriage between whites and Chi nese la increasing to an astonishing extent. Nearly one hundred cases are now known to exist. This is not large, of course, in comparison with the number of Chinese in the city. Indeed, that number is small. But its | significance is terrifying. In that lies [ the problem. Contemplate for a moment what a i white woman surrenders when she i marries a Chinaman. First of all, she must abandon ail association with her I relatives. She is forced to this on ac •ount of the wide breach which ex ! ists between the races. She not only must cast aside all filial ties, but she mist sever forever all connection with |he whole white race. When she ; abandons her race she abandons her caste. And when she loses her caste she loses her country. She becomes a social outcast. She has lowered her self from the ranks of a progressive, cultured race to those of a vile, un cleanly. semi-civilized horde, weak mentally and morally. She has lost all that would make a patriotc woman, loya) to whatever national flag, thrill with the deepest feeling. Ami the gain? Why, there is 110 •train. It is all loss. She secures a ' husband but she loses pride. She se i : ures a miserable home, and she loses I forever what a woman holds most | J ear, her name. At any moment we may expect to see Sner celestial husband wind his pig [tail around his yellow, shaven head, and depart for China, leaving her . without means of support, cast upon , the world, a despised and ignored | creature. At any time, living in the midst of disease-breeding filth, the, {husband may be carried off by death, [lie may leave some landed property or the merchandise of a shop, or a few bags of gold coin. Naturally one would think that she who had surren dered everything that is precious and noble in life for her Chinese husband would reap the benefit of all this and receive the heritage due her. Not so. No white woman ever inherited u dollar of a Chinaman's wealth. It goes to the beloved uncles and parents and brothers and sisters In the big flow ery kingdom over the water, and the white woman is left to starve. Hated and suurned in America, she Don't Tobacro Spit ami Smoke lour l.il'c Anuj. To quit tobacco easily nnd forever, he ina<? netic. lull or lite, nerve and vigor, taUe No To- Uac, the wonder-worker, Hint makes wealt men strong. All druggists, 50c or sl. Cure guarun j teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Heniedy Co.. Chicago or New York. ~~~ Aj&ik iTJ Are Arc your cheeks ij^ W hollow and your ijf YOU lips white? [■' ■* I Is your appetite j? MOlp poor and your di- IS* gestion weak? Is jjji Q your flesh soft & ■ and have you lost Jj; in weight? These are symptoms of 4 • anemia or poor blood. IB 1 <|j They are just as frequent & jj in the summer as in the »• winter. And you can be cured at one time just as If well as another. j| Scott's| « Emulsion i: itk 15 of cod liver oil <with hypo phosphites will certainly jj 41 help you. Almost everyone :r <| | can take it, and it will not |B> 4: disturb the weakest stom- jh j: ach. Ik |j J It changes the light color of 1 4 I poor blood to a healthy and rich |P i J j red. It nourishes the brain ; gives jjk J J power to the nerves. It brings JF 4 j back your old weight and strength, jjp LAII Druggists, roc. and fl. & SCOTT <Se BOW.NK, chemists, New York. IE CATHARTIC fca&ca)wta CURE CONSTIPATION 25c 50c DRUGGISTS .... I'- Surrey Hern Me. Price, 916 00. Wagons. Send for large. free No.«Wßurrer. Frtoe. with curtaloe !«». _». At good ae Mill (or 9'25. Catalogue of all our styles, ibade, apron and feodera, HO. Ae good ae oelle ler |M. ELKHART WUU#* AND IIAHNKVB MFti. CO. W. B. 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Then I begun to take Ayer's Pills, and soon the bowels recovered their natural action." WM. 11. DELAUCETT, Dorset, Ont. THE PILL THAT WILL. may seek the shores of her husband's country and throw herself upon the nifrcy and leniency of his family there. She, who had once been superior to them in intellect, in form, In beauty. In morality, In instinct, receives not tven the respect of equal to equal. There have been cases where white women have married Christianized Mongolians. Marriage in this case is sacred, binding, legal. There have been a few such that have turned out happily. Strange as it may seem, a major ity of the women who marry Chinese have sprung from Scandinavian, Ger man or Russian parentage. It seems that the yellow hair and the biuo eyes of the buxom northern beauties ippeal particularly to the Mongolian race. The rosy complexion and grace nf white women astonishes and at tracts them. No Chinaman will marry 1 woman of his own race if he can prevail upon a white woman to accept marriage. if the Chiaaman will consent to be come a Christian and give up some of the marital privileges of his native land, they are looked upon as respect able members of the community. The (vonian really gains nothing by this; neither does she lose. She is taking ■hances neither way. And the Chl lesc husband and father rises some what in the nature of his Instincts, jne step in the ladder of advancement. Hut this has not been the happy out come of all the intormarriages which ttave tuken place. Only a rare few lave consented to accept Christianity. \iul white women persist in throwing hemselves away on these pagan in states. .Mission workers plead with hem and still they persist in entering nto unions that end eventually in ltter degradation and social degener icy. If they are not strong enough .0 resist the attentions of a pagan ce estial they are not strong enough to withstand Ills awful vices. Let them step out into the by-way of a pagan narrlage and they have chosen the •oad to everlasting social damnation. The end Is generally violent death. Sight of HiriU. The organ of sight is more highly leveloped in birds than in any other mimal. Naturalistn declare that the central is possessed of such wonderful lowers of sight that it is able to see 1 mouse when it is itself at such a •eight in the air that it Is Invisible .0 the naked human eye. French Kaliblt Industry. Kngland has three guinea pig farms, >ne of which exports 150,000 yearly to r rance, where they are used at restau •ants as rabbits, the flavor of the flesh telng identical in the two animals. The Industry is said to be very profit* ible. Queen Victoria'* Cane. The black ebony walking stick most >ften used by Queen Victoria belonged o Charles I. Iloina's Cemetery. The most extensive cemetery In tht vorld is tfcat at Rome, in which over 000,000 human 'leings have been in erreil. Something to know! Our very large line of Latest patterns of Wall Paper \vith ceilings and border to match. All full measure ments and all white backs. fHlegant designs as low as jc per roll. Window Shades with roiler fixtures, fringed and plain. Some as low as 10c; better, 25c, 35c, £oc, Elegant Carpets rainging in prices 20c., 25c., 35c., 45c., and 68c. Antique Bedroom Suits Full suits $ 18.00. Woven wire springs, $1.75. Soft top mattresses, good ticks, $2.50. Feather pillows, #1.75 per pair. GOOD CANE SEAT OHAIRS for parlor use 3.75 set. Rockers to match, 1.25. Large size No. 8 cook stove, $20.00; red cross ranges s2l. Tin wash* boilers with covers, 49c. t Tin pails— 14qt, 14c; 10qt, 10c; Bqt, 8c; 2qt covered, sc. Jeremiah Kelly, HUGHESVILLE. Onr Declaration of War Has been in effect for a number of years and our Bombardment of High Prices Has created havoc of late in the sale of MOWING MACHINES, DRILLS, HARROWS, PLOWS, LUMBER WAGONS, BUGGIES, and ROAD WAGONS all at the lowest cash price. PHOSPHATE, ThiJty tons of different grades will be sold at a low figure. W. E. MILLER, Sullivan County, Pa. Special Prices! IN MEN'S BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S = — The season is advancing and we have a very large stock of suits on hand that we are going to sell at a big sacrifice in order to remove the season is over. Man's suits at 3.25, 5.00, 7.50 and 10.00 are 35 per cent, cheaper than ever ottered. Youths' suits at 2.75, 3.50, 4.50, 6.00 and 7.50 are positively big inducements. Children's suits at 75c, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50 and 2.00 are exactly half the usual price; we have theiu in all the latest styles. Our line of Ladies' Capes, Skirts, ShirtWaists, Corsets and Vests are a great deal|less io price tliau you can buy the material. Ladies' and (ients' Shoes and Slippers at a big reduction. Men's working shirts, 17c. Men's heavy cotton pants, soc. Heaviest overalls made, 45c. Ladies' wifeppers, 60. Men's all wool pants, 1.00, are worth 2.00. Knee pants, 15c, wortli 35c. Bicycle suits at very low prices. Straw hats at half price. Heavy cotton socks, 4 pairs for 25c. Men's mackintoshes at 2.00 are special values. Come and See Our Stock and Prices and then we are sure that you will surely appreciate them and you will save more than 35 per cent, on a good many articles. We have good attendants and will be glad to show the goods whether you buy or not. 1.-.L The Reliable Dealer in Clothing JaCOP rCr Boots and Shoes. HUGHESVILLE, PA.