FKEELAND TRIBUNE. PCBUSnED EVEHV MONDAY AND THURSDAY. Tl I< )S. A. J UJOKTjKY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE: MAIN STREKT ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ° ne Year 5Q Six Months 7.^ Four Months 50 l'wo Months 25 Subscribers are requested to observe the date following the name on the labels of their papers. By referring to this they enn tell at a glance how they stand on the books in this office. For instance: Grover Cleveland :>.lurie','j means that Grover is paid up to June 28,18515. | Keep the ilgures in advance of the present date. Iteport promptly to this office when your paper is not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper is discontinued, or collection will be made in tho manner provided by law. J. shortage of billions of feet of pino lumber is predicted from the great Northwestern territory. Lightning does strike twice in tho name place, tho New York Mail and Express maintains, and a Honesdale, (I'enu.) farmer who was stunned twice during one storm in his barn one day last week lives to certify that an old belief to tho contrary is erroneous. \\ hen even electricity takes to repeat ing, the need of reform must be ad mitted. Ouo after another, liotos the Chi cago Herald, the theological sem inaries of this country are opening their doors for the admission of women, and especially for such as would fit themselves for labor in tho mission field. The Cumberland Presbyterian Seminary at Lebanon, Tenn., is one of the last to fall into lino in this great matter. Colonel Thornton W. Washington, of Washington, D. C., is dead. His death removes one of the direct lineal descendants of General George Wash ington. He was n great-grandson of Colonel Samuel Washington, the old est brother of tho illustrious first President of tho United States, and tho fifth generation in descent from Colonel John Washington, tho first immigrant of the Washington family j in America, who came over in IGD'J | and settled on tho border of Pope's Creek, near its junction with the Poto mac River, in what is now Westmore land County, Virginia. Ho served in tho Confederate army. His wife and sevon children survive him. A report on tho uncultivated bast fibers of the United States by Chailes Richard Dodge, special agent in charge of fiber investigations, has just been issued from the Department of Agriculturo. Among tho plants de scribed are species found in every sec tion of tho United States, from Mains to Florida and from Minnesota to Arizona, Some of them aro jute sub stitutes, whilo others, if cultivated, would produce a fiber rivaling hemp. Over forty fiber plants are treatod in tho report, tho history of twenty forms being given in full with state ments regarding past efforts and ex periments toward their utilization. Speeinl chapters are devoted to tha asclepias or milkweed fibers, okra, cotton stalk fiber, the common abuti lon—known commercially as "China jute," but growing in tho fonco corners of ovcry Western farm—Colo- j rado River hemp and many others. The Republican Senators whoso terms will expire in March next are : Joseph M. Carey, Wyoming; William f Chandler, New Hampshire; S. M. Cul- 1 lom, Illinois; N. F. Dixon, Rhode ' Island; J. N. Dolph, Oregon; William j P. Frye, Maine; A. Higgius, Dola- | ware; G. F. Hoar, Massachusetts; G. F. Manderson, Nebraska; J. McMil- 1 lan, Michigan ; 11. F. Pettigrew, South Dakota; T. C. Power, Montana; G. S. Shoup, Idaho ; W. D. Washburn, Min nesota ; J. F. Wilson, Iowa; and E. O. Wolcott, Colorado. The Democrats are; J. H. Berry, Arkansas; M. C. Butler, South Carolina; D. Gallery, Louisiana; J. N. Camden, West Vir ginia; 11. Coke, Texas; I. G. Harris, Tennessee; E. Huntou, Virginia; W. Lindsay, Kentucky; J. Martin, Kau eas; A. J. MoLauriu, Mississippi; J. It. MePherson, New Jersey ; J. T. Mor gan, Alabama; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina, and I'. Walsh, Georgia. In a number of States, tho Atlanta Con stitution remarks, the election of Sena tors has already either been made or has been settled. George Peabody Wetmoro will succeed Dixon, of Rhode Island; ox-Governor Gear will take the place of Senator Wilson, of lowa, and J. S. Martin will succeed Huntou. Lindsay and Calfery have had thuir seats already voted to them and Mor gan's return is assured. Other Sena tors, including Dolph, Frye and others, will be returned without any great etiprt. THE CLOSING CENTURY. As ouo wiio, roiHed irom sleep, hears far awny The closing strokes of some cathedral bell Tol!hig tho hour, strives all in vain to tell If denser grows the night, or piles the day— So wo roused to life's brief existence, say (Wo on whose availing falls a century's knell). Is this tin- deepening dusk of years, tho fell And solemn midnight, or tho morning grayV We stir, then sleep again —a little si eap ! (Howbelt undisturbed by another's ring!) Forlhough, measured with time, a century Is but a vanished hour tolled oa the deep, Yet what is lima itself;' 'lis but a swing I Of the vast pendulum of eternity. "-Henry J. Stoekarl, in the Cenlury. LOST AND FOUND. <v \ K3. van altine ! JS? : * O-i-CY Jjp "'-is sauntering I Em \ >if / leisurely down one H I r 'a k koulcyards 1 Wm Y*-3 F in Paris. Ituasa I mm w , " vol - y ® J'ring morning; the uir i cnw\ w n>® \ ,,,s T* l ' ai,a v,'n jff sresu and in rL JO I'M \-J hind of a day for " - a stroll, and sutlic . v American woman nail disdained her fashionable equip page. Sho had walked all the way from her n.-iit .-in 1 artistic temporal'!- abiding place in the American colony lo the shopping district, had pur chased sundry trilles and looked at thousands of articles she jjf*d not bought; had fuscinated a number of clerks by her dash and brilliancy until they were ready lo display for her especial benefit the wealth of the i world in feminine odds an-l ends, and I now she was making her way home- ! ward, euro free, and happily con- ! scions that many covert glances were i cast at her stylish figure. At sixteen she was a charming girl; ' at twenty-six a beautiful wife and hostess; at, well, say thirty—an irre- j sistible widow, perfectly satisfied to ! saunter all by herself aiong what re mained of life's floral pathway. With ! a more than comfortable c impotence, slie regarded the future with oompla- 1 coney and the past with restgnatioh. Not that anything very tragic was in terwoven among the yesterdays. .Ex istence had flowed smoothly enough a broken engagement, a heart wrung for a time, a trip abroad, a wealthy suitor, a fashionable wedding, a pleas ing honeymoon, a series of social tri nmps, the demise of her better half, a 1 brief period for mourning, and thecoin- ' fortable present. Show-as childless, but she had many I friends. It is true that sometimes something like a pang came to her! when Iter mind reverted to chil-Kii, and she told herself that possibly a little euu would not bo at all in the ! way, but, on the contrary, might five! sweet solace to the feiv lonely mo- 1 nients which came to her, who, gener ally speaking, did not know what lon- j liness was. As she walked along with ! superb movement, she observed 1.-.vo j pretty girls in charge of a nurse. The ! children were playing on tho grass be- I nc-ftth the shade trees with which the ' boulevard was lined, while the nurse, i who had the expressionless features of - a peasant girl, was seated on a bench knitting. Mrs. Van Altine stopped impulsively. "Ok, you darling," site said, and j thereupon in her own peculiarly i graceful way began to question the | cli iMr en ami coo over them just r.s i•' j bin; knew ull about the language of ] childhood. Nearby on another bench ■ was a little boy dressed in sailor's at tire, with the word "captain" on his cap. He looked forlorn and dis- ' turbed, for bis month quivered and j ih i<: were tears in his big, blue eves. ! "\Yhilt's the matter, my little man'.'" continued Mrs. Van Altiiie, in tho inn- j guage of the country. He only stared at her and rubbed I ouo of his eyes with his dirty list. She j placed hi r hand on his golden curls in 1 u caressing manner. "Why don't you play with tha other children?" she continued. Foi answer lie rubbed his other eye 1 with another dirty iisf. "There, now, sailors don't cry," re- : Mimed Mrs. Van Altine, a; she'wiped j the grime from his face with a lace ! handkerchief. "They go to battieand fight and are j brave. Arc you my brave little cap- \ tain "I diiu'l understand," said the boy in English, plunging both fists into i litseyis. I "What! you speak English? You | ale an American boy?" " Ynd arc these your sisters?" "And what's j our name?" "Bobby. ' "Bobby what?" "Bobby Steele." "And where are yon from, Bobby?" Ob, a lug place, much bigger and nicer ihail this." "What is it called "( leveland oh—boo—hoo 1 waul to "i home." "lint you can't go back to Clove- i land to-night, Bobby. Yon are thou of iniMs Irom home." "I don't cart: 1 want to go home. ! .y>ur mamma, with you in j " ' o'm. She's in heaven. Hhe's •1 My mamma died when .1 was i one year old. I'm all my papa's got. j and now boo! hoo!—he hasn't got | me. I'm lost and .shall never sec my i papa agaiu." 4 oil poor ehilil, you menu to say you can't find your papa? "No; we went out lor a walk and I stopped in n crowd to look in ;i win dow. Then my papa went away and left me." "And you couldn't find him any where V" "No'ra. I shall never sec my papa again." r ! "Nonsense! of course you will. Why, we'll go and fiud him now." H "Will you?" Do you know my papa?" "I can't say that I do. There are so mnuy Steeles in tho world. Is your s papa slender, aud does ho wear a little mustache?" " "No; my papa's big aud lias a beard." "Then I guess I don't know him. llow long iiavj you been waiting >' here?,' "On, hours!" "Well, you are my brave little cap tain, after all. I'll buy you some bon-bons." "Will you?" With great show of interest. "res." "And a candy cane?" "Yes." " "And a tin soldier I saw?" 0 "Yes." s "And f saw an elephant I want and 1 two toy lions and—" "My dear child, you evidently want r to start a zoo of your own." -I "What is that!" "Oh, a menagerie." "I went to a menagerie with my • papa here yesterday. Wo saw them • feed the lions." i i "Where are you stopping here, my • child?" "I don't know. A big place. Will you take me there?" "I will, if I can find it from your in definite description." "What's 'indefinite' mean?" "Never mind that now. Are you stopping at a hotel?" "J guess so." ' "Would you remember the name of , tho hotel?" j "-No." i Mrs. Van Altine repeated a num ! her of names. "I don't know," ho said. " Well," sho remarked with a little sigh, "I suppose we lnid better eall a | carriage." j "That'll be fine," ho said. "I've i got a velocipede home." "Have you? Well, just, go and wave your hand at that man with the car riftge. Remember you are ray gallant little e~coi t, and you must bo very polite." "All right," In a few moments tliey wore com fortably seated in the carriage. "How do you like this?" she asked. "It's grca,T." "Where to, madam?" interrupted ; tho coachman. j "Yc , where to? That's the ques j tion," ruminated Airs. Van Altinr. , "Where shall we go. mon capitaiuo?" ! "Teb the tin soldier," said tho boy. I "Very well. That will give mo time to think. Drive to a toy shop." As they dashed down tho boulevard , Mrs. Van Altine drew the child nearer I to her. "You don't feel lost any more, my i brave captain?" she asked, j "Not so much so, thank you." "Atul it' we don't find your papa can j I have you ?" j The boy's lips quivered. "Oh, 1 want my papa." ; "J2ven if I should buy you an ele phant and—-and a real pony to ride iu ' th • park?" The boy hesitate 1. He was evident ly sorely tempted. The real pony I weighed against his papa was a per plexing problem, but finally he said | stoutly : I "1 want my papa." 1 "And you shall have him," said Mrs. j Van Altine. ! "Rut I want you, too." ; "I'm afraid you can't always have They drew up in front of a toy shop ! ami Mrs. Van Allinn and her charge | entered. They purchased an elephant, a tin soldier dressed in French uni ; form, a candy cane, ami tho young j man would have ordered half the store ; it' Mrs. Vail Altine had not prevented it. 1 "Where shall I send these, madam?" ; asked the clerk. "Where? 1 don't know. We'll take I them. JJobby, carry this elephant." j Bobby was only too willing to do , this, and again they entered tho car riage. "J.'o the Hotel St.Petersburg," com manded Mrs. Van Altine. She vaguely remembered that many Americans | went to this hotel. In about twenty minutes they dashed up to this estab lishment and the carriage door was opened by a big porter who looked around for their luggage, j "You can take, the elephant and the i tin soldier," said Airs. Van Altine, i imperiously. The porter hesitated, his sense of dignity injured, but Bobby settled the matter by declaring: "No; he can't have them, I'll car ry them." Mrs. Van Altine and the boy en tered the parlor there and the hand some American woman said: ".Send the clork to me." Bobby set the elephant of the floor and seemed indifferent just then whether he would bo found or not by his bereaved parent. Tho clerk ap i peared. "Is Mr, Steele of Cleveland stopping | here?" "He is not madame?" | "Has he bean stopping hero?" ! "No, madame." ! "Ho is an American and is at. some ■ hotel, probably. How can I find him? This is his hoy, who is lost." "I will send you a hotel register, a list of all Americans at tho different hotels." "Thank you. That is what I want." The list was duly forthcoming and Mrs. Van Altine scanned it eagerly. ".Steele—Steele—letraesee— Smith, ! ! Brown, Jones —no Steele—perhaps it is further down—a common name, • there are plenty of Steeles—Burman, Walker, Melville hum! —Steele, 1 Steele —ah, here is a Steele. Bobby, is your father's name Richard ?" "Xo'm," "Too bad. llow my heart jumped y when I saw that name! What if— nonsense! By the way, Bobby, what , is your father's name?" ~ r "Dick, ma'am." j 4 'Pick V" "Yes'm." [t "Don't you know Dial Richard aud | Dick are the same names?" she asked severely. "No'm. My uncle Silas calls my pa Pick." "Well, lieie is a Richard Steele at . one of the hotels. We will call and 2 see. But remember if your papa doesn't want you, Bobby, you are go f iug oil*come and live with me." "Do you think my pa don't want me?" "Bless my little sailor, no. Why, every golden lock must be precious to him. Do you know what I'd do, Bobby, if I had a little boy like you?" [ "No, ma'am." "I'd—l'd love him to death." At the next hotel Mrs. Van Alliuo was informed that Richard Steele was stopping there; that he had a boy; that the aforesaid boy was lost; that Mr. Steele was nearly frantic and that he had just gone to the prefect of po lice. "And where is that?" "Just across the way, madam. "Come, Bobby, we will surprise him. He must be nearly crazy." A handsome American, thirty-five years of age, solid and prosperous looking, was conversing with the of ficial in the magistrate's office. "I will do what f can, monsieur. The lad will be taken in, and our sys tem of communication a such that the fact will be known at headquarters. I will thou at once inform you of tliu circumstances." "Your reward shall be a handsome one." At this moment the clerk looked in. "A la,ly to see you, monsieur." "Say 1 am engaged," responded the officer. "I did tell her that." "Well?" "She asked if ?n American gentle man was here. I told her 'yes,' and she said she must come in at once." "Very well. Show her in." Mrs. Van Altine, a vision of glorious womanhood, stood in tho doorway with Bobby by tlio hand. "is this your son, sir?" she said. Richard Steele sprang to liis feet. Bobby dropped his elephant an I the next moment was folded to his father's breast. Mrs. Van Altine seemed strangely moved as she regarded tlio scene. Her face was overspread with I uuusual pallor. "1 was not mistaken," she told her self. "There are, truly, manySteeles in the world, but it must have boon some psychic sense that caused my heart to beat when 1 heard this name. Let me see, now; it is sixteen years since—and there he stands and does not know me. Time, time, how you level romance! He was slender. Now he is stout. He had such a dainty mustache. Now ho has a beard. Really, he is much better looking." These and other thoughts flashed through Mrs. Van Altino's mind at that moment. The American turned. "Madaui, how can I thank you? I—" Words failed him. lie gazed in growing amazement. "Fannie!" "Pick!" They clasped hands. Tho years that had passed were bridged by that pres sure ol hands. Plighted faith, ment, broken vows, pique, misunder standing, separation—all, all vanished, and in the sunlight of the present they gazed gladly into each other's eyes. "And Bobby is—" My boy? Yes." "Bho wanted to keep me, pn," said Bobby, with the elephant clasped to his breast. Dick, who knew all about Mrs. Van Alfcine's history, bent toward her as ho remarked: "There's away she could do that." "Pear me, how lain it is getting! So glad to have met you, Pick! Charming to see old friends after so many years! Goodby—no, au rovoir, for I trust 1 shall see you. My salon, as I call it, is quite a resort. Come and I will introduce you to many clever people—true Parisians." "Who will bore me?" ho said, bluntly. "The same honest, outspoken Pick !" Then as she entered tho carriage, sho said : "You will come?" "To meet clever people?" "No, to see me." "Yes, I will come. I had intended to leave Paris* to-night—" "But now?" "I shall remain—so as to call on you and thank you more fully for your great servico to-day." "How adorable. You always were charming, Pick." "Even when—" "When we quarrelled! Yes, indeed. You were the most delightful man to quarrel with 1 ever met. If you had not been— But I must be going. Bo sure aud come— " "When?" "As early as you can." "To-morrow night?" "At once; to-night. 1 am all impa tient to tell you a hundred things, and—" "I will come." "And--bring Bobby, if you want!" —Detroit Free Press. The most wonderful cliff' dwellings in the United States are those of the Mancos, in a Southern Colorado can yon. Home of these caves are 500 to (300 feet from the bottom of the per pendicular sides of the canyon wall, and how their occupants gained in gress is a mystery. AT WORK UNDER WATER. PRESSURE MEN HAVE TO BEAR IN DIGGING TUNNELS. Peculiar Sensations Experienced— The Greatest Danger Lies in Com ing Out Into the Open Air. ~T~ ABO KING on tlio firm earth, B C* with "all out of doors" to J V breathe, perspiring and, may hap, grumbling at one's hard luck, a person seldom, if ever, stops to think that men work day after day deep down in the water, or the mud, with none but artificial light to guide their movements, and oniy the air that is pumped to them to breathe. People who work in the open air would have only to work for a short time in a diver's suit, a caisson, or an airlock, getting a taste of what it is like and how it feels, to be cured for ever of grumbling at their lot and to thank their lucky stars that it lias been ordained that they work on top of the earth. The work of a diver, his sensations while under the water, and his ex periences have often been written about, but those of the airlock and caisson worker have not. While lie docs not face the danger of fouling pipes and lines, as does tlio diver, he stays down longer, gets warmer, and his great danger lies in the stagnation of blood and paralysis, resulting from the change of atmosphere. Mr. 11. C. Kapier, of JiastCambridge, is an airlock worker, and talks most interestingly. His work was mainly in the airlocks used in building the great Hudson River tunnel. To a Boston Herald reporter lie talked < f so 1110 of the sensations, dangers and experiences. Ho said that, whilo a man working on the surface of tho earth bears up an atmospheric pressure of fifteon pounds to the inch, men in the locks bear a pressure of from fifteen to fifty pounds of compressed air, according to tlio depth. The heaviest pressure ever worked under was borne by live divers on tho Swedish coast-sixty live pounds. Four of these died five minutes after coming out. While, as a general thing, tlio diver stands not nearly that amount of pressure, and seldom stays down more than two hours, tho men in the Hud son River tunnel stood a pressure of from forty-five to forty-six and one half pounds, and worked on four-hour shifts. Some men stayed down twenty hours at a stretch, but did not work all the time, and Superintendent Has kins stayed down once twenty-four hours. Tiio sensations experienced nro pc-' culiar. When a man lirst steps in tliero is a tiugliug in the ears and a pain in the head, and when he talks it is apparently through the nose. This is caused by the pressure, and the remedy is to hold the nose, close the mouth and blow against the ears. This relives the pain and stops the sensation. AVhen the pressure is all 011 the worker feels all right and ex periences no discomfort. Then there is a sort of exhilaration, and a man, does more work in the lock than ho could outside. Another peculiar thing about the action of the pressuro is that a man may have liquor enough aboard when outside to just make him feel jolly, but when lie steps into the lock ho is drunk as a loon. The danger lies in coming outC?the pressure into the open air. It is then that a man is apt to suffer from stag nation of tho blood and paralysis caused by the change of atmosphere. Besides this a man may be attacked in tho head or stomach with severe pains. Three out of five eases where the head aud stomach are attacked result fa tally. Another severe malady resulting from Iho change is what is called tho "bends." This is the air getting in between the flesh and tho bone. It is extremely painful, aud so severe that a quart of whisky administered in half au hour would not intoxicate tho patient. The stagnation aud paralysis are tho worst dangers, and do the work quickly. Many men liavo been keeled over by these causes, and not a few die. Old timers at tlio business sometimes get caught. Mr. Rapier himself was twice attacked. The rem edy for this pnralysi3 is a quick re turn to the airlock. The effect of the pressure varies on animals, as is shown by tho mules used in tho Hudson River tunnel, homo of iheso beasts are kept at work down below for a year, and on being brought up are worth more than when they were taken down. Others that had only been in tho works four months had to be killed. Tho men, as a general thing, do not remain a great many years at tho business, and a man should never work at it after he i 3 forty years of age. Cutting a hole and building a tun nel through water is an extremely dif ficult thing, aud by many was thought to be impossible. Still, it was done in tho case of tho Hudson River fun nel, and tho method, as told by Mr. Rapier, is very interesting. The work on the tunnel had pro gressed until a body of water was struck. How to tunnel through this hole of water was a puzzling question. It was done this way : A so-called bal loon was constructed by making a net ting of wire rope and covering this netting with canvas. The interior of the balloon was then filled with blue clay and salt hay. When filled, the balloon,thirty feetin diameter, weighed 140 pounds. The hole of water was then located, and with tho aid of a huge steam derrick the Balloon was dropped into tho hole. Then several scow loads of dirt were dumped down onto the balloon, and the whole thing was left to settle. At the end of ten days the work of cutting through tho balloon was begun. This was a very difficult job. An idea of what hard cutting it was may bo gained from the fact that it took months to dig through the thirty feet; the plates and brick were going in as the work progressed. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Agato is successfully imitated. Fossil bisons have been unearthed in Kentucky. Porcelain is to bo substituted for gold in lilliug teeth. The whale is a warm-blooded, air breathing, milk-giving animal. Bedroom windows should never bo entirely closed it" the person occupy ing the room is strong. When ants show great activity it may almost be invariably depended upon that rain will follow within tivelvo hours. "Tissus Microbicidal?," warranted to keep out the most preserving bacillus, aro being sold by some of the chief Parisian shops. Indian corn, or maize, never has an uneven number of rows of grain, bo cause it has opposite radicals of growth from the co-center. One of the new rifles used by tho Italian soldiers sends a ball with forco enough to go through five inches of solid oak at a distance of 1000 feet. According to M. Flammarion, tho great astronomer, tho mean tempera ture of Paris for the past six years has been two degrees below the normal. A German ofii :-cr has invented a motor in which a tine stream of coal dust is utilized to drive a piston by explosion in tho same manner as tho gas in tho gas engine. Aluminium bronze consists of ninety per cent, copper and ten per cent, aluminium, and possesses a tensile strength of Of), 000 pounds. It cau bo worked in tho same manner as steel. Tho idea of an ancient tropical con tinent at tho South Pole, uniting South America, Madagascar and Australia, continues to aroiiso considerable in terest and discussion .in scientific circles. Professor Downr has demonstrated that metals augment their magnetic qualities and increase in strength by diminution of temperature. Iron at 180 degrees can endure double its nor mal tensile strain. There is a mystery about the method of motion of condors that lias never been explained. They have been seen to circle to and fro in tho sky, hnlf a day at a time, rising and descending without once flapping a wing. Touch the convex side of a watch glass upon water so as to leave a drop hanging on tho glass. Pour a littlo ether into the concave side and blow upon it. The rapid evaporation of the other will render the glass so coldth.it the drop of water will bo frozen. Lieutenant F. Boyer, of tho French navy, to avoid collisions, proposes to introduce at the top on all fast sailing steamers an electric light which will cast a beam ahead to indicate tho di rection in which the vessel is steering. So long as tho approaching ship was not in tho actual pencil of light it would bo unnecessary to alter her course. A new anthropometric test of sensi tiveness has been designed by Dr. Gal ton. A band of color, showing all the sixty-five shades of blue, is slowly passed before tho eyes, and tho sub ject makes a dot for every shade de tected. As far as tho experiments have proceeded only about twenty shades are generally discovered. In one case, however, a dyer detected about forty. ' A lish exerts its great propulsive ' power with its tail, not its line. Tho paddiewheel was made ou the fin theory of propulsion, and tho screw propeller had its origin in noting tho action of the tail. It is now shown that the fins of tho tail actually per form tho evolutions described by tho propeller blades, and that the fish in its sinuous motion through tho water depends on the torsional action of tho tail to give it power. Rent for 3la<!o Land. Tho St. Louis courts liavo recently decided a case of no little interest to tho dwellers on tho banks of rivers where new land is likely to bo made. Mrs. Anna K. Allen owns 145 acres of land at tho point wliero the river Des Feres enters the Mississippi, and she leased it to the St. Louis, Iron Moun tain and Southern. Later soventy-five acres was added to this tract by ac cretions from the Mississippi. The company has a transfer ut this point and was compelled to cross the new land in transferring car 3. It, how ever, refused to pay rent for tho land embraced in tho new formation, ou the ground that it was not embraced in the lease. Judge Dillon held that the accretions had become a part of tho original tract, and, inasmuch as tho company had used tho land, it was liable for rent. The laud was valued by experts at $450 per acre, and judg ment was given against tho railroad upon the basis of six per cent, on this valuation. —New Orleans Picayune. Humming Bird Killed by a Rep, A humming bird was killed by tho stiug of a boo in Wisconsin not long ago. A bco keeper noticed a pair of ruby-throated humming birds flying around the entrance of one of tho hives. Boon a bee made its appear ance from within. One of tho birds seized it tore it apart and seemed to be feeding on something found in tho bee. Just then another bee came out, flew and alighted on tho back of the bird. The latter gave a kind of spas modic shudder, flew a few feet side wise, landed at the foot of a currant bush, and was dead, apparently killed by the sting of tho lice.—New York Bun. IN A SUGAR REFINERY. PROCESSES BY WHICH THE EAW SUGAR IS REFINED. Terrific Heat Kndured by Some of the Workmen Lite in tho Drying Rooms—Frightful Toil. I T is doubtful if there is any other group of buildings in or neat New York where the fearful difli (T* culties under which men labor for the bare privilege of living, are so plainly shown 03 they are in the towering, forbidding, fortress-like structures on tho East Fiver front of Brooklyn, owned by tho American Sugar Refining Company, better known as the Sugar Trust. The big buildings cover a space of four blocks on both sides of Kent avenue, from South First to South Fifth streets, and ou the west side of the avenue extend to the river from, their grimy, dull-red walls xt -tiding seventeen stories above the street level. A close inspection of t'io Havemeyer refineries is necessary to a thorough realization ot tins im mensity of the establishment, and this group is one of the refilling place ; owned by the trust. I t has no equal in size or in this amount of its busi ness in the limits of tho Greater V w York. The employes ot' the givA: concern are disciplined with rules as strict as those which govern am army. If one attempts to get into the refineries he use - ts the discipline in the shape of a gruff watchman an 1 a club, and a call at the offices reveals it in the shape of a morn or ic.-;s polite negative from the clerks, who will say that they cannot answer questions. There arc about 3000 men employed in tho big rtTiu ries, and tin •am divided into day and night ah! IT*. About 5 o'clock in the morning half of tho force can bo scon filing down into the basement of one of the great buildings. Work is begun im mediately, and continued until 5 itt the evening, when tho men arc sup plied with checks, showing that they were ou hand when work begun. The majority of the workmen are Poles and Hungarians, and th ■ ■ . • of their labors is shown by the fact that they are nearly all thin an i stooped, and rarely above ;nidu! : a • , it being a well-known fact that m u employed in the refineries rarely live to old age. They are nearly now im migrants when first employed, and be fore work is given them they must be found perfectly docile and obedient.. The rules of tho refineries are laid, down to the applicant for employment r and he is told that ho will receive $1.12, $1.25 or $1.50 as tho case may be, for the first year, and thou, il' his work is satisfactory, he may receive an additional fivo or ten cents a day. The man is assigned to work in one ol tho many department-*, and if lu has received tho "tip" from friends of his own nationality before going to work, he trembles lest tho c lict may con demn him to tho "dry room." It it be-that, however, he receives it with characteristic stolidity, and is thank ful for an opportunity to earn his mis erable pittance, even under such ter rible circumstances. When the raw sugar is damped from the ship in which it is brought to tlm refineries it is placed in n groat cistern near too river's edge, and is dissolved in hot water. From this vat a sweet, sticky steam constantly arises, and every little while a workman, dressed in overalls and an undershirt, pops out from it, and in a minute or so pops back again, and is lost to sight in the moist cloud. The liquid is pumped up to tho top story oE tho pile, pass ing through a wire strainer, which re moves any particles of sizo which may be in it, and is emptied into groat cop per receptacles boated to 208 or 210 degrees Fahrenheit, known us boilers. The process of boiling requires con siderable skill, nn I the men who have charge of it are paid SIOO or $l5O a month, the number receiving tho lat ter figure being extremely limited, only one man in a hundred who re ceives employment in tho refineries becoming a boiler, which is the highest ambition of tho workmen. The boiling and bubbling sugar* is passed down through funnels to the next floor, where it is emptied into a box, the bottom of which consists el two thicknesses of canvas, one beii.g coarse, tho other fine. This thorough ly filters the stuff, and the room is kept at a terrific .temperature in order that the liquid sugar may flow freely, and not become cool and thick. Oil tho floor below is another gr u cop per tank, some twenty-five fee' deep and nearly filled with bone black. This purifies tho sugar, and, after be ing used for a few hours, becomes sur charged with foulness, and is i nt to the lower floor, where it is lmrncd again. The sugar, which is still kept at a temperature of about 150 degrees, is passed into another receptacle, which is made airtight, and tho air and steam arc exhausted by means of a pump. As soon as the sugar is gran ulated, if it is to be soft, it is let off by means of cautrifu.gal mills. If not, it is passed on to tho great plates to bo dried. The rooms in which the drying is carried on are veritable infernos. No tnau can stay in them over Lii min utes without falling down utterly prostrated by the terrific heat. No one but an employe is ever allowed within these walls, and nu one but an employe would dare to go in the in when the heat is ou aud tho sugar is drying. Clothing is discarded, with the exception of a "breech clout" and shoes, and there is absolutely no ven tilation, as the windows are kept tightly closed, and at tho windows in other rooms which are open the men may be seen gasping for breath, and wit-p. their hair and bodies as wet a; if they had been plunged in the East River, in their short respite from their frightful toil.—New York Tribune.
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