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THE NEWS AND FARMER.
J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XI.
CASTOR IA
for Infants and Children.
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DISPATCH
LIVE CARPET RAGS.
A Mother’s Suspense as She Saw Her
liaby Playing with a Copperhead.
For some reason it liaß always been the
general belief among the people who
live in the mountains in York, Lan
caster, and other Pennsylvania counties
where copperhead snakes abound, that
tliis venomous snake will not bite
children, and there arc numerous won
derful stories told, especially in the Wish
Mountains, about the copperhead’s len
iency toward children. Outside of the
mountaineers these stories have never
received credence, but a well-known
family living on the York county side of
the Susquehanna are ready to accept
them hereafter. - The family consists of
Jacob Loan, liis wife and two children,
the youngest a little girl three years old.
Copperheads arc always uncomfortably
plentiful in that locality, but this season
they have been more numerous, than
usual. The haying and harvest hands
have killed from three to ten a day
during the past week on the Loan
farm.
One day recently the little three-year
old Avas playing in the front yard, and
her mother noticed her sitting in the
grass near the front gate. Every now
and then she would be heard laughing
gleefully, and Mrs. Loan finally walked
out to see what Avas amusing the child
so much. When the little girl saw
her mother coming, she called out to
her:
“Come, mamma, and see the live car
pet rags!”
At the same time she held up to hei
mother a snake, Avhich she grasped in
the middle of the body. Mrs. Loan saw
at once that it was a copperhead. Al
though she was almost SAvooning with
terror, the child’s mother acted Avith rare
presence of mind. It occurred to her
that if she shorved her alarm by crying
out to the child the latter Avould un
doubtedly become frightened, and the
chauces that would naturally follow in
her handling or sudden dropping of the
snake might anger the copperhead and
cause it to bite. With a great effort Mrs.
Mrs. Loan said, quietly and coaxingly:
* “Fetch it to mamma, dear. Don’t hurt
it.”
“But there’s two of ’em, mamma," re
plied the little girl. “I’ll fetch’em
both.”
She reached down and picked up
another copperhead that lay in the grass,
and which Mrs. Loan had not seen, and
came toddling along the path toward
her mother Avith them. She retained hei
calmness, and when the child was within
a couple of yards of her spoke to her and
said:
“Put them on the ground, darling, and
let mamma seo themAvalk.”
This seemed to please the child, and
she placed the copperheads iu the path.
The two snakes caught sight of Mrs.
Loan, and instantly their manner
changed. The copper spot on the top of
their heads began to deepen in color, as
it does when this snake is enraged, and
they both made toward the child’s
mother, showing groat rage. Tho little
girl clapped her hands and started to
catch the snakes again. Her mother
rushed out of the path aud around the
snakes, and snatching the child up iu
her arms flew to the house and into it,
closed the door behind her and fell to the
floor in a dead faint. The other child, a
boy 8 years old, was in another room
making a kite. He heard the noise of
his mother’s fail and his little sister cry
ing, and ran into the room. His father
Avas at Avork near the house, and the boy
quickly summoned him. It was some
time before the farmer succeeded in re
storing his wife to consciousness aud
learned the cause of her swooning.
Farmer Loan went into the yard, and
the copperheads Avere still there, aud
still in belligerent mood. They were
3oon killed. So great was the shock to
Mrs. Loan that she is still confined to her
bed, aud the little girl mourned for her
deadly playthings for two or three days.
—[New York Press. _
Banks Resume Business.
The Farmer’s Exchange National
bank at San Bernardino,Cal., re-open
ed its doors for business Friday.
The Bank of River Falls, Wis.,
which suspended a week ago, resumed
business Friday.
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Material and Intellectual Advancement of the County.
LOUISVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1893
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES,
Tie Happenings nl a Hay Clroniclel in
Brief art Concise Parairapls
And Containing ti e Gist of the News
From All Parts of the World.
A special of Sunday to the New York
Times from Boston says Josiah Quin
cy mailed a letter to President Cleve
land Friday night in which he tender
ed his regignation of the office of as
sistant secretary of state.
The paid admissions to World’s fair
Saturday were 164,800, making a total
for the week of over 1,000,000. This
is the banner week of the fair, the av
erage attendance, including Sunday,
when the attenance was over 21,000,
being over 143,000.
A Nashville, Tenn., special of Sat
urday says: Without taking a vote on
the proposition, the employes of the
Nashville, Chattanooga k St. Louis
railroad have, through their author
ized representatives, accepted the re
duction of the 10 per cent, in wages.
The Columbia, S. C., Clearing House
Association held a meeting Saturday
night and perfected arrangements for
issuing clearing house certificates. The
plan adopted was to issue certificates
for two-thirds value of securities de
posited with the association, and to
the amount of 20 percent of the bank
ing capital.
An Austin, Texas dispatch says:
Cotton planters toll a doleful tale
about the condition of cotton, which
is suffering for rain, and they assert
that they will not make more than a bale
to six acres. Buyers are promptly pay
ing for all offered, the ruling price
being 61 cents for middling. Many
farmers refuse to take this, and haul
their cotton home to hold for higher
prices.
The Fourth National Bank of Lou
isville, Ky., one of the five Louisville
banks to suspend payment during the
recent panic, resumed business Satur
day. The City National and the Mer
chants’ National will also resume
within a few days. An informal meet
ing of the stockholders of the Ken
tucky National bank will be held to
discuss the matter of re-opening that
institution.
The receent advices received by Sec
retary Morton from one of his agents
in Europe, Mr. Mattes, fully affirm
previous reports regarding the short
age of certain crops, in sections of
Europe, which he represents is likely
to create a very large demand
for American forage crops, including
corn, although he does not think it
likely that much of the latter will be
used as a human food.
A Toledo, 0., dispatch of Sunday
says: The famous personal damage
suit against P. M. Arthur, chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineer, for 8300,000, commenced last
March, immediately after the strike of
the engineers on the Ann Arbor rail
road, has been settled out of court.
What the exact terms and conditions
of the settlement are, the public will
probably never know.
At 6 o’clock Saturday morning a
Baltimore and Ohio freight train Avas
derailed at Black Lick, near Newark,
0., while running at a high rate of
speed. The engine and several cars
were piled up in a huge mass of
wreckage. Fireman S. C. Stoneburn
er, of NeAvark, was terribly scalded
and will die. Curley Mitchell, a friend
of Stoneburner, who was on the en
gine at the time, Avas crushed to death.
The liabilities of the Buchanan
River Lumber Company, of Wheeling,
W. Va., Avhich failed Saturday will
reach 8200,000, with assets that will
more than cover that amount. The
creditors are principally banks that
hold the company’s paper. The con
cern was one of the largest in the state
and employed 81:000 men. It is
thought an arrangement can be made
Avith the creditors to permit the works
to resume soon.
THE SITUATION IN BRUNSWICK
Latest Advices State that There is Now
no Fever in the Cily.
It Avas officially bulletined by the
Brunswick, Ga., health board Friday
that there is now not a case of yellow 7
fever in BrunsAvick and not a suspic
ious case. The Cox infant is six miles
in the country and the doctors are idle
for want of patients. Very little sick
ness of any kind exists, and the phy
sicians are unanimous in the assertion
that the majority of the people left in
the city are in a remarkably healthy
condition. The outlook is hopeful
and cheering.
UNCLE SAM TO THE RESCUE.
A Washington special of Friday
says: The government is going to
take care of the Brunswick sufferers.
There is a quarantine fund of several
hundred thousand dollars provided for
just such emergencies. Through the
influence of Judge Turner that has
been placed at the disposal of Surgeon
General Wyman to be used for the re
lief of the people of Brunswick.
Judge Turner had a dispatch from
BrnnsAvick that .SI,OOO a day Avould be
necessary. That much will be pro
vided by the government if found ne
cessary, and there Avill be no one in
Brunswick Avho will Avant for food
while there or for transportation to
leave.
Cliiirleston’s First Dispensary.
The first dispensary for tho disposal
of tho Palmetto jag was opened in
Charleston, S. 0., Tuesday. From 10
o’clock iii the morning till 7p. m.,
the legal hours of closing, fifty-five
citizens Avero supplied Avith toddy
bearing the state’s official trade mark.
There was quite a crowd of people at
the opening of the state’s barroom.
GROWTH OF THE SOOTH.
The Industrial Developement Daring
the Past Week.
A review of tho industrial situation in the
South for the past week shows a further falling
off in iron production, there being now but ten
blast famacis in operation out of twenty-five
in the Birmingham district, and four out of
twelve in the Chattano >ga district. Mills all
over the South are running on short time, som
have closed on account of failure to procure
currency, and some are issuing scrip for pay
rolls, maturing in ninety days.
Thera is falling off in the demand for ma
chinery, bur. iu new industries there is an in
crease over the preceding week. During the
week there were forty-fivo new manufac'orics
organized in the Southern States, chief among
which were the American Economic Boiler
Company, of Savannah, Ga,, capital $125,000:
the Economy Noveltv Manufacturing Cos npany,
of Charleston, \V. Va.. with SIOO,OOO capita!,
tnd the T. Dumas Furniture Manufacturing
Company, of New Orleans, La., with $75,000
capital.—Tradesman (Chattanioga, Tenn.J
STORM SWEPT.
A Disastrous Gale Visits the north At
lantic Coast,
Loss of Life on the Water—Summer
Resorts Wiped Out.
A heavy gale with rain in torrents
struck New York city and vicinity
Wednesday night, giving none of the
usual warnings. The weather was very
sullen up to about 11 o’clock. Then a
slight breeze sprang up, and within
ten minutes a full-fledged cyclone was
blowing, bringing with it a deluge of
rain that made anew record. There
were neatly four inches of rainfall on
the record for September 22d and 23d,
1892, but Wednesday night’s rainfall
exceeded four inches. Cellars and
basements along West and
South streets—the river fronts —
were flooded and much dam
age to goods Avas caused. Trees all
over the city were uprooted or stripped
of their branches. Central park suf
fered heavily in this way. Brooklyn
also suffered greatly in Prospect park
and on the shaded streets. Yachts,
rowboats and small crafts of all kinds
were driven ashore by the hundred in
neighboring waters. The loss among
these was very heavy. Comparatively
small loss of life is reported, owing to
the lateness of the hour at which the
storm broke.
The greatest calamity to life was at
Asbury Park, N. J., where the fishing
schooner Mary F. Kelley, of New
York, blew ashore and was wrecked in
front of the town. The captain,mate,
steward and one sailor were drowned.
The lobs at Salisbury Park will be
835,000, and as much at Orange
Grove. The tugboat General Hum
phrey, in the service of the govern
ment and engaged in surveying, was
sunk at Atlantic Highlands. Her
crew was rescued only a few minutes
before she foundered. Long island,
for its entire length, suffered heavily
on the shore as well as on the Avater.
A number of vessels in New York har
bor were in collision during the storm,
but none were sunk.
THE BEACH FELL OF WRECKAGE.
The damage to Coney island resorts
will undoubtly reach far into the hun
dred thousands. From Norton’s
Point, on the west end of the island,
to Point Breeze, on the extreme east,
the beach is full of wreckage and
a scene of disaster is presented
which tells the story of the terrible
night far better than could any words.
The Marine railroad, running to Man
hattan beach, was totally washed out.
The Brighton Beach hotel grounds
were completely wrecked. The tide
swept up to the electric railway tracks
on Seabreeze avenue, nearly an eighth
of a mile from the low watermark. At
Avest Brighton rows of bath houses
Avere torn from their foundations and
distributed along the beach and wash
ed out to sea. Small buildings were
overturned and there was a general
wrecking of shanties, sheds, merry-go
rounds and other apparatus used to
amuse the crowds that visit the is
lands.
Manhattan island escaped more se
rious damage than the other parts of
the islands for the reason that the
buildings are of a larger and better
class, and there is no beach for the
Avaves to wreck, the whole shore of
Manhattan beach being protected by a
heavy bulkhead which held the seas in
check. Neighboring towns in NeAV
Jersey suffered in the same manner as
Long Island.
EIGHTEEN SEAMEN DROWNED.
The fishing schooners Empire State,
with a crew of ten men, and Ella M.
Johnson, with a crew of eight men,
Avent down in the storm off Manas
quan, on the Jersey coast, and all on
board were lost. The storm struck
the vessel about midnight.
BODIES WASHED ASHORE.
About 9 o’clock Thursday morning
the Beading Railroad Company’s steam
collier, Panther, of Philadelphia, tow
ing tne barge JUykens Valley Avas
Avrecked off Long Island port. Both
vessels Avent to pieces. The barge had
a crew of five men and all Avere droAvn
ed. The steamer had six men washed
ashore, three alive and three dead.
The Columbia hotel at Belmar, on
the New Jersey coast, was unroofed by
the storm and 200 guests were badly
frightened, but no one was hurt.
Four hundred boats and small
pleasure crafts iu Carnies bay, Long-
Island, Avere destroyed, and from one
spot of the Atlantic highlands twenty
yachts can be counted, all blown upon
the beach and in various stages of
wreckage. Long Branch suffered
heavily in chimneys, bath houses and
tin roofs.
T ~ ljr L - *•"—
Another Fever Case at Brunswick.
A special of Wednesday says: An
other neAv case of yellow fever has de
veloped in Brunswick. The victim is
a child, five years old, who had no
connection with the other cases,
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Tie Drill ol Her Pwgress aM Pros
perity Briefly Hotel
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
F. C. Turner & Cos. ’s sash factory at
Mobile, Ala., a two-story brick build
ing, was burned Thursday night. Loss
820,000; insurance 810,000.
The board of health of Wilmington,
N. C., met Friday and declared quar
antine against Atlanta and Columbus,
Ga., because of the number of refu
ges at those places from feA T er infected
ports.
The Standard Oil company has pur
chased a lot in Spartanburg, S. C.,
and will erect three oil tanks with a
capacity of 25,000 gallons each. Spar
tanburg will be made a bulk station
and distributing point.
Chairman T. A. Goodwyn, of the
Alabama state Jeffersonian democratic
executive committee, has called a meet
ing of that body to be held on Sep
tember 7th in the city of Montgomery.
The call announces that matters of im
portance will be considered and acted
upon.
The directors of the first national
bank of Dayton, Tennessee, have de
cided to suspend the payment of de
positors for sixty days and a circular
to that effect has been mailed to the
depositors. The assets are more than
double the liabilities, but the strin
gency in the money market makes the
stoppage of business necessary 7. The
hank hopes to resume in two months
or less.
A Nashville dispatch of Wednesday
says: Jere Baxter has secured back
ing and Avill at once proceed with the
completion of the Nashville and Knox
ville railroad,Avhich is intended to run
from Naslrville to a point on the Cin
cinnati Southern. The road is already
in operation from Lebanon to the
Crawford coal field, a distance of fifty
six miles, having eighty-four miles to
be built.
Owing to the stringency of money
and general depressed condition of af
fairs, the city of Birmingham, Ala.,
Wednesday night voted to issue city
paper. Scrip or promises to pay bear
er will be issued in denominations
from 25 cents up. It is estimated that
875,000 at least Avill be issued in this
form. The bond sale the first of next
year will liquidate the paper Avhich
will be discontinued. The interest
and bonds to be taken up betAveen now
and Janury haA 7 e been proA r ided for.
A dispatch of Thursday from Fort
McKavett, Texas, states that the nu
merous cattle thie\ r es and smugglers
who infest that section of the upper
Rio Grande border, are being rounded
up and that there is much excitement
over the arrests Avhich have already
been made. Sheriffs from Yalverde
and the surrounding counties ha\e
been out night and day for the lust
week ;in all, jabout fifty men. The
hunt is not over yet, and more arrests
are exected to folloAv in a few days.
The New Ojffens Clearing House
Association met Thursday and took
action on the proposition made to is
sue clearing house certificates for
small sums to take the place of cur
rency. The recent action of the banks
left the planters without the money to
move the crops and a plan to over
come this state of affairs was thus ren
dered advisable. After discussion the
following plan was adopted: Issue cer
tificates of deposit to persons having
money on deposit, payable to them
selves or bearer, in sums of $5, $lO
S2O or more, and make the certificates
payable through the clearing house.
Ravages of Cholera in Russia.
A supplementary official cholera re
port issued at St. Petersburg, Russia,
Thursday gives the following statis
tics of the ravages of the disease in
the affected governments during the
past week: Orel, new cases 647, deaths
213 ; Cossacks of the Don, now cases
498, deaths 202; Koorsk, new cases
296, deaths 103; Viedimir, new cases
156, deaths 52 ; Lomza, new cases 52,
deaths 22; Moscow, new cases 72,
deaths 24; Yiatka, new cases 47, deaths
22; Voronezh, new cases 30, deaths
23.
A Cut of Ten Per Cent.
Eight thousand machinists, pattern
makers, molders, roller turners and
laborers in Pittsburg, Pa., district
have been notified of a reduction of
10 per cent in their wages. The cart
is vigorously objected to, and a strike
is openly talked of. The proposed
reduction affects the employes of 26
firms in Pittsburg. A special meeting
of the various trades interested will
be held immediately, and a course of
action decided upon.
Reassuring News from Brunswick.
The Brunswick board of health an
nounced at noon Thursday that there
were no new cases of fever of any
kind. Harris died at 11 o’clock Wed
nesday night. The child, whose ill
ness was reported as suspicious, is
convalescent, and it is denied that it
is a case of yellow lever at all. The
situation is encouraging and reassur
ing v> Ihe public at large.
Major Thomas’s Men Accept.
A Nashville special of Friday says:
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis employes will accept the reduc
tion, President Thomas having prom
ised to restore wages as soon as the
company’s business justifies it.
To Open the Cherokee Strip.
The president Tuesday issued his
proclamation opening the Cherokee
stirp to settlement at the hour of 12
o’clock, noon, central standard time
Saturday, 16th of September.
BUSINESS IMPROVES.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Trade for the
Past Week.
It. G. Dun k Cos. ’s Aveekly review of
trade says: The improvement ob
served last week has become much
more distinct and general. While ac
tual transactions have increased but
little, the change of public feeling is
noteworthy. There are fewer failures
either of bankers or of important com
mercial or manufacturing concerns,
than for some weeks past. Many dis
asters have been avoided by a more
general pooling of resources and a
greater spirit of mutual helpfulness
and forbearance than were some weeks
ago. One large stock failure for seA r
eral million dollars was thus prevent
ed in Wall street on Thursday, and
the market for securities, though at
times depressed, by the closing of
heavy loans, has been extremely dull
without material decline.
Money on call is more abundant
and lower, as many interior loans
have been paid since the banks ceased
to send currency away, and advanced
the rates for reneAving or extending
such loans,but there is little relief as
respects mercantile accommodations,
as the use of the check in the place of
currency increases, and the secretary
of the treasury in answer to an inquiry,
has stated that no legal objection
exists to the use of sight drafts on
NeAv York for small sums.
The difficulty of collections and the
interruption of exchanges are nearly as
serious as ever. The number of in
dustrial establishments resuming busi
ness begins to compare fairly with the
number stopping Avork. A little bet
ter demand appears for some products,
such as wire nails and barbed Avire, of
which important producers have been
idle for nearly tAvo months. But in
general the consumption has so far de
creased that the southern furnaces are
offering pig iron at very loav figures
here, and standard makers in Penn
sylvania are contemplating a re
duction in prices. Though currency
is at a premium of 1 to 2 per cent,
the demand is less than a week
ago. Receipts of gold from Europe
during the past Aveek liaA'e been
$6,700,000, but the Bank of England
has raised its rate to 5 per cent.,
which is expected to stop further
shipments of gold to this country and
the Bank of France has lost during the
past week about 81,600,000. The ab
sorption of money has not yet ceased,
and credit substitutes are in use as yet
poorly supply its place.
The failures for the past week num
ber 410 in the United States and
twenty in Canada. Of the commer
cial failures in the United States 149
were in eastern states, sixty-five in
southern and 180 in western.
IN I),VVY JONES’S LOCKER.
No Trace of Wreckage in the Depths
of the Ocean.
Au extraordinary circumstance that has
been noticed Avith interest aud that al-
Avays creates surprise when first learned
is the entire absence of foreign matter in
the deeper part of the ocean’s floor, says
the Cosmopolitan.
Of all the vessels lost in mid-ocean, of
all the human beings that have been
drowned, of all the clay, sand and gravel
let fall by dissolving icebergs, of all the
various substances drifted from every
shore by shifting currents —not a trace
remains, but iu their place water from
1,000 to 2,000 fathoms in depth covers
the uniform deposit of thick, bluish,
tenacious slime, called globigerina
ooze.
A bit of this under a powerful leas
is declared to be a revelation of beauty
not readily forgotten. The ooze is com
posed almost entirely of the daintiest,
most delicately beautiful shells imagin
able.
At greater depths than 2,500 fathoms
the bottom of the sea consists mainly of
products arising from exposure, for al
most incalculable periods, to the chemi
cal action of sea-water, pumice and other
volcanic matters.
This finally results in the formation of
the red clay deposits that are considered
characteristic of the profoundest depths
of the ocean. Carbonate of lime, which,
in the form of shells of foraminifera,
makes up so large a part of the globige
rina ooze, is here almost entirely absent.
Sea Avater is very nearly a universal
solvent, and before any shell, large or
small, reaches the bottom of these tre
mendous abysms, it is chemioally eaten
up, literally dissolved, a result Avhich the
enormous pressure of the Avater must ma
terially hasten.
At one thousand fathoms the weight
of the water pressiug on all sides of an
object immersed in that depth is A 7 ery
nearly one ton to the square inch, or
more thau one hundred times that sus
tained at the sea level, and at the great
est depths the pressure is so increased
that it would seem nothing could with
stand it. In fact, heavy metal cylinders
let down with the sounding apparatus
are sometimes, on being drawn up again
to the surface, found bent aud collapsed,
while strongly made glass vessels which
the metal enclosed are scattered into
fragments
Cost of Training a Sailor.
A few years ago there Avas much criti
cism because so much mouey Avas spent
iu educating cadets at the Annapolis Na
val Academy. It also costs a good deal
iu other countries to educate officers for
the navy, especially for the. British
navy. A complaint Avas published iu
one of the London papers a few days
ago because each cadet cost about SBOO a
voar. On the training ship Britannia,
at Dartmouth, there are 218 cadets, with
a staff of 102 instructors, and it costs
about $200,000 a year to maintain them.
)f this amount the parents and guardi
ans pay to the government about SB3, -
000 a year. The Royal Naval College,
at GreeuAvicu, is said to be another quick
sand for the public money. It costs
$250,000 a year to keep it muffing, and,
according to the average attendance,
each officer there instructed costs the
country about $1,650 a year,—[Detroit
Free Press,
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N UMBEK 36.
QUEERSUMMER BOARDERS.’
DOGS, CATS AND BIRDS THAT LIVE
IN HAPPINESS AND PLENTY.
Taking Care of the Animal Pets of
Wealthy People Who Go to tho
Country—A Unique Industry.
N advertisement appeared in
/ \ one of the afternoon NeAv
Jersey papers under the head
£ of “Boarders Wanted” a
couple of days ago which read that
dogs and birds Avere boarded on a farm
on West Side avenue. West Side ave
nue is located on the far side of the
Heights in Jersey City, in the newly
settled section. The boarding house is
located on a rich farm of about fifteen
acres and about two hundred feet from
the avenue. All through the grounds
one can see neAvly-painted dog houses,
and as far as the eye can reach dogs of
all kinds are seen, some tied to their
houses, others tied to trees and some
running loose.
In a lot which is set apart for this
particular purpose are roAvs of neat
little houses, used as cat houses. The
cats are allowed to run loose during
the day, but when night comes they of
their own accord return to their re
spective homes. Each cat has a house
of its own, and after a stay of three
or four days on the farm all learn their
places perfectly.
One would imagine that where there
are so many dogs and cats in such
close proximity frequent fights would
occur, and it is not at all unlikely that
such things do happen. The proprie
tor of this dog, cat and bird farm
stoutly denies this, however, and
claims that the animals mingle to
gether and have never been known to
fight. There is also a long building
for birds. Hanging from hooks Avere
about sixty cages containing birds of
all sorts. They are hung high enough
to prevent the cats, Avhich live close
by, from interfering with them. Nor
is this all, for as you come out through
the door of the bird house you are
confronted by an immense sign Avhich
reads: ‘ ‘Horses pastured and colts
handled with care.”
Upon inquiry it was found that
horses were taken for the summer and
colts were broken.
If there was any other sort of animal
that required care it is very probable
that it, too, would be found there.
The farm is owned and conducted by
a man named William Welsh, a short,
stubby, good natured man who enjoys
telling the secrets of his peculiar busi
ness.
“About ten years ago,” Mr. Welsh
said, “when I had just landed in this
country, I heard a friend of mine won
der why somebody didn’t have just
such a place as I have here. I thought
the matter over for several weeks, and
finally approached my wife on the sub
ject. She did not appear to be very
enthusiastic at first, but I finally pre
vailed upon her to try it, so Avhen the
summer season began I had everything
in readiness and advertised my busi
ness. The scheme was entirely new
then and did not take very well, but I
managed to get a sufficient number of
dogs and birds the first year to con
vince me that there would be money
in it in the end. We just about cleared
expenses the first season, and when
the next season came around we were
prepared for the reception of any num
ber of dogs. The second season was
better than the first, and the succeed
ing summers have each been better
than the former, so that now Ave have
made it quite a paying business. We
have managed to make enough money
in the last ten years to buy this place.”
“But why do people want to board
their dog, cat or bird, as the case may
be?”
“You know that the craze for pet
dogs, birds and cats is increasing every
day, and as a consequence there are
wealthy families herein Jersey City
who apparently think as much of their
pets as they do of their children.
When they go away for the summer, as
they generally do, they want to feel
that their pets are well cared for.”
“Do not so many dogs and other
animals make an immense amount of
work?”
“Of course there is lots of work at
tached to the business, but Ave manage
it all right. The first thing in the
morning my son George takes the dogs,
ten at a time and as many more as Ave
know do not need watching, and goes
down to the Hackensack River and
gives them their bath. After they
have been washed with a carbolic prep
aration which I use they return to
their houses and a second lot is taken
to the river and the same thing is done
to them, and this is kept up until all
of them have been washed. The birds
my wife takes care of and the cats are
cared for by all of us. They are fed
iegularly and receive good care while
they are here. If any of my boarders
are taken sick I doctor them myself.”
“How many boarders have you here
now?”
“Well, at present there are eighty -
one dogs, sixty cats and I think 240
birds. For the dogs we get from $8
to $lO P er month, for the cats 82
and for the birds 82.75 per month.
The horses and colts we make special
arrangements for.”
“Do you eA 7 er lose any of your
boarders through theft or escape?”
“Well, occasionally a dog will run
away, but avc usually find him. As to
having a dog stolen, I guess not. Any
tramp or thief who would dare to
come in here at night, amid the noise
that the dogs would make Avould be
deserving of a better fate than he
would undoubtedly meet. ” —New York
Advertiser.
Cat’s-eye is gray quartz with fibers
of asbestos in the interior. It is found
on the Malabar Cos ail, in Ceylon, Ba
varia, and the United States.
The Salvation Army has invaded
thirty-five countries. .