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ew Australia, the WorRingman’s
^ Continent ^
By Frank G Carpenter
HE workingman’s contl-
T nent!
That is how the peo
ple down here speak of
the new Australia. They
say they propose to
make it the paradise of
the laborer. They have
nil sorts of new schemes
to propose to the fed
eral parliament, the gist
of which sterns to be
how to sell the least
work for the mpst
money. The country al
ready has the eight-
hour law. This is com
mon in every city and
town. It was adopted
by some firms m<Jre than a generation
ago, and is now a lixod institution. There
are all sorts of laws as to factories. The
regulations of disputes between labor and
Jtn Jl ufir alia n labor settlement
to shut dpwn. There are others who say
the eight-hour law is all right, although
a protective tariff Is needed to keep the
shops going. The probable result will be
that the commonwealth will have to adopt
such a tariff p.s will foster home Indus
tries, and that the raw materials which
Australia sells in the shape of wool and
grain will have to foot the national bills.
I recently had a chat with John Perry,
minister of labor for New South Wales,
and a man who is noted as being at the
front of Australia's modern labor move
ment. We talked of the eight-hour law.
He said:
“'It is generally thought that we have
an eight-hour law here In Australia. That
is not so, although custom has made It
practically the fact. The eight-hour law
would not suit us so well as the forty-
eight-hour-per-week law. Many of our
trades-are such that they cannot be re
stricted to a fixed time. Some days a
man must work more than eight hours
and sometimes less. Take the bakers.
reach it you go on the railroad to within
seventy-four miles of the place and then
take a cc^ch, or you can go by steamer
twice a week. The settlement has twenty-
eigijt families and is said to be a suc
cess.
South Australia has similar settlements
a hundred .miles or so from Adelaide on
the Murray river. Each of these settle
ments were given 16,000 acres to hold in
common and each was' advanced ~ soine-
—I
thing like 61,000 for buying tools and stock.
The people have built -houses, set out
orchards and are-engaged- In farming of
various kinds. They have, I am told, many
lemon and olive orchards and
flocks of sheep- They work but
eight hours, the day’s lat>or begin
ning ' and -ending with the blow
ing oif a horn. They have a common store
4nd have attempted to run their villages
on socialistic lines. I have not visited the
settlements, but I understand that they
tbe doing fairly well, although there is
some dissatisfaction as to the division of
work, the bachelors claiming they have
to work more for what they receive than
the married men'who have families. Thir
teen years after the foundation of each
settlement the members expect to decide
by vote whether they shall continue to
hold the lands in common or divide them.
The probability is that the vote will be
in favor of division.
^ A Vegetable Prodigy ^
Sydney, a city built on the 8-hour plan
Ital are much the same as those of
w Zealand. The various trades have
es as to the employment of their mem-
rs. and the government has the right
sand inspectors to the shops at any
and It can . compel the employers
respect the laws. Records must be
pt showing Just what each man does,
how long he works and wlfat he gets.
The law as to holidays Is rigidly observed
v 9nd thero are all sorts of restrictions
accompanied by appropriate penalties.
Employees cannot be paid In store or
ders. Children under thirteen cannot work
in the factories.- and the limitations as
to the hours of their work are very strict.
It is the same as to girls clerking in the
stores, although in some cases fifty-two
hours per week is there permitted. There
must' be recesses at fixed Intervals for
meals. In many of the shops there are
recesses for smoking, and, in fact, such
institutions are run with quite as much
regard to the laborer as to the employer.
There is quite a difference of opinion
here as to the effect which the labor laws
have on the country. 1 have met many
employers who tell me it is almost impos
sible to do business on the present basis,
aitd that in hard times they will have
WHERE'S THE TJSE?
Drugging with Coffee and Keeping
Sick All the Time.
A coffee drinker is liable to a smash al
most any time and without much warn
ing. A New York man. C. W. Dcdfonl,
1065 Lex. Ave.. says that when he was in
apparently perfect health, weighing about
1.85 pounds, with good appetite, he sudden-
lv hud a severe attack of gastritis. He
lost his appetite and the doctor put him
on a rigid diet and gave him remedies, but
all to no purpose. He says, “Everybody
1 met had a cure and I tried a lot of them.
I lost weight until I reached 144 pound,:. I
had those nasty gastric staggers.
About the middle of the summer, when
on a vacation, a friend asked whether I
('rank coffee or not. Being told that I did,
he suggested that I quit it and take Fos-
|tum Food Coffee and Grape-Nuts break
fast food. I laughed at him and told him
that I was through with special articles of
diet
One day the nerves had another bad
hmush and I concluded to quit coffee ar.d
i oe' lf that was really the cause of the
^rouble.
Next morning I had Postum for break
fast and it was well made, and tasted
good. I also had Grape-Nuts for break-
last. and from that day my troubles te
la n to fade away.
II am steadily gaining in flesh, can sleep
ptuvally and can eat whatever I want,
that Is the use of a man's drinking an
sticle like coffee that poisons him and
■uses such troubles as I have had when
lu can have a delicious Food Coffee like
Return that builds up instead of tearing
vn.” Health Is worth more than all
coffee on earth.
They set their sponge, and if the dough
rises they can get through their work
in less than eight hours; but If not. It
takes them nine, or perhaps longer.
What we want Is a fixed time per week
and an extra rate for all over time."
“What rate wohld you charge for over
time?" said I.
“We have considered the matter very
carefully, v and we believe that 50 per
cent extra is; not t6o much. That Is. if
a man Is getting 25 cents an hour, or 12
per day, he should' have 27'4 cents for
overtime. At that rate an eight-hour day
would bring him in 82 and a ten-hour
day $2.75. We think that the spine pro
portion should be awarded as to piece
work where the employer wants extra
work done."
“But could you enforce laws of that
kind. Mr. Perry?” I asked.
“We propose to try it,’’ was the reply.
“We ore going to fix it so that employers
cannot overwork their men. We will make
such regulations that the laborer cannot
enter, into any agreement which shall be
for the employer's benefit If contrary to
the law. We shall allow the men to sue
for their overtime, with the :d per cent ad.
dittonal. We will make the employers
keep records of all such time, and will
see that they make the payments under
penalty.”
"But have you many factories in Aus
tralia?”
“Yes." said the labor commissioner.
“We are doing a great- deal of, manufac
turing, and we shail do more when we
adopt the protective tariff law. We have
nil sorts of work, especially in the colo
ny of Victoria, where there are boot and
shoe factories, machine and iron works
and all sorts of mills. In Queensland
there are sugar mills and woolen mills.
There is some cloth made in Queensland
which will compare favorably with any
in England. There are five woolen mills
here In New South Wales. We hate ship
building yards, furniture establishments
and machine works. We have excellent
coal from the mines of New Cast'.e, not
far from here, and easily reached by wa
ter. Australia has deposits of iron and
there Is no reason why manufacturing In
dustries should not grow up. So far the
freights from England have been so low
that manufactured goods could be import
ed more cheaply than they could be made.
Each colony has had Its own tariff laws,
and It has been impossible to regulate
matters so that the goods made in one
colony might be sold at the same price
throughout Australia. Now that we have
federation, we intend to wall Australia
about with such a protective tariff as will
make It self supporting. That Is. what
you Americans have done and what we
propose to do.” ,
Wages in Australia
The conversation here turned to wages,
and Mr. Perry said he believed that the
workingman of Australia received more
and lived better than his fellow in any
part of the world. He brought out a late
government report by Mr. T. A. Coghlun
on the “Wealth and Progress of New
South Wales.” and showed me the wages
the men were getting in 1900. Here, are
some of them:
Carpenters, blacksmiths, bricklayers and
masons are paid 62.25 per day; plasterers
and painters receive 62; common laborers,
6162, while boilermakers get ;2.50. Woo]
washers get 611 a -week; farm laborers.
64.50 a week, with board, and shepherds
about 6200 a year. The wages of house
servants are about the same as with us.
Girls of all work get 62.25 per week; house
maids. $2.75; nurses, $1.75, and washerwo
men and cooks, 63.75 per week.
We also talked of the cost of living and
from the same source I was given the
prices of many things. They are fully as
low as in the United States, and in n.any
cases much lower. We pay 5 cents for a
one-pound loaf of bread. The Australian
gets a two-pound loaf for the same
money. Our beef costs us from 15 to 20
cents a pound; he buys his for about 5
cents a pound. He pays 25 cents a pound
for butter. 16 cents a pound for cheese, 4
cents for sugar, 1V4 cents for rice, 17 cents
for bacon and 37 cents for tea. His eggs
hhn 25 cents a doxen. his bogy 50 cents
Comlda, beblda,
Casa y vestido.
0WHEJRE in the entire
MR ^ Spanish vocabulary do
I recall an jnstaace
1 where so much Is ex-
^ pressed in a like num
ber of words as in the
foregoing simple coup
let. Literally, its trans
lation signifies, “food,
drink, house and dress.”
What a world of mean
ing is embodied in those
four words! To a vast
majority of the earth’s
Inhabitants thev repre
sent the sum total of
existence, and In life’s
perpetual battle the
struggle for their possession constitutes
the one supreme motive of the conflict.
But there Is one country wherein this
great problem has long since been happily
solved. There hunger Is an unnecessary
pang, the choicest beverage In the land
Is within reach of the most lowly and
none need perish for the want of a tene
ment nor shiver through lack of apparel.
Against all these exigencies nature has
furnished an ample safeguard in the pro
viding of a single shrub. It grows for
the poor as well as the rich and flourishes
alike on farm and desert. Hence, tc It
the people of every station point with
grateful pride, and every tongue through
out the land proclaims it what it Is:
“Comlda, beblda.
Casa y vestido.”
That country Is Mexico. The shrub is
the maguey plant.
Those who are familiar with the Mex
ican maguey, or great aloe, as seen in
Its dwarfed state among the botanical
gardens of the north, would hardly recog
nize it as viewed in its gigantic maturity
on its native heaths. In general char
acter It is decidedly formidable, though
its symmetrical formation, combined with
its collossal proportions. Invest It with a
stateliness and charm far above that
which is merely prepossessing. In appear
ance the maguev Is totally unlike any
other plant outside of Its own peculiar
siiecles. The trunk, or stock, of the na
tlve plant consists of a conical-shaped
bulb some twelve Inches In diameter by
twenty In height, from the base of which
numerous sinewy roots extend Into the
earth. This balb is called the “corazon.”
and somewhat Resembles a huge pineap
ple. The Inner portion of the corazon
consists of a Juicy vegetable substance,
partaking in flavor somewhat of the
Swedish turnip, while from Its outer rind
a series of long, tapering blades radiate in
much the same manner as the leaves of
the data nalm. In the larger specimens
these blades vary In number from thirty
to fifty, according to age. The largest
of the blades measure twelve Inches in
breadth by four ifiches In thickness at
the base, and are frequently ten feet In
length, tapering gradually to a sharp,
needle-Uke point at the extreme tip. Along
both edges are -arranged-a sbries of keen,
claw-Ilke thorns,; or barb*, which, with
the terminating spike, constitute the ais-
mor of the p.antijjAnd a more effectual
By Jose de Olivares
Is completed. This has required a period
df ten years, but at the expiration of that
time'-the perpetual harvest has begun,
and-, cs will be shown, the tract will
henceforth yield him a princely and un
broken income.
The chief sources of revenue from the
uiaguey plant lie in its production of the
three typical Mexican beverages, namely;
pulque, tequila and mescal A peculiar
feature of tbe maguey industry is the fact
that, while the three liquors are derived
from the same plant, each has a par
ticular district to Itself wherein it alone Is
produced. This is owing - partly to the
different stages of development attained
tv the plant in the ‘ several localities
same into the month of the hog-skln boat
at his back. Having transferred the sap
to this latter receptacle, he next takes
his Scraper.* and. reaching down into the
corazon. carefully removes a few shavings
from the pulp in its center. He thus
opens' up the veins of the plant for a new
flow of sap. after which he readjusts the
covering and proceeds on his rounds. *
Throughout a period of from three to
four months repeated Visits are made to
the plant thus tapped, and when finally
It is drained of its lhst drop of life-sus
taining fluid, its great blades sag help
lessly to the earth, their former beautiful
tints give place to a dingy chocolate
shade, and the maguey is dead. After
SENT FREE ,
TO WEAK MEN
Charity, the Noblest Impnlee of Half
Exemplified by a Well Known
Missourian.
W. S. Harter, an honored-and Influential citlo
sen of Nevada. Mo., makes a statement and
an over-reneroua offer thr.t comes In tbs Shape
of a proclamation of healtb to all afflicted' With
lost vitality and its kindrsd atUncnta. His
1 on and his tobafcco from 61 to «Lfl a £
pound.
The Australian has to pay as much in
the way of house rents as the average
American workman, and be has as a ru.e
poorer accommodations In Sydney a
three-room flat costs about $9 a month or
something like 75 cents per room per week.
A four-room house costs about 616 and a
five-room house about 612 a month. Very
few of the laboring men live In houses
of more than live rooms unless they have
grown-up sons or daughters to contribute
to the family earnlnes.
As far as I can see the workingmen live
very well. Few of them have wrinkles ih
their stomachs or ho.iows In their cheeks.
The average cost of the food consumed
per Inhabitant is 684 a year, while our
average is less than $50 a year. They are
great meat eaters, and In New South
-Wales last year they ate 96,000 tons of
beef 68,000 tons of mutton and 8,000 tons
of pork and bacon, footing up a total of
$25,000,000 worth of meat for one colony
alone. The meat Is good, too. You will
find no better mutton anywhere, and the
beef is as fat and as juicy as the best
cuts of Chicago.
I am surprised at the amoutit of tea.
which these Australians drink. They swill
tea as the German swills beer. Every
person has his cup of tea every after
noon, and, like as not, another cup or so
later In the evening. They drink more tea
than anv other nation, except the Rus
sians. They drink It everywhere. It is
served without extra charge at hotels, and
at tha railroad stations it Is given out at
so much per cup at the same tables as the
beer and whisky. The tea Is always
served with milk and sugar, and every
person takes four lumps. The people have
sweet teeth and they eat so much sugar
that their teeth are often decayed. This
is a good place for a dentist, and I an.
surprised more American dentists do not
come here to practice.
Labor lettlemonti
One of the queer labor movements of
Australia resulted in the establishment of
a number of labor colonies or settlements
in the different states. This occurred along
about' the panic of 1892 and 1893, when
there was a vast number of unemployed.
Several of the colonies set aside lands for
settlers and advanced money to them. In
some settlements the lands were held in
common, and In others they were so ar
ranged that after a given time the people
could vote whether they should continue
to hold them as a settlement or should di
vide them up among themselves. There
are two such settlements in New South
Wales—one at Wilberforce and the other
at Bega. The Bega settlement is about 200
miles west of Sydney and twelve miles
from the coast, on the Bega river. To
armament Is not to ne found In the entire
not a few In
stances full-grown cattle have been,
known to 'become,(hopelessly Impaled by
unwarily coming'into contact therewith.
The prevalent cbloring of the maguey
Is a bluelsh green or drab, thickly mot
tled. In some cases, with dark purple, and
again with deeo crimson blotches. In
some instances. In the higher altitudes of
Mexico, the latter' color predominates to
such an extent that the entire plant, at a
Natives of Maguey country
where it thrives, and partially, to the
various popular tastes of the people,
Pulque, the distinctly national beverage,
is produced exclusively In the vicinity of
the City of Mexico. The task of gather
ing the material from which it is manu
factured Is performed by the native peon,
entitled by grace of his particular voca
tion the “tlachiquero.” The duties of this
functionary consist, first, in watching the
magueys, in order to determine the exact-
day when their blossoms are due. His
apparel Invariably includes a white cotton
shirt and trousers of like material, sup
plemented by leggins and apron of leather,
and rawhide yuaraches or sandals on his
feet. He is armed with a short machete,
a three-cornered metai scraper and a
queer-looking oblong instrument about
three feet in- length, fashioned from a
calabash. Lastly, he carries, slung over
his left shoulder, a. .bug*.bag. made from
the entire hide of a swine.
When the maguey exhibits unmistakable
symptoms of an Immediately forthcoming
blossom, the tlachiquero approaches the
plant, and. cautiously pushing aside the
dangerous blades, deftly squeezes him
self Into the center. Then, with a biew
cf his machete he hews away the flower
stalk and slices off the top of the cone-
shaped corazon. This he next proceeds to
hollow cut to a depth of several inches
by means of his sharp three-edged seru-
collecting as much of the sap as he can
carry at a load, the tlachiquero. bent
nearly double under its weight, sets off
for the hacienda buildings, upon reaching
which he enters an establishment set
apart for the brewing of pulque. Herein
is contained a framework of poles, upon
which is stretched several specially pre
pared beef hides in such a manner as to
form a spacious vat. Into this the aqua
miel is poured, together with a small
quantity of fermented maguey sap to act
as leaven. At this stage the liquor haz
a sweet taste not unlike that of new ci
der. but it quickly ferments, and within
three or four hours has attained the ap
pearance and consistency of milk. It is
now pulque, and is ready to be emptied*
into pigskins and transported to the city.
It is estimated that out of the 350.00(1
inhabitants contained in the City of Mex
ico. at?toast atM** drink palcfue TO orefef-
ence to water or 'any other beverage. In
its original state' the liquor Is no more
Intoxicating than the lightest Bavarian
beer, and possesses great virtue as a
tonic, as well as a beverage. But. un
fortunately. it no sooner gets into the
hands of the city dispensers than It is
heavily drugged with extract of jlmson
weed, which at once converts it Into a
maddening intoxicant. Time adter 'time
has the Mexican government essayed to
stop this diabolical adulteration, which
case was a most pltlabls one, nightly emis
sions so draining and his constitution was
weakened to such a degree that It was Im
possible for him to perform his duties. He
spent hundreds of dollars for remedies and to
specialists but could -..it regain his vitality or
check the awful nightly emissions. One day a
brother lodge member called his attention to a
remedy: in fact, implored Mr. Harier to take
the remedy for hia affliction; he did ao and in
one month's time was entirely cured, hla con
stitution rejuvenated and his vitality regained.
Todav he is a man in every sense which that
word would Imply. Mr. Harter le not What one
would call an immensely rich man. but his
gratitude for this marvelous remedy fa so
great that he says he Intends making hia life’s
labor that of ,Hitting this remedy In the hands
of all those afflicted as he was. Mr. Harter Vic
ing a very conscientious man. thought perhaps
the remedy may not prove in every case so won
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reason he gave 50 sufferers the treatment, and
in ever}' Instance the same wonderful results
were experienced as was in his case; so he
now says he will send every sufferer of this
death-dealing disease. Lost Manhood and its
kindred aliments, absolutely free the means
which directed him to health and contentment.
Any reader sending bis name and address to
Mr. W. S. Harter. 525 Ash street, Nevada,
Mo., will receive without delay, and free of
charge, this wonderful knowledge.
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Tapping the Maguey plant
casual glance, appears a beautiful varie- per, having accomplished which he 1 lends
Colonial Secretary's Office, Now South Wales
gated red. But the most striking feature
of the maguev plant, and one but seldom
witnessed, is its bloom. This rarely de
velops prior to its eighth and frequently
not until its twelfth year. Somewhere
about this period there springs from the
center of the plant a slender green stock,
which, upon attaining a height of from
twenty to thirty feet, throws out a beau
tiful cluster of fragrant yellow blossoms.
It is only in the heart of the wilderness,
however, or oosslbty in some arboretum,
that th& plant ever attains to this stage of
existence, the manifold uses which It ful
fills, as will be later explained, preclud
ing such a possibility.
The localities where the maguey plant
thrives to the best advantage are in the
derated portions—otherwise known as the
great mesas or lable-Iands—of Central
Mexico. Here It net only grows In its
wild state, but it is extensively cultivated
in mans' instances forming the exclusive
product of the vast haciendas of that
district The maguey being essentially a
plant of the desert, requires no nourish
ment and but little attention, aside from
its olantlng and the harve3tiag of its
products. The latter process. In the case
of each individual plant, takes place Im
mediately after It has put forth Its flower
stalk and on the very eve of its blossom
ing: end although, as previously explain
ed, this happens but once In many years,
the harvesting, nevertheless, goes on day
after day. year after year, on each and
every maguey plantation. For in such an
industry there must needs be a particular
rystem. Hence, when the Mexican farmer
lays cut several square leagues of land
for tbe cultivation of tbe maguey, be does
not at once set the entire portion to
plants. On the contrary, he subdivides
the tract into twenty different sections,
planting them out successively each
spring and fall until the entire plantation
one of the broad blades over the cavity,
weights It down with a sufficiently heavy
stone, and goes on about his business. At
the expiration of two or three hours he
again puts in an appearance, slips in be
tween the armed branches as before, and
removes the cover from the partially ex
cavated cone, which he finds full to the
brim of a clear, greenish liquid. This is
the acua miej, or sap, of the maguey.
Into it he dips the small end of his cala
bash instrument, which is nothing more
ror less than a siphon, applies his lips to
a small aperture in its base and sets the
queer little pump a-going. It requires but
a moment to absorb ihe liquid lnkc the
siphon, whereupon he reaches down,
places a finger over the opening in its
extremity, and, raising It, Inserts the
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tional Travelers’ Protective Asso
ciation of America, June 3-8,
1901.
For the above occasion the Seaboard Air
Line Railway will sell from all stations
tickets to Old Point Comfort and return at
one fare for the round trip. Tickets will
be sold June 1st, 2d and 3d, limited for
return passage to eight days from date
of sale, and subject to a further
extension to June 15th. For full in
formation as to conditions, schedules,
Pullman sleeping car ratps. etc., via the
Seaboard Air Line Railway, t e beat dine
to Old Point Comfort from the south,
southwest and southeast, call upon or ad
dress any agent or representative of the
company.
contributes so woefully to the misery and
degradation of the lower classes, but to
no avail. The unfortunate victims have
developed an insatiable taste for it. and
do not hesitate to brave even the law
in order to gratify the ruinous habit. On
the other hand, in its pure state, fresh
from the hacienda, pulque is considered
an indispensable delicacy in the best
Mexican households, and as such consti
tutes one of the leading staples in local
commerce. It retains its freshness, how
ever. but a few days at most, and being
thus perishable, will never be classed as
an export. Statistics show that 75,000
gallons of pulque are dally consumed in
the city of Mexico alone.' and the internal
revenues op the articles yield the gov
ernment upward of $75,000 annually.
The profits to the grower are corre
spondingly iarge. Each maguey plant
yields from 125 to 160 gallons of pulque,
and the average hacienda grows upward
of 1,600 plants to the hectare, or two and
one-quarter acres. The market price of
pulque is 8 cents per gallon; hence It
will be seen that the foregoing number
of plants will yield In that product alone
in twelve years, allowing liberally for
waste, etc., a profit of over 615.000, an
average of 61,250 per year, or $500 per
acre.
The yalue of the maguey plant, how
ever. by no means ceases with the gath
ering of its sap. When this stage of Its
usefulness ends the withered plant Is
grubbed up and carted away to fulfill
other offices of even greater merit than
the yielding of pulque. Nor does its re
moval cause ’the slightest break in the
income of the plantation, for a younger
plant immediately takes Us place, to
yield its vintage In its order a dozen
years hence. These smaller plants ap
pear In the form of runners in the vi
cinity of the older magueys, and require
no cultivation whatsoever.
CINNAMON V* MICROBES
I T IS well known that cinnamon is a
deadly enemy to microbes. This is a
simple, pleasant and safe corrective of
foul conditions of the stomach, which
should be more generally used. Dr. JTo-
seph Came Ross, physician to AncofiN
hospital, Manchester, England, writes in
praise of a decoction of cinnamon as a
cure for influenza. He says the treatment
must be begun within twenty-four hours
of the beginning of the attack; otherwise
it will probably fail. He gives an ounce
of tbe decoction of cinnamon every half
hour until six doses have been taken, and
then half an ounce every hour for eigh
teen hours, and after that half an ounce
every two hours. After the temperature
has fallen to the normal, half an ounce
of the decoction is given four times a
day for two days.
NEURALGIA BATH CURS
A CORRESPONDENT asserts that
toothache and neuralgt both result
from the same cause, namely, nature
appealing for a bath. He aays: “If you
have toothache or neuralgia and wish to
receive immediate relief, tak^ a hot bath
on retiring at night, or a cold bath imme
diately on arising In the morning. No one
Will ever have toothache or neuralgia who
will observe regularity In bathing.” The
assertion of this correspondence may be
somewhat too sweeping, but at least the
proposed treatment is harmless, and
should be otherwise beneficial, whether 16
acts as a perfect preventive of neuralgia
or not.
PRIZE mH STORT *
The fish story record stands shattered.
This is the latest, and It is vouched for in
all seriousness: In 1873 a fisherman took
some trout through the ice In central
Wisconsin. The largest trout was placed
in a cold storage warehouse, and after-
waids forgotten. Eleven years later the
warehouse was burned, and, to save the
ice, enough water was thrown on to fill
up the water-tight cellar below. Three
years later 447 trout were taken out of
the cellar. In addition to the original one.
Identified through lack of an eye and a
broken tali, which had evidently fallen
into tbe water when the warehdbse was
destroyed, thawed out and spawned. +