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PEOPLE VS. RAILROADS.
?he Farmers’ Alliance committee
recommended the same course
in regard to dealing with the rail,
read problem in Georgia as was ad
vocated by The Banner when this
matter was discussed at the last sea
sion of the legislature.
The position that the Alliance will
assume is to enforce the Constitution
of our Slate, preventing the cansol-
idating of competing lines, but will
not go to the extreme length of con-,
locating property.
As we contended, these ends can
and will be accomplished by
strengthening and enlarging the
powers of the National and State
Railway Commissions. The one is
the work of Congress, the other ot
our legislature
We believe that the best plan for
our legislature to persue would be
to pass a bill defining what it con
siders '‘competing lines.” Let it
also require every railway before it
is sold or leased to another line, to
first get the consent of the State
Railroad Commissioners, and if this
body refuses to endorse the consoli
dation, and it is persisted in, then
declare invalid all contracts made
by the offending coiporation. This
would not be a confiscation of pro
perty, but it would do the work as
effectually, for it would then be im
possible for such roads to collect any
claims or enforce contracts.
And as the Railroad Commissioners
will be the representatives of the
people, they should be held account-
ble to the public for their acts, and
hence these officers should be elected
by a popular vote instead of appoint
ed by the Governor, as is now the
case.
No railroad that intends to obey
the laws of our State and act fairly
by the public, can object to this
safeguard being thrown around them
by the people. Jt does not threaten
the destruction of their property,
but simply requires that they obey
the Constitution of Georgia and so
conduct their business as will alike
protect their own interests and the
rights of their patrons.
In our free government and this
enlightened age, the idea of a con
fiscation of private property is re
pugnant to the idea of justice. Such
an extreme and oppressive step will
never be tolerated or . endorsed.
There are other and better ways to
enforce the laws of our State, and
at the same time let capitalists feel
that when they invest their money
- in our midst it will be as safe as if
locked up in their bank vaults.
There would be as much justice and
reason iu confiscating a man’s es
tate for violating any other law, as
to confiscate a railroad because it
to respect a clause in our
Constitution. Georgia can
punish violation of her laws, and at
the same time respect the rights of
property owners.
We believe that if a bill is introi
duced framed after the above sug
gestion, that it will be all the safe
guard the people can ask against the
consolidation of rival lines, aud at
the same time prove entirely satis-
. factory to every railway that desires
to do business in our State and re
spect alike the laws and the rights
of the people.
It is not right that competing lines
should be consolidated,thus creating
a monopoly, and it is the duty of our
legislators to pass laws to prevent
such steps.
COL- NORTHEN’S CANDIDACY.
This distinguished gentleman, du
ring his visit vo Athens, made a most
favorable impression on oor people,
and undoubtedly strengthened his
chances for the gubernatorial nomi
nation.' He is a courteous, affable
gentleman, with the ability to fill
the office he seeks with credit to
himself and honor to the Empire
State of the South.
Col. Northen has announced his
■ition on the currency issue, and
is square in line with the Farmers’
Alliance. This is all that can be
asked nr required.
His claims will receive careful
consideration at tha bands of the
people of this section, who hope that
they will have the pleasure of meet
ing him again, when be can remain
longer among us.
Col. Northen ia the only candidate
as yet announced for Governor, and
i has certainly developed wonder-
iil strength.
HE’S WINE OF CAJWUI for Weak Nerve#. -
i Southern Appeal.—The only
;ic negro paper iu the South
the Southern Appeal, edi-
I by C. E. Yarboro, in At-
ita. The editor of this paper
now in Athens canvassing the
r for .subscriptions. He should be
1 by both blacks and whites
joseof his journal will be to
ing of harmony between
d people of Georgia and the
. He is carrying out
cessfulJy, too.
ARRIVAL IN HAVANA
A PANORAMIC VIEW FROM THfi
SHIP TO THE HOTEL.
First Experiences on Landing—Sur
rounded by Strange People and
Still Stranger Scenes—The Cuban
Houses and Vehicles—Registers at
the Hotel and Draws a Comparison
With Amerclan Hasherles—Deli
cious Meals and Attentive Servants
—Spanish Money—A Grateful Walter
Etc., Etc.
Moro Castle guards the mouth of the
harbor at Havana. This city is built
on an arm of the sea, penetrating into
the land, and furnishing one of the best
harbors in tbe Western hemisphere.
This sheet of water widens as it leaves
the sea, and furnishes anchorage for
hundreds of vessels of every size. There
are number of forts in and around Ha
vana, but old Moro is as famous as Gi
braltar. It stands perched upon a rock
overlooking the sea, on the extreme
int of which a light-house is built.
point
It is
grey with age, and its massive
look
walls look as they could withstand any
amount of bombarding. But with the
introduction of modern guns, this once
formidable fortress would crumble be
fore their fire as a block house. In this
age and generation only sand banks,
that when shot away can be rebuilt in
a night,will only endure a siege. The
cities now depend more upon their war
vessels for protection than fortifications
on land.
Moro Castle has never floated any
other than the banner of proud Castile,
but once when it was captured by the
British; but even with this key to its
harbor, Havana held out with a single
fort. Moro was not captured, however,
from the front, for its guns would then
sink any vessel that came withiu their
range; but the invaders landed on the
neck of low land sloping to the heights,
and captured it from the rear. It is a
picturesque si*ht to enter this harbor.
All vessels must remain at anchorage
until the sunrise gun fires from Moro.
As the ‘‘Olivette” sailed into the har
bor, her decks were covered with eager
passengers, curious to get a glimpse of
the strange city they were about to
visit. I had always imagined that Mo
re was several miles from the city; but
I found a narrow neck of water, scarce
half a mile broad, separating it from Ha
vana. The precipitous bluff on which
it stands extends into the city, and you
pass a still larger and apparently more
formidable fortress within a stone’s
throw of tbe castle.
A fine view of Havana is had from
ship, as a sweep of the eye takes in
the entire city, that nestles around the
harbor, while to the north and west
steep hills are to be seen, their barren
sides and summits crowned with forts
and fringed with cocoanut and other
tropical trees.
We anchored a short distance from
the wharf, and the ship was instantly
surrounded by a flotilla of little boats,
each manned by single person, and such
a clamor for passengers was raised as
reminded me of old times iu Athens,
when the rival ’bus lines used to tear
guileless passengers in twain.
But our Pilgrims, eager as they were
to disembark, were not permitted to do
so until the arrival of a Spanish officer,
who inspected their passports. They
were also forbidden to carry any bag
gage into the boat with them.
I carefully examined these boatmen,
and they seemed a good-humored, jol
ly set. A few wore slippers, but even
this favored class dependent on a boun
tiful and thoughtful nature to manufac
ture socks for them. Ia tact, they were
what a politician would denominate in
Georgia a “one-gallows” crowd—only
in several instances, the single suspend
ers had broken loose and exposed more
of the owner’s anatomy than ,the laws
of etiquette required. One
fellow, as 1 leaned over the
the deck, seemed to select me as his
especial prey, and after delivering a
harangue in Spanish, that was doubt
less a convincing display of eloquence
in support of his-particular craft, be
gan to make signs and grimaces, some
of which would have been taken as
highly offensive if delivered in Ameri
ca. At last 1 was safely lowered into a
boat. I found it capable of accomo
dating six or eight persons, with a
canopy, and seats covered with cheap
carpeting. It was a short row to the
landing, and I was soon on Cuban soil.
Everything around me was so strange
and unusual—the streets, houses, ve
hicles, faces and language—that I felt
as if in a dream. There was another
scramble with the hackmen. Tbe wharf
was crowded with little four-wheeled
vehicles, seating two passengers, and a
few with an extra seat in front, that
could be lowered, and by packing tbe
passengers like sardines, crowd in four.
I noticed standing around a large num
ber of men in uniform, while close at
hand was a barracks filled with sol
diers, in front of which a company was
drilling. - «»fSS|pi
But I was not permitted long to in
dulge iu my teverie, for I was pushed
into one of the carnages and whirled
through Barrow but nicely paved streets
to our hotel the Pasaja—pronounced
“Pasackah.” I noticed an occasional
omnibus, like we have in America, and
also street cars; but tbe popular mode
of locomotion was little carriages, that
sported a large top, obstructing the
view, but furnishing protection against
the scorching sun rays. They are each
drawn by a single horse, about the size
of a Texas pony, only in not near so
good a condition. In fact, these po
nies were in every stage of wreck and
dilapidation. The one behind which I
rode was a flea-bitten grey,and the fleas,
or some other tormentor, bad pealed off
slices of its hide as large as the hand.
Job was happy and sound compared
with this equine. My conscience hurts
me to this day when I think of the pain
even my light weight imposed upon its
galled sores.
The Hofe-1 Pasaja is a handsome
building, situated on the Prado, one
of the broadest and finest streets in
Havano. It is four stories high,
and every room is paved with marble.
To my gratification I found that the
clerks here spoke English—or* at least
had enough smattering of our language
not to hand me an elephant when I
asked for a sheet of paper. Another
thing I noticed about these Havana
hotel clerks. They don’t paralize a
guest with that smothering look of scorn
peculiar to our America bashories; but
a fellow can register without feeling
like be is in tbe august presence of
tbe Great Llama, and that be ought to
be under eternal obligations to tbe
autocrat behind the counter for the
privilege of paying $5 per day for. three
wooden toothpicks and a mosquito ser
enade at night. Paper and envelopes,
of a good quality, are kept on the coun
ter, and a guest can help himself, and
not feel like he had committed grand
larceny as the clerk disdainfully counts
him tbe exact number of sheets he re
quested. Here I found tbe Jonty hotel
pen I could ever write with. In Ameri
ca they don’t consider a steel pen fit
for a guest to use unless it is wore half
away or one prong is broken off. The
first thing I did was to write several
letters back home, to send on the
"Olivette,” that started ou its return
trip that day. When 1 came to pay
t-ostage, I struck my first snag of extor
tion in Havana. They charge you live
cents in American money, or fifteen
cents iu Spanish shinplnsters. I next
had a $lu greenback bill changed for
Cuban money. The clerk counted me
out one ten, one five, and an assorted
stock of bills and shinplasters, that ag
gregated $25 in all. The larger bills
were about the size of a sheet of note
paper, while the smaller change was in
every stage of dilapidation. In truth,
1 don’t think an American beggar
would have picked up the wad had he
found it lying in the street. Money
never gets so ragged but that it readily
passes at par in Havana. I had bills
given me iu as many as five separate
pieces, aud found no troublo in getting
them off again. Some of this money
looked so filthy that I hastened to spend
it, lest it carry small pox or some other
contagious disease in its pulpy mass.
The dining room at the Pasaja is
connected with the hotel office, and the
tables will seat four persons comforta
bly. In some of the other hotels in
this city they also use the dining room
for a carriage house and
livery stable, but they are
not patronized by Americans, who ob
ject to having their meals disturbed by
tbe tramp of horses around tbe tables.
The meals in Havana are the same as
on ship-board, with this difference: In
leaving Tampa the vessel adopts Ameri
can hours, and when quitting Havana
substitutes the Cuban regulations. This
was a mystery to mo until my return
trip, when I* worked out the problem
and found that tbe ships saved a meal
by the change. This little feat of econ-
emy, supplemented with an occasional
epidemic of sea sickness—when it is
like waving a red flag- before a mod bull
to say “eat” to a sufferer—adds no
small sum to the revenue of these lines.
From 8 to 9 coffee is served, which is
the same as already described. The
Cuban oranges, as sweet as sugar and
nicely peeled, are heaped in a great
plate before you. At first I relished the
strong black coffee, but it soon got to
be monotonous, and 1 began to sigh for
tbe old home-made beverage, that is of
ten too weak to run down hill. The
butter Is of a rich golden color, and the
nicest I ever tasted.
From 10 to 12 breakfast is served.
And aucha breakfast, too! My mouth
waters now to think of the good things
1 left uneaten. Each gueBt is given a
printed bill of fare half as long as your
arm—one colume printed in Spanish
and the other in English. But the wai
ters, who are polite and attentive white
Cubans, do not give you the privilege
of selecting certain dishes—and then
bring you something entirely foreign
to your choice, ala American hotels—
but they begin at the top and serve you
to the bottom. If you do not touch the
dainty and nicely prepared dishes set
before you it is your own fault. There
is but little delay. A guest is scarcely
seated when a half dozen kinds of fish,
besides lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc.,
with coffee, bread, butter, bananas
sliced and fried, potatoes, etc., are set
before you. I found a fresh sardine,
about the size and flavor of the old-fash-
ioaed Georgia minnow, and on these
made ray breakfast. In fact, before I
left Havana, I had transformed myself
into a large sardine can. This course
is followed by nice beefsteak, mutton
chops, chicken, and several kinds of
small birds. The last course is of tropical
fruits of all kinds, gathered fresh from
the trees. Many of these fruits I had'
never tasted before, and will not die
with a broken heart if I am deprived of
such luxuries the remainder of my (lays.
I hav-n’t got the taste of some of them
out of my mouth yet, although 1 rinsed
it with Florida water and Ath
ens blind tiger whisky. The
bananas, oranges, pine apples' and
other varieties, however, were
of course fine, and far superior to the
stale stuff sold in our Georgian mar
kets. Dinner is served from 6 to 8,
which also does duty as supper. This
meat is even superior to breakfast, and
it will take an industrious man about
three hours to wade through the bill—
of-fare. We h.d all kinds of fresh veg
etables, aud, in fact, I never 8at down
to finer spreads. There is, however,
a sameness about these Havana meals
that will after a time uuderinine a
man’s appetite. There is no variation,
day by day and year by, and from
the dirty looks of the bill-of-fair at my
table, I had a suspicion that it was
the identical one used by Christopher
Columbus when he landed here.
But I must say a good word for the
hotel waiters of Havana. They didn’t
look down your throat and swallow
every time a guest fills liis mouth, aud
neither do they show by their actions
that you must settle your bill with
them instead of at the counter. I
found so many inducements to squan
der my wealth that I never thought of
feeing a waiter, and yet a king on his
throne was not more faithfully or
promptly served. Si Hawkins, of Cov-
lugton, in an outburst of spontaneous
generosity, gave his waiter a five cents
Spanish sbinplaster—equal to two cents
in our money—and I never saw such
gratitude depicted on the human face.
The poor fellow evidently thought he
had struck Jay Gould or Vanderbilt.
Not to be outdone, I gave my waiter a
two cent U. S postage stamp. He ac
cepted it of esurse—for these Cubans
will take anything you give them,
from a case of the seven years’ itch to
an aching void. But he seemed to be at
a loss to know what to do with my do
nation, and finally stuck it on the end
of his nose.
But I must close this letter, and tell
our readers to-morrow about my ram
bles around Havana.
. T. L. G.
BRANDON NOTES.
Hunters Bagging the Feathery Tribe-
Death of Mr. Howard Thomas.
Brandon, Ga., April 7.—The remains
of Mr. Howard Thomas, of Betnlehein,
will be brought home for burial to-day.
He died of fever while at his saw mill
in Southwest Georgia. Mr. Thomas was
a highly respected young man, who was
doing a successful business, and bis
death will be a sad loss to the commu
nity in which he lives.
Messrs. R. L. Carithers, of this place,
G. W. Smith, of Hoschton, and D. W.
Jackson, of Watkinsville, have gone to
Southwest Georgia to hunt and fish.
They promised to keep us posted as to
their movements aud success iu bagging
gams, and their reports will be regular
ly sent to the Bannkb from here. They
went well equipped for the expedition,
and we are anxiously awaiting news of
their first experience in tbe wire erase
regions. Squire Drew Jackson merely
went along to carry the game, but , he
carried bis gun to protect himself from
varmints down there.
MeElree's Wine if Cardul
and THEDFORD‘8 BLACK-DRAUGHT are
for sale by the following merchants la
E. 8. Ltndon, Athens, Ga.
J. B. Fowler, sear Athens,
J.VT. Habdt, near Athens.
B. T. Bbojibt, & Co, Athene,
L. D. Sledoe* Co. Athens.
UNDER A RAILROAD TRAIN.
Burrell Ragsdale and His Mother Meet
With a Terrible Death.
Atlanta, Ga., April 8—[Special.]—
There was a fatal accident on the At
lanta & West Point railroad early last
night, near Powell’s statiou, five miles
this side ot Newnan, which caused the
death of Mr. Burrell Ragsdale and his
mother, Mrs. Mary Ragsdale. Mr.
Ragsdale had a railroad tricycle, a three
wheeled hand-car, very light, on which
he was accustomed to ride up and
down the road in the discharge of his
duty.
Yesterday he and his mother had de
termined to go down to Newnan to
spend tho night, carrying with them
the youngest son, a little boy ten years
old.
Just after the accommodation train
passed Parnell’s staion, where they live,
the three mounted the tricycle and fol
lowed it down the road.
They had not gone very far before a
construction train coming towards At.
lanta came rushing toward them.
His little brotner saw it when was
almost upon them and pointed it out as
he jumped from the tricycle.|
The others started to follow him but
before they could do so the train smash
ed into them, grinding the machine to
pieces. .
Mrs. Ragsdale was dead when the
train men reached her. Mr. Ragsdale
was unconscious, but the little boy was
uninjured save a severe shaking up from
the fall he had received.
A physician was sent for, and he did
all in his power to save Mr. Ragsdale,
but his injuries resulted in his death
early this morning.
THE HEADS CUTOFF.
And !the Bodies Packed Together
In a Box.
Madbid, April 8.—[Special.]—A hor
rible story comes from Morocco. A
large box was recently received frbm
the interior of the country at the port
of Mazagan, for shipment. It was ad
dressed to a person unknown, and was
open when the ghastly sight was re
vealed.
Closely packed in the box were the
bodies of sixteen young women, one
man and a negress. All the victims
had been decapitated and the heads
were missing.
The bodies were embalmed and had
evidently been a long time in the con
dition in which they were found.
It is believed the slaughter was the
work of some pasha who had takeu
vcngance of an unfaithful harem.
HE MUST PAY THE PENALTY.
Sentenced to Die on the Gallows for
Murder.
Warbknton, Ga., April 8.—[Spe
cial]—The Jury iu the case of Bob Hill,
colored, charged with the murder of
Alexander Rogers, have returned a ver
dict of guilty, murder, and the judge
sentenced tbe prisoner to be hanged in
private on May 9.
Mr. Rogers detected robbers in bis
store and lost bis life while attempting
to arrest tho thief.
Hill was the burglar, '‘anil when
caught in the store and meeting Mr.
Rodgers at the door blocking his es
cape, be fired upon ,Mr. Rodgers, caus
ing a wound which resulted in death.
1 here were threats of lynching, but
wiser counsel prevailed and the mur
derer will be legally executed for bis
crime.
MINOR ITEMS.
Gen. Hoke, of the G, C. & N. has
been in Athens for several days after a
business trip to New York and Raleigh
N. C.
Mr. H. n. Phinizy says he will make
the race for the legislature on the issue
of placing Clarke county under the gen
eral prohibition law.
Mr. S. Rexinger will make an addi
tion to the ice factory.
Hands are at work grading on the
Belt Line for Athens.
Mr. J. J. Strickland has added veran
das to and greatly improved his resi
dence.
Dock Dorsey carried eleven Pullman
cars full of passengers out of Macon
Monday night.
Michael Bros., have on the street the
handsomest delivery wagon ever seen in
the South. It is a poem on wheels.
Eleven car loads of machinery for
Lyndon’s new foundry have arrived at
the Georgia depot.
Capt. J. A. Rucker is building an ad
dition to his warehouse at the Georgia
depot.
Drowned In a Pond.
High Shoals, Ga., April 7.—[Spe
cial.]—News has just reached here that
Master Joe Pickrel, son of Mr. Andrew
Pickrel, who lives near Bell’s mill, was
drowned yesterday afternoon, while
boat-riding in Mr. Bell’s mill pond.
We failed to get full particulars.
The Tournament Certain.
It is now a settled fact that Athens
will have a firemen’s tournament in
May, and from every indication there
will be some of the fastest time ever
made in the State. The three Athens
companies are all nearly equal and
their time at the last tournament hav
ing never been beaten will make it the
more interesting. An invitation has
beeii received from Charlotte, N. C.,
and the winning,company at the Ath
ens tournament will in all probability
accept the invitation, and show the
Tar Heels how they can tbrowdjrt.
Still Rising.—Mr. J. H. Dorsev. on
bis arrival in Macon Monday evening,
with a large party of his friends, en-
route to Jacksonville, was promoted by
the president of the G. S. & F. Rail
road, from soliciting agent to General
irayeling passenger and freight agent.
1 his ts a deserved promotion and we
yet hope to see Mr. Dorsey go up still
Cloverhubst.—W> learn that Hon.
H. H. Carlton wrote a gentleman in
Athens that be would sell bis Clover-
hurst farm, but did not state the price.
It is a magnificent piece of prop
erty.
JfctT BLACK DRAUQHT tea cures CoosUpattyh
The Athens Post Office.—A letter
received in Athens, yesterday, from
Washington City, states that Matt
Davis’ confirmation is still hung up,
and there is serious doubt about it go
ing through. The expose of Mr. 31 ur-
ray is having a telling effect. Buck
went on to try and have the appoint
ment settled, but returned without
getting much satisfaction. There is
serious doubt about Matt Davis ever
being Post Master iu Athens.
Give Out of Business,—Mr. W. II.
Thurmond, the nurseryman, has quit
the business of raising fruit trees for
sale. He says to succeed you must em
ploy agents and pay them 40 per cent,
commission on their sales, and they
only too often keep all the mony.
We were in hopes that Mr. Thurmond
would succeed in establishing a flue nur
sery business near Athens, as it is an
important enterprise.
Brood Mares.
Brood mares must have special care
from now until foaling tin^C. It has been
a very hard year for that class of stock.
Many cases of premature births have
lately occurred. No locality seems to be
exempt from this dreaded scourge, Ken
tucky breeders are suffering tbe greatest
losses just at present, however. The loss
from this source In that state will reach
high among the thousands. Mr. W. C.
Highland Farm, is
tea His volu
ntary Bose Chief lately dropped a
dead foal by Red Wilkes, making it fuU
brother to Prince Wilkes (Sri4}>. Good
judges estimate that one-third of all of
the brood Blares in the vicinity of Lex
ington, Ky., wMl lose their foals. Horse
men are at a loss to account for this state
of affaire. Some think it is owing to tho
grass being more succulent than usual.
Others attribute it to the rendition of the
atmosphere. Thoroughbreds which are
stabled and fed upon hay do not escape.
Soma are changing their stock from one
pasture to another, and are using Hum
phrey's specifics with excellent results.-
The Horde Breeder.
The day is not far distant when dairy
men and creamerymea will have ice
machines and make their own ice. The
desideratum is now a machine on a scale
small enough for g single establishment.
The nearest approach to It yet made is
one that manufactures COO pounds of ice
a day and costs $2,000.
Sir Ed win Arnold, the author of the
‘Light
at his
off his shoes on entering a bouse. According
to bis daughter’s statement he drinks eighty
or ninety cups of tea a day, believes in Budd
hism, and champions the extraordinary doo-
trino that children are no relation to their
parents, bat that the wandering soul finds its
family among the souls which suit it best.
Sir Edwin is delighted with Japan and in
tends to reside permanently & that country.
Trancfere ot Bolted Mates Troops.
A periodical interchangepf troops among
the garrisoned poets has long been the policy
ot the United States army, and this year
seven regiments are to share in the moving,
which will tako place in May. It will cost
•950JD® to make-the contemplated changes-of
station. By means of the transfers soldiers
who have been long a* remote frontier posts
will get a chance to see something of cities
and civilization, white those who have held
easy assignments /will now be called on to
been- the beat and burden of the service.
4 curious feature of the United States
postal laws bos to do with the mailing of
magazine* A periodical destined for a place
a thousand mike away b sent to the sub
scriber at pound rates, but a local patron,
who lives aroundthe corner from the publi
cation office, gets his magazine with a two
cent stamp on the wrapper. In other words,
it costs four times as much to send a copy of
the issue ten rods as it does to send it ten
hundred miles.
Princeton college is tbe first American in
stitution of learning to offer its students an
opportunity for undertaking on extended
course in the theory of electricity, and in its
application to the arts End industries. Two
buildings have been erected with' special
reference to the Study, one a magnetic ob
servatory, and the other a dynamo house.
Parsons advanced is years feel youamr sad
dannger, as well as freer from the infirmities of
a^e, by taking. Dr. J. 11. MeLaan’s' Ssraapar
Thinning Applet.
The following advantages are given by
a successful orchardist of thinning the
apples on heavy bearing trees while tbe
fruit is small: (1) You get rid of the knot
ty and wormy apples before they have
grown long enough to occupy the places
of better ones. (2) You thus destroy, be
fore they can increase, the insects in such
as are stung by tbe curculio and infested
by the oodliug worm. (8) The best ones
being left, they have plenty of room to
grow into Igrge. fine, salable specimens.
(4) You are not obliged to gather twice
as many small ones, tbe labor of picking
depending on number and not on size.
(5) The bad ones are removed in a t
less than half the labor required for hand
picking when they become large. (6)
You avoid much labor in assorting the
gathered crop and in separating the
scabby and knurly from: the best fruit
(7) The moderate crop which is allowed
to grow will exhaust tbe trees less than
the heavy crop of poor and seedy speci
mens. He thinks that to allow all the
poor and worthless apples to grow is
like tbe practice ot the farmer who
would permit all coarse weeds to grow
in his com, to be assorted from his grain
after harvesting.—Country Gentleman.
Musical Flames.
The well known experiment of mak
ing sounds Ijy holding a tube over a jet
of huring gas (usually hydrogen) is often
omitted in chemistry classes b^restes no
suitable tubing is at hand. A fact not
noted in any text book I have mp, and
unknown to all teachers that I have con
sulted, has been brought to light in my
classes, viz. j a bottle wfll servo in place
of a tube. A “philosopher's candle”
properly burning will yield a fine sound
if capped by a wide mouthed bottle, as a
quinine bottle or a large test tube. Of
course, this is according to the principles
of acoustics, but it seems strange that no
text book gives it. I should like to know
if this fact Ls known to any sue
T. Berry Smith in
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