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MAN POWER IN OKLAHOMA FARMING.
1 lie farmers of Oklahoma havo ileoiilcd to do away with horses to pull
their binders and reapers. At this day the machines can he drawn so easily
and horseflesh is at such a high price that if is cheaper to advertise for a gang
of tramps and hire them to pull the machines during the harvest. The first
work of this kind was done on the big “101” Ranch, in the northern part of
the Cherokee Strip. “Joe” Miller, the man who owns the ranch, says that
he has hiied teams from the neighbors to help in his harvest for many years,
and that this year he hired twenty trumps and the work was done at just half
the cost, Iu Oklahoma the ranches are so large that no one man owns enough
horses to do the work, and in harvest time a horse is a scarce article and costs
a great price. The Miller ranch contains five thousand acres, and is said to
he the largest wheat farm iu the world.
The Technique
of Yachting.
Diagram* That W ill Maltrt Detail*
n( the Columbla-Sliainrock ISuio
rialii to Landlubber*.
jv , i HE diagram
Cc/" - which acoom
’ / f panics this article
shows a Sloop
ycht, or a cutter
yacht, us the
ILT Englishman
RjjYVA would say. A
|W sloop yacht has
►it) one mast, the
main mast. The
great race be
tween the Columbia and the Sham
rock is a race of sloop yachts. The
America, which was the original
winner of what is now known as the
AmericajCup, was a schooner yacht,
but neaftjy all of the cup contestants
since that time have boon sloops.
Bit is suu|>'*<l, to begin with, that
the reader knows tlffit the extreme
forward tip of a yacht is called the
stem, that the forward portion is
called the bow, that the rear end is
called the stern, and that the sides of
the boat are the beams. Everyone
also knows that the keel of a yacht is
the portion which cuts deepest into
DIAGRAM showing the arrangement
OP SPARS AND SAILS ON A SLOOP
TACHT.
the water, and it is in the construc
tion of tho keel that the greatest
changes and progress have been made
iu yachting. Everyone who reads the
papers knows of tho discussions whioh
liave gone on for years ns to tho com
parative value of tho center-board
keel a board which lets down side
wise from tho interior of the boat
through the bottom, tho fin keel,
which is a deep, sharp, fin-like pro
jection on the bottom of the boat, the
liulb fin and the ordinary cutter keel.
So much for the hull of the boat.
The backbone of a sloop’s rigging is
the mainmast, marked (1) in the
diagram. This is usually made of the
very best and straightest spruce tim
ber, although iu Qtho' ease of the
Columbia an immensely strong steel
tube has used. At tho top of
of the mainmast, the topmast (2) is
attached. In the caso of the new cup
defender this topmast is so made that
it will slide down into the hollow
portion of the mainmast, but iu
HOW TIIE COLUMBIA’S CKBW LIE OCT ON THE DECK.
ordinary yacht construction it is
firmly attached to the outside
of the mainmast, as shown in the
diagram. These masts are held in
place by what are known as shrouds,
long, heavy wire ropes (10 and 11),
which run from the “hounds” at the
top of the mainmast and from the top
of the topmast to each side of tho
hull, where they are firmly attached.
In order to further strengthen the
topmast a crosstreo (9) is placed at
the head of the topmast for spreading
the topmast shrouds. It was the
breaking of this spreader which caused
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DIAGRAM OK COURSES FOR COLUMBIA-SHAMROCK RACE.
The first will be a triangular course, the soconj fifteen miles straight to windward
and return. Dotted lines show course taken to beat to windward and round stake
boats, ibe best throe out of ilvo races will decide tho fate of the cup.
the recent accident to the Columbia.
When the crosstree snapped the top
mast was loosened and fell beforo the
wind with such force that the steel j
mainmast broke short off about half j
way of its longth. Next to the mast!
in importance is the bowsprit (3), I
which is held down by the bowstay !
and the bowstay full (1(1 uud 17). The
main boom (4) spreads and holds fast
the lower portion of the maiustail (A).
At the top of the mainsail is the gaff
(5), and above that is the club topsail
(]>), reaching higher even than the
top of the topmost. These nre the
principal sticks in a sloop yacht. The
racers are also provided with a very
important boom called the spinnaker
boom (7). This boom is removable,
and is only used when the yacht is
running full before the wind. It is
always conveniently placed on the
deck, so that when the wind is right
it can bo instantly placed in position. It
is let down by tho ping lift (18) and
held in place by the spinnaker boom
brace (19) and the spinnaker boom
guy (20). It is usually spread almost
opposite the mainsail, so that it gives
to tlpj yacht practically two broad
wingj, by means of which she can take
full advantage of a following wind, in
this way immensely increasing her
speed. A yacht with spinnaker set
and bellying full of wind is a most
beautiful sight, resembling some huge
seagull skimming over tho surface of
the water. Indeed, the sails are so
big and reach so far on each side of
the yacht that the body of the boat j
itself is hardly visible. No doubt
much will be said in the reports of
the coming races about tho spinnaker
and how it is set, for it is an exceed
ingly important feature in yacht rac
ing.
The principal sail of a sloop is the
mainsail (A). It is held in place by
the ropes and tackle shown at (25).
These ropes are oallled the sheets,
and they are by all odds the most im-
portaut ropes connected with a yacht.
The skill of a vaohtniau is based largely
on his ability to let out or take in
these sheets, thereby giving the sail
more or less wmd. The speed of the
yacht is depencUut largely upon
the exactn?" sth which the mainsail
further info rip®
t r # ki PP er
must i 1 ftfen aiel
never a. the
sheets for a moment, if ne*y<j!d get
the best speed from his boafatm pre
vent being capsized by sudden
squalls. The mainsail is assisted by a
number of smaller sails before the
mast. These are attached to various
ropes connecting with the tip end of
the bowsprit and with the stem of the
yacht. The rope which connects the
bowsprit with the top of the topmast
(15) is called the topmast stay and
holds the topmast from being pulled
backward, just as the topmast back
stay (20) holds it from being driven
forward. The line which reaches from
the top of the mainmast to the stem
of the boat (14) is called the forestay,
and it supports the mainmast from
falling backward. The sail (B) is
called the foresail. The sail (C) the
jib, and the sail (E) the jib topsail.
They are all held in by ropes which
can be easily extended or shortened
so as to draw more or less wind. One
of the most picturesque of the sails is
not shown in the diagram because it
is used only under certain favoring
conditions. This sail, the balloon jib,
is an enormous sail made of very light
cloth -in the Columbia of silk—aud
it is larger than either the mainsail or
the spinnaker. It is attached at tho
very front of the boat, and it is sup-
posed to gather up all the wind that
there is. It is usually need when the
winds are very light. The correct
method of using a balloon jib is a very
important feature of the yacktman’s
work, and it may play an exceedingly
important part in the coming race.
The little flag at the top of the top
mast (22) is called the burgee, and
that which flies from the tip of the
gaff (23) is called the pennant. Iu
case of heavy winds it is found neces
sary sometimes to reoi the sails. This
is done by means of the little strings
which are seen hanging in rows along
the lower part of the mainsail. The
canvas is pulled down to the boom
and tied with these strings, so that
less surface will bo exposed to the
wind. Reefing only done in case
of a very heavy storm or squalls.
l,ol)Kter Change Their Shell*.
“All young lobsters change their
shell, or molt, several times a year,”
said a Fulton market dealer iu New
York, “and as they grow older the
change takes place less frequently.
Unlike other deep-sea animals, the
shell of the lobster does not grow
with the body, therefore nature pro
vided them with clothes which they
oould throw off when they begin to ‘fit
too quick.’ It may easily be seen,
therefore, that as some of them grow
to the length of forty inches, begin
ning their career at less than an inch
in length, the changing must take
place a great many times.” —Wash-
ington Star.
Aasocititiou Devoted to Cuatard Pie.
The town of Hartford, in Oxford
County, Me., has a Custard Pie Asso
ciation, which meets annually in a hem
lock grove on the margin of Swati
Pond and gorges itself with custard
pie. It grew out of a custard-pie-eat
ing contest between two residents of
the town on the annual Fast Day
thirty-nine years ago. The match was
adjudged to be u tie, the association
was formed, aud everybody in it now
strives to beat everybody else eating
custard pie. Secretary John D. Long,
who was born in the near-by town of
Bucktield, is an honored member.
Forelgiu'M iu American Cities.
The foreign-born population of
London is only 255,252 and that of
Paris 180,000. The foreign-born pop
ulation of New York by the police
census is 879,972. By the census of
1890 450,000 of the population of Chi
cago were foreign born, and 270,000
of Philadelphia, both of whioh you
will take notice have more than Lon
don. Boston had 148,800, San Fran
cisco 120,000 Baltimore 122,000 and
St. Louis 115,000.
Where Fearls Are Found.
Pearls are found in both salt and
fresh water, and it is said that they
belt the earth, including all of the
tropical portion and a part of the tem
perate zones. The great “Queen
Fearl” was found in Paterson, N. J.,
in 1857. was sold to the Empress
Eugenie b, --'ranee, and is valued to
day at SIO,OOO.
BRYAN DECLIh I
Democratic Letw
Unwise to D^L
A Chicago
debate looked for
tween W. J. Bryan ajZ JS
ran on trusts did hsifirl .
tral Music hall wail,
eager audience,
( ent had to content thl(f
the oratory of tho Jp
who however, occnpiedlSf 2j£|
platform.
Mr. B:yan reached 9B
hall early in the evening. IKit
direct to a room upstairs, wfIHK e
was greeted by Chairman FrisHi
Head, Congressman Gaines, Ralplwl.
Easley and other members of yie
! rogramme committee of the o*ic
Federation conference on trusts. Mr.
Bryan surprised the committee by
declining to speak at the night session
with W. Bourke Cockran, in accord
ance with the programme previously
arranged.
Mr. Bryan explained that he did not
wish to let the impression go out that
he was to enter a debate with Mr
Cockran. For that reason he said he
would not speak with Mr. Cockran. at
the same session. Mr. Cockran was
sent for and he and Mr. Bryan dis
cussed the situation. The committee
withdrew to allow the two orators to
settle the dispute among themselves.
Mr. Bryan asserted that he never said
he would follow Mr. Cockran with an
address on the same evening. If the
committeemen got that impression
from the conversation ho had had with
them over the long distance telephone
Thursday, he said they misunderstood
him.
Mr. Cockran wanted to talk the
same session with the noted Nebras
kan, and offered to flip a coin to de
termine who should have the privilege
of delivering the closing address. Mr.
Bryan would not accept this proposi
tion. Mr. Cockran then agreed to ap
pear at any time the committoe de
sired. The program was then changed
to meet Mr. Bryan’s wishes. Mr.
Bryan said he was anxious to addrbss
the conference, repeated that his only
reason for changing the program was
to avoid any indication of public de
bate with Mr. Cockran.
At the morning session workingmen,
socialists, advocates of the single tax
theory and students of political econo
my were heard on trusts and oombi-
nations. A majority of the speakers
spoke in vigorous opposition to indus
trial, financial and transportation com
binations. The problem in its rela
tions to the workingman were discuss
ed. The long list of prominent spank
ers announced for the day served to
draw the largest crowd of the confer
ence.
Though disappointed in failing to
see Bryan and Cochran pitted against
each other, the audience, neverthe
less, enjoyed a rare treat, as Mr. Oock
ran was at his best, and his speech
was punctuated with applause.
When Mr. Bryan made his appear
ance it was the signal for tumultuous
cheering which lasted until the Ne
braskan had taken his seat on the
speaker’s stand. Mr. Cockran said in
part:
“There is no reason why a sensible
man should grow excited, either in
approval or of resentment at a combi
nation, merely as such. A combina
tion may be good or bad, according to
its effect. For instance, a combina
tion for prayer is a church. All good
men would subscribe to the success of
it. (Laughter.) A combination for
burglary is conspiracy. All good
men would call out the polio© to pre
vent it. (laughter). Any industrial
system which operates to swell the
volume of production should be com
mended; anything that operates to re
strict it should be suppressed.”
“Now, while I am fully conscious
that the movement of prices depend
ou many forces, or rather perhaps I
should say on every force—on the
bounty of the earth, ou the sun that
quickens the crop upon the rains that
refresh it, upon the rivers that wash
the soil in which it is imbedded and
fructifying, as well as upon the indus
try of man, yet I venture to say that
neither side of this controversy is
wholly right or wholly wrong. There
are some combinations which operate
to appreciate prices and some which
operate to depreciate them. Now, if
I accept either, I should offend against
that other offenda” of which I com
plain.
§
THE KOBE BROKE.
Tragic Accident Accura at Hanging of a
Rapist In Alabama.
Henry Gardner, a negro eighteen
years old, was hanged at Mobile, Ala.,
Friday, for assaulting a white girl un
der ten years of age. The crime was
committed last Tune. When the trap
fell Gardner's weight snapped the
rope and he dropped heavily to the
ground. Twenty minutes later he
was again led to the gallows affd ex
ecuted.
\W %% X* the purpose of
\ politicians, includ-
V*iy Deroulede,
\ Thiebaud, Baron de
J ules Guerin, on the charge
against the government.
general, M. Bernard,
One long indictment. Not one of
was present or in the
,4#ee at the time, but nine cells were
tlpd up for them in the library.
■j President Fallieres opened the pro
ceedings amid general silence by read
ing the decree of the president of the
republic constituting the senate, on
the report of the minister of justice,
into a high court to try the charge
■ against the accused of making’ an at
tempt on the security of the state,
t M. Fallieres then declared the sen
jate constituted a high court and the
clerk of the court called the roll of
sanators, who answered with the word
|“present.”
'lhe indictment commenced by. re
citing the facts of the arrest of MM.
Deßoulede and Marcel-Habert, and
said the inquiry had shown the exist
ence of a conspiracy to change the
form of government, to which the dis
orders of last February, it was added,
were due and in which MM. Deßou
lede, Marcel-Habert and some mem
bers of the League of Patriots, M.
Guerin and some members of the Anti-
Semite league, M. Dußac, and some
members of the Society of Anti-
Semitic Youth, MM. Buffet, Godefrey
and Shevilly, and members of the roy
alist party were inculpated.
The indictment gave a few particu
lars of the provincial organization.
Referring to the Provincial League, it
said it was worthy of attention because
the idea of monarchic restoration ap
peared inconceivable, it bad played a
preponderant role in the recent events,
its leader being the duke of Orleans
himself and its managers liis accredited
representatives. All the leagues, it
was asserted, seek to change the form
of government by street risings.
The culminary point of the royalist
conspiracy was reached February 23d,
when M. De Roulede made his noto
rious attempt on the Placede la Nation
to induce a brigade of infantry to
march on the Elysee palace. Every
thing, it seems, was prepared to carry
or.t the royalist plan that day, but M.
De 1 oulede’s. failure spoiled all, and
the duke of Orleans, who was awaiting
at Brussels the signal to come to Paris,
Received instead a telegram from M.
Buffet saying:
“Useless to come. Send you fur
ther news tomorrow.”
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Id(t of New Industries Established the
Past Week.
The more importaut of the new 'in
dustries reported during the past week
include a barrel and basket factory in
Virginia; a box factory in Louisiana; a
brewery in Kentucky;Portland cement
works in West Virginia; coal mines in
Texas and West Virginia; cooperage
works in Georgia; two cotton mills in
Georgia and one each in Louisiana,
Mississippi, North and South Car
olina; a crate factory in Geor
gia; an electrical construction com
pany in South Carolina; electric
light plants in Alabama and Ken
tucky; a flouring mill in Texas;
a furniture factory in North Carolina;
a hub factory in Arkansas; an ice fac
teiy in Virginia; an iron furnace in
Alabama; a knitting mill in Louisi
ana and two in North Carolina; lime
kiins in Arkansas; lumber mills in
Alabama, Aikansas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Vir
ginia; an oil company in West Vir
ginia; a pottery in South Carolina;
quarries in North Carolina; rice mills
in Florida and Mississippi; a shoe fac
tory in Texas; stave and heading fac
tories in Tennessee and Virginia; a
telephone company in Texas; zinc
mining companies in Arkansas and
Tennessee.—Tradesman (Chattanooga,
Tenn.)
Soldiers Enforce Peace.
Two companies of militia are keep
ing the peace between the whites and
the negro nou-union miners a Carters
ville, 111. A third company is expect
ed from Newton. There has been no
furthur violence.
VAN WYCK A WITXEES.
New York City’s Chief Executive Made It
Interesting: For Mr. Moses.
A New York dispatch says: Mayor
Robert A. Vau Wyck occupied the
witness chair Thursday before the as
sembly committee charged with inves
tigating the various departments of
the municipal government.
From the outset the examination of
the mayor by Counsel Moss took the
form of an acrimonious colloquy, in
the course of which Mr. Vau Wyck
intimated that Mr. Moss was seeking
to reach a seat on the supreme bench
by pressing a partisan investigation,
and sneered at the counsel’s attain
ments as a lawyer.
OATES FOR THE SENATE.
Alabamian Announces Candidacy to Suc
ceed Senator Morgan.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.,
says: Ex-Governor Oates has for some
time been urged to run for governor,
but has always declined. He is a can
didate for Morgan’s place, and on last
Monday gave out a public announce
ment to that effect. , 13
ragfcVtTW'-• *
Wi the room .where Mathias BlessinV
died were found bonds, cash and Jewels
ry worth sl3 000. Blessing was seven
ty-nine years of age, unmarried and
lived in Chicago. Among his neigh
bors he was supposed to be a poor sil
versmith, though he was regarded as
miserly.
Still More Counterfeiting.
The Secret Service hr.s just unearthed an
other band of counterfeiters and secured a.
large quantity of bogus bills, which are so
cleverly executed that the average persou
wool ! never suspect them of being spurious.
Things of great value are al ways selected for
imitation, notably Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters, which has many imitators but no equals
for disorders like indigestion. < s y.--pepsia, con
stipation. nervousness .ir.d geneial debility.
Always go to reli/iblp druggists who have tho
reputation of giving what yo i ask for.
Among the coach men of Berlin are 7 retired
army officers, tine?, pastors aud 1G no les.
Don’t Tcbecco f pit end Smoke Your Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full of lite. nerve and vigo . take No-To-
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists. HOc or sl. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Cos., Chicago or New York.
Four tons of gold from the Klondike will bo
exhibited at. the Paris e>fhibition.
Findley’s Eye Salve Cures
Sore eves in 3 days: chronic cases in 30
days, or money back. All drup.-rists, or
by mail, 25c. per box. J. P. Hayteb, Deca
tur, Texas.
Herod is the name of a jndsre who sits in
the police court at Chanute, Kansas.
“Necessity is the
Mother of Invention.”
It <r vas the necessity for a. reliable blood
purifier and tonic that brought into exist
ence Hood's Sarsaparilla. It is a liighly
concentrated extract prepared by a com
bination, proportion and process peculiar
to itself and gh'ing to Hood's Sarsapa
rilla unequalled curative ponver.
3'ibctfS SaMapo/uua
THE REASON WHY
For man or beast
Excels—is that it Penetrates
to the seat of the trouble im
mediately and without irrita
ting rubbing —and kilts the
pain.
Famity and Stable Stxem
Sold by Dealers generally.
! Or. Fart S. Sloan, Baaton, Mama,
“My wife !al plmjsJes on tier face, but
she has beSn taking CASfJAKETS and they
have all disappeared. I had been troubled
with constipation (or seme time, but after tak
ing tho iirst Cascaret I have bad no trouble
with this ailment. We cannot speak too high
ly of Ca'scarets." Fred Wartman,
5708 Germantown Ave.. Philadelphia, P3.
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