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SB WORSHIPERS.
Wonderful Relic of their
Handiwork in Mexico.
Stone Roadway Up a Mound
1200 Feet High.
Charios j. Wimple, one of the
ealthiest miners of Mexico, is a re-
ival in the city. To a repro¬
an - Call he told the fol-
-ntative of the
wing wonderful story:
<*Vou have asked me to give an ac-
mnt of the interesting mountain my
lend, Jesse D. Grant, and myself
during our trip through Mexico
w city. Well, that
route to this
is at once one of the most
exhibitions of man’s !>andi-
and something almost beyond
were we not already familiar
the works of the Aztecs.
«Jost imagine a valley foriy bv
miles in area, and from its
rising a mound over 1,200 feet
jet in height. Then you can realize
first eflcct created upon our minds
ie the hill I
(ten we came before am to
escribe. My foreman was with us,
id bad partly prepared us for the
irprise, but we had treated his story
-ith incredulous remarks, and had by
d means suspected he had but given a
iodest description of the mound.
‘•We gazed to the top and allowed
ur eyes to follow the windings of a
>ad down to the base. We went
round the base and conjectured it
ras about one and a half miles in cir-
imfercnce. Then ws started for the
iminit. The roadway was built of
)lid rock clear to the pinnacle, and
las from thirty to forty feet in width.
[ wali of solid rock formed a founda-
ion and an inside wall at the same
me. The outer edge of the road was
These stones weigh all
lie way u-p to a ton each, and are not
emented. The roadway is as level
s a floor, and is covered with broken
lieces of earthenware w r ater vessels.
“Half way up the mountain is an
lltar cut in solid rock; in tho niche is
i bouldcv which must weigh at least
is tons. The boulder is of different
from that used in tho walls. The
in the walls are dressed by skilled
but are not polished. We
no inscriptions; in fact we had
time to spare iu makinga searching
We did look for arrow
^eads or other warlike instruments to
Satisfy ourselves that the mound had
iiot been used for defensive or offen-
live purposes. Nor was there any
Kidcnce to prove that the roadway
lad been built for the purpose of wit¬
ting bull fights and other sports in
ihevadey.
could only conclude the Aztec
kmi worshipers expended years of
abor on the hill in order that they
right have an appropriate place to
"Icbiatc their imposing festivals, in-
i-much as the roadwav was strewn
ntb broken earthenware, and those
(cions of a bygone and notable race
re * known to carry at sunrise large
__! auantities of water in earthenware
f vsto an eminence, and there pour
. S|,t liquid and smash the vessels.
H heu we descended we brought
nth u - a number of small sea shells
which had petrified, and if you look
it these o n mv table yon will see how
[bey have been perforated by the In-
pans. AVe again took a long look at
mountain and saw' it was oblong in
fchape. and that the upward road com-
Inenccd on the eastern side. I have
traveled on both sides of the moun
Iriusfrom British Columbia to Central
America, aud on either side of the
pierra Mad res where the cliff-dwellers
have left such remarkable mementos
jOf their skill and customs, but I have
pever witnessed anything so wonderful
H pnd magnificent as the mound which I
(feet [ “The valley is about six hundred
above the sea level, and is about
seventy miles from the coast. It is
situated in Sonora, between the cities
J f Altar and Magdalena and
Magdalena near *he
River. AVe called the
well [San Mountain, and it is
— Francisco Call.
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pearly It weighed
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An Arab Four-thing's Career.
The public has been reading lately a
great many dispatches from France
and Africa, giving the progress of
the war which the French government
has been waging in Dahomey. Lieu¬
tenant Colonel Archinnrd was the
officer mentioned as being in command
of the French troops, who, although
merely a handful of some four or five
hundred cavalry, have inflicted great
slaughter on their opponents, killing
as many as a thousand in one engage¬
ment.
There recently arrived in this city e
young French officer who is an inti¬
mate friend of Colonel Avchinard, and
who relates the following strange
history of the dashing young colonel's
life:
“About twenty-six years ago, at the
time France was engaged in a scries
of petty wars against the noma 1 tribes
in Algeria, -and after one of these en-
gagements a certain Gaston Archinard,
then a captain in a cavalry regiment,
was attending to live removal of the
wounded, when one of his men dis¬
covered a little Arab child, who had
evidently been abandoned by its par¬
ents in their flight.
Being a bachelor, and, liking the
bright, intelligent look in the little fel¬
low’s face, the captain determined to
adopt him and give him his name. He,
therefore,sent him to a Ivcce or French
school in Bordeaux, where the lad was
educated, and later, in 1875, the cap¬
tain having risen to the rank of briga¬
dier general, he caused him to be en¬
listed as a private in the Seventh Hus¬
sars,under his own name of Archinard.
Gaining rapid promotion he was soon
sent to the Cavalry School at Saumar,
from whence he graduated in 1880,
only ten years ago, as a sub-lieutenant
of calvary.
He wa9 then sent to Tunis, and
fought through the campaign of 1882>
and the following year 6aw him com¬
manding a battalion in Tonquin. In
1887 he was sent to Senegal as a major
in the famous regiment of Spahis Sen-
egalais, which he commanded, as lieu¬
tenant colonel, in his late successful
campaign in Dahomey. Although a
pure-blooded Arab, with a thorough
French military education, Colonel
Archinard, it is whispered in promi¬
nent Parisian military circles, is next
on the list for promotion to tho covet¬
ed rank of general of a division of tho
French army.—[New Y r ork Star.
Vegetable Immigrants.
Naturalists familiar with the habits
of the English sparrow seem to doubt
the possibility of preventing its enor¬
mous increase at the expense of our
indigenous birds, and a similar result
may follow the introduction of a tree
which in the course of the last twenty
years has effected at least a thousand¬
fold extension of its North American
habitat. It is the ailantus tree, im¬
ported originally from the Moluccas,
but ll0W found 1,1 a,most ever F shel ‘
tered rivcr ' vaIIe v from rittsbui » lo
-
Southern Alabama - Its fecundity and
ra P idit v of growth exceed that of the
-
Canada thistle *
In less than five years a small plan-
tatioa of the vegetable colonists will
cover a dozen square miles of river-
bottoms with their pale green sprouts,
and in five years more any one of
those sprouts is capable, upon the
slightest encouragement, to develop
into a tall and really beautiful tree.
None of our native arboreal plants
seem capable of competing with the
vegetative energy of the hardy strau-
ger, which prospers in the poorest cal-
soils, and t0 . .
carCOUS app eals OUr
well Southern China ,
a]lv iu a
-jj 01 .^j iern Ohio. Along th° lUC
Canal, north and east f Cin-
c -, nna ti it has superseded sumac-s a^^ ^
>
. y jp oW? - near Huntsville, - l ,
are smothering ' ,ot 1 ee j 3
, forest trees, and within e
five cvcu years to tbc it ro has cky extended uplam ■» H.con^s
Carolina.—[New 01 y 0 i ce .
Wild Camels in California.
As proof that the camels brought to
Arizona a number of years ago are
not extinct and are breeding rapidly,
the following from the Yuma (Cal.)
Sentinel is rcprcnluced: A large band
of camels, numbering 35 , were seen
within a few’ miles of Harrisburg last
week. Jim Doten caught one with a
lariat, and after bringing it into tho
camp was forced to shoot it, a9 all the
horses around became badly fright-
ened at the sight of the ungainly beast.
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
ACITAL COST OF FEKDIXO COWS,
A cow may be well fed for fifteen
cents a day, and in some cases for
twelve cents. Winter feeding will
cost considerably more, counting the
market value of the feed—fifteen
pounds of hay and six pounds of meal
is as little as a cow* in milk should be
fed, and this may be w’orth twenty-
one cents. For winter dairying only
the best cows should be kept and but¬
ter of the best quality only made,other¬
wise the food of tho cows will not be
paid for.—[New York Tribune.
BENEFIT OF ROLLING THE SOIL.
Here is a reason for using the roller.
It has been found that a rolled soil,
when the temperature of the air is
seventy-five degrees, is eighty-four de¬
grees at the depth of one and a half
iuches, during the warmest part of the
day, while the temperature of the
same soil unrolled is only eighty de¬
grees. Three inches below the surface
the rolled soil is five inches warmer
than the unrolled. After cooling over
night the roiled soil is one degree
the warmer.—[New York Witness.
DISCOURAGEMENTS IN KEEPING POULTRY.
A man starting into business for
himself knows there is a great deal of
hard labor before him. Naturally he
finds many discouragements. Perse-
veran e will win, however. There is
no royal road to success in keeping
poultry. Fowls are liable to become
sick, lay soft shelled cgs, or not lay at
all. Young chicks may die of gapes
or soms other ailment; rats, minks
and other rodents may kill them.
These are all common stumbling
blocks to success. The farmer cannot
expect more tban he does when his
crops fail.
No class of people are so favorably
situated for raising poultry as farm¬
ers. AVith plenty of room and grain,
certainly two essential advantages are
theirs. Do not blame the hens for
lack of success. Determine to over¬
come the difficulty, and the next ef¬
fort will be a success. Never ask a
farmer, of the far too common kind
that keep no accounts, whether his
hens pay, for he will tell you he does
not know.—[American Agriculturist.
SALT WATER IN TJflE STABLE.
A most excellent preventive of gall
is to bathe the shoulders each evening
with strong salt water, commencing
six weeks before active spring work
begins, and continuing the bathing
during the summer. An English
veterinary surgeon, who has tested
the above for ten years, says: “In the
stable I keep a small fruit can, in
which 1 throw a small handful of salt
and then add the necessary water.
This is stirrod until tho salt is dis¬
solved, and the solution is applied to
the shoulder with a doth tied around
the cud of a corn-cob.
The roughness of the cob holds the
cloth well in place. Using this avoids
getting the salt water on the hands—
an agreeable precaution, especially if
the skin on your hands is broken.
When the horses are at work T wash
their shoulders clean with clear wafer
as soon as the harness is removed in
the evening, and then apply the salt
water. It cools and cases the should¬
ers, and the horses like it. — [Chicago
Times.
CURING CLOVER.
Carelessness or lack of judgement
will cause damage and loss in what we
call good hay weather, as well as when
the weather is showery. For example:
We are now having intense heat, mcr-
cury ranging high up in the nineties
in tho 6hade and 110 degrees or more
in the sun, and during this weather 1
have seen, on neighboring farms,
clover cut down and left all day with¬
out stirring, with the natural result
that it burned until the leaves would
crumble like snuff. To make good
olover hay it should be turned when
partly dry and put up in small cocks
to stand till near noon the next day.
Then open and air and sun two
hours (say from 11 till 1 o’clock),then
turn, aud in half an hour begin putting
in the barn. Clover will care in hot
weather in one day so as to feel per¬
fectly dry to the hand, but if put in
bulk, the next morning it will be very
damp, and if stored in the bam in this
condition it is sure to become musty-
But if it stands in the cock aud gets
damp, and then is spread and sunned
till dry, it will keep perfectly. I can
cure timothy so as to get it safely iu
the day it is cut, but have never cured
clover satisfactorily without cocking
and a second drying.— [New York
Tribune.
THE CHERRY TREES.
Until recently, cherries were th(V
easiest fruits to propagate, but now
they are the most difficult in many
sections. This is all due to what they
call the “spotting’’ disease, which be-^
gins on the leaves, and extends until
the whole tree is stripped of all foli¬
age. The shoots around the trees be¬
come weak and spindling, and the life
of once fine, hardy trees seems to have
been sapped out of them. This dis¬
ease is still restricted to certain sec¬
tions; but so far no remedy has been
suggested that proves effective.
Even potash around the trees does
not appear to stimulate the trees to
better growth and production. The
black-knots have made their appear¬
ance upon the cherry trees again this
season, and threaten to kill hundreds
of fine trees. This disease has been
mostly restricted to the choice va¬
rieties, but the malady now infecting
the dessert cherries is of a much more
disastrous character. After growing
well for a few years the trees begin
to die, and no remedy seems to be able
to save them.
Frequently the bark splits, disclos¬
ing the wood below, and occasionally
the woody fibre is destroyed. The
foliage is only half developed, turns
yellow and falls oft'. One twig after
another turns black until the tree be¬
comes useless. The proper treatment
for this is still unknown, but washing
and spraying with a solution of pot¬
ash and lime frequently lessens the
amount of damage.—TNcw Yor'x
Voice.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Needed—more tillage on less acrea.
A weak harness often causes acci¬
dents.
Better thin the fruit than prop the
tree.
Look well to the pullet crop about
now.
Hogs require a large amount of
drink.
Use plaster freely in the horse-
stable.
Good pastures increase milk and
butter.
Using an inferior sire is breedihjs
downward.
The shortest road to long prices Is to
have the best articles to sell.
Do to your animals as you would be
done by if you were an animal.
An acre of clover is estimated to
make about COO pounds of pork.
Put coarse manure where you want a
mulch and fine where you want it to
speedily mingle with and enrich the
soil.
If perspiration stops when you are
working in the sun and your head
feels bad get into the shade and avoid
sunstroke.
AVhen a limb is grafted keep it clear
of all sprouts of the parent stock,
which absorb vitality that ought to go
to the graft.
A Clock Stopped By Sparrows.
The Sarnia town clock stopped at
4.30 one morning recently, and Mr.
AVilliams, on going to ascertain tho
cause, found that the hands had been
securely tied down by strands of twine
aud grass. The mischief had been
done by a pair of Engish sparrows,
who had selected the angle formed by
the hands as a site for a nest. The
movements of the hands interfered
with thoir plans, and the birds put
their wlCs to work to devise a remedy
that would secure the stability of the
nest. Their first scheme was to wind
the shaft on which the hands are
pivoted round aud round with grass
and cords.
That failing, they tied the hands to
each other and to the framework in
such a manner that it took consider¬
able time and a great deal of labor on
Mr. Williams’ part to remove tho ob¬
structions. The engineering skill dis¬
played by the birds in accomplishing
their object showed that they possessed
reasoning powers of no mean order,
besides an amount of industry and
perseverance in gathering the material
within the few hours at their disposal
that is almost incredible.—[Sarnia
(Ont.) Observer.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
The light seen through the new eye¬
piece of the Lick telescope in Califor¬
nia, is 2000 times as bright as that
6cen by the unaided eye. ,
A French engineer proposes to tun-
ncl the Straits of Dover, in part; at
either end he would erect bridges.
The English scheme is to bridge the
whole distance.
A new launch propelled by an elec¬
tric motor has developed a speed of
nine and a half knots. The trial trip,
which was in San Francisco Bay, was
a marked success.
An attempt to get some idea of tho
area over which a llash of lightning is
visible is to bo made, according to an
announcement to the Berlin Meteoro-
logical Society by means of simulta¬
neous photographs taken at widely
separated stations.
A new element, named “damaria,”
is said to have been discovered in the
crater of an extinct volcano in Damara-
land. It is reported to have an atomic
weight of only 0.5, or half that of
hydrogen; and, therefore, it is tho
lightest known substance.
Tho long distance telephone is mak¬
ing its way very rapidly everywhere
in Europe. London and Pa: is are
Shortly to be united by telephone, and
Prague and Buda-Pcsth are already
united. Brussels and Paris have long
been in telephonic correspondence.
Automatic pumps for use in houses
are now operated by the same electric
current that lights the lamps. By an
ingenious device the current is shut ofl
and the pump stops as soon as the tank
is full, and the machinery is started
again automatically when the water iu
the tank falls.
t < The kola nut, of which a good deal
has been said lately,” writes the Lon¬
don correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, “is rapidly increasing in
favor as an indispensable adjunct to a
traveller's kit. The French Alpine
Club have just adopted It as a stimu¬
lant and nutrient in their mountain¬
climbing expeditions. ”
The influence of tho electric arc on
vegetation is said to have been strik¬
ingly shown in Berlin in the spring of
this year. On some large lime trees
the branches under the electric light
displayed new leaves of considerable
size, while the buds on opposito
branches, where the light does not
strike, were only just beginning to do*
velop.
A Russian Superstition.
And old superstition, with specially
Russian characteristics, has of late
been manifested in Klisbcva, a village
in the government of Moscow. At
the beginning of June two peasants
dug up a spring of water in that place.
An old woman dreamed that the newly
discovered spring possessed curative
properties and she told her dream to
the laborers of a factory near by.
Thereupon masses of people, mostly
women and children, began flocking
around the healing waters. As the
spring did not yield enough water to
satisfy them all a fence was buil
around it and a cross was erected on
the spot. Several peasants of the vil¬
lage stand inside of the fence aud deal
out the water in bottles to the appli¬
cants, each of whom deposits a coin
at the foot of the cross.
The money is collected by the older
of the village every morning ami kept
“for communal purposes.” At the
foot of the cross there stands a bottle
with two dead frogs in it, who had
come to their untimely end in a pecu-
liar manner. Before the concourse of
sick persons around the spring was.
great, some of the peasants caught,
two perfectly healthy women,
them that they were dangerously ill,
and, pinning them to the ground,
made thorn drink the healing waters
until they fainted.
When the poor women were picked
up from the ground the two frogs
were found in their garments, and
were declared to he devils driven out
by the virtue of the holy water. They
are now exhibited in the bottle as a
sign of the wondrous properties of
the spring. The rush of people to
that place is so great now that the
authorities have great difficulty keep-
ng them in order. An attempt on the
part of the authorities to cover up the
spring was met with loud protests by
the villagers and the duped masses
around the place, and had, therefore,
to be abandoned.—f?iew York Sun.