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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1890)
CORN HUSKING. The Wonderful Feat of a Long Island Farm Hand. Husks 1 OO Bushels of Corn He Seven Hours. in Less Than , There was a rustling in the corn stacks in John Duryea’s corn field in Union chic, near Hempstead, Long Isl and, one day recently, says the New York bun. Mr. Duryea asserts if his in an U John H. Macy, can’t do anything t Some time cl90 can husk corn. ago be backed him for $100 to husk 100 budiels of corn in seven hours, the man to take the corn as it stood stacked in the field. Ho wa3 to pull down the stacks himself and tie and set up the empty sheaves, The bet was taken up by a number of persons who considered the task aa impossibility. Macy’ s own confidence in his ability was only lim ited by the extent of his pile, as a number of the farm hands in that vicin ity can now testify to their sorrow. The match was to have taken place some time ago but was postponed on account of the weather. Tho sun rose bright and warm on the morningofthe match. A big crowd soon gathered about Mr. Duryea’s burn in Uniondale. They spent their spare time admiring Mr. Duryea’s famous horses that have taken the first premium every year at the Queens county fair and looking at the stacks of corn in an ad joining three-acre field. Niue o’clock was the hour set for the husking to be gin. Edgar Duryea was timer and Uncle David Fowler was judge. Uncle David is more thaa 80 years old. He has husked many a bushel of corn in his life, and witnessed many a husk ing match, but he now says he never saw so good a man as Macy. Macy is tall, big boned, and about 35 years old, with a big blonde moustache. He looked like business, in a slouch hat and flannel shirt and with his overalls tucked in his boots. He was equipped with an iron husking peg of his own invention. It was sharp ou both sides, and had a slight bend in the blade near the handle. The corn stood just as it w\as stacked tip after cutting. There were 56 hills in each stack, aud between two and one-quarter aud two and one-half bushels of ears to the stack, At the word Macy attacked the stack that stood nearest him in the three-acre lot. b ith one stroke of his busker he ripped the bauds that bound the stack. Then ho pulled the corn down, aud getting ou his knees began to make the cars He made only three movements in husking an ear. He caught the ear with his left hand near the middle, ^ilh his right hand he drove the busker in through the middle of the b’^k, ripping it loose from the ear. A twist of his hauds and the naked ear went spinning in the air. As soon as got an armful of stalks he bound uufi stood them up in a jiffy. He Ic.t a white and yellow wake of corn behind him. At first lb. Duryea put only one man to pick up after tho busker. Macy soon left him so far behind that Mr. Duryea put another man to help him. It made fbeir backs ache to keep up with Macy. Unde David said he thought Mac/ touij husk corn almost as fast as a nail machine could turn out nails. Macy busked the first eight stacks in 58 minifies. They contained 19£ bushels. 'Free hours, one minute aud 49 sec ond-, h 0 husked 24 stacks, making 55J bushels. At the eud of six hours, 29 nbnutos and 54 seconds he had husked ^ stacks, making 102 bushels. This S“ v <! him the match, with a two-bushel ■ gin, aud 30 minutes six seconds to l pare. *bis, it is thought, beats the record of tlm world in husking It is corn. he c °uld have finished the 100 'ushcls ten minutes sooner if he had U;c ^. When ho got through 8{ ack done every was up neat aud strong, and oot an ear of corn remained Lalk on any he had gone over. Three single a c f n 1()a ds and one double load of wa^ou corn were hauled off the field. Macy was apparently as fresh at the end as ,! '' hands a ” at ^ ;e s Grt. The only mark on “» was where he got scratched ■Making down the last stack. He challenges ^ates any person in the United to husk corn. Ho says ho is " -ng to put from that he up $100 to $530 Cl *a husk au oar of com every ^ond be 800 for fi Vo minutes. This would <- trs in all. The corn he hud od SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. is known as Duryea’s Favorite. It is a com that Mr. Duryea has been ex pc e. - menting with for sixteen years. It husks the same as ordinary corn. How Monkeys are Captured. Most all monkeys which one sees in the United States come from Gjrgona, a little village whicli is situated a short distance from the Panama Railroad. The inhabiiants of this district arc mostly native negroes, for no white man could bear the climate without drinking plenty of whiskey and almost continually swallowing quinine. The whole region is marshy and covered with extremely profuse tropical vegeta tion. At night there arises a thick vapor laden with fevpr, which hungs over the woods like a cloud. T.iis region of wood is the prairie of the monkeys. They travel in troops around the woods, led by an older monkey. When the people receive the information that the “traveling monkey troops” are near the village, they repair to the woods in crowds in chase of them. Their plan is very simple. They cut a hole in a cocoanut large enough for a monkey’s paw. The nut is then hollowed out and a piece of sugar is placed in it. A piece of string is then fastened to it, and it is placed in the road of the approaching monkeys. It is known monkeys are very inquisitive animals. Soon enough they see the “lonesome” cocoanut in the grass and hurry to examine it thoroughly, It is a cutious sight to see how they climb from the trees, chattering, to take a good view of the concern. It does not take them long to find out that the inner part contains a piece of sugar. One of the boldest and greedi est sticks a paw into the nut to get the sugar and grasps it as tightly as he can. Eut his list is so large that he cannot draw it out of the hole again with the sugar, which he holds fast to, cost what it may. The negroes now pull the string until nut and monkey arrive in the viciuity of their ambuscade. In the meantime the other monkeys wonder what is the matter with their comrade. They hurry to see where he is being pulled to with his paw in the cocoanut. They croud around him, chattering and gest culating to their hearts’ content. Now the great moment has come. The negroes have a large net ready, and they spread it out over the unsuspecting monkeys, and before they know it they are prisoners. They are sold to the em ployes of the Panama Railroad, and reach the North American market through commercial dealers. Where the Birds Summer. Until tho acquis.tion of Alaska by the United States, it was a wonder where certain wild fowl went when they migrated from temperate climes on the approach of summer, as well ns snowbirds and other small species of the feathered tribe. It was afterward found that their habitat in summer was the waters of Alaska, the Yukon river and tho lakes of that hyperborean re gion. A reporter lately interviewed C. J. Green of Norton sound, Alaska, and he confirms the statement of Dali and others. “People wonder where the wild fowl come from,” said he. “They see the sandhill craue, wild goose, hcr on and other fowl every spring and fall pursue their unwearied way, but' like the wind they do not know whence they come or whither they go. Up on Golo vinc bav, on the north shore of Norton sound, is tho breeding place of these fowls. ( i All the birds in creation, seeming ly, go to that country to breed. Geese, ducks, swans, and thousands upon thousands of sandhill cranes are swarm ing there all the time. They lay their eggs in the bluestem grass in the low lands, and if you go up tho river a little way from the bay the noise of the wild fowl is almost deafening, Myr iads of robins and swallows are there, as well as millions of magnificent grouse, wearing red combs and feather mocca sins. This grouse turns as white as snow in winter. You can kill dozens of juicy teal ducks or grouse as fat as butter balls in a few moments, The wild fowl and bears live on salmon berries aud huckleberries, with which all tho hills arc literally covercJ.” — The A»tor - ian. Where Beavers Abonml. The greatest numbers of these rodents arc now found in Alaski, which exports 30,000 skins annually. Tho darkest skin3 are considered the most valuable, the prices of such ones ranging from $12 to $14. TONS OF TREASURE - Enormous Wealth Buried With Turkey’s Sultans. Their Tombs Containing Gem.?, Valued at $300,000,000. The Sultan of Turkey wants money and lie has none. He has none and yet he might have pleity. Where hn might find the money without having recourse to English or French capital ists is what I propose to tell you, says a writer in the Pittsburg Dispute). The treasure is to be foun 1 at a few hundred yards from the palace. There is a treasure in Constantinople, the treasure of the ‘‘Thousand and O ie Nights,” Aladdin’s treasure, and the celebrated door that w.ll show you mines of gold and precious stones when you bid it open. What are the Casau bas of Algiers, of the Maroo of Tunis, compared to that of Stamboui? You might just as well compare a broker’s office to the Washington treasury! The immense treasure belongs to the Golden Horn, and Russia knows it well. All Sultans are buried with their treasures and savings in a walled chamber, hence the name of Golden Horn orCornucupia was given to the neighborhood of the a * Mahomet II., on taklnjr . ° possession 1 of Constantinople in the year 1453, in herited all the treasures of the Grecian empire. We all know that he was a saving man, and the wealth locked up in his tomb, according to the Eastern custom, is known to be enormous. Bajazet II. left hardly any fortune, and I think his bones had better be left uu disturbed. Ilis successor, Selim I., made himself famous by the conquest of the Danubian provinces. He left considerable money and precious stones by the bushed. Solimau II. was called the “Magnificent'’ because of bis love for luxury and ol his ex travagaucc. Ho was the Croesus of the sultans. Selim II., Arnurat III., and Mehemet III. were not so fond of treas uring up, and yet were their vaults open, they might find money enough for one month's pay to the whole army. Achrnet I. was a great money-lever,and his tomb, we doubt not, must be well filled. His successor, Mustapha I., reigned only one year, It would not pay to open ar.d search his tomb. Oth man II. was about as poor; and as for Arnurat IV. and Imbrahim, we have some reason to think that their tombs are empty. Mahomet IV., not worth mentioning. But Soliman III. and Achmet II. were the “Lueul lus” of the crescent. Their tomb3 were overfilled with gold and treasures of all kinds. Were all that wealth changed into dollars there would be enough to buy off the largest iron and steel firm in the United States. Achmet III. made immeuse money by' bis wars and treaties with the Venetian republic. He had business abilities, as we all know, and was most successful in all his speculations. Ilis wailed chamber must be nice and full. Mahmoud I. well deserved his reputa tion as a greedy sultan. He ruled for about twenty-four years, which seems incredible; that glorious “Commander of the Faithful” treasured up with care even to his last day. Indian caravans brought him diamonds from Hyderabad. They said that Mahmoud I. had in crusted on his cimeter Zuphalgar, the famous diamond that Emperor Baber fouud at Agra in 1526; that diamond weighs 672 carats. Pitt’s diamond weighs only 137 carats. Judge then of the value of that of Agra! And it has been locked up with Zuphalgar ever since 1753! Is it not about time to extract thorn untold treasures from the tombs? Othiuan III. was a most sober and a very quiet young man. His sole ambition was to have his tomb well filled. If we break open tho door of his vault we are pretty suro to find another Croesus’ wealth. Mahmoud II., the reformer, arrived in 1808. He enjoyed a long reign, but his reign cost him dear. He had to keep up large armies and fleets; ho fought many a battle, and his life to tho last was a busy one. 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