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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1894)
MOST USEFUL TREE. Ttie Tropical Cocoanut Enjoys That Distinction, It Furnishes Food, Shelter and Work to Thousands. The cocoanut grows only near the shore, where its roots penetrating the sandy soil may drink freely from clear underground springs. Of all trees it ^regarded by Garden and Forest as the most useful to man, furnishing food, shelter and employment to hun dreds of thousands of the human race. In tropical countries, especially iu Southern India and in Malaya, the cocoanut supplies two whole com munities with the chief necessi* ties of life. Every part is useful; the roots are considered a remedy against fevers; from the trunk houses, boats and furniture are made; the leaves furnish the thatch for houses and the material from which baskets, hats, mats and innumerable other ar ticles are made ; the network of fibers at their base is used for sieves and is -woven into cloth; from the young flower stalks a palm wine, called toddy, is obtained, from which arrak, a fiery alchoholic drink, is distilled, The value of the fruit is well kuown. From the husk, which is called coir, commer cially, cordage bedding, mats, brushes and other articles are manufac tured. In the tropics, lamps, drinking vessels and spoons are made from the hard shells. The albu men of the seed contains large quan tities of oil, used in the east for cook ing and in illuminating; in Europe and the United States it is often made into soap and candles, yielding, after the oil is extracted, a refuse valuable as food for cattle or as a fertilizer. In some parts of the tropics the ker nel of the seeds form the chief food of the inhabitants. The cool, milky fluid which tills the cavity of the fruit when the nut is young, affords an agreeable beverage, and the albumen of the young nut, which is soft and jelly-like, is nutritious and of a deli cate flavor. As might l»e expected in the case of a plant of such value, it is often care fully and extensively cultivated in many countries, and numerous vari eties, differing in the size, shape and quality of the fruit, are now known. The cocoanut is propagated by seeds ; the nuts are sown in nursery beds, and at the end of six or eight months the seedlings are large enough to plant. The plants are usually set twenty-live feet apart each way in carefully prepared beds filled with rich surface soil. Once established, a plantation of coeoamits requires little care beyond watering, which is necessary in its early years to insure a rapid and vigorous growth. In good soil the trees usually begin to flower at the end of five or six years, and may be expected to be in full bearing from eight to twelve years. Thirty nuts from a tree is considered a fair average yield, although individual trees have been known to produce an average of 300 nuts during a period of ten years. An application of manure increases the yield of the trees, al though probably the value of the ad ditional crop obtained in this way is hardly large enough to justify such expenditure. In recent years the cocoanut has been cultivated on a very large scale in British Honduras, Ja maica, and other parts of Central America, aR well as on the northern coast of South America and the West Indies. Cocoanuts bring all the way from $10 to $28 per 1,000, according to quality. Planets Without Water. A volume might be written on the vast and aAvful desolation of the lunar surface; but unquestionably, this tre mendous metamorphosis was wrought when the oceans, whose dry bei"*, we now* designate as mares, retreated to the interior and literally rent the planet with explosions of natural gas and steam.' If we calculate the cooled crust of our earth at fifty miles in thickness, and this is perhaps allowing for more than there really is, then the molten interior at an approximate estimate still has a diameter of 7,900 miles. We can imagine what an effect this would have on the earth’s contour, or rather on the character of its periphery if any of the oceans should in a col ossal way come in direct contact with this internal fire. We can turn our large telescopes to the moon and see on a smaller scale what has occurred, and which, if wo may deduce conclu sions from analogy, will be the ulti mate fate of the earth. Yet, without the w ater there could not be a single form of lift*, for in both vegetable and animal formations this is the all-important vehicle in pro duction and developement. Beyond any question it is to the water that all life forms must primarily refer their origin and there is not a single known form that can maintain life without it. The principle of life cannot be opera tive except it be in organic moisture. Neither brain, nerves nor capillary tubes arc capable of manifesting the Vital principle in a dry condition. Hence a waterless world is necessarily a dead w orld. It is the water that molds the sphere, gives it its contour, is the animating vehicle, sustains its life, and also rends it in the throes of dissolution.—(Pittsburg Dispatch. Ice Shippers Must Have Nerve, “Let her go! Whoop! Whoopee!’ The rest of this ebullition of hilarity emanating from a gentleman who was one of a party of five enjoying the glorious excitement of ice-boating on Lake Pewaukee, was lost in the roai of the blizzard. The aforesaid young man kept {his mouth shut for a few seconds, for the all-sufficient reason of keeping his teeth from being blown down his throat. AVitli three men on the runner on the windward side to hold her down, the boat lay over so that the windward runner was five feet in the air, with the three men clinging to the wire stay like monkeys to a banyan tree. The hardy skipper was holding the tiller with both hands and the weight of his body thrown as much as possi ble to the windward side. The boat was at its highest speed when w ithin fifty yards of the shore, and the thought that flashed like light ning through the minds of those on board was “will he be able to bring her to?” Everything depended upon him, and a glance at him as he sat there with a look of grim determina tion depicted upon his bronzed fea tures was such as to inspire implicit confidence. Had anything broken, a block or stay given way, the party would have been stuck up among the branches of the pine trees that lined the shore. 8he was beautifully brought about, however, within twenty-five feet of the 6liore. The run was a good mile and a half, and it was made in the wonderful time of one minute and 30 seconds.—[Milwaukee Sentinel. He Got His Grindstone. 'Old Captain Irving, who owns an old canal boat which ties at the Water side, has a pretty good story which he can tell nowadays about a grindstone he had on his boat for some time. One morning it was missing. Some one had stolen it. The old Captain had told the story to Missionary Allen about having lost it, and Mr. Allen thought it good illustration to point out the all-seeing power of Providence, which he spoke about at one of his meetings last week. Mr. Allen said that if a man should be walking along by a dock, there being no one in sight, and should see a grindstone lying on an old canal boat and should take it, although there would be no one to see him, God would see him do it. It came to the time when testi monies are given by the converts and a man who sat in one corner of the room rose and said: “I stole that grindstone, but I’ll bring it back.” No one had looked for the culprit •there, but he evidently thought that he had been detected iu the act.— [Stamford, Conn., Advocate. Another Midget. Mercer county has another curiosity in the persbn of Miss Nora Nave. She is a beautiful young lady of 22 sum mers, and in form perfectly symmetri cal. She is only 3 feet 10 inches high and weighs 56 pounds. She has been offered a large salary to join the Tom Thumb troupe, but positively refused to leave her parents and brothers and sisters. —[Louisville Courier-Journal. The English language is said to have more words (350,000) than the German, French, Spanish and Italian languages combined. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. D UR ING hard times con sumers cannot afford to experiment with inferior brands of baking powder. It is NOW that the great strength and purity of the ROYAL make it iridis pensable to those who desire to practise economy in the kitchen. Each spoonful does its perfect work. Its increasing sale bears witness that it is a necessity to the prudent—it goes further. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 1C6 WALL ST., NEW YORK. Ocean and Railroad Freight. Few people realize the extraordina ry difference between ocean tariffs and railroad rates, or what an extent the opening of the Manchester ship canal will reduce the cost of transportation of Manchester from this country. Published rates show that grain is now carried eight thousand miles at the same rate for the entire distance as is charged by the railroads for the hour’s journey between Liverpool and Man chester, while the published rates be tween Liverpool and London are equal to a 14,000-mile tariff at sea y This is not suggesting that the English rates are very much higher than those charge d in this country, for it is a well know fact that the river and rail road rates here differ so greatly that percentage can scarcely be calculated. — St. Louis Republic. CLIP. SAVE MID besdI Kio us] In the first year in which the Aerraotor Co. did galvanizing it expended S^OfK) in this work, and did not furmsn galvan ized goods for the entire year either. No extra charge was made for the goods into which this enormous sum was put Are you curious to kngw why this lavish expenditure wa s made? Are you curious to know’how the Aermotor Co. came to make bed-rock, hard-times prices long before hard times set in? The explanation is this The Aeimotor Co. foresaw that some thing better than painting was required and foresaw that hard * 1 %V A* CO. FORESEES, IT LOOKS AHEAD, IT TIfE F .RMOTOR COMING, IT KNOWS AHTICIV4TK8, IT KNOWS WHAT IS WHAT SHOULD HE (USING, IT KNOWS IN ADVANCE WHAT IT 8110ULI» DO. factory, and turns out Because of this it has an enormous The other an enormous quantity cf goods, and good have goods. been, had he fellow is a used-to-be, has been, or might His bus known, but he didn't know. It is all in the past. mess is in the gone by. Ours is in the present, the future. His consolation rs found in the darkey's si–iement: “Jts bet ter to be a has-been than a. nebber was.” After we have done and are doing a thing and it is known to be the only thing to do, certain little piping \oices are heard saying; “We can do it if you will pay us enough money to do it.” We made the Steel Wifcdiniil business, made the model to which the best of our imitators can only hope to remotely ap proach and in their endeavor to approach it are still weakly ex perimenting at the expense of the user. But to return to our enormous outlay for galvanizing. Why d we do it? The reason is this. WE BUILD THE BEST Yf KNOW, IlFGABH LESS OF COST, and we believe we know better than anybody. We know that thin racial, exposed to the nlr, will not last unless galvanized, but if properly galvanized, will Inst scores of years. * Barbed wire galvanized will last 20 years, and be prac tically^ as good as new. How long does it last painted ? But the barbed wire is an eighth of an inch thick, while seme of the *te«l used in the vanes of windmills is from a thirty second to a sixty-fourth of an inch thick, and therefore would last only from a fourth to an eighth as long as the barbed wire, other things being equal, but they are not equal; the sheet metal has boles punched through it and is riveted to thicker and more rigid pieces. thin parts at cracks the paint The vibration cf the once quickly around the rivets, and water at once gets in and rust eats away the thin parts. Some have used galvanized metal and put in black rivets. This of course is not so good as painting, sinco the cut edge of the galvanized metal is exposed and is in no way protected. WE BUILD FOB THE V aOKS. He wonMn’l »ell you a poor painted wheel, nor one made of metal galvan ized before brine pnt together If yon would pay u<« double price for It. We b a 11 d the be«fc we know, and know- sC'–mBSRw faiff that leally tueh things are pract worth lees, w# e y have nothing Nk V'X–i In do with them. fe.' w li ■ When kW * / r the section^KST Aer-^ of an Wheel is n motor f j all riveted up,com pletcd and cleansed of rust and impuriHes, in it is then immersed _______ tfU melted zinc and aluminum If and left there until it becomes as hot as the metal crevice, is and and until opening every of L’r.flffi ' il ft yfeffll crack, cranny, filled, closed yore and saturated with the molten ever y sort is tip section become metal and the whole 23 pieces composing the soldered and welded together- as one piece, then you have some thing that is strong, enduring and reliable. Jl is keep expensive to do, and sniall doers cannot afford to do it. We 40 tons of tine and aluminum melted from cme year's afford end to another, but we have business enough so that we can to do it. One word about the nature of galvanizing The silvery white coating which fills every pore and covers every portion cf the Aermotor Wheel, Vane and Tower is zinc and aluminum when it is first put on, but which, after standing for a time forms, with the steel, a chemical combination or alloy which cannot be melted and is practically indestructible. The 5th advertisement in this series will tbow a 4-Wheel Steel Truck, weighing 175 lbs., which will carry 2 tons, and of which wo use 500 in the Aermotor Factory. It will be found almost indisponsaVe on any farm or in or.y warehouse. For 2 copies of this advertisement, which is No. 4 in the series, and $3.50 cash, sent in immediately after the appearance of adv. No. 5, we will deliver f.o.b., Chicago, one of these Trucks or forward from branch houses, freight from Chicago added. Where we can. we shall make liberal offers to accept copies of these advertisements in part payment for Windmills. If you have any thought of using a windmill this year write us at once, stating what you will need, whether Furnping or Geared, and if possible we will make you a liberal offer. The Aermotor Co. proposes to distribute ffiOO. CASH, IN PRIZES for the best essays written by the wife. son or daughter of a farmer or user of a windmill, answering the question, “WHY SHOULD 1 USE AN AERMOTOR ?” For conditions of competition and amounts and numbers of prizes send for par ticulars to the Aermotor Co., Chicago, or to its branches, at San Francisco, Kansas City, Lincoln, Neb., Sioux City, Iowa, Min neapolis, Buffalo, or 65 Park Place, New York City. Aermotor *t Pumping and Geared same price, All Steel, all Galvanized-After Corapletion, delivered free on cars at Chicago ami shipped to anyone, anywhere, at the following prices 8 -ft. $ 25 . 12 -ft. $ 50 . 1 6 -ft. SI 25 . cM« 4 SSSS 9 Hookh«‘(|iinf, Business I’rnctlce, Sliort liund. At. Si-iiiI for entnlttKiir. MACLEAN. CTBTlScV WALKER, M’liora. 1 ^——O 1 Si Ine ortlnc Uloorted Pons; eattl.’. send Sheer. tamps Hogs, for catalogues Poultry, — - toil eugraviugs. X. I’. KorKK – Co., Coatesvtlle, t ». || JAPANESE TOOTH KM5 for 10c*. LAPP 1JRI7G CO.. I’m udeiubia. Pa. Peculiarities in Massage. Light friction of a part reduces sur face temperature. In ten experiments on healthy adults, whose armpit tem perature on both sides was equal, and •whose free surface temperature on the surface of both forearms was before massage 88 degrees F. or more, it was found, on subjecting the left forearm to gentle upward friction, that while the temperature in both armpits and in the untouched free surface of the opposite limb remained constant, the temperature of the left forearm fell in all cases more than two degrees and in three cases nearly four degrees. After firm friction, rolling, squeez ing and kneading of the skin of the limb in all cases, the free cutaneous temperature rose to 95 degrees, but the armpit temperature remained the same on both sides, while in seven cises an interesting phenomenon was noticed on the opposite ’side—viz, the right limb sensibly perspired and the free surface temperature of the untouched forearrii fell to 84 degrees during the time that the firm friction of the left limb was in progress. In regard to light friction it has been impossible to j detect any effect on the patient’s sen^e of locality or on the temperature sense. for five After minutes firm friction decided of a part in- j comes a crease of the sense of touch, and the sense of locality has in most instances been apparently improved.— New York Ledger. When He Stopped Payment. The bullying manner sometimes as sumed by certain barristers in cross examination, in order to confuse a wit ness and make his replies to important questions hesitating and contradictory, is notorious, and many are the tales told of “cute” witnesses who have turned the tables on their persecutors. The following relates to a case of this kind: In a civil action on money matters the plaintiff had stated that his finan cial position was alw r aps satisfactory. Ifi cross examination he was asked if he had ever been bankrupt. “No,” was the answer. Next question was: “Now, becare ful; did you ever stop payment?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Ah,” exclaimed the counsel, “1 thought we should get at it at last. When did that happen?” ‘ ‘After I paid all I owed, ” was the answer.-— London Tit-Bits. Some Great Cities. Leaving out London, according to the last census, the following are the 1,801,739; Canton, estimated 1,000,000: Berlin, 1,579,244; Tokio, .Japan, 1,389,244; Vienna, 1,364,548; Phila delphia, 1,142,653; Chicago, 1,099,- 850; St. Petersburg, 1,003,310; Pekin, 1,000,000. A school population taken in Chicago iu 1892 reveals an estimat ed population of 1,400,000 There are cities in China whose estimated population is over 1,000,000, but it is not safe to count them. The city hav ing the largest population under the 1,000,000 figure is Brooklyn, which, according to the state census of 1892, was 957,163. An Esthetic Banquet. First Street Waif—“Got ’nough money ter buy y’rsupper?” Second Street Waif—“Yep.” “So’v I. Let’s go to de t’eater. ” “Wot’ll we do for supper, den?” “There’s most always a meal in ev ery play. We kin watch de actors eat. ’ —Street cl- Smith's Good News. A Law Agr.in.st Hazing. The New York legislature has passed a wholly unnecessary bill making haz ing, whim. results in physical injury, a crime under the statute. Hazing of that character always was a crime, and it could have been punished if the of ticers of the law had attended to their duty. The trouble has been that as saults and other injuries committed by students have been passed by as “college fun.” Outrages that, would have landed ordinary people in state’s prison have been smoothed over be cause the perpetrators were under graduates. The Cornell homicide has at last roused the people of New York to the necessity of enforcing the law against collegians as well as other l>eop]e. But there was no need of a new law to cover the subject. The old laws against assault and battery, may hem and murder are ample if they are enforced without favor. A Sadly Sinful World. Housekeeper—“Was it the hard times that threw you out of work?” Mouldy Mike—“No, mum; it was the wickedness of the people, mum. I used to earn ten dollars a week an’ travellin’ expenses, but the sinful world has lost all interest in t.h’ cause I was a helpin’, mum. ” “What cause?” “The glorious cause of temperance, mum.” “Goodness! Were you a temper ance lecturer?” “No, mum; I was the ‘horrible ex ample!’ ” Jinks—“W ho is that dark, grini^ silent, taciturn, unsocial fellow over there?” Winks— “He’B a socialist!” I>i»astroiis Failure I We can mention no failure more disastrous than tliat of physical energy. It involves the part lative at suspension and of the entails digestive tlie and retirement - assimi processes, liver anil kidneys. Only from business of the through the good offices of Hostetcer'a Stom a"h Bitters can the restoration of its former vigorous status be hoped for. When this aid has been secured, a resumption of activity in the stomach, liver and bowels may be relied upon. The Bitters conquers malaria and kid ney trouble. Everyone can be sure of a heaven if lie does his best to make one on earth. Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia. Debility. Gives Ma laria, Biliousness and General strength, aids Digestion, tones tha no rves— creates appetite. The best tonic tor N*arsing Mothers, weak women and children. Mind-reading is a failure when applied to a dude, for it requires something to work on. “I have been afflicted with an affection , of theria, the Throat and have from used childhood, various caused remedies. by diph- But have never found anything equal to 'Brown's Bronchial Troches.'" — Rev. G. M. F. Hampton , Piketon, Ku. Sold only in boxes. Impaired digestion cured bv Beecham’s Pills. Bee'-ham’s—no others. 25 cams a box. ~7 in 5 'jSfcy % t ? iSf^p V:-. m 0 JMt a w S! ! $ Wh Mr. Walter Bell WONDERFUL GOOD AT SMALL EXPENSE Rheumatism Perfectly Cured. “C. 1. Hood – Co., Lowell, Mass.: “Gentlemen:—I do not know how to express the gratitude that 1 feel towards Hood's Sar* saparil la,which has cured me at very small cost. I Have Not Slept suffering w:tb on my left side for four years; rheumatism with constant severe pains and being completely run down, but now ail is changed and I enjoy good health, i experience sweet refreshing sleep, have a good, appetite, and my memory is much improved. In fact I astonished at the change. I can now perform my daily work with ease. 1 had almost Given Up All Hopes of ever enjoying good health again, but by the persuasive power of a friend I was induced to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla which has s aveu my Hood’s^Cures thanks to life. I am nowin perfect health, Hood’s." Walter Belt.. Galveston, Texas. Attest: John DaBm-Ht.. Galv eston, Texg j; Hood’s Fills act easily, yet prompts aad effi cl cntly, on the liver and bowels. U5 cen _______ Unlike the Dutch Process No Alkalies — OR — Other Chemicals 7 P*l are used in tha preparation of Vi. iUKKK – CO.’S ,,Pt ' f'S reakfastCocoa which, is absolutely n pure and soluble* : i I Htfnqs Mj It has more than three mixed t ime$ \ jj.'-t ff; At the with strength Starch, of Arrowroot Cocoa or ^fflMBW»f*SnKnr, __. 1 f and is far more eco nomical, coat ing less than one cent a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, and easi-v DIGESTED. everywhere. Sold by Grocers W. BAKER – CO., Dorchester, Mass,
