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CASTOR BEANS.
Wm. PARKER, Psonurron.
J. M. FREEMAN, Editor.
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Preparing tbe Ground and Planting
-Harvest Scenes—Popping the
Beane — Pressing Oat the
Oil—Using the Refose.
in Southern Illinois the castor bean
acreage is over 20.000, Jefferson and
Franklin counties having perhaps the
largest amount of territory used in rain*
ing the article. A Chicago Tribune cor
respondent, writing from Centralis, says:
A soil that will answer for wheat or
corn will suffice for the castor bean.
Wet, heavy soils cannot be utilized. The
sandy loam is always preferable. Soil
sandv loam is always preferable. Sou
for the planting of beans should be pre
pared about the same as for corn oi
wheat. The ground is laid off in rows
six feet apart, the seventh row beinj
omitted to allow a vehicle to
ie seeds are put into very warm
water and allowed to remain twenty-fonr
Unless this is done they do not germinate
properly and are a long time showing
themselves above the ground. Some
people take the precaution to put tev-
eral unsosked seeds into a hill for fear
the cut worms raav take the first to
sprout, and the other will eventually
take their place. Planting eight seeds
to a hill a bushel will plant fifteen to
twenty acres, and the planting should be
done after frost time, as frost quickly
destroys the plant. The cultivation of
the growing crop is about the sime as
corn, the weeds oelng destroyed and tho
earth kept oprn and mellow. When tho
Clinch—First Mondays in March and
October.
Appling—Second Mondays in March
and October.
Wayne—Third Mondays in March and
October.
Pierce—Fourth Mondays in March and
October.
Ware—First Mondays in April and
November.
Coffee—Tuesday after second Monday
In April and November.
Chariton—Tuesday after third Monday
in April and November.
Camden—Fourth Mondays In April
end November.
Glynn—Beginning on the first Mon-
days in May and December, and to con
tinue for two weeks, or as long as tho
business may require.
A curious mistake has been made in
Mexico. The people of that country
have mistaken a Frenchman named
Th’cra, who is visiting tho Republic, foi
the lata President of Fiance. The pre*
siding officer of the Mexican Chambei
made him an address and a dinner was
given in his honor.
The carrier pigeon service In Paris is
now most carefully organized, and the
latest census shows that thero are 2,500
trained birds, which can take dispatches
in and out tho capital in the roughest
weather. Some are taught to go to the
neighboring forts and towns, others to
distant parts of the provinces.
Some eighteen months ago an Englisl
fanner successfully amputated one ol
the hind legs of a valuable and well-
bred shorthorn cow, tho object being to
retain tho cow for breeding purposes,
whilo a wooden leg was affixed to the
•tump. The cow is now a mother, and
has a fine bull calf running by hsr side.
General Grant was an excellent
draughtsman, but the only oil painting
ha pot his name to is a fiontier land
scape with Indian figures, which ho gavo
to ex-Secretary Uorie. Mr. Bone 1
nephew, whg 1ms become tho owner of
the picture, hss presented it to Airs.
Grant. It is tho only specimen of her
husband's art work in her possession.
A Georgia paper publishes as truth the
story of a Marion county farmer who bo'
coma satisfied that ho had a tapeworm.
So he carefully baited a little fishhook f
tied a short lino to it, swallowed the
hook, and tied tho line to his button
hole. Then he waited for a bite,
and by he thought he had one and
yanked the line; the hook caught in hit
throat and had to be dug out. lie didn't
catch tho worm.
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Every nation, every city, every town,
every community is just what tho people
make it A live, progressive people will
build up a prosperous town or city where
the natural conditions are even unfavor,
able, whilo a careless, Indolent popula
tion will accomplish little, however
great the natural advantages of their lo
calities may be. An intelligent traveler
can form a correct opinion of tho charac
ter of the. people of a town -by
through it
Queen Victoria has had no less than
thirty-seven grandchildren, and she also
has five great-grandchildren. Her living
grandchildren are thirty-ono in number
—tits Prince and Princess of Wales,
five; Duke and Duthcss of Edinburg,
five; Duka and Doehersof Connaught,
three; Euko and Duchess of Albany,
two; Imperial Prince and Princess of
Germany,.six; Grand Duke and Duchess
of Hesse Darmstadt, five; Prince and
Princess Christian, four; Prince and
Princess Henry of Battsnbcrg, one.
The Prussian army has a watch dog
battalion which is carefully trained for
service. ' These canine soldiers are in
tended primarily te convey intelligence
from the advance posts to the main
army, and are taught to trot to and fro
with small portfolios of dispatches
around their necks. A part of their
duty is to warn the outpo.ts or the ap
proach of enemies daring the night, and
they are also trained to hunt up tho
wounded. Two dogs are attached
each company of chasseurs. Now if
this principle could bo extend -d a Uttle
further and the whole business of set
tling international disputes be delegated
to the dogs, what an advance toward
the millennium we ahould make.
College War Cries.
One of the college papers hss com
piled a list and history of college cheers.
According to it the original shouts of
the collates were a repetition of the
of thec “
college. This gave an ad
vantage to the colleges which had sono
rous names, and as the constant aim of
cheering is to make more noise than the
other cheerers, new yells were evolved
by a process of evolution. These came
into existence a quarter of a century
ago, when Yale ana Harvard had their
boot races on Lake Quinsigamond, when
the ‘Rah ! ‘Rah! ‘Rah ! thrice repeated
was first heard. Harvard sounded the
*Rahs full, and added “Harvard,” pro
nounced so that the ar and a clipped d
were all that were heard. “Yale” waa
added to the New Haven college's *Rahs
with a long howl on the a.
Princeton's cheer was developed eoon
after as the Princeton came into athletic
relations with the other colleges. They
took the three *Kahs for abasia, and ad
ded the skyrocket aiz-boom-ah, which
they hold on toss long as the ninej*\ahs
of their opponents hold
out, and then
number in each hill ia reduced to one or
two. One ttrong, healthy plant will
produce better results thm two in the
sarao hill. When the plant reaches the
height of two feet it is capable of its own
care aod needs no more attention, except
after heavy rains, which make it neces
sary to go through the field with a culti
vator, breaking tho crust which has been
formed. %.
When August comes in the 1 cans be
gin to ripeu. They ure produced in pods
or husks on spikes of various lengths,
and should be gathered as soon as the
pods begin to turn brown to prevent
it the tight affiatus.
Wah-hoo-wah I Diddy, diddy, Dart
mouth 1 Wah-hoo-wah 1 It is very pic-
The
too to the best advantage,
hoo is like a human owl's hoot.
Everybody has heard Colombia's
Hcoray! Hooray I Hooray 1 C o-l-u-m*
b-i-a! The name spells out rythmically.
John Hopkins University at Baltimore
has taken the ground plan of the cheer
and built on it, adding J-o-h-n H-o-p-
k-i-n-s. instead of C-o-l-u-m-b-ia. Ste
vens Institute at Hoboken and Union
College at Schenectady have similar
cheers.
Rutgers has a cheer almost as original
as Dartmouth's. It is ’Rah! ’Rah! ’Rah 1
Bow-wow-wow! Rutgers! Williams has
an entrancing and resonant ’Rah! ’Rah!
'Rah! Will-yams! yams! yams! Penn
sylvania University has a wild Philadel
phia cheer without any special charm.
It is the three 'Rahs and Penn-syl-van-
as be ir.a when ripa pop or burst trom the
pod and fly off quite a distance. They
are gathcicd by cutting off the entire
spike, of which each plant has a num
ber, being produced and ripened in suc
cession until frost. Of coarse none but
the brown pods are cut. These spikes
are then thrown into a wagon or sled
j through the broad rows and
away to the popping-yard, which
is mado on a piece of land near the bean-
field, sloping to the south so as to get as
much benefit from the sun as possible.
There are two ways of making the pop
ping-yards. By some the soa is cut off
and tin ground rol ed down hard and a
fence nude around the yard to keep the
popping buns from getting away. An
other pl.-M^-and that is considered best
ah! The Co'.lege of the City of New
York cheer b tter. They say 'Rah three
times and add C1 C! N1 Y!
Cornell has a cheer that once hoard
cannot be forgotten. It is like the
rhyme of the passcnjairc. It is given
with proper em* hasis only in times of
excitement. Here it is: Cornell 1 Cornell!
Cor-cor-cornell 1 I yell like—— 1 Coi
neUl
A Comanche Chiefs Funeral.
Up on Beaver Creek, in the Nation,
tho other day, old Otter Belt, one of tho
greatest of the Comanche chiefs, suc
cumbed to the grim reaper Death, and it
was all in his honor. Ho knew he was
r oing to die, and just five minutes be-
ore he breathed his last they held him
erect and rigged the old chief in his best
war costume. They painted him as red
as a sunset, set lus war bon:.et on his
head, tic J up his hair in beaver skins,
—is to build a big floor, around which
muslin or canvas to the hight of ten feet
the sun. The spikes are placed on the
l'oor, the action of the sun makes them
pop, and they are ke^t turned and
stirred up until the beans have all left
the husks. Tho tome process is gone
through with until the entire crop has
thus been shelled. Care must be taken
not to allow the leans to get wet,
ruins them. Tho mass of husks and
beans, alter the popping process is over,
is put into a funning mill and cleaned,
when the beans are ready for the mar
ket. Board floors are best because they
prevent the mixing in of small stones
and bits of earth, which cannot be taken
out with the fanning mill. The floors
are generally painted black, the idea be
ing that black draws the sun. After the
inclined toward the doctrines of Brig
ham Young, only he contented himself
with a less number of wives—in fact,
limited himself to five. The way these
squaws took on when the chief was no
more was a sight never to be forgotten.
Taking sharp batcher knives, they
slashed their faces with long, deep cuts,
till they were cover d with blood. Thev
also cut themselves in other places, and
then beat their bleeding bodiei and
pulled their hair, and all the while ut
tering the most doleful and plaintive
cries. They then burned everything
they had, the ; r two tepees, furniture,
clothing, and all—even the biggest part
over abont twice a week until frost.
which so many Southern
are so prolific, some having as many aa
twenty three in a family. Three brothers
down here have between them seventy-
two children, who have probably gath
ered enough beans in a clay to furnish
physic for the earth.
The yield depends much upon the at
tention the plants have received from
the cultivator, upon the season, and
upon the care exercised in ripening and
Bering. From fifteen to twenty-five
ihels to the acre is the average. It ia
claimed that fanners do well in raising
this crop, as it is more remunerative
than many others. It is not a difficult
crop to get to market, and can be taken
by team or sent by river or railroad.
big crowd of bucks pi
quies, of course, and, as is the Indian
fashion, they slew ten head of horses in
honor of Otter Belt's memory. Among
the horses they killed was a favorite
team of Mr. Press Addington, on whose
ranch Otter Belt resided. Press won’t
like it when ho bears that the trotter*
are dead, but when Indians need horses
fora funeral they never stop to inquire
who they belong to.—Fort Worth (Tciaa)
Gazette.
Belleville get beans almost by the train
load, as high as twenty car-loads stand
ing on the tracks at one time. The near
the arrival of which at tho works
are weighed in bulk on wagon scaled
The beans are tested by having a quan
tity put into a testing-machine holding
about a half gallon. A prime bean mnst
weigh forty six pounds, or at least not
less than forty-two pounds to the bushel.
Anything under forty-two down to
thirty-eight is called a No. 2 bean. The
beans having been tested as to their
weight as they come in, the quantity so
tested is put into a sieve and all the re
fuse taken out and put back in the tester,
which gives the percentage of refose in
100 pounds, from the number of
ducted.
centage of refuse is
average is 4 per cent.
The castor bean is bought according
to the rules of the St. Louis Exchange.
comes in, a small sack is .
beans from all the cats and sent to the
inspector at St Louis. He makes a
report, giving the percentage of refuse,
and on the basis of this inspection the
entire cargo is taken and paid for at the
contract price if contracted for. and at
the ruling prim at the exchange if other
wise. The beans are then honied in
wagons having immense boxes which
hold 100 bushels, and are stored in huge
bins in the factory.
The beans, to make oil, are put
press end the oil pressed out. “
then pnt through a course of
tion. On an average one '
beans makes a gallon of oil.
grades of beans make the
suppose,
entirely for
The higher grades ar
tin cans; the lubria
up mostly in tin
barrels. Hie oil works mam
*,003 barrels a year. The works
ploy sixteen hands and sell their
all over the United States, cos
their sales to wholeulo houses in
titles not less than five-barrel lots,
pomice ct refuse of the castor-fa
mado use of as a fertiliser, great
ties being shipped to Virginia an
States for tins purp se. It
brings 6? snd $9 a ton on the
Belleville. The same works
ae works manufac
ture hair-oil out of hickory-ants. The
oil is also used for burning In lamps, and
it is said that it will not smoke. It is
a’so claimed to be an excellent article
for cooking puiposes.
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A gentleman residing In Ceylon wished
to make a present to a maiden aunt of
his,living in I*ondon, and he could think
of nothing so suitable and likely to be a
source of amusement to her as a mina—
a small bird corresponding in appearai
and size to un English blackbird and
rivaling the parrot in powers of imita
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species fresh trom the forest, he set a
watch upon his own tonguo, avoiding all
slang, and being very careful in resnect
of grammar. Then, taking the bird on
board a vessel about to sail for England,
ise that if the bird was delivered
hands of the lady with its vocabulary
undefiled, a bonus of 10s. would be forth
coming, whereupon the cook promised
to take all paisible care of the bird—to
nourish him and watch over his morals.
On the voyage the mina exercised a
marked influe ace for good over one part,
at least, of the vessel, and the cook's
caddy was a perfect hall of propriety*
in dne cc-urso he received his 10s.
tleman in Ceylon received a letter from
his aunt. Shu thanked him for lus gift,
but said she had been obliged to part
with the mina—not however, on account
of the expressions he made use of, for
his language arts correctness itself, but
tive cries of “Steward!” with marvelous,
never-ceasing imitations of the distress-
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Hong Kong Press.
“It Was the Rattlesnake!”
The ruling humor of the Western
miner never dies out. The hardihood
of the man extinds to that xauch dreaded
, deith; and when ha finds it
takes it bravely and
; one of the beat ex-
, at tho serious moment
is a legend of a mining camp A party
of the man extinds tc
of prospector*, came on the body of
man in an out-of-the-way place. They
did not recognir * * **
ize him. He was
1 not been shot, he had
by a blow, he had not
r a wild animal. He had
precipice. He did not
ration had killed him.
were speculating on the cause of
, when they saw a scrap of paper
d to his clothes. They took it off
ilty they deciphered
rattlesnake. I tiled to
the taiL”—<&a Francisco
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