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Tbe Marine Review prints a descrip¬
tion of an eight-track roller-lift bridge
to be erected over the Chicago drain¬
age canal near its junction with the
Chicago River. It provides a clear
waterway for navigation of 120 feet
between the piers, at right angles to
the centre line of the canal. On each
side of the waterway provided for nav¬
igation is placed a main supporting
pier. These piers are each forty-eight
feet wide. They rest on bed rock,
forty-four feet beloiv city datum. The
A School of Farming
It Will Hin\ to Raisa tt\e Standard
of Hgricultural Methods.
w IIEN the promoters of the
School of Practical Agri¬
culture and Horticulture
looked about for a spot
Wherein to establish the institution
various places were suggested, but it
was finally agreed that Briarcliff Man¬
or, one of the most beautiful parts of
Westchester County, N. Y„ would be
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the most suitable. It will be on a pla¬
teau overlooking tbe sixty-six acres
which nave be<* acquired, and also
much of the land and many of the
buildings on the Briarcliff Farms,
which will serve not only as a beauti¬
ful picture, but as :m inspiration for
the students.
The object of the school is “to train
men and women in the methods of hor¬
ticulture, Horticulture, gardening, poul¬
try raising and allied branches, that
they may become proficient in the man-
laid from tbe main line to the farm,
and by means of these"the shipment of
farm products is facilitated. Near the
railroad are tlie neat homes of some
of the farm hands, and a short dis¬
tance beyond these, toward the ridge,
are several largo granaries; further
away, on the main road, is the model
dairy building. Of tile 875 head of
cattle on the place, about 400 are regis¬
tered Jerseys. No other breed is al¬
lowed in the herd.
There are several milking stations,
and from these the milk is taken to the
dairy as soon as the cans are filled.
All known safeguards against impurity
are employed, and no milker is allowed
to milk a cow until he has thoroughly
agement of farms, estates, greenhouses
and gardens, and may be able by thor¬
ough knowledge of the science of the
soil to make the field, through intelli¬
gent and skilful work, bring forth
abundantly of its great wealth of
beauty and usefulness.”
The school will aim to raise the
standard of agricultural methods.
Practical instruction will be given in
the orchard, garden, greenhouse, poul¬
try yard and dairy, and students will
be taught “how to overcome and not
be overcome by the many difficulties
beauty and usefulness.”
Briarcliffe Farms occupy a tract ex¬
tending about four miles north and
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eouth and about three miles east and
west. The railroad tracks have been
washed his hands, and this must be
done again before he begins with the
second cow. The attendants wear
piers aro not solid; In each pier there
are four cavities, which materially re¬
duce the amount of the required con¬
crete and masonry. The bridge con¬
sists of four Independent double track
Scherzcr rolling-lift bridges, placed
side by side, with a clearance of six
inches between the adjacent trusses.
The spans may be operated either
jointly or singly, ns desired, by two
operators, one ou each side of the ca¬
nal. When it is desired to open the
bridge the centre pins are unlocked by
white duck suits while on duty, and
those who are employed as milkers are
not allowed to go near the barns.
When the milk reaches the dairy It is
emptied into a sterilized copper tank
on the ground fio'or.
There is a large butter room on the
second floor of the dairy, which is
finished in white enamelled wood,
marble and glass, and has an Inlaid
marble floor. The milk is forced Into
this room from below by means of
compressed air, and is converted into
butter, which is placed in a large glass
and marble fitted cold storage room.
Near the dairy is the largest of five
barns. This is occupied by 150 regis¬
tered Jersey cows, and although
there are no elaborate decorations in
the place, tbe building has been de¬
signed with the health and comfort of
the cows in view. Over each stall in
a neat frame is the name and pedigree
of the occupant. A salt brick is fast¬
ened to the side of the stall, where
tbe cow may reach it with ease, and a
water trough, Into which the water
runs automatically, is a convenient
fixture. There are no mangers, but the
food is placed on the floor, and the
manager of the barns thinks that the
danger from impurities getting into
the animals’ food is minimized by the
arrangement.
The offices of the farms are only a
short distance from the barn, and in
an opposite direction, on one of the
broad roads which traverse the estate,
is the pretty boarding bouse which has
been erected for the bachelor hands
on the estate. Ou the ground floor of
this building are a reception room, a
large apartment in which the men
meet after work hours *o read, play
games or lounge; a dining room and a
well appointed kitchen.
There are about 400 breeding pigs on
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THE POULTRY HOUSE.
the place, including fine specimens of
Berkshires, Yorkshires and Chester
Whites.
The poultry department has a large
incubator building, with a capacity of
4500 eggs, and a perfectly equipped
brooder bouse. There are about 5000
chickens on the place, and the house
where the little ones are kept, which
now contains about 1000 pretty chicks,
is one of the sights of the place.
In speaking of the objects of tlie
school which will be established near
this model farm, George T. Powell,
the director, said:
“Its purpose is to give a thorough
training in the art of agriculture in all
of Its details. It is proposed to pro¬
duce the finest quality in fruits, vege¬
tables and flowers, and, in addition to
tho production o 4 a high quality, also
to give special instruction in the es¬
sential part, that of marketing them.
“We already have trees growing and
small fruits for the use of students.
Landscape gardening is a feature, as
it may be applied to tlie beautifying of
country homes in an inexpensive man-
means of electrical devices, the spans
are then rolled upward and backward
upon the track girders. The movable
spans are counter weighted so as to be
at rest at an angle of about forty de-
grees. Thls greatly facilitates the
opening of the spans, and also aids In
closing them. The bridge is to be
opened or closed in thirty seconds, by
means of four forty-horse-power elec¬
tric motors on each side of the channel.
The electric motors are controlled by a
controller in an operator’s house.
ner. There is in contemplation a sys¬
tem of branch schools, where instruc¬
tion may be carried to the farmers of
the State. One day will be devoted to
lectures on specific topics and one day
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THE OROGRAPH, AN AUTOMATIC SURVEYOR.
to practical work in the field, where
applications of the principles given
during the first day will be made.”—
New York Tribune.
LIKE A CORN POPPER.
Automatic Collection llafthet la tlie New¬
est Thing For Church Use.
An automatic collection basket is
one of the newest things for church
use, and a trial was made of its merits
upon a fashionable congregation at
New York on a recent Sunday. Ac¬
cording to the New York Evening
Journal the device is remindful of a
corn popper. Iu fact, it might well be
called a "coin 1 popper.’
It has a long handle, hollowed, a
wire box or pocket, with a trap-door
arrangement, marked "AA,” which
opens when the collector pulls on the
ring marked “E,” which connects with
the cord marked “CC,” which runs In
the hollow of a handle, and sets again
when lie loosens the cord. "DD” shows
the depth of the shallow tray at the
top of the basket.
The contribution when taken up, ac-
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AUTOMATIC COLLECTION BASKET,
cording to the inventor of the popper,
remains on the trap door until the col¬
lector has a chance to inspect it before
It is dropped iuto the basket.
■Willie’. Thirst For Knowledge.
It was on a steam railroad going
from Washington to Philadelphia that
I overheard the following conversa¬
tion between a little boy, just at the
interesting age, anxious to know, and
his aunt, whose patience was severely
tested by little Willie’s questions. The
first to attract his attention was a
buzzard flying high in the air.
“Oh, auntie!’’ he exclaimed, “look at
that chicken way up there.”
“That’s no chicken, Willie; that’s a
buzzard.”
“But, auntie. I don’t hear him buzz.”
“Auntie, look at the man pumping
the cow; is she punctured?”
“He is milking the cow, Willie. Do
he still for a while.”
After a short pause, lie spied several
pumpkins in a field and asked:
“Afintie, Is a pumpkin a grown up
orange?”
“Auntie, look at the moon. Where
did all the stars come from?”
“I don’t know, Willie. Don’t ask
so many questions.”
“Did the moon lay ’em, auntie?”
And as darkness drew ou little Wil¬
lie began to nod and auntie gave a
sigh of relief.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Austrian crown jewels contain
a splendid emerald necklace and the
largest single emerald in tho world,
SURVEYING BY MACHINE.
The Orograph, Which Uai Been Adopted
by die Army.
Mention was made some time ago of
the “Orogrnph,” a new Instrument
which 1ms been adopted In the United
States Army, and ’s intended to take
the place of the engineers’ chain and
level In the Important work of making
a profile of any road or stretch of
country over which a surveying or ree-
onnolterlng party Is passing.
This machine is shown in the ac¬
companying cut from the Scientific
American. It consists of two substan¬
tial carriage wheels, one following the
other in a single track, supporting be¬
tween them, and oh one side, a box
of mechanism, and on the other a sort
of cistern. This cistern is twenty-four
inches in diameter and one-half inch
deep. It is placed vertically and con¬
tains mercury. When in operation the
“Orograph” must be held upright and
not allowed to careen to either side.
As stated, the object of the machine
is to draw upon paper an accurate pro¬
file of the ground over which it is
rolled, thus furnishing the army engi-
neers witb all the results of a survey
excepting the '•ourses and general topo¬
graphy. The principles upon which
the machine is constructed are those of
(he perambulator, operating in con-
junction with a lever maintained con¬
tinually Id a horizontal position by
floating upon a cistern of mercury.
This lever is twenty-four inches in
length and one-half of an inch thick,
with floats attached to each end, and
lias free motion in a vertical plane ou
a horizontal axis.
Know Not Whence “Yankee” Came.
At the monthly meeting of the Mary¬
land Historical Society, Dr. William
Hand Brown read an interesting ar¬
ticle on “The Origin of ’Yankee Doo¬
dle.’ ” The doctor’s manuscript con¬
sisted of two letters relative to the
subject in question, which were writ¬
ten to him by Mr. Albert Matthews,
the eminent archaeologist, of Boston.
The letters discussed all the theories
which have been brought forward on
'the subject, treating it very fully in
all the fifteen different solutions which
are suggested, but failed to make any
satisfactory answer to the question,
which, ns he said in the introduction,
had never been solved. The great
stumbling block on which the ques¬
tion generally brought up was the
fact that the word “Yankee” had been
applied primarily only to the New Eng¬
landers and did *ot originate in the
South. Several of the solutions seemed
plausible, as, for instance, the fact
that the Algonquin Indians pronounced
a word “Engree” which they applied
to the English.—Baltimore American.
The “Boxer Organization.”
The “Boxers” are tlie scum of
Chinese population. They have no uni¬
form organization, nor any official
leaders. Formerly they carried broad¬
swords, but now r they have well man¬
aged modern weapons, undoubtedly
supplied by the Imperial family.
Before drilling they throw them¬
selves on the ground, work themselves
into a frenzy, and then believe them¬
selves invulnerable. The Empress
Dowager has fostered an otherwise
unimportant movement because of the
wholesale desertions from her army
under General Tung.
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The Empress Dowager, who becomes
more intensely anti-foreign as time
passes, lias been greatly annoyed by
the work of the Germans iu Kiao-
Chau. She desires to use force.to stop
the reform movement, and is ready to
defy the European powers.
PRINCE CHING
HELPS ALLIES
Chinaman Has Big Army Now
Fighting the Boxers.
COUNTEIMNTURRECTION BEGUN
Powers Hope the Move Will Save
Many Lives and Open Way
For Quelling Uprisings.
A London special Bays: The more
hopeful feeling generated by Satur¬
day’s news from Pekin, was further
strengthened by Rear Admiral Bruce’s
endorsement of the rumors that Prince
Ching, who is said to be heading a
counter revolution at Pekin, is fight¬
ing in behalf of the legations against
the usurper, Prince Tuan.
■If the admiral’s hope tnrns out to
be well founded, this turn of events
is of the utmost importance, as it is
felt here in some such division among
the Chinese themselves lies the best
hope for the safety of the foreigners.
If the powers can find allies in
China itself, it will materially facili¬
tate the task of restoring order, and
those acquainted with the country be¬
lieve that if the diplomats are able to
induce such a man as Li Hung Chang
or Chang Chi Tung to send force 11 to
the assistance of Princo Ching, the
hordes of revolutionists will disperse
as quickly as they have collected, and
a way to Pekin will be opened with¬
out great delay.
With all clue allowance for the un¬
certainty in regard to the reliability,
the authorities here feel that the latest
message from the far east give dis¬
tinct hopes. If, as suggested, the
native sympathizers are able to keep
the besieged legation reasonably sup¬
plied with provisions, the foreign col¬
ony may yet escape destruction.
Bid ALLIED FORCES.
An allied force of nearly 100,000
men will be in China within a few
weeks.
The figures are larger than given
hertofore, but are based on better in¬
formation, which has just reached
here. The allies at Taku and at Tien
Tain now number 18,000 men. The
reinforcements under orders consist
of 19,000 Japanese troops, 15,000
Germans, 13,000 Russians, 11,000
j Americans, 10,000 British, S.000
I French and 3,000 Italians.
It is learned that the several gov¬
ernments desiring an expression of
operations as to the number of men
required to establish order in China
recently asked the admirals at Takn to
make an estimate. The admirals con¬
sulted together and the highest esti¬
mate seems to have been made by the
Japanese officer, who placed the num¬
ber at between 70,000 and 100,000.
The estimates of the British, Russian
and German officers were smaller. As |
to that made by Admiral Kempff, the
authorities decline to speak. But
there is reason to believe that it was
slightly less than the lowest figure of
the Japanese commander.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Many New Industries Established During
The more the important Fast Week. of new indus¬ j
tries reported during the past week in¬
clude brick works in Georgia; a can¬
ning factory in Tennessee; Carolina; a chair chemical fac-j
tory in North
works in Virginia; coal mines iu Ala-
bama and West Virginia; a coffin fac-
tory in Tennessee; cotton mills in
North and South Carolina; cotton
seed oil mills in Louisiana, South
Carolina and Texas; a fertilizer fac-
tory in Tennessee; flouring mills in
Kentucky and Texas; a furniture fac-
tory in Georgia; a grain elevator in
Alabama and three in Texas; a head-
ing miU in Arkansas; an ice factory
m Mississippi; knitting mills in Geor-
giaand Texas; lumber mills in Ken-
tucky, Mississippi and North Caro-
lina; a $100,000 picture frame and
molding factory in West Virginia;
quarries iu Georgia and a rubber man-
ufacturing company ifi Georgia; a shoe j I
factory iu Alabama; a tobacco factory l
in Virginia; a woodworking plant in
North Carolina.—Tradesman (Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn.)
M’KIXLEY WON’T RETURN.
Washington Officials Say tho President
Will Remain at Canton.
It was 'stated at the white house
Wednesday that no word had been re¬
ceived there to tbe effect that Presi¬
dent McKinley would return to Wash¬
ington just now. As far as the officials
at the executive mansion know, there
has been no change in the president s
original plan.
Indorsed Kansas City Platform.
The Democrats of Maine in state
convention at Lewiston, Wednesday,
nominated S. L. Lord, of Sacco, for
governor, and endorsed the Kansas
Oily platform.
FATAL PLAGUE IX LOUISIANA.
Physicians Are Sorely Puzzled and an Ex¬
pert Is Called For.
President Souchou.of the Louisiana
state board of health, has received a
telegram from the parish board of
health of Caldwell parish, that au ex¬
p er t, a quantity of tents disinfectants
nn d 'sanitary inspectors mysterious be sent plague to that
\ • pi„ee | at ouce, as there a which fatal
ia j broken out was
in every instance.
Evidently Harmlesf.
Weary Willy—Go right In! Dere’i
no dangerb
Frayed Fngln—Vo?
Weary Willy—Ov course nof! Didn’t
yer jes’ hear her call de dog “Percy7"’
—Puck.
Jiiiuui Anxious.
Japtfn hits become alarmed over the emi¬
gration of many of her rosideute to thi* coun¬
try. It Is stated that they arc lured here by
This misrepresentation and then turned adrift.
is like the misrepresentation which de¬
lude people into believing that any other
medicine is equal to Hostotter’s StOttUieh Hit¬
ters for stomach disorders. lathe Hitters
lies safety and surety. It. is worth its weight
in gold in all cases of indigestion, constipa¬
tion, dyspepsia, malaria, finer and ague.
Drawing the Line.
•*I suppose you feel sure of your ground la
the I coining <umpalgn?” 1 Senator
* k should say so, answered Sorghum.
“1 think-I may say without boasting that I haver
enough laid by to hole my own without mort¬
gaging any real estate.”—Washington iSiar.
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Take Laxativk Hhomo Quinine Tablsts. AU>
druggists E. W. refund the money if it fails to cure.
Grove's signature is ou each box. sJ5o.
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No Longer Friends.
Tees—You and May used to be very chummy,,
but you don't speak at all now, do you?
Jess—No. Just before Easter we foolishly
agreed that we would candidly criticise each*
other's gowns and bans when wo got them.
Don't drink, too much water when cy¬
cling- Adams’ Pepsin Tutti Frutti is an-
excellent substitute.
internal Kviclence.
“I wish I knew what woman wrote this look.” -
“How do you know that a woman wrote it at
all?”
"Its stylo Is so hideously masculine."
Carter's Ink Is Used by the
greatest railway systems of the United Stales.
They would not use it if it wasn't the best.
Force of Habit.
“How much dal you pay for that horse?" asked
the lee man.
“Seventy-five dollars a front foot,” answered
the real estate rnau.—Indianapolis Press.
Puts am Fadeless Dyes do not spot, streak
or give your goods an unevenly dyed ap¬
pearance. Bold by all druggists.
His Duck.
She—“Two weeks seem such a short vacation.”
He—“That depends on where you spend It,. 1
struck a place where it seemed long.’’-Puck.
Conductor E. I). Loomis, Detroit, Mich.,
says: “The effect of Iiall’s Catarrh Cure is
wonderful.” Write him about it. Sold by
Druggists, 75c.
Piso’s Cure Is the best medicine we ever used
tor all affections of throat and lungs.—W m.
O. Endsley, Vanburen, lud., Feb. 10, 1900.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma¬
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. &>c. a bottle.
Elusive.
Jack—“Well, whatever the summer girl may
be, there Is one thing sh e is not.”
Will—“What’s that?”
Jack—"She Is not contagious.”
Will—“How do you menu?”
Jack—“You can’t catch her.”—Detroit Free
Press.
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record* It Is a record of
cure f of oonstant con¬
quest over obstinate Ills
of WOKiBlif Ills that u83§
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that many women think
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hope .
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SOUTHERN DENTAL COLLEGE.
DENTAL DEPARTMENT
Atlanta College of Fliyolclan* and Surgeon.
Oldest Colleoe in Statu . Fourteenth An¬
nual Session opens Oct. 2: closes April 30th.
Those contemplating tho study of Dentistry
should write lor catalogue. FOSTER, Dean.
Address 8. XV.
0*2-03 Inman Building, Atla ita. G».
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