Georgia Historic Newspapers

    HE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOLUME IX.
i Lis eS wine eighty census to as one comped hundred to That ^he
'“dins as Statistician Dodge, of
to
there are eighty hogs to every
population m , oftneUnited silk-reeling States.
said that if the mi
j 9 fried at Washington
(successfully the it will pockets put $50,000 of farm
; year more iu
United States Commissioner of
Llture The from those
will buy cocoons
[wish to sell them.
“knowledge is power” has re
tat Michigan,
[e s n shown in Upper
- poorly-dressed day-laborer a
Laths ago offered 25 cents a ton
L sfuse and worthless rock heaps
L tke iron mines. It ha3 panned
toe-half good ore, and he has already
L about $5,000,000 from his pur
m months ago the natives of a cct
district in Australia predicted the
D ach of floods, and left their low
■ villages for the higher country,
foods came several weeks later, and
iatives said that their information
sen gathered from the ants, wbidi
milt their nests in the trees, instead
usual, on the ground.
any one wishes to prove to what a
> degree his o wn perceptions depend
his surroundings, let him hold the
r5 of one hand in a barrel of ice wa
md those of the other in a bowl of
as hot as lje can bear it, for say
inute, and then plunge both hands
a third bowl of water at the tem
ure of an ordinary living room,
water will be cold to one hand and
o the other. It is an amusing and
active experiment.
L Brown-Sequard is quoted as saying
lone his,only to. harden the neck and
and destroy their sensitiveness to
[ent i taking cold. This cold is done by
blowing a stream of air, by
Ls of nn elastic bag, upon the neck,
byimmersing the feet in cold water,
air is at first only slightly cool, but
|cli day made colder, until the neck
mod an arctic blast with impunity,
feet are immersed in waterat first at
(mperature of ninety degrees, and
is gradually reduced to thirty-eight
fees.
Iccording to the calculations made by
pntific writer, it requires a prodig
I amount of vegetable matter to form
per of coal, the estimate being that
loukl really take 1,000,000 years to
i a coal bed 100 feet thick. The
[ted States has an area of between
1000, and 400,000 square miles of coal
p, 100,000,000 tons of coal being
led from these fields in one year, or
pgk to run a ring around the earth at
equator five and one-half feet wide
fiveaml one-half thick, the quantity
fg sufficient to supply the whole
fid for a period of 1,500 to 2,000
pc piy nature of the potato has been thor
exposed in an exhibition cele
png the tercentenary of the introduc
| I of of storing, the potato into England. Meth
preserving and using po
p products were shown, and the his
I was exhibited in an historic and
fotiSc collection, including maps
ping Uor.d the European knowledge of the
r 300 years ago, and the prox
pof most potato frequented, growing districts to the
r and illustrations
Nato disease and works on the sub
[ Prosaic The potato was found to be more
r a tuber; it was a subject of
f°ry, totanv and travel.
P° pu!ationof S P ainscarce -
M i0,00 1,0.00, but at the end of
- it exceeded 18,000,000, this being
Amount to an increase of 8 40 per
M inhabitants everv 7' vear' The 6 Jri a = u '
turn! ■
]• ,illation, which was only 3,
■ ®’gkty-five years ago, is now S!,
J 00, and the area under under culti
io n has increased ,L faom 53,000,000 T-t non nnn t to
LT.,o ana res, whi.e ; there
’ ' are now
(V-. 00 head of cattle against just
^ as
■ inat number at the beo-innino-of the
tUr L The industrial fr.r S--^!!L L° 0t .
has ris n ^ > J > dbb to 3,038,
*’ ’ ’
and / tn, number of manufactories,
■ aom 883 to 13,911. The trade of
b«ina 1 twenty-five
R I* rtl cularly
; "7 remarkable, as,
’ ‘ e lm P°rts and exports together
c -nted to onlv £25
h 800 increasing 001 in 13m
• S J e ^6® gradually »d
r ^ ~ 5fl >°00,000. The increase
!. t0 a ‘^ branches of trade, for
gj 'pain now
- produces
1 461 •>v« nun '
as of wine of KL.v. ’
r ® 8 v ' Rb , ° Ut two ‘
»re consnm a m the country
s 'fn-.a-r ’ • ■ and
‘ 1 ' Qe: 18 sported. Her railway
t. which but
4,200 • five years a<>-o did not
4 mii B
jf- es ’ r0t fsr 8hort of
miles.
CONYERS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1887.
SNOW FLOWERS.
1 awoke one winter morning;,
And I found my garden white
With ft host of shining blossoms
That had not been there at night.
All the barren ground was covered
And the naked branches quite.
For the angels in the night time.
Flying softly to and fro.
Bearing to the gates of heaven
Spirits from the earth below,
Had let fall upon my garden
Lovely garlands—flowers of snow.
—Minnie Irving, in New York News.
A DETECTIVE’S STORY.
I was in the active emnlov of Pinker
ton for mauv years and I took mv full
share of risks incident to detective work
but the very first case assigned anv" me had
more pe-il in it than four “snottinL” others
combined I had done some biped
and “shadowing,” and had on
two Or three cases, when I was sent to
Milwaukee to look after an embezzler,
The case was stated in a nutshell. A
Mrs. Pierce, a widow of wealth, and a
woman who trusted-her servants alto
gether too much, received one day from
the East by express a package of money
amounting to $14,000. She had been
in the habit of sending her butler to the
bank to make deposits for her, and now
and then to draw money on her written
order. He had been with her for several
years as a sort of man of all work in the
house, and she had found him strictly
honest. She gave him the money to de
posit without a fear of his being tempted.
He was not seen after he left the house.
He did not goto the hank, and for three
labored or four days Mrs. Pierce and others
under the belief that he had
been robbed and murdered. The hunt for
his dead body was going on when I
reached Milwaukee.
The name of the butler was John
Lane, and he was described to me as a
sandy-haired hundred red-faced sixty man, n eighing
one sandy and pounds, and
wearing a moustache. Ilia habits
were and Mrs, declared to indignantly bj above resented reproach.
Pierce my
suggestion that, he might have run
away, go did the local detectiv c who
had the case -in hand. I held from the
first to the theory that he had run away,
Ho had been told to hurry, l ack. He
could reach the bank in a walk of fifteen
minutes, having only two or three turns
to make. It was at 2 o’clock in the af
ternoon, and he could be in no personal
danger. had No one could be found and who
seen him between the house the
bank, although he was well kno n n. But
the bast clue was found in Lane's room,
There was a handful of sandy hair in a
paper under the lavatory. There was an
other paper spotted withlather, in which
•were enough bristles to make a mows
tache. Be hind an old trunk was a bot
tie which had containc i hair dye.
Mrs. Pierce received the money about
10 o'clock in the forenoon, and she re
marked to J ane that she would have
him deposit it after dinner, ile waited
on the table at noon, and there was no
that change in his and appearance, shaved but between off his
time two he
moustache, cut oil alotof his hair, ap
plied the that dye,-and muffled Mrs. Pierce he remem
bered he was up as went
out, leaving by the side door.
Now came the hardest part of the
work. When you know which way a
criminal is heading it is quite easy to
keep his trail, but when you can’t say
whether he is in New Y T ork or Omaha,
or that he may not be hiding within two
blocks of you, it is quite a different mat
ter. From the servants in the house I
learned that Lane had always declared
he hated the very sight of cities and
towns, and he had no care for fine
clothes and society. He also had a great
horror of the water. This seemed to
argue that he would not head for Europe,
as I at first feared. It was well known
that he had a holy horror of the West,
having read of savage Indians, prairie
fires, grizzly bears', rattlesnakes, would Ac.
That seemed to argue that he not
go West. Would he go North or South?
I was helped out of my dilemma in a
curious way. I had been at every steam
boat office and railroad depot, meeting
with no success, and was standing in
front of the Second National Bank when
a farmer-looking man accosted me with:
- . What do you say about this bill? I
say it’s good and the old woman savs it’s
It was a five he had, and the “eld
woman” sat in a wagon on the opposite
side of the street.
“ Why does she suspect it to be bad?”
I 1 asked ’ as 1 sunre y ed the bll J;
“ Well, it was give to me four or five
days ago by a chap who rode out home
with us, had supper, and then cut across
to the railroad station. I shouldn't have
charged “ him over seventy-five cents queer.” at
the ost? and his liberality seems first words
j I was dead certain from his
’ that I had got track of my man. We
went into the bank to satisfy him that
the bill was all right, and then crossed
i to the wagon. 1 want to tell you that
country people are head 1 and shoulders
above the average city residents in the
matter of observation and in remember
this man,’’said the wife, “was because
his hair was dreadfully haggled and then
dyed. Such botch work you never saw.
His hair was all in streaks of black and
he ' d g ° tthe dyC ^ earS “ d
I The fellow had tried to play smart in
leaving the city by one of the highways, He
but accident had revealed his traii.
-had taken the train at a station about fif
teen miles away, and he had four
the start of me. The first move was
run out to the country station at
he bad taken the train. I there
I that he had made many inquiries 'part
the northern and western of
a
for Fond du Lac. The description of
him was good, and I was about to buy train a
ticket for the snme place and take a
due in half an hour, when the evening in came a boy
who had been there on When
Lane helped bought his ticket. He was and a lad it
who around the station,
was plain that he had a good deal of na¬
tive wit.
“Yes, that chap bought a ticket for
Fond du Lac, but I don’t think be went
there,” replied the lad when I began to
question him. think he did not?”
“What makes you
“Because.” he answered, as he handed
down a folder from the rack, “he was
studying this route, which goes to Port
age city) I think he meant it. to take See how this
folder along, but dropped
he has marked it with could pencil.” Water
So he had. He run up to
town and go through by way of Beaver
Ham. He had marked the time of ar
rival nt the junction and of the arrival
at Portage, and it could not be that he
would take all that trouble to throw any
one off his trail. There wa, no one after
him, - and he could not argue that the
boy would hold the marked folder
against him. I therefore changed my route
to Portage city, and at the junction I
got track of my man. He had no ticket
nignt, L'gh ^and ana "the rue sui^of state oi hihair ms n_ur hjd uau not not
been noticed, but the conductor de
sc !'’ b « d p? ne s ," e ! leral appearance, and
said that he , hadI changed further aA$20 than bill Bea for
hlm - He might go off no there and looked
verDam and I got
aro u ? d a f ew hours. No trace of him
I® ike , ihitS Xo Xing ihcJ T conversation be
tween e ei two young men men became Decame interest
L„^rl “c ,, , . told somebodv »
_ P r ™f “Aecn
*.? s s > and been lauehted laug at ’ ” replied 1
,,
,,T <<y“ d h „ d t thousand dollars?”
donblc “‘s that’’
pi- oountins ” it on thebed?”
le ‘ 3 ,,
'
, .. „
<b„t ' Ll ’wdl h o was lmiL off' earlv in the
mnr W U ’ so 1 S ’ Tom-ere’
me train.
1 he one who had seen some one count
mg money was going west by my train,
and I schemed to get a seat with him and
draw him out. lie was a porter at one
of the hotels m Portage, and he had seen
a guest answering Lane s description
counting such a lot of money that it cov
ered half the bed The porter had made
his the observations door, and, being through ashamed the keyhole of himself, of
had hesitated to go to the landlord. Ihe
J“ an bad arrived without baggage, but
had there purchased a valise,and his ner
vdus manner and the sight of so much
money in his possession had led the por
ter to finally conclude somewhere, that there although was he a
mystery there
had not spoken of it to any one arouud
the house. The man fiad purenasea a
suit of coarse clothes, with hat and shoes
to match and in leaving had taken the
highway leading toward Oshkosh. He
had purchased another bottle of hair dye
in Portage, but had apparently given his
red hair up as a bad job. He not only
left the bottle in his room, but by means
of soap and water washed oil what dye
he had put on at Milwaukee.
Lane had given the landlord to under- ^
stand that he was a hard-working young for
man who had started out to look a
job, but he had departed without fixing
on anything definite. I did not believe
he would go to Oshkosh. He was acting
like a man who reasoned that if he could
hide himself away in the country for a
few weeks his crime and his identity
would both be forgotten. To catch the
embezzler without capturing credit his swag He
would have been no to me.
had several days the start of me, and had
by Ibis time got a job of some sort. I
procured a rough suit of clothes, hired
a horse, and set off on his trail. As he
had gone on foot with a large valise in
his hand it was easy to hear of him along
the road. lie headed toward Oshkosh
for five or six miles, and then turned di
rectly north. It was in the fall of the
year, and the roads were in bad condi
tion, but he made twenty-four miles that
first day, not stopping at all for dinner,
He went to the northeast for six miles,
to the north for ten miles, and then
be turned due west, almost on aline with
La Crosse, and went eight miles before
stopping at an inn. I had only made the
same number of miles on horseback, but
as he had to lie by the next forenoon on
account of the ram, while I had good
weather, I gained halE a day on him. He
jn-oceedcd toward La Crosse wltl^ for farmed ten miles
n and nd LL’cd stayed over over ni nT.fflt a ht with a farmer a
talked about gomgto workin a saw mill.
reached the Wisconsin^ River at aVamlet
called Little Bend. It was on the sixth
day after he left Milwaukee that I lo
cated him, and he had then been at work
in a saw mill for a day and a half. I
entered the hamlet on foot, as he had
done, having a few extra clothes in a
bundle, and it was soon known to the
seventv-five or eighty population that I
was in search of work. The owner of
the only store in the place alsb kept a sa
loon and tavern, and,* under pretense remained cf
bein^ lor footsore and used up. I
idle twe or three days, although the
mill owner was short of hands and de
sired me to go to work at once.
It may be thought strange that I did
not at once arrest I ane and have done
with it. H adIo 7 erha f dh ime “or°* U t e
1 1 f h e
had taken board at the tavern, and dur
hi?room - „ mv first open’ half rHv there I had “oS. found
Mid
There was nothing in it which any one
would want to take away. Ile had, like
„ cKirn h tZSil taken his noffustlT monev out and
planted , it. He rou\A could not justly sMDect suspcti
that I was after him. for after threie or
fnnr £ data I went to work alongside of
and held him a. , di.icc.
gave me an opportunity to ask him ques¬
tions, but I refused to profit by it. I
admitted, for a purpose, that I left Mil¬
waukee four or five days behind him,
and after seeming to reflect for a while,
he asked:
“Was there any special news when
you left?”
“I don’t remember,”
“No murders or robberies?”
“There was a mystery of some sort, I
believe. Somebody drew a lot of money
out of the bank, fell into the hands of
sharpers, and they were looking in the
river and lake for his dead body.”
“H’m!” he coughed, and that ended
our conversation, though I did not fail
to notice the look of gratification wnich
crept over his face. That he had hidden
the treasure was certain. That he would
visit it sooner or later was dead sure. I
watched him closely during the day, and
I saw that he was nervous and preoccu
P^d. I expected he would go out to in
spect his treasure at night, and -ook
m y precautions that he should not es
cape me, but he made no move. He went
““v/henYiT*
day week came t ™as a a hrhrht b]nghit^warm warm
H P /
J™ . Lf lovs^hi There were
thc varf and
after breakfast I went to the mid,climbed
P’ .. ... ■, . ‘ , f u„ vard nnd
’ **'about 10
about q°n in an aimless Enini sort of
wj, 2® u «“ a JL the t “ < time i “t IThL his
^ °P® a ’ a C f d hi in
w e v ne ar a thorn
buth apple Dee, which was the only hauling tree or
in the yard. I had been
lo „ s with tbe cattle to the bank and
dumping them off for the elevator or car
to carry them up the incline into the
mill, and had noticed the big log. It
had been there for years, and was worth
less. Now that I saw Lane in tho vicin
ity I made up my mind that he had hid
den his money close by, and I slipped woods. out
and went for a ramble in the
That night at midnight, without any
thing having happened to create suspi- and
cion on Lane’s part, I dressed myself hunt
crept out of thetavern to make a
for the money. On my way out 1 paused like
at big door) and be wa8 breathing and a
maa f ast aa i eep . I had my revolver
a pa i r of handcuffs ready to take with
me> but missed tbem a fter I got outside.
Ever „ thilJg about wa9 so qu i et that I set
~ thinking to be back with the money
in a few minutes . The big log lay within
twentv feet of tbe bank There was a
ho ,i ow in one cndi but n0 m0 ney. The
otbe r end was solid. I climed over it
and sed around i t) and had just dis
* bo ii which had been the
cove ed a ow
base of a big limb, when I got a blow on
the neck which rolled me over and over
for ten feet j> e f oro j cou i d ge t up
L ane was u pon me. Ho was a good could deal
tbe j arger and 8 t< iu ter man, but he
not b old me still. I could roll under
him, and, while his object seemed to be
t o clutch my throat, I gave him two good
blows in the face and got to my feet,
]sr 0 t a word was spoken by either of us.
stood for a momen rushed t gasping like for
breath, and then he at me an
enraged bull, and we both clinched. He
band [ ed me a ] mos t as if I had been a
boy, and it wasn’t over a minute before
we were on the bank above water twelve
feet deep. There was a thin skim of ice
over it, and the man who went in there
cou ] d not n ve i ong
j n ? a boxing match match I could have
got the better of Lane. In such a clinch
b j s bru fe strength was a terrible advan
f a ge. His object was, of course, to
pitch me into the river, but I hung to
g0 we u f ba t be was baffled. We
-were still struggling on the brink, when
a great slice of the bank gave/vay and
we into the ice-cold water, both
ba ving a firm hold, but I on top. Lane
mU gt have had his mouth open, for he
b egan to strangle at once, and if I ever
worked hard for three minutes it was to
Bave b j rn jj e W as unconscious when
_
got him to the bank and pulled him up,
while I was as good as frozen. By
liberal use of my voice I aroused
or four men, and we got Lane to a hotel,
and worked over him for half an
b efo:e he opened his eyes. Then
tucked him up, gave him a big drink
bo t whiskey, and went out and got
money. He had spent about $40 of it.
Not a word did he reply as I told him
who I was, who he was, and showed
b i ra the money. Not a word did
utter al i the way back to Milwaukee
it was only after Mrs. Pierce had re
f use d to l„„f, prosecute him and he
„ lrn , d that he aull.nl,
‘‘I was just fool enough overhaul to argue
detective living could
—New York Sun.
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»*vid Davis’s Precaution.
Among President Arthur’s papers
there is doubtless a note which he once
received from David Davis which amused
the General very much. It was a brief
and formal letter, but the peculiar thing his
about it was that Mr. Davis signed
name so close to the last line that
nothing could have been written between
the lines. Arthur thought especially it a very un- at
conventional hasty signature, might be looked, as,
a glance, it over
But he learned that Judge Davis always
signed filling his name anything thus to prevent in the customary any one
from in
blank space. It appeared that when he
was a Judge him m Illinois the validity a suit was of note,
before to test a
s^gnatmtas Ws^butlworfhfneLS
mial that some rascal had taken art
vantage .1 of a blank between the termina
tic m a note . U.te, of hand, .nd ,h. which jd-jj™ he go •» f ^
counted. The Judge, who was a very
cautious man, took a hint from this, and
ever afterward signed nis own name so as
to prevent such improper „ i c se . of it .
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HOUSEHOLD HATTERS.
Recipe*.
Winter Squash. —Cut up and take out
the inside; pare the pieces and stew in
little water as possible; cook an hour;
mash, and if watery let stand on tho
fire until dry, stirring to prevent burn¬
ing; season with salt, pepper and but¬
ter.
Mashed Potatoes. —Peel potatoes and
boil, drain and salt; heat a littie cream
with a good sized piece of butter, mash
the potatoes, put in the hot cream and
butter, cream with a fork until foamy;
then press through a sieve with a potato
masher, letting them fall lightly into a
hot dish.
Boiled Onions. —Wash and peel; boil
ten minutes; pour off the water; boil
a second time, drain; pour in more boil
j ngwa ter; add salt and boil an hour or
j onger if not tender then. Then place
in a c0 ] an der, turn a saucer over them,
an( j press firmly to drive off all the water;
f pu j. them into a dish; add butter and
epp0r and serv e.
P^tm PopDiNG.-One pound each of
currants, raisins, suet, chopped fine, and
blwn gu ,, ar one and 0 ne-half pounds whites
grated bread crumbs, ten eggs,
and yolks beaten separately, mix to
G* and theT nutmeg 8 “ et - and let stand over £ SuLn nigm, m
the morning add one and one-half pints
of milk, sugar and eggs; work altogether, firmly, al
put in a floureu cloth, tie it
Wing ™d room boil to three swell, and drop one-half m boiling hours,
Serve with sauce.
Celery Soup -One bead of celery,
one quart of milk one onion sliced, one
tablespoonful each of butter and flour,
one teaspoonful of salt, pepper to taste
Wash and scrape the celery and cut
into inch pieces boil in one pint of
salted water until very soft, boil the
onion in the milk for ten minutes, and
add it to the celery; rub through a fine
strainer and boil again; when boiling
add the butter and flour, which have
been cooked together by melting the the
butter, and when it is boiling stir and in well
flour; and stir till smooth
cooked; add the seasoning, boil
minutes and strain.
German Dumplings.— Mix a quarter
0 f a pint of luke-warm milk oi cream
with a small cup of fresh yeast; add one
ounce 0 f sugar, two well-beaten eggs,
three ounces of partly melted butter and
a pound of sifted flour. Beat the whole
thoroughly until light and spongy, cover
witb a cloth and let it rise by gentle
warmth. Turn out the egg-sized dough on a
fl oure d board; cut off
and p^htly roll them into round balls
ova i s ,° Leave these on the board to in
a „ ain> p u t two ounces of butter a
b r 0ad f’ flat stewpan, with a dessertspoon deep.
f u j 0 8U gar and milk half an inch
|, e t it boil; take up the cakes gently together in
a s p ce and i ay them close
the boiling milk. Cover with a lid and
1)ut Nearly tbem ; n the oven till the milk
dried away and the
have a yellow crust. Takethemcare
f u n v apart, sift susrar over and serve
anT8W eet sauce, fi nit or syrup,
Household Hints,
Be sure tc keep your dish-cloth clean,
a8 some physicians claim diphtheria will
s t ar t from using the''“fishy” greasy dish-cloths,
To take smell from your
® ,. 1 . * .. f rV j nc 0 ; fi ab put soap and
* , sk! ii„ t and le f boil for ten
minutes.
Take two large spools, , nv . . g
nails through them in tnewa a o
inches apart, and hang your room .,
brush end up.
Always remove the contents of tin cans
the moment they are opened. canned Itisposi- goods
tively dangerous to leave
in the open cans. The action o! the air
on the soldering of the cans forms an
oxide which renders the food unfit for
use, cases of poisoning from this cause
being reported from time to time,
Notwithstanding great care, piancs,
and especially uprights, will become
smeared and lack lustre Do not attempt
to use any varnishes or furniture polish,
bu t take lukewarm water, make soap
suds, and wash thoroughly a small space
at a time, either with sponge or soft rag,
quickly rubbing dry with a the larger best rag. for
^ piece of old table-cloth is
this purpose.
To do up sblrt s take two tablespoon- full
fniq 5 of starch and one teaspoon even
dered borax and dissolve iu one
and one q ia jf cups ' of cold water. The
... t f be “ ftS^Voipthe , )r eviouslv starched
collars bosoms and neck-bands in
’ roll tight in dry
the 8 tarch) then up a
cloth and let them lie two hours. Then
rub off and iron. They will be like
pasteboard and have a nice gloss
When tea has been steeped in boiling
water for three minutes over five-sixths
of the valuable constituents are ex¬
tracted. At the end of ten minutes the
leaves are almost entirely exhausted
Prolonged infusion gives no additional
strength to the liquid, but it does cause
the loss, by volatilization, of theflavonng
principles. Hard waters are to be pre
f err ed to soft waters in the tea-pot, as
the hard waters dissolve less of the tan
nin out of the leaves The bearing of
these laboratory results on the art ot
making a good cup of tea is obvious.
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Man and His Shoes.
How much a man is like his shoes!
^ha^^^nSfbo^arTmade tight
An d both are made to go on feet
They both need healing; oftare sold,
WSi
The first shall be the last; and when
The shoeg wear out they're meDded new;
Wben men wea r out they're men dead too!
They both are trod upon and both
Will tread on others, nothing loth.
Both have their ties, and both incline,
when {SfeSA"'’” polished, in the world to shine;
NUMBER 52.
How to Build a Fort
Bessemer, the steel man, in his plan
for seashore fortifications proposes to
make a solid steel enclosure, impenetra¬ be
ble to the heaviest artillery that can
carried and handled on shipboard. This
kind of fort is to be cast in one solid
piece by erecting Bessemer enclosed and furnaces. pouring' on
the ground to be into brick mould of
the molten steel a
the size and shape of the proposed forti¬
fication, instead of casting the plates
and fastening them together as an outer
shield as is now done. The advantages
claimed for this system are a great sav¬
ing in the cost of construction as corn
paied with the present method of armor¬
plating, greater solidity than is obtain¬
able by piece work, and more openings, perfect,
construction of the necessary
these being cast as a part of the Sort
itself. As to the cost, that can be de¬
termined with the utmost acuracy. It
will be exactly the cost of Bessemer
steel, say £3 15s. per ton. The process
is extremely simple “Let us take,” he
says, ‘ ‘as a simple example the produc¬ lOd
tion of a fort with a curved face
feet in length, 1(5 feet high, and 3 feet
in thickness. Such a plate would be
moulded after the manner practised in
ordinary iron foundries, that is, with
brick walls held together with iron
binders and internally lined with fire
clay. Alongside this mould would be
placed the melting cupolas and four fixed
twenty-ton Bessemer converters, each
capable of turning out eighteen charges
per day of twenty-four hours, thus de¬
livering into the mould one ton of mol¬
ten steel per minute At this rate of
working the mould would be filled in
sixteen hours, and produce a single
plate weighing 060 tons, requiring no
backing or superstructure for its sup¬
port, and no expens ve fitting together its
of separate parts, and having all
ports and loopholes formed in the re¬
quired position by the act of casting. ’
To avoid the static pressure in the
mould, tending to burst it at the bottom,
he proposes that the filling shall bo done
slowly, so that the metal will solidify in
the lower part, only leaving a few inches
of fluid at the upper part. He remarks
in conclusion that he has now no pecu¬
niary interest whatever in the manufac¬
ture of Bessemer steel.
A Fraudulent. Puu.
Application was made to the Gover
nor of Iowa for the extradition of John
Stehr from Iowa to Kansas, Stehr
(pronounced Steer) is reported to have
borrowed teams from bis neighbors in
Kansas and taken them to the nearest
town. He would here, i' is charged, and
represent that he owned them
mortgage them to parties for from $100
to $200. He would then drive the
teams back to the owner, keeping the
fraudulent transaction quiet, lie went
one dav to a money-lender in Washing¬
ton County, secured a loan of several
hundred dollars by giving a mortgage
upon five white steers he claimed to have
on his farm. At tlic expiration of the
stipulated time the money-lender repair¬
ed to Stehr’s farm, and, producing hia
chattel mortgage, demanded of Mrs.
Stehr, the only adult he saw there, the
five white steers. Tho wife took the
document looked over it carefully and
smiled. Stepping back and pointing told him to
five promising boys, she calmly the
they were the steers covered by
mortgage. The man had utilized his
name to procure the loan. Learning
that Stehr was living in Iowa the money¬
lender swore out a warrant for his arrest
on a charge of having procured officer money after
fraudulently, nnd sent an
him. Gov. Larrabee regarded the
criminal as an original genius, but issu¬
ed the necessary papers for his extradi¬
tion.
A Debate —A Down East lyceum re
cen tly debated the question, “ Resolved,
That a scolding wife is worse than a
drunken husband.” The question that was
probably complicated by the tact
one is always the re ult of the other.
The audience, however, decided in favor
! of the woman.
ASewWar t»p«yOia Dekti.
i Shakespeare tells how this can be accom
j plLshcd “ in m'oNaineddnoulh one of his immortal plays; the uLofln but debts
Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery.” It is
pot a “cure-all.” hut invaluable foreorethroat
^ans, caused by scrofula or ‘ ba i bicod.’*
S3T .1 By re
druggists,
Seven women ho!d the position of county
Superintendent of Schools in Illinois.
How to Gain Flesh and Strength.
Use after each meal Scott’s Emulsion -with
Hypophosphites. It Is as palatable as milk.
and easily digested. Ths rapid ity with which
delicate people improve with its use is wonder¬
ful. Use II and try your weight- As a remedy
for Consumption, Throat affections and Bron¬
chitis, it is uneqiialed. Please read; “fused
Scott’s Emulsion in a child eight months old
with good results. He gained four pounds in a
very short time.”—T ho. Prim, M. D„ Ala
bama.
'The woman who neglects her husband’s
shirt front is no longer the wife of his bosom
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