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HOW SPONGES ARE CAUGHT. ONE OF FLORIDA’S IMPORTANT IN DUSTRIES. The Great Coral Reefs Along the Coast—Sponge Fishing Not Easy Work—Different Varieties. A Fort Meade (Fla.) letter to the New York Times says that sponge fishing is confined to the southwestern part of the coast, along the reefs, and to the exten sive rocky shoals, that lie he tween Mark's and Anclote Keys. Accurately speaking, the sponge reef begins a few miles east of Appalaehicola, and hugs the coast to within fifty miles of Cedar Keys. Then there is a break of 100 miles, after which it reappears aud runs south without in terruption to Key West and the Bahama Islands. This reef, a rocky ridge, some- times of genuine limestone, but generally of coral, begins some six or eight miles from shore and continues out indefinitely. Wherever there is a rocky bottom sponges are said to be found, and the only reason why the fisheries do not extend completely around the gulf coast is that in places, as off the coast of Texas or Cedar Keys, this rocky bottom begins in water too deep to permit of profitable sponging. The aver age depth of water on the St. Mark's reef at six miles from land is sixteen feet. The sponges are in great abundance and of good quality. The supply is practi cally inexhaustiable, as they grow almost as fast as gathered, a sponge requiring only about two years to reach maturity. Nearly all of the sponges used in the United States were brought from the Mediterranean until 1552, when attention was called to the immense numbers that were growing in Florida waters. As soon as it was found that the quality of these compared favorably with those of Europe tfey I H9 r t r S^ R cngaged very actively in the business of placing them on the market. At first the best qualities were bought from the fishermen at the rate of ten cents per pound. As Mediterranean sponges became scarce and costly, the Florida sponges came into more demand, and j their value increased proportionately. 1 After about eighteen years’ fishing upon the known ground the supply began to j fail. Then, in 1870, a new area of j ground, larger than the old one, was dis- j covered, and this gave a new impetus to j the trade. In that year Appalaehicola ■ sent out a small fleet of sponge vessels j which has since been largely increased, i During the past eighteen years the busi ness has been energetically pursued with good results. The methods employed in the fishery differ greatly from those employed in the Mediterranean,where divers go down and bring up the sponges. Stnall vessels, 1 carrying crews of from five to fifteen j men, are fitted out at Key West and i Appalaehicola, for trips of from four to eight weeks on the sponge grounds. The crews are paired off into small rowboats, or “dingies,” to catch the sponges. One j man stands in the stern, sculling the boat, while the other kneels in the bot tom amidships, with the upper half of his body leaning over the side, and scans the bottom of the sea. To aid the ej’e an instrument called a “water glass,” which is a common water bucket whose wooden bottom has been replaced by one of glass, is used by setting it in the water and thrusting the face as far into it as convenient. When a sponge is sighted the boat is stopped, and the kneeling man uses a two-pronged hook, attached to a slender pole thirty or forty feet in length, to secure it. Considerable dex terity is required of both men. To cure the sponges they are first spread about the vessel’s deck in their natural upright position, so that they will die, and -while decomposing allow the gelatinous matter to run off freely. When they have been several days in this position they arc taken to the shore aud thrown into the Wter in little pens, called “crawls,” and . S q\*A e remaining substance is soaked The sponkut <Kv, under a 7 browns the skin hat bum Saud white man r unt d one cannot tell a nue man from a netr.ro. • - nf-.V v ■ —,.‘a c* W-Y6 re i ita)i any other that one can think of, and it requires men of no ordinary constitution to stand up to it. The spongers are therefore naturally an exceedingly muscular set. The principal season for this fishery is the summer, from May to August,but the best conditions of the water are in winter, and a great deal of the fishing is then carried on with success. During the hurricane months of August, September and March the vessels are nearly all laid up. The state of the weather greatly affects the result of the fishery. When the water is made rough aud roily by long-continued strong winds sponge catch ing ‘ becomes impracticable. In some years the fishery has been a complete failure, while in others it has been very profitable, always owing to the weather. As the natural beds of sponges have be come scarcer prices have advanced,so that even if a vessel does not secure as large a quantity in a given time as formerly the financial result is about the same. There are several varieties of sponges caught in the Florida waters. There are first, sheep's wool, which sell for $1 to $5 a pound; second, yellow sponges, which sell for 20 to GO cents per pound, and third, grass sponges, which are coarse in texture, and not durable, and sell for 10 to 20 cents per pound. When these are marketed they are trimmed and cleaned of sand and shells, and then pressed into small bales of 100 to 120 pounds each in which form they go to the wholesale dealers. Some attempts have been made during the past three years to cultivate the more valuable kinds of sponges, and in some instances the experiment has met ■'with success. It seems probable that the future supply of the sheep's wool variety will depend upon some such action as this. Besides being scarcer along the sponge reef, this variety grows slower than the coarser kinds, and the demand for it is'always greater than the supply. The cost of the Paiis Exposition nil! be *10,000,000. The total Indian population of the United States in ISStf was 247,761. WISE WORDS. Sighs are poor things to fly with. Ignorance is the mother of all evil. Arbitration in its essence is voluntary. Fly the pleasure that bites to-morrow. Idleness is the burial of the living man. A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence. No gift can make the rich those who are poor in wisdom. Self-admirers and self-flatterers are really self-deceivers. What we call time enough always proves little enough. Twenty years in the life of a man is sometimes a severe lesson. The surest way to please is to forget one’s self aud to think only of others. Beauty is often but a splendid cloak w r hich conceals the imperfections of the soul. We attract hearts by the qualities w r e display; we retain them by the qualities we possess. Help somebody worse off than your self, and you w ill find that you are better off than you fancied. The reason some people never prosper is because they are waiting to be told what they are best fitted for. There is virtue in ignorance if one must first possess knowledge before they can be dishonest successfully. If all people sat in judgment against their neighbor, such unselfish conduct would destroy the human race. The prejudices of men emanate from the mird and may be overcome; the pre judices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable. A Visit to a Natural History Society. One wet evening Willie Ransom got Jack to go, just because there was noth ing else to do. There was a short paper being read on “Fish-Scales,” aud a num ber of them were mounted for micro scopical examination, of course with a low' power, say inch and half-inch. Any thing relating to fish or fishing was cer tain to gain Jack's attention, therefore a better subject could not hav i been selected to engage his service. Besides, Jack had never yet even looked through a microscope! He felt a bit ashamed of this now; but there were a couple of microscopes present, and Jack determined to have a good look through them. The scales of different sorts of British fishes were on view. Of course, fish-scales are common enough; but who would think that each kind has its own pattern of scale, and that you could tell a species of fish by its scales? The paper showed that the scales of fishes w ere composed of the same material, chitine, as the feathers of birds, or the hair and nails of animals—a kind of sub stance only found in the animal kingdom, and never in the vegetable; that these scales are developed in little pockets in the fish’s skin, which you can plainly see for yourself when a herring is scaled. They are arranged all over the fish’s body like the tiles covering a roof, partly over lapping each other, as is seen by one part of the scale being often different from the other. * Jack looked through the microscope and was delighted. He was always a reverent-minded boy, and the sight broke on his mind-like a new revelation. How exquisitely chased and beautiful were the markings, lines, dots and other peculiar ities ’. Then the scales which ran along the middle line of the fish were shown him, and the ducts perforating them, out of which the mucus flows to anoint the fish’s body, and thus reduce the friction of its rapid movement through the water. The lad was half bewildered at the possi bility of the new knowledge. “Could anybody get to know about these things?” he asked Willie, who told him of course he could, if he would only take a little trouble. —Popular Science Monthly. Pen Picture of Napoleon. Bourienne, in his memoirs, gives this ! pen picture of Napoleon: “Bonaparte | ]IW?Uf J 6t them; while conversing "he | would often look at them with an air of self-complacency. He also fancied he had fine teeth, but his pretension to that advantage was not so well founded as his vanity on the score of his hands. Napol eon always walked while dictating. He sometimes began while seated, but at the first, word he rose. He began walking in the room where he was, and walked up and down in it. This promenade lasted all the time he was dictating. As he entered into his subject he experienced a sort of “tic,” consisting in a movement of his right arm, which he twisted, while pulling with his hand the lining of the cuff of his coat. Still, his delivery was not quickened by this movement, his step was also slow and measured. Expressions came without effort to render his thoughts. If they were sometimes incor rect, this very incorrectness added to their energy, and always marvelously de picted to the mind what he tried to say. Kapoleon seldom wrote himself. Writing was a fatigue to him. His hand could not follow the rapidity of his conception. His writing was an assemblage of inde cipherable characters without connection. Half of the letters of each word were deficient. He could not read it over himself, or would not take the trouble to do so. If any explanation were asked of him, he retook his draft, which he tore or threw into the lire, whilg he dictated afresh, giving the same ideas, but with different expressions and words. His spelling was incorrect, though he knew well enough to point out the errors in the writings of others.” An Indian Warrant. In early times some of the more intelli. gout Indians acted as magistrates, says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. The follow ing is represented as the form of a war rant issued by one of these officers: I Hihoudi, You Peter Watermah, Jeremy Wicket, Quick you take him, > Fast you hold him. Straight you bring him, Before me, Hihoudi. - • THE FARM AND GARDEN. LIME ON SOUR SOILS. Lime applied to sour and unproductive soils neutralizes the vegetable acids that are poisonous to the farmer’s crops, unlocks barnyard manures and other fertilizers applied to and found in the soil, and al lows them to operate freely; brings nitro gen from the air around and in the soil, and feeds plants with this invaluable plant, food, and gives a small part of its over-weight dissolved in water to sustain plants. RJOAD-TIRED WHEH.S. “Many a time and oft” the use of broad-tired wheels has been advocated in these columns. But few persons seem to exercise any good judgment in regard to this reform. The exceedingly narrow tires—one and one-half inches even— used for wagons which carry heavy loads upon earth roads are still adhered to, and a three or four inch tier is looked at by the rural travelers with something akin to amazement. And }’et such a tire not only does not damage a road, whether it be hard or soft, but it actually improves it, rolling it and making it hard, smooth and firm. And, moreover, the load is drawn with greater ease. In field w T ork the advantage is equally great. The wheels do not sink through an ordinary sod, and very little in a stubble, while two horses will draw 3000 pouuds of manure upon freshly-plowed land with four-inch tires to the wheels when they would be stalled with 1500 pouuds upon one and one-half inch wheels. —JVeio York Tima. A BAT-PROOF CRIB. “ A crib for ear cprn, says a Pennsyl vania farmer, should be so constructed as to allow' a free passage of air through it, otherwise the grain is liable to mold be fore it is properly dried out. The best w r ay I know' of to place a slatted or partly open crib is to set it on upright blocks ten inches square and four feet high, with the upper ends trimmed down to six inches square; on these ends nail sheets of tin wdde enough to project, beyond the sills, which are to be laid on these tin covered blocks, so that when a rat climbs up the foundation block he is met by the proiecting tin, which he cannot get over. The crib .may then be finished in any form desired, either open work for ear corn, or entirely tight, according to the use it is wanted for, and no mouse or rat can en ter it, unless by some carelessness or neglect on the owner’s part. Nothing must be left set up against it to furnish a ladder for the vermin, and the steps should be moveable so they can be set aside or suspended when not in use.” THE LONG-CONTINUED USE OF FERTILIZERS. The following query with its reply ap peared in a recent bulletin issued by the Georgia State Agriculture Department: Question —It is a fact, as regard, this section, that the unfertilized land, atre iuhl v* v.u» vuuomereCi, win not produce as it did before commercial fertilizers were used. Why is it? 2. Or has the long continued use of fertilizers made their use a necessity? This theory is true as to the human system, is it also true as to the soil and plants. Reply—l. It is because larger crops have been annually taken off the soil than if no fertilizers had been used. The fer tilizer added to the soil stimulates the plant to appropriate and the soil to yield to the plant more of the elements of plant food contained in the soil naturally than if no fertilizer w ere applied. If the fer tilizer applied does not contain the ele ments of plant food in tho proportions de manded by the invariable composition of the crops cultivated, especially if the lacking element is the one in which the soil is most deficient, the soil will soon become destitute of the deficient element, at least in an invariable form as plant food. It will then no longer pro duce as good crops as formerly, unless the deficiency be made up. The element most commonly applied w'hich exerts this so-called stimulating effect on the soil ie :l - *-«««•«.» » vigor ous growth of stem and foliage, and thus demands an increased quantity of the ele ments already in the soil and returns a larger crop. Of course, the soil will soon exhibit signs of exhaustion under such treatment, especially when it is iemeui bered that more of the elements of fer tility in the soil are annually w'ashed away by the raius than are removed in the crops produced on the land. 2. There is no doubt of the fact that the continued use of fertilizers becomes a necessity when we continue to cultivate the same land in clean crops, like corn and cotton, Precisely the same is true of the use of stable manure. It was a necessity that first induced its use; it does not become any more a necessity. If an acre of soil contains the necessary plant food, mostly in unavailable form, to produce 1000 bushels of corn before it will have become entirely exhausted, and ordinary continuous cultivation in that crop, w ithout manure, would reach the stage of exhaustion in 100 years, would it be bad policy to fertilize the land and cause it to yield the 1000 bushels of com in twenty-five years. The soil cannot be likened to the hu man body in a comparison of the sort suggested ; it is the plant that? sustains that relation. The plant in the one case and the human body in the other are the objects to be supplied with food. The theory has no such application. FA I! MING AS A BUSINESS. Probably no occupation is carried on with so little regard to business rules as that of farming. The farmer requires more education and a knowledge of a greater variety of subjects than any of the so-called learned professions. The man who only knows bow to turn a good furrow, prepare the soil for the seed, stop the growth of weeds and promote the growth of the plant, has not mastered the art of successful farming. Xor has the man who knows only how to raise fine horses, sleek cattle or fat swine, or how to fertilize his fields to the best advan tage, raise the best corn or potatoes or the highest yield of oats or barley. The man who to-day realh makes a thorough sue elements of knowledge and many more. It used to be said that any fool could cess as a farmer must combine all these be a farmer, but at the present day peo ple begin to realize the fact that the farmer needs the most education. The time has gone by when the haphazard, slipshod, go-as-j'ou-please methods of farming can be made to pay. What would be thought of the manufacturer who did not know to the fraction of a cent the cost of the raw material aud labor put into a yard of cloth, or the manufacturer of leather who did not know the exact cost of the material and labor required to make a case of boots and shoes. Aud yet liow r many farmers can tell the cost of a pound of butter or pork, a bushel of potatoes or corn, or a ton of hay? They sell their products for what they can get offered, not knowing whether they are making or losing. The remedy is this: When farmers come to realize that farming is a business as well as manufacturing or banking oi buying and selling goods, and by a care ful keeping of accounts learn to figure the cost of every article they produce, then u successful beginning will have been made. Let them keep debt and credit with every acre of corn, potatoes or grain. Charge each acre with the in terest. on its value, the probable amount of fertilizing material used by the crop, the cost of labor in its care. Credit if with the market value of the crop pro duced. , The difference between the twe will represent the profit or loss. A like account should be kept with the herd of cows. If any one of the number entails a loss upon you dispose of her. Keep a strict account with the orchard, if you have one. Debit it witli the labor employed in its care and in the harvesting of its fruit. Credit it with the value of its golden product and learn from the balance on the right side of the ledger that it is one of your best friends. The farmer's book is one of reference, to which he can at any time refer for date or article bought or sold, and price given or re ceived for the same. Having learned tc calculate the costs of the products of the farm, the next business is to know how to sell them. Make a study of the mar kets and learn for yourselves the prices of those things you wish t<* sell.—jVrifl York Herald. RAISING IIOG3. ' As the hog seems to be indispensable to the American people, the object of the farmer should be to produce the greatest amount of good pork at the least ex pense. The question then is, how can this be done? I will endeavor to answer this knotty question. First procure some pure bred sows of some well-established black breed, and mate them with males not too closely connected, but of pure stock. Have the sows farrow in Septem ber or October. Feed them liberally on slop from the kitchen, with all the milk in it you can spare; have your • troughs made shallow, so the pigs can get a taste, and they will soon learn to drink until mu. VVneii coiu weather comes, enrich your slop by adding and boiled po tatoes. The small. anrT defective ones, which you should sort out at digging time, will pay a good profit if fed in this way to your pigs. If you have apples to spare, or those are beginning to decay, put them intofßhr slop, wtAb tur nip peelings, cabbage refuse, or a hog will relish; he likes a varieV As the cold increases, the slop should have some scalded meal in it. If fed in this way until clover is ready to turn in on, the shoats should be growing finely. Let them remain in the clover until har vest. If you have an orchard (the larger the better) sow it to oats, when the grain is ripe turn your shoats in, and you will see that this feed will develop their bone and muscle. By the time the oats are disposed of your early apples should be ready; then your summer aud Tall va rieties will follow, and if you have plenty of sweet apples (which you should) in your orchard, you will be astonished to see how your shoats will thrive on them. I have come to the conclusion that ap ples (especially sweet ones) with a little com meal and potato slop, is the cheap est and best feed for preparing a hog for the slaughter house. By the time your pigs are a year or fourteen months old the/ should be ready for the market, aud thei- weights should be satisfactory. 'Hie reason why I prefer to have the pigs to come in the fall rather than in the spring, is, thut during winter the farmer has more leisure time to get his pigs up a first class boarding house, with extra in expensive rations, and he has a longer time to change a sucking pig into a three hundred pound porker, and so is not compelled to resort to the forcing system at a busy time of the year, as he is when he makes an April pig weigh t’nree hun dred pounds by Thanksgiving. Another advantage in having a hog a year old, when called upon to “die for his coun try" is, that during the last six weeks of his life he takes on fat more readily, and when slaughtered his yield of lard is sat isfactory. Whereas at six mouths old, although fat, nature is still .striving to pro duce more bone and muscle instead of fat, because the pig has not yet come to maturity. The reason why I prefer a black or dark spotted hog to a white one is, that when pigs they seem to be less liable to have the mange in winter. Pigs are very social creatures, and they will pile up when cold, and so get dirty and hot. Too much filth and heat is, I think, the cause of the mange, and when a white pig gets rusty and hishyir stands erect, his progress toward development is slow, and his end is near at hand. Whereas, his more swarthy brother seems to grow notwithstanding his unfavorable surroundings. Corn cob ashes mixed with salt, should be given to hogs to keep them healthy. To sum up, feed slop and cooked po tatoes in winter and early spring, then clover, oats and apples, the more sweet apples the better, giving the finishing touch to his hogship with a few bushels of corn meal mixed with buttermilk. If he does not then make good pork I will agree to eat him if you will give me time enough.— Farm , Field and Stockman. The latest gas well struck in Findlay, Ohio, gives 6,000,000 feet per day. PRIMITIVE PATRIOTS. The safety and strength of our nation must tver rest in the home-i of its people. In the log cabins of early clays out - fathers lived. Simple homes they were, but from within their mud-chinked wal's there sprang a hardy race of men, full of love for home aud liberty. Strong in body and mind, they laid the foun dation of America’s greatness. Well was their work performed, for upon that solid rock has grown, as years, have passed, the imposing structure of cherished independence. Stately and grand, it is worthy of its des gn ers. Though the heroes of that time have long since passed away, they have left us rich by iu horltauoe. Whilst our lathers wore planning America’s future destiny, our sweet mothers were not idle, for in their ever-mindful care for the welfare of their loved ones, the}' discovered some of the best remedial agents known for the relief of the sick. Good old-fashioned home-cures, prepared from roots an 1 herbs —they have ever been standards of excellency. Though lost for a time: lins been the prepata tion of these old-time * ‘home-cures,” they are again revived, and are known to the public as Warner’s Log Cabin Remedies ; chief among them being Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, tho best of the old-time blood purifiers. In those times every family was its ow r n doc tor, and the heroes and hi roines of early ds)s were wonderfully healthful and long-lived. America owes its freedom to the rugged bodies and healthy niinds of our fathers, and so long as the spirit of freedom they instilled pre vails and a true appreciation of our grand in stitutions remains, there is no danger of the downfall of tho Republic. Pigeons a Success. Superintendent Given, of the Rock Is land Road, in lowa, is making experi ments with carrier pigeons, with a view to using them to supplement the tele graph ter vice. lie sent thirty-four pig eons by express from his home to Brook lyn, a station on the Rock Island, seven ty miles east, and they were released bj the station agent there. The birds first rose in the air and made a circuit of the town as if to get their bearings, and then to.k a bee-line straight west toward home. They made the seventy mile! back in le>s than two hours, and all bul three reached Superintendent Given’! house in good condition. Wind stonui often render the telegraph line useless, •ven if the wires arc not blown down, and a set of carrier pigeons at each station might be made very serviceable in suck #n emergency. A “Guild of the King’s Daughters’ l has been formed in Southport aud Birk dale, England. The order is patterned after the one in the United States, and appeals to the young women of thehigh- 1 er and middle classes. If disease has entered the system the only way to drive It out Is to purify and enrich the blood. To this end, as is acknowledged by all medical men, nothing is better adapted than Iron. The fault hitherto has b en that iron could not be so prep tied ae to be .absolutely harmless to the teeth. Thisdlfflcu ty has been overromo by tho Brown Chemical Company of Baltimore, Md., who offer their Brown’s Iron Bitters as a faultless Iron preparation, a posi tive cure for dyspepsia. Indigestion, kidney doubles, etc. Prince Bismarck Inaugurated a scheme to hurt Boulanger through English newspapers. xx’iia.t j* sweeter than roses That bloom in the beauty of June? Or the stately nnd fragrant lilies Whose bells ring a summer tune ? Ah, sweeter the roses blowing On the cheeks of those we love. And the lily of health that’s glowing The cheeks’ red rose above. But how soon the lily and the rose wither in the faces of our American women. Why is it? Simply because so many of them are victims of weaknesses, irregularities and functional derangements incidental to the sex. If they would use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription all these beauty and health-destroying al - ments might be warded off, and we would hear less about women “growing old before their time.’’ To regulate the stomach, lirer and bowels, Dr. Pierce’s Pellets excel. One a dose. The Congregational Churoh, of Clapham, Eng., elected six women as deacons. - J' I I Hail Habit*. Habitual constipation gives rise to piles and to other dangerous and painful affections, all of which may be cured by the use of Hamburg Figs, a fruit laxative which even children like. 25 cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y. Students, Teachers (male or fema'e), < lergy men nnd others in need of change of employ ment, should not fall lo write to H. F. Johnson & Co., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va. Their grea success shows that they have got the true ideas about making money. They can show you how toeraploy odd hours profitably. Oirvoii, llie Paradise at Fnrinets. Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant crops. l est fruit, grain, grass and stock country in the world Full information free. Addre s Dreg. Ihi’igr't’u Hoard, Portland,Ore. The Intern -tlonal BanklngCo.. 31 & 83 B’way, N. Y. City, call attention to th‘ir ad v headed “An Excellent In\estment.” They refer to yeligman & Co. an 1 to Kessler & Co., bankers. All diseases and disorders peculiar to women are cured bv the timely use of Brad field’s Female Regulator. Sold by druggists. IfsfHieted with soroey«®nse Dr. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye-tvater.Druggists -eliat 25c.per bottle Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. 25c. 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