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varieties of cockroaches
They Believe With Roosevelt la “The Stren
uous Life.”
The Croton bug is rather tlic smallest
of the roach house-population. He is
five-eighths of an inch in length at
maturity, is light brown, with two
dark brown stripes on his th-arax. As
becomes an inhabitant of this continent
of great things, the Periplaneta Amer¬
icana is the biggest, though the trop¬
ical ‘drummer’ which beats rhythmical¬
ly on the woodwork with his wings is
two inches long and measures three
inches from tip to tip of his outspread
wings. It is said that there is a very
gay-colored cousin under the equator
six inches in length.
What the English story-books call
tlie ’black beetle’ is really a cock¬
roach, Oriental in its origin. What
makes our English cousins give it this
name is because it is not a beetle and
Is not black, but a dark -brown. The
males have shortened wings, and the
females have hardly any. This is as
it should be. There is too much gad¬
ding about by the sex.
The Australian variety, being a good
sailor, fond of the roving life, the
warmth and moisture of the forecastle,
to say nothing of its picturesque un
tidiness, is now generously distributed
throughout the world, thanks to ocean
borne traffic, lie has a yellow band
on the upper chest and a yellow dash
on the sides of his upper wings.
You will never find these four vari¬
eties dwelling together in amity in one
bouse. Like the good old Tory that be
is, the cockroach is intolerant to the
last, degree. If lie cannot beat his
kinsman in the battle to tbe death, be
emigrates to another house, where he
may hide in a, 1 the wait, accord
* in-: T’be to cockroach thcyfmMK is thoroughly ids conscience. in accord
with Governor Roosevelt in his ad¬
vocacy oi the ‘strenuous life.’ He never
gets enough fighting while he lives.
Put in a bowl with an oppostion cock
roach, "lie furnishes as fine a gladi
tonal show for the money as one could
ask for. At the conclusion the victor
gathers up the fragments of his ad¬
versary, and, that nothing may be left,
eats them. This form of entertainment
is deservedly popular among the
Chinese.—Ainslee’s Magazine.
VEGETABLE TALLOW.
Squeezed Out of the Seeds of a Tree That
Grows In China.
The people of China are eminently
practical and have added much to the
civilization of mankind by their habits
of industry, of which the method of
obtaining vegetable tallow is un ex
ample. The Chinese pick the seeds
of this tree in autumn and first place
them in a wooden cylinder, open at
the top and perforated at tlie bottom.
After being steamed over a fire for ten
or fifteen minutes the tallow is soft¬
ened and is then more readily sepa¬
rated. The seeds are transferred from
tlie steaming cylinder to a stone mot
tar, in which they are gently beaten.
They are then thrown on a stove, heat¬
ed over the fire and sifted, by which
process the tallow is separated and re¬
sembles coarse Indiap meal.
In this State the tallow is put be¬
tween circles of twisted straw aud
these placed in a press, by which the
tallow is forced out and falls into a
tub. Freed from all impurities, it is
-then a semifluid of a beautiful white
Candles made of it easily melt
hot weather, and on this account
they are dipped in melted wax of vari¬
ous colors red. green or yellow—aud
are exposed for sale by tallow chan¬
dlers and other shopkeepers. This re¬
markable tree is found on the banks
of the Min, in Seechuen. It is a tree
with shining green leaves aud small
yellow flowers at the end of the
branches. They are succeeded by dark
colored seeds and vessels containing
delicate white seeds. In late autumn,
on the banks of the Tsein-Tang River,
in Chokiang, south of Hangchow, this
tree is a striking object. The leaves
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l are then of a blood-red color instead
of light green. When the tallow has
been squeezed out of the seeds the re¬
mainder is preserved to be used as
fuel or to enrich the land.—Philadel¬
phia Record.
A lighted lamp may sat* plants froa
frost bites.
thine self be true,and it will follow, night t h‘Miay, thou cans’t not then be false to any man. ”
‘To own as
LINCOLNTON, GA . THURSDAY JULY 5, 1900.
HOW THE BUFFALO WAS DROWNED.
A T exas Cowboy’s Most Brilliant Feat of
Roping.
A group of cattlemen at the Live
Stock Convention at El Be no were talk¬
ing about the skill of the Oklahoma
cowboys in throwing the lariat, when
R. E. Word, Sr., whose home is at
Higgins, Texas, but whose cattle are
mostly in Oklahoma, said: “1 bad an
experience roping when I was a young
man which put me through a lively
gait. As a Texan who had followed the
range all his life. I felt that there was
not a bronco on top Of the ground that
could throw me, and nothing on four
legs that I couldn’t rope ami tie. In
the summer of 1871 I was on the Little
Arkansas River, five miles south of
Wichita, Kan. I had a splendid horse,
trained for the range aud almost as in¬
telligent as a man. One afternoon I
came suddenly upon five big buffalo
bulls that had wandered away from
the main herd. I pulled my pistol,
killed one of them, and not having time
to reload decided to rope one. Shortly
afterward 1 found myself with a big
job on my hands.
“At the first throw my rope dropped
around the old bull’s horns. Now, when
a buffalo makes up his mind to go
anywhere in a rush he travels in a
straight line. You may be able to
turn him a little, hut in the main he
will keep his course. That was what
this bull did. He headed toward the
Little Arkansas, with the evident in¬
tention of crossing it. My horse, al¬
ways fearless when handling cattle,
was timid when in close quarters with
a buffalo, and I was unable to check
the bull, who soon had me going south
at a lively clip. I was becoming of
the opinion that the ouy way out of
my trouble was to cut my rope and
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“The Little Arkansas is narrow in
places, while at no great distance away
will be found pools four and five feet
deep and from twenty-five to forty feet
wide. The bull rushed headlong into
one of these pools. The opposite bank
was perpendicular and about a foot
aud a half above the water. Taking in
the situation quickly. I saw that I
could run out my rope far enough
to enable my horse to cross at a nar¬
row. shallow place. He jumped across
in fact ahead to keep going and jerked
the rope taut just as the bull started
to climb the bank. The jerk pulled
the bull’s nose into the water and his
shaggy head against the perpendicular
bank. He made a. great uproar, but
my horse held him there as in a vise.
Strange as it may seem, I succeeded
in keeping that hull’s nose under wa¬
ter until he drowned. I always re¬
garded this as my most brilliant feat
in roping ”
An Adventurous Infant.
Although the son of a resident of
Wycombe Marsh is only two years and
five months old, he appears well on the
road to make himself a name. At the
age of seventeen mouths he toddled
upstairs, took tlie top off a small lamp
and drank the contents. His greed for
“low flash” did no harm, and shortly
after he was as lively as ever, Ilis
next exploit ended in his falling into
the river at Wycombe Marsh. Again
he escaped from the jaws of death. A
short time afterward he walked once
more into the same stream—another
rescue, and more anxious moments for
the parents. This week the little fel¬
low has experienced another remark¬
able escape. His mother sent him in¬
to the garret with the other children
while she performed her household
duties. All went well for some time,
till George’s keen eye caught sight of
the window catch, and in his usual in¬
quisitive frame of mind, he proceeded
to open the window. With all his
might he pushed back the window, and
being unable to balance himself, he
fell to the ground, a distance of twen¬
ty-five feet! The youngster, however,
is apparently as hard as nails. To
everyone’s astonishment, he was soon
seen running about as lively as ever,
tbe result of his latest exploit only pro¬
ducing a small sear on bis leg.—Lon¬
don Daily News.
A Comparison.
“There is complaint that bakers’
loaves are short In weight.” said Mrs.
Swayback at the dinner table.
“They should have you bake for
them, ” said Mr. Swayback, ungracious¬
ly. “The bread would be heavy enough
then. ”—Detroit Free Press.
Horses In South Africa.
Sickness and mortality among the
hotses and mules used by the British
in the war in South .WTica have been
exceedingly heavy. lU must be re¬
membered animals that marijKp .sJSfc’rom not England most of
these were Sta^^Uircct
and the United to the
seat of war, and weflBf course, un¬
acclimated and unacwBtomed Sou^f.Africa. to the
parched veldts of calleftnto More¬
over, they were action be¬
fore they had recovered from their
long sea journey. Glanders and kin¬
dred diseases, due to exposure, bad
water and exhaustion, probably car¬
ried off thousands of these brutes, and
undoubtedly many more would bare
succumbed had it not been for the
splendid arrangements made by Lord
Roberts and bis generals in bringing
up the supplies. Inferior and some¬
times insufficient and irregular food
also caused much disease. The horses
and mules which were with the be
leagured garrisons in Ladysmith and
Kimberly were much .emaciated, and
many of them were eaten by the sol¬
diers and civilians
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907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
The right of dogs to run at large in
the country without bling shot, pr%,
vided they are doing no harm, is dis¬
cussed in an interesting opinion by the
Mississippi Supreme Cant in the case
of Hodges vs. Causey. Causey shot
and killed Hodges’s dog, a deerhound,
as she was running through corn rows
in Causey’s field in Sunflower County.
For this, Hodges sued Causey. In de¬
fense, Cause said that his place was
posted, that he had twice warned
Hodges to keep his dogs off his
(Causey’s) place, and that he shot the"
del-hound a -"In,* was running through
tlie corn rows to prevent her from
damaging ’-owing cotton which was
in the same field. The jury decided in
favor of Causey. The Supreme Court,
in ordering a new trial, quoted with
approval law to the effect that “one
Is never justified in going to excessive
lengths in the defense of himself or
bis proper'y from assault or injury”;
that “the method of defence must bear
a certain relation to the character or
tei-iousnes- of the threatened injury,”
ind that "the fact that a dog is tres¬
passing does not justify his wanton
or malicious destruction.” The court
pointed out that the corn through
which the dog was -running was fully
matured (it was in November), and
that.at the time she was shot she had
done no damage to the cotton. The
court said the jury should have been
allowed to say whether, in view of all
the circumstances, the killing was rea¬
sonable.
An Iowa man who rescued a widow
from drowning was married to her
three days later. This may have a
tendency to discourage heroism in the
State.
A recent report from Mr. John 13.
Ivehy, our Consul at Stettin, after giv¬
ing much statistical information in re¬
gard to the German workingman's in¬
come and expenses, concludes with
this striking statement: “American
labor is paid treble the wages paid
German labor in the same calling, and
the cost of food is from ten to fifty
per cent, cheaper in the United States
than in Germany.” In the Stettin dis¬
trict (Pomerania) the average working¬
man with, a wife and two children pays
35.7 cents a day for food. His rent
for two rooms cost $2.38 a month.
Clothing, except shoes, is cheap, hut
coal is rather high, and kerosene is
fifty per cent, above American prices.
Carpenters in shipyards get $5.28 per
week of sixty-six hours and common
laborers $3.14. Domestic service is
wretchedly paid, the wages ranging
from $2.14 per month for kitchen
servants to $5.05 for housekeepers.
The Consul says that the cost of liv¬
ing is increasing faster than the rate
of wages," and “the outlook for the
toilers is anything but favorable.”
American locomotives and cars in
Egypt call forth from Lord Cromer,
the British Minister and Consul-Gen¬
eral in Egypt, the following explana¬
tion: He says that while the railway
authorities prefer adhering to British
locomotives, as the men are acquainted
with their peculiarities, when time and
cost are considered the British manu¬
facturer cannot compete with the
American. The latter offer engines,
built on standard American, plans, at
lower prices and in less time than, they
can be secured from British or Eu¬
ropean builders. The British manufac¬
turers, on the other hand, not being
in the habit of building engines to
standard plans of their own, content
themselves with tendering on the de¬
signs of the Egyptian railway author¬
ities; with the result that these spe¬
cially made engines cost much more
money and take much more time to
build.
The Philadelphia Press says: “Tin
proposed substitution of automobiles
for mules on tlie Delaware and Rari
tan Canal is but an episode in tlie
ruthless advance of civilization. Like
the poor Indian and the high frame
bicycle, the mule must go. He lias
outlived his hybrid usefulness. He is
needed to drag ammunition aud eami
kettles over South African battlefields
where sight of dingy caualboats and
taste of Nebraska corn will never ease
the ache of his homesick heart. His
part in the upbuilding of tlie greai
west is forgotten, and the Americai
landscape seems strangely lacking ir
a notable particular. In figure, as ir
reality, tie passing of the canal mule
is almost funereal.”
NO. 5.
Irish Marriages.
For those who do not leave Ireland,
twenty-three, twenty-four and twenty
five are tbe marrying ages. To very
many of them their fathers can afford
no dowry. In cases where it can be
afforded $100 to $200 is considered a
fair fortune. Sometimes the fortune is
paid in kind—cattle and furnishing, o(
a piece of land. Often the girl fortunes
herself by the industry of her fingers*
investing as she goes along in sheei*
a heifer, a cow.
When a young man goes formally H
nsk a wife lie brings with him a friend
whose duty it is to bargain for tbs
fortune with father and mother, wliiU
he courts the daughter Though a hard
enough bargain is driven, it is not al¬
ways done in the spirit of old Tam
mas Couaghan, who warned his son’s
friend (when seeing them off to make
tlie match): “If she’s a very good girl
Conal, an’ very respectable, an’ likely
to be well-doin’ an’ wise, why”—in a
spasm of heroic generosity—“don't
br’ak off the bargain for a difference
of thirty shillin's ($15) or so!”—Seurnas
McManus, in Washington St:u'
Chinese Arithmetic.
The Chinese rejoice in a wonderful
talent for inaccuracy in every detail.
For instance, a pound or a pint varies
as it suits the merchant's fancy. I 11
some parts you get half or a quarter
as much as you do in others for the
same price and measure. Then again,
their way of calculating distance does
not at all tally with Euclid. For in
stane, you are told from A. to B is four,
miles, hut from B to A is eight miles.
If you ask how this is possible you are
told it depends from which end yof
start, if you start from A it is down
hill, so much easier to walk; whereas,
starting from B, you have to walk up
bill, which is much more exerting and
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walking a longer distance On even
ground. This form of argument al¬
ways amused me nearly as much as
the way the Chinese have of counting
a person’s age by tens. “My mother,”
they will tell you “is thirty” (or forty).
When she leaves thirty she is getting
near forty. Should we all like to he
told that, I wonder?—Leslie’s Weekly.
Little Mothers and Little Fathers.
It is no uncommon thing in New
York City to see little children of ten
years old, or even younger, taking care
of their baby brothers and sisters, and
as their homes are so small and squal¬
id much of this nursing is done on the
street. Baby is brought to the door¬
step for a bit of fresh air, and while
the “little mother" holds him, she must
keep a sharp lookout for the one or t \o
big enough to toddle and caper up and
down while the hand organ plays. It’s
a sad heritage for a child of ten—two
or three little ones to look after and
the house to keep while the mother is
out at work looking for it.' Or per¬
haps there is no mother at all. The
children cannot be spared, as a rule,
to go to school, and if it were pos¬
sible they are not likely to have clothes
fit to wear.—New York .Mail and Ex
press.
Rural free delivery has been in oper¬
ation in Carroll County, Md., for three
months, one-tliird of which was fruit¬
less of telling results, because of the
opposition encountered, Yet in that
quarter the service was almost self
sustaining. Offsetting the cost of the
service by the saving effected in the
discontinuance of the star routes and
the fourth-class offices, and by the in¬
crease of revenues resulting from the
service, the net cost was only $236.
The officials have the best of reasons
for expecting a snug profit to the gov¬
ernment at tlie close of the first year,
to arise from the increased postal
revenue in the county. For the first
quarter that revenue increase was 23.5
per cent., a surprising advance, con¬
sidering that far the last five years
the average annual increase in the ag¬
gregate revenues of tlie 750 free-de
livery post-offices (producing seventy
per cent, of all postal revenues) is only
a fraction over eight per cent. “These
figures leave no room for argument,”
the superintendent says. “They force
the conclusion that rural free delivery,
as a system of the postal service will
effect phenomenal increases in the pos¬
tal revenues of the future.”
The Florists’ Hall Association of the
United States carries $800,000 insur¬
ance on hothouses.