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BOMX. r LI; AuOUT A VAST AXD USEFUL INDUSTRY. lllnin? jRorax: Crystals in. the Far V'cst is Dimcnlt Work Opera 'tio:is la : Peilnery LTse3 of Boras:. 7 .VERY roan who went to Cali fornia in the early '50s hoped 1 to have a cohl mine of his - it fit own, wnere ne couio. seme down ana become as wealthy as a Na tional iauk with little or no exertion. But unfortunately nature had not pro vided euon jh pold mines to go around. Consequently it was not lon before the country was flooded with a tatter demalion swarm of meD, half miners, half ten lerreet, who, instead of being their own millionaire?, were seekicg an .opportunity for .relieving the ache under their belts. They were also bent on discovering somalliing that 13 what they had come for and if it couldn't be a gold mm?,it might bo a silver mine, a diamond-drift or any thing they cared very little what. AndCthat is how the vast boras depos its of the region came to be unearthed. Previous to that time boraix came mostly from Asio, and. it was an ex pensive and little known commodity, sold from some small phiss bottle on the apothecary's shelf. But within ten year3 after the time (ths disappointed sold miners round the deposits borax had become almost as common as table salt. To-day the work of digging, transporting and reining it has grown to be a vast industry Borax crystals are no longer dug ; even in California and Nevada, be -cause the substance has been found in much more convenient form for re finino: in combination with lime. In this State it occurs in mountain strata and it has to be mined exactly like sil ver or coj-per, but the cost is far greater. In the first place, the region is totally destitute of water and fuel of tiny kind, both of which have to be transported long distances. Indeed, so dry is the country that workmen frequently go insane and both men and horses perish miserably from thirst if water is not kept constantly at hand. Besides all of these difficul ties, accentuated by ths necessity for havingtho finest machinery and skilled labor, all of the ore ha3 to be trans ported for scores of miles over the desert before it reaches the railroads. This work is mostly done with the aid of huge wagons with broad-tired wheels, weighing about 8303 pounds each and having a carrying capacity of 20,000 pounds. To each wagon several teams of mules and horses are hitched, and the long trip across tho desert and through perilous mountain passes begins.. ' One of tho wagons in the train is provided with a tank of water, for it would be impossible to travel without it. The drivers are rugged, fearless men, partaking of the characteristics of the country. . On reaching tho railroad the crs from the great wagons is loaded on box cars and transported saveral hun dred miles to the refineries, one of the largest ot which is losatad on Sin Francisco Bay. Here the rough, broken masses of brown Irock are un loaded at the door of a long, shed-like building, and the process which is to of soda suddenly deserts the soda and nnitos with many spirits and fizzings iiu ae nme in tue Dorax ore, whica is nothing more than borate of lime. Then the boraic acid in the ore finds more attractive company with the. de serted soda, and in the united state becomes biborate df sodium, which i3 only the aristocratic name for borax. It is still in solution, however, and as soon it cools off it is run into great vats filled with myriad steel rods. To these rods the borax crystallizes just as rock candy clings to a string. When the borax is all out of solution the rods are withdrawn from the water and tho crystals of borax scraped off. By dissolving them again and recrys tallizing a purer form of borax is se cured. When powdered it is ready for the market. Borax is used in hundreds of differ ent ways, and, as tho people become more familiar with it, the demand grows greater. The meat packers con sume large quantities in the dry pack ing of meat for export, and iron and glass workers and enameling factories use it constantly as a flax. B nt tho greatest proportion of the whole amount produced is consumed in the household. Not being a pat ented commodity it sells at its real market value, which is about seven a pound. Its alkaline properties make it valuable "for softening hard water and for cleaning woodwork. Almost every housewife is familiar with it. It is also used in various ways as a medi cine and in the toilet. It is also said to bo death on insects of all kinds. Chicago Record. f- In Cloud-Land. I In order to better understand tho role played by cirrus clouds as rain indicators, we must first discuss tha causes of these occurrences. A study of the weather indications and baro metrical readings, as. they appear in our daily papers from the report of our "Weather Bureau," shows that ilreas of high or low air -pressure are constantly passing over the earths surface in irregular-succession. The areas of high atmospheric pressuref or barometic maxima, meteorological ly expressed stay longer in one lo cality than the areas of low pressure the depressions, or barometrical minima. These last are more or less defined currents of air, which circle in tho form of wind around ths region ol' the lowest atmospheric pressure, moving always from North to West or from South to East the reverse of tho hands of a clock. It must not be imagined, however, that the air sim ply moves around thi3 area of de pression, but rather that it is con stantly being drawn into it3 centre and is carried upwards in great whirls or spirals. A3 the air rises, it ex pands and becomes colder ; the vapors it contains condense into clouds, and finally are transformed into rain. The centre of the barometrical de pression is therefore marked by cloudy, rain v;iather. The wind which .encircles the d?pession be comes mora active as the difference of the atmospheric pressure becomes more marked, or in other vords as the barometer falls. In brief, therefore, barometrical de pressions are caused by hug3 Amend ing spirals, or whirls of air, wlr.v'U are carried upwards to extreme ftevhts, and from there are wafted in r-n di rection. In these heights tho hiwd- transforin.it into the beautiful crys- ity of tho atmosphere is frozen, asd tab of borax is soon under way. The is wafted away in aliased forms wluh TEMPERANCE. eruJo material first passes between the jaws of a rock breaker, from which it comes out in small, pebble like pieces. Then it goes into the hopper of a machine not unlike an old fashioned burr stone flour mill, where it is thoroughly pulverized. It now has about the appearance of buck wheat flour, and is ready for the final process of separating the borax. To accomplish this it is thrown into r great steam chest, or pressure boiler, 'called a digester, and carbon ate of soda in a fixed proportion is r.dvled. When heat ii applied in the furnace below, and the mass within the boiler is churned with plungers the digestion in the big stomach be- 'Ahe carbonic acid in the carbonats are composed of ioa-crvstals. These are none other thtn cirrus ; cloncfe, and they may float several hundred miles from the seat of the depression. It will now be seen vrhy cirrus cicada may bo justly regarded as f orerunaer j of rain, even hea they make their appearance j in clear weather. They tell with absolute certainty of an ap proaching atmospheric depression, and this is substantiated by a gradual lalling of the barometsr j soon after they make their appearance. Horns and Country. . The Damascus apricot crop is worth $150,003 a year after all expensej have been deducted. In addition to other uses, a valuable oil is made from the kernel cf the fruit-. THE OKLT WAT. An effort is being made to get rid of drink tog while sparing the drink. The effort has always been and always will b3 a dismal failure. Drunkenness hua lt nrioHn in hn drink. All experiences show that you cannot have the drink without the drunkenness. It is drink, drank, drunk. The only way to ' prevent drunkenness is to stop drinking. ; Temperance Advocate. ! ! "EBIXO IX THE CHOICEST LIQUOIU j Sometime ago eight cr ten lumbermen ; went into a hotel in onecf our Western cities, and engaged a private parlor. They were jolly, well-to-do fellows, and met to settle up a year's business over a social glass,N having had a successful speculation together. Sum moning the gentlemanly clerk of the house, they ordered him to 'briug in the choicest liquor to be obtained 4 'nothing bat the purest and finest article." The table wa3 spread, glasses brought out, and mirth and jollity prevailed. Presently in came the clerk with a silver pitcher of ice water, and, as he filled each goblet, with quiet dignity, he remarked. '"Gentlemen, I have done the bet I could to obey your or der, and here is the purest article to be found in the United State?. :' - All looked in dumb amazement, so unex pected and so ludicrous was their position. But they were equal to the occasion. Not . word was said till erxjh had his glass before him. filied with th6 coarkiing fiuild. Almost simultaneously they ail raised their glasses, and pledging each ether's health, made the additional pledge not to drink anything stronger for the year io come. Nearly twelve months have parsed, and they have been loyal to their vow. Hay we not hope that the pledge may bo renewed for life.--Zion's Watchman. - AXCOEOX, AXI nHEOIATS-f. Ono item in Dr. Richardson's report of ht3 practice in the London Temperance Hospital refers to his treatment of rheumatism without alcohol. He says: . "Out of seventy-one cases of acute or sub acute rheumatism, tne large majority acute, and attended with temperatures moving up to 104 degrees Fahr., sixty-nine recovered, and two, although they were discharged without being put on the recovery list, were so far relieved that a few days' change in country air seemed all that was required to induce full restoration. Comparing the ex perience of the treatment of acute rheumatic disease without alcohol with that which I have previously observed with alcohol. I can have no hesitation in declaring that it is of the greatest advantage to follow total absti nence absolutely in this disease. The pain and swelling of joints is more quickly re lieved under abstinence, the fever falls more rapidly, there is less frequent relapse, and there is quicker recovery. In brief, the ex perience of treatment of rheumatic fever minus alcohol presents to me as much novelty as it does pleasure and I am convinced that if anv candid member of tho nrnfeasinn have witnessed what I have witnessed in this matter, he would agree with me that alcohol in rheumatic fever, however acute, is alto gether out of place. I am also under the conviction, though I express it with great reserve, that in acute rheumatism, treated without alcohol, the cardiac complication?, endocardial and pericardia, are much less frequently developed than where alcohol is supplied. BotuTtosr, n-Tmojr axb soixtrnojr. There was a man who praised potter, and said it made him fat, But he was answered that it made him lean sometimes yes, against lamp-posts. This man insisted that porter was both - meat and drink. One wet night, when going home, ! he fell into the ditch, and his "meat and drink" that night was also ''washing and lodging" too. A writer had called whtsky the devil in solu tion. He should add that beer was the devil in dilation, and porter the davil in pollution. James Guthrie. ' sownfa THE WT3TD. "They that sow the wind shall reap tha whirlwind" is being exemplified anew in wine-drinking France, where one of the prob lems most seriously discussed is the connec tion between crime and youth, back of whom,1 lie generations of moderate wine-drinkers.: The most daring, the most sanguinary and the most hardened criminals with whom1 France has of late j years had to deal, have been with few exceptions mere youths, the great majority being under twenty years. M. Guillot, an investigating magistrate, Bays:1 "During my long career as judge d'instruo tion I have seen the lowest depth of human corruption, but it is only since 1 nsva had to do especially with Voung crlminab that I hz become acquainted with it." TEMPERANCE SEWfi AXD 2TOTES. In St. Petersburg the names of habitual drunkards are displayed on posters in tho leading thoroughfares. Barrooms are closed oa Sunday in all of Scotland, in all of Wales, and in all of Ira land, except flvo tpwus. The cost of liquor consumed throughout the United Kingdom last year was $632,140, or 17.17 per head of population. The receipts of the German Government 'from tax on brandy and spirits during th fiscal year 1892-3 amounted to $35,000,000. i A bill has passed: the Alabama House pro hibiting' the sal9 of liquor aaywhera throughout the State outside of incorporated towns. " , j . Germaay head3 the list of beer drinking countries in 1893 with 1,202,132,074 gallons, an increase of 34,000,000 over 1832, tho con sumption being thirty-three gallons per head. ' The total destruction by fire in the United States during the last twenty years amounts to $2,062,333,7741633 than the direct and in direct expense of the liquor trains for tho single year 1894. The. Temperance Chronicle of London says: "It must not be forgotten that tha state of Sweden to-day, both as regards tho consumption of alcohol and the convictions for drunkenness, is worse than the state ot Great Britain or Ireland." A Parliamentary return gives the total ; number of convictions for drunkenness iu 'England and Walos in 1893 at 153,072. Of : these 10,347 were in Wales. The total num ber of publicans jconvicted for permitting' drunkenness during the same year was 918. According to medical records, tho British Medical Association ha3 investigated 4234 deaths, taken at , random, with reference to the question of alcohol and longevity. They found the average age of temperate drinkers to be sixty-three years; careless drinkers, fifty-nine years; free drinkers, fifty-seven years; intemperate drihkars, flfty-threo years; total abstainers, flfty-ona year3.. Destitution in' Nebraska'. Official statistics; show that at least 100,000 dersons-in Nebraska will have to be support ed by charity until anothor crop is raised. In the body of an adult psrson there are about 18 pounds of blood. The blood has as it3 most important ele ments, small round corpuscles, red. and white, in proportion of about 300 red to 10 white ones. If tho number of red corpuscles becomes diminished and the white ones increased the blood is impure, thin, lacking in tho nutri tion necessary to sustain the health and nerve strength of the body. 1 Then That Tired Feeling, Nervousness, Scrofula, Salt Kheum, or others of the long train of ills, according to the temperament and disposition, attack the victim. The only permanent remedy is found in a reliable blood medicine like Hood s Sarsa narilla. which aets upon the rod corpuscles, enriching them and increasing their num ber. It thus restores the vital fluid to healthy condition, expels all impurity, cures Nerv ousnes?. That Tired Feeling, Scrofula and all other diseases arising from or promoted by low state of tho blood. That these statements are true wo prove not by our own" statements, but by what thousands of perfectly reliable people say about Hood's Sarsaparilla. Bead the testi monial in the next column from a beloved clergyman. Then take "In view o! the benefit I have had from Hood's Sarsaparilla I wish to give the fol lowing testimonial.. I havo several times beenbaily Poisoned With Creeping Ivy. As the old school ! of medicine simply tried to remove the- symptoms instead of the , sources of them, much of the poison was left in my system ,to appear ia an itching. humor on my body with every violent ex ertion in warm weather. At all times there were more or less indications of poison in my blood, up to a year ago last winter, when Large Soros Broko Out on my body. 1 then purchased a bottlo or Hood's Sarsaparilla, and after using that and a half Of another bottle the sores and humor disappeared. I attended tho Chris tian Endeavor Convention in Montreal and also visited the World's Fair in the hottest weather of the summer. Wa3 on the go all the time, but " Had No Recurrence gf the burning and itching sensation which had marred every previous summer's outing. I have reason, therefore, to be enthusiastio in my praise of Hood's Harsaparilla." Sam uel si Scitsell,1 pastor of Tree Baptist Church, Apalachin, N. Y. 13 O O. j Sarsaparilla The BIool Purifier and True "Nerve" Tonic.
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