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The I Maxton XJnionT i j A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THKIB INTEREST. VOL. IV. NO. 49, MAXTON. N. C TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1890. $1.00 A YEllt TOWN DIRECTORY. g. F. McLEAN Mayor. H W McNATT 0 H. BLOCKER, W S. BYRNES, y J. CURRIE, i i ) Commi4" I sioner. A-I BURCK, Town Marshal. LODGES. KNIGHTS OT HONOR, No. l,720jmeets o'i second and fourth Wc-dnerday's at 7.:0P. M. J. E. WEATHERLY, Dic tator r B. F. McLEAN, Reporter. y. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.30 P. M. WM. BLACK, President. MAXTON GUARDS, WM. BLACK. Captain, meets first Thursday nights of each month at 8 P. M. CHOSEN FRIENDF meet on second aad fourth Monday in each month. Argus Shaw, Chief Counselor ; S. W. Parham, Secretary and Treasurer. MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF pYTHIYS, meets every Friday night, .rept first in each month, at 8 o'clock. ftOKESON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY Iv J A Smith, President: E K Proctor. Jr., 1st Vice Pres. ; Dr J D ("room. 2nd V r'. A D Brown. Sec'y; Wm Blok, Treas and Depositary; Ex Com. Rev H G Hill, I) 1), L S Tnwnsend, D P McEcehern. J O bough, 11 McF.ochfrn; Auditing Com., K V McRae, O H Blocker and B DCaldwdl. l EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Kev .Joseph Evans, Rev H G Hill, D D, Kev J 8 Black, Kev O P Meeks, K'-v J F Finlayson, Jos McCollurn, JP Smith, Duncan McKay, Sr SB Brown, Dr JL McMillan. AUDITING COMMITTEE. j P Smith, 1) H Mcfcieill, J A Humphrey-' Plara of next meeting Lumberton, N. C. Time of next meeting Thursday, May tfnh, M'.), at 11:30 o'clock a. m. Bibles and 7estanients can be purchased of W'ui. Black, Depository, Maxton, Is. C, it c wt. All churches and Bible Societies in the county inrited to send delegates. Forward all collections to Wm Black, 2'reasurer, Maxton. N C. CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN, REV. DR. II. G HILL, Pastor. Services each Sabbath at 4 P. M. Sunday School at 10 A. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday uftnnioon at 5 o'clock . METHODIST, REV. J. W. JONES P:i.tur. Services each Sunday at 11 A. M. Suu-av School at 9 30 A. M. MASONIC. MAXTON LODGE A. F. & A. M. inci'W 1st Friday night in each month at s p. m. GENERAL DIRECTORY OF RoiiF.soN County. Senator. J. F. Payne. Reprrxmtativux, ( T. 31. Watson. S D. C. Regan. 1 E. V. M. Rae. W. P. Moore, Covin tv ( 'uuitiiissiohers, B. Slancil, I T. McBryde. I .. S. Oliver, C. S. ('., ( . B. Townseod. Sheriff, II. McKachen. Rc'r Deeds, J. II., Morrison, Tre.tsurer, W. W. MoDairmid. 1 J. A. McAllister Eo:ird of Education I " J. S. Black, S J. S. McQueen. 8upt. Pub. Instr'n, J. A. McAlister. Coroiienfe Supt. of Health, Dr. F Lis R The New Orleans Times-Democrat is authority for the assertion that "the agricultural lands of the West are bur dened with mortgages to the immense sum of $3,450,000,000, bearing seven to nine peroent. interest, to say nothing of the costs and commissions of agents for procuring these loans of money." Princess Christian, the second and meu popular daughter ot Queen Victoria, w on the eve of entirely losing her sight She ha been suffering for some time pas1 from an affection oi the eyes similar to that which arllicted her great-grand. father. Kino- George III., of England, 1 also hei first cousin, the late King oi Hraevcr. both uf whom were totally blind during tb,t last lorty years of theii lives. T'nv London Speaker calls Mr. Staulcy c ': oalv the greatest traveler ot the ace; uo its shortest tempered man. It likens him to an American iu his veadi c' to pick a .juavrel, aud accuses him if behaving more like a bumptious boy han like u well-balauced person, and, worst of all, it v barges the defect of Stanley's temper upon his training as an American reporter. There is so nething startliug, thinks the New York Tribune, in the announce meat that a Baddhist Ecumenical Couu cil is about to take place at Paris. Tin creed, incredible as it may seem, appears to be securing numerous proselytes it France, aud according to M. Leon di Rosny, the illustrious savant ant profes 8r of the Sorbonne, there are no les thai 30,000 followers of Buddha in Pari? a'0ae. M. Villemin. the Vice-Presiden 0i French Academy of Medicine, ha uo-,vt.a yi. de Ro'sny's example ia be Cunua a v. on vert to the belief, which hi Qec 0f au reiigions the one leas a-cu-t to lecoiiciie Tvith science, and tever, the most beautiful and practi Hlisii o: thought now in eziita$t NEWS SUMMARY. FE0M ALL OVER THE B0UTHLAHD, Aooidents. Gal amities. Pleasant Ifews and Notes of Industry, ! TENITESSEE The electric railroads of Nashville have proven such a good thirg that their owners are after! more roaos, and having already secured; all here they arc compelled to seek other fields. Mr I. T. Uhea has just returned from Sivat oah, Ga., where he purchased the en tire railway system. The partie? inter ested are I. T. Rhea, Thos. TV. Wiennc and J. H. FalL The system will be equipped with an electric plant. In answer to a call issued by the pre-, idents of all local trades unions in the city, in the interest of a central organi zatiorj, and to' generally promote the organizing of Chattanooga in all trades and cadiegs, about five hundred men met at the court house park. They were addressed by Colonel Toinlmson Fort, who spoke on organization, union ism and the promotion of work in g men's conditions. He was followed '"by" Capt. A. G. Sharp. Secretary' Napier, of the Republican State Executive Committee, has receiv ed a letter from Chairman H. S. Cham berlain, of Chattanooga, stating that the State Conversion has been postponed from May 18th to July 30th. This is fifteen days later than the Demo cratic Convention. The Baptists will build a new $l,50u church at Roanoke. Miss Mary Motheney, of Salem, was shocked by lightning. The Cripple Creek railroad is b-dco extended from Ivanhoe to Speedwell. Thirty new buildings are in course of erection at Vinton. Engineer Henry Simpson jumped from his engine near Concord depot, and fractured his skull. The Richmond and Danville railrOdJ has purchased a majority of the bond of the Danville and New River railroad. A petition ia in circulation in Danville for the appointment of Mrs. Sarah H Martin for postmaster. The Confederate monument was uu veiled with impressive ceremonies at Petersburg, and Captain W. Gordon McCabe made the oration. The American Bridge Company, o Roanoke, have ordered $20,00? worth of new machinery, and have re ceived a large lathe for use at the works. An extensive addition is being made ti the foundry, and arrangements com pleted for the construction of addition al building 25x100 feet in dimentions. The company also have a force of hands at work on the foundations of a 150-toh furnace for Mr. George T. Mills, at Pulaski. NORTH CAROLINA, Charlotte is stirred up about tax re turns publication. Revenue officers made a raid in Stoke county. Raleigh will have a big Fourths, July celebration. W. T. Howard has been 'appointed postmaster at Red Oak; R. Brem at Swain Quarter; W. Q. Denton at Zito J. H . Edwards at Battleboro. Architect Leary, of Charlotte, h been awarded the contract to build Trinity College at Durham. The builc ings will cost about f 125,000. The judicial convention of the Raleic .. ; i district has been called to meet at Smith ! I field July 1st. i j The citizens of Poplar Tent, Cabr ttl ! j county, will raise money enough to erei ; a monument in memory of the twenr. i dead soldiers buried in the cemetery i that church. " j The North Pharmaceutical Associate j meets in Morehead City on Julv Sth I 9th and 10th At the same time aud ; place the North Carolina Board of Pha j macy meets to examine such candidate ; i for license to practice Pharmacy as ma. appear. .... ; . The case at New Berne against "PtL : Leg" Williams, the immigration Agent. charged with abducting a negro. boy las ! winter, has been withdrawn. William- ! says he has been greatly interruped anU ; inconvenienced by the case trumped up. 1 and he proposes to bring a carnage tuu ' for 10,000 against thore who'brougti the chaiges against him. The Richmond and Danville Rih.ad : Company will remove the cotton com j press at West Point, bplonying to the company, to Charlotte. It is to be re moved immediately and will be erected at the Air Line junction The comprts- is exactly like tne one new iu use Lea, and has the same taacity. It wiL probably be leased to Mc Fadden and Co., of Philadelphia. Superintendent Portrr i t WashingtOD. : fwo inventors of submarine and air received information to-day from tVt : ticft. boAl built on different systems, census supervisor iu ithe district of; he maafe 'experiments in Toulon Harbor Asheville the p.cple there r,re evading, President Carnot in cutting wire the numerators, mfo-.n.in-then, through; tnritloes nd mines with tne servants wnen tr ey i .iM i list mere is no one in who i tu live them the . information. Mr. Po.ttr uus writt-n t;i to Senator Yane and Ilepresentati ve ' Lwart, asking them to use- their in fluence with tne people of Abbeville, so ' that the cejs is .vrk will not be intei fered with. " SOUTH CAROLINA. The Lexington grand jury brog'-.t in a true bill ajai"St F. C Caushm. i , and Pierce G Tafl rffor the Ivnchir ( i at wuie i.eipnm ju nil last moi.ic. ; i Solicitor Xelnou will have fl?e Uwjml arraigned against him for the defene. Indictments will also be handed in againit G. S Graham and W. J. Miller for subordination of perjury. The June report of the State Depart, ment of Agriculture, compiled from 240 reports of special correspondents, shows that, with a few exceptions, per. fct tanis of cotton exist throughout the State. The plant is healthy, ngor our and well advanced, blossoms having been reported in the lower counties several dys ago. Tee average condi tion is 103. against 73 last year. The iricrea.-e in acreage is four per cent. An excellent stand "of corn is reported and the crop is clean and growing caelv. Eighteen months ago L S. Reeves, of Marion, tried to exterminate the rats on his place. He got a quantity of poison, and putting it" in cake distributed it about his premises. Among other places he put some of the poisoned cake in the ioft of his barn. A few days ago two little sons of the farmer, five and six yeais old, were playing in the barn loft. They found a few small pieces of the cake, and both of them ate some of it. They were soon made iil and every ef fort was made to save them, the father knowing what was the matter, but one of ; them has died and the other cannot live. The voung ladies of the Confederate Home School, Charleston, the only one in the South, have paid a tender tribute to the memory of Gen. Lee. There were sent by express to Miss Mildred L'e at Richmond, Va., four .Vfeath?, t.vo.of Magnolia and Pal metto, most artistically designed, and two of Ivy. Accompanying the wreaths were a number of Magnolia bidorns and caids suitably inscribed. Mfss Lee was requested by letter to place the wreaths and Magnolias on the equestrian statue of her father. Capt. Tillman has declared on the - uu.p that those members of the Legis lature of this State who swore to obey tha Constitution and then refused to vote for the census and new appoint ment required by the Censtitution per jured themselves. There will be a big barbecue dinner iiven the C onfederate survivors at Lan caster Court House on the 22d of July. A grand time is anticipated. On Monday afternoon, while a storm va? impending, two sons of T. G. Tyg iale, a farmer of Williamsburg county, -r-nt into the field to drive their tur keys to shelter. Some time after the lather noticed one of the boys stagger ing as if dazed. He went to his assist ance and was shocked to find the body i the other son, a boy of eighteen, ly ing on the .ground. Lightning had s'ruck a small sapling that was in the field, and seventy-five feet from where the boys were. The eldest was instant ly killed, and the younger dangerously shoefced. GEORGIA. Oj Friday night last, near Collin'c 'tation, in Monroe county, Mr. J. C. P .;e. tad two sons Jim and Will, were oiptuied by two or three United States aarshals while running an illicit distil U ry. They were carried to Macon and theie were released oji a $600 bond to apgear at the October court. The northern business men of At lanta, Ga. , have formed a club sone what en the plan of the Southern Club in New York city, having a member ship of 300 and for object in life the dissemination in the north of correct ideas about the south and in the south of correct ideas about the north. It is an excellent mission. Greater knowl edge of ' each other will ensure the friendliness of the two sections. Sheriff Thornton, of Dawson, re turned from Anniston. Ala., bringing with him Mr. Linton Pottor. who nad been arrested under a requisition from the Governor of Georgia Six years ago an indictment for mur der was found against Potter by the Grand jury of Terrell county, but as he had left the State no arrest was made until last week in Anniston. The party alleged to have been killed was a negro whom Mr. Potter was er deavoring to arrest at Bronwocfd, he be mg at that time a constable in this cunty, and the negro was shot whib. ; .uoning to escape arrest. ' v Mr. Potter is the son of the late Rev j J. M. Potter, a former pastor of tho iethodist church at Bronwood, an-' his mother is an invalid. j From every quarter of Milton count j comes the news of newly dif covered I minerals. In Double Branch there is 1 iro j. gold, silver and asbestos. In Bii ! Crtek and the Old Fir3t there is iron ' und gold In Alpharetta district there j is iron without end. The Alabama Midland made a liberal bid for the privilege of hauling the first i ear load of melocs shipped from Pe!- I i .am. The read offered the shipper, ! Te rr Himt. a bonus of f 100 and fre: , transportation over its line. Boats That Due Like Loom. electrical batteries. One is tne iymnoie and the other the Goubet. The latter has one advantage over the other it can dive down straight in deep water like a duck and get on a horizontal plane before it touches bottom. The other has to dive c.n a gradual plane and disturbs the water aooveit, thus betraying its presence. The Goubet is now so perfect that it can be steered in any direction, can double with extraordinary speed, aud can stand LUUUVVViUk w still underwater. In muaay water ii " " r.r-7 (Wia?Mgi.-7 ..iZLZ CONGRESS. WHERE THE BILLS ARE AT PBE3EN I. Some tn in Senate OommitWa Rooms, isd Sons with the Pmidtnt. Washingtcs. After the reading oi the Journal, the Houae went into Com mittee of the Whole on th sundry civil appropriation bill. Mr Cannon of Tlhnnia that the amount cf the appropriation carried by ice measure was in round numbers 000, 000. This was f 18. 000, 000 le than the regular and special estimates. The sundry civil law for the current year provided for an expenditure of $25,000. 000. Mr. Cannon gave a statement of the at titude cf the appropriation bills. The 14 regular appropriation bills, as .report ed to the House, aggregated an expendi" ture of 1300,000,000, showing an excess of $3-5,000.000 over the appropriations of the current year. This , was nearly all eccounted for in three bills, pensions, $15,000,000, postcrlce $12,000,000, and naval $2,160,000. The other 3, 000, 000 resulted from the expansion incident to '.he growth of the country. The only bill not reported to the House vas the general deficiency bill, and this vould be reported before the close of .he fiscal year. With the Senate Com mittee on Appropriations were the agri cultural, the diplomatic and the postof ice bills, and in the Senate Committee n Commerce the river and harbor bill. Pending in the Senate was the legislative Jill. The fortification bill had passed both Houses, with Senate amendments. fhe District of Columbia naval and pen sion bills were in conference. The army and Military Academy bills were in the hands of the President. This was a fa vorable showing with the condition of bills two years ago. .. ' THE TARIFF BILL, the work by the Republican mtm- trs of the Senate Finance Commrtte u the tariff bill is drawing to a 1 oit. in; completed scneauies of tn i'lt, except those of tobacco Jnd sugar, have been given to the minority, and isnator Carlisle is now engaged in pre paring the report of the minority, to ac company the presentation of the bill to he Senate. It is said that the major ity will make no report in the shape of m argument in favor ot the measure, confining Itself to a statement of the easons for making the changes report ed, and a table showing the relative specific duties in caaea where ad velo- um duties are laid, in accordance with the resolution passed by the Senate . The Senate is at work on the silver question. KNOWN BY NUMBERS. A Novel Statement from One of the Oinsui SupsiYUors- A rather singular proposition was made to superintendent Porter, of Washington, D. C, by CenVus Supervi sor Ashley, of the 5th Pennsylvania district. He states that the Huns' Poles, and many of ihe Italians com posing the foreign element in Lacka wanna, Luzerne and Canton counties refuse to give any information to the census enumerators These people are employed by companies and contractors, he says, and are known by numbers, each man wearing his number on his person and responding to it. As they refuse to answer the census questions, the supervisor suggests that the enumerators Be instructed to take account of such employees by their number. Superintendent Porter did not like the idea, and informed the su pervisor that ih? census office would not help to perpetuate a state of things where large numbers of laborers are treated more like beasts of burden thaa men, and are known only by numbers. He then gave positive instructions that a sufficient number of enumerators aod interpreters be emoJoyed to procure the information called f n by the census schedule I'8Te)opment of the South, ine Chattanooga Tradesman, in its tport of new industries established in he Southern States during the week cudinging June 7, records the organiza tion of -57 new industries, the incorpor ation of 19 new railroad companies and thrte electric street railway companies. The Tradesman reports among the new industries during the week a 5,000 cotton and woolen mill organized at Houston, Texas, a $230,000 cotton mill a: Monroe. La . a 200,000 car coupler fictorv at Nevr Orleans, a 50,000 foun- " drv at Jackson, Tenn . a $500,000 gas company at Asheville. N. C, a $100,000 cotton gin factory at Pilot Point, Texas, a $1,200,003 mining sad improvemert company at Bartow, Florida., a $50,000 development company at Caitersville, Ga , a $1,000,000 mining and' furnace company at White Sulpher 8prings, W Ya , a $500,000 development company Ht Harper's Ferry. W. Va , a $500,000 smelting works at Hot Springs, Ark -, Si 25,000 woolen mill at Bridgeport, Ala Hotels are being built at Bain bridge. Ga., NewtODN. C, Winston, X. C , Wytheville, Ya., a theatre at Birmingham, a university at Tarpon Springs, Fla. New baDks were estab lished last week at Fordycr, Ala., Brunswick, Ga.. Mount Olitet, Ky., Bastrop. La., Yiekiburg, Min , Hico, Texas, Mason, Texas. Tyler, Texas. Hereafter, the National salute will be the same for both the army and navy, ieaiy-one gun. rvcpi uu iuucumcuiv Dsy, when it will be forty-two. eorre ipcsdisf W tbf nuobir of tht State. j Hew Qneen Victoria Travels. Whenever Queen Victoria goes to or comes from Balmoral Castle she sends hex check of 5000 to defray the railway expenses of the journey. Five thousand dollars is a considerable sum, yet it dcres not begin to pay the cos: of the journey. In the first place, her Majesty has to Lave a special train : this train is pre ceded, by a pilot engine ; no other trains can precede or follow this special train within the space of twenty minutes; this special train is under the personal super- j f general paseager agent of I - .- - the road, ana he chief engineer and by other heads of de partments, even down to an upholsterer, whose services may be required by the breaking ot a chair or the dUlodgmeut of & couch. The Queen sometimes pre fers to travel siow; in that event the speed is slackened, or, in case hex Majesty wishes to travel faster, the spetd is increased ; the train is wholly at the Queen's command, and not unfrequently tedious stops are made, thereby stopping traffic along the whole bine. But the enormous expense is incurred in the practice of having the entire length of the road policed while the special train i en route. Trusted watchmen aie sta tioned 500 yards distant from one an other along the entire line, and they signal to the approaching train when all is well or when there is the least suspicion of evil. Every time the Queen goes to or comes from Balmoral the Northwestern railway loses a pile of money by it ; yet the road would not lose the job for any considera tion . Her Majesty has always evinced a partiality for the Northwestern, and the advertisement accruing therefrom to the road is worth many thousands of pounds. The ambition of the English to be known as contributing to the comfort of the royal family is quite remarkable. Trades men in Bond street are free to say that they would be glad to provide the royal household gratuitously with everything it requires; the public is always anxious to spend their money where the Queen and the Prince of Walea do their buying. How deeply the Prince of Wale is in debt, who can tell? The talk is that he owes his son-in-law, the Duke of Fife, an enormous sum of money. Fife ought to be a tolerably happy young man; he is very, very rich, and is exceeding popular; he has the noblest castle and most picturesque estate in Scotland; he has married a Princes3, and she is one of the heirs to the British throne. Fife is in a position to bid calm defiance to all the rest of Gran'ma Vic's household. Chi cago ifeiCJ. An Extraordinary Beacon. The most extraoidiuary of all light houses is to be found on Arnish Rock, Stornoway Bay a rock which is separa ted from the Island cf Lewi a by a chan nel over 500 feet wide. It is in the Hebrides, Scotland. On this rock a conical beacon is erected , and on its summit a lantern is fixed, from which, night after night, shines a light which is seen by the fishermen far and wide. Yet there is no burning lamp in the lantern and no attendant ever goe3 to it, for the simple reason that there ii no lamp to at tend to, no wick to trim, and no oil well to replenish. The way in which this peculiar light house it illuminated is. this: On the Island of Lewis, 500 fe.pt or so away, ia a lighthouse, and from a window in the tower a stream of light is projected on a mirror in the lantern on the summit of Arnish Rock. These rays are reflected on to au arrangement of prisms, and by their action are converged to a focus out side the lantern, from where they di verge in the necessary direction. The consequent ia that to all intents and purposes a lighthous exists which has neither lamp ncr lighthouse keeper, and yet which gives as serviceable a light taking into account the requirements of this locality as if an elaborate and costly lighthouse, with lamp, servics room, bed-room, iiving-rocai, store room, oil-room and water tanks, were erected on the summit of the rock. Deformity the Mother of Fashions. Disraeli declares that the origin o many fashions is to be found in the en deavor of the devotee to conceal somi deformity of nature by recourse to art. Patches were invented ia England'," he says, "by a foreign lady, who by thii means ingeniously covered a wen on hei neck. Wigs were invented by a Frencs barber to conceal an elevation in tht shoulder of the Dauphin Charles VTL, of France, introdrced the long-tailed coat to hide his ill-made legs. Shoei two feet in length were invented to con ceal a large excrescence on the foot ot the Duke of Ac joe. When Francis I. was obliged to wear his hair short, owing to a wound on his neck, it became a pre vailing fashion at court.'" Detroit Fret Prtu trea Oari Wrecked and Half Dvzt Lives Lost A construction train collided with . freight train on the St. Louis, Keoku aad Northwestern, on a curve Wu twe4ve miles south os Hannibal, M . and twelve cars were wrecked. Fire men Arthur Taylor and Berry Nelson were scalded to death. Engineer Loui Carver was injured about the hip so srms. Engineer FiUpatnck jumpe .nd escaped with slight injuries. Con ductor Omar Lemons was slightly in jured internally, and Brakemaa Tucke was seriously nurt. as error oi iraib vupaumer isavmson, saiu vo um uu un :a twelve years, caused tfet wreck, H $stf miS!. QUEER TROPICAL THINGS. ASTOUNDIKG OUT 3 OP NATUTUSXH CENTRA!, AWKRIOA. A iVeturnea Engineer Tell otj Tr That Give Bread and Milk and Ants That Distil Honey. jj 'There are some funny things to be me: with in that region,' said Major Quincy A. Steele, who has been with an engineer corps, surveying railroad route in Central America for the past two years, 4 'and among the funniest are' a tree that give a light so strong that you can read or write bv it at night, and one that gives Xmilk, and another that provides the way farer with bread. Then there is an ant that supplies you with sweetening for your coffee, which is an interesting native of that queer country. The tree that gives light isn't a large one, but it iin't inconspicuous bv anv means. Tpe last place we camped at in the mountains we had a I particularly bright specimen of this tree to work by. I could sit tefeet away from it and read line print as well as if it had been broad diy light. As soon as night comes the leaves of this tree begin to shine as if they were so many electnc ughts. Looking on aero country one can see scores of the trees shining here and there in the darkness like beacon lights set in the hills. ! They make a very choice article of runt from the leaves of this treee by boiling them down and letting the decoction stand iu the sun for a day or two. The native In dians are fond of ttm tipple, and at least one of our Indian helper! and guides is usually engaged in snoring Sri the result of injudicious tampering with thiferum while it is a trine new. 4iThetreel am speaking of doesn't grow more than ten feet high, but three of them would light up a town. If you rub the leaves smartly between! your hands, they will glow in the dark like a lightning bug. The Indians call this tree the witch tree, and I don't blame them, It gives the best light just after it has been drenched with watei , and so if the tree begins to grow a little dim ou us, all we have to do it to douse two or three pails of water over it, and it's just like giving a lamp wick a turn or two higher. One of our party had a big idea of going home and organizing a company to introduce and cultivate this tree in towns and cities, and knock gas com panies and electric light plants higher than a kite; but when he found that the tree stops giving light in August and doesn't start up again until the: next March, he thought the scheme wouldn't i 'The tree that gave the bread we used to eat down there doesn't look a bit as if it would do it. But looks are very decep tive under the Equator. The bread isn't exactly bread when we pick it, either. It iaa nice stiff dough enclosed in a nut sheli about the size of a goose egg. W crack the nut, taice out the dough, knead it a little, and it is ready for baking. By thinning it down to a batter with the milk we get from another tree, our camp cook used to make first rate pancakes out of it. The day I left'he strained the sweetening out of a quart or two of ants, mixed it up with a batch of the dough, and made sweet cake that would j have been good enough for anybody's folks to set before company. 4fcThe ants that supply the honey, or syrup, or whatever it may be called, are worth a day's travel on mule back-over these mountains to see. They are about the size of a small peanut, and on their back is a transparent sac that they distil full of honey until they swell up as big as a good-sized marble. You can scoop these ants up by the neck. They make this honey to feed their young onj but they are so good-natured ana so sus ceptible to familiarity that all you hae to do is tickle them on the foreshoulder and they will give you up every drop of honey they have, and then go meekly off to fill up again . "But this accommodating ant isn't a whit more curious than the tree that; acts in the capacity of dairy down there. This tree has a big, tough, leathery leaf, that can be used for half-soling shoes. When we want to milk one of these cow' trees we bore s hole in the trunk, and it: lets down a sap as white and as sweet as any milk that wai ever it ripped from a cow. To get sweet milk out of thU tree, though, it must be miiked early iu the morning. After the sun lias been up tWo or three hoar the trft gives sour milK. Jytru ivTh .?. Canine .sentinels. 1 ' The canine entmeU now bing trained in Northern Franc-, learn their duties quickly Two snldiera start on leading a dog by hi ui!ir, asd when a mil from the starting point, one of the men turns back, says an exchinge. Iu a short tune the dog in let UrAr, vud he imme diately tracks the other soldier back to the port, rarely failing. Dog wili scent an enemy at a distance of 100 yards, growling and anihliog to attract the sol diers' attention. - In scouting they are even more useful, for, thry search fields and thickets indefstigably soldiers :in foreign uniforms bring hidden there as decoys during the leous and on find iug an enemy at once run back to their keepers, showing every sign of agitation. It is a very comical sight to see the dogs t drill, when theTsgrant cars of the neighborhood generally collect near io watch the proceedings vr York TtUh gram. Methcdiidi i shortly to celfhralt -t
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