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TT7 FRANKLIN. PRESS, VOLUME XX. F (IAN KLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1905. NUMBER 49 TED ON A DUSKY STREET. ' tier are, city domes where the day-gloom haitra anil hv nlvhl tha hrlpht llflrhta Here. Then are country homes where the sun light falls through a wealth jf aplta 'did air. Then are marble walka and colonnades and rare old porticoes. And the old sweet borne where the well sweep hanirs and the red-capped clorer (rows. I ramble oyer the city streets, on rural roads .1 roam ; I scan the houses men hare built and sane- tilled as home; nut the house where I loiter as I pass, of all where I have been. Is a little house oa a dusky street that lets the sunshine In. There Is plenty of 'ass In the little house, and Hie ehaocs are always nigh. At morn the sun poena In: "Good day!" At night it laughs : "(iood by !" And whether It skirts as'ant the atreet or peers between the walls The welcoming windows lift their panes to the mellowing light that rails. 4 LOVE AND STARS. When I watched the flock upon the Luberon I remained whole weeks with out seeing a living soul, alone In the pasturage with my dog Labri and my sheep. From time to time the hermit of Mont de l'Ure passed there to look (or medicinal heibs, or I saw the black face of some Piedmont collier; hut they were simple souls, silent by dint of solitude, having lost the taste for talk ing and knowing nothing of what was aid down in the villages and towns. Hence every two weeks, when 1 heard upon the ascending highway the bells of our farm mule, bringing me Bay provisions for the coming fort night, and saw gradually appear from below the lively countenance of the lit tle farm boy or the red locks of old Aunt Norade, I was Indeed delighted. I made the visitor tell me the news of the country at the foot of the moun tainthe baptisms, the marriages, but that which Interested me most of all was what had happened to my mas ter's daughter, our Demoiselle Step hannette, the prettiest girl for ten leagues around. Without appearing to be too much bent upon acquiring this knowledge I gathered information as to whether she went a great deal to parties and evening assemblies; whether new ad mirers were still thronging about her, and should you ask me what good those details could do me, a poor shep herd of the mountain, i will reply that I was twenty years old, and that Step hanette was in my eyes the hand somest creature on the face of God's earth. Now, one Sunday, when I was wait ing for my provisions, it so chanced that they did Hot arrive until very late. jboj-jiJds f said to myself: "It the fault of the high mass;" then oward nnnn a heavv storm came on ana i tnougnt mat tne niuie naa oeen unable to set out because of the bad condition of the road. At last, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the sky having cleared and the mountain bc ' ing all of a glitter with water and sun light, 1 heard, amid the droppings from the leaves and the overflowing of the swollen brooks, the bells of the mule, as gay and brisk as a grand church chime on Easter day. But it was neither the little farm hoy nor old Aunt Norade who was urg ing the animal along. It was guess who? Our demoiselle, my friends our demoiselle herself, seated right be tween the osier baskets, all rosy with the mountain air and the coolness brought on by the storm. The little farm boy was sick; Aunt Norade was absent on a holiday visit to her children. Pretty Stephanetto told me all this as she sprang down from her mule, and also tint she was late iu arriving because she had lost her way. But to see her so finely dressed, with her flowered ribbons, net brilliant skirl and her lace, she hud rather the air of having lingered at some dance than of having sought for her road among the bushes. Oh, the delicious creature! My eyes could not grow weary of gazing at her. It Is true that I had never seen her so near. Sometimes during the v. into, when the flock had gone down Into the plain and I had returned In the even ing to the farm-house to sup, she 'passed briskly through the hall, wl'h out talking much to the servants, al ways bedecked and a trifle haughty. Now I had her there before me, for myself alone. Wad It not enough to turn my head? When Bhe had taken the provisions from the basket, Step-lunette began to look curiously around her. Raj. Ing a little her Sunday skirt, that might otherwise have becomed. stained with mud, she entered the foi l. She wished to see the corner where I slept, the pile of straw that was mv bed, my sheepskin covering, my big cane hung against the wall, my crook and my flintlock gun. AM this amused her. "So It Is here you live, is It, my poor shepherd?" said she, with a heavenly mile. "How tired you must gt of always being alone. What do you do? What do you think about?" I had a strong desire to reply, "About you, mistress," and I should have told tha truth, but my contusion was so treat that I could not find a single word. I think she noticed this, and that the mischievous creature took pleasure In redoubling my embarrass ment with her roguery. "And your sweetheart, shepherd?" continues she. "Does she climb up here to see you sometimes? sJurely he must be the Golden Goat or the Fairy Esterelle, who kips only aver the summits of the mountains." And he herself, as she spoke thus to me, Bad tha very air of the Fairy Esterelle, with her lovely head thrown bach, the pearly laughter rippling from her cher ry Hps, and her haste to depart that made her visit seem like a dazsllng vision. ' ' "Adieu, shepherd!" "Adeau, mistress!" . And she wan gone, bearing away with her the. empty baskets. - -: When the descending road hid her from sight It seemed to me that the tones rolling beneath the shoes of the mule were falling one by one upon my heart I heard them a long, long time, and until the close of the day I was like one wrapped in a tweet slumber. And bind In hand oa tfc window-seat tb . flnwun tintue lilrh iu niuan nnu uiuoui in m mr-uuua iaj and nod to tlM seer-by. And roses bloom on the eblldrea's cheeks. I smile at their inerry din. And my heart grows light on the duikj im by tba house where tha aua shines In. There are many aorta of women and men I meet them dar by day Where the shadows (all on the lonely lives and the sunshine on the gay. And this I mark : that It matters not an much where the house may aland. Or whether It be a humble cot or a man- Ion broad and grand. But whether the window of the heart ar wide and dceo and high. To catch the glow of the smiling sub wher ever It passes by : And the life that lightens a neighbor's heart and makes the whole world kin Is the life that live, on a dusky street but lets the sunshine In. -Charles Toole Cleaves, In Youth's Companion. -j fearing to stir lest I might drive away my dream. Toward evening, as the depths of the valley began to grow blue and the sheep huddled together, bleating to re turn to the fold, I heard some one call me down the road and saw reappear our demoiselle, no longer smiling as I had seen her a short time before, but trembling with cold, fear and wet. It seems that at the base of the mountain she had found the Sorgue terribly swollen by the recent rain, and that In making a desperate effort to cross it she had nearly been drowned. The most dreadful thing of all was that at this hour of the night she could not think of attempting to return to the farm, for our demoiselle by herself could never find the way by the short cut and I could not leave the flock. The Idea of passing the night upon the mountain tormented her almost to madness, particularly on account of the uneasiness her family would feel. As for me, I reassured her the best I was able. "In July the nights are short, mis tress," said I. "It will hardly seem more than a wretched moment." And I quickly kindled a roaring lire to dry her feet and her dress all soak ed with the water of the Sorgue. After wards I. placed before her milk and sheep's milk cheese, but the poor de moiselle did not think cither of warm ing herself or of eating, and at the fight of the big tears that gathered in her eyes 1 felt like weeping myself. Meanwhile the night hail come on apace. There remained upon the crests of the mountain only a sprinkle of sun. a vapory lijrht toward the west. I In vited our demoiselle to enfer the fold and sleep. Having spread a handsome new sheepskin over the clean straw, I bade her gojdnight. and, going cut into the open air, seated myself before he door. God is my witness that, despite ! the fire of love that was scorching my blood, no evil thought came to me, nothing but an overpowering pride at thinking that In a corner of the fold, close beside the curious Book that stared at her as she lay asleep, my master's daughter like a sheep more precious and whiter than all the rest was reposing, intrusted to my care. Never had the heavens appeared to possess such depths, never had the stars seemed so brilliant. Suddenly the door of the fold opened and pretty Stephanette made her appearance. She (otild not hleep. The animals rattled the straw as they moved about, or hbatod in their dreams. She preferred to come to the fire. Seeing this, I cast my sheepskin over her shoulders. I stirred up the fiame3 and we sat down side by side, remaining thus without uttering a flngle word. If you have ever passed a night la the open air you know that at the hour when we sleep a mysterious world awake;; amid the solitude and the si lence. Then the brooks ting in thlr cleerv-t tones and the ponds are light ed en wish tiny flumes. All the tplrits of the mountain freely come and go; there is a rust lag in the air; there are almost Itnptr.eptlble :ounds, as if we heard the tree branches trowing and the f rjss sprinting tin. Day Is the life of creatures, but nlrnt Is the life of thlngF. When one is not accustomed to thl; it fills cn? vlth fear. There fc r; oar demoiselle was all of a quiver and clung to me closcl at the slightest noise. - At one time, a Ion? m-lancholy cry arose from the pent that sparkled bilow us and came rolling upward to our ears. At the same Instant a beau tiful shooting atar gilded over our heads in the same direction, as If the lamentation e heard were bearing a flash of light with it. "What Is that?" asked fitephanette In a whisper. "A soul entering paradise, mistress!" answered I. making the sign of the cross. She made the fame sign and for a moment, gazed meditatively into the heavens. Then she said to me: "Is It true, shepherd, that you peo ple are magi-1 ins?" "Not In the least, our demoiselle. But here we live much nearer the stars than the people of the plain, and know better what is taking place among the sparkling lights of heaven!" She was still gazing upward, resting her bead against one of her hands, and wrapped In the sheepskin like little heavenly shepherd. "As, how beautiful they are!" cried she. "I never saw so many of them before! Do you know their names, shepherd?" "Yes, Indeed, mistress! Listen". Right above us is 8t Jacques' high way. It goes from France straight in to Spain. It was St. Jacques de Gallce who traced it to show his road to the brave Charlemagne when he was mak ing war upon the. Saracens. Farther away you have the Car of Souls, with Its four resplendent axle-trees. The three stars in front are the three horses, and that tiny one almost against the third Is the car-driver. Do yon see sit around that shower of falling stars? They are the souls tha good God does not waal in heaven. "A little lower Is the Hayrack, or the Three Kings. The stars forming it serve as our clock. I have only to rlanc at them to know that it Is now after midnight. A little lower yet, still looking toward the. south, shines Jean de Milan, the torch of the stars. Re garding that star this Is what the shep herds relate: It appears that one night Jean de Milan, with the Three Kings and the Ponclnlere was invited to the wedding Of a star, one of their friends. The Ponclnlere, more in a hurry than the rest, started, they say, the first of all and took the highroad. - Look at her up there a,way In the midst of the heavens. "The Three Kings went by a lower road and overtook her, but lazy Jean de Milan, who had slept too late, was left behind, and, in order to stop them, In his fury he threw a stick at them. That Is why the Three Kings are also called Jean de Milan's Stick. But the most beautiful of all the stars, mis tress. Is ours, the Shepherd's Star, that lights us at dawn when we drive forth our flocks, and also in the even ing when we bring them back. We have given It another name, Mague lonne the beautiful Maguelonne who runs after Pierre de Provence and mar ries him every seven years." "What, shepherd! Are there, then, marriages among the stars?" "Yes, Indeed, mistress!" And as I was striving to explain to her what these marriages were, 1 felt something cool and soft weigh ltghtly upon my shoulder. It was her head, heavy with sleep, that was leaning against me, with a pretty rustling of ribbons, lace, and wavy hair. She re mained thus without stirring until the moment when the stars of heavea paled, efface by the dawning day. As . for me, I beheld her sleeping. somewhat troubled, but fully protected by the bright night thai has never given me other than pure thoughts. Around us the stars continued their silent march as docile as a vast flock, and at times I imagined that one of those stars the prettiest and most brilliant of them all having lost its way, hay come to me and placed its head upon my shoulder that It might slumber In peace. Krom the French of Alphonse Daudet. CHINA'S BEARDED SORCERESS. She Is Stirring Up the Natives of Kwangtung, and May Be a Man. It is reported that In the eaatern part of the province of Kwangtung there is a considerable movement on foot which. In some respects, resem bles the Boxer outbreak of 1900. The leader of this restlessness is said to be a bearded woman. She has been urging the people to form themselves Into a guild or association. She gives out that she is an incarnation of a fairy, wbo has come down to teach the people the arts of magic. Dur ing the spring large numbers of peo ple have been moved to follow her lead. She gives out that by sorcery and magic she can cast out fox devils in which the Chinese are profound believers can foretell events dis tinctly and announce what happiness or misery ahall befall the lot of oth ers. By the same "mighty magic." more over, like the leaders of the Boxer in surrection, she promises Immunity to all her sincere followers from bullet or rifle and thrust of spear, as well as from the effecls of water and Are. The people are aaid to be deeply moved. Vvealth-is pouring Into the coffers of the leaders, so that they have provided themselves with weap ons, and are now being joined by large numbers of local banditti, of whom in every place in China there are more than enough. They have already assumed the offensive and have looted some rice Btores and other shops. What their ultimate purpose is does not yet appear, but they are lay ing in stores of provisions, and have so far terrorized their neighbors that manv of the well-to-do of the people are fleeing for their lives and Beek- Inc safety In mileter districts. It Is reported that already they can mus ter more than 10.000. It Is believed, however, that the In carnated fnlry who appears In the form of a bearded woman Is nothing n-.ore than a man .who has assumed ; this giiise for the sake of secrecy and effect. Several counties have been I infected by the contagion. China I Mail. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Deafness is more common In cold countries than ia warm climates, the ear being very sensitive to atmospheric changes. In Russia, when a man becomes a baron, all his eons and grandsons, too, become barons also. There Is an animal hospital at Lode pur, near Calcutta, where there are us ually about a thousand animals under treatment horses, oxen, mules, ele phants, dogs, and even sheep, all com fortably housed and looked after by a staff of eighty native "nurses" under the orders of a British veterinary sur geon. The ancient Chinese had a kind speaking trumpet by which the words could not only be beard, but also un derstood at a great distance. A very ancient MS. of Aristotle preserved In the Vatican mentions that Alexander had a prodigious large horn with which he could assemble his army at a dis tance of a hundred stadia, or eight Italian miles. .-- There are some heavy old wedding rings at Kirk Braddan, In the Isle of Man, such as might be handy whin the flustered bridegroom loses the ring. Leaning against the north wsll are soma very ancient rings of stone, through which, In days of long ago, before the jewelers' windows glistened with wedding rings at all prices, the bride and bridegroom joined hands, It Is said, and were wedded. In the England of Elizabeth traces of the Middle Ages lingered everywhere. Only fifty years before the date of Shakespeare's marriage an Italian oc cupied the see of Worcester. Vicars-general-meted out punishments for "sowing . discord betwixt neighbors, working on festival days, playing 'fote tair In prayer time, and playing the fiddle on Low Sunday;'" and a man might be excommunicated for marry. ing in Aavei Rice Hulls In Stock Feed. The Pennsylvania Station has recent ly examined a sample of bran sub mitted by a Westmoreland County far mer with a statement that cattle re fuse it and when thoy do eat It, are purged and that hogs eating it sicken and die, one farmer In that county having lost six hogs In this way. Upon examination the bran was found to contain rice hulls. These hulls, pro duced abundantly as a waste from the rice milling Industry, differ materially from the hulls of barley, wheat, rye and oats because the fact that they contain sharp particles of silica. These are extremely irritating to the mucous lining of the digestive tract of the animals eating the hulls. The Irrita tion produced Is so Intense that many animals are sickened and often killed because of this action of the rice hulls. Indiana Farmer. Improved Roosts. Perches should always be low. Eighteen inches from the ground Is ample, and the strips should not be nailed. When nailed you have always to contend against the vermin trouble, which Is one of the worst. The red blood sucker, If allowed sufficient lati tude, will drain the system of any fowl, and the very essence of egg pro duction is drawn from the body of a hen in an Infected house. It will pay better to secure Insect proof perches, which may be constructed as follows: Have a piece of iron tubing twenty four inches long, take an ordinary Jam tin, cut a hole In the bottom of tin sufficient to allow the tubing to pass up through the tin within six Inches of the top. then solder the tin to the Iron. The perch should be about twelve Inches shorter than the length of the house. Bore a hole in both ends of perch the size of tubing, and when the tubing is fixed on to a heavy stand or driven into the floor, place the perch which should be 3x2 Inches hardwood, on top. Perches re quire to be about three inches wide to prevent crooked breasts. These are often caused by birds roosting on nar row perches. When the perch Is in position pour a little kerosene into the tins at each end, and you will have in sect proof perches. H. V. Hawkins, in the Massachusetts Ploughman. Putting up Timothy Hay. The old Idea that timothy must be entirely ripe before It is harvested has passed away. When I was a boy we used to wait until the seed began to drop from the heads before we put up the hay. But we learned there was flfwBys"'a co8rsertw--3l dejidness about the hay that the stock did not like, so one year we cut the timothy just before the seed had matured and we discovered that the hay was much sweeter and stronger. The cattle and horses relished it and it seemed to be more beneficial to them. Ever af terward the hay on our farm wan put up before it had ripened. The expe rience of most successful farmers has proven that timothy bay should be har vested while the seed are still Im mature and the fields waving green. If It is mowed down In the morning of a warm clear day, it will do to go Into the stack by that afternoon or the next morning. Never let it stay in the sunshine too long, for it will be scorch ed and thereby injured. Timothy hay will keep better In round stacks, well topped. It is not so apt to heal, in take water. If a farmer ricks his hoy he should take utmost core that the ricks are tapered gradually upward from the bulge, especially if he desires to leave them standing during the win ter months. It Is a great saving o: labor to put the hay Into the rick or stack from the swarth. W. D. Neale. in the Epltomist. Bitter Potatoes. Every year housekeepers peel away bushels of potatoes In thick parings trying to get the green off of them so that they will not taste bitter. Some potatoes are white, mealy and sweet when cooked, where others are bitter, and of a yellow greenish color. It Is when they are dug that tl.e mischief is done. The careful man digs his potatoes when the ground is not too wet, picking them up as fast as they are uncovered. Carrying them at once to the cellar, or perhaps if it Is early It would be best to put them In the barn or granary until dried off. But it must be a dark place or they will begin to turn green and keep getting darker until they are green almost clear through, and con sequently bitter and totally unfit to cat. This useless wsste of potatoes Is not necessary. And a year when they are scarce and sell at a high price per bushel it makes considerable differ ence as to toe number of bushels need ed to supply one's family. It pays to exercise a little more care when digging and storing pota toes to protect them from the sun and light that produces this green, bitter taste. It takes only a very little more time to Carefully cover them with a thick layer of vines, or a large plece-of canvas, and thus keep them In a much better condition than they otherwise would be. Potatoes should not be allowed to lay for any great length of time after being dug, even If they are covered with vines or a canvas, for the hot rays of the sun will penetrate through and spoil them. Potatoes keep best stored in a dry dark cellar. Frances C. Klner, in In diana Farmer. . . Sure Profit In Sheep. Bogs are probably the , best paying mlmals to grow on the average farms, but in some respects sheep are prefera ble. Thin Is especially true on upland farms that are too much worn or de pleted of humus to produce staple crops In paying quantities. Such fields tf fenced for sheep and converted Into pssture for them, wl yield; a great' Garden net return than if cultivated, and at the same time become more fertile, for it is a true saying that the foot of the sheep fertilizes the land. While Im proving the soil, they also improve the herbage of the pasture by exterminat ing the weeds. It Is claimed for sheep that they make larger relative gains for food consumed than any other kind of live stock. Another claim set up for them is that the annual clip of wool will pay for the expense of keep. Perhaps this la a little overdrawn, except under very auspicious circumstances, which can only be brought about by more Judicious management than usually ob tains on farms where mixed husbandry Is the practice. They require less attention during winter in the manner of housing and feeding, but thoy should be looked af ter pretty closely at lambing times, aa some mothers Ignore their young at first, and require to be penned with their lambs for a few days in order to get them to recognize the obligations of motherhood. The objection to allowing sheep and neat cattle to run in the same pasture can only apply to restricted areas, where the stock is unduly crowded. One of the most decided advantages In raising sheep Is that it requires less manual labor, the most expensive fea ture of farming, than cultivated crops, but this Is applicable to livestock gen erally, but to sheep in a more eminent degree. An Important, if not the most Im portant, essential for profitable sheep husbandry is the proper selection of breed for the desired end and the use of pure bred rams. Planters' Journal. The Private Dairy. Contrary to what some may as sert, the private dairy Is capable of producing the finest .quality of butter that it Is possible to make. Indeed, rightly managed, no creamery can fully compete with it. The very method of business forbids and prevents this. With a large number of patrons there cannot help but be some who are not up to the highest standard, and as ;t takes only a very little cream that Is "off to defile any amount, these, of course, must fix the grade of the pro duct. The standard Is thus Inevitably brought down to the lowest, or, at best, to an average one. Hence It Is that the market value.of the very best creamery butter fluctuates with every change in the general market, where as the proprietor of an individual dairy may have a set of customers who aro so well satisfied with what they are -ccl'rg that they seldom care to note thk variations in market prices, being wifTJng even to pay a little more as long us they are assured of getting the very b5st"snd having It come at regular Intervals. ' Is not such business worH; striving after? Once secured, It Is gefifially permanent, and allows the dairyman' to calculate with much certainty that his income will no longer be depending on unknown tonditions, but will be almost as stable as any of the best of investments. The cost of making good butter is about the same year after year, so that he Is quite sure to derive a steady profit from his busi ness, like a regular income. Such attainments are not arrived at, however, by mere temporary efforts Rather there must be a constant earn exercised over the work from begin ning to end. Lessons must be learned, and the Information gained turned to practical use. Good cows must be obtained; they must be fed well, and In caring for tbem tho most scrupul ous cleanliness practised In every way. The work must be conducted accord ing to the best known rules upon which success is based. The nature of the milk and cream must be studied, and every precaution against infection by improper feeding or watering care fully observed. There must be strict management throughout all tho work, and any faults found eliminated. Vari ations of weather and temperature must be taken into consideration and allowed for; otherwise it will be Im possible to procood, according to the beasons, so as to maintain a constant evenness. In brief, every feature of the practice and science of dairying must be learned and fully mastered, and then never departed from. The rulct of nature. It must be remembered are Inviolable. Like causea produce like results under all circumstances, whether for good or 111. Well, the basis of all the operations in dairying is as completely dependent on these natural laws as the growth of plants, the welfare of animals or man's own health and comfort. To succeed, therefore, the dairyman must conform to all these natural laws In every de tall. Massachusetts Ploughman. Tha Leva. Apple. Tomatoes, onco considered poison ous by our ancestors who grew the plant merely for ornamental purposes under the name of "love apples," are now grows and eaten as common food, to the marvelous extent of over 30,000,000 bushels annually. Even af ter the "love apple" was found to be non-polsonoua, the . vegetable was merely used as a condiment for flav oring purposes for a number of years, but today no household Is too poor to boast of Its use as a staple food. Lettuce too is being grown In remarkable . quantities, over 20 car loads being shipped in one day from North Carolina to the northern mar kets. The estimate Is made that twenty-two million bunches of radish es and twelve million bunches of as paragus are ; grown annually.-' Indiana Fanner. . The Literary Person. ".' One of His Friends Oh; he's quite happy. He has just started In to write poetry. Another H'm. Baa he started in to sell It? MAKING NITROGLYCERIN NOT SO DANGEROUS, WORKER8 SAY, A3 PEOPLE THINK. Cold Weather Likeliest Time of Ac cidenta Spilling the Fluid or Leaks in the Cans Most Carefully Avoided Transported Across the Country In Padded Wagons. A day with the nitroglycerin mak ers, to cay the least, is nerve exhilar ating. The fumes from the acid tanks may cut one's nostrils and stimulate the heart to unusual activity, and the purigent and stimulating ar,oma from the mixing chemicals may make one's head ache to the splitting point, but notwithstanding this there is in the at mosphere n sort of air of unusual risk that appeals to the tenderfoot that Is, after he has figured it out with mathematical precision that the chances are about one in a million that the plant will be thrown out of operation in a hurry during his stay. There Is, however, says the Indian apolis News, a throb of gratitude to the powerrt that be In the heart of the tenderfoot when at last he does get clear of the dungcr bolt with his body Intact. The process of making nitroglycerin is not extra interesting In Itself. The new Hartford City plant la one of the most modern In the country, and the new compressed air appliances used In mixing the acids and then mixing the acids with the glycerin reduce the Bpectacular side of the work. Tho old way of feeding the acid and the glycerin Into a tank and mix ing them with revolving pad dles was much more picturesque. At the Hartford City plant the acids are kept In great iron tanks similar to those used by the Standard Oil Com pany in Its local storage yards. The acids are forced from one tank Into an other and are mixed by the application of the air pressure, and then this mixed acid, which throws off a cloud of dark, angry looking smoke through safety vents. Is forced through a long pipe Hie to a small, tower-like build ing. This is the nitroglycerin house Itself. In this building are the great mix ing vats, which are kept at a uniform temperature of 50 degrees by circula tion of brine forced from a refrigerat ing plant, which passes In lead pipes around and through the tanks. The acid and glycerin are fed In with precision and mixed by gently moving automatic paddles. It is needless to say that care Is exercised by the two men superintending this process, but that care is not so painstaking as the ordinary person would expect to find. When mixed the liquid, which then looks like moderately thick molasses of a whitish brown color, is drained off into storage tanks, and from the tanks is drained into ten-quart tin cans. The liquid hits the bottom of these cans with that sort of a thud that makes one's flesh creep, until one re alizes that it Is not such a fall as this, but a peculiar Jar or friction that causes trouble. As the can fills the liquid makes a gurgling Bound that to tie tenderfoot Is not reassuring. Not a drop of the explosive is permitted to land outside the cans, and these pflfls before being used are carefully inspected,, and tested with water for leaks. A Teafcy. can' especially after It is loaded into a"won for transpor tation, means a loudjeport that awakes nn entire county, arirKwlpes everything around It out of existence. A drop of nitroglycerin on the floor probably would- mean the same thing when the friction of a foot would be applied to it. The capacity of the Hartford City plant Is about 9000 quarts of the ex plosive a day. Nine thousand quarts of nitroglycerin Is a moving power for sure perhaps an estimate of what It will do may be gained by the state ment that the safe crackers who use It carry their supply around In snfall vials and use only a few drops In blasting their way into a big aafe. The nitroglycerin clinging to the sides of an empty can. If touched off. Is suffi cient to Jar a whole community. Therefore as much care has to be used with the empty cans as with the filled ones. Though the railroads deliver the acids and glycerin to the factories in carboys and tanks they do not handle the dangerous commodity that their mixture produces. The distributing process, by which the factory's pro duction Is got to the consumer, Is more Interesting than the process of mixing the acids and the glycerin. Ev ery morning a dozen or so unusual wagons are backed up to the can ning and stock department of the factory and the horses are securely tied. These wagons have long shal low beds, and over these beds Is a heavy top that Is bound down secure ly by heavy Iron bars that are fasten ed and held in place by bolts and screws. Along the sides of the beds runs the warning: "Nitroglycerin Dangerous," made all the more con spicuous by use of red paint. These are nitroglycerin freight trains. They are driven In a fast walk across the country by nervy drivers, who have good, heavy horses. Each wagon is loaded with 900 quarts 90 of the two and a hall gallon cans which are securely packed in padded compartments. The padding is of felt and the cans push down Into the com partments snugly. When once there, the cans have no play and there Is no vibration of them. Even the bot toms and tops are padded to hold the cans firmly. The extra high and sen sitive springs under the wagon bed reduce the jar of the road., The liquid In the cans, which : be comes thin In hot weather and con geals rapidly at a temperature under 43 .degrees, swishes around some, but there is no danger In this transporta tion, provided -1 Yes provided; provided there la no leaky can. T'ual above all things else Is the thing to be guarded against. A drop . of nitro glycerin getting down on the axle or on a working spring, where It is sub jected to even the slightest friction, means that It Is all oft the whole 900 quarts and there Is hot enough of driver or horses or wagon left to takn tinMi I-lnHln. nauf- nn nltwA nff the wagon large enough to make re spectable kindling remains to tell the story and the wagon tires may be found wrapped around a distant tree top. Of course, a jar an unusual jar will do the business sometimes, but there are records of drivers going to sleep and the wagons being run off small culverts and up against fences without bad results. Them are also records of smaller wagons upBettlng and In one or two Instances they have been butted Into by electric and steam trains. It has not been three years since a car at Alexandria burled Its nose In a nitroglycerin wagon with on ly damage to the car front and the nerves of the people on the car, who did not know what had happened until it was all over and then almost be came victim of nervous prostration. These freight wagons ply between the factory and the factory magazines, or local storage houses, which are scattered all over the gas and oil fields where drilling is going on. The magazines are small houses with dou ble walls. The walls are heavy, and are about one foot apart, and between them Is packed sawdust. They are generally hidden back in a forest and are covered over with "danger" signs. They must be at least two miles from a town and a half mile from the near est house. The Interior is lined with shelves and in the centre is an oil stove, which Is kept burning night and day in fall and winter to keep the temperature above freezing point. The freight wagons are unloaded at these magazines and the stock there is turned over to the "shooter." It be comes his supply to draw on in shoot ing oil anil gas wells. These freighters' trips across the country are lonely drives. Seldom do they find anyone along their road who wishes to ride on their wagons, though they aro going in the right direction. When they pass through hamlets a wide berth Is given them, and they drive around cities and larger towns Instead of going through them. Often they are unable lo find, without great trouble, a place lo put up for the ni(;ht or to get tliclr meals, though tliey olTi r to put their wagons a half mile from the house they would grace with their presence. They are out casts v hile on the road, and often their trips are a week long. The trip from Hartford City to the Knights town fields and return takes eight days, and the trip to the Mearyvllle field, in the northern part of the state, requires two weeks. The nitroglycerin factory workers and the freighters do not get big wages, though their calling is regard ed as extra hazardous so hazardous, in fact, that they are passed by life Insurance companies, no matter how frenzied may be the companies' meth od of doing business. The freighters get $50 a month, and that might be taken as the standard wage for ex cept a Kevr experts around factories. The shooters, who handle the nitro glycerine from the magazines, and who shoot the wells, make about $100 a month. TURTLE TRADING SCHOONER. Catches Made in Canadian Marshes Landed at Pennaylvania Port. A more or less regular visitor at the port of Erie each season Is the schooner Bertha Wallace, Captain A. Winne. She is only 35 feet over all and 11 feet beam, and hails from Port Clinton, Canada. Her only cargo Is of turtles that are carried in a squirming mass down in the hold. psifMi made her first voyage for tho sea son a wW)LJtgo, being later this year than usual, asfTre-Jiej..aj-ejatJiet scarce yet, Captain Winne says, but he expects to do better from this out. He had only 2800 pounds this time. These turtles are caught In traps set in a marsh behind' Long Point, Can ada, nearly opposite Erie. The traps are much like fishnets, and are bait ed with fish. Captain Winne has often as many as 60 traps set. They have to be watched as carefully as an animal trap. The captain has been in the business for 35 years; he Is a full cousin of Consul General Wynne, though he spells his name differently. The turtles he brought over this time would not average more than nine pounds each, though a few of them weighed- 20 pounds. The largest one he ever brought here weighed 60 pounds. It was kept in Erie to fur nish soup for the patrons of one of the hotels. These turtles, when they arrive here, are turned over to a flsh com pany, which ships them all over the country, a good many of them going to a company in Ohio, which then ships them et. To unload the turtles a man gets down among them in the hold, then seizing each one by Its tall, never by Its head, he gives It a quick fling that lands It always on its back on the dock; here another man, taking a new tall hold, throws It into a box, which when it Is full Is nailed up a shipped right off. V. There Is no duty to ne paid oi turtles;- they seem to have be gotten when tho last tariff wi up. They are not even protect In the United States, at leant. this state, though the frogs ar est. and Stream. A Noted Russian Ex Prince Peter, Kropotkln, th Hussion social reformer, no at Bromley. He belongs to nrmiriest and oldest Russia It Is said that ha had a l to the throne than Alexarl career haa been unique. wished to study music, i couraged by his father, that all men required t(, Ic was how to turn ov a lady. He has been explorer and geograt former, revolutionist, llterateur." There l reflection In the far ' ia now In exile, h ' favor at the Ru was apolnted c Czarina. Lond German lnsu to take any rl climbers unle;, of the party " THE UNPARDONABLE 8IN. nil things ure one woman will forgive With her whole hrsrt and utterly forget 'Gslniit ynur neglect her wrath Is fugitive, Ho be It uu conic and swear jou lor her yet. And fslthlessnfFH msy be sasolled by faith, Crime by ronrmtion, aln by suing to- Angetlr pity, ibat with heavenly breath I'ardnna the sin ere the petition's through. All things t.are one ! And now the tims diaws near Whn till one delict, not to be sasolled,.. Men do unwittingly commit: to clear Their skirls nf which full many rain bavo lolled. , The time draws near when In a costume new - (Hat oh. s dream! Dress ok, still dreamier ! Your lady, wife or sweetheart, upon you Will dawn. And when a space you've looked at her. If you do let the ripe occasion pass Without pleased comment, fair and favor-. Hble. You hove committed that one sin! Alas! ller dav i)t ruined, hoi- breast with son row full ! New Orleans Times-Democrat. JUST FOR FUN "Yes, s,he's married to a real estate agent and a good, honest fellow too." "My gracious! Bigamy?" -Philadelphia Press. Monahan Phwat Is this joo-jltsoo? Oi dunuo? Morlarty Ut's prize folght in' by correspondence, Oi'm thlnkin'. Judge. Krlend Honestly, old fellow, I can't make anything out of your poems. Poet That's my trouble, too! Mew Or leans Times-I)'emo'rnt. "What are the principal places of in terest al out New York?" "You'll have to ask some stranger. I've lived hero all my life, you know." Judge. "Are you going to send your son back to college?" "No, the coach says he hasn't a chance of making" "the leven." Cleieland Plain Dealer. Tli- Kv,i.rd-Sv;allov:rr Who lied that knot in the hoa tonsil l- tnr? The Albino The snake-chnriuer. She want ed to n-in-nilii r something. Cleveland Lender. Sllllcus When I was a boy the doc tors said if I didn't stop smoking cig arettes I would become weak-minded. Cynlciis Well, why didn't yon? Phil adelphia Record. Browne Is our daughter going to take a post graduate course after col lege. Green Yes. Love-making, rais ing orange blossoms, and the care of the young. Life. "Who is it that robs ua while we aro asleep?" asked the teacher, trying to get the class to spell the word 'burg lar." "De gas meter," shoutod the boys In uny ffUJcago Dully News. "Let me J my fate ia them teaoi you," interrupted pupils enough nJ er. "Diamonds are becoming more ex pensive every year," said tho caller. "Yes," answered young Mrs. Torklns, '"and judging from what Charley 8 vs, so are hearts, clubs and spades." Washington Star. "When Korroughs first eanie Into this neighborhood he was very pleas ant, but now he seems to try to keep everybody at a dince." "Naturally. Everybody is a creditor of his now." Philadelphia Ledger. Tfce DepartfHgl?itst (after paying Ms bill, sarcastically rely bop& jour conscience won't trouble Summer Hotel Proprietor (blandly) Don't worry, sir; we don't care how " you got the money!- Puck. "I'm afraid, sir," said the teacher, re- M gretfiilly, "that your boy will never learn to spell." "Oh, that doesn't mat-Z ter," replied the fond parent, "I'm go-it--'' Ing to make a sign painter of him, any way." Chicago Dally News. "What is butter today?" asked, tha,, possible customer." "Butter is butter -today," answered the waggish grocer, with a shriek of laughter. "Glad to hear It," said the other, cheerfully; "the last I got here was axle-grease." Cleveland Leader. Mrs. Nurltch Yes, we were going to leave our flat for the summer and take a bungalow at Bonton Beach. Mrs. Ascum Why didn't you? Mrs.4 Nurltch We discovered at the last minute It had no elevator In It Just fancy! Philadelphia Press. "You wdild advise a young man la politics to start out boldly as a Re former?" "Certainly," answered Sena tor Sorghum. "It Is getting so tt the public won't give anybody a chance at the plum tree unless he claims to t e a reformer." Washington Star. Cynic (savagely) "They say- : fashionable mother of today recogrr her baby only by tonkin nurseiS A 1 1
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