the polk county news. (columbus, nc) 1902-09-25 [p...

i tGreat Cost of Hauling'.', ,

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? Eear of death in the mid" t cl cs.torm which, threatened to send theschooner Fred A. Small to the bottomis said to have changed Herm Blanco,a fuli-bloode- d negro, into a white man.The change lasted three days. .Then,so thestory goes, Blanco's naturalcolor asserted :. itself once more, andhe resumed his .place on shipboard as

'a man of ebony. : -

"I had heard of a negro turningwhite from fright," said Captain Z. R.Thompson of the Small, "but it was :

tae first time I ever saw such a trans-formation, Ordinarily Blanco is asblack; as night, but while the stormlasted he . was almost as white assnow." .f ,

In a wrecked condition the schooner-cam- e

- into port yesterday, and . wastowed to drydock. Three weeks agoslo left "v alparaiso with a cargo ofwood, birds, and-monke- ys. Six dayslater she ran into a severe storm. Forfour days and nights her crew waskept on deck. On the fifth day top-mast and bowsprit wert by the board.All this time Blanco, the cdok, is saidto have grown whiter and whiter.New York Mail and Express.

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the . Cross. ; ; r. Sincerity is tbe

secret of; success. ?

Singing faints areseldom sad ones. .

He who was oftenweary , can alwaysgive us rest.

To break our mir-o- rs

will not makeus beautiful. s

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The worldy-wi- se

nay be eternallyfoolish.' It takes more than money to make aliving. -

Strength in prayer caniot be meas-ured by length.

It is vain" hope that the chains ofhabit will rust off.

The recording angel cannot be fooledby church reports.

To be at our best tomorrow we mustbe at our best today. i f

When a father is too tender his sensusually balance things: .

. You cannot worship the Father whileyou are wounding the child. v'.:- -

Good intentions do not improve withage. V --v- :k - Z

; Grapes of peace do not grow onthorns of passion. '!

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We do not . need the Cross without ifwe have the Christ within. i ;

Self-knowled- ge will cure self-lov- e.

Practical piety must be personal, j

Half a truth may be a whole lie. I

Iniquity is the first cause of infirmity.? !

The love of God-i- s the light of manjThe avalanche starts with a peb--!

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The greedy man alvays cheats .liim-- lSelf. v;.. :,i

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Sense and sanctity are not antonyms j

Profanity is of ten a species of insan- -ity. ' :: 1- .y' v.

Humility, is one of the gates ofheaven.The flames of lust quenches the light

of life. y,. ;;;t ;; Permanency : of pleasure depends onpurity of purpose. J

The world's premiums are neverworth the cost of the coupons.

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A Land Speculation.John Jacob Astor, son of William

H., married a Miss Gibbs, while theother son, William, married MissSchermerhorn, a member of an oldand opulent New York family whobrought, him a ' fortune. These twobrothers built adjacent houses inFifth avenue, which they occupied tilldeath, wlien the buildings were de-

molished and the lots-- each 100 feetfront were occupied by the Waldorf-Astoria- r

The combined property be-

fore the hotel was erected was worth$1,500,000, and yet it cost' old JohnJacob less than $200. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

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Incandescent lamps emit more heatthan is generally supposed, only sixper cent, of-- the energy of the current,being converted into light. A sixteen-candle-pow- er

lamp, fed by a current of100 volts, has heated; ten ounces ofwater to boiling point in an hour, andfires celluoid in five minutes.

An effortlis'being made to secure theestablishment of a Government biolog-

ical station1 on the great lakes.; Thepurpose of !sich a station is to investigate all --the problems connected with

their whole extent, principally for theprotection )f the commercial fish.

A new lifeboat from Scotland is in-

flated automatically on being plungedinto the Abater. A perforated metalcase lipids materials for generatinggas, togetherwith a spiral spring heldunder tension by a strip of paper, andas the paper becomes wet it tears, releasing th J

spring, and this.

causes themixing of the chemicals and the beginning of the gas-makin- g, vi ;

It has remained 'for a New Orleans-railwa-

company to discover the deco-rative and advertising value of a smokestack. ItJ height obviously renders ita conspicuous feature of the city's per- -

spective, And when encircled with aspiral of incandescent lamps it stands'out in the! night a veritable beacon of.light. Th0 top is decorated with clus- -

ters of lamps, the light from which re-

flected on jthe clouds of smoke issuingfrom the phimney make a most pleas-- ;

ing picture. ;c

TExperinlents by the Governmenthave shown that no matter what the

i . . . .process oi cooiiing, meat loses a great;deal of it bulk, owing to the evapora-- f

tion of thje water, whicb constitutes alarge par: of all flesh. This loss isgreater in small pieces than in thelarger onfes. In a lean piece of beefweighing I from one to one and three-quarte- rs

if a pound, the loss of weightwas 45.Gjper cent, while in a pieceweighing! from; five to five and three-quart- er

pounds the loss was only 39 8per cent. 1 The loss of nutrition is notnearly sq great, however, as that ofthe weight would seem to indicate.

The substitution of crude oil for softcoal as af fuel for both stationary andlocomotive engines is steadily grow-ing. If. Jthe cost of oil can ; be mate-rially reduced the use of it will increaseeven more rapidly. v Most of the fueloils nowf come from the new fields inTexas and California, and the greatdrawback to their general use is thelack of facilities for regular and cleandelivery.! Theoil producers say that; ifi m t ft i- i jmere were a line oi xanu sieamersthey coujd deliver oil in New York atthirty cfnts a barrel; and that wouldbe equivalent to a supply of coal atone-thir- d the normal price. Oil hasmany advantages over coal it makessteam niore quickly, keeps the press-ure mor even, emits no smoke, leaVesno ashes and does not, clog the flues.In the cpst of handling, too, it has theadvantage, for one fireman using bilcan do the work of four using coal. I

J JExerclslng Horses.An English army officer, writing on

the ear of horses, says: "Regularityof exercise is an important element inthe development of the highest powers 1

of the liorse. The horse in regularwork will suffer less in his legs thananotherj for he becomes gradually andthoroughly accustomed -- to what is j re-

quired of him. The whole living, ma-

chine accommodates itself to the regu-lar denlands on it; the body becQmesactive nd well conditioned, withoutsuperflojis fat, and the muscles andtendons gradually develop. Horsesregularly worked are also nearly ex-

empt frbm the many accidents whicharise frm overfreshness. j

"As 4 proof of the value of regularexercise? we need only refer to thestage ()ach horses of former days.Many oJC these animals, though by nomeans of the-- best; physical frame,would trot with a heavy load behindthem fdr eight hours, at the rate of :enmiles .

ah "hour without turning a hair,and" thi work they would continue todo forJ years without being sick' orsorry. T Few gentlemen can say ; asmuch lor. their carriage horses. Nohorses, in fact, were in harder condi-tion. ;-

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"On he other hand, if exercise; bejseglectjkl. even for a few days in ahorse if high condition, he will put onfat. He has been making daily jthelarge amount of material needed tosustain! the consumption caused by: hiswork. I If that work ceases suddenlynature Iwill, notwithstanding, continueto supply the new: material ; and fat,followed" by plethora and frequentlyby dislase, will be the speedy conse-quence!"'

J LonRfellovr.Longfellow turned out about one

volume of poems a year for manyyears; pearly four years' were required,for hisftranslation of 'Dante."

Torcfon lace, of any pattern can nowbe maje by one machine, owing to acecent invention in Vienna.

greater inteUlgence as totted olgood roads. Governmentshow that in the South the averagecost of hauling a ton a mile is twenty-fiv- e

cents, that the average length of""Ui lu ul5?lKet is twelve and one-ha- lf

" tneri"e it costs the' Southerntnn eraP 53.12 to haul a

row, if a farmer haulsiweive tons of stuff to each horseworked on the farm, and runs,, sav, afive-hors- e farm, his Z hauling for theyear will cost $1S7, a much larger sumthan he is likely to suspect

Government calculations, based oncensus reports, reveal the astoundinglac .that the haulinc connected- with

" vV- - one-iourt- n

mejalne. of the produce raised

VEGETABLE JVI1MICRY.

Stapelia and Other Flower, That TTnv'";

. Fetid Odors.Quite a number of flowers have dis

tinctly mimetic odors. It can 'hardlybe doubted. for example, that the of-fensive ; smell of the carrion flowersstapelia, Aristolochia, arum, rafflesiaand others is more effective in promoting cross fertilization because of itsresemblance to tne odor of putrid meat.So completely are the flesh flies de-

ceived, that they often deposit theireggs on the petals of carrion flowers.

Fetid odors, occur in byronia, hello- -borus, geranium, stachys, ballota, irisand other gen era. The odor of othershave a curious resemblance to' thesmells emitted by certain animals.Hypericum hirinum and orchis hircinaare bad-smellin- g flowers with an odorresembling that of the coat: corian- -

drum sativum has the fetid smell ofbugs, while the hemlock, agqin, emitsa strong odor of mice. Alone withthese may be mentioned adoxa, themusk orchis, the grape hyacinth andother musky-scente- d flowers.

The resemblance in smell b?twcenthese flowers and the secretion 'formedin the scent glands of the musk oxand other animals is. to say the least,a remarkable coincidence. Possiblyflies which accompany cattle" may beattracted by smells of this description.Very curious also is the vinous smellof oenauthe, and the brandy-lik- e aronlaof the yellow water lily nuphar, heuecalled the branfly bottle. Etheral oilsexhaled by plants, while attractive Josome animals, seem to repel others;the scents of sweet-smellin- g flowers,such as daphne, thymus, marjoram,melilotus and gymnademia, thoughgrateful to bees and butterflies, appearto be distasteful to ruminants. Kernerstates that in general the latter avoidall blossoms; even the caterpillars? donot readily attack the petals of theirfood plants. Odor may therefore beprotective or attractive or it may beof use in both ways. The same remarkapplies to color, which may serveeither to attract or repel; the richlyvariegated leaves of the Indian nettles

species of coleus and the tintedfoliage of begonia and geranium maypossibly escape injury on account; ofthe general resemblance to coloredblossoms. h Instances in which oneplant resembles another in smell arenot very common In the floweringclass, though cases do occur like thegarlic mustard and apple-scente- d

saliva. Resembling odors are muchmore frequent among fungi. Knowl-edge. -

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An Awkward Tosltion.The following incident occurred at an

entertainment in a large provincialtown. On the programme a certainvocalist was down to sing 4The Miner'sDream of Home," and to add specihleffect to the son,g he, having a frienda nreman at tne nrc swuuu, auuuithree minutes' walk from the hall, ranout and borrowed his top-boot- s.

His turn on th,e prrgramme camearound. He appeared on the stage Inall the glory of a red blouse, slouchhat, white breeches and (the fireman's)top-boot- s. His, rendering of the songwas a great success up to the middleof the second verse, when a commo-

tion was heard at the entrance of thehall. V'..

Thea a hot and eager fireman forcedhis way through the audience up tot'he footlights, and' bawled out at thetop of his voice:

"Bill, (you've got to come out of them'ere . boots if you value your life. I'mcalled to " Tit-Bit- s.

Xhe First of Its Kind. .

The peace agreement between theBritish and; Boer leaders is typewrit-ten, and is probably , the first instru-ment of the kind. Louis Botha's sig-

nature is described as being in a "fine,clerkly hand." The others are allsomewhat rougher, and Delarey's isstated to be the roughest of all. By

the way, he splits his name into threesyllables, thus:- - de la Key, while his

colleague of the late FreeState signs himself Christian de Wet,also with a small "d."

The raail from London to Shanghai,which now is on .the way thirty -- threeto thirty-si- x days, will require, only,

sixteen days via. the Siberian Railway.

To Build Earth Roads.OT WITHSTANDING all that I

been done or proposed inNhas way of rdadi improve- -the real problem for

--tbe ir?xt twenty-fiv- e years will con.H!P tO be how to make good dirt-- .is. Model roads, under ' the : Hig

Armstrong act, or any other pos- -

M,ip act, will not cover, the, State; of;"w York with macadamized roads in- -

of seveuijf-u- e jcaio. me cuange. , ,k ..11 nor un ueiiTi-uiiui- e iu iiih i nnniv i

mside of twenty-fiv- e years. Ibourse, this kind of should

pushed forward with earnestnessflncl liberality. The trolley meanwhile

a great ways to supplementhe macadam, but both together cannot

lift, us out of the slough. - We must.gtudy the dirt road question, and notconsider it as of little, importance.County engineers, taking charge' nnderthe pay system, ought to make a solution of the question,; wmch the oldpatlmiaster system did not, and nevercould have done. A good dirt roadcould never be made by surface drain- -

in?. It was no more possible and'never will be possible than to makedry meadows by surface draining.

The farmer knows that he mustunito'drain his land, and do it thorfoujhly. But if you go into a highwayand drive a spade down in the middleof your road you will find that thecrust even in the dryest weather isrot more than six inches in thicknesslHow long a rain will it take to softentins cr break it up entirely? The resultis mild holes, and in a wet spell almostimpassable roads, and this has beenthe history of our country roads eversince we took possession of the landard laid them out; It would continueto be the story forever under thepatbmaster system. What is neede'dis in: derdraining as well as surfacedraining. In some cases a main ditchalone: the centre of the road, thoroughly laid in six or eight inch tile, wouldbo sufficient. In other cases it wouldneed tlie French system of tile ditcheson each side. European model roadsiiave these deep ditches four feet deepon cub side of the road, and in somecases there is an additional ditch downin the centre, all tiled and covered.The expense of such a dirt road would,of course, be vastly less than a macadam; or tel ford road, and it wouldpay for itself in the saving of a singleyear to the farmers adjacent. Therecould 'be no objection to a thoroughlyTrell laid stone drain, where tile iscostly and stone plenty. In otherirc?:cls, drain your roads as you drain

jour meadows, and they will be passable driveways and-- haulways at - allseasons of the year. We note thatTvhcre trolleys are built they improve.I.- - .1 ! i S

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1 !A. lit- - ifl 1mi' drainage, ana no it wnn coverqulraius.-- E. P. Powell. Clinton N. Y.

Foster Self-Kespe-ct.

Good roads foster a proper self-r- e

spect, both in the man who uses themand the man who lives adjacent tothem.

New Jersey Commissioner ofY Publiclioaus: Bad roads are costingymanya farmer much of the self-respe- ct hefeels when driving along a good roadat a good pace, with clean buggy, cleanharness and a clean horse., .T. A. Mount, ex-Gover- of Indiana:The man who lives surrounded withgood highways, who-see- s a good turnout soincr by. drivinsr rapidly, withIiandsomely dressed people in the conveyance, will think more quickly, hasicre pride and is apt to catch inspiratmn and .become more active and

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n . W. Pendergast: To sum up, a perfeet highway is a thing of beauty anda joy forever. It blesses every homehy v.hich it passes. ' It brings intoPleasant communion people who othervis;e would have remained at a perpoiiiai. distance. It awakens emulation,enr. outs friendships and adds new

' en.irin to social life.- - It mates tuoit traverses more attractive, the

i'e;U'ncc3 more delightful: it stimu- -

I'ieids. begin to look tidier, shabbyfences disappear, gardens grow fewerAvecfb, laTVEs are .better kept, theJ ,JMst;:i seem cosier,' trees are plantedl!f its borders, birds fill the airv.ith music, the world seems brighterand tiif- - atmosphere purer. The coun-- "

tly is awake,, pa triotism revives, p Wl-ntbrb- py

blossoms as selfishness fadesnd nks frcm view. The school-hous- e

and the church feel the magicinSuence the wand of progress' hastouched even them; the old are young

gain, the young see something new tolive-- for, and to all life seems Tvorth1!--

e living. The .daily ; mail .reachesJ.ch home. The rural cosmopolitan"e!s the daily pulse of the world."Wheelmen are no longer" confined ; tol!je cities. Bicycles, now within reach01? aH. are no strangers among farm-trs- -

The golden days of which ihejets long have sung are upon them.

Uo areams jrOf. the past are coming

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