Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 November 1908 — Page 6

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LIGONIER,

HAPPENING OF A WEEK

PERSONAL. President Charles W. Eliot, for more than 40 years -the head of Harvard university, tendered his resignation to take effect May 19, 1909. . The seventy-fourth anniversary of the birth of the dowager empress of China was celebrated at Amoy, and the event was made the greatest day of the festivities in honor of the visit of the American fleet. | ¢ Mrs. Alice Cheney Brown of New York swindled a Chicago brokerage firm out of $20,000 in bonds, was arrested as she was leavihg for Denver, gave up her plunder, confessed and was allowed to go. . B. C. Whitney of Detroit, proprietor of several theaters, sustained a fracture of ‘the skull in ap automobile accident at Brownstown, Ind. Thomas F. Levis, postmaster at Grant Works, 111., was arrested on the charges of embezzliig $9OO and making false reports. = President Roosevelt issued the annual proclamation setting apart Thursday., November 26, as Thanksgiving day. Orville Wright, the aeroplanist, left the hospital at the Fort Myer (W. Va.) army post to which he had been confined for six weeks. > After being out two hours, the Jersey City (N. J.) jury in the case of Theodore Whitmore, on trial for the murder of his wife, returned a verdict of not guilty. ‘William H. Flictner, a New York -lawyer with offices in Wall street, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in the penitentiary for grand larceny. GENERAL NEWS. Prince - Louis d'Orleans-Braganza and Princess Maria-Pia of BourbonSicily, were married at Cannes, France. Fire destroved $200,000 worth of property in the business portion of Sherman, Tex.

J. Nelson Veit; a young New York broker, killed his wealthy mother and himself presumably = because she wouldn't be reconciled to his marriage. ey .

Business property valued at $500,000 was destroyed by fire in Pembroke, Ont. =

Near Jefferson City, Tenn. Victor McMahon, a prominent farmer, probably fatally shot Mrs. John Wilkes, the wife of a tenant on his farm, while shooting at her husband. Wilkes then emptied the contents of a shotgun into McMahon's breast.

Israel Janesson, former cashier of a 2 bank in Lindersburg, Sweden, who was arrested by a detective at Yankee Bush, Pa., has, it is alleged, made a complete confession, admitting he abstracted 127,000 kroners of the bank’s funds. : : _

President Edmund J. James of the University of’ lllinois, issued an address on the subject of hazing| to the students, in which he declared that the sport will not be tolerated and that any student found “uilty. of hazing will be dismissed from the university. ; >

Mrs. Catherine Louis Lynn of Chicago, while mentally deranged, killed her baby girl and cut her own throat. Maj. Henry Burnett, 60 years old, of Osceola, Ark., shot A. B. Chaney, a saloon-keeper of Chaffee, Mo., who killed Burnett's son last September. An official statement made public at Paris sets forth that France intends to insist fir’;nly upon arbitration in the Casablanca incident. : The various Japanese associations interested in foreign trade gave a banquet in Tokyo in honor of the representatives of the Pacific coast business interests. - The Unionist pgrty won in the elections in Porto Rico and Tulio Larrinaga was re-elected congressional delegate. ‘ : Jonah Kalaniaole, Republican territorial delegate to congress from Hawaii, has been re-elected by a decreased plurality. : As the result of an election row, Will Jones of .Unitia, Tenn., was killed by A. B. Hull of Madisonville, Tenn. ; - .

Harry Sampson, a nephew of the late Admiral Sampson, was found shot to death in his residence near Palmyra, N. Y. z i Abont 150 helpless inmates of the asylum for feeble-minded women at Rome, N. Y, were rescued from a burning building. ‘ ; At Heidelberg, 4 Lee county, Ky, Ephraim Angel and Harvgy Ross engaged in a fight, and as a result Angel was shot and killed and Ross wa¥ fatally injured. Count Zeppelin made a flight in his airship with his daughter and Duchess Vera of Wurtemburg as passengers. With the refusal of President Castro to revoke his order prohibiting the transshipment of goods for Venezuelan ports from Curacao, in, compliance with the demands of the Netherlands government, the %fll of a _ blockading fleet of Duteh ships is ex- ~ pected at one of the Veneziielan ports. _ers totally destroyed the Belton (Tex.) - compress and 10,000 bales of cotton. :., = = e St ‘»‘ i s AR e L RReE fay::\: %u A UL LBS ÜBOVE BETWOWD. t‘ L 3

The anniversary of the independence of the republic of Panama was celebrated enthusiastically in Colon. An edict issued by the emperor of China confers a decoration upon the dalai lama of Tibet who has been absent from Lhassa for the last four years, grants him an annual salary of $B,OOO a year and orders him to return to Tibet. .

INDIANA

Two of the Wisconsin counterfeiters, Albert and Hugo Donnerstag, who sawed their way out of the Dane county jail during a rainstorm, were recaptured at the home of their brother, Rudolph, in the wilds of northern Wisconsin.

Four men were injured, two of them fatally, by the fall of a derrick at the new courthouse in Duluth, Minn. A collision between two motor boats filled with fishermen bound for the fishing grounds in Jamaica bay, New York, resulted in the death of one man and the destruction of one of the motor boats.

While 10,000 spectators were loudly cheering his successful flight with a glider, when 70 feet in the air, Lawrenee J. Lesh, the 16-year-old areonaut, fell to the ground with terrific force at the Morris park racetrack, fracturing his ankle. _ : Justice Stafford of the supreme court of the District of Columbia overruled the motions for new trial made by Frederick A. Hyde and Joost H. Schneider, convicted last spring of conspiracy to defraud the United States in ' connection with securing fand grants in Oregon and Washington.

Robbers entered Hubbell (Mich.) post office, blew open the safe and stole $5OO worth of stamps and some valuable papers. , ! Miss Zilpha Purcell of Boone, la., died in great agony from ivy poisoning. The sickness was contracted six weeks ago while in the woods. The village of Savannah, N. Y., was almost totally destroyed by fire.’ . President Roosevelt declined the offer of the British colonial office of the freedom of the government shooting preserves in Africa. L Herman Krause and William Wanderse, aged about 61, pioneer farmers of Wright county, Minnesota, were run down by a Soo line passenger train and killed. ;

F. O. King, superintendent of schools at Atkins, Minn., for six years, committed suicide by taking poison. After confessing their guilt to the police John Kurka, a teamster, and Mrs. Anthong Schultz were arraigned before Justice of the Peace Gerhard in Hamtranck township, Michigan, and pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering Mrs. Schultz’ husband, who was, a half-brother of Kurka. The latter said that the crime was attributable to an illicit affection between himself and his half-brother’s wife. Charles A. Hengerer, son of the late William Hengerer and former vicepresident of the William Hengerer Company, one of the largest department stores in Buffalo, N. Y., committed suicide by jumping into the river and going over Niagrara falls. A spectacular fire that was marked by many thrilling incidents destroyed the lumber yards of R. A. & J. J. Williams, in Philadelphia, entailing a loss estimated at $750,000. :

- H. W. Strubble, an employe of the Call airship, was instantly killed at Girard, Kan., while the propellers on the ship were being tried out. One of the rear propellers struck the victim on the head. .

News was brought by the steamer Antilochus of heavy floods and great loss of life in Formosa. All the rivers in the neighborhood of Keelung, Ciram and Tanko oerflowed and 40 junks were wrecked. e

“Jimmy’’ Britt, the California . fighter, defeated Johnny Summers of! England in the tenth round at London.

The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company was given a contract for the electrification of the Pennsylvania terminal inn New York and the lines in New Jersey and Long Island connected with it. - The initial amount of the apparatus required under this contract will aggregate $5,000,000. ) ;

As the result of a livery stable fire in St. Paul, Minn.,, 100 horses perished and one man was missing. Safe-blowers secured $4,000 worth of jewelry at the store of Samuel J. dahn in Boston, but they overlooked a bag containing diamonds valued at $15,000. - :

Newspaper . comment, ridiculing or bewailing the negligence of Chancellor Von Buelow and the foreign office officials in letting pass the interview with the German emperor that was printed in London, seems to have made the position of the chancellor untenable and it is believed that his resignation will be offered and accepted soon.

It was reported that Russia was about to send an ultimatum to AustriaHungary and was mobilizing the army. While experimenting with his “wind wagon,” Dr. Julian P. Thomas, the aeronaut, met with an accident at the Morris park experiment grounds of the Aeronautic society, and was seriously injured. John B, Jackson, a prominent mil lionaire of Pittsburg, Pa., was thrown from his horse and killed.

Thirty-nine New York cooks, lamndresses, nursery and chamber mailds were the recipients this year of the prizes given annually *by the German Housewives” society for faithfulness and length of service. President Roosevelt has agreed to recommend to congress in his next message the passage of a law to conserve the public health, similar to the one proposed by the American Medical association. ] Winston Green; a negro youth, was electrocuted in the state penitentiary at Richmond, Va., for attempted criminal assault. . 5 OBITUARY. Tomas Estrada Palma, the first president of the Cuban republic, died at Santiago. J. Park Alexander of Akron, 0., former state seénator an? a prominent Republican, died, aged 7% years. . Chester A. Fraser, assistant superintendent of terminals of the Milwaukee road at Chicago, and for eight years station master in Milwaukee, died ~ Mrs. Ilfl:‘& Wm of “Lit. og Rl o

= Light Freights = “CAVENDISH”

{(Copyright, Dodd, Mead Company.)

“Talking of prize fighters, sir,” said the night watchman, who had nearly danced himself over the edge of the wharf in illustrating one of Mr. Corbett’s most trusted blows, and was now sitting down taking in sufficient air for three, “they ain’t wot they used to be when I was a boy. They advertise in the papers for months and months about their fights, and when it does come off, they do it with gloves, and they're all right agin a day or two arter.

“The strangest prize fighter I ever come acrost was one wot shipped with me on the Cavendish. He was the most eggstrordinary fighter I've ever seen or ‘eard of, jand ’e got to be such a nuisance afore ’'e’d done with us that we could ’ardly call our souls our ow e shipped as an ordinary seamgfi—a unfair thing to do, as ’e wag/ anything but ordinary, and ’ad rgf right to be there at all. . “We’d got one terror on board afore he come, and that was Bill Bone, one o' the biggest and: strongest men Il've ever seen down a ship’s fo'c’s’le, and that’s saying a good deal. Built more like a bull than a man, 'e was, and when he was in his tantrums the best thing to'do was to get out of ’is way or else get into your bunk and keep quiet. Oppersition used to send ’im crazy a’most, an’ if ’e said a red shirt was a blue one, you ’ad to geep quiet. It didn’t do to agree with ’im and call it blue even, cos if you did he’d call you a liar and punch yon for telling lies.

“The v'y’ge I'm speaking of—we used to trade between Australia and London—Bill came aboard about an hour afore the ship sailed. The rest of us was already aboard and down below, some of us stowing our things away and the rest sitting down and telling each other lies about wot we’d been doing. Bill came lurching down the ladder, and Tom Baker put ’is 'and to 'im to steady ’im as he got to the bottom. :

“‘Who are you putting your ’'ands on? ses Bill, glaring at ’im. “‘Only ’olding you up, Bill,’ ses Tom, gmiling. - g

‘Oh,” ses Bill. “He put ’is back up agin a bunk and pulled his-self together. “¢’oOlding of me—up—was you? he ses; ‘whaffor, if I might be so bold as to arsk? 3

“‘I thought your foot ’ad slipped, Bill, old man,’ ses Tom; ‘but I'm sorry if it 'adn’t.’ .

", ‘-‘fiifl—l_&;ka at ’im agin,’ ard. . “‘Sorry it my foot didn't slip? he ses.

“‘You know wot I mean, Bill,’ ses Tom, smiling a uneasy smile. “‘Don’t laugh at me,” roars Bill. “‘l.wasn't laughing, Bill, old pal, ses Tom.

“ 'B's called me a liar, ses Bill, looking round at us; ‘called me a liar.

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““Wot? sereams Bill, starting.

“‘Don’t mgke such a noise when I'm speaking,’ s« Joe; ‘where’s your manners, you gireat 'ulking rascal ¥’ “I thought Bill would ha’ dropped with surprise at being spoke to like that. His face was purple aJI over and ’e stood staring at Joe as though 'e didn't know wot to make of ’im. And we stared, too, Joe being a smallish sort o’ chap and not looking at all strong. \ “‘Go easy, mate,’ whispers Tom; ‘you don’t know who you're talk-

quietly, pointing to Tom, ‘ard I'll give you such a dressing-down as you've never ’ad afore. Mark my words, now.’ :

“ ‘] wasn’t going to ’it him,’ ses Bill, in a strange, mild voice. ““You'd better not,’ ses the young 'un, shaking his fist at "im; ‘you'd better not, my lad. If there’s any fighting to be done in this fo’c’s'le I'll do it, Mind that.’

“It's no good me saying we was staggered, becos staggered ain’'t no word for it. To see Bill put ’is hands in 'is pockets and try and whistle, and then sit down on a locker and scratch 'is head, was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Presently ’e begins to sing under his breath. “ Stop that 'umming,’ ses Joe; ‘when 1 want you to 'um, I'lll tell you.’ “Bill left off 'umming, and then he gives a little cough behind the back of ’is 'and, and, arter fidgeting about a bit- with ’is feet, went up on deck again.

“¢'Strewth,’ ses Tom, looking. round at us, ‘‘ave we shipped a bloomin’ prize fighter?’ : “He was a ordinary seaman, mind, talking to A. B.s like that. Men who'd been up aloft and doing their little bit when ‘e was going about catching cold in ’is little petticuts. Still, if Bill could stand it, we supposed as we’'d better. = :

“Bill stayed up on deck till we was under way, and ’is spirit seemed to be broke. He went about ’is work like a

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“‘Get up,” ses Tom, dancing with rage. ‘Get up; prize fighter or no prize fighter, I’ll mark you.’ : “‘Sit down,’ ses Bill, turning round. “‘l'm going to ’ave a go at 'im, Bill,’ ses Tom; °‘if you're afraid of 'im, I ain’t.’ = {

“ ‘Sit down,” ses Bill, stariing up. ‘“’oOw dare you insult me like that? “ ‘Like wot? ses Tom, staring. . “llf I can’t lick ’im you can’t, ses Bill; ‘that’s ow it is, mate.’ “‘But I can try,” ses Tom. “‘All right,’ ses Bill. ‘Me fust, then if you lick me, you can ’ave a go at ’im. If you can’t lick me, 'ow can you lick ’im?’ :

“That was the beginning of it, and instead of 'aving one master we found we'd got two, owing to the eggstrordinry way Bill had o’ looking at things.

“In about three days our life wasn’t worth living, and the fo'c’'s’le was more like a Sunday school class than anything else. In the fust place Joe put down swearing. He wouldn’t ’ave no bad langwidge, he said, and he didn't neither. If a man used a bad word Joe would pull 'im up the fust time, and the second he’d order Bill to ’it 'im, being afraid of ’urting ’im too much 'imself. :

“Then Joe objected to us playing cards for money, and we ’ad to arrange on the quiet that brace buttons was ha’-pennies and coat buttons pennies, and that lasted until one evening Tom Baker got up and danced and nearly went off ’'is ’‘ead with joy through havin’ won a few dozen. That was enough for Joe, and Bill by his orders took the cards and pitched ’‘em over the side.

“‘l wonder whether you’ll see that little gal at Melbourne agin this trip, Bill,” ses Ned. “ “Wot!’ screams Bill, waking up out of ’is sleep, and jumping out of ’is bunk.

“‘lt was only a little joke o’ mine, ses Ned, who saw ’e’d put ’is foot in it. ‘Bill ‘ates 'em worse than—worse than —pison.” - i “‘Oh, very well then. I'm going to 'ave a bit of fun now,’ ses Joe. ‘Bill!’ “‘Yes,’ ses Bill. - . ~ “‘ won't 'it Ned myself for fear I shall do 'im a lasting injury,’ ses Joe, ‘BO you just start on 'im and keep on till ’e tells all about ycur goings on with that gal. “Ned wasn’t much of a fighter, and 1 ’alf expected to see 'im do a bolt up on deck and complain to the skipper. He did look like it for a moment, then he stood up, looking a bit white a 8 Bill walked over to 'im, and the cadra MaR boo i e B

]-Bm wasn’t on the floor. 'E got up as it 'e was dazed like, struck out wild | at Ned and missed ’im, and the next moment was knocked down agin. We could ’ardly believe our eyes, and as for Ned, ’e looked as though ’e’d been deing miracles by mistake. S All right, ses Bill; ‘Tve ’ad enough. . I've met my master.” : | “‘Wot? ses Joe, starting. o “‘I 'ope 1 didn't hurt you, mate,’ he ses, kindly. i “'Hurt me? roars Bill. ‘You! You 'urt me? You, vou little bag o’ bones. ‘Wait till I get you ashore by yourself for five minits, Ned Davis, and then you’ll know what 'urting means.’ “It was a mystery to all of ‘us, and it got worse and worse as time went on. Bill didn’t dare to call ’is soul ’'is own, although Joe only hit ’im once the whole time, and then not very hard, and he excused ’is cowardice by telling us of a man Joe ’ad killed in a fight down in one-o’ them West End clubs. : . 7

“Wot with Joe's Sunday sch((gvl ways and Bill backing ’em up, we was all pretty glad by the time we got to Melbourne.

“Arter we’d been there two or three days we began to feel a’most sorry for -Bill. Night arter night, when we was ashore, Joe would take ’‘im off and look arter ’'im, and at last, partly for ’is sake, but more to see the fun, Tom - Baker managed to think o’ something ito put things straight. - ““There’ll be an end o’ that bullying Joe,’ ses Tom, taking Bill by the arm. ‘We've arranged to give 'im a lesson as’ll lay ’im up for a time.’ “‘Oh,” ses Bill, looking ’ard at a boat wot was passing. “"We've got Dodgy Pete coming to see us to-night’ ses Tom, in a whisper; ‘there’ll.only be the second officer aboard, d4nd he’ll likely be asleep. Dodgy’s one o' the best light-weights in Australia, and if ’e don’t fix up Mister Joe, it’ll be a pity.” . : “At about ha'-past six Dodgy comes aboard, and the fun begins to com~mence.

“He wds a nasty, low-looking little chap, was Dodgy, very fly-looking and very conceited. I didn't like the look of ’im at all, and unbearable as Joe, was, it didn’t seem to be quite the sort o’ thing to get a chap aboard to 'ammer a shipmate you couldn’'t ’ammer yourself. “‘An’ what's that in that bunk over there? ses Dodgy, pointing with 'is cigar at Joe. 7 “‘Hush, be careful,’ ses Tom, with a wink; ‘that’s a prize fighter.’ “‘Oh,’ ses Dodgy, grinning, ‘I thought it was a monkey.’ “ ‘Bill, who is that ’andsome, gentle-manly-looking young feller over there smoking a half-crown cigar?’ ses Joe.. “‘That’'s a young gent wot's come down to ’ave a look ’round,” ses Tom, as Dodgy takes 'is cigar out of '’is mouth and looks 'round, puzzled. “‘Take that lovely little gentlemnan and kick ’im. up the fo'c’s’le ladder, ses Joe to Bill, taking up ’'is jacket agin; ‘and don’t make too much noise over it, cos I've got a bit of a ’eadache, else I'd do it myself’ “‘Wot’s the game? ses Dodgy, staring. : : “‘l'm obeying orders,” ses Bill. ‘Last time I was in London, Joe ’ere half killed me one time, and ’e made me promise to do as ’'e told me for six months. I'm very sorry, mate, but I've got to kick you up that ladder. . ““You kick me up? ses Dodgy, with a nasty little laugh. “‘] can try, mate, can’t I?7’ ses Bill, folding ’is things up very neat and putting ’em on a'locker. “The fust blow Bill missed, and the next moment ’e got a tap on the jaw that nearly broke it, and that was followed up by one in the eye that sent 'im staggering up agin the side, and when ‘e was there Dodgy’s fists were rattling all round ’'im. g “I believe it was that that brought Bill round, and the next moment Dodgy was on ’'is back with a blow that nearly knocked = his ’ead off, Charlie grabbed at Tom’s watch and began to count, and after a little bit called out ‘Time. It was a silly thing to do, as it would ’ave stopped the fight then and there if it 'adn’t been for Tom’s presence of mind, saying it was two minutes slow. That gave Dodgy a chance, and he got up again and walked round Bill very careful, swearing ’ard at the small size of the fo'e's’le. . “He got in three or four at Bill afore you could wink a’'most, and when Bill ’it back ’e wasn’t there. “Cahrlie called ‘Time’ again, and we let ’em ‘ave five minutes. ‘ “In five minutes more, though, it was all over, Dodgy not being able to see plain—except to get out o’ Bill's way—and hitting wild. He seemed to think the whole fo'c’'s’le was full o’ Bills sitting oma locker and waiting to be punched, and the end of it was a knock-out blow from the real Bill which left 'im on the floor without a soul offering to pick ’im up. : * “Bill ’elped ’im up at last and shook hands with ’im, and they rinsed their faces in the same bucket, and began to praise each other up. They, sat there purring like a couple o’ cats, until at last we 'eard a smothered voice coming from Joe Simminsg’ bunk. ~“ s it all over?" he asks. « ““‘Yes,’ ses somebody. - “ ‘How is Bill?" ses Joe's voice again. “‘Look for yourself,’ ses Tom. “Joe sat up in ’is bunk then and looked out, and he no sooner saw Bill's face than he gave a loud cry and fell back agin, and, as true as I'm sitting here, fainted clean away. We was struck all of a ’eap, and then Bill picked up the bucket and threw some water over ’'im, and by and by he comes round agin and in a dazed sort o’ way puts his arm round Bill's neck - “‘Mighty Moses!’ ses Dodgy Pete, jumping up; ‘it’s a woman!’ “t's my wile! sen Bl 0 | “We understood it all then, leastways the married ones among us did. She’d shipped aboard partly to be with Bill and partly to keep an eye Bill was to get 'er home e couldn't: e, waiting for eve "o 5 1o mfié‘“’ . *%?ms@w‘ T Mz@w% 3 &*’i, h;‘ *% ‘z#" %;;‘%‘z,gg‘wn,j‘ fi’“’} N e @{\”’M& e “’3’, SXNIE T

CACAO, e BEAN v COCOA = DRINK

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Cacao is the carrect word tu apply to a product which ranks with coffee and tea as a‘'great and instinctively selected stimulus in the dietary of man. By using this term, cacao, instead of the English one of cocoa, two advantages are gained: First, the word then becomes of universal application, for cacao is the commercial and domestic term applied throughout Latin-America, it has been adopted in Europe since the days of the earliest importation from the new world, itis the naturalized expression wherever it is produced in the East Indies, and will be understood even in Japan, although it offérs no rivalry there to the national and native tea; second, a confusion, unfortunately so - prevalent throughout the English-speaking world, will be avoided. s Cocoa is apt to be confounded with coca, the plant of Peru which the Indians use to sustain them in their weary journeys across the mountains, and which furnishes the drug (alkaloid) called cocaine in medicine; as a matter of fact, cocaine and cacao are botanically quite different, and have nothing in common, a point that should be well known, because the fear that cocaine forms part of cocoa is entirely groundless. Cocoa is supposed, also, to be of the same family as the cocoanut, but here, too, the resemblance goes no further than the name, for the cocoanut is a palm and requires an altogether different soil for its propagation. Chocolate, on the other hand, the chocolatl of hte Asztecs, is the original cacao. In the language of the aboriginal Mexicans it meant water—that is, a drink—from choco, which became under the Spanish tongue cacao. The Aztec name shows that the plant is distinctly American. It is indigenous to Mexico, Central America, and certain areas of South America. Emperor Montezuma was so fond of it that he had 50 jars of chocolate prepared for his own table and 2,000 more for that of his household. Its use among the people was so extensive that bags of cacao containing a certain number of beans were current as money. The Spanjards carried a taste for the drink to Europe, and even to-day chocolate is considered a peculiarly Spanish drink. Cacao ils essentially a tropical cultivation, and is known in countries sitwated both north and south of the line. 9n the north side of the equator the zacao countries are Ceylon, the Phil\ppines, Cameroon, the Gold Coast, Mexico, Nicaragua, the Guignas, Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, and the West India islands; south of the equator the main ' cacao countries are Secuador, Brazil, Peru, and parts of Africa with the adjacent islands. The sxtreme range of latitude is from 20 degrees north to. 20 degrees south. Not anly is the cultivation of cacao limited to these few degrees within the tropics, but it is usually a success only in those areas in which the altiture is very insignificant; an elevation of between 200 meters and 800 meters (650 to 2,600 feet) marks the limits of the successful cacao plantations in this equatorial belt. In this respect it presents wide differences when compared with tea, cinchona, camphor and coffee, and certain simflarity in environment to the cocoanut palm, to the rubber plant, and ‘bananas. 1

. The cacao tree does not produce marketable fruit for several years after planting, but when once the pods can pe gathered—and under careful cultivation a small crop may be expected at the end of the fourtk year —the yield is a progressively Increas. ing one until full maturity at the tenth year is reached, after which the

Art Needs Machine.

} After all, preciosity apart, would it not be a great and a fine thing if the masses of the people should be given the same opportunity to provide themselves with machine-made repreductions of beautiful hand-made crafts pieces that they now ‘have to provide themselves with machine-made reproductions of beautiful paintings and sculptures? | ; ; Far from abolishing the machine, the arts and crafts movement (however little this be its purpose and desire) i 3 spurring the machine on to ‘greater endeavor and pointing out to it the road to further successes. Indeed, everything tends to show that the arts and crafts movement Is bhut the prelude to a veritable apotheosis _of machinery beside which the present glorification thereof will appear strangely tame. If only the craftsmen ‘will see to it that high standards are maintatped in handicraft the machine they despise may be relied on (so far as the people are concerned) to do Netidiug Deiter hkx B Ragwn | L et

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fruit is considered the finest, and the: tree may be kept in steady bearing for fully a generation. = < This is all a matter of agriculture. In addition to the questions of soil and shade, of protection and climate, other important details demand the constant attention of the agriculturist. These relate to fertilization, to grafting, and to particular varieties of the plant. ; When the fruit or pods are ripe—and a picking usually takes = place twice a year, for the tree may have on it buds, flowers and fruit alliat the same timé—they are severed from the branches by skilled gatherers, who. reach up to them with a long, pruneshaped knife, so arranged that it can. cut off the ripe fruit without injuring any adjacent green pods. The gathered pods are left in heaps upon -the ground for a day or so, when they are cut open; the seeds are "then taken out and carried to the place where they are cured or sweated. . The curing process is as delicate as it is for coffee and tea, and upon the results obtained depend to a great extent the quality and richness of the powder sold for consumption. The older way was to spread the beans in the shallow pans exposed to the sun, and in a sense sun-cured beans produce a better article; but later methods require expensive buildings in which to bring about the result. Curing consists of two steps, the first being the fermentation, the second the drying. The object of fermentation is to remove the sugary pulp surrounding the seeds, to promote chemical changes within the kernels, to convert the bitter astringent taste into a sweet one, and to improve the color and flavor of the bean itself. All this may take from two to eight days, and only experts can tell when the proper stage has arrived for the discontinuance of the process. The beans are ‘then washed, as a | rule, although claim is made by some that washing is unnecessary, and also reduces the weight of the marketed article. After washing they aredried by the sun or by hot-air- blasts, this drying process gradually changing the bean into the finished product, when the surface of the bean has a bright reddish-brown color, the kernel a brown, or “chocolate,” color internally, and when the parts are friable and show no signs of moisture or unevenness on breaking.

Sleeping Car Hat Bag.

The traveler on sleeping cars is now comforted with a paper bag, of the common variety. As soon as he is duly installed in his seat the porter brings him a large paper sack, ‘stows the traveler’s hat in it and pins up the bag in any convenient place, securely closed so no dust can reach its precious contents. At pight the sack is pinned inside the curtains of the berth and the traveler Ll;leeps happily in the consciousness of. the safety of his headgear. Women travelers’ hats are also cared for in the same way—that is, some of them are. The manufacturers of paper bags have not vet risen to the flights of fancy demanded by the Merry Widow hat and the new 40-inch brims of the fall designs, hence they have not provided sacks of the requisite size. Accommodating porters sometimes make ‘shift- by splitting open several bags and wrapping them around the feminine headgear, but the manufacturers have another opportunity still open to them to enlarge their orders. : :

Should Have Béen in Olympic Games.

Not long ago a man of 62 walked bacliwards from Macclesfield marketplace to the Crescent at Buxton. He covered the whole distance of 12 miles in three hours 14 minutes 45 seeconds, or 15 minutes 15 seconds under the wagered time. ; £ - ! . In 1875 Alcock (that was the man’s name) performed the same feat in two hours 44 minutes.—Pall Mall Gazette.

Lines of Brazilian Railways.

According to statistics just published, the number of kilometers of railway in Brazil in actual operation on January 1, 1908, was 17,605; the number of kilometers under actual condtruction was 3,312, while plans have been approved for the conmstruction of 6,680 kilometers more. These figures are equivalent to 10,915, 2,063 and 4,142 miles, respéctively. - .

The Waist Line and Prosperity. The stretching of the waist indicates an increase in food bought and money to buy. Forty-inch girths are not the rule in lean and scanty times. It must be that we are living better, and possibly higher. If we are getting fatter we.are becoming more contented, for who ever saw a fat man-surly? Temperament . changes according to fhe menu card, and it now remains for some psychopath to trace the evolution of national temperament.

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