Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 October 1897 — Page 3

SWEPT TO DESTRUCTION. A fttkMi' Cuit CirrM Away by a Lu4»lkt* Tb« Number mt VbUai Uah now a—The Victims ta«|kl Asleep la TMr Tim Pout Townmnd. Wash., Sept 25.— Captain Nielson, master of the tug Pioneer says: Three men came to Skago ay beach on Monday night with a story to the effect that at Sheep Camp at half-past five o’clock on Monday morning a peculiar sound from the southwest side of the mountain was heard, and before the residents of the camp could fully dress they found themselves rapidly born down the can* yon ou a mass of moving debris from the mountain side. “A majority of the residents of Sheep Camp escaped, although much of the village was destroyed. The slide struck the town in the northern part, where nearly all the packers were quartered in teuts and asleep. The main part of the slide from the mountain missed Sheep Camp proper, although from the report very little of the town remains. “The packers’ camp was wholly carred away, and it is impossible to learn the names of the uufortunates. as they were all known by their given names, such as Jack, Jim., etc. “The cause of the slide was reported to be the action of heavy rains on the hills, where a large reservoir was formed, which body of water and weight forced the land down the basin below. Never before have such heavy rains been experienced in the neighborhood of the Chilcoot pass.” OUR GROWING NAVY.

K*part of Work In I’rojrfM on thr Nova. VrMrU Now la Court* of t'ou»truction. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—According to reports received at the navy department from the various shipyards where naval work is iu progress, with the exception of the four torpedo boats last ordered, good headway is beiug made with the ship® under construction. These four boats are distributed among the 11c rreseh offs, Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wolff «&. iiwicker and the Has Engine and Power Co., and, while the actual work of construction upon them has not beguu, much has been done in the gathering of material to start the work. Of the big ships the battleships Kearaarge aud Kentucky, at Newport News, are 4t per cent, advanced towards completion. The battleships llliuois, Alabama and Wisconsin were ordered later, and they are not so well along, the figures being 20 per cent, for the llliuois, at Newport News; 21 per cent, for the Alabama, at Cramps*, aud 14 per cent, for the Wisconsin at the Uuion iron works. Only oue gunboat is now being built, namely the Princeton., at Dialogue, in Caindeu. aud this is 20 per eeut. advanced towards the end. The queer submarine boat the Plunger, being built at the Columbian iron works is going ou slowly, probably because the plans are entirely novel and the work is more or less experimental." The state of work ou the torpedo boats is as follows: Rodgers 00 per cent., Winslow SO per cent, Uuwan SO per oenL, Dahlgren 5 per cent.. Craven 4 per aunt., Karragut® per cent., Davis 62 per ceut-,.Fox 45 per cent., Talbot 40 per cent, Uwin 40 per cent, Mackenzie 45 per oent., McKee 18 per cent. EXPLOSION-IN A MINE. On* Mas Killed. Mnt Fatally, and Oue Marion, 111., SepL was killed, three were fatally injured and six were severely burned and bruised by an explosion of gas in the Williamson county coal mine yesterday. An unknown miner instill imprisoned in the ahaft and was undoubtedly killed. The gas which caused the explosion accumulated duriug the night near the mouth of the main shaft. A shift of 45 meu went down in the cage at seven o’clock. They had proceeded only a short distance up the main gangway wheu the lamp on the leader’s cap ignited a large body of gas. A terrible explosion resulted. Farrari and the nuknown miner were kuocked down, the latter being buried under a inassof brokeu timber and rocks. Those who were able to crawl back tothefoolof the shaft, signalled the cage which had been blown to the surface by the force of the explosion. Rescuers descended and soon ail'lhe injured men were raised to the surface. After-damp followed the explosion aud put a stop to the search for the body of the unknown miner who waa. no doubt, instantly killed. This mine is located four miles north from here, on the Chicago A Eastern Illinois road, aud is owhed principally by the Lumaghi Bros., of St. Louis. GASOLINE EXPLOSION.

Oa* Me* Fmbally H«ra*d ud Nl\ Othvre Ujarvd. Chicaoo, Sept. U.-On man was fa* tally burned and six other persons injured Thursday night by the explosion of a gasoline stove lauk at 1S1 West Adams street The injured are: Charles Emerson; will die. John Lewis. J. T. Sheldon. Eva Evans Albert Beach. Arthur Emerson. Uenry Martin. Lewis was blown 5® feet and the others thrown against the walls and door. REV. C. O. BROWN S CASE Th* yank— of Mia Su»p<ru»W>n Will lM Arbttnimi. Sax Frascwoo. Sept 35. — Bee. Charles O. Brown has at last been brought to terms by the Bay conference. In a letter to Rev. J. A. Cruzan, dated Chicago, September 17, and just received, he consents to a mutual council, to be held in Chicago, on October SO, at which this question will be arbitrated: “Was the Bay conference justified in suspending Rev. C. O. Brown, Dl IX, without trial and aftai the finding of the couaciir

THE FARMING WORLD. FOR SORTING POTATOES. Am KmIIjt CMMraetrd Device Tk»t h Sere to Give SotUtoctloo. I made mod used last season a potato sorter, Fig. 1, which gave tirst-cless satisfaction. It is cheap and serviceable and is used when hauling potatoes from the field to the collar or bins in barns and sheds. One end must rest upon something solid, like the side of a bin, while the other may be suspended, by a rope, so the whole will be on an in* cline. My method of operation was to have two bins, oue fot the sorted stock and one for the small potatoes. The

COMPLETE POTATO SORTER. ©wer end of the sorter is suspendeo over the bin for targe potatoes. The other end extends two or three feet oot- | side the small potato bin. This give* the dirt a chance to settle through before reaching either bin. Fig. 2 shows the ii side slat frame which is made of hard pine slats 10^4 feet long, two inches wide and tbreefourths of an iuch thick. They are set on edge and bolted with quarter-inch | bolts to slotted sticks near each end. ] ' This arrangement admits of adjustJ ment. i have the upper end of the slats three-fourths of an it .eh apa^t and the | lower end 1% inches. This prevents wedging of potatoes between the slats, r The upper ends being close together allow the dirt to drop through in ad- ! vance of the small potatoes. This end also has a hopper four inches high and reaching 2*4 feet from the end. This whole frame is suspended to the outside frame by iron hangers. The^e are made of three-eighths-lnch rod iron aud are six inches long. Notches are cut to receive these on the upper edge of the out- j side frame and the lower edge of the j outside slat of the inner frame. A piece of tin may he tacked over to prevent j their getting out. To operate, pour into the hopper a

INSIDE SLAT FRAME FOR SORTER. box or basketful of potatoes, then give a vigorous shake or two by takiug hold of the upper end of tfie hopper. This will send the potatoes rolling down the incline* where they will be separated. Two men can unload and sort 1,000 bushels a day as they come from the Held. The material for making the sorter will not cost over $1.50 at the outside. If it is desirable to sort the seed from among the small potatoes, the slats may be set closer, and a cloth may be tacked around the side to prevent their dropping through the larger spaces at the sides thus made, or additional slats may be used.—American Agriculturist. MAKING FAMILY CHEESE. Illal* Furnished hjr n WtH-Ks*s« Mew York Instructor. In makiug cheese by the dairymen at home, where they do not have a vat with a heating arrangement under- ! neath, the milk can be heated in a tin heater set in a kettle, in which there is a quantity of water. A dairy kettle is j the best, that is, a kettle and stove combined. If you do not have this, you can use a caldron kettle, set in an arch, if there is draft enough so that it will not rmoke, as the smoke would taint the milk; then by filling the tin heater with milk, and warming it up to about 100 degrees Fahr., and turning it in the vat and filling it up again and heating it, and continuing to do so until the temperature of the milk in the vat is SC degrees Fahr., it could all be warmed. Then add reuuet extract, reduced with one quart of cold water, at the rate of three ounces to 1,000 pounds of milk, thoroughly stirred, so that It will be evenly distributed through the whole 1 mass of milk, says George A. Smith, former cheese instructor of New York,

in me farm journal. When the curd is hard enough sc ; | that it will cleave from the side of the j vat when pressed away by laying the j back of the hand upon it, cut it, using ' the perpendicular knife, and cut as even j j as possible. Then stir it until the whey | i begins to separate quite freely. Then j dip off whey, and fill the tin heater, and j warm up to about 100 degrees Fa hr., j | and turn In the vat. and continue to do j •o. until the temperature is brought j to W degrees Fahr., at which, 1 point it should be kept until the curd 1 I bcc-imes firm, and when squeezed ' up in the hand it will apart tradily, j and by taking and squeezing the mots- | ture out of it. and touching it to a hot i Iron it will draw out fine threads about j one-half inch in length. Then draw off j all the whey, and stir the curd until the whey is thoroughly drained out of it. and then stir in salt at the rate of twe ; pounds of salt to 1.000 pounds of milk, i Pile up thi^curd on the side of the vat, and cover up with a cloth, and let It : remain about one hour, stirring it up occasionally. than put to press, and press ■ lightly at first. In 24 hours the cheese j may be taken out and a muslin bandage ! put about it. The cheese should be kept in a cool room, and be turned and greased and rubbed every day. Invented by n tVomnn. A California woman has patented a cover for milk cans which is perforated around its sides near the bottom, so it can be closed tight to prevent spilling of the milk and can be pulled apa short distance in the can to allow ventilation without iaaaeta retting laeide.

MINNESOTA BUTTER. % Recent Export Shipment Sol* Well In Gnglaad. The secretary of agriculture has re- I ecjved complete reports from the third experimental shipment of butter to London by his department. The shipment consisted of a lot of Minnesota creamery butter in 56-pound boxes and tubs, and a lot of Massachusetts creamery butter in small tubs, family packages, and fancy prints. The export was made in June. It cost 2% cents a pound to carry the butter from central Minnesota to London, by the single ton* with t he best refrigerator accommodations all the way. excepting short transfers. The transportation from western Massachusetts qpst rather more, because of the absence of a refrigerator car line to New York and the necessity of payingexpressage. This butter was all placed by the department’s agent in London in the hands of retail dealers. 1 They paid from 15 to lhy» cents per pound for it, the same butter being then worth 15 cents in New York. The wholesale price of Panish butter was nlM>tit 20 cents in London at that time. It was retailed to consumers at 24. 25 cud 26 cents per pound—most of it at 26 cents. This was the same as the retail price of the best Panish. which leads the London market for salted butter. The retailers, upon being convinced of the high quality of the American butter, paid the same price for it in tubs as in the favorite “Australian,” or cubical box. Six different dealer# took the Minnesota butter, at a uniform price of IS 1-5 cents per pound. It cost about 16 cents, delivered to those Londen dealers. The Massachusetts butter was of equal quality, and, although some of it sold to dealers at 19*4 cent-, tbt small packages were not liked by the trade. This butter was worth 20 cents for local sale in the neighborhood where made. Thus, as in other cases, the western creamery butter was sold at a fair profit, over two cents per pound, while the New England creamery butter was sold in London at less than it would have brought at home. The London retailer’s margin for profit —6% cents, and about seven cents on an average—was too great. The consumer paid twice as much for the Minnesota butter as the creamery in that state received for it, and of what the butter cost the consumer, the farmer who supplied the cream got less than two-fifth*

MANAGING MILK COWS. Treatnirat That Aunre* a SteadyFlow u( Uood Milk. I wish to give you a few hints on milking cows. The farm hand who knows how to milk properly is more valuable to the careful dairyman than any other help. To milk a cow requires time and patience. The milk should be drawn slowly and steadily. Some cows have very tender teats, and if you want a good-disposed cow, be gentle in vour treatment toward her, as 6he is waturally impatient and does not like rough handlihg. With constant irritation she will fail in quantity of milk. As the udder becomes tilled with milk she is unxious to be relieved of its contents, and will seldom otter resistance without a cause. When a patient cow becomes fractious we can always trace it to the milkmaid. .Note this: We should not allow them to stand a long time waiting to be milked.When cows give a large quantity of milk it is very painful when the udders have filled to the utmost, therefore causing them to become very nervous and restless. To delay milking at the proper time will do more to cause u cow to go dry before her period than anything else. She should also be milked to the last drop, if possible, for the last portion of milk is said to be the richest. Still another point: The re are many ways of conducting a dairy. Among them are: \\ holesome food, such as wheat bran, cottonseed meal. Always be careful to keep the cows well ' salted, protected from bad weather, kind handling, careful milking. regular feediug, clean stabliug, good ventilation and plenty of pure water. In some sections we have what is ealled the bitter weed, which cows are fond of, causing the milk to become so much affected that it is hardly tit for use. 1 find that by giving the cow about two tabiespooofuls of sugar at each meal for two or three days entirely relieves the milk of the bitter taste.—U. B. Dillon, in Agricultural Epitomist._ _

BUTTER FOR WINTER. llow t® Keep I« Where Cold StoraKe Cannot Be Had. ^ For keeping butter for winter use; where eold storage cannot be had, no plan is as sure to result favorably as immersing the pound prints in strong brine, and if a trifle of saltpetre is added to the brine the plan will appear to be safer. Butter will not absorb salt from the briue; henee the plan of the little muslin wrappers, or (better yet) the little paper box whten incases the pat of butter like a close-fitliug envelope and prevents the butter from getting bruised in the bath. We think we have before recommended the sterilized brine, simply strong brine boiled; and after cooling, placing these pats of butter in it and keeping in a cool place,. and taking up the butter only as wanted. Where one has a very cold room of uuiform temperature butter can be packed in close-fitting, small packages, and closely covered after placing on the top of the butter either closely-fitting layers of butter paper or a paste made of very wet salt spread evenly over the surface before putting on the cover closely. The facts are that nothing very new has been discovered about the keeping of butter not known to our piotbers. Ad, while cold storage is the best, it ivonly at the command of comparatively few; so the old stand-by receipts have to be brought out and again presented to public view.—Country Gentleman. When the raspberry fails you might as well sat out new plants.

The nj-itetul The patient eras far gone; it was the opin' ion of all that he could not live hat a fear moments. Just as the breath was about to leave his body, one of the physicians, a gentleman of culture, and a graduate of one of our best colleges, remarked: “Poor fellow, he looks badly.” At this the dying man opened his eyes, jumped up in bed. and shouted: “Who is the villain who desecrates mr deathbed by his solecisms?** Then he glared at the culprit and continued: “No, sir, I am not looking badly. I admit I look bad, but not badly, for I am not cross-eyed. And from that moment he began to recover, while the canker of remorse began its work upon the he^t of the offender, and ere many days his name was to be found in the obituary column of the village paper.—Bos ton Transcript. Fine Was Remitted. Judge Campbell had just heard the evi dence against a young Mission hoodlum charged with disturbing the peace. “I think you’re guilty, young man,” declared the judge, “bunds in the treasury are running low, so I guess I'll have to get in something toward my salary, as I’m getting hard up. I’ll fine you five dollars.” “You've got more money than I have,” pleaded the prisoner. “But 1 haven’t. Show up what you’ve got,” and the iudge emptied his pockets, which contained just 36 cents in change, on the desk. The prisoner turned all of his pockets inside out and produced 25 cents. “You are worse off than I am,” said the judge. “Fine remitted. You may go.’*—Sac Francisco Post. A Thorough Canvass. Returned Westerner—Yes, sir, those cyclones out west usually make a clean sweep. I lost everything I had in one. It came along about noon, ana took house, furniture and everything in sight. And then. I'll be blamed it the villainous thing didu't come back in half an hour. Eastern Man—Why, how does that come? “YVny, you see, there was a chattel mortgage in the house on some cattle belonging to a neighbor 1 had lent some money to, and, you may not believe it, but that cussed, grasping cyclone came back ami took every head of those cattle.”—Puck. THE MARKETS.

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