Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 December 1898 — Page 7

Havana, Dec. 24.—At the Joint meeting of the Spanish and United Staten military commissioners yesterday the programme was finally agreed upon far the exchange of the flags on January 1, at noon. Just before 13 o’clock the American war vessels will fire a salute of 31 guns in honor of the Spanish flag. WUl Hr* a K«t«ra Salat*. Promptly at 13 o’clock the Spanish flags on the various public buildings will be lowered and immediately thereafter the Stars and Stripes will bel hois&&4>ver Ei Jlorro and the public* % buildings'^ that city, while the Spanish artillerists at Cabanas fortress will. salute the American flag with 31 guns, Spanish war ships in the harbor participating in the salute. At the same hour the Spanish troops, if any then remain in the city, will be paraded in barracks and will render proper salyte to the American forces passing. Will SwwaSw at JCooa. Just before noon the American and Spanish commissioners, Gen. Castellanos, the Spanish captain general, and the American rank ^ officer in , Cuba. Maj.-Geu. JoV R. Brooke, if he • arrives in time, and otherwise Maj.Gen. Lee, will assemble at the palace. The Spanish commissioners will then surrender the government to the United States commissioners, who will immediately transfer it to the American general commanding. After this the various functionaries will remain a while to receive those who may wish to pay their respects to the incoming' authorities.

Am Foreign Troop* hi » FrlMdljr I'wntrjr. It was agreed at the joint meeting that the Spanish troops remaining in Cuba after January 1^ should be considered in the light of foreign troops in a friendly country, and to be accorded the privileges usually granted under international law. The quarters, buildings and grounds occupied by them are to be covered by the immunities of extra territoriality and further stipulations were entered into respecting the prevention of any disturbance of public order consequent upon their presence. Uck ta Ho* pi tat* to KmmIi l' odor Site MjUanzas and Cienfuegos will doubtylw be the only places where Spanish troops will remain after January 1. and Cienfuegos will be evacuated last The Spanish sick in tife. hospitals wiU remain under the safeguard of the American flag, the Spanish authorities providing medicines, attendance and food, and repatriating them on recovery. Wore Revolve* it the Palace with p«U Military Hoeore. Generals Wade. Kutler and Clous, ac•ompanied by their aides, were received at the palace yesterday with „ foil military honors. The Spanish trumpeters blew a flare, and the police guards saluted. The. "same ceremonies marked the retirement of tha American officers. The Eighth and Tenth regular infantry regiments occupied the forts at El Vevadado yesterday, but there are wo American flags in sight. COMMERCIAL TREATY. EniSer ud ChUI to Form • Commercial end Xevlcetloe Treaty —Certain Article* Agreed To. San Francisco; Dec. 24.—The steamer. San Juan, from Central America, brought news that the governments^ oi^Vuador and Chili, with the purpose of developing reciprocal commerce, have resolved to form a commercial and navigation treaty, naming for this purpose their respective plenipoten-j tiaries. The president of the republic of Ecuador, by his exeelleuey, Senor Carlos Freile Zldumbide. minister plenipotentiary, ad hoc. and the president of the republic of Chili, by his excellency, SenQrDon Beltran Mathieu, j have agreed to certain articles which will result/in materially benefit ting trade between those countries. In consequence of the matter set forth in the treaty the members of the Manufacturers' and Producers’ association met yesterday and formulated a letter which was addressed to the secretary of state at Washington, setting forth San Francisco's advantages Ml a shipping port for Central - and Fouth American countries.

THE DAMAGED BATTLESHIP. ———— IVarkaM Already 'Kagacad. aad IM Me* pair at the Maearkuwlu W |U he X*aehed to ( oapiMl^ „ New YorkT Dec. 84.—Navy yard en- j gineers weut under the battle ship Massachusetts In dry dock yesterday and £ measured her* damaged plates. | Workmen were there also, cutting out rivet*. Repair work will proceed night and day next week. It is estimated it | will cost about $40,000 to put the ship in order, and that the work will take six weeks. The board of inquiry, of which Commodore Pickering is presi* dent, finished its work yesterday, and forwarded the report to the &cjK»tarv of the nary. None of the members would say anything about the findings. Chaal May. tha Salta*'* AtdedeChaa Mavdarad. ^ Constantinople, Dec .84.—Chani Bey, the sultan's aide-de-camp, was murdered, Thursday, by llafur Pacha, in a quarrel, which took place in a pastry cook's. Chani Bey was notorious, owing to his lawless proceedings In fsuv* _'_ jKaasa* thalhWMw* MaUaray fa Topeka, Kan.. Dec. 84,—The Kansas Southwestern Railway Co. has filed ar

PRACTICAL SEED TEST. A Very Simple Operation Which Be* <t«!re» AbselaOljr So KxpeatU* tare ot Hoary. ; Testing seeds on the farm is such a .$£fiTiy satisfactory practice that, har* HEkvJyied it once by a good method, it is |3^y*To become an established feature. |Hpfeing can be more vexatious than to carefully manure and prepare apiece of ground for some particular crop, plant the seed just at the right time and in the right manner, and then, after waiting a reasonable time finally discover that poor seed has been procured in the beginning and that only a part of it has come up. Experience like this can be avoided by seed testing, which is in reality a very simple thing, and requires | absolutely no outlay of money. In the first place, seed should be procured early in the season, to allow plenty of time to return it and procure other seed, in case it is found to be poor. All the apparatus necessary foi ordinary testing of the germinating powers of seeds is a tin pan, like a cake pan or bread pan, a little cotton cloth or sheeting and a dozen or so sticks, long enough to reach across the short way of the pan, as shown in the accompanying cuts. A couple of little headless brads can be driven into each stick, which latter should have square edges s6 as to rest steadily on the pan, and on these pins pieces of the cloth can be hooked at the four corners. These cloths or bags should havtf a strip sewed at the bottom which will reach to th - bottom -f the pan,'while the bag.itself, in the

FIG. 1—SEED PAN. bottom of which are placed the $eeda,ia midway the depth of the pan. Water should be placed in the pan. but not enough to reach the seeds; they will be moistened by water drawn up by the lower strip or wick. See Figs. I a^d 2. The pan should be kept iu a temperature as even as possible, rang*nr from 65 to 85 degrees. Only one kind of seetf should be plaoed in each bag. and a certain number of these seeds should be counted out when so placed and a record kept on an accompanying slip. After the seeds have been given sufficient time to sprout, they should be counted a%! the percentage of the good seed reckoned. The work takes comparatively little time, and will be found very interesting. For instance, take a test of clover <eed; in extracting a sample, the seed should be thoroughly mixed and stirred and then a pinch taken at random and. say. 50 or ICO seeds counted out and placed in the bag, where they may remain for ten days. Many of them, however, will sprout before the expiration of that period and these should be removed and a record kept of them. Some seeds of course start more easily than other kinds. The following periods may be stated as the limits required for the germination of good seed of tbe kinds named: For cereals, peas, beana, vetches'Jesunftower, buckwheat, clover

... FIG. J-RAO FOS SEEDS. corn and cow peas, ten days; tor serradella. beet balls, rve grasses, timothy, tobacco, Lespedeia and'other Held and vegetable seeds not named, M days; grass seeds are slow to start. st-d for all grasses except rye grass and timothy, from 20 to 28 days may be required. Kentucky bluegrass and Bermuda grass are very slow to start. The periods recommended are those adopted by the l ni ted States department ®of agriculture in its seed tests. If the seeds are good and fresh, most of them will sprout in less than half the tune allowed for the test. It is essential: of course, to see that there is never a lack of moisture for the seeds end that the eioths are never allowed to become dry. It is also advisable to soak the seeds during the first ten hours by puling enough water in the win to,touch the bottoms of the bags; this will hasten the igerminating process, but too much wetting* will tend to tpoit the seeds.—iiuy E. Mitchell. *u Ohia Farmer. VS atrr Jt*»M Freuaeotty* ft is cot natural for the horse to go long without a drirk of water. HU stomach is small and cannot hold a water supply for a long time. Watering morittig. noon and .night when at work in summer time in none too often. It the work is very heavy two tablespoonfuln of oatmeal stirred in the pall will make the horse drink better, and will also prevent so much cold water from injuring h» stomach. It is a mistake to suppose that a horse or any other domestic animal prefers to drink water only a few degrees above the freeaing temperature. If it la lukewarm the horse will drink h^ore freriy and the water will be lesa^jpt to injure him. So far as can be done, bees should he crowded up In small quarters, to at to

, THE ELECTRICAL WOR^ ) It is said that the elec trio cabs ia Kew York city did a record business daring the bftzxard and proved their cadre efficiency. t According to the Electrical Review. Prof. Henry A. Rowland, the distinguished physicist of Johns Hopkins university, believes he has perfected a 12-message telegraphic system—a decided advance on the quadrupled so universally used. According to a recent compilation, Germany has Til miles of electric railways. equal to those of all the rest of Europe together England is credited with only 98 miles. Most of the larger towns of Germany have electric lines, and the whole system of Berlin will by the year 1901 be convened to electricity. A press dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., says that an extraordinary longdistance telephone test has been made by Charles J. Glidden. president of the Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone company. Mr. Glidden held a distinct and clear conversation over the wire with Frederick A. Farrar, of the firm , of Poor & Greenough, Boston. The | distance from Little Rock is 1,900 miles. Mr. Glidden says this is the longest ciy- : cuit in the world. i An important discovery which may revolutionise lighting by electricity has just been made. Thjs is incandescence in air. An aluminium tube threei twelfths of a millimeter receives the current through two small platinum wires, the tube becoming effulgent on the passage of the current. No glass bulbs are needed, and the light, it is claimed is much more effulgent, while the cost of manufacture is appreciably

less. There has just been brought for1 ward a portable electric safety lamp for use in special eases when an open flame, or even one'saieguarded. as in the miper's lamp, would prove danger- ; ous. The combination eou&ists of a dry j battery, arranged to be carried in a i holder at the belt, or in the pocket-, the battery being controlled by a small rheostat, maintaining an even supply of current to the lamp and allowiug it to burn with the same brilliancy due leg the life of the battery. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Some men can*t understand why the fool killer doesn't call next door. A tailor is sometimes able to mend everything hut his ways, k A man is apt to drink mineral water jffhen he feels rocky. In politics and courtship a third party is usually undesirable. It's probably the loudness of his apparel that makes the bowling swell. It's unlucky to hare your affair* at sixes and sevens—thej make thirteen®. It isn’t vanity* that makes a man go out between the acts and look in the glass. ’ i The tongue is about the only muzzleloading weapon that hasn't been discarded. Poets often affect carelessness in their garments for the same reason that tramps travel in freight cars. The better half of the family never knows quite as much about how the other half lives as she would like to know. Great wit may be akin to madness, but the relationship isn't to be compared to the madness of the small wit whose contribution is “declined with thanks.”—Chicago Daily News. IN THE CHURCHES. There are S0.000 native Christians in China, and over 70,000 in Japan. The total membership of the Universalis* church is 31,2-17. a net gain of 403 : in the last. year. There are 730,000 Africans in Protestant churches and 140,000 children in Protestant schools in Africa. The 'Voinan's Foreigu Missionary so- | cie* t the Methodist Episcopal church I supports 700 Bible women in foreign [ fields. There was a gain of $34,703 in the receipts of the Foreign Missionary Society of the Disciples of Christ for the past year, the amount being $130,924. The Clarendon Street Baptist church of Boston has a Chinese Sunday school whose average attendance is 200. This school supports two native missionaries in China.

AT THE RETAIL* STORES. Petticoats of mixedirsiik poplin. XJaufred chiffon with ribbon s’ripw. Cushion top* of satin embroidered in (old. Very large. wide white silk cravat*, for ladies*" wear. = Cheeked and plaid silk and wool pop* lin for shirt waists. Ribbon stocks with a small bow and long, pointed ends. „ • Black act! white Liberty silk as ^oas. wide atd narrow ruffling.' Elands of black velvet ribbon edged with ruffles of narrow white satin ribbon. ~- Puritan sleighing or evening hoodsof velvet, with satin revers edged vyith fw, —Dry Goods Economist, LITTLE ODDS AND

1. ===== tetter’s Stomach Bitters are also increasing very fast, ami this year that famous remedy will cure more people of dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, nervousness and weakness than ever before. Soane Still SemUCtvtllseg. There is still a demand for about 25.000,000 paper collars in the United States each year. The paper collar is the connecting link between collarless barbarism and decently attired civilisation.—Boston Transcript. Stats or Ohio, Crrr or Toledo, { Lucas Count*, | ■ Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner erf the firm of F. J. Cheney ft Co., doing business in. the city of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of*Oue Hundred Dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured bythe use of Hall’s Catarrh Cute. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON, (Seal) Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. The CsrateS Philosopher.'‘The successful statesman,” said the Corafed Philosopher, “must be able to stand a great deal while he is running, not to mention the ability to lie at the same time.”— Indianapolis Journal.

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