Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 16, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 January 1908 — Page 7

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SINKS AND DRAINS A FREQUENT CAUSE OF TYPHOID

Purify These and You Will Be Safe from Contagion. BISINFECTINj THE ONLY FREYENTIYE. Borax, a Simple, Safe and Sure Method. . How to keep our tomes clean, sweet and free from germ influences is a question. While there Is no occasion for alarm, it is always well to be forearmed on the theory that "An Ounce of Prevention Is Better Than a round of Cure," and no ounce of prevention has yet been discovered that is more simple, more direct and more effective, yet harmless to the human system, than Borax. Borax has been known and used for generations as a purifier and preventive against epidemic influences originating from uncleanly conditions resulting from unsanitary sinks and drains, and when xrvid as a hot solution in the proportion of two tablespoonfuls to a gallon cf hot water flushed through the offending locations, removes every trace of diseas. germs and renders the pipes clean and wholesome. Borax in addition to its hygienic qualities, Is a household necessity, and can be used for numberless domestic purr oses. It softens the water, makes linen dazzling white, will cleanse every article in the kitcher or dining room and make It bright, will prevent moths, soften and whiten the skin, remove dandruff and cleanse the 6calp, and for cleansing and sterilizing baby's milk; bottle and nipple ha? no equal. Borax, unlike every ether cleanser and disinfectant. Is absolutely harmless to the system, and Is safe, simple, economical, and can be purchased at any druggist or grocery. A dainty book in colors, called the "Jingle Book," wiii be sent free to any Mother sending name and address of her baby and tops from tico one-pound cartons of O-Mule-Tcam" Borax, with 5c in stamps. Address Pacific Coast Borax Ca, Chicago, 111. Aeronanght yness. "O, Mr. Simmons," gashed one of the fair guests, "didn't it seem frightful to you to be away up in the air, going farther and farther from the earth, as if you were an independent body in space?" "Why, no, Mrs. Jymes." said the aeronaut ; it wasn't so awfully terrifying. In a balloon you don't seem to be going up. The earth appears to be going away from you. don't ycu know, while you are standing still." "But to see the horizon receding away from you " "Tardon me, Mrs. Jymes, but the horizon doesn't seem to recede. It seenu tc rise up, like the rim of a great soup bowl, and the earth has a concave appearance." "Looks like a soup bowl? How odd! Still, doesn't it ccie one's deepest emotions. Mr. Simmons?" "Well, you can't help thinking that if anything sLould happen to the hallcon you'd mighty roon be in the soup." Scuetnlncr IV err Under the San. A lady in Illinois sent us 12c a yar apo for our remarkable collection of vegetable and flower seeds and sold $37.70 worth therefrom, or made 311 per cent. That's new. Just send this notice with 12c and receive the most original seed and plant catalog published and 1 Pkg. "Quick Quick" Carrot $ .10 1 pkir. Earliest Ripe Cabbage 10 1 pkg. Earliest Emerald Cucumber. 1 pkg. La Crosse Market Lettuce.. 1 pkg. Eariy Dinner Oaion 1 pkg. Strawberry Mukmelon 1 pkg. Thirteen Day Itadish 1,000 kernels gloriously beautiful flower seed .15 .15 .10 .15 .10 Total ....$1.00 Above is sufficient seed to grow 35 bu. of rarest vegetables and thousands of brilliant flowers, and all is mailed to you POSTPAID FOB 12C, or if yoa send 10c. w will add a package of Berliner Earliest Cauliflower. John A. Salzer Seed Co, La Crosse, Win. C. 2. U. It Didn't Come Net oral. Thomas W. Lawson. Bcrton's noted financier, was talking to a reporter about a notorious New York capitalist. "Well," said Mr. Lawson, "I have heard that man tell the truth once or twice. He can tell the truth, I admit, but Jt doesr. t come natural to him. lit reminds me of the Russian moujik who sat one da In the ante-room of the military commissioner of his town. There was an anxious frown on his face. A friend approached and said: "'What is the matter, Tiotr?' "I Vam worried Piotr answered, about my son. I don t know what to say when tho commissioner asks me about his age. You see, If I make" him cut younger than he is, he will be sent back to school; and If I make him out older, they'll stick him In the army. What the deuce am I to do?' - Uow would it do,' said the friend, thoughtfully, 'if you told the commissioner his exact age? "Piotr slapped his leg and laughed delightedly. "The very thing !' he cried. 'I never thought of that!'" Nothing so cheap for a good, wholesome, hearty breakfast, as Mrs. Austin's pancake four. At all grocers. Uncle Allen. "Talking ct short measure," said Uncle Allen Spark?, "there are lots of people that never srem to have got their share when the milk of human kindness. wa3 handed around." One of -the Essentials of the happy homes of to-day is a vast fund of information as to the beat methods of promoting health and happiness and right living and knowledge of tho world's best products. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully presented and which have attained to world-wide acceptance through the approval cf the Well-informed of the World; not of individuals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtaining the best the world affords. One of the products of that class, of known component parts, an Ethical remedy, approved by physicians and commended by the Well-Informed cf the World as a valuable tnd wholesome family laxative is the wel' Known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get it3 beneficial effects always buy the genuine, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leadiag druggist.

If the boy is mechanically inclined see that he has good tools to work with. The practice of wintering over stock has kept many a man poor. It's a poor policy to keep over inferior stuff. Having an extra lantern globe on band will sometimes save any one the trouble of stumbling around in the dark doing chores. A change in feed is more than r.pt to affect the milk giving of the cow. However wise the change It Is apt to reduce the flow until the cow gets thoroughly accustomed to the new ration. Owing to the high price of feed and the comparatively low price of hogs the Inexperienced feeder Is liable to go out of the hog raising business only to buy trood sows at a rise when conditions ere righted. One's dignity does not depend on the profession he follows. ' 2f one can tell me that dignity cannot be surrounded by a wire fence or a willow hedge as well as by a stone or granite wall, or a bank cage railing. With all the talk about corn Improvement that is going on daily over the platform and through the press, It Is said that to the two billion bushels grown In 1900 there has been added an Increase of only forty million bushels in the last six years. The figures seem a trifle sarcastic. Sleighing Is productive of more colds and pneumonia among horses than anything else, unles3 your horse Is hari dened up for it be careful about driving too fast. A speed clip against a cold wind is dangerous. It is better to let the other fellow beat you to town a few minutes than to hurt your horse trying to outdrive him. In Colorado the State statute provides that all cheese shall be marked with a stencil brand that the purchaser may tell whether It Is a cream or skimmed milk product. Cheese which has over thirty-five per cent butter fat In ts composition may be labeled cream cheese, while that which contains less than thirty-five per cent Is skimmed milk cheese, but the law Is ignored. Everybody wants country boys. If you don't believe It, stop to think of Low often you have seen advertisement?, calling for this great resource of the country. Uncle Sam wants them. The telegraph college and business schoo. wants them. The big corporation Is constantly In the market for them. Still the farm needs them the worst, yet is doing the least to hold them. Slopping hogs in winter Is not altogether a joke. You have to feed carefully or the troughs get terribly bunged up. Your hogs may be going after their slop vigorously and cleaning everything up when a cold, stormy time will put their appetites out of business. The next time you feed you may discover that the troughs are heaping to start with. All in all, the weather nus a good deal to do with one's feeding methods. , ' Movable Henhouse. Here in Newport County, It. I., the most successful hen men house their birds in small movable buildings.' We haTe learned by experience to build small, cheap houses of cull lumber on skids, riaee them 25 to f0 feet apcrt In rows, and move them as often as need be a few feet on to clean ground, says a writer In Rural New Yorker. The grass and weeds will spring up and purify the ground long tefcre it will be time to cover It again. Cement blocks may be cheap for a permanent building, but I can see but few situations where it would be best to use them for hentouses. The Feeding of Dos. "No dog kept indoors, and, Indeed, very few outside, should be fed on meat; nor should he be fed from the table at meal times, as he will soon become a nuisance, especially when there are visitors. If he Is always fed at the conclusion cf a certain meal dinner, for instance he will wait patiently until the prescribed time. It is a good plan to feed after one's mid-day meal, giving plenty of green vegetables, bread and potatoes, with a very few scraps of finely cut meat, the whole well mixed and some gravy poured over It If two meals are given, one should be at breakfast time and one in th? evening. One should consist of only a little oatmeal and milk or a pi.ve of dry dog biscuit. "At no time should the dog have more than he will eat, and If he leaves anything on his plate except the pattern, his allowance should be reduced or a meal omitted." Suburban Life. When n Fowl Is Fat. The inexperienced are often at a loss to know when fowls put up for fattening have reached a proper degree of ripeness, or, in other words, when tho birds have become fit for being marketed to best advantage. Mr. Cobbe, a well-known English, poultry expert, gives a very simple rule for the guidance of the uninitiated In such matters. For the purpose of determining whether a bird Is fully fattened or cot he recommends that two small curves of cartilage, which extend from the sides of the back bone round towards the vent, should be felt for. These pieces of cartiiv;e do not meet, ut leave a space of about one inch according to the age and breed of the between them, the distance varying bird. If uion examination this space can be easily felt, and there is a hollowness between the cartilages the bird cannot be regarded as fully fattened. But if. on the other hand, soinc pressure has to be applied in ordr to determine the positions of the ends of tha curves of cartilage, then It may be taken for granted that the bird Is suincieatly ripe fur the knife. Sulplmr it Preserve 3Ient. Writing to the Iondoii Morning Post, a correspondent says: "I observe reference to an Invention by a Frenchman as to preserving meat" by sulphur fumes. It may be of Interest to some respecting this matter that I have in

my possession now a piece of beef treated in that way by me in Halifax. T. S., in the, year 1870. It has been freely exposed to the air since that time, and so far as I can see has remained unchanged. As I had on several occasions felt th want of something of the sort on shooting expeditions, to provide for the possibility (not unusual) of being too far from camp after tracking wounded game or other cause, I looked about for a convenient form of a small emergency ration of meat. I cut some strips of beef about 0 inches by 2 Ii.ches, hung them In a glass jar, attached a small thimble containing a little sulphur by a wire, to the cord, lighted the sulphur and closed the jar with the cork. The sulphur burned until all the oxygen In the ar was consumed and then wont out. As I anticipated, this preserved the meat, and when taken out and dried it remained quite sound." Winter Formte. The question of winter forage and pasturage is one of the greatest Importance in the Southern States, ard Carleton It. Hall, of the P.ureau of Plant Industry, was sent by the Department of Agriculture early in the past year to make an investigation m several of the Gulf States. In his report Mr. Ball says, amongst other things: "The production of Southern hay has boon a question long under discussion. The amount produced and the yield per acre have both increased steadily and encouragingly during the If st few years. On every hand it is admitted that it is both possible and necessary to raise nil that is needed for home consumption. Alfalfa, Bermuda grass. Johnson grass, crab grass and cowpeas furnish an abundance of hay of the very best quality. This hay can be produced much more cheaply than an equal quality can be shipped in from Northern and Western States With better transportation facilities and an Increasing demand, the production will become more and more profitable. At the same time, with hay raised on the home plantations, and hence cheaply and readily available, larger quantities are being used In feeding the plantation stock." Crop of 1007. Despite the fact that the cereal crop yield of the United States for 1007 is below that of the previous year, the money return on the 1007 crops promises to equal, if not exceed, that of 190G. This statement is contained in a bulletin Issued by Bradstrcet's: "Owing to the very cold and backward spring season, only hay, sugar and rice crops promise greater yields than those of last "year. The bulletin says In part : "While the aggregate cereal yield, six crops !cing included, Is 15 per cent smaller than a year ago, a counterbalance to the falling off In crop production is found In the generally higher level of prices of the leading cereals, guaranteeing that the producer at least will derive some compensation alike from the smaller yields, the amount of the old or 100r, crops left over, and the Improved export Inquiry, particularly for our wheat and flour, caused by less satisfactory harvests abroad. The price of wheat last week was 22 per cent higher than a year ago, while corn was 13 ior cent higher. From this It may be gathered that the present money returns on these crops Is letter than at the outset of the cereal yea and the prospects are that taken as a whole, this year's cereal crops wlU yield fully as much, If not more, than they did a year ago. "Following is an estimate of the yields of the leading crops for 1907, showing the pg un or loss from 100G: Ter cent pain or loss from IImKI. Her. 12.7 lec. 17.0 i-!.ls. .:.:..!.7::i'.ooo -o'.t.r.oo.ooo 2n.oe,7,noo c..r.GT.ooo 741.521,000 147.llt2.Oi") 31.5C.0.O0O 13,011,000 Corn, bu Winter wheat, bu. Spring wheat, bu.. Total wheat, bu. . Oats, bushels . . . . Iiarley. bushels .. Dec. Dec. Dec. Doc. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Inc. Inc. Inc. Dev. 10.7 14.0 23.1 17.4 5.4 4.t lö.'t t 5.4 ,V4 20.2 0.0 8.0 nye, bu. Buck wheat, bu Total, six leading cereals . . Flaxseed, bu. Potatoes, bu. Tobaeo, lbs. Hay, tons . Rice, bu. . . . 4.113.4R0.O0O 2r.,42o.(MM) 202.427.000 04S.216.O0O 00,706.000 21.412.000 Sujrar, tons 1 ..1.-57.000 Cotton, bales 11,500,000 A Simple Way to Make Cheese. The making of cheese is a very simple process, and almost any one can turn out a good article with little practice. I will giv.j a method by which any one can make cheese successfully. Take evening's milk and strain it Into some clean vessel aud let it stand in a cool place until morning. Evening's milk should be warmed to about 00 degrees before adding morning's milk. A good way to warm it Is to set a pail of boiling water Into the milk. Prepare the rennet by soaking In one gallon of warm water for twenty-four hours before using. Add as much salt as it will dissolve, strain, let It settle and it Is ready for use. I'se a tablespoonful for each three gallons of milk. If it is much over half an hour coming increase the quantity. If much less decrease It. As soon as it Is well curdled take a knife and cut the curd Into blocks so that tho whey can escape. As-soon as the whey is mostly out of the curd take a basket and place a cloth In It so as to receive the curd. As the curd hardens continue to strain off the whey. Chop the curd fine, add salt 1 ounce to each five pounds of curd and It Is ready for the press. Put the curd In a tin hoop made like a peck measure without a bottom. It Is a good Idea to have two sizes, as the amount of curd will differ at times. Almost any one with a few tools ami a little ingenuity can construct a press that will answer the purpose very well. A simple way Is to mortise a beam Into a post so that it can work up or down, and hang a weight to the outer end of tho beam. The. hoop with the curd In It should be turned or reversed every eight or ten hours. From eighteen to twenty-four hours is generally long enough to pres a cheese. Now conies the curing jK-rl-od, which requires considerable care and attention. The cheese when taken from the press should be rubbed wi.h lard and a bandage of hew muslin pinned loosely around it. The cheese must be greased every day. Do not remove the bandage, but apply tho grease on It. In from four to five weeks the cheese should be ready for home use or market. J. M. Smith.

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Pattern Department UP-TO-DATE DESIQNS FOR THE HOME DRESSMAKER V V V GlrPa Dm. The frock that Is worn over a separate guimpe is always a pretty one, and this season it is showing certain new features that make it especially attractive. The shoulders are long and drooping, and there often is found some modification of tho kimono or Mandarin sleeve. This one includes all the novelties mentioned and is graceful and attractive, while perfectly simpie withal. In this case It is made o. a blue wool material with lines ol golden brown and Is trlmnied with brown ribbon frills, but it suits plain material quite as well as plaid, and fashionable colors and fashionable mixtures are exceptionally varied and exceptionally attractive. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Tattern Department of this paper. Be sure to give both the number and size of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. No. 5S3G. SIZE NAME ... ADDRESS . Seven Gored Prlneee Sklre. Everything that Is long and graceful, everything that gives slender lives to the figure is in the height of style at the moment, and this skirt is therefore peculiarly desirable. It extends just few inches n I tore the normal waist 'inc. giving the graceful modified Emoire effect, and it falls in unbroken ines from that point to the floor. In he illustration It is made of broadcloth with trimming of velvet and ornamental buttons, but it will be found Jesirable for velvet and for Panama :loth. Indeed, for almost all seasonable materials, for even the thinner ones, such as veiling, cashmere and the like, are made after such models. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. .Send all orders to the Tattern Department of this paper. Be sure to give both the number and size of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. No. öSöo. SIE . NAME ADDRESS Thlnus to Think About. London consumes over 9,000,000 tons of coal every year. The average Arab drinks nine or ten cups of coffee daily. The best tea sells In China for less than 10 cents a tiound. Th- Persians have a different namo for every day In the mouth. It Is estimated that there are 51,000 breweries iu the world and half of them are In Germany. If is painful to have a tooth pulled, but pleasant to talk with experience 011 the subject afterwards. Answer to correspondent: A broken heart is rare. Many people say there never was such a thing. A man never discovers what n remarkable memory lie has until he is trying his hardest to forget. Many householders dislike to burn organic refuse because of the offensivencss of the process. This can be overcome entirely by first drying such matters in the ashpit beneath the lire. The National Druggist scoffs at Dr. Wiley's proposed investigation of soda fountain drinks. It does not believe as lie do?s that any of the beverages contain chloral hydrate, opium or cocaine. It Is proposed by the master of the (Jraud Central Station in New York that it would be advisable for the railway companies in their new plans to procure a kissing room and require all osculation to be performed there, sc that the concourse, doorways, platforms and gates be not congested bj those who linger for the last good-by.

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ENTERTAINING REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR. Graphic Arroant of Stlrrtnsr Scenes Witnessed on the Ilattlencld and In Camp Veteran of the Rebellion Recite Experiences. The records of the war department show that there were 178,503 colored men regularly enlisted as soldiers in the Union army during the rebellion, who by their good conduct established a commendable record and did efficient service in camp, fortress and field. The first enlistment of negroes was by Gen. Hunter In the Department of the South in June, 1802. It was made without the authority of the war department, and was due to an emergency. Gen. Hunter needed men. He could not get white recruits, and was surrounded by a multitude of able-bodied negroes who were Idle but anxious to serve as eoIdiers. It was some time before the facts were known In the North, and Hunter's unauthorized recognition cf the great issue of the war as proper military material created considerable excitement Representative Wyckliff of Kentucky introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling upon the secretary of war for information. The resolution was forwarded to Gen. Hunter, who made a comprehensive and practical report, which was forwarded to congress aud was recognized by the country as a full justification of his act. Mr. Wyckliff created a scene in the house by denouncing Gen. Hunter and declaring that the enlistment of negroes was an insult to every white soldier in the army. Nevertheless congress authorized the president to enlist "persons of African descent," but provided that they should be used as laborers iL.the camps and forts, and were cot to bo allowed to bear arms. Gen. .Tim Lane of Kansas, who had been corunissloned to recruit volunteers, toe advantage of this authority and assumed the responsibility of enlisting an entire regiment of free colored men la that state. Many of them were runaway slaves from Missouri and Arkansas. Some had purchased their own freedom. Others had been rescued by the abolitionists. For a long tim the war department refused officially to recognize "Jim Lau'e niggers," but he knew he had the sympathy of President Lincoln and Secretary Stan?on, and marched them over the border, where they took part Jn several battles and demonstrated their courage and efficiency. , The enlistment of negroes was specifically prohibited by an army regulation, but nobody knew anything about it, and the paragraph was not discovered until the regulations were revised several years afterward. About the same time Gen. Putler, who was commanding at New Orleans, began to organize the free negroes in his department Into companies, battalions and regiments. They had previously been organized by the Confederate authorities In Louisiana as state militia. When Gen. Putlor reported to the war department what he had done the secretary of war simply acknowledged the receipt of his communication and gave his act the sanction of silence. President Lincoln, In private conversation, encouraged the enlistment of colored troops, but purposely avoided the formal recognition of their existence for fear of awakening a public opinion In opposition to their recognition. His experience during the previous year while (Jen. Rutler was commanding In the Virginia peninsula concerning the employment of negroes about the camps had taught him caution, and he preferred that those who sympathized with the advancement of the slaves should go on quietly to demonstrate their capacity as soldiers before their existence was officially recognized. It will be remembered that Gen. Butler, in a correspondence that Is historical, took the ground that negroes, or escaped slaves, like horses or mules, or any other property captured from the enemy, were contraband of war. ' Much to the annoyance of the president and Secretary Stanton, and even more so to Gen. Rutler, Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, who had been assigned to the command of a brigade of negroes by Gen. Butler, refused to accept the detail, and thus brought the matter prominently before the public It should . be said, however, that Gen. Weitzel considered it an honor two years later to command the entire corps of negro troops. Gen. Lo-enzo Thomas, who was adjutant general, was sent West by Secretary Stanton about this time, and visited the headquarters of the Union arfny in several of the Western and Southern states, where he privately advised that all colored men who presented themselves be enlisted on even terms with the whites, but cautioned recruiting officers not to call attention In their reports to the fact. Gen. Rufu' Saxon was the first officer to receive official authority to enlist negroes as soldiers. On the 2Gth of August. 1SC:J, the secretary of war ordered h!in to proceed to the Department of the South and organize 5,000 troops of "African descent," which freie to bo designated for service in garrisons not In danger of attack by the enemy, to relieve white regiments whose terms of enlistment had expired. But one of Gen'. Saxon's first acts after recruiting a regiment was to send It on a foraging expedition Into the enemy's country. The result was entirely satisfactory. The colored menNproved to be remarkably good foragers, and brought in more supplies than three tunes the number of white men could have secured. A few months later a bureau wa3 organized In the war department to direct the enlistment and organization of negro troops. By this time the people of the North were prepared for the innovation and applauded the opportunity that was thus given to enable the negro to fight for the freedom of his race, but in Kentucky, Missouri and other border states, the prejudice was Intense. Several recruiting officers were tarred and feathered and others were shot. Several officers were dismissed from the army for refusing to command negro troops; others resigned in preference to doing so. This prejudice in the South was the more remarkable because the Confederate government had used negroes as auxiliaries from the beginning of the war. They were employed as servants, rs laborers, as messengers, as hostlers and In various other capacities, and

battalions, of negro sappers and miners were constantly employed In the construction of fortifications, roadways, camps and In other lines of labor and proved very successful. Among the Confederate archives at the war record office there Is a good deal of interesting material concerning the military service of the negroes on that side. It embraces not only the legislation proposed or enacted by the Confederate Congress, the reports and orders of the military authorities of the Confederacy relating to the employment of negroes in the actual or auxiliary mltitary service, but there are many reports that testify to their success and efficiency. Although the Confederates anticipated the Federal government in the employment of negroes as military forces, they exhibited a good deal of Indignation when their example was followed, and the records of the Confederate Congress show some sensational measures of retaliation threatened against the government of the United States on th!s('account It was proposed, among other things, to raise the black flag against negro soldier and white officers who commanded them, and in some cas?s this retaliation was enforced, as at Fort Tillow, but finally the Confederate Congress formally recognized the usefulness of tfce negro as a soldier as well as laborer and authorized President Davis to enlist an unlimited number of colored troops. This fact was commented upon by Gov. Yates, of Illinois, in a message he sent to the legislature of that State as a most extraordinary phenomenon In history- He said the leaders of the Insurrection had called upon the cause of the insurrection to save It, and had recognized the Intelligence and manhood of the despised race by lifting it to a level with themselves. A wise providence, he said, was directing the destiny of the Confederates so that they will terminate the very evil they are fighting to maintain. Slavery was to be the corner-stone of their new Confederacy, but, says Gov. Yates, a man who has been a soldier will never be a slave. The first negroes were landed upon the soil of America In 1505, by the Spaniards. In 1G1D or 1G20 they were brought into the British colony of Virginia. Sir John Hawkins, the famous buccaneer, was interest in their Importation from Africa, and it Is supposed that Queen Elizabeth, with whom he was a great favorite, shared the profits with him. The first rererenee in American history to negroes as soldiers is found In the records of 1032, where it appears that "negroes, Indians and Scottishmen" were permitted to train with the militia.' Four years later, however, negroes and Indians were exempted from militia service. In 1CG0 a colonial law was passed requiring ever)' person above the age of 1C, excepting classes specifically mentioned, to train with the militia. Negroes are not included among those classified as exempts. In 10S0 there Is a record of the death of "a negro of Col. King," who was wounded while gallantly fighting In the skirmish with the Indians. In 1703 South Carolina specifically required negroes to enter the military service of the State, and freedom was offered to every slave who killed an enemy in battle. The colonial records for 1747 recite that "several negroes and other slaves" had rendered efficient service In repelling the attack of "his majesty's enemies."

There was one negro at the battle of Lexington. A negro soldier shot and killed Maj. Pitcalrn of the British army as he led his forces In an assault upon the American worksion Bunker Hill. His name was Peter Salem. Crispus Attucks, a colored man, who was killed in ' the streets of Boston March T, 1770, has been called the first martyr to the cause of American Independonce, and a monument has been j erected to his memory which bears an Inscription to that effect. In 1S87 the legislature of Massachusetts appropriated money for a more pretentious monument in his honor. Nevertheless, seven days after he took command of the army Washington issued au order XrohlbItIng the enlistment of negroes. It does not appear to have been obey ed, and must have been revoked, for shortly after he approved of the for mat Ion of a battalion of slaves in Rhode Island, and afterward In several of the southern colonies. There are many evidences, however, tnat Wash ington did not take kindly to the era ployment of negro troops, and was par ticularly opposed to having them mix with the whites. But there was never any discussion or difference of opinion as to the capacity of the negro as a soldier. In the war of 1812 negroes were organized and employed as a military force In various parts of the country. After the battle of New Orleans Gen. Jackson Issued an order highly complimentary to their valor. Immediate ly after the close of the war of 1S12, however, negroes who had been enlisted In the regular army were discharged as unfit to associate with white American soldiers, and a paragraph was Inserted In the army regulations prohibiting their enlistment. At present there arefour regiments of colored men In the regular service, two of cavalry and two of Infantry. They are commanded by white officers, and have done very good service In Indian warfare. Their constitutions endure the heat of the Southern States much letter than those of white men, and they have been particularly valuable along the Mexican border. William E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald. Several Subjects. The handmade watch trade of England Is languishing. Customs receipts lo New York. City are running $70,000 more a day tuan last year. The oldest warship In existence Is the English Victory, whidi was launched in 1703. The town of Orson, Sweden, Is without taxes. The necessary revenues are derived from a forest reservation. Prince Edward, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, has developed quite Hin amount of ability as a singer. Eight-car trains are to be run on the Boston elevated line In the endeavor to cope with the problem of handling the traffic offered. In Norway and Sweden thirty-six pefsons out of every 1,000 live by seafaring. The next best average In this particular Is In England, where there are seventeen per every 1,000. Electricity Is now being largely used in the bookbinding Industry for em!e)ss,ng and such work. With tha aid f the current it is iossible to mike 43O Impressions per minute, which inoic than atones for the Increased cost of the heat

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