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THE FALLS CIT TRIBUNE , FRIDAY , DECEMBER 5 , 1906. MUSSELS FIND MANY USES. Some Facts About n Fnmillnr Shells ] flsh At Its Best In the Spring How to Cook Them. Mussels are at their boat in the spring. Mussels thrive in bays and inlets , on sandy bottoms , to which , and to one another , they attach by their byssus threads , these being slender filaments issu ing from between the shells , says a New York writer. They are sometimes in great beds extend ing over a hundred acres , thou sands of bushels of mussels being obtained in a single bed. Fishermen go for mussels as soon as the ice is out of the bays in the spring , and sometimes when wind and weather are pro pitious they sandwich in a trip for mussels between the end of one fishing trip and the beginning of another. There are plenty of mus sel beds within easy reaching dis tance of New York , and once on a mussel bed a load for u ten-ton sloop might be dredged tip in a single tide. So with good luck a fisherman could go to a mussel bed 20 , J50 or 10 miloH distant , and get a load of mussels , and be back in New York ready to sell them , all within two days. The profit on the trip depends on what he gets for his catch. If there should be many boatloads of mussels in the market at the same time he would get less for them ; but if he sliould happen to come in when mussels were scarce he would get more. If he gotsay , § 1.25 a barrel , about an average price , and he had from 50 to 75 barrels in his sloop and he had made a quick trip and disposed of his catch quickly there would be fair money in it. But the fisherman takes chances in mussel fishing , just as he docs in every other sort of fishing. Fishermen sometimes cat mus sels fried , but the great bulk of mussels consumed arc pickled. The mussels arc first boiled , and then picked out of their shells , and then what is called the beard , which consists of the inward ends of the byssus threads , is removed , and with it a little sac into which the mussel is likely to have drawn more or less sand. Then the mussels are put up in jars in pickle , with a few spices added. Pickled mussels have long been a familiar item of free lunch , and people buy them as well to carry home. The mussel is a much cheaper shellfish than the oyster or the clam , but still it is not eaten to the same extent. There are people ple with whom the mussel does not agree , because of its rich flavor. Hut there are epicures who are fond of them , and who like to eat them occasionally , and so mussels may be found on the bills of fare of the finest restaur- unts. Junkmen who go into the coun try buying junk .sometimes take down their jangling bells and stow them away somewhere in the wagon and take into the country a wagonload of mussels , which they dispose of to farmers , trad ing the mussels , maybe , for junk. Pickled mussels have been shipped from New York at least as far away as Chicago ; so that , altogether the quantity of mus sels disposed of in the Gotham market is considerable. Novel Wny to Kill Sharks. The engineers in the British navy have a very effective way of killing sharks. They seal up a dynamite cartridge in an empty can , and put the can inside a large piece of pork. The pork is thrown overboard on a wire which has' been connected with an elect He battery. When the shark takes ; the bait the engineer prcs > es a button , which explodes the ear tridge and kills the fish. A Beginner. He The airships do not seem \ to be perfected yet. The great problem is how can a man be kept up in the air ? She Well , I saw you out horse back riding the other day , and seit looked very much as if you were in the air most of the time ! Yon- hers Statesman. His First Attnck. She ( toying with the ring ) And am I the first woman you over loved ? He No , indeed. At the early age of seven I thought seriously of eloping with my teacher. Chicago cage Daily News. LONG-WINDED ORATORS. So < n Texns Legislator Brought an Alarm Clock Into the House Which la a Success. The unusual sight of a mature and sedate member of the legisla ture standing on the floor of the house in the midst of its proceed ings holding aloft a 15-cent alarm clock , decorated with blue ribbons bens , while the alarming depart ment of the machinery was in : i state of eruption , was witnessed the other afternoon , and the sight precipitated convulsions and con fusion onii the part of the member ship , while the pages shrieked wildly and turned somersaults in the aisles. J. J. JJlount , of Ander son county , was the owner and operator - orator of the clock and the origina tor of the idea tlmti timepieces ! ' should be put to that use. He was deadly in earnest too , says the Dallas News. Mr. Blount had on several occa sions complained of the "wind- jamming " in the house and spcef- fit-ally of the fact that speeches of ten minutes extended beyond that time limit. This afternoon he showed up in the hou.se with a brand-new clock. He informed those who questioned him about it that he intended to set the clock- as each member rose to speak so that it would call time on him when the limit under the rules had been reached. There were several speeches during the first hour and a half of the session , but it chanced that CurtisIIancockof Dallas , was the victim of Mr. mount's system. The Blanton pure food bill was un der discussion. Mr. Hancock had offered an amendment to protect the retail grocers and was speak ing to it. He was frequently in terrupted with questions and there was frightful disorder , so much that the speaker ( Mr. Hiids- peth in the chair ) ordered the ser- goant-at-arms to clear the lobby , lust at this juncture and as Mr. Hancock was reaching the quit ting point a strong "ting-a-ling" rang out above the din. Mr. Blount arose and held the time keeper aloft in full view of the howling assemblage. "Steamboats have schedules , so railroads have time cards , and the Twenty-ninth house of represen tatives must follow its rules , " he declared. Mr. Hancock seemingly believed that he had been special ly selected as the voctim of a prac tical joke , asserted with emphasis his right to bo heard in the inter est of the people whom he repre sented , and he scathingly do nouncedthe spirit which it seemed prompted some members to per petrate such pranks. His indigna tion and earnestness were such that the remainder of his speech was received in respectful silence. The lobby was not cleared. AMERICAN OSTRICHES MANY Four Farms in United States and Industry - dustry Is Reported Thriving Year by Year. There arc four ostrich farms ii the United States and the twc most important are situated ii the Salt Ixiver valley , Arizona The industry is carried on success fully in the Arizona climate and the birds seem to thrive quite as ' well as in their foreign habitat Mr. Joseph Harbert , of Phoenix , imported 1(5 ( birds from South Af rica in 1893 , and placed them o : his. farm in the Salt River valley j a few miles from ( ho city of Phoe j ! nix. A number of the birds dioi I from the effects of the journey am the change of food and climate and during the first years litll progress was made. Their egg ; ' were hatched in largo incubators | and when the business of earin. ! for them was learned it was found that the Salt liivcr valley birds grow up to bo several inches taller than the imported birds and the feathers are said to bo of better quality. Gov. Alexander 0. Brodio , , of Arizona , takes great pride in 'Jthe ostrich farming of his terri- ' iti ( ory , and he has devoted considerable erable space to it in his last an- report , showing that lle believes it will become in time one of the loading industries of that , region. One bird will yield ita pound of featherrf atone clipping , and they are clipped every eight months. Some of the feathers are sold as high as $25 a pound in east ern markets , so it can be readily seen that it is an industry worth ] | while. The ostrich population of the two farms near Phoenix is about 1,000. BLOCKING OF PORT ARTHUR Writer in Vigorous Description Tells of Perils of Japanese Before Doomed City. This vigorous , description is from "The Yellow War , " by " 0. " The scene is the blocking of Port Arthur harbor by the Japanese vessels. "The o Ulcer in com inaiiil of the doomed ship stood in front of the wheel with his eyorf glued upon the deepening base of the black darkness in front of him. The increasing shadow betokened the land he was trying to make. The only light was the binnacle. The slow grind of the half speed engines and the swirl of the dis placed water was in itself soum ! enough to render almost unloar able the overpo\voing ftellii o 'silence. Suddenly a jr.oat : ' 'in ! of light cleft the darkness al.i u. ft was so white and ole : r that tl1' faces of the three men on th I.ridge looked pale ami riorthliki The man at the v.-l-.ccl v. ii-/i dvii the stroke it ' . \is : lltoi. . ly st.-cko of light but tlio o .ice ii.i ! 'i o\ed ln ! " ! : iii. T. 11 em .ad defeated tl.oir own cnils ; th- ; sad shown him ( liojiasy e ha f i point to starboard and the j ciinf ivas true. "All was dark and dreadful again , but only for a second. A 1'Mig meleorlike rocket shot u | ' 10111 the center of Hi'1 ovorpowc .f maps ahead. Its siuuou * 'ourye ' closed in a miss : of spa : k 10 great beam of the Golden Iii ! 'arclilight ' leaped.into life. P.u. here were other lights light ing Hashes from the breast of he mountain , flashes whic" eared the gloom and vanished , 'lie ' forts of Port Arthur wen1 iring the guns which at night ao Iways trained upon the harhoi pproaehos. The tumult wa leafoning. The great bare flanks if the mountains behind oauglK ip the deadly roll of discharging quick flrers and ( lung the sound 'iack in mocking reverberation. [ Jut that was not the worst sound. The hissing rush of projectiles , 'he ear-splitting swish as they truck the water and exploded , or shrieked in ricochet overhead he tension bred of apprehensive darkness had changed to an in- ' ( jrno of modern war. "At last the Japanese officer ijave evidence of sensibility to the liades which surrounded him. He liad brought his ship far enough into the passage. He blew the whistle , which his teeth had bit- en almost flat : "Port , had a port ! ' As her head came round a licavy shell hit her forward. Then [ mother shock. It was as if an earthquake had struck her. Instantaneously the engines stopped. They were twisted out of all semblance to symmetry. A torpedo had struck her amid ships. Again the whistle sound- d. It was the order to take to the boat. ' . . . The ship was listing heavily. ] The officer shouted to his men } in the boat. . His foot was on the rail when the destroyer opened with its quick firor. A shell took him in the neck and shoulder and bursting on impact carried the bravo man's head and brain away with it. His mutilated trunk fell forward among his anxious men. "Ho was aboard. They pushed ' oil' and as they handled the oars they gave a cheer. Then they dis covered that it was the warm , thick lifebloud of their chief and not the Kpume of the sea which had made HIL-IU wet in the dark- J1PRS. " Poor Johnnie. Moso Chigley , a friend of the Sentinel living in Davis 0r , and cer tainly a representative Indian rif his tribe , a man always ready ifo appreciate the situation , was blessed a few months since with a male heir. The little follow , however , did not arrive in time to ; ot on the approved government rolls. This grieved the fond fa ther not a little ; in fact , ho took it so to heart that he was deter mined in some way to commem orate lastingly the matter. Ho accordingly christened the per tionless heir Johnnie No hand Chigley. " Paul's Valley (0. ( T. ) Sentinel. Smallest Installation. What is said to be the smallest electric light installation in the world is to be found in the village of Bremen , near Dormbach , Thur- ingia. It comprises a single arc lamp installed in a church , the lamp being operated by a small dynamo driven by the wheels of I the village mill. WILL POWER AN ESSENTIAL The Man Who Bolloves and Has Con ndcnco in Himself Is Ho Who Succeeds. What would you think of a young man , ambitious to become a lawyer , who should surround himself with a medical atinos phere and spend his time reading medical books ? asks Orison Swetl Marden , in Success. Do you thiuK he would ever become a great lawyer by following such u course ? No , he must put himself into a law atmosphere , where he can absorb it and be steeped in it until lie is attuned to the legal note. lie must be grafted into the legal tree so that he can feel its sap cir culating through him. llow long would it take a young man to become successful who puts himself into an atmosphere of failure and remains in it until he is soaked to saturation with the idea ? How long would it take a man who depreciates himself , talks of failure , walks like a fail ure , and dresses like a failure who is always complaining of lh insurmountable difficulties in his way , and whose every step is on the road to failure how long would it take him to arrive at the success goal ? Would anyone be lieve in him or expect him to win ? The majority of failures began to deteriorate by doubting or de preciating themselves , or by los ing confidence in their own ability. The moment you harbor doubt and begin to lose faith in yourself , you capitulate to the enemy Every time you acknowledg < weakness , inefficiency , or lack of ability , you weaken your self-con lidence , and that is to undermine the very foundation of all achieve ment. So long as you carry around a failure atmosphere , and radiate doubt and discouragement , you will be a failure. Turn about face , cut off all currents of fail ure thoughts , of discouraget thoughts. Boldly face your goa \vith a stout heart and a deter mined endeavor , and you will fini that things will change for you but you must see a new world be fore you can live in it. It is tt what you see , to what you believe to what you struggle incessantly to attain , that you will approxi mate. FIND TREASURE OF A KING Hoard of Gold , Ivory and Preciou Stones Ides Hidden in African Soil. Treasure hunting continues t occupy the attention of many pco pie in various parts of the world A hoard of buried wealth not a well known as certain others i that supposed to have been se cretcd by Lobengula , king of th Matabele in South Africa , bcfor he met his death at the hands o the British. This treasure is sai to consist of gold , ivory and precious cious stones. It was brought into the limelight of public notice not long ago by the arrest of a Dutch man named John Jacobs. He ar rived at Bulawayo , told some thing of his plans , was put into what they call the "goal" and has since been deported. Lobengula succeeded his father as king of the Matabele in 1870 and boldly opposed European civ ilization. He made Bulawayo his capital. After the discovery of gold in his territory in 1872 , Portugal tugal , the Transvaal and Great Britain strove to win the supreme control , over Lobengula's king dom. In 1SSS he signed a treaty with Great Britain , admitting her ! suzerainty. In 1S93. provoked by the insolence of the British South ' Africa company , he attacked the English. Ho was terribly beaten. [ His capital was taken and in his flight he himself was killed. John Jacobs , the treasure seek | er , was a school-teacher. He claims to have been private secre- tary.to King Lobengula and that in this way he learned where the treasure was hid. The Bulawayc . authorities , however , discovered that he had a bad record. Hence his deportation. Jacobs is an el ! derly man , bearing evidence of long exposure to wind and weather. The treasure is still to t be found. Old Age and Late Hours. A statistician affirms that the majority of people who attain old ago have kept late hours. Eight out of tea who reach the age of SO have never gone to bed till after 12 at night. BISON FIERCEST OF CATTLE All of a Hunter's Skill and Nerve Is Needed When Tackling Such Big Game. Called bison ( incorrectly ) in In dia , seladang in Malaya , siang in Burma , and gnudang in Siam , the gaur ( Bos gaums ) is the largest and fiercest of all wild cattle , with hoofs small in proportion to its height , and of deerlike , rather i than oxlike , character , says Outii ing. Its sense of smell is as acute | j as that of the elephant and its \ ision much keener. When you j seek one of these cattle you need j ill your hunter's skill and your' j ' nerve , for , next to the elephant i mil liratlifted with ( he f'apobuf- ale or Africa , I believe its natural ompeutj-i nt and the character of the country ia which it is found make the seladang in the Malay peninsula the most formidable iu.tr. y on earth. In India , where ho range of the gaur is the hilly , weeded districts , they are more ipt to be found in herds of some size , and. because of the more danr sections , less difficult of approach preach , and less dangerous to the mater than in the Malay penin sula , whore the jungle is the densest that grows , and almost invariably the quarry has the man ! 't a disadvantage. In Malay it is shoiitinjr , where the game , on being wounded , turns hunter , and , concealed , awaits the sportsman , who must approach with infinite caution , with senses always alert and hand ever loady if he would stop or turn aside the vicious charge. You may never in this jungle survey the Hold of opera tioas from some vantage point : but in the close growing angle ol \ines , and canes , and thorn bush es , and heavy coarse weed of grass-like mass through which you can never got oven dim sight for over ill ) yards and most of the lime can scarcely see that man\ feet ahead you must follow the tracks of the seladang you have wounded , never knowing at what instant the maddened beast may burst from the jungle practically right on top of you. One seladang 1 was fortunate enough to finally got was only just at the other side of a bamboo clump when he start ed his charge full at me. This i the dangerous and the unavoid able feature of hunting the beast in Malay. Luckily for the hunter , the seladang , if unsuccessful in its charge , passes on to await him at another point. Never have I heard of one turning instantly to a second end charge after missing th * hunter on the first rush. But , on the other hand , if the seladang charges home it remains to gorge its victim. POTALA : A SACRED PALACE Edifice of High Priest Photographed for the First Time Re cently. Potala , or the sacred place of I the dalai lama , the high priest of i the Thibetans , was photographed for the first time when the mem- hers of the British Thibetan expedition ! - dition i cached Lhasa , the sacred' forbidden city in the center ofj Thibet , says the Metropolitan Magazine. Col. Younghusband 1,1 who was in charge of the expedi- tion , would permit no attempt by the correspondents to violate the sanctity of the various sacred buildings , but splendid views of the exterior wore obtained , and ] the world is richer by authentic descriptions of this wonderful pal- ace , which is described in the dispatch - patch of the London Times corre- spondcnt. Over a city set as a jewel , amid green gardens , through which crj'stal streams flowed , towered the giant Potala , rising almost from the ground n' gigantic stretches of white ma- sonry , pierced with intonningablo rows of windows , and scaled by gieat , red-edged , zig-zag stair- ways , 20 feet wide. Above these a white mass ascended at either ! end in the shape of a heavil.i tor- raced palace , inclosing a maroon mass , the main building. Above this again were golden roofs of a Chinese pattern , the whole structure - ture130 feet high and between SOO and 900 feet long , completely ' dominating the city of Lhasa , which was separated from the li ) > lace by wide stretches of turf and a beautiful plantation full of forest trees. If You Don't Dig. No one knows what a day will I , bring forth , but it is generally a pretty safe guess that it will be nothing. Puck. . DOWN ON THE RIO GRANDE ] Contractor Tells of an Exciting Experience - \ , porionco in Crossing Stream / \ in. the West. "To give you an idea of what sort of a river the Bio Grande is I'll ' tell you an experience that 1 had 1 : in getting across it with a derrick , " said Baymond McDou- gall , a mining man from Now Mex- ice , to r. Milwaukee Free Press tnan. " 1 was a contractor in rock work in those days and was tak ing my do.rick from the e.st side -f the river to the Maj.dalenas. The derrick was on lour wagon \\heels and four mules wie haul ing it. I had mytwoheii-etsalon ind one of them drove the in1. ! < > . L' was.an old time ! , wliii n . lucky , and if I h ; d tns ; : < ' , ; ( A I\MI jiulgnu'iit 1 ni ht ! ; . . > " . , \ mistake that would hue > . : .0 sny mules : : .ul di1. it ! . , 'A no i.v life. . "We reached flic I5io (5raidc a : ; I aour before sundown and 1 s.r , . T 'i wide liver bed , but no water only dry sand from one bank to the t other. It was a nv kim ! o river to mo , but my dihev said that it was all right that it was i way the Rio Grande had. Thr water was there , only it was llov > ir ing i through the sands under the ii channel instead of in it. 1 be ing i a tenderfoot was for camping on the nearer bank where the grass J was good , but McCartney , the driver , said that would never do unless I was willing to take ui ) chances of staying there a week or two < ; that water sometimes came down the channel , a good deal of it i , and that it would bo well toger across while we were sure thai we could. "We were starting across over the dry sands and I was thinking what an easy way it was of ford ing a river when of a sudden the two lead mules were flounderiiij in a quicksand and the whole out fit came near being drawn in. We got the two leaders clear of the harness and the other two mules drew them out , one at a time. We hitched them up again and by mak ing a long circuit got past the quicksand and to the other bank. "By that time it was ten o'clock and the moon had risen. The mules had just begun to climb the bank when we heard a roaring noise up the channel. It came from a wall of water that stretched from bank to bank and was traveling toward us fast. It looked in the moonlight to be four L feet high , and there was high water - - tor behind it sending it on. We didn't need to holler to the mules. They heard what was coming and clawed up the bank like cats. "We got out all right , derrick and ajl and there were not three minutes to spare. Before we had finished our supper the river bed was full bank high , with a torrent that eddied and roared as it rushed past our camping place as i if it had been sorry to miss us and would like to get up where we were. There was not a cloud in ! j the sky or a sign of rain anywhere ' and the Hood may have come from ' a cloudburst in Colorado 200 miles fjaway But it came near get- ] ting us. "I had learned one lesson , and that was in traveling by wagon always camp on the farther side of the stream. And I had learned to put no trust in the Bio Grande. " | i i Sixty-Ton Steel Hope. The biggest lope t-vor used for j.haulago purposes has just been made for a district subway in Glasgow. It is seven miles lony , -1 inches in circumference , and weighs nearly 150 tons. It has been made in one unjointcd and un spliced length of patent crucible steel. When in place it will form a complete circle around Glasgow , crossing the Clyde in its course. and will run at a speed of 15 miles an hour. Size of Circus nings. Circus rings are always uniform in size , as circus horses are trained to perform in a standard ring J2 feet in diameter. In a larger or a smaller ring their pace becomes uneven , irregular and unreliable , jind the riders in turning somer 3'saults are liable to miscalculate the curve and miss their footing. Argentina's New Industry. During the last two years about i n.000,000 mulberry trees have I boon planted in Argentina , which has now about 10,000,000 of such trees. The production of raw silk will eventually become an impor taut product of that countr/ ,