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ne ne 30-10-14 40
lot 8 nw tie Sl-lH 5
lot 3 or 9 nw nw 33-h-14 10
sw nw 23-10-14 40
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lot 2 se ne 8-11-14 4.70
lot 14 se ne 8-11-14 4.70
lot 4 se ne 8-11-14 16.28
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lot 22 se ne 21-11-14 4. SO
lot lo ne nw 21-11-14 5
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sw nw 28-11-14 40
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The C.iant Trees tit California.
There is no doubt of the great age o'
the giant trees of California, but au
thorities differ to a remarkable de
gree. As an illustration of the di
vergence of views two statements are
here submitted. Dr. Gray, the famous
botanist, who examined a number of
the California trees that had been cut
down. Bays: "So far as we can judge
by actual counting of the rings of the
largest of these trees, no sequoia now
alive can possibiy antedate the Chris
tian era." That is one opinion, and
on the other hand, John Muir, the Sier
ra Nevada geologist, a more recent au
thority, speaking of the sequoia trea
that was felled for exhibition at the
Centennial Exposition, said: "It was
25 feet in diameter at the base and so
fine was the taper that it measured 10
feet in diameter 200 feet from the
ground. The age, as counted by three
different persons, was from 2,135 to
2.317 years, the fineness of the annual
wood rings making accuracy In the
counting rather difficult; yet this
specimen was by no means a very old
looking tree, and some are undoubted
ly much older. One specimen, 35 feet
8 inches in diameter, observed by me
in the King's River forest, is probably
more than 4.000 years old. It is stand
ing on a dry -hillside, where growth
is evidently very slow." The bulk of
other testiiaony supports Mr. Muir's
opinions. -
Trench Injj by Ughtnlnc.
During a thunderstorm near Consett,
in the North Durham district, the
lightn.rg struck a pasture field and
dug a trench varying from three feet
to three feet six inches deep, and six
inches or seven inches wide, across the
field for a distance of a dozen feet.
The solid clay was scattered in all di
rections, portions thereof being found
lying over twenty yards away, while
the turf had been cut up as clean as
if the work had been done by a sharp
implement. One grass sod, measuring
about six feet long and nine inches in
width, was laid on the opposite side of
the fence in another field.
Transmitting Electric Energy.
Transmission of electric energy at
Niagara Falls, a distance of twenty
three miles, has induced a company ol
English capitalists to engage in a plan
to utlli7e the rapids of the St. Law
rence for elettric power, and apply It
over a distance of ninety miles.
A woman may. love flattery and yet
despise an awkward flatterer. 1
m urns gtjirii aDLF
Picturesque and mfstarious in its
lonely grandeur standj what is left ol
the town of Allaire, in Monmouth
county. New Jersey, which, in the tw
?y days of the last century, was the
most important industrial center of
the state.
It is known today as "the Deserted
Village," and as such it is the niecca
A TYPICAL RESIDENCE,
of the guests at the seaside resorts,
who love to ponder over the secrets of
its past and the mystery of its future,
6ays the New York Press. The town,
cr, more properly speaking, what is
left of it in the shape of dwellings
and ruins, for it has not all gone to
decay, is located on the line of the
Freehold & Jamesburg branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad, thirteen miles
south of Freehofd and six miles west
from Sea Girt.
Among the crumbling houses lives
the owner of the land, son of the man
who founded the colony and made a
fortune there.
Whether he has any dreams of re
viving the once gay village no one
knows, but the allurements of city life
have not tempted him and he lives
peacefully among the ruins.
Giant trees, which have witnessed
the storms of a century, form a pretty
grove which today is one of the at
tractions of the place. Cultivated
OLD CHARCOAL HOUSE,
meadowland slopes off to the old river
Led. no- almost dry in places, and
deep ravines filled with an abundance
of natural foliage present nature at
its wildest and yet most attractive
form.
In the early days of the past century
the town was one of the largest in
dustrial centers in the East.
All roads led to Allaire, and they
were traversed by heavily laden wag
ons carrying crude materials to the
town or taking away the manufactured
product.
This continued for a period of twen
ty odd years. The town grew and
prospered.
For half a century, however, it has
shown little activity or life, and if it
were not for the many visitors who,
prompted by curiosity or real interest,
visit the place the town would be both
dead and deserted.
Although the natural beauty of the
location would suggest the idea that
there was some Utopian scheme behind
lis foundi'ag. it was a plain business
proposition that prompted James P.
U7ZU
THE OLD
Allaire, its founder, to establish the
colony which for a number of years
was such a busy place.
That the town finally became a de
serted village was due, in a measure,
to a peculiar combination of circum
Etances, and not attributed to any lack
of foresight or ability on the part of
Mr. Allaire.
In fact, had he not been dissuaded
from carrying out some of his plans,
notably, that of building a railroad,
Allaire might still have retained some
of its former glory.
The establishment of an iron smelt
ing works at Allaire marked its in
ception. The panic of 1837 crippled
Mr. Allaire financially and it was fol
lowed some years later by the discov
ery of improved methods of combus
tion In the refining of iron ore. These
were the beginning of the downfall of
the town, which resulted ultimately
in the enforced abandonment of a
plant which at that time contained
one of the finest iron smelting fur
naces in the world.
It is still standing, a silent and ma
jestic monument to the methods of the
early dayb. and through its agency was
cast some of the iron which revolu
tionized water travel and created a
new era In the method of transporta
tion. When Mr. Allaire took hold of the
old Howell furnace that section of
Monmouth county was a wilderness.
There was a fair water power, by
means of which the old furnace had
been operated, and this was greatly
improved. The pine trees in that sec
tion had been stripped by the charcoul
burners. A tract of land comprising
one thousand acres was purchased and
more charcoal was made.
immitrnmumimuiiii
j -myan gBO&
The stone for buildings was brought
from Nyack and the brick needed was
made there.
In 1S28 the Howell Works company
was incorporated and James P. Allaire
was elected president. In 1S31 the com
pany was sold out and bought in by
James P. Allaire as an individual.
Arter acquiring the property Mr. Al
laire made further improvements. A
modern furnace for smelting iron was
built, which is standing today as
strong as it was the day it was
erected.
Roads were improved to Red Bank
TOP OF
and Occanport, where piers were con
structed and a line of sloops was op
erated to New York City.
The first steamboat built was the
Yolas. the second Osiris, followed by
the Isis and the 1818.
Comfortable houses were built for
employes and 'from 1834 to 1837 Allaire
was at the height of its prosperity. The
big furnace was in operation, there
was a grist mill, a bakery, store, car
penter shop, screw factory and about
five hundred men were employed in
the various industries which made up
the town.
A canal was dug three miles to
bring water from the Mingemahone, a
stream near FarmiDgdale, and five
large farms were bought to have the
right of way for the water.
Lines of stages were operated daily
to the more important towns and
goods were brought from New York by
a steamboat line which succeeded the
line of sloops. Much of the iron was
shipped to market by the Manasquan
river from a deck two miles below the
furnace.
Currency was scarce in those days
and in 1834 a lot of bronze coins, one
and two cents, and bills from six and
a quarter cents to 15 were placed in
circulation.
The right to put the money in circu
lation w as discussed by the lawyers of
that time, but it was accepted, and
passed by the people of the town as
good as the currency of the federal
government. The name of Allaire on
it was considered a sufficient guarantee
that it would be paid.
Mr. Allaire, who had extensive
works in New York city, suffered in
the panic of 1837, and the plant in
New York passed into other hands.
Improved methods of combustion in
SCREW FACTORT.
the smelting of ore followed and it
was not long before it was evident
that iron could not be produced in the
Howell plant as cheaply as elsewhere.
Reluctantly Mr. Allaire announced
in 184G that he could make no more
iron and the death-knell of the town
was sounded.
The closing of the iron furnace was
followed by the closing of other fac
tories in the town and gradually the
population dwindled down to a few
who held on to the old place.
In 183G Mr. Allaire projected a rail
road to the town of Allaire, but he
was dissuaded from undertaking its
erection by some of his friends who
feared it could not be carried through
successfully.
Had he carried out his ideas the
history of Allaire might have been far
different.
Hal Allaire, the son of the old man,
is a graduate of Columbia and a man
of much learning, yet he, for some
unknown reason, has buried himself
among his ruins.
He was left the major portion of the
estate by his father and the will was
contested. In 1876 the New York courts
decided in his favor and he was left
in undisputed possession of a strange
legacy.
He has lived the life of a quiet coun
try farmer, and because of the many
difficulties to be surmounted he never
attempted to restore, the town to its
former industrial activity.
Mr. Allaire is highly esteemed by his
friends, and while the ruins undoubt
edly remind him of the greatness of
the past, yet he takes an active interest
In the affairs of the county and acts
as postmaster for the present town of
Allaire.
' y
On Sunilay he conducts a Sunday
school in the old school building.
DEMAND FOR HOUR GLASSES.
Some Are t'sed for Keeping; Tab en
I'lano Practice.
' Most people think that hour glass
es went out of style years ago," said
a clerk in a Twenty-third street store
to the New York Sun, "along with
perukes and knee breeches, but as a
matter of fact we have more calls for
them today than we have had at any
time within the last ten years. That
this renewed popularity of the hour
glass augurs its universal acceptance
as a timepiece by the coming genera
tion, I am not prepared to say, but if
such a renaissance were to become as
sured it would be no more surprising
than some of the other recent fads
based on a revival of lost customs.
Aryway a brief Btudy of the hour glass
FURNACE.
will do nobody harm. There are thou
sands in this generation who have not
the slightest idea what an hour glass
looks like, and it won't hurt them to
broaden their education a little along
certain lines. Of the hour glasses sold
at present the three-minute class is In
the lead. This glass is used almost
exclusively to measure time in boiling
eggs and its usefulness naturally
places its sale a little in advance of the
more sentimental varieties. Next
come the five, ten and fifteen minute
and full hour glasses, which are
bought chiefly by musicians for pianc
practice and by lodges and secret so
cieties. The sand used in an hour
glass is the very finest that the world
affords. The western coast of Italy
furnishes most of it. as it has done for
ages past. The cost of hour glasses is
regulated by the ornamentation of the
frames. A glass set in a plain rose
wood case can be bought for f 1, while
a mahogany frame comes to $1.50 or
52. Of counse, the price can be brought
up still higher by fancy carving and
decoration. Swell lodges sometimes go
to this extra expense, but most people
are satisfied with the cheaper grades."
FAMOUS HANGMAN INSANE.
II t GhoMtly Job Drove Him to the Mad
house. It was recently announced that
Amos Lunt, the famous San Quentin
hangman, who went mad as a result
of his grewsome duties, was dying in
the State Asylum for the Insane at
Napa. Cal. The career of Lunt as a
hangman was a remarkable one, and a
full history of his life at the prison
would read like a ghastly romance.
For seven years he filled the ofiie of
state executioner, and nineteen mur
derers were hanged by him. It was
Lunt who threw the noose about the
neck of Theodore Durant and hasten
ed an execution already unduly pro
longed, while the murderer from the
scaffold was making his protestations
of innocence. On this occasion Lunt
was reported as being the coolest man
in the room, with the possible excep
tion of the condemned man himself. On
other occasions Lunt Ehowed a nerve
of iron. In one morning he hanged
three men and then sauntered from the
execution room smoking a cigarette.
But despite his apparent utter indif
ference concerning his work as a man
killer it was known my many of his
intimate friends that in Becret he
brooded over it. Therefore it caused
little surprise when on falling into a
fortune about two years ago he prompt
ly resigned his position. Some months
later he returned to the position and
resumed his duties as hangman, al
though the prospect of arranging the
rope on another man seemed to appall
him. He constantly talked about it and
brooded over it, and suddenly one
morning the iron nerve snapped and
he became a hopeless madman. Utica
Globe.
Claims Discovery of Terpetnal Light.
John P. Magrady, a Chicago photog
rapher, claims to have discovered a
perpetual light. The 6ecret of this
light is the combination of chemicals
in a vacuum. These chemicals, which
are four in number, when brought
into contact in a glass or porcelain
globe, dissolve and throw out a strong
and beautiful white light. The globe
will continue to give light so long as
it remains perfectly sealed. The in
ventor has had one of the lamps burn
ing steadily for seven months. The
light is of dazzling brightness, a test
showing It to be of thirty-six candle
power. If the claims of the inventor
be fully substantiated a revolution will
be wrought in the methods of illumina
tion. Wheat v9 Animal Food.
Elaborate experiments in feeding
wheat to farm animals and swine have
been made this year at the Kansas ex
periment station, and also in other
states of the corn belt. The experts
conclude that wheat has greater nutri
tive value than corn, and may be used
either crushed, mixed with oats or
corn, or in connection with straw in
time of i.xtreme scarcity.
The "Era of Alexandria" was adoptee
by many early Christians, who as
sumed the interval between . dam and
Christ to have been 5.50? rears.
Fads of
Collectors
Of all mild forms of mental eccen
tricity, the mania for "collecting" for
collecting's sake is the most wide
spread and, as a rule, tha least harm
ful. France, as might be expected, i3
the collectors' own country. In a pop
ulation of about 39.000,000 there are
J.000,000 collectors. The French have
a mania for collecting In every line ex
cept families. Even the offer of large
prizes to fathers and mothers for the
largest collection of children cannot
make that sort of collecting popular or
fashionable. But when it comes to
buttons or corks, why, that is another
matter. One Frenchman has a much
prized collection of corks labeled and
classified with the greatest care sou
venirs of hundreds of dinners, lunch
eons and suppers with his friends. An
other wrappers, which somehow seems
to be about "the limit" for pure use
lessness. Then there is a collection of
birds' eyes which another Paris dandy
shows with vast pride and vaunts as
being superior in interest to a collec
tion of suspenders possessed by a
hated rival collector. Paris, however,
nclines to the Euspenders. One collec
tor boasts of a collection of garters
contributed by popular actresses and
mother of a collection of funeral in
vitations, such as are sent out in
France after a death. The French pos
ter collectors are innumerable, and
chere is one man who has a mania for
gathering up old advertising bills and
posters, which he obtains by constant
ly haunting the shops of the city, espe
cially the grocery shops. In thrifty
France the luxury and extravagance
of paper bags for carrying articles
home from the shops are almost un
known. The grocer, the huckster and
the fruiterer use old newspapers,
leaves from old ledgers any piece of
old paper big enough to wrap their
goods in. This collector, Dablin by
name, goes about the shops fussing
over these wrapping papers, and when
he finds anything like a postor or an
advertising bill he buys a cent's worth
of something and has it wrapped up in
his "find."
The Princess Maud of England has
a collection of elephant's tusks, walrus
teeth and the teeth of alligators. Bis
marck used to collect thermometers
a harmless fad, but a strange one for
Tokyo a City
of Pleasure
Of all the lands in the world none
exerts the peculiar fascination of Ja
pan. Others have equal beauty of scen
ery, greater grandeur, more noble
works of art, more interesting prob
lems of society, writes David Starr
Jordan in the Humanitarian. But none
possesses an equal fascination. No one
who has been in the real Japan, which
lies outside the treaty ports and the
foreign hotels and railways, ever could
or ever would forget his experience.
No one, if he could, would ever fail to
return.
The great secret of this charm lies
with the people themselves. They
have made a fine art of personal rela
tions. Their acts are those of good
taste and good humor. Two cities of
about the same size and relative im
portance are Paris and Tokyo. No
two could show a greater contrast in
spirit. Both are in a sense, cities of
pleasure. Tokyo is a city of continu
ous joyousness, little pleasures drawn
from simple things, which leave no
sting and draw nothing from future
happiness. Paris is feverish and feels
the "difference in the morning" and
the "bard, fierce lust and cruel deed"
which go with the search for pleasure
that draws on the future for the Joys
of the present.
No one who catches the spirit of
i mm m . r '!! Laws on the Subject
; Mourning of h nnd the Punl5hment ;
the Chinese infixed. :
If a son, on receiving information of
the death of his father or mother, or
a wife, suppress Buch intelligence, and
omits to go Into lawful mourning for
the deceased, such neglect shall be
punished with sixty blows and one
year's imprisonment. If a son or wife
cnterB Into mourning in a lawful man-
ner
but, previous to the expiration oi
the
term, discards the mourning ubuh,
forgetful nf the loss . sustained.
and
play
a tinnn musical instruments and
participates in festivities, the punish-
part
men
t shall amount ior sucn uucuk
e
ighty blows. ....
Whoever, on receiving miormauou
of
the death of any otner relative iu
the
first degree than the above men-
tione
d, suppressed the notice ot it, anci
s to mourn, shall be punished with
omits
si
ghty blows; if. previous to the ex-
Pi
In
rr.tion of the legal penoa oi rauuru-
g for such relative, any person
iw
vay the mourning nami anu iwuu.rC
iis
wonted amusements, ne snan ue
dshed with sixtr blows. When any
er nr other oerson in the employ
pun
sffic
if
ho jrnvernnient has received intelli-
r r-.f the death of his father or
f
other, in consequence of which in-
m
tell
igence he is bouna to retire irum
nm Murine the period of mourn-
the
in
g. if, in order to avoid such retire-
ment
ne falsely represents ine ue
tn have been his grandfather.
reased
ndmother, uncle, aunt or coiipin, he
era
shall
11 suffer punishment or iuu mows,
fmTTi office and rendered
be
JZ V v. rvtva -
incapable of again entering into tne
public service The American Law
Review.
Dinner with a Don.
A young scientist who visited South
America was telling of the hospitality
of the citizens of the far-away republic
and their method of entertaining their
frioTiHa "T w.sr lnnkine over the field
J in the interest of the Columbian Expo
sition," said he. "At one time I was
stopping at a town 110 miles from the
nearest railroad. This town is reached
only by pack animals and everything is
carried into the place on the backs
of the patient beasts. On the day be
MOST OF THEM
INDEED
CURIOUS
aaaamaaaaamf
a "man of blood and iron." It wouid
have seemed much more appropriate
Lad Bismarck collected the elephanK
tusks and alligators teeth and Htm
Princess Maud had gone in for th
thermometers. But that is one peculi
arity of collectors they never collect
what you would expect them to.
Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumanla.
who prides herself on her knowledge
of art and literature, has a fancy for
collecting perfumery bottles, and the
Queen Dowager of Italy collects old
shoes. The modern teapot collectors
and their name is legion are fathered
in their fad by George IV. of odorous
memory, who was the first collector of
the sort of whom there is ary record.
Meyerbeer's brother collected theater
tickets and programs until he died, out
and out insane. His body was wrapped
in the papers and had collected, and.
as in life he had been figuratively bur
ied in his collection, so in ii-ath he
was literally buried in it. New York
Press.
Florida I.!term.
Below Miami we have a substitute
for the lobster that lives in the crevices
of the coral rock till his season conieh.
and then he sprawls over acres or
sand, fat and fine. This Florida se:;
crawfish is of excellent flavor, grows
to four pounds in weight, is abundant
and easily taken. He is not only the
equal of the lobbter, but better, it only
remains that he be introduced to the
gourmand, with proper preparation and
he will immediately become a favorite.
,e would much prefer to see some
Florid iau grow rich on this Florida
dainty, but if none of us will do sa, let
the fishers of the North Atlantic come
down and take possession; it is not
well that such good eating be left to
the watery world alone. Florida
Times-Union and Citizen.
A Superabundance of Intellect.
"Has your country any really great
thinkers?" asked the tourist, skepti
cally. "Too many of 'em." answered
the Kansas agriculturist. "Every once
in a while we run across a man that
masquerading as a farm hand, but who
doesn't want to do a thing but think."
Washington Star.
In Some Ways Japan's
Capital Is More Faacl
nating Than Psris.
Paris tan fail to miss the underlying
sadness, the pily of it all. The E;iint
of Tokyc not of all Tokyo, but of Its
life as a whole is as fresh as the
song of birds, as "sweet children's
prattle is," and it is good to be under
its spell.
Tald a l bt 25 Years Old.
After having run for twenty-seven
years a debt has been paid to SpriKlns.
Buck & Co., of Hopkins Place, by J. J.
Hoblitzell of Myersdale. Pa. Twenty
seven years ago the latter failed and
was unable to pay a larpe number of
creditors, including the Baltimore
firm, to whom he owed ?3'0. "Give nit
time," he then said, "and I will pay
every cent that I owe." And faith
fully Las the Pennsylvania merchant
kept his promise. Year after yar, he
has toiled, paying oft the obligations
that he had contracted in former yesirs
and cancelling debts with firms that
had forgotten all about them. Non.-
was more surprised than the Baltimore
firm when be walked into the office
and announced that he hi.d come t
pay the long overdue bill. Beside the
$900 he also paid another Fum to cover
the lawyer's fees which his creditors
contracted when he failed. New York
Sun.
fore I left a leading citizen invited me
to his house, where he said a reception
would be given in my honor. I found
about thirty people present. We sat
down to a bountiful feast, at the close
of which the cigars were brought out
and we enjoyed ourselves until day
light, according to the custom of the
country. A fine variety of wine wa
served during the night. The next
day I learned that the party consumed
180 bottles of champagne. This wine
had been Fhipped 10,00( miles by water.
250 miies by railway train, and hal
been packed 110 miles Into the town.
The cost of transportation was appall
ing to an American, but the natives
seemed to think it a mere baeatelie.
The wine for the feast probably cost
$1,500. When a man is a guest of a
South American gentleman everything
in the house belongs to the gu !-t."
Rocky Mountain News.
Ttrtole I.Ike M-lon.
G. Carson, a farmer near Eufaula.
was on the streets the other day and
said: "I wish there wua a market for
tortoise. If there was I would be in
good share financially in a little while.
I have a large patch of tnuskmelons
and the vines have been loaded with
the fruit, but as they got about ready
for harvesting, something began eat
ing them at night. Feveral nighu were
spent in laying for the intrudero. and
late one night there was a rattling of
dry bones, or sound3 that somewhat
resembled that, and before taking a
run for the house I took a farewell
look and beheld a herd of tortoises all
over the cantaloupe patch. I made a
dash among them and bursted the
hulls of some dozen, captured two and
have them captives." To make sure
that he wa3 not mistaken in the melon
thieves, he now and then drops a
mutkmelon in the box where thty are
confined and he says they rush upoa
it and rat nearly as fast as a hog.
Galveston Daily News.
More than 43,000,000 passengers a
year go through the North Union and
South Union stations in Boston.
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