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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1894)
AH 1 rs 7 TuriCS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Cnnmnu aad CritUtem Baard Tpua th tLilauit-a of tka Uay-tiJaurica4 aad fcwa Km P. o ehsional sluggers aod prhe fighters had better keep away from Iowa in the future. The anti-pri e flight bill passed by the Legislature provide a maximum penalty of a year iaiprl'onmentor a fine of 11,000 for the prio ipa's, and a fine of ',oo for the accessories. Vienna is having its girl A' areh Isu of the Emma Go'Juaan ty e, just at) New York had. Fraulein Glass, a pretty girl still in her teeus, with dark and windblown hair, has ust led a successful strike there, and Amelia i.ita. whose pretty head holds all the w sdom of IT years, is talking a arcby two ours a day to immense audienes. Thk World's Fair attracted t it the best people of the world, but un fortunately it also attract 1 the very worst elements that live. Multitudes of these remained, and this fact ac counts for the crowded condition of the Chicago jail to day w.th Its tioo prisoners awaiting trials for their crimes. Fifty-two of the number are charged with murder. The courts of ..usti e will for some time bs taxed by such echoes from the Kreat fair. Judge Edgar Aldkich of Little ton, X. II., made a strong argument in Javor of the present jury system at the recent annual reunion of the Grafton and Coos Counties Bar As so iaton, urging that it is the airest trial for the accused and the safest for the public. He did not favor the abolition of the unanim ty re uire ment, saying that he had tried nca.ly 100 cases, civil and t nruinal, since he left the bar, and could recall tut three disagreements. Tok Suez Canal last year paid a dividend of Is per cent, on its co t This vindicates the judgment of Ie Lesseps, who alwayi claimed that the enterprise would pay. Its cost was ninety million dollars. The Man chester Ship Canal cost seventy-five million dollars, and the revenue from it will pay dividends of 3 to 5 per cent This for European invest ments is considered a good return. There is a growing interestin various American ship canals. One of these is through Cape Cod, to shorten the line for the growing coast trade aiong the Sew England seaboard. Kail road construction is declining. Fer baps now the time for more ship canals has come. -A bill has been Introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature pro vld ng for free . employment offices for such cities as shali accept the plan. This has been done in Otro, where a free employment bureau is attached to the department of labor. There are Ave cities which have bureaus of employment whe e books are kept for registering ihe names and addresses of those seeking em ployment, and also of those deir rig help. The first o:lice went int ) ef fect June 2ti, 13H0. Since that time 81,507 persons registered seeking em ployment and 6.1. 5 calls for help were made by employers. The num ber who secured work was 3,5.18. The Ave offices ia Ohio have cost the Stateless than 810,000. The Los Angeles Express recently contained an exhaustive statement of the fruit product of California dur ing the last year. Riverside now is claimed to lie the most famous orange producing locality in the world. La-t year the shipments amounted to over 2,700 car loads. and this year it Is est mated there will be over 3,000 car loads. There are now 8,500 acres of bearing orange and lemon crchards in Itlverside, with an assessed valuation of 86,000,000 and an actual valuation of llf,000,ooo. The raisin crop of last year is esti mated at 2:5 car loads. The last year also has been a notable one for Riverside In another direction, as the new County of Riverside has been formed, with the county seat at that xity, by a division of San Bernardino County. The new co.nty is forty mile la extent from north to south and 1H0 tulle east and west an area as large as that of Massachusetts. Eferythlng grows big in California. Staid old Connecticut, which has ao Ion; been content to furnish the nation with nothing more startling than wooden nutmegs and cheap alarm-clocks, has turned out a "strong man." Not one ot the paltry, every day strong men, who .support pianos witbtbelr eub-maxilUry ligaments, bat one who caa smite a wild, dash lag horn wttn his good right arm aad sad tt to grass without vlalble Cjrt Kiddlatown claims the maa f cSt tad brawa. At that hie. tart tyrt raarar horn attached Oifr:3 f2s a O to a er ;r &t? Am j the animal rushed upon the boat, ' wattering the passengers id alt di rections, the hero stepped fo. ward with easy grace, swung bis right,, ail landed on the forehead of the sur. prised horse. '-The blow was dealt with such force that the animal fell 1 to the deck as if struck w.th a sledge- hammer,'' says the report There is , a great future l-efore the man with I the sledge-hammer arm and fist Efforts should be made to induce him to enter the prize-ring and the gov ertors would have no need of the m litia to suppress prize-tight, as there would I no more "mills." Counectic it has a treasure which it should make the most of. An invention has been made In France by M. Ilermite which rom ises to revolutionize the methods of disinfecting sewage water and flush lng streets and sewers. The ruw dis infectant is simply elcetrolyzed sea water-sea water decom posed by the direct actiou of electricity. The worst and most malodorous portion o. Baris was the St. I-raocis quarter. The quar t" r was "t'-e boti.edof infectious dis ease " Its streets and sewers were Hushed with the electruly ed sea water. In some cases tanks were built upon the roofs ot the worst ten ement houses and the new disinfect ant was poured down through ail the pipes and closets of the filthy dens. The effect was like roadie Every iioisorjous tniciobe was 6laln. and the locality became as sweet smelling an a iy in l'aris. Undoubt ed. y this manelous ucw fluid will soon t in common use in every sea board city in Europe a d in this country. Great mains pass from the harbor or sea ad acent to the centnl portions ot a town where the elec trolyzlng Dlant is. It ha. leen found that by passing the fluid through sewer pipe discharge they are thor ughly disinfected aud made innocu ous. By its means it Is th ught to be quite possible for sewenige iiloes to dischure into rivers near a city without poilut ug the water. The chlorine still remaining in the sea water performs the ortic: of disin fecting. JIehe are a few' plain considera tions for the minds of plain people. In case of an individual who falls in business, he fails when he Incomes so deeply involved in debt that he can no longer stave off payment He was not obliged to go in debt n the first place. But he wanted to enlarge his business. Tie put a mortgage on his farm because if be had larger barns he could store more grain and feed luore Btock and thus get more money. Perhaps the family Deeded a larger, handsomer house to live in or cloth ing that there was not money to pay for. At any rate, all of the people who fail manufacturer, farmer, merchant, or business man go in debt trusting to future gains to be able not only towipeoff the indebted ness, but even to make them richer. The farmer owes the merchant, the merchant owes the manufa turer, the nianu acturer owes the capitalist who lent him money to enlarge his plant In tiai'-s which seem pros perous there is almost a fatal t -mpta-ti jn to glide down hill Into debt It seems so easy to pay up. I y and by somebody wants his money. All have run into debt together, and somehow nobody quite understands how all must pay about the same t'me. Tbey cannot do It Then there is a panic All the world must wait till it can payitsdehis. When that is done, off it goes, headlong, pellmell, and repeats the process over again Now, if nobody went into debt, but used only the actual cap tal that he has in hand, no matter what the tempta tion, bow often would there be panics? It Was the Wrong Family. The weary wanderer's eyes gleamed with confidence as he stepped i'p to the back door and knocked. "I see there's horseshoes over this door and the barn door, mum," be sa d to the hard featured woman who came to the door. "Well, she said, with a strong stare. "I've noticed that where there's horseshoes nailed up you always find warm hearts and a generous wel come," said the traveler, with a win. nlng smile. "You don't say?" "Yes mum, you eople may be a little superstl ious, but you are very kind to the poor." "Well," we didn't put them hoss shoes up." said the woman, drily. "The folks that did lives about tan miles from here now. It's a straight road you can't miss it," and bang went the door. The w -ary wanderer felt an elec tric chill down his spine as he started up the road. 'ay, you!" be heard her call. Ha turned to go back she must hare re lented. "You might rip them shoes down an' take 'em along with yer, If you think them folk '11 want 'am." and bang went the door again, Boa ton Journal. Bona men are ex traragant at their own expense, aad others an sitrara IMt at the expense of their aalof- OUfi RURAL READERS. SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEREST THEM. CanTraint Combipatloa Huildtnff for rouitrjr ad Pi( How Milk U Aoljru"d Olvernlflcd Farmlnc Ia eede4 How to bfetp Frnit Lm DUtanrt. For Pica mad Poultry. W here one desires to make a single bui'aing serve for the accommoda tion of both twine and iu try, he m;ty find some suggest. o is In the ac companying illustrations. This house has two ieni for fowls and two for pigs, and amiile hall between the POII.TEY AXD pro hoi-he. two, a set boiler for coking food, and a grain rnu If the nature of the lo ation permits it a (filar leneath the building cauld be utili.-ed 'or the storing of roots, which might be made to serve as a large factor in the food of txith fowls ana pigs. The loft abo e prov des room for setting hens, while one end may 1 used as a pigeon house. If these most interest ing pets are kept for the elight of OBOCSD PLAN nT COMBIXiTION POL'I.TUy AXD PIO HOURS. the children upon the farm. Yards may be arranged at either end, for the comfort of both the feathered and the porcine inmates. In the first illustration is seen a ferspective i 'w. and in the second picture the grounl plan of the very dnveulent comb nation building Firm l.nlar. Steady employment throughout the year is what la needed to procure and keep a trustworthy class of men to work on the larm. It is the fact that the farm only offers work for a few months, and those when it Is least required for subsistence, and this drives the energetic and good hand to sc k employment in the cities, where work will be continuous the year around. In tne old days there was more winter manufactur ing on the farm than is now possible. There are no more farmers who tan bides and make the leather Into boots, aod shoes, and harness. A 11 these are put on the market so much cheaper anl with so mu h better polish by the wholesale manufac turers that it is quite impossible for the home manufacturer, working on a small scale, to compete. There are still shoe repairers who are able to earn a living in cities, but tbey are often not so well paid as work ers in large shops, and their number tends to decrease rather than in crease. We have kuown some farm ers to grow broom corn exclusively and manufacture at least a portion of thecropitito brooms. Tnls labor Is not difficult to learn, and In this way, in certain neigh borhoods. etn loyment Is given to large numtiers of men, but the wages are net and cannot lie very high. There is too much com petition to allow the manufacture of Irooms to be carried on during the winter, even on the farm, it high wages are Daid, but if one or two farmers in a neighborhood should growbroom.com and manufacture and sell the products during the winter near home tbey might be able to get something lietter than wholesale prices, and so keep their men at work the whole year. This is a suggestion worth considering, difficult as it is becoming to procure and keep good farm help. Philadel phia Inquirer. , How Milk la Anavzd. The chemical analysis of milk is not complicated or difficult &ay a writer ia the 1 airy. A small dish is accurately we'ghed.the weight noted. Into it is now introduced a snail por tion of milk, and both are again weighed. By substracting the w ight of the dish from the weight ot both, the weight of the milk is found and carefully recorded. The dish Is laced over a steam et and the water of the ra lk evaporates, leaving a resi due. It ts this residue which passes under the name of "solids.1 A last weighing of the dlbh wltn the milk residue, less the weight of the d sh, gives the solids, and by a single cal culation the percentage is found The solids of milk have teen found by innumerable anaiysv-s to average about 13 per cent, and, while the fat varies in the milk from different cows, the solids left after extracting the fat H a very constant quantity, hardly ever falling below !) per tent This gives the chemist a positive basis for bis calculations, and enables him to state with great certainty whether or not the milk ha been watered. The fat or oil In milk is determined by dissolving It, by means of ether, out of the tout solids, the residue remaining after the oppera t on being termed 'tolids, not fat" The average fat or oil found In cow's milk It 3 per cent, and any amount leas than tble Is commonly taken as showing that the milk has been skimmed. If analysis shows a de crease of fat, and solids sot fat It It aid to be certain that the a ilk has hil, If the fat only tt that the luilic has Wheat browing ta Callforata- The yield of California wheat 'ast jear was 41, o bushels, h c is 1 the smallest for years, owing to m , usual wet weati.er early, which e- vented seeding. The State repor o' ! the Mate Hoard of Agriculture claims j that wheat growing at present prices I is still profitable. Land is cultivated 1 with gang plows worked by si ho.'aes, with which one man w 11 plow six a res 1 er day. Eighty pounds of seed, or one bushel and a third, is all that is t-owu. and the yield averages eight sacks, or sixteen bushels per acre. By the figures shown the Csliforo a wheat grower gets his wheat at a cost slightly less than 21 cets per bushel This estimate puts tne cost of harvesting wheat including the threshing, at only 1 1 jr acre. We do not U-lieve any w eat crop was ever grown at such fig .res as tho Mate lioard of Agriculture puts forth. But its worst oersjght is in making no account of the decrease of soil fertility. After two or three i tojjS the yield inevitably runs down and the wheat farmer suffers accordingly. It is never sale anywhere to grow cro- s and leave out o' the 1 alculat ou the maintaining of fertility. Iliterftifled r'artnln Vrded. The low prices of wheat and other farm products are teaching farmeis todi ersify their crops more than they ever did tie fore. Those whose land Is best adapted to wheat grow ing and who understand how to se- ure good crops will continue lo sow some wheat ! ut even their area in this ciop Is certain to lie smaller than usual until the growing demand re quires all the wheat that this coun try can produce. For the next year or two other products, especially those requiring more ialjor, will pay lietter than wheat It has lieen too j easy on cheao land to grow wheat o crop that Is very easily grown pays large profits. Farm Nolr. TiiF-nK is not very much difference in the cost of feeding a cow that, makes K0 pounds of butter in a year and o.jC luaking double as much. C'HAKt oAL Is almost a necessity for hogs. Its cost Is but little, and all that is required Is to place a large piece in the pen daiiv, as the hogs will easily crush it for their Use. AN animal will eat too much salt If deprived of It for a tenth of time. A little salt every day will txs bene IciaL If a lump of rock sait Is placed where all kinds of stock can have access to it they will reu ate the quantity for themselves. Tub young pigs are pretty sure to be wintered at a loss If fed wholly or even mainly Uon corn. If one-third or one-half of the ration is composed of that heating and fat-pro .ucing g aio it will be i;uite enough. Feed for growth rather than ic-ti. I to j k bone meal has been . fed ben watered, Is low, it fbo' been sk m tued. bogs with ad vatage, and ground lione ; cost .,6ou. It was presented to is largely used for jioultry. Cows j Morphy, fresh from his Furopean trl nave also leen known to lick bone ! umphs, in the chapel of the Fnlver- meal. It serves as an occasional of fering to stock, but whether it Is safe to allow it regularly has not been de termined. No kind of land should remain idle. It can be made to produ esome kind of crop, or It can be improved In fertility In some mauner. If use less for crops let it be given up to sheep. If this cannot be done plow it. and u e lime 00 it so as to enable it to become tit for cultivation In the future. Tuc potash in the soil is mostly in the form of a silicate, which Is not readily soluble. All other forms of potash are very soluble. When lime is added to the soil It assists in break ing up ex. sting combinations and ren ders the l,:ert matter of the soil more easily taken up by the rooU of plants. Oildi-i and y.mlr. Wash all the vegetables with a brush, and thus preserve the hands. T.tv, this for soft corns. Wet a piece of old linen with turiientinc, and bind It over the corn. This should be done night and mornlni DiiEssiis ol delicate tint faded from exposure to sunlight will some- times return to their original color after having lieen kept in the dark tor several months. In hanging dresses away they should be suspended from twoor th ee hooks, rather than one. This finds to keep them In shape, and also pre vents t e crushing of the draperies. lUNNKit napkins should be three qua tcrs of a.iard square. Anything smaller is Insurtl lent anything larger awkward. Breakfast napkins may be half a yard square Ax iron weighing seven pounds drjes lietter work by passing It over the clothes once with a firm, steady pressure than a lighter iron hurriedly pissed over the clothes two or three times, Silvkk used on the table should be wiped each day with a sort chamois. Silver become clouded as much from the t-team of coffee tea, and hot foods generally a from actual use, and the daily po! (thing keeps It in good coo ditlon. Blac k silk may he cleansed by stooging on both sides with weak ammonia water, then rolling up on a roller and leaving until thoroughly; dry. Great care must be taken that every wrinkle Is smoothed and the silk will come out very nicely and re pay the trouble. A stMPLK remedy for a rongh skin It to first wash the face thoroughly at night, then rub It with about a teat poonful of cream and let It dry la The skin will look shiny and feel tiff at first, but In the morning yon will be surprised to And bow soft the I kUaw11.ua VERY COSTLY CHESSMEN. Pool Morphr a Famooa Prlla Met Whlrh Coo l.oo. A set of chessmen Is usually so in expensive th ng, but it may cost as mu h as a grand piana Of course, you can gel a mall bet of ordinary boxwood chessmen for a few dollars, a finer set of boxwood and e' ony for f 12 or tl'o, and a set of -'Staunton" chessmen, of the best African ivory, large sie, ior 75 And these are all plain sets. It you indulge in fan j carving, and have your set nnd to order troru a s,)e -ial deign and finely mounted, it luav cost anywhere from 1100 to on For a really exn dve set, however, yr u will probably choose the precious metais, and there is alolutely no limit to the cost says the New York Ma;l and Express. 1'robably one of the finest sets ever made was the set presented to Paul Morphy in 1 by frends In this city and Brooklyn, which is now owned by a New York nierchaut The pieces are of solid gold and silver, carved and chased in exqu site de signs. Thev are mounted on bases of red cornelian, the gold pieces rep resenting civilization, the silver one baroarism. The gold k ng is a stat uette four inches high, weighing three oun-'e. He is in royal robes, bears an imperial globe upon bis head, a sword and shield in his h md. wnile a crown and scepter lie at lus feet. The bishops Hie In full panoply, while the knights are represented as trancing hor-es, with eyes of rubles. The castle follows the Chinese de sign, tie! rig an elephant tearing a howdah. on wh ch is perched an eagle with outspread wings. Both elephant and bird have ejes of brill iant rubies. The piece we ghs five oun es, or as much as eighty gold dollars. The pawns are statuettes two and one-half inches high, repre senting lloman soldiery. The silver p eces are equally ornate In design. The king is iepreented as a leader like Alaric, wearing a hull's hide and winged helmet, while his sn e d bears the Inscription. "Lilicrty.' The other pieces are sim lar In design to the gold, except that the pawns are rude warrlo s armed with clubs. The board has a bodv of rosewird. inlaid with si ver; the squares are of mother-of-peari and ebony. In each corner is a laurel wreatn or gold en- circling the letters 1'. M. An in-fol- scriptlon on one sides reads as lows: ; To Paul Morphy :A KacofmllluD at Hia Oaufui aud a! lantfmonlal of KfJt'r'l :Krom Hla FrUndw and Admirers Id: ; Kbit York and Brooklyn. ; Ham York. IHM. ; " On the other side of the board Is a list of the fourteen champions, all from the different countrie, whom Morphy had defeated In e.ery de tail the set Is fin! hed as finely a possible, the figure lieing chased un- der a microscope. It was tuado by a New York firm of silversmith and slty of the City ot New York. .;onu Van Buren, son of the 1 resident, making the pre ntatlon six-ech. Af ter Morphy's death It was sold with his effects in New Orleans, and so came back to this city. NOT PLAYED OUT. Nor Will IS In Our Time Nor In Our ( hll dwi'a. The business of breeding pedigreed stock is not "played out " neither will It be within the next century. As it has been for more than a hun dred years past so It will be for 11. ore than a hundred years to come: the man who has an established reputa tion for breeding horses or cattle or sheep or swine of any particular sort than the general average will find other people resorting, to him for bleeding stock and he can always sell at a little above ordinary prices. People are not now paying and perhaps never will again pay 8-10,000 for a Shorthorn cow, but the man who produces better beef cattle than any one else will always find p oplo ready to buy his bull calves at a good price. Go in with tho best founda tion sto k you can obtain, depenilng upon the merit that you can show rather than what history or tradition gives to your breed: breed with care; breei wlthbriins; learn how to feed and I reed and train and handle so a to develop the most desirable quail tics; conduct the business economi cally, sell your surplus at what It will brirlg when It is ready for. the best market; keep breed n.x up re tain so far as you aro able the very licst for your own breeding opera tions; aim at establishing nnorm ity in your herd or Ho k; study the science and art of coupling so as to produce desired results: learn how to feed and handle so as to develop the best points of what you breed and you ure on a Bure, firm, solid ground on a road that, while it may not lead to sudden' opulence, is the King's Highway to sure prosperity. Breed ers' Gazette. The Kale oft lie lUiail. In England it Is the rule for vehi cles to keep to the left on the road In stead of to the right, as with us. A recent explanation of the custom Is that "in the irood old times In Knir. ign(j wnen ..ranger' and 'enemy' were synonymous terms, the foot traveler passed to the right that the shield on the left arm might be In terposed to ward off a treacherous blow, and the right, or sword arm, free to strike. Horsemen, however, usually had mall to protect them, and there was more safety la being near the antagonist than in having to etrlke across the bona, as would have been neceasarr bad they turned to the rlghti When vehicles came into umi later, the drivers int1n tively fo lowed the oil horseback ra-Uiia ana turned to the left" If this Is the reason for turning t'J the left, why is It not general In r urope The nsme condition existed In medival ranee aod Germany as in England, but in i ranee and deriuany, vehi cle equestrians, and p deainans all keer to the right The Englim ex planation is that vehicle keep to the left so that drivers, sitting on the right side of the tox, are directly over the wheel, and in a crowded thoroughfare can easily guard against locking wheels with a iasing team. It I remarkable that th s advantage in keeping to the left ha not been observed and adopted in other coun tries Gall I Ilea. One of the most remarkable fact In the history or the gall flv is, that d i if erent species acting on the same tree prolu e tota'ly dilTcn-nt result. Thus, one of them puncturing the 0 wild rose gives rise to one of those moss pretty'n.oss-like tufts which so fre ueutly adorn It Anotheron the same plant pro luces round growths resembling curraut in sie and form. A much greater variety of form Is produced on the oak tree. No fewer than fifty species of gall fly, indeed, are aid to produce their peculiar forms of growth upon It (me of the most, lommon is that which produces the marM" g 11 This g.ill is produced on the twig in the Iomii of round bodies, soft and green at first afterward brown and wiody. The 'amihar oak appie ,s of more ir regular shape, and prctt color-d red and yellow like a f.uit Of a slm lar shape to the mar le gall, but softer, and of a pretty r d color wher ex posed to the sun. Is the ' berry gall. Another fruitlike gall, mall, round, and often appea lug in clus ters on the male cttkins of the 0 ik, is known as the currant galL Still more rema-kahle, perhaps i the ar t choke gall. In this cas: the gall fiy has laid Its eg in the center of a bu I, and the vegetative growth, though d stur el, has asserted itself l;i a systematical mann r The oval bodv in the center, containing the egg or gruu. Is covered with a series of imoricHting or overlapping scale, so that U:e whole bc irs a striking resenili ance to the involucrumot a III st.e Chambers's Journal Tlie One Original Gilt. When one hears of a Washington bride who has to find she vlng for thirteen do.en of uecorated china pate aud thirt.three bon-bon d spes. one wishes for a litl'e more ori.'ina itvon the part of givers A check is always original. Needle work Is coming in as bridal gifts; house and tab . 1 nen In carved chests nothing could lie more welcome. But even this shou.d not beoverdone. It I 1 arely possib e to have too many doylies and tah.e conters, luxurious umi gratlf.iln,' as the-e dainty its of ri.irery are. A 1 rench count recently presented to his bride not only an heir 00m lace handkerchief, but a beautiful b dspread In finest cambric and cost y lace. In the middle of the -p ead wasembroldered the family coat ot arms. Now a counterpane of the srt worked by the bride's young Iriends woo d be a treasure, indeed, and wou d last, as only linen cambric does iast for a liictimo Philadel phia Ledger. A r tory of Glailalone. Mr Gladstone, as a rule, 's the model of punctuality at dinner-time both as a host and a guest Last summer, however, while staying at the house of one of his wealthiest supporters, recently made a Baronet, in the neighborhood of Norwich, Mr, t ladstone did for once keep both the host and the other guest waiting in the dining-room ,or several minutes after tho servant had announced din ner. At last the Premier entered the room, smiling nnd rubbing his hands benevolently. Looking all around he inquired in his most genial tones: "Are we all mustered" As the host happened to have accumu lated a large fortune by the manufac ture of mustard those present were for a moment inclined to un ustly suspect our revered Premier of per petrating a pun at his entertainer's expense. London Court JournaL CTiarlly. There are not a few people the measure of whose charity seems to cor cspond with the distance at which it is exercised. Their imagination, scorning what is close to them, leaps over sea and land with the utmost celerity, and they eas ly sympathize with the sufferings and Ignorance of far-distant natives and savage tribes. They willingly give their money or their time or thejr Interest to re lieve or to instruct such as these and so far they are to be honored for it But, when the are cold and deaf to the ach ng needs of their own country, to th tale of distress in the next street and to the imme diate claims of their own families, they may well be reminded that "charity begins at home." The Htoraicn fUttnry. It Is maintained very stoutly by expert electricians that the storage battery is. after all. a , 1UI commercial work; that the new pro ; cesses for manufacturing them have j cheapened their cost, and that In train lighting they are especially effi cient and economical. It Is estimated , that 18.5 per horse power Is the an nual cost of the accumulator. Rloe. Rice was kuown In China 2,800 years before Christ It It not men tioned In the Bible, hut It It referred to in the Talmud. It wet kaown la Syria 400 years before Lbrlrt, and was first Introduced Into Italy is HH and into the Carolina! ia hog. 1