The Cuero Daily Record. (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. [61], Ed. 1 Sunday, March 19, 1899 Page: 3 of 8
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A GAME WITH DEATH.
Kannoga, an iDdian boy of the
Ooeur d’Alenes, was sitting one even-
ing with Aakloo, his little sister, at
the edge of the forest on the shore of
Coeur d’Alene lake, and was telling
her a favorite story, when at one of
her interruptions he laughed and
leaned carelessly back and looked
straight into the eyes of a cougar.
“If I were drowning, you would
swim out into a grea^ .jjfre, too, like
Grandfather Grey Bea’^H&T did, wouldn’t
you?” the girt asked. She spoke in-
' dignantly, for that day she had heard
an old man say that boys like Kan-
noga. who want to school in the res-
ervation instead of into the forest,
could never be brave Indians, and she
was sure that her brother was very
brave.
It was her show of indignation and
her eager confidence that caused him
tp laugh now and lean back.
She waited, but he did not answer.
With both hands clasped over his
copper-colored shin, and one bare foot
raised slightly above the log on which
he was sitting, he stared into the great
restless eyes that looked down at him
from the nearest limb. He was with-
out a weapon of any kind and the
cougar was full grown, with a body
dry-looking and gaunt with hunger.
Although its glance was for the mo-
ment fixed on him, he could see that
It had been watching Aakloo, and that
its interest was still centered on her,
as If it had chosen her for its victim.
He was seized with a sudden fear that
she might move unexpectedly and thus
cause the creature to spring upon her;
yet he sat there seemingly unable to
speak or to think what ought to be
done.
*You would, wouldn’t you?” asked
the girl. Her voice broke the fascinat-
ing spell of those terrible eyes. Kan-
noga knew that she would turn in a
moment to see why he had not an-
swered, and in order not to direct her
attention to the panther he lowered
his glance and met hers.
But there was something in his face
that made her afraid, and he looked
with startling Intentness far beyond
her, down the long, darkening stretch
of deserted shore, toward the skin-
covered tepee by the spring, where
Mar-tala, their mother, and Sis-sos-ka,
, their father, lived during the hot sum-
mer. "
“Stand still!” said Kannoga, as calm-
ly as he could. It cost him a great ef-
fort to remain quietly there, without
looking up, when he knew what was
had only told Aakloo! He turned hlL
head and looked after her. Down tbs'
winding track of sand beside the still
lake, both grown a dull gray in the
m
I
fi
f
HELD UP HIS HAND,
overhead; but the effort caused him to
think more clearly.
“Shut your eyes,” he said suddenly.
“What for?” asked Aakloo, fright-
ened still more at the unaccountable
change in his voice.
For a moment his fingers tightened
convulsively over his shin, then grad-
ually relaxed and unclasped. He low-
ered his upraised foot, moving it
slowly, very slowly, down beside the
log, and when it rested firmly in the
sand he reached cautiously forward
and caught the girl by the arm.
“We shall play a new game,” he said
then, and the strange, eager suggestion
of a smile that flashed over his face
reassured her.
“Oh!” she exclaimed, and at once
shut Her eyes.
Kannoga now looked steadily at the
cougar, while .he turned his 6ister
about so that she faced along the
shore.
“Walk as slowly as you can—with
your eyes shut,” he said.
She started slowly enough, but the
fierce eyes overhead began to watch
her Intently again and to grow rest-
less, while a yellow foot advanced un-
easily along the limb ante broad tawny
jaws stretched farther and farther
downward as she moved away.
B"t Kannoga silently held up his
band and waved it in the air. At this
the panther’s attention, attracted by
the unexpected and rapid movement,
was withdrawn from the girl.
"Go faster,” said the boy; “go
faster.”
6he was out of reach now; he could
tell by the fainter sound of her bare
feet in the sand.
“Run!” he called. “Open your eyes
and run, but don’t look back, and don’t
■top till you stand in the tepee with
Mar-tala.”
"Is that all of the new game, Kan-
noga?” she asked, doubtfully.
“No,” he answered; “there is more.”
Meanwhile he still sat in the same
place, watching the cougar, and hold-
ing its attention by the constant move-
ment of his slender arm and of his
grimy, tattered sleeve.
When Aakloo was at a safe distance
the sense of his own danger came sud-
denly upon him.
If Sis-sos-ka would only come with
his rifle—or Gray Beaver, an old man
now, but still a great hunter. If he
evening light, he s
he knew that Ion
reach the tepee h
the need of rescue
He had turned hlls head only for an
w her running, and
before she could
would be beyond
t instant the cou-
r and its long tail
slowly, stealthily,
hope of escape, but
lert he studied his
crouched with its
forest, while he sat
When he had care-
fully measured the s pace between them
and the distance .0 the water h«
jumped away from the log and raD
directly under the panther.
instant, but in th
gar had crept nea
bad begun to swin
from side to side.
Kannoga saw no
with every sense a
desperate chances.
The panther lay
head toward the
facing the lake.
FARM AND’ GARDEN.
MATTERS
INTEREST
AGRICULTURISTS.
ntly shifted it*
down from the
b, but the boy did
d it turned with
efore its great
The animal ins
head, as if to le
other side of the li
not appear there, a
marvelous agility
yellow body shot in|to the air.
Kannoga was crushed down
its weight, but he
lake and fell whit
nearly knee deep,
ther release its gras
firm footing, and
under
had reached the
e the water was
He felt the pan-
p in order to find
hen he raised up
dripping head lit-,
drm’s length from
for air discovered its
tie more than an
his own.
Then he took a dejep breath and lay
down upon the bottom, hoping that
the panther would leave him.
It stood there, hDwever, watching
over him and waiting.
He started to crawl out from shore,
but it seemed to him that he had
hardly moved when the heavy claws
sunk into his leg and dragged hfcn
back. Then, without letting go its
hold, the panther immediately shifted
its position and began to drag him
out into shallower w^ter.
He made desperate efforts to hold
or he knew what
he reached the
only plowed
a rock that tors
gave
both
all his strength,
Qngers were dig-
wet head with
,t deep into the
fast to the lake bed,
the end would be if
shore, but his fingeijs
through the sand.
The sharp point of
him as he was dragged over it
him hope. He grasped it with
hands and clung with
but in an instant his
ging vainly in the said again.
At last he raised hiu head for air.
The panther at once let go of his
leg and came at him with open mouth;
but it moved slowly i:i the water, and
Kannoga, by a great effort, stood up.
Then the beast sprang upon him.
The boy had nerve 3 himself, how-
ever, and fell as far out from shore
as he could.
When the feeling cf dizziness that
followed the shock had past he found
that the panther held his arm in its
mouth and was swimming—that its
feet did not touch boitom.
Then, in spite of t^ie terrible pain
it caused him he pullei his arm down
until the cougar’s head was submerged.
Very soon it released its hold.
Then the Indian boy stood up again,
and this time he became the aggres-
sor.
Grasping the sleek,
both hands, he forced
water. The panther’^ feet touched
bottom and its violent struggles threw
him down, but he got up again and
held the glaring eyes and red mouth
with its white teeth more carefully—
Just under the surface cf the lake.
Kannoga became very weak, and
his legs trembled feeb y under him,
but he was thankful that they were
long, for he could st|nd with his
head in the cool evening breeze while
the cougar was drowning.
At first the panther made fearful
sounds as the water lulled its lungs,
but these presently ceased, and at last
it hung a dead weight in the boy’s
hands. He let it sink hud then loos-
ened a stone from the l|ke bed to roll
upon his head.
His wounds were slight, but painful,
and the terrible battle
ened him that when he
he fell exhausted, with b
the tepee.
He could not see Aakloo now
even the canoe that cam£ in a moment
to where he lay.
Gray Beaver and an old friend, pad
dling out from camp, had called to the
girl as she ran on the s lore, and had
laughed when she told them why she
could not turn her head
them.
They had seen the boy
gar in the edge of the It
paddles had swung faster and
stronger strokes than they had
for many a year.
When Kannoga opened
Gray Beaver leaned over him and spoke
gently:
“Aakloo will understan
better when she is older,
And across a narrowir
water the boy saw her
Mar-tala.
had so weak-
reached shore
is face toward
nor
to look after
and the cou-
ke, and their
with
used
his eyes
d that game
he said,
g stretch of
waiting with
Jeweled EyeglAMC*.
Delicate eyes are now considered an
opportunity for using ; eweled eye-
glasses. A fashionable jeweler has
contrived fancy spectacles heavily
mounted in elaborately chased Roman
gold. To them is attached a long,
equally elaborate gold handle. They
are then held to the eyes precisely
after the fashion of a lorgnette. Sin-
gle eyeglasses are daintily pet in all
manner of pretty styles, the rims
studded with Jewels, the glasses them-
selves being oval, squar j or round,
according to the preference of the
owner. Lorgnettes are njasslve with
gold and brilliant with terns. This
fad is taking immensely with elderly
women who wish to avoid the appear-
ance of age. There are to be no more
slender gold bows resting ipon old la-
dies’ ears. These will be only for the
superannuated.
SomeUp-to-Date Hints About Cul-
tivation of the Soil and Yields
Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture and
Floricaltare.
Notes from Western New York.
The 44th annual meeting of the
Western New York Horticultural So-
ciety was held at Rcpche&ter, Jan. 25
and 26.
The attendance was very large, there
being at least 500 present, and stand-
ing room was at a premium.
The papers and topics discussed
were handled with ability and the en-
thusiasm was great. Elwanger and
Barry made an exhibit of 45 varieties
of pears and a fine display of grapes,
and the Geneva Experiment Station
showed 56 varieties of apples. There
was also a number of other smaller
displays. Exhibitors of pumps and
spraying apparatus were very plenty.
President Barry being sick, Vice-
President Willard presided. “The De-
cay and the Preservation of Fruits”
was the topic of a paper by Dr. G. C.
Caldwell. He said that the decay of
fruits was the action of germs, which
break up the sugar of the fruit. Flies,
wasps, and other insects carry the in-
fection of rotten fruit from one place
to another. One year a large number
of wasps was noticed and there was
a great deal of decay in fruit, the next
year there was few wasps and few de-
cayed fruit, showing that without
doubt the germs of decay was spread
by the wasps. The fungi once in the
fruit creates a poison which destroys
the cells of the fruits, the more acid
and tannin in fruits the less it is at-
taked by the fungi of rot.
Q.—Will It pay to have hogs run in
the orchard to eat uy dropped and
rotten apples?
A.—Yes; they are a great help.
Q. —What shall we do with rotten
grapes?
A.—Continued spraying of grapes
with Bordeaux mixture will do away
with the rot in grapes.
R. Morrill said he picked all rotten
fruit and diseased twigs early in the
morning when damp with dew so that
the germs would not scatter, and boiled
them in caldron kettles, thus killing
the germs by heat
. “Horticultural Research,” by Prof.
W. H. Jordon, was the next subject.
He said that he had lately been in at-
tendance at the Canadian meeting of
dairymen and Cheesemakers and had
found that the Canadians were strong
in points where we were weak in this
country. We had spent much effort in
studying methods of production but
had neglected the point of finding a
profitable market for our products, and
that was just where they had expended
their greatest efforts. At their meet-
ing he found the minister of agricul-
ture and several members of parlia-
ment all interested experts in cheese
production. We have not got many
members of congress* In this country
that are cheese makers or expert cheese
men. Where we were weak they were
strong, for they have put their efforts
into finding a market for their prod-
uct, and the correct methods of mar-
keting. If the horticulturists of New
York two years ago had thrown away
half of their fruit and sold only the
best, they would ^iave received more
for the crop than they did. The Amer-
ican farmer is not as loyal to organi-
sations as his Canadian neighbors, but
if we would combine thoroughly and
guarantee quality of all fruit we put
on the market we would gain by it
We have been experimenting at the
station to prove the falsity of the
claims made by Andrew H. Ward that
soda will take the place of potash. We
have grown tomato plants In pure
quartz sand, giving different plants the
necessary quantities of nitrogen and
phosphoric acid. Some of the plants
were given potash and others soda but
they absolutely refused to grow with
soda and without potash, but grew
nicely when no soda was furnished,
showing that soda was not a necessary
article of plant food and could not
take the place of potash. Also grew
some barley plants in same manner
with but slightly different results. The
barley would grow when provided with
soda until about one foot high when
all growth stopped, showing that the
demand for potash did not commence
at as early a stage in the growth of
barley as in tomatoes.
Latent Fertility In the Soil.
There is no more important question
before the farmers of the country to-
day than that of maintaining and keep-
ing up the fertility of the soil, says
Mirror and Farmer. The success of
all farming operations depends upon
it. Whether the farmer’s specialty is
live stock, dairying or grain growing,
he cannot make a success of any one
unless he gives special attention to
maintaining the fertility of his land
and making it as productive as possi-
ble.
In the December number of The In-
dustrialist, Mr. R. W. Clothier dis-
cusses the latent fertility of the soil.
He states that farms do “run out” from
long-continued usage and improper
treatment, but adds that in the major-
ity of cases a very small per cent of
their natural fertility has been taken
away in the form of crops. By far the
greater portion has been wasted by im-
proper methods of cultivation. To
quote:
“A very small per cent of the total
weight of plants is furnished by the
minerals of the soil; and of this small
per cent the following elements are
necessary to plant growth: Iron, sul-
phur, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,
calcium, sodium, silicon, oxygen and
chlorln. Of these, all but potassium,
phosphorus and nitrogen are present in
the soil in such abundance as to be
pract.rally inexhaustible. The amount
of these three elements, then, contain-
ed in a soil will determine its fertility;
and Since all of then^ may be consid-
ered of equal importance to plant
growth, a deficiency in any one of, them |
makes the soil poor.”
Taking Kansas soil as an example
the WTiter goes on to show that it con-
tains 6,600 pounds of nitrogen to the
acre to the depth of one foot. For an
ideal crop of wheat 59.46 pounds of
nitrogen per acre is required' for both
grain and straw. According to this
an ideal crop of wheat could be grown
yearly for 70 years before the supply
of nitrogen would be exhausted. By
the same cropping the phosphoric acid
would last 115 years and the potash 200
years. But these represent tne fertil-
ity in only the first foot of soil. Many
of the roots penetrate below this
depth, and, as the rain annually brings
down to the soil from six to ten pounds
per acre of nitrogen, it would seem
that the fertility of the soil is prac-
tically inexhaustible. But the writer
recognizes the fact that soils do wear
out, and explains it as follows:
In the first place only a small por-
tion of this plant food is ever available
to the plant at any one time. Nearly
all the nitrogen, for example, exists
in the form of organic matter, which
cannot be used until it undergoes the
process of nitrification, the process oy
which the nitrogen of organic matter
is converted into nitric acid and ni-
trates. Nitrification takes places by
means of bacteria, which live in the
soil. In order that these bacteria may
thrive and perform their work well,
.they must have conditions of warmth
and moisture, must be supplied with
oxygen, and the acid formed must be
removed or combined with some base.
Quite often a base easily acted upon
4s not present and too much free acid
accumulates. Then, too, in water-
logged soils the temperature remains
too low and the air is excluded by
the water. We must find some way
to supply these necessary conditions.
Ensilage and City Milk Supply.
A correspondent writes to Hoard’s
Dairyman as follows: Our local paper
has copied the following item, which
has created some inquiry and a little
disturbance in our milk trade, as it
has in other localities:
“Licenses to sell milk in the city
have been withheld from several milk-
men because of improper feeding,
principally of ensilage. According to
investigations by the board of health,
the milk produced by ensilage feeding
is not good. Butter makers will not
buy it, it is refused at the condensed
milk factories and at some cheese fac-
tories. Its sale has been forbidden in
the city. The health board believes
that the quality of the milk used has
much to do with the health of a com-
munity; and the stringent rules en-
forced here in regard to the sale of
milk, lacked by the notably good
health of the city, gives the claim
strong ground.—Meadville (Pa.) Tri-
bune.”
Can you point me to the latest facts
as to ensilage feeding and its effect on
milk and butter? Also, as to the
rules of condensed milk factories as to
the use of ensilage.
Albion, Pa. . E. F. D.
Hoard’s Dairyman replies: It would
be interesting to know where the board
of health obtained the Information on
which it founded its adverse decision
regarding the use of ensilage. It la
probably a case of misguided enthusi-
asm, rather than a decision from ac-
tual facta City boards of health have
often very peculiar methods, and in
their endeavors to make a “record” for
themselves, frequently do foolish things
and make equally fool rules and regu-
lations. Ensilage has passed the stage
where its healthfulness as a milk pro-
ducing feed can be questioned by prac-
tical dairymen or by any one who has
practical knowledge on the subject
Much of the butter and cheese produc-
ed in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota
is from cows whose feed is part en-
silage during the winter months. H. B.
Gurler, whose certified milk sells freely
for the use of children and hospitals in
Chicago at 12 cents a quart, uses en-
silage freely. We could bring up nu-
merous other cases, but it is hardly
worth while, as ensilage is a perfect-
ly wholesome food for milk produc-
tion. The board of health is right
when it claims that the quality of the
milk has much to do with the health
of a community, but its quality is more
a factor of age and cleanliness than
any other condition.
For some time manufacturers of
condensed milk have refused to allow
the use of ensilage because they were
afraid of its possible effect on the milk
that was sent to foreign countries.
This objection is giving way and in
Michigan the owners of condensing fac-
tories are beginning to advocate the
use of ensilage and encourage the
farmers to build silos.
Oats and Peas as Cow Feed.
Mr. H. B Niles, of Farmington,
Minn., who relates his experience in
this method of feeding in the North-
western Farmer as follows:
I wish to add my testimony for the
above named crop for summer feed for
the dairy or other stock. That this
crop is not generally known to be val-
uable as it is, I think we find proof
as we look among the dairymen who
practice summer feeding and see how
little of it is grown. At Westwood
stock farm, after all other small grains
were sown one and three-fourths acreB
of peas and oats were sown in the usu-
al manner, the peas being plowed un-
der at the rate of one bushel* per acre
and, a few days after, the oats were
sown with seeder broadcast and har-
rowed in; oats sown at the rate of tw'o
bushels per acre. The crop was not
put in early, as there was evidence of
good pasture for some time, but pas-
tures are getting so they deceive us
and Just ’■"hen we want them most they
fail, and it.was so this sea-on in this
locality. July 1 the peas were just be-
ginning to pod and the oats to head
out. On that day I cut the first feed,
and I give you some figures just for
what they are worth and not as proof
positive of anything. We continued to
feed from this plat once a day for twen-
ty days, all they would eat, to the fol-
lowing stock: Fifty-foui cows and
heifers, not all in milk, these were
fed the whole twenty days. The first
eight days twenty calves and three
aged bulls were fed about what they
would clean up at a feed. As the milk
from the herd is weighed at each milk-
ing, I give you the figures for the last
seven days before feeding the peas and
oats, 5,060 lbs. The first seven days
of July the milk weighed 5,232 lbs. and
the next seven days 5,097 lbs. This
brought us up to July 15, when the
peas and oats began to show the effect*
of the continued dry, hot weather, but
the cows ate them clean until the last.
July 21 we began feeding drilled corn
on which the ears were well set but not
much corn on them. Fed all the cows
would «at up once a day for seven days
when the milk record showed 4,4S9 lbs.,
an average of 638 lbs. per day, against
an average for fourteen days on peas
and oats of 737 lbs., and to help out
my hobby a little more, will state that
on the 22d of July, the second day we
fed con* ime heifer’s milk was added
to the mess, averaging 18 lbs. per day.
After this date we began feeding twice
a day of the corn, and with the help of
two more of those special purpose heif-
ers, brought the mess up to 700 lbs.
per day This is not all: it took less
rods of land to feed of the peas and
oats than of the corn, which was a
good growth.
Potatoe* Scientifically Rataed.
A report sent out by the Cornell Ex-
periment Station says: Such remark-
able results in potato growing have
been secured during the past three or
four years on the Cornell Experiment
Station grounds, that it has been
thought desirable to test the methods
employed here to ascertain whether
they will give similar results on other
soils and in other hands. It is hoped,
also, by having the tests made by the
farmers themselves on their own
farms, to attract the attention of po-
tato growers throughout the state,
more emphatically than it has been
possible to do by the work done at the
station.
The land used for these experiment*
at the station is a gravelly soil which
analysis has shown is carrying little
more than half the potential plant-
food found in average soils. It has
not been manured or fertilized since
the autumn of 1893, and has produced
heavy crops of grain or forage each
season till planted to potatoes.
In 1895, eight plants averaged at the
rate of 352.6 bushels, ranging from
304 to 415 bushels, according to treat-
ment. That year was especially fav-
orable for potatoes and the average for
the state was extra high, being 122
bushels per acre.
In 1896, nine plats averaged at the
rate of 319.4 bushels, ranging from
245.8 to 350.3 bushels. The average
yield of potatoes in New York for that
year was 89 bushels per acre.
In 1897, ten plats averaged at the
rate of 322 bushels per acre, ranging
from 234 to 384 according to treat-
ment The average in the state for
this year was 62 bushels per acre.
The experiments of 1898 were simi-
lar to those of 1897. and are described
in Bulletin 156. The average yield of
eleven plats was 292.3 bushels, ranging
from 206 to 398.6 bushels, according
to treatment
Let the Blood Flow to the Udder.
From Farmers’ Review: Any ex-
citement or disturbance of the animal
system always affects the milch cows.
In April, 1898, the Kansas Agricultur-
al College purchased 12 head of cows
from Lincoln county, which had to
be forwarded by rail for over 100
miles. Records were kept from each
individual milking, and it was found
that with the ride, homesickness and
change of feed it took nearly two
weeks for these cows to return to
their normal quantity and quality of
milk. Observations since then have
demonstrated that any unusual excite-
ment or disturbance always influences
the milk flow. A little knowledge of
the structure of the udder will show
why.
The udder is composed of cavities,
or milk cisterns, and milk ducts, sur-
rounded by muscular connective and
fatty tissues. At the end of these
milk ducts we find small cells which
have the property of secreting and
transforming nutrients from the blood
Into milk. These cells are most active
at the time of milking, and in fact a
large part of the milk is elaborated at
this time. This necessitates a good
supply of blood to the udder during
the process of milking, for It is im-
possible for these cells to manufac-
ture milk without fresh supplies of
nutrients from the blood. Any ex-
citement that tends to contract the
muscles of the udder or turn the
blood to other portions of the body
will cause a decrease in the flow of
milk. Beating the cow with a milk
stool or speaking to her in harsh lan-
guage may cause the blood to flow,
but not to the udder. Even feeding
the cow while milking her is a bad
practice, as it tends to divert the
blood from the udder to the digestive
tract. Every act of the milker and
every surrounding of the cow should
be such that the latter will give her
whole attention to the secretion of
milk at milking time. In other words,
allow the blood to flow to the udder.
_I>. H. OTIS.
Poultry on the farms of this country
exceeds sheep in the value of product,
and it is claimed that even the wheat
crop must yield its nlace to the large
supply of poultry and eggs in vain*
SYRIAN we
SI Which the Priest Wo
Robe of Got
New York Times: .
man Catholic church was
Sunday evening w.th membe
Syrian colony and Americans
been invited to witness the
of Miss Shafika Lutfy to Elias
soud, both of whom were born
Christian city of Zihle, Syria, which
was the scene cf a great fight during
the Christian massacres in the ’60’s.
Nearly all the members of the Lutfy
and Macksoud families are now in the
United States, preferring to live under
the stars and stripes to rtmaining un-
der the banner and crescent. The
bride is the daughter of Abdow Lutfy,
the senior partner of the firm of Lutfy
& Macksoud, importers of oriental
goods, and the bridegroom is the Jun-
ior partner. They both belong to the
Greek Catholic church. While the
guests waited in the .church the bride
wa» being arrayed for the wedding
ceremony at her father’s house, at 7
Battery place. She was dre.^ei in a
white satin gown and wore a long
white veil, with a pearl necklace and
diamond pendant. The Rev. Father
Beshwaty, the priest of the Greek
catholic congregation, performed the
ceremony. He wore a crown on his
head and a long roba of gold cloth that
reached to the ankles. As the bride
and her father walked up the aisle
they were preceded by little flower
girls and followed by the bridesmaids
and ushers, all carrying lighted can-
dles. At the chancel the bridegroom
stepped forward, and the father handed
his daughter over to him. The bride-
groom led the bride to the front ol the
altar, and the priest began chanting
the marriage service in Arabic. He
asked then= if they were willingly en-
tering into the marriage state, an®
when they both answered in th* af-
firmative two of the ushers held golden
crowns over their heads, while the
priest took two gold rings from a sil-
ver tray held by an attendant afld
placed them on the fourth fingers of
the left hands of the couple. The cer-
emony over, many of the guests ac-
companied the newly married coupln
to their home, where a feast had been
prepared. Mr. and Mrs. Macksoud weal
to Washington on a bridal trip.
FINAL FATE
Of Coup’s Roying Palaces, That Werg
Once the Rage.
For a long time nearly everybody in
the south knew about “Coup’s Rolling
Palaces,” but probably none-knowjjL-
actly what became of them. The roll- ^
ing palaces consisted of a train of can
specially built so as to be connected
at will into one long pavilion. Inside
was a museum, a huge aquarium, ft
congress of freaks and finally an aadt-
torium department, where bfief vaude-
ville performances were gfven. The
whole thing was most elaborately g#t
up, was brilliantly lighted by its own
dynamos and cost $100,000 to con-
struct It was the idea of Coup, the
veteran circus n^n, and he had been
gradually figuring it out for years.
When he had it perfected he had no
money, and was obliged to take in
what show people call "commercial
capital.” In other words, business
men backed it, and were foolish enough
to Insist on doing the managing after
Coup had taken it through the south
for one extremely profitable season. ^
The thing was a huge moneymaker,
properly handled. The people would-
be let in at one end and kept moving
until they emerged at the other, and
many would make the circuit two or
three times. Under the business men's
management it lost heavily, however,
and finally, after innumerable vicissi-
tudes, the train was brought to Chi-
cago and sold to a variety theater
manager for $7,000 cash. He broke it
up and peddled off the cars one at %
time. Fragments of the old outfit are '
now wandering about through obscure
country towns, piloted by fly-by-night
showmen, with all sorts of strange
freaks. That was the end of the great
rolling palaces that are still distinctly
remembered in scores of smaller
southern cities. It was a grotesque
fate for a really big amusement idea.
Now Come* the B»n*n* Tract.
A banana trust is said to be. the lat-
est thing in combinations. The firms
that will consolidate their interests in
an effort io control the banar.a busi-
ness of the country now control about
three-fourths of the business. The new
organization, it is stated, will * be
known as the Fruit Dispatch company,
with headquarters at 18 Broadway,
New York. Bernard F. Sullivan will
be the local representative of the trust,
Cleveland being the distributing point
for a large territory. Further than
to say that prices will be lowered rath-
er than advanced Mr. Sullivan refuses
to discuss the subject.
Light
Pvof. Zickler recently found that a
ray of ultra violet light transmitted as
many as 200 meters (over 200 yards)
will work a telegraph taBtrunjent at
that distance. Rays of this kind have
the property of causing an electric
spark to pass between two Highly
charged conductors, which but Tor the
light would not spark. This effect is
made to work the telegraph Instru-
ment.
New Bank Policy.
The Chicago banks have recently
adopted the policy of charging $1 a
month to customers to keep a running
deposit account of not more than $300.
The small accounts are said to be un-
profitable to banks as & rule,' bat the
new Chicago policy cf imposing a tax
on them is exceptional.
They are never alone that ate a<S
companied with noble thought^—Sir
Phillip Sidney.
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