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I. i * y ••an-* tTLslk PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY -AT- St. REGIS FALLS, 7BANKUN COUNTY, IT. T. IT$BM8»-tl.OO FEB STIUOTLT IK ADVAHC! II letters taA eontMoBlMUMf sboala at aa* ajsssea to 1. A. ROWELL, Editor and Mite, a*. He«rfa Fnlla, Jr. F. 1 • p^^ NI> ^;d^ ,J_L Devoted to Local News and Home Interests. VOL. I. ST. REGIS FALLS, 'N. Y., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1887. 4. U — The art of paper making has reached a point where a growing trco may be cut down, made into paper, and turned out as a newspaper, atjt within thirty-six hours. JL Tho new library buildnW recently be- gun in Washington, for which Congress appropriated something lilfc $1,000,000, will be the largest structure in the Fed eral Capital, with a single exception. HUMILITY. right, I plucked the weeds forth, left To make an open space About a wind-sown blossom bright! With uplift wondering face. ' \ Why sparest me, and them dost i b&yfk The darling blossom sighed; Nor knew itself more worth than tW That fell in rank-blown pride. —Edith M. Thomas, in Indepe\ ulenL L The Suez Canal cost loss than $100,. OOOJOOO. Two hundred and seventy-fivo millions of dollars has been expended on tho Panama Canal, and the prospect is that th4 pftject will have to bo. aban- doned.. 1 Thfo Western custom of 'introducing marriages at agricultural fairs has got a . couple into trouble at Touugstpwo,^ Ohio. The preacher who performed tho I ceremony had not the necessary licenso from,tho Probate Court, and the mar- riage ia illegal. I THE SUBSTITUTE . Ji / BY B. F. SAWYER. It was a rough cabin home, squlatting, aa if Ho hide its squalor, in a stn ggling grove of scrubby oaks. Its outside an thriftless povert j. Tho w-sheds, the dilapida- pearance denoted tumble-down c( ted corn-crib, its corners chokH dragging gate tc decent investigations have shown that nearly a million pupils arc in the public schools of the (Southern States; that tho amount of money expended annually for schools is $11,015,000, and that since I860 the number of public schools has been increased from 45,000 to 01,583. — i iC Statistics show that the consumption of,tugar in the lust fifty years has gono up from about fifteen to seventy poun d per head; of tea from one and one-quar- ter to four and three-quarters pounds per head; of tobacco from eighty-six hundredths to one and forty hundredths pounds per head, and so on. A fine Leghorn rooster' residing in Salem, III., has developed a taste foi music. When one of the young ladies in the family where he abides scats her- self at the piano.hc huirics into the room through the door or window, flies upon tho instrument, and, after regarding the keys for a short time, pounds out notes that seem to till him with delight. Hap- pily for the inmates of the house, Mr. hooifcr does not attempt to Hing, though it is feared ho may one d;iy find he has a voice and insist on its cultivation. **fhirty-two years ago, when Mrs. Itclcn Fralick was a little girl, sLc Was stolen from her parents in Chicago while hci mother was a guest at the former Lake I street hotel. Mother and daughter never ' met from that day tilta short time ago, | tvhen her mother collctl at, her house in Syracuse, N. Y., and fully identified hei jf long-lost daughter. A scar ou Mrs. Fraiick's chin and a portion of one of hay fingers being cut off, both of which marks sho had borno since childhood, satisfied the mother that sho had found her child. » < . Mr. J. Q. A. Ward has received the commission for the statue of Henry Ward Beecher to be erected ia Brooklyn. Th< contract.is for a life size figure in brouze, tho consideration, being $25,000. Tin fund raisdd for tho work is somewhat more than the abovo sum, and consider able addition* have accrued from the eulogy delivered by\Dr.'Joseph Parkor.af thfe.Brooklyn Academy/>f Music. Thit surplus- will be appropriated to a granitt * pedestal which will bo paneled with ba> reliefs representing characteristic scene* in Mr. Heecher's career. i ., .-•'• t— . . . -—i-' . • The v Ncw York State Agricultural So ciety is preparing to hold twenty farmers' , institutes this winter with the appropria ation made by the last Legislature. The community in which an institute is held will bo expected to furnish a suitable place for meeting, and warm and light the same, and furnish muftje, if such if desired, at evening sessions. Oncthtrc* of the speakers, which may include anj ladies who may be able to interest^ anc instruct the spectator.*, are to pr.opan short articlcj on such subjects as shall most concern the locality, the industr) tot* encouraged or discouraged alway* to be among th^r topics for dincunsion. II will be necessary that two counties U accommodated at each institute, as then are nearly sixty counties in the Stat< which these institutes arc intended U enlighten. It is claimed the few insti tutes held last winter have shown, th< great power they pos^c** as educational help* in arousing the fanners to a closet atudy of their pursuit and a more care fril watching of thuir interests. Another notable announcement in tht line of industrial expositions comes from (Jrent Britain. An international exhibi- tion of industry, science and art is to lx held' in Glasgow, Scotland, c*xtending from May to October, 1888. The usual patronago of Queen Victorih/the Prince of Wales, and other notabilities is cited in the prospectus. A guarantee /uiul of over £2.\>0 sterling has already been subscribed... For tho exhibition buildings a site of over sixty acres area ban been granted by the city of .Glasgow. There seems to be every prospect of tho exhibition being a great success. Tho grounds arc intersected by the river Kel- vin, ninety feet Vide, eighty-six feet deep, which it is suggested, may be util- ized for marine exhibits. The general plan includes the classification of the ex- hibits into twenty-two classes, and two special divisions for women's work and, artisans* exhibits. Exhibits of the fine arts aroalso solicited, and for these, aa well as the two last-named divisions, no charge will be made for floor-space. No awards are, according to present inten- tions, to be made to exhibitors, the couri- ll believing that the simple exhibition >f the articles in so import a at a centre as Uaagow should be a su/hcient incentive to secure large contrib'jfjoni from /ril with e broken fence d with br&re, and the 4 °* * •Mftiesi masteK Its interior, however, presented a dif- ferent aspect. The rough board floor was scrubbed white; tho scant flodr was scrupulously clean, while the pots and pans and tho little store of crockery were as bright al soap and wat:r and busy fingers could make them. The immaculate; whiteness of tie dra- pery, arranged with A certain uus udied grace, spoke as plainly to the ere lit of the mistress, aa the outsido did 1o the discredit of the master. Sam Nix and his wifo were an ill- mated pair. They had nothing id com- mon, except the hard fortune that Jiukcd their Jives togethetr and poverty! He was hard, cold, uncouth; she, gtantlc, refined and sweet. Not even in legard to their children were they) sympathetic, for while she loved [them both devotedly, and especially' her bright-eyed, pianl/\ boy, ho cared hardly as much f0r his son as he did for his favorite hound. It was in the spring of 18G3, the third year of tho war. The first wild storm of passion that swept over tho land hflid ex- hausted itself, and men, furiously blind before, had begun to realize the danger, tho drca*], and the horrors of war. I Amon£ those whose devotion t» his State was the first to take fire and the first to evaporate was one George C'a- houle, a young man, tho proud, jiettcd son of a prbud, but not wealthy, father. From th; time he could cry, his every whim, that'tho foolish fondness of his mother an<p tho! moderate means of his father could gratify, had been indulged. Accordingly, when, catching something of the spirit of patroitism that exjeited tho breasts of braver And better mop, he offered to volunteer, AS soft a place as possible was obtained for him. f Not much cculd bo done, however; only a non-commissioned officer's birth was secured. But he took that, and in high feather marched away, a Commissary- Hcrgcant in a regiment of Alabama Volun- teer*. For a time he found life in tho camp a plcusing routine of light duties. But after a whito the restraint of the service bogan to vex him, and he longed fotf the abounding freedom of home. Then came tho battlo of Stono River, and though he was safe in the rear with the cooking detail, un erratic shell came screeching through the tree tops danger- ously near his precious head, at d he wrote at once to his mother, to armngc, if possib e for his discharge. 4 'This thing is getting to t>c a bore, any way)' 1 he wrote. \Tell father to •end me a substitute right uway.'.' But a substitute was not sa easily found. Tho conscription act, enrolling: every white male citizen between,''the ages of eighteen and forty-five, had been passed aiM was being rigidly enforced, and where every man had to answer for himself, there was no one to answer for poor George Cahoulol '•But there is old pttx's boy; couldn't they take him? he is not of age yet but is laige enough to pass,\ suggested tho anxious mot lcr. ter atfle to stand George.\ • M Ycs, he'will do—a fine, strapping lad. I will see old Nix 'and give him two hundred dollars to lot him go, if only for sixty days,\ said the old gentleman. i Nix needed the money, and when to the two hundred dollars' was added ten pounds of fine plug tobacco and a Herd of goats that ran on tho mountain behind his lots, the bargain was made. liobert Nix, the boy, not yet fifteen, was not unwilling'to go. With the en- thusiasm of youth he had read of the battles and wished himself a man that he might share in tlieir gl6rics. His mother, however, and his sister, were not so en- thusiastic, and with ur availing tears pro- tested against tho barg tin.. The next day aftc , Judge Cahoule came by in his buggy 1 )r the boy.. The^ mother, making the bjst of the cruel cir- cumstances, had tricki :d him out in his smartest clothes, and oi i v ho stood arrayed in his best, a military . ackct, gray jean trousers with a broad, black stripe down the legs, and tho jaunty new hat, he looked a splendid specimen of youpg American manhood. \ \Be a good boy, Robbie,\ said his mother to him, \and don't forget mother.\ Then she kissed him and let him go. The army was encamped in the wintry woods around Shelby ville. The prospect was cold and dreary enough, but the novelty of the scene, together with the cheery bursts bf martial music from the bands, had a charm for the boy, and when ho waa^brought before the Colonel of the regiment for muster, he tried his best to look ovciy inch a soldier. When questioned as to his age, l{e hesitated a moment, but remembering his mother, he answered, a little timidly, as if ashamed of his youth: \I shall! bo fifteen next March.\ 1 \Ho is too yoking, Judge Cahoule. [ *I am very sorry, but, it would bo unlawful to enlist him, and especially as a sub- stitute for a jtrong, able-bodied man,\ said the Colonel. '\Ah but he is well-grown, strong, active aa a cat, healthy and true grit,\ insisted the judge. \I will venture this much, as a per J sonal favcr to you and to George; I will muster him in for sixty days and give George a furlough for that time,\ com- promised tho Colonel.\ \Very well; a half loaf ia better than none,\ acquiesced the judge, and Robert Nix was duly enrolled and ordered to dutv in Company O, while George Ca- houle, shaking off the shackles of t,he army, hurried back home on the next train, to tell to admiring ears the won* ferful stories pf battle. > The sixty days were soon lout,' and George Cahoule was resolved not to re- 2 rn to the army. # Nix needed money, he always did, and an offer of one thousand dollars was sufficient to per- made him to let Robert stay in the army. .He went himself with the judge to head- 2 uarters. to assure the Colonel that it waa II right,iand that he gave his consent. So the substitute just man, and see- the prisoner, tore without aubmit- \I am sure ho is bet- it than poor dear waa made Robert Nix was enlisted, PilmMtiwfeobtr|{e4. >ermanent; and George 1W spring and summer campaign oponed. Bobert Nix stood to his post lixo a veteran. On tho toilsome march by day, or the lonely, watchful, picket post at night, he never once failed. A brave, handsome boy. he becamo the pride of his comrades\pnd a pet with his Captain. But an evil day came, a day of battle, of death and of mourning—Chlckamauga, the dark \fiver of death.\ , On Friday skirmishing began,on Satur- day afternoon the battle opened, and on Sunday morning, a calm Sabbath morn- ing, both armies were marshaled in line, face to face, ready to cast the fateful die. Up to that time, the last critical mo- ment, Robert Nix had stood in line, el- bow to elbow with the foremost file, and then he disappeared, silently, myste- riously, no ope remembered when or how. It was not until roll-call after the battle that he was missed. \Ho was in line when we started; he must havebeen killed,\ was the report of the orderly-sergeant. * 1 It was nearly two months afterward when a guard arrived from Atlanta with> a squad of prisoners, deserters arrested at liomc by tho conscript cavalry, and brought back for tVjal. Among these, with a puzzled look of innocence in his eyes, was Robert Nix. Without explanation he was sent to the guard house, and charges^ of (deserr tion in theTacc of the enemy • were pre- ferred against him. In the regular rou- tine of events a court-martial was con- vened and ho was duly arraigned. Lieutenant Snow testified that the prisoner, Private Robert Nix, waa pres- ent in line of battle on the morning of September the 20th, 1863, and that be- fore or during the engagement that day he disappeared, witout leav'e Or author- ity, and was not heard of again until he was brought back to his command under guard. Sergeant Bliss, Acting Orderly of Com- pany C, with a soldier's bluntness of dic- tion, corroborated tho Lieutenant's state ment. Captain Earle, of the conscript service tcstitled \that having been advised by Judge Cahoule, a citizen of Alabama, of tho prisoner's whereabouts, he pro- ceeded to the housej and after a strategic investment of the promises he succee ded in arresting him, and finding him with- out leave of absence or written order, he securdly tied him and brought him back to tho front.\ This closed the testimony for the Judge-Advocate. ••New, sir, what have you got to say t\ asked the President of the Court. \If you please, sir, here's a paper Mr. Phil Wood wrote for me, and told me to give it to you,\ presenting a closely writ- ton scrawl. The President read it. It was a faial confossion of guilt, and ap)>calcd to tho clemency of the court] The President was a ing the ignorance of tho paper into shreds, ting it to his court. \This paper does not effect the case in the least. You must answeri me now foi yourself} How old aro you?'* he asked. ' \I shall bo fifteen in March.\ \How cafic you in the army?\ \My papa hired me to Judge Cahoule, to take the place of his son, Mr. George Cahoule.\ I \Did you want to come?\ \Yes sir, for a little while; I only camo-for sixty duys, to give Mr.George a furlough.\ \And when the time was up, you went home?\ \Oh no, sir; Mr. Cahoule give papa a thousand dollars to make me stay all the time. I becrgedto go home, but Colonel Mitchell said my papa had a right to do as he pleased with me, and I had to stay.\ \Well what made you k ru Chickamauga?\ • \I didn't run, sir,\ with a and an unconscious straight* ning up. \How did you getaway, tnen?\ \I was shot, sir, and I hopjped back on my gun to the hospital, andf the doctor sent me oft to Ringgold, on a wagon.\ I \You say you were shot?\ \Yes sir, I was sfiot in the leg, I can show you the scar.\ \Let us see it.\ ( I % i. The prisoner rolled up his trousers. And displayed an ugly scar in tho calf of his left leg. \That wilidj>. Now tell me how it happened that none of your command saw you\\' \Well I'll tell you all about it. You see we wanted water, all of us, and when we was standing in line, waiting for the word, I ast Captain Rich if I moughtn't run I«ick and git a drink, and he told me yc*, to make haste and get back, and sol run back as hard as ever I could; but the creek WAN furdcr than I thought, and afore I got back, the fight had begun and the regiment was gone, and the provost guard then nicked me up and pnt me in a squad with Trigg's Virginia regiment, ana we sailed in, and the first thing I knowed I felt my leg knocked out from under me, and when I tried to get up I fell and found that I was shot, and the Major of the regiment told me to get back if I could, and if I couldn't, to holler for the litter bearers. But I could hop by using of my gun, and so I just hobbled back, but I aid n't run a step. I wouldn't V run like a coward for to save my life, for my mamma told me never to do that. You may all shoot me if you want to, but I ain't no coward.\ \You say Captain Rich told you to go after water?\ \Yes eir. he did.\> \Where is Captain Rich?\ \He's gcad, sir. He was killed that day, if he was alive he would tell you so.\ \Well but how did you get home, and how was it that the conscript cavalry got you?\ \Well 111 tell you. You see, when I got to Ringgold they put me on the cars and sent me along with the other wounded to Atlanta, and from there they sent me to Montgomery, and as we was a passing Notasulga I thought I'd just get off and get out home. It was only five jniles, and so I got off; the boys helped me, and Mr. Slims sent me out home in his buggy.\ t \And when you got welf why didn't you come back ?\ \Well I was a-coming, Montgomery, and Major me transportation back, a back as far as Notasul u stopped a day, to run out'home to get a coat my mamma was a-making me, and a poke of rations she waa a-cooking for me. and that very same night the qavalry come and arrested me and tried me, ami brought me back, without even letting me getfny vittlea.nor my coat.\ \Well is that all?\ ' \Yes sir, all aa I knows; only if Captain Rich hadn't a got killed, I wouldn't V been in this fix.\ \.ypU gay Major Calhoun, gave TQ» .1. away from proud flush id I went to Calhoun give I come on and />nly transportation from Montgomery back to the army?\ \Yes eir, he did.\ \Where is it?\ * \It's at home in my'tother britches' pocket. If you'll write to mamma, she will send it to you.\ ' 'No, I never mind, that will do. Gentle- men, have you any questions to ask?\ \No.\ The prisoner waa marched back to the guardhouse, and the court proceedod to make a verdict. There was no discussion, each member of the court being simply aslfed: \What say you, is the prisoner guilty or not guiltv?\ It is the rule, in all military courts, for the junior officer in rank to vote first,and then the next, and the next, in an ascend- ing Scale. This is done that the opin- ions of the seniors may not affect the judgment of tho juniors. Tho rote is viva voce, and as one by one was asked, the answers came: \Guilty.\ I \The verdict is unanimous as to the guilt of tho priiouer. Now gentlemen, we will pass upen the sentence.\ This matter it volved a long discussion, a majority contending for whipping on tho bareback, ii the presence of his com- mand, and branding m palm of his right hand the letter D. To this tho President dissented. \No gentlemen,\ he said, \there is but one adequate punishment for the of- fence of desertion in tho face of tho enemy, and that is death. If this boy is guilty, as you say he is, let him be shot. If he is innocent, as I (eel in my soul he is, he should go free. Having found him guily, our duty is to sentence according to the findings, and the penalty for this offence is death.. The rest wc can leave to the commanding General.\ So poor Robbie Nix was condemned to be \shot {ft death, at such time and S laco as the commanding Gcnoral may csignatc.\ The President, bluff old Colonel Zachery, added to the official report: \ In consideration of tho extreme youth of the prisoner, the manifest illegality of his % enlistment and his uniform ^ood conduct , Vs a soldier, previous to this offence, I respectfully commend him to the mercy of the commanding General, and. would ask that he be discharged from custody and remanded to the regiment for duty.\ The finding of the court waa not to be made (mown until the action of' the General was returned, but in some way it leaked out and flew, with the instinct of bad news, to the ears of the mother at home. For a few moments, after hearing it, she stood dazed, then, creeping in to her room, she knelt by her bed, and poured our her sorrow in tears and sobs and prayers. At last, gathering her womanly courage with her womanlv wits, she arose and commenced a hurried prepara- tion for a journey. . \But where'll you get the money, Mary?\ asked her husband, as she told him of her purpose. . \I will sell the coW. That will be enough to carry me there.\ , \But how'll you git back?\ \If Icansa^c my child, I can walk back; but if tjhey murder my darling, 1 shall not caro lover to come back; I shall pray to die too.\ The cow was driven to the village and readily sold, and on tho next train the heart-broken I mother was on her way to offer her own life for tb.e life of her son. She was a timid woman, modest and reserved, but her jrreat anxiety made hei courageous. Arnved at Dalton, around which place the army waa encamped, she made her way to the regimental head- quarters, and received from the colonel a- confimation of the story. He told hei that tho matter was in the hands of General Johnston, first, and as a last re- sort in the hands of President Davi>, and offered to go with her to the General. It was lato in the day, but there were no \office hours\ in the army. If they could reach head-quarters before Gen- eral Johnston retired to bed, they would - be in time. They found him at Supper. \Will the lady cat something?\ waa the hospitable invitation. \No thanks. I came to tell you of mv son. There is some mistake, u cruel mistake, I know. Mv boy is not a coward. He is not a deserter. I don't know what they proved against him, but j it is false that he ran away from the field of battle and came home without leave. He was wounded, sir, badlv shot, in the leg, I know, for I nursed him myself. If you will see him, sir, an/I let him tell you, you will know the truth, for I have taught him not to tell a lie, even to save his own life.\ \Ah. but who is it? I do not know to whom you refer,\ said the General, puzzled at the lady's earnestness. \My son, Robert Nix, whom they have falsely accused of desertion, and condemned to be shot.\ , \General Brent do you know anything of the case?\ turning to his Adjutant- General and Chief-ofStaff. \I have had it tinder review to-day. It is a peculiar case, and I intended calling your attention to it in the morning,\ an- swered General Brent. \W/« will go through it now. My good ladv, you must wait here until I examine the matter.\ \Oh sir, I beg that you will let me explain,\ she interrupted. \No be seated here. If I need you I will call you.\ The poor lady sank down on a Camp stool, and as the General went'into his office with his Adjutant, she slipped to her knees and in silent prayer awaited the issue. She had not long to wait, although it seemed an age to her. The General him- self came back, holding in his hand an order. \You tell me that your son was woujidetl?\ \As God will judge me in the day t stand before Him, I tell you the truth. He came home to me wounded in the leg.\ . \And this story he told \he court is true.\ \I know not what he told the court, only this, if he told anything at all, he told the truth.\ * \Madam I believe you and I believe him. Here is, an order for his release. I will send an orderly with you to the guard, or else have him conducted to you at your quarters; perhaps that would be best.\; \No no, let me go to my son where he is. And, oh, sir, I do wish I was able to thank you, but I am not, my heart is too full. God bless\—And too much over- come Tor further speech, she could only seize the Gener si's hand and kias it. . Then, almost tottering with the burden of her joy, she followed the orderly the guardjious i, bearing that little si of paper whici aaved nis Ufa and L honor. —- ; Youth* • Companion. NO. 33. THE i' ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING SUCH AS Ctorda, Letter-Head*, Note-Meads, BUI-Heads, Statements, Envelopes, Handbills, Posters, Ac, KXATLT AST) PROMPTLY EXECUTE) AT TEE LOWEST LIVING PBICE0 FOR CASH. w*s solicit tae patronise of the public and strive ta saerii Uxe SAUER KRAUT. tf HOW THE EDIBLE IS PKEPARED IN A DIG FACTORY. Using Many Dollara' Worth or Cab- bages a Year—Processes of \ Turning Them Into Saner Kraut. AUER KRAUT is made in im- mense quantities in a Chicago fac- tory by a man named Johnson/ . \If you want ti know how saucr^ kraut is made Til *'explain from the »—• -. -—•>- beginning,\ said Mr. Oohnson to an Inter- Ocean reporter. \Experience has taught me that instead of raising cabbage plants here in gloas houses in winter time it is cheaper and better to raise them in tho South from the seed and then transplant them to Illinois when the weather becomes warm enough. The plants are more hardy, larger, and I can get them set out several weeks ahead of the hothouse growers. We have nearly 2,000 acres of land in Tennessee, Florida and Illinois on which we grow** nothing but cabbage. We plant the seed in Tennessee in March and then transplant the plants in car-loads to Florida^ and Illinois. There are from 800,000 to 600,000 plants in a car-load, • -Sounds big, but it's true.\ \How much cabbage is raised to the acre?\ ; \Well the heads are planted thirty- two inches apart each way, which makes about 5,000 heads to the acre, or 40,000 pounds.\ TAKI5G OUT THE COn \Do you raise all your own cabbage?* \Don't begin to do it. We buy $200,- 000 worth of cabbage every year from farmers around here and those in Iowa. There are live car-loads of Iowa cabbage standing on my side tracks now. No, Iowa cabbage usually is not as good as Illinois, but this year it's better, because they've had more rain there than we've had.' Farmers from miles around bring their cabbage to us. Pee that string of wagons along that street/' and he pointed to a row of wagons loadc I with cabbage like so much hay. ' | \They're waiting to have it weighed. The platform is in front of that little house. We'll just go there and follow a load of cabbige from the scales to the tank, through all ihe processes of manu- facture. Yes, cabbage is bought by the pound, not by the head. Wc are paying seven cents a pound now. I have bought in other years hotter cabbage for three cents.\' After the first wagon-load of cabbage had been weighed it was hauled to a large, long building two stories, or really one and a half stories in height. The sides were open, and with a pitchfork the cabbage was tossed into tne upper floor just like hay is put into the mow. But instead of being scattered over the floor the \cabbage is pi Ted up in a space about lift connect in width, aboard nailed up to the inner rafters preventing it Fifty railroad ties, each 8 lesi in length and 6xiQ inches thick, were cut frfftP, one ptoe tree In OeorVia. A NOVEL CAHBAOE CUTTER. from going farther. After the cabbage was unloaded the driver took from a lower platform a load of cores and outer leaves of cabbage. This ia fed to their cows, and is said to do them aa much good as the saucr krout does humau beings. \We'll go inside now and I'll show you where those cores and cabbage leaves come from,\ said Mr. Johnson, leading the way. Ranged around the room, to call it that, at equal distances apart were thirty-two girls working as busily aa bees. Every one of those girls was working as If she really enjoyed it. FEEDING THE MACITINE. In her right—the artist in a playful ec- centricity has made her a Bcnjamite, it will be seen—each girl held an instru- ment which can best be described as a huge \cheese trier,\ one of those thrngs you stick in cheese, give it a twirl, and then pull it out, to test its miteyhess, you know. Well, those girls treated tho cabbage like one would cheese. Draw- ing one down from the pile with » spite- ftil little dig she'd thrust the knife into the side of the core, give her wrist a couple of twists, and the whole core woujd come out as nicely as could be. They were vei v expert at it, and could core 000 cabbages an Jiour with case. After the core was removed; with three or four'blows with the knife the outer leaves of the cabbage wciuld be whipped off with all the worms, dirt, and insects, and shoved into a trough, from which they fell to the platform describcH before. At the same time the clean bead of bab- bage was thrown back of them on to a big; broad platfonn, running the whole ' length of the room. r I • On this platform were half a dozen women armed with hay rakes, and as the cabbage was thrown.on to it the women \t to the cento of ti* flott, a/here four men took it and fed it jnto a nachine somewhat resembling the stones »f a grist mill. A very interesting and important part >f saucr kraut making ia the cutting of he cabbage., To be Arm and crisp, yet ender, the cabbage must be cut in long hin slices. To chop it up fine, as could ta done much easier, would practically >e to spoil ity or render its value much ess. After experimenting for over five ; rears a knife was invented which does he work in the most satisfactory manner. 3y means of a shaft in the center it is nade to revolve very rapidly end the < sight knives, which are shown in the cut, i dice the cabbage as neatly aa a butcher jould a steak. The knife can cut meat, oo, as some of the operators have found i rat to their sorrow. This wheel of knives s about thirty inches in diameter, and vill cut.from 50,000 to 60,000 pounds of cabbage a day, depending on the skill and energy of thejfeeders. 1 In the cut four feeders are shown at work, thoujjh only one can feed if desired. The head of cabbage! is laid on the wheel i ind the pressure of the hand causes it to i lisappcar in ajfewscconds. Beneath the vhcel is a V-sliapcd chest or boi, into vhich the cut < Jabbage falls. When it ii '*///& FILING THE TRUCK.' ull a big truck, holding 400 pounds of cabbage is shoved under it, the right side of the chest is pulled back, and the CJ ibbage falls into the truck, as is showqg ii the cut. The girls who cut the cores fi oni the cabbage stand on a platform n iscd about three feet from the floor bo- le w the one on which the cabbage is un lc aded. When one of the trucks is filled it ii pished along a gangway by two lusty y rang men and into a big building 56x 1 U feet. This is called the pack in g- h >use. Never having seen the vault of a b cwery I can't say it looks like one, al- though I judge it does.« It is filled witb hiige tanks 20 feet in diameter and 10 f<iet deep. There are twenty-eight tanki in this building 82x90 'ect in dimension. Each tank holds 400 barrels of sauei kraut, worth nearly $4,000. Thus the t lirty-eight tanks, if only filled once a vear, contains $193,000 worth of saner kraut. A good idea of one of those huge t\ inks may be obtained from the cut. In e ich tank are two big, strong men wear- li lg long rubber boots. When a truckful of cabbage is clumped ii ito the tank they tramp it down. The o jject of this is to break the fiber suffi- ciently to let out the water, so the salt, which is plentifully thrown over it, will t ike action at once. In other words, it i i to. facilitate fermentation. The sole i igredients of sauer kraut are cabbage a nd salt. Worms and insects like the. (ne in the initial letter of this sketch i light improve the flavor, but they are i eligiously excluded. wvuicn » cabbaffe TRAMPING THE KRAUT. It takes aauer kraut from two to foui uccks so cure or ferment, dependingyon the temperature of the cabbage when put ia and the atmosphere afterward. It c an be kept aa long as desired, and, like uine, improves with age. But it is not I ept in the tanks. After fermentation, Mb is placed in barrels holding thirty-two gallons each, and headed up aa tijjht a* i n oil barrel. Then it is shipped in any < uantity desired all over the couujry. Killed in Atlanta, | They were talking about the cheek of tramps the other day when a Wood 1 rard avenue merchant said: : \Two or three week* ago a tramp came t and struck me for a quarter Two ys later he came again. In two weeks le called on me five times, getting swoo- ning each time. I finally turned to and gave him an awful blasting. He listened 0 me quietly and respectfully,, and final- ysaid: , \ 'My excuse is that I served my oountry.' • . \'You a soldier—bah!' \ 'But I was, sir. They have got me n the painting of the Battle of Atlanta.\ \ *I don't believe it!' \ 4 lf you take me in there I'll point i nyselt out to you. If you don't see me cpresentcd there you may kick me.' ••Well,\ said the merchant, \'I took lim at his word and went over to the panorama with him. He didn't hesitate it all, but walking to the front and Minting to the railroad gap he said: \ \There I am, sir.' \•Where?\ \•Just to the} right Horse.' \ 'But that man is dead.' i \ *f es, sir. That is the battle I waa illed in 1' \—Detroit Free Pre**. , Reducing thto Stock. ' Customer (iif drug store)—\I see you advertise 'selling off at cost.'.\ ., Druggisty\Yes sir.\ Customer—\What are you getting foi )r. Dropsy's Killemquick cure foivcon- .i umption, large bottles?\ Druggist— • 'One dollar.\ ' L Customer—\But that's the same old >rice.\ , , Druggist— \Yes sir. We are selling off our onejand two;cent postage stamps utcost. We are carrying a larger line of them than the present stagnation Warrants.\ — i Not a Fighter. ] Customer (observing the grocer as he ueigha out sugar): \Were you ever a fghter?\ * • Grocer: \No indeed. If^ there's a 1 ght going on I always.^get out of the nay.\ » ' •• vWJiat a pity you ain't\ a fitfhtcr^a I nail of 7QV sand V^Tf*** ^jrtfye, of that dead Jenny Lind. The recent announcement, that Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, the -'Swedish Night- ingale,\ had been stricken with paralysis, and that her illness would prove fatal revived in hundreds of thousands of her admirers on this side of the Atlantic the memory of this exquisite vocalist, now long past public exhibitions of her once remarkable voxe. Jcuny Lind. says the Hartford Timet, will be ranked as one of the two or three world's greatest female singers. It might not be easy to name any one who on the whole has sur- passed her in the power of giving a higb delight to innumerable multitudes by the beauty and melody of her voice. Those TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. < cr*. JENKT LIND. - who recall her splendid vocal perform- ances in New York thirty-seven years ago, in Caatle Garden and Tripler Hall, will not forget the effect. The crowds were vast beyond precedent. Tier upon tier were packed with euthijaiasts—and when,the slight and graceful young wo- man came out on the stage there was a wild tempest of anp ause, before which she bent lower ana lower, like a lily be- fore a great wind. And when her beauti- ful voice was heard, how it thrilled all hearers! She sang from the overflowing fountain of the native goodness of her heart—and this, every hearer seemed to feel. In such strains as tnose m which she sang \I Know That My Redeemer Liveth\ she thrilled her vast audience as no vocalist before or since has ever done, Ike Interrupted Ser<mde. — TMm 8iftinff$. A Mortifyinr Fluke.. Caller (to Mrs. Wabash, of Chicago)— \Were you at the dinner party given by Mrs. Breezy lost week i\ Mrs. Wabash—\Yes\. Caller—\It was a success, of course? Her dinners always are.\ Mrs. Wabash— \Yc—«s. Everything was very nice, but there were only nine kinds of pie. Mrs. Breezy explained that the baker had disappointed her.!'— 'Jiea York Sun. J in tbe not on< now ii. barreli land al load in j these or the Laying in a Snpply. Young Featherly—\Do you .know, Bobby, that I am coming to your house to dinner to-morrow.\ Bobby—\Oh yee, I heard ma say so when she told pa to order the turkey. She said he had better get |the biggest one he could find.\ S * Next Thin* U llu Gueet (to landlord)—\I say, landlord have you got such a thing as an encyclo- pedia about the house!\ Landlord—\No air. we have not; but there is a'gentleman from Boston in the rtatiag-foom.\— Basar. The Anti-Liquor Crnaade. In contradiction to other reports concern- in jr Maine, Neal Dow's latest utterance is as follows: •iki»«ny years ago tbe people of Maine con- sumed more strong drink than any other State in tbe Union. Mr. Blaine, writing on the subject, said that at one time no people in the country used such enormous quantities of liquor as did tho people of Uus State. To- day w% e*n say that no State in tbe Union uses so little. Mr. Blaine has also said that no State has prospered so remarkably during tbe last twenty years as Mai no. There is a cause for-all this change. Temptation for strong drink has been put out of the way. Years ago there were K»C it industries carried on here. The lumber-trade employed a large number of our men, and tho fishing industries u great many more. These products were nearly all exported to the We*t Indies and other southern countries.and bartored for rum and molasses. The ownois of tho saw mills and the fishermen never made tho State one dollar richer, and the only results of thoir industry were a population of topers, dilap- idated school houses siiiltless farmers and decaying farm buildings. When Blaine said that Maine is the most prosperous State in the Union he Fpoke the ' truth. The dilapidated buddings are being repaired or rep+aced by new ones, handsome in architecture and substantial in structure, and tho almost hopeless poverty is giving away to vigorous industry, intelligence and wealth By careful estimates, this State now saves, directly and indirectly, the sum of $^4,t}00,()OU yearly. In lace of these facts it is a great wrong fur Dr. Cro*by to say that the Maine law is a failure. All -otner pntnto interests shrink into ins gnificanoe when compared with th s question, and the cause \an hardly have a more dangerous barrier in its way than statements like that of. Dr. Crosbys. They are dangerous because we have struggled for mpre than a quarter of a century before t^ie eyes of the nation, ind if successful our example will be followed by every State m tho Union. Such men should be informed, so that they will never' repeat such statements as that of tne clergyman I refer to. The fact that the larger proportion of in- temperance has been banished; the fact that of the sfeventy open grog shops that flourished ity of I'orUand twenty-five years ago remains; the fact that no liquor is rte i frpm tho West indies, and the of rum that once occupied acres of the Portland wharves after the un- of cargoes are ubolishod—do not all ' ts signify a progress in one direction >therf Were not three-fourths of the jails empty six months alter the law was passed 4 But pedyle say they do not under- stand why the gro^ shops in the larger cities are allowed to exist. That is the key to the situation. AQlor our thirty years' of trying to work out the great problem, people point to f\ few of the larger cities and say, \Look at Maine.\ ltiseasilv seen why tbe putting out of tbe way of such obstacles to the cause as this is of the utmost importance. Most of the saloon-keepers, except those of Bangor, dispose of their rum ou the sly.\ Profits of Whisky and Beer A representative <of the Cincinnati Times- Star has been investigating tbe profits of the whisky business. From an expert he learned that the distiller can make the best whisky for 53 cents a gallop and a government tax of iK) cents bring* the price up to* $1 4\). He sells this, after it has been, rectified, for from. $3 to $6 or $7, according to its age. In a 'gallon of whisky there are eighty to one hun- dred and twenty drinks. 1 he retailer sells the gallon of whisky, which cost say $1 .*i0, eighty drinks at ten cents a drink. t>: profit, (0 50. In a fine grade of old wlib-ky there will be one hundred and twenty drinks. The cost of a gallon of such whisky to the retailer would bef\): he would ivt:til it at 15 cents a drink^sne huudre 1 and twenty drinks, $18: profit to the retailer $13. In the light of these figures it is not at all surprising that dis- tillers and saloon-keepers are very reluctant te give prohibition a chance to prohibit. / 'the same Journalist also made some In- quiries in relation to the profits of the beer trade. He l«arned that a keg of beer—that is, what is called a fourth—costs #2. Tbero are on the average 10J glasses to tbe keg. \counting ponies and all/' A keg never costs the manufacturer more than sixty cents, and sometimes as low as forty cents.. The retailer C ys the brewer $2 per keg, a-pilofit of fl.40; retails 100 glasses, at five cents, fcr $5. at a profit to himself, besides the «1.40 brewer's profit, of f.1. There would sown to be v>ery substant al financial reasons why the brew- ers and beer halc^onists nlo are strongly averse to Prohib^uon.— Xatijnal Temperance Advooate. A Soul-Savin* Scheme, Governor Colquitt gives some telling facts concerning the, workings of prohibition in Atlanta. This is a city of sixty-five thousand; was AS wicked as most cities while liquor ruled; one of its street* was lined with saloons, no lady could walk through it witb safety, and the* bravest man dreaded to even ride through it at uight. Now its saloons are closed and a young gir. may safely traverse it by day or night, and she wiU'not hear a g rofane word. There were a bond red and ity saloons in Atlanta, and croal^rs prophe- sied that these, a hundred and fifty buildings, would stand empty. Every single one of them is occupied, many of them with stores where healthful food, instead of destroying drink, is sold. Property has increased from ten to thirty per cent. 1 he Senator remarked that he did' not like to discuss tbe financial benefits of prohibition to Atlanta: ^reat as they are,they are dwarfed into insignificance by tbe response to Christ's momentous ques- tion: \What shall it profit a mail if ho gain the whole world and lose his own soul/\ Ha likes fcest to consider prohibition as a soul- saving, scheme, for Mich it has proved to At- lanta. As soon as liouor was turned out, the spirit of (>od hod a chance on men's hearts, and a wonderful revival followed. To-day there is not a c.ty on earth that is more truly Christian than Atlanta; 2.UOO men and women have beenadde;l to the church since t^ -- **^ tkm of prohiMHon. •»!• *w. ia* enlorcao, and will it continue to be!\ \Yes just aa lone as *.y» fines and imprisonment follow ito infra-tion. prohibition will prohibit — Union iiiffnal. , A Coatly Revenue, In sraaking of the benefits of High Lfcanat, acotempofary remarks that, \beside reduo-, ing the number of drinking places in a marked degree, the incrensa in revenue Is very great, claiming, furthermore, that in the larfce cities of Nebraska tbe public schools are supported by the revenues derived from license*. While this latter statement bears the imprint of truth, the question arises, hava^e the right to degrade and pau- perize one portu.n of a commun.ty for the pri\ ilege Of elevating tbe other? And again, would not the money expended, for drink more than pay the schooling expenses? We fail to see anv display of «tatesms<nship in the met of licensing crime in order to create suf- ficient revenue for governmental purposes. It is this very license that makes the adminis- tration of the government expenaive.— West Grove (Penn.) Independent. An Effective Arajnluent. A very effective temperance argument was that used by William Duncan in a colony of Christianired fnd-ans in British Columbia. A keg of whisky wan obtained and scattered over the grass in the prcgrtice of tbe young people. It destroyed alrthe herbage. The Indian President of the village council then told tbe young folks that just as it burned tbe grass it would bum tin in 'f they drank it* Th.s festival no.v takes place every year. It was inaugurated wholly by the Indians, and there bas been very little trouble with the liquor question sin' e. Whenever any liquor is smuggled into the settlement it is seised and used to burn tbe grass in the ilkistratod lectures. Temperance News and Notes. Ex-Governor St. John is talking prohibi- tion in California, lie has now become a pub- lic lecturer. * JL7T. JLenaedy, Hecretarjf ol tbe Iowa State Board of Health, says in regard to the state- ment-of Dr. Hull, formerlv a member of the Board,-that there are 10,000 opium eaters in that State: \There is abundant reason for believing that the number of victims of the habit * far in excess of ibat given.\ Jjs.the course of lie address at a Prohibi- tion meeting near Newburg. N. Y., lately, Mrs. £miline W. fturget* made the state- ment that while walking along West street, New York, she saw this sign in large letters in the window of a saloon: \For every boy who brings in ten other boys, I will give as a reward a silver watch.\ ~\
