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“It is the simplest thing in the world," he said, “Look here is apiece of arsenical stone," and he produced a. glittering pebble. “Well, with noth- ing but that stone. the kitchen fire, and that shovel there. I can produce enough arsenic to kill every man. wo- men end child in this cottage within a few minntemf' .60 he got hie piece 01 white mud» .in the r . end held a. shovel over it. no that the tune. ___'. vvu VWDHO . The manufacture of this poison is indeed terrible in its simplicity. One afternoon I had taken wage in a Cornish cottage. where I fell in with a. gentleman who is largely interest- ed in this industry. “It is theeimnl'est‘ thing in the ‘IVn-i.’ ” Lâ€"A “‘ stgnms which it may contain." Ihe manufactpre. of this poison is :“JAA‘J ;-__:Ln_ away 1n powder when the tube was tapped agamst the palm of the hand. “That is crude arsenic," said Mr. Thomas. .“Tq obtain refined arsenic. .L‘ __‘_,__ V..-- .......- u... vuv “swank, uc Batu. As rapidly as it voiatilizes, so rapid- 1y does it condense. The arsenic fumes Legin to deposit their soot as soon as they escape from the great heat of the furnace. This is crude arsenic. This was to be seen by this experiment, aiso. The white smoke escaping from the tube deposited agrayisntiim on .LxA .â€"A-_37 - . ‘ Lew up. staining the tube yellow. "There goes the sulphur," said Mr. 'l‘hcmas. This was followed by white smoke. :‘1‘hat is_ the arsenic,” he said. He then loaded the lower part of the tune “itn some of the crushed mundic and held the tube uver the flame of the gas. Almcst immediate!" a "1 (an show you the whole process the.» true enough, after afew minutes said )J-'. William l‘homas. of the Cam- oorne echuo. 01' mines. “it is very sim- pie ' He produces a piece of white mun- div. \x Licil we had picked up on one of the burrows at Uoicoath mine, broke iii a swan piece and pounded it into puwucr with a hammer. He then took a gees tune, Which was bent at. an angle of 0» degrees. “l‘he part which is horizontai." he said, "represents the Kiln. This gas gooâ€"we were in the ialnratory oi the L‘amLorne school oi' minesâ€""represents the lurnase, and the part 01 the tube WDiCb snopes up- ward represents the condensing cham- Let‘s. 1: usually less finely dashed than the are: which are treated for tin. This aunt! or gravel is then shoveled into a 51.11 or turnace. ' . Fowler it became a medicine which has restored vigor to the blood and COLOR TO THE CHEEKS of thou>ands of sufferers. It is also the a'tive principle in sheepâ€"dip, and a prominent manufacturer whose name is known all over the British empire uses over 1,000 tons a year. It is large- ly used in analine dyes. It enters in- to the composition of certain kinds of glass. is mixed with lead for making shot. and in the form of Paris green it triumphed over the pest that was the phylloxera of the potato. In the; (‘alstock district in Devonshire the various minesâ€"the Devon, Great Coun- sul’s. Holmliush, Okel Tor, Coomber- works, anton and “"estiakeLâ€"Lututil recently have been producing about 600 tons of arsenic a month. Arsenic is now worth £23 a ton. A few years ago it w as north but £l3. The rise in the price is owing to the lailure in some of the mines. .. , ' Arsenic is soot, white soot. Refined arsenic is the soot of sootâ€"that is to say. it is the soot of crude arsenic. whit-his the soot of ores or of mun-dic. 'l‘he stones or ores as they come from the mines are crushed by stamps main- ly driven by water power, to the con- sistency of sand or gravel: Msulidic is usually less finely crushed than the The word arsenic is apt to fillthe urdinary mind with gloomy visions. To the chemist, to the industrial and to the hustandman, however, the word has a happier sound. In the hands of A year or two ago there were in Cornwall places which were the most desolate to look at that one could im- aSine. It was as it here and there gigantic monsters had wantonly de- vastated the country. All around these monstrous rubbish heaps was silence. The cottages were deserted. the buildings had fallen in. Nobody ever came near. There were the sites of atandoned tin mines. Of late, how- ever, there has been a change. On the mounds have appeared men, women and children, peering, groping, picking, piling up. To look at them, one would say. gleaners at work. These men and women are gleaning. Not, in- deed. for the yellow ears which give bread, but for the white stones which give poison. They are searching the burrows for white mundic, mechani- «afly called mineral mispickel, or ar- senit-al pyrites. In former days this mispickel went to the rubbish heal)- .\'ow it is avaluable product. The gleaners are searching for arsenic, the wickedest and most infamous of min- eral poison. Glen-nu Gallon- tlu- [Deadly Arflrle bv the Rawhideâ€"The Simple Proteus Ivy Which It In .Iacle Ready for lie â€" The Men In the .Illlmz loom- Wnr ” Inuit-s.” If Airina. can boast a diamond king and Amerisa a silver king, England has its arseni: king, for there lives in Cornwall the representative of a q-ompany of manufacturers who at' times has all the arsenic in the world, or most of it in his hands. writes a rorrespondent. Not many months ago this gentleman held £60,000 worth of the crystalline stuff. England has practically the world's monopoly of at. e“eniv, and England in this case means Devon and Cornwall. {83. Airman immediatéliyflg- BRIGHT YELLOW CLOUD ONE MAN PRACTICALLY CONTROLS TH E WORLD'S ARSEMC SUPPLY. UBRWALL’S POISON KING. The largest pin factory in the world is at Birmingham where 37,000,000 pins are manufactured every working day. All the other pin factories together turn out. about 191110.000 pins every day. Taking the population of EurOpe at 850,000,000. every 'fourth person must Mrs. Swellingtonâ€"Are you sure this is the fashion? Modisteâ€"Oui, madame! Ze ver’ lat- est. Mrs. Swellingtonâ€", still doubtfulâ€" Queer! It looks well and feels comfor- table. Husbandâ€"Not’r bit, 111’ dear. You know I have lately taken to walking in my sleep. and I thought I'd go to Led prepared. ‘ 11119, at" tamâ€"Now, deny your con- dition last evening! Here you are with your hat and shoes on. Don't tell me )ou didn' t come home the worse for drink! navy.- ”It“. UU\‘ Il.’ an..l*ixiglisb company, to a refinery at Brlstul, were found to wntain sand. One can only. wonder what use the l)-‘-‘--- â€"--‘ ‘ Portuguese {miners to make of them Nor does one hear of any ill use be- ing made of the dangerous products by those engaged in its manufacture. I made many inquiries and could only hear of one case, where a love-lorn inal- den dosed herself with an ounce of the soot. an overdose, which, as usual uith poisons, was its own antidote. I aim heard that three barrels out of the consignment of crude arsenic shipped from J'UX'tugal, where some arsenic mining has recently been started by Ix '0 I .1114! men who attend in the milling room wear "inuzzles," and are other- wise protected against the dust. The Inlanmaxture of arsenic is not attend- »ed with danger, where ordinary pre- rautions of cleanliness are observed by the, workers. The arsenic worker, more than other men, should keep cool. PeFSPiI‘ation would open his pores and facilitate the entrance of the irritat- lng arsenic dust- to his skin. He must not wash in hot water for the same reason. One hears little or nothing of any seriour injuries occurring to the workers. There was one fatality re- cently and that was only indirectly connected with the arsenic manufac- ture. A little girl, who was carrying dinner to her father at the East Pool works, fell into one of the flues, the arsenic having corroded an iron plate on which she had imprudently ventured, and she was drawn out covered with the poisonous dust. from the effects of which she died some THE CRUDE ARSENIC is taken out by the shovelful and heap- ed UP in a shed. At one mine 1 saw a heap of the hiuish~white soot. “There’s enough arsenic there..." “said my guide, "to poison a. whole city." The bluish tint which i noticed PI'U‘ ceeded from the carbon and other ex- traneous matter, but this heap con- tained at least 70 per cent. of pure {U‘Sflnim and was worth as it stood from £17 to £18 the ton. . ‘ The crude arsenic has to be refined. so as to eliminate the flue dust,.etc. lhe refining is pra:tically a repetition of the roasting. From the furnaces a hot flue of brickwork, generally about 100 feet long, leads to a series of zig-zag “kitchens” or chambers. In the hot line the carbon, flue dust and other extraneous matter. deposnt,; )Vhiist in the zig-zag chambers whatl '5 In actically pure arsenlous anhydride iiondenses from the fumes. 'l‘he arsen- lc IS then taken to the milling room, _Where with an ordinary flour rnill.it ‘8 ground into fine powder and dis- charged direct into the barrels, In Whirl], by ingenious automatic contri- vanz'e, it is tightly [)ZLCKBCL The men who attend in the milling] I‘OOlu Wear “muzzles.” and are. ntth-l \Vife, at ,a wall extending almost its WhOIG width, starting now from one Side. now from the other. Each chamber is from five feet to five and a half feet high, and from three to four feet wide. Entrance is obtained into the chamberâ€"for the purpose of clear- Ing out the crude arsenic or sootâ€"- through an opening in the wall, Wthh IS closed up with an iron plate care- fully plastered over around the edges. Arsenic has a great affinity fOI'OXY‘ gen. so that the slightest crack in the walls will serve for leakage. Here and there along a series of flues one sees little jets of escaping fumes, where the arsenicâ€"as they say in the dis- rtictâ€"is “smeeching.” In this way, of course a considerable quantity 18 lost. Thus. in prosper-ting for lost ar- senic in the flues of Okel Tor there were discovered in various cracks and crannies upward of ninety tons of the previous Soot, and afterwards a fur- ther 300 tons were dug Up from un- der the floors of the chambers. The chambers are opened at irregu‘ lar periods. The number of these chambers var- ies, as does aiso their length. Some- times they extend over 1,000 feet. The series of chambers form one long zig- zag passage breken at intervals‘ by abroad. Arsenic fumes are very dan- gerous to vegetation, as well as to life, and, accordingly, even when this soot harl little or no commercial val- ue, care was taken by the manufactur: ers to avoid the penalties of the alkali and other acts, to allow as little ar- senic as possible to escape with the smoke from their furnaces. The smoke from the calciners is accordingly al- lowed to escape only after it has de- posited every atomyâ€"as far as this is possibleâ€"of its arsenic, soot. To pro- duce this effect it passes through nu-a merous chambers before it reaches the,‘ (-himney through which it issues forth into the open air. Arsenic then, is the soot which is deposited by the fumes which rise from the roasting of arsenical ores. If these fumes were allowed to escape up along chimney direct from the fur- nace. that chimney would soon become (-hoked with white soot; but much would escape with the rest, and PRODUCTION OF PIN S. should strike it as they rose, and there. true enough after afew minutes was a deposit, which, when scraped. Came away in the form of grayish pow- der. “That’s arseni',” he said;“w0uld you like to tasteit?” PARADOXIC’AL. “'REAK DEVASTATION AN EXCUSE lets “ho stole it mean eir plunder. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, September 23, 1897 can beaccomplished by cut directl around the erinsfihe rk. I; wul fill mth gum. qmokly a straight, thin tree, merely sev. draw apart and healing; but the “a “-D-w CD 1‘1"]-V ten happens that a. young tree will net develop fruit budq, but such! can be made to do so by suddenly checking its, growth when its wood buds are about, half formed so asto cause them to de-I velop into fruit buds. A fine wire is twisted around the body of the tree; on? once and left two or three weeks in uly and Augustso as tocut off the. downward flow of gay}. me some effect A-_ L_-__, " Trees take in their food from the soil; minerals dissolved in water, which passes from cell to cell through the center of the tree until the leaves are reached, where it is digested, so to speak. and is combined with carbon from the atmosphere and the assimi- lated food passes downward imme- diately under the bark, building up the wood cells and developing the fru’t. Now if we check the downward flow 0‘? the sap by pressing the bark it throws the food I ark and the fruit appmpriatezq it, causing an abnormal growth and? speedy maturity. This can be readily done by twisting a small wire tightly around the limb just below the fruit: It is better to remove all but the .one specimen and great care must be exer- cised not to get the wire so tight asto rupture the bark and thus destroy the branch. It only requires a slight com- pression to accomplish the work. After the fruit has matured the wire must he removed. Grape growers who practice ‘ringing" understand this to perfection. They cut out aband of the Lark about, a quarter of an inch long just below the' cluster to be affected. It then appro- priates all the resources of the shoot and often more than doubles its size but the limb must becut .at the next pruning, as theglrdling kills it. It of- L-_ Lâ€" -â€" as to cause it not only to ripen its fruit ten days or more in advance. of the or- dinary season, but to greatly int-rease its size, so says a. writer in Amerian Gardening. It is not difficult to so manipulate a branch of a. peach, pear or app‘e tree as to cause it not only to ripen its fruit 5 Corn meal should not be fed at all raw. Bread made of corn meal is bet- ter. Bread made of a mixture of meal and wheat bran is best, and to this should he added a generous allowance of table scraps; meat, fruit and vegeta- ble trimmings, and what sweet milk or (flabher can be spared for them, need never be considered wasted. A flock of poultry on any farm can be made the source of a neat income; but, even should the farmer only raise enough for his own family, selling nev- er an egg nor a feather, still they will pay better than almost anything else requiring ho more outlay, either in time or money, than they. l aurougn rank grass and get wet with ew. We have never had but few June ("hicks droop and die, and those few deaths have invariably followed closely after a failure to keep them cooped until the dew dried off in the morning. Another thing which causes many deaths among the warm-weathered ('hicks is the practice of feeding almost fxvlusively on corn-meal dough or bat- er. Drouersz, or market stock. \Ve have settled on Buff Cochins as the kind that suits us best. They are extremely gentle, of large size, quick growth. taking only about two months to reach frying size. They are hea- vily feathered, and so stand the cold weather well, and lay better in win- ter than in summer, which suits us, as we do not care to sell eggs when they are down to 5 or 6 cents. When they reach this price, we think it pays to boil a few occasionally for the lit- tle chicks, if we have more from the common hens than we need for kitchen I EARLY RIPENING OF FRUIT It seems to me best that should keep but one variety if he intends raising only broilers, or market StOPk. ed behind the times. This is as it should be for nowhere else can a small £103 kof fowls [remade to yield so much clear profit as on the farm; says a writer. Not many more years ago than can be counted on the fingers of one hand not one farmer in ten knew the names of a half dozen breeds Of poultry. But toâ€"day the farmer who cannot tell his choice of the different breedS, and the reasons of his preference. is consider- N v JWM’V FOVVLS ON TtH'E F ARM. v “ 'su:rhcz{râ€"ll$é‘1-1‘J£L‘ig coL_|_q,_ 3:pr5“, cuoLEnA- at that the farmer variety of chickens for eggs, Illv ‘1 124mm: ibciiqucv-v; a er IWestoI-n Ontario, p p nonnus, nuhnnon, " nvszursnv, And all SUI-Ell CID-MINT. of Gillian 0|- Adults. RICE. 38c. Beware at mutton: Undertaking and Emhalming A SPECIA L1“; J. SHEW ELL The “ Ogrongclcjf In FURNITURE UNDERTAKING 'lWessrs. BIx'KPllur Gilruy, of Alvin- ston, on Friday shipped 400 head of cattle. averaging in weight from 1,400 to 1,500 pounds, via lfqntreal, and ('(m- signed in the English markets. One steer weighed 2,165 pounds and $105 was paid for him. James (Turk, who until three years ago. was a familiar figure around the \Voodstoz'k huleis. was {nund dvad in bed at the II'uuse of Refuge Friday morning. The Inf-In was 80 years of age, and die! of heart disease. â€"â€" , ‘vvv- vuv cans with cheese cloth. .Do n it put covers on the cans over night but use a thin cloth. .Alwaw have covers off the milk un- til the animal heat has disappeared. Never mix morning's milk with ni ht's mifk until both are thoroughly (30' d. ' If warm milk is added to cold, it pro- duces a taTnt at once. lb UR I“ M, - (HT. h Elm-e (ans in warm water, scald with 0 uater. and am as much as possible. Have ‘ans washed and Svalded thor- oughly anti well aired. .btu' Hp? milk at least two or three time; “’hilf) ('ooling. \Vhon‘fhotmilk i5 (paling, cover the nan“ --.: .The following is a compliation of dirertions given by some of the wes- tern cheese factories in connection with the care of milk. Pia-e cans in cold tater immediately after milking. Place cans in cold water at: once. Cool quickly. Practice cleanliness with a big C. Milk pails. straimc‘s, and (-001ch should lo washed and sralded at each milking. Plane the milk in < ter milking is done. FIRST-CLASS HEARSE IN CONNECTION [micro-organisms to impure future milk ‘15 checked. If any contagious disease has appeared in the stahie. then‘ it should be thoroughly disinfe'ted. Evil mii-roâ€"organisms are so plentiful in a filthy stable that it is impmsihle to even get one milking from a cow with- out having the milk well charged with these destruvtive invisible organisms of] evrl portent. Furniture with cracks or holes in the ceiling above the stalls, any remaining fod- der in the mow should be removed and all swept clean. After cleaning the stable srrrub all woodwork with hot water and then whitewash it. By whitewashing, the stable becomes light- er and more cheerful, the woodwork ls.preserved.. and the development of m »--â€"-â€"-~ Besides keeping the cow stable clean day by day when used. there shouldbe athorough annualeleaning, and there isno time when it can be better done than at this season of the year. 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