Bellefonte, Pa., July 20, 1900. TREKKING. L Trekking! trekking! trekking! will never the trek be done? Will never the rest, will never the home be won ? and forever won? Are we only as beasts of the junlge afoot for the fleeing prey— With a lair in the bush at midnight—on the veldt a trackless way? Ever the word is “onward’’—ever our white train goes Deeper and deeper northward beyond the grasp of our foes— Deeper and deeper northward our fathers went before— But the door of the veldt is closed—is closed !— where can we trek to more? 1I Trekking! trekking! trekking! think you we love not our home? Think you my father prized not the farm of the yellow loam? : And mother—I see her weeping beside my broth- er tall, Turning and gazing northward beyond the moun- tain wall. The cattle—they seem to be standing dumb in a brute despair With a longing look at the pasture—they feel the trek in the air ? Even old Yok seems broken—he turns from the tempting bone— : I see him there in the corner, manlike, brooding alone? IIL Trekking! trekking! Zululand we go, The midnight tiger stalking us, and ever the sav- age foe— Before—the savage foe to meet, the “redcoat” foe behind— What have we done to be blown about like a leaf upon the wind ? trekking! through the Ah, over the Vaa! we shall find our peace—over the rushing Vaal— The Lord has led us to rest at last—blindly we followed His call; The land He promised is ours to keep—is ours forever to keep— Piet, what noise is that in the kraal—think yon a wolf at the sheep? IV. Trekking! trekking! trekking! we have trekked till our tall strong men Have sworn an oath by our father’s God, we shall never trek again ! The doors of the northward veldt are closed—the doors of our heart are strong— They shall ope their lock to a brother’s knock— but not to the threat of wrong! There is the gun your father bore when he climb- ed Majuba’s hill— *Tis yours, Piet, to bear it now faith and will,— For the land is ours—the land is ours—if ever a land was won— with your father's You go at the dawn, you say, my son? Yes—go at. the dawn, my son! —dJohn Jerome Rooney, in New York Sun. TT — MISS THIRZA THOMPSON'S TROLLEY TRIP, Miss Thirza waved her hand imperious- ly. . In her abstraction she had been ecar- ried past the house, and this fact somewhat nettled her, » «= - =a rome Mrs. Littleby was looking out of her sit- ting-room window, and smiled. Miss Thirza was more nettled than ever as she retraced the few steps to her own front yard, unlatched the gate, walked up the gravel walk, and let herself in the front door. She would usually have gone in at the side door. But now it was different. She felt Mrs. Littleby’s eyes upon her, and the Littleby’s never used their front door— never! It has not been opened, she was sure, since Lina was married. Oh yes! once, she did remember, when the new minister came to town and Mrs. Littleby had invited him to supper. ‘Neither did the Littlebys ride in the electric cars. Only that morning Mrs. Littleby bad said so. She, Thirza, had been several times. They were very con- venient. She locked the door with a click. She should feel mortified to go in and out of the back door always. 3 An odor of biscuit, with just a suspicion of scorching, filled the little front entry. Thirza sniffled hungrily. Riding does make you real appreciative of food,’’ she murmured, as she removed her bonuet in front of the little’ oval glass in the hat- rack and hung her wrap on a peg, and pro- ceeded without delay to the kitchen. .*‘I should say those biscuits were niore than done, Luella. I’m afraid you haven’s: looked at them lately. = They do awful fast at the last, and you can’t tend to much else, ’specially when you have a wood het i ; ER She thew open the oven door with a bang and drew out the biscuit with a flourish. ‘‘There!’’ she exclaimed, triumphantly; *‘another minute would have burned them black. That last wood is real hot wood it seems to me.” k : ‘Luella nodded. ' ““There’s 1ots of differ- ence in wood,’’ she assented, as they seated themselves at the table. Thirza ate ahstractedly. started to speak, but Luella to a boy who had come after she was seated attempt. “I’m goin off,” she announced, abrupt- ly, “I'm going to take a trip, Luella.” Luella ate in silence. ‘‘Those Palmer folks have been after yon again to come down there ?’’ she ventured, nally. ‘It’s about time, if they ain’t discouraged ; and I should think they would be, seeing you never take any notice of it except to write and say you can’t go now, but hope to come sometime. For my part, I should think they’d give it up for good, and 1 Youlus blame them one mite if they id. ..Thirza shook her head; then, with an ill-concealed attempt at carelessness, “I’m going to New York.’’ : Luella gave a surprised start, and the biscuit in her hand dropped onto the table- cloth. It left a little grease spot, but for once she did not mind. ‘New York?” she cried, excitedly. “What on earth, Thirza Thompson. er sister smiled easily. “Oh, I just thought I'd like to go,’ HA said, Dmg ing by trolley-cars, you know.’ *“Trolley-cars?’’ . “Yes. You know I’m real fond of rid- ing. 1ain’t never bad enough of it; and I was speaking to a motorman to-day. You know it says yon musn’t ever talk to them—it: is one of their rules—but I al- ways do,and I never noticed hut what they seemed real glad to have me. I sn they get lonesome standing there all alone and never saying anything. It's lots dif- ferent from being conductor. They get some talkings to of all kinds. But as I Once ' she was attending C milk. When again Thirza made another was saying, I sat up front, and I asked this man what the farthest ride was I could take, and he kind of laughed and said New York. ‘I thought he was fooling me, but he wasn’t. He kept right on, saying how you could go ’way from Boston to New York by trolley, except one or two places where there wasn’t any tracks, and then you had to ride on steam-cars. But ’twas trolley most of the way, anyhow, and folks were doing it lots now. ’'Twas getting to be real stylish. There’d been two parties through this morning, and he heard them talking about it, and everybody seemed to be trying to do it faster or cheaper than the other folks had done. I shouldn’t try that. It’s dreadful foolish, when you’re trying to bave a good time. Thirza paused for a moment, and took a swallow of tea. ‘I suppose folks will think it’s dreadful foolish of wme,’’ she continued, ‘but I've made up my mind. I made it up just as soon as I heard him tell about it. My money’s my own, and I guess I can take it to go to New York with if I want to; and I’m going, and I'm going to have a real good time.” Luella looked at her admiringly. *‘I should think you’d be afraid,’’ she said. *‘New York’s a wicked place, and you might get lost or have folks try to rob you, or something. I don’t think you’d better stay there any. I suppose you could turn right around and come back.’ Thirza straightened visibly. “I guess I’m old enough to look out for myself,”’ she retorted. “I look respectable, don’t I Luella? No one would ever mistrust but what I was a perfectly respectable person, wonld they ?”’ Luella closely scrutinized the prim yet kindly face opposite her, and shook her head vehemently. ‘Of course you’re r1e- spectable,’”’ she declared. ‘‘You’re real ladylike-looking, if I do say it.’ “Well, then, I guess I can get along all right,’’ Thirza insisted, as she pushed back her chair and began to clear the table. “‘A woman of my age and respectability can go anywhere. I’ve heard folks say that lots of times, and I'm going to New York by trolley. You see I § * Miss Thirza drew a deep breath of keen delight. For two hours she bad been been only one change, and now she was ensconced in her favorite front seat,her bag under the seat, and the wind blowing her hair in little gray tendrils about her face. She had never ridden in such a long car before. Tt gave her a feeling of elegance, and there wasn’t that monotonous clang- ing and ringing of the bell beneath the motorman’s feet, but a whistle instead, clear and sharp like the steam cars, wak- ing echoes all along the way. Miss Thirza felt a pride in it as if the acquisition were her own. Surely, trolleying to New York was a great success. ‘“That was areal nice ride,’’ she remark- route was reached and he sprang from the platform, crank and gravel-pail in hand. *‘It was dreadful pretty country. you think so? I’d just like to take that ride all over again.” She looked anxiously from the man to the car ahead, fast filling with passengers, and her hand clutched her bag and um- brella. : : **The folks who have been over it say there ain’t a prettier stretch ’tween here and New York,”” the motorman replied, proudly. *‘There’ some real interesting places long back here away. I could tell you. about ’em if you go back ’long with us. Miss Thirza hesitated no longer, but agile- ly sprang from the high step and walked briskly to the other end of the car, and shoved her bag into its accustomed place. ‘I'm’ not in any particular hurry,’’ she ex- plained, ‘‘and the other car was pretty well crowded, and I hate a crowd. I can take that ride over again just’s well’s not, I suppose.”’ -" : CR . It was dark, quite dark, when Miss Thirza reached Worcester. She walked past the hotel three times. The first time she passed rapidly, as if intent on reaching a destination a few blocks farther on. Then she turned and walked leisurely back and peered in all the way. There were no loungers in the office, which was plainly exposed to view through the wide open-doors. That recommended it to her. Moreover, a big striped cat sat dozing just inside the door. This Miss Thirza observed as she came by the third time, and it settled her mind. She walked indi pain is : fi A boy sauntered forward and lazily took the bag from her hand. Miss Thirza was | somewhat surprised, for how did he know that she: was going to stay ? She might be calling in just to ask a question. ' But she submitted, nevertheless. i 4 want a room for: the night,’’ she an- nounced to the elerk as he shoved a book ‘towards her and thrust a pen into her hand. ' ““I’m trolleying to New York, and ‘you've got a good room for me. I want lots ‘of air and ‘a comfortable bed. The rest doesn’t matter much.?”? ‘and then wrote a number opposite her showed her to her room. ; 314 It was hot and it was stuffy, with only one window opening into a court. She stood for a moment irresolute on the thresh- hold, hut the'boy assured her it' was a very | excellent room, and there'd be plenty of air after the window had been up awhile. Miss Thirza looked doubtful, but allowed him to light the gas and depart, after un- folding the mystery of the coiled rope by. the window, an explanation on which she insisted. = Bas mal og It made her a trifle nervous for a moment, but then, it was foolish of course. : It wasn’t any more likely there'd be a fire that night than any other, and there never had been a fire there, the boy told her. They just had to have 1t there because it was the law. 5% The room was stuffy, indeed, but then, breathing fresh air all day made any room seam close, and it was only for one night. She took off her bonnet and unpacked her bag; then she sat down by the window with its stiff green shade and old-fashioned red cord and tassel, and gazed about the room. It certainly was a very ugly room. The wall-paper made her feel queer. Per- haps she’d better not look at it too steadi- lv. She wondered if there was arsenic in it. She had heard of people who had been slowly poisoned to death by arsenic in the wall-paper. She put her hand on the bell. : Then she changed her mind. If she did get some arsenic in her system she guessed it would get blown out next day, and she should have her window open, too. The bed looked good and clean. It was made well, anyway. She crossed the PPOSE | room, folded back the bed clothes, and ran her hand over the smooth, hard mattress. “It looks real clean,’’ she congratulated herself. “I guess I shall rest well enongh.”’ speeding over a new country. There had. ed to the motorman, as the end of the Don’t |: I’ve got to stay here overnight. I ‘hope Theolerk peered at hef-over his glasses; | ‘name. The boy stood in waiting and Nevertheless, it was some time before she persuaded herself to turn out the gas and go to hed. It had heen an exciting day and there was a great deal to think about, and, moreover, there were plans for to-morrow to be made. ~ She spread out an array of maps and time-tables and retraced her journey. “I didn’t expect to he here to-night,’’ she confessed, half aloud. ‘‘All the other folks started from Boston and got ‘way through to New Haven in one day.”’ Her finger carefully followed the route. ‘‘And I’ve only just got to Worcester,”” she said, thoughtfully. ‘‘But then, it doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t want to go rushing over the country, anyway. These folks must have missed asight. They couldn’t have seen the house where the man who married seven sisters, and then one of his wife's nieces, lived. remarkable thing to have seen. will be interested in that. likes romantic things.”’ She closed her eves in reverie, ‘‘Seven sisters. ‘What relation were their children to each othe1? What was the wall-paper ’? The cars tooted. She gave a start and jumped. *‘Oh, I'm here!’ she mur- mured, looking around, startled, and has- tily undressing and slipping into bed. ‘I’m taking a trolley ride, and I've got as far as Worcester and—-I'm—-going—-to—-New York.” : Luella She always * * * The car was stopping longer than it us- ually did for a passenger, and it caused Miss Thirza to transfer her attention from the landscape to the group by the car. A little woman dressed in rusty black was being put onto the car, and a succession of bundles passed to her. “I wish I was go- ing,”’ she heard the oid man say, tears starting in his blue eges. ‘‘You tell em I’m real hearty for one my age, won’é yon Hettie?”’ The woman nodded. ‘‘Look out!’ she said, as the bell rang sharply and the car started. “Why can’t he go, I'd like to know?” .Miss Thirza’s voice sounded sharply over the woman’s shoulder as she settled back in her seat and rearranged her bundles. She eyed Miss Thirza for a moment. “Too poor!’’ she replied abruptly. We ain’t rich. He’s going to the poorhouse soon.” Miss Thirza arose and waved frantically at the conductor. ‘‘Stop this car, quick!” she commanded, ‘‘and go back after that old man. He's got to go.”’ Meanwhile as she talked the car stopped. ‘‘Can’t go back.’ the conductor answered, grufly, as he started to pull the bell. “It can’t hurt you any,’ Miss Thirza insisted. ‘‘You can make it up just’s well as not. 'Twon’t take a minute. He's standing there now. I wish you would.” The conductor glanced over his shoulder at the old man standing there with the sunlight on his white head. ‘‘Let her go,’’ he cried to the motorman, and the car slowly backed the few rods. “Now, then!” He fairly lifted the old man onto the which started off with a jerk. ‘You tell him he can ride just.as faras hie wants to, it don’t matter how far, and to have a good time,”’ Miss Thirza enjoined the woman. *‘‘I don’t suppose he’s ever ridden very many times before?’’ ‘‘He ain’t ever heen on the cars at all before,” the woman confessed. ‘‘He wanted to real bad and was terribly in terested when they laid the tracks, but he ain’t never ridden. because we couldn’t af- ford it. Five cents don’t come very plentiful you know’’’ : Miss Thirza looked thoughtful. ‘‘Isn’t there somewhere special he’d like to go to?’ she queried. ‘‘Seeing he’s out, he might as well go some place except just a ride. I'm sure I'd be willing to take him most anywhere, I'm going to New York, but I'm not in any great hurry. I can ride around and see the country just as well as not.’ : a ‘Her eyes rested oir the old man sitting ‘back with a look of perfect happiness on his face. She touched his shoulder gently. ‘You can go anywhere you want to’ she said. ‘‘I want you 10 go.’ car, % Luella was getting nervous. Thirza had been gone four days and there had been only one postal from her, mailed at Worcester. ‘‘I think it’s dread- ful strange she doesn’t write any more,’ she confeseed to a neighbor as she turned disappointedly away from the empty t= office box. ‘‘I expected to hear real often, and I've been over there three times a day, and there hasn’t been anything but just that one postal.” She looked very much aggrieved. ig ; “When folks get way off to New : York they’re quite apt to forget us folks at home,” the neighbor insinuated. *‘I Thompson. - I guess Thirza’s old enough to take care of herself; and if she enjoys going ‘round the country at this rate, and staying in hig cities like New York, and like’s not going to Coney Island and riding on a roller-coaster, why, we needn’t he surprised if she forgets all about things at home aud keeps her only sister in suspense ‘and worrying for fear she’s got smashed or something—""1 ~~ Wii at ‘You don’t suppose she has? Thirza’s real careful always. You don’t really think she has got hurt, Mis’ Lamson.” “Being careful doesn’t help one when | things are going to happen,’’ Mrs. Lamson reassured her. ‘‘You ain’t read the papers, 1 suppose? You might find something in them,” ‘i : ‘Luella hurried off to a newspaper stand. The papers! Why, she had never thought of the papers, for she had been busy turn- [ing a dress to surprise Thirza when she got home! : She was busily scanning the columns for news of any disaster, when a car stop- ped in front of the house and Thirza alight: ed, followed by several persons, all stran- gers to Luella. “I wish you’d make some tea right off,’” was her sister’s greeting as she ushered the strangers into the parlor. ‘‘Apd, Luel- la, the best teacups, and the fruit cake,and the spoons.” This in an undertone as Lu- ella vanished. ‘You see, I met these folks out at War- ren,”’ Thirza explained, cheerily, as she passed the cups. ‘‘That’s where yon have to take the steam-cars. They were coming from New York, Luella, just opposite from the way I was going, and asked me lots of questions how to get where, and all that, and didn’t seem to know much about it. So I said I'd just as lieve come back and show them the way, and we stopped here to get refreshed. We've had a real mice trip, haven’t we?’’ Shesmiled at the new made friends. ‘And you haven’t been to New York at all?” Luella demanded, when the callers had departed amid final instructions from Miss Thirza as to routes and transfers. Or Grant’s Tomb, or Central Park, or any- thing?”’ ) ‘“Thirza rocked easily, ‘‘There was the old man,’”’ she said. I took. him up to Fitchburg and back again, and— Well, I did a good deal of riding, you see.” S8be drew out her purse. I consider that a very. - Pa. shouldn’t fret myself one mite, Luella | tested for Thompson’s Sons, . Rio Vista, Harrison. A very promising new variety ly affected by leaf blight. - The flowers are from the flowering of the plants. ‘‘See!’”” she said, as she held it upside down. Out rolled a tintype, some stamps, and a sample of snuff-colored silk. *‘I didn’t have any left,”’ she explained.— Harriet Caryl Cox in Harper's Bazar. Small Fraits in 1899. Froma Bulletin Issued by the State College Agri- cultural Experiment Station, by Geo. C. Butz and J. P. Pillsbury Horticulturists. The grower of small fruits is constantly confronted with the question, ‘‘What va- rieties shall I plant?’ and each year has urged upon him some novelty that in the language of the dealer ‘‘is far superior to anything yet introduced.”’ Often he pays the high prices asked for novelties, and soon learns that the purchase is an absolute loss to him because the new variety proved worthless. It is, of course, a good practice for every grower of small fruits to do some experimenting with varicties, in order to be alert in the search for that one which will yield him better returns than any he has previously grown. He should he con- vinced that a variety has been thoroughly tested and faithfully reported upon before he makes the initial purchase of plants. Experiment Stations were formerlly call- ed upon to make such tests, and several Stations engaged in the work very exten- sively, but in recent years less of it is be- ing done because of the limited usefulness of the results and the unlimited extent of the work involved. This bulletin is based upon the report on small fruits published in the Report of the Experiment Station for year ending June 30th. 1899, in which are given in tabular form the observations made upon fifty-five varieties of strawberries, also descriptive remarks upon these and thirty-one varieties of rasplierries, twenty-four of blackberries, twelve of currants and twelve of goose- berries. The value of studying the results of a careful test of numerous varieties of straw- berries should not be underestimated by the commercial grower, for whether the season be favorable or unfavorable, there is no safer index of what a variety can do. We know, too, that the cultivation accord- ed all varieties is the same, the advantages of plant-food are the same forall, and the observations recorded are made by one dis- interested officer. The crop of fruit this vear was but one- half of the usual yield, on account of an excessive drought during the fruiting sea- son, and yet in glancing over the table rec- ords it will be observed that the best pro- ducing varieties are, in most instances, the same as in more favorable seasons. Thus the heavy bearers are Wariield, Brandy- wine VanDeman, Shuster’s Gem, See No. 2, Ohio Centennial, Henderson, Haverland, Cresceut and Crawford, and these may be regarded as the most successful varieties in dry seasons. We do not find in this list the favorites of other seasons,as the Bubach, Gandy, Mary. Nan and others. With but few exceptions, the varieties were grown in *‘hill”’ and ‘‘matted row”! systems, and observed with reference to the adaptability of each variety to the two sys- tems, Forty-eight varieties . excelled .in their yields by the matted row method,and in some instances the difference was very great; frequently the yields are as 1to 3 in favor of the matted row. The great ad- vantage of growing strawberries in hills, carefully removing all runners as they form, is in the production of larger berries, with better color and quality, which will secure a finer trade. SOME OF THE STANDARD VARIETIES. Brandywine. This variety has been grown at the Experiment Station since 1893. It is perfect-flowered, is a vigorous grower, mats freely, and bears large crops of fine fruit. Crawford. . Perfect. A good yielder. The berry 1s long, and makes. a nice ap- pearance in the box. Gandy. The best late variety grown here, on account of its fine, large, firm fruit, Xn re yo Shuster’s Gem. A pistillate variety that is a favorite in home gardens when planted with Brandywine or some other equally good, perfect-flowered variety to furnish pollen. The berries are large and of fine flavor, but too soft for shipment. Van Deman. This is a good early to mediam variety. It usually yields a good crop. Warfield. This is a very general favorite for extensive planting in heavy soils. It was the best yielder on our test ground this year. Adams’ Favorite. * A 'pistillate * variety sent to us by Solomon Adams, Tamaqua, It isa free grower, and is but little attacked by leaf blight. ‘The berries are large and firm, and the yield, though small this season. bas been good in former years. | Carrie. This is a perfect-flowered variety Va. The plants are vigorous, matting free- ly. The berries are large; bright red in color, elongated, with a smooth neck under the calyx. Flesh firm, and the yield is. Ella. A variety with "perfect flowers, received from O. D. Schock, Hamburg, Pa. The berries are bright red, firm and of good form, ripening early. It is superior to Meek’s Eatly : ee : : tested for George W. Adams, Tamaqua, Pa. The berries are large to very large, and the yield has been above the average. This variety mats with great freedom, and blighted severely this year. It responds to the hill treatment both in yield and size | P° of berry. : : bas: Henderson No. 12. Received in 1898 from P. Henderson & Co.. New York. The plants are most vigorous in growth, scarce- perfect and the herries large. The yield was ‘good, and under better conditions would have been much greater, judging Hunn. Received from Birdseye & Son, Hopewell, N. Y. Flowers perfect. Berries large to very large. round, bright red,seeds few and the flesh solid, with good flavor. This is the first season we have ripened fruit, having planted in the spring of 1898, and cannot, therefore, safely estimate the probable yield. It is apparently a late variety, and as such will be welcomed by northern growers. RASPBERRIES. In our test grounds six plants of each variety of raspberries are planted at dis- tances of 4x6 feet. The plants are trained to single stakes, summer pruned by pinch- ing the growing canes at heights ranging from 2} to 3} feet, according to the vigor of the variety. The fruiting canes are cut out and buined soon after the fruit has been harvested, to give light and air to the new growth. Cultivation is kept up dur- ing the summer between the rows. The severe winter through which these plants haye recently passed was a great test of the hardiness of varieties. The varieties which suffered most are Herstine, Ran- cocas, Marlboro, Logan Berry and Wine- berry. Among those which suffered but little are the Turner, Lovett, All Summer, ‘conglomeration of stuff Sppied : e's No. 101. All Sammer is a step along the way to a variety with a long season of fruiting, although beginning to ripen rath- er late. The fruit is large to very large, purplish red made up of large drupelets. After the principal crop is off the new canes and laterals continue to blossom and ripen fruit until cat off by frost, but not in large quantity nor in perfect condition. The Logan Berry was frozen to the ground during the past winter, hut made a vigorous growth again. This remarkable new berry is half-hardy here, and with slight protection will carry its wood safely through the winters and yield fruit. This is the variety wbich originated in Cali- fornia, said to be a hybrid between the raspberry and the blackberry,characterized as bearing fruit which is shaped like a blackberry and tastes like a raspberry. The plant has leaves somewhat like a strawberry and the habit of a dewberry. Conrath, Mills and Onondaga are three varieties of blackcaps recently received from Messrs. Birdseye & Son, Hopewell, N.Y. All of them passed the severe win- ter without any injury whatever, and have shown strong fruiting tendencies and good berries. BLACKBERRIES. A good variety of blackberry that will survive such a winter as that of 1898—99 and yield a crop of fruit is a very satisfac- tory one to plant. Such are the following : Dorchester, Lawton, Jewett, Rathbun, Eldorado, Snyder and Kittatinny. The last four of these are very excellent va- rieties in every respect. The varieties often recommended, but too tender with- out protection here, are Wilson’s. Early, Early King, Early Harvest, Erie, and Ear- ly Cluster. The Allen isin earliness the successful rival of Early Harvest, and is more hardy and bears heavy crops of fruit. From a Sheep’s Back to His Own. Wool From a Living Animal Transformed into a Suit of Clothes in Six Hours. Thomas Kitson, a widely known woolen manufactorer, whose reputation extended to the old world, was buried at Strouds- burg, on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Kitson gained fame for a feat which gave to the world a record of speed and workmanship in the textile industry. In the amazing time of six hours and four minutes, the fleece of sheep was transformed into a fin- ished suit of up-to-date clothing worn by Mr. Kitson. The previous world’s record of this kind was held by a mill at Gala- shiels, Scotland, and was eight hours. At the Scotland trial, however, only one kind of wool was used, whereas in the Kitson trial there was a mixture of 20 per cent. white and 40 per cent. black, making al- together a better cloth and giving a dis- tinct plaid pattern. At half-past 6 on the morning of May 18th, 1898, six sheep were shorn by half a dozen experienced sheep shearers, who soon had the raw material off the animals and in the hands of the wool sorter. Af- ter this process,it was scoured, dyed, dried, placed upon the picker, carded and pre- pared for'spinning. It was then spooled, dressed and handed in; reeled and finally woven. Under the watchful eye of the hoss weaver, the cloth came out quickly from the loom and was then passed to the fin- ishing room, where it went respectively through the process of fulling, washing, extracting, dying, shearing, pressing and general finishing, All in all, the cloth was subjected to eighteen processes of manufacture, before reaching the tailor’s hands. fr aa Hither At about 10 o'clock the cloth was given to the tailors, who, in a short time, two and a half hours, had finished the suit, with every button in its place and fit, style and workmanship of the highest order, at the residence of Mr. Kitson. A few min- utes later he received the hearty congratu- lations of his many friends. He Tells the Truth. A Pennsylvania editor who loves the truth says : ule “Willie Shortlike and Bettie Bloomers were married last evening. The church was prettily decorated with flowers and potted plants, borrowed promiscuously all over town from people who didn’t want to lend them. . der protest by some of the members of the church, who were asked to do so by the bride, and couldn’t well refuse, The ladies are of the opinion that if the couple were should have been willing to have paid someone to chase all over town for a day getting flowers together and thén taking them home again. ~~ “The bride wore a handsome Silverstein gown, made at home, and the groom was ‘decked in a $10 hand-me-down suit. The: ushers wore cutaway coats borrowed for the occasion. Sallie Potts was maid of honor, ‘and the concensus of opinion was that she was 2 to 1 better looking than the bride. The young ‘couple took the morning train to Pittsburg, where they will spend more money in a few days than Willie can earn in three months. gh ee . “*Willie says now that he’s married he’s going to settle down. Some of ‘our mer-: chants thinks it, would have heen better if he had settled down first. The groom gets a salary of $27a month, which isabout the allowance Bettie has been used to for pin money. We wish for Willie's sake that the old saying that it takes.no moreito sup- rt two than one wasn’ta lie. ~~ = ““The bride sent up a shoe box full of a to be cake. If this is a sample of Bet! cake we feel sorry for Willie. Our janitor’s dog fell cold, cold ground. But this wedding is none of our funeral. If Willie and Bettie are satisfied we’ve got no kick coming.” A Timely Suggestion, At a camp meeting there were elderly women sitting at the front in oak-splint rocking chairs. We found out latter that they comprised the choir. for when the par- son gave out the hymn, “Oh, For a Thou- sand Tongues to Praise, ’’one of these elder- ly females tried to ‘‘raise’’ the tune. “Oh—for—a’’ She had struek the high C, and her voice cracked:she cleared her throat and began again, ‘‘Oh—for—a— thou’’ and she was an octave low, while her voice sounded as if it was lost in her boo's. Just then a defunct stock broker in the crowd ot listeners jumped to his feet and cried out, “Start her at five hundred, old lady and see if you can’t shove her off.” err rrr er. Cigarette Smoke Killed Him, From the investigation of Coroner Mc- Glathery, the death of Charles Fricha, at Willow Grove park, near Philadelphia, was caused by the rupture of a blood ves- sel during a fit of coughing. The cough- ing was caused by the inhalation of cigar- ette smoke, not from his mouth “but from that of another member of the audience Mammoth Cluster, Gregg and Brackett’s seated listening to Damrosch’s concert. The decoration was done un-. 80 bent on having a stylish wedding they heir to the cake and now he is lying in the The Opium War, A Bloody Struggle Between China and England Sixty Years Ago. We should not permit ouiselves to be blinded by the atrocities committed by the Boxers—atrocities not differing in kind and not comparing in extent with those com- mitted by the sans-culottes of Paris, and indeed throughout France, during the Reign of Terror little more than a century ago—to the fact that in all her dealings with European power China has heen treat- ed with scant justice, if not with positive injustice. As an accomplished writer and historian of our own day (Justin McCarthy) has said : “The one thing that China has asked of European civilization and the thing call- ed Modern Progress was to be let alone. China's prayer to Europe was that of Diog- enes to Alexander—'Pray stand out of my sunshine.’ ”’ ~The Chinese did not seek intercourse with foreign nations. They would much rather have lived without seeing the face of any foreigner. As it takes two parties to quarrel, China lived in peace with all the world until sixty years ago her first foreign war was forced upon her by the in- satiate greed and rapacity of England. It was soon after the accession of Queen Vie- toria that the war designated by all histor- ians and destined to be remembered in all time as the ‘Opium War’’ broke out. By many wise and patriotic Englishmen it has been described as the darkest blot upon the pages of Euglish history. But that was before Chamberlain and Rhodes and the London Stock Exchange got up the war for the destruction of the independence of the Boers and the capture of the gold fields in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. The causes which led to the ‘Opium War’? are not known to all the world. They are of record in ‘‘British State Pa- pers’’ and in the pages of historians whose accuracy aud fairness are beyond all ques- tion. The importation of opium into China had heen prohibited by the Pekin govern- ment since 1796. The drug, originally in- troduced by Portuguese traders; \vas smug- gled overland from British India, where it was produced in large quantities from the poppy, extensively grown for that purpose. The trade, grown to be a branch of com- merce by gea and at one time a monopoly of the English East India company, after- ward fell almost entirely into the hands of British merchants. When the attention of the House of Commons was called to the growing evils. of the trade and the efforts made by China for its suppression, a select committee of the House declared that it was inadvisable to abandon an important source of revenue to the East India com- pany. In 1837 the Chinese government adopted a fresh and more stringent policy. It decided on rigorously stopping the trade and the celebrated Chinese official, Lin, was sent to Canton, with orders to require the surrender and destruction of all opium, whether in the hands of what were called ‘‘Hong’’ merchants or Chinese merchants. As'a further measure of prevention Lin es. tablished a blockade of Canton by Chinese forces and batteries, Dispute arose with Charles Elliot, : representing the British merchants. Collision occurred between the natives and British seamen, and al- though the Chinese government showed considerable desire to avert hostilities, no satisfactory arrangement could be reached for the suppression of the opium trade. Finaily, in 1840, the British hegan active hostilities; Canton was. captured, but ad- mitted to ransom by Elliot, whose glemenoy led to his recall and the appointment of Sir Henry Poltinger to conduct the war in his stead. The great Yangtze river was as- cended, the city of Chin-Kiang-Fu, the port of Nankin, was taken by storm after desperate resistance and appalling destruc- tion of life, thousands of the Manchu and Tartar soldiers committing suicide after killing their wives and children, rather than surrender. Everything was in readi- ness for ‘a similar assault apon Naunkin, when the Chinese made overtures for peace which was concluded upon the payment by China .of an indemnity for all the opium confiscated and destroyed, all the losses of British merchants and expenses of the Brit. ‘ish crown the opening of the five ports, thereafter known as the ‘‘treaty ports,’’ to British trade and the cession to Great Brit- ain‘of the sland of Hong Kong. ‘Reduced to plain words,’’ says the Eng lish, historian, ‘‘the principle for which we fought in the China war was the right of Great Britain to forcea peculiar trade upon a foreign people in spite of the protestations of thegovernment and all such public opin- ‘ion as there was of the nation. * * * We asserted, or at least acted on the assertion, of a claim so unreasonable and even mon- strous that it never could bave been made upon any - nation strong enough to render its assertion a matter of serious responsibil- ity ? “After explaining the machinery by ‘whieh thé opiuny trade was carried on and referring to Lord Palmerston’s defense in Parliament of England’s participation in the infamous traffic, the same writer pro- ceedBly: THE Suu Od SIEM of | ‘Let'us find an illustration intelligible ta :readers of the present day to show how un- justifiable was this practice. The state of Maine, as everyone knows, prohibits the common sale of spirituous liquors. Let us. ‘suppose that several EE cr of English, merchants were formed in Portland and Augusta and other towns of Maine for the purpose of brewing beer and distilling whisky and selling both to the people of Maine in defiance of state laws. Let us. further suppose that when the authorities, of Maine proceeded to put the state laws in, force against these intruders our govern-. ment here took up the cause of the whisky sellers and sent an iron clad fleet to Port. land to compel the people of Maine to put. up with them. In the case of such a nation as the United States nothing of the kind would be possible. But in dealing with China the ministry never seems to have. ‘thought the right or wrong of the question, a matter worthy of any consideration. This, be it remembered, was the entering: wedge. The door of China was violently forced open by England in ouder that the. profitable but infamous opinm traffic might. find free entrance.— Baltimore Sun. Home Made Ginger Beer. Pat the rind and juice of two lemons in a large earthenware pan with one ounce of sugar. This rind must be well bruised, so. as to extract all the flavor. Add one ounce of cream of tartar and three pounds of loaf snvar, Pour on to then three gallons of boiling water, and wheu this is nearly cold put in’ two large tablespoonfuls of brewer’s yeast, or two ounces of compressed yeast. The. latter must be put in a little bowl with, two teaspoonfuls of pulverized sugar, and worked with a wooden spoon till liquid, then added. fo i I Stir all well, cover it and’ let it stand in bottle at: ‘a warm place till the next day. Then skim off the yeast and once, taking care to leave the sediment be- hind. Cork tightly, and in four days it will be ready for use.
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