WHICH OSBf
One of u. dear
Bui one
Will tit by a bed with marvelous face.
And rlnp a hand.
Growing fold a It feels for th spirit land-
lm llnB, which on ?
On of an. dear
But ore
Will stand by the other's coffin bier,
And look and weep,
While thaw marble lipnatrantte silence keep,
liurliuK, which one?
One of tn. diar
But one
By an open grave will drop a tear.
And homeward go,
The angulnh of an unchared grief to know
Darling, which one?
One of in. darling, It mnrt he ;
It luay be ynu will slip from me j
Or perhaps my life may just be don-
Which one ?
Old 9ong.
A STOBY OF SEW YOBK.
tUTCBDAT XIGHT I.N HESTEK STREET.
I stood under a lamp post on Heater
treet. watching the overtired children as
they fell' asleep while sitting on the stops,
the men as they smoked und rested, the
women as they dragged themselves wear
ily along and purchased a bit here and a
bit there to stock the family cupboard for
hunday. On Canal on Grand, along the
Bowery-in Chatham Square, men and
women are laughing in good nature as
thy elbow each other and throng the
Ptoreg to purchase ornaments and luxu
ries. Here men and women are sullen
and si,t. many vt them wondering
Where the bttrest rwvra.aitia.1 in tn xnn.n
from.
" If you won't help mw we shaU have to
0 hungry to-morrow!"
P ,It was a little old woi nan who had ap
proached so softly that I did not hear her
a lit.'Ie old woman ith hair almost
white, with face wrink) ed and pinched,
with such 0,1 anxious I xk on her coun
tenance as ono might "A-ear in asking a
judge to spare the life if her child. She
was bareheaded, her drt s old and faded
and mended oue of t he thousands of
God's worms who creep and crawl and
live and die and are forg otten in a day in
great New York.
j 'uere do you live?" I asked.
She pointed to a fot ir story tenement
almost opposite.
"Top floor?"
She nodded her hca d.
"Any family?"
"A sick husbanj and four children,
' very well ; ltfi on and I will follow. "
You'll-r-you'll come up with me?" sho
queried, in surprise,
"I will lead on."
She kept looking back, and there wa.i
a puzzled expression on her face. In the
dark lower hall we stepped over two
sleeping men and a child. At the head
of the stairs a man sat, brooding and
sulking, and grudgingly gave us room to
pass. There was a dim light in the sec
ond hall, where a half drunken womrfn
was seeking her room. The two above
were dark, and the little old woman went
ahead and kept saying :
"This way that's a child keep to
the rail don't fear the dog we're almost
up,
And as we reached the tipper hall w
turned to the right, passed down a blind
ball running the other way, and pres
ently she pushed open a door and wo en
tered a room lighted by a smoking lamp.
"John, children, it's a stranger come
to see us, said the woman as 1 Etood and
looked about
Here were two small rooms, three
chairs, a cupboard, an old table, a
wretched bedstead, and more wretched
bedding, on which lay a man. Across
the room was a mattress on which tho
children were lying as I entered. In the
other room I saw a stove, a washtub,aud
a bucket of coal.
"Sit down, sir," said the woman as she
placed a chair.
The husband looked to be 50 years old.
He had the bright eyes and hollow cheeks
of a consumptive and his hands were
white and thin,
"Are you a doctor?" he asked as I sat
down.
"No."
"The rent is overdue, but we haven't
even bread to eat, " he said.
"I am not your landlord nor his agent.
I simply came up to see you to see if
you were sick to see what you needed. "
He looked at his wife in a wondering
way, and tho four children drew softly
away into the other room as if fearful
that something was about to happen. The
wife eyed me in a strange way, too, but
replied to him with :
"John, you know how it is with us. 1
asked him on the street for money to buy
bread, and he s come up to to "
"To see if you were really in need of
help," I said as she paused. "Have any
of you had supper t
"Just a crust for him, sir, but nothin;
for the rest, and but for you the children
would be crying with hunger. "
"Very well. I'll mind the house while
you go out. Get bread, butter, tea, milk,
sugar, potatoes, and meat.
"You you don't moan it 1" she gasped.
The mr.n in bed rose up on bis elbow
to get A better look at me, and I saw
something like alarm in his face. To
quiet him I said :
"The case is clear enough. You used
to gut along all right, but sickness camo
you could no longer work ; you have
reached your last penny. Why shouldn't
I help you a bit?" -
"It's sadly enough wo need it, God
knows, but but "
" But you can't make out why I camo
up heref"
"No, sir."
"Well, don't worry about it. Queer
things are always happening to all of us,
How long have you been ill ?"
"Over a year, sir."
"And how have you lived?"
"By using the few dollars I had put
by and by gelling whatever we could
Dare, until we are as you see us. I
once earned my S a day, sir, and no
poor man's family was better cared for. "
"And to-day you were penniless and
hungry?
"Aye, sir, and as I laid here I'd havo
cut my throat if I had a knife. When 1
thought or the thousands buying what
uiy pleased, or the riches in great New
York aud us wanting for dry bread, !
nan some bad thoughts in my mind, sir,
I felt that I could rub and murder if 1
could only leave my bed. I wondered if
there was uod and a hereafter. I
wanted poison for all of us, that wo
might die together, and as thr wife Went
out to leg for us and I Iny here I was
planning on how to kill myself boforo
she came back. "
Uy and by, as we talked, thfi mother
and children returned. I heard the lut
tot shouting, even, on the lower siair.
Each had a load, and the wife returned
after a lamp, a bottle of wine, and iniim
other things. Poor soul! She wnslainrh-
ing and crying by turns, and to have
seen those forlorn children sit down on
the floor and eat the drr bread as turn.
ishing wolves devour their prey was
something to pain your heart.
It s real meat. John. " said the woman.
as she came to his bedside "real meat,
and real potatoes, and real stigar and tea,
and there is a Uod, after all!"
"Yes, there is a God, Mary," he whi
pored, as he wept. "
And while I sat there the wife cooked
supper nnd the hunger of all was satis
lied, and the two smaller children after
ward fcnelt At tlie bedside and repeated
me uora s nnyer and were asleep thrw
minutes later.
I never meet vice and wickedness in
the slums without feelinir to ritv instoaJ
of to condemn. They who dwell up
there in those dark and cheerless' rooms,
who feel the pangs of hunger, who iiml
despair crowding every other feeling out
of the heart w1h sometimes rain? the
sash and leap out and gladly go to death
on the flagstones, they can be forgiven
for much. Tho wheel of Time hm ever
kept turning the wrong way for them.
It was only a drop, only a little ray of
hope shining tiirougfc the daritnnw and
gloom of thi'ir poverty and despair, bat
to have caught that one ray fiBerf them
with new titrength to battle in the future,
nnd I had touched elbows witlt still an
other phase of humanity. M. Qaad.
Drying; Bananas fa SMpnnrt
Drying bananas for shipment lia been
tested in Trinidad, West Indies with
marked success. A report recerred by
the bureau of American repuHrtcs at
Washington sets forth that the eiwt of
producing a buuch of bananas weighing
pounds, including tie purchase ol
land, clearing, draining, planting, weed
ing, cutting, drying, fuel, boxes, and
packing for market would average only
53 cents. The fruit in drying loses one
third of its weight. When dried it sells
readily at 18 cents a pound. Allowing
for the loss of weight this would yield
$2.78 a bunch a clear profit for the
grower of $3.19. An order for several
hundredweight of the dried fruit at 6d.
(12 cents) a pound for the London market
has been received at Trinidad. Even at
this price a handsome profit would bo
realized. An actual sale of nearly a hun
dred boxes of the dried fruit has recently
been made in Canada at 20 cents a pound,
and the Canadians are asking for more
ut tho tame price. Deducting freight
charged the net price was 10 cents. The
variety of banana which yields the best
result is said to be the "Gross Michael. "
Over 100,000 plants have been distrib
uted in Trinidad and Tobago within tho
last two years. The purchasers were
principally, large planters, and there is
every indication that the industry will
be pursued on an extensive scale, and
that dried bananas will soon be an im-
(mrtant item in the commerce of tho
est Indies. '
The Marble Map of Rom.
It was known several centuries ago
that on the facade of one of the munici
pal buildings erected by the Emperor
Augustus, of Rome, was affixed a great
marble slab, on which the map of Rome,
with all its streets, temples, public build
ings, and gardens were tracex in deeply
indented lines. A large part of this map
was dug up during excavutions niado on
the site of the forum of Augustus many
years ago, and 25 more fragments of this
marble plan of Rome have just been
fouud in the excavations for the works
of the Tiber embankment on the other
side of Rome and across the river. The
story of how these fragments got so far
away from the ruins to which they or
iginally belonged is a curious one.
In the sixteenth century, during the
reign of Pope Paul III, excavations were
commenced near the site of the wall on
which the plan was known to have been
afiixed, and a good matfy fragments of
the marble plaque were fouud, of which
those considered the most important were
given to the municipal authorities, and
tno smaller bits (then deemed worthless,
but beyond price to the skilled and patient
nrchwologists of to-day) were cast Into a
heap of building materials, comprising,
doubtless, many other precious fragments
of marble, and were eventually built into
the walls of the old Altlieri Palace, part
of which has been uncovered in making
the foundation for the Tiber embank
ment. These fragments were found seven
meters below the actual level of the Ro
man streets, or rather more than 23 feet.
The first printisg press in this coun
try wait set up m Harvard in loa'J.
and W. Lewis Fraser, the artist loct
urer, rinds that the first American
made illustration appeared in Tully's
Almanac of Boston in 1B98. Increase
Mather's "Ichabod," published in 1703,
contained an American copier plate por
trait, and from 1720 books were regu
lurry illustrated in this counrty by
American workmen. Mr. rraser says
he has every reason to believe thut Ben
jamin Franklin was an engrarer either
on wood or type metal. If that is so,
then three men who figured conspicu
ously in our revolutionary war were
illustrators. Paul Revere was a copper-
plato engraver ; Iaaiuh Thomas, the print
er who distinguished himself at Lexing
ton, was another, and Franklin was tho
third.
"Corporations have no souls." What
a disappointment that must be to the
devil. Life.
OKJKItAt WATWB't TWO ORAVEI,
Tha Dust of Dashing "Mad Anthony"
Divided and Relnterrtd.
There is no doubt that one portion of
the body of General Wayne, the hero of
Stony Tolnt "Mad Anthony,"a ho was
popularly termed was interred at the
place where he died and the other in his
native county. His original burial place
was Fort Presquo Isle, upon the site of
which the city of Erie, Ta., now stauds;
the other locality honored as his last
resting place is Rednor Cemetery, in
Chester county, Pa. According to tho
Detroit IYm PreB, this curious circum
stance was brought about iu the follow
ing manner :
In the year 1815 the familv of tl.U
famous man was given permission to n
move his dust to Reduor, but upon open
ing the gTave it was found that tho body
was jiartly petrified, and, consequently.
very heavy. A medical friend of the
family, recognising the fact that it would
be a very difficult and costlv task
transport the remains In that romlitlnn.
determined as far as possible to remove
the petrified flesh from the liones, and
this was accordingly done. The bones
were then carefullr narked tin nn.l
delivered to the son, who was kept in ig
norance of the operation, and he con
veyed the box containiDK the precious
remains of his father's body to his native
county, where they were interred with
appropriate ceremonies. .
A monument was erected in 1800 ovor
the grave by the Pennsylvania Society of
the Cincinnati. What remained of tl
warrior was reinterred at Fort Presqiss
Isle, and some years ago was dSncovereil
in the same state of preservation as whets
lirst exhumed, (a a box bearing bis name.
Another memorial stone was raised in
that pbee, and thus was commemorated
the fact that all tliat was mortal ef " Mad
Anthony" Wayne fotind a final resting
place in two localities far apart from
each other.
American TTwkmin,
Everyone agreed that tho American
skilled artisan puts forth more phjuical
effort atad produces more work F a
given time tlwa the English workman
or the workman of any other manufac t
uring community. This-fact struck in 8
and many experienced directors of work s
most forcibly. Before excluding ou r
tour I had the opportunity of verifying ;
and strengl honing this first impression,
After watch ing tho American workmen
at Pittsburg and elsewhere- I arrivod an
tl same conclusion as to- their efttf
cieocy. Their productive power is great r
than that of the English workers in th e
same time, and their workingjioura ai
longer and their remuneration is greater..
I met one of my old workmen at Jlr.
Carnegfe's works in Pittsburg-, and lie in
tlorsed my opinion. Speaking from hi,
own practical experience :.
"I am quite a different man here."
he said, "from what I wan. in the old.'
country; i aon c Know wny it is so;:
whether it is that I live in a. stimulating
atmosphere or whether it iu-tlie example.
set me; but I know that I Iiave got the
go in me. I can do more work ; I feel
that I have it iu me ; but I also feel and
I know that it won't last.. I sliall bu
done in 10 years.
No, it wont last. The- extreme physi
cal effort put forth results in greater pro
duction, but it saps tlie vital energies
nnu cuts snort live- career. This con
tinual work at high pressure does not.
pay in th end. "It wtaj't last;" aniL
the remark applies with, equal force to
the employers as well as. to tlie workers.
Competition between manufacturers i
keener than in this countasy. They work,
their business at high pressure. There fa.
torrinc struggle between them for
possession or tho markets. They ptsfr
forth their utmost eaesgies; and wheni
they succeed their reward is great ; but
all can not be the leadurs in industry.
This fierce conipetitioo reacts on the-
men. We were surprised to find in a.
democratic country like America that
the workmen had so little power audi
were to such a large extent tho docile in
struments of energetic employers.
The bosses, as the foreman and man
agers of factories are called, drive- the-
men to an extent that employers would
never dream of attempting in this
country. There are trades unions,, but
they do not seem able to protect the
men in this respect. The "bosses:"' have
the faculty of "driving" the men and
getting the maximum amount of work
out of them, and the men do not seem
to have the inclination or power to resist
the pressure. ' American manufacturers
thus get the greatest possible service out
of their plant. Sir James Kitson, in tho
Contemporary Review.
Th Klaatrleal Era In Silver Mining.
R. S. Hunton, oue of tle leading mine
cwaers of Colorado, says that electricity
opens up a new era in tlie production of
silver. The reason of this statement U
that many of the high mountain mines
have been valueless because of the expense
of transporting fuel to them. Now
through the utilization of water power
with the electric motor these mines can bo
operated cheaply, and a notable lucreas
of output may be looked for. So evident
is this fact that there has already sprung
up a demand for electrical mining ma
chinery in Mexico, and our American
electrical manufacturing companies are
now sending largo quantities of apparatus
thither,
Tha Latest Ccnaaa.
A Swiss scholar has been taking a cen
sus of the inhabitants of a cheese. Tho
microscopio examination of one
gramme of a fresh Cmmonthaler
contained no fewer than 90,000 so called
microbes. This prodigious encampment,
After 70 days, proved to have increased
to a tribe of 800.000. Another Bortof
cheese contained within a single
"grammo" board and lodging for about
2,000,000 microbes, while in a "gramme"
cut from the rind of the same cheese
were found about 0,000,000 of theso in
habitants 1 A piece of cheese upon our
ftblus. of a few pounds weight, may con
sequently contain more microbe inhab
itants than there are numan Deinga in
tlie whole world.
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The Summer is gone, but
we still keep ice cream of
several (lavors daily.
Oysters are now in season,
and they are served in any
Myiu ucbircu.
Regular meals served to
tratisient or permanent guests.
The Cafe is open, and the
kitchen is in charge of an ex
perienced cook. Catering for
parties, lodges, weddings, etc,
a specialty.
Fresh bread and cakes daily
in the bakery.
M. M PHILLIPS & SON.
. Proprietors of
"PHILLIPS' CAFE."
Bloomsburg, Pa.
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negatives re
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