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If the Umpdealcr hanii't the ennln """t. .'i V" WJ"t-o to ua for our new illustrate.! cata!oue j-,m? ,c,y express -your choice ot over 2,UO 1 ' ' ''it .lima tir i je th It I the ty ,-ii V... V(. -ci K c.' v v J a?" 5" s f5Y. AND ' " ' ' i-; i ' f, fiivjT &r p'mhr. Applied into Vie n.triis it is r ft '' ', ' !! ! t ihe ..., niliCA tnj'fiHimation, hetiU JUu ELY BROTHERS. 56 Varren "Street NEW YORK. DUG r. a' aV'-' S 3 M H li V e P 5 M t1 hCiri 4:1 h trt:.,r .,rrh.. Lilian.! ki.i;:rxs. h-nrstim ?--xii.n. u:k-i lhf kin v:,M,t ,. ltMnt s . Ih- y . .4 r. r-v. h- r j r vt.iuiufii 1 it .'! - .1 l. i .! t"mo l r. t,. . -c :; i .lic : . Pnr " t c .i i'.ur-:- in h of : '"i '.:i I i.ii- VM ii r .s:i:y p ir :xi t rj ' ;r.- M . N ( rl".m4. La , i -! "Vt-.i ni" m ft ov !.tni!y cbiinm nd it t-fc i nr 1 n All "'. i v ,Vi Jnitiiin" :i .. rl- t t jr. I f H. u . Pl1' 1 ri Mirk and rr-i..-tl n-.J Hnt Hl 1 ii ,L I II ALT IMOUU MO. 'r'Ci INVESTMENT Jiiu y, , 11((J, ortlB i.iiiracT. I- .1 i.. vi."ii i.ceunie.l (iTrr ten " tiomireu .-.litrial l- '-' bt:i ( mi:lc. . oil. Hll.i 0e ""P ii :.('" ,:,!''1 '"'ore the tlit copj , . '' 1 ' y.l r"--KFtl CR3. " -"!'.!. !.. i'lutr:i.in, '4il ' "'' 't !- li.O publish. -13. ,' . ' 1 1 'i I ureliasinit a diction. ' ' r :'- , i ( li ll: I m ::tivel ' f... . '' '''"'' r w liiiin i.irki-Wci .'"! I v rni-i ( pi t sii,tation. " " ' -'-r. "r BEST, , -; J'. .M-h b. ios t!u- imprliit of c- MERRIAM . CO., m. .-., v. . ' case . A. H4 orf.Srw Vurkntf CITS , 1 ! im k'th DICTIOKAJIY '." "...; tn Sl.'.IVi. . !.."." .'i.iki ii. s.m. i.-.o ':.: to j.im. 3 HVL" A 3ST , KlVveniu Ave. UTtlilYl. Sieving-. "Th? RnrKwio," forcihilv. All mrii Vr: in k . : i ! to., 44 Purk Place, New Vorlt City. r i. J CoiLrikOl i f Mr 1,300 BUSHELS OF 0. W. I'.n am m.K, Fair l.ea, Keiit Ov, M.I., su.vs : With'.") Hiiir.l of roiveM'a Grmr ISu Kerltliirr mr I'otat.x-s, uu l.'j m res of j;i:nl, lie .-alse.l l,:sro bushels kinootli, (.'( sized potatoes. When jiiaii! ity rertili.er and ij utility cl lain! Is riuisiiiiTi".!, tl is is largest rroj 1. f .oi:i:m-s i-.i r raised 1)1 tlm world. W'liy n.tt ra.s liii; crops of iHitatoB.? W e an ! II lo ilo it, and liovf" to p: cut Kot kiiiI IIiIkIK- Sei.'" tv' eein t'tam;s for I'.oolc of I'.N jRigeit. W 5. Powell & Co., Clicn'cjj Ftrtilrzer Manuf.tcturerv iJaltimore. 17-S-1. 1891. pollclei written at iBort no'lee In the OLD RELIABLE ' ETNA'" ul other t'lrat ('upaal. T'. W. DICK, fcii;.T t'OK THE OLD ffAHTFORD CUMMENOEll H17SINESS 1794. Knnnnr..ftiiy 1.1S2. 3Iount:iiii House SUB IME PARLOR! CENTRE STREET, EBENSEUSG. 'I'lllS well known and n-nn ostbllhed SKaviapT 1 I'mkr i iiuw li t'nttit .nrutre ktrnrt, uu I ckUb the livery ia.e o' 'Kara, lmvln av Lath rr where ile ne will l e orrleil ta future SHAVIX:. 11A1K -l3TllN N" MlAMI'o'ilM) it'.ne In ihe natwt '. urimne louiiin-r. I Mean Towel h-pecUltj. B'J.l.a..:ea wa'ted on at their jrnlence. JAMrSS 11. IIAHT. ITItrt r ri vv iiicv L " a4tikn:y-at-kaw. tatcnxauMo. I'i'O' e-Spe4-il attc'etlvo glwn to claim" J'.rrH-ri-aion HuuiiL). etc. - u FIRST TO GREET COLUMBUS. Whnn lh fft Mpre.t In our country's XliUllt. W'hoii tiiL nutiuDiar. g:herrl from far in.t i.oar. Vhin fast arid went sc-ndup the same .Uit tibuut, ana call lu In lnJi "ilual i-In or " Wlw-n north ami 4oulh shall glw th-lr Uouui. 'lhi fain t Ix-st r lln- crutury born h. ib n fur kiDor the fcal makf rw.ui' MaUc r .iii. wt- iry. f..r lt- scarlet tbura' Not tl.- ifolJ. i.rcl from th- hilUldri Uni, Not 1h pali? uit.ulu rroui pasiuri' rar. N..r thf wak'nK wh '. froiu Itiu nil; biy vnl. Nor tlt proud uiat'iiolia tall aud lair Shall Columbia uiito thr oftiutui't liru.if '1 hoy. illii'tf of h. art, shall st.toU auil nail; Kor the thorn, with Lis srnrU-t crown, ii klug. Mal.e room for hini at the splt-ndM f-l' 1.. we not ri in.-mU'r thn ol.l. n talr Aful '.hat terrible Jay of ttark OVsiiair. Whoa I'olumhiis. uuili r the loworutt; 1. Sent out to the hl.ldi u lands h. prayer' And a.s it not he of Hie searlet txiuvh Who first went forth from .horv to prvet That lone ki-uiiJ miuI, at the vessel s irow, IVfyiuif fate with his tiny Uci I.' tirim treachery IhreateneJ. above, tx low. Ami ot-atli iuhI cle at Hie captain s .side, W ht n he nm- h, joy :--in Vie sunset K'ow . The thoru-tre''s branch o er the wat rs jflnte. 'Land' Iiil isliead:" w as the joyri.t shout ; The vesper hynui o'er the ocean nwqii; The nuitinotis sailors faced at out. I'lfcther they fell on their knees and wept At dawn they landed with pennons white: They UNsed the sod of San Salvador: Hut dearer than treuis on his doublet bra.rht Were the .s. ai lel berries their leader liore: Thorny and sharp, like his future crown. liliMMl-red. like the wounds in his prreut heart made. Yet an emblem true of his proud renown Whose glorious colors shall never fade Kmma tiiiiitiUKton Xason, hi SL Nicholas THE CASTAWAYS. Eiarht Shipwrecked Mariners and Their Unvarnished Tale. On a December morning', in the- .year 18s:i, a mail steamer, liomeward 1huii1 from a New Zealand port,- was ap proaching the meridian of the Horn, but on a parallel more southerly than it is now the 1-tts.tom of steamships to take in rounding that stormy, iee-ffirt. desolate and moat inhospitable of all headlands. IK'Ct'mU'r in those distant regions is miil-hummer, and the weather of that morning was as fair ami still as a breeze less April day in this country, but the swell of th vast tract of ocean ran ceaselessly reminiscent respira tions of a g'iantesa, whose conflict with the heavens is eternal, and whose breathing pauses are very few and far between, indeed. Over this long; dark bine, ..westerly swell the great metal falirie went sweeping in loug, floating, launching courtesies, whitening the water astern of her with a mile of wake. The chief officer was on the bridge; the first breakfast bell had rung and the captain, smart as a naval officer in buttons and lace trimmiugs, ijuitte.l the chart rxm and joined the mate U take a look around Wfore going lielow. This skipjier was a man of eagle sight, and instantly on directing his eyes over the ship's Ixjw he exclaimed: "What is that black object yonder'.'"' The chief mate peered and the cap lain leveled a telescope. "A ship's boat," said he, "and seem ingly full of people." The boat, when sighted, was some three or four miles distant, anil the sieed of the steamship was about thir teen knots. In a few minutes the alarm in the engine room rang its re vorlieratory warning, sending a little thrill of wonder throughout the ship so rarely is that telegraph handled on the high seas. "I count eight men. sir," cried the chief mate, with a binocular glass at his eye. Again the engine-room nlarm rang out; the pulsing that for days had leeu ceaselessly throbbing through the long fabric languished, and in a few min utes to another summons of the metal tongue below ceased, and the great steamship lloated along to her own im petus slowly till the boat was within the toss of a biscuit off the Imjw, with the passengers crowding to the side, and sailors and waiters and steerage folk blackening the rail forward. The occupants of the boat consisted of eight wild, hairy, veritable scare crows of men, dressed in divers fash ions Scotch caps, yellow sou'westers, sea boots, toil-worn monkey jackets, and the like. "ltoat ahoy!" hailed the captain, as she slowly washed alongside. "What is wrong with you?" A fellow standing up in the stern sheets cried back in a strong Yankee accent: "For (Jod's sake, sir, take us aboard: Our water's almost given out, and there's nothing left to eat." "Look out for the end of a line," bawled the captain. "'A re you strong enough to get aloard without help?" "Aye. sir, we'll manage it." A rope was thrown, and one after an other the fellows came swinging and scraping and scrambling up the clean side of the steamship. The passen gers crowded around 'anil gazed at them with curiosity and pity. Their sympathetic eyes seemed to lind famine painfully expressed in the leathern countenances that stared back through mats of hair. "We must let your boat go," saii the captain. "Can't help it, sir; tha nkful enough to be here, I reckon," answered the fellow who had called from the stern sheets and who acted as spokesman. "Anything belonging to you to come out?" ' "Nothing, by the etarnal. Let her go, sir. If sailors' sea blessings can freight a craft she ain't going to float long." The boat was sent adrift, the engine Ih'11 rang out, once more the great mail steamer was thrashing over the long, tall heave of Cape Horn swell. "How came you into this mess?" in quired the captain. The man who had spoken before m,ade answer: "We're all that's left of the erew of the lloston bark George Washington. She was a whaler, one hundred and eighty-four days out. It were four slays ago. I was the first to smell tire, some while arter two o'clock, in the middle watch." "It wanted ten minutes to six bells," exclaimed a man, and a general, em phatic, hairy nod followed the inter ruption. "1 was the first to smell fire," con tinned the other, "call it what hour ye like. I gave the alarm and all hands iurued to with hoses and buckets. lut t(:er was a deal of oil in the hold, and the ship's planks was, thieU with grease lesides. and that gave its no eliuiue. Ity tell o'clock in the iminiitit' the ll.itues had bursted thr.mgh and was sliiting up mast high, and then , , calculated it Was time lo look to tl e boats." The others sto.xl listening with hard, solid, leathery faces, em-rall v gazing with steadfa-t eyes at t he speaker, but sometimes glancing askant at tiie cap tain and the crowd of others which stood around. "There was a tarnation ugly sea run ning.' th' man went mi, "and. the wheel ls-iny; departed, the ship had fallenoir ah.l lay in the trough, and the lowering of the stern Ixcjts, w haiemen tlioiigh they was who had tlm handling of" 'em. cost our company of Iwenty oight souls the loss of all hands, sa ving th. sin as stand afore ye." "A bad job! A measly, cruel, bad job!" here broke in a long-jawed man. whose brow and eyes were almost con cealed by a quantity of coarse red hair. "Well, us eight men got away in the lioat." priieeeded the sjh k'stii:i n. "bringing along with us tiothin' but a small bag of bread an.l aUnit six gal lons of fresli water. We've ls-eii wash ing about since Tuesday, and now. the Lord be praised, here we ite. with a chance of getting something to eat, and, what's more pleasmeable still to our feelings, the opportunity of com fortably turning in." A murmur of pity ran among the pas sengers, several of whom were la.li-'s. and there was more than one somew hat loud whisper to the effect that the cap tain ought really to send tiie jvoor crea tures forward at once to get some breakfast instead- of hol.hng them starving and dry with thirst to talk. The eagle-eyed skipper, however, asked several questions before dis missing them. "Since, then, by their own confes sion, the tire gave them plenty time to escape from the bark, how was it they had left her so ill-provi doiied as they represented?" This was most satisfactorily account ed for. Other inquiries of a like nature were responded to with alacrity and in telligence. Kvery sentence that one or another of them let fall was cor roborated by the rest. Their tale of suffering, indeed, in the open Iniat was almost harrowing, and tiie cap tain, with the first note of sympathy that his voice had taken, ordered them to go forward, adding that after a gd hot meal had Is-en served them they might turn in and sleep for the rest of the lay wherever they could make a !. At the breakfast in -the- saloon noth ing was taiked aliout but the American whaler that had been consumed by lire, the dreadful drowning of some two thirds of her crew and the miraculous deliverance of the survivors from the inexpressible perils and horrors of an open loat in the solitude of the stormiest part of ocean the wide world over. A Wnevolent gentleman pro Hsed a subscription. lie fore the luncheon lell was rung a sum of thirty Hiunds sterling had ls-eii collec '... The incident was u break in the mo notony, and when the eight men r-Uj-peared on deck during the alteriiooa they wi re promptly approached 1 y t'u. passengers, who obliged tiicm to recite again and yet again their melanchoiy story of maritime disaster. Oil the momintr of th- third day fol lowing the date of this rescue a ship wus sighted almost directly in a line witli the vessel's course. As she was neared she was s,-en to be rig;ed with stump or Capo Horn topgallant masts; she was also under very easy canvas, which gave her a very short-handed look in that quiet sea Great wmxleti davits overhung her sides, from which dangled a nuniWr f bouts. She pre sented a very grimy, worn aspect, and hail manifestly kept the sea for months. It was observed by the chief officer, standing on the bridge of the steamer, that the eight rescued men, who were l.M.king at the sail ahead, along with some of the crew and steerage passen gers, disclosed several symptoms of uneasiness and even of agitation. Sud denly the stripes and stars, with the rtars inverted, were run aloft to the peak end a signal of distress. The engines were slowed and the steamer's head put so as to pass the vessel v. ithin easy nailing distance. A man aboard the bark stood in the iiiizen rigging. "Steamer ahov!" he roared. "Hello!' "I have lost a lxiat and eight of my men. llaveyoii seen anything of her?" The captain, who had gained the bridge, lifted his hand. "Iiark ahoy'." he cried. "What bark is that?" "The Ib-orge Washington, whaler, of lioston. one hundred and eighty-four days out." The captain of the steamship con cealed a sour grin. "How came you to loss' your boat and the men?" "They stole her one middle watch and sneaked away from the ship." The captain of the steamship laughed. '.'We have your men safe here." he shouted; "glad to learn that yru are not burned down to the water's edge, and that the rest of your crew look brisk, considering that they are drowned men. Send a lsat and you shall have your sailors." W. Clark Russell, in Wit and Wisdom. .V Kcmarkal.le IVumsii. IK'tails are given by the leisniu lap rs of the straiige caret r of a won. an iiai.it d Mila. who has been sentenced to .Icut Ii by t!;e distrt -t court of i'uzar-i-vu.', in Servia. This v.omaii hu.. for ten years been the terror of northeast ern Servia. In ls.-;l a prize of two hun dred duetts '.ViiMilferinl for her apture. two years later live hundred were i fered. and ill lVO the promised re'.vmd was i:i- roascd to one thousand ducats. She bad a band of devoted Hai.ltivks. with whom she committed her rule lerics. She never went alx.ut other wise than in man's dress, with all her w.'a)ons in her ls-it an.l a ride ...i her ,li xii.'.er. Young, handsome and a per fect mar'.cswoiiiau. shi- was the Is-mi ideal of her band. She had a lover named IVtrovilch. who fell ill some tune ago, and whom she nursed wish devotion in a cave on the K.ii!iaani..:i frontier. I ler people told her in 'ood time that she was v. aU'htsI sttvl must jjy for safety, hut she refused t- ab.in.i. ei lu r M.-k lover. After the battle v. ith the gendarmes, two of whom she killed, jdie was captured. lu the court she spoke for over an hour in her defense, and when sentence was pro lonneej lit cued to it with stolid iinliiri-reut-. SlNCING Ur THE WAY. J- '!.- !h - If :-WiM nir. r i . : i . t.l .ru-r Uv. T:i: 1 .!i l :t:i -t U-ii.1 !t.- ). !:: zi t liv .Ntf .-:n.-u io: t .1 m S!..- iu:i.lt- strain T:i.kl J t!- it:r with iiith irrWjf-i A - li lit" liAVt- u.ivr ruin. In , rarv uri.i toil v.vrti in y).tor ...-.. A. ttuH :l.el I h- Ar. J-'. i iiiti In h: i lJw r Ii r-. u . tin 4.1 !u . r. ! ; I.f l. tl hi ii.'u;!i'.H Ir :u ?A.ti. -i 1 1 i ill. -I a uy lii .!. Tin- mt:M. i!.t its .'Ja.lii. . V.V in. iv a! Lo infr. my LrotL-rs if .:?! lo l:tl; wnt tlifi. 'I I'' l. .il l i:j.i m i In IoP.y; 1 U. : i:t-a i w ii In ur, IV.. I ;;:' !.!- I lir m.l-lO i i tf;.- u f v.- vinu tuy f ill. Hi 4i t v, 1 1 li . .h f :t Lwt lUt" AiNKlllOM T l Ur .k1 v. :s ovt-r t;i. I. t luc jov ,lr liv. s run nvvp ( ir )'i u In rl-il Hsk', An! I.: wr'l iiiav 1i..v.- unirr o( ?i.:iwiilUc, A:il liit. i:u: ft hi .i: i I'm -.trup Sin,'. i.r :'.. j v -i ?-.!:. it.'. Ah-.; f'zt : ;.ir :ir.-s nviay. Ami --ii:m- wr.li r-. II. kl-itliir-".: 1 ir.H 4 s tu v- 'U. :..',' tty i ly - I- tn-ii K K- l..i. in !t-Tr';t 1'r-e !'rt.-i. wrni mi: rnixi:sr.. Tastea of the Inhabitants of tha Cel itU Ernpira. 'In . Ilae m 1 itiiiiiirM tor llisl.e, 1 lia Sro.i Vllii.. .Kot lilllliiK t- ua A iiifrl.-au siii. Oilier Oaitllies. In passing through Chinese towns the astonishingly large number of cook shops interest an attract the foreign p::sscr-bv. One's curiosity is often aroused to know the ingredients of the messes he sees being concocted, but in vestigation very often ends in some un pleasant disi Insure and unless one is possessed of a veritable cast-iron i.tuiiiai-ii and a nose well burdened t 1 iuese Mnells. he had ls-tter In-ware of even a l hiuese Dv-lmonico's. These places are eupleasant iy pressed tqiou !';: pei'a-:-1 rian. however, for the front is invariably open to the street, and ill order to tempt customers by the sight and smell i f viands the cook prepares his dishes over a charcoal lire in full view and sets samples of his materials and his bill of fare out on a sliow board before him. Tables and st.x.ls are placed in the rear, an.l hen- tiie htingrv wayfarer i:i:iv banquet off such delicacies as particularly tickle the hi lie palate. Among tiie common people an ordinary nica! consists of Isiilcd rice, coarse greens uni a little fat jx.rk. goat's ilesh . r tish. At the public eating houses dainties out of the ordinary line are to le ha.l. and hineso cot.kery is executed v. ;th a iionrlsh as it were. All sorts of lish. Iles'li and fowl, lieasts of the sea. ir and land are represented in a Chi nese menu. The Frenchman is not the only one who has h:.s froglegs and snail soup. f..r the l e.estial. too. revels in i iiese daint ic-, and many more even more str;.nvre. Snakes and eels alike iiow the fivingpan, anil when skinned and dressed ap-M-ar very much alike. Manv variet u-s of iion-:Misonous snakes are tiseil f;r fs.l. Silkworm grubs are regante.l as a choice morsel and are stewed in lard and eaten as a relish, and a multitude of other insects are deemed edible. One variety commonly seen in the tish stalls looks like an American locust Ik fore it has t alien on wimrs, and a large white grub that in habits the bainloo sprouts is much .sought alter in the s:r.th. Another va riety of edible worm is found at the root of the sugarcane. The s-ane is gen erally J tilled up, the roots lieing used for fuel, and the harvesters as they go along pick up these worms and drop them into a little basket which they strap about tie waist. Manv hine.-e things taste very good, but their food is. on the whole, any thing but tempting Their cookery alxuiuds in "math" dishes of compli cated construction. highly flavored w it li spices and herbs, and, on account of tin limited uss to which the chop sticks can be put. the iugredieuts are cut up into .small pieces. Hoiliiig, stewing and frying are popular meth ods of preparation, and tiie cook shops siiow a variety of nauseating-hooking messes whose odors are not to Is met w ith outside of China. The worst I have yet encountered come from the duck eggs that have been kept in wet day until they are "high." and fermented radishes which lear a strong family resemblance to sauerkraut, and these ran lest Im- descrilied by th- southern i-xpressioii "powerful bad." Although we turn up our noses at John China man's bill of fare, he in turn looks askance at ours and thinks we are dis gusting creatures to drink milk and eat cheese, and be cannot lie induced to touch butter. It seems to lu the general impres sion that dogs and cats form staple articles of diet. '1 his is not true. They are eaten to a greater or less extent by the poorer classes only, and vary in popularity according to the district, lu the seaports, where animal food is readily obtained, they arc not con sumed, and in Canton there are only three or four stalls where their ilesh is sold, but in country districts many people eat these animals, an.l r-its. also. The Hakkas, a wild hill tribe occupying the mountainous district west of Amo.v, go in for cat and dog more largely than any other people and their method of pre paring ttiem for culinary purxses is horrible in the extreme. lof's paws are frequently seen among their meats in the butcher's stalls, lllack cats are universally deemed more desirable than white or spotted, and tortoise-shell cats are seldom eaten. A ivell-known mis sionary to these jx-ople, in relating his experience w ith these animals, says that his family can always keep a tortoise-shell, while a black cat invariably disappears. Horseflesh is extensively consumed throughout the enmire, but is horribly tough, for only old beads it 1 1 11 1 for use are killed for food. lioth house rats ::nd a kind of wild rat that inhabits the ri.-e fields are eaten anil are haw ked uhout the streets strung up bv t he tads. The famous bird s-nest soup is a very rare delicacy and can 1- afforded only by the rich. It is served .w U-st course at grand dinners usually. 1 1 nests are built by a km.l oi nests are bmlt t.y a kuhi high rocks by the seashore, and the n. terial . secreted by glands ,ns de t e bird s bill- 1 think it was uu..-, faeetiouslv remarked that these birds built their nests "all out of their ow u heaslv" A native revipe for making the soup reads, with eharn-terist ":e vagueti.-ss, like this: "Take as many nests as are necessary, clean and pick out tiie feathers, and Imil in siirliciciit water til make a thin jelly. I'oiirthis over har.l Ix.iled pigeons eggs, and lloat on the top shreds of ham. Serve sweet ened if desired." The number of edibles in China is leg ion, and t heir eomblnat ions are sim ply distracting. The people have a regular int ait ion for cooking, uii.lct.crv mail, woman and child can prepare a go.hl meal out of the most meager sii--ply of materials. Sweetmeats are eaten by young and old. and one can scarce! v go anywhere without meeting a ven dor of confectionery - llright yellow s-akes of rice and sugar are sold to chil dren at everv street corner, and sjm-er tasting itoiihons of lean flour, miii. t ssed or jMipped rii-e, candied seaweed, melon rind and orange jh-c! are eaten in enormous quant it ic. at New ear's time and other feasts, livery house wife prepares once a year an enor mous sweet loaf of buckwheat Hour an.l keeps it on hand to offer visitors with tea. It is as heavy as lead and a vil lainous coliqiound. and. like the oi.l fashioued fruit cake of our grandmoth ers, lasts the year round, and its ap earaiice upon special occasions is in evitable. Table etiquette such as would please a 'liine-c host would shock and dis gust all American one. Men keep on t heir hats w hen eating, and it is quite the "proper eajier" to make as much ii. use as possible in the process of mas tication, for the more made the greater is supposed to be the enjoy ment experienced, lletwccn courses a basin anil towel ate parsed aroiitnl. an.l the guests mop off the face atid wash the hands. The more TimsI is consumed the U'tter, for Ihe more the host is honored, and if it seems necessary to refuse a second helping the polits thing to say is: "O, no. I dare not, for I'm afraid you haven't enough." A host in properly exercising his hospitality must press his guests to eat. and the distressing importunity with which one is urged makes a foreigner feel very uncom fortable. liecause elaborate dinner sets come from China, it must not Ik supposed that these are used by the natives themselves. They are manufactured for loivign trade only. A native set consists of simply a great numlcr of Ik. wis of different sizes, color-, and shajis-s. chopsticks, and chinaware sjHK.ns, about the sizi of a dessert sp,ui. with short, curved handles. The chop sticks are of silver, ivory or wood, and are held in the hand much as v.e would hold a lead eucil. A very slight mo tion causes their tips to approximate, and pieces of food are easily grasped bv them, and they are only used in grasping and shoving, lor a Chinaman can no more cat liquids with them than we can cat soup with a fork. The dex terity with which they are used is rash 1 v over-estimated, for food of a semi solid nature, such as rice, is eaten by placing the Unvl to the lips and push ing the contents into the mouth w it Ii the sticks, and one viewing a tamily of the Iwst cultured eating a meal in the most approved fashion thinks it any thing but a dainty process. A cup of tea finishes every repast, but it is not such a cup as would satisfy our depraved taste, for the native arti cle is a tiny affair scarcely larger than a thimble. Tea is taken tijKin all oc casions, by both sexes and all classes, and a tea-drinking is a simple yet al ways formal affair. A native tea set consists of a large jot tor water, a smaller one for tea aud ever so many tinv han.lleless cups set in groups of six upon littie trays of lacquer or of china. Roiling water is brought in the larger and tiired over the tea in the smaller pot and then almost immedi ately poured off into tiie cups. The host or hostess then takes a trav in loth hands--it would Ik very impolite to take it in one and Imiw ing low of fers it. The guest selects the very nearest. lms low ami receives it in ImiHi hands. He must then ark the host to drink wit h him, and lth con sume the ainls-r liquid in little sips. In China tea is never drank with milk and sugar, and, though always very strong, never has that "puekerv" taste that comes of long boiling. All vari eties have a llavor much like our In-st grades of black tea, f..r the green tea of commerce is a vile com'M.uud not even tolerated on native soil. The real green tea cannot lie exported, liecause it is very liable to undergo fermenta tion when e::xissl to the damp sea air. It then turns black, and the substitu tion for exportation that comes to our market is made by coloring the leaves w ith Prussian 'due an.l gypsum. None of the iXtol ted ts'as Jnissess their orig inal flavor, for all that are intended for shipping are submitted to an extra drying process at the saport. This is very injurious, for it drives off much of the flavoring principle and aroma. The "caravan teas!"of Russia owe their fciiperiority to having escaped this last port drying, which is so fatal to a tine llavor. Detroit Free Press. trim lit tarllafiiefit. All amusing story is told of a certain occasion in the house of commons, when one Thomas Masscy Masey inov.sl th.it the church of Henry VIII. :hoi'!d get rid of the i:atue of "mas" in Chri tiu:i-. and substitute in place of tin- too Komish expression the more Saxon one "tide." thus. "Christi.le." says l.if.. O'Conilcll, who huppcn.sl to le prsent. and who was ssd.totii j;t a loss for the right word at the right time. in. v,sl that "as the honorable gentleman prized the old Saxon so mu li. he would do well to liegiu at home, iiame'v. to Saxonize bis ow n name. Let him do away with the 'mass' in "Thomas Masscy Massey," ami put Ids h -loved tide" in the place of it. thus: -'1'i.otidc Ti.ley Tidey!" " Needless to say thai t he house roared at the complete ttiiii of the tables on the objector to the "mas" in 'hrist mas. A Ten-TliouHiitl- ear t lock. llerr A. Noil, of ISerliugcn. .crmany. h:;s constructed the most marvelous tim-picse that was ever evolved from the human luiud. Calculations, based on two years of solid goiior. prove what the maker claims lor his wonderful chick. vi-: "That it will run for ten thousand years w itiiout winding. Hants on the dial point to the tim.'of :ay. tiie day. the week, months, seasons a:id years. It also calculates the changes in the moon and tells when the sun is "fast" or "slow." The clock is the re sult of five years of patient, arduous laltor. WHEN HORACE USEO TO SING. loil you rem ir.-r ilor ov llrvtwa" Our nu.UA. uiasi.-r--Vo.irsr- yo t !.., There asn t limn ki la." to a '..ui'i ji't li a li:ii- aa c..r.- it thro' Li.c H. ..!.' bo r; uVt:l ili-'.l sTnJ i.t l l-.ix'... the ... i t Vir-ti rintf It li' '. IH .1 I lie J..I.J ..! O ll IS si -it Win Si Ib-ra.'f l.sea los.llj !I;s voire a is t.-n.r- so :in v s C.1 I've tir-r liear.l u:ioth,'i' :!...- it. Aa' rv. n !i ill, j tin- il - U I r i , No un'-.er .:si th i'i'i -!i-'4 strive !t. s;r--ti ill . ' .- i:. i-. l ... .-r - l.. y. l sllii::i 11. .1 silo' i:i :ri.- uMo t-is ;,!!(. An" ui:n:v ti c.i e .ii i t.-ir- a a.m SViiell Horace Use t losing. He t. a curls f.-ll r. too: 'ot ;:'o- o.. uioi of men ou mi May li .. :i':i t s;- il; i j y u If you u - t h i I o:i tiie str. - t Sometimes lli.t I.or'. ilitl as tes way. 11.- sirti't out i out aiiVtti!-. rsolitrioa- nr.il f.-eliii' .1: 1- I s'.iv W hn fie h.-ir: to simf "fis li-u: .- years s . I ln-e:i ki".j... Ami t tou,- U e r!iu:i 1 u -i.-u! s.u. : I eoiiiilii't r.--T. o tiio...'li- 1 it -.T:i--A;:' s.-e l..w :'.: oi l I iv u 1 .:.. .1 Jio. I've sc. n t! l.i -it.r 'i -tjmtitiif i!:. is-. 'I'll.-i.i'.iar le-re i l.': : ..m. Au' e, -ili.-.l 111.- iki: r r ;'ao r- 'air Wiier-- llora. e i;s- .l to .n;. II almost si-Tri.l tli.it li.-:i!st lie 'i!iin the j.l.i. .- 1 1 .o-i s i a. -11. All' ll.osc ' lire - t.'il. tin-', l.i i.i I :i iiit tl liis s .v -.-t v .i.-e ro.e all 1 .-II. I've I..-.1IH ttie.n fo,- l -!l '.. is -ojr. An' sj.lit t Is. . i I hro .1- I. .t coiil.lu t .riiM 111. tear- ii'i..' I'-iiii. i.i .i.-iof yor.r Wtlell Hora. lisr.l tos 11. H.- s ii.-a 1. you s.iv tlia? v..s e i. lo.i' 1 I loll ' 1 lu-oeVi- i I tie-. r i 1 lu thai fair la-i.l with s'.r.-.-i ,-utl Hissed ill siliilile-' 1 0: I. '! - : lii.'ill' still. He's lead. u e iv. al. i.'iw I i li.-ir Ai.' inaks-s i:u-c.o- rt- of Hi a'.ei. rius'. An' some .1 iy -.vln u I i -t ni l.ih. r I il iiear ol.l H'.r.n e -onir. H l.'ast Ae A wild ikm; that. How Two Boys Mad a Money See the Centennial. to Yesterday 1 heard one farm loy sy to another: "Come and see mv tw. calves. I'm going to keep them til they're two-year-old ntecrs. and tliei ss'll them and go to the Columbian expo sition on the money. They'll bring fifty dollars by that time." "Rut I've got a coit that'll bring seventy-live by that time," rejoined his companion, t riump Van I ly. "May lie. " repli-d the first lad. -om-pose.l'y. "Itut 1 t-ll you. 1 liink. tin-re's a good deal ni'-r risk on euit. than on steers." Their earnestness vividly recalled to me a time, fifteen years ago. when 1 was a I toy of sixteen, arid Jived in the Arkansas "back e. oods." 1 w as ma'cing similar plans to visit the centennial ex hibition of lsTti at Philadelphia. A voting neighiKir. 1 ten ton Arbuckle by name, was equally desirous of at tending the exhibition: but. like my self, hi was in painful doii'.t where the dollars were to come from for railway fares, for a new Miit of clothes and for ot her necessary matters. iflen we raised a little money by gathering p-ccan nuts in the wimmN and selling them at tin store two miles away: but the pecan s-rop was liht that year, and our loqies suffered blight with it. We knew that seventy dollars apiece was tiie least po.-e.ible sum that would snftiee to transovt us to Philadelphia and return lis to our native country. The case 1. Hiked hope less. We studied hard to tbirk of some other means. Wild turkeys were get ting scarce in the woods. Formerly a good ruanv had leen shot and market ed every fall, lteer. too, were far from plenty. After a careful canvass of the situa tion, lienton and 1 decided that our only chance to raise money lay iu the wild hog. which were still to lie found in considerable numler in the river bottoms in our part of the state. These wild bogs are descended from ordinary siue brought into Ihe coun try by the earlier settlers. In several generations of wil.liu-ss they l ave de veioped t !ie characteristics of the wild hogs of the old world. They run sw ift ly through the brush ujxci the slight est alarm, and are always difficult to approach. !iooting is not the 1-est method of hunting wild hogs, for unless shot through a vital part they- squeal frightfully, and often run a long dis tance. The squealing mav frighten the drove away, and cause tiu-m to desert the locality for another tract of forest. My companion and I proposed to trap . them, and so far as possible to conduct a still hunt. We intended to make bacon, for w hich we were reasonably sure of obtaining eight cents a pound. We fitted up a dinsed log-shai.ty as a smoke-hoiiss. ami arranged to bring home the carcasses on mules from our t ra ps. Itenton. who had more time than I. sjMnt several days in hxtking about for a good place in which to set a trap, and chose one upon Sugar creel;. At a point w here a high bank had lx-eii washed out we set stakes and built a strong corral eight feet high, in such a wav that the bank formed one side of the inclosiire. and the fence skirting, the margin of the stream formed the other sides. The yard thus formed included a space fifty or sixty feet across, which on one side was overhung bv a ban! from twelve to fifteen feet in height. The earth had liccli cut away by fresh ets, so that the roots of the briishwixxi alove bung down iu a straggling fringe. A trap gate was constructed to rise and fall lietweeii xsts on each side of an opening i ve feet w ide. To spring the gate a line was attached to it. which ran across to our hiding place on t he sitiier side of the stream. We did the work very quietly, for we heard hugs moving alxuit in the sw amp. Carefully removing all the chips, we masked the corral an.l the gale with brush. attsing it to hxik like a thicket. For bait we bad Ixiught foitr bushels of corn on thecoh. This we b-o e into short pieces, which we strew ed on trails leading to the trap. We also gathered several bushels of aeorus, and these ami the corn trails were sown to a distance of half a mile in three direc tions all leading to a generous heap of the provender inside. We laid these trails very early the morning aftsr the trap was completed. We were to take turns watching, day by day. lienton undertook to watch the trap the first day. and 1 went home. We hoped to capture at least one hog every Jay. lie fore eleven o'clock that forenooy Reritoii appeared at our house, very hot an t much out of breath from run ning. He could hardly s-xak. aud wasted no words. "Pulled t lie st ring on five!" he gasped. "I let knife and mule and gun. and come qui.-.! They are foaiiuu round awful ly! Guess we shall have to nhrxit m! 1 1 urry '. hurry !" la live minutes I was on tin way. urging my iiiitle to the top of hi speed. Reiiiou got his own mule and gun and overbx.k me. We approached the corral from the opposite side of the creek, and securing the le.u'es oil that side, waded across and jx-ejx-d into the trap Sure enottgii. there were five porkers! llvi.letit 1 v t 'icy had ra ! med down a lit tle, for they grunted softly as they de voured the remains of the heap of acorns. lint scenting us. or sighting us through chinks in the fence, they began to dash around, springing up the sides of the corral so fiercely that we saw plainly it would be altogether un safe to.-nter t he iticlosure Ix-fore shoot ing them. There was an old tularin the group. They were yearlings and two-year-old. apparently, weighing from a hundred to two hundred pounds each. From running in the swamp they were all nearly as black as bears. We loaded our gulls with ball. aud. taking aiui between the potds. shot the pigs one by one. All five came down, so ne:i ling t err ifica 11 y. 1 had never dresed a hog Irt-fore. but v.e bolh knew that it was necessary to bleed them immediately. Laving down our guns, we climbed into the Jx-ii. got out our knives and proceeded to this .at pleasant portion of the business. The squealing w:s frightful. We had got to the third victim only when we b'-eaine stid'h-iilv aware of a commotion ill the V. o-xls outside. "R::l!" cried lienton, straightening ni to t :t n. "the re's a whole drove. Ixiars aud all! They're rescue, jnst as they do a-eotnuig. old i. mi iug t. the when a bear tackles a hog in the v.:i :n p. Above the outcry which the suffering porkers insi le the pen were raising we cou;d now- plainly bear the barking and roaring of the approaching drove. It was a terrible noise; the underbrush racked as if a forest fire were running 1 liroti" Is it. "Whew! You don't suppose they can break in here, do you?" exclaimed Ren ton, turning pale. "That's more than I know," said I. "ISut if they do break in, 1 shall break out pretty quick!" We had scarcely more than uttered the words when the drove came foam ing up the creek to tin very gate of the trap. They stopped au iutant, an old boar barkifi"' like a bulldog. aand tiien a'l scurried round the fence on the creel side, through mud and water. Here they suddenly stopped shoit nuaiii. as if to l.x-atc their distressed brethren, then dashed ft round the north cud of the corral and up the high bank a little way alxive. Again finding t hemsclves wrong, they turned and came ilushing along the top of the bank, on the land side of the pen: and then they all charged head long dow n over the bank into the cor ral. Ik-fore the first bog had struck the ground inside the jkmi I was well on my way to the top of the corral fence, ami lienton had climled a small oak tree that st.xxl within the inclosure. "Great jingo!" cried lienton from the tree. "Isn't t hat old t ttsker a big one? See the foam fly! Rill, there's more than twenty of them! Will the fence stop 'em?" "1 think it will." I said. "Are you all safe?" "I reckon I am." be answered. Then be looked dow u at the wild hogs foam ing around the base of his small tree, snapping t heir jaws; and my sense of humor made me laugh in spite of myself. However, 1 presently did lietter for lienton than laugh at him. I slipped down on the outer side of the pen, and getting a strong jxde. pushed it over the top of the corral into the oak where he was riMisting, and by the aid of this pole he was able to get to the fence. Nov.- was our time. We loaded our guns and opened fire on the drove in side, disabling the old Ixiar first of all. For half au hour the unearthly din of shixitiug and squealing kept up. In cluding the five which Rcnton had snared at first, there were now twenty four hogs in the trap. Several of them were old settlers, and quite fat and hca i y. We worked fast and hard during the rest of the day and most of the night to secure the pork. It made a line lot of bacon, and although we never met w ith any success afterwards, we went to the centennial mainly on the product of our hog trap. A. .1. Towle, in Youth's 4 oiupanion. M U RDEROUS INSAN ITY. Illusions of liiiuli anil s un 1 1 Hliieh -r..iii.l the suderer l Take I. lie. The incipient paranoiac may bear voices alxuit him and for a time le able to convince himself of their unreality. Rut sixmeror lat er these sounds become so tangible that they have the full force and import of actual voices. At first lie hears them only when people are actu ally speaking, his mind inert ly misin terpreting w hat In hears. This perver sion is tii hnieally termed an illusion. Rut at last ho hears Words nnd sentences whi n no real sound comes to his ear-, tin- North American Review says. These are true hallucination. Perver sions of other senses usually precede or fol low t his one. Illusions of touch and suiell are common. The former lead to a lx-lief in invisible spirits that touch the laxly, and the latter convince the patient that attempts are Wing made to poison him with novious gases. When to this duster of perverted ss-tisations hallucinations of sight are added, tiie galaxy is complete, and the victim moves and has his Wing in an ideal world jxs.pled with odors. tates. sound, and sigl is that are shut out from the common herd. A patient who had reached this stage out lines bis own hid ings as follows: "I havegraduallycome to a xsitivi assurance that the thoughts .f mv mind are shared by others, and that "they aet from that knowledge with a view of influencing me and directing mv actions; that t he appearances of an imate nature also coi-res-amd to my thoughts in such a way as to -heck and direct them: that ordinary sjxsH-h and language are so perverted as to have a double meaning, the secondary sense relating to my actions or thoughts. All is so i-oiistituted as to form a distinct and new an.l strange world in w hich, however, must objects remain taiuiiiar." 9 U.u i.iU t., llUi'iUUM.
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