who do this work at Atsion are brothers, and have labored at charcoal burning in Nlinois and other Western States, Upon the manner of “setting” a charcoal pit depends, very largely, the success in burning. Sometimes the pits are built of three tiers of wood, and then with the “float” or earthy covering they measure about thirteen feet in height, The aver= age thickness of this float is a trifle leas than six inches. Until recently only pine wood char- coal was burned in this vicinity, Now oak and maple are used also. Where “big” wood—that is, thick sections of trees —is used, from ten to twelve days are required to burn a pit; small wood requires cnly about 150 hours on the average. The pine wood charcoal is All told, there are not more than fifty | used for rectifying purposes almost ex of th em in the State. Their earnings are [elusive ly; the oak and for fur- ity, averaging the year round about a | DAC es, —Philadel phia Press. lar a day, a fact in itself pre- pe —— ¢ the enjoyment of much that others WISE WORD, ven the — WITH ci ARC UAL BUI {NERS PECULIAR COMMUNITIES SCAT- TERED OVER NEW JERSEY, Cutting Wood and Burning it Fm. ploys Hundreds of Men Who Live in Primitive Simplicity, ITI'LE colonies of men, peculiar communities, are scattered up ae and down New Jersey like bumps on a log. They live remote from the centres of civilization; they have little or no interest in the af. fairs of the outside world, while their wants are very few and of the simplest kind. These are the charcoal burners of the Jersey pines, maple which enjoy, poorer ciasses in great cities, Plain living is long living, Day in and day out, in and summer's heat, the ring of the char- coal burner's axe may be heard in the pine forests of the State beyond the Del- aware, On days when the mercury in the thermometer hugs the zero mark these fellows begin their labor in the woods at daybreak. Their first act is to light a fire with such dry branches as they can scrape together, over which they hold their keen-edged axes to draw the frost out of their glittering blades, “Ef we didn’t, why, the fust lick "ad Grant break ‘em right in two,” said one of the Ate fraternity who took enough of his time to tell something about their way of life. Atsion is the nearest gettlement to the charcoal pits, and Atsion is a mediseval dream. It is the wreck of a once con- siderable village. If its unpainted and | decaying houses were of stone instead of | old-fashion2d clayboards, it would be a fac-simile reproduction of a Yorkshire hamlet gone to seed. “This part of the couatr) pretty well chawed up by charc ers,” said the the buggy rolled noiselessly along clear out pat here and iy then »ff to another picce t egin | ' work. wns this wont | i way the Life owner did. He keeps them pret m on be | by 1n one place.” riddle, an In the ex; 1G the soil in sp lid presen up” appearance. There were ings covered with a thick shrubbery and long grass, throu peeped the black stumps of trees whic had been felled ye After hour's ride there came, the right, the sound of axes at regul it and the forn n Wer: to and fro. lot of smoking tumul ten or a dozen fed whose summits light vapor were in fantastic wreaths and shapes. By a strange perversion these heaps of ty were call In them were burned the commerce and manufacture, here was a light snow but the workers did not seer Most of in their ~heavy woolen shirts—aand of swinging their perspiration, despite which whistled to itsell and seek with leaves, Out in looking horse was hauling wood on a sled, while 1 vits a sturdy man was w he rowful of city hod carrier groan. Th men and some were boys a work in and. Trees of a sizes, four inches in di ameter to the feet 10 ference, and the silent, winter's cold Matrimony comes in sealed packages, Pleasure is narrow ; happiness is wide A woman is afraid of a brave man. never Avarice is immons to the soul. green pers The wise man b hand. olds his tongue There is no telling what the world would have been like if woman had been created first 1nstead of last. men are they | spiritual is stronger than force; that thoughts rule the Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his mountains of Yes, but in the Yeracity he does who ser any material worl performance, what would be paid! of his guineas measure absolute impart it. web of contradic ler. How if this law of but one « be unity in this | tions 18 its greal won unity prove to be the are wh | oppositions ausef! How if ; | the perfect unity were only attainable y has : y yal burn been " : rough the Yoder ariver, as i _ {and sum o " “< | The desire ches | nio move The t the : I « man wio ’ m cut it up the ressive Jersey ts side clea growth gh wh urs before. ntervals 18 of me moving In a clearing 1 T_T in Heavy Cars the Safest, traveler of CLArc ons them were axes Ke the ol i th } H the consid CWS really log +3 that would hb ore v young; ! the from the sapl wood | giant five msalag net steady stroke ircam-- were « n for the in the of tite re that it has — wlio h Easter: pr 4 wei FR : ped up, covered But a peculia the wan Thus after the ork | He and *‘ranked” it is wheel — the pit is t y i 18 set or eighty fee Ast summer a entre | — he is onl into the water had been re drowning The burning of charcoal is done same primitive condition he been carried on iries in lands, The wood is h with earth and fired, nomenclature expresses processes of the work. wcks for ont for cen t mat. the ther cars leave wood is cut wr sledded to the spot where —that 13, where the ‘‘two banks,” A Space in the « is called, the Preience of Mind of whom nn YEArs be get" wo up on et , bov in height, with the fire, or, ney.” The average seven cords of wood. Alter the pit has been set then comes te the ‘*blacking” and ‘‘floating.” Fora A ALO space of three feet around the pile of | playing on a railroad wood the earth, or turf, | came upon them u inpercel | is dug up and thrown would hav wood, Upon this sprung forwar 1 and | the peril, receiving in we eleve sprang sschim when the b in whieh as if to each pit 18 about wing upset rescued both lus mother and two children track. A few weeks or “‘blac kin'," on the pile of | is thrown more sand, and the whole is covered compactly with sod and soil. The fire is then kindled | that were probably fatal from the top, and the wood is left to be | The truest heroism was displayed in charred. It has to be tended night and | both these cases, and, in addition, theve day, however, and this process is called | was another quality—referred to only “dressing” it. | three weeks ago in these columns—prese There were ten or twelve pits in the | ence of mind, Of priceless worth in the field where the Atsion workers were cut | mome put of emergency is this capacity to ting fuel. Some of them had about | t ink quickly and act effectively, — buraed out, had sunken to half their | Argosy. original size, while others were just be ; inning to smoke like mimic volcanoes, The Silk of Spiders. average product of a pit is aboat | In a French publication there is a 200 bushels of charcoal, In tendiog a | paper by Rev, P. Cambone on the silk of pit the watchman has to climb to the top | spiders. After giving a history of the of the mound by a rude ladder made out | attempts to obtain and use the silk oi of a log of wood, with niches or steps | spiders, he gives come interesting experi. cot in it and set up on end against the | ments of his own, made on a large orb smoking pile, weaving spider of Madagascar, He finds Sometimes the pits begin to *‘mull;"” | that the spider furnishes the most silk that is, it burns too fast and the fire sats after she has iaid her eggs. From ove to the foot of the pit and threatens to | spider there was obtained in twenty. consume the entire mass, Tending char: | seven days nearly four thousand meters cosl pits is a dangerous business, [of silk—over three miles. The silk was although it looks as simple as throwing | of a golden yeilow color. He gives the coals on a grite. A couple of years ago | plan of an apparatus for winding the silk, a son of the superintendent of the pits | which, however, as he says, is imperfect, deseribed went up on a pit to attend the | Nothing, however, was done ms to the fires, when the whole mass caved in | rising and keeping of the spiders in under his feet and he was roasted to | large numbers, undoubtedly the most death. It was during the night and no | serious question, i yet i cotl—- i S— men about charcoal pits students’ 1 lasionaty fe hens io bil sho pod ud i oy Ths glib in Mh They ore an fuvetan now umbath 2359 volunteers Sard 10 sara 98's week, The men EO ae Sy he foreign Suid, +1 the act | | in his | that | that foll ch the l | or tan know were | train and they been killed hac ' not an Italian | snatched them from | injuries | Rtockings are fantastic, Paris reports gowns of paper. Lace frills for the neck are quite in favor. Queen was fond of Victoria, during her youth, archery. Stylish gloves will be embroidered om the b to match suits. A rood sewing machine is SUPPOSE 1 to backs do the work of twelve women. The study of a fad adopted by En rlish women. Among the choicest fabrics are fine repped, light weight velours. Mrs. Henry M. Stanley artist, has absolutely no Women not only boots for their children, themselves. Queen Aane roses, and became in ther A laundry in Eoglan 1, owned by men and employing only females, « arned $25,000 last year. Mrs. Reginald de Koven, musical composer, is her husband's chit adviser and critic Mrs. Amelia Barr is said to from $10,000 to $15,000 a year ber literary work. Mary, Queen of ste, had a lap dog ywed her to the scaffold and soon of grief. women stronomy is the newest the , although an taste in dress, comfortable them buy bul wear detested the smell of sick when they were oon. wWO- the f wife of make from Ke after died Italian and Oriental w bring with them to this country the arts of knittin nbroldery Miss Wanamaker is hel ymen r and e na le of modern two has translate £ lan- Sodavi [rom the 100 years old. Habert her 2 rganizing a Lady n in in sirin Ohio's « uplt al i the posses. sion of the only fourfold r quartet in the worl by women. Four first violins, ad violins, four violes and complete the en- semble. M. Fel man.-mill well known always condemned in any shape. He takes some having brought in. infinitely more tyle that goed of late, Miss Eleanor Hewitt, daughter of New York's ex-Mayor, ean play the piano, violin and banjo, drive a fourin-hand ride a thorot aghl wed and row and sail a boat, and speaks Freach, Ger. man axl Italian like a native, ner, has nincs edit to yogue himself for the nas rei lem, black kid wap goods dye s are, like neve, (| as the the shoe ted June Black stockings f xp ninabie, gloves, very woe abo the underwear fast black stocking rich w ils and lining: a lux. ’ a warra: LER ury that the can ford. The nade with the MOAL 4 new full skirt, and the rilk under petticoat is quite separate from the outer skirt, This » a return to the style of three or four years ago, and is much less clumsy and more come fortable, A fashionable wedding gift just now fs a “loving cup” of silver or gold, beautifully engraved, and with its four handles in graceful attachment, On one side is the united monogram of the letters of the family names of the bride and groom. —— The New Bread. Attention is called to the new method of making bread of superior lightoes, flucnest and wholesomeness without youst, a receipt for which la given else. where in this . Even the best bread makers will be interested in this, To every reader who will try this, and write the result to the Royal Baking Powder Co., 108 Wall street, Now York, that company will send in return, {ree, a copy of the most practical and useful enok book, containing one thousand re. ceipts for all kinds of cooking, yet pub- lished, Mention this paper, ——— There are in foreign lands, American missionaries, their wives and assistants to the following number: Presbyterians, 2900: amodiste 860, o: Cangragtionniist, ¥ i sailed the unsalted seas ever since, Parisian | graceful | | mad price out Be newest Paris gowns are being | Sixty Years a Luke Sailor. Bart Logan, the oldest Buffalo, N. Y., with the exception of one colored man, began as cabin boy under the late Levi Allen sixty yoars ago, on the steamboat Ohio, and has He at seventy-four, and old times in Buffalo half & century and more ago thouzh they were things of yesterday, He knew Ben Rathbun, and like of The New B 2 OF AL unfern thut enterprising man was deeply wronged when he was sent to He was a victim of circumstances jealous rivals in business, Bart Logar sailed regularly under Captain 1884, on the Buperior, a steamer made from the wreck of the Walk-in-the Water. Buffalo Courier. —_ skipper in prison and is bale and hearty recalls the good ns Mince pies were known as far back 1596 as “mutton” pies. a most ented ng the althful h without di ad made pa latable and n warm and fres is not true of bre 1081 caten in any other way. Can be made only with Royal Baking Powder. Receipt for Making One Loaf. wilh milk, A SUCCESS, LT, BEWARE OF FRAVWL. A or, apd insist upon having «DOUG A fH ES. None gen” wine ThA Ma lougins ame on bottom. Look forit when you buy, mold everywhere, W. L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE wiitcx sewed shoe that will not rip; Calf, seamless, smooth comfortable, stylish and durable than any other shoe ever sold at the price. Every siyle. Equals custom. made shoes costing from §4 to £5. The following are of the same high standard of merit . $4.00 and $5.00 Pine Calf, Mand Sewed, $1.80 Police, Farmers and Letter Carners, $2.80, $2.28 and $2.00 for Working Mem. $32.00 and $4.98 11 pT outinn and Boys, | LASIES. IT IS A DUTY you owe 18 g4t the best valoe BEoonomise in inside «+ Dore gre exclusive anle 3 alare and 1 weral mt a Th eT leper natant free. ante tesa VERYBODY :zhiiad sreesiaiciey HARTMAN STEEL "PICKET FENCE in beauty of appearance, and it Almogh JA LEI rensing th NI other manufacturers combined, because it is the wen CHEAPER THAN WOOD wee The pew HARTMAN WIRR bps than hat one, bho hr hu lexi) A $page Hiustrate HARTMAN SPECIALTIES walled free on application. 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