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1TOESTA, PA., WEUNESDAf, FEBRUARY 24, 1886.
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For the lust fifteen yrn.ru, that in to
ny, since f ho sicgo of Paris in 1870, tho
consumption of horso flesh has steadily
incrensed iu Iho gny capital. What was
then (ho food of necessity has now
become one of the standard dishes of tho
table.
They have nt last invented something
new, albeit very gruesome, in tho way of
ft cirrus performance iu Europe. It ap
pears that the latest freak of female circus
riders there is to hold a living python
outstretched in their hands as they swing
nround the sawdust. Front seats oro not
at a premium.
"Cramner, of Colorado," ns he is
popularly called, is probably tho most
cxtensivo rattle-raiser in the world. His
cattle are all branded with three circles,
the three-circle brand he calls it. Once
ho was at a cattle convention, and while
conversing with a party of friends one
of them happened to mention the name
of Shakespeare. 'Shakespeare?" ob
served Crannier, "where have I heard
thnt name before? What kind of a
brand does he use on his cattle?"
The dogs are having a hard time of it.
If they should rise in their might, all get
mad and attack their present enemy,
man, the chances would bo in their favor
nt first. A well-known dog fancier in
Kcw York sent to a paper the following
statistics concerning tho number of ca
nines in and near the metropolis: New
York city, 1100,000; Brooklyn, 150,000;
Long Island City and Blissvillc, 10,000;
"Westchester county, 50,000; lloboken
nnd suburbs, 15,000; Jersey City and
suburbs, 15,000; Newark and suburbs,
150,000; Staten Island, 20,000."
Speaking of how ocean steamship
companies arc annually defrauded, an.
officer of one of them says in an inter
view: ''Every person who "has ever
crossed the Atlantic has noticed several
elegantly attired gentlemen who nt times
would wander haughtily among tho
steerage passengers, condescend to con
verse with tho intermediate people, and
on fine days invariably promcnado tho
hurricane deck. No one knew who they
were; no one had ever seen them cab
anything, nnd tho passengers, one and
all, discussed the mystery of 'where those
fellers hung it out every night ! ' Well,
these same gentlemen obtain all this
freedom and luxury by simply buying a
steerage ticket and boarding during the
voyage in either the carpenter's or
boutswain's room."
The telephone lias become an indis
pensable means of roinimi mention between
tho civilized countries of the old and new
world, and to show the use each country
is making of the invention the following
table is given :
Get-ninny i:S,000
England, over , 1 2,00(1
France, about 10,000
Italy 7,000
Swollen 11,000
Switzerland 5,000
Spain, estimated 1,100
Holland 4,000
Belgium 5,000
Russia 3,000
Austro-Hiingary 4,500
By way of comparison it may be of in
terest to add that the number of tele
phones now in use iu the United States
is estimated at 250,000.
As to the silver wedding and golden
wedding most of us know about those
anniversaries; but here now is something
new in the same pleasant line a bit
about a crown-diamond wedding. The
crown-diamond anniversary is the sixty
fifth, and such an anniversary was ob
served a short time ago at Maebuell, in
the Island of Alsen. Having completed
their sixty-fifth year of wedlock, Clans
Jacobsen and his venerable spouse were
solemnly blessed by the parson f their
parish, and went for the fifth time in
their long wedded life through the form
of mutual troth-plighting before tho altar
at which they had for the first time been
united before tho battle of Waterloo was
fought. The united age of the couple is
178 years.
Some interesting facts concerning the
relative vitality of males and females are
shown in the forty-sixth annual report of
the English registar-gencrul. In each
1,000 living persons there are 487 males
and 513 females; but for every 100 fe
males 103.5 males were born. At every
age of life the death rate was lower iu the
females, and the difference is greater iu
early years. In both sexes u diminished
deuth rate is taking pluce. This is more
marked in females than in mules, ut all
ages. The improvement is especially
uutieeable iu women up to forty-five, uiul
iu men to thirty-five. The meuu expec
tation of life of a mule ut birth is 41.115,
and of a female 44. 03 years. The annual
expectation of illness is, counted by days,
nearly the lamt in both lexci.
Aged and able old horses are the result
of human caro and usage. This is ex
emplified from an English source as fol
lows: 'A gentleman had three horses,
which severally died in his possession at
the ages of 35, 37 nnd 80 years. Tho
oldest was in a carriage the very day he
died, strong nnd vigorous, but was car
ried off by a spasmodic colic to which ho
was subject. A horse in use at a riding
school in Woolwich lived to be 40 years
old, and a bargo horso of an English
navigation company is declared to have
been in his C2d year when he died."
The St. Louis Glotie-Democrat has been
compiling some interesting figures con
cerning tho number of prisoners in the
country now serving terms for embezzle
ment or forgery. These statistics reveal
the somewhat surprising fact that New
York prisons contain only seven. Ohio,
on the other hand, has sixty-two; Kansas,
forty-four ; Indiana, thirty ; Massachusetts,
twenty-six, and New Jersey, eighteen.
The natural pride that a New Yorker
should take in such a condition of affairs
is rudely shocked by the Troy Timet,
which says that New York "financiers"
are not punished ; they go to Canada.
The average .man knows, perhaps,' a
score of insects familiarly by name; ho
has moro or less knowledge, perhaps, of
a hundred, nnd ho sees in these a won
derful variety of forms nnd colors. But
the resources of nature arc vastly greater
than any one realizes who has not made
a special study of some branch of natural
history. Think of Dr. Riley's collection
of North American insects, which is said
to contain 20,000 species, represented by
more than 115,000 pinned specimens, and
others preserved iu alcohol or by other
methods. He lias given this collection
to the National museum, where all who
care to do so may study the fruits of his
labor.
A traveler in New Mexico gives a glow
ing description of the country through
which a new road passes, and tells of tho
Seven Cities of the Chico valley what al
most reads like the romantic explorations
of the members of. tho Smithsonian In
stitute. Ho says that there arc to-day in
that valley ruins of large buildings five
stories high, and some of them in such an
excellent state of preservation that the ma
sonry and plastering arc looking as new
and fresh as though dono but a few years
instead of centuries ago. These build
ings arc popularly supposed to be of
Aztec origin, but, strange to say, there
is nt present no historical account of
them or of their builders.
The question of insanity and its greater
or less prevalence to-day as compared
with former times, appears to be far from
settlement. The fact that cases which
were considered hopeless fifty years ago
are now often cured means that persons
who would have died under the treat
ment then without the knowledge ever
becoming general that their complaints
were of the brain rather than the body
are now added to the table of statisticJis
lunatics. The great increase in tho num
ber and perfection of asylums
also swells tho number of the
recorded insane and aids in com
plicating nny attempt to judge
whether the brain troubles are really, as
it is often asserted, on the increase
among civilized nations.
The Iowa courts have made an import
ant decision regarding tho civil rights of
colored people. A negro who was re
fused admission to a place of amusement
because of his color appealed to the law,
when the circuit court held that it did
not appear from the averments that
plaintiff had any legal right to enter tho
place of amusement. The supreme court
affirms this ruling and says: "The act
complained of by the plaintiff was the
withdrawal by the defendants, as to him,
of the offer which they had made to ad
mit him, or to contract with him for ad
mission. They had tho right to do this,
as to him or any "other member of tho
public. This right is not based upon thc
fact that he belongs to a particular race,
but arises from tho consideration that
neither he nor any other person could de
mand as a right under the law that the
privilege of entering the pluce be accord
ed to him."
Bull against Hiick.
A remarkable light occurred recently
on the farm of the lion. Oscur Turner iu
Ballard county between a large Durham
bull, belonging to Col. Turner, and a
buck weighing over 200 pounds. Both
were found in the forest dead, only a few
feet apart. The bull had been gored
three times by ihe buck, the lust thrust
entering the animal's heart, and must
liuve killed him almost iustantly. The
deer was dreadfully bruised, though the
kitl had not been cut through. The
ground where the light occurred was cut
up by the feet of the auimuls. loutn.UU
PoiU
DISTANCE.
On softening days, when a storm was nrnr.
At tho farmhouse door I bare stood in the
R"y,
And caught in the diseance, faint but clear,
The sound of a train, passing, far away.
Tho warning bell when the start wu made,
The engine's puffing of smoke unseen,
With tho heavy rumble as wheels obeyed
Across the miles between.
And so sometimes, on a moonless night,
When the stars shine soft and the wind is
low,
To my listening soul, in the pallid light,
Come the trembling voices of long-ago
The tuneful echoes when hope was young.
The tender song of love serene,
And the throbbing rhythm of passion's
tongue
Across the years between.
Margaret W. Hamilton.
MY DAY.
Ilow long is thnt of mot people, I
wonder? Some perhaps can number the
full six hundred nnd thirteen thousand
six hundred nnd eight hours of the al
lotted threescore years and ten, while
others outlast the pre-Adamic day of the
geologist, and cover all eternity. But
mine was just the ordinary daylight one,
the shortest in the year, too, for it was
the 21st of December.
And even short as it was, I had already
wasted some hours of it. Had I thought
it would have set so soon I might have
been up nt its dawning, though usunlly I
hold, with Lever, that the sun looks best
as every one else does when he's up
and dressed for the day, nnd that its a
piece of impertinent curiosity to peep nt
him when he's raising nnd nt his toilet ;
he has not rubbed tho clouds out of his
eyes, or you dared not look nt him.
But when one's sun shines such a little
while as mine, might not one he pardoned
for rushing to the levee nt an unfashion
able hour.
Yet it was noon before I was out in the
bright glow, trudging down the lane with
yesterday's fall of snow crisping under
my feet, and last night's sleet clashing
overhead, as the wind caught nt the
strnggling, overgrown hedge-row boughs
and sent them ringing together with
such an icy jeweled flash nnd splendor
of green and gold nnd red and blue
as summer with all her wealth of
lenves and blossoms, could not rival.
The very splendor promised the glitter
ing mockery but a short life; the sun is a
traitor with his kisses, nnd the warmth of
them would soon wither away the snow
wreaths, making their delicate mimicry
of the white .May and the hawthorn in
the hedcrc. Thit. monntlmn i,
fair, and the snow lay light and white
tinder the great peach orchards that hnd
their icv snarkle tnn
with gentle undulations, right nnd left of
41. a ;i i . -. v.
me sun lane. Aim the blue skv hnd
the merest snowflake of a cloud drifting
along, nnd the sun was shining full upon
roe, nnd somehow n glint of it had got
into my heart, though there was nothing
in particular to bring it there. Yet I did
not intend to mope. Aunt Margaret and
the girls were friendly nnd kind, nnd the
least I could do would be to put aside the
shadow of my crape, and show them a
contented face. And so
Perhaps something more than content
flashed into it just then, when that
thought of mine was broken short off by
a clatter of those hedge-row boughs, and
some one sprang down through the gap,
bringing with him a little clutter of fall
ing icicles into the road before me. For,
ns we shook hands, there was a pleased
look in his eyes, and he said, with some
abruptness :
"You are a little glad to see me? You
won't mind my finishing your walk with
you?"
I tried to answer carelessly, though it
wns not so easy, tinder that gaze of his.
"Oh,if you are of a zoological turn this
morning, I am going in search of foxtail
nnd crowfoot. I marked a quite splendid
bed down by the brook in the woods in a
sheltered spot where I dare say this light
snow has not covered it. The girls tell
me they nro not in the habit of putting
evergreens about the house, but I always
did it at home, nnd "
lie understood me nt once. He said,
with his rare gentleness: "And you arc
trying hard to keep some of the old feel
ing about you. You must forgive me if
I cannot help seeing something of your
brave struggle, and yearning to help you
in it."
Yearning! It was a strong word, but
his eyes made it stronger, as I could not
help glancing up to see. And before, in
my confusion, I could drop mine again,
somehow my muff was on the snow at our
feet, and both my hands were in his.
"Miss Deane Annie I ran help you
with my whole life, Annie:"
And, nftcr that, is it any wonder if tho
sun shone straight into my heart?
I don't think our researches would
have added much to the cnirse of either
z'ology or botany that day. On the lat
ter especially my lover would have made
strange confusion, insisting that we were
passing under quite a number of mistle
toe boughs, if my superior knowledge, of
the science had not set him right. We
did find the crowfoot, however, nnd, as I
had expected, not too deep in the snow.
But when he had torn up a long spray of
it and Hung it trailing over my shoulder,
I stayed his hand. Madge uud I could
come another dav for some there was
plenty of time ut to-day's in-gather-iugs
I meant to keep alt to myself.
At least for this one duy, 1 told him,
when we had leached the house, and
paused together in the poivh. For this
on day we would not call in any one,
however liii iullv, to see whut t had
brought me; but to-night, when he was
gone, then 1 would tell Aunt Margaret
that I was to be his wife. I taid the
word in a little flutter as we stood to
gether, for already he had been asking
me how long I meant to keep his own
from him. As I said it, I glanced up
shyly at him, and it would have discom
fited me to see how his face changed. pal
ing at that word, if his hand liad not
closed on mine with a tightening grasp
which made me ashamed of a dawning
doubt that he wanted it.
"Annie "
The voice, fulfc of a strange pain,
startled me. Could this day have any
pain in it ?
Perhaps he read that thought he was
always so quick to understand for he
said : "I have a story to tell you, Annie,
a story thnt may take some of thc bright
ness out of this hour for you, as it has
taken all the brightness out of the last
seven years of my life until now. Shall
I tell it you now ? Or can you trust me
that it is nothing which ought to part
us ? and would you rather wait to hear it
until to-morrow ? "
I could trust him; av, rather, I could
ot distrust him ; and I told him so. Let
us live this day out without a shadow;
afterward, if shadows must come, he
should lead me safely through them.
"There is no danger in the shadow,
Annie; there is only something for us
both to forget."
"Let us forget it now, then. See, there
is Aunt Margaret at the window signing
to me; she is afraid I shall let her neigh
bor so offend ngninst her good old
fashioned hospitality as to go away to his
bachelor's hall, when it is three o'clock
and our dinner hour."
The shortest day of nil the year. "We
were watching its setting from the libra
ry window, we two left alone, for Madge
nnd Fanny had driven" into the village
for the mail, nnd Aunt Mnrgnret was
summoned to one of those kitchen-cabinet
councils which grew more nnd more
frequent under old Lethe's administra
tion. So we two were standing together
in the bay-window, watching tho crim
son glow fade off from the wide snow
stretch of lawn that sloped down to the
lane, dotted here nnd there with a black
green pyramid of fir, between the naked
oaks, when presently I caught sight of
something moving across their shadows
flung stiff and dark across the white.
"Some one is coming," I said, break
ing the happy silence. "A lady, I
thought though I wonder who it could
be, walking."
"Whnt a bore!"
"Oh, she'll not be shown in here, un
less you feel disposed to go to Aunt Mar
garet's assistance "
Here I saw thc side door of tho library
opening from the lawn. Tho visitor
must have observed is ut the window;
some one on sufficiently unceremonious
terms.
It wns a stranger.
Sho had closed the door behind her.
nnd had come forward into the full glow
of the wood fire blazing on the hearth.
A stranger, certainly; If I had ever seen
her before, I should never have forgotten
her.
She waR standing on the hearth, nnd
drew her slender gloved hands out of the
folds of her cashmere shawl, holding
them to the warmth, before she turned to
us the fairest face I have ever seen the
fairest face one ever dreamed. Only that
would have been a strange, Fouque-like
dream in which such a vision should
come.
It could not have been after-knowledge
on my part, for before she spoke, while
sho still fronted us with that gay smile
upon her perfect lips, I thought of Un
dine in her soulless loveliness, light
hearted, glad, careless of others' pain be
cause she could not feel it. There is
tho Undine nature in a child too, for
whom there exists no pain that does not
bruise its own tender flesh, and that soft
hardness made itself felt in every lino
nnd curve about this womnn, as she stood
there, white nnd golden, looking at us
out of those great brilliant eyes, of which
I have rend somewhere:
"Alive in their depths, as the Kraken beneath
the sea blue"
eyes which I would fain have followed,
for they fixed themselves on Brian. Only
I could not, that face so held me.
"They told me at your house that you
were here; and so I came," sho said, still
looking nt Brian.
I turned and looked at him too, then;
the clear, soft, shallow, child voice broke
the spell.
But he never saw me. His eyes were
riveted on her just as a man might look
who sees a ghost.
And then she smiled. She had been
beautiful before, but now her beauty was
bewildering. She stretched out her hands
to him.
"Have you never a word of welcome,
Brian, for your wife ? "
lie drew a long, hard breath, and
passed his hand heavilv over his eyes.
He never once glanced my way. though
I felt he saw me all the while. He
answered her very slowly:
"How is it you are not dead. Louise ?
For nearly seven years you have nllowed
me to believe you were."
She laughed a mocking little laugh.
Though she did not turn toward me, I
knew she had flashed a glance nt me.
"Have you been a disconsolate widower
all that time, my poor llrian It was
very wicked of me, of course. But
then, you see, I always hated poverty:
and yiU were so very impecunious at that
time, 1 really thought it better to die off
your hands."
Here she turned suddenly to me with u
sweet graciousness of manner, while her
eyes, alive with mocking spirits, looked
me through and through.
"Ylv husband is a little remiss at in
troductions, so I find I must make my
self known to you, as 1 nee vou ure one
of his friends. Everv one has a skeleton
iu his closet, you know, and I present
you to Brian's."
She made a playful courtesy as she
spoke.
"Only he fancied it was laid away un
derground," sho added. "Perhaps he
has told you of our runaway match when
he was at college, and how angry poor
mamma was, and hushed the matter tip,
and carried me away to Europe to finish
my school days there. And tncre it was
that mamma made her brilliant second
marriage a real, true German baron ; and
we went away to Vienna to live. But
first I died; for one must die must not
one? to get into paradise. Brian would
never have 1 let me go there alive, so I
sent him a lock of my hair nnd a little
scrawling deathbed note inclosed in a
letter from mamma's maid, who had
helped us to run away tho year before.
You remember Fifine, Brian"? She has
come over with me now. Such a clever
8oull I can't tell how I should
ever, without her, have man
aged to keep myself informed
of your movements, and of course I had
to do that, for all widowers aren't so con
stant, and you might have married, you
know "
He interrupted her, hoarse with pas
sion : "And how do I know that you "
"Oh, Brian, how can you! As if that
were not just what my stepfather and I
quarreled about! After dear mamma
died she died last year" (with a pretty,
plaintive fall in voice and eyelids, come
and gone as swiftly as a child's grave
look) "he was quite set on making a
match for me; and of course that
wouldn't do at all, you know. Denr
mamma wns content to let me enjoy lifo
my own way; but after .she was gone,
thc steppapa became just, a little difficult.
And so AVell, Brian, I knew you were
no longer a poor man, and that I should
not drag you down now. And so I have
como back to you, if you will have me."
She put out her hands then in the pret
tiest pleading way. If I had been a
man
But Brian did not soften in the lenst.
He had pent up his wrath now, and had
it under his control; but his voice was
still hoarse as he said to her:
"I shall take pains to learn whether all
this is truth. Meanwhile we will not
trespass any longer upon Miss Dcanc's
patience. I shall take you back to my
house, and will set out within thc hour
for Vienna. Miss Deane will par
don "
There he broke off huskily. He had
not once lifted his eyes to mo since first
they fell upon her shadow, which tho
waning sunset cast between us.
But how I hnd the strength I do not
know but I went straight up to her nnd
took her hand, and kissed her on the
pretty smooth white brow ns she lifted
up her face to mine. Is there womnn
born who can keep anger for a pretty
child? And there are some people who
never outgrow the charm and irresponsi
bility of childhood; if they pluck at
one's heart-strings with their careless
fingers until mic could bo stung into
giving them a blow or a shakr, one must
kiss and be friends afterward. And then
I turned to him I must have had a
vision of how it would all end : for she
was wonderfully fair; she had been his
first love; she would be his last. I
turned to him.
"I am sure you will find all as she has
said, and thnt you will forgive her. I
don't think I shall be here still when you
come back from your long journey, so
you must let me give you my best wishes
now."
Our hands met for an instant not our
eyes ; we neither of us could bear that.
Then onr hands fell apart, and presently
I was alone.
My day was over; twilight darkened in
window, grey and blank.
And after twilight ?
Just a paragraph in a book I have been
turning over by my solitary fireside to
night has set me thinking of all this. It
says :
"There are women who live ull their
lives long in the cold white moonlight of
other people's reflected joy. It is not a
bad kind of light to live, after all. It
may leave some dark, ghostly corners iu
the heart unwarmeir, but, like other
moonlight, it lets a great deal be seen
overhead that sunshine hides." llarper'i
Weekly.
A Lucky Confectioner.
A German confectioner, while trump
ing through Turkey a short time ago,
saluted the Sultan vigorously as the latter
drove past. Unaccustomed to such an
exhibition of cordiality, one of the sul
tan's officers thought it best to inouire
if it had any significance. His explana
tion proving satisfactory and his inno
cence dear, and the avowal of his avoca
tion, moreover, erratiiitr evident inti.rekt
the man was dismissed with a present anil
an injunction to turn up the next day
with a clean skin and new clothes. The
result of thc second interview was that
the confectioner w as set to making pastry,
and his success was so complete that lie
wns eruriifed ri"ht olf lit n ..il-irv ,f Klin
piasters per month. The pastry found
its way to the sultan's table, and his
highness was so pleased with it that he
made thc stranger his confectioner at
once, with 1,000 piasters a month for
muking tarts.
Beaching Great Depths.
It has been found difficult to get cor
rect soundings of the Atlantic. A mid
shipman of the navy overcame the diffi
culty, and shot weighing thirty pounds
carries down the line. A hole is bored
through the sinker, through which a rod
of iron is passed, moving easily back and
forth. In the end of the bar a cup is dug
out and the inside coated w ' it It hud. The
bur is mailt! fast to the line and a sling
holds the shot on. When the bar which
extends below the ball touches the eurth,
the sling unhooks und the shot slides off.
The lard in the end of the Uir holds some
of the sand, or whatever may be on the
bottom, uud a drop shuts over the cup to
keep the water from Mushing the t-nnd
out. When t lie ground is ri ached a
shock is felt as if an electric current luul
passed through tho line, ludeimi.dtn.
BE KIND.
Oh, be kind to those who love yonl
Grieve no human love away I
Twine it tenderly about you,
Let it bless you day by day,
Tho' the sunlight now may dazzle,
Life has many a clouded sky;
Hoard your treasures of affection,
You will need them by and by. ,
Oh! be kind to those who love you I
Give them gladness while you may I
Here to-day, to-morrow's sunrise
May behold them pass away."
Lavish love on nil around you;
Smiles and sunshine freely strew ;
And, like bread upon the waters,
They will yet return to you.
Lillie Sheldon, in Inter-Ocean.
HUMOR OF THE HAT.
A smart boy Just after a whipping.
Even tho honest farmer will water his
stock. Call.
Better an empty head than one with a
cold in it. Life.
There is one thing that is always pretty
sound about a church, and that is the bell
No man should complain alxmt his lot
unless it be a lot of old rubbish. Hot
Springs Newt.
A philosopher snys thnt the best way
to avoid getting into debt is to die young.
Boston Budget.
THIRTY-TWO DEOREE8.
The way to school the small boy hateth.
On learning, turns his back, and skateth.
Life.
If a passion, like love, grows by whnt
it feeds upon, there is no doubt the wish
is fodder to the thought. New Orlean
Picayune.
It costs $10,000 to convert a South Sea
cannibal to Christianity, and then he is
only worth $9 a week in a dime show.
Fall River Advance.
IN CANADA.
The firelight dances on the walls,
My heart throbs with love's elation,
When like a eat my darling squalla
"Ouch! Dear, don't squeeze my.vaecina
nationl" Burdetle.
"I want the music of tho 'Mikado,'"
said a little boy, entering a New York
music store. "For singing, or for the
piano?" "I don't want it for either, I
want it for my sister." Siftingt.
Dio Lewis says that we busy, high
pressure "Americans should jjo to bed
at 9 and rise at 5. Such things make
us tired. How can a man get out of bed
four hours before ho lies down? Brook
lyn Eagle.
We see by thc burning of a cigar store
in Chicago nearly a million cigars were
smoked up at one sitting. Did it make
anybody sick? you ask. You bet, simple
one. It made the owner of the store sick.
Burdettt.
Another of thc old settlers is gone. We
had a piece of him at our landlady's
table this morning. Immediately beneath
the epidermic formation from his back
we found a piece of eggshell, bearing
the legend, "Laid 1849." Sf. Paul
Herald.
A standard target for American rifle
men has just been adopted by the clubs
of the United States, which have had tho
matter under discussion for several
months. We hope it is hrrge enough to
protect the indiscreet cows and pigs that
wander about the various ranges. Boston
Pod.
A Great Hop Field.
A Tacoma (Wyoming Territory) cor
respondent of the Cleveland Leader says :
"At thc rear of the house appeared to me
a rare scene. Here stood acres of hop
vines, wonderfully luxuriant in growth,
and falling in rich brown festoons from
poles eighteen or twenty feet in height.
From these masses of vines not a single
hop had been picked this year, nnd they
were now laden w ith their scaly fruitage.
From the leafy crown on each pole
dripped a shower of glistening drops,
producing all over the field a ringing
pit-pat as they touched tho ground, while
above them, exhaled under the increasing
hent of the sun, rose thin clouds of shin
ing vitor. On every hand tall trees
hemmed the clearing in. There were only
two dwellings in sight, One of these
stood across thc river slightly obscurod
by mist. As everybody knows, the ex
cessive dampness of the sound country is
due to its position between the Great Sea
and the Cascade Mountains. The vumik.
exhaled from the ocean, not being able,
as they roll inland, to surmount these
mighty summits, are turned back, con
densed anil precipitated to the earth in
plentiful rains, fogs and mists.
"I have said that from these sixty-three
acres of hops not a bale has been marketed
this season, nor will be. 'Why is that?'
Simply becnusc the price of hops this year
at the picking season was too low to pay
for harvesting. The owner had sunk sev
eral thousand dollars in the cultivation
of his crop. The picking and curing
would add several thousands more to the
amount, and, as he believed, from the
tendency of the market, would put noth
ing in his pocket. So ho let the uerid
fruit hang. Further along the season it
will fall to the ground and the money
with it. Next spring both will bo
plowed under, the combination forming
one of the most unique fertilizers ever
employed. It turned out, however, w hen
too late to harvest, that the market im
proved a little, enough so that something
like $2,000 might have been put in bank
hud the ingathering taken pluce. Lust
yeur's crop on these same acres sold for
nearly 14,000. From this statement
may be formed some idea of tho loss sus
tained the present season.
' "The average j ield of hops per acre in
ttny of these extremely fertile valleys is
front l.hoO to 2,'XIO pounds. Iu specially
faunvd locutions it amounts up to ;),000
pounds, whiluon thin soils it may dn.p
to 1.000.