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The California Fruit-Grower say there
it no doubt a to the toil nnd climate of
California being admirably adapted to
the successful cultivation of ramie. j
With soma six thousand homicides in
the United State last year there were but
123 legal elocutions. Judge Lynch,
though, contrived to attend 195 more.
The succoss of the French postal sav
ing banks, which were established ten
" yean ago, is shown by the report for
1890. At the close of that year the
total deposits were over $20,000,000,tho
number of depositors numbering over
2,000,000. .
Not, content with planning an under,
ground railway, on 3 of Berlin's civil
engineer -plau underground streets.
Thoy are to be covered with a close grat
. ing of itcel, well supported, which
admits air, light and rain, and over
. v : u .. - i -1 i a tr. - : - .1
nuibu Uig uouut DUUOb utiiuu ta uiiiau
A company, backed by Eastern cap
italists, has been incorporated in Chi
cago, 111., for the manufacture oi Ameri
can flax. Thecapital stock is $2,000,000.
Speaking for the new company its attor
ney said: "At presont nearly all tho flax
' used in this country is imported. This
company has experimented to its own
satisfaction that it can manufacture the
American article- much cheaper than it
can be imported, and, at the same time,
furnish as good an article as that made
in foreign countries."
- -The gross receipts of the Philadelphia
and Reading system will hereafter be
fau,uuu,uuu aunuauy, anu tno numoor
of its employes will approximate 100,-
000, being more than are employed by
any. single corporation on this planet.
The acquirement of the Poughkeepsio
Bridge and the lines tributary thereto
throws the Reading and its entire aug
mented -system into the very heart of
New England, giving it the only all-rail
oute from the Middle and Southern
State to tho East, with connections
with all important New England roads,
nd enabling it to virtually control the
coal traffic of that entire region.
The Boston Transcript says: The
decision of the Supreme Court that the
"habitual criminal" act is constitutional
is a gratifying one. The act provides
that on conviction of a third felony a
person may be sentenced to the Stale
Prison for twenty- five years. The prin
cipal which underlies this legislation is
sound one. The man who proposes to
live by preying upon the community has
no right to live, in the community.
This U one of the propositions which
prison reformers long ago laid down,
and in securing the passage of the law,
which the court now sustains, they have
done tha community a gront service.
Asafcctida as a cure for "grip" has
been ridiculed by a great many physi
cians, but most of thorn admit, adds tho
New York Post, that they have never
prescribed it. In the West asafcetida in
pills of four grains has been tried with
gratifying results. . Quick recoveries are
reported in nearly every instance, with
out the usual sequel of debility. In
Louisville alone 20,000 of the pills were
sold in one day recently. No bad effects
can follow the use of asafestida, for of
all things it is a sedative. In Asiatic
countries it is employed as a condiment,
but this is a use to which few persons
will ci re to put it. Many old people in
the yfeat who were far gone with the
disease have, it is asserted, been cured
by the asafoBtida pills. They should be
taken, according to their admirers, thiee
times a day with a glass of water, and
taken in this way are warranted not to
taint the breath.
Occasionally, something turns up to
prove, remarks tho Boston Transcript,
that some of our homelier methods in
therapeutics, "old women's remedies,"
a the doctor's sneeringly call them, are
found to be reasonably scientific after
all. Lately, for instance, an expert, who
has been experimenting in M. Pasteur's
laboiatory, has discovered that no living
disease germ can resist for more than a
few hours the antiseptic power of essence
of cinnamon, which seems to be no less
effective in destroying microbes than is
corrosive sublimate. -Its scent will kill
them. A decoction of cinnamon is ric
otnended for influenza cases, typhoid
fever and cholera. Perhaps some of us
can remember when elderly ladios used
to carry in their wonderful pockets, the
capacity of which was enormous, bits of
cinnamon or other pungeut and fragrant
spice, the odor of which would betray
their coming many foot away. Whether
it was carried as a preventive or merely
for the satisfaction of having something
to nibble was not revealed to us youngs
sters of those days. Peppermint candy
was always a recognized stimulant
agaiwt attack of somnolence at sermon
time at church.
Chile is woman' Utopia.
Can Tote on all questions.
EVERY DAY.
And the tumult of the street
And oeaseless tread of restless feet; v
What varied human forms we moot,
Every day.
Some hardened with unwhlspered woe;
Bad secrete God alone oan know; ''
We see them wandering; to and fro, '
Every day.
Some seared by time's decay or blight;
With furrowed brow and fndinglght,
Who haunt our feot from nwn 'till night,
Every day.
Borne swayed by passion deep and strong,
Enkindled by some burning wrong,
Unheeded by the listless throng,
Every day.
rbe lust of power, the greed for gain,
Twin tyrant of the heart and brain;
We see the ruin of their reign,
Every day.
The crafty ghouls that throng the street,
Wearing the garment of deceit;
Who breathe to lie and live to cheats
Every day.
And some aspiring to be great,
With beaming eye and heart elate,
Scorning the thorny thrust of .fate,
Every day.
The youth enthralled by some fond dream,
Or borne along on fancy's stream,
Believing all things what they seem,
Every day.
The aged tottering toward the tomb,
No light to lift their rayless gloom,
Nor hope their weary way illume,
Every day.
The rich and poor, the old and young,
With silent lip or fluent tongue.
And griefs untold or joys unsung,
" Every day.
Thus in the drama of the town,
Borne bear across or wear a crown
Until death rings the curtain down,
Every day.
D. B. Bickels, in Now York Press.
SARAH
BY LUCY C. LIM.Itt.
URRIEDLY Sarah
Molyneux crossed the
hall of her aunt's
house in Cheltster and
stood irresolutely for
a moment at the head
of the old-fashioned
staircase. Her hand
amoved a little neiv-
ously on the balus
trade, and the line between her delicate
dark brows deepened.
"If it were only over with or needn't
be at all," she reflected. But there was
no way to avoid the unpleasant task
ahead of her, and accordingly Sarah
passed down the stairs and into the
square parlor over-looking the garden.
In about half an hour old Mrs. Thorpe
in her room upstairs heard the front door
close, and a quick step go down the
garden pathway. Presently Sarah came
back.
The old Jady was popped up in bed
and turned a pair of very bright, clear
eyes upon her niece as she entered the
room.
"Well," Mrs. Thorpe exclaimed with
impatience. "Sit right down and tell
me all about it. And don't oblige me
to ask tco many qnestions. You know
bow I bate to have to wring anything
out of you.
Sarah laughed. "I'll do my best,
Aunt Polly," she answeredittingdown
in tho window and looking with gentle
indulgence at tho old lady. "I suppose
I must begin at the beginuing. I found
Mr. Morison, of course, in the parlor and
he fairly jumped at the business ques
tion." "Humph, what'd he say 1"
"Said that he would not think of dis
turbing you while you were ill but that
it was very important for him to know
when he could take possession of the
house. He intends putting up the fac
tory at once, he says. He observed that
Mr. Beecham had explained how fond we
were of the old house and all that, but
of course we could hardly expect him to
be sentimental in a business matter."
"Did he talk like that right to your
face, Sarah Molyneux?"
"Yes, Aunt I cau't say well it didn't
sound quite so bold ; but those were his
words. "
"Who does he favor in looks the
Turners, I guess." Mrs. Thorpe leaned
back and closed her eyes a moment, vis
ions of the high cheek bones and promi
nent noses of the Turners floating before
her. Sarah thought of them too,sharply
in contrast with the looks of her recent
guest.
"He's not a bit like the Turners,"
she said, presently. "I don't know the
Morisons much," she added. "Let me
see he is not very tall rather slight
but looks strong and has a clean-shaven
dark face."
"Handsome?" Mrs. Thorpe'i eyes
opened for an instant.
"Oh, no not at all oh no, not the
least bit handsome; but be has a quick,
bright sort of look."
"So he's going to put up a factory
dear.dear I did not think but well no
of course the property's his since your
uncle Ezra left it to bim by will I never
thought Ezra'd do it. Always took for
granted he meant it should be miue out
right and after letting me . live here
forty years."
"I said something of the kind to Mr.
Morison. He's coming back this even
ing." "What for; he isn't going to build to
night, is het"
"Oh, no. He wanted to see the gar
den very particularly."
"Well, you make it clear I want the
plants."
When the objectionable guest bad paid
his second visit, Sarah came back to her
aunt's room lookiog very much dis
couraged. "Well, what now?" demauded the old
lady with a scorn;.
"He says we can't have those gardens
disturbed, Auut il'ylly," will Sarah, sit
ting down d-cVediy. "I took him
down to the arbor, and we had a very
nice talk at first. I really almost liked
him. We began about country life, and
he told mo how much he had longed for
a real country home a place something
like this, he said then he asked who
took care of tho garden, and I told him
I was your gardnor, and how much we
both loved the flowers. I showed him
the tree planted when I was a baby, and
then the rosebud for my tenth birthday;
and he said that he should think we'd
hate to leave it all then I explained you
wanted the plants; but he said oh, nol
they were part of the property."
"Turner straight through and
through," declared the old lady.
"Grasping all they can get. I will have
the plants, though; I guess Ezra's will
had nothing to say to them."
"I could scarcely be civil after that,"
pursued Sarah, her face flushing in the
dusk. I changed the subject, and asked
bim how nearly he was related to the
Turners ; but he said it was very distant,
lie told ne where he lived as a boy. It
seems his father had a paper in some
country village Saul I thiuk he called
it, and he was a very visionary, unprac
tical, enthusiastic kind of man. I guoss
he didn't provide much for the family.
Anyway Sir. Morison says he started out
young in life to carve his own future,
and ho has been quite successful only
he Intends to be thoroughly so, he says,
if possible."
"By way of my garden. Humph 1"
"He says he enjoys obstacles, llo likes
something to conquer. I told him I had
no fancy for battleQelds; he said a skir
mish was as good as success to him. Oh,
Aunt, by the way, do I look like the
Turners?"
"Well, some," said the old lady, re
luctantly. Sarah crossed the room and
in the faint light regarded her face at
tentively in the long, narrow mirror. It
was a thin, clear-cut face, rather shadowy
as to what might or might not bo its
owner's strong or weak points; the face
of a girl to whom events or emergencies
were unknown. Lifo had written al
most nothiug upon it that gave it charm,
and'he eyes were a pretty hazel with
black lashes and delicate brows.
"Tho Hatfleid Turners," pursued the
old lady, as Sarah sat down again.
"You do look some like them. Why?"
"Oh, Mt. Morison said I had a Turner
look," the girl answered. "Ho tried to
make out we are cousins."
"Well you are twice removed. His
mother's your cousin, I think."
"I must ask him. He'll bo back in
the morning, he says."
Well, I declare to gracious the man
means to force me out of this bed, I be
lieve. Sarah, you must speak up and
not let him impose upon you."
About eleven o'clock the next morning
very unusual sounds floated up to the
old lady from the parlor where Mr.
Morison was again "interviewing" Sarah.
Some one was playing on the old piano;
then a man's voice, a clear fine tenor,
could be heard. The song was one the
old lady remembered in her youth
"Phyllis is my only love" and hor
withered cheek flushed with pleasure.
"Sarah," she said, directly her niece ap
peared, "did you ask that young man
to sing? 1 want you should inquire if
he knows another piece like that."
Sarah's eyes were very soft and
bright.
"Aunt," she said eagerly, "would it
look bold if I sang a duet with Mr.
Morison? He's coming back this after
noon." "What'll you sing? You don't know
what you're talking about, Sarah."
"Docs he think the piano's his?" de
manded the old lady with a sudden re
turn of severity. Saiah looked miser
able. "Ho says it is Aunt," she admitted.
There was an ominous silence; then
Mrs. Thorpe closed her eyes again.
"Well, it was Ezra's," she admitted.
It was with mingled feelings that she
listened that afternoon to the singing
from below. Love of music compelled
her to enjoy keenly the way in which
Sarah and the audacious Mr. Morison
sang "I would that my love" and "Oh,
wert thou in the cauld blast." While
resentment against what she felt an un
just will, depriving her and her niece of
her cherished home, made her consider
everything done or said by Mr. Morison
objectionable, yet somehow she found
herself looking forward eagerly to her
niece's next report of their unbidden
guest.
"Ho is going to be married soon,
Aunt Polly," Sarah related. "Perhaps
that is why be is in such a hurry about
the house. He's been telling me about
the young lady."
"Well, upon my soul. Seems to me
he's very free with his confidences. Mar
ried? What'd he say about her?"
"Oh, I don't know exactly," said
Sarah; "he said she was the kind of girl
I'd get along quickly with ; it seems, ever
so long ago he made up his miud never
to marry any one but her."
"Well, and were there any of those
obstacles he talks about?" sniffed the olu
lady.
"Oh, yes. But he says there's quito a
touch of romance in the whole affair.
He's" a very well, masterful sort of per
son, Aunt. I can quite understand
whut he means when he says he enjoys
ovvicoming difficulties. Hu isn't the
sort of person any one could trifle with
easily."
"I guess I will when I get around.
What with the garden and the piauo
and the dear knows what all I'll be
grateful if ho leaves us the clothes to
our backs. Wbat else'd you talk
about?"
"Oh, a great many things. Books
some. He's fond of German and, oh,
I meant to tnll you, he's coming to
morrow inorniug and going to read a
little German with me."
"Well, Sarah, you just see here. Let
that young mau kuow you've something
to do besides fool around with hiiu. I
know; he wauts to force me up. I'll see
Dr. Baker, 1 guess, before that Tom
Morisou gets me out of the house."
'Ob, Aunt I it's just because he
wants, he says, to familiarize himself
with the place."
"Well, he's got all the time there is
after we're gone. I want you should be
very distant with him and, Sarah, I
guess you'd better not begin any German
readings."
During Mr. Morison' next visit Sarah
appeared in her aunt's room with a very
anxious expression.
"Aunt Polly," she said, with an effort
at composure, "Mr. Morison' brought
the German books, and I don't know
what to say about It I"
"Well, go on," said the old lady, "I
suppose you're bent on it any way, and
perhaps he'll help you some."
She lay very still when she was alone,
sometimes with her eyes open, but gen
erally keeping them closed as pictures
from the past, and visions of what
might be ahead of her floated through
her brain, and the peculiar cruelty of
her brother's will imoto her heart afresh.
When she had been loft a widow forty
years ago, Ezra Turner had promptly
bade her stay on in the house which had
seen the happy years of her married life,
and which had been endeared to her by a
hundred different associations; when the
sorrows it had witnessed consecrated tho
place almost as tenderly as its periods of
joy, while from the time she had brought
her little orphan niece Sarah home, a
new interest was given her life, yet one
inseparably bound tip with the old man
sion. Ezra's will foil like a thunderbolt
upon the old lady and her niece. In
deed, there was little question but that
it caused the weak turn which confined
her to her room; and as she lay thero
now, faintly conscious of the voices from
below, something like a wish never to
leave the old home save for a final rest
ir g place brought a hot moisture into her
eyes.
It Beeuoed a long time before Mr. Mori
son went away. When the door had
closed upon him at last Mrs. Thorpe
alert for every sound, heard Sarah lin
gering on the stairs. Presently the girl
appeared. Her cheeks were scarlet.
"Well," demanded the old lady,
"what now? what new thing's he going
to claim?"
Sarah's color now swept all her face.
"Oh, Aunt Polly," she said, "it's all
as queer as queer can be. Ob, if you'll
only let me. Please oh, Aunt Polly,
it seems Mr. Morison made his mind up
right away, the very first day, he says
and ho never wanted anything so much
before"
"Sarah Molyneux," said the old lady,
sitting upright, "what ails you? Speak
English."
"Oh, he's asked me to marry him,
Aunt Polly," said Sarah; "that's it; and
he says I mustn't say no he made all
that up about going to be married or
rather, he says he was bound to make
me say yes."
Mrs. Thorpe remained rigid in the
same attitude for a moment without
speaking. Sarah flushed and paled and
flushed again.
"What'd you tell him?" at last de
manded the old lady, with an accent of
fine scorn. She was very proud of
Sarah's conquest. She knew all about
young Morison, and was well aware how
highly he was esteemed. 1
"Oh he say it's settled," observed
Sarah; "and of course he was only
going on, he says, to try me about the
factory and the garden and the piano;
he says, bless your heart and he wouldn't
take a thing belonging to you more'n
he'd steal."
"Only my girl." said Mrs. Thorpe,
grimly. But when Sarah bent to kiss
her there was the kind of tenderness in
the old woman's embrace that the girl
remembered only when she was a little
child.---The Independent.
Effects of Regular Marching.
Dr. Colin, regimental physician in the
French army, has published the results
of his investigations into the effects of
regular marching in disciplined bodies
upon soldiers. The regularity of the
step causes the indefinite- repitition of a
shock of the bones and brain, infinitely
more deleterious than an irregular walk,
and to this regular repetition of the
shock to the same parts of the body is
due the peculiar aches, pains and ill
nesses of the troops. In a one day's
march, he says, this shock is repeated
40,000 times, and often tho strongest
men, who can walk the same distauce
without difficulty when not in line, suc
cumb to the strain in two or three days.
Dr. Colin's preventive is a rubber heel in
all military boots. This heel has been
tried at his instance in the French in
fantry, he says, and the result has been
found to be a great relief to the soldiers.
The experiments with the rubber heel
are still in progress. Boston Tran
script. A Nest In a Queer Place.
In the picture gallery of Charlton
Park, near Malmesbury, England, is a
glass case containing the skin and feath
era of a big crow. The creature had
been caught and nailed to a tree with
other vermin, a fate which so many
thousands of crows Bhare yearly that
there is nothing odd in it. Tho extraor
dinary part of the matter is that in the
shelter of his wings, where his body was
before it decayed, a little wren had built
itself an exceedingly little nest. With
wonderful dexterity the tiny bird ha 1
contrived to fasten together the wings of
his dead enemy, whose body he proposed
to utilize. Tho entrance to the nest was
where the crow's breast had been, and
here tho family of little wrens was
reared. The nest was observed, and
when its occupauts had flown, away it
was carefully removed, and placed in the
owner's picture gallery. New York Re
corder. Feeding Vanilla Beans to Ileus.
A man on Long Island has discovered
a way of feeding vanilla beans to his
hens so that the eggs are distinctly
flavored with vanilla. The hens, more
over, are so fertile under this diet that
he sends up daily to town twenty-live
dozen eggs. These are engaged to the
full luyiug capacity of the hens. A
vauilla flavored egg at breakfast is the
latest caprice of luxury. New York
PreM.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Aluminium Is tho best conductor of
heat and electricity.
Porcelain is being made from asbestos
in Paris, France. It is said to be a su
perior article.
It has been discovered that colors when
passing through a prism can bo made to
produce sound.
It takes eight times the strength to go
upstairs than is required to walk the
same distance on a level.
The theory that diamonds owe their
origin to volcanic eruptions receives sup
port from eminent scientists.
Flammarion, the French astronomer,
is of the opinion that before a great
while we shall be able to talk with the
inhabitants of Mars.
Mr. Haly, of the Colombo Museum,
has discovered that carbolized oil is one
of the best preservatives of the colors of
fish and other animal specimens.
Equal parts of ammonia and turpen
tine will take paint out of clothing if it
be bard and dry. Saturate the spots as
often ai necessary and wash out in sopp
suds. A quarry of natural cement stone has
been discovered in the Province of Natal,
South Africa. Near by are extensive
coal deposits, which supply the fuel to
burn the stone.
On a farm in the suburbs of Provi
dence, R. I., there has been located what
is claimed to be one of the largost and
richest veins of granite east of the Black
Hills, if not in the entire country.
Tho British Museum has discovered
that the two alleged etruscan antiquities
which it recently purchased at an enor
mously high figuro are mere Italian
"fakes," and are absolutely worthless.
A Paris electrician has suceedi d by
means of his battery in forcing violets.
It took four hours to grow his first batch.
The bunch was plucked, tied with a rib
bon and sent to the ex-Empress Eugenie.
Lick Observatory in California has just
been notified by telegraph of the new
discovery of a new star near Chi Aurigae.
It is of the fifth magnitude and there
fore easily visible to the naked eye. It
has a specturm with bright lines.
Dried sulphate of copper in soap has
valuable antiseptic and healing proper
ties, almost entirely neutralizing by its
use the ordinary dangers of physicians,
nurses and any persons who are exposed
to blood poison through cuts or
scratches.
In the coming Crvstpl -Palace Electri
cal Exhibition Y ..-don, England,
upon the paymerr small fee, persons
will be able to,' ...a- through the tele
phone to the music performed at theatres
in London, Birmingham, Manchester
and Liverpool.
It is said that a syndicato of Swiss and
English capitalists have been formed to
utilize a part of the falls of the Rhine at
Lauffonburg for the generation of elec
tric energy. Tho water will be led to
turbine wheels and 7000 horse power will
be developed.
A meteor which fell in Alabamn
plowed up a furrow about as large as a
Hour batrel and three or four feet deep,
then bounded and struck a large pine
tree six feet from the ground, shivering
the tree. It then exploded, scattering
its fragments in every direction, cut
ting down small growth and tearing up
the ground.
Carl Lumholtz is now exploring the
natural history and archeology of the
Sierra Madre in Northwestern Mexico.
Among the birds of the Sierra Madre is
the great woodpecker which is twenty
one inches long, and is therefore the
largest woodpecker known. It goes in
pairs, and cannot bo killed except by
ihe rifle. These birds will feed for one
or two weeks on a single tree, so that in
many cases the trees fall down.
Birds Gathered His Almond Crop.
An almond grower of this locality hit
upon a neat device for gathering his erop
last fall. His trees bore largely, and
this early became kuown to the yellow
hammers, a species of the woodpecker
tribe of birds, and they had regularly
stoied away large quantities of ripe nuts
taken from the orchard in the limb of an
oak tree near by. Tho astute orchardist
watched operations, and at last hit upon
a novel nut and labor saving plan, and
he lost no time in putting it into execu
tion. The limb was sawed from the tree and
replaced by a square shaped funnel long
enough to nearly reach the ground; a
bucket was then set underneath. A
genuine robbing game then went merrily
on. The birds gathered the nuts, which
they dropped into the tuunel and down
iuto the bucket below, and as regularly
as night came the almond grower would
in his turn empty it of its contents and
set it back for a new supply. This was
kept up until the entire crop had been
guthered, and the yellowhammera had
departed broken hearted at the heartless
deception practised upon them. Sutter
City Enterprise,
Boss and Butterfly.
I was fishing for boss one day in a quiet
pool on Elkhorn Creek, near Frankfort,
Ky., on the outer rim of what is known
as Gault's Bend, writes a correspondent.
A few yards above where I was stauding,
knee-deep in the water, was a broad shal
low, where the current rippled" over
sunken and about exposed rocks before
subsiding in the deeper' waters of the
pool. As I drew my bait temptingly
across the pool in search of a hungry
bass, I noticed a yellow butterfly wing
ing its zig- zag flight across the shallow
mentioned, and closo to the surface of
tho water. When half way across, a
bass, probably not over a quarter pound
weight, suddenly leaped from the water,
struck the butterfly with uuerring aim,
and fell back with a splash in the shal
lows. The butterfly was hit hard, as it
fell dead or stunned in the stream about
three fuel from where the bass had in
tercepted its flight, but unfortunately
the little gludiator, failed to recover his
prize, as it floated undisturbed down
into the pool below. Forest aud Stream.
A TUUPENTINE ORCHARD.
OBTAINING A VALUABLE SAP VS
SOUTHERN PINE WOODS.
Cutting "Boxes" in the Trees to Hold
the Flowing Sap "Dlppor" at
AVork From Forest to Still.
IN an account of tho turpentine in
dustry at Purvis, Miss., a writer for
tho Picayuno says: A turpentine
orchard may comprise any number
ot acres of pine timbered land, but those
of any magnitude contain from 10,000
to 15,000 acres. This, however, does
not lie all together, some being close at
hand, and other tracts as far out as
twenty miles. For convenience sake,
this orchard is divided into "crops,"
consisting of 160 acres of land, or about
10,500 turpentine "boxes."
The first step in opening up an orchard
of this kind is the cutting of boxes,
which it begun about tho middle or last
of December, and each year afterward
new boxes or new timber are cut, in or
der to keep up the acreage of the boxes
as the old ones gives out. These boxes
are made by a slice, as it were, being
taking out of the tree near the ground,
leaving a pocket cut into tne troe to
ward the heart. Later on, another sot
of axmen come and cut a small chip out
of each corner of tho box, in order to
give it roundness and enable it to hold
the flowing sap. This process is called
"cornering boxes." The boxes now'
measure fourteen inches wide, seven
inches deep and four inches across.
Generally only one box is cut to a tree,
but if the tree is large more are put on.
The laborers are paid one and one-half
cents per box for cutting them. A
tallyman goes out into the woods with a
crowd, and as each man cuts a box ho
calls out his number, which is recorded.
About the middle of March, when tho
owner thinks the weather is warm enough
to cause the sap to flow, he sends out the
"chippers." To each man is assigned a
crop of boxes, which he is expected to
chip over once a week. If he is a good
workman, he can perform the task in
three days, but it is safo to say the
average band takes the full limit of time
and more. Commencing from the edgo
and center of the box, the tree is scarified
in V-shaped abrasures, with an instru
ment called a "hacker," which is an
open, semi-circular piece of sharpened
steel attached to a short handle. On the
end of this is fastened an iron ball, which
gives impetus to tho stroke made by the
workman. Once a week ono of tbeso
"streaks," as they are called, must be put
on each side ol the center line of the box
on the sido of the tree, in order to keep
the sap constantly flowing. Of course,
as each new streak is put on, the arch will
mouut higher and higher, and in two or
three years will reach such an altitude
that the tree has to bo abandoned.
Formerly, when turpentine was highci
in price, the tree was scarified to a much
greater height than now, the workmen
mounting ladders in order to reach tho
desired altitude. Sometimes, when round
timber is scarce, back-boxing is resorted
to which consists of going over the same
trees that have been worked, and put
ting in ono or two extra boxes to tho
tree. This policy is prolitablo in round
timber, but, ut tho same time, it injures
and weakens the tree, many being blown
down by tho wind.
When the fourth streak is put on tho
tree, which is four weeks after tho clap
ping commences, sutlicient crude, or sap,
Las run into the box to enable tho
"dippers" to start to work. "Dipping"
can be done by wotnoa and children, as
it is comparatively light. Sometimes
whole families work together, being
given as many crops to dip out as they
c:in undertake. The instrument by
which the work is effectcl is a flat, heart
shaped piece oi steel, attached to a loug
handle. The workmin places this pad
dle into the box, and wit l a peculiar
twist of the wrist brings out the con
tents, which he places iuto a bucket.
The full buckets are emptied into tlie
barrels, which hold 4S0 pounds of cruiio
each. A child can dip from one to two,
and an adult from three to five barrels
per day, getting thirty ceuts per barrel
for the work. When a sufH'iiunt num
ber of barrels are filled the driver camcs
with a wagou, takes the n up and hauls
them to the still. The work ot hauliug
is very severe, necessitating tho use of
the stoutest mules ami heaviest wagons.
Three wagons, pulled ly twe'.vo
mules, uro kept constantly going,
consequently requiring a large
number of livestock. Tli'J teams
thus hauling bring in from thirty to lifty
barrels of crulo turpentine per day.
The still rims from one to three
'charges' per day, requiring eighteen
barrels of crude to tho charge. From
eich "charge" is distilled from two aud
a half to three aud a half barrels of
spirits of turpentine, aeorJing t tho
newness of the trees in haviug been bled.
Tho balance of the "charge" consists of
rosin aud chips. The first yeur's blead
iug of the tree yield what is called "vir
gin dip," which contains a larger per
centage of turpentine than tho dipof any
succeeding year. Tho rosiu which is
made from this is also of a liner quality.
As each year passes, tho percentage of
turpentine and grade of rosin deteriorate.
In the fall of tho year the accumula
tion on the side of the tree is scraped olf
and distilled, but it yields a small per
centage aud a poor gralo of rosin. The
rosiu is inspected and classed by men
whom the purchasars feud out, the dif
ferent grades bringing from if I to j.'J per
barrel ot 380 pouu.ls. 1 bavo sometimes
seen over a Ihousaud barrets standing ou
the yard, filled with tho hard, brittle
amber substance. Undoubtedly much
of the "imported English" rosiu comes
from tho orchards of Mississippi aud
Alabamu, aud has never beeu withiu
sight of the sea.
The net profits of the Harvard College
football team last year were something
over ten thousand dollars.
The average amount of steel rails inadu
in this country last year was over l')0,
(JU0 too per month.
THE OLD SPINET.
Within an upper room it stands,
A garret corner grim and gray
Where spiders spin their silken strand
Molested by no sunlight ray.
Yet dames and damsels, I dare say,
Have loved its music; to and fro
Their lily hands were wont to stray
On that old spinet, years ago.
I often fancy ghostly bands j
A stately minuet essay
At dead of night, while unseen hands
Their long-forgotten skill display.
The little children where are theyt
For many must have danced, I know, .
To measures fanciful and gay
From that old spinet, years ago- w.
Borne cavalier of other lands 1
To it once sang his roundelay,
Regardless of the reprimands
Of her whose heart he longed to sway;
Or some despairing genius may
Have made it sharer of his woe, '
And bowed his weary head to pray
Oe'r that old spinet, years ago.
Behold it still resist decay; j
There's music in it still, although '
The hands are dust that used to play
On that old spinet, years ago.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Sometimes it pays to walk. Ohio has
a tramp who is worth $300,000. Wash
ington Post.
Some people talk about turning things
over in their minds as if their heads were
hollow. Galveston News.
The brilliant mischief of one's own
children is outright crime in the children
of the neighbors. Galveston News.
Perhaps it is too much to expect that
the man who usos big words should fur
nish big ideas along with them. Somor
villo Journal.
"Your bill," said tho tailor, "is over
due." "That's bad Euglisb," replied
tho customor, "you Bhould say over
dun." New York Bun.
"Were you ever in a dissecting room.
Dickey?" "No, butl'vo seen our friend
Splitthumb after he's been playing foot
ball." St. Joseph News.
Gentlemen about to be hanged will bo
pleased to learn, on expert medical au
thority, that a discolation of tho neck ia
not fatal. Chicago News.
New York and Chicago should each
build a tower so high as to unable thorn'
to see when they are making faces at
each other. Courier-Journal.
A woman is never known to advertise
for the return of stolen property "and
no questions asked." She would ask
questions or die Texas Sittings.
"Did her father kick you out?" "No;
he missed me, lost his balance, fell on
his face,and I carried him iuto tho house
and was forgiven." Harper's Bazar.
"What though I love the ground she treads,
'Tis valueless to me;
For I have found the man she weds,
Must pay the mortgagee.
-Truth.
When you borrcw money you borrow
trouble, but at the same time you some
times increase the troubles of the fellow
who lends it to you. Somervillo?
Journal.
Jeweler "I tell you pawnbroking is
an obnoxious business. " Friend' 'Per
haps, but you cannot deny that it hu
some redeeming features." Jeweler's
Circular.
Bilkins "How do do? Had the grip
yet?" Wilkins "No." Bilkins "I'm
sorry for you, old fellow. What on
earth do you talk about when you meet
people?"
Judge "If I lot you off this time will
you promise not to como back hero
again?" Prisoner "Yes, sir. The fact
is I didn't como voluntarily this time."
Boston Post.
Station Agent in Africa (on the train)
"Great Scott! where is the conductor 1
I don't see him." Engineer "Tho
first class passengers got hungry and ate
him up." Texas Sittings.
Miss Von Gimp "I wouldn't marry
the best man living." Dr. Perkins
No ah er perhaps not, but er
that is reallv no obstacle to your marriugo
with me." St. Paul Globe.
Ono reason why tho children thirty
years ago were so much better behaved
than those of to-day is that tho peoplo
who tell about it were children thirty
yeurs ago. Atchison Globe. .
Young Officer of Hussurs (in the park)
"I apologize, madam, forpassing you
just now without salutation, but you look
so charming to-day that I positively did
not recognize you !" Fliegeude lllaetter.
Tho latest problem Dr. William A.
Hammond takes up for discussion is,
"Have we two braius?" Ho could com
fort some folks immensely by proviug
fifty per cent, of it. Philadelphia
Ledger.
Mrs. Gofrequeut "How quickly your
husband has climbed to success in his busi-
ncss." Mrs. Heelus Tuto "Yes. Ha
had to climb. I've often heard him say
he got it ou the ground floor." Chicago
Tribune.
"You have tho toothache, dear? That
is too bad. What caused it?" "I
think," answered tho Philadelphia
maiden, "that it camo from leaving my
gums at homo wheu I weut down town."
Iudiauapolis Journal.
Bjoues "I want you to subscribe,
something toward sending an expedition
to discover the North Polo." lijuuks
'Not much! But ! suppose I shall have
to subscribe somethiug toward sendiug
out tho rescuing party." Somcrvilla
Journal.
To much has been said iu dispraise of
the piano. Now, a piano is not tha
nuisance it has been charged with being..
Just lock it up aud throw away the key,1
aud it will be found as iuuoceut as tho
campaign utterances of a professional1
politician a mouth after election. Bos
ton Transcript.
Tno underground electric railway iu
Loudon, Kuglaud, has more traffic thau
it cau conveniently manage, aud
great, complaint is made ou account ot
the inadequate facilities.