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xperiinents mado iiytobaeco culti"
!tlion throughout Europe hnvo not
given much promise, of success". ,
.Tho Harpers, tho groat Now York
publishers, nro said to have on hand
more than $."i0,000 worth of accepted
manuscripts.
Welsh nowsboyaihave a picnio in tho
o)iinion of tho Chicago Herald. Im
agine yelling " 'Ero's yor wuxtryGol
ciids, Pwyliedyyds, Goncdls and Her
cneymrusl All 'bout der tur'blo ac
cident. "
Thero nro yot a million acres of
Government lund in Kansas open to
settlement, not a little of which was
tramped over by "stfippors" in order
to take chances on Retting lrud in the
Cherokee Strip thnt is no better, and
in many cases is worse, which they had
to trnvcV further to reneh, and which
is very uncertain property to its pos
sessor. Justice Johu M. Harlan, of the
United States Supremo Court, and one
of tho arbitrators of the recent Bering
Boa Tribunal of Arbitration, Hinted in
a private conversation in St. James's
Hall, London, at a Sunday mission
meeting, that he personally believed
that on tho occasion of a future differ
ence between England and the United
States tho intervention of strangers
would not bo iuvokod, but an equal
number of the judges, of tho highest
courts of both countries would bo ap
pointed to settle the difference.
A keeper at the London Zoological
Gardens was employed on account of
his supposed fondness for animals. He
was soon found to bo disliked by tho
animals, who exhibited their aversion
in many ways. It was Buspected that
while outwardly treating them with
kindness he must secretly hurt or an
noy them. He denied Laving done
anything of the sort, aud his general
manner seemed to bear out his protes
tations. A watch was sot upon him,
with a curious result. It appeared
that ho never spoko to tho animals,
and for that reason alono his presence
was intolerable.
A Mexican paper predicts an im
mense invasion of that country by
American tourists this winter, and
says that the railroads are already pre
paring to handle the expected throng.
It thinks that tho prevalonoo of
cholera in Europe is Bure to tUin ont
tho ranks of tourists thither, aud
that they must have somewhere to go
to escape tho winter's cold. "The
prediction, " adds tho New Orleans
Picayune, "seems to bo founded on
reason, and the same causes will doubt
less contribute to swell tho number
who will seek the delightful climate of
our own Stuto and of the Mississippi
coast. We may prepare for a Bpooially
largo invasion this winter."
Since the Iohs of lives on the cojist
of New Jersey at tho timo of the recent
great storm there has been an agita
tion in the seaport towns aud summer
resorts along that coast in favor of an
txtension of the time of employment
)f the men in the United States Life
Saving Service. Four seamen of the
recked schooner Msry F. Kelly wero
Jrowned ut Asbury Park, for instance,
within thirty feet of the shore, while
hundreds of people stood on the beach
anable to help them. Twenty-four
seamen were drowned off the New Jer
sey coast in a range of ten miles, where
there were then four unoccupied life
saving stations. The life-saving crews
are discharged on May 1, and do not
get employment again uutil September
1. It is argued that violent storms
occur in August, and that the life-saving
crews at least should be employed
from the beginning of that month.
An electric funeral-car is a California
innovation. About nine miles distant
from San Francisco are four large
cemeteries and a crematory, and it was
to bring them near the city that an
electric railroad company introduced
the new hesrsu. Its lirst patron was a
beuevolent organization, one of whose
members had died. At the time ap
pointed for tho mourners to leave the
city tho electric funeral-car, appro
priately draped in bluck, was in readi
ness. The body was lifted by the pall
bearers from an undertaker's wagon to
tho car, and the bearers took their
seuts in a section reserved for them.
The conductor rHiig the bell twice, the
motorman clanged his gong to clear
the truck of a mob of interested spec
tators, and the funeral procession
started, the mourners iu electric cars
following the hearse. The run from
tho starting point to the cemetery was
made in an hour. The car was switched
off on a truck inside the cemetery gates
nutl the pallbearers lifted out the coffin.
Then the funeral procession was re
formed and moved slowly off towards
UJ chapel.
THE ORATEFUL HEART.
I thankful am for all good things
For every blithesome bird thnt sings j
I thankful am for May and June
When most my Ufa with Life's In tunc j
I thank hit am for strawlierrles,
And very glad of cherry trees ;
Of apple blossom and tho frutt i
Of mellow nut and pungent root.
Great good and Solano come to me
From flowers upon the dogwood tree ;
An unknown warbler sets me wild
With wouder like an eager child ;
And to my oharmed and seeking eyes
Eaoh varied toadstool's a surprise.
I thankful am for all fair things ;
For life and all tho bliss It brings ;
My soul Is vory glad thereof
Because Ood made me out of lovo ;
And most I joy, beneath bis trees,
To thank the Father-Heart for those.
-Tanske Dandrldge, In New York Independ
ent. r
HER ROMANCE.
BI 8. A. wttas.
THOUGHT that you
loved me, Elaine."
"I do lovo you,
Carol. ' You know
that I do."
"Then why are
you so unwilling to
have me ask your
father's consent to
our marriage?"
The speaker was
a blonde young
man, faultlessly at
tired in the latest
ttylo, ond apparently very much in
earnest.
His companion was a young girl
with dark, wistful eyes and a pensive
Iroop of a pretty month.
Her baptismal name was Ellon, bnt
being of a highly romantic turn, she
had lengthened it into Elaine ; and
also preferred to call her lover, Mr.
Charles Northrop, by tho name of
Carol having lcarnod that Carolas
was the Latin of Charles.
With a sigh she replied to her lover's
question :
"I must tell you tho truth, Carol. I
do love you, and can never care for
any one else ; but I think I should love
you nioro if if yon were poor,
"Poor?" he echoed, in surprise.
"Yon see, the whole conrse of our
love has been so prosaic and common
place and conventional that it hardly
comes-up to my idea of what love
shonld be. Wo fell in love with each
other at a party which Aunt Mintnrn
jave purposely to bring us together,
ana we are botn ncu at least, you
and papa are, and pa will be sure to
give his consent the moment it is
asked and there will not bo a single
tiling to give a tinge ol romance or
poetry to it all. Isn't it disappoint
ing
Tho young man looked intoher eyes
and thoughtfully stroked his blonde
moustache. He was doing his best to
take in her view of the case.
"Do you mean, Elaine, that you
would prefer for ns to be poor, and
have everybody opposed to our mar
riage, aud obstacles placed in tho way
of our happiness.'
"Don't put it in that praatical wav,
Carol. I wish yon could understand
mo better, and had just a little more
pootical sentiment. You, who are an
artist
"An artist ! Why, darling, I have
nover touched a brush or palette ex
cept to paint scenes for our amateur
theatre.
"But you did that so nicely, which
shows that you have talent and some
knowledge of the art. And I like to
think of you as an artist."
Just here they were interrupted by
Master Eddie, tho youngest of tho
Miuturn household, suddenly kicking
open tho door and flashing a Kodak
upon them, and then refusing to give
up the picture until Mr. Northrop had
promised him a circus tocket. Aud so
their conversation was put a stop to
for the time beiilg.
But next day Elaine met her lover
with a radiant light in her eyes.
"Oh, Carol, I havo thought of the
loveliest plan 1 Yon know I'm going
borne next week, and you must follow
mo, and pretend to be a poor artist "
"I could'ut bo any other kind," he
interjected.
But she went on, breathlessly :
"And set up a pluin little studio,
and paint landscapes and portraits "
"1? Elaine!"
"Oh, just the kind of things you
paint for the stage, and nobody in
Kiceville will know the difference or
if they do you can say that they are
only sketches, or beginnings, aud
will look differently when completed.
And you are to fall in lovo with
me "
"I've done that already."
"And ask papa for my hand, which
be will be sure to refuse, so then we
will have stolen interviews, and finally
run away and get married. Every
body will be talking about us, and
papa will cut up a dreadful row. And
ODly think how delighted it will all be,
especially when we come back and let
them know that instead of a poor art
ist, I havo married a rich mau 1 Papa
will forgive us then, of course, and we
shull have had such a charming little
romance !"
He couldn't exactly see the charm
of it at all, but she was so enthusias
tic over her plun, and so tender and
coaxing, that it was more than he
could do to raise objections.
He was so much iu love that he was
willing to go almost any length to
please her, especially when all was to
end well and happily.
So Miss Elaine Fitzsimiuous re
turned homo to her father's elegant
residence, overlooking the little town
of Kiceville, and iu due time there ar
rived a handsome young urtist with
blonde hair aud moustache (she hud
allowed them time to grow), who
established hiius-lf . iu a uuall room
which had been a barber's shop, ond !
daubed away upon canvas from morn
ing until night.
People came in and looked dubi
ously at these productions, but be had
only to direct their attention to sev
eral "completed" pictnres (purchased
at an art store) to impress them with
an idoa what theso sketches would be
"when finished."
And, meanwhile, it was observed
that ho appeared immensely struck
with Miss Fitzsimmons, and never took
his eyes off her at church, and that
finally be secured an introduction and
became a daily visitor at the big house
on tho hill. And then people who
knew Mr. Fitzsimmons began to pre
dict trouble.
It came at length sooner than bad
boon anticipated.
Carol Northrop became weary of
bis artist life, and impatient for the
bnppy ending promised by Elaine,
and tho consequence was tlat she
found herself to give her consent
sooner than she had intended to his
proposing to her father for her hand.
When he preferred this modest re
quest Mr. Fitzsimmons, who bad mado
his fortune in the tannery business,
looked hira over from bead to foot
with a supercilious air.
"You are a poor artist, I under
stand?" "Yes, sir," he answered truthfully.
"And you want to marry my daugh
ter? '
"I love your daughter, sir!" ho re.
plied, with fevor.
"Uah! I confess that I never ex-
pected much better of Ellen. At
school last year she fell in love with
an Indian chief belonging to a travel
ing ojreus, decked ont in war-paint
and feathers, and I verily believe
would have married him if he bad not
turned ont to be a Welshman. But if
she is a fool, I am' not, and I now tell
you candidly, young man, that I will
never consent to my daughter marry
ing a poor artist.
Carol wsb, of course, prepared for
such on answer, and be appeared so
little affected by it that Mr. Fitzsim
inons's ire was aroused.
"With this understanding," he re.
snmcil, scowling at tne young
man, "yon will, of course, discon
tinue your visits here, and no longer
presume to Miss f ltzsimmons s
acquaintance." .
Carol smiled, remembering tho real
state of the caso.-
"Sir," exclaimed the hot-tempered
old gentleman, "do you consider that
I am in jest that you presume to
laugh in my face? Now, to convince
you that I am in earnest, I will give
you just half a minuto to got out of my
house!" and he pointed to the clock
on tho mantle.
"I have no desire to remain, sir,
where a gentleman is subject to such
treatment. But I love your daughter,
and"
"Get ont, sir!" Bhouted the irate
father.
And he took the y,oung man by the
arm, and leading him to the front
door, thrust him out into the rain, and
flung his hat and umbrella after him,
to the unspeakable delight of a lot of
urchins on the opposite pavement.
Elaine, who had witnessed it all
from the landing, ran to a window and
dropped a rose at her lover's feet as he
stooped to pick up his hat.
Such iguominous treatment was
more than either of them had anti
cipated, and the young man, in great
disgust, ventured a remonstrance with
bis beloved.
They had, by her arrangement, mot
at twilight in a flowery lano, she wear
ing a red shawl and a coarse straw
gipsy-hat as disguise.
"But, Carol, dear, if we marry now,
we shall miss these delightful stolen
interviews, which ore so much sweeter
thau a formal call and a tete-a-tcto in
a parlor !" sho pleaded.
"But wo can't meet here every day.
People would talk, you know ; and
only see how that old woman is staring
after ns!"
"I have arrunged about that," she
answered, with great animation. "My
dearost bosom-friend, Josephine Way
muck, bos promised to help us all she
can ; aud she is to go to your studio
every day at a certain hour, accom
panied by her grandmother, to have
her portrait taken "
"Great Jupiter !"
"Oh, only as an excuse, you know,
though you must pretend to paint it
all the same ! Her grandmother lets
her do as she pleases ; and so every
day while they are there I can slip iu,
you know ; aud, oh, won't it be de
lightful?" "But when are we to be married,
Elaine?"
"Oh, well in about two weeks, I
suppose! Only think what a row pa
will make when he finds us gone ! Aud
how people will talk, ami bow aston
ished they will all be to find out at
last that 1 have married a rich mau in
stead of a poor artist. Why, it will
be just lovely !"
He did not appear to see much love
liness iu the prospect, aud she fancied
him a little sullen and discontented.
Yet he dutifully acquiesced iu her
plan ; aud thenceforth Miss Waymack
aud her grandmother daily repaired to
his studio, and tho artist daubed away
at a paiuting supposed to represent
Miss Waymack who was a very pretty
and liuely girl and iu which, as it
had blue eyes and golden hair, the old
hnly soou began to perceive a striking
likeness to her graudduugbtcr.
It was not, however, every duy that
Elaine could come, she being closely
watched at home; yet she enjoyed the
affair all the more for tho obstacles
thrown iu her way, ami imparted
sweet coutideuces to her dearest bosom
friend, Josephine, who iu turn de
scribed how her lover was mourning
over her abseuee, and pining for love
of her.
But at length the stipulated two
weeks came to an end, aud ou a cer
tain day Mios Fitzsiuiuions scut her
lover a note, requesting that ho would
have a carriage in wait ing in the shady
lane at eight o clock that evening, to
take them to the nearest railroad sta
tion. How delighted the dear boy would
be to find his troubles ended at last ;
and surely he would prizo ond lovo
her all tho more for tho trials
through which they had passed.
It was a rainy evening, yet punctual
to her appointment, Miss Fitzsimmons
was in tho lane as the town clock
struck, disguised this timo in a cloak
aud sunbonnet over her handsome
traveling suit.
There was no carriage in Bight, and
after waiting an hour, she concluded
to go to Carol's studio, feeling sure
that ho could not havo received her
note.
She found tho door open, and Btep
ping within discovered everything as
usual, except that the artist's palette
and brushes lay strewn about the floor
as if purposely thrown there, while
Miss Waymack's portrait, still mounted
on tho easel, was adorned with a pair
of spectacles, ond a moustacho daubed
across the upper lip.
While Elaine gazed wonderingly at
this singular conception, there entered
the old woman whose duty it had been
to keep his studio in order.
"Whore is Mr. Caroli?" inquired
Elaine, hastily.
"Deary me miss! you don't mean as
you haven't heard the news?" ans
wered tho old woman, with something
of pity in ber tono.
"What news?"
"Why, that Mr. Carol's gone oway,
miss 1 Went away last night by the
nine o'clock train bim and Miss
Josepbire to get married, Miss."
"Marriod?" shrieked Elaine.
"To bo sure, miss ; the which it's my
opinion tbey ought to be ashamed of
themselves, though bo did tell me I
was welcome to all ho left behind, and
gnv me besides "
But Elaine heard no more. The
shook was too great for ber, and she
fainted.
Mr. Fitzsimmons took bis daughter
abroad with bim that summer. On
her return sho married the sousible,
practical son of her father's business
partner, who had long been devoted to
her, and to whom she makes a good
wife.
She has never been known to allude
to the pretty and fanciful little romance
which she bad arranged, sid which
ended in a real one npon which she
bad not counted. Saturday Night.
Grub or Plant I
The most curious of all objects in
New Zealand is that which the Maoris
call "aweto." One is uncertain
whether to call it an animator a plant.
In the first stage of its existence it is
simply a caterpillar about tbreo or
four inches in length, and always
found in connection with the rata tree,
a kind of flowering myrtle. It appears
that when it reaches full growth it
buries itself two or threo inches under
ground, where, instead of undergoing
the ordinary chrysalis process, it be
comes gradually transformed into a
plant, which exactly fills the body and
shoots up at the neck to a height of
eight or ten inches.
This plant resembles in appearance
a diminutive bulrush, and the two,
animal and plant, are always found in
separable. One is apt to relegate it
to the domain of imagination, among
dragons and mermaids, bnt then its
existence and nature have been ac
cepted by tho late Frank Buckland.
How it propagates its species is a
mystery. One traveler, after describ
ing its dual nature, calmly states that
it is the grub of tho night butterfly.
If so, then the grub must also become
a butterfly, or what becomes of tho
spoeies?
One would be ready to suppose that
the grub does really so, and that soma
fungus finds the cast-off slough cou
genial quarters for its growth. But
as far as present observation goes, the
grub never becomes a butterfly, but is
changed in every case into a plant.
Chambers's Journal.
The Fallacy of a Theory.
There were many strange incidents
in connectiou with the sinking of the
Victoria, but perhaps the strangest of
them has not yet been recorded. Af
ter tho ship foundered two articles
which had been lying in Admiral
Tryou'seubiu were found flouting, were
picked up and have been brought
home. One of these articles was the
Admiral's telescope ; the other was his
dispatch-box. Now, this box was of
peculiar construction. It was made
nocorling to special service regula
tions iu order to contain the code of
signals. It is essential that these sig
nals should not fall iuto the hands of
an enemy. The box is therefore lined
with with lead and perforated with
holes at the bottom to insure its sink
ing us soou as it is thrown overboard.
But what happened? The greut ship,
constructed with all the ingenuity of
modern science ou purpose to float,
sunk like a stone. The Icud-liucd,
perforated box, specially created to
sink, floated, and now lies ut White
hull, a testimony to the fallibility of
two sets of designers, Toronto
(Cuuudu) Empire.
The Baleful I.ainbklll.
Tho leaves of common laurel or
"lumbkill" are so poisonous to sheep
that some farmers believe that even
the grass lii'u.'.itli tin) shrubs is
rendered noxious by tho drippings
from its leuves. This may be a mis
take, but tho leaves ure certainly rank
poison, not only to sheep, but ulso to
cattle. Aud yet, b'j cureless uro tho
cultivators of thu soil iu this respect
that iu almost every Held in the
Noitheust liny bo foun 1 specimens of
this baleful plant. If farmers would
consult their own interest they wuthl
form a united effort to tta:np it out.
New l'ork Journal,
SCIENTIFIC ASI) INM'STUI.VT,.
Granite is tho lowest rock in tho
earth's crust ; it is the bed rock of tho
world.
The biggest fresh water fish, the
"Arnpacino" of the Amazon, in South
America, grows to six feet in length.
Nausea is said to be promptly re
lieved by o mixture of four drops of
creosote in two ounces of lime-water.
Dobo : A teospooiiful every fifteen min
utes. M. do LTslo discoverod an animal
cula thot could run six lr.chcs in a sec
ond, and calculated thnt it must move
its legs no less than 1201) times in that
brief period.
When irritated the sea cucumber, a
species of holothuria, con eject all its
teeth, its stomach and digestive Ap
paratus, and reduce itself to a simple
membraneous sac.
It has been ascertained by Professor
Kernot, of the Melbourne University,
Australia, that the usually assumed
weight of eighty to 100 pounds per
square foot, produced by a dense crowd
of persons, may be largely exceeded.
Tho most curious thing about tho
butterfly is the size of the enso from
which the insect proceeds compared
with the size of the insect's body. The
case is rarely more than one inch in
thickness; the butterfly covers a sur
face nearly four inches square.
In support of tho modern theory
that sound does not consist of a given
number of countable wavebents, a well
known writer adduces tho fact that n
plate of iron, even an inch thick, when
used as the diaphragm of a telephone,
will respond to and transmit perfectly
the sound vibrations of tho human
voice, a result which it is almost in
conceivable to suppose could be effected
by mere mass vibration.
Another most valuable series of in
vestigations iu regard to the metal best
adapted for tho construction of bridges
has been made by tho Austriou Society
of Engineers. Some 216 mechanical
tests were made by the committee hav
ing tho matter in hand, to determine
the quality of wrought iron, of basic,
Bessemer and basic open-earth steel,
the conclusion being that tho latter ex
cels all the others in resistance to me
chanical attack aud distortion.
A remarkable illustration of the pro
gress of electrical appliances is elec
trolytic painting. Hitherto, if copper
or other metal wero to bo deposited
electrically, a bath of solution was
needed. Now this is changed, and a
technical journal says a ship's bull can
be plated as easily as a spoon or tea
pot. Instead of a bath, insoluble
salts, ground to a fine powder and
mixed with water, are used. This
mixture is painted on the metal to bo
plated by a fine wire brush, to which
one polo of a dynamo conductor is at
tached, the other polo being connected
with a plate. Not only pure metal but
all sorts of alloys can be used.
During a residence in Tunisia, M.
Vercoutre made a study of tho tattoo
marks which the natives cover their
limbs ond face. Ho discovered that
tho most complete designs represent a
human figure a kind of doll, seen iu
front, with extended arms. In this
figure, for which no explanation bud
been offered before, ho perceives noth
ing else thau a representation, rigidly
exact and preserved by tradition with
out perceptible alteration, of the mani
kin ou the monuments of Phamicia
and Carthage, which nrchieologiHts
have named the "Symbol of the Punio
Trinity" which is found, for exam
ple, on tho Fhu'iiiciuu aud Tunic stehe,
and on tho neo-Puniu lumps of Car
thage. ltnro Feet ami Health.
Astotho healthfulnessof going with
out shoes ami stockings, there can,
says tho Loudon Hospital, be no ques
tion. Some of the healthiest children
of the world are to be found iu the
Scottish Highlands, where shoes are
seldom worn at an earlier ago than
twelve or thirteen. Tho African anil
coolie laborers, who work bare-footed,
are usually in robust heilth. Brown,
in the "History of Man," tells of an
African monarch who suffered from
what appeared to havo been a coid iu
his head, besides other ailments, while
his people were always as well us pos
sible. Can it be that the reason was
that, by the laws of his kingdom, he
ulone was permitted to clothe his feet,
and that hu gratified his vanity by al
ways wearing gorgeous suuduls? It is
probably generalizing too much to
state, as a medical fact, that the bare
footed races are the healthiest. But
it is certain that bare feet are health
ier than badly-shod feet. Iu our Eng
lish villages children are constantly
sent to school in wet weather with
holes iu their shoes. They sit for
hours w ith dump fee, and illnesses are
the result. If their parents would send
them oil' barefooted, as is done in Scot
land aud Ireland, their feet would dry
by evaporation iu a short time, and it
would be found that no harm followed.
Kicliest Pensaiits in Kiirope.
The richest peasants iu Europe are
found iu a proviuco in Sehleswig-Hol-steiu.
These Vicrluuders raiso early
vegetables for the great cities of
northern Europe. They supply flow
ers to the courts of St. Petersburg ami
Herlin. Their costumes are one of the
sacred traditions of the country aud
not to be moililled, come what may.
The women wear little cups withstiltly
sturched bows of silk, over thisa straw
hat which looks us if it were upside
down. Their skirts ure short, tho
aprons full pleated. The bodice is
white with a sort of Zouuvo jacket of
bright colors. The silver jewelry is
the pride of their lives, Thu men wear
small clothe-, loni; wuistcouti trimmed
w ith silver liutt ius, a long jacket and a
quite ordinary looking cup. Chicago
tlitruld.
HARVESTING THE APfLE'
HOW THE WINTER FRUIT 13 GROWN
AMD GATHERED.
Apple Ruining In Wentern New York
Oops Xot Howard Its (ironer as It
Formerly Did.
PARRELS and lyirrels and
barrels and barrels. Barrels
piled on barrels. Barrels in
big loads and barrels in little
loads not great clumsy painted bar
rels for tho reception of oil or whisky
or pork or lard, but light, graceful
barrels shortly to be filled with what
is, all things considered, the most de
licious fruit in the world.
The passage of loads of apple barrels
along the highways and byways of an
apple producing region indicates thnt
the time for picking is nt hand. "One
of the liveliest, drivingest times they
is in the hull year," as an apple grower,
who is proud of his success ns such,
described tho apple harvest the other
day. Apples grow in most parts of
the United States north of a certain
line, but there are some regions where
they nro a staple crop, and there you
may see such rows of trim, well-kept
apple trees, such wide extending or
chards, as, if you area new comer, will
make you open your eyes for pure
wonder.
I shall never forget tho first time I
saw the orchards that lie between the
famous ridgo rond and Lake Ontario
in level Western New York. Orchords
wore not an unfamiliar sight to me,
but such orchards I had never dreamed
of. It was in June. The air was heavy
with perfumo and vibrant with the
notes of song birds, for it was bclore
tho ugly English sparrow had come to
America and driven tho native feath
ered musicians from their own. My
boyish eyes had always been used to
picturesque irregularities of hill and
valley, but the everywhere extending
fruit farms of this, to nie, new region
more than made up for lack of diver
sity in the landscape.
At the time of which I write the rais
ing of apples was at its best as a profit
able business. Two, threo and even
four dollars a barrel was obtained for
tho fruit every fall, and every year the
acreage of tho orchards was largely in
creased. Fortuues as money was
then and there counted, were being
mado by apple raisers, anil year by
year the crop was greater iu quantity
and finer in quality. Peaches, which
had before this time been one of the
standbys, were being abandoned as the
peach orchards passed beyond the limit
of full bearing ago ana the trees wero
uprooted to make way for the victori
ous apple.
Here and there throughout the re
gion were long, low sheds, under w hich
men worked from early spring until
near the end of tho harvest making
barrels for tho crop, and where coop
ers' choruses, more genuine than that
iu the opera "Boccaccio," were to bo
heard every day. The apple buyer was
a factor, and a most important one, iu
every community, and his trips of in
vestigation among the orchards at
various periods of tho season wero
subjects of animatad discussion at the
informal nud incidental evening meet
ings of tho farmers ut tho stoics aud
postoflice.
Jn September and October the har
vesting of tho apples went forward,
and tho weeks given up thereto made
up a period of strenuous exertion,
which is another vsy of repenting my
farmer friend's assertion that apple
picking is tho "drivingest time iu tho
hull year."
To be a good apple picker a man had
to know just how to put up long lad
ders quickly and securely. He hud tn
know just how aud where to place his
ladder so that ho could clear a tree
without having to take timo to movu
oftener thau wa.Vabsolutely necessary.
If he could tell almost instinctively
what apples wero marketable aud w hat
were not, so as to leave tho latter to
be shaken off for eider making later,
he was just as much more valuable to
his employer, for the timo of tho
pucker was valuable, and tho fewer
apples ho had to throw out iu putting
them into the barrel thu more ho could
put up in a day.
I have nsed the past tense iu wlmt I
have had to say about tipples and ap
ple picking, but thu orchards are still
there nud so are thu apples and the
barrels, nud doubtless plenty of pretty
girls help in barreling the tipples these
later years the sumo as they used to.
But tin) big prices and large profits of
apple mining sre no more, and, unfor
tunately for tho farmers this hard
year, the crop is a light one m many
sections. New York Advertiser,
Trenching Tool A II ached to Hide.
The "l ille-trenching tool'' of M. do
Lnyen, which was recently tried at tho
Armory House l'arade ( iround, Fins
bury, and is expected "iu one sense to
revolutionize the warfare of the fu
ture," consists essentially of ay ul
rungement by which a spade or such
like tool ran be fixed to the butt of a
yitlo without preventing the weapon
from being ready for use either with
shot or bayonet. To this end there is
a receptacle in tho butt, and the spado
tits into it with a spring catch. Of
course, the stock and barrel of the rillu
become the handle of the spade.
It is claimed for this appliance that
it will enable every infantry soldier to
bo his own tapper uinl rille-pit maker,
and the tool wagon will become un
necessary. Moreover, if there is no
time to tlx the buyoiii t the spade itself
will be u makeshift, and when n-.t iu
use it cuu be curried iu a 1 allu r ease,
blun,; across the clie.-t of the soldier,
thus balancing the weight ot his haver
hack and forming u hivustplutc H-'aiiot
sword, buyom t, or luuce, und possibly
built Is. M. tie Liiyi-n, we may add,
is u Frenchman, murried to au l'nulish
woman, and settled in this couutry.
London bilobe.
SONO OF THE STARS.
When tho daylight fades In the evening
shades,
And the blue melts In tho grny,
We pltoh our tent In the firmaments
To guard the milky wny.
And we gather the broken sunbeams up
That the day has left in its path,
To kindle and build the glow, and gild
What our sparkling campflres hath.
With fond caresses we jewel the trcssos
Of the moon as she mounts the skies ;
And the heavens we sprinkle with many a
twinkle
That leaps from our sparkling eyes.
But when the storm cloud rolls his onr
In thunder across the sky,
And the lightning dashes In fitful flashes,
We hide, till the storm goes hy.
The son Is our master, and no disaster
Can come to his night of ro9t ;
For with constant eyes on the dim horizon
We guard the east and the west.
We sometimes find where the comet hides,
And we frighten him out of his Inl.',
Till he speeds through tho night, like a fot
In his flight.
To his home In the great nowhere.
We sometimes pause in our journey because
We see ourselves In the glass
Of the silent lakes or the sea that takes
Our pictures as we pass.
But when the daylight quivers and brikj,
And the gray molts Into the blue,
The tears we sbed o'er our fallen dead
Are found In the morning dew.
Alfred Ellison, In New York Advertiser.
HUMOR Or' THE DAY.
A ten strike Borrowing one.
Silver spoons Colorado lovers".
The traiu robber must hold up. '
Picayune.
Fits like the pnpor on the wall
Kalsomine. Puck.
Tho earth seems to gather lots of
moss, and it is rolling all the time.
When lightning strikes it admits of
no arbitration. Burlington Free
Press.
In order to forge a chain of evidence
a detective should have a lynx-eye.
Jndge.
The golden rnlo is on arrangement
for drawing a lino of conduct for other
people. Puck.
Tho coming man sometimes turns
out to be going the going tho other
woy. Dallas News.
Beauty is only skin deep, tho prov
erb says; but, after all, that serves.
Soraervillo Journal.
A miser is tho stowaway of the
world. He never pays fair rates for
life's voyage. Puck.
One feature of a cyclone is worthy
of general imitation ; it always does
its level best. Lowell Courier.
One important poiut that many peo
ple forgot is that culture never needs
any paint. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A woman may not bo able to throw
a stono over a church, but she cun
throw a mon over. Elmiro Gazette.
The happy hours I spend on my wheel
Have only one four to mar 'e:n ;
That possibly I may contract
Kyphosis Byellstaruni.
Puck.
"What carol," snid the bandit, "for
your strong man who can hold up a
horse, when I can bold up a train."
Washington Star.
Cess (annoyed) "Don't you know
that a fool cun ask questions?" Bass
"I bad heard so ; now I know it. "
Boston Transcript.
The Patient's Wife "And how shall
I givo him the ice, Doctor?" Dr. Bow
les "In broken doses, of course."
Indianapolis Journal.
Whenever you havo a propositio - to
get something for nothing, it will pay
you to walk around it by tho furthest
route. Houston Press.
Tho bruveut man ou earth has been
found in Indiana. Ho organized all
tho church siugeis iu town into ono
choir. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Penelope "Did you ever havo a
horse run away from you?' Pauline--"No:
but 1 hud a jackass try to once;
ho wanted me to elope." Truth.
"Don't you think that a woman
thinks the most of u truthful man?"
"It depends a good deal ou how home
ly she is." Indianapolis Journal.
The liny stood on the deck uloue.
Kor the passengers all had tied
When the captain had broim'lit his hithy
And wanted to toll what it said.
Chicago luter-Occau.
He "How do you like Lord Fop.
pingtou. Miss Burrow ?" Miss Burrow
- "Not at all. lie can't pronounce his
r's, and 1 do detest being addressed as
Miss Bowwow. "Tit-Hits.
Bridget "There's a geiitlemuu at
thu door who wants to speak to the
boss." Mrs. Thirdltut "Run, Kobbie,
quick, and see if tho janitor will see
tho gentleman. " Chicago luter
Ocean. Ycllowly "Edison thinks the future
man may be able to go with mt sleep."
Hroinlcy (who is having an experience
with his lirst baby) "The future man I
liless you, the present mull does now,"
New York Frees.
Mr. Kicker "Thin chop tastes of
soup." Landlady "You are mi taken,
sir." Mr. Kicker--"I'm sure of it. I
believe thecook rnnstho chops through
the clothes wringer so th-y will spread
out and look bigger. " Texas Sittings.
.vn A.r Flower Without leaves.
It is raid that ono of the ttrungest
botanical curio. itiea in the world is
tho W on dcr-Wonder flower, found in
the Malayan Pcuiusulu. It is simply
u hlostoni without leaves, vine, or
stem, and ;rus ia a parasite ou do
cuye I woo l. This extraordinary (lower
is soinrllilli',' like a yard in diameter,
and has u gh.'iulai' cup iu the middlu
with a capacity of live or six quarts.
The cup distils u fetid liquid, which
smells like decayed incut. Botanist
think that this odor is calculat d to
attract flics um! secure a proper It. r 1 1. -i.utiou.
Auiericuu Register.