Juniata sentinel and Republican. (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, August 09, 1893, Image 1

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B, P. BOHWEIEH,
THE OONBfTrrUTION THE UNION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor Md Proprietor.
MIFFXJNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9. 1S93.
NO. 34.
1TST VI T7TT 'ggta:gSSSS , , , ' III'!
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HtV. DR. TALLAGE.
The Krooklyn Divine's
Sunday Sermon.
Subject : "Sharpened Axes."
Tf-tt: ".Voir. We 'ra no umifli fnunA
P.n.u.i'.-mt aU llw l,i,.d uf Jtrtil." r.'c
Samuel xiii . 13 21.
Mir lnvlns unrein,! nictitation to this nn
romitod li.Kt. fhnutauquan. Christian En
deavors, irosj.ol wrkcB nnil their friend
from all parts of VTisonin nnd America
dinn and sinner ! My text is ?lorlonsli
..r.;.riat.'. What a sail in? unl.jii'jation
the Israelites tit siifTeriiur I The Philistines
had carried off all the Min-kamlth and torr
down all the blacksmiths' shops and abolished
Vi Maeka-nirh's trade In the land of Israel
These Philistines had a part leu Ur fmidgj
against Mn.-ks-r.itlis. although I have alwav
admired them ami have sometimes thotu.-hl
I ouitht to have heen nn myself. The I'hil.
Wines would not even allow these parties to
work tl -.ir valuable minis of brass anil iron
Mr hiIl-M thev make any swords or spears!
There were only two -ords loft in all the
Ian. I. V-a. these Ministries went on tintil
they ha. I taken all the r:ndstonei from the
land of I-rael.so thnt if an Isrielitish Tar-ni
wanted to sharpen bis iAiw or his nx ha 1
to iro over to tho crnrrlsin of the Philistines
to (rut it done. There was onlv one sharea.
lnir instnvnent left in tin- land, ami tht was
a fll. The farmers an 1 the mechanio hav
ing nothing to whet up tho coulter, and th
iMad. and the pickax save a simple Hie, in
dustry was hindered ami work practlcallj
dis'-Taeod.
Thevreat idea of those PhilLstinoa was to
keep tho Israelites disarmed. They might
get iron out of the Jiills to make swords of,
but they would not have anv blacksmiths to
weld this Iron. If they cot the iron welded,
they would have no irrinlstones on which tc
Lrlng tne instruments of nirrieulturo or thf
military weapon3 up to nn edge. Oh, you
poor, weaponless Israelites, red need to a file,
how I pity you ! Put these Philistines wer
not forever to keep their hol on the neek ol
God's children. Jonathan, on his hands an 1
knees, elimfis up a irre.it ro-lc beyond which
were the Philistines, an I Ids armor bearer,
on his hands and knees, climbs up the. same
rock, an I these two men. with their two
swords, hew to pieces the Philistines, the
Lord throwing a great terror upon them. So
It was then : so it is now. The two men o'
God on their knees mightier than a Philistine
host on their feet.
I learn fn-t from this subject how danger
ous it is for the elm r-h of God to all w its
weapons To stay in the hands of its enemies.
These Israelites mil.t a-aln and aLaln
have oi tained a simply of words and
weapons, ns for instance, when they
took the spoils of tha Ammonites, hut
tiiese Israelite seemed ct-ritent to havn
no swur!?. no spears, no blacksmiths,
no grlndston s. no active Iron mines, until it
was too late for them to make any resistance.
I see the fanners tuiririnif alontr with thir
pickaxes and plow, and I say. "Where nro
you proiutf with those thinirs?" They say.
"Oh. we are jroimr. over to the frarrii-on of
the Philistines to (jet th sq things sharp
ened." I say. You foolish men , why don't
you sharpen them at home?"' "Oh," they
say. "the blacksmiths' shops are all torn
down, and we have nothing? lelt us but a
fjl."
So It Is In the church of Christ to-dnr. We
are-too willing to elve up our weapons to tho
eooiny. The world boasts that It has gob
bled up the schools, and tho colloid's, and
the arts, and the sciences, and the literature,
anil the printing press, lmldellty Is making
a mltrhty attempt to (ret nil our weapons in
Its hand and then to keep them. You know
It Is making this boa.st all the time, and after
a while, when the srrout battle between sin
aud righteousness has opened, If we do not
look out we will be as badly oil as theee Is
raelite, without any swords to flight with
and Without any sharpened Instruments.
I call upon the superintendents of literary
Institutions to gee to it that the men who ro
Into the classrooms to stand bosido the Ley
den Jars, and the electric batteries, and the
microscope or telescopes be children ol
tied, not Philistines. The atheistic thinkers
of this day ar. trying to (ret nil the Intel
lectual weapons of this century in their own
grasp. What we want is scientific Christians
to capture the solen'. and s.iholastio Chris
tians to eaptnre theseholarship, and philoso
phic Christians to capture the philosophy,
and lecturing Christians to take bifk the
lecturing platform.
We want to send out against Sehenkel
and Btwiuss and Iienan of the past men like
the late Theodore Cliristlieb of Bonn, and
agttlnst the Infidel scientists a Go l worship
ing Billlman and Hitchcock and Agassis.
We want to enpture all the philosophical
apparatus and BWing around the telescopes
on the swivel until through them we can see
the morning star of the Kedeomer. end with
mineralogicat hammor discover the "Hock
of Ages," and amid the Horn of the realms
find the "lioue of Sharon and the Lliy ol
the Valley."
We want a clergy learned enough to dis
course of the human eye, showing it to be a
microscope and tekcope in one instrument,
with 800 wonderful contrivances and Il ls
closing 30.000 or 40,000 times a day, all its
nrasolos and nerves and bones showing the
infinite skill of an Infinite Go l, and then
winding up w.th the peroration, "He that
formed the eye, shall He not a-vT' And
then we want to discourse about the human
ear. its wonderful Inteiruments, membranes
and vibration, nnd its chain of small bones,
and its auditory nerves, cloning with the
question, "He that planted the ear, shall Ha
not hear?"
And we want some one able to expound
the first chapter of Genesis, bringing to it
the geology and the astronomy of the worM,
until, as Job suggested, "the stones of the
field shall I in league" with the truth, and
"tho stars in their coursi-s shall fight against
Bteem." Oh, church of God, go out and re
capture these weapons. Let men of God go
out and take possession of the platform. Let
all the printing press of this country spe tk
out for Christ, and th reporters, mi l tne
typesetters, and the editors and u .lisher
swear allegiance to the Lord Go l or truth.
Ah, n. v friend, that day must come, and II
the great body of Christian men hav.) not the
faith, or the courage, or the consecration to
do It. then let some Jonathan on his busy
hands and on his praying knees climb up on
the rook of hindrance, and in the name ol
the Lord God of Israel slash to pieces thos
literary Philistines. If thesu men w..l
not be converted to Gol, then they must be
destroyed. .
Again, I learn from this subject what n
large amount of the church's resources is
actually hidden and buried and uudevelope L
The Hible intimates that that was a vry
rich land this land of Israel It says.
The stones are iron, and out of the lilllf
thou Shalt dig brass," and yet hundreds ol
thousands oi dollars' wjrth of this metal was
kept under tho hills. Well, that is the diffi
culty wlththechurch of Go 1 at this day. Its
talent is not developed. If one-half of Its
energy could bs brought out. tt might tase
the public iniquities of tho day by the throat
and make them bite the dust. If human
eloquence were consecrated to tho Lord
Jesus Christ, it could in a few years persuade
this whole earth to surrender to God.
There is enouirh undeveloped Christian
nergy in the Lmtwi States to bring the
whole world to Christ, but it is buned un
der stra;a of indifference and under whole
mountains of sloth. Now. if it not time ior
the mining to begin, and the pickax- to
plunge, and for this buried metal to be
brought out and put into tho furnaces and
tie turned into howitzers and cari.ins lor
the Lord's host? The vast majority ol
Christians hi this day are us.-l.s. 1 he
most of the Lord's battalion In-long to the
r.erve corps. The most of the ere w are
asleep ui the hammocks. The most ol tne
uital is under the hills.
Oh, is it uot time ior the chur-h of God to
rouse up and understand thiit we want all
the energies. a.l the talents and all the wealth
enlisted for Christ's sake? I like the alck
namn that the Knglish soldiers gave to Bin
eher. the commander, They called him "Olo
Forwards." We have had enough retreats in
the church of Christ ; let us have a gloriom
advance. And I say to you now as le
general said when his'troops wero affrighted.
Itl-iing up ill his stirrups, his hair Hying in
thwwind, he lifted his voice until 20,0J
troops heard him, crying out, "Forward, the
Whole line !"
' Again, I loarn from this snbjoot that ws
sometimes do well to take advantage of tho
world's sharpening instruments. These
Jeraolltes were ree"! to a file, and so they
MrKak!? -PWit
The fact is we fight with too dull weaDons
Wk'anJwu! 7 dU" PlSPT;
clean rZ T l""" we oai-'h a
cienn stroke. Let us go over amonir hnm
anrfle,m;Vn,,K amo "h'-P U?55r 5s?
ana find out what their taste Is aa 1 then
IransfeMttothe cause of Jhrist'. If tuey
rub against It In other words l, us em"
lo, tb8 WOT,W' 'l. We will liZ,
n on r Te- d We wlU wOB thoiracu
iTnni.W8wl1 n"etbM,r Krindstone.. and
iTJ i brrOW tI,eir Philosophical apparatus
J" ' operimnts,and we will bor-
llibles. and we will borrow their rail trains
carry our Christian literature, and we
mlsshlnX theiF 'report olr
hl !!vWarrWhM. ""V16 I,ul"'h a master in
o!.m 3LUe.n?.t on,y KOt "u the learning he
oould get of Dr. Gamaliel, but afterward
standing on Mars hill and in crowded thor
oughfares quoted their poetry and grasped
their logie and wielded their eloquenTHTd
employed tue.r mythology un,uMi)iny9lu3
the Areopagite, learned In the schools of
Athens aud Heliopolis, went down under his
tremendous powers.
That was what gave Thomas Chalmers his
power hi his day. He conquered the world's
astronomy and compelled it to ring out the
wisdom and greatness of the Lord, until for
- .UH nia snug To
gether, and all the sons of God shouted for
joy. That was what gave to Jonathan Ed
wards his Influence in his day. He cou
quore 1 tho world s metaphysics and for svi it
into the service of God, until not onlv the
bid meeting house in Xorthampten, Mass.,
but all Christendom, lelt thrilled by his
Christian power.
Well, now, my friends, we all have tools of
Christian usefulness. Do not let them lose
their edges. We want no rusty blades in
this fight. We want no colter that eaunot
rip up the glebe. We want no ax that can
not fell the trees. We want no goad that
cannot start the lazy team. Let us gi-t tho
very best grindstones we can find, thou.ru
they lie in the poss.mston of the Philistines,
compelling them to turn the crank, while we
bear down with all our might on the swit
revolving wheel until all our enorgies an J
'acuities shall te brought up to a bright,
keen, sharp, glittering edge.
Again, my sutiject toaches us on what a
mall allowance Philistine iniquity puts a
man. Yes, these Philistines shut up the
miuos, and then they took the spears and tho
swords, then they took the blacksmiths, then
they took the grindstones, and they took
verything but a tile. Oh, that is the way sin
works. It grabs everything. It begins with
roliliery, and it ends with robbery. It de
spoils tliis faculty and that faculty and keens
m until the whole nature is gone. Was toe
man eloquent before, it generally thlokens
his tonirue. Was he tine In personal appear
ance. It mars bis visage. Was he affluent, It
sends the sheriff to sell hlra out. Was he in
fluential, it destroys his popularity. Was be
placid aud genial and loving. It makes him
splenetic- and cross, aui so utterly is he
changed that you oan see he is sarcastic and
rasping and that the Philistines have left him
nothing bat a file.
Oh, "the way of the transgressor is hard."
His cup is bitter. His night Is dark. His
pangs are deep. His end is terrific Philis
tine iniquity says to that man, "Sow. sur
render to me, aud I will give you all you
want music tor the dance, swift steeils
for the race, imperial couch to slum
ber ou, and you shall be refreshed w.th the.
rarest fruits la baskets of golden filigree,"
He lies. The music turns out to be a groan.
The fruits hurst the rind with rank poison.
The filigree is made up of twisted snakes.
The couch is a grave. Small allowance of
rest, small allowance of peace, small allow
ance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough noth
ing but a tlie. Bo it was with Voltaire, the
most applauded man of his day -
Tne Serlplore iru his je-itho.ik. hpnw he drew
It. uinol to icall the ChrlMttan and the Jew;
An mn.lol warn wcl . buc what wneo Irk?
oh, then a uxt would touch tuiu to the quick.
Seized with hemorrhage of the lungs In
Paris, where be had gone to be crowned in
the theater as an Idol of all Krun.-e, ha sends
a messenger to get a priest that he may be
reconciled to the ohurnh before he dtns. A
grtat t-rror falls upon him. He makes the
pis re .'Jl round about him so dismal that the
in, -se declares that she would not for all the
wen:th of Europe se another infidel die.
Philistine iniquity had promise I him all the
world's garlands, but In the last hour of bis
iife, when he needed solacing, sent tearing
across his conscience and his nerves a file, a
tile.
So It was with Lord Byron, his unoleannnss
in Kngian i only surpassed by his un 'lean
ness v? Venice, then going on to his brilliant
mis iry at Mlhsoloughi, and fretting at his
uur." Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting
it the world, fretting at God, and he who
gave to the world "Gliilde Harold," aud
"Sardanapalus," and The Prisoner of
Chlilon," and "The Siege of Corinth," ro
luced to nothing but a file I
Oh, sin has great facility for making pxom-s-si.
-.TV it baa just as great facility for
. rej in ; them, A Christian life is the only
L-w.;-i life, while a life of wicked surrender
is re.uorse, ruin and death. Its painted glee
is sepulchral ghastlinees. In the brightest
.lays of the Mexican Empire Montejcuma
s.ud Le felt knawlng at his heart something
like a canker. Sin. like a monster wild
i least of the forest, sometimes licks all over
its victim in order thiit the victim maybe
more easily swallowed ; but generally sin
rasps and gulls and tears and upbraids aud
tlli-s. Is it not so, Herod? Is it not so, Hil
debrand? Is it not so, Kobespierre? Aye!
aye ! it Is so ; it is so. "The way of tlia
w. eked He turueth upside down."
If.story tells us that when Rome was
founded, on that day there were 12 vultures
Hying through the air, but when a trans
gressor dlei the skies is black with whole
Hocks of them. Vultures ! When I see sin
robbing so many people, and I see them go
in; down day by day and week by week, I
must give a plain warning. I dare not keep
it back lest I risk the salvation of my own
soul. Hover, the pirate, pulled down the
warning bell on Ineheape rock, thinkingthat
he would have a chance to despoil vessels
that were crushed on the rocks, but oao
night his own ship er.islted down on this
very rock, aud he went .town with all his
cargo. God deoiar.-s. "Whca I say to the
wicked thou shalt surely die, and thou
givest him not warning, that sa:ne man shall
die in his Iniquity, but his bloolwilll re
quire at thy hands."
I learn from this subject w'qat a sad thing
it is when the church of God loses Us metal.
These Philistines saw that If they could only
got ail the metallic weapons out ol the han.u
of the Israelites all would be well, and thero
forethey took the sworls and the spears.
They did not want them to have a single me
tallic weaon. When the metal of the Is
raelites wnis gone, their strength was gona.
This is tho trouble with the church of Go 1 to
day It is surrendering its courage. It has
not got enough metaL How seldom it is that
yutiM-ea man taking his position in a pew
or in pulpit, or In a rohgio is so -icty, ant
holding that position again.: all oppression,
.in lall trial.aud all persecution, au i all orit
eim The church ef God to-lay wants more
backbone, more defiance, more i-onseor-Ued
bravery, more metal. How often yoa S(M a
man sta out In some good enterprise, and
at the first blast of newspapurdom be has
collapsed, and all his courage gone forget
ful of the fact that if a man be r ght all the
newspapers oi the earth, w.th all their col
umns pounding away at him, cannot do hiu
any permanent damage ! It Is only when a
nuin is wrong that he can he damaged. V hr,
Ood is going to vindicate His truth and He
going to stand bv, you my friends, in
every effort yoa make for Christ's cause and
the salvation of men. k
1 .o netimes s .y to mrw.fe; ""i
something wrong: the newspapers have not
assaulted me for three months I I have not
done my duty against lhto to'J'1"
rrrvfof
ro ltsith us anl the God of
t of8theVerm,nation of
ionathanT I do not suppose he was jry
wonderful man. but he got on his knees and
clambered up the rock, and with the help of
h'" armor hearer he hewed down the
1 hillstin , and a man of very ordinary In
tellwtual attainments, on his knees, can
storm anything for Cod and for the truth.
We wint something of tho d-tcnnlnallon of
the general who went into the war. and as
he entered hi first battle h s knees knocked
together, his physical courage not quite up
to his moral courage, and he looked down at
his knees and said, "Ah. if you knew wiiere
I wxs going to take you, you would shake
worse than that !"'
Then, js oniy one question for you to ask
an l for me to as. What does God want me
to do? Where is the field? Whore Is the
work? Wiiere Is the anvil? Where is the
prayer meeting? Where Is the pulpit? And
finding out wiiat (iod wants us to do go
ahead and do it all the energies of our ho ly,
mind and soul enlisted in tho nu.lert.ikinV.
Oh, my brethren, we have but little time in
which to light for GoJ. You will be dead
soon.
Put in the Christian cause every energy
that God gives you, "What thv hand flndetu
to do, do it with all thy might, for tlw re is
neither wisdom iior device iu the grave
whither we are all hastening." Oh, is it not
high tlmethat we wake out of sleep? Church
of Go.i lift up your head at the coming viiv
tory 1 The Philistines will go down, and the
Isracliti-s will go up. Wo are on tile winning
side. Hear that on the winniig aide I
I thliiL just now the King's borsoa are. l-e-Ing
honked up to the chariot, an I when He
does nde down the sky there will be such a
hesanna among His friei ls an 1 such a wail
ing among H-s ejiemlesas will make the earth
tremble anil the heavens sing. I sue now the
plumes of the Lord's cavalrymen tossing in
the air. The nrehan rel beiore the throne has
a'ready burnished his trumpet, and then he
will put its golden lips to bis own, an 1 be
will blow the long, lou l blast that will mae
all Nations fr-. C:ap your hands, all yj
p;ople! Hark' I hear the falling thrones
and tho dashing down or demolished in
iquities. Meep iu JMsttseJ Jnarrip.
One of the most curious an.l deplor
able sitrlits in connect. on with pauper
ism during the winter in Paris is tba
influx of peripatetic bejrgurs who in
vaie at night t'.ie disused quarries of
Argenteuil and Montmartre, where
they huddle tivt-th'.-r, ns close as they
safely can, to the limekilns, in order
to obtain a little warmth. AI0114 tho
suburban roads ia the direction of
Paris they can be peon in twos aud
threes bent double almofct and hungry,
hurrying on and footsore, in the hope
of being in time to obtain a night's
shtlter in the isiles de nuit niglit
refnges of the capital. But iu those
buildings, according; to the Philadel
phia Ledger, t'aere is imt sullicient
room to accommodate all applicants.
Their hospitable doors ore open only
for a short time Iste at night, and when
snce they arc closed all entreaties for
admission are rigorously unheeded.
In the disused quarries they enn find
plenty of room. A whole hrmy of
mendicants coul 1 easily old tin shelter
In their lunj; galleries a warm corner
to huddle up in nnd a convenient atone
for a pillow. Moreover, there are 110
--Ttward niiCftion asked an at the
aisle dfe nuit, such as "Who art thou?
From whence coineth thou? What ia
thy calling?" And so from all direc
tions leading toward Pnris they come
in large numbers at night, niud-be-hattered,
hollow-cheeked, worn out
wfth fatigue, and numbered by hun
dreds as they desccn I iuto the quar
ries, whtre, pressed pell uiell one
against the other, they endeavor by
contact to keep out tho cold. The
largest number and deepest of thesj
disused quarries are in the neighbor
hood of Argenteuil, and there it is that
the police often make their raids when
in seoreh of some criminal who has
escaped enpture, nnd who, it is
thought, may be hiding among the
"malfrnta."
Baretooted Among Snakes.
While we are telling snake stoiiea
the following good one comes to ns
from the mountain regions, E. T.
Duli a standing aa authority. The
sotiutry between Lfttle Big Black
M jMutm'n is a ginseng region, aud tho
Parker iamily are noted ns "senders."
The girls go out barefooted in the
mountains, though the country is in
foeted with rattlesnakes and copper
head, and dig tlia ginseng, for which
they get good prices at the stores, and
from which it ia taken to Pennington
Gap for shipment.
But along Clover Gap and np Rattle
snake Creek there are numberless rep
tiles. Bockie Parker is a girl, about
nineteen years of age, strong, healthy
looking and handsome, but with a very
determined face. She is a splendid
rifle shot and is often seen with her
Winchester.
She goes after ginseng barefooted
and often alone. Tho roots are gath
ered iu May and September, and dur
ing the month just past she did a
thriving business. One day, however,
she came across a den of rattlesnakes.
She had only stones and sticks with
which to fight tho desperate battle.
Some of the snakes were larger than a
man's arm, and few of them as large
aa the calf of a tnun'a leg. For
hours ahe fought them as they hissed
and writhed and rattled around her.
But the brave, determined girl battled
with them until she exterminated
every one that did not succeed in hid
ing among the crevioos of rooks and
ia tho dense underbrush. When she
had crashed the last one to be seen
he counted the dead, and there were
just sixty-three. Fredericksburg (Va.)
Star.
FOOD FOli THOUGHT.
Tt takes 9 philosopher to rcaion out
hia faults.
The weak may 1 e jeked out of any
thing but their weakness.
Keasons of tlr'nss are rather to te
taKeu by weleht thau tale.
Geld Is the fool's curtain, which hides
all h!s defect! from the wor'.d.
Experience teacheth that resolution
Is a t ole help In a great need.
No one ought to complain If the world
Dt eaeuree him as he measures others. To
measure one with his own yardstick: may
be hard. Lot H Is also fair.
Most of our troubles are cowards If
we face t' em bravely.
When a man gets short of "rocks" ard
has not much "si.n 1'' he has an incllna
Hon to make mountains out of moleJ
hills.
Forgetfulness ar.d carelessness are the
byway ti ail ad to fi.lure.
The fairest ornament for a woman's
I breast is the fresh flower of humanity.
I Tl enifn who fa'd you couldt.'t eat
your cuke and have It too e vide t!y was
not a dyspeptic.
In all things it is I etter to hope than
to despair.
The sun can't shluo through a broken
heart.
tiOLUtN BUBBLES,
Pesirs sot Ihiu too greatly, for. like lira
Destroying hit it enfolds, so Is detira.
Uuccfc that was his thought, his hope, hit
aim.
Afield or housed, noon, midnight, dusk 01
dawn.
That dazzling image his heart dwelt upon.
For, if he slept. Imagination's flame
Purnt like a steady torch, Mgbtinc the same
Determined path which way his soul had
gon.;
And if he waked, the dream, still unwita
drawn. Remained, unchanged, his conscious force to
claim.
it lafct 'twas his. An airy figure brought,
Litrht-balanced on soft finger-tips, s sphere
Oi Cne-wrought gold. But his trained hands
forgot
Their skill for one brief instant, in the rear
I'o lose the gift. Too eagerly they caught
This glittering ball, which crumbled int4
naught.
V
So strength may win what it may fail to
keep!
This world's gifts vary only in degree.
They are but air sphered in the thinucst
gold;
The bubbles must be jostled tenderly.
Robert Burnt H'lisoii, t'a Harper's.
Babv Versus Husband.
BY MATTItt DYKIl BUM' IS.
"TTello, Katt?"
"Yts!" answered a voice above stuir,
as Charley tlraut called from the cosy
little hall below.
"Come down herd I've got some
thing to tell you!"
Charley's hundsotue face was bright
enough to tell anybody that his news
pleased him greatly, as he stood waiting
for hU wife to come down. And r.by
not, since his pretty cousin, Jessie
Kingsbury, had come ut one time very
near filling the place which Kate hid
uow?
But Kate was as sweet and pretty as
ever Jess had been at least, she used to
be, before Baby Johnnie came and and
well, Kate appeared at the in.-tant, and
even Charley could not call her pretty,
now.
Her golden hair was all bunched up
and tucked buck with an ugly comli,
her wrapper unbelted, no collar on, und
her small feet thrust iuto clumsy old
slippers.
Charley's friends used to say he was
a perfect fiend ou the subject of untidy
women, and he couldn't help a simile
crossing bis face as he remembered how
trim and nice Kate was when they were
first married.
But the shade passed as swiftly as it
came, and he stooped to give her the
usual kiss, as he said:
"Busy, to-day?"
"Yes. Hush, Charley 1 Don't speak
to loud, you'll wake the baby!"
"Oh, bother the baby I He's always
going to sleep or waking up, or doiug
something to make life miserable for
other folks!"
"Why, Charles Grant! Aren't you
ashamed to say that of your own blessed
Uttle son?"
And Kate's eyes began to 11, while
her cheeks reddened.
Charley hastened to undo his mischief
by saying, tenderly?
"Now, there I Tou know I was only
joking, dear I He's the fiuest baby ever
lived, no doubt 1 Isn't supper ready?
I'm as hungry as a hunter!"
"Yes, it is waiting. I'll ring it up at
once. What was it you wanted to tell
UKwOharley?"
"There! Bless my soul, if I hadn't
forgotten ! Who do you think is here?"
"I couldn't guess, so I won't try. Tell
me?"
"Cousin Jessie Kingsbury! She is
over at Brother John's now. Cuuo to
day !"
"Did she?"
There was no very intense interest iu
Kate's toue, for she was not over glad to
heur of the young lady's arrival. Uuestd
were troublesome, but she felt obliged to
say, as Charley waited :
"Will we have to invite her here?"
"Why, of course, Kate I We'll do
our part of the entertaining, with Stella
and John. We must call to-morrow and
set a time for her to come to us. Sho
will stay a mouth or two. Jess is so
lively, we can't be dull while she is
Here."
Kate was just conscious of a qucei
twiuije at Charley's words, but she led
the vay to the table, and poured the tea
with her usual pleasant manner.
" There 1 I forgot comcthing else,
too," cried Charley, suddenly clapping
his hand on his pocket. "I've got u
jeat for us to-night."
"What is it?" asked Kate.
Charley took two small squares ol
pasteboard from his pocket aud held
them up to her.
'What are they I" said she. "Theatre
tickets?"
"Yes. 'Faust,' by a splendid com
pany. I knew you always wanted to hear
Faust,' so I got 'em on purpose foi
you."
Charley looked pleased, but Kute't
(air face clouded, as she answered:
'Well, I am sorry jou s-ieut the
money. I can't go."
"Can't go! Why in the world can'l
you, then? You are so fond of good
opera. I thought this would be a real
treat.
"So it would, Charley, if I could leavt
'he baby."
"But I thought you had a good girl?"
''Well, I have a perfect treasure."
"Well, don't you think she ruighl
manage to rock the baby for two hourj
on one occasion?" naked Charley, seri
ously. "Oh, but Charley, he might be taken
sick or something."
"Yes, the house might burn down;
but I don't think it will," returned
Charley, more shortly than he often
poke to Kate. "I'm very sorry you
wou't go," he added, as he rose from the
table, his appetite quite spoiled. "It is
disappointment to me."
"Why, you can go, I'm sure, Charley.
X shall not care at all."
"Na; I'll stay with you, and we can
have our own music. I have not heard
Tou sing for a month."
Kate hesitated a moment, then she
aid :
"But, Charley, I must stay up in the
jursery. I never trust Johnnie to Sarah
f evenings."
Charley frowned, stood irresolute an
tistant, and said ;
"Oh, well, then, I don't see why I
fiouldn't get some pleasure, if I Can.
I'll just drop otsr to John's and see if
hey are going. As I have two tickets,
I Jess cares to go we might all make
(Mtj of it."
"Yet, certainly; go, Charley. I don't
want you to stay at home because I hav
to."
"Tou know I had rather be with you,
my dear. But it's dull work sitting down
stairs alone all erening."
Then Charley kissed her, put on hii
overcoat and went away. But after hi
was gone Kate began to be conscious ol
a lonely, uneasy feeling, and to wish slit
had gone, too. Of course, Charley wat
as loyal and true-hearted as a man coulc
be. But, to think of him sitting besidi
that dashing, black-eyed Jess all tbt
evening and showing her all the little at
tentions which he knew so well how tc
give a woman ; it worried her, somehow,
and she could not help it. She was not
jealous. Oh, no! She had told him tc
go and really hoped he would enjoy it.
But but she did wish she had left
Johnnie to Sarah for one evening and
made one of that opera-party with th
rest.
As for Charley, as he walked rapidly
over to his brother's he wondered if he
wasn't a precious rascal for wishing that
blessed baby had never come into hit
house. To be sure, it was a bright
little thing, sweet and cute, and h
would have loved it dearly and beet
very proud of it (as he was, after all, il
he had only known it), but since it ar
rived, Kate had been no companion a'
all for him. She was everlastingly up ic
that nursery, and she neglected her dresi
and her hair, and never read or sang tc
him or went out with him, and he was
feeling the change sadly.
"Of course, it is right to bo a devoted
mother," he said to himself ; "but I do
wish the mother had not so entirely dis
placed the wife. It's hard on a fellow,
and I don't like it. I don't wonder men
get tired of their wives, if they all do
the same way."
Just then Charley ran against a passer
by, and as he glauccd up to apologize,
saw his brother.
"Ah, John!" was his greeting. "Fa
just on my way to your house."
"Well, I'm on my way to yours," re
plied John. I.'iiiL'hinL'lv. "We want vol
I and Kate to go with us to hear 'Faust
to-night.
"No use to go on," returned Charley
"I have been trying to induce Kate tt
go but she woj't."
"She won't? Why not?"
"She cau't leave that precious young
stcr. I got her a ticket, but it was n
go. So I wns coming over to say if yoi
want to hear the opera, my tickets are a
your service."
"2ot uuless you go with us, Charley
Of course, you will, though. And Je?
can use one of your tickets."
"Why, I hardiy know about going my
self, John. I don't like to leave Katt
ut home alone, you know."
"Nonsense! It is her own fault.
Come, I won't hear a word more. For
ward, march! It's time to be off."
Charley submitted, feeling a little re
proached, for, though he had set out
with the inteution of going to the play,
when he took a second thought, he dii
not care to go without Kate. But Mist
Jessie was very willing to be escorted bj
her handsome cousin.
Kate had gone to bed before he got
homo, and he would not disturb her.
But at breakfast, next morning be told
her what a grand time they had enjoyed.
"Ye-es? I am very glad, Charley,"
said Kate, rather faintly.
"Oh, yes. We only missed you.dear.
But Jess is so lively, one couldn't help
having a good time with her. By the
way, Kate, she says, as you are so busy
w ith the baby, she will not staud on cere
mony and wait for you to call on her.
She is coming over with Stella to-diy.
We must have her to stay here, you
know. If you can't spare time to enter
tain her, why, I can."
A sudden fecling,which she could not
explain, fired Kate's heart, and made
her say, with some spirit:
"I shall do my part, of course, Char
ley." "That's a good girl!" he returned, in
tones of real pleasure. "I knew you
would if if t'uut wretched''
"Charles (J runt!"
"Oh, excuse me that precious baby
did not absorb ull your time. Then
you'll invite her to stay when they call?"
"Yes."
"You're a darling! Wish I could bt
here, too. But you can make them stay
to dinner. Ooo.l-bye!" A kiss, and he
was off.
"Oh, yes! She'll stay, fast enough!"
sighed Kate, as she went upstairs. "But
what I wish is that people would just
stay at home as I do. However, as Miss
Jess has no husband and baby to keep
her at home, it is to be exacted that
she will go anywhere where she can find
amusement."
Aud then Miss Kate nodded her head,
nnd her eyes had an unusual sparkle in
them, as if she had suddenly come tc
some resolution which she was deter
mined to carry out.
Knte flc-w around in her nursery that
morning with a will; and before het
callers could possibly be expected she
hal taken off her untidy wrapper, curled
uer fiuir ami made herself as pretty as
she could. If she took a bit of a crj
while she held the curling-iron, it might
have been because that small instrument
of torture was too hot.
They CRiue, and it seemed to Kate thai
Jess looked slightly surprised tat her ap
pearance.
"Why, they told me you bad grown
quite domestic, dear! Given np society,
and all that!" the young lady cried,
settling her silken plumage -in Katc'e
cosiest chair. "But I declare, you look
as fresh and blooming as evert I am
quite vexed with Charley.'
"I hope you enjoyed the opera, last
night?" ohsctved iate, rather coolly,
not replying to her words.
"Oh, yes, ind'.id ! It seemed like old
times to be wt'.h Charley again. Oh,
by the way, did ho tell you he was going
to take me out riding this afternoon?'1
she rattled on. "I told him he ought tc
lake you, but lie said you wouldn't go.''
"Not to-day. Some other time, with
pleasure," anered Kate. But het
usual "I coulan'. leave the baby" was
not spoken, and Stella stared a little,
and then smiled and nodded her head,
is if she had suddenly chanced upon c
bright idea.
Kate gave the invitation Charley had
ruggested, but the visitors aeclined to
.0 remain to dinner that Say. Miss
fessie promised to come in a few days
ind spend a week or two with them.
At noon, instead of Charley, cane the
)ffice-boy, bringing a little note, to say
hat she need not wait, for he would not
;otn to dinner. Had an engagement
or the afternoon, but would come home
airly to supper.
"An engagement? Yes; to ride with
is cousin'" said Kate, to herself with a
utile. "All right, Mr Charley Tha'
aext time, I roller think I will be of tht
party."
She was very busy that afternoon. But
when Charley came up at tea-time, it was
the old Kate who met him in the hall,
with fluffy hair and faultless dress, as he
'lad not seen her for months.
"Why, Kit!" he cried, his handsome
face all aglow. "Has any one come? Are
you going out?"
"Yes, I thought if you cared to go, we
would run 'round to Stella's awhile, this
evening," she answered, putting her hand
on which her diamond ring again shouo
in his broad shoulder.
"But, the baby?" asked Charley,
loubtingly.
"Sarah can do very well with tli6
baby," said Kate, though her checks red
dened under his glance.
"Sarah? Why, Katie, what docs it all
nean? Is it possible "
"Yes, it is quite possible that I aa
not going to neglect you any more. Char
ley, my dear," she interrupted, blushing
eddcr.
"Hallelujah!" And Charley caught
her to him in a swift embrace. "Kate,
I'm the happiest fellow in town just thi.
minute!"
"Then I shall take care to keep you
jo," said Kate. "Come to supper, silly
boy."
She kept her word. The LeJjer.
in Incident Iu a New York Hospital
Here is an exact transcript from life in
a well-known hospital not a hundred
miles from the City Hall. Oa one sidu
of the ojierating room is a room where
patients about to lie operated on are
etherized, and on the other side is what
is known as the recovery-room. Not
infrequently all three are occupied at
once. One day not lonu; ago a young
physician dropped into the hospital aud
found this state of things oue patimt
on the operating-table, a second being
bandaged in the recovery-room and a
third inhaling ether on the other fide.
Thinking to bo facetious, he turned to
the operating surgeon and inquired with
gravitt "Where do you station tho
undertaker?" "Oh," said the surgeon,
"he's down at the foot of the stairs."
"You don't mean it!" exclaimed the
young man, with some consternation.
"Certainly I do," was the answer, aud
the surgeon stepped out in the hall and
called down stair.-: "Are you there, Mr.
So-and-so?" mentioning the name of a
well-known undertaker. "Yes," came
back the answer, while the young doc
tor's eyes opened wide in wonder.
"Aren't you Mr. So-aud so, the under
taker?" continued the surgeon. "Of
course I am," was the response; where
upon the surgeon turned with an air of
triumph to his young friend, who was al
most aghast with amazement. He could
not doubt the evidence of his own senses,
but it was hard indeed for him to believe
that what he had suggested in the merest
jest was literally true. The explanation
is really a simple one. It happened that
at that moment the undertaker in ques
tion was waiting at the hospital to learn
the result of an operation which was
about to bo performed upon his wifeV
father. A Firi Tribune.
California Revisited.
Tho old miner, full of cherished mem
ories of that wonderful past, on revisit
ing the scenes of his early labors sees no
winding line of miners by the river
marge, with their rattling rockers or
long toms; no smoke from camp-fire ot
chimucy arises from the depths of gorges ;
cabins are gone ; no laughter nor cherry
voico comes up from the canons; no
ounce a day is dried by the supper tire.
Gone are most of the oaks aud pinej
from the mountain sides; the beds of tho
rivers are covered deep with the accu-i
mutated debris of years, over which tha,
river, once clear and cold from tho melt
ing snows of the Sierra, goes sluggishly j
laden with mud, in serpentine windiuL't
from bank to bank. On the tablelaiiij
above, in the chasms made by hydraulic
power in the pleioceno drift, the hollow
columns of iron that once compressed the
water stan 1 rusting away; the monitors
lie dismantled like urtillery in a captured
I fortress. All is silence ami desolation
where once was the roar of water and the
noiso of busy life. The same red and
brown soil' is beneath your feet, the same
alternation of ridges and gorges is here,
tho same skies undecked by clouds from
May to November are overhead ; the samt
pure air is left to breathe in spite of
courts and monopolies; a considerable
portion of the soil is cultivated; scat
tered here aud thcro over the mountain
slopes are homes surrounded with flow
ers and fruits but the early miner seei
it with the sad belief that the glory il
one. Century.
A liiillternl Poem.
In a volume of poems, "Songs
Singularity," by the Landon Hermit, re
dently published in England, is the fol
lowing specimen of au alliterative poem. I:
is supposed to be a serenade in M flat
ung by Major Marmaduke Muttonhea:!
to Mademoiselle Madeline Mcndoza Mar
not:
Mr Madeline! my Madeline!
Mark my melodious midnight moans,
Much may my melting music mean,
My modulated monotones.
My mandolin's mild minstrelsy.
My mental music magazine.
My mouth, my mind, my memory.
Must mingling murmur, "Madeline."
Muster 'mid midnight masquerade.
Mai lt Moorish maidens, matrons mien
'Mongst Mureia's most majestic maids.
Match me my matchless Madeline.
Mankind's malevolence may make
Much melancholy music mine;
Many my motives may mistake.
My modest merits much malign.
If r Madeline's most mirthful mood
Much mollifies my mind's machines;
My mournfulness's magnitude
Melts makes me merry, Madeline I
Match-making ma's machinate.
Manoeuvring misses me misween;
Mere money may make many mate
My magic motto's "Madeline."
Melt, most melliftou melody
'Midst Mureia's misty mounts marine,
. Meet me by moonlight marry me,
Madonna mia! Madeline.
An Almost Human CanmaVer.
A machine that makes cans for a fruit,
packing concern in California is just
now attracting attention on account of
its great ingenuity. The machine cuts a
piece of tin into four parts, and then
passes them to a feeder where they are
seized by a revolving wheel by which
the can is formed. It is completely
soldered by an ingenious process, after
which the machine tests it by dipping
it ia hot water and subjecting it to pres.
sure.
When finished by this marvelous ma
chine the can has no solder on the inside
and is perfectly free from acids. jYm
Tori Journal.' "
A LADY REFORMER.
Lady Somerset, Treatdent of tb British
Temperance fnlon.
What Frances E. AVTllanl is to tb
rause of temperance in this country,
that Lady Henry Somerset Is to fro-
perance In Lng
land. She is
president of the
British Woman's
Temperance Asso
ciation, and Is a
woman of strong
1 n d i v 1 d u ality.
Between the two
women a strong
They are united
LADY SOHKRSEC
friendship exists.
In heart and mind In the work of
moral reform, and under no greater
leaders could the force- of temper
ance be marshaled.
Lady Somerset was born an heiress.
Fastnor Castle, Heigate and Somers
Town were her destined heritage,
i.'.nr Somerset's homc
the former being the principal seat ol
her father, Karl Somcis. Fortunate
ly or unfortunately, her marriage was
a niesallianco, and this it was that in
cidentally threw her Into the ranks
of tjmperance workers. In 1872 she
married Lord Henry Somerset, but
this nobleman's conduct was such
that a separation followed and by a
t decree of the courts Lady Somerset
'became the guardian of their only
j child, a sin, who is now arrived at
manhood's estate and who Is rough
lng It In tho Canadian northwest
The former husband now forms one
of the English colony at Florence and
there possibly may be his brother,
Arthur, for the latter had to fly froir
F.ngland at the time of the Cleva
land street scandal iu Loudon.
Subsequent to the separation Lad)
Somerset became interested In France
L Wlllard and Journeyed to Chicairc
to see her. There she took up the
cause of t"inp;Tanre and did some
heroic work in Its behalf. She lec
tured, she wrote, she gave receptions
and accorded interviews and lab red
as enthusiastically as another Father
Mathcw. Feturning to England sh
took up the work there and to It hei
life has since been devoted. Last
fall Lady Somerset again visited this
country, and. as on the first occasion,
she was treated very generously b.
the American people aud press.
RUSSIA'S FURS.
tier Wonderful Display of The 111 at t)i
t'oluuiblHn tiposltlon.
No country has a finer or more
.avlsh exhibit at the World's Fair
than has Uussia. who is represented
in every department. Her most
unique and characteristic display Is
her furs. It Is a magnificent exhibit
that will turn many a man's head,
not to mention women's. Americana
who are astonished by some of the
pr'tes paid for sealskin garments
w:ll s-tand aghast at the previous
ekius shown by Russian exhibitors.
Here one may see two rol es of Rus
sian sables, each $(i,o01. One ol
them is made up of ninety skin
There Is a sealskin cloak lined with
sable and quoted at $3,500. A
beaver cape can be bought for the
tiitling sum of H00. Many skins are
not made up, and one may see a sin
gle beaver's fur worth $300, or an
other from Katiischatka, about live
feet long and liner than silk, valued
at $2,500. These are only a few d
scores of pieces to show what bar
balns can be picked up In Russia.
Two booths are appropriated to
furs. One is covered with the pre
cious skins of sables, beavers, seals,
mink, silver and black fox, squirrels,
wildcats aud other animals, and looks
like a great tent made of glossy furs
of tho softest texture. Red fox skins
are drawn at the door like portieres,
exquisite sables hang on the inside
as draperies, and on the outside a row
of black, brown and polar bears,
erect and with forelegs extended.
I stand guard like so many sentinels.
'The adjoining Uxith, also with a rav
llshlng display of furs and skins, has
wolves reclinin on Its floor In the
familiar attitude of dogs, and other
fur-bearing animals are scattered
about It may well be doubted il
such a wonderful display of furs wap
ver before s-:en in America.
In the reign of Q ieen Elizabeth, il
)ad Osh w as sold to the poor, the knav
ish fishmonger wai decorated with a
necklace ot his unsavory commodity,
ind was then perched on a stand In the
market.
In India a huge funnel of wicker
rork is planted in a si ream below a
aaterfall, and every fln-iy creature
:oming down drops It: to It, the water
training out and leaving the flappy
?rey in the receptacle, a'l realy to bt
fathered in.
Sosos are plentiful and cheap, bui,
the lay of the hen still brings 30
cents a dozen.
If we could throw ourselves away
ike broken china, every time we think
ire have spoiled ourselves and all our
itory, the backyards ef creation would
oe full of the pit ful flinders of us.
Frivolous curiosity about trifles and
aborlous attentlou to little objects,
which neither require nor deserve a
moment's thought, lower a man, who
front thence is thought, and not un
iustiy, incapable of greater matters.
1 vSsiys
i'.K'i ' p-- yUfr-irS:
SeiialiS
A PART Or KCSSlVS FVH EX til D1T. I
NEWS IN BRIEP.
F.gypt has over 2.C00 obel sks.
There Is an electrical rocking chaij,
A whale develops 14o horse rowet
alien it fl ps its tail.
The Jamaica obeah practice Is iden
ical with the totuhrn voo loo.
Vaudyke b-oaght poirtraiture to
ilie hluhett degree tf perfection.
Sixty per cent, of the earthquakes
lour during the winter months.
The first railroad, three miles long,
as opened iu S2o at Qulncy, Mass.
M. xlco took over CCOJ.OOO bushels
of corn from this country hist y 1 ar.
Tl erear two ways of telling a gorse;
iy Its gabble and Its walk.
In Kan tas City. Mo., persons who
'rll to vote at an election a-e fined $.0
Tha best sj oaimens of aUbaiter
rarvlngs have been exhuuiel at Xiue
fth. Intense m -lantholy amounting to
naniu is sometimes caused by iuto'ise
lvat,
The bones or tombs of over 2X
giants have been found iu various parts
uf Europe.
The average strength of a horse is
teven and a half tin es gieater thau
ihat of a man.
The uumber of rods in the retlua,
mppoted to lie tbe ultituatd of 1'gli', il
istimated at ',000,000.
The note or bUhost value issued by
;he Bank of Euglnn 1 iu the ordiliaiy
:ourse of business is for $ J5.00.I
The condor, when rising from the
tarth, always describes circles In the
ur aud can rise In no other way.
More than 401,000 tons of me;v
xmltry and general provl. ions are eaten
ay the people of Loudon every year.
Thare is an average of 131
iiiiciiltsa yei r among every hundred
:h. usand men In the Austrian army.
Some of the Comstock mines are so
leep that 1.0 mean have as ytt beeu
levised to overcome the xces-iive heal.
A fjvcial commi-sion has been or
lered by the French Parliament, to
itudy ways and means for improving
.lie breeds of sheep.
A co py of the first dictionary, ma.a
ny Chinese scholars in the yei-r 1100
li. C. is f ti 11 preserved amoug the ar
Jhives of tie Celestials.
The very first pages of human his
:ory, the amal of t ie Egyptians, record
ihat the progenitors of our race were
worshipers of the do.
Mrs. Mirgaret Sullivan, or the Chi
sago Herald, who Is conced-d to be the
tblest woman j lurualist in t'ie country,
:om mauds a salary of Slt.'O per week.
In the human body there is said
to bj more than 2,000,0i 0 peinpiratiou
ilan Is, communicating with the sur
ace by ducts, having a total length of
uuie ten miles,
EUctricity operates all the usua?
ia ic' lnery on the farm of a Scotch lady
iu Wlatonshtre, and lights the house
is well. The current is generated by
Aattr powe-.
England lepoits a ten-ton culler
ibout to tie built ot the new tuetat
The theory i3 that aluminum hull,
with the usuhI lead keel, ought to be
light and stable.
Comfort for tho fat and the lean
:in be derived from soma recent medi
al statistics which show that at theaee
)f thirty-six leau men become fatter
ind fat men le.mer.
IheMmls'er of Public Instruction
In Fiance hasdeciiled to establish 1( 00
more experiment fields in addition to
the OCO that now exist in connection
with the priuiaiy schools.
Alameda. Cal., has a horseback rid
ing club composed of forty women,
Tour of whom have discarded the old
rashloued riding habit and wear divided
ikirts.
The new central station for electric
lighting will be oiiened in Japan this
summer. The power in each case Will
be furnished by IV.ton water wheels.
All the equipment will be constructed
in Jar an.
Miss Charlotte M. Young is now
:bred tcore and ten, and has written far
naore than the wnw number of books.
She began novel writing when she was
twenty.
1'hllllppa F.twcetf, who won such
jreat distinction as serior wrangler at
Oxford, England, has made her'appea
rance on the platform. She spoke at
Cambridge recently on"IIome Rule."
A large piece of cryslall zed soda,
weighing 2,810 pounds, from the soda
lake near Laramie, Neb , is on exhibi
tion at the World's Fair.
George Haywood has just Jieen
ilected Town Clerk or Concord Mas.,
for the 4 1st time. For over a centuiy
!iis family- has had charge of the town
records.
A railroad built ti run Irani Hot
springs, Tenn; to Lau:el, S. C, a tlis
Unce of twenty-four miles, has a gauge
sf only twenty inches, making it the
narrowest gauged road iu the world.
In true kleptomania the victim
loes net always dlstinjuidi between
article of valueand those which have
none. Same will p'ck up chips or wood
l bits or gravel rather than nothing.
Raisins From i rapes.
RaUlos are merely dried grapes pre
fBired by several processes, but in Europe
inly two ate generally practised. One
af these consist in partially cutting
through the stalk of the ripening bunches
ind then allowing them to hang on the
vines until the berries shrivel and dry by
the heat of the sun. These are considered
the best raisius and are known as the
Muscatels. Large quantities are raised
and exported from Malaga. Iu the other
process the grapes when gathered are
hung on lines or spread out on drying
floors to dry in the sun. When dried
they are dipped in hot lye, to which has
been added a little olive oil and salt.
After dipping the fruit is spread out ou
wicker work to drain and dry still more,
after which the raisins arc stripped from
tho stalks aud packed in boxes. But all
the grapes from which raisins are ma le
are different from any of our native
species and varieties, none of which will
answer for raisics, as their pulp is not
firm and hard enough, aud when we
undertake to dry them there is little left
but skin and sc-eJs." A good lai-siu yraiu
must have a fleih of a firm consistency,
somewhat like that of a good plume or
prune, as the imported article is called.
The raisins of California are made from
the European varieties of the grape and
not from any of the American species.
Raisin grapes will not thrive in Pennsyl
vania unless raised under glass, agaiust
walla, or other prated 1 situations.
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