Ir
B. P. SOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
Editor amd Proprtetar.
VOL. XLVIII
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1S94.
no. n
GOING HOME."
11 w.in'n; 3av his glorified the west.
V. it'a Autmno tints the foliage is Jrest.
And r.eary ones areolng home to rent
Behind, a glory gleaming crowa the sun,
I-ravlnj, proclaims a daily duty done,
Aa th?r of lire's burden bittle won.
" fce trees be !ecke 1 with gold and crimson leat
Tiilowinj tinje 03 every b'a-le and shoaf;
All N'atma soon in rest will fin J relief.
Tte hill ise'.imbel with tremblin?, tired fee
i'Ut toil is o'er, and going home is sweet,
Hoon, aged form, thy life will be complete.
TLs sun again triumphant hU appear,
Al Nature aVe to life another year,
Thej for the soul of man why neel wa fear!
lllen EvtfreU Grant, in Chicago Graphic.
HER DESIGNING SISTER
BT MARIE KRANOEi CPTOW
t6 II. I'm utterly dls-
couraged about
Pet, Mrs. Park
hurst. She says she't
engaged again.'
And ".Eloise Murray
gave her little
h$SSV9. iiriPwh that sent il
music-room.
"Is that the way you feci, my dear?''
Mrs. Parkurst laughed a good na
hired fat person's jolly laugh. She was
Miss Murray's intimate friend. She sent
her two sons and half-grown daughter
to Miss Eloise for vocal and piano in
struction, and further benefited bet
friend whenever possible by her immedi
ate presence and advice. If Miss Eloise
had not bee near thirty, and Mrs. Park
hurst had beea seventeen, they would
La7e been called churns.
"Feel?" Mm Murray demanded.
"Why shouldn't I feel so! You don't
know Pet Murray :is I do, or you'd know
why I feel so."
Sow, my dear," M;s. Parkhurst es
Fayed, comfortingly, "Rob isn't a bad
fellow, and his people are nice."
"It isn't thst," Miss Murray inter
posed. "It's this: Pet's always gc'.thig
engaged. That child has been engaged
to some one or other ever since she was
iu pinafore Mamma managed her as
long a? she con!.', aad now I've taken
her in ban 1. Sue says 'ves,' just to be I
obliging, to every dry-goods clerk of a
snip who gtti a chance to ask her."
M:ss Murray walked up and do ad.
Her pretty eighteen-year-old sister
i it that u-jti.cnt out sleighing wikh
tue last youth to whom she had been
obliging. They had become engaged
ti.-j niglit before, and Pet had given her
Molcr an idea of their consuming passion
6ver the toa.'t and coffee that morning.
"Well, maybe this is the Eaal engage
ment for IV'.'' Mrs. P.irkhurst said,
"-he will likely marry some one in the
', aud thi-n the other affairs will do to
.tg 1 over.'1
'.'ndetd Pet is not going to 1. 3 mar
Mi J sht.r: of twenty. livo if I ca.i help
Miss Murray said; "aad I t'liu'c 1
1. She won't have sense cnou gh to
M married before that, and she shall
J-7e sense if I ( au mnnae it."
"You dun't suppose, do you," Miss
K.:rray went on, --that I sent for Pet to
fc'.rise here because I needed her to help
t.3 leach' Xot for a moment. I
1 vir.'y wauted to g-?t her away from ono
' 'i.lt idioti" engagements, and I did so
u ost s-.i':Li'i--!u'.!y. She hadn't beea here
it month before sha was telling me that
s . ; didn't tliiuk, after u'.t, that sha and
tiiaiics were suited to each other."
Mi s. I'arkhmst was laughing, tears in
l.cr eyes, at Miss Murray's heroics, but
s'.j held up both hands.
"Ojb wouldn't think marriages wcro
n;:;dc iu heaven, Kloise," she faid, "to
Iraryou go on, or eke you are a most
I resiiniptuoiis young woman to meddle
eo with celestial affiirs."
, "Celestial fiddle-sticks! Mrs. Park
l.iirsf, you kno-.v as we'd as I do that
r. :uriaa?s iu s x c ues out of a dozen aie
a i:.istuke aud a ca amity."
'One wouldn't think you had ever
V-cju eugnsed, Eloise, " Mrs. Parkhurst
Jnid, with leminiscent mirth.
"Velt, I have; and sa mamma siys
Vout dancing. I've soen the folly of it.'
fS.it ti:ere it is: uiamini no sooner had
e woids out of her mouth than Pet in- '
ttJ, 'I want to see the folly of it
JI'ss Murray aud her ster were at
ttskfa-.t iu the little parlor back of the
wtssx. room. the morning was clear
ad sunny, and tho frost was fast dis
appearing from the window panes.
"Are you going to bave time to dr'.va
with us to the Forest Farm to-day,
Eloi-c;' Pet asked, os she butte-red a
mufiip. "Wo are going for ornamental
twigs to decorate the church with. Rob's
coming for me at three.''
"No; I bave the little Sampson girls
tt ih:ee," Eluise said; "and you'il havo
to hurry to be back in time for yrar
boys' class, if you go driving, at three."
"Can't bo h'jlped, Sissy," Pet de
clined, curiously. "Come to think of
it, couldn't you tench those little raga
mutrir.s again for me? I don't believe
we'll be bnck by four."
'ilftdu't you better call them my raga
mufliits, IVt;" Eiuie suggested, "atrikes
fce thev have becu mine in all but na ne
k far."
"Well, I know it, you old dear," Pet
frsnkly observed, her audacious baby
rVe in her hands, her elbows on the ta
ble; "but I have so many engagements,
you don't mind teaching for me, you
know."
"Xo, I don't mtnd," Eloise answered;
but doesn't it rather defeat the supposed
objoct of your coming here to leave me
to-do all your teaching ?"'
''Xow dou't lecture, stssy;"' and Miss
T'et arose, tipped over her chair, aud
twilled nimbly to where het Sister eat.
She brushed Miss Murray's curls the
vrrong way, twisted a napkin arouud her
etck, aud then gave her aflual thump on
the shoulder as au earnest of her inten
tional good fellowship.
cee I etc, Pet,'' her sister demauded,
pushing away from the table, "I want tc
talk to you a bit."
'Don't want to bo talked to." Pel
wailed from the piano, where she was by
this time sounding fourth "Tho L?rtlei';
from a chance sheet on the music rack.
"But you must," Miss Murray said,
with such decision that Pet whirled ot
her stool, folded her hands, and drew
down the coiners of her rosy mouth it
token of submission. "When did yot
tell me you and Rob are" with a mo
ment's hesitation "to be mariicdl"
Oh, impossible to say that. We don'i
fcoow ?t. Some time when 'there isn't
tavthing else to do. I think: it's qu'te
luificieut to be engard for the present. "
"Ob, I understand," Miss Murray said,
with all the gravity so serious a subject
could demand.
"Eloise Murray, are you poking funf
Pet demanded, looking doubtfully at her
lister.
"Xot for a minute," Eloise answered.
"But I was thinking that if you would
pnstone your otht-r iuterest a trifle, I
should like to send yoa to Chici.o to
Itudy a year before- you are married."
And Miss Murray awaited iVt'a unswei
with a feeling of conscious rectitude that
far outweighed any etesigning sho ma;
bave cherished iu her heart.
Pet was round eyed and serious for a
minute. Here was her oft-exir 1
heart's desire laid at her feat. "O.i, yo 1
dear old sissy I" she said. "Hut you
need me to help you teach and you
can't afford it and ''
"I've concluded not to let these con
rideratiom stand in your way, since you
will have only a little time left for
Itudying," Miss Murray answered.
Bdt'ore the week was out it was ar
ranged that Miss Eloise was to assume,
is she had in the past, all the duties of
instruction in their little Western town,
tnd that Miss Pet was to study a year in
;be Chicago conservatory. It was also
irrangel that Mr. Bob Bowca was to
rite to Pet every day in tha week, and
-.hat Pet should answer fu'dy as often.
Pet staid at the conservatory a ytar,
ind as she was really a bright girl with
t sweet voice her musical progress was
Host satisfactory. Her letters to her sis
ter were full of enthusiasm over her i i
it rue tors, her concerts, aad of Hob. But
is the 3 ear waned Miss Eloise fancied
.hat the enthusiasm about that youag
over waned with it.
At the end of the year Pet accepte 1 a
osition as soprano of a new church in a
Colorado mining town, where they had
in old acquaintance. Eloise hoped the
ndependent experience would beoetit
ler sister. A further reason may have
een that she thought it just as well Pet
ind Rob should not waste too much time
enewing old associations.
"This mining town is just too lovely,"
?et wrote to her sister. Everybody
tomes to hear me sing, and mysterious,
inknown persons send me mysterious
inexplained gifts and tokens. My head
s quite turned with admiration, but it's
10 general and disguised that I can't
!ace it. I don't know which particular
niner in a blue flannel shirt or gambler
n diamonds it is who sends me dowers
ivery Sun ia;-. And I don't know where
ny French candy comes froji. An 1 all
i can be certain of is that when I sing
he applause comes from all of them."
"That is very good," Eloisa said to
lesrelf. "So long as the admiration stays
reneral, Pet is safe, and Mrs. Bain .Mrs.
Jain was their old acquaintance will not
et the child sutler any annoyance."
Miss Murray laughed as she thought,
'We doa't hear any more of Rob."
But alas! for Miss Murray 3 peat? of
mud, a
month hal not gone before Pet
rrote;
"Dzar Eloise It was the gambler, and
:e's perfectly splendid. Mr. ijjin knows
ibout bun. Hd isn't a real gamlil?r tuat is,
in hasn't always bean one. Ht prosp.'tel
lera ani struck it awfully ricj. tbau be
vent Eist au t bou'ut everything for a.t his
woplo, and put all tnelr debts anlmort-
t ;a?e, and bou jnt millinery stores for all bis
' ld-mai 1 relativd'.
i 'l'hen he went to Europe, ani saw ev:-ry
na who fs famous, especially grant singers;
, adores music, an I be askel Mr. Bam to
uk me to sinj tS;:m!)eri,'s yerena.i j' (t lat's
, lis favoritei at a concert one nijht, and I
1 lid.
"But be spent al! iiis money a mdiion or
w in a year or so, and now" has back here
. ind Is discouraged, and gambles,, and snds
j ne floweis. VbenI gave that sacred con-
srt last week h; asni Mr. Bam for twejty
i ive doiiars' woi'CU of tickets, and sold every
ne of them. He said 1 was a nice little girl,
in 1 be liked my grit.
I "I'm so sorry for him. I'm goinjtotr
reclaim hi 11. Ha told Mr. Bun thai I ra-
xiin-l him of bom?.
"You don't know how splendid It is to feel
.hat you are doin; g oi to aoai. 039.
1 "As evr, yours, Per."
"Great heavens!" Miss Murray said,
with Western fervor. "Doing good In
ieed I Tnat child will be engaged to that
j jt retched gambler in less than month
10 reclaim him if she isu't stonued.
Doing good !'' and Miss Murray stamped
: aer little foot.
Then she wrote immediately along
etter of appeal to Mrs. Bain. In it she
'wrote verv nlainiv abo it Ppt'n irnlimrn.'
talism. and urged her friend to hedge tho
lilly child about a-.d keep her out of ro-
y cnuu about a-.a Keep her out 01 ro
aiantic foolishness.
But another letter from Pet showed
that there was no real menace iu the
ffair of the gom'oler.
It reac!
Dearest Eloisi I wish you could set
thlsa mountains. Taev are so tiigb that noth
ing grows except a few scraggy pines, and
they are always covered with snow-. In the
mornings to t evenings there are the most
glorious colors on tb. peaks, re-1 and blus
and orao?e, ail streaked and cloudei
"One day last week we drove almost to
the summit Mr. aad Mrs. Bain, and a yonng
man who is supcriiiTeti tent in on. of the
mines. His na-oe is Be.iuetr, and his fatber
owns the mine Mr. Benneit is from Yale,
nd bs sings tenor beautuul.v. rVe sang
iusts college songs going up the slope, and
the othsrs said It was lovdly.
"Mrs. Bain a.ked Mr Bennett to go. She
says he is one of the few young men here one
ran consent to know. Sne made Mr. Bain
put a stop to the flower. I'm sorry we found
nut who sent them. It was so romantic,and
of course I couldn't refuse taeai as loaz &s 1
didn't snow how they came.
"olr. Bennett may taxe tne tenor in our
choir. It would be lovely, for our voice
chord beautifully.
"Could you send me a box of tan jr!ore.
No. undrcssid kid I Bye. P.:.-.
"P.S. Mr. Bennett's first name is Paul.
Re asked, when we wore on the mountain.
If he ini:nt call me Miss Pet. Do you thi-iu
it v ou'.d b any harm r
'Don't for jet the elovas. ' "
Then a later letter cctitatned still
more interesting bits of personal history:
"Dear Eloi.se If you weren't just the
lovliest sister and not a bit old-maidish, I'd
JliT you th1.".,ett?r- You see, I'm
T-.uuj uapfiv. juj. x;not?ib lias cuutxi
quite often of late. He is the tenor now.
ani takes me to choir practice. Mrs. Baiu
thought it perfectly proper, and it saves Air.
cam traipsing out to i.teti me.
'Last night Mr. Bennett said, as we wer.i
coming borne, that it would make him aw
fully happy if I'd let him call me Pet with
out the Miss. Ho I said that if it would
really make him happy, be might It was
jdst at the door, and ha grabbel me right in
to hts arms andtkisswl me before I could ex
plain. I didn't mean that he was to me in
anything special, but he said it wouldn't be
worth calling ma so if it didn't nteau any
thing specie', 'then be talked so love! v. and
told me about his mother, and now we are
enzaged. Tnat is, if you don't-mind.
"Mrs. Bain said it mustn't be calie 1 an en
gagement till we beard from yon, hut sht
has a very high regard for Sir. B?nne".
Don't you think Paul is a pretty name?
"Now, you dear old sissy you wouldn't
mind, I know, if you knew how nice and
handsome Paul is. His eyes are biue.
"Bye. Par."
"Alas for the eoevitable!" sighed Miss
Murray, as she laid the letter down.
"Another Chnrles-R ib-gamb'.er aSair."
But aha wrote to Pet that she had only
kl2Lker bPtoBut just U
present she wanted Pet to listen to 1
plan th:it she had c'aerisaed for somi
;itne. It was that Pet should spend thi
foliowicg season with her in foreigi
travel. She thought .t mtdvisable thai
1 young girl n'10.1, I be married with ub
tolutely no knowledge of the world.
She want.-d to start in a law weeks, ani
wrote careful directiors to Pet about the
journey. They would meet, she said,
ji Chicago, and Pet was to answer by
ieleqraph.
It was her last card; but Pet tele
graphed, "Yes."
Pet awaited her sister, according to
:he"r arrangement, in the hotel drawing
roo.u on Wednesday of the foliowiu
eek. When M:ss Murray arrived, the
orettygirl rushed towards her with out
itretched arms, ignoring all the other
people in the room.
"You'te just lovely, Eloise," Pot
rarmly announced. "Paul said I hal
o tell him, you know, about that silly
Charles and Rob that you were a lovely
lister, but he's afraid you are a desiga
ng person and here ha is." Sao
woduied from somewhere in the roon
1 tail young man with a frank sort of
Tace, and a laugh in his eyes. "He's
roing with us to E.irope," she said.
'We were married this morning." Uar
er's Weekly.
Whcre Mud is Important
There is nothing to make one
he importance of mud, indeed.
realize
like a
ourney up the Xile when the inundation
s just over. . You lounge oa the deck of
-our dihabieh and driu'f in geography
dinost without knowing it. Tae voyagj
brms a perfect introduction to the study
if muiology, aud suggests to the o'j
ervant mind (meaning you and me) the
eal nature of mud as nothing else oc
larth that I know of can suggest. For
n Egypt you get your phenomenon
solated, as it wera, from all disturbing
elements.
You have no rainfall t bother you.no
ocal streams, no complex denudation;
he Xi'.e does it all, and the Nile does
sverythin . Oa either hand stretohes
iway the bara elesert, rising up in gray,
oeky hilU. Oi.va the midst runs the
:io long line of alluvial soil in other
vord.s, Xile mud which alone allows
motivation a 1 I life in taat rainless d s
rict. The coan'rv bases itself ab3o
ufely oa mud. Tuo croos are raise i oa
t.the houses and villages are built of it,
;he land is maourad with it, tho very
lit is full of it. The crude brick build
ups that dissolve in dust are Kile mud
loliditiel, the red pottery of Assiout is
Milo mill baked hard, the village
nos.pei and minarets are Xilo mu I
whitewashed. I have even see 1 a ship's
ulwarks neatly r?pireJ witii mu 1. It
jervades the wholu land, whea wet. as
nu 1 un lisguise i : when drr , as duit
t'.orm.
Egypf, says ITero lotus, is a gift of the
Silo, A truer word wis neor spokm.
3." course it is j.nt eq.ially true.iu 4 way,
;hat Ujngnl is a gift of the Ginges, and
;hat Louisiana and Arkansas arc a gift of
the Mississippi; but with this dirlcrenie,
that in the case of the Xi!e the depjnd
:nce is far more obvious, far freer from
ii3turbing or elUtracting details. For
that reason, and also because the Xile is
10 much more familiar to most English
ipeakingfoik than the American rivers,!
:hoosa Eypt tirst as my type of a reg
l'ar mud -'.and.
But in order to tia.lerst in 1 it fully
foil mui.ii'; st ; ad your tun iu Cairo
ind the i) ii.i; ja:i mustn't view it only
'rotn the terracj of Shepheard's Hotel or
the rocy platform of the Great Pyra nid
it Uizeh; you mast push up couutry
arly, under Mr. Cook's care, to Luxor
ind the First Cataract. It is up couu
.ry that Eypt unro'.is itself visibly be
fore your eyes in the very process ol
jiiiing; it is there that the full import
ince of good, rich, black mud first forces
itself upon you by undeniable evidence.
Cornhill Magazine.
Nutritive Value of Pcfled Aliniiids.
An Englih physician is till this mo
ment the sole authority for a statement
concerning the nutritive value of pealed
almonds. "I teldom go my rounds,"
he says, "without taking a liltlo packet
of almonds with me, aud I find I am
carried on ior hours without so much as
remembering that I have missed my tea
or luncheon." lie does not advocate
their wholcsuxe tpaalities except indi
rectly, but he will doubtless find many
ready disciples to his theory.
Peeled and browned and salted al
monds are a much-prized dainty.hitherto
indulged in with caution under the ira
j ression that they were most pernicious
in their e.Teets upon the digestive organs.
A few seasons ago, in Washington, the
ferious illness of several society women
was alleged to have been caused by per
fistent almond munching, and the dis
cission evoked at that time created a
prejudice against the crisp and tooth
some edible. If we have been mistake 1
all these yeais. the gnyety of the future,
ut least, is added to. Xew Yor.i Times.
Foar Big Silver-Tips.
While John Chapman was herj front
his Wyoming ranch this weak he to'.d of
a thriliins experience his wife hal re
cently with four silver-tip bears, a she
bear and three cubs.
John was away from home at ths
time. After eating aa early supper
Mrs. Chapman stepped outside the kitch
en door, intending to placaapau of milk
in an out-hou-:e. Sba had just closed
the dcor of the kitchen when, looking
up, she was confronted by four bears,
all upon their haunches aud within i
few feet oilier.
She screamed and rushed into the housa
and told the hired man the cause of het
fright and assisted in finding the car-
fridges for a rifle that stood handy, and
then sank into a chair exhausted and
helpless, while the hired man made aa
attack on the bears, killing the old one
and two of the cubs.
When Mr. Chapman arrived he found
his wife in an alacming condition, her
nerves being at such tension that he feared
that she would go into hysterics. That
night she compiained of hearing tho
bear screaming outside, and finally, to
satisfy her, John got up and taking hii
gun went to the door, where, sure
enough, was the remaining bear, stand
ing out in the cold. -
The cub lit out for the brush when ha
heard John coming, but in the morning
the dogs were turned loose on the trail
and young bruin was gathered in to
complete the family. The cubs were
fully half grown silver-tips and averaged
over 183 pounds each. The she bear
was a big one as large as a cow. Bil
lings (Montaaa) Gazstte.
JILNIATURE FARMS.
HOW JAPAN'S TKEMIXU
L.10.NS ARB FED.
Mil
A Ten Acre Plot I Considered a
Liar fro Farm Careful Methods of
I'lantin;; and Kaisiuff Crops
The Principal Food.
ALL the land under civilization
in Japan is about 18,000,000
acres, upou the product ol
which 41,000,000 must be fed.
It is unnecessary to add that the farm:
are small. The average farm is from
one to three r.cres, and a ten-acre plot is
considered a large farm. So many thing
are done on the diminutive scale in
Japan. Spare utilizing ani teritory
saving has brea reduced to a fine art.
After surveying the Japanese fields and
gardens it is easy to understand how
dwarfing in horticulture originated ages
ago in this couutry. Tue method so
long regarded by other nations as a
secret, was resorted to as mutter of ex
pediency, if not of necessity, for the
limited space would not otherwise have
permitted a variety of growths.
The methods of cultivation, the suc
cession of crops, and even the kind of
machinery used, are the same as they
we-e nearly 2000 years f.go. In spite of
the agricultural limitations, no country
in the world produces ej much per acre
as Japan. The limit of cultivation was
reached long ago, but by a judicious use
of fertilizers, aud a skill la farming thet
amounts almost to a genius, the same
average yield is obtainable year after
year.
The land is well suited to irrigation,
and the water, which is regarded as im
pure by fastidious Europeans, is abundant.
'Most of the land is made up of plains,
whose surface is well drained, being
washed by the water falling upon tho
Jiilla and ranges from the back. The
rium;rous rivers aad water courses which
ross the plains on their way to the sea
ire utilized for purposes of irrigation.
The water is drawn to high elevations
rom which it overflows the lan I in
.bannels.
' In April the crops are in a flourishing
condition, and wheat, barley, rape and
corn form the principal part. All the
Jields arc planted with a mathematical
precision, for the element of accuiay
enters into every act of the farmer, auJ
t ie fields iaust be pleasing in appear
ance. The cereals are astonishingly regu
lar iu position aad growth. And even
.the ears of corn appear in line as they
come out. The cereals, whether planted
Sn single or double rows, grow in c'.us
ters of several stems, each cluster being
'exactly in line; so that the eye detects
ho irregularities whatever. Seed is too
'valuable to waste and only rice is scat
tered broadcast. Four or five grains of
corn are planted together upon ridges
equal distances apart, and generally in
rows. The intervening space is utilized
for growing beans, which are so planted
that they can get space and light without
injury to the other crops. Land is so
vu.uable that no space is allowed for
gra-s plots, and it is a curious thing that
110 weeds are to be seen in any of the
cultivate ! plots in Japan. Every inch
of ground must be put to the most
profitable use, and a seed borne by the
current or dropped by a bird stands lit
tle show of growing to maturity. So
thoroughly have the Japanese got the
masterly of these pests that tho soil
is entirely free from every trace of
the n. The climate and the warm, hu
mid atmosphere are particularly favora-'
ble to the gro.vth of rusts and other
parasite form", but they have also en
tirely disappeared from the fields of Ja
pan. A few narrow paths are made in
the fields where absolutely necessary ,but
there are no roads, and consequently na
room for wheeled vehicles or machines.
Almost all the work of cultivation is
done by hand, and the tools are models
of simplicity. The tool used for cut
ting barley or wheat consists of a sharp
blade placed at right angles to the shaft,
which is about two feet long. The corn
is cut very carefully, so that the adjoin
ing plants are not injured. Threshing,
too, is a tedious process. There is no
room in the fields for drying sheaves, for
the ground must be used immediately
after harvest for other crops. The corn
sheaves aje tied up in bunches and se
curely fastened to houses, fences' and
trees. The ears are always downwnward.
so that the rain may run off. During the
harvest season the eaves and verandahs
of every village house are stacked about
with neat bundles of grain that will be
beaten out as soon as dry. The ears are
knocked against a pole, placed a few feet
above the ground, and the grain falls
upon the mats placed below to receive it.
The cereals are put through a sort of
primitive winnower, or thrown up for
the wind to carry away the husks.
Bunches of corn or rice straw are drawn
through backles and gathered upon mats.'
i he rice straw is used In toe manufac
ture of a tough paper that has a great
sale in Japan.
In Juiy the fields are made ready for
the rice, after being properly banked up'
and irrigated, li.ee is a staple, but is
regarded as a luxury among the farmers,
oeing used only on holidays or in case of
'lines. If a patient is in a critical con-
l.tion hi is permitted to have rice.
'What, so ill that he must have rice?"
is asked in sympathy, and the patient's
Mse is indeed alarming when this grain
is resorted to as a diet.
Sericulture is of course an important
ndustry and affords employment for
women and children. The Japan se
:ocoon is excelled in quality only by the
French. In July the cocoons may be
seen hanging about the houses to dry
after they have been removed from the
branches of the mulbeiry. Beans of
many varieties are raised, for they grow
easily, and form a principal artic e of
food, whether green, half ripe, matured
or dry. Bean meal, bean curd and bean
ionp are relished by the Japanese. The
principal article of diet is mUlet, and il
is the most easily grown of all the cereals
A good quality of cotton is also raised
aud is used more for the manufacture of
the famous crepes than for anything else.
Root crops, such as beet, potato or
turnip, are raised sparingly. Potatoes
ire cultivated for ths benefit of
Europeans, or for those who aflect Euro
pean tastes, but thy are watery and in
tipid. The tobacco, which is raised in
ibundance, is not liked by foreigrers,
aut the natives tiid a use for all they
raise. As only two whiffs are taken
from a pipe, and the remainder of the
tobacco is then tapped out, the statistics
giving tbe amouftt of tobacco which is
raised is something startling. The
lapanese raise barley, pheat, millet, rje,
oeaas, rape see-.?, c g plant, lilies and 1
diakons for local use, and silk, tea
snd rice for exportation. New York
Tribune.
Somebody Always Late.
Perhaps it will be little consolation to
tho political candidate who has been,
jeaten by a few votes to reflect that
there is always somebody who is just a,
trifle too late. It is certainly interesting!
if not instructive to the other fellows.
Yet it is an incident of every minute in
the metropolis, where life is a daily and
nomentary scramble.
You see it illustrated more or less
humorously every time you take an ele
vated train, every time a ferryboat leaves
its slip, every time a limited express or
ny other train pulls out of a station,'
f very time an ocean steamer leaves her!
pier. There is al -vays somebody rushing
up and down at the last moment, fraoti
rally waving hands or yelling, just in
titr.o to be left behind. Ask tho ecorn-j
ful but vigilant officials.
Scarcely an elevated train leaves a,
platform but one or more persons, male
r female, dash up the stairs and fly past;
tho ticket window, and at tho risk of!
life or limb attempt to board it. Anel
how ludicrously angry and disappointed,
they look I Another train is within
light, due in ono or two minutes; but)
that doesn't alter the matter it aggra
vates it. Just as your ferryboat leave?
the slip there is always somebody who
runs the gantlet of the main gates, comes
tearing down the driveway, with or
without a ticket, and, with a wild
whoop, tries to leap the rapidly yawning
pulf between the bridge and the deck.
There is another boat in five or ten min
utes, but what of that? Tba bitterness
it being too late warrants the risk.
An express train slowly pulls out to
the sound of tbe gong. Immediately
from various quarters, as if they popped
out of the earth, some people, with
wildly swinging grips and parcels In
band, rush at breakneck speed along the
planking to get on boaid, and are left
panting and shouting and swearing
just too late. Rarely an ocean steamer,
booked for days to leave at a certain hour,
begins to churn the salt water into foam,
but a cab or carriage, bearing a steamer
trunk and displaying a dishevelled head
at the open window, comes rattling down
dpon tho crowded pier Just too late.
The compsay has the passage money, tho
natna is on the printed passenger list,
but the berth is empty this trip. Hardly
1 ship leaves port but somebody is left by
j hair's breadth.
It seexs odd, doesn't it? But it is
nevertheless true. This great business
world stops for noboiy. A mnu must
jet up and come doiva on tima or gel
eft. An 1 tiier? is always somebody get
ilng loft. Xv York Herald.
A Story of Greeley.
Amos Cummin-s tells how a faith'di
iody guard ef Horace Greeley onoe kept
Vice-President Wilsou out of his room.
The ufter detailing how several
S'ew York politicia n were disposed of,
:ontinues :
"A few minutes later Vice-Pre3iJeat
tYiUon came in. He hal b? n traveling
1 goo! deal, and his form was covered
d ith the grimiest liuen duster I eversaw.
Se slammel down his old carpet bag on
tho floor and said : 'I want to see Mr.
Sreeley.'
" 'Git out!' thundered Ben, 'the old
nan's busy.'
" 'Well, can't you take my name?'
iskod the Vice-President.
" 'I guess I'll have to do it; but you
tand right here and don't move or you'll
ketch it.'
"Ben went into Greeley's room, and
heard a hot dialogue going on for a lit
tle while. Then the office boy reap
peared and looked at Wilson with su
preme di?gust.
" 'Jest as I t'lm-'ht; be don't want to
lee you,' declare I Ben. 'Now, git out.'
"I pacified B.-n and went in to tell
Mr. Greeley who wanted to sec him.
The great editor listened to what I had
to say and then shouted : 'Tell the Vice
President to walk right in. That fool of
1 boy said there was an old bum named
Wilson loafing arouud outside wbc
wanted to see m.'.' '' Washington Post.
Danger of High Spjed at Nlcht.
The Railway Age, in an editorial com
lent upou the danger of collisions in
aigh spol at night, says: "Self-preservation
and every other motive prompts
the engineer to stop at the appointed
meeting place, and it is not difficult
to believe that in the hour of night,
in aa open country having few land
marks, with a dense fog, increased by
imoke and steam settling down upon the
hoc, the engineer may miscalculate his
speed and lose his reckoning. To the in
satiate passion of the public for 'fast time
Is due in part at least another of the
many appalling accidents of late years.
Seated in his comfortable car or wait
ing at the station for the expected train,
the traveler is impatient at every in
Itant'a delay and thoughtless of the pos
sible dangers of haste. If time is lost
the engineer has to bear the blame and
hear or imagine the reproaches or ridi
cule or passengers, trainmen, dispatch
ers and superintendent. Moreover to
slow up is to invite possiblo collision
from the tear, and to fail to make the
meeting point on time means danger in
front and so he drives on, sometimes to
destruction. To prevent the possibility
of accident liko this, will the railway o
the future be lighted every mile of it;
length by electricity? It may be. Xe
Orleans New Delta.
170RKS CP lsiiU.a.
A.s fervor waxes strong it becomes
irdor.
Experience ripens in the field of cu
ieavor. One cannot show displeasure and hica
ttia chagrin.
Extremes meet when the cynic encoun
ters a philanthropist.
Effort finds congenial companionship
when it meets with approval.
He who would better his circumstances
nust improve his opportunities.
Because speech has failed it does not
follow that the mind needs be bankrupt.
It it essential that ability be marked,
ft might be lost sight of in the crowd
jlse.
One trouble with the matrimonial
natch is that young people are too not
to make light of it.
It is safe to say that he who nurses hi
wrath does not drav oa the milk of hu
man kindness for the susteuancj. De
troit Free Press.
A Pantomime Death SontcncJ.
"Once upon a time," says George It.'
B. Hayes, "there was a judge named
Redman, who presided over a big terri
tory which kept him racing from Santa
Cruz to Salinas and San Luis Obispo.
Tbe Spanish population was the chief
race to be found in that district, and
Redman knew but two words in the lan
guage, which were 'No Tiende, and was
put to the necessity of employing a court
interpreter, who attended him in his
rapid tour of the big circuit.
It happened that a murderer was to bo
sentenced in Monterey and that an im
portant trial must be attended miles
away, on the same day. Redman's in
terpreter had gone off to a fandango in
the wilds somewhere and couldn't bo
lound when court was opened and Red
man was in a fury of impatience. At
iris?, whea he could endure the delay no
I nger, he said to the icaa below ia the
'Jock :
"Prisoner at tho bar Staud up!"
"Xo tiende," said the mau, shaking
dis head stupidly.
"You don't savey, doyouj" exclaimed
die j idge sharply; "well, do you under
stand this?" and he proceded to gesticu
late vigorously with his hands, and indi
cate the motion of rising.
The man finally comprehended and
arose stiffly in his seat.
"Prisoner at tbe bar It is the sen
tence of this court that you be taken
from the place whence you came on Fri
day, the 27th day of June next, ba
hanged by the neck until you are dead,
and may God have nier.-v on your soul.
Xow, do you savey that'f '
The poor prisoner shook his head iu a
bewildered fashion, and cou.d only cry,
'No tiende, no tiende."
"Is there anybody present in this
court who can translate that awful sen
tence to thi3 prisottT?" demanded the
Judge of the half a dozen of officials and
spectators in the room. They were all
in the same boat as tbe prisoner and
could only shake their heads mournful
ly: "Well," exclaimed the Judge, a bright
thought striking him, "I'll just show
vou then this way !" whereupon he un
reeled a yard of red tap3 that lay on the
desk, and twisting it hurriedly a 00 11 1 his
Dwn neck held tho two ends high over
his left ear, at t ie same time rubbing
his eyes and wagiug his tongua elown
r gainst his chin.
A dreadful groan went up from tho
prisoner and from the others in the court
room. They understood the grim judi
cial kindergarten completely. Sar
Francisco Examiner.
Making Gun Cotton.
Tho torpedo station at Newport, R. I.,
.s hard at work, under the direction of
Professor Charles E. Monroe, mnnufac
luring gun cotton for the United Stute3
Navy. The Government prefers this ex
plosive to nitro-giycerine, dynamite and
explosive gelatine. Gun cotton is ma lo
by immersing dry cotton in a mixture ol
farce parts of sulphuric acid and one
t art of concentiatcd nitric actd for
I venty-four hours, when it is removed,
ti'ie acid is then pressed out, and the
inass convortel into pulp,' just as rags
ire for making paper, and the pulp is
thoroughly washed, and then may be
pressed and mold.-d into any shape de
tired by means of a hydraulic press.
Early experiments in the use of gun
cotton were discouraging from the fact
that it exploded without apparent cause, I
but later investigation demonstrated that
this danger was due to tho fact that the i
sciu usea in the manuiac-ure was no: en
tirely squeezed out, aud resort to the
pulp, making process succeeded in elimi
nating the last traces of it. As prepared
for the United States s-rvicc tsrpedo,
the gun cotton is pressed into cylindrical
iliecs three and one-half inches in diame
ter and two inches in thicknes3. The
ccntie is pitced for the insertion of the
i.iercury fulminate detonator. The gun
otton is wet for safety wheu put into
jo torpedo-cases, and in this state can
oe even carelessly handlod. It is said to
be safer than gunpowder. Not even fire
ixplodesit as long as the cotton remains
set. The Newport factory turns out
5000 pounds of the stuff at a time, but
the process of making it appears to be
rather slow. An order for 20,000 pounds
from the Mare Island (Cal.) Nary Yard
is now being filled. Now Orleans
Picayune.
Sanlirht as a Disinfectant.
A well known physician told me re
jently that sunlLhtis the greatest disin
fectant known to medical science. Two
hours of strong sunlight oa tho clothing
sr bedding of a scarlet fever or diph
theria patient will kill the germs more
rflectively than any chemical disinfect
ant. Ho asserted that disease among
:hildren would bo lessened fully one
half if all the little ones could sleep in
bright, cheery rooms, where the light of
tbe sun is admitted during the day in
anstinted quantity. Il is, however,
:ustomary, especially with people who
live in flats, to put the children to bid at
light in a dark inside room, where co
tunllght can ever possible penetrats. In
aany more homss the blinds are kerjt
iown in midday for fear th sunlight
may fade a carpet, a rag or some prided
irapery. What matter if the childre 1
lo fall ill, so long as the colors remain
last in the carpets. But the people who
ioard don't care for the colors iu the
:arpct, and the carpets in most boat ding
bouses are not afflicted with colors which
tho sun can affect. New York Adver
tiser. Quickest Brid.-e Buildin? oa Record.
The quickest bridge building on re
cord was done by aa engineer nainsd
Dredge, who, in eight days, put an iron
span across the Biack water, in Tyrone
County, Ireland. It was seventy-four
feet in length. Dredge died before the
popular agitation was begun in Phila
delphia, Penn., for a modern bridge
a'-ross the Schuylkill at Walnut street.
That project was discussed for a quarter
of a century. Tho Schuylkill at this
point is deeper than the Bronx and near
ly as deep as Harlem River. Ne Or
leans Pxajune.
CAS T PLEASE 2VERVBODT.
Diner "Give me some fried cod and
a sirloin steak. Be sure to have tho fish
well done."
Waiter "Your pardon, sir,' but
everything is well done at this establish
ment." Diner "Oh, it is, is it? Never mind
the steak, then." Boston Transcript.
la 1SS2 Paris had 685,000 flals.
A steam bicycle is a German invention.
THE CRICHTER DAY,
When the dreary weather, cold an I wc
Produces "blu ?s" a r. 1 melancholy,
Look back o'er life and don't for -ct
That most of it was bright ani jolly.
There never was a day of rain
But sunshine followed soon thereafter.
And gloomy mood and aehin; pain
Gave way to health an 1 merry laiizhter.
The bells of ti ne
Will rin? their chime
Oi miujled joy an I sorrow,
Yet the refrain
In hopeful strain
Epeal-s sweetly for to-morrow.
When clou is of darkness han t'aeir paU
Before the future you're exploring,
With patience wait for t'lem to fall.
In faith thjir threatening look ignoring,
1'oeiv "A ver lining" soon will show
A3 fortii-is's breez;s blow them over,
And ju-:t bjyon 1 a rosy glo .v
Will li'btycur pathway thrcujh the clover.
The ringinj bills
Have told thoir km-lU
Aad now pro?la:.a nit'i pleasuro
A FUOLy day
That's co aie to star.
Filled high with precious troii-un.
Goorze E. Brown, in Atlanta Contitutiou.
PITH APPOINT.
There are too many people ia the
world who use their nest eggs to make
cake of. Atcbitoa Globe.
"There are times when lie is very
gloomy." "I don't wonder; he calls
himself a self-mado man." Xew YorS
Press.
A Western lecturer has selected for
his subject "A Bad Egg." This subject
often strikes a lecturer uufavorably.
Texa3 Si f tings.
Rosaline "Ilotv ii jour ner bfau?'1
Grace "Oh, he promises well." Rosa
lie (warningly) "Get him to write."
New York llcralJ.
When an unmarrie 1 v. o nan says she
has remained single from coulee, do not
be so rude as to as'c her "from whose
choice?" Boston Transcript.
C'oige Eilot says: "Tue mau who
trust a frioud educates hi. 11." But the
trus'er ottua gets too in -.t e v;er"miju'.al
kaowie'i-e. Cohun'v.!-. Post.
An aati-crank L:11 lias b?;n intro-eluc'-i
into Con;re.ss. Tue far.jsjt's boy
will be uuxious tikno v if it iuclu les
the grindstoau". Lo.veil Cornier.
Tho banana has a great vrlt-ty of
uses. It is said that floor is no v made
from it. It is no scrct that the skin
makes low s'.ippc.-s. Lv.vcll Courier.
Querist "Why .lid you borrow tint
'Zva' of S:nit 1, the rost lurateur?"
Aud ace "To give a lit'.le luac'i nt t;ii
Ettie Ca'e." Kate Field's Washington.
Alter much solicitation the German
Covcmtneot bis d'jrilj.l ait ti -e:: I t aa
Watch on t'jc il ii;i.i to too World's Co
lumbian Exposition. Je.volcto Circu
lar. A woman cao give much mora njvive
about how to keep a husban I's lore oa
the first anniversary of hjr marriage than
she can at her silver wcJdinj. illiaira
Gazette.
II j (fishing for a compliment) "All
haodsoine men are coacoiLL'l.joa kuo.v."
Sue "But it does no: follo.v that all
conceited men aru haadio ue." Boitoa
Traascrtpt.
Lady (engaging 6ervaat; "You r e n
to possoss every Ett.tosiarv q'.'. ilillctt; n.
Have you a s.ve.'thcart i" Se-r.-aut
"Xo niutu; but 1 cau soou jtet one."
The Comic.
Ho "Wc'i, ho-v is Mr. Jones getting
oa fince his cccilcnt?'' She "They
say he doe-u'l .cc.ii like liimsu'." lie
"Well, that irust be a comfort to his
wife.'" Boston Beacon.
MUtre33 "Faac'.iettc, why dou't you
sweep with the now broom?" F.iacl.ette
"But, marlume, the room vra so dirty
I thought I'd use the old one a li'.tie yet
and suve the new ojc." Comic.
Young Mr3. Fitts "You elo not ttro
of my singing, do you, dear?" Mr. Fitts
"Xo, love; your voice re i.ic.ii m-i so
much of that girl I was engaged to a'oag
in 1835." And she hasn't sang anything
since. Indianapolis Journal.
"Why, how is tliii? You, your wife,
and all of tho family have got yoar faces
bandaged? Are you all ciilict; J with
tho toothache:" "You se?, our oldest is
learning to bo a dentist and so ho is
drawing our teeth for a bit of practice."
Dorfbarbicr.
Tommy's Mamma (as Tommy suldcaly
burst, out crying "What U tbe mat
ter?" Tommy "I hurt myself this
atteraoon." Tommy's Mamma "Why
didu't you cry thea instead of now?"
Tommy " 'Causo I was busy. I was
playin' with Freddy then." Comic.
Balance "Miss Smilaxhas a wonder
ful memory." Wooden "Why, what
proof has she given of it?" ' BulfiDch
"Why, I met her at supper last night
and she not only reminded me about our
being engaged last summer, but gave me
a number of the details." Boston Cour
tcr. Jack Hardup (with unwonted enthusi
asm) "By Jove I I sco that some fellow
is talking' about introducing a bill into
the house making it a misdemeanor to
send annoying letters to any one. Very
clerer idea that. I'll hare my tailor
locked up for six nionttu, by Jove !"
Tit-Bita.
A famous railway presldeut, white out
for a constitutional a few vreeks since,
notice! a eon of toil digging a ditch.
"Pretty hard work?" suggeatcd the rail
way magnate. The laborer put down h'.s
pick and shovel and replieJ, with delib
eration: "Wefl, it niat't lawn tianaj."
Harper's Drawer'.
Philistine Wife "Your paper ia't ct
all amusing just now. But there, I must
confess it is not easy to be either 'funny
or witty every week." Journalist (much
worried) "Xo, my dear, much easier to
be always dull and prosaic every even
ing." He was about to add a persoual
illustration, but as, fortunately, he didn't,
the subject dropped. J Punch.
AJi ErOCH IS FAlirLV niSTORT.
George "Whewl What can be th
natter? Telegram say, 'Come home,
'mmcdiately.' "
George (rushing into his suburban
home one hour later) "Tell mc quick,
my dear. What is it?"
Young Wife "The baby said 'Jl.va
oa.'" Life.
Vend.ue!a luis miik trcis.
Florins wore !sued ia 1349.
NEWS I.N UKlKtr.
--Q.iiuce-s camo lroia Uoiii,th.
Tht? canlelope is a native of Amer
ica. Me'lons wore found originally iu
Asij.
France's oyster industry is the l.ir
Fest of i's kind ic Europe,
The average man ucs twoiit. -uiuo
pounds of sugar per annum.
lliiropeaus every year cut (5,470,00 )
tons of beef, mutton ittid j ork.
The estimated yield of pecans in
this country is .OOO.cOJ bushels.
A scheme has lately be -n devised to
uo electricity as n fer tilizor of the
soil.
Threo huu liv 1 nud tixty mo'inhiius
in the United S!a!e s.reowr !.,:( t f-et
high.
A fever thermometer is r.ow male
iu chntedaine form for the :s ' of trained
nurses.
A Philadelphia inventor lms a minia
ture trolley road on ti,e roof of l.i
house.
Tho 1 irg.-st im-teorio stone v:i
fouud iu Greenland ami weighs i0).i
pound.
-Franco and Itily raised 33,00 1 i
bushels of chestnuts for home use tut !
export.
The American people iu lSOd drank
tho decoction from I'.IO,') ) 1,0) I jiotiu Is
of collee.
Russia raises 12(13 pounds ef g-nin
and fifty one pounds ef meat to ta li
inhabitant.
The purer the water the more active
it is in corroding and pitting ir n or
steel plates.
The tomato is a native of South
America nud takes its namo from a
Portuguese word.
Tho Unite 1 States are s ii 1 to havo
liyiO',03) geese of the kind which
are used for feod.
The propos 1 hydrorraph will en
able fchips to communicate with one
another at distances.
Two hundred and eighteen thousand
tons of phospliute havo been mined in
South C'nrolina eliirmg 10".
ia many parts of Iti 'tia men
serve as carriers of mt-re'i nidise,
buffaloes are kpt fur rui'-ii n pl
still
on 1
i Il
ing.
There are fifty miles of eleetrier ul
way nud 10i)0 telephones in use in (ir.uid
Rapid", Mich., a city of '.'0,0 I) inhabi
tant?. Tno liist tunnel for commercial
purposes to executed by M. Rignet, in
1ht reign of Louis XIV., nt I'.zieris
France.
Why birds don't full off the root is
be'ena-.o they cau't. Whea they Ht
elown the muscle of the lower log inu-t
Col tract.
It is estimate 1 that every Atncriean
elriuks a pint of w..t r a day, which
iu 'kes tho ilailv cousutnpii u S,lti."
000 gallotis.
Tho ortion was almost an object of
worship with tho Egyptiens 2'VU years
before tiie Christian era. It tlrst came
from Ind in.
T ro sext u beetles will bury a uiole
in an hour, a feat equivalent to two
men interring a wlmle in the Fame
length of tim .
Tho water that trickles into tho
Comstock mine, Nevada, m ar the bot
tom of tbe shaft is lit at eal U vrly to t!.e
b.nliug poiut.
Many of tho caves ilise-ovi-ivd iu
Xew Mexico nnd Arizona contain hu
man bones anJ ether evidences of oc
cupancy years ago.
A deposit of iron ore has been dis
covered near Chipmun, Xew Bruns
wick. Specimens are now being tested
with a view to working mine.-.
M. do 1'isle discovered fin animal
cule that could run six inches in a se
cond, and calculated that it must move
its Iecre no less than 120) times in that
brief period.
One of the African Steamship Com
pany s vessels recently stetme.l ior
sixty miles near Souniml through lo
custs that thieUlv covered the surface
of tho water.
P. Silvert, of Dohlen, Saxony, pro
poses the manufacture ef glass pipes
by rolling elown inulton gl tes in grooves
or flutes, nnd using a core to complete
tho formntioa of the pipe er tul.e.
A French doctor has invented n
new worel, "ouchyophagy." lie applies
it to young girls who lute their nails,
churning that tho huliit arises from a
deranged condition of tho nervous sys
tem Tho Yalo Medical School has re
ceived a new respiration apparatus, an
invention of I rofessor ort, ot Ucr-
many. It is said that It will make an
innovation among tho medical se-hools
of the countrv.
The strongest timber is raid to !
that known as "bilian," or Borneo
ironwood, whoso breaking strain is
1.52 times that of English oak. It
becomes of ebony blaeknens under
lot g exposnre.
Petrified borso tracks are among
the curiosities attributed to Missouri.
They are said to bo found ic the bot
tom of tho creek in Ray County, f he
ancient bird tracks of Connc'ticit thus
Lava present-day rivalis.
k Slraugo IUoe or Cave Dtve-IIers.
.At the Royal Geographical Society's
meeting in Madrid, a paper hi3 been read
by Dr. Bide, a medical man, who in
?ently explored a wilel district in t ie
Province of Cactres, Spaic, still in
habited by strange people, who s;'.i' a
ttirious patois, aad live in caves a id in
iccessabie retreats. These singular rem
nants of sjme prehistoric race have a
bairy skin, and havo hitherto displavc 1
ia inveterate iuipuDauce to mix with
their Spanish and Portuguese neighbors.
Lately roads have been pnshe 1 into tii-i
the district inhabited by thesj " Jur les,"
11, according to Dr. Bide, they are be
ginning to learn the Castiliun language,
ind to appear at fairs aad markets in the
province, ia order to purchase a few
modern commodities an.l agricudura!
implements. Xew York Times.
BELF-XIADE, ECT A TOOTl J03.
"You are another poor victim of cir
iumstances, I presume?" said the churi.
able bookkeeper.
"Xo'iae," replied Mr. Hungry IXig
jias, proudly, "I ain't. I a n a ?eU'
Hade man, 1 am, even if I ain't much of
Mob." Indianapolis Journal.