SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W. ML CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. VIII.
Seventy per cent, of the voters of Kan
sas are farmers.
It is proposed to have a permanent
census department in Great Britain,whose
duty it shall be to take the usual de.
cennial census.
Says the Denver (Col.) Field and
Farm: "The country pays too much for
its milling. We sell wheat at one cent
a pound and pay two cents a pound for
flour, the miller keeping nearly half of
the product of the grain to sell fot
stock food. The miller's family weat
better clothes than the farmer's."
A. Montefioie, who has beeu travel
ing in Florida and devoting careful study
to the fruit-growing districts of that
vast State, calculates that the Americans
eat more meat in the course of twenty
four hours than all the inhabitants of
Great Britain, Frauce, Germany, Austria,
Belgium, Holland and Switzerland put
together.
According to the New York Commer
cial Advertiser, Chaplain Parks, who has
recently been on duty aboard the receiv
ing ship Vermont, is the iir3t Roman
Catholic chaplain that the L'nited States
Navy has had. He is said to have had
a far larger attendance at divine service
than any other chaplain who has filled a
similar position.
Tho Drovers' Journal states that
"those who are laying out new industrial
towns in the South are very wisely giving
special attention to tho houses of wage
workers, allowing them more room. Tho
workingmen's quarters in Southern cities
and towns will not be so crowded as in the
Northern cities, and will be in every re
spect more home-like."
The arid regions of the West com
prise 800,000,000 acres, of which, asserts
the New York Voice, about 100,000,000
acres (equal to about eight acres for every
family in America) can be redeemed by
irrigation and made among the most fer
tile and valuable lands in the country.
Of this vast region about one-half is al
ready in thy hands of individual settlers.
The other half is in Federal possession.
A cablegram from China says that a
decree from one of the viceroys imposing
a tax upon opium has been abandoned
because of the protests of Great Britain.
The British Government holds a monop
oly of the opium crop in India. Under
this opium is sold to middlemen at a pro
fit of six hundred per cent. It is then
taken to China, but the Chinese are per
mitted to impose only a nominal tax
England holds it as a British interest in
India, and insists that it shall bo so re
ceived in China. The revenue from this
monopoly varies from iorty-five to fifty
four millions of dollars a year, and with
out it England could not govern India.
The rapid increase of the wealth, busi
ness and prosperity of the United States
during the past ten years, says the Boston
Manufacturer*'' Gazette , is simply marvel
ous. According to the published figures,
the total wealth of the country is now
$71, 4511, 000,000, equal to nearly §IOOO
per capita. This is an increase in ten
years of §18,000,000,000, or 42 percent.
England's wealth in 1885 is given at
§50,000,000,000. Tho average of wealth
per head in England is $1545, in Scot
land §1215, in Ireland but §505. The
total wealth of France is estimated at
§30,000,000,000. England exacts in
taxes §2O per head of population, while
each individual in the United States pays
but §12.50. America will produces
7,000,000 tons of iron this year, while
England's greatest production is 8,000,-
000 tons.
The only genuine and reliable canni
bals in existence now are the natives of
Solomon Islands, a small group in the
South Pacific. To be sure cannibalism
is pursued in a desultory way elsewhere,
but its devotees would prefer kid, kan
garoo, monkey, cockatoo and snakes, and
cat tho human kind only when hungry
from the lack of their usual game. But
the Solomon Islanders will eat a tough
sailor, a hardened trader, or even one of
their own tribe in a mere spirit of wan
ton gormaudiziug when thov are far from
starvation and other meat is plenty.
They have just had a barbecue consist
ing, with the usual side dishes, of Lars
Nielson, a Norwegian trader, and his
three native assistants. They have eaten
six white men within tho past few months
and are really transacting about all of
the genuine cannibal business at present
being done.
TO AN OLD APPLE-TREE.
Those maimed limbs plead thy story;
Hie wounds upon thy body speak for thee:
n»ou art a veteran soldier scarred with
glory,
My brave old apple-tree 1
Oft hast thou borne up under
Dnset of storming wind and shot of hail;
And once a sword-lunge of assailant thunder
Sloshed down thy barken mail.
Old age, disease, and battle
Save scathed and crooked and crippled all
thy form;
And thy Briarean bare arms clash and rattle,
Tost in the wintry storm.
I seem to feel thee shiver
As on thy nakedness hangs rags of snow;
Hay charitable Spring, the gracious giver,
O'er thee her mantle throw I
She will; and sunshine spilling
From blue skies thou again shalt drink as
wine,
And feel afresh the rush of young blood
thrilling
Through that old heart of thine.
For in the season duly
Bach year there rises youth's perennial
power
Within thee, and thou then rojoicest newly
In robes of leaf and flower.
Ay, though thy years are many,
And sorrows heavy, yot from winter's gloom
Thou issuest, with the young trees, glad as
any,
As quick of groen and bloom.
The bluebird's warblo mellow
Returns like memory and calls thy name,
And, as first love, the oriole's plumago yel
low
Burns through thy shade liko flame.
Thou quiver'st in the sunny
June mornings to the welcoming of song.
And bees about their business of the honey
Whisper thee all day long.
Thus thou art blest and blessest—
Thy graco of blossoms fruiting into gold;
And thus, in touch with nature, thou pos
sessest
The art of growing old.
—Coates Kinney, in Harper's Magazine.
AN AWFUL TIME.
BY ANNA SHIELDS.
It was ai awful time. In the first
place, it was the middle of July, and we
had to move. Old Mr. Townsend died,
and every stick and stone that he owned
in Dolliver w..s sold. His heirs, two
sons (oh, how wo hated their very
names, knowing no more of them), had
been abroad, had come home, intending
to divide their time between their New
York residence and the family estate at
Chester Grove, but they didn't want to
bother with a lot of rented houses in
Dolliver, and these were peremptorily
doomed to be sold.
Old Conway pounced upon ours at
once. Of course ho did! Mrs. Conway
and her two homely daughters had been
hankering for our house for years, for,
though we did "only rent it," we had
lived there for thirteen years, and, oh,
the additions and improvements we had
made to it.' We had doubled its value,
lam certain. AVe beautified it, inside
and out; we lavished our artistic tastes
upon the panels; we adorned the walls;
we had the lloor puttied, painted and
polished, and Teddy had actually paint
ed the most beautiful border and cor
ner-pieces of oak leaves and acorns
round the entire sitting room. And
now, to give it all up! Oh! those hate
ful Townsends.
What added to the distress was the
fact that the only houso we could find
in all Dolliver to rent was a little two
story cottage, quite a distance from all
the neighbors to whom we had become
attached, and in a locality we detested.
However, there was no help for it,and
aJI said before, we had Rn awful time.
It was bad enough to know the dear, old
home was lost to us, and that the Con
ways were to enjoy all our labors of love
on the walls and floors; it was sufficiently
exasperating to be compelled to take up
our abodeat Jenk's Corner, a locality we
abominated, but these were only the be
ginning of our tribulations.
The day we were to move was hot—
oh, so hot! and the dear mother having
done the work of about three men, the
previous week, and weighing at her best
times about ninety-four pounds, broke
down with a blinding nervous headache.
Martha, a treasure of a servant, had
already laid herself up by spraining her
wrist, in moving a trunk, so there wore
Teddy and Jim and I to "do" the mov
ing.
Teddy is my elder sister Theodosia,and
Jim is Jemima, my youngest sister; I am
•Tionr.asine, always called Tom in the
6osom of my family. We are all young,
we are all blondes, we are all smoll, anil
we are all pretty. We have incomes of
"ur own of three hundred dollars a year,
and the dear mother has about twelve
hundred a year, so we can live very
nicely, indeed, in a quiet place like
Dolliver.
When mother patiently fainted away
just as the first furniture van drove up
to the door, Teddy and I detailed Jim
for active duty in the hospital depart
ment, and promised to have mother's
room made ready the first thing. In thu
meantime, shewa3 made comfortable in
Jim's room, and Martha undertook to
superintend the loading of the vans, while
Teddy and I scampered oil to the new
house, to see to receiving the furniture-
It was clean as a new pin; that was
one little ray of comfort, and we hung
up our hats, and put on the biggest of
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1890.
aprons and Lady-AVashington caps, and
were ready for action.
Even in my misery I noticed how un
usually pretty Teddy looked. Her hair
is the purest gold color, and makes hun
dreds of little rings round her face, and
she has a color like a wild rose on each
cheek. But on that day, the excitement,
the hurry and the indignation combined
had made her blue eyes blaze, her cheeks
brilliant as carnations, and every little
curl bristled defiance of the Townsends
and our wrongs. But more was to come.
Up drove the first van with one man.
Both Teddy and I were at the door, and
exclaimed:
"Where's the other man?"
"Sure, mann, he was sint for by his
old woman. One of the childer's scalded
hisself, and it's half over Dolliver I've
been thrying to foind somebody to take
the job, and niver a one is there doin'
nothing at all, at all!"
Here was a dilemma.
"Well," said Teddy, "those things
have got to be taken into the house.
You and I can carry some of tho light
ones."
Neither Teddy nor I knew that we
had an audience. Not until long after
ward were we aware of the wicked trick
that was at that instant devised. From
round the corner of the house appeared
two men in flannel shirts, minus collars,
neckties or hats; with hair in wild con
fusion and extremely dirty hands and
faces. In the richest of brogues one of
them respectfully addressed Teddy and
requested work.
I really wonder now that we didn't
embraco them. But we engaged their
services nt once, and how they worked!
They did a considerable amount of
laughing whenever they were alone, and
they required the most minute directions
for everything they undertook, but they
put down carpets and put up pictures
and carried in furniture and unpacked
glass and china, in fact, worked with
might and main, leaving to the driver of
tho van only the task of going to and
fro with tho goods, which he managed
to load with Martha's assistance.
At noon we un packed a substantial
lunch, and as Bill and John, our new
help, showed no signs of going home, we
spread out a meal on the kitchen table
and sent them into it. I never in my
life heard men laugh so much over sand
wiches, hard-boiled eggs and coflce.
In all this time, you may be sure Teddy
and I wero berating these horrid Town
sends at every turn. We called them nil
sorts of names expressive of meanness
and selfishness, hoped their own house
would burn down and let them know
how pleasant it was to be turned out of a
home they loved. AVe were sure they
were sour, grumpy old bachelors, and we
hoped they would never marry uulcss it
was to some old witch who would worry
all the year round.
All this we said in confidence to each
other, never heeding those quiet, modest
young men who were so meekly obeying
all our orders.
The houso was really iu very nice
order, and mother's room as homo like
as we could mako it, when at last the
carriage drove up with our dear invalid,
Jim and Martha. Mother was very palo
and propped up by pillows, and I was
worrying over the necessity of her walk
ing upstairs, when out walked our two
hired men, without any orders whatever
raised her tenderly and gently, pillows
and all, in their arms, and carried her
upstairs as carefully as her own sons, had
she ever had any, could have done.
Jim stared, as well she might,and Mar
tha muttered "Holy Moses!" as she made
a dive for the kitchen.
Teddy paid tho men; Jim and I did
the hist few things necessary before rest
ing; and then we all gathered in moth
er's room.
Such a chattering as followed, the dear
mother laughing and talking as merrily
as any of us.
"But, oh, what guys you two are!"
cried Jim. "Tom, you've torn yourself,
as usual, wherever there was tho smallest
opening for a rent, and your cap is hang
ing half way down your back, while your
hair defies description. Teddy always
does keep nice, somehow; but now—
even Teddy will bear an application of
soap and water."
"Same to yourself," said Toddy. "I
guess you sent all the mirrors away bo
fore washed your face. You've got what
Martha calls a 'smooch' right across your
nose."
"Don't be personal, young ladies,"
said mother, in a tone of extreme gentle
ness, "but perform your ablutions, and
see if Martha can make out a tea."
In a fortnight wo had settled down in
the new house, but we did not occupy
ourselves as of old, in beautifying our
home. AVo were advertising far and
wide for a houso such as we wished, and
we hoped to purchase one. The prico
of the one we had left was beyond our
reach, but wo thought we could hear of
one at a more reasonable rate.
During this time of waiting, feeling as
if we really had no home, we had gone
out but little. Mother was not well,
and the heat was very oppressive, while
Martha's lame wrist threw considerable
of the house-work on our hands.
But one evening there came an irre
sistable invitation from mother's dear
old friend, Mrs. Raymond, of Chester
Grove, to a gurden party and a dance.
"You will stay all night, of course,"
she wrote, and I will send the carriage
for you at two o'clock. Be sure you nil
come. I cannot spare one of you I"
But we did not all go. Mother was
not equal to the eight-mile drive, and
Jim stayed with her. We all wanted to
stay, and finally drew lots, and it fell to
Jim.
"I'm not really out, anyhow," said
that young person, philosophically;
"and, as you and Teddy seem awfully
slow about leaving the family nest, per
haps it is just as well that I am not
brought forward just yet."
"The effect will be overwhelming
when you are," said Teddy, laughing;
but secretly we all thought Jim the
beauty of the family, for, with the
golden hair, she had soft-brown eyes and
dark eyelashes.
It was with the utmost sorenity that
Teddy and I accepted Mrs. Raymond's
invitation to stroll about the grounds a
little with her, and see somo new neigh
borg only lately come to live at Chester
Grove.
We were arrayed in the finest of linen
lawns, white, with a small blue figure,
with blue belts, and white muslin shade
hats with blue bows. Blue neckties,
knots of blue in our curls, and blue
trimmed white gloves constituted our
costumes; and I can answer for Teddy's
being exceedingly becoming. >•
Strolling leisurely along, we met two
gentlemen in white linen suits and straw
hats; we heard Mrs. Raymond say:
"Allow me to introduce the Messrs.
Townsends, lately returned from Europe.
Mr. John Townsend, Miss Theodoisa
Brent; Mr. William Townsend, Miss
Thigmasine Brent."
Ir thought I was going to faint. I
heard Teddy gasp. I saw Mrs. Raymond
sail majestically away; and then I looked
again.
Yes, it was "Bill;" and Teddy was
blushing, with drooping eyes, before
"John."
"Would you please forgive us?" said
John, presently. "Wo had just come
over to Dolliver, and had heard for the
first time that there was any personal
feeling involved in the sale of our fa
ther's property, which we had regarded
as a mere business transaction. We were
coming up the street beside your house,
when we saw your distress, and, having
nothing to do, we took off our coats ami
vests and hats, and rubbed a little mud
on our faces and hands and—"
•'lt was just for a lark, you know,"
pleaded Bill, as his brother paused; "and
you did look just ready to cry, you
know."
"It was very good of you," said Teddy,
looking very much as Bill had just de
scribed her.
"Yes, we are very much obliged," I
said, thinking of all they had heard us
say about them, aud wondering how
much they remembered.
But, somehow, just then we all looked
up, and in another secoud the air was
filled with laughter. It was irresistible.
The whole affair was too funny.
After that, we were the best of friends.
The Townsends catno ofton to Jenk's
Corner, and when Jim comes out regu
larly, next winter, she will have no sis
terly compunctions about Teddy or me,
because there will be a doublo wedding
in about two weeks. Teddy and I are
going to marry "thoso horrid Town
sends."— The ledger.
A Toy for the Chinese Emperor.
About two years ago they presented *.
complete miniaturo railway to the Em
peror through Li Hung Chang, and the
line, which is about three miles long, is
laid down within the Imperial city. The
young Emperor is very much interested
in its works, and spends a greut deal of
his time riding to and fro in the beauti
fully appointed little carriages.
lie was greatly struck with the toy
railway and its influence upon the recent
decree has been very considerable. The
old reactionary party among his advisers
were adverse to the miniaturo line being
laid c'own within the precincts of the Be--
cred city, and it was very near being re
turned to the donors. But the Govern
ment was afraid lest it should give offense
to the French, who are greatly feared
and respected since they burned and sunk
the Chinese fleet.
At first the high authorities would not
allow any foreigners to have a hand in
laying down or working the model rail
way. Tho result was that when they
started the little engiuo they could not
stop it, and great consternation was oc
casioned to the occupants iu the palace
by their inability to control tho strang9
contrivance of the foreigners, which
dashed along the line till it was pulled
up by coming in centact with a mound of
earth.
Since then, however, a French driver
has been procured, and the Emperor is a
frequent traveler upon the cars.
Pet Chickens are Dangerons.
•'Pet animals," says Dr. F. Saum in
the St. Louis Oldbe-Democrat , "and even
chickens will often cause disease and
spread infection. Some people let dogs
sleep with them and see nothing wrong
about the practice, forgetting that tho
favored canine may have smelt and even
lain upon infected rags and refuse dur
ing the day. Pet dogs and birds con
fined in sick-rooms with patients suffer
ing from infectious or contagious dis
eases frequently spread the disease to
other members of the families. Careless
ness about chickens is also a cause of a
good deal of sickness at this season of
the year.
' 'ln the country there is nothing so
healthy as a chicken, but when kept in
close confinement or allowed to rango in
dirty stables and alleys they become
regular disease-spreaders. I know of
several cases of serious malarial affections
caught in this manner, and at least one
of typhoid."
Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months.
' SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A deposit of beautiful agate and car
nelian has been found on Cedros Island,
Lower California.
Scientific farming in Italy is to be un
dertaken this year by a company with a
| capital of §20,000,000.
I Coffee is boiled by electricity in a Ber
• lin cafe, glass jars being used and plat
-1 inum wires passing through them being
heated by the current.
Women are longer lived than men; a
woman of twenty may expect forty-two
years more of lfe, a man of the same age
only thirty-nine years.
An electrician says that just what takes
place in the human organism to produce
death from an electric current seems to
be an unsolved problem.
The result of recent experiments with
the heliograph demonstrate the adapta
bility and v due of that instrument for
signaling to great distances.
Tho whitish, vapory belt popularly
known as the "milky way," is a mass of
| many millions of stars, the mingled light
of which makes a bright belt.
The water barometer in St. Jacques
Tower, Paris,has a glass tube over forty
one feet long, and about three-quarters
of an inch in diameter—the largest yet
made.
The board of naval experts found the
eophoue a very accurate instrument for
locating the direction from which so arid
comes, its value being of greatest im
portance in thick foggy weather.
The experiment of producing rainfall
by explosions of dynamite, has ben pro
posed. An item has been included in
the Agricultural Appropriation bill, sot
ting aside §3OOO for that purpose.
Dr.Charle3 W. Dullas,a prominent phy
sician of Philadelphia, in a recent paper
on the subject of consumption, points out
that while in England half a century ago
there were 55,000 deaths annually among
15,000,000 people, there nre at pres
ent in a population of 40,000,000 but
14,000 deaths due to phthisis.
It has been discovered that a current
of electricity passed through impure
water, restores it to purity by destroying
any living germ* with which it may be
impregnated. Animalculce which escape
the eye, and which almost eludo the
microscope, can not escape the all-search
ing power of the electric flash.
A New York man has invented a new
mode of rapid transit for street railways.
It is an application of the nrc'uitnedean
screw principle to the cable system. In
stead of a wire rope in the conduit be
neath the track, is a wrought iron tube
with a stout worm, and in place of the
grip is a shoe pushed forward by the
worm and raised or lowered by a rod.
There ate some philosophers who
maintain that longevity is becoming
more general than it was, even forty
years ago. There is no doubt, but that
during the first few centuries of the
Christian era, the average duration of
life in tho most favored classes was thirty
years, while in the present century, the
avarage age of the same classes is fifty
years.
To Cure Consumption.
A great scheme has been inaugurated
at Philadelphia to establish tho Rush
Hospital for tho cure of consumption and
allied diseases. It will be conducted on
the same plan as the German and Eng
lish hospitals for consumptives, that is,
to give the patients as much rest as
possible, to reduce the fever and to
nourish tho body. In those foreign
hospitals patients are kept in bed or a
room, or are carried out iu the open air
on cots, and, protected by clothing from
draughts, are left to inhale the fresh air.
This treatment has been found not only
to rest the patient, but at the same time
to improve his appetite and reduce the
fever.
In the second place the patient is in
troduced into a cabinet room, which is
an air-tight compartment, from which
the air has been exhausted. After the
patient is placed in the room, it is filled
with oxygen, or nitrous oxide, or any
vapor containing medicine. By in
haling this vaporous medicine tho patient
is liable to be cured of the terrible dis
ease. As to nourishing the body, the
patients are given the most nutritious pro
vender, chiefly beef, eggs and milk.
Medicine is taken at regular hours. There
is also a constant medical supervision
over the patients.
This is the plan on which tho Rush
Hospital will be conducted. Statistics
show this mode of treatment cures forty
per cent, of consumptives placed in such
hospitals. In fact the Germau and Eng
lish claim a larger percentage of cures.
"It is now an established truth in medi
cal science," says Dr. Mays, one of the
trustees, "that consumption can be
cured. When I make the statement I in
clude all kinds of consumption, whether
inherited or induced by exposure or ex
cesses. The plan of treatment adopted
by the Germans nnd English cures the
average consumptive in six months' time
This is remarkable, but it is a fact."—
New York Newt.
A Split Ear.
The curious case is mentioned by a
German doctor of a man who experi
enced unpleasant cracking noises in tho
left ear during a period of a year and a
half. Those occurred every few seconds,
and could bo heard by any person at a
distance of a foot. There was no deaf
ness or inflammation, but the drum wai
found to have a split in it through
which air was forced by the act of swal
lowing.
NO. 48.
WOMAN.
Fairer than all the fantasies that dart
Adown the dreams of our most favored
sleep, •
Thy perfect form, since Edefl*» day, doth
keep
The constant pattern of a perfect art I
Yet more mint we admire thy better part,—
The spirit strong to smile whew others
weep,—
And well know we who sail life's ocean
deep
There is no haven like a woman's heart.
Thus, often weary ere the strife is won,
Tired of my task, my head I fain would
lay
In some good lady's lap, as did "the
Dane."
And watch the action of the world 'go on,
Knowing 'tis but a play within a play,
The fleeting portion of an endless plan.
—Charles H. Cranilall, in Lippincott.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
1
Told to make a noise— A bell.
Old ns the bills—The valleys.
A catch question—"Will you be
mine?" ~ . . r ,
Man wants but little lvete below; but
when he gets on top he wahts the earth.
It is the small boy „gj»t<hig his hair
combed who knows the; jmuu, of a part
toff- ~ "Ifc • ■
- The man who lives by hi». Jferaius cerr
tainly his not a visible mean§of support.
—Puck.
He—"Are you fond of sports?" She
—"Well, I ought to be. I married one."
Qazc.tU.
Played out—baseball. It is one of the
games that can't bo played indoors.—
Philadelphia Press.
Most proverbs ate founded on fact.
Perhaps the straw that broke the camel's
back was a bale.— Puck.
Of all sad words
Vocable, mailable,
The saddest are:
"It's uuavailable."
, —Puck.
The most popular woman in the United
States is undoubtedly the golden haired
lady who adorns the double eagle.—
Puck.
When a man marries he fully intends
to be No. one in the family, but often
the period drops out.— Terre llaute Ex
pretut.
Wife—"What do you suppose baby is
thinking about?" The Ilrute—"l 'spose
he's thinking what to cry about to
night."—Life.
Book Agent (returning after having
been tired down one (light, to irate bro
ker) — "But now, joking aside, won't you
take one copy!"— Flieyende lihictler.
"A new female pursuit in the larger
cities is collectin;- bills." This is en
couraging. The old female pursuit in
the larger cities was to run 'em up."—
Xurriilown Herald.
| Farmer Way—"All my pigs broke
j ;>ut hist night aud the constable put them
jin the pound." Farmer Wise—"Take
care of the pens and the pounds will
care of themselves." fe
" 'Sh!" exclaimed Tommy, listeningm
the door. "There's company in the p&r
--lor." "How do you know?" inquired
Willie. "Mamma's calUug papa 'ipy
love.'"— Chicago I'rifaiigjk /
Fait tad asks '' Wha&^v'HDMaT' as
though it were hard to tcil;-bttSfet one
womac sit behind another in ch«*fch, and
jhe'll till what's on her in less than two
minutes.— llaroard Lampoon.
We all know the men who like to make
Cruel jests, and think them immense;
But (jive me the ona who can always take
A joke at his own expense.
—Judge.
Would-be Facetious Teacher—"Boys,
thero is an old saying that if you give a
nan an inch, be will take an ell. Now
jan you tell me what would bo the result
if you were to give a man a foot?" Small
but Bright Boy—"He would kick."—
New York Tribune.
Strive as we may we nover can
Tell who are happy, who forlorn;
The cutest little shoo of tan
May hide a very painful corn.
—Chicatjo Evening Post.
Fruits Prematurely Plucked.
"At present the trouble is to get
things to eat," said a prominent caterer
of years gone by. "Fruits and vetrpti
bles, especially the earlier varieties, ..
brought from a great distance, and in
order to carry well are picked green.
Ripened artificially off the trees, vines
and plants, they not only lack flavor,but
are positively unwholesome. Take the
first tomatoes, for instance. You look
in vaiu for a ripe one, and the taste is
frightfully unnatural and unsatisfactory.
It is the same with peaches, pears, apri
cots, pluuis and smaller fruit. So far as
meat is concerned, beeves are driven for
miles and miles, and when killed many
of them are bruised, thin and diseased.
When they are brought in cattle cars
they are crowded togother so closely that
they cannot move without trampling on
each other, and suffer terribly from lack
of water and food. Sheep and swine are
in the same category. Under such con
ditions it is no wonder that much objec
tionable meat is offered for sale. In the
past, fruits and vegetables came from
near at hand and were gathered almost
ripe, while the beef, mutton, veal and
pork were from this State and New Jer
sey and were of excellent quality, to
say nothing of being in prime condition
and altogether wholesome. Things have
changed in the line of marketing, but
the change has not been for the better,—
.— Philadelphia Inquirer.