SULLIVAN JSHH REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XI.
Sixty thousand nor eh of Florida lands
•re to lie cultivated by Swedes.
The Netherlands are moa to be
worth #4,935,000,000 and Belgium $4,
030,000,000.
Australia has just completed the first
locomotive ever built on the island
continent. It was constructed at Mel
bourne.
V The colored people of Virginia pay
taxes on real estate valued at $9,425,-
68t5, and on personal proj>erty valued
at $3,342,950.
A Brooklyn (N. (.) lureotor says he
can propel a big stetuiship across the
Atlantic in throe and a half days with
sulphuric u-.ii I powered sugar and
cliloruty of potash.
Although we have the poor always
with us, a two-cent British Guiana,
1850 issue, postage stamp, was sold at
auction in this city the other week,
muses the New York Independent, for
§lOlO.
The New York Sun shows that while
in the country at large the proportion
of foreign-born inhabitants is about
fourteen per cent , it is only 2.60 per
cent of the total in the fourteen South
ern States.
Spinning wheels are not altogether
things of the past. Go into Cornwall
or Wales, or to the Scoteh Highlands,
declares the Chicago Herald, and
you will lind plenty of cottages
where the spinning wheel is as much a
piece of household furniture as are the
scrubbing brush and the kitchen
broom.
The new railroad from Jaffa to Jer
usalem is only fifty-three miles long.
Passenger trains make seventeen miles
an hour. The rails came from Eng
land, the ties from France, the engines
from Philadelphia, the cars from
France and the heavy work was done
by Arabs and Egyptians. The road is
not likely to yield a profit for a long
time to come.
It is a fanciful but pretty conceit,
exelaims the New York News, that of
casting a Columbian Liberty Bell
weighing 13,000 pounds, composed
partly of jewels, silver, rare coins and
all sorts of precious contributions from
women and children in all parts of the
United States. The value of all these
contributions will greatly exceed the
value of the jewels which Isabella is
said to have sacrificed for the outfit of
Columbus.
The dedication of the Mormau Tem
ple at Salt Lake City took place under
far different conditions than were ever
imagined by those who laid the founda
tions, soliloquizes the San Francisco
Chronicle. Polygamy is now prescribed
by rigid laws, and though the spirit of
the laws is violated by many Mormans,
still the fear of imprisonment lias done
much to check one of the worst fea
tures of the system. The younger men
among the Mormans claim that they
have discarded polygamy and that it no
longer plays an important part in their
religion
Many villages iu all parts of the
United States have taken the names of
the roadside iuns about which they
have grown up, but it is |K>rhaps only
iu conservative Southern Virginia, re
marks the New York Sun, that the
"ordinaries" for entertainment of mail
and beast have given names to villager
There is Jeuning's Ordinary in Notto
way County, Siuoky Ordinary in
Brunswick County, and doubtless many
others in the same region. It is here,
too, that local map- immortalize the
shopkeepers, the millers aud the Mack
smiths of an earlier generation. Oddly
enough, one looks almost iu vain for
uuiutu grow lug out of the bloody
struggle from 'ill to tUV
A sort of mythology hu» groan up
alsiut the American Indiau lit rcgious
ahelice he vuuished 100 years ago.
The popular names of mauy plauts in
clude the adjective ludtali. Few par
•oiis ill America nay Indian corn now,
hut Indian cukes is a term still strongly
intrvuehed south oi Mason ami Uiion't
Itue, and then la twit a plant kltoau
to children a Indian t>>l»aeeo. The
brilliant tHUUU In t !*•
caitxe Its weds are Mack, hilllet like
pellet*. Indian tradltntUs are pra
se* v«sl with a s»rt ot revsivuee in the
South Twenty Ave rears aifo It-al
tr.w lers oit a certain road iu W.toea
ter t'onulv, Maryland, commonly
•lop|M'd at a jKiiut lit Ihe retttolc iHiuu
try, Hatched u inlet a iiu*h at lhe ruad«
aide, drew forth a stoUe uiutlM aud
pestle Used ti)l the ludfct.t* lUU y<
he lor«, shoavd tha (sites Iu any
•tf auger la the cuMipunt and >a«< fully
put thuiu taut I «lede iMgkliui'
h>a«l knew tha «k*i alaMttaul lhs»" la
>lr IW4> uta, hut (hay atamad a» •*!« m
U 4 iu>ta<,i*ut
There are said to be 70,000 lawyers
in the United States, one-seventh of
whom have offices in New York.
•The manufacture of paper from
wood pulp is destroying acres and acres
of beautiful trees," laments the San
Francisco Bulletin.
The 1200 persons in the Census
Office will retire on the 31st of
December. The Census Division there
after will consist of a chief and about
twenty-three employes, to complete the
unfinished work.
The fouth centenary of the discovery
of the new world was celebrated by the
French Geographical Society on March
4, that being the fourth centenary of
the date the news of the discovery
reached Europe.
It is said that the new directory of
Baltimore, Mil., indicates an increaso
of 36,000 in the population of the city
during the post year, dne largely to
the growth of manufacturing interests
in the city and suburbs.
For some years past Greece has been
gradually monopolizing the earth
quakes of Europe. Several beautiful
towns and villages have lately been
turned in a few moments into heaps of
ruins. Amphissa, Leucadia, Corinth,
Egion, Philiatra, and lastly the flower
of the Lavant Zante, have all been
badly shaken up.
At a meeting of the International
Hotel Employes' Association in New
York City the other day it came out
that the waiters of the metropolis have
invented a new name to describe the
man who regularly omits to give tips to
expectant waiters. It is "Miff." The
name is not applied to the man who
once in a while fails to find his vest
pocket when the waiter hands him his
hut and inquires how he was pleased
with his dinner, bnt when that failure
becomes chronic his name is handed
around from one waiter to another as
a Miff, and when he comes into the es
tablishment, it is dollars to doughnuts
that he finds thein all too busy to have
time to attend to his wants.
The German universities are the
most cosmopolitan institutions in the
world. They draw students literally
from every cultured land aud climate.
Of the 27.518 .students matriculated at
these high schools during the present
term no fewer than 1948 are foreign
ers. Of these 403 are Russians, '294
Austrians, 247 Swiss, 131 English, 5'2
Greeks, 51 Bulgarians, 50 Hollanders,
36 Turks, 34 French. 31 Italians, 25
Luxemburgers, 24 Roumanians, 21
Swedes and Norwegians, 18 Servians,
5 Danes, 2 Spaniards. Non-European
lands are represented by 414 Ameri
cans, the great majority of whom are
from the United States, 69 Asiatics,
nearly all of whom are Japanese, 14
Afrioans and 4 Australians.
A prize was recently offered by the
Denver (Col.) Sun for the best solution
of the problem of how to keep hus
bands home at night The prize was
awarded to the writer of the following:
"A Quaker advised his son to keep his
eyes wide open when courting ; after
marriage to keep them half shut. If
you did uot act on the first jwtrt of the
advice, try the latter. Study your
husband's diapositiou, and lie sure to
make a thorough study of your own.
Try using a little tact and a good deal
of consideration for his wishes aud
feeliugs. and aee if you eaunot teach
hun to lie more considerate of yours.
Business is tryiug. Men like peace at
hotuc. If possible, manage not to In)
worn out. Be cheerful. Don't worry.
Don't scold."
Life tablet have lieen compiled from
the mortality returtiaof various |a-rintts
of time showing that at birth the ex
|H'ctatloii of life cover* more years iu
the earn* of the female thau in that of
the male These tables alao ahow that
at succeeding ages the female lead ut
maintained. Hut a tabulation has just
'•ecu ttiailc that will interest othrra
thau H*lelltlata, statist iciwur and lift tu
aurauoc ageuta, aud which, though the
ilata are inil *ery uitc uatve, gotst to
confirm the rcaulta r. acheil iu the ao
called stain lard II t ■ lab lea. A leading
journal baa coiupllisl all the eaar* of
il.'lable lougevily rect.nled IU llaowu
uolituiu* during th» viar IMttJ til 1151
■a'togaitaflaua litii wi wutuen and only
AUA are lueu. Abnvi «ighty at marly
all an*a the relurna couliuu* to favor
she wiiun u . and of oenlenai lau*all
hut one are a.aom l'hia >ks* ut'l
pfuvw thai wouteu ate happier than
lUl>|l but il la a tf""d iitUealt'U 111 at a*
a rule they live lu||«i And though
the iMuat t«iaaoiialv|> ptnauio|*ti' U la
thai thta la Inmuhmc they enjoy mu
aflat life than man, th> a»mm».
wiiutan aill d.ml.iiiaa t*>uliuu« tu at»u
thai »ttl It* I bvutt U In a a>aa
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1893.
WHERE THE WORLD BEGINS.
Ob, (air Is the land where the world begins,
8o near to the other shore it lies,
(Only a span as the white dove flies)
Bo far away from earth's cares and sins.
Around it sheltering walls arise,
Bullded by love that never dies.
This land is but one of the many inns
Along life's pathway back to the skies ;
Then l the dweller toileth not. nor spins.
But only watches with mute surprise
The wonders passing before his eyes,
A smile In his scepter, his mandate sighs.
And weakness is ever the power that wins
In that l>eautiful land where the world be
gins.
—M. L. Ames.
THE HEIRESS.
BY M. A. WORBWICK.
figures in the dusty ledgers—a young
face with clear, bright eyes —and I fall
into a day-dream and forget that I am
old and poor and commonplace.
Sheisthe only child of Jere Harnian,
the millionaire mill-owner, and as gen
tle and good as she is beautiful.
I have watched her grow into
womanhood. I have watched her char
acter deepening anil widening and de
veloping toward the ideal of my
dreams.
And all these years Ihave been learn
ing to love her.
Surely love is not wholly wasted
though it is hopeless. I am a better
man that I have loved Nellie Harman.
No. I build no air-castles.
I am forty and she eighteen.
I am only her father's bookkeeper
and she is the heiress of millions.
There was a time when little Nellie
Herman rode on my shoulder hunted
my pockets for goodies, and escaped
her nurse's charge several times a day
to toddle down to the mill in search of
"her Jack Spencer." Later she
brought her school tasks, the incor
rigible Latin verbs and the unconquer
able examples in fractions, to the same
old friend, who was never too busy to
be bothered by little Nellie Harman.
She is as unaffected and cordial iu
her friendliness as ever, and sometimes
when she lays her hand oil my arm and
looks up into my face anil asks why I
come so seldom to the Hall, and have
I grown tired of old friends, of her—
then I find it hard to answer lightly, to
smile calmly, and I go away with a
heartache.
The girl does not lack for friends.
Grim, ntcru old Jere Hnrman's little
bright-faced child, motherless since her
buhyhood, long ago fonml a tender
spot ill the hearts of the village folk.
In the cottages her face is as welcome
as sunshine. The children hung on
her gown, the women sing her praises,
and the roughest mil! hand has always
a civil word for her, and a lift of the
cap as she passes.
She has her young friends, too,
among the country gentlefolk. Young
Harry Desmond is often at the Hall.
It is rumored that he is the fortunate
suitor of Jere Harmau's heiress. He
is a fresh-faced, good-hearted lad.
Love is for youth, and they are young
together.
Oruy-huired Jack Spencer, what
have yoit to do with "love's yotiug
dream ?"
The strike!
The mill is shut down and tin
strikers gather ill knots along the vil
lage street and discuss the situation.
The cut-rates have caused the trouble.
Jere lln rum ii is a hir- I man and a hard
master. He holds the fate of these
people in his hands. A few cents less
to them, a few dollars more to him.
This seemed to him to nettle the
i|tt est 1011. The times were dull he
would reduce wages. Tin- Harman
mill operatives went out ill a body.
The tirst day of the strike Big John,
the weaver, who headed tin- strikers,
came to Jere Harman with a delegation
to arbitrate the matter.
To th< in Harman said : "Iteturu to
work at my terms ur -lay out ami
starve. Monday I hire new hands if
you are m>t back iu your places. A <
long as I own this mill I ah til Ik- mar
ter here."
This was Ills this I nuttier, and Uo
words of mine, u<> warnings »i the mur
in lira aud threat* thai grow and deepen
among the uteit. will - bake lit* will.
There la talk o| 111 111 ( tie lulll aiming
the mad brained tiues, but Ulg John
shakes his In ad
"thai Wire flf'ppum the lloao off In
aplte the lis'i', men If tht mill Wufi
burnt how would thai help us to work
aud aagea? Say i it inuat bv other
Uiean*.
''Aye. We UlUal live , but It Wt do Ut'l
get our ritfhta by lull mi all* Wu will
h»». tin m l»y loul, " cried another
l*tl< V Itiealll lutm'hlef. 1 have warned
Jin liar man, but he will ttol h»» I
The strike la <i« v ».
the Ills 111 Is i ut|i«|, at«il | alt alone
la Ih* ..*e. ii. il, i U i . lift aii •!• k Xiel
4w*) with Hie hiirroi* u( ih» umM •
»i|siaw« I >hut my i **• Mil lk>
pi4'(ur< aianU tut Im|>,|i mi *hi ihttk
utgfal Iha hall ailh il* n
out thioimh ti.. am low*. th> sat |kml>
"I young p*»<pl* iii the drawing ti -mi ,
Ua |k«M "I tot. hi* usllrk the Web
"I U*ts tab IU. a. tht a*tgM. uplu»o> I
lat >» Ih i. .. , t.«Mp ul b l
iNalti «tewwtat Mel a rtnlMi MMs I
through a window and shattered the
chandelier.
Tho music stopped with a discordant
crash. There was instant confusion,
and above it all there were the hoarse
cries for Jere Harman.
I sprang through the piazza window
and faced tho men. They knew mo
well, and Big John shouted :
"We've naught against you, John
Spencer. We mean no harm to any,
but the master must hear us. Bring
out the master!"
"Come like honest men, in daylight,
and talk it over calmly," I urged ; "not
at night, like a mob of ruffians with
stones for arguments."
Jere Harman had come out to them.
They greeted him with an angry shout.
"We are to be put off no longer. Is
it our rights by fair means or by foul,
Jere Harman?"
"Your rights " began Jere
Harman in his harsh, stern voice. I
saw that Nellie Harinan had slipped
out to her father's side and laid her
hand pleadingly on his shoulder. She
did not fear the angry men, for will
ingly not one of them would have
harmed a hair of her dainty head. I
saw that she would have pleaded with
her father to be gentle with them.
"Yes, our rights!" yelled a voice in
the crowd with an awful oath. He was
drunken or blind with rage—surely he
did not seethe girl at her father's side.
A stone whizzed through the air. It
might have been Jere Harman's death
blow ; instead, it struck her. It cut a
great, cruel gash just above the temple.
They sprang toward her—her friends,
her lover—but Nellie Harnian put her
two hands out to me with a sharp,
gasping cry.
"Jack, Jack?" she said, and I caught
her in my arms.
I have lived over the agony, the
joy, of that moment all. through the
long, lonely hours of this night.
It was big John himself who brought
the doctor and cried like a child when
they told him she was dying. His little
crippled child she had loved and cared
for, and it had died in her arms. "Aye,
and that harm should have come to
her, who was more good and innocent
of wrong than the angels!" muttered
Big John, brokenly, as he went away
softened and sorrowful.
Jere Harnian sent me out to tell the
men that he had yielded, and in the
silence of death they went away.
The strike is over.
As I sit here in the gray dawn, wait
ing, fearing, dreading the coming of
the morning and the news it may bring,
I hear the clatter of horses' hoofs. It
is a servant from the Hall riding to the
village on some errand.
"What new-?" I call out hoarsely,
and learn that the worst is over and
that she will live.
Nellie Harnian hovered between life
and death for long weeks, and I
worked as I had never worked before.
Jere Harm.ill left much of the manage
ment of tlie mill in my har-ls, and I
put heart and brain ill the work or I
should have gone mad in those weeks
with the longing to see her face. When
she was well again I spent many even
ings at the Hall, talking business with
her father, who came seldom to the
office in those days. He had broken in
health with the recent troubles and had
lost energy, but ho was gentler and
kinder than of old.
Harry Desmond was always there. I
was but a dull guest. I could not en
dure his light-heartedness, the triumph
in his eyes, the happiness in his laugh.
I could not endure that hi' should call
her by name or smile an her.
I was a mad fool!
1 told Jere Harmau that I must go
away; that I must have rest, change
a vacation. Gordon, the young fore
man, could take my place, I urged,
ami he consented, though grudgingly.
The last evening 1 promised him to
spend at the Hail aud go over the ac
counts with him.
Never had Nellie been brighter or
gayer. I felt a vai'iie puug that my
Koiuk was so little to her.
It was early when Desmond left, aud
I immediately rose to go. Jere Har
iiiaii grasped luv hand cordially in
farewell, aud Nellie snid simply "(lood,
bye," ami I weut dowu the path slowly
and siwlly.
Suddenly 1 heard a light, flying step
behind me as I reached the shadow of
the trees.
It was Nellie.
I stepped back in the darkness. Hhc
stopped, as if listening, aud theu cam*
toward me.
"1 thought I pie ui Id overtake yon,"
she whispered, slipping her ivrui through
mine. "Hid you think I could let you
go uwav to-night without a last word?'
There was something iu her voice, a
tenderness, that explained all. Hlte
had collie out to meet her lover, Ues
llloud, slid UllatokeU lllf for 11111l in the
ilarkui « Hut to have her so near was
very sweat. Hire seemed uot to can l
for speech, Mhe aas very still jii»t
clasping uiy arm and leauiux over so
Keiitly my should) r. The
temptatlou wax ureal I was going
away just to take auav with me the
memory of a iuoiim ut'a heaven!
I klaaed her.
"forgive me, ' I pleaded, deaper
ately "Von thouulit iu» your luvar,
I leaioouit i ami I aas cruel, mod, to
take that ktaa. veilM, forgive nut.
"Hut I klaaed you. Jack," she
*tii*|aivil "Ami you iuut go oh.
Jack 'youw>>u tgo whet. >ve yo« «u.
■lack Hp near, «ray Ual. a* aud forty,
MMMMtOM I'loti .tUil |WUI t||i 1"> ed
htm 1
that la ui) r>>mane«. tiatik laallv »
Vktikly
tateUi Hamilton was only thirty
la** yaats ukl visu H idiiiiiiteii M*a*n
kiiu MtHit try <4 tla T<e**urtr l»il»t
•in, alto *m forty »n as* tlt> vldeal
t >if this yoWtMul rakliiH
I'll ,i land, iilltii ha.- a*#
lltal tu.l. 11,. U.I at
|H»e |>l tiit- V*
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BCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A fly has 16,000 eyes.
Malaria is most dangerous at sunset.
There aro 240,000 varieties of in
sects.
Dirt and disease travel in pairs.
Clean out the dirt and disease has little
show.
Southern Pacific locomotives will
soon use for fuel bricks made of coal
dust and asphaltum.
There is a machine at the Krnpp gun
works at Essen, Germany, that rolls
iron to the thinnesss of sixteenth
hundredths of an inch—thinner than
the thinnest sheet of tissue paper.
The cholera microbe was discovered
by Doctor Koch, of Berlin, in 1883.
In length, it would require over twelve
thousand of them to make an inch,
while their breadth is about one-fifth of
their length.
The orbit of the planet Neptune,
thirty times further from the snn than
that of the earth, forms the outer
boundary of the solar system. The
distance is immense, yet shrinks into
insignificance when compared with that
which lies beyond.
The study of inoculation for cholera
was first taken up by Pasteur, at the
instance of a Prince of Siam, in whose
coujitry it is indigenous. It is hoped
that it may ultimately be stamped out
there, and in this way its propagation
to other parts of the world prevented.
At Baku, Caucasus, the other day, a
petroleum well was being bored. When
the depth of about 900 feet had been
reached, the fin id rushed up with such
force that all the machinery was de
stroyed, and the windows in the neigh
boring houses broken. After three days
the well was exhausted.
The Arctic explorer Nanssen has a
scheme for shutting himself up in the
Polar Sea with provisions for five years
and seeing where the drift of the Arctic
ice carries him. He is advocating it
before the Royal Geographical Society
and has roused great interest. The
general feeling is that Nanssen will
never return.
AH everybody is learning now, boil
ing kills the microbes in water, anil it
was only when the authority of a law
forbidding the use of the infected river
water was putin force in Hamburg
last autumn that the cholera was really
checked; and it is interesting to learn
that Cyrus, who seems to have had
good ideas of sanitation, when crossing
t-lie river Choaspes, had all the drink
ing water for his army boiled—ill silver
bowls, the legend says.
The following are the lowest barom
eter readings on record in various
parts of the glolte • 'u London, a
reading of 27.93 inches on the morning
of Christmas day, 1821 ; over the Brit
ish islands generally,a reading of 27.53
inches on January 2(5, 1884 ; In India,
a reading of 27.12 iuchffl at False
Point, near the Southern mouths of the
Ganges, on September 22, 1885, this
being the lowest authentic reading ob
served in any part of the world.
The Wright of Compart Hodle*.
The load which is produced by a
dense crowd of persons in generally
taken at eighty to 100 pounds per
square foot and is considered to Ik- the
greatest uniformly distributed load for
which a floor need be proportioned.
That this vnlue may be largely ex
ceeded in an actual crowd was pointed
out by Professor W. C. Keruot, of
Melbourne University, Australia, iu a
recent paper before the Victorian In
stitute of Engineers, copied into En
gineer News. In an actual trial, a class
of students averaging 153.5 pounds
each in weight were crowded in a lobby
continuing 1N.23 square feet, making
an average floor loud of 134.7 pounds.
There was still room to have placed
another man, which would have
brought up the loading to 143.1
pounds per square foot. Professor
Kcrnot also quoted front Stoiiey, who
placed laltorcrs, avertiK'UK
145 pounds each in weight, man empty
ship deck-house measuring tifty-scven
squurc feet floor area. This was n load
of 147.4 |HIIIU<IS |MT square foot. lu
another test, with seventy-three lalnir
ers crowded into nine feet by
elKllt feet clKht inches, Htouey pro
duced a loud of 14'J |stunds per square
foot and estimated that two or three
more men could huve lieeu squeezed iu.
It appears front these experiments that
while the flifttres ordiuarily assumed of
eighty to l<M> |>i>illids are sutHcieiitly
correct for spaces on which there is no
cause to luduce the collectloU of great
crowds, larger fixtures, say 140 to 150
pounds per square foot, should Im> used
for railway stations aud platforms, en
trailers aud exits to places of public as
semblies or ollice lilt ildiugs, bridge side
walks, pavements uvcr vaults aud other
places a here delete crowds are likely
to gather.
To K bottler Wihml.
The simplest way to «Uiihi« wood in
as follows Take oue-quurtcr pound of
loK*<M>d chips aud boll them in olte
pint of water for al*»ut an hour; while
•till hot brush this solution over lite
earvititf. When the tatter is dry, give
another coat of the hot liquid When
this second f.Mtl Is quite dry, coat with
I solution of Ultt' half ouner Kre«U eop
uera* >lihuUi<il lit owe piut of hot water
rhi* will give a really good black, and
ViNiil SI I'lhiUUi'd can Is- Sized of j»il
isbatt or oiled as leqmrod. Hum tulk
iu*.
IV »U*.
ru, total I. n«ih uf th. Nil. is SilTtl
miles It dlaiUs a HuMitl) as ell* u
•lvi aa Mwl k#r lla last I'JIW
■uin of it* eoura. laevtvaa no u|l lata
,in .ui las*' • -loall fh» tall li ut
4wuan to tWlto a U u, la>> t«> lk(< <
.y. 1,1 II a 111 0.l ihl Mi Jl, ,it 11,.
li. It* iku *Jii- hi •l«|a -littiiui tii » to
lull ItmW HIM 1 h- "*** lllrtl olt Iv%
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Terms—sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months,
TAPPING A MAPLE TREE.
A GREAT AND DISTINCTIVELY
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
The Best Weather for a Big Yield -
Curious Things About Sap and
Maple Trees.
// ~T~F 1 could make the maple sugar
I of the country. I wouldn't care
I who make either its songs or
6 its laws," saidaNew York com
mission man. "Last year the maple
belt of the United States gave up
enough sap to yield 70,000,000 pounds
of sugar. This, year, from all reports,
this distinctively American product will
be increased at least 5,000,000 pounds.
This will bo due in great part to the
Government bounty on maple sugar,
and in no Bmall degree to the fact that
1893 will be an exceptionally good sap
year. The winter was extraordinarily
cold, but it was even in temperature.
There was much snow in the woods.
Spring in its approach kept the golden
mean between lingering cold and sud
den warmth. This is as it should be
for proper sugar weather. Spring
weather in January or February starts
the sap before its time. Winter
weather in March and April checks its
flow. There will be more maple sugar
made this spring than was e\ r made
before, and of a better quality than
has been known for many years. Last
year, including" the Government
bounty, the maple sugar crop netted
the farmers ten cents a pound. It will
not be less this year. They may con
fidently calculate on receiving $7,500,-
000 for their crop in 1893. Who would
not rather make the maple sugar of the
country than either its songs or its
laws?
"Vermont, for some reason, is gen
erally supposed to be tho one great
source of the country's maple sugar
supply, and yet Vermont makes less
than one-fifteenth of the whole. Ver
mont's reputation for producing the
finest quality of sugar is deserved, for
the sugar makers of that Stute were
the first to recognize the importance
of the commodity ns a factor in
domestic as well ns foreign commerce,
and to bring to its manufacture not
only scientific helps but the potent aid
of observation and study of the maple
tree, and the effects upon it of climate,
soil, and meteorological conditions.
"It is the popular belief that pure
maple sugar is invariably known by its
dark, damp-looking appearance. In
the old days of maple sugar making the
product was necessarily very dark, be
cause the simple processes then in use
could not make it light. But it was
full of impurities all the same. Not
adulterations, but n< t.iral impurities.
Nowadays it is not the dark maple
sugar that should be regarded as the
pure article, for it is more apt to be
the most impure. The very best maple
sugar that comes from Vermont or else
where is of a light, clear, dry, glossy
brown—so very light, indeed, that it
looks like clarified beeswax.
"Mauy curious things about sap and
maple trees have been discovered by
observant sugar makers. For the sap
to run freely there must be well-min
gled conditions of heat, cold and light.
In Vermont the sugar maker has found
that he gets more and sweeter sap by
tapping his trees as near the roots as
he conveniently can, while in this
State, especially iu Western New York,
a high tap yields the greater quantity
and the better quality of sap. A still,
dry, dense atmosphere, with a north
west wind, is the lust for steady sap
running. When the ground thaws dur
ing the day and freezes at night, and
there is plenty of snow in the woods,
"sap weather' is said to be at its best.
A southwest wind, with threats of a
storm, will stop the flow of sap. II
the storm is a snow storm, though, and
a freeze succeeds it, the sugar makci
will be happy, for then the sap will
Hart with redoubled freedom
when the thaw that must quick
1 v follow comes. Sap runs better
when the air is highly oxygenized.
A tap on the south side of a tree will
produce more sap than a tap on the
north side. Sap that runs at night
will make more and I letter sugar than
the same quantity of day sap. Sap is
also heavier with saccharine matter
when caught immediately before or
just after a snow storm or a freeze-up.
A few trees will produce as much sap
a« a good many. This apparent, ano
maly is explained by the curious fact
that trees standing close together divide
Ihe aggregate How mad. possible by
the area of noil they cover, which ag
gregate would la' as great if there
were half as many trees draining the
spot. An acre of goisl ground should
not la' called upon to *up)sirt more
than thirty trees to IH' used in Migar
making. More than that on an acre
will decrease the Mipply sugar
that is, uo matter how many tree* a
farmer might tap oil au acre, he would
get uo in.ire sugar than if he had but
thirty tree# on the aer- A well kept
ugai bush should yield teu pounds of
"•iiKar to the tree, or HtN» pounds to the
u rc. Five gallons of good sap will
make one gallou of good syrup \
galluu of syrup will make la-tact u si*
ami eight pounds of sugar It is tin*
bard maple trev that makes tin- sugar.
Windham County, Vt ; Somerset
Couuty, I'euu-, ami iHltwif. County,
M Y., are the thre« greatest maple
sugar prod.iciittf e» unties in the
I'uion, tin rtr»t leading the list ailh
an annual yield of ala ut il,thsU*Ml
p.'UU'U, the s««Miiiil prodileiug -, iIHI,
I**l pounds, ami Ihi third 'i,!**' <**>
poumla lln largest *ugat bush Is 111
Wiudbaut fount). It contains 7tWt
tap UallliN tfeea NeU lurk bun.
I 'ay So It luekil Iht „elW'lsl IMSIMMOf
.<1 thi Maim r. nils! Uailt* ill, luvlill)
adopted th* note! «* ml i tpidnnt <•!
. ul> 1 laming Uls III* lota at lis «tal «
Hi I'oithMel, lorn ns a l- li.'S m the
'dfeet# ami a linm i IN THE otation DM
IjjWUMI
NO. 33.
A HAPPY PHILOSOPHEH.
Borne folks, they're complain In'
Because it ain't rain in'.
An' some 'cause the weather is dry
But I kinder content mo
With all that is sent me,
An' don't goto askin' 'em "why."
There's lots o good fun in
The world the Lord's runnin'
Though it's sometimes a song an' a sigh ;
But when troubles are rilin"
I jes' keep a smilin'
An 1 don't goto askin' 'em "why."
Jes' hear the birds singin
When death-bells are ringin
An' thrillin' the world an' the sky I
They'll sing so a while hence
When I'm in the silence-
But don't goto askin' em "why.'
If life has one flower—
One beautiful hour, j
One 9omg that coined after a sigh.
For me there'll be fun in
The world the Lord's runnin'—
An' I won't goto askin him "why!"
—Atlanta Constitution.
HUMOR OP THE DAY.
Long may it wave —The ocean.—
Truth.
Nothing less than a strike arouses a
bass drum to action.—Detroit Free
Press.
Let it lie understood that there aro
popular facts as well as populur fal
lacies. —Truth.
"I'm feeling dead rocky," as tho
petrified fish remarked to itself. —Har-
vard Lampoon.
Love is frequently satisfied with
quantity; but friendship demands
quality.—Puck.
A girl's conversation must appear
flowery when she "talks through her
hat."—Statesman.
A man may itch for office, but it is
the voter's right to Jo the scratching.
—Boston Courier.
"I'm in a pretty pickle," as the fly
said when he fell into a jar of red cab
bage."—Texas Sittings.
The only bright spot left by soma
men is the scoured place on the chair.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Since the introduction of electricity
the street car horse has been gradually
losing his pull.—Buffalo Courier.
There is something wrong with tho
man's head who falls down on the same
IV uana skin twice.—Barn's Horn.
?hey con disinfect anil quarantine,
And work as hard as a beaver
To make tho country sweet and clean,
But they can't keep out spring (ever.
—Kau.iaf Oitv Journal.
In the summer perhaps we can turn
the big postage stamps wrong side up
and use them for fly paper.—Washing
ton Star.
When a crate of crockery falls
through an elevator shaft it's a little
the worse for the ware. —Binghamton
Leader.
They make the man in charge of a
steam fog signal do considerable whis
tling for his pay before he gets it.--
Buffalo Courier.
"It's a wise monarcli, ' J said the man
who abdicated a precarious throne,
"who knows enough to come in out of
the reign."—Washington Star.
"It's pretty hard on a man of my
age to have to depend on his looks,
said the astronomer as he put his eye
to the telescope.—Washington Star.
Charlie —'' Why did they bury poyr
Gilder at night?" Archie— "He had no »
decent clothes but a dress suit '- The
Clothiers'ami Haberdashers' Weekly.
She—"So you're fully determined to
marry her, are you'/' He "Abso
lutely." She—"H'm Don't yon ever ■
feel sorry for her?"— Detroit lribune.
Clara—"Diil you know that Mrs.
Dangle had gone on a trip to Ber
muda?" Maude —"No. 1 must eall
on her before she gets back. —Vogue.
Whenever the piano ceased
There was a great furore.
And those whu understand it least
Were loudest to • ueore.
—Kansas City Journal.
Mrs. Goodwin—"You sliouldn t eat
so many peanuts, Johnny ; you II be
having dyspepsia." Johuny "Do the
policemen have dyspepsia, mamma?
Life.
Hhe —"A poor painter! Why, he
Kavs that he is wedded to bis art. He
"Perhaps that is the reason, then,
that he dares treat her so badly.
Truth.
A woman is keepinK in a IKM.k a list
of things site ought to purchase, but
cannot afford to wear. Nhe calls the
IMM ik her ought-to-buy-ography.- New
York Clipper.
About the most discouraging thing
that comes to a man in thin life is the
desire to whip all MUeiiiY, Coupled with
the belief that Ue cau t do it. -Cleve
land Plaiu Dealer.
Extract from Love Letter "Should
you fall to reciprocal.' my affectum,
tbeu pic*— l return this letter, iu order
that 1 may um» it on another occasion.
FllrgrUik' Hlin Iter
Customer •• that's 'lie pm-c ol
your tallow caudles? ifcahr "#• ive
cuts apmc. ; rtfty e. nth a doitcu."
I'uMoiu. r "Well, let MM h'i*« a
twelfth of a d"'cli."
"I don t knov wliufh u wt.!-t,"
languidly r>marki»l th* l-iiro|* an
luouarcli «* lie read of au..ili. r «U<
>u his life, "my people's disloyalty or
thvlf mark maUshlp ™ iVnlill(|tal
Mar,
\|i- Kid. I think t . i.»l
11,1 ail IU JfoU to tell Mr 11-» I •
Itflil) light Viarsold «i aFotdlck
Why, you surely dnlu I want uh
to t«H hi u how old you r->*lly T'
Voguu.
I.llth Ha th (In thee« .|litr»i
"tliattdeaps. you ib*»l ba»i %» k«« paw
talul lot ol pulu. u»cn onl IMM."
Graudpa "Wlif, Hrlkl Mclb ""fc,
llw tu» m*>k • tot "< gt»« to k»»p "'I
4, i hUagu I 111. I iki.*U