SULLIVAN JBLFE REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XII. Experiments made in tobacco culti* ration throughout Europe hove not given much promise of success. The Harpers, the great New York publishers, are said to have on hand more than $.">0,000 worth of accepted manuscripts. Welsh newsboys have a picnic in the opinion of the Chicago Herald. Im agine yelling " 'Ere's yer wnxtryGol cnids, Gwyliedyyds, Genedls and Ser enevmrus! All'bout der fur'ble ac cident." There are yet a million acres of Government land iu Kansas open to settlement, not a little of which was tramped over by "strippers" in order to take chances on getting hud in the Cherokee Strip that is no better, and in many eases is worse, which they had to travel further to reach, and which is very uncertain property to its pos sessor. Justice John M. Harlan, of the United States Supreme'Court, and one of the arbitrators of the recent Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration, stated in a private conversation in St. James's Hall. London, at a Sunday mission meeting, that he personally believed that on the occasion of a future differ ence between England and the United States the intervention of strongers would npt lie iuvokod, but an equal number of the judges of the highest courts of both countries would be ap pointed to settle the difference. A keeper at the London Zoological Gardens was employed on account of his supposed fondness for animals. He was soo,n found to be disliked by the ajiirnalsy who exhibited their aversion in many ways. It was suspected that whilo outwardly treatiug them with kindfftc*. lie must secretly hurt or an noy them. He denied having done anything of the sort, and his general manner soem-.td to bear out his protes tations. A watch was set upon him, with a curious result. It appeared that he never spoke to the animals, and for that reason alone his presence was intolerable. A Mexican paper predicts an im mense invasion of that country by American tourists this winter, and snvs that the railroads are already pre paring to handle the expected throng. It thinks that the prevalence of cholera in Europe is sure to thin out the ranks of tourists thither, and that they must have somewhere togo to escape the winter's cold. 'The prediction," adds the New Orleans Picayune, "seems to bo founded on reason, and the same causes will doubt less contribute to swell the number who will seek the delightful climate of our own State and of the Mississippi •«>ast. We may prepare for a specially large invasion this winter." Since the loss of lives on the coast of New Jersey at the time of the recent ,Treat storm there has been on agita ion in the seaport towns and summer -osorts along that coast in favor of an ■xtensiou of the time of employment )f the men iu the United States Life having Service. Four seamen of the .vreeked schooner Mary F. Kelly were Irowned at Anbury Park, for iustauoc, within thirty feet of the shore, while hundreds of people stood on the beach unable to help them. Twenty-four (teamen were drowned off the New Jer bey coast in a rauxe of ten miles, where there win then four unoccupied life ttnviuM stations. The lift -Having crews are discharged on May I, and do uot get employment again until September 1. It is argued that violent storms occur in August, mid that the life sav ing crews at least should l>e employed from the beginning of that mouth. An electric funeral cur IK a California innovation. About mm miles distant from Hiui Francisco ar, four large cemeteries and a crematory, and it to them near tie city that an electric railroad Coiuputiy introduced the new le ai -e Its Itrst patron was it benevolent organization, one of MIIOM member* had died. At tin tune a| pointed for the mourner* to lettve the city the electric funeral ear, appro priately draped iu Idttck, in readr 0»„ I'll, IHuly was lifted by the pull I, Itrer* from an lilt*!* Maker'a »agoll to the car. alld tile beaters took their mat* tu a section rt»>r«cd for litem r|i.. conductor rang the lull twice, the motor man olauged his goittf to cleat the..a, a of a mob of Intel rated .pre 1 tl'.r- and the fitu. Itti , , oeesalou Ihe starting point l«» »**» « euirtefy was ni.»b iu all le ■>! I ' *<• .at atta *«» itched THE GRATEFUL HEART. I thankful am for all good thiURS ; For every blithesome bird that sings ; I thankful am for May anil June When most my ltfo with btfe's In tune ; I thankful am for strnwlierrles, Anil very glad of cherry trees ; Of apple blossom and the fruit; Of mellow nut and pnngput root. Great good and solace oome to mo From flowers upon the dogwood tree; An unknown warbler sets me wild With wonder like an eager child ; And to my charmed ond seeking eyes Eaah varied toadstool's a surprise. I thankful am for all fair things; For life and all the bliss it brings ; My soul Is very glad thereof Because God made me out of lovo; And most I joy, beneath his trees. To thank the Father-Heart for these. -Panske Dandrldge, In NPW York Independ ent. HER ROMANCE. BY a. A. W 51 S3. JL THOUGHTthotyou H , loved me, Elaine." J7 "I do lovo you, 51 *l* Carol. You know 1 "Then why are J you so unwilling to /have me ask your y father's consent to ""TWift The speaker was */■ n blonde young « ~ man, faultlessly nt ll tired in the latest style, and apparently very much in earnest. His companion was a young girl with dark, wistful eyes and o pensive Iroop of a pretty mouth. Her baptismal name was Ellen, but being of a highly romantic turn, she had lengthened it into Elniue; and also preferred to call her lover, Mr. Charles Northrop, by the namo of Carol—having learned that Carolas was the Latin of Charles. With a sigh she replied to her lover's question: "I must tell you the truth, Carol. I do love you, and can never care for tny one else; but I think I should love you more if—if you were poor," "Poor?" he echoed, in surprise. "You see, the whole course of onr love has .been so prosaic ami common place and conventional that. It hardly comes up to my iilea of what love should l>e. We fell iu love with each other at a party which Aunt Minturn javc purposely to brill)? us together, and wo are both rich—at least, you aud papa are, and pa will bo sure to give his consent the moment it is asked —and there will not be a single thing to give a tinge of romance or poetry to it all. Isn't it disappoint ing?" The young man looked into her eyes aud thoughtfully stroked his blonde moustache. He was doing his best t<> take in her view of the case. "Do you mean, Elaiue, that you would prefer for us to lie poor, and have everybody opposed to our mar riage, and obstacles placed in the way of our happiness?" "Don't put it in that practical way, Carol. I wish you could understand me better, and had just a little more poetical sentiment. Yon, who are an artist " "An artist ! Why, darling, I have never touched a brush or palette ex cept to paint scenes for our amateur theatre." "But you did that so nicely, wh'cli shows that you have talent and some knowledge of the art. And 1 like to think of you as an artist," Just here they were interrupted by Master Eddie, the youngest of the Minturn household, suddenly kicking open the door and dashing u Kodak upon tlie 111, aud then refusiug to give up the picture until Mr. Northrop had promised him a circus tocket. Aud so their conversation was put a stop to f<>r the time being. Hut next day Klaiue met her lover with a radiant light in her eyes. "Oh, Carol, I have thought of the loveliest plan ! You kuow I'm goiug home next week, and you must follow uie, and pretend to be a poor artist—" "I could'nt be any other kind," he interjected. Hilt she went on, breathlessly: "Aud set lip a plain little studio, and paint landscapes and portraits " "I? Klaiue!" "Oh, just the kind of things you paiut for the and noliudy 111 RiceviUe Mill know the ililti(«iie« or it they do yon can say that they are only sketeheH, or htiKiniillltfx, aud wili look differently when wyk •' 'I Aud you are to fall 111 love wilh me ' "I've done that already." *'.Vu I ask pap i for luy hand, which he will la »ure to rufiim', ko then w> will have ntohu interviews, aud tlnallt run imny aud get married. Kver> body will be tuition about us, an I papa will cut up a drea Itnl row An.l .>» |» think bow I lifkfcxl It will all be. explelally when we come I tack and I. I theHl know tliwl instead of a poor art l»t, I have married a rich utait 1 i'apa will forgive its lie u, of coiir»e, wu l we shall have had such a charming lit llt %'HI 1 uo« ll.i eolildu i Vkaotlv mm Ihu euar.ii ol it at all, Inn afce •»< so < ulh'taiaa tic over her plan, ami so ten ter and eoatiitif, that it was luoiu than h» euul l do to <•!*> («l'|uetioiia. Hi w.» ... mm <ii in !ov» thai h a . willing lu go utmost any length In K.. Ml. II a 11> • ih«4»INUU *• (tun I hut t ■ le r falh< 112 • «l«uwiit LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1893. which had been a barber's shop, and daubed away upon canvas from morn ing until night. People came in and looked dubi ously at these productions, but he had only to direct their attention to sev eral "completed" pictures (purchased at an art storo) to impress them with an idea what these sketches would be "when finished." And, meanwhile, it was observed that he appeared immensely struck with Miss Fitzsimmons, and never took his eyes off her at church, and that finally ho secured an introduction and became a daily visitor ot the big house on the hill. And then people who knew Mr. Fitzsimmons began to pre dict trouble. It came at length sooner than had been anticipated. Carol Northrop became weary of his artist life, and impatient for the happy ending promised by Elaine, and the consequence was that she found herself to givo her consent sooner than she had intended to his proposing to her father for her hand. When lie preferred this modest re quest Fitzsimmons, who hnd made hit fortune in the tannery business, looked him over from head to foot with a supercilious air. "You are a poor artist, I under stand?" "Yes, sir," he answered truthfully. "And you want to marry niy daugh ter?" "I love your daughter, sir!" he re plied, with fevor. "Ugh! I confesti that I never ex pected much better .of Ellen. At school last year she fell in love with an Indian chief to u travel ing circus, decked out in war-paint and feathers, and I" verily believe would hove married him if he Tiad not turned out to be a Welshman. But if she is a fool, I am not, and I now tell you candidly, young man, that 1 will never consent to my daughter marry ing a poor artist." Carol was, of course, prepared for such an answer, and he appeared so little afflicted by it that Mr. Fitzsim mons's ire was aronsed. "With this understanding," he re sumed, seowliug at the young man, "yon will, of course, discon tinue your visits here, and no longer presume to Miss Fitzsimmons's acquaintance." , Carol smiled, remembering the real state of the case. "Sir," exclaimed the hot-tempered old gentleman, "do you consider that 1 urn in jest that you presume to laugh in my face? Now, to convince you that I am in earnest, I will give you just half a minute to get out of mv house!" and ho pointed to the clock on tho mantle. "I have no desire to remain, sir, where a gentleman is subject to such treatment. But I love your daughter, and—" "Get out, sir!" shouted the irate father. And he took tho young man by the arm, and leading him to the front door, thrust him out iuto the rain, ami flung his hat and umbrella after him, to the unspeakable delight of a lot of urchins on the opposite pavement. Elaine, who had witnessed it all from tho landing, ran to a window and dropped a rose at her lover's feet as he stooped to pick up his hai Such ignon-' A .it was more than c.vuot ot them had anti cipated, and the young man, iu great disgust, ventured a remonstrance with his beloved. They had, by her arrangement, met at twilight in a flowery lane, she wear ing a red shawl and a coarse straw gipsy-hat as disguise. "jiut, Carol, dear, if we marry now, we shall miss,these delightful stolen interviews, which are so much sweeter than a formal call and a tete-a-tete iu a parlor!" she pleaded. "But we can't meet here every day. People would talk, you know ; and only see how that old woman is staring after us!" • "I have urruugetl about that," abe tiiiHwored, with great animation. "My tleareat bottom-friend, Juiupbiui' Way nittck, hiiH protiiiMtl to help IIH nil »he run ; uiiil hlh into go t>> your xtuilio every 11 it y ut 11 rvrtaiu hour, accom panied hy hur grandmother, to have lit-r portrait taken—" "Great •?ii|liter !" "Oh, ouly n» mi eicuae, you kuow, though you luuat pretend to puiut it nil thu mime! H«T grandmother let» her do HH KITE pleaaea; ami HO every day while thev ure there I can hll|> 111, you know ; au«l, oh, won't it lm •!< lightful?" "Hut when »re we to he marrie I, Klaiue?" "Oh, well 111 nliollt tWV eek», I atippoae ! Only tliiuk what >i row pit will make when lie (tuiU iii gone ' An I how people will talk, ailil how aaloit i li< Itlf \ will nil IK In 11 ill .nil itl lit-ii thut I have married a rieh man in t> <kl of it pour artiat. Why. it will l>e jii»t lovely !" He ill ) llot ii|»pem to MIU llilleh love 11in k lit the pruitpei'l, ami »in fancied 111 111 a little nlllh'll nil I tllft.'oliti lite I Yet he iliitilully ae.piiroii' l in h«*r plilli i Mill thi'lil'eforth Ulw W«\llllt.k mill le I grandmother daily I pmri d to hi* aluillu, ami the aftiat • lutill aa.iv at a painting »uppo««ed to rttprtaMlll Mim Way lintel who wan aVi rv pretty met iiuely girl ~ml in which, a. it had til tin eye. ami goldwu hair, Hi. "II lit'li mhiu Imgau iu|iiiiivivi! a •Inking lik« n« »» to her granddaughter It wa* Hot, however, t very day that H..1110 eiiiill aoutK, •!••< being el ly a tllu I al ll*'Ut» ; yet «h«> eujojred 111 .It til all I lit: Wore lot Hi oli»t*cl. thr>< aii 111 her any, ami luipmll haul, Juwphim, who in turn d lltil at l< Mgth lh« iliwiUt' I tw<* I tilt Mim fIU.tUtW-U* 'ut hi i lover a note, requesting that he would have a carriage in waiting in the shady lane at eight o'clock that evening, to take them to the nearest railroad sta tion. How delighted the dear boy would be to find his troubles ended at last; and surely he would prize and lovo her all the more for tho trials through which they had passed. It was a rainy evening, yet punctual to her appointment, Miss Fitzsimmons was in tho lane as tho town clock struck, disguised this time in a cloak and sunbonnet over her handsome traveling suit. There was no carriage in sight, and after waiting an hour, slio concluded togo to Carol's studio, feeling sure that ho could not havo received her note. Sho found the door open, and step ping within discovered everything as usual, except that the artist's palette and brushes lay strewn about the floor as if purposely thrown there, while Miss Waymack's portrait, still mounted on the easel, was adorned with a pair 6f spectacles, and a moustache daubed across the upper lip. While Elaine gazed wouderingly at this singular conception, there entered the old woman whose duty it had been to keeji hiß studio in order. "Where is Mr. Caroli?" inquirod Elaine, hastily. "Deary me miss! you don't mean as you haven't heard the news?" ans wered the old woman, with something of pity in her tone. "What news?" "Why, that Mr. Carol's gone away, miss! Went awav last night by the nine o'clock train—him and Miss Josepbire—to get mnrried, Miss." "Married?" shrieked Elaine. "To be sure, miss; the which it's my ■opinion they ought to be ashamed of ■"themselves, though ho did tell me 1 was welcome to all he left behind, and guv me besides—" But Elaine heard no more. The shock was too great for her, and sho fainted. Mr. Fitzsimmous took his daughter abroad with him that summer. On her return she married the sensible, practical son of her father's business partner, who had long been devoted to lior, and to whom 'ho makes a good wife. She has never been known to alludo to the pretty and fanciful little romance which she had arranged, and which ended in a real one upon which sho had not counted.—Saturday Night. (•rub or Plant I The most euriou of all objects in New Zealand is t'.h which the Maoris call "aweto." One is uncertain whether to call it an animal or a plant. In the first stage of its existence it is simply u caterpillar about three or four inches in length, and always found in connection with the rata tree, a kind of flowering myrtle. It appears that when it reaches full growth it buries itself two or three inches under ground, where, instead of undergoing the ordinary chrvsulis process, it be comes gradually transformed into a plant, which exactly fills the boilvand shoots up at the neck to a height of eight or ten inches. This plant resembles in appearauce a diminutive bulrush, and the two, animal and plant, ore always found in separable. One is apt to relegate it to the domain of imagination, amoug dragons anil mermaids, but then its existence and nature have beeu ac cepted by the late Frank- Bueklaud. How it propagates its species is a mystery. One traveler, after describ ing its dual nature, calmly states that it is the grub of tho night butterfly. If so, then the grub must also become a butterfly, or what becomes of the species? One would bo ready to suppose that the grub does really so, and that some fungus finds the cast-off slough con genial quarters for its growth. But as far as present observation goes, the grub.never becomes a butterfly, but is changed in evcrv case into a plant.— Chambers's Journal. The Fallacy of n Theory. There were many strange iueiileuts iu connection with the sinking of the Victoria, but perhaps the strangest of them has not yet been recorded. Af ter tho ship foundered two articles which had been lying in Admiral Tryon'scabin were found floating, were picked up and have been brought home. I lite of these articles wits the Vduiiritl s telescope ; the other was his dispatch box. Now, this ho\ was of peculiar construction. It was ma.h tuvor lIUM to special service rebuilt lions 111 order to coutaill the code of slKliat* It la essential that these sle uth should not fall into the hands of ail enemy. I'hc ho\ is therefore lilted with with lead and perforated with holes ut the bottom to luaiire its sink in, as soon as it is thrown overboard. Hut what happened? The ureal ship, const| licit d Willi all the of 1110 leril Si lence oil purpose to float, sank like a alone. I'hc lead-lined, perforate I bo*, specially created to sink, floated, and Itow lies at White hall, a testimony to the fallibility ol t»o nets of dcsitjiii rs. Toronto It'auaijai Umpire The Italetiil l.nuhkill, I'lte leaves of common laurel or "lauiliklll" are so po|#oitoi|» to ahucp thai so Hi" farmer* believe that even lln< urast ben »tli th< shrub* is rendertal notions by th< drippings II .1,4 lis leav •» I'h'it be a lilts Ilk., but Ihe leav < are cerl tllll.V lank p iison, not on I.v ah up, but also to e iltivatofs of th< » .il in this i.sp. « i ihtl in aim*! t>tn. il-II in th' lot in a Ulilti't < flott to itaiwp it out, - SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Granite is the lowest rock in the earth's crust; it is the bed rock of tlio world. The biggest fresh water fish, the "Arapacina" of the Amazon, in South America, grows to six feet in length. Nausea is said to be promptly re lieved by a mixturo of four drops of creosote in two ounces of lime-water. Dose : A teaspoonful every fifteen min utes. M.de L'lsle discovered an onimal cnla that could run six inches in a sec ond, and calculated that it must move its legs no less than 1200 times in that brief period. When irritated the sea cucumber, a species of holotlmria, can eject all its teeth, its stomach and digestive ap paratus, and roduce itself to a simple membraneous sac. It has been ascertained by Professor Kernot, of the Melbourne University, Australia, that the usually assumed weight of eighty to 100 pounds per square foot, produced by a dense crowd of persons, may bo largely exceeded. The most curious thing about the butterfly is the size of the case from which the insect proceeds compared with the size of the insect's body. The case is rarely more than one inch in thickness ; the butterfly covers a sur face nearly four inches square. In support of the modern theory that sound does not consist of a given number of countable wavebeats, a well known writer adduces the fact that a plate of iron, even an inch thick, when used as the diaphragm of a telephone, will respond to and transmit perfectly tho sound vibrations of the human voice, a result which it is almost in conceivable to suppose could be effected by mere mass vibration. Another most valuable series of in vestigations in regard to the metal best adapted for the construction of bridges has been made by the Austrian Society of Engineers. Some '2lO mechanical tests were made by the committee hav ing the matter in hand, to determine the quality of wrought iron, of basic, Bessemer and basic open-earth steel, the conclusion being that the latter ex cels all tho others iu resistance.to me chanical attack and distortion. A remarkable illustration of the pro gress of electrical appliances is elec trolytic painting. Hitherto, if copper or other metal were to be deposited electrically, a bath of solution was needed. Now this is changed, and a technical journal says a ship's hull can be plated as easily as a spoon or tea pot. Instead of a bath, insoluble salts, ground to u fino powder an I mixed with water, are used. This mixture is painted on the metal to bo plated by a fine wire brush, to which one pole of a dynamo conductor is at tached, tho other pole being connected with a plate. Not only pure metal but all sorts of alloys can be used. During a residence in Tunisia, M. Vereoiltro made a study of the tattoo marks which the natives cover their limbs and face. He discovered that the most complete designs represent a human figure—a kind of doll, seen in front, with extended arms. In this figure, for which no explanation had been offered before, lie perceives noth ing else tlnin a representation, rigidly exact and preserved by tradition with out perceptible alteration, of the mani kin on tlie monuments of Phoenicia and Carthage, which arclneologistH have named the "Symbol of the Punic Trinity"—which is found, for exam ple, on the Plio-iiiciaii ami Punic stelie, and on tho ueo-Punie lamps of Car thage. It.tre Kcet and Health. As to the hcitlthfulnessof going with out shoes anil stockings, there can, soys the Loudon Hospital, be no ques tion. Home of the healthiest children of the world lire to lie found ill the Scottish Highlands, where shoes arc seldom worn at an earlier age than twelve or thirteen. The African and coolie laborers, who work bare-footed, ore usually in robust hei'th. Hrown, ill tile "llistor of Mail, tells of an African monarch who suffered from what appeared to have been a coid iu Ills licitd, besides other ailments, while his people were always as well lis pos sible. Call it lie that the reason was that, by the laws of his kingdom, lie alone W its pcrnntt 'd to clothe III* feet, aud that he gratified Ins vanity by al ways wearing gorgeous sandals? It i» probably geueralizuiK too much to state, if. a medical fact, that the Intre footed races ar. th healthiest I ill I it is certain that bare feet are health ier than bally shod feet Iu our Kny hsh village* children are constantly sellt to school 111 Wet Wcatllel Willi holes iii their shoes. They sit for hours with damp fee . aud illllcsses are th -r> >nlt If their parent" would send ill"111 off barefooted, a. is done ill Hoot land an I Ir 'land, their feel would dry by evaporation in a short nun, and it would be found that no harm followcd Itlehest IVii<.aut* In Kni'iipc, I'll" rich <>l peasant* in Ivirope m. foiiu lin a pr<.> iii in iillltHwig Hot si .in Che*,. Viei'lau lcri raise early Vegetable* tor the fft.nl cities of ui.ritn rn l ir.q.. I'm t supply itow , r,lo the Court* of "si Petersburg aud H rlllt I'llelr Costune * urn mill of the 4 *r.* I traditions of lie country and uot It, I.C mo lllled, cm., what lilt; the Wolt.Hi WI It Hill* Caps With kttlßv •larch I hiw > ot silk, t»*t i this a straw hat Willi . I" ' i a-1 it It Were Itpalil* down The!i skirts ai> short 11*, apt olt i full p|. il I hit Is. lie. I* white with a mil ot /ottavi jack, t of lb pitd, of th' ir litis, 'l'hc uon wtai •HltU juthi «, long WMi*|eo«t< linomed quite ot Ileal t ' xifcltig tip I'bltMtfco • ♦tall Terms---SI.OO in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. HARVESTING THE APPLE' HOW THE WINTER FRUIT IS GROWN AND GATHERED. Apple liaising In Western New York Does Not Howard Its (irovver as It Formerly Hid. BARBELS and barrels find barrels and barrels. Barrels I piled on barrels. Barrels in (, big loads and barrels in little loads—not great clumsy painted bar rels for the reception of oil or whisky or pork or lard, but light, graceful barrels shortly to be filled with what is, all things considered, the most de licious fruit in the world. The passage of loads of apple barrels along the highways and byways of an apple producing region imlicntes that the time for picking is at hand. "One of tho liveliest, drivingest times they is in the hull year," as an apple grower, who is proud of his success OB such, described tho apple harvest the other day. Apples grow in most parts of the United States north of u certain line, but there are some regions where they are a staple crop, and there you may see such rows of trim, well-kept apple trees, such wide extending or chards, as, if you area new comer,will make you open your eyes for pure wonder. I shall never forget the first time I saw the orchards that lie between the famous ridge road and Lake Ontario in level Western New York. Orchards were uot an unfamiliar sight to me, but such orchards I had never dreamed of. It was in June. The air was heavy with perfume and vibrant with tho notes of song birds, for it was before the ugly English sparrow had ;orac to America and driven the native feath ered musicians from their own. My boyish eyes had always been used to picturesque irregularities of hill and volley, but the everywhere extending fruit farms of this, to me, new region more than made up for lack of diver sity in the landscape. At the time of which I write the rais ing of apples was at its best as a profit able business. Two, three and even four dollars a barrel was obtained for the fruit every fall, and every year the acreage of the orchards was largely in creased. Fortunes as money was then and there counted, were being made by apple raisers, and year by year the crop was greater in quantity and finer in quality. Peaches, which had before this time beeti one of the standbys, wcro being abandoned as the peach orchards passed beyond tfte limit of full bearing :>••;* and the trees were uprovted to inswo f.'r the vv ( - r>- ous apple. Here and there throughout the re gion were long, low sheds, under which men worked from early spring until near the end of tho harvest making barrels for the crop, and where coop ers' choruses, more genuine than that in tho opera "Boccaccio," were to bo heard every day. Tho apple buyer was a factor, and a most important one, in evtry community, and his trips of in vestigation among tho orchards at various periods of the season were subjects of animated discussion at the informal and incidental < veiling meet ings of the farmers at tho stoics and postofllce. Jn September and October the har vesting of the apples went forward, ond tho weeks giveu up thereto made up a period of strenuous exertion, which is another v>ny of repeating my farmer friend's assertion that apple picking is tho "drivingest time in tho hull year." To be a good apple picker a man had to know just how to put up long lad ders quickly and securely, lie hod to know just how and win re to place his ladder so that he could clear a tree without having to take time to move oltener than wus absolutely necessary, if he could tell almost instinctively w hat apjdes were marketable and what were not, s«» as to leave the latter to be shaken off for eider making later, lie was just as much more valuable to his employer, for the time of the packer was valuable, and the fewer apples le- had to throw out in putting them into the barrel the more he could put up in a day. I have used the post tense in what I have had to soy about apples and ap ple picking, but the orchards are still there and so are the apples and tin barrels, nu.l doubtless plenty of pretty girls help ill barrcliuu the apples these later years the s Hue as they Used to. Hut the IUK priei saud large profits of apple raising are no more, and, unfoi - tunately fur the farmers this hard year, the crop is it light one HI many sectlon*. V w Vork Advertiser, Tieochitik •'••el It Inched tu lline. The"l ill* 11 eliciting tool 'of M de Ls> c;i, w Inch was rm titly tried at tin Ai eiuri Mouse Pxrudi < bound, Fins bin*, and Is evpeeted "in one sense to revolutionise tin- warfare of tin fu lure," consists essentially of at' si riiUjJ lilelit by which s spa.lu or Mich like tool call la- lUetl to the butt of a -Mile Without preventing the weapon from la-tug ready for list tit her a Ith kliot or bstonel To tills elld there la a receptscii in the butt, and tin spade lit* into II with a spring estch. (If Court* , th- »tiH-k slid barrel of tin rifle become I lit) handle ot the •path- It is claimed for this appliance that ll will unable every infantry soldier tu l»e hi* own sapper and rifle pit maker, and the tool wagon will hecoiii. tin it*.ft? try, Moteutei, if there i» no lllto to tl* tln bs». 11l t the kp.nl< Hull slut.,' lU'! ' Ito Ihe | of the soldi, r, bull. t« M I. I.UMII. W 11...> a id, Is a 11 rni limsu, noti iii I 1., ,n I i.«tls|| Loud n «i«t* NO. 6. SONO OF THE STARS. When the daylight fades In the evening shades, And the blue melts in the gray, We pitch our tent In the Armaments To guard the milky way. And we gather the broken suntieams up That the day has left in its path. To kindle and build the glow, and gild What our sparkling campllres hath. With fond caresses we jow«l the tresses Of the moon as she mounts the ekies ; And the heavens we sprinkle with many a twinkle That leaps from our sparkling eyes. But when the storm cloud rolls his car In thunder across the sky, And the lightning dashes in fitful llushes, We hide, till tho storm goes by. The son is our master, and no disaster Can come to his night of rest; For with constant eyes on the dim horizon We guard tho east and the west. We sometimes find where the comet hides, And we frighten him out of his lni.', Till he speeds through the night, like a fox in his flight. To hia home in the great nowliero. We sometimes pnuso in our journey because We see ourselves in the glass Of the silent lakes or the sea that takes Our pictures as we pass. But when the daylight quivers and brinks, And the gray melts into the blue. The tear 9 we shed o'er our fallen dead Are found in the morning dew. —Alfred Ellison, in New York Advertiser . HUMOR o"'rHE DAY. A ten Htrike—Borrowing one. Silver spoons—Colorado lovers. The train robber roust hold up.— Picayune. Fitji liko the paper on the wall—- Kalsomine.—Puck. The earth seems to gather lots of moss, and it is rolling all the time. > When lightning strikes it admits of no arbitration. Burlington Free Press. Tn order to forge ft chain of evidence a detective should have a lynx-eye.— Judge. The golden rule is an arrangement for drawing a line of conduct for other people.—Puck. The coming mar. sometime* turfts out to be going the going the other way.—Dallas News. , Beauty is only skin deep, the prov erb says; but, after all, that serves.- Somervillo Journal. A miser is the stowaway of tho world. He never pays fair rates for life's voyage. Puck. One feature .done is worthy of general imitation; it always does its level best. —Lowell Courier. Ono important point that many peo ple forgot is that culture never needs any paint.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A woman may not be able to throw a stone over a church, but she can throw a man over.—Elraira Gazette. Tho happy hours I spen 1 on my wheel Have only one fear to mar "em ; That possibly I may contract Kyphosis Byollstrtrum. —Puck. "What care I," said the bandit, "for your strong man who can hold up n horse, when I can hold up a train."— Washington Star. CesH (annoyed)— "Don't yon know that a fool can ask questions?" Bass— "l had heard so; now I know it."— Boston Transcript. Tho Patient's Wife—"And how shall I give him the ice, Doctor?" Dr. Bow les— "In broken doses, of course.". Indianapolis Journal. Whenever you have a propositi" to get something for nothing, it will pay you to walk around it by the furthest route. Houston Pre.nt The bravest man on earth has been found in Indiana. He organized all tho church singers in town into one choir.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Peuelope—"Did you ever have a horse runaway from ypuV Pauline "No: but I had a jackass try t<• once; lit' wanted ine to elope."- Truth. "Don't you think that a nonmn thinks tie 1 most of a truthful man?" "It depends a goo 1 deul on how home ly she is.' Indianapolis Journal, flic boy nloo<) on the ilwk alone. For the passengers all ha.l It'-t When tln> I'nptatn ha>l Ifoutflit hi - l>nl>v And wanted to toll what it mild. Inter-* > -e»u. He "How do you like Lord Fop pingtou, Miss Barrow?" .Miss I'arrow "Not at all H<- can't pronounct his r's, and I do detest being addressed at Miss Itouuow lit Ibti- Hridget "There's a gentleman «t the door who wants to n|n sk to lliti ho**. Mis. Third Hat "Hun, Kohbie, iimek, and set- it the )nmtor will see tie u«nlleiiiaii " • litter Ocean Velio* l\ "K 11 soil tlllllks till flltltf ii■ ttii may In able t«> K< with mt < Bromley w hii is having an e\pei •>•n<-« with Ills ttrsl baby " Hie futuf< mail' Bleu* viiii, tin preruut man lines new. .\e» York I'reis Mr Kiiker "ihia chop taales «1 soap landlady "Voli ali nitiUrt, nir Mi Kieknr ' I'm mtr« <i it I ta-lievei|i* cook rutii*tin ell* p» through tin el..t' wrin*< imith . will.pivad out an 1 I ■<V bigger "• I'viia Hitting* til 4 Flutter Without I •*»«•». It Ik Hid that OUd of the til iiigitl botanical eurioilllan in the «urM U the Woad Willi Wl rtnwer, fnilßd ill the M«U,4li IViitns'il* ll l» -linplv a b|utt*o(it Willi *it leavtw, v|nii, j,i •lnu, an I i run# a - a paraaite • da i'«>i • »n'i I flu* e»tr«oi linsi \ i|. »n •• aoui. ihiii* Ilk' a tar I in <li tmalnf, alel ll ll- as I Hilar -'lip 111 |)«e litlddlu till! a t'apa •ly ol tin ut alt unaita Ihi 'iij» J nil i a It ud litiiAMl; v-httdi twiflU 1110 It I'lty e-l Mat al lintaitlal llilitk that ls|n lalnt i* t •tlonlati I tii attiai t Hli * all-' m . tile a |i|'i{si Itfli] u»li"ii Aiwrit-ad M«gi»ln
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers