SULLIVAN JSBS&S REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. xn.
Miliaria is responsible for half the
deaths of all iiiankiml, according to an
English physician.
It is s»id that two-thirds of all the
cotton ilnek produced in the world is
made within twenty miles of Baltimore,
Mil.
Dr. Barucli recently told the New
York Academy that less drugs and
more hygiene ought to bo used in the
cure of the sick.
A table showing the monetary sys
tem of the world has been prepared
by Director of the United States Mint
Preston. The statistics show that the
aggregate stock of gold is !$;5,582,605,-
000; silver, $4,042,700,000, and un
covered paper, (i!"i,878,000,
It is stated by the Chicago Herald
that an American house has concluded
a contract for 2,500,000 tons of Japanese
coal, to be delivered lit San Francisco
in the course of the next ten years.
Hitherto the coal imported at San
Francisco has been principally Aus
t ru I in ii.
The American Farmer admits that
"the New 7,ealanders are more pro
gressive than wo arc. They have
passed a law giving women, married or
single, all the rights and privileges of
citizenship. Every woman iu New
Zealand is now as good as any other
man, and better if she behaves her
self. "
The effect of a newspaper paragraph
may be far-reaching in its legal conse
quences sometimes especially in
France. M. Cornet, overseer at tlio
West of France Engino Works, was
severely attacked in the columns of a
railroad newspaper L'Eeho des Chem
ist de Fer (Enlish, "The Railway
Echo"). He took these criticisms BO
much to heart that lie committed sui
cide, leaving a widow and child. The
said widow brought suit for damages
against L'Eeho, holding that her bus
band's death was tlio direct result of
the criticisms in that paper, and the
court, concurring in that view, award
ed the full amount claimed, ten thou
sand dollars, arid condemned the news
paper in lf< ee* .e eotth of the action.
In his annual report Brigadier-Gen
eral Carlin, commanding the Depart
ment of the Columbia, says that tlio
experiment of making the Indian a
soldier is a decided failure so far us his
experience goes, and he has recom
mended the discharge of the few Indian
soldiers now in his department, less
than a company, Gcnertil Carlin re
ports that there has been n decided
increase in desertions during the past
year, due, iu a great measure, to the
unpopularity of the ten year service
law, aud lie recommends the repeal of
thut law. He also recommends that
the small posts ill liis department bo
abandoned and the troops concentrated
al a general post at the principal rail
road center.
The varieties of sleigh bells this sea
son will be larger than ever, aniiouuces
the Chicago Herald, and muuilfaotur
■ is will cater more to luxurious tastes.
As oin can uow pay )5U or more for u
whip, so can lie give #4O for a body
strap of belli,. I'm that he cull get a
strap covered with Alaska sealskiu,
with sixty silver, brass, gold or nickel
bells, the Uletal not being, of course,
so precious u. the names indicate.
Mouiewlist cheaper straps ire made of
l>eav.r or mink, wool .cat, kangaroo,
oo£c calf or Persian lamb. Or if the
pleasure I-rcker wishes, lie CHU imitate
tin lustes >i| tini itussiaii, thu Lap
lander or the Tartar. lu foxtail
plumes he can liud the upright, the
drooping and the hauling plume., or
soiui elegant horse hail plume., (or
sM'i per pair.
that grand being, tie American
heiress, .p. cially created lor there
lid oi euibsrrass«d nobles, says th.
Lou.lon Hp! dilator, Its. attained ul
most to the summit ut lii i ambition.
She has not Won a tkrone yet, though
sin may, tl lit. King of H.rvts i« s
SUM' man ; I nit .It* lta» slum.l up
pr, ached thai surpa • >Ug altitude Ac
. ' fdm,. 1.1 tin I'ull Mull lias, lie,
I'lllicc Isi-uUt g thrust, lit has lit t It si
i. pit.l b> Mis» I'ulluian, daughter ul
llle lotd of the illultig ears, mid the
hinditsi) pit not ik nl <uU tin . Ideal
tv.it burn ah.i g.ighl marry a Haps
burg, bul is hum If an imp. ital high
ut .s, his n.o|hi r having intuitu \u»
luau Mehduetisss At It**t MI s«rs
lit*. tliiisiiH. li th »i .tint, which is s
11 us I authority tmt-'lleiill h||*!i« ale.
hav. ..«>i v «..i. Imm »' i 'ti
I iiglt.h duke» atil Ii 11 ijiiit. ,4'lip.i i|
and laku nu tui tint pb aitiiis iu 'lis
i,t»u4* In. pa lou bu rank is .. i
t.i ill | 1, I 1 .il;. lln I I Is I• t Ml ilk" 11
t» .i,li lt | i i. t *l»i u »»
|«ii4li I 1.1 ililrl.
LITTLE AIL-ALONEY,
Little All-Aloney's feet
i Pitter-patter in the tinll,
And his mot lie r runs to meet
And to kiss her toddling sweet,
Ere perehuneo he fall.
He Is, eh, so weak and small 1
Yet what danger shall he fear
When his mother hovetli near
And he hears her cheering call
"AU-Aloney V
Little All-Aloney's face
It is all aglow with glee,
As around that romping plnca
At n terrifying pneo
And that hero seems to he
All unconscious of our cheers--
Only one dear voice he hears
Culling reassuringly.
"AU-Aloney!"
Though his legs bend with their load,
Though his feet they seemed 90 small
That you cannot help forebode
Home disastrous episode
In that noisv hall,
Neither threatening bump nor fall
Little AU-Aloney fears,
But with sweet bravado steers
Whither cornea that cheery call t
"AU-Alonoy!"
Ah, that iu tho years to come,
When he shares of Sorrow's store,
When his feet are chill and numb,
When his cross is burdensome,
Aud his heart Is sore ;
Would that he could hear onoo more
Tho gentle voice he used to hear—
Divine with mother love and cheer
railing from yonder spirit shore ;
"All. all nlono!"
—Eugene Field, in Chicago Itocord.
RMiINALD.
BY EMMA A. OrPEIt.
RTHUIt CRAIG
tossed his cigar >
M away and strolled \
Ej around to where a I
red-and-bluo ham
(f\ mock wus slung be- i
mlr VA ll * weeu two oak
\ \f| trees, in the big
*'Tt I 'awn which was the
sir l B rea t attraction of
Z?'*\ * the select summer I
hotel—dliough it was summer no I
longer; there was an autumn scent in
the soft air.
But Lucy Winslow was staying here
still, with her brother's wife and her
little nephew ; therefore Arthur Craig
stayed on olso.
She was sitting iu the hammock,
with little Reginald beside her. Reg
inald always wits beside her; their
fondness for cain'other was great. It
bud been n source of affliction to Craig
all summer.
He told himself that he wasn't jeal
ous of Reginald, but if a fellow could
get a chance to see a girl alone once u
week or so, it would be a relief. Late
ly ho had particularly wished to see
Miss Winslow alone.
"Hello, Arthur!" said Bcginald.
"Oh, Reginald," said liis pretty
aunt, flushing, "sav Mr. Craig!"
"That fellow that wus down here to
see him called liim Arthur, and I'm
| going to," said Reginald.
He was eight years old, and had the i
i blue-eved, fair skinned face of a
j cherub. But no cherub was ever so
pert and precocious as Heginahl.
"Let hiui, Miss Winslow," said
Craig.
He dropped down on the grasM at
her feet aud looked up ut her.
Surely flic must know by this time— i
"Say," said Reginald, "you suid
I you'd take lue boating on the river
i agiiiu and you haven't."
| "We v.been several times, haven't
' we?" said Craig.
How sweet she looked !
"Oh, well, Aunt Lucy's always been
I along! You suid you'd take lue, uml
! you got to!"
i "Heginald, dear!" his Auut Lucy
remonstrated.
"So I will," Craig agreed. "Did
you read that poem I ga>o you, MIM
: Lucy?"
"Ycup, she lead it," said Hcginiihl.
! ''Head some of it to me. It aiu't uuy
good. Got allien cover, that's all.
Lucy laughed softly.
"Ii inn beuuliful thing, Mr Craig,'
I sin said. "1 enjoy i d every word ot it.'
"You yoll saw the ptt.HUgu 1
i marked?"
Cruig » lue wit*, flimhcil ami eager.
"Yea! Lucy nmruiured.
Hh. looked closely ut HcgiuttldV
tailor hat. lit her lap.
"I II tell > on. \itlt ii r .aid Hegiu
aid, .winging his lithe little leg., "ll
you d rather tuki i . down to Murph> *
and buy Uie two let crt am .miss choc
olate tii ► t aud then .IIHW berry in
st. ad ot taking me . ut lu the boat,
w'v, you can it won t make any dif
ferine.' to lue "
Hh, Hi iliuuld ! Luc) begged, With
a ill-til -I d laugh
Noi, that i. inn A i.uiititioiis ' t 'n.i
re.Mtiuil. il 111 won. l. I. il ll hi. 111 ul I \
TAI.li that Heginahl »„• »oiucw lK r< . I».
.ii.# apparent 'I think 111 ue pi
I that nit nutt%c 1 bat |in..i.gti I
marked, M.. . Wittalow I didn't do it
nllv lln i< eoliit>. a 1 1mil Hi a luau''
ll(< whin lie 112.. |. a n l..tt like thut
for Mime aouiftu
I 'id .li' kit w all he meant 112 Hi I
lac. wan diiW lii'u land aierteif Hog
lltald, l|o». 1.1 <ta».lariug lull al hltii,
aud t i .I I , . inasrdchating. Inttiii.ilb i
"Ht 4 lull aunt to until" a trud. /
It. glliabl 11« man b-I "I got a k it'd
■I Hp! Ml. 1 1 .1 1. 11l il I Htlll 1.1
ptluting PN.I I AlT"*' >ON LINTII, |
-..1 MI) tint 11 FWU II buy NUN and GIN
] in«, I'll gin .on in) k'hldoM opi mil
jMI bin. itn IEI Nl' IT • 1 1» .II I MAY,
1 j| ytiii dt'll. ti thill 112 '
'' 1 11 think about it |lu ynu want
t i i HI. i AUD TI it tin mall I« in
It. ,(ti »li Ip. ij, 11111 .i a l.tli'
I lb gmald i ert. < In, ! «l- k hi. t,. i
I 41MHM |ll * i nil hf«Me hi, L
J I I I, AND F• ■. ,U T. A 111 MI" AND
I 11.1 , I Muiphv 7 *
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1893.
"Miss Winslow," sanl Craig, des
perately, "I don't know whether you
know—whether you have guessed—J
ilon't know, Miss Winslow, whether
you—you have suspected—"
"My goodness!" said Reginald, with
a high-pitched eight-year-old laugh;
"what are yon trying to Hftv, Arthur?"
Craig looked at Lucy. Was she
laughing at him, too? His face grew
warm with the sudden wretched sus
picion that she was.
After all, was ho not a fool to think
for a moment that she could care for
him? Of a sudden he saw matters iu
a new, a painful light.
If she had oared for him, would she
not have managed now anil then that
they might see each other alone?
How rarely had that occurred—how
continually had that little nuisance of
a nephew dogged them ! Had she con
trived it? Had she made Reginald a
defense, a guard against unwelcome
advances? He was all at once misera
bly certain of it.
He was warm with mortification, and
cold at heart with keen unhappinness.
He had been stupidly slow of percep
tion, that was all. But that was a
thing which could be remedied.
He rose from the grass, and looked
down at Lucy Winslow with a set
smile.
"Well, I don't believe I know my
self what I'm tryingtosay, Reginald,"
he answered. "I needn't say good-by
to you just now, Miss Winslow, for I'll
be here a day or so yet. But I'll be
oft' about Thursday, I guess, and after
a month or so at home, I expect togo
out West on business that will keep me
there indefinitely, I imagine. I shall
think of this summer often, and with
pleasure, I assure you."
Ho bowed, and turned away.
He took himself and his bitterness
up to liisroom. He felt that ever hour
until Thursday would be a period of
anguish; and he began to put things
into his trunk iu helter-skelter fashion.
He had half filled it when Reginald
walked in, without knocking. He sat
down in the largest chair.
"Ho?" he remarked, scofflngly,
"that the kind of a trunk you got,
with cloth all over it ? Mine's got
wooden slats 011, and tin and bruSs
nails. What's that thing? Opry
glasses, ain't it? Say, 'll you give
'em to me!
"Yes, take them," said Craig, wear
ily.
Reginald spent several minutes in ex
amining objects in the room through
the glasses, for which he saw fit to re
turn no thanks.
"Say," he observed presently, turn
ing them upon Craig "she's crying.
That's what 1 come up to tell you. I
thought mobbeyou'd like to know."
"Who's crying?" Craig demanded.
His heart stood still.
"Aunt Lucy's crying," said Regin
ald. "She began to ery soon 's you
turned round, 'most. I told her
somebody'd see her, but she didn't
stop, audi wasn't going to stay there
and her a blubbering, and I thought
I'd come up and tell you." Reginald
looked up with his angelic blue eyes
and his cherubic smile. "Say, I'm
going to see what's in that plush box,
Arthur. You care?"
Craig strode from the room. He
got down the stairs two at a time, and
rushed around t• • the red-atul-blue
hammock between the shady oak trees.
"Lucy!" he ssiil, bending over her.
"Yon are not you can't be crying
because I'm goin'fc away, Lucy?"
There was a hot (lush in the tearful
face shu raised to him.
"Oh, Lucy," he implored, "don't
be ashamed of it ! If you are crying
about me, don't you know I am the
happiest man on earth? I was so eel
tain you didn't care for me, and had
trieil to ward mo oft' with with
Regiuald, yon know, because he was
lorever around. But if you can ery
because I am going away, Lucy, then
I can fiuish wliat I was trying to say
to you. You know what it was "
Lucy caught a sobbing breath.
"But you are going out West! she
faltered,
"Yes, and you with me!" Craig re
torted.
Nobody was near them, and he sat
down beside her, his hand warmly
clasping hers.
"How did you know 1 was crying "
Lucy queried, sudduuly, after ten
minute* of glowing happiness
"Heginahl canit aud told me.
Hcginald is a trump, said Craig "a
jewel!"
"I'llere he comes, said Lucy. "I Hi,
Arthur, he's got your your smoking
jacket on!"
"It's luv bath robe," Croig re
spoudt'd, with the composure of a
peril el, all satisfying beatitude. "I
doll t lliiud It IU the least I" Saturday
Si^lil
tig. tor l unking.
While electricity is trcuchiug so
crloitsty upon tie Meld of gu» light
ii, H , any »ec. i,t application of gar
which leads to all fllwtisiult ot It. Mill
tuiupliou i» ot importance to gas pro
duce|.. Home foreign CilUpOUlit. M'l'lll
to have don. 110. Quito ouecessfiiily 111
al least Olie direction At the r.eel.t
Dundee nulling of thi North Mritish
I *lll till 101l lit till' MltUSgl r. HUM Ui< Ml
I i, Mi J llsllii.ln.il, of llolh.iav,
lull I that thi tuiiupMiy had gamed
uU tin ft a»> of iioUßiimptlou >'f at least
fully tier iu nl in about hi* y. ui», dun
lo cooking by anion,( its tfuatoln
lis thi gs - company I uml slims the
ookii. |,I it* pull.,i.i ut a rental nl
Imp. re. hi of the In. I i.i.l prte. p. i
milium, *l«ieh chafge sl»o include,
putting tin in lu, taking tuelii aasy
Hi I keeping III) •inl lb I tbont
•I pel e. ul o| IU, . i|.turners »r.
uppind Hi* aitl "tin i wi'inpaiii. •
linti M,| I -ill) IUMM I this a pri/Btald*
(■sit of Hull iiisik.l, hut tl ha. Ih<
.11 I .. linutsg< HI I'i lug u. Lily M Ul
light ' lutumpli 'w thus l«wliu* I"
1 UU4lliD th- ib Uiflli I iII til. pistil
' I HfciU' i lit,J, if |
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
Clouds arc on the averngo about
COO yards in thickness.
American tools arc far better than
those of European make.
Tho largest fish known to science is
the basking shark, an enormous but
harmless variety.
A steel ship has been constructed in
Cardiff, Wales, with the standing rig
ging, as well as the hull, all of steel.
The largest known species of night
flying insects is the Atlas moth, a resi
dent. of the American tropics, which
has a wilig spread of over a foot.
Human hair varies in thickness
from the 250t1i to the 000 th part of nn
inch. The coarsest fiber of wool is
about one 200 th part of an inch in
diameter; tho finest only the 1500 th
part.
South American ants have been
known to construct a tunuel three
miles in length, a labor for them pro
portionate to that which would bo re
quired for men to tunnel undertho
Atlantic from New York to London.
Many larva? of beetles and other
insects are used for food ; tho lice gives
honey and wax, the coccus manna and
cochineal, the Spanish fly a blistering
drug, the gall insects 1111 astringent,
and the silk worm an artiele of dress.
In Japan there are now twenty pnb
blio electric companies in operation.
Further companies are proposed, and
there is a considerable demand for
electrical engineers. Nearly all of tho
companies are conducted by Ameri
cans.
A New England firm is introducing
an automatic gas lighter for street
lamps, which works 011 the prin
ciple of 1111 eight-day clock. It. is
explained that the only attention the
lighter requires is a weekly winding
of the clock movement, and that it
lights tho lamp at the required time
and extinguishes it at daybreak.
Safety matches that can be used
without a box are to be placed 011 the
English market by a German inventor.
The idea is to tip the two ends of the
wood separately with those composi
tions which in the ordinary way go
one 011 the box and the other on the
match. To use, break the wood
across the middle and rub the ends to
gether.
An agent of the Suez Canal Com
pany lias invented an apparatus to
split the electric lights that illuminate
the canal into two divergent streams,
one sending out rays one way, the
other in the opposite direction. This
enables ships to approach each other
and meet with perfect safety. Formerly
the lights blinilea pilots so that they
could not see vessels coming in tlio op
posite direction.
A physician points out that fat
people endure most kinds of illness
much better than thin people, because
they have an extra amount of nutri
ment stored away in their tissues to
support, them during the ordeal.
Moreover, there are many other con
solations for persons of abundant
girth. They are generally optimists
by nature, geuial aud jolly com
panions, whose society is universally
preferred to tliut of people with
angular frames and dispositions.
At a recent State fair an inventor
exhibited a machine that he had con
structed for converting grapes into
sugar anil svrup. Experts who wit
nessed tho operation and others uflirin
that the process is a complete suc
cess. Tho experiments were mostly
confined to Muscat and other sweet
grapes known to carry a large amount
of saccharine matter. Heretofore the
difficulty has been in granulating
grape sugar. But by this new pro
cess it is claimed that granulation is
perfect.
Tombs ul the HauUli Kings,
In the resting plaeo of the old kings
of Denmark, the Cathedral of Rokes
Uild, a recent visitor notes that there
is u column against which a number ol
iiioiiarclis have been measured, and
upon which their dill, rent heights are
recorded. Oue of them is Peter the
(ircut, aud we learn by this means
thut the shipwright t'/ar measured no
Itns than eighty l>aui.h inches, equiv
alent to something like «iv feet, ten
iuctii* iu our measuremout. Only 0110
other of the sovereigns was taller, and
that wus CIII l.tiau I of Denmark, who,
according to this authority, wita jll.t a
trill.i over seven feet I'.ligllsh. I lie
C/.ar, Alexander 111. i. about six feet
oue inch, aud IS about a Couple of
iuche. tailor than Christian IX of
Dfituiatk, aud about four iuche. taller
than King George of Greece, neither
of whom, never!licit)»», i» what would
bo called a .uurt man. It is worth
noting thut 111 the .tunc aucicut catlu
dial where thin column is to be ttueu,
Ham (iraniiiiuttcu», th. liuui.lt hi.to
nun from whom Shaki .pi are borrowed
piaclleullv III! entire plot 'if "Hum
let," lies buried L'"idoit New..
hen lug lu Public K. tiuulv.
Till oi.iiriM ft .1 ltdv ill .. wing 111 tin
Boston public M linol. |s lliti I 'e.tllig
for an amateur of sewing lo eou.iib 1
I'll read of "thimble, cim-i i, sci.sura, '
». t oft math a. silicic, of study, and
aud lo i<a/' upon a printed curriculum
of "bulling, b.M'k'tltchlltj.', overcoat
ing, hull bat-k.lilchiug and ciimluiia
I, .„ ~1 , ui 1 IMHIU .11. I .... 1.-ill -
■I It ill, IS lo n itll*c Mioal t||t'US' lv
thu udi utUgc. Itn tmi idler, toll. 1
ds<ighli'i'< In tie ftuiilh vi at ari
taught, among ullu ■ thill ;1, .locking
darning, .liaight tm I bis. fi Hut, .
.lit lung, blind 111 Inn H, lucking il
u»l taught I'l' vioti.lv, gatht i. Itvm
handt I to a bitnd, a. h 11. -i on hookn
•lid i 11* Slid bi|H'il!«, tt.b t. loop*,
«li I in Itn nttii veal tin le 1. a •>•!' lit
■ I i|r«>*i catling bv ahu'h gui* -«'•
in lAt • It «« w* t B I m 11
BIRTHPLACES OF FOOIC.
THE NATIVE LANDS OF THE VARI
OUS GRAINS AND FRUITS.
Most of Them llnvc Evolved From a
Wild State—The True Ifoinc of
Indian Corn—The Cherry's Origin.^
THE grains and fruits usod r.i
food by man originated I
different latitudes, and first
existed in a wild state some
being indigenous to the tropics and
some to temperate zones. As they be
came improved anil differentiated they
were distributed in different countries
according to their utility and the
spread of agriculture. It was but nat
ural that tho first gradual changes
from a wild to a cultivated state
should have taken place in geueral in
warm countries where the climato
and the advanced state of civilization
conspired to effect amelioration. For
instance, the grnpo is indigenous to
America, and had existed here iu a
wild state long ages before tho conti
nent was iliscoveil by Columbus, but
it was first put to practical use iu
Egypt and Central Asia, to which lo
calities its origin is sometimes attrib
uted, and whence it was in reality
distributed throughout the Western
world. A similar remark may be made
of rye, one of the less valued cereals,
which is a native of the temperate
zones, ami spread thence toward the
South. It is supposed to have been
unknown in India, Egypt and ancient
Palestine, and, though it was more or
less used by the ancient Greeks and
Romans, it was from the north of
Europe that they received it.
Nearly all the grains now in use are
of unknown antiquity. Wheat was
cultivated in eighty-six latitude as far
back in the past as we have authentic
knowledge. Barley is thought to have
originated in the Caucasus, but it was
known anil used everywhere in the
most ancient times. Oats, like rye,
was unknown in ancient India and
Egypt and among the Hebrews. The
Greeks and Romans received it from
the north of Europe. Had there been
an early civilization on this continent
I the wild oats found hero and there
would probably have developed into
I the useful cereal now considered abso
l lutely essential for the proper nourish
ment of horses. This continent ii
I credited with having given Indian com
to the old world, but this useful cereal
j was doubtless known in India and
China many hundred years before flit
discovery of America. Cotton win
used for making garments in India al
a date so remote that it cannot even be
' guessed at. The fact is mentioned by
; Aristotle. The first seeds were brought
j to this country in 1021. In 1(566 the cub
I ture is mentioned in the records of
South Carolina. In 17.'10 the culture
was general along the eastern coast of
Maryland, and in 1770 we hear of il
:as far north as Cape May. The use oi
llitx for making clothing is nearly a.<
ancient us that of cotton, and perliapi
more so, plants of soft anil flexible
fiber having been wit hout doubt among
the lirst vegetable productions of tin
ancient world and their practical valtu
discovered soon after the invention o:
l weaving.
The cherry in its improved condi
tion is of Persian descent and is an
other fruit that might have been im
proved from our wild varieties had mil
civilization been contemporary wit!
that which preceded Egypt and Baby
lon in the valleys of the Tigris uuti
Euphrates. Peaches, plums ami clier
ries were all known to the ancient
Greeks ami Romans.
The apple, the most useful anil satis
factory of all the fruits of the temper
ate zones, has been known from tiuii
immemorial. It originated from soiui
of the hardy wild species that ure fount
1 sometimes almost us fur north as tin
j Arctic i rclc. It i* a fruit that like,
the cold, and is found in the greatest
perfection HI parts of New England,
New York and Michigan, where tht
winters are severe. Ah it approachei
, the e.piator it loses it-* liiunl of tuste,
! while still preserving its beauty, I
is n notable fact that, owing to care it
the culture, aud in part to u prefereuci
for the climate, alltlic fruits incut i.uici
iu this li»t ure found of better tpialitj
iu Europe aud America than iu the lo
entities where they are thought tolnivi
originated. The oranges of lu.lia,
Burmah and Cochin I'liiuii are übso
liltelv tasteless aud thorn of Mulagt
scarcely better. The beat grown it
Spain conie from the of Yalen
cia, w here they have been introduce.:
at it comparatively recent date. So o
thu eherriea, apricot, and peaches
: which have attained a perfection il
Kttfopc ii II . I America of which th. mi
'CH nt Pi I'MUIIS never dr. anted. Al
I these fruit, appear to lucrean in *u<
1 and improve in lilt, r in latitude!
1 where the winter i» .utticii'iitly ». v. ri
I to check the gr.iwlll of the tree alu
' give It a mud. I rest.
ll e.illld not be I \pecte.l, tor till
I el. nili> nil. . I. IkM \'ii> I li'U, 111
! habited until a recent date bv itttvagt
j trib.. old v, .hi ut Id liinii'h io th.
j world pr.Mluct. that ri pure thoti.iiudi
ot v. ir.of car. and culture to giv<
them tli. ir pi i led .1. vulopuu nt. I'll,
potato, lioWev cr, l. alt invaluable boon
. tstuferr I hi th. new i.nll on th.
old. Till loiiiat I I" nl.'i til IHnllth
i Ami i icau origin, and, Ih-.i.ti it plan
I .tl .11, It l .111 .111. I. • 100 1 lh.lt
American', would u..t »i|lu.,U p..it
ailh Vi lli, unit, in " HIUI in u-n
I lea km d HUM '■ tl IN
prut. 111. 111, Ul. 1. I- 1t..1 on. o| ,l„ „
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lit Miami *"t pi r ct «•! til III*
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I i vi tiiui in i *lll nut i una li*l.'iw I
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Terms—sl.oo in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months.
WISE WORDS.
Lov« gifftis every time it is tested.
Home is tho fortress of the virtues.
The truthful man is dead;been dead
a long time.
Tho real ruler of the man is within
him, not without.
The man who throws a stone lit an
other hurts himself.
It is time wastoil to argue with a
doubt. Kick it out.
It's the youngest man who thinks ho
lias tho least time to spare.
The whisper of a slanderer can bo
heard farther than thunder.
There is no good quality which does
not become a vice by excess.
A woman is seldom quite so happy
as when she is thoroughly miserable.
Finding fault with another is only a
roundabout way of bragging on your
self.
Some people arc kept poor because
they will not believe it is blessed to
give.
The man who is afraid to look his
faults squarely iu the face will never
get rid of them.
No man is perfectly consistent. Ho
who is nearest consistency steers the
crookedest course.
The Ethics ul Weariness.
In a lecture at Cambridge, England,
on the subject of "Weariness," Pro
fessor Michael Foster said undue ex
ertion was exertion in which tho mus
cles worked too fast for the rest of tho
body. The hunted hare died not be
cause he was choked for want of breath,
not because his heart stood still, its
store of energy having given out, but
because a poisoned blood poisoned his
brain and his whole body. So also the
schoolboy, urged by pride togo .111
running "beyond the earlier symptoms
of distress, struggled on until the
heaped up poison deadened liis brain,
and he fell dazed and giddy, as in a
fit, rising again, it might be, and
stumbling on unconscious, or half un
conscious only, by mere mechanical
inertia of his nervous system, falling
once more, poisoned by poisons of his
own making. All our knowledge went
to show that the work of the brain,
like the work of the muscles, was ac
companied by a chemical change, and
that the chemical changes were of the
same order in the brain as in the
muscle. If an adequate stream of pure
blood were necessary for the life of the
muscle, equally true, perhaps even
more true, was this of the brain. More
over, the struggle for existence had
brought to the front a brain ever
ready to outrun its more humble help
mate, and even in the best regulated
economy the period of most etlective
work between the moment all the
complex machinery had been got into
working order and the moment when
weariness began to tell was bounded
by all too narrow limits. The sound
way to extend those limits was not so
much to render the brain more agile
as to encourage the humbler help
mates, so that their more efficient co
operation might defer the onset ol
weariness.—New York Press.
A Remarkable Career.
A remarkable autography goes with
a damage suit for #SOOO tiled at Wash
ington, D. G. The complaint is against
a Washington street railway. The
complainant is Henry.l ohnson, who
says he was badly cut and bruised by
the car starting while lie was getting
off. Attached to the complaint is the
affidavit of Johnson that he wus born
iu Georgetown on Christmas day in the
year 1801); was hired out to General
Walter Smith, who eominmde.l th.
militia at the battle of Bladensburg :
was captured by Captain Patrick, and
was present and saw them burn the
Capitol, and when lie wus seventeen
years old he went with Commodore
Porter as a cabin boy on 11 four years
cruise. lu IH'JI lie went as a footman
with his old mistress to meet General
Lafayette, and escorted hint to Geli
eral Smith's in Gcorgctovv u ; was with
General Macon iu Florida during tin
four year.' war with the Indians; had
waited oil General Scott, Gaines and
Jessup; lived with General Totteu,
and waited on Daniel Webster, t'luv
and Calhoun when '.ivmg with Mr,
Nichols.iu at Georgetown Height..
Was with Captain llerudou ou th.
George Law, that was burned, uitd
w hell the woliieu aud children ulld
crew Were oft he -tood clos. to t'llp
tain llt-rud m ut th. wh. elhoti.e, and
lie .aid to bitn "V.ui go mid .hilt for
yourself,'' aud he begged the captain
to colue with him, alien he replied
"No; I must -laud by my .hip I'heu
strapping hiuiaulf to a door he w»>
thrown into the sea and .avetl, aud
.aw the .hip go down Willi lite , upturn
I'lte taK Vte the I'l'lclo'lt,
'('here is a luau lu Harlem alto ha
a mud. i. .peeled auut I lie aunt if
wealthy altd ecc. utile, Nh. eiitit. to
IN. W NIL IHW MM II M >' -O Hnt AN 1
having be. it reared 111 the country ait.l
having recently t'ouiw from there .In
mi.hi'd lite rural hum of lii.i .'l' an I
the auricultunil UOIMHI ot a countrv
residence.
Ileiiig am ion. to plea., hi. r, la
live alt'i milk) It. r fccouelb I lo ctl v
lif. tin. Harlem mall titled a numb. 1
of I toy. lo amure cricket, tor him IL
bought tai nlv can. ol click. I slid
turned I hem out to paxlttr. in hi
back yard t'"i .tt ial nights tin
cheerful chirpitts ol lh> cricket*
proved vt rv Iblutf In tin -■ d auut
Ihi tsii .u. . it In 111. neighborhood
Mi»U b. . tun aaale o| lit. uumottl
ttuilibvl of Dftcki I Ml till, back >ald
Cat. are loud ot click. t», and no* lit.
Harlem man lta» »i.»l. an I u.i .it k» l»
in tit* lack jar-l IL MVS lltal all thw
. *!» m ll.tli ui IMH« Ul* I. lit* vail •
tryst I* 4 pi 1* 1 an I th* sun I lliivitf 111
IN iu I, b*. ii ml tin. eonulfy k»m
\ it Hwiali
NO. 8.
THE SILENT BATTLE,
Shall I tell yon about tho battle
That was fought in the worlil to-iloy.
Where thousands went down like heroes
To death In the pitiless fray?
\'ou may know some of the wounded
And some of the fallen when
I tell you this wonderful battle
Was fought in the heart* of men.
Not with the sounding of trumpets,
Nor clashing of sabers drawn,
Hut, silent as twilight tn autumn,
All day the tight went ou.
And over against temptation
A mother's prayers were east
That had come by silent marches
From the lullaby land of tne past.
And over the Hold of battle
The force of ambition went,
Driving before it, like arrows.
Tho children of sweet content.
And memories odd and olden
Came up through the dust of years,
And hopes that were glad and golden
Were met by a host of fears.
And the heart grew worn and weary
And said : "Oh, can it be
That I am worth the struggle
You aro making to-day for me?"
For tho heart itself was the trophy
And prize of this wavering tight '
And tell me, O gentle reader.
Who camps on the Held to-night?
—Alfred Ellison.
1U MOR OF THE HAY.
Kisses are tho coupons of lovo.
Don't be a valet to your hero; it
may disgust Uitu.
The most lovable of dumb animals
is a good listener.—Puck.
After all, the love knot is the top
knot on tho hoail of human happiness.
—Puck.
A cynic observes that the most popu
lar air with the girls these days is a
millionaire.
A girl will never forgive a fellow
whom slio has jilted for making a suc
cess of life.—ruck.
When a man gets a hearing in court,
lie is likely to hear something that ho
doesn't like. —Puck.
It is the in ai; who wears Congress
gaiters who wonders how the shoo*
string sellers make a living.
bhe told the young man oftentimes
She really couldn't love him :
81* f.s-t, she : but live feet, lie -
Of course she felt above him.
Detroit Tribune.
Solemn Stranger- "All flesh is
grass," I leaf Man "Hey? Solemn
I Stranger "Nit, grass. New \ork
i Press.
The bulldog has a pretty tight grip
l in this world, though lie often escapes
trouble by the meio skin of his teeth.
J —Truth. *
Ounson—"Another increase in your
' family, eh? Son or a daughter?
• Pilbeo (gloomingly)- "Soti-in-iuw.
Kate Field's Washington.
"I've come out of this tight squeeM
in pretty good shape, said the new
half-dollar, fresh frotu tho stamping
j machine. Chicago Tribune.
"Man wants but little here below,"
Hilt 'tis this (aet that daunt*
He's sure to get a little less
Than the llttlethat he wants
Washington star t
Some of the fashionable schools are .
making world-wide reputations by
teaching the young lady students to i
spell their names wrong. Ualveston
: News.
In the American Colony: She "Is
Miss Bond engsed t<> I'liiice Sans
| HOU?'' ll« "Not exactly. 11. hn* NTT •
option for ninety days, I believe.
' Harlem Life. «
When a woman has quail for diliut t
she wants to invite in a neighbor, so
the neighbor may know it, lut a man
doesn't want anybody there but him
self Vtehisoii tilolu
Customer tin l»ook»torel "I would
I like to get some good book on faith.
Clerk "Sorry, sir, but our rule it to
sell nothing to strangers except for
cash."- Buffalo Courier.
M. V w combe ' 'Seems to be rat her
a good year this lor fruit. tide* ' Vre
all your trees a* full of apples a* thai
olie !" tides "Oh, UftW, nil**,
tbi* triv*. J u*l >
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Wht«b wiu *h»W 4
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hi' I -%•
iwiruil Vrv«
Van Noodh "|T'y,r ku » MIM
Tungblt, that >dd duff. I I hit| with
| called me a mutt the otliei
Miss Tutu: bit "Indeed * Why. I think
you more closely nwisWs a bos
Brooklyn I.it-
Jack (who has popp h It take,
yon a long time to deeitli Netlln
"I Itiiuii it ; aii.l I w alnittt iH'lielllded
to wear a demi train of white chiil.'it
o«er white silk and hoe no but.
maids \s ■ Hifim,
Ml HlUu altel 111- ootepall. h« I
*OU« ' .lollMll*, .OH shoilMu I l»a»«>
i eaton th-». ~n«i..l IrtttW. Ib% »
' wite Mot Hit. tided to U . aU-u Ho *
a. It put on l lie table to till tip " Johuuy
llllltlk u.ll, that •wbal III'. .1 > ■
If, Il.ttu a this- I'riluH.
cab. it w til .11 tin.. *„.» ha I a
tWhiug mat h to* halt a *o.t i.i o. md
drink-. Miiddeiilv on of th. |atu»»
lanei. Ih> ha I a nit .« t, b i .
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