SULLIVAN cJSllfe REPUBLICAN.
W. M, CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XII.
The United States produce annually
forty-six million tons of hay.
Bicycles used lor business purposes
are not taxed in France. All others
are. Last year 132,270 machines were
taxed.
"If it is true, as tbo Census Burenn
alleges," asks the Chicago Record,
"that there nre 100,000 more married
ineu in the country than there are
married women, what, in the name ol
Hymen, are those 100,000 men mar
ried to?"
The nntivo Russian jieasautry ol
Esthonia and Livonia, now numbering
altogether about 1,500,000, have sent
thirteen deputation to St. Petersburg
to celebrate the seventy-fifth anni
versary ol their emancipation by the
Emperor Alexander I.
According to tho Chicago Herald
nil tho United States Senators from
the Stales south of the Potomac
served in tho Confederate armies ex
cept Irby, of South Carolina, and
Blancliard, of Louisiaun, who were
too young then for military service.
At the animal meeting of the Han
iiemann Hospital Association in Phil
adelphia the other day an interesting
explanation of the crowded condition
of tho hospital was made. Secretary
Lewis said tho institution had been
crowded beyond its capacity, and the
number of typhoid fever cases was in
excess of ail previous years. This
condition the physicians ascribe to
tho business depression and conse
quent worry of men over financial
matters.
The death of David Dudley Field,
the eminent New York jurist, recalls
to the Philadelphia Ledger the most
remarkable story of four famous
brothers, all of whom led useful lives.
Cyrus West Fields, one of these
brothers, who died in 1892, was the
projector of the Atlantic cable; David
Dudley Fieiil distinguished himself as
a lawyer and acquired a national repu
tation by his codification of the laws
of New York. Other brothers arc Su
preme Court Justice .Stephen J. Field
and Dr. Henry M. Field, the editor of
the Evangelist. They were sons of a
poor, but distinguished Berkshire
clergyman, who managed to give three
of his sons a collegiate education, of
which they made excellent use.
Officials of the United States Navy
Department have found a curious
typographical error in the Bering Sea
law recently passed by Congress, and
*re wondering what its effect may be.
It is feared, states the New Orleans
Picayune, that it may invalidate tho
whole law. Tho award of the Paris
Tribunal prohibited tho capture of
seals at all times within a zone of sixty
miles round the PribylolV Islands,
"inclusive" of the territorial waters.
The bill, as iutroduc d by Mr. Mor
gan, Chairman on the Seuato Com
mittee on Foreign delations, con
tained tho correct phraseology, but
when it was printed the types ma le tho
word "exclusive," and the bill was so
pissed. What the legal effect of the
error may bo still remains to be seen,
but so 1110 people think that the Senate
will have to reconsider its work and
pass the bill again formally before it
will bo properly operative. There is
a good deal of red tape about legal
matters.
The rapid development of the lite
insurance busiuess ot this country is
one of tho in lit rem trkuble economic
facts of the lime, a • . n, Frau\ Le
lie's Weekly. "And t* imitating the
growth of a provi lent spirit au I habit
among our people, it is a fact of iui.
afforded by the r turns of th« thirtv
|wo old style life tusurnic ciuipaui »
A Missouri nursery farm has offered
to give every boy and girl in Pike
County enough standard apple trees
to plant an acre of ground.
Italy's Foreign Minister cogently
reasons that war is improbable be
cause no European sovereign wants it
and public opinion is against it.
Holland puts all beggars to work at
farming, whether they like it or not,
and there is less of that sort of thing
iu that country than in any other civ
ilized country in the world.
Canon Wilberforce, in a recent in
terview published in the Westminster
Gazette, contends that the lower ani
mals are immortal, and uses hiß belief
as an argument against the establish
ment of a Pasteur institute in Eng
laud.
It is an interesting fact that out of
the 08,403 postoflices in tho United
States the ten largest furnished thirty
aud two-tenths per cent, or noarly one
third of the entire revenues of the de
partment in the last fiscal year. These
teu postoflices are located at New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston,
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Brooklyn, San
Francisco, Baltimore and Pittsburg,
and they rank in the order given.
Chicago is No. 2 in the list and shows
the largest increase in business, which
was eighteen and three-tenths per cent.
St. Louis comes second with ten and
four-tenths per cent., Cincinnati next
with nine and four-tenths and New
York next with eight and seven-tenths
per cent.
Tho proposal of Kaiser William to
make the peanut a liberal portion of
the German soldier's rations has an
unusual interest for American farmers,
maintains the American Farmer.
First, it is something that there is a
fair margin of profit on, which there
is not on wheat and corn sold abroad.
Second, we would not have, for tho
present at least, the destructive com
petition of Russia and Argentina.
But we fear that just as soon as the
Kaiser's saldaten begin to eat peanuts
in considerable quantities, ho will or
der the German colonies in Africa to
go into peanut raising. Anyway, it
will bo some years at least before they
can produce as good and cheap pea
nuts as we can raise in the South.
While there are no night mirages in
the far West like the one of an in
verted shore, lighthouse, and vessels,
recently seen off the North Carolina
coast, the twilight or dawn upon
plains o • mountains sometimes brings
a strange magnifying of celestial bodies
uear the horizon. Thus, at close of
a day, when from evaporating snow or
a recent rainfall the air is humid near
the ground, tho goiug down of a red
and sullen sun below tho western sky
line is sometimes followed almost co
incidentally by the rising in the east
of a full moon, in vast and fiery,
which, red and portentous, seems to
poise at the moment of its complete
emergence over prairie, ridge or
mountain, threatening to roll, a burn
ing sphere, down tho slope toward the
beholder. Similarly, the morning
and evening stars at times take on
si»e and colors so extraordinary that
eveu tho experienced plainsmen can
scarcely believe that new and vast con
stellations have uot appeared for the
first time in the heavens.
The western part of Kansas, it is
said, lias been losing its population
rapidly within tho past few years.
Twenty-two counties, which iu IHMH
contained a population of lt)'j,tlil'.i
souls, How have but 5-l,6tid. This ex
odus hus been due to tho long and de
structive droughts, to which the re
gion is subject ; and the farmers who
remain are still »ettiuu up windmills
and cudeavoriug by their help to ir
riKiitc their fields. The loss of popu
lation has not lieeu so marked, how
ever, in the fariuiug districts as iu the
towns. All aloug tie railroad* are
tow us, which once contained a teem
nit; population, aud promised a great
future, bm are UoW practically tenant
h as. Att'hico, fur inslauce, the tram
tiow stop, only on signal. Ouee its
arrival was a great event, aud crowds
ol ptople swariued lo the slallou. 11l
lhal dav t'hico had tin appearance, at
leasl, of pto.p. rily, aud boaats were
ma-hi of its gio»th Kanopulia ««
lo Ui the huh of Kaua**, and eastern
lUVeM' d ilb>. tally IU the lutuie of tlui
low it- today tin authitmus Capitol
»pl«li Ml V*t»l tvs m sheep pasture,altd
the train rushe* bjr as though it a»ie
a tault *t«tion He.ulh Hutchinson
Imi.i ti i enoih> r lttu%i*«ii< u it «a»
a I' Uttg gMHtI at It* #«uilh, with bill k
hxt i>, hu»-h« \ sefcsMil ls"4 >s and a
st«si.t >'a» line. Plan is igs n>e tun
ai V Ihw let el I 11. t'l,, .'~al
I hf • »sea vaaa-
LAPOKTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1894.
IN THE HF.ART.
If no kindly thought or word
We can give, some soul to bloss j
If our hands, from hour to hour,
Do no docds of gentleness ;
If to lono and weary ones
We no comfort will impart—
Tho 1 'tis summer in the sky,
Yet 'tis winter in the heart!
If wo strlvo to lift tho gloom
From a dark and burdened life ; ,
If wo seek to lull the storm
Of our fallen brother's strife j
If we bid all hato and scorn
From tho spirit to depart—
Tho' 'tis winter in the sky,
Yet 'tis summer in the heart!
—George Cooper, in Sunday School Times.
grandpapinley's moving
BY BELLE C. OREENE.
§H dear, Abncr!" ex
claime . Mrs. Rod
gera to lier husband
ono May morning as
she bustled about
the kitchen, "I don't
9 see how in this world
I'm ever going to
get through with all
my spring work—
cleaning and everything ! If I didn't
have to keep ono eye on gran'pa I
could do more. Seems as if ho grew
worse and worse."
She paused with a sigh. Her hus
band waited silently for more.
"When the peddler called yesterday
he was setting quiet as a lamb by the
stove, with the cat in his lap, kind of
playing with her, so I ventured togo j
up garret and pick over the rags—it j
makes such a litter down here—and I
when 1 got back gran'pa was still set- |
ting there and fast asleep. I thought j
everything was all right, but come to j
make my fire for dinner a few minutes |
after, there was an awful towsing and I
mewing in the oven. I opened the!
door and out jumped the cat! If |
tliere'd been a hot fire ho'd dono just I
tho same I suppose!"
Abner, who was sitting by tho table
looking over a lot of garden-seeds for j
the spring sowing, latiglied shortly and i
shrugged his shoulders.
"Yon know what I think about
gran'pa's doings," he said ; "you know
where I think folks had ought togo
when they lose their faculties and are
no good to themselves nor anybody
else."
"Now, Abner," said his wife, re
proachfully, "don't say you'd semi
gran'pa to the poorliouse! Think
what a good man he's been, and what j
a smart man. How can you be so un
feeling ! You wouldn't want ycui
children to do so by you, iu your old |
age."
"I sha'n't probably outlive my use- |
fulness,"answered Abner, coldly. "My
father worked till the very day of his
death—more'n paid his keep till the
last."
"And father Pinney has already
more than paid his keep, if he lives to
be a hundred, and you know it!" re
turned his wife, indignantly. "You
always lay out to forget that he's give
us the old place !"
"Well," said Abner, "I sha'n't hire
help at present; we can't afford to,
not while we have such au expense
a-goiug on iu tho family."
Her father, when ha came to live
with them, had made over to Abner
the old homestead, the "Pinney
I'lsce," as it was called. It was a good
farm lying adjacent to theirs, but tho
house was old and of little value. So,
also, was the house they now occupied,
and the plan was to sell tho "Pinney
Place" and with the money build a
new house where their own now stood.
Hut Abner seldom chose to remem
ber the ample provision Kraudpa had
made for his support, and on this oc
casion, instead of replying to his
wife's reminder, he picked up a pack
age of early lettuce seed, and started
off. At the door he turned, however,
and said, perhaps with some idea of
encouraging her;
"Ain't it about time for grau'pa's
May-moving? He won't be round uu
-1 derfoot so much when he gets tip iu
his tree."
"4 hope he won't go. I hope he's
forgot all about it," she said, anxious-
I lv. "1 tell you, Abner, it isu't safe
and it i*n t respectable for an old man
! like father to sleep outdoors in a tree !
I Set ins us if 1 couldn't hate liiiu do it
i aguiu."
She dashed tlui tears away fr»in her
| eyes as her husband went out.
"I do wish I could ever learn to
hold tuy tongue, complaining to Ab
ner !" she exclaimed, bitterly. "lie
always blames everything off onto
graii'pa, and that's all the good it
does. It s a burning shame I can't
1 have help through house-oleauiw' , but
if gran'pa 'II only give up his May-
I moving this y% .ir 1 won't say another
word uot tf I »utk my lingi rs to the
bone I"
Two years before, when the spring
came found, tlraudpa I'tnuey ha I
taken a queer In aU into his head. As
Abuer e*pn —edit. "he got crauky
I <>u air tl lien the leather grew
aarnt, ami the treea leafed out and the
bird* began to stim in their branches,
the old man boeaute straugely reatlcae
auduucaai, talked iin -'lo n utlv about
"■tilling and "smothering,'' and in
tlaled on liaviug all th> door* an I
aindoaa in |lm hullse aide
laUi on, he M-eUiud unwilling to
stay in tin houw at all, and his
at■»> hall out undt 112 thw gleet tain
ak< a. (•>*• th* Imfl Ih>fe he *§»* ul
most ot bis lime, reading hi* latgt
l «ml I* lament of wetehing th» I'll<l.
and looking eoiite at* lly off over the
ph aaaltl lit 14a,
I to.« had haid m->ii l>» g< I him in
-y - f - luf hi ffce lb m „t
ah. pi«g Mabitk, liu*' < i, lui i not
ikiu .11 II Ul Ml
this IM two >-•!• ilt a n* *i
j >*4. nui at w*ti* -i ustder
» i*» Ma** h» WgUI • tail V< ia*i« fcdei
form arouud them, just below where
the main branches joined the trunks,
and made some steps to lead up to it.
Then on the last day of May, which
was unusually warm for the season,
iu spite of his daughter's coaxing and
scolding, ho insisted on dragging his
bed and bedding up there. A single
chair and his Testament completed
tho furnishing.
From that time on, not only did ho
spend his days in the tree chamber,
but ho actually slept there at night.
Nothing but a smart shower could
drive him into the house.
What seemed strange, no harm came
to him from the exposure. He did
not get the terrible colds and rheu
matism that Belinda had feared; on
tho contrary, he seemed to grow
stronger and happier every day. And
she found sho could accomplish twice
as much work. It was true, as Abner
had said, "he was out of her way;"
still, sho did not feel quite easy about
him.
It seemed a dreadful thing to have
her old father sleeping out there alone
in the darkness of the night! So she
anxiously hoped that he would not
think of going this year.
But a few days after the recorded
conversation, Belinda came home from
an errand to a neighbor's house, to
find that the "May-moving" had taken
place. Abner, who had been a wit
ness to the proceeding, only said,
carelessly:
"Let him be, he's all right; nothing
happened to him last year."
What finally reconciled Belinda
more than anything else was a remark
ber father made in his rambling way,
which gave her new insight into his
feeling.
"Belindy, darter," he said, "don't
bonder me. Everything is free out
of-doors, free and welcome."
She knew then that he realized how
grudgingly he was housed and fed.
His withdrawal from the house seemed
i but a natural instinct, the protest of
j his self-respect. After that she could
! uot oppose him farther. She allowed
I him the most perfect freedom to come
and go as he liked.
"God 'll take care of him, as Ho
j does of the birds and the rest of His
j creatures," she said to herself, trust
ful lj'.
One day Abner came in very much
elated.
"Belindy!" he exclaimed, "what
should you say to au offer of four
thousand dollars for tho old place!
I What kind of an offer is that, hey?"
I and he rubbed his hands in great sat
j isfaction.
"1 should Kay it was a bouncing
■ good offer, and you'd better take it,"
said his wife.
He went on excitedly to tell hor tho
' particulars.
| "And now, Abner," sho said pres
| ently, in her coaxing way, "I do hope
| you'll try and fed a littlo more pa
tient with gra'id'pa. Just think of
1 all that money coming to us through
j him!"
"The best of it is," continued
1 Abner, who just now could think of
nothing but the money, "tho best of
!it is, Belindy, it's going to bo paid ,
, down! So all I've got to do is to
| clap it into the bank, and let it stay |
| till after the crops aro in. Then i
we'll begin the new houso right away 1
—have it all dono and ready to move ,
into by spring!"
"And when wo get into tho new j
house, we're going to havo Mary and !
tho baby come homo to live with us, ,
' ain't we? You know you've prom- i
ised," reminded his wife, bent on tak
ing all possible advantage ot her un
usual opportunity.
Mary, their only daughter, had
married a poor man, and was now a .
widow, supporting herself and child
by working in the factory iu a distant
town. To have her child and graud
i child at home with her had long been
tho wish of the mother's heart; but
her husband had always put her off.
"Wait till wo get into tho now i
house,"he had always said. "Then
there'll bo more room." Hut slio had
feared that he never really meaut to
! consent. Now, to her astonishment
and delight, he answered good
| uaturedly:
"Yes, yes; let 'em come!"
His good luck seemed to have
warmed his heart, ami made him for
ouee fatherly and benevolent.
The uext day the man who had
bought tho Pinney farm paid to Abner
the price in full—four thousand
dollars; mora money than either
\tiuer or his wife hat ever seen be
fore.
Iu the midst of their joyful excite
ment, they were both suddenly struck
with an auxious fear. Hiuee Abner
could not take the money to the bank
till the uc»t day, where should they
put it for safe-ket piug through the
night?
After much deliberation they de
elded to hide it in a little cupooar I
over the maiitcl in the |utrb<r, and
accordingly, while lltdlUila tiptoed to
the win low and made sure no olio was
High to see, Abuer a rapped tho money
carefully iu a large bandauua handker
chief, and put it iu a dark corner of
the cupboard.
Htteral times Abuer hit his Work
oiuj,li»md nervously »• b. wluUm
lliey had choseu the h*si hiding
plaite ; but dually he concluded to let
: It remain.
"1 shouldu t suppose •oil b -1» would
tiu btudy |e Iu 'k lh* tu lo| U|<l||>) ,
Ihi 112 'l bu mote apt t" think I he 1 il
,un le* H»y plllia, h; »sl t that night
"At any tmtf, we ve gut t" »Ui» llu
>..k oi lu.UM <tt It ahutevwf *» put
I hue phiio#M§*hl4lU£ tn**y mul hi
t« I, and n-'i a iittMaudiug ihtif antieiy,
lie aunt l»< to
S\ U mi-Urn t"»al I Ue'lUlUg the j
WwtU a<vk» n<iu a Ulnbie lulling I
| ied«ei'n|t> 4a* teem wee lnil el
smoke! They sprang out of bed, t«
HOC the flames already bursting througl
the door opening into the parlor.
"The money ! the money I" screamed
Abner, frautically, and rushed into
flumes, only to bo driven quickly back
Ho flew outdoors and round to th<
parlor windows, hoping to gain en
trance there ; but he was too late. Tli«
wholo house seemed to be in flames J
it burned like tinder.
Before any of the neighbors were
aroused, before Abner and his wif«
thought of anything but the money,
the wholo house and all it contained
was gone—money, furniture, clothing
—everything gone in a night!
At first the thought of his loss drovf
Abner almost wild. Ho ravod like 8
madman, and his wife looked into hie
face in speechless agony.
What could she say ? How was shs
to comfort a man like him for the losi
of his property ? She did not think
of herself for a moment; she only felf
for him.
But all sho could do was to pray
silently that God would mercifully
help him to bear his grief. And as i;
in answer to her humble prayer, t
miracle began then and there to lx
worked in Abner's sordid soul. Whih
he sat on the great chopping-block it
the dooryard, in the midst of the ruir
of his hopes, gradually his miserj
seemed to abate.
The sun had risen, the birds wort
twittering in the trees, and by and by
the cows came up tho lane one by oni
of their own accord to tho milking
Tho old horse and tho colt in the field,
put their heads over tho fence anc
whinnied, and finally the great roostei
strutted up quite closo to Abner and
crowed encouragingly. Abner, looking
up into his wife's face, almost smiled
"1 forgot the creatures," he said,
slowly. "They're left to us —and
there's the land. If we only had th(
money to build the new houso with 1
wouldn't care."
"Nevermind; we shall get along
somehow. I reckon the Lord'll pro
vide," she answered cheerfully.
"Belindy," said Abner, tremulously,
"the worst of it is I deserve it all. Anil
seo here," hesitating and speaking
with evident effort, "I—l'm afraid I've
got nobody but myself to blame foi
the fire. Belindy —I suppose—it was
my own hand that set that fire. You
see I went info tho parlor just at dusk
to make sure the money was safe be
fore going to bed, and not contented
with feeling it, I lit a match to see. I
expect that match doue tho mischief;
it must bo! And I believe it's a judg
ment upon me, too.
"Yes," ho sobbed, breaking down
entirely now, "yes, I've been a grasp
ing, wicked man, and now granpa's
money—"
At the mention of grandpa Belinda
sprang up with a cry, and hastened to
the chamber in tho tree, closely fol
lowed by her husband. In their sel
fish grief they had quite forgotten
grandpa! Was ho safo?
They clambered quickly up tho steps
and reached the landing. There on
the bed lay the old man, still sleeping,
lie was a very sound sleeper always,
and evidently the fire had not wakened
him.
As they looked uponhiin, thcthought
of what would probably have been his
fate had ho been sleeping in the house,
u:ade their blood run cold.
"We should havo forgot nim—and
we couldn't havo saved him, anyway !'
they said.
While they stood th re ho awoke.
Seeing his unusual visitors, ho sat
up iu bed and rubbed his eyes, a little
bewildered ; then suddenly a wonder
fully bright expression illumined his
dim 01.l face, and he laughed aloud.
"I know, Belindy. I haint forgot!"
he chuckled, and slippiug his hand
under the pillow, ho drew out tho
bundle done up iu the baudauna that
they hail hidden in the parlor cup
board, and delivered it over to Be
linda.
"I knew it would be safest herewith
me," he explained simply. "Thieves
don't never look up in tho trees for
nionoy."
They built the new house, and
grandpa's room was the largest and
best room iu it. Mary aud the baby
came home to live, aud mother au.l
daughter did tho housework together
easily.
Tho next year grandpa forgot all
about his May-moving, lie was con
tented aud happy ill the new house,
where lie now found everything "free
and welcome." lint he still likes his
chamber iu the tree, and sits there
often of a summer afternoon, poring
reverently over his Testament or kuss
iag up through the tree*, dreaming
perhaps of heaven. Youth's Oouipan
ion.
lliejrh** lor llul'tH,
Why couldn't wo have horse bi
cycles? It wouldn't liumuch expense,
the poor horses shouldn't be askud to
walk in this >Uy of universal wrig
|{l|lM till wheels. Think of the fun!
Iu crossing a street it Is so >tivurtiux
Uow, after lon 4 to *u<ici.>rd
iu dod«iuK five or tit wagon#, and
ditt > elect rw ears, only to be run
dowu by asuetklu'4 bieyule that was
nut m sight when you started. Hut
how fast and furious the fuu would
grow if we eonld only put all horaua
ol whet Is, too a sort uf swift travel
tuj tre».l mill »i»«ug 'u»eiil, fill*
ut. lei rtfosiu should prorftivd at one .
llustuu I'ruuseript.
\ I hit.l) Mum-.
i Mi * Intel of wkltt lltdi qihana
I, i, I ~4 fw ~t lIU t 'o|o» II ■ whl»U Is
nuiaikabt* (of lb p<wt>» ol absorbing
II pll U. Hln it W«t«f la flopped
»l »aly ttfMUt it, it be <nw thsUy su I
111 11, ll* It I |«l ft - lljF tl*!i-p>4l
, 1,1 It It** it- vit USUI. 'I tlti "tussle
stout, and taeowMMtf u*|u <*«•! k) jt w
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*§#*•« IM af wisU utttg U itiisl at
y!•»*«« •> •>«>• k»«a i«*M.
Terms---SI.OO in Advanoe ; 51.25 after Three Months.
AMERICAN ORANGE TRADE.
PHENOMENAL GROWTH OF A DO
MESTIC INDUSTRY.
Driving the Foreign Fruit From Our
Market—lmmense Yields of Flor
ida and California Trade.
V J-HE growth of the American
I orange trade has been phe
nomenal,and its history is full
of interest. Thirty years ago
the oranges consumed in tbis country
were obtained mainly from the Medi
terranean countries, the tart Sicilian
orauge, however, being supplemented
by the "sweet Havanas," which latter
have tince been so completely sur
passed by the even more luscious
Floridas, the finest oranges in tho
world, that they now practically exist
only in memory. Only three decades
ago the entire orange trade of this
country was controlled by a few ex
tensive importers. Business was then
done entirely on orders, the importers
sending their orders abroad every fall,
at which season sailing vessels, which
have since been entirely supplanted by
steamships, were chartered to trans
port the fruit from Sicilian and other
Mediterranean ports to this country;
in fact, September was tbo month in
which business arrangements wero an
nually made six months in advance of
their fulfillment.
This method ot conducting business
existed for many years, but in 1865,
tho growers of Sicilian oranges, who
had previously sold their crops en
tirely on orders, begau to ship them
to this country on consignment. Tho
old importers then gradually aban
doned their original methods and be
gan to receive fruit as consignees, in
stead of importing it. New firms en
tered the field and strong competition
sprang up in the business, which was
then profitable, as may be seen by the
fact that-a single New York firm, in
one season, realized a clear profit of
over $30,000 on its Sicilian consign
ments alone.
About fifteen years later tho Amer
ican fruit firms were largely super
seded by Italians, the fruit growers of
Sicily and the native shippers of Pal
ermo and other Mediterranean porta
sending their sons and relatives to
this country to establish firms, till now
only three or four distinctly Ameri
ioan firms of prominence remain in
the business. During the last ten
years, however, thn importation of
oranges from tho Mediterranean has
steadily decreased, and, while largo
quantities continue to come'from Sic
ily, the imports from Spain have
dwindled into utter insignificance. Tho
decline of importation was brought
about by the rapid growth of tho do
mestic orange industry, which has
been most remarkably developed. For
eign growers at first ridiculed tho
idea that they could ever be deprived
of the American market, in which thoy
had long been accustomed to reap
bountiful harvests annually, but their
ridicnlo was soon turned to regret.
About that time, only a single decade
ago, the Florida orange industry
spuing into prominence as if by magic,
and tho product of tho Florida groves
has sinco swiftly and steadily in
creased, till now tho annual crop is
estimated at fully 6,000,000 boxes, and
it is yearly augmented.
California has since come into great
prominence as an orange-producing
State, and last year supplied 2,500,-
000 boxes, which wero distributed
mainly through the West and North
west. only a limited quantity reaching
tho Atlantic seaboard, on account of
tho high rates of freiKht, it costing
87 ( cents a box to transport oranges
froni tho Pacific Slope to New \ork
by rail, while those from Florida,
coming by steamship, are transported
for fifty cents a box, giving the Flor
ida growers ail advantage of 371 cents
a box.
Teu years ago there "'ere probably
no less than 150 firms receiving tho
delicious Florida oranges directly from
the fragrant groves, and, iu fact, it
was said that a w .11-worded circular
and a brass stencil-plate were the only
prerequisites for procuring abundant
I consignments from t iie confiding urow
: ers. Tho number of receivers iu this
citv, however, has rapidly decreased,
j and there are now not in >re than ten
I or twelve firms of noteworthy proui-
I inencc iu the trade hero. lien there
| was such a uuiuber of firms iu
I the trade there were many whose busi
j ness methods were open to criticism,
| and who duped the oiauge growers an I
| the public, but they have happily been
I driven out of the trade, which is now
! conducted by reputable firms and on
| strictly business principles.
The rapid growth of the Florida
j orange trade has seriously iuterfered
with the importers, as in sirikiugly
shown by the tact that, while there
I were l,79#,iMMlbo*i>*uf Miflitiau oranges
j imported in laar. S7, there *en only
i tiS-'.IMIO bones imported 111 |t.l| 'I'J
| Despite tlin dutl ulties with whieh
j the growers han t i contend almost
I every suasou, thi nro|» continue, •.lead-
Illy to increase. Mo.t of the trees in
th« orange groves of Florida aru now
I over lour \ vara eld an I will *>ou be iu
I full heartug, a heu, It Is e.tnuate I, the
1 crop Kill Isi at least |ll,lNW,thgl IhUi-i.
i There *t>re over '■»">,«>«» b- v>s ol
Florida oiait-,t received lu Ibis eitj
aloue last year, alula leas lhatt •'> »»
bull »a<i re. cived 11 out i' dll "»»*.
Th« i'aliloruia crop hal» » rapidly
Arizona aud
an I oil- ti • 1
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NO. 36.
TO-MORROW.
Advancing swiftly just .1 span
Baforo the coming morn,
I'hnntom To-morrow floes away
As each To-day Is bom ;
Then halting on tho path of life,
Teasing and mute she stands,
And, as men gazo with hope or fear,
She beckons with her hands.
Thus, tempestress-like, sho loads men on
But will not suffer them
To touch the veil that masks her face
Or e'en hor garment's hem,
And as they follow wistfully
Along the vale of years,
Vainly they strive to see if sho
Is smiling or in tears.
—C. 11. Williams, in Philadelphia LUe. '
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
What is lifo but a groat cako-walk.—•'
Galveston News.
When n man is tlio slave of gold, ho
is serving a pretty hard master.
When genius attains to a dross-suit
it has become celebrity.—Puck.
Some clocks striko ten when it is
bnly six. It is tho same way with
many men.
"Business" covers a multitude of
transactions just out of reach of the
law.—Puck.
A woman is never so likely to be
mistaken as when sho is porfectly euro
she is right.
The angler is so absorbed in his
hobby that he generally fishes with
baited breath.
Good cooks can make pie of every
thing, from beefsteak to vinegar.
Atchison Globe.
Hannibal succeeded in crossing the
Alps; but ho didn't havo any hotel
bills to pay.—Puck.
A good resolution is supposed to be
one that will stretch a little when
necessary.—Galveston News.
"You say he is a bad egg. How did
you find it out?" "He showed it the
moment he was broke."—Fun.
It is is ear.y for a man to paddlo his
own canoe when his parents buy the
canoe and paddle for him. —Puck.
When hearts are broken, as wo llud
They are by wooers rash,
To hoal them over, neatly bind
In poltices of cash.
—Washington Star. ,
When the pot calls the kettle black,
the kettle fearlessly demands an in
vestigation of the color of the pot.—
Puck.
It is better to walk nnd catch tho
next ferry-boat than to run for dear
life and miss tho one that is just start
ing.—Puck.
Hardup is a pretty decent sort of
chap, but ho never sticks to anything."
"Did you ever lend him any money?"
—Philadelphia Record.
The star of hope may shine over
head, but we feel more security when
we can get her anchor planted safely
in tho mud below.—Puck.
"Johnny," said tho teacher, "is a
jackass a biped or a quadruped?"
"Please, sir," said Johnny, ' that de
pends on the jackass."—Life.
Lena—"She would be better off
without her husband, wouldn't she?"
Laura —"I should say so. * His lifo is
insured for $40,000." — Truth.
When a man begins to remark how
different children are now from what
thoy were when 110 was a boy, he may
look for gray hairs in his head.—Puck.
Little-drops of water,
I.ittle grains of soap
Make the active Anarchist.
Oct right up and slope,
—Washington Star.
Hotel Proprietor —"Wo don't allow
any games of chance here." Gamb
ler—"This isn't a game of chance. My
friend here has no chance." -Brook
lyn Life.
Clara--"What, are yon reading,
now?" l>ora -"Historical novels."
"Do you like thorn V" "Yes, indeed.
There is so much 1 can skip.".--New
York Weekly.
"Where is the bearded lady," asked
the manager. "It is time for the show
to begin." "He went out to vote,"
explained the ossified man. lndiana* lndiana*
.is Journal.
Tho Spectacled Girl- "Have you
read 'Ships That Pa»s in the Night "
The Auburn-haired (iirl "N». What
kind are they courtshipslndian
apolis Journal.
First Lady —"And the last thing
) that Henry did was to give me a '
I Second Lady—"lndeed ; I should
think that is about the I«»-t thing he
i would do." Tid Hit*.
"Mi* Twilkins his gone to
to cultivate li r » dee." "D a. wo!
I didn't know she c uld afford it. '
"The neighbor* subscribe I tho
i money. ' W*»hiu..'i'<u Siar.
I'atient "I aiu troubled with IB*
•inula. What n >uld 1 •«!r»«< - 'iuitti-.i l ''*
Doctor "* M-"l. "tfreahtu »!«• |*
I seven Highly lit (hi w>-ek. Five dol-
I lar>, plea*e. Ho*toti Traua.'npt.
"Haven't you ma U> Mr. i 1
portrait a gootl dial more than life
; iitc?' said »ue artist I* an other.
"IVibapa- You -ii", that'* as bis as
be think* hen Waahintflott Star.
"bid you t. II lliit hit I -irl tu it you
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Mi Hiuiiii.u al lite di.ttt 1 (aide,
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■aid thai tu< I.' u tUii.,
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