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EXPORTING COFFEE.
THE JOURNEY FROM THE BRAZILIAN
ORCHARD TO THE OCEAN.
The Favorite Amertran llraakniiit Haver
age Underjrnee Many Experiences n-
' for II Comri Hrfore l'e Hot and
Steaming Flow the Berry la fternred.
Coffee is not a shrnb, a is frcnrrnlly
apposed, bnt a tree, which, if allowed
to go nntrimmed, would attain twenty
feet or more in height, but which is gen
erally kept down to eight or ten feet fur
convenience in picking. A grove cnn
be started by burying the berries or
from slips. The bitter are preferable
placed about six feet apart, and thono
plants which have btcn taken from the
unrsery with considerable earth aronnd
their roots will bear frnit in two years,
though their full yield is not attained
under four years. It is calculated that
1,000 thrifty trees will yield on a fair
average 8,200 pounds of coffee per an
num, bnt in some parts of Snn Paulo
province the yield is an high as ,.100
pounds. There are two and sometimes
three harvests to a year, but after fifteen
or twenty years the old trees must be
ent down to give place to new ones.
When fully ripe the berry is about the
size, shape and color of a large cran
berry. The tough red skin incloses two
grains or seeds. The old way of prepnr
ing it for market, still much used in
Brazil, was as follows: When the berries
have acquired a rich blood red they are
picked into bags by the negroes, twenty
three pounds being considered a fair
day's work for one picker. Tho bags
are then e'npried on tho terreno or dry
ing place, which is generally a level
piece of ground beaten smooth or cov
ered with cement. After a few days in
the sun the outer skin becomes black,
hard and shriveled, and then the berries
are ponnded in hnge wooden mortars
until the skins are broken without in
juring the tough grains.
By sifting, the skins and grains are
separated and the latter are again spread
outin the snn until tho pellicle envelop
ing each grain is dry as dust. Then
they are again subjected to the mortars
and the winnowing fan, and are ready
for sale or immediate consumption.
The improved method now in vogue on
the wealthier estates consists in drying
the freshly picked grains on wooden
trays or pavements, by which they
escape the earthy flavor acquired when
dried on the bare ground, and tho onter
and inner envelopes are removed by
passing them through two mills.
The main featnre of the first mill is a
horizontal copper cylinder, whose sur
face is roughened after the manner of a
rasp. It revolves against a board, be
tween which and the teeth space is left
for the grains to pass, bnt not the husks.
The grains drop into wnter and are left
to soak twelve hours, in which time the
parchmentlike film that envelops each
seed is softened. They are spread out
again on trays in the snn, and when
thoroughly dry are passed through the
second mill, which resembles those used
for grinding plaster, except that the
two vertical rolling disks are. of wood,
six feet in diameter and five inches
thick, their light weight abrading the
pellicles without injuring the grains.
Then the fanner is brought into requisi
tion and the berries are put in bags for
transportation.
The freight on a sack of coffee (188
pounds) is about one cent per mile;
therefore, coffee coming from the end
of the Dom Pedro II railway must pay
in the neighborhood of four dollars the
sack for transportation to the shipping
point one-third of its value when de
livered in Rio. From Rio to New York
the freight rarely exceeds sixty cents a
sack, and it is often as low as twenty
five cents. Thus fifty miles of railroad
carriage in the country where it grows
costs more than 5,200 miles of ocean.
Many of the planters still send their
coffee to market by mule train, consid
ering that the cheaper way of transpor
tation. The entrance into Santos of a mule
train from the interior is something
worth seeing. The train is always pre
ceded by a white horse wearing a string
of bells, and the mules obediently follow
the leader. Sometimes troops of several
hundred arrive in a morning, and again
there are weeks when none appear.
Every mule brings two bags of coffee on
his back. Having made long, slow jour
neys, often hundreds of mUes, the ani
mals are pitiable looking objects when
their burdens are removed, for the con
stant sawing of the loads has not only
abraded the akin, but in many instances
ground off the flesh to the bone.
The bags are dumped in hnge piles in
the custom house yards, and aronnd
them cargadores immediately collect
like swarms of black bees. There is an
export duty to pay, and every bag must
be piaccwd and a sample withdrawn in
order to determine the quality and the
duty thereon. The tariff, based on the
market price, ia regulated anew every
Saturday.
The sampling instrument is a brass
tube, shaped exactly like a pen. When
the point is pushed into a sack of coffee
the berries ran down through the tube,
And after a handful has been abstracted
the instrument ia withdrawn and its
point turned over like a crochet hook,
thus closing the opening. The operation
occupies only a few seconds, and the
"samples" taken out amount to many
tons in the coarse of a year. They, to
gether with all samples of exported sug
ars, are presented to the lepers' hospital.
The gangs of cargadores employed in
"toting" the coffee away from the cus
tom7 house and loading it upon waiting
vessels are a featnre of Santos. Naked,
except from waist to knees, their choco
late colored hides glisten in the snn and
their well cultivated muscles stand out
like whipcords. Each gang has its lead
er, generally the tallest and most pow
erful negro among them, who carries a
rattle, to the muaio of which his follow
ers keep step in a rapid jog trot, singing
a low, monotonous song meanwhile in
, words to us unintelligible. Sometimes
the rattle gives place to a small flagv
Cor. Provide noe Journal.
THE DEATH OF LITTLE LUE.
A Heart Capable of Interna Snrtrlnf la
Within Many a Rongh Kitrrlor.
Our ghostly, white topped wngons
had rounded into camp near Kingfisher;
the sun had sot and there was a golden
blnsh on the westei.i sky aht I remem
ber the scene well as we all gathered
around old Gunderson, who eat on the
prairie with his hend bowed and his
straggling gray hair fulling over a child
ish face and mingling with curls that
seemed like spun gold. Ho held his
dnnghter in his arms and at every fnint
respiration tho old mnn's sinewy hands
clutched convulsively as though he re
alized how vain was all his strength to
save his child.
We were boomers, and nil tho way
from Caldwell little Luc had been ail
ing. Her face grow paler nnd her cheeks
flushed a brighter crimson day by day.
She could not support herself toward
the last, and one of the boys drovo old
Ounderson's wngon while he sat behind
and held the girl in his arms.
All through the lonely Cherokee strip
what torture must that wretched father
have borne, sleeplessly watching his dy
ing child I And the heaps and heaps of
white bones that bleached and decayed
beside the trail what ominous remind
ers of death must they have been to old
Gunderson!
"How is she, Gunderson?" asked some
one in a whisper.
He turned his blodshot eye upward
for a moment, and his face, pinched and
drawn with grief, was mute answer to
tho words.
"Father!" Tho sound was Just audi
ble and little Lue's eyelids raised slowly.
"What is it, dearie?" asked the old
man, pressing his bearded lips to thu
child's.
"I had such a beautiful dream, father.
It was night, it seemed like, and all at
once a great big star fell from up there
and hung in the sky just over my hend.
Then I heard mother's voice oh, so
sweet and sad! and she said, 'Come,
deario; kiss your father and come to
me.'"
Little Lue's words became inaudible
after this, nnd she sank down wearily
in her father's arms. We all stood sad
ly by and saw the child at last lift her
self with a quick effort and put both
arms about her father's neck. Then she
kissed him, and murmuring, "I am so
tired," sho again lay quietly on old Oun
derson's breast.
Slowly rocking to and fro the old man
kept bis eyes on her face and never once
removed them. Then we drifted away
one by one and attended to our camp
duties with heavy hearts. It was no;
long till some one came and said to m :
"Ben, little Lue is dead and old Gun
derson doesn't know it!"
I walked back to the old man where
he sat still rocking his burden, and one
glance at the child's face proved that she
had passed away.
"Gunderson," I said huskily, "little
Lue is gone."
He looked at me vacantly a moment;
then with a start he peered into his
child's face. He realized the truth, laid
the dead child down and dashed off into
the night with a cry of anguish.
There is a rude grave on the prairio,
jnst at the border of what was once the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation,
and a clumsy headstone marks the spot,
sacred to the memory of little Lne and
her father for we found old Gunderson
dead the next morning, killed by his
own hand. Detroit Free Press.
A Cool Heart.
There is nothing that conduces to a
successful meeting of emergencies bet
ter than a cool head, with a feeling of
perfect confidence that everything is
going to come out all right. Whether
things are "coming out all right" or
not, at least the feeling of quiet self
control makes one better able to work
toward the good result. To a mother
this self possession is invaluable. In a
large family small events calculated to
upset the domestio machinery are con
stantly occurring. It seems to be a law
of nature that children should continu
ally have hairbreadth escapes and come
within an inch of losing their lives.
Bnt it is equally a law of nature that
they should escape. And whenever the
critical moment arrives in her own life
or in the life of another, it is important
for a woman to remember that the very
worst thing she can do at that moment
is to lose her head.
To do that means to be helpless in
stead of helpful, to be a drag instead of
an assistance. In an emergency one
should rather seem heartless than in
efficient. There are always ten people
ready to cry or faint or shed tears over
the sufferer where there is one who
stands coolly by and sees the way to
help him. Affection and sympathy are
often best proved by ignoring them,
particularly when the moment arrives
that calls for action and not tears.
Harper's Bazar.
Dlda't See Mneh.
Daring a great display of the northern
lights the wife of a Rockland sea cap
tain was determined that he should see
it, though he cared but little about it
She therefore roused him from his sleep
and persisted in her missionary work
until finally the man of the house was
obliged to crawl out and take a look out
of the window.
"Don't see anything especially won
derful about them," said he as he
crawled back to bed. "Have seen 'em
finer than that a thousand times."
In the morning it was discovered that
the window through which the captain
had criticised the display was hermet
ically closed with a blind. Bangor Com
mercial. "Wild Beaat" Stories In the Country.
Country people are as eager to accept
any rumor of a strange and dangerous
creature in the woods as they are to be
lieve in a ghost story. They want it to
be true; it gives them something to
think about and talk about. It is to
their minds like strong drink to their
palates. It gives a new interest to the
woods, as the ghost story gives a new
interest to the old house. John Bur
roughs in Century. j
Irtat Children In Big Stores.
"Are many babies lost in the big
stores?"
The floor walker stood beside a num
ber of bolts of cloth. It was in one of
the big stores in Fourteenth street.
"Come with me," he said.
When we hnd arrived at the ronr of
the store he carefully opened a doer
leading to a small room. There, on a
loft lounge, all cuddled up, asleep and
evidently dreaming, was a dear child
with golden bnir.
"The child," exclaimed the floor
walker, "belongs to some woman now
shopping in this place. She is wander
ing around from counter to connter and
has temporarily forgotten her dear littlo
Willie. We found the child asleep near
the elevator, tired ont apparently."
"And yon will take care of it till sho
comes back, eh?"
"We will. We have a number of
children to look after each day. Somo
are lost, some forgotten, but the mam
mas all come back in due season."
Just then there was a suppressed
ejaculation at the door, something that
sounded like:
"Oh, my deardarlingchildchildchild!"
A woman bounded into tho room.
Such kissing, such hugging, you never
saw in all your born days!
"It was like this," the woman said.
"I left the dear boy just one tiny min
ute to look at some bargains in laces.
Then Mrs. Gamp came up, and of course
I had to talk to her. Time slipped by;
it was most an hour before I ever
thought of dear little Willie again."
"Well," said the floor walker smiling,
"he is safe."
Then the woman went awny with her
prize, saying something at each step
that sounded like:
"O-h, m-a-m-m-a'a d-e-n-r 1-i-t-t-l-e
1-o-s-t b-o-y! I w-i-1-1 n-e-v"
New York Herald.
A Ride with Senator Wolcott.
Upon an occasion somo years ago a
friend took Senator Wolcott for a drive
in tho suburbs of Leadville, nnd Wol
cott expressed a suspicion that the
horses were perhaps too frisky to bo
trustworthy. Thereupon the friend set
about bantering and badgering Wolcott
upon his excessive timidity. Wolcott
bore this badinage patiently, till pres
ently they began to descend one of those
steep, nlmost precipitous inclines in
which Colorado roads abound.
"Will you let me driver' asked Wol
cott. "Certainly," answered the other.
But no sooner had Wolcott got the
reins than he turned to his companion
and said: "You have been shaming me
for my timidity. My turn hns come.
We'll see who squeals first!"
With thnt he flung the reins out over
the horses' backs and began plying the
whip furiously. The frightened horses
dashed down the hill, swinging the
buggy around curves nnd against
bowlders in such wise as to threaten its
demolition. Wolcott continued to ply
the whip nnd to shout at the maddened
brutes. His friend clung, whito and
trembling, to his seat. It is a marvel
that both were not killed. Finally the
buggy was overturned, the horses broko
away nnd Wolcott nnd his friend were
left in a confused heap, with a broken
arm, a sprained ankle and a dozen body
cuts and bruises between them.
"Well, how do yon like it?" asked
Wolcott, gathering himself together
and emerging nimbly from the debris.
The other answered feebly bnt proud
ly, "I hain't squealed yet!" Chicago
News-Record.
The Rattleanake'a Ratttee.
It is an error to suppose that rattles
are shed each year as are the horns of
the deer, or that a new rattle is added
each time the skin is shed. A friend of
mine owned a massasauga over one year,
and while the skin was exfoliated the
rattles remained intact and without ad
ditions. Men who owned rattlesnakes of
the diamond species in Florida informed
me that an adult might add one or two
rattles that is, sections to the rattle
in a year, or again not any, and that the
changing of the skin exfoliation had
nothing to do with the new formation.
All agreed that the older rattlers of the
south were provided, as a rule, with a
longer rattle than the young ones. Said
one man, pointing to six specimens of
the diamond rattlesnake (Crotalus ada
manteus) about sixteen inches long and
possessed of a single rattle and button,
aa the terminal and growing portion is
called:
"Those little rattlers were born in this
house, and when they were a few weeks
old I mounted them as yon see them."
Dr. Morris Gibba in Forest and Stream.
The Carbuncle Blag.
The carbuncle ring is now quite fre
quently seen on the bands of the fash
ionable gentleman. One of the rarest
and most precious stones is the carbun
cle, which is sometimes confounded
with the ruby, from which it differs by
the intensity of its fires, produced by an
internal luster of gold, while under the
purple of the ruby there only appear
dottings of azure or lacquer. Ethiopia
produced the most precious ancient car
buncles. The Chaldeans regarded this
tone as a powerful talisman. The vir
tues of the carbuncle are resistance to
fire, preservation of the eyes, promotion
of pleasant dreams, creation of happy
illusions and an antidote against impure
air. Bangor Commercial.
Cooking la Mow Science.
Cookery in these latter days has be
come a science. Cookbooks leave no
room for guesswork. We no longer
mix our ingredients as the woman said
she made her brown bread: "First I put
In what meal I think I will need, then
what rye tho meal will bear; next a
good sized pinch of salt; next a little
flour, a trifle of molasses and aa much
water or milk as I think it wants, and
then bake it till I see it ia done." Troy
Times.
Woman's Great Ambition.
It is funny, but true, that the highest,
aim of the meet advanced woman ia to
do something aa well as a man does.
Milwaukee Journal.
I the Reaann for It.
"If cigarettes cause insanity, why
don't more yonng men go crazy?" asks a
correspondent. That is an ensy one.
Brains are a prime requisite to an at
tack of insnnity. That's why more
cigaretto smokers don't go to asylums.
Pomona Progress.
A lady of Eastbourne, England, has
just offered the sum of f.ViO to the Sea
men's mission if the society will ap
point a render for that town, nnd tho
offer has licen accepted. Tho fisher
men of Enstbonrne are nil residents,
without any admixture of nanticnl
strangers.
A negro living near Chokee, Ga., is
the owner of a hound which, he says,
attends all the religious meetings of the
negroes, stands up and tries to follow
them in the singing, and regularly goes
to the altar to be prayed for with the
rest of the mourners.
We know nil about the plants of the
Old World and their sober characters.
What they can do in our New World
has to be still more developed and Is an
other thing.
In speaking of the solidification of a
body by cooling, Professor Dewar says
that water can be made to become solid
by the evaporation of a quarter of its
weight.
Bathe in pienty of sunshine as well us
in plenty of water, and don't forget to
dry rob morning and night. It will add
years to yonr life and vigor.
Fncemnking was first done by Bar
bara Uttmnn about lfi.1t, though the in
vention is claimed for an earlier dnte by
France and Italx.
It is an interesting fact that ont of
lixteen cities of over sno.lino population
In the United States, fourteen, or over
97 per cent., nre nring the electrical rail
way system or equipping roads with the
system.
Serpents together constitute one order
of the class of reptiles, tho oilier still
existing inonilcrs of ; h.it class consti
tuting three other plainly distinct or
ders, namely, crocodiles, lizards, tor
toises. Forgot tha Others.
Mabel There are now over 4,000 avo
cations open to women.
Clara Dear mel What are they?
Mabel Let me see. One of them
in marriage and another is is Dear
me! I've forgotten the others. New
Vrav'.- WnoUr.
AT HAND
In a dangerous emergency, Ateb's Cnr.nBT (
Fectorai, Is prompt to act and sure to t
cure. A dose taken on the flrst symptoms j
ot Croup or Bronchitis, checks further prog- -ress
ol these complaints. It softens the
phlegm, soothes the Inflamed membrane,
and Induces sleep. As a remedy for colds,
coughs, loss ot voice, la grippe, pneumonia,
and even consumption, In Its early stages,
AYER'S
Cherry Pectoral
excels all similar preparations. It Is en
dorsed by leading physicians, Is agreeable to
the taste, does not Interfere with digestion,
and needs to be taken usually in mall doses.
" From repeated tests In my own family,
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral has proved Itself a
very efficient remedy for colds, couRhs, and
the various disorders ot the throat and
lungs." A. W. Bartlett, Plttsfleld, N. H.
For tha last 25 years I hate been taking
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for lung troubles, and
am assured that its use has
Saved fily Life
I have recommended It to hundreds. I nnd ,
the most effective way of taking this medl- j
cine Is in small and frequent doses." T. M. !
Matthews, P. M., Sherman, Ohio.
"My wife suffered from a cold; nothing
helped her but Ayer's Cherry Pectoral which
effected a cure." R. Amero, Plympton, N. 8.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
Prepared by Dr. J. O. Ayer k Co., Lowell, Mate.
Prompt to act, sure tocure
$1,000 TO THE MAN
That breaks tills record. This Is June S, and
I have received since May 1.1, lit putlciita
thai were ultlicted with tax) worm. I re
moved clitlit of them unci have two preparing
for treatment. Now. some uf the supposed
bright IIiiIiIh of Alleiilieiiy, I'lttsbuin and
suburbs say I buy the tuuo worms, cam-ei-H,
etc., that 1 exhibit In my windows, from the
hospitals. In answer I simply olTur to give
fl.eouto any of these all-wise Ih-Iiiith if they
will produce man nr set of men that will
meet and compete. Willi me before the public
on cure of tune worm, cancer catarrh,
scrofula, or nil the an culled Incurable nll
nienlHofthe liiiinun family. Further, I will
take mv Hystem Kenovalor and ko on public
exhibition with any or till such all-wise
people, all patent medli'tno men and all
advertising-quacks lathe laud and take like
eases us I hey comu and heat them uurl prove
to the public that they do dot know what the
human body Is composed of, or If they do,
they do not know how to treat It in sickness.
I treat throuKlt tho blond Willi nature's
remedlus, risits and herbs. 8ysteni Kenova
lor Is a non secret, honest preparation, com
posed of dandelion, Mayupple.iiiichu, quassia,
cinchona, c uscara.saurada, Kent lau.sassafraH,
bonesct, kidney wen t and saisaimi'ilu.
Hystem Renovator costs H.( per bottloi or
6 Unties for V.UU, ut II. A lex Htoke'a or
nit. j. a. mutiiooN,
47 Ohio Ht Allegheny City; I'a.
Oftlce Iloura-S A. M. to U I'. M. Hour for
('onsullalloii-S A. M. to 1'. M. ruinduy olttce
hours and for consultation a A. M. to 12 M.
marieeasr Matiufuotiirlng
Kiibbor Mumps, fend for
t'rivo I.lnt of Oullltrf, to
J. V. W. Ilorniau a Co.,
1M7 BhM Ueriuan Street,
Bultluiore, M4., U. 8. A.
MONEY
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Wednesday at lleynoldsville, Pa., by C. A. Steph
enson, contains all the local and general news; the
subscription price is but Si. 50 a year in advance.
The job department is replete with the latest
designs in type, and Letter Heads, Note Heads,
Bill Heads, Statements, Envelopes, Posters, Circu
lars, will be turned out with neatness and dispatch.
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Fancy and Staple
GKOCE1UES,
Oil, Flour i Feed.
An elegant line con
sisting of sour, sweet
and mixed pickles.
Onions, chow chow,
olives, cauliflowers
and others too numer
ous to mention.
COTS
Ph f An endless vnrietv on
irvj
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hand; always Iresh.
Try our fruit and
HS W
chocolate cakes.
"Waehburne's Best"
leads the list; it's a
dandy. Try it. We
have in stock, "Our
Best," "Straight,"
"Imperial," "N. W.
Patent," "Pilgrim"
and others.
We have no oil wagon
on the road but we
deliver you a 5 gal.
best 150 oil for 50
cents. Get our rates
on oil by the barrel.
O
A FULL STOCK of (food in our
line alway on luitul. Highest
market price paid for country
produce.
I GOODS RECEIVED '
DAILY. :
: 2fO OLD GOODS
j FOR SALE. :
McKee & Warnick,
The Grocers,
Cor. Sth and Main St
. . . Reynoldsvllle, Fenna
AX
'JVS
B 'A RC A
I want to close out my sum
mer goods to make room
for fall stock, and
will sell
AT COST!
Outing Cloth, 6J cents,
Sold before for 8 cents.
Outing Cloth, 8 cents,
Sold before for 10 cents.
Outing Cloth 12 cents,
Sold before for 12$ cents.
Challie, 10 cents,
Sold before for 12J cents.
Challie, 10 cents,
Sold before for 15 cents.
Sateen, 10 cents,
Sold before for 15 cents.
Indigo Blue prints
6 cents per yard.
Men's Seersucker Coat
and Vest at 65 cents,
Sold before for 9 1.00.
Men's and Boys'
Outing Shirts
At 19 cents apiece.
Men's suits at $3. 60,
Sold before for $5.00.
All Men's suits reduced
From $2.00 to
$3.00 per suit.
Children's
Suits $i.oo
Now is your time to save
money. These goods are all
new.
1ST. Hanau.
Sue
Goools