The Patton courier. (Patton, Cambria Co., Pa.) 1893-1936, October 29, 1896, Image 8

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    a RRA AI HO Sag vis OE
|
tian tr wenn
world are Err I delare]
od a in oof narrow ois |
Tw veers |
140 re the of ro ol . 4 Aer ein
a broath of wir, wha?
; night fu Bot low ditehion
ter in oeder © avoid iy
die the lcoessity for
o | tose of mules and horses vir r Dariress.
ed to deni the great borax Iden wag-
wif denihg
than that ;
one a the aiias vehi:
rx i # shysiy 4 drag.
in this iy ia ll s fie ie,
ath of Shae they either Be £
| inhuling the desis ust of the desert
ora thven erasy by the fri; itnl hat. :
i ae y : 3 o that intersects a hip Held, you sen bare
wines in whalever directics * yon a pa
£3 Senirhoe of seraugy want of
Yomentir i spent " Malling, an an-
1 bout 20 miles from
being o of t he |
: form white tints
2 jo hop pickers, Hike the encamprent
my for Fr ninet know that
. the hop plokers are 1 ® residents of the
borhood. They rome from distances
by § on, 8 large pgportion of them
from Lowden. And, $e it known, the
"| jority of the hop pickers are wretrh-
jedly peor. The pay for hop picking is |
Af #0 very Jittle that cmly by the anited
flere of a family of three or four
workers 1¢ the result of the day's Inbor
Iworth the «fort. Last year, for exam:
ipl the pay for picking was » shilling |
for seven Bashois 8 that 8 worker Buel ©
11 complete seven bushels before thn
shilling war darned. This year com
flone ars & Hitle better, but at the lost
bop picking in only profitable when tao
fads has six oF ght pairs of exept
hands to stnip the Yue swiftly, Some
of fhe women have ridaded this picking
to an art, the efe fue: hey with whol
Ivor even Bat this exastitads -
for beats uf ar :
Cghes, fiy a field wm bot out §
as, m0 many Billets pdos Brags B |
; with ae the fan
BY rherefot, #3 * foo walk dim the path
and there nt fixed distances apart the |
| 1 different independent gronps of ploiine,
itheir canvas Danx with wide, fisting |
measthe, all of regular sles, streteln J
; poles aud wot on erompleres the long!
3 i# In
section, aod while the man cai
thin vines nx thivd of the way up the pole
amd pulls wp the poles to canty 10 tw
1 bin mde this women and childret noes.
: | santly witkivam 6 am to 7 p wm,
{sive only for the Ful! hour at noon for,
téinner. And what ux wighs it fs! At the
very odge of the field where I spent
most time rears, rugged and tall, the
{ivy draped tower of Bt. Leonards, said |
the to be the very firey, and therefore the |
oldest, of the Norman towers, the pie:
raios of which so interest the
"intelligent visitor fo rural England.
- This tows wan bail by Granduit, bishop
— This abbey, by the: way, ‘has been re-
+ | stored and ia once nore u home of Bunk
LAL the foot of this old tower yesterday
1 polled snd tmnbied » wore of grimy,
half naked, tatterdigualion children, of
: ages running from the infant that should |
1 have ben in arose 10 8 pair of 4. year
old twins, in patched, dirty rod dreswes, |
and with boge brow earrings hiding the
Jobes of shieir unciesy little earn. Thus
© did halt barbarous young modesty kick |
{up ite slovenly little legs in contempt of |
| that sil} grim though dismantled tower,
1bmilt eight centorios ago to repel the
burning | Mesults of those savages who wer fore-
; ranoens of the present day Englishman.
And smog the vines yonder were the
4 motley groups of persons to whom these
| little human blots sppertained. Not by
‘any means as pictaresque snd Tancisat- |
_ | ing sa Italian grape pickers; nothing of |
{the rich, dark beauty of the southern |
types, but & different sort of intereat at.
: wily ignorant, half
vagrant creatures, who Bave come to
{the picking—by donkey cart, by train,
_ | on fost—Dbearing with them their mis
Peing | ble utensils for cooking and faring,
“4 Lin their rags and thelr tatters, the fh
"lof which they are not ashamed, sloep-
| ing by night in tens if they are so for
tanate, behind hedges and ander rade
wigwams of Booghs, if they must, work-
"ling from day dawt to evening close for
& mere pittance—yet tot wolfish or sur-
“ily. not rude—indeed, good patored
when you address them, and in rough
{way jocular or in tly way communica
tive, Here and there, to be sure, some
"i thirg more profentions, the epitome of
Jower middle clas shift and tidines,
but in the mains Lop picking sive
gorh ns you may wits at Malling
tells you what pitiful poverty awd
wretoheduess are hidden from the world
_{ by the purple splendor of the richest na
tion spon which the carious sun looks
wekanoe.
Fill in imaginatively the pictures of
which 1 have given but trae cutlivos
Bean the hillside spcampment, wher (6-
| fancy and age swarm about the evening
1 fires. Walk through the fields of vine girt
poles, thal seem a compact misses as you
look down upon them. Talk with these
» | women and childrin stripping the yel-
Jow fowers swiftly from the stems
Glance at the various troops of thought
1lesaly begoii a infants rolling on the
green grass or burrowing in the soft
earth, anid thes, a4 you blow the froth
from your pext glass of leer, refs
i haw the host hops yielded by bonntiful
: nature are gathered for your benefit —
; Cor. Chicago Tims Herald.
Fixing rie Tdeutity.
Attorney—Weil, now you say that
you saw the man who did the stabbing?
Withess—Y is, sor.
Horney — And would you know the
| enlprit again if yoo saw him?
‘Witness—Ile wasn't 10 culprit, sor;
I be was a a Exetalian. Cleveland Leader.
ar {itm mldiery
_ jof pre, Ly Gor
; ts
: pao, 060 cy for flot
tioned or sent thers has cout, and this
patails no end of complicated bookkestr
we
India, for trivianes, pips for the cloths
7% of its own troops, and ale for the
| nnifo rns of ‘the men which Logland {js
ipends thers. The latter item iv about
£75,000 asnuaily. On the other hawd,
Mehen a regiment comes home from Tne
dia, that country has (0 be paid back
the full valpe of the slothes they wend
The government sells old sad wort
pat articles to the secondhand dealers,
wha, by the way, ussaily sccumminte
eastoff clothes go disposed of is about
‘$140,000 yinrly. The scraps remaining
after the uniforms have been ont ont
uiso bring a matter of $30,000 annonl-
ty. In all the aothoritics recive back
about $1,500,000, thus redu gig the to.
tal cost of clothing the ny
$5,000,000 a year.
The best aunlity of everythivg be need
fn tHe manufactore of uniforme In
rable wear. A huge factofy in Pimlico,
Londen, makes a Inrge share of the for
| mishings, bot viet guantitivs of foot and
Lop peor ave bone ready made. Boots
aed leguriner. for example, cet SE 65,4
Gr and I 54
The th yute oF wm
mmibiione of Butided, the tops of rorton
weet, the tail if yards of mew
pedton, (heat si tals Pare trinaeR
tidy tronsers and warm #hirta cout
#75, 000 The wams pal
fhe we rh Are Gye 56, 06) |
& gntdrioe va
| ae 1 The
Bat ull this vast expen
mn I less than the
Prance or Ciornminy
HEY man in 18
fony ppplete suitw of piiiitayy
Neer Yeork Jogrnad
A ZOOLCCICAL DIVERSICH.
As Elepioast That Died to Flay «a Tlsver
Frok sa \ aitars
%
The elepupt at the Jardin des
| Plantes af Parke used bo play his visits
| ore 8 trick which eonld not neve been
hought of bot by an asimal of mach
inteliigenee. His house opened apon an
joelosure called the Elephants’ park,
eomtaining a pond, in which he would
lay himeell nodder the water, eonomsling
of his trank-—a move speck that wonlkd
hardly be noticed by » ranges to the
animal's habits
A crowd would sswmble around the
inclosure, and, pot sesing $m in it,
would waleh in expecistion that be
would seon sense from the hone. Bur
sprinkling of water wonld fail spon
them, and ladhs and peoniiomen, with
the ir fe bonnie and os, would ran
for shelter suder the frevs, jooking up
at the clour sky and wondering whenes
such a shower could come
Immediately afrerwand, however, they
would see the elephant rising siwly |
from his bath, evincing, ae it seemind,
lind played. In the conrse of time his
Cgmuement Leonie generally known,
atid the moment the or Tagan to noe
from his trunk the spectators would
ake fight, at which Re spreas Pl LR
‘an be vonld to ses rhe boatio Be a
-enaned Pit tetarg Phage! teh.
Most Wheels Ape Oversilml
Bo many bleyeiists have been Cheese
suffering from clogged chunk Lal
werd of advice way with pops Piety ve
yopented: Oil the ehain—noti oo
Fiore necessary, bof be sore pot to fave
ft wet. Each link shonid te ¢
{nbricated, und then the cfah
mbbed dry. Ne amount of uo
oil from the paris between the Lirils,
where it is needed, and pet a particinof
oil 1s required on the exterior curio
The drier that is the better. 10 eid,
if expo, Jue k= up sud holds dust Lud
addin greatly to the frietien. The vee
advice applies to all cilicg. Mf so puch
is put in the bearings that seni vo
flows amt it 4s pot wipsd off, dost wl
gather at the spot, and even in the best
macs bearings wee of 3 will aloes
certainly work into the balls and mak
trouble. Aud even if it doos net pot so
fur the Dans hen of dust so oonman lutea |
detract oom the appearshee of an eter. |
wise well groomed ma aine and re neler
the cleaning after a ren twice as dill
sult as it nest be, The fact 1s that ners
wheels ars overniled thap upderoili a
“Uarrying » canary,’ as the wii
a dust buried bearing. Of course, al 00
two, the [aiter is preferable, but no pid:
er pedd have either. — New York Post
Coflnr Nandy.
The collar bapds on the new gowns
are one of the special points of decorae
bly set in on the wige to sand up
around the neck. oommencing a Br
distance apart on either side of 1p
front. They sre made of Rupe plaice
silk, ribbon, jace or chiffon, and ous
very effective trimming is liee wn vans
dyke points, outlined with a tiny reohe
neck. Plain velvet collars, with pias
ings of ribbon set in fan shape at the |
back, are very
with narrow, black, pearl edged ribix
edging each fold, are ahother faty.—
er, | New York Sun.
{ta army sll over the world. Each of
the foreign poke stone, hoaeever, hus to |
pay back to a oirraln extent the mmonnt
which the aniforme of the troops sta
fortones in a short time. The valoe of
Iosn than
fart, it ie ssid they are too good for du- |
men, eabicn, eth, wolves, ote, el
every part of Bim except the very end |
What becamn of the inventir is Jad
while they were gaging about § copiius
“8 awkward doy at the trick that he
cendingly delighted, petiing wp us fo |
shear be remembervd, con popowe foe
men” onl] ridizg with a dry beara |
that sereechos, Is Bat Ball so envamon a
tion, and frills of some sort are invaria-
of entored ribbon and gathered mito the |
, and collars roade |)
of brag folds of light velvet or satin, [oon busi
post putt al WE
and fall easy viothne fo the spiders who
who ride owe their luxury fo the of Ler
man's genins and their own shrewdness
| An Inteisting one. Hore are a fiw
hy piaked haphieard from the evn.
jole of inventions that failed to bereft
the inventor, or, nt leas, produced | Hor
him a little of what was his dos.
remember when hooks wo first pul in
. time in Incing the shoo at the tip
This was tha brilliant iden of an invint.
or to whom it should have brought a
fertane. | Tt wonld have done so had ho
bean a shrewd business man. Beng
merely an inventor, he hadn't senes
enoagh ta keep hin idea to himsalf nail
the patent office padiook had soured it
against thefr. Id the innocence of bis
patare the inventir confided the ides to
& friend swhile evesing the North river
for the boat to tie op in Jursey City he
fore be exensed himeelf, started bal
New York and went on 8 dead rom for
ides sootred for bie own daqweial Baas |
fit. Another mon is koown today ox the |
weentor of the late honke Fe owing a
cenfiding Inventor got nothing
beer botzh Athing that lwd Joong
en To give some notion of the vibe
eenite un porosk, and even at this er
© pednetion on good (ieoft san be meds ;
. This Let inventor was treated sith G50
i yeiponty gonevosily, however, bn ole
| parison with the ponies who dev kW
poeketbork clasp by the shape of infer
locking horns with balls at the ind 3
which spapped shut with a single prose 3 5
sunk The idea wis altrward applivd to
| lowes snd became yory much in favor
The inventor relispuished hie prize for |
the ma iovnt Riward of a Kidney fw 0
dinner and 50 entity, the latter havieg
een advanced by the purchaser to pay |
the inventor's expense feoan Newark to
Now York. The man who soared the
made a big fortune by Mis shuawdiees
| known. —Exchaage.
Cuplemmus Remedy.
A writer on lion hunting tells how
Hassan, n quick witted Somali fond
his way out of & very srgons diffioairy.
He had been down in Tas watitless
plaine and wan ob the way homes, driv.
ing some candy before him. Tr wai a
‘very dry yaar, and, althongh this wie
the rainy season, be had been nnatle to
fined any water to give his pony.
| dery hard for tweor three duys, with Bit |
tle or no water to drink, the pony sue. |
{ewmbed sntively and a8 last lay down
aboot 20 miles from the wells No
Hasan wan fo despair. He knows thar
the pony, and it seemed to hana if
pothing could ba done tossve i, At
them as nouch water ae they coals
drink aod then harried them ob again
Hiately killed the camels, cut thenipen
and took the water fron tair stones
The pony wis eager enough © drink it,
iand aftr the draft it revived sulle
Ledently to strugele on to the weil
fu a fo Gays it had eompletiir ree
covered, la tellin the stay 7%;
aiwayn mdided thas he arm lal god re
of camels, sod whether that wom wy op
pot he wind, wadher have ent the
throsts of 100 Liban sacrifice his brloved
pony.
Lomb res) fh RO, IO.
Nadsie Kode
When there la on choles of pond © a2
irive at a vetiain goal, 6 ie got abways
the shortest waich should be abisin.
The desire fir money is a glide
oe, for nyeney ae key wiih npivoks
‘prsny eplentohiies Hat the ‘wavs
which mes fake Gooaeauirg 6 ar 100
numerous (0 poovaet sud Tae with
tovery ditforowne of larseier. VHD uo
hy whatever means Hh wy think will an
i Lo Phew will wr i all
+ Iva us Tietie
for it All soch anfairness is |
fomer 14 the roliped. Both are injured
the coe in his property, the other so his
Eire Wr--whilo the comanuuity i» Like:
Wis inp swersabed. Bak dieetix yon
Brigg labor vo the Seld-—honest, iwiel
| Bgrns work—some real addition ae as
Free nade to the wealth of the oma
wennity aml tothe character, self ago
ad imilopensdince of the worker = New
York Ledger
Main ab the Table,
boiled them more than thoes mingtes?
en’ s shoes in place of bola in order to
forryboat, and the friend hardly waited |
8 patent lawyer in order to hye the
| the mother Jode, as it were, anil sieeioly
rokbery. The winner ix the robe the |
fogs witly others 5 3 ess matters |
fin in wait for such fine. The list of |
elever men who walk today while thos
It is pot neccdsary taba very oli to 8 9 .
Lpothy intanit oy Een the. Fal av :
weeny yolod in glistening garnieom of
port white, Two days’ travel brings
{one well into Alaskan waters, and by
the aid of a good glass and sot infre.
i Been wanted | by the tewde, sold the in|
Deention for B10. 000 to aman who rang
nid ite mene making valge Lhe
t | parchiaser is now worth $5,000,000, all
of which be wend from the patent wisp
por. Ont of the goodness of his hears he ¢
| presented She oriuieal ower of
patent with $30,000, so thas this hun ¥
Lgot 840.000 in ail for his 85,000,000
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Glut Sent inet oy hve ore
By paling the wielae Jord
frown Bootes ore bas sored
waters of Pug bt sound b
patithos of (mo Br pn
Biglest peaks of tho colo
matiniatuy bordering the
-
quently with the naked eve clos ob
eryer will discern the blue joo of es ie
glenn creeping fen 0 0 0
Gag
edges of the mow bank Lovie ond
Lower thems descend as the steiner i
erawls onward, patil the northernmost
point on tha route is reached, wheres |
ther come down to the cerian Jevel,
"love, in i benutitel little Yay, dotted
{with 1,000 lenborgs, some of them high-
or (han the topmost mast of the slip,
Carat walls of dedp blue Jeo form the
shares, longs arms of thin ie bask frome
- far back into the monptaine Wise ab
| the evest of the raves they route, god,
L splendid hones and is wealthy: The ronping narivward, fom inte o sant.
: | nove chain) of glaciers that Hie tik
The inventor ofl & patent stopper for | - portion of Abnka's voit law Brand Bae
dred miles
This Little falrelond ia
bay, and th
c Mn Mair a
fren, pans
Mair, who By ¥
hie Gaede tana
Is ww ats Bloor
Lgeancedr nid col
UL of patent rights on this Bottle wie pet
© 1 gba price came down from $1 (0 6 Al a?
: ori wll i
den and parented it after fronting the |
inventor in the road manner vaviiioed i» ;
Dthtnders ut £2 base, Hon es
= {iy thie i orth Bud
Fay Tr $004 {8
srsod be nila boss he sled ma
! pviry foot of Ris siden I En ne fer ae
| etnpr! Hu bathes bis brow $n tee close
; ani senshel Bis feo a the soi. No Bu
wun bong hos ever planiad 160k va tow
C swaanit of this eonntian, aiionis var
| rs atterapts have bee mime Ly hardy
explora. Lriog between tie sen snd
© ties base of the monntada, perhaps thine.
gurters of a mile in widih, # » jel
and thickle tibered pices of Joid
From thin begch the monstsin ries
_grwiusily fo the timber Haw, approxis
The result was that, having beet: rid :
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amount of persuasion, or even besting, |
wold got theorontars on its fogs ssi
miitely 1000 feet, Here the line of pers
patual suose bopioe and the slope paws
got dnuily pleciar Foon the bine oo 1.
#0: w gna i rsew, and a Btls Tal er
wy the eine tro of the moni oe ‘
mien aban Thin jee 1X JH 10
helsing 8,40 0 fect of Une suai if, WiLore
PEE prmenl ¢ P B DE RENEE BRIT de
thers wers mo vesselt at the vols in
which he might carry water bak to, :
* eleint easily Cee asak 1 sor Bot La Gls
Iast be thought of a plane ke drow the
panels at top spend to tha wells, rave
He found the pony whers be had jeft
it, growing rapidly weaker. He imme | Wat great altitode: This me
mot who Semis rossi obtnia waaith
dipniny kia avcupes het soiel aw a ¥
wisteh Bou iir Gaia Joe Waki ad al Boe
this peak, xo ot on Loe extianey Lon, Ep
ihe pease tnd tae gules Or Tie Kae
Probably culy by aerial mua void
this suunbiz be reached, sisi even if
thst were possibile, 1838 do uixial if ay
bums being could survive the forte
eobd which wound we QuoLRLI LEH
held in grout estorm spd awe Ly Tie
tire [ndiim tribes 1% 38 they 0
weather prophet, and by certain + al
wipns thew koow when the® can :
safety uncerroke the Jomrney alo ches
SUennbonrit cost,’ a dargrioes ol
of Water Pushes bein Luge pence
porthwarn| to Yasate: bay, along wih
distance fhe monusoe Birak Me 01H
the wen,
The entire baja of thie nly Eo
sage, L1C0 mila is beucily © of
with spree, boy ek pir
wei bow anil pod cop IRE SVL
of snow have swept down ©
hips and (here, gid i their tr
areaks of Dmber Bave Loon
Adres a8 i sickle world 8 ou
guiin, AL asters Tacinn
thie -shordi, reniing wos
mon narposy shelves fost 4° 30
pidewatey, 7 less Brads of
west spend Divo thipds of £0
of doors a thelr ravoes wi
enpiy moans of travel, and w ith which
they ota their livelihood fom the
i wa. Throaghont the entive sireted of
country fitavel hy land is ainioss macs.
i wible, owing to the dene Cimber id,
: waderbruih that cover the out sar.
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aii Sh SARA LH tia SR
Man at tho Table— Waiter, the so vgs |
are hard #3 a brick. Yeu muss baw: i
Waster Yin. Hrs AT has told i 8
To the! disciples’ of Tuak Walton
these inkind waters and their tribune
tories offi everything from the small
onlichans and herring to wouster halls
tat, shatlis and whales, The shores of
Ripumenible bays will be found by the
Kanter ty contain myrinds of ducks
{ Sessn and other Wis fowl; J In thet
would hive before thom a vor o
, asa milm :
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