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Good for Spain! The old kingdom j
is taking a step ahead of all the other
Powers. She announces that begin
ning with January 1, 1001, the hours
will be counted from one to twenty
four, instead of in two divisions of
twelve hours. It is the simple and
sensible plan and ought to be adopted
by all sensible nations.
Recent inquiries among circulating
libraries in England show that Dick
ens continues in as great demand as
ever. Thackeray's fame, it is said, is
extending more broadly among the lit
erary classes, but Dickens retains the
heart of the general public. The writ- ;
ers of the day come ar.il go, hut year
in and year out Dickons is the stand-by.
Samuel J. Tildcn, who was always
a keen observer, once made a predic
tion that early in the twentieth cen
tury the corn product of this country
would run up to 3,000,1300,000 bushels
a year. At that time the crop aver
aged less than one-third that much.
This famous prophesy seems likely of
fulfillment in the next few years. The
new outlet for American corn abroad
is going to advance that cereal im
measurably. Corn will be king,
Olive Sckrcinor says that the chil
dren of the Doers carry away all the
intellectual honors in South Africa.
They fill the schools and bear off the
prizes. They are the lawgivers, the
magistrates, the successful barristers,
the able doctors, and she attributes It
to the fact that th.se Dutch Africans
come of an exceptionally able stock,
which for several generations lay fal
low. drawing strength from the soil,
and not exposed to the devitalizing in
liuenee of cities.
Three liunurod plans were submitted
In an architects' competition in New
York City for model tenement houses,
and the first prize plan is to be practi
cally used at once. The new build
ings will be fire-proof throughout and
will occupy seventy per cent, of the
ground space, leaving thirty per cent,
for light and air. In each room a win
dow will open into the outer air, and
each apartment will be connected with
private hall and baths, play-grounds,
clothes-drying chambers and storage
rooms. It is calculated that a rental
of a week per room will give satis
factory profit.
Recent statistics show that the ma
chinery in the mills and factories of
Great Britain is capable of doing the
work of 700,000,000 men—more than
all the adult population of the world.
The machinery in the United States
does the work of a billion hands. The
single State of Massachusetts has ma
chinery enough to do the work of 50,-
000,000 men. On an average 500,000
men, with the aid of machinery, now
do the work which required 1(5,(too, 000
men under the old system of universal
hand work. The increased output has
been absorbed by the vastly increased
consumption of all kinds of manufac
tured products consequent on the
great reduction in cost.
"When you come to think of It the
shirt waist—that supposedly newest of
new things—ls not essentially novel,
states the Dry Goods Economist.
Garibaldi, the Italian liberator, won
fame as much by discarding the coat
as by his military achievements. In
the OO's, when swallow-tail coats and
high stocks still formed part of the
universal garb of a gentleman, no man
in civic life dreamed of following the
example set, hut the famous red shirt,
modified into a garment closely resem
bling the flannel shirt waist of to-day,
was taken up by the women with avid
ity. Indeed, the "Garibaldi" became
the rage, and thousands learned the
name from the garment who knew
nothing of the mau.
WHEN THE CIRCUIT RIDER CAME
to the backwoods of Ohio, In the days of
lonff ago.
When religion was religion, not a dressy
fashion show.
When the spirit of the Master fell as
flames of living fire.
And the people did the tinging, not a
trained artistic choir,
There was scarcely seen a ripple in life's
gently flowing tide.
No events to draw the people from their
daily toil aside.
Naught to set the pious spirit of the pion
eers aflame
Save upon the rare occasions when the
circuit rider came.
He was usually mounted on the sorriest
of nags,
All his outflt for the Journey packed In
leather saddle bags.
And he'd travel with the Bible or the
hymn book in his hand
Rending sacred word or singing of the
happy Promised Land.
llow the toiling wives would glory In the
dinners they would spread.
And how many a hapless chicken or a
turkey lost its head
By tho gleaming chopper wielded by the
hand of sturdy dame,
For it wasn't very often that tho circuit
rider came.
| [~T I Alt Of MISTRESS MMW ]
-Tho young forget their fancies, the
old forget their cares,
When pretty Mistress Marget comes
smiling down the stairs."
Nobody who once looked upon Mis
tress Marget—pretty Mistress Marget
almost everybody called her—could
help loving her. I, Thomas Dawtry,
a plain and simple squire of the realm,
loved her better than all the world.
But pretty Mistress Marget was not
for me, or so, at least, her father had
Informed me. As for me, I had long
since decided to abide by this decision
only so long as circumstances com
pelled me. Whenever fate offered me
tho shadow of an opportunity I meant
to steal Mistress Marget and run away
with her. Mistress Marget, as I had
oery reason —save spoken words—to
believe, would be by uo means unwil
ling.
The opportunity came when my
sweet lady's father was called away
to fight for his king and country, King
Charles and Bonnie England. I, who
longed to fight lor king and country
also, dared the laughter and the Jeers
of my comrades to stay behind a little
and steal my lovely lady, if It so
pleased fate. And no sooner had her
father ridden away, at tho head of his
men, then I made for the hall and
sought out old Simeon, the gardener.
■.' . :
Mm I * " v '*l
Sir Reginald had never forbidden my
visits —ho was too wise a man to tempt
fate in such a manner; he had merely
taken care that I had no chance of
solitary Bpeech with my dear lady. I
knew now that the Lady Eleanor
Blewett, who filled, as best she might,
the place of the dead lady of the man
or to her daughter, Mistress Marget,
favored not my suit, so I sought not
to have speech with her or with my
lady. 6IJ Simeon I had been friends
with ever since, as a child, I had
played In the gardens with sweet Mis
tress Marget. I knew he was my
friend and would help me. I knew also
that he might speak with his lady
when I might not unwatehed and un
guarded. To old Simeon I told my
story, and trusted him for his aid.
And there was the chink of gold
between us when we parted, albeit my
laok of gold was the reason why Sir
Reginald had said me nay, upon my
asking for his daughter's hand. And
for gold—next to his love for pretty
Mistress Marget—old Simeon would do
more than most of us would do for the
sake of life.
That evening I happened to be
walking In the lane just as old Simeon
also came out to tako the air. And a
note passed between us. Old Simeon
also Instructed me as to where I could
find certain implements and tools—a
ladder and a slout stave among them
—which I might need later on, per
chance. And I gave to Simeon the
package of a certain drug, which my
friend, the chirugeon, had given me.
Mistress Marget was to sec that this
drug was dropped into the flagon of
ale sent up for the Lady Eleanor's
supper. Then, later, she was to lean
out of her casement and signal to me,
waiting outside In the lane. And lat
er still Parson Dabney, who loved us
both and sympathised with us rather
than with Sir Reginald, was to make
pretty Mistress Marget my wife.
And so it all happened, without let
or hindrance, save when my body ser
vant's horse was mired In the slough
back of the lane. He should havo
waited in the lane proper, but he
thought he heard voices and sounds
of horses' hoofs coming, and, knowing
that he must not be found there, he
leaped his own steed over the hedge
and into the slough. We had to wait
All the settlement around us would be
ringing with the news
That there'd bo a meetin' Sunday, and
we'd "taller" up our shoes,
And we'd brush our homespun dress sult9,
pride of every country youth.
And we'd grense our hair with marrow till
it shone like golden truth.
And the frocks of linsey-woolsey would
be donned by all the girls,
And with heated old fire pokers they
would make their corkscrew curls:
They were scarcely queens of fashion,
but were lovely Just the same.
And they always looked their sweetest
when the circuit rider came.
As a preacher, holy Moses! how ho'd
swing the living word.
How he'd draw the pious "bretherln' "
yet closer to the Lord,
And he'd raise the hair of sinners sitting
on the backmost seat
With his fiery, lurid pictures of the ever
lusting heat!
We have sat in grand cathedrals, tri
umphs of the builder's skill.
And in great palatial churches 'ncath the
organ's mellow thrill.
But they never roused within us such a
reverential flame
As would burn in that old schoolhouse
when the circuit rider came.
•—James Barton Adams in Denver Post.
some minutes for him, when we
would fain have hurried onward. But
this was after I had placed the ladder
underneath my lady's window, mount
ed it, pried off the guarding bars with
the stout stave which old Simeon had
furnished me, and received my darling
in my arms. My heart beat so in go
ing down the ladder that I feared she
would hear it and think me timid.
Yet had I courage to claim a kiss as
we ncared the bottom, insisting that
she pay it me before I set her dowu;
and I do not think she noticed the
rapid beating of my heart after that,
even had she noticed it before. Her
own heart beat rapidly then, as the
bright color coming and going in the
face which looked so fair and sweet
In the moonlight testified clearly.
At the foot of the ladder I sot her
down, and hand In hand we raced
across the greensward, over the foot
bridge old Simeon had managed to
leave open and unguarded for us, and
out Into the lane. There, lifting her
dear form in my arms, I swung her up
before me, and away wo galloped,
after the short interval of waiting foi
my servant, of which 1 have spoken..
Half an hour later we stood before
Parson Dabnoy in the gray old vicar
age, and a few moments afterward I
had the right to call protty Mistress
Marget my wife. Then, a Uurrted kiss,
a tear or two on Mistress Marget's
part, and we were on our way back
to the hall, where Mistress Marget was
to live on, the same as ever In all
things save that slender gold band on
her finger, until my return from the
wars. And then—ah! sad for a man
to leave his wife on the wedding eve
—my body servant had summoned my
vartets and they waited for me out
side in the lane. I could but kiss my
darling once more, ah me! but so ten
derly and lovingly, see her safely up
the ladder, withdraw It from beneath
her window, wave her a last tender
farewell— and now, beslirew mo! but
mine own eyes were wet— and take
my departure. But before I crossed
the foot-bridge once more 1 threw the
stout stave that had served our turn
so well far from me into the thick of
the hedge, and 1 once more clinked
gold with old Simeon in order that
he might be properly forgetful of all
that had happened that night. Then
the soft darkness of the lane, with the
moon well under a kindly cloud a
sharp command to the waiting varlets
a tearing gallop until morning, and
we were well up with Sir Reginald
and his men, and nothing but wars
and fighting before us for many long
months.
But my heart was brave and light
some within me, even though I had
left my dear wife of an hour behind
me. For it Is easier, perhaps, to leave
one's wife than one's sweetheart, espe
cially when the sweetheart's father
favors a richer man, and I knew, also,
that I was a brave and skillful light
er, and I hoped that before Sir Regi
nald or I saw pretty Mistress Marget
again his heart would have warmed
toward me on this account. For Sir
Reginald loves a brave man and a
good fighter always. And in the end
it all turned out even as 1 had hoped.
—Chicago Tribune.
On th* Writing of Comedy.
Bouccicault, quite at the beginning
of his career (and ho wrote plays al
most as a body), used to get £3OO
for a five-act comedy. He stated the
fact on oath in a court, of justice,
and the sum was considered so im
mense that the counsel who was exam
ining him exclaimed:
"Do you mean to tell me, sir, that
if I were to write a comedy for the
Haymarket theater the manager
would give me £3OO for it?"
"I think it most improbable," re
plied Bouccicault—From "Personal
Recollections." by Sutherland Ed
wards.
Export. from I'lilt.-a Ktntrs.
Exports from the United States dur
ing the past fiscal year increased to
every section of the globe. Next to
European exports, the largest increase
was In exports to other parts of North
America.
No Word for Patriotism.
There is no word in the Chinese
language that, conveys an intimation
of what we term public opinion; nor
Is there a synonym for patriotism.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Amons some remarkable lunar pho
tographs made by Messrs. Loewy and
Fuiseaux, of the University of Fnris,
is a stereoscopic image of the whole
hcmisi>hcro of the moon, the direction
of light giving relief and showing
very strikingly the details of craters
and mountainous regions. The picture
was obtained by taking a plate of the
moon fit ten days and another at twen
ty days, enlarging these sixty times,
and carefully placing side by side.
The atmosphere is divided Into
sharply marked layers, generally two,
sometimes three, between the ground
and 10,000 feet elevation, the
layer potentially warmer than the
lower. Two borders of these layers
are marked by sudden changes in tem
perature and moisture (absolute as
well as relative), and in wind direc
tion; they also indicate the places of
maximum wind velocity, and are gen
ernlly recognized by cloud formation.
The Austro-Itnlian system of cannon
firing for preventing hail was recently
put to a severe test, with results that
exceeded expectations. Threatening
clouds collected in the neighborhood
of Rogeno, in the province of Coma,
three times in succession on one af
ternoon, and each time they were
bombarded by fourteen spocial can
non. The clouds were scattered, only
a little sleet, falling. In the vicinity
of Alessandria groat damage was
done by hail, which in some places
piled up to a depth of twenty inches.
In low-pressure areas the air of the
upper layer is cold and very dry, while
over high-pressure areas it is always
warm and generally moist In one of
the cyclones recently observed there
wore three different systems of wind
circulation. The surface cyclone luid
a height of but 2000 feet, over which
was a cyclone with a warm centre
GoOO feet high, accompanied by- clouds
and rain, and above this another mov
ing about an area of low pressure with
a cold centre. When the wind In the
middle cyclone was north that in the
upper was south. . c ..... . .
It has been seriously asserted by
many people that we are naturally
lighter after a meal, and they have
even gone the length of explaining this
by the amouut of gas that is devel
oped from the food. Average observa
tions, however, show that we lose
three pounds six ouuees between night,
and morning; that we gain one pound
twelve ounces by breakfast; that we
again lose about fourteen ouyees be
fore lunch; that lunch puts on an av
erage of one pound; that we again
lose du'.'iug the afternoon an average
of ten ounces, but that an ordinary
dinner tg healthy pdl'sons adds two
pounds two ounces to their weight.
La Naturo reports the following cu
rious origin of an epidemic of tuber
culosis at Karkow, a city in Russia;
an unusual number of cases of cjn
sumption were noticed among the
municipal officers and cierks. Sjme
accidental suggestion finally led to a
bacteriological examination of the li
brary where the city records were
kept. It was found that the depart
mental archives were literally covered
with tubercle bacilli. Further investi
gation traced them to a consumptive
employe, whose work led him to con
sult the archives very frequently, and
who had the common habit of wetting
his fingers with saliva to facilitate
the turning of the pages, on each one
of which he thus deposited a colony
of bacilli.
Oklahoma a Modern Eden.
There is no need to go to Europe for
cheap living while Oklahoma exists,
says Helen Churchill Cnndec In
the Atlantic. Distance fsorn the large
markets makes it the Ideal place for
housekeepers with a slender purse.
All home-grown foods of a perishable
nature can he had for rpfresliingly low
prices. Soifle of these I quote that
I may make heads of Eastern families
groan with envy. Watermelons, not
withstanding that several hundred
freight cars of this juicy fruit roll
northward to Kansas City, can be
bought at any time from July to cold
weather for live cents each, and these
of a size and sweetness unsurpassed.
Xlnskmelons, delicious as nectar, are
live cents a dozen, although these, too,
are sent away liberally in carloads.
Spring chickens are twenty-five cents
a pair;, sweetbreads, ten and fifteen
cents; beef and lamb fifteen cents a
pound. Grapes—alas,this luscious crop
Is nearly given away—one cent a
pound for the host. Tlio reason for
this humble price attached to so fine
a fruit is that the crop matures nnd
is in its prime shape during the heat
of August, and shipment is impossible
except in refrigerator cars which are
too expensive. And so the whole pop
ulation revels In delicious juice.
A Lone DIM unco Gift.
"I say, Dusty, where are you going
wit,h those ejubs? Have you forsnken
the fraternity and ttiken to be a foot
pad ?"
"No. Weary, those are merely golf
sticks."
"Worse, worse. Dusty. I never ex
pected that you would desert us for
the blooming aristocrats."
"Never would I (hi such. Weary.
You see I met a chap down the road
whom I watched trying to hit a little
hall. Never touched it. And when 1
offered to advise him to give me those,
nervously, one at a time from a dis
tance of fifty feet."—Boston Courier.
Untimely.
An Atchison woman is such a crank
on the manner in which the English
language is handled that she recently
Interrupted her preacher while he was
saying grace to question his use of a
verb.—Atchison Globe.
ACT OF A JAPANESE HERO
WONDERFUL DEED OF COURAGE
AND SELF-SACRIFICE.
Gave XIIn Life to Open a Way For the Al
lies Into Tlcn-Tsln—Awlnl Scenes at
tho Capture of tlie City Terrible
KlTects of L.y<ltllte.
Tlie most realistic description of the
horrors attending the battle of Tien-
Tsin, and tlie only account so far pub
lished of the heroism of the Japanese
soldier who blew up the wall of tho
city and blew himself up at the same
time, comes in a letter-from Corporal
John E. White, of the Ninth United
States Infantry, written from Tien-
Tsin on July 20, when lie was aeting
sergeant-major of the Third Batalllon,
says the Atlanta Journal.
After tlie awful experience of tho
battle in which Colonel Liscum and
Captain Austin Davis were killed, this
regiment moved on Peldn with Gen
eral Clial'fce and participated in the
brilliant forced march through ex
treme heat and the subsequent storm
ing of the gate and the reduction of
the city.
His letter was written to his brother,
Mr. Lewis White, of Atlanta, Go. The
letter follows:
"Tien-Tsin, China. July 20, 1900.
"Mr. Lewis White, Atlanta, Ga.:
"Dear Brother—l wrote you about
the 18th of May from Conception, P.
I. Sinee then a great many tilings
have transpired that have been very
interesting and exciting to me. My
regiment received an order about June
20 to proceed to China. We went to
Manila and from there to Nagasaki,
Japan, and reached China July 10.
"Tien-Tsin is a large city, a million
and a half population. It is divided
into several parts, according to the
creed of the inhabitants.
"Tho foreign population have a con
cession and live apart from the Chi
namen. There are some magnificent
buildings in this part of the city.
"The main part of Tien-Tsin has a
huge wall around it, thirty feet thick
and fifty feet high. This wall is built
iu tho form of a square, and is about
two.miles long on each side. Quite a
Wnli, isn't It? —-
"The Chinese Bombarded the foreign
part of tlie city from these walls, and
most of tlie fine buildings are in ruins.
"The big battle occurred on tho 13th,
and - it did look silly to run infantry
up against those walls, hut it was done
and at a frightful cost.
"Tlie British used their forty-five
pound Lyddite gun with terrible effect
In fact I don't think wo could have
run them out of there without that
gun.
"The Japs were next to us, and they
fight like demodns and can outdrill
afty troops I ever saw. There is not
two inches difference in tho height of
any of them. They lost heavily and
stood it bravely. One of them volun
teered to blow up a part of the wall
with gun cotton," and blow himself up
with the wall (it could not be done
otherwise), and he was nllowcd to try
it, so that tho troops could get into
(lie elty. How lie ever got to the wall
nobody knows, but a few minutes af
ter he left an awful explosion occurred,
a big part of the wall was down, and
the brave little Jap went with it. How
is that for heroism?
"Tho Hussions also lost heavily, and
they are a class of men who have my
deepest sympathy. Some of them
could speak German, and as we had a
good many Germans in our regiment,
we learned n great deal about them.
"Their salary amounts to about thir
ty-five cents in our money per month,
and It was disgusting as well as piti
ful to see soldiers of a great nation
like Itnssia walking around picking up
little scraps of hardtack that we had
thrown away. We fed quite a lot of
them, and a more grateful set of men
you never saw. I don't mean by this
that they had no rations. Oh, no! But
you should see their bread. It is
cooked in large round loaves, looks like
burnt gingerbread and cannot be
broken in your hand. And just think
of it—we were the first to tell them
of tlie Spanish-American war and the
Filipino insurrection, as they were just
from Siberia, where no newspapers
or anything to read is allowed!
"We went into the walled <-..y on
the 14tli, and the sights then were
sickening. Without any exnggeri.i: n,
there must have been anywhere from
ten to fifteen thousand dead Chinamen
all over the city. Most of the place
is in ruins from the bombarding and
is on fire, and thousands of bodies are
burned.
"The Chinamen never touched their
dead and wounded, and no matter
where you look it is nothing but dead
bodies in all stages of decomposition,
and a common occurrence to see a
dog chewing on one. It was awful!
Horrible! AYe had to stay In there two
days, and I had charge of a fatigue
detail who were forcing tho Chinamen
at the point of the bayonet to bury
their dead. I had two severe vomiting
spells before I go through with that
job.
"I helped to pick up eleven of our
own men the day before who had lain
on the field all night. Our regiment
got into a tight place, had to lie there
all day and wait for night to escape,
as the instant you raised your guii
yon would get the stock sliot off or
the gun shot out of your hands be
fore you could raise yourself up to
tire! This may sound like an 'Arabian
Nights' sgpry, but it is an honest one,
and wllTbe sworn to by most any
American soldier here, and there are
plenty of guns to show for it that have
bullets In tlie stock. I was right be
tween two men that got shot 'ln the
rifle,' and the splinters from one of
them struck me.
"The Chinamen are certainly dead
shots, and there were fully 100,000 of
them making targets of us, but we
i ivere too well Intrenched for them. Our
loss In the replment was ninoty-eiplit A
raen and eight officers killed and
wounded.
"You could toll a Lyftdite victim as
soon as you saw him, and there wore
•thousands of them. They were black
in the face and splotches of green
were on their bodies, with long strips
of skin torn off and bleeding at the
mouth, nose and ears.
"The women and children did not
escape. Mothers with babes in their
arms and children of all ages were
scattered all around. The stench from
the bodies in the burning buildings
was simply unendurable.
"There was a mint here, containing
million of dollars* worth of silver hull
ion, and all troops were allowed to
take all they wanted of it except the
Americans. It finally caught fire and
that stopped it. I stood guard there
in charge of a. squad one night, and
it was quite a job to protect it, as 1
there arc several fortunes there yet,
and the bullion is plainly visible
among the bricks of the fallen walls.
"All troops except us were allowed
to loot, and there was plenty of it.
Magnificent furs and robes that would
easily bring from $l5O to S3OO in the
United States were plentiful.
"The grandest sight was when their
magazine was exploded by one of our
shells. There was a cloud of smoke
fully a mile thick that was blown two
miles high in about a second. The
explosion was terrific. It broke all
the window panes In the new city
(foreign) and killed over seven hun
dred Chinamen. There are seven arse
nals here valued at over $20,000,000,
and the enemy left them behind. I
haven't time to write more, as I am
acting sergeant-major of the Third
Batnliion.
"When this reaches you write me,
wherever I am, as you can find out
whore I am by the papers.
"JOHN E. WHITE,
"Corporal Company L,Ninth Infantry."
Quite Different.
"An increase of salary!" exclaimed
tlio pompous manager of a small omni
bus company to a clerk who bad just
made that request "I am afraid, sir,
that you arc extravagant!" He toyed
■with his heavy watch chain and
looked severely at tUe young man,
who returned his stare boldly. It was
the set phrase on such occasions, and
the applicant had heard it all before.
He meant to have that rise or—go
somewhere else. - - ,j
"Excuse me, sir," he replied re
spectfully, "I haven't any chance to be
extravagant on what I earn."
"Young man," continued the pomp
ous gentleman, "I have risen from the
ranks. How? By being careful.
When I was young I made money by
saving bus fares."
"Ah, that was in the old days," said
the young man, with a knowing wink.
"But with the bell punches and the
present system of inspection, you •
would find you couldn't save six
pence without being collared, how
ever careful you were." The manager
nearly fainted, and the young man
had to seek othc.' employment.
Golf In Mexico.
Golf has found a lodgment in Mexico
City. It has been many years in iind
iug its way from the United States to
the republic in the south, as there has
been n feeling that it was more of a
fad than a serious and engaging occu
pation. Besides, it hag in its practice
a little more freedom than has boon
considered consistent with social ideas
in the semi-triopical city.
Persons courageous enough to tell
of the witcheries of the sport and to
follow their convictions have been
found, however, and after much
trouble links have been laid out at
San Pedro. Americans and English
men resident in the city are the
principal movers in a club that lias
been formed, and they intend to put
up a club house at San Pedro and
make it rival the clubs in America.
Mexicans did not take kindly to the
idea nt once, but some of them have
ventured to play, nud the game prom
ises to take hold among them as it lias
In the United States. There are now
nine-hole links that are pronounced
to bo very sporty.
HI-MIT, J„.L,l. try of the Philippines.
The i r ire hemp industry of the
Philippines is still worked by primi
tive methods nud with simple con
trivances. The native, though unam
bitious himself, is jealous of the Chi
naman, and is averse to the Celestial
getting control of the plantations or
contracts, while scorning up-to-date
methods himself. The "Cheno," how
ever, has made inroads iu tills indus
try, as well as in others in the Phil- *.
Ippines. Had lie not, the development
would' not have been as rapid ns it lins.
The nntive is thoroughly capable and
understands the treatment of tlie plant
and its harvesting and could he lie in
duced to work with regularity would
be as good a laborer as the Chinaman,
but. the Celestial usually controls the
haling and local marketing of the
hemp.—Edwin Wlldman, iu Harper's
Weekly.
Hurvr.tlng hy Moonlight.
The London Mark I.auc Express re
marks that the rather unusual sight
of harvesting by moonlight lias been
witnessed every night during the last
week in South Lincolnshire. Labor is
so scarce in the district that the men
cannot be spared to secure their own
allotment Crops, and some have conse
quently gathered them by the light of
the moon. Many men have been seen
working In the Holds until nearly mid
night. On some farms, too, harvesting
has also boeu carried on at night;
many of the crops are dead ripe, and
there Is not much liability of the
wheat shaking out when gathered
gsvltli a dew upon it. This scarcity of
labor is mainly duo to the draft of the
military reserve force.