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W, If. BENNS, Editor and Proprietor,
“LET THEK1
VOLUME X.
A River Drenm
The blue, blue *ky nboro,
The blue, blue water under,
Two eyes more blue, and a heart that’s true^
And a boot to bear me with iny Jqyq
To lands of light and ?CP.4tt&
'1 he sunn}- field* aroumt^^-. ^
Tho river rippling by ua,«,
A smilo more bright than nefrmhiy
<>ur brows with meadow puhukU crowned,
And never a care to try in.
AftSr.. some weeks he demanded an
other audience with the princess, who
by tWathSe had almost forgotten his
taken up was she in
to asr3liain if indeed a spi
der bad taken a tenement under the
embrasure outside her bedroom win
dow. AVhen shown into her presence
the knight informed her in a state
ly way that lie had found papers that
established his claim as rightful heir
to the estate, that he had already tak
en possession and would like her to
deliver the keys immediately.
The princess’s manner was as formal
as his own, and her tone as haughty,
when, after a little pause, she replied:
"Sir Knight, doubtless thou art not
aware that in the possession of the
The Princess Philippine dwelt in an crown prince are papers showing that
ancient, gray, stone castle standing on j with this estate goes a signet ring,
the banks of a small river that divided ! The ring is always in possession of
a beautiful green valley in northern | the rightful heir and that ring I
fiermany. Broad, fertile fields and I hava"
green pastures, dotted by herds of the 1 The kiOpct was exceedingly angry,
famous black cattle and by (locks of i but he brojght all his arts of fascina-
snowy sheep, with here and there a j tion to bea^ipon the princess, think-
peasant's or a herdsman’s cot, lay each | ing to in^^e her to show him the
side tiio stream. On eithor hand deep ring, buUall in vain. Quite out of pa-
A drifting with the tide,
A wind that whispers greeting,
An trie of rest iu the laded west,
H itli only tile waves on the shore besidA
An i tar i hearts f >n tly beating.
—ti. E. Boulton, in Catt'H’a Magazine.
The Frincess Philippine.
BY JIRS. AXXIF. A. PRESTOX-
BUTLER. GEORGIA, TU]
forests stretched up the sides,-of the
high mountains that sheltered this fine
estate, of whicli the Princess Philip
pine was sole heir, from the rougli
blasts of winter. The Princess Phil
ippine had neither father, mother,
brother nor sister, but she had an in
dulgent guardian and when a mere
child had.'been betrothed by her pa
rents to his sou, the brave, young
Prince Basil who lived just on the
other side the high sheltering moun
tains?
AVilh such charming surroundings
it would seem as if the .voung princess
ought to have been a very happy little
maiden, but I am very sorry to relate
that she allowed her life to lie made
miserable l.y her uncontrollable and
unreasonable fear of spiders. Spiders
iove the dust-tilled crannies of a vast
old castle like that of Castle Philippi,
and why should the spiders that had
held possession for more than 7ho
years be put to rout ou account of the
whim of a chit of a girl ?
The Prince Basil asked the princess
something of the kind on the occasion
ot one of the frequent calls he made at
the castle, accompanied by his lady
mother. The Princess Philippine was
exceedingly angry at this question,
saying that he had no regard whatever
for her fine sensibilities, and she was
surprised to see that his mother sat by
and smiled at him instead of chiding
him for his rudeness. So, sad to say,
the.young couple had their first quar
rel, and the young prince rode home in
high dudgeon, declaring there was no
reason in a spirited young fellow being
tied to a girl who would not walk in
the park, sail on the river or ride in the
forest on account of her silly dread of
spiders, who even would not walk
about the saloons and galleries of her
own fine castle unless she was envel
oped front head to foot in a sheet-like
wrap of glazed white linen.
"I have danced attendance upon a
ghost as long ns I can endure it,” he
said, “and now I am going away . >
see ihe world.” And so he went.
The parents of the young Prince Ba
sil were greatly chagrined at this es
trangement, for in Germany betrothal
has always been held almost as sacre l
as a marriage, and they said: "A\'e
will leave her entirely to herself for a
season and see. Perhaps she will
come to her senses enough to realize
trow foolish it is for her to set herself
up as being different from all the rest
of the world.” So with one accord all
her neighbors and friends declared,
”AA e will leave her alone w ith her
morbid fears.”
Philippine now shut herself up with
her attendants in her own apart
ments, that were all hung with pale
blue satin, and passed her time in mak
ing sure no spider of any kind inva
ded her premises. Naturally enough,
t: ’tv that there was no supervision by
tier friends and guardians, everything
went at loose ends about the castio
and the estate, and the news therof
went abroad,.no one can tell how, into
the world.
One morning there came riding up
to the castle drawbridge a knight in
armor mounted upon a milk-white
charger and followed by an attendant
w hose steed was as black as coal. The
knight demanded to see the Princess
Philippine, and when after much de
lay he was shown to her presence he
informed Iter he was her cousin, six
times removed, and proposed paying
her a long visit.
“Very well,” she said, "X never have
heard of you. but that may not be
strange. Pray make yourself comfort-
aide and give orders that the rooms
you may choose for your own may be
thoroughly swept and dusted and
jnade free from spiders, for I suppose
tience^at length he told her if she did
not give up the ring immediately lie
would set every person on the estate
to gathering spiders from field, forest,
river, and castle rid would fill her
apartments, her clothing, nay even
her couch with them. The princess
quaked with fear at even the thought
of this, and envoloping herself in her
linen wrap preceded the knight to the
arsenal that was high up in one of the
western towers. Here behind a coat
of mail that was hanging upon the
wall she touched a spring that opened
a secret drawer within which was a
small golden key. AVith this key
closely clenched in her hand, and the
wily knight close at her side, she pro
ceeded to the great picture gallery.
There behind the life-size portrait of
her own beautiful mother she found
another secret draw’er, and taking
therefrom an ivory casket she unlock
ed it with the golden key, disclosing
the coveted prize.
"Bet me examine it, please,” entreat
ed the knight,
"Never,” cried the princess, now
that the ring was in her hand, impress
ed by the instructions regarding it she
had received from her parents, and
dismayed at her own weakness in be
ing frightened in her own castle, amid
her own people by a stranger.
The knight, quite forgetting all his
assumed courtly ways, sprang to talcs
it from her, when, quick a3 thought,
she threw it out of one of the deep
narrow windows that the knight had
opened on account of the closeness
of the air, in the long disused gallery.
It Hashed like a coal of fire in the sun
light and was gone.
“Mad girl 1” shouted the knight, an
grily. “It has fallen into the moat!”
and leaving the princess he rushed
down the staris.
AVith her heart beating wildly, and
her eyes sparkling with excitement,
the young girl leaned out the narrow
window and looked far below to where
the gray walls of the strong square
tower were rellected in the still black
waters of the moat.
“Ah ! what is that?” she cried, for
just below her, even within reach of
her hand the signet ring hung secure
ly caught in the meshes of an ancient,
closely woven spider's web. Although
the spider was close by. curiously re
garding this singular prey, the prin
cess did not mind, but reached down
and secured the ring without fear.
Asshb did so, standing there in front of
the portraits of iter parents, she seemed
to hear theif voices, explaning once
more the significance of the ring, and
setting forth her duty to all the de
pendent people living on her estate.
“To whom much is given much
shall be required,” she said half aloud.
"Dear me ! how selfish I have been,”
—and securing the ring to a chain
fastened about her neck, she, too, ran
down the winding stairs, quite regard
less of her linen wrap that lay forgot
ten on the dusty oaken floor of the
gaHery, and astonished her servants
by dispatching a courier with a letter
to the crown prince.
The knight meanwhile had set all
the laborers about the estate to draw
the water off from the moat and search
the muddy bottom for the ring. AVhile
they were thus engaged, with the
knight in the greatest excitement and
followed by his servant, pacing back
and forth across the drawbridge, a
company of horsemen arrived who
had been sent from court. The Prin
cess Philippine met them in the gar
ments, laces and Jewels of her beauti
ful mother and on one dimpled finger
sparkled the^g^t ring.
The^^^^^^feourtier who bowed
,nd, said: ”“Your
,g establish your
your parents and
is siguet ring sub
til Ownership to
M."
his ser-
pntry.
and
he
At the wedding dinner the Prineess-
Fhllippine found an almond with twe
kernels.
“These stands for you and me,” sht
said to her husband; “you shall have
one kernel and I will have the other.”
“Thanks, my love,” said the prince.
“Let me have the kernel that repre
sents yourself and I will wear it, that
you may never again be lost away
from me.”
“Here is your I’hilippine,” said the
princess, “and with it I givo my sig
nal ring, that stands for till my posses
sions, for since I threw it away and it
was saved for me by a spider, against
all whose kind I have all my life
waged war, it humiliates me every
time my eyes fa'ls upon it, and 1
think I ought to pay some penalty for
my foolishness and for nty ill-treat
ment of yourself.”
“But did I not cry ‘Philippine,’ my
dearest one! the moment my eye fel)
upon you on my return,” said the
prince,—“to show you that 1 never
held anger against you in my heart.”
At this all the young people who
found double almonds began to eat
them with some chosen friend, and
since they all had not signet rings to
bestow, it came to he a custom that
the one "who should first cry “Philip
pine” after an absence should receive
a gift, and the custom continues
among young people in all countries
to this day.—Springfield Republican.
How Cocoa is Grown.
United States Consul Bird, in a re
port from La Guayra, Venezuela, thus
describes the cultivation of cocoa in
that country:
“Cocoa, or cacao, as it is termed in
Spanish, from which the chocolate of
commerce is made, is the fruit of a
tree indigenous to the soil of Venezuela,
and within this country is compre
hended a large part of the choicest
cccoa zone. The tree grows to tho
average lteight of thirteen feet and
from five to eight inches in diameter,
is of spreading habit and healthy
growth.
“A cocoa plantation is set in quite
the same manner as an apple orchard,
except that the young stocks may be
transplanted from the nursery after
two months’ growth. No prepara
tion of the soil is deemed necessary,
and no manures are applied. The
young trees are planted about 15 feet
equidistant, whicli will accommodate
200 trees to the acre. Between the
rows and at like spaces are planted
COUNTERFEIT EX£J
Women Whose Seu
ing is Marvj
Able -
to Pick Out Sp
Though by
There is a very
counterfeit paper afl!
it finds its way to the Tr'
it is discovered in
division, says a AVashingi
the Pittsburg Post. It is‘
the money sent in from ou
is counted and examine
counting and sorting is
and they are the most expi
country. They can tell a coil
instinctively, with eyes open
and there is not a bank cashier i:
United States, or even among
large contingent now sojournin'
Canada, who could compete with
in the matter of determining couij
ieits. They can tell a spurious
far as they can see it, and the
handling of the paper is enough
them to decide upon its genuine:
The silk paper upon which Treidl
notes are printed can only be mad
expensive machinery, and it is a
to even manufacture the blank p;
without due authority. Under
circumstances all counterfeits are
ed upon inferior paper, which
thisgreat faciltyinthe matter of'
tion. A guide was once taking a par
of visitors through the redemption d
vision, and was expatiating upon the
expertness of the fair money handlers
in this respect. He soleinniyassured the
party that one of the girls had detect
ed a counterfeit in the middle of a pile
of money six inches thick by merely
seeing the thin edge of it. To a stran
ger it seems more like diablerie than
the possession of trained vision and a
delicate sense of touch in tiie detection
of counterfeits.
These -females experts receive $75 a
month for 'their services. They do
nothing but count from 9 in tha morn
ing until 4 in the afternoon, and their j the onl > - country
hands move with a rapidity seldom ac- of the ladies are
quired by the most expert bank clerks, Elsewhere there is a
But they make no mistakes. A mis-,
count or a counterfeit overlooked
comes out of the wages of the one
making the error, and two or three
mistakes a month would wipe out a
girl’s salary, as some of tho bills Juuid-
led are very large. The great 'draw
back of the position is the poison ab
sorbed by tlie continuous handling of
money. The backs of all Treasury
den?
they
belle 1
time i
very
here as I
Americl
tional
there is a 1
dressinj
traits of reigning bei
young men have t
with photographs of
mire, taken in all sorts
and attitudes.—New York
Sv%
rows of the liacare, a tree of rapid
growth, that serves to shade the soil ! notes are printed with a pigment
which consists chiefly of Paris green.
as well as to shield the young trees
from the torrid sun. Small permanent
trenches must be maintained from
tree to tree throughout tho entire
length of the rows, so that, at least
once in each week, the stream decend-
ing from the mountains may be
turned into these little channels and
bear needful moisture to trees and
soil. At tlie age of five years the
plantation begins to bear fruit and an
nually yields two crops, that ripening
in June being termed the crop of Sail
Juan and that maturing at Christmas
being known as tho crop of La Na-
tidatj. The average age to which the
tree attains under proper care may be
estimated at forty years, during which
period it will give fair to full crops of
fruit; but of course, it must be under
stood that, as in our fruit orchards,
a new tree must be set from time to
time to replace one that may be de
cayed or blighted. Alter c refill in
quiry it may be safely stated that the
average crop of the cocoa plantation at
ten years of age, and under a proper
state of cultivation, will amount to
500 or 600 pounds per acre.
“Churning” for Clams.
Two-thirds of the clams are got by
“churning.” The clam gang wades
out over the bed and shovels up mud
and clams and everything that comes
along into big wire baskets, which,
when about full, are lifted out of the
water, and a rinsing and shaking
washes out the mud and leaves the
clams. Two men and a boy attend to
each basket, one man shoveling in the
mud, the second getting out the clams,
and tlie boy “culling” them. Churn
ing can only be done at about half-
tide, when the water is two or three
Small particles of this substance are
absorbed, and in a year or two tlie girl
who may have entered the Treasury
smooth skinned and healthy finds her
self a victim of lassitude, and with her
hands and face broken out in malig
nant sores. Each employee is fur
nished with a sponge to moisten the
fingers while counting. A new one is
supplied every morning, and by even
ing its color will have changed to a
dull black by the action of the poison.
Notwithstanding this drawback there
is never any difficulty in filling vacan-
Tltc Thistle and the Cornstalk.
A Canada Thistle which had taken
root in a farmer’s garden one day saw a
blade of Corn peeping out of the
Ground, and in a tone of Kidicule
called out:
“AVhat a Little one for a Cent! It’s
a AVonder you have the Cheek to force
Yourself into my Company.”
. The Blade continued to grow day irj’
day, and it was of qjjch bright color
and looked so Thriftythat the Thistle
finally called to the Farmer and said:
“Keally, but I can’t put up with
such impudence, and I hope you will
Hemnve that corn-stalk at once.”
“And who are you?” queried the
Farmer, having for the first time no
ticed the Thistle.
“Me? AVhy, I’m the Biggest and
Handsomest Canada Thistle in the
Business. My Genealogy carries me
back to King ”
“Umph!” interrupted the Farmer.
“One grain of Corn is of more value
than a Hundred Thistles. Come out
of that by the Hoots !”
Moral:—The Thief who abuses the
„ . J , j Law always gives Himself AwSv.—-
feet deop, as, by the time the workman , Detroit Free Press
has to put his head under water, when -
lie bends over at shoveling, he soon | A Mighty Sentence,
lias to give up the job. The suction The opening sentence of the Bible,
on the shovels is tremendous, and! “In the beginning God .created the
they are made exceptionally strong. Heaven and the earth,”.,contains five
When there are good tides, on the full j great universal terms, and speaks of
and change of the moon, the clams ’ as many boundless totalities—God,
may be raked out after the manner of j Heaven, earth, creation and the begin-
the non-professional digger; a shovel- ning. It is, perhaps, thq most weigh-
ful of mud is turned up at a time, and ty sentence ever uttered, having the
the clams it contains are raked out j most gigantic members. In its compre-
witli a clam-hoe. Consideration of hensive sweep it takes in all past time,
either of the above methods is sufflei- all conceivable space, all known
ent for a true understanding of the things, all power and intelligence, and
happiness of the clam at high water, the most comprehensive act of that
The clam ordinarily lies in the mud intelligence and power. This sentence
from two to eighteen inches; a clam is a declaration on nearly all the great
that would bury itself much deeper problems now exercising scientists and
than eighteen inches is not to be look-' philosophera.-r-Z'fte Independent, .
>;d
upon with favor.—Providence
Journal.
Dude—“J
[me, then, Miss tramp)—Why d
is perhaps I Tramp (lookf
i say. At least; I would if I ha
because you- Country gii
' do you want!
Willing to Berk. , U;
i Country girl (addressing robust
’ *■ The lloy that AVas Buried
A Madrid (Spain) letter tells tl
story of the cholera opidemic: In Uiea,
Murcia, there was attacked a man of
over middle age, tlie father of a fami
ly, and also his little boy, aged 11,
called Jose Gomez The father died,
and a few days after, at 6 in the after
noon, the boy died also, and was carri
ed immediately to the churchyard, at
the same time when the gravedigger
was finishing his day’s toil. He view
ed the last arrival, but although the
grave was almost filled up he threw in
the dead body and went away. Upon
the next morning, as he opened the
cemetery gate, the first thing he saw
was Jose Gomez, almost naked, just as
lie was buried, amusing himself.
“Hullo!” exclaimed the astonished
gravedigger, “who took you out of
that?” "Nobody,” replied the boy,
cheerfully, “I came out myself.”
“Bueno (good); come here, I wish to
speak to you.” El chico (the littlq
one), believing that lie was to be
treated to another burial, began to
run, and did not stop until he reached
his mother’s cottage, whom he fright
ened out of her wits, as she believed
he had come from the other world.
“AATIere is your father?” was the first
question put by the poor woman. “Ob,
he stayed there; but give me some
thing to eat, mother, for I am very
hungry.” The mother broke out into
cries and lamentations, and the neigh
bors crowded in and tried to surround
the chico, who fled and endeavored to
hide himself, believing firmly those
attempts were premonitory of another
funeral. In the end he was caught
i and put to bed, all the time protesting
that his one malady was hungej. So
they gave him his breakfast, and now
he is the pride of the village as he
runs about stoning dogs, which, it
seems, was his favorite recreation
before he was attacked by cholera.
The final touch ir, the story is a strik
ing instance of the truth of what the
poet sang/ “They change their sky,
not their dispositions, who go across
the seas.”
They Have Their Ears Shaved. *■
A person unfamiliar with the fash
ion can hardly imagine the number of
people who, -each time they iraPe their
hair trimmed, also'have the tonsorial
artist shave their ears. 'Sluny elderly
gentlemen are bothered with thick
hair on their ears, which would grow
in maDy cases to a considerable length,
and” which would naturally attract
much attention. - It is wj*' enough
that they should have the hair trim
med from their' ears, but of l^e years
it has grown to be quite the fashion
among swell young men, whether they
have a crop of hair upon their ears or
!not, to regulad^each week or two,
allow shave
’thf
nei
and in’
a short time si
after speculating awh
million and more, died hiinselfT?
his property came to bis daughter
Catherine.
Of tlie 2,647,000 women in occupa
tions in the United States^)5,000 life
engaged in agriculture, most of them
colored women in the Southern States;
632,000 are in manufactories, of whom
about one-half are in New York, Mas
sachusetts and Pennsylvania; 282,000
are milliners, eta; 50,000 are tailors.
Of tlie 44 occupations recorded as
“personal service,” 40 find women in
them. The 525 female surgeons of
1870 have increased to 2,743; the 7
lawyers to 75; tlie 65 clergymen to
165. The number of laundries have
increased from 61,000 in 1870 to 122,-
000, and of the latter 108,000 are kept
by women. This large increase shows
a great lightening of the housewife’s
labor.
According to the last United States
census there are 563 establishments in
this country devoted to the proprie
tary medicine business, employing 4,-
015 operatives, with an aggregate in
vestment of capital amounting to $10,-
620,000, and the annual product is
valued at $14,682,000. New York
State leads all others with an invested
capital of $3,512,430, which is about
one-third of the entire country’s in
vestment. Pennsylvania comes next
and Missouri ranks third in invested
capital, followed respectively by Ohio
and Massachusetts. In the amount of
annual product New York again
stands first, followed in order by
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the
other States standing about even. A
fair calculation is that about twenty-
five American proprietary medicines
have at present a very large sale in
England.
The v American Exhibition in Lon
don next iftmmer promises to be a
success. The sitdjs already engaged,
and occupies twenty acres near the
West Brompton station. The exhibits
■will have for their aftn the “showing
to the Old AVorld what the resources,
products, manufactures, and arts of
the United States are at the present
time.” Perhaps one of the most in
teresting parts of the Exhibition will
Jse the “American Garden,” in which
will be seen ’as compute a flora of the
United States as can be collected; The
trees, shrubs, and plants are terbe ar
ranged according
tude. ““ ' ' ’''
too,
er by the"
zette.
Hurrical
“Talk about tod
said Heserve Ofli?
living in this section
don't know what they
neighborhood of tlie Sarnfl
and particularly off Honc^
is at the head of ihe iandle)
is the place for hurrieantj
tains back
shaped and
on the. atmj
is no anchor]
vessels thatA
Honolulu usttl
the ; sailors hav7
boat ashore. 1 lia^
en ships lying ol
bailing distance
a shower of rain7
calm, with a bright sut?
bead; a third in a smooth breeze, an!
fourth in such a gale that everything
had to be close-reefed.
“Different air currents are so close
together and so sharply defined that I
have been standing on the deck of a
vessel with tlie sun shining brightly
overhead and not air enough moving
to fill tlie sails, while within ten feet
of me on one side it was raining big
guns, and not twenty feet the other
way blowing a regular hurricane. I
never shall forget one incident. It
was about noon and I was leaning over
the port rail amidships. There wasn't
air enough blowing to lift a feather.
Suddenly I heard a roar and knew
thata tornado was passing by the ship.
It was so close that when ! stretched
out my hand the wind struck it with
such a force that I was whirled com
pletely around. Our port anchor,
which weighed about a ton ami a half,
was hanging on the rail forward, and
the same gust struck ene of the flukes.
It tore loose the fastening, whirled
that anchor through the air like^
bit of thistle down, and ielt it hanj
on the main yard-arm. It put
heap df trouble to get it down
—Philadelphia Times.
' A Poetic Tail.
A thoughtless boy yvitlj
pail went singing
to where aj
die
hast!
that he'll
I’d scorn to marry"
is handsome and a finc'-uVlete. He
would bring to me a sense of pro
tection—” “O, that's all right, Julia!
Every one to their mind. You may
; marry for protection; I intend to mar
ry for revenue.”
South Carolina’s Phosphate Deposits.
A member of a New York firm who
has received an order for dredges for
j use -in excavating phosphate in South
■ Carolina reports that industry as es
pecially prosperous, and that 500,000
tons of this material is now being dug
up as against 350,000 tons in 1883
The phosphate rock bed of South Car-J
olina now supplies the world with th
chief part of all the phosphate of lie
used in the manufacture of comn
cial fertilizers,.and this industry!
unknown there until 1808. The j
est length of this phosphate
miles, the dt
;bout tlie i
its.-
pla