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AMERICA'S ALPS.
JAGGED PEAKS, DEEP CANYONS
AND RIVERS OF ICE.
\ Region That Rivals Switzerland
— Hut That Country II ai No
Gold Ledges Flower Gar
dens Among the Snow.
T HE wonderfully tiful, in the scenery says State a of grand paper of Monte Washington, and published Cristo beau- is
There are no foothills to give an ap
pearance of remoteness to the land
scape, but peaks, glaciers, canyons
aud rockslidea rise in the wildest con
fusion from the very outskirts of the
town, and give to the would-be moun
taineer every opportunity for the
Hpeody gratification of his exploring
proclivities.
The route up Glacier Creek ascends
tbe gulch for the first half mile at acorn
paratively easy grade, past the famous
Rainy Mine, and then across the foot \
of a great rockslide that takes its name
.
frorn the Mystery Mine, situated near
its summit. These slides are very
prominent features of the scenery; j
they always form an approach to any j
particularly abrupt mountain, and are
the accumulations of debris resulting j
from the gradual disintegration of the
cliffs during untold centuries. As
great masses of rock and boulders give
way before the ceaseless workings of
frost and snow, and roll crashing down
the mountain sides, the huge stone
piles increase until the solid earth is
buried hundreds of feet beneath their
unstable mass, and uniform slopes are
formed that extend well up the sides
of the precipices. The law of gravity
precipitates to tho bottom of these
slides ihe larger of the boulders,
which steadily decrease in size until,
at tho face of the cliff, the smallest
fragments are found that roll and give
under foot, and makes progress over
them a very trying 1ask.
The Mystery rockslide ascends al¬
most directly from the banks of
Glacier Creek to a height of 1500 feet,
where it joins an overhanging preci¬
pice that rises another 1000 feet, and
is known as the Wilmans Peak.
After crossing this slide the almost
perpendicular Mystery Hill is eu
conntcred, a curious rocky spur from
the peak, over which the trail gradu¬
ally makes its way by the aid of switch¬
backs and an average grade of twenty
per cent. Down this obstruction the
mad waters of the creek dash in a
series of picturesque falls through the
narrow chasm carved by its own re¬
sistless might, and then Hows more
gently at tho base of a line of snow
dad peaks Beamed with tremendous
canyons until at about two miles from
town, and 1500 feet above it, Glacier
.Basin iH reached.
This is a treeless and perfectly level
boulder-strewn valley of fifty acres,
covered in summer with tho greenest
of grass and brightest of flowers and
shut in on all sides by great, jagged
mountains that rise to an almost
vertical height of 2500 feot. It is
ono of nature’s paradoxes—a bit of
summer reposing in the lap of winter.
Tho loveliest of flowers bloom with
tropical luxuriance at the foot of
eternal snow slopes. Perpendicular
precipices rise abruptly from a spot
us level as a race track, and at the
head of tho basin tho creek emerges
from under tho great glacier that
frowns down upon the valley created
by its own agency, and reflects the
sunlight from its yawning ice crevasses
in every imaginable tint of green and
blue. To the west the Wilmans Peaks,
three stupendous obelisks of stone,
rise naked and bare 1800 feet above
the creek, and to tho east the saw¬
tooth summits of the main range rear
their jagged heads in a score of con¬
torted pinacles, and shut ouc from all,
save tho most' adventurous, the
mysteries of the oMJ “ 'bkuowu be
yon.I Nai
■ A mile southwest lacier Basin,
and separated from it by the high,
rocky ridge which begins at the lace
of the glacier and terminates iu tiie
Wilmans Peaks, lies the Seventy-six
Basin. This is not so large as the one
just described and the surroundings
are rather less abrupt and imposing,
but it is very beautiful, and is con¬
sidered by some more attractive than j
its greater neighbor. 1
It is possible to go direct from one
to the other bv climbing the steep
suow slope leading from the top of
Mvstory rockslide to the gap between ,
the \\ i i ms us Teaks and then descend- !
ing a gulch to Seventy-six Creex, but ;
the trip is cue that few care to under¬
take and it has omy been accom
plished, I believe, by those two ex
pert mountaineers, George Blake and
Joe Pearsall. I had the honor of see
ing—from a distance—the former of
these gentlemen make his second trip
over the 400 feet <0 icy snow, which
stands between t' y o narrow canyon
walls at au augle of sixty degrees. It
was not a pleasant sight, aud we drew
a breath of relief as he gained the
summit of the divide and disappeared
from our view.
The regular trail up Sevsnty-six
Creek is leas steep than the one to
Glacier Basin. For about a mile it
winds through the woods at a compara¬
tively easy grade, and then, leaving
the brush, crosses a succession of rock
slides that rise on either side to meet
the precipitous wails of the valley, an ?
about two miles lrom town the basin
is reached very similar to the one
already described, with its sombre
glacier, glittering suow slopes, lovely
flora and mysterious box canyons.
These last rre a peculiar , feature of the
piaee ; at least a dozen branch oft iu
all directions, some of them scarcely
twenty feet wide aud w th lofty per¬
pendicular wads that almost exclude
the light of day lrom their gloomy
depths. From near the loot of the
glacier a steep trail crosses the moun¬
tains by the pass through which,
scarcely five years ago, the little band
of prospectors first made their way
from the Silver Creek District iuto the
then unnamed Monte Cristo region,
and from here began their memorable
trip through the wilderness and down
the unknown stream that was after
wards identified as the upper Sauk
River.
Seventeen hundred feet above the
valley the gulch widens out into the
narrow, shelf-like niche in the moun
tains, on which are located the upper
workings of the Monte Cristo Mine,
*tnd then, contracting to a mere cleft
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in the cliffs scarcely fifteen feet wida,
to tbe summit at so sharp an
angle that it can only be ascended on
hands and kn ees. Thin is a risky
place on account of the rock slides
that are continually thundering down
the narrow way at a rate that makes
it highly interesting for an ascending
party. The rertical walls which are
perfectly straight and smooth, afford
no shelter from the descending bould*
ers, and in some cases the only thing
to do is to dodge to the best of one's
ability and trust to luck,
Fortunately this last stretch is not
long, and after 250 feet of laborious
climbing the crest of the dividing
ridge is reached, ami the view—par
excellence—of the district lies at the
feet of the panting mountaineer,
Tl/s is a spot so sublime in its wild
grandeur that, standing upon it, the
most facile of writers would have to
acknowledge the inadequacy of pen oi
language to do it justice.
Rising at the extremities of the di
viding ridge—scarce fifty feet long
and so narrow that it can be straddled
—two perpendicular obelisk - like
shafts of weather-beaten rock majes
tically face each other across the nar
row gulf of the descending chasm and
form gigantic portals to the Eastern
view. Looking down between these,
1300 feet below, can be seen the
green, park-like expanse of Glacier
Basin, with its creek meandering in
silver threads among the huge boul
ders, and 3000 feet above all the great
rugged wall of the main range, tower
ing ridge on ridge, peak surmounting
pealc, to the mighty summits wreathed
in their eternal snows. The view,
framod as it is between the gloomy
masses of the overhanging pinnacles,
has h wild, almost unearthly aspect
that is singularly impressive.
Westward, the prospect is more ex
tended. In an unbroken slope, a
glacier-bounded snowslide descends
for a distance of 500 feet, and then
gives place to a labyrinth ol cedar
covered hills and canyons that fall
rapidly to Seventy-six Creek, half a
mile away. Across the precipice
bounded valley a sea of mountains
stretches in rugged confusion to the
horizon, rising and falling in graceful
slopes, or towering in sentinel-like
peaks, that contrast their jagged
nakedness with the sombre green of
the lower hills. Numerous patches of
glistening snow add variety to a com¬
bination already beautiful, and just
across the valley, scarcely a mile dis
tant, the exquisite little Silver Lake
reposes in the shelf-like depression
that almost overhangs the valley a
thousand feet below. Seventy-five
miles to the southwest, snowclad
Rainier rears its lofty cone, looking in
the uncertain haze of the far distance
like a great white cloud, aud when the
atmospheric conditions are favorable,
far to the west a mysterious surface
of glittering silver reveals the waters
of L’uget Sound.
She Grapes in Darkness.
The resources and possibilities of
modern methods of intellectual train
ing have found another marvelous iu
stance in the case of Helen Keller, an
inshiuce fully as wonderful aud con
elusive as that furnished by the famous
*
Laura Bridgman. The interesting
child is now about fourteen years old,
according to the Illustrated American.
She became deaf, dumb and blind in
infancy, and yet she has been educa
ted up to such » point that she wag
enabled, at twelve years of age, to
write, by moans of her own typewriter,
a sketch of her having been led forth
from darkness into the light of knowl
edge. Her sketch is beautifully com
posed, and is said by the editor of the
paper in which the composition has
been published to have been free from
errors of spelling and the like.
In view of the child’s dreadful afiiie
tions the mere mechanical work of the
achieve mentis remarkable enough, but
when to this is added a distinctly fine
quality of literary skill, the mental at¬
tainments acquired by the girl are
quite amazing. We cannot resist the
temptation to quote a portion of her
recital of her first perception of the
sea.
“Suddenly we stopped,” she writes,
“and I knew, without being told, the
sea was at my feet. I knew, too, it
was immense! awful! and for a mo¬
ment some of the sunshine seemed to
have gone out of the day. But I do
not think I was afraid ; for later, when
had put on my bathing suit, aud the
[ptle waves ran up on the beach and
kissed mv feet> i shouted for joy, and
plunged fearlessly into the surf. But,
un f or tunately, I struck my foot on a
rock au q f e fi forward into the cold
water.
“i'fien a strange, fearful sense of
dftU?er terrified me. The salt water
jified mv eves and took away mv breath,
and a great wave threw me up on the
beach as easily as if 1 had been a little
pebble. For several days after that 1
waa ver y timid and could hardly be
persuaded to go into the water at all;
^nt bv *i degrees mv courage returned,
‘
and R mos t before the summer wa
over j thought it the greatest fun tc
* U( , tossed about bv the sea waves.”
________
A t’ure lor Nmallpox.
General Aureliauo Riviera, of the
City of Mexico, who discovered th
famous “Jicima” root for the cure of
typhus and has been distributing it
gratuitously to the poor, has made
discovery that the same root will cure
smallpox. The discovery was made nc
culen.aliy, the preparation having
been given to a patient, from the
symptoms at the earliest stage of the
disease, who it was supposed had
typhus, but it proved to be smallpox,
p^e root worked like a charm, liow
ever, in rapidly curing the man. Gen¬
eral Riveira believes it will cure yel¬
low* fever, an l has sent a package of it
to Vera Cruz for trial there by the
physicians at the next appearance oi
au epidemic.—Chicago Herald.
Mnging to Those Who Are Ill,
A pastor has jn.-J discovered a nex
power in visiting the sick, He has al¬
ways read the Bible to them and
prayed, but now, in addition, he sings
some of the old familiar hymns. He
finds that they carry a message ot
comfort to the heart more easily than
anything else. Often when the brain
is too weak to follow a passage oi
Scripture, or to listen to conversation,
an old hymn softly sung brings smiles
to the face and opens the way for »
’ short prayer —Boston Congregation*
alist.
FORESTRY LAWS.
WHAT EUROPE HAS DONE TO
PROTECT ITS TIMBER.
A Summary of Continental Legislation
by the Chief of the Forestry
Division of the Agricul¬
tural Department,
•
A GREAT deal of interest has
recently been aroused in this
country on the subject of for
est ry. The National
meut has turned its attention to the
preservation of the vast belts of tim
her that constitute one of its chiefest
natural treasures, and many of the
States, New Aork in particular* have
moved in the same direction.
I It is confessed, however, that our
j forestry laws are inadequate in them
I selves, as well as feebly enforced. Mr.
15. E. Fernow, the forestry expert of
the Department of Agriculture, has
summed up, in the Century, the for
estry legislation of Europe. Continen
tai experiences should have their les
sons for the United States. A brief
summary of Mr. Fernow’s article fol
lows:
In Germany the various Govern
merits own and manage, in a conser
vative spirit, about one-third of the
forest area, aud they also control the
management of another sixth, which
belongs to villages, cities, and public
institutions, m so far as these com
murnties are obliged to employ expert
foresters, and must submit their work
ing-plans to the Government for ap
proval, thus preventing improvident
and wasteful methods,
The other hall' of the forest property,
in the hands of private owners, is
managed mostly without interference,
although upon methods similar to
those employed by the Government,
and by trained foresters, who receive
their education in one of the eight
higher and several lower schools of
forestry which the various Govern
ments have established,
The several States differ in their
laws regarding forest property. Of
the private forests, seventy per cent,
are without any control whatever,
while thirty per cent, are subject to
supervision, so far as clearing and
devastation are concerned,
The tendency on the part of the
Government has been rather toward
persuasive measures. Thus, in addi
tion to buying up, or acquiring by ex¬
change, and reforesting waste lands—
some 300,000 acres have been so re
forested during the last twenty-five
years—the Government gives assist
ance to private owners in reforesting
their waste land. During the last ten
years $300,000 was granted in this
way.
In Austria, by a law adopted in
i 8 5 2> not only are the State forests
(comprising less than thirty per cent.
of the total forest area) rationally
managed, and the management of the
communal forests (nearly forty per
cent.) officially supervised, but pil¬
vate owners (holding about thirty-two
per cent.) are prevented from devas
tating their forest property te the
detriment of adjoiners. No clearing
for agricultural use can be made with
out the consent of the district author
ities, from which, however, au appeal
to a civil judge is possible, who ad
justs the conflict of interests,
Any cleared or cut forest must be
replanted or reseeded within fiye
years; on sandy soilsandmountain
sides clearing is forbidden, and only
culling of the ripe timber is allowed,
. In Iluugary, also, where liberty of
private property rights, and strong
objection to Government interference,
h a d been jealously upheld, a complete
reaction set in some fifteen years ago,
which led to the law of 1880, giving
the State control of private forest
as in Austria.
Under a law adopted in Italy in
1888 the Department of Agriculture,
in co-operation with the Department
of Public TVorks and in consultation
with the forestal committee of the
province and the respective owners, is
to designate the territory which for
public reasons must be reforested un¬
der Government control.
The owners may associate them¬
selves for the purpose of reforestation,
and for the purpose may then borrow*
money at low interest from the State
Soil,Credit Institution, the Forest De¬
partment contributing three-fifths of
the cost of reforestation upon condi¬
tion that the work is done according
to its plans, and within the time speci¬
fied by the Government.
In Russia, until lately, liberty to
cut, burn, destroy and devastate was
unrestricted; but in 1888 a compre¬
hensive and well-considered law cut
off, so far as this can be done on paper,
this liberty of vandalism, For auto
eratic Russia this law is rather timid,
and is iu the nature of a compromise
between communal and private inter¬
ests, in which much, if not all, de
pends on the good will of the jiri
vate owners.
A federal law was adopted in Switz
eriand in 1S7G which gives the federa
tion control over the forests of the
mountain region embracing eight en
tire cantons and parts of seven others,
or over 1,00b,000 acres of forest. The
federation itself does not own anv for
est land, and the cantons hardly‘l00,
000 acres, somewhat over four per
cent, of the forest area, two thirds of
which is held in communal ownership,
and the rest by private owners.
The federal authorities have super
vision over all cantonal, communal
and private fore-ts, so far as they are
“protective forests;” but the execu
tion of the law rests with the cantonal
authorities, under the inspection of
federal officers.
In France not only does the State
manage its own forest property (one
ninth of the forest area) in approved
manner, and supervise the manage
ment of forests belonging to communi
ties and other public institutions
(double the area of State forests) in a
ma nner similar to the regulation of
lorests in Germany, but it extends its
control over the large area of private
forests by forbidding any clearing
except with the consent of the forest
administration.
In one million births quintuplets
are recorded put once, When David
Rosenberger, of Kittaning. Penn.,who
recently became the father of five
children, heard this he remarked that
the statement was the first consola
tion he had received.
Properties of Triiiiilail Asphalt.'
In a recent paper read before th«
American Institute of Mining Eagi
neers, Colonel F. V. Green said:
“The asphalt of Trinidad is found
in a so-called lake, situated about 100
feet above the sea and about three
miles lrom the shore of the island, at
the village of La Brea (tiie Spanish
word for pitch). Its area is about 114
acres, its depth, as far as ascertained
by certain rude borings, is reported
to be about eighteen feet at the sides
and seventy-eight feet in the center,
and underlying it there is said to be
» bed of blue clav. If these fibres
are correct the ‘lake contains about
6 000,000 tone of asphalt. Whether
taese borings are even approximately
accurate is, however, very doubtful.
It is eveD contended by some that the
lake is still fed from underground
sources. The only positive informa
tion on the subject is the fact that the
excavations of the last ten years
(about 180,000 tons) have not appre
ciably lowered its level.”
The word “lake” applied to this de
posit, is an entire misnomer. It is a
level tract of brownish material hav
mg au earthy appearance. Cracks and
fissures having width and depth of a
few feet appear here aud thereover
the surface. Some of them are filled
with rain water, while others have
been filled with soil blown there by
the wind and giving support to scrub
by vegetation. Some travelers have
reported that the deposit is liquid in
the middle, but such is not the fact,
Carts and mules can be driven every¬
where on its surface. The material is
dug with a jiick and shovel, loaded
into carts and hauled to the beach.
Here it is placed in baskets, which are
carried by coolies wading - through the
surf to lighters, and from these light¬
ers it is loaded on vessels. During the
voyage the material unites in a solid
mass and has to be removed again by
the use of the pick and shovel. On
being unloaded it is placed for about
five days in large tanks heated by a
slow fire. The moisture is expelled,
the roots of trees and other vegetable
matters are skimmed off the surface,
the earthy matter with which it is com¬
bined settles by gravity, and the re¬
fined product is run oft into barrels.
The refining is in reality a mere beat¬
ing to a liquid condition in order to
allow the sediment to deposit, and
great care is taken not to heat the ma¬
terial to a point which will in any
way change its chemical condition or
produce distillation.—New Orleans
Picayune.
No Buddhists in India.
Marion Crawford is a true cos¬
mopolite, equally at home in Benares
or on Broadway, and yet his imagina¬
tion seems mostly dominated by the
things of the Orient. In the Century
he has an interesting article on “Gods
of India,” treating the subject in his
own graceful, attractive way. India
has served many gods, he says, and
the monuments raised in their honor
are countless. It appears to be gener¬
ally believed at the present day that
the religion of India is Buddhism.
How this common impression gained
ground it is hard to say. When Sir
Edwin Arnold published “The Light
of Asia,” he did not think it necessary
to state that Gautama the Master had
no longer any following in the coun¬
try which witnessed his birth and
holy life; but Sir Edwin’s book pro¬
duced a religious revival, or some¬
thing very like it, among a certain
class of semi-intelligent readers who
are continually foraging for some
new titbit of religion with which to
tickle the dull sense of their immor¬
tality into a relish for heaven.
There are no Buddhists in India.
There are many in Ceylon, and there
is a sect of them in Nepal, an inde¬
pendent territory to the north, on
the borders of Buddhistic Tibet. The
religion vanished from India in tlx3
early centuries of the Christian era.
The neo-Brahmans set up anti-Budd¬
has, so to speak, in the figures of
Krishna, Mahadeva and Rama—demi¬
gods and idols of the great neo
Brahmanic religions, A r ishnu-worship
and Siva-worahip; and these swept
everything else before them until the
Mohammedan conquest; and at the
present day, in one shape or another,
these forms of belief are adhered to
by five-sixths of the population, the
remainder being Mussulmans. The
Buddhists are gone, though not with¬
out leaving behind them a rich legacy
of philosophic thought, and many
monuments of their artistic genius.
A Cute Canary.
“We have got a canary at home,’
said Walter Thompson, of Lincoln,
Neb., “that is considered by the fam¬
ily to be just about as smart as they
make them. I’ll tell you why we think
so. The bird cage hangs in a room in
which there is a large coal stove. One
afternoon we were all going out for a
short while, and as the fire was low,
my wife filled the stove with coal and
turned on the draught, expecting to
be home before the fire got to° l 10 *
We were gone a good deal longer than
we Lad expected, however, and when
we returned the room was like a fur
and the store red hot. Mv wife’s
first- thought was oi the bird, and,
«P°n looking up at the cage and not
seeing him, concluded at once that he
bad been suffocated by the intense
beat. She got a chair and climbed up
to look into the cage, fully expecting
to see the poor bird stretched out on
the floor, dead. Instead, there he was
sitting flat in his bathtub, with only
kis head, which he wonld now ana
then dip into tae water, exposed to
furn&eelike heat oi the room,
St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
Skeletons in a Care.
There is a little cave in the bluffs of
Finley Creek, about two miles north
of Ozark, Mo., which Bruce McCord
was cleaniug out for a cellar. Under
a layer of limestone and beneath about
six inches of earth he found two human
skeletons, one measuring seven feet in
lengtu. The skull was of gigantic
size and very thick. The .bones were
all in place and well preserved, ap
parently, though they soon crumbled
to pieces when exposed te the air.
The other skeleton was oi ordinary
size and lay near the bed of the larger
one. It is supposed that the skeletons
are Indian remains. The Delaware In
dians had a large burying ground on
the Finley Creek, two miles west ol
Ozark, and many bones and othei
relics have been found in this locality.
—St. Louis Republic.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
A NOVEL FABRIC!.
Quite the newest thing in the way
*f dress fabric will not be woven from
the covering of any animal or the pro
duct of the silk worm, but from an
apparently very unpromising sub
stance—wood. Wooden gowns do not
sound attractive, but the wood fiber
when spun or otherwise prepared is a
beautifully soft and lovely stuff, and
scarcely distinguishable from fine silk
or the downy contents of the cotton
|?oti.—Chicago Herald.
THE VERY BEST FOOT.
Dr. Simon Baruch, the distinguished
New Y'ork practitioner and able editor
of the Journal of Balneology, who is
also one of the directors of the River
side Association, told an evening class
of working girls to take a cold shock
once n day, either in a shower or
sponge bath, to keep their feet dry
and drink hot milk. “It is the best
food in dietetics for children and
women of all ages who need fiesb,
color and strength. It is good at
meals, between meals and all the time. ”
A FAMOUS LADY HARPIST.
There lias just died in Liverpool a
iady harpist who bore in everyday
life the prosaic name of Mary Anne
Jones, but who was better known in
the principality by her bardic title of
“Mail* Anne Eirios. ” She was only a
child of eleven when she won distinc¬
tion at the Aberffraw Eisteddfod (1849)
and she was a leading figure at these
celebrations for a generation. A cher¬
ished incident in her career was her
appearance, iu conjunction with the
late Jenny Lind, before the Queen and
the Prince Consort. For some years
past she had been totally blind, but
found much consolation in thebeloved
instrument on which she was a brill¬
iant performer. -—Detroit Free Press.
CYCLING FOR GIRDS.
Cycling is growing greatly in favor
for girls and young women. It
promises to be quite the rage this
summer, and the fair devotees of the
sport tax their ingenuity to devise
pretty and becoming cycling suits.
They cannot help looking very fetch¬
ing and pretty if the suit is of the
right color to match their complex¬
ions. The skirt should be quite full,
giving it a most graceful effect. It
must fall quite short, about several
iuches from the ground, and should
have a deep hem, which may be made
of contrasting goods. The waist,
whose crowning glory must be in the
perfect fit, should have a deep square
yoke of the contrasting goods, from
which three wide box plaits both back
and front are made. Those flare
stylishly from under the trim belt.
The sleeves must be tremendously full,
thus combining comfort and style.
The collars and cuffs are finished in
such a manner as to simulate the fas¬
tening of the belt. A Tom O’Shanter
is the proper headgear. Scarlet and
gray and dark blue will make up pret¬
tily after this fashion.—New Orleans
Picayune.
GOLF SUPERSEDES TENNIS.
Lawn tennis, a dozen years ago, was
the resource of every summer girl;
but now, in many country places in
England the most deserted corner of
the pleasure grounds is the lawn ten¬
nis court. “Society has ceased to
flirt with lawn tennis.” Every year it
will be played less by those who have
no particular facility for it, and given
over to the champions, Golf has
taken the place of tennis, and it is
capital exercise for sinews and
muscles, is not extremely fatiguing,
and in England can be played both
winter and summer. Hoekey is an¬
other favorite game, particularly with
English college girls, though it is
rather rough. The Thames has a
ladies’ “eight,” too, which attracts
considerable attention. The members
of the crew are all neatly attired in
white, with ties and hat-bands of
Leander cerise. Thej r pull a light
craft, and their rowing is remarkably
good, with the proper “time” and
“body swing.” TVellesley College
girls, too, have a crew, well trained
and doing pretty work with the oars,
while every class has its chosen eight
in training during the season.—Argo
xaut.
COLORS FOR 1804.
The new color is chrysanthemum, a
yellowish red. Van Dyck is a lighter
shade of the same. Girofle and Lu
cifier, the dark shades of the color,
are deep rich tones of reddish brown,
tinged with yellow, and are highly ap¬
proved.
Magenta will be still much worn.
The dark, bluish shades of this color
are called Bengale, Lannier and Mal
maison, while Keine-Phlox is the
lighter shade.
Emerald green and russe green are
not specially favorites, but a lovelv
shade of bright, medium green, called
caspienne, will be much used for mil
’inery.
Golden brown is much in evidence
in ail its shades, and, indeed, all
browns are to be worn ; among them
the best shades are called mordore,
trappist, marron and cafeine, which is
just the color of good coffee and
cream.
Hardly any grays are to be seen
and little beige.
Light blue, called ciel, is a favorite
color trimming, and myosotis, or for
get-me-not, is new. Navy blue is al
ways worn, but matelot blue is far
more chic this year.
Pink is the fashionable color for
evening; some exquisite new old rose
shades are called Valkyr e and Aubus
son, and are considered admirable for
■summer wear and for millinery.
There is not so much violet, but
ascanio is a new reddish purple, ver
veine is a strong pink lavender and
violetta is a true violet shade.
i
woman s new field.
Many women drift into odd employ
ments through circumstances; but
there is no reason why such should
not be deliberatelv sought.
A firm of clothiers who have branch
establishments iu several cities, have
introdueed women as saleswomen in
the boys’ department, and the innova
tioa meets with the approval of all
mothers who have grown weary of be¬
ing regarded with a pitying smile
whenever they protested mildly trial
| the T clothes did not with fit.
i am acquainted two women
who carry on the business of a taxid¬
| ermist successfully, and another who
is successful in mounting specimens
for the microscope. Some of the finest
work in the Natural History Museum
at South Kensington was done by a
! woman.
A colorist who had learned to tint
j photographs well, but who could not old¬
ma ke a living by it, sought and
tained employment at coloring illus
trations for a medical book. This one
1 order kept her busy for a long time
*
j an d pa i d her well.
A teacher of languages who was an
admirable translator, turned aside
from publishers of novels and succeed
ed in obtaining work from profession
al men who wished to keep up with
foreign notes on scientific subjects but
could not take time to translate thern-
1 selves. She for several
was years con
nected with the staff of one ol our
colleges, though her name did not ap
pear, as she was engaged by the pro-
5 lessors themselves,
! A similar instance of enterprise is
that of two translators, one of whom
selects the French and German publi¬
cations for the book counter of a large
dry goods house, and the other, who
does similar reading and sifting for a
public library. Each of these ladies
j earns ; 200 a year, and they have
J mftde themselves so valuable to their
| employers that their positions are as¬
sured.—New York Telegram.
FASHION NOTES.
Rather short pelerines continue in
vogue.
Crepes of every sort are promised a
very successful season.
Silk belts and girdles are mounted
in silver and silver gilt.
Sleeveless jackets aud redingotes are
among the newest models.
The leading colors for spring capes
for general wear are black, green, the
darker browns and a rich deep shade
of blue.
Ihe newest shot silks are reversible,
they show a mauve ground with a
pale green spot on one side and a violet
one on the other
Velvet capes, coats, costumes, com¬
binations and trimmings will be worn
for months to come, and in some guises
during the entire summer.
Ecru tinted Mechlin laces are used,
with satin ribbon, for trimmings on
waists and capes and for making fancy
collars, jabots, ruches, etc.
Black, brown, dark green and navj
blue will be the colors in jackets. J
These will have full skirts and collar¬
ettes and very large sleeves.
Tailor made shirt waists of pink linen,
embroidered pique and fancy cotton
fabrics are displayed among other pre¬
mature novelties of the spring season.
Small “1830” bonnets in Dresden
china, are seen upon milady’s dressing
table. They hold her puff ball. Tiie
top of the crown slips off and the pow¬
der and puff rest within.
Next to velvet and velours du Nord,
the most fashionable material for man
ties is undoubtedly black moire silk,
of rich quality and with large bold but
somewhat vague water markings.
Petunia or heliotrope, or, in fact,
all shades of mauve and violet, be thej
red or blue, are much in favor, and
tliese and yellow with a delicate shade
of green are very pretty combinations,
Bilk and wool mixtures will be used
for street gowns during the coming
season. Some of them are in hand
some shaded colorings, others are soft,
showing a mixture of various colors,
Yellow seems to he shown more
favor this year than almost any other
color. Many shades of this color are
used, ranging from beige to the ad
mired sand color and finishing in tints
oi red.
Costly and superb new form of lace
are thick guipures, veined with gold
thread and here and there worked up
with groups of beads, or applique!
over velvet and embroidered over
shaded silk.
Braes military buttons made at the
beginning of this century bedeck
feminine apparel, They must be
small, in good condition and genuine.
Paste buckles now at the throat and
waist are also in demand.
Crepe effects of all descriptions are
more populor than ever. Crepe de
chines, crepons and ecru cotton crepes
are used. As these are shown in
various designs and different colors,
they promise to become very service
able.
Sequins are the newest thing in trim
mings. There are bodices of sequins,
there are sleeves of sequins, and, in
fact, they are the rage. These sequin
bodices can be worn over eoloied waists,
i giving a great variety to one’s ward
robe.
The dainty frou-frou, so suggestive
of silken underwear, is obtained, not
1 necessarily by lining the entire skirt
with silk, but by facing the edge with
f a ruffle and a half width down each
; side of the back. The linen and silk
lining should accord in color.
The silk and wool grenadines, which
come iu tapestry effect, show large
arabesque figures, raised like hand
j some laces, but on a close meshed
caQvaB ground. These are found in
v icdet shot with pale green, in the
tobacco browns shot with beige color,
and in moss green shot with dull coral
ptink.
A new Paris cape, more properly
called a collet, does not reach the
waist. It is designed for cool daye
with a tailor jacket. It is made of
cloth flecked with blue, the cape por
tion being attached to a yoke, the
joining covered by a shoulder flounce,
The queer funnel-shaped collar and
the pelerine itself are iqoth edged with
a narrow band of fur. A knot of vcl
vet ribbons finishes the neck effect,
l n new spring jackets models for
middle aged women remain of tkree
quarter length ; for youthful wearers,
from twenty-four to twenty-six inches
is the desired leDgth, the designs as a
rule being double-breasted and tight
fitting in the back. Black watered
silk is used on very many models for
re vers and collarette, and the sleeves
are simply enormous. Braiding is
used with elegant effect on coat acces
sories and vests, but a model thus
finished costs as much as a silk-lined
velvet one,
MAPLE SUGAR.
EXTRACTING THE SWEET SUB®
STANCE FROM TIIE TREES.
When “Sap Weather” Arrives tho
Sugar Makers Go Into Camp
Tapping the Trees- Boil¬
ing the Sap.
w HEN have time the everincreasing in been the the so suow early softened and warmth spring¬ ice by
of the sun’s rays as to put au end to
coasting, skating, and other winter
sports of the north, a new source of
amusement, equally fascinating to the
children, is provided. It is maple
sugar making, with all the delights of
life in the camp, or “sugar bush, as
it is more generally called.
When the heat -of the sun is sufiif
cient to melt the snow, it is also
powerful enough to send the sweet sap
of the rock aud sugar maples rushing
through all the delicate bark veins up
toward the branches and twigs, At
night, when the sun lias set, .and the
air is full of a nipping frost, toe sap
does not run ; so, as it must bo col¬
lected during ihe daytime, the boiling
is very often done at night.
As the first sap of the season is tho
sweetest aud most abundant, the sugar
makers are. on the ground and making
ready their camps upon the first, indi¬
cations of “sap weather,” as they call
it. The sap runs, according to local¬
ity, from the last of February uniil
late iu April, aud the sugar season,
lasts about four weeks in each place.
When the farmer thinks tha! sap
weather is about setting in he calls his
boys together ; they load the big kel*
ties and camq-material on the ox sleds,
and start for the “bush,” or grove of
maple trees, which is often many miles
* rom *‘ ie b° use - M hen they reach
Eie maple gsuve, all hands find plenty
to do. If if is a warm day, the trees
must be immediately tapped, and a.
couple of boys are started oft’ with a
sled-load of iron spiles, each about six
inches long, and a quantity of sap
buckets or short wooden troughs that
have been out out during the long
winter evenings. A slight cut is made
through the-bark of each tree, or an
auger hole is bored, a spile driven in
directly beneath it, and at the foot of
the tree is left a trough so arranged
as to catch the sap as it drips from the
end of the spile.
While the trees are being tapped.
Cftrn P have been busy
enough building the rude shanties of
logs he and spruce ,lnle bough, that arc to
ter '
bush, cutting quantities ol firewood,
and swinging the great kettles into
place on the iron bar that rests on
two forked posts sqlidly fixed in the
ground. Sometimes great shallow
pans of iron, set upon rude founda¬
tions of stone, are used instead of the
kettles, and the shanty in which the
men live is often a very permanent
structure of logs, that can he used for
many years.
Late in the afternoon, tho sleds,
eacil carrying a large cask or hogs
head, are sent around to the maple
trees, all the sap buckets are emptied,
ftnd finally the casks, full of what
tastes like sweetened water, are drawn
slowly back to camp. The sap is
, into . , .. ,,,, kettles the fires
>
^ghted and the- ‘syrup ng down „ v be
S c ^antly ins \ ^ he full P™ lrom or the kettles barrels are of kept sap
standing near by, and sometimes tho
bubbling liquid boils over. When it
does this, a bit of bacon is thrown in,
and the troubled waters subside.
The boiling is continued until the
water sap has been changed into u
rich syrup, when it is drawn off into
casks for future use, or into other
iron keltles to be boiled again until it
becomes sugar. This second boiling
must be done very carefully, or tho
syrup will become burned and spoiled.
It i 8 constantly stirred with a long
handled wooden paddle, and both eggs
and milk are often thrown in to purify
it. The scum that rises to the top is
carefully removed, aud thrown oqt on
the snow, to the delight of the chil¬
dren, who watch for it to cool and
partially harden. They call it “maple
candy” or “taffy,” and regard it as a
treat.
When by testing on the snow, or in
cold water, the syrup is found to have
boiled long enough, it is run into
moulds, where it cools into cakes of
maple sugar, or the kettle is lifted
from the fire, aud its contents stirred
and beaten as they coo), until they
become coarse brown sugar that can
be used in cooking.—Detroit Free
Frees.
Millions In Sweet Potatoes.
Texas farmers have discovered won¬
derful possibilities in the sweet po¬
tato. A recent bulletin of the Agri¬
cultural Experimental Station in that
State shows to what great importance
the sweet potato has attained, The
cotton crop of Texas covers 4,520,310
acres, and is worth $39,-130.476; the
corn crop covers 3,166,353 acres, and
is worth $28,429,125; the wheat crop
covers 442,337 acres, aud is woiLLi
$5,241,300; the sweet potato
covers 29,928 acres, and is worth 31,-
503,764. This showfj that the valua
tion of each crop per acre is: cotton,
$15.36; corn, $8.94; wheat, $11.88;
sweet potatoes, $50.24. The cost of
growing an acre of either of these
crops is about the same.
This is a magnificent showing for
the sweet potato, There is hardly
any limit to the demand for this pala¬
table and wholesome article of food.
The potato always brings a very good
price and there can be no doubt that
it pays to plant them.—Atlanta Jour¬
nal.
Hot in Australia.
The weather in Australia during tho
present antipodean summer has been
unusually hot and oppressive. In
Adelaide, during December, the ther¬
mometer several times registered over
100 degrees in the shade and one day
it climbed^to 107 in the shade and 163
in the sun. Iu Melbourne the hun¬
dred notch has been reached more
than once, and the scorching north
winds have made the atmosphere ex¬
ceedingly oppressive. The foregoing
figures are from weather observatory
readings, and probably do not repre¬
sent by sever il degrees the tempera¬
ture of the city streets. —Detroit Free
Press.