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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
VOL XXXIX.
SffONO FEVER.
Spring ferer ain't no cure for it
I have it on' a y car;
It take* m in the r-lfy,
And it mnk me drowsy there.
And I nod.
And I nod,
a Georgia ft? ibin’ro 1.
Vriii-n it fed* t h>* trout a-pullin’
’Fore j o*i land hi m on the sod !
Spring fever—don t know how it come?.
And no on<* ever knew ;
And all I know i? when it ? here
It creep? all over you !
And yon dream,
And you dream
That yuj r<* floatin’ down a stream;
rUiitln’, oat in’ like a feather
Wlier the vatcr-lillca gleam 1
Atlanta Constitution,
AT CHARITY’S .MERCY.
BY K!!.\: swf.rrr.
HEBE was no pret
' I pier;* of land in
:< r
ail th o <> un fry
m round Ilian that
> mipii d by the Tin
l
uk \ *. her farm. County It slope poor 1
• to
' 1 1n* north, t > be
' V and tl at did
Mire,
#ot add to flu* comfort of such paup
nr n were able to work in winter, but
in compensation it lmdsplendid woods
and a fine lake frout. Tim lake was
uecj> and eleiir and dotted with small
mIiukD On the opposite slope, and
half hidden by noble trees, were the
outlines of a country mansion ; and in
the distiiici wi re blue hills which
might almost be mistaken for mount
inns.
But it was not on account of natural
beauty that the Tinker County poor
farm had been selected. The town of
fleers were hard, practical men and did
not care for such things. When it was
decided that it would be for the town’s
of advantage sell in- them to farm its paupers instead
at auction, the select
ini'ii looked around for a suitable
place.
The Bowen farm had the reputation
ol being the poorest in the town. It
was rocky and unproductive, and had
already ruined several small farmers
who had been imprudent enough to
trust their little to its keeping. Of
Into both purchasers and renters had
given it a wide berth.
But it was just tho place the select
men were looking for. It was off the
highway and was cheap. They ap
proaeljed the owner cautiously and
found that he was anxious to sell--so
much so that he accepted their first
citier. The next thing was to rent the
farm and the paupers to the lo.we?t
Pratt. * ***« happened to !>© Sim
tURti who bad aiwayt been an
unsuccessful farmer, because he was
tqo stingy to Income a prosperous one.
He mis not a l>*d 1IIU ; >,,,j ie W as
i x covetous and narrow-minded,
and all Dies,' pointed to a questionable
future for the paupers. And as the
years went by all the indications were
fulfilled.
Pratt had been keeper of the farm
for ten years now, and in all this time
there had been found no one to under¬
bid him. ’I'he pay was small, the farm
poor and the paupers not very desir¬
able, even to men of dull sensibilities.
No one tried to succeed him.
But Pratt liked to rule. Before his
advent to power lie hud never been
able to hire help. Now he was autocrat
of a small colony. In a few
he had fixed upon the maximum work
which could be had from each of the
paupers, Some were able-bodied
some could only work part of the time,
some could not work at all But as a
rule, it was the able-bodied who were
tho hardest to manage; it was
laziness which had brought thorn to
the °
town farm.
i Tinker County had little money to
spare it- paupers for clothing and
Pratt and the farm needed all the
work tlu \ could give, Gonsequenth
there was much suffering dnriug the
winter. When it was too cold to meud
stone walls and fences, the strongest
were sent to the beach alter seaweed
All tho rest who wore able to work
were put into the barn and sheds to
stamp out beans and • t>hcll • corn. i t
was nothing unusual for a pauper to
die. aud Die town physician sometimes
expressed his views very decidedly,
But a physician s news had little
weight with the practical guardian of
the e> county's vuuu'.y > luumuw. finances.
One. afternoon several of the old
men were at work in the lower field,
The wind wn. sharp and cut through
their clothing until their teeth chat
tyred with the bitter cold. All of
them were thinly clad; and at last n
little, round-shouldered man began to
finger nervously at his coat which was
already Im ttoned.
‘‘I don’t call this much charity,” he
grumbled, discontentedly. “Seems
like the town might let us have over
coats seeh pesky cold weather. What
my, Squire?”
The man addressed did not answer
LiltiUK a haap. forkful of aeawKk ha
hVref.tr,te.1 for VuVth’eVloaTthe little
i™,
hie m a place like this. Tain t much
w. packed ve .otter Ureter, auywuy. .Test
away like o.d furaitoor iu a
garret, an good riddance when the
undertaker brings Lb box. Seems
like we might pick what crumbs we
could outeu the cobwebs.”
The other man did not seem to hear,
Again his forkful of seaweed was
spread, and he was reaching for more
when the little man stepped in front
of him.
“Can’t ye answer a man’s question F
lie asked, irritably. "You ain't uo
more deef n I be au' I’m gittin’ sick
an’ tired of it. Here I ve been room
in with yoa more n two yenr. an' you
Oiu t scattlj erer spoke ter me ’cept
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FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA , ”ESDAY MORNING, MAY I, 1894.
you’* ’bleeged ter. ’Taint dccrot!
I’m h sosberble man myself, an’ I
don’t like bein’ tied to a stick."
The Squire gazed at him vacantly
for a moment. Evidently his
thoughts had been far away, and he
was bringing them back by a powerful
effort. As he straightened himself up
to Lis full height he looked very tall
and thin; and there was something
pitifully incongruous in his rough, ill
fitting garments and his clean-cut,
scholarly face and snow-white hair.
“What is it, Thomas?” he asked,
gravely. “I was thinking, and did
not hear you. We old men,"
with a slight smile, “have'so much
past and so little future that we are apt
to go wool gathering."
“Bpeakin’ fer yourself an’ not me,
then,’ said Thomas, hastily. "My
past ain’t a good place ter gather wool,
an’ I don’t go to it ’ceptin’ I’m ’bleeged
ter. But that ain’t here nor there. I
didn t want nothin’, Squire, only jest
ter hear you speak, r.o’t I’d know you
was ’live and not a purnambulatin*
machine." He sprea 1 seaweed for
several minutes in silence, then once
more leaned upon liis fork. “Come
ter think on't, Squire, there is one
fc hing * d nf d ye. When I come ter
tllia l >la< '° 1 found you was a’ready
! >«*e, «n’ 1 got to callin’ ye Square cos
tbe reHt did. But down ’n the kitchen
!ajst ,d Kht they told me ’twas raly so.
* what? dreamily,
“That you was high-toned oncet,
an ’ had an’ things, like rich
money
folks?”
“l had all I wanted, I believe.”
“An’ owned that house acrost the
an * k ft d horses an stables an’
servants an’—an’Government bonds?”
excitedly.
“Yes” a slight tremor came into
the 8 rave voice—“but we will not
fi l >eft k of that, Thomas. Buppo.se we
to w, ’ rk * will freeze if we stand
hel ’ e talking.”
They set to work vigorously, each
taking one side of the long row of
pih‘ s which the wagon had left and
spreading as far as the seaweed would
covcr * Knt occasionally vThomas
glanced furtively at his companion.
,i ' >0 raly true, he muttered
nn Ter his breath, “sou gambled an’
ruu off au ’ ol( J nian paid his debts an’
‘-^Nie here. Larnwl pity ! fer the old
fel,er ’ s a S°°T sort, if ho don’t talk,
An’ the son—well, I guess it’s them
kiu T o’ sons as makes lrangin’s.”
All through the afternoon they
worked, and only stopped when the
shrill call of the supper hom came
across the field,
As they passed through the barn*
! y ar T, a great, the hulking figure slouched
from oue of sheds.
“Hullo, 'Bias!” called Thomas, jeer
ingiY; *1 “got ’baont,” *r bein’ sick,
Je Ae-as, the man answered,
sheepishly.
“Well, take car’ye don’t git down
rt &Tn when it’s time fer work.”
Ax the door tney met Pratt.
“J«st the fellers I’m lookin’ fer,”
he said, briskly. “You’ll have ter go
back an’ do up4he barn choree. Bill
an’ Ike don’t seem to think they're fit.
You see t’ the horses, yourself,
Squire.” he added, as they turned
to do his bidding; “Thomas ain’t per
tickler ’nougli.”
it was late in the evening when they
returned to the house. Thomas went
the kitchen, but his companion
was too tired to eat. He climbed
slowly to his cold room in the garret.
Id the morning he was awakened by
fhe rough voice of Pratt.
“Gome, git up, Squire! Bill’s down
with cold an’ you’ll have ter drive his
team ter-day. Step lively!”
The old man dressed hurriedly and
stumbled down the dark staircase. It
*t.ill lacked an hour of daylight.
Pratt stood by the kitchen door.
“Take a bit o’ suthin’ an’ be gittin’
off soon’s ve can,” he exclaimed, im
*
patiently. “It’ll be davlight, fust ve
know. I’ll be boun’ there’s a dozen
teams on the beach already.”
“I don’t know as I shall be able to
make a load without help,” said the
Squire, doubtfully, “1 sprained my
hack a little yesterday.
“Tut, tut ! W, ve got shirks’nougli
011 tho place now thout you tryin’ to
1 join’em. You’re all right. Git some
vittles an’ be starin’. We can’t ’ford
I ter board ye here for nothin’.”
The The Squire Squire made made no no replv. reply. Taking Taking
H pieces of cold bread he ate them
mechanically, and then opened
door and went out. It It was was bitterly bitterly
cold, and he took a handkerchief from
kis pocket and tied it around his neck,
i When he reached the barn he found a
piece of old sacking, and this was
i made to do duty as an overcoat. It
djd not take him long to yoke the
i °xen, and presently the heavy wheels
j the wagon were creaking
over the frozen ground,
- When the sun rose he was well on
his way to the beach, Boon after he
drove across the low ridge of sand hills
; which had been washed up by sueees
s * ve storms. But, early as he was, sev
er,d teams were ahead of him. The
: best of the seaweed had been thrown
into piles, and the men were now load
: ing it iato their W ag<, u8 . A, th.
j weed eo.uiug it.. The Squire took Lis
>•«« “f "*»«.
he steppe.l nto the water ami rescued
masses which were beinc tloate.l oh
the rising tide.
But it was slow, hard work. The
other teams left and new arrivals took
their plaees. At last he threw his fork
upon the load and drove away. It was
long piast noon.
Back through the sand hills and
across the pastures to the main road,
and then up hill and down until he
• came in sight of the town farm. On
top of the last hill lie paused to let
the oxen rest.
Near him the road branched, and
one of the forks curved away into the
woods and around the lake. Hrs old
eyes grew wistful. It was the roail
which led to the mansion among the
trees.
As he stood there he saw a carnage
approaching. Driving his team to one
side he waited ; hut the carriage stopped
as it came opposite
“Does Squire Burke still live at the
old place?" a man asked,
“Nohe left many years ago.
At the sound of the voice the strangei
started and glanced at the old man
sharply. Then he sprang from the
carriage. But as he drew near he
paused and bowed his head, like a man
waiting sentence.
“Richard!” The Squire tried to keep
his voice steady; but it broke as the
young man sprang forward and caughl
him in his arms,
After a few moments they stood back
and looked at each other,
•Where have you been all these
years, Richard?” the old man asked.
“What have you been doing?”
“In South America—working. After
you—disowned me I wandered about
the country for some weeks and then
shipped on board of a vessel as a com
moa suilor. Finally I drifted into a
place where I obtained a good situa
tion. After a while I went into bust
ness. Then I wrote to the man whose
name l had—forged and told him I
N\a.s able to pay some of the money
and would pay the rest as soon as I
could. He answered that it was all
paid. Of course I understood. After
that I worked harder than ever, j 1
determined to repay every cent, and
thought that if I could make you be¬
lieve I was not all bad you might—
perhaps—change your opinion.”
* The Squire raised his hand deprecat
ingly.
“Don’t, Richard l I changed it many
years ago. I was harsh—cruel—uu
just!”
“No!” in eager protest. Then, foi
the first time, he seemed to notice the
Squire’s garments. From them hii
eyes wandered to the oxen.
“Surely you are not so—so”—
“Poor? Yes; I have been on thi
town farm nearly ten years. I was ill
and could get no employment. There
was nothing else.”
The young man’s face whitened.
Stepping quickly to the carriage he
said something in a low tone to the
driver. Then he returned and to#k
the ,, whip , . from .. Ins father ■ grasp.
• 1 will drive the tea,.,, he said.
The carnage will come for us in an
hour and take us to the hotel. To
morrow we will see the owner ot the
old pl.ee.nd buy it back. Bur you
tti>. co v .
Removing his overcoat, , he threw it .
around the skivering form; then he
took off his gloves and forced them on
.I the x to,l.won, -i v, hands. a s L -
The old man s eyes gl.stened. As his
gaze . wandered across the fields to
where the paupers r were at work h,
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lhere y' thing xv. • must xx get,
is oue we
' , 'i;wL wnatw ; rS n, U^Ys tatner -• p
.
-Overcoats for all the men on the
farm. -Independent
Frightened to Death.
There are several well authenticated
cases where fright was the cause of
death. An English surgeon tells of a
drummer in India across whose legs a
harmless lizard crawled while he was
half asleep. He was sure that a cobra
had bitten him, and it was too much
... and he died,
ls serves
Frederick 1. of Prussia was killed
b?a -- ^ife A\as insane, and
OUt ; da y escaped from her keeper,
and, dabbling her clothes with blood,
lushed l 0Z ' n S upon 111 her chair. husband King while Frederick he was
‘
imagined her to be the white lady,
vvhose £ lioPt was believed to invaria
b] y a PP car whenever the death of a
m ember of . the royal family was to oc
CIU ’’ und ho was thrown into a fever
aud died iu six weeks,
-"’it perhaps the most remarkable
death from fear was that of the Dutch
P ftmter Tent-man, who lived in the
I se Ye n teenth century. One day he
j went into a room full of anatomical
? ui ’l ecta to sketch some skulls and
i b °D es a picture he intended to
P a ^t. The weather was very sultry,
* and whlle sketching he fell asleep. He
j was aroused by bones dancing around
j bl,u ”“ u ’ ’ and “ uu ‘ uc skeletons suspended suspenueu
cei ‘ lu o clashed together. In
a tit of ? horror , he threw himself out of
! tbe the wiudow window. injury, - Though _nough he he sustained sustained no no
j serious and -was informed^that
j a Sil Skt earthquake had caused the
! commotion among the ghostly sur
j rcundings, he died of nervous trainer
—The Million.
!
j Early London Streets.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, when a Loudon street was
newly formed, its name and date were
frequently recorded on a tablet built
into the wall of a corner house. The
houses themselves were also sometimes
distinguished by initials, names or
dates, either placed like the street
° r ° n 8 r '^ n or inside the
j ^mtot these relies still survive.
$"«raeHo“ 'jjrJverv'VeaTmam-^oW
shwx: », ; cease u
, ate in h „ treet ^ ° c ,
lose theiji ^ >
-Loudiu bv
named Xotes and “ Queries
j Bower oi Foreign Police.
The Vienna police have genera,
charge of all presses* uevspapers, and keep
records of all and publications,
maintain a censorship over all theatres
and plays, issue licenses for the publi
cation and sale o: all books, magazines
and periodicals. All plays, dialogues,
songs, dances and entertainments by
; societies, clubs or individuals must be
submitted to the police and approved
before production.—New York Jour
ual.
GREENLAND’S QUEER MINE.
ONLY ONE OF ITS St nd in :ee
WORL
A Curious Find of Ninety Years Ago
Now l sed in the Manufacture of
Aluminum—An;0« Camp.
~\~~T 1=/ VERY April a cfctrious fleet of
vessels that that time is
| \ Usually widest intervals scathed about at the
in the ports
along both coasts ancf fef the Atlantic
Ocean puts to sea heads away for
a point in the lee of Gape 'Desolation,
on the southwest eoajr of Greenland.
The ships of this fleet, says Frank Les¬
lie’s, have the strong f&t and best of
canvas and gear aloftg while the hull is
not only unusually sfl ang everywhere
but is built solid at t!»e bows, covered
with an extra layer o? plank there, and
then armored with steel plates, The
passage before this fleet is at the best
one of the most nrcluins in the world.
The destination is#but. a few miles
south of the Arctic fclrcie. An ocean
river sweeps along Iftm coast, bearing
masses of field ice hundreds of miles in
extent, and into am-l; across this bar
rier the fleet must fight its way to the
harbor for which it is bound, and
when loaded there the fight must again
be undertaken in< order to return,
The voyage is undertaken by the fleet
in product order to of carry the erfoj tjfcPhiladelphia ite the
mine in the
Arsok fiord. This mine is so odd that
it is unique. Tharo^s no other cryo¬
lite mine in the world. It is worked
in odd fashion, bj&ile men of an odd
mine camp, and it.'jvas discovered by
an odd prospector^; /
In 1803 a Ge'rman,prospector named
Gieseckewent to Greenland, landing at
Cape Farewell, whfre he lived with
the Eskimos, and Sfcith whom he trav¬
eled up the rugged coast in the skin
covered eomiaks uftf&l he reached the
Arsuk fiord. An Eskimo who resided
there told him thoA a few miles up the
fiord was a curious stone, which his
people called tho iafe-that-never-melts.
They used it in 'dressing -pelts, rub
bing the stuff on we flesh side, where
it acted somewhat es soap might. Gie
secke went to edgejfi theJplace and found at
the water’s cropping of white,
soft rock, that when Avet looked ex
actly like wet, awnw-fnixed ice. It was
R xi eutii-elv ; nofel 3 mbstanc, 8 „ he
gatbete( “ , s mpl utrffuek promoter laehioa,
nd he M with them, piospee- which
is ako aft2r th , ta hion of
tors 0 n his war ' home in a Daiish
, Mp , Briti3h rai „ er tdM4 the
outfit, and Gr*s‘ i ckt- lost all he had.
However /’ +b ‘j > lea! world learned
‘f* w a. ^ , a W ., .
hV‘. ‘,54#. n< .-.-»*. ttlnminttt* j»*. ' •— - nea °
- .which means me stone.
No ono t c]lemici ,j rtndeot8 , ooV
note of it, ■. , however, uutil r, Professor J. T
Inomsen, ol Denmark, made some ex
periments tears with it about forty-five
alter it was chemicui found, and demon.
«*•»** «“>» pure alum
c™]d be cheaply made from it as well
bui . bicarbonate of soda and
^ toe...,-a. g 0 a
companv to work the mine was tOrmefi,
and about 1860, men and materials
were sent up there to mine the stuff
and sla P it to Copenhagen. Thereat
Ivigtut came into existence as a jnine
camp, and it is to this day the only
white settlement in fTi-eenland. It is,
course, a Danish settlement, for
Greenland is one of the colonies of
good old King Christian. First of all
they built a house to live in, using
timber and boards to build up walls
and stuffing the spaces between ceil¬
ings with moss. Then most of the
houses were shingled over all, but that
built for the superintendedut WAS
covered with smooth Norway pine.
There were double doors and double
windows, and the best of coal-burning
stoves, while huge coal bins were
erected close by. So, the storehouses
to hold other supplies sufficient to
last three years were erected and filled,
and they hare been kept full continu¬
ously.
The cryolite deposit was walled in
and covered over with gray granite.
When the covering had been cleared
off they found a mass of the pure
white feet'wide. cryolite about 600 feet lono- and
200 Investigation showed
that this was the top of a pocket or
chimney of the material that plunged
down at an angle of forty-five degrees
with the horizon into the mountain
that rises there. It was also learned
that the cryolite, though pure on top,
was mixed with much carbonate ot
eh
For several years the working of the
deposit did not pay, but in 1864
Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Com
pany contracted to take two-thirds of
all that the mine could produce, and
since then the mine men have been
getting rich while paying the crown a
'
royalty of one-fifth. The most inter
estmg use made of the stuff in America
is in the production of aluminum, the
metal that has made such rapid strides
*
in the art recently.
An open hole 450 by 150 feet large
and 100 feet deep has been dug out in
the work of thirty years. In summer
the miners simply blast up the bott om
and cut down the sides o£ the hole;
other workmen break up the blocks,
separate as far as possible the iron ore,
and run the whole up an incline rail
road operated by -team. The refuse
has been used in making and extend
ing the dock at which the stuff is
ed into ships. The water that falls
and sweeps into the mine is lifted out
by a common steam pump. In winter
the work of clearing away the covering
rock and cutting down terraces goes
on with terrible regularity, even
though the latitude is above fifty-one
degrees. The men then work on an
odd staging. The mine is filled with
water and the men work on the ice
that quickly forms. One of the
of mining accidents happened when,
one day, a quantity of cartridges
accident T v fired f eneath this
staging, splitting it up in all dixec-
kens. It is not often that miners are
thus in danger of drowning.
Not only are the homes of the miner*
odd. It is an odd community. It
consists of 130 men and three women
in summer ami sixty men and three
women in winter. The steamer Fox,
famous in arctic history in connection
with the search for Sir John Franklin,
makes from two to three tri * >s ever v
*
summer from Copenhagen to the camp,
trying supphes. On the flrst trip
out in spring it carries seventy men,
and on the last oue back 111 the fal1 xt
takes uearl y the same number home,
A few come to the Umted States every
year. While in Greenland they are
supplied with an abundance of bread
and cured meats, with weiss beer ami
coffee. They have some vegetables
which are imported from the United
States, and all the game and fish they
want. Ducks and gulls swarm about
fiord, and the apparently barren
mountains are the homes of many ptar¬
migan and rabbits. The finest trout
and salmon are to be had for the tak
aud the arctic cod is also easily
1 he men are allowed t*> go
hunting and fishing almost at will .
WISE WORDS.
There isn’t a bit of religion in .self
pity.
We all hate self when we see it crop
out in somebody else.
The man who rides a hobby is gen
erally lame in both feet.
The sun is always shining to the
man who walks by faith.
The man Avho will say a mean thing
will sooner or later do one. *
The love that “suffereth long and is
kind” is not the love of self.
It takes some people a long time to
find out that it never pays to worry.
To be contended with what wo have
is about the same as to own the earth.
You cau tell what kind of a man a
boy will make if you know what man
is now his hero.
The world is full of people wIig
would prefer candle light to sunlight
if they had to pay for it.
The fear of punishment may keep
men from doing evil, but it cannot
make them love the good.
When you get up to pray for th«
conversion of the heathen, don’t ex¬
pect the missionary to go at his own
expense. '
One reason why some preachers do
not reach the masses is because they
get up in the church steeple to write
their sermons.
One reason why some people do not
get religion is because they do not
want to get enough to spoil them for
the world.—Ram’s Horn.
Porterhouse ami Tenderloin.
A carcass of beef is cut in nineteen
pieces. All of the pieces and the
names are in the dictionary. Look at
the list and you will not find the
names “tenderloin” and “porter
house”—two names that the inexperi-
6n ced buyer has always on his lips.
The porterhouse is a delusion and a
^are in ninety-nine cases tlilCk out of 100.
The tenderloin is the part of the
sirlom at ter a iew round-bone steuko
have been cut off, and is called the filet
de boeuf. It makes a choice piece for
roasting, but if not sold in a lump, is
cut into sirloin steaks of three grades.
The first and second grades are tech¬
nically “hip sirloin steak” and “flat
bone sirloin steak.” These are the
tenderloin steaks that the young
hotisewife pays extra for. There are
not over six of each kind in one car¬
cass, so the chances are that she pays
her good money for a third-cut, or
“round-bone” sirloin, which is itself a
capital steak.
Porterhouse steaks are cut from the
small-end sirloin steak, and one car¬
cass contains but a few r of them. In
gemous butcher’s understand the knack
of errtting the small-end sirloin so as
to include other portions of the bee?,*
thus enabling tnem to sell both at
porterhouse prices.
Good beef has a juicy or sappy ap¬
pearance, with a line, smooth grain,
j which is easily noticed. The fat, both
! outside and through straw-colored the muscles, pre
sents a clea r > appear
ance - The fiesh , should be cherry red.
Whe11 meat rises after being
Passed it may be considered prime,
When the dent made b Y Pressing rises
slowly or not at all, depend upon it
j * be bee * P oor - Washington Post,
i New Implement lor the Soldiers.
The infantry and chasseur regiments
of the Austro-Hungarian .Army have
| ' just ment been which supplied be with used a new spade, imple
can as a
j hatchet and saw. length, It weighs is about about a foot
an d a half m two
| pounds, be hung and is the so arranged belt at the that left it side can
on
near the bayonet. It will enable the
infantry to do all that is necessary in
j laying out a camp, fixing cooking
places, providing a water supply, and
throwing up light earthworks. Exer¬
cises in the use of this new weapon,
which is intended to render infantry
regiments independent of their own
pioneer companies, have also been in
trodneed, and will be carried on Dy
the Vienna garrison in one of the large
drill grounds iu the environs. —Chica
’ g° Herald,
"**’ „
j “Gentle Reader. ,
: Charles Dickens once received an
invitation to a “Walter Scott” party,
each gue3t being expected to appear
in the character of one or the other
Scott’s heroes. On the eventful night,
however, Dickens appeared in simple
evening dress, among a host of Rob
Roys and Ivanhoes. The host asked
j him which of Scott’s characters he
represented. “Why, sir,”
Dickens, “I am a character you will
fiifci in every one of Scott’s novels.
: am the‘gentle reader. ’ ”—Detroit
: Pres?
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
There are aluminum bath tubs.
Incandescent lamps now sell for
twenty-five cents apiece.
More than 16,000 Hindoos have been
inoculated for the prevention of
cholera.
Illinois physicians indorse the
theory that suu spots and smallpox
are connected.
The human skin is exactly like that
of a fish, as it is covered with minute
scales overlapping each other.
Peach stones find ready sale to be
used in manufacturing perfumes,
flavoring extracts and prussic acid.
Illinois University is to have a sum¬
mer station for the natural history
laboratory and the study of aquatic
fauna.
Opticians say that the eye can de¬
tect the color produced by adding but
one-millioneth of a gramme of fuch
sine to a glass of water.
The projected Pan-American Rail¬
way will be from six to ten thousand
feet above sea level, and a good many
long and expensive tunnels will by
necessary.
The largest passenger engine in the
United States belongs to the Cleve¬
land, Columbus, Cincinnati and In¬
dianapolis Railroad. Weight, sixty
five tons.
Zoologists claim that the strength of
the lion in the fore limbs is only sixty
nine per cent, of that of the tiger,
and the strength of the hind liiftbs
sixty-five per cent.
The cylinder head of a Connecticut
locomotive blew out while at full
speed. The train’s momentum carried
it to the station, five miles away,
without a pound of steam.
It is said that Paris will build a
tubular railway eight miles long for
the exposition of 1900. It will be for
passenger service and electricity will
furnish the motive power.
Josinh Hoopes, of Westchester,
Penn., has been collecting American
birds for forty years past, and now
has carefully mounted what is believed
to be one of the finest collections in
the United States. It numbers 6000
specimens.
As to where man first appeared it is
beyond doubt that his earliest home
was in southern Europe, or Asia, oi
North Africa. No earlier traces ot
him have been found than those
found in the area that is now England,
France and Spain.
Professor Otto Lugger, in charge of
the Minnesota experimental station at
St. Anthony Park, Minn., has discov¬
ered from numerous experiments that
if the animal is healthy no rise in
m ^ill follow the injection
temperature afflicted
of „Koch’s • lymph* while, its-incipient if
with tuberculosis, even in
stages, there is an instant rise in tem¬
In tests last year in the German
town of Dessau it was shown that cook¬
ing by wood and coal costs a little
more than twice that done with gas.
From experiments continued at Leip
sic for several years it is estimated
that a consumption of 700 cubic feet
of gas per month is sufficient for pre¬
paring the ordinary food of a family
of four persons.
Dr. Koppen, of Hamburg, has com¬
municated to the United Staffs hydro
graphic office his method for caiiKJSg!
the waves about a ship in times of
storin. He recommends the use of
soap suds. G. \Y. Leutchales,
assistant United States hydrograplier,
says that it is the particles of air un¬
derneath the water which result
in the formation of waves. He also
recommends soap suds for preventing
the growth of waves.
The Delicious Maraeujas.
Have you ever eaten maracujas? Il
not, I advise von to make the experi¬
ment as soon as may be. T had never
seen them till the other night, when
I was dining out, and noticed xvhat at
first I thought were oranges nestling
on the dish beneath glorious bunches
of purple and green grapes, The fruit
was arranged on low silver epergues
and mingled with flowers, as is now
often the case. I soon, however, dis¬
covered that the skin of the fruit as
well as the shape were quite dis¬
similar to that of an orange, the ex¬
terior being shiny and “papery,” and
the size and shape resembling that of
a very large Victoria plum.
I found that maracuja was another
name for the fruit of the passion
flower, and as soon as I had been told
this I recollected that even in England
the shape and color of our own
passion flower fruit is exactly similar,
though it becomes no larger than a
good-sized damson. Those to which
I was introduced the other evening
came from Jamaica and the south of
Maderia, and were obtained at a West
End fruiterer’s. It requires a little
pluck to eat them, as the interior is
rather a shock.
The fruit is like a collection of
dark gray seeds in silver-colored
gelatinous syrup, and does not look
appetizing, but the flavor is delicious,
resembling a most beautiful hothouse
melon. If maracujas were better
known, I am sure they would be e
favorite addition to our dessert.—
London Gentlewoman.
The I liautom , City .... ol ..... Glacier Lay, „
During the past eight or ten yean
a curious phenomenon has been regu*
larlv observed at Glacier Bay, Alaska,
It always occurs immediately after the
full moon of June and at no other
time during the year, and is said to be
a beautiful mirage of some unknown
city suspended in the rarified air
directly over the bay. A. Juneau
j j (Alaska; photographer has taken pic
tuxes of it on four different occasions,
; but so far no one has been able to
! identify a single one of the ghostly
j Louis buildings Republic outlined on his plates.—St.
NO, 1 /
DEVELOPMENT.
Ye?, people chaDge ; we did. you know;
Last August, just a year ago.
You wore red poppies in your hair
That night at Brown's : I called you fate
And you were pleased I thought you so.
The music, throbbing soft and low.
Seemod filled with joy or was it woe?
I could not toll, for you were there—
Yes, people chany
fo-night your gown’s like drifted snow j
The wedding-march poals portly, slow ;
For Tom a bridal wreath you wear,
And I—some way I do not carts
I should have eared a year ago—
Yes, people change.
—Helen Xieolay, in the Century.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Experience tries to teach some very
slow pupils.—Puck.
Fogg refers to his glasses as an over
sight.—Boston Transcript.
If advice cost anything we would ah
spend money to get it. —Atchison Globe.
Gossip is talk about other people’s
affairs which are none of our business.
-Truth.
It is hard to be grateful to the man
who fought your battle for you an 1
got ticked.—Siftings.
Necessity may be the mother oi in¬
vention ; but, more often than not,
she is childless.—Puck.
It is useful, often, to hold your
tongue; but far more so to know how
*;o hold your pen.—Puck.
Teacher -“What is it, Harry, that
stings like au adder?” Harry — “The
end of a leather strap.’’—Truth.
“You’ve the advantage of me, sir,’
said Pompue, loftily. “Naturally, as
I’m not you,” replied Secus.—Puck.
“Delay is dangerous,” remarked tho
train-robber, as ho requested the pass¬
engers to hand over their valuables.—
Puck.
Waiter—“What kind of fish will you
have, sir, bluefishor whitefieh?" Guest
— “I don’t care; I’m colorblind."—
Hallo.
“Does Flag-sou practice what ha
preaches?” Great Caesar! No; he
never gets through preaching. ”—Inter
Ocean.
When it transpires that a speaker
has only ono idea iiis audience is
always anxious for him to carry it
out.—Dallas News.
Jillson says lie 'has noticed ihai
when a discreet man goes to the pawn¬
broker’s he generally puts up and
shuts up.—Buffalo Courier.
Her tastes were so expensive,
8o inclined to prices stoop,
She was uniformly silent
From the fact that talk, is cheap
—Puck.
“I fear,” sadly said the postage
stamp, when it found itself fastened
to a love-letter, “that' I am fto'
sticking to facts.”—Indianapolis Jour
ual.
Teacher—“I don’t suppose any on b
of the little boys here has ever seen a
whale.” Boy (at the foot of the class
—“No. sir, but I’ve felt one.”—Brook¬
lyn Life.
Irate German (to stranger who has
stepped on his toe) — “Mine frent, I
know mine feet vas meant to be valked
on, but dot brivilege pelongs to me.”
• Tit-Bits.
Yager—“I made c ue ringing speech
jn my life, anyway.” Chorus (de¬
risively)— “vUiPTt;, when?” Yager—
“The night I propose 1 to Mrs. Yager.”
—Buffalo Courier.
Lady (in a book store) — “Can yoii
tell me where Packer Institute is?”
Clerk (trying to think) — “I’m not
sure, madam, but I should say it was
in Chicago. ”—Detroit Free Press.
If men were true to their first love,
as stage heroes, novels and women de¬
mand that they should be, every man
would marry the cook who made him
little cakes when he was a boy.—Atchi¬
son Globe.
First Samoan Belle—“ What liorriblt
instincts those Christian women must
have.” Second Samoan Belle—“Why,
dear?” “I am told that they actually
wear live lizards for ornaments. ”--*«•
Indianapolis Journal.
Ambitious Young Person—“Wha$
do you think is the first step one
should take in order to become a poet?”
Experienced Editor (thoughtfully) —
“Well, I should say take out a life in¬
surance policy,”—Somerville Jonrnal.
“The next gown I shall issue,” said
the ladies' tailor, “will be the triumph
of the century,” “Indeed, said his
humble assistant “Yes, indeed. It
•will be impossible to tell hom its
shape that there is a woman in it at
all.”—Indianapolis Journal.
If you would know the difference in
the speed of the shooting star and the
canal mule, quietly observe a man in
the act of taking money from a debtor
and thrusting it into his pocket; and
then watch him as he takes a dollar
from his pocket to shower upon a
creditor. — Puck.
Pendragon — “Hello, Wordleigh,
you’re looking way up. Where’d you
get you’re good clothes?” Wordleigh
— “Ob, I’m doing finely. Getting
rich. Pendragon—“Why, how’s that?
The last time I saw you you looked
like a tramp, and complained that you
couldn't get an article accepted.”
Wordleigh—“Oh, yes; but now I’m
reading a series of unpublished Literary manu¬
scripts before the Bellamy
Club.”—Brooklyn Life.
“Look here. I have come to the con
elusion that it is all humbug witt
your vegetarian principles. The other
evening I was at a vegetarian club and,
true as I am alive, most of the mem
ber#. present were actually gorging
themselves with beefsteaks o» 1 “That
is easily explained. Any member ar
; riving late a club night is com
on
' pelled to eat a beefsteak by way of
punishment; and yet, strange to say,
many of our members always make a
‘ point of being late."—Spassvogel,