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VOL. L
The Treasure Ship.
We are always building cistlea
Of the richest, grandest kind)
Where we sway imagined vassals
Ih the court rooms of the Mind)
Aitd down tlie Arcadian pathways
Of the mind arc wont to roam,
Where we'd stray in fact—not fancy—
If our treasure ship came home.
And wo find it very pleasant
tu ah atmosphere of dreams—
Quite forgetful of the present—
To indulge Utopian thcines;
We would climb to high ambition,
We would stand upon its dome,
We would claim earth’s recognition—
If our treasure ship came home.
So, with hand and foot inactive.
Dreamy-eyed and lazy-limbcd,
We can find life still attractive—
While our lamp remains untriinmcd.
And we calculate the pleasure
In Conception’s laden tome—
AVe'lI indulge in beyond measure—
When our treasure ship collies home.
Oh, the dormant, selfish scheming
Of the idler cannot last ;
Thete will he a truce to dreaming
AVlieti tiie present Is the past)
And there’ll Conte a dull awaking
When he’ll find that life has gone;
And hie treasure ship is breaking
O'er the sands he built her on,
— [Ui (i. lingers in Detroit Free Press.
MISS MARTHA’S TRAMP,
BY Cl I MILES B. KIl’I.EY.
“He certainly is a tramp, or a ped-
dlcv! Whichever he is, I won’t have
him inside the gate!”
“He looks tired, Auntie.”
Miss Martha Pitcher screwed her
lips up tightly, and looked at her ni ec
and namesake with a withering cx-
pression.
“Now, Mattie,” she said- severely,
“I won’t have it. Every time a tramp
comes by, you get him milk, or bread,
or something, ami as for those horrid
peddlers—”
Here Miss Martha’s breath gave out.
Little Mattie, shy, timid, blue-eyed
and pretty as a wild-rose, colored a
little, and then said:
“I don’t think we aro any poorer,
Auntie, for the little we give away.”
“Well, it is yours; do as you
please.”
For little Mattie was the owner of
the farm and a very small income, al¬
though as she was only 17,. her aunt
mairaged the"household;' as -she had
while her. brother lived, and Mr. Pot¬
ter, the lawyer of Arrowdaie, was
guardian for the small property Mat¬
tie’s father had left her.
It was one of Miss Martha’s pecu¬
liarities to lay down the law to Matiie
very emphatically, as to the child she
had brought up from a baby, and then,
suddenly remembering that the girl
was really the owner of tho place, to
retreat, as above described, from her
position. And littlo Ma’tie, submit¬
ting in ad things to her aunt’s dicta¬
tion, took the permission gratefully,
never asserting herself as owner or
mistress.
In the present instance she said,
wistfully:
“Then I may give him some milk, if
he asks for it ?”
“Oh, he’ll ask fast enough! He is
opening the gate now. Gracious,
Mattie, he looks like a brigand! Such
a beard, for a civilized country'”
It was a very liandsomo beard, if
Miss Martha had only had the taste to
admire it. The nose above it was
handsome, too, so were the oven,
white teetli under the heavy mustache,
and the large, brown eyes, half hidden
by the broad slouch hat. lie was
dusty, but not ragged, and his flannel
shirt had flic collar turned down over
a loose black tic, hidden, to ho sure,
under the curling, auburn beard.
Mattie, tripping lightly down the
garden path to the gate, was rather
startled at the tone of the high-bred
voice that asked:
“Can I get some luncheon here? I
cannot find any tavern or hotel on the
road.”
“Oh, no; I mean, yes,” said Mattie,
blushing furiously under the gaze of
the sof, brown eves.
“I mean,” she said, recovering her
composure, “there is not any hotel
within three miles, and you can have
Borne luncheon with pleasure. If you
can wait half an hour we can give you
dinner.”
For that this was no tramp Mattie
saw at once, though she had seen little
of gentlemen in her life. Miss Martha
keeping ali men, exceping tlie farm
hands, at respectful distainco from her
maiden domain.
“Thanks! I will wait with pleas¬
ure, if I may rest on your porch. I
am very tired.”
He stepped weariiv and slowly to the
porch, and sank ’down upon the
chintz-covered, big arm-chair with a
sigh of relief.
“Would vou like a glass of ;. ilk
now?”. Mattie asked.
“I sl|pu!d, indeed, very, much.”
But when tho milk came, in a pretty
glass goblet, upon a dainty china
plate, it was Ja::e, the servant girl,
THE ENTERPRISE.
who brought it. Mattie, suddenly
shy, was setting the dinner-table with
clean cloth and napkins, and the best
china.
*’G ratiioiis, Mattie I Whatever ah)
voit doing?’’ ctied Miss Martha, coin¬
ing in the room;
“Hush, Auntie! hd is a gentleman,
tirid he is fcoming in to dinner.”
Itut when dinner was daintily served,
the “gentleman” was found to have
fainted. Miss Martin, who reveled
in sick nursing, was all energy. She
got the “cainphirc” and smelling salts,
loosened the necktie, helped Jane to
carry the invalid into the large, cool
parlor, and put him on the wide, old-
fashioned sofa. It was a long insensi¬
bility; so long, that the women be¬
came alarmed, and sent Hiram, the
cow-boy, to Arrowdttlo for the doctor.
Before the three-mile ride Avas ac¬
complished and the doctor arrived, the
uninvited guest had passed from in¬
sensibility to delirium, and tho doctor
pronounced the case a partial sun¬
stroke.
For two weeks Miss Martha nursed
the stranger as faithfully as if lie had
been one of her own kin, bringing
him back from the very confines of the
grave. She scrupulously refrained
from any curious investigation of
his small hand satchel, and only
searched one coat pocket till site
found a letter directed to Mr.
Albert Hutchinson, box 33, Alton,
Michigan.
Mattie wrote a letter to the box,
describing Mr. Albert Hutchinson's
soro strait. No answer came, and
tlicn other letterg were taken from the
pocket and were found to be directed
all over the country, always to “Mr.
Albert Hutchinson,” who had evi¬
dently been upon an extended summer
tour. It was impossible to guess
where, in all this variety of location,
the home of the wanderer might be,
and so Miss Martha put the letters
back, saying:
“If he dies, Mattie, I s’pose we'll
have to read some of those,, letters to
find his folks, but I’m not going pry¬
ing into them until I can’t help my¬
self.”
But Mr. Albert Hutchinson did not
die. Very s'owly he won his way
to health, and in his convales¬
cence opened a new world to Mattie.
He was an artist, ho told her, and he
had been on a sketching tour, sending
his papers by mail to his studio, in
New York, where a brother artist took
care of them. He talked of books, of
life in Switzerland, Paris, London,
Vienna, Rome, till the girl felt stir¬
ring in heart and brain, a longing so
intense as to be painful, for some
knowledge of this new world of art
and letters, of which she had never
heard.
There was nothing spoken between
the two of a sentimental nature, but
Mr. Hutchinson, finding this eager
young intellect grasping all he put be¬
fore it, talked as he had never talked
before, with the keen pleasure of im¬
parting knowledge where every word
was treasured and valued.
It was a great void when he was
fully recovered and went away. He
paid Miss Martha liberally, with most
earnest words of gratitude for her care
of him, but when he was gone, Mattie
would not look at the roll of green¬
backs, Hushing hotly as she said:
“I ain sure lie was poor, Aunt
Martha. Put the money away. I hate
it!”
But she was restless, and craved
books out of her reach, opportunities
to study, and the life of travel and
culture that seemed far removed from
her. It seemed to her only natural
when a tremendous change came.
There had long been a talk at Ar-
rowdale of coal in the vicinity, and
about six months after Mr. Hutchin¬
son’s departure experiments were
made that proved “Pitcher’s Farm”
to be a great coal-bed. Mattie, who
by her father’s .will was of age a 1
eighteen, found herself an heiress’
Her guardian, a man thoroughly hon¬
est, became her agent, and smiled ap¬
proval when she proposed to sell the
farm and move to New A ork with
Aunt Martha, who was very much
elated at the idea.
“I can have good teachers there for
a year or two, and then I will go
abroad,” Mattie said, when the plan
was finally adopted.
“I’ll never cross the ocean,” Aunt
Martha declared, “but no doubt you’ll
find company going, and I’ll keep
some sort of a home warm for you till
you come back.”
“Now, my dear Algernon,’ Mrs.
Montrose said languidly to her son, as
be entered her “apartments” in I ans,
“do show a little more interest in Miss
Pitcher’s pursuits. It was such a
chance, her consenting to come abroad
with me, and she is so rich.”
“But,” drawled Algernon, caress¬
ing his silky moustache, “she is so
CARNESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 8.1890.
dreadfully (voergetic. She tires me to
death, rushing about. 1 am sure she
saw everything in London, and now
Rhe is ‘doing’ Paris at a most tremend¬
ous rate! By the Way, where is she?’
“She went to a private exhibition of
American artists Avith Mrs. Cope and
Carrie. You know Carrie is quite an
artist, itnd she knows whero all tho
best studios and exhibitions arc.”
“Yes? Dear me, mother, I am den.
cedly glad you are not forever rushing
about as girls do now-a-davs. It is a
complete rest to come in here, after
Mattie Pitcher and Carrie Cope.”
While lie spoke, the two ladies
named, with Mrs. Cope as chaperon,
wore standing in a large, well-lighted
gallery, where a few paintings hung
with wide spaces between them, invit¬
ing admiration or criticism.
“But Mattie,” Miss Cope was sav¬
ing, “the face and figure aro a per¬
fect portrait of yourself. You look
different, too, more childlike. The
expression is not so intellectual, but l
am sure you looked jtist like that when
yoit were A’ery young! Now, mam¬
ma, isn’t it like Mattie?”
“I think it is!” was the quiet reply.
“No. 32. Why Carrie, it is one of A1
Hutchinson’s pictures. 1 Wonder if
he is in Paris!”
“Cease to wonder, Cousin Mary,”
said a masculine voice, close beside
the group. How are you! Ob Cad!
what an atrocious hat!”
“I won’t be called Cad!” pouted
Miss Carrie. “Yes I will, too! You
may call tne Cad for ‘auld latig sync.’
Matlie, let me introduce my cousin—
sixteen times removed, my dear—Mr.
Hutchinson.”
But already Mattie’s hand bad been
taken in a firm clasp, and Mr. Hutch¬
inson was expressing bis delight at
meeting Miss Pitcher, and inquiring
for Aunt Martha.
It was a delightful morning. They
sauntered through the gallery, admir¬
ing the works of their countrymen,
chatting of old times, planning a
thousand excursions, until Mrs. Cope
gave a dismayed exclamation over her
watch, and hurried down to her car¬
riage.
“The Copes have really taken pos¬
session of Mattie,” said Mrs. Mont¬
rose, a month later. “She is never
here. It is fortunate there is no son,
Algernon,”
“Yes; but there is an artist fellow
always with them—a cousin, or some¬
thing. Willett says he is immensely
rich, and paints for love of it. 1 don’t
know myself whether it is Miss Cope
or Miss Pitcher that is the attraction,
but he is always dangling after them.”
“Oh, Algernon! how can you let
such things go on? Why don't you
exert yourself, and make yourself at¬
tractive to Mattie? You are the hand¬
somest man in Paris at this minute.”
“AYell, the truth is, mother, Miss
Mattie seems to look upon me as about
otic remove from an idiot, because I
cannot talk art or books or music.”
Which last remark certainly proved
that Algernon Montrose bad not, at all
events, lost 1 is powers of penetration.
Mrs. Montrose, however, made ono
strenuous effort to mend matters by
proposing to leave Paris at once, and
proceed to Italy.
“I think,” Mattie said, “that I should
like to 6tnv a month or two longer in
Paris. But I need not detain you,
Mrs. Montrose. Mrs. Cope has most
kindly invited me to join her party, »
A letter crossed the ocean, not long
afterward, to Miss Martha, some sen¬
tences of which maybe here recorded:
“AVe will delay the wedding until I come
home, dear Auntie, but that will be in a fe\V
weeks. It may be that Albert and L will
return to Europe next year, but we are com¬
ing back to you now. He is anxious to see
you, and be sure you are willing for me to
marry ‘your tramp.’ I never thought,when
be left us, that in a strange country we
should meet again, and I hear from his own
lips that he loved me long ago, and was
heart-broken when he went to seek me at
Arrowdaie and found only a yawning coal
pit! But it is all right now, Auntie, and I
am the happiest woman in the world.”
—[New York Ledger.
Strange Microscopic Anomalies.
Strange anomalies exist in the mi¬
croscopic world. The monad, for in¬
stance, reproduces its kind by dividing
itself, two perfect individuals result¬
ing, thus leading Wiesman to infer
that it is possible for the life of such
an organism to be continued for ever.
The rotifers have a natural life-period
of only about nineteen days, accord¬
ing to Lewes, yet they may exist as
dry and inanimate dust for months, to
be resurrected by a drop of water.—
[Trenton (N. J.) American.
Meteoric Pig Iron.
A chunk of the meteor that fell in a
shower in Kossuth and Winnebago
Counties, Iowa, about a week ago was
picked up near Ramsey and is the
finest specimen yet found. It weighs
an even 100 pounds and has the ap¬
pearance of incited pig iron.—[Omaha
fNeb.) Bee.
OUR VOLCANOES.
Underground Forces Which are
Not Down on the Maps.
Although Quiet Now, They May
Become Active Again.
Examination of a geological map of
(lie ltocky Mountain and Sierra Ne¬
vada region shows the entire country
to he dotted with splashes and streaks
of red, den ting the rocky remains of
former volcanic vents. No active vol¬
canoes arc known to exist within the
boundaries of the United S’ates at
present ; but a number of investiga¬
tors believe that they have discovered
signs that (here have been genuine vol¬
canic eruptions at several points in
that region since man first took up his
abode oil the Pacific slope.
In fact, at one place in Plumas
county, Cal., some sixteen years ago,
discoveries of pumice s’one and lava
wo;c made near an extinct volcano
cone, so situated in connection with
the trees then existing in the neighbor¬
hood as to give evidence that an erup¬
tion had taken place within less than
fifty years. Traditions of the trappers
also seemed to bear out this interesting
supposition.
in Oregon and Washington there
arc numerous giant volcanic moun¬
tains, among them Mount Shas'a,
Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens.
These have never been in eruption
within recent times. But both north
and south of the United States there
are very active centres of volcanic dis¬
turbance with which the California
and Oregon volcanoes, though they
are supposed to be- extinct, are con¬
nected almost uninterruptedly. Alaska
has a number of volcanoes, the great¬
est of which is Mount St. Elias. The
Aleutian Islands arc also entirely vol¬
canic, and there have been a number
of eruptions in their area during the
present century.
Tho islands join the volcanoes of
America with those of the Old World
in Kamtchatka, Japan, the Rhillipincs,
the Indian Archipelago and Austral¬
asia.
South of the United States, too, lie
the great volcanic belts of Mexico,
Central America and the South Ameri-
can Facific slope.
There have been a number of in¬
stances where a volcanicregion lias
remained dormant and the subter¬
ranean forces had become extinct, ap¬
parently, for immense periods of
time; and then, with scarcely a warn¬
ing beyond a rumbling earthquake or
two, the crater has suddenly br< 1 0
forth into activity, overwhelming the
country for great distances around
with mill and death. Thus it Was
With Mount Vesuvius, which was ap¬
parently dead for ages previous to the
great eruption which destroyed J’oin-
peii and Herculaneum.
Within the past week or two re¬
ports liaVc been received that the great
sacred mountain of Japan, Fusiynma,
which has exhibited no signs of activ¬
ity for over a century lias again start¬
ed in on ar. eruption, causing great
consternation throughout all Japan.
With these examples in mind it can¬
not be said definitely that the volcan¬
oes of tho United States Pacific slope
are extinct. The subterranean forces
aro still alive, though they may sleep
long. That they exist is proved by
tho seismic disturbances so often re-
ported from the Pacific coast, When
they will bl’eak forth terribly again,
or whether they ever will do so, is a
question which nobody can answer.—
[New York Sun.
A Lady anil a Doctor Fight.
A Vienna letter to the London Tele¬
graph says: A recent duel between a
young lady and a medical practitioner,
resulting- in the latter’s receiving a
wcund in the arm which incapacitated
him for further combat, again brings
forward the ofxliscussed “duel ques¬
tion”—a problem of immediate con¬
cern to society both in this country and
Hungary, in the present instance tiic
lady duelist had espoused the cause of
a friend, who, it appears, believed she
had cause to complain of the gentle¬
man. The latter was given (lie choice
between a horsewhipping and a sword
duel. He preferred the duel, went
out, and, after gallantly defending
himself to defensive warfare, was
wounded badly enough for Hie en¬
counter to be stopped by the seconds.
From the particulars that have
transpired everything scans to have
passed off' in a manner highly credita¬
ble to ali parties concerned; but many
people are asking today whether the
time has not come to put such legal
‘restrictions on single combats gener¬
ally as to render them, if not impossi¬
ble, at all events much more difficult
than at present. The mod <rifling
offence, a word spoken thoughtlessly
after diuuer, oy an insignificant breach
of etiquette is quito sufficient to bring
on a duel. A short-sighted friend of
mine received a challenge for net
bowing to an acquaintance whom lie
did not recognize on the opposite sido
of a crowded street. Another friend
was crippled for life in a duel occa¬
sioned by an unimportant diflerencc of
opinion at a dinner table. A chal¬
lenge, whomsoever it comes from,
must bo accepted, providing the man
who sends it is satisfaktiongfahig—
that is to say, of unblemished charac-
ter.
A cobbler may call out a courtier,
and there is sure to bo a duel unless
the shoemaker has a blot on his repu¬
tation. A refusal to act as second to
a friend, unless some very special pre¬
text can be invoked, is in itself a cause
for dueling. A man who refuses a
duel with any individual admitted to
be satisfaktionsfaliig at once loses bis
position in society, and is looked upon
as a coward. The proportion of dis¬
putes f dlowed by a challenge that arc
amicably arranged is very small, and
consequently the number of duels is
correspondingly large. In Austria the
sword is chiefly used, but in Hungary
they prefer the pistol, and it is very
seldom that the issue is not fatal to
one of the combatants.
Our Detectives.
This world is getting too small to
hold certain kinds of bad people. Two
years ago a bank messenger in New
York stole a package of bank notes
worth forty-one thousand dollars. lie
cunningly kept on with his work as
usual for a year, and then removed
with his stolen money to Honduras,
where he lived quietly and in much
confidence, because there is no extra¬
dition treaty between Honduras and
the United .States; but all this time a
detective was shadowing him, and
finally got tho money from him, and
will probably get the man.
Last year a thief was arrested in
South America, eight years after the
commission of a robbery in the United
S a'es. There is now a secret under¬
standing among tiic police authorities
and detective agencies over the great¬
er part of the globe. They assist ono
another in such ways as to render it
all but impossible for a criminal to es¬
cape, into whatever part of the earth
he may go.
Nothing can outstrip the electric
current, which now passes over nearly
all lands and under nearly all seas.
We often hear nowadays of default¬
ers running away, with or without
their booty, and we do not always hear
of their arrest. Generally, however,
they arc arrested, though sometimes
they escape the penalty due their crime
by surrendering a great part of their
plunder. The system is not yet per¬
fected, and its working is attended
with too much expense. The time is
not distant when the chief of police ill
New York or Boston will be able to
arrest a mail in Australia just as easi¬
ly, quickly and cheaply as if lie were
in the next street.—[Youth’s Com¬
panion.
The Sponge.
Some of the interesting experiments
on the physiology of sponges have
been recently made by Dr.Lendenfeld,
of Innsbruck, Austria. He operated
with eighteen different species, putting
carmine, starch or milk, in the water
of tho aquarium, and also trying the
eflect of various poisons—morphine,
strychnine, etc. The following aro
some of Ids results! Absorption of
food does not take place at the outer
surface, but in the interior; only for-
eigu substances used for building up
the skeleton enter tho sponge without
passing into tho canal-system. Tho
sponge contracts its pores when poisons
are put into the water; and the action
is very like that of poisons oa muscles
of the higher animals. Especially re-
markable is the cramp of sponges
under strychinne: and the lethargy (to
other stimuli) of sponges treated with
cocain. As these poisons, in the high¬
er animals, act indirectly on the mus¬
cles through the nerves, it seems not
without warrant to suppose t>'at
sponges also have nerve-cells which
cause muscular contraction.
Business Men’s Widows.
One day recently six sisters met in
reuni n near Philadelphia, tho oldest
eighty-four, the youngest seventy-
four. Five were widows; of the s’x.li
the husband is living. And this sug¬
gests something else of a similiar im¬
port. Some years ago sixteen city
men, all in active life and all married,
built as many country places in a cer¬
tain locality. Today only four of the
sixteen men survive, There are nine
surviving widows—no widower. If
there is any moral to this story, it
seems to be, that it is worth while be¬
ing a business man’s wife rather than
a business man’s self. The attention
of fiction mongers i» invited to tiie
figures and the situation they imply.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Dr. Charcot, tho great French sci¬
entist, who has written extensively on
hypnotism, is reported as saying that
not ono person in 100,000 is subject to
hypnotic inllueneo.
It lakes about throe seconds to solid
a message from ono end of tho At¬
lantic cablo to tho other.
It is assorted that a professor at
Harvard Collcgo declares as a result
of his observations that young men do
not attain to their full measure of
mental faculties until they are twenty-
live years of ago.
The effect of the electric light cur¬
rent on the compasses of some vessels
is so great that it becomes necessary to
dotormino how many hours tho dyna¬
mo has been running before working
cut the vessel’s reckoning.
A new electric lantern has boon de¬
signed in Vienna, Austria, for the use
of lecturers and medical classes. By
a combination of lenses llio magnified
imago of an object is projected on a
white screen in its natural colors.
The aborigines of New South Wales
show great ingenuity ill shaping their
harpoon heads for spearing fish. In-
s’ead of shaving the wood up and
down the grain as wo are accustomed
to whittle, they turn it round and
round and chip it off across the grain.
Dr. Lintncfl, tho State entomologist
of New York, advises the importation
of lady-bugs from Australia to eat up
the saw-tlies that- are said to bo ravish¬
ing tho wheat fields of Illinois. The
Australian lady-bug, unlike its Ameri¬
can name-sake, is said to bo a perfect
terror to the saw-fly and other crop-
destroying insects.
Professor Gluck of Berlin, Germany,
has succeeded in substituting ca'gut,
ivory, and bone freed from chalk for
defects in the bony structure, muscles
and nerve sinews. In more than ore
case lie has restored muscular freedom
to crippled hands, prevented shorten¬
ing of the legs from surgical opera¬
tions, and re-established lost nervous
control.
Experiments have recently been
made in Spain on the action of sun¬
light in maturing wines. Layers of
new wine in bottles of colored glass
have been exposed (o (ho direct rays
of tho sun, with the result that both
flavor and quality have been improved,
in tho south of Europe there lias been
a .practice of ripening cognac by ex¬
posing the bottles on the roof for
years.
Takiuc an Onlli of Friendship.
The London Illustrated News de¬
scribes a curious ceremony which ro-
cent'y occurred in British Burmah,
while a British expedition was en¬
gaged in bringing certain hostile tribes
into subjection in the Lushai country.
The scene depicted is that of a Lushai
chief Hiking an oath of friendship
with the political officer of tho expe¬
dition, Mr. Murray. Preparatory to
the ceremony, a clear space was made
in tho jungle, and plantain-leaves
strewn on the ground. Then tho
ohio f, his brother, and attendants,
seated themselves in a row, facing a
young pig and a gyal or tame bison,
which were tied to a free,
After a short parley tho chief rose
and, taking u spear, handed it. to Mr.
! Murray, and they both plunged it into
;] lc pjg. The chief then smeared some
j 0 f (ho pig's and blood on Mr. returned Murray’s the
, forehead, the latter
* compliment. A similar ceremony was
performed with the gyal. Tho chief
|), CH said: “Until the sun ceases to
ehino in the heavens, and until yonder
stream runs backward, I will be your
J true and faithful and friend.” concluded Potations tha
! of rice beer rum
ceremony. An oath taken in this man-
j tier is considered and they by the seldom Lusliais known most
i,i, K ling, arc
to break it.
Uses of Straw hoard.
The rapidity with which invention
brings new materials and processes
into the market in this country is one
of the most striking characteristics ot
the restless activity of American
minds. I was talking with C. N.
Wells, who is ono of the prominent
men in the big strawtoard com bin a-
lion, when lie told me that straw board
is now being manufactured for fine
interior decorations to take the place
of lincrusta walton and similar stuff.
He continued: “ We have found that
strawboard, properly prepared, can be
pi essed into molds so as to form any
kind of interior decoration, and can
he put up on walls and ceilings so
quickly that the saving in time in its
use is a great item. It is much cheaper
than any material now used, besides
being much more available every way.
Wo have just put $300,000 into a fac¬
tory for the manufacture of straw-
hoard for this special use.—[New
York Press.
NO. 31.
Nature's lesson.
Oil, yo that love, nn<l deem love returned
Is treasure cast, away,
The lesson ye have never truly learned
lty Nature’s taught each day.
for see the flowers that have gracious bloom
In forests lone and far,
Yielding unstinted largesse of perfume,
Where none to love them are.
They are content with giving; full and free
And royally they give.
They look not for reward; oh! thus do ye
Unloved, who loving live!
HUMOROUS.
“Givo us a rest”—Opiates.
Governed stationery—Ruled paper,
is a telegraph operator who reads by
sound an ear-sighted fellow?
Cotton may be king in its native
Southland, but when it gets into
Northern dry goods stores it is only
prints.
Edit,h(who has been givenonoof tho
Edison phonographic dolls)—I am so
sleepy, mamma! Can’t Dolly say my
prayers for mo ?
Groat Ciosar crossed the Rubicon,
A river small, though wet;
Great Osar now is dead and gone,
The Rubicon's there yet.
Acquaintance—You say your littlo
eon is a prodigy among children?
Parent — Acs. “in what wav?”
“There tire several tilings lie can’t
do.”
First Trunk—Say, Saratoga, I'm
full, and want to go home to Chicago.
Lend me a dollar, will you? S.cond
Trunk—I would, old Sole-leather, hut
you sco I’m strapped.
Broiron: What a heavy shower!
It is raining cats and dogs! Amy
(quizzing!)’): What kind of dogs
does it rain, Mr. Bronson? Bronson:
Skye terriers, probably.
“Maria, you will please start tho
him,” called out the parson from the
stairway at eleven p. in., and young
Doodely, who had accompanied tho
parson’s daughter home from church,
took tho hint and left.
Drowning a Herring.
Forest and Stream is just now circu¬
lating a legend of the sea, whirh may
or may not be true. Readers must
judge for themselves. The legend is
as follows: Henrik Dahl of Aalesund,
Norway, was a reader and follower of
Darwin. Wishing to apply his theory
of tho limit of adaptability of a species
to its environment, lie procured a her¬
ring from a neighboring fjord and
carried it home in a tub of sea water.
Ho renewed Dio water daily for some
lime, and gradually reduced tho quan¬
tity, with so little inconvenience to the
herring that ho concluded that the fish
nigh , in time, learn to breathe air
undiluted with water, like the cat and
the man.
it turned out as he expected, and
the water was finally turned out of
the tub of tho herring, never to be re¬
placed, even for bathing. Henrik
next removed the lish from its tub and
placed it on the ground, whore it
Hopped about very awkwardly at first,
but soon learned to move freely and
rapidly. In a little while the herring
was able to follow its master without
difficulty, and then it became his con¬
stant companion about the streets of
I lie city. On a certain unfortunate
day Henrik had occasion to cross a dc-
lapidatod bridge which spanned an
arm of the harbor. The herring com¬
ing gracefully along, heedless of dan¬
ger, now and again springing at the
ephemera, for which it had acquired a
special fondness, missed its footing,
slipped through a crack into the water
beneath and was drowned.
A BnhaeU Plantation.
Tho work of gathering and drying
the bubach blossoms is in full blast at
tho buliach plantation, says the Merced
(Cal.) Star. About one hundred men
are scattered through the fields picking
the blossoms. As fast as they arc
picked they arc stowed away about
two inches deep in wooden boxes, the
boxes being two nud one-lialf feet
square. Wagons are employed in
hauling the boxes to the drying house.
‘Probably it is called a drying house
because it is alongside of tho spot
whero the drying is done. Certainly
no artificial heat is needed at the bn-
liach plantation to dry anything at this
time of the year.
The sun’s rays enme down within
the inclosuro of big poplar trees with
a force that makes it pleasant to stand
from under. The trays are allowed to
lie there, the blossoms being stirred up
by a force of men until they, the blos-
soms, arc fairly cured. Afterward
they aro placed or. a large platform
about 00 feet square, where they re¬
main until dry, and then aro sent to
the reduction works, whero they are
ground into dust. This is done by
men who arc proof against sneezing,
otherwise it could not be done at all.
Whether or not it makes flics and mos¬
quitoes sneeze wc don’t know, but it
Is certainly (lie best preventive in uso
to keep those insects at a distance.