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THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE,
1 RAWFOUnVILLE, «A.
Assiirinng the *<wkrne *'» he
from twenty to sixty years, and count
ing only nmfa workws. -Wu p.-rsous in
tfiis countr V live on the labor of
hi rv loo workers.
Xnltl • nliotl .Mi. le va. Switzerland,
Mother nr M 1,u*Mi blind p.-rw.r. ...
• k " “ " l, “!
s' \.Mv fiv p. r e, nt. would hav. kept
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trmhil.
Tin- viiluo of farming hinds in tliii
country is greatest in .Vi-w J«-rs,-y. In
fAss it n\i r:i”< 1: Nei. Jet -y, -6-**;
Massachusetts k-*If: Ohio, 8I6f New
York. ?1f; Vermont. $3*; Maryland.
8:!2; Wisconsin, 822, and in some
U . -t, ru Htut' • b sh tliim §•'> per acre.
Home one Ji t- ingeniously made mid
place 1 "U exhibition id tie- World h
Fair a hii ee ear of corn, over twenty
inches in length, by glueing largo
grains of corn on 11 wooden cob, the
whole being v-ry deceptive ill appear
ancc. To hear the farmers discuss tli«
nirrits and demerits of tins large ear
wt corn and its smaller brothers, as
wi ll ns to oh.M-rve til'- efforts Hindu by
others to get 11 few grains for seed .
afford considerable amusement, f,, r
those who understand the secret, nays
th St. Louis Kcptthlie.
'I’he Chinese llovernmeiit appears to
lie awakening to the fact that the
rapid increase in the sale of Indian
teas ill Europe may be due ill part to
causes for which tin- t’liinewi growers
are responsible. The Likin anthori
tics have .......................
the manufacture of what is significant
ly known as “lie tea." The doeu
mint |miuWs iint flint this acunduloiis
practice bus done much to bring about
tlie lamented decline ill the tell trade,
and declare* that the authorities arc
iletermiucd to put a atop to it. I’co
lile are warned nut to make anv tea ex
cept 1 from the genuine tea leaf; but,
Hays the proclamation, if any person
Hliould disregard the warning, the pun¬
ishment will lie severe - namely, trims
porb.tmu for life, for the maker, the
seller, the buyer, and every body else
coneerned in tlie trunsuetion. Any
person who tuay give information that
will lead to tho detection of those
carrying on tins unlawful business
Will l«, handsomely , , rewarded , , and “re
cci ve 11 button of the fifth class. ’I lie
proclamation ends with on assurance
to ten dealers that hereafter they need
haw no fear of adult er at iou , .a« av ».
will dare to disregard this official an
nnmieement, although uo jirovn ions
whatever have been made for its eii
forccmcnt.
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Kays the New York Bun: ‘‘There is
evidently u great deal for woman to
learn in the domestic arts and sciences
at the Chicago Exposition outside of
the beautiful building dedicated to her
special honor and instruct iou. There .
is a variety of cm- lung exhibitions, and ,
one of them is especially to l»- com¬
mended. This is the exhibit devoted
to the illustration of nil the uses to
which tho products of maize, or corn
as it i* universally called in tins coun¬
try. can be profitably mid piiliituhlv
put in the economy of the household.
Although th.- queens of the American
kitchen have been supposed to he well
acqumutcd with corn meal, it appears
that there arc niaiiv grades and modi
fications of the familiar vcllow flour,
and anilt.oinge.uitf, the ingenuity of a,.i. a celebrated nt. I do- I
luoxifttrifitor *»f th»* etilnmry tr t biu*
evolved boiuo forty tsavorr product?*
with such queer names as “plnnkets,”
„ “jolly ... fa>ys. .... ‘mu kia-h i i we •• ami , ‘ km
mu-ia li wc.” It is to fa- hoped that
these article* all taste as sweet under
«nv other name. This exhibit onght
to prove of further use as showing to
foreign visitors the value aud d« *ira
hility of corn flours for huumu food.
The u»-e of American corn before it lias
Ihh ii transformed into pork for the
table fa littf.- known nhroa.l. Tt was
not know it at all mini a special com
mission, r. Mr. Murphy, was sent to
Eurojs- f>y Ko-retary Kuak ot the IK
partment of Agriculture to give lec¬
tures and demonstrateqjs u f h,.vi j-afa
table and nutritious dishes e»-uld be
made from a gram which, on that side
of the Atlantic, fed the lower animals
alone. As a result of hi* effort* the
knowledge of corn flour has Iw-Cotne
quit, usual among ih< culinary e\p«-rts
of Parts. Berlin and Y unna, and as
Melt a» Ui< peaanutry of Enr.-ja- hav.
tieccH*. nquilukd with it the l**f. fall
mark, t for our *rn • ill fa Ml
pr» rishl y enlarged It i* n fa h.lsd
that th* m I \till if 1 ,*. *
HiM " 9k tt m% t \ t» *Iii
if »#rtktf#a
•f ti 4 fc.it*"" 4
I **! I u? f -« tthv
, f stiff t <fa«4|«fa
*4**! 9NW $ •uf •lUft . . j
THE REFORM MOVEMENT.
Pnrrpnt tllllUll Pnmnipnt UUUlIl j! 1 rnnppniinsr tU i thR 6rB3t
Crusade AfdlllS! Oppression.
The fellow who has got to go through
th. summer or, confidence will feel
mighty fa!, Si, thin before Christmfts.-Z.it
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A graded income tax is one in
Uig * to !he t, am n m',r. , !f hfc^te. ' The
example It taxed
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* 10 000 , 7 1-2 \» r cent, and tho.se orer
.
810 , 00 '., 10 percent.
As the hunk and business failure*
increase throughout th* country the
“flrianci* rs” meet periodieally in New
York and issue circulars and send out
dispatches telling the people of the
improvement in the financial situation.
“Our debts represent our prosperity”
yon know.
Olutiiiiecv llepew recently admitted
more truth in a few words than he has
told in all his after-diner speeches.
Advocating the repeal of the Sherman
silver law In* said: “It will permit
tho Use of credits which are now so
barf.illy curtailed, and which con
stitute 5*5 per cent, of the currency of
the country.
<l,y. lands statement ,, t that tl t m«n*
hers of Congress are very oiistumte in
their views on the silver ijuestiou” could ro
minds us of the juryman who
m>t agree with the other eleven and
said “they were tin- most stubborn set
of men In- < v< r saw in hia life.”—
llnlh,n Tribune.
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Tho government just now in its
fiiianeial poliev its' is like a pyramid
H taiuling ..11 apex and as long as it
continues to whirl with tremendous
speed it o*n stand, but it willI stop ..ml
9Bt,T«ST£: whole ££L”S fabric.— The
and readjust the
/.’« rtihitiun.
flovornmcnt is for tho protection
nnd promotion of the welfare and hap
piiiess of man. When |he ilovern
nient does this it makes patriots,
When laws are administered w ith
cpial justice to all, when the fruits of
toil arec,p.itiddy dmtrihuUd, the., tho
is responding hecluration to the sen- of
timent expressed in the
Independence: “All men are created
free and equal,” etc.
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It is very curious that the hankers,
who have always suid, and say now,
that there is pteuty of niouev in tho
country, arc kindly willing to greatly
increase the volume of currency if they
«re allowed to issue the increase on
tlieir bonds. They arc too 1ste in tho
^ ilur ......pj,. , lu der»tHnd nowlenrnod their
The pcqdc Imvc
to their sorrow w hat the hankers can
m’t m,teach them. If they, the bank
ci . are allowed ♦<> -Hi fi'i ' t tr y
ti, people will ho at then mercy.—/In.
The New York Tritium expresses the
opinion that the income tax should not
b. imposed under existing cireum
stfiiiees. That such a tax would not
have the patrioticm ntiineiit tosiipjK.rt
it that aided it in the sixties, and that
its collection would, on that account,
be more difficult. The Trillion make*
the further point that if the proposed
incomes of 810,000 and upwards ho
carried out there w ill he an aggregate
of ntsuit $500,000,000 to he taxed, anil
at 5 pet cent the yield would fa
Ot HI, ill K> yearly.
These are trving time*, and tlie peo
pic are looking in every direction for
relief The winter o‘f discontent fa
upon the toiling masses of humanity
Who just now begun to realize the
treaehcrv of their i>ariv leader* who
have so' wantonly slid betrayed them,
While the small unimportant offi
ends arc not so culpable as the larger
B1||l nu , rt> i Bl ,H» r tant ones, vet their
influence has been made us.- of ;o
forgo the elisius that are now binding
‘he industrial class into a fanning.- as
^ th at of chat tic slavery.-^
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#
1 p. . ", “free ,r eoiim-e " of silver"
lu .y , fa- taken in two s. , In one
it may menu the coinage ot snver by
the government t.-r am om tr.. .<
cost to the owner— froeef s,-.gi..orage,
the juirt g.ung to the government for
tho I'XjH'iis.' and cost of coinage ; or it
maj- menu the unlimited coinage of
silver, without limit by law on the
amount coin.-il. At present any per
-u may take gold bullion to the
United State* Mint and have it coined,
not only fr.-e of seigniorage, but sfao
in any anu-uut the party desire* with
out restriction of law : but with silver
the government it-. It coin* the *i-ver
or issues eeirtirtcatcs. fr.-m the bullion
t.oiki.iki.* ounct-s a -taioi mu.-lint
eatfli month and no mure, lhe term,
"free citiag.-”* has Ini-b and is tiow
being used in both tin ** m uss.
viKoivi* rc***t'U»rs in lOMENTiex.
Th. js-puhst- .• ' irgtaia :n. t at
I.vneld irg last rimrs.fay in sut. c.-u
x< nti. \ arfa fiv. hundred del
is* fr* all MV.r th* -fat. *.r. in
a?*., ndattc. km.-nc the v:*itingstate#.
men w.-r. M rr» Hitnp'. r.. s r . .» Kan
.
and - great iueu 15 b*.- tr.ua
iiBSdU, Mr Htaipsoit
ftWMNh \V. dn. * i:»t. acj
Mr P.-ne. «t f Tfi tfit r>:
-i tHwaW-a*.! |t,<* run.rat an
tin ■ it"
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%*f»4 * t r
it r
which hf* ' to to nr committal
.Mr. IVuee'-i t-pc.-eh nvnt.-.l mn<-)i en
thueia--»». He runv.-ntion v...: per
m»ts« nth organized by the .-lection of
Col. Bob. rt 1% verity, o» Fauquier, aa
chairman, with the usual complement
of subordinate oTc--H. Picr-un,
of Caroline county, editor of The V'ir- ;
ginin Son at Richmond, was made
el,airman of the committee on resobi- !
tious. I he following nominations were
made unanimously: For governor,F..R.
Coke, Cumberland; for lieutenant
governor, J. Brand Beverly, of Fan
yir.r; for^ de^TeHfirsrfor attorney genemlWiUian.
adopted
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. Second,
iffaSSsg
on the s. enritv of
their prop, rtv Third, the imposition
of a rigid income tax ; and fourth, a re
form of the tariff and internal reve
.1 lie laws. It also denounces the pre.k:
cut election laws of the state as part,
-»». demands their repeal and tlio sub
etitutinn of a non-partisan law. The
preamble to the platform s.v, rely ar
raigns President Cleveland, p^poae “who was
elected for the express of re
lies mg the ......pie from the robberies
of the McKinley tariff, but who calls
coiinr.-ss not f.. r. p. al the robber
tariff, but to consum.de the fraud of
1SH, winch I,-.) demonetized , „ , silver. , The , r ,
convention throughout was harmonious.
Tim initiative in switzew.axd.
Uecentlv- the Swiss people intro
I 1 .'"'"' 1 ^ ^ tlj C Iu itni -
| ' t.ve into tier f-leral constitution. n . t t
< This act marks the greatest advance in
the direction of pure democracy which
has yet been inu.k' by any modern no
tioii. Hen-after Kwit/.< rland will he
,.,,uv more and more the standard
bearer in all reforms which make fur
direct and ellieieiit self-g,iVerniiieiit.
while we of the greatest republic must
acknowledge with humiliation that we
have been completely distanced by
her 111 the race for pure politics. The
Iniative may be defined «b the right
„f „ voter or a body of voters to
ilf Federal Consti
partition into the
j tut ion of the Hwis- Confederation
j on tin* seventh of July, 1K91, this
right of the Initiative shall ho appli
cable. “When fifty thousand voters
demand tlie enactment, abolition or
alteration of special artieles of the fe,l
end constitution. A federal ’uw to
regulate the practical application of
tins prineiple was passed on the 27th
i of January, aHliongh 1892. the initiation It is to be is noticed made
that,
to apply only to constitutional amend
j meats, the line of distinction last ween
j j statute lavy and Switzerland common law sliat ia eo the looae
ly drawn in peo
pie will l»C able to initiate proposals
for legislation upon almost any sub
jeet. Initiative
Now, the ia necessary
corollary oj tin, Beferendum, by
means of which laws framed by the
' represents!,ves must be submitted to
the people for final acceptance or re
jectiou. Both institutions arc ncili
point. f li e r < ftfandnnt_*ifa-A- ,’-a e ' 1
it supplies the progressive ele
ment, the process of legislation, while
the Kefcreiiilnm act.s «s a critical, con
trifling check upon the adoption of
I**'*
together these two institu
tious form the most perfect contri
vance so fur devised by a free people
f<*r tho conduct of self-government,
They create a sort of political pendu
him, which oscillates in i» groove
strictly marked by the constitution.
They produce a stiwdy see-saw of leg
islatiuii. a font mu.tl to fina fr«> move
incut, which carries certain expres¬
sions of the public will from the peo¬
ple to tlie legislature, and back again
to the people for their verdict. Take
nny question in the United States in
a body of voters is interested,
but which lino not yet entered into
practical polities, as we say. Under
pr.-s.-ut circumstances how can such a
question 1 hi brought into the channels
of legislation? The most obvious
method is hy electing a representative
who is pledged to lay a lull
before the house, incorporating the
desired reform. But this is
no easy matter, even with the backing
of many voters, for our electoral sya
tun is so contrived that grout numbers
«»f vot«*rn ar^ practically dtsfranchiscHl
*it * v**rv In fact, until nomo
fo rm l , r“l**' rtil "‘| l1 representation is
^ adopted . which shall make every j,, vote
^ , nmethinCi and t strov
t , Vt , rv tttt ,. mpt llt gerrymandering, reformers the
YA rioiis groups ^ of earnest
^ har| , i»tit v to ht . , Iir ,^ t ly repre
rented. stippone, for an instance,
u ropr.—. ntative could be elected
(|Q sUl .j, Hl , issue, there is no certainty
tins bill would fa- even noticed.
much less discussed, or that, if it was
discussed, it would be promptly tabled
soon ns the real merits became ap
par. nt.
Two other courses lie oj-en in the
cuUU | rT __|«etition aud bribery. Od
the s..-oud I need only nay that, though
it niay- s. em a j-erfectly natural mefhof
the scent- of jtt-at <-orv*-r- 1 tions. it
is not likely to oouimeinl »t»ii to
those who arc striving for clean gov
«rum. lit.
The e xpedient of a petition is often
r.s.rt..i It i. at alias eats hai
But th. signatures of th. Mo.r.-ign
|*»1*1* are-rarely treated m mmslv by |
»“!»*'*' ’»»*» r f * nm attached and nMM|» mefely fa
T » «l r. .-t comraan.I. ,
N--r t -t t u» |«nvi..g.' of |H*tit!<»n
1" uuu.l »itii th. rs >- ; - T *” ***• t
time* 4. acrflwd a* an initiative pets I
1 * 0 ?. frvfuriv'c* Of illustration.
.r<ti:.%r> t ,!t vl pillion t* .n;..y. i
tvtb. |Bh. ;t»!.t* .f .»»r v stat* aim h
3 r. tr:it». - « what. Vet to | -
-.5 Mrt- It is turn-** a r«Mju.--t,
r« wit V... a‘.l • 1 • .
9 m r la« ft *#f |#/-wh "W
•tt sr i** f!l« •ttlfcufllttt Uff 4 if
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i i**ke it into consiteration, ftp
fit. But the initiative is a de
iu 4 gutde upon tb>- government hr a
b«k e { voters to discuss a certain pm
l*t and to return it to the people Ihe for
1”!, ajtproval or disapproval,
an* ritiee are oblig' d to take into
eo; deration, or to draw up a mil of
the own incorporating the same prin
cifi In Switzerland, therefore, the
mtr | uc tion into practical attracted polities pub- ot
any u «rtion which has
^ ** fa accompliahed ,n a «mple
anl * iroct manner. H . I). Mctrack
«». th . Arena.
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f Hypnotic Fraud, Exposed.
“T7~ ,, ...
^ av thiok of its mprits ' 18 certainl v
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wide attention. Of hi* expo
T '■-rtam j frauds he says 'f
1 ',
c4 \™j - ““ , t(r rat rsoj her
pl ?h ^,1 e a?neighboring dolUtwfa broth
i v toyshop.
1 * i f t wae the (Madame Vix, held un
«<-fi,eac*s' til I was sufficiently ‘charged with her
id-, by contact. 1 then rap
substituted the twin doll from my
«r.d put away the send,ized
,o1 * f»r future service. To make the
! finance quite regular, I cut off 1
m ^ ‘ 111 e lock of her hair and pretended Folding to
to the doll To tin,
wnu A> I bad seen Col. de Itoebii* gravely
go ugh, she rather objected in hM
pro| UDd 0 slecl)i h ,,uiet
mut to our umuse
me mu; *C’est trop, e'est trop,’she that I mur-
1, apparently thinking was
^f too u-’ich hair for the m.incy I
the| thedelUlthough 7 1 went through
diafL i;>tiong u{ ,, o!n „ so I have now and
aessJ (Tes{ . n . (lj tj 1( . two little doll ‘wit
M( j t j ia valuable tress of hair as
m^atnes ance of this interesting perform- the side
*1' ]t may take its place from by the locks
j famous tress cut
of tt, spirit form of Katie King. We
0 .roducetl, with the aid of the uu
iU,u A 1 dull, just unrolled from the tis
j * ue P :r <#ihe toy shop, ail the phe
j of the envoutement of thcsoioer
l a til thel»es'of T lj*r C v, a! t !**™« l “ U M |iews'|ii»pers , ||„ U h
fa thi* ,.e’ ' , rcat* ' of
F riin S,»a felt acutely
imaginary lock was touched and
ptillc wjgdhcr hy myself or I)r. Sajous,
”J -'I- - emiers, or hy anyone else iu the
room. prtek«| ,}| 0 greatly resented its being
she felt all sorts of indescribahlc
und goeralizcil heats and pains when
a, >; (lot was touched in pla'-cs of wliicli
she co iff no t xvell make out the locality,
owing 0 our backs being turm’d to her,
• preitoteff n( ^r *ie was sit duly down suffocated the doll. when I we
to on am
ashuivff to say that the real doll was
by 'JW hero all the time, cruelly stabbed pin, of
in to the heart with a stout
whi- h s ho was unconscious. Its mal
f rent nip |, which ought theoretically to
luiveh«, a f alR i t 0 ij Cr> produced no visi¬
ble Cite. Those performances she went
throng] three times.”
• Jomething < About Stum.
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a ® , ^^ * v J^^ , '2*» , , of ,, g; , ^
it m IT *,1 e IIi
i„k
| »u R ni y his. These’vessels ure us a rule
officer*-/ j, v p.uropcans, cliietlv English
. 1 . if u.u >?«m A cruiser ot
tons fa now being built and wni'e #*’.*0 •*.
to the navy. There are fort* with hea v
guns at the mouth of the Bangkok river,
and the latter possesses a bar which eff ec¬
tually prevents the entrance of ships
much over thirteen feet draught. of about
Shun has a standing army the people
twelve thousand men. and
generally are liable to be called out as
required, though there is no armed mili¬
tia. Every male inhabitant from the
age of twenty-one years upwards is
obliged to serve the State for three
months each year. The following per¬
sons, bowevtr, are exempt: Priests,
Chinese settlers, who pay a commutation
tax ; alavcs, public officials, the fathers
of three sons liaWe to service, ami these
who purchase exemption either by pay¬
ing a tine or by purchasing substitutes.
It fa said that the government possesses
upward of eighty thousand stand of arms,
best les a considerable stock of cannon.
The urmy is to some extent officered by
European-v and has of late years largely
increased in numbers and etpiipments.
The limits of Siam have varied much
at different periods in its history, but as
ie- rly as can fie calculated the country
Msteuds at present from the fourth to tho
tw- ntv-first degree of north latitude, and
from the ninety sixth to the one hundred
a 1 sixth degree of east longitude, miles. being
» t otal area of about 250,000 square
A cordinu: to the latest estimate* the
p pulation consists of 2.000,OtH) Siamese.
1 000,000 Chinese, 2,000,000 Losians and
! 000.000 Malays. The legislative power
i exercised hv the King in conjunction ^emtbodi).
' ith a Coundl of Ministers
The Council of State consists of the Miu
i -ters. ten to tweiV v members appointed
by the King, and six princes of the royal
loise. The royal dignify is nominally
hereditary, but each sovereign has the
privilege of nominating King's his own suc. es
s:*r. The present revenue may
be estimated at #10,000.000 a year.
T.iere is no public- debt, and paper
money has only recently been issued.—
[Sew York Herald.
rile “lliiir Kail.
r .e lull which i- :r *nf!y fmind in
the stomachs of rutnin. uog aniiua s I
called by writers ou xeteriaary subject*
a “ha:r oil." It i* asawwl hy the
hair— g. umg into the c .a » stomach,
either o> mkug .K-rse^ or ot.a-i uui
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^ ^ . .....' . .' , . , f . ,', irme>1
rh ,. ?*,««. r ,. .. r; , v
.ad . - . , r
, n ... i • », ,c iwi' iM-ou- sul>
sta . they ar « --ei bv o ne
wri:. ra aai<>u 5- ai. u.i' . in.Iar to
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*•,, n vtiet*," - t - y we «»metime
aalisd. are lor l a. m u., ]• ruot tfa
U X • » lv 1 , v- * tn. ,r
A* i. . •<* »• r-’ v r -me
*t .lines'*.:, a* are
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ljAlIlill'IU FYTR \nnnr\ I.JU1U T ARV 1 fOTTOY 1 A,/J '
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pjsstT GROWS IT TN A VARIETY OF
KATCHAL COLORS.
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The Remarkable Fleecy Staple of tlie
Piura-lt fa Watered Only Once
in Seven Years—Tree Cotton.
1 I T f J" . .. new an 1 nut J
1 hh : Per
lln( . ni i; n „ h wonder J PiLrro Fr.-m
^ t £ B^of Presented’the Wta that iTiuht
fnl , . , world an
illuminated procession of revelation,
^
5. *. .
rule, which devised the economy of ir
rigation and impressed the discoverers.
w ith a sense of the wealth and beautv
* ® lan ' n °^ > ‘-' co “ e ft "i J ’ ^ rH -'
f*" 0 1 * ’ ,ut f 1hl , ‘ re a “ tl
^iriSt ®* *}* ,T<Z iZiL “
—e lands o t e Pur four o t..
flve ,k « rceK south of lhe ,*1“* ur * aR <1
wsi . 00 ,
<»nce in seven years are w »y . 1 s
that wet a narrow MU along the bank-,
whereby some 1600 acres are made
available for cultivation, all of which
ia now appropriated to cotton. Hus
one wetting gives five crops, two per
vear, and then the land rests to finish
the cyde of seven years and another
succession of live crops, lhe waters
of the Piura continue to flow until
lira, iuOctoh.r, wtentk. ik,..].!.
for their daily supply. The disap
pearanee of the river is so gradual it is
not possible to designate the day when
it takes place. Not so, however, its
arrival, in February or March, wnen
tho lied of tho stream has been dry for
months and has been occupied by truck
gardens.
Then the people become thirsty for
the river. Every traveler from up tile
valley is questioned as to where the
river was when he passed. If he report
that it is coming a crowd of eager list
t tiers and questioners surround him a ,
if he brought important news from
Boino fereiern loan commission; anti
f . r r .......,i 7 o
crop. At last, generally about the
middle of February, 0 , 1 ,- hears that the
river is twenty leagues away and is
coming; n few iluvs later it is only teu
leagues distant, nml as it passes the
upper haciendas the Indians turn oni
and welcome it with diurn and fife and
tire rockets.
Sometimes there comes 0 disappoint
ni-nt; for when it seems a sura thing
ami the people of tlie city of Piura in
the lower valley have beguu to look
for it the river has ceased to flow ;
tdnks away in the sands and they sav,
“Tho river has gone back.” This,
however, will last lint a few days,
Again it comes and we hoar iu Piura
that “The river is but a league away
and will be with us to-day. ’ Then
over y horse and saddle is brought out
and the people leave the city to meet
the messenger of glad tidings, of
health and riches to the arid land.
In all the year there is not in the
north o7 If on. •». ‘CBast to equal tjiia.
No fatigue is felt bv the lauititWi -
who travel through the heavy Bauds; '
some on foot, some on donkeys—poor
brutes, most patient of all created
beings—carrying two or three grown
men and women with a small family of
half-grown children; others again are
mounted on mules and then the elite
ou horses. All are glad! When you
meet the river it is a little trickling
streamlet running hero and there in
search of the lowest places; it stops to
till the wells iu its road that were ex
cavuted last season, and then runs for
wardinthe same little rill. A short
distance farther up yon will find a re
spectable stream, where the boys and
dogs run into it and lie down and
revel, and iu a little time can swim. It
is for everybody a season of real joy,
and with many a carnival of frolic.
The spectacle of its approach
nessed from the Bridge of Piura is a
wonderful sight. Yon see the pioneers
of the marching host come slowly
around a bend of the river at the up
|K>r edge of the town, followed shortly
by the surging army of thousands of
people; you hear the music of the
band, the murmur of five thousand
voices and the din of rockets which
throw a smoking line along the air.
Tlio river conic!
It has reached the bridge in the
early evening and the baud plays while
the people dance ou and under the
bridge all night long, or as long as the
increasing flood permits. If 5000 turn
out to escort the river to Piura, it is
met by more than 12,000 at Cataeaos,
an Indian pueblo six miles lower down
the stream.
The cotton produced in ihe valley
of the Piura shows varying shades from
a rich dark brown to the purest white,
so finely graded that one ean scarcely
tell where one color ends and the
other begins. At the present time the
cultivable area is so small that the de¬
mands of the market cannot be met.
By the system proposed it is hoped to
get more * ban a million acres of the
fertile territory under the eare of ir
rigation, when not oniy cotton, hut
sugar, coffee, cocoa, indigo, all the
vegetables and fruits of the tropics can
» n as they were centimes ago.
The appearance of a Peruvian cotton
field may well astonish an American
pisater. for m the five year* ..fits
“•* reache. a
! -* : * twenty feet, and in the
x» of ri|*enra* has all the beauty
: an immense sunlit snowdrift.
“Peruvian tre>- cotton." t*f
winch a good deal has been written, i
ally only an accident The • tree* ’
.-tlrva a**d depwatted in aou« we:
during an exceptional!* high
! as! and left without attention'during
* ve hag rear*. But «h«rv the anp
pc vi »Vt: t-wnnifa lh« awp i* rs-
planted each wwn rears, the second,
third f*n<l fon itii being the linest crops
c j eaeh planting. There are low
gpots where veritable cotton orchards
are f <nlD fl of which the trees are forty
Tears old. But they receive no atten
ti«>n, save when an extraordinary flood
or rains may happen to give them »
spasmodic vigor for a year or two.
As the American sea island cotton
enters largely into the manufacture
shk. «» the cotton of Peru is almost
entirely used in the adulteration of
woolen* Roods to whichit adds strength,
lustre and protection against shrink
ing. The colored cottons permit the
‘‘merino’"^! oMeal poison aaniUry from quel¬ the
ties since there is no
«u»,.i w2 4w.
««tural never fade. -Neu York
Autertiser.
JsELEfT StmXKS.
The oldest existing bank is the Bar
^ in H0L
Afore suicides take piace on Tuesday
■ and Thursday than on other week days.
There are more deaths annually from
h drophobm . - m Sweden bweden than than in in any any
; other country.
Each day some ten thousand strang
ors enter Loudon, which is infested by
120,000 paupers.
It is said that the “thirteen” super
,jpj on extends a wav back to the tiinO
of Ki Arthur, 516 A. D.
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.
"“‘I* 1 r^.hontM,
j It is said that dew will not form on
some colors. While a yellow board
trill be covered with dew, a red or a
black one beside it will be perfectly
I dry.
The kudzu vine is probably the most
rapid growing plant in the world. It
j belongs to the bean family, and will
easily grow sixty feet tall in three
months.
I The largest gold nugget ever found
5n Colorado weighed thirteen pounds;
Im-gest in tlie United States weighed
i51 , )OUn ,i 9: largest in the world, 223
i?UUU( fa an j f, Jllr ounces.
,/g. 1? . , . . ., .. , f rr && M
with water issuing forth at u tempera
^ofover n hat is culled one hundred the \egetablc degrees, no*,
constrictor, a species of climber
w!li ' -% <t Is said hy romancers, twines
alv ‘»d trees so tightly as to
strangle them to death, is claimed to
have been discovered iu India.
Among the recent breeds of pigeons
is the purler tumbler, which lias not
only lost the lost power of flight, but lias
very nearly that of walking as
well. Its queer motions when it at
j tempts to walk have given it its name,
the tumble.*.
Snoring isn't confined to sleep; per
sous w ffh some forms of nasal catarrh
Ruore continually. But a healthy man
snores, as a rule, only when asdeep, ho¬
t . 1Mlse jj C then doeo net control him
He get« into some position with
i,j s tnoutli open and inhalea through
hb mouth. If the mouth were shut ho
wouldn't snore,
T’l.o S-.nniard, however courteous he
n.ft igvci ‘ju.’24ef to din*
! ner; in Italy, seldom too, tha jlrTvScy
: family is invaded at the dinner
hour; tha*Frcuehiuan ia delighted to
entertain, but prefers t, do it at hia
club, while the Englishman in never bo
genial as when seated at his own tablo
with company surrounding him.
The seal ring worn hy the Pope, and
,lset l by him on official documents to
" bii-h his signature is attached, lias
i 0,1 k the engravings of a tish, with the
ei P her “ f wearer. Since the Tliir
teeuth Century every Pope has worn a
r ‘ 11 8 °I this character, and it .s shat
t '‘ re ' 1 with tt hammer when the nearer
*1° document.__ prevent its use on a forged
1 The Xmliacal Light.
^“ e ? anic °* “zodiacal light’ has
! ,e, ‘ u given to a singular ajjpeertnea
frequently witnessed soon after sunset
or I®*t before sunrise. It may be seen
11 ‘ seasons of the year in low lat:*
tUl , ’ s ’ slJ ‘' * s obviously due to illum
matter surrounding the sun iu
a very flat c. lsatieular form, nearly
‘“o^-n ling with the plane of the eclip«
“£> ^ rather, with the sun's equator,
1 attention of astronomers was first
directed to it in the yeftr 1083 \yy Cm*
i s t j ie n ’’ sua an .d 8 atmosphere. * us ku g regarded This idea, as being it ia
11 ow thought, is incorrect, it being
generally believed at the present time
to « oas »i of an immense assemblage of
ro “ ks ’ 8aa< i, cosmieal dust, fragments
metal, etc., such as the earth iseon
-mualiy encountering in the for m of
morolites or meteorites. It inav not
‘ e out - place to mention in this con
-’-ection that the rings of Saturn are
i je,1 eved to be composed of similar
materials. St. Louis Republic,
A Once Famous Celestial.
From China there comes the news of
the death of a once well known hut
latterly How. ’ almost forgotten man, Chung
He first came into prominence
after the attack upon the Taku Forta
by the British, and from that time he
was a good deal in contact with foreign*
era He was the highest official in
Tientsin at the time oi the massacre,
and was sent at th. head of the mission
of apology to France. He went to St.
Petersburg as CfcincM Ambaamdor hi
1878. wh*r* hu ignoraaea and “ un¬
-i-nally him B.^..tiantempcrameni”hrought
negotiations. to utter collapse Li in the Kubtja
Hung Chang attaeked
Inn fiercer for bis mistakes, and he
was sentenced to “.l. -apiution alter
fa* incarceration, otficial bn; escaped with Heart the
«f hfa p»'itwn.
succeeded bv the Mariuis Tseng, and
ha» lived fur the fast twelve y-ara tn
r.tireme&t au i u. th. c-njwjrtuabt nt tua
»uoruwua »e*itk — Lv-don Uivba.