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00,000 IN GRAPES.
AN AREA OF 400,000 ACRES IN VINES
IN THE UNITED STATES.
A Prod net or *.0„0,000 Gallons of
Win* and 340,000 Ton* of Table
Grapes IttattsMes Gathered far the
Elrxt Time California Mr# Wonder
land of the Vina.
“I have no doubt that it will sur
jrifm even grape and wine growers them¬
selves to know that there are invested in
vineyards and wine cellars in the United
States over $155,000,000, ” said Colonel H.
Gardener, special agent of the census
office for the collection of statistics re¬
lating to viticulture, a branch of agricult¬
ure which has never before received any
official attention in this country. “I find
by statistics, which are now collected for
the first time, that there are in round
numbers 400,000 acres of land in this
country planted to vineyards, of which
800,000 will be in hearing this year. This
i* an increase of 220,000 acres in vineyard
area during the past 10 years and an in¬
crease of over $10,000,000 a year in the
capital invested. Of the area of hearing
vines in the country California alone has
150,000 acres, including 35,000 acres of
raisin grapes. That State also has of the
total investment of capital nearly $78,
000,000. Between 30,000,000 and 40,000 >*
000 gallons of wine will be made in the
United States this year, of which Cali¬
fornia will produce more than half.
Seven-eighths of the grapes of California
go to the wine press. Four-fifths of the
grapes grown in all the reetof the United
States are for table use. California alone
grows the raisin grape.
“ I gjient three months in California this
season, giving official attention to its viti
cultural interests. Although every county
in the State produces grapes, the princi¬
pal counties of the vine are Napa, So¬
noma, Fresno, Santa Clara, San Diego,
San Bamardine, and Los Angeles, al¬
though there are many others of more or
less imjiortance. The counties of Fresno,
Ban Barunrdino, San Diego, and Tulare
comprise the great raisin district, and
will cure 2,000,000 boxes this fail, a prod¬
uct worth at least $8,000,000. The grapes
grown for raisins are the Muscat of
Alexandria and the Muscat del Gardo
Blanco. These counties grow large
quntitiea of wine grapes also, and the
sweet wines of California come princi¬
pally from that district Fresno county
has 25,000 acres of vineyards, Sonoma
21,000, and Napa 10,000.
“The grapes grown in California to-day
JMlude every variety that have made the
vineyards of Europe famous. The culti¬
vation of the grape in California dates
hack to the days of the old Spanish friars,
tlie Franciscan fathers, who brought
with them from their native land cut¬
tings of a grape popular there. Just
what the true name of the grape was no¬
body seems to know now, and very few
care, for while thereare in bearing to-day
some of the vineyards or vines set out by
the jolly Franciscans a century or more
ago, the grape is not in high esteem now¬
adays. It has always been known as the
mission grape. The old mission vineyard
supplied grapes for the table and the
wine press in California until a compara¬
tively short time ago. Then a Hungarian
grape known as the Zmfandel was intro¬
duced. This newcomer was handsome,
proved to l>e a generous producer, and
took the popular heart.
“It proved to be an unfortunate one,
for it seemed so easy to grow the Zin
Candel that everybody planted vineyards.
When they began to bear they bore with
a vengeance. The market became choked
with grapes, and prices went down to
disastrous figures. It became apparent
that the Zinfandel was an inferior grape
after all, and to cap the climax the
phylloxera came down on the Hungarian
Importioo and bore it away, vineyard
after vineyard. No new vineyards were
replanted with the Zmfandel, and the
vine is being replaced [with the choicest
suid hardies* varieties of wine grapes
from the famous districts of Europe, in¬
cluding Cabernet Sauvignon, Carbanet
Franc, Malbock, Tamat, Merlot, and St
Laurent grapes from the Bordeaux dis¬
tricts; Mataros grapes from Palos; 8e
millous and Sauvignons from Sauteme;
Pi not and Petite Sirrah grapes from the
Burgundy districts; Johnnisbergers,
Traminera and Franken Rieslings from
tiie storied Rhine; Chasselos grapes from
Alsace Lorraine, and the rich Burgers
from Moselle.
“California has the largest vineyard in
the w orld. The vineyard fe in Tahama
county, on Senator Leland Stanford’s
famous 56,000 acre farm. It contains
4,000 acres. Senator Stanford also has a
wine cellar on life vineyard of notable
capacity. There are now stored in it
1 ,wKl.OOO gallons of wine and 800,000 gal¬
lons of brandy. They have been now in
storage four years. The government tax
on the brandy alone was $270,000, which
bad toJas paid before it left tlie still. A
mjSre remarkable case of persistent
‘Storage of brandy fe that of the estate of
tire late General Nagle, who was one of
the pioneer wine growers of California.
The cellars have held 60,000 gallons of
‘orandy in store since 1871. This brandy,
including cost of making, tax, shrinking,
and interest, now represents a cost of $14
a gallon. The largest wine cellar in the
world is owned by Baume & Wise, near
St Helena, their capacity being 2,500,000
gallons. Thirteen tunnels extend 250
feet into the side hill from the main
building. They are sixteen feet wide
und eleven high. The building is 400
feet long and 80 wide, built of volcanic
s tone.
“Among the curiosities of the Cali¬
fornia grape region fe a vineyard that
may well be called the smallest in the
World as regards number of vines, for it
has but one vine. That is a most re¬
markable one, however, for its branches
extend over a space of 12,000 feet, the
cane being a foot in diameter. This ex¬
traordinary vine fe over 70 years old and
was grown from an old mission cutting
by a Mexican woman. It has borne
every year since it was two years
is good now, they claim, for six
tatd that
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•«• auiu M HUtH.
Haw We Dull lee* Be AM# «e Travel
at That Hurvilrai Rate.
Doesn't it begin to look as if the nine¬
teenth century, even in its hut decade,
might outdo all the famous "seven won
dew of world” that astonished the
ancients? In the first place there is a
likelihood that we shall see, before the
oen tury closes, a means of transit that
will I whisk us from New York to Phila
dclphia in less than an hour and from
Philadelphia to Chicago between break
fast and supper time. Experiments
have lately been made near Baltimore,
which gives good promise that such re
suits wifi be obtained in the not distant
future.
Electric power, on an ordinary railway,
with motors and cars of peculiar con
struction, is the means with which we
roay hope to travel at a speed of more
than a hundred miles an hour. In fact,
it is confidently believed by some com
potent witnesses of the experiments that
it will be possible to reach a speed of 250
miles an hour. However it may be as to
maximum velocity, we have the indorse
merit of experts as to the feasibility of
running trains more than a hundred
milesan hour under the proposed system,
without greater risk of derailment than
is now experienced at less than half that
speed.
While experiments Id tills line areap
preaching fruition we hear some aston
tehing reports of experiments for adapt
ing the principle of the pneumatic tube
to passenger transit. This principle is
utilized in nearly all our large cities for
the transmission of small packets, such
as news messages, money, small parcels
in the shipping marts, and so on, and It
would seem possible, from such results,
to reach the acme at passenger transit,
In fact it is rather strange that this con
summation has bean so long delayed.
The idea is not a new one. Tlie writer
of these lines traveled in a pneumatic
car 25 years ago in the heart of the city
of New York. Moses 8. Beach, at that
time proprietor of the New York Sun,
and his brother Alfred, then and now
one ot the proprietors of the Scientific
American, constructed a pneumatic rail¬
way under the surface at Broadway,
running from Murray to Warren street.
The road, or rather the tube, was only
about 100 yards long, but the object was
to demonstrate the feasibility of pneu¬
matic railways to do the work that after¬
ward fell to the elevated railroads.
The experiment of the Beaches was
interesting and costly, but practically
nothing more. Cars were run from one
end of the tube to the other filled with
passengers. It was proved beyond doubt
that tlie pneumatic principle was broad
enough to cover pai er transit. But
the whole plan was e and the results
unsatisfactory. Many yeans of experi¬
ment the were needed to bring the system up
to level of practical usefulness. The
“Broadway hole," as it was called by
some of the newspapers, was visited by
thousands of people, who indulged In tho
novelty of a short pneumatic excursion,
but the scheme was finally abandoned
and now nothing but the “hole” Is left.
Recent accounts of experiments in
Europe, however, give strong hope that
the dream of the Messrs. Beach will soon
be realized.
Why Wobms Da Hot Marry.
No doubt there are many women—very
grand women they are, too—who, like
Miss Martineau, refuse to marry for
physical considerations-ill health; the
fear of hereditary disease; the desire to
save the beloved husband that should
have been from unnecessary burdens.
All honor to such women; they are tlie
silent martyrs. “"Tis better to have loved
and lost,” eto. Such women are not
unhappy. But the sad reason why most
women do not marry fe because they
have not had a chance. When we read
that there are 60,000 more unmarried
women than men in Massachusetts alone,
what shall we say of the rest of the
miscalled United States? Mrs. Wells
wittily describes some one who had had
“half an offer." It fe to be feared that
some most lovable women have not even
reached to that dreadful moment of sus¬
pense. It ta the “Lost Chord," and
deeply to be deplored. It fe true that in
many a retired well village some half dozen
very clever, educated, good women
pass their lonely lives with no chance to
“better their condition.” No wonder
that some of them make what their
families call very bad marriages. On
one point I do agree with Mrs. Wells,
when she refers to the horrible literature
with which our market fe flooded, turn¬
ing life into a dissecting room. That,
indeed, may well frighten a susceptible
and nervous woman. It ta a shocking
wrong and nuisance that popular maga¬
zines should publish stories which are
read by young girls, enabling them, as
Mrs. Wells says, to count “the various
kinds of kisses that mark the advent and
climax of a lover’s regard. Love itself
fe just as subtle and unselfish as ever it
was; passion fe as true and noble; but
their parasites are deadly." This fe a
splendid summing up. But I do not
agree that such reading makes a girl
“love her mother more,"or that she
“stays at home,” growing more helpful,
and finding “indefinite interests enough
to make single life very pleasant "—[Mrs.
John Sherwood, in North American Re¬
view.
A Well sfVrtna Ate.
Near Dayton, Ga., there fe a well
locally known as the “well of frozen air. ”
In drilling the well a stratum of frozen
clay and gravel was encountered at a
depth of 55 feet. After passing through
five feet of this numerous cavities were
encountered from which cold air came in
gusts. The escape of the air from the
well can be heard roaring for nearly 300
yards. The air which comes from the
subterranean depths b so frigid r lUtfe
not possible for any one to hold l vnd
over the opening tor more than s*o
minutes without having it frozen. A
bucket of water set over the opening will
freeze through and through within a few
hours. It fe n ee dl ess to add that work
the well when the
cavities af
A SECRET OF THE DEAD.
HUMAN AND ANIMAL BODIES TO BE
PRESERVED FROM DECAY.
. .
v „ nr , of Lort Art of thr
tiaus-Au Amazin/; sight in <■ w>*t
vi.gtnin i.og otu Farmer n»m
nck’« in woven.
in a log cabin, at out two and one-half
miles from Phillips, W.Va,, lives an aid
German fanner, who will some day give
to the world that which will prove tlio
wonder of the nineteenth century. U
seems that it has been left to the gray
bearded old man, Graham H. Hamrick,
to discover something which has puzzled
the brains of learned men and scientists
for ages past. The discovery is the art of
preserving animal and vegetable sub
stances so either may be kept without a
sign of decay or decomposition but
in his efforts to solve this great problem
he has become to be regarded by many
people in that section of the country as
some kind of being to be avoided, and
there are many who will not go near the
log house in which the old man lias “livo
dead people” and animals,
Just how Mr. Hamrick conceived the
idea that he could preserve animal and
vegetable matter in its natural state lie
does not say, but after experimenting for
years, a short time ago he became con
vinced that he had not labored in vaiu,
and he now di-clares, and his works prove,
that he has the art perfected. Until a
short time ago his experiments In preserv
ing or emlialming had been confined to
lower animals and vegetables, and so sur¬
cessful had been his efforts that he deter
mined to test the process on human
Ism lies. He secured permission from the
authorities of the State Hospital for the
Insane to experiment on two bodies.
, These given into hte custody,
were and in
one hour after he had them in his room
he informed the authorities that they were
ready for inspection. The bodit* were
examined critically, and it was found
that they had not been mutilated in any
way, notadropof blood had been drawn,
nor an incision or puncture made in
them.
Since that time the two bodies have
been continually exposed to the air and
all kinds of climatic changes, but they
are still perfect and lifelike. They arc
now in his room lying on a table, looking
as natural as when living. The blood in
the veins can be plainly seen standing out
in bluish black lines where vessels are
superficial. There is not the slightest
trace of odor or decay about the bodies.
In this same room are embalmed cats,
dogs, fowls, rabbits, fawns, and other
things—alias natural as life. Sticking
about in comers and on rough shelves
these “ornaments” give the room the ap¬
pearance of a museum. Those who have
ventured in the home of the farmer have
been amazed at the sight. Mr. Hamrick
is plain and frank, with only a moderate
education, but he has been too shrewd to
give the slightest idea of his process.
However, he dees not hesitate to say
that hte process consists of applying a
fluid, the ingredients of which can be
found in almost any general country
store, and that the whole thing is so sim¬
ple a child could use it. This assertion is
doubted by gentlemen who have given
the matter years of careful study.
The wisest heads in this country and
Europe have been puzzled in trying to
solve or comprehend life mystery.
No matter how eminent or how learned
a man may be, not one has yet visited
Mr. Hamrick and seen the demonstra¬
tions of its workings but has been
pleased and instructed by his visit. A
beef packer of Chicago came to see him
with a view of using the fluid in the
preservation of beef for the market. He
asked Mr. Hamrick if he could preserve,
say, 500 beeves and keep them days.
Mr. Hamrick said: “I can not say, sir,
I have kept a few pounds of beef on ex¬
periments for nine months." He posi¬
tively refuses to claim more power in his
process than he can prove by past experi¬
ment to belong to it.
The home of this queer old man is ever
open to those who wish to visit him.
There me those who dread him and his
humble cabin because they fear the
dead, and on account of his association
with the embalmed or mummified ani¬
mals and bodies. It is almost impossible
to get negroes to go near his cabin.
The learned doctors of this country are
not alone in recognizing him and life se¬
cret in a proper way. Recently the
Royal Scientiflque Association, of France,
made him an honorary member, gave
him a certificate of life membership, and
a solid gold medal as a token of the es¬
teem in which they hold him for making
it possible for the people of this age to no
longer speak of the “lost art” of eiubalni
ing.
The process is no doubt worth an al¬
most inestimable amount of money, yet
this queer old man does not want to
change his habits and ways of living.
He says he had rather hve quietly along
mhishttle home on his hilly farm, sure
rounded by lus “pete, "than accept the
wealth at his command and hobnob witii
The o d man, at most, can not live
many years, and when the death ange
calls him perhaps a smaU concourse ol
people w 11 follow his remains to their
final resting p ace, most likely to be m
the old cemetery by the church, not more
than half a mile rom his home. Be that
as it may when his secret is made known,
or comes into general use, he will be en
rolled as one of the most eminent in
venters of the age and hfe fame will go
down to poster^ as the wizard who
more than restored to mankind thesecret
man
possesses not a man who is an idler in
his own eyes.
Wh. 4Mran«Mfer dnMlkn
KBAUABLK PAKAtoKATH*.
In Athene 15 public schools remained
closed all last year because the teachers
refused to teach until their salaries should
he raised.
_8o eminent a statistician as Dr. Talmage
estimates that Solomon at one time’ pos¬
sessed $3,400,000,000 in gold and $5,145,
000,000 in siUer.
The pipe smoked by the Sandwich
Islander is made of virgin cork lined with
meerschaum, and is curious by reason of
the pattern on the cork made by the
insects which feed upon the trees.
It is well worth remembering that if
after dust and dirt are removed from
boots and shoes they are rubbed with a
soft cloth and a very little vaseline be¬
fore blacking they wifi look better and
last longer.
The numbers of cloisters and monks
in Spain have increased with astounding
rapidity of late years. Spain now has
20,220 monks and 25,000 nuns, in 1,330
cloisters and 179 orders. In Barcelona
alone there are 1(53 cloisters for women.
In the fist 14 years the number of monks
in Spain has been septupled, and the
number of nuns lias been doubled.
The empress of Austria has lost all in¬
terest in dress and courtly ceremonials of
state; since the death of her son. The
wonderful pa rare of diamonds in process
of construction at the. time of his death
was sold. She travels incognito about the
continent in plainest garb, but her love
for roses remains unchanged. She still
delights in their perfume and tintings.
There is a man down on State street
who makes a good living by renting his
turtles to restaurants for advertising pur¬
poses. He has four, and they are “ whop¬
pers. ” He receives $2 per day for each,
and they are always in demand. They
are left outside the door on the day be¬
fore turtle soup is served up, and create
a run next day for th soup. Instead of
being in It they are playing an engage¬
ment at another restaurant.—[St. Lotus
Globe Democrat.
More than half a million enthusiastic
women are united in philanthropic, in¬
tellectual, and coojrerate work for the
advancement of the interest and privi¬
leges of womanhood in the great national
associations incorporated under the
names of the National Woman’s Christ¬
ian Association, National Suffrage Asso¬
ciation, National Centenary Association
of the Universalist Church, the Wimo
daughsis, the King’s Daughters, and the
Association of Working Girls’ Societies.
The interests to which these ditferent
organizations devote- most patient and
continuous endeavor ramify in interest¬
ing lines of work, through every possible
phase of woman’s need.
I/f»ngnage of the iiilalarhe.
Physiognomists learn something of
character from the mustache. As the
form of the upper lip and the regions
about it have largely to do with the feel¬
ings, pride, self reliance, manliness,
vanity, and other qualities that give self
control, the mustache is more particu¬
larly connected with the expression of
those qualities. When the mustache is
ragged and, as it were, flying hither ami
thither, there is a L.ek of self control.
When it is straight and orderly the re¬
verse is the case, other thingB of course
taken into account. If there is a tendency
to curl at the outer ei Is, there is a tend¬
ency to ambition, vanity, or display.
When the curl turns upward there is a
geniality combined with a love of appro
bation; when the inclination is down¬
ward there is a more sedate turn of mind,
not unaccompanied with gloom. It in
worthy of remark that good natured men
will, in playing with the mustache, inva¬
riably give it an upward inclination,
whereas cross grained or morose men will
pull it obliquely downwurd.
Not What She Kipeeted.
11 Miss Cribber Mildred, ” he began
—
earnestly, after a pause in the conversa¬
tion, “do you know that I feel quite
lonely and friendless at times? My life
has not been like that of most men.
Without relatives or friends or a home of
my own, I yearn for some one in whom I
can confide—for one who would take more
than a friendly interest in my welfare."
“Yes, Mr. Dewdly,” she said, as he
paused. “Go on. ”
“Of late, ” he continued, “I have felt a
regard for you that never existed before.
You have noticed, have you not, Mil¬
dred?”
“Yes, Mr. Dewdly.”
“This feeling," said he, taking her
hand, “has prompted me to speak to you
as I do to-night, Mildred, will you be ”
He paused again.
“Will I what?” she asked encourag¬
ingly, while her heart throbbed wildly
with expectation.
“Will you be a sister to me?”
He took his hat to go shortly after¬
ward, but she didn’t ask him what his
hurry was.
way h. c-rri,«i. c>n«.
^ a cane from motiwa of
economy,” said a young lawyer. “I
grUuated from coUege five yearn ago, L
arH , r haveu - t carried a stick since
freshman year. Still, as I am not such
a fool ^ no t to know enough to get out
of the raiu , I have always carried an
umbreUa m bad weather. As a matter
of /ac * t found l was losing about 13
um brellas a year, simply because of not
canry j n g a CAne . j never thought of my
um |,rella unless it was actually f raining *
wlien l got outside ^ cou d rotui
ick eno h to t it tefore 8ome one
gl , lW> , (1 it . Q ne day I lost my own
umbrella and my £ wife’s as welh The
two coat $16 . nce then l w car
ried a ^ on pleawmt day9 iand j never
lose an umbrella. It’s a great economy. ”
War’s Hard Decree
Uiere was insufficient food for his soldiers
oven, and that the prisoners killed had
been previously captured at El Arteh
-fhfc.
COALING AT ST. THOMAS.
GRAWNY AMAZONS WHO DO THE
WORK OF MEN.
Graphic Dc.criptlo. .r. Pha.c of Wol
India I.If. Old Haney-The Master «l
Ceremonies - Wild Congo Sons. -
Eager Lrbann.
A correspondent who recently visited
the West Indies writes:
The scene was a strange one to un¬
familiar eyes—this coaling of a ship by
women. You will witness it at St.
Thomas and Kingston, Jamaica, to tlie
best advantage. Scarcely had the Al¬
liance's nose pointed around the fort at
the entrance when numerous boats eon
t uning ti e “coal ladies” appeared ap¬
proaching the coal station, located on an
island half a mile from tlie town. The
ship was quickly laid alongside tiio
wharf, and the taking in of fuel com¬
menced. The coal ta piled on the shore
a distance of 200 feet from the ship, and
150 strapping wenches bore it to the man¬
holes of the bunkers on board. Each of
the women carried on her head a coarse
splint basket containing 100 pounds of
coal. Their raiment was severely sim¬
ple—a cotton bodice and a scanty skirt
drawn up to the knees by a cord around
the thighs. Very black were the brawny
legs which apjieared below the Eve-like
drapery, and large and naturally formed
were the bare feet with their hard, yel¬
low so’ t.
Before the work commenced the dusky
Amazons stood in a double row in front
of the heaps of coal. They grinned like
so many monkeys, and their jargon—the
strange, mongrel English the Jamaica
and Barbadoes negroes utter—poured
from their lips a babel of uncouth sounds.
■Startling were some of the jokes they
threw at one another.
“Do you see that woman?” said the
agent, as he panted towards powerfully
built woman with a hard, shining black
face and grizzled wool. “That is old
Nancy. She fe 85 years old and fe the
foulest mouthed wench in the West In¬
dies. Every shipmaster who has sailed
in these waters knows her. She es|ie
cially interested Anthony Trollope when
he came to inspect the islands for the
British government. Froudo, the his¬
torian, noticed her. She can carry 400
baskets of coal a day. ”
A tall black man armed -with a heavy
stick was master of ceremonies. When
all was ready ho called; “Take your
baskets, ladies." Each woman seized
her basket and turned toward the coal
pile. “Ready," was the verbal signal,
and quickly the baskets were filled with
large lumps and the dust of coal. After¬
ward there was no cessation of the toil.
The women would swing the heavy bas¬
ket to the top of the head with a single
and apjwrently easy motion, resting the
bottom on a small mat of cloth which
lay on the wool. Down the wharf they
trotted, some t(earing the 100 pounds of
dead weight without supporting the bas¬
ket by a hand. The tough “ Old Nancy, ”
previously mentioned, drew her pipe
from the rags of her bodice, struck a
match, ignited it, and smoked after she
had swung the basket of coal on her
head, and was jogging to the ship. Tlie
“ladies" hustled one another in anything
but a ladylike manner. The more active
ones endeavored to get ahead of others
who were in their way as the living
stream of workers reached the gang¬
plank. The women are paid for each
basket of coal poured into the bunkers.
As they pass a small building at the head
of the wharf with full baskets a cent fe
handed to each of the carriers. There
are some women who can move 400 bas¬
kets a day, or 20 tons of 2,000 pounds.
Others carry a less number of baskets,
and as the gangplank admits only three
carriers abreast, the slow ones hamper
tiie fast workers. The latter endeavor to
get ahead. I saw a woman drop almost
to her knees on the plank and, with has
Let on head, seek to crawl under tlie up
lifted arm of a tall wench in front.
The master of ceremonies stood at the
side of the gangplank with uplifted stick.
"When he detected any unfairness he ex¬
claimed in warning tones, “Ladies!” The
offense repeated led to a deprecating “Oh,
doant do so, dears.” Next came, “Oh,
Car’line, doant do dat. ” By this -time
patience was exhausted, and a sharp call
to “Caroline,” or to “Miss Clem, "or to
“you dar, nigger, ” was followed by a
tremendous whack of the stick on the
back or legs of the offender. The sound
of the blows would rise above the din of
the coaling. The victim would grin and
the others would jeer at her, but no one
appeared to regard the punishment un.
kindly, or for that matter seriously.
Now and then the women would break
down, no doubt, from their ancestors
who roamed in the Congo forests. Wild
and weird the strange song rose above
the bustle of the wharf. When the sun
set and the dark tropical night quickly
fell on ship and shore, flambeaux—large
iron cages set on poles and containing
dry wood—were ignited, and the flicker¬
ing flames cast their radiance over the
motley throng. The energy of the women
seemed to increase when tlie beacons
were ablaze, and they sang, shouted,
swore, and laughed with greater zest
than before.
Tiu-ee hundred and forty tons of eoal
were placed in the ship between 1 aud 7
o'clock, despite heavy rain during tlie
afternoon. And the coal once in, the al¬
liance left the lights on the hillsides of
Chnrlotte-Amelie behind her an 4 pro
ceeded southward toward the eqnj ior.
A Startling Astronomical Pact.
Professor Charles A. Young, the emi
nent Princeton astronomer, recently sat
chatting in the court of the Palace. One
Mps™
that every one of them is a sun
theoretically, and by analogy giving
*’ght and heat to his planets. You know
tevfeibleto thenakBdqyo."—[SanFYan-
1
THE WHITE, WHITE HOSE.
j O Georgia girl, with the storm-black eye.
Don't you mind long ago when the troop*
inarched by.
! Down the quaint old town of Maryland.
! The sorry little lad In Stone wall'a band?
“f was a beautiful eve of a Mae June day,
! * '? OU hi* g*"- taltered but and P"*** Jacket of «*“ gray; thrown
I J0U
j D f the sorry little lad in StenewaU’s band.
i Ot ° Georgia and girl, gold with In the hanging hair
russet the sundown air.
Don’t you mind that rose from the borderland
That yon gave to the lad in Stonewall’s band?
’T was a white rose, white as rose could be.
And you stood 'neath the leaves of & maple
tree,
A queen ail crowned. ’Twas a ber.ntifnl thing,
And the iad on the chestnut lion* was king.
O liffirpia girl, with the tripping feet.
Don’t you mind that house on the great big
street?
And the ball that night, and the banner-decked
hill?
j Ofe th!"‘wakz, a nd'tlT ^Lt^'the winding
stair.
And the storm-black eyes, and the red-gold
hair.
And smile, ah! smile like the noontime sun,
O Georgia girl, was it all for fun?
O Georgia gtrl "twas a sweet farew ell
To exchange for the burst of shot and shell
At Gettysburg. But the gold-red bail,
And the eyes and the smile with the rose went
there.
Safe under the stare of that Darning cross.
But the bullets made merry with the chestnut
horse.
O, (leftrgla girl, ’tis a long time ago;
Still the seasons come and the roses blow.
There’s the white, white rose, and the roes
that Is grand,
But none like the rose from the borderland.
*Tis a long time ago. Ah! sad are the y, ai>,
A tel broken the lute that was swept iu tear, ;
Shattered the spear and crumbled with rust;
Tired arc tlie feet with the battle-dust;
Jtut the white,white rose the dews still unfurl
For the sorry little lad, from the Georgia girl.
—[William Page Carter, in The Century.
“The I.nbor gneUIon."
It fe the unwillingness of the wage
earner, and even of tlie capitalists often,
to recognize the length and breadth of
tlife labor question, which is to-day com
|idling the workpeople. in Europe and
America to try to meet the issue by an¬
tagonistic action, when the only way out
of it is through a large cooperation
between producing nations, in which the
principle of “live and let live" fe openly
followed. This point is brought out in
the comments of the English press on
tlie proposed labor commission for Great
Britain. It fe not legislation so much as
a proper knowledge of the conditions of
each industry, and especially of the situ¬
ation of the same industry in different
countries, which determines what fe best
to do. For this reason, none of the Eng¬
lish papers expect much directly from the
appointment of a labor commission. Its
chief value will be that it will give a
fresh study of the facts, and that it will
bring tlie leaders of business and of in¬
dustry together to discuss practical ques¬
tions, so as to find out the truth about
them, and to frame methods of action
which will tide over existing difficulties
without legislation.
What fe wanted is intelligence on both
sides, the willingness to accept the eco¬
nomic truth as a fundamental and reg¬
ulative principle. The demands of a
large proportion of the wage earners at
the present time would ultimately wreck
and ruin the business cor;>oration or
house which should grant them. It is
not so much the unwillingness to yield
as the impossibility of yielding and con
tinuing in business which weighs upon
employers of labor. The present in¬
dustrial movement fe advancing to tlie
point whore both parties must accept the
truth as it exists, the truth for the labor¬
ing man, and the truth for the capitalist,
not a compromise, not one party taking
advantage of another, not legislation
binding both parties where they need to
be free, but the truth of the whole situa¬
tion as it affects industries ingeueral and
the economic and commercial principles
on which our modern life fe based. The
English labor commission, if it should
work in this spirit, will accomplish some
thing worth while, and in this country,
whore such a commission seems impos¬
sible, we must work our way out through
discussion and experiment until both
parties are prepared to take broader
views, and each fe willing to see the sit¬
uation from the point of view of the
other.—[Boston Herald.
Riootl From a Tree.
Throckmorton county, Texas, possesses
a natural curiosity in the shape of a large
wild peach tree which, when cut in any
part, exudes a sap almost the exact color
and consistency of fresh blood. Botan¬
ists have confessed themselves at a in .;
to account for the peculiarity which they
arc unanimous, however, in ascribing to
some coloring matter absorbed from the
soil in which it grows and which is, in
all probability, the correct way of ac¬
counting for it, as cuttings from the tree
planted elsewhere invariably fail to de¬
velop the same peculiarity. The people
at large, however, are disposed to look '
upon tlie tree as something uncanny, and
as many fts a dozen stories, all more or
less bloodcurdling, are poured into any
visitor’s ears concerning it.
It fe said that no negro will pass within
half a mile of it at night for any sum
that can lie offered. The tree is a splen¬
did specimen, and has obtained a greater
size than is usual in its species. It be¬
longs to J. R. Love, a farmer of the vi¬
cinity, who has been obliged to surround
it with a high fence to protect it from
injury at the hands of curiosity seekers,
wlio have hacked it for the sake of ob¬
taining a sight of the sap.—[Philadel¬
phia Times.
Bake Superior to Be Utilized.
Since the organization of a company
to utilize the water power of Niagara
Falls an Englishman has organized an
msZM
s:Mats;
canafe-one on the Canaffian side audtto
other on the United States side—
canals to be five miles long and l,0< v ' IeeI
ato* CMOS to ftsosi* inmRRStrtto dnAv-