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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 - •«• 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-